The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1864

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN RE G. W. CULLEN-RUINED BY A RAILWAY.

This bankrupt was described as of the Duchess of Kent
public-house, King-street, Ramsgate, licensed victualler,
and this was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of
assignees.

Me W. R. Buchanan, Basinghall-street, appeared to
support the petition presented on behalf of the bankrupt,
who attributes his failure to the alterations aad increase of
the Ramsgate pier dues, the opening of the new railway
(London, Dover, and Chatham), which takes visitors in
another direction to his house, and general badness of trade.
The debts are about £994, and the principal creditors are
Messrs Crump and Co., brewers, £592 unsecured.
Messrs Crump proved their debt, which carried the
choice, and Mr Crump was nominated assignee, but it was
proposed that another creditor should be joined in the
assigneeship, as certain property had been seized not long
before the bankruptcy. _ _

➢ir, Buchanan objected on the ground that no reason had
been shown for the necessity of such a coursa ; Mr Crump
was a well known and highly-respectable man, and there
was not the slightest reason to suppose that he would not
see justice done to all the creditors,

The learned Registrar said he would not decide the
question, but leave it to the Commissioners.
Mr Commissioner Fane was then applied to, and he con-
firmed the nomination of Mr Crump as the sole assignee,
and Mr Buchanan was appointed solicitor to the estate.

SHERIFeS COURT,
(Before S. Joyce, Esq,)

LIABILITY OF A GRANDFATHER-HIGGINS Y. BAILEY.

This was an action to recover £3, balance of an account
for the keep of two grandchildren. Mr Steadman appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr Cook (instructed by Mr T. Beard),
for defendant.

Tam appeared to be considerable difficulty in the way
of proving that defendant had made himself legally liable,
bat Mr Steaaman sail he should prove a promise to pay.
His Honour rued that a verbal promise to pay the debt
of another would not he sufficient.

Mr Cook urged that it would be impossible for plaintiff
to prove his case against defendant, who had little or nothing
to do in the matter.

Mr Steadman called a witness who did not carry the case
any further, and his Honour nonaticed the plaintiff, giving
defendant costs.
BREACH or WARRANTY.—CLAPHAM V. MARSHALL.
This was an action to recover damages for broach of
warranty in a watch.

Mr Jones, for plaintiff, said that his client had purchased
a watch at defendant's jewellery establishment at the West-
end. It was warranted in the usual terms, but plaintiff,
after using it a short time, found it to be worthless. Under
these circumstances, he came to this court.
Plaintiff was called to prove the warranty.
His Honour asked if anybody appeared for defendant,
and was answered in the negative.
Mr Jones—l have a witness here, a watchmaker, who
will depose to the value.
Hie Honour said that, as defendant did not attend to
dispute the amount, there was no necessity to go any fur-
ther. Plaintiff would have a verdict, with coats.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW STREET.

FURIOUS Dnn-xsa IN A PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE.—A
man, named Brown, was placed at the bar on remand,
cLarged with furious driving, and thereby causing personal
injury i 2 Mrs Fenwick.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor Mr
Ralph Fenwick, an artist, residing in Regent-strect, said
he was driving his chaise along the Bird age-walk, when
the defendant, who was drunk at the time, drove his cart
into collision with the chaise, whereby Mr ants Mrs Fen-
wick, and tha,ir two children, were thrown into the road,
the wheels of the O.,:fendant's cart passing over the hzdy's
leg. She was very much injured, and had been unable to
leave her bed since the accident.
Mr Lewis, who appeared for the defendant, said, on the
part of the defendant, he was prepared to make any reason-
able compensation.
Mr. Vaughan said it was a serious offence for a drunken
man to drive a cart at a very furious rate through a public
thoroughfare. He should not consent to any compromise
in the case, as he should punish the prisoner for farious
driving, and make him pay for the damage he had done.
Mr Lewis thought it would be satisfactory to all parties
to have the matter settled at once, as the proceedings for
the recovery of the money awarded for damage would have
to be obtained through the instrumentality of the County
Court, which would be attendant with trouble.
Mr Vaughan said the Police Act gave him power to I
award " amends" to the prosecutor. and they could be en •
forced without proceeding in the County Court. He, there.
fore fined the defendant 40s, or one month's imprisonment,
for furious driving; for the injury done to Mr Fenwick, he
should award £3 3s; and for the damage done to the
chaise, £3 10a.
Mr Burnaby, the chief clerk, asked defendant if he was
prepared with the money ?
Defendant replied he was not.
Mr Vaughan then directed that in the event of the de-
fendant not paying the "amends" he had awarded a dis-
tress warrant should be issued egainat the goods of the
defendant. _

