The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1875, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. STRANGLED. © Executions of a California Bandit and a Negro Murderer. THE END OF 'TIBURCIO VASQUEZ. | A Sketch of His Terrible and Revolting History. Accused of Committing Thirty-Seven Murders. VASQUEZ'S LAST WORDS OF WARNING, Hanging of Fouks in Vir- ginia. The Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Herndon by Their Negro Servant. San Josg, Cal, March 19, 1875. The renowned bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez, was _ Banged at thirty-five minutes past one P. in the jail yard to-day, im the pres- ence of two hundred officials, reporters And spectators, He carried himself boldly _ and with nerve until the last. He died Without a straggle, repeating the litany. His neck was broken. He protested tothe last that be was gulltl of murder, but evidence is too plain that he killed eight persons, He was the | terror of the Southern country. The night bejore | the execution he dictated sn address to / 1 lathers and mothers enforcing the necessity of | educating and keeping @ lookout for the children of future generations. Their welfare depended Opon the performance of this duty, and he asked the pardon of all he had injured. He thanked the Sheriif, the officials and his friends. Another ad- | Qress was prepared by him in whien he appealed to his Old associates not to carry ont any threats bt revenge against officials, but to change the tourse of their life and to take warning from nis end. A large number of Mexicans, native Call- fornians, Were present at the funeral. The people Appear to breathe freer since Vasquez’s death. Tiburcio Vasquez was probaoly one of the most Ponsammate and bloodthirsty villains of modern Mmes. He stood accused of committing no less than THIRTY-SEVEN MURDERS And other crimes, such as hignway robberies, \rson, horse stealing, violence to person, male and female, that could scarcely be sredited even if relate! with circumsran- fai detail, accompanied by indubita' tvidence of the facts in each individual case. Such @ character, revolting as it is, commands a place in current criminal history, and as such we will proceed to give a brief history of the monster Dimself and the particulars of such of his bioody | Geeds as bave founda place upon the crime-stained | calendars of Calliornia during nis reign of terror. TIBURCIO VASQUEZ Was a native of Ualifornia, having been born in Mouterey county, and at the time of his execution as leas than forty years of age. It seems incred- | Idle that a being comparatively so young in years should have been s0 old in crime; but such is un- fortunately the fact. From bis early youth he Lad been a transgressor of the laws, the first crime for which he was arrested being committed tn 1854, woen he was but about twenty-one yeara of age. On that oceasion he managed to get into @ difficulty with anotaer Californian one night | @t a fandango, and the constavie of the town in- terposing %0 quell the disturbance Vasques ‘wurned upon him with a knife and STABBED HIM TO THE HEART. ‘When the case was. brought into court, under some plea of self-defence or false swearing, Vas- queZ was acquitted. He then joined abana of jperadoes whose chief business was horse steal- img and cut-throating generally, and in common with his associates became the TERROR OF MONTEREY COUNTY gntil their operations were cut short by the Vigi- | lautes. For stealing horses in Los Angeles county im 1867 he was sentenced to five years’ imprison- ment at San Quentin, but he escaped, with other prisoners, at a break made on the 25th of Jone, 1869, He atill adhered to his evil courses and was again arresied for horse stealing 1n Amador county, arriving at bis former place of imprison- ment on the 17a of August, 185%. His term ex- | pired on the 13th of August, 1863. Vasquez's name | ext attained to prominence in the anpals of | crime in 1864, when @ county Sheriff came into the Possession o: facts which led nim to believe that the notorious bandit had MURDERED AN ITALIAN | ot the Euriquita quicksilver mines and robbed hia victim of $400. Notwithstanding the efforts made jor bis capture Vasquez eluded the vigilance of the Sheriff and escaped beyond his reacn. He Was next heard from 1 1866, in Sonoma and Con- tra Costa counties, and ia 1867 we find him again ‘nthe State Frison under a tour years’ sentence lor horse stealing; bat for some reason or other he was discuarged by uct of the Legislature on Tune 4, 1870, ‘Ine following is a summary in brief bf some of bis most daring exploits subsequent 10 bis release by the act referred to:—He first joined @ band of outlaws headed by TOMASO RODUNDO, Who committed many outrages in Santa Olara, Monterey, fresno and Alameda counties. ‘Tne band was broken up and scattered, alter a vigor- Dus Campaign against them, in 1871, by Sberif® Morse, o: Alameda, during which this ofticer Killed Juan Soto, subsequently capturing in a San Francisco restaurant Procopio, whu had only just returned from Mexico, to which country he and Vasquez had fed. Vasquez did not remain in idleness alter returning irom Mexico, but leit San Francisco and took us his rendezvous and niding Place the Cantua canyon, near the New lara mines, were he ORGANIZED A NEW BAND, Mt the head of whieh ne placed himself, ‘The | Visalia stage robbery was bis next effort o/ note. The stage was stopped near Soap Lake, all the | passengers robbed, tied and then laid on tueir backs in a field, This was followed by other dur- ing robberies, notabie among which was that of | Firebaugh’s ferry, in 1873. ‘Then came the descent upon the Twenty-one-mile House, between Sun | Jose and Gilroy. The hotel was entered in the | daytime and iour men were robbed, aud alter- ward bound and thrown on the floor. The KOBLERY OF SNYDER’S STORB, on the Tres Pinos, was neXt piuuued, and on the | 26th of August, 1873, the bandits entered the store | bout dark and searched the persons inside. A sheepherder happening aiong as Vasquez and Mo- feno Were guarding the dour, and, not obeying the order to Nuit, was shot dead by the latter. A | teamster named George Redford came up witn bis team, aod was accosted with tue same de- | munud, Me hesitated, and then ‘started to run; but a shot from Chavez, who had lett the store, cause him to full, He arose, not being murtally Wounded, when Moreuo Onished him by patting a bullet turouzh b.8 brain. Mr. Davidson, who kept tue hotel next door—who has relations in Nova Scotla—Wwas standing nDeur the threshold wuen this occurred. He made an attempt tu enter, aod bad gut tue door partially viosed, when yASQUEZ SHOT aT HIM, bullet passed through the dour and entered bis heart, kiliiug him instantly. It ts for the mur- der of this gentleman that Vasquez was placed on trial in San Jose. THE TRIAL commenced on the 4th of January last and con- Uuued avout one week, The prisouer being uc- cused of o single