New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-01

Vessels lc2Si2turs
The COURT GAME-A NEW DoDGE."-WA
son alias Woodbury. alias Gov Dorr.' who d
now in the Tombs. was one of gang of petty
gamblers and robbers who hang about the lowe'
order Of gambling houses. He was also hack
driver, and as such was notorious for his swiai.
ling tricks upon travellers. He also belonged to
gang of thieves, pickpockets and pockesbOOk
choppers. who nightly copgregated at a house IA
Reade.st. Here they held mock Court and 90
complete was the deception that those who were
srraigned before il never suspected its Legality
Watson aud his associates would arrest country.
men in the streets, on the docks, for some a.
legged violation of law, take them TO their Oour,
fine them, and with an admonision discharge
them On one occasion a man thus arrested was
rather indecorous in his manners and was fined
$50 for contempt Of Court and actually paid il
All money thus obtained was divided among the
parties composing the Court, who, in their turn,
dropped the most of it at the faro banks and
kindred places.
A NOVEL ENTERTAISMEST.-Her KRAUzs, the
Hungarian vocalist, gives what he calls q Ora
matte Musical Festival at Tripler Hall next sstur
day night. The striking feature of the entertain
ment is a musical medley, called the "Towerd
Babel" in which he will sing and perform charn
teristic melodies in thirty different languages and
dialects. In addition to his own songs, Her
Krauzs has engaged the orchestra OF the Open
House, TRUFFI, Griebe the violinist, signorni
Gaudolf, Mr.. Meyer, Herr Sale, Pydhowski and
Eltz, the bassoonst. The programme is one Of
the most novel and peculiar we have ever seen.
Herr Krauzs is what might be called genre 70
calist, good example Of which we have not heard
in this City for long time
TEMPERAscE-The Third Annual Meeting Of
the Nineteenth late TWELFTH Ward Temperancs
Society was held on Monday evening last, in the
Mount Pleasant Reformed Dutch Church, on vi.
tiethst. Rev Mr.. Brett, one of the Vice Pres-
dents, occupied the Chair. The meeting was
opened with prayer by Rev. ]. A. Cary. very
interesting address was delivered by Rev. Chas.
j. Warren, Secretary of the National Temperance
Society," recently formed in this City. Mr.. W.
advocated strongly the prohibition by law Of the
traffic in intoxicating liquors. He regarded the
laws of the land as the great educators Of the
people, exerting powerful influence In elevstins
or depressing public morals. The assertion. he
said, that as much liquor would be used il the
sale of it were prohibited, as there is under the
license system was as false in fact as it is IN
philosophical in principle. The profit and loss Of
licenses in this City were presented in strong
light. If the receipts for licenses are about s45
600, the expenses of the police alone attributable
TO intemperance are ten times as much. Add 10
this loss the expenses of the City Prison, b
which 81 900 persons were committed during the
last year, eleventwelfths of whom were brought
there directly or indirectly by intemperancs
Add also, the support of the incorporate poor
and other expenses for Courts the Penitentiay
&c which should be included in this estimate
and we then see the extreme folly Of licensesn
a source of gain.
Other topics were discussed and forcibly illus
trated. One object proposed by the National 80
ciety, to which he alluded, is the estsblishmentoi
an Asylum for Inebrates. Such an institution
would prove of inestimable import ance, and We
hope soon to see it in successful operation. The
poor drunkard needs such Retreat 10 repair his
broken constitution more than the weather beat
en- mariner and the insane have not more need Of
temporary restraint
THE BRANDY MURDER-ARREsT OF THE Ac
cEssoRIEs.-We are glad that the attention o.
the proper authorities has been called TO the case
of poisoning by brandy which we mentioned yes
a man dose of arsenic, knowing he wanted h
for the purpose of committing suicide. would be
punished as an accessory to the crime of murder;
and we can see no difference between such
case and the present one. Indeed the latter Is
far worse, for the poor wretch after the first pint
was insensble to the fate be was provoking. Is
is difficult to conceive Of more wanton and heart
less act. The two men concerned ia il, Thomas
Donovan and Charles Viniester, were on Thurs
day evening committed to prison by the Core
ner to answer the charge of causing the death Of
John Kelly, by inducing him to drink quart Of
brandy on Wednesday night at a rum shop at the
corner of Pike and Water sits. Donovan, it aP
pears, first offered Kelly pint Of brandy on con.
dition OF his drinking it. The offer was accepted,
and he drank the brandy. Viniester, who is bar
tenderat the place, then offered him another pint
on the same terms. This offer was also accepted
and the brandy was taken, causing death few
minutes afterward. The Coroners Jury, on In
vestigatiDg the matter, rendered verdict that
"the deceased came to his death by poisoning
from alcohol the same being advised to be tskea
by Thomas Donovan and Charles Viniester'
The accused will RoOn be examined on the charge.
THE GERMAN CoSvIcTs-Capt. Rachel, OF the
ship Albert, was yesterday arrested by Constable
Eicke, of the Second Ward, charged with knoF'
ingly bringing five German Convcts to this cW
come weeks since. The guilty knowledge ws'
however, not proved, and the captain was d.
charged by Justice LothroP
The MEXICAN SwIsDLE.-Oihcer A. d.
Smith arrived in the City yesterday from BOs''' |
having in custody Henry N Watson alias Jc''
: H. Woodbury., but better known as Gov. Dor
who is charged with having, some months sin's
stolen upward of $4,000 while in Mexico. sron
Mr.. VIM. b. Baker, clerk in a banking houssn
the CITY of Mexico The accnaad was c0mnnt