New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-11

Tx ALLEGED CoUETEnFrIILEs.-Jus.tce Goa
nelly yesterday afternoon discharged for want Of ev-
ience, Robert Const4n.ioe, Jack Cape, Frederick
subach, William Cozzers and James Ellsworth,
who, with John Capet, were arrested on charge Of
being counterfei,ers-a report Of which appeared in
yes,erdsys TRIBUNE. The magistrate held Cape.
for e1amI alton.
ACcIDIsT on TIE Nkw-YoRK CENTRAL KALI
aoaD.-A serious acciden. occurred on the NeS-fork
Central Rsiliosd On Wednesday morning, at O'CLOCK,
about seven miles west OF Syracuse. Inc express
tain was going west a. pretty ful speed, beng az
hour and q half behind tne, when on coming 10
curve the engineer discovered some p!anks shcrs
distance ahead, lying across the track. The speed
was Immediately checked, bat it was Impossible 70
avoid encountering the obstacles. Some OF tne
planks were shivered and throxn of the track; but
one lodged in the cowcatcher in such way as 20
throw the wheels of the engine of the TRACK Inc
engine reversed very soon aiter s'iiKiog tne
plsnks, but 300 yards and fell over WIN the
tender the left track, total wreck. IL was
barely saved from complete somerset down An en-
bankmept by the other track. Inc hrst baggage
car went over TO the right one end being down the
embaDkment and the other on the track. The second
baggsgecar remained quite on the track, out BON
were seriously damaged. The wheels of the trst two
passenger cars of the track aud the platforms
of the second and third were shivered.
The only person injured was brakeman by the
name of Homer Jacobs Of Syracuse, whose leg was
bsdy crushed between the platforms while o. his post
He was held fast til the passengers pushed the ear.
apart. He suffered nto!erable agony. but on arriving
at Syraeuse it was discovered that the bones Of the
leg were not broken. The eDgaeer and fireman es-
capped by jumping
The obstruction was undoubtedly placed there by
q miscreant-the place chosen was the best possible
one for the perpetration Of such act. 1t was on
curve where private roadway opened through
bank and gateway into the woods. Here the mis-
cIeant could carry his operations and easily eude
observation or if disturbed escape, into the woodc.
II was miracle that further injury was done. Had
the train been on time it would have been quite dark
the engineer could not have the obstruction, and
the whole train might have been precipitated down
the bank few rods ahead As il was, the extra
baggage car iaved the first passenger car from being
smashed. Both tracks were badly torn.
A collection of $37 was made among the passengers
and given to the mother Of the wounded brakeman.
No blame was attributed to the engineer any of the
employees.
A person named William Hopkins was accidentally
drowned on Wednesday night at Glen Cove, L. / by
falling om the gang plank Of steamboat Sylph which
was then on an excursion. The body was recovered.
SUSPICION OF DROWNING CHILD.-The body of
boy eight years of age, named James Callahan, was
yesterday found in the East River the foot of
Roosevelt street, and taken to the residence of his
parents No. $50 Water street. 1t appears that the
mother Of the child recently returned from visit to
California, and discovered that her husband had, in
her absence married another woman, and now refused
to receive her, In.feeling of course, sprsng up be-
tween the rival Mrs. Galatians, and from the fact that
the child, when last alive, was in company with
the second Mrs. c., On of the East River piers,
the first Mrs c. was led to believe that she had in
tentionslly thrown il overheard She accordingly laid
the case before one of the Police Magistrates and the
husb band and the second Mrs. c. were both arrested
and held to await the result of investigation before
Coroner Copnery. This investigation will probably
take place to- day, and the facts of the case, it s
hoped, will transpire.
ALLEGED WIFEMuRDER IN AVENUE Am in.
quest was held on Wednesday last, at No. Avenue
A. by Coroner Connery, on the remains OF Mrs. Mary
Nurdell, German woman, whose DEATH 1t was then
supposed, was the result of natural causes On she
evidence introduced before the Coroner the Jury re-
turned verdict of death by disease Of the heart there
then being no suspicious Of foul play in the matter.
Thus matters stood till yesterday, when Mr.. e. Rosss
brother of the deceased, in an interview with the
Coroner alleged that his sister had been beaten by her
husband the night previous to her death, and strongly
rsnuatipg that her death was caused by the violence
she had received. A post mortem examination, on the
urgent requett of Mr. Rofse, was made upon the
body of the deceased by Dire. Finne aud Ferguson,
which resulted in confirming the suspicious before eLs
tertaned by Nh Rose. Upon opening the skull of
deceased the physicians found large clot Of blood
GOVERN the right hemisphere of the brain further
examD e,ion showed that the right temporal bone had
been fractured. From the Investigations thus made,
the physicians Of the opinion that death the
result of compression of the BRAIN produced by ipju
ries to the skull. BY order of Coroner Connery the
husband of the deceased was apprehended by Officer
earle of the Seventeenth Precinct, and detained to
await the result Of the further investigations by the
Coroner. A Jury wac impauneed yesterday after
noon, and after taking view of the body were dis
charged till Saturday morning. when the case will be
resumed.
DEATH BIZ VIOLENCE OF CUsToNHousE POR-
TfR.-On the night OF the "a inst., Michae. Hickey,
then porter in the Custom-House, attended polt-
cal meeting in the First avenue, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, and while there the politicians
got into row. and quite serious disturbance the
consequence. Hickey, who was very tall and ath.
letic man. struck some one in the crowd, and almost
Immediately afteIward he received a stab 10
the chest from which wound the blood flowed so
copiously that he soon fell from exhaustion. About
midnight be was conveyed to the New.York Hospital
where be fingered til yesterday morning and died.
Frequently before hi, death, Hickey told DR.. Dubois
the attending House Surgeon, ths, he did not know