murder, that of Mr. Davidson, dearly ail the testimony bore upon that point, foe chiet witness tur the prosecution was oue of the ouliaw’s own band, one Antonio Leiva, who, te ms, remamed Joyal uotil his chet ran of Wit bis Wife aad made her literally tue captured “DANDIT’S BRIDE’! wr the mountains, This part of the trial might fave been relisned by the lovers of the romantic sales and adventures of toe periud as we find taem published in our weeklies, THR CASE WAS OPENED by District Attorney Briggs, of sun Benito county, He raid the prosecution expected to prove tuat during the month of Augus 1873, # conspiracy to do 4 1ovbery at Tres Pinos (or Suyder's slore), in What Was tuen a portion of somterey county (now San benito), was concocted by Vaequez, Chavez, moreno, Gouzales and Leiva; thut the base ol vperalions was the resinence of va, oO the tou! reek, eight trom New lur tuat the pian was ior the party to. cross 1ato San Joaquin Vali 1 ODEO s 10 ful oe on roads gujnceat to sree Pinow them nos Whe store; wat | and fixed | Chavez had @ shotgun Letva and Gonzales acted as an advance guard for the attack at Spyder’s; that the three orhers— Vasquez, Moreno and Chavez—arrived presently, and (oat the order was then given to “LIE DOWN,” when all present—iour persons—were tied and biinafoided; among these were Snyder and his clerk; that Vasquez calied Gonzales out, and they -Thauled & Frenchman Bamed Bihury, who ran, and was shot by Moreno and killed; tnat Vasquez came in contact with a teamster named Rediord, who, reiusing to lie down, was shot twice by Vas- quez aud killed; that Vasquez pursued a man uated Suearer, 4 Wagon maker, woo rushed into tue PARLOR, WHERE DAVIDSON AND HIS WIFE WERE, | and Vasquez fired a shot torough the door, the shot taking effect in the body o! Davidson. who jeil pack and expired in the arms of his wie; that Vasquez and another of the gang then returned | Sherif’ Goodwin brought Fouks, the negro mur to the store, released Spyder, and compelied him | to deliver ail his money aud valuamies; that the party thea stole seven horses, and put outup the | San Bevito, and rested at a house where one of Vasquez’s brothers resided; that afterward LEIVA DESERTED THE PARTY, for reasons of Vusquez's criminal intimacy with Mme. Leiva; that he surrendered to the authori- les, and Would be produced as a witness tor the State, &c. TESTIMONY OF THE BANDIT’S LIEUTENANT. We were to rob the store on the 26th of August, About hall-past five we began to clean our arms our horses and changed clothes. J, Gvunzaies 1nd Moreno were ordered by Vasquez to go and s* > Who were at the store, and if anyvody Tesiele ‘shoot them, Vasquez had a filteen-re- peuter 2 and @ cartridge pistol. He carried nis Tifle on the pommel of wis saddle, his pis- tol on his right side and knile on his lett. and a dragoon pis- tol, Gonzaiez @ frevolver, Moreno a re- volver, and @ Colt’s revolver, All | five then started down the hill tothe spring ; Gon- zales and | started ahead; a8 we came up the New ldria stage passed; we ned our horses apd went imto the store and asked for drinks; knew tue clerk in the stores there were eleven or twelve in the store when we went in first; don’t remember if Snyder was there wnen we first went in, but saw him soon after we entered; we stayed there about fifteen niinutes, when I saw Moreno come and tie is horse and come in the door and draw his pistol, woen we drew our pistols; we ordered the people (five or six) m the store to lay aown; Moreno gave me his pistoi while he wea them, but belore he got them tied Vasquez came %. the door and cailed if we were gone, and Jor one of us to come out; Gonzales went out: w covered the heads Of the prisouers with bianket: We soon heard a 1ewW shots at the back oi the stor Gonzales came up to the fence where a man tried to jump over and shot him, and Moreno also shot al him, when he fellon bis back ; two men then came and I‘ toid them to go into the hotel, which they did; I then SAW VASQUEZ PULL UP HIS KIVLE and snoot through the door; I chased a boy and capght hua aud brought nim back to the store; Vasquez called me to receive the money irom Snyder ; a lady brought out the money, and | took part of itand Mureuo took the rest; the money ‘was Ina burean drawer; we took clothes and put them in @ sack, sions; took eight horses, two saddies and two watches; one of the watches was taken by Vasquez; we stayed at the house about two hours and over; Vasquez commanded us to hurry up, and oraered Gonzales apd me to bring out tne | horses; Gonzaies Was sent for a candle, so we | could see the horses; stable and said, ‘Here is adead man,” and showed | Chavez went into the him to me; the man was lying with his face down; we started the borses up the San Benito River to the Bitter Water ona gallop, but Vasquez’s and Chavez’s horses soon gave out and they changed; Vasquez’s horse gai out after we had gone fifteen miles and Chavez's horse soon gave out; went up to Lorenzo, Vasquez’s home, about flity miles from the store, where w all got breakiast; on the division of the spoil Vasquez claimed the gold watch, because he w: cule: and had done more than any of the rest he claimed to have killed two of the men him- self (one of whom the prosecution claimed to be Davidson); shorty atier this, it seems, Leiva discovered the treachery of Vasquez concerning his wie and determined to betray him to the pa ae ) Which he suosequently did and caused arre ROSALIA FELIZ, the stolen wife of the bandit cnlef’s lieutenant, was the next witmess. Some curiosity existed among the audiemse in the court room, among whom were a number or ladies, to see chis roman- tic creature; but it appears not to have been greatly rewarded, for she proved to ve au ordinary lookirg Mexican woman, neaily dressed and someé- what conspicuous from having @ tuge braid of brown hair woven 1m gud out of her own snining tresses; she twice gave her name as Rosalia Feliz, but admitted that she was the wile of Leiva. ‘the attorneys let her off lightly as to her own peccadilloes, matrimonial and otherwise, tor which sne muttered ber gratitude to them in Spanish as she lett thestand. Her testimony was mainly tv the point of hearing the whole robbery planned, that she received some of the stolen goods from her husband, and that during bis temporary absence uez took her into the mountains, where kept her two or three months, THE KEEPER OF THE STORE’S TESTIMONY. Andrew Snyder, the Keeper of the store, testi- fied:—I ltvo im Hollister; was at Tres Ploos in August, 1873, in Monterey county, now in San Benito; was & merchant; on the 2étn day of Au- gust, Guak ee: up vo the store, 1ol- lowed vy another; ben @ mao borrowed $100 of me; as I gave it to o1m two more men rode up; 1 haa been gone that day, and got home about jour P, M.; the first two who came arrived there about hali-past five; they tied their horses to the fence and went into the store; one asked for a letter, and