Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-28
NEW YORK.


audience at the Academy of Music. At its
conclusion he was given q unanimous vote
OF thanks. Froude will make q rejoinder
on Saturday evening. sts9ss
Green co Peay.
1t is now pretty well established that
Geo Peay, the missing Kentuckian, has
probably gone to South America with a
considerable sum Of money entrusted to
him at Louisville to settle New York obi
cations. s
Bafley's Bondsmen.
u. s. Judge Woodruff has opened judy
ment and allows the bondsmen of default
ing Coliecsor Bailey TO defend themselves in
court.
Criminal Carelessness,
Investigation into the late nitro-glycerine
explosion in Westminster county results In
the censure of the contractor of the rail-
road for leaving the nitro-glycerine exposed
to the public.
Another Failure I'm SILK.
Another silk factory in Patterson, N. j.,
failed yesterday, that of L. Walther g. Co.,
manufacturers Of ribbons. Their liabilities
are very heavy.
Served Him Right.
The general term of the Supreme Court
day affirmed judgment in the case of
Chas. More, emigrant swindIer, sentence
by the Court of General Sessions TO Eve
years imprisonment.
Where Has He Beene
Anthony Trollope sailed to-day for Ea-
rope.
Advances Constitute q Lien.
A suit In the United States Circuit Court
brought by the Wisconsin Fire and Marine
Insurance Company to recover from David
DAVIS and others advances made by the
company on $4,000 bushels of wheat, the
advances having been transferred to A. T.
Smith & Co., who transferred the wheat to
the defendants and failed to pay the sd-
vance made upon it by the plaintiffs, was
| settled to-day, the jury awarding the plain
tiff $S6,27S. The plaintiffs commended that
the advances were in the nature of lien
on the wheat, following it until the ad-
vances were repaid. 1t was commended by
the defence that as they had purchased the
wheat in good faith they were not liable,
and that the payment of advances made to
second party could not be enforced against
third party purchasing of the second party
| in good faith-the remedy of the party
making the advances being against the
second party, the one to whom the advances
were directly made.
Three LabOrers Killed.
Three laborers named Edward Foley,
Nixon Ralph and Patrick Conway, were in.
stantly killed this evening by the premature
| explosion of blast on Fourteenth street,
near Seventh avenue. Police Officer John
Armstrong and . laborer named Michael
| Buckley were seriously wounded.
The Grimes Of a Political ;Gang-Cen.
fessf0n OF the Philadelphia Assas.
sin, Mara.
Hugh Mara, the Philadelphia assassin,
who has been sent to the penitentiary q
short time for shooting Alderman McMul-
| lin, has made sworn confession of the
crimes. His affidavit contains startling dis
closures. He AYERS that his attempt to
murder Revenue Officer Brooks was insti-
gated by slocal political gang, whose names
| he furnishes. When Mara's heart failed
him, be was bullied until the attempted
murder was accomplished, and when he
had done the work he was
| secreted for weeks, carried from
place to place, and paid five dollars
for the fendsh job. Then follows
particulars as to an aliDl, which, he says,
was fabricated for his defense. The terrible
coal oil fire at Ninth and Wharton streets,
was instigated by the same gang. Men,
| women, and children were startled from
! their beds on a winter night, with flames
around, and forced to fly frsm their burning
homes, only to be eDgulfed in rivers of
| flames sweeping through the streets. Moth
| ing can be more horrible than the contem-
plation of this calamity as deliberate work
of organized crime. On the list Of ACCUSE
| tons is the charge that the attempted des-
tructi n of the Union League House by fire
was the work of the same crowd; as were
also the murders Of Peters and Mannox,
and the enormous burglary of the Saw ng
Fund Bank on Twelfth and Chestnut, in
1853.
A Startling Exhibit OF Crime.
A startling transcript has been mad e
from the criminal records of this city.
Since the LIST of January, 1870, there have
been one hundred and thirty-nine cases of
homicide, within the city limits. Of these
man killers, six committed suicide at once,
ten were discharged by the coroners,
twelve concealed themselves beyond find
ing, and two, although known, we're never
arrested, and one died Of woHnds after be.
ing arrested. Of thu one hundred and
eight remaining, whose cases came before
the Distric5 Attorney, one was sent to the
House of Refuge, and a second to the in
sane asylum; sixty-one have been brought
to trial, of whom seventeen were acquitted
and forty four convicted. OF those con-
victed two have been awarded new trials,
two have been executed, four are SEN
fenced to be hung, but are low awaiting
the decision of the Court of APP
peals. Three have been SEN
fenced to the State prison for lite, ons for
Ct cen years, aud the others for less than
seven ears. Ii sixteen cases indictments
have never been found; in eleven others
indictments have been found, but no trial
has taken place, and three, it is said, have
been discharged on bal after indictment.
In the abstract of the records, sixteen
cases of those sent to the District Attorney
have never been heard of since. Their
names do not appear in any official paper,
and what has become of them no one
knows. 1t appears from the records that
the average punishment for killing q man
in this city is three years Imprisonment in
the State prison.
A Foreign Imposter.
The latest victim of foreigner pretend
ing to belong to wealthy and distinguished
British family, is Miss Mary Louise Mapes,
of Poughkeepsie, daughter of Perry Mapes,
retired North River steamboat captain.
The fashy adventurer gives his name as
Henry Porter Tension, and claimed to be
a hneal descendant of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. He first met the Mapes fami-
ly on q railway train, and behaving rudely
to Mrs. Mspes, called afterward at their
house to apologize. He was coldly received
by the parents, but the romantic daughter
took fancy to the snowy stranger, and,
after short acquaintance, eloped with him;
was married secretly in Poughkeepsie
church, and went to Albany. She repented
and returned home, and her father soon
discovered that Tension had another wife,
who sailed from Detroit for Ireland about
five weeks ago. Tension is now in the
Poughkeepsie Jail, charged with bigamy.
A Raj ETnaah.