The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1870, Page 8

B.. NEW YORK CITY. Loeal Item of Miscellaneous News and Para. grephe of News from the Public Departments. ‘The following recora will show the changes inthe tempersture for the past twenty-four hears in com. parison with the corresponding @ay of last year, as Indicated by the thermemeter at Hudeat’s phar- macy, HenaLe Building, cortier of Ann street:— , 1489, 1870, 1868, 1870, SAM * BA. 9 oa. OPM 48 48 wit BP. Mevseoeee 42 4 Avorage tomperatare yesterday .......... oe Average lemperatae for corresponding dave WASb FORE... ce eceye fceabe eben ates G1N6 John B, Gough delivered Hts lecture, “Eloquence ‘and Oraters,” at Cooper Institute last nigh for the | “‘benenit of the Morning Star Sanday Schoo}, Iv is reported that President Coman, of she Board of Aldermen, had an apeplectic fit on Wednesday evening, which teft him oulte prostrated, but at last accounts he Was better. A fire yesterday at N 171 and 173 Mercer street, m ure dry goods room ef Lindeman’s plano factory, caused $500 loss on stock, and $260 on building, owned by A. stewert. Colonel Charles BR. Coster, the newly appointed ‘Collector of Invernad Revenue for the Sixth district Of this city. Pas ervered upon whe duties of bis office. His deputy collectors are N. D. ‘dhayer and Willian 4. Orton, John J, Brown, a youth of twenty years, died in the Charity Hespita kweli’s Island, tanus, the iezuk of Injuries re ‘Weeks since by ranning a splir Deceased lived at No. 31 Madison street, An unknown woman died in Bellevue Hospital | from injuries received at the corner of Greenwich | and Sixih-avenues on tay by being | run over ‘by a (i hus causing a compound | a of the skuil, Cor was nowlied | w hold am inquest, Justice'Dowling yesterday committed Daniel War. | Ten, whe says he Is a dent of Albany, on a charge ¢f having stolen a half e a, vained | at Ulriy-two dollars, Arciubald Henderson's store, 10 Water sur 1 Was found in pos jon of the property. A novel and unique entertainment ts betng organ- wed by@rom!nent re s of this city in ald of the vicilins of the French invasion. The movement, it 4s expected, will take the form of a javenile ballon | ge seale, and will be given some tMme during | the month of Decembe The regular annual moeting of the Thirty-third | Regiment (United States colored troops) Asseciat of which Colonel T. W. Higginson ts president, was No. 14 Astor House, Ar- for hoiding the regular an Fangements were mua election of officers. Ameila Burndis, a comely looking German girl, ‘Was heid to answer by her late employer, Joha HL. Robinson, of No. 45 th strest, Who | charges the a eny of © gold | locket, 2 ring, wearing apparel, amounting in | value Lo thirty-two doliars. & Grenville Ely was yesterday arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, by oficer Byans, of | the Twenty-ninth precinct, upon coniplaintef Alva Smith, manager of ihe Coleman House, charged With contracting @ bil: at the hotel above a year ago for board and “extras” amounting to $129 30, and leaving without payix He was committed to answer a charge of Violating the Hotel act, ket Police Court, before Justice eph Douglas, of 26 Columbta Bireet, ship caulker, Mosher, of 1€ Columbia street, a boat bull r 1d to answer on comt- { Peter Wilmot, of 47 Mangin street, who At the Essex Beott, yesterd hat tie accused attacked him in Delancey | wireec at half-pa ven on Wednesday might, Knocked hin down, Kicked and beat him, aod severally threatened, with revol pointed at his | head, © blow his “miserable” brains out, ‘The Insn Grenadier Guards, ninth regiment, have their annual celebration at the Cooper Institute | this evening. Mr. John Mitchell gives alecture on | the Imsh patriots and orators uttan and | O'Brien,”’—and other features of interest are pro- mised, ‘The first Irish soldier Who fell in detence of the Onion was Captain Hegarty of this company and thei sieep in death on a hu dred Sont urvivers and their | friends me dance Will donb | less be large. OMcer Brown, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, at five o'clock yesterday morning, discovered a burg: Jar named Thomas K. Nelson, alias “the Kid,” of 228 West twenty-ninth street, 1eaving the front room window on the iirsc foor of the house of Anna Somerville, at 230 West Twenty-eighth — street, havaig in His pos: 1 ng clothing Valueu at $100. Upon exam jouse it was ascertained that the iront window had been forced open. being arraigned belore Justice Cox, deiterson M this morming, ke was communi in default of $1,500 b it | d men 02 Vanderbilt's new Union depot im course of erection at the corner of Forty-second street and | Fourth avenue, for the Harlem and Hudson River | Railway Compan: Besides the large number | herctofore reported as maimed there were two more acelaents yesierai iugh Rooney felt a distance of | and received severe bodily. mjuries. | : 3 were dressed by Surgeon Pur- dy aud = he = was conveyed to _hhis home, No. 144 West ‘Twenty-sixth street. Hugh Gallagher, of No. 425 Hast Filteenth street, fel from one of thé scaifolds aud Was dangerously injur. d, He was sent to bellevue Hospital. Meetings were heid last evening of the two repub- Mean associations of the Fifteenth Assembly district, both of which claun to be regular. The meeting held atthe Lincoln Hall, and which was presided over by i. Harrison fe passed a resolution expell- ing Henry v. Lapaugo and Charies J. Fariey for msing thelr ingluence to defeat the repubhean Con- gressional mominee, The rival asseciation held its | 1 at Centinental Hail, Eignth avenue and ourth etreet, and Was addressed by Isaac J. future alliances wtih bolting need President Grant for in- | stions, and Colleetor Murpny tor »Leans out ef the Cusiom House fer or Mang to his wishes. ze Tepu net voting ax The Board of Agsistant Aldermen met yesterday, | President Galvin| in the chatr, Resolutions were | adopted he ‘fallowing effect:—To pave with | ent West Broadway, trom Cham- sect; to pave with Nicolson pavemen ¢ street, from Fifth to Madi- gon avenue; point Benjamin F. Brady a record rk, and L@avrence k. Hill document clerk Common Cour yal: SabexX to pave with Belgian pave- Market’ glace from Ludlow to Essex with Nicolson pavement Forty-fourth t Madison avenue; to pave with third street 'from Third to with Belgian pavement Van- np: Filth av from dam fangal to Greenwich street, ‘The Board then adjouri ‘The § zai sing Association held their re: kly meeting last evening, in their rooms in Pumpton Buildie gs. re wae an un- asually large aitendance ef ladies who of late have not been in the habs’ of coming ont very regular. Miss Jenne Bliven, the accomplished ‘secretary, read the minutes .of the last meeting, which were adepted, and the coummittee appointed at the Jast meecing to get a printed circ for distri bution among the stores where lady clerks are em- ployed reported that they accomplished their object, and asked to be stiecharged, which was done, Some other business of minor ie portance was trana- acted, after which the association adjourned until next Thureday evening, The Commissioners of Eyuigration met yesterday afiernoon at Castle Gardan, Riehard O’Gorman ia athe chair, The principa! busmwess transacted was in reference