The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1868, Page 5

NEW YORK CITY, THE COUR IS. UMTED STATES CACUIT COUK*—"RIAL “ERM. semences Judge Benedict opeved ine sours sestertay moraing faa on moton Of 'n.109 sialer Ass.ctau’ D.sirct At torsey Bi proceeced to pass ,usgment op pr.sobers eonvicied during the preseos cerm, tn the case of Gocar Hoyae, cpnvicsed of affixing counterfeit pieroal revenue siamps dpon pac! sol @.ga:8 COUDE, moved for an aries! oi juagment whch Was Oppored by Mr be, aud the Judge passed sentence @e tbe prise: of iWo years’ imprisgumen: 1B the State Prien a Bing 3.ng In iho case of Ferdinand Royster who piended guilly M6 the charge of duing Dusiness 4 4 distiies without paying the spec.al tax required dy Jaw, counse’ moved Jor » witigativa of puniahmest Seawoce, Wirleen Months! sprisvument p ihe sare Prova In the vase uf Geor,e Nicholas, wuvicted of Laviog been ceecied iw ibe set of diaiiihug sprite without Laving Cumptied, as ruquired, WIL (he provisos Of tue ci uf Congress, cuunsel moved for « wiligauion of PLOKDment ou (ue grouad svat tbe eccurdd was mereiy Aue operator ip tue elployment Of the seal owner oF WUE Gastitiery; that Le was nut aware of ViowuDg tue law, tad un giving Gver she wame of Whe Teal Oileuder @o (ue Dis rict Atwruey the Judge suspended -eosence fur (he Present, agd the prisvner Was remanded Lo the Custody Os tke Cu.ted Sues Myrelal Jacob Lowensiein, @nvicied of distiling spirits with- Out payipg te specwl iax, on delug bat lurwad to Feceive sentenee, Ly CASE WAB TO, Te euted to the court ep beng ope wordy Of Mec.tur cousideraivon, upon fhe groupds Wai Se Was ied iuto the ack by designing ev wad that Le 4S Bub We priucipai, Judge Bene: dict tuk she ATCUnDAUCes Jute Cunpideraion and persed novice tual to addiive to tue tunrty days! cuLtipement ye bad a.reauy uD joue be suvuid be furiuer impryowed tor buir y day In the cass Of William pike, couvicted of parsing and haviog tu 418 Puse-cion counterie curreucy swamps, Couns geved in untizatou of puaehucul om ibe ground tat We pridouer had xived ueeiui io ormation fo tue guVerDMent in iefereace to tue delwcion of suveral plates aud counterien apparacus, by wach the gevers@eut bag succeeded 1D capt ring them, ard oy Woice the sy¥eieu Of Couuter.eliins Ou » large scaubo bad bees duicated, air, Beli admitted these services, aud Ney Judge, iw laking (hem iow vousid Tauun, said boat @a0 Of propouuc.ug (be fuli pevalty of Bfeen years, whic the saw provided, tue sen euce should oe x fees, with bara iabu:, iv ibe > ae Prion Fiederick Divis, a dealer ip Cgars, pleaded gallty to iweutd and baving 1D Lis possession counteriet cy moles and simmps. On owing pur forward, weet moved iOr # Miigallod Of puishineMt oD he pies lat Ge bad received (bose nies 1a Hid ordiuary Auriness aud passed some of them away as be Lad re ceived them, sen.epced 10 two years? umprisuument, Wrb Gard ladF, 1D the dace I risvu, im the case ul Neal Ericksou, Who Was put oD trial on the charge of larceny ou the High seas, 4nd Upon which Mecrs was uy Verdicl, the Jury having daagred, dr bout eid te corld Urow no further aght upun ibe case, ue mSved shat ihe prisoner be dive urged on b.8 owa Pugs Lace ‘ne court assugted, anu Ericksoa was Accurd.ngly dischar, ed. GATED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKAUPTCY. Petitions in Banaruptey Filed, The business in the baukrupicy side of tho United Btates Distros Court bas been unusually beavy during ftw week, It is gradually on the imecrease, and yester- Gay (he number of potions filed exceeded anything pre viwusty recorded in tuis department The petitions fled Amount in numoer to nearly (wenty five, as follows: Conrad Q in Mitcnell aud Laird Courtiands, Westches- ter cmuty; referred to Reg ster Close, kawia Boutou, New York ety; referred to Register Wri ams, tam-on J. Rothschild aud Nathan Bachman; re- ferred to Register Dayton. Urias D Stevens, Laverty, Suflivaa county; referred to keg ster Litile, Alred L. Stevens, Liberty, ferren wo Kegister Litt Vvadias H Bush, Failaburg, Sullivan county; re- Serres wo ster Littie, Wriaw EF, Steale, Callicoon, Sullivan county; ferred wo Register Little. Abiel ¥, Gash, Catticoon, Sullivan county; referred to Kegimer Lisle, Leiner Busa, Liberty, Sullivan county; referred to Ke ister Littie, Wauham Lisle, Newburg, Orange county; referred to Reger Lite, Nathaniel H. Chandler, Deerpark, Orange county; re- ferred w egister Liuie, K enen Foley, Corowall, Orange county; referred to a gt Cornwall, 01 Jeseo M, Jones, Corn wi range county; referred to Rezvuer Lite, ce aes Caaries 3. Grocer, Newburg, Orange county; re- la, fe.red (o Register Lit w York city, referred to Register William J. Brown 7 ecichpd Wy referred to Register Ketcham. Ap houy Mauhay, Monigomery, Orauge county; rer ferred to Register Little, Waiaw K Beichor, New York exty; referred to Reg- taver Willia <barivcs Sager, New York city; referred to Register ree Bewan Acurd, Ryder Mills, Columbia county; re- peter Beale, . Walter, New York city; referred to Register Aen Watiam B, Joues, New York city; referred to Regis- fer Devin Jonn O'Dwyer, New York city; referred to Register Kechuu. WNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—TRIAL TERM, Judge Blatchford, on opening the court seslerday moraing, resumed the internal revenue case of ine Varted Staies vs. Ibe Distiliery im Forty-fifth sirees At et-past five o'clock last evening, | cloved om the part of the di rhineat, the jury, under the Blatcuford, fvund @ verdict condemaing the property. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Drew-Erle Stock Jobb y General in the Coatest on Behalf ople=Petition for t Removal of Sullivan county; re- Te rary Lijouction Betore Judge George G. Barnard. The Pep’, dc., of the Sats of New York, by their Atiorney Geral, Peitioners for the Rem val of Damel Prew, &¢.—Atvorney General Champlain bas just com- mMe.ced proceedings in (bise urt om bebals of the psepie of (ve State of N.w York, povitioning for the removal from oflice, as @ director and as troasurer of the Ere Railway Company, of Daniel Drew, @'eging various ects of misconduct sad abuse of wim official (rust, a4 such direccor and treasnrer, rowing out of the roceat acta of the respondent in regerd io his managemer a control of the Ofty eight ‘huusnod shares of Eri stock, wh ch forme the basis of we complaint of Frank Work against him, The pe Wieo, whicu ia very voluminous, also sets forth as @ditivusl grouad for such removal Drew's tranractions im retereace tow ling of ralsay known as ihe Buffaio, Bredford aad Pitsburg Raiiroat, Jhe peti im ses forth that the stock of the Erie Rail- wey Company is worth par when preporly manaced, © 4 (hat (we Capital Bock of the New York and Erie Kaur aa Compauy, out of wpich (he Erie Railway Coin: pany Or ginuted, was $11,509,000; tnat in the year 1960 tor Now Yorg and Erie Railroad Company, baving D cue largely \uvoived im debt and hav: cued Various mortgages upon 18 Foad and