The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1857, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 1593. THE BOGUS YELLOW FEVER PAI ACTION OF THE NEALTB OFFICER. Proceeding next to Staten Isiaad. the result of these !n- quirien was submitted to that officer, Ho had no doubt that the care was bute recurrence of the common practice of malicious railors, to attempt some retaliation or revenge upon the ehip’s oficers. Tv do away with every possible ground of even alarm, he ‘ospatihed a deputy to go on board the Mary and order her back t Q.erantine, whilst he bimeelf set forty in rearch of ine 200k, who had circu. lated the statement, and whom tho Health Officer brought tiem ot to Impose Upon the Prese—-Malicious and Fale Statements of the Ship’s Steward Ex- ploded— Affidavit of the Mate of the Bark Mary—The Verse] Returned to Quaran- tine—Proceedings of the Health Officer, anly down to the irland for a fall dnd careful examination. The bark bad arrived in purt on Friday morning, aud came &e., &e., &, tober berth of tbe aclantic do ken that day, Then it war that tha difficult» tonk plana betwoen the officers and tbe cook, after which the latter left thorhi + and set on foot ibe yellow fever statemen. On Saturday afternoon An incautions and false statement was published in the MORNING “TAE POLICE WAR. Bloodshed and Riot at Last—Collision of the EDITION-MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1857. CAPTAIN PhTER SQUIRES’ STATEMENT. tie my peitful duty to report @ collision betwoen some of the officers of my command and two of the old force ‘The facts of the case are as follows:—Mo-ars. Tidon, Hal Jett, and Crain, of my command, had arrested a prisoaer Rival Police Forces In the Kleventh Ward | po. boing drunk and isorderly, aint while ov the way to ‘The Supicipal Officers Arrested—« Mob to | the s the Rescue—One Man Stabbed—Destrac- tion of the Metropolitan Station Threat- ened, &c., de. A latent fear bas prevailed from the beginuing of the Present police difficulties, thatin the ¢!visions and con- fiets of aushority which must arise, hero might possibly | responded to. be some bloody scones im the business before its close. Things bad bitherto gone on iv such a windy. way, aud hours they were attacked by the above two prisoners, Mation and \aatine, of the Wood police, and the prioner rescued. My offiecrs, however, held om to the two parties inter/vring, and brought them ino the station house. News of the collision spread with great rapidity, and most intense excitement provailed My force en email, (30) I mate & requisition on the Seventeoath Fifteenth districts for add tional bolp, which was quickly Hight wen came from oaoh disteict—46; Talo sent for the Depnty avperimtondent, who was prese ut without logs of t ustice Anderson Foon after appoared, ‘and opened court in duo form, when the two prisoners nothing of a serious character having arisen, there seom:d | were admitted to bali to apposr at the corner of Clinton 7 York Tribune of Saturday, to the eileo, thar the yel- fever had been smuggled into this city in # vesse! from West Indies, After a thorough investigadon, it s now that the statement in question was published @ carcleasness which is nothing less than groe:!y cul im view of the nature of the subject, and the damage alarm such s publication must cause, The pazsgraph question was as follows:— Yuuaw Faver —We learn from good authority that 9 now at No. 108 Qherry street, reports that be cme pamsenge) from Trinidad, and that in pesiog Quarantine ‘this port the secreted two of bis passspgers, who ad Deon Bick yellow fover during tho passage, Tae vtain’s own state-room was used for that purpose. Tho bimrelf is desirous of going to the hospital, as he is feeble, whether from fever or some other cause party giving the above facts waa unable to learn. ‘The ve-sel now lying at the Atlantic docks. Among the rivals yostercay was brig Lucy Hoywood, of Baugor, ‘Swift (late Swett, deceased), from Gonaives (st. Domingo). tw: niy-four ‘ays, with coilee and logwood to er & Mlimunn; veseel to master, May 20th, laittade 46, longitude 72 40 ‘Port au Privee, Captale Theophilus Swett, uf we Lucy Heywood, d! yellow jt i was a native ot Bapgor, Me. May 23h, i rea, latiiude 23 60, longitude 72 46, Jubn B. Barker, tho ofiver, of Bai gor, We , died of yeilow fover, it 20uh, ai sea, laiiude 2 40, Inpgitude 72 0, Ceptain IR Rich os Bangor, wtio uad tasen charge of the brig Gouaives afer the dwath of Captain Swat, died of yoilow 7. Algo at the same time and place, and of the samo , James Cavenar, seaman, ef Boston. The cargo 18 of 480,00 pounds of logwood, 2,000 bags of cof fre, 76 sachs of couup 7G croishea mahogany, to A, Rol ‘ker & Molimann. Dr, Thompson, the Health Officer, or- red the brig to the lower Q.arantine anchorage What bas Becume Dearned. This potard passed muster in the evening papers s eo, the remainder of the crew we have not yet and by this time may have all the scievsors of tho provin ica} prove fiourisbing it, to che terror ef traders from evory quarter on their way to the city. The real state of the facts are to the folloning purport :— THE 841.08 (LN CURRRY STREET. A siatoment from an auonymous source, apparently the game gs the Trilnne's “ good authority,” hat also been pent to the Huracp, but rejected as not of the character en- Mersed upon it by the Jriure, according t the standard ef securacy required for We celumne of the Hanan. A reporter having been despatoued to “ Jen Reward, Bo. KS Cherry street,” as indicated in tho comma. Mieation addressed t (the Hara, be found that Person through tho aid of one of Captain Dit- @& tvs police, of the Fourth district station bonuses. | Jebn Bieward proved to be « small sized, livid litle sailor, and was found in a dingy cellar of the house No. | 408 Cherry street, as wlodger. Ho stated that ho was the who was giving currency w the statement that the ‘Derk Mary, from Trinidad de Cuba, had brought into port ‘apd smuggled on shore, certain passengers sick of the Lage Ho said he had beca cook and steward on and | hee pet from the uscesaty of ¥ ing his berth aad sive; on the deck in the scuppern, @xpused to whe variations the weaber. Ho further Staied i rolasioo w the smuggling of the iafected passen ees on betore tho y saile1 from Trinidad de there came on board very steaithily, a Spaniard, who was accommodated with a particular state roow 1a @o Cuptain’s cabin. The voyage of the Mary had been days to New ts sae, Os first week Spamard grow exces is sym foatlon of Selene ever’ The to ul if 8 3 é kK, putrid, very off. nrive matwer,ef the natire of we “biack vomit"? “The cook compiained of tho nosserity of amanding to the rick passenger, ax the atench from bim 2 oS, ibis to we captain (Gidsos,) faction, and was forced to continne his oifices , Who continued ip the most dreadfe! state, aud way bears his bed wp to the arrival of the Mary, (on Fri of New York sick Tk was man iby condition, from the night's d!