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NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. The Third Mato of the Quaker City Come mitted for Assaulting a United States Deputy Marshal. Before Commissioner Shields. The United States vse Frank W. Adams.—The examination of witnesses in this case, in which the defendant, Adams, is charged wit assauiting James Langton, one of the deputy marshals in charge of the steamer Columbia, or Quaker City, previous to her last release, Was Commenced yesterday morn- “ine complainant, Langton, testifled as follows:—I ‘Was seit by Marshal Barlow to take charge of the Qui ker City; I started yesterday to come asnore to tell tue Marshal they were getting up steam on the vessel; Adams stood mn the gangway and stopped me, and said I could not go ashore, as he had orders not to letany person leave the vessel; 1 told him 1did not belong to the vessel, and would not be stopped by any one; he too< hold of me three or four umes, and tore my coat; the first mate then came up and told Adams he had better let me go, but said to me “Dawn you, you won't come aboard again;” | never before had any conversation with the third mate, except to pass the time of day; I never told lum that Twas a keeper of the vessel; {talked with Adams Porras him that I meant to put him through if! cou! Levi Feist, another keeper, testified:—I saw a Beuitle between Adas aud Langton; Langton tried to go ashore, and Adams detained him; 1 told Adams that we were keepers and he had no right to detain us on board; he said he bad bis orders; he then called up the first mate, who let Langton off. It was contended by counsei for tne defence that Langton was simply @ private watchman, employed by the Marshal. and was not a United States oilicer, and that therefore the statute deciaring 1 to bea criminal offence to resist an ofiicer of the United States in the discharge of hie duty did not cover this case; and, moreover, that Adams was minply obey- ing orders, not Kuowing, until inforued by Feist, that Langton was a keeper, aud that, as soon as he Was 80 told, he ca.led the first mate, and Langton was permilied to depart, There was no criminal intent, and, admitting that there was, the offence did not come within the provision of the statute. Adaus Was held in $1,500 bail to appear for trial. Alleged Mlicit Distiliation. _ Before Commissioner Shields, The Uniled States vs, James Rooney and John Rooney.—The defendants are charged with carrying on the business of distilling without having paid the Bpecial tax and with inteut to deiraud the United States. ‘ihe defendants were heid tor exummation in $4,000 each, SUPREME COU: The CalkineMcVeany Suit—Verdict for the Plainust. Before Judge Mullen. The People, ex rel. James E. MeVeany, vs. Peter Culkin.—The sealed verdict of the jury gives the plaintiff a verdict on both points, and is as fol- lows:—‘‘The jury in this case find in answer to the first question, Did the defendant receive the greatest number of votes at the December election for the ofiice of Assistant Aiderman in the Ninth Alder- manic district of unis city? the jury fad no, To tae gecond question, Did the relator receive the great st number of votes at the sume election for the office of Assistant Aldermun of the Ninth Aldermanic dis- trict of said city? the jury tna yes.” ‘Puey also tind that Gefe «unt is not entitled to the effice of Assistant Alderm uu, aud that the relator is enutled to tne oilice, ‘The jury were out but little over an hour, and it 18 reported that on their rst retiring there was but one dissentient voice. Mr. Charles S. Spencér for plaintiff; Mr. Forker and Mr. A. 5. Sullivan ior defendant, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, Decisions. . Before Judge Ingraham. Augusta Patiner vs. Martin Pauer- Ormed and divorce granted. Devereux et al. vs. Cronucell,—Motion deried, with leave to renew on otier affidavits, ae vs. W/widl.—Mouon denied; costs to abide event Wetmore et al. vs. Candee, &c.—Readjustment or- dered. Jean B, Henerqu Rouger; Masten, &C., Vs. Granbaum; Ely vs. Spofford, de.; Weston vs, Mer- wine al; Kirtiand et a, vs, Challins et al,—Mowons granted. Rwhardson vs, Daily.—Motion granted on pay- ment of costs of entering Judgment, and ten dollars for motion. Judgment and execution to siand as pecurity. Cox vs. Gray.—Allowance granted. Pepin vs, Sachenmeyer €( a.—Mouon denied, with- Out prejudice, &c. Guman AicClellan et al.; Smith vs. Bristol ; Meyers vs. Shenom; Mignot vs. Bower ; Carrington vs. Baez et al.—Motions denied, Boughton et al. vs. Armeirong.—Morion granted on payment of ten doliars costs; issue to remain of present date, Mre, Susan P, Leggett, &c.—Afplication denied. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The Trinity Church Litigation, Before Judge McCuna. Groesbeck vs. Dunsconibe et al—The argument of the demurrer in this case was concluded yester- day. Mr. Harrison replied on behalfof the defend- ants, and contended that the admissions by de- murrer were merely technical, and even technically were Irrelevant. He argued that the question on demurrer was whether the plaiwi? had on his own statements any right; whelger on the same state- ments the defendants bad done any wrong, and whether the corporation Was not @ uecessary party to the suit. Mr. Koosevelt, on behalf of the plaintiff, declaimed agaist Trinity cherch, as beng an organization contrary to the principles of the wpocrauic party, as having been @ political machine, one-half of its + officers having held political oiice. He argued that it had been in the past a plundering chureh, breaking down his father’s fences to cularge its boundaries, and requiring legismtive interierence. He said that dissenters were members of the origina: incorpora- tion, an’ taat the laymen of the church m its earty days acted a5 aresiraint on the rector. He reierred to many of the old charges on Trinity church, but concinded that the attack was not on tie corpora- tion of ‘Trinity church, but on ite oflcers, aad Li they had made but two of themspartics it was complete ignorance, caused by the conceaiments of the trus- ‘Report con- wes. ‘Tue Court reserved Cecision. Devisions. Judge Mcvuun rendered jucgment in the following cases:— Underall vs. McFvain.—Order granted, Hollzmever vs. Waescnretl.—Order granted. Conn vs. Colenan.—Order granted, Vanderveck vs, Van Wart. enudan. discharged and receiver appointed, Fishiil vs, Levinson. —Order granted Garett v3, The Rider Horse Wali Co npany.—Motion dl. ert U8. granted. Boston Silk and Woolen Company vs, Eril.—Order granted. O'Mahony vs, Lawless.—Order granted. SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL TERM. The Gold aud Currency Question, Charles Quinn, Adminisu ator, & & James T. ioyd,—This was an appeal from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee and from an order deny- ing ® motion for a new trial, on the ground of nowly discovered evidence, heard at tie March Gene- ral Term, 1569, before Justices Monell, MeCuna and Fithian. Mr. Langtree appeared for the appellaat and Mr. Sheeian for the respondent. By the Coart, Monell, J.