The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1869, Page 5

NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES DSTRICT COUAT—IN BANKRUPTCY. wecision of Judge Blatchford in the Case of the People’s Mail Steamship Company. Betore Judge Blatchford. In the Mater of the People's Mail Seamship Com- Pany, Bankrupts.—Judge Blatchford gave the fol- lowing opinion:—In this case the bankrupts were @eclared such on the 23¢ of January, 1869. An ag- signee was chosen on the 20th of February, 1869. The Marshal of this disirict, under an order made by ‘this court on the 16th of january, 1869, under the for- tleth section of the bankruptcy act, took possession, provisionally, on or about that day, of all the prop- erty of the bankrupts, including the steamship Emily B. Souder. On or immediately after the 20th of Feb- Tuary, 1869, the deputy imarshal who was in charge Of that vessel gave up the keys of it, by direction of the Marshal, to the assignee, and thereafter remained im charge of the vessel on behalf of the assignee. On the 3d.of March, 1869, Joseph West and Thomas Nettieton fied a libel in vem in this Court In Admi- raity against the said vessel, clauning $1,405 28 for d@ainayes for a collision which occurred between her and the steamer Beaufort, on the Mississippi river, On the 20th of June, 1868. On,tiils libel a monttton was isaued to the Marsha! on the 3d of March, 18m, Te- turnable on the 23d of the same month, commanding dim to attach the vessel, To that monition the Mar- shal made answer that he on the sd of March at- tached the vessel. ‘Ie assignee now on a petition seping forth these facts, and his possession of the prior to such attachment of her in the colli- ston suit, prays for an in, reper hie ae the hbel- Jants in such suit from holding or attempting to hold ‘the veagel, or doing any other act intertering with of the bankrupts in the hands of the ‘his injunction must be granted. The lat vu by any person. If the ifbellants in the collision sult have a lien on the vessel created by the fact of the collision which is entitled to be satistied out of the vessel in preference to the claims of creditors under the bankrupt proceedings, that lien, inasmuch as Peopedings to eniorce it were not commenced be- re the court took possession of the vessel for ad- ministration in these proceedings, can be enforced, go long as this court holds possession of the vessel only by being submitted by those claiming it to the arbitrament of the court i in bankruptey. (Har- lan vs. The Nassau, Blatchford prize Kin tikes 220; ‘The Nassau, 4 Wallace, 642.) If the libel- lants have, by virtue of the collision or otherwise, a Hien on the vessel, tunis Court, sitting In bankruptcy, has full power under section one of the Bankruptcy act to ascertain and liquidate such lien on its being presented in present form by petition te this Court sone bankruptcy. ‘the prayer of the petition is grant UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. ‘The Fullerton Case—Change of Time of Trial. ‘The trial of this case, which is looked forward to with such deep and general interest, will take place In the United States Circuit Court one week earlier than previously fixed by Judge Nelson. The day has mn changed from Monday, the 14th of June, to londay, 7th. This change is made ly in conse- quence of the fast approaching hot weather, it weing expected that the trial will occupy at least very mearly two weeks. Judge Pierrepont, the new Unitéd States District Attorney, had @ consultation with Judge Nelson.on the subject since the previous announcement of the day of trial, and the change ‘was Made in consequence. There has never been a trial held in this city of such ¢1 iz interest to we legal profession asthe coming trial of ex-Judge Fullerton promises to be. For the defence some half dozen of the most eminem members of the bar are eng: Mr. rierrepont'Wul himself take the prin- cipal part in the prosecution; he has not yet an- nounced Who his associates on the trial will be. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Appointment of Mr. John A. Shields United States. Commissioncr and Examiner in Chancery. Mr. John A. Shields, for several years past the eMicient and zealous clerk in the office of the Clerk Of the United States Circuit Court in this district, re- ceived yesterday morning a high and valuable re- cognition of his services in his appointment to a eommissionership of the court and an examiner in chancery. This promotion of a most worthy official ‘will be recognized with great pleasure and gratifica- tion by the whole of the legal practitioners in the United Staves Circuit and District Courts. Jud; Biatchford administered the oath of office and to the usual subscriptien to the appointment of examiner in tern yer the following:—“‘At the instance and with the concurrence of the Hon. Samuel Nel- won, presiding judge of the court.” Mr. Shields has entered upon his new office with an experience that will be invaluable to him and to the court under which he hokis. SUPERIOA COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. Jadge Monell rendered judgment in the following Gases yesterday morning: Luni, Receiver, éc., vs. Robinson.—Motion granted. Bowers v3. Aunouz ¢t al.—Motion granted. Howe Insurance Company vs. Alvord et al.—Motion granted. Hayne va, O'Connor.—Motion granted. Shea 0s, Flynn.—Mowtion granted. Weeks vs. Weeks.—Report of referee confirmed. Judgment of divorce granted, De Reel et al, vs. Young et al.—Motion granved. we vs, Killeen.—Motion granted and cause Martin vs, Sweeny.—Motion granted. Welchwiskt vs. Fuzpatrick et al.—Motion dismls- sing complaint a Fitzpatrick granted, ty Judge McCuun. Schauck et al. vs, Morris.—Case settled and filed. 1 see no reason why my reasoning, as set forth by defendant's amendment, should not be allowed. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Judge Barrett rendered judgment in the following ease yesterday morning :— Jardine vs. Dunbar.—The return must be amended or the Justice must state specitically that the testi- mony vet forthin the moving a/lidavite, was not given. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tne Weatner.—The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty- four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnot’s Pharmacy, HeaaLp Building, Broad- ‘way, corner ot ane street:— 13M. Average temperature yesterday.. eee. 63% Average temperature correspouding day last y’r. 60 Average temperature on Thu seceee OOM Average temperature corresponding day last y’r. 5334 DROWNED IN A WELL.—Coroner Keenan was yes- terday notified to hold an inquest, in Sixty-sixth street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, on the vody of Rosaynah Campbell, a little girl, four years of age, who was drowned, on Thi afternoon, by accidentally falling into a well. Founp tv THe WaTER.—The remains of an un- known man were found floating in the water, foot of Sixty-first street, Fast river, and sent to the Morgue pe eg by Ooroner Keenan. Deceased was rT in brown cloth pants, brown shirt, and shoes. His shirt had been pulled partially over bis head Py Suppen Deatus.—Bridget McDermott, an Irish ‘woman, forty years of age, died suddenly at No. 68 Baxter street on Thursday evening. Deceased lived @t 479 Greenwich street. Coroner Keenan was called to boli an inquest. Luke Tierney, born in Ireland, thirty-seven years of age, was found dead in the basement of his residence, No. 410 Water street. Deceased had been under the imfuence of for several days. Coroner Keenan was notified. FIRB IN PARK PLACE—LOss $10,000.