to the.exchange of lands with toe Commissioners of Cinarities and Correc- sion, Ward’s Island. A committee for that purpose had been appolmed in June lust by the Commissioners of Emigration. They Jailed to make a report and were discharged to-day en motion. A motion then prwposed by Mr. Ber was carried. It was that the chair should appoint a conimittes of three, Who would have power to ap- point au appraiser to appraise, In.conjunction with another appraiser appointed by thewWomunissioners of arities and Correction, Whe lands to be ex- hanged, amd that suck appraiaenient chail be deomed the prina Sacre value of the land, By the port of the treasurer the disbursements end ex- a amounted to $519,441 62; balartce on hand, &o the same date } 14,302 64; numer of passengers arrived, 1#2,920; ast year, 237,596, THE TRENTON HIGHWAYMEN, ‘enneli, Shecuan, Nagent and Cof- ted in the attempt to mur Wilton ia Washington street, Four mon ‘Trenton, on Mouuay wight. eur and Sheehan are held to ar A ictd has ¢ dont. Fennel has tarned Sta luk Shechan has beea dound over as a Witness, and Nogent is fully | coinia.boed. iB believed that Colgid struck tae Dlow whieh rendergd Wiseu sensgivag, - % | when about | upon a vo | ing. } of pe NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NUVEMBER ll, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET) A SPSCIMEN SUPERV160R. How a United States Supervisor of Elections Showed Mis Authority—A Horse Pistol and the Hepublican Ticket—Oaptain McDonnell Gew a Bit of Newoe—The Supervisor Gets Six Months. Iu the Court of Special Sessions yesterday, before Jadge Dowling, Joseph Donaldson, a Untied States supervisor at the recent electiona, was arraigned for attempting to intimidate a voter and for having in his posseaston a horse revolver, fully loaded, which there was reasonable fear he might use without any just cause. The complainant against him was Mat- thew MoCloskey, of 175 Varick street, and the charge was to the effect that on election day McCloskey, entermg a polling place in the Tenth districe of the Eighth ward, was tapped on tie shoulder by Donaldson, who requested him to accompany him a short distance up the street, and that while they were walking along Donaldson pulled out a set of tickets of the republican persuasion, energeticatiy demanding of McCloskey that be should vote “tae square thing,’? to which the latter most determinedly objected, | ‘When they returned to the polling place Donaldson, in his chagrin, administered to McCloskey’s back a heavy thinp, which was the cause of & crowd gathering arvund, in which was Captain McDonnell, The captain, after hearlog How matiers stood, asked Dopaidsva if he was a United States supervisor, aud if so to produce bis autho: Donaldson tuen put his hands into ¢ y. i horse pestol, aud, With @ fourish, the largest si with said, “there it 1s; aint that enol Phe captaie rapped. the usual consequence followed. Juoce Dowiine—When dit you get tis revolver? PRSONBR—I got ik Tuesday mMoruiMmg at Cue comer of Greene aud Houston streets, from the United St Marshal. JupGs DOWLE Did you think it suMcient to snow a horse p: to & eaptam of police when for yeur authority to act as Unied vigor. Weill, it was election day, Judge. { tuink if would have been bet- military out on Tuesday last ellows a8 you going around r sin your pockets, Nothing, J ld possibly have feat certain, « beea more calcu Javed to heve excited a rlot than aa exhihition of horse pistols ia the hands of the men who had them | and who were pre i wo use them when they Oight t was ne ‘y, because “it was electton > Itwas Dad epouga to wy to force tickets without leaving hima a supervisor's a Gay in tae slap » YOu were sent there to ni that day and to preserve the to which you Were appointed, rh yleouthe pack and flourish a pistol in explanation to & police officer, lusorm you that the law is very severe in dealing 1 persons who inierfere with voters on election s. You were clothed with the authority of tbe United States for the due performance of your duties; but a5 the United States did not give you permission to beat people with your ists and to deter them by your horse pistol, nor, so far as iknow, to become an electioneerer Jer the republican party, 1 will send you to the Penitentiary for six months, prisoner expressed is ludignayion when ver ine “Bridge ef Sighs.” going 0 AN EXCURSION PARTY FROM NEW YORK TO NEW MEXICO. A party of ten or twelve goutiemen of this ¢ity 1s being formed, with the ebject of spending the win- ter months in an excursion across the Continent. ‘Shey propose to @eare New York via the Pacific Railroad, making their first-step at Salt Lake City, where they intend to spend Onristinas, After doing Salt Lake, its scenery, mimes and pecullar institu- tons, the party intend to outfit themselves at this point for a nomadic hfe of some three or four Javnths, apd, leaving Salt Lake, take # southerly direction, aad make their way by casy stages to the “Grand Cailon of the Colorado.” This celebrated cafion, whese wonderful length, depth and picturesque grandeur 13 unequalled in any other portion of the-worid, will probably occupy thé avtention of the excursionists for some two or three weeks, and 2s deer, antelope and wild turkeys abound on the plateaus adjacent, the epicurean a3 well as the esthetic taste wili be duly cultivated, Leaving the cation the party will cress the Mo- jave pisins, beiween the Bul Willtamms and san Francisco mountains, making thelr next stopping point at Prescott, in Arizo and trom that city ag & base Of operations, spend two or three weeks in an pxamination of the rosities of that region, and especially the rich tuneral landa tn that victnity, From thence tue excursionists intend to pay @ visit to the “pueblos,” er walled towns of the Moquis, a race of meu whe live on the highlands between Pres. cottand santa Fé. Tuese people do not sssociate with tae sarrounding tribes and are, probably, the Gesceudanis of a race that thnabited” ' this Oo sat long anterlor to. the advent of the Ameri- nindian. Thowe will be enough of interest in tals gion to take up a month’s time of the purty, alter | waich they prepose to go direct to Santa Fe, which will close the excursion proper, As the steps of ihe journey are so arranged as te allow the party to work to the south they will not be uable to be incommoded much either by cold weather or snow. ‘Tis pioneer excursion will, pro» bably, be sollowed In the near future py many others, andthe time ta not far distant when excursions turongh onr Western wilds will be as popular and Jar more interesting than any possible route through Europe. Our Pacitic Railroad will be as usefui to the tourist proper as itis now in bringing to our doors the products of “the heathen Chinee.’