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convincing proct of the usctutness of auch a work | In that locality. The treasurer presenuicd subsian- resenting sid fuan~ NEW YORK CITY. ‘Me Workhouse Suleide—Another of Those Headquarters Telegrams—Balsky and tho Lady in Black—Tho As- sassination Canard—An- other Unfortunate. ms ‘Mé folow'ng record will show the changes 1n the temperature of the weather for the past cwenty-four hours in compartsen with the corresponding day of Jast year, ag indicated by the thermometer at Hud- Dut’s pharmacy. uenieo Bullaing, Broadway, cor- Ber of Ann atreet:— 1860, 1870. oe 8 88 SP. M. seer 43 88 oe OPM... m 3 8B 3 oP. 31 tees ~~ 3% 9% we 32 Average temperature yesterda: 4 Average temperature tor correspondwmg “date ‘There were eight cases of smallpox reported at ‘he Sunitary Qiice yesterday. Belson Whitman, a sailor, was yesterday taken saadenty ili in frout of premises No. 60 Sonth street, and, tulling to the pavement, died soon afterwarla. Tae remains were taken to the New street po!liwe piailon abd one of tie coroners noted. Deceased Myed af 66 Market atroct, Mr. P. F. Wallace states that the paragraph tn the Brrawp of yesterday in reiation to the descent of the police on the “shebang, No. 40 Wooster sireei,” 4s correct, as the den in question Is No 42 Wooster street, No. 401s Mr. Waliace’s place of business, and the mistake may do bin serious tujury, and for ths Featon he desires 4 corcecion. Mr, Wilitam Mackeilar, for many years connected ‘Wah the New York press, will lectare on “The 1s of Life,” before the Young Mea’s Christiah Associa- en (Hariem branch), corner of Third avenue and ‘A2id Btreet, On to-morrow (Thursday)evening The aupject proposed ia as novel as interescing, and in the nands of the lecturer cannot fail to prove bow entertuining and instructive, Isabella Simmons, a@ young girl, fitteen years of ‘ge, was taken {rom alow den at 99 Greene strect on Monday night by Detective Giynn, of the Eigirth inct, and yesterday morning arraignea before uce Scott, at Jefferson Market, upon complaint ot her mother, Julta Simmons, residiag at No, 283. Stanton street, She was sent to the Mouse of the Good Shepherd, Matthew D. Greene, once a prominent whig, and @ubsequently a republican politician, and in tts paimy Gays an efficient and popular officer of the old Volunteer fre department, died at lils residence in ‘Thompson street on Monday eveuiuy, after a long gud painful illness. He was the keeper of two or three well known restaurants ducibg the past twenty years, mM which vocation he became que popular, Martin Keating, a pugilistic looking tndividnal, ‘Was arraigned before Jnstice Scott, at Jederson Market yesterday morning by Ufilce O'Connor, of the Twenteth precinct, charged with striking bim tn the face with bis fist and Kicking tum abort the beday in 4 severe manner on Monday night, Ie was heid to bail in the sam of $300 for his futnre good Denavior, Aiderman Cregier becoming his bouds- Mrs, Laura C. Holloway, who 1s to lecture on Charlotte Bronte at Cooper Institute on Friday Bight, for the benefit of Caban independence, ander the auspices of the Junta, has been informed by an anonymous writer that she wil be interropted on the evening of the lecture by the Spanish sympa- thizers, The posters annoancing ber lecture Have Dearly all been torn Irom the boards, If Spanish Maalevolence takes such a base form a3 this it is time wat some of ihe rowdies in thelr pay were caught and pauished, On Saturday last two millions of ol construction bonds on the Hudson River and New York Ceniral Fajlroads, due February 1, were paid off. One mil- lion was represented by two prominent gentlemen ‘Who demanded payment in go'@. ‘They were offered currency and offered to take it under protest. The company refused to accept the protest, and finally currency was accepted. it was Iycxy for the com- pany they did in view of the Supreme Court de- Cision on the Legal Tender act. The Supermtendent of Police is engaged in col- weeting evidence with a view of placing certain omMciais of the Twenty-minth precinct on trial for preading the alleged story of a plot on Friday night Yast (o assassinate Prince Arthur. it is understood that this action 1s raken at the request of President Boswort, who, with members of his family, were at the dinner at Mr. Stoughton’s in honor of the Prince. It was a lieartiess and outrageons hoax if untrue, and Mr. Bosworth and the Commission are anxious to discover who originated It, Mrs. Lyman’s lecture on how to restore wasted energics and to preserve physical beauty was very largely atcended, many ladies being obliged to stand during the whole lecture, The lecturer discoursed portance of physicai cuiture, proper great extent, except to such populations; and there is provably no Gther lever contagion Known w medi- cal men that would be as readily and certainly con trolled and overcume as tis, were It prachcavle tor Daysicians Lo point Out ali cased of relapsing fever fae five or six days of its tirst symptoms in the alient, the fullure of Physicians to recognize this variety of fever reoaer tt nece-sary that the Sauitary super- Mmiendent snail receive irom yhysiciaus who prac- co among the poor especially dally returns con- cerning whatever hew Cases of fever they see, Which, in their Judzment, may probably prove to be of the Kind mentioned in the foregoing ordinance. efforts to 6u-operate with the Board of Health for tie timely cure of the sick poor fad theimmiected apart ments, the folowing 8 & debiliatiog and pauperizing disease, Which, In almost atl cases, sh@uld be treated in hospital, first, because 1113 a very contagious fever, and because 1b can be exterminated by removing the sick and purt- fying their crowded tenements; aud, second, be- cause tis a fever that at first, and aaul it gama great headwa that class of familes and tenements which can aitord no means for proper meaical care. sick With this iever Will, with le removed to the special hospital witct Use Conumis- sicuers of Public Cnarities have assigned tor treate ment of this fever. are pecuilar to we relapstug fever siiould be under- Blood by every meal sould be rygialy w Hist, that the onset of tie du sudae anid muse otner kinds of fevers, and that vouuting mor quently occars than in common continued fever moat freque upon the s1Xi cessation of the fever occur, and that a‘ter a period of about fourteen cays from the firat onset of pain and fever tiere suddenly occurs # relapse accoui- panied by ail the symptoins of the arst attack. lar or bedroout or an ordinary living reor, In wich @ case of fever of tals Kind hea occurred some aays previously—say viously some NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT Maly she following report as rep! ctal positon of whe toetitation:— Pint Relating to the butkiing fund— se He oat of foe bulge sia neliental expanses periy.. For aiturations already aveoaipiaued...s." For necessary future alterations. From the sae of old butiding..... Cash dunaitous. . ‘Total. Haulballe for she veboul nid telesion work, indueves and thelr prayers Scmd—Keiauny t0 the eurrept ex; ‘The average monihiy fotiel ve the year Lid ', subscriptions, doaaois au averaged for the last few years ¥ OW). outirery yons, and the interest on tho therefore, ask our friende to courider the clotuing tor wwo ol reo " my SOP Es Ba hee eae year, aud renew