within six or eight inches of the water’s edge, and rendering the schooner incapable of proceeding to sea, and it returned for repairs. There was the finger of Providence again in that. On coming into this port the captain of the schooner J. R. Mather found that the sloop E. A. Johnson had come in, and by a comparison of the rigging of her bowsprit, found on the bow of his boat, with the rigging of the E. A. Johnson, that that was the vessel which caused the collision. Further than this, nothing is known of that night. There was no cry from the deck of the E. A. Johnson when it encountered the schooner; there was no hail, no attempt to disentangle themselves, and nothing was known of what was going on upon the deck of that vessel—whether there was a human being on it or not. The captain of the sloop saw a dark form aft, but could not say whether it was one man or two men. He knew that some person must have been on board, from the fact of her changing her course as I have described. On the morning of Wednesday, the 21st of March, about six o’clock, the prisoner came on shore at Staten Island, a little below Fort Richmond, which is in the Narrows, opposite Fort Hamilton. He was seen very soon afterward, coming on shore, by a Mr. Neildinger, whom he addressed, inquiring if his boat would be safe, designating where he had left her, to which Neildinger replied it would be all right, and the prisoner drew it upon shore, where it would be a little safer. The prisoner had with him a large canvas bag, which he carried upon his shoulders. After leaving Neildinger, he passed up Staten Island, encountering one or more persons, whom he addressed, and came to Vanderbilt’s landing, arriving there shortly before seven o’clock. He there inquired of the boat tender where he could procure some breakfast, and was directed to a shop, where he ate breakfast, and in payment offered to the boy who served him a $10 piece, which the boy could not and did not change, and he afterward gave him some silver. Afterward, in conversation with Mr. Egbert, in charge of the station there, he said he was a seafaring man; that he had been on the vessel William Tell in the lower bay; had had a collision with another vessel; that the captain had been killed against the mast, another person had been knocked overboard, and he had merely time to escape from the vessel with the money. He is described by that witness as being excited. He took the ferry-boat Southfield, left there at seven o’clock, and came up to the city. On the way up he entered into conversation with Francis McCaffrey, a deck hand. He produced before him a bag of money, and asked him to count it. It was a canvas bag, and contained $30 in silver, and a large quantity of gold. McCaffrey counted it, and the prisoner took possession of it again, and during the passage up had some more general conversation with him.