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nee talent eet THE COURTS. Proceedings in the Law Courts Yesterday. Counterfeit Passing Mania—The Gilman Will Case—Married or Not Mar- ried—A Gold Mining Opera- tion—Action Against a Railroad Company. OMTED STATES BISTRICT COURT—IN BANKAUPTCY. Before Judge slatonford, In the Matter of Charles A. Stetson, a Bankrupt.— Mr. Alfred Smith, assignee, filed an answer on the bart of the other defendants setting forth that Mr. Stetson, who was declared @ bankrupt in October lass, was not at the time of the declaration of such bankruptoy, and had nos gt any time since 1860, Deen the owner or proprietor, or part owner or pro- prietor, of she Astor House, but at the time, and for ail the time mentioned, was but an agent of Joan A. Deviin and others interested in the said establish. ment. The answer was duly filed with the clerk of the bankrupt, The proceedings in this case are sup- plementary to and in addition to those previonsly pending in the matver, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Obarge of Making Falee Kutries in a Dis- tillers" Book. Before Commissioner shields. The United States vs, — Seffelid.—'The defendant, adisuiler in Brooklyn, was charged with making false entries in his distitier’s book which, under the ternal revenue laws, all distillers are bound to keep. The case frst came up before Commissioner Shields, but it trapspiring that the alleged offence was committed in the astern District the exaint- nation was transierred to @ commissioner of that district, Committed for Prasing Counterfeit Currency Stamps. The Untted States vs. John Anderson.—The ex- @mination in this case was concluded yesterday. It will be remembered that the accused was arrested on the 8tn of January inst., on a charge of passivg fifty cent currency stamps on a number of store- keepers on the Second avenue. The testimony was overwhelming and the defendant was committed to ‘await the action of the Grand Jury. The Commis sioner increased his bail from $500 to $1,000, ~ The Hoffman Distiliery Case. The United States vs. Hofman ani Others.—This cane, which excited a great deal of interest when Grst brought into court, commands increased in- Serest as its hearing progresses. ‘The examination, which closed for the session on ‘Tuesday last, was set down for continuation yesterday morning, When called on, however, a motion wus made by Mr, Josenh Beil, counsel for the defence, to adjourn the examination over til! to-morrow, in consequence of the death of the brother of one of the defendants. The Commissioner granted the motion, and the case was accordingly adjourned uli to-morrow next, at tleven A. M, : seh he SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TERM. The Gilman Will Case—Appeal from the Sur- rogate’s Decision. Before Judges Ingraham, Barnard and Braay. Anna K. Gilinan, Appellant, vs. George F. Gilman wal., Respondents, and Charles B. Gilman, Appel- lant, vs. The Same Respondents.—Tnese were two appeals trom a decree of the Surrogate confirming the report of the auditor to whom was referred the final accounting of George F, Gilman and Edward McClellan, two of the executors of Nathaniel Gi! man, deceased, The testator died on the 19th of De- tember, 1859, leaving a will and codicil, In which he gamed George F, Gilman, his son, and Edward Mc- Dlellan, one ot his sons-in-law, executors, ther With Isaac Reduington, @ son-in-iaw; Anna K. Gil- man, the appellant in one appeal, a daughter, and Charles B. Gilman, the appellant in the other ap- ep bis son. The wilt was duly admitted y the Surrogate, and the report of the auditor was subsequently confirmed. It was now claimed by the appellants that the money left them by the testator was not invested by she executors, and they ctaimed that they were there- fore liabie for tue interest accruing from the time the property came into their possession in trust. The arguments in the case were commenced yes- terday, ana have not yet been concluded. SUPREME COURT—f; AMBERS. Married or Not Married. Before Judge Cardozo. Sampson vs. Wood.—This case came up on a mo- tion to settle certain issues to be tried before a jury. It appeared that Cecilia Wood claimed to have mar- ned a Mr. Baldwin, who died leaving a considerable amount of property. She commenced proceedings to establish her rights as the wife of the de- ceased. Tho executors. made a settlement with her, she promising to renounce all claims. Subsequently, however, she commenced proceed- ings, but an injunction was brought against her restraining her from prosecuting the suit. As an answer she set up that she was the lawful wife of the deceased, and that the agrcement she made to abandon the proceedings was obtamed waile under the influence of opium, which sne used to alleviate her physical and mental infirmities. The injunction proceedings were contested at considerable iength, the aelendant claiming that she was married to the deceased in London; but the executors alleged that such marriage was, according tothe laws of Eng jJand, a Felony Default was made, but afterwards reopened. The settlement of issues to be trieu be- fore a jury were now asKed for. The questions are whether there was 4 ceremonial marriage or any marriage at all, and whether the release by Cecilia Wood was made by her when in ner right mind. ‘The Court took the papers and reserved decision. SUPERIOR COURT—SENERAL TERM. & Gold Mining Operation—Important Opinion. Before Judge MeCunn. Titus B. Eldridge vs, Samuel C. Reed.—The particu- lars of this case were some time ago presented to the readers of the HERALD. The memory will be best @rawn back to them by the subjoined opinion of Judge McCunn, before whom the case was tried:— The facts of tits case, according to Mr. Reed’s (the @efendant’s) testimony, are neariy as follows:—in 1867, during the time of a great mania for goid min- ing and other worthless stock speculations, a yentle- man by the name of McKinney, a personal friend of the defendant, applied to him anc desired that he, Mr. Reed, shouid aid in giving life Lo the stock of me Gola Hill Mining Vompany. Mr. Reed replied that he had no money, but finally agreed to give and aid give his two notes at short runs for $2,6v0 eacn, and. for which he received 1,600 shares of tle company’s stock, at $3 25 per share. The notes were given and the atock was transferred by the following receipt given at the time:— Received from Samuel ©, Reed, Esq., his forty days date, to order of A. Received from Samuel U. Re ‘thirty days date, to order of A. with 100 shares’ of the Hardware, Bolt, Spice and” Rivet Manufacturing Company, as collateral for 1,600 shures of the Gold Hill Mining Company of Colorado, at! #425 per share, to be held with the bafance of the capital stodk \y the hands of Murcus-Walker, trustee, for pro rite sales and Bencht. ANDREW MOKINNEY, per MAKCUS WALKER: NEw YoRK, Jan, 6, 1367, Phe stock was ieft by Mr. Reed with a Mr. Walker, who was entrusted with the scheme, ana who was Torming the corner. From ine testimony of Mr. Reed it would appear that