The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-05


Town Hall at 10 o'cis.S and marched through
New Bailey street The space In front OF the
Saltord Town Hat was densely crowded, and
the uproar was excessive until midnight. The
night was cold, and at midnight the crowd
began to disperse. A score or two of persons
had DOW taken up their positions to walt TILL
morning. As the small hours wore YEARLY on
they watched. The prison has a gloomy eXte-
rior; 1t Is sombre brick building. The encir-
cling wall is some forty feet high. Tue scaffOld
is hxed on the top Of the wall from which ii
projects come FIVE feet.
III the north part OF the Jail is an enclosure,
three hundred yards by two hundred, reserved
Tor infantry and artillery.
Yesterday Father Gadd again visited the
prisoners, who received his consultations ia a
very apprecialive spirit Gould maintained
very quiet demeanor, and supported his position
with great fortitude. At half-past one yesterday
afternoon Larkn's mother, wife, and children
visited him. His mother, previous to going to
the cell, was very much excited, and repeatedly
exclaimed, while walking in the corridor of
the prison, that her sou would not be executed,
and the rope was not spun which would hang
him.
Two of Larkin's sisters-in-law, who are said to
have come from Dublin, presented themselves
at the prison gate and requested to see him; bat
as the unhappy man had expressed no special
desire to see them, the authorities deemed 1t ad-
visable not to admit them. Aliens mother
visited her son between and O'Clock. Father
Gadd had conversation with the friends of the
condemned men previous to their being ad-
preparing themselves In becoming manner to
meet their doom,
At late hour, several women who were uu-
deIstood to be relatives of Allen and Larkin
were observed in the prison lodge, evidently in
q state of great distress. The Rev. Father Gadd
resumed his attendance upon the convicts at 10
o'clock, accompanied by the Rev. Father Quick.
1t was arranged that when the men we're
pinioned and the procession formed, the Litany,
the Mserere Psalm, aud the "Litany of Jesus"
should be read, the last named being reserved
for the final moment.
Shore who had apparently become resigned
to meet the capital sentence, received the init
nation that respite had been accorded him in
becoming spirit.
OFFICIAL NEWS FROM TORT0LA.
The Island Not Submerged, but Many
Lives LOst.
The following despatch from Sir A. Rumbold
President OF Tortola, received by the Secretary
for the Colonies in London, shows that that
island was not submerged, as reported by the
Havana cable, but that many lives were de-
stroYed by the recent hurrlcane:-
"TORToLA, Oct. Sl.-My Lord Duke:-It is my
most painful duty to acquaint your Grace that
terrific hurricane burst over these islands yes
terday. The storm lasted from III A. NJ, to 3
p NJ, but the greatest force was from IL to 2.
In that brief space of time two-thirds of the
miserable tenemeuts of the town were blown
down; the Jail Is destroyed; the church, the
hospital, pier, school-house, Wesleyan chapel,
and poorhouse, are also destroyed, and my
own dwelling unroofed and rendered uninbabi-
table.
"The loss of life cannot as yet be correctly
ascertained; / have, however, already been
officially informed of above twelve deaths in the
town, two at Peters Island, two at West eud,
while hear that quantity of people are killed
in other parts OF the country, and scarcely hut
or habitation is left standing.
"All was bright and verdant, the whitening
blast has passed over it, and not fruit or other
tree remains the works of the few remaining
estates are all totally destroyed.
'It is impossible for any pen TO convey an
accurate account of the appalling misery; there
is not fifty pounds in the public chest and the
chief tax, the house tax OF the year, Is Just fall
ing due, and of course cannot be collected. If
ever any calamity appealed to public sympathy,
l am confident this will awaken 1t, and j trust
your Grace win be able to point out some hope
ofrelief, as we cannot levy any taxes from this
impoverished community.
81 shall send down to st. Thomas as soon as I
| can get a boat to go, but all the sloops and
canoes belonging to the place are either de-
stroyed or very much damaged, and do not
know how soon may be able to do so, and l
trust from charity and other sources we may be
able to obtain some flour and corn meal Mean
while starvation, or very like 1t, appears to be
impending, for nearly all the small store OF flour
in the town was damaged by the tremendous sea
which swept in and carried away houses and
individuals.
81 forgot to add that the doctors house is
destroyed, the clergyman's very much damaged,
refuge in the public offices, where the paupers
and police are also sheltered. l have, etc.,
"ARTHUR RUMBoLD.
'P. S.-The deaths in Road Town amount to
| twenty-five, one-twentieth of the population"