The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1870, Page 8

Lite in the Frozen gions. The Log of the Hansa—Ice-Bonnd—Complete Lous—Frigid Zone—Christmas—Neow Year— Terrible Sufferings—Making for Land— @roonland—Homeward Trip—Officors and Crew—Discipline—Arrival of the Germania—Northern Course— Results of the Expedition. BERLIN, Sept. 16, 1870. By reference to the New York Henan of June 30, 2860, 1t will be seen that more than fifteen montis have passed since the vessels of the second German Polar expedition, the sleamer Germania, Captain Koldewey, and the transport and coal schooner Hansa, Captain Hegemann, started from Breuter baven on thelr perilous journey amid the good washes of King Wiliam and his suite and the as- wembied inuititude, Tne last news irc u the Hansa was brought by the steamer Beehive, which had seen her July 21, 1369, After an absence of 443 days the oMeers and crew of ‘he Hansa—fourteea im uumber—have returned, though without their vessel, she having been wrecked and broken up by the ive. From the log of the ves- sel it appears that afier she had spoken the Ger- mania, on the 20th of July, 1969, for the last time, her course Was due north, in compliance with (he Mmesirnciions, of Dr, Pewerman. The first attempt to peuetrate the ice resulted in a failure. August 10 a second attempt was made im latitude 74 46 norch and longitude 10 23 west. August 24 they were only twenty-four miles from the coast, With the boat they approached elght miles further, but though oniy sxtwen miles east of Besbrow Isiand could discover no open water by which to reach and proceed along ‘whe coast, Being so near te iand, the captain trusted that the winds might break the storm which blew a few days aiterwards bad: no other effect than making the vessei drift to the southeast. September 7 (says the log) open water was visible to westward; the sea Was rough and seemed to ex- tend to the coast, We were separated from it by a large ics fleld and could see equaily large enes north and south; but we still hoped to ind a chan- Mel by which to reach the open strip along the coast. ICE-BOUND. September 9, in the morning, severe gale blowing from northwest, setting the ice 1a motiou and piltag it up. When the gale abated, towards uoon, we were drifting, with barely room eno and often in danger from the 1¢%. Very little water 18 seen—not suficient for the vessel to move in. No perceptible change in the ice telds, but weather tarping very coll, so that, September 1, # ernst of ice several inches thiek has formed around the vessel. We are now enclosed by joe on all sivies; itis packed Ughtly against the ves- wel and tle chances of an exib are geteing quite aoubtful. Sep aber 19, completely frozen in; po- | nition la’. 73 deg. 6 min. north, | ‘The ice around the vessei wus very tr We re- mained in Uns position until Verober Ly, he morn- jug of which, during a snow storm and si north. easier, changing ito a gale, the ice around the slup and placing us in great danger. At Antervals, When the nowe and crashing of ‘the tee evased, we could observe large pieves breaking of Jrom our icefiela and dviiting ay About avon of the lvth October the drift, plied up very high, broke the fresn ice, about four inches thick, on our Buar- board and pressed against the vessel. pawt of the yessel was considerably crowded by the ree, At one o'c! % of the deck planks begau to oper weeuied yet 1 pon atte sorely pressed 1 unal she wen feet above ber former level, koom iis posi- ion and lying over io starbourd she partly slid inte open water, but got fast on the ive below, remaining im a slanting direction, Qn trying tue pulps we found cle after twelve incties; Worked hard t¢ unui we had gamed upon the water. At Jet of for ten minutes to Ke some found two feet six Inches water in the hol o'clock the Wind and snow ceased, the sky cigared iufted and M. the seams though the ship oul tour- luches, soon i hears ven iP. Me od; then Bevel up and tle temperature sunk to tweniy degrevs (Reaumur) beio . We worked wi night at th pamps, until in tne | morning, s1X o’¢lock of the . but the water rrecg- ing more aud more, Aad Hoi delng able Ww Uiscover the teak, we had to give itup. ‘The water was al- | ready in the cabin wud to ail appearances she had broken ber ke We saved whate not ail the provisions, ould be of use to. us, though mitch less such obsects as boxer, collections, &e. ¢ pub down the masts, saved alarge poruon of the rigging and tried to holit the vessel by anchors on the ice, du the evening we had to slip anchors ana cables, the heaviug of the vessel, thragrened to that part oi the ace on Which we nad provisions. On the morning of e'clock, she went down. ‘The stood iree on deck, kept ane we haul previously the ive, LOSS OF THE HANSA The Mansa went down in laut longitude sl. Liverpool We could piuniy se alloway jeacng miles dist huls, al. Me: the Hf sium we rows, sit ‘Their position Ww upon f bring ther where there w caleulauon ma important p A iui) desr the different logs plied, On alt ice constracict been taken In ibis b Tour aac the cent Weir we: irom coal, ple y Hiatisd as eleni Quanity Jurnisned by bin put wil s colieetivus, haa been isi helped to s a passa siaud,aud wit wards tn the 4 fag o1 the North Geri high pole, Waving + situcies, tt deposited with li R ‘The averag: below the ice i was viure 5 sit reaened the now and tien white foxes. Ti . but for Wuman beings 1 w ty to reach it, If imigite Immense efioris and beliind provisions salvation. we dr At the close latitude 63 deg. south of where te Hane logs speaks of it iv Wie following Wways— CHRISTMAS DAYS While some of us were put fogettion a ¢ oi a brogm Into e of tie It rained to-day. ding on the [ee the nat bree, inseriing brushe pote. A plece of wax taper furnished te eau eyiored paper and seifimatde ginger Crackers ure the menis. fhe men presented e caprmio with @ knapsack and & pistol holster of thet own mann facture. Otter presents were attributed. hotties of port wine 1d Old ne papers which had 3s with much inter Christinas We hh ‘We be spared we greater style. greeted the voyagers her unfriendly; the most dangerous wouth to then was dan om the 2d they were t 67 47 north int ol wes longitade, Close to tin