The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1868, Page 8

8 NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. — UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—iN BANKRUPTCY. Register’s Fees on Examination to Take Tes timony Under Order of Reference—Question as to Who Shall Pay Them. dn the Matter of Demetrius G. Schofleld, peti- tioner, vs. John M. Moorhead.—This case is before Register Dwight. In the course of the proceedings ‘the folowing question arose, and it was certified to adge Blatchford for his decision:—On the 18th of May, by order of the Court, a reference was made %o the Register to take such testimony as should be @ffered before him either on the part of Demetrius G, Schofield, Samuel L. Schofield or John M. Moorhead the tasues in the petition of D. G, Sclo- 4 for adjudication in bankruptcy of himself and orm, — of Samuel L, Schoffeld and john M. Moorh John M. Moorhead denied ‘the bai fey of the firm and obtained a reference to take testimony as aforesaid. Under this ‘oraer D. G. Schofield was examined on his own oalling au Moorhead cross-examined. Schofleld’s attorney claims that he is responsible only for the Register’s fees on the direct examination of his own witnesses, ‘nd Moorhead’s attorney claims that Schofield ts re- Sponsible for not only the Register’s fees on the ex- ination of his own witnesses but their cross-exam- fnation, also primarily forall witnesses called by Moorhead, the contesting ty; and their points are stated and hereto attached. ‘The Register gives as his opinion that Schofleld is responsible only for te fees on the airect examination of his own wit- fhesses. Jucige Blatchford rendered the following de- elsion:—I think the Register is correct in his view. ‘Under section four of the aot the fees of the Regisver Must be paid to him by the party for whom the ser- vice is rendered; and under General Order No, 29 the fees of the Register must be paid or secured to him before he can be compelled to perform the duty raguired of him by the party Poe the service. Under these provisions the taking of the direct examination of a witness is a service rendered for and required by the party calling such witness; and the taking of the cross-examination of the same wit- ness is a service rendered for and required by the Pies cross-examining such witne: ‘his view ap- 1 ies to the matter only as between the Register and he parties for wnom he renders the services, Under General Orders Nos, 29 and 31 and section 41 of the act the court has power in this case to make such final disposition of the question of costs as the equity of the case shall demand, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Passing Counterfeit Currency. Beiore Commissioner Betts. Yesterday, on the testimony of Solomon Bernestein, James Harrison was charged with having passed upon him fifteen fractional currency stamps of the apparent value of fifty cents each, United States cur- rency, the same being base and counterfeit. Berne- sicin testified that on Sunday Harrison came into his store, at No. 615 Canal street, and pou clothing to the amount in value of $7 50, and handed hin in payment the counterfeit stamps referred to. The de‘endant acknowledged the facts as stated by Bernestein and said he got the stamps from a man whom he did not know, and could not give further explanation on the subject. The case was adjourned to ihe loth of July, and the defendant will be held in custody until then. SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—PART I. City Railroad Damages. Before Judge Ingalls. Kain vs, The Forty-Secona Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company.—Plaintif! sued to recover damages for injuries sustained by his daughter, two years old, in consequence of the negligence of the defendants, the child having lost a finger in Juty, 1865, by being ruu over by one of the company’s cars, ‘The jury reudered a verdict for plaintiff for $750. SUPTEME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Injunction Agninst the Sherifl—Suit to Set Aside a Judgment. Before Judge Cardozo, HMozier vs, Polhamas et al.—The defendants in this suit recovered a Judgment for a large amount in the Superior Court against Mozier, and execution was issued. Mozier then obtained an injunction against these defendants, including the Sherlif, en- oining further proceedings in enforcing the judg- ment, and commenced a suit to set aside the jadg ment on the ground of fraud in obtaining it, and on the further ground that testimony had been sup- pressed on the former trial. Mozier alleges that one Rea, his former partner in business, suppressed tes- tmony on the examination, Pending the trial of the case the court ordered Issues to be tried before a jury relative to the ques- tion of suppression of evidence, and the case came up yesterday on those issues, ‘The defendants moved for a postponement on the ge of the absence from the city of Leonard W. jerome, who is now in Europe, and who they al- lege is a most important and material witness in the case. The motion to postpone was argued at con- siderable length and was denied finally, the court directing the trial to on. A brief consultation Was then had between the Court and counsel on both sides, and it was then announced that counsel for the parties had agreed to waive a jury trial and that they would try the case before the court alone, A second consultation between counsel ensued and an adjournment until this morning was asked on account of the day having already become far ad- vanced. The Court assented to the adjournment and the case will be fully proceeded with at ten o'clock day. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, Divorce Bulletin—Decisions Rendered. By Judge Ingraham, Addison V. D. Conover vs, Lizzie Conover.-—Report confirmed and judgment of divorce granted. belia F. Lowter vs. Lewis W. ucber,—Report coniirmed and judgment of divorce granted, Smith vs, Beers,—Motion denied, Juliet L, Mayer vs. Maurice Mayer,.—Report con- firmed and judgment of divorce granted. Legeal vs. Schuverth et al.—Movion granted with- out stay. Lathrop vs. Grifin.—Motion denied with $10 costs. The Same vs. The Same,—Motion denied with leave to renew after issues settled, Fielding et al. vs, Morgan et al.—Motion granted. y Judge Cardozo. Merritt vs, Briggs.—Default opened on payment of costs of the Circuit, including a trial fee, By Judge Clerke. Ruse vs, Terry et al.—Judgment order signed, COUNT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Unitep Srares Circuit Covet.—Judge Blatchford opened the court, and the jury were called and dis- cuarged jor the term. Only motions will ve heard during the brief periods that Judge Blatchford will sit during the baiance of the term. aon KeMe COURT—SPECIAL TexM.—Adjourned for MAKINE COURM—TRIAL TERM.—NOS. 1756, 1080, , 151%, 1834, 1956, 1897, 1835, 1849, 1840, 1841, Is61, 1864, Screwion COURT—TRIAL TERM—Parts 1 and 2—Ad- Journed for the tern = OMMON PLE TRIAL TERM.—Adjourned for the rm. SUPERIOR CovRtT—CHAMBERS.—Nos, 102, 105, 228, Cinco rT CoURT—Parts 1, 2 and 3.—Adjourned for the veri. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tue WeaTHeR YRSTERDAY.—The followiag is a re- cord of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours as indicated by the thermometer at. Hudnut's Pharinacy, Deowd way, rage tempera Averaye temperature . ‘ CoNvIRMATION.