New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-28
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1860

the purchaser left the Exchange, others probably
det4rr,d from bidding. Mr. w. C. Barney clsims
,bst tbe terms Of SAFE sc previously soDouacsd were
cash before o'clock, and upon thai understanding
bid 40 GOO; but the terms having been changed 10
'tssb ai,h The bid, he Was not prepared TO comply
with the terms. ard his bid was not TAKEN AS there
spp..red 70 be no present having any large sum
at comusnd, the Commodore mad /. all ht o~n way.
Immediately after .be ss!e the Conmod ,re's agent
serped into the Exchange C0mp.s Us office ana hand
"a the auc.ionser good check or tbsa mount $'oVo,
and received a bill and RECEIPT for the steamer.
A LETT. was received from Mr. Cheeyer, the former
and uoD.psyiDg purchaser, as follows;
EEw.YosK, Fob. r., 1862
Notice hereby given all whom may conc.rn tH:t ia, tao
place by Mr. nobss that h4ve offered and been resSy TO pay
The whole oy bids opoc sc.'hl prop, convey
o. my bi@s and sueh conveyance.
claim TO be the Of said sGps BY vitue Of s5en pqt
chase II the seller had right make Che as hal iq''t
upon my rsht I" q ucha'er. BENZ. H. 0nEs'hh'
BURurSG AN ILLFGrTrMATE CHrLD.-On Sunday
morning Grace Heensn, sn Irish servant gri in tn
employ of the Rev. John Cotton Smith, Of No. 81
Tenth street gave birth ilIssitimats male child
Being over whelmed with snane, che resolved upon.
destroying the evidence of her misfortune. She &C
cordnsl, proceeded 10 the cellar deliberately threw
tie chiid into the furnace where there was large fire
for heating the house. Some time later the inmates
tbs house greatly annoyed Dy the bad odor pro-
ceedirg from the furnace, and searching for tee
csuse found the half-oobsumed remsns Capt. Dix
CT the Fifteenth Ward was called in and he at
arrested the servant girl After a series of evasive
sns ers to que-tiOne propcanded, she finally admitted
the birth Of the chic but insisted that it was Oborn.
She further confessed having placed the child in the
-, oh fofI .nnar
Island.
Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an inquest on tho
body of the deceased infant ut the Fifteenth Precinct
Staten. House. Margaret Miller, fellow servant,
who had been 10 the hab. Of sleeping with Grace,
testified that about o'clock SUNDAY morning Grace
got out Of bed complaining OF a severe pain IN ner
side and that after going down stairs she returned to
BED. Subsequently Grace got 40 and went up stars
where che remained nearly all cay. Aboat o'clock
il the afternoon Margaret heard Ora ~ the cellar
making gieat noise ab0ui the furnace 90 going
down, she fouad Ter standing by the furnace and
| asksc her what she was dong. Gface replied,
| Noting" But Margaret who had long suspected
Graces condition. thought al not right, and open
ing tie furnace door, discovered the crime, and pulled
out the boGy of the child. The house was at once
alarr ed ana Police Surgeon Jopes of the Fifteenth
| frtCinct was caBed IN VueseohipS phdtSi BIO
admitted to the surgeon THAI she delivered of
dead child ana thai after keeping nearly all day she
resolved to bum it, thinking hat to be tue easiest
means OF getting lid of the evidence Of her guilt. Dr.
George Il Bouton made post-morten examination Of
the body ard ascertained By medical teots applied to
The lungs that the enid had never bresthed This
option "a corrcborstsd by other medical gentlemen
and the July thereupcn rendered verdict 60 the effect
tbs. the child was still-boD. No complaint whatever
has been mace against the mother, aud az moat she
could onls b- he'd for misdemesnor IN endeayoring
to conceal dead body She states that shile living
with farmer Oh Long Island last Su@mer, sh. was
violated by one OF the farm hands, but that subse
quently she had frequent intercourse with him. The
unfortunate mother ia poor Ignorant Irish gil, who
seems to have little idea of right wrong. On find
ing herself about TO become mother she strove to
hide Der condition. and when the dead child was 80
secretly delivered her oSly thought was to put it out
of the way.