New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-26

OF course, are aware tnag SiuCc Iuc IcCCus
confagration at the City Workhouse Captain
Noble, the efficient Superintendent, and his
subordinate officers, have experienced con.
siderable difficulty in the management OF
the prisoners, caused by the limited num-
Der of cells for their reception, and the
absence of many requisites for the stricter
enforcement of discipline. In fact the
present accommodation for the inmates is
confined to one large wing, heretofore the
male department, with hospital and contin-
gent offices. Thus, it happens that all the
scoundrels, male and female, who are there
confined, have unlimited opportunities OF
conversing and associating with each other,
terminating in result, which, but for the
providential interference and the sound
judgment displayed by the gentleman
who has charge Of the yard,
might have been attended with wholesale
murder and revolt. For several weeks PAST
Mr.. Stewart, colored officer, and highly
intelligent man, has been employing large
number of the more intelligent prisoners in
the manufacture of hammers for macadamlz-
ing purposes. Some of the scoundrels under
his control have succeeded in hoodwinking
this keeper, and manufactured an iron
weapon, whose construction displays an
amount of ingenuity and skill. It could be
advantageously used in scooping the bowels
out of an antagonist, or punching hole
through the di lapidated old frame work
buildings, which are honored with the name
of cells. This instrument is, perhaps, only
one of many others constructed under like
circumstances, but we are inclined to be-
lieve that the person who could hoodwink
Officer Stewart, the blacksmith once, per-
formed feat rather difficult Of repetition.
How it's discovery was effected, the sequel
will elucidate.
About P. NJ. yesterday, during the alb
cial business, notorious villain named
Black Sam Bull sauntered along the sewing
women, and endeavored to have friendly
confab with colored vagrant with whom
he was on very intimate terms few years
previous to his Incarceration. This Sam,
let Us preface our observations by remark.
ing, is powerfully built fellow, of logged
and determined character, and twice tried
for murder. He is slater by occupation,
and when at liberty is the terror of the citi-
zens who reside within mile of him. By a
legal bubble it is stated he has escaped on
two occasions, the gallows. Recently con-
victed of being a dangerous aud suspicious
character, he is now undergoing sentence
of six month Imprisonment at the Work
house. So desperate man is he, that on
one occasion when confined at the Parish
Prison, he endeavored to organize revolt,
and had to be felled to the earth like a
bullock before he would surrender. This,
however, is diverging from the present
sketch. To resume, on his Offering some re-
marks to the woman alluded to, she refused
to converse with him, and finally cursed
him rather wickedly. Retiring to dis
lance, he eyed her iercely and told her to
prepare for kingdom come, for that he,
brandishing his weapon, intended to send
her to limbo before her time. The earnest
ness of his manner was Irresistible.
On his approaching her, with arm
appraised, to deliver the fatal stroke,
she bounded away like deer in
the direction of the main entrance. he pur-
suing and making unsuccessful plunges
with the iron instrument at her body. Just
at this instant Officers Heating and Stew
art, who were in the smithy, rushed to the
rescue, when "BulI' desisted from his
hellish design, and challenged any OF the
officials to mortal combat. His eye.balls
glared, his teeth chartered and he gave vent
to the most diabolical oaths. Ripping
his shirt into shreds, he brandished
the weapon and stood in an attitude of de-.
fiance. On Ed. Stewart, adopting what was
not, perhaps, seemly course. Bull" be-
came exssperated in the extreme, and
shouted out for assistance. Mr.. Walsh,
with great presence of mind, rushed for
ward, seized him by the arms, and by strictly
forcible gentleness succeeded in disarming
him and conveying him to seat, out OF view
of the other prisoners, nearly all OF whom
were armed with stone hammers, and
eagerly watching the turning OF events.
| This course exhibited wisdom, for had not
Mr.. Walsh interfered the probabilities are
that some of the other officers would have
used coercion, and as "Bull" called on
them to shoot him or fight, tragedy would
| have evidently followed. After MIR. Walsh,
to whom alone he said he would yield, had
placed him ont of view of the other inmates,
he brought him to the smithy, where q
strong iron bar, on which were placed two
rings to encircle his feet, was attached to