tne 1,600 shares were taken by Mr. Reed and were left in Walker's hands, ‘and, With his cousent and koowiedge, the entire i was placed under tho control ot Waiker and by Bim put upon the market. Fictitious sales were At last the made (wash sales, as they are cailed). ed. lied upon to scheme collapsed and Mr. Reed was “pay the notes. Mr. Reed now says that he was ‘fraudulentiy induced by Mr. McKinney to enter into the transaction; that the whole thing was tainted with fraud from the start, and that the sixty-six dollars allowed Eldridge was a usurious charge; therefore he (Mr. Eldridge) cannot recover tn this ac- tion. We fall to see it in thatlight. We regard the whole scheme as one entered into by reckless men for the purpose of acquiring speedy fortunes ‘at the expense of an easily deceived public, and that ‘Mr. Reed, the defendant. ts as little to be pitted as any of those connected with the affair. Weure of oO) faton shat the sixty-six dollars charged by Mr. sidridge was a fair and proper charge, and was not in sense of the word usurious. biiridge testities that he advanced the whoie be gon of the notes, and that Wolcott gave him back this sum to cover his expenses in searching. Wolcott corroborates this ally 1m his testimony taken at Boston, and this, to our minds, 1s the correct view. But supposing the keeping by Mr. Eldridge of the sixty-six dollars waa not to cover his expeuses, and that in law he was not entiled to retain that sum— that (@oing so was @ usurious act—this will not taint the original transaction. if the rencwal 1s given in part for a valtd debt, that portion of the debt (I mean the valid portion) is not destroyed by usury in the new security (Hamman vs. Hopping, 15 Wen., 605; swartwout vs. vain, 19 Jonnson, 204; Bush va. Livingston, 2 Cal. Cases, 66.) Inaeed, the book abounds With cases to this point, so much so that the principle is now almost elementary. ‘To enable ® party to avail himself of such a defence he must show presumptively, at least, the usurious intent, because usury consists in the corrupt bargain be- tween the parties by which more lawial inte. Fest is to be paid. (Nerrilis WW, 19 Cowen, 655 Pomrey vs. Ainsworth, 23 fu » 1a) The NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. rview be correct, there was no fraud intended, that Mr. MoKinney to demnity him (| ) if the scheme shor fall, and ‘that it was upon the truth and strength of this state- ment he gave the notes. Mr. Mc! ey 18 @ Btock- Jobber and Mr. Reed 1s an eminent counsellor, and is presumed to understand the law in such casen; he 1 also presumed to be as careful about his own affairs as Mr, McKinney. Under these cir- cumstances 16 is hard to say where a criminal con- cealment or Jiavility on the part of one or both begins or where it ends. 1 say criminal liability; 1 mean this in 1t8 hteral sense, because if Mr. Reed’s story be true, and as far as this case goes | take his statement as confessed, both the parties would have been gullty of acrime in aiding and ff @ fraud- ulent stock for the purpose of gains to themselves and of serious destruction to others. In this case McKinney could not have intended fraud upon Mr. Reed; he was teed’s personal trend. He had thrown his own money into the guif. When a man not igno- rant of such things enters into @ trade or transaction of this kind, with his eyes wide open and with a full knowledge of what be is about, he has no right to quarrel with thé managers ne has appointed or the men with whom he has entrusted bis money Mf it shouid turm out that they had unfortunate or ill advised thelr Nae tions, The real question in the case not whether there was @ conspiracy to g re the public into buying something diferent shape of stocks from what they had a right to sup- pose they were buying, but whether that offence, if commitved, can be taken adi of by Mr, Reed a8 against his coadjutors, $0 as render him not liwble on certain notes given to some of his friends to enable them to float the stock and to form tne corner, and which notes are now held by innocent parties, When meu are once aware that their own prudence will and must protect them, masmuch as the law cannot, they will be very cautious how they give up their mterests to enterprises which do not offer satistactory guarantees of honesty ‘and stability;, and when it is knowa that stockholders, organizers, directors and others Who aid in such companies, and who pub- lish lalse statements and prospectuses, or who lend Uiemselves in any way to such acts, thereby induc- ing the public to become shareholders, are subject to lose all the money they invest in the enterprise, aud ore as well liable for their obligations, and also criminally liable, they will pause before they pro- ceed In such matters. Alew impieasive examples lke this will teach Mr. Reed and others, that extraordinary profits cannot be obtained without extraordinary risks; that itis unsafe to trust to the representauons of friends, or to names, however high our confidence may be in em; that itis dangerous to embark in enterprises of which they cannot comprehend the Scope, and in the mavagement of which they cannot have any share, Kor tne above reasons the judg- ment shouid be rev . suage Fithian—I concur. SUPEGION COURT—TRIAL TERM—PART 1. Action for the Killing of a Child by Alleged Negligence. Before Judge McCunn and a Jury. Sarah Priet, Admintstratriz, dc., af Cecelia Priel, Deceased, vs, The Central Park, North and East River Raitroad Company.—The complainant alleges that on the 27th of Angust, 1868, Cecilia Priel, a litde girl aged ten years, while attempting to cross the street on the crossing, corner avenue A and Six- teenth street, was run over by cur 61 of the Belt Line through the carelessness and negligence of the driver, sustaining such severe mjurtes that she died in f{teen minutes thereatter. It was contended and proven on benaif of the plaintiff that the little girl was ou the proper crossing for foot passengers, in broad daylight, and that the driver had ample time i he chose to avoid the sad occurrence, ‘The de- fence was the usual one of contributive negligence on the part of the deceased. Judge McCunn took the case from the jury and granted a non-suit on the ground that the little girl Was guilty of negligence. MARINE coUaT. Action for Personal Injuries. Before Judge Curtis. Arthur Sweeney vs, William Young.