—Bishop Potter administered the rite of conirmation last Sunday evening im the Church of the Holy Martyrs, in Porsyth large number of candidates presented z tion made tue jour Francisco to the New Y re they are stopping, in the remarkably suort’ period of twelve days and tweuty hours, PeRSONAL.—General Joseph E. Johnston arrived in from San this city yesterday, en route to Burope. Commodore Alden, the recently appointed com Mandant ofthe Navy Yard at Mare Island, Caiifor- hia, will depart for his new field of duty on the steamer Arizona, which vig this port to-mor- Tow for Aspiy Tue SOLDIERS’ ConveNTiON.—The General Cor. mittee of Loyal Soldiers and Sailors for tue city and county of New York hold their adjourned m morrow evening at their headquarters, t Mansion, in Union square, at cigit o clock P receive the reports of aub-cominiltces and to com. plete their preparations for the procession and Con vention of the 4th prox. RESCUED FROM DROWNING.—AS the steamer West fleld, of the Staten Island ferry, was on her three o'clock trip fr this city yesterday a skeleton boat ‘was observed capsized and the oarsman h to it. Assistance was at ouce rendered by James Braisted, of the Westfield. A rope was thrown to the man, Who appeared unable to hold on to it when one of the deck hands, Michael Haurady Jumped overbor to the drownin, and in a short tive be was rescued. D8ars PROM IN URIES.—Coroner Roliins was ye terday notified to hold an inquest at No. 228 West Eighteenth strect on tue body oj Joseph JI. Johnaton, uuan’s assistance New YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, deat’, was the result ‘fa lad seven years of age, whose ms brain and 0°, erences te oats OR ES ed by falling from — The accident occurre’s on Thursday last. FENIAN Picnic. —The citizent¢of the Emerald Isle, comprising those born on the ‘aii, as well as many of their direct descendants of American birth, united in grand picnic and social Yabilee at the Bellevue Grove under the auspices of the Man- ten branch ac the Feman brotherhood, There large oeeting oy the plenic and holday tered in a hit Dan games, es earty enthusiasm. Sports Nica and other frolicsome exercises con- pro) the only interruption being an Len ‘by Gototel Raye, the martyr of British prisoas and the indomi! agitator of NATATORIAL EXHIBITION AND BENEFIT.—A benefit was tendered last evening to Harry Gurr, champion swimmer of the world, at Goldberg's New York swimming baths, Sixth avenne and Thirtieth street. ‘A large number of pupils entered the lists to contest sor prizes, and the following named were the success- fal i competitors:—A, Fd Cooke, 100 yards, silver medal; Mr. Hawes, 160 yards, silver star; Mr. Kennedy, 200 yards, silver cup, and the handicap, in which the champion gaye all comers fifty yards start, was won by Gurr, prize ee medal. At the close of the matches Harry jurr amused the audience by eating, drinking, smoking and undressing under water, besides per- forming other almost incredible feats, The beauti- ful, useful and health-giving pastime has evidently many patrons and admirers, judging from the al- tendance and enthusiasm last evening. FIRg IN EIGHTH AVENUE.—Early yesterday morn- ing a fire occurred in the premises No, 157 Eighth avenue. The place was occupied by Charles Posner as a hat, cap and fur store, ‘The stock, which 18 estimated at about $5,000, Was = entire! destroyed by 3 insured for about £4,500 in the Park and other com- Jed The building, owned by Morris Metz, was in- jured to the extent of $500, and was insured. The uilding was at first supposed to have been set on fire; but the Fire Marshal, who made an examination of the premises, expressed the belief that there is very little grounds for the supposition, AN ALLEGED ForGER Cavcut.—A man named Benjamin F. Webster, accompanied by a young fe- male named Anna Doyle, were arrested yesterday by detective Bennett, of the Central Police Office. The charge against Webster 1s that he has forged a num- ber of drafts and notes on parties living m the town of Geneva, 12 this State, The accused formerly kept a hotel there, his companton being em ioyet as A domestic in establishment; but finding himself embarrassed he left, with the fair Anna, some time since, for parts unknown. He arrived in this city and set sail, it was thought, for California, but for some reason or another he concluded to come back again. Inspector Dilks, hearing of his arrival in this city from Aspinwall, despatched the detective to arrest him, When brought to Police Headquarters the sum of $1,600 was found on his person. He will be sent on to Geneva, where he has a wife and chil- dren, to answer the charges preferred against him. THE BRICKLAYERS’ STRIKE.—The difficulty pend- ing between the bricklayers and the boss masons re- mains without material alteration. Three more of the last mentioned have notified the committee act- ing for the former of their willingness to accede to the demands of the men, who consequence, in such number as is needed, will at once go to work. ‘The committee yesterday forwarded, at their own expense, twenty-five men to Washington, five to Rochester and four to Canada, under contracts to proceed immediately to work. A special meeting was held last evening at Milliman’s Hall, at which the committee attended, the object heing, to further the interests of the strikers. The committee report matters tu favorable progress, POLICE INTELLIGENCE, CHARGED WITH RESCUING A PRISONER.—Bernard McGill was yesterday brought before Judge Con- nolly, of the Fourth District Police Court, charged with rescuing Sarg ast while in the custody of ofi- cer Sundrict, of the Twenty-first precinct. McGill gave bail to answer the charge. DIscHARGED.—The bride, Rosana Hogan, née Cay- anagh, who was remanded to the station house on Sunday, on the charge of her mother, for vagrancy, was discharged yesterday on an examination. The yereenlary appeared in yesterday’s HERALD. Rev. ¥, Sill, rector of St. Ambrose church, testified as to the legality of the marriage, when Justice Dod ordered the woman to the custody of her husban HELD FoR TRIAL.—Mrs. Mary Ann Beach, the woman arrested by officer Wilkinson, of the Twenty- sixth precinct, on the charge of stealing a pair of pearl earrings and a bracelet, valued at $100, from Mrs. Annie T. Gilman, now stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel, while on board the steamship Henry Chauncey en route from California, as reported in — "@ HERALD, was yestei taken before justice and held to bail in to answer the chal ira. Beach, who is thirty-three years of ee} boarding house in Aspinwall. She most itivel nies her guilt, TROUBLES OF A TRAVELLING AGENT.