—We have examined the several questions raised by the appeals in this case, and are satisfied no error was committed, except in the form of the judgment which was entered upon ‘the reteree’s report, and as we think that error can be corrected without a new trial, we shail order the judgment to Le modified, and, as modified, to be ailirmed. The won for a new trial was properly Overrvied, The amdavit upon which the motion ‘Was founded cid nov show that the evidence claiuied to have been newly discoverea could not have been, with reasonidle diligence, ascertained beiore the trial. Itexisted at that time, was in the defendant's ntl and he merely says he “forgot ai! abont é transaction” and “accidentally discovered them while overnauling @ lot of old papers.” A Want of recollection of an existing fact is not a ground for a new trial (i Gra, and Wat. on New Triais, 478, 477). ‘The only exception raised by the appeal from the judgment which we need notice was to the decision overruling the objection to the unstamped agree- ment. So far aa the objection was founded upon the 158th section of tne act of Congress of June 80, 1864, whicit The Coasiwise Compayy.—Motion deciares in unstamped agreements are void we ve dis) of it in this court, in the case of The New Haven and Northampton Company va. Quintard, where it was held that by the act such unstamped agreements were void only where tae omission to stamp was with intent to defraud the tpn @nd that the objection must be put on hat ind, and affirmatively proved by the party objecting, which was not done or offered io be done in this case, The objection was merely that the agreement was not stamped, and was, therefore, in- complete, and offered no objection to its being Te- ceived in evidence. See, also, Carpenter va. Snelling, 97 Mass. R. 452; Holyoke’ Maciine Company vs Frankiyn Paper Company, id. 150, Sach general objection, however, may have been saMcient to present the question of its adinissibility Bnder the provisions of the ninth section of the endatory act of Congress of atly 13, 1866; bul as that statute relates to, and important \- . the rules of evidence we Culare attempts to remulat ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1869.—TREPLE - SHEET. are tncttees. withers mach examination of ie fein Ject, pt ant low, as we ap) ‘Of, the decision of the Supreme Sedicial Opurt of Massachussetts in Carpenter va. where it wag heli that the act app! federal courts, and could not be extended 80 as to alter oF regulate the rules of evidence in the State co! We have examined the other exceptions taken at the trial and to the reieree’s report, and are of the opinion that no error was commit.ed, except in the form of the decision and judgment, which we will now correct. ‘There were two causes of action stated in the complaint; one for labor and services, pa) able in American gold coin, amounting to the sum of $833 07, and the other for the sum of $296 31, for oer Panay and services, not Contracted to be paia jor in gold, The referee reported that on the 10th day of June, 1864 (the day the demand of payment was made), tne sum of $327 87 wasdue to the plainti’, payable in American gold coin, and that the same was, on that day, equivaient to the sum of $650 75, in the paper currency of the United States. To this, latter sum the referee added interest from the 10th of Jun @nd having also ascercained that the further sum oO! $224 81 was due upon the second cause of action, rendered a general judgment for the several sus collectively. In several cases recently determined by the Su- proms Court of ihe United States (Bronson vs. je3, 36 How. Pr. Reps., 365; Butler vs. Honirtz, not reported except in newspapers), it has been held that there are two kinds of legal tender lawful money of the United States, one of gold and stiver, and the other of the pa r currency, authorized by acts of Congress, and that contracts which, by their terms, are made payable in gold or silver coin, may be adjudged bythe courts to be valid, and their payment enforced in specie. It may be a serious Leng whether the State courts should become obedient to these decisions. 1n cases properly before it the decisions of the ultimate fede- ral tribunal in ali matters relating to constitutional questions and constructions of State or national statutes are binding upon State courts, But Con- gress has net conferred an appellate jurisdiction upon the Supreme Court in cases arising in the State courts which do not necessarily involve the validit, of some federal statute, as ‘being in conflict wit! some provision of the constitution of the United States; and although that tribunal was reacted in the cases referred to by means of decisions made tn the State courts, declaring the legal tender con- sticutional, yet the Supreme Court entirely rejected and refused to pass upon the only question really involved, and which alone gave to it jurisdiction—namely, the constitutional ovjection— and instead of dismissing the appeal when it was ascertained that such objection was not meceaary to be passed upon, the court merely decided that, under the act, contracts payable in gold, &c., might be collected. However, without denying their authority, and following such decisions as well as we Inay be able, iet us see how we can conform the Judgment before us to the law as established by the cases referred to, In the case of Butier vs. Honurtz, in error for the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Maryland, the contract was payable in gold, and the judgment was he value of the gold 1n curren- cy, With interest. This, the Supreme Court says, was erroneous. The Chief Justice says:—‘The damages snould have been assessed at the sum agreed to be due, with interest 1n gold, ad judgment should have been entered in coin tor the amount will costs.’’ As all of the facts are before us we will order the Judgnent to be modified, nune pro tune, 80 Wat it shail adjudge that there is due to the plaintiff from the defendant, upon the first cause of action, the sum of $327 87, in gold, and the further sum of $59 52, for the interest thereon, also in gold, amounting to- gether to the sum of $417 39 in gold, and tuat the plaintiff recover the same from the defendant in coin; and that it shall further adjudge that there is due to the plaintur from the defendant, upon the second cause of action, the sum of $224 31, and that the plamtif recover the same from the delendant; and further, that the piaintff recover his costs. Upon the piainttr consenting to such moditication the judgment, as moditied, will be aitirmed, without costs of the appeal to either party; otherwise the judgment to be reversed, and a new treal ordered, kG COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Recorder Hackett. The first case tried yesterday was a charge of burglary preferred against Alonzo Provost. On the night of the 26th of April the clothing store of Isaac Kinsler, in West Twenty-seventh street, was entered and $150 wortn of clothing stolen. Two months after a pair of pants was found upon the prisoner _which were identifled as a portion of the stolen pro- perty. He was convicted of petty larceny and sent to the Penitentiary for six months. John Kean, who was charged with attempting to burgiariously enter a United States oonded ware- house in Beaver street on the 30th of May, was ac- quitted, the jury being satisfied from the statement of the accused that he was not guilty of the offence. George H. Pease pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, he having stolen on the 15th of April two watches and @ cham, valued at $169, from, Almira Pease, the motaer of the accusea, It appears that the accused has been robbing her for some tume, aud sue gave up all hopes of reforming him. His counsel offered to Lave him enlist tn the navy if the Court would consent. The rder remanded the prisoner to consider what he wouid do. Euen Kelly pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, the charge being that on the 12th of May she siole @ lace shawl valued at $47 from the store of Edward A. Morrison, 827 Broadwey. She was sent rad the Penitentiary for two years aud six mont! ‘Thomas