—This was an ‘action brought to recover $200 for compensation for injuries sustained by defendant’s wife from being thrown out of a carriage. by which sne had recerved personal injuries through defendant’s negligence as alleged. From the testimony it appeared that defeh- dant was driving a horse and carriage through Hud- son street about eight o’clock in the evening, and ‘When opposite 432 Hudson street the wheels struck Agaiust a pile of stones in the middie of the street, ‘upsetting the venicle and throwing out the occu- pants. fendant’s wife was so injured by the fall that she was attended by @ nurse and confined to the house for nearly @ month, and it was for the recovery of expenses thus incurred that the action was brougat. For the defence it was contended and testimony given in support that the pile of stones were not placed on the centre of the road by the detendant or his agent, but by the railroad company. Deiend- ant had been engaged in connecting the sewer of 432 with the main street, nut before concluding work on the morning of tne accident had removed all obstructions. Witnesses swore they saw the railroad company’s workmen place the stones on the street subsequently to defendant’s clearing the road after nis work. ‘The case was not given to the jury, the Court rul- ing that the piaintiiT had failed to establish any con- nection between the defendant and the placing of the particular obstruction in tne street waich lea to the accident. Case accordingly dismissed. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Gunning S. Bedford, Jr., City Judge. ACQUITTED ON A CHARGE OF INDECENT ASSAULT. The first case tried by the jury yesterday in this court was an indictment of an indecent assault against William Hunter, Jr., the complaining wit- ness being a young girl named Margaret Baker, who testified that the accused took her to an impro- per house in Mercer street on the 5th of September, and attempted to take improper liberties with her, but failed to accompiish his purpose. It came out in the course of the trial that a police officer having heard of the occurrence six days afterwards brought it to the knowledge of her parents. A re- putable witness tor the defence testified that he was In the street when the young girl asked the defend- ant to accompany ber to the house, The previons character of the accused having peen estab- lished Mr. Fellows abandoned the prosecution and the jury returned @ verdict of not gutity. A DISHONEST DOMESTIC, Honora, Egin was tried and convicted of grand larceny, 1m sealing, on the 2d of this month, eighty- atx dollars, the property of Sidney E. Jsusteed, No. 343 Third avenue, at whose house she was a domes- tic. She took it from the pocket of a vest which ne jeit in bis bedroom, and leit the house. An oficer arrested her three hours afterwards in West Broad- way, and she admitted that she stole twenty dollars. She was sentenced by Judge Bedford to the State Prison for one year. GRAND LARCENY. John Murphy and Spencer Avery pleaded gulity to an attempt at grand larceny, the indictment charg- ing that on the 4th instant they stole a chest of tea, valued at ninety-four dollars, the property ot Beard, Cummings & Co, Murphy, who had served a term to the Penitentiary for stealing rope, ‘Was sent to the State Prison for two years and six monwbs, while Avery, whose previous record was better than that of his confederate, was sent to the same institution for eighteen months, ‘The following 1s the calendar for to-day:—The People vs. Robert Raab, rape; Same va. Francis Kaiser, burglary; Same vs. Andrew Bressard, burg- lary; Same va. Jamnés Wells, burglary; Same ve. Thomas Lyons, receiving stolen goods; Same vs. Jona Q’Neil, grand larceny; '#, Joseph M ater, ghey larceny; Ph, ton Levy, d larceny; Fame Ve. £5 lickles,” grand i} Same vb. Charles Hartman, grand larceny; Saal A Henry Strautz, grand larceny; Same vs. Charles Henniger, embezziement; Same va, Thomas Moore, larceny from the person; Same vs. John Mack and James Bolger, larceny trom the person; Saine vs. George Dugan, carrying a slungshot; Same vs. George Deegan, petit larceny. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. D States District CourrT—IN ApMiRaL- Ty.—Beiore Judge Blatchford.—Nos. 22, J. F. Wright vs. steamboat State of Maine; 180, John H. Handy vs. steamer Franconia; 34, Wm. H, Tapscoct vs. steamboat S. fl. Starbuck; 169, James Mow vs. sloop J. H. Abell; 93, Josia Johoson vs. achooner J. M, McMillan; 179, James Mott vs, steamboat Mount Washington; 162, Robert A. Kerr vs. tug 0. Baker; 183, John Foley vs, schooner Isabella; 177, John Han- sen v8. schoone! Thompson; 184, Patrick Boyle va. Wm. Beard, Jr.; 129, Carl V. Tornvich vs, Metropolitan Gaslight Company; 144, Ed. M. Jansen the lighter Ung; 141, Andrew J. Hutchinson vs. mboat Northfleid, &c.; 164, T. W. Leavitt et al. ‘vs. George W. Jewett et al.; 109, A. Waters et al. vs. steamer W. C. Kedileld; 61, W. F. Conner vs. bark Walkeyrene. SuPREME COURT—GENBRAL TERM.—Before Judges Ingraham (presiding), Barnard and Brady. 115, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 354, 119, 120, 121, 1: 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 120, 157. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS.—Held by Judge Cardozo. Call of calendar at twelve M.—Nos. 23, 45, 53, 91, 101, 102, 103; 104, 111, 117, 119, 121, 153, 156, 157, 185, 186, 193, 195, 204, 208, "209,” 210, 219, 220, 223, 230, 231, 232, 237. Surgeon CourtT—TriaL TERM.—Part 1.—Before Judge McCuon, Court opens at eleven A. M.—Nos, 163, 1077, 721, 133, 132, 599, 212, 677, 1111, 333, 334, 335, 1309, 1311, 131% Part 2—Before Judge Freedman. Court opens at eleven A, M.—Nos, 1566, 1108, 1770, 1776, 172, 1784, 1792, 1700, 1794, 1789, 1800, 1804, 1806, 1808. MARINE Counr—Taiat, Tenat.—Part 1.—Before Gross.—! , 4821, Wee sir 183, 183; 18h" 156, 40018, Leer, Part 27” fore Judge Curtis.—Nos, 42, 4689, 4050, 4677, 4671, 5, 77, 81, 90, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 148, 149, 100, 164, 10134. A. W. _— Sn eS aa ee eae ae cc oe ——— —————————— v”0€0€0Soss ee, BROOKLYN COURTS. UNITED STATES BISTRIGT COURT—iN ADMIRALTY. Negligence in Towing Ships. Before Judge Benedict. Ambrose Snoro et al. vs. the Steam Propeller M. A, Lennoz.—This action was brought by the owners of the ship Corsica to recover the amount of damages occasioned by her running into Wetmore’s dock, Brooklyp, while being towed by the steamboat M, A. Lennox. The libefantsa allege that the ship was lying at pier 87 East river, and her master directed Mr. Hewiett, a towing contractor, to send up two boats to remove the ship to Greenpoint; that he hauled the Lennox and told her to go up to pier 37, and if possible to take another boat with him; that on arrival at pier 37 tne master of the Lennox told the captain of the Corsica that he had got another > which would be there before the ship was hauled out into the stream; that when the vessel Was bauied out no tug came up ana the Lennox, which had hauled the ship out stern foremost, dropped wa yd dog's ghons brains of. vue way over the river © Intention of taking u baweer from tlié bow; that she “ant au ahd was ne sag) up an hye strucl Wetmore’s dock, doing her about $1,000 dam- ages. ‘The lidellants ciaim that the tug was in commana @nd control of both vessels, and is respon- wible ior the movements of voth vessels and lable for tue injury Which Was occasioned by uer negll- Jc ee, . The owners of the Lennox claim that when she arrived at the Corsica she hailed the sip and whe captain asked if there was anotuer woat coming, to which the master of the Leauox replied thal he could not find another boat. Alter some conversa- tion the master of the sup directed the tug vo take @ hawser and also told him