—Julius C. Willis, a young man, twenty-five years of age, of gen- teel address, was yesterday arrested by detective Stillwell, of the Second precinct, on a charge of lar- ceny preferred against him by Mr. George E. Ranous, doing business at No. 35 Maiden lane. On the 29th of April last Willis made arrangements with Mr. Ranous to take a quantity of samples of fancy goods with which to travel through the country and sell from samples. Mr. Ranous was to pay Willis a cer- tain sum avd day besides.a amall commission on the articles taken, together with his travelling expenses. Accordingly a trunk of goods worth was put Willis, and bene up. and deliverea ‘ nished with $50 he left the city. Four days subsequently Willis drew two drafts of $25 each upon Mr. Ranous and obtained the money on them. ‘Two days later Mr. Ranous received a despatch ask- ing if Willis’ drafton him (Ranous) for $40 would be good, to which the latter replied “No.” Willis then Teceived orders to return to this city; but instead of doing so he, as is alleged, proceeded to sell and dis- pose of his trunk of samples in direct violation of his orders, and finally returned to New York minus his trunk of samples and studiously avoided Mr, Ranous, It is alle; that he, however, sold the is en- trusted to his cate in the city of Erie, Pa., for a very small sum, The accused was taken before Justice Bogan and committed for trial in default of $2,000 bail. Detective Stillwell states that Willis has de- frauded various other merchants in a similar man- ner. The names and residences of the victims have bn — and they will be called as witnesses on ue trial, PROBABLE MURDER IN EAST HOUSTON STREET. The Body of a Woman Found Dead in a Tenement House—Ill Treatment Supposed to be the Cause of Her Death—The Man with Whom She Was Living Arrested. Yesterday morning, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, one of the officers of the Tenth precinct ascertained that the body of a dead woman lay in a room in the upper story of the tenement house No, 127 East Houston street, From the ramors which the officer chanced to hear in connection with the infor- mation reiative to the dead body, he considered it his duty to report what he heard to Sergeant Daven- port, of the Tenth precinct. The sergeant imme- diately sent an officer to the house and there dis- covered the dead body of a woman, apparently about Uuirty years of age, stretched upon a bed in an apart- ment on (he fifth story. The face was cruelly disfigured, the neck and breast badly bruised and the abdomen go discolored that it would lead one to suppose that the unfortu- nate woman had been brutally kicked. On the tem- ples were silght cuts. The general appearance of the body Suggested that the deceased had been un- mien | beaten from the effects of which she may have died. Deceased’s name was Ellen McBride, and it is satd she Was living as a mistress with a man named Wil- A. Flynn. On Friday night last, owing to some rbance in the apartments occupied by these people, the police were called in, bat no arrests were made, Jt Was at that time thought that Fiynn intended to fire the building, but sub- sequent inquiries do not sustain the belief that such was his intention, Saturday night another row occurred. This took place about haif- past ten o'clock, The neighbors say he wanted the deceased to go out with him. She refused, He in- sisted, and even went so far as to drag her out of the room. He then walked down stairs and went into lager beet saloon. Here, it is said, he got into alercation with some person and was struck in the mouth. Leaving the saloon, he went up stairs, and, from What those living on the floor say, it is learned that he was Very excited, and, driving a knife which he held in his hand into the woodwork, he made some threatening exclamation, It is said he then entered the room, and a seule inside was heard, the noise from which Continued for so time, and then passed away, A® this was an occurrence of a not unusual nature NO notice was taken of it by those living on the same floor, The woman, Ellen McBride, was not seen alive tie time she entered the room on Saturday cit, and the surprise of the people living there may be well imagined when they ascertained she y 4 sto ew her body an unsightly, disfigured and W*colored corpse. bout tweive o'clock yesterday Flynn was arreated bf ofticer Maloney. He took arrest volly. On being interrogated in the station house he said ( this woman, with whom he has been living for ast SIX years, came) into the house drunk on urday night; that they bad @ quarrel; he at- ypted to put her in bed, and m the struggle she ot bruised, They lad a fignt, and she evidentiy got night, further stated that the next day, Sunday. LN procured the services of a Mrs. Mary Curley v4 Water strvet, who came to his house aud ie died about twelve o'clock on cleaned floor of the blood with which iq was stained. are some marks of blood, however, still remaining, and the pants and shirt which were worn by the prisoner, and which were found lying in the corner of the room, are covered with blood. An undertaker was also called in, but he refused to have Ry porn to do in the matter and would nut eo 5 ‘hen all the facts of this case are taken into con- sideration it secms really strange. A it in the room of a tenement house last saturday alght, and from the marks on the unfortunate woman’s body and the blood stains on the boards and on the clothes found in the rooin the struggle must have been fierce one; and here were three families living on the same floor, with @ thin partition only separating them from each other, and yet they heard nothing that would lea them to inform the police that there was anytiing wrong, The housekeeper, living on the same floor, heard the fight, ik si the pollce were not informed. An undertaker called in, sees the body, refuses to have anything to do with it, yet the police are told noth- ing about it. In short, it appears that the dead body of a woman, bearing marks of most cruel treat- ment, fae been ing in the upper room of the tene- ment Mouse 127 Houston street, from half-past twelve o'clock on Saturday night until nine yester- day morning, and notwithstanding that three fami- lies Jived on the'same floor with the deceased, they scarcely knew anything about the matter when the Police arrived, The prisoner is a man about thirty-six years of age and is reputed to be worth from fifteen to twenty thousanJ dollars, ‘rhe apartment occupied by deceased and the pris- oner was barren almost of furniture, the boards bare and the place looking wretched. ‘The Coroner's inquest on the body will be held to- jay. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, BOARD OF ALDERMEN, The Couucilmanic Muddle and the Corpra- tion Counsel—Fourth of July—Wood and Stone—Market Stock—The Mayor’s Vetoes Overruled. A stated session of this Board was held yesterday afternoon at two o’clock, and owing, no doubt, to the fact that the preparations for celebrating the coming “glorious Fourth’? were to be completed, there was a very full attendance of mémbers, em- ployés, lobbyists and disinterested spectators. The weather was warm, but there was a good breeze stirring, and as there were so many members present @lengthy preliminary caucus was held before the chamber doors were opened and matters were set on the wheels so that they would gilde along smoothly. After the disposition of the ordinary routine business and the introduction of resolutions which are to “lay over,” Alderman Hardy offered a preamble and resolution requesting the Counsel to the Corporation to instruct the Board whether the proceedings of the Common Council, in which the “old” Board of Councilmen had taken part, could be considered “binding” in view of the fact that the Court of Appeals has decided that the law continuing the “old” Board of Councilmen in office waa unconstitutional. The resolution, after an explanation by Alderman Hardy to the effect that the Croton Aqueduct Department refused to recognize the action of the “old” Board, and that the opinion of the legal adviser of the city government should be had in the matter, was adopted, and the Board then Was greeted with an invitation from the Tamman: Hall Committee to attend the Convention to be hel on the Fourth of July. The invitation was, of course, received. The Committee on Markets presented a report