The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1877, Page 5

; CONDEMNED 10 DIR Seven Desperate Criminals Beneath the Shadow of the Gallows. BLOODY RIOTS AND SECRET MURDERS, Stories of Crime Unparalleled in the Criminal Reeords of the Country. ANDERSON'S OFFER TO Batt A oT “DAD.” Ailes, 8. C., March 9, 1877. There are now in the County Jail at this piace, and waiting execution of the utmost penalty inflictea by Outraged law, no less than seven desperate criminals, Of this number six are negroes and one a white man, Allare murderers in tho strictest legal semse of the term, as tne several or joint crimes of which they Stand convicted were characterized by circumstances of exceeding brutality, without a single moalfying feature to warrant the exercise of judicial clemency, “or even of that common human pity which will assert itself in the breast of the most Jaw exacting when the pursuer bas himsel! become the pursued, and, hunted down by a swilt footed and tireless Nemesis, is at last tangled in toils of his own making and brought by slow but sure paths to the verge of the grave which his too rash hand digged at onco for bis crushed and bloody ‘victim—and himself unawaro ! THE FIRST CRIMINAL. First in tne order of time is the white man, Robert McEvoy. It would not, indeed, be too much to say that in the order of crime also he ts entitled to such doubtful distinction as is the meed of evil pre-emi- nence. The ancients assigned to ingratitude a place on thocriminal calendar scarcely second to murder Utself, When, theroiore, to this highest offence of the heart is added that of the hand, the wretch in whose person both crimes have found embodiment is, indeed, something more than a murderer and stands beyond the pale of pity itself. McKvoy’s history must, how. ever, be touched upon only briefly in tls connection, for tho reason that, whiio lying under sentence of @eath, he succeeded in making bis escape some months ago, and the day appointed for his execution having passed before his recapture it is necessary, under the law, that he should now be resentenced, and in consequence of this delay his fellow prisoners, though convicted at a later date, precede him to the foot of the gallows, It is enough to say concerning him that bis doublo crime con: jn bis having mur- dered his benefactor, Mr. James Gregg, of Augusta, Ga., a gontieman Joved and respected by all who knew him for his generous nature and upright walk and con- versation, and, indeed, for every quality that goes to mako a man a good citizen, To him McEvoy was in- debied for education, position, employment—tor his daily bread—for all that he had. Being acripple, in consequence of having lost his leg when very young by falling under a railway coach in motion, he was ot course the more helpless and dependent upon bis patron, This dependent position he sustained for years, until having committed some unpardon- alje offence ho was dismissed from his placo with a merited rebuko, Always bigh tempered and revengeful, from that time the devil seemed to tako possession of his soul. After a short visit to Texus he returned with the avowed purpose of revenging his fanctea wrong (!), and seeking his old friend in his own oflice, after afew words of reproach and denunciation he quickly drew his revolver and fired upon bim several times, his victim returning his fire without effect and receiving wounds which proved mortal im a few hours, icEvoy fled, was subsequently arrested, narrowly wscaped lyuching, was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged in Oc- tober last, the sentence being stayed by his unexpected escape, Again arreated at Columbia while trying to get out of the State; ho was brought to Aiken Jail, where, despite fréquent daring and almost successtu! attempts to rogain that liberty which to him means iife itself, he now.Jie’, “heavily chained and sullonly awaiting and defying his doom. CONCERNING THE SECOND CRIMINAL, @ nogro, but little is kuown to your correspondent Deyond the fact that be was arrested im this place a few days ago on well-founded suspicion, which was quickly verified, that he was @ fugitive from justice, It 18 enly known that né, too, committed a murder in one of the upper counties; but, thanks to the insecure tondition of the county jail in which he was first Jodgeu, be soon effected his escape to make his way to that in which he is now confined, THE REMAINING FIVE fleserve such particular and extended notice that I bave reserved them for the last, the two above men- tioned having been, indeed, only’referred to because of their presence in the samo jail, When it is stated that the fve bad organized themselves into a secret society for the avowed purposes of crime, and had carried their plans into execution in numerous in- stances, embracing such deeds as house and church burning, barglury, highway robbery and rape; and when it is further remarked that the ocknowledged leuder of the gang was formerly a minister of the gospel for many years, and during that pe- riod in good standing, your readers will agree with me that some account of their career must possess a peculiar interest, notwithstanding the preva" lence of those high crimes in all sections of the coun- try. In this immediate connection, too, it may be noted that the scene of their exploits itself deserves a pussing comment as showing that human passions Beem thomscives, at times, to become epidemic as well as human suffering, a fact that has frequently arrested the attention of the sociologist and which may yet be reduced to the same or like laws of our mysterious beiug Whatare the causes or the occasions which lead to the development ot such maladies of the mind and soul it is not advisable to discuss here where it 1s sufficient to say, only, that whatever they may be, they bave had amplest illustration in the decade imme- mediately tollowmg tho late war, and have raged at- tendant with almost startling conformity upoa tho beusons of LOCAL POLITICAL ¥XCITEMENT. I doubt not I will be tully understood and many sup- Pprossed reflections readily supplied when state that the section of country now under consideration js co- extensive with that upon which public attention was #0 painiully concentrated a few months since in con- “ nection with the semi-political troubles which tound + Dloovy expression in the series of riots Which, origi- nating with tho lynching of four or five murderers io Abbevilie county, were Jollowed in rapid succession by the “riots” of Hamburg (Aiken county), Elleuton, Colleton, Combaher, Caimhoy and Charleston, all lo- cated in what may be properly considered a cununu- ous belt of country, principally distinguished by tho Prominent fact of the prescuce of a powerint political majority of recently eniancipated slaves, brought into sharp antagonism With a restiess minority of their late masters, sinarting under a sense of injury and oppres- sion resultant upon the misuse of tue suddenly ne~ quired power of their now foes. For it is just as well | to speak plainly and call things by their right names a8 to attempt to Gunvey the same jusy idea by tedious cireutmlocution, THESE RIOTS attracted widospread attention through the medium ot Executive proclamations, the New York HeKaLo, the federal courts and investigations of Congressional com. mittees; but the reader is wolully mistaken I! he con- siders fora moment that having heard the most, seem- ingly, he had heard ali! such is not the case. These | Dioody outbreaks from time to time bore but the sane | relation to the general