fran- Cusez, waa fore: by the hulders of iis fiftn Wor gapO VoNdS; thar adoul the time of that foreclosure sa ac. wae passed by the Legisiature of New York asteorizing the iBeorpera ion of the present comp: Lot requiring the feeorporators to specify that uncof stock should not exceed the amount of ¢ ot the old company and its nose b Furtner thas thy the wing sors of compa Ted stock Of the pew company for {ter the passage of this act under a decree of fore. hasors at the sale of ite property jubequently, in 1861, a further act Was passed providing that the purchne rs, Dudicy & Greeory aod JC Bavcrott Davis, with otuer DB tO ve associated ith them should beeome a body cor. porate, upon Ftipulaiiog fo articles of aseociation that u mou suck of such Bew corporation should not d ‘be outstanding capital stock of tne old com: pay, aod wl elock of | Criice too to the amount of tolal unsecured and judgment debt of the ne | York ard rie Railroad Company, wth interest, the yi value o: DoD Cim { atocd ww oe $100 per share, th she act forvcer provided (or the weue of this preferred ftocs t» (hie creditors, WHO should present their cia me withity @ epecitied tune, aud for their adjudicati toat the preierred mock aho ld be entitled to divi- dends not to exceed seven per cent; that the com- pany was subsequenuly #0 the articles of aque + 115,600 at | And ue is hereby su @ within woich the holders of stock of the old | compe y Wig 4 © Bvert thoi bouds aud claims ino Erie trouk to July 1. 1862; that the whole capital stock | oi the New York aud Bre. ompany did pot at any time exceed 115,500 shares of $100 each, and {ts debts d #d $5,650 000; that tae woole amount of stock | v1 68 be Creed aad issaed bY the new compan: 000 stares of $100 exch; that abo ued oer 18, 1862, a furiner fied, statiog thae th Fock outmtanding and issued on the Let tharos of $100 each, of common 462, wav 1d 076 week and the amount Of preferred stock was & that date $8,500,700; that by am act fay 1664, the Railway was autho wed to iBereaso jhe capital stock $5,000,000, tor ‘and commitiod by a NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUAR, 20, 1868.—TRIPL& SHERT. eops‘ruction purpos’s, and aiso empowered to isa $3,000,000 of capital sock for wwe payment of boats ised by the Compiruier of the tate om New-York that the time of payment of the-e latter bonds has been since exteudot to 1897, and the $3 000 000 is not Low required for thik Purpos®, Bnd the company Las he authority to issne It, Bur has tt done so, Tho petiion Lhep proceads (0 slate Guat on the 3ist of Decemb'r, 1565. by tho stock bovks of Lhe company and ia annua! Veur, the toiai capital sivek isgues res of $100 aca, making ® wtat valuation of $25,105,800—vonsisinyg or pre- ferred sick, $8,009,700, apd $16,070,100 of com. mon sock, tee Coumon stock being composed of #11 660,000 issued ip exchange for fourtn morgage vOuds of De orf COMpany aud $2,200,000 irsued as part of the $5.009 000 constracti n stock; that Lo company 4b DOW Authored to issue OUly Lue reua.n 000 of con-tiuetion sock: tat L organiauion of the Erie Ri ope of the Board of Dwecturs aad meinber of the Exec t Commities, and has, dinug all such time, exerted & coatroling tnfuence over boLb Of tnese boards, 18 possessed of great wealth and meneyed capital, aod das ron a ail such tines largely engaged im speculating tp Erie Kailwa. stock, but more yarucularly in ‘ebort” sales of such stock; tat whea Le bad made any such ‘Suor?’ sales 1 was to nis ipier- est to vepress said tock in order tat be mgut purchase cheaply; that im order so 0 Market said Drew resorted = lenis. aud that one of the most ellectuat 9 quaniiues of the stocs upon » Alone Lhe mading the supply lo exceed the demand, cassing parties «ho had bor rowed or advaured mouey om hypothecatony of tei sock 40 racritice suc stock lor qe payment of their lang or advances thervoa; that prior to May, 1360, Drew bad for monivs been @n- gaged in making heavy “shor’’ sales of Ere at irom $96 to $70 per share (averasing $90), and inav he required sucw large aawu0ts oO Bivcx Uo Mil (uese sales; that if be had veea comprliied to goin o the marnet to purchase it tue pres, vy reason of his de. macd, would Lave materially advance! aud duninished thereby bis profls; toat tiat time the com. pany bad ov band tue 23,000 shaces remaining unissued of ibe construction stock; tbat aguiust tis jatter stock tl company = bad Bold more than $2,800,000 of convertibie bunds iv England; toat about that Une Daniel Drow, by rearoa of his great tntiueace aud to lurther bis individual beueilt, obtuined coutro. of (hese 28,000 shares, aud ai-o t e@ unsecured $8,000,000 worth uf bouds aluremeutioned, with the understanding thas bo migvb Couvert the ia wer bonds inco stock and reconvert tiem vt tis pleasure, and tuat alsu dispose of uole amount (68 000) of e8 8) UD ained OF Converted iron DoNds, hy agreeing vo advance ih pavY BEY per cour on he par of this stuck aud Lo Lave the use and control of it tor two years, and on the repayment of tue advance, with interest, be Was lo return tue wtock and euch bunds as sere wot con- ve.ted, that uv security was taken Irow or given by hitn tor the revura of tuis stuck aud boa ly or tue value toereo! ; that Robert H. Burdeti, wen prosident of ihe company, was interested with Drew im thi. op-ration, and wat “Drew corruptly gave pecuuary in- ducemeas’? to Burdeil, “and compensation tor Jaciitating tue delivery of suid stock — to wh said = Drew;” tu notwitustanding such delivery to Drew of this stock, and placing by bim of uch stock on the market, the directors, 1D their aonual repor tor the year 1866, suppressed tue fuct of the tue 0 said stock, und stawd thy tora! amount of ths company’s capnal to be $29,111,210, and the changes in the stock ty consist in tue issue of $5,410 of Addiional stock, wiereas in tru’b by this uniawcul issue t+ Drew of 68,000 shares tue Capital stock was at the a of the report (Decemoer 31) tucreased 10 911,210, tue increase during the yeur had beep $0,505,410, instead of $5,410; thai tne annual port of the airectors contains uo mention whateve: of (weve dealiues with Drew, or apy part of tue transaction; that 1m the directors’ aunual repori, daced ~eptemoer 30, 1967, isued and circulated by their wuthority, tois trausaction was also again suppressed, and tue toual capl- Jal 8.0Ck stated to be $25,000,110; that Drew from time WW time disposed of these,58,000 shares of said stuck in making bis deliveries 10 1ulimeut of bis previous con- Macts of sale; Wat ot the 58 000 shares 56,000 shares are stil outsandiug, aud that Drew is accoun able or: that he has recently contracted other “shor” ‘of Ene stock aud ig now iurgely “ehort” of said CK, Bud has thus placed himself in a position which muxes it bis interest 10 depress ite mar- ket value, and oiiogs bis ersonal interesta iu @ivect cCoutlict with the leresia of the company and the faithfui performance of bis duties as director; tuat he 1s now wrongtuly endeavoring to de- press