The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1870, Page 5

An Attempt to Break Into the Bank of New York. The Burglars Foiled—They E:cape, of Courre— Inefficiency of the Police—A Warn- ing to Bank Officers. Bo very many extraordinary crimes have been per- petrated in this city within the past year In defiance | gent of the most beautiful of all the se of the police, or, at least, without that body being able or willing to bring the of them to justice, that they might well antic:pate an outburst of public anger, Happily for them, however, the event which so seriously affected their nerves yesterday morning, perpetrators | work is by no means new, NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1870.— LITERATURE. Criticisms of New Books. Orasn WoRLDS THAN Ours: The Plnrality of Workis Studied Under the Light of Kecent scien- title hes, By Richard A, Proctor, New Yerk: D. Appleton % Co, Although it is only five years since Mr. Prector ap- peared in the scientific world as the author of as- trenomical works he has already attained to prom- inence in his special field of inquiry. His work on “Saturn and Ite System,” and hia aduntrable “Star Maps,” admitted to be the best we have at the pre- sent time, as well as his “Sup Views of the Earth,” &c., havo established his reputation as @ close stu- ces. The subject chosen by Mr. Proctor for bis present dt is one which has attracted the attention of astronomers from remote historical p°riods to the present day, Six hundred and ten years before the birth of Christ Anaximan- der formuaily deciared lus belicf tn the plorality of and which wil be fully Getaiied below, did not as | werlds, and there is evidence that vefore his ime sume the dimensions intended by the actors in it, 80 this belief was held. In tac, centuries before tat the expected censure did not appear, Im the } Thales (640 4. O.)—before the Greeks had given a Meantime the public have time to digest the facts sclentific orm to astronomy, the popular mind haa here given and to ask how long it-will ve before | peopled the planets and stars with living animals, business houses as well a8 private residences will be wecure frem the AUDACIOUS BURGUARS AND MURDERURS ‘who infest the city. ‘At the corner of William street and Exchange place is a large white granite building. On the frat floor isthe Bank of the State of New York, theen- Even the names of the celestial bodies are a proof that intuition had taught the ancieote that other worlds existed besides our own. Blow as was been the progress of astrenomy its resulls have been marvellous, It Js not new daring to assert the babitability of Mars, of Veous or of Mercury than it was, in Gallieo, 237 trance on William street. In the basement, on both | years age, to assert that “the world moves.” thoroughfares, are various business offices. ‘fhe lo- cation of this building, it need scarcely be said, is the very centre of the financial part of the city. Four doers from the corner of Wiliiat street, in Ex- change place, and exactly under the directors’ room of the bank, are the offices of Boun, Dunning & Co., brokers—one room in front and ene in the rear. Watched by several men in the building, and guarded (7) on the outside by policemen, these | There is nothing new in thiy opinion, premises ought to be safe from unautherized entry. That they are not requires no arguinent te esiabli io view of the fact that on Saturday night or Sun- @ay morning a repetition ef THE OCEAN BANK ROBBERY Was attempted in them, Late on Saturday night or early on Sunday moruing—the police, of course, itis, ef course, Impossible to prove beyend doubt that they ure habitable; but reasoning from analogy we find muck to strengthen the opinion that not only are some of them fit for the abodes of ving creatures, similar in form to these on Earth, but that, unless nature, contrary to her uttvarving cus- tom on our globe, wastes her energies in profit- less creations, they mast g@ctually be imnabited. It has been held by some ef the most distangulshed astrono- mers and has produced a wealth ef literature, True enough, other and also eminent astronomers have denied even the possibility of the habitability ef the celestial podles, but the discoveries whick have been made since their day have reduced the question of possibilities to one of probabilities, and it 1s this Jat- cannot say which—a numberof meu pryed open {ter which form the present bone of contention the door leading inte the offices of Born, Dunning & Co., threw in beiore them alot of burglars? teols among astronomers, We cannot say that Mr. Proctor has offered any and entered aiter themselves, ‘To light the gas and | particularly new or starting theory in his book, He close the shutters was the work of a few minutes, Next an eXamluation of the offices took piace. An Inspection of then yesterday by a UekaLv reporter showed that this was thoroughiy done. The bur- giars, apparently, were tully aware tuat it would be ® loss of time to try their skill on tie desks aod safes about them, ‘Ticy were after the more valua- bie game, Frou certain indicatioas it weuld seem that they Went directly to a weter closet in the lef hand corner ot te iner ofice, and with a pick er other instrument sultable to. the work, PIERCED TRE CITING im order to ascertain if an entrance to the fioor ubove could be effected that way. Judging freta the few marks in the ceiling this was soon abun- dened by them, us well they might—vwe tect of solid granite meeting the point of the plex. Tre burglars next preceeded to collect ail tne clothing, matiing aid carpeting they could tud aa both offices and piaced Liem on tie Heor directiy under @ part of the ceiling thougat to be weakest tu depth, tae object beiag of course to deaden HE SOUND OV THE FALLING MOKTAR. Collecting tezether aud picking u able desks they constructed a Working piaviorm, upon Which one of the party ascended. ‘This feliow, then, with a pickake or more propably a fimiuy, lor One of these articies was atlerwards discovered en the premises, commenced delving at the ceiling, gcattered the morier in showers on the floor, split through the laths and finally kuocked ‘hard against ao iron beam, The area of the heic Was further extended until # space two feet loug and seven inches wide was made. ‘Chis Was chough. it was evident that they bad beeu “gold.” Part ol a solla foor, vader the plaster and laths of iron, filled i with coovrete, was presented to their view. At this (to them) MOST UNWELCOME SIGN they abandoned “tpeir burgiarieus task and with. drew safely. ‘hat tuey were net altogether with- out apprehension of arrest may be iaferred from the fact that they left betind them all their