that he would di the motions of both vessels by motioning with his hands; that the ship was hauled out under ed see ohio A of i Coraica bene and ail subsequent move: le by him; that Ad ondere were thepelay te ts bat she did all she could, and i @ proper manuer, avold the collision, but the lines aboard the Corsica Were not ready in time; that sie did not have a cou- petent jorce aboard, there being uo pilot, but only a rigger’s of eight wen wesides tae captain and mate; that if the lines had been passed out in time the steamboat could have saved the slip trom strik- ing the dock, and that masmuch as the ship captain Was in command and directed the manwuvres of both vessels the tug is not responsible for tue acci- dent. ‘The Lennox also insisted that she was ordered to and did drop the hawser when one-jbird of the Way over the river, and immediately backed up to the bow and threw uer heaving line three times to receive the hawser, which was not ready for her, and that the accident was caused by the fact that no Nawser was In readiness. ‘The testimony of the witnesses was very confict- ing, and has aiready occupied three days in being taken. ‘Ihe case was aqjourned wo the let of Feb- ruary for the suwaming up. J. 1. McGowan for we Corsica; Goodrich & Whveler Jor the Lennox. SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—KINGS COUNTY. Action for Trespass. Before Judge Gilbert and a jury. Henry O'Brien ys. George W. Roosevelt et at.— The plaintif sued to recover damages for a trespass by the defendants in seizing the lighter Factor under process issued In admiralty, to recover a bill of repairs furnished by the firm of Roosevelt & Grif- fiths, in June, 1868, he libel in admiralty was <is- missed by the United States Court on the ground that there was no jurisdiction in admiralty to en- force @ lien for suppiies or repairs furnished to a domestic vessel. ‘The vessei was in custody of the Marsha) for sixty days. The deiendants claim that she was a mere wreck, half full of water and worth nothing, and Was not in @ condition to pursue her business, which Was the transportation of ballast. ‘hey also clarmed that there was a lien in admiralty for sach services Upon @ domestic vessel, aud that such were the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. ‘the jury returned a verdict for the plaimtiffs for $120, ‘The Court ordered the excepuons to be heard in the first instance at the General ‘Term with a stay of proceedings. Goodrich & Wheeler for plaintut, Beebe, Donohue & Cooke for deieudants. PUBLIC CHARITIES, Meeting of tho Commissioners—Relief to the Poor—Interesting Statistics, The semi-monthly meeting of the Commissioners of Pablic Charities and Correction was held yester- day, with the president, General Bowen, in the ohair. The meeting was devoted almost entirely to supervising the work in the different in- stitutions and departments during the past fort- night. Everything was found to be au sail, as the Commissioners have thelr arrangements and details 80 Managed that noteven a bone button could be “‘amouched”’ or lost without beimg traced and the Place in which the negiect or culpability iay being ascertained. . he department of RELIEF TO OUT-DOOR POOR, under the superintendence of Mr. George Kellock, was shown to be as efficient as ever. The weather should be in favor of the depariment, but, unfor- tunately, there are somany out of employment that the necessity for relief exists almost as much as when the winters were severe. Mr. Kellock reports that, throngh his department, there have been re- heved durimg the month of gWeceimber, 1869, appli- cants as follows: c ‘On account of old age. On account of sickness. ‘On account of accouchement Making @ total of.... The report of Mr. Kelicck was placed on file. The report of the district physicians was offered, ag fol- lows:— f Consultations Visits. at Opie. 6 ‘39 it 5 or} a 08 16 1b 2 “a 3 Ey 27 4 2 3 Er i) TOtales see eseereereessrere 428 630 a4 Under treatment. Transferred to hospital. ned. . Accouchements. ‘This method of relief to people who have been afiicted with disease has undoubtedly kept many people out of the poorhouse. The district physicians have been obliged to pass @ rigid special examina- tion and are supplied with all necessaries. If a per- son fall sick and have not means sufficient to allow nim to engage a good physician he is always sure of having one at his call, Should he be found so poor as to be lying on straw—as has frequently been the case—a good bed, bedstead and clothing are furnished and the advice of a good physician, coupled with home-nursing, will be found, no doubt, to be almost as good as “the prayer of faith’ “to help the sick man,” so that he will be raised up and thus spared, unless too much diseased, the necessity of going to the hospital or among strangers. ‘The Fourth district, comprising the Eighth, Fif- teenth and Sixteenth wards, it appears, has’ been remarkably healthy or physicians very neglectful, as NEW YORK CITY. MOVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS. Arrests ~ Accidents — Burglaries— Fires-— Interesting Police Items and Mis- * cellaneous Matters. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature of the weather for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HeRaLD Building, Broadway corner of Ann street:— 1869. 1670. 33 45 1869, 1870, BT 46 36 43 42 Al ve BON Burglare on Wednesday night forced their way through a rear window to Knock’s confectionery store, No. 87 Hight avenue, and stole sixty cents from the money drawer. The body of an unknown man, about forty years of age, was found lying in the basement of premises 120 Chrystie street. Coroner Rolling was notitied to hold an inquest on the body. While lighting the gas in his show window, No. 38 Grand street, last night, J. Lowenstem accidentally permitted it to fire the goods, $200 worth of which were burned, as well as bis bands. While intoxicated last evening a man named Brady, of No. 406 East Nineteenth street, fell from the second story of the new building No, 656 Third avenue and fractured his skull. He was sent to Bellevue Hospital in a critical condition. A fire yesterday morning at No, 191}¢ Laurens street inflicted $500 damage to a stock of boots and shoes, and extended to Lena Rhodes’ Cyr store, Where $600 damage was sustained. The buildings were damaged $2,000 aud are fully insured. John Asher, of No. 422 East Fourtcenth street, while jumping off car No. 162, east side belt line, yesterday, fell under it. One of the wheels passed over one of his legs, crushing it m a borrible man- ner. ‘Ihe man was sent to Bellevue Hospital for sreatment. , At an election of oMicers of the Atlantic and Pacige Telegraph Company held yesterday at their office, 31 and 33 Broadway, New York, Artuur F. Wilimarth ‘was elected president; Wm. H. Guion and John Duff, vice presidents, and Alired Nelson, treasurer and secretary. The following gentlemen were elected as an executive commitiee:—John Dillon, Jono H. Mortimer, Wm. D. Snow, James Brooks, Koland G. Hazard, E. H. Van Kleeck. On