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„ ^ 7 - * * * . - - . ^ yrr * $lA rt::t ; '_¥•* WILLIAM MORGAH. Kernf nhwenM* '-m* IfciQii .. Time Tragody--Story of the Morgan Mur­ der -- A Doable Identification of a Drowned Man--Wa* It Morgan or Mon- knew William f&OTftti, t mto -was for more lima two ifnon#? Wfjting his book in a house ad- joiifiag wy residence, at Rochester. --When applied to by Mr. Dyer, my next -door neighbor, where Morgan boarded, ^ : §90. believing that r man who had taken to oath to keep a secret had no right to disclose it. Although net a Free Mason, I had entertained favorable opinions of an institution to which Washington, Franklin and Lafayette, belonged. On my refusal to print his book Morgan re­ moved to Batavia, where he made the acquaintance of D. 0. Miller, editor of the Advwo te, also a Mason, who became his publipfeer. I pass briefly over a series of facts which were judicially es­ tablished, embracing the arrest of Mor­ gan, his conveyance to and confinement in the county jail at Canandaigua, from hich he was released and conveyed by ight in close carriages through Roches­ ter, Glarkson, and along the Ridge road "to Fort Niagara, in the magazine of which he was confined. While thus Coiiftiled a Knight Templar encampment . wae iliatalied at Xiewiaton. When at fiu.pper, the zeal of the Templars having been aroused by speeches and wine, Colonel William King, of Lockport, in­ vited four men (Whitney^ Howard, Chubbuck and Garside) from their seats at the banqueting table into an adjoin­ ing apartnlent, where he informed them that fie had an order from the Grand Master (De Witt Clinton), the execution of which required their assistance. This party was then driven to Niagara, reach­ ing the fort a little before 12 o'clock. Upon entering the magazine Colonel King informed Morgan that his friends had completed their arrangements for his removal to a residence upon a farm in Canada. Morgan walked with them to the wharf, where a boat was held in readiness for them by Elisha Adams, an invalid soldier, into which the party passed and rowed away, Adams remain­ ing to warn the boat off by signal if, on its retuvn, any alarm had been given. It was nearly 2 o'clock in the morning whervv the boat came back, having, as Adams expressed it, lost one man, only live of the six being on board when the boat returned. When the boat reached a point where the Niagara river empties into Lake Ontario, a rope being wound around Morgan's body, to either end of which a sinker was attached, he was thrown^ overboard. It is due to the mefftory of Governor Clinton to say that Colonel King had no such order, and no authority to make use of his name. It is proper, also, to add that none of these men survive. John Whitney, of Ettehester, v.rhom I knew well, related all the circumstances connected with the last act in that tragedy to me at Albany in 1831, in the presence of Simeon B. Jewett, of Clarkson, and Samuel Barton, of Lewiston. In October, 1827, more than a year after the abduction of Morgan, a body drifted on shore near a small creek which entered into Lake Ontario. A coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict rendered that it was the body of an unknown per­ son. The coroner wrote out a minute description of the body, and published it, along with the finding of the jury, in anftlfletfiis county newspaper. That description attracting the attention of persons well acquainted with Morgan, excited considerable interest. The widow and several intimate friends of Morgan seemed so confident that it was his body that the committee appointed tor investigate the abduction determined to iiotd another inquest, of which public notice was given. On the day appoint­ ed- soma sixty or seventy people as­ sembled at the mouth of Oak Orchard •^reek, where the body of the unknown man was interred. Before opening the grave Mrs. Morgan and Dr. Strong described certain marks upon Morgan's body, by means of which it could be identified. When the rude coffin was opened the body it contained disclosed the peculiarities described, and after a deliberate examination, the jurors de­ clared it unanimously the body of Wil­ liam Morgan. From this verdict no one present dissented, and for a week or ten days the question seemed to be settled. £ - Later in October there eame a report Jh'at the body declared to be that of Wil­ liam Morgan was claimed by his family to be that of Timothy Monroe, a Cana- 'flian,, who was swept in a small boat over Niagara Falls eleven days previous to the time that the body was washed ashore at the mouth of Oak Orchard creek. The remains in the mean time Bad been taken by Mrs. Morgan to Batavia. A third inquest was now to be held for the purpose of establishing the claim of Mrs. Monroe. A large concourse of people were in attendance. Mrs. Monroe ap- a description of her and of the clothing in which he left home on the morning of the day he was drowned. Previous to her examination Bates Cooke, chairman of the Morgan Investigating Committee, examined the clothes taken from the body, and carefully preserved by the Cor­ oner, with great minuteness, 'i'ins ena­ bled him to test the accuracy of Mrs. 3$onroe's knowledge and memory. ( Neither Mrs. Monroe nor any person sympathizing with her or interested in e identiiiation of the body as that of onroe had access to it or had seen any of the wearing apparal of the diseased. And yet Mrs. Monroe not only gave a general description of each garment, but underwent a rigid cross-examination ^vbv Mr. Cooke of more than hour, in "Srtiich she described with singular ac­ curacy every rent and^ patch found in ; each garment. She indicated buttons •she had sewed on the pantaloons to re- • place those which did not match the oth- ;<em. She also described one stocking that had been darned with yam of a ? 