Wels, with sacks, a fuse and some powder. The sacks were for the carrying away of the plunder, while the powder, of course, Was to have been used in BLOWING UP THE SAPR im the vault immediately above them. On Sunday atterneen, absut three o’clock, Beun & Dunning’s porter went into the offices te clean them up, and found tiem in the most admired dis- order, ‘This was the first discovery of ue attempted burglary. - The police. of course, knew nothing ef the affair, and loolishly attempted tor hide tts last evidence of thelr ineiiciency as guardians of pro- erty, When tuey discovered it, by ueferring sending ke usual despaich to+police headouarters until it was tov late for tue reporters there to obtain the Tacls. OBSCURE HINTS were yesterday uttered by so-called detectives to the efle hat t! was all right; tuat the burglars would ght; thas tue ¢ would be ‘worker up” and wach more pro‘essionai nensense of ihe | parent sort; but down town business men may rest assured that they wiil never see the perpetrators of Utils bur- giary arrested or ies, and ibat they will lave te rely solely on themsclves fer protection. TBE CORUNERS, tion of the New Bourd= ‘The Clerk and Deputy Corouers. The new Board of Coroners, consisting of William Schirmer, Neison W, Young, Patrick H. Keenan and Gerghon N, Hermann yesterday held a meeting at their oMice in the City Hali and elecied Coroner Schirmer President for the wext three years. Mr. Young received the appointment of Vice President of tie Board. Mr. Jobn T. Teal, the efficient clerk, whe hus served tie Board £0 ably for several years past, was reappointed without a dissenting voice, PHB DEPUTY CORONERS. Wooster Bea 1. D., Who has been so leng con nected with (ie Coroiers’ efiice, will continue as Coroner Keenan's deputy; Jolo Beach, also of mapy y experience im this department of the public Organ e, has bee engaged by Coroner Her- pph eLVICe, mann; While Coroner Schirmer retains Dr. Jose Cushman, an honored member of the medical Wrnity, as nts seie Coroner Young bas not deputy; bub Dr. Ed- Hospital, is ¢ for the appotntinent, convinced that some eu place in therr de- urs, and it will be the mos! p The new i giaring jrreyulariiies hud ta bartinen! @urin.¢ te Lage Um: i O86 LO trouble anu expcose has often b neediess delay in holding inquests, new Board of Coroners seem fuily impres: the importauce of great proimpuiude in chaige of their oficial duties Let these needed yeforins be mmanjgurated and strictly ¢ ont im the edice, and the public will have mue! i ut les ull the move- | has rather subjected the arguments, pro and con, of other astronomers to a searching criticism, at the same time submitting his own ideas, many of which are excecding!y vainable, while all are basea upon plausible deductions, We think that in his invesu- gauons he has been insensibvly led to look for simal- jarities between the planets and our Earth upon which to argue in favor of their babitability. At the same time it iscertain that he does not mean to imply that If @ plauct bears no resemblance to our Barth it is not habitable; because in the first chapter he reasons With great force agaiust any such theory. He holds tiiat tie existence of sucl differences be- tween, for example, Venus and Terra as would ren- der it wmpossible fer one of the animals with which we © familar to live for an hour upon Venus cannot force upon us the conclusion that this beautinl planet ts uninhabitea. We see in our own glove that navure creates lite wih a view to iis shitableness to climate. An animal of the ejuatorial regious transported to the Nerth Pole may live when surrounded by an artificial climate, but he canuoc thrive, He may even produce offapring, but the straggie between him and natare Tmust finally end in the extinction of his species at the Pole. Tuus ail the planets may teema with life, and yet there may be no single point of resemblance between them and Terra, But lt is clear that since the differences are radical the living antimais m- habiting such planets must also be radically du- ferent in appearance and in form of lite from those of which man stands at the head in our world. ‘there are three planets for the probability of whose havitability Mr. Proctor argues strongly. These are Mercury, Venus and Mars, ‘The first he seems to regard as unsuitable fer our form otf life, unless the Uncories which he puts forward for tempering its climate are correct. ‘The polar regions of Mercury would, indeed, pe habitable by man; but the regions Which correspond to our temperate and tropical zoues would scarcely be, unless Nature has provided an atmosphere which tempers the great heat poured down upon them by the Sun. We of the Earin are thus pretected, or meonvenlenced, if the term be applicabic. There are some parts of the glebe on Wich it would be impossibie to live If the escaping heat was not “intercepted by clouds or by the traus- agucous vapors in the at’? Again, we know that, although in India “the full heat of a wopical Sun is poured day after day upon the snowy sum- mits of the Himalayas, yet tue air continues colder than in the vitterest mid-winter weather ex- perienced by us.” In the absence, then, of proof against Mercury being provided with wn atmosphere possessed of the samme Characteristics as ours, we may Hua some ground for believing in lis probable habita- bility by such creatures as ourseives. But, atthe most, If there even be not such atmospheric pretec- won afforded the Mercurials, we sti) have nature to fall back upon, ‘The evidence In favor of the habitability of Venus by such creatures as we are familiar with is much Biropger and more convil iz. Dr. Whewell peo- pled this planet with “mi: siliceous cover been generaliy accepted. If the question re; the Inclination of Venus were conclusively settied it Would be &@ comparatively casy matter to decide upon her babitability, Tbe contest over her axial pecn- liarity ts one which astronomers still wage, Mr, Proctor, however, inclines to the opinion that- “her axis ef rotatien is Inclined at about the same an gie to the plane in which sue traveis,”” which would give her seasogs “resembling our own in character.” o argunicnt in support of the probabtitty of this opinion is forcible and should open a new field for » We not swith which we ave best acquainted, fieveied to this plancs is one of the most cate of nae than ts en pet Mudge a interesting in the book. Its resemblance to the Earth ‘The retiring members of the pre: oard of et ever’ . ar 3 Gonaners, whose teen ‘of expires with the | 1 almost every particular is potnted eut and ex- preseat year, are Curoners Rellins and Mynn. Dr, | plained at length, Its snow-covered poles, its psa have the