The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Contempt of Court—Violation of an Injunction of the United States. Before Judge Blatchford, The United States vs, William Mullee.—The de- fendant was restrained last summer by an injunc- tion of the United States Circuit Court from infring- ing on the rights of @ patentee in the manufacture mbs, He refused to comply with the in- f fens “and & writ was executed” upon ‘end when brought up for judgment he was dis- charged under a suspension of sentence and on his recognizan Ht was charged against him that he sisted i his invasion of the patentee’s rights and 4 new Writ was Issued, under which he ‘was arrested; and ihis day, on being brought q forjudgment, the Court passedtsentence that he fhould Pay $2,500 as a relmbureement of the expen- bes the Daventee was?at in pursuit of his prosecution, and to stand committed to prison until that. fine is paid. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. Judge Blatchford sat yesterday morning to hear motions in involuntary bankruptcy. Samuel Strook for Himself and Against Hts Co- partner, Louis Bowman.—Adjourned to July 21, Joseph Crockett and Christian F. Schramme for Themselves and Against Their Copartner, Janes C. Jewell,—Adjourned to June 29. Samuel 8, Ackerman and Others va, Alexander Harthil.—Proof of service was filed. The respond- eut denied that he had committed the act of bank- roptcy alleged against him in the petition of the creditor, and demanded a trial by jury. The Court made an order accordingly. Harvey Way and Ralph S. Darron vs. Henry Win- fers.—Prooft of same filed. Default of debtor taken, and Court ordered adjudication of bankruptcy, The Same Plaintifs vs. James R. Catkins.—Proot of service filed. Default of debtor taken, and the Court ordered an adjudication of bankruptcy. + John H, Anderson and Others vs. William Bon- neau.—Adjourned to July 2. COURT OF APPEALS Maurice Lanergan, the Murderer of Delia Lavergan—A New Trial Ordered. The Court of Appeals, which has just closed its labors for the term, has rendered a decision in the case of Maurice Lanergan, the wife murderer. The Court reversed the judgment and ordered a new trial. The time that has elapsed since the trial of Lanergan and the tinal review and decision of the case by the Court of Appeals has been so great— nearly a year—that the facts of the tragedy have almost, perhaps, been forgotten by the public. Lanergan was tried at the June term of the Court of Genera! Sessions, 1867, upon an indictment for the murder of his wife on the 26th of March, 1867, at 135 Washington street, in this city. District Attorney A, Oakey Hall appeared upon behalf of the people and Wiliam F. Kintzing and Charles S. Spencer con- ducted the defence of the accused. The facts as brought out on the trial showed that the prisoner and deceased occupied rooms on the second floor of a tenement house in the First ward of the city; that the prisoner was a man of war intemperate habits and lived upon bad terms with his wife, who was also addicted to intemperance. It was alleged that upon the 26th of March, 1867, the prisoner swore that he would kill his wife, and upon the afternoon of the game day of the threat was seen his wife. ‘She was last seen alive about six o’clock in the even- ing, and at about ten o’clock of the same night a per- son who had been accustomed to lodge with the pris- oner upon going home found Lanergan's door locked. He got a key, unlocked the door, and found the dead body of Lanergan’s wife lying upon the bed. ham, Thomas H. Smith, John ff. Sari, Ell White,, ‘Thos, Mee, Thoma # ban Daniel. McHugh, Alexan- der . jerick Wendel. Guardianauips ap. vig;—Bapoara Fritz, guardian of ie Fritz: fridget Hackett, of Marweres Hackett; Wi rederick R. wi ; Julia Bisselt, of Wm, 8. a eae lesple, of Wm. P,, Mary L, and J , Deabell, Catharine Yana, ‘ma. ; Aune O'Conner, o} Elizabeth and Daniel Mofugh; Bea). Wright, cf Samue! EB, Oa! borne. CITY INTELIAGENOE. Tax WEATHER YRSTERDAY.—The foMowing is a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, aa well as the week’s average, indicated by the thermometer at Hudaut’s pharmacy, 218 Broad- way, Herp Building:— temperature 1 Average temperature for week.. 1235 Average temperature for week pre 1536 THE ALLEGED JOHNSON-NAPHEGYI FORGERY.— In the beginning of May last a statement appeared to the effect that Dr. Naphogyi had forged the signa- ture of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and on which he obtained the sum of $50,000. The publication at- tracted considerable attention at the time it appeared, Yesterday communications yea 2 date purporting to -have been aritten ‘4 Mr. Johnao1 Were received, in which the charge of having forged that _gentleman’s name was satisfactorily settled. Mr. Johnson e: regret for the trouble and concern which Dr. Naphegyt was caused, and feels perfectly satisfied that the doctor iaiunocent of the charge of forgery. THE ScHUETZENFEST.—Instructions have been given to the police captains whose precincts are within the line of march laid down by the German societies in the procession to Jones’ Wood to-mor- row, to have the men of their off platoon on duty during the earns’ of the associations through their districts. One hundred men from the up town pre- cincts have been detailed for special service in ta Wood during the continuance of the festivi- es, FOUND DEAD IN AN Ick BOx.—David S. Bookstaver, formerly an officer of the Fifteenth precinct, was yesterday morning found dead in an ice box corner of Fiftieth street and Seventh avenue. It. is believed that while leaning over the box he was taken with a fit, fell in and died there. An inquest will be held on the body, Dry Goons CLERKS’ EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIA- TION.—At the annual meeting of this society, held at room 24 Cooper Institute, ©. Wittenbucker was chosen president and John S. Warren vice president for the ensuing year. THE ACCIDENT AT JONES’ WOOD—ANOTHER VIC- TIm.—Coroner Keenan yesterday proceeded to Jones’ Wood for the purpose of holding an inquest on the body of Henry Keeler, who was killed late on Friday afternoon by the falling of the trestle fence in Sev- enty-second street, as already reported in the HER- ALD; but owing to the absence of witnesses the in- vestigation was postponed till ten o'clock next Tues- day morning, after first empanelling a jury, who viewed the body. In clearin; prey Ge ruins yester- day morning the body of the missing man (Henry Kimbacher), late of No. 5 avenue B, was found crushed to death. Coroner Keenan delivered the remains to the relatives for interment. CLOSING EX®RCISES.