tne market vaiue of Erie stock or bis own protit; twat Le has aireudy realized protits from bis conirol and 1. of said 68 000 sures equal Lo or exceeding made by wim thereon, aud wron,tuliy sad stock from the company and con- tinues to avail himself of its use; , that the company had po legal power or authority to weue the 30,000 shares of stock convered from he bonda tu aud tbat be (Drew) knew thie, and in violation of bis duty as @ director procured its delivery to himself and so mingled it with the valid stock of the company that it is now impossible to separate or idep- tify It from such valid stuck; that the 28,000 shares of construction stock Were also applied to a dillerent use to shat provided in the act autuorzing ite issue, and that this was and a violation of 18 official duty; aud further, that sad Drew at the snnaal election of directors hed in this city om the 34 ‘of Ocvober, 1867, was not elected ‘oue of the Board of Direciors; but that at the first eub- ‘quent meeting of the Bourd one of the mumbers duly elected resigned bie oilice, and th: vacancy was iinme- diately filed by the other directors electing Drew to fill Buch yacaucy, and he was pon elected treasurer of said company ; that (he dealings between Irew and bis co-dirocters, whereby he ob.ained possess.on and control of the 58,000 shares of stock wees fraud and breach of trust op ibe part of all the parties to it, and couierred pon him po valid right or title; that be is bound to restore to the cul y such stock, ao equal amount of it, and vo account to the company tor a'! protis re- alized by ite use and control; that in so fraudulently withboiding tt he is guilty of abuse of his trust and rose misconduct, and is using @ part of 1 trust property tor bis own benetit and to the prejudice of the other stockholders. MANOTHER BRANCH OF RRIE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPED. ‘Tue petition furcher shows t Das about the your 1864 Daniel Drew, with ocher directors of the Erie Ratiroad Company, was a stockhoider and largely iterested in & railroad company kuoen as the Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburg Rais Ci mpany, the road of which was in- complete and of very lite value; that by means of bis inflaence as a director of the Erie Railway Company be procured a contract to be entered into between the two last namea companies, for the operation by the Ere Railroad Compauy of the railroad oi sav:t incomplete and aimost valueless ruad, the terms of which were unduly favorable to sad Buffalo, Bradford and Pitsburg Raii- road Company, and uoder which coutract it has been Operated frum 1865 te the present time; that recently, end since January 1, 1868, be prvcured some of the officers of the Erie Ratiway Company io ‘take from him end bis associates ta the ot! of the capital sicok i P. RR Co to issue in exchange therefor an ount of Ene stock valued at $1,000 000, which was issued to hun (Drew) and one of the former directors of the Erie Railroad Company; the petition also charges ‘uat this irensfer was procured by Vrew with the view of selling or transferring the Erie stock #o exchanged, and (herby impeding any action for the anuutting of the contract betwen the two companies ani 10 euabie Lim to secure additional stock for ois 0; erations oo the market; that the exchange of stocks was made priva ey aud without any reswlution of the Board of D rect- at Drew subsequently su snd canceled ge and bis receipt of the stock, and io answer to an inquiry denied tat any such et. ck xohange had been made by Ene Raliroad paDy. Tue petition finally prays for hie immediate suspen- sion from the exercice of bis office as director and treas- urer, U tation of this petition yesterday to the court the following order was grau! by Judge Bar- Attorney General of the Stato of New York, Prosecutiog tn benaif of the people of York, hi ing presented to this court a peti the 191n day of February, various acts misconduct and trust by Daniel Drow, as @ director of the Erie Raliway, avd also as ireasurer of said company, and praying for bis suspension and removal. Now, on mo- iow of \.arsball B. Champiain, Attorney General, and of Chaties A. Rapalio, of counsel, it 18 ortered that ie satd Appli ation on said petition b) hear at ‘hts court, at a special term thereol, to be held at chambers, at the City Hal’, in the city of New York, on the 2ist of February, 1868, ten o'clock A. M., oF as soon thereafter as coun- sud Daniel Drew do show cau 0 last aforesaid, why the pray Hon should nut be graated, and why such further of euch other order should mot be made to tue promises as may be just and prope: And it appearing from said perition that the aad Dan. jel Drow uns abused bis trust as -uch director. itis hereby, pursuant (0 the provisions of the Revised Statutes of tho Staie ot New York, further ordered tha: in the mean imo and voll the fursher order of his courton the hearing and decision of said application, tho sad Daniel Drew be ded from exercising bis office @ Ratiway Company, and nh pended frum doing or ¢ reetor 0° G. BARNARD Habe pus fe Judge G, Barnard, In the Matter of the Detention of Henry Pfeifer on Habear Corpus.—The petitioner in this ease was im. prisoned in the County Jail for alleged delinquencies as & member of the Ninety-sixth regiment, N. G, 8. N. Y., and brought this proceeding to obtain bis discharge, Un the return of the his counsel, Generai Mac. Gregor aod John C. Bushnell objected, tothe sufficioucy of the procoodings in that the commitment did not set forth the proceedings of the court martial and that @ warrant was pot oted 10 & sheriff, marshal or constable as required by statute, nor to any oMcer whom the cuurt could recognize, but was dix cted by name to two persons whose authority That the court could not take jadics 10@ the person claiming to bave been Tt martiai por Of tne fact that be president of the court mart al (rom ch Bignatire alone, Hor of the fact that any court had | beew duly convened or beid, or that its proceedings Were legal or reguiar, uch court being of specia: and imited jurisdietiom and in derogation of the common Jaw aod of the right of triai by jury, nowhiog could be presumed ia /avor of 8 jurisd Cuon of of the reg Of ts proceedings = It was toner aas had vot become director of the National Guard cont art of tue court martial were both 4 that the petitioner bad been tried process of law, and intimated that & decision discharging the petiiousr from arrest | wouid ope ‘0 disvand soiny of the city regimenia | Ihe court dwcharged the potitioner, holding. among things, that ao one bur a citizen of tne Onited States could be held am wo tho militia tawa of the State o w Yord, though it was Olberwiee as to Jogal and reguil | they promised the several sums represented by enlisiments tn the reguiar army of the United Starea, which ips: faco by express act of Congress makes tue soldier a citizen, Supa Aw in Alleged ¢ Daring the Waret1 Before Juage Ba co John Levy vs, Moves Reichman and others.