opportuniiy of retirmg wo pris | oceans, seas, continents and islands, its physical vate life, oe pr processes of change and its atmosphere are de- vera srr ; | scribed, und interest is added to the de- EA rt es INTELLIGENCE. scription by charts of this splendid planet, olitics in ConnecticutA Glance at the Fae tare. {From ‘he Hartford Cour t (republican Dee, 8) After considerable canvassing the Democratic State Committee has decided to enter the spring caun- paign early, and a cail ig issued for a State conven- Lion, to nominate caudidates for State oiicers, to be held ta wuts city on Tuesday, January 17. Geverner Hegiien 18 sere to be reneminated. It 1s boldly announced that he wants te be. Thereis an un- ceranty abou: Lite candidate fer Lieuteaant Gover- nor. Mr. Hotchiiss, new boiding the ofice, has said that he shonld not allow his name to be used; bat if there 18 a general desire for him to go upon the ticket if is probable that he will accept. Senator Woodward, of Norwatk, would dike the place next to running for Congress tia the Fourth district, theugh, now that he has dia- covered that Mr. Baraum 18 anxieus to run again, he says he desires to go back to tle Seuate—if he can. In this district, where the Hen. James Dixon Was run two years ago and dereated, the party has a# representative man in Mr, Eaton; bat, somehow, he is always Ignored except Wien a feeble minorlly of the Legisiaiure compliuents hin with a noid tion for United States Senxt Mayor Chapman Would uot experience any mental agoay Were organ), be called on to suifer atior his party's su Then there are Blisha Johasen, Alvin P. iyde and a dozen or twe more williag souls, who will con- “it tO nh wo urged to de so. In the Second district the New Havew managers hope to casmpromis¢ matters by vresent- ing the name of Charles R. Ingeraoll, Untortu- nately Mr. Jolin Kendrick, of Waterbury, has cacpet- bagged the two ceunties pretty exteisively during tue past uiree months, and will be heard irom in the convention. it wili make bat @ ltie difference Whe ts nominated by the democrats in the Third dis- trict; bub it may mace a great deal of diflerence to ex-Postinaster Cleveland If aay otuer man than ftin- Seif is driven to the sluughier. He has been prepar- lug for the contest for several ments at bis cute home in Hampton, Those weaple who read in the Papers recently thet he made a livoral disindunen of chickens on Thanksgivi ay in pertions of Windham county may not @ discovered in the act one of the distinguish eraan’s political manwuyres, (ur. Cleveland afirms that he jp nol acandidate.— Ky, Dewan. a | So strongly is Mr. Proctor impressed by tho belief that Mars is not only habitable, but that he 18 actually inbabited—that he asks at the close of the chapter, “Suall we recognize im Mars ali that makes our own world 80 well fitted to our wants—land and water, Inonutain and valley, cloud and sunstine, rain, and ice, and snow, rivers and lakes, ocean currents and wind currents—without believing fur- ther in the existence of those forms of life without Which all these things would be wasted?” Mr. Proctor’s opinion concerning the giaut Jupiter and the giant ringed Saturn is that both are masses Still In a fluid state, This opinion is shared by other and eminent astronomers, but is, we may say, not generally accepted. Ic may be, as Mr. Proctor thinks probable, that they are guns to thelr satel- ites, and thay thi Satellities are the abodes of living creatures. Bal, if we may venture the suggestion, 18 It not possible that they are Incomplete Words! Chis suggestion has been. made before, but has not received the attention tt @escrves. Science teaches m4 that this Earth, before the crust solidified, was a ma of incandescent gases, and that it was not until after a gigantic struggle with water that the fires yieded. When we take Julo constderation the cuanges contimuaily going on th Jupiter and the tremendous convulsions which so frequently take place in Saturn, is it not likely tat those planets are engaged in the same struggic that our Earth was onee engaged in, and that they are undergoing te same process of Solidification’ On the other hand, we bave the opinion of Whewell that Jupiter is a watery planet, whose inhybltauts are microscopic creatures float- ing in oceans, Sir Liamph Davy velleved that the bodies of the Jevials are composed of “numerous coavelutions of tubes, more analogous to the wunk of the elephant han anything — clee Brewster had them ving jn kubferranean cite. or i erystal cases, or floating with the Nerelds upon thedeeps, or fying as eagles; while other astronemers have made them bat-winged, and still others have gone se far as to make them inveterate dancers. There 1s, In- deed, hardly any iimit to the forms of life with which speculative minds have peopled these apa other planets. We huve thus far followed Mr. Proctor, merely touching upon some of the principal points in bis book, Much remains unnoticed scarcely less im- portant, and certainly not less interesting and im- a@tructive; but lack of space will pot permit @ more extended notice, We are, consequently, compelled to pass with @ mere mention the chapter on “Uranus and Neptune,’ on the “Moon and Other Satellites,” on “Meteors and Comets,” on “Other Suns than Ours,” on “Mimor Stars,’ and on “The Nobule,” all of which ar mirably written. ‘The work througheut is deserving of the highest praise, In the animated pages of the author we can see embodied and siomarized all the opinions und speculations of astronomers on probably the most Important subjects in speculative science, with many original and valuable ideas founded upon recent discoveries. We have used the term “specu- lative science,” althougi it is hardly applicable, for though our belief in or doubt of the habitabtlity of the celestial bodies is partly the reault of specula- tion, it is not wholly devia of a true foundation, Many facts aro known to us which lead to the cone clusion that en Mars there probably dwell races of animals possessed of as high intelhgence as ours, and as advanced in civilization as we are, And it may be that the Joviat astronomer, standing upon his gigantic world, looks at our Earth through a better telescope than any we have invented, and wonders whether nature ever intended such a tiny world as this for human beings to dwell upon. But whether our opinions on tae habltabiity of the planets be speculative or not, the snbject 1s none the less impertant and none the less werthy of study. Belleving this we do not hesitate to recom- mend Mr. Proctor’s work to the genera: public. It ia written with mnch vigor, the argament Js always good and the s!5 ably clear and gracefal. We have not