our uppe pes the spiritual need gf this: NEW CONTAGION. Hoalth in Relation to Its Suppression— An Ordinance—Whore ané Itow the Disease is Found, The Sanitary Superintendent has just suemitted tothe Metropolitan Board of Health the folowing reportin relation to the new contagion known as retapsiug fever:— ‘The Metrocolitan Board of Healtn has deemed tt necessary to promulgate the foilowimy erdinance concermag & kind OF CUNWg0US Aisease WHC bas not been seen abd knowo belure mn tis city, Creac Knpertauce I attacaed to te prompt aad gcuerat plance WILh tae requirements Of tas ordinauee, use the infectious malady to Which W relates n be prevented trom spreading if ail ibe poor peo ple Who sufer trom it and att euements 19 waich it prevails are reperted wtvhout delay to the Board of Heaih for the special sauitary care Wat 18 re- ORDUNANCE, It is hereby declared to be an addittonal ordinance of this Board that to disease known ag tue rempsing tever Mm here- by declared to be a disease of & coutuzious or infectious nuvure, within the meaning of the nineteeuih section of the Ordinauces of this Board, and that the same reports are re- quired to be made in respect to said disease as mre required Tewative to any dismads meatioved in daid sectiun. [Adopted by the Mewopolitan Board of Meath, February 2, 1870.) Though the reia:sing fever has otten been ept- deunce 10 Great Britain and various parts of Norvi- erp Urupe It Was boped (iat it might never prevail iu the United States; but pelag here, a8 it now is, ia Ma Very commencement, the medicul protessiou, with such aid as Lhe uealtd laws gtve, cau probabyy restrain aad exterminate it. Wherever it bas pre- vatled in Kurope tt bas been an epidemic scourge to overcrowded and baaly ied populations only, its presence 18 not @ source of public danger to any the diMenity and delay which mignt occur from Yo aid physicians and other citizens in their veriulendent respectiuiy supmuics tae OWLS 2— Fursi—Relapsing fever 18 not a pestilence, but ts whl prevail aimost exclusively in ‘theretove, tue excepiions, be Sccond-—Che symptoms and characteristics which Luttendant upon the poor, aud ired ito in every case Where this fever can reasunably be suspected, BO a4 LO sccure tle requisite sanitary care ui an eariy period in every case. The following are the chief points witch aid the physician aud tie medical odiver of lib to distinguish between this tever and others: case 1s usually more Haccompanied py more pain in the nead $ (han 13 apt to occur at Lae begining of ire. wi Third—“uet on ure filth, sixta or se’ y (in New York the past t , proluse perspirauen and th day, 0 weeks) a sudden Fourvi—Vhat in whavever apartment, be it a cel~ wom nine to ufvecn days pre- and usually nearly ait the diet, regularity of living habits, and the power of | orainary occupants and th it visi mind over the body a8 means for the restoration of ta ent oD erement pobihlaerl acy nenaan exhausted energies and for securing and preserving | jay will quise certainly be aitacked with puysical beauty, These lectures are largely at- | this fever. ‘Kuis estabiinnes a group ot cases, and tended and are prolific of much good. The first lee- | similar groups are mw iea and may be Waced 10 ture of the niuth reguiar course will be given this afternoon at St. Ann’s church om the breathing function, lung and throat diseases. i At the Tombs Police Court Justice Quina presided yesterday in the absence of Jadge Hogan. Among the cases brought before the court were the foliow- ing:—Mr. Jonn ¥, Cameron, @ commission azent, ‘who rents a loft at 100 Chambers street, Robert H. Webb and Samuel G. Redmond with s ing, or being concerned in the stealing, four bales of Iunen crash, of the vatue of $400, The evidence was IpsnMicient to boid elther of them for examination, and Justice Qainn said that nothing had occurred in the evidence fo prove that these young men were Otherwise than honest and respectable. Isaac Louhenstein, charged with stealing $100 worth of Bik, the property of !van Tarloff, 499 Broadway, was committed to answer. Two boys, named August Paul and James I’. Join, charged with forgery, were held for examination. Leo Balasky, who waa shot by Biddle, of whicb a lengthened report was published in the HeraLp some time ago, has been married, and he and the mysterious widow lady who nursed him at Belle- vue Hospital are living quite bappy and contented Yn Irving place. Dr. Sayre, who attended him ia Bellevue Hospital, has him still under his care, and gwpeaks most favorabiy of Balasky’s state of heslth. ‘The ball has not yet beem extracted nor ever will, Surgeon Sayre giving it as bis opinion that it must stop where it 18 a8 long a8 Balasky lives, He takes bis dally exercise and enjoys a gooa appetite. The Proiessor says that his wife appears most affection- ately attached to him, and walasky reciprocates her kindness with equal warmth. The time of the trial of Biddle has not yet been fixed, but, when tt docs come off itis stated that it will bo of a very inter- esting nature. Just previous to the closing of the Coroner's office on Monday evening a notice, of which the following 4a a copy, Was received by police telegraph by mr. John T. Tool, the clerk:—“Gramercy Park Hotel. Man died in fits.’ The operator at tne Central office did not deign to give the name of deceased or any further information, and nothing more was heard of the matver uli yesterday afternoon, wnen Dr. Hai ris, of ihe Healta Board, mformed Coroner Rollins ‘that Jonn Welsh, Nae fe id bp of age, had diced Suddenly, according t cel ate, Of an attack of a: it appeared that Welsh was the man who a expired so suddenly at the Gramercy Park Hictel; but that fact, of course, could not be learned by police telegraph, and it is presumed the arduous duties of the operators will not admit of sending down particulars of cases comipg to their know- ledge. ‘The case of Welsh, who 15 said to have been employed in the hotel, was properly investigated by the Ooroner. The case of Mary Carlton, the English woman who Giecd in the workbonse from eelf-infiicted violence, has heretofore appeared tn the HiznaLp, but as there are interesting facta connected with the case not reviously developed we reter to it again, Becensea doubtiess bad an attack of delirium tremens and was placed in @ room with two other femaies of the “bummer” order of @ quiet and un- suspecting turn of mind, Without their knowledge a While their attentions were directed cisewhere the demented woman crammed two smail locks of wood down her throat to accelerate strangula- tion, and then slipping a strong cord avout ber neck mounted a chair and suspended herself to a peg in the wail. When discovered soon alterwards by Ler afirighted companions Mary was quite dead and efforts av resuscitation nmimediately aiter the body was cut down of course were fruitless. Coroner Keenan heid an inquest on the body. WILSON INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND MISSION, ‘The managers of the Wilson Industrial School held meeting st their building, corner of St. Mark's place and avenue A, on Friday, February 4, at which many Of the friends of the institution and of mis- sion work were present. Tho Rev. Dr. Kendrick conducted the reitgious exercises and made a short address, The reports of the School Committee, Mia- stonary and Bible Readg indicated ® most encourag- ‘aug condition