—The de Jendanis in thiy acou resided m Texas, The plantetf resided in New Yurk This action was commenced by pla ati to recover the sum of $9,110 15 for goods de- hverea tc the defencant in the cicy of Matamoros, Mexico, tm 1866, to be by them transported to the city of Hhvustoa, Texas, and there to be sold by the defendants, a3 commission merchauis, for (be benefit of the planuft, The de.endants wers to pay the du'ies on geods, This charge was sustained by the plainuff’s testimony alone, \ue defendants demed ever having made sich @ contract And alleged that tue goods were deliv by the plain tif oa man by ihe uae of P. A. Heiskell, who was eugaged im carrying cotton tor the Couiederate govern- meat from Houston to Brownsville, aud on fis return Jook goverument stures, powder, &o. At this Hine, Dot baving an, government siores Lo ship, ie wok back mercuandise for individuals. There was comsiderabie Coull Cumg (estiianny in fresard to tue lacts as proved aud io the derendant's Havluty, When toe testimony Was closed (he del ndagts moved Lo dsm ss the com Plaint, and on Wearng counsel on beth sides the court deciued as follows :— 1, Defeuvauss are not responsible as common carriers for ibe goods in question, becau-e@ the deiendants weie Rot sUCD carriers of tue Koods, . £be L008 were forcibly taken by public enemies— to wit, Con ederate soidiers—from sue carrier b tween Browusvilie aoa Housion, in Texas, aud uever came to tue j Osseseion of tye de en tants at whe vatier piace 3. the piammtifl was @ citizen of the Save of New York at the ume be contracted in siexi¢o 10 seud tne goods Lo deleudanis in Texas, ur (o allow the de.eudaue to take the gods from | exioo ‘0 House wn Texas, to vell for Plamuil at tue latter place, and at said ‘ime the State of Texas aud tue }nLabitauts tne, eof were in open redellon Agunst the United diates, and ai commercial iter course between the citizens of the staw of New York aud (he inbabiaots thereot was proniwited by acu of Congress and prociamations and orders of the President of (we United States, avd tue plaintiff, by sep iiog the goods in‘o Lexa, and by agreeing the defeadants should take them int» tuat State, gave aid and comfort to enemies of the United “ates. 4. the coniract respecting the goods established by the evidence was unlawful aud treasonuble against tho Untied =wies and cannot be eniorced, ‘Lhe plamilif te theretore non-suiied, SUPERIOR COUAT—S:ECiAL TEAM. Deer Judge Jones rendesed judgment in the following c1 yesterday :—~ Mary A, Whittingham, administratrix, vs. The Yuba Gold and silver Minivog Company,—Motion denied, without costs, Caioune Kraema vs. Emanuel George.—Proceedings dismissed. Simon Y, Sondhelm vs, Bertha Corns. — Default opencd OB payment of $12 costa and disbursements, Kdaward G, Nickerson va the American Telegraph Company.—Movion grauted. Wiliam Sulzbacker et al, v8, Barak Seligmao, granted, without costs. in the matver of James T, Watson for the appoint men: of @ guardian, —My.ion graated, SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM—PART + Action tor $1,500. Bofore Judge Barlow and a Jury. Henry Alexander vs. Benjamin S, Cohen,—This was an action to recover $1,500 for saary, alleged to be due by @efendant to plaintiff, The complaint avers that plain- Mit was Jesman On Commission, carrying on business at Murray and Ch: mbers etieets, In the month of July, 1865, plainuff was engaged by the derendant to act as bia salesman, and continued in his empioy until March, 1867, when he was di cuaged, as he avers, without Cause, Piaiutiff further ciaims that 1a addition to his duites as saleynan he performed ober imp.rtani ser- vices for detendant, for whicb he ciaims the amount menuoped, lve deleuce set forth wasa denial of ayy ex.ra service by plaintid ag indoor saleswan while de- fendunt was in Europe, and alleges that ail claims were fully satisied prior to piaintifl’s diechurge, Case still on. COURT OF OVER AND TERMINER, Charge to the Grand Jury—The Atte: of eo Ju Called to the Private Lyiug-in * Establishments. Before Judge Ingraham, Yesterday morning Mr. Justice Ingraham charged the Grand Jury 1 this court, defining in the usual manner the duties devolving upon them under the provisions of the siatute, No allusion was made to any special case, ‘Dut it was stated that two or three important cases would bo brought betore them, In ciosi: court addressed them as follo i cannot, however, in closing my remarks to you, ‘avoid calling your attention to what I bave seen fre- queutly of late im the papers, with what truth 1 do aot know. I refer to the case of an establishment in this city in regard Wo intantebildren. It seems to me, if the charges in the papers, or the charges woich have come ip some meacurs before the pubiic are true, to require at your bands an iavestigation. Ireter to the estab- Msiment were infants are sent for the purpose of eee | taken car» of, and after a short time are found to die. retralm from sayivg suomit to your atiention aud call your notice to it, leaving it to you to take euch course as you may see fit upon that suvject, The Casey-Cornell Murder Case—The Jury Out Night in Delibera The People, dc., vs, Richard Casey,—Yesterday morn- fng, after the charge had been delivered to tho Grand Jury, the trial of Richard Cavey was resumed. Ex- Jadge Stuart occupied the court from haif-past ten o'clock in the forenoon to twenty minutes to two o'clock in gumming up the case in bebalf of Richard Casey, who has been on trial since Monday lant on indictment for the murder of William Cornell, in Bayard street, near the Bowery, on the 4th of January Inst, At that hour @ recess was taken, and upon tue reassembiing of the court District A‘torney Huichings closed argu- ment for the prosecution, At bulf-past turee o’cioek the jury retired to consider their verdict. Judge Ingraham, in charging, alluded im tue brieiest terms to the tneents of crime, aud detined the jaw which should govern tue jurors 1m their aeliberauons, regard- @ provable motive, if any existed, but in reference to idence bad been adduced upon either side, It was evident that the court desired, in so far as wae consietemt with its daty to the people, to comment upon the iucts of the case, a8 ai on of mgseoms to create ao impression of the unprovoked Bature of the homicide At about five o’ciock the jury came inte court for in- atruciions retative to (he disttuction between murder in the rst degree and murder in the second The court read tbe statute upon the subject, when the jurors asked to be informed im relation w the extent of punishment ia ent of comvicticm in either degree, bey desired to know the nature of tue penalty atteuding ‘exch of thuse degrees Jus tated that thi ation was entirely ration. ‘They @ erdict in accordance with the evi- dence adduced, and not with reference to tbe puoish- Ment to be inficied upon the prisoner, consequent upon the degree in which they might fad bim guilty. oiill the court had no objection to giviag the information desired, The ow then intormed them that the penalty atiached to @ verdict of murder in the firat de- Motion roo Was death, and in the second degree imprisonment for lie ity again retired, and at half-past seven o'clock, agroed, bue court directed thata recess be taken uatil balf-past ten this morning, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. Judge Brady rendered judgment in the following cases yewterday morning: — Burns v, Burns, —Counsel feo of $250 and $12 per week siimony to unite on deed as to property referred to on the invtion. Miner vy Sumerville.