The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1869, Page 5

STREETS OF NEW YORK. Present Condition of the Pavement in Different Parts of the City. Our Special Commissioner's Re- port of a Day’s Travel. HOW REPAIRS ARE CONDUCTED. In a former paper the general subject of city pave- ments has been discussed in the abstract and from the standpoint of practical engineering, without minute reference to the distribution of the different Kinds of pave or to the actual condition of what May be termed the cuticular membrane of the me- tropolis; and as supplementary in ita nature a taking up of the latter topic at lengtn cannot but prove interesting to the general reader and espe- cially interesting to the taxpayer. There are really but five different kinds of pavement in use in the city. Toese are the stone block, including the Bel- gian and Russ; the Nicolson, of which about 100,000 aquare yards have been put down; the Fisk concrete, which ts being tested at several points and along several thoroughfares, including Fifth avenue; the Staifvurd, of waicn afew hundred square yards Have been laid morely to test its capacity, and the cobble stone, by which more than one-half the ac- tual paved surface of the city 1s now covered. Roughly estimated, or rather estimated in round numbers, the statistics at date staid thus:— Square Yards. 000,000 + , 260,000 \Stone biock...... Nicolson aud others Cobble stone....,.. ‘This estimate incindes this year’s contracts now ja Process of fulfilment, and ts Lecessary to a proper understanding of the detaila of present condition, ‘The Nicolson and Fisk toncreto have not been to ‘use long cnougn to need repairs, and it is not, tuere- fore, necessary to study them im this resnect. The former, having been made the subject of a great Geai of controversy, 13 diligentiy cared for by the Propricturs of the royalty, a8 also is the case with the latter, which cannot be said to have veen subjected to Berious wear as yet. Both, so far as surface is con- cerned, make excellent roads, and are open to no criticism from a sauitary point of view; and both maust be considered as merely experimental, opinion ‘upou which must be held tn abeyance, The condl- tions of a perfect pavement are easy traction, a Ught grade, and a good footing for horses. Above all, to answer sanitary conditions, a pavement should beso constructed that water—in cities, always holding more or less refuse in solution—cannot per- Colate through It. The only pavement in general use in this city that fulfils these conditions 1s the Russ, Which consists of cubical blocks of primitive rocks upon aconcrete bed. The cobble-stone, which had up to 1866 been extensively put down, 1s a mere make- shift and ought never to have been tolerated at all. ‘The ordinary stone block upon a bed of sund, which Constitutes a surface of 2,000,000 square yards, is ttle better than ita predecessor; and, generally, it may be stated that while New York has ior ten years disbursed from three-quarters of a million toa round million @ year for construction and re- Ppairsa—a larger sum, by the way, than 1s dis- bursed both by London and Paris taken together— New York has not, with the exception of Broadway and the few sections of wooden and concrete pave- Ment, 60,000 square yards of unexceptionable road- way. This 1s a hard, unpalatable fact; but facts are facts, to use a Gradgrindism. Any one else who Wiii tage the trouble to 1uspect for himsell may satisly his judgment that the alicgation 19 not a Whit too sweep- ing. ‘There have been several operative causes in the production of this siate of thin first place, the construction de novo is slovenly, being performed by contract; in the second place, the idea of Jaying Kelgian pavement upon a roadbed ol sand is a device of faise economy; aud, in the turd place, repairs are-con- ducted in a manucr as slovenly as original construc- Pavements most economical in the beginning a generally found to be most expensive im the end; and the train of this maxim las been amply de- monstrated in the history of surface improvements tm this city. Whenever a pavement is so con- structed that water can percu.ute througb it inio the roadbed beneath, there action of frost must in- evitavly ensue and upneaval and irregularity of the surface mast be more or les’ constant. Holes and hillocks are created, Into the former setties water holding reiuse materials in solutton, and this, hav- ing exhaled noxious gases for days, at last disap- yous by percolation, tainting the soil beneath with joulness and becoming @ irult{ul source of atmos- pheric humidity and epidemic disease. ‘1! fail oi rain, instead of cleansing the pavement, is turned into @ generator of noxious gases and becomes really a spring head of miasmatic fevefs, and in this metamorpacsis Of @ bicssiug into a ‘curse 1s described the general condition of the surface oi the city, In many cases whole sections of pavement are uuterly WANTING IN CONVEXITY OF SURPACE, and consequently pools and puddies of mud and water are of frequent occurrence. The least con- vexity consistent with full flux and ebed oi water is of course best and most convenient for venicuiar travel, vehicles being less disposed to keep wo the centre of the roadway and circulating more freely iu ali paris, wita the result of producing a more equal Wear with less wasie and jea3 repair, On the older roads in France, where the system of Macadam wus In use long before Macadam Knew anything avout it, the convexity ran as high a8 one twentieth, Subsequently it was reduced to one-fiitieth, and at present from one-sevenitiett to one one-hundredth is cousidered quite ampie for purposes of watershed. A certain convexity, not less than the last specitied, 4s one of the essential conditions of health, and yet Mn more than fifty streets, numerically countod, if taere be any inclination of the surface at ail itis m the direction of the middie, The reader who will take te trouvie to investigate may Lud ample proof ‘Of this allegation. Let nici take an East Broadway car, alight as far up a3 Grand street, and make @ tour of examination among the cramped, filtuy, tenement hauried streets uUiat lie towards tie East river. Here is @ parallelogram, bounded on mM street, ou the east by Tomp- k 3, on the south by Gran street, and on the west by the Bowery, Traversed in an e€asierly direction by Broome, Deiaucey, Rivington and Stanton sircets, it ts traversed in tue oiuer dtiection by twenty-one atreeis of cobble stone pave- meat, cutting it Into over 100 &mares., In four- teen Cut of the twenty-one of these (ranverse streets the rule isan ucter Want ol convexity of sariace in the pavemeat; and from square to square Standing pools of water, bilsicring In the sun- Biloe, May be counted by dozens, while in some Jusiances it 19 next to timposstbie to eitect A Crosa- ing withont wading through tatervening pucdies of Hoisome (ith helt ia solution, che very aunosphere is oppressive with aa odor of mildew and humility and rot, the whole coustituting @ sort or Pekinese stivkpot On @ colossal écwle. In this whole terruory bub five squares could be counted which were freo from povls of fith from two to sx ject in diameter, and cover- ing from naif a aquare ‘ard to @ Couple Of square yards of Autface, notwithsianding the fact that there hed been, up to Saturday nigit, no rainfail ee ee rent in most cases, the gut ters were fully a9 clevated as the nidald of the street, thua precluding the possibility of the flich being carried into the gaiters and thence into the sew- ers. Again, in the majority Of cases thé gutters were too imperfectly constructed