The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1869, Page 6

- Hie Sate an nie Pepartero ta to lead the Spanish “ray against his ola | with hor, and incessantly called for her afterwards P enemy, Cabrera. ‘These two Pucient generals ean | On the youd. The fresh air was too much Jor her, E U R (@) E a Sever ve each oiler, Ty tnese two cld fellows | and during the journey she fainted. Meet in the tug of war it Wil be worse than Greeks . it) In her new home sister Barbara was provided ements with each other, q THE REDUCTION OF THE FRENCH ARMY, In the meanwhile, from the time of the frst visit ‘The government is Very reticent about ite loss at y into the interfor, when a body ot soldiers arrived In nds are en voute for the Mountains of Toledo and one fo four columns, th giving the suatiest | of the Franciscans. Jt was a critical hour for the Indians, another man scalped by the red to remove ihe Jesuits and Carmentes out of Cracow. With everything comfortable; but at first she kept r those, however, Who can afford to be san- of the officer, the knowledge of this awful revelation the tate skirmish. Nothivy is said about the Spau- time to protect them, On Saturday the same thing Serra Madrona—rour columns of Spanish troops are fragmentary reports, ‘For the saine reason tat the | Whole -monasiic -orders of Cracow, The Jesuit Bar into Suaday morning the disturbances were : the Carlists and Martial Law. Mpa yne Cunard steamehip Java, Captain Cook, from Liverpool the 3ist ult. via Queenstown the let, and we German steamer Westphalia, Captain Schwen- sev, from Hamburg 28th ult, via Havre the 3lst, ar- rived at this port yesterday, They bring details of our telegrains up to date of sailing. A Weiter from St. Peter ‘g announces the death ofthe cclobrated Russian romance writer, Lashet- frequently rising fon ee "e io the ae juine, the list chiels give out that before eight | Moor, as she had been le ee Ing proper) Saye have passed over the peninsula the state of | Washed aud dressed tae wilduesa has quieted down, affairs will be materially changed, their cause will | and the doctors bave hopes of eventually restoring be triumphant over the peninsula abd the present tarthi ons ent & ling Revelnts ae, SoRt began So sprees antee® Cot cease een ae kife in Austria. Ish deat and wounded, and there is @ total absence | dignant horror throughout the whole town. On Fri- of the fervid en*iusiasin so noted a characteristic | day morning hundreds of people had assembled be- - of Spanish bulletins, and the government simply | fore the convent, smashed all the windows, and ton took place—Carhsts suffered consid- was vepeated, in spite of adjurattons of the papers iu puraait to the people to wait calmiy. By the evening two So freqfent are the riots that, ont of sheer | detachments of soldiers had been called out, for the Mmpossibility to give detailed accounts of them, | Mod, which had swelled to 4,000 people, after doing the: press are im the habit of giving @ sum u Spanish pres: , ot worth while for | rector Was insulted, many Jesuits wounded with ne to “give “you even the sunmary of | stones, and every’ pane of gins’ in the mo- the ‘“notivea’’ as the Mots are cs ‘hey amouut | nastic’ house was broken to pieces. For these fo the same significance as te) s fvom the | manifestations of their indignation an immense her to her senses, government wilt be below par, crying. ‘Away with the nuns,” lad already broken y ave vot y demorahzod—the scattered what more mischief it cond to the Carmelite Con- mary of view every day, generaliy ding fi veut, weut off to attack that of the Jesuits and that pains of Kan 1 Nepraska pos wien, day | number cf people have been arrested, but a largo ane moe uneenead Re anneinee wone petition has been sent np to the Lown Council wolnikon. and ¢0 on for months at a fin theut any und s pre 1s precisely the | still going on: later m the day the Lady Superior ‘Tho Russian Journals state tat typhus and othor | [On M Whe monctonous recor. Mt Maur wesee | aid Her assistant were taken uniter a military escort to be Kept in ward, in order to appease the people, till Qatrol the town. r asks, “And is this tne nine Jevers are raging in the district of Kovno a8 a conse- quence of the famine of jast year. 1 ts semt-oftctally stated that the French govern- nent intends to reduce the standing army by 26,000 wen, Who are to be furioughed, ‘The London Keho says another scandal case 18 likely to be made pubic aifecting a we)l Known duke, beir fo BO estate, Who Nas come to grief and ts now eat athe having oc nearly Uity recorded rumors ich peninsula. but curred at different pours of these reporis keep us on the q” for tie aah “motives” that we expect to hear Pamplona, Aragon and the extreme lonia are the places taal aétract ou somew Ler iM those regions Carios, Cal gucriia chieiiam Tristan thelr troops on the e: attention Is drawn toward. idie to trausiate the ins Soldiers, however, ‘The Vienna p. teenth ceutury 1? FRANCE. ‘The Proposed Reduction of the French Army. {From the Londou Post, Jniy 30.) ‘The French government is about to muke a very ssc abl About during a period of excitement, considerable reduction in the strength of its stand. ‘She Emperor of Russia has recently reviewed the | all these rumors, reports of s! pone Relfeverior ‘ae | ue army, and the circumstance 4s certainly one of Non-ciad feet im the Baitie, and witnessed various boat! go: to mathe tien than Eyaie, is on the | 20 Staail significance, whether a8 regards its bear- @cntvated tire and mancuvres by the steam rams, AS in the frat great Gusts ee Se weet de the Class of conscripts whose Merino neveine with which it i said bis Majesty was highly satisfied. 