The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1871, Page 11

ULD FROM EiGMTH TAGy. ‘The love ferst was ‘Opened na sim | manner, namely, by the sluging of a short hymn the supplication of the Divine blessing. Then | jowed the relation of “expertenoes,”” which were hovtly and so promptly delivered that tn tittle r one hour more than two hundred and fortv had ‘testtmony of their devotion to the cause or There was, nevessarily, no rehearsal of ile Of the spiritual life of any of the apeakers. A | sage of Scripture, two lines of a hymn or a { ipular war motto suficed to dicate the spiritual ment of the speaker, “I am determined to ow nothing amovg men save Christ, and sil | , wasa- declaration irom @ gentleman on | platiorm. A lady member of the choir, with ‘ ‘A BEAMING, JOYOUS FACE, "98, and in a voice so clear that it could bo beard athe outer ring of the cirvie, said, “Jesus is my | Meent portion.” A venerable amimsver sktpped irfrard to the stand ond said, In a tremulous voice, dave been serving God iorty-fve yours, and 1 dad ju more precious to-day than Ho ever was.” Lop- dy’s wonderiul hymn was Irequeutly drawn upon | @suilavle Widicaion OF The alticude of many & | stufier oF the experience of the soul, Two lines | @ to more would be selected by ihe speakers, ose more frequently used were:— Rock of A lett forme, Eetme ilde myeeit tm thee In my band no price I pring, Bapiyto thy ervaw 1 eg ong the testiiiers were many Who dated the com- | Lewoulmeut Of ineir relagious ile trom that canip | neeting. One ol the most siriking aul probably | these was thatof an oi y ysieal appears | nce tadicated That agricuitural javors had beea tke | Deguyation of lis lic, aud Who resided at Peekskill, | 1ad come wo tre camp meeting tor the first time | NA Bight, ab the earnest volicliaion of & converted | naugiter. He lad wandered to tne front of Brother ppiegate’s tent, where a prayer meeting was | eine held, And had been solicited vo eter by some rower, Who had descried ius anxious aud dis. ressed counie 1 was in Uhts tent and saw ihe | id wan come in; he was evidently in real | stress of mind, He knelt down, 1 ina few min- | es Uae particulars Oo. bas sp.ciMai condition were ade KuoWwa tO a orotuer Wao bud Kuelb beside. in, ANd the prayers O1 the Meeting Were asked for | n Wis behall. There were several over pemreuts, | alle whom had arisen from thetr Knees, with the Acclurauon O1 & consciousness Of pardon of sia. wLL HAD RUNG and {4 seemed probable thm we opporbundy wil te old wan had ew. braced would nov bring to Ru the reward Of a cou. sclowsness uf his pence with Ged, tn the prayer of Sister Lottume he ; assed into what Metacdists call | “diberty,” or the saving Kaowledge of a pardon of | gin, Lhe joyous Cuauge Was ra 4 Om the oid | an’s countenance. J Deppened to sit bemind | im at the iove jeast, ana heard tim testify with Suoh cloarness, put With such a clilduke simplicity, | 1 story of tue aCquiTement of his new-born vehef, | fleasiag and inspriting umpu was given he relation of tose experiences hy singing, be- bweeu every three or tour of the “testi movies,” & Verse Of tue popular Methodist melodies, which Mr. Attyvod, the leader of the choir, started Impromptu @nd without rietug from bbs cha ‘The grove rang Will the hearty suming of tuese Methodist melo- dies, aud When, siortly aller twelve 0'ch Trews, ke Preikliag Eider, ros0 vo being ge feast 0 a cluse by announcing the ciose of thé Camp | an Dr. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. AUGUST 28, 187L.