read an astrenomical werk the perosal of which has afferded us more pleasure, entertainment and, most valuable of all, instraction, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Tho New Steam Luanches and Cutters for the Navy—Description of These Admirable Small Craft—Thelr Superiority Over Foreign Steam Launches~ Movemonte of the Tallapoosa with Supplies. Mr. Bepjamiu F, Delano, naval constructor ia the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has designed and is now building several improved steam launches for ves- sels of tho first, second and third rates, There are tobe three sizes of small boats to be propelled by steam. The first class is to be steel boats, 33 feet 24 inches im length, 8 feet 9 Inches beam, with 4 feet depth of hold, The most approved models of bollers and engines are to be constructed for these launches at the Wash- ington Navy Yard, and efforts are to be made to obtain the highest possible power with the lowest possible weight of boilers and machinery, Our earlier and eruder efforts in this style of tiipu- tan naval architecture compared very favorably with the specimens of foreign manulacture. Inaeed, the steam jaunch of (ke Delaware Irlgate, Nagsiup of Vice Adiutral Row. commanding Asiatic squad- ron, Wou several races, in which she was formally entered, at various points in the Kast, where the steam launches of Freach aud English frigates and of private pares pariicipated in the contest, Crack French launches were beaten haadsemely by the Deiaware’s taunch. ‘The Burean of Construction de- Sires, however, to linprove the present style, not only m speed, but in “-going qualities, All the Jaunches ef the first mogel Were netoriously heavy and wet, I not dangerous, in a seaway. They were cumbersome and dimeuit to boist in and out board, and several accidents have occurred in comsequence of something giving Way, from the tremen is Weight of the boat. ‘The new launches are expce: to be lighter, mere bnoyant an@ faster than any. thing we bave yet had, and atthe same time ex- tremely strong and clastic. Severai steau cutters, built somewhat on the plans of the light, handy beats ef the French and fussian uavies, are also In process Of construction, aid it is expected that they will prove to be the very best boat of the kind afleat. ‘The cutters are io be constructed of plates of steel one-eighth of an inet thick, riveted on @ frome of wrought tron, which is light ane yet very strong. ‘The length of this new ciass of tteam eut- ters 18 26 feet, breadth of beam, 6 fee $ inches; deptir of hoid, 3 feet. They are to be fitted with upright boilers and a #ingle propeller, to be driven by an engime with a cylinder six imches diameter and six inches stroke. “These new cutters can be hoisted on board small ships with great ease and security. A still smaller size of boat is yet to be bull. While lyimg in foreign and often in home perts men-of-war are compelled te anchor a long distance from snore, andl frequently becomes a serious job. tosend ashore @ boat, pvopsiled by oars alone, Tides and currents and fierce winds are hard to pull against. Progress is necessarily very slow and the labors ef the sallors otractes All these troubles are in @ great measure ebviated by tue use of the steam launch, which requires not more tian four men to: handle it and which can steam Tapidly an@ surely against any tide and in ordinary seaway. NO beiter proof of the care evinced by the Navy Departmen: for the welfare and comfort of the officers and sailors im the service can be shown than in the attention it gives to the improvement in the construction of steam small Doats and the readiness with which it supplies all 18 Ol @ proper class with this wenderiil labor ume-saving machine. Hereafter every ciass of in our favy is Ukely to be furnished with a or cutter for performing boat daty in port. ‘rhe Tallapoosa, store vessel, Liewienant David G. MoRitchie, sails to-morrow frei the Brooklyn Yard ‘with supplies for the Newport forpedo station, Bos- ton Navy Yard and Portsmeuth (N, H.) Yard. she will carry a draft of men for the Californta, new ready fer sea at Beston, and to Newport she will transport 159 barrels ef powder for experiments b: the Torpedo Corps, which is busily engaged in per fecting this very linportant arm of the naval servi of the fcure. leutenant Commander DeWitt C. Kells, lately re- red from the receiving ship Vermoni aud ordered to the command of the sloop-of- left New York to enter upon the performance of his new duties, it is probable that the Pawnee, which has been converted into @ sailing snip, ado: rably arranged and ventilated for a hospital ves Whi sail the latter part { this mont for hey Wes' where she is to be stationed to receive the sick 0! the North division of the North Atiantic squadron. Taeutenant Commander Kelis will sow bimself to be the right man tn the right place. ‘The United States frigate Franklin, thirty-nine guns, Commodore C, R. P. Rodgers, ben ing the Nag of Rear Admiral Oliver 5. Glixsoa, con- jmanding the European squadren, and the sloop-ol- rooklyn, second rate, twenty guna, Captain est, sailed November .8 from Lisbon for che ranean for winter quarters, The sloop-ol-war Piymouth, third rate, twelve guns, Commander K. Randoiph Breese, put into Fal- mouta, trom Plys;nouth to Lisbon, November 23. It is ruunered in naval circles that Kear Admiral Charles 8. Boggs, now Lighthouse L[aspector of this district, will be ordered to the command of the European‘squadron, vice Rear Admirat Oliver 8 .Glis- son, Who goes upon the retired jist early next year. In this case Rear Admiral Boggs is likely te take the frigate Tennessee, second rate, twenty-three guns, now fitting out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as his flagship, to sail the latter part of the winter. The frigate Guerriere, Captain Stevens, will probably eail for Burepe in a few days. Lieutenant Commander E. Dichman has resigned. first rate, CITY AND COUNTY TAXES FOR 1870. The following are the amounts of taxes for 1870 upon the real and personal estates of this city and county, by wards:— $1,202,404 ST 15—Keal 16—Real 1i—Real 18—Real 19—Real 20—Real 21—Real 2—Reul estar Personal, Banks...... 