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a BROOKLYN CITY. THE COURTS. SUPREME COUIT—GIRCUITI. Action for Rent. Before Judge Tappen. Mary C. Neill vs, Edward Weir.—In November, 1867, plaintuf rented a house in Bond street, corner of Degraw, to the defendant for $23 per month, to be paid monthly in @dvance. Defendant occupied the house for nine months, during which time he re but $30, This action Was brought to recover ¢ balance due. The defence set up Was that there ‘Was ap agreement entered into on the 16th of Decew- ber, 1567, between him and the plaintiff by the terms of which he was to lurnish the son-in-law of plaintul with groceries and apply the amount due as pay- ment for the rent, This agreement was dened on the part of the plaintif® Verdict for piaintii for ful amount claimed. Michael J. Duun for plaintim; Bernard Hughes for defendant. CITY couaT. Action for Ejectment. Before Judge Thompson. Bernard Sheridan vs, Joseph Law and Benjamin Andrews, personally and as administrator.—Plain- tif claims to be a lessee, by virtue of a tax sale, for aterm of five hundred years, of certain real estate m Steuben street, Brooklyn. The property in ques- Lon is now in possession of the defendants, who have heki it since the year 1s64, and collected the Yents as alleged to the value of $50. This action was brought to recover possession of the property aud the $500 alleged to have been paid defendants as rental, The detence set up Was, lrst, a general denial, and further that the sale of the lease lor the noa-payment of the taxes wus iliegal because of the want of jurisdiction on the part of the body imposing the tax. It was also claimed that if the jurisdiction were granted that the taxes for the non-payment of which the lease Was suld were void by reason of the failure of the authorities entrusted with the collection vo comply with the law after the taxes were levicd. Veruict for plaintif!, giving Lim possession of the property @nd $40u damages. Paine and New for plaintiff; John Andrews for delendants, More ot the Watch Case Robbery. Joseph Fays et al. vs. Gustave F. Kindt e& al.—ia April last the defendant was committed by Justice Cornwell to a t the action of the Grand Jury ona charge of stealing $17,000 worth of watch cases,fa part of which Were aft 1 ia defendant's e and another part in the possession of his wife, she Was trying to seil at the United States Mint. ‘ihe proceeds of over portions were invested in real estate near East New Yo was to re cover Judgnicnt apon which this real estate conid be Bezel thar us acon Was brought. pares ior the dcfeace, aud au inquest was taken, Judguient for g4.,0vy Was given for the plant COURT CALENDAR 8. 104 Crry Covrt.- 109, 110, 114, 120, loz 105, 107, 108, 128, 130, 131, EROOKRLYN INTELLIGENCE. RSON-MURCURY LIBEL Sutt.—E. L, San- plamtift in an action for libel against the of the Sunday Mercury, claims that the nt of $5,000 damages recovered by him was “reve on appeal to the General Term of the Second district, but Was afirmed, with costs, on the 6th day of June inst. ScAFFOLD AccIDENT.—The ropes supporting the seafold a side of a house in Nostrand avenue, near DeKalb, gave way yesterday afternoon and precipitated Thomas Jones and William Reno, two painters Who were at work thereon, to the side- THE SAND: derson, ¢ walk. ‘Tuey were seriously injured, aud were con- veyed to their homes in the Viciaily by two oaicers of tue Forty-ninth precinct, Diep aT THE City Hosprtat.—The Coroner for the Western District held an inquest yesterday over the body of Samuel Tobin, the boy who had his arm torn [rom its socket by being canght in the taachh Ty at a moulding till, foot of Degraw street, ust week. The boy imgered in great pain at the City Hospital tll Wednesday evening, when he aihed Kis last. The verdict of the jury was acci- ata from juries, NioUs ASSAULT.—John Maloney, a hatter by on, Was committed by Justice Welch yes- terday to await the result of injuries inflicted on the person of John Puibock. The accused was ar- reste! on the complaint of Mrs. Saral Pulbock, wife Of the injured man. The parties worked together In hat lactory on Santord street, and on the 7th inst. quarrelied, when the prisoner, it is alleged, beat his antagonist in such a severe manner that he has becn contived to his house ever since the occur- rence, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.—At the regular weekly Meeting of the Kings County Board of Supervisors, held yesterday afternoon, a communication was presented from the Superintendents of the Poor touching the condition of the Povter’s Field near NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET, SUBURBAN INTELLIGENCE. NEW JERSEY. Jersey City. A New Covrr Hovst.—A resolution has been adopted by the Council that certain sites be in- spected, on one of which a new court house may Be crected, as the present one is too small for the increasing wants of the county. ATROCIOUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Yesterday af- ternoon 4 man named Joh Donahoe and his wife, Ellen, were brought to the police station, and charged with having made a ferocious onset on Elizabeth Magurk, and tnjuring her in a@ serious manner, The captured Jonn became uproarious in the station house, and had to be bound with chains to keep him quiet, They were held to awa‘t trial. ‘TAX APPROPRIATIONS,—The following is a state- ment of the appropriations for the coming fiscal year, as revised by the City Council:—Salaries of city oMcers, $15,000; relief of the poor, $600; city debt, $9,000; Fourth of July, $500; deficiency, $8,000; gaz and lamps, $15,000; public printing, $2,500; pub- lhe grounds and buildings, $1,200; removal of gar- bage, $400; war tax, one-half per cent. The salaries of city oMcers are:—Street Commissioner, $3,000; Collector of Revenue, $1,800; City Clerk, $1,% City Marshal, $900; Corporation Attorney, $1,500; Senool Superintendent, $300; Overseer of the Poor, $600; Recorder, $1,200; Police Surgeon, $300. Hudson City. CoRRECTION.—The death of Mrs. Caroline Obst, re- Ported yesterday as a case of “murder or suicide,” was brought about, it appears, by an attempt made by the lady herself (aged about seventy-two years) to let blood from her arm, with the view of reieving a dimeuliy of respiration, She was in very feeble health, Hoboken. A DESPERATE VIRAGO Disposrn or.