The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-28
The Pioneer Corresponden nee.
Prsn eur Regular New York Correspondent.
Aatters and Things In New York.
New YoRK, March l3, 1855


The funeral obsequies of the notorious Bill
Poole, who received his death wounds at the
hands Of fellow DULLES in the late affray at
Stanwix Hall, were celebrated on Sunday last
in the most imposing and public manner. No
event in this city for many years has excited
so much interest. The programme time of the
procession was o'clock, P. NJ; but it did
not form until about 4, though before mid
day the streets along the entire route from Ho-
boken Ferry to the Battery, - a distance OF
nearly miles, were literally packed with spec
tators There could not have been less than
$4,000 persons assembled on this and the
Brooklyn side of the East River, to witness
the spectacle. The funeral cOrtege consisted
of about 600O persons and $50 carriages, and
occupied the time of 40 minutes in passing a
given point. The hearse, drawn by four white
horses mournful with funeral plumes and trap
pings bore upon its sides, in large gilt letters,
the dying words of the great departed - l
die true American" The corpse was dressed
in black, with patent leather boots, and By
ron collar and the coffin was wrapped in the
American flag made from American silk. The
immense train, composed mostly Of Associa-
tions having sympathy with the career of the
deceased, moved to the sound of solemn music,
with banners draped in mourning. The Order
of United Americans mustered abont 1000
strong. There were the Poole Guards; Poole
Association, increased by delegations from Al
bany, Philadelphia and Baltimore the Ryn-
ders Battalion, the Forrest Light Guard, sew
eral engine companies, with some 400 individ-
uals known as the Bowery Association, who
brought up the rear.
OF course the lawless and degraded those
of tainted reputation, and no reputation at all,
figured conspicuously in this ridiculous num-
merry. Professional DULLES, street brawlers,
pot-house rowdies and other equally deserving
tribes included in the general term of "fancy,"
who pass their lives in breaking the laws, and
skulking from its officers, staggered into day
light to heighten the posthumous honors of a
pet leader. The most famous of his surviving
friends, many of whom occupied prominent po-
sitions in the procession, were the objects of
marked interest to the lockers on among
whom the "frail ssterhood" Haunted shameless
ly in finery purchased at the expense Of an
honest name, testifying their respect by nu-
merous attendance. The whole affair, from its
inception to the finale, is a shame upon our
city, and disgrace to the age. A man with
just natural capacity enough to lead useful
life quitting an honest calling for dishonorabe
and desperate courses follows them to their
natural issue, violent death, and is strai ght-
way invested with the dignity of martyrdom.
The first city of the nation pours itself out in
sympaty for his hapless fate, and honors bis
remains with an ovation which in respect to
its pomp and publicity, no citizen, renowned
only for deeds of intellect and heart, may hope
to win.
What lesson for young America"
apt scholar who as he runs may read upon
these proceedings, that there is no merit in
Flooding honesty or petty villainy, but that
full blown fame attends eminent wOrthlesSness
But the worst result rests with our foreign
population. BY a warped construction of the
affair, although the two principal murderers OF
Poole, Baker and Turner, were Americans, the
whole guilt is saddled upon the poor Irish, who
God knows, have sins enough of their own to
bear and all possible pains have been taken
to give the transaction national character
hope not to have occasion very soon to inRict
upon 20 Ir readers so long discourse upon sc
unworthy theme, and will leave the subject
of it in his quiet rest in Greenwood, with the
remark that his case affords interest to the
medical profession, being one of the very few
reported, in which o man has lived several days
with bullet lodged in his heart.
Baker, the principal murderer, after having
eluded tie vigilance of the authorities from the
time of the affray, escaped by sea last Friday
evening, as was ascertained yesterday on board
the brig Isabella Jewett, bound for the Cana
ry Islands. Geo. Law placed his steamer Mag
noia at the disposal of the authorities which
left last evening at o'clock in pursuit JUS
tice Stewart, on investigating the method Of
his conceament and escape, has found the po-
lice implicated to an extent which reveals the
most alarming corruption in this whole organ
ization. The developments are not yet full
but he has already placed under arrest, as &C.
cessories after the fact of the murder, police
officer Daniel Linn, of the Chiefs Office
councilman Kerrigan Of the Sixth Ward, to-
gether with several others. A bundle of Ba.
ker's intercepted letters are rumOred to crimi.
nate many officials of high standing, but at
my hour Of writing, the contents are not made
public. Startling developments may be ex
pected.
The committee from the States Senate, who
were appointed last session of the Legislature
to inquire relative to the charter of Columbia
College, whether, among other things the trus-
tees have power to refuse candidates for pro-
fsssorships on religious grounds, have made an
exceedingly able report, in which they show
conclusively that no such authority vests in
that body. The cause of the investigation
was the rejection of DR.. Gibbs, who applied
for the Chair of Chemistry after the resigna.
ton of Prof. Yeoman, VIGOROUSLY on the