-charges o@ tho j@ a very pars of Pe patent The floor was orveret with blondy and pntrid which was of the patere of the “ black vomit,” land whicn. from the mecestity of swabbing it out, nad ‘wade him (the cook) vo ick that be had not yet (Aatar- Waen be har Saisied day) recovered from his nansea wahin When the Health Officer Came on board no men- fon was made t) bim of the sick © aniard, who ooatiaued goucealed, aud was sormuge!ed ashore, afvor the bare hac eeched her borth st the Atlantic Deck. Broxklya. very likely porton t take #0 risky & slap 4 of emoggting this Spaniard as a yollow pationt through the qnarantine restriction, with the ‘of escapirg the thiity cays detention which would the exhidition of tho real rtate of tho facts on board. Ge being crow questione! upon the statement, he seomed —_, desirous of convey the impres ton that be continue! to be infected with the yollow fever, 14 pot indicate any of the symptoms upon his per pom. And this again be cot tradicted by @ rtatement in ro to his having bad the Chagres ', Co@tracte:! on ‘manner fo as to draw from bim @ detal! in regard to the ehip’? voyage, ihe number of pansengerr, Uneir conditice, @aracter, Kc. Questions were asked a to the health of the ablp during the voyage, ewpecially the health of the ‘All the detalis thas obtained taied with the (tatemenia of the cook in all except as to the sickness on Doard, and whe conosalment of the Spaniard and hie al H i i | es i mate. Dis blalemomt, ax to ite Dearing upon the sickness @@ board the bark was then draughte! in the shepe of ao effdavit apd duly atteeted before a justice in the follo #ing form — APTIDAVT? OF THR FIROT WATE OF TTS RANK MARY, Thomar Bryant, dopore and say that T am first mate bark Mary, from Trinidad, and that there were but partengers on board that vessel from Trinidad (e ibe, during the voyage just comploted by the said ehip; Taleo say ‘hat there ls no note on my pa meen there haying Deon any sickne on board Mary during the voyage. of ihe nature of yellow fewer, and that to the Dest of my knowlege the only indications of illness on heard Were the reported liners from eimpie sickn ye of one of Aha aformenis paeecngere, a Hpaniard, who oocupied a state Feom in the ship's cabin, together with the complaint of toward, (#9 called.) Cook of the Mary fur the voyage Trindad—evia eteward complaining that be eulrred from chronic chilis an? other ind'eations of the nature of a Severe cold; 1 wley ewour, thet (o Khe bost of my knowledge the afor seaid Spaniard, paseencor, was openly on the deck of the tard bark Mary, and in appirent good health at the time he wnid bark was boarded by the Hoalth Officer of nd I further «wear toat to the best of my know- cs ik BOF attempt mare to concen! the said engor or the previewslt, Tros the Qua- Fantivo author ties of the port of New York. With a viow W PHY Porsiblo digeropancy between the above etaronwat and any official return ae to passengers nade by the cap. tain of the nid Mary, I would be understood to include i umber of two pawengers, not oniy Wie Spapiard specially alluded to above, ax cocapying * Maleroom but aleo a companion, who might possibly be fecieded in the crow. from having in & manner worked Ihie paerors. Both of eaid passer gors wont on shore this ag tak ie their baggage openiy, and to the knowledge fn the presence of the watehman of the Atlantic docks, both having left the said bark Mary with the declared in tent to take conveyance for Portiand, Maine, immodiatoly. MAS BRYANT. ‘On board bark Mary. June 19, 1857, fo before me, June 13, Ps aieu » 1867, 0, Goorerm, Com: to enable @ thorough examination of versels, when appli- ) | cations are made to land cargocs. AN INCORRECT RUMOR. A report was in circulaton on Saturday, that the bark a the bark arrived back at the ancherage at Quarantine, The Honlth Officer had himeelf boarded the Mary, and had hinse't gives her a permit to pass Quarantine, de bad is examination, as he i# on the hook 4 the Lucy’ Riaywood, from ano- jetained at tne lower anchorage Dr. Thomreon # positive tha he saw every person ret down in the mantfest, and ho vg Phraya gre the afi davit of the mate in those poiwts bearing on the alleged concealment of the Spanwh passenger. Afver taking the following aff~avit, and making 8 more spacial examination of the versel, the Health Offleer regrets the necessity which compelled the vem ef to ra.urn, slthough it was, of couras, the only couree in view of the, tarroney 20 injudl- ctously given to thie crazy ramor by the city prees:— AYFIDAVIT MADR TO TRE HEATH OMPORR BY THE MATH OF THE MAnY. Port of New York, Quarantine, Staten Ittan?, Health Officer's Office, June (4, 1857 —Phomas Bryant being duly f#vorn, depo-es ant gays That he bas heen mate of the bark Mary +inco November last, that he was mate of the vai! verse) daring ber iast parvago from Trinidad to this port, that wh le at Trindad he heard of no cases of yelow fever at that port, either on board on among the shipping, and that there has beer. vo cason of yelin « foyer on board of the bark Mary since ne hae kocwn (he vessel, not au case of sicknese which confuet the patient to hie bert pes», that there wax one per- during ber paasage to this port who was pola rseilor,anl who was taken sick im about eight days after vate verse! loft Trinidad, when she got her firet rough woathor: tbat hia comptaint was sea sickness; (at be wee 11! of (Lis complaint and p wie other, from the timo the rough weaiber set Ln til) we arrived at this port; that he was always ablo to rise from his berth and wait on himself, vier raier closet, &o., without the assistance of any body ; that nis ay rmptoms w+ re retching and bleeding & the bore, the pore biee.'ug only during or Immediately afor each ¢ffort at retch'ng. The deponentforther eweara that be never said the person above referred to had the yelew fever, nor did he ever bear the captain of the said ark or apy other person express such oginion, and ‘ur- THOMAS BRY ANT. Snbvorihed and eworp to this fourteenth day of June, 1867, R. H. Trommox, Heauh Otiicer, CONCLUSION. It is therefore positive that there ia no yellow fever tn New York, nor bas any been allowed to pase the anchor. age at Quarantine. The two passengers, even who it was aileged bad bad