The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1871, Page 4

4 THE PUTNAM TRAGEDY. Waiting for a Jury—The Trials and Difficul- ties cf Empanelling a Desirable Tales. Men Who Know Too Much and Men Who Know Too Little. N E ‘The weary process of getting a jury together has eliminated from the court room where the Patnam murder trial 1s held all sigus of excitement. At ten o'clock yesterday morning, when Judge Cardozo took his seat on the bench, there was an air of lasst- tide aud languor about the crowd of gentlemen who filled all the avaliable seats in the court room. Now and then a petulant vemark might be heard as to the stupulity of the law that required a jaryman to be a fool, Shortly before the procecdings commenced a bevy of ladies occupied the usual seats assigned them; but there was not enough excitement for the gentier sex, and gbout tweive o'clock they gracefully re- urea, At ha‘f-past ten o'clock Foster, with his hands manacled, accompanied by two very gentlemanly looking deputy sheriffs, walked across the court room, Alter taking his seat his hands were released | witl the | j | of JURYMEN OBTALNED. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. MAY 18, 1871—TRIPLE SHEL. Be was 3) the defence and to en Se Mr. Sigismund Lichtensteder was the next one calied, He had the appearance of a man who Would be quite qualified for the purpose, but he was one of absqusitied after @ long examina- ton. He Sar that he had ed no opinion either for or against the prisoner. Had read the newspaper accounts. Had read the HERALD reports. He had formed an impression as to the guilt of the prisoner which he thought & Would require some evidence to remove. Had no conscieations scrupies im reference to the punish. ment of death. The impression he had formed w: Simply on what he nad read, Had not read the evidence before the Coroner If ne were sitting ea the jury he would act on the evidence. He had no impression on his iniud as tothe guilt or innocence the prisoner, nor any bias against him, ite had also no business relations or knowledge of the prisoner or his friends, He did not know Avery Dd. nam, hor was he acquainted with any of bis trie Mr. Bartlett sald that the defence aid not wish to ‘ convey any Other impression than that Mr. Lichten- | | | ; and placed in the juror’s chatr. ‘afar merchant, steider was & very honest man, but they desired to porempterily chatleage Mr. Lichtenstelder left the court, casting a beaming and radiant smile upon Mr. Bartlett for the merciful deliverance that bad been vouchsaied to him, JURORS SET ASIDR, Prince W. Nicholsou, Louis Inman, Nathaniel P. Ackerman, Wiham ’insent, Lucius EB, Cary, Isaac W, Winne, Edward B. Norton, Anselm C. Loomis, uitas Hyams, Alpert H. Deforest, Hiram H. Durkee, had thew minds made wp and were set aside, MR. HENRY LEO, of 433 Canal street, was snbjected to a short examination, and Sooetan completely the kind of man everybody had been Gshing for that he was captured as a suitable ry, very quickly . Leo 13 a gentic. man of active nervous temperament, with a head of hair and a beard of the cut color oi Rip Van Winkle’s after he awoke from his Jong sleep. As he took his place by the stde of Mr. Usher Ms light weight aud active eye coutrasted oo l-natured, lymphatic look of the from their very undesiyable confinement, and be- | former gentleman. Mr, Leo 1s evidently a gentle- fore the name of the first juror was called he wok his seat by the side of his counsel, ex-Judge Stuart. ~ Foster maintains the calmness and firmness (hat las characterized him throughout ine trial, though to a care ul observer it is evident Man who minds own business, for he had not , heard of the killing until hia attention had been called to it when he was sui ‘moved as a juror, Tie nad scrupulously avoided any conversation about it in bis family as he had been calicd upon to serve as a juror. Did not know anything of the late Mr. Putuam or his e fh oss is Dnt superficial and t { friends, Had no prejudice or bias for or against the = _ a oe me pata , ke ra soodbrcagredl prisoner, If he served on the jary he could serve neath this calm extertor he naturally carmes an mpartially, ‘The triers the counsel on both sides indescrivable anxiety, and the Judge were all unanimous that Mr. Leo The reswt @f yesterday’s proceedings was the addition of tWo Mere jurymen, both very eligible | meu. Three more are wanted, and it Is expe that ihey witli be secured in the course of to-day. MR, ROBERT USHER, JR., ted was © gentleman of very impressive appearance, | He was fair, fat and probably forty, He had a weil- set head, with asurrounding of Lair hair and English- cut whiskers, His expression was indicative of good tener, common sense and a thorough enjoy- meni ol the good things of this life, Before he took lus place in the witness’ chair he looXed around the court, held Ms hat in his hand and seemed rather perplexed at the novelty of his position. There was wgencral whisper around the tables that he would | Preconcelved opinions : be a suitable he nh sumone: juror and yotld jom the jury fulfilled, Mr. Jurors who had be numerous prophecies prophecy that was like nearly all th u before tie court, replied to the tuquiries of counsel that he had an | juIpression as to the case, but that he had formed + emptory chalicnge. | no Opinion as ty the citme Or as to the degree of the | very few who,had not formed any opinion and yet crime, He was pressed ratuer closely Attoruey Garvin on yy District this poine, and he said:—“I 1 { ; erick was an eminently competent man. thereiore, sworn. EXCUSED JURORS, Joseph M, Shute, David Keyes, John V. Dye, Frea- Martin, Jolin £. Deen, Joseph Hall and Wil- liam G, Lane had fixed opinions and were excused, Mr, Leo was, took a recess of thirty minutes, At the reassembling at two o'clock the following were cXamined and placed among THE REJECTED: Goodman Newhauer, Ellin A. Sutliffe, Charles K. Bell, Charles W. Lent, James ‘Taylor, Juius Otten- , heimer and George Haupt formed opinions, and were therefore rejected. Mr. Abraham S, Grabfelar was examined and ap- | peared to have a very decided, opinton that Foster kilied Mr, Putnam, and he was rejected. Tie tollowing gentlemen were also set aside on John Abendroth, Jonn N. Bradley, Hiram Poole, Christopher Cramer, Wiliam fi, Fowler, James V, Parker and William i, Riker. MR. JAMES M. M’KINLEY was the cause of considerable legal discussion and several spread-eagie speeches from counsel on vot sides. He was ultimately discharged on a per- This geniieman was one of the seemed to have every requisite fora juror, He said that, although he had read an account of the case in ; have not come to a conclusion a8 to the nature of , tne papers, he had no donbt that he could sit on the We oll ‘There is ap it that 1 led Mr. Patna The Instriet -Attorney— tious scrupies anout Would result in the punishwent vl deatay Air. Usher—I have not. The instrict Atorney—T challenge tn favor of the juryiuan. Yo Mr. Usher—Have you any ac- qaumtiauce with the prisoner or his friends + Mr. Usher—No, A nunver of questions in this direction of inquiry Were ushed bY the Disiticl Aioruey, aud tue replies Were ali in the uegative, and answer:—‘] stand clear of all impression or preju- you any conscien. dice for or agaist the prisoner, m all respects, ex- cept taut is uta”? ‘The Visir.c Would youif you fat on the your’ Mr. Usher—Y District Atior agaiast the pri stated Mr. District verdict? Mr. Usner—Yes. Tth.nk I would, y—iluye you auy 3 for or mer other tho what you have r—I have not, Attorucey—Would you give an lopartial tnging in ® verdict whica | resto ULL My Mind | jury aud reader an inpariial verdict. |,the Court of Appeals, then these Judges would pat away from them | If it wer found that Foster liad killed Patnam he should ce: tainly tind him guity of some crime. Mr, Bartlett said that before the Court charged the triers he wished to address @ few words to those wentiemen, Atsome length he rephed to the ulle- gaiiou made by Assistaut District Attorney Fellows that the defence was seeking to empanel a jury of idiots. On the contrary, the defence desired ‘the most intelligent jury that could be summoned, In- deed they would very much I!ke, if 1t could be done, that the case should be deciied before the Judges of for it was certain that all impressions that they might have formed. Mr, Bartlett thea argued at length as to the disability of | @n impression a joryman’s mind, and argued that Mr. McKinicy was thas disqualified by his admissicn that be had a bias and an abiding impression, Assistant District Attorney Feltows replied at lengti, and with great ability, and showed that it jnrymean should be destitute of amy impressions in a case Hike this, Ex-Judge Stuart in response sald that the Assist- ant Dirtrict Attorney had confounded tne inter- pretation of the law, and had applied his argu. Boih parte. were satisiel, and there was evi- | Ments to tne challenge for prinetpal cause instead dentis a i Uiat a juror bad beeu found so early tine day, When there Was @ Sudden palse by the Juror turning W te sudge and rewarking, “it Will be incouventeus fur me Ww serve. i bave my business to atend bo.’