The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1867, Page 5

o ‘| i. ‘ ‘€ “readth fronting on the west side the luis ‘Seer regs; iv tho rear on the east side, 1 iff |, SRBRY Of tho time—necessartly arbitrary—the southern Hoffman, we believe, ‘Weseived $10,008 for his labors from the city; but if ‘Corporation to the Park vague and ludicrously ambigu- ous, but furnish atitle to the rightful owners, Wo refer to Mr. Hotman’s Treatise, because he bas been made the cape gout to defend the title of the city to the section Which tas ‘been selected ag the sit® for the new Post pursuance of a résolution Decessber 18, 1808. oficial duty, commenced the of ihe Tend ct of . Hoesen for execution to-morrow. the Legisiature, passed April 17, ot be] bet Sonnet, have, in performance o jon of a deed mm, and that deed a Ihave pager apne te the city to convey, and aiso the ‘Murrey Hoffman, of the Hon. Coser his‘satisfaction as-counsel for the United Siates the title of the city. When it is remembered that Mr. Hoffman received ‘the handsome sum of $10,000 faction with the ttle Of the waively"puts it, and that the which“ for “expressing his satis- city,” as Mr, O'Gorman evidence to tbe contrary, pregented in our former article, was mainly selections from his own book, but little, if any, faith ‘ona Bo placed In a title based on such authority. Hie not to be imferred from this that we impugn the geeuracy of the stetements of ‘eve falth in them; for aid Dutch records, embra: ‘arms on the island and their comunencement of this contury. the learned Judge. We are based principally on the rants of the primitive subdivisions aud ¢ransfers Tn all to the Mien detnlled references 10-thesa grants they furnish evidence that the Park was private property, and consequently it was not ‘amy cbarter, conveyed to the city by FARM IN THR PARK, ‘Tae PROVOST In support of this fact, it man rejers. vo the right of mortheast corner of the Park, may be stated that Mr. Hoff- the Provost tamily to the now occupied by the Su- Court, and there is # suit pending in the Supromo to recover it from the city in behalf of the ‘hers. How, then, can the naked statement that tho Park ‘was a part of the nn) tation by Governor Dongan, in ted lands granted to the Corpo- 1686, be supported. It fs ‘@ mere: embodiment of rockiess effrontery, too! dear at ‘$10,000. fo ‘116, says of the Provost ‘fresh water pond or Caicit remembered, was on the conf ‘Mr. Hollman, inthe appendix to his Treatise, farm, in connection with Hook, which, it must be nes of’ Reade’ street :—'T shail voly:refer to one otber parcel to the-south of fresh “stAntheny” Colv AN my Colve, by ground brief of the 14th of Octo. lket,,1638, convoyed to David Provost.a parce! of ground Sinus dessribed:—Beginning on the north end of tho ‘highway that leads to tho Calck Hook, containing in four rods; in length, on both (ook f Mi My. Holtman { lf f. HE ‘on the east'side of Hd deed conveying ) when reduced it i is confirmed by a | end Here ie another extract from ye 116) :— “Amother pare! on the 01 street—of over r Stuyvesant to Paulus — hn » (Aibany px. Piece rh 008. i became vested Wiliam Merritt to William 63.) and mcluded a portion of After perasing these extracts oi coer Counsel, in ci ne I ‘THs rosT OFFICE sre, ‘There ie Do subject of more able ingeuenen eee tte BN of Title to eat it may be boundaries of the grant wi regard to. tho iitle of ibe ety, ; for Mr, O'Gorman would not sak by endorsing the title of way twenty: eowise twenty- sides, as well along the a8 on the south side, fifty-four rods” finds himself in-a dilemma. See leavors to render tho boundaries indcfinito:— Parcel,” he says, “‘inay be -located between on the north at which: @ careful word)—“ about Chambers and Reade commou ended” — Broadway,’? was afterwards & portion of the property to toto Enghah measureme: embraced the northern portion of the Park aate of the on very sectior by Teller himself, as recorded in Valonune’s’ referred to im detail mour previous arti- Hoffman's Treatise (ap- yath side of frosh water. four acres was xranted by Sbrickowthe 3ist of Jun- Winiamn Meritt pridF to Janeway, October, 1608," age 1 ‘we have another instance that the Park was not ‘property; for the boundaries in the grast show the “commons,” or the the course of tho emt- Heftuan’s ‘‘gatisiac- cannot excite bis high Corporation to In times tate when tho its purchaser.” “Every man with qxdmary thrift or shrewdness who desires to buy a deter a Maan to oc! the se ascertains first what right the possessor it; and if the assumed owner fails to present ive records of his title there is no specuis- fen Moto enough to undertake the peslioas rik of part- fog with bis mbacks under such extraordiaary cir- @ same caution should be exercised by’ the Atierney Goueral of the United States when land or wulldsnge are about to be transferred to. the general gov- @rament as marks similar negotiations on the part of | aged 2) pth A ‘‘flaw tn a title” may bo equiva- ‘the removal of its 601 (mentary fabric may thus be cr portion of ‘Office. ty money hag not becn yevonue officials the Wundred thousand greenbacks, ner stone, nnd the doou- umbled to ashes, this principle to the proposed purchase the City Hall Park as a site Jor the new decd convoying the land to the govern- it has been duly prepared, but Lappily the purchase id; for in these asury can ill afferd to lose five days of dishonest Tt must be conceded ‘that tho deed is as plausible as any similar document. any amate fiagiction as amooth and tcrso mit; but af the tite, and not the mere sand equity as the only security “If the rr ‘United “tates carofully read i the document would be worth!oss, being confirmed by Gov in which it is.accurately do. will move any way the hand may desire to it; but a title does hot consist in mere eat could prepare a decd Astor or any other iand owner to other citizeng, araseology. conveying the real as deed, is re; of the THE DRED. 4 in law aser. BIGMIVICANT OMISSIONS FROM ‘deed’ transferring a portion of the Park to the it-will'be found a mera feference to the assumed title re silence of the docuinent on of Hook, and ‘‘west of the ‘Hoffman, in hie Treaties, thus fe ib t. Ho i, thus refers to the ral the Court-of the United States in rier: to-such titles as those on which the Bayard and wero heid:;— not be questioned at this day that the ti; it of, @iscovery and occupation of New Nethoriands, and par- of Manhattan Island, was in the Duteh, and the claims of the English were unfounded. Tue nized ve preme Court of the Untied regard applicable to the Whea- f ba raaeat 969 the Eoglch spvereign, 867. a CONFESSION ap ante Hoftann, and farstsh.evidenoe frotn other FROM A HISTORIAN, fm his work on the Park, says:— “Ja theearly days of the Revolution it on its enc! Sao of Witten Cairatk fence; and by the ‘new peapie