while looking Jor the jetter some one said, “Lie down,” and 1 found two men with pistols behind me, wno sald they would snoot; I got down, and they covered me up and tied me; they then took my watch and money ; thenl neard two shots back of the hotel; immediately heard a man calling my name several times, then two of them lifted me up and led me to the front door, tell- ing my Wile to bring out the money;-she did 80, @nd they took it and led me back into the store, where I again jay down; Vasquez rode a horse with a black mane and tail; the first shot was behind tue building; heard the report of the second gun and neard a heavy lJall upon thé porch; when they took me out @ dead man lay on the porch on his back; | next heard two shots belind the hotel, and one im tront; beard the robbera talking ip the store, and aiter the man dropped on the porch heard one ol them say, “I guess you will lie still now, camn you; the dead man on the porch Was named Hill; saw Davidson’s body first inside the iront door of the hotel; he was shot in the lett breast; there was @ bullet hole in the panel of the door; | 1ound a Man named George Rediord lying on’ nis face, shot dead: he had arrived at the note! about fliteen minutes before the robbers; ail the shooting was done alter Vasquez arrivea; I could and do identity Vasquez, because he hai been pointed out to me ai bad man; I have sold him goods; 1 swear 1 have seen him at my store before tuat time. FIXING THE GUILT. L, Shearer testified to seeing the homicide of Rediord by Vasquez and 1o being in the room where Davidson was when shot; Javidson Was lu the act of shutting the door wuen Vasquez ran around the corner and flied ashot at the door; Davidson feil and died in a few minutes. Ober witnesses testified to the tact uf Vasquez having been the man who fired the snot that killea Davidson. ‘The prosecution having rested the PRISONER TESTIFIED IN HIS OWN DEFENCE, He admitted the conspiracy to make the robbery at snyder’s, but said it was Leiva’s proposition, ‘The agreement was to shed no blood nor violate any woman; that Gonzales fired the snot that killed Davicson; that Leiva superintenaed tne violence generally, whlle Vasquez tried to prevent blooashed, not having fired a shot at all while at Snyder's, ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL came next, the prosecution claiming th evidence of gulls and tne defence eudeav- oring to impeach the testimony of Leiva, who, it was declared, “was a murderer in heart, ® murderer 19 iact and @ traitor besides, and this by his Own conlession on the stand. When his marital rights were invaded,” continued the counsel, “this red-handed, black. hearted muiderer and thier found out be hada sense of honur and an ingalt to avenge and took this means to secure it. THE JUDGE charged the jury thatif the defendant bad been actively engaged in planning the robbery, and nad ussisced therein aiter the nomicide, he Was guilty of murder to tne first degree, whether or not he fired the fatal snot, or whether or not he was p sonally present at the time the muraers were committed. TaB VERDICT. After about three hours’ atsence, the jury re- turned a verdict of ‘Guilty of murder in the first degree and assigning the death penalty.” EXCEPTIONS were taken to the jorm of the verdict, and tne consideration of the same Was postponed ior two weeks, when @ motion for 4 NEW TRIAL Was made and denied, and tne Juage proceeded to pronounce SENTENCE OF DRATH, designating the 191b of March ax the day of execa- on, which was carried into efect as above stated, THREATS OF Kis AVENGERS, Just prior to the execution of Vasquez, tne fol | lowing letver, addressed to the citizens of Mollis+ ter, With Swo others, addressed to tae citizens of Sau José, written in Spavish, were found in the express office in Hollist Speaks for iteell :— NOTICE TO THE TOWN OF HOLLISTER, ANUARY OF 1875, Captain CLeovana Cuaves to the Inhabitants of Hoilis- er :— Know you that in regard to the acts committed by the Captain of my company, 1 suy that 1, dnding myself gully of those acts, Hed ty Mexico, but having een 10- fornied while there that Vasquez was under sentence of death, [ have returned as tar as this pluce, with the alin losing the taiseness of the evidence swora him, and in ie. that Vusquex should te out a recompense, not believe thit I am in need ol resources, or lack of suiticiout valor to take him OF meet death in the attempt. 1 wisn rst to ait i ilet you know that it Vasauex is by his enemies, who twrough fear have turned against him, wen you will know if | know how to avenge the death of the Captain. I do not exact of you to soc him tree, but Ldo nol want bin to be hung, be= eutse he was not bloody, his I prove wider oath vn times gone by. Jahou will vemewber that V 4, iife ‘subsequent ty the inurd ey d \he head of the affray our captain, but i wuticient or iy it at yee rai hat ot _gublolelt 8g ‘ Fou wil have to sudos ben the tne vs soayuim i Ustotar n and also took provi- | + EXECUTION OF JESSE FOUKS. | lambs of the peach trees in tne yard bowed down ‘The just with the unjust alike will be punished, accord. | ing to law. The: in | B you will never more hear of m or the Stuce—neither of me nor my cor- Nas initie pers, wit PoReOVAA THE MURDERED MAN, DAVIDSON, had relatives or friends living in Nova Scotia. wiie’s maiden name was Burton, tions also in Nova Scotia, His She has connec- BRENTSVILLE, PRINCE WILLIAM County, Va. March 19, 1375. At twenty minutes past tweive o’ciock P. M. derer, out of jail to the place of execution, which was in the Court Green. ‘The prisouer was guarded by a posse of twelve negroes in command of Major Thornton, Fouks walked from the jail to the gallows and ascended the steps with a Steady stride, as cool a man as was ever seen under such trying circumstances, He was attended by the Rev. Mr. Marsb, of the Baptist church, who offered prayer in behalf of the prisoner, At the conclusion of the prayer Mr. Marshread an ad- dress to the crowd in behalf of Fouks, in which he confessed bis guilt, and stated that he had no unkind feeltags to the wttnesses who testified | against him, the prosecuting attorney, the jury who found him guilty, or Judge Kirth, who sen- tenced him to be executed. He died at peace with the world, and hoped for pardon for bis great | crime, The trap was sprung at forty minutes past | tweive P. M. ‘He straggied convulsively tor some | minut Alter hanging eight minutes the heart continued 10 beat, at nine minutes to one o’clock Leach anda Simpson pronounced Jessie Fouks dead, When.cut down tt was found that his neck had been broken, About a thousand persons, of both races, witnessed the execution. There was some excitement, but no disturbance worthy of note. ‘Tre place of the execution was about @ quarter of amile from tne jail of Prince William county, in a grove of tall pines, where @ few years before the war three slaves—a mother and her two child- Ten—were bung for