the discase, tt ie positively ascertained have ret out for Portland, Maine, The mate of the vessel (the Mary) attests to his having procured conveyances for transferring their beggage to Uie depst, and this siatement bas been found to be corroborated by a watchman em- layed ‘on the Atlantic docks. © topic of Quarantioe eugiges much attention * ther port in Cabs, was ap hour, except from sea 800 op board of sald \ ere ther the depopent saith not. now, and tere ir not wanting & dieposition to seize im make capital out of the frat piavsibie facts which may tarn up in this conpestion. Every possibie effort will of eourse bo ready for applying popular praics on the yellow fever quostioninto fevers for iifi: strect cleaning contracts and for Pine the Quarantine susiene frow ous cites the other of Island. anything impracticable and use- Tees will be estayed in the way of “temporary Quaran- fusing infected goods, und uniadlog and dompetchisg mig atD; 7 unlading and ships at Quarandoe anchorage—will continne to be neglected. The sole instance af any twfoction now within the bay of Now York is tbat of the Lucy Hayward, down at the lower anchorage, ax eafe us revards New York as if she wore ruil at Gonsives, where ebe came from. Nor bas sho had any casos on hoard for weeks before her_ar- rival. Were there only accommodation of Quarantine instead of the present unnecessary Seguine’s hospital, under way, the Lacy Hayward might be unloaded, ber bold cargo Uisinfected, and abe herself remdy at her dock in New York beforo her permit to ducharge conid ‘be passed tothe Custom House, In- stoad of that she must stick it out her thirty daye below. BROOKLYN BOARD OF HEALTH. Ata meeting of the Brooklyn Board of Heals on Saiurday, » resoluiion was adopeed directing that all permits for veesels to land cargoes in Brooklyn, be au- thorized by the Board of Health, instead of by the Mayor, ax heretofore. This action was taken in order to ee Maree G8 ares aosntel duly, and at the same Ueno Point temporary “ Mary,” lying at Atlantic docks, had imported some caxes of yellow fever. Mayor Powell visited tho vessel and ascertained that thero had been mo sicknes? on board during ageffrom Trinidad de Cuba, except the usual ‘eet la ports were Whb lite results, and the Mayor states that afer & tnovougis examination he tx rath ued that no yellow fever cases been imported to Unis City this season by any vessel. Non-Arrival of the Comet. During the past work a great eacitemont has boon created among the old women, about Werapproaching visit of the comet and the danger of every ibing being sent into terval smash by one stroke of ite tail. Nearly all busl- pees was saspended in some districts, nervous old ladies end doubtful old geutiemen uot belng willing to risk spend- ing thelr money when the ehances were that it would be Yoot in the general burst ap, forgetting that in ease the catastrophe did ocour thelr moncy would share procisely tho wame fate, As Saturday drew near, signs muhiplied, Tt wae cold, dark and diemal, and rained almost inceegant- ly. Muthers were particular ic making their children say Ungered until the smal) hours, thinking, perhaps, tt was for the last ime. Businere men doeked up their accounts, and rather congratalated themgelves that if the comot «id come they would not have to meet that note. Howio- who themselves on thei x Te Cleaned il : ( i i aeee He H Sunday lected w provide be- principle of life wae *trong in the busbands, bowever; and, believing the comet to be too orthodox to travel on tho Rabbath, they Concluded to risk their chavce of eating another feod dunner, The event justided their anticipation, Up to twelve o’clock last wight no comet had dwecovered, and the reaction of doubt and fear to a condi. tion ef unbounded delight, was plunging excitable people into wild exeeescs, which is in dnty bound i Abourande of iy poirted. All Dewepaper: wore oparing seud cot extras, which were to contain an culate weription of the personal appearance of the ilustrious visiter, hit an- tecedents from the time of Noah, who was equashed by one of the oldest of the flmily, with the way jo which comets make their approach aud give the firet shock. There «pecimens of modern ingenuity and enter- Prive will now be lost to the world, ae woll as much rious information regarding the babite of comets genersily; and rumor i# at fault in fixing any date to a nora) breaking np in the future. Many conjectures arded ae to the probable reason of the comet's Pearanee, but the moet likely erems to be, that distant inspection he considered himeelf wnrynat ng. an improavion an the tremendoe= which aro worn by ladies, and retired dingusted before this anfore- seen emergency Wasmivoron Natioxat. Monemant—-The Soeretary of the Monument Association, is uew engaged ip ® public exporwre of its transactions, He coufko of bis —''The funds were received by no im particular. the rule etabtiehed by the board contributions *hould be sent to the treasurer, secretary should be informed thereof by another lette ‘written to that offer by the contribaior; and oniy check upon the trouturer'® accounts. The pondenoe wns wrapped +H bundles and stowed away jn pigeon holes, damp and thick with dast, The blank books, tbat op to cupboard®, were green and slimy with mildew. The monmment was in apposite condition; the mortar crumbling from between the foundation stones, and tho internal structure of he bare exposed to the deleterious in. trosion of wind and rain. The memorial blocks wore piled ‘one upon the other in two shantice, which afforded no pro. teoticn from the weather, and ladders, &e., oneheltered on the groand, dered in a collapesd state, depending contribntions of the visiters at the Patent Office ap occasional oi: ing from some oc- sayt, in the od The treasury ment gronnde, ceulriy pauriot,, & and Grand streets, on Wednosday, for examination; aftor 1a 0h 5 NaN ohne ceypebannion: nant heccuneeainns which the excitement erased, Tei the crowd ‘dlsooraod, of apy riot or difficulty of that nature. Hut it appears | Aig jate hour anotlor of my ofigere, named Lailia, waa that the breeze ie up at last, and blood and disorder may | attacked at che cornor of Eleventh strect ani avence & jad next he potiee and very nearly killed. He ig shockingly bruived anc bo now regardod ao the noxt phase of the police war | Posten, aod reevived n rtab in tho back with ab loo pick whieh romaine to he developed qwhich entered tho cavity ef the abdomen ta tho depth of AB @ boginning, scenes were cnasted in tho Werenth | six inebes, the iuetrument being extrastd foun Mg wound ward on Saturday night which