in their that the tates: was quartered in on the january, 1770. lee i fi of ground acar Weerty polo was erected, for it ee mn another liberty po! oo — Sas to wi ib exceptions, Taiged within the hmit of the com- mmons”’ were orga,» @n opon northern 8 losed with a ie by a Tony Sih hea jail,’ afterwards known a8 ‘The ‘DoW ns (he Hall of Rocorda Tt was there y aia to the accommodation of the demonstration: themsels es Sixtoonth British regi- ‘the barracks, cut down near their quafters, on —— the mea- ‘or making an unsuccess- ‘tion to erect another On the Quackenboss and other Sons Liberty pur: former sito” and , 1770, without ym the by the 10, tho fifth was the the ity d overlooking great outlot known as the to Boston? Daw is ae : i E i i cet Ets | af 5. ry = .t y, = only = the io is penitential by an official confession of the fact, Such a coprse' demanded by candor and honesty, Let the f ga i 4 and the Peter Funks of New York have a mon the business of aclling real estate for which they have no title; but Common Council should pot itgelf by such au act. ‘CONFESSION OF THH CITY THROUGH FATHER VALENTINE? The deed conveying the Park is signed by Mr. Vaien- tine, the Clerk of tho Common Council, an an " worthy of credit, The venerable ewan, as: mouthpiece of the Corporation, in His of New. York, page 281, says: “The ae wd tearack originally formed. paris, a square, lying generally between the » Broodway and Ni reet on the east and fest, and between Ann and Chambers streets north dnd. south. It was traversed diagonally by Chatham street, then the post vhus forming a griangie on the east side, a part‘of parity was appropriated by Colonel Dongan, Governor in 1686, and was occupied for several years as & place of amusement, and called the Vineyard.’ Then if the Vineyard was om what is now known as ‘Ann strect—if the carly Dutch sipped their fi of deer on the sile ef the Hrnatp office—how and when did the title pass from the city to private individuals? But itis claimed that Dongan grantea the wheie of the commons to the city, What, then, becomes of that por- tion conveyed for a vinoyard? Way did the Corpora tion refrain ‘rem taking possession of the land till over acentury bad elapsed since the alleged transfer was executed? Mr, Valentine clsims ‘in several volumes of his “Manual of the Corporation,” (se2 Manual for 1856), that the Park was a part of tho unpatented and unap- ropriajed lands grauted to the Corporation by the Char- er of Dengan. We regret that his historical compile tions—which redeem the work—em) ily contradict bis assumption, Ho tel!s us that Leaac Sears claimed a portion eo! the Park after thé Revolution, and that the Common Council. reoegnized his. title te the property by paying him the price for which ho offered to sell it; ho tells us that that Teller, who owned the portion oi the Park where the Now Court Houge now stands, sold his imterest to tho ety; he endorses the statement of Dawson that the Sons of Liberty, afer applying in vain for permission to erect a hberty pole on the common near the British.verracks, purchased a piece of ground for the purpose witiin the Park. ‘Zixis purchase implies a private owner. ‘Who was he? Ail these facte, when wenved together, invest the title of the city to any portions of the, Park—except these purchusedrom the private owners above referred to—with overwhelming doubt they show,; too, that the plea, which sets forth that the Park, or the com mons, wa: granted to the city ‘by the Charter of Bon- Gu, Cannot be maiuiained ip fect or law. THE BAYARD ®ARM. In tho mikist of this dooumen: Babel we have, fertnnately, 2 decd on record, which .sheds light-on tho chaos, We have proviously sgiven it in full da-tho Hxxavn, It is the old Dutch instrument by which the Park became a portion-of the farm of Bavard, Wha langnags of the deed i decisive and as exhaus- tive as the topography of the time would admit, It defines the extrcne beinvaty of the tarm as west of the Swamp, or. west of Ferry ezreot; and the Park, icinding -that portion of % which has beon selected as the site for a Post Oifice is included necorsa‘ily in th deGnition, It could mot apply to tho interteuing Iand, for 4t wis a pari of Bookman’s farm; and it could not-mean the King’s farm, fer it was already aypropriated, Tiren it mnst have been the middle and otherwise unclained ground, known jas the commons or tbe Park, The statement that the Park was originally public property is thua shown tobe fatlacious. A CHANCE FOs A TRANSCENDENTAL BISTORLAN. » It weuld boone of the marvels of Dutch histery tf tho sou ww York selouted siles, for farms or plantations around a ficld, with the intention of making it “peutral ground.” To ‘case we must “suppose mea the frSt omigranis from Holland to this stand were engacet in ‘iostiliies immediately after ‘thetr-arrivel, aud that, after a war, tuey agreed thu the feld in question hould = forever receive i due to @ truce But history is jilent on this subject, and im the absence of evidence to tho contrary we must conclude that our primitive Knickerbockers were peaceful and acted with rthe-thrift which distingutehes their race. In the latter pert of the seventeenth century we find them the owners of germs on and around ‘the ‘commons,’ or»tho City Rall Park. Beokman’s farm and grazing grognd ex- tended to the v ot Park row, ‘Property em- braced the site the ne urt House andthe espla- nade in front, and. the Ba: farm extended cbliquely over the of the onthe south sie, while Teaac Sears, a prominem’ Revolutjon: triot, owned ee ee ee an tained from no ex source; they forin — the ofteint annaiset ihe city, and ‘as such they to the credit duc:to impartial witnesses, ‘ates sme Ce on might mu facts ‘to prove private property, and thatits southern sections f« portion of the Bayard farm, pow claimed by the Ki steddamily; but the evidenco presented in thir artich must satisfy any impartie! reader that tho citycannot claim it by virtue of tho Donegan charter, and ae it as- sumes to Convey a portion.of it to the United States, as the possessor under that jer, the deed signed by Mr, Valentine and others #3 legally worthless, the Attormey General of the United States take the hint. WAPORFANT MOVEMENT AMONG FRENCH CITIZENS IN THE WEST. A Milféen and A Half of French Voters Dn- repreeented—Call for a General Convem tion. &ey A meeting of the French citizens of Detroit, Michigan, was held in that city last wook. Mr. F, X. Demay, President ofthe Lafayctie Associetion, was calicd to the ‘ chair, Dr. J..N, Cadienx presented» scaies of resolu- tions, which, were adopted, calling. for o general convention of the French residing in the Western States, to ‘bo held in’ Detroit on the 25th of this month, Dr, Cadséux ‘made an appeal tm favor of the Convention. Im the course of his ro~ marks he said;—The statistics abow that over 600,000 Fronch Canadians inhabit the American republic; ovor that number of French Europeans are citizens of this country. There ase large communities wilich are com- (posed mostly of Peench people Inthe Western “tates especially there are sowns and villages where the French eloment In the county of Wayne, Porte gor are Over 6,000 h frolers, Yet how French haye wo in the councils of the ?