New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-29

I uy-haVlrg already many inVuSons 10 DO s0 His
address is Brooklyn, n. L. A remarkable acutensss
of observation, combined with ETss, facility Of ex.
presson fits him in eminent degree for this import.
! ant work.
TES THoUslSD Dollars WoRTu or GooDs Rs
coyERrD-BrRGL,R SrRPRIsED.-About II o'clock
Frdayn night a. Policeman Reid Of the Eighth Precinct
was patrorg his poet he discovered several rough.
looking men hanging about tie corner Of Howard
street and Broadway, and deemirg their appearsree
Suspicious, he keIt q close watch upon thsir move.
rerts Being 20 settled in hi mi al that the .oys
were not abroad for any good purpose, Officer Reid
/ upcn returning TO tie Station House, informed his
I r, lief Of bis suspicious About midnight pistol WAS
discharged in Canal seet by Of the gang. and cvi.
IDENTIFY With the intuition Of drawing the officers from
/ their posts but tie ruse was taken no notice OF.
About O'Clock. Officer Quinn, of ~ -ame Precinct,
while passing down Mercer street, saw horse and
wagon driven by common looking fellow, stop about
the middle Of the block bet xeen Howard aui Grand
streets. Officer Quinn a. ir-t thought that the mau
had been engaged to remove some persons baggage
from German boerdng house IN that neighboriood,
but subsequently altered his mind and determined to
vaich the driver of The wagon. Taking look into
the wagon as Re passed on, the officer concealed him.
self in doorway corr OF Grand ard Mercer streets.
where Re had not long been before second party
made bis appearance ard spoke several minutes with
the driver and upon corcuding his conversation walked
of toward Broadway The horse and wagon was then
driven Of. Quinn walked saer the fellow, who
was on foot, but lost sight Of him before reaching
Broadway. Meeting with Officers Hosr and Trevor
he communicated ls suspicious 70 them, and while en-
gagged il conversation the horse and wagon again sp-
peared and this time stopped the Of Canal
street and Broadway it front Of Mealio- hat store.
Some time ago an attempt made to rob the tailor
shop near Mealio store, aud the police thought that
second attempt WIS about being made upon the
same premises. About 10 or IL minutes aiterward
the fellow in tie wagon drove up Broadway, Officers
Ilosr and Trevor keepis watch upon his movements
and also examining all the stores that thoroughlare
within their beat.
Officer Quinn leisurey walked up Mercer street, AMI
upon arriving at Grand street, saw three suspicious,
looking fellows upon the corner. Without appearing
to notice them, he walked toward Green street, and
called Officer Roberts, 10 whom he related all the sns-
pcous circumstances; but WI en- they returned the fe
lows were gone. Soon after the wagon again came in
sight being driven from Spring street down Mercer.
Officer Quinn stopped the driver AID asked him where
he cas- going, and what he was doing in that nsgh-
borhood. The fellow replied that he had just taken
two young women home from ball at the Apollo, and
lie returning the wagon to its owner. Tue officer,
seeing that there was nothing In the wagon, and
having immediate cause to arrest the man,
allowed him 10 pass On. Officer Roberts, soon
sitter seeing the vehicle looked tito it, but moth
ing therein. The driver, however, took fright and
whipped up his hoise and, though closely followed by
Roberts, succeeded in reaching Centre stree. and es-
Gaping through the Five Points. About this time the
pa,be.works of Mr. Morris in Mercer street were
opened 10 admit the workmen, when the foreman dis
covered two sacks and two bundles in tie yard The
police were notified and took charge of the sacks and
bundles, which contained silks, snsw.s and other
goods, valued altogether at about $4,000. An exam
inalion resulted in the discovery that the dry goods
store of Mr. c. Merchant. No ii9 Broadway had been
buigsIously entered III the rear. Tue burglars had
got into Monis's marbe-works, which adjon Mer-
chans store and cut hole through three feet of sod
masopry sufficiently large to admit mans body. the
aperture was six or eight feet from the lower floor of
the marble shop and just above the ground floor Of
the dry goods shop. This work being done, one Of
the burglars crawled into the store ard passed out the
goods, which bis accompces packed up in linen sacks
ebd bundles The plunder vas left 10 tie marble-yard
until fitting opportunity should present for its rsmov-
a. No clue has az yet been obtained to the where
abouts Of tie burglars but they are Known to one
of the Detective officers, who casually met them on
Broadway the same night in wagon, there is no
doubt but that they will be arrested. Mr. Merchants
store extends from Broadway to Mercer street. and it
WA from Il yard of the marble establishment hat an
assaut was made upon the wall
THE LATE ALLEGED SUICIDE or Mr.. DICKENS At
JERSEY CIIY-From circumstances which have como
to light it is confidently believed that Dir. Dickens
came TO his death by accident, rather than design;
and had the Coroners Investigation been prosecuted
as il should have been, the Jury would in all probs
bity have rendered q verdict to that effect II ap.
pears that there was no post stmortem examination at
the inquest nor all available evidence elictod on the
subject under consideration. The Jury, therefore,
jumped at the conclusion that Mr.. Dickens committed
sucied from the fact that two bottles which had
tared laudanum and potassium, were found in his
room.
When Mr.. Dickens went 10 khe American Hotel at
jersey City he took with him two three clean Shirts
three or four clean pocket handkerchief evidently
with the intention OF remaining there several days
He AT down in the stngroom, and cent boy 10 pur
chase an evening newspaper which he read and,
after remaining sometime, reclining on the so!a 10 the
sitting room he went 10 bed. lie had placed q cesn
shr. upon chair if FOR tee following morning;
undressed himself folded up his clothes carefully aud
put hs shoes outside of the door TO he cleaned. When
discovered IN the morning, he was yng upon the aoor
with basin by his side a. # he intended to use it.
The first effect Of the poison, when 40 overdose 10
taken is TO produce considerable nausea ct the stom-
ach Il was known that he had been IN the habit Of
using potassium as remedy for pleursy TIE ply
-ciars state that the poison would be likely to have
y,ry powerful effect, from the fact that i had been
taken unon an entirely empty 6omach; that. had it