Smith, who was charged with stealing on the 30th of April, two dresses and jewelry, valued at $88 50, the property of Lucy Dillon, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. He was sent Wo the State Prison for eighteen montis. ‘Aun Moore was tried and convicted of petty lar- ceny, the charge being that on the 4th inst, she stole a piece of cassimere irom the store of Alexander Bernilt, 62 Sixth avenue. She was sent to the Pent- tentiary fur three months. Benjamin Prince, who was charged with perpe- trating a felonious assault upon Michael O'Connor, on tne v0th of May in Rooseveit street, was tried and acquitied, COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS. ‘The Court as a Nail Hitter—Strange Presence of a Brick Philosophically Accounted For—A Modern Diogenes on Another Lay. Before Judges Dowling and Kelly. Petty pillerers of picayune prociivities were in the majority on the calendar. Next to this class of of- fenders against the statutes were the disciples of muscular Christianity, Of the former category there were eighteen, and of the latter fiftcen, Additional to these there were three other cases, one charge of malicious mischief, one of an assault as a pickpock- et, and one of violation of the heaith laws. No fea- tures of special interest presented themselves in any of the cases, aud, in fact, it Was an extraordinarily dry session. HITTING THM NAIL ON THE HEAD. James Hyde, @ muscular candidate for naturaliza- tiou, he having been ta this country according to lus Own statement only @ few weeks, was cha with stealing @ keg of nails trom the corner of Cedar and Greenwica streets. The evidence was conclu- sive against him. As Aneas did from the flames of burning Troy upon his shoulders tne old Anchises bear, so did i/yde bear away this keg of nails. But he did not bear it far. “This 18 @ Weighty charge against you,” sakl Judge Dowling. “yhey were weighty, sur,’ with ingenuous, simpli- city replied the prisoner. “Wika view to hit the nail on the head I'll send you six months to tue Penitentiary." WHERE DID THE BRICK COME FROM? Mary O'Connor, who looks like anything else than @ puHistess, was accused by Saran Kane, a rather bulky cane ior @ young man to be seen walking with, with striking her on the head with a prick. The ac- cused has charge of tne culinary department of a boardiug louse jn Bleecker street, and the com- plainant makes ap the beds for the boarders, The Jatter went into the kitchen and the two got to talk- ing about a young man to whose attentions each laid The words waxed wrothier and the de- nov was recourse to the brick in the manner siated. . “Did the brick hart you much?’ as Judge Dow- tu almost murdered me,” she answered, and she exiinted the wound, or where the wound was sup- posed to be concer: under a patch. “It seems queer to me,” said the Judge, “that in a wel, reguiated kitoben bricks should ve ying about louse, 1 want to know where that-brick came from. D a Know, Mary?’ answored Ma you know, Kate quswered Kate, ‘Well, Kaie, this you ut culled to see you man you are dispating last when?" pursed the Ke. m Sunday night.? asn’t he under the infinence of liquor! “He was just a litte tight.’ “tHe Cook of his hat when he came in?” f course.” “| see now,” spoke up the Judge, “where the brick came fro it tell out of bis bat” ‘The Cours having thus satiafed itself on this nice potnt in coanection with the case, Mary was sen- tenced to pay A ne of twenty doliars and teu days ia the City Prison. LOOKING APTER MONEY. Mogenes, the erratic Grecian cynic, with lantern in hand, went about searching fora man. Thomas Hogeboom, an Ethiopian gentleman, ts supposed to ve going about the city in quest of the sum of $5 25, which be confidently expects to Ond lying about loosely somewhere, James Lewis, also a ceacend- ant of Ham, charged Hogeboom with steating his pocketbook containing the smotnt of money named, “What (o yousay to tois charge?” the Judge asked the prisoner. “T never took the money.” “ie offered to give me $5 25 if 1 would with- draw the charge,” interrupted the complainant, “1 knew it would rain me to come into court,’ Pleaded the prisoner. “bo you think you can find this money? the Judge asked tim. Pe re Jet me go I'll search all over the city but I n “Do you promise to find it if I let you go" “fT will certainly find it." “Go, then, and When you find the money give it back again.’ “Pili do it,” and with this final promise the ac- cused ieft with jawa distended by a broad grin. MISCELLANKOUS CASES, Dennis McGaun was sent one month to the Pepi = tentiary for beating his wife. Frank Rutherford got drunk and undertook to smash things in the estab- lishment of Mrs, Mark. A glancii low hit her on the side of the head. He was fined twenty-five dol- lars. Robert J. Wilkinson pleaded ity to pl the b packet of @ newly arrived ei it at Castle Garden. OMcer Kane canght him in the act. He was sent four. months to the Penitentiary. Henry Smith, for stealing a pair of shoes belonging to Wm. Lee, was sent one month to the same institution. COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TERM.—Adjourned to Friday, June 25, when case of writ of error, People va. John Real, will be ealied. Surxeme Court, Cixcuir—Part 1—Nos. 1312, 2544, 2782, 2802, 2910, 5318, 2042, 2986, 3018, 8282, 8376, 3412, 8434, 8544, 3550, 3674, 9588, 3602, 3608, 3826, 8922, 4134, 4138, 4142, 4216, 4236, 4284, 4326, 4382, 4398, 4416, 4424, 4440, 4498, 4608, 4624, 4638, 4640, 4716, 4780, 4802, 4806, 4805, 4518, 4820, 4822, 4830, 4854, 4856, 4358, 4872, 4874, 4878, 4888, 4896, 4910, 4918, 4978, 5010, 5016, 5154, ie 5198, 5226, ‘ot ohaee So, ro baa2, hed , 5850, 5358, 5262, 3414, 3416, 4998, 3844. CHAMBERS.—NOs, 192, 207, 208, 209, 210, 247, 254, 494,,299, 301, 302, 203, 814, 334, 337, Call 341. SUPERIOR COURT.—TRIAL TERM—Part 1,—Short Causes.—Nos, 1473, 1718, 1677, 1381, 1503, 1446, 1304, 1109, 1396, 1817, 1693, 1707, 1820, 1483, 1849, 1550, 1795, 1797, 1884, 1775, 1696, 1674, 1882, 1972, 1973, 1995, 1910, 1971, 1179, 1938, 1711, 1815, 1961, 1991, 1514, 1851, 1679, 1034, 1826, 1955, 1318, 1636, Part 2.—Adjourned to Monday, June 21, MARINE COURT—TRIAL TERM.—Nos, 3184, 3164, 8114, 3133, 3134, 3135, 3130, 3191, 3117, 3192, 3193, 3194, 8195, 8196, 3197, 3198, 3199, 4000, 3202, 3203, 3204, 3205, 8206, 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3211. Court 'or GENERAL SBSSi0Ns.—The People vs, Chafles Kuhlmann, grand larceny; Same_ vs. Wil- | liam McMahon, Frederick Maples, do.; Same vs Ja Hassan, do.; Same vs. John Smith, do.; Same vs. Charies W. Fairchild, George Moore, larceny; Same vs. Albert Putronski, Otto Arnoun, obtaining “ld by false pretences. CITY INTELLIGE: CE. THE WEATHER.—The following recor? 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 Hudnut’s pliarmacy, HERALD building, Broadway, corner of Ann street:— 1868, 1869, 60 63 63 Average temperature yesterday... nee Average temperature for corresponding day iast Tne Fourta OF JULY. mittee of the Common Council appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the proper celebra- tion of the coming Fourth of July, met yesterday and after deciding to have music and fireworks fur- nished at the diferent parks and squares in Uhis city, adjourned. CotumBIA COLLEGE FRESHMEN.—The Freshmen Class of Columbia College celebrated the closing of tneir first year by a dinner at the Hoffman House last evening. Toasts were responded to by Messrs. Murray, Kives, Hall, Browne, Rees and Wood in an eloquent manner. Mr. Wood, the President oi the class, presided, New YORK DRAUGHTSMEN’S ASSOCIATION held their weekly meeting at their room, 38 Broad street, on Wednesday evening. It was decided that the prize for the best original design for a column capital, open to all, should be awarded on or about the Ist of July next. Three prominent architects of this city, members of the New York Chapter, American Insti- tute of Architects, were chosen and consented to act as judges. The prize is to be $10, together with a diploma. Tue CoLorED HoME.