The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1869, Page 4

Ce EDA MG TS RE as A SR OEE RT Se ee ERIE nee amen 4 “REDDY, THE BLACKSMITH” Larry Graham, the Prosecuting Witness, Fled to Canada—Proceedings in the Court of General Sessions—‘‘ Reddy” Sent Back to the Tombs—“Reddy’s” Brother, Mike, Sent to Blackwell's Island for Six Months for As« savillug His Sister-iv-Law. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Gunning S. Bedford, Jr., City Jadge. The court room was densely crowded yesterday by citizens who were attracted by the announce- Ment that William Varley, alias Reddy the Black- emith, would be triea on an indictment charging him with robbery in the first degree. A great deal of notoriety has been given to this case by one of the morning papers, which rendered it necessary to sumn- mon an additonal panel of jurors, which was made returnable on Tuesday. Assoon as the Judge took bis seat upon the bench the clerk called the names of te jurors, the majority of whom sought, as usual, to be excused from jury duty. The indictment charged John Howard, Jacob Smith, William Varley and Thomas Brennan with robbing Lawrence Graham on the 26th of March of the sum of $500 while he was at Varicy’s ealoon, No. 7 Chatham square, The Assistant Clork, Mr. Sparks, directed an oMicer to place William Varley, the defendant, at the bar. He was dressed in a sult of black, and carried a snining hat in his hand, and with a most composed air took a seat beside his counsel. Mr. Hutchings called Lawrence Graham, and Mr. Sparks reiterated his name, but no response was made. REMARKS OF MR. HUTCHINGS, Assistant District Attorney Hutchings then rose and said:— May it please the Court, on last Thursday I notifiea Mr. ltowe, the counsel for William Varley, that I him on trial to-day. At tho same time pcena, through one of the officers of the torney's ofice, to Lawrence Graham, the complainant in the case against Variey, Graham re- siding in Hudson City, N. J. 1 also at the same time notified Mr. Benjamin . Sawyer, a lawyer in this city of character and position, and who 1s Mayor of Hudson City, who, when Graham was com- mitted to the House of Detention as a witness in tins case, solicited his discharge and stated that he would be responsibie for his appearance on the day of trial. The District Attorney also took a bond trom Law- rence Graham for his appearance to-day, At the time I notified Mr. Howe that this case would be tried to-day. I supposed that there would be no doubt but that Lawrence Graham would be present in court to testify against William Varley, for 1 noticed in the public press that he had gone to dister- ent papers and stated there would be no doubt of his appearance on the day of trial. I hold in my hand a letter, which I will read to the Court, from Mayor Sawyer, of Hudson City:— Hovwox Orry, N.J., Mayor's Orrion, Sept. 21, 1869, SAMUEL H. GARVIN, District Attorney :— D&aw Sti—I regret to say Mr. Graham, the principal wit- nas agnlust Nr. Varley, bas left our city by reason of the threats of Variey's friends and probably by giving him money. I saw the wife of Mr. Grabara yesterday, who called ‘upon me to excuse the conduct of ler husband in docetvin hnio by failing (o be prescutat the trial, aa he bad. promised that nothing should prevent his appearing as a witness when required. —{ gave her to understand that he must return immediately or he would get himself into crouble, and she Promised to write him to return, His family ts a Tn this cliy. It the trial could be postponed for # month T Gunk Lean manayeto get him were, Very traty yours, B. F. SAWYER, Mayor, T also have an aMdavit (continued Mr. Hutchings) of Mr. J. R. McComb, Jr., of the District Attorney’s office, which 1 will read;— State of New York, City and County of New York, c.—3. Re McComb, Jr., of thé said city belug duly sworn, deposes and saye—That on Friday, the 17th day of September, inst., bo served a copy of the annexed subpcena upon ‘a woman who thrice informed deponent she was the wife of one Lawrence (iraham, ayatast William Varley and others, by delivering the same 'to her in person, who stated at the time that hor husband was not then at home, but would return shortly--the said Grabam’s residence being in the town of Hudson City, N. J. J. R. MoCOM1, Jr. Sworn to before me this 0th day of September, I W. Buon, Notary Public, New York county. I bave here also an afmidavit of personal service upon the person who gave a bond for the appear- ance of Lawrence Graham as a witness in this case— that ts, Mr. Francis Begg, 81 Ridge street, who went bail for Mr. Graham’s appearauve 4s a witness in this case in the sum of $500:— State of Nevo York, City and County of New Yarly ae. Reilly, of the said city, being duly sworn, deposes and nays that ‘on Saturday, the 16h day of September tustant, he served a copy of the annexed bail notice upon Francia Bega, 81 Ridge street, bondsman for Lawrence Graham, by deliv: ering the same to him in person. JAMES REILLY, Sworn to before me this (the 20th) day of September, 1869, James C. DENNY, Commissioner of Deeds, If the Court please, said Mr. Hutchings, it may be recollected that William Varley gave ball to appear when called upon for trial in this court, He gave bail in a suilicient amount, and bail is permitted under the statute and under the constitution, The morning that the case was to be tried in this court William Varley was in the neighborhood of the court room. I have heard that he was in the court room. Whien ! called upon him to appear there was no answer. ‘Tie next that was heard of him was that he was in San Francisco, Cal. Now, I know not what are the motives which have actuated Mr. Law- rence Grabatm, who was such a zealous complainant atone time, not to be present in this !court to-day, i know not what may be the consideration which has actuated him to leave the State of Nork and to go beyond the jurisdiction of this Court, where no rocess of the Court may reach him, for I understand he has gone into the British provinces. Bat this I do know, that it must have been an improper motive; that itmust have been, it seems to me, through some influence bought upon him by the defendant ; and in doing so he has trided with this eis entitied to no favors from it. in Nace, Ne forfeited his bait bond, and when forfeits his bati bond he cannot apply for He fled beyond the , GEO. —James & prisone any favors from the Court. jurisdiction of the Court, and, through tnducemenis of some character, which must have been made to the complainant by the prisoner, the complainant bas also left the jurisdiction of this Court. Now, the risoner must Not expect that he, after having for- felted his bond, after having fed from the jurisdic. tion of this Court, he must not expect, after having induced the compiainant, through some considera- tion, which must have been, it seems to me, an improper consideration, to ask any favor of this Court. I thmk that this Court can wait just ag long for Mr. Lawrence Graham to appear ere as Mr. Variey can remain in prison; and [am not to be satisiied by the fact that Lawrence Graham sends word that he 1s not to come into this Court. I think, therefore, your Honor, that the. prisoner should be anded to the Tombs; that he should be committed there without bail until all the powers of the District Attorney's oiice are exhausted in endeavoring to secure the attendance of Mr. Law- rence Gram, the age phrase fa this case. 1 also move that the bond which was given by Lawrence Graham for his appearance as a witness in this case be forfeited by the Court, Judge Bedford—Let the bond be /orfeited. The clerk caliod the name of the bondsman, who failed to answer. SPEBCH OF MR. HOWE, Mr. William F. Howe rose and satd:— If your Honor please, knowing as | and all within the sound of my