—Motion denied on payment of $10 evsia, Pittretch vt, Rosenthall,—Motion denied, with $10 coats to abide the event. Wilmart vs. Frederici. Motion granted. Chepin vt. Waen.—dotion granted, defendant atipu- lating not to sue. Merril vt, Carere.—Form of order suggested, COUAT OF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—PART 2. Before Juige Barret aod @ Jary. Jamas A. Thompton ve Wallace Barnes, Impleaded with Edward L, Dunvar,—This was ao action to recover the amount of certain promissory notes. The complaint al- teges tbat on the 19th January, 1860, the nti bad advanced to Jared Pratt three promissory notes of over $600 each, without consideration; thi 180 loaned to the said Pratt, to enable him to carry on bis business, $916, for which Prat gave plainti? his draft on the de. fendants, payable one day after sight; that on the 13th of January, 1860, Pratt b ecas insolvent, owing the de. fendante at the time about $13,000, and that, being un- Able to pay nis debt. be proposed to the plaintiff to an assigoment of his property for the benefit of creditors, and to preter tue plaintit with full amount of bis invebtedness. The ocompisint then 1 that fm consideration that the plaintiff would foreg right to the asvigoment ang would make i to defendants, Promissory notes when they became due, together we amount of tbe draft, immediately after execu ton of the bili or salo, Piatti theo avers thay although be yielded to defendants whey bave not since d either the draft or the amount of the promiacory Les. jenial of every Case of Alleged Frandatent Representath botore Judge Barrett. Ol ver W. Dird we, Pond.—In the Heracn report of this tare youterday br. Bird wae inedyertenUy mentioned ae upertor Court at a salary of $1,500 per al and he salary of tue ibrar B ee vga of the Supreme ‘ation Wad received from the Board of | Corowers asking for a mesenger, which was re.erred 10 | the Committee on Salaries aad Oificers, | The bil's of Roo & Co. for stationery, amount tho defendant instead of the planti™ The Jury found | a verdict Jor the plamwutt, Mr, Bird, COURT CrLemDaa—THIS DAY. Nos. 129, 110, 89, 70, , 104, 109." 60, 91, ‘10 Uyirey Scares Districr © 82, 102, 193, 3, 73, 98, 108, 61, 7 4 aan’ ah a 6,258, and of Seymour & Co. tor stats do. 35, 36, 87, 116, 117, 93 97, 107, 103, 29, 2 # r ORaPY, be ase OU —SPactaL tent Noa 133, 249, 210, | Se. aI OU GLAS to $6,931, were taken up and ordere . 118. 00; 9, 108, 191, 162, 195, 194, 165, 188, 15% | PN Eo et tooke up the sien 168; as 3 AB. Uf 39, 89, 199, 164, | D¥ He Comptroner, apd w sligut vat . oo sod, 23h, 248, pendmenuts, alter whick tue Koard adjourued, tu i 1 &. Uhe cal! of the chatr, BOARD OF EOUCATION. ikevtt,—~Part 2.—Nos 1102, 1260, Mog, 1165, 1170, 1296, 106, 1808, 1510) 43 Part’ 3,—Nos, 611 1295 5g, 1-93, 1800, 1302, 1804, S1Sg, 1516, 1318, 13 154.140, 685, 608, S52 The Course of Studi in the Schools, A stated meet ng of this Board was held at which @ large amount of business was transaccod the absence of the president Commusionor Sinai; was called to tne chair, and several communications from rt 2—Nos 8704, Firhgncs ag te Aap tore oe 4 S642, 8752, 3760, | trustoos of the various wards were read and aypropri- Ore AND PROMINER AND CiviL CALENDAR —N’s, 3851, | @tely Teferred ; among otuers a communicatiog trom the A151, 1195, 1157, 1159, 1165, 1109, L271, 1173. 1179, | trustees of t @ First ward, stating that the proposed ex LL7T, 1279, 1183, 1189, 1191, 1193, 1295, 1107, 1199 COMMON Pikes TRIAL LERM. —Part 2.—N +, 912 886, 925, 986, 694, 976, 995, 949, BOB, S90, 903, 1015, 879, 593, 10Ld, tension of Church street would necess tate the tearing down of @ portion of primary school No 38, in Trinity place, This school, it nay be sated, Is very numerously i cag Gah 2 eee Yom Ail $f a d somo of the beneat to the city from the 231, 282, 28s, 254, Zo, 25d, 237, Bas, BY, 240) Zhi, 242, | reot job may be lvarned from tue fact that ths. the city will be obliged etther to build a new school. house where properly is now exceedingly bigh and can scarcely be procured or to allow a lurze uamber of chil- @ren io be turned on the streets. The communication ‘was referred to tue Commities on Schoo! Bu dings, by Whom the question will be inquired Ime, A communi- Cation Was received fron the irustees of the Filth ward Telative fo ‘ho enlarging, painting nd repai ing of Schoot No, 44 A preamble und resolutions were pre- Sented seciiug forth te tact that a xreat deal oi com: plane bad been m to the ellect ‘bay tue course of — CITY INTLLUIGENCE, AvoTioN Save ov Horses —Now that the weather is growing warmer and the ferrybuata are euabied tw run on beiier time, the horse markeis are besinning w look liveiy aud better stock 1s being offer dfur suie on the | regular auction days; yet the atteudanoy of buyers is mot a3 good as it might be, At Jounsiog & | studies prescribed by the Board and the amo mt of labor Van Tasseli’s om Tuesday tuere waa a previy fair | 'Mposed upon both teacuers aod is was too umber of good borses disposed of. At Vande- and directing that the on ~tudies wate ’s on thy same day ther also a very 8 8 Jolt committer, commi tee Good dispiay Of stock, aud yesierday Messrs. Weeks aud | Teduest the ity rupermten his assistanis, Keller veld’ a succcesful gale, at wich tue Pucchea | the clerk of the Board, principals ‘and assistan's of schools (0 furnish the comtitice with ali available infor ation OD the subject, so Wat the Board may be aided to B Just aud proper decision on the subject, Mr Merril @dvecat d very forcibly the adepiion o the res:lution, and stated tuat be wasn tin javor of making an edu. cuted people and developing sie mind at the sacrifice of health ihe resulution «as adopted aud the maiter re ferred to the commit ‘Yae Commitiee on Fi eral reports, in favor of paying bills wuihorized by certain ical Boards, und reported the tact of ue awaruing of con- tracts for work on schoolhouse in Vai streot, as already published in the Henato, ‘he Committee on feachers reported in favor of sua- ta wiog au appea! made oy Miss Laura Kyle, a teacher iu the Tweniy-secoud ward, trom the action of the local board disinissing her on the ground of incompeeucy, ‘The report gave rise to a very extended diwcussou re- garding the duty of the Board aud the sympatuns of the members, and the report sustaining the appeal wus adopied, A resolution was introduced to imcrease