portend some bad business Dr. Kimbach, who was immediately called. ob zer o his wounds wiil prove fim or not it is {mposalble to tell as im the working of the two sets of police, which political yet ‘Ata late hour of tho aight tho men frem the adjoiu- scheming and political partisanship have procared for 1g districts wero dismissed, und all remaiued quiet during this city. It appears that special instructions have | the remaluder of the night : Captain Sqntee stated voluutarily to the reporter of the deen put in cirewiation among the mombers of the new | gettin. in regard. to ollcur Cassin, tho potteomam, WHO Metropoliian organwatiou, intimating that tbo most accopa, | had been clubbed by Sergeant Cameron’s eqaat, that be ble achievement which a metropolitan coultachiove would | Was an intelligeat, intrepid offieer, and whilst ho would be fc more apt to ortve right into acrowd in tha manner ho be the arrest and confinement of one of his municipal com- had, yet ho fully lsoleved iat ho was entirely ignorant of Peers om any show of disorderly conduct. This sort of | the occasion of the dilticulty, and undoub i iat mnt of {den has net onty been» enifor topic among tho new | any disorder} parneee. | Bate Ce mepison) cee, it men, but it would appear to be in some ra plan of fh aa . had not beon dismissed by the now therefore, to be recognise 1 by the new men a# their eqialk in wuthority. Tt ie to be pote? in connection with these troubles, that Mr, Squires’ police have made themectves cious in the iatior of “clearing sidowalt way of making themecives kuown, and at tion to @ black ribbon with white letters on | ar Indieatot below. From this grows the ‘Tracy, the ee prisoner, who refosed t the White street people to test their position and give it effect by some such achievement. Ono case has already been up befure Recorder Sioith, and a numoar of bke at- tempts have been nasveces#fully made in othor instances. The scenes in the Kievonth ward will doubtless bring on | the issue now without delay, and what the eud will bo re- mains to be geen. asa chow , Maaghe About 8%; o'clock In the evening of Saturday, one of tae | AMA HHdeu.| The Vee was Se came of th Mavicipal police of the Mleventh ward stood at the corer | Tot in which oJicer Lattin was stabber. of Tenth street and avenve ©. Fils name is Mation, Gils | ANOTHER STAPLING CASK IN (1TH BLEVENTH WARD, being bis regular beag in the ward, on which he was then Still anether io iexton of the Heanties of Lwo police By doing duty as patrolman. Be waa accested by @ young man pamed Van Aradale, wbo has a brother lavely joined in the Metropolitaa polices, This destred the ofiver should go down to the corner of Ninth struct, where thero was a“‘inues.”” Ge refused to go, saying that corner was ing down Sixth treet be was struck with a brick, aud out of hia beat, but Van Aredaie pointed to crowd com- nocked down; whereopcn he saw a man strike at bim ing towards them, and as it was moving on w the beatof | with @ kuife, which took effect on his head, cu officer Mallon, be felt that it needed looking to; so he went | ting through’ hin hat and dangorously —tractering towards tba crowd He found there three men in citizens’ | his skull, Om being asked if he atiributed the dress struggling with a fexrih. The latter (whose name | blow to any one of the police riolere, lw said by no means, was Tracy,) was in an altercation with the others, who | He had been entirely ignorant of ‘the occarrenco, was claimed to be pe Tracy was protesting that | quite removed from its scene at the time, and thinks he be wae outraged, aud appealing to the crowd, | wes attacked in mistake for somebody else. There war a waying the men were not officers and had no | digposition on the part of Captain Squires’ policemen to tems was experienced by Mr, Johu Saaso, who keep Duteh grocery on the corner of ixth sizcet and avanie Itappears be wus returning from the purchase of some which he bad in a basketon hie arm, As be was stars. He challenged them to show thelr “ stars,’ on ink the ivjury to Saase was almed at one of thom, and the exhibition of which he 2 with thom where they | they have a story to the effect that Sause had dispated in would. When Mallon came up, Tracy said, “here isan | regard to them, dissenting from the general tone of the officer; I w!'l go him; I know him to be ap oiticer; there is | mob, and henco the attack on him, Saase hitmsoif denioa hig stak and uniform.” Mallon inquired the nature of the | having any knovlodko whatever of the proceodings and dimieulty, and was very roughly, answered by tho threo | equabble xt Squires’ sation. persons who pereistod in their hold of Tracy, until Mallon SPECIMEN OF METROPOLITAN POLICE. Xho collared bit. Thea the others let go thotr bold of Tra- | at sunrise Sunday morning a8 police ollicer Heuly, of cy, seized Mallon, when somewhat of a tuesio ensued. The | 41.5 geyonteunth Ward, was patrolling his beat, a guitle- threo men bal meantime declared themselves Metropolitan | man game to bimn aul liandod him a light solored shabby Fee eee The ed pal man ae obstructing | Kog.uth hat, which bo says he found lying beside a man A pha aren cocmmmaaes teaay pe 4 who was oither drunk or asleop on a stoop in Broadway, foumenee ve none Oe arrived and was ool- | Fo tried to awake or aroure the man, but could not. Ho larod by (he Motopolitansy Tracy, who had exprossod his J ‘ecording!y picked up the hat, which'ad on it a hand or readiness togo with Mallon, 4 off unmolested, bis 7 r ry bag three captors occupying themsclves exclusively with thoir | VAd&e With the inscription oA MarRoronrr AN Toucs, An the resu't of this, a large crowd was of course a 9 ed, and the turce Motropalitans were. reinforced by tno No. 368. Spare erivel 4. Sergeant Cameron oy lieutenant Mallon was clutched wherever # grip could be | owner can havo it by calling for It as the Seventeeuth of him, and was lod up the stroet we fast as the erowd | ward station heuse. would permit. At this pom, another municipal oiticer of ‘The hat in quostion was seen by the reporter of the more desirable capiure—“the Wood policeman.’” the Eleventh ward) and a the Metropolitan ‘Thie hat be gave to ollicer Henly for wafe kooping. The the Eleventh wurd station house came rupning dowm the | Pekatp, and the buage recognized as exactly similar to stroet to see what was the row. Ashe reached the crowd | Wve provided for we new poiice at White street, Ge tren heen at ome, to confront ee e Metropoli x uttered a word, The or made any further indication, he was strack to the » Kixeise Commission ere. ‘ound with a club, and his head