the murder of their master. THE HISTORY of this atrocious crime of Jesse Fouks has already been fully reported in the HERALD, but @ brief sketch of the case at the Present time will serve to enlighten the | Teader. Some six miles west of this point | lived an aged couple named Herndon, the man over seventy and his wile over sixty years of age. | They lived in @ log siructure with a poreci | covered by a shed-roof running its entire | length, Two rooms comprised the apartments of | the house, and though Mr. Herndon was reported to be worth over $50,000 in real estate, outstand- | ing debts and cash, the furniture of the estav- lisument was exceedingly scanty and of the most primitive description. As an attendant or bouse servant there lived with them @ little colored boy named Add Russell, aged ten years, and, as a farm band, a grown negro mamed Jesse Fouks, about eighteen years old. Mr. Herndon had six sons, all of whom lived on rented farms of their own on bis estate. On tne morning of the 4th of Decem- ber last Sommerfiela, one of the sons, entered the dwelling, and when he unlatched the door was shocked at the ghastly scene pre- sented to nis view. Lying across the bed, with her clothes on, was oid Mrs, Herndon, WELTEBING IN HER BLOOD-STAINED garments, but still alive. Inthe corner near the door on a gray army bianket lay little add Russell, cold in death, bis head cleft in twain and a bloody axe lying at bis feet. The old man—the head of the house—was not to be seen, but haif an hour alterward he was discovered about half @ mile from the house bareheaded, in his stocking feet, trembling with intense cold ana covered with blood, which had Rowed from several terrible gashes in his head. He could give no account as to now he came to be wandering there, and was carried to the house, where he afcerward returned to brief consciousness, He then told the tale, already confessed by the murderer, that Jesse Fouks had storen a piece of meat; had peen informed upon by the little boy Ada; was accused of tt by him, and, when threatened with punisb- ment, had, for REVENGE AND ROBBERY, resolved upon the murder of the whole family. Mrs. Herndon had ejected or pushed Fouks from the iront door in the midst of a qoarre! witn the old man, and they all then resumed their accus- tomed piaces round the fire at eight o’clock in the night. On the side of the fireplace nearest the door sat old Mr. Herndon, in an ancient spiint- bottomed chair; on the opposite side sat nis wie knitting, and near her, with his head next the fire, lay little Add Russell on his pallet, when the murderer entered and did his bivody work, About $260 in greenbacks were stolen. The next morn- ing the jittie boy still lay there, but in toe COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH. Mrs. Herndon’s knitting was iound near her chair, where she hud let it fall, the ballot yarn having rolied across the floor to tbe door, and the unwound threau was buried in congealed piood, This very bailoi yarn seems to confirm her state- ment when she said, “I stepped between my husband and Jesse and pushed Jesse out o/ doors,” jor the poor old lady lived three days and ccre roborated her husuanod’s statement of tne crime. It was assbe returned to her seat that the assassin grasped the axe handle on the porch, and opening the door without the slightest noise, began his fiendisn work by striking nera blow. The two | chairs were found in the position described, the as of them being smeared irom bottom tu top with MARKS OF BLOODY FINGERS. The walls and mantel also bore the marks of bloody bands, where the old map groped along, and With delirious brain and blood-bedimmed eyes felt his way out of the door, and where he stepped aown on the porch tne imprints of na bleeding bands left their stains on the wails uround, and out into the yard tue blood streaming Jrom his icet Marked the way. Even the hanging and gave evidence of that bloody night, and, until Fecently, could be seen upon their branches the gray hair and civtted gore of him who bad once plucked their truit. DEATHS AND POST-MORTEMS, On the eveuing of the 9tn Decemver following the tragedy Mrs, Herndon died, and a post-moriem examination disclosed the fact that she had re- ceived two cuts with the edge of an 2xe, one over the forehead, lour inches long, extending to toe rain, ana the other in the temple; either of which, said tne doctors, was suilicient to lave Killed an ox. Mr. Herndon aled on tne Friday hight ollowiug. A post-mortem examination was heid, and tt was tound that a blow just above the | right eye Naa fractured whe skull in two different directions—one across the Jorebead aud the otuer extending to the ear. ‘the boy’s head was crushed toto a shapeless mass by two blows with the back of the axe, und bis hody laid where he had retired to sleep on that terribie aight, Fouks Was at once arrested and committed tu jal, to await hig trial, which took place in January last. HIS TRIAL AND OONYVICTION. The accused did not succeed in employing coun- se, and Judge Keith appointed Messrs. klisha B, Meredith and James &, Williams to dejena tum, ‘yhese gentiemen took the case and performed their duty earnestly and faitofully, and so intently tuac Mr. Wiliams, at the time or Fouks’ conies- sion, Was engaged iM trying to get the case to tne court ppeals. Fouks during the trial presented the most stoic inaiference, hot seeming to take the slighiest in- terest in the evidence or the arguments of the counsel on either side; nor did be seem to regard the sentence of death pronounced upon bim as beiny Of much imporcance. He still afected 1on0- cence, and wok his situation meekly, 80 much so that pls keepers neglected to iron him, as ordered by the Court, six weeks had elapsed since sentence of death hada been passed on nim, Mr- Williams, one of bis couusel, in the meantime holding out the hope to lim that he woulu get him @ new trial. ‘rhe sequel proves, however, that Fouks did nut lace implicit confidence in this programme, and Suning tuese six weeds Was planuing a surer aud shorter Way 0! slipping bis neck out uf the halter, ‘The cell iu which ne Was confined smoked terribly trom a defective flue, Added to the volume of dense smoke was that from # dally fire kindied by Fouks against a twelve-inch wouden partition be- tween his cell aud the prison passage, Lite by littie this process was BURNING AWAY tor his final deliverance, adding hope to hope of his escape irom @ terrible death, At last the time arrived, The jailor was away and there was no one avout the prison to impede bis passage to freedum but a irail aud weak wot » This Was & small Crifie in the Way of one who bau just stricken down in a moment’s time three persons. With trembling aud nervous trame Lge dd gt ior flight. ‘Tne iast charred remnant of the barrier between his cell and liverty had crumbled. Uare- fully tying his suces and hat in a bundle, he, noise- lessiy a¥a cat, crept through the