to admit of the Aux of the water into the sewers, had whe middle surface been in good condition—the jointing between the ave and gutter stones being Nnperfect and the gut- ors Blimy With standing waver, exhaling dlagustiu! odors; and when It 1s taken into account that this ts one of the most densely populated districts in the city, the resuit from @ sanitary point of view may be imagined—may be caught, in fact, from the generally Bickly, Cadaverous, apectral faces of its tens of thou. sands of denizens and habitues, The main fault is found in the want of convexity, evenwuating in ‘Want of watershed, above desigaated; aud yet while money by the ten thousand is being expended to Pave or repave thoroughfares like Fifth avenue, where No real need of repavement exists, these wan and wasted spectre of humanity are left to sweiter En 1s Of flith for want of @ decent pavement. Fo second district, of equaily dense population, gee by Division, Grand, Water and toosevelt, Fe ying partly in the Seventh and partly in tud ee and the same phenomenal facta are S ntlally repeated, with the result of about the me Humber of squares of cobble sone pavement {m condition rather worse on tho ave iT that of the former dist rare district 18, in habited largely ie Gocmant, fag dustrict 13 in. tter by A mixture ry erent tes dimicult of accurate analyal and by i Repet ton Of habits not remarkably r le of the ‘Was less elevated than the gutter, and only twenty: one squares in Which no st Jing pools of water Were exhibited. Crossing tho street at random, on the average, one woull have fonnd 1b necea- Sary to flank here @ pool of ith held in solu. Won, there a hilioe of filth rotting in the August heat, and, at tho gatter, to make a two feet leap in order to clear a third stagnant and elon- gated rivulet of refuse, rotting in a small depth or ‘water, upon the surface of whicit W iiions of animal rt in Evens Us pes yesent cond the Fourth, Seventh, Tenta and Tai eonth ‘veni Awost OL Which are covered by the Wiwouisirwis, Ihe NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, THR TOMPKINS SQUARE DISTRICT, bounded by Seventh street, the Gast river, First and Houston streets (south), and Second avenue, of whieh Tompkins square, @ grassicys ten acres, con- stitutes the ceatral breathing piace. Every stuuent of we reports of the Board of Health is aware that Fourth street, east of the Bowery (lying within this district), hus for some summers constituted one of the centres in which more or less fatal ep.demic diarrrhea has been origimated, thence spreading in all ditrectious, and, disease being no matter of accident, the causes of this unhealthiness reimain to be tvcstigated. ‘ihe street from the Bowery east slopes almost abrupily aud is very badly paved, maksug it @ centre wo be marked on sanitary Maps With Lue terribly maicative red ink; albeit in the laiter respect 1 is In no Worse coudition than the remainder of the district within which tt lies, ‘The district 18 traversed east of the square by avenues B, O and D, tuan which three dirtier aud more offeusive thoroughiares it Would be dificult to specify—avenue wWaich lies west of the square, vying With ita alphabetic vonyréres in tue matter of offensiveness, botD to the sight and to tie nostrus, ‘traversed by street ruiirouds, the exist- ance of which on any Lhorougifare aiways proves fatal to good pavement, creatiug @ depressed line in the middie of the steet, a description of the condi- tion of these avenues might be spun out and Woven ito a volume of sickening detutis, The original pave, brokea up oy tracka, 18 covered with DI Of depressed surface, iiled lu with garvage, the cross streets, Wilh @ couple of exceptions, are equally objectionable, Reyorting to numeri- cal count, foriy-one of uuese pestuvles ot depressed surface, Hild With garbage saturated with water, were counted on the saort space of ifteen squares, with an average, of course, of about three to & syuare—solnetiues More ald in @ few cases less. ‘The pavement is mostly covbie sione, through which the percolation of Ulth is easy, and besides ceing uL- even 14 distursed aaa lovse In many places. A Jourth and upper district, consisting of au elongated ribbon of iand between Second avenuc wad the East river, fils up the desertpuoa oi: the easterly poruoa of the city, and way be ranked ag neituer better nor worse, With the excepuon oF a iew favored squares, than either Of the districts previously mentioned. In fact, generally speaking, throughout tue eastern belt, fiom Ook street to Harlem, vetween the Bowery aud Thind avenue line aad the Lo river, te Sts face condition of tie stresis 18 deplorable aud almost without paraiicl. in more than two- turds Of the whole length of lineal foct represented the most obvious condition of & good pavement—that of adequate watershed irom alddle to the gutter—1s neglected; and very frequentiy, where this Condition is ranting, tue gutior itself 18 t00 icvega’ar of co: . admitof the free passaze of waier 10 U er. ‘Taken together, there is cranuied 2nd crowded upou tals belt, divided into the disiric’s above ment by the goueral Bireel Coniiguration of tie clLy, less than one-half is Wuole 1es iis average to tae square, section SLX to SeVen times hat of Pitta avenue, houses, of from Carce to seven Stories In height, are ed With pupulsiion fram ecliar to garret— catacombs iu Which humanity burrows for Waut of a better vurrowmy pi Bleer and palid faces look up at you fr Cedars a8 you pass; layers of humuriy, story upon stvry, peer down Upon you Trom litt.e windows, and armies of human diinina- lives scan you from sidewalk and guiver. very buliding 18 @ huge box of human sardines; , story 18 a box of human sardmes on & sniail geaie; every apartment is a box of human sardines on @ sul. smaller scale, Without and within there 1s the same odor of tenaut house rot; and yet io this deausely populated portion of the city the very pavenient constitutes iu itsel, and is permitted to CONSELULE, & prolific source of uisease, Wie thou- sands oO! dollars are expended on healthier taorough- fares with very passuo.e aud Wholesome roadways. At 13 grated that it is very didicult to Keep cob- bie stone suriace mm good repair, pariicuiarly on streeta where there Is any appreciable heavy traiic, One of the first negessities of the case iy the cessation of wwe sysien of laying tne Belgian surface upon a roadbed of sand and the adoplinn of the must luwproved modern bed for tne upper structure. Talis is a tise more expensive to begin with; but, asa good Belgian structure on a coucree roadbed way be made to last, under ordinary conditions, tur tea years, without appreciable re- pairs, it is least expensive iu the end. A sound structure once put down, the money which would uaturaily be expended in the yearly repair of an un- sound aud unscientific structure migat be diverted to the yearly replacing the cobble 8.0ne with soue- thing beter, Ia most streets within tue district de- scribed al Mexpensive, solid concrete, without upper structnre of stone, would answer the pur- pose, and this Lemg impermeable by water might be rested upou a roadbed of sharp, clean sand with thanilest advantage, An excelient and durable roadway of this Kind oaght not to cost over $1 59 per square yard, and could not full to answer ail the saullaiy couditions lmposed in tie solution of the problem, — In fact, the day is at land when, by improved modera methods, a good concrete can be put dowa, with proilt to the contractor, at less than $1 26 per square yard, at which rate hait a ipulion a year would repliwe every square yard of cobble stone im eg years. 