The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-08
A Hanging Case for Two.

Hanging Case for Two.
The roughs of the city have put themselves
again in position to serve for wholesome ex-
ample. Mike Coburn brother of the pu-
gilst, and John Saunders, both roughs of the
first degree, assaulted man named Drummer,
while he was quietly sitting in front of his
house to breathe the cool air, late on Sunday
night and while Mike pummelled him with his
fist Saunders stabbed him three times between
the ribs with pocket knife, inficting wounds
that are undoubtedly fatal. They were both
arrested, and from the present testimony there
seems to have been no cause for their deed,
except that their victim had accused them of
stealing his watch, and the mounting deuil'
of brutality in their hearts.
Our judiciary are in an excellent frame of
mind for disposing of these worthless. Jack
Reynolds, John Real and Jerry Thomas have
all been hanged within the last twelve months
for less brutal murders than this, and Foster
and McNevins are still covering under the
shadow of the gallows. The philosophy of Jack
Reynolds, that changing for murder is played
out in New York." has not taken such deep
root as the sage propounder of that proposition
| supposed it would. His philosophy went the
way of Rullod's philology, and, so far from
saving him, certainly served to hang him.
Unwise judicial mercy to murderers was
probably killed by his epigram, as fashionable
fo'lies have 80 often been killed, and
since the uttcrance of that grim jest the
judiciary has sentenced more burglars for
twenty years, sent up more prize-fghters,
closed more gambling saloons, hanged more
murderers and acted with more austere virtue
generally than ever before in the same length
of time. So Messrs. Coburn and Saunders
perpetrating the murder which all roughs
gravitate to finally. They will certainly be
hanged, and probably with but little delay.
The judges and the people are In no humor
for such laws delays as Judge Pratt instituted
in the case Of Foster and we should not
wonder considering the effect of that decision
of Judge Pratt in the Foster case, that these
two rufians were actually hanged ''frst pop"
SECRETARY FISH AT HoME.-One of our
correspondents held pleasant interview with
| Secretary Fish at his home 10 the Hudson
Highlands yesterday, in which the Treaty Of
Washington, the appointment of arbitrators,
the duties thereof and the rumored retirement
CT the Secretary Into private life, were dis
cussed. The rumored retirement turns out
to be all mistake. The Secretary says he
does not intend to resign for some time yet,
but he has to submit occasionally to re-
moval by the newspapers. In regard to
the action of the Claims Commission to
decide upon the damages to be allowed British
| subjects for losses incurred during the civil
| war, Mr.. Fish said the Commission would prob
ably be guided mainly by the action of the pres
| ent Southern Claims Commission, now engaged
| in passing upon the claims of Southern loyal
| lists. The Court of Arbitration to deal mainly
with the Alabama claims, according to the
| Secretary, will be composed Of men of the
utmost honor and intelligence, and it will not
fail to render verdict that will be just, If not
| popular. In this connection our Washington
| dispatches state that Charles Francis Adams
has declined his appointment as one of the
arbitrators, and it will probably be offered to
Mr. Richard H. Dana.
|
A GREAT WHIsKEY EXCITEMENT the other
day disturbed the usual monotony of the Spin
die City Of Lowell Mass. The whiskey sellers
were selling whiskey in various shops in the
city in open defiance of the revised statutes on
that subject when the officers of the law bounced
down upon them, and there was an awful row.
But the law triumphed, and from the CONTRA
band shops pulled" some three thousand dol
lars worth of Massachusetts, whiskey, New
England rum, Jersey apple jack, &C., were
carted off as the spoils of victory. One officer
in the row had his head split open, and one
rough was shot in the side and carried away
among the prisoners of war. Now, Lowell Is
a very sanctimonious place, and so is Boston,
and so Is Brooklyn, our ''City of Churches"
But 70 the constituted authorities each of these
sanctimonious places, with its whiskey makers,
sellers and drinkers, gives vast amount OF
trouble. Puritanism aud whiskey. What a