Wednesday evening some twenty of Judge Joseph Koch’s friends and former companions enter- tained this gentieman with @ grand dinner at the rooms of the Progress Club, No, 131 West Twenty- third street, at which he was also pre- sented with a splendid imperial phovograph, embodying the likenesses of his entertain- ers. Mr. George Mayer presided with grace and dignity, On his right was seated the handsome Judge, on bis left Mr. Philup Frank, president of the Progress Club. Speectes were made vy the chair. man, the honorable guest, Mr. Frank, Mr. Weyman, Isaac Heyman, Mr. Elsas, Mr. Dinkel and others. ‘the bench, the bar, social science, commerce, the press and the ladies all received due acknowledge- mentin bumpers of sparkling **Moselle’’ and “Widow Cliquot.”” The banquet was everything that money and skill could make it, Last evening Mr. Jones, Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools, delivered @ lecture on the “Life and Character of Benjamin Franklin” to the pupils of male evening schoo: No. 17, West Forty-seventh atreet. There were about 500 boys and young men present, who evidently appreciatea the pleasant and instructive entertainment afforded them, Mrs, br. Ayers and Mr. Barrows sang two very fine Guets, one of which, “see the Pale Moon,” was received with marked favor. The exercises closed with an address by Mr. Stevens, the newly elected member Of the Board of ‘Trustees of the ward, ‘The ectiool numbers 950, with an average attendance of about 500, aud 1s under the able management of Mr. Matthew J. Elgas, assisted by an experienoed corps of teachers. One of we new features of the school is the architectural and mechanical drawing class, under the tuition of Mr. Thomas G. Williamson. In point of numbers the school ranks second in the city; in discipline it ig not excelled. After considerable delay progress was made yes- terday in the case of George Stoll, the German who ‘was fatally stabbed in the lager beer saloon, No. 123 Delancey street, on the night of the 24th ult., but without reaching a satisfactory resuit. The case has been under the management of Coroner Flynn, but be could not obtain evidence pointing directly to the murderer, but sus- picion reflects surongiy upon Charles A. Albright, one of the three men concerned in the fatat oar the particulars of which have been repeatedly printed in the grap, Witnesses were examined at the ‘Tenth precinct station house, and Maximilian Emlucson gave testimony with hesitation and his manner indicated that he knew more about Stoll’s death than he was willing to teil. Oiicers Moran and Reilly, of the ‘Tenth precinct, who ar- rested Charles A. and Edwin Albright, at their club house, corner of Norfoik and Delancey streets, were sworn, but their evidence was of no particular im- portance. It appeared tn testimony, however, that Charies A, Albright was one of the three men who entered the saloon and created the disturb- ance which resulted 1m the stabbing of deceased and his subsequent death, Albright asserts that he does pot know the names of his companions, but evidently the jury did not believe him. All the testimony being in the case was given to the jury, who found ‘ That deceased came to his death from tetanus, caused by a stab wound inflicted by one of three men on the night of the 24th of December, 1869, and they believe Charles A. Albright to be one of the party.” Aibright was held to await the ac- tion of tie Grand Jury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Mattic Davis, of No, 109 West Twenty-fifth street, yesterday cuarged Phezer Huf,a coachman, with stealing clothing from her valued at ninety doliars, Me denied the charge, but was committed by Justice Cox In default of bail. Amelia Connolly was committed by Justice Vox, at Jeiferson Markes yesterday, upon complaint of Margaret Sialloran, of No, 330 Third ayen harged, jn company with ber husband, Peter, who was coim- mitted on Wednesday, with stealing seventy-two dollars iu money from her on the 3ist of October last, Charles Bloomer and John Gaylor, both colored, were arraigned before Justice Vox, at Jefferson Market yesterday, by oflcer Carl, of the Eighth pre- cinct, upon complaint ‘of Hugh McLoughian, of 41 Laurens street, charged with burgiariously entering his place on Wednesday night and stealiag ten deun- the report shows ho work of any kind auring the month. The report of the superintending physician, as well as several other reports from aifferent depart- ments, were received and adopted, after which the Bogrd adjourned, iv Fery COMPANY. = Ta: ON The Corporation Which Works ‘Not for the Parpose of Making Money”—The Question of the Reduction of Fare. ‘The following figures, showing the amount of receipts, losses and profits of the different ferries under control of the Union Ferry Company, are far- nished by Mr. Cyrus P. Smith, the managing director of the company, and will, of course, be taken for what they may be worth. Receipts for running five ferries............. $054,000 Expenses of the same, including ten per cent dividend...... 928.000 Profits oi the year .... 000 Receipts from foot passengers. 763,628 At one cent ferriage they would be. 381,814 Subtract this from the rent proposed leaves. 103,000 And there would be a deficiency upon our present receipts of... - «eee 278,814 —which would swallow up our $26,000 of surplus profit, our $100,000 of dividend (ten per eent on a $1,000,000 capital) and the $100,000 of depreciation which we need yearly for keeping our boats and property in good condition. ‘The following is a communication from Mr. Smith to Mayor Hall and Comptroller Connolly in regard to the ferry lease:— Un1ox Exany Orrice, | BRooxys, Jan. 90, 1870, Hon. A. OAKEY Hat, Mayor, Rial) B. CONNOLLY, Com oad Gen’ EN:—I have the pleasnre to acknowledge the receipt of your letter under date of the 17th inst., containing your proposition as to late affairson the ferries. Under & new lease of the ferries this company bighly appreciate your liberal views in regard to cheap ferriage. This company has ever advocated the prinetple and has endeavored to carry the same out as far cable with due regard to the (penance of. the stock- olders and such improvements of the ferries as the publio seem to need by suitable boats and expeditious and al XH your communication is bi ‘aD answer be munication. The mater fore the Board of Diretory a ‘wil be made ne soon aa practicable afver leration. |Your obedi (©. P. SMITH, Managing Diregtor. y session of johns. They were remanded to the station house until this morning. A German named Joseph Krobach was yesterday arraigned before Justice Scott, at Essex Market Po- lice Court, on a charge of argon. On Wednesday evening a fire broke out in Krobach’s rooms, in No. 175 Essex street, during the absence of himself and wife at theatre, and as there was reason to believe the fire was of incendiary origin Krovach was, upon his return home, arrested by officer Boble, of the Tenth precinct. Fire Marshal Brackett haa the case under investigation, and in the meantime Justice Scott held the prisoner. 