Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-11-04

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peals, thus aggravating the burden un.
der which the court is hopelessly sunk. ,
\ Sometimes, it is but justice to say,
criminals receive their deserts. On Sat
urday, Owen Hand, who murdered James
O'Donnell in the South Brooklyn Gas
Works, was sentenced to expiate his
crime on the Sd of December. This
judgement was pronounced by Judge
Gilbert of the Kings County Court OF
Oyer and Terminer. On the day before,
David Burke, convicted Of the murder of
Thomas Kane, at Hunters Point, in Oc-
tober, 1868, was condemned by Judge Jo-
seph Barnard, to die on the 10th of De-
cember In both cases the prisoner.
pleaded that they had acted in selfde-
fence.
The gold conspiracy is still promi-
nent topic of conversation, and is now
engaging more than ordinary attention,
from the alleged conspiracy of Gen. Dan.
Butterfield with the arch conspirators,
| Fisk and Gould. Butterfeld, as an Off
Ger of the army, has demanded a court
martial to investigate the charges made
against him; but it is very doubtful
whether his request can be complied with.
The offence with which he stands charged
does not come within the jurisdiction of a
military commission in times of peace,
seeing that the misdemeanor was commit
ted by an officer in the civil, and not the
military service.
Fisk is, of course, in hot water, an ele-
ment out of which he could not enjoy an
hours existence. He has succeeded in
padlocking theiSun, but.the other papers
scourge him numerically. 1t would be
as difficult for him to tell where to seek
for real friends as it was for Calmet and
Herder and other geographers to deter
mine the exact locality of the Garden of
Eden. That the gold excitement in
creased his wealth 1 cannot believe, for he
is even now unable to pay his workmen
on the Erie Railway. He has large and
extensive Opera House to take care of.
three or four private establishments to
manage, one or two steamboat lines to
keep in runningi order, 1.-TWO theatres, a
passenger railway line, magnificent
ferry, line of omnibusses, line of cabs,
a valuable stud of horses, regiment of
servants, clerks, messengers, private
watchmen, etc, and corps of friends
who must be a severe drain upon his ex-
chequer. A few days ago, he was sum
moned to appear before the Grand Jury
but he failed to come. Jay Gould was
also summoned, but, like his partner, re-
manned invisible. What will come of
this and the Erie Railway strike; and the
unpleasantness with the Times, and the
trouble with the President, it remains for
time to disclose Certain it is, however
that the man who bullied Vanderbilt,
frightened Drew, captured Wall street
and fascinated Jay Gould, will not be I'M
done without struggle which shall make
him famous the wide world over. Corbin
Is still in retirement, and the rest of the
gold cabal are pursuing the even tenor of
lHGiI ucNiOus way, With, seemingly, no
apprehension of being brought to grief
If the proposed investigation of the con-
Apiraey which so nearly plunged the bust
ness community in ruin Is held and tho
guilty parties are ever summoned to hear
a righteous sentence pronounced, it is not
wicked to hope that it could be uttered in
the solemn words of the English Judge
who sent the couuterfeiter back to al as
preliminary to longer journey. Said
he: William Hlgginbotham fitz Law
renee, I trust that through the merits and
meditation of our blessed Redeemer you
may experience in the world whereto you
are going that mercy which a due regard
for the credit of the National finances
forbids you to hope for here
The second adventists are all agog
again. They have been in state OF gull
escence ever since the earthquakes and
other commissions of nature in South
America but the shocks down East the
other day are sign to one division of the
Millenarians at least, that the world is
now ''on its last legs, and desperately
sick" The second division, who may be
very properly called the Conservatives,
will not admit that we stand on ruin.
They hold that many signs aud omens
and ports dire, and miracles must be wit
messed before the final crack of doom is
heard. Father Snow sides with the Con-
sentative Millenarians. but the Radicals,
the Millerite Millenarians, have many
able prophets, in whose foresight they
have an abiding faith. equally creditable
to head and heart
Father Hyacinthe has been terribly,
bored by the reporters and by legion of
that class of visitors who prey only upon
lions He manages to live through the
infiction, however, and seems to be about
as stout and happy to-day as when he
first landed. Yesterday morning he at
tended service at Beecher's Church,
where, after the sermon, he had pleas
ant conversation with the great preacher
of Plymouth Church. 1t was notable
sight 10 see the brave Superior of the
DiiGIoottA odIiiSiilts VI L 81 10 ttAti ibt
famous Beecher together. As neither of
the great men could speak the language
of the other their words were interpreted
by an accomplished young banker, a
protege of Beecher's, andia fast friend of
the Carmelite.
The question is asked here every day,
What brings Father Hyaointhe to the
United States ~ The natural Yankee
answer is. ITO make money" But that
is not his object. Neither does he pro-
pose to stir up TROUBLES in the Church
he has vowed to live and die for. He has
defed his superiors, and this morning re-
ceived the official dispatch informing him
that they have stripped him of all his
| honors, and privileges and titles but for
| this punishment he cares nothing. He