? SAD DEMISE OF A A paragraph eppeared in Sunday’s HERALD stat- ing that Mr. George Rorbach MeUarter, a gentieman connected for the past two years with the Newark Journal, met with an accident at the ferry foot of Liberty street, New York. Frora the effects of that accident le died at an early hour yesterday morn- The circumstances leading to his death are of the eaddest character, Last Friday atternoon he visited the American Institute m company with Judge Camfield. Returning late at night, ke was four or five seconGs too late to catch the ferry boat footer Liberty street, and in jump- ing for the boat lost his balance and fell ‘over- board. With the aid of the people at the ferry house he got out all right, but tustead of going at once vo a hotel and getting bis clothing dried he waited in the terry until the return of the Judge, who had suc- ceeded in getting aboard all right. They proceeded to the foot of Cortlandt street and took passage for Newark in the midnight train, Mr, MeCarter being all the tune in his dripping garments. ‘This was enough to prostra horse almost, let alone a physically im- perfect man like Movarter, waose constitution was exceedingly iragile at best. For fifteen years he had beea subject t0 hemorrhage of the lungs, and late years merely existed. The fall over- JERSEY JOURNALIST, board completely shattered the little vitality that rewmals jie was attended in his last hours by Kev, Mr. Stansbury, his near rela- tive, Mrs. hemas N. McCarter; kis brother, Nr. Harris McCarter, and several other kind friends. In 1848 he had sele editorial charge and was part proprietor ef the Sussex Demovrat, started as an anti-Lecompton-Douglas organ, On its being merged into tae New Jersey Herald in 1801, ihe deceased took charge of the local department. Luree years ago be lett Newton and the Herald. He was native of Newton, was forty-four years of age iast Maren and died a bachelor. While he was neither briliant ner powerful as @ writer, nis wonderful knowledge of public men and measures, past and present, pot ouly in his own State, but throughout the Union, together with fair news- peper abilities, rendered him an invaluabie adjunct in the editorial sanctum. He was entirely devoid of self-conce! @ predisposition to parade his know- ledge to others, and was altogether one of the most modest, blameless and amiavle of men, possessing @ natare overfowing with the milk of human kind- ness, The body 1s to be taken to Newton to-day, and buried from Christ church to-morrow forenoon. Deceesed’s cousin, Thomas N. McCarter, the weil Newark jurist, has taken charge ef the THE GOVERNOH'S ISLAND QUARANTINE: Genera! McDowell finds Ice at La Jack Conquered. Section two of special orders No, 294, dated head- quarters Department of the East, New York city, November, 9, 1870, provides aa follows:— Fifteen days having elapsed since the oacurrence of wu t case of yellow fever, and severe frosts and ice having since then been found on Governor's Is- jand, New Yerk harbor, the quarantine heretofore imposed with respect to tt by orders frem these headquarters, Is herepy removed, on the fwiillment of the rules which the medical director may pre- soribe for disinfecting persons or tninga heretofere thereon exposed to tue diseage. These rules will be 8 rigorous as those laid dewn by the Board of Heaitb m cases of vessels placed in’ quarantine for the same cause, and no greater restrictions will be faced on the movements of persons than imposed xy it on those leaving a eliip in which the fever Les ceased Lo prevail fox the same length of time. Yellow A LAUNCH POSTPONED. The new and handsome little schooner Hattie Haskell was to have been launched yesterday from the yard of the Messra, Pollion, Brooklyn; but, owing to the rougnness of the weather, the cere- mony Was, at tbe request of the owner, Captain Young, postponed till lo-morrow, Quite a large as- sembiage, including imany ladies, attended to wit- hess tue event. The Lattte Haskell, tue building of which Was commenced about two months ago, incasares 109 feet length on deck, 22 feet beam, 334 deptn of hod and is 150 tons ‘den. She has 1 looks to be a awift, stanch, sea- iy . aud to all appearances adint- by adapied ig the trait tage, ia wich she is bhowl to emLbalKe ~~ is nue of his ewn pockets and puiled out | ofa beavy | Lwiil j J “BOUND T0 THE WAEEL.” The Case of the Injured Working Girl— Justice Hoxan Exenerated. In Tuesday’s HsRaLp an article was pablish | detailing the circamstancés of the affesé tnd ulti- mate release of a working girl, named Elizabeth | Grauwiler, a young German woman, employed by Mr. M. L, Sacks, fringe and trimming manufacturer, Of Canal street, She was friendiess and alone tn the World, At noon of one day last week she went to a restaurant in the nelgiborhood to get lunch. Un- fortunately she took some silk, op which she was required to work, without having any precise idea as she left the shop, that she was bent on robbery, | and caused her arrest, The result was that the poor ‘1 was incarcerated iv the Tombs, as already de- net in the HERALD, but dually released, Through an error it was stated iu the reportof the aifair that Justice Rogan had released the prisoner, Miss j Grauwuler, tor tea dollars, itis but justice to say that the Justice was en- that the ten dollars wilich were actually paid were deilvered to an “outsider,” who stated that it was to pe used for the purpose of obtatning her release, The following abstracts from the officia: records sie Unat the gul was formally aud duly dis- obs New York, Nov. 10, 1870. To Tr Eprron oF THR HERALD: — folowing will ve suillcient to prove ite falsity aud the pure pose Jor whieh it was written, . HOGAN, Police Justice. Ciry Prison, HALLS oF JusT: j CoznER oF FRAN UENTEE BIREE LS, 40, 1870, To Wino It May Cone ~ ‘Tats ts to certiy that tue following 18 a correct entry of the Record Book of thy Warden's oilice of the City Prison as tw the commitment of Lizzie Grwiler—“Oet, 1b—Grawier » Alszie, evil 161; Ald. Coman, Ex. PL. Dis. Coman, Uct. 22.) MAKI Le Di FINLEY, Ciere Olty Privon, Pouton Devawrann', Orry or Naw Yori, Prucrxor No. ty NEW You, Nove dd, ilk '¢ Lizzie Grauviier, 467 Weat Thirty-sicth strest, arceated Octover 15, 1070, by oficer Jon Piunget, Fourteenth pro- ginch charged with steaung silk thread, valued at two dol- lars, trom Heary M. Sacks, 257 Canal aireet, jaation by Alderman Coman. ¢ Fourteenth precinct.) “ity Prison and Brideweil of the elty of ely keep tor examination the ged with petit larcen LHOMAS COMAN, Alcerman. PLUNKETT, officer, Fourteenth precinct, New Yours, Uct, Lo, 1ei0. ‘The wa not t din er, charged with petit larc W YORK, Oct. 2; A wae copy of the body of Lizcle Grau THOMAS © ies, Griginal discharge. SARK FIN GY, Clerk Gif Prison, NEw Yous, Nov. Ly, 0, T Wom Ir May Conceax:— Thi the case against Elizabeth Grau- wih petit Jarceay, that Justice Hogan hing to do with her commitment or discharge, to the best of my opinion and pellet, ax I had no converna:) Dim from the time 0: ber committal until she was r HENRY M. SACKS, 207 Canai street. Nuw Yous, Nov. 10, 17 To Wrom Iv May Conoren fi This is to certicy thet tn the cage of my child, Elizabeth GYauwtior, who was cbarged with petit larceny, Justice ilu- gan had notbleg to do with the case. I never saw lim about my girl, snd I never paid ten dollara or any money Whavever to ulm,’ The avticletm the papers mus have beca prepared to fnjure bim JOUN GRAU Wiki, CANADIAN ANNEXATION, Formatien of a Canadinn Union Club—The Resolutions and the ‘Union? Remarks. Anew association, called the “Canadian Union Club,’ composed of a number of the French Cana- dians of this.elty, which has for its object the an- nexation of the Dominion of Canada to the United