authorizing the Comptroller to issue bonds of market stock to the amount of $40,000, bearing in- terest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, the interest to be payable semi-annually in May and November and the principal to become due on May 1, 1897, The report was received and placed on file. A lengthy petition was then presented to the Board, signed by a citizen of the Nineteenth ward, vcho felt very sore about the report in the HERALD of Tuesday last in regard to a former petition by him asking for the pag esa of the boundary lines of his property. ‘he petition presented yes- terday says that the report in the HkRALD of Thes- day last reflected severeiy on him and on those mem- bers of the Board who saw fit to favor his petition. The report in question merely gave the matier as it came up in the board and was publicly commented on by amember. Had the Alderman from the dis- trict in which the property is located explained what his misrepresented constituent wanted the matter would, no doubt, have been settled without any trouble; but when an oficial supposed to repre- sent a district takes too much the neglect of the in- terests and wishes of his constituents and allows matters such as the one alluded to to go unexplained the represented (!) parties must not be surprised at the results, The petition yesterday fully explained the matter and showed it to be a legitimate pro.eed- ing and it was referred to the Finance Committee, Alderman Cuddy’s resolution in relation to the celebration of the Fourth was taken up. A motion jhe amount to be appropriated $15,000 instead of $30,000 was lost, and @ motion to make the Committee consist of seven instead of five was adopted. The committee appointed comprised Aldet Cuddy, Moore, McGrath, Connor, Coulter, Ha yaulte. ‘The resolution to pave Lafayette Place with McGonegal pavement was adopted, but subsequently the vote was reconsidered and the resolution laid over. Resolutions were adopted to Ere Bond street, Rivington street, from Bowery to langin street, Fourth street, from Bowery to Sixth avenue, and Astor place with McGonegal pavement. The Board, being by this time well into the harness, took up resolutions which had beem vewed by the Mayor and proceeded to dispose of them in short order, going over the Mayor’s veto without the slightest aparent twinge. The resolutions adopted over the veto directed the paving of Second avenue from Fourteenth to Nineteenth street, Nineteenth street from Third to Sixth avenue, Cortlandt street, Dey street, Fourteenth street from University place to Eighth avenue, Twenty-ninth stwet from hth to Ninth avenue, and from Third to Sixth avenue with Nicolson pavement. Resolutions were adopted directing the paving of Laight street with Brown & Miller pavement and of a number of streets up town with the Belgian pavement. Y the Board got up among the vacant and sunken lots in the irrepressibie’s ‘‘deestreak” and agreed to fence some in Seventy-ninth and Eightieth streets, between Third and Fourth avenues, and fill with “good and whulesome earth’ others um Fifty- eighth and Fifty-ninth streets, between Lexington and Third avenues. A resolution to pave Waveriey lace with McGonegal pavement was lost and reso- lutions to divide the First ward into six election dis- tricts and the Eighth ward into seventeen election districts were adopted, Resolutions were intro- duced by the Alderman with the rence praenemen to pave Sixtieth, Fifty-first, Fifty- |, Sixty-fourth, For Poe and Seventy-seventh streets with trap block pavement. An invitation was accepted to re- ceive a marching saiute from the First division N. G. S.N. Y. on Saturday morning next, at half-past eight o'clock, at the Everett House. A large amount of other unimportant business was transacted and the Board ee to meet again on Thursday next, attwot. M. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. Final Meeting of the “Old Board.” The “Old Board” of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon pursuant to adjourament, and in conse- quence of the decision of the Court of Appeals recog- nizing the “new Board” as a legal organization the proceedings partook of the character of funeral ceremonies. It is needless to state at length the occa- ‘sion of the sudden oficial demise of this body of city rulers—which has always had a “single eye” for the public good—because a succinct statement of the cause of its decease appeared in yesterday's HERALD, ‘The chief mourners on this occasion were a number of the members of the new Board accompanied by a deputation of that amiable class of our fellow citizens who are ever ready to “smile” with their friends and to vote the regular democratic ticket. The chamber was draped in mourning, and as profound grief shrinks from vocal expression, the meeting yester- day was brief and solemn. ‘The exercises were commenced by President Stacom, who, in the immortal language of Webster, “pull lives,’ for he is a member of the new Board. ‘The gay and buoyant Moloney, whose wonderful elecutionary powers to make the reading of the minutes of the Board an amusing entertainment, was called a to discharge this duty for the last time, It was observable tuat the meliiduous tones of his voice were tinged by the sadness of the hour, and his part of the service was i with becoming reverence. Then followed the presentation of reav- lutions thanking the President (Mr. Stacom), Mr. Jonn EB. Greene (the clerk), his assistants and the re- rters of the pe for the ability with which they ischarged their respective duties; also a resolution directing that all the papers pending the action of the old rd should be referred to committees, all of which were unanimously adopted. Previous to adjournment without date the prest- dent thanked the Board for the compliment which they paid to him in their expiring moments; but the solemnity which pervaded the whole Reg es o choked his a eee it is to be feared that the requiem which he chanted was unheard by the mourning company. It = have been the appro- priate quotation, “Old things are passed away.” Philosophers tell us that the ruling instinct of a man is strong th his last moments and will manifest itself in some way or other. This theory is certainly piausibie, for one could not fail to have observed that afew moments before the extinction of the “old Board” members were busily engaged in par 4 up stationery, official documents and portivil were placed at their disposal daring their official life- time, and subsequently a spirit of one of the departed Counciimen reverberated the intelligence through the chamber that some brother in the flesh had run away with a portfolio that beionged to him. The new Board will probably meet to-day at noon. “ANOTHER BOND ROBBERY. Six Handred Thousand Doliars Worth of ment Bonds Taken from a Boy—The ty Recovered, but the Robber Escapes. Veople doing business down town have not yet ofted anytiiug by the experience of the past in JUNE 30, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Yesterday an occurrence foes piace which well nigh pote excitement eye ry A boy, main \ In Hertz, em, ouse bok Booty. of Wall street, won returning to. the ona $600,000 in government bonds tn his Te rt on tered fle pia it at thi vy encoun 80 nant at the shock that he was about to administer punishment to the offender, when he took Bias and made his escape, leaving the bonds in the possession of the last comer, Owing to this fortunate collision the bonds were