The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-22
sabmarine Operations ON Diamond Reef.

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This situate b ween Governors Island and the
Battery directly In the path OF outward bound vessels
A. the depth Of twenty feet is one hundred aud
twenty four feet long and eighty four feet wide one
portion Of rock seventy five feet long aud twenty
three feet vide s within from sixteen TO twenty Ie ~
another portion twenty six fec, long and twenty
Rect vide within reyentesn 10 twenty feet and there
two small points within nineteen feet Of the surface
ct low water
Il ir our intention to reduce aud break down all the
that Is within twenty feet of the surface a. mean
low water Fortyene submarine charges, each OF one
this reef When kfiy charges shall have been tired
survey viii be made to deter nine how much OF the rock
has been broken down The hfty charges VIII consume
about three tons Of blasting powder.
During the firing of submarine charges at noon OF the
became fastened piece of ships copper which it
brought with 1t to the surface This copper had been
torn from the bottom Of some vessel by the rock
The firing this rock will be continued daily (wind
and weather permting until 1t shall be reduced to the
depth Of ~ feet On Thursday I'D inst the firing is
ex pected TO comm. nee during slack water about u
p. n Mons haliefert will hoist red ieg signal
ten minutes before the firing commences. The opera
tion can be best seen from the Battery Governors
hland and Brooklyn Heights. e. MERRIAM
\ Police Intelligence.
Stealing on Board a SieamLom-In last Monday after
neon officer Bowyer (tbat terror 10 rogues) arrested
German named Adolph Nelke charged with stealing five
boxes Of ssgar valued 500 the property Of Mr. James
TeOnent, resident Of Philadelphia II appears from
the facts ELECTED before the Oh ct of Police that the
eused went board the steamboat Bay State, lying ut
Pier No North river Monday afternoon, just pre-
vous to the boat starting Boston, where he took
from the express trunk of Kinsley Co package
tanning the boxes Of segars. above named and was
PFC ding the boat but before getting the
dock he detected stopped and taken into custody by
seer Bowyer On his arrest he wished to explain the
matter by saying that he had taken the package by mis-
take having left he said parcel the boa
resembling the in question This explanation
did not appear to be credited by Mr. Lawson
" Tilton, the express conductor Mr.. Bowyer,
the officer, who, on searching the accused, found
his possession pawn tickets for four Of Colts revolver
pistols. These suppo.ed to have been stolen for
wheh owner is wanted The pistols n be seen by
applying to officer Bowyer at the Office of he Chief of
Police Nelke conveyed before the Chief OF Police.
who committed him to prison for further hearing
n Fight betUeen .dged Persoas--rwo men, named
Ennis Montague and Edward Tracey, the former being
eighty Of age and the latter sixty five years
brought, yesterday afternoon, before Justice Wood
eharg d with ARRAY together in which Tracy was
stabbed twice in the aud in the chest
with knife, inflicted by Montague during the
CO. ict. Tracy we'd violent blow on the head,
which caused the blood to fow copiously They,
when placed before the magistrate, exhbed sorry
locking picture Men of that advanced age to be
gagged in such acts of violence towards each other The
magistrate heard their story IL seems, the affray
took place the house OF Montague No. 395 Twelfth
street Tracy having visited house for the purpose
OF seeing his sister and while there Montague became
nngiy hin and seized butchers knife and inflicted
the wounds described before Tracy could defend HIM
self but in the ARRAY Montague received violent
blow the head which cut the scalp and caused the
loss Of considerable blood officers White and Byxbee
OF the Seventeenth ward. took the two old men into
tedy and conveyed them the Police Court. when
Msntague, for the assault who held by the magis-
frat To