States, was held last evening at Masonic Hall. L, &. Demers acted as chairman and George Batche- lor as secretary. Aster the meeting had been called to order Mr. Batchelor read a series of resolutions, which were adopted, and which recited at some length the any reasons which pointed to the uit- mate unification of the whole of North Awerica, ‘The closing xesolut.on was 48 follews:— As Lower Cauadians we cannot see without cha- grin the continuous impovertshment of our native country; a8 American citizens it is incumbent upen us to endeavor to enlarge the liberty-bearing infu. ence of our adopted country, to multiply 1s mar- keis, to reduce its expenses by levelling those hos- tile frontiers maintained by dint of custom house ofic.rs and of soldiers, and to remove lorever every subject of quarrel between two neighboring nations Who have no other Interest but to remain irieudly. M, PiERRE BLANCHET, @ journalist of Montreal, Was then imtroduced, who took oceasion vo touch upon the disadvantages which Cauada had w sutier Trom at present by reason of being under colomal rule, He said that she never could pe prosperous ublil AunexXation took place; and he new of what he ailirged when he asserted that the Canadian people, particularly in the rural “districts ot the Dominion, were almost unanimously in favor of coming under American laws and legal customs, The people there were now mis+ led by their political leacters, who took good care to keep from thetr sight the real rottenness of their sysiem of government, They made money, and were able to remain in power by pulling wool over the people's eyes. If the United States would make the first move toward annexation Canada would not hesitate # day to join the Union. Speeches were made by other gentlemen, when the meeting adjourned. STREET BLACKGUARDIST. An Officer Nearly Murdered=A Ma: saulted While with His Wile. About eleven o’clock on Wednesday night officer Willam L, Michaels, of the Ninth precinct, while on post at the corner of Greenwich and Sixth avenues, observed a gang of ronghs, headed by a notorious character named Thomas Neely, of Ne. 210 Sullivan street, engaged in adiscussion with Joseph Davis, of No, 147 Sixth avenne, Who was proceeding quietly along the street with bis wife. After abusing Davis for soime me, Neely struck him a biow under the Jeft eye, knocking film on the pavement, Officer Michaels, Who withessed the assauit, caine to the assistance of the prostrate man, and was in the act of conveying Neciy to the station house in Charies As- Street, when the latter knocked him down, and, forcibiy taking his club trom him, commenced to beat him over the head with it in @ brutal manner. As the officer lay prostrate and helpless on the pavement Neely was joined by his companions, Wio also began to beat and kick Mi- chaels, but lor the tmeiy arrival of officer Flanna- gan, of the same precinct, the roughs wonid haye no deubt succeeded tn killing the viticer, who was nearly inseusible and compleieiy besmeared with blood at the time of the arrival of oficer Flannagan, Neely was secured and conveyed to the station, where he was detained by Captain Washburn unt Yesterday morning, when he was arraigned betore Justice Cox, at Jetierson Market, and committed to awatt the result of the injuries inflicted upon Mi- chaels, and in defauit of $500 bail to answer the assauit upon Davis, Michacis 1s ab present unavle to leave the station house, as the police surgeon in charge of the district does not consider him out of danger, there being great fear of {nfammution Setttog in, which would resuit fatally. A REAL ESTALE RUMPUS, Henry Freund, @ notortoue character, who was im- Plicated in the murder of Lippman, the deputy marshal, and Herman Steitel were yesterday ar- raigned belore Justice Scott, at the Essex Market Police Court, charged with conspiring to swindle Joun Butler, a restdent of Evans Mills, Jefferson county, N. Y., Out of $4,500, under the following cir- cumstances. Mr, Builer ts the owner of a house and lot at No. 5 Orchard street, in this city, which he advertised for sale in the HERALD, On October 20 he met Freund, who told dim that he knew a raan, one Mr. Meyer, Who would purchase the pro- perty, provided he would take a mortgage for $4,500 on a lot, No. 101 KEvst Seventy-lirst street, ay part payment. Butier agreed to accept the mortgag {| when Freand, or some one connected with him, hed &@ bogus mortgage drawn Up on that property, and also had it duly recorded at the Regis ter’s office in Meyer’s mame. On the following Sunday Freund again catled upon Mr. Butier, ac- compapied by Herman Steifel, whom he introduced as Mr. “Meyer, the naime aiready aliuded to, and all three thereupon went togeticr to Seventy-first street, when Ateifel pointed out the lot upon which was the mortgage for $4,500, Everything appear- ing sati#tactory Butler agreed to sell on the terms proposed, and the parties accordingly, on the 26th October, met at tho house of & Jawyer in Seventh street, where an agreement was duly drawn up and kigned. It was, Lowever, sub- wequently found that the whole thing was a fraud, and on application to Justice Scott a warrant was nted for their arrest. They were yesterday rought before his Honor and held for examination. Qhe price of the purchase was to be $25,000, a mortgage for $15,000 being on the property, and other liens making the sald mortgage for $4,500 to be equal to the balauce in cash of the purchase mauey. BROADWAY AMUSEMENTS, An altercation took place last night be tween two weil-known Houston street gamblers, John Ling and Jiwmy Casey, on the corner of Houston and Mercer sireets, Ling, the “Old Knickerbocker Monarch,’? as he calls himeelf, was seriously cut In the head inbiwo piaces, aud must pave lost at least half a galion of bioow before the wounds were sewed up by Dr. Hreligh, at tue Kighta ward stauon house, Jtappoars tat they were puth in an. intoxicated, fighine iood and accidentally came toxetier and pitehed into each other as once with- out more ado, Aner the first tail they arose and Went at each other dyraia, and the “Old” Menareh’s” bead was driven Uiroigh frank’s saloon windew, Which caused tue ivarfal cats on his cranitwa. He Was taken home a6 a jab) Wour ing caunages Vopey Waa wat min Ru, of how she could employ her time while absent. One | of her fellow workwomen uncharitably concluded, ; wrely lanocent of any knowiedge of the case, and | Thave read the agtce ia this morning's Hzraup. The | NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ere The Reported Tidings frem the m Levast False—T! “Surviver? a Craky s—Nayal Ltema—Vislt co the Schoolship fercury. A week or two since am extraordinary and startling stayement appeared in the press, to the eflect that at last some trace had been found of the | unfortunate sloop-of-war Levant, which was lost on her way to thie United States from the Paciflc squad- ron ten years or more ago, The Levant was a twenty-gun sailing ship and had served three years | in the Pacific squadron, and was last seon in somo | port on the ‘Coast of South America, we believe; but from the time of her departure homeward bound not a single syilable has ever been heard concerning her fate, Alltbatis known is that she never came Into port