408 CENTRAL DISTRICT, an irregular quadrangie, bounded by Bond sireet on the north, by the Bowery on the east, by the line from the Oty Mall to foot of the Bowery on the south and by Broadway on the west, is worth atten- tion as ilustrauve of the subject. This, again, con- silutes a sort of unclean Jeproay sore on the sur- face of the metropolis, and is mostly paved with cobple stone, wita the exception of its t Cross tho- roughfares, ‘The surface condition of Mulberry street be taken as an examp!e of the average condition of the whole district. From Prince street to its southern terminal this avenne of tenant house popu- lation caunot voast of @ singie square of wholesome surface; aud in a dozen places the gatters are so di- Japicated that they could be of no earthly use were the totervening pave in the very best condition, ror rods toge.her they are (and all summer have heen) slagnant rivuleta of fith. At numerous pomts the suriace of the street atthe middle is on @ plane jower than that of the gutter; at other points depres- sions appear, varying in depth and capable of the formation Oi little lakelets of from one to three cubic feet of water covered wita glimy ooze and percolat- ing gradually, flitn included, into the soil beneati. Baxter street isin rather worse condition, Mott street averages avout an equal umber of depressions to the square with Mulberry, Centre street, tie mid- die thoroughfare of the district, owing to the pres- ence of railroad tracks, could not well be worse. In fact, creating @ division of the pave bounded by tron oa either sido in parallel lines, the existence of a city railroad is fatal to wholesomeness of pavement, in the uature of the case the rain fall between the tracks finds no avenue of escape except by percolation, witch, for miliary reasons, 18 one of the results to be avoided, d the day cannot but ne pear at hand wien the city railroads wil be yo ee to subinit to the arcade system, surface railroads being simply the geri out of which a most cominodious and 1¢s3 ob- trusive system of popular citcalation is to be devel- oped. Eilzaneth street constitutes a third Itne to be noticed in this connectioa, and, taking Muiverry as @ standard, must be pronounced ratier above Hie S & average: and, again, Lim strest is worth a note in point of Wawbo.esoineness and brokenness of sor. face, Ja a word, sayiog a few hundred yards at the ying into Broadway, where a decent pave has been induiged in as @ luxury, for @sthetic rea- Sous, probably, the surface of this district is in nearly as bad condition as that of the district fst mentioned, and stands sadly in need of wal or juvenation, Owing to cilmatic ase, IN this latitude it 1s next to impossivie to Keep cobble stone pavement ia perfect repatr; bul a great deal may (or might) be done by thoroughness Wich, even When @ pavement 13 con- structed on bad principies is a conservative and sauitary agent not to be overvalued, situated in tae very centre of thts chy—a rotiea borough, to apply @ political metaphor—this district taciudes in itself three or four disease centres, according to tie sonitary Maps, and besides bemg overero wied con- stituted in itself a sort of city of refuge for the worst social and nioral offal evolved by the great metropo+ lis. The very beet pavemeut here wouid bardly prove suMoient to prevent summer epidemics, with the very best cleansing. What shall be said of the very worst, with the very worst caning, only re- peated weekly at that? Portions of tus district are among the most densely popmated in the city, the bulidings, speaking trom an average standard, are of the Worst and most unh: hy order—oid, dilapi- dated, mildewed aud unventilateds thy sition js one of the most breezeiess the sultry mn hole git I rotien heart Hy i Yue batts of a diseased hody, this central distr Mnting every adjacent tocw won with @ taint of pestilontial~ humidicy and foulness, It ig granted that for mstnetio rea- sons the great fasiion thoroughfares of city ought to lack nothing in the way of pave- tis granted that, for business reasons, the great thoroughfares of trade must be kept ‘well paved and wholesome. It is alleged and matatained hat, for @ sanitary reason, all densely populated and tenant house streeis should be equally well paved; and the wanitary reason for a reform in any at city is the most important that can be alleged. tia @ reason urgent, preasing and tmperative— reason upon which economy of burwan life depenas— a reason, 80 jar as this cliy 18 concerned, which ro. garda the wellare of the very constituencies repre- F pie by Ihe oMicials Who neglect to consider its ity. Wrst OF SIXTH AVENUR, again, the investivator finds himself crossing a long ribbon of iith aud imperfect pave in making his way to the river, The upper portion of this belt, bounded north by the southera ime of the Park and south by Thirteedth street, 18 agatn, with few excop- tions, badly paved and still more imperfect! cleaned; and, further ath, from ‘Thirteenth sireet to Canal, lies an irregniar, diagonally cut district, congested with population, nearly as defective in pavoments a3 the eastern and cen: tral districts, Gansevoort, Horatto and Jane atreets; Troy, Bethune, Bank and Hammond; Perry, Grove, Barrow and Morton streets-—-what are they in point of surface but billocks and holes and pools of siand- jog water and badly disposed cobble stones? In most cases the condition is not as bad as the general average cast of the Rowery, because the strects are kept a trife cleaner; but bad enough points ana sub- districts are to be marked with the fatal red ink aud avoided as generative centres of pestilence, The ex+ terior street along the Itudson 18 in the worst posst« ble—In A most complainable condition. The pave+ ment is snpject to frequent and deep depression and mud and garbage pools are of frequen occurrence. The whole length of this thorough. fare, from the Battery northward, is a boundary or rind for that wineh ties within it—a <«iisirict holding & dense population, of irre- ular construgcon, cramped and narrow streets ‘and of cobble stone pavement by the thousaud equare yards. The conclusion is, therefore, that, saving central thoroughfares and the streets aud avenues of the fashion district, New York at pre- sent has not 60,00) square yards of pavement in good air, he primary diilicult, rises, of course, from the use of sand as a road bea. Water Percolates into it, and by the action of frost the whole surface 1# disturbed every spring with all the regularity of reposting disturbauce for which, 1m the nature of things, there i no remedy. NEW YORK CITY, THE COURTS, ON TED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Notico to the Bar. His Honor Judge Blatchford will hold court Sep- tember 3, 4 and 6, 1869, at twelve o'clock noon each day. AN matters noticed for earlier than Sep- tember 34, or postponed or adjourned toa day earner than September 3, stand over to that day at twelve o’clock noon, After September 6 his Honor will not be in New York untt Octover 2, 1269 GEORGE F. BETTS, Clerk: AUGUST 28, 1869. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. The Layton Counterfeit Carrency Case. Before Commissioner Osborn. The United States vs, Henry Layton.—The defend- ant, as hus already been announced, ts charged with dealing in or disposing of counterfett fractional cur- rency of the denomination of fifty cents, and his ex- amination having been concluded and all the testi- mony in, the defendant's counsel yesterday raised the question as to the jurisdiction of the Commis- sioner to proceed further mn the case, or rather to coummit the defendant, on the round taat tho alleged counterfeit money ,with tie passing or sale of which Layton is ace't had not vecn vteret o¢ potimeyiderce., Counsel maisted that this must oe Cone as prima facie proof of the committal of the alleged offence, Tne Commissioner reserved his decision on whe point. Tho Egan Custom House Freud Case—Re- buttal. The United States vs. Thomas W. Egan.