The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1871, Page 4

) ) 4 THE FOSTER-PUTNAN MURDER, The Prisoner Arraigned: at the Bar of the Court of Oyer and Yerminer, = ° A Special Plea to Be Made To-Day. Foster, the murderer, was arraigned yesterday morning in the Court of Oyer and Yerminer, Judge Cardozo presiding, on the charge of having mur- dered Avery D. Putnam, in a Broadway car. When At became known throughout the city yesterday that fhe prisoner was to be arraigned a crowd of roughs assembled in the neighborhood of the Tombs, anxious fo have a look at the superior anima) of the genus to which they beiong. Along Centre street also were to be seen \ KNOTS OF YOUNG MEN, ‘who discussed the particulars of te murcer and the probable time tat Foster will exptate lils crime on the scaftold—tit being conceded on ail hands that he must forfeit his life to the law he so deliverately and terribly violated. The Court of Oyer and Terminer avas crowacd, and when the prisoner appeared, in ‘custody of Captain Kiiialea, ail eyes were bent on him eagerly. As he passed along Centre street he "was the centre of attraction for crowds of spectators, who pointed him out with a grave satisfaction at having obtained a good look at the chained brute. ‘He looked pa er than at the inquest on the previous @ay. Occasionally when a larger crowd than usnal 4ooked at him a deep Mush overspread the stolid-look- ing face, and the bieared eyes were never once raised from the ground. After entering the court room he took a seat beside his counsel, Judge Stuart, and as on 'ruesday, while his cornsel argued for a post- ponement of a plea, he wore a look of stolid indtf- ference, and, save an occasional nervous look around nim, there was nothing in his demeanor to show that he is the man for whose life all New York joudly clamors should he ve conyicte: the erimé ‘of which he stands ch th vt tbe ag pu the bar, nis counse: moved that the plea to the et Ment of wiitul mutaer be postponed for the presen’ ‘as the prisoner wished to But i A SPECIAL PLEA. dudge Cardozo said that the prisoner coula ple: to the indictment generaliy, and that that general plea could afterwards be withdrawn if he wished to substitute a special plea. Judge Stuart strongly objected to this course, and after a long argument, in which he contended that his Wretched client should be allowed even a short gelay to prepare a special plea and in nowise com- iit himself, It was gyre decided that the plea should be postponed, and that he be brought up this morning, when the special plea must be made. It ¥ geuera'ly beiteved that this special plea refers to he jurisdiction of the Court of Uyer and Terminer in the case. The prisoner was then removed to the Yombs by Captain Ktlialea and his escort, and, a3 oa his journey to the court, was the cynosure for crow(ls who FAGERLY HAILED HIS APPEARANCE outside the court house and along the route to the Tombs.. When the doors of the prison closed on iim the coteries discussed his case more excitedly than ever. ; The father of koster, who 1s a wealthy retired builder, keenly feels the disgrace that has been brought upon the family name by the violence of S0D, aud ts prepared to expend any sum he sseas to save him from the gallows. He ts an ok ntleman, of excellent reputation, who, on account Foster's “nine withdrew from him @ her's counsel some yeats , but now that he is be tried for his life filial love asserts itself, and the past is forgotten in the awful presence of the ear future, The wile of the accused is devoted in er attentions to him, and passes much of her time his cell at the Tombs, where, it is said, the cul- occasionally gives vent to his pent-up feelings ) ANd ascribes his misfortunes to the demon THE PUBLIC VOICE SPEAKING. The following are a few of the many letters received esterday from citizens touching the assassina- tion of Mr. Putnam, and are given as an index of public indignation. Liability of Car Companier—Squire’s Snub- { bing of Jourdan, fo rue Eprror oy THE HxRALD:— { It fs well known that the late Superintendent Jourdan pro- posed 40 One OF the City TAUTUME WU pmHive ve pin. Uve on each of their cars, to protect the public against pockets and rowdies, if the company would not charge eee tie onlcen, which nffar the ockopanien refused. Now, ir, tf the rated ‘companies were prouibitea from éarrying J aprepeinge than Gan be accommodated wit! seats fobbery and rowdyism could be easily prevented or detected. ‘As those companies refuse the protection offered by the po- joe, why should they not by logal enactment be made re- bie for all lonses 8 by robbery of passengers or es committed by rowdies on thelr cara, when they ‘carry ‘more passengers than seats are provided for? Let theni understand that theif frapobises are granted for the Becommodation of the public, dnd not solely to gorge the Bockots of the stockholders. 4 BUFFERER, "phat Would Have Boen Done in the Seuth, To tae Eprror or THE HERALD:-- # Though a Northern man by birth, I have been converted to Southern principles since the occurrence of the recent street bar tragedy. Now, supposing the man Foster to nave been travelling in any public conveyance at the South, either by bight or by day, how far coaid he have carried on bis insult- with impunity? Why, sir, the first drunken drel cast from that front Platform woula have been his death warrant; for, beyond Bil doubt, Le woud have been siot dead, thon abd there. here is « law against carrying concealed weapons. There is @ higher law, wh'ch prompts every man to provide tbe means of defence in times of lawlessness lize the present. When fhe, Police, the car conductors and the drivers abail be ab 4 willing to protect le citizens, then aside our weapons, But until such protection b Brery gentleman prepare for emergencies. can lay sured let E818. A Shot for Corner Loafers. ‘ New Your, May 1, 1871, fo ras Epiros or THR Heray:— ) Witl you allow a law-abiding cit’zen to say a few words foncerning that class of men to which the murderer of Mr. utoam belongs? Although it may not Le new to any one mayrefresh the minds of our police, and, witha sharp trom you, may do much good. I rofer to corner afers, who are to be found nights and Sundays standiug on corners of streets, and it is well known that Posie conduct toward lalies is insulting, and how iz before a marder will Published to the world yrowiog out of some corner loafer'y insult, On the southwest corner of rat street and Third ave- Bue there bangs out a party of ex-gentiemen from early even- Ing till lace at night, y Sunday all day, staring and ering in ladies’ faces as they pass t will make adidavit that one in pi rou this corner for ne which Ue police are authorjzed tg abate this iu- iwance 18 it not time we hat one? And it thei be such « law why !n the name of decency is it not enforce Ob, can you tell your readers why | Most respectfully yours, COMMON DECENCY. 