recovered and the banking establishment again obtained their property. THE BOWERY EXPLOSION, The Result of the Inquest. The inquest on the bodies of the victims of the fire engine explosion on the evening of the 18tn inst, was resumed yesterday morning, at the Sixth ward police station, before Coroner Keenan aud a jury. Joseph E. Coffee, Jr., of 101 Charles street, sworn— Am an engineer connected with the Metropolitan Police Department; have examined the exploded boiler at No, 21 Elizabeth sireet; found it to be an upright tubular bouier, about: tnlrty-eight inches in diameter and tive and a half feet high; the water space at the bottom of the I-g of the boiler is about half an inch; extending up to the furnace door it 1s about an inch; | found @ portion of the inside fur- hace sheet ripped and turned up against the tube sheet; there are two spaces on the inside of the fur- nace shell, measuring about ninety square inches, in which there is no brace whatever; am of opinion that the explosion was caused Irom excessive over- pressure of steain, Wich must have resulted from the safaty valve being tampered with; there are no evidences in any portion of the boiler of its hav- ing been overieated; there is every evidence of there having been a plentiful supply of water in the boller; the inside lining of the boiuer—the part that ere way—is about five thirty-seconds of an inch thick, while the outside shell is about five-sixteenths, about double the thickness; the inside shell should have been the thickest; the safety valve was apparently in gow working condition; from all appearances the on of which the boiler was constructed was of good quality; do not approve of screw bolts; socket bolts shoul have been used; consider the boiler was in perlect condition before the expiosion; should jud, ‘that the explosion occurred at a point between tl braces; the boilers of tue Fire Department are differ- ent from Stationary boilers; woutd revoke any engineer's license WiO tampered with his safet; valve; the moment a saiety vaive is tampered with it is no fonger a safety valve. Thomas G. Powers, engineer, of 109 DufMeld street, Brooklyn, being duly sworn, corroborated the testi- imony of Mr. Coffee 1p every particular, James Gilchrist, machinist and engineer, residing at 252 West Thirty-tirst street, swora—Am employed at 300 Seventh avenue as r; was formerly employed by the Metropolitan Fire Department; was discharged from the department, but not for inca- pacity; had charge of the engine which recently ex- ploded (No. 1) for about a year; found fault with it before pit was accepted by the department; the pumps did not work properly; about a week after I took charge of No. 1 the tubes burned out of her when working at a fife in Grand street; [ was work- ing with salt and fresh water, and to that and the poor working of the pump | attributed the burning; the check vaives of the pump stuck when they were litted belore the burning; myself and Mr; eam re- paired them and they were as ‘a8 they could be; ‘aiterwards |, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Henry repaired the boiler; we put in some 313 tubes; afier we got them in and had caulked the boiler as well as we could we found it leaked; by sugyestion of Mr. Matthews meal was put in to stop the leaks; it stopped them, but instead of blowing off it accumu. lat im the chimes of the boiler; I hooked it out from the bolt holes, but I found her buige some; put in an extra blow-off cock, and after that she aid as well as she coud do up to some time in April, 1366; she was sent up to the Amoskeag Company to be repaired after that; am of opinion that the explo- sion occurred from her being warmed at the bottom, where the water did not have a chance to reach; 1 think that weakened the boiler and an overpressure of steam burst it; think the boiler would have more sediment in from being ag thls one was; the engine had changed round so much that no one engi- neer would feel responsible for her being in good order; have strapped down the safety valve of this same engine when the spring was broken. Nehemiah 8. Beam, of Manchester, N. Am superintendent of the Amoskeag mi e shops; have examined tie exploded boiler of Engine No. 1; 1 noticed the steam gauge was burst, showing con- clusively that she had too much steam on; also found that the check of the steam gauge was shut off, showing that the gauge had burst before the explo- sion and that the cock Was shut off before the explo- sion; found the scale balance or spring of salety valve in good order; the top part of the bouer is bilged between Lhe stay bolts, which must have been done at the time of the explosion; the safety vaive seat was started from the boiler and strained so much as to k, showing that too much steam had been put on; also that left side of fire vox was partly blown out and turned up against the flu commencing apparently near the place where cold water enters the boller; the remaining part of the fire box was bilged between the stay bolts; from the general appearance of the boiler I think the top part of fire box and the flues must have been nearly red hot, owing to there not being # sufficient quantity of water in the boiler; both feed — were open, and one go bent that it could not be shut off, from which I think the engineer in charge thought the water low—one enough to supply the boiler; the boiler ap; well stayed and was made of tronr would have stood more pressure of steam than is required to work her property, provided there was plenty of water in it;1 superintended the building of the engine; the iron is of the best quality made, of three-sixteenths of an ich thick- ness; both shells were of the same thickness; the braces were from five to seven inches apart; the boiler was stayed in the usual manner, and was pro- bably as strong as any we have made; we have made between three and four hundred; in my opinion the cause of the explosion was too great pressure of steam and probably low water; 1 am not so sure about the low water. At the conclusion of Mr. Beam’s evidence the Coro- ner and jury proceeded to the City Hospital and took the following additional evidence:— Patrick W. Hand sworn—I reside at No, 273 De- lancey street; 1 am an engineer and machinist by trade; I am employed = the Metropolitan Fire Department as engineer of No. 9 steamer; on the 18th inst, took my own engine to the repair yard by order of the Chief Engineer: I asked the Superin- tendent for another engine in her place; he said I could have No. 1 or No. 88; 1 told him I did not like No. 1, a8 she worked Irregularly last winter, when I had her, and that | could not start her with ninety pounds of steam till | fixed her; the Superintendent told me I must take her or No. 38; the latier bad no water Suage cocks, but @ float water guage; we took No. 1, although I did not wish to; we took her to the engine house, flied her with water, and raised #team, aller runuing her about fifteen, minutes [ drew the tire and examined the flues, when I found seven or eight of those im the centre leaked badly; told the Superintendent the flues leaked badly, an asked him for old 38; he said I must take 38 or1; I told him { would not take 38, as the stoker did not understand the water guage; about five minutes to niue P. M. | was on the watch and heard alarm of fire; went to tire at 53 Bowery; took the hydrant op- posite the old Bowery theatre and got to work as soon as possible; the worked very irregularly ; after working