—Yesterday a Woman about forty years of ag., mamed Mary Gelt- ner, was brought before Recorder Pope ‘or having been found drunk in the street and utte:.ng fearful imprecations against those who refused to show their Kindness in the shape of a trifling donation to the Almshouse, and setting forth the absolute ne- cessity for securing at once some other plot of ground. The uuisance engencered this season from the burying ground in question is such as to endanger the lives of the inmates of buildings. The bodies of the nd of unciaimed persons are placed ina cuvation or pit, aud when, as frequently Tiends come to clalin the remains it is im- © wlmost to get them out; which latter 88 18 performed by disturbing ihe ower bodies, ich causes a most noisome and deadly odor to atiospuere for a long distance there- Considerable discussion was had by the upon th: bject—to which attention was Hed in the colu 3 of the HERALD some weeks 1 it was laid on the table tilifmext meeting. The couiract recently enterea into by the county, through Mr. McNeeley, keeper of the Penitentiary, for the convicts’ labor, aud Messrs. Bigeiow and Horn, was submitted. It agrees that 100 maie con- Victs and 60 femaies of the pentientiary are to ve em- ployed, and to each of the maies whose terms of im- prisonment are less than three montis, 26 cents per are to be pald; for those coufined Jess than nine months, 40 cents, and for those confined over nine months and under five years, 51 cents. For females imprisoned jess t t months, 30 cents each per for those imprisoned over three cents, and for those imprisoned to: year, 36 ceuts. Each pris- ouer will be allowed thirtydays to learn the duties. The machinery, which will cost $20,000, will be fur- nis by tue The paper was placed on equisition for $106,602 06, with was applied for by the new Board of Paid owmuissioners for the maincenance of the The Board passed a resoiution proveding for dition of another story to the male prison of unty Jail, Raymond street. Contracts were d jor building a new Alms house, in the sam sme buudred and twenty-five dollars Was appropriated for the decoration of the County Const House on the Fourth of July. THE WAL BOUT IMPROVEMENT. The Wallabout improvement 1s progressing more rapidly, perhaps, than many Of iue citizens imagine, In a short tine three commodious basins will take the piace of the low mud hole formerly known as the Wallavout Bay. The work of dredging the basins was begun in August, 1867, at the mouth of the ‘Wallabout Canal, opposite the Navy Yard cob dock. In December, i867, piles were driven in for the rear Coffer frame at che head of each basin, on a line with the edge of Washington avenue. In this coffer frame concrete was filled up to @ height Of six feet three inches below high water, forming @ concrete wali seventeen feet high, ten feet thick at the bottom and eight feet on the toy A heavy gran - ite wall was erected on the concrete, ten feet high, ‘with a four foot coping, bringing it to @ level with the grade line of the adjoining avenue, From the wall thos constractea O parallel pie ‘were run with granite heads, restin twenty-six feet below high water and built in water- Light caiss: The north pier stands on 140 piles, the south per on 190 piles; both are covered with Hive-inch yellow pine planking, well sheathed with plank) ‘1D Ue sides to prevent damage to the foun- @ation piles. First of ail, a section of 800 feet by 400 feet of this Balt mare and quicksand was excavated to & depth of fifteen feet at high water and ten feet at low water; then two plers, parallel with each other and 180 feet apart, were butlt in the area thus ob- tained, ove 750 by fifty feet, the other 660 by forty fevt; and then the marsh was bisected by the exten- tivn of Washington avenue from Finshing avenue, Yunoning in a straight line across the flats and striking the head of the two basing until it reached the Walla- bout creek, extension of Washington avenue across the about marsh ts an addition to that street of 1,92 etin length as as the creek, or canal as sometimes called, and of 2,412 feet, or nearly hal mile, when the extension 18 completed to Kent ave- nue and Clyimer street. The width of this fine ave- nue is eighty feet for a distance of 1,620 feet from Flushing avenue, continuing to the creek at a width varying from 100 to 116 feet. Between the curbs the distance is sixty feet, and there ts to be for the present 4 five-foot flagged sidewalk on each side. Of course as the avenue approaches the piers the width between the curbs increases. 1' whole distance from Flushing avenue to the creek has been built up from the bed of the marsh, and is now graded throughout, It will be paved with Belgian pavement, Commencing at Flushing avenue, the work of has been progressing for the past few days with such vigor that on Sat e lengta of about 600 feet had been completed. ‘The cost of these important works is as follows: For the Wallabout improvement proper, $462,000; for jand taken in the Nineteenth ward’ to exiend Wasiingion avenue on the other side of the creek to Kent avenue, $61,000; Kens avenue basin, $140,000, Mary. When brought up for trial she unfolded a ro- mantic tale of her misfortunes. She was commit- ted to the county jail for a period of two months, North Belleville. MySTERIOUS DROWNING CasE.—On Saturday after- noon last the captain of a canal boat, passing the bridge at North Belleville, was seen to fall overboard, and although every means were used to recover the body it was not found until Tuesday, when it was discovered not far trom the bridge by Mrs. McDon- aid, A considerable sum ot money was found in the man’s pockets, The remains were taken in charge by Coroner Vreeland, of Bergen county. No information has yet been obtained by which lus identity coula be estabished. A man who appeared to be a deck hand on the boat disappeared at the time of the occur- rence and has not been sinceseen. Newark. THE SuNDAY HoRSE CAR ORDINANCE was not signed by the Mayor, and became a law by lapse of time yesterday. It will have to be published twenty days, however, ere it takes eifect, PARDON OF YounG Laroy.—Thomas Lafon, Jr., who was sent to State Prison for a year last Febru- ary, lor the manslaughter of Joseph Hebring, has been pardéned, and is now at home in this city, Tae SUNDAY Riot.—Terence Brady, Louts Quillon and Thomas Quillon, three of the alleged young rioters, whose action on Sunday afternoon in tne Tenth and Twelfth wards has aiready been published in the HERALD, were arrested early yesterday morn- ing. Brady and Louis Quilon were subsequently bailed, MysTeRIoUsS HomictpE.—The authorities of this city have been busily engaged ferreting out the par- ticulars of a case of manslaughter, which at present 1s shrouded in myst From all that could be ascertained about the affair it appears that a man named Hugh Kelley, a resident of 112th street, near Second avenue, New York, was attacked by three men in the Vicinity of his home on the night of the 2d of May and fatally injured. He was removed home, but for some reason not yet explained was subsequently removed to fue outskirts of this city and placed in charge of his sis- ter, @ Mra. Keegan, who resides on the Neck. Two days ago ne died and was about being interred without the authorities having been notitied ofasingle fact regarding the a‘fair, wien the de- ceased’s medical attendant in New York dropped out here to see how ms patient was geiting aiong and discovered that he had died. He tuen lost no Lime in placing the matter in the hands of Mr. C. Titsworth, the Essex county Prosecutor of Pleas, who in ro waited on the New York Dis:rict Attorney. T latter, however, evinced s'ight concern in te matter, and it appears that if justice is meted out it wil Have done in New Jersey. As the man died her guilty parties are amenabie to the laws o1 this Siate, equally so with thoge of New York. In this respect the case resembies tle Bachmeyer trag which took place in Hudson county, but was tried in Essex where the victim died. An ina t was cominenced yesterday, but the authorities have requested that no further particulars be pub- lisbed or the present. After examining several wit- nesses the case Was adjourne: till next Monday. ‘Trent A CHILD KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.—On Wednes- day afternoon a young girl, about ten years old, named Rose People, was run over and instantly killed on the Phiiadelphin and Trenton Ratiroad, at Bristol, Pa., by an extra train. The wniortumace child ran directly 1m front of ule locomotive. ExPLosion.