the pay of leeks Lo the local boards. Tue clorks now receive each four cents per head o& tue avera.e atieadaucs seho Isof the ward, Tho rosolution offered onde the increase io sia cents per head: vstead o: four ure Matter Was abu Very ¢ Orougnly dis’ ised and finaly adupied, after wiica the Board adj urued. BOOK NOT C:. colt Drougut $475; Ned Forrest, winner of the purse at Rockiand county Fair last fall, $275; the Wily colt, a very tue auimai, $359; Black Bou, nalt brother to Gen- erai Buuer, $230; Faony Grey, $173; Hiamiet, $145 ae borse, $176, and a pretty vluck Canadian pouy, o EMIGRANT LABORERS. —Tho sem! montbly report of the Commissivuers of Eaigration for the periol betweea February { and 15, sets forth the following interest ing facts:—Applica ious of emigrants fur employment, mules 547, temales 341; orders of empioyers fur lubor, uiaies femaies 392; emigrants employed, males 212, tema.es 295. There were 000 maws wud 209 fe- males avie (o read and write, and 47 wales and 132 females unabie, Co-UreRaTiv® Prosperity —The members of th? First Unton Co-operative Building Buciety paid in their tuirty- third weekly subscripuion at Farmer's Institute, No. 49 Ludlow street, last evening. Secretary Allingham siated that the sum amounted to $502, making a votal fm bank, inciudimy $231 interest on the game lor the past few months, $14,052, ‘Ibe gociety nas advanced the sum of $3,565 to members for buidias purposes, Yhe shird Sucity meeis this e-ening in (we came piace, Invenval, Revesve Martens,—cohecior M. B. Field, Of the Sixth district, bas setzed, for violatiun of the Iniernal Revenue laws, 217 hozsheads ale at No. 110 West Sevenveenta streo Taig ale was mauulactured in the same disirict and removed tron the place of manufacture to where it was found, without payment of tax, in vessels Containing ies3 tan eix bares vaca, The case bas been Wrnoed over ty the District ai- woraey for forfeiture, {he same colivctor has jorwarded to the Commyswner of interna Revenue schedules (or the abatement: of the un viected baxcs on the annual list of 1887, comes 0. 1866 tue umount assessed and receipted for by the culiector tu tbe assed. sor was $1 069,662 Tue Mount uncoiccied is ony $2,689, or one quarier of one per cent, aud this inciudus erroneous assessments. Tue uumber of taxpayers on the |igt 1s about sixtecn thousand. Tue Cuariry Batt.—The aanual charity ball to take place at the Academy of Music on Monday evoning next will, we bave no doubt, be a brilliant success, judging of its great popularity im previous years, and [rum (ue fact that nearly ali of the boxes have already beeu dis- posed of, We ieara that ths tickets are beiug sold very Tapidiy. Tuts at Portce Heapgvarrers.—The Police Com- missiouers Leld their regular weekly meeting yesterday Tae Parav Daama—A Hisrouican FE ‘Thomas H. Gil, author of the ‘Ann London: Longmans, Green & Co, ‘The title of this bovk, we imasine, mast have been adopted by (tho author rather frum its sinking and Showy character than from its appropriatouess to the scope and tenor of his subject The. history of the Papacy eno doubt capabio of beug presented in dra- matic form, but it would bea drana setting at detlance ail ideas of unity, and spurning, with suilcient cou- tompt, wil historical deiaiis, I: ts well, therefore, tuat Mr. Gill makes no attempt at dramatic construction in the execuiiun of his work, It would have been better if be bad adopved another title, for a titie 1a valueless: if not appropriate, As it is, the author has given us 6 bulky octavo volume of some five buudred pages, in which wo have « detailed, eloquent aud not unjust ac- count of the Papacy frem its commencement to the Prevent time. 1: would be absurd, of course, to expect ‘afernoon, President Acton in the examiner's chair, A | shat Mr. Gill, wbo 1s enthusiasiically devoted to the large number of ;oiice were tried ou chai pI cause of Protestantism irom tho point of view of ferred against them by their rior officers, sucB @# | the angican Church, should write altogether without Vivlatious of the rules aud regulations of the depart- ment, There wore no citizen cases of aay imporiance. A Nexpep Raronm.—fhe railroad companies of this city have at last avowed their intention of replacing the filthy cushions of the street cars with comfortabiy built seats of wood, such as bave-been for some sime in use on the ferryvoats plying on either of our rivera, The condition of the car cushions has become eo filthy, and the utter impossibility of ever thorongtly cleaning them has been so [oye demoustraed, tuas it has beea fouud a tier course to do with = thein altogether and substitute the equally cun.fortable an ways cleanly bencues, The ulth and vesunim tuat bave clung to and wferted the old cushions tave been tue cause of much auaoyance to the public, or at any rate to ‘that great portion of our c Lzvas who-e avocations rea- der ovcessary dai y journeys in the-e eu the abandunment of the greasy bags will undoubtedly be bailed with delight by all, A Novet Wacer.—A remarkable pedestrian match bas been brought about lately between Joseph Coliine, of Jersey City, and Thomas P. Halpin, of Brooklyn, for $250 a side, the jailer wagering that be will walk on the railroad from New York to Philadelphia im quicker time than Collins cam travel to tbe same city over the Old post road tue distance over the railroad is niuety-slx miles and over the post road one bundred and ten miler; but it 1 claimed that it wil be the more ditficuit task to waik over tbe ‘‘slcepers’’ and toe rau- road bridges, There is a difference of fourieen miles The match ie to be decided om the 25:8 of March, Fatat Burxivo Casvacty,—Yesterday afterooon Mra, Mary Ann Dufln, late of No. 60 Mulberry street, died from the effects of burns received on Friday last, It appears that a man narned Keyes called upon deceased ‘with the view of selling woat Le was pleased to calla ew kind of non-oxplosive kerosene vil lamp, To test it lighted the lamp, which was po sooner done than it exploded and verribly burned Mra. Duttia about the face, breast aud body. Sm 3 conveyed to the New bias, It is but jum, on the ot! mand, to say that the Dias Is not made paintully mani’est, [he work was suggested to the autner by the events which took piace (np Ataly in 1869 and 1860; 1t was finished im its original form in 1862, but it bas since been partial.y ai idea of tie work as a whole may be gathered from ihe headings of tha different sec.ions:—The Boyinuing of tne Popedom —The Karly struggies and Excesses of ibe Popecom—The Triumphs of the Popedom—ive Pope- dom jo Full Strength and Spieodor—ihe Vegradation of the Popedow—Further Vecliue of the Froyedow—She Reforma ion—Ficht with the Reformation —Decrepi- tude o the Popedom—The Agony ‘of ue Popeaow— Italy and the Popedom—Franceimi@ Ausiria as Actore iu the Papal Drama—Buglana and the Popedom—Tne Catastrophe of the Papal Drama, The book reveais immense imdustry and occasioualiy @ skilful and philosophical