whick tiey calied the Bay or Lerre ‘ K ome ru 3 wel Shonld this even be our kept it in fair style: Dut she will commemorate the next one in NEW YRAR side, not knowing Whar around, complete obscusity ana the bowie of the tor steering, | sleg. 18 min. west. | our imitedt- | ate neighborhood began to move, breaking up tuas | the Danish pi The forward | } gon for complamt. pat aloe | reak oi | (Reanmnr) oily bg leaving | e of Kf somewhat abated, & ey once occupied by the About two hundred steps from the house discovered, to our great tarun, eregay oo led up high and forming the Iimit of our field, W! as snowdnift havin, iy for the i 5 i far as We could see, Was broken up in every direc- tion, The oxly objects distingals! in the intense snow storm are fragments of our ice field; the piece on Which we are is, a8 yeh 8, largest, bus it may | wso be shivercd ere long. We pit some bread in our Knapsacks ready to fee for life, though the snow lies so deep that one 1s buried in if at every slep and apt to run headlong Wo destruction, TERRIULE SUPPERINGS, Such and similar scenes Were not unfregent after 3 the worst night was that from the 12th of January, We Admiralty Cases—Arrest of Spanish Connterfeit- ers—ihe Russian Counterfeiting Caso—More Erie Litigation—The McCall Homicide Case--Miscellaneous Business in the Court of General Soasions. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COUNT—IN ADMIAALITY. The Collision Betweea tho Lady Ellen and the Steamer Norwalk, George W, Wilson and ofiers, owners of the steamboat Norwaik, have viougnt gait in the United He te aead etitine | States District Court against the schooner ‘Lady joss of our boats. Dividing mto two parties, we | Ellen to recover $8,000 dawages fer injuries sua Look leay last chance—the boata, abandoued. boat had long been Our faces were aoa with a cast of SLX af vs only; Lue others remalned over night ia the snail galley and In the beats, In this we spevut 108 days, up to May 7% Our great fel DOW re. duced to a small ptege Of drilt ice; when we mite ib Ats cirenmierence did not exceed 220 paces. ry duninnilve size was often an advan! to U8, a8 Wo mer Colossal webergs, Which would ruined ua i our snail dake bad pot glided besween them ag W steered by ap invisible power. Were 80 closely beset bv these colossal mountains that appareatiy We were at tie lowest spot of u deep vauey. MAXING TOR THE LAND. May 7, in 61 deg. 12 min. north jatitnde and 42 deg. West longitude, We leit our litte isle of ice, We &new that the southera point o Green.and and Cape Farewell, with its consant storms, could not be far distani, 1f took only four hours to set our boais anout anil disarlbute 4 crew to each, Oaptain | Hegemania managed the io} tue first mate (Hildebrandt) the Bismarck, and. the second mate (Baue) the King Willam, With threo hearty cheers we started under sail, but Were stopped afier furiy- elght hours by {eg intervening between us and tho coast, ‘She boats had to be drawa over it, and we worked jrom May 10 until sune 4, moeking twenty- |) ive days, during which we had but falf rations, and sofferet much irom faugue, Jt required aa cniure day Lo move & Duat Suv steps; We fad to Warm our food over aicoho! lamps, and as we became saow blind asd our ey ws had been lest, we supplied them by (aking the glasses oui of Ube astronoudeal iusiumenis, dune 4 we reached tie land, In dt deg. nor Atibade; it was tae acsert teland Idinite Like We campod oi the Ice and celebrated Whiistae fide, Feout ine 66h to the loth ol dupe we kept im our Uvee bowis along the coast, Whicd showeu bus } few sogts OF vegetation, GREENLAND. We came toa br June 13, bay; saw several » SLATE et US WIEL We now Were safe, “it’s the them cali out, houses and people on tae ob asionishment, our ¢ the fir-t to Ute Lilsslonaries Of stat, herds, $ of our extraordinary ong tho Esquimaux, who ment a 4, Wie auniversarv ol our | siarting, we iat ihe panish brig Con. stances, regularly plying between | Copentiagea nlaad, WOuld bake Us hole: | ward, le. ib out boais for Neanor. tak, aud ou oie iat Jor i tie former place by the Danish offiver Rosing, sui in yp luier by the missionary Kev. Mir. fipludler. H THE HOMEWARD TRIP. } Having sent a messcnger to Jullanshaad and ob- | famed peranssion to sail with the Constance, we > boats of the Han u 324 Copenhage: which nad so taitufuily September 1 1 we neard from great war, aud, A viccories. Ww. to our micas of the Naus: egcmiaaa: frst ofieer, Htlcebrund cl doctor of philos- opiy, Laube, of the {Academy of Vi- tor of medteme, Bucknolz, ol ihe Greits- ily; carpenter, Bowe, aud seven sailors in the highest terms of the who mevor gave him, even clrcumst neces, the teast rea- aiscrpline under he 10 try ‘Vhe secon’ Vessel of the Polar expedition, | TH! STBAMER GEL ANIA, artived a sew days afterwards, September LI, safely ja Brew Captau Kolderray has reported to | the preside the comumitee, Mr, Mosie, that they | spoke tue Liansa July 20, Loda, Tor the iast time. ‘The | Germ reached, Augcst 5, in T deg. 32 min. } norue) i 18 deg, 60 Min, West Longin ie, } th stot Greenland, aud went as hgh as 7 y Were barred by the ice. ero frozen In and overwintercasin a ) and. greatest cold Was 02 deg. velo Ww on expeditions made dp sieighs ¢ | ered cowl, In ihe spring of the curieut’ year where th \ \ i | again on slerghs as far as 77 deg. bmi. morc iat tide aid 1S deg. west longitude. Deep suow inter- ered with tie exploratio. of tho interior, Astron. lady, Also IMeasurements The suip gov free irom ice, In avering isiand they found a “ Axquimaux Village, numerous ‘huts and omy e ol degrees. Jus 34 # trip by boat to the ¢ | | de | graves. NORTHERN COURSE. Towards the close of July auother attempt was Mia io to gain to the north, Keacned 7: 2vma., and Were s'opped by ley barriccs, j Adpust si@amed southward, —dis- covered, In 3 nm., a etrait, which | was folivsed eventy-two miles in o& { direction. Gur pusiion was tweaty- revs West longitude. Temperatare of r degrees, Keaumur; of atmosphere Ve tonnd numerous icebergs, & mountain 7,000 Leet ‘3 aud mountains fare reiment, were » Was & fair vege- Alpine brasbes and kK oxen, polar hares, | | t aierior, whieh, + fou 4d @ouadaut provisions tons of coat. The pack ice was