'different color. In a word, her descrip­ tion of the clothing was so accurate in 1/ every particular as to leave no doubt that |l «ach article had been under her special H^care. But, wonderfully accurate as she ad been on this point, she was most Sisixangely wrong in her description of the body, Monroe being at least three inches taller than the corpse. She de- cribed her husband's hair and whiskers las coarse and black, adding that his hair had been cat quite short a few days be­ fore he was drowned, while that upon the head of the deceased was long, silky and of a chestnut color. Monroe's son confirmed hi* mother's testimony re­ lating both to the clothes and the body. No attempt was made to impeach either, nor was there any doubt that Monroe had been drowned, as alleged. It was difficult to reconcile these Conflicting statements. Mrs. Monroe wfis as clearly right about the clothes as she was wrong about the body found in them. The third inquest resulted in finding tliat the body previously adjudged to be Morgan's was that of Timothy Monroe. There were other circumstances connect­ ed with the disappearance of both Mor­ gan and Monroe, assuming tliat both had been drowned in Lake Ontario, calcu­ lated to complicate the questions of identity. The body was found at Oak Orchard creek, a full year after Morgan's disappearance ; of course it could not have been drifting about that length of time. It was Jmown, however, that Morgan was weighed heavily when thrown into the lake ; and, two months before tliat body was found, the month of the river and tliat nart of the lake where was supposed to have been thrown overboard had been thoroughly raked. Tn this way it was supposed that the body was released from its weight, risen to the surface and drifted to Oak Or­ chard creek. Monroe was drowned on the 25th or 27th of September. The body at Oak Orchard creek was found on the 8th day of October, leaving but eleven or twelve days to drift a distance of forty miles, where it was found. It was understood that drowned persons remain several days tinder water. It was ascertained by meteorological records that, during the interval between Mon­ roe's death and the finding of the body at Oak Orchard creek, the wind blew most of the time up the lake. Now, as there is no current in Lake Ontario, and as objects float with rather than against the wind, it seemed improbable that the body found should be that of Monroe ; while, ...on the other hand, it seemed equally improbable that a man drowned in the latter part of September, 1826, could have been found in a tolerable state of preservation in October, 1827. So that there were irreconcilable facts and circumstances connected with this strange history. Mrs. Morgan and the intimate friends of Morgan described marks upon his pert on before seeing that body, which left'no doubt in the minds of all present that it was the remains of her husband. Strangely enough, however, she repudi­ ated every article of clothing found up­ on the body. And yet Mrs. Monroe, who came from Canada, readily de­ scribed every article, garment after gar­ ment, with minute and startling accura­ cy. While, therefore, up to the time that Mrs. Monroe appeared, there were no grounds for discrediting the correct­ ness of the second inquest, yet after the third inquest had been held at Batavia there was a strong reaction in public opinion. Although the gentlemen asso­ ciated with me in the investigation were still strongly of the opinion that the body was that of William Morgan, my own previously clear and strong convictions were a good deal disturbed. Nor can I now, after nearly fifty years' anxious inquiry and reflection, say that I am satisfied that it was or was not the body of William Morgan. The discrepancies about hair and beard between Mis. Morgan and Mrs. Monroe, after the conclusion of the third or Ba­ tavia inquest, induced those who claimed the body to be that of Timothy Monroe to say that the hair was pulled out and the whiskers shaven off to make it re­ semble Morgan. Tliat could only have been done in the presence of between sixty and seventy persons, some of whom were Democrats and others Freemasons, and yet all must liave seen and consent­ ed to the fraud. The last inquest was held only a few days before the election. No other question entered into the can­ vass. The excitement