—WiTH SUPPLEMENT. Tah BRK CHURCH. The Property on Park Row | and Its Title. Copy ef the @riginal Grant and Covenant. PREVEOUS ATTEMPTS 10 SELL. ‘The Compromise Between the Trustees and the Common Conncil. {From the Sunday Mercury, August 27. Who owas the valuable ground on ‘onion the mes renee stands? Mayor Mall says It belongs tw the city, aud Mr. George Jones and ims associates assertthat vhey are its ricttful owners. Whatever olive may ve attributed to the corporate au- orities in bringing an eyectment sult to recover the property, and add tt Lo owr municipal wealth, the eee Involved 18 0f sufficient importance to Justify the appearance of an exhaustive article in the Sunday sercury. e reverations mage by the Chief Magistrate are not wholly new. Du the ‘last tifteon years the title to the groum tas been aeubect of olnMONS Wilapors among tho friends of the select circle of distuuguished editors who first approprinted the site to secular purposes, Tuey shook thett heads, and tatked abont fayal de- fects; but their “ambiguous givings out” were con- thed to tifeir Own ranks. At jast the bubbie burst, d the news flashed oa the public éar that the sagacious Raymond @ad the thrilty Wesiey had erec- ter a siately phe Of granite on a parcel oC land to | Which they had not a sbadow of ttle. Under these | circumstances 10 1s: gh J proper that we should, as journLehsis, - present a fall and impartial histor, ol the property, and make known the grownds ani | legal facts on Which this startimg suit ts based, THE GROUNDS FOk KKOMNG THE OWNERS OF Tue | TIMES, a8 communicated to the representative of the Jfer cury by Mayor Hall, are as follows:— 1. Thar the plot—now vhe site of the Tones and | Worl butiding: ‘Trustees oi the Brice church in 1766, to be used ex- ciusively for reiig.ous purposes aud a cemetery, the propery to revert to the corporatiog wf used for , “privace secular: Gy 2 That, by virtue of the grant, the trustecs paid a yearly rent ot 40 to the city, tuereoy acknowledg- | ing the city a8 landlord, 3. ‘Liaé in the year i868 the trustees had a resolue tion passed by the Common Council enabling them to sell the property, the condition being. that they pay $67,500 to the Commissioners of the Sinking nd—being about one-lourtn of the. amount for which the site was sold. 4. That the Commisstoners of the Sinking Fund were expresuly prohibited by section 7 of the charter of 854 [rom selling public property, unless at public auction, and to ihe highest bidder; and that, 6. The action of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fand is null and vou. HISTORY OF THE BRIO CuUROH. Some twenty years before tae Brick Church waa Duit the Congregaiom worshipped in a neat line edifice m Wall, between Naisau street and Broad- | way. The meubership rapidiy increased under the | pastorate of the Rev. John Rogers, and the temple Meeting and ive iact that more ‘han TWO LUNORED AND BORTY ‘had syiihin the hour iesufled for Christ there was a eneral feeling Wat twelve o'clock had cole too foun ‘Lhe Dyxology Was subg Wilh @ tone Meino- Gist ‘viru,’ but in consequence of the unusually [Nera state of Wie grove it Was deemed advisable dispense With the procession arowud the camp, In Wiich the singing of arching Around Jerasa- lem” wag been iy past years so pleasant a remiuir- cence. The preachers stcod on the siand nd were siaken by the hand very heartily by their respeciive friends; uew converts gob an extra” frientity stake and 8 — word or two oi advice, api the choir and the people ng “she Sweet By and By.” It was very hard reaking up svexghig a scene, but avout ove hour Aller vhe love ieast wus over the camp was quiet, the tenis were oceupied, and those who had been unatie Lo secure beds, or had found themseives be- Mmitice, promineat among whom were Brothers i eae Kiug, Gallagher, Sammiss and’ Kew ant. Léas believed that the camp meoting this year has Deen Goanetally and spirituaiy ‘than for many years past. UNE HUSDKED AND TWENTY have professed to fad the blessing of forgiveness of Bin, #ud Rave to date the commencement Of @ Fo Dewed Christian tue from this epcampment. ‘that the shecess should be so marked 1s very encourag- ing, especially when it is considered bow mul mofe numerous of recent years have been these Incetings, and that tis year hasbeen particularly siznulized by the popularizing oi tais kind