almost split with the The Board of Excise Commissioners mot oo Sunday, low. He aleo was selved by the sergeant and bis squad, | Present, Commissioner+ fiaskett and Holmes, and borne senaoless to Nation house ‘of the Commis? i SAOTLD DROGCOITY RR LOCRNSED. The following communication was handed in by C.J. reached Sixth etroet, whore the | Warren, Secretary of thoCity Temperance Alianes. ™ oF EXC states to your jo yar ot a e purest quality ann! highest proof pal idewalk, but re- | belong Pirikaous ? faxed to disperse until the men wore release?. Tho 2. Would the sale of such alcohol in small quantitic crowd was informed that Police Jnatioe Andersap had | withort a license, for the purpose above namo, be a vio been sent for and that the men would be out again witheat | lation of the law ’ delay. Groans and bootings, exclamations 5. Can a license for such sale of alcohol not be obtained expressions iaerewod every woment, and the crowd stili | for a lees sum than thirty dollars? ‘Ab answer to thee iagairion will enable tho rubeeriber . to decade whether be shall apply to your honorable board JUSTION AND¥RGON ARRIVES. ’. On the arrival of Jnshee Anderson it was thouzhs the | fore joemse: Mewperristy, enomnied By ee eon New Youn, Jure 19, 1857. ‘view of this emergeney. It was thought to be neveseary Commissioner Li wanrt raid be was not prepared to give that Deprty Sry indent Carpenter should arrive before | a formal opinion on this subject just yet, bat he would do ing conkl be bad or a “court” held which would warrant the liberation or bail of the mon. Juntioo | *2 NeXt Tuesday. His impression was that it was not ne Anderson, however consented to delay prooecding unui the | Cee#ary for a druggist to be licensed to soll alcohol, as tho arrival of Carpenter who was sent for. law war evider Ee yap red ee pat a stop to CAPT, PRTKR SQUIRES HAS ANOTHER PAKTICCLARLY | Upplieg ouly, and not to check the sale of aay article ro- GUY PAWRBS OOCABION. quired in manufactures and the arts. LICKNHRS GRANTED, Licensch were thon granted to Joroph McKee & Mon, No, 202 Broome street, ax storekoopers to soll liquor, and to Joba B Onzzous, corner of Broadway and Cava! eireet. Commissioners then adjourned anti] Picslay Mr, Carpenter arrived and was duly hooted into the station house by the withgnt. ome thou. fanda wore now eollocted around the place, and taere was 7 ae of 4 serious riot, Captain Peltor Squires, who of this post for tbe pew Commis: ioners— being established there since his ejection from the mani- % station house—bad sent a requisition for more men Our Alnany Correspondence. to the Fifteenth and Seventeenth “‘precincls,”’ in response Ausany, June 15, 1867, to which eight men (a section) from ‘The Municipal Con flictin ARany—Ths Rival Mayors—Pro. porition for boih to Rewign—Conal yet Incumbered—The Contracting Board, dc., #c. Tt ts now fourteen months since the municipal afairs of sod grees dionty Unis city have been in a confused state, in consequence of bP ong ate aw p dd a contert between two individuals, both claiming tho otfica already organiced {nd position of Mayor, Hoth elaim to bave been logally the ee Different of these “ commit 4. bot AiGoates f1 Aiferent Board: seared ‘his ie ‘ae x Commas ete “ ry or Premises as ® | Common Councils attesting to their respoctiyo Mayorthips. Sonoe” torn, nan steven. his of omnes the Capa re. oni @ , . 2 = feced, ap Gd, bie castrate, He also refused different | conses to cartmen, porters an’! others, and each usieg the offers t@ have the men set at and by all socounte— | same city seal to give virtue and effect to thoir signatures. vent their * Metropolitan” rivais—ihe”Mnaicipal men |‘, aay or two ance Mrs Parry eamed Weems too Jae pane te tt hg ge = Mery evep & generous and praiseworthy spirit. slightest signai on the part | city seal for some official purpose, ae bo alleges; of a man of the force would have been enough % | but H was nowhere to be found. He aceusod some of the create the pe rs city officials of having removed it from ite amal plaon of ome ICRMEN BAILED. deposit in the Chamberiain’s office. Alter making inqal Pap dy dn Lo A ep hin ries which produced no eatisfaction, be obtained s maron's by ty Fp yp hatchet and carpenter's chive], and proceeded to the desks Complaint was entored the three policemen, Tien, for the purpose of breaking them open. ’ wae Oo ey againat officer Castind, the man who was clubbed, for the Lg one each, fr eae copen ope enamine ¢ ‘on Wedneeday, oa oa bahery, St the corner of Canton cud Grund ctrestt. Any seme? ee en of sobstantial men volunteared a ball; a hundred could | Veged question. Rave been eutored oo $e Goes. The name of Robert Karl | te decide which is the legal! ‘was, however, entered, and deeraed sufficient for both ‘very likely that stipulations willever be ‘The men were then ordered to be set at iiberty. They | ty co an to bad been at fret contined in the basement, bat eneh Was | number of the the were car- | the welfare rn crowd clamorous for | to «il other rae Wrecetved et. tne | SueenesNe ts sears he Moor ing acclarnationa ae Common 0 of cheers and tigers, Cheers for Mayor Woed, ‘tho de- wnicrim—#ot™e pervon olier than of =the two grenma ares Jed to thin reasonabie t, aiuhoagh it le wel! And the “deputy Mayor title Carpenter,” with excera. | Lsomyiat sr, Quarkenbers, rr the Sake oe eatin tho tions, bowie noises of every sort for “the black ro | controversy, is perfoet!y willing to secede to the wiabee of Publican club hone,” were vented by the thourands now | 40 large & portion of oor most highly infioendal and collected around the station house. The condition ef af | rag citizens. Should Mr. Perry rele, Ww UU injare queted to disperse takty, the sresiipal mon ao ureiog | MMyecemaly im pubic eemation, Toe Conner, Can until they broke op and went away in knota. pw Ta my : make cholee of @ Mayor of their own particular political oreed— ove thourand doliarnta year. ‘As Ladviaed you ip my Inet, the Canal Contracting Board ew house, y were by no moans satieled with their | —a biack republionn body orguoired by the last logis abortive night's work. Numbers of the more disorderiy, | lature upon tae vote of your senaiive frien, Dan, Sickles who to bave been roused up by these proceedings, | —met in this city. State Engincer Seymour, master of Follltine, decapitated several Know Nothing eamal ongin cers, and placed in their elead black republicans, Bar rows, the Comptroilor, and Whalen, Commirrioner—both didieulty, and which will bly cot the life of one of | Know Nothings—refared to attend the meeting: and it is appears thetr number ts otficer