voice 80 well do the full sense of justice which actuates your Liouor in deciding all motions that are presented to you, and feeling that you wilLin this case, as hitherto, deal fearlessly be- tween the State of New York on the one hand and the prisoner on the other, I am relieved from the em- barrassment which might arise in answering the re- marks of the District Attorney in support of the ap- lication which, to some extent, was needless, that jn Consequence of the non-appearance to-day of this somewhat noted prosecutor, Lawrence Graham, my chent, Variey, 18 to be recommitted to the City Prison Without bail. In making the motiog which I have concluded to present to your sionor, i desire, in jus- tice to this prisoner, whom I now characterize an in- nocent man, notwithstanding the reports of gourrility and prejudice which have appeared m but one public journal of this city, @ journal which originated all iat malice coulda sug- gest against a man, ana in itsown columns endea- vored to induce the public mind to try and convict a man before he was heard and before testimony was introduced against him, ‘That journal sought to convince the public and the jurors who would pass upon the question of his guilt or inuocence that he Was a guilty man. And in 80 doing that journal 100k occasion to extol the character of Lawrence Graham, to elevate him as a champion of justice, and to pre. gent to your Honorand to the pubiic in the person of Grahani 4 much injured victim—a man of sobriety and temperate habits—a lamb wio fell among wolves, and that Varley was the greatest maletactor on the face of the earth. 1 think before I get througt my few remarks I wiil satisty your Honor, the bis- trict Atcorney and the public—for I have to-day the benefit not of the assertions of one journal, but of many who are represented in this court, thank God—that this man Graham ts not entitled to come into this court and ask, through the public prosecutor, an adjournment Of this case. We learn from the indictment that the man Variey 1s indicted for having, on the 26th of March, in this year, assaulted feloniously tite com- platnant and stolen from him $500. Your Honor 1s familiar with the fact that two trials have been already had. Firat, a person of the name of Brennan Was tried before your Honor, and upon the testimony of Graham was convicted. Upon that trial Mr. Graham swore that he brought to this city the sum Of $600, for the purpose of paying some debts which he had incurred. He gave an extended narration of ‘his visits to several “gin mills,” as he termed them; of his spending money there, partaking of liquors, and, finally, his advent to the saloon kept by Varley. He then syore that that money was brought here for tile purpose of paying some debts, He was asked why he did not pay that money, and the reply was that he tendered the money (the most extraordinary answer that ever fell from a human betng’s lips), but they refused to take it, because they were too busy. That passed and Brennan was convicted, It is not proper that] should say one word here as to the propriety of that conviction. Thet man by the name of Howard, a poor sailor, a hard Working aud resputabie man, was orraigued NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1869.—TRLPLE SHEET. thats oud oe io io bay eda to I pinned him as to what fhe’ pata he contradicted ana varied his testimony from the former trial—for I have the stenographer's notes of each—and stated ander oath that he paid a brewer by the name of Whitney. Said I, “How much? One hundred dol- lars? nimety? eighty? seventy?” “Yes, more than seventy?’ “How much more—seventy-five dol- lars? Did you pay Mr, Whitney seventy-five dol- lars?” He answered, ‘Yes sir.” Since that trial the innocence of Howard was made apparent beyond all question, and never caviled except by the sal journal that prosecuted and persecuted this man. Howard was reicased by Governor Hoffman, having produced testimonials of excellent character, show- ing that his presence in this saloon was merely accl- dental, thereby repelling everything that Graham had uttered on the stand, I now find Mr. Whitney, the gentieman to whom he stated he paid seveaty- five dollars (and I have had him subpmned here to-day), and he states that so far from trusting Gra- ham seventy-five doilars he never trusi him seventy-five cents, and that Graham never paid him one dollar wee the day in which he deilberatel, swore he did, Another fact, Your Honor will remember that on the trial of Howard Graham testl- flea to @ different name to that which he subscribed to his depositions and which was written over the door. The variance was Great; it was Garnahan instead of Gre I asked, “How did that occur?” “On," said he, with @ subliety, which your Honor well remembers, ‘it Was a mistake of the painter.” Said 1, “Did you allow that fraud to be continucd—did you trade under a false name without having the mistake recti- fied?’ He said that it was 8o trivial that he did not cause the correction to be made. But since then I have had ius place visited by @ witness in court, who has seen the singular clroumstance ta addition to the mistake over the door, that Garnaban has taken out # Ilecense from his iriend, the Mayor of Hudson City, and that Icenuse the Mayor bas perpe- trated the same mistake which the painter made over the door, and we have the uame of Garnahan in the license instead of Gratam. Another fact: Mr. Bega, whose bail has been forfeited to-day, was an aequaniance of this man Grahain iu the old country. Mr. Berg, nis bail, knows him to be named Garna- han and not Graham; so that if he were here to-day that indictment must fall instantaneously. Begg is prepared to show that Graham, alias Garna- han, in addition to the perjury committed here, has pecisiated another offence, vin: bigamy, abovt which he may, perhaps, by and by have an latreduction to this court. It ts right now that Lshould put your Honor tn possession of Var- ley’s detail of the alieged occurrence, Varley did not enter the saloon till nearly two o'clock at night, Wiien he got there Graham, in @ state of semi-intox!- cation, was quarrelling, and had refused to pay for some drinks, It appeara that Graham had lost seven dollars, which, it 1s alleged, were taken by the man Brennan and en ex-pollceman of the name of Sheehan. When Variey had that brought to hia notice Sheehan and Brennan escaj from the saloon. Varley, so far from perpetrating an assault upon Graham, followed those two men, seized them both and Srangae them vack into the saloon, face to face, and said to Brennan and Sheehan, “How dare you rob @man in my place?’ and seizing the ice pitcher which was standing on the counter’broke tt over the head of Sheehan. An altercation ensued, and Sheenan and Brennan escaped by ruuning out of the house. They were subsequently arrested, but beiore that arrest Graham, the prosecutor, had rap from the house over into the Seventh ward, and seized by tae hair of the bead a respectable citizen, (whose name I do not wish now to mention, but I have given it to the district attorucy, and I have the gen- tleman subponed here to-day,) and accused him of having committed the robbery upon him.» Fortu- nately for that gentleman the oMcer wno then came up (@ Seventh ward ofticer) knew that man to be above the commission of such @ crime as that with which the miscreant Graham charged him, He was immediately reieased, and Graham and the oMicera went with Brennan and the other man Howard to tbe police station. Varley followed to the station, not As a prisoner, but for the purpose of making & charge of assault and batwery against Graham, whica he had committed in his place. Varley had been drinking somewhat, and I challenge Captain Thorne, of the Fourth precinct, to deny the state- ment to which Lam now giving