—A fire broke @ut about one o’clock yesterday afternoon in the basement of the five story marble building Nos. 49 and 61 Park place, occupied by the Glen Cove Starch Manufacturing Company. The engines Were promp iy hand and succeeded in a short time conutining the flares to the basement proper. tors 0-000 n various cit), 00 niga The damage for $70,! 101 open! e w the building was about $300, principally by weer. TRAVELLERS’ CLUD.—The anniversary dinner of the ‘Travellers’ Club was held at the cifb house, Fifth avenue, on Thursday evening, 20th ult, The sumptuous tables spread in the main saloon were alied by the ative ‘tthe institution, The intellectual part of the entertainment was of that high be 4 ‘which would naturally characterize a body of culti- yated traveller gentiemen of various nationalities. ‘The occasion was one of great Pleasure (o the mem- bers and evinced @ high degree of success in their coaopolitan undertaking. COMYTROLLER'S Orric#—INTEREST ON CITY AND County Stock,—The interest on the bonds of the city and county, which fails dae to-day, will be paid by the Comptroller to those nolding the certificates. we “eas follows:—Princtpat city” “on arias; County, $16,888,011, Total, $40,241,008 Phe'intsvesd ‘on the above, payable to-day, ‘is ‘as follows: 74,008; county, $404,206. ‘Koval, $1,079,874, Te loners, of the Sin Fund of the u foll ny jounia:—City, 1,963,1) soevey, $3,200,000, otal, $15,220,412" The interest NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1869.—TRIPLE on which te:—Oity, $326,19 3. Tus Custom House.—Collector Grinnell is still beset by hundreds of anxious office-seekers. He has already made a number of appointments, but until the changes are completed no names will be made public. Owing to the heavy preagure of applicants the following order has been issued:— Custom Hovsr, New York, } CoLLKCTOR's OFFIOR, Apni 23, 1989.5 Norior.—Applications for ofice, after the present week, will be received only on Wedi ‘of each wee the hours of twelve and two o'clock. By order of ine Col lector. R. C. ANTHONY, Seerctary. Mr. Grinnell was yesterday morning visited by Senators Nye and Herron and General Varker, be- sides many other distinguished men, Tae R&CENT RatLnoap AcciDANT—Bopy JDENTI- FikD.—The man who was run over near the corner of Eleventh avenue and Eighty-fourth street by a train of cars belonging to the Hudson River Rail- road Company, a3 previously reported in tie HERALD, has since been identified as Wm. T, Nyse, a painter, recently in the employ of Egbert Rein- harc, 40 East Eighteenth street, On Monday last deceased was intoxicated m Eighth avenue, when his employer asked him to go to work; but as he refused to do 80, Mr. Reinhart advised hun to 20 home and take a rest. Noting more was seen of him by his acquaintances til after he had been run over. How deceased came upon the track couid not be ascertained, and the engineer did not see hun previous to the occurrence. Coroner Keenan held an inquest on the body and the jury returned a ver- dict of accidental death. Deceased was forty-three years of age and a native of this country. UNION LEAGUE OF THE UNITED Srares.—The Na- tional Executive Committee of this body met yes- terday at the St. Nicholas Hotel, but the session was strictiy private, the reporters for tne press being rigidly excluded, Governor Geary, of Penusylvania, occupied the chair, and the folowing members were nt:—First Vice President, Charles W. Godard, lew York; Second Vice President, H. M. Turner, Georgia; Recording Secretary, Thomas G. Baker; Corresponding Secretary, 8. I. Gwinne, Pennsylva- nia; Treasurer, James G. McQuade; Herald, J. W. Simms, Georgia; Sentinel, E. B. Conover, New York; Chaplain, Rev. James Underds, Pennsylvania; Waldo Hevehine. Charles O, Pinckney, Wm. V. Alexander, Van Cloff, Joseph W. Reese, George S. McWaters. The business transacted consisted prin- ch of organization and routine business. The reports from the various States, submitted by Mr. Baker, the National Secretary, were of a satisfac- tory character. Upon the chair Governor Geary made an address depicting the necessity for more Rorongh organizations of the Union League forces throughout the country, and suggesting plans for making the organization more eiticient. The committee then proceeded to the considera.ion of the condition of tne Union League in each State, The Committee appointed various sub-committees. The committee adjourned to meet at the same time and place on Wednesday, the 2ith of May. POLICE INTELLIGENOZ, ALLEGED BURGLARY.—A Frenchman, giving his name as George Dupont, was yesterday arrested on acharge of burglary. Mr. John P. Moore charged him with going into the basement of the unoccupied dwelling, No. 27 Lispenard street, through breaking the glass of the front door, whjch was fastened by a bolt and padlock, and stealing ten doliars’ worth of lead pipe. Otticer Dolby, of the Fifth precinct, found him concealed and arrested him. ‘Ie accused was taken before Judge Dowling at the Tombs Police Court and,coi itted in delault of $1,000 to answer the charge. ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST CONNERS.—William Conners, the man who was charged on Thursday by Mrs. Carroll with entering her room and aitempting to steal property of considerable value, was further charged yesterday, before Justice Shandley, at the Essex Market Police Court, with the crime of bur- giary. The compiainant, Mrs, Ann McKeever, o1 No. 33 Monroe street, deposed that on the 28th of April her house was enteved by means of false keys, and @ quantity of dry goods, valued at eighty-turee dol- lars, stolen therefrom. When Conners was arrested by ofticer McKeever, of the Eieventh precinct, some of the goods found in his possession were identilied as Mrs. McKeever’s property. ‘The complaint was taken, and Convers wili be examined at the Court of Sessions upon both charges. CHARGE OF ARSON.—A named William Gordon, a ‘longshoreman, thirty-five years of age, was yester- day arraigned before Justice Shandiley, at Essex Market Police Court, charged with an attempt at arson. Patrick Parker, of 16 Hamilton street, de- posed that about four o’clock on Thursday afternoon he saw the prisoner in his room in the above men- tioned house. He was, at the time Parker saw him, 17,616; county, $97,676. Total, aged in breaking things generally, and not sats- fled with chis, whue Mr. Parker was yet watching bim, the r turned over a kerosene lainp, spili- ing the oil over the floor, and wound up by throw- ing the bed upon the stove. The bed soon caught fire and filled the house withsmoke, but the laues were extinguisued by officer Cairus, of the Seveuth precinct, wha also arrested the prisoner Gordon, ‘The Justice held the would-be incendiary for exami- nation. NEW AND SINGULAR MODE oF RoppEry.