—The closing exercises of Seabury Hall and Kindergarten School took place at 684 Sixth avenue’on the 25th inst. The perform- ances on this occasion were appropriate and credit- able to the teachers, Mrs. and Miss Frost, and the scholars. The course of study pursued in this com- ‘The alarm was given, and upon .examination of the body of the deceased a number of incised wounds were found, as wellas a wound on the head, apparently made with a blunt instrument. The body presented the appearance of having been bad in; bl ‘Was found on the wall as well as on the handle of an axe standing by the bed, and a broken broom handle wasfound in the room. Lan. ergan was arrested ina mur. nearly week, resulting in @ con- viction of murder in the first degree, whereu| Re- corder Hackett sentenced him to be execut iy the 9th day of August, 1867, the Gay upon which Jer- ry O'Brien, who was convicted of the murder of Kate ‘Smith, was executed. During the trial 3 number of exceptions were taken, upon which Mr. Kintzing, counsel for Lanergan, made application to the Supreme Court for the allowance of a writ of error and stay of execution, which was subsequently granted. The case was first reviewed by the Supreme Court last December and a new trial ‘Was refused, after which another writ of error was sued out from the Court of Appeals, where it was argued last April and the decision announced at the present term ip favor of Lanergan. Since the com- mission of the murder Lanergan has been confined in the City Prison, under the charge of Warden Coul- ter, and has now been one year under sentence of death. His conduct during his confinement is said to have been good, in consequence of which he has made many friends. The action of the Court of A) peals Was made known yesterday morning, when Mr. Kintzing repaired to the prison to communicate the fact to the prisoner. Upon the announcement of the fact Lanergan shed tears, and it was a few moments before was sufficiently composed to thank his counsel for lus labors in nis behalf. This is the second wife murder case in which Mr. Kintaing has secured a reversal of judgment in the Court of Appeals. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad | Company's Case—The Corporation Sus- tained in the Issue of Stock for the Paymeat of Dividends. Before Judge Ingraham. Hovell et al. vs. The Chicago and Northwestern Raviroad Company.—This was a suit brought by | the plaintias to enjoin the defendants from issuing preferred stock in payment of dividends upon the preferred and common stock ofthe company. The,’ Piaintifi4, who are holders of common stock and vonvertibie bonds of the company, claimed that the dividend in preferred stock was illegal, as giving an extraordinary dividend of unknown value and un- known preference to the preferred stockholders, and that it decreased the value of the privilege of conver- sion of bonds, The Court yesterday rendered an extended opinion on the motion recently argued to continue the pre- Por d ‘junction, apa denied the application olding— First—That the company has power to both common and preferred stock at will. Second—That the issuing of stock as a dividend is more advantageous to stockholders than the pay- ment of dividends in money, and the probable con- sequent sale of stock below par in the market to replace the money invested in the road, ird—The declaration of one board of stock- holders that {t wili mot increase the company’s pee” is not governing or binding on a subsequent ard. Fourth—At present prices of stock the holders of tommon stock obtain at least as large a dividend paratively new educational en rise is of a high ae, both from its attractiveness and thorough- a AN EXPRESS SWINDLER.—On Friday afternoon a tail, light complexioned man, having the usual style, appearance, book, &c., of an express messenger, called at the residence of Mr. Foley, 16 East Seventy- third street, and upon seeing Mrs. Foley handed her @ valuable package from Baltimore, which he allowed to be opened, and a chepk for $1,000 was found therein, He stated that Mr. Clark, of the American Express Oom; » Sent him with it and was ordered tel leave it at Mr. Foley's residence and e charge, $6, should be paid at once, or the valu- parcel was to be returned to Baltimore imme- diately. Mrs. Foley told the messenger he ought to know that Mr. Foley's place of business was in Broadway, where he could leave the Binge » and a the charge. The swindler left. THe New CaTHOLIC CRURCH OF St. BERNARD.— sdies of the recently organized parish of St. ed, embracing the populous Catholic district situated west of Eighth avenue, and between Leroy and Seventeenth streets, are industriously aiding the effort for the construction of the new church. The main hall of the temporary edifice of worship has been transformed by the magic of their hands into a fairy scene, whereina ladies’ fair and bazaar hold forth their temptations to those who wish to mani- fest their zeal in the cause of the faith. The hall was opened on the 16th inst. and will remain so until July 4. The srrangenens have been admirably superintended by Mr. Philip Malone, of the Building Committee, who has most zealou Rev. Father Healy in forwarding contemplated church. Licessns IssvgD DURING TH WREK.—There were issued by Marshal Tappan, of the License Bureau of the Mayor's office, during the past week, licenses as foliows:—Coaches, 70; venders, 18; publio carts, 12; drivers, 47; dirt carts, 4; dog carts, 6; second hand dealers, 7; junk dealers, 8; express wagons, 4; por- ters, 2; intelligence office, 1. tal, 190. He has col- lected’ for fines $21, making the total amount collected $869 75. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ALLEGED BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A CAILD.—The hearing of evidence in the case of the people, on the complaint of Sarah Adelaide Jennings, against Mrs. Margaret A. Wheelright, of No. 150 Monroe street, assisted the plans for the aMidavi¢ Roediger chi the house on wery is @ Gisorderly “house "ana a publie Bannee thas Wt i Kept aod maintained by ea McBrien and others for the distribution tery tok Totton palitnee coc onicg ties i for the sadn and pac of ticksta, ig tate. rigoners were yesterday ‘natce Dowling where Mr. Joni Anthon: them. He contended that tee bossa comp! was noted house in the generat an fly released except Pre : held to bail to await ALLEGED LARCENY.