1 from’ ehurel, and ular of these men has iy two years. If there An Excited Know Nething Appealiug to National Prejudices. To Tar Eprror oF rae HEeRaLp:— T have never before addressed myself through the columns of any newspaper, but, being a true born American, ¥ cannot longer hold my peace, when I read of such hellish erfmes be- ing committed as the dastardly foul murder of Mr. Putnam a few daysago. The idea of abighly respectable gentleman, Jn a public conveyance, early tn (he evening, teyiag to protect & young lady from inswit from a low biackguard, and being murdered in the nfvst foul manner by a (I cannot disgrace my sex so far as to call Lim a man) snake in the disguise of man, 4s too muoh for anybody who has any idea of law and order to stand. I have not a doubt that Foster will be banged for his Prime ,and the other cecomplices, the driver and conductor, Wade to suffer, if they are tried before an American jury (a honor to bis name) Jike Judge Bedford, a riess man, whom murderers and tufever can a or ditty poltticians bully. ‘That a short t B ponigiment inay follow the'r foul act weco earnestly hope, But if Foster fs not convicted, many of them sball yel if not lawfully pantshed. in the police. With a few exceptions seem to rather Increase crime than suppress it. wo have an organization, composed mostly of Ami who discharge the duty asalgned to them without tion of payment, but from prige and regard for ore mean the military, upon whom the cotntry way yet have for eafety. | represent « body who Are not going to aiill apd see peaceable citizens murdered and tue vil- rators escape punishment througd the in fience Of their political friends, tileves ang Vincksdaras, who are jn I have every day bringing more 6 om the finest tty in th orld, bit the Worst gdverued stace the't foreigh napies have. | Seen Mn On Canvas as candidates for political foasitic Amarioats, wake up! The control of the aliaice of ¢ Honest mep—democrats is being taken from you! blicans, Americans and Germans—who have the ’ fend for law and order, unité; co-operate; form a ts chief plank be to nominate no man but a true- eftla or or, rich, who shall be compete: duty bom Buch ‘a party ig bound to t ‘merican country; let it be governe: we ‘and the foreigner who does not agree with me opinion does not deserve to make his living here. IT ‘an article in a morning paper @ few days alter he murder of poor Mr. Putnam, the tone of high would Jead murderers and thicves to believe that all ood citizens were #0 terrified at their foul deeds that they herestver stun going ‘anywhere of an evening whero nce Of com! there was nny cl ing jn contact with then. Now, for one tregki ay Tuan not afraid to travel New York city y wight. I mibd iny own business, but [ apont o-hers to | jad theirs. But] would advise American offizens to arm jemeeives, and, if attacked by these serpenta and vipers, It would bé | oot them ike dogs, boldly und fearless! “te Kg ‘acl of justice to ourselves and the community sa jn And now one more caution, thieves, murierers and acoun- bie of Now York aud Brooklyn. The time has arrived to ¢ action againet you, which wrully punished afier arrest perians ve in Beware | The Cat @ Nine Tails Advoc sted. Mar 1, 17. Jo Tun Eprros ov Tay Henan:— Asa fore of a mont residence tn the city of New Fork, I bare beeu painfully struck wit the fearful record of | | and proved in all Og as staunch and perfectly | this service than any NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. — ormes furntehed in every tasne of your widely circulated Journal. You know your own business best, and I appre- hend that to the majority of your readers this class of read- ing must be not, alas! an “unctions morsel," but a huge and Gelectable feast, which it ts your interest to supply, even al- though it should be at the expense of the minority, who have no penchant for crime, and who would prefer a litle sas larded bit of fare to but thet ierary eplearean fo me, sir, eceasary an Aju Bread ead aiter; anasiike my breaaand butter, I prefer it as sweet as I ean’ got ft. J do. not say tbat there #8 noth. & ‘sweet in tbo HEUALD of a wording, but the amount the to me—opposite ingredient, R reg ate ‘an this Nporterauca at ous eo o nate a fated? How better than by tho é ution o| ol ‘ect . Fmmedi thereafter there was & ble dination lat pcclos ‘ot Simo. ‘Let tee or. tt ‘applied ; then will I venture to predict @ thier Tam, sir, £0., One Who Wants te Carry a Revolver. To tax Eprros or THe HrRatn:— As matters bavs come to such a pass that it is not safe to go out of a night without ome protection I ask you, as 8 gubsoriber and « citizen of New York, if it is agatust the law to carry feotleal Thave t bee tacked, and f ne ny my life. it is not against the iam would Iike to it tor myself and the, projection, others, Naw York, May 8, 1871. An Advocate of the Lash. To Tun £piTon or THE HERALD:— Is America a fres country? Is there freedom in New York? Alas! there {s; but what fs freedom? If a man is allowed to pursue his avovation, whether it be good or evil, fearless of all others, tf» he free, and is tt only then that he fs free? In n free country is no one allowed to say to his nelghbor, “What doest thou?” an a man do what he likes? Am 1 allowed to go where and in what manner I like? Am I not free if I am “bound” to fear God and regard man? Mon is a free agent, and can. do what he pleasos (that is, what he has the “power” to do, not what be “wishes” to do); yet every man has passions vory fll to control, and yet he is bound-to restrain them{ Is he, therefore, no free agent? He has the power to act or not to acts bus he ts Feaponaible for big actions; he acts cont to Jaw at his peril. If this 18 so in the moral world ought it to be tesa so in the social sghere? The obligatory moral Jaws, intuitively in man for the benoit o: individuals and so- Gletics, focm to have litte effect on some people in New York dit’ they be there {sno wonder that the social sot at naught by them, ttange law that allows blackeuards, thieves, robbers and murderers to roam fe: at large, while honest People are ifdanger of their ives. Is an honest man less Worthy of protection than a thief or a mi Which 9 the two classes have the groater right to live? which mos Veneiictal to society? If dishonesty te to be tree surely hhopesty hag a¢ good a claim. ff a aly Passionate “snake! spring bn & “ger * from bebind dnd slays bit ta cold ood. what ought to, be, the fate of that ropilie fears pene iw, Why does he not? agg not a terror 10 evil doers, a praise and protection to those who .do well ? OF course thoy are. Yet garroters and murderers fear them Jot, because they do not fear death. | These mortals, mean 28, are, by hardened prepare to moet death. Death pas no terrors for them. They are pravadoes aud love to be applauded by their fellow dogs. Thoy would wralingty die if they thought thelr names would be handed dowa to thelr Vielous posterity, to be nightly talked over in thelr haunta of iD. Hanging will not put a stop to this, we are persuaded, nor will the Lynch law, though {t be exealient. ‘The cat o' nine ails was the only effeptual means found to put down thia tsb t lackguardism in its blackest form in England. These wretches will bear to be hanged aud have over with the world at once, but to be lashed and ilve in disgrace after- wards 18 more than their cowardly spirits can bear, The’ ere cowards, They cou'd neither bear the agony nor the did- ing like their vauated courage. The way that ‘mers taxe to clean their barus of rais is to catch one aud ge it, and then let it go away among the The house oon cleared of the vermin, mh one rot and let him 2, but let not a single lash be cured at the public expense. 