opening tu the Wall and down the steps. | | | | | | | | | | her rvom, which opened into the passage. By this door Fouks was compelled to go and out of the tromt dvor, which was locked, with the key on the inside. It Was alter six o'clock In the evening and dark, but the woman had not lighted the Jamps in her room. Sie thought she feard light ootsteps in the passase, and, #.epping Co the door, peeped out into the datkuess and listened. The uaise ceased, 06 Satiwu went to light a lamp; bat no sooner Was ber v t door than ne re waich she d cat, re without, tae | int condemned arurderen, | day, | We ls Cotimated ab $1,000, with fear she grasped bim, and, with superDUises strength, | THREW HIM TO THE FLOOR . and caliea jor belp, but none came, and after a noble struggle her strength fatied, and bouss | loosened her wold on his cellar, and, unlocking tne | front door, soon disappeared im the darkness, | HIS KECAPTUR! On Sunday morning iollowmg bis bare toot tracks Were traced in the mud, thro fields and lanes, for a distance of about seven miles from the jail, when they led to a straw yard, The | jailer and a colored man, who bed followed the trail, discovered,that the tracks bad not leit the straw yard, and, with drawo revolvers, they be- ch. ‘They Were not long in finding the | he had entered a stack, and, removing aw, found Fouks crouching about taree feet within the stack. He obeyed the order to | come out and surrender, which he did without | resistance, though wich signs of terrible mental excitement. HE CONTEMPLATES SUICIDE. When captured he was searched jor uny weapons of aeience be might have, und upon his person, tied Up im a rag, Was @ quantity of finely pounded glass. When asked by bis captors what use he in- tended to make of this, he said said he intended if recaptured to vake it to kili himself rather than be hung. He was then taken back to jail, shortly aiter which be had a0 interview with the jauer. FKouks said be had been praying and the Lord had told him to tell aliabouc the murder,’ and he now Wished to doit. He then told two stories, the last and most truthiul of watch is the {ol- | Jowing HORRIBLE CONFESSION, “I killed them myseifand nobody assisted me, | Idid not doit to rob them. 1 done tt because I | was mad with them about accusing Me Of stealing the meat, and | took the money to Make it appear thatsome one had murdered them to rob tne | ho 1 killed the little Loy Add because | was mud with hum for telling that I stole the meat. 1 | was sorry alter | had done it, and intended to | come back to Mr. Herndon’s irom my sister’s next | morning as) 1 knew nothing avout it, out when | Mr. OU’ Kear asked me to heip him kill bogs I con- | ¢luded not.1o go back.” | HOW THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED. | ‘To your correspondent the condemned man re- | lated how he accomplisied the murder, ‘After hearing that Mrs. Herndon had found tne meat | wrapped in my hanakerchie! wnich I took, [ went | to the bou-e aud dented 11, and toid her my sister | ave Me the meat. I usked then to see Mr. Hern- | ion. Ars. Herndon told me to wait until he was done bis supper. I them went to the kitchen and | aiterward heard mr. Herndon go to the meat house. J heard him say it was his meat aod | was | alraid 1 would ve arrested for stealing the | meat. Im about an hour 1 concluded 1 | would go to the house and see Mr. Hern- | guu. 1 went to the house and told Mr. Hern- gon if he would give me my handkerctier | | would say no more about the meat. He told me he would not do it, aud | must leave the house. 1 told um I would not leave. 1 must have my hand- kerehiel; that I was going to leave und wanied It to Ue up My clothes in. i@ Said If I did not leave tne house he would knock me down with the axe, 1 void bin I Was not airaid of bim knocking me cown with the axe. He then got up and raised the axe. Mrs. Herndon got up and suid, ‘vesse, | go away and don’t have no tugs here,’ and she pushed me out at the door and shut it I picked up @® new axe handie waoick was standing in @ barrel on the _ porch, the door, aud shoved the door open, and as she was walking back to her seat I struck her a lick On the head with the axe bandile aud kovcked her down, then struck Mr. Hernaon with the same thing and knocked him dowa, and struck uim two or three licks ou the head. Mrs. Herndon got up ou her knees, andi dropped the axe bandie and picked up the axe wiich Mr. Heradon bad and struck her on the bead with the back 0! the axe and kuocked her back on the floor. then struck Mr. Herndon on the ead witb the axe. I them struck Add | two or three licks on the head witn the axe. Add Was sick and had been taking some medicine, and | Was awake when I strack him. He did not speak. | i then iit the candle and took the keys from Airs, Herndon’s pocket anu uniocked the drawer and took out the paper, leaving tue gold ana silver in | toe frout ofthe drawer. 1 thougut I had kHied | them all and I then went away to my sister’s, Ag I went to work ior Mr. O’Rear the next day I hia the money in a brusn pile.’” Fouks, Wno has veen supposed by some to be very.ignorant, bas shown oimseif to be possessed Of @ good deal oi Cunuing sbrewuness, HIS SPIRITUAL CONDITION. | Ge has recently been exceedingly penitent, ayed & great deal, and proiessed to be willing to He spoke ireely wito the lew persons wuo called to see him, ‘Those who have taken pains to watch the Case from the beginning have be- Hevea that @ juli confession by the conuemned man was only @ question of time, but it 19 hardly likely he would have admitted his guilt so soon ig his escape und recapture had not hod such | @ depressing effect upon his mind. His attempted | escape was Wholly unlooked ior, and no one be- lieved that any Derson had any idea of bis inten- tion belore he put 1t mto execution. te could have had no accomplice, or means ot getting out | Of the neighborhood Would have been furnished him, His contession has settled all doubts apout hia guilt, and the negroes, some of whom have ex- | pressed ‘themselves as not being satisfied about ‘We trial, now find that their compiaints were grounuleas, QREST OF A COUNTERFEITER. ANOTHER PHASE OF THE SECRET SERVICE DIVI- SION TACTICS—A REMINISCENCE OF ANDY JOHNSON’S TIME. The Occupation of the Chief of the Secret Ser- vice Division and his assistants it would seem is | not yet gone, Tuey have succeeded in tracing to this city an alleged old offender—an extensive dealer in and manufactarer of the “queer.” Tne accused, whose name is George Albert Mason, was on Thursday night last, arrested in the Park Hotel by Colonel Washburne, Chief of the Secret Scr- vice, The present charge against him is having, as alleged, passed $500 of counteriett bills of tne Genomination of $5, purporting to be of the legal tssue of the Traders’ National bank of Chicago, upon @ merchant of the city of Rochester, named Alpert Ensor, in purchase of a quantity of lace. When Ensor, a8 the detcc- tive’s