—F. A. Loring, of 366 Green- Wich street, was arrested laat evening on complaint Of Morris: Meyers, of 137 Rivington street, who cha that Li carried from 116 Chrystie area butcher's block, bene! 4 pe $76, after ot a disorderly 0 and other property of the value of an attachment had been iasued and the ty was in the hands of the deputy marai @ arrest was made omicer Gossman, of the Tenth precinct, apd waa committed to the cells. AFFRAY ON SHIPBOARD—ASSAULT WITH A HAM- MER.—Yesterday morning Wm. 8S. Patten, a sailor Mployed on board the ship Cordes, lying at pier No. 9 North river, and Wm. MoGloin, second mate of the ship, got into an altercation, during which it is all McGloin seized @ claw hammer and struck Patten a violent blow on the head, inflicting @ very serious wound. The alarm being given, officer Lockwood, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, hastened aboard the ship and arrested McGloin. The pesonee was taken before’ Justice Dowling and committed for trial in default of bail. The accused alleges that he used the hammer in self-defence. THE RECENT DIAMOND RoBBERY—TWO OF THE PRISONERS FULLY Commrrrep.—Justice Dowling yesterday merning committed in full for trial Harry Willis and Charles Terry, who were arrested on the charge of recently robbing the house of Mrs. Sarah Price, 110 Clinton place, of $2,475 in diamond jewelry and $400 in money, Jeremiah Shannon, arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the robbery, waa discharged, the evidence being insuMcient to longer detain him, As yet none of the porns stolen from Mrs. Price has been recovered, but hopes are enter- tained that the diamonds will be forthcoming. ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.—William John- son and George Manning were brought before Jus- tice Dowling yesterday afternoon by detective Mul- lin and oMcer McGill, of the Fourth precinct, on the charge of attempt by means of false keys to force an entrance to the junk shop of Hugh ekey, of 17 James slip, The aeeernye was made just before day- light on Thursday morning, and before the prisoners could accomplish their purpose the officers secured them, They were committed for trial in default of bail. It is alleged by the officers that Manning was recently released Trom the Trenton (N. J.) State Prison, where he had served out a term for burglary. Johnson, it 1s further al- leged, was implicated ina bank robbery in Pitts- burg, Pa., about two years ago, and the authorities of that city have been telegraphed to with the view of learning whether he is wanted there to answer that complaint. Johnson, alias Clews, is twenty- four years of age, was born in England, lives in Brooklyn, and is a brass founder by occupation. Manning is twenty-two years of age, a native of this city, lives at the Now England Hotel, Broadway, and is a steam! clerk. FORGING AN ORDER.—Gustave Lewinston, a young Prussian, was arrested yesterday afternoon by officer Hodge, of the Fourteenth precinct, on the charge of forgery. On the 16th instant Lewinston called upon Mr. Barnard ‘was commenced Defore Justice Dodge, at the Jeffer- son Market, yesterday morning. The complaint made by the little girl, who took refuge at Mra. Wolford’s, No. 117 Waverley place, where she is now living, charges that on or about the 23d of May she was violently assaulted and beaten by Mrs. - right. The compiainant further sets forth that she Was bound as @ servant to said defendant, who for a tm comparison with the holders of preferred stock as they are entitied to. /th—No fraudulent intent is shown in the issue of this stock. a Sizth—The State courts have no operative jurtadic- on. SUPERIOR COURT—CHAMBERS. Alleged Whiskey Frauds. Before Judge McCunn. The People, on the Complaint of James 8. Black, ts. John T. Harris, J. M. Walker, Charles F. Cope- land and Emile M. Blum.—This case came up on an adjourned hearing. The defendants are under arrest for having, as My fraudulently obtained the sum of $45 from the plaintt in a certain illicit whiskey transaction. The ex: fendants was opened yeater quently adjourned till Monday. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TEAM. Decisioi Judge Garvin rendered judgment in the following cases yesterday morning :— Henderson vs. Henderson.—Proceedings dismissed ‘With $10 costs, bs Roche vs, Reeder.—Motion granted, Brown et al vs. Post et al.—Motion granted with- Out costs, hird pany. In th from ¢ ination of the de- but was subse. ns. United States Life Insurance Come- ‘tion granted without costs, (aiter of Patrick Meeny, to be Discharged fody—Writ dismissed and prisoner re inanded back to custody. Hoyt, Assioner, &e., v8. Davis. Motion granted. Landesman vs. Schlesinger.—Motion denied with $7 costs. The Memphis Bank vs. granted and commission iss: In the Matter of the Petition of John F. Walsh for the Appointment of a Guardian ad titem—Motion granted. Smith, inp. —Motion Judge MeCunn, Pertner et al vs, Hahn.—Motion granted with $10 costs. SURROGATE'S COURT. Wills Admitted to Probate, Before Surrogate Tucker The wills of the following mamed persona, de. ceased, were admitted to probate the pact weex, viz:—Jacob Brower, Henry De Baun, Conrad Fritz, Thos, R. Foster, John Q. Osborne, abeth L. Pea. body, T W. Letson, Wm, Lnagerman, faaac Wood, Maria Reid, Frederick » Richard T, Robinson, Reuben Lowell, Patrick King, Catharine Bender, Sa rah A. Harral, Robert Farrel, Letters of adminis tration granted, on estates of Thos. Gilliek, John Beard, Michael Flanigan, Eliza Nyland, Mary Silver Vauiei Baxter, Wun. E. Jackson, Hickard M, Peck: | $40, with which he left the place. On reaching the | Street with his plunder Martin was discovered and | terday the uecused was taken before Justice Dow- the adjournment the sergeant of the number of his men, who have en and was about entering when Se oes himself in the door e child was in such a state of nervous excitement that Justice Dodge did not consider tt safe o allow them to see her. The case attracts much interest from the respectable standing of the accused, who, her friends say, will be able to vindicate herself on ao examination, BURGLARY IN BROADWAY—SURPRISE AND AR- REST OF THE PRRPBTRATOR,—About twelve o'clock on Friday night Michael Peter Martin, a young man twenty-one years of age, living at 96 Canal street, forced up the grating in the sidewalk in front of the Premises 239 Broadway, occupied by John D. Betts 44 4 restaurant, and let himself down tnto the vault. Martin tien secured two bottles of wine, a quantity of cigars and other property, valued im all at about arrested by officer Dyer, of the Third precinct. Yea- ling and committed for trial in default of $1,000 bail. BURGLARY IS MAtpEN Lane.