_ A si umber. How ‘many of us who are fol ‘fm the of, the canntry, and who ing @ Voice im the gov- ernment? Very few. ere docs the fault lie? Are the Americans 0) ‘we, ‘and preventing the French people from reig the, rest, of Ameri- can liberties Certai has yom and it be posite «that there is y< of fanatics in this coumwy foreigners with @isdain; but These individuals are not they are mowned ‘slumber. tauat ba oe ment. Let them to the coming convention In pete son or by délegaten, “met bape tng ag Mt members foi Titan wilt aly the masses, Who ai send represonta- widmon je — aioe _— og ie ie mericans will bo rive thyn van to: TNR ce Ror ite national vest, for good and. @10Ur friendeig will always make good overre™ & place at The fARlelligony @ rist of tie oMeers of the re. Vieo Prosidel Onartee - E, N. Lacroix ; Vico Prosident, es iron, PK. Deakays Secratary J, Be fe ve Amenicans iv Evrorm.—A private letter received by the last steamer, from a friend who is travolling in lialy, incidentajly mentions the ‘kavie fact that at hia Breakfast that morning, In a hotel in Sorrento, In thé South of Naples, he met. no less than ten Bosto- living ia his own imme wit fow of Hid. The moxt day, he sa; the gueste in hotel were Americans, — Poston ; WEDNESDAY); APR 17, 2667. TRIPLE ; SHEET. ee) ea Dimas Sarzep.—The distil! THE LABOR QUESTION re ‘Tap Waarmma.—The following shows the result of Tour observations in this oty of the range of the barometer and thermometer, the direction of the wind and the in Little street, opposite John, was seized yesterday by Deputy Collector Dailey for alleged violation of the state of the weather during the past twenty-four hours, The Carpenters’ Strike. revenue law, The still was in at the time. range of the thermometer was &t one o'clock | The Carpenters’ Union have established their head- The same officer aloo soelzed the galley of a a ae fix o'eloe n° | quarters at No, 267 Bowery, where persons wishing to | Park avenues, Charge, false entries upon the 45; Wormomstin 65; wind south, south: employ men at $4 per dey cam have their orders filled. | Awarcay Wounx.—On Monday evening Dr. Jackson, o'clock M., 90,03; thermometer, | Yesterday the demand for men at this rte was greater | of Dansville, N. Y., delivered a lecture upon “ The Do- 56; wind rey o'clock Fi barometer, than the supply, Nearly ali the appl for Life of oe prc irsn A rx 5 ‘upon these terms were from employers who are disposed | street Methodist sinall_ but appre- Episcopal church to a ciative audience. Some of the ideas set forth by tho ished lecturer were in advance of the tim i: many of the practical su; of the soclal and domestic circle, but would have a beae- to yield to the demands of the men, and give them em- Ployment for the season. There are, however, somo 126 or 150 mem connected with large establishments who, believing that their old employers will m of twenty-five ~ od. @ wiet ‘not only prolong life and increase the hay 14, North river. The liquor was waiting shipment for | terms, stand out and positively refuse to accept of work | ficial influence upon the instivutios of the country. other at Union. Allentown and bore no brand or stamp to indicate that |@frts amerted that thers ee one tne or ais tosses thy |) THR Magsoxany Wonx.—Thero was a large and appre- ‘he duty had been paid. the city who refuse the demands of the employé . |, Ciatiye covgregation of persons assemb!ed at the Contral ‘Tux Sirg. von 4 New Post Orvice,—Just before noon eu; pentons oe ae at $4 per Ray hese been Tee | Presbyterian church last evening to hear the Key. H. M. e ruri and orders are 4, yesterday Mayor Hoffman and Postmaster James Kelly Solng ia bd stricts, ; Gallaher deginrercs ihe sohient of America and Amort- called at the Comptroller's office to tender Comptroller idly Sh of nt 'y work. habits au Quarry men’s Boclety. us peculiar to the Americans were treated at some ‘The members of the above society have resolved upon demanding ap jncrease of pay, the demand to go into effect on the first day of May. The wagos at present paid this class of workmen, they allege is not sufficient fo meet the exorbitant demands of the’ laudlords for house rent. This is the cause of the agitation at the Connolly a draft which they had received, for $500,000, this Bolng the amount which the United States had agreed to pay for a site for a new Post Office at the lower end of the City Hall Park. The Comptroller being ab- sent, Mr. C. W. Lawrence, his clerk, received the draft, and handed to Mr. Kelly the deed for the land aforesaid. 1 , and the discourse was replete with anecdote ilustrative of their charactoristics and enterprise. Viotarions oF THR Exciss Law.—James Nicholson, keeper of a saloon at the corner of Flushing and Frank- lin avenues, was arrested yesterday morning for a vio~ lation of the Excise law, The case will be examined by ‘Mr Lawrence then gave the draft to the collector of city | present time, Tho men now 4 a Re ees eae cromiatie) fs revenue, who immediately deposited the same in the . receive $2 per day, and | Justico Mo Toner, or rip’ Back, to the ely leposited the same in the | wo advance cought will bring thelr daily hire up to | Saloon at the corner of Elizabeth nud Conover $2.50, In case the contractors refuse to comply with their request and the men are forced to go on a strike 5 will be the wages demanded, streets, was arrested and locked up in the Forty. third ‘precinct station house yesterday for selling Hquor on Sunday. Patriok Kirncy, who keeps « saloon at the coraer of Henry and Pacific streets, was taken before Justice Dunne yesterday on a charze of keeping his place open after midmght. He was tried before a jury, who returned a verdict to the effect that the prisoner's place was not effectually closed. ‘The Tudge reserved his decision. Fing at ter Park Taeatae, Broortys.—During the performance of the drama of “The King’s Rival?’ at this theatre on Monday evening, a parcel of papers were thrown into a recess at one side of the stage, represent- ing a grate, by ono of the actors, and being fired, burst forth in a sheet of flame. The fire communicated to the side scene, which burnod like tinder, and in all proba- vility the entire building would soon havo boen enveloped in flames had it not been for the alacrity of tho econe shifters and others loitering about the entrancds to the stage, who removed the burn- ing scene to the rear and extinguished the fire. On dis- covering the danger to whica they were exposed many of the audience made a rush to the doors, but their fears were quieted on ascertaining that tho flames the Si Fund for the payment ot the city debt. The proceeds of the sales of all corporation real estate aro pledged by am existing ordinance to the sinking fund, to be applied to the payment of the debt of the city, a Samuel G. Courtney, United States District Attorney, received: from Washington the decd, which had been executed by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonslty of the city of New York for the site for the new Post Oilice, as above setforth, aad ihe same was immodiately re- corded in the Register’s office. Tre Paruen’s Civa.—The usua! weekly meeting of the Farmer's Club was held yesterday afternoon a: the Cooper Institute, Nathan C. Ely inthe chair. A num- ber of interesting communications from correspon- dents were received and read. An animated dis- cussion cnsucd with reference to the agricultural advantages of Vineland. A gentleman who had been induced by the glowing advantagos offered to emigrants to settle in that locality, gave a most gloomy ‘and discouraging account of the real character of the place, He said that ho had ne doubt many persons of small capital who bad gone there in the hope of secur- ing a comfortable lvelihood, bad lost their all and been Operative Plasterers’ Society.) Atarecent meeting of the above body a resolution was adopted declaring fit unlawiul for any member to work for any employer who has non-gocisty men’ at work, or if ho has any apprentices not duly qualified or approved according to the provisions fald down in the ‘constitution of the society. This body is composed of employers and employed, but according to a late resolu- Vion n0 one is eligible to membership who is a member of any other tra® society existing in this city, without firs: resigning from that other society, This regulation goes into eftect en the 1st of May, United Derrickmen’ jociation. The United Derrickmen of this city have notified the employing stone cutters, and all other employers with whom they are brought in contact, that after the 15th day of May thoy will demand $3 per delm for thelr labor. Tho,subject of wages has been under consider- ation for some time by the followers of this branch of ee TWE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE IN NEW ENGLAND. nnn mee Wilson on Temperance—Histery of Congressional Secier: Progress of the Cause. vane Hons Beary Wilson had @ public reception of the friends of temperance tu Tremont Temple on the even- ing of the 15th inst, He was received with much en- thusiaam, In commencing, Mr. Wilson said ho did not accept the oceasion as tendered to bim for any services he bad rendered at Washington or at home in favor of the holy cause of temperance; but he accepted it as their tribute to that cause which their hearts yove and their jadgments approve, He should aceopt it, too, as thelr ‘instraction that in the fature he should strive ever and always to promote and advance that t cause in favor of our common humanity. It was no virtue in him, he said, that bad made him his long lifes friend of temperance. God in his providence bad given him po no desire for intoxicating liquors; and every Of his life, as he grew older and saw the measureless evils of drankennezs, he thanked bis God that Ho had given. him, ire for that which degrades and levels down our mon bu- manity, From his le to this present hour felt and reatized the curse of iutemperance, had been burdened from boyhood bey phe | Lge time with the curses of intemperance u and kin, and upon those he read dearly,. Under seen, heart love these circumstances it was no wonder, he said, that he had baied drankennéss while he Joved the drankard. The speaker thon gave the histories of ‘the various Congressional Temperance Societies that Lad. been formed in Washington, Two had been shed and failed. In the present orgavization in that there are aix thousand members, and comprising sech men as General Howard—one of our nobicst, greatest and best— who are giving their inflnence to advance) the cause; and morc than seven hundred liqnor shops have beon closed” in that city—not by law, bat starved out by the people. Onr temperance friends there, in the pride and étrougth of power, are about asking Congress to abandon the license law and establish the baw of probibition. ‘They have the licanse law, and they have enongh of 1 They Know it does not shut up ram shops; they hope probibi- tion will, ‘The speaker said he was @ Yankee, @ native of the soil, and had ao right to guess, and thet he guessed® that they would get @ rohibitory taw in Washington before they gota license jaw in Massachusetts, Mr. Wileon then spoke of the spread of the temperance movement in of Towa, Kansas, Iltinois, and in other places that Had boon under hig own knowledge or observation, came home.with this bright and cheering indication thrill in nitheart. He found in Massachusetts that chose call~ ing for the License law tell him that the law for pro- hibition is not executed, aud that we must have @ license’ law, and in support of that idea the speaker found the teachings of great men of modern Enrope and our own country thrust aside. Now, he would meet the question of license with @ prompt, peremptory and éiaphatic no. He would as soon vote for tne repeal of the had been smothered, and they resumed their seats, Mr, and Mrs, Conway advanced to the front of the stage and besought them to remain quiet, and the performance subsequently proceeded to a proper termination, The pablic cavaot but condemn the utter reckleesneas which characterizes the performances in mavy of our theatres, especially when flame 13 used, and it is now high time that the ‘necessary steps should to insure the anfoty of largo audiences against jessness of managers and actors, The occur- of Monday evening at this theatre will teach “these triflers with the safety juced to absolute destitution. A correct idea of the Jand migt be reatized, from the fact that although it ‘was virgin soil, no crops could be produced without a Usberal application of manure. Mr, Hoiton gave an intor- esting lecture on grape culture, afver which the Club ad- Journed. Mysterious Disaremaraxce op A Menomant.