—At Jeffer- sop Market yesterday, before Justice Dodge, was ar- raigned by special officer Butcher, of the Sixteenth precinct, William Woif, glazier, of No. 52 Chrystie street, on the charge of stealing @ pocketbeoxk con- taining $69 75 from Barbara Eigner, of No. 207 West Twenty-nivth street. The circumstances are rather peculiar, and as sworn to by the girl are these: Some two weeks ago she became acquainied with Wolf while he was making some repairs on the house where she 18 atservice. On Sunday he calied for her and importuned her to accompany him to Cen- tral Park, notwithstanding he has@ wife and two children. They repaired to the Park and after strolling for some time thiough the arbors they sat down upon a seat where Wolf proposed marriage. While tne billing and cooing was progressing she alleges Wolf put his hand in her pocket and ab- stracted the above amount, and has refused to re- turn it. Wolf denied all font tenn in the robbery, but was committed without pail for trial at the General Sessions. MAYOR'S OFFICE, At the License Bureau in the Mayor's Office the cases which came before Marshat fooxer, aithough not very numerous, were interesting and important. ‘The greater portion of the time was occupied in iak- ing testunony and summing up in the case of Mrs. Keating versus Wilson, Green & Co. The latter are PAWNBROKERS, and carry on their business at No. 181 Bowery. The complaint was fully stated in the HERALD a few days since. From the statements made by the complainant it appears that certain goods which belonged to her were pawned by her sister at Wilson, Green & Co.'s store. The ticket was iost and she applied on Satur- day evening, 17th ult., for a stop ticket, but the store folka were too busy to attend to her and told her call again on Monday morning. She called as requested aud was told the good been given out. She applied at the Mayor’s office and made the com- piaint. The investigation was met by Green with a peculiar indiierence, and on Saturday, 24th ult., she cailed at the Mayor's office again and stated that Green had called at her house aud offered to settle with her for thirty dollars. Green was sent for, and before he made his ap ce, on the 26th, Mrs. Keating informed Marshal Tooker that sne had found the ticket in the pocket of a child's dress which she had been washing. The statement about Green calling on her Was most emphatically dented, although she was corrovorated by her sister, who stated she had admitted Mr, Green when he calied, and by an oid Jady named McEvoy, who was in te room at the time it was all Green called. The ticket which Mra, Keating presented to the Marshal the defendants asserted was an altered ticket, and represented two gowns, which were deposited with them on the 26th uit. and on which $1 26 had been loaned, Yesterday the principal ana assistants from the pawnbroker’s office, together with counsel, Loe at the Mayor's Oilice, and succeeded in making out a very good case. ey had the original ticket for the goods for whieh the complainant made the demand, and they had also the goods with duplicate ticket for the second batch, waich had been pawaed on the 26th, The duplicate ticket was alg ost a fue simile of the ticket which had been jeit with the Marshal before the alterations had beeu made, The Tast mentioned ticket was so much plotted aud scratched as to do away with the idea that a pawn- broker had ever allowed it to leave his store in such acondition, They have plenty of blank tickets, and 1 would be far easier to ake out an entirely new ticket than do haif the erasing and altering which were ton the ticket presented. ‘The ledge book of the establishtuient Was produced be- Bore the Marshal, and everything in tne book ap- peared to be correct and out the defence in every particular except that of Mr. Green's calling on the complainant to settle the matter. In this re- gard Green averred that he did not know where the ‘woman lived, except that it was in Mott street, aud therefore could not have called apon her. ‘The com- Jainant and her sister positively asserted that they id not know anything about the suons pawned on the 26th, and had never seen them they were exhibited at the Mayor's Oticce. The cuse ts at prea. ent rather cotaplicated and involves a question of veracity, which Marshal Tooker felt, under ine cir- cumstances, delicate about deciding until he had given the matter full reflection. Decision reserved. BOGUS JEWELRY 8HOrs continue to be brought into notice almost daily by arties who wish to win a fortune, and who lose a few dollars but don’t get the fortune. A gentieman from Staten Island was induced to enter a jewel establishinent at 19 Park row wen and left there some twelve dollars. The jewelry store is not noticeable from the street, but the entrance is through @ trunk store. Parties who are roped in there and get fleeced ae therefore by @ stretch of the ination fancy that they were going by the Grand ink Railway to win a fortune, and as the: must allow the gentiemaniy moe wo“ id whatever they are foolish enough to tors, if the stake be Wort) jt, may bet the proprie- carpet-| and depart with the “swag” by the trunk 4 for parts unknown. ‘The haul irom Staten Island yesterday was too Nght, and so the “jewellers” did not leave before officer Young, from the Mayor's office, called on them and obliged them wo restore the twelve dollars. MAKING THE NEW YORK MAGISTRATES HONEST 1s the honorabie and heavy work on which a gentle- man from Pennsylvania has entered, The gentle- mun reierred to appeared atthe Mayor's oMes yes- terday, and the jollowing conversation between | hia and Marsal Tooker will fully explain his i jOn:— SvRANGER—Are you the Marshal. Maishal Tooken—Yes sir, What can J do for you? Srkaxaun—Well, 1 went into a shop down here on Broadway, just near the old, old hote!—the old How- ard House—and I lost about $70 or $50 there, Marshai fooxus—How did you lose it? But first, What Is your name? S?RaANGRK—What’s my name? Well, I'll tell you me 13; My Rame is Smith. fookeR—John smith? —Jobn Smith? No, my kind sir, my name is pot John Smith, My name is Peter—Peter ‘Smith. Marshal Tookrn—Where do you jives Smiru—Where do} hve? Well, "tl tell you where I hve. I live m —, Altoona, Pa, That's where 1 live, Marshal Tooker—How did you happen to go into Ai ls it a jewelry swore, something like spauldiug’s? Sauru—No, my «ind sir, it aim’t like that store. What aid 1 go ia there for? Well, Pl tell you what } went in there lor, 1 went in there because I knew it Was a gambling estadiishinent, aud has been for ears, and 1 wanted 10 break it up and to make you New York ui truies honest. Marshal Tookekk—Vo maxe me honest? SMirH—vhb, 1! don’t mean you. But I'll tell you what J do mean. 1 mean to say that your New York magistrates—except you, you know, except you— weil, you know What | mean, Marshal fooKeR—Then Vm the only honest 1 trete in New York, en? and you went into this knowing you were going to be sWindied, sia lost seventy or eigiity doliars, for Lae purpose of making the New York magistrates honest? SMirH—Yes, wy kind sir, that’s just it, Marshal ‘ookER (presentung the bidle to Smith)— Be Kind enough to piace your hand on the book, Sauru—Well, there uin’t any of them darn reporter fellows around, 13 there? Marshal ToOKER—My clerk 1s here, and he will take down all you say, so be caretul. (ihe gent was then sworn to make true answers, &c., when the Marahal said)—Now, under oath, what is your name SMITH—Well, I don’t care about having my real Dane in the papers, but —. Marshal ‘‘ookgr—There you’re wrong. A man undertaking such @ great Work shouid be known. Now, whit 1s your real name? Smiru—My real name? Well, Vil tell you my real name; my real name’s Baker—Josepn Baker. Marshal T0oKER—And where do you hive, Mr, Ba- er, alias Smith? BAKER—Where do I live? Wel, I'll tell you where Tlive; 1 live in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Marshal Tooken—Now, Mr. Smith—(stranger Jaugns and says, “You make me laugh, you do”)— ‘ou come here to maze the New York magistrates honest, and the flat thing a New York magistrate does is to make you honest. Now, Mr. Peter Smith, just tell how you lost your money. COMPLAINANT—How | lost my money? Well, Pll ‘tell you how I| lost it ; I lost it on policy. Marshal TOOKER--On what kind of policy? Insur- ance policy or