—The twenty-ninth anniver- sary of the Colored Home, corner Sixty-fifth street and First avenue, was celebrated yesterday after- noon. A very large number of colored tani a tended and joined in the chapel those of the 240 mates who were able to attend. The institution is intended for the sick and infirm, and the annual re- rt showed that $30,633 44 had been received dur- ing the year, and that a balance of $3,646 32 remaine on hand after meeting the expenses, Tae PLaNeT VeNnvs.—This brilliant object sets in the west-northwest about one hour after the sun. ‘The period of its greatest brilltancy, when it can be seen in the day time, will occur on January 17, The next occultation of this planet by the moon happens on July 25, 1870, visible south of the equator. On the evening of August 9, or two days after the oe total solar eclipse, this planet wiil be southwest of the new moon. Tue VIELLOT SvIcIDE CasE.—An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Schirmer at Police Head- quarters over the remains of Henry Viellot, the .Frenchman who committed suiciae on Wednesday night in his cell at the Central Omice, as previously reported. The evidence adduced presented the same tacts already published and the jury rendered a verdict of suicidal death. ‘the remalus of the ae- ceased were psequentiy removed to the Morgue, toremain uatil they are claimed by the relatives. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS YESPERDAY.—James Corbett, of No, 401 Tenth avenue, had his jaw badly frac- tured while at work on the steamship Virginia, at pler 46 North. river; taken to Bellevue Hospital. John Watson, colored, was taken to the Colored Home yesterday, suffering from severe dislocation of a shoulder by being thrown from his wagon. Thomas Sullivan, of First avenue, near Eighty-second street, while laying Croton p@e, was severely injured; taken to Bellevue, where"vr. McMaster dressed his wounds. A MAN KILLED IN A WELL.—Thomas Newman, a man residing with his wife and two children at Mott Haven, was accidentally killed yesterday morning at the residence of William Dixon on the corner of 105th and Bruadway. The deceased was employed to re- and while so epee the rope sustain- ing him suddeniy broke and he was precipitated to the bottom, being followed by a piece of the broken pump. Death resulted soon after he was rescued. Coroner Flynn held an inquest, when the jury rea- dered a verdict of accidental death. New Post Orrick STaTION.—The residents of Har- lem are to have a new Post Office station, which will be quite an improvement upon the old one. The new location is immediately adjoining the Hariem Bank, and in the centre of the business part of the px. Postmaster Jones has seen the necessity for creased postal facilities in the upper part of the city, and this 18 but one of other contemplated im- provements, which the public will appreciate. The new station is being neatly fitted up for occupancy, under the supervision of Mr, Stephen H. Knapp, an will be occupied in the early part of next week. Tur Mongue—“UNKNowN.”—Warden Brennan re- ports that the body of an unknown man was brought to the Morgue yesterday from foot of Whitehall street. Deceased was about twenty-six years of age, five feet six inches high, light hatr; had on black frock coat, pants and vest, white muslin shirt, black necktie and boots Body too much decomposed to be placed in the Morgue. A Jersey ferry ticket found on the body leads to the supposition that de- ceased was G. W. Culley, the ticket beiug No. 251, and expiring August 1, 1869. The body of an un- known boy, about sixteen years of age. was aiso brought to the Morgue from foot of Twenticth street, North river, Deceased had brown hair, and was dressed Jn white linen jacket, black pants, plaid shurt aad gaiter shoes. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Tue ALLEN Case ADJoURNED.—The examination to have been held in the case of Theodore Allen be- fore Justice Ledwith, at Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday afternoon, was adjourned until Wednesday next, the 2/4 inst., at one o'clock P. M., on account of the absence of Mr. Howe, counsel for Allen. ARREST OF A PickrockEeT.—As Mrs. Annie E. Blanchard, of No. 87 North Oxford street, Brooklyn, was paying her ferriage yesterday at the Fulton ferry, she felt some pe rson’s hand in her pocket, and, turn ing around, caught Mr. Smith having her pocket- book in his possession, The prisoner, who claims to be a tailor and innocent of the charge, was taken before Alderman Coman, Acting Magistrate at the ‘Tombs, and, in default of $2,000, committed for ti SraTegy OF Hignwaymex.—As Thomas War- burton, who is stopping at the Madison House, was going through Roosevelt street yesterday, he was tripped up by one of a crowd of young men, aod immediately after, as he alleges, robved of twenty- four dollars by the gang. He managed to seize hold of the man tripping him, and, through the ald of a oliceman, bring him before Judge Hogan at the ‘ombs , to whom he the name of Wm. McGrath, Hie was committed in default of $1,000 bail,to answer the charge. ALLEGED RoBoeRy oF A CiiNAMAN.—Charles Ahehez, 4 Chinaman, who keeps a cigar store at No. 73 Cherry street, stated yesterday vefore Judge Hogan, at the Tombs Police Court, that two young men named James Smith and James Murphy, came into his place, and that the former held him while the latter stole his pocketbook, containing $5 25, and asilver watch. ‘The accused parties were arrested, and on ap afidavit being made to the above facts, = each commitved to answer in default of $2,000 11, A MAN SEVERELY BRarEN py Rovens.—About six o'clock on Wednesday night, while Thomas O'Connor was in @ lager beer saloon on First ave- nue, standing at the bar quietly disposing of @ glass of his favorite beverage, two ronghs, named John Brannigan and James Farrell, came in, and, without either saying ® word, fell to beating and kicking O'Connor in an inhuman manner, knocking hin down on the floor and d ing him to the pave- ment outeide, where they in attacked him and beat him until nearly unconse fver which the: cer Smith, of the Eighteenth precinct, The injured man was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where he is at present confined. A certificate from acting house surgeon Purgus states that he is suffering from a severe fracture of the right leg. prison- ers were arraigned before Justice Ledwith, at Jeffer- son Market, yesterday, and upon complaint of offi- cer Smith,’on beuaif of O'Connor, committed to await the result of the injuries. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY ON BROADWAY.