condition of the country that an | eruption sustains to a voleano whose heart 1s ever afire and whose mutterings of thunder keep she feariul in- habitants in 1s fateial neighborhood in ever present | dread and suepense by night ) m Whose | Fiver sides small streams of death-dealing lava trickle comparatively unobserved at all times, overwhelming not wholo communities, 1t is true, bUL many an un wary peasant Who trusts himself to its treacherous sol). Ul the riots all the worla was speedily informed by the ready telegraph, but of the solitary tnurders in out-of-the-way hamiels and im dark places on country roads, of the destruction of private dwell (ngs by the band of the midnight incendiary, of the frightiully frequent instances of violation ot the per- sous of defenceiess maics and mothers; of the stealthy shot irom ambush, maiming or killing tbe fariner re- turning Irom town, whither he had goue to dispose of the fruits of & year's tnbor—ot nil these things, solitary instancos in themselves, but all going to make ap an’ nggregnte of crime which would appall the ansuspecting and far olf reader, nothing was ever heard beyond the Inmediate neighborhood where the crite was committed, cl 1s 100 Jurge jor further remark here, pardoned for the di- gression only of its t yot the ‘i y be readily ened e courts ot law, by 8 inalmust every | State, Ll will ao wis county ip crime-covered | tailed account What does that of it as is certainly known, show? Passing by all PETTY THKFTS AND SIIGHTZR MISDEMRANOKS, any one of which would bave consigned them to the Peniteatiary, we come to the first of their more glar- ing crimes, 4, 1 must be inserted here, all that is reported is upon the authority of the several con- ous of the criminals themselves, voluntarily made diferent times subsequent to their arrest and con- viction, In the early fail the handsome and entirely new OHCRON Was BURNED tothe ground at miduight, despite the most strenuous evorts on the part of the citizens to save it irom de- loss, ‘That theory was based upon frequent instances of incendiarism, and the same theory wa erally ac- cepted as t! last and more common loss, The church has never deen rebuilt, in consequence of the poverty of the cougregation, which had expended its entire urces Upon the first construction, The Most diligent search Was instituted upon the slight clew afforded by certain suspicious circumstances substun- tiating the theory of intentional destruction, bat the perpetrators remained, for the time, undiscovered, But & few weeks elapsed before a second and TREBLE OUTRAGE ‘was perpetrated within a short distance of the town, the {uct being 1 brief that several unknown negroes repaired to the house of an old man named Parkinson, r first Oring through an open window into the bed where they erroneously supposed the oid man and wife were sleeping they broke in, and, having selzed upon everything Whici their avarice prompted them to take, they ravished his wife in his presence, and left with repeated threats of veugeance it he should ever narrate what had occurred, PUBLIC INDIGNATION at this pew outrage had burely Lud time to subside in some degree before the peaceiul little community was agam shocked with the story of another and a more | violent offence, im that it marked by the shedding ot blood, A barmiess and almost beipless eld man, well kuown for bis inoffensive habits, was found dead, lying welteriug in his blood, a short distance irom the The old man, arag dealer by trade, evi- dently been kiled for the sake of the small sum of money which th ssins hoped to secure from his person, as bis pockets bad been rifled when the body was found. That sum, necessarily mconsiderable, was the price of his humble lite. SEVERAL ROBBERIES followed in rapid succession, uone of which, however, were of such interest or magnituue as to warrant more particular reference. The next attempt was happily unsucer ul in Consequence of av accuiental or provi- dential change of mind which led the intended victim, a do farmer returning home from town with & cousiderable sum of money in his possession, to leave his horse with a friend and pursue’ his way by another conveyance and another route, This, Of course, was not discovered at the time, and was first made knowa in the alter contessions of the would-be inurderers, This instance might, indeed, be supplemented by a long list of like, and other and more successful endeavors; but without touching upon these 1 will cloge the list with the last, a8 1b Was the crowning act in the life of THESK AMERICAN THUGS! On the morning of the 3a of November last still another was added to the tong, dark list of deeds of darkness, the recital of which had vecome ternbly famitiar to our pained ears. This time ROBUERY, MURDER AND ARSON had been blended into oue crime, the victims, two Germans, being. first overpowered by stealth in their quiet home, then robbed, deliberately mur- dered and consigned to a funeral pile composed of the burning timbers of tho house ther own hands bad erected as @ shelter and resting piace, The scene of this crime was about five miles from town, at a house hear the mill where the murdered men found employ- ment during the day, the mili being im tact the prop- erty of the elder, wiile the younger lived with bim as an assistant, Their nal! consumed bodies were found the next morning in tho smouluering ashes of their Jave home, beariug vuch marks of viclenco as’ carried Immediate conviction of their having met with foul play, as mauy ovbers, in different ways, had so recently’ suftered beiore them. The community was now thoroughly aroused and excited. No ono was gafe and all felt directly concerned in taking active a steps for the discovery and punishment of the outlaws who were ‘preying ou tho inter- exts, the peace and the liie of the county. Every eye was oow watchiul for the slizhtest clew which might lead to the detection of the band whose existence such, heretofore only suspected, had come to be regarded as a certainty. No single crim- inal can escape under such circumstances, and here were geverul, the chances of detection being multi- phed, of course, by their very number, lt was not jong before the trail was struck and the bunt com- menced, Several articles of property known to have been in the possession of tue unfortunate Germans Were discovered in possession of negroes living on the outekirts of the town. Search was speedily instivuted at their houses, und other articies werv also found and ideotitied, some us betug the property of the old pod- ler, others ag that of the Parkinsons, and others yet as having had place in the pulpit furniture of the burned church. Several arrosis were made, tho ringleader among the first, and ther many crimes being lixed upon them by imdabitavie evidence, confession speedily followed, and other guilty parties Were impleated. The gang, now thoroughiy ularmed, was broken up, and many fled to other por- tions of the State, whers they ‘@ arrested in detail at diferent times, Brought back jo chains to tb scene of their deviltry and lodged in a common other coulessions were clivited, which were atte ward repeated in open court. Able counsel de- fended them, but a jury composed ot ven hegroes and’ one white man brought in a ver- duet of guilty of murder in the tirat degrec as to the five who were most deeply concerned in the last murder, and sentence of death was passed upon them all, their names being, respectively, Adam Johnson (the preacher wiready referred to), Lucius thomas, Nel- son Brown, Jobu Henry