Andy Johvson’s policy ¥ OoMPLAINANT—Well, now, if you aint got the pootiest forehead I ever saw. Ob! what kind of Poller? Well, now, you know what Kind of policy mean. The lottery. I bid on to numbers, Marshal TOOKER—And they did not come out? CoMPLAINANT—Why, yes they did come out. I know they did. Marshal TooKER—How ao you kuow? Are you a “beautiful dreamer?” COMPLAINANT—No, not exactly ; but I know the lace 18 a gambling establisnment, and I went in there for the purpose of busting up the d— policy business. Marshal TookER—You only want to get your money back—ain’t that it? COMPLAINANT—Yes, I want to get my money, of course, Marshal Tooker—Suppose I would undertake to get te money back for all the people, black and white, that play policy and lose; I would have my hands full, COMPLAINANT—Have your ——; well it would break up the d—— pelicy business, and that’s what I want v0 do. ‘The Marshal had despatched an officer to bring some of the shopkeepers from 174 Broadway, the place complain the officer returned he had Carpenter, clerk of the establishment. From the statement of this gentleman it appears that the complainant went into the office, 174 Broadway, three several times and bone lottery tickets, pay- ing for all some sixty-seven dollars, and that he ap- plied yesterday morning and offered to settle for five dollars, and said otherwise he would report the place as a swindling concern. COMPLAINANT (witha look of contemptuous In- dignation)—Swindie? Now, my kind sir, there was no swindle about it, It isa gambling house and 1 know it is and has been for years, @The Marshal then told both complainant and Mr. Carpenter to call again on Monday next, at noon, and see waat could be done in the matter. EXTENSION OE CHURCH SIREET. The Work Under Fall Headway—Destruction of New and Old Landmarke—Brown Stone, Marble, Brick and Shingle Involved in a Common Fate. The widening of Church street having been given up, at least for the present, the extension of that thoroughfare was thought the next best thing in or- der. This has been already commenced with vigor, and as the thing is to be, ’tis well it were done if it be well and quickly done. From Fulton street to the Battery a street of eighty feet in width will give ample room to the half dozen railroad companies that have been tnstra- mental in originating the project and keeping it in view to its present near accomplishment. Property owners on the line complain almost unanimously, but the general public will be rather rejoiced at iinding the popular old promenading ground of the Battery, always 80 cool and delightful in the sumimer, rendered easier of access than heretofore. Besides, this new street will let a stream of light and ventilation, with their con- comitants of health and improved morats, into a dis- trict of New York not very remarkable for its purity in any sense. ‘The workmen are busy all along the projected line pulling down houses of every size and character, ‘The first blow was struck in Fulton street, at No, 196, against the five story building of GriMifth’s but- ton factory. The whole front has vanished, and no\hing but the naked Moors propped by iron pil- jars remain to be seen. On either side of this are two houses, 184 and 188, part Of which will be sacrificed. Of the former, a marble front five stories high, with basement four feet come of; of me iter, @ three story old fash. joned brick, used, as a restaurant, ten. feet go by the board, When all the rubbish is swept away then we shall see the opening of the new street,and a new street it iruiy is, aud not altogether wn gextension of Church street. It will be three Limes as wide as that venerable avenue of commerce and wear a to.aily dissimilar appearance, From Fuiton street to bey will take the workmen all the summer in making a clear passage, There are some heavy buildings in tie way, each one of which will have to be taken down gingerly, for the material is precious and will do a share of’ service once more in some other locality, On the north side of Dey street, No. 30 (George B. Ackerman’s wholesale wine and liquor store), No, 28, (A. It. Hawkins’ brush factory), nd No. 26 (Wodobury & Co.), three five story brown stone fronts, are alread y being siowly cismantied. At the opposite, the sou th side of the street, No. sl, where the American Print Manufacturing Company, Empire Lron-Clad Puinp Company, Schenck’s Machi- nery Company, and Wells & Leahy, silk importers, were formeriy located; No. 29, Suliluger’s paper box factory; No, 27, J. L. Street, liquor dealer, together with eight feet of the butiding on the Broadway side, where the Goodenough Horseshoe Company hang out their shingle, are being rapidly eimptied of fix- tares and odds and ends of furniture. On top, the workmen are siripping the roots, laying bare the Eom and preparing for an easy letting down of the alls, On the north side of Cortlandt street, Warren, wholesale: boot aud shy 24, Home Washing Machine Company wo, «J B. Reed, paper hanger, are an advanced stage of dissolution, No. 22 has about half disappeared; when three floors more are gone its epitapa may be written, Ali are five story brown stone, with basements, and built after the same design. On the south side of the street, No. 19, J. T. Waultehouse, wholesale boots and shoes, & marble buicing, five stories and basement; No. 23, Ward & Co., washing machines; No, 21, a brick, together with four feet of J. L. Steele's, on the Broadway side, constitute the gap of eighty feet that ie here to be made. Bnd confer On the souti side of Liberty street, corner of Trinity place, @ large building with a front ef over sixty fees, formerly occupled a8 a carriage repository and auction rooms, has been cut down to the stumps, leaving @ yawning gap behind, where labor- ers are occupied in the rather tedious operation of selecting the good brick from the bad, wttu the latter reponderating in the ratio of ten i oue. This is the only building that meets with ceatrnction at this side of the street,gTrinity place coming conve- niently in to Oli out the requisite widtn of the nev thoroughfare, Opposite, on the north side, no sert- ous work has yet commenced beyond the clearing out of the interior of the three fated buildings—No. = Georee Lee ayy ey ha Carter, foreign liquors, @ five Ww Hee tm . cy ry brick with brown 0. ew York Rubber Company's office, oMce of the Central Ratiroad and a Welocpede sCrOO, to- ronis, Very massive and tm) and built after the same plan, On the orth aide of Cedar street, the Fof the carringe serenoeey already mentioned 8 been entirely demolished and workmen ant rem’ have been seen sitting yong the rains, viewing coimplacently the wreck qwed every Where arouud them, Next door, which ther with 106, Drake's store—two five story marble - isffrather a blunder to say, as doors no longer re- main, the wholesale liquor store of Johu Durand, & four story brick, with iron shutters on the windows, calinly awaits the fate of its companion opposite; on the south side, a nter’s shop and Geeta and an ancient shanty, that might serve as an exibition of Noah’s ark a8 it appeared many years after the deiuge, will soon be reached by the mappeasavle army of levellers. ‘This pot marks @ new departure. Here is where extended Church street will confer its blessings of light and aby and air. From Fulton down to this nothing but costly modern build- ings, some of much architectural pretensions, many of them marble, but ali on an average as gooa as other parts o! the city can show, have been confiscated to destruction, But? from here to the Battery, with