story goes, discovered the iraud, he communicated the fact to tae Secret Service Division, with a description of the party. Suspl- cion was at once aroused that this person was an Old offender, the detectives identitying him as one who had been formerly a Confederate spy, arrested by the government and sentenced to be impris: oned for life, but which sentenve was aiterward remitted to cepurtation trom the United Staies. | These suspicions directed against tue alieged counterieiier aroused the professional zeal o1 the detectives, and, like sleuth hounds, they starved | on search of @ trall which they soon struck. | For upward of a week Colonel Wasnburne | aud trugtea assistants have been tollowing | up the tracks of Mason, and on ‘hurs- a3 belore stated, they pouuced upon him at the Park Hotel. The urrest was made | in advance of the original plan, wnica was, when | once sighted, to keep him uuder constant sure | veillance tl he bad committed bimseif unuer | their own eyes. This plan Was not adhered to lor this reason. On the evening of bis urrest Mason | Was seen to send up a card to ex-Cnief Detective | Wood, Who waa also stopping at the Park Hotel, | This circumsiance determimed Washbourne aud | Mason was at once arrested. Un his person was jound a revoiver and pair of handcufs, Yester- day ho Was vrought beiore Commissivuer Shielia and heid jor exumination in $10,000, He was sub- sequently lodged in Ludlow Street Jail. MASON’S STORY. A HERALD reporter last evening visited Mason in the prison and received the folluwiug version of the affair. Mason owns up to having been @ Contederate ®py, that he Was arrested and sentenced to im- | prisonment ior lie, but which President Jonnson | remitted to deportation. In 1865 he went to Canada, where he met and was employed by the then Chief of the Secret Service Division, Colonel Wood, to whom he wade fimself very useiul in arresting noted counterfeiters, fugitives irom the United States, Subsequently, he was summoned to Washington by the Solicitor of the Treasury, Baufleld, by whom he was speciaily employed to | arrest a notorious counterfeiter at >t. Louis, in his attempt at which he was severely stanbed and | cut. He was soon alter attached to Coionel | Waitley's aetectives, but tne two — wor- tmes could not ‘pull togethe: and Mason had to seek jresh fields and pastures new in which to exercise fis peculiar qualities as a detective. He again turns up in the aetective service of American Consul Shaw at ‘boronto, He subsequeutiy returned to the United States, and py one bold stroke ne secured some | $22,000 In counterielt bil national carrency. | ‘Tuis haul he clatms to have sold to Colonel Wasa burne, U8 present captor, for $000. He lately met the ‘Rochester merchant,” albert Eusur, whom | he states ® fugitive Irom Engiisn law. Ins Susor, be says, brought a quantity 0: lace iuto this | port, che duty on which he was unuble to pay, umounting to $220, This sum he advanced to bnsor, Who Boon alter went to Rochester, whe ‘nsor and Colonel Wasbburoe, as he alleges, have trumped up the present charge against him, Mason Claims to be still in the detective service of the government, aud thus accounts for his carying about with aim @ revolver and bandcuda, As rst | | | ‘ated, he wae in the act of visiting Volonel Wood in the jatter’s room in the hotel when he was ar- Tresteu and budd'ed of to the Beekman street po- | lice station, where he was closely guarded ull | nigut, und yesterday orougot before tie United States Commissioner and held in heavy bonds to await examivatio: Culonel Wood yesterday morning started burrt- ediy jor Wasnington, whether in the interest of Mason or uot remains to be seen. oo will be brought up to-day for examina- jon. FIRE IN GRAND STREET. Al thirty-five minutes past four o'clock yester- day afternoon tire was discovered on the second floor of the two story and attic puiidiog No. 104 nd the damage den hear | I | year—was tried a: vow. | the Thames on Monday, | ag atthe New York Turi Sxchange la: CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD. --—-—— THE GREAT AQUATIC CONTEST ON THE THAMES TO-DAY—FORMATION AND WORK OF THE CREWS—SKETCHES OF PREVIOUS RACES. The great equatic event of the year in England, | that of the race between the universities of Cam- | brioge and Oxiord, comes off this morning on the Thames, trom Putney to Mortlake, This 1s the tbirty-second renewal of the contest, and thougn Cambridge has been victorious for the past five years the score still stands in favor of Oxford, who has crossed the Winning line sixteen times against fiiteen for ner opponent. ‘The first of these contests (ook place at Henley 10 1829, Oxiord winning very easily. Seven years then intervened without a struggie, wuen repre- sentative crews again met on the course irom Westminster to Putney, Cambridge carrying off the honors. Another gap of three years followed, when in 1889 Cambridge repeated ber victory, and sull again in 1840 aud 1541 she added renewed lustre to her rowing renown by beating ber for- midable opponents. The next year (1842) Oxford went to the tront, finishing the race thirteen sec- | onds quicker than Cambridge, when there was a | cessation of rivalry until '845, The spring or that year they met for the first time over the ‘present | course, Putney to Mortlake, Cambridge winning seconds, The the next by thirty success in respectively in 1846 and 1842 Oxtord theo turned the tables and came in first In the three succeeding contests, occur- ring tn 1850, 1852 and 1854. Another change took place in 1856, the year of the thirteenth race, and ten the universities won alternately until 1861, when Oxiord commenced a sertes of brilliant vic- tories, extending to 1870. In this year Cambridge Went to the ironi, winning the race by one and @ quarter lengths. ‘This victory seemed to work great demoraiization among the Oxonians, for she bas been unsuccessiul ever since, though there are hopes with her friends that the dark blues latter two repeated races, her will change the tide of affairs to-day and victory | perch upon ber banners. THE CAMBRIDGE CREW. Not for many years lave there been so many changes in the respective crews due to preliumi- Dary practice. It seemed wimost impossivie to obtain the rizht men for the several positious in the boats, and even at the latest dates received by mail (his essential matter nad not been defl- nitely uxed. Waoen Camoridge commenced work the eigit were composed of the lollowing :—Bris- coe, Catgerine’s; Micuell, First Trinity; Peavody, First Triaity; Stewart, Lady Margarev’s; Pouilp: | Jesus; Ayimer, First Lrimity; Dicker, First Trin. ity; Kbodes (stroke), Jesus. Alter a day or two | Briscoe tet the voat, and I, W. Lewis, of Caius, | and Donaldson, of Third ‘frinity, were severally tried 1b ius piace at vow, alter whica Donaidson | Was transierred to No. 7, and Dicker took his seat | atthe bow thwart. ‘Then Fowle, of First Trinity, | Was put