4 young man named Alfonso Fleck was brought before Judge Dowling. yesterday, at the Tombs Police Court, charged with forgery and obtaining money under false pretences, He was in custody of Detective McKeever. He pre sented @ check for $39 for some purchases he had made amounting to $37. The clieck was drawn by Charles Smith, on the National Butchers’ and Dro- vers’ Bank, and payable to the order of Alfred Fleck. ‘The balance, $57, was given to Fleck in the form of acheck on the Fifth National Bank, which Fleck lost no time in getting cashed. Fleck was comaut- ted to answer. A youth named Anthony Danaro, residing at No. 683 Orchard atreet, yeaterday appeared before Jus- tice Scott, at Essex Market Police Court, and charged other Italian, named Guitano Inchesa, with stealthg from him the fixtures of a.barber shop, vaiued at $100. It appears that some time since Danuro’s father died the son came into pos- his barber store, at No. 370 West street. The prisoner offered to into partnership with Danaro, and subsequently an arrangement was made between them. In the absence of tie youth, as alleged, the newly found partner stripped the shop and had the effects carted off to 66 Oliver sireet and refused to deliver them up. Officer Cummings, of the Court Lee arres! Tnchesa and Justice Scott meld him for examination, As detective Lambrecht, of the Nineteenth pre- cmnct, was on Wednesday evening passing along Fifth avenue, he noticed some suspicious men enter- ing the houge of Mr. John Sherwood, at No, 622 Fifth avenue, The men foreed ap entrance to the pouse * the basemeiit door ad the officer fotlowed them. vipced ves, the r made at them an ve oficel dash one of whom made his ny ltr ge Lambrecht ave an alarm, and detect jiton, of the same Fete "ie ates enero tune men, Ww! to , ere thefr manien ‘as William Marsh and James rooks, Yesterday the Coulter, at the Yorkville Police Court, Sherwood charged them with Were held in delault of bail. It 1s sup} men belong to a if burglars and thiev have for some tims tueced ‘the Nineteenth ward. THE NEW HEALTH OFFICER. taken before J Pol when Mr. both Sketch of Dr. John Murray Carnochau. Dr. Jobn Murray Carnochah, the eminent surgeon who has been nominated by the Governor for the Position of Health OMicer of this port, was born’ in the city of Savannah, Ga., in the month of July, 1817. He 1# descended im a direct line from General Asrael Putnam. His father was a native of Bcot- Jand, and removed to Savannah several years before the birth of the subject of this sketch, While the son was yet a youth he accompanied him to Edinburg and had him entered at the High School of that city, where ke studied several years. At that time the great names in Edinburg were, ‘Wilson in philosophy, Hope in chemistry, Kuox in anatomy and Lyme and Liston in operative sergery, ‘The analytic genius of these eminent men exercised over the young and choughtful mind of the fature great surgeon of America @ most powerful infu- ence, which became evident in after years. He graduated with high honors at the High School and then entered the University, where he completed his bamanisies and returned to the United States. He was then, strange as it may scem, only in his seventeenth year, and the choice of a profession was before him. He determined upon Deing a surgeon, and entered the office of Dr. Val- entine Mott, then at the zenith of his well earned fame as a surgical practitioner and lecturer. He soon took his degree as Doctor of Medicine and de- voted himself urdently to the stuay of anatomy. Many of nis leisure hours were spent in the dissect- ing room, and he occasionally,delivered lectures on Surgical anatomy to private classes. Several sketches of his wonderful skill at this period of his life are now deposited in the museum of the New York Medical College. Dr. Carnochan visited Europe in 1841, and re Mained for six years im attendance upon the clinl- cal lectures of the principal hospitals of Paris, London and Edinburg, and familtarized himself with the practice and modes of treatment of such surgical celebrities as Brodie, Civiaie, Lefranc, Koux, Liston aud Velpeau. Upon his return home he fixed upon New York city as his residence. In 1860 he published “A Treatise on the Etiology, Pathology and ‘Treatment of Congenital Disloca- tions of the Beat of the Femur,’ and this work at once placed him in the front rank of the great surgeons of the day. ‘Ihe subject of the treatise was a novel one, and was when it first made ilg appearance, ana is yet re- garded, a8 a model Of scientiic exposition. The year following he was elected Professor of the Prin- ciples and Operations of Surgery in the New York Medical College, and Surgeon-in-Chief to tne State Emigrants’ Hospitat. ‘The latter position he stall holds. His experience in the Emigrants’ Hospital has been immense, and it is said that during the eighteen years he has been the chief surgeon of the piace over 130,000 patients have passed under his treatment. The fact that the mortaiity in the hospi- tals less than two per cent, or less than the whole city mortality, including both sick and well, and also less than the mortality in the Hotel peu, in Paris, 18 Of itself suflicient to attest the services ke has there rendered to humanity. In 1852 he suc- cessfully treated a case of elephantiasis arabum by Mgature of the femoral artery; and has treated ele- phantiasis of the head, face and neck by ligaure of both carotids. in the same year he periormed the operation of amputating the entire lower jaw, with digarticulation of butt condyles, and has since several | tines successfully repeated the same delicate operation. In 1854 he exsected tue entire ulna, saving the arm, with Its functions un- umpatred, and subsequently, witi success, removed the entire radius. On the 18th of May, 1464, at the battle of the Wilderness, he performed tne amputa- tion of the hip joint, an operation which he had pre- viously performed several times under less dan- gerous Circumstances. In 1866 be successiutly re- Moved ap encysted sanguineous tumor froin the neck of a female patient, and the year pre- vious he removed & large osteo-carti- laginous tumor growing from the rids over the region of the heart, removing also with it a portion of one rib and Laying bare the pleura. Other surgeons had refused to perform tue opera- tion, they believing that the gre was suitering from @neurism of the heart. He has also periormed success(ully the operation of amputation at wie shoulder joint for a large osteo-fbro-cartilaginous tumor of the humeras. ‘Lhe tumor weighed eighteen pounds, and is the largest mentioned in connection ‘With this kind of operation. He bas with equal suc- cess exsected the entire bone of the heel for caries; but the most wonderful operauion he has ever performed, aud Which no surgeon ever attempted before hun, was the exsecting for neuralgia of the entire trunk of the second branch of the filth pair of herves from the infraorbital foramen, a3 tar us tle foramen rotundum ‘at the base of the skull. The patient had