1,457,331 1,195,797 5,180,475 1,689,426 $28,609,127 at 4 the taxes above sot forth up to Saturday Total.... The total amot ALLELNOON Lash WAS. .....eeeee 18,820,027 Leaving the balance to be collected... $4,740,000 John Mcintee, a youth of seventeen years, died yesterday in the Centre street hospital. Deceased Was employed in the manulactory of Wiilam Wake, No. & Reade street, and on the 2d Instant, wile siiiting a belt, was caught in the mach and bis body much eat wud pruised. Coroner Keenan was notilied, Deceas lived at 429 Naat Fourteentn sree, : Pawnee, has | THE ERIE RAILROAD RAREE SHOW. Another Acrobatic Performance in the Great Ramsey Case, Some Ground and Lofty Tumbling by the Law- yers on Both Sides and Final Landing Just Where They Started—Legal Tech- nicalities as Light Weights—Attempt at Heavy Business in Cutting Aloof from Judge Barnard. One ox these interminable sife issues for which those causes cétobres, the Erle Rauroad suits, are noted, and pre-eminently 80 the great Ramsey sult against Jay Gould and Jim Pisk, Jr, came up for argument yesterday before Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, stiting in Chambers, It will be remembered that a few days since application was made to Judge Ingraham, on behalf of Mr. Ramsey, for an order to show cause why an order should not be issued granting leave to examine the books and papers of the Erie Ratl- road Company since the time Gould and Fisk have had supreme management of its affairs. This order was granted, and on the discussion upon the day the same was made returnable it was finally dis- covered that the petition upon which the discovery of the books was asked was defective in not being properly verified. The Judge ordered the papers to be properiy drawn, and sei down yesterday for the further argument of the case. ‘This fur- ther argument developed the fact that the verbal order of the Judge had been disregarded, the counsel for the plaintiff believing that the paper in question was properly verined and required no alteration. The result was rather an amusing acro- batic performanice, a somersault exhibition, with the plainti@ landing just exactly in his starting place. When the case was called the acrobatic per- formers—Messrs. Peckham, Tremain ana Tracy for the plaintiff, and Messrs. David Dudley Field and Dudiey Field for the defendants—promptly took their places. ‘The elder Mr. Field led off by saying that the game objection existed to granting the motion as when it was first brought before his Honor—the non-verification of the petition, Mr. Peckham imsiated that the petution was pro- perly signed, aud accompanying it was an aitidavit of the plainut. Mr, Field proceeded to read from various legal authoritics, showing, as he claimed, that the pett- tion was not properly verified. Having exhausted quite a hbrary on this subject, he launched into a strenueus enforcement of its bearings on the pre- went case, saying that it Was no new law and was in fall force. ‘The Judge suggested that the old Chancery rules were not in force, Mr. Field claimed that the new rules laid down in the Code and Revised Statutes were precisely the same as the old Chancery and Supreme Geurt rules, Mr. Peckham reviewed the authorities cited by the opposing counsel, insisung reversely and with as much tenacity a8 tue counsel on the other sgde that they nad no bearing on the case. Mr. Fieid piled Pelion on Ossa by quotiag more authorities and said he could give more if re- quired, Mr. Peckham said hts authorities would do barm and he had verter give all he haa. Mr. Field suggested that the opposing counsel had better direct bis remarks Ww the Court and not to him. The Judge asked wonderingly why the petiiton had not been changed as he ordered, There cer- tainly, he thought, could be no plea of want of ume. Mr. Pecknam declared that the petition was pro- perly drawn and needed no changing. Mr, Field urged that there was something behind and then spoke of the order asked for as most un- usual and extraordinary. Mr. Treiman entered upen a review ef the authori ties cited by Mr. Field, that of his associate Counsel, Mr. Peckham, not being suffictently exhaustive of the subject evide rte f to suit hin, He urged that the objections ralsed to granting the order were hy- pereritical—an attempt to enlorce the stern iren rule of practice. Mr. Field went in strongly for the closest adie- rence to the requirements oi the sta\ates and rulings of the courts. Without this they would be all atloat. Mr. ‘tracy, ina feeble and inarticulate voice, un- deriook to evolve for the edi cation of the Court the nice points of auine law case, Which he claimed was parallel to the case m1 hand, Mr. Field declared with a warmth of expression ratier joreign to his usually bland style of utter- auce that they must have the oath of Mr. Kamsey to the trathfuluess of the allegations set forth im the petition, ‘This was their right, and they claimed it. ‘There was no reason why there should be a departure Trom tye usual pracedure in Mr, Ramsey's case. ‘The Dewspapers preckkiined that it was highly immoral to defend Geuld and Fisk and tnatit was a degrada- Uon to the bar, He stood there w defend these men and thelr riguts. “is the plainttif in the city?’ asked the Judge. “tie 48 preseut in cuurt,” auswered one of his counsel. Then have this petition properly verified by him at once,” said the Judge, “and have this dispute ended.” *[t shall be done,” replied the counsel. It was done. In the interval of attaching the ad- ditional pivet there was quiet in the court room—a quiet only disturbed by tie rapid turning over of leaves of law books by Mr. Field. No sooner had the Jact been announced of the required change being mude tn the petition than he rose to his get with auother batek of authorities to back him and inter- posed another technical objection that they were en- Uuled bo eight days’ police of pew matter intreduced in the papers, wod its service upor them. Tue Juage decided that It was not exactly new matier, having been previously erdered. Mr. Peckham said he was rejoiced to know that at length they had got through the technicalities tn the case, and he now would enter upon its merits, ‘This Waa a petition te produce and allow examina- tion of the books and papers of the Erie Railway Company, He then proceeded to give the contents of the petition, embodying the muitiiarious charges against Jay Gould, James risk, Jr., and other mana- gera of the Erie Railread. These allegations set forth the most gross and flagrant frands in the dis- positton of the proceeds of is sute Of stocks and re- such as money javisily expended in infuenc- i rauroads, and running ud the like, Aiter giving ‘enso Ubese allegauions he proceeded to review the legal history of this suit of Mr, Rainscy, bringing 41 up to the present motion, the granung of wiileh he argited 18 most essentiai to preparing for trial in this action. ‘The information 1t was desirable to elicit: was given in detail, including the issue of the convertibie bonds of the rowd, its uansactions with Commodore Vanderbilt, aud, in short, all its re- celpts and disbursements from June, 1565, when Gould and Fisk assumed the