—The fare ther examination in this case was resumed yester- day, and a large number of witnesses testified, The invesugation, however, was confined almost wholly to rebuttal of preceding testimony on both sides and nothing of particular importance or especially new was developed, ft will be remembered that the defendant was 9 weigher in the Custom House and 1s charged with having conspired, with other parties, to detraud the fovernment by means Of false or dotivious pay-rolis for subordinate empioyés, Among the witnesses examined yesterday on be- haif of the defendaut was Frank Webb, formerly foreman under Egan, and who is also jointly in- dicted with hina, At five o’clock rhe farther hearing was adjourned until twelve o’clock to-day, whea the case will be closed, SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TEAM. Habeas Corpue—McCleilan After Jadge Dow. ling. Before Judge McCuan. John Cochran, who on the 24th of July jast was tried, convicted aud senvenced to the s/euitentuary for four months in the Court of Spectai Sessions, ‘Was brought’ before Judge McCuun yescerday morn- ing on a writ of babeas corpus, Mr. James K. MoCielian urged the priso: ‘8 Te- lease by virtue of the wht on the ground that he was wied, convicted and sentenced by Justice Dow- Ing alone, instead of there having been two justices presiu:ng on the beuch at the time, as required by law. He then read several aMidavits setting forih the charge of which the prisoner had been con- victed, pamely, PeeronnRs & police oMcer aud ob- taining money froma Woulan Of casy virtue, and showing that Justice Kelly was not oa the bench with Justice Dowsing during the trial, &c. Assistant District Attorney Blunt opposed the re- lease of the prigoner ou the ground, first, tnat upon the petition baving veen presented to Judge McCann in chambers it was the Judge’s duty to myuire whether the party was commited or detained vy a judgment of a court of couperent jurisdiction. He next contended that the Special Sessious, under a law passed in 1867, Was # conrt coustitutionally formed, aud as such had the right to try cases of this character, The Supreme Court held at General Term that two justices must hold the Special Ses- sions, and that one of tuem could not be absent ‘untiess he was sick or out of the city, iu which event tne court couid be held by either. Apart from this, ce.tiorari and not habeas corpus was ihe proper. remedy In this case. The celepraicd case of ‘ne People vs. Stephen H. Branch Wasa case in point of what he contended. That case was brought up to me Supreme Court and Brauch was bailed out, 1t was then taken, on appeal, to the General Teri, which decided that the prisoner having once entered on tie execution of hus sentence had no legal rignt to be bailed out. Mr. Blunt read the adidavits of Justices Dowling and Kelly, and Mr. &. Johnston, clerk of the Special Sexsions, setting forth that both the former participated in and were present at the trial, con- viction and sentence of Cochran on the day in quea- uon. Judge McCunn took the papera and reserved his Geesion. Another Habeas Corpus Case. Betore Judge Jones. A young lad, namea James J. Rice, was brought before Judge Jones on another writ of habeas corpus. Mr, Alanson Nash appeared as bis counsel, and from his statement of the case the following facts transpired:—The prisoner, who is only sixteen years old, was indicted for robbery in the first degree. He pleaded gutity to pettit larceny from the person and was sentenced a year ago in the Court of General Sessions to the Penitentiary for threo years, Mr. Nash claimed thas that court sad no jurisdiction to send the prisoner to the Penitentiary at all, while it might have sent him tothe State Prison for three years if tt saw Ot. There is no power, except one, under the statute tosend him to the Penientiary Instead of tue State Prison, and that exception gaye the Judge the discretion to send persons beiween the ages of sixteen and twenty-one Lo the former place instead of to the latter. Therefore, Mr. Nash contended, this boy being under sixteen at the time of his conviction aud sentence the statute did not apply, and be shouid he released. District Attorney Garvin made some extended re- marks on the case, quoting copiously from the books to show that Judge Jones had no power to tn- terfere in the matter. ‘The principal point taken by the District Attorney was that Rice having been sentenced by & court of competent jurisdiction the habeas corpus did not he, because the law says that where 4 man 1s confined by the final judgment ot a coure of competent judrisdiction he cannot prose- cute or sue out @ writ of haveas corpus, Mr. Nash—' court was not a court of competent Jurisdiction, and had no right to send him there. Judge Jones—Let the prisoner be remanded, to be ere before me on Tuesday, September 7, at welye o'clock noon, When | Will dispose of the mat- ter, Decisions. By Judge Jones Mary Slevenson vs, James Si of divorce granted. Leland Balch, et. al. v8. J, HW. Blane,—Proceedings dismissed. Churles P. Bucking vs, Lewis Sylvester, el. dl-Mo- tion granted, a Wiliam P. MeDonatd, et. a, vs. 0. OC. Waller.—Do- fault opened and referred to WU. Price. Tobias Hamm vs. Anton Kronshaw.—Modon granted, Charles FP. Gilmore vs, Edward Bidell, et. at.~T- Junctign modified, COURT CALENGARS—Tu'S DAY, Surgewn Corns Oma Nianise COT. Siw, 6408, 2422, 3443, 3406, nson.—Indgment 89. $3, Nos. $3, 4%, 62, 63, oa. 34, 61, 2192, 8221, 8204, 9072, 4467, 8408. CHV INTEL! Tw Wrarnter Yesterday, —The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twonty-four hours in comparison with the cor. responding day of last year, as indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Hsraup Buliding, Broadway, corner of Ann street:i— y oore, 188, = 1860, 72 1 «8PM... ‘ ia 65° «6PM. » 88 73 7 69 9PM, 10 85 12 P.M. 60 Average teraperatnre yesterday... +7035 Average temperature for corresponding date las! yea é Bopy REoovERE .—The body of Owen Kelly, tho Jad drowned on Sunday Jast ia Harlem river, at Macomb’s Dant bridge, was yesterday recovered and taken to the ‘Thirty-second precinct station house, where an inquest Will be heid to-day. New Fearysoat.—A new ferryboat, the Winona, ‘was placed on tie Fulton ferry line, between this city And Brooklyn, yesterday morning. She ts 164 feet long, cost $70,000 and is filtted up in a very tasty and creditable manner. AccIDENT ON THE New MAVEN RAILRoAD.—Ber- ‘Bara Levahan, who resides in Sixty-second atrect, Detweon Second and Third avenues, was severely in- re yesterday morning, while jumping from e Haven Railroad train, at the corner of Sixty-a stroet, Diep SuppeNty.—About four o'clock yesteraay aiternoon James Hoge, a singie man, twenty-Avo years of age, horn in New York, while at work in the foundry at Tenth avenue and Forty-llits aeract, ‘was taken suddenly it}, and, faliing to the floor, died fa @ few inoments alterw: Deceased lived at 206 West Fortiett street. Coroner Koilins will bold an taquest on the bedy to-day. EXEcuTIVE CLEMENCY.—G, W. Ball, sentenced August 2 to two years’ imprisonment ga Blackwenl’s Island, for embezzlement from Mulls & Gibb, No, 412 Broadway, New York, was on Thursday last par- doned by Governor Hofman, at the petition of his employers and brother employés, and the apectal re- Vey District Attorney Garvin and order vc Deatu IN First AveNoR.