o; Chris- wa labor wm Various paris of the State. Itas the Judgment of well-informed Christian wen at the p that this is but a precursor of a great religious fevival Lhrouguout the land. SUNDAY ROWDYiSM. Attempted Canotbstism at Honter’s Point. Yesterday, at about six P. M,, as Mr. Crofton, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, residing at 261 Filth avenue, was walking down Ferry street, Hunter’s Voist, carrying two bouquets, a total strauger seized and tore the bouquets, remarking insolently that he would like to havethem. He ‘Was promptly struck by afr. Croiton.and his mouth ald open, When a crowd of his companions, merging from public fo.one account, from a funeral carrlagt, sssaiicd Mr roiton, striking bim from ail Sides. | Wiue reirea ing he was served by his origial assailant, whom In a& tussle he managed to get under him 1a his fail, While npon the ground he was the recipient of vari- ES blows and Kicks upon the head and body. ‘The rowdy who was underneath Mr. Crofton succeeded into nis mouth, and in oi his teevhi and would it off but for his in gettang the iatter’s nose jeaving thercon ihe marks undouvtediy have bitten Wouidbe victim throat Another his fingers in ‘feet them ott. rowdy attomptea to Mr. _Crofton’s eyes Not @ single policeman inter- fered, and the whole crowd had taken the boat for | iew York before a single guardian of the peace Made his appearance. Some of the jovkers on Begmed 0 interpose themselves between tie assall- ja aud the arsailed, aod thus enabled the latter | ally to escape. Only one woman, as far as Mr, rovton cou;d see, 100K o really active aud eflictent rt in bis defence. Crime ta Wilda KICKING A WOMAN, At an eariy hour yesterday morning a disturbance Ok place at the residence of Mr. Thomas Luddy, 108 Norih Sixih a'reet, when one Peter Ryan, a vig- oneus fellow of twenty-nine years of age, kicked Mrs. Luddy on the abdomen, Mra. Luddy was far Advanced. im pregnancy at the time the “knight errant” Kicked ber, aud her condition last night was preécorious. Ryan Was arrested vy Urilcer Buford Bad Justice Voorhies reittsed to adaiit Bim to bail. URGLARIBS. ween one and two o'ciock yesterday morning ira Thompson, of No. 64 South Ninth street, found @ young burglar in his back parior, and gave im a good clubjing. He then called tor the po ice, {utr was answered by Oilicer Forbes, who took the utruder to the Fourth sirect station house. e gave the fame of Riehhra Garrity, wed fourveen years. He was locked up, An fear afterwards Thomas Hunt, agod nineteen yeara, called at the station house to inquire for Garrity, aud ihe sergeant m charge, being satistled that Hunt vad a hand in the burglary, locked bim up also, itis the opinton of the police that Hunt and Others whow tuey know put ihe boy Garrity throngh | Mr. Fhompson’s rear window to commit a robbery, and that they would Wave succeedea only ior Mr, Thompson's wakefulness. Ubaries Kavadagit aud Edward Smith, aged re- eouuvely Lweniy years, were urresied yesterday and locked up in th Auewer for comnlitting a burglary at the residence of Jobn Kenuedy, 120 Nortu FUth street, on the tof the lola wit. Officer fimothy Phelan and etive Langan effected the capture of the alleged burglars alter a month's effort. ° THE SHOOTING OF M'CABE, As tho condition of Job MeCabe, the repnted Jerney City rowdy, Who was shot in the right breast ‘while near the corner of Sp-ing and Hudson streets on Saturday night byG Micer Croak, of the Twenty- eightu precinet, was consi jered somewaat critical by the. sellevae Hospital su. goon, Deputy Man waited upou McCabe and asked a lew ques- Uons informally. He sad ne had been soot without Provocation by soive one in ciuizen’s dress, who Clalined to be a police oficer. e denies being drunx at the time o: the shooting and says he docs ‘ol Know who shot him. He copsiuers himscil to In acritical condition and fears he may not ic cover. UMcer Cronk doves not deny the shoouug @nd