suifered from his disease fur seven years, and had been operated upon by five diferent surgeons, Who had failed to give him relief, He was enurely cured by the operation of Dr. Carnochan. In addition to muny other wonderful operauons which he has periormed during past years Dr. Car- nochan has operated for strangulated hernia, for trepuining of tue skull and for cataract by the method of extraction. A man is born @ surgeon a4 he is born a poet or a painter, for surgical tact 18 a gilt of nature, and 1 is to this tact that Dr. Carnochun is indebted for the reat precision Of his diaguosis. It has always en his theory that the success of an operation 1s subordinate to the general treatment, and so he never operates without assuring Dimself that his patient has been fully prepared for the ordeal by @ppropriate regimen and that the sutferer’s health Will undergo no injury by the operation, and he is never at fault either as regards the seat and nature of the diseage or the eilects of the therapeutic means. Dr. Carnochan was for many years tie Professor of the Principles and Operauons of Surgery in the New ‘Tork Medical College, and his published lectures on Parital Ampuctations of tne Foot, Lithotomy and Lithotrity, show his styie of conveying instruction. He used to deliver clinical lectures at the Hospital and College, but is private practice became finally 80 extensive he was obliged vo cease lecturing altogether. As @ lecturer he was noted for his quiet delivery. He was fuent withont being prolix; and perapicuity, remarkable power of exposition and deduction and facility in the classification of his ideas, were his chief charac- teristics in the professional chair. Socially Dr. Carnochan is one of the most attrac- tive of men, and has @ magnificent presence. Although @ little over fifty-two years of age, he bears the micn of a man of foriy. conclusion — it that ‘ignt- ness of character and a <indness of heart that wilh msure him the love and esteem of all those with whom he may come in contact tn his new career— qualities which have endeared him wo huadreds, whose only regret now 1s that We public demand for the “rigut man in the right place” as Healch Onicer Will deprive tiem, co @ certain extent, of a tne friend and bensfactor. SWISH REFOSM. New YORK, Jan, 17, 1870. To THR Eptrok oF THR HERALD:— {read an article in yesterday's paper ‘entitled “gewish Reform.” The lecturer, Dr. Einhorn, denies entirely the bodily resurrection, *‘as he could not see it mentioned in the bible,” and pretends to show that he has stadied the Talmud by quoting some Jines from it concerning the resurrection, But not alone has the Doctor not finished the Talmud so as to know any other part where it quotes about the resurrected (jor he mentioned gvnly from San- hedran), but has presumptuonsly shut 01s eyes from the Bibie itself, Let the Doctor tn bis future lecture take his text from Ezekiel xxxvil, 12—~‘T will open your graves and cause you t come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.” See Verses 13 and 14. Can the learned Doctor mistranslate the nineteenth verse of twenty-litth chapter of tsatah—Thy dead men 4 live, together with my dead body shall they ari Awak sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the cart. shali Cast out the dead’? Let nim read tie Bible sincerely and he wiil Und some more. By inserting vis in your next issuc you will oblige yours traly, = LOUIS HARFELD, Rabbi, No, 28 East Broadway. OKRA Parrk.—The Mobile Daily Register of the 18th 18 printed upon paper manufactured entirely from the okra pant at the Chickasabugue Mulls, about twenty miles from that city. The paper has a good body, 18 strong, free from motes and other Imperfections, but is less epaquo than a similar quality of paper made from rags. In color It is not quite up Lo the mark, but this de- fect proceeds, no doubt, rather from the water used in the manufacture than the material. We suppose the superabundance of rain at vis season haa made the water at the miilé more’vurbid than Usual. The sample, however, proves that the okra plant i8 8 good materiai for printing paper—far bet- ver than the straw and otter chat which ia used in making the paper of some of the Nortnern dailies, and which 1s so harsh and brittle that the sheet must be handied with care, or it will be torn up before it can be read.—Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, Jan. 16. ‘The vine is cultivated in seventy-nine departments in France and the annual yield is about 71,000,000 of hectolitres, which, i valued at an average of twenty-tnree francs, represents the sum of 1,600,000,000f, The cultivation and producing of wine in France gives eipployment to 6,600,000 of people, abd the wine trade alone employs 2,000,000 done, in the 5 WOW THE SMALLPOX IS FED. Sixty Miles of Dirty Streete—Harris After Brown—The Board Refuse to Give Re- Nef—Typhoid Fever Raging. On Wednesday Sanitary Superintendent Harris sent to the Board of Health, before its adjournment, the following letter of startling import, The Board Tefused to receive it until next meeting, and small+ pox and fever have another week's grace:— METROPOLITAN BOARD oF HEALTH, 1870. 74, rotate oF THE Murnoronitan ‘pohuy or BIR It becomes my duty respectfully to invite the atten- tion of the Board of Health to Mes aagaroaaly - Hon Of to streot ia New York, ie aia fact that the open and damp winter, w is year ie more remarkable than any like’ season is iwenty paane te unhealthfal and tends imronaty to promote epidemic forms of disease is acknowledged by all medical observers. ‘This harity of the season Fenders the action and watchf of sanitary officers exceedingly vigilant, but now that this ‘upnsusl thaalubrity of the season with the e2- ceedingly dithy condition of the streete and gutters of the cily, there i# au urgent necessity for some action that shall secure cleansing of them without delay whtle the open wi ~* continues, ‘With 180 cases of typhus fever in the hospital, and witn s pilll greater evi! in the Rest Houston the duty. force civic leaniiness is urgent the essential means of — sani Protection. and not less tm are in ogress the the Board of Heuth, andt would Board f: brit means to secure the cleaning aball be ordered that the annexed list of streets with thorou will, of the public health, order the shortest ble be taken to accomplish the work, The necessity fo" thie lean ing 18 urgent, aod asthe contracting eompany or have the duty in thetr hands under the law must be expected to Temove the street dirt and ashes when accumulated and sented to itis mates for sani eal comprise a little more than 1 1e in that portion of the city which Hes south of ‘The cost, at this season of the year, will arg according ie the weather; but It ts estimated that the work can be and the di ready for the carte infddie or at margins of atreet at an a - pense of fourteen dollars per mile, fanradinn the flushing and cleaning of gutters. T would, therefore, that the annexed list of atreeta and such other streets or por- Hons of atrects ua shall be found necessary, not