—Coroner Keenan yes- terday received a request from the Board of Health to hold an inquest in First avenue, between Fifty- first and Fifty-second streets, over the remains of Mary Noon, wio died suadenly on Friday last. Dr. Burton, who attended the deceased during her il!- ness, has been notified that an inquest will be held on the pody of aeceased, i THE DEaTH oF Mn. MacaULEY.—Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest ov the body of Thomas Macauley, late foreman of Metropolitan Fire Engine No. 4. who died suddenly on Sunday evening, at No. woo Water street, as previously reported in the HeRALp. At pos-mortem examination was made by Wooster Beach, M. D., which showed tat death re- guited from repiure of an aneurism of the aorta. A verdiot to that effect was accordingly rendered by the jury. Deceased was thirty-one years of age and @ Dulive of this State, Fara ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morning, about nine o’ciock, Mr, David H. Jones, a brick mason, ascended to the roof of premises No, 68 Park avenue to finish @job of work, and a few minutes afterwards he sipped and fell to the pavemeat, thus recetving in- juries witch proved faial soon afterwards, death ensuing Wile being conveyed to Bellevue Hospital. Coroner Keenan was nouged to hold an inquest on the body. Deceased, who hved im Seventh avenae, near liar! Was Ofty iwo years of age and a native of New vers Mr, Joseph Carpenter, of 127 Kighth evenue, Was ear deceused when he fell, SuppeN Deatus.—Mr BE. Beyersdorf, who kept a lager beer saloon at 185 Laurens street, died suddenly afler a bricf illness, Coroner Rollins was notitled to hold an iuquest on the body. Coroner Koliins wus called to hold an inquest over tho remains ot Mrs. Ehzabeth Frauseday, who dicd somewhat suddealy at ler iate residence in Gree. wich streei, hear spring. Deceased bad been com- piainng for some Wine past, but her husband de- Bired that @ post-mortem examination shoult be made on tie body to satisfy nimself as well as tie @athorities as to the cause oi death. The case will receive that attention its importance demands, NEW SiReezt PAvEMENTS.—Bids were opeued at the Croton Aqueduct office yesterday and the fol- lowing proposals accepted:—For regulating and paving With Fisk concrete payeraent the portion of 129th street extending from Third to Sixth avenue; conwact awarded to J. 8 Brown for $46,320; tim $00 days. For reguladiug and paving with Bro Miller pavement orth Moore sire Jroadway to West street; contract ¥, Milier at $21,495; time, 170 days. For regwiating and paving with brown & Miller pavement White street, from Centre street to Broadway; contract awarded to B. #. Miller at $11,352 54; tune, 100 days. For regulating and paving with Nicolron pavement Secon avenues, from Fourteeath streot to Nineteenth street; contract awarded to ©. G, Waterbury at $20,500; tiie, 226 days, OLICE INTELLIGENCE. ARREST OF A OonvioT.—A man giving his name as Clifford was yesverday arraigned at the Yorkylile Police Court, and ehnarged by the officer having him in charge with being an escaped convict. The Jus tice ordered bim to be locked up tll be could be again conveyed to prison, ALLEGED ARSON.—Mr. Mark Deviney, of No. 335 Second avenue, was arraigned at Jefferson Market yesterday on the complaimt of Fire Marshal Keady, who charged hii with setting fire to bis premises, in Fourth avenue, on Sunday might. Deviney was remanded to tue Fire Marslat’s oiiice. SHOOTING AFFRAY.—During an altercation on the corner of Twenty-eighth street and Sixth avenue, between Peter Kehoe and Thomas J. Baker, on Sun- day night, Baker, as alleged, drew a revolver and fired three sho a a! Keuoe. A complaint was pre- ferred against him at veiferson Markee yesterday, and he was coniwitted to answer, Rai on a Disorpraty Hovss.—Sergeant McDer- mott, of the Jefferson Market Court squad, with two of his men, made a@ raid yesterday on the alleged disorderly house No. 124 West Twenty-seventh street and arrested the proprietress, Miltred Livingstone, and five of her untortunate women, Toey were arraigned before Justice Ledwith aud bailed in the suin of $500 to auswer, Mr. Sampson Rotiisehiid, ot No, 127 West Tweaty-seventhi stiecet, made the complaint on which the arrests were made. ALLEGED FRLONIOUS ASSAULT.—A man named James Dougherty was yesterday arraigned before Justice Shandley, at Essex Market Police Court, on @ chatge of felonious assault, The complainant was ofticer Van Fussell, wo appeared on behalf of the injured man, and s#taied that he saw the prisoner throw a@ lurge stone at Charlies Schultz, who is a driver of a Broadway and Eightn street stage, Scnuitz was 20 seriatny myjured that he had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital, The prisoner was locked up to await the result of Schultz's Injuries, MEIROPGL:TAN POLICE, The Order on Uniform Again Modified. On the 26th inet. the Board of Police Commisston- ers held @ meeting, at which they amended rule forty-five 80 as to compel oifcers below the rank of inspector to woar the uniform at all times and places, their own homes, boarding houses and places of public Worship alone being excepted. This order went into effect on Saturday night; but it excited such universal opposiiton that yesterday a number of the members of the force teadered thir resigua- tons. Ayong them were many veteran members of the force, who, In auswer to the inquiry as to the cause of thelr action, auswered, “order No, 674.17 Among (he resignations tendered was the follow- ing:— oe Brooktys, August 84, 184, To THR COMMISSIONERS OF THE BOARD oY POLIO“: — GENTLEMEN —Deerming the amended rule No. 45, as set forth tn Geacral Order No, B74, tyrannical and humiliating to me as an oflicer and a man, and in my opinion directly astlat- { lawbronkera, eapecially the propriiors of ate the laws, I thereiore tender 34 member of the Metropolitan Police force, ct on the Lat day of Septernber next, 1 THOMAS A. iste Sergeant Forty-ninth preciact, Ata meeting of the Board yesterday the resigna- tious of tie parties were accepted. Ai that meeting were Commissiouer Bosworta, who is the author of the objectionabie rule, Commissioner Manierre, Who voted for 1, and Mr. Brenuan, who, it 1s understood, opposed if, Commissioner Smith bemg avsent. The Board bad under consideration @ modification of.the rule, and after considerable discussion amended it | 80 as to read as folows:— Captatng, aerg ether on or d from wear- jved uniform only while at home, or at their ng houwer, and while atiending, going to and returning from public woranip, or while absent (vm thelr precinct ate bo. “ Py Sup rine The moditication is given in italics, his aciion wag takea at the morning session, During the entire day the Central office was be- y applicants for mission to attend ie business Mm citizens’ clothes, » their requests coinplied nets claim thas wader this with the modification, it wil be utterly for them to adiainisier the aifairs of nots properly, especially where at a late hour they may deen it necessary to wend out detaiia of men siciizens’ dress to make arrests, Uader the order (vey MUSE iirst secure the approval of the commissioners, It has been intimated that the modification matg yesterday is merely preliminary to te reseiudiag of Che raié, 111008 TIGHWAY ROBSERY. mon Beaten and Robbed of 2,800 nes and a Watch in Broadway, About half-pasé twelve o'clock on Sunday night oficer O'Reilly, patrolitug in Bond street, heard criee proceeding from Broadway, and running