—Early on Friday evening William Cady,a man twenty-one years of age, as charged, feloniousiy entered the salesroom of Isaac Metzler, on the third oor of premises No. 37 Maiden lane, With false keys, with intent to steal a quantity of meerscnaurn ‘pipes and other goods valued at $500, Officer Whaley, of the Second pre- | cinct, receiving information that a man had broken | into the above named premises, made search and d Cady secreted ff @ packing box, having with quantity of burg foots, tneluding a jimmy, | t, auger, kc. Justice Dowling commit: | ted the wecused for trial. ANOTHER Puace IN THB Lorreey Case—Atteoro Disonperey Houss.—On Friday eveaing roundaman Croke, of the Toms Court squad, ani the officers of his fores, ade a descent on the atieged minatre: hall, No. 2t2 Bowery, and arrested ex-Aiderman Charles McBrien and four or five others then in the Piace. The oMficers also seized a quantity of books and papers alleged to pertain to the lottery policy vuainess. The complainant tm thé case in Adam Roediger, who recently made @ series of complaints against Alderman MeBrien and others fot ing con- | 3 Westermann, 440 Broadway, and pre- fn an ocdet: for Lg pga os : orm snd lonaries, wo! Pl ing ave been drawn by Edward Hannam, oF 456 and 47 Bow- ery. Mr. Westermann believing the order to be genuine delivered the to the prisoner, and subsequently learned that the order was false and forged. Lewinston pleaded golly to the charge, and Justice Dowling committed him for trial. It is alleged on the accused has obtained other goods on forged orders. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Notwithstanding the majority of the master masons and bricklayers reaolved not to accede to the “eight hour” demand of the journeymen, it is positively as- serted that more than two-thirds of the strikers are at work on their own terms, In consequence of the excessive competition on the Sound boats there never were so many persons who have taken summer excursions in an easterly direction before. Evidently low fare is Sound policy. Is it not time tne rotten wharves and piers along the river shores, the East river particularly, were repaired? Some of them are ina fearful condition of wreck, and some—as the one, for example, at the foot of James slip—have disappeared altogether, leaving piles of stones as monuments to their ire doing a fair business, but the more stylish mansions on Fifth avenue, Murray Mill and elsewhere in the upper districts are closed for the season. Flora McFlimsey and her sisters are at the fashionable watering places. Very few of the monde will be “at home’ until September or October. There are indications that Independence Day is near at hand. The little folk are exploding fire. crackers and other gunpowder inventions to their great delight in every direction, and, of course, to the horror of nervous old maids and bachelors who have forgotten that im the long, dim, shadowy past they had themaeives borne upon their now corruga- ted, vinegar-looking browa the semblances of child- hood. The new pavement in Broadway below the HERALD office looks well; but, under the eternal grindings of cemmerce, how long will it last? When completed one of the most beautiful edifices in this city willbe the synagogue on Fifth avenue, north of the distributing reservoir. It is in the Moorish style. It will be most imposing, and, architecturally speaking, not unchaste in its exter- nal appearance. The Cathedral on the same side of the thoroughfare and about a quarter of a mile above it, tn the Gothic order, will also be a grand pile—an ornament to the city. There is some talk of continuing Beekman street through City Hall Park, making it the northern boundary of the proposed building for the Post Ofice ‘and United States Circuit Court and offices. The Park Commissioners should devise some mea- sure for connecting by other than a boulevard the Central with the proposed Morning Side Park. Why not take biocks lying between Eighth and Ninth ave- nues and 109th and 111th streets, and run carriago * roads and walks through these from one ground to the other? In this particular their present pian will bear amendment. Our merchants generally antictpate a heavy fall and winter trade. Preparations are already on foot to meet it. Yachting is all the fashion at this time. Well, itis Pleasant to be “oradied on the rolling deep,” but rather expensive. The streets are in such @ filthy condition, the by Ones particularly, that it is quite evident the gentie- men of the Sanitary Commission do not apprehend any contagious disease in the city this fall. If they did they would hasten to purify the town as a matter of course. The “dog law” as it is popularly but incorrectly called, passed from the latent to the active condition of juridical existence on the 22d instant—and, alas, for Tray, Bianch and Sweetheart, ‘“muzzie” is the order o° the day. With Edgar,-in Lear, slightly “im- proved," as the commentators say, we catiin dog- gerel exciaim— Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite, Mastiff, greyhound, m: rel, grim, Hound or spaniel, or brach or lym, Or bobtail tike, or trundie tail, Tom will make him weep and wail, For with throwing thus my head, Dogs leap and howl and all are dead! What 4 catastrophe! But to hunters of canines dogs are not dogs this season. They were given no quarter last, they are only worth a quarter this, According to a paragraph in a contemporary, rob- bing men, starving women and children, cheating travellers out of one or two per cent in exchanging greenbacks for gold and altering sworn aMdavits are only “trifles’ when done under the sanction of the Commissioners of Emigration at Castle Garden, The Church of the Pilgrims, on the westerly side of Union square, where that pious “firebrand in the camp of israel," Parson Cheever, held forth, is “com- ing down” with a rush, The place is to be thoroughly cleansed and purified and then improved. Loew's “bridge of size’ which ornaments Broad- way, and which has been receiving some hard knocks recently in the courts, is to be removed. On the Lat of August the ponderous contrivance will be | among the things that were. A wiseacre, we per coive, desires its removal to the Fulton ferry, to re- lieve the Bast river, we presume. Why do not our capitalists and (hose who own the lands on either side of the Harlem, from the Bast to ( votued a Sue Lotlery Vuaueds ud Vigialou of law. | the Norbu civer, move (or is unprovemeut (ax eevi- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1#63.