the exception of the United Staves bonded warehouse, back of Trinity church, and one or two cotton stores, all 1s decay, dilapidation, Hlth, misery and malaria. Nos, 6and 8 ‘Trinity place, Harriman & Wallace, sugar refiners, have to submit vo fifty-five feet being taken off their store, which is an enormous concern, reachmg up to the sky nine stories and very solidly consiructed, For the loss they sustain the city com- pensates them $75,000, Nos. 10 and 12 cover a rather dilapidated sugar refinery, tive stories brick, wich wil be enurely swept into oblivion, Corner of Trimity and Thames three old grocery and tene- ment houses will, for the good of their inmates and the pubiic at large be wiped out of existence. Yet this was once the most fasmonable part of New York. Right above here stands Old Tom’s saloon, where the elite of the drinking gentry sixty or seventy years ago were wont togo, and no doubt, in tueir eyes, was as select as Delmonico’s is tn ours. Old Tom’s traps are all there still, and were it not for the internally dirty approaches and the con- demned character of the location would, no doub! stilt be a place of much resort. Along the line Trity place a good many tottermg tene- ments, Which have becn dens of all kinds of vice, though in former days—that just when tiey were first built—tolerably well to do mer- chants lived in them after a very comfortable fashion. Nos. 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28, United States poblis: stores, embracing a front of 125 feet solid rick buildings, every one of them will have flity feet taken off, Warford & Vanderveer’s store, eighty ieet front, will lose forty-five. ‘The levellers have touched none of these yet, but have skipped them over to grapple with the ulcerated portions of Trinity place, which they wil very effectually cauterize before long. Right in this neigbbor- hood Henry Placide used to say he spent @ very delightful time in a house which is now a den of impure poverty. Corner Kector and Trinity pacer the workmen are busy laying unballowed sands on. some Of the old Knickervocker residences of the past. From Nos. 70 and 72 a series of rookeries follow down to the end of the street, which ends in a cul de sac, At this point the extension will break over to Greenwich street and enter there at tie corner of Mars street, Operations have not reached this far yel THE FORGERIES ON JAY COOKE & CO. Examination Concluded Before Justice Dow- ling—The Case as Mysterious as Ever—Com- miitment of the Prisoner and Papers Sent to the Grand Jury. ‘The exammation in the case of the late forgeries of checks purporting to have been drawn by the bankers Jay Cooke & Co., and through which, as will be remembered, some $26,000 was ob- tained from the National Bank of the State of New York, of this city, was concluded yes- terday morning at the Tombs, before Justice Dowling. About as much mystery, however, surrounds the case as ever, and with very little seeming likeliood of its being very soon cleared up in a manner satisfactory either to the bank, who still claim that the cashed checks are genuine, or to Jay Cooke & Co., who in the most unqualified manner pronounce them forgeries on the public, who see no prospect of the guilty parties being brought to punishment. Of the forgery of one check—that for $9,587 20—there is scarcely any doubt. he prisoner, James Smith, according to the evidence of a detective officer, acknowledged presenting it and having been paid his share of the proceeds. Beyond this statement he is pertina- ciously reticent. An uneducated bartender, he was the alleged tool of skilfui adepts, who wisely kept them- selves in the background in the commission of the forgeries and presenting the checks, and are now therefore safe unless the prisoper resolves on ex- posing them. At the examination the bank, Jay Cooke & Co. and the prisoner were respectively rep- resented by counsel. The following 1s the tesuimony and present disposal of the case:— Henry F. Grant, bemg cross-examined, testified as follows:—The check was presenied to me April 12, at half-past two o'clock; I supposed that the check was paid to Jay Cooke & Co. when I paid it; James Smith, now he presented the check; I first saw him on this occasion offering the check for payment at my desk; | have seen him four times since; I have notto my knowledge seen him in the bank since that time; Iam positive on that point; 1 should think there were five or s1x Outside the counter at the time; | was very busy; there were several hun- dred persons there during the day; | take particular notice generally of every person who presents a check to me; in this case I took very particular no- tice; [can remember the form of countenance of persons better than i can anything else of persons Larrea me for payment; I shou’ say nearly all; Smith was dressed in a dark-colored coat, rather larger than a frock coat; I took very particular notice of the man; I took the check from the file, went back to the bookkeeper; compared the check with others I had previously paid aud found it was the next number; I noticed his collar more than his necktie; 1 noticed his style more tian I did his dress; 1 tok particular notice of his face and manner; recognize him by : rather hard look in his face and @ peculiar toss of tie head; I called my assistant to 100K at him; bis hair appeared to me to be more bushy atthe time than now; I thought he might have had a wig on; he had no beard on; uls mustache had not grown a8 much as it itis now, it was just coming out; | looked at him several: times, the sec- ond time very partucularly; I did not notice any par- tucular mark on his face other than that I have de- scribed; it is not the fact that many men with faces as hard as the prisoner’s have preseated checks for an amount as targe as this; if there had been any de- cided mark or scar on the face of Smith I would have seen jt; 1 next saw Smith at the headquariers in Mul- berry street; no one pointed him out to me; | was told that a man had been arrested and was at Police Headquarters, and I was told to go there and see if | could identify him; I did not identify him at first positively; 1 said he was very like the man; he had no hat on; his hair was flattened down benind his ears; he was smiling and talkmg to Superin- tendent Kennedy; he did not appear then to be as old @ man as the one Who presented the check; he was in my presence only about a minuie; | saw him again the same afternoon; this was about a week after | saw him at the court; my doubts as to his identity continucd for some time unt I saw him in the afternoon, By the Justice—It 18 not customary to pay large checks to strangers without identification ; in this case the details of identitication were fully carried ous on the check ; after Smith went out of the room of the Police Headquarters 1 desired to see him with his bat on; on that afternoon he was brought up again; the Superintendent ordered him to put on his hat in my presence ; the Superimtendent said after he put on his hat, “That wil do ;” then map that peculiar toss of the head which | noticed atthe bauk ; I then became satisiied that he Was the man, Cross-examination resamed—Abont six hours elapsed ‘rom the time I first saw him until [saw lum the second time at Police Headquarters, and to the best of my kKnowieage and belief | would nave been in doubt if he had not given that pecullar toss of the head ; I never saw any one toss his head in that manner exactly; 1¢ appeared to me as if put- ting on airs, James Irving was next called as a witness—I am an officer of tue devective police; 1 arrested James Smith, the prisoner; from information recetved 1 suspected him to be the party presenting one of the forged checks; I took him to the Police Headquar- , ters; he denied presenting at the hank the check of which I accased him, but said that he did present the check for the sum of $8,579 29; he told me that all he received was about $1,800 or $2,000 Tor nis share of the transaction; the checks alluded to in ths connection were the ones purportt to be drawn by Jay Cooke & Co. on the kk of the State of New York. Cross-exumined—The conversation to which I have relerred occurred after Smith's arrest; oMfcer Coyle and myself were the oniy persons present at the time: I do not Know that he had been frequently pe te about tuese forged checks; I did not have the checks im my possession at the time; none were presented to him by any one else in my presences the name Jay Cooke was mentioned by me to him: am not certain what words I used; I asked him, “Which check did you lay down or present?’ 