utterance. Varley was locked up and entered upon that blotter, I have that record, which Captain Thorne can never cause to be destroyed, for it is at the Police headquarters, that that night at the station house, in the presence of Gra- ham. Varley was detained for ie offence of intoxi- cation, and not one word maine the lips of Graham as to Varley having commitied any offénce against tim. Graham was locked up, too, and on the next morning they went before Judge Hogan, Graham still too much intoxicated to tell a word. In the atlernoon the examination is taken up, and tothe surprise of every one, I suppose, Graham (as the sequel shows, my inference ts a fair one), having learned that Varicy at that time was in possession of some littie money, incorporated Varley with the othe? defendants. For the first time, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the day after the alleged occurrenoe, he charged Varley with being one/of the participators of the crime. He sent to Varley, which we are in a position to prove, to ask him to give him the modest sum of $300 to withdraw the prosecution from Justice Hogan. I was consulted by Varley and I said with indignation, “Not one cent; itis extortion; resent it, for the magistrate will dismiss this case when he has heard tne testi- mony,’ The Justice sent the case before the Grand Jury, an indictment was found, and Mr. Varley was batled. Now one word as to the reason of his flight, lest he should ag judiced by that. The two trials of Brennan and Howard I ha spoken of, and your Honor remembers each. The paper to which J have referred as attacking Variey, and almost, as it were, endeavoring to coerce the public prosecutor of this county to bring him to trial, had produced, as I well knew, some impres- sion upon the minds of those who might have read that journal, and fearing that some (not that { mean that one-half of it would be credited) might enver vhis court having false impressions on their muind¢, I concluded that in that state of agitation the jurors were not the persons who shouki then try this man. In addition to that, Mr, Gaetey, a most tmportant witness, was absent from the city. On the on which Variey was placed for trial before his Honor Recorder Hackett, Mr. Hutchings will remem- ber that I made an application for the adjournment of the case. The Recorder, feeling, doubtless, that the public mind was agitated through this journal and that the prosecuting officer desired to show that there was (as there always 1s) a disposition on the the part of the learned District Attorney to proge- cute with zeal and fidelity every criminal witn speed and despatch, in spite of assertions to the contrary, urged that trial, and would give me no further adjournment than the next morning to produce witnesses, upon whose testimony alone this maa could have been acquitted, againsc what I shall characterize-as the perjury of Graham. Failing, then, the next morning to come into court and be (‘f your Honor will torgive me for using the expres- sion) Offered up asa sacrifice, I told Varley to re- main until he could obtain his witnesses; and hence the departure of Varley that day. Varley from the commencement to the end never intended to shirk this case. He is here to-day; we have had our wit- nesses subpcnaed, and now, sir, to show you upon what the District Attorney could have asked fora conviction from this man Graham, altas Garnahan, he writes a letter to Variey in the City Prison. Do hot belleve, Judge Bedford, that the overtures came from us; no not belleve that this poor prisoner, in- earcerated in tie Tombs, could a4 to Jersey and perform the Impossible feat of being within those Stone wails tn the Tombs and seeing Graham in Jer- sey. Graham, consclous of the array of evidence against him, consetous of the production of the stenographer’s notes, branding him with the most infamous perjury, and having started with the reck- Jess subtlety that he mantfested on that stand, Graham writes this to Varley, and you can compare his signature with bis name on the papers:— Hupson Orr. Mr. VARLEY—I send you my Respect (the man who has robbed him] and bop you Recetvo them as I mean further @ and Friendenip in futer days. (Further love and friondship from Lawrence Grabain am and will be unti] death yours. LAWRENCE GRAHAM. That is the man from whom the District Attorney hopes to get a conviction against Varley. I will pre- serve that document until a future occasion. en comes a letter addressed to me. Fortunately for my- self { never had a minute’s conversation with Gra- bam except in this court room, and no closer to him than that witness stand. Graham favors me with an epistle, the postmark Niagara Falls, the date Sep- tember 16. I'he letter is as follows:— CANADA, September 15, 1869, WItiiaM F. HowR:— Sin—I Wish to let you, know I left the States and I never is to apear against William Varley or Redy Blacksmyth. my life ta ont of di {Some one would think he had been suffering from severe pang of conaclence.} I hope the Din- trict Atorny will do as the Corte thinks Best. [He is sympa- thetic for the District Attorney.) I dont think I could be able to convict ley. [Tagree with him.) I think my life to deare to live any more. I know said Varly will on citizen—{{ don't endorse that prophecy]—and never Jet the Laws got any holte of him. Lam Respectfuly yours, LAWRENCE W. GRAHAM. Now air, resumed Mr. Howe, having put your Honor in poasession of all the facts which would be de- veloped—and a great deal more—upon the trial, I make wnis motion:—That Varley, having explained the circumstances of his leaving, that he, under the constitution, being entitled to @ speedy trial, the case presenting nothing which justice can invoke in aid oj his incarceration for the purpose of making so miserable an exhibition as Graham necessarily mnst do, ifever they get him here (and I think from what 1 know and from the position of the testimony that Graham will never appear here), that the District Attorney having faithfully discharged his duty, having, pursuant to Graham's repeated request to prosecute Reddy the Blacksmith, placed him upon the calendar, subpcenaed the witnesses from time to time, and being ready for trial until the disappear- ance of this man, I ask in the name of justice that this man be discharged, pursuant to the statute, after his incarceration for two terms, 1 do not ask for his discharge to-day, for this reagon—that I know the District Attorney can tell you of the existence of the statute which authorizes you to detain him for 80 long @ period. But having ‘made this explanation, an py n, ag I think, set Varley with an alias straight before the public and straight before your Honor, I now leave the case in your hands, stating % i Reidy d = La ror ait oe bert bd of the statute Is! tuake a motion Tor his discharge. piteK asians REPLY OF MR, HUTCHINGS. Mr. Hrufcntngs replied by saying:—May it please the Court, Mr. Howe has given @ history of the case from his position, but it 18 not an answer to the pro. josition which I presented to your Honor. It is his:—That when @ prisoner forfeits his bond and flees beyond the jurisdiction of the court then those favors which he had aright to aak of the Court under the statute if he had come forward at the time appointed for his appearance and trial, he cannot ask for, In this case he fled beyond the tag of the court and forfeited his bond; and think, your Honor, that aithough the sompiamans has not bf gar hed to-day as @ witnoss In this against the prisoner, there are such suspicious cir cumstances surrounding his disappearance tote: ais | © progecuulng authorities ed all the means in tacts power to secure tne attendance of this witness. It is not for your Honor to decide here lay upon the statements whioh have been made by the counsel as to the