STEALING TRINKETS BY A. JEWELLER'S SERVANT.—
Mary Ann Stanford, a respect able-looking servant girl, was
charged with stealing several brooches, rings, and other
trinkets, to the value of L 7 and upwards, from the shop of
her employer, Mr James Jones, silversmith and jeweller,
Lowther Arcade.
John Laban, assistant to Mr Jones, stated that the pri-
soner had been in the prosecutor's service about a fortnight,
and during that time several small articles had been missed.
On the 23.1 inst. she went out, and on her return he noticed
that she wore a silver brooch, which struck him as being
very like one that he had noticed in the stock.
He accordingly searched in the stock and found
his suspicion confirmed, as the brooch in question
was missing. On Thursday he asked her to let him look at
the brooch, and she at once handed it to him, but as the box
and glass had been removed he was unable positively to
identify it. Still this very circumstance—the absence of
the portion which could be identified—tended to strengthen
his suspicion that she had stolen it from his master's stock,
and that it was the one which he had missed. There had
been a photograph in the box. He called in one of the
beadles of the arcade, and desired him to search the pri-
soner's boxes. He did so, and found two brooches (one
steel and the other silver), two gold rings, a pair of gold
ear-rings, a gold watch chain (with gold key, seal, and
swivel), and several other articles, worth in all about £7.
They were all the propeity of Mr Jones, and had been
stolen from the stock. Some of them still bore the private
mark, but from others it had been removed. The prisoner
said "I hope you won't give me into custody." He, how-
ever desired the beadle to take her in charge.
Thomas Scott, the beadle, confirmed Laban's statement
as to the search, and added that he asked her what had
become of the box of the first locket? She replied, "I
took it out."

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr Vaughan committed her for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE THROUGH JEALOUSY,
—John Williams, a saddler, residing at No. 20, Brewer-
street, Golden-square, was charged before Mr Knox, by
Inspector Wilson of the C Division, with feloniously cut-
ting and wounding his wife, Annie Williams, with intent to
murder her.

William Conquest, 169 C, deposed—While in Leicester-
square last night about half-past 10 o'clock I saw the pri-
soner and a female (the prisoner's wife) standing together
near the Alhambra Palace. When I approached within a
dozen yards of them I saw the prisoner go close up to the
female and place his hand on her throat, as if shaking her.
Before I got close up the female extricated herself from the
prisoner's grisp, and ran into the Sab:oniere Hotel. The
prisoner ran after her, and caught her by the shawl just as
she was in the doorway, and the shawl came off. I then
followed the female into the hotel, and found that she had
been stubbed in the neck. I then went into the smoking
room of the hotel and took the prisoner, who had walked
into the room, into custody. On the way to the station the
prisoner said, " I am glad I have done it, and shall now die
happy."

kr Knox—Was the prisoner in liquor ?
Conquest—He was not—he was quite sober.
Mr linox,— Was any knife found upon him at the station?
Conquest—Fart of the blade of a knife or instrument was
found on the pavement, about two yards from the entrance
of the Babloniere Hotel, by a young wan, and handed
to me.

Mr Eau—Then you believe she was stabbed about that
spot?

Conquest—l do, when the prisoner put his hands to the
female's throat. On searching him at the station in Vine-
street, a ticket and a few other articles were found upon
him. He there said that ho had had only one instrument
upon him.
Mr Knox—Did he say why he had done it ?
Conquest—He did not.
Mr Knox—On what part of the throat is the wound ?
Conquest—On the left side (near the jugular vein).
Mr Knox—What became of the female ?
Conquest—After the wound was dressed she was taken
home in a cab.

