New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-30
considerable award his old client claims quite large
balance STILL WALTHAM.
PHILADELPHIA.
criminals, md General News Items.
Correspondence ofThe n. Y. Tribune.

frirftDnir nud General News Items,
Correspondence ofThe n. Y. Tribune
PHILADELPHIA Friday. April p 1858
The Grand Jury came into Court this morning with a
special presenment in reference TO the murder OF joseph
kuk aud the connection Of Arthur Spring. SEN, with n
Judge keley remarked that the Jury entitled 70 the
thaks Of the Court and the public for their thorough in
yesgaton of the subject they have had in hand viii
be satisfactory 10 the public 10 know that they md Arthur
Spring guilty Of the murder Of Joseph Rink and give the
evidence hy which they arrive at that conclusion Il was
due Jerome Fecker who had been in prison for some
time the suspicion of the murder that his character
should be- yndicsed anG the Dstlct Attorney dd oly
his duty in OBTAINING Feckert until the msir could be fully
gated The Judge then thanked the Jurors Tor the
careful attention they had given the subject
This morning John Cape and Carson Emmos were
brought prison to be present At the decision the mat
ter of the in arrest of judgment They both looked
toerably WELL and not more cast down taa usual
Their faces. however thoughtful aspect The audi
euce in ate ndance was not greater than usual Me'srs.
Brown Hazheurst and Jackson the counsel of the prs
present Judge Allison delivered the opinion o.
the Court upon the reasons IN arrest OF judgment ana mo-
ton for trla overriding them, and PROF ouncnS the
sentence death both the prisoners. Cape did not
muscle Of his face during the pronouncng OF the
sentence. atterwsrd. When the Judge alluded 10 I'm
mts hav' q wife and child his feelings were overcome
and he Fl tears though evident that he struggled
hard to suppress them
They reconveyed to prison few minutes after SEN
fence there await the action of the Governor of the
State {, nsderabe sympathy was felt for the prisoners
but more particularly for Emmos.
A large number OF appointments and removals IN the
Custom House and Pot Office of this city have been made
public. to take effect 20 morrow.
Many persons will remember outrageous robbery that
was committed several years since NJ the residence OF Mr.
kempion on School House lane. Germantown The house
tered in the night by three men, who were disguised
MS ndians The rutans tied the domestics and shut Mr.
up in closet while OF the ruians stood guard over
him with pistol The house stripped ofvauables anu
the scamps made good their retreat with their booty but
they were subsequently, arrested and convicted The pn
cipal Of the party was noted English burglar namedJ
Dickinson who also bore the different aliases of lie Byron
Charles Hill and James Russell Dickinson had before
this been convicted OF the robbery OF the De Wolfe tomb
at Bristol RI He had stripped the silver plates from the
cofrs in the tomb After his term of service had expired
be was convicted of highway robbery in Rhode Island
The next affair in which Dickinson hOurlshed was IN the
robbery of MIR kempsons house His term OF service IN
prison for this otnse expired about Is months since lie
lett Philadelphia shortly aiterward and has not been heard
Of here until within day or two On the night OF the 18Th
Of the present month man named William BeaS0n, by
trade A butcher robbed and brually murdered near
the village OF CuyahOga Falls, Summit County ONO The
supposed murderer after arrested and from cir
cumst.ces it almost certain that AZ is Dickinson the
perpeuator of the kempton robbery The description OF
The murderer taes exactly with that of Dickinson tie
calls himself James Parks but his wife admits that he
ried her within year under the name OF Dickinson We
learn that the evidence against the ALI ged murderer Is OF
The most conclusive character.
The Hope Hose Company left the city this morning st
o'clock on their long contemplated eXcursonto Pittsburgh
Cleveland and Cincinnati. The Company numbered thirty
eouuped members they looked extremely well
During the week ending Yesterday, 2C99 tuns of coal
were shipped by Schuylkil Canal.
Peter Sheeran aged Is years was accidentally killed at
Srruce.st wharf yesterday afternoon.
The annual visit of the Watering Committee and City
Councils 10 the Paramount Water took place yeser
day All these gentlemen as well as the invited guests
WHO accompanied them. were much delighted with their
irsucciion If the Water works which were never
and never gave better evidence of the wisdom
which planned them aud the good Judgment which has
marked their management Amid all the improvement. of
the ace the Paramount alter works remain unsurplsse in
convenience and unapproachable in beauty. They
easy adapted to supply the increasing wants ofOnr rapidly
md he Earn ) 4 A
great purity ana in equal abundance to every Of four
hundred thousand inhabitants it to every of
hundr,d thousand in old times The Committee, ON their
return 10 the city, entertained their guests with an elegant
collation. at the American House
We have had for days genuine spring weather and
il has already suced to cloe most OF the trees in their
summer livery" while the flowers OF ,arly spring have
appeared in ali their perfection The weather to-day is
surprisingly lovely