Dennis #od Steve Anderson. ‘The last named was recommended tor mercy by the jury, on the ground of being the youngest uf the part und because the evidence went very far to prove that he was coerced into participation in the murder. ONK HUNDRED DOLLARS AND A MULE TO MANG FOR HIM ‘The following letter from the guard who has chargo of Anderson shows the filtal respect and consideration which the young murderer bas tor bis aged lather, He wants the vid man to take his place on the gallows and offers to reward him for the selt-sacrificing act. ‘The old mun would like to help bis boy, but thought Steve's offer, although flattering, “he couldn't sce it joss yet.” ‘The lollowing is the guara’s letter:— AIKEN, 8. C., Murch 6, 1877, Anderson, one of the Hausmann murderers, who Is to b hanged on the 16th of this month, sent tor his other day and made a proposition to the gray haired m now verging on seventy years of age, The son told the old man that he was young and was to hang on the 16t tids month, “You ty vid, dad, and will svon lebe dis land; den thair will not be One in dis world to look alter moder, Now, dad. if you will hang in my place I will vive you $50 and iny inate.” The old man hesitated «moment ‘and scratched bis head. The son, thiniing he was about to take him up, added an additional §50 by way of a clincher, ‘The old man in the meantime hag collected his sense a control of his tongue und informed his anxious youms hope- “Phe mule and but dis old nigger Jess sow how de mule or de greenba urter he done doady he wax open to conyi he couldent see tt jens yet.” The jail in which they are now contined is strongly guarded, in consequence of one or two recent vain utiempts to escape, n which McEvoy (the white man) bore # prominent part, and in further consequence of thrests of rescue said to have been made by the friends of the prisoners, The execution will take place on next Friday, the 16th inst, ful conducement, dhe could not MISSED FROM ‘CHANGE, Three days ago no man stood higher on 'Chango at the Produce Exchange than Mr. James Kinghan. His word was good fur any amount he might wish to pur- chase, But on Saturday iast and yesterday Mr. Kinghan fated to “put in an appearance’? among his brethren in business, and they cannot account for bis pearance otherwise than on the theory that he involved to such an ex'ent that even his largo Means were insufficient to extricate him from bis diffl- culties; and that, while he had hosts of friends who | would gladly have helped him, he shrauk trom laying | bare his embarrassments, aud leit for paris unknowu. Mr. Kinghat was a merchant of this city tor years, but went out West, where he became enguged in tho ork packing trade, and a short time ago retired From business, and was estimated to be worth at leust | hulta million of dollors, He brought bis family to this city and took up his residence at the Backingham Hotel, where his tamily still remains. He visited the Produce Exchange datly, and while he tad no office he nevertheless speculated very heavily through brokers. On the strength of the rumors of an innpending war between Turkey and Russia Mr. Kinghan vongh heavily, and as the cloud of battic disappeared provi- sions fell in price, ana his losses are said to have been seve! Ou last Friday he tett word with some brokers that he could not put i 3 any more rgin, and since then no trace of his wheresbouts could be obtained, His strange conduct surprises everybody, and many leading operators expressed themseives to the effect that they would gladly have eflected almost any com- promise rather than to see him fat, Mr, King! ‘s liabilities are stated to be over $500,000, His brother has been seen concerning his | disappearance, Dut knows nothing of nis whereabouts, The firm of Kinghan & Co., of No, 6 Whitevali street, 18 no Way connected with the gentieman in question. POL D. On Sunday evening Joseph Lapraea, of No. 545 West | Filty-second street, entertained some friends in honor of the birth of a son some days betore, Une of the | guests, George Sthuster, of No, 35 West Forty-ninth Street, became drunk and disorderly in the course of the evening, and Was ‘pat out. Shortly afterward Otiicer Dalton came ap, and while Joseph Lapracy was talking to him, Napoleon, a brother, was attacked by Seb and stabbed quite dangerously, The assailaut Wos arrested, artaigned yestorday at the Fifty-seventb Street Court, and committed to await the result of Na- poleon raez's injuries, The wounded man was stabbed in the right lung, and bas been transferred to St Luke's Hospital, LOV, ; OR MONEY. Twenty years ago or moro Michael and Ann Duffy became one in England. She visited the United States and married here, according to Michael's statement, He followed where sbe had dared to tread and remar- | Jast move by bin she bh to cneck mare tis bappiness by 1ollowin which te states lis been a positive annoyance to him. She, lor ber part, claims he owes het $20 aod that she seeks her money and not bimgell, She was arraigned ried, Since th no more than glance at the record of these miserable mon, Who wre so svon to expiate their decda by their Geath, louving to & subsequent iciter to give a morede | uischargew yesterday at the Fifty-sevenin Street Court, out on NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, or to meen f | dition, ie | day, and held 1m $2,000 bail each to answer, | place, started off to find the thieves Promise of leaving Michavl, in future, 10 peace she was \ MARCH 13, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. METHODIST MINISTERS’ CONCLAVE, LOCAL BCAPEGOATS FOR ITINERANT UNCOUTH- NESS—RBESOLVING THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OUT THAT DULNESS MAY PRODUCE KE- SPECTABILITY. Gradual or instantaneous sanctification occupied the Attention of the Methodist preachers ‘or a while yester- day morning, 1t seems that the process by which this experience is attained is of equal if not of more im- portance than the experience itself, Dr. True is an ad- Vocate of both processes, Kev. J. Parker of the in- stantaneous, while Kev. 8. D, Ferguson and others look for the experience regardicss of the processes, The New York Observer had a standing offer tor several months to pay $100 for a specimen of the sanctiflod class, FO matter by what proc: ss made so, but thero were po claimants, and as the doctors differ in regard to the processes, and aiso as to the degree of sanctifl- cation, the meeting left the matter where it was found, and agreed to differ about it hereafter as much ana as stoutly as heretofore, FIXED STARS OR METHORS, ‘The brethren then pussed over by an casy process toa subject that more vitally affects most of thom— bameiy, the lengthening or lessening of the pastoral term—and on this Rey. J. Dickinson relieved bis mind, He would be satistied with ‘the old itinerancy,”” but as that ‘no longer exists’? he does not want to bang on the ragged edge of an obsoicte system any longer. True, the old system exists in the pages of Methodist history, and might be resurrected at any time. But the brethren would take their chances on that provided the disciplinary restriction was removed and they could stay as long as it should be found mu- tually agreeabie to preacher and people. But the ‘peo pie” have jittie or nothing to say about their preacher. Nevertheless when he comes they must bear with bim for at least one yoar, though he be as dull as a stump and a8 useless too, And as tho preacher, once in> stalled, can manipulate the class leaderz, who can be made or unmade by biin absolutely; and the stewards, who are bis nominees, and are rarety, if ever, rejected by the Quarterly Conference; and the oxhorters, who may be very largely his creatures—inasmach us the preacher can thus mako or control more than two-thirds of his Quarterly Conler- ence, he may also influence enough of his church trus- tees to keep himseli in place year after year tor a life- time. Indeed, under the itinerancy as 1¢ is, some men sorve the sume churcbes six, nine or twelve years of their lives by just changing Irom one to another every three years, But the preachers find their greatest ob- Jecuiou to the itinerancy now im the fact that it severs ‘or prevents friendships and acquaintances. This excuse, as Rev. F, Brown showed, “won't-hold water.’’ some men would not become acquainted with a church in twenty years, while others will Know all their members in six months, And the removal of the disciplinary restriction won’t help the one sort nor hinder the other, Allthe brethren suy they are in favor of the itinerancy, but all their arguments ure in favor of a settled pastorate—an indefinite pastoral term. [tiner- ancy implies a system of frequent changes, The ques. tion Is, as Mr. Brown said, “Had Methodism such system’?’? He believed it had. It 18 not necossary that they should change pastorates every six months, Most of them do change uow at the end ota year, and it would be well for the larger number, who stay three years, if they leit at the end of two; for they are usually a drag and au incubus upon the churches after that. There is more settiedness and stability 10 one or two years’ pastorates than in three, and the limit should be Joss aud not more, unless the preachers want to become Presbyterians, POOR METHODIST CLERICAL ‘TIMBER, The Rev. A. 5. Graves, Presiding Eider, would take off tuo restrictions as to time, because there are a largo number of Methodist preachers it is a benefit to them and to the churches to change every year; and us soon us the change Ww these years was made there were more pustoral changes the first year than eiber the second or third. About six per seut only of tho preachers stay three yeurs in charges. Thero are charges, however, in which iv would be a great ood tf the pastors could stay more than three years, A false wentiment prevails that a man loses caste unless he re- mains throe yeurs in one charge. RRORGANIZING, , This topic, too, haa to give ', just as the meeting had become intrested in i, because the committee of nine appointed a week ago had a report to make and a plan to present for a reorganization of the Preachers’ Meeting as a Pastors’ Meeting. This 184 step inthe right direction, It may tend to make the talkers more careful of what they say than they bave been. They have shutout all tue genticmen and ladies who de- ligbted to spend an hour there on Monday mornings, and being alone hencelorth they won't let off so much buncombe. But while this will be a great loss to some it will be a great gain to others. ‘The process by which the meeting arrived at this do- cision exhibits, however, remarkable obtuseness. Their wild speeches aad upgeutiomanty and unministerial remarks were scattered abroad over the land necessarily in wn imperfect condition, Country pavers and city journals also were at ove in condemnation of thoso ‘vagaries. Now, instead of confluing their own lan- guage within decent and proper limits, their committee yesterday brought ia the following report aud rales of order of exercises for the meetings in future: — RESPECTAIMLITY BY RESOLUTIO M the following rules Any travetlin: dist Episeo- pal Chares: shall to wny nes the meeting on the Introduction of a member and recognition by the President. Then follow the old rules of order. On this report rs. Crawiord, Scudder, Parsons, Dickinson and other members of the committee spoke, and also Drs, Curry, Roche, McAlister, Willis and oth: ers who were not on the committee. ‘the loc: ers, reporters, ladies, lay 1 isters who had spent haifa life time in the service of the Church, were summarily ordered outside, that these resolutions might be discussed. Such was the feverish haste of the meeting to resolve itself into an orderly and decent body. Mr. McAlister favored the admission ol the local preachers, and thought the tras elling min- isters, by curbing their own tongues, could avoid this predicament, Drs. Carry and Roche took similar ground, and thero was an apparent inclination to ad- mit the local preachers, when Rev, J, Dickinson re- marked thet one of that-class was connected with the Henan, and by admitting hit as a local preacher they could not prevent him making reports, But the speaker | erred in suyiny that the Hxkatp representative went 1n as a local preacher and not a8 a reporter. He went in the latter capacity always and was so known, A compromise between the anti-locals and those in favor of them by admitting them under the head of pastors was cirried. So that if a tocal_ preacher has charge of a church he $s by this new order of tuings a member of the New York Preachers’ Meeting. But shutting out the press and the public will not ‘ecessarily shut in courtesy and order and gentlemanimess, as the mecting scems to think. The chairman, Mr. Willis, and Dr. Curry were opposed to secret conclaves of the ministers, for their proceedings will be published as heretofore, but in a more garbled and extravagant con- ‘The resolutions were adopted, nowever, with not more than half a dozen dissenting votes. Thus dies the New York Pt hers’ Meeting. Ite burial will soon follow. TWO GOOD SAMARITANS. Charles Hansen, an innocent young German, was wandering through Second street, near avenue B, on Saturday evening, and went Into a Jager beer saloon and asked the nearest way to the Harlem boat, Two | young men in the place said that be had better take the Second avenue car, and as he seemed to be loaded down with provisions, such as coffee, tea and gugar, they volunteered to holp him to carry them and snow him the way to the car, for which proposed service he asked them to take a drink with bim. Hansen left ihe suloop with the two young men, Une of them took | the coflee and tea avd the other the sugar, and they walked along. When they arrived near First -avenue the largest of the two, Henry Reickie, threw | his arm around Havsen's body while Beyer rified his pockets of $35 and ran away, Yester mornin young Hansen, who works for a bake 0 Secund avenue, came down town and walked through econd street, He recognized the lager veer saloon he had been in and also saw tho two men who hat robbed him standing nearby. He at ouce proceeded to the Station house, made a complaint ested. They were arraigned belure ‘andcll, at Hasex Market Police Court, yester- REFORM IN At an adjourned meeting of the Board of West- chester County Supervisors, yesterday, a peremptory mandamus, ‘sued by Justice Dykinan, of the Supreme Court, way served on that body ordering it to rescind | auch resolution or other action as authorized the WESTGHESTER, County Treasurer to credit himself with $1,370 02 for | | his services im receiving and disbursing the | Stato tax of 1875, The amount named is | alleged to be in excess of the feos and | commissions allowed by law in such eaves, it was juriher ordered that the sum stated be placed to the credit of the county by the Supervisors, A similar | Mandamus was also served on the Board in the matter of $100, allowed as a charge against the county for stationery supplied to the office of the Registrar of Deeds, Tho special committee to which the judicial ¢ referred reported in favor of complying andates of the Supreme Court, and recom mended that an appeal be taken in the premises to an appellate court. report having been adopted tho Board adjourned sine d A MOMENT TOO LATE. The door of Dugan & Co.’s liquor store, In Chureh street, was found open on Sanday night, and the place evidence of baving been ransacked by rs Weisberger and Fuchs, securing the trai On the corner of Thomas street they lound several boxes of Cigars, demijohns of whiskey, raspberry sirup aud ity of obacco, Goods of this destriptuiou, amount- 1n ail perhaps to about $3,000 worth of property, Were stolen irom tue premises by burgiara, who were not captured, plasterers, 5 potters, 2 paper ers, 2 polishers, 2 produce dealers, 1 paperstainer, 1 pound- keeper, 4 rock blasters, 11 restaurant keep. | ers, 11 roofers, 1 ruunet, 64 sutlors, 64 shoo. THE ABODE OF CRIME. ABSTRACT OF THE REPORT OF THE WARDEN OF THE NEW YORK PENITENTIARY-—1TS OVER- CROWDED CONDITION AND THB PROPOSED REMEDY—WHAT THE CONVICTS HAVE DONE PURING A YEAR—CRIMINAL STATISTICS, ‘The second annual report of Warden Fox, of the New York Penitentiary, has been submitted to the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction, It is a docu- ment of more than ordinary interest, showing as it does the defects of this immense metropoliton home of the dangerous class, its wants and the work that has been accomplished by the convicts during the past twelve months. According to the census of the Peni tentiary on January 1, 1876, there were 992 prisoners— 882 male and 110 female. The total number of ad- missions during the year was 2,302, of which number 1,962 were mates and 340 were females, The number discharged during the year was 2,318, leaving on hand December 31, 1876, 856 males and 126 females—a total of 982, The daily average during the year was 954, an excess over any year sinee she establishmentot the prison, The average daily cost of maintaining each eonvict was a little more than thirty-one cents, and | the total outlay during the year was $110,735 87. MORK CKLLS WANTED, The report says:—“‘The population of the institu. tion ts increasing yearly corresponding with the in- | creasing population of the city; yet during this period | there has been no increase of cell accommodations, | although the census has more than doubled, fhe whole number of cells in the Penitentiary, exciusive of dark cells and including fifty-two at the Branch Penitentiary, oo Randall’s Isiand, 18 778; consequently Ihave been compelied to exclude all of the females | from cells and to place two males each in as many 100 or more cells, at times, according to the variations in the census. It is evident that the time has como when increased accommodations for the convicts should be supplied, 1 recommend that the prison be’ enlarged by building an additional wing sutlicient!y Jarge to contain at least 260 cells, This would enable ; me to place the entire population in separate cells, which would not only improve the sanitary condition of the prison, but would afford greater facilities tor carrying out our system of the clasgification of prison ers and of keeping day and night the discipline intact, A building such as would be required vould be easily and rapialy crocied, un we have plenty of stone on the island, and men edough to quarry it, dress it and do the masonry. In tact the whole work could be done by convict labor and the building be completed in love than two years.” IMPROVEMENTS. During the year just closed the old carpenter shop has been taken down, tho dduris removed and tho grading t+ BOW progressing, which, when completed, will give to that portion ot the island east of the new shops quile an Upposing appearance, A large workshop, com- enced abyut the middie of last June, hus been com- pleted and added to the Penitentiary Department, te 18 180 feet long, 35 feet wide, is three stories bich and 1s composed of stone quarried trom tho Island and built by convict Jubor, Jt will be occupied by carpen- tera, wheelwrighis, cabines makers, coopers, chair. makers, painters, &c. In this shop 1 is intended to curry on the manufactory of prison vans, carriages, carts, trucks, on an extenaive scale, thus supply. ing ail vehicles necessary for tho uso of the Depart. ment of Charities and Correction, |t is also tended to place in the stop young mon who have ey terms to serve and instruct them in the different trades, LANOR OF THK CONVICTS, The convicts were distributed tor iabor in the fol- lowing departments during the your:— Blacksmiths. 24; curpenters aud painters, 29; tailors, shoemakers, guarding broom and brush making, 109; gardeners, 26 bouts, 17; stone browking. shop builaing, 30; quarry: 28; butcher sho; ul janevus, 10; grading sea wall Randall’s Island, 62; scrubbing, 02; oiber employment, 59. NATION EDUCATION AND CONDITION. Of the arm, mitted during the year 1,363 were natives of the United states, 545 were from Ireland, 190 rom Germany, 84 trom England, 26 trom scot- land, 20 from France, 17 trum Canada, 11 trom Italy, 6 rom the West Indes, 6 irom Russia, 5 from Cuba, 8 from Nurway and Sweden, 3 from Holland 2 trom Aus- tria apd 12irom Mexico, Africa and South America, Whe wumber that were able to read and write waa 1,675, and the number that could not was 258. ‘The married numbered 063, the widowed 148 and the sin- gie 1,491. THMIR CRIMES, ‘The report shows 26 were committed for attompt at petit larceny, 1,544 for petit larcemes, 4 for trick and uevice, 2 for attempted petit larceuy trom the person, 63 for grand larcentes and attempts at the same, 5 lor larceny trom the person, 334 tor aseauit and battery, 21 for iclonious assaults, 38 for assualt with imieut to steal, L ior robbery, 38 for burglary in first, second and third degrees; 1 tor an unnatural oftence, 5 fe ery, 1 tor abduction, 11 tor indecent exposure, 14 for embezzlement, 7 for malicious mischief, 9 for receiving siokn goods and essing burgiars’ tooiw, 3 tor carrying concealed Weapons, 24 1or obtainiag goods by tuise pretences, 15 for cruelty to animals, 9 for’ crueity to children, 1 for attempt to rescue prisoners, 2 lor assisting prisoners to escape, 14 for dog fighting, 12 tor selling obscene literature, I for extortion, 3 oF Vugrancy ; total, Their terms of imprisonment wax as follyws:—-13 for ten day tor twenty di 880 for one month, 207 for two months, 379 for thre months, 167 for 7 for tive months, 522 for six months, 3 tor #, 15 for nine moaths, 13 for ten mouths, 2 for eleven months, 142 for one year, 22 for two years, 11 for two years and six munths, 12 for three years, 4 ior four years, 9 tor five years, 2 for ten years. FREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF CONVICTS. The occupations of the prisuners were as follows:— T agents, 63 boatmen, 1 awhingmaker, 42 butchers, 29 blacksmiths, 21 bootblacks, 19 barvers, 16 barkeepers, 11 boilermakers, 10 bricklayers, 7 bookbinders, 5 brass finishers, 3 brass moulders, 3 brushmakors, 2 basket- makers, 1 billiard marker, 1 bill poster,'1 boarding house Keeper, 1 boiler fel: maker, 1 boot fitter, 1 box- | maker, 1 brewer, 1 broker, 1 bronzer, 75 clerks, 60 | carpenters, o1 cooks, 19 eigarmakers, 12 coopers, 9 coachmen, 4 carmen, 4 cabinetinakers, 4 compositors, | 4 coutectiouers, 3 carriers, 3 combmakers, 2 carvers, | 2 conductors, Learriagemaker, 1 collector, i copy:st, 179 drivers, 5 druggists, 2 dealers, 2 dyers, 1 dock builder, 9 errand boys, 6 engineers, 4 expressmen, 1 en- 18 firemen, & farmers, 2 fishmongers, 2 flax- 13 gas deners, 2 gilde’ viowers, 1 goldbeater, 1 grocer, 20 hostlers, 6 barness makers, 4 hatters, 2 hairworkers, 1 bodearrior, 1 hodmaker, 1 hotel keeper, 1 iron turner, 10 junkmen, 2 janitors, 1 japanner, 1 jobber, 296 labor= ers, 8'longshoremen, 14 liquor dealers, 8 lathers, 2 lawyers, 1 lvather worker, 2 lithographers, 1 lock- smith, 26 machinists, 10 moulders, 6 masons, 5 marble cutters, 4 messengers, 2 merchants, 2 milkmea, 1 matebmaker, 1 musician, 9 news venders, 11 oysier- inen, 2 operators, 1 ofl printers, 65 painters, 59 pediers, 26 plumbers, 12 porters, 8 paper makers, 8 makers, 7 sailmakers, 7 sailsmen, 5 steam fitters, 4 soda Water manulacturere, 3 saloon keepers, 2 stone- cutters, 2 stablemen, 17 tibsmiths, 72 waiters and 88 others, representing ulmost every craft beneath tho sun, Of the females committed I was an actress, 2 were book leuders, 13 cooks, 3 e:garmakers, 1 clairvo. aut, 1 confectioner, 135 domestics, 14 dressmakers, housekeepers, 26 Ihundresses, 32 seamstresees, 1 ped- Jer, L ragpicker, 31 tatloresses, 31 Waitresses, 1 er, and 9 Were children, tbs last year Were 17 in number, The san- itary condition of the prison bas been excellens RUM AND DEATH. Oficer Owen, of the East New York police, was in- formed on Sunday night fast that the body of Nicho- | las Grosen, who had died on Friday, was still lying unburied at his residence, at the corner of Schenec. tady avenue and Crown sircet, Brooklyn, we at once proceeded to the apartments of Grosen and found tho vouy of the deceased covered with a sheet, lying on the floor, while, not far distant, Mrs, Grosen was also | extended upon the fluor, not dead, but sleeping off the eflects of a spree. A poor woman who resided in the | vicinity was eb da lat: in one corner of the room | watching the body. rything 19 the apartment im. | dicated the utmost poverty and destitation When | the officer found there wns no invney with which to | bury tho dead he reported the case to ihe Kings | County Charity Commissioners. The deceased will be | tutored ju Poiter’s Feld. THE LEON-MASSIMINO ASSAULT. Antonio Leon, the Malian who murderousty as- | saulted his daughter, Rose Massimino, at her resiaence, | No. 48 Prosident street, Brooklyn, on the morning of the Loch of February last, was yesterday brought be- | fore Justice Ferry for examination, As Rose did vot | appear an officer was despatched to the house to ascer- tain her condition, He there learned that she was ina very critical state She is about to become a mother, and has nov as yet fuily recovered (rom the wounds in ficved by ber thhuman father, If there ts no hope of saving ber lite she told the ofticer that she Wished to bave a carriage sent for her Fo that sho Fayainse her father belore she lett this still claims that the story she told of ber mois true, and 1s Justice Ferry, upon ning the « health, adjourned the cave until Friday next. | Paint was also prowrred aguivet the prisover yester. day by Nicholas Massimino, tho father-in-law of Roso, in which he charg’s Antonio Leon with stabbing him | with a pair of scissors at the same time and place the assault on Rose was committed, id, iather's FELONIOUS ASSAULT, A quarrel occurred on Sunday night between Patrick Moore and Joveph Maroney at No. 60 Cherry street, during Which Maroney fell upon his antagonist with « shoemaker’s Kalle, inileting several severe wounds, | ‘Too distarbance attracted the attention of an officer, who wrrested the men, At the Tombs Police Court yosterday Moore preterred « charge of (etonious assault | After the second blow this witness saw the man reeled > aiong | Cross There was not much of a crowd | | and pulled me away ana | horses’ he i THA “FORCE” ON TRIAL. Sergeant Thompson Before a Gen- eral Sessions Jury, ——-—-—__ HOW CANNON WAS “FIRED OFF,’ Knocked Down and Picked Up Three Times in Sueerssion. A PUSH OR A BLOW? Within two weeks, it will be remembered, Joo’ | Coburn, the pugtlist, was the defendant tn an indict- | ment for an assault on two policemen. Yesterday it i was different, Sergeant Theron T, Thompson was put | on trial in the Court of General Sessions for assault , and battery on Michael Cannon, tn Park row, the 13th | of jast February, and the defendant’s counsel was | ** Ned” Price, who once entered the lists with Coburn, | Gunsel urgea, and then stated that his defence would be that Sergeant Thompson did nos strike the mam a8 all, bat merely pushed him down. He then called to the witness stand the defendant himself, TUR SERGRANT'S STORY OF SHOVES. Theron T, Thompson, No. 219 West Tenth street, was sworu, and said te has been pine years a police ser- Feaut, be recollected the 1ith February, when, about five o'clock in the afternoon, while on patrol visiting the men, a conductor came to the sidewalk om Park row and called him to the man Cannon, who had hold of the horses of a Fourth avenue he went oat and caught him by the collar and hin round and gave him a snove and be went then Cangon got on the ees fol and pushed him along a little; he was afraid to push hin much, for he was so drunk herd fail down with a little push that would searcely knock down a child; when witness was bringing Cagnon across from the cat track he (Canuon) str at him like @ drunken man, 4ud said be could ride wherever be pleased if he paid his ture; as witness went up the street O’Hearn asked what | was doing with that man, and becoming disor. derly was taken to the station bouse with — both of whom witness told Officer Canavan to arrest on. Cantha Crate “ Jross-examined—Did it occur to you to be your duty : push man so as to cause him % tall down thre¢ Imes “IE don’t think it hurt him very much.” “You say you dia not strike Cannon at ali?” “No, sir; Hot at all,” THE CAR CONDUCTOR'S VERSION. John W. Irwin, conductor on the Fourth avenue line, was next sworn, His version of the case wae as follows:—Cagnon aud O’Heaw form of the car at its stand op I ran through the car on seein, whom the jrry condemned ag a telon last week. Mr, | of “the di Bell, Assistant District Attorney, prosecuted. When | posed ee ei foe ieee arn a the jury was sworn he briefly stutea the nature of tho | know so.” At this time Cannon was holding on to the complaint and then called his first witness, ” Tho court room was fairly titled and quite a number of po- | hand rail of the car; I told the driver to pull ouson the straight track aud we'd get them off; alter some parley, then, | pushed them both of; then we started again, lice captains attended, and when they realized ‘paving been put William S$. Andrews, No. 75 West Fifty-fourth | cuay ber on a dead run after the car; 0’ Hear: street, was tho first witness called. His testimony | tie car.’ Them hestruck at mer aud ¢ was a follows:—I was passing down Park row on the | afternoon of February 13, and noticed a crowd of per- | sons coming toward mo; saw defendant standing di- rectly in front of the World office; some one rushed up to speak to bi; then I saw him go out into the streot, seiz0 & man by tho collar, strike him in the face and knock him down ;then he helped him up, pushed him The man man stood looking stupidly at him; then the defendant said, “If you don’t go on I'll give it to | you again;” aftor this he struck tho man and knockod him down again. “Is that man in court ?’” “Yes, sir”? “Do you know bis name?” “I heard afterward it was Cannon." “Go on."” “Then he struck him and knocked him down a third time and he picked bim up again; Cannon after that | walked up Park row, followed by tho deiendant; I lost | sight of him by reason of having stopped to get the | / Dames of some witnesses; I overtook thom again near | the Daily News office, and saw a man I bad not seen | before walking beside tho ofMcer.”” “Who was that man?” ‘hat was a man named O'Hearn; the officer said to that man, ‘If you don’t go away Ill give it to you, too;’ O’Hearn did not leave, and a moment after tho oMficer struck at him; at the samo moment another of- ficer came up to tako charge of O'Hearn, who seemed to be under tho iniluence of liquor; Cannon was in- toxicated.”