Irish-American September 26, 1857 News from New York A man named Patrick KELLY, residing at 249 East 18th Street, fell down stairs on the evening of the 14th inst., and was killed. A man named James SHEPHERD has been arrested for having set fire to his house in 53rd Street, last June. His wife was burned to a cinder in the conflagration. On the 15th inst., a man named Patrick BURKE had one of his legs broken at the Crystal Palace, by the fall of a piece of a fly-wheel. A man named John O'BRIEN was fatally stabbed at No. 8 Caroline Street, in this city, on the night of the 14th inst., by Thomas BYRON, who is in custody. William DOYLE, a gardener, committed suicide at New Brighton, Staten Island, last week by jumping into the water from the dock. James MORRISSEY, a Brooklyn newsboy, was crushed to death last week by the fenders at the Fulton Ferry on which he was sitting as a boat was coming in. On the 8th inst., a man named Patrick KEITH was run over by a baggage car on the Long Island Railroad, and died on the 14th from the effects of his injuries. On Friday last, a boy named Bernard FLYNN, whose parents reside in Harrison Street, Brooklyn, accidentally fell from a lumber pile where he was engaged at work at the foot of Baltic Street, and was drowned. William GORDAN, a brakeman on the N.Y. and Erie R.R. died at New York Hospital from injuries received a few days previous, by being run over by a train of cars near the Suffern Station. Ellen DUFFY, a child four years old, was burned to death on the night of the 16th inst., at 241 Sixth Street, by the bed taking fire from a match which she lit herself. News Around the U.S. Mrs. Elizabeth BENNETT, of Freehold, N.J., has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her child. A man named Michael FETTERS was killed in Snyder Township, Pennsylvania, by a tree falling on him last week. A man named John WARD, while intoxicated a day or two since, lay down on the railroad track at East Hartford, Ct., and was run over by a train and killed. Rev. G.H. DOANE, son of Dr. DOANE, Protestant Bishop of New Jersey, was on Sunday week, ordained a Roman Catholic priest in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Newark. James CURRAN, Michael CURRAN and Ellen CONLAN, were fined $10 each last week by Recorder Bedford in Jesey City, for selling liquor on Sunday. Nicholas BERRY, pilot, and a boy named RUSH, were drowned in Boston Harbor on the 17th inst., by the sinking of a boat. A man named James IRWIN fell overboard from the steamer Richard Stockton, at Philadelphia, on the 16th ult.; Francois KANE jumped to his assistance, when, melancholy to relate, both were drowned.