0 Vals, and th ‘ects wil! be good, ii not marvellous. A lecrease o! thieves and a terror struck to the hearts of the re- maining few wiil soon be observed, and the honest people of the city will be enabled by day snd, by night to walk fear. lessly along our streets, GAT O' NINE TAILS, [ee with 4A Condactor Who Cared Nothing for Life, To rug Eptrog or Tum Hesatp:— It {s useless to call the altention of the street raflway com- panies to very inefficient car conductors, as it t# only a waste of time, On Monday last, at Fifty-seventh street, my wife and self got into car No. 89, I being very feeble and lame at the time, was nearly thrown from tho car by the conductor starting the car before I barely got my foot on the step, When f got into the car I remonstrated with him, He {mpertineatly replied that he had no time to stop on bis route; that he knew bis duty better than I did. If the com: panies were compelied to allow policemen to ride on the cars thie abuse would cease, and pickpockets and otber rullans would be deterred from maktuz these ptiblic conveyarices the » Xe trul; neence of eo many outrages. Yours, tANT READER, Broadway Beasts in Stages. To Tne Eptror oF THE HERALD:— Your columns bear witness of late, by the testimony of correspondents, tothe frequency of insults offered to ladies in stages and cars. In two instances ladies (rom my own family have been thus insulted by well-dressed Joafers exposing themselves in a beastiy manner {a the Broadway stages, and the only protection offered them was a threat to call an officer, ‘at which the scoundrel fled. People say why did you not stop the and cailan oficer? For the very Benge Beoel tae as 60 vile that ‘most ladies shyla frow. Sppearia; y the consciousness that’ many of the officers of the law, in thetr tastes and associations, are in sympathy, toa great extent, with the criminals, und oftentimes strive to shield them.’ I know of no efficient remedy excepting to arouse the moral sense of the community, to the necess.ty of puritying our judiciary e polls, and thus secure prompt punishment toevery convicted criminal, without regard to political influence or social position. Keep the bail, 2 Folling. A Nat for the Broadway Railroad Company to Crack. Mar 3, 1871. To tae Evrroz or tak HERALD:— The bad management of tho Broadway and Seventh Ave- nue Railroad since the death of John Kerr should be made known to the public thraugh the columns of your valuabie paper. The laté melancholy affair of murder, together with the arresting of honorable conductors for trivial offences and utting In their stead the escaped convicts of Sing Sing and lackwell's Island, that now disgrace the fair name of this city, should be’ exposed, There 18 scarcely a sii honorable old conductor left upon now beware of pickpockets you ride upoo those carat a can ‘pot directors place an honorable man atthe hoad of this an the such as Mr. Adriance, of the Belt Railroad, or Mr. Connover, of the Bleecker street line? These are the men whovappreciate the servicee of a good and honest man, and will not disgrace their roads with political assassins. VERITAS, In Prison for Defending His Wife. Mar 8, 1871, To THR Evrrog oF THe HEgaLD While everybody ta excited over the Putnam murder no- body thinxs of that poor Itatlan who, when insulted and at- tacked, together with Lis wife, on the ferryboat the other night by half @ dozen rufians, gave ft to them. He iin prison now, and, ff the rufflans have friends, may be sent to Btate Frison Keddy the Blacksmith, whenever !n trouble, gets out of ft in less than no time. Here this Italian is im- Prisoned for defending bis wife's and his own life. PUBLIC OPINION, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Report of tho Examining Board Regarding the Tennessee’s Construction and Fitness for Sea. WASHINGTON, May 3, 1871, Rear Admiral Selfridge, Naval Constructor John Lenthall and Chief Engineer W. W. Ward, consti- tuting a board appointed by the Secretary of the Navy toexamine and report upoa the condition of the Untted States steamer Tennessee on her late trip to St. Domingo, have submitted their report, in which they Say that the materials of which the Ten- nessee was constructed were of the very best quality, and that tho frame, being of live oak, makes her su- perfor to all other vessels of her class except the Flortda, which 13 tdenttcal in construction with the Tennessee. A thorough examination has proved conclusively that great pains were taken to give the greatest possible strength to every part of the Tennessee, A comparison of her displace. ment with her tmternal capacity indicates that 4s regards safety no more suitable vessel of the navy in this respect couid have been selected for the service tn which she was engaged, and none that would have afforded some space for comfort without intruding upon ree of the omvera and crew. The surface of the principal sails Was augmented nearly one-third, This increase has added much to her efiiciency under canvas and ven her power to act with safety in all weather, er equipment in all Gepartwents was foll and com- plete for all purposes, The report goes on to show that the veasel was amply furnished with all the appliances necessar; to extinguish fires, having titriy-one deliverin, nozzles and 1,160 feet of hose, And to free the bilges she i Six Dilge pumps besides those worked bysieam. The Board {nally determined that the 4 ennessee evinced no signs of unseaworthiness, safe a vessel for the duty assigned her as ever floated, and that she Was aiso better adapted for vher ic in the navy. The report ts sighed by alf the mensbers of the Board. Naval Orders. Ijeutenant Commander Yates Sterling ts ordered to the receiving ship Potomac; Licutenants Asa Waiker, William 1, Burwoll, John ©. Rich, S. PF, Clarkson and 8. W. Very; Masters J. W. Grimes, Hobart D. Tremain, Horace E. Jones, Frederick M. Symonds and R, U, Derby, and Assistant Paymaster F. Hi. Clark, to torpedo service at Newport, R. 1; Surgeon William Jonson to duty as member of the Examining Board at Washington, D. C, Detached—Lieutenant Commander Eawin White, from the Potomac and placed on waiting orders; Liguteuant A. M. Barber, trom the Michigan an ordered to torpedo duty; Licutenants RK. Mason Lisie and T. M. Evting, from the Phiiadelphia Navy Yard and ordered to torpedo duty at Newport, R. L; Mastor W, P. Nicuolson, from special’ duty ¢ New York ahd orderea to wrpedo duty; aster O, H. Arnoid, from the Vermont, and orderéd to duty with Rear Admiral Stringham; Assistant Paymasyer Jon Hyleso, from the Boston Navy Yard, aud place) on Waiting orders; Chief Eugineer Mont- letchor, from the Maryland Navy Yard, nd ordered as feet engiuecr of the Pacific deet; Surgeon Clymer, from duty a3 @ metmber of the Bx- amining Board aud evanted six montha’ leava, THE TOWANDA TRAGEDY. Houry Ward Indicted for the Murder of Wesley E. Shader—Resume of the Crime. Towanpa, Pa., May 8, 1871. The Grand Jury have just found a true bill for murder in the first degree against Henry Ward, for the killing of Wesley E. Shader. The drama of blood, of which the action of the Grand Jury forms another scene, was inaugurated in Towanda, Pa., on the 22d of February, 1871. Facts, taken from a statement of the ad. dressed by Mr. H. Decker to the Zima (N. Y.) Recorder, show the cause and the manner of the maurder to have been as follows:—Mr, Shader being in the employ, as a general agent, of the Union Mu- tual Life Insurance Company of Augusta, Me., left New York on the 21st of February to prosecute nis duties. He arrived at Towanda on the 22d and put up at the Ward Hotel. Having, in 1868, at the Dem- ocratic Convention in New York, made the ac quaintance of Ward, he sent his card to the latter’s residence. Ward, it may here be stated, 19 the son of the late 0, Ward, lawyer, who, as a succisiful operator-in fond, amassed a large fortune, and by whose death he became possessed of the fine homestead at Towanda. Shader, having received no answer from Ward, pre- sumed upon their familiarity to visit nim, without further formality, After having been received by Ward in the parlor Shader accompanied him up stairs to a private room. ‘There Ward taxed Shader with utterances derogatory-to his (Ward's) charac- ter, This charge was the result of Shader having witnessed at the time of a previous visit domestic illiculties not creditable to Ward. Shader denied the charge, but Ward, dissatisficd with the dental, seized -and attempted to throw him, bat being less agile than the former, was him- self thrown and held upon the floor. While in that Position he