—Mr. James L. Smith, « merchant of Peekskill, up the North river, came to thiscity nearly two weeks ago to pur- chase goods, On Monday, the 8th inst,, he was seen in Hudson street, near Spring, apparently laboring under temporary aberration of the mind, since which ume he has not been seon or heard.from by his family or friends. Thero are stroug suspicions that he has met with foul play. Any information concerning him may be sent to Inspector Dilks, at Police headquartors, -or to his bro- ther, 11 Wall street, Tho missing gentleman 1s brother to Mr. A. MiG, Smitb, many years ago one of tho most expert detective police officers in the United States. ire Saving APranaTus,—The government commission appolurted to test the various inventions for hie saving met yesterday at 187 Cherry street, Their experiments were, however, confined to retessing soveral safety valyes which had been tried on Saturday and Monday. Tho resut were much the same aston those days. They meot again this morning. Tar Bxeapway Briwce—It appears that the inaugo- ration of thie structure by the few ambitious individuals who crossed it on Monday afternoon was suggested to them throwgh the removal by the workmen of the planking which closed the etaimways, no permanent opening of the bridge having yet taken place, as it i stih untiztehed. One-half of the flooring of the brid has yetto be taid. Tne bridge was closed yesterday and bo work of any description was performed, It with provebly be ready for travel sometime during the presout week. Procnaes oy Orty Reravemsnt.—Great progress, con- sequent. on the fine weather, hasbeen made in repaving the thoroughfares in the western districts of the city, ‘and additional operations have Been commenced by the contractors in Thirteenth street, Elizabeth street, Vestry 8 rect, and in Sccond avenue anti adjacent distriota. ~The Sewersase also being simultaneeusly repaired. Discargin8 AND PUNISHMENT THE PU! Scnoons. — Complaimts baving been madeef the exercise of unduo discipline and punishment in seme of the public schoole, néw ean yan two humtred and thirty thousand children of both sexes, tho Commirsioners report that no such system exists, and thet any caso calling for ing more than customary correction 18 rogularly sropeding he Superintendent to them fur considera- jon, Tox Costow Hoven snp tem -Carrues.—No arrange- ment has get been come to between the Custom House authorities and the cartmen, por ig there any probubdility of a departure trom the now eystem adopted—that of Seilopsag shee @wn men and vehicles for the transmis- ston the now sogulations beiug found to work most satisiactory in the interest of mnporters ‘and the pablic, alf goods being now delivored with greater safety apd security, at considerably reduced cost and ina much shorter spaco of time than here tofore, ‘Tus lost @ovnp.—The Fifteenth precinct police re- ceived intoljgence on Monday afternoon las: that Mary W, Tinsdale, the young girl who had disappeared in so | mysterious auanner last Friday, was stopping in New Rochelle with a private family, by which she had been engaged as the.children’s attendant, The lady who em- joyed hor did. not know of the fact that she had been induced by anybody to leave her home, and on secing the notice of her disap ce im the Huxaup she im- mediately notified the pol.ce autharities, who had her brought to her some in this city yesterday. fhe young girl now claims shat she left the city of her own froe will, Fara, Ramroap Casvanty.—Coroner Wildey yester- say beld an inquest at 115th street and Fourth avenue, on ‘the body of Margaret Fischcr, theGerman woman, fifty nine years of age, whose death was the result of injures: received on Saturday last by being strack by a locomo- tive belonging to the. New Haven Rajircad Company, as previously reported. The testimony showed that do- ceased saw the traim when som? distance from her, but faited Lo accelerate her movemeuts so as to cserpe the danger Of being run down. A verdict of aceldental death was rendered by the jury. Deccased was out gathering rags at the time of tho occurrence, Arnestgp ov Svsriciow.—Henry Gerdner, alias Datch Hienrich; Wm. Davis, and Obaries Lester, alias Bobby, the Wolshman, were arrested yesterday afternoon by de- tectives Méazthur aid ‘Myers, of the Twenty-ninth pro- cinet, who diaeovered them prowling about the interior of the 1m Railroad in a suspicious manner. ‘They were ‘to hendqua’ , Where Davis bad his The threo were then discharged, no de- labor, and was brought to a culminating point at the last regaiar monthly meeting of the society by making the above demand. First Bivision Laberers’ Union Benevelent Society. An extra meeting of this society was held last evening at the Fourteenth Ward Hotel, corner Grand and Elizu- bethstreo's, The business transacted related to the sala- ries of officers of the association and other matters of a routine nature, reno probably of mon, women and children, @ salutary lesson, the wiil not bo lost’ upon their future con- duet, ‘eed terrible to think what would have beon the remit had not the flames been so promptly shed, As it was, the occurrence struck terror rts of many present, Who can now congratu- late themsclves on their fortunate escape. A fow months Finee a fire occurred in this same establishment, but, as upon the last occasion, the flames were subdued beioro, they had much headway. The next timo tho builaing may be destroyed. ARMY AND Navy Umioy or Kixgs Couyty.—This associ- ation of Kings county veterans held its semi-mouthly meeting at the county court house last evening. Colonel Charles ©. Belden prosided. Several new names wero added to the roll of membership. General Kozlay made a fow romarks explanatory of the objects of tho assoc tion, which was organized solely with the view of pr moting the welfare and intevests of the soldiers and enilore of the county, ant to ngsist their widows and orphans. Politica ere entireiy excinded from the asso- Omtion, The meeting soon after adjourned, A Swivpier,—A young man of gentlemanly address, dark compiexion, medium height, hasbeen for sometime past operating upon the crodulous in the neighborhood of South Brooklyn, The tadividual in question repre- sents himself as an employé of Dr. Wright, a weil kuown droggist, and aftor making parchases of different articies he been in the bi ‘of tendoring 8 bogus check, purporting to be signed by the above named gentioman, receiving and pocketing the balance of the change. He hus not yet boen'@ught by the authorities, who are, however, ow the alert for his apprehension, Appini0ys TO THE BROOKLYN Yacut Fiewt,—Bosides two or three yachts already launched this spring in Brooklyn, others aro approaching compiction, Mr. Alexander Ferris, the builder of the Benita and Black Engle, hes now on the stocks at Bushwick a yacht for Mr, Andrew ‘arehall, to be called the Anne Marshall, The following are tha dimensions of the yacht:—keel, 38 feet; ex- trome length of deck, "41 foot; breadth of beam, 14 feet; dept, 444 foot. The very beat material atia‘nable is. usod for her construstion, and she 1s considered a model of ity by those who ure judges, The Anne Marshal! will be launched into Newton creek in abaut thro weeks and handed over to tho rigger, Mr. Primrose, of th. She will, be sloop-rigged, | An- other yacht of superior construction 1s*in process of Duilding for speculative purposes by the well known ship- wright peers Jebnson and others, Great expecta- trona as to her speed and beanty are indulged in by the Gentlemen who Lave undertaken the enterprise, Tho achievement of the Heurietia has manifestly given am impetus to yacht building. Teerucoxtat 20 Ovhcen Scort.