Inspector Wilson, C Division, said, last night about half-
past 10, I was in the reserve room at the Vine-street Police
station. I saw the prisoner holding up a locket (containing
a portrait of the prisoner, and having some blood upon it).
The prisoner exclaimed, " This is my portrait—the portrait
of a man who has out his wife's throat. Sce the blood on
my hand ; I hope she is dead." There was blood at the
time on the prisoner's hand.
Sergeant Lees, 9 C, said, last night I went into the
Sabloniere Hotel, in consequence of information given me.
I there saw a female lying on a sofa. She had a wound on
the left side of her neck. Shortly after a medical man
attended and partly dressed the wound, but subsequently
the female's father, Nr Cutcliffe, a surgeon, residing at

10, King-street, Soho, attended and concluded the dressing,
and then removed his daughter in a cab. This morning I
found about 50 yards from the Sabloniere Hotel the handle
of a knife or instrument with the piece of blade correspond-
ing with the other piece in it. It was on the ground over
which the prisoner passed on his way to the Vine-street
station.

Inspector Wilson handed to the magistrate the following
certificate :

" I hereby certify that Mrs Annie William 3 is incapable
of leaving her bed to attend the police-court, in consequence
of an incised wound in the throat, inflicted by her husband,
John Williams, last night.

" C. CUTCLIFFE, Surgeon, 10, King-street, Soho."

Mr Knox remanded the prisoner.for aweek.

The prisoner, who had put no questions to any of the
witnesses, made a remark on his being taken to the cells,
which leaves little doubt that jealousy prompted him to
attempt to take his wife's life.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Three lads,
named Thomas Henry Stied, Henry Arkell, and Thomas
Evan Sterck, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr
George Parrock, engraver, of No. 27, Fitzroy-square, were
again brought before Mr Knox.
Mr Edward Dillon Lewis, from the office of Mr Edward
Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,appeared for the lads,
The prosecutor stopped in Goodge-street, Tottenham-
court-road, to look at a man selling cheap jewellery, when
an altercation arose between him and Arkell and Strod ;
Sterck and about 20 others took part in it. The prosecutor
ran away, and afterwards found that he had been robbed of
his watch and chain, of the value of £l5, but he was not
able to say that any of the prisoners took his property. The
lads were afterwards given into custody, and when at the
court last week Lanehan, 41 E, stated that he knew Strod
as the companion of young thieves nightly. Mr Knox re •
manded them.

Mr Knox said that but for the fact that the police had
stated that Strod was the companion of young thieves, he
should have had no hesitation in discharging them.
Mr Lewis said the boys' characters were at stake, and he
should therefore ask the magistrate to put the lads back
that he (Mr Lewis) might be in a condition to prove that,
so fir from any of the lads being the associates of thieves,
as stated by the police, they were all in respectable situa-
tions.

Suosequently, Mr Corry, foreman at the rated Bread
Company, by whom Strod is employed ; Mr Cole, French
polisher, Tottenham-court-yard, the employer of Arkell ;
and Mr Cook, Hampstead-road, the em-
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Mr Knox said he had no doubt that an altercation hae
taken place between the prosecutor and the lads at the bar,
and that some pickpockets taking advantage of the con-
fusions had robbed the prosecutor. After the character he
had heard of the lads ho felt bound to discharge them, be-
lieving the prosecutor had told the truth, but that they had
not robbed him.
The lads were then discharged.

The Negro under Federal Rule.