Laffinand another | believed that Fitzhugh, republican Commiseioner, doce wore proceeding np avenue (, towards Floventh street, | not coimeide In the action of Seymour, the "Ee they got into altereation with « ot bard tewlar friend” of Sickles, and refused to ure characters whom the wished to disperse, bufwho at once | action with Lim, 6, aftor eli, thir poll'tcal law, taking not only defied but isenited them. The officers took out wer from the entire Cana! Roard, and placing it in the is of a minority, may not be se advantaggous in @ iy eense ae Mr. am, Mr. Seymour aud thdir part ends aoticipated when Wey hurried the law throug’ the Tegisiatare. Th te the middie #f Juno, but there We not yet @ Rutulo their clobs for an assault and arrest, when a Aght ensued, tn which Ome was badly beaten aud the other nearly killed formorly of the olf station Bre latter wae officer Lamon, house, but now of the new, Hie was stabbed in the back with an “toe the inetrument passing throweh his | canal boat here. Large numbers of Fastorn vessels are abdomen to the depth of five inches and « half, Tho | lying at oor wharves awaiting cargoce of dour, grain and wooden Eandlo of the thing broke of, leaving it etick ing in | ger Western produce, jong eines expected’ by canal. hie body. He was brought to the station house almost | Tho Western scotion ie Ptill ib @ miseradie condition. An dead, and the pick with which he had been mtabbed | soon as one break becomes cinea!, nother occurs, and extracted by Dr, Kimbach. He had been also stabbed | each successive one appears more formidable and more with the same instrument in the shoulder and inthe thich, | difieuit of repair. Dexpatehes are cially received by the The instrament toe to be diunt, the point beir forwarders and merchants, advising them of the wi rounded, #o that it is thought by the doctor that in ‘abouts of their beats and the precarious prospect: of ar among the intestines it ‘merely pushed them aside 4 riving at tide water. While the Price canal is thus impeded, ‘The danger to the man’s lifo will de- | and water Cut of, the railroads are aa ro- ey J ertent of the [pfammation which larly a8 clock work ing merchandise to the following is Oaptain Recor tewiren” state: eet and agricultoral and products to the Fast. le ment in reladion $0 the events of Saturday sight ip his | thero a concert of action amongst ortain persons to render 'Presinch”” the canale AB unROrviconble ws possible? : QUARAST(NB MATTERS. ‘The Sheriff of Richmond County Notified by the Commissioners of Emigration of his Duty to Protect the Uld Quarantine Batid, Ings from being attacked or Barned— Tho Mob and Kiot Act as Applicahie to the Unee— Arrest of Ragan for Violating the Health Laws=—The Missing Metropolitan Policeman Makes a Voluntary Surrender of Himself for Trlal—Aflairs ut Seguine’s Polat, ac., die. Tho threata to burn tho Hospital buildings at the old Quarantine, of which mention has been made in the Hentz, havo waked up the Comnussioners of Kmigration of this city to the consideration of tho subject. Threats of this character have been frequently made heretofore, bat no attention has been paid to them, buth from the vagueness with which they have been atiored, and tho bolief that no serious design was cntertained of carrying them into exo. cution, In the prosent case a degree of oarnosinoss has been shown, however. by the threatening party that has lef no doubt of a mort docisivo intention to fulfil the threata. A prominentcitizen of Torpkinsvillo is sald to have taken th lead in the mauer, and announced openly thas « gang #too momeotarily in readiness, whenover intimation was give of the preper time having arrived, to apply a torch to th present hospital buildings. In view of these facta, and th strong probability of an aliempt being made to carry the threata in question into execution, the Commissionors of Emigration caused the following notice to be served inst Saturday upon the sheriff of Richmond county — To Apnauam Lockman, Boe . Sheri! of Richmond County -—~ Please to take nesice dat the Commissioners of Rmigrstion ~ That threats have wgtcoy the how ila a sudo ber ~ enclosure. in the town of have been apprised of tbe followin x facie been made to burn inj dulldings within che Cantieton, in your evan y, beld by ‘ommivsimnera, fant neh threats have been tae by Mr Ray Tompkins, a resi dent of your county, and that be has deelared that ha would Jead or head s party or person cr people to burn the anid bos pitale or bull ge, Thix notive is given you vinione Of wn Actor his Riate, opti ot compensaing partion wheme p gemsequence of mods or rials,” President of Benn any Carsruny el New Yorx, Jone Uy 07. The act referred to in the above document it will be remembered, was parsed by the State Lagislaturo follow ing the burping Of the emigrant depot on Lowg Inland and the breaking open of Gour stores in this city ty a mob Tis object is to protect personal or corporate property [rem being injured or outraged by any wob or riot. The act provides that in the eave of the destruction or injury of Any Duilding or other real or personal properly by a mod, or in consequence of @ riot, that the city or county in which the property is rituated shall be lable for the damages. In order to recover damages the person or corporation must show that there has been no carolessness or negligence in the protection of the property, and tHat after the first threat or {a:imation of any attompt to injaro or destroy the property, due notice of avch throat has deen served upou the mayor or sheritl of the county; the andar t mayor or sheritl receiving such notice ia bound to take all {egal measurca to protest the pro- perty attacked or ‘threatened. It remains to be seem whether the Shoriff of Richmond couniy will take what tbo Emigration Oommissioners and Quarantine offi cials may consider all the “legal means”? in his powor \o Prevent the oxccution of the threats referred wo. Ooo thing if certa D, that the sberiff, in case of an atlack upon the hospital bufidings, might, in compliance with the law, cal! upon tho citizens of Tompkinsvillo to aid in resisung such attack. Another thing ts certaln, however, that such neall would be aticndea, in all likelihood, with procisely the same result as an attempt to “call epi: ils from the vas ra. ” Tt ts said that as to boing obliged t pay 150,000—the estimated value of the Lorpital Less the old Quarantino—the county would cheerfully ke over double and quintuple the amount, if thereby could be offected a permavent remora’ Quarantine from Staten isiand. Ga the other hand, # is quite confidently believed