The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-09
From the Ns1U York World
THE INOTISTTTON REVIVED

From the Ns,o York Worldll
THE INQUISITI0N REVIVED.
Public attention was called, some weeks since, to
the incredible crueles practised upon the convcts
in Sing Sing. The shower bath, the sweat box, the
CT ss,the buckng pole and the were brought
light and disclosed system of torments which would
do no discredit to the torture-rOoms of Goa old
London tower. 1t is a burning shame that such
crueties as are definitely reported and sworn to
by eyewitness, whose accounts are corroborated
by ex-convicts have been practised so long in the
heart of Christian community in the nineteenth
century. If we may credit these reports-and they
certainly bear the ali of truth-nothing of more
Internal quality was ever known in the world. A
professional reporter of crimes, who had attended
fourteen executions, and had never been suspected
of sympathy with criminals or susceptibility to
human suffering, could not endure the sight o the
shower bath torture and was forced to retire.
Hear his description:
"After being fixed on the STOOL" which is en-
closed in a narrow, watertight box, reaching above
the sufferers head, ''the water was allowed to
drop on his naked person for few minutes which
chilled him all over and the knees shook and trem-
bled, the teeth chattered together and the eve
balls protruded from their sockets, with painful,
desparing glare. Down came the water in vol
umes upon the head, over the face and the body,
filling the box till it reached the nostris and in
vain was the head shaken from side to side, to get
air without water, for was the mouth
opened than the throat filled, and when the victim
was evidently sutfOcating the bath stopped
the water imbbed, and recover, when down came
the water again, and the same scene was re enacted
for quarter of an hour, which to him must have
been an eternity, in which he bore the suferings of
a hundred strangulatiOns."
Further details follow of inexpressible horror
which cannot possibly burden our columns. They
have already been familiar to that portion of the
public which goats over such recitals. To- the
other modes of torture, we will not even refer.
THE GUNBoAr SEMINoLE.-The U. S. steamer
Seminole whose loss is reported off Pernambuco
Brazil, was one of the seven new steam gunboats
built in accordance with late act of Congress-
She was constructed under the superintendent
OF Mr. Porter, whose desire to get her up as cheap
ly as possible may have been a chief cause of her
failure She ranked with the Pawnee, Narragan-
set, Wyoming, Dacotah and Iroquois. the first gun
boats ever registered in the navy of the United
States. The Seminole was launched at Pensacola
on the 23d of June, 1859, Miss Martha Porter
christening her. She subsequently sent to
Norfolk to receive her machinery, and sailed from
that port for Rio on the l4th of July. Her passage
down the harbor resulted satisfactorily, no less
than nine knots an hour having been got out of
her with an ordinary force of steam.
As several rumors relative to the loss of men of.
war have turned out to be mere fabricatons it is
quite probable that this one may be of the same
class 1t should be borne in mind that the passage
from Maranham to Rio is seldom made by national
ships in less than ten days. and that the Seminole
was coang at the former place the 18th ult.-
The Congress, Savannah, Niagara and Pawnee
safe at anchor, and we believe that the Seminole is
by this time, secure in Rio Notwithstanding the
painful coincidents that the unfortunate rumor
brings to the surface. Annexed is a list of the
SeminOles officers:
Commander, G. A. Prentiss: Lieutenants j.. G..
Howell, F. p Carter, W. P. A. Campbel Pay
master, Miles Ii. Moress; Assistant Surgeon, George
Peck; Engineer, N. P. Patterson First Assis-
tant, }. B. kimball; other assistants, N. p Littig,
r. l.. Harris, N. C. Starr and j. T. Kelleter; Mas,
ter, c. o. Norton; MidsHpmen, A. d. Wharton, A.
A. McNair, W. II. Barton and A. Z. Walker; Com
mander's Clerk, N. F. Pagan; Purser's Clerk, Johr
+. Dluntsn; Carpenter, Luther Mansen; Gunner,
Thomas Robinson.-N. Y. World.
AN ACroR MoRTALLY STABBED IN THE PRESENCE
OF HIS AUDIENCE.--The New Orleans Bee of the
10th records the following tragic occurrence of
the previous night:
At 10 o'clock last night shocking tragedy was
enacted in reality on the stage of the German
Theatre or Concert Hall on Povdras street be-
tween st. Charles and Carondeet. They were
playing in the drama of The Wolf, and at that
moment were acting in a gambling house,
where young man is feeced of his last dime, and ,
when he charges the gamblers with cheating, is
stabbed and killed. John Kruger was playing
the part of the gambler, Emile Steiner that of the
ruined young man. Kruger had not been fur
nished with a stage-dagger bv the property man.
and borrowed a real one from officer Berwin, who
was the special policeman in Concert Hall.