—LKIPLE) SHEET. gable‘purposes? A million of dollars judiciously ex- pended in dredging the Hariem river and in blasting and deepening the channel at Spuyten Duyvil would add twenty millions of’dollars to the value of the shore lines. It fa said the “jar” caused by the frequent paasage to and fro of the heavy engines and trains on the underground railroads in London is gradually but surely loosening and making unsound the founde- tions of the superstructures in the vicinity, and further that great fears are beginning to be enter- tained for their safety. How will this constant per- turbation or jar, when undergraund ratiroads are built in this city, affect the foundations of our dwe! ings and stores? It has been suggested, we suppose in imitation of the German singing societies, to get up one or two grand vocal and instrumental concerts in the Park this season, Would it not be worth listening to, a concert at which in the chorus one or two ‘thousand voices and four or five hundred instruments “‘aasist- ed?” Let it be mndertaken, We'll guarantee an audience of a hundred thousand. The Chinese Legation, including his Excellency Hon. Anson Burlingame, Minister Plenipotentiary, ‘and associates Chih and Sun, and, their secretaries, interpreters, 4c., dine to-day at the residence of Mr. Duncan, of the banking firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co, Subsequently the Legation will be driven to Jersey City, where they will take the seven P. M. train for Washington. We insist that the streets are not intendea for dumping grounds for masons when they have a store or dwelling to put up or repair. We can enumerate @ hundred places—the Fifth avenue, between For- tieth and Fiftieth streets, as an example—where, in consequence of the piles of mortar, mountains of bricks, quarries of stone and stacks of lumber, it is next to impossible to drivea wagon. We desire to know if the streets are the property of the people or of contractors who elect to appropriate them to their own uses, St. George’s church, that hitherto respectable land- mark of the lower and easterly side of the city, is all but razed to the ground, Phelps, Dodge & Co. have contracted for a splendid and capacious storehouse on its site. The fashionable congregations and pastors of this city are to take their usual summer vacation, and it Is sald the churches will remairvlosed longer than usual—closed until “our sets’? return to town and “our pastors” have sufficiently recruited from the exhausting toil consequent on their ‘charges’ during the frigid season. How is it that on the ap- proach of the warmer months of the year the Pro- testant churches are necessitated to ‘close for re- pairs,” while the Catholic places of worship con- tinue to run, whether it is wet or dry, hot or cold? A gentleman, the father of two lovely daughters, took occasion yesterday, in Broadway, near Fourth street, to horsewhip their traducer. It is said he made him trot in double-quick time. That is the- way all assassins of women’s reputation should be served. Shipbuilding is at a standstill and the sound of the caulkers’ hammers are no longer heard on the sectional docks driving the oakum “home” between the planks on the hulls. It is said that since 1887 shipbuilding has never been so dull. When is the “Battery extension’ to be completed? It ts now twenty years since the contractors com- menoced “enlarging and improving’’ that magnificent section of the city, and eave that half a dozen acres have been taken out of the harbor and added to the area of the Battery, it looks about as forlorn as it did two decades ago. It is not even a fit place for dock rats and loafers, and its ruined appearance leaves a bad impression on the minds of strangers who pre- viously had the pleasure of an introduction to the “very gentlemanly gentlemen” who in the “interests of emigrants” benevolently run the Castle Garden machine, The German singing, shooting, acrobatic and other societies are having @ good time of it in this city. The quantities of lager that diurnally disappear are beyond ordinary calculation. Figuratively speaking, it is about “just about twice as much as half,’ but there is a strong probability of the sum being greatly increased before the festivities are through with. General Rosecrans is quietly spoken of as the gen- tleman who, preliminary to the permanent organiza- tion of the Democratic National Convention appoint- ed to be held at Tammany Hall on the Fourth of July, will preside over its informal deliberations. Perhaps ex-Governor Seymour wil! be made perma- nent President. What is greatly needed on Fifth avenue near Fifty-ninth street is a large, cool summer theatre for day performances. A manager with the neces- sary enterprise and capital could make a fortune there in three or four seasons, and a decade hence there will be population sufficient in the vicinity of the house to sustain not only day byt evening per- formances throughout the year. But what is wanted there at this time is a place for vaudeville, operetta, farce, &c.—for nothing heavy. . The police courts are exceedingly quiet and detec- tives are wandering round the streets listiessly whistling the “Rogue's March.” Undertakers and doctors are also complaining of the general dulness. The Park is glorious at this time. It ts a paradise of quiet, of beauty, of verdure, of pastoral poetry, of deligut. Tom Moore's “Vale of Cashmere,” to which “Lallah Rookh” was sent to be husbanded, is nothing to it. We religiously believe in the Park. The soldiers and sailors held a private meeting at the Astor House yesterday afternoon. The health of Thurlow Weed has been indifferent of late. He is confined tohis bed. There has neena report afloat to the effect that he has been “flighty” for some days past. This is hardly the truth. He has experienced,certain troubles of the head, but it fs not of a serious character—nothing that mental rest cannot remove, Day before yesterday he over. excited himself preparatory to his leaving for Europe in the steamer Ville de Paris, and his family physi- cian has consequently advised him to remain quiet for several days. Ababy, the child of vagrants, and when, with its parents, it was taken on Friday night to