—Oficer Heendry of the Eighth precinct yesterday afternoon arraigned @ young man named Amo Smet, before Justice Ledwitth at Jefferaon Market, twenty-one years of age, bar tender in the employ of Theodore Allen at the St Bernard Hotel, corner of Prince and Mercer streets, charged with burglariously entering the jewelry store of H. H. Harrison, No, 571 Broad- way, on Monday night last by means of forcing vpen @ panel toa side door leading froma hallway, and stealing @ quantity of watches and chains valued at $2,250. ‘The oiticer states that at two o’clock on Tues- day morning whiie on post near the corner of Prince and Mercer streets he detected the prisoner and an accomplice, who is still at large, emerging from the rear of the building and entering the St. Bernard Hotel,to which piace he followed them, but before he could gain an entrance to the place they had been spirited away. The prisoner eluded the officer antil Wednesday night, when he was arrested. He was remanded to the station house until this morning, when be will again be arraigned and a complaint preferred against him by Mr. Harrison, upon iior- mation luruished bim by the oMicer. THE HA\SOM CAB COMPANY. Subscriptions for Stock—Who the Subscribers Are—General Programme of Proposed Operations—Rates of Fare and the Number of Cabs to Be Run. Of all the schemes devised or sought to be devised or suggested to secure speedy, comfortable and at reasonable charges transportation from one secjion of the city toanother and to the fartnest inhabited portions of Brooklyn the Hansom Cab Company gives every assarance of being the wisest and the most practicable. Since the incorporation of the company there has been no lack of effort to secure subscriptions of the necessary stock to enable the commencement of operations. As is well known, the capital is $250,000, which 18 divided into 5,000 shares of fifty dollars each, with power to increase. ‘The proposition 1s to commence operations a8 soon as 2,000 shares, equal to $100,000 of stock at par, shall have been subscribed for, Of this amount up to yesterday afternoon subscriptions had been re- ceived for $70,000 of the stock, and within ten days subscriptions for the required balance will undoubt- edly have been entered on the company’s books. ‘The scheme, therefore, may be set down as no lon- ger possible or contingent, but as an established fact. A feature specially rete of note 1s limiting the sales of the shares, “Most of the stock has been sold i ten, fifteen and twenty shares, the desire and determination being to give as many ay interest In it as possible. Most all of our leading bankers, mer- chants and other ciasses of business men are sub- scribers, a8 Duncan, Sherman & Co, Brown Brothers, Jay Cooke & Cc., J. & W. Seligman & Co., Dabney, Morgan and others too numerous to mention, It is the present expectaion to get the cabs of this company running by the first of next month. There are earnest anu practicable men entrusted with the management, who will lose no time in de- monstrating to the public its feasibility. Tne pro- gramme is to employ fifty cabs, with use of two horses for each, to be employed twenty-two hours daily. Each cabman is to return $7 per day, the excess made over this to be his own. Tuis 18 & preliminary arrangement and liable to be changed, Its object being to form a basis upon which to calculate the expenses and profits. ‘The company propose to have two thousand hansoms and cabs running by the end of the present year. The charter provides that the fares shall be as folows:—For any distance within and not ex- ceeding one mile, for a single passenger, thirty cents; and for two persons, forty cents. For any distance additional to one mile, for each mile and fractional part of @ mile, for a single passenger, u cents; and for two persons, forty cents. For any time within @nd not exceeding one hour, for a single passenger, seventy-five cents; fortwo persons, one dollar; and for any time additional, for each hour and fractional part of an nour for @ single person, seventy-five cents; and for two passengers, one dollar, In addition to satd fares, as here set forth, the said drivers are authorized to demand and receive one-half of the same in addition when the passenger or passengers are 80 conveyed by them be- tween the hours of twelve o’clock in the evening and six o’ciock In the morning. No driver of a cav belonging to said corporation who is stationed at or near a railway station, steamboat landing or ferry shall leave the seat of the cab on tie arrival of the cars, steamboats or ferryboats, nor shall he leave his stand till he shall be engaged by a passenger, or some pergon authorized by a passenger. The above rates of fare cannot be increased; bui the directors, im the interest of the pubilc at large and saarehold- ers, intend reducing the price as s00n as practicable to twenty cents per mile for one and twenty-five cents for two persons, and. fifty cents per hour for one and sixty cents for two persons, the intention being to give the tnhabitants of New York and Brooklyn the benefit of good, commodious and quick travelling, at rates wuich will place the veni- cles within the reach of ali. THE TWENTY-THIRD STREET RALRIAD FRANCHISE. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The following are the proceedings of the meeting ofthe Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, held at the Comptroller's office, June 12, 1869, in relation to the Twenty-third street railroad franchise, at which were present the Mayor, Comptroller, Chamberlain and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Assistant Aldermen. Sidney A. Yeomans appeared in person before the Commissioners present, being the bidder for $150,000 for the Twenty-third street railroad privilege at the the public sale, on the 2d inst. Bond in the sum of $150,000 was demanded from him, individually, as the amount of his said bid, which he individually deciined to give. A certificate signed by every Commisstoner of the Sinking Fund, entitling him to the privilege and right of his sav bid, upon payment of said sum (the Chamberlain being present), Was tendered lum, and a bond for falfiiment and payment requested, which bond and payment he individuaily refused to give and make; said certificate is filed and marked. He claimed by counsel to have really made the bid for the so-called Twenty-third Street Railroad Company, and counsel exhibited an assignment of his bid, made after the day of sale, to said so-called company, and there was tendered, on behalf of sald company, $150,000 in currency, and offered a bond in behaif of said so-called company, signed by George Law and John Kerr; but the Commissioners refused and declined to recognize any buider but the individual one (Sidney A. Yeomans) who, individu- ally, on the day of sale, sigued memorandum of tid and stated that he bid for himseif, or any tender, except one in his individual behalf, or any bond, except for the performance by himof an agreement to build the road; wherefore, after some discussion, ‘on motion of the Mayor, seconded by the Chairman of the Finance Committee of Board of Assistant Al- dermen, it was unanimously Resolved, That the bid of Sicney A. Yeo first, decane the bid, in the estimation of the Commissioner was, and is, fraudulent and collusive; and second, because o non-compliance with terms of sale; and that the secretary forthwith serve novice hereof upon said Sidney A. Yeomans. Adjourned. A. OAKEY HALL, Chairman Sinking Fund Commussioners. W. H. DikEMAN, Secretary. Commissioner Hall cesires me to add that in his legai opinion laws taking away or leasing pubic property for private uses are to be strictly con- strued; that the law directed the certificate to be given to the bidder: that Mr. Yeomans judividually bid and disclaimed any association or agency, and himself as principal took in superseding of bis bid and sign the mutual auction ceruficates, which ‘were afterwards to ve replaced by a final one and his bond; that the interlocutory certificate recited personal covenants which he made thereby; that Mr. Yeomans stated on the sale, “I give Messrs. Law and Kerr as my sureties; that the Sinking Fund Commissioners, having given on his bid a cer- tificate and contract of purchase, are compelled to the bond from him; that