was greater than I had previously or have since witnessed. --Thurlow Weed, in New York Herald, Crime in T?ew Yerk and London. The New York World is impelled, by the rapid growth of crime in New York, to institute comparisons between the efficiency of the police departments of that city and London: The Metropolitan polio* district of London comprises a population of 8,- 600,000 upon an area of 688 square miles, and has 9,883-policeinen for 6,708 miles of patrol posts, or two policem&n for every 3 miles of patrol posts. The New York police district, extending over 25 square miles and embracing a population of 1,200,000, has 450 miles 01 patrol post^, and about 2,500 policemen, or L6 policemen to every three miles of patrol poffce. In London and New York in 1872 (the latest year of which the statis­ tics are accessible) the following was the number of principal crimes: , y . t e n d o n . N e w Y o r k . BurgUries...,..,..,828 459 Robberies... .....* 62 86 Grand taKeoffe*.«*..... 498 1,989 Aeeaulte .9,639 7,828 Fet^y larcenies....... 7,213 3,994 Taking into view the difference of area and population, it is seen that New York is far ahead of London in respect to all crimes, and that more burglaries and grand Weenies were actually committed in New York than in London, In the whole catalogue of crimes;there are none which the police are more depended on to keep in check: and in the last report of the Cdmmissioner of Polioe for the metropolis of London he says that the number of burglaries in 1872 was the smallest in any year since 1865, and of robberies and attempts to rob the num ber was^the smallest since 1864. In New York tlfe testimony is that these crimes are increasing. The police reports for 1867, 1868 and 1872 are the only ones at hand, and that for 1872 is the latest published. From these we compile the following table: 18S7. 1868. 1872. Burglaries 186 1U 4T>1» Grand larcenies 388 332 1,803 Assaults . 8,536 8,027 7,823 Robberies 41 .20 Petty larcenies. .....1,102 1,149 8.506 These police statistics, to be sure, are highly untrustworthy, but they are the only ones available for the comparison. Since 1872 it is notorious that crimes of the above character haf£> greatly in­ creased ; and indeed tliere never was a time in the city's history when it was easier for a thief to rob a citizen. " Locust Eating. We read in the Bible, that the food of John the Baptist was " locusts and w-ild honey.?' A great deafcof pains has been taken by commentators to prove that it v. aa not locusts, but the fruit of the wild carob-tree, that John ate with the honey that he found in the wilderness where he lived. But I do not thing that any one who has traveled in Arabia, or found rest and shelter in an Arab's tent, and been a guest at his hospitable board, would thus judge of what the Bible means by "locusts." In.Turkey, Persia, Arabia, and all that region of country, locusts-- j genuine, bona-fide locusts--have been j eaten from remote antiquity; and to this j day, they form an important item of the j food used by the common people. The Bedouins collect them in immense quan­ tities, and, after a partial drying, pack them in scks. Tlienat their convenience, when the season for collecting is over, j they steam the insects in close vessels ! over a hot fire, winnow them in broad j baskets to remove the legs and wings,. J and then pulverize between flat stones. ! When wanted for food, they are only j moistened with a little water, just as the j Arabs do in preparing their date-flour, I and then the repast is all ready. | The Turks eat locusts in the same way, I and by very many other Orientals they are j regarded as the choicest of dainties. M\ The Moors boil or fry them, seasoning I with salt, pepper, and vinegar ; and they | pronounce them even superior to quails and pigeons. The Hottentots make from the eggs a delicious soup ; they also roast tile locusts over a slow fire, and eat them i as we do caramels or bonbons. Dr. Liv- j ingstone says he used them at first from j necessity, when deprived of all other food ; but, strange to say, grew daily . more fond of tlieiai, and at la&t preferred J them to shrimps or oysters.--St. JWc/to-; las for September. J c- : : French Thrift. In Paris nothing is lost It is related j that a rich American in that gay city dis- j covered tliat an rmpleasant-lookii:g fellow followed him every day from morning till! night. He became uneasy and diplo- j matic. Inquiry was made whether the ' man who watched him was connected with the police. As a result of much nego­ tiation the unpleasant person was arrest­ ed, and proved to be a gatherer of butts of cigars. The rich American always smoked famous brands, and only smoked them half up, and it paid to follow him. Potato-Bugs Sot Poisonous. The following extract from the pro­ ceedings of the Detroit Science Associa­ tion will be found interesting to our ag­ ricultural redders: Are potato bugs poisonous ? This in­ teresting question was very fully dis­ cussed in a paper by Professors A. R. Grote and Adolpli Kayser, they main­ taining the negative in opposition to