The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-25

swords and prepared for the encounter. Two men
jumped hon the dickey Of the carriage and showed
fight, but one ives Immediately knocked heels over
bead b the fat edge Of q sabre. Aay resistance
On tbe Psrt Of the pursued was speedily terminated
stones throw Of where they we're overtaken and the
force having turned out to the aid Of their comrades
Mr.. Garden and bis men surrendered, were dis
armed, and marched pr;s0ners to Cashel.
z A six-barrslled revolver, douole-baryelled pis-
to and iifeprescrver, were taken from the person
Of Mr.. Garden, who now proceeded quietly with his
csptOrs When the carriage was turaed back TO
CasbeI. one Of the horses, beautiful mare, worth
fl60, dropped dead. The most extravsgsnt rumory
Of the affair were circulated 10 Cashel, and the
greatest excitement prevailed there. Mr.. M'Cul
Isgh arrived with his prisoner late in the evening"
ano, having lodged him securely, he was on Monday
morning conveyed TO Cionmel and brought to the
police-ofice, whence he was committed by Mr..
Goold, r. NJ, to stand his trial for attempted forc
bic abduction. Mr. Garden was conveyed In his
carriage to the county gao, where he was given In
TO the tustody Of the governor he leaped lightly
nom the vehicle, and walked with Arm step into
The prison. He wore cap, and over the len ear
ano on bis neck were apparently severe wounds,
covered with plaster. large crowd was collected
round the prison door. and the women especially
loved I" not wisely but too well.n
Under the dire ction Of the local inspector, the
Rev. James Morton, every care has been taken to
proyiGe for the comfort Of the unfortunate gentle
Smith 0'Brien, when State prisoner 10 Clonmel, in
the immediate vicinity OF the hospital, where he
will receive every attention that his cond,sion re-
quires His pormanteau being first opened Ia pres
eEce of the governor, was directed to be given him.
and Mr.. Strahan, it ia known, viii do all In his
power towards rendering his confinement as little
irksome a. possible, pending an application for bail
to the Court Of Queens Bench.
A later account says, that on Monday afternoon
three meu-Henry Atkitson, Patrick KennealIy and
James Atkinson (the latter Of whom was wounded)
were brought in custody to the police Office,
charged with aiding and abetting MIR. Garden. A
trates, at the termination of which all the persons
were consigned to Clonmel jail On Monday" sew
eral Of the gentry visited Mr.. Garden ia prison."
The injuries he received in the melee are@ad to be
not of serious nature.
The FS0n,an's Journal good naturally suggests
that lunacy alone could have prompted Mr.. Garden
to the commission of such an outrage as that for
which he now awaits the verdict of jury.
TIE most famous case Of abduction among the
upper classes (says the Freeman,) has been graph
cally described in Mr.. Maddens work. Sir Henry
Browne Hays made bold attempt on the do wing
fortune Of Mis- Pike. He was unsuccessful, tried,
and transported. His failure, however, was slightly
compensated in the celebrity that attached to his
name. Sir Henry was quite popular hero. Bal
laos were chanted at fair and market elevatng him
into sort Of martyr, and denouncing the cruel
Pike, whose " face" was not the fortune" coveted
by the hero, but the thousands of pounds which
served golden mask for her unattactive features.
We are not aware that any very prominent abduc-
ton case" has turned up among the aristocracy
since the days Of the Cork martyr and hcro-no
case Of the read mptoria character for of compro.
Tises and hybrids there have been many-until
the attempt OF Mr. Garden Of Barnane the fair Sax
on with whom he was smitten, and who, 1t appears
did not reciprocate his absorbing attachment In
the present state Of the matter are reluctant to
enter too infinitely into the history of this shocking
transaction, which has brought Mr.. Garden within
reach Of the law and, convicted, his liberty will
be the forfeit. But the facts are so notorious and
30 unprecedented in these days of national repose
that we may briefly notice the more prominent for
the curiosity they provoke, and the conviction they
inspire that Mr. Garden was really "beside himself
when he contemplated such daring act, ct such o
time, and with such preparations, and stands more
In need Of straitwAistcoat than Of wife. Facts
have come to our knowledge which impress US with
the conviction that Mr. Garden acted without the re-
straint of ordinary reason whom planning his foolish
and criminal attempt, which has ended 30 disastrous
~ for himself He could not by any possibility hope
to have carried of his prize in sscty, even though
the first abduction had been successful. Whittier
could he have conveyed her where he could not be
swiftly reached. Her cries must have soon attract
ed the police, who swarm in every part Of Tippera
y. The absurd aadacity Of the act Is to Ms conclu
alive thcs - C.-der '-'ts the attention of the
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