of the sclool aud mission and carried coaneciion by tie medical attendaut wherever the disease m prevailing. prooi of contag wil nereafter 0 quickly ealed by iis trae name within a day or two of thy poreon undertakes the care of & patient, THS GROUPING OF PATIGNTS AND BIOK ROOM IN- by tuls characteristic and pusness alone nearly every case that cur im New York can probably be lume When any physician or inteligent FECTION, No other disease that we have ever seen or tnvestt- gated bears comparison with the relapsing fever jor the certainty of communicauiag duiecion from the sick to other persons ia the same room or in communculng and open rooms, In the invesugation of the made Known to us i New York the following tacts ap) firat 100 of tig fever that have been pear virst—That nearly all of this namber of sick persons who have received treatment at home have received only casual visits irom @ physiciaa, bemg charity patients. Second—That with few exceptions the attending puysician inguch weatment has regarded and men- Uoned tiese pat jents as beiug sick with a remitceut fever or with ‘a typhoid fever (without the usual eruption and bowei syluptoms), and with accidental relapse of the disease belore tinal recovery. Thwd—That the fever as not taus tar spread thronghout the various tamilice of any tenement house, but has been contived sirictly to single fany- lies and such groups of persoas 2nd families a3 bave bepn directly exposed in the sick room or to the un- washed clothing of the sick. Fourth—In critical inquiry into the history of 100 cases that hare occurred at the following piaces, nameiy—i63 Worth, 18 Mulberry, 37 Muiberry, 33 Muiberry, 3 Mulberry, 53 Baxter, 20 Cherry, 59 Cherry, 109 Cherry, 79° James, 237 First avenue, 220 West Eignteenth street, 10 Jersey, 69 Mulberry, 14 Baxter, a steamer’s forecastle and 332 Water street— we Dod not a singie exception to thig important nabit which relapsing fever has of attacking the ma- jority of every famiuy in which it appears. It has attacked an average of seven in each of the principal groups it has formed, and in only a singie instance have we found it extending from story to suwry, ascending or descending, BEGINNING AND PROGRESS OF THR FEVER, As ihe nature of this disease was not suspected even by ospital physicians. until some of them had been aitacked with it in the wards at Believue, end as no phyeictans excepting those on duty in hospital or under the Board of Health have reported its pre- gence in tue city, we are not certain that the very rst oases are yet known to the Board of Health. ‘The earliest group of patents discovered began to be sick during the jast ten days in September, That group, in two houses, near the corner of Worth and Baxter streets, multiplied tao four groups, com- prising thirty-three patients. The .contagiousness In those sick persons 1s now clearly proved. The fever bas fae gp slowly, abd it 1s belleved thabnearly ailof is nests are aircady known and broken up, But all poor persons and families that have been exposed in any such fever nests will be kept under sanitary cure dnring@ period of two or three weeks, Our chief dificulty in restraining the spread of the fever consists in restraining and watching the low lodging house class of persons. They have been the chief darriera of this fever, and have become the centres that gave origin to iifteen out of nineteen of the groups or tenement epidemica. WHAT ACTION SHOULD BR TAKEN. Every nest of tnis fever must be purified as soon a8 found, the sick being Kinaly provided for in nos- pital. Every excepiion to the rale of sending the Bick to hospital will have constant sanitary care. ‘Tne following extract from the Memorandum of Jn- structions to Sanitary Inspectors will aid the citizens to do therr part towards arresting and exterminating this fever:— Medicai offloers of the Metropolitan Board of Health are re- quired to make a thorough Inspection of evety inhabited celiar and of the entire tenement district under their care re- spectively, aud as often as once in each week to makoa searching’ tour for reinapection through those tenement house regions where this fever is most Hable to become prevalent. All uncleanly cell ing houses, alleys, rear Yards and baciy srowded ot ‘gm Meet eon f sid ported, upon au oficial vee and fortuwith whatever the metropolitan district is hereby Pustructed ‘and desutnte classes of inbayitanta, ly thone in crowded and unclean tenements, wherever such people are found, to keep their ay s ventilated and to cleanse and whitowaen all ons, halle aud closets; and espect- sily to direct them to give iuformation to the board of Health, without delay, where: pereon becomes sick in their teueimeat. Aad further, let dvery medical olloer see $23, ies alld ‘i rand ie 0 to" all ‘who appreciate the tun rortante of this werk to ahd ns sn, canceling our sudebtodaesa, by their cgntribullons, telr inves of the fstitution, pps? ‘are, In Found numbers, @.0); " % Var aguual re. eipis trom ‘the dresainaking department ‘fo Uae of y haa been maue np from inonoy realized at a lair, now Kore - mist soon be appropr-ated to buliding purposes, eV e woul 1 fact that tity dollars anuually will eupply a daily diauer and coulrane ry ig o daly Gare of these little ones, aud ‘fh crowded esectlud of eur Relapsing Fever and the Action of the Board of which in various moduication ali the Sava,e tribes of tue eY down to thy earth incre: expansion compelied races to migrate wn searco of new hom: the Rome of vicvor atthe si ‘The cliustity as for their b en ma. u rages tat otlerwh our ausnor contends, siaves of ther husbands at home. must bave marched 1p their migrations and in ther wars together, aimost, if not quite, on a looting of equatity.” tribes they subdued. of the Christian era condition of female society. ever, that tae franks appear to nave been distin- gushed from other branches of the Teutonte race into slavery. toit ot of this fever be removed eartn; case fe saportod coliny OF Vexement.’ ms valied Wherever this fever ia found or Mabie to be the hogpita? houwe, family or pecaons thas are ‘of have nut some OF dou asta Food daly £0 rod to the Commer sionare of Public Charitfea or to the Society for Improving Abe Condition of the Poor. WHSRB THB CASES ko! ‘Tho list of sixteen groaps, in stxteen nouses, Mmt- tea to sixiven apartineals Or subies Of eoununica- | Ung rooms, cationed 1) tata note ws Une places in wine one hundred Cases NAVE o¢curred, are Pe enely such places, and che people thut sesk a tenements are of the kind that sauder drst trem ihe lever, Whoever visita such places on errands of eparity or medical duly, in. apy crowded per of the city, shonid Imuediateiy veport to the Suntiary buperiplendent ayy, fieknoss that w euspected to be Wo relapsing fever. A3 His disease Will be Mentioned among the poor as umare pals? the “relapsing chills,” and tho “slow fever,” and by tue medical attendants of the poor as “remftttent,” &., Ibis desired inas there shoud bo nO heatation and delay in giving lalorma- vd Of every case Lhat may possibly be she relapsing Svan 20 tla 'Y noatof M Inay recive adequate care by the Bor of ileaith the day tois ord. 18 disease, correctly understodd, caruvt bacome @ source of public alarin. 