? The Jud e —You must be swora, sir. Mr. Uster then took tie oat, and moved, appa- renuy very much disappointed to Luvjury bux, his fel- jow jurymen Weicouiug the desirabie ac. C104 Wii | N18 Honor to a cas delighi, Xr. Usher. however, ev.deniy did not share the felicitous ‘eelug, bui straightened nimself beiore ue vccupled the jury chair, directing & lence Ww ihe Court agu speciatoss whicu pluuly suid, “B hold a mariyr.”? The tellowrg gentlemen were called, but were | accounl of preconce Sidney U. Fasrouud, W inerman, nels K. Simpson, Samuel Ms 7 Joseph antier, Ixaac M. Brown, Elijah P. Sneddon, vavian Harris, benty McNally, Frederic’ A. Jobo touper, Frederick Staniey Jr., Ge Peter Hines, Solomon Canghrnai MR. JOHN L. & YN, manufacturer 01 jurniture poss, o u25 Kast seven- teenth str es, looked a iikely man, and there is no { doubt he would have gove to the jury box; dutin Nis examination it was dropped tnat he haa spoken to somebody, a neighbor of his, yesterday about the tial, and Uiat Was suMicieudy ‘suspicious, and the triers would ot trust him, Mr. Braooyn said that he had formed no opinion | W! Dimigei! as vw the cuse; iad beard opinions expressed cilug Ol congraiuiation around ike cout | | Camera was sli tent or not. of the triers. It had been sald by Recorder Hotfman that the triers should look into the mind of the can- didate for the can, 18 conditio tne prisoner and the people, and they have a right | of challeage by lavor, Afier arguing unis with con- s.derable vehemence, the counsel referred to the Attorney, and said that the impression on the ut and, ieeble, bus When it was pi.ced m contact With chemicals that impression Jnstrice Atiorney Garvin called the attention of before the courts ol a challenge mau, Who Satd that he had read ola ju accowut In the papers and supposed the prisoner was gulity of the crime, The Recorder, who is now Governor Hofinen, charged that the triers were to take 9 common seuse view of the question, look into bis wind anu if they found it impartial wey were to adunt the juror, The Court of Appeals supported that direction. If there ever was a case in which an impartial man was presenied to the jury itis the gentl-man who is now before the triers. Judge Cardozo, in charg! p of Jaw that can be given to you that you hether this or any other juror Is compe- It 13 all referred to thé common sense by favor jur and determine, ag far aa they ad to examiue that as between by otiers; Was quite clear that the eviaence bad not left any umpression upon bis mina as to the gulit or the innocevee of tne prisouer, ‘those whom he had ee away. He had read the evtdence at the Coroner’s d (alk about it had expressed themseives very | Prejudice y. Some of them were lor lyucting Foster right j inquest, but i did not produce any thougnt upon | Mis Mud as tO the Mmuocence wr the guilt of prisonet. In reply to tie District Attorney Mr. Urabyn said that he had no consceatvious scruples in giviig & Verdict that might result in a sen- lence of death. He did not know the parties ther side. He Nad not sat as a juryman ona criminal case. He would be enurely governed by ihe evidence that mughs be presented to nim. fo no opinion ar ail. 3 kitled by Foscer, and that there enough to show this, He had uo views. He was only aaxtous to give the man a fair and impartial trl. He dig hot kuow where either tuo prisoner or his triends lve | asked him whether \ Le replied that ne a jurot of the jury you per think | a@ strange question Lo inquire whether you wer naed ou the jury Mr. Brabyn—No. J meet the wan every day, Foreman—What Is his name? Mr. Braooyn—Mr. Walderger. The triers decided the Jur, man Incompetent and he was set aside. EXCUSED JURORS. 4 William 0, Linthecuin, Isaac vy and Frederic Newell were excused, haying Axed opiuoas, Mr. Charles H. Blackhurst, a stair builder, resid. Ing at 126:h strect, Hariem, scemed likely to be fxea on the jury, but after a loag mibaion he was peremptorily challenged by the prisoner's counsel. He did not teke newspapers reguiariy; be haa no preference tor one hewspuper over another, Me did not KnoW any of te parties on ether side. He gen- erally read ihe HERALD, sometimes the Sun and occasionglly the Tires; those were the only three newspapers he 1 had read the Heratp the last two days; saw the proce ‘Ss of the Court iu yes- verday moraing’s paper; not read about the case Until the last two day about other Uimngs, tha: was the reason; had served as a juryman on criminal cases before; had not formed any opinion as to the guilt or Imnocence of the prison! 1 no conscientious scruples in ren. dering a verdict that wonid involve a sentence of death. In repiy to Mr. ‘ilett, he said that he saw sn the papers that Mr. Patnam was murdered by a car hook; ie did not kuow where the killing was Gone or by whot. Prisoner’s counsel challenged this gentieman premptorily and he Was set aside. Pir. Willlau TL. Lawrence, Moritz M. Goidsmith, and John P. Blanvelt had all formed opinions ana could not chauge them; they were, thereful aside. MR. JAMES N. TRIMBLE, of Hast Twenty-eighth st was a hopefal candi- pate for the juror’s chair, bul, alter an examinai/on, was found wanting and was set agile. several accounts in the — newspapers but us) experience §=ohad = taught) =m = not to place unlimited reilance on newspapers, He read nearly all the daily papers, though he wad not read the Coroner's inquest in the Poster case. Had no scruples of conscience as to the sentence of death, Mr, Trimble afier this auswer turned somewuat tinorously to the Judge that he had sume business connection with s the prisoner's frenas, and on that account he did not ike to sit om the Jury. District Atiorney—Had you any with Mr. Patnaw or any of his friends. Mr. ‘Trimbie—No. Exduige Stuart—Will your Honor charge the triers Ural Lbs is no bar to Mr. Trimble serving. Judwe Cardozo charged that they were to take iio consideration, with all the other testimony wiven, Whether this business relationship was apy impediment im the way of impartial servic acquaintance e wiers found Uiat Mr. ‘Trmuble was compe- tent. He was challenged peremptority by the Dis. Irick Aitorney, and was eet aside. Mr. Frederick Goodrich had au opinion and was set asine. Mr. Mavk Levy was subjected to along cxamina~ tion and was set aside, Je was uyblassed and kpew very litle about the case, Had heard people tuik about it, but haa formed no opinion, He had no conscientious scrupies against nading a verdict of quailty where the panishuent is death. He had reat | | Surkey, Iie | Falkner, oust Putnam | ? Rene ha ewer | Smirh, were all rejected on account of preconceived | i I, he had been very busy | Coroner | \ | | his wife, standing by # windo' ‘ strnggling to free herself from her husband, {| shameful manner and would not give me bisfare. The to say that he is competent, or if otherwise to tind | that he 1s not so. ‘ue law allows the triers to say "her they think that the evidence that would be wrought before him wonld remove the impar- lialny or not. I would suggest to the triers tnat if there is evidence before them that the juror has only the impression that every one gets, and no beyond that, it would not be well to reject such a one, Un the contrary, if you are of an opinion that the impression ts tixed it will be better for you to set ihe juror aside, Mr, McKinley Was setaside on a peremptory cha!