—Yesterday, while some men were engaged at Carr’s iron work in breaking up an old cannon by means of a buge drop, weighing 1,200 pounds, a shell, which remained unperceived in the gun, exploded with a terrific crash, smashing tue Windows into fragments and tearing through a wail. There were but few men avout at the time, all of Whom almost miraculously escaped uninjured. COLLISION ON THE RAILROAD,—Yesterday aftor- noon, about two o'clock, the locomotives of a gravel train and @ freight train collided near the Prank- ford (Pa.) junction on the Philadelphia and Trenton Ratliroad. The freight train was engaged in backing up when the collision occurred. The locomotive of We constraction train and @ great many wagons were comp etely demolished. The eugincer and fireman escaped by jumping of. The Washingion throneh train and a couple of way trains were several hours behind time iasteveniag. No person is Said to have been tnjured. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, A Lapies’ Pain.—The ladies of the Preshytertan on at Dobbs’ Ferry held a fair last week and realized over $1,200, No lotteries or rafties were ted. This sum, with the proceeds of other gives them a fund of nearly $2,000 to furnian their beautiful stone church, now being completed. EDUCATIONAL.—The Board of Education of the town of Morrisania, in their annua report, just made, sets forth, among other statistical informa- tion, the total number of pnptis in the five public schools for the past year has been 2,609, bemg an increase of 217 over the preceding year. It also states that the estimated expense of the scliools dur- ing ihe year was § NEW POLICE ORGANIZATION.—It is stated on rei- able authority that at the request of several promi- nent citizens of Yonkers the Metropolitan Police Commissioners have converted the Thirty-second sub-precinct, at the abovenamed place, in rate department, to be known hencetoy Thirty-fifth precinct. Th's ts to be in charge of a caotain, two sergeants and twenty men, Those who were instrumental! In moving the Commissioners to this step have, it is understoo?, guaranteed the re quisite funds to sustaw the incressed police force Until the necessary legal measures are adopted for that purpose. CononeR’s INQUEST.—An inquest was held yester- day by Coroner Bathgate on the body of a chid three years old, named Hilda Viste, who was found dead in the temporary abode of her parents, on Mott avenue, during the previous morning. It appears that a number of Swedish immigrants, including the child's father and mother, having lately janded in York, finding themselves without means, 4 to take shelter in an empty house se, where they remain in a destitute con- pn Loomis ne this overcrowded tiovel where allege they tound, upon awaking, their child dead. A medical examination was held on the body and the physician testified that ‘onte diar- Thora was the cause of death, in which opinion the jury concurred. 35,840, WESTCHESTER COUNTY CORE OF OVER AND TERMINER. The Sing Sing Tragedy No. 2—Trinl of the Convicts for the Marder of Craft, the Keeper, Resumed=Conviction of Burns and Lowden of Marder in the Second Des gree—They are Sentenced to Ten Years Im- prisonment=The Verplank Point Child Mur. der=Trial of Patrick White for the Murder er—He is Convicted of Ware Prats, June 17, 1869. The trial of the Sing Sing convicta, Muller, Low- den and Burns for the murder of Edward Craft, one of the officials of the prison, in March last, was com- menced last evening before this court. These were all engaged in the revolt at Sing Sing, and, in their atvempt to effect their escape, killed Craft by gag- ging and suffocating him. THE TESTIMONY. The dret witness examjved on behalf of the prose- cution was ©. (, Childs, who said—I am clerk of Sing Sing Prison; the three prisoners at the bar are convicts in the prison; George Lowden entered on the 9th of April, 1866, for the term of four years and nine months; John Burns on the 7th of August, 1867, for four years and nine months, and Henry Muller on the 10th of January, 1867, for three years. Thomas Forrest examined by the District Attor- ney—I am a keeper in Sing Sing Prison; I am night Keeper, and was on duty the night of this occur- rence, the 18th of March; at three o'clock in the morning I unlocked these men and O'Neill and let them out; the cells they were In are in No.1 gallery, lower floor; I took them along the hail and fetched them into the chapel, over@ bridge leading from the main building; as they passed through they all went through the door ahead of me, and thirty feet trom the head of the stairs I passea them, near a corpse that was lying in the chapel; as I got to the head of the stairs O'Neill put what they call a “mug” on me; he put his arms round my neck and pulled me over on his hip; he garrotea me, and 1 knew nothing more for some time until I came to; when I came to they tied my hands and feet, and Burns inserted the gag m my mouth (gag produced and _ identified); Lowden stood at my feet; I did not see him do any- thing; Muller stood at the head of the stairs; I only unlocked four men; the other man, Mulvey, was down in the kitchen running the engine with Craft; Lowden and O'Neill then carried me haif way down stairs and set me on‘the step; Burns and Muller passed through into the messroom .and the others followed and passed through the door; the next thing Lowden came back and asked me if I was cola; he then took me up and carried me into the boiler room, where he set me down, and aiter standing and looking at me a couple of minutes he ascended the ladder, which led out into the gallery; that was the last 1 saw of any of them: ‘vnen they were tnsert- ing the gag B said, “Open your mouth, Tommy, or Ti cut you: ule Iwas sitting gagged I heard the shovelling of coai in the messroom; O'Neill then returned to tie foot of the stairs and said, “We have got him;” O'Neill then went tmto the mess room; this was about quater past three; I then ‘heard a noise as though they were working up through the roof; made an al- tempt to get loose as 300n as I thought I was safe: I moved my feet and burst them apart; I looked around to see if Craft was under the box; | made the alarm the best I could by be ae win- dow with my hands; Mr. Hitchcock came and took the gag out of my mouth and untied my hands; [ then rang the alarm bell; I went to the messroom and found Craft lying on his face; his hands and feet were tied; when we turned him over ne had a gag in his mouth, aad he was dead; from the time they left me gagged and tied until I found Craft two hours and a half had elapsed; Craft's post all night was to keep the fires going and ran the ergine. Cross-examined by Mr. Townsend—I had my dia- mond pin on and my gold watch and chain and money In my pocket, and they did not touch then; T have been tn the army; I believe I told the prison- ers some Ume that while I was in the army I was paralyzed by a shell; | was always on good terms wiih these men; when I found Craft his pants were down around his feet; I saw the gag cut out of Mr. Craft's mouth; 1 should judge he had no teeth; I heard that when his mouth was examined tobacco was found in it; I did not observe any scratches on him; his mouth was bleeding a little; the blood ran over the top of the gag: life was enurely extinct when I first found bim; never heard him complain of any