grovping uf acts We give one passage as & iair otawpie vf the author's myle We do it she more willingly that i¢ reveas she spirit aod tenor of sue eatire work :— Lbere is anovher power, not a direct actor ia (he Papal drama, yet curiously coonvctea with the autoiding ot thas drama; @ power at no time a satellite of be Roman See, io wore or less decided hostility to it always, appa Teully moving inaa enuirety dierent spuere, yet s.rauye- ly and sirikingly keeping Company Wita ib urouguou:; iuiuectl over and iaflueuces by it, sssocawu win it by @ mysierious sympathy o1 fa. in apie of aw giariag and declared anupathy, curiously participaiiug is ture tones, uplitted during its e: » decaying during its deciive, aud as tis very time marveliousiy inked wills it by a community of peri. Ihis power is Mu sausiped- evisu, mamy and most promivenuy represeuced during the last tuur centuries by the Uiwinau empire. Lau and Popery are both corrup.ious Of Uuristivaty. Kora about the same Ume, they grew up aide vy site, flour ianed together, Lave beew iong waning togetuer and seem not Wolikely t> fail wearily Logetuer. eager th a Area ne te Not ouly have Islauw and ihe Papacy dociuved to- Immediately aiter the explo-ioa Keyes made bis eacape | Sether, but the method end manitesia.iun of tueir de. from the hous, ieaving bis eftvcts behind im, and bes | ° nm have mo curiousiy aike, Toer weakness - and roiteness peared nut su much in toe dni. et clans besa teen, Motacmedans and Roman Cashoiics as iu the degradativa avd prosiraden of Mohammedan aud Ko- tan Catholic najons, As Kowunisin vax vot 1 ast two hundred aud Gfty years yielded to the comvert- ing power of Protestauiiam, but bas testided its ule. rority by disabling the peoples and empires Leueato tie y 80 Isiaw ba» been s.rickeD, Hut LY the aggrosmVe energy of Christianity, but by 1s own cleay ing seukness aud evi, At bas smitien .nio umpotence the Staves aud ations subject to ite eway. Lue alogui empire us Vau- isted from Hindoman; Persia is iapidiy siukivg; © ‘Ouol np.re baw been | ng aud visibiy decaying, Tut y both of Rome aud iurkey has been us pro tracted #8 it Gas been obvious; tnvir sickly ile bas been strangely prov Just as the siricaea Papacy has Gisappointed the expectatious uf ardent Provestauts by Living om when they imagined it at ise pout oi deata, #0 the diseased Yiimity of the Utioman epire Has fais. hed the predicucns wot omy of propietical students, but of sceptical bisioriags Bud saga. iuus elatesmen, Weakened by tie war made iu 1s defence, suaxen by the treaty meant to assure ils @xiswuce, embarra-sed by Guancial ditucuities snd tbreateved by iuterbal Commo Lons, (rouvied by ue now consiiusioa uf Whe Davubian principalities aud alarmed by sue recent outoreak of Siavon.c patiouality m servis, airaid of its old Museo rpiexed by ite ov b wily, the Ovto- i totters vi, woking for coun- nd provection mainly to auvluer ancient conted- erate, England, aud a00 ber ancien adv This last circumstance of friead iness part of Austria marvelously beghtens (he strange hkenes Deiween tue present plight of the Ovomau empire and that of the Roman See, Alike im baviog Gisce subjoc s, they are al.ke in having (he saine pas suppor Since the end of tue Crimean War sue Las jd the Same predomimance ab Constaut.nopie as rhe MUNC.PAL AFFAIRS. BOARD OF ALDERMEN, The reh Street Extension Job. A special mocting of tho Board was held on Tuesday evening pursuant to a call made by @ majority of the membe.s, A smali amount of rouun# business was transacted aod ihe resolution of the Board of Council- mon, directing the laying of & wooden pavement in Seventh avonue, from Fourteenth street to Fifty-ninth street, was taken op concurred in, and a resolution was adopted dirocting the laying of the Niculson pave- ment in sixth avenue, from Fifsy-second to Fifty-ainto street Amember of the Board asked how soon the com- mittee having charge of the widening and extending of Laurens street would make @ report on the sutject, Alderman Norton stated in reply that the commit tee was a present divided in opinion, and that shere would in all probability bo majority and minority reporte on the subject presented at an early day. Aiderinaa Noxton then offered a resolution in to the Church streot extension job, high the repre: Fentatives from this chy in the Stae Legiviaure are requested to urge upon the Leg re the propriety of passing a bill to cance: And annul all revolutions o the Uoinmon council aud all orders of ihe courts directing the exiendiug of Church street, Aiderman Nor | ud jowg held at Kom one watwuahy cua ton, m presenting the resolution, repeated the | against Turkey and Austria jst as It aly remerke made by tim When the communic uprigen against Rome aud A Ko.b tue pondill and tion from bis Honor tho Mayor on the subject wus p the Sultan bave beeu of late leauing upe be-or vi nented to the Board, and woich appeared ia the Heat | tne (wear, What a marvellous covjun woat a of Sunday Jast, Alderman Norton was, however, more | mysterious connection! ikiam aud pacy, ail firm in bia statemen:s that the pringing of Ai0ug Such Open and active exemes, yet al aiong so strangely ake and so mysteriously allied, allied as cor- ruptions of divine truth, cumtemporanéous throughout, the came their tine of birth, the same Weir periud of growth, the came ther age of glory, the same their mi ing tho city at large, oF of giving needed e:aployment to a number of persons, but was done for tne purpose of providing sucrative positions for two or three persons as collectors at an expense of three millions of dollars to of decay, now Gnd themsvives, at the end of the ciiigens at large. tweive coniuries and @ bait, partners in perit a 1owe The resolution waa laid over under the rule, and the both blindly ciasp the 6a ve bro reed luck P.M, Board then adjourned to Tharsday al BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, Incrensivg Salaries aud Creating Offices. This Board convened yesterday morning in special the same formidaby uful and the Holy F ox despairing gaze Upon tue auort- of Austria, while they jift tne satue lovk of doubt and terror towards the out. ttrevched hand and unrevealing tace of France, Mr, Gill, it manifest, t@ no believer in Macaulay's New Zealand arti ss CANAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WEST, {From the Evening Telegram of yosterday, | Ctxomatt, Feb 19, 1868, Gonoral Weitael, who bas been for some Uine ougssed on a survey of the fails Of the Ohio, has made an +\ave- rate report, Which was received in Washiugwun yesier- day. The conciusions are that to dnish te present w large amount of routine business, 4 Mission of taxes erroneously assessed, wae dis; and applications for armories from « Fourth and Eleventh regime: propriate committee, An application was received from the clerks of the Courts of General Spssions and Oyer and Terminer aud the deputy cierk of the Court of Genera, Sessions, ask- ng for an incroase of salary, An ordi capal will