1 used the words “lay dowa” or ‘“present.’’ bat do pot now remember which; | said, “it was the $9,000 check;’ he said, “No, but that it was the $5,000 one"; I had the Dally News in my hand which contained the numbers of tne checks: be pointed out the $5,000 one; I did not have the check rentioned fa the complaint, and there- fore did not show it to hitn; [ did nor offer bim any inducement to make tiis statement; be did not seem to be very much excited or annoyed, Alexander B. Ulli Was NOW cross-examIned.—Only members of the firm are allowed to siga checks for Hr Cooke & Co.; there are five members of the frut, i think; of these there are three in New York, and oniy those @re allowed to sign cheeks in the New York office; these are Pitt Cooke, H. C. Falinstock and Edward Dodge; I don’t know tuat I cao men- tion the names oi the batance of tie firm abgent from New York; the only ones i am posit: day Cooke and Henry D, Cooke; no one in obr oftce authorized to sigm checks for the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. in New York but the three tembers of the - Mr. Pitt Cooke, Mr. Fahnstock and Mr. Dodge; | am familiar with their signatures; | have examined the signatures and endorsements on the checks shown me; the signature Jay Cooke & Co. ig not the ae ok Of either Mr, Pitt Cooke, Mr. Fabnstock or Mr, 3 the endorsement, Alexan- der B. Hill, 8 not my handwriting; I am the person in whose favor the check is drawn; | saw this check for the first time at three o’clock on the day it is dated; Mr. Grant, the teller of the bank, first showed it to me; it ts not possible that any other of the mem- bers of the firm out of the ct ould have signed that check; 1 am vot familar with all we ouer of are | mgnatures; I have signatares simtlar to the one on the check;' very much like it, im fact; Ihave known money to be paid on checks ag Bits Cooke; this signature is almost an ¢. imitation of his; will swear chat this is not Mr. Pitt Cooke's I do not Know that Pitt Cooke has any privi the handwriting of the other members of the firm do Ot resemble that of Pitt Cooke; the color of the ink on thia check is different; all of Pitt Cooke's signa- tures are shghtly different from each other; vhey are not exactly alike, but the signatures in these forged checks are precisely alike, ularly the “J;” 1 don't know that I can state the ditferenee amore ut Tcan by com) them together; Cooke signe checks at, his desk he always uses the same kind of ink, dark red; the ink of the signature Jay Cooke & Co. in the forged checks 1s muddy, ar) 5 By the Justice—I am positive that the endorsement on tne. back of the check is not mine; it is @ good jon. ‘Yhe case for the prosecution was here declared closed. For the defence it was stated there Was De testimony to be offered. The prisoner was called up for examination, and on being told that he was at liberty to answer or not any questions asked him, stated that ne was twenty-four years of age, a native of this cle a bartender by occupation and not guilty of the charge preferred against him. His counsel asked that he might be admittted to bail. ‘The Justice fixed the bail at $10,000, which not being forthcoming, be was remanded to prison. The Judge orc the papers to be sent at o1ce to the Grand jury. MAY DAY. What a Philosophic Poet Would Say—The i; Biter Bitten. 89" just £5 know to what I owe propensities #0 strong, T drew my soul into # chat—our gossip lasted long. ‘Thus sang Beranger, not of the visions of May, but of the visions of his own soul. The great popular poet of France, whether by inspiration or tact, gen- erally hit the popular instinct, His poetry, for that reason, was not made for the day, but for all time. Like Shakspeare’s, his sayings are applicable now as well as when they were written. Take the first line of the above quoted stanza. Every tenant has been, last night, in a phflosophic mood. Those that have moved are satisfied that they have got over the trouble. ‘Those that will move to-day were content in having secured a place where to go to; and those who move not at all were idly lying on their couches; the landlords who had rented their places were sat- ised, and those who had not, philosophically re- clined on their hopes that they will yet do so, For Beranger was right. Souls may transmigrate, and there is no denying the fact, But he meant, of course, souls with a ly around them, And these bodies have other wants than Mumler’s spirits of the air. Among these wants are beds and bedding, cooking utensils and washing apparatus. While the soul, propelled by the body, may move itself, the other things must have some force applied to secure their removal, This force consists in trucks and carts, and the men who control this force are never able Lo answer the question “to what they owe pro- nsities so strong,’ to charge 80 much for doing 80 nttle. They may draw “their soul “into a chat,” but their gossip will not ‘ast long,” for these teillows will immediately stifle its voice by referring to the fact, that May day comes but once ayear. On the other hand, the man who is moving will havea long gossip and perhaps worse than a chat, not with his soul, but with his pocket, if he considers the amount of destruction accomplisned by the soulless men who had his “things” m charge. ‘this complaint was quite numerous yesterday, and it will be, to all appearances, more general to-day. ‘The moving scems to be increasing. There was hardly a block, north of Fourteenth street, where there were not some people moving out of, The great ony. is to-day. If the information received be cerrect there ia to be more moving done this year, comparatively speaking, than in any other year before; and it seems that what the Hgita.p said esterday Was true, that, for this once, the “biter 1s itven.”? ‘The jandlords have drawn it too strong and the cord will, as it must, snap. There will be wore houses vacant and for rent after the ist of May, and at cheaper rates, than there were beiore that day, And although many people are, as tne poet said, transmigrating, yet the places they left will, in a ljarge measure, remain unoccupied, This serves the landiords right. They would ainder, if they could, the increase and advancement of New York. That they make tins experiment only at their own cost 1s shown them now. Hereulter thay will ake a jesson from experience, and “gosaip long’? with their soul, which will tell them tthe jug goes to the well until it breaka. SUBURBAN INTELLIGENCE. NEW JERSEY. Hoboken. DeaTH or FatTner Fisuer.