Sickness; the Knives and cleavers, axes and chop- pers Were iyimg around promiscously in the mess room; J did not have a pistol about me that night. Dr. Isaac G. Collins, prison physician of Sing Sing, was the first witness calied this morning and testified—I saw the body of Craft lying im the hospi- tal and examined it; the cause of his death was suf- focation, in my judgment, by agag veing placed in his mouth, aud bis tongue being doubled up and he having no teeth there was less chance for ai of opinion that he did not die mstantly, marks on his f..ce showing that he had rolled around in endeavoring to free himself, The District Attorney here closed his case, Mr. Bates, on benalf of the prisoner Muller, ad- dressed the jury and tuen called as a witness Henry Mal’ one of tae prisoners, who testified as follows:— a convict tn the Sing Sing prisou; I did not have any partin the gagsing; 1 dia not know of it until they first got hold ot Mr. Forrest; I sepa- from them and went in the back Kitchen; they at to the back Kitclien and T went to the front en, where Mulvey was, and remained with him; not see Craft that morning; the next I saw was o'Nelll; he went over to tne meat bench and gota knife; be pointed the Knife at me and said, “By G—d, you have cot to zo: if we let you here it will hinder us from gettiug away; I and Mulvey went out with them teu, Cross-exammed—urns had gone up stairs when O'Neil told me I must go; Linden had aiso gone John Mnivey went wita me and Hank O'Neill came next: the way they got out they had a hole made; [ think it was Dick Burns made the hole in the slate roof; neither I, Lowden nor Mnlvey heiped hun any; we had no lig it was very 4: dow ground by a rope; did not ied to go away until they seized Forrest; Hank «Neill told me to stand guard over Forrest ¥ they went down and gagged Craft; 1 told hk would not have anything to do with it at all: f did not do anything to Mr. Forrest; I did not see “Mr. Craft at ail. fo Mr. Townsend—The time 6 1 caine tn the room and took up the knife Lowdea was notin the room, George Lowden examined by Mr. Townsend—i did not see nuler take aay active partin te gag. st or Mr. Craft; the first I saw of : chapel: T think it d I were on very a y Attorney —I saw and O te an? gag Craft that morning; 1 held his hands; could not say who tied his hands; I was tue last mau that ieft the building; I re- tarned to where Craft was in ar five or six minutes; he was struggling a@ appeared to tryme to wet his hands under and I took and sat him up, and he thanked me; 1 was not expressed in auy words that you yuish: the Orst I saw of the gags was the chapel: he took them oat of is < it was O'Netl made them; when I Ader first Teould see nothing, it was party were makiug a hole all got down by (he rope and uvey and Twere caughe next day; the others left me at Sparta; [ was nnwell with the rheumatism, and coild pot get along as fast as the oluers, Redirect —I had no intent to take Ife on the occasion nor did I hear any of the otners express ie intentrot t t —1 do not feel jasiidod in saying that it 13 acase that the jury should not pass on. The testinony for the defénee here closed, Mr. Townend and Mr, Bates thea summed up on behalf of the prisoners, The Instrict Attorncy having sammed up on the part of the people, Judge Barnard then charged the jury, Who retired avd she returned mto court with @ verdict Of munder in the secom! degree against Burns and Low and acquitted Maller, In the ease of Mul e indge oriered a nolle prosequs vw ve entered, and directed both him wad Muller to be returned ww the prison, to serve out their term Burns and Lowden were then directed to stand up, and Were each sentenced to ten years’ imprison- ment after the expiration of their present t- ris. THE VERPLANK’S POINT ( Patrick White, @ m r by Occupation, Was next | 1 with the murder of his litt about seven years, at Verp!auk of the 29th of Maren iast, by f Lot a plece o ould, lock the District Attoraey opened the Mxe Lo the jury Wiilam Orne, arned by the District Attorney, d—I reside at Verplank’s Point; know the prisoner and his family; knew Mary Jane Duganne, the uri that was killed; on Laster sunday etween eight and nine o* kK, i waa at White's kitchen door when tus (hing oc at the door; "and looked 3 White was 1 of a daughter, ‘vint, on the ertoratiag her iron whieh had e night hatoong “murd in the chiid’s he in tue focking chair. Cros+examined by Mr. Larkin—The piece of iron now produced ts, 1 think, the piece | saw im we child's head: L did not see anybody ‘hrow it; | have known White five years; he 18 a peaceable man and works in the brick yard. Zeba Apt examined by the District Atrorney— Heard a muss at White's, and went there and caught him by the nm and asked him what he hit the little girl tor; “Well, it 1s done now,” says he, “and Lcan't help ity? the litte girl was. hailooing, p is killing me,’ @ young man named Juhu Murray took tie poker out of ber head; the little girl died alterwards, Croas-examined by Mr. Larkin—I saw the little girl go of errands afterwards to the store, Jon Murray examined by the District Attorney— aw a little girl coming towards me, and she lial 1, “Vr Killed—I'm kilied;? and | saw a plece of iron banging out of her righs temple, and | pulled tt ou irs, Antonia Kiugg waa next examined by the strict Attorney und testified to the condition im she found the child; she had ti or four fite that night after she was struck by her stepfather; five or 8iX weeks afterwards she diced, Dr. Curtis Chapman was next exainined and tes- tifled that he assie ed in making 4 post-mortem ex- amination on Mary Jane Duganne on tie Joth of May; @ portion Of the inner table of the frontal bone Was driven about an inch into tue substance of the brain; 1 believe death oc red from the in- jury she received, r. Larkin then examined Dr. J. L. Tilden for the defence—He testified that death woud not neces- sarily resait from such a wound, Patrick White examined on his own behalf—{ was out fishing and came home in the evening and I was raking the fire with the iron and some of the chil- dren were making noe, and T just raised up my hand suddenly and the iron few out of my fingers and struck the litte ove in the head as she was runing aroand the floors the child lad the measies when this appened, Ellen Wit, an intelligent girl and stepdaughter testified that he had always been ‘and the deceased child, and .o the family Francis Timmony, for whom White worked, gave evidence as to his good character, with the excep- tion that he sometimes took too much drink. At the close of the case the jury retired and ren- dered a verdict of manslaughter in the fourth de- gree, with @ recommendation to mercy. of the kind to A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES. Running a Muck in an Indiana Village=Two Wo: Murdered. (Fort Wayne, Ind. (June 13), correspondence Cincin- nati Enquirer.) The little village of Covington, Troy coninty, Ind., and its vicinity, were thrown into the most intease excitement last evening by the enaction of one of the most horrible ever known in the annals of Northern Indiana. The particulars, as far a8 can ned, are a3 follows:—About sunset last even- ing Frederick Remster, formerly in the employ of Mr. Dodd, auctioneer, shot and instantly Killed Mrs. Jones, a respectable widow lady about seventy-five years ot See ‘She was the mother of John R. Jones, who edited The Friend years Remster