there at the double quick percetved @ man on the ground “surrounded by a number of men who were evidently robbing him. As the oMcer drew near the rumans ran away towards the Bowery, Seeing ina second the state of aifairs O'Reilly gave chase and ran one of the party down at the junction of the Bowery and Pond street, and at almost the same moment | ofliver Quinn, Who heard the push of feet toward him, jaid hold of two others, ‘The prisoners wore taken to the station house, where they gave their natnes as Edward Kiel, William Hickey and Frank Adama, After seeing their prisoners safely secured, the oficers returned to the spot where they heard tuo cries and there found Gustav Berbau, @ Frenchman, lying on the ground insensiblo and sur- rounded by ® number of citizens. When fully re- stored he gave the oificerg to understand that he had been only @ few days in the country, that his name Was as above given, and that le resided at the Hotel (o Paris, tn EASt Houston street. He had not been long walking Broadway, where he went for exercise, when le Was set upon by eight or nine men, knocked down, beaten and robbed. He carried on his person, in @ leathern girdle, 2,800 trance in | coin, and had in his vest a'gold watch of the value of $100, all of which the ropbers quietly appro- riated. A search being made by the folleetnen and some citizens & of rile was found on Rosson, 6 girdle the sidewalk, and also a heavy era coin which had been dropped in cutting the leather. The remainder of the plunder 18 stil in tue hands of the highway- men. M. Berbau, who does not speak English, appeared at the Jefferron Market Police Court yesterday morn. mg and charged the prisoners, through Mr. Strause, the interpreter, With the robbery, making au aillda- ! vit in accordance with the foregoing, facts. The prisoner, Hickey, was not held, officers pails the robbery, but k tel unabie to connect him with and Adams were committed to answer at the Gene- Tal Sessions, UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK. ‘The medical department of the University of New York has Just completed its new medical college on Twenty-sixth street, near the East river, and oppo- site Bellevue Hospital. The building is very orna- mental, two stories high with a French roof, and sixty feet frout. Tho lecture room is admirably fit- ted for the convenience of students, each one having @ handsome upholstered iron chair to himself. The practical anatomy room 1s lighted with twenty-five sky ligh and 1s very airy and well ventilated. The facilities Sor clinics, that is, those lectures in which paticnts are brought before the class, ere very good, comprising @ room for the pa- tients, a privale examimation room and an entrance to the lecturing arena. Each professor has a private room, which may be used also for in- struction purposes. ‘The preitminary course of lec- tures will commence on tue 13th of September, and the regular winter course on the 18th of October, ‘This institution as our readers will recollect, was formerly on Fourteenth street, near the Academy of Music, That building was destroyed by fire at the same time ag the Academy of Music, Lectures have been continued in the New York Hospital ever since, but with the removal o1 that edifice the faculty con- cluded to build in tue neighborhood of Believue Hospital. ‘The University Medical College has been in exist- ence about thirty years, and has more than 3,000 luates scattered taroughout the United States, is very largely patronized by Southern students. One-third of the class last year from the South, ‘The medical geptemen connected with the tnsti- tution are:—Presiicns, Professor J. + wl Registrar, Projessor H. Draper, and Pro: ling, Post, Budd, Loomis and J. ©. Dra; ft New York offers unparalleled faciities for the study of medicine, being unequallet by any city on this Continent, and tue medical departinent o: the Universtey gives the student every advantage for them. it is expected that the class of the coming winter Will be over 400 students, ARRIVAL OF FRUIT FROM CALIFORMA, Sending Grapes Overluad a Failure, One feature of the opening of overland railway communication with California ta the imtroduction to our market of various Kinds of fruit grown on the Pacitic slope. The first cargo, cousisting of pears, was brought here about four weeks ago. A similar Kind of freight arrived two weeks siuce, but yester- day an immense consignment, made up chiefly of grapes, toa house in Deg street, came in by the Hudson River Katlroad. “There were 825 cases alto- geth forty-seven of wai were tiled with an ex- cellent specimen of Bartlett 4, twenty-lve of Seckel and four of Flemish beauty pears, a brilliant tinted style of iruit. ‘There was one case of extra fine plums, as large a3 pears, a good deal like those grown m Southeia Germany, but of a Much superior favor. Ali tag rest, numbering 78 cases, Were flicd—it might be truly said, packed-—with the following kinas of ‘apes:—Paulin Kouze, Black Hamburg Muscat, tack Prince, Frankendale Ualifornia, Black Malaga, Blue Mgivel, Mission, Kose of Peru aud Biack Mal- vasia, These were shipped trom Sacramento city, in # refrigerator car, without change, and in soven days to this city; cost of freight six dollars per MEXICO. Tmportact Customs Circular te Captains and Shippers. The government of the republic of Mexico, finding that great negligence ts indulged in complying with the customs regulations in reference to goods ship- ped to Mexican ports from various foreign ports, has determined to enforce the law. The Minister of Finance has accordingly jasued a circular under date a) Mexico, August 6, 1869, containing tne following cla 1, All captains of vessels carrying freight from of the repubiic must formuiate his mant- Ci pers shaly respective, invoices, 4s stipulaied in paragraph 3 of article 31 of the ordinance bearin; with the only difference that they are relieve Presenting the rece! i ccawa uD. by the Mexican Cons: which should be remitted to the Customs on the arrival of the ve and the invotces will be considered ‘authorities for the despatch of the same requisitions ex- ART. 2. The manifest sufloient by the customs goods, and therefore must contala the pressed in the existing regulations, Axt. 8. The absence of such mality in thelr concoction will mentioned in the ordinance in twenty-elyht and others Ant, 4, 7 ‘documents or of any for- be subject to the penalties two of article ‘he copied o} ices \y were submitted to the Mexican conauls shall henceforth be Rees eat sailing of the vesuel, duiy ad to Akt. 6. The stipulations mentioned in tne Serenata ald take effect after fhe lapse of six months from the feof ihe ' mnsular certilicate will not be dispensed with for vessein proceading irom thn United States of other porta where there are Consuls of the republic, The peualties the law will be strictly applicd to ali o1als so which ice Consuls respeciively are ordered to, 1 couditions imposed by virtue of the ex- im Tnie; endence and berty, MexXIOO, August 5, 1409. GOVERNGR HOFSMAX IN AUDURN, A Serennde—Dilspiay of dress, {From the Auburn Morning News (republican), August 28, Notwithstanding notice of the reception haa not been given the trends of the Governor talked the mutler up among Uiernselves and raised the neced sary funds to procure a band and purcnase fire. works, and at about ten o’clock last evening they repuired to tae house of Mr. Ross and serenaded the distinguisned guest. During the serenade tre rocke(s, roman candles, double-headers, ire crack- ers aud torpedoes Were sent off in quick succession. Ia response to the must and noise We Governor