The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-30
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FRIDAY MORNING MAscu .o 90

Street, New York; Methodist Church on ,ha
Death and Funeral Of William Poole ,.
graphic account is given of the character and
habits of the fighting men of New York
Many OF the more noted of these man ,.
says the preacher, "sre keepers of drinlx;ng
and gambling dens and the rest, in their lei
sure hours-and most Of them have leisure
enough, for can learn of but one respeeta.
Bile occupation-the butchers-represente
mongthem, are hangers on ofthe places they
keep, and OF houses OF prostitution. Hyer and
Sullivan, ! believe, both kept drinking
houses, Poole kept another, gracod with the
euphemistic title of "l5ank Exchange e'-faro
suppose. Cyrus Shay was one OF the pro-
prietors of q dance house, kept in Church
street slyle-a style where every decency is
forgotten, and all sense of propriety and
shame ignored. Johnny Ling formerly kept
disorderly drinking housein Church street.
known as the Ocean nouse" an ocean"
of guilt deep as the bottomless pit. lie has
since kept drinking and gambling place at
the corner of Canal ST. and Broadway. Jno
Morrlssey is the proprietor of akindred house
in Leonard street. As | have said, Others of
this class who DO not keep such places, are,
probably to man, their hangers ON and
participants in the dissraceful scenes viii
there ranspire-drinking and gambling to el!
cess. Their resorts are located III neighbor-
hoods where the strange woman" has her
habtation, and nightly watches for her prey,
and whose upflinching bullies and untirins
pimps many of them are"
MIR. Hare then gives the following account
| Of the exploits OF these men:
"Paugene (or Pstrick McLaughlin,) now under
arrest as one OF the murderers of William Poole
| snail head tho black list which will now read to
| you, and which might make much longer than
shall lie was formerly, and tor many years, 1t is
| aaid HculiY thief" on the Five Points for some
| tune d resident OF Blackweis Island and seven
| years ago, Ia savage row with fighter named
| Michael Murray he had his nose bitten otf-lor
these men bite OFT one snother's noses Us naturally
as they eat bread and butter. He went to Califor.
MA In 1892, and while on she way brutRlly as
saulted passenger that he was Obliged to secrete
himself IN the torecasie OF the vessel until his arTi
val. In California lie remained nine months but
being altogether in advance of Californian deprays
ty, be found 1t necessary to leave quite suddenly for
the Atlantic States. believe he has never felt any
desire to return TO California About three months
ago-in drinking place, of course, he fired pis-
drew pistol and attacked young man in a similar
place-subsequently he attacked this young man
twice more, and would undoubtedly have killed
him, but for the timely interference of others In
January last he assaulted one Hughes; but Hughes
had also taste for blood, and manaled him shock
ingly with kniie, and would have slain him, but
for the interposition of Baker, the man who fired
he fatal shot into Poole's heart. His part with Ba
ker in this last tragedy you all know.
Baker also attacked Hyer some months ago. has
attacked Poole once before, and the other morning
like foul tend surrounded by his legion fired a
pistol ball Into the heart of the prosrats helpless
man.
John Morrissey has also been to California where
he fought ring aud pistol fight. One year ago
last October, he fought that bloody battle with Sui.
livan at Boston Corner-a corner of Massachusetts
"a tight too bloody and brutal to record in which
he well nigh lost his lite Last Summer he fought
| with Poole at the foot of Amos street, and was
| again mangled beyond description. Besides this,
| Poole has fought over and over again, and at the
time OF his death was under indictment for an un-
| provoked assault upon Mr.. Brinkerhof.
Ihsee are the men which have been en-
| ployed by the political parties to stand guard
over the ballot box-not over its purity and
ireedom-but to make it as impure as posi-
bic, and to keep, by brute force, orderly and
law abiding citizens away rom it. Well is it
for the Republic, that the Empire city is not
fair specimen of the working OF Republi-
| can institutions. If it could be so consider
| ed, the most ardent republican would admit
that the experiment in this country of mans
capacity for self government has signally
failed There are sentiments in the follow
ing parag Faph of Mr.. Hare's sermon, full of
| truth and force and some of which deserve
| consideration in other latitudes besides New
| York
William Poole had great physical strength and
| undoubted physical courage. The clergyman who
ociated at his funeral said che did not fear the face
| OF clay. He did not known what fear meant I'M
less he read it in the Dictionary and he forgot 1t as
! soon as he closed the book " The clergyman re-
| ferred, OF course 10 physical fear He certainly
afraid to die; and if he had some of the nobler
| traits OF man in him, | think he had he has of
| ten been afraid of judgment | think his whole
lie shows that he was man of small moral cour-
| age. But he mad physical courage and there are
| thousands, not pugists. who hold high admira-
tion for mere physical force and bravery. They,
| suppose, were at his funeral Aud this to my mind
is one OF the most sorrowfu features of that large
attendance. Ii is time felt the difference be
tween the intellectual and the moral, and that
which is merely physical. man Is never great till
he feels this nation is great till the people
teelt. The intellectual and the moral were made
to have dominion in this world, aud the physical is
only useful when it submits to their sway, aud
works under their guidance Like locomo~
nVe without an engineer, mere physical power Is
awluiiy dangerous aud destructive without intel.
iectuRi and moral force to curb and guide it, In
oafoarous nations brute force reigns but th intel.
| lecfusl and moral forces of man are the Great
agents OF crlzation, refinement national prosperity
ana individual happiness. Let the great ovation
| psio last sunday to deceased pugist warn us to
proclaim this doctrine far and near tn imrrsssi !,
upon the minds Of our children to enstamn !, inda
liby upon all our public institutions to make it felt
everywhere as far as we can, that he who contri-
butes to the intellectual and moral force of a nation
does thousand fold more for its institutions than
he who develops only its physical powers.
CoTToN BuRsT.-ln Hswkinsville, Ga, on Mon.
day week, l04 bags OF cotton belonging 10 / M
Lamar-his entire crop-were set on fire and de-
stroyed by the carelessness of a negro watcbmsn
who had built fire some 40 feet distant
Mr.. Stephen Brownell. a revolutionary soldier
died 10 Little Compton, Mass, on the l2th inst.
|
SALE OF NEGRoEs-At the sale of Major Nat
Green's negroes, in Wsrrenton, N. c., last week,
sixty nine were sold at an average oil more than
ven hundred dollars piece, and among the mum
her aorua thirty odd children