The Index publishes the following letter :
"New Orleans, Louisiana, July 30,

"Sir,—That a boon ill-bestowed may become a curse
rather than a blessing to the receiver is a tact of common ex-
perience. The boon in itself may be one of unmixed good,
but the good to be derived from it must depend upon the
time, manner, and conditions of the bestowal, and the
ability and desire of the recipient to make the most of his
opportunity. It cannot be denied that in many philan-
thropic schemes zeal outruns discretion ; and my own ob-
servation in Louisiana has taught me that there is a mad,
fanatical, hate-engendered philanthropy which works its
will regardless of consequences. Ido not intend to discuss
the question of slavery or the wisdom of emancipation—not
even to express an opinion on these points—but simply to
speak of things as they are, deriving my facts solely from
official documents or from my own observation.
"The boon of freedom to the slave has turned to ashes
in the first year of his emancipation, if we may trust the
declarations of Federal officials, those who lured him from
his bondage with visions of liberty and social independence,
and who now leave him to perish by the Dead Sea of dis-
appointment, to eat of its ashy fruit, to drink deep of its
bitter waters, and to die. I said my facts were derived
from observation and official documents. I have, however,
concluded to rely solely upon the latter in this letter. I
have now before me a copy of an cfficial report from a
special agent of the ' Plantation Bureau' of the Treasury
Department, who was directed to examine and report the
condition ef all abandoned plantations, or these worked by
the Government in the parish of Iberville.' Let us hear
what this Government agent has to say upon this subject,
and then let the honest Abolitionists of England pronounce
juJgment upon the spurious philanthropy of their American
brethren—' On visiting these places I found them in the
most deplorable condition. On every plantation worked by
the Government, or represented to be in possession of the
Government, I found there had not been one day's work
performed since the time of their occupation by Lieutenant
Elanks's orders in June last to the day of my visit, with the
single exception of the White Castle or Vaughan plantation.
. . Not another will be able to turn out one hogshead
of sugar or any other produce. In fact, I honestly declare
that the management—if wo can with propriety use that
word—has been of the most reckless and abandoned cha-
racter, with a perfect indifference to the interests of the un-
fortunate negro, as well as the interest of the general Go-
vernment which, we have been told, sought the amelioration
of those people. In fact it does appear that the agents er
overseers placed in charge by Hanks considered they had
no other duty to perform than to draw the rations for the
dead as well as the living negroes, and their own salaries,
and leave everything to run to ruin.' The agent goes on
to say that he returned sooner than he should have done,
because he could not go on and complete his report
' with such desolation around me.' He found the sugar
oane covered with the vine and other rank vegetation.'
Bat let us hear what he says about the condition of the
treed men." The mortality that has taken place in these
Government plantations is truly appalling. On the White
Castle plantation, out of 300 placed there by Lieut. Hanks
or Capt. Miller, there remained in Jan. last but 47 souls to
tell the tale of woo. On the Belle Grove plantation there
were placed by the same parties 325 negroes in June last
(1863), 202 of these have died. On the Magnolia planta-
tion 250 negroes were placed, of these 117 hays died up to
this date.'

" The date of this report is omitted in my copy, but I
know the agent made his inspection of these plantations in
the spring of this year.
" On the Richland plantation there were placed, as near
as I can remember, 460. Of the number that died I could
obtain no satisfactory information. I found only 192 in
the place. On the Grove-place,Eayou Plaquemine, there
were placed 300 negraes ; the mortality was so great that
they had to be buried in trenches, and without coffins.
On the Manocaux plantation 150 were placed, 100 have
died. On the Old Hickory plantation there were placed, in
June last, 413 negroes; of this number, up to the 11th
inst., 343 have died ; of the remaining number 83 are
lying sick in their quarters and 23 are in the hospital, no
care being taken of them. On entering the hospital I
found the number stated. In their midst lay the corpse
of a woman who had died at three o'clock p.m. the day be-
fore. There were no Government overseer there, and had
not been for three weeks before. The man Ely, who had
been placed in charge by Lieut. Hanks, had left. He said
he was going to New Orleans on business, and would be
back in four days. He persuaded the negroes to let him
have what little money they had to make purchases for
them--he went off with three to four hundred dollars, and
never returned.

" Tho corpse of the woman lay on the bare floor, with a
block of wood under her head, but no covering over her.
The body had begun to decompose, as the weather was ex-
ceedingly hot Humanity shudders when we
think that in this :oom, and at the foot of the corpse, lay a
worn an who had bee,l confined two days before. The child
had died, and she hers+ if was in the last stage of a fever of
the most contagious chaVacter—two children with measles
—a poor wretch breathing his last with typhoid fever, and
in the next room a woman chained with an ox ehain to the
bars of the window, by her ova son, to prevent her from
killing others about the place. t.)n entering the pesthouse
the first salutation I heard was, g ,Please, massa, for God's
sake, give me a drop of water I AIL,. massa, we're dying,
and notody to care for us.' I inquired if there had been no
doctor to see them. The reply was th,..
,t the doctor had
been there two weeks before, and for the fl: at time had left
medicine, but as there was nobody there who could read
(the prescription) it had not been given.'
"There have been placed on the Miles Taylor vlantation