—A testimonial from to citizens of the Eastern district was presented to officer Thomas Scott, of tue Forty-ffth procingt, last night for his intrepid conduct in his encouater with the burglar Monganion the morning of the ast nit, The resentation took place at Viremen’s Hall, Fourth ¢! E. D., and the large number of enthusiastic oli! present gawe it more the character cf an ova- ton than o simple preseutation of a testi- monial, Mr, Robert Crowley, of the Ninetcenth ward, was callee to the chair and giddressed.a few words to thé Bow famons officer and those preseat, He then intro duced Richard H. Huntley, who presented Scott wi package containing £763 ia Treasury nates, snd in doing 80 Mr. Hontley del & brie’ bat eloqucut address, which was loudly applauded. When order woe roxtored officer Scott responded ia a neat. speech, characterized by his usual modesty. ‘as entiusiastically cheered at ite close and th: large assemblage retired. Reonvive Stu:kw Goons. —Ine brothers Michacl and James Dowd, engaged in the junk business at the corner of First and North Ninth streets, E.D., were yesterday committed by Justice Walter, of the Fifth District Court, to anewer a Charge of receiving stolen goods. It ap- peared on tho examination of the prisoners that tha fac- tory of Honry Bailey, of 33 Skijintan street, E. D., was barglariousty énteréd’ ou the morning of the 24 fust., and robved of brass faucets, &c., tothe value ef $800, The principal to the burglary and fobbery—a young man named Albert Poarsali—qwas soon afterwards arrestod by the police of We Forty-sixth precinct, aud he gave sueh Information as led to tho arreag of the brothers Dowd, and the finding of the stolen property in “ sion, the prisoners are natives of Ireiau tele ages as twenty-five, and plead not gully. Gaanp Lancexy.—Wm. Scully was arrested yesterday morning on tho complaint of Thomas Mullen, who Brass Founders. The journeymen brass founders and finishers held a very numerously attended inoeuing last evening, at half past seven o'clock, at Early Closing Hall, 267 Bowery. The Prosident of the Union occupied the chair, Sov- eral members haaded in their subscriptions and a num- ber of applicants wero received into tle body, aud after the transaction of other routine businees the meetng adjourned Carpenters’ Union No. 3. The Carpenters’ Union No, 8 heid a meeting last even- ing at 427 Second avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twonty-fifth strests, The membors who are on a strike express a dotermination not to resume work unloss their demand for $4 per day is complied with. ‘They state that when the strike was organized they appointed a commitiee to on their employers, ing them to appoint a committee to meet and confer with them. This their employers refused to do, and now tho men are determined to hold out. About fifty members of this associativn are on the strike, Walterw Wages. TO°THE EVITOR OF THE BERALD. ‘ New Yor, Aprit 15, 1967. In your ieswe of Sunday 1t was stated in the column devoted to the labor movement that the walters of New York receive thirty dollars per month, and their per quisites often exceed that amount, The first part is cor- rect; the seeond docs us a groat injustice, as no waiter in Now York.conld possibly make any ench amount, It isa mero 3 but the ‘publication of sich a state- iment may leave an unfavorable impression on the minds of our employers, prejudicial to our interests, while no mention was mado of the hours we labor, which average thirtoen ande half per day, and in some bouses more, PETER E. COONEY, President of the Waitors’ Protective aud Benevolent Associatiog. THE SOCIETY FORTHE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. A Lecture on Dangerous Paensites, A lecture was dolivered last evening at the Coop>r In- stitute, by Dr, Rafus Browne, before the Society tor the advancement of Science, on “the dangerous parasites that infest the human systom.”’ After ‘alluding to tho excitement which had prevailed in \referenco t» trichina during the past year or two, he said that the popular idea of the character of these parasites way an extremely erroneous one. Many persons believed that every breath of air we ipbaled, and cvery morsel of food we ate, contained living creatures akm to these dangerous parasites, But the trichingw were really altogether different from the animal- cui and infusoria which were so commonly found. The trichina was a fine thread-like worm, about the thirtieth of an inch dn length, and of a spiral shape, which was confined io a small shell very much resem. Jing 4 plump oat When meat infested with trichine was taken Into the human system the outer shell was melted and the animaicet at liberty. The triebina thon gave birth to living creaturea, which forced their way ‘through the alimentary canal and into the museles, Dui- ing this migration they grew to forty or fiifty times their original cize. Dr. Browne then describe the effects of the presence of tricbiaw in the human system, which d chiefly in a feeling of extrame prostration, 4g, and in ite later stages a species of fever, The only domesticantima! infested by the trichine was the pig, Dut they were frequently found in dogs, Guinea-pigs and hedgehogs. Next to the trichina, the tapeworm was the most ous parasice that infested the human sysiom. The leturer concluded by giving an account of the west model cure in cases whore persons became infested with paranites, THE GNEAT EASTERN. The Great Fastere did not go to son yesterday, not- withstanding the oft-repeated promises tbat for once she sbould be punctual in commencing her voyage. The weather was so thick aud hazy as to make it unsafe for the “big ship” to attempt togotosea. Sho consequently remained at her moorings st the foot of Thirteenth street during last night. in all probadilisy she will steam down to the Hook early this morning ‘and over the bar on the full flood tide, The petingery wha num. ee. taken. ite accusation having mn made against thew, As " aise tice mnaurs atalberod by the: police es eras Sera BF te eee peat perma mere, Ail | accuses him of stealing a eval cart from him, vained at the. most. expert, wioves inthe city thore is nodoudt | {he tug Audrew Ploichér left the vessel, about ‘hail | $8, Tbe case will be examined by Justice Dunne on planned some ‘‘big haul’ before they were qe 16th ings. A YOUNG GIRL RANSONED FROM IDI that they’ arrested. Accwants, &c.