ap- peared upon the sleps of Mie house and spoce in @ decidedly sensible siraia for half an hour or more, GOVERNOR HOFFMAN'S ADDRESS. Fre thanked hia hearers for the demons:ration, and cousidered it Mol as & compliment to the map, bus QS A Mark Of respect for the oifice he represented, Having been born aud raised in Sing Sing it was quite uatural tuat be should feel athome tn Auburn. He referved in very feeling tera to ex-vovernor Throop, whom he had caiicd upon during the day, and pald a handsome tripute to the statesmauship and honesty Of purpose of anctaer honored citizeu, Secretary Seward. He trovufuliy remarked that his audience was composed of representatives of the great political parties of the country, aad he did not, therefore, feel justified in making Abe potten alla. sions; aud tor so'strong & partisan as all knew bias to his entire speech was Uxovjectionabie ta this respect. He spoke of @ recent luterview between General Grant and hunseif at West Point, Meek ing at that place they congratulated each other upon their good sense in thus escaping from oshetal cares and responsibiiities during the “heated term,’ and resolved that each 0 hie respective domatn was privileged to throw off tha ef ROMERO. owerke—Au Ade 100 ponnds. A box offine Muscat grapes, addressed to Kobert Bonner on # card, and marked conspicuously on the wood of the box “To bexter,” was among the freight, and also afew other cases as presents for private individuals in Balumore and Wasbington, With the exception ot a few boxes of Muscat all tho other grapes shipped across the coniineut have undergone 80 nach damage as not to be worth the cost of ireight. «Mr. Pleasants, of Sacramento city, accompanied the grape cargo to observe the results upon it of a seven days’ coutiiuous railroad journey, and he bas come to the conclusion ihat the grapes received more injury from Chicago to New York than in all Ure rest of the tip across the content, The rough motion of the car was perceptibly noticed on the roads from Chicago here. A great portion of the grapes were packed in rade, unplanea and heavy boxes, wholly unit 1¢ wouid appear evento the uninitiated eye for such delicate iruit as tue ripe, full grape of Cali- fornia, The consignee of the fruit thinks the only remedy 15 to put the grapes up in small packages of 81x pounds or 80, covered with @ tin cloth on top and to allow plenty of ventvation for the freight car. A good many fruit dealers examined the Caii- fornia product with much interest. The grapes are all of @ fine, full, flavor, bat sadly shaken by their overland voyage. in consequence of the condition they are in they mus. be sola at any price the con. sighees may happen to get. THE NEW W.OLESALE FiSH MARKET. The new wholesale Msh market in conrse of erec- tion at the left hand side of the Falton ferry house is making rapid progress towards completion, In- deed it promises to be a marvel of quick construc- tion when Mnished. Two weeks ago yesterday workmen commenced the task of tearing up the piles that supported the Moor of the old market, Some of these venerable piles, after thirty-flye years’ service, were found in an admirable state of pre- servation in that portion of tnem buried below the surface of the tide, the upper part exposed to the atmosphere was @ good deal decayed. Next day, after the old piles had been removed, the work of driving down new ones begau, and im three days the entire, to the number of 218, were securely driven into the bed of the river, the caps put on and the ranges jaid same day. When the piles at one end were driven home the work of layiug the hoor immediately foi- Jowed and continued during the pile driving opera- tion. ‘the floor was almost all laid yesterday, and will be entirely Auisned, boiteds and cleared of rab- bish by to-morrow. The material of the floor 1s white Canadian pine, laid m pieces 30 feet long and 6 inches square. it makes a splendid show, looking stronger than the deck of the strongest war Irigate, and, accordimg to tue bulider, Will sustain a Weight of 700 tous to 40 square feet. Fiity-one iron columns in three rows of 17 each wil support the roof at a hemgnt of 30 feet, The interior is 193 feet in length by 60 Im depth, There will ve three domes ou iop, one in the centre and one ateither end. The girders supporting the second oor are sixty fees long, of Canada pie. Haifa dozen were placed 1m position yesterday, to- e.ucr with ali tie Uprights for the wails of the yuiiding. Vhe bulkhead was being filled fo with stone and three hydrants were lying ready for tie workmen, In front of the market on the street facing each man’s stand will be (wenty-cight lamps, Tus inside Will be lighted by 160 gas jets, There are 160 Work- men altogecier engaged, aud everything, includiug Window sasies and iruimes, are in veadiness the mo- ment they are needed, Lue whole operations wil be Niisned acco! ig to the promisg of the contrac- tor, Air. bernard Kelly, by toe 15th of October, though lus thie extends to che ist of November. ‘The frame of the building is beimg put up by Mr. Henry Case; the architects are Glover & Mumford; tue floor 1s being iald by Mr. McCarthy, who batt the deck portion Of various wouitors. The costof the door alone 18 $7,000. ‘Tue piers at olther side of tuc mar- ket and foot of Fulton aad Yeekwan streets are un- dergomg repairs. ine present pasimesa of the mar- Ket 18 carred forward oa a pier Helonging to tae Fulton terry Company and on board a ve lying in the sip. Tue Commitiee having charge of toe finances devoted tv the work are Samuel B. Miler, Henry ©. Rogers and Benjama W. West. The butiding Commiuee are i. &. Crocker, Vuaries Mu- jer and Glibert A CASH A Young Man Elopos With a Married Womau aod $25,000 in Cash. (Prom tie St, Joseph Union, | Leas tian a ye go there care to ¥ a poor but hunest mechanic, Who has during his residence among us earned aa envisole reputation by his strict moral conduct and close attention to his labors. Longer ago than that there also cawe to re- side among as a young married couple fromthe Bast. bey were surrounded by every luxury, the wife being an Uolress of very large pretensions. The ouug man became @ irequent visitor to the house of the young married couple, but 9; to thé present tite thére Was not thé least adspiciol that his visits Were anything but honcrabie, aud we incline to tbe opinion that there was not. One day last week tne Ta Fy eae into possession of about $28,000 In cash as her proportion of # patrimony in the Bast, Then it appears she conceivea a liking for the young mechauic, and an elopement waa planned for Sunday night last. At any rato the iady and the mechanic have both disappearea, and teie- grams nave disclosed the fact that (hey were being rapidly whirled through Canada on an express train, ‘The couple took with them the whole of the moncy lately received by the lady, amounting, as we bave above stated, to $28,000 in cash. The husband started ba Me road Wag Gupte yesterday worning in pnrsult SHOOTING AFFAIR aT CORTLAND.