nd, but denser outside, We arta wit nor We obtuined tried the deep of tact tad longi mis, and ofen Was between ice- nd Islands. saw no © mouih of the Jahde; met i pilot to Bre n- yeu. Much sefentiic muterit! on board the } Germania and all hands Well. 108 0 THE PERDITION, ‘| Siumisug up ita few words the scientific results 1 of This expedition, 80 Taras the can be tanaing o1 the ¢ eeniand B. ‘as formery doubted, +L can be approached by steam. nl place’ the sald Tauce of seventeen ronomicaiy mm seventy- that i 8 inland Considerable tcui and geol 52%. An altempt to mea- tluin Island across the L rvations of the tide ting the tide wave ‘y inks between the Bawin'’s Bay, on the pizbergea on the oul » Winter was useinlly onomical ovserva- yor Insiraments, leonfologienl scieace was bi a | by de m seventy -live degrees thirty mines to three degrees north latitude aloug the « | tained iapert 1. » toutp f lecland and tne he hormoutal streuin. A ANTRAP, Fatal Resnti—Landlord Censuced. Bernard Meeken', of . 405 Kast Pitty | street, ts owner or agent of the premives No. | Washington si | wittelt has logg veer in an unsafe condition. race Was ua as highly and vertical struciure lor } of tne Guit Mr. | Seven or Phelan was standing | ou the gratmyg, when it gave way and precipitated | her into the cellar, causing injuries which resulted ; ina pretaature birch. Ye-teraay afternoon Coroner | Fiyon eid aa tuqnest over the remains of the tn- | fant, and in theie verdict the jury censured the land- lord (Mr. Meekent) or owner of the above named preniises for leaving the grating im such a dangerous communon. | | i Meter Mock, av a late court day at Grayson, Was a party ina sult in which @ jury Ww. yes, anklin.” “Why, Bill franklin on ihe jury,” sald the Judge. “Vell, 1 don't atam, Simdye; { objects to Pill. Franklin eny- “'s haeddiipe mit mine pisness ali der time.’? bjoction couldn't be consitered under the cits iauces. “Bil Pranklp" was the couse! on he opposite side. »bjeeis ter PUL of each other, far ta go down With Our) tained by the Norwalk oa accoun’ of the collision in the Bast river, which occurred some short time Join H, Allen and others, owners of the ice, Which we had lo remove with a ki fe m order to | Lady Kilen, bave brought a counter suit im the sano be abc to eat. The the suow penetraced our clothes, | court aguiast the Norwalk to recover $1,000 for our Limbs were frozen, and s0%6 of the logs could | d: e8 Sustained by the same collision, and botit no lon, be written up, owing to frost-bitten hands. f guts are being tried now before Judge Biatentord Our ice Aeld was now so far brokenup that we nad {inthe nature of a cross-suit, the same. testimon: to leave tho-house, Januar, aud tukeforfivenignts | betug used a3 that previously takeu at the In est wo. the boats wlueh we cove in, A new | held at Fort Hamilton, and which w: pilousned at Ham tabatds esa tagage mates | Shey aecaartace, "MATE wit coe ‘ > old, f ued on nex mortar. It was completed January 19, but sieltered UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Arrest of Alleged Spxnish Counterfeitors. t Before Commissioner Betts, Colonel Whitley, chief devecuve, acting on a ‘Wwar- rant handed to, him by the United States Marshal, Sometimes wo } procecded yesterday with a couple of oficers on board the schooner Clara Woodhuil, and there ar- rested two Spaniards named Edward Garcia and Manuel Auburney. The warrant, which was issued by a United States Commissioner at Brownsville, Toxas, charged that the defendants had been carry- ing on the business of counterfeiters at several laces in Texas, but had ciande-tinely left the State ore their arrest had been effec! On searching @ trunk belonging to the aecused a quantity of spurious gold Mexican ant Bngilsh coins (eagies and sovereigns) Were found, together with some pounterteit U “i States Ove doliar bills, a book in Spanish on metilluray and chemicals, and several mvalds for casting coin. They were coiminitted for examination In dcrault of $10,000 bail each. Tho Russian Nicolai Counterieiting Cast. Before Commissioner White, The United States vs. Alexis Nicotal and Richard Keep.—The principal defendant, Nicolal, a Russian, Was arrested some days ago at 148 Madison street, by Detective Whitley and his oMeers. The facts in the‘case were published tu the HeRaLy at the thine of the arrest. The officers found on the premises. plates and moulds ond other evidences of the carry- img Ou Of CoUnter.eittig., Yesierday the govern- ment having submitted the testimony rested, and the defence adjourned tll to- ver A. Ak. Ee ness asa liga No. 157 eb, Was brought bet missioner + day, charged wiih doir business without “payment of special tax. ie Was held in $ovd ball lor CXumiuaiion. SUPHEME COU4]—SHAMRERS. More Witi¢ation A t the Erie RKailrond Company— Application for Pereaiptory Mau- dumus. Refure Jndge Varnard. Tre People on ihe Relation of Franklin H Churchill vs. The Evie Railroad Company, Jay Gould and Horatio N. Ots.—Vhe motion was argued at Jength yesterday for a peremptory mandamns to com- pel the Erie railroad to allow the relator free access to thetr transter books, The previous application for an aiternative mandamus, and which was granied by his Honor and mado returnable yester- day, Was made under the statutory provision aliow- ing stockholders access to the books of a corporation withia thirty days of the Ume of an election, under penaity of $259 for refusal. Mr, Churehill in his afiidavit states that he is the owner of ninety sha es of the prefered capital stock of the company; that an election for three directors Ig to be held oa Thursday, the 11th inst, and that he destred access to the books for the protection of his own rights and that of other stockholders at the time of the election. He says turther that he made application to Mr. Gouid, the president of the company, and to Mr. Olis, the secretary, to be allowed to examine the with | bedeving her Ife to have been In pe of the front gratings of oe notitied to have the grating | merey te senteace but omutted doing so. | AN OBinCTTON IN CouaT.