—George Tugman, laborer, residing at 126 East Twenty-fourth street, was found by an officer in ow two, it was the Captain's resolve, at any rate, aterm a8 fay a@ the Horse-shoc, in order to be ready for the mext tide should the weather be too rough warrant his ge fea at once, This however, was revoked just Fifth street, near Second avenue, yesterday, where he | petore tho time appointed forgetting under way. Not- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. ‘Bad sti and in falling broken one of his lezs. withstanding the excessively wot and unpleasant state Ban Awroxt0, Texas, March 8, 1867, Michael clerk, ronding at 234 Canal sts the weather @ considerable number of persons col- et J ‘while hitching his horse, in some unaccountable way got | lected upon the piers witb the h of enjoying ‘a view In one of the raids made by the Comanche Indians, soe np ia the mo Fon th before he — of the ‘aemen Raitd scene un . Sante a gs Bome months ago, two young girls named Metzger were ‘be exiwica! it, broken. ve were eon care! ected umbre! i. ' Bolleyue Hospital, Tntosh, ‘wore rowed in sual! boats around the Teria , | Meptared on the outekirta of Fredericksburg, & few x festing in thelr Y im anmons expeot- | miles distant, Anna, the youngest, was ransomed, and ung ation of seeing the foating mass in motion. These hopes were, however, doomed to disappointment; but not ‘uncil the felling shedesof evening mate dim and dim- mer the monster hull and towering{masts did the half- drenched onlookers believe that thoy wore notto be gratified, and one by one straggle dissatisied from the water's edge. ACCIDENT TO THE BOSTON MAIL THAIN. Abont half past ten o'clock on Monday evening, as the train on the Shore imo, irom Boston, was approaching East Grecnwich, R. 1, the engine came in contact with OPERATIONS OF A CONFIDENCE MAN. On Friday, the 8th day of March last, two gentiomea from Philadelpbia called at Police Headquarters and Staicd that-e young man-who was known to them as L. ‘M. Hoven, and who was at tat time stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotefwith his young bride, had a few deya,provious to their arrival in this city been married to Miss, Ettie Roger, the daughter of a physician of high bie ps ia Piitadelpuin and oe ‘they desired his oa hat he had forged adi on ie ihiverio-iaw for, $6,800, uj fg now at her Lome, Wer sister was murferod. When they were captured boih were mounted upon stolen horses and instantly hurried away. Tho older sister told Anna that they must escape or dic, that she would not be carried off alive, and that she proferred death to the fate which was evidently in store for thom, Twice she jumped from the horse and endeavored to reach tho ehaparrel, but was each time brought back and pisced upon the horse, Again she attempted to escape, whieh 80 e@xaeperated tho sevages that they eprang upon her and buried their tomabawks t@ herbraim. Malt dead with fright and horror Anna suffered horself to be car- ried off without once attempting to escape. Afior two’ constitutional amendment that made slavery forevor im- joasible in America as he wonld repeal the prombitory Ew and put tho license law in its stead. He had been told that the present law would go down. If it did he would only ask the privilege of going down with it. He, however, knew the le of Massachusetts, and tho men who build sch houses, churches and read their Bibles are not the people who are going to pray for a license law. Does any man dare to take suciva petition into his closet with his Bible and ask God to bless it? (A number of persons in the gallery hero distinctly cried out, “Yea, yes”) After some further goneral remarks lipon the subject of temperance Mr. Wilson eaid that thore were many be politicians waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for something to turn up; but there would be for thom a great deal more turning down than up. He did not wish to see this question brought Into tho ballot box of this State. It has already boon settled there. He then gave the remy 4 of the license lawsof 3852 and 1855, and thought, though still imperfect, they were the best of the kind yet framed. The people of Massachu- sotts welcome the contest. When the storm comes, just stand cool like the old veterans of the battle fleld; bide our timo, and when the storm comos roll if ck, and’ then let the werd yas along the Iino, ‘“‘advance!'? He had more faith and hope in appeals to the hoart, conscience and reason than he bad in any law. Let the next six months in Maseachnsetta.be mx months of Inbor in the cause of temperance such as we never wituessed in tho State, Canvass every town and school district, aud put the pledge to young and old alike to sign. ‘Let tho pulpit Poeak.for the cauge, and in this crisis if the pulpit does not speak for the csuse of tempevanee It will be, as Mr Webster said at Piymonth in rogard to the slave trade, false to itself. Appeal to all to rally around the cause tho conntry and I tell you before November next there not bo @ politician in Massachusetts that will want to carry question to the balict box. Massa- chusctts abandoned her ticense law and established tho law of prohibition, It does not come up to the hope and expeciation of lis friends, but compared to the other laws in tho Union it is a grand succor; and if there is any Ring mene tomey succes’ fat C3 to teat by vote to the public eentimont of and it will bo a success, <r. Wilson closed as follows :— Now, Indies and reotiemen, E thank you for your kind welcome to-night, for the generous words thatiheve been. spoken, and I bid you good night, with God’s blessing, and in the hope that old Massachucetts will be trae to the cause of temperance, and that that cause will triumph in the State and in the country, Mr Wilson's address was interrupted with frequent demonstrations of approval. ‘The meeting was further addressed by Hon, John B. Alley, Rev. A. A, Miner and others, A LIVELY SPRING BUSINESS IN BOWIE KMIVES. Kentucky versus New York-Almost a San- goinary Sampler War-A Drummer Beats “the Retreat,” &c. is {From the Cincinnati Gazétte, April 12.7 What we ore about to reiato isa veritabic history, so for as the essontial facts are concerned, bulwe may not go: all the minnto details perfectiy correct, Nor ts it neceswary that wo shoald, ovr being merely to Tepreseut to. our readers the spirit of the aflgjr. The scene was in our r city of Cor time, few days the mane pera 8a gel gon . Me) cilizon¥ ington. » and man from New York, and jhe Eugldh géatlenian may bodes-ribed a one who lad not bem many years in. this still retained much of tho pride pera td and seif-suilelency which characterizes” a ceft@in class of the offspring of Joun Boll; and bewtad not yet learned. that when these ome. in» coniact with simiiar ones pnesease rtain of Kentuckians, there ia likely to be a repalston Or an ox- postion, Tho English gentioman was m thestere of one of our Covingion merchants, and was sshibiiag ples of the cood? sold by a New York houso fe ‘nich he was rating, when there eptored upon the specimen of the Kentucky gomtry, whoo .was giced jn the enierprive of selling goods Who at once, without noticing native of England and Now York, ai f'to thé keepor of the tore. The pride of the former wasdmmediataly aronsed. ‘ihe idea of b/s busingss beipg thas summarily interfered with he!ped to inflame his wrath. Tue two thin.s toxetier brought abou instant, ‘aod turn- ing. Uercesy upon toe iatrader, the. Yorker thundered oul, “Do yo mean to insalt me by this in- terference, sir?” The Kentncky sampler thought at uarst Le had put his foot in it, and supposing the queriat bad some right to wake the demand, an apology mingled with supprossed wrath, be address ee, ne be em partner?) was Ue reply. 