some twenty-five minutes [ was told to shut off the water; then had four co of water in the boiler: ree for from five to eight minutes, and then received orders to start wash t building down; at this time there were sixty pounds of steam on the guage; the nut on the lever of the safety valve became @ and would not screw down; the lever few J and before I got it down lost twenty pounds of steam, having but forty pounds on them; asked two firemen who were near to heip —~ fix the valve; I es ee lever sane alee ‘ouch to get a strap; en strap} ie lever down; the strap served instead of the nut; when I closed the furnaee door the steam commenced to rise again; it roge to sixty pounds and biew from the safefy valve; tried to gauge the cocks and found L had water in the third; the fourth about a bgt water, the rest being steam; about this time was ordered to start slowly to wash down; on start- ing she commenced to foam; there were sixty oe of steam on then, and finding she was blow- ing off from the valve tied gauge cocks again and found she was foaming pretty bad; did not pour any fresh water into her; the giass of the steam gauge blew out and I was ordered to stop; was in the act of doing 80; had one hand on the throttle valve aud one on the third gauge cock (which had water in it) when the explosion occurred; after this | only re- member funding myself here on the following Tues- day. To the Jurors—The steam gauge blew ont from its being corroded and rusted; the strap was around the lever of the safety Valve and the man brace on the boiler; 1 had no feed on when the boiler ex- tiga did not have any on after I had stopped the iret time. To the Coroner—T think the explosion was caused by the accum mulation of rust dirt at the bottom of the boller, Witness gave his testimony sitting up in his bed and seems in a fair way of recovering from his injuries. On retarning to the Sixth ward station the jury deliberated on the evidence for about haif an hour, at the expiration of which time the follow- ing verdict was rendered :— “That Joseph Ward, Charles Schildt, S. N. Escht, William Remer, John Baird and Thomas O'Connor came to their deaths by injuries resulting from the explosion of the boiler of engine No. 1 of the Metro- Politea Fire Department, on the 18th day of June, 868, in the Bowery, near Canal street, and that sald explosion was caused by an overpressure of steam, the result of mismanagement of said boiler on the part of the engineer, Patrick W. Hand.” STATEN ISLAND INTELLIGENCE. Case or Strrosep Murper.—The body of a well dressed man, apparently about thirty-five years of age, Was found in the woods back of Tompkinsville yesterday afternoon. He appeared to have been dead but afew days at the me and ag his head was badiy beaten i tere is some talk of foul play. ‘There was nothing found on his person by which he might be identified, POLICE TRIAL.—The trial of McGee, the boatman who is accused by the health officer of rowing thieves off to the incoming ship, was commenced yesterday at four o’clock P. M. in Police Court, Stapleton. ACCIDENT.—A8 Mr, Rogers, of Bloomingview, was taking @ friend to the railway station in a buggy about five o’clock on Friday afternoon the horse took fright, ran away and threw both gentlemen out hurting them quite badly. On calling in the aid. o! Dr. Hervey, it was ascertained that he had met with a similar accident the day before. NOTES ABOUT TOWN. They are piling Pelion on Ossa in the matter of costly furniture in the chambers of the new Court House, Have the gentlemen who disburse the peo- ple’s money the remotest idea how much that little upholstering job will cost? Perhaps sweet William, of the Prweed, can post the Supervisors as to the foot- ings of the bills, or 1s it with him a mere matter of Tweed-le-dum and Tweed-le-dee? It ig on the programme of the sachems that at the dedication of Tammany Hall on the Fourth of July, immediately upon the conclusion of the grand war dance, Susan B. Anthony will follow with the craco- vienne—that is, if she can-can—in vindication of her womanhood. Growing out of the present Germanic demonstra- tion a grand Sunday lager beer party is about to be formed, Like every other political organization there will be considerable foam about it, and even in the brightest times the majority of its adherents will only be enabled to see through it-as “through a glass, darkly.” How about the Board of Councilmen? Who has been hurt and who has been made whole by the de- cision of the Court of Appeals? There was nota little chuckling in January last, in the City Hall, among the adherents of the holdovers, when the newly elected knocked timidly for admission at the doors of the Councilmen and were refused, Well, this shows the mutability of political life, and the inherent weakness of even the most solidly appear ing “rings.” When a “ring” is thus rudely broken, the best cement’ we know of to make “things straight” is “soap.” 1t is wonderfully adhesive. If it isthe thing to wink at or permit the sale of lager on Sunday during a German festival, why should it be prohibited when there is “nix” on the tapts? Will that brilliant imitator of Fouché, the luminous Kennedy, answer ? “The clerk of the weather’ at the Park writes us that he is removing his thermometers and baro- meters and other meteorological machinery to the new observatory, and that, therefore, it has been im- possible tor him to make notes for some days past. This accounts for the delicious weather with which we have been blessed for some days, He adds, by Way of postcriptum, “I shall commence operations to-morrow.” Let us prepare ourselves for a dreadful storm, and, subsequent thereto, inconstant changes in the atmosphere, That Lunch Club at the City Hall 1s an institution. ‘The Ma and the heads of departments, Presidents of the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen, and “numerous others” who are in ‘‘that ring,” meet daily, and, it {s said, never adjourn without embrac- ing the Widow Cliquot, and the majority of these are married! The very idea of introducing a widow, so notorious as is Mrs. Cliquot, within the precincts of the Hall ought to arouse the virtuous indignation of every matron in tne city. Pray, gentlemen who meander around the mu- nicipal buildings in the Park and have the run of the City Hall, what has become of that four thousand five hundred dollar chandelier which once “orna- mented” the chamber of the Councilmen? Is it to be found anywhere among that receptacle of cast off furniture, the Americus Club? We can’t aver that it 1s; but this we do know, no one will covet the chan- delier pendant at present in the chamber, for the reason that it isn’t worth s—ending to the club, Is not our amiable friend, Dr. Harris, of the Board of Health, a little too particular as to the company he keeps—just a shade or so more than is absolutely necessary for the good of his ‘‘vitally statistic’ standing in the community? Not a great while since he was invited to witness certain experiments in life-saving apparatus, which some gentus invented and was anxious to impose on the public, so that should they ‘venture into the water before they had learned to swim,” they might be saved from the wrath tocome. The Doctor replied that he would attend, provided “the public and reporters of the press were excluded” during the exhibition. Why, dear Doctor, “Didst thon thusly indite?” Sirs, “I do remember me an apothecary, and hereabout he dwelt”—impecuniously 80. The