—An old Gernian farmer, | ent | asked Peter if he objected to | sald Peter, earnestly , | books to which the transfer of its stock ls registered, and algo the book Contatutog the Dames Of Its Btock- holders, and that the applications were refused, Tie company demurs to the mandamus. Mr. Gould makes return that ie bas not control of the books, and did not deny an taepection to Mr, Churchill, to which the rek ¥ r. Willtuin M. Bvac 9 relator, in- sisted that the slockhollers of the Erie Railway Company, a3 of any corporation, had a periecr and examine the books of They had tus indispatabie right. cuntary right. He qnoted legal authority on the point, and then nrged that the Court had competent iction to entera peremptory mandamus, and he desired it to do so, company, deciared that Mr. Evarts had made out Lo case. He ins:sted that practice required that these demurre s should be treated as ordinary demur- rers—that 14, put on the calendar ant noticed lor argument, giving fourteen days’ notice. Mr. Lyvarts reinsisied that the Court had a perfect right to issue a peremptory Mandamus. The thing the company wanted, and this was its only de- fence, was the fourieen days. This would extend the time over next Tuesday, when a mandamus for the purposes How wanted would be perfectly use- It mattered not whether Mr, Gould had per- Hy refused to allow inspection of the bvuoks. Tc duty was one impose. by ute ou the railway comp ny. Mr. Field repited that all the company sought was its legal right, and that the Court must grant it. ‘The papers showed no ‘atiegation of a@ proper de- mand on the Erie Ratiway Company, but this was a matier for argument to Which they could not be called withowi dus notice, It was held by the Court that tf the facts had been originally presented for a peremptory maudamus one might dave been issued, but as Lie plaintid had chosen the present course tke demurrer mast be regularly noticed and go on the calendar in the usual Wity. The Browa and Doryea Estuies Agaia in Court. Before Jadge Cardoz Miss E. P. Browns, John Leveredge and H. B. Duryea, Trustees of Estate of W. Brown ands. Be Duryed.—This case, which has been 0 offen im the courts and the details of which have been repeatediy published, ne | Up again yesterday on a motion by — plaintuit for the payment of certain moneys alleged to bein the hands of u 0 Polication by uumed to Ne due him. 1d counter speeches dozen lawyers, mend gonting the variety of intere the papers, F GENERAL pder f THE M'CALL, HOMIE AS soon xx the Recorder came day Patrick Mathews, who was ¢ slaughter in the fourth ¢ {up for sentence. Mr, Spencer ted he could wot say anything more than the Jury lad said wien they recommenued the prisoner so inercy. REUVOROKR HACKY REMARKS ENCE. court yeste icted of may vrox ‘The Recorder, in p s to say that L do not conewr in u dict which has been rendered by the jury in this case. The evidence hus established, to my mind, the sbuple fact that the prisuner, afier all danger bad ceased, and bis wife Was Tree from the asaaut of t ke had left the roum, thet she, with . beat him upon the head, and that ie prisoner nd struck pita iu the head a ne haa upon nee } which had veen 2» situated as and then had grasped any instrument and ius life, alihough tie jaw would not have ou, the jory imignt acquitted you. having “stfongiy recommended you to f the Court is you be con- fned in tie Pemitentiars for one year. ANOTOER HOMICIDE —lHB PRISONER sho wis ustitied The jury | FADS GIILTY | OF MANSLAUGUTER AND IS REMANDED, |, dames Medacroik, who was chargow with homicide | in causimg the death of Baruiniemew Buckley on the | aud of June, by sire bin with an axe, pleaded guilty to mansiauChser in the fourth degree, Mr, fellows informed the Court tat be could not obtain a higher verdict, and therejore took the plea. Mr. Speacer, counse! for the prizover, maae # brief statement of Me case. lt seeurs that Mevarroll was in bed upon the might of the oecurrence and was | challenged ont to fight by the deceased, who In the prea 88 of the battle Was siruck With an axe and fell over the wheel of a cart. A wound was inflicted upon tie skull, which resulted in jus death a few weeks afterwar The Recorder tvok tke papers and sata be would semteice McOarro}| on Monday. A MAN SENT TO SUNG SING FOR FIVE YRARS FOR STOKE—A WAUNING TO ¥ Jou Lappin pleaded gulitv to burglarty in the throug virtue of the pecuniary tlerest they had 1 | the company, and as a proper protection of such pe- Mr. David Dudley Field, connsel for the rallway | | ered @ judgment againsi bim an third oer. Second avenue, and Was arrested on reer ‘The eset hia ape te aera na imprisonment UL, to an aspaul it premel near n cai id We fhe Slat day of “a PIUS BURGLAR SENT TO STATE William Johnson, who pleaded guilty or September to ary head and face with a knife on PRISON. Ist attem| Has borg order eh rd int degree, and upoa whom Was suspend na promise of good behavior, was brought uy fore the potlee ‘autborttien ound” out Johnson was o! t lary “pious,” he having to the judge that he woul Borve the aud take care of his poor mother if he wonld him go. As the prisoner abu: the clemency of the gory the Recorder concluded to let Jonnson me rae the Sing Sing prison for two years and six months, ‘i P LARCENY. ( Honora Kennedy, who, ov the 29th of tember, stole Bingty ave ‘igliars from Rheinhardt Meyer, pleaded gulity to an atiempt at grand larceny and ‘was sent to the State Prison for two years and Blix months. ASBAULT AND BATTERY, Carson Redfleld, who was charged with committing A felontous assanit upon Mary Crouse, an the 191, of August, by striking her on the head with au axe, was convicted of a simple assault and battery. oh. testimony showed that they had been. , an the prisoner wlogsd ‘that a few days betore this oc» curreuce she made nine holes: in his head with a broomstick. The Recorder nor the jury did not oriticatly examine the cranium of our Teutonic fel- low citizen, but sent him to we Yenitentiary. tor one year, THB ANTI-GAMBLING SOCIETY—PRESCOTT —_DIS- CHARGED, Charles C. Prescott, who was Jotntly indicted with West, the President ‘of the Anti-Gambling Society, who Was sent to the State Prison for swindling mer The dace ned officer stated to the Record as scott was only an employé of the company, they could not convi%t him, BROOKLYN COURTS. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Arrest of a Cisar Denler. Belore Commisstoner Winslow. Alfred Poster was arrested on the charge of selling cigars which had not been properly stamped. ‘The Commissioner held him to batl in the sum of $509, and sct the examination down for the 8th inst. an Willtam Mullady pi with @ harm, in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Alleged Intringement of a Patent. Before Judge Benedtet. George C. Roverts vs. Henry Koller et at.—The defendants are butchers, ond the plaintiff brings suit to recover for au itfringement of a patent of an ice chest. He alleges that the dofendanis use a somewhat similar chest, constracted in violation of of fis patent, The case fas been sent before a referee, SUPREME COURT—SIACUIT. Heavy Verdict Aguiret a Lite Lusurance Com- pany. Before Judge Tappen. Edward Hinchen et al, Bxccutors of Peter Rice, vs. the Mulnal Benefit Le Insurance Company.— The plains brought suit to recover on a life in- surance policy taken out by the deceased, Peter Rice, for $10,000, on the ¢th of April, 1862 The company Ba k concern, Mr. Rice died on the 2zd of duly, nit nis executors brought the suit. It was clanmed on the partof the defence that the policy coniained a clause wiich provided that it shouid be made null and void it Rice died of mtem- perance. ‘The company alleged that he did die from the effects of intoxicating liquors, and, further, that notice of his death had not been given them, “Lhe jury rendered a verdict in tavor of plaintite for $12,534. CITY COURT—PART I. An Invitation Accepted. Before Judge Neilson. Edward G, Poures vs. George G. Carnon.—In this case the plaintuf claimed $6,000 damages for an assault comcaitted by the defendant in April last. ‘The evidence for the defence showed that tne plains uff quarreled Witn Carnon in his office, when un in- vitation was made for ali parties io adjourn to the sidewalk, This they did, and the defendant suc- cecded in walloping Poures vo that extent tnat he thought that no.hing less than $5,000 would satisty hisa, The jury gave him $260, CITY COURT PART 2. An Uuforiunate Muagistrate—He is Muleted in Five Tiousand Doilars tor Malicious Prose. cntion, Rerore Judge M’Cue, Witham H. Witiams vs, John Lynch.—The de- Jendant is justice of the peace of the Sixth district, and the plaintiff is the propvictor of a livery stable, where Lynch kept his horse. Some of the credi- tors of the defendant, about a year since, recov- de seized his horse, which was in Wiliams’ stab'e, It was alleged by the Justice that the plaintuf gave information to the Sheriff's officers as to where this horse was kept, and Lynch, while laboring unaer this belief, went before Justice Riley. of the Third Disoriet Court, and sued out a warrant for his (Willlams’) arrest, on the charge of stealing feed. When the case was heard betore Justice Kiley Lynch failed to prove the cae whereupon ihe accused was released from cusiody. Lynch, in his answer, dented any malicious intent, bat the jury, nevertheless, returned a verdict against tum and awarded the plaintif? damages in the sum of $6,0v0—the full amount claimed. Judge McCue, in his charge to the jury, took occasion to comment severely upon Lynch’s action and remarked that before making the complaint against William he should have had reasonable grounds to suppose ihat the charge was true. AHWMERICAN SOARD OF MISSIONS. Farewell Address—Closi: Session. The Brooklyn Academy of Music was crowded yesterday, before hail-past nme o’cluck in the moraing, the time for the Closing session of the Bourd, with an interested audience, all eager to | hear the farewell words of the tmissionaries. The Rey. Mr. Vairbank, of Western India, whose wife, the daughter of a missionary, has two sisters in the field, said that he returned with joy to his mission- work, It was very sad for him to ieave India pd the native Curistians, whom he loved, and now he longed to go back to hear the greetings of bis Indian brethren in their sweet Malratta tongue, God intends that the Gospel shall fil Hindostan. #8 He sent the Chinese to America, and the African, because the Gospel v not carried to them, so He Will food these States with Mimdoos. '. VALENDYKE said that he had come from the islands of the Pacific, Ave thousand miles beyond San & 0, With his better two-thirds (for the Board did not belteve in sending misston- Sas hermiis) People oven sympatuized with The tsvlation Of Inission stauons, but they had some- ihmg to hope for m a worldly sense—they looked forward to the mail which they received once # year. A gentleman asked him how he got aong, ‘When he knew Ub War ta tus country, witi- our more inteliigence, He thought that the people ou this side of Wie world could take care of their own altars. it was not right to speak of the peopic among whom missionaries are sent as heathen; they shold be called brethren. He knew of a case of & beantfal heathen woman, so cailed, guing to take care of smallpox patients in a lazer he knew it was almost certain death, Yervs COAN, Who bas la@ored in Hawaii ears, Said that he had been under the 003, but. that he had never attended one of its eetings before. He was Presideut of the Hae Bourd, @ cear child of the Amertcay, had eady sent out missionaries or its own. De loved his country, but he was anxious (ogo back to the tsles that watt for God's jaw. le wished to express, the name of the Christians of Hawail, ther love ior me Ameri can Board. the PRESIDENT expressed, tn the name or the Board, gratitude for the ample hospitality they had enjoyed at the hands of the people of Brooklyn. Tue burden upon tie Board was the werk of con- verting the world. At this time, when thrones are crumbitog, they came as one heart and one imind to ihe work of missica. Dr, Buddingion said that although there had been 5,000 guests to be provided for, 600 places provided had not been use there were not guests enough io meet the larweness of the peopie’s hospitality. As the visitors iad eaten of their bread, so had their spirit entered into their hosts, and they nad proved that in recelving strangers angels are entertamed unawares, When, a few months ago, he had met the missionary board tn London, he saw a magnifl- cept Hindog, Who asked them im the name of