that wh-n the tax paying citizens of Richmond county have the requisitions of the existing law brought clearly and undewiabiy beforo ther, ra ber than belpg compelled to pay the logs sustatn- 04, thley will coaao from their present advice to bura the old Quarantine build action ts shortly to be taken by the Oommisstoners of Emi Fration to recover from the county of Richmond the loes— atated at $15,000—eusiained in the buralng of the build. ings om the Wolef farm. The different fire insurance cow- penies in which insurances upon the preperty had been effected. it iz stated, have refused to :ay the amount of their rowpoctivi law referred to, also. that the mannor of the burn”, of te Duildingy ren: 'e policies, Claiming wuder {tr dered the policies void. VIOLATION OF THE QUARANTINE LAWS. Dominic Ragan, whose arrest sone week ago by three of the Metropolitan policemen stationed at Quarantine, produced euch an excitoment and flourish of of- pirtols afer baving been let g0 by the Health Officer, wan rearrested on Sawarday, . He arrested upon three charges of violation of tho Health laws, in hay!og bad illegal communication with ves- v. He gave bail betere ge, 00 ‘nora cers? on shore, upon warrant issued by Justion Welsh of thie has been eels and pasrengers under quarantine Justice Osborne in the sum of $00 opon each cba appear for trial at the next term of the Court of ¢ Sesstovs of thie city. ‘Otticer Mel y, onc of the three Metropolitan po!icemen ithe vid Quarantine, who aaristed in the Oret arrest of the man Ragun, just 'spokon of, under dirseuon of the Heahh Officer, and who subsequently, together with bie associate cilicers, war arrested upon tho charge of agsnult ‘and battery upon Ragan, bot failed to apvear at tho oxamt. pati m, on Saturday made a voluntary srrouder of himeelf ave bai) before Justicn Freaa, at Tompkins- ~ trial. e sui of $250, to answer the c-arge preferred agaipet Dim atthe next sitting of the Wichmoud Oounty Court of General Sers.one. MATTERS AT SRAUINT’R POT. Building matters at Soguine’s Point are progressing slowly but surely. No threats to burn the buildings have deen made for several days. Seay siregglers dropping tn upon the insurgents at thetr headquarters, rive the com. forting arrurance, however, at none of we buildings Will bo pormittod fo staud twenty-four hours after being id, Moanwhile, the commencement of the anchor: is looked uj as tho cenrsor of Carther arrivals, nod thowe epeedlly., The Snot so much relished a8 formerly, and ap prebensions preval ‘om tho,infcted veuse! ‘The committer appointed af the mecting held tn National Hall last Thursday night, met on Satarday evening at 336 . Capt. John Creighton was called to the chair, and Alexander (, Lawrence officiated as Secretary. The following arrangements were made for the renention of General Walker, who will arrive in this city tomorrow evening, via South Amboy:— Committe: Wm. Wilton, gerty, Judge F. McCarthy, J ‘A A. Thompaon, Mai- com Campbell, Judge A 1s. Moion, Major Jonas Bartlott, fel H Jobnaon, W il/iam Dayton, Fmund Brankman. Grand Marshal—Colone! ( B Hall. Asiciant Marshale—Caxt, J. T. Fa num, Capt. J. B. O'Keofo, Capt. Charke Waters, Major H. Weldon, Colonel iW. ae Charles Krogor, Oapt. John Movardell, William Dayton, h. Cooper. Colene| George B. Hall has notified the officers and mem- bers of the Independent Battalion of Ryndors Grenadiers to meet at their head quarters, Navonal Ball, this evening, for the purpose of recelving orders in reference to the re- ception of tho Nicaraguau Prerident, Military companier And assoeiations who intend jotning tho procession aro to report thetr intention to the Grand Marshal, at 347 Broad. way. The Rynders Goard will sumber the occasion, and w!! conelet of oevairy fartry; in ail epwards of 200 men. ‘The National Hall, Canal stroct, to-morrow afternoon, at 4P, M., and march down meer, where the artillery will fre @ salute of one hondred guns on General Walker's landing, Carriages will be in waiting to receive the Commitice and their dist'nguiebed guest; the proosasi mn will reform and march for the Park, where the woloom: ing *peceh will be delivered on bebalf of the citizens of New York. The procession will then escort the General to the St Niche lar, where sparunonts have been propared for bie reeertion. Alderman William Wilton, with two other gontlomen, have heen depoted a a committes to tho Common Counail to reqnest their ¢o operation im the above proceedings, not however, it if stated, (m a oancial of view. The subject will come ap before that body thie evening. Sach are the present arrangements for thie rece but the inem bers of the commuttse will moot this evening At (86 Rroadway, and the plana may be modified in conse: uence of the hoped for action of the Commen Council. > Walker will be im tho city at 7 o'clock to morrow night i Pollce Intelligence, Ropewe a LRCTENAST OF PoUct.—=A bold atiompt wae made on Satarday night, about 12 o'clock, by a gang of young rowdiee to @teal a wateh and chain from L.eytonant Fiarity, of the Sixth ward. It seome tho officer was stand: ing at the corner of Broadway and Leonard street when two men, one on each side, brushed by him, an! In doi fo one made a grasp at his watch chain. Lieut Fiarity caught the fellow, but be was rescued by his con foderates, who were near by. Am alarm wae given and the thieves were followed up and three persons were ar- rested charged with being in the aseanit upon the Ilontenant. They gave their names as Luke Kagan, Agate, Harrie aod Joho Tiadden, is Connecter with the threats to burn the old Quarantine bdildings it is rm ported that proliminary PRICE TWO CENTS. ‘Arrival of the Vanderbilt at New York amd the North America at Quebec, FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Probability of War Between Spain and Yexice, POLITICO-RELIGIOUS DEMONSTRATION IN BBUSSELS, Visit of the Russian irchduke Constantine to Queen Vietoria. His Highness First Saluted by the United States Frigate Susquehanna, The Frigate Niagara to be Altered in England, Consols, 94 a 94 1-8. COTTON FIRM—DECLINE IN BREADSTUFFS, &o., &e., a. The steamship Vanderbilt, Captain Wiloox, which lef Havre on the 2d and Southampton on the 3d tmatant, ar- rived at her dock at 11 o'clock yesterday morning The Vanderbilt bad one hundred and one passengers, five hundred tops of merchandise, and $58,000 in epene. © the Oth and 10tL (he Vanderbilt eacountered sirong wosterly gales, and throughout Wo entire pasesge hoa® winds and rough sea. Among the passengers is the Rev. J. P. Labagh, bosrer of important despatches from ocr Minister at Paris. ‘The