In acting such scenes with real daggers the
stage, the person who strikes the blow keeps his
n,
and the person who pretends to receive the fatal
thrust leans backwards, that the strikers elbow
coming against his breast stops the motion. Ste
ner was unhappily somewhat intoxicated, and when
be should have fhr own himself backward he sud-
denly stopped forward, and before Kruger could
check the impetus of his arm the dagger had gone
into the right side of Stener's neck opening a cash
to the back bone. The unfortunate actor wrs in
stanty carried off the stage and sent to the Chari-
ty Hospital mortaly wounded, while Kruger was
taken to the lookup by officers Dalton and Berwn
The curtain was down but short time, the pool oil
blood was washed up, and then it was announced
to the audience that the drama could not be con.
cluded but that farce would be substituted. The
audience plauded, up went the curtain, and for &
whole hour the fellow actors of Steiner exerteC
themselves to make fun, while the auditors laughed
and applauded as if the spilling of a mans life
| blood was mere trife.
| INTERCOURSE WITH LrBERIA.-The bark Dayigh ht
| under the command of Capt. Alexander, sailed
| few days ago for Liberia, with cargo of merchan
disc This is vessel, built at Guilford, Connec
ticut. She takes out the Rev. Mr.. Barton anc
wife, for the Mendi mission; Mr.. j. W. Van Osden
who will return in the same vessel; Mrs. Williams
| wife of the Rev. Leonard Williams, of Buchanan
! the Rev. ID. Rogers, of Newark, N. j., Presbyte
ran clergyman; Mr.. J. B. Simpson and Mr.. S. V
| Douglas, of New York. These last go out unde
the patronage of the American Colonization So
| cety.
The Liberian packet ship Mary Caroline Steven
sailed from Baltimhre for Liberia, on Saturday,
| She takes out full freight, a number of cabil
| passengers, and about one hundred emigrauts.-
Among the passengers are the Rev. Mr.. Hoffman,
member of the Protestant Episcopal mission, and
wife; a missionary, whose named we have not learn
ed; Dr. James Hall, the managing agent of the
| packet, who is accompanied by his daughter, Mis-
Catharine Hall, who seeks tropical sea voyage fo
her health, and the three young Africans that wer
recently in charge of Marshal Rynders
| DR.. Hall has received special commission to tn
Liberia Government from the American Colonial
n yla olr-o Il
| vantageous for the future disposal of recapturet
Africans landed in Liberia, by the American Gov
ernment.
The bark Mindin is hourly expected at this por
from Liberia, with valuable cargo of Africa
produce.-N. y. Commercial.
Miss JEAN N. DAVENPORT, the actress, was mar
| ried in San Francisco on the 18th of October, t
| Mr.. F. w. Lander, of overland wagon road celeb
rity. 1t is understood that Mrs. Lander will re
tire from the stage Immediately upon the compile
| tion OF her present engagements on the Atlanti
side. 1t seems that the attachment between tn
Colonel and Miss Davenport was matter of lon
standing. From the statements of those who seer
TO be well posted on the subject it appears that tn
| lady is "well to do in a worldly sense. Her for
tune is estimated at from $4,000 to 100000.
THE ARGUMENT IN THE New AiMADEN CASE, i
| which many distinguished lawyers are engaged
was commenced at San Francisco the sth ult
by Mr.. Peachy, who occupied three days in his pre-
limnary statement. Edmund Randolph, who's
brief addresses to popular audiences are said to
generally three and half hours long, is to folloy
him. Then Senator Benjamin, and Mr.. Randolp
to follow him. Then the Hon. Reverdy johnson
of Baltimore, and then Mr.. Randolph again. The
there are two other very fluent counsel for tn
claimants, each one of whom Mr. Randolph will b
sure to follow.
The reaping and moving machine factory of "
A. Wood, at Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer, county Ne,
York, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. Lo:
0,000-partiay insured. The establishmer
employed 323 hands. The fire was the act of a
incendiary, and burned very fercely, there bein
no engine in the village. Mr.. Wood will rebuilt
the works at once. The light of the fire was see
at Whitehall, fifty miles distant.
From HoNDURAs.-The New Orleans Picayun
Of the 4th inst. says The schooner John A. TAI
lor. Capt. Lombard arrived at this port last ever
ing, from Ruatan Island the oath. She reports thu
Col. Rudler, Walkers second in command ws
about half way between Truxillo and the capita
and much better treated than at first expected. Tt
Taylor brings no other news whatever either fro
the mainland or islands.
In Memphis, on Saturday last, boy who ha
been in the habit of pilfering from his father W;
informed against by sister, who be immediatel
assaulted with a knife and was only prevented fro
doing her injury by the interpostion of some men
Der of the family present.
Hon. VIM. Porcher Miles, who suffered at New
port several weeks last summer from attack