1¢8 baotts amd ustory are Weil known, and i bus chus tar preseaied only kB maddest aspects, 60 Inild, Mdeed, thar the highest praise gate to the medical gweatiomen tu Beievie pial for having cicarly made out the asiiack Dature of tins Jever et Ko early a period. li St. Yetersourg, in 1865, and in London last syring, and more receniy, this disease had for weexs spread its infection «sastruusiy ovefore w received sauitary care. lu no other greas city have we luformauion of ab earher or clearer iecognition of it. And DOW, 4s ho sysleia Of quuraniine has ever been aevised thae ‘hus prevonted the spread of this ver, the duly ob ganilury control ofevery group and case of it 1s Lm- veralave, BOOK REVIEW. WOMANEIND IN WESTERN EvKorE—Prow THE VARLICS® TIMES TO THE SBVENCEBNTI CENTORY. By Thomas Wright. M. A., P. 8. A., Hon. af. Re S. L., de., Correspoudmg Member of the Imperial Tu- sutute of France, &¢. London: Goonipridge & Sons; New York: Seribner, We lord & Co. Thus ig & beautiful book; a nearly square octave Of 340 pages, bound in blue, embossed in gil and black, gilt edged, clear pring, flue paper, embeliished with illuminated titie page and painted trontis- piece, richly colored illinstrative groups and scenes, and numerous wood engravings. Asa nistory, how- ever, of Wommankind ia Western Europe, trom the times of the Celts am the Romans down wo the jovial reign in Engiand of “The Merry Monarch,” 1t is one Of the most interesting, instructive and valu- able books of the nineteenth century. ticular period of the agitauon of women’s rignts, and in this country, Ju which the dominant race and the estanlished social and political instivutions have been drawn from Western Europe, and espe- cially froma Engiand, we may say, in truth, that this book is @ “treasury of knowledge” to the historian, the politician, the moral philosopher and the re- Jormer, wile at she same time in its romantic incl- dents illustrative of soctal life in different ages in Western Europe it surpasses in interest the most axillful and attractive flotions of the day. At this par- ‘The author sets out with the proposition that he cannot belleve that “Intellectual! humanity ts the mere natural development of the original and primeval savage.” He belteves that “the mankind among which we live bas no mberent qualities in posses- sion with which we were not at frst created,” and that “the forms in which they have at different pe- riods shown themselves have depended entirely upon the circumstances under which man lived.’ means, In short, thatthe elements of the highest civilization have existed in mankind from we be- ginning, and that their development has been and is oniy the result of cultivation. He behever, too, thac it 18 only mm Aer physical organization that we have any right to call womankind the weaker sex—on opinion in wnicn it may be conte nded that heis not Sopported by the generat law of the antmal woria, nor vy history or plitiosophy. He From) tie earliest for of society the patriarchal, We stili iind among th, our author comes period “when, as the population uf the ed IM numbers, the necessity of Jn these migrauons of the Ceitie race he shows that weir jile of constant hard. dangers : slics of enouraa ¢ trequentiy in their batue: women of the Gauls turned the overed 2 brave retrent iy r husbands with cowardice, $ remarkable Jor. their iticing themselves to the Romans, in some ex- WOMEN, 100, ¥ @ as prinone Hae: » Such women, coud hardly have been the The two sexes We have next a chapter on Woman in ancient Gaui aad Britain, from which itis pretty well estub- Mahed that ber condinen was but a remove bigher thau that of the squaws of our W of the present day, and that barbarism 13 substan. tilly the saine amoog all tae races and trives of Inarikind. thology and rowance,” we havea social and politi- pore rors approximating that of the leadal age and ten. with the laws, that mighty people superseding, more or less, the rn Indian tribes Next, in “ihe women of ‘Yeutome imy- leading iaiurally to bub over Germany, the advances of onstoms, ue feudal sys Ganl and Britain, the Komans, we find manners and costames of iustituuions, anvers, dress, &c., OF the nations ana ‘the chapter on the Franks (Leutous) in Gaui, beginning with the fifth century iorows but litue light on the Our author saye, hows by tuelr great terocity und crueity, and that the story of thelr establishment in Gaul prescnts one continual and wearisome series of massacres and murders, Trom the Confiict between the barosrism and pag&h- ism of the Franks with the Roman element of sociai ‘bag Wag an epoch in Frauce in whiga, refinement aud elegance, and the Christian ele- méuts ol self-denial aud poverty, tke resuits were sociai contusion and demoralization. ‘The uext chapter, on.tue ‘Anglo Saxon Women," brings us directly 1ns0 the line of the Engush founa- ers Of this country England the patriar father was absoluce niaster of the family, ana could aispose of bis children as he pleased. ‘tho Saxons brougnt ino al system 10 full force. ‘the He sold and not unfrequently his sons, Tus semi-barbarisim, however, was wmatertally modified and sofvened im the course of tme by the infuences of Chris- uiauity introduced by St. Augustine and otner Missionaries from Rome. The Angio Haxun womea, wo, Were more gentle, aifectiouste and domesiuc than the ferocious Pranks; aud wiitle many of the peculiar laws and customs of the Saxons relating to Inarriage, infidelity, &c., have cume down to our own tunes, We find in the descendants from those gentle Saxon women the disunguishing quailues of their sex in Engiand of 1,200 years ago. ‘The Roman Duoneries in the social elevation of Woman in Eng. land in.those early tines were exceedingly useful, as each convent was a school for the education of women Up to acknowledge of tie Latin aud Koman literature. After Charlemagne, who revived for @ time in Soutuern, Central aud Western Europe something of the old Roman civilization, biended with the Roman Christian Church, we have the transition period in England from the Normans to the feudal system, a perce of general European contusion and darkness, ‘ouching tho feudal system our author adopts the opinion of Guizot, that Ulis system, in spite o1 ite drawbacks on the score of moraitty, contributed im- mensely to the cause Of civilization in the social, es eet elevation of womankind, with 18 es! ed Sacrediegs aud power: infinence of tue famtiy, Ladies rea ‘The chapters on the ‘Women of Feudal Romance,’! @nd on ‘Provence, its Poetry and the Courts of Love,’’ and on *“fne Romance of the Rose,’’ are 80 very attractive and instructive upon “the age of chivalry? that we can hardly reirain from some copious extracts; but our limits cut us of, A brief quotation, i & poetical form, however, wil serve Ww show the prevailing spiri: of that age:— Lady, your man I Bound to your servic Your man | am sworn and pled, And yours I shall henesforin be; nd you ai nt Jo And you shall Ve thea ow As long ag my life shall endure, And in these simple lines we have the mbstance of all that has been said er sung of love since Adam’s be ora from Paradise ae ‘she chapter on ‘*Womankind in the Feudal 1. taking us Dehind the scenes, gives us are ey curious and suggestive glimpses of the social tree- dom of the ltue patriarchal kingdom within the castle walls, There, tadeed, were in {ull play the elements of romance, free love and woman's rights, ‘with the refinenients of manly courage, chivalry, gallantry, courtesy and hospitality in toelr highest development, Outside as well Inside the exclu- sives of the hae a dames, demoiselies, serving gallants and maids—had their sports. ‘Their Picvics, hawking and hunting parttes, fishing excur- gions and strolls In the gardens and the woods were what would now be called vory “gay and festlve.? And every lady took, full womanly, By tio honde ‘nih and forth icy yede (went). 