again, and after a long time her name and the names of her officers and men were removed | , from the register and placed among the “missing.” | Varlous speculations were indulged in by naval of- ficers and others at the time conceraing her final fate, but no satisfactory conclusion was ever reached, | | Some thought sue was capsized in a gale of | wind and foundered with ail on board. Others believed that she had been wrecked on some distaut | | island, faraway from the usual track of vessels, | aud that tnally tidings of the survivors would reach | home, But no Udings ever came amd the great ocean never gave forth a siga to clear up the fearful | niystery. In time the names of the wives and chil. | dren of the oMicers and mea were placed upon the | pension list and the name of the Levant passed from the minds of all but those who were immediately inverested in her fate, Recently, however, the reported arrival in the United Suites of @ person Who claimed to be John wr'vis, carpenter of the Levant, and the only sur- vivor of iis gallant crew, painfully awakened an bi terest in the almost forgotten ship and revived | memories inat had been slumbering for years. The sory of the carpenter Was that after the loss of the Levant ma terrible gale of wind he was the sole survivor, and was drifted asnore upon @ small island ia the Pacific, where he remained until a shore time since, when he was discovered | by the crew of a vessel souehing. at uly ‘anfre- quented spot, and waa taken off, finally making his way safely to Norfolk, Va., Where ue revealed him- self to the astomished populace, Strange enough, | he was clothed as a United States sailor, and in this guise made tis Way to the house former! by the family of the missing Jarvis, presented Rimsetf as John Jarvis, the carpenter | of the Levant, which sailed from Noriolk many | years before He sau be was ou board of ner when she went down at sea, and told the story that we have outlined above, with many minute detalis concerning plices and men, His familiarity with the premises aud with the names of the family, together with some personal pecullari- es Wich Jarvis was noted for, induced the occu. pants of the honse to place credit in his representa- Hons. ‘hese peculiar circumstances were brought to vhe attention of Jarvis’ brother and his brother- in-law, and the former saw the reputed survivor, bat did not recognize in him the lost man. With otuers in Portsmouth he was more successful in imposing on their credulity, as he induced them to accept him as their “long iost Iriend.” Finally the report of the arrival of a survivor of the missing auin got into tue papers, and letiers began to low | Into Norfolk from the friends of those on board m- quiring for further details of the wonderful resurrec- tion from the sea, Inquiry was taen made and the “sole survivor” was tinally found in the Naval Asylum, sudering from sickness, A comrade of his volunteered the information — that he knew “Jim Robinson, of Pennsylvania,” as he was registered on the books of the hospital, und he knew he was not the originai Jarvis. The surgeon asked the “survivor” ag to his claim to the name of Jarvis, and he replied that he ‘was only playing a lark on the peeple.” The oid salt is of unsound mind and doubtless did not realize the na- ture of his practical jeke when he started a story that has revived painful memories and opened again a fleld of speculation that 1s at once mot oy Unsatisfactory. ‘he last [iio of hope for the safety of any one aboard the ill-fated Levant died out years ago. She has passed into the record of the ge and totic! pint be Le oo pos | so: joop-of-war Narraganset, Lieutenant Com- mander George Dewey, has been moored below the Wail street ferry, on the Brooklyn side, in winter quarters, where she is vut of the route of passing vessels and can keep Clear of collisions. The Narra- ery will serve as Rear Admiral Silas H. String- m’s flagship duriag the winter. ‘The sidewheel steamer Gettysburg, a captured blockade runner, built on the Clyde and very fast, has been hauled ont of Rotten Row, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will soon be reflited, probably to take the piace of the Frolic as reguiar guardship of New York. Quite a number of the officers of the Brooklyn Yard, including Captains Woolsey and Clitz, Com- manders Braine, Harmony and Chandler; Lieuten- ant Commander Hatileld, Paymaster Cunningham and others, visited the schooiship Mercury, Captain Pierre Giraud, on Wednesday last, off Hart's Isiand, on invitation of the Commissioners of Charities and ‘Correction. General Bowen, Mr. Isaac Bell aud Mr. G. W. Blunt escorted the party, which witnessed the exercises of the young mariners, examined the ship and junchec comfortably on board. All Were very much pleased witn the appearance of the slp and its youthfal crew, aud spoke in high terms of the system so happily inaugurated by the Comimission- evs and carried on by the experienced commender of the ship. ! of SAMBO INTIMIDATED. Grave Charge Against a Newark Detective. Yesterday, before United States Commissioner John Whitehead, in Newark, N. J., an aftidavit was fied charging a member of the Newark police detec. tive force with having on election day intimidated and falsely imprisoned a colored youth named John ‘Thompson, @ waiter in Murray’s Hotel, on election day. It seems that on that day some one stated im the detective’s hearing that John es illegally, he belng, as alleged, under age. tie to obey the admirable order issued on the pre’ ry day by Chief Peckweil, the detective at once pounced on Thompson and conducted him to the station house, where the name of Schenck Clearman, a deputy State Prison Keeper, was given as the wit- ness. fhe darky, who is very youtnful looking for his age, was speedily liberated on ball, his bondsman being a person named Whitehead. it is now stated that Mr, Ciearman had nothing |to do with the matter, 80 far as agreeing to iis against Thompson, and that the whole thing was & “put up job” on the detective to lead him astray. He had been electioneering a trifle too earnestly, perhaps, to suit the republicans. He has not been arrested yet, vor ts it likely that the case will assume anything of @ serious character. Besides, surely the republicans who have pressed this charge can afford to be magnanimous, considering the complete radical riddling of “ye flerce democracie,”’ the gallant Bob” included. Nobody is realiy burt; therefore “let us have peace.” “WHAT WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH." Rey. Noah Hunt Schenck, of Brooklyn, delivered at Steinway Hall iast evening the first of a sertes of lectures to be given under the auspices of the Gen- eral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, bis sub- ject being, “What We Have to Put up With.’