pretended to have been sporting, and Shader, aceepting that statement as truthful, allowed him to rise, During a general conversation that ensued, 3! ooting, ymnastic exercises, &c. Were the subjects, and Ward exhibited a patr ol revolvers that he handled so carelessly as to cause py to remind him that he might hurt nimself or im (Shader). Mr. Shader remained to dinner and after the meal he and Ward walked over the grounds and made the general improvements of the latter the subject conversation. The purposed ride to Greenwood, six miles from Towanda, was prevented by the au- noutcement of supper. uring the meal the hat er oo was again introduced, and Shader rere ae upon his professed expertness. any of thé conversation was angry in tone is not proved, and from the f that Mr, Shader having considered the whole as play: . it 13 to be presumed it was not. Mr. Ward suddenly leit the room, but soon returned, having This he potnted at Shader, who started forward to turn the weapon away. Mr. Ward cried, “1 am going to fire!” and when Shader was distant about two feet did fre, and Shader received his death wound. Immediately Qfter firing Ward leit the house, and meeting a man named Boop , requested him to enter it, as 8 man had there ahot himself, Brophy entered and discovered Shader upon his knees groaning. Having lifted him, Brophy pro- cured medical assistance and the presence of & num- ber of citizens, Before these men Ward was greatly excited, and endeavoring to extort from the Wounded man an acknowledgment that the shooting was accidental. But Shader in no way assented to the statement that it was accidental. ing from @ fainting fit, he said, “Harry, why did you shoot me?’ Ward replied, “You know I didn’t in- tend to do it—tnat it was entirely accidental.” Be- fore this Ward had made eeverai somewhat contra- dictory replies to questions asked him, He afterwards made a statement that Shader atthe time of the explosion had his nand upon the revolver, and to the trath or this he endeavored to have several per- sons induce the wounded man to subscribe, The Many efforts to draw from Shader an admis- Sjon of tne accidental nature of the discharge of the revolver or @ distinct charge against Ward utterly fatied, as he returned to all question- ers evasive answers. Despite this last fact the Grand Jury has seen fit to indict Ward, and it 1s rumored that the shooting will upon his trial be ad- mitted by his counsel, and partial insanity and drankenness be put forward to palliate the offence. POPULAR EDUCATION. with him a revolver. Department of Public Iusiruction. The Commisstonors of the Department of Public Instruc- Yon held ao reguiar business mecting yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bernard Smyth so the chair. Communications were received from the trustees of various wards and referred to the appropriate commiitecs, A communication was received from John W. Stephens, skeirman of the Roard of Trustees of the Twenty-second ward, in which he disclaimed all mercenary motives in com- nection with a former proposal relative to visiting schools In, Europe in the interest of the department, Mr. Sunds bad reason to believe that Mr. Stepens was a gentleman who would reflect credit on the Board, and a resolution was car- ried that bis proposal be acceptor. A communication was received from R. J. O'Sulhy: M. D., reiating to absence of teachers on account of Illnens. ‘A communication was recelved from Dr. Griscom in refe- rence to lectures before the schools upon the subject of the Preservation of life aod health. A proposal was received from E, H. Day to make a cabl- net of minerals an item in the list of supplies. A resolution was adopted from Mr. Bell, of the Finance Committee, requiring the Comptrolier to place $500,0W sub- ject to the drafts of the Board. 31be Committee ou Fesehers announced the appointment of Charles F. Brash as vice principal of the male department of grammar school No. ‘aroling M, Tracy to the vice principal. amar school No. 34 was received. Mr. Gross, of the Committee on Teachers, regretted that the committee bad felt obliged to report adverse! toe request that the salary o! @ princ’ of schoo! Os in the tt ward, be raised 10 95,000, Oe Mz.’ Woo said that the reason this schoo! was not large onough to give the principal this salary was from lack of room, it belng the most poputar school In the ward, and he necordingly proposed that this ease be made an exception to the bylaws. Nr. LEW18, of the Committes on Courses of Studies, intro- duced a resolution, which was adopted, that the first and second grades of the primary departments be incorporated {a the grammar schoo A teport was read from the Auditing Committee and the Board adjourned, The College of New York. The Board of Trustees of the College of New York reor- ganized yesterday, electing Mr. Bernard Smyth president, and Lawrence D. Kiernan sccretary. Mr. Smyth, on taking the char, stated that (be bigh school building connected with the college would be ready for opening as soon as the furnt- ture for it could be obtained. Mr Woot offered a reso. inion appointing an excoutlvo comialttes of five instead of seven. This motion was warmly discussed, 4x well a8 a former resointion relating to the admission to the college of the children of taxpayers not members of the ublicachools. A motion was made to the effect that the homptroljer Fequested to depoalt $50,000 with the Ott; Chamberlain for the ase of the Ci 7 Cottere, and $40,000 with the Board of Supervisors for the erection and furnishing of the High Schoo! connected with the City College. tion relating to the number of th Hzeeulive Committee was Amended, and a resolution was adopted that tbe committee should consigg of five, and should meet on the last Wednesday of every month, at three o'clock, ‘The mo- Mr. Jamos W. Gerard as n Public School Lecturer. No gentleman in thio city has done more to perfect the pre- sent admirable public achool aystem or takes a livelier in- terest in the efficiency and success of the public schools than Mr. James W. Geri easional addresses to the ‘© grown into a most inter- Few know better how to talk to school ebil- gd, dry and wearisome, ivacious and ’ sparkiin, but fh Nearantly aud to ject that many would make fearfully ‘duit aa statistical infuses glow of animation and humor, holding bis you hearers irresistibly _ spellbound: He pave a ‘lecture yesterday on the Suez Cauai befora the female department of Grammar School No. 8, cor- ner of Grovo and Hudson streets. In addition to the’ pupils teers was large number present, manly par ter, who were equally delighted with the lect: reason to be, for a most Interesting iecture tt in hue peculiarly fine, eagy and eoft of xemi-c style. Ali the facts counected with the inception and pro: fess of this great work of the age, the physical geography of he delta of the Nile and {ta Biblical and anctent history were told in a manner giving to the pleasing and Instrnctive rect tal all the charmmg romancé of the most exciting fiction. lecture go full of historical recital and interesting incl: dents, aud so interestingly told, tuat {t {ato be hoped Mr. Gerard maybe induced to repeat it at our other pubité schoo!s, red ersa:ional PALACE CARS. The First of the Street Railroad Drawing Room Oars. ‘The Third Avenue Railroad Company erbibited the frat of heir new line of drawing room cars yesterday, These magni- ficent vehicles are elepantly fitted up inside, The: stat! ary and movable sents, elegantly upholstered; a» speaking trumpet, by means of which the conductor communteates with the driver; a bell, brake, and all tne othor necessities of street ¢ ‘hese cars, unitke the old ones, are Jighted from the roof page arranged silver jampas, and