2 ageuts in the present Ca turmethe | Under tie flag expires this year will be have been arrested in Madvid during Me“) Gicmissed to their homies, which is in the We learn from Stockholm that in tne late vonsia- weok, aud Hel ity 18 proved beyond issu eb ; ? ordinary course of things; but with them, or soon after, will be dismissed aiother class (if the Constiiu- tionnel is righi, two classes) Whose term has yet from two to three years to ruu before ut is completed, These men are not to be entirely ed from ser- vice, but ave Co be dismtesed on uniluiled furlough, which practicaly amounts to the same thing, for they will not ve led Out again except in case of actual war, and they would be liable to thateven if their firet term were completed, The transaction, in fact, represents an actual diminution of the French arniy to the extent of from thirty-six to forty thou- sand wen, which really amounts to the dimissal of an army tn itself; or, to pub it in another way, of about one-tenth of the whoie force actualiy under arms as the reguiar French army, ‘This is assurediy @ very Importani step to take, aud its bearings are well worthy of attention. med Pedro Roig, bad nearly Ris pos: One pries $: of Carlist finds & double-barrelied musket, a Jar cKet of Cartridges and axword, Two others, belonging to a convent here, had secreted fn thelr cells $2,000 in Carlist money, two carbines, pietares of Dou Carlos, flasks of pow- der, ¢ “dges and many otter suspicions things, generally supposed to belong execlusiveiy to deter- uiined conspirators, The remaining seven ministers: of God, as they are popularly called, were found in # qivet convent in a qulet corner of Madrid, and be- fore they could hide tne evidences of hostility to the government the active police were upon them ab the very moment they were ssing the future of Carlism, On the table woiel they were filling, instead of missals and beads and cructtixes, jay instruments of murder and death cated cavalry g@ration in Geile 700 Louses have been destroyed and 8,000 of the inhabilants were deprivyd of their homes. The joss of ihe insurance companivs is about 8,600,000 rix thalers, Accounts from Berne state that a terrible inunda- Hon has just submerged the vatiey of Hasti, in the Oberland, well known to all visitors of the Lospice of tne Grimse!, The Reichenbach bas changed its bed, aud the hotel of that uame was very pear being ¢arried away by the waters, he Czar takes his departure for the Crimea, His Majesty has been to Cronstadt to inspect the works of the port. The camp of Krasno-Selo has been ston, besides & Falsed. The Grand Duke Nicholas, on the Invitation | eee oe a ee eee aaish Laaaig, | ihe firsttnference wich may be drawn from any of the King of Prassia, will shortly proceed to K0- | emgtes or the anointed King Carlos VIL—iu short, | Teduction of the French army ts that, in the opinion of the imperiai government, tere is no HaAmediate danger Oi the peace of Burope being troud.ed; tat there Are no threatening cicuds to disquiet the timo- rous, and no tisk of foreign enterprises of any sort that would be ikely to grouse tie chauvinisme of the country. France feels herself to be quite secure: trom any risk of having either to fight im herown defence or in her own tuteresis. ‘This fact 1s in itself # public guarantee; and ff tae example thus set of a Partial tsarmament should encourage other Powers to follow it, the guarantee would be still further strengthened, and the disturbing tn- uence which has long been exercised by a vague apprehension be proporiionaieiy reduced. ‘There is, however, another und even @ more pregnant significance in the measure Which has now been an- nounced, for it has no doubt been made rather with a view Uo its Immediate eect upon Franco itself than to ita ultimate eect upoa Europe. Lhe Frese have long felt a great and in mg impatience of the burdens which their large miliitary estabiish- menis inflict upon them, At the lasc elections this impatience was shown In 80 marked @ jianver that many even of the official candidates had to adopt or to make terms with it; and the reduction may be taken as @ treeh concession on the part of the Em- peror to tie popular will; ag part and parcel, ti tact, of the reforms which he bas deciared it ts his in- tention to introduce, That improvement in this fe08" Bhould be possinie is a Matter Of congratulation for Hurope; and that it should be efected must be a matter of gratification for France umd ground of laereased Confidence in the Empe KEY WEST, were it not for the shaven pates ond long black cloaks you might have taken them for @ iwiltary guard just relieved from duty. The republicans have made up their minds to assist the government against Don Ca but the Isabelinos iateud to create a divergion in tavor of the Carlists. The Spanish Ambassador at Paris, Salustiano Olozaga, who has favored all sorts of candidate: Alfred of England, Fernando ot Portugai, Monipen- sier of Bourbon und of Bourbon—now reports to his government that the Prince of Asturias pro- claimed King of Spain, atter a year or two of re- gency under Serrano, Would be the most accepiapie Vo Napoleon. During the mlerregnum, however, i¢ woutd be well for Aiphonso to be jeit in Paris to pursue the happy acquatntancesiup atready made pigsberg, where he will witness the manceuyres that are to take place In the autumn, ‘The Swiss National Council has given its approba- tion, without reserve, after a long discussion, to the Measures taken for removing Mazzini from the fron- tere of Switzerland. This result is considered a fresh proof of the good nnuderstanding exisiing be- tween that covnury and Maly. A aiMcuity recenuly occurred between an Ameri- ean army officer and an Irish militia captain, which subsequently settled down into a duel. ‘The militia- man had used language which the soldier resolved to punish. The parues met im the connty Kerry. With the Prince (aperial, so that It cnay. be posable ‘The American cmrue of with a sight Aesh wound | thar when Napoleon 1V. mounts the throne. Ii and the Irisiman received a severe wound between | F; ald Alplongo XU. iu Spain they may be as the shoulder and the ne: great Jriends When kings as they were when priiices, ides eS ; i Freneh poliey Will certainly be dominant ta Spain, A supplementary estimate of the ern required in | ge it was when the mother Isabelia was marvied. the year ending March 81, 1870, to defray the salaries | Such are Napoleon’s views im Spatu. He has a great and expenses of the telegraph service of Great tieal of iMiuence In this conyiry now, but not so Britain, Ras been published. The government asks | French Aumugeader, inatatly seme tee Treaues for £90,000. ‘Tiis amonnt is required to provide for | dela Torre, Prussta is the expenses of the above service, exclusive of the Roesla Muterest on the parch money, from January 1 to March 91, 1870. The revenue for the same period is estimated at £108,000, A ducl has just taken place at Chantilly vetween an English gentleman named Russell, said to