New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-23
NEw YoRK CoRREsPoNDENcE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, is,

NEW YoRK, Nov. Is, 1858.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent
At high noon yesterday the majesty of the Law was
! again yndicated in the execution Of murderer.
The sufferer the present occasion was fair.hared,
almost girlsh looking youth of 10, named James
Rodgers, who was convicted of the diabocal murder
Of an inoffensve citizen while quietly passing through
one of the streets Of the city one evening" in com
pany with his wife. The deed was fastened on him
beyond peradYenture by the evidence of his boon
companions at the time and by other witnesses, and
though recommended to mercy by the jury, the Gov
ernor in view of the desperate recklessness of the
value of life or the dignity Of the law which pre-
walls. and the fact that the exgencies or the times
demanded the sacrifice, refused all applications for
pardon OF repreve. He is represented to have died
: perfectly happy, and with unhinehing bravery and
resignation His death struggles however, are said
to have been dreadful to behold, death being pro-
duced by the slow process of stranguIation, For
nearly four minutes the muscles of his arms legs and
breast, were violently convused and he seemed fran
tic with agony, making the most terrible efforts to
get at his throat and heart as if they were the seat
Of his suferings. Life did not become extinct until
the expiration of some fourteen or fifteen minutes.
When the body was cut down and delivered to the
relatives, another narrowing scene took place. The
Eut
throwing themselves upon the corpse and kissing the
the distorted features until one after the other over
come by their feelings, tainted away and were re.
moved. This is the sixteenth execution upon the
same scafold in fifteen years
It is somewhat singular fact, and illustrative Of
the dark side Of human nature, that during the exc
cuton, woman about fifty years of age entered the
Tombs, accompanied by little sickly child. She
said that the child had fits and she had been told
that il it could lay its hands upon the body of
newly executed murderer before the body was cold
the disorder would be cured Her object was to make
an application for this purpose which was Of course
refused. 1t is said that the widow Of the murdered
man also made an Intellectual attempt to see the legal
tragedy.
Mr. Billings, one of the clerks of the Metropolitan
Hotel, to whom referred in previous letter as hay
ing mysteriously disappeared, was found on Thurs.
day in Hampstead, L. L. by the sheriof the county,
in state Of insanity, and unable to give any intei-
gent account Of himself
Judge Metcalte has rendered an elaborate decision
concerning the arson case on Staten Island in which
he contends that the Quarantine buildings, as they
existed and DO exist, are nuisance and discharges
the parties implicated the ground that they abated
a nuisance, one so declared by the Board Of Health
and the evidence of medical men.
One of the gossipy items of the day is an ar
rangement between the great Edward Eyerett-the
classical scholar and stotasr,,o,, - w.
New York Tedgar Nv which tho farn,or s,s
of ten thousand dollars which is to be appropriated
to the Mount Vernon Fund, is for one year to write
weekly articles for the entertainment Of the readers
Of that sensation paper. As the Tribune suggests,
the Mount Vernon Tomb like poverty, makes strange
bedfellows. 1t is something of a slide for Mr. Ey.
publication.
There are III ths nrasent tir,a oor / nm or rr,.t
I Sans recruits on Ciovernor-s Island . iror NJ,
Der than has before been there far r1rLa oF o,r,
mast The accumulation Il go s
times, and partly to the deIavof GovarHnsrt in so,4
inc them ia southern noir+s 4, ,oo,,t u
ness which thew vvonid have 10 onoont,,
The force Of men engacad ~ no ,,s,io,, 5,.,t
ments Of tba Nav y,ra I3a, taa,
since the election T,at .eu'.eu
wards If tuo tbonsard yotars y % ~ WY W
MOVING, LOGS and rotlerrr c,;ns ~ fI,s "otN
now greatly reduced anS conns = n,ausl :
each succeeding nav dav.
An excitinr subject j. eor,r,art H., a,r-..-..,..
at present is the recent shooting of mn, m aIioa
officer. under circumstances which nost artas ttt
out hestancv agree. rendered the oct ono of 7obor
q Dtfi nod taI
the man and was in The act If convayr, H. IL t,o
Tombs, when the latter knocked him dawn and ror,
away The officer recovering himself yava chase
and drawing his revolver fred two ssots at him with
out effect matter n von5ar ,ybo, n ro.,o,..,
that the occurrence took place in crowded t5oro 1I
fare and during business hours. The man ran i5to
Fulton market where he was stunned Nv snottsr
policeman and the former officer rpnnino raridIy M
placed his pistol against the bach Of m nrsoar oa "a
fired. The man died while baino convened 70 ~
hospital and the assaont has been bed u ansvar j.
the verdict of the oroner's irr,, o ,iIlfnI
great physiological curiosity i now II nj a;t,,
exciting much interest among medical men tha case
being one in which, owing to . detfcipno1 NJ tso
breastbone the several movements of tho bo+ ,,,7
49,. aouHans o.sis sIe Ysole Ihe subject Of the
I''ssiisgrs senslela, t"entyelght
~ : =, LiaioutS, ana 1hough rather
,,aar - % 70 consumption, ap
to = We ~ PeA5Ssu uealIl. AS ne Is unable to