killed her with @ revolver, the ball pi in her neck, below the ear; she lived but a few minutes. The next vic- tum of the assassin was a beautiful and highly re- spected young lady, about seventeen years of age, the daughter of Mr. Beckelhelm. Miss Beckelheim heard tue disturbance across the street and step) out, when Remster fired the shot, faking effect above the ear. She is unconscious to-day, the brain oozing from the wound, and her physicians say sie must soon die. The murderer lived in a part of the house of Mrs, Jones, with his young wife, to whom he had been married only three weeks, When Rem- ster shot Miss Beckelheim he cried for John Dodd, and rushed away. As he came near James Mc- Mahan’s residence he tried to kill a man staud- ipg near, but the cap snapped. McMahban’s litle boy, with great self-possession, told tie murderer that Dodd had just passed and started Remaster after him, Remster went off hurriedly and soon meeting Joho Fausier rushed to him, dashed the revolver right in his mouth and puileti the trig mer, but the cap fortunately exploded witnout dis- charging the load. Mr. Fausler, being @ strong man, laid hands on Kemster, crushed him to the earth and hanuled him roughly till assistance came, when he was immediately lodged in jail. It is said that Rem- ster had been gambling desperately and drinking considerably, No other cause for these horrible deeds can now be made known, though the promise of an early explanation of this wholesale slaughter 1s made. Lynch law 1s strongly talked of, and 1¢ will require most careful watching of the authorities if 1 is not put into execution. A Whole Family Murdered. A few days since a party, a mile above Prairie du Chien, Wis., drew ashore with a seine a couple of trunks, some bedding and other household goods, which were recognized as the property of a Mrs. Hagerty, and since that time her body and those of two of her children have been found in the river be- low that place. The discovery of the goods and the bodies has removed the ‘mystery in which her disappearayce was shrouded, and it has ‘een discovered that the family were removed from Prairie du Cuien @ few months since by one Thompson, who iived a shore distance back from McGregor, aud friends of the family had never heard of her until the discoveries of the past few days were made. Tne McGregor Times of the 9th instant gives the following further particulars:— ‘The mother was enceinie and near the time of de- livery. A trunk containing the provided appavel for an expected infant, an) a half letter, supposed to have been written by her, informed some one that she was in that condition. Mr. Thompson is the owner of a large farm in this county, and the father of eight children, the eldest one a girl of four- teen. Mrs. Hagerty, after divorcing her husband, lived at his house and on his {arm as “tenant at will” for several years. Their iilicit intimacy was public talk for along time. Ihe divorce was said to have been brought by Thompson during Hegerty’s ab- sence in the army orin Colorado. Thompson was arresved and taken to McGregor on Sunday morning, lodged in the City Hotel, and guarded day and night tu! fuesday morning, When Sheruff Davis took him on board the Canada for Dubuque, to return on Friday for examination. Mayor Kennedy went to Prairie du Chien on Tuesday and brought over two trunks and some clothiug which had been picked up by French famties near the place of drowning. Terrible Affair in Idaho, The most horrible tragedy of the day has been far- nished by Bots City, Idaho. A house sel it at tempted to outrage his employer's wife in the absence of every one eise from ihe house, and became so ex- asperated by her resistance that he beat her nearly to death, Her assallant ieaving the room for a mo- meat to procure a weapon, she managed to reach her husband’s gun and cock it. The man soon ap- peared at the window, but the gun would not go off, and in the meantime he fired three shots at her, one of which produced a fatal wound. Then he retired, set fire to the house and kilied himself with the remaining two shots in his pistol. The poor Woman whom ht had murdered had just the strength left to crawl out of the door and preserve her body ou the greensward for the recognition of her husvand iustead of compelling a search for per charred remaina among the rains of his house. The murderer Bimseif fell inside the dwetling ana was consumed, so far a3 his mortal part is concerned, by tire. § Murder at a Soldiers’ Home in Ohio. {From the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 15.) Last Saturday morning two colored veteyans, regpectively named Joseph Evans and Boyd Wil- liams, were engaged in cleaning their quarters in the barracks at the Soldiers’ Home near Duyton, Obio, Etans suddenly approached Williams. and struck him three biows on the head with @ large hatchet, severing the skull at each blow and burying the blade tn the brains of the victim, who expired almost instantly, A quarrel had occurred between the two some months ago, but It had been apparently settied, so that the attack of Evens was entirely unprovoked and unexpected. Evans has been regarded as of unsound mind for some time past, but was supposed to be harmless. When asked why he commitied the murder, Evans repiied:—“I can’t tell what make me done tt. "spect 1 cida’t Know what [’s ’bout dis morning’; ‘spect I’se a Litue wrong in de head, mebby.”” Shooting Affray in Indiana~@ne Man Killed and Auother Wounded. A shooting aifray occurred at Monticello, White county, Indiana, on the evening of the Lith, which resuited m the death of Thomas Burkhalter, by Jacob Cusad. The afiray originated in a lawsuit, im which Casad accused Burkhalter of having maltreated him, and had forb ddep him ever again to enter his store. On the evening in question Burkhaiter ascended we steps of Casad’s store, used insulting language to- ward the latter, and expressed a determiaauion to enter the establishment. This led to an altercation, during whitch Burkhalter was shot and instantly, killed by Jacob Casad, and one of his companions’ was shot through the arm by Casad’s son. Casad and his turee sous Were arrested. A Missouri Desperado. A beastly and ferocious pushwhacker named Hil- debrand, who was the terror of Soucheastern Mis- sourt during the war, was tracked to Nis lair in St. Fraacis county, last Friday, and wounded in the thigh by a man named James McLean, whom he had robbed, and whose sister he had ravisned. McLean feeling’ himself unable to capture him, called the sheriff of St. Francts county, and @ posse of sixteen anen to his assistance, who surrounded Hildebrand’s house, but who managed to escape, notwithstanding, aller shooting McLean dead, and severely wounding the sheriff 10 the thigh. NEW RAILROAD BETWEEN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, The Raritan and Delaware Bay Road. {From the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser, June 16.) ‘The Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad, which runs from Port Monmoath, through the seaboard counties in thie State—being originally intended to form an air line between New York and Charles- ton—lias fiually been sold to anew company, who propose to reopen the line to Philadelphta, and ioprove the facilities for accommodating their rapidiy growing way business, has never yet been a successful road. It was never completed for the pi es for originally