be a relative of the Duke of Bedford, and M. de la Poeze, @ Frenel gentieman. A quarrel respecting a femaie Frequenter of one of the dancing gardens of the French capital 1s sald to have been the cause of the meeting. Swords were the weapons use. M. de la Poeve received tiree wounds, one of his lungs being perforated, and he lies in adangerous state, Mr. Roesell seems to have esceped uninjured. Proceed- imps wail, it is reported, be taken agaist boih com- betauta by the French authorities, es considerabie San Miguel ts perfectly quiet, and after leaving a battalion of Infantry there the rest of the Portuguese troops have beeu withdrawn without haviag been called into action. ‘The “Iberian republic” manta is increasing mM Portugal, and newspapers are fonnd bold enough at Lisbon and Oporto to say that the only Way to satisfy the desires of the people is to abolish the monarcliy and unite with thelr republt- hers of Spain. ‘The O Nacional ae Porto Fhe Iberian repablic is inevitable, Certain mstances may retard it, but will not prevent tts final consummation.”? Revolirzao de Setembro says:— “We have no hesitation in afirming that peuinsalar union is inevitable among the destinies of Iberian civijization.” Senor Lopez de Mendoza, of Lisbon, sau lately, “The fusion of Spain and Portugal will be veruicd without the discharge of @ single shot in auger, without prejudice to any public interest in either conntry, without the utterance of one com- piain” Sebdor C. J. Caldeira sald:—"Since the Meeting of the Cuban Patriotic Assoctation= Yeliow Kever Among the Soldicrs—Their Removal from the Burracks—Misceiinncous, KEY West, July 31, 1869, ‘The first regular meeting of the Cuban Patriotic Association assembied on the evening of July 22. ‘The wttendance was large and the people entbu- slastic, One hundred and twenty-five regular mem- bera were prescnt at the opening of the meeting. ‘The object of the association 1s to yaise funda for the A communication from Rome, in the Krenz | tocsiy of iberty was sounded at Alcoles by au iy -Lawrs 4 . cause, A constitution and by-iaws wera draited, Zeitung of Berlin, gives eowe curious Isformation | ® on natn, ive peopies Nee age, Sere fo- | which being submited, were, after some ucaasicy, lative to the projeces of t Ser Bt Beige he 4 ute. | adopted, A Board of Directors, consistifget eigit rel = Proj : ‘he persous ergeining tha | A will be represented the extraordinary sight pn tert Was appointed and elected. TI aasocia- Connen. Ali the articles of the Syliabus are to be | of two nations undergoing the process of iusion.” tion ineeis once a month, dud tue Boai Direc- transformed into canons, the religious orders are to be The truth ts somehow beginning to dawn tn Spatt | vors once a week. Everytalng 13 with that thay the civil war in Cupa 19a horribte thing. B }, 1B & Most stirring articie apon the (rat:feical the contest, apostrophizes tie “isi thy side, oh, qnerido Cava, in this present strait of thine, more enviable ts Mextco, happier ts St Vomingo.”” Every journal calls secaiy for tlie forces of land and sea bel ressed to finish the revolution, so that the name of Spain wil! not be- come a hy word emong the nations. ‘Tius afternoon General Sickles and suite go to a Granga to be presented to the Kegeut by Ar. Johu y. a'e, ; regularity peculiar to gecret,, or, ratiier, cautious ovguuizations, to guard against surprise aad trouble, and ail appeats to be working smoothly, ‘On gccount OF the great mortality among the gol- dievs at the bateacks from yellow fever, the weli ertion evacuate the premises to-day and proceed to Indian Key, distant seventy-live unles, to remain uatii the yeliow fever shali have ieit Key Weat. ‘Those who are ill reutaip at the hospital, where they are receiving the Bess of care aud attention, We bope that the reduction of material in tie city tor tue fever to feed upon Will reduce the percentage aluuhg Lae strangers now here, AUSTRIA. ‘Thee dagauip Albany dormerly Contegcook), and yar eee aha lattes ert “tpscarora . t are al esi, the latter arriving Be f° Revelations of Convent Life=A Terrivte Tale | gic days om Vadparalgo. All Wee seen of Suffertag—A Nun imprisoned for Twents< Steamers which bave freight tor Key West anchor he! Velea! Outkde, We var, aud the game 18 brougut im by {Yignna (July 28) correspondeaee London ‘Times. COE io. lag ince haurd tial tae eitate tone, week ALLiGED BELONIOUS ASSAULT, yi abolished, excepting five—the Jesuits, Dowinicians, Or preaching monks; Franciscans, Benedictines, and Levarists, or missionaries. The regatar clerry are to be dimmished. hecanse they represent the demo- oratic.or repubiicau Clement in the Church. The Conacil Is alko to increase the power of the bishops aud by abolishing the immovability of the cures Place thein 1p a state of absolute dependence SPAIN. Martiai Law ond the Carliets-The Battle of Piedra Bucna=Tall Running of Curlist Fue gitives--AvercbyY in Spaim—The Tratrorous Prieete—San Migucl—iberian Union Sentie monte. Maprip, July 28, 1969, ‘The promulgation of tne obnoxious martial law of April 17, 1821, called ihe rumors of Cariist tamnits Sud risings into actualities, fwelve hours after ihe @agacious but caustic Sagaata had had bis own Way and had given as an emetic to his country tue martial iaw thie metropolis was shaken to its very centre by the report of a large body of armed men at Piedra Buena, o village situated a few miles sont. ‘west of Ciudad Real, under the command of Cariist Geaera! Savariego, being professediy followers and Friday last, | heard that the whole towa waa in a ferment, owing to the following sliogking story that PAPO Ck YE See ee nan aden fas cee eerie DS | irrce Usevof tho Histol. and the HalesOpm- ticulars are now added. The papers have since been fal of tts— plaints and Commitments to the Tombe Yeu torday. aa A few days ago an anonymous letter, abparen ny, written by @ woman’s hand, reached the Court of The ct Gorrec:ion, stating that in tie Carmelite Convent charges of felonious sssauit preferzed before nun named Barbara Abryk had been kept for years | Alderman O’Brien yesterday, at the Tombs Police waleouy ss ride rey A eee Fro. | Court, sow an anwonted activity in the mse of tne 4 u Bands of an ofieer,Wwho went to the bishop aud te, | Distol and pen and other inatraments of felont- quest: admission to the convent, @ bishop | us assanit. No