1100 negroes in all, of whom but 278 remain. The
numerous graves here disclose the last resting-place of the
poor negrO• You will perceive by the annexed document
that I have grade out a list of articles stolen, as well as of
those carried off by order of some one unknown. Yon will
also perceive that I prefer charges against the agents for
drawing rations, oloiihing, wages, &c., for negroes long since
dead. The Ventriss planation was the last visited. I found
no overseer there. Of the (38 negroes placed ,there by
Lieut. Hanks only 112 are nving. This place is a perfect
wreck. There has never been any one in charge of the
negroes, who have died without the least care, and after
death been taken to the fields and left there—food for buz-
zards. Their skeletons prove the facf.
"One of the stock phrases of the A merican press is,
' Comment is unnecessary.' In this instance comment is
certainly unnecessary, and I shall attempt none. But,
perhaps, the readers would like to know whether this
report has yet been made public en this side, and whether
any action has been had upon it. This report yet sleeps
in some pigeon-hole of the ' Plantation Bureau' of the
Treasury department, and the agent who made it has
resigned his office in despair, as I understand, of any atap•
lioration of the wretched condition of these ' freedmen
and women,' and in disgust At the utter callousness of his
superior officers.

"A CITIZEN Or NEW ORLEANS."

FRESH FROM THE SOUTH.--On the 31st October
last Captain Hubbard, of the 89th United States
coloured troops, a resident in this county, was caught by a
prowling band near Baton Rouge in Louisiana. Nothing
was ever learned of his fate, and he has been mourned as
dead, until Tuesday evening last, when he presented him-
self to astonished acquaintances here, having just accom.
plished his escape from a nine months' terrible captivity.
Ue was imprisoned for several months in Canawba, Ala-
bama, but in Islay was transferred to Macon, Georgia
whence he escaped on the 15th of last month (July). Con-
cerning the state of feeling in the South, the testimony of
one who has observed with a keen intelligence recognis-
able by any who converse with him, is worth having, He
says that the masses of the Southern people have lost
not one jot of heart, hope, confidence, or resolution. If
anything, they are more sanguine of success than ever.
They regard their independence as already achieved, and do
not dream of peace exbept upon its recognition. The great
rock upon which they lean is the expectation of Lincoln's
defeat in the coming election. They look for that as the
end of their struggle. They are possessed with the idea that
it is Lincoln who is tyrannically determined upon forcing
them back into the Union, and not the people of the North,
and that they have only to hold out through Lincoln'stathte
term to be secure of their independence—believing that
peace party is greatly in the majority, and that Lincoln is
sure to be defeated. That is the common and inspiring feel-
ing, as Captain Hubbard found, everywhere ; although
he
reports more Unionism still existing in the South, manifest-
ing itself in kindness to prisoners and in help towards their
liberation, than is generally auspeeted.—Buialo Express.
THE WEATHER IN NoRTHUMBERLAND.—A storm
warning reached the Northumberland seaport on
Tuesday evening that a gale mfolt be expected from the
northward, but for two days before there had been a heavy
sea upon the coast, with the wind from the N.E. On Tues-
day night the wind blew half a gale from the N.E., and some
heavy showers of rain fell; but on Wednesday, though the
air was cold, the weather was improving, and in the even-
ing the herring boats were getting ready to proceed to sea.
So far the herring fishing has been moderate off the coast
of Northumberland, some brats paying well, others doing
nothing. The harvest on the coast of Northumberland is
going on briskly, reaping machines being very much in re-
quest this year. The wheat crop looks Eke an average.
But the farmers will suffer a great deal from the burnt-up
Icondition of the pastures and the comparative failure of the

turnip crop.
THE MURDER IN MAYO.. --REPRIEVE OF THE
CONVICT.—DUBLIN, Thursday.—At the last Mayo
Assizes Michael Morrison was indicted with Michael Clark
for the wilful murder of Lawrence Conlan, at Castlebar, in
July of the previous year. The deceased was a member of
the constabulary, and was returning home from the house
of a friend in Castlebar on the 22d of July, 1363, when he
was overtaken by the prisoners, who brutally and wantonly
murdered him by kinking him in the street and stabbing him
in the neck with a knife. Morrison was found guilty, with
a recommendation to mercy, but ljaron Deasy sentenced
' him to be hanged this day. The recommendation with
which thejury accompanied their verdict has been favou-
rably considered by the Castle authorities, and the result is
that the convict has been ordered to be reprieved.