the Sixteenth ‘ward station house, it was found reduced from want of nourishment to a skeleton, died of acute menin- gitis or positive starvation shortly afterwards. Pleasant this to know that in @ city so wealthy babes are permitted to die, not from ordinary causes, but from want of food. ‘Those fire escapes attached to tenement houses are funny contrivances. They will prove in the event of a conflagration of about as much use to frightened tenante—particularly to very old people and little children—as an extra caudal appendage to a highly dignified poodle. We perceive that since the Ist of January Superintendent Macgregor “has ts- sued orders” for the erection of 3,194 of them. They do not not seem to us to be much of an ‘“‘improve- ment” or of any positive use, esthetically or prac- tically, to the public, to landlords or to tenants, but they may turn out something of a “job.” BOARD OF ALOERMEN. A special meeting of this Board was hejd yester- day afternoon at half-past two o'clock, but the call was #0 quietly gotten out that there was not a full quorum present, The clerk’s desks were not as fully occupted as usual, as the handsome assistant, whose linen fronts are marvels of the laundry woman’s skill, was not in his accustomed place. The benches in the lobby were empty, mérabvile dictu, and the indom- itable, irrepressible “third house’ was without representative, Under the last mentioned circum- stance the room looked somew! respectable, as the members wear clothes and natty, nappy “tiles,” and as far as these components go to inal gentlemen the members*are all right. The work commenced, however, ‘notwithstanding the sultriness of the weather,” and was very smoothiy conducted. No resolution to spend money could be passed, and so the members were obliged to content themselves with teroaecing, pepee and allowing them to “lay over.” The principal ob- Ject for which the meeting was called was to appoint a committee to make the pereeney ree, tions for celebrating the coring bp | ‘ourth ;” bat the lack of patriotism evinced by some members of the Board necessitated the “laying over’’ of the resolution appropriating $80,000 for the celebration. | Alderman Cuddy introduced the resolution, and will, | of course, be chairman of the committee, whether it be appointed betore or after the Fourth. The dete- gates visiting the metropolis to attend the Conven- tion will no doubt form & good opinion of our city fathers from the chairman of the committee, as he 1s really a worthy representative, and nae always & simile and a picasant word for those he meets, and is ju this respect entirely different from some of his colleagues, who appear to think that official dignit) is best shown by lowered brows, pouted lps ani ky actions'generally. ie invitation from the Amotican Sharpahooters’ | Society to review the corps on Monday morning at | Vaiou syuare was accepted, as was aiso an invitation | iia elevated over Greenwich street on Tuesday afternoon A large mumber of papers were mtroday and the Board adjourned until Monday at two P. M. to go riding on’ the THE PARK. The Park on Saturday afternoons is an epitome of city life. Not in ite manners, nor its habite, nor tts wickedness, but in its. picture of people's better nature, The Park ia like charity; it exhibits man- kind in its nobler aspect. Who that treads the @ravel of the Mall or presses the soft sod of the Com- mon, or lingers by the cool brink of the placid lake, can bring with him the evil thoughts of the far off city, present only by its distant hum and visible only through a dim haze as if Nature at such a time would hide it from sight? Nations are like individuals; &@ city ia a body; perhaps, then, it is not out of the Way to call the Park its conscience. If so, it was a bright and beautiful one yesterday. The beauties which the Park develops with every recurring week are surprising, To one who goes hut seldom the change must be astonishing. Like the great church at Rome, which it is said presente some feature of novelty every time it is inapected, no matter how frequent the visita of the spectator, the Park unfolds with each day some attraction that was unseen before or has been born since the last ramble, Given sucha day as yesterday, a band dis- coursing excellent music and a place like the Park, and he was a poor logician and a poorer mathema- ticlan who could not solve the problem of his pleasure. Coming down to statistics, the day was & vast improvement on the concert day of the week before. The thermometer was disinclined to rise beyond the seventies, and 30 kept the weather com- paratively cool. Thousands, nay, tens of thou- Sands appreciated the goodness of the quaint old age ssor in the observatory at the arseni who put down the brakes on the mercurial column and so kept the weather clerk from equatorializing the little strip of land lying north forty degrees, forty-two minutes and forty Seconds between the Hudson and the Kast rivers, (If you would know where that is, turn to your gazetteer, and when found take Captain Cuttle’s ad- Vice and make @ note on’t,) Speaking of the ar- ‘senal, what a delightful old ruin it will be one of these days when the tvy which is now creeping w its walls covers it all over and takes its castellate shape. It is certainly one of the features of the Park at this time, Everybody and his cousin, particularly his country cousin, make a point of going to the arsenal to see its menagerie of queer animals; its aviary of rare and funny birds; tts gallery of sculp- ture and intings and pictures, or such of them as have not been removed to the new building at Mount St. Vincent; its old idols and its geueral collection of curiosities. The arsenal or the museum (we are thinking of bygone days when the Park was, as yet, in the womb of the future, and when the building re- ferred to was the storehouse for the weapons of the old-fashioned militia), like everything about it, is constantly undergoing improvement. A new floor and a new gallery will soon add to its commodious- ness. Cronin to the Terrace we find the same cor- rective hand at work. The vault beneath it, which for so long a time was an eyesore amid the turesqueness all about, is transformi of Moorish extrav: ce of beauty. caustic tiles make the floor; jues of stterns cover Huy cui is aha ea and iy of flower soones--the whole constituting @ sort of exquisite opera glass through which to view the lake, the foun- tan fe egplanedo and the foliage of the more dis- The Park band was peepee The pro- ggamime pleased all taste jut it was easy to ee e effects of the new impetus ven to pular taste by the introduction of i mo of the French opera. When “La Vie Parisienne’ was and evening from the Park will thank Commissioners that they fulfilled their BROOKLYN CITY. ARRESTS DURING THE WEEK.