The Rutland Daily Globe

Rumored
Assassination
of General
Sickles Denied.

THE
WAR CLOUD

THE
SENTENCE OF TWEED
Twelve
Years
Imprisonment
and
$12,750 Fine.
'Taken to Prison-his Surprise and Agitation.
New York, Nov. 23.
Tweed was brought into court this morning for sentence. An immense crowd was present. District-Attorney Phelps, with Messrs. Allen, Tremain, Clinton and Peckham, appeared for the prosecution. Messrs. Graham, Root. Fullerton and Bartlett were present in behalf of the prisoner. As soon as Judge Davis entered Mr. Phelps called up the writs of habeas corpus in the case of Sarah Allen, Maggie Jourdan and Lawrence Phillips. and asked that they be dismissed, on the ground that the general session's grand jury have indicted them. Mr. Howe. counsel for the prisoners, asked that the writs stand over till Monday, as the point is raised on the power of the grand jury to find a bill pending the investigation before a police magistrate. The court so ordered. Mr. Graham then commenced argument on the motion for an arrest of judgment in the Tweed case, arguing that Tweed was a senator, and probably was present when the act of April 26, 1870, was passed taking power from the board of supervisors and giving it to agents of the new commissioners of audit, a proceeding wholly unconstitutional. After Graham had argued at length on this and other points, claiming that the court had no jurisdiction, Judge Davis replied, "If the act of 1870 changed the statute of limitation as claimed, being ex post facto law, it and it alone is void, and has no operative effect on existing law. As to the law of 1873 abolishing the act of 1870, I would be slow to hold that it wiped out the pending indictment."

TWEED SENTENCED.
Tweed was sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and to pay a fine of twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

TWEED TAKEN TO PRISON-HIS SURPRISE AND AGITATION.
Immediately after the sentence was pronounced Tweed was taken in charge by Sheriffs Shields and Cohill, and by them taken into the rooms of the supreme court chambers. Tweed retired to a distant corner of the room, where he was shortly joined by his brother and his two sons, with whom he engaged in earnest conversation. The great criminal looked an utterly broken man : all the old confidence that in the days of his prosperity had characterized his demeanor had vanished. and in its place was an air of despondency that proclaimed a man without hope, even while engaged in conversation with his relative he kept his head bowed down and shaded his eyes with his hand. About five o'clock all not immediately connected with the defendant received an intimation from the deputy sheriffs to retire, upon this many of those present in the room stepped to where Tweed was seated and sorrowfully bade him farewell.
Toward six p. m. the sheriff and officers took the prisoner from the room of the supreme court chambers and brought him down to the sheriff's room. There he was joined by his counsel and measures were at once adopted toward obtaining a stay of proceedings and an order for a new trial. At that time it just became known that Judge Davis had sentenced the prisoner to the penitentiary and not to Ludlow street jail.
The expression, "county jail," it appears is legally held to designate either the penitentiary or Ludlow street jail. A contrary impression, however, had prevailed and to such an extent that Warden Tracy yesterday afternoon had commenced preparing quarters for Tweed and was in momentary expectation of his arrival at prison.
When the friends of Tweed realized that the penitentiary was the destined place of detention, they were filled with dismay, as was the convict himself.
The first quarter, it is understood, on which an effort was made to obtain a stay. was from Judge Pratt. He, however, refused to interfere with the matter, and said he could see no grounds whatever for granting a stay. That the trial appeared to have been conducted with the utmost fairness toward the prisoner.
Judge Pratt, it seems, was the main reliance of the defence, and his refusal to grant it, utterly disconcerted them. When Tweed learned of the fact that no stay of proceedings could be obtained from Judge Pratt, he was, it is said, utterly broken down. Those who witnessed his agitation during the weary and anxious hours that elapsed between the time of his conviction and midnight, while his counsel were striving to obtain a stay of proceedings, did not hesitate to say that he would not long survive if consigned to the penitentiary.
Judge Graham was also applied to but refused to grant a stay, and all efforts having proved ineffectual, about one o'clock the commitments were made out and sheriffs deputies intimated to the prisoner that time was come for them to take him to the tombs. Tweed expressed his readiness to accompany them and accordingly the party left the sheriff's office and entered the carriage which was waiting outside the court house.
The prisoner, accompanied by his two sons and Mr. Edelston, one of his counsel. Arriving at the Tombs, admittance was rapidly obtained and Deputy Sheriff Shields at once transferred his prisoner to the custody of night warden White. The warden was engaged in preparing quarters for his guest.
Tweed engaged in earnest consultation with his sons. At length the warden informed him that his cell was ready. The prisoner then took an affectionate farewell of his sons and others present, shaking hands with each in turn and bidding them good-bye. The warden conducted him to his cell, which is that known as No. 6, on