New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-30
CITY ITEMS.

IHJnsDAY July %
tyr SLAVE CAsE~-Judge Edwards Is expected
10 the City on Monday Immediately siIer whicn srso
ment will probably be proceeded IN before Judge -'
ondsin re the slaves now 10 EidrdsesI fnson'
Forxn Ds.n-Mr. James NJ Fletcher an Eng
Nah gentleman residing a, No AtorDeyst was found
S.d On the ..dswslk 10 front Of No q Mercerst last
NTH, ,bmt half ps., IL o'clock Mr. had been resi-
dsn Of this City for twelve years man Of wealth
and 4, represented to have been gentleman Of high
character and YVES constantly sdmnsterDgto the wants
of tae needy Truly the poor have lost friend
ArryyPr AT sUIcIDE-A man named Thomas
Wilson suempted 10 commit suicide yesterday by jump
,ns overheard NJ the foot Of Huberst tie rescued
b. ofscer Daseobury Of the Eleventh Ward
scrss. AT The TomBs-We copy the follow
Ing from letter written in this City to the Boston Chro
notype
We called In Al the Tombs" this forenoon where
onr old friend and the friend Of the drunksrd Col Lar
kin Snow figures Clerk of the Police Court We
were kindly conducted By him through the various De-
partments Of the prison There were some forty OF Inc
most miserable wre'chss the outside Of the prison.
who we're called see day oomvs all In for drunken
ness--some black and some white. some with two legs
and sorns Santa Annafed, some VIII eyes Knocked out
and others with their faces srred all over by ntemper
anee To by the side Of the wall and near the motley
group me poned were wretched looking men about
% years Of age picking from each other large body Heel
Next 10 them on bench stretched the corpse OF a
man Who into the prison last night with the
d,lrtu trsmens but VINO died In fifteen minutes alter
ward II. was but few years since. wealthy mer-
chrnti Col Snow pointed me 10 Piulul looking man
seated ltts dstsDss from tbs rest and asked me IL
did not recognize the countensnce TOLD him thought
| did and asked him who he was Whereup0n Col ,.
resIst the following incident Last Sunday forenoon,
sid be w. passing Tsmmsny Hall and saw, sittipg
upon the stoO with bis head buried IN HE hands
and covered al over with flea The ppoc Fellow "ss
almost nsked said tho Colonel shook rim and asked
him " no be He looked Up and called me oy nsrne
saving az the came time he only wished for place
IN diet gazed upon his disf1urd features added tue
Colonel and w4s horror sru NJ the mighty change ]
recognized IN him man who few years ago wss ed
or sn5 proprietor Of Of the most respectable daily
journals of the City Of Boston The man who was a
psr,per with him then II now conducting the pa.
per under new head He correspondent Of the
National Whs Organ Tor some timewas ~ the lnoueur
alton of Harrison at Washington, and Introduced ~
gentlemen to Webster and Clay who have since seen
him la his presehto situation 10 the Tomos He looks
bad but ths Colonel says he tnesns 20 make man of
him vet Ne had letter In bis pocket that he received
ir, IN his wife who lives in Boston" and stammered
out the sorrow stricken man, she begins as enc always
did 4" md burst into food oil tears Curiosity called
the Colones attention n the letter and II began thus
Mn ecer dear Husband - WbatR sad picture
Last sunday q meeting held 10 the TOmbs during
which time two men dying with the dettrium ire
m,ns Twenty.t ix took warning and signed the pledge
Friend Snow tells ms1 was Kicked out Of rum
shop night before last and brought 20 the Tomos and
died In few minutes altcrTard.
PoLroE-Pstrick Hart was last night arrested
A. l. If Ia. Ward CHARGED with