guilt or the innocence of the risoner, That is entirely a question for the jury decide, If Mr. Howe has testimony to present of the character which he has represented to the Court as to the reputation of the complainant, as to the fact that he 16 & perjurer and as to the fact that he is not to be believed on oath, he is to present that to the jury when the trial of this case comes off. There 1s, therefore, only one ition left for your Honor to decide, and tt whether you ‘will discharge a man who has fied beyond the juris- diction of the Court until the prosecuting authoritics have exhausted all the means in their power to secure the atteudance of the witness. And, more- over, the statute in regard to two terms of imprison- ment entitling @ prisoner to be discharged unless the case is tried and the witnesses are not present on the part of the people does not apply in tne case of a man who has fled beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, That portion of the time is taken out. Therefore the motion which the counsel has made hore to-day I most respectfully submit to the Court should be denied at this ime that the District Attor- ney may use the means in his power to secure the at- tendance of this man. It seems to me from the letter which the Mayor of Hudson id bas written to the District Attorney and which I have read to tne Court, that there are prospects that this witness may appear here. It seems tome that he cannot romain away from his family and home as long 28 the prosecuting authorities can wait for his attend- ance in thts court for a jury to decide upon the evi- dence which may be presented for and against the eon le in connection with this indictment for robv- Ty. Mr. Howo—I have not made a motion for the dis- charge of the prisoner to-day. I have merely stated to your Honor, by way of introdnotion, that I shall move at the Peover time, in pursuance of the strict rovisions of the statute—viz., two terms, to which ai Hutchings has adverted, for the discharge of arley. Judge Bedford said:—I must say that I am greatly surprised at the unaccountable conduct of Lawrence Graham, the complainant, He has given testimony on two separate occasions, and now, when he 13 required to testify to-day, he ia non est. Let an order be entered, recommitting William Varley to the City Prison, there to remain until the District Attor- ney shall have satisfied the court that all availabe means to bring Lawrence Graham to this court to testify in the matter of this alleged robbery have been exerted and are exhausted. When the case shall present itself in this light, then, and not till thon, the Court will entertain a motion for the pri- soner’s discharge. ‘The prisoner was then remanded to the Tombs in custody of the officers of the court, followed by an immense concourse of people, who thronged the court room and all avenues leading to tt, risoner should be rem: to the C1 cid E janded ity Prison un’ Assault on the Wife of “Reddy the Black- smith.” Michael Varley, brother of the celebrated “Reddy, the Blacksmith,” was brought before Judge Dowling, charged with an assault of a violent character upon Mrs, Varley, wife of “Reddy.” The prosecutrix, who was very elegantly dressed in summer costume, was evidently very unwilling to prosecute. Mr. Howe, her husband’s counsel, appeared to prosecute and elicited from Mrs. Varley that early on Sunday morning the prisoner came into the well’ known saloon, No.7 Chatham nner and used very abusive language towards her. le also attempted to strike her, and he went up stairs, returning with an axe in his hand, which was taken from him; she thought tt likely he might have struck her with it it it had not been taken from him. Judge Dowling said to complainant that he knew that she had had a great deal of tronble, and was greatly to be pitied. The prisoner deserved to be punished for his unmanty conduct. Judge, to prisoner—What have you to say to this? Prisoner i & very surly tone)—Well, vou put the Job on me; its no good me talking. Judge—Yes, I put the job on you to go and assault her, dla I? Prisoner—No, you didn’t do that; but I have heard that your're goins to send me down. Judge—Yes, Iam, certainly. You are prosecuted by your brother's counsel, and very creditable to him it is that he should have sent Mr. Howe here, [ have had you before here; this woman Is to be pitied, and I shall send you to the Penitentlary for six months. Prisoner was removed, mutteriag, cursing and menacing all his way to the cells. RiMSRKABLE CASE OF ABDUCTION, A Wall Street Broker Held in Default of $50,000 for Criminal Assault on a Lady. Yesterday afternoon, at the Tombs Police Court, before Judge Dowling, Mr. John W. Gould, residing at 40 East Twenty-sixth street, New York, and who had beon apprehended at midday at his office, 58 Wall street, by officer James Gillan, was charged with abduction of and criminal assault on Mrs. Anna Mead, of 73 President street, Brooklyn. ‘The circumstances were very remarkable, as will be seen from the following summary of Mra. Mead’s aMdavit, sworn to before Judge Dowling yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Mead 1s a lady of considerable per- sonal attractions, of lady-like manners and evi- dently accustomed to the manners of good society: — She sald that on the 14th of September she recetved four letters signed with the initials J. W. G., request- ing herto moet the writer at the Hamilton ferry house, at the foot of Whitehall street, on some busi- ness connected with her husband. She went there and met a gentleman whom she partly recognized as having seen before. He approached her and asked her ifshe would like to find out about her husband. She replied that sho would very much, and he informed her that her husband was stoppin, on Staten Island, at the hotel at Vanderbilt's land- ing. He then requested her to go with bim there and inquire about her husband, She accompanied him there, and the prisoner told her that the hotel was kept by Mr. Newport. When she arrived at the hotel the prisoner informed her that her husband ‘was out riding with a lady and was expected back eighty He requested her to remain at the hotel until her husband returned, After waiting some time the prisoner told her tt was Jikely that her hus- band would be in at supper, and he requested her to accompany him to see if she could find him at the supper table. She went, but found her husband was not there, He then requested her to have some supper, She did 80, but they sat at some distance from the regular supper table, and there they partook of some reiresh- ment. The prisoner and herself returned to the parlor, and there they continued to rematn waiting for her husband to return. The prisoner then went out of the parlor and went down stairs, but shortly afterwards returned with some soda water, whioh she drank, Then, as {t was get- ting late and her husband did not return, she told the prisoner it would be better for her to go home. He then asked her to remain for tho nine o’clock boat, but she replied that she did not like to wait so long, a3 she should like to be home by nine o'clock if possible. She had some conversation with the prisoner, in the course of which he informed her that his name was John W. Gould, and that he re- sided at No. 40 Hast Twenty-sixth strect. Shoruly afterwards she found herself in @ stupor, and she had a faint recollection that she was in a bedroom with Gould, end that he was taking off some of her clothing, and that he was endeavoring to place her ‘on the . He was undressed. She has mo recol- lection of anything else until the morning, when she found herself in 8 room in the second landing of the hotel. She has since been informed by Mr. Newport that his attention was called to the rooms on the night of the lth of Sep- tember by some of