the Hindoo youth to respect common humanity in thetr persons. It was the missiouary’s purpose to carry the Gospel to them and then jeave them to carry out ‘she world was too large to be We expect diversity such their own polity. shut up in any polity. as we never dreamed of, Alter Dr. Buddington’s speech a resolution was read expressing brotherly sympathy with the cor} Tate members who had dissolved their rlaiious with the Board, after which the benediction was pro- nounced, and the last session of the sixty-first anni- versary meeting of the American Board came toa jose, In the afternoon a meeting of Evangelical clergy- men met at Dr. Siorra’ church to listen to an ad- dress from Dr. Cather, of Irejagd, gp “Systematic Benetigence” — ~ led . bes Striking the Strikers—Fourth Avemue Drivers Oe es ee With—End of the Strike en the “ Rall. road. A few days ago all the'men who drive tne Fourth avenue horae cars from the Clty Hall to the Harlem depot went on a strike for higher pay. Previously they had been running six trips a day for twenty. two centa s trip, making their day's hire foot. up. the handsome sum of $1 32 For. such . miserable compensation they found themseives unable to work, many of them having large families to provide for. Such of the drivers ag ran “long trips”—irom the Astor House to.the Park and to Thirty-fourth street ferry—fatled to extend their sympathies to their colaborers who made short trips. The latter, ‘however, struck for more pay, and ‘to drive until the company should guarantee them higher wages. For a short time the officials were embarrassed; but, by arrangements with the other» drivers, Ss ie Smee eivetel My Snet for vers, son in Tess time shan they expected a large Daten of ee poured in from country districts in all directions. These economical rusties gladly en- dered their services to the company for $1 32 per See They were immediately set to work, and, a2 passengers are well aware, many bi sulted from their driving. Mteouwulle tho ase i touished strikers came to explanations, but ‘ively informed by the company’s® they were ‘agent that laborers in the ¢lty, and the:drivers’ orgagianuon 33 auodatee steps which will prevent the like in Ena of the “elt? Railroad Strike. A8 was predicted in yesterday's HeRALy, the om- cials of the Eastern Belt Railroad haye abandoned their cighteen hour platform and pronounced their, adhesion to the views of the strikers. Yesterday morning the president of the road em- powered Superintendent Terry to treat wiih the drivers. ‘They assembled again at Mr. Wililam Burns’ store, near the dey j after much discussion, 16 was arranged that the new tabie should not extend beyound fourteen hours aud fifty-five minutea, To reciprocate Mr. Terry's con- | cessions, the men pi to run two extra trips to the Central Pork on v8 when the weather is Not too inclement. The presideut of the association, Mr. Richard W. Humphrey, then introduced a reso- Jution, which was adopted unanimously, “that a yoto of thanks be tendered to the employcs of the diferent yailroad companies for their Kind offers of assist. ance to the strikers, Who now stand 1n no need of such, as there has been a settiement made with the company. Preparations were made last night to have the cars commence ber) at a quarter be fore five o'clock this morning. 6 SLrIkers Were to have collected $3,000 from Uhetr associates yester- aay bad not the strike verminated. A MIAN WITH DELICATE NERVES. A “Feint?? Over a §10,000 Bond—Commix- sioner Shiclds in Danger of Receiving a “Fal? in the Court. A somewhat exciting scene was enacted yester- day afternoon in the United States Circuit Court. It appears that some years back,in the celebrated trials of the “Canadian drawbacks,” as .they were termed, a man named Caldwell being implicated in the affair was ordered to find bail to the extent of $25,000, and 1t now being time for a renewal o: the bond, he was requested by the Assistant District A+ torney to procure the necessary securities, ‘The defendant entisted a man in his behalf, named Francis Malborn, who, instead of providing all the bonds himself, induced another man, Charles Tripp, to go before the District Attorney and make a false afiidavit and to swear falsely in reference to some property which Tripp was to allege as his own, uring the examination to which the District Attor- uey subjected him he made so many evasive answers that 1¢ was found necessary to make some minute Inqut aud these resulted in establishing that he ‘was not the owner of the property. He next made a statement to the effect that Mulborn induced him to swear falsely and to commit wilful porary in the matter, Mul- born was sent for ut No. 6 Centre ‘street, aud the consequence was that after, an examination Tripp was instructed to find $10,000 bail to answer for the perjury. This announement quite upset his equanimity. He seemed to lose all control of nimself, and after making some inco- herent remarks fell against Commussioner Shields 80 forcibly that the Commissioner reeled backwird, While Tripp fell, to ail appearance, in a fainting fit, After various applications of cold water the pa- tlent ually revived, and was g00n ip a condiiton to be handed over to Warden Tracey, of the Ludlow street jail. The occurrence caused some merriment in the court among the officiais, who averred that the whole aifair was in reality @ *feint.”” THE UPPER END OF MANHATTAN Wai THEATRE. A ‘The construction of our beautiful Central Part: has had the effect of appreciating the lands lying north of it, and capitalists have made extensive invest- ments in the hitherto negtected tracts. Marked im- provemenis are everywhere seen, a well regulated civilization 1s rapidly taking the place of a discon- nected, unsightly vulage. Mach season brings new accessions, some crowded upward by exorbitant rents, but by far the largest number influenced by the idea that the Twelfth ward 1s at no distant day destined to become the chosen dwelling place of the wealthy and refined. We have at times been sur- prised at the rapid growth of the upper end, the | More go when We reflected on the gnevous draw. i backs with which i) was forced to contend. For years the residents have had no avenue even safe, to say