—Yesterday after- noon Sheriff Mathewson, of Chenango county, came to Voruand with a warrant for one Charles Head, charged with horse stealing. Obtatning the services of Deputy Sheriff J. T. Barnes, of Cortland, the twe oficers proceeded to the. house of a farmer near Cortiand, for whom Head was to work. Knowing the desperate character of Head, the officers re- 00) until dinner was ready, when ane with other yg came to the house, Mr. out and placed his hand on the col- ‘and said to him, ‘You are my prisouer.”” truck Barnes, and thereby released his aaa and at once started off on a ran. Both officers cal on him to stop, to which he paid no attention. The i) eMicers then drew their revolvers, and both fired at same moment. Only one ball took effect, and that entered the body of Head at the lower point of the back and quite through the stomach, coming out near the navel. The wound {3 consid. ered fatal,as the physicians say the wounded man cannot wg recover, Head is a desperate char. He ja under indictments in Chenango and Otsego counties lor various crimes, and has hitherto cluded the oMcers,— Syracuse Journal. perplexities of oflce and minzie with that happier portion of their feliow citizeus wo believed dutics could be more easily periormed when pro; erly mixed with recreation. He closed nis remarks by saying:—‘It I have said anytiung upon this occa- sion that has in the least struck af inarmonious chord in the ears of any of my hearers, com ae they are of my political friends and opponeuts,| hum- biy crave their pardon. A large number of men have asked me to-day for pardon, and every one of them was innocent. I claim to be innocent of any desire to hurt the feelings of a single one of my auditors, aud as I have, in one instance at least to-day, ex- tended pardon to another, will you not be as mag. nanuuo0us in granting the same boon to met’? During his remarks he was frequently iaterrupted by applause; his references to the two ex-Governors of the State, now citizeus of Auburn, recei) the commendation of lisa Learers by hearty ng continued marks of approvation. Sefore retiring trom te steps he introduced to the crowd his pet sonal friend and Private Secretary, Mr. Apgal who made a brief address, substantially in the same strain as the Governo:’s and squat? comendable by reason of its entire freedom from parusan refer- ences, Al the conclusion of the speech-making the Gov- ernor, attended by Mr. Ross, waiked turough the grounds, and was loudiy cheered by his friends, many of whom were introdaced and taken by the hand. Returmng to the house agai, le found it weil filied by another crowd, each of Whom in turn received @ personal Introduction to the executive head of the State, and then passed out, doubticssiy weil pleased with the very liberal and pieasing man- ner in which they had been received and entertained by the Governor's GENERAL PHILIP Interesting Revolntionary Reminiscences=Ree vival of an Oretion by A. Cakey Hail—Proe position for a Memorial ia Honor of General Schuyler. Vrom the Albany Argus, August 39, The resins of many distieguisued ten 2 within the enclosure of the Albany Rural Cemetery, but among all the mouidering forma uo traer patiiot w to be rememb than General Philip scauyier. He ‘Was Lorn ia this city—hia wile was the heroic woe man of @history who set fire to her busband’s wheat flelds to prevent them from being used to feed. an acvancing enemy, and bis well preserved home- stead ia to-day the most attractive revolutionary relic of Albany. Tn 1859, in @ Fourth of July oration delivered be- fore ire Young Meu’s Associat.on of this city DY A. Oakey Hall, references are wade 10 General Schuyler, pA aca ake the kberty to seproduce, Mr. Hail sald:— “nave sald that Philip Schuyler consecrates your yery atmosphere. i appropriately allude to im here—and tis day. The appropriategess ts tat of locality and occasion. Locality ! ereapouis was he born—within a year of Washingtoa. Hereavoula he died—within less than five years of Washington's death. Hereabouts their correspondence, so rica i solu, Was pondered over. ‘sion—The private purse of each was at tne service of ihe countey, and neither was @ usurer, ‘To euch the private aduirs of their esate, although burdensome, were made entirely secondary, Tou- gotoer they framed regulations fur the army. Each had his like sacrifices of re-entment; each his mlar victories of stience over the tumults of ca\umny, reproach and unjust criticism. Well ex- claimed Kgbert Bensou, as ue iinked the name of bis mal coadjutor, the wetl-beloved Philip, with Lis sed President, ‘I have placed t ny friena, ’) ide of him who knew the »—t! nielligence to discern--thy zeal to promote the country’s good— aud Knowing thee, prized thee.’ * * * “JT ehall nocspeak of his frontier apprenticeship, of his pracsical proficiency in ludtan warfare, of his engineeriag yf his ardent iabors iu te Provm- cial Assembly, snoulder to saouider wita George Clinton, bating, a4 parliamentarians, & ma. joi intense Inenta: acuvity tu compl confused atfairs, of the @dynastyapive abi ily he ye ed and Which Was dispiayed on iwo diferent occasions When ordered by vu hall # dozen hercuieaa jab the Napo.conte celerity wi on days ; made third Major Geceral he was in active service. I must dwell upon that abnegation of sell, that patience, that heroic repression of pride Wich marked his conduct when @ secoad ume he Wes displaced by Horatio Gates, In oveuence to a spasmodic Yankee clamor Whicu distrusted a Knick- erbocker general.” Reserring bo the danger to the country from Bar- goyue’s advance upon Albany with a veteran EBuro- pean army, the orator sutd of Seitayler:— His clarion cali had roused New Bagtand. burning words had rewoke Jolin Stark. Ais fron. tler Knowledge bad been Irecly ased. His ovsiruc cons had delayed the advauctng troops. tis lua ber from his own private store had constracted (ie temporary bridges. His £2,000 had repieui commissdriat, tis active brain had sugye countermet @ host of duicuities, He had sown tua laurel seed beneath the heights of Bemis and on the meadows of Stillwater aud Saratoga, and now another was to pluck the laurel leaves aid avotler’s brow to wear the chapiet, ‘iMus sivuated, Geveral His Gates displaced him, What did be do? As did Arnolt a few days later, smarting une personal grievances? We take the rom the pages of Irving (who more disinte: Who less prejudiced, who so lightly wearing y chains ?)—'Returning to the camp at Sullwater le continned to conduct ihe affairs of the army with unremitting zeal, “Unt! the country ts ip safety L will stifle my resentment,” he sail? * * And when the vindication came it was ag triumphant as the indignant Muse of History could haye wished.” Yo the memory of tuis bero and statesman the city of Albany RoW Las av opportunity to pay a light token of respect, The rewains of General Behn Jer and his wife do not at preseat occupy & suitable resting place. The old tawny vault has been broken up, aud they lie without note or mark yo ug to the diagram of tho lot where tie, buried. Whie it might be proper for to erect & sutiable mouu- ment to the memory of tho distinguished dead, this {3 not asked by the descendants of General Sciuyler. A letter from the grand-dauahter of the General, ad- dressed to a Gigupguished ciuzen of Ajoany, re- quests that the Corporation present a suitable plot of ground ja the cemetery, upon which she “inay erect a handsome and appropriate moaument, aud by this united action preserve to succeeding genera ions both the @ and place where rest the py ee of this great and good man of revolution: ary fame, in closing the letter the writor says, ‘In maxing known to you my wishes [am actuated by the one desire to do the greater honor to General Schuyler, to have the prestige of a gift of respect to his mem- ory, and, a8 it were, @ voluntary expression Irom the citizens of his native city to his patriotic worth; and, if Tam not mistaken, this opportunity will be cordialty accepted, and the beautiful cemetiry add Another object of interest to the admiring public. ‘The subject is one on which the Comwon Counctt Will Coubtiess take early action, and resultina recognition of the services and worth of the ulshed revolutionary patriot,