the boarders of the house, who sald that there was a great noise in the room, and that something Wrong was going on there. Mr. Newport sent his clerk up to the room to inform Gould that Mr. Newport desired to see him, ould went down stairs and Newport informed him that he could got stay at the hotel, but that the lady could remain. Gould said that the lady was sick and did not desire to remain. Gould went down stairs and took Mrs, Mead with him, and asked Mr. New- port to send for a carriage, which he refused to do, and then Gould left the hotel. Mra. Mead gaid that she had every reason to believe that Gould had committed a criminal assault upon her; that she had been informed that Gou!d on the following morning had said that he was very sorry for what had taken place on the previous bight, and that he had been offered $5,000 by Mrs, Mead, the mother-in-law of deponent, to act In the manner he had, for the purpose of procuring evi- dence against Mra, Mead, Jr., 8088 to enable her husband to obtain a divorce from her, The Sep iicarion for the warrant to arrest Gould ‘was made by Mr. Howe, who is counsel for the prose- cution. In default of $50,000 bal, Judge Dowling committed Gould to answer the above charge, A COMPLAINT ABAINST BERGH AND HIS ASSISTANTS, New York, Sept. 20, 1869, To THE EpiTor or THR HERALD:— Permit me through the columns of your widely spread journal to inform our city authorities and the public in general of one more of Bergh’s out- rages. I am the proprietor of the New England Livery Stables, 659 Seventh avenue, and on Friday, 17th instant, at ten o’ciock A. M., I sent @ carriage to the house of one of my customers, a sick lady, who was desirous of taking a litule ride for the pur- pose of recruiting her broken down health, The carriage had proceeded down Broadway as far as Amity street, when the horses were seized by the heads by one of Bergh’s brute toals, pulled into Amity street and the coachman ot to unhar- ness. And for what? ey. because on the back of one of the horses, immediately under the saddie, was ® small chafe about the size of a quarter of adollar—a something which all livery men can tell you cannot be avoided during the heated sum- mer weather. In vain did the coachman and gentle- men passers-by remonstrate with this stony-nearted Pee of humanity. In vain did the; int to the sick Iady in the carriage and entreat the brute to permit her to be brought back home, and not add to ready prostrated condition py such an ex- citing scene, No: he, or it, rather, must nave its ‘way, and oblige th r, Sick lady to sit in the car. riage until such th 8 Another could be Is it A I. forher. 18 A al merican? Is mane? 1 think A BETT! NEW.YORK CITY. THE COURTS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Condomaations, ‘The returns of process having been made and there appearing no claimants, the following pro- perty was condemned by the Court, viz.:—3,200 clgars | ard cae boxes) found at the premises of Henry Hughes, corner of Spring and Mercer streets; five barreis of whiskey found at No. 362 Weat Thirty- ninth treed, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Alleged Violation of the Stamp Act. Before Commissioner White, The United States vs. Slegnvuller.—The defendant, @ driver of a lager beer wagon from Newark, was charged with having in his possession a number of improperly stamped tager beer barrels, He was dis- charged on his own recognizance to appear when called on, Alleged Violations of the Act in Jersey. Assistant District Attorney Jackson Nas forwarded ® communication to A. Q. Rens, United States District Attorney of New Jersey, asi ing him to make inquiries into the practice of certain brewers sending their drivers to this city with improperly stamped lager beer barrels, thereby getting them in troubie, The Alleged Pension Frauds. Before Commissioner Stillwell. Mary Ennis, the defendant tn this case was one of the wa widows, chargea with receiving her pen- sion while being married to one James King, thereby defrauding the government. There being uo defence offered she was held tor trial in $500 bail. : SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Tho Christy Will Case. Before Judge Clerke. Breck vs. Smith.—This was @ motion to set aside the verdict of Judge Bernard, which was rendered on the 25th of August last. dismissing the complaint of plaintiff. Tne motion to set aside the judgment was made on the ground that Judge Jones had an interest in the suit in the form of an unpaid fee, and he being a brother-in-law to Judge Bernard dis- uaiified the latter from presiding in the case; and that after tae close of the trial, and after the and evidence had been submitted to the judge, he received and considered in sane sD his verdict an argument and points furnished Judge Porter, oe pe plaintiff claims did not officially appear on e trial. Defendants claimed that Judge Porter was of counsel in the case, appeared during the trial, and that only in obedience to the directions of the Judge that points might be handed in by counsel before judgment, was his argument and points handed in, ne Judge took the papers and reserve: lis deci- sion. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Tho Calendar for To-Day. Before Gunning 8. Bedford, Jr., City Judge. The following 1s the calendar of cases for trial before this court to-day:—The People vs. John Bald- win, felonious assault and battery; Same vs. Thomas Clark, felonious assault and battery; Same he Chris- David J. Comperta, selling obacene books; S George Bak bigamy; Same va. John F. Field, rand larcen: ame vs. Michael Morrow, burglary; ame vs. Manuel Cortez, forgery. CIVIL COURT CALENDARS—TdlS DAY. SvrreME Covnt—OwamBers.—Before Judge Clerke. Call of Calendar at 12 M.—Nos, 21, 28, 87, 61, 52, 57, 68, 60, 62, 65, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 88, 92. Call 93, ‘MARINE COURT—TRIAL TERM.—Before Judge Cur- tis. Call of Calendar at 10 A. M.—Nos, 3369, 3314, 8457, 3520, 3529, 8538, 3551, 3596, 3596, 3601, 3635, 2615, 8616, 3524, 8683, 8684, 3685, 3686, 3637, 3038, 3689, 3690, 8601, 8692, 3604, 3695, 3606, 3697, 8700, 3701. CITY INTELLIGENCE, Tae WeaTHee YESTERDAY.—The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the cor- responding aay of last year, as indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broadway, — of Ann street:— 74 «8PM. 63 4 68 «OP. 65 7 a OPM. 69 4 os 65 83 12P. 56 3 ‘Average temperature yesterday. errs | Average temperature for corresponding date last ANOTHER ACCIDENT IN THE City HALL Park.— By falling down an embankment in the new Post OMce grounas yesterday an unknown man was pac tojured. He was removed to the City Hos- pi MusIO AT THE PARX.—The Park Commissioners announce that, if the weather be fine, there will be music by the Park band at the north end of the Green, at the Park, this afternoon, commencing at hall-past three o'clock. Tue BoarD oF HeattH SANITARY ComMITTER.— This committee again assembled yesterday to con- alder the propriety of granting a permit to the New York Rendering Company, and, after a lengthy con- ae adjourned to report to the Board of Henith ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.—Mary Fanning, agea fifty-three years, dwelling at No. 147 Mott street, slipped on a plece of water melou, fell and broke a leg. Betsy McLaughlin fell in Greenwich street, near Morris, and fractured a thigh. She was sent to Believue Hospital. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING.—At one o'clock yesterday morning Cornelius Ward, aged twenty-three years, residing at No. 73 King street, while standing on the corner of King and Varick streeta, was acuidentaily shot ia one of his legs by @ man nanied James Cusick. [is wound was droased by Police Surgeon Kennedy, and he proceeded home. DRowNED Bopy RECOVERED.