exteeding @ total of sixty miles of elt) tary cleaning, in we and Pifty-ninth e and the expense ' be charged the special fund now remaining in the city Comptroller's hands, and that the same to be a0 expended shall not exceed $900. ‘And I would respectfully request that the work, oF of let- ting out the coniracts for such work, may not be imposed upon the Sanitary Su ndent or the medical officers ex- clusively, as our hands are fuil of atrietly hygienic duties just now. T would also respectfully ask the Board of Henlth to secure the consent and agreement of the contractors of city strest cleaning to cart and remove away the street and guiter filtk ‘as soon as gathered into heaps by cleaners paid by the Board Respectfully, é. HARRIS, Sanitary Superintendent. Central Tecommend that ( The Smallpox. A Woman died on Monday in the tenement house No. 95 First street of smallpox, She was buried on ‘Tuesday, and that evening @ straw bed from the apartments occupied by the deceased was burned in tue street in front of the house. Last evening a mat- tress, clothing, filthy rags. old shoes, &c., were also burned in the street. The mattress being cotton, tightly packed, burned slowly, smouldering for hours, filling the neighboring dwellings with smoke and stench, This morning portions of the mattress not consumed were taken away by ragpickers. This may be all right, but it is decidedly offensive to sen- sitive nostrils and nervous organizations. New York, Jan. 20, 1570, LEX Will the HeRALD please allow me to make thia correction in regard to the case of the young girl, who attended @ ball from 145 Elizabeth street during her convalesceuce from varioloid. She was at no time under my professional care or observation, neither did I se® her untli two days after her attend- ance at the ball, at which ume 1 was called to see her sister. A. 8, HUNTER, M. D., 863 Broome street, New York, January 1870. ‘THE ORANGE COUNTY MURDER. Fellows Convicted of Murder in the Second Degree and Sentenced to the State Prison for Twenty Years. GOSHEN, Jan. 20, 1870. At half-past six o’clock the jury in the case of Warren Fellows announced that they had agreed after being out over thirteen hours. ‘Ihe prisoner ‘was brought into the court room and the jurors again took their places and brought in the following verdict:— We find the prisoner guilty of murder im the séc- ond degree. The prisoner received this intelligence with evi- dent signs of emotion. His head tell forward upon his breast and he gazed fixedly upon the floor, All eyes were turned upon him and the room was as silentas death. The jury was then polled, and each answered that that was nis verdict. The prisouer, in reply to ihe question of the Judge, as to whether he had anything to #ay why sentence should not be pronouced upon him, satd:. ‘othing, except in regard to my Innocence. 1 am as tnnocent in regard to Luecrime as the day | was born. I have no knowleage or ever being at the place whatever. Thad no enmity against the people in any way or shape—against Mr. Swinton or any of his people. Do not know tnat I ever spoke to him im my life. Never had any words with him of any kind.”” Judge Gedney then stated that he desired to say that the public impression that the prisoner had a large amount of money was erroneous. He had only about $1,000 when the trial commenced. » Tappen then sentenced the prisoner fo the jon at Sing Sing for whe term of twenty MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Parepa ts singing in the Hub, Mempuis Is charmed with German opera. Hackett 1s domg “Fat Jack’’ in Charleston. Salon Shingle Owens is in Moblie, Edwin Forrest 1s at Detroit this week. The Richings troupe are operating in Chicago. Mrs. Scotu-#iddons is reading poetry in Vicksburg. “Fanchon” ts personating Maggie Mitchell in St, Louts. Carlotta Patti sings in Cincinnatt to-morrow night. Frank Mayo ts dog “The Three Gaardsmen” im Cleveland. Raward ‘Eddy 1 laboring with genteel tragedy in Albany. The Galton Operauc Troupe are winning fresh laurels in Puiladeipuia. Mrs. Bowers Is persouating “The Queen of Scots’? in Cincinnati. defferson Gnishes “Rip Van Winkie’ in New Orleans to-morrow evening. Gurr, the “‘man-fish,”” has betaken himself to the fying trapeze, Edwin Adams Is showing up “Enoch Arden” to the good Buffaionians, Leiingweii 1s extubiting .nis “‘Gushing Clorinda’’ 0 ihe creoies in New Orleans, “phe happiest couple out’—Lingard and Dun- ning—are buriesquing in Washington. Lotta ts playing with a cork-dyed face in Chicago. She does Topsey in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Kate Ranoe, formerly of Waliack’s, is playing in “Our American Cousin’’ in Toronto, A troupe of #Ixteen Japanese acrobaly has arrived at San Francisco. Two tame beara in Baltimore and a learned pig in Richmond are street sensations. ‘The California Senate has passed @ bill repeal- ing the act waich prohibited theatrical amusements on Sunday. : ‘The Philharmonic Society of Lima has again re- vived and has provided for three concerts, put it is complained that the directors are not successful in their Musical arrangements, * ‘The bali in aid of the American Dramatic Fund, which was to cone off on the 26th inst., has been postponed to@ more auspicious opportunity—pre- sent indication, 1 was thougat, presaging @ failure; if not an actual loss Lo the association, Marto did not poison himself for grief at Grist's death, but 1s singing away in the opera at st. Petersburg a# if nothing had happened. Next se: son he goes to London, but at the close of the e gagement wili retire from the stage in order to induige his postponed grief in a decorous and fash- jonable manner. ‘the Director of Police at Warsaw has had a notice ut up in ike dancing rooms pronibiting ali cally for a repetition of any dgnce whatsoever. ‘The usual custom being that iussian and Polish figures should aiternate, the pubiic, composed chiedy of Poles, were in the habit, without nissing the former, of encoring the later, especially the mazurka; and ‘Ubis practice has Leen construed by the authorities into @ pelitical manifestation. OPPOSITION TELEGRAPH ACROSS THE CONTINENT. The Oaktand (Cal.) Transcript in @ aouble leaded articie informs its readers that there is uow @ good @hance for an opposition telegrapu across the Con- tinent. lc says there are two gentiemen now on their way to California who have completed ar- Tangements for an opposition line already, from Chicago to Promontory, and that they will use the railroad line of the Union Pacific Company. Tie Transcript saya that ‘they desire to make arranz®- ments with the tral Pacific and Western Pacii> companies for the use of their lines from Promo. tory to San Francisco, and Lf successful in this, as they no doubt will be, we shail soon nave au oppo- sition telegraph hne extending across the Continent. ‘These geutiomen are in entire sympathy with (le postal telegraph movement. e Central jac Company can confer no greater boon upon the peo- ple of this coast than to grant the new telegrapu company we use of their limes Bpon rel term.”