- lenge from the dcience, JURORS REJECTED. Leonard K. Smith, Wiliiam Embersoi Edward Menan, fdward H. Falconer Duggan (Nassau sircet), William jayne, Henry artin Chanen, Charles Horne, Charles Witham Henry Stephens, Patrick Mehoncy, Reemers, James O. Balmun and Xussel Levi Eilts, und John A. Henry opintoua. Jt was now five o’clock, and ex-Judge Stuart e1 the Court whether the time had not come tor adjournment. Judge Card said that he under- stood that there were only seventy ballots in the ou Nanded over to the | Vox, and he should prefer waiting until those were | ed if counscl had no objection, ox-Judge Stuart pleaded ior an adjournment, aud he comt was adjourned until helf-past ten this morning. Disiriet Attorney Garvin wished all wit+ es for the prosecution to be in attendance at that hour. ‘There are still three vacant chairs waiting to be | | filled by jurymen. THE TEVENENT HOUS MURDER. Throwing His Wite from a Window—Investi- gation To-Day. Frederick Hoffman, George Kuine, William Mc- ! Carty and Thomas Hayes, witnesses in the case of Witliam Rudd, charged with throwing his wife Mar- garet from @ third story window of the five story tenement house No, 153 Reade street, on Tuesday | night, thns causing her death, as heretofore pu)- | lished in the Henan, were yesterday brought before | Young, at the City Hall, by omeer Joliey, of the Third precinct. Hume made an infor- mal statement which bore heavily against the pris- oner, and went to show that Mrs, Kuda was pur- pees pushed from the window by her husband, Tume said tat sberiiy alter ten o'clock at night, while partially asleep, he was aroused by his wife, | who asked if he did not want a glass of lager beer. Just at that ume his altention was attracted, by hearing a scream, and, looking out, saw Rudd, with , she apparentiy Who baa one arm around her neck and with the other pushed up the window; the strug- gling coutinued, during which (Hume alleges Kuad pushed her out, and she fell into the rear yard. nother oj the witnesses, occupying # room adjoin- ing that of tne prisoner, hearing the noise and having his fears greatly aroused, attempted to enter Juada’s room, but te door was locked, As soon ag Hume and his wife saw Ars. Rudd fall he ran down stairs to call the police, soon after which Kudd appeared on the street with a knife in his hand, and, im a mournful tone of voice, sald his wife Hume replied, you chucked her out, and 1 @ my wife saw you do it." Or cer Jolley Lien came and, arresting Rudd, pat a #top to further discus. sion between prisoner and witness by taking them to the Chambers street Police station, As Coroner Young was unable to proceed with the investigation atonce he adjourned 1 tl this LO The body, on whieh there seemed to be no severe external marks of violence, was sent to the Morgue to await a post-mortem examination hy Wooster Beach, M. D. MARRIAGES AND Iivonces.—President Woolsey, of Yale, who has been compiling the statistics of divorce, finds that in Vermont the ratio of annual divorces to annual matriages foots up for seven years a lotal of 790 divorces to 14,710 marriages, or & ratio of one to twenty-one. In Mussachosetts, for a period of four years, there was atotal of 1,022 divorces to 45,072 marriages, @ ratio Of one to forty- four. In Obio, 1m 1806, the divorces were 1,169, mar- riages 20,479, or @ ratio of one to twenty-seven, In Connecticut, in a period of eight years, the divorces: foot up 2,910, Marriages 34,227, @ ratio Of one to eleven. and | twas now half-past "coc: court | It was now half-past one o'clock and the court | derer, those who are, in my opinion, responsible for such out- | was idie to ask, nan age like the present, that a | figure of the camera used by the Ass'stant District | became indenbie and no chemistry could remove it, | ing the jury caid:—rThere | d fallen from the window, to which | PERILS OF THE RAIL. BROADWAY BEASTLY BIPEDS. anne Voluminous Letters from Citizens—Ladies Declare Their Grievances—Tricks of the Trade Ex- posed by a Conductor—Spicy Corre- spondenos on the Car Question. Below will be found a number of letters from citl- zens setting forth the insults and indignities to which passengers are subjected, It will be scen that many absurd as well as excellent suggestions | are offered for tne better security of street car tray- | ellers, Another Car Outrage. To THE EvttoR oF THE HERALD :— ‘Bin—I take the liberty of acquainting you with an incident that happened to me on bne of the cars, and permit me to say that the frequent recurrence of such an incident must cause serious annoyance to American society, of which I take you to be the representative. Yesterday, at balf-past eight | o'clock in the evening, I entered University place car No. 88, at the corner of Forty-eizhth street and Broadway. Thanded the conductor a two dollar bill to take out the car | fare. A few seconds afterwards he returned and asked m snislier change!” “No, sir; not @ cent,” ell, take your bill; Tcan’t carry you. Next'car de, however, | fe coming,” was his peremptory answer, nia | no remark, took the two dollar bill back and left the ear, not without taking down the number of the car, which I deni; nate to you as@bove. Not content with having publicly tn. suited me this samo conductor made—I was avout to impertinent re irks; but the term does not express it, for ho flung at me ths grossest epithets, which, out of respect for you and for myself, I will nok here repeat. | I then took Seventh avenue car No. 116, in which [ found a conductor who had a proper sense of his duty. You wi.i easily, | understand that these insulting expressions addressed to me, without any provocation whatever, and coming from a ma: whom I had never eeen before, could not touch me in least, But the delay occasioned by this incident was © ressiug 1 leave i¢ now toyou, alr, to form an opinion of this maiter, aud remain, yours respectfully, No. 75 Broad atreet, M, CUSTEL, ‘The Railway OMcials to Blame—The Admin- istration of Justice a Buriesque. To THE Eprror or THE HERaLp: Sin—Every respectable member of the community must | feel grateful to you foe the manner in which the HrKaLp has come out on the Foster-Putnam murder, honest indignation of the public ia directod against the mur- rages, escape not only punishment, but blame. I refer to the directors of the raliroad company, They goin solely for making money, and care not for the aufferings of passengers nor the insults they receive, If these men would pay thar | conductors and drivers respectable wages and make the situ- | ation worth competing for they would get honest and able | men for the work; then passengers could tewvel in atcurity as regards both person and property ; and they (the company) would be in pocket the losses they sustain through dishonest employes. Tam a forelj and bave certainly been astonished at the amount of erin t takes place in this city, A fair share of the Her. taken up every morning {n chronicling murder and robbery, but we seldom hear of the police mi ing arreais; and when a oaptare {8 made what's the result > | Why, his trial, from beginning to end, sayors more of the per- | formance of 4 buries jue than a court of justice maintaining its dignity and striking terror Into the hearts of evil-doers, | The press ot this city is a good deal given to sueering at th institutions of the old country, but if juatice was dealt out as fearlessly and carried {uto effect as Fyorously hers as there, the Hi:RALD would have been saved the painful duty of an: houneing the death of ® respected citizea who lost ia Ute white shielding two ladies from insult. ‘sho cause of all this lawiessneas is traced to