management of the road, Mr. Dudiey Field read a voluminous ailidavit of Jay Gould, setting forth » specific denial of each and every allegation contained in the plaintill’s com- plaint. Among other taings it Was stated that Mr. Ramsey did not now and never nad owned any shares or stock in the Erle Railroad. As to the examination of the books and papers of the company, 1t was stated that no information could be obtained from them additional to oral testimony bearing upon the present litigation. Fin- ishing this afidavit he read afidavite offered on a previous metion in the case of Mr. Ramsey and David Groesbeck. Mr. ‘Tremain objected to the submission of am- davits presented on a previous motion, Mr. Field claimed these depositions as pertinent. ‘The Judge allowed their submission. Mr. Peckham made a lengthy speech, again dweli- ing on the merits of the case and insisting with flery vehemence that the suit was brought in good faith and that there was good ground for action. The Judge interrupted the counsel and brought g asking for the discovery in question were suficient and proper basis for issuing by the Court any such order, The General Term in this district had ruled that in order to a discovery of this character tt was essential to specify the books and the particular items in the boeks tt was desired to investigate. Mr. Peckham urged that they iad been as specific as possible in their allegations. It could not be toid What books Contain the specific information tiey sought on each point, and th uly way to get over the diMeculty was te take # ioek at ail of them. The Judge said that whatever mugit ve his per- sonal views he mast be bound by the decisions of the General ferm. He cited a case even stronger 1 | than the present one where the General Term had reversed his aecision. Mr. Peckham cnlarged upon the custodlanship hept over these books. ‘hey were locked up im the castle of the Erie road managers—ihe Grand Opera House. No stockholder, no vnc outside of ihe d fendants couid obtain access to the books. fe uistanced the earnings of ths road, $19,000,000, since Gould and isk iad had charge of the road, and they te to know how this money had beea ex- pended. duis subject was discussed at considerable length further, and finally ended in the Judge denying the lavlion, bub With permisston to reacw y Wished as to any special points of informa taiued In avy apecial bOOKS OF tLe company. BARNARD. ow, bab Lie lauer only a side show, yeaterday, n this Rawsey suit. Upon an ap- plication before Judge Ingraham by the plaintia’s couusel gn order Was granted to slioW cause Why the order of Jadge Barnard continoing the case before him siull Bol Ve Vacated and tie eanse Diacod On TRIPLE SHEKT. the regular December calendar, spacial term. Tho order was made returnable on the 27th Inst, When the show will again be opened to the public. THAT FIERCE “FROG” FIGHT. Belligerent Railroad Corporations and Their Little Games. The Legal Contest Commenced at Trenton Motions for Injunctions—The Eric and Dela- | ware, Lackawanna and Western Com- panies Plunged into Warfare—A Lengthened Campaign in Prospect. AS might naturally be expeetod the blockading of the west end of the Bergen tunuei list Friday week has proved a fruitful source of railroud litigation. The facts of the unparatieled proceeding on thar oe- caston are yet fresh in the minds of the public, 'Y cannot eaajly be forgotten, espectaily by whe i portion of the community 80 unwarrantably de- tamed. It will easily be remembered how on the morning alluded to the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Rallroad Company took up a piece of the rail belonging to the Erie track and sub- stituted therefor a frog by which they coal ran their cars of the Bouton Branch ou the broad gauge; how that TRE ERIE MANAGERS BECAME ENRAGED and in a twinkling summoned neariv a thousand of their workingmen to the scene; how the latter attempted to remove the offending trog, and how thelr efforts were defeated by an opposing, force, It will likewise be borne in ming that ® dangerous riet was imminent; that a hun- dread policemen rushed quickly to the ren. cue, and that but for their prompt and Vigorous action bloed would have stained the ground; that the directors of botm com. panies walked about lstlessly, all equally stubbern and determined: that towards nigutfalt ernor Randolph arrived, and after consulation arrange- | ments were effected by which the ul-treated | public might travel on the roads. Above all, it must be remembered tat for nearly twelve long, weary hours the blockade was unscropulously maintained, that trafic was wantonly delayed, while the most serious DANGER TO LAFE AND PROPERTY was threatened throughout the day. These are the grounds—most interesting to the pablic—upon which a determined legal war ts to be waged be- tween the two companies, On the day following the vccurrence the Erie managers obtalned an order from the Chief Justice of tho Supreme Court of New Jersey requirmg the Lacka- wanta and Western Railroad cunse show to why a writ of injunctio&® should not be granted against them, as asked for in @ bill then presented. It was also ordered that until the argument should be held the Morris and Essex and Delaware, Lacka wana and Western § RKatlro: Oowmpanie: stramed trom making any further conn tween the rails of the Boonton Branch Kuilroad and the rails of the Morris and ssex and Erie Ralir THE SEVEN-THIRTY BOND CASE. Examination of Brockway, the Alleged Jay Cooke Seven-Thirty Bond Counterfeiter. . The Charges Against the Accused—What Has Become of the Original Seven-Thirty Boud Pinte~The Feith of the Government in Question--Colonel W.od After the $15,000 Reward. The examination in the case of the United States ve. Wiliam A, Brockway, the particulars of which have been. already published in the HERALD, Was yesterday. The prisoner Is charged with having engraved or caused to be engraved, printed or caused to be printed, and with having in ais pos- session a plate purportong to ve a seven-thirty Trea- SUTY note plate ol tue issue of 1863, and with having printed, published and atvered a qnanuty of coute terfeit seven-thirty notes from said plate. THY HISTORY OF THY SEVES-THIRTY PLATE. From the tescimony taken thus far in this case, hut more particulariy from that elucited in the re- cent.case of the United States agamst Jay ke & o., Who were charged with passing eighteen $1,000 seven-tlirty notes (pon the Sub-Treasury of this city, 1t appears that through some agency, yet a 1 ery tothe goverument, an almost perfect fao simile of the seven-thirty boud plate of tue Issue of 1863 was taken alle Treasury Department at Wasb- ington, and from sueh impression