—The body of Michael Casey, the dirt cartman in the employ of the Corporation, who on Friday last was backed into the river at the dumping ground foot of East Sixteenth street, with his horse and cart, and drowned, was yesterday recovered and taken to his late residence, 403 East Eighteenth street, Coroner Keenan will investigate the case to-day. Tus DoRe PAINTINGS.—It was erroneously announced in the HERALD yesterday that the collec- tion of paintings by Gustave Doré would be exhibited hereafter from three o'clock P. M, to nine o'clock P, M., on Sundays, for the benefit of the Avondaie sufferers, The proceeds are instead to be devoted by Mr. Aymar, the proprietor, for the benefit of the charitable institutions of New York city. FRBIGHT TO SAN FRANCISCO.—If the Pacific Rail. road Company (lo wish to attract trade a reduction of the rate of freight 1s necessary. It may be men- tloned, for an example, that within a few weeks the first plano ever shipped by railroad to San Francisco was charged $120 freight. At this rate it ts almost impossibie to transmit goods from the East, and manufacturers should prevail upon the companies to revise their tariff. CHOKED TO DEATH.—Coroner Rollins was called to No, 64 Barrow street to hold an inquest on the body of Mr. Samuel Miller, who died suddenly. On Sunday last, while eating his dinner, a piece of meat joaged inthe throat of Mr. Miller, and before it could be removed, death ensued from suffocation. A verdict to that effect was rendered by the jury, Deceased was a cabinetmaker by trade, forty-nine years of age anda native of Ireland. He was in quite aMuent circumstances, FaTat ACCIDENT AT THE NEW Post OFFICE.— Yesterday morning an unknown map, about thirty- five years of age, gained access to the new Post Office grounds, and while there accidentally fell into a deep excavation, and striking on some rocks or timbers, received @ compound fracture of tle skull and other injuries, from the effeots of which he died soon after admission to the New York Hospital, whither he was immediately conveyed, Coroner Keenan was notified to hold aa tnquest on the body. Board oF PoLice.—At a meeting of the Board or Police yesterday afternoon, @ number of merchants and other respectable citizens of the Tenth ward nested ission to present @ horge and wagon to Captain. Davis, recently transferred from the Tenth to the Thirtieth precinct, as 4 slight testimo- nial of their spyrecaticn of his faithful seryices as Captain of te Teuth precinct since the organization f the Metropolitan Police force,ytwelve years ago, Permission was granted. Promotions were made as follows:—To be rounds- man in the Seventh precinct, patrolman W. B. Sumick, of the ‘Twenty-seventh. Resignation accepted, Sergeant John L. Vosburgh, of the Thirty- second, from ist October. Mr. Robert J. Brown was appointed deputy clerk to Fire Marshal Brackett, vice Osgood, resigned. POLICE INTELLIGEN DE Tan NintH Warp SHooTina APFRAY.—Mark atid Sarah Uollins, charged with shooting James Gil- christ on Sunday last, were arraigned at Jefferson Market yesterday by officer Garrett and dischargea a custody, no complainant appearing against em. ASSAULTING AN OFFICER WITH A SwoRD.—OMicer Fisher, of the Twentieth precinct, while patrolling his beat on Monday night, was assaulted by a Ger- man named Robert Baumm, who attempted to do him bodily harm with a sword he had in his posses- sion. He was phan bed before Justice Ledwith at Jefferson Market yesterday snd committed in default Of $400 bail to answer the charge. LaRoany oF Monsy.—John Orth, of No, 251 Oronara siccet, wullo perambulalps tarqvab the — ‘ Eighth ward on Monday night met a female named Mary Wilson and her to a tager beer saloon corner of Graud’ and Gresue streets, and while there Loy fad in his favorite bay charges she stole pocketbook, containing forty jure tat dig Waitt soe A ir Was comiaitiod in densult of $506 t Moxe YOUNG BURGLARS IN THE Crry.—Yestorday two girls, named Atkinson and Burns, each about twelve or fourteen years of and who reside at 143 Mulberry street, were c before Justice Hogan with breaking into the anon of John oO nel, Of 123 Mulberry street, Monday night and stealing therefrom eighty-three pawn tickets, representotive of $200 worth of property, several women’s dresses and eleven dollars in money. Committed for trial. ‘Tas APFRAY IN THE TWENTY-SBCOND WARD.—Jonn Farrell and Joseph Eaton, two villainous looking pens who were arrested by officer Austin on jonday night charged with assaulting Carl Hoch- losthner, at the corner of Forty-fourth street and Tenth avenue, an account of which has previously appaanes in_the HBRALD, Were yesterday arraigned at Jefferson Market, and upon compiaint of Alexan- der Cohn, of No. 316 West Thirty-ninth street, who witnessed the a , committed to awalt the result of the injuries. certificate received from the atvending physician states the wounds are of a very serious character, and owing to the advanced age of the assailed he will not be able to determine his condition under nine days. Mork Forogp Caecks,—Lewis Miller, alias August Schnelder, was brought before Judgo Hogan and re- manded charged with uttering forged checks on the Bull’s Head kk. For some time past the various hotel keepers of the city have complained to the police captains that they wére reapentiy beings swindled by receiving checks for payment whic! afterwards turned ous to be worthiess. ‘hey de- scribed the personal appearance of one of the ope- rators of this swindle and ofticer Dunn, of the Sixth prenines. arrested Miller yestorday. On his arrest iller tried to throw away @ pocketbook; but the ofMicer securing it it was opened, and a check for forty-five dollara on the Bull's Head Bank was found within it, The further hearing of the case was adjourned. A STORB BURGLARIZED BY THE PROPRIRTOR'S Son.—On Saturday night last the store of W. T. Jen- nings, tatlor, of 233 Broadway, was entered bj means of the ordinary keys of the atore, an nothing in the atore was disturbed. Access to this, however, enabled an entrance to be made to tl basement occupied by the Oroide Watch Company, and from this basement there was taken $500 worth of watches. Information was given to oes Hullmaa, of the Third precinct, and he, with officers MoGurney and Willoughby, commenced thetr in- quiries. ‘ihe result of their investigations was the arrest of Mr. Jennings, Jr., son of Mr. Jennings re- ferred to above, and who, accompanied by two well known Eighth ward thieves, had entered the base- ment and committed the robbery. ‘The names of these thieves wore Thomas Bell and William John- son. ‘The trio was arraigned at the Tombs yester- day beiore Judge Hogan, who committed them to answer. POST OFFICE AFFAIRS: Extensive Improvemeute—Inauguratinn of a Foreign Money Order System—New Post Ofice Facilities—Increase of Business. ‘The olty Post Office, so long @ dar«, unventilated and poisonous dea, is being thoroughly renovated by the new Postmaster, who since bis appointment last spring has introauced a great number of important improvements conducive to the despatch of business and the health and comfort of the employés. The skylight has been raised, the parti- tions along the galleries, which shut out light and air, have been removed; new letter stands have been adopted, and the intertor, hitherto so gloomy and dirty, ts rapidly assuming, under the direction of Superintendent Knapp, a very pleasant us- pect, The money order bureau having been transferred to the new extension over the Cedar street front of the building, the room for- merly occupied by that department 1s being reduced in aize to serve a8 an ante-room to the apartments of the Postmaster and other officials, the space thus gained contributing very niaterially to light and Convenience. ‘The mati bags now, instead of belh carried across the