6 Ae oe ae And at the last I cast mine eye aside, Aud was ware of a lustie com ‘That came rominge out of Honde in honde, & knight It was the fashion of those times for the knight In walking with the Isdy to walk “honde in nonde,’? and this was the ruling doctrine among the ladies of the castle, , Said the lady :— T believe wall That you wii be loyal towards me; For vave nos power to deny Vor thet which becomes love's Brayecs must obey it." . Dlensure Ta a fow words from one of the several very at- his Gaughters, eee a e tpnetive and instructive chapters of aryl Sathor on ‘Womaukiud ta se feudal castie, “feud: wi 1D com] tw what had gone re Mt, ai and brilant, aad presented many tities 5 but auder the surface it was Bot bea ‘whole Boctety of the castle mixcd freely .ogether, even in the ladies’ bedenauibers; thetr plays and games were Tomph-b nut suggestive of chuste feclipgs, “while the Janguage in common use among both rom delete.” Love, in which the Jadies took the lend, was the all-absorbing businiss, study and pastrme of tie feudal castls. and among the masses of the rude.peasantry outside of course the vices of the feudal svatein Were mot ouitivared. Te of feudatism bad expired with the four. teenth ‘century, thoagh its outward formes stil wur- vived for @ tune. ‘The year 1400 our author adopts as the point wich marks the close of the middie or dark ages a:¢ of teudausm. A transition fol- Jowed which in France, was marked by general demoralwation, wara and fuwined ‘he progress of sociely was slow and the condition of women was bad, undl ihe introdaction of the prinung press, which gave @ great impulse to modern civilizauon. Ab the time of the first Cheries of Englanl society tn that coaniry had assumed soueining Of & nigh degree of splenior and ele~ ganco ong the aristocruey, wuioa Was sup- 4 Roundbeads and uritaps, only to restored with the licentiousnesa brougbt over from France under Charies the Secona, ab which pois our author efoses. ‘Througa the whole o1 his Vainabie history he devotes muck care wo the changes in dreas, as marking the trausttions of socrety from oue historical period to another, » uatil our own tines, when he says that onanges in The Jasnons have become so frequent that tuey pos- nes NO significance whatever. vhe author of this valuable book, we think, gives too litte attention to the auicrent e@| of sue Rowan Church, the Crusades, the Moors in Spain, the Reformarion aud the discovery of America in reference to unélr effects Upon Nuropean suctety aud tue social status of Wo- mankind. Stil, through al! the dark ana dismal vicissitudes of the Wesiern European nations, roi tho days of the Roman empire to our own day, he shows, from his authentic from history, that the women of Weatern Europe, with ali the weak- nesses and foilles suposed to rule the sex, have ex- eretged an incalcniable influence in every advavce of civilization, Nr. Wright tells us that his ovject has deeu to give @ picture of female sife of each var- uoular period reviewed, avoiding spoctiations as tur as possibie; Dutstill the impression which his bis vorical pictures leave upon the mind is very pleas- ing, touching the gentie and refluing infugnces of womankind in ali ages, and espect an age irom which, in Curisdaa nations, have been drawo the distinguishing features of modern wociety. CHURCH OF THE HOLY Doc PIT. Tho Moon Prayer Mectings—A Scene from Max- tin Chugzlewit Dramatized — Reformed Women to be Sent Into Society— Jack Jennings, the Rat Catch- er, a8 Newspaper Man. ‘The driving snow and sleet of yesterday 41a not prevent @ pretty goodly gathering, including in the number three ladies, at the first in the proposed regular series of noon prayer meetings at Kit Burn’s ormer famous dog pit, in Water street, or rather in the old barroom, the late important adjunct to the place of sharply contested canine contro- versies which took place in the rear. Earnestly praying, vociferousty exhorting and fervidly sing- ing men, representatives of various Methodist con- gregations im the city, comprisea the gathering. The wicked and ungodly denizens of Water street for whose benetit these meetings have been organ- ized have not yet put in an appearance, though it 18 confidently expected that as tne work of grace a Vanees many will be drawn soon within the reach of its olvilizing and Christiaaizing influences, THE PRAYER MEETING. Rev. J. W. Horie conducted the exercises, which were opened with singing the first bymia in tie Mevbodist Hymn Book— ‘Oh for a thozsand tongues to sing My great Redeemer" The giories of mmy God and King, ‘The triumphs of lita grace. Pollowing the singing, which was conduered according to Horle, if not according to Hoyle, the former gentleman mduiged in a few remarks upon the importance of the great work they had engagea to accomplish—bringing sinners to repentance. Tins work was to be accomplished by praycr. He ex- pressed a confident hope that by continuing stead- fastly In the good work before them they would dit- fuse peace and love and joy throughout that pre- viously wicked and greatly benigited neighborhood, and give many the hope and uasurance of neaven and a blessed Immortality. Instead of taking up the bymns of the hymn book inroiauon several pages were skipped, and then next was sung the hymn beginnlug wien Ali hail the power of Jesus’ name, with the same fervor a3 the opening hymn, after which a geutleman in the rear of the audience in- duiged in a slight exhortation of tue necessity Of in- voking the assistance of the Hcly Spirit to give them success in their dificait but giorlous undertaking. Succeeding this gentieman’s brief but anmared harangne tne audience sang, to the tune of “Annie Laurie, the hymn with the chorus, “Jesus paid it ail,” &c. More speeches, more prayers aud more hymns followed tn id succession, cailing to mind ule prayer meering scene described by Vickens I “Marin Chuzziewit” as ‘Tom All Alone’s. The whole wound up wiih singing the doxology at one P, M.— the meeting jasiug just one hoar—and announcing Unat toe DexXt meeting Would be at noon to-day, and urging Upon ail punctual attendance. PROGRAMME OF MISSIONARY WORK. The “Water Street Mission and Home for Women,” though unuer the charge of a Mr. Little, has ev gently much before wil it carries out all Us pro- posed programme. They bad jeased the paiiding ia four story brick butiding) of Mrs. Kit Burn, who, it appears, is the owner, Jor $1,000 @ year lor three years, with privilege of renewal. The old dog pit 18 to be converted inio a laundry. One floor is to be made into a sewing room, another will be occupied by Ulose in direct Charge of the mission and anolwer used as a dormitory. “What kind of women do you propose to re- eive?”? wag inguired of Mr. Litue. “Phe abandoned wouien of the neighborhood” “How many will you accommodate ¥”* “About fity.” “what will you do with them ?”” “Make them work.’? “low long will you keep them?” “PUL they are reformed.?” yen what ?? ‘Send them into society.’ “Puth avenue society f? “No, seud them out as servants.”” KIT BURN AT HOME. Having ¢jicited the above 1oformation the reporter looked 1ntG Kit Burn’s barroom adjacent, Kit was ra the bar, looking a3 well and hearty a8 ever in 3 lite. “Is this Mr. Burn?” csi sir, Kit Burn is my name; am not ashamed of it.?? . “fam a representative of the New YORK HERALD, and have just stepped in to look at your place.” “Did you write tue account in yesterday's HERALD referring to my place as we reeort of gamblers, pick- pockets und thieves 7”? “No, sir’? “That's a big mistake. I allows no suck people here. Whiii you make the correction” sO Jy, ON Your authority.” “Tam one of those thleves,”’ spoke up a robust and mild-faced gentleman, who wouid pase for a clergy- man in the country. “Iiere’s my card,” and he pre- sented a card embellished with pictures of rats and mice in various attitudes, and printed upon it in bold type, “Jack Jennings, Practical Rateatoner.””’ “sare you the Jennings that formerly kept @ rat pit in Madison street,” we asked. ‘fhe same,”” ho replied, ‘put I have been away from there for some tune. I would like to tell you a little circumstance.” “Shall be glad to hear {t,” we answered, expect- ing some thrilling incident connected with his ast experience in the matter of rats. Meantime the crowd present gathered eloser about, and Kit Jeaned forward om the bar, with mis cars prever- naturally intent to hear the story. “I once came very near,’? he went on to say, ‘‘be- coming an attache of the HERALD mysel."” “Ag an editor?” we “No, sir? “Qorrespondent i” ‘No, sir.” Reporter ?”” jo; ag rateatcher. The basement of the old HERALD office, where the presses were and the paper was stored, was overrun with rats. I was sent for and offered a lineral salary to tal of the rat department.’ AMERICAN MICROSCOPIC SOCIETY, The regular formightly mecting of this soeicty ‘was beld last evening, Dr. John H. H. Hinton, the president, in the chair. In comsequente of the very inclement state of the weather there was but a slim attendance. Dr. ARNOLD presented & cancer of the breast taken from a woman fifty-two years old. Some remarks followed on the nature of the cancer, in the course which Dr. Arnold said, 1n answer to a question, that he thought the microscope a reliable instrument through which to examine cancer cells. Professor EDWARDS proposed the following gentle- men for election a8 corresponding members:—H. G, Bloomer, W. H. G. Hariord and Henry G. Hanks, of ¥ Cal., who are about forming a micro- scopical society there. Dr. Benjamim Lord, 34 West Twenty-eighth street, ‘Was proposed as aresident member, aud further bse on the propositions was deferred until next meeting. Professor EDWARDS made some remarks about the preservation of animal and Vegetable wasues. He said we were in the term ‘‘carbolic acid,” ag 1 was foand to belong to a certain cla% of alcohols called “pnelic.” Having Presenten several spect- mena to the soctety, and alter the transaction of Some routine Dusiness, the proceedings terminated. New York ‘the Pouce Commissioners me! passage of the 1oregoing Couneil that rendered the commitiee with Jay Gould on bebuif of the strikers Inet¥ectus of James Longhran, Thomas Loughran and {homas Connolty on the charge of arson was continued ow tm the Court of Sessions. Tance Com $2,000 was by Loughran, and upat after the down the claim was presented, preskicnt of the company, gave same eiiect, Several otaer withesses and vesttied that the barrels in the store were empty sumined up, and at the conclusion of his address he court adjourned til this morning. the bar, with ins wife, glary, and she pleaded gutlty of receiving stolen Droperty, while a New York detective “wants”? hin ip the Metropolis on a serious charge, had many narrow escapes, pentence aftera few days. SULURBAN INTELLIGENCR SEW JERSEY. Jersey Cty. ‘Taw ComMON CoUNCIL AND THR PoLIon ComMts- SIONERS.—At the Meeting of the Common Council a week ago @ resolution was adopted calling ov the Rellep Commissioners to suow by wnat authority chef of Pollog acted in _ protecting mechanics? at the Erie workshops, ton Monday night and @ resolution directing the Clerk to return the cument to the Common conncil, it was the resolution by the Common intercession of tue Couneth Hudson City. Tar Covurs—ARSON AXD BURGLARY.—The triat Mr. David State Insu- that a policy of the liquor store lace was burned ir. Jotun Hatliard, evidence to the were examined, aman, secretary of the V, tentified faken ont for when the fire broke out. Counsel for defence then Forrest Keeney, a fast young nian, was orgught to He pleaded uty or bar- Another indictment still Kangs over tim, ‘the prisoner is weil known to the New York police, ironrwhom he He will be called up for { Newark. { AIDING AND ABETTING PRIZE FIGUTING,—In the Essex Connty Court of Quarter Sessions yesterday Bernard McCormack, Wiliam Allen, Hugh Hawkins and Willlam Contar, indicted for atding and abetting & prize fight which took place 1a Orange township some wonths ugo, were arraigned for trial, ‘They severally retracted thei former pleas of not guilty, picaded gulity and were remanded for senience, BELLIGERENT MISCEGENATION.—A few days since a German named Charles Pfeifer appeared at the police station and entered a complaint that his eten- daughter, Elvina Grossman, el@hteen years of age, had lett her home and was cohabit'ng with a col- ored man, oid enough to be her father, named Amos Stackhouse, on board @ canal boat. Yesterday, armed with a warrant issued by Justice Malis, a couple of officers procecded to tie boas and found tue cabin Jocked, bat were satisfied that the girl and her colored paramour were ou board. Soon they were certain, and it was nov ull jorce was used that the pair surrendered, They were taken to the slation aad placed in, the cena. Stackhouse’s wife 18 already tu custody, held on w stai) graver charge. BRAZEN-FACED SWINDLERS.—For some tme past this community has saffered great annoyance from aneak thieves, tmpostors and petty swindlers, who, ‘under the gmse of ragged mendicania, nave been reaping a rich harvest frou unsuspecting dene fciares. The police, deverminea to put a Bop to the nuisance, are usng every efort in the matter; and yesterday a brace ot brazea- faced swindlers Of the beggar tribe, who gave their names as Perry McManus and Margaret Capper,, were afrested and lodged im custoay to await several clurges. It was ascertained that they were married last Uctober by a justice. They have stuce been living together at No. 333 Washingtoa street—the “old stone house”—and, repre- senting themscives as heads of separave families, nave severally procured aid from tue Over- seer of Poor, Mr. Bowen. A boy im their employ Was sent on aiternate Sundays to the Catholic and Presbyterian churches, there to excite she syin- Ppathies of clergy and iaity. With several other irons in the fire they scraped together a bandsome la- come, which was wasted in riotous ivimg and de- an aed unt the neighbors protested. Both aro hel Millburn. PROBABLE FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—While Mr. Jotham Tilton, a higaly respectable citizen of this place, was driving home on Monday evening in his carriage, the horses shied at some object and jerked tay vehicle with such suddenness and force that Mr. ‘Tilton was dashed to the road witn vio- lence, He suscained injuries ol 80 serious a