the railroad com- y, formed days after the auction, and after Mr. eoinans signed his contrac’ rincipal and not as agent, are bjs as mach at legal liberty to buy from him after final certificate as after interlocutory cer- tificates, and as matter of law the Commissioners are entitled to the continuing personal covenant of Mr. Yeomans, and to a bond based upon that. Many other things the minutes explain. Commissioner Smith desires me to add that, neither doubting nor relying upon the Mayor's legal judament, he con- sulted Brot to the meeting one oi most eminent and disinterested jurists in the city, and one skilled in municipal age 1 corporate law, who entirely coinch with thy int that the bond must be taken from the individual who hela the certificate of the auction sale. Tie matters which led the Com- missioners to the conclusion that the bid was coilu- sive cannot yet be made pubitc, 1 am instructed to add. H. DIKEMAN, THE FIRST AVENUE SHOOTING AFFRAY. Joseph Hartnett, one of the parties implicated in the shooting affray in the liquor saloon of Thomas Costello, at the corner of Twenty-fifth street and First avenue, on the night of the 3d of June, in which the Pro rietor was seriously injured and a man named Richard Gerdes, a grocer on the corner of Twenty-fourth street and First avenue. injured that he subsequentiy died, was ar- Justice Ledwith at Jederson Market yesterday by detective La Rue, of the teenth Pp od A complaint was preferred him Thomas Costello, Sr., an uncle of the propri- jor, yy him With felonious assault by dings revolver at hi waer and bail, He Was held to hall in the sun of $2,500 to answer the In his taforma: examination he stated he renty-four years of age, born in Ireland, re- siding at No, 963 First avenue, by ovcupation y oan and not guilty of tie charge preferred be rejected, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. New Orleans is amusementiess. ‘Miss Marriott is personating “Hamlet” in Roches- ter. “The White Fawn,” “Dick Turpin” and “The Stranger” are the present attractions in Piusburg. The Hawson Sisters are charming the saints of Salt Lake City with English opera boude and bur- lesque. A new burlesque opening 1s soon to be added to the pantomime of “Mother Hubbard,” which is now drawing large audiences at Wallack’s. Brignoli has at last reached that heaven of moral delights—Chicago—where he has been attracting | large audiences. He gives his last operatic concert in thal city this evening, upon which occasion he a be assisted by the young prima donna, Mile. ‘The Waverley opened last night with the Elise Holt troupe of burlesquers, in “‘Puris, or the Judg- ment.” On Saturday evening Miss Holt will make her last appearance at tis establishment, prior to her departure for Cailfornia. Tne legitimate drama holds possession of the Waverley next week. Carlotta Patti, Theodore Kier and their company have returned from their artistic tour, highly pleased with the reception they met with at Constantinople and other Oriental towns. They will start for America on the ist of October. On Weduesday next “seraphine,” Sardou’s last comedy, Which is at present the great Parisian suc- cess, having aiready run over 280 nights, will be pro- duced at the French theatre. Madame Moreau, a rowiment actress from the Porte Saint Martin, aris, assumes the principal role, ‘The great success of “Bound” and the “Shadow of a Crime” in the West has tempted Miss Kate Reignolds to give 4 summer season of these pieces throughout the Eastern states, with a large and well appointed company. She commences on the 26th inst. Miss Alice Ringabary. owns and manages a large faria at Aurora, Ind., having found 1t more profita- ble than the stage. Uncle Billy Moore 1s gradually recovering from his severe illness, and bids fair to once again iiu- minate the theatres with his jovial countenance. Miss Lena Edwin has been engaged at Waliack’s for the summer season. Owing lo some mistake in the management sue was not cast in “Vid Mother Hubbard” as was originally intended. A. L. Parkes, the irrepressibie and eiMcient mana- ger of the Worrell Sisters, 18 in town, louking up 4 place for the “girls” to appear at. Manager Freligh, at the Bowery, to-night takes !us annual beneiit, and an immense programme has been prepared to satisty the immeuse audieuce which todications have already shown will be on hand to testily to his eificient and popular manage- ment of the theatre. John F. Poole, Tony Pastor's indefatigable and versatile dramatist and manager, is going on to bos- ton to prepare the way Jor ‘Tony, who opens there on the 29th, at the Comique, for ihe summer season. He also intends making te “Jjubelelaut’’ Bostonians @ Siudy tor aby quantity of new dramas next fail. The new grand Opera House at Vienna was in- gugurated the 26th of iasi_ month with a fine per- jJormance of “Don Juan.’’ It is calculated to accom modate 2,700 spectators. The first stone was placed mM March, 1862, and the cost amounts to about 6,000,000 florins, Mie. Schneider is expec this month. She is now playing in Offenvaca’s ‘Diva,” a work pro- nounced very thin and diluted and as lacking in- terest, The libretto (though irom the practised pens of Meihac and Halevy) is by ao means brilliant. It Will soon be withdrawn, when a Spanish dramatic couipany will occupy the Bow NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR 1 HE ADVA\CL- MEANT OF SUtE.CE AND ART. At the last meeting of this association, an in- strument called a bathometer was exhibited by the in- ventors, and an explanation of the method of its operations given. After setting forth the difficulties encountered hitherto in the attempts to sound the sea and the devices introduced to overcome them, a description of the instrument exhibited was given. Its success depends upon the new and inge- nious method adopted to secure the buoyancy of the plummet. This indispensable quality is ob- tained by the use of hollow glass balls, three or four imches in diameter, the glass having a thickness of about one-tenth of an inch, of such lightness as to float with half their surface above water, and sufMl- clent strength, as shown by actual test with a hydrau- lic press, to Sustain a pressure of four and a half tons to the square inch. In outward appearance the plummet is simply @ wooden cylinder with a rod a jew feet m length msing from the top and terminating in a ilittie burnished silver ball, To this is hung a weight to sink it, attached by a compound lever, balanced by a litte conical cug attached to a string and dropping afew feet lower than the weight. ‘This cup is hung with its point downward, and has over it, sliding ou ihe string, a leather cover, which is raised as the cup descends and closes as it rises. The moment the cap comes in contact with any obstacle to its downward course the basunce between it and the weight is destroyed and the latter drops from the pluamet, whic immediately shoots away by reason of its great buoyancy, bearing along with it the cup, which has dropped in the sand or mud, filled itself and covered iteeif iis lite leather cover at the moment of its commencement to rise. So much for the out- ward appearance of the instrument, which is dropped into the water, without any line to recover it, and which is found when it rises by imeans of the brightness of the silver ball, which rises a few feet above the water when the bathometer comes to ihe surface. Upen this hollow, wooden cylinder gud it ¥.11 be found fillea, two-thirds of its upper part with the glass balls aiready descrioed, and the vottom with ballast to keep the cylinder aprignt wihtie im the water, Between the glass balls