contemplated, ont, passing rough @ comparatively unsettied country, it terminated at the Lrst pomPthat enadied the company, in connec- tion with a road from Philadelphia, to open a route from that ciiy"to New York. As the Camden and Amboy held the exclusive rials (o that busioess vnder their contract with the Stace, the Rafitan and Delaware Bay Company was adjudged to be tafringing on that right; they were enjoined from further through transportation and coimraanded to account for the business they had al- ready done. The road passed out of the original hands, and has been run by Mr. Sneden, as lessee, merely for May business, of which Long Branch fur- nished a large proportion, Now, since the exciusive privileges of the Camden and Amboy Company have a this company 1s at itverty to reo) their jine Philadeipoia with- out jegal embarrassment, But, more important than this, the Whoie district through which it passes is also becorning more populous and valuable for Jarming purposes, and demands increased railway factiides, which the company who have just pur- chased the road proj to supply. It is aiso uandorstood that they favor construc. tion of the proposed New York and Long Branch road, which would leave their track near its northern terminus, passing thro’ New Monmonth, Keyport and South Amboy, and @ continuous land route in place of the present steamboat route across Raritan and New York bays. ‘The price Agreed upon is not stated, but the first instalment of $200,000 has recently been , and & compromise affected as to the outstanding vonds, and new stock is to be issued, ‘hey propose, by fur- nishing better facilities, to open up al attrac: tive and hitherto wean neglected region of country to settiers, es) lly the beantifnl high- Jands Of the Navesink, with the Whole margin of the Raritan bay and Atlantic ocean to the pleasure-seek- ing residents of New Yor! DRaTH OF Mrs, SprnneR.—The wife of General F. F, Spinner, of the United States, Treasury Wepart- ment, died ia Monawk on Monday last. she came to her former home on a visit recently, and was siricken with apoplexy. Her faneral will take place this af- b gd irom her late reaxence,—Uliva Observer, THE TURF IN ENGLAND. Falling Of of the English Aristecracy from the Sports of the Turf. Lonpon, June 2, 1869, That thorough sportsman and fine gentleman, Lord Westmoreland, did not appear at Tattersall’s on either Monday or Tuesday, and it is now known that ne is completely “stumped up.” The wonder 18 that he has held on solong, for he nad no money worth speaking of when he commenced his turf career, and he has had no opportunity of amassing any since, He has always maintained a large and expensive stud; he has raced perpetually; he was never done plunging, and, though he frequently won, his losses must have been enormous. A friend of mine well acquainted with his affairs told me the other day that Lord Westmoreland required to make £30,000 a year on the turf to keep going at all, Very likely he did something of this sort, but he could not goon at the game forever, Epsom was the last straw that broke the camel's back, for there he lost & lot of races when his horses were backed for thousands. He was a very fine judge of horsefesh, and his experience in racing was great. The aris- tocrats are dropping off indeed from the turf, and if this state of things continues much longer we ‘shall have none left at all. It said that arrangements will be made to satisfy his racing creditors, who do not seem anxious about their money. The bookmakers ought not to be hard on him, for he has been @ rare customer for them, and it will be remembered that he got Lord Hastings to enter into an engagement to pay their demands when there was some prospect of their claims peing scouted. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE’S ACCOUNT AT TATTER- SALL’S. Many were surprised to find that, after all, the Duke of Newcastle’s racing debts were paid, and wondered where the money came from, seeing that it was generally belteved that the “finance agent,” Padwick, had “dried up,” The truth is that bis Grace’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Hope, has once con- sented to clear him from nis liabilities, but only on condition that he gives up racing entirely and goes abroad. It is few nen indeed, if popular feeling be correct, who have so much reason for speaking well of their mothers-in-law; for she must have paid his creditors since his marriage hundreds of thousands of pounds. Scandal, of course, bas a reason ready to account for this last mark of her affection when it was supposed the former follies of the prodigal had vtterly dis- gusted her. Her daughter, the Duchess, has, it ts well known, @ great taste for music, and it is hinted @ still greater for musicians, or at least one, Mr. ‘Lorn Hohler, the eminent tenor, who has, it is reported, been on terms of intimacy with her, which has made Mrs. Hope regard the Duke as an ill used man. Hence the fact that she has forgiven him ouce more, and the further fact that the hearts of bookmakers were gladdened by the appearance of bis account at Tattersall’s, THE VAMPIRES ARE DOWN UPON THE DUKE. I told you the other day of an application in judge’s chambers to determine which of the two blooa- sucking money lenders, Padwick or Beyfus, shoald have the first drain of the unfortunate Duke. The more notorious, Padwick, had a judgment for £95,000, or $380,000, while the less known Beyfus has two for together £25,500, or $102,000. Padwick, scenting afar off his Grace’s ruin, obtained a trans- ference of the stud to himself, and issued executions in every county tn which the Duke has any property, with a special reservation of the horses ailezed to have become his. Thereupon Beyfus seized the reserved horses in satisfaction of one of his judgments, and contenaed that the transfer alleged to be by sale was only a pretext to deieat him. The judge, to settie the polnt of law betweeu the harpies, directed that an interpleader issue shoald be fried between them, Padwick standing as alleged owner of the horses, and Beyfus as execution creditor. But now arise fresh complications, it is discovered that at the faim:ly seat of Clumber Pad- wick has seized all the persona! property of the poor Duke, and that Beytus was once more too late, as at Newmarket, with his second jndgmeat. A deus ex machina, however, on this occasion steps in, in the trustees, one of whom is Mr. Gladstone, who resist the executions of both money ienders, and claim the entire sub,ects of tae process as the property of their trust, and are supp rted by the law. And there the matter at present resis. There 1s little doubt that the rutn of many of our best sportsman is dae not 80 mach to the turt as to such dreadful hangers-on of the turf as Padwick, who has earned such a re- putation during the past two years as few wouid care to have, Horses have their victiuis; but 80, too, has aixty per cent. Racing has killed its thousands, but money lending its teos of thousands. Can you in America not suggest a meihod of choking of these Old Men of the Sea, who are destroying the best blood of our sport and of our land + ANECDOTE OF Mit. PADWICK. Padwick, who attends all the more important race meetings and is apparently in no degree abashed to flud himself among his victims, has uly grown very stout. At Epsom last week Sir i. J—— re- marked on the factto Lord R——, who was standing beside