Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-15

Jail.
horse-stealer named Hiram Carpenter recently
escaped from the Orleans county jail at Albion New
York, but retaken. He has given the following
account of his escape underground:
Il should never have thought about trying to get
out, but heard that my woman sick. and got
1t into my head she was going to die. | wanted to
see her. and | asked them to take me to her house
was willing to go there in handouts and shackles
and child might have taken me- for wouldn't have
offered to get away. But they kept putting me off,
and made up my mind l would get out and see her
or die in trying, So went at it.
Il raised up the pump box and found there was
laid down on my face on the floor and backed into
the hole feet first. found the well pastered near
the top 50 hanging on with my hands let myself
down as far as could and dropped l had no idea
OF the depth OF the well, where should bring up
only know that the well was dry. I dropped
straight with my face to the west. found bottom
at about twenty feet, landing in mud and water two
feet deep; After recovering from the shock of the
fall took off my boots tied them around my neck
with my handkerchief and clambered up to within
about ten or twelve feet OF the top. The only tool
half three quarters of inch square, With this
went to work, and after some labor dislodged
stone from the wall
supposed the foundations of the Jail went down about
eight feet, and calculated begin down low enough
drink and had nearly died for lack of air the only
air that could reach him being the little that passed
down through the creyices of the pump box work
ed steadily all the time was in there and hard work
1t was too. worked lying my face with the iron
in my hand above me, scraping the dirt until the
weight on my head was all that could bear, when
backed down and pushed it behind me into the stone
filling around the wall. When got near the surface
found it hard digging. The ground had been filled
in, it was full of stones, and frozen hard. The hole
at the surface was so small that took off my cloth
ing to get through
Il finally got out into the air about 10 o'clock We'd
neSday night, having tunneled about twelve feet
and worked at it thirty-two hours of the hardest
work ever did; was so weak and exhausted when
got strength enough to climb up the wall and drop
into the park. was then so weak and dizzy that
could not walk so l crept across the park on my
hands and knees. On reaching the street managed
to walk, but you would have thought was drunk if
you had seen me; | staggered so that the sidewalk
wasn't wide enough for me-"
THE HoNoRED DEAD-Under the auspices of the
ception of the bodies of the soldiers of the Union
who, during the rebellion, perished upon Southern
battle fields have been arranged, and thousands of
bodies inferred These cemeteries are circular in
shape enclosed by neat pang fences In the centre
of each enclosure is mound over which floats the
emblem OF our country, and On the inner circumfer
of the circle the graves of the honored dead
each mound being marked by neat head and foot
board having the name, company and regiment
and date of death Of the soldier inferred
THE BANIsHED DCoNsPIRAToRs.-We find the follow
ing item in the Boston Evening Transcrit of the 18th
Late intelligence from the Dry Tortugas SAYS that
DR.. Mudd Spang Ter and o. Laughlin, the Lincoln as
sassinaon conspir ors, all occupy one room and are
apparently in good health. They do the most menal
ana degrading WoTh ABOUT tne prison. Dr. Muud has
behaved with exemplary propriety since his failure
to escape some time ago. and is evidently striving to
reinstate himself IN the good opinion of his custo-
dians and his former easy and agreeable place in the
prison hospitals.
CURIOUS LAw.-Law and justice do not always
travel hand in hand We have before US an account
of a where who was guilty of a great
crime, near Albany, NJ Y, has been all the time at
liberty on bail, and finally escaped altogether while
his victim was kept in prison from May until Janu-
ary-eight months-,as Witness 1t is curious in
stance of the way they manage matters in the State
of New York, but it may add to proper understand
ing of the matter when explained that the person
wronged poor Irish girl, with no friends while
the scoundrel who was allowed to escape was rich
and influential
Sour GRAPEs.-The Brooklyn Edgle says: During
her recent lecture in New York. about women and
marriage, Miss Anna Dickinson denounced Dr. Mer-
GERS enterprise of sending cargo of the surplus fe
males of New England to the Pacific territories in
search of husbands. She protested strongly against
a state of society which so degrades women as to
compel her to travel to the remotest bounds of our
country simply to get a husband. Perhaps the trou-
BILE is that DR.. Mercer has not offered to take Anna
along to the paradise Of spinsters,