plates were en- graved from which were printed $1,000 seven- thirty bonds, which to even the initiated and to many experis presented all the evidences of genuinene-s. From thls counterfeit plate and spurious issue came the seven-thirty no which Jay Cooke & Co., and other brokers of this ely and Hoston purehised im good faith and in good faith sold back to the government, but which Cooke and the others will be compelled, by vue ruling of the United States District Court of this district, on the jaw and by the verdict ef the jury on the facts, to m from the ireasury, while themsetves must grin and bear the loss inflected upen them through the cleverness of the engraver, whoever he yoay be, of thes counterfett seven-thirty plate. COLONEL WOOD APTER THE $15,000 REWARD, ‘The indefatigable Colonel Wood, late Chief Detee- tive of the Secret Service Division, who never loses: the scent of his prey ouce caughi up, or reilaquishes: a grasp once had of aman, if he can bring bum to earth, Was again put on the stand yesterday, In continuation of his previous testimony ne testified that tn the interview be had wilt: the prisoner at Ba near the western terminus of the Bergen munel. But the Delaware, Lackawanna and Westera Com | pany was not inuch behind, and Bo on the nextday | they RETURNED VIRE by serving an order upon the Come | pany requiring them to show ¢ why | a rece should not be — anpoi over | both roads pending the settlement of all disputes. especially the primary litigation as to the right of way through the tunnel. The two orders were returnable yesterday, before Chie! Justice Beasicy, Who sat as Chancellor ip the Supreme Court, State House Tren ton. One might suppose that little Jersey would becomeyexcited over such an exciting case; that the court room weuld be crowded with interested visitors; that the crier would be PUT TO HIS WITS’ END to preserve erder, and that railroad talk would be \he principal! tepic jor a month toceme. Bat ther was no such thing. Trepton was us melancholy # ever, and appeared to be suffering from chronic neuralgia, Jt was a miserable day into the bargain, and at noon every Trentonian was cither dozing over the fire or saying his prayers in the parlor. And so the State House was QUIET AS A CHURCHYARD. lor’s Hotel, ln Jersey City, on thelr first vequaintanee, wiih t the to ic pinta, dies, presses ste Ul for printing seveu-thiriies, which he ( ow the defendant had in his possession or procurement, the defendant had | made hin promises that he would the fll an- varnished tle deliver oi the taking of of the od thelr thon present Whereabouts and all the Matters with which he was charged withal, elther by ihe government or the fruitful brata of the Colo- nel But Brockway waa very “backward in coming forward” with his promised revelation, aud the Co- Jone), Whois a requir ire-caler in his Way—a special threatened all sorts of dire ad of poor. Brockway, Whem he ‘aylor’s Hotel a3 if he was Ludlow street prison. He promised him, to be sure, remission and lergiveness of all sins, which the Colonel swore was the onl, thing about him thattwas not countervelt, Driven corner by the terrible Colonel, Brockway delivered up @ portion of the much desired pilates, ail, indeed, with (he exception of an electrotype piate which the Celonel overieoked, and which, probably, Brock- way, pradentially and with ulterior objects, Kept in the background, The mducement held out py the Colonel was exemption from all prosecution on the part of the government against Brockway for any Sir Luctas O'Pegy v “qe trampmg of a foot upon the pavement rang through the building with a hollew sound, Cnicf Justice Beasley looked just like what a judicial mag- | nate of that high order eught to be, and as he Aat easily on his chair his dignitied hearing, modesty and politeness gained respect. He seems to have the gilt of Patience, else the pile of rheumatic documents inust have made him fret, And such scores ef buis and briefs, too, and contracts aud orders, and pe tok und glossy heads, aud sharp, piercing eyes an big books all full of entertaining ‘mat Tae scene, though, was exiremely tame and extremely dismal, while the = «dri did its) dead best to impar considerabie amount of gloom to the entire pro: dings. Lt was like an inquest gto which legal men were su moned to argue the causes that led to tie death #0 many human beings, for which, ef course, rail- | road companies were not responsivie. Had the | blockade continued last Friday week who knows | What terrible disasters would have eccurred? But to the struggie at issue. the Chief Justice took hu and gazed wistfully around. The legs promptly on hand, every saan # hest im hy the Erie Company there were Attorney Gener christ, Senator Stockton, Mr. Leon Abbett and Mr. FE. T, Green, while the Delaware, Lackawaur Western Company was represenied by Me. Courtlandt Parker, Jacob Vanetta and “Benjauur Williamson, With these two armies the baltie was | commenced, The | ORATORICAT, AMMUNITION | was laid on the desk, breastworks of briefs were thrown up with considerabie alacrity, ps of seat of war were spread out and boUibslells of af davits were heaped up all around. ach keid In his hand @ littl, spear steeped in a dark fluid, ready for the fight, and, With the exception of, balloons, a or} Shoruy @ ter ten o’clock seat upoa tie bench | lights were | . Vor | Gil. | tu sound, “To arms! to arms! ‘Tne batileneuts ot Erie were prepared for tne siege, but CH was on the defensive. A legal warrior, with « mas- sive book for a shield, advanced to the front and | moved that the aMdaviis im reply to the avswer | fied by the Delaware, Lackawauna ana stern Railroad Company be adinitted into the order to show cause Why an injunction should no object of that Injunction chiefly being to them from using the Boonton branch, inasniuc it was alleged that it was the necessaries for a protracted’ war bronght into requisition, from the } clarion of the rier came jeri the dr | i UNAUTHORIZED ComPRe VAD. ing of that o for Friday next, but the Chief Justice subsequently stated taat | he would be unable to hear it, not haviug wuflicient | Ume to give it the requisite ex t was finally agreed, however, bili filed” by — the Delaware, m= | | With no other ¢ participation that might be proven agamst him on { the preduction of the seven-thirty notes, and after | the delivery of the ouher piuies and apparatus tho Colonel ley him go tree. THE COLONEL D'SAPPOINTED AND PURLOUS. | Talk of the way the british swore in Flanders! | Colouel Weod would saame two such armies were | they present in the flesh to-day, when he starts j Vaswearing.” District atrorneys and assistant } jn ss, cCOMMISS! ners’ Clerks, lawyers—even