—The total number of arrests in Brooklyn last week was 434. INSTALLATION.—On Friday night the officers of Cambridge Lodge, F. A. M., No. 662, were installed, The ceremonies took place in the rooms of Common- Wealth Lodge, in Wi ‘on street. Suictps By SHooriNG.—Adolph Bauman, a German pedier, who had been in an inebriated state for several days, shot himself through the heart yes- terday morning at his residence, 97 Ewen street, RalsiNG OF A LIBERTY POLE.—The members of Engine Company No. 2 yesterday raised a graceful liberty pole in front of their house, corner of South Firat and Fourth streets, E. D., in the presence of a large number of citizens. Bopy RECcOVERED.—The body of an unknown man was found floating in the water near the Atlantic dock yesterday jeri of The deceased is su; to be one of the men who was blown up at the time of the boiler explosion on the tugboat. The was removed to the deadhouse for identification. Tae New Water MAIN.—The workmen em- ployed in laying the new water main in Atlantic street came upon the granite foundation of the old Atlantic street tunnel yesterday and had to suspend operations. They will probably lay the pipes on the north side of the street and leave the tunnel undis- turbed. RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.—A team of horses attached to a carriage belonging to Mr. C. Meyers took fright in Navy street yesterday and ran away. The driver was thrown from his box and severely injured, and before the team could be stopped they smashed the carriage to pieces. The damage will amount to about A BROOKLYN BUSINESS DIRECTORY.—L. G. Gould- ing has issued the firat Brooklyn Business Directory, a book of reference which will prove very accepta- ble to the thousands of dealers transacting business with our sister city. The book is in very compact shape, and @ simple and intelligible system of ar- rangement enables ready consultation of its of merchants and tradesmen. THE SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE PooR.—The special committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors to investigate the charges against the Superintendents of Ryd cpenieet @ nomber ot eeaee ester. day, but not of im nce was clic i was sated in the Board of Supervisors that thore. were a dozen engineers about the Almshouse who did not HvtsmisSnSined Site alent ‘appointed by the Poor to look into the matter putldings requived t be Srerauiea and repaired: it would te thexpodien to discharge any of the ALLEGED ATTEMPTED RaPs.—Patrolman Archibald L. Frazer, of the Forty-seventh precinct, Greenpoint, ‘was yesterday arrested on a warrant and arraigned before Justice Voorhies, on a of attem; pS EN a se mot, 6th residence. The accused pleaded and manded an immediate examination, t he was com- misted to the patil to-teorrow morning. Officer Frazer in the house occupied - 4 AR yy ag time the residence, and he and his ds ageert the him tn malice on Seat eee oe SURAOGATE’S COURT—KINGS COUNTY. Bequests to Public Institutions—Wills Admit. ted to Probate, a&c. Before Surrogate Veeder. The wills of Ellen N. Duryea, of the town of Piat- bush; John P. Morgan and John Murtagh, of Brook- lyn, were proved in the Surrogate’s Court during the past week. The following charitable bequests appeared in the will of Ellen N. Duryea:—To the Sootety for the Ame- ion of the Colored lation of Flatbush, r00: to. the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch hurch, $1,500; to the Colored Home in the city of Yor! ‘Tetvers of administration were granted on the es- Elizabeth Waring, Henry Boerum, William west momas Byrne ana Bridget Graham, all of rooklyn. “a umber of letters of guardianship were also granted during the week. NEW JERSEY. Z Communipaw. Tus Stock Yarps.—The receipts at the stock yards during the past week were 237 cars, contain- ing 2,190 cattle, 9,006 hogs, 4,700 sheep and 297 horses. There were slaughtered during the same time 800 cattie, 8,700 hogs and 5,100 sheep. Hudson City. COLLISION IN THE Ertg TUNN#L.—On Thursday night, as train No. 23 on the Erie Railway was pass- ing through the tunnel near Bergen a coupling broke and the carris separated. Shortly subsequent to this accident Morris and Essex train, due at 11:36 P.M., was signalled to pass on, the-supposition being that all was right, and when about midway ran Into the rear car of the Erie train, causing a delay of about three hours. No person was injured, it being 4 freight train with only one ger car attached, The employé in charge of the commant- cation of running the trains in the tunnel ts at fault for net notcing when the cars emerged at the weat en? that there was no red light diaplayed tn the rear, which ts a signal (hat atl ts right. Bergon. Tas iNsTITUTS la this new gubarban city closed the school year with a reception on Friday evening, which was attended by 9 large and deeply interested: audience. Adcdresses were made by Mayor Rul Superintendent Briguam aud Professor Eaton, Brookiyn. Newark. Tae SUiCiDs MaNiA—A GBRMAN WOMAN CTs Han, THRoaT Wits A Razor.—Some time between the’ hours of four and gix o'elock yesterday morning ea German woman named. Victoria Bauer, forty-twe years of age, and residing at 26 Lewis street, neas Springfeld avenue, conmmitted suicide by cutting @ htful act her throat, reault her death about haifpeat ax oieck. ie nears Mrs. Bauer met with an accident on winter, by which her méntal faculties impaired. Since then, at various times,. bea acted very strangely. On Friday she hed been te the city, and from over exertion and the jeat it ia thought her yA was considerably Her husband, who is a shoemaker Going: No. 4 Green street, left her in bed yes: ay about half-past four. After fompining, ina lot near by some two hours he returned for breakfast and found his wife lying on the floor, fully dressed, with her throat cut almost from ear to ear, and @ razor ying at her side. Both wrists were also badiy cut. e died in the poor man’s arms a short time subsequently, leaving a family. of five children, whe oldest gon being onty thirteen years of age. QUESTIONABLE MODE OF RAFORMATION.