tees chan five complaints of this represented that it was sure to be all an Invention, aracte’ bat that since the court presged it he wopid allow it, aan Mad Potente 18 soldiers of Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, and thereu| t serth in the various compiainte:- pon handed over the ofticer to 3 len ree One more day passed and there were ‘the nunnery of the,Carmelites gtanda prettily att- Y os 1 alte ee Joie Meee a fore’ egnteen risings reported at eiznteon airereny | pated in a suburb of the coma, fad close by are aoe Shed tO Been cg Co localizes of the peninsula, all said .to oe | yatorycntavorte ten ie lubabianis OF Cees and firing at litm, the shot taking @emonstrations in favor of the son of Carlos Vi. maa lavas rewrt ot the inhalants Of at a im. McCabe said that he in was committed in default of $1,000 who Yesldes at No, 83 ‘Cnrystic chat While“in a liqaor ate wening; he was ‘asthe A i Uarrol, me by J Fran! ora: all , hic on the a bol dJatter end ed Daftios let wed Got ‘This is what the result of the martial law wae on one side. The.republicans, rightly feeling that the very name Of martial law was diametrically opposed to the democratic constitution, resolutely opposed tt “by all leguimate means,’ by protests in the press, by personal applications for its suspension made to cow; and often and ofen on fine summer, seria Seay trea ge se wad terrible that has been alleatiy pagsiag there for the last wan atreet, ‘w-one yeare, ‘The oifcer came to the door with the eommisston, gt ed | -knoekest, was answered by @ portress, to whom come there to see and to speak to the The poxtress drew her breath with . bY Prim and Sagasta, by the remnant of the republican TULF OACK a step or. ti¥o, ana sald tt the boridus cnurges respective erase @eputies, who had with Roman fortituae eschewed | pooutie go sn y tho odloch pes has hans ae permet be same amount ef al Was a ‘Me delights of sea baths and tue tempting deviliries spread out ut the watering places for the purpose of watching over the interests of the children of tio cope her, Dame of the Jaw, to stir irom tue Party then entered and was shown ti ® long corri to ihe of Sister Barbara. “it ret in lieu theroof both wer ‘The next case was @ COMPILE agetD Sook by sommes who 16 at the: Was @.ocli eiglit by six foct in size, noxt ihe BINK: whe.| Lorre ete se, Need assault i BS republic of Iberia. The citizens of Madrid do not, | Window bag been walled up, aud @ narrow chink | Cured on a u of $2 yet, sulfér from the martial law, owing to the Ferpabd the ai Pirvogn with ow and ewe — 9 a tama yA words of a Vienna paper;— remembered. @@orta made by the republican deputies, and for a stabbed in the tiigh. F of - Pp he ~~) yom ihe 2 ; in. wery Good reason, besides, that tt would not do by In a dark, on ® bexp of straw, sat, or rather td any manner of means to have exercised the several | Powered. s Baked, wild-grown, aif witted wma, (rheeat complaint ont "yemardaye Jook, who is Srticles while the authorities that rule the 100,000 re- Pitgonsly, “1 ate 7 ity tay | Sie0, Dleaded er nae pine accused wast ‘publican voters.were at tiat very moment sitting in | fiie'srae and mosh NI cate disk e sri he py ball to nest ep capital, Gebating upon the best ae bed, table or even ome tok ne suneti r ‘The next two cases were Gf miner” onarncter. ering the Iberian repubitc, and fired . pace ibe ude com. | Wxemlah Coghan was cl : ames of the American champions ot } ‘ert, chore aa th ‘Dey ay era saz, | rita striking him on tne ne ‘viens bilet a With thelr “‘resistiess eloquence wielding | £348." Yor tweetpane those dreadful pass | Aunic King was accused of Sreaging oy tse of the flerce democracy” by which they were | thateell, and to none of them bad Never enterod to take | the head Anute Vaner, of No. 210 Mou Nay, a single shot signalling the doom Hon on thelr And now, balf b Kicking ler in the stomach. ‘f) ohaay mm for following. dictates oy eco beast, with her body covered with dirty with hier lod | Were each committed to answer in ae ; we been the alsrum which would have Kn Bg dl Fog gruel, made “Sory sons of Iiberty” put Madrid’ In al a, over not here THE WUMBOLO ATWO Sa ieee cea CUE | near eect ene yr ng] acemmtmnewces ens os ig self with holding {t officer iinmediately 8 comm: the celebration of the to, abeyance, wai {s Just a much a8 to aay, “Now, he wrevcled creature, and alta wen to nia! birthday of Alexander von Humboldt, an’ Bep- arfial aw goes ime force.” and #6 the martes ‘deeply moved, cued te eumerer | tember 14, next, and tné erection of # onutént to an ae 16 aot in force, Dut in the revelious Feprosching, thei violently for their | tie memory in the Park, met at the omge. of inces ; 1s thi nit, LMfOrMod You t8 my at and by telegraph, ay. Yon YOK to come Coneaveny Farkas. | bt Broud sire ertay aero, crams, logo's party eieated. of tas en, when {ney wouta ‘have excused Id Di +. The following resciutions were San direcuy ater batele;. but Py , away from my signt,’? ag mous " fs gr : there were found eighteen more, ca iotal’of | "He sus tiem, and then ensot red, That & finance committee of three erty “atee ke. ye wounded were very namer- | the Lady pert sal ., of break peste mabere 2k Vollectong the docdecey Canse sii Se aabons borhood ‘ th ‘a8 nearly all een a and (ea. Wi le ry ar Ser Gt, Bac ca, le | es a Rr ou eile | RE eer fei afer ak date "| favor eo Re tea aay re | wh maui sae een | Rice °c te ar tte es | Rin rene at | aarp bret So npr cua at | Eat Pl rebels were co: after 7 , Who ties held the ey, LS w of ‘states ies he baa never oven. . 1D he peer creature peoam So ae 6 NEW YORK TIERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST fl, 1869. NEW YORK C ITY. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. The Washed’ Stamp Case—Discharge of the Accused. Betore Commissioner Osborn. The Uniled States vs, ¥, Holtze.~The defendant in this action was diacharged on motion of Assistant Distyict attorney Jackson, on the ground that there was no intentional violation of the law. Sale of Cancelled Stamps. The Vatted States vs, Thomas Burns and Michael Pons.