Canadian screw steamebip North American arrive@ at Quebec at midpight of Saturday, The North Amerivan sailed from Liverpool on the 9 of June, Tho news is four days later. ‘Tho United states mail steamer Fulton, Oaptain Wouom, left Havre and Cowes on the 3d instant, for New York. The Belgian mail steamer Belgique sailed for Now York from Southampton ov We 2d tuslant, with » merge nam ber of passongers. Tho British Parliament was not f session, ow ng to ino Whitsuntide holidays. Tho Russian Grand [uke Constantioe has paid a strictly private visit to Queon Victoria, at Osborne, arriving thore at midday on the Soth uitimo from Oserbourg Hw im- perial highness was saluted by the ¢5!ps-of war assembiod there for tho ;urpose, and the American frigale Suague- banpa, then lying in the readstead, took a prominent part in the reception, the Russiau fag being ram ap st the main during the saluting, andthe band on deck playing the Russian pational anthem. The Susquehanna immod)- ately afterwards palled for Gravesend. The Grand Duok@ remained at Geborne vo longer than Sunday evesing, at 11 o'clock, when bo embarked on board the Quece’s #team yacht Orborne, sleeping on board and at 6 o’clook on Monday morning sailed for Calas, under salates from the royal yacht squadron battery at Cowes apd wbo fleet at Spithead. The brevity and privacy of his visit, aa compared with the length and pubbici’y of bis sojourn im France, attords a topic for comment in the Kaglish jour- nals. ‘The Parts Monivvr avnownces the dissolution of the ie Blalutlve body. Tho new olections are to commense on the ‘iat of June, and the number of the deyuties for the new Chamber is fied at 267. 3 The private letters from Parie state, with reference to ‘the fact of the committee of tho ‘egialative body having ‘mn tho drat instance recemmended the repotion of the Bank of France bill, tbat bat for the approach of the gene ral eloction its mombers wonld vot heve gigen way, and that tho Dill would have been rows vat by the Legila- tive body as weil as by its commities. Vague ramore were current of another attempt on the life of the Kmperor, while on « visit to the artillery mu- eum, but they were apparently unfounded. Tho recent storms in France had oecariomed groat da- mage tothe vines and crops {1 many of the communes. Advices from Calcutta, lndia, of the 22d of April, say — The mutinous spirit in the a my appears to have receir- ed a check. The fatoof the ih Native lofantry haa frightened men who, whatever ¢lao they may with, do not with to fease to be soldiers. The mon of the 36h, who tannted tho pupils in the U'mballa echool of exarcine, are under wial. The Parle Consitutiond pudliahes « private ieter from the Persian Gulf, received through Bagdad, which announ- es thaton the List of April the British woeps evicusied the town of Mohammerah, of which they had taken pas- ‘seemion at the latter ond of March. Mr. Plevens, the English Cooval at Teheran, arrived af Vienna on the Joh alt. with the raiified angio Persian troaty, and left for Landon the same evening. A leter from Rome, of the 26th of May announces thas the raising of the state of weige at Ancona bad prodecod every where an excellent ofeet. On the hth ultimo the Popo, after having publicly givem hls apostolic blewing to the inhabitants of Ancona, ieft for ler}, which place be reached before noon. He subjccm ‘well know that Pias 1X. 9 8 kindgbearted map, and conse quently their reception of him has been cor dial. A despatch from Oonsian! nople states tbat ibe sclmerip- tion List of a banking scheme started by nave Orme, had reached £1,800,000. ‘The Federal Assembly of Porne bar been conroxed for the th of June, to rati’y the treaty with Promia, The Spanish census war early completed, apd ibe rewa will, {tis said, show & popalssion of 17,000,008 souls. Specie to the value of £80" 400 Bad reached Raglaed, chiefly from Australia. Reuter, the cashier «ho lately embexaled 360,000 flertas from the Bank of Vienna, made @ full confession of hin quilt. He loetthe greater part of vat nam in the tery, to win in which he believed be had an infallible calecia- Uon. He also lost money by gambling in the public funda. That part of the Atlantic submarine cable lying a ine factory of Giaae & Co., Greenwich, had barely escaped destruction by fire, some of the adjotning buildings to hore contu.ning the cavlc baying Deen burned down. ‘Thero was no change in the stale of Marsha) Radet:ky's bealth. The London Pimet of June 3, saya The United States ship Niagara bay bow! by Mr. Dallas, ihe American Miniter, cided that the necesrery arrangements showid be entered into by the #bipwright departerent of che dockyard, ro am to adapt that vewe! fur the reception and transport of her ‘tended portion of the olectric cable from Liverpool. The London Times of lst of Jane contains the fo'lowing =. Om Monday last s nomber of Mormons Mame fe Nowingbassehiire, for Liverpool, en route for Utube ase, them was a man named Robert Wright, who waa ene: the executive officers of an Odd Fellows’ lodge held at the Angel inp, the funds of which wero kept in a strong box leekea ith three locke, each key in the pownennioet 4 erent member, one of whom was Wright Among the papers and money was a check for £218, realy ¢rewa and signed. Alter Wright had left the wen ce howdy, some of the members bad to funde ef the » when it ¥ were infor shire Baok that the check wae cashed 13th of April. The police started ia pursuit arrested bim and his family on thei Sheffield, en route for Liverpool. A portion of the money was foubi upon the prison r, who Was taken before tbe magistrates and remanie! Raron Hyde de Neuvile, former Minister of Marine, died im Paris on the morning of the 28th wit. ‘The little Arcb-Duchess Sophia, of Austria, died at Bude on the evening of the 20h elt ‘Thirteen hundred houses bad been burned dewn by @ great fre tn the Turkish caprtal, ‘The ebipping retorne of the Britieh Beard of Trade for tho month ending the 90th of Apr!l show a falling off te the number of arr vale, owlng to a long continuance of ad- vyorse winds Tho clearances present am (nerease coms meneorate with (hat (m the declared value of our ex jorte. tions, The exelee statements for the firet quarter of the present year have also boon issued, A comsilerabie im. croaee is shown, except in that of home-made sugar, the experiments in connection with which appear at length to have been abandoned, The general appearnn’e of the English mowey market had undergove @ change [or the beter. Commercial afairs in Parw, although not ae active as a} the Came period o previous years, were wlerably roma”