will hold too other card-tve Coats iba hn ten charge of ten conte Suade for geais, and no one will be permitted to ride who haé not sedated a svat. Fotr horses ate to be atiachee 0 euch car, and they will make the entire trip fo Harlem, round the gridiron fn City Hall pisces to avoid th necessity of shifting tle horses from oue end to the other. There is no platform in the rear; the door, when closed shuts in the steps, so that vo pogsibility of the passongers being annoyed by hangers-on. ‘The cat was inspected by large number of people yesterday. The only objeotion that seemed to prevall againai the style of the new goRvayance was Ate boight from the street, which made it ook ungainly as it pashed along, ‘At about bAlf-padt three the directors of the road took pow session of the new cx: and were driven up to the depot. "AR immense crowd of people had assembled around the ear pre: viously to i( atarting, ana man; various opinions were expressed as the “drawing ro n wheels moved slowly away. HicHWAY ROBBERS CAPTURED. About eleven o'clock on Tuesday night as Anthony Eperie, of No. 628 Tenth avente, was passing througa Forty-first street, between Tenth and Eleventh aventies, James O'Brien came up behind him and dealt him a blow on the back of the head which felled him to the pavement. While lying on th pavement O'Brien n accomplice, named Chatlos Wil. sony attempted to t wateh and money from bis pocket, Ald ortes bro Meer Bradiey, of the Twenticth precinct, to his asaiatange, who took the two highwaymen to the ata Hon house tn West Thirty-Alth atreot, They were arralgued before Justioe Shandley at JeWernon Market yesterday morne ing and dooied the chareg, bus were Lold for examination, THE GALLOWS. Execution of Two Negroes in South Carolina. Making Twelve for the Murder of - Onp White Man, Full Details of the Tragedy in Union County— Boones and Incidents at the Execution. Unfon Court Houss, 8. 0., April 28, 1871. The last two of the Stevens murderers were exe- cuted here to-day. These were named Henry Cannon and Taylor Paimer, both negroes, and they make twelve altogether who have suffered death for the murder of George Mattison Stevens on the 31st December last, at eight P, M. THE HISTORY OF THIS FOUL DEED is already familiar to many of the readers of the HERALD. About dusk on the last day of 1870 Ste- vens, who was @ wagoner, accompanied by Ben Robinaon, @ driver, both white men, started from this town in Stevens’ wagon, to procure a barrel of whiskey. Having accomplished their mission, which took them about five miles from town, they were seturning here by the Spartanburg road, and had proceeded but a short distance, when, about eight P. M., they were halted by a squad of armed negro militia, varlously estimated at from twenty to thirty. They were drawn up in line across the road and were under the command of one Sylvanus Wright. It was bright moonlight and their Winchester rifles and other improved arms glittered as they were moved in the beams of the Queen of Night. At the commana Stevens halted, Several of the sable militiamen at once demanded whiskey and Stevens kindly responded by handing them his flask. This was soon emptied of ita contents and they demanded more, when Stevens informed them that it they wanted more thoy would have to pay for it, desiring Robinson, his companion, to drive on. The wagon went forward, but had scarcely gone fifty yards when Wright, the commandor of the squad, exclaimed, “BY GOD! KILL THEM,’ With bloodthirsty alacrity over twenty shots were discharged at the wagon, missing the two men, how- ever, and both of them jumped out and ran for their lives. Robinson ran into tho pies on the right of the road and Stevens sought refuge in a megro cabin on the left of the road. A number of the militia, among whom -were the two men who died to-day, pursued Stevens; but the colored woman who owned the cabin resolutely shut the door and refused to let them in, Again they demanded to be admitted, and ing refused they fixed bayonets and swore they would go in or kill somebody. Terriflea by this threat the poor woman opened the door, when the murderers rushed in, seized Stevens and dragged him out, The unfortunate wagoner began to ex- postulate with them, when one said, “No talking.’’ Stevens gatd, Bom 1m all right; don’t hurt me,’ upon which one oi them, Andy Thomason by name, STRUOK HIM IN THS MOUTH. ‘Then, to conciliate them, Stevens said, in @ most be- Beeching manner, “You can get what you want, aaee hehigp toni ” Seeing they took no heed of nis effo! @ppease them, and judging from their us of him and their manner that they meant mis- chief, Stevens appealed to one of them, named Jim Hardy, to do something for him; but Hardy was kepr back by the others, and was not Peceuited to get near him. He was then marched b: to his wagon, and from there he was taken to the woods by Isaiah Noland, Henry Cannon and Taylor Palmer, fer asked, “What are you going to do with me “We are going to give you FIVE HUNDRED LASHES and then turn you loose,” replied Noland. It ts be- lueved that when some distance tn the woods from the road Stevens may have made an effort to escape, for soon after they were heard running. Sylvanus ‘Wright, the commander, sald, ‘Boys, they are run- ning; he'll get loose.” Following this expression several shote were heard and tho running ceased, and after that turee or four shois more, and all was silent. Soon after tne men who went off with Stovens returned Ww the road where Wagon was atill standing surrounded by the negro militiamen drinking whiskey. Sylvanas Wright advanced to meet them and aaid:—**Did you let lim get loosef” to which one of them replied, “NO, BY GOD! WE KILLED HIM.” Each one of the party claimed to have the honor of murdering the poor wagoner, and Cannon said, “After he feil I thought he was not dead, so I stove @ bullet through his head,’’ and then addressing the commander directly, he said, “Wright, you could not have picked three better men to shoot him.’ Noland then sald he wanted some whiskey, aud they all helped themselves, Milia, juge and flasks, aiter which they came on towards this town, leaving the barrel with the bung out. On the way, While passing the house of two white gen- temen, not more than a mile from the scene of the murder, Noland proposed to take one of them out and kill hina, ashe felt in the humor; but Wright 8a ud, “ENOUGH FOR TO-NIGHT.”” Anumber of the murderers then went and spent the remainder of the night at @ frolic, dancing until midnight and making horrible ailusions to their bloody work. Upon the evidence of Robinson, the driver, the whole gang Of negroes who were present at the me of the murder were arrested and confined in the jail here, Of these, uwelve were known to have been tly or indirectly concerned in the murder, and they were accoraingly indicted. Not lon; afterwards Judge Thomas issued writs of habeas corpus in ten of their cases, which required their bodies to produced before him at Columbia, Among the peo- ple, who were greatly excited over tue murder, this ‘Was believed to be a dodge having for its object the ultimate escape of the prisoners from stern justice. Bat not to be baited, a body of 600 horsemen, all disguised, appeared at the jall here one mght in February, demanded the keys from thé jailer, took out ten of the prisoners and departed silently as they came. Next day tt was found that SIX OF THEM WERE HUNG, two were shot, and two were “lost” (a term synonymous with hanging), having never since been accounted for. Gannon and Palmer were left in jail, and were tried at the last term of the court here, and Were sentenced to be executed to-day. All the testimony at the trial left no doubt on the minds of the people of the guilt