in Stewart’s place, ut No. 4, but tne | change apparent y did uot give sausfaction; lor alier a couple of days Stewart was reinstated in | bis old seat, Dicker was transferred to No, 4, | Phillips went to No. 3, and Peavody—one of the | winning crew Oj 1973, though he did not row last A day or two later Stew- urs was ejected irom the boat and Michell was shifted to No. 4, a new hand, Charieswortn, of Tord Trinity, lormerly oae o: the Eon eighi, tuking No. 2, Taus constituted the crew rowed vogetner jor the best part of a and faint hopes were entertained that the task of Practice would commence ia earnest, On the Saturday, however, the Work Of reconstruction was commenced anew. Hibbert, 0: Lady Mar- garet’s, last year’s DoW, Made lis appearance on the scene, and took his Old seat, tice Donaldson, who retired, it was satd, under medica! advice. Shanp, of First ‘Tripity, was suostituted ior Charlesworth, and Dicker and Phillips changed sea‘s. 1he new arrangement, however, did not last long. On the Saturday of tbe same week W. B. Close, tue Winner 01 the Colquhoun Sculls, and a younger brother of the two Cambriige oarsmen of that name, Was IMtroduced into the boat as a suvscitute for >nunn, but ne had scarcely rowed more than a day or two wuen Bensun, last year’s No, 7, suddenly became avallabie, and was Jortuwith estaplisued at his old place, and Pea- body, who had previously been rowlug on the bow siae, went to No, 21n the room ol Close, Woo Trevired trom the boat. Was unuoubtediy @ great gain to the crew, as the weak place had hitherto been No. 7, and the Cam- bridge University Boat Cluo authorities naturally congratulated tliemseives cn their good fortune 10 securing the services of @ tried Oarsman at that ‘mportant thwart. Thus constituted the crew tion, lor upward oI another week; but ou tue 27tn | alt. @turtuer alteration was decided upon, tne | services of Mr. W. B. Close being again called into requisition 1n ‘place of Mr. Peabody. The crew, theretore, at the latest advices wag as lollows:— Weight, Position, College. Lvs, Bor |S | N |N N No. N | Stroke 1) Khodes Coxswain.@. L. vavis. : Of the above, Messrs. bibbert, Aylmer, Benson aud Rhodes are ola hands, baving ali jour rowed |. 1b last year’s winning crew. Messrs. Dicker and | Michell buin come of a good rowing stock, and can | each boast of @ brother who wen the ‘diamonds’? at Henley and the Amateur Championsmp; while Mr. Close, as we have stated, is brother to the two well known Campridge “slues,’’ whom, it will be recollected, tormed oj London Rowing Club tour who deieateu the New York Atalanta crew. THE OXFORD CREW. ‘The selection of the Oxiord eignt caused almost a8 much trouble as that of Cambridge, Alter Many changes the crew were finally decided upon us bélow-nuwed and ously, falling mto good rowing, at least soit is said, at once. ‘here was much “prettiness’’ about the stroke, but, unfortunately, this does not Win arace, Alter a practice on the Isis jor three weeks, 1t was the opinion of all competent lookers on taat their improvement was marked. They rowed long and clean, like the good old Oxlord style, AS a crow they are lar better than any of tneir eights jor some years past, it tne crew of 1873 is excepted, wuich was 80 weak that it had no chance against the first and successiul Crew Of the Cantabs of that year. ‘Toe present eight row quite as evenly as did tnose of 1873 and are a fiver lot of men thanthey. In weignt tney are by no means despicable, ior they average more than the Cambridge men; but the Jatter vave the advantage in the weight 0: their coxswain, Wao 1s lighter by twenty-two pounds than Hopwood, 01 the Oxford, which iar more than cuunterbalances any extra weight on the side of the Owrsmen. ‘Win or lose,” say the latest aa- vices, ‘vid Oxoulans Wul allow that they have revived more O1 the good Old style than any Ux- Jord eight tor years past, and tuat, ior a crew of young bands, jor the most part they Dave an ele- Ment of steadiness arid watermanskip in them | that 1s often not to be found tu crews lar more ex- perienced.” ‘The eight, a made up at the latest date, Was as {ullowsi— College. ..-Pembroxe iso) hdwards- Moss. Brasenose. J.P. Way.. ‘use Nose. Coxswain. M. Lopwood Christ Charen. ,, As a matter of comparison in the aggregate weights ui the crew, W1Ib apd Without coxswain, and their average, the 1oliowing 18 ol interest :— Without Average wv o Grew. : id, si wise | Campridge 97 Oafordee 1350 1683 The Cambridge crew mace their appearance on Marcn 8, the Leander clus, a8 In iormer yeurs, taking in their boat. Tue Uxoniaus were three days jater to arrive at their old quarters, the Fox and Hounds, at Pub ney, when, as Usual, they made the London Row- | ing Ciub boathouse their quarters, THE BETTING. In London, at the latest advices, Cambridge w the favorite at 11 to 10, and i the beteing marke is any criterion thelr chance Of success 1s goud. Here in New York, however, the betting 1s even, evening oF the 140 mutual poois sola there were seventy- three marked fur each. This shows that Oxiord sui! has her [riends among the oarsmen and vet- ting irateruity of tmis city. THR WINNING CREWS, Toe following ts @ lavular list Of the different | races pulled between the Oxfordand Cambriage | ‘sities’ crews — Oxiord. Henley... {Gamal ridge: | West's to Putney jcambridge.| Westurr to Putney, ..|Campriage: | Westn’r to Putney Cawbridge.| Westm'r to Putney Oxtord We ‘rto /uine: Putney to Mortiake -boumey to Moruake. \Patey to Mordai Mortiake to Putney, Puw to Mortlake. Patney to Mort! +, Butney to Mortiake, Ke 208. ‘lengths, a | aber: 4 1868. Putney to Mor.ta aye 1e6y, Putuey wo yerual Cs ity id ¥ ry Es puiuey to 23 10934] L Bate. nf i Beit 8 ong fo Mortlake. ie ae Towed | week, | selection hau been deliniely accomplished, and | ‘The acquisition of Benson | continued their practice, With One day’s cessa- | they went to work vixor- | BUTLER ON CIVIL RIGHTS, | Fusil Oil and the Barber’s Chair | Still for the White Man. LA WARNING TO SAMBO. The following letter emanates from the Hon, Benjamin FP. Butler, late Congressman from the district of Essex, Im Massachusetts, and will determine some doubts hitherto existing In many intelligent minds as to the exact scope o/ the Jamous Civil Rights act:— Wastineron, March 18, 1 R—I bave the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of yours of the 141>, containing expressions of appreciation of my efforts in behalf of the Civil Rignts bill, for which accept my thanks, Y: Jurther ask, “Will you be Kind enougn to toform me if colored men are entitied to the privileges of saloons and barber shops under its provisions 1* | AN UNENVIED PRIVILEGE. To this I answer:—I understand by “saloons,* you mean drinking saloons, and am happy to Say | that the Civil Rights bill does not give auy rignf | to a colored man to go into a drinking saloog Without the leave of the proprietor, and am very | glad that it does not. 1am wiling to concede, as | atriend to the colored man, that the white rac€ | May have at least this one superior privilege ta | the colored man, that they can drink im barrooma and saloons, and I never shail do anything to ine | terfere with the exercise of that high and dise | tinetive privileg I would not advocate a 8 | bil which should give that right to the | colored man, If I were to vote for any | bill on thfs subject at all, it would | be one to keep the colored man out of the drink. ing saloons; aud | hope no barkeeper will ever let | @colored man have agiass of liquor at any bas open for drinking. Indeed, I should be giad, when ever ® colored man should go into a drinking sa- | loon for the purpose of drinking ut the var if somebody would at once take him and put Lim out, doing him as little injury as possible. He | could do the colored man no greater kindness. PRIVACY OF A BARBER SHOP. As to the other branch of your question, in ref erence to barber shops, let me say (hat the trade | ofa barber is like any other trade, to be carried | on by the man who is engaged in it at his owm | willand pleasure, and the Civil Kights bill has | mothing to do, and was intended to have nothing | to do, with itsexercise, A barber hasarignt to | shave wuom he pleases as mucu as a jeweller has | aright to repair a watch ior whom he pleases, or @ blacksmith to.shoe such colored horses us be pleases. In other words, these are not pubic em ployments, but private business, in which the law | does not interfere. | THE COLORED MAN’S RIGHTS aT COMMON Law. From time immemoritai ali men have had equal rights at the common law im places of puolia amusement, in public conveyances and in inns of licensed taverns, because all such business was for | the public under special privileges granted by the | government. The theatre and like public amuse- meats were licensed by the public authorities aod protected by the police. The public conveyances used the King’s highway. The public inn bad the | special privilege of a lien or claim upon the buge Gage or other property of any traveller using tt for his keep; and if any man was reiused, | while behaving himseif well and paying bis fare, @ seat in any place of pubit¢ | amusement, or carriage by public conveyance, of shelter in a public inn, he had at common law @ right of action against the party so refasing. Tue | Civil Rights bill only confirms these rights of ail citizens to the colored man in consideration of | the prejudice against him anu an attempt in cere | tain parte of the country to interiere with the ex- | ercise of those common law rights, aad has | enacted a penalty as a means of entorcing tue | Tight in bis behalf in consideration of lis heipies¢ | and dependent condition. The Civil Rignts vill bas not altered the colored man’s rignts at all from what they were belore under the common law appicable to nearly every State in the Union, it bas only given him a greater power t¢ enforce that right to meet the exigency of coum bined effort to deprive colored citizens of it; and allidea that the Civil Kights bill allows the cole ored man to force himselfinto any man’s shop oF into any man's private house or into any ea:ng house, boarding house or establishment ocvex | than those I have named is simply an exhivitiom of ignorance as well av, in some cases, of insulen able prejudice and maliguity. And while I would | sastuin any colored man 1u firmly and properly tnx | sisting upon his rights under the Civil Rights vil, which were bis at common law, as they were the Tight of every citizen, yet 1 should oppose to the utmost of my power any attempt on the part of the colored men to use the Civil Rights bill as @ | pretence to interfere with the private business of | private parties. It is beneath the dignity of any colored man so to do, and ali acts, such as shute ting him out irom drinking saloons, may oe well | left to the ignorant and generally vicious mem | who keep them as a badge of their superiority te the colored race. I pave the bouor to be, &c., BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, Roseaet Haras, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio, A CIVIL RIGHTS DEFEAT. | | | THE PROPRIETOR OF A RESTAURANT IN GEORGE> TOWN JUSTINIED IN RJECIXNG AN OFFENSIVE MULATTO. WasHINaToN, March 19, 1875. In the Police Court to-day William Rotterburp | Was charged with assault and battery on Thomas Luckett, a mulatto man. Itappesred in the eve dence that Rotterbary keeps a restaurant im | Georgetown. Last evening, as he with some cus~ tomers was aitting in the back room of the shop, Luckett came in and stationed himself in front of the proprietor in an offensive manner, and whem | asked to step aside relused to move. Rotterbury put him out, as witnesses testified, without per. | sonal violence. In the tussle, however, Luckett 163 | had his mouth hart, for wnich be charges assault | and battery. Alter a careful hearing of the case on ooth sides | the Court ruled that tne devendant had s right eject offensive customers from nis place, a ordered the case dismissed. SHARKEY, THE MURDERER. News received in this city yesterday by the Steamer Crescent City from Havana is to the effect that the statement that Sharkey, the mur | derer, who escaped some tite ago irom the Tombs, had left‘Havana on the English steam Corsica, bound for St, Thomas, ts incorrect. Is iq | beheved that he is lying concealed in Havang | or im the suburbs. A report was alsa rife when the Crescent Cit) leit thas | United States Consul General Hall written to | Wasnington jor instructions in the soatter, whether this government desires that Sharkey | should be surreadered aud seut back ,to this city. | to be executed. | It 1s understood that Assistant District Attorney | Rawiina lately went to see tne Secretary of State | at Wasbington on ine subject, and that Di | Attorney Phelps ts working bard in whe matter. Detective Henry W. Davies, who leit this city im the steamer (ity of Vera Crug, eight days ago, and is now in Havana, is believed to have been sen€ out to Havana to arrest Sharkey. i &' GERMAN IN THE SCHOOLS, The German Republican Central Committee Deld & meeting at its rooms, No. 349 Bowery, last might Judge Dittenhoeler presided, and resolutions were passed indorsing tne action of thd Cooper Institute mass meeting in reference te the question of preserving the Germ @s a branch of instruction in tne action was taken to give addith principles advanced on tbat ocoasiv! SMALLPOX IN JERSEY CITY. The report of tha Board of Health of Hudsom connty, N. J., snows that during the past mont® there were ten deaths from smallpox. Scarcely ¢ | day elapses without a new case being reported, The latest case was reported by Dr. Viers, in the house of @ man wamed Berry, on Grand stree near Library Hall, Jersey Uity. by tue time fi Health lospector bad reached the nouse pa tleat nad leit for New rork, @eaths in t! ‘was wt, cS The tural Dumver county of Hucecn during tue mon!