The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-08-13
Ph1ladelDh1a.
Correspondence Of the Herald.]


PHILADELPHIA, Aug. IL, lsi2
Mr. Hustled, Of your city, has been here business in
connection with the Grim accusation brought against
him by the husband of Mesdames Morgan and Venabes
He yesterday accompanied with friends visited the
public house Of Mr. McAster at Grays Ferry where it
is said these ladies' with their friends stopped during
their recent absence from home He met bar tender,
chambermad, landlord and ALL face to face; and all,
though they him very like the man. declared
him positively not to be the gentleman who held such
close intimacy with the ladies in question at the time
named Mr.. H. positively declares his innocence, and says
he has shadow second self somewhere ahoat SO like
himself that it has frequently been taken for him, and he
for it. He may probably the first fair day, produce the
naughty representative Badansge aside, this is alto.
gether queer affair That the women have been little
ncautious certain, but who and where are the
sneaks that desert them now in their extremities"
Yesterday afternoon Herbert Hoffman went into the
Shooting Gallery at Barrets Gymnasium in the Arcade
and requested Of the lad attending there TO
with loaded pistol to fire Mt the target The pistol was
brought 10 him when he desired the boy bring him
glass ale and during the absence 81 the boy ne put the
pistol to his mouth and discharged the contents the ball
passng hrourh his tongue and lodging in the back part
oTbs head lie was taken to the Hospital where the ball
was extracted in the evening he walked home end is
since that he Is not seriously injured Though
the act looks wiui il is said by some TO have been acct
dental Want of employment and the of support.
ing himself is supposed to be the cause OF his attempt
coIored woman OF notorious character named Eliza.
beth jackson, residing in court in the vicinity of Ship
man Honer, yesterday afternoon for harborng white
girl, about fifteen years Of age, with criminal intent 1t
appears that this girls family respectable and that
she sbsconded from her home about week since and that
her whereabouts not ascertained until yesterday
when her sister applied to Mr. Hofner for warrant The
officer who served found her in the house OF this color
ed woman in the act of sitting down to her meals
rounded by colored people II subsequently appeared
that she had been enced away from her home by color
ed fellow and placed by him boarder with this
man. The scoundrel deserves lynching
William Blackburn, who was several months since con-
yicted in the IT, s. for passing spurious CON- and
sentenced TO three months imprisonment and to pay the
costs OF prosecution has been set at liberty he having
served his term and the President having RENTED the
costs.
boy named Francis McWilliam, fell from the third
story of Mr. Thomas brakes factory in MacDuy street
between schuykll Second and Third streets through
door in the yard yesterday morning. and was severely
mangled, though not bone was broken lie was taken
in a state of nsensibty to the Hospital
Wrts issued yesterday against the county for the
recovery Of the damages sustained in the destruction Of
the Hall Lombard street. and the Church in St. Mary
street, during the late riots in this city.