of any one and all of the Po Bnd The evidence of Cannon and Palmer's guilt was very strong, and their terrible sentence ‘as generally commended by the entire community. Both the condemned men appeared resigned to their fate. They were under the spiritual guidance of the Rev. Golden Foster (colored), who visited them re- gularly for ‘several day3 past, and they seemed to have made their peace with God, Like all of their brethren who have graced the gal- lows, the condemned jmen appeared to have had a glimpse of Paradise immediately before their exit from this life, Soon this oe all tne pre- barations for their death belng complete, the two condemned men were escorted by a TROOP OF UNITED STATES CAVALRY, which has been stationed here for some time past in view of the Ku Klux militia disturbances, to the gallows. This structure had to be erected espe- cially fer the occasion, though 1t was located at the place which from time immemorial has been de- voted to public executions, It was one of the ordinary machines, rude in appearauce, substantial in tts build and thoroughly effective {n its opera- tions. There was an ample fall allowed to insure death, and tie surroundings of the place were as ghastly and horrivie as could be desired. Owing to the extended notoriety that this murder had at- tained, and the popular excitement and feeling it had re ua th ie as 8 lary ory ae | to witness the “éxpirfn on f the two wretches—agonies walch the entire white portion of the community not only en- dorsed and approyed, buat which they were in @ degree gratefu] for. Specimen sprigs of the ivalry in countiess array, with suggestive ures, jowlng hair, black slouch hate and with their breeches stutfed in thelr boots, mounted on horse- back, were present on the outskirts of the crowd, About midday the two condemned men marched from the midst of their ¢ and steadily ascended the steps leading ae trap of the scatfold, where they took seats. Here, alter a prayer which the colored preacuer feelingly offered, they volun- teered a CONFESSION, which was delivered by one assisted by the other, who assented to and endorsed all that was sald. ‘The spokesman, who was very calm under the try- ing cirgumstances, asserted the innocence of—voth, and stated that they died innocent men, While acknowledging they were in the party that mur- dered the poor wagoner, they denied any complicity in the crime. The theory of the affair was at 6k plan «= Was —aagreod a among the militia, that they were to go to a lace called Jonesville to fight the Ku Kinx, but Finding none of the “weird and mysterl ‘aft,”’ they liad resolved to return home and take ‘some. body's head” on the way, Unfortunately for poor Stevens he made an acceptable vic.im, while these loyal militia were in that bloodthirsty irame of mind, and he was sacrificed merely for want of a more worthy subj As they congluded their confession, which had litte effect with the surrounding crowd—the soldiers included—the Snerif and his assistants took cha of tiem, pinioned their arms and ankies and then the black cans were pulled over tho faces of each. At about half-past twelve o'clock, at f given signal, when every oye was riveted on the two living {gistes, when thé crowd held its breath and a death- ¢ silence prevaticd, the bolt got back and the TWO RODIES WERE SWINGING and revolving in mid air. They fell with a jork fet , the roves to thelr utmost tenaion, aud fucttned position of thetr heads justified the belier POLITICAL. Connecticut Legislature—Republican Officers Chosen in Both Houses—Appointment of a Joint Committee to Investigate Errore in tho Election Returns. Harrvorp, May 3, 3871. The Connecticut Legislature convened to-day. Ezra Hall, of Marlborough, was chosen President pro (em. of the Senate and B. B, Kennett, of Hart- ford, Clerk. Tne House chose E, H. Bugbee, of Killingly, Speaker and B, A. Hough, of Danbury, and G. H. Colwell, of Waterbury, Olerks, all republicans, A Joint committee on the canvass of votes for State | officers was raised, to Whom was referred the report of the Board of Canvassers and petitions of the pre- acids 9 hope of heed meet aa, Haven, i; “a e) e terrors in the fekiens rons th towns corrected. In the House a debate arose on the resolution giv- ing this committee power to send for persons and pebéns int Oncor Fu investigate the facts about Bene Kestti§ Col 0 be : Hipaton The demo- ¢ yposed the ting of su wer, claiming It to be uncoustitu onal. The wer Will propaply be granted and the Legislature will probably ad- journ until next week to give the committee time for its investigation and report who have received a Majority of the votes cast for Governor and other. officers hot yet declared eleoted. The usual parade being omitted this year on’ the first day of the session, there are fewer Uap in the city than usual on such a Og When the Governor is declared elected there will probably be a parade on the day of his inauguration next weck, Indlana Elections. INDIANAPOLIS, May 3, 1871. The municipal election here yesterday resulted fn tnesuccess of the entire republican ticket for Mayor and city officers, the majorities ranging from 800 to 1,000, At Columbus, Ind., the democrats elected thelr en- tire ticket, which is a democratic gain At Greencastio the republican ticket was clected.§ ss jigon the democratic ticket was elected. at ti ite tho republican ticket was elected by me independent republican candidate for Mayor al was elected over the regular noml- neo by & small majority. feted has gone republican by an increased mejority. At ee Wayne the democratic ticket was elected meee lay by aa increased majority over the people's tleke POLITICAL NOTES—LOOAL AND GENERAL. Nebraska 1s to have a constitutional convention On & square political basis. John 0. Breckinridge declines to bo a Aclegate to the Democratic State Convention in Kentucky. The Maryland Democratic State Convention 1s to be held in Baltimore July 19, to nominate candidates for Governor and other State oMcers, The State of Minnesota is to hold an election to- day to determine whether she will repudiate her Pecuniary obligations. The election grows out of what is known as the ‘State ratlroad bonds."’ The name of General Buell is mentioned tor the democratic nomination for Governor in Kentucky. The Terre Haute (Ind.) Gazetie nominates Lyman Trumbull as the republican candidate for President in 1872, ASouthern paper says there is a vacancy in the Oustom House at Savannah for some manand brother of the “trooly iol!’ stripe who won't fall aslecp and drop into the river and drown. That fate befell one Henry May a few nights ago. The Washington Patrtot states that Edwin L, Stan- ton, son of the late Secretary of War, is named for @ppointment as Sccretary of the Territory of Uolumbia in place of Ohipman, clected to Congress. Frederick Douglass 1s alsg a candidate for the place. Is not the Rochester Demovcrat (republican organ) Getting a little wild when it says:—Elsewhere will be found the address of the republican members of the Legislature to the poopie of the State. No vand of profiigates and usurpers have ever before been so torcibly arraigned.” What have the good people of the State done that they should be stigmatized as ‘‘a band of profilgates and usurpers ?? The Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche, says the Mont- gomery (Ala.y Matl, has been “spitting out fire” against Southern democrats because they unite with Northern democrats on combined national ground. Having eaten so much fire in former years it is no wonder that some of our Southern fire-eat- ing contemporaries-should want to spit a little of it out whenever they have an opportunity. In corroboration of General Sherman’s views in regard to the Ku