New-York tribune., 1884-03-09

wife tells him that he s dog and soOuudrel and she
wlll-never live with him again. He is all broke up
and bis cigar table Is empty next day.
The time to be approaching when there will not
he small house Ou the lower end OF NewYork island
! Every time there 10 a demolition some huge structure
takes its place. Next door to the stock Exchange a
building has gone mp of the height and general pro
portions as the Exchange The Matu.l Life Build
ng is almost finished at least exerorly and the signs
OF the different banking houses which occuIy It
are painted ON their windows. Nls-Al,-st under this
and other stmula0us bids become kind of sec
ond Broadway. From TIE TRBr>E Building 10 Broa,-s
there are half . dozen immense ediccs uyallmc any IN
broadway. The of the Old street strongly sug-
gestye OF both the Dutch ana The English origin Of New
| York;
observe that the Trinity Church estate is erecting
some expensive buildings the west side OF the city,
one i'm particular on GrcenwcH-st. being stories
hich and resembling the large bonded warehouses IN the
neghborhood Not far from that building q small red
briclhouse, secularize In front Of which is a marble
stone saying: The Public schools Society Of the state
Of Newl or" The public schools here at one time
managed by a kind OF pbiauthrOpc private society
| Mr. lloulton the Cincinnati lawyer. whose wife is the
youngest child Of the John and General sherman family
said to me recently: / went Last sunday morning 10
Jefferson Market Police Court business and -aw an
extraordinary sight, such suppose the world cannot
show elsewhere. t -ccwed TO that there almost
q hundred persons brou-h. mp on different charges OF
drunkenness, assault etc, and used both 1t the
power and discrimination Of the Judge who sent them
The left and right with the precision OF who knew
all about each one OF them. There humor. grim
ness. and i'm the administration ~ the law there
which kept one perpetaaly surprised cOniouDded and
! amused"
William >u, OF Philadelphia who recently described
! the wife of John Brown on the day his execution
while guest at h, house, was, when first met him
twenty four years the clerk Of the anu-slaycry
| society in Phadc.I Aia, IN Fifth st.. think near
ArC--t., and he also kept stoves 10 sell II was then
apparent TO everybody the necessity Tor anti
slavery society would be over. one of my first
reporting adventures to try 70 get Mr.. stil 10 give
me the names OF the Underground Railroad stations and
| mciitatcd making Journey 20 all of them. Not
getting this Information, which pretty dangerous
news even 10 that time suggested 70 Mr. still that he
! could ono day write history of the Underground
Railroad and with the laps. Ot years book with that
title and is volume Of nearly 500 page, with
| portraits Of the men AMI women who figured as
fugvc and Of their protectors Recent investigation
\ has shown that other underground railroads were
in operation I'm I'll The Western states. and the remi
| n-cences of Lei CofHn and hi- wife make another
smarkabe chapter i'm the story OF the systematic help
rendered to escaping slaves chiefly by the Quaker
| element
state Of Delaware taken Out q farm called The
Wildcat" owned by the HUM family. There behed
~ the ardent Pcnn~y lvauia produced "a
help fugitive slaves 1ud his father before him .
SCI Of JJness Greek n captain VI which black
man. and he ordered 10 stop The mouth of the
creek every voyage Philadelphia for the purpose Of
letting escapu- ,laye-get board. m-pond at that
spot lows the veitabIe lotus-Ower Egypt growing
surface 81 IHe water and il j. said - be the only
place in America wlore he lod- ia indigenous or natu
rallied. few miles from the place at the village
camden, lives colored woman. BrinScy and her
aged son. - stemarc of fugitive
slaves, and problby have spirited away hundreds of
them.
Mr. Hum already mentioned. had terrific fight at
Chester Penn, with or the Mayo family from West
River Md. who mad captured slave from his kitchen.
This Quaker fought with the Shareholder almost
with the fury Of maniac. Another member Of the
family Was indicted aJ Newcastle for assisting fugitive
slaves u connection with Thomas Garrett Chief Justice
fancy the hcnch ana The iather of the present
Thomas Francis Bayaut prosecuted me Aboitionsts.
10th Ot them fined to amount that completely
.t,pped .hem of All their property nevertheless Mr..
accumulated another respectable competence he
fore ne died. aud lIr Hum Went 10 South Carolina
during the and Dggau educate ne freedmen thcce
N.sr s-.tord. Delaware. -Ae Maryland boundary
,ue 5uI stands .n IA ir+ mra -r1ty the famous KID
appars' Ja,cru or PJ--y Cannon and hcr son-n-lIw.
young Johnson ~ Zee most remarkable chaIactcr-
who over figured rIe c1n.r3baud slave trade Party
Cannon ur..iut lived H farmhouse few rods from
the same SPOT: her FIRST -Ou-n-law was hanged Tor
uu~Ioru-a .lre-rYf,cr Who 70 the house with
large amount of uorey fo buy rhe free negroes OF Dca
wlre The widow of the convict then married johnson,
who va. pru-ec. .y john VI Clayton on behalf OF tlic
Quaker Protection ~oce-les of The North. aAd whipped at
ue post Tie built this large hotel tac high pitched roof
~ which contains douueg windows and was uac into
prison pen. which l- s,.l 20 ue seen.
De.aw.re al tho period above named contained sey-
eral Thousand bee negroes. ami the price 0t rltt kind
ofpopcl,J oc- h-h WIS r"-uiar business ro steal
these poou l~-lu, ten wih clubs, eag and tc Them.
and sell tAcm tl the Georgia t.dcr,. Patty Cannon
fnat arrested or murder the bones ot different III
,tyua'~ beng oJud m the heu, around her Old dwell
ing and tue remains one man being identified ~
missing ,.ayc-uadcr who was shot by Patty and her
-uc as bee v.- going t0 Laur"iOwu. Size died, from
poison it Is believed. Iic in ll at Georgetown, and
ucr -,1 and that Of her sister Betty Cannon, aud her
oster-l.h-r Eueuclr Johnson. HOW To- De- seen at
Foelct y Wells, an Broadway They were obtained by
tie phrenoo-ist Willie occurring m that region thirty og
togtJ years AGO
PATTI Cannon - -ai 20 have boom the lau-her Of al
English -yp-y and The discarded SON OF a n0blcman-
1b,e eel Dee recent sale ~ Henry &. Murphy library
book published many year, gco which contains ac-
cira,c description ~ Patty Caunons den and her me
th1Is og Kidnapping The Hdrpe-- are lou 70 publi~ha
novel which restores -har singular period IN American
social h.st ry.
HIGH PRICE FOR soap.
swINpTIvG An UNsUsPEcTTSG ITALIAN.
A curbstone speculator stood in Mulberry
st. ins, of chatham surrounded By spectators He was
of medium height and had strawberry patch under his
right eye which, the unini'iaed gave him m appear
apcc OF innocence and honest industry His arehVse