and the cylader is placed the bathometer proper. This coasists of a giass bottle, with ioag, slender neck, closed at the top. The mouth of the bottle may be said to be at the bottom. This mouth is atopped with a stopper of India rubber, through which runs a glass tube, having its upper end in the bottle and the lower end in an India rubber bag. . The bottle is Hlied with water; the bag with mercury and water. When tue bottie aad bag are placed on the bottom of the sea the water in tae bottle is compressed by the pressure on the bag. aud the mercury takes the place of the void resulang from the compression. Wien tye instrument re- turns to the surface all that has to be done to as- certain the depth :o which it has been will be to turn the bottle the other side up (itis placed in the wooden cylinder with its jong, closed neck upward), and the mercury setthng lito the neck, on which is marked a scaie, will, by its height, indicate, as in @ thermometer or a barometer, the depth to which tue instrument sank, a3 Lie amount of compression is a sure index of the depth of the compressing colainn of water, STRAWACARY FAIR, The annual strawberry fair of the New York Frait Growers’ Club was opened to the public yesterday at the Whitlock Exposition Hail, Nos, 35 and 57 Park place. The number o1 visitors was iarge, the exhibi- tion room being well filicd throughout the day. There was quite a fine display of strawberries, contri- buted by the following exhibitors:—Rusig & Hex- amer, Newcastle, N. Y., seventy-tliree varieties; W. S. Carpenter, Westchester county, N, Y., one variety; Thomas Wade, on E. ?. Wheeier’s place, two varie- tues; John Crane, Union, N. J., two varieties; Henry K. How, New Brunswick, N. J., sixteen varieties; J. S. Whitlock, Matiawan, N.J., two varieties; 0. J. Tilson, Highland, N. Y., one variety; R. M. Carey, West Brighton, 8. I., turee varieties; Wellwood Mur- Tay, Mount Pleasant, N. Y., one variety; W. M. Doty, Starr Landing, N. J., one variety; E. P. Carter, , N. J., one variety; W. A. Burgess, Glencoe, L, L, four varieties; Mrs. Dr. Hallock, New York, one variety; A. 8. Fuller, three varieties. ‘The fair Will remain open for ten days, and at the close a prize of fifty doliars will be given for the best collection and one of twenty-five dollars for the best new seedling not shown before last year. ‘The exhibition is free to ail exhibitors and to (he [oman and the club solicit all growers of straw- erries to show their fruit. A meeting of the club was held in the afternoon, when the culture of ber- ries Was discussed, the at adjourning to Mon- day next, when the subject will be again taken up. GREAT STORM IN WESTERN TEXAS. The San Marcos Pioneer says that the crops on several plantations in that vicinity were much tn- red by the late storm of hail; the corn crop cat dite streds and the cotton beaten into the earth. On the prairie, near York's creek charch, many imule- eared rabbits were found killed by the nail, which fell in stones Ge oy from the size of a bucksliot to that of an egg. The /nqwirer thus recurs to the ter- rible hail storm that passed over the northern por tuon of Gonzales county on the 27th ult.:— Its course was from northwest to southeast, pass- ing over the northefn portion of Guadaiupe and Con- zales and the southern portions of Caidweil and [a- Its width ranged from four to eight ath (ve country ix mia the re. vaca counties, The atest severity were completely destroy e: femoushea aud the rails Washed away, houses un- roofed, trees uprooted, aud pigs, turkeys atc enickens killed by hundreds. Two gin houses, be- longing to Mr. Henry Bond and Mr, Dumont, were blown down. A lady, in attempting to pass from her buggy to.& house, was so severely bruised by the hail taat she fell at the door and had to be carried in. The ground was literally covered with hail stones about the size of birds’ eggs. It seems tiat there were two ciouds passing In opposite diico- tions, Which inet about the region of Sour Springs, and it was at this point of contact that the greatest damage was done. The foilowimg letter wili give the reader some idea of the great severity of the storm in the vicinity of Sour Springs:— On yesterday we had one of the everest bail and rain storma 1 have ever seen in any country, Tuere te nota man fround Sour Springs that bas astalk Of corn or cotton lert him. Ail our fences are blows down, and many raile washed off, | Teaeetns that the war about four miles wide at this point, runoing ® itttle south of east, The timber is Atripped of ailthe leaves, We have nothing let. Corn, cot- ton, potatoes, beans, peas and everything that was growing, we loat, but no houses or lives. We are all in ® deplorabie condition here. 1 nope we are worat olf, for If all the coun- try io io the Ox we ‘it Me certainly a terrible calamity, rr LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. £ WOMEN’: J H FORM AGAINST Na- TURE, : By Horace, ‘gashnell New York: Charles Scribner & Co, 1869, ‘Ten years ago the author of this book would have been laughed at had he published it; to-day it is valuable and will be carefully read, because it is the first formal contribution to the literature of the coming controversy. While the clamoring of afew ambitious, wrong-headed women and the feeble whinings of a few unsexed men have so far failed todo more than bring into serious prominence the question of women voting, it is probable that within @ very few coming years it will, a3 with the other isms that have deiuged the country, be made a poll- tical fssue of by some party organization, whether it be republican or democratic, or some new ontepring of our system of government. It is well, then, th: Dr. Bushneil has taken up the subject at this early date and met it in # really calm, thoughtful and argumentative manner, Some of his reasons for ob- jecting to enfrancuising women might be readily re- fated; but we tuimk these few in number and quite lost amid the mass of pointed and effective logio which he brings to his support, We have read carefully from begin to end and with the liveuest interest. ‘The perni- cious infaences whicd will arise from women exercising the privilege of the elective franchise, the social demoraiization which will ensue, as well a® the utter lack of necessity for the so-called reform, a8 @ measure of protection to the sex, are all care- fully cousidered aod élaborately argued, Woman needs a certain protection which she does not,en- joy at the present time. Her exclusion from many cuployments is unjust and arbitrary. Any reform which opens a wider field of usefainess to oer will be welcomed by all great-minded men, But woman Was not created to govern; there is nothing in Scrip- tural history to warrant the belief that sie was; ber partes structure mukes her incapable of rulings ue future good of society demands thas she shalt not be permitted to vote; the sanctity of the mar- Triage tie will be jeopardized if she participates in the making of laws. such are a few of the leading points in Dr. Bushnell’s work, and we cannot but admita belief that bis arguments are, in the main, unanswerabie. He may be wrong and~ so may we be. Mr. Mill’s forthtoming work may convince the world that humanity will be benefited by “women’s suffrage.” Kut even admitung that good will follow the political enfrancuisement of the sex, how evident it is that such wil be wholly obliterated by the ost Innumer- able evila which wiil mevitably spring from a perfect political and svciab equality between man and womal jor it must be borne in mind that the moment woman becomes our political equal she ceases to be our social superior, a8 we now