widely-circulated statements in the news­ papers and in the " Seventh Report on the Insects of Missouri," bv Professor C. Y. Riley. It lias been claimed that people handling the bugs, or exposed to the fumes of them when boiled or burnt, have been poisoned thereby. To test the question, a quantity of bugs were collected and stewed down, one quart of bugs being thus reduced to four ounces of a liquid, which was perfectly clear and had an offensive smell. It was alka­ line, containing free ammonia and its carbonate An e<jual quantity of the bugs was digested in pure alcohol and a tincture thus obtained, not disagree^Me in smell, and having an acid reaction. Unhappy frogs were the subjects of the experiment. About a half of a cubic centimeter of liquid and tincture was in­ troduced separately into their stomatc: No bad effects followed; the frogs re­ tained the doses and hopped about as merrily as ever. Then two other frogs had the liquid and tincture' separately introduced into their veins by a hypo­ dermic syringe. The distilled liquid thus introduced did no harm. The tincture injected killed the frog, but this circumstance was regarded by the ex­ perimenters as merely a consequence of the acid it contained. A similar injec­ tion of the acid secreted by mosquitoes and other insects1 coagulates the blood. But potato bugs have no organs by which to make such acid secretions. The conclusion in the light of these ex­ periments is, that the potato bug is not a poisonous insect. The evil effects that have been noted, if not due to oxide of carbon formed in burning a quantity of bugs must be attributed to the incidental presence o% Paris green. This fact should be a new incentive to care in the use of that mineral poison. Barnum and Donaldson. To the Editor of the Xew York Sun : SIR : I understand you recently pub­ lished a rumor that Prof. Donaldson was not, provided with a suitable balloon, and that he made his last ascension reluc­ tantly. I wish in reply to such reports to say once for all that Prof. Donaldson hail entire control of the hippodrome balloon department. He ordered new ones and superintended the making of them, and unlimited means were always at his com­ mand to procure whatever he thought needful or desirable. Neither myself nor my managers ever ordered him to make an ascension, tliat being left to his discretion. He made his last ascension from Chi­ cago in remarkably fine spirits, as is ap­ parent from the humorous notes found on the body of his companion, young Grimwood, written while sailing above Lake Michigan. These notes prove that no danger was apprehended. The bal­ loon was strong and nearly new, and was chosen by Prof. Donaldson from several entirely new ones, \*hich were kept, on hand. The fatal termination of the trip was entirely due to the sudden and terrific gale, and the turbulent state of the lake, which rendered useless the life-preserv­ ers with which Donaldson and his com­ panion were provided. My managers and myself deeply deplore the loss of Prof. Donaldson, but we have the satis­ faction of knowing that nothing was spared to render all his ascensions safe and agreeable. P. T. BARNUM. JUST after the Scientific Association had adjourned sine die a broad-shoul­ dered fellow with a neck as big as a nail- keg and fists like mauls entered the hall and inquired of the janitor: " Where's •lose efellows as brags about their science ?" " Gone home," was the reply. " Gone home, eh? Blow the luck, but if I hadn't missed the boat I'd been here in time to toe a mark with the best man in the crowd! Wonder if Joe Coburn trained any of 'em ?" The janitor wasn't able to say.--Detroit Free Press. 0?#- • • ' Assassination of the President of Ecuador,, A correspondent of the Star and Herald, of Panama, writing from Guay­ aquil on the 10th inst., gives the follow­ ing story of the aasassination of the President of Ecuador : " The whole city was thrown into great excitement by the news of the assassination of Garcia Moreno, in his palace afc Quito, by an officer, Capt. Ravo, whom ne had dis­ placed, aided by two young men of Quito called Cornejo. Ravo first struck the President over the head with ft machite/and was instantly run through by the sentry, who fired his piece at the same time, killing the assassin immedi­ ately. The two young men, after Ravo ha<l struck the President, fired on the l&tter wiih their revolvers. The Presi­ dent fell on liis face, mortally wounded, and has since died. The two young men escaped. The people cannot realize the President's death, and are afraid to at­ tempt anything. Great alarm has seized on all foreigners, and strong reasons exist for believing there will be a massa­ cre of foreign priests." FROM a paper published by an Austrian officer it appears tliat the British empire contains a larger population than thp empires of Russia, Austria, Italy, France and Germany combined. The total popu- ktioftjof these is only 223,000,000, wliile that of Great Britain is 290,000,000. The calculation is made in reference to the war power. 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