—The defeadants, who were arrested last week on ga charge of selling for use stamps from which the cancellation marks had been removed, were brought up for exam nation. yesterday morning, Joseph Dye, & government detective, testified that he went to the house of Thomas Snrns, No. 74 Broadway, and demanded ten doilars’ worth of stamps that he knew Burns had. Burns replied that Dye had no business with him; that the stamps were his own private property. Dye found in Burns’ house thirty-two dollars’ worth of stamps locked up in a bureau drawer. They had been cancelled and cleaned; some were not yet Anished, Case adjourned to Saturday, at len o'clock. Alleged Passing Counterfeit Money. The United States vs, Hewy Lo yton—Defendant was arrested yesieriay cu a charge of passing counterieit i currency of various denomina- tions. = Th compa an against him stated that he had offered to sell them $200 worth of the bogus currency for seventy dollars, They also al- leged that he offered to selk the counterfelt money for five dotiers on a hundred, The prisoner, on the other hand, stated that the arrest was a mere con- ‘y to Keep him from giving testimony in a mur- se, He was held for examination. The Gpening Letter Case, kefore Commissioner Shields. The United States vs. Annte Clancy.—Defendant was arrested on a charge of breaking open a letter directed to Rilen Berry, Her examination was com- menced yesterday and several witnesses examined, ‘The case Was adjourned for a further hearing. UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S OFFICE. Pratt Removed from Ludlow Street Jail to Fort Schuyler--Unusual Proceedings—Dit- enities Accumulating=The Coming Conflict of Jurisdiction. When Pratt, the alieged Texan murderer and bush- whacker, was brought vefore Judge McCunn Mon- day afternoon on a writ of habeas corpus it wih be remembered that he was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal, the Court taking the papers and reserviog decision in tue matter for a Gay or two, ‘The prisoner was then taken before United States Commissioner Osborn and the case Was adjourned till Thursday, By order of Marshal harlow the prisoner, instead of being taken back to bis former quarters In Ludlow street jal), where he was In the immediate custody of the State authorities, removed him to Fort Schuyler, It is euay to gee that there will be a conflict of authority in fhe event of Judge McCunn’s deciding favorably upon the application to take the matter of the pend- ing examination out of the hands of Commissioner Osbor Judge McCunn, if is to be feared, will find ft exceedingiy aimMcult to get possession of the prisoner, or to stay the proceedings already com- enced before the Commissioner. A day or two wil tell the story, COURT OF OVER AND TERMINER, vy nF ing Segtenee--The Court Room wit Balle and Changers. Before Judge Cardozd, Ichaving become pretty extensively known that the Wall street brokers who had pleaded guilty to usury some few weeks since would appear before the Court yesterday to receive their respective sen- ences, Nie spacious court room was filled to reple- tion by @ deeply interested crowd of spectators, the main portion of which consisted of the money changers and capitalists of Wall street, whose coun- tenanccs evinced the deepest eagerness in the pro- ceedings which were about to be enacted. After the formal opening of the court, at eleven o’clock, Disiciet Attorney Garvin arose and moved for judgment m the several cases of usury before tne Court. He sald before tis Honor proceeded to the discharge of hia daty he supposed each of the parties implicated would aay sometuing through their coun- sel, either by affidavit or otherwise, , Mr. C, N, Potter, counsel for Edward R. Jones, read the afidavit of that gentleman, which disclosed tat the Gefendant was a broker, that he did make two loans of money, as alleged in the indictment; ey Were made on the application of a bor- that the moneys were the moneys of princi- that ¢ rower pals, and the Joans were made at the rate of seven brokerage of one-eighth or one-sixteenth of one per ceut for procuriug the loans; that if the loans #0 made are infractions of the Usury law, which may well be questioned, he did not so. bekeve or understand them to be; that, on the contrary, from his general Knowledge of business, such transactions have not only not been punished but have been regarded as lawful, and he so supposed them to be; that defend- ant had nothing whatever to do with any of tie schemes for locking up cap!tal or money, and that 80 far from having oppressed any one by his action, the very borrower's aitidayit is here to show that he regarded Mr, Jones’ action not only as blameless, butas a favor. Mr, Potter then proceeded to show that the offence committed (if committed at all) was purely a technical one, and as such deserved either @ very sight punishment or no panishment at all. Mr, Barrett, who appeared for Messrs. Howes & Macy, read an afiidavit of the latter, setting forth almost a similar state of facts. ‘fhe couusel associated with Mr. Barrett then pro- ceeded to argue the law of the matter before the court. He said he had investigated the case with considerable care, and had come to the conclusion that these accused parties had a perfectly legal de- fence to this prosecution—nay, that they even had a defence upon the merits. There were three classes Of individuals in this and in every other ctvilizea community, The first class was that which encer- ‘talned the belief that money shoulda never produce Interest at all, The second was the class which Was in favor of what was called a moderate com- Pensstion or reasonable reward for the loan and use ofmoney. And the third class was that which wag opposed to any restriction at all upon the promt to be inade out of the loaning or use of money, This latter class was supposéd to be in fayor of what was known as usury. (Wounsel here read from Biackstone’s Commentaries on the subject.) He continued tosay that the crime charged against these men (if crime tt was) was @ technical crime, The Cour: should consider it as such, and in that view Of the case adininister only a nominal punish- ment, It was true it was a legislative violation of the statute, but it was equally true that it unvolved no immorality or turpitude or baseness whatever, Smoe 1830 in this State it had been a misdemeanor ‘\O_ take interest ata greater rate than seven cent per annum. The fevised statutes contain pro- ‘vison year ond also to ® fine of $: for this of- fence; but the Legisiature of 1837 teduced the im- prigonment to six inonths and increased the fine to $1,000, Counsel then went on to argue at great Jength on tho poutita taken by himself, contending that for Lai thirty-nine years no action had been taken Courts against what was called iat having read here 7 . North, ng an al of aoe Parties implicated, ‘the same purport as those Which preceded me District Avorney Garvin made a few suggestions to the court, that as long as a statute against usury (nae SS Ber dey rl! a State it onght ie vi be punishad im bome way abhorpeian aces Judge Cardozo then progeeded to dell ment a6 follows:— oie, SR My views have beon ‘the remarks of tho slightly modified pectoris ie eaaaae bom eae tives co otenderd, tals law may have this may mitt it does and f bave no rigat totme that ry’ Sosa eves H be not fom te sm, Je Ieiviel. and nay Se over: looked, which the 1 thor have ‘refused to. re #0 imnportant end iene iy te, pajoruse ‘a4 a duty upon Hs : iti £ Sentence ef the Wall Strect Usurere—Some of i nea Only and Others Fined and Imprisoncd=Remarks of the Judge in Passe Crowded Bears and Money per cent per annum, the defendant receiving a ition that it might be violated with tm. | “a <e Ninioaseclpre arta Mons have been mach gros and hie habit more | little fellow fortnnatety rotted yetween the wheeld inveterate. A fine of ty imposed | on him. | and miraculously escaped death, fi thong ‘e Dut Andictinent Siment agaist hitn Piers that Fava Caw AcctpuNt.—Coroner Flynn was yes bt is alarce ni of charges on wan the eal terday requested to hold an inquest over the body of reason 1 belove itn To have boss'coun satu with the com- | John Beglan, aged thirty-five years, who tei from @ ination to lock ‘up money which I have mentioned. 1 | ceeoud avenue car in the Bowery on Monday night think, and veh fo tbe that in addition to a ‘ine of od hl ine, causing hig death in Bellee he must be imprisoned in y Prison for five days. | 80d fractured his spine, a Bel ‘same remarks apply to some extent to Reuben W. owe, | Vue Hospital yesterday morning. Deceased resided at who, nitbongh bat oe fodicurent ‘out of a great number ‘of | 299qvenue C. The case was adjourned until to-day charges fully susceptible of prot, Bas been found against him, | jn the examinauion room at the City tall, appears o have ‘agena more aetRe partin atch vanse |. PaTal, Pals FuoM WixDow.—Coroner Fiynn was action ‘his partes, 8 though Cam not Informed that he | yosterday requested to bold an inquest at v has been to 13 ey. Wetine of $600 is terpowed ee eee pation tolock up money; | Hospital over the body of Jacob Bell, # German 8100 99 euch indictment, “George Watts’ case dite 'some- | machinist, who on Sunctay Morning last, While inbors 6 rest, He was among the jast to withdraw Sat Semen 1a « bis plea or not ty Tee ae that bo | ing. under a fit of aclir:um tre) a ym assurhed @ defiant nif wie tho r went to arrest him, | thind story window of his hom? tong telling him (based upon what ippowed to be tecin!- | Broome street, to the pavement, receiv this peri wn Waite Th a bel ny it would bg juries from whieh he died ™ morning. Dea a Mr. learn, belo ‘a-wealthy and " fnduentinl family; but ii, relying upon thes elrourustance, he | CeAKCA Wns aged fity years an Tox Ecuirse AND THE PLANET VBNUS.—' beautiful star, which was seen at Springfeld, LD. aiso at Des Moines, lowa, during thé period totality in the ¢elij of Augugt 7, 18 still not fromthe suns” tiseee a tie worth of the woul nal point, avout eight o'clock in the evening, about Svo hours Lyd a of the ae plas will be at its greatest brilliancy on.Jal rt can be seen at noonday about three ogre 0} e RUN. THe BANK Nor PLATE PRINTERS’ STRIRR—' plate printers’ strike is sti in progres#, The are so much enconraged by the accounts that the! have received from the Washington plate that they say they will hold out untit the Bank Company will be toreag. efile ate eae any are now cugaged in print 10 Parvency and canoe et the hands n¢ to ish the work within tie stated time, al quence, the strikers are very confident ait suecess. They report weir funds in @ condition. ARRIVAL OP ESCAPED CUBAN. PRISONERS.—Twont ty Cuban prisoners have escaped from Fernand¢ Po; tnrce arrived here yesterday by the Conard Steamer and the rest are en route for this oltys ‘they escaped from Fernando Po by means of a canoe, and tanded within the dominions of the Kin; of Catabar, who prntested. tne! agains: the Spanisl authorities until their departure. 0 action of the King of Calabar was protected by the tnterve) tion of an English war steamer on that station. Tht names of the refugees are José Manuel Ponce, D Patrocinio Fraises and J, M, Feraandez Morera. THE PORTLAND OATBLEDRAL ORGAN.—Mre Henry Erben, of this city, haa jnst completed # very larg@ organ for the cathedral in Porland, Me. It ba@ three panks of keys and three octaves of pede! fifty-two stops, inolading. seven reed stops pre 000 pipes; it Is 48 feet Llgh, 50 feet wide and 20 leep; there are in it seven 16 feet-and eiyitech fect stops. ‘The case 1s in the Gothic style of, Cy 7 tecture, conte ee with the splendid cathedral erected by Bishop Bacon, of Portland, Me. ‘Th organ cost $15,000, Previous to its shipment Geo) W. Morgan and otner organisis performed before appreciative audience, TaE ENGiisu Foroens.—In the HERarp of Bem day exclusive mention was made of the clever many ner in which the Superintendent of Police stole & march upon two law firms who were endeavoring seeure the discbarge of Harwood and Hatcher on writ of habeas corpas. The other papers on Munda: morning made simtiar aunouncementa, ‘Tore one circumstance, however, that has not beet re+ Jn nupposed that he cond ogcuny any position before the oGurt different from a of the humbilest individual, he certainly i z son arraigned for a similar crime, would byin, the beneh- “the sentence in his casi therofure, fined $250 and be {inprisoned in the Clty Prison for ten day: Tn each case the defendant will ajso stuud committed itil ‘the fine is As the Court rendered its judgment, i each case there was a@ very perceptible rise of excitement among the spectators im the crowded court room, It was supposed that judgment would have, in the ease of such wealthy and worthy delinquents, gone no further than fine, and consequently the little up- pendage thereto of imprisonment strack not only the operators themselves, but no doubt some of their dupes, with surprise, in the one case gratifying, in the other quite the reverse, The parties were not even prepared for the intiiction of fines so heavy, and they had notsupplist their purses with the necessary amounts, which necessitated their detention in court before the admiring gaze of the spectators for a con- Bideranie time. ‘the parties who had received the unwonted summons to the dreary Tombs were, (aken off at once in the custody of the Sherifi’s duptties, where they will be permitted to roliioguize over the uncertainty of human afvairs, fhe blessed uucer- tainty of the laws of Uncle Sam 1 partieniar, for a briei, too briei a period, The Metropolitan Excire Fund in Co Application by Vaxious Charitable Institue dons for a Mandamus. Before Judge Cardozo, The People ex rel. of Various Charitable Ihstitu- tions vs, Phe Commissiouers of the Binking Fund.