charac- ter tliat but sight hopes are entertained of bis re- coveny. . KEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE, Woman's Rights—Cubn and SFreland—The Communipaw Abattoir in Perll—The Jer- sey City Charter Postponcd—Bevans and the Justices? Vill Aguin In the morning sessions of both houses petitions were presented in favor of granting suffrage to women and empowering them to make valid wills. The Senate Municipal Committee reported faror- ably on the supplement to the charter of Newark providing for new street improvements. A long debate followed the resolntions of sympa- thy with Cuba, which were favorable reported by the Committee on Federal Relations. Tue resolu- tions expressed sympathy with the Cabans and tn- directly censured the government for allowing tho Spanish guaboats to leave New York. They were passed by a purely party vote. Mr. Murruy, of Essex, moved that @ clause be inserted expreesing sympathy with the Fenian prisoners, and directing the representatives of New Jersey to use their influence to have a demand mace on the Brittsh government for tne release of the prisoners neld for state offences in connection with tne late efforts to create an Irish republic, and the resoluvion passed dnanimous!y. Alnong bits introduced in the House was a sup- plement to the Millsione and Trenton Railroad, em- powering them to construct a railroad from Mill- stone to Newark. Amoug vilis passed was the supplement to tho Jersey City and fiovoken Horse Raitroad, authoriz- ing tie suie or transier of the same. ‘The bul to incorporate the Eclectic Medical and Surgical Coliege, in Hudson county, with @ capil Of $500,000, Was ordered to & third reading. A supplement to the charter of the New Jersey Western Kaitroad was introduced in the Assembiy, which authorizes sald company to extend their road to the Hudson river at or near Hoboken or Weehaw- keu, and to connect with any other road m Hudson county. A bill to incorporate the Hudson Oounty Drainage Company was also intfedaced which gives the coi- pany the right to drain any lauds in that county and take a morlgage thereon for their services. ‘The supplement to the New Jersey Stock Yard and Market Company was favorably reported in toe Sen- ate by the Committee on Corporations, ot which Noah D. ‘faylor is chairman. ‘The bill provides that Lhe pens siiall be 1,000 ject apart, that mo more than 100 bogs shall be slaughtered on any day between the ist of May apd the Ist November, and that the rendering of fat and the usual disposition of entralis be probibited. Thése provisions, if adopted, will eifectuaily close up'the establistiment, ‘The bill was Iramed by partes in Bergen, Wuo made several inet- fectual attempis in the courts to have the abatooir abated as a nuisance, and the rapid progress 01 the bill m the Legislature shows that the Stock Yard Company will not accommodate the lobbylsta by “ooming down.’ They imtena, however, to atate their case vo the Governor, and the bill will, in all robabuity, be returned from the executive cham- Ber-witnont the Governor's signatore. The amended charter for the consolidated city in Budgon county will not be introduced this week, 1¢ was looked for laat evening, but the commutiee wo framed a bill In Jersey City asked for a posiponement till next week, when they wiil present Wier bill. ‘There is nO probability whatever that tueir bill will asa, as tie members of the Legistature Fon Hudson county settied the matter in caucus, and framed 4 bill wiich cannot faii to meet tne pub- Ne approval. Several newspapers, both in this State and New York, pretended to give a summery of this charter, and ju doing so published provisions which are not to be found anywhere in the bill. A correct review of the measure was given in thegHBRALD two weeks ago, while the bill was unaer deliberation im caucus. The attempt to legislate men into office was defeated. In order that tbe transi- tion from the old to the new may be as gradual possible the members of tne Common Council who: term will not expire in May will hold their seats in the new Council, Aldermen Harcingion, Hogan, McFadaen and Dakin, of Hudgon City, will proat by this arrangement. The same rule wii apply to the Water and Police Commissioas. ‘The Mayor will be shorn of much of the power which the bill of the citizens? committee would confer on him, ‘The vill for the division of the Seventh ward of Jersey City proper will give rise 10 & vigorous Oppo- sition on the part of ex-Alderman Connolly, Patrick J. Meeban aad other infuenual men of Jersey City who demand that North ‘Third street be made tue atviding line instead of Pavonia avenue. ‘ihe pas- sage Of the bill ag it stands would Create and foster such a feud among the democratic leaders in the district reierred to, that the vote of one section ‘would be neutralized by that of the other and the power of the party thus destroyed. ‘Mr. Bevans succeeded yesterday in getitng copies of the Justice's bill inco the hands of every member Of his parcy during a recess, aud there is litte doubt that it wiil go through this time. The Speaker is pushing business forwara s0 Tepidly that an early adjournment is expected. WESTCSESTER COUNTY. ‘Tur Gares Wii Case.—Another hearing tn the case of the contested will of Dr. Carleton Gates, de- ceased, came up before Surrogaie Milis at White Plains yesterday. The only important testimony elicited’ was that of 9 medical genueman named Leo, who been on terms of iotimacy with the family of the tes. tacor, and who was also acquainted wilh ‘the deceased was calied by the read the testimony nis inna previously tasen his 0 ‘vic jarding the i my ‘of the testator were confirmed thereby. By consent of opposing coud sel the introduction of turther testimony waa de clared closed in the case, whsea was then postponed until March 10, when the burrogate will hear the arguments of counsel, New YORK AND BOSTON RaILRoaD.—Should the weather permit the work of coastructiug tue con- templated new raliroad from New York tw Brew- ater’s, Putnam county (there to connect with the Boston, Hartiorg and Erie iailroad, thus forming & new route hence Boaion), wit be commenced in the course of the ensuing week. The Contracts and sub-coutractg dave Geen efected for the grading, masonry, bridging and equipment of the roposed road between Brews.er’s and Lake Ma- opac, Via Carmel, a distance of aboot eleven miles. Jt is understood Wiat work on te wbove section of the road will be rosecuied with vigor, In oraer to open it for public travel eariy la July. The line of the NewgYork @ud Boston Katlroad, a8 ab rene, ‘This witness, WRO resent. laid out™passes througl the Neppervan valley, im tuis county, about micway between the Hudsem River aud Harlem {ailroads. THE NEWARK MURDER. Trial of Leonhardt Schwam for the Murder of Cor uelius Stahl—Opening of the Caso Ye terday in the Essex County Oyer and Zerminer. At the Essex county Court House, in Newark, N. J., yesterday, before fil Veuch, consisting of Judge Vepue, presiding, and Associate Judges Teese, Guild and Ise, the triai of Leonards Schwa, in- dicted for the murder of Cornelius Stabl, was com- menced. ‘There was a large utvendunce, of spec- tators, cnlefly of the Teutonic clement. Schwam, the alleged murderer, occupied a seat alongside his counsel, Mr. Willtam b. Guild, Jr. He is & young man, of about twenty-six years of age, of medium height, foria