—Rev. Daniel J. Fisher, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s church, Hobo- ken, died on Wednesday night at the age of forty- five. The funeral took place yesterday from the church where the body lay rebed in vestments, After the office for the dead and solemn requiem mass had been celebrated the fuueral oration was preached by Father McNulty, of Paterson. At the solemn mass Fathers John, ’bilip and Victor, of the Passionist monastery, ot ted as high priest, dea- ‘con and sub-deacon Tespectively. Father Fisher was educated at Fordham and spent several years on the mission among the Indians. Paterson. Passaic County CovrTs.—The jury in the case of Benjamin W. Cole, indicted for rape, after being out all night, yesterday morning returned @ verdict finding the defendant guilty of assault. Michael Hughes was tried and convicted of assault and bat- tery. James Lafin, for grand larceny, was sen. tenced to State Prison for two years. Margaret Dowd wus sentenced to three months imprisonment in the County Jail. Stephen McGibbons and Thomas Pullen, the ringieaders of the recent riot in Paterson, who were found guiity on seven indictments, were both sentenced to State Prison, the former for eighteen months and the tatter for one year. Charles Eisen was sentenced to State Prison for five years forrape. John H. Labaugh was sentenced to ttie county jail for forty days, and Michael Hughes fgr two mouihs, for assault and baticry. Patrick fcKenna was fined seventy-five dollars .or atrocious assauit; James Austin, John Jones, John 0. Cooke, William Daizell, Isaac Riker, Peter Carman and John Laing, indicted for violation of the Excise law, were fined twenty dollars and costs on each indict- ment. Bergen City. THE GLENDALE House Homicipe.—Julius Bach- meyer, who had been imprisoned in the [Hudson county jaii on the charge of killing William Monell, of N-wark, Was taken to the Essex county jail on Thursday. He wili_be tried at Newark at the next sitting of Oyer and Termiver. Trento STATE Purson MATreRs.—There are 620 convicts in this institution at present, about fifty of whom are females. Eight were discharged yesterday—six belonging to Camden and two to Hudson county. Four were received yesterday from Bergen county, one of whom has to serve a term of five years, The Board of Supervisors, under the new régime, have resolved to effect several innovations and improve- ments from economical motives. The vacant lots belonging to the State, adjacent to the prison, are now being ploughed’ up and prepared for grain. Preparations have aiso commenced for the erection of & Lr house, by convict labor, for the kill- ing of ali the meat necessary tor the institution. It is intended to purchase the animals oa the hoof and fatien and slaughter them on the premises, aud thus have the article at first cost. A HvGs DIsarrorInTMENT—AN EXciTiNG SCENE SroiLep.—Yesterday afternoon the frequent repory of firearms in the vicinity of the State Prison had such an alarming effect on the public that, surmis- ing the awful occurrence of a general stampede of the convicts, a number of the citizens armed them- selves with every improvised weapon available and hurried excitedly towards the prison with the dread expectation of having a hand to hand encounter With the prisoners, Whom they supposed had revolted and escaped into the open air, and were being fired upon by the keepers. On reaching the State rrison those first up Were surprised to ovserve nothing un- usnal or threatening. The monotinous din of ma- chinery still grated on the ear, and the outside of the os wore the same deserted and unholy aspect. ‘ing a few moments to divine the cause of the volieys, Marshal Springstein was perceived coming through the main entrance with some rifles and dischargiag them im the air. On interrogation it Was discovered that be was Law swf “unloading’’ the weapons prior to their usual periodical cleansing. The disappointed but territied citizens breathed easier on Levene tty | the upshot of the matter, but consider themselves hugely sold. THE ALLEGED MALPRACTICE CASE. Desperate Attempt at Self-Destruction by Dr. Biank—A Writ of Habeas Corpus to be Ap- plied For. ‘The mquest at Hoboken on the body of young Ellen Carlock resulted, as already published, in the committal of Drs. Uiank and Voelker on the charge ot procuring an aboruon, Louis Kelsweather, the alleged seducer, Was committed as an accessory. The prisoners were taken to the Hudson County Jail on ‘Thursday night. Yesierday morning about five o'clock one of the prisoners in the jaf, in passing the cell occupied by Dr. Biank, saw him lying on the floor. He gave the m, and Biank was dis alari y rofusely. Dr. Voelker was corel on va the emerge r to render all the asstet- mMergenc, to his fellow prisoner, A razor Wan tound of the floor of the cell, the bed clothes were with blood, And about two are feet of the floor were covered with gore. “Suner ‘sicians were then summoned and through their the prisoner was restored to consciousness, Hi must bave fauen to the Zero of despondency, for 5 —_—_—$—— rrr made a most desperate attempt to destroy himself and only failed because he fainted before the weapon reached a vital part. The windpipe was cut in @ Yertica! virection, leaving the jugular vetn intact and inflicting only a slight ‘he razor been drawn,across both wrists, but the blade did not sink deep cho ogh to strike the radial artery; & cut had been inilicted in the bend of each arta opposite the elbow and a gash in the abdomen about two inches in leusth, but not deep enough to create serious ap- reheusions, With all these scars his life is saved. hen questioned in to thi gs he said he Would have succeeded but for the fainting Sensation which ovel entered the trachea. heavy for him to sup| and he looxs for * in that country where, as he believes, weary tind rest. ‘The old man is of a silent and disposition and rather corpulent. The yrinding ap bis career in @ prison ceil is too much He 18 sixty years of and resides at 22 Des- brosses street, New York. "He was visited veaverday by some of his friends, but he remained silent and evidently absorbed in the melancholy position to which he had fallen, Whenever he spoke he was much oppressed, not so much from his physical suf- ferings as from mental anxiety. He turned his head uneasily on a rough pillow, and was occasionally agitated when he heard the clanking of tae iron bars, Which announced to bim that he was shut in from the world and that his liberty was gone. He seemed disposed to slumber, but he could not. His fellow prisoner, Dr. Voeiker, is constantly iu attendance on him. Voelker lives at 67 Thompson street, New York. He asserts that Dr. Blank saw the patient only sneer and then prescribed for pulmonary con- sumption. Mr. Hoffman, counsel for the prisoners, will api ly for a writ of habeas corpus, and in support of his motion will adduce what considers most con- vincing medical my given by the physicians who made the post-mortem examination, and who swore ponitivels that death ensued from the disease of the , kidneys and heart, and that the de- ceased had not been pregnant; at least there was no evidence to Warrant such @ supposition. The medical testimony in the case is, to aay the least, most contlicting, and the imprisuned physicians assert their innocence most emphatically. They consider the verdict of the coroner's jury @ most extraordinary one in the face of the evidence given by several trustworthy witnesses. LONG ISLAND. EXTENSION OF THE LONG ISLAND RA\LROAD.