? ‘There was @ very good attendance of both ladies and gentiemen, all of whom seemed to enjoy the pecniiarly felicitous and at the same time mirth- provoking ramarks of the speaker most hugely. And well they might, for the lecture was a grand success, and those who did not hear it missed a rare treat. One of the worst things we have to put up with, tne reverend gentieman thinks, 1s the ex- treme foolishness of the women of the present day— New York women in particular—as regards dress. The outfit of some women, he sald, for & winter's Calupaign in New York costs more than the outfit of a man-of-war for a three years? cruise; and What 1s more, they like it, and want to lixe it. We have to put up with poverty on the one hand ahd Jim Fisk, Jr., on the other; but, above all, we have to put up with money rings which are now becoming as common as wedding rings, and are not at all dissimilar, for do they uot, he would ask, both bind willing hearts? FIRE AT NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON. A fire broke out in the New Jersey State Prison, at Trenton, on Wednesday evening, between seven and eight o’clock, which fortunately was extin- guished without any serious danfage. The loss is estimated at $400. The fire originated in a room near the cookhouse, through a defective heater, and fifty pairs of sheets and 260 shirts were burned. The doors of two rooms were burned. The rooms are arched with brick, and are in the basement ef the butiding. The smoke was 580 great that the men engaged in cooking had to to dragged along thojfoors toa place of eafety. The cries of the prisoners, about ove hundred and fityin the south hall, were terrific. Smoke poured into that part of the prison, and many of the risoners, supposing they should be burned, becaine Franue. ‘They were all taken out of that part of the building in gangs and put lato anothe: hall. Thongh the alarm was great and 160 men had to be cared for, to step their cries of distress, not @® ian escaped. GENERAL FREIGHT AGENTS’ ASSOCIATION. CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 1870, The regular semi-annnal meeting of the General Freight Agents’ Association of the United States and Canada was held at the Sherman House in this city yesterday. There were forty-three raliway and transportation companies represented. BE. A. Wads- worth, of the Chicago, Buriington and Quincy Rail- reud, presided, and H. W. Hubbard, of the Vandalia Snort Line, aciedas secretary. The mest imporiant business transacted Was the adoption of a revised Classification of freights, which, however, 13 subject to the approval of the New York Central road. ‘Yio reduction of five per centon te rates ior com- pressed cotton Weighing 18.000 pounds or more to the car, adopted at Louisville two months since, was repeaiod. The rates on compresseu cotton, made at the same time, were afirmed, ‘she next meeting i# b be eid ig ban Byancisep on fle Ahh Of OD iUls, , AMUSEMENTS, FounreENTH STREET THEATRE—MAS. LANDER As Mary STUART.—This diatinguishe) actress appeared for the first time last night as “Mary Stuart,” plas. ing Mrs. Kemble’s adapted version of that tragedy, which differs from Schiller more 1n the arrangement of the scenes than in any essential particulars, ‘There is @ natural majesty and quiet dignity about Mrs, Lander's assumption of royaity whicn 1s rarely found on the stage, and which shines forth pre-eminently in her impersonation of the uniappy Queen of Scots. And when that majesty and dignity is troubled by passion and Indignation at the un- Worthy treatment she receives af the hands of hes tyrannical kinswoman, tho Quoen ia never lost sight offora momeat. We have had un embarras des | richesses im the representatives of this char. | on our boards—Janauschek, Ristor, nd Seebach; and without serve jiuitation of r,9 of these great models, Mrs, Lander’s iimpersony tion | does not fail short of them, It is truly a grand giage picture, colored with light and shade of its OW), and differing a a un'ty of idea from all its pred” foguors, ‘There 18 Some of the stateiiness of Kisior', {ne lavas like passion of Janauschek and the exqv ycite tendere hess of Seebach to be found in it. Of the rest of the Cast, we can only mention Mrg Varren, who played Elizabeth, ‘and — Mr. 4 Taylor, who @ 4s Leicester (@ ver'y Gnerateful part, as at all satisfactory, Mr. Varies made the wily statesman, bite | » & sort $f eros between the Chairman of @ political priir ary ana a Tombs lawyer, ‘This utter annihiiation of gne or the leadiu chirae. ters in the iragedy Was an inexcusable blot on the performance. Mite. Urynder will appear every night his week me at the Saturday watince in this great role, and on ) onde g soe plays an adaptation of Mr. Peter Richings, oO Legouve's “Charlotte Corday.” WAULACK’S—‘WPr Rivats.’—If there be a candl- datg Who retains from the recent polittcal canvass any of the ili humor which naturally results from ‘seeing Uae success of an opponent, he should haye } visited the establishinent of * Wallack last evening and seen how “The Rivals? of | Shoridan’s drama settled their duiculties. | This ever popular play whch, i¢ seema, Must be given ouce a Weel: or so to satisly te con- tinuous demand for its performance, has grown to be inseparable froin the conception of it, as atiorded in the rendering of the principal cnaracters by Un. | bert, Brongham, Stoddart, Miss Mestayer and Miss Henriques, Mr. Gilbert was so especially that he Was called back after enacting nis tine scene with | Captain Absolute. GRAND OPERA Hovse.—What's the use of “Boum” the night before the elections? it may be pow: der wasted, and yet “Boum” on Monaay night was mightily exalted, honored, as he was, by three grande duchesses and two Fritzes. The first Grande Duchesse was Persinl; the second, Montaland, and the third, Silly; each im ong act. The first was elegant, graceful, gracious and spirttuele ; the second, a full blown, dazzling and uresistibie and generous coyuette; the third, @ rattling, rollicking queen of the ‘army, resolved upon fun and a jolly night ‘of it~ Persini won the general approval of the house from her neat and delicate acting | and her fine singing; Montaland commanded afmi- ration from ler womanly attractions and her gorge- | ous array; while Silly, irom her antes democratic | rendering of the Jeminine idea of “Liberty, Eaaality and Fraternity,” was encored agaln and again, and yet again; and was pronounced by acclamation the queen of the mouniaineers., Persini, mm singing, ‘was really Grande Duchesse; Montaland, im person, filled the part to admiration, while Silly was completely successful in showing that the whole ufair from first to last was ouly a P: Gore vaiaeee. ® rattle-trap, nigger minstrel 1arce done in French, Girrebeuk, as the first Fritz, was very funny, but a little too much of the simpleton to meet the cause of his rapid promotion to the head of the army. Ganuscira, as the secend Fritz, was nearer the mark, but @ littie too monotonous for the stirring events of bis fall from grace and power, General Boum (Autorry) was tirst rato; Prince Paul Piescoat ty ae vel fair, but not sufficiently nterested = in same may be said the cast was good and ly executed. had the introduction of an original incidental ballet—something extra— which was liverally applauded, though tt con- tributed rather to lengthen than to strengthen the representation, With the strong force, operatic and ballet, now at this house, an act or two from two or three diferent operas, each with a different cast, Would make a good bill fer a change. Bowery THEATKE.