the fact that | the very worst class of soclety have the power of prineipied men in ofiice, and these mén, in turn —to obtain oilice or keep what power they have already gained—must ! pander to the worst passions of those who are helping them on, That being the fact, is ft astonishing auch a state of } things ? No, sir; ‘and uniess an eifectual check is struck at the root of the'evil ertme will become greater just in proportion to the increase Bf population, The remedy for ail this is easfiy found, and only requires the citizen to do his duty ina peaceable and law-abiding manner. When the time comes round for the election of officers to | fl positions of tint and. responsibility, bring for. ' ani thing bad en let every respectable citizen's vote tell how this | tobe governed, 4 Who hare itm thetr power to do this, wee duty. Then, and not till then, will Inteliigence and worth have a far show in the management of the city’s affairs and ballot box stuffers and repeaters be forced to find a living in some other way than by doing tho dirly work of their former | pals but now theit patrons, Til once this ts accomplished | ut #0 long will this great, intelligent and | She ruled by the scum of the land. ‘rusting you will aperous city ‘ive this & place ih your plucky, independent and widely-circulated ; Paper, gary de A JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC, AY 6,1 71. To Tu® Epitor or THe HERALD:— Ido think {f all the ladies would write you their petty | | Insults to a Fifth Avenue Lady. i ' H | grievances rogarding the rudeness of conductors, and the im- pudence and effrontery of rowdies they meet with, their ex, perience would monopolize your columns and startle the ; community, Last Wednesday I rode for the frat timo (and it |. sball be the very last) on Grand street car, No. 100, In | passing in aman caught my arm and not only pressed and Aqueezed me and held me until L had to jerk myseif from his fT, but insisted on holding me. I turned and domaniedt how he dare act so, when he and the conductor both burat | outin aloud laugh, Twont in and took my seat, when the conductor—a big, burly Irishman—sterped in emartiy, say tom, “What did vousuy,madam? What did you say?” I | pala my fare without a word, when the conductor went back } again and for several minuies seemed to bo enjoying with | the fmpadent scoundrel a good laugh over wrich joke. It | feema to me to be geiting so now that unices a lady wishes to | be unobserved she mus? put on a severe face, look at nothfuz-~ | ace nothing. Now that New York is agitated over the recent j outrage Lhopo fora change, aulPy know many ladi will accord with my views, YOUNG MATRON, Tenclose my name, not for putlication, but as evidence of and correctness in the matter. | The Putnam Murder—Judge Cardoze Compli- mented. To THY Eprror oF THE HFRALp: Sre—Justice should aways be administered without preju- | dice or excitement; bu! the public has yet to learn that it ought to be administered in such @ manner as to balk its own ends and favor the criminal in every way. Postponing } Forster's trial on account of public excitement is to give him that chance for his life which he denied to his unhappy vic- | tim, Did he, I wonld ask, give him any time to prepare bin | gelf before he sent him into the presence ot his Creator? iy. then, should he ask inore than he gave? He .certal expcots it; nnd the present administration of th every ca ing In nearly ev to protect the murderer— shown by nimerons enses past, where timo given lim—gives him regson for ‘doing so. Why | made? | Are not for the good of munity? Who are the judges? Are they not the chosen representatives of the people for complete fulfilment of thore laws? If, then, | Cetive fails to fulol the duties In | not pulic opinio ouusel pleared t0 call it, excitement-—be hi ne weight? Ta ppy | tosee that we have atleast oné judge in New York (Cardozo) | who knows his duty and intends to really administer justice | impartially. To prevent any more loss of time I would eall | Upon ail tratmen, who have wives ond daughters to protect, | notto let this case be shuffled of by more delays, but to | keep up theexcitgment nati this wretch 16 dealt with as he doscrves, and explates his diabolical erime. Such flends xs Foster ate better out of the world than in it: they dono good and are a constant source of fear and dread to honest | peopl much more ornamental (on the gal- Tospecttul hat represen- ed Upon him why should | Fares for Cuildren—4 Lady Speake To THR Epitor or tHe HERALD :~ S1n—While there 1 euch an agitation abont conductors in the pubite mind, permit me to ask «simple Inquiry. Has a | child, who pave threo cents fare, a right to ageat? In riding | ona Sixth avenue car some weeks since, with a young son | aged not ten years old, [give a fifty cent piece to the con- ductor for our fares, He deducted what 1 supposed was { legal fare for our rides. Twice he took the boy by the shoul | cera out of his seat, giving it to aman anda woman. Being @ heavy city taxpayer, and my anc aving settled this | enty, Tfeit netted and annoyed at auch a proce spoke to the conductor and naked him not to repeat his act. He repiied—'Pay full fare and he can bave # geal which I did, telling him he never bad demanded » full fare. He said “it was his orders,” apd “whether it was a poor bo: | ora rich one he should dispossess him of his seat," I woul | for the aake of mothers in general, destre to ascertain if this | is a legal proceeding according to the charter of these vari raliroad routes and the theory on which is based the id jo stand from City Hail to Central Park or to IL A READER. ac | lem, Wants to a Conductor. { New York, May 15, 1871. | To THe Eprror or tH Henan: Sre—1am a conductor on car No. U7 Third Avenue Rai | road. Yesterday morning patro!man Irarc Connolly, of the Twenty-first precinct, got on my car on the down trip at | Seventy-eighth strect and Third avenue, After passing | Fitty-ninth street, ana seeing he did not belong to the Nine- | teenth preeinet, I went for his fare, when he abused me ina | A Drunken Pollcem: Hea “Pat a 1 irer*s clerk, being on the car at the time, took his num- | ber when he got off. Rut he on my car this mornin, Deaatly drank, ‘and said if T would make a charge again | nn thst be would ctub the whole bead off me, and nally ent | no abusive and used such language in the presence of the j ladies in the car that I stopped the car and had him put of | by th Third avenue. Now, sir, e that was on post on hes are we (o expect from rough when druncen po on the cars jn uniform, can ase the langrvage he made wee of F } Yours reapectfuliy, JAMERSJ. BEVINE, | Car No. 117 Third Avenne Railroad. Railronds va. Public Accommodation. To 1H Eprton or THE HERALD: — Sin—I left Carlstadt, Bergen county, N, J., this morning, with a ticket for New York, on the nine A. M. train, via Erie Raliroad, which said ticket the conductor sald was one day after time, and claimed double fare. The sum, although small, [had not with me then, but offered bim as security a parcel (value three dollars), nfso my pocketbook, containing Ing private papers, which he refused, and inainted in patting ine of the train, watch be did ckensack Bridge, making | me walk some four or five miles in the rain, j HUMANITY. President Mareball Extolled. NEw York, May 8/1871, ‘To THE EvrtoR OF THE HERALD :— The dally papers have been filled with communications, eased forth by the murder of Mr, Putnam, severely censur- ing the managements of all the city railroads, particulariy that of the Broadway, upon which the crime was com- mitted. In justice to the Preaident, Mr, Jesse Marshall, and the Superintendent, Mr. Leadbetier, the public ought to be made acquainted with the fact that these gentlemen are particnlar and rearching im their exaroination of men who ‘wish to ob\aim appointments ae condugtors ur drivers, and But, while the | e e ors NOT WIS TO HAVE TO CARRY A SIX- } arg ready and wing to ten with enareny io complaints of yaaenens a, ifreamen it conductors and. os creo pas. ‘scugers an: ees wt Once wrong Nothing that has been or ean ‘be taid ‘condemnatory enough of the foul deed that has called forth go muca {dig ation, but it fs hardiy just to take advantage of this un‘or. tunate aifair to and abuse upon the heads of ee a TE na well aa t stockholders of the road, ‘RUTH. WN. B.