Klux outrages we have an account ‘of the examination of four gentlemen of Macon county at Montgomery, on the complaint of @ negro for “Ku Kluxing” him, which ended in proving that the night in question the gentlemen, all of whom he and his wife swore to having recognizea, were somewhere else, and that the negro is a noto- rious hog thief and mischtef-maker. A general State Convention ts to be held in North Carolina, the election of delegates to take place on the first Tuesday in August, {n regard to this Con- vention, the Raleigh Sentinel atates that Judge Mer- rimon has just returned from an extended trip through his native West, in dne health and spirits, and represents the country as ablaze on the conven- tion question. The freemen of the West desire a convention and they are determined to have it, The Macon (Ga) Zelegraph is indignant at the ac- cusation of Senator Morton that Southern demid- crats fre indulging in @ spirit of dictation to the Northern democrats, and avers that since Morton’s speeches Nave appeared it has bat one suggestion from leading democrats tn that section of Georgia, and that is that It would be weil to leave to the con- servatives of the North alone the whole duty of makiog a ticket ana a platform. This is a little more than the Northern democrats or conservatives ask for, It appears that old Ben Wade is not yet out of the field for Governor of Ohio; for the Baltimore Amert- can of the Ist instant ts gratified to ba able to an- nounce to the republicans of Ohio, as well as to the republicans of all other States, the pleasing intelll- gence that the Hon. Benjamin I’, Wade has been so far induced to withdraw his declination to be a can- dldate for Governor of @nio as to consent that he will not decline the nominatlon if tendered to him with such cordiality and unanimity as will remove all doubt from his mind as to the popular sentiment. The Cincinnati Gazette confirms the above. 80 we are likely to have the venerable chief of the St. Domingo Commission on the track for Governor, after all. The interior papers are complimenting their rep- Tesentatives in tne last State Legislature, The Buffalo Commercial 1s particularly laudatory of Senator Lewis, from that district, and says “as a dobater he has ranked with the foremost of fis colleagues,” and he “must be classed with the ablest and truest of our representative men.’ The St, Lawrence Platndealer tiag glowing encomiums for the entire delegation from that county, and especially in re- gard to Senator Parker. How pleasant it is to see the servants of the pe.ple returaing to thelr homes aftera season of public duty and recetving these words of commendation from thelr constituents; and how unpleasant it ts to sce others returning home to meet with only execration from their former friends and supportéra | The Richmond #nqutrer is alarmed lest the wo- men’s rights agitation should take the place of abo- ition, and this “is the ‘issue’ whose rising billow has twice touched and twice receded from the sacred domain of fem: purity in Virginia. Twice,” it continues, “have tne scouts of these American Amazones de la Seine come to spy out our land; and some few of our ladies have beon led by curiosity to go and hear them. These, of course, we acquit of all knowledge of the principles of theso people, 4s of all suspicion of whither these principies tend. But we ask their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, © warn them off from such exbtbittons.” Female curtosity, however, will probably have the same effect in Virginia that it has elsewhere—stimulate a desire to taste the forbidden fruit, The women Tights movement ts, no doubt, atolerably strong one, but upon the pure and high mtnded American, | tyaid and matron tt can have no demoralizing offge HEALTH MATTERS, MEETING OF THE BOARD OF HEALT. Mayor Hall in Attendance—No Organization Yot—Yellow Fever Still on Governor's Island—An Able Communication to the Washington Authorities on the Subject. At the regular weekly meeting of the Board of Health yuse terday all the members, including his Honor the Mayor, were present. Aftor transacting ¢ome routine business the report of the Sanitary Committes was received, Upon an appitoa- ‘Won of certain parties for permit to carry on the slaughtering business outside of the- limite by the Board, and which had been referred to the commitiee at the Inst meeting, Dr. Ceccarint reported adversely, he holding that they would create a nuisanog — in & respectable neighborhood. s Commissioner BARR thought it was high time some aovlon was taken setting aside = permanent where the business of alaughtermg could be on without fear, on the part of the proprietors, of being em!-annually driven out of their butldings and compelled to move. The Board of Health, he sald, has already drivem the cattle business out of the city and county of Now Yorks they were.fast driving the horse business away; had drives the manure dumping business away, and were now trying to expel from the whole ‘sland THR SLAUGHTERING BUSINESS. He held that these various actions of their was highly det- rimental to the business interests of the community, ana had. already cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, and would cost them atill more if the Board pers'sted in such ae- tion. He would now move that in Ser uture no 8 be granted to slaughter animals of say kind south of Nineticth: t, and that this street (Nineticth) become the regulariy ‘eet, prescribed lUmit for all time to come, a0 that persona locati north of there would have some, assurance that they not be disturbed as soon as they had got their bulldings Mr. Gross seconded Mr. Barr's resolution, but took ex tion to his statement that the Board was driving the sl ‘airoet ‘business out of the city. Parties, bh fo ainughlet anywhere nort of F tweet the North river and Tenth avenue on the west and botween the Bast river ahd Second ayonue on the alde, * * Sabet ess ay rhe ‘The debate, which was carried on to @ donsiderable lengtiay was finally OUT SHORT BY MAYOR HALL, 4 pha,tald he thought the discussion was wholly prematara, ag the Banitary Committee could not report other than they under the éxisting ordinance, and he would, therefore, move at tho matter be laid on the table. Carried. minittee, submits the ¢ of yellow fever om joverno! recommended the jestruction the old bniids in which the fever occurred, and the fillingup of the cel as @ measure Ne gessary to the complete annihilation of ‘the poison of the fever. This advice was not foilqwed, and the buildings o tinued to be occupied during the fall and winter. ‘Tho wi weather of the approachiig summer gives indications of # probable high range of temperature throughout the seasom ‘and a consequent unusual activity of latent germs of disease. A GRAVE DERI, PRESENTS TIBELF. fn regard to the liability of another outbreak of yellow fever from the gorms of that pestilence preserved fa tho poroug and decayed buildings in. which it rod and prevailed last year. In his report to the Board on thé outbreak of low ‘fever on Governor's Island Dr. J. C. Nott, a ge Of large experience In the management of this disease, shows conclusively that the special poison of yellow tover main for long periods {nert in buildings and clot! and burst futo intense activity when the season and other circumstances become favorable. In the opinion of the conmee eo the Board unos, not incur the risk, however alight, of a reappearance o ae YELUOW FEVER ON GOVERNOR'S ISLAND during the coming season, but should endeavor to secure the oF, nec fanitary menguree heretofore recommend can ompliahed, however, only Trough the War Ofice at Washington, and the ‘committes respeotfully recommend that the following communication, Sry apineaticntey, be forwarded to the Honorable Secretary ol HONORABLE SRORETARY OF WAR amen ie Board of ith of the Health artment of the City of New York respectfully represents ‘on tne 18ti if August, 1870, yellow fever broke out on Governor's ol Talend, and PREVAILED WITH MUCH SEVERITY $ tuntil the 26th October following, During that period 159 sons were attacked, of whom fifty-two died, The fover prevail in old , wooden buildings on the eastern end of jand, used as barracks and piaces of residence by families of soldiers. These structures are famil! known as “ Lap be Heh pan omy ge re of the post as the centres of ion of contagious ele destruct ded. ion has been a surgeon Guild, in his report on alow fever on Wile | Fuictee in 1856 (Med, Statintics U: 8 Army 1850-700) ‘speaks these buildings 38 a row of old by soldiers” familles, and family i Qeguplea lers” ea, an iy Known as “Rotten row.” Again, he says, “the only localil mite of this at all suspicious of giving tise to this ine ii disease ud {nitio ts that excrosence of the Island, row.’ Itisapold wooden shell of building, with man mates, and affords more filth than all tho rest of tho Ii besides." It is a well established conclusion of those familiar with the habite of yeliow fever that such bulldings as those referred to on Governor's Island may retain the polsom n'a quiescegt stale for an indefinite period; and when the conditions of temperature and season are favorable it may AGAIN BECOME ACTIVE AND VIRULENT. Governor's Island is in such immediate pi busmess centre of New York that, should the disease reap- pear on the Island atan curly period of the approad summer, It would, io the opinion of competeut med authoritles, inevitably spread to the city and prevail with ite former severity. It {8 the desire of this department (9 pre- vent, by timely precautionary measures, the posmbeny such’an occurrence. During the prevalence of the epide Inst summer this Board deemed {t important that the dil dated wooden structures ubore aliuded to, and in which fever broke out, shoud be destroyed, the cellars fille! up and new barracks be built upon another and more healthful aire. ‘This recommendation was not complied with, andthe same vulldings remain, and are, possibiy, centres of ne Board of would again res} y bu reeauruiend that ne improvements thers be hm mediately made, The experience of this during the $Bitsalt of New York may be eerlouay joopurcised wakes fc health of New York mi jously jeopardized wi Femarnn optional with ine toca! miliary -suluoritice whether the sanitary regulations of the city and the measures recom- mended by ‘of Health shall veenforced in thelr commands. Having no jurisdiction over the persons and Droperty under military control this, Board cannot enforce such sanitary improvements as it deems cssential for the Protection of the city, and as will, In ite sudgment, seoure ‘THE OOMPLETE DESTRUCTION tagion. Its power ts limited te the simple recommendation to the miii my important for the protect! She public healtn, and it must janve to ther the respongb ite of their enforcement, It ts the opiaton of this al military commandant stationed within the corporate limits of this clty should be required to faily comply with ite health ordinances, They should make returns to (his depart- ment of all co diseases and all deaths occ amo under their command, and faithfully entoros measures asthe Board’ of Health may from time to time adopt. This Board most earn requests that u will give this subject due consideration and that you will Teaue toe orders in the premises. order of the Board, Tile Honor the Ms YOR sald he wished to express his sincend thanks to the gentleman who drafted the above for the able and sicoinct manner in which it bad been done, and added that no more !mportant matter had been before the Board foe & long time, and that be woud be to accompany the Communteation with a letter fromthe = ~ ORIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE CITY endorsing tt and urging the importance of {ls being complied with. ry Inspector, to whom was referred at the yject in relation to the accommodations om land for smallpox patients, reported that there are now 149 cases there ; that they have accommodations for only 160, and that the percentage of mortality bas been during the season seventeen And s:venty-seven ons hundredths. After recelring the following reports of the Cl inspector and the Register of Records the Bourd, jon of Mayor Hall, adjourned without having effec organization :— Phare the honor to eport that during the past week there were registered 461 deaths, being a reduction of 77 upon the figure of the previous week, The weekly mortality decreased oite mintmam ‘thon far during the present year, the next lowest number, 478, having been reaobod in the week , January 38. AQ compared with the corresponding perlod i870 the deaths during the past week were lens by 5. There was a considerable ABATEMENT IN THE MORTALITY rom amallpox, Whose fatal cases amounted (0 23, against 26 inthe preceding week. The disease has shown 8 Progsee sive deciine within three weeks past, having cut off In @ Foapectively $2, 2 and 38 persons, As its material has dually diminished under the influence of general vaccination Wwe may feasonalty doubt {te continuance as an epidemic much fonger. Scarintina and measles caused severally 15 and deaths, against 13 and 12 {p the previous week ; typhus fever against 2, and typhoid 6agatnst 2. Phthisis pulmonalis was credited with 90 deaths, agal 95, it# relative mortality, Pig ety The mortalil ¢ om 66 to 56. Very re specttully, ota, Pe KUSS: i, D., Register of Records. I bavo the honor to prveni the Le fg ng ieee statement of contagious diseases reported the two weeks ending April 29,1671! — a —— lever — Week Fy: Helape- ae hth Phgit ig Te. ‘sucl however, havi from local resplrat Mea- Dij Me thet, ¢ 3 . M4 9 The total of deaths 4 smallpox for the week was 23; bee thése occurred at the Smallpox Hospital, the remaining 6 a8 6 city. - Fe oreetal corps oy vaccinators during the week heen A Lhe 11,187 famiiios at thelr home sant vacet 8,123 pergons tUerein. In addition thereto children were hecthaled in Wohoois, mhaxing a total of vaccinations per teas the Lind 3 6 eciaiont these re ne an were aecondary vace! oe uh- . MORBA JORRIS, M. Diy mitted, City Sanitary Inspector. Smnrilpox in Brooklyn. Smallpox stil! rétains @ footing in Brooklyn, notwithstand> ing the efforts of the health authoriics to eradicate ft. The singllpox ambulances visit the Twolfth and Sixteenth warig wera! timds @ day to pick up the paticnts and carry them té the Smallpox Hospital at Fiatjush, The citizens have be live y r of yressing ® knowledge of the Srna ate tt sn romana now are secon in the! the autl He Gahan tare tie te uly er Small- i, "o forts jn removing tho pati ror on time b: Ing before them at the Beet Cette teed fly ripe ie u Ital. There were thirty hte of alps reported to tho Health Deparument tnah ook ; “ti PARDONED BY THE GOVERNOR, To rt Eprron oF THN RenaLD:— ‘As one shamefully wronged [nek your publication of the following, decining {t sulctout vindication of my chars acter. CONRAD LAMBLY. STaTR ov New York, Execuriv: sree ALHANY, ay 2, 1871. Granted—Pyrdon to Conrad Lainbly, gonvicted April ty of New York; crime, attemipt to isk yea terran ponte prison, New York Ponttoutiary, salt ¥ umbly. * Me mmender by District Attorney and mi gitizeus of Now York, Upon an examination of the gv of the testimony af to the previous excell Bf the prleonbe (Which ‘is fully ostablished) ho Governor isfied that tho con¢lotion was erroneous. Tcortity that the foregoing 18 a true copy of records this offic rolpting to the pater ‘of Conrai ly. BUGAR K, APG4.@, Pardon Clete _