complexion, dark browa, curly bair; hazel eves; a Droad, round face, with anything bus an expression Of ferociousaess depicted thereon. The partieulars of the murder, which at the ume cre ated considerable excitement in Newark, chiedy from the fact that some easeutual pomnts were sbrouded im mystery, together wit tie fact thas tne alleged mar- derer made good his escape, are briefly these:—Om Saturday might, November 27, 1869, the boarders in the house of Jacob fesse, proprietor of a dmaking saloon boarding house at No. 31 Bowery street im the above city, met together im the hale to have & dance. Among the boarders were Schwam an@ Stahl. The dance concluded and the Srau'cims hav- ing retired, the meu re:mained aad continued to dis- sipate. Shortly before midnight some of those pres eut became quarrelsowe abvut trifing iwatiers. ‘there were several fiatic encounters, m which a man named Roth, another named Wennakte and the two already pawed tové prominent parts. ‘The third row was between Wennakle and Stahl and both tumoled oa the door. Staht gos up first, Weat over towards the end of tne barroom counter where Senwam,a roomwate of Wennakie was standing. A few Woments afierwards Stat staggered over towards the door, the blood pouring in a stream from a trighiful wound m the region of the Beart. Jn fifteen minutes be was a corpse. ip the excitement and coaiusion that followed, not withstanding that officers were promptiy-on hand, the alioged wurderer, Schwaw, escaped and re- mained at large unt some lour weeks ago, when he was captured im Connecticut under an assu name and broaght to Newark. Following the mur der a coroner's Inquest was held, bat the proceed- mgs were withueld irowi tue public lor rexsoLs which to the county prosecator ecemed proper. ‘After the jury Nad been seiecved and accepted ‘witnout @ single challenye the prosecutor, Mr. Caled 3. Tiwsworth, proceeded ty barcale to tho jury the circumstances of the c.ss aa state] above. In co clusion he added tat he did noe wish them to tak the statement mate as evidence, a8 It was merely his opinion, based upon Wie iesuiaeuy Ssubiurtted, none of which nad yet oven givea to the puditc. ‘The first witness Cajled Was Jucos liesse. {le tes- Ufed in German, whic was tranlaced rato English by che court interpretec, Nr. Louis vorusiaedt, Mis testimony only Went io snow that both persons were boarders of his; that there had veeu @ row, out thas he saw nothing ol the murderous assault, At Lue inception of We troule be ran Lor assiscance. Dr. Dodd, the county puysic'an, testitiedtto having held a post-morter examiaation on the body of de- ceased. He described the uature of the wound, which under any circumsiances was mortal, he jf Mr. W. L. Thompson, a surveyor, tesiitied to Lav~ ing prepared a diagram of the gaioop, which was exhibited in court. | Christian Hummel, an eye witness of part of the affray, Was next put upon ine S.and. His testimony | amounted to Hitile beyond tha fact that at tue imo- ment when he might have seen someting material bis back was turued and bo was ousied with tig stove. He was still on the staad when the hour of adjournment arrived, ‘ze case will be continued to-day. ° BROOKLYN CITY. The Death Record—Alleged Burglary— False Pretensos—He Would Die for Love—Swill Milk and Minor Items. Smallpox appears to be gradually aylng out in Brooklyn,for there was only one case reported lass week. Collector Freeland seized fifty-one barrels of spirits at No. 19 Summit etreet, on the charge that the taX OM samme had not been paid. The total number of deaths in Brooklyn during the past week was 136. Of the deceased 25 were men, 42 women, 40 boys and 2v girls. Two young men named John Smith and James McGovern were arrested and locked up to answer yesterday on the complaint of Jawes N. Nciiwen, of No. 973 Pacifle street, woo accuses them of bur- giary. ‘The jury in the case of the people vs, John Touyes, ‘who was charged by Mr. Henry Bergh with feeding his cows on unhealthy food, the trial taking place before Judge Riey, fatied to agree aud a new tial has been ordered for Monday mexi, Judge Walsh committed Henry Martin to uwatt the action of the Grand Jury yesterday. The ac- cused was arrested afew days since for collecting money under false pretences. He represented that the money was for tue family of a firewan who bad been run over and Killed while im the oid volunteer Gepartment, Hugh MoCole and Andrew McLaughlin were ar- rested for the second time yesterday on the com- plaint of Thomas McGuire, of No. 37 Matn sireet, who charges them wiih having robbed him of $400, ‘The accused, as alleged, robbed him of tue gioney in tue hajiway of bis house while he Was slaty under the influence of liquor. ne accused were ‘held to answer before Judge Riley. Jonn Finke, residing at No. 46 State strect, fell in love with a young lady, and bocause she failed to consider bum in tie light of a suiter for her hand he resolved to make himsclf a subject for a coroner's jury to sit upon. He procured some vitriol and probably swallowed all be could of the terrivie stuf, His agony was most iuteuse, and lis cries alcracted ueariy ali the peopie iu tue neighborluod. He was taken to the City Mespital, Woere he is uow under medical weatment. Inthe Second district Assessor Allaben has ap- pointed Samuel Bowden as cierk, in piace of D. J. Gillen, promoted to be chief olerk. The following assistant asseasors have been appointed to assess the income tax:—Clark Smith, First district, Sixth ward; Michael J. Weldon, third divisioa, ‘enti ward; Lows Froelich, Sixteenth and Highteenth wards; Andrew Gregopy, eight division, Ninth and Twenty-first wards; Matthew K. Wildman, Four- teenth and Seventeenta wards; Thomas L. Moscrop, county towns. In the Thira district Lie following changes have been made:—Sixta division, coupris~ ing poruons of tue ruta, Eleventh and Tweutictt Wards, Conckan smut, removed, aud George b Lincoin, Jr, taklug lis place, being trausierred troin the Seventh to this. Adam T. Dodge has been appotnted ag assistan assessor in Ge Seveuct dis- Uict, In place of George 4. Lincoln, traasieree, aud Josepa L. Heath bas been appotived for bac lente division, Gonsisting of tue Miaeieeauh Ward, 1a piace: of George W. Brown. BURNING OF COLONEL GWIStT'S {From the Bingbamton Republican, Feb. 7.) The burnimg of the residence of Coionel Walton Dwight—the old homosteud of the tamuy of b. s. Dickinson—recently purchased, beautttied and tur nished at great expeuse, isan event of much pubic interest. Our‘ citizcns very generaliy regard it nok merely a8 & personal matter, Dub as a pudile mistor- tune. itis 60 in many respects. As the residence of tne iate Mr. Dickinson, loved and lawieuted by ail, the dwelling was one of the prized landmarks of Binghamton. It was literaily an ‘open house’ from the time Mr. Dickinson tovk posses sion, But im the transfert this was ni chaaged for the worse. Ji Mr. Dickinson's Nospse | tality was generous 2nd never-lailing, Cosel Dwight’s was princely, and a8 continuous; sor ne had the means of gratilying fis own Kinaly and social inclinations aud of entertaining his iriends aa it should please them; and ite ts, besides, a large nei d, puble spiriteu citizen, Whom, our people feel 11 would be @ wisfortune to Bingbaniwn to jose, All will be pieased to know that Cotonel Dwight will revuld upon tae old site, ESIOSCE IN BINGKANTOM..