7 Noy” Was. again cosponded. Who there is ho then?” demanded Kentucky, flaming up to and ready for, and really looking, mi 3 Ho ww agent (‘drummer’? was the wi actually used) of a New York house,” was the an:wer, in pian yet expectant tones. Not another word said tho on. ‘but drawing a knife over nm foot in} mado a Junge at the other sampler, with murder imhis dye, and an evident determination led “honor” on the spot. But jlo-New Yorker did not wait the onsiaught few men in hie would. pidly as *loge could carry him he fled irom she store and down the street, the enraged Kentuckian foliowing with drawn knife and at the top of his speed. But et every the Eastern poo sil increased the space Haman ‘the and at last, turning a corner, inte store before Kentucky hove in sight. ‘ap to the proprietor he begged to be con ia ‘way, as @ man was just at his heels with knife drawn: aud roady me anxious to paris bie Ay ing = chant, thus appealed to, pola a box, into which the’ friguioned feo vorner crawled bastily and the box was ‘A. moment after Kentucky, f fored tho store, declaring he rrecal whom he was how. ever, that be would have: to look further Ber some . minvites be seemed tuclined to oad a disposition to search the premises, fag the feelings of the hidden gentleman better imaged than @eseribed, » rage of relief wh his bag relief when oni pecans ie store. Emerging from the bor, neirvatingyInired of those around him if they’ thotgtt ‘would really have murdered him bedech@s<ges hold of him, to whieh a and partly because ‘they enjoy for, valid they had not a doubt of ie quired £ that mys hr way when they were offoa Y waa That tt was The contteraant’d found ees pon hi wooks the huts of the indians wore reached. Here th Toeneds 6 Ohne Geel cade Soka Duses, bigwitore | ° 98 DUBAY standing divectly onthe track.. The eet" Trortansta young girl was treated horribly. tee lie | redoubled, and meaning coats kD count, “farconsequonce of thea’ representations, detec. | Deer Says there wore such tlouds of sand in tho-air,\| was oat off, and roveral times she wow beaten and | {rising scquaintancon fo ard, tive ‘was sont to the Fifth Avenae Hotel to ar- | catised by the high wind at the thne, that ne did not see | laccrated inn terrible manner. At length sho was res | flu ster the bridge, and seat © bridegroom, On making known bis Va eed a it until within ome hundred foet of the team. As soon be ocaphocapetie upon wd Le dep pA 4 vowing that he wonld nover nis fi young ver Eee fo alguifieant as he blew the thistle to ‘down brakes’ ho reversed | performed tho rite of confirmation at Fredricksburg, and ‘ated sane tee a emblem got authority to take ‘him into custody than a | bis engino. locomotive struck j,but.the | Rone Motzger was ono of the Tet comirmod, trercatnot vouch for the ebtire cortectheee mere comna's: shield, However, notwith- pg ae ae uate Wile in ite minute detail, ‘The mata fects ‘are atin Uae Se abe dacs | Satay im, ge ile co age | HE ATES TH WGN oes, | eB par a search to mado for the sufforer or sufferers Faron w:hendgnatiote, and ahermatde sent om 10'} toy i Sonn abinraianans insamin ven lanooa, toa hens ho laraaiten of Memphis Tennessee, indigent at | commusicnions pa he ee OE the Mate Armee bee aha ee antes han bes track but ‘Tho train was backed, and about | tho conduct of certain insuranco companies in probibit. how the affair from of the hotel dai which, | one Rundred fees Frome prnere the. engine first struck | ing them from insuring in aid companios, havo beld « shietien Me had | Wae found a forge, with his back and thigh broken, and Rees: A Youxo Wouam Bonin Auve,.~A wae LJ be dS Al a one hundred and further on the man.who was in | ™éecting and unanimously resolved as follows quem as aide eae, ropresnng imo, he eu | Yn oper aang" bas Oresni | aupecompentn te Martin, anova Maghh Rex ry a Saka a cot ue and iad been Moown fore hees Was ay conte anger ire | Sinxular 60 rel he rad oon dragged nearly | pubic an Be Mente York, prowcrting tne namo of I..M. Hosea, which namo was not his rightful | three hundred feet by, the engine, and Ns, vast and | SerecilWoe ae othe nt ago" OF salightanents wit a examination it w: jon au patronyinisy ae was elearly Pound “that hes was oui tuted. about ihe head, "as | merivand integrity, got religion oF natfonallty,” should limbs being broken, Ho was placed on board the train | be the test of eligibility in all the 5 i tO carved, ‘That we will act in unison with our and conveyed to Kast Greenwich, and will probably ro- we religionists in other cities by cancelling policies in the panies cover. Portions of the carriago wore found on the engine, and it wi Ne leces, steerer above-mentioned companies and in all other com; adopting a similar course. Tite TonAcco Cror Iv Missourt.—Representatives of two That we recommend thi of tho largest tobacco manufactories at Louisiana, Mo., | ¢,D8,,!¥ fumlor, resalvad, ° havo beoa out purchasing tobacco In Pike eount ematiin of a Home Insurance Company under the during ‘the fast fow days and report that thera neve mun a the Ieractites of Memphis, for our mutual was ja or fuer crop produced in that county, EB old bara and oulhonec ia fall, while many new fall to secure the crop. Tho Tho Israelites of Chicago have also taken ground against the proseriptive insurances companies in New York similar to that assumed by the Hebrews of Cincin- pal, Mempbiprand cleowhere, ‘were about to remove Jacksonville, having located in anothor State, and fat the romaing of the tady ‘exhumed. for the purpose of takiog them to ir new home, Curiosity prompted the opening of the coffin, when they wero horror stricken. 0m finding the corps Yared over, both hiands fall of Watt and her clothing torn to shreds, revealing tho horrible trath that the young lady liad been buried alive. The obi nad cod her in a deep trance, the awakenin, which was In her coffin and grave. engaged to ‘do married at the a. of hor aa. ‘A more heart sickening case " or boop of —snaionasa wma