require $083,000, of which §200.000 is on the tue band of Company, Ordering an increase Of the aalaries of the clorks of the nanding nde amounting to $1,570,000, Courts and of Oger and ei ernment § should take $5,000 each ry 4 1@ would bo $2. Causal on the Ludicna side is $5,695,000, General Weitzel recommends that in audi. the improvement o the o.d! the new canal should be built, as the iocks of the former will not be equa to the class of galaries of the City Judae, Kecorder and Surrogate to $10,000 each per annum, 1 bill of ex. Stier? Kelly for oficial services for the | vessele that the ree Ipcreasion commerce of Jast quarter, amounting to $4,984 67, was presented and | the river Will require, Mr. Kygieston bas this Jered to be paid. measure in band, and will push it through vigor Rerolntions were adopted appointing # librarian to | ously, Nowbing is expected as present \ oO ane 5 canal; but the people of tha Mississipp! valley have ® right Lo expect an ropriauon euticent to Comples@ ‘he old canai iu order that st may be made free, TEE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Financial Condiiion of the Company, on Jan, 1, ISGS. uv Reverted by the Bon ree The affairs of tho Western Vaion Telegraph Compan g are boing Much discussed at preaoot dy ine stockholders, who express dissatisfaction wi b the management 43 very lisile 3 KuoWn t@ Lhe general pablic in relation to its Guanc ai condition, and as ihe \aiter is being much. inquired 1uto lu Consequence Of tLe deciine in the tock, of ‘be company to avout 35, we publish i fuil a report mod: to ine siockhoiders om the ist of January last by ‘ho treasurer of the company, but which bas been aa yet seon by very few of their number:— To THe srocknoLPeRs OF rie Westsay Usion Tene GRA Comrasy:— Ata newiug of the Board of Directors, December 11, 1967, the repur. of the treasurer being under Considers ation, the jollowimg resuiutiums were woaniMeusly ado pred — Resv ved, Thatgo the judgnent of this board It ie in. expouient Lo dec Gre tue usual January dividend, Resvived, That tue Execuuve Comal tes bs requested to prepare & couci-¢ but full statement of the allairs of this company, founded on the repot of ihe treasuree made w-das, fur the past year or eiguteen months, + they may see ft, and tuat We same be priuted and a tnibuted to tue sockhoiders, and aio w brie suMu TY Of the resulis auown by suid Teport for pubsicauion tn > Dewspape In pursaance of the second resolution. the Exe ® Commit. submit berewith the sollowing report x the treusurer:— w THEASCRER'S REPORT. To rus Execcrive Codmirrs ‘As po gonsral report vy the management has» en fmuile to the svocknoiders since Vewver, 1335, 1b may o> per, 1u ConuecuoN Wb toe Hawn Tas exa,bIt, to @' brief stavemeut of the present coud.tion of ino company, whica wil be shown by te fuliowing |» bice:— No, 1 CAPITAL BTOCE. At the dato of the repurt vt vevober, 1865, the Kk OF tae Company issued was, ws ath eaatnt ites ++ $21,855,100 Tt ues Ssnce been .perea<ed toliows'— Octubrr, 1bu9, Ly CouverHVL oF bouds, Novewber, 1805, by excuange for 6 Caio.n'a Suto, Telegrape yer, 1868, by excuauge for Lout Ti Biaph sock i ail a ¥6 600 Decems 805, by exchange for Lrumansburg Bod Seneca kuis Leiegrapa sock... ay 8,500 December, 1309, by sue .0 uiods & Wrgt jor Kepeater pwient, om 1,600 December, 1s60 vy exchai ov Mossour and Western (eiegtaph WGK +2... cee ee 400 Deceuber, Isto, b¢ excuange for House 1,000 472,200 3,535,600 Klugh Company Dore decide este cs ORD Jay, 1x6, vy Comroldaiou wid American Teiegrapa COmpiny... cence see veo ce 11,818,800 Juy andd, by exchange for P, C. aud L, 4100 3 converted to present capital. eee eee es GAL, UNS, 800 OF the etek ed Suites Paice dines there was e- turued Wo Whe cumpauy, ay Con MueuOD ior CoIMpeldg cou sirucuion of Puciic ie . £883,300 The company owus ulso.... Izv 900 $1,008,100 southern bxpress Com vaay's tele raph hues, $150,009 Caitoraia Sate graph Company's stuck 124,700 O.uer wiegapu lines... 00 duu —— $854,700 Now owned by the company,....... Balance on which we are lable for dividends. $4,359,400 lbw is s.bject 10 be tucreased by ndig American und Un ted States ‘ie egrapa Companies stock, @4 proved iur io tho agreements of kor Amecican stock..... For United tates stock. . No, 2 BONDED DEvT, Bonds of the American Velograpu Company, due in 1873.. Bonus the Western pany, due in 1875... Total bonded debt, Decomber 1, 1867..... 0. STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXV'ENSES® FOR SIGHTERY MONTES wRoM JULY 1, 1866, To sancany }, 1d6d. (To bring this statemeut wp to January 1, 1868, the business for December 19 estimated.) 1866, Grow ieceipts, —_zpentes Net Proft's$ $502,202 $4iv.3s2 $151,010 649.716 Bde), Thd wl vid 295, do) 208.023, S44 245 279, 283 BeL,u08 802,008 $2.0:6.400 $1,500,004 $541,104 $239,455 814,617 108,924 297,078 820, 569 326,929 31s, 100 Total... see. $H154, 023 $1,018,008 1867, July. $636,153 $360,917 Auguat .... $70,078. To 970 S-ptemper. GUL vas Bio Gal Uctooer 649,58 893.459 November... 84,725 870.429 Doceruber, — @sti- mated.......... 685,000 315,000 Total........-. $5,805,962 $2,201,418 $1 24,028 Grad Totals,..$10,044,888 $6,195,424 $3,849, 443 vo. 4 STATEMENT SHOWING APPLICATION OF SET PROTITS. Tota net profi .rom Jy 1, 190d, 0 Deo Der 1, 1867, 17 moutusm, as per tavle No, J.. 33,069,463 Miscellaneous prouts ho .53 seinen nk Total ....ssee ee ees $4,604,607 Applied aa toivwa:— Liv aends, Diedend No, 22, July, ane Dividend No, 18 Divideud No, 24, Juiy, WET... .ccrccere. sven 804,500 --—— $1, 910,421 Interest on Bonds. Six months w Nov 1 1866, 977,005 Six monthe to May 1, le67. isu 76) Six incaius w Nov. 1, loi. 174,750 - $459,167 priation to siskiog juod for purchase bonds of 1875, feveu monibs to Dec. 1, 67, at $20,000 per with med American bovds ned bouds of du’ Inve ted in cops ructiwa o pew ine ...... + $788 463 ‘ails of bunds suid... 202 400 —— 636,003 3 527,581 co unappropriated ....... 167,415 Balavee ov haud, July }, i668 . 17,823 Balance wuappropriaied prtite, Dec. 1, 1857.. $i T404e No.6 STATEMENT CF ASMETS AND LIMILITIRG DEC. 1, 1867, Avs t ©. $40,875, 8: by te seee sees . 640,422 otner telegra, lc compa. m8. ” . 49.870 Real estaie pret piv 142,800 Doe from raliron) and te egraph 00) 1A? 048 Due from ¢ vornment aud pre, SL TH 440 417 OL 14L 162,323 +00 $48 201 605 Capital stock ... $41,005,800 Bonded debt. i 4,vd0! 500 Hond and mortgage, Buflais proporty Due on dividend and interest accouns..., Due railroad and telegraph cowpaniss. ., Due on loan account Due for toteroai re Tot Adit O#. 6.66. Sees ee eeenee Profits ased for purcnase of prop: erty. #1,747,380 13 dos Neo 6 ESTIMATED AVAILAMLE HaLANch 448 1, 1868. 4 protis, Dec 1, 1867, $174,084 180,000 Les Estimated construction, December. . ..€40,000 Appropriation to Sivs!ad Fond, De 20 000 cemuer... Sunary assets 30,000 ere Estimated avaiiabie surplus Jan. 1, 1808... §2d4,04d { wbied is respectfully saomitted as peso. He PALMER, Treasurer Jancany 18, 1868,