—Mr, Marshal resigned his office the Ist of this month. A Beast in a Eiith Aveoue Sta, To Tae Epitor oF tHe BrRaLD:— Siu—An I was riding in a Fifth avewue stage the other day a drunken rowdy entered and took his seat bestte a lady ; she yold him to move alittle and he'satd he woutd not, and began langurge. I told the driver that he ide, but be took no notice of wr. Teall, bat 1 waited a little while to see if I could find a police- could not, s0 selobeanied 2S A Vile Ruffian on the Eighth Avenue Line. New You«, May 11, 1671. To Tim Evrror oF rue Renat.p:— Sin—Perhaps enough has been said in your valuable sheet to satisfy all that nolady is free from insult im our pubile conveyances. A few evenings since, as I was on my way up town, with my wile, we en‘ered an Eighth avenue car, and immediately a lady arose, offering my wife a eat, She asked if she was going out, She said she was soon, and in- upon my wife Ing the which she did, and had sue ridden three blocks bei she felt the hands fore the ofa dre! about her kets, and, not wish. ing to ereate n commotion in the cary st ie until sho could endure it no longer. 6 called me, 251 had been pressed to the other alde of the car, it being crowded, reached her the villain arose and leit the car, of sight before I knew what ree, was. who had vacated the sent sai ad annoyed her for a long time, and she gave up the seat to my wife, as she thought he would ‘hot dare aitempt it with Ler, as gentleman Jr. I think the ladies are too sensitive upon the matter, and instead of allowing anch things should expose such mis- creante at Once, as there are always enough gentlemen pres- ent to resent sach things aud bring ihe of fenders to justice, A CONSTANT READER OF TH“ HERALD, Advice to Car Travellers. To THR EpI10R oF THE HERALD: Smm—As your columns seem to be open for the general expression of the public in just condemation of the recent car hook murder, would a few suggestions be out of place? I think the people have the power in their own hands to regulate a great mary of the evlis of which they complain. Firstly, let every one avoid cars and stages both, so far as they bly can, and by walking improve and benetit health, "Beconaly, let vey on tnsist upon having & stopped in getting on or off of the same. Third froportant of all, let every mai bas an occasion to ‘get on to jempt to they seq plenty of room inside the car and any person or Logs of wha‘ever description or appearauce, sianding upon the plat. form with the conductor, It sone of the rules on all the in the at on shall ride or stand Seem 5 EBES 3 8 s z upon the platfo ; but, ike nearly all of the rules which are intended for the bits good, never en: murderers, rob forced. People must expoot to encoun- bers, thieves and pickpocke:s when the) & car past the conductor and load of passengers would bo jus\iiied returned and loaving @ oar whenever adriver or conductor stops his car to tke ona drunken man. REFORMIST, Conductors as Special Police, New Youk, May 4, 1871. To me Eptror oF m8 Henaun:— every conductor should be sworn in special constable to preserve order on the car on which he may, for the time | being, be doing duty, with power to arrest disorderly per. sons and turn them over to the police; the magistrate a ministrating the oath to be frst satisfied of the good char acter and general fitness of the applicant; that asannlts on | conductors while in the dlacharge of thelr iuiy be, puntahed | with unusual severity, ‘The effect of tals would, I think. he | that we sbouid haves betier ciass of conductors, who, con- clous that they were, under the special proveetion of law, would be fearless {n the discharge’ of theim duty, while fear of severe pun! wonld have the effect of terrifying the rowdy class into good bohavior on the cats, Yours, tral NATHANIEE GILL, 115 Broadway. NEW ORK, May 16, 1871. To Tue Eprron ov THR HERALD: Sin—Returning from business on Moyday afternoon I entered @ car at Houston and Wooster streets, and, taking oat my HERALD (which I nlwaya havo with me) bogun ren: ing, when my attention was drawn to an intoxicated person, who was talking In not avery respectful manner and which was very insulting to the ladies’ who were fn the car. The conductor came in and remonstrated with him wih very little effect. ‘The conductor eame to collect his fares, and asked him very politely for his faro, which he refused to pay, aying that he had no money. ‘The conductor then ordered him off tho car, but ho refused to go. A gontlo- man, aot wishing any disturbance on the” ear, paid his "fare, which served to. keep him quict a litte while. ‘The next thing on the programms was that this rutfan went out on the rear platform and beyan abusing the conductor ina most shameful manner, and it I had been that conductor I woul have been tempted to knock the scoundrel off the car and I think I wonld have been up- held in tt, ‘The car stopped for a lady and gentlemm to get on, and how What do you think the impudent rascal dia? stdod jn the way so that thy could wot get om, ‘and when polltely requested to allow them to pasa used words wiiich I will not utter, and sald that 1f they wishet to get on. th could get on the other side, Now, Mr. Kditor, Ithink that {t ta about timo that auch ruflanism is stopped. 1¢ peoplo are not protected from being insulted by auch conndrels aa this one is, then I call upon every person who loves. the law to | carry’ snlletent protection with him. There waa u time ! when people could go any time of the night without any rotection, but now I think that that time is past. Doplay hat vou share with mo the indignation of such rniliniiain, remam, yours truly, JUSTICE, - A Physician’s Physic for Crimiunis. To THE EnIToR or THR HERALD:— 8i1n—The increase of crime in our midst is so alorming that T thiuk every man who can contribute any new ideas for it suppression should do so. Your paper furnishes, of course, the greatest medium for any such communication. There- fore, 1 write you, fee'Ing that,tnasmuch as I have spent a portion of my life in many different countries, 1 might say something to the point. Many of the young men or boys of this country are nover taught any useful trade, or, if taught at all, are so poorly accommlished as workmen that they find dliteuity in getting employment, The: illiterate youth is also too much outside of the control of his parents, He 18 too sceptical to be controlled by the church, and not intelligent enough to control his own desires, He tins a ,rendy victim | to j temptations, the first of which is a pretty girl, of whicn some thousands parade the streets at night, to rob him of his last loose change, The young fellow a ten are bi projecs: nt schemes for raising a little money are the chief lopics he converses upon, Asa doctor we must first remove these two great causes of crime before we can hope toefiect a nent cu for crime itseil. Of course we cannot oblige parents (0 train up thetr boys! to industry wnd right counness, But T willtell you what we can do, for it is done in nearly all other civittxed countries. We can’ take qharce of every man or boy asa vagrant who habitually lounges around the streets, and compel him to show some vi means of support, or otherwise lock him up. ‘This would, wcreat measure, clear out many of the present dangerous thoroughfares,anc oblige thousands of now worthless fellows to go to work at something or other and ultimately become good eltizens, The same conrse must also be pursued against disreputable street women. ‘They are tempters, to lure away the rising generation, and as auch must be removed. No policeman should be permitted to ou ind of ki * You will & disgrace to our civilization, med police, an‘ capecially in the present dangerov war I will answer you by referring you to the most fined