him, and wondered why it shouid be so when, in his part of spider, he must expend so much thought in catching his fies, “Why is he so faty’’ echoed Lord R—; ‘don’t you know? Because he has just swallowed another duke.” TWO YEAR OLD RACING—DECISION OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. As already announced by telegraph in the Nrw York HERALD the Jockey Club a: their m Saturday negatived, by a jority of sev aeph Hawley’s motion, the e prevent two year olds from ruuning bei of July, aud carried Colonel Foresier’s substantive resolution dating their first appearance at the Ist of May. The meeting was one of the largest held for years, and there were present the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke oi Rutland, the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of St. Albans, Prince Solbykoff, the Marquis of Ailesbury, Ear! ot Stam- Jord, Earl Wilton, Bari of Durham, Marl Fitzwilliam, Earl of Stratford, Earl of Braaford, Earl Annesley, Earl of Zetiand, Lora Calthorpe, Lord Colville, Lord George Manners, Lord H. Lennox, sir F. Johnstone, sir J. Hawley, Sir W. W. Wynn, Hou. G. W. Fitzwilliam, Baron M. Rothschild, Mr. Chap- lin, Colonel Astiey, Colonel Pearson, Mr. George Payne, Mr. Steriing Crawford, Hon. Colo Forester, Mr, Gerard start, Captain Lane Mr. Burne, Mr. Caledore Aicxander, & Sir Joseph rawiey’s resolution was seconde! by » Chaplin and eee by a letter from Lord Derby, who refrained from attending on the ground of iis long absence from the turf. Admiral Rous opposed it with oli his old fire, and he was supported by ihe Duke of Keanfort. Sir Josepli's second resolution, abolishing two year old handicaps, was lost by a greet majvrity. His turd, preveuting the Jockey iub funds from supporting two year old stakes, was witherawn, and his fourth, ordering two year old Gead-heaters to divide the stake, was lost by a majority of eucht. In aadition to Colonel Forester’s resolution, which was carried, was another, pre- venting two year olds from competing in handicaps before the 1st of September, which was lost. I have already given my opinion of the wholesome effect of Prohibiting two year old racing before the ist of May; for tuough its effect on tue thoroughbred may be slight, it is a step in the rightdirection, It proves that the club is still Interested in the real wellare of the turf, and it strikes a biow at the gambling ten- dencies of the age. LORD DERBY AND ADMIRAL ROUS ENTER THE LISTS. It 18 not my intention at present to take any part in the terrific newspaper war regarding tue present position of the turl that ia now raging, further than “to remark that it bears oat my prophecy, made long ago, that we are on the eve of some great reform: but it is rmpossibie to overiook the letters of Lord Derby and Admiral Rous, published within the past few days. The “Rupert of debate’ deplores the existing condition of the tarf, and ascribes its abuses to three causes:;—1. The premature running of two- year olds. 2 The multiplication of short races, which enables horses to be brought out ottener, and 80 affords more frequent opportunities of gambiiug. % The great preponderance of handicaps. itis remedies are the fixing of maximum and minimum weights in handicaps, the suppression of touts and the vigorous action of the Jockey Clad, He 18 a8 sailed in the Times to-day in a capital letter by Ad- miral Kous, who, | am bound to say, has, Linink, much the best of it, Its length prevents quotation; bat [T may briedy remark wat ae takes @ hopeful view of the state of the turf; that ae believes the English thoroughbred to be a# good as he ever was; that he decries any taterierence, such as that proposed by Sir Joseph Hawley, with the production 0: biood stock; that he thinks that “swella”’ race for profit, just as the Manchoster men, who, according to Lord Derby, prefer the “nimbie ninepence to the siow shtiling;’’ that he considers sixpenny whist just as much gambling as betting on horse racing: that he entreats the Jockey Ciub to legislate with moderation, and not with tyranny, and that he believes the Kuglish thoroughored to be superior to those of ali the world. He conciudes thos: “A fifty pounds plater goes to Cairo, and, be- fore the Prince and Princess of Wales, like Moses, spol the Egyptians; Mercury and Rama bully all the horses in Germany, Russia and Prussia have their English champions, littie Waities ts the cock of Italy, and @ celebrated American trainer, in answer to a friend in the United states, told him there were as ‘ood horses in Engiand as pine trees tn Vir ginia.”” Bravo! the old Admiral! Whether his views are right or not he has no fear in expressing them; as to their correctness, 1 must defer consideration of the question, AMERICAN CHALLENGE TO KNIGHT OF TITR GARTER. Idoubtif we shali ever have an opportunity of testing the comparative merits of English and American horses, for the cha‘lenge that reaches us from the States to pit Bayon fainst the Cheater Cup hero, Knght of the Ga , or Cottril against any th ved with much hope that suc ine Off, owing to the expense and the chance of lijury to the horses in transmit It woud be havardous, alter Mr. Cameron's unittoky ventures, to vend over 4,000 miles of waler a horse like the Knight, ior whom Lord Calthorpe receatly reiused $20,000 from ine Austrian govern good about him in: his qays. He went, while in to a fancy ball dressed as the dev! corner & man in maftt for respectal i, and wished to keep it, Ww were present will ever forget this gentleman’s look of horror when his satanic majesty suddenly rushed up to him and shouted “What’ll win the Chester cup?’ DEATH OF FOBERT, THE CRLEBRATED TRAINER. FO} Another item of obituary news is the death of Fobert, of Spigot Lodge, one of the greatest trainers we ever had. He won for Lord Egiinton the Derby and St. Leger with Fi, Dutchman, and the Leger also with Von Tromp. His greatest successes were, however, in the Northumberiand Plate, which he carried of with Eryx, Elthiron, Und (three er! times), Fervacques ayd Forcunio. The ‘Pretender Panic”—Stoppage of the Derby Settling. Lonpon, June 3, 1869, The great event of the week has been the “Pre- tender panic,” one of the most startling incidents known in the history of tne turf. When business commenced at the minor clubs on Monday morning there was nothing in the aspect of atfairs to indicate that anything ‘‘sensational” was about to happen. Itis always @ great day in the turf world, for the amount of money that changes hands is something enormous, and it brings to a close one of the busiest segments of the season. The ‘comparing’ of bet- ting books previous to the running for the race had put them in such a position that no error could now be made, plenty of money had been drawn from the bank to meet liabilities and every one was disposed to settle and have done with it. A good deal of the work was got through before noon, but about that time a dark rumor began to spread abroad that a protest had been lodged bpSir Joseph Hawley agains the payment of the Derby stakes to Pretender. When at one o’clock this rumonwas confirmed by Sir Joseph's commissioner, who on entering the Victoria Club announced that the protest had been laid on the ground that Mr. William Sadier, the nominator of Pretender, had died before the race, the scene of consternation that ensued was tremendous. Were the statement as to the death true, it followed that the winner