clatuis Was done purely in sel edelence. BIT.NG A THUMB, A Neighborly Quorve! Ending in De On the 4th instans Margaret Garey, forty years of age, then living at 4i3 West Thirty-sixth street, was Freie to Beilevue Hospital suiering fiom a oer Wound of the thumb, caused, as chareed, by having been bitten by Anu Foiey, during # aght la ae Weeks previousiy, Margaret wae : hee 2 jospitai Sai geon Mitchell, but she con- 1 "i tO RrOW Worse lili Saturday migat, when death ensued from pueumonia, supecinduced by tue Me bee: | on the thun Jorener Schirnier took o| CHRO will rey ae yo = ye feria. ee oe Foley tw et arres ¢d jor the LG. Expectodiy to lise resulted se eaeeauts WHICH 90 te Dighted, were couvortably provided tor by tke com | ®@ greaver success | houses, and, according | prompily fastening upon his | There | ourth street station house to | proner Cush- | Wastnot adie to accommoiate all tts worship. pers. The poorer mempers, owing'to the growih of the young City, moved from the region below Mailen | lane “up town” —the seclion nortit of Liberty street \ being thus designated, The “Commons,” now the | City Mail Park, Was @u oped plain, unlenced, bat ‘inviting. Between it and Fulton street lay the old | Beekman farm, stretching to the shores of the Last | River, and dotted here and tuere with a {frame homestead or cultivated farm, A | lithe almost angular plot, adjiowung the lands — of Beekmau, 1s tbe ground now | claimed py the corporation, It was a beautul spor, even As shown.on Rutgers’ carly map, as carly | as 1766; and, a8 we View it on the Map bevorcus In its primitive shape, We do Dot Wo..der that it Wasse- | lected tor a church, At overlooked te broad line of hills and valleys along the east side, up the oid Bos- too post road. through Broadway, and the view on | the north was only interrupted by the forest which | stretched along ule esiate of sir Peter Warren, in Greenwich Village, pow OCbristopler street. Tne trustees of the Wall street charch ap- | pued to tho city for @ grant of this plot, on which they desired to erect a temple, and they suce | ceeaed. but there ts an express, a itive Coudt= tion in the grant that the ploperty shoule revert to the city whenever appropriated to secular purposes, Anuexed is @ COYY OF THE ORIGINAL GRANT. Qrey oF Naw YouK, +.—At a Common Counell held at the City Hail of acid otty on Tuesday, the 2th day of Febr ary, ou# thousand seven bundred and’ sixt | Crdger, Exq, Mayor, of toin Board, did there‘ore wnat | mouslysesolve und orier that the angwiar piece of groun | prayed for by the petitioners. contwining elght lots and | Bat of twenty-five feet by one huncred each, agreeatle to a | gurvey now taid before the Board, latey mace thereof by Francis Marsobalk, one of the City Burveyors, containing ‘one hundredand fifty-two fest on the southwesterly side, two | Wundred and fourtsen fect on the nirtnwesteriy aide, sixty- feet on the northeast de, aod two hundred ig bide, be “granted to Mesare. Johu, Rogers, Joseph Troal, the present minisvers, William Emith, Garnet, Noel, Netaaoiel MeKeniv, Peter Van Brash Livingston, John Smith, Thomas Jackson, the present 6: John “stevens, and Faler Riker, tho present deacons, an Thomas Smita, Peter R. Livingston, Josep! Jett, Joho Lasiier, Jr. Williem Smith, Jr, John Hunlap and Joho Morin Soctt, the present trustees of the said English Presby- teria Church of the city of New York, heira add iaigns forever, according to the pray. Jd petitios | Gre, acd. the sald report, offers, reasous and survey, under yonriy rent of {ory pounds, to’ commence from the lat cay BP chy next; and that the clerk of (his Board prepare the | Graftof the grantaccoriingy. that sue yrant of the nal | ground may be made outand issuet under the seal of this Sorpuration. wiki ail convenient seat. | — Now, this indentare witnesaeth that the said Mayor, Alder- men.and Coumoua.ty of the City oc New York, for and In | gouskieraiion of the pious and