The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-06-22
The way Dogs are taken in and done for in
New York.

elSntn StTeet. Inc Vlsitor Steps on poafe
by means of plank, and enters door lead.
iBg underneath shed which has been
constructed on deck. Close by the door is
the desk of the clerk, who keeps an account
of all dogs and puppies received, giving TO
the persons who bring them checks on the
Mayor for their respective amounts. Long
before the visitor reaches the pier his ears
are saluted by medley OF canine sounds,
not by any means melodious as the deep
bayiIg of the beagle, while engaged in the
chase but it is not until he is fairly in the
enclosure where the animals are kept that
he receives the full benefit of the discord
Along each side OF the shed is lath, to
which on Monday afternoon about two hun
dred dogs, of all sorts and ali conditions,
are fastened with ropes one on the end of
the cord being slipped around the neck of
each animal. There were the Scotch ter
rier, the spaniel, the pug, the poodle, the
cur-in short there were
"Pu2pS, mongrel, whelp and hound,
And cur Of low degree"
And they kept up a deafening noise, OF
yelping, bowling, swapping, snarling, yell
ling and barking-irom the short, sharp yell
of the poodle, to the deep bow-wow of the
house dog. There were very few of any
value, while many were decidedly of a
Snarleyow character, as far as appearance
goes. A pretty large regiment of them
might have been collected so NANCY and
otherwise SO Objectionable, that a canine
Falstaf would have refused to Ego through
Coventry with them-that's fiat"
At the further end of the deck is placed a
large square cistern, with grazing covering
it over on the top, in which the dogs are
drowned, secundlm artura-a very delicate
bit of a job, as will be shown IN its proper
place. Descending in the hold, the visitor
enters another kennel of dogs, where sights
are 10 be seen, and noises heard similar 20
those on deck. 1t is unnecessary to inform
the reader that the efiluvia OF the entire vaS-
sci is by no means ambrosial, particularly
those of the cistern, in which large nusa.
ber of dogs have been already placed.
At about 81 o'clock, the time arrived for
the execution 10 commence. Accordingly,
boy stationed himself on the grating upon
the cistern, opened a trap door forming a
part of the grating, and large enough to ad.
init good sized dog. A man stood on the
step leading 10 the top of the cistern, for the
purpose of receiving the dogs which were
handed 10 him one BY one, or il the case of
small dogs, by couples. The modus operdn-
di was 10 first coax the dogs, calling out in
wheedling manner, "Jack, Jack poor fell
low p' (pcor fellow, indeed y accompanied
by that peculiar sucking of the lips we'll
Known as the dog language, but which in
the present imperfect state of the sci
ences of chicograpy and typography, it is
impossible TO delneate upon paper. This
was rather Judas like proceeding, but it
had its effect,and the unsuspecting dog thus
fsuered soon had his teeth severed by a
knife, and himself lifted by the "scruff'' of
the neck and handed to the man on the
step, who threw him incontinently into the
cistern among bis fellow-cannes, when the
attendant juvenile Immediately closed the
trap over him. With small dogs this was
an easy Job, but it was otherwise with the
large fellows, and the executioner had 10
take purchase by their candle appendages
TO pitch them in. There was no offer TO
bite the men engaged in the work, except
in the case oione pug nosed and pugnacious
little fellow, with hair as rough and about
the color of rat, and not much larger
than that interesting quadruped. He was
determined to die "game" and so showed
fight to the last. The man who had TO
catch him went very gingerly 10 work, and
at last succeeded in laying hold of him in a
handy part and popping him into limbo.
Whenever really valuable dog is found
he is put aside and kept for sale. While
this operation was going on, the man who
was handing up the dogs, passed dark
colored spaniel, when he who was pitching
them into the cis,ern, and who is evidently
Cockrey, to Judge BY his vernacuar, ex-
claimed, "Wot you passin' by of that 'ere
dorg for, Charley. He haiht worth nothin'."
To which Charley replied, that the owner
had promised 10 call for him. He was re-
spited accordingly.
The last dog-a huge black female, in an
interesting condition-had been put IN, and
the trap was fastened down. And now the
yelling was frigthful. A noxious exhalation
rose from The packed cistern, and intense heat
was emitted. Long before the water could
be applied, the dogs at the bottom must
have died from suffocation for upwards OF
two hundred dogs of all sizes were packed
in cistern of about twelve feet square and
about seven feet deep. 1t was perfect
canine hole of Calcutta and if the mind
can conceive of Mayor Tenants Sarajah
Dowlah, Marshal Stephens, who superinten-
ded the whole affair, as the sentry, and the
dogs as the British soldiers, Gall Christians
are dogs in Mahommendan eyes,) the par
allel will be complete.
All being, prepared, the hose was run
from rhe plug on the street TO the cistern,
and the water let in. To those on top the
cooling bath must have been a temporary
relief and they seemed rather 10 enjoy il ;
but il was no 10 last. The water rose higher,
the veins became faintef and fainter, and