nothing of agreeable, for or- dinary travel. ‘Third avenue 1s av length | being put in passable condition, but the wisdom of tearing up both the Sixth and Seventh when the Eighth and Broadway were tmpassabio for pedestrians surpasses our finite judgment Yet with all these hindrances ihe upper end has made progress. Jn sptie of the siow trailing, over crowa- ed ambulances of the street railways, in spite of the begiect of our chosen representatives at the City Hali and at Albany, dwellings of imposing strueiure and corresponding elegance are springing up in every direction; new and expensive churches, school houses and stores are being erected, These evidences of growing wealth suggest the pressing need for some place of amusewent, whero meutal and physical relaxtion of a reiined character can be easily obtained. The upper end now contains thou- sands of the young who bitterly complain that the bored offers no place of amusement where passed, and think it o severe tax p drag ten Weary miles or more in | 2 to re. for plea- | sure. A theatre 1s call it lecture you wil, Such aplan will prove remune! bor Company Wie has the enterprise to This project calls for No fabuions sum No &i ate butiding or, expen- are needed or expected, neither p safe, neat, well veil: building, with icient stage room Jor vane operetta and occasional dr would be @ certain suce One Hundred and Twenty-tifth street, west | of Thivd avenue, would ral from all points. Belles and beaux trom Mott Haven, Morrisania, and even Fordham, could grace the auditorium without | rampling their chignons or crinoline and criticise | the beauties of Carmanville, Fort Washington and Bloomingdale. Who will be the first to step forward To Carry out the project’ He will not only gratily the voung and fair of the upper end, but, at the same time, “put money in his purse.” si would th GREAT FIRE IN WILLIAM STREET. Loss Thirty-seven Thousand Bollurs—Full | List of Tnsurap Afire at about half-past «1x o'clock yesterday morn- ing broke out suddenly on the third floor of the ex- tensive blank book manuiactory of Koch, $ Co., 166 William street. Before the alarm had been sounded it had made considerable headway, aud at the tne the Fire Department put on the streams of water it was working well up to the fourth floor and slowly creeping down to the second story. For nearly two honrs the firemen = com bated the flames, and finally got them under control, but not until nearly all the stock on the second, third and fourth floors lad been consumed by fire or irretrievably damaged by water. ‘Ihe loss on siock, machinery and fixtures is roughly estimated at $30,000, aud on building at $7,000, ‘The fire was caused by the giue boiling over from a pot located on a stove on the third iour. ‘The msurance 1s as follows: A GILDED-DEN OF INFAMY. A Young Woman Stabbed Six Times in a Ley ington Avenue Bagnic—The Case Concealed for a Week frem the Police—A Record of Bloody Crime—Three Sisters Involved. On the 291n of last month a row occurred in & sumptuously furnished and gitttering house of ile fame at No. 173 Lexington avenue, between thred of its female inmates, the result of which was that one of them, Ida Dowell, was stabbed with & pocked knife in the hands of Mattie Dean, the proprietress, aided by her sister, Carrie Dean, The cause of ulty, was that Ida called a younger sister ) Deuns, whom they! wish people to upon as virtuous, & prostitute. Ide had so badly injured that she immediately took her bea, which she has nut since been able to leave. It was only on Thursday. dast that information of th condition of the girl was received at the Twenty-fit precinct station house, Captain Cilnchy imme, diatelf caused the arrest of Mattie and Carrie Deany and yesterday morning took them to the Centi Police Office to have thet, photographs taken and their respective histories recorded, $ They were tiie Wa 8 arraigned before Justi Bixpy, at the Yorkville Police Court,’ w \alidavits giving the particulars of the assaylt wens niade against the Deans by Louisa Groves and Kal Green, who also are inmates of the house No. 17 Lexington avenue, i A certificate was received by Justice Bixby fro Dr. Louis Schultze, of No. 237 East Thirty-1 street, who stated that he “bas beea* in” attend ancg upon Ida Doweil since she received her injuri¢ nove saurdrs from ™ s) SIX WOUNDS, F two in the breast, two in the side and two on on@ of her arms. Those on the breast are consid the most serious, Qn the strength of these st the two sisters were committed for examination, he ade set down for this afternoon” at o'cio0! t Just as they were belng taken down stairs tl younger sister, kuown as May, a beautiful girl Bixicen years, With long, owing hair, reac als most to her waist, caine Into court and asked to sed her | sisters. Sue was questioned by hag | Bixby, who discovered Irom her that. ab fas ® mother residing at the Washington Hotely in this city, whose uapre 1s Mrs. Nady, or sometht like it, Captain Clinchy Was directed by the Cou tw interview tue lady, aud, 1 he found her, to bring her to court. If uo such Woman is sound, however, May will be sent to tue House Of the Good bhepy herd, or some olner similar asylum, to be “ree formed,” She hus in the meant me been sent to the House of Detention. HISTORIES OF CARRIE AND MATTIi: The histories of tiese wo Women, Wao ure singn~ larly endowed with charms of features. tat av. lady m New York might be proud ol are repiete with adventures of ihe — most thrilling interest, It a8 doubted by some who weil acquainted with them taat the young girl May ts a slater of thel’s; but whether sue is. or not they, desigaca for her ule same life whien they uhemselves: now lead. The tivo other girls who appear as Wite hesses against thein state that they do not belleve |} that she is virtuous, although the two older sisters claim that sie ts, for the purpose of bringing Iu a better price jor her dowmiaL It is sata by them That $1,000 is the sum at which ber chastity haw been valued by the! and that there were several who offered but were refused, [@ 1s suspected by some thi be is the daughier of ree spectable and perhaps wealthy parents, who now mourn her as dead, and that she has been inveigie® into this den of anfamy