lame and the blind, whose unhappy estate “make even the angels weep,” were last night re- galed with a repast at the Five Points House of In- dustry, at the expense of a body who forgot not that “even as ye do unto the least of these ye so do unto me.” That woman to-day is richer in this good deed than are hundreds of her sex who, worth mil- lions, are without emotions of humanity; whose life is “one eternal roun d” of selfishness, There are but ten drinking fountains in the city ! Think, gentlemen of the Board of Excise Commis- sioners, of the torture you put poor humanity to on Sunday, in that you are resolved that water, equally with lager, shall be kept from the lips of the thirsty. If you would have people temperate, cause a foun- tain of running water to be placed on every corner of the streeta—running lager, in the estimation of many, would be preferable. OBSEQUES OF COLONEL HAYES. ‘The funeral of Colonel Thomas Hayes, of San Fran- cisco, California, who died on board the steamer Santiago de Cuba on the 24th inst., while on his way to this city as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, took place yesterday forenoon from St. Francis Xavier's church, Sixteenth street. Messrs, Robert McGinnis, John Fitzpatrick, John Flannery and John ©. White, of New York: E. Bristow, E. Eyershed and A. H. Rose, of Oregon; L. W. Mc- Corkle, C. 3. Fairfax, R. W. Hath, E. Mittman and H. H. Halsted, of California, were the pall bearers. The interior of the church was im ingly hung in black, and a catafalque, upon which the coffin rested curing the ceremonies, was erected in the middle aisle, near the altar ratiing, with three large lighted tapers on either side of the casket. On the arrival of the funeral cortege a solemn requiem mass (Chem- bint’s) was celebrated, the full choir of the church having been engaged for the occasion. Rev. Victor Beaudevin was the celebrant; Rey. Paul Mignard, deacon, and Rev. Ignatius Renaud, sub-deacon. There were present during the ceremonies quite a large number of Californirns and many resi- dents of this city, all of whom seemed to be much affected by the solemnity of the scene. On the com- pletion of the mass the coffin was removed from the church and deposited in the Second avenue ceme- tery vault, there to await the satling of the next steamer for California, when it will be forwarded San Francisco. 4 MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. The warm weather at last begins to affect our places of theatrical and lyrical amusement. Some of the minstrel halls have already “ closed shop,” and are even now in search of other and more remune- rative localities, and in a few weeks more the thea- tres will begin to follow suit. Kelly 2 Leon’s Minstrels are “doing the exquisite” for the Baltimoreans, ia their buriesqued version of the “Grand Dutch 8” and “La Bell—L, N.” Tony Pastor and his eccentric troupe of né de- lineators and ballet girls opened in Boston last night. The San Francisco Minstrels also commenced a short summer season last evening at Selwyn’s thea- tre in the same oy Manager Eddy has suddenly changed his mind, and will keep the New Stadt theatre open for the re- mainder of this week. The “Starry Conjunction,” forming a minstrel troupe of “twenty-one performers,"? opened with considerable success last evening at Tony Pastor's, in pon, dances and negro eccentricities, Mr. William Wheatley will take his final farewell of the stage about the latter part of August, when ee Alfred Highflyer in “A Roland for an liver. ‘The next theatrical season promises to be an ex- citing and prosperous one. We are to have at least twelve regular theatres, besides many fine minstrel hails and other side shows without number. The following are the names of the theatres:—Wood's Metropolitan theatre, Bootn’s theatre, Pike's Opera House, the French theatre, the Academy of Mustc, Wallack’s theatre, Brougham’s theatre, the New ork theatre, the Olympic, Niblo’s Garden, the Broad- wth nd the Bowery. unenviable reputation of the Academy of Music seems to hiave travelled out West. The Ohio delegates to the Deinocratic Convention have selected ‘k Circus as their headquarters in prefer- ‘0 ite more Boeme neighbor; but this is easily accounted for on the ground that democrats everywhere have always been fond of “rings.” ‘arisian press anuounces the engagement of Cavier, the celebrated tenor, for the United Moana. Carier cecupies the highest position as tenor in the opera boupe. Mile, Rove Bell is ereating great furor in the ‘Grand Duchess" in Bord eaux. SUNMER RESORTS, eee COO EEN That exceedingly pleasant establishment, Belmont Hall, on Schooley’s Mountain, N, J., is well patron- ized this season. The house is within a few hours” ride of the city. Tne air that surrounds it is cool, exhilarating and salubrious, Those who desire to-pass a few days or the season in quiet on the seashore would do well to select the Citffwood House, @ favorite resort, Address 176 Bleecker street, A delightful retreat is the College Hill Hotel, Pough- keepsie, The hotel has been put in complete repair. It has been open since June 10, One of the most attractive of our summer resorts is the Latourette House, at. Bergen Point, N. J. It is delightful situated, and by rail but a short distance from the city, Those who propose visiting Niagara this season Will find the Monteagle House, in the immediate neighborhood of the Suspension Bridge, a quiet and attractive spot. From it the Falls can be fully seen. The Mansion Mouse, at Long Braneh, N. J., a favorite retreat, is now open for the reception of guests, New Rochelle, Westchester county, about one hour’s ride by rail froin the city, is among the fash- Jonable reireats tn the belghborhood of the metrop: otis, The attractiot Fronung the Sound, and at the extreme eastern end of Long Island, picasantly situated on Orient Point, is the Orient Point House. Yor famiiies dur- ing the warm months ot July and August it is ex- ceedingiy pleasant. Bathing superb. Among the more noted summer resorts is that old and favored retreat Newport, k. I, and its Ocean House has long been celebrated in song and story. Those who wouid pass a week, a month or the season pleasantly and jcrow strong battling with old Nep- pane should go to Newport. The Ocean House opens On the Hudson river there is no more attractive place than Newburg, and its Pavilion Hotel is a. favorite, becanse a well administered house. . On the first of July that long established hotel, Rocky Point House, situated on Narraganset bay, Rhode tsland, will be opened for the reception of guests, This isa dcligutiul resort. ‘The ning is splendid, tie Usiing all that a diseiple of Isaac Walton conid #sk for and the sailing delightful. The Rocky Poini House vas long maintained ite supremacy with the public. ‘To-morrow, that iavorite of the pleasure seeking public who desire, however, to be near New York at all seasons, the Sumit House, at Summit, N. J., will receive xues's, The Summit is but a short dis- tance from the city. |1 is admirably situated. It is surrounded by rusyved bat romantic scenery and ice views are unapprvac.able in grandeur, The South Vraise Mountain House, New Jersey, is now open to the pubic. [tis a well ordered and at- tractive hotel, evccedingly quiet aud governed by moderate charges. Work was couinenced yesterday morning, on the new dock to be erected at Bath, L.1. It is expected that it willbe completed in ten days. Passeagers can then be landed at this delightful wate within forty-iive minutes from New York by a and elegant which has been secured to make hourly trips. UNITED STATES INDIAN COMMISSIGN. The second public meeting of the United States Indian Commission was held last evening in the Cooper Institute, the hall being not more than filled. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Howard Crosbie, D. D. THE REPORT is principally made up of extracts of statements, taken under oath, before the joint special committee of the United States Congress, on the present condi- tion of our indian trives, and printed by the United. States Senate at its last session, 1867. Of tho Indians General Pope says:—“They are rapidly de- creasing in numbers trom various causes, By diseases, by wars, by cruet treacment on the part of the whites, both by irresponsible persons and govern- ment oiiciais, by unwise policy of the government and by inhuman and dishonest administration of tnat policy. Colonel Bent, has resiled in Colorado Territory for the past thirty-six years, says:—‘Since I have been here nearly every instance of difficulties be- tween the Indians and the wites arose from aggres- sions on the Indians by the whites.” Colonel Kit Carson expresses a simular opinion. The report de- scribes at considerable length what it terms the “Chivington inassacre” of November 28, 1864, at Sand creek, near Fort Lyon, quoting among several state- ments that of E. 5. Brown, United States District At- torney for the Terriiory of Colorado, to this effect:— “1 have seen over a hundred scalps in the city and through the country said to have been taken at Sand creek, Early in september or late in August I heard Colonel Chinington in a public speech announce that his policy was to kill and scalp all, big and little; that nits made lice.” The way in which the Indians of Dacotah Territory are fed is next treated of in the report, which states, on the authority of Samuel C. Haynes, Assistaut surgeon of the Sixth regiment Jowa volunteer artillery, that the food, consisting of beef, beef heads, the eutrails of beeves, some beans, flour and pork, was tiung into a vat constructed of cotton woud jumber, six feet square and six feet deep, This mass was cooked by steam. It smelt like carrion, like decomposed meat. The Santees and Winnebagoes were fed from this vat. Some of the Indians refused to eat this food, say- a. they coud not eat it; it made them sick; that it was only ft for hogs, and that they were not hogs. Tie quantity of food issued them did not ex seed eigut ounces per head—man, woman and chil ‘The report alieyes prices fifty to one bandred per cent m excess of regular market rates are charged uy con.ractors who have been employed io — eat articies to the Indians, who have been imetances furnished with a variety of ings for Which they could not possibly find use. The capacity of the indian for improvement forms the of the second jast paragraph of the re- port. The coufederated tribes known as the Wascoes, the Des Chutes, and the te a of the Warm Spring reservation are stated in Mr. Logan’s report of last ear to have raised 4,965 bushels of wheat, 275 ushels of corn, 170 bushels of peas, 450 bushels of ats, 1,600 bushels of potatoes, together with large quantities of other vegetables. They have devoted considerabie atiention to stock raising. In conclu- sion tt is stated that the Christian missionaries and instructors have never had a fair opportunity, and that if Colonel Bent and General Pope were autho- rized they would make a solid and lasting peace with the Indiaus on and below the Arkansas without war. ‘The Chairman said this commission was estab- ished to protect the Indians from falsepood and from cruelty, aud to bring to bear public opinion on the acts of land speculators aud unprincipled politt- cians who had dove imuch to degrade the Indian. They did not deny that the Indian committed many Bay acts, but a magnanimous nation like America could afford to treat the savage with leniency. He had expected that ihe representatives of the Indian tribes would have been present to-night, but the dian Commissioner at Washington having given mission for thuse representatives to come on to New York withdrew it. (ilisses.) The speaker then intro- duced the Key. Heury Ward Beecher. (Cheers.) The Key. Mr. Braciee said he was reminded that one of the first thins he had written was in favor of the Indian. He was certainly disappointed in not seeing the representative of tne Western tribes here, He did not think that the audience would be pleased with him instead of with three Indian chiefs. (Laugiter.) ‘Tue indian had been under a ban of prejudice, a part of it his own faulc and a part of it ours. But the Indian did not often appear among them except as a specimen. They had no repre- sentatives to make known their wants, They were not represented Congress or in the State Legisia- ture. The department to which the Indian had t come was roiten from the centre to the surface and from the suriave to the centre back again. Out West, when he resided there, twenty-one years ago, ‘an Indian trader was regarded as an unmitigated scoundrel, and, tn fact, the nameof syph a trader might stand for that of Satan, The had been fleeced under a system of ized cruelty and force. The Anglo-Saxon people had been the hardest people in the world, He believed that if the Lord wanted to make quarry stones he would make them out of Angilo-Saxons— they ground, they ha grit in them. (Laugh- ter.) It was the fate of the Englishman's terity to be hardlearted and cruel. Our contiguity to @ weak people was never to their advantage. What kind of advantage had been their contiguity to Mexico’ It was very much like the advan’ the spider was to the fy. (Laughter.) Mr. suggesied that the Chr.stian news| rs might be able to create a public opinion on this sul and make it feit at Washington, ff this was would made the indian Bureau as anything humane could be dor The Indians were weak, and he, something would be done for them. Mr. WoLr, of Colorado, epok e at considerable length, descrbing the evils under which the Indians labored, He stated that the Piigrim Fathers first commenced this system of cruel treatment, aud ex- pressed his belief tat the Indians were te-day worse men than if they had never seen an Anglo-Saxon. The following resolutions were unanimousiy adopted :— ved, That both the honor and of the United oat abit tanya sda ro in, : \d cruelty to ied ay oe Governmehinl taeets, by private speculators and supportes and that thin prote Mn must begin with the full and forcivie expression of the putile coucurrence, ‘Keto-ved, That we call upon the other cities of the land to take up the ery of justice in behaif of the Indian race, until the unfted voice of tie uation shall Suppress the growing aud God-defying evil. ‘The Mocers of the commission are:—President, Howard Crosbie, D. D.; Benjaminn Tatham, Vice President; Peter Cooper, Treasurer, and Vincent Oolyer, Sane a ‘The meeting then terminated, SHARP PRACTICE BY A MURDERER.—Androws, the Kingston, Mass., murderer, has done a smart but dis- honest thing since lis imprisonment. It was well known that there were two mortgages on Andrewa’ homestead, bul (le mortgagees, having perfect eon- acon’s invegrity, neglected to put the papers on record. Andrews now secures the pay- ment of a feo to one of Mis counsel by a mortgage, which dias a rushed into the registry and tus takes precedence of the otuerse Neptune ilouse there is the centre of