building, are, recetved, assorted and delivered near the tower: entrance, and 8 new letter stand, in the form of a Maltese cross, econo- mize room and facilitate business. The dingy walls are being painted, recesses reeking with accumu- lated flitn are being cleaned out, and tn a short time the Post Office will have asaumed a condition vastly superior to what has been regarded «a possible of attainment, The new extension is now occupied by the Assist- ant Postmaster, the cashter, money order burean, special agents and detectives, and the surgeon, whose duteses consist in examining empioyés who report themselves incapacitated for duty by iliness, ‘There is also in this division @ new peepie apart. ment for mail agents who arrive late at night and having to leave by the early morning trains might fail to be on time if occupying apartments outside the building. These new offices above referred to are well ventilated, tight and clean, and compare favorably with any pubilc offices in the city, estimated that one-third of the annual expense which amounts to about $5,000, will be saved y the admission of light consequent upon the new improvements, and will be suiticlent to defray the cost of the work. ‘The several departments of the Post Oifice far ex- ceed in magnitude the conceptions of any uniuitiated person concerning our postal matters, and are of fhe interest, but having already been elaborately leacribed in the HERALD @ brief summary of tho recent increase of business will suffice. Prominent mong the new features is the inauguration of a foreign money order Gp bbe by which persons may deposit money in this it Offices and have it paid to the proper parties in Euro; The enterprise is commenced first with Switzerland, in order to learn in tho transaction of money order business with that diminutive nation the difficulties attend- ing @ foreign system of this character, so when arrangement 3 extended rm y and Great Britain, with whom our financial relations are so gigantic the depart- ment may be possessed of knowledge and expe- rience necessary to the success of the undertaking. In this country the moncy order system has tn tne five years since its inauguration assumed imm proportions, and ts rapidly tucreaging tn mi tude, as wil be seen by the following tabuiar ment of the business of this bureau in New York for the last two years:— June 80, 1868. June 80, 1869, Orderg pald.. $2,253,000 $3,063,000 Draits paid... 1,632,000 2,903,000 Total... .0e.ee eee see «$3,800,000 $5,968,000 Fifty dollars is the fargest sum that can be trans- mitied Of @ singe money order, \but this restriction is met successive Orders, as in the case of an individual a few days ago who sent thirty-nine or- ders for fifty dollars each to one address, The registered letter department ts also being enis and renovated, and becoming a very com- fortadle office, Here the great red envelopes for the transmission of money are kept and registered, and with the system which requires the signatare of each mail agent who receives the packages until they are delivered to their owner, ifnot a sure pre- vention to fraud, enables the department to trace a lost Lenina § pacl ‘with promptness and certainty, Connected with this bureau is tho stamp depart- ment, which supplics all the post offices in the country with stamps direct from the manufactory. The magnitude of its operations may be ostimated from the fact that the sales of postage stamps in this city alone amount to over $7,000 per day, The business of each department of the Post Office Is increasing with remarkable rapidity. Tho mail matter now passing through this office averages 100 tons per day, and when one contemplates the vast and complicated machinery necessary for the assort- ment and delivery of all this matter cach day he will gain a slight idea of the administrative ability, energy and application required in the officials man- aging the Post Office. It is interosting to stand among the busy clerks working with all the prect- sion and rapidity of machines tuside the build! and watch the ceaseless streams of iette an pers pouring in through the walls from outside. Nothing can be seen of the people outside, and were a person to be led for the first time into the building with his eyes blindfolded, and then bel a mitted to see the numerous cascades of letters, &c., steadily flowing in upon the tables he would imagine that some great reservolr of correspondence was being discharged into the apartment From two P, M. until four the stream ts 60 full and continuous that a soore of A are constantly employed re- moving the letters, and he who in the afternoon crowds up to drop his correspondepce through the little aperture in the wall may herehfter remember hes stanas tnere that his letters may be raked away, assorted and in the mail bag before he gets a dozen rods from the Post Office. AUNAWAY—MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. A Fronch Gentleman Killed. Farly yestefaay Morning Mr. Leon Larmande, o French gentioman who did business at No, 1,254 Broadway and lived at No, 17 East Seventeenth atreot, took a drive out to Central Park with his daughter, niece and another young lady, returning about four hours afterwards. Driving up to tye door Mr, Lar- monde asssted the ladies from the carriage, and while assisting them up the front stops the horse took fright and started to rua ey: ir. Larmande started in pursuit and caught the pegs animal, but in bis efforts to check his 8) vhe carriage was upset and Mr. Larmande crushed agaipst a tree aud from thence to the pavement with so mufch force as to terribly fracture his #kull. He was also badly cut and bruised about the body and lower extremities, The horse ran out Broadway, where he was stopped by a stableman and officer Waldron, of the Broadway sguad. Tle latter, on reaching tho spot me Maaren iy ey auc was - veyed into his residence, immediate! 98 the street, and 8 p tinted ma nel ‘an mquest on tue tified a lot of accidental death was re! |. but death ensued in a be toronet Rollins was no- No Trath in the Rumored Defatcatious—LAbel on the Management—The True State ef Facte—The Concern in a Flourishing Con- dition. A morning paper of this city sought to makea sensation yesterday by attacking the present man- agement of the Methodist Book Concern. The Meth- odists are not only a very powerful, but probably the most numerous religious congregation in the country, and the Book Concern being their publiea- ing centre, an attack upon it, as @ matter of course, must vibrate to the farthest corners of the land, Hence as @ sensational article it was walt planned. As a trutnful and reliable state- ment of fact it was a failure, Tho pith of the statement, accusation or charge, or whatever else it may be called, was contained in the assertion that-great corruption and frazd haa been discovered in that establishment, tnvolvi losses to the amount of several hundred thot dollars; that not a dollar had ever been lost by the defalcation of tts m: from the commencement of the business in io jut that unfortunately that cannot be said of the Methodist Book Concern aay more, This was a very serlous accusation, and caloulatea to create uneasiness in the minds of all Methodist, throughout the country, who individually as well as collectively have an interest in tne Concern, and having tt honestly and profitably conducted. Fortu- nately for the members of the Methodist Church, bus unfortunately for those who put this libel vefore the the public, the facts show the assertions made by the paper in question were based on mere rumor, and that of the kind so well described in the story of the three black crows, All that there is for a foundation for this damag- ing charge consista in the fact that two of tre employés of the ve mn Bus} of untair fealiog. One