— ‘Thia case came up on an application for a wanda. mus by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund and varions charitable and benevolent societies, In other words, this 13 a claim made by the Commis. stoners of the Sinking Fund for possession of all the revenue derived under the operation of the Excise law of New York. Five relixious and charitable instiiutions enter their claim to shares in the fund on the ground that portions of the fund have been appropriated to tiem since the enactment of the law approyriating the same to the Commissioners of the Sin! Fund, The main nestion at issue is, wheter the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund have # right to that which the constitution of the State protects, 80 that the Legis- lature could not repeal the law giving custody of the funds to the Commissioners. The Commissioners +7 col . The forgers were not held until the saiitn, claim that these funds = were pledged | corded. ‘The t x ext of the steamer, but were released on Friday imm PO rey Ate HH det 80 tute, the feats: | diately alter sigulng the paper and lef the Stato a bave no right to give an portion thereof to any charity or instituvion. The severai Institutions claim that they have a right to tet several portions of the funds according to the pro- visions Of the laws of tho Legislature Of the State of New York enacted last winter. It is understood that the Board of Excise is per- fectly indifferent in the result of the cou i Cominissioners of the Sinking Fund co: selves bound to tarn over any portion or portious of the funds to any party or parties to whom the iaw may award the same. The commissioners make no claim on their own betial!, nor do they resist any, as thelr counsel asserts, The argument in ti ie lasted for several hours yesterday, and it was il adjournea anti this moraing. The following institutions are claimants for thelr Portions of the funds:—THe New York State ined Asylum, the Juvenile Guardian Society, H Good Shepherd, Sisters of Charity, and For the Inebriate Asyium, Judge Noa Davis; House of the Good Shepherd and Colored Crpaua Asylum, Joon EB. Devlin; Juveniic Guardian Society, Lansing & Carey; Sinking Fund, ™ aaderpeci, and joy the Excise Board, Mr. Bacon, once. Surcipr or a Lyyatic,—Coroner Fiyna yesterand held-an inquest at Ward’s Island over the nody of Mary Reagan, a native of Irciand, aged twentyp elght years, Deceased, who haa been but a littl more than two months in the country, was of wealg: Inteilect and on one or two occasions had atteinp’ suicide, Her husband accordingly placed her in ih Emigrant Guoatic Asylum on Ward's Isiand. Ou 5ui day she wandered toto a clamp of bushes tn the rea of the asylum. Search was made for her somo ound time afterwards and she was found on the groun dead. She bad tied a cloth around her os aes on ha bad then drawn it tightly until stra facis was ensned, 4 verdict in accordauce with rendere Js He A Fuavpi—A communication has reached Superintendent Kennedy {com a party who dates hig Jetter “At sea, on board the ship Importer,” ig which the writer confesses to having murdered @ wowwan named Catharine Hayes, at some place Austratia, called Pane Creek, on’ the 18th December last. ‘The writer minutely describes the manner 1 wiich the murder was comnnitted, his subsegnent movements Ii Aukiand, Melbourne — an other places, and gives ag @ reason { his confession, that has twonbied in body and in mind that he is anxious surrender himself. There is no such place as ‘Pal Creek’ designated on ihe maps of Afistratla, an the Superintendent of Police ts unable to commu: cate With the authorities in consequence, 9 TESTIMONIAL TO 4 POLICE OAPTAIN.—Captain Thomas W, Thorne, for many yeara at: the head of the Fourth police precinct, but recently transferred to the ‘Twenty-first, was yesterday the recipe fent of an eiegantly chased sfiver toe “er | tureen, katfe and @ dozen spoons of th value ‘of $00. The present came from members of his old command, and bears the folio ing inseription:-—‘‘Presented to Captain Thomas Thorne by merabers of the Fourth Metropolita poe precinct.” ‘The present was supplemgnt yy a brict alldvesa by Sergeant Rely, to which th Captain {celingly responded. The Captain was unte versally esteemed by the officers and citizens of thé ward, aud the lact that he was recalled from an u| town precines to receive.this mark of esteem, show! that the presenters had no selfish ends to gerve. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TEAM. Another Kailrond Wa: Before Judge MeCunn. Thomas Kip vs. the Hudson and Highland Sus- pension Bridge Company, and the Erie and New Engiand Raiiroad.