iaudao.e deaizna ‘of tne anid arties of the second part, and of the rent and condtions fereiuatier roverved and Contained, and aivo of the eum of ten stil ings, lawiu' money of New’ Yura, now paid to the favor, Aldermen. aud Commona.ty, havo granted, bar- and’ sold, alten, released an{ confirmed, and by | these resent do grant, bargain and sell, allen, releage and | ¢0: niato the aid John Rogers, Josaph Trent, ‘mith, Garett Noell, Nathan M Yan Bragh Livingston, John sinith, ‘Ihomas Jackson, John Stevens, Yeer krker, Yhomas Stith, Veter RK, Livings.on, Joseph Hulett, Jon Lashier, Jr., Wilitam Smith, Jr., John Dunlap air Jobn Moria Scott, in their actual p session, now being, by virtue of a bargain and sale to tiem, thereof muae for one whole year, ure, bearing date the day next be- Tore the day of th of these presents, ant by force of ‘erring uses Into possession and to their | heirs and ngs) :negs forever, | _ All that certain tract, piece or parcel of ground, situate on the easierly sive of the Cocamous (City Hay Park}, and to th no:theate of the street calles Beekman street, continued wit & breadth of thirty-six feet to the Commons next adjoining to the said vineyard, and at the north end of the said vineyard Which said tract or piece of ground hereby granted Dogiis where the line of the northeasterly #ide of ud Beekman atreet ta inte: sected by the line of the wester! | ‘ttiect and runs thence north fifty-two degre dre! feet theace north, thirt en wert, alxty fe aide of Kipp ‘east, two hun- tin theeourse of George's’ rocetow cami Commons, ant a trom (he eud of the sald siaty si tie out oho feet 4 ry feet south sev enty-olg two hundred and fourteen feet, and tngnoe ue place ot depioning, Ming to all feet 10 or thereof male ‘he sworn survevors of this hereunto annexed, an which, for a greater rs aniages, emoluments, paris, Water courses, WavA, Case | ments end hereditaments w! wer to the name tract: or parcel of jand, in or which now ay leo appersal ang ire oF formerly have been exoe)tev, reported, taken, known, used, ocenpied or enjoyed to do wi: the same, of as OF a thereof; aud also the reversion and re: Versions, and reminders, rents, and service wereof, or of } any part th: reof, with their appurtenances, and algo ail the Osiate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand whatsoever, both i Lind and 'equty Of the ‘said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonaity of, in, and to the eame or any part thereof. “To have an. to bold te «ald tract, piece, or parcel of ground, | Hereditamenta aud premises, with the tirtenandes unto | them, the amid parties of the becond part horein above par- { tleulariy mamed—the heirs and assigns to the only proper uae and behoof of the same p rt, and thelr helm and wasigns forever, under the conditons herem= aider particu'ary mentioned, to wit:—So as the partion of the second part n above particwariy named, or either of them, their or ef.her of their heirs, exeentors,' administra- | tora or aw iyns, or any of shail und do, within ten ground above mention nah tie poche * red and hereby gran od and swiiolent fence, wand exher nisi BRRCT AN RDIFICR OR CHURCH THRRTON, orm part thereof, for the worship of Aimity God, or use he same or a part thereof for w eemetery oF chui fo the burial or interment of the a” mwaretee BUALL NOE APUKOPSIATE, APPLY NOR CONVERT THE BAME AT ANY TIME FOREVER to private or rector nses: and nider this form of condition As Fo towel », to Wi as the aforesaid parties of the recund | part heroin aoove vartt-wariy named, or ether of them, ther or ether of their heirs, executors, or administrators, or as- | signs, or any of them, ‘hall and do pay or cause to bo paid | unto the Mayor, Aidermen and Commoneity of the city of New York, for the time neing, for the use of the said Meroe, Alderwen' ani Commonaity, the sumo. £40 iawfal money Of Now York, on the Int day’ of May next, and on the 1st day of May in every