was eupiozea in m: Lis chases, and tt ts believed that jolng 80 he ved an over percentage from the manufacturers or deal- ers who sold the merchandise to him for the Book the agents, plausible from the facts which came to their knowledge, was sufficient to induce them to discharge the man at once. The Concern may not have lost a cent by these transactions, aa all the Sealine ae have been at fair prices, auch as tt would have had to pay by orde the same goods from other houses. Yet so far as this is concerned the agents are busy making correct inquiries, thongs delteve from this cause the establishment has suffered but very little, Another one of the employés was and he was also at once discharged. caused to be abstracted by his unlaithfuiness could not yet be ascertained, but it is believed that it can- not be near 80 great as mentioned, since in the regue lar transactions of the frm for months and years past nothing was found The funds were all right in the accounts of stock, of books and material on hand were found to be ; in fact, but & comparatively small value cou! been misused, so small, indeed, that at no one at the many repeated investigations was it missed. This suspicion of @ small defaication by two of the employ és of the agents, who were at once dischi when the suspicion at fret became Mores was all that there was to fo upon by the sensational writers to make an elephant of a fly. ‘The Methodist Book Concern was never 60 pros- perous nor ever so flourishing as it 1s at present or as {t has been for some years past, Its entire assets, according to the consolidated exhibit of November 80, 1863, were $1,340,919, and {ts entire liabilities ouly $175,295, while the net profits for the yoar end- ing with day, after the payment of all orders after Chinen conference, were $114,678, This ta more ‘ully shown by the following detailed exhibit:— ASSETS, Concert joncern. Real estate, New Yo Real estate, Western Merchandise, New York Concern. Merchandise, Western Concern. ate gat on nand, New York Concern.. fae ih on hand, Western Concern. . i Notes and accounts, New York Concern |. — Notes st ‘acooulis, Western Concera (net). aagj40 aiee TIATILETIES. Notes and Accounts, Now York. + 43,937 ‘Notes and accounts, Western 182,357 175,996 Net capital stook. Barn! New Y« Faeange Western: Paid by order of General Conference. Net profit... oe ‘gi14,678 A inonth later, in Janvary of this year, thé con- cern showed a still beiter balance sheet, ‘they owed nota goannas more money in bank subject to draft than they had any present need for, and their pub- Ushing business was steadily on the increase, yleld- ing increased fits, They then puxchi the building on the corner of way and Eleventh street, paid the frst instalment in oash, as pecoed upon, and to-day, with the exception of the deferred payments on the building, which are not yet due, are again entirely free from debt, witha handsome cash balance at their disposal. fence, if any defat- cation has been committed, and there is ground to elievo that their was, it is so small as notto interfere with financial standing of the concern nor with its prosperity and its encouraging infla- encegpon the cause of the Methodist Church in this coantry;and most certainly was it not of such moment as to cause a prominent journal of this oity to notice it with such emphacizing pomp and Otr; cumstance. Indeed, {t 1s stated that the article of the journal in question, in so far as it relates to the present managers of the book concern or to tho agents personally, “that no more can it be said thas the Methodist Book Concern has not lost a dollar by the defaication of its managers,” it is an actionable libel, and legal advice has been sought yesteraay by one of the agents as to the most proper steps to teken to enforce a retraction and prevent its repe- ion. A DAYLIGHT BURGLARY, Over $5,000 Worth of Goods Stoleu-Onoe of the Barglars Captured. There is no ward in the city that receives more attention from the burglars and sneak thieves than does the Fifth, presided over by Captain Jeremiah Petty. The former usually operate at night, when the lanterns carried by his oMcers warn them of the approach of the blue-coated gentlemen, and the latter by day, when tho crowded condition of the streets and the tnacttvity of the police rendora 16 almost certain to get away with their booty unless they cross over to Captain Jourdan’s side of Broad- xe ‘The burglars on Sunday last changed order of things aud operated under a new set a M eicicnarcs 8 burglary and robbery in bri a} ‘rom the .report made by Captain Petty to the Centra Office yesterday it appears that about three o’clock on Sunday afternoon a citizen, living oppo- site the importing house of Guiterman & Bro!s, ox 63 Leonard street, observed a coach drive uj come to @ stand-still in front of the store, Sunul- taneous with the appearance of ttie coach three men walked out of the Rene and deposited in the enna three well filled black bags. coach on drove of up Church it Klin, fol. Jol the citizen, who lost ht of ie at corner iklin and Broadway, One of the men accompanied the driver of tho coach. His confederates, after separ rating from the coach, walked in the same direction, one of them putting the keys with which he had locked the store door in his pocket, OMicer Banker's attention was called to the men, and antioipating the direction they would take burried round to the corner of Broadway and Walker street, met the men and took them into custody. They resisted violently and one succeeded in making his escape. The other was locked up and on Monday morning taken to the Tombs, Where he gave the name of George Allen, and was committed for examination, The owners were summoned soon after the discovery of the robbery. On entering-the store it ‘was ascertained that the burglars had secured an entrance iss means of false Keys to the first floor. By wrenching open a door they succeeded in reach- ing the second floor, where a vatuable stock of were stored, Several cases were broken open &! 720 worth of silks and broche shawls le 1 wef next forced an entrance to the third floor, occu- by smith & Bean, Importers of fancy goods, and carried away $800 worth of property. POISONED BY EVE WATER, Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest at the Foundling Hospital on Ward's Island over the remains of John Garretta, a chtid sixteen months old, whose death was the result of swallowing @ \yntity of eye water. The deceased was under the oe of be py” ia ork Me 1 ak Sune ast, during her ohitd yas eft tn srerge of Ellen Fageu. Maria had purchased a bottle of eye water for her own child and left tt on the table, and during her absence the child got hold of the bottie and drank @ portion of the contents. The nurse, on neeeiee the fact, noti- fod ir. Howard, who administer antido! but death engued on Monday. The eye water contained nitrate of iver and atrophine, and in the opinion of the doctor thé atrophine caused death. Tho jury rendered a verdict of death from accidental poison- ing. OANGEROUS SHOOTING FRACAS, Sergeant Carr, of the Fourth precinct, yesterday afternoon, by request of Judge Hogan, of the Tombs Police Court, informed Coroner Keenan that Wm. Daly was lying in Bellevue Hospital in a dangerous condition from the effects of a pistol shot wound, Daly lived at No. 29 Frankfort street, and on Mon- day night had a difficulty with Wm. McBride, in con- iT inst the door of sequence of the latter kicking his apartment. After exchanging a few ongey words they had a passage at a1 when McBride, it is charged, drewa eee and shot In the = head, inflicting an ex dan; Brido was arrested by omecr Tae or ‘he Fourta Re and Judge Hogan committed him to mds. It is thought Daiy’s skull is Coroner Keenan wiil take an ante-mortom Wom wale moruing. — fh