—OD Tuesday last a special town meeting of the electors of the town of Sinithtown, Suffolk county, was heid for the purpose of voting upon the proposition to authorize the town to issue bonds for the sum of $20,000 to the President and Board of Directors of © the Long Isiand Raiiroad, on condition that they build or extend their road across the entire town; said bonds to run for twenty y« witn interest, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of the town. The number of votes cast was 263, of which 177 were in favor of bonding the town and 86 against, INTERESTING TO SPORTSMEN.—The Trustees of Jamaica have passed resolutions that no one noi a resident in the town of Jamaica shall set any eel pots, catch any fish, crabs or lobsters in the waters of the town uuder a penalty of $1250 for each offence; that no resident of Jamaica shall go into partnership with any non-resident setting eel pots, fish, or set nets m the waters belonging to the town under a pen- alty of twenty-five dollars for each offence; that no nob-resident shall be permitted to plant any oysters or clams in Jamaica bay, thereby injuring the people of the town, under @ penalty of $100 for each of- fence, and no residept shall enter into partnership with & non-resident for this purpose under a penaity or $100 for each offence, and ali non-residents hav- ing clams or oysters planted in the said bay are di- rected to remove them before the ist of May, as af- ler that date they will be considered as the property of the people of Jamaica. RKesoiutions to the same eifect have been paased by the Traswwes of tie town of Hempstead. ° MURDER AT RUNTER'S POINT. {From the Brooklyn Eagle, April 30,} Thomas McUloskey, a resident of ‘ianver’s Point, left his horus on Sacurday evening 60 go 40 Wiiliams- burg to dh upon his daak account wo pay of a small encumbrance which rested upoao some pro- perty he had but a lew days previous\y purchased. He arrived too late, however, to make the necessary withdrawal, the bank having closed. He visited some {friends in the locality and with them @ pleasant evening. About nine o’clock he started for his residence and proceeded in saiety until upon the bridge between Green- pomt and unter’s Point, whe: he was accosted by two men, who demanded his money. He, rejused, and a desperate encounter ensued, Mo- Cioskey belug terribly beaten and badiy bruised about the head and face. Being rendered Lape uneonscious from its effects, the vagabonds laid hun upon the ground and rifled his pockets of fifteen . dollars, and threw him into Newtown creek. The 1ujured man, partially restored to consciousness by the effects of the cold water, cried out for assistance, when at last he was heard and rescued and cqnveyed to mis home. Here lie relapsed into a state of un- consciousness, in which he remained until Sunday morning, when reason being restored, he stated that he left Williamsburg at nine o'clock; he proceeded in safety until upon the bridge, when he was met by two men, who him and then threw him into the creek; they also took what money he had, winch amounted to about fifteen dollars. While his friends were in hopeful anticipation of his recovery he be- came delirious, and on Monday alternoon his last. Coronor Siebs, of Newtown, empanelled a jury and heid an inquest upon the body, wien two ‘witnesses were examined in reference to the fading of the body, but their testimony having no teudency to implicate any one in the homicide, the jury re- turned a verdict of ‘death from vioience received at the, hands of some person or persous unknown to them,” and recommended that the Coroner take the necessary steps in the direction of securing the perpetrators of the crime. McCloskey was about twenty-four years of age aud bad veen married but a week. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Rewigiovs CEREMONY.—Bishop Potter attended St. Paul’s church at Sing Sing last Thursday even- ing, and administered the rite of confirmation to a Jaige class of candidates. The ceremoay was wit- nessed by a numerous congregation. RosBERY,AT Mount VERNON.—The residence of Mr. George R. Crawiord, on Stevens avenue, in this village, was entered through a dining room window, accidentally left unfastened, last Thursday might, when silver napkin rings and clothing to ihe vaiue of seventy-five dollars disappeared. Tur Rye Neck Homictpe.—The intense excite- ment felt in the neighborhood of Mamaroneck and Rye Neck regarding the recent horrible and myste- rious murder at the latter place appears to heighten dsily, and a feeling of partially suppressed terror seems to have settied on the community. A con- sctousuess of insecurity has, tosuch an extent, preyed upon the minds of the people in the vicinity of the tragedy, that inany of thei dare not trust them- seives to take the ordinary rest required by nature at their homes, ving that the redj handed assassin of poor binson 18 in their midst. Up to the present the missing sate key has not been found, although a thorough search hasbeen made of the murdered man’s store. Yes- terday the Sheriff of the county, accompanied by District Attorney Dykman, visited the scene of the murder, hoping to detect some clue that might assist discoveriug the perpetrator. It is not improbabie that the remains of the murdered man will be ex- humed, in order that a more scientific surgical investigation may be prosecuted than that hastily made on the day the inquest commenced, as some of the J are known to desire a more formal mortem examination of the body. of the . Last evening a meeting citizens was held im the Town Hi at Mamaroneck for the purpose of consuiting as to the best means to be employed tn unearthing the assag- sin, and it was agreed upon that $500 should be added to the $1,000 reward already offered by the Sheriff. To this sum it is said the family of the mur- dered man will add $1,000, so that an inducement will remain for some skilful detective to “work up” the inost mysterious murder which has ever black- ened the annals of this county. HUDSON. Fine—Dry Hovsk BURNED.—The dry Touse ate tached to Mesera Platt & Smith's wadding mill, near Chathain village, was destroyed vy fire yester- day afteraova, The loss on the building aud fix. tures 18 about $2,000, on which there is an insurance for $2,000, AucT.ON SALE OF OIL PAINTINGS, ‘The four superb paintings by Jerome Thompson, eutitied “The Ol Oaken Ducket,” “Home, Sweet jiome,” “The Captive Child” and “Paddie Your Own Canoe,” all of which have been fally deseribed in the Herato, were soid last evening gt public auction, at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, and each separate picture brought @ good price. The attend. ance was large, but the bidding was not very spirited, tne majority of those present evidentiy being drawn thither more to see the pictures than to attempt to purchase them. Unlike most auction. gales, those present were accommodated with seats, and amu’ themselves their by way of cxpressing. thelt del as each ove of the the pictures was displayed to view. “The O18 Bucket” was the pictare up, and was started at $1,000. After hanging tor some time at $2,000 it advanced easy rr) ool bids of $500 cach until ft reached § at whien ire it was knocked down to.Mr. A. ©. H “Home, Sweet Home” was the next picture for sale, nd alter some siow Cr Ae knocked down to the same gontiaman for $: “The Captive Chtid” was next put fd waa started at ¢1 4am Was of t6 Mr. Stanford for $1,7 “Pad die Your Own Canoe" was the fourta and last pio. ture which was Gijovo, which was the ‘uy Oke oncTel feritr ast m1 it offered Was disposed of for that sui to Me. Jasnes i Slate