your thence ensiting forever thereatter, that thon, tuts present indenture mad grant au | everything tuerela Containe. shail rema'n th fail force aad virtue forever, RIGMD PROVISIONS TO BEOURE RENT FROM TH OLD PRLOK CHUROM TO THE CORPORATION, Butif it shall happen that the aforeasld partion of the sooond part avove hamed, and their be ctor ant | adminisirators, and every of them. tan nS fo iors | from the duie ‘of these presents, enc ove the said tract or | parcel of ground, aa aforesaid, and either erect thereon, oF | om any part thereof, a church or eaifiee tor the public wore ship of Almuulity God, or ase the same, or a part emetery or churchyard, oF shall at aby (fine thereafter ap. | propriate, apply, or cony # the same to private arcu ar use or it $hey sual take default In the oavment or the Baldrom ov £40, or miy purl or parce there xt, contrary te the form above writen, and thit the sais, with the lawfal tne | terest thereo!, from the Ist day of May, wherecn the same Ougut to be wid, ahall be Vebiud av uapaid by the space of hint monte hast after either o, £/@ satd days or tine whereoa the sam i, or of Fight ought to be paidy we aforesald; tat th on 0 ‘aot, for nciorth tshall aud may be lawiut and Com nouaity of the ely of New Yor, an ess0°8 al assigns Into singuine th nfo east promises, with the appurtenal Te-eatey, av’ (ue same to them and their successors ag thelt és'ac), to have agatn, enjoy and envoy. this thelr present writihy or anything in’ the same contained, oF any estate hereby conveyed, to (he comtmary notwithstanding, ‘Ani the sald Mayor, Aldermen aud Commonly oF the city of New York do for thomasives and ther sitcom av and yrant to aut with the sald parties of fie second eis bolts, exeouiors and xdminiatrators an u stan, vt nets payin the nd the ther condi. atrall and may, from wremiter, peaceably Kult yearly rent, of ‘ (tons above mentioned being perform time to me, and at ail thies rorever, ‘and quietly enter Into p aseanros Posseas and enjoy, ail and sin, War, the Raid promisen above hereby panes wih the appurtenaaces, out any lel, troabe, hindsances, rojestaiion, interruy: the satd’ Mayor, Aldermen, ant iy of New york, or thelr successors: erson and persona whatoevar, aw claim by, (rom or uader them, Acie, measured OF progurement: Mmeptioned, and | wi fully. lait fy Yor taeunche py or w nade \—Was granted by the city to the | Wiliam | 4 | green to to | not be required ave, hol'l, ude, ocenpy, | and also that sald or nereel of here fftements Sid ‘euists Mersey granted oF iat fated ts ve hereiy Wanted as aCoresaid, and every part and parcel : | | Witi all and singdlar their and ‘everyof tI Dances, now are uni be free aud acquitted fud discharged 0. and from. all and al manner and other bargains, sales, gifts, pranis, fe end incumbs whatsoever nad made, comm or #uifered or caused to be hed ja, commitied, done or fuiered by the salt Mayor, Aldermen ‘and Coumooaity the eity of New York, Tn testimony whereof, the sald Mayor, Aldermen and com- moualty of the oity of ‘Now ark, on the one parts have to these presents caused & Common Bet vd, wn partes rehave uochangeabiy «et their hands ‘nd seals the day and year first above teen. ree Sommon Cound, By onder of the Como STUS G. COURTLAND, Clerk, DIAGRAM OF THK PROPERTY. arteso. the second yr {| The following ix @ diagram of the property as we flaod it on Rutger’s mapi— THE CONMONS, now ‘ OY WALL PARK Bite of the BRICK CHURCH | fn the fleids. | BEEKMAN STREED, Unper portion of BEDK MAN'S LAND. THR FIRST TROUBLE ABOUT THE PROPERTY. In the year 1785 the trustees of the Brick church Anpiied io the Common Council to reduce ihe ren and after using all the iufiuence at their disposal they succeeled. ‘ihe Tent was reduced to £21 38, on the Sd of September In that year, and this amount Was apnuaily paid wp to the iéth of May, 1566. when the church was removed iP, town, But the early oiioers of the church found that, owing to an