? “Where was Cannon arrested ?!” “Near the Fourth Avenue Railroad track, opposite the Staals Zeitung oMce.” “Was Cannon’s face marked ?”’ “Yes sir.?* Cross-examined—I saw the man’s face before he was struck and did not then notice any bruises; did nut see what had occurred prior to the moment the defendant put bis hand on Cannon's collar; did not speak to | Sergeant Thompson at all during the occurrence; Can- non did not show fight at all, | Isanc N, Hebbard, No, 18 Murray street, testified that ho saw the prisoner about three minutes ater tive o’clock on the atternoon of February 13 near the cor- ner of Beekman street and Park row; saw a man run | ning to get on the front plattorm of a car; he got be- youd the platiorm and seized one of the Horses; then the uriver put on the brake and stopped; the conduc- tor stepped to the front platform and beckoned to an officer (the defendant) who was on the sidewaik. KNOCKKD DOWN THREE TIMKS. The defendant advanced towurd the man and strack him what witness considered a violeut blow, knocking him down; when the man got up he struck him and knocked him down again; then the man moved toward the sidewalk, us it seeking to escape, wnen the defend- ant came upto him again, and, saying, **1'll give it to you again;” as ho said this be struck him the third time and knocked him down; then tne man went up Park How, tollowed by the defendant; on the way an- other man came ajongside the ollicer and spoke to him; as be spoke the offlcer said :— Fo on or L'il give it to you, too,’ drawing back at the same moment as if about to strike; subsequently, an officer arreated both nen. Cross-examined—Had three convereations with Mr. Andrews about the occurrence. Redirect—There were n0 bruises on Cannon's face berore the blows; after the second blow it was swollen ; after the tmird the skin was broken, Recross—Dido’t know positively whether there was | any mark on Cannon’s face before the officer struck | him, UP AND DOWN AGal Mr. Henry F. Horkuer, of No, 215 West Fiiteenth street, the next witness, said he arrived on the sevne asthe defendant rau trom the sidewalk and seized Cannon; as Thoinpson wheeled the man around he brought his left side toward him; then he planted his fist in bis tace felling the man to the sidewalk; when | the man got the defendant knocked him aown in; Cannon appeared to be dazed, and only raised hand as ifto guard his face; when he up the second time the officer struck him and knocked hin down again. Cross-examined—Has spoken to Mr. Andrews twice about the case since the occurrence; there Was not muck of a crowd about at the time. Charles B, Carpenter, a bookkeeper, next described the occurrence, his testimony being ‘almost an exuct | reproduction of the evidence given by the previous witnesses, He, however, saw ouly one blow struck, the crowd shutting out bis view alter that. Cross-examined—Cannon appeared to be stupidly drunk at the time, Lemuel Purdy also described the concluding portion of the occurren Thomas McWaters, a World reporter, saw the de- fendant seize a man standing near the heads of the horses of a Fourth avenue car, Jerk him back and knock tim down; saw defendant help him up, strike him and knock him down; lilt him up again, strike him again and knock bit down again, Eiword D. Chase, another attaché of the World, saw Cannon fall twice, but only saw one blow strack by | Sergent Thompson. Joseph O'Connor, 427 East Fifveth street, a Journulist, saw the man turn round stubbornly when when told to go on, and saw the defendant strike him. Francis H, Hearn saw the occurrence trom the seo- ond story window of tho building on the southern cor- ner of Beekmao street and Park row. Hie only saw | Thompson strike the man twice and knock him down, about the defendant at the time; witness came lorward | voluntarily, x FIRED OFZ. Michael Canno complaibant, was next sworn, Batore giving his testimony @ recess was ordered. | When the court reassembled he suid:—On February 13 J Went on the jront p.atiorm of a car and Was sinoking | A pipe; the driver objected and culled the conductor; they put me off ihe car, and tue driver hit Malbeara (Witness companion) with the carhook; Lcaught the | horses to stop them and \old Muluearn to get an offi and have him arrested; thea Sergeant Thompson came nocked me down three times and kicked me in the side; I didn’t strike at him at all, but putan arm up to ward off a blow once, Cross-exarmine |—Witness said he lives in avenue C | and took 4 Fourth avenue ear io go hone; bad drank several glasses of beer that day, but was not drunk. You sey the defendant kicked you?"* | “he did, air. “How meny times did he kick you?” “LE don't Know exactly.’? } “Did be kick you a dozen times?” “On! ho wasn't as bad as that, though he was bad enough.’ n O'ilearn testified that he was oa the car with Cannon, who was smoking; the driver told tim to stop and be refused; then the driver reng the bell jor the conductor and told him to “put these men off ;)? ‘we told him to stop (he car and we'd get ofl; when we | Were goUling off some one pushed us; then oue of them took the eat huok to hitus, and Cannov fan to the to stop the car and wid me to get a and knocked vu were going along the sidewatk | said non dow to the policeman: one ‘Tis a shame for UN'S REMONSTRANCE, and be said “it Paidn't mind my own business ed give It to me tov.’ What was your condition that day?” “TE had been drinking some beer,” “How was Cannon ?”? “He was protty full; He had a good big share of beor in him, and no-mistake.” THY DEPENCK, This closed the case tor the prosecution, and counsel for Sergeant Thompson commences lis opening, wu was also, in some sense, & SuMeMINg Up. He suid ut Thowpson represents the majesty of the are the people Sergeauy Thompeou 18 y servaut, and 118 fur you to say Whether he bs guilty of two mue The law authorized Serge rests and empowered m ‘ue them. ‘The question is, was the foree wed excessive! A Vordict of conviction recorded apgariat Sergeant Thompson would be a blow more severe than > | bon of “pasting,” *bitte | amin yu to aruse any Christian like | get on the car, but slipped and fell, cuttt cheek; | told the driver to go en until we leeman and I'd get them arrested; wh officer ut Beekman street I went aod told him I wanted him to take these mon away, “Did the officer strike Cannon at all??? ©, Bir, bot at all.” “Did the driver have a car hook ?”’ * } thero are no car hooks on the Fourth ave: amined,—Sergeant Thothpson pulled Can« non away from the horses and be feil down; then he pushed Lim, and he ivi down again; he wag so druak the least push would knock him down, THE JEMU'S VERSION, Patrick Donnelly, the car driver, said when he waa turning round lis horses the men stumbled againal them; they allerward got on the car, and, bemg diss derly, be called the conductor to have them put ‘od; he saw the defendint pull the man Cannon away trot the horses, but did not see hum strike him, Mr, Charles F, Livermore, a retired banker, testifi he was goimg up sown in tho Fourth aveguo car in question, apd “the two drunken vugavoads” were creating & disturbance; one of them bad taken the driver's reins in his hands; after vome talk the drty. aud conductor logether pushed them off, and one ob them toll, seemingiy on hw head; Mr .Ivermore ‘advised (ue conductor to Hieeman; ho did so as soon as he saw on and by this time one of these men had bold of th horses’ heads; the officer came over and pulled bt » and he fell down; he was very abusive, and the oiticer pushed him a second time; the officer Hirst puiled and then shoved the man; ne then belped him up and gave bim another shove, and he fell again, being so drunk he could hardly stand. Judge—Wuat was the man doing when the offices shoved him tue second time? “Well, he was very abusive and resisting the oMicer.” “Did yoa see the eavdant strike the mant’? “He seemed to push him vigorously,” AN OFF+HAND PUSH. Michael Schnapp, a'Third avenue car driver, gave An amusing version of the occurrence, standing up of she Withess sland, and Mlustrating the manner of the drubkep mao and Sergeant Thompson, He said the Sergeant knocked the man down with ‘an off-hand ush,’? which he meant to be regarded as something short of a deliberate blow; he first heard oné of two nen urging the other to ‘knock the stuffing out of some ow i Cannon had been sober, witness thougut he would not have fallen down so easily, H essayed on the cross-examivation to give "and “heking’ a derstood them with tiustrations which, as Mr. Schoupy strapping big Alsatian, were ratuer effective tab ux. He admitte. tat Sergeant Thompson's pusher © Very ViZUrOUs. Solomon Berliner was the last witness examined Yesterday, and, like others for the detence, he test fied that the Sergeant did uot strike the drunken man atall, He also said that he saw Cannon's face vetore the Sergeant pushed bim down, and it was cut, as it from a fali or other injury. ‘The case was then adjourned until this morning, — « THE SCHOOLSHIP ST. MARYS, WHAT SHE Ha® DONE FOR THE MERCHANT MARINE—DETAILS O¥ EVERYDAY LIFE ABOAKD A FLO\TING SCHOOL, . With the gradual elimination from the public mind of {also impressions in ber regard the schoolship St Marys bas grown in favor until she is now looked upoo as a fixed aud worthy element for the educational economy of the metropolis, For « long time the pub. lic regarded the St. Marys as a reformatory ship, and she was confounded with the Mercury, much to her prejudice, Like all new enterpris in educa. tional sctence that Initiated on the St Marys was not very generally believed to be well advised, but the results of three years of experiments are sufficiently flattering to the clear. headodness of the projectors. The scboolship provides for a want that has long becn experienced im the Amorte can merchant marine, and its claims might reat Ormily on the mere basis of utility, But tt bas claims of higher importance; itis achannel through which @ generally daugerous predilection of boys finds vent and 1 properly directed. The voutbiul mind, often in+ flamed by the glowing yellow-covered romances ot the sea, bas occasioned ‘twelf haraship by the Sil advised and hasty choice of an avocation, and many a lite tull of usetul promtse bas been wrecked, A healthy ebeck to this ix furnished in the schoolship, where voys from filteen to twenty years are taken and taught the rude inenty of seamunsbip. [1 a boy bay an apiness for the it will be here developed to usotuiness; 1 he assing desire to be a sailor the diser of all romance in the matter, and he may go ho better and a wiser boy. THK OBJECTS OF THK BCHOOL. The mato object of this nautical school is to train up. ana educate American boys to be good seamen for the merchant serviee. In order to give the intelligent and industrious ample opportunity to rise to the highest positions off. red by our mercantile marine and to famte Harize ail (looking to the possible contingency of war) with the general duties of men-of-war's men, the dis» ciplineg and routine of the navy is observed as far as ape plicable. It is notorio are often att that captains in the merchant marine mercy of boarding house keepers and can seldoin get such men in their crew as they would wish for, Captain R. L. Phythian, who commands the St. Marys, speaks of this very diMeulty im hi rience with the to the Board ot c He says:— “As was to be expected, many diMcuities that could not ve foreseen have been met with tm organtang school and ueting itduring the first year of is existone the least ot these has beon that ot fioding suitable persons to fill the sabordinate posi+ tions of potty officers and seamen, [t 18 requisite that t 7» industrious and competent mon, Who are qualified to assist in instracting the boys jn kuoiting, splicing, &¢, and 10 jend them in the exercises aloft Altho the number of the crew, imeluding cooks, stewards: nd is limited to twenty great difficulty rienced in keeping up the complement, ber Lave been shipped and discharged for incompetency or irregular hab The men now on board seem to be well suited to their places, but a large majority of them are toreiguers, It seems to me that no stronger argument in tavor of the necessity of thit school cau bo urged than the fact that ot the mang Wo bave applied tor positions oa board this ship, net OX American seamen ot fair capacity and good babite could be found,”” THK KROUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION, Kvery boy who pre: this voyaging inte bis p A large au Imp ri must pay on adinission fee of $35, and be furnished with the following traps, to wit:—Two pairs of shoet or boots, three Loweis, three paira heavy socks, three pairs drawers, three pairs andershirts, three handkor chiefs, one scrub brush, one tooth brush, one clothes brush, one hair brush, one Biacking brush, box black: ing, t\Wo combs, thread, teedies, Wax, tape and bub tons, THe COURSK OF STUDY. | Thecurriculam of the school includes secarepnr. arithimete, spelling, grammar and nautical scence. In sexmanship the boys are first initiated into the myge tery of Kouta, and on examination for a diploma they ure expected to make any kina of n knot from a bow. linc ona bite to a double Mathew Waiker. Cloves, Hiack wall's hitches, catspaws, sheepshanka, Carrick vends, grommets, man rope Knots, Tark’s heads ang | gaskets are more sof the rope contorting ordeal through which these young men have to pass be. fore being considered proficient, They must also know all about sail making, be able to Go single seam, herring bone, double seam, make | aneyelet bole and fit aeringle before they go up for inination, From this skeleton sketch of what te | tangbt it will be seen that the boys, when aes are tit for intelligent service on a ship. Their pro ficiency in their profession, and ther character for sobriely and industry, are already recommending them to the captains, A st Tron | Ave loft thie port for Ried | exclusively of st | Sutton & Co.'s Californs graduates of the sehoot ab THE NANT COUN, Tho annual summer cruise of the St. Marys will Be the St. Marys. Kuch of ‘Kets bas four of the the inprisonment for years of an ordinary law- | made about the Ist of May, At present there ate breaker, Shali you now condemn the man who has | seventy-eight boys aboard, but the p bas am given twenty years of his life in looking after your | accommodation for 150 Appheation for adm aguinss Maroney, aod (ie latter was held in $1,000 bail to answer im the General Sessio) A.wile and itso ones picad for him, Tpis and mo wives and your tie ones while you are away? His toe can be made to Mr, David Wetmore, No, 365 Laireon : |