must, according to racing law, be dis- qualified, that the stakes must be paid to the second horse, Pero Gomez, and that the bets, following the stakes, the backers of Sir Joseph Hawley’s horse must win, These were accordingly in a state of jubilation, while the supporters of Pretender, on the contrary, were reduced to blank dismay. The commission agents with large bodies of con- stituents in the country had commenced on the pre- vious Thursday to pay them their winnings, and one firm had sent out no fewer than 600 checks. Ali they could now do was to rush to the banks and stop payment, and this they did in wild huste. Others who had friends in Doncaster, where Mr. Sadler lives, dashed off io the telegraph offices to inquire what was the actual state of matters. Pending the receipt of replies business was entirely suspended at the clubs; all attempts at speculation proved ineffectual; the settling Was abruptly stopped and members buttoned up their piles of bank notes, in many cases amount- ing to close on $100,000 and brought down from the ba nk in their pockets, and put away their balance sheets. Nothing was talked of but the issue of the arkable deadlock; heavy odds were freely laid that Pretender would still get the stakes, and the northern bookmakers, Wo won heavily by his vic- tory, anticipated the resuit witn confidence. It was remembered by some that they had actually spoken to Mr. Sadler on Epsom Dowas just before the race; by others that a dinner had taken place at his house at Doncaster in honor of the winner, at which no mention was made of the r In doubt and ex- pectaucy members left the club and journeyed west to lattersall’s, where for some tine, notwithstand- img all the efforts of the committee to allay the panic, the same state of matters prevalied. Ac last telegrams arrived from Doncaster and Middlehama aauouncing that Mr Sudier was live and well, and as one put ft, as if (he nomi- nator of a Derby winner was exempted from the ordinary fate of humanity, “not hkeiy to die’? Finally @ message was received from the gentleman himself, who had so suddeniy achieved (awe, stati wih convincing tautology that he was ‘quite wel aud 1m good neath,” ‘This Was enough, and thoagh no withdrawal of the protest haa been received from Sir Joseph Liawiey, tue commuittee—consisting of Lord Exmouth, Sir Charies Legard, Mr. George Payne, Lord Vivian and Colonel Ouseley Higgins—at oace issued a notice, stung th; the settling must proceed. This was doue, and @ great deal of the work was got through oa Monday afternoon, but still a considerabie por- tion had to be done on the following day. sir Joseph Hawley is severely blamed ior allowing his cupidity to run away with his common sense, and it is cer- tain that before causing such a panic, the re suits of which might have been vei dis. ustrous, he ought to have satisiiea himself as to the sounduess of his grounds of protest. Hither he did not do that—that 1s, jumped at a cor clusion without thinking—or he was the victim of a disgraceful hoax. Which tt is we do not know, and as yet he has made no sign of an intention to grattly public curiosity. He 13 not so popular that he can aiford to trite with the turf world, and it is due to them that an explanation should at once be iven. 7 MR. TEN BROECK THE INNOCENT CAUSE. It 1s stated—I know not with what trath—that your countryman, Mr. Ten Broeck, was the innocent cause of the disaster, He 1s reported to have tele- wTaphed through the cable that Mir. Sadler bad aied im America, and it is probabie that if he did so he was deceived by the rumor that some recently de- iuact Sadler was the nominator of Pretender. We should very much like to kuow what ts the fact, and uM Mr. Ten Broeck would resume communication with his old frienas here on this point his state- ments would receive more credit than did the run- ning of nis horses when he was here. CHARACTER OF THR SETTLING, With the exceptions imentioned below the Derby setthag Was an exceedingly good one, and at a time wea tie turf 18 the mark for every arrow of un- luinking aad prejudiced hostility it 1s pleasaat to reflect nat millions of money, ol which the law re- iuses to take cognizance, have Changed hands wiin- ouc the slightest demur. Betting men have their faults, nO doubt, out it would be impossible to find any other class of men, with legal remedies, who would traMc with such vast amounts without dis- pure. Default, when it occurs at all, is to be found in the ranks of the so-called gentlemen. They can word to defy their creditors; the professional bet- tung man who makes his tvu ag by ‘he turf can’t, I have few particulars, in addition to those given in my last lewer, as to large winners on tne Derby week. The northern bookmaker: Peaca aud Whittaker and others, win for ereat stakes and probabiy 'y off about cach, Mr, Jardine, the owner of $40,000 Pretender, 1s not much of a turi speculator and does not net a great deal beyond the stakes, His trainer, however, Tom Dawson, Will probably pocket some- thing like $20,000, and the officiais ofthe stable, and indeed wil the people of Miadienam, Lave cause to tuank Pretender. Sir Joseph Hawley backed Pero Gomez to win aim something like $200,000, and is, of course, 4 considerable loser by the few inches by winch the northeru horse ieved victory; but he can weu afford it, As vo the the reputation of Morna second in the race, who Sir J yh and the traiwer believed could not be beaten, was sneh that Sir rrederick Johnstone, the owner Of the winner, Brigantine, did not “siand’’ her for much and won ony 23,000, or $12,000, by the result, By the way I ey mention, so highly was Morna tried, that both su Josepu and Sir Frederick believe that had Brigan- tine been leader q pot possess a clipping can tase no partin the St. Leger, which looks a gift for either the first or second m the Derby, ALMOST THE LAST OF THE “LITTLE PLUNGER.'’ That diminutive gentleman, Ar, F, Hillman, who receutly acquired such @ great, if ephemeral, repu- tation as the *‘Litue Plunger,” and whose utter col- lapse [recorded in my last, among the absentees at Pattersall’s and the clubs on Monday and Tues- day. He flew at the high game of the modern turf porting parase, could not pidge eg 3 ne use a pa a wes his stay, and havi @ up Uke the rocke' : ore i He was wonder- tate to come down like the stick. fully lucky for @ time, but his day length came, and he was compelied to retire. During the Bath and Harfender weeks his losses amounted to £10,000, or $40,000, and whatever his income may be he was unable to face his creditors, A gentieman commis. sod oF refed ta a snutings in ‘te pounder 't and offered to pay five , rare of his deb by snag len g mag ~ Lena his Was acoe; . i clined; why, oannet tell. Half a loat ‘e slways better than no bread, and as there is no law to com- pel Him to pay at int od fad he been in my debt, have taken What I could, aud hoped for the resi. ‘nn Naw YoRK Stark Prison.—The people of Norwich, Chenango county, are moving for the loca- tion of the new State Prison at that place. We hope the claims of Norwioh may be favor consid Although Binghamton has Fant w of a State Prison, it already has the Inebriate Asylum—one of the greatest humbugs ever saddied on the State— and should be content to let Norwich or some other amart town have the Prison. ig nay | does not want it-—land 18 too high in thia vicinity to wive away fifty acres.—Cvoper: (N. Yo) Journal,