by its misiresses, Louisa Graye, Who, of course, bears @ fickitions naine, states that siethinks Carne and Matile be- long to ludiana., At the time she first made their acquaintance they were lie | in Louisville, Ky. Mattie was there known as Stella, and the wife of Billy Dean, @ notorious Character, who has lately figured more or less in police record of that city. A short time ago Mattie, allas Stella, who KEPT HOUS# FOR BILLY in Louisville, altempted to Kill him, she having shot him in the arm for some cause. Alter this occurred, which was published at the time in the HERALD, sno Jeft Loutaville and came to this city and started th resent den at No. 173 Lexington avenue, Abou he time that Mattie shot Billy Dean Carrie was boarding at a well known resort—known only as a laundry—in Ninth street, Louisville, kept vy a Mra. Annie mond, CARRIE THAD TWO LOVERS, Dan Powers, and another whose name could not be remembered. ‘these two were no better in charac, ter than Billy Dean, aaah became jealous of eact other, and animosity finally grew solstrong betw them that they met m deadly conflict, and D: Powers, as will be remembered, logt his life at the hands of his rival. Powers’ brother now came o1 the scene, aud in attempting to take the lufo of hig brother’s murderer shot bi in the arm, for whiokt he was arrested and held to bail to answer. immediately after this also left for New York, bringing with her Lonisa, and both went to live with, Matue, who is yet oniy twenty-four years of but the acknowledged leader of the whole gang, } Louisa says she knew nothing about Mary unt, after ber arrival in New York, which has not been more than three or four menths since, At the tima Ol the stabbing of Ida Dowell Mattie had as a lover & mau well known in political circies and the sessor Of great riches. But a3 soon as he saw whag tne sisters had done he visited their gilded bagnia nomore, He has paid the surgeon’s fees, howevers for attendance upon the wounded girl, BROOKLYN CILY NEWS. The East River Bridge Company will commence the work on the New York caisson in a few days. ‘The Prospect Park Fair, for which extensive pre- parations are being made, will be opened on Tue» day next, General J. V. Meserole was serenaded at hts rest- dence, at the corner of Bedford avenue apd Madison street, on Tuursday night. Jacob Kneif, a young German, has been missing from his home, corner of Union avenue and Withers street, E. D., since Tuesday last. Dr. Cochran has concluded to allow the quaran- tine sloop to land at tne foot of Van Brunt street and take in supplies, as Dr. Bell assured him there was no danger. ‘The counsel to the Board ef Health of New York assured Dr, Cochran yesterday that the healte authorities of Naw York would always recognize the burial permits irom Brooklyn. John McConley, who halis from New Hi found in the house of Mr. Andrew Buckth« Rapelyea street, rerday morning, and was ar- rested ou a charge of burglary. He forced hie way through the froat basement window. ‘The sulphur factory of Frederick B. Scholes, sita~ ated at the foot of Ross. street, Williamsburg, took fire at an eariy hour yesterday morning, anu was damaged to (he amount of $3,000, Spontaneous combustion is soid to have been the canse o! the flre. ‘there was ho tasurance og stuck or building. There was 4 fire at three o'clock yesterday morne ing in the shoe store of Frederick Schoeniicia, No. 21 Hamilton avenue, causing a damage of $2,000, ‘The first alarm was given by a dog belonging to Mr. o'Briea, a gunsmith, m the adjoluing building. The aninal sprang upod O'Brien's bed and pulled lim ont, and therepy saved the iives of some 01 the parties who resided in the upper part of rhe house, The property was insured in the Allan- tic Ingurance Corapany. The fire was the work of an incendiary. CLEAKS IN THE TAX RECEIVER'S OFFICE. NEw YORK, Oct. 6, 3576, To THE Epiror oF TAX ARRALD :— Siz—I make an appealto you in behall of the temporary clerks in tue Tax Receiver’s office, 1 con- sider them the worst paid and most iil-used clerks in the city and county government. Firstly, we get but three doliars per day. Then we are paid only two or three montis inthe year when due, The valance we are paldat the expiration of cignt or nine months, which causes us to sell our pay to the Shylocks around the City Hall at ruinous rates of percentage. Asai msiance of what losses we have to put up with, our last pay for September ts seventy- eigat dollars; but the must we caa get is fifty dollara; aud this 6 continued until y or June until the tax levy is passed. We think there should be some arrangement made by the Comptrolier and the City Chamberlain by which the moacy might be borrowed of the Broadway Bank and we poor clerks not Kept out of our money so jong. If, air, you can do any- thing to relieve us frum our unjust oppression you wil! receive the heartfelt thanks of the poor tempo- rary clerks of the Tax Receivers office. 1h conclusion Ihave only to say that the month | before last we Were assessed one half month's pay for polrtical purposes, but were sayed by the inter- ference of the Hon. John J, Bradley, by his saying That if there were any assessments to be made they must be made and collected outside of his office, as no man's pay should be stopped in his office. Please to exctse our troubling you, as we are at @ loss to know where lo get any redress for our sup- Compan ier. Stork, — Machinery Fret vine (Ha $2100 350 Pattie. 1,750 New Yo Wis 0 - Mechanic 1,606 33h orters and 2,260 2 importers and ‘ir, 2350 eroitite. * 1,750 360 = Montan 1259 - > Nattion: 000 = ike is a4 - a 30 Hina ( '350 1,000 $00 ‘Total... 820,516 #2953 e000 The insurances on building, which is owned by the firm, are;— Jefferson Insurance Cos Atlantic . Importers mj New Amasterdam. The firm have removed its office to No. 158 same = and cowemplate resumiog bysiness in a few ag i posed or real injustice, ONE OF THE TEMPORARY CLERKS TAX RECKIVER’S OFFICE. Tur Coat TRapE.—We have not learned that tht recent rains have damaged or drowned ont any te collieries so far in this region, but all are at Work as usual. ‘Che water in the streams has not been Increzsed as much as Was anticipated, so far— Pottsville Miners’ Journal, Oct, 4.