the | deputy marshals, preiessionais in the business, stand | #shast when the Colove! opens his meuth to swear. { not of course by a8 on the Bible, put | spontaneousiy—from the neart—heartily, Aud how be swore when he found the hope of the reward of | $15,000 growing “small by degrees aud beautifully jess” auc Brockway not within is reach, 1% wenld be beye ay the scope and compass of a tiple HERALD to he ) OF BROCKWAY. i, the Colonel after a per- rau #rockway to the ious again, and Im before the Commissioner en the urge specilied above, The defence merely for tia ehh ZO upon the principle that as the’ govern- ut, he Colonel, pledged faith onottton Unt he would plates and materkal should be i ti nov Lo prose deliver up all he his Possession morning. A CHANCE FOR BUTLEL. The Case of Capixin Joseph Muorphy—A Native Born American Citizen in a Cana dian I Six Months Without a Trial. On the 25th ef May iast, when the Canadians were * height of thetr Fenian fever, Captain Joseph yy Was found on the Wrong side of the border live, near Burlington, Vt, and was imiediately placed in durance vile because MIS NAME DID'NT SOUND LOYAL. On searehiug him a receipt for moneys paid at the Fenian headquarters in this erty was, it 1s allegea, found upow hin, Since that time he has heen eon. fined im. the con ay Sweetshurg, Canada, Lofa complicity has never bee and Western Company ana thereto by the kire’ Company reail a8 part of the motion papers ori the the Erie Railroad Company for an wjunclion. 1 was rathe mnuddied afar altogether, put it | amounted io the fact that the bills and ‘answers | Tiled on bot sides should ve read to ihe Court withe | Out prejudice to the former suit as tothe rugntor way | through the tunnel, and which ' the tunnel was biockaded. ‘To wad documents in question would be ti CROSSING THE STYX. Bui as determined baitie was the order of the ds legal pontoons were ly erected, with a courage that the pattering rain and chilly surroundings could not dampen. It was a cry of vengeance from the Erie ramparts, and referred in wrathiul teruis to. the transgressions of the enemy. Mr. Greene was | the lucky bero to whom the reading ef the docu- Ment was entrusted, After heaving a sigh and crossing his legs, clearing his throat, and showing a | Jew other warlike preparations he ceminenced. His brother warriors felt like going to sleep, but tie | peppering of the rain, sounding like showers of musketry, kept them awake ready to lead forth a battalion of aifidavits should a very heavy gun be fived from the other side during the reading of the document. Having shumed himself tuto a com- Jertable position, Mr. Greene, in # clear, rapid tone, egan to Spin out this grievance ol the Erie road. The document set forth that the Morris and Essex Railroad Company had no right to go through tne | Bergen tunnel, and even if it bad it must adapt it- self to the time tables of the Erie Company, and must not delay the Erie trains in any way. Further, é | motion of through the | Amount Le that the Boonton branch of ‘ine © Delaware, Lackawanna and Western = Kanlroud = Com” | pany had no authority in w wo and on the breaking ou ENDED @ trial under s friends im Uils city > Hes om the United itwery to he elatns, Douthien geverament Murphy was he be ‘acquitted, as the nO Cuse. Captain u have BORN aN THIS CITY, Oo; We rebellion jejued Com. bany B, of the Sixty-ninth regimeut, N. GS. N.Y. He served as first Heutenant, and afterwards as Caplin, In the Same regiment. He participated im ait (ue patties in witteh t inmand were engaged Uohl his capture py the Confederates at Coll Harbor, when for nine months he endured captiviiy in the = Libby, Danville and Coluinbia pyons. He was released m tame to taar part in the patiles whten preceded the fall of | Michmoad, ana was mustered out in 1805 at the close of the war. ueval Butler, who aspires to be a Peter the Hermit of a crusade on tue New Dominjon, shonid commence bis work of ridding America of the Briush hug by procuring, ae t , a tal for an American citizen seven months tn a Ganadian jail. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. What Congress Might Do by Way ef Retrise bution tor Caundian Meanness. [From tie Detroit Post (administration organ) De- _ cember 20.) Suppose the United States government should im- pose a Weovy special tax upon Canadian vessels make & broad guuge connection through the tunnel with the Erie road as a competing ine between Paterson and Jersey City. On these grounds ania | thousand others an mjunction was prayed tor to re- | Strain the Delaware, Lackawanna Western Con- pany from using this branch so far as it interfered with the Brie road. This was nearly the suut and substance of tis ponderous bill, whieh recited con. | tracts and leases for years back, Mr. Parker then swung around iis DOCUMENTARY CANNON and sent forth the defiant answer of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company, asscrung te | right of that organization to use the tuunel under | Au agreement octween the Hoboken Land Improve- meng Company and the Long Deck Com ‘They complained, moreover, that the Erie Company | denied them tkeir just rights, In ‘, after alinding to the contracts uy based thelr claims, the answer p injunction be denied. Then fol Deiaware, Lac! ona and West ing thatareceiver be appointed and that until all the suits be disp the issue orders for the regulation of the iwo ¢ hies, ‘The answer of the Erie Company to this ment is more voluminous oO gether, ond will be read to-d hn proofs and pleadings aud a variety of Mileresting papers. Lie | case Wii probably be fpaily welled live your pHeeS road ourt | pa cle | | eoolly ¢ oth roads, | « passing though the st, Clair kiats Canal, while our OWN Vessels pass rough free of ail tax Suppose ihe United s q seeut should enutireiy pro- hibit Canadian ves: ‘Out passing through toe St. 3 Mary’s Ship Canal on any terms, sO that Canadian ves ert Would brain to understand more clearly tn ation « The complaint are unfriendiy, Welland Canat and plds of the St. Lawrence Hy bac hence the President if thoy’ Impose apiriendly restnetions upon use by United Staies veusels, or even if tiey forbid United States vessels to tse them altogether, and ports are theirs i has no right to complain es and prohibitions pladed ung Vessels, er even if they Od States fishing vessels to t ports. Very well; su the st. is Wholly ow; and we Dave the nde Canadian shipping altogether from Lake Superior, The St. v! Canal is yours; and we have the nb to forbid fon vessels from usin shy Gasselvd at why women’ RY bargain concersing these Canale wuich has heretolore existed. are that thi the canal around the river are ther has no rieht wo