—Thisa case came up before the Court on an appileation for an injunction to restrain the defendants from farther appropriating apy of the moneys of the corporation of which plaintiff was member, and to prevent tiem irom mterfering with the franehise vested in-tim. It appeats that in 1888 the = Legiwlavare of tis State passed two acts, the object of whieh were to construct a suspension bridge over the Wuuson, to connect the line with the coal fleids of Pennsylvania, and thas carry tie coal further east. ‘Lac compiaint allegea that the directors and oiicers of the company have contrived and conspired to circumvent the stock- holders, and to depreciate in every way the iran- chise, which is alleged mm the complaint to be worth $1,000,000, and to sell them out to an- other company, The complaint further alleges that @ mecting of the stock or sharehoiuers was never properly calied, and Uiat the directors, and evory one of them, misappropriated the funds of tic company, aid winds up by praying Jor an injunction against all the direciors Ww prevent them from re- ceiving wily Money or dving any act im performance of tue object of thé grant, and praying for an ac- count Of ail moneys they received, &c., and for the Production Of the franchise of the company. Mr, Benjamin Baficy, counsel for the company, asked for an adjournment. Mr. James opposed an adjournment except upon the condition that a refcree should be appointed, Who shouid have the right to examine tie dircctors and ali the ofiicers of tie company upon the alleged misappropriatious and delinquencies charged, such evidence to be produced before the Cours on the ad- Journed day. Judge McCunn granted an order appointin:: a re. feree, and adjourned the tartuer hearlug of Wie cause Unti the receipt Of Mis report. SURROGATE'S COURT. An Interesting Wiil Case. Before Surrogate Tucker. An unusually interesting case, involving a con- siderable amount of money aud property, came up before the Surrogate yesterday, Mrs. Cecilia Bald- ‘Win, claiming to be the widow of the late John H, Baldwin, presented a joknee to set aside the will f the deceased.’ The lady m question previcusiy put in her claim for her dower, but waa in- duced, as the respondents say, to resign ail her right aud titie on condition of ® x ‘om a judgment of $6,000, She has, however, renewed her application, which is contested by the executors, ‘orge D. Samson and William F. Romer, wad maintain that the lady was never married to Mr, John B. Baldwin, and, consequently, has no claim on the estate, A number of ailidavits were read, chiefly on the part of the Oey very supporting thelr ‘ellegations, but hothiny , nal Was arrived at, jurrogate postponed the further i the case until Thursday next, pant ye PS RIE aK | PoLieh INTELLIGENCE, ALLEGED GARROT! Willtam @. Warren wag yesterday arrested on a charge of robbing Bryan Sheehy, of No. 18 James street, of 81x dollars, by the garroting process, while ina liquor store. Sheehy says that Warren came behind him, threw his arn around his neck, choked him and thus robbed ‘him, The accused, who was taken before Alderm: O’Brien at the Towbs, was held in detault of $1, bail to answer the charge. THR ALLEGED WHISKEY SWINDLING TRANSAG TIONS.—A partial exam!nation was gone into yestet> day before Judge Hogan, at the Tombs, tn the of Jobn Robinson and Patrick Wer, accnsod optaming Var.oug liquors from diffesent down to dealers by ineaus Of alleged wort checks— already reported in the HuRALD, The testimo: s veloped nothing new except a statement by Mr, D. Stevenson, cashier of the Ocean National Bank, the worthicssness of 2 check for $476 on that ban bare in payment for hquor purchased of Moss: ‘ones & Jarvis, No. 37 Beaver street. Emanuel} Bappe has also peen arrested on a charge of pone spiring With Kobinson and Wier in the fraud, he hat ered, been employee to soll the li of e ‘he Jag, as alien tet it nad beFa ght, wos journed for further investigation ull next Saturday, tHe GREAT DRY GOODS FAILURE, Effect of the Event—Linbilities:Not Yet Ascere tained—Additional Pi t Although the excitement crechéd fs Biinens cles by the announcement of the fallure of M Bowers, Beekman & Co., the great dry goods ¢o1 mission frm of No, 61 Leonard street, had su! vo @ great degree yesterday, yet there waa much culation as to the effects of the failure upon members of the trade end upon the factories banks, “siden Whatever dry goods nen may have felt, nothii was manifested to the outer world, although tt wi confidently predicted that the failure of Messrs Bowers, Beekman & Co, would cause a panic through which many firms would not live. That this predior tion was a false one events so far nave proven, fod although some houses may have been forced to perate resources to raise the funds to keep on with, hone were yesterday reported as suspended or ev: COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. SUPREME CourT CHAMBE:! Nos. 60, ” 92, 09, 154, 167, 168, 171, Th @ C1Y INTELLIGENCE, Toe WRATUER YEsTERDAY.—Theffollowing record ‘will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with tho cor. responding day of last year, as indicated by the ther- moineter at Hudnut’s pharm: HBRALD Broadway, corner of Kun’ atreats— ria ped SA. M. 63. MM. unsound. As to the milis and factori 64 He * to speak. It has been bruited al ‘ ‘ime ot 7 OP, M. fgain that the woollen manufacturers were 11 12P.M.. constant financial trouble, @ state erature ye Sains “# or correspe ae, a8 some misinformed ns . eee rere 5/9 A Mav Doa.—Yesterddy @ mad dog, after biting a ave ansel but to ee steady poline, of woollen since th child named Maarice Murphy, of No, 426 Second ave- resour ba tniese ig ed of tho f jes the resour Messrs. Bowers, Beekinan Co, have been strained to thelr usmost to keep a a" Was killed by one of the sanitary officers, ett itt thelr assets UsIo IN THB PARK.—The Commissioners an- | thelt failing clients. Among thelr rhe if aenetpese ane theme: be fine there will ve | which hey tae, advaoon "0 oe 7 atthe north Edward 8. Hall iy, Ol vali sald commencing at fve P.M. paplpiereg ier Savancod ¢400,000 on bond aod org STREET Can CasvAury.—Richard Baus, aged ten | teriktge aurne Node name cannot be aed, rho Posen at No, 880 Weat Thirty-frst street, | “the sing the arm are. ran over by@ car (No, 78) of the | in set dail Second avenue line aay ; lished 8 and Sericuhiy njofed exact amount of 10U8 Faltn—Thomas Walsh, lodger at No, 28 Madteon street, at four o'clock yesterday morning fell the third fnto the yard of John Suill. | Dé the case, many of their ¥en, adjol dees ‘went io’ bentovae, Hospi rulings v0 py,tue au dtated that he was suffering | | OD Fri mM congestion of the brain friendly | to ‘Tan WRECK OF THE BrBAMBHIP BOOTLAND.—The | Gud,08ered, 10 government engineers have surveyed a section of | on hout the sunken steamship Scotiend, on the West Bank, and having found the'required‘depth of water, twenty-two and @ haif feet, have the Inatal- Meat requi ? mont regalred ty the contract to the. Neptune Sub ACCIDENT ON THR HUDSON RIVER RaltROav.—A Child aged two and a half named James Fitz- Rerald, of No, 446 West th street, was you afternoo’ horsos at poi mode peer errant, ae wl Ten no the it that che y ira der etre tedhe im