New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-21

Formerly the stree. pump partially supplied ta,s want
but now the artisan or lsbcrex who Would slsko hs
Thirst can find almost public place in the city to
which he can reeot with feeling Of right to cup OF
cold water; and he is driven to dran-shop, where
false notion of sefrcspect mpee him 70 drink tnat
N'hch costs him somcthng-and II oHeo eoes oost nu
mo e than he hsd counted upon As preves.ive Of
drum enness and means OF removing temptsaon to
evil ba units and habits il Is believed thai this eAPe
dent woud be found worthy OF tria to say o.
its sanitary and humane aspects, whlcn are iar Houi
inconsiderabie.
pers.e attempt was mads bn wednesday night to rob
the United States Express Company and the mail on
board the Erie express train. When the express
train which left Jersey City on "Wednesday afternoon
had reached point on the Delaware division about
ten miles beyond Port Jervis, Mr. f. l.. Covert, the
United States Express messenger, left his car ana
stepped into the baggage car, which was next 10 H.
leaving in his car however Mr. A. keck, the United
States Mail Agent who appears to have reiapsed INTO
a doze. While in that condition stout ruihan, VINO
had secreted himself in the wster-coset OF the car,
came cautiously out and applied or attempted 10 ap
ply, sponge wet with chOrtorm to the nose Oh the
sleeper. which fortunately awoke him immediateiy'
Rousing up. and seeing in the room, instead OF Mr.
Covert desperate-looking stranger, he caught MN
by the collar and demanded his business The scoun-
drel drew revolver and threatened to kill the Agent,
to which the latter decidenly objected, aud caught
hold of the pistol in such way that he held the
hammer down so that the robber could not use
it. Mr.. Keck is physically powerful man,
and pitched into the villain for dear life, throw
ing him to the floor, releasing the pistol from
his grasp. and thrashing him so severely
that in few moments he begged for his life. Mr.
Keck thinking quite possible that his customer had
accompices aboard who might at any moment come
to his rescue pulled the bell rope in the hope that the
alarm might bring assistance. The engineer Stacked
the train when the desperado, in spite OF ali hecks
efforts opened the sliding door of the car jumped out
and made his escape with bare and very severely
bruised head After he had gone there was found on
the floor which had been the scene of the scufe, his
cap, slung shot, broken chloriform bottle, ana
sponge well wet with choriform. 1t is supposed tnat
the scamp expected to have found Mr. Covert instead
of Mr. Keck in the room, and that he probably mis-
took Keck for Covert-that his purpose was to have
stupifed his victim with chloriform or shot him. as
circumstances might have required raed his pockets
of the keys of the safe, opened that strong box ana
taken therefrom such treasure as it might have con-
tanned, caused an alarm by pulling the bell rope
which would have slackened the train, so that he
could have escaped at the side door, as he did finally
escape In the closet where he had hidden was found
his oyercoat the pockets of which contained brandy
hottie a large piece of India rubber oil CLOTH piece
of oiled elk and twine, supposed conyenlences Tor
tying up and hiding, by temporary burial or other
WISE his booty had he been more fortunate IN his
desperate enterprise. Altogether this is one OF the
most audacious attempts at robbery which has lately
come under our notice. We understand that des-
Notwithstanding vagabond, with sore head, was
captured at Jersey on Thursday evening who is be-
lieved to be the enterprising individual above re-
ferred to.
A YANKEE FIsHERMAS's Plan OF RAISING THE
WIsp.-On compaint of Royal Phelps esq, OF No. ID
Exchange place on the 18th inst Officers Parson and
Ahean of the Seventh Precinct succeeded yesterday
in arresting young scamp who calls himself John
Perkins, a fisherman, having shanty and boats at
Astoria and Matilda Perkins his aunt and accomphce
residing at No. 1877 Lewis street, bringing both before
Justice Welsh. The charge made against them was
that of obtaining money under false petenses repre-
senting that the name of MatdSwas Smith, and that
| she was the wife of one William Smith, worthy man
who was run over on the 18th of March, by Broad
way stage and had his right leg and left arm broken
The plan pursued by the twain was to draw up letter
of recommendation forging to the same the names of
prominent men, with round sum opposite, and then
canvassing all parts Of the city for charitable aid.
John is an excellent penman and has thus succeeded
in collecting sums of from So $40 from large num-
Der of leading firms Among the names on their
papers which are respectively addressed to the mer-
chants printers, plumbers, talors, shipjoiners &C.,
are mentioned Royal Phelps, Grinnel Minturn & Co.,
ID. Appleton Allare & Co., A. Is. Sands, Wilson G.
HINT Mum & Co.. McSpedOn & Baker, T.. ID. Nor
gan & Co. ID. Devin & Co.. and large number of
others. Perkins, it appears occasionally becomes
hard-up. 1t is only such occasions that he under
takes this rather dangerous pursuit when he lays aside
his tarpauln and putting a respectable hat, repairs
straightway to the residence of aunt Matilda. II il
stated that he has been in the hands of the Williams
burgh Police before this under similar charges. Both
were sent to the City Prison await examination.
DARING FORGERY, PERJURY AND FRAUD.-R0-
sanna Coye, Irish woman about thirtyve years Of
age was tried on Thursday at the Special Sessions for
petty larceny The Court suspended judgment, where
upon the woman was Immediately arrested the
graver charges of forgery, perjury and fraud. II ap
pears that last Summer she learned that her friend,
Mary Boyland, had $J26 "a deposited in the Chambers
street Savings Bank and en- the lth Of June went to
the bank and representing herself as Mary Boyland,
she told the Cashier that she had so much money de-
posited there but had lost her bank-book. OF this
she made oath, according to the usual form. On the
Eth Of November, she went to the bank again, and
did az before Calling again the 10th OF December,
and making oath that she Mary Boyland, and had
lost her bank book the Cashier gave her s24 A. and
a new book crediting her with 1926. Subsequently,
the genuine Mary Boyland called when the fraud was
Discovered Since that time the police have been on