locatiiies in England and Scotian ‘and that 1 we mit | Jesly. For resisting an arrest give @ man six month | prisonment, For sictietny a pollceman sent the crimini for ten years, T have scex one policeman, unarmed, go into A gang of roughs in London and handeutt and. march of no less tnan six prisoners, No half dozen of out emai have done it, because we do not protect them, Nt y there are no finer policemen in the world; and, juidger need trintalng up. Thev should be residents fof a Tony Ume before betng eligible to oNice.. Policemen of Chis city wili tell you that they know of many bad men that ought to be arresied, but if before the court they would be discharge: ‘or let off on straw ball, Another thin we shonid do at once. pay to alderm: rates and td nal erfmina any of the persons {mplicated, but ail the accused should be locked up and earefuliy and weil treated until duty conviciet or proven fnnorent. In cases of stealing the accused might ive bail, provided the itm was twice the amount stolen, ergons offering to compromise a robbery by advertising of otherwise soliciting for a consideration to the robber or thief © may go unpunished, provided he returns a portion or ald be deemed abettors of rovbery and theft, aud #0 Ave should cut off all } Save a fixed salary, puoished. Speedy trials are probably the most important Of all things to strike terzor to criminals. Yon will recolleet how quickiy the vigilance committee in sun | | Francisco made nociety sate im those early day: | was in that city at that thna it diMicult” to get commities organized, ‘but crime al ed xo much that something desperate had to be done, Well, it was like a sorm clond; ft went over tne in quick time and loft it ali sunshine for a while. In it gave auch protection for the time being that many of the people ceased lockin their do Everything became safe. re eomparavel. few people were hanged. it wa the apeerly trial und execution that did it, ‘ake the present case—the killing in the Seventh avenue ear, Foster shonid have been tried on Satarday, and it guilty, as reported, should be tung on Monday should ve no second hearings abou! it, Nor should any eror’s pardon overrule the decision of twelve intelligent jurors. “There is no reason in nine cases ont of ten why wi accused cannot be (ried within one or two daya after arrest, and the proportion fy ett! greater where any case needa a second hearing or a Governor's pardon. J Ny "nere ny Gov- Livel¥ Gossip from a Condactor—“How the Old Thing Woiks” with Polltici: Naw You, May 6, 1871. To THE Erron oF THE Heranys— S1R—Our travelling conveniences on Manhattan Island, what we nacri.'ce and what we enjoy for and from them, are now serious, very serious questions with tne community at Jarge. That we allow them to monopolize all our main tho- roughfares with lines of rails (not casually by mere way of Joke, we will mention four Hines on the Howery, when two are ample; lines in Ann, Chorch agd other spacious road- ways, names superfuoun), and having given up a valuable col- lective right of citizenship to a private monopoly, we bave = to claim a quid pro qu, which even our politicians up the river, who grow fat on our discomfort, will duit we fail to get, and in their odious slang, swear it 1s hardly a “far ake.” Do the London omnibuses carry one extra passen- ger overand above their seating capacity? Echo answers never—not even one Derby day, Do the Paris, Brussels or Vienn bite vehicies crowd crush their patrons, who | Sonuent 40. allow their exjtence? “Mort caohatiealy they come ai juestion Vl) ow fal Rae oe tain in New Tork in ot. do we allow this disgra: the year 1871 We ‘who have our cet Brit and other floating palaces, our palatial saliroad boudoirs an: drawing rooms, cannot boast of the common comfort of a respectable, and cheap conveyance on out main thorough. fares, and day in and day out are we setting up the Phari- fee's cry that we are pot as men are, ideadwe are not, orlong ere this we would have our own, I fear much it —- of Clandtus’ words :— in the corrupt currente world Offences ded ‘handed shove by justice; And oft "is seen the prize 7s out the Inw, Bus the law, The last ‘sad, like Tago's advice to Roder! “airikes woes" and wr arakea tothe ‘isnurseabte fact thet small hall cupboard, ‘When | chair, With our united sf and was out | ‘Tuen the lady | ‘The recent brutal murder of a citizen having drawn pubito | iment for the commission of an Offence | A Woman Insultcr Intimidates a Conducter. | sare } ask; no doubt, how any arrests are going to be made by such ‘! a abouid be alowed for , 0, ‘ot Now it sa nol fact te public functionary, serena. if lat to the. C owned Tangent rosds in. ‘the "elty, in’ consideration of Oliver of two drawing good fat sain duties in some Be ian bed 6 exisieuon 4 mory of ow, as fi & motors fact that pol ca gs) Eg } can wouder our cars aro oflicere by the w: Fowdyiem our, most rowdy of cine produces nto. lve some iden of polities controls our. passageways, there were ocourred—to recur once more to my pain- Openly apoken of sa being iaruinerable ching like revuld uo 5 a kin 0 no ‘wong, they were so hemmed. around by poltenl support | and'countenauos; and these eon were the terror of the re- spectable employes on the road, and the admired of the rougha and rowdies, Tant sdrry to ray, al vied ind of Why, ‘amon: 1 one lah ‘road, pursued by six or seven mon, ‘weapon—used either hanilie ea 4 dy @ box'a we barricaded Feng the door with stead, chair and trunk, and am confident that had not Iandiord. and others come up the di | Hoon Irave “succumbed | to thelr asx Would have ‘aurely followed, as | never moved wid s I have’ acen spectral forms six or eight in number, shoe and stockingless, with shirt and under drawers barely on, standing pistol, hook and club fn hand, ona sidewalk in New York city over and over again havig jumped {rom be! to see a row, one you could hear an avenue off. T nevor saw m an appear—ooly when It ‘was over, aductors ; 8 go tor early cara ‘8 On ables them to incsd BF Candement in the evening. T We seen A Cro’ men running consecutive cars agree on the amount thefr cara shall tarn In previous to starting in the morning, and none ure to exceed or be below such an amount.” A number of e ve books, Funning all but similar amounta i) to dally, will be free almost trom spot- ters, because they all but guzrantes one another's honesty, It 1# not long ago that an east gide line of cars was known to be worth daily to the driver & dollar and a hail to two dol- lara, At night all kis meats! and as much as he choss to chew and drink in fair moderation. say at one end only ' each trip, six or seven thnesa day. Now, anya (river or con- ductor looks with iramense contempt on ‘a common thief— | “0 beam! O mote 1 A word about car theves—as a body men small in bud, | small in plane) smallest tmanything manly, but withal a | rous class to fallin with, because more dengerous and | dartag pals are brought to bear upon conductors and drivers | who don's ming “thelr bi’s” and dare to come between them and their lawful oroy—a credulous, self-secure public. I re- member av incitent in point. ‘Three thieves gubon the rear of the car, their bully and shoulder slasher on the front atform, i of fellow, im- ‘shoke,” that he borea under a vaque iliaelon that adms one would be leas heavily weighted {n the matter of time expounders and pocketbooks very shortly, The slasher opened the front door, chirruped like a consumptive canary, and out came hia twa workmen, He imparted to them the astounding discloaure of end or hook end, | h time he mov the ‘a aide ( and ‘quietly iaid Bis fat paw upon the much-dreaded Shocks the driver's saviour. Oneof the “boys' than propeeee to heave him over the dashboard; the other pleaded for his life— told hi eed the for death was imminent ho’ waa placi mind his borseas advised him to follow his vocati worse thing befult him, which—“I wish to remark language is plain" —be dit in future. The way thieves go for their customers i8 in crowded, \ One plants himself on the hind si there to eat & room-only cars. attention to the subject of the management of our streot | though cankinual Tequesied to slep up by the conductor cars, I venture td make the following suggeations:-—That | should such coniinelor Reaction cg wih a either tae | of | lonely partof the road, some roughs, a clib, and lying sens: fess on hie track, glimmer betore him, and silence gives con: sent to thetr movements, Immediately then | off the conteders inside want to get off too, their chum onthe step not moving, ant the two thieves crnsh and push and rob wuauspected.’ Whenever you hear a “cilrrup" 8 ety lO, oUt for the danger light Ef ; and. always have, that no man should try to erce that’ which he cannot compel to compliance. ! coat en arg pot oper to cet a) see ee aad a men care to wear ir lives uy; ele sleeve. ‘ours, truly, cn HEADWAY. LITZRARY CHIT-CHAT. ir prey goes to get | i | the Copt,’” has been redeived by the English critics | with a favor seldom extended to American works of | fiction. =| THE SECOND VOLUME of Brodhead’s ‘History of the Stato,of New York” has been published by Har per & Brothers, Tie great fault of this work is its | length. Had the author limited tho number of pages his history would be more generally read than: | it 1s likely to be, It is admirably written, and is | undoubtedly the most complete and reliable annal | of this State yet published; nevertheless we fear | that its votuminousness will confine its circulation to the comparatively few students of history in our midst. A Panis Epmt10n (13 vols., 1718-38) of the works of St. Chrysostom, belonging to tie library of the | late Professor Williams, of the University of Cam- | bridge, 18 offered for sale in London, A rather | curious reflection on the deceased Arabic scholar is made by the seller ia his announcement that the ; book is “entirely uncut’? and ts “rare in this state.” DURING the present movth Appleton & Co, will publish a new and royised edition of the late Win- tarop Sargent's “Life of Major Audre,”? au import ant contribution to our Mistorcal lilerature, which has been pronouaced by competent authority “full | of attractive and valuable matter, and displaying the fruit of rich cul:ure and rare accomplishments,” “MR. ALFRED AUSTIN has written a satifical poem » callea “The Golden Age,” and published in London, | in which he charges that in these days poets sully | their vocation for the sake of profit. The Athenauin justly denies this assertion, and challenges the author to name a single one of the recent poets, “who has degraded his powers for money to the production of sianderons or even of imferior litera. ture,'’ Mrs. Harvey's book on “Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes” is pronounced readable By the Englisn critics, but unreliable in its statements and faulty in the opinions it expresses concerning Turkish women. Her assertions that Infanticide ts } common in Turkey, and that Turkish fathers have | but little, if any, love for their offspring, and that | they dread haviug sons, Who in time may become | their most deadly enemics, are disproved by other | and more rehable evidence in ever} particular. Dk, LUDWIG GEIGER has written alue of Johann } Reuchlin, of Caprino, the well known German pro- | fessor whose literary works Were condemned by the Catholic Church and ordered to be destroyed. | ‘This was during the great excitement actending | upon Luther's proceedings, Geiger, however, did not join that reformer. He obeyed the mandate of the Church and remained a Catholic to the end of \ his days. going so for as to not bequeath bis vatu- { , able library to nis young relative, Melancthon, as he | had intended, but to his native town, Pforzheim, i because Melancthon joined tue Keformation move- ment. { THE PRINTING Of the great fragment of he Metri- ‘ cal Chronicle of Jacob von Maeriant (33,000 verses), } Which was discovered at Vienna two years ago, has | been commence at Leyden, The work Wili be fin- | ished by the summer of 1872, {| M. pe LavELEYe’s pamphict, which 13 to ve pub- | lished by the Cobden Club of London shortly, will | contain both a survey of the present state of Rurope | and also @ series of suggestions as to the possivie | means of preventing war. RAILROAD WAR IN BROOK | i ° | For two years past’ there has been an incessant ! warfare between the Grand street and Metropolitan | Railroad Companies, Willamsburg, in their respec- | tive notions of right of way. Many a confitchas taken | place between the employés of these companies in \_consequence, but that of yesterday was the most serious. Oflcers of the Grand street road undertook | to take up rails in Bushwick avenue, near North | Second street, that had been laid by the North fec- ond strect company. This action was resisted py | the employés of the latter company, and an exciting tumult was the result. So serious a character did the affair ume that Captain Muller was called upon to preserve the peace, and he hurried the scene of confict with a platoon of | police, On reaching the scene Of conflict the Captain arrested Captain Cochen, _prest- dent of the Grand Strect Railroad; Theodore Cochen, William Obrend, Jolin McConnell, Thoma ‘Thomas and Alexander Cntystte, and they were raugned before Justices Eames and Voorhees on a charge of disorderiy conduct, They all entered into i bonds 40 answer the charge. Henry Hamilton, a director of the Grand street road, was subsequently arrested on @ charge of le 2 | driving, Ire hav- driven up a stage full of fighters at a furious gait to the aid of his company’s men. PICNIC OF THE SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY. At East River Park, foot of Eighty-fourth street, yesterday afternoon and evening was held the an- nual picnic of the Danish, Nerwegian and Swedish residents of the city, who formed themscives into an association to perpetuate a love for Father. land, The attendance was quite large, and the festivities, that embraced dahcing, orations and music, were participated In with zest, BEx- Congressman J. D. Rymert, Dr, Gross and other leading Norwegians were conspicuous in the com- pany. The music selections were rendered by Mr. . J. Watson, Professor Savorint and Miss Anna Watson, who gave with exceltent effect a national + Anthem composed by Mr, Rymert for the occaston. Mr. EpwIn Dz LEon’s novel, “Askaros Kassis, | AMERICAN ART. Visit to Miss Vinnie Ream’s Stadio. One of those large-souled and gifted Amortcaa ladies who have entered into the art with all the enthusiasm of # woman's nature, and conquered by the forse of will diMculties that stopped many ® man, has returned to this city from Europe, bring- ing with her an enlarged experience. Some two years ago Miss Vinnie Ream left Washington, where she was already favorahly known, to proceed to Italy for the purpose of executing the order given by the Senate for a statue of the late President Lincein, Having satisfactorily discharged her trust, she returns with increased knowledge to ask the patronage and sup- port of her fellow citizens. For the moment her studio 1s at No, 704 Broadway, where some of her later works in marble are on view. The arrange- ment of “9 THE LITTLR GALLERY displays at once the taste of the woman and the artis’s knowledge of effect. Brown-red tapestry hangs ronnd the room,* forming an excellent back- ground, from which the pure, cold marole stands out in bola rellef, Unfortunately the light im the room is most unsatisfactory, aud interferes not » little With the effect of the works. During her residence in Italy Miss Vinnie Reang evidently turned her opportunities of improvement to the best account; for a@-marked difference 18 vist- ble between the works which she executed before her Geparture and those that she brings back, Two little busts of childven, both portraits, which she calls “The Mornimg Glory” and the “Butterfly,” fur, nish ample evidence of crude execution in her earlier works, for pretty names cannot hide the half taught hand, In these busts the desh modellingis very weak and poor, the features being annaturally hard and wanting in