regard her. Let this compiete equality once obtain, aud mutual contempt ol, lack of respect for, and want of faith in each other, will be the characteristics of the sexes, to the debasement of the race. When the importance of this growing question is considered the publication of @ work like the one belore us cannot fail to be welcomed by all who reject a heresy which sirikes at the foundation of society. STRETTON. A novel. By Henry Kingsley. With ulustrations, New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869 This is by no means the best of Kingsley’s novels, although it is very interesting and the characters are admirably drawn. It is, however, most carelessly written, and 1s full ot discrepancies which should never have been allowed to remain in the work. Included in the story is an account of the Indian outbreak, which is very graphic in descripaon, On tue whole, excepting the fault to which we have alluded, “Stretton” 18 a novel of more than ordidary merit. It is written in the usual style of the author wad 18 neatly printed and illustrated. ws THE SACRISTAN’S HOUSEHOLD. A story of Lippe-Det- mold. By the author of “‘Mabel’s Progress,”’ &c. With illustrations by C. J. Bush. New York: Har- per & Brothers. 1869. We have here a story that will interest the reader, and—nothing more. The plot ts an old and worn out one. Some writers seem utterly incapable of invent- ing anything new, and thus we are deluged with characters found in humble life who eventually turn out heirs to large estates. This time, though, it is an heiress, who, after serving as a domestic, is finally discovered to be the daughter of a nobleman who ran off with and married a peasant girl. She loves the nephew of che Sacristan and alter sundry troubles and tribuiations marries him and everything ends happily—as, of course, everything does in novels: like this. However, the book is well written and will re- pay perusal. THE HABERMEISTER. A tale of the Bavarian moun- tains. Translated from the German of Herman Schmid. New York: Leypoidt & Holt. 1869, This is a pleasant story of Bavarian iife, the scene being laid at the time when the secret soctety, known as the Haberer’s, existed in Bavaria. The plot turns upon the secret of a young girl named Franz, wii bears all the odium of having given birth to an legitimate child, for which she is condemned by the Habermeister, whose siater ts really the guilty person, and whom she is shielding from exposure. When the fact of this 1s known the Habermeister. who loves Franzi, seeks her out, tiey marry, he re- signs his ofice as chief of tue Haberers, and the se- cret society virtually ceases to exist. The story 18 told with charming simplicity and is very entertain- Notices of the July Magazines. The Atiantic Monthly is, on the whole, tne best number that has been published for several months. “Biren Browsings,” “Thomas Crawford; a Eulogy,” “Three Years as a Negro Minstrel,” “Marrying @ Pickpocket,” “The Greek Goddesses,” and “Our In- ebriates, Harbored and Heiped” are the most ncte- worthy of the contents. “The Drammer Ghost” is quite ordinary, “French and Englisn Art Writers’? is @ poor paper. The subject Geserves better freat- meni than it receives here. A new serial story en- tilled ‘Gabrielle de Bergerac,”’ 1s commenced in this number. Of course we cannet judge as yet what its merits are. Most of the papers are pleasant to reaa and in tuts respect are @ Vast improvement upon the order of literature hitherto supplied by the Atlantic Monthy, Even “The Greek ddesses,”” which is the most learned of the coutributions, w very enter- taining, Whatever we might think of the writer's re- ligious ideas, The Catholic World is not so pas a number as many of its predecessors, though it contains several interesting papers. “Columbus at Saiamanca,’? “The Physical 3 of Life,’ “Beethoven—His Boy- hood," and “Religion Embiemed in Flowers,” are all entertainiog articies. ‘Two Months in Spain During the Late Kevolution” and “Catholicity and Pantheism” are continued. The book reviews are very well written. Onward unproves in quality and promises well. The frst article, “it’s Sheridan—Hooray |" gives @ very graphic account of the arrival of Genera! Sheri- dan ta time to save his retreating army in the valicy of Virgnia it is atrife too fHorid, but is, on the ung reading. Some less entusiastic titie e been better. “The Original £! Dorado,’? “Tul 7 My Irish Shooting Lodge’? and “A Calisthenic Schogl” comprise the other con- tributions most worthy of mention, MISCELLAN®OUE. ‘We have recetved the June numbers of the Ameri- can Exchange and Review, Food Words aul Suntay Maja of these publications will be found of interest. v2 Words is admirably illustrated, and ts full of choice reading. THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS, President Bosworth has returned from a recent leaye of absence, and yesterday the entire menibers of the Hoard were actively engaged in their respece tive rooms. Manierre and Brennan had about halt of the harbor police before them, and held a lengthy investigation as to the alleged maiadmunistration ot the affairs of the old Metropviitan Police steamboat by tts commander, Captam Hartt. All the charges were not investigated, but merely those reiatiug to the quantity aad quality of food which the land- lord of this hotel ailoat furnished his men. They claim that Hartt cnarged them exorbitant pric starved them on foul-smelling potatoes, tad meat, &e. The witnesses generally swore that the food was very poor and served up Very sparingly. Ser- geant Doyle testified that the men got beefsteak im the morning, something Hartt called lamb, but move like @ sheep of the male order, aud sea pie, made of otatoes, with a little meat shook at tt, on Wednes- ay; codfish on Friday, and on Saturday ham. The @inner is simply potatoes, meat and water. The price charged for this (are by the captain is from $18 to $20 per month, while other parties lad offered to contract to furnish the messes at a iess figure. ‘Tne farther hearing of evidence was adjourned untu next Saturday, As soon as the affairs of this police boarding house ere tully sifted the Commis- stoners will Copy Leet oes 4 investigation of the Metropolitan Fire Marsoal’s Office, wiuc! says, requires fumigation, AIR LINE RAILROAD BETWEEN NEW YORK AND 6OSTOR. [From the Boston Post, sune 1 ‘The new air line ratiroad to New York ts reportea to be prowresaing rapidly. A large force of lat are now at work Upou the live, and the road wiil doubtless be completed inside of two years. The only entirely new portion of the air iine to be con- structed is the stretch between New Haven and Willimantic—forty-eight miles. The new potion is to be buils by @ new road lddietown tte, and New Haven Raijroad, and at the other with th Boston, Hartford and Erie, ‘That pection ot The roud between New Haven and Middletown, twenty-two miles, i$ ail under contract. The f * oa ‘sco sis panes Leone, Ni po ‘atin i forward 3a} by tn haciord aid Ere Haliroad Company, and putnam the line 1s complete and in Ponuing order to Boston. The finances of this Connecticut company are in @ x a, jon, New Haven loaned the credit of the ity (o the amount Of $500,000; Middletown has subscribed $40,005 Middlefield, $27,600; Portland, $108,000; Chatham, $37,000; Marlboro’, Hebron, $25,000; total, ' $1,050,500, ° Other stock subscriptions to the amount of $500,000 make @ sum total of $1,550,500, and the company Is, by the terms of the charter, authorized to tssue first mortgage bonds to @N amount equal to one-half the cash expended ta | the constrvetion of the road. The stock ts | heid at doubie its par vaiue,