The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-19

New York city, stranger, and on walking along |
he streets was to fall down and die, from some
me out OF the many causes, accidental or natural
which cause death-what would become of him,
ier, or them? Ii is awful relate; but the fact is
now leaked out, and ii is proper the public should
snow n-he or she would be carried to the bone
house. Coroner's inquest, pro forma would be held
over the body, and to all appearances, and accord
ing to all accounts, and TO all the information to be
got from the authorities, the body would be decent
y inferred the Potters Field on Randall's Island
But such would not be the fact 1t is probable the
body would never reach the burying ground; it
would be taken away, cut up, mutilated, and DIS
sected, and the torn and lacerated fragments
thrown out into the streets and cutters of this filthy
city, to be torn by the dogs, and devoured by the
hogs. These terrible facts this atrocious viola
ton of the dead this indecency the part OF the
city government towards the city and its citizens
these outrages upon humanlty-have all come to
light by the perseverng efforts made and made in
van-by an afiectonate son, to discover the body
of his father, who accidentally died in the stree ts
of our city the other day. Officer w. Fl. Bell, of
the Eighteenth ward, was the person chiefly en-
ployed to aid in the search after the body OF the
deceased; and the scenes come to light In the
course OF their vain endeavors, the sights they
saw, the dark mysteries of the dead house, which
Mr.. Bell, and the son OF the deceased, together,
found out in their long and vain pursuit, would
harrow up the feelings OF the most Insensible, to
hear them relate them. We think it our duty-a
solemn duty to the lIvng-to give this account of
the secret horrors practIsed uoon the unknown
dead who may happen to die in this city, away
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in this matter, Is the fact that the public city au-
thorties know nothing at all about the matter;
moreover, they care nothing at all about 1t, and
handy about the child in search of the body of his
beloved parent, from Office to Office from place to
place, with scorn, contempt, and neglect, without
caring. or being able to give any information. Mr.
Buskirk, respectable citizen OF Staten Island,
lately died suddenly in the city, and his son hav-
Ing come here to obtain his body, has found it gone
and disposed of, nobody knows where. la the
course however of the painful research, it has come
light that the bodies othose who die IN the streets
are sent from the Aims House and other places
to be normally inferred in Potters Field. Out of
nine bodies sent by the Aims House Commissioner
to be thus buried, on the 9th and 9th ut four only
out of the nine reached the ground Mr. Buskirk,
Jr., and Mr. Bell, the officer opened six collins at
Potters Field, In search Of the body of Mr. Bus
kirk, and they found only mutilated remains and
pieces of flesh-a trunk without head, and all
sorts of mutiations, too horrid to recount. Where
and when the bodies disappear when they are
chopped up, no one can or will tell. They are left
in the bone house at Bellevue, for a time, in the
care of a pauper-then they are carried in boat
frsm Bellevue to Randall's Island, and here they
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and the collins are left for nights, exposed and un-
protected on the wharf, tossed negligently on the
shore, and less than half reach the burying ground
Now, if these were only poor peoples dead bodies
the rich might laugh at 1t but let the rich, let all
men, recolect that the bodies OF their own fathers
or wives. or of any stranger who dies IN the city un-
known, will be treated In this manner! II such a
thing had happened In heather lands, among the
Romans, Greeks, or Turks, it would have reused
the living to state of horror and indignation
which would have produced terrific revolution
and awful retributiOn upon the guilty authors and
at such outrages. But we live in Chris
tian times, and these are Christian practices.
GENERALS TAYLOR AND WooL.-The attempts
recently made this city,. by certain journals, to
create quarrel between General TAYLOR and &C.
neral Wool, in relation to their respective merits
on the field Of Buena Vista, have received some
ragsment IN other quarters. The North
Ane1cuw, of Philadelphia, in its Washington cor
re-cooks the same views, with the
same sauce, which first made their appearance IN
the columns OF the Co,srier and Enquirer. of this
city.
Such efforts, for such purposes, will be deprecated
by all intelligent minds. The motives which m AZ
actuate these individuals, In attempting to excite
a quarrel between these distinguished officers, will
probably be revealed at early day. 1t is easy to
guess at them now Selfish scrambllng for office,
Or an temptto play upon the unsuspectipg feel
ngs Of distinguished men, may be disguised tor |
short time, but will soon disclose the cloven foot
We are sure, judging from the private characters
If Generals Wool and Taylor, that either of them
viii notice or countenance such projects to raise a
disagreement and excite jealousy. The two jour-
als, however, now protesting, from an extreme
egard for Gen. Taylor, to originate a quarrel of
his kind are well known to have been, both of
hem, bitterly opposed, as long as they possibly
could be, to his advancement to the station which |
lie will soon fill. One of them struggled for months
and months, in every possible way against the des-
iny Of General Taylor, that 1t might bring out Ge.
neral Scott as the wing candidate; and the other,
until the last moment, was a furious advocate
If Mr. Clay. Now they come, at this late
lay, and Profess to be the only guardians and the
exclusive friends OF Gen. Taylor, In support OF his
military reputation, against attacks coming from
he opposition press-attacks which are only con.
,octed and published for the purpose of being re-
,lIed 10.
Ii q w,tless and miserable intrigue, and de-
erves full and ample exposure, which we shall
make of 1t at an early day, If 1t be necessary.
The UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM New YORK.
We learn from Albany that the strongest efforts
re being made to return the Hon w. II. Seward
8 United States Senator, to fill the place OF the
Ion. Senator DIX. HIS friends are elecuoneering
With good deal OF effect against Hugh Maxwell
If this CITY, The principal ground OF opposition to
lin is said to be that he was born in Scotland, and