—The numerous patrons of this establisument cannot complain of lack of variety, and the. plays presented nigntly are in accordance with the tastes of the east-siders, Monday evenlug tha drama entitled “Fabian, the Serf,” from the French of Victor Hugo, was enacted. It ts full of strong situations and highly scasened wiih romance. The leading part was performed by Mr. E. T. Stetson, | whois an intelligent and painstaking actor. ‘the ! heroine—an tinprovident beauty, who does several | romantic but injudictous things—was rendered b: Mrs. W. G. Jones, aud gave satisfaction to te audi- ence. The other performers, With one or two ex- cepuons, played and marred their parts. Mr, Charies Foster's drama, entitled ‘Twenty Years Dead,” wil soon be reproduced, The entertainment Sioned jWith the conc drama of the “Terrible ‘Tinker. Srap? THEATRE.—Bellini’s opera of “Norma” was performed Monday evening before a numerous audl- ence. Mme. Lichtmay in the title réle displayed the qualities of a true artist, and her efforts were appre- ciatea by frequent applause and showers of bouquets, Her part in the duet at the end of the first and third acts was finely rendered and deservedly encored. She is gifted with @ fine voice and knows how to use it, Bernard’s performance of the leading tenor’s ae Wis satisfactory and at times excellent. Miss oiner as the priestess was not suiliciently effective, The orchestra under the leadership of Mr. Neuen- dorm did pot perferm the delicious music with all | Sight than Was presented io me in the ay A REVOLTING CAREER An Accessory to the Murder of Lesarus Arg raigned for Abandoning His Cail dren—Judge Dowling'y Record of His Life—The Shree Little Ghildreg Cared for. The notori-gs Saines MeDouald, who Aeured co Diaop % ME Years since an an accessory to th Herry Lazarus, was yesterday arraigned Yefore Judge Dowling, in the Court of Special slons, charged With the abandonment of bis thr little children, aged respectively three, five an ‘seven years, On the 30th of Ovvober McDonald Gaged rooms for himselr ana bis children at notel No, 606 Broadway, near Houston street, bat soon as he had placed the children in the hotel he 1 and was not heard of afterward tt Wednesday when he, was seen by @ police officer ana at once arrested. ‘The proprietor of the hovel, Abraham Fl Fowler, took the bestof care of the chitdren while they remained in his charge; Judge Dowling "| another kind-hearted gentleman defraying their ex: penses, ‘They appeared in court yesterday very neatiy dressed and attracted general attention and) sympathy. McDonald did not exhibit the sghtess sign of regret for his cruelty, but rather in the beginning puton a bold face and attempted to offer, an explanation of lis conduct wich, however, was. | instanuy rejected, He was attired in a shabby sport-! Mg suit, which contrasted to lis disadvantage with). the surroundings of tae place and his owa positions, Aiter the testimony proving the cuarge of ayaadona) ment was concluded, Judge Dowuug, in passingy Sentence, sull:— McVonald, it has been proved that you have vide lated the Hotel avt. It 1s not, however, Jor thi ouence that the punishinent of the Couré 1s to be Ins Nicted on you. ‘here is anotuer offence, musepie} rable from that, the Court deems of more serious = ness, bub all the clrcumsiances surroanding, youl case only help to demaud the severest sentence: upon you. ‘Lhere 1s hething in your whole hisi or character waich the Court can consider as havi @ teudency to mitigate your crime, Since t ba istrave oO Connected with the crimini deparcnent of this ciiy | Bever saw a more paint ance of your taree children yesterday; and py farm if you weve not utterly bercit of every feeling manhood your shame should be overwhell ing at the present moweat, But you a bad man, You have ‘equently —taket these little children round to places where you le! tuem utterly destitute and to the care of the world, Once, a8 you know, you left them in @ woodhouse Mott street, and thea disappeared tes abe elent time ior them to have died of star ton. On another occasion, with what flendish kindy of thought impeliiug you I know not, you took tneux, to Barren Isiand and there abandoned them. | Yor have served @ term of imprisouineut in the State: Prison, but punishment seems not to have taugas ou a lesson, OU were accessory to the murder of “azqrus. You drove your wits to prostivution, Youy are. in fact, one of the most wicked men I have ever seen, You had @ good, kind father, who waa respected and who taught you well in your youth, but it was al thrown away upom You. Your associates now are the worst; class of thieves and the lowest class of on women, You have no nght to ask me vo be lenient With you. The publicdemand that such persons you be removed from society and conined whe you can at least do no harm. I will therefore im- Pose upon you the severest sentence in my power, which is six months in the Penitentiary, and to stand committed till you have paid a tine of fifty dollars, McDonald turned ashy pale as the Court enume> ratea impressively the category of his crimes, When he was leaving the court the Judge told bim, that he would send the cilldren to the Catholic Pro- paint? ‘The children were then removed in care of, an officer. . BROOKLYN NEWS ITEMS. A kerosene lamp expiodea at No. 9 Union street, é at six o’clock last nignt and caused a damage of $150 before the flames could be extinguished, A wooden fence was blown down at the Raymond. gireet jail yard during the high wind yesterday: afternoon, and falling apes Charles Bruner, of 338 DeKalb avenue, injured severely. Mary Meany, residing at No. 362 Atlantic street, lost her balance yesterday afternoon, while looking ‘out of the third story window, and fell to the side. walk. She died irom the effect of her injunes shortly alter the accident. Aresident of the Ninth ward, one Hugh Kelly, procured a horse and wagon from Miller's livery stable, Bergen sireet, on Tuesday Jast, representing. that he had been authorized to hire the establish ment by Supervisor Newman, of said ward. Yester- day the venicle was found in Furman street, broken. Kelly was arrested and held to answer. James Dunn, Alderman electof the Sixth ward,. was assaulted and beaten, as he alleges, on election. day, by Charles A. Shaurman, a United States: aeputy marshal. The latter accused Mr. Dunn of interiering wita him in lis pursuit of a supposed re- peater, Justice Walsh yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of Shaurman, who will be arraigned. for examination next week. Street Commissioner Robert Furey was finea ten dollars or sentenced to undergo ten days’ imprison~ ment in jail yesterday for assaulting Joseph Win- ters by spitting in the face of the latter. The ac- cused promptly liquidated the fine and was theree upon relieved from farcher surveillance in the “little unpleasantness.’ The trouble between Messrs. the smoothness that can be expected of it, Alto- gether the performance was very enjoyable. Mme. Lichtmay will take her benefit next Friday in Meyer- beer’s opera of ‘The Jewess,”’ and merits a large patronage. WHO WROTE “THE LADY OF LYUNS 2” NOVEMBER 10, 1870, To rus Eprror oF THE HERALD:— ‘The extract from the Troy 7imes of the 8th in your paper of this day may be calculated to mislead those who are not better informed upon tne subject of the origin of the story from which the play is written if not contradicted. The writer says (conveying the idea that Bulwer 1s not ented to any merit from it) that itis taken from a story ina paper called the Minerva, published in New York about fifty years ago. iremember the production of the play at Covent Garden, London, and was present 2also recollect all the remarks and criticisms about it, as also a conversation between Bulwer and Macready about the origin ot the story, whichis from the French, a version of which was acted at Sadler’s Wells, Lon- don, @ few months after its production at Covent Garden. This piece was in three acts, and called “Perorou, the Bellows Mender.” The bero was ti by John Webster and the heroiue by Mrs, Ky jonor. It has not kept possession of the stage because it lacked the power so protusely bestowed ag in Bul- wer’s play and aahered closely to the original story. Mrs. Helen Maria Wuliams may have pubushed a 4 transiatien of the French story, assuming the au- thorsbip herseif, but it placed her in the like position of the author in Sheridan's “Critic,” who in quoung Shakspeare excuses himself by saying that“two great men Le ae of the same thing and Shakspeare only thought of It first.” Every person connected with the English stage 1s thoroughly well acquainted with the facts of the case in the “Lady of Lyons,” and tt is rather late in the day to attempt to deprive the eminent author of his laurels for the best acting play for perhaps a hundred years. He 1s as fully entitled to the proud disunction as Shakspeare 1s for “Romeo aud Juliet’? Yours truly, WILLIAM DAVIDGE, Fitth Avenue Theatre, CAGED AT LAST. A Sentence of Teu Years for Defrauding tho United States Government in Jersey. Joun Hart, an old offender, who has been in the fraudulent siamp business to @ great extent, and Who was found gullty a few days sincegyas sen- tenced by Judge Nixon, in the United States District Court, Trenton, N. J., on Wednesday, to ten years’ imprisonment. The wife of the prisoner Was in court when sentence Was passed, and the scene was of a heartrending character. ‘The Judge iniormed Hart that his career for twenty years Was known to the court, and that enly in consideration of is wife and children tue sentence would have been iifteen years, SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A NEWARK POLITICIAN, On election night, while Mr. Edward Scott, a well known Fourth ward democratic politician, was about retiring, on his way up stairs at his home, in River street, Newark, he slipped and feil backwards with such foree a8 to mciaane Tn several of his ribs. The services of a surgeon were at once called in and the discovery made that one of the broken ribs had penetrated the injarea man’s liver. It is hoped, however, that be will recover. He is @ man of con- siderable means and bears an enviable repucation in his neighooruood, AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR A HUSBAND.—The wife in this city who was deserted by her husband, iri Gay, adve.tised for a husband in July last, and was answered by a speedy marriage. Her object was to {have @man to control ner property. Two months | Jate® Lothario departed, taking with him govern- t ponds to the amount of $10,v00; Fince when friends, who started in hot pursuit, have ascertaines that tue doctor had two wives already, and was yeblo wed a down Hast dymsel.—Biuguyord (ale) Upriotig’» | Furey and Winter grew out of @ political diver- gence of opinion, \ Chief Engineer Cunningham, of the paid Fire De~ partment of Brooklyn, was yesterday unanimousiy ppointed Keeper of the Kings County Penitentiary. ‘The position 1s worth $5,000 per annum. ‘The office of Chief Engineer, now vacant, will oe shoruy filled by the appointment thereto of District Enzinecr ‘Thomas Nevins. Tue salary of ‘the Ohief” 18 $3,000 per year. Shortly after eight o’ciock last night a fire broke out in a three story frame hovso in Classon avenue, near Fulton, causing @ damage of about $4,000 before the flames were exttm- guished, The building was owned by John Brown and occupied by him on the first floor as & hquor store. His loss on building was $1,500, insured in the Long Island Insurance Com- pany for $2,000. Loss on stock $1,000, insured im. the Germania Insurance Company for $2,000. Tha occupants in the upper part oi the building lost. about $2,000 on their furniture. Is HE A BIGAMIST? The Queerest of Queer Jersey Police Court RomancesA Newark Judicial Mutch- Maker. The particulars of one of the queerest of queer cases of social depravity to be found even in New- ark judicial annals'were developed in the Police Court there yesterday afternoon. On election day there appeared before Justice Deana young German, girl of eighteen, named Annie Meyer, who staied the oft-told tale:—How that, about eight months ago, while employed in a French restaurant on Ham-\ ilton street, she became acquainted with one of the diurnal dimers, @ dapper little French jeweller, named Francis de Kimberl, and in coursé of tima he led her astray. so that now she is in a fair way to add @ tiny unit to Newark’s 108,000 popuiations She had no home, no friends, and would soon ba compelled to throw herself on the generosity of the vown, she said, With a view to saving the municl. Ppality from the prospective expense, Justice Deum resolved to try his hand once more at'‘match making... Accordingly be issued his warrant for the arrest of the gay and festive Francis, which was duly effected by an ‘irnest” detective named Fischer, He was marched into court and, after ad~' mittung that he had been enaciing the role of # “naughty, naughty man,’’ was advised by the magis~ trate that he would be requtred to do one of three things, viz:—marry the girl, go to jail, or give un- doubted security to the extent of $500, binding him to provide for the giri during her acvouchement and her child after it should be bora, Aiter Matening to tae judicial matchmaker’s advite on the suv. ject he agreed to do the first named, and was daly married according to the laws of New Jersey—no cards. ‘ihe newly made bride, who is quite prepossessing, being an auvura- hatred, rosy-faced, plump little girl, leit court, smil- ing all over; Ler cup of happiness was now iull, apparently. ‘esterday morning, however, she again appeared! de ie end early in court and declared that Francis had behaved like a brute to that he had drivea her from the nuptial chamber and told her to go instanter to the regions presided over by his sable majesty. Again waa Francis arrested, this time on a charge of assault and battery, In the meanwuile mformation had reached detective Fischers ears that there was a stropg probability that Francis had perpetruted bigamy, the Judge being partiveps criminis, lie came to this couniry two years ago in company with a young woman and his brother, Ia New York he, Jived with the former as bis wile until, queerest of all, the brovier cut fim out, started of in company and is now @ with the Woes man in New York, Whether he as or 18 nota bigamist 1s nob yet positively known, nor, indeed, do the authorities scem anxious to discover. Francis Was bound over im g2u-lo Keep the peace and provide ior tis Wile, And coat 13 Ali othe Judea cured to ucculapish—io save tie city expensor ‘Thus the maior xraNdde ey