expression, and that peculiar sole chubbiness that 1s always fouad im heaithy child-_ hood, Fiamingoe was most happy in ils treatment of this Class of subjects, and bis LITTLE CHERUS, HBADS, with their round, chubby Jaces breaking tito the pretilest of dimples as the urchins taugh, look in- etinct with life and form pictures of perfectinfantile happiness, while from the faces of those who weep the most intense misery starts from every feature and presents us with the absolute expression of childish desolation. An ideal bust. of America ,and a replioa of the bust of the Lincoln statue afford evidence of the artist's great improvement in the treatment of this class of subjects, An expression at once mild ang noble has been thrown Into the massive features of the ideal lady who typifies America, though no re- markable force is exhibited. The drapery formed by the Stars and Stripes falls from the rights houlder, leaving the lett breast uncovered. The iolds of the Grapery are broken, and display want of force in the treatment, while the angular cutting of the hair is according to the Itallan conventional method, ‘The work, which exilbits the most marked ad- vance in knowledge and power of execution, i the “gPIRITA DEL CARNIVALR,!? | graceful figure, under hfe size, of a young girl abont to throw a garland of flowers on the passing throng. The composition of the figure is spirtea and well conceived, though the symmetxy of the | Jines 1s broken on the right side, by-the position of ‘the arm, which forms an acute angle with the body—a garland of flowers, cut after the Italit { manner, falling from the hand. In connection with the conceptiou of this work Miss Ream states that having occupied & box on the Corso, with some other Americans to look on and pity the floral folly of the thoughless itaians, she was gradually carricd away by the joyousness -of the scene, and soon en- gaged ia the mimic warfaco, enter! thorougaly and completely into the spirtt of the Carnival. An idea came to her it was @ subject that would affora room for the exercise of pootic imayiuailon and whatever POWER OF COMPOSITION an artist might possess, Making inquiries, she was surprised to learn that no Jtalian artist had ever treated the subject, and this decided her to attempt the representation of the light, airy, gracetal Cur- nival, with its trolicsome and flowery giories, in cold, hard marble. How well the lady has suc- H ceeded in catching the animated aud Jorous spirit of that gay week and expressing it througa the Tuciium of & single figure is visible in her work. A little cross hung upon the neck of the statue isin excellent contrast to the rest of the figure, and at first sight might be thought a little incongruous; but i aptly expresses the idiosyncrasy of the Italian na- tion, Which even in the midst of revelry and dissi) tion preserves some spark of devotional seclingy ‘he “spirita del Carnivale” is seated, the head and bod: slightly bent forward; 1n her hair is woven @ wreatl of flowers, and the expression of her face is anl- diated and smiling, as if the Spiritu enjoyed thor- oughiy the fun, The left arm passes across body, with the hand resting on the right thigh, hold- ing one end of THE GARLAND, ~ which falls from the right hand at the height of the shoulder; the body 13 shghily turned towards the right, posed as if about to cast the flowers, the imminent action being well Indicated, Under the leit leg, which has been slightly advanced to support tne figure, the right foot 1s gathered and lost to view, the whole lower part of the figure, ex- cept the leit foot being compietely draped. But the Ines of the limbs are allowed to appear througn Bronaty trented and splays excelfeas Jadgmente broadly treated and ‘3 je! ‘The light and graceful iy of the Spirita being naked affords scope for good fiesh ist’s power more than the treatment of demands both knowledge and feeling, and Miss has been remarkably successful, avoiding fabbiness and angolarity. Tue proportions of the figure are eiegant, but all the parts are full and well rounded, the flesh firm and life-like, the modelling of the stomach and right side being especially good, and such as many sculptors might imitate with ad- vantage. ‘The treatment and character of the composition has more of the French than of the English or Italiaa schools about it, and thougn there is nothing strik- ingly original in the posture, the light and atry cha- racter of the style suits the subject admirably, sat while we consider the conception and execution ex- cellent, we venture, in all humbleness, to suggest that there are SOME DEFECTS and shortcomings, some weak Ines and sume un- pleasant ones, But let the artist pe consoled; the merits of vhe prescut work so Jar outweigh its de- fects that it can afford a little eyil report. The hair exhibits all the defects of the modern Italian art, which seeks to replace navurail arrangement by a couventional treatment that in no sense is imitaty of nature, Tbeu the line of the left jeg is decidedly weak and out of drawing, while there is an evident uncertainty as to tie proper centre of gravity. But, eveu with these defects, the +Spiritu del Carnivaie" 1s essentially , AN ART WORK, full of life and appropriate expression, belies modelled and combining so many good points, Wo vemture to say that there are few American sculptors capable of producing @ work of equal merit, A second work, representing the immortal Sappho, offers a striking contrast to the Spirita—the one full of life aud action; presenting us charming girlhood just blossoming into womanhood; the other @ sober and pensive Woman, meditating w the tme when only her name would remaim, Ream represents the charming poetess standing Im deep contemplation, her hands crossed in front, hoiding @ stylus and manuscript; she has ceased to write and uppears in a state ol Vs thd repose, the body anpported on the left leg, the right knee bens in ab easy, graceful posture, fall of ce the proportions of she figure are very lowever, the ons of the fanity, the head Rie too small and the neck un- graceiul. There is want of roundness in the shoul- ders, and the bosom 1s decidedly flat and very poor- ly modelled, Want of firmness is shown in the treatment of the breasts, which are inclined to be flabby. The left upper arm is also decia too tong. and the hand holding the manuscript exhibits. want of attention to form. Inthe arrangement of the irapery. breadth of treatment has been - ficed m_ the endeavor tw produce cifect by “touches” —a dangerous experiment, that very rarely succeeds. Sufticient attention has not patd to finish, and there remains a good deal work for both file and chisel before our notions of finish Would be reached. =~ ROW AT A PICNIC. Felontons Ansauit an Officer. At the Yorkville Police Court yesterday a young man, named James Smith, residing at No, 181 East Forty-iitth street, was arraigned, charged with attempting to take the life of Timothy Crowley, am oMcer of the Eighteeuth precint. The statement of Crowley, made under oath, 1s that he went to Funk’ Park to attend the picnic of the Michacl Whelan A+- sociation as a private citizen. During the evening he saw Smith stab an unknown man on the head with a knife, and putting on his shield, which be had with him, he endeavored to arrest Smith, who stabbed him in the abdomen, Tie omcer threw him on the ‘4 and cudeavored to take the knife from him, but pefore he was able to do 80 the unknown man Whom Smith had-s‘abbed rushed upon him (Crowley) and stabbed him in the: head. ‘he prisoner, whose head was fearfully mu-' tilated, states tuat be and oficer Crowley had diMeutty early in the evening and that Crowley haa knocked him 4own with a blow of his fat, Friends then interfered, and it was not until were about to leave the groundy that the dimoulty was renewed, Crowley then took his clnb from one of the officers of the Nineteenth act who waa and beat him on the with it In @ cruet inner, #4 INS Condition In Court attested, imfustice WiXby Hold SIgItN a tHe atime, OF $2,000 bath for examination. aX