—Yosterdag @ young girl of decent appearance was committed te the county jail for three months at the complaint of her father, Patrick Sherry, of No. 228 Warren street, ho oe that he is beeeghy tene hia bing m staying away from home late at night and asse- ciating ‘with bad cl She in turn states that it is utterly impossible for her to live witha Pind who is continually beating and quarrelling wi er. In any case, could not the poor child’s reclamation have been effected by some means other than com- signing her to three mouths’ mpenionship with common street walkers, thieves and burglars KILLED THROUGH FALLING DOWN AN EMBANE: MENT.—A little boy named James McCarthy, residing with his parents at No. 27 Catharine street, white playing with others near an embankment on the corner of William and Shipman streets yesterday morning, fell into @n excavation and sudlained in- dukes which resulted in his death a few hours after. wards, DARING ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY IN A JEWBL: RY ESTABLISHMENT.—At an early hour yeater- day morning a party of five burglars entered the jewelry establishment of Messrs. Tucker & Marzam, 0. 54 Hamilton atreet, and made several unsucceas- lul efforts to blow open a safe. A female residing in the vicinity states she saw five well dressed mea enter the place and heard the noise of their opera+ tions, but through fear was afraid to give any alarm. Orry Dirgcrory.—This work for the year 1868— the second edition of the enterprise—has made tte appearance in a very handsome form, Its typography is unexceptionable, and in this respect is a model for similar compilations. In addition to the catal of names an appendix is added, making a co: guide to all the public buildings, courts, banks, schools and churches. A variety of general informa- tion is also given, rendering the book a desirable work of reference. A concise map with a list of the streets, avenues and,other thoroughfares completes ita usefulness, spores, to the preface, Newars has @ popniation of 105,000. SPORTING MATTERS. The Prize Ring. JEM WARD EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK. The exponents of the pugilistic art in the United States have so frequently asserted their claim to be considered humbugs that the little hold they have had upon certain classes of society is fast vanishing. ‘The reasons need not be recounted, as the variegs practices they have resorted to are fresh in the miads ofall. Itis@ pleasant announcement, under these circumstances, to the admirers of the art of self-de se au es ree ee eS ame jem ait ‘and ex-champion of Hiyiand, as been juced by friends to overcome hi transatlantic voyage, and will about the ist proximo, is on the steamer then due here. Ward is al representative living of that class of men of Crib, Molyneux, Mend Tom and he made ‘ rae in years comeoy what it was— “Dest man won.’ He was sorm »tmottding th sof Acton Barks, brilliant one, inclu e names of Ac! brother of Woolwich Burke), Ned Baldwin, Rikers, sm the Black, Sampson (twice), Tom Csnnom, » and forfeited The estimation in which yy that portion of the sporting frater- nity that honor fairness, and his known generous hospitality, so kindly extended to all strangers who have visited him at his home, will insure a most cordial welcome. His scientific skill has been but little impaired years, nor has time made much impression upon almost iron constitution, Ward's visit here wilt prove of interest, as it presents the opportunfties of renewing old acquaintances, and of carrying back te the chalky hills of tis home, tangible evidences o¢ his worth. Pedestriauism. MARK GRAYSON ON A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. There have been many walking matches of ate, wherein certain unheard of pedestrians have aohteved unheard of distances in incredible short periods; but the trouble with many of these extraordinary per- pone gras is that few have cannot be substituted, nor any similar deoelt prac- toed then and then only will they be reliable and worthy of record. ‘The iatest pean fe eae wars is the feat to be attempted by rayson, Who naa oa. tered into an ment with John L. Reble for $20,000 that he will, in seventy-five walking walk from this city to San Francisco, death or dent resulting from assauit only causing @ draw. rting has been agreed upon as the day after the adjournment of the Democratic Na- tional Convention in New York. It ta to be that those who are to accom) ‘the will fatthi note and authen' nis that some of his walking qualities may be ob- ent between the par- in count Treiand, hea been in thin co two year, is five feet eleven inches and 160 pounds, Homer Lane is a native of Lewis cow X. Y,, ta five foot eight incnes in height and weighed last evening 152 ands. To tho eye of ignorant of what constitutes ban of a suocessfal bse Pg oy seemed 4 most of pygmy statue compared wi oppone and husned words passed quickly around oli fall ot prophecy that Robinson's well knit and ali gigan form would soon quiet his pretentious ri ut the smile of satisfaction resting upon the of Laue’s friends seemed full of hope. Mr. MaoArthur was selected as umpire for Lane and Mr. Jas. Duffy for Robinson, while Harry Hill ac. cape the position of referee. fow minutes to complete necessary preparationa, when it was announced that tt had been upon that the match was the “best two of three square back falls,’ ‘Ready,’ was the word that through the room, when the antagonisis gras each other as vises do a foreign element, and every muscie strung as hard as stone, It was the work of an instant, light, quick steps, uplifted, darting feet, a twist, a quiver of the body, and Tom Robinson waa lying prostrate upon his back, Lane the victor of the rat fall, The tables then turned, the second clinch was immediate, and Robinson, exerting himseif and brining to his aid all the devices gained in wrestling experience, quietly deposited Lane in the position he had a moment before occupied. The in- terest was now evident, each man having gained @ fall. Quickly they olasped for the trial, and before the spectators could realize that they were wor! earnestly, and that with all their united canning Lane had again thrown Robinson and was im ately declared the victor. The wrestling oooupted but four minutes, yet in that time these men of akill had brought into ite Ali that years of ahrewd teaching and oxtended practice had made them the masters of in the art of wrestling. Abinsom, although defeated, remined the good wishea of alt his friends, who departed with lim In (be beat of alk pleasaut bumora, i? eS aimee