unex: pecied emergency, they were unanie to pay this sua. Their income was mainly derived irom the Sale of graves in the little cemeéiery adjomug their temple; but in the year 1822, when fever and pectl- lence were rite im this city, the Common Council passed an ordinance forbidding burials within the city, and the trustees of the Brick cuurch soon found their treasury empty. Tney bore this pecuntary imisfortune patient] untl the year 1535, whea they again appeared before their municipal landlords as applicants for relief, They asked and received fram the Comimon Council per- Mission to erect stores neXt the church, and were thus enabled to exist a8 an eoclesiusiical corpora- tion, Dut they paid rent annually. FUYILE ATLEMPTS OF THE TRUSTEES TO SELL THR PROPERTY. In the year 1851 the trasiees manifested a strong desire to sell the propeity. Word went round that | 1b was in the market and vhat there were many bidders. The United States wanted 1t for a it office, and was about to purchase it when the nies Caleb Cusuing, after a careful examination, dls- covered that the trustees could not by any Possibility make a valld title, as the original grant provided tha@ tie ground should revert to the city whenever it ceased to be used for religious services and a cemetery. The govern- Ment tien let the plot severely alone, but, Henry J, Raymond, then a young and rising journalist, | stepped mn fo buy it. He was urged to this by his friend, Mr. Wesiey, now, we belleve, the proprietor | of the Westuiuster Hotel. The trustees then offered | the sam of $15,000 to the city to give them a quit | claim deed, s0 as to enable thein to sell the ground, | but the Corporation refused the aimeuat, MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS 0 THU SINKING FUND. At length, in the early part of the year 1859, the | trustees again applied to the Common Council for | permission to seil the site. The Commissioners of | the Sinking Fund then met to consider thetr propo- | situon, aud, afier a lengthy evate, recommended , that pomething be done to adjust the difloulty. Fer- | mando Wood Was then Mayor of the city, and ma message to the Municipal Koards he expressed the Jollowimg Views in relation to tiais plot:— | EX-MAYOR Wood's EFFORT IN BEAALF OF THE TRUSTEES. The Interest (says Mr. Wood) whicn the Corporation pos- seas:p mp the liriox church property auowd not remain Lone | ger Gnascertatned or unafjusted. Whatever tho Interest | may be tyere can be no doubi that, in consideration of tha | present value of land, it will amount’to a larce sum. This Property 18 the bloox of ground bounded by Park row, Beek: hold by the Traatees k Preabyverian church under a grant datet Feb- ruary 2%, 1788, The consequence appears to be qualified by | certain conditions, which contine the use of the land to the uurposes of acburch and cemetery, The changes which Pave taken place in the vicinity, and eapecially in the resle ences of the congregation belonging to the clnrch within twenty years, have rendered it almoat useless for their | purposes. . The congregation now worshiping there are Geairous of building an edie for relgious wervice further up town, more cohveniently !oonted, oat are restrained from selling \HiR. property im, couseuence of the restrictions in the tiie. ‘They dealre that an arrangement may be entered into between the corporation and themselves, by which they may jbo permitted 40 diapoke of the lands in question nll Getute te proceeds Co te Obleots oduterppiated bY ie rant, Jhis sitbject was brought tothe lon of the Egmmon Council’ by a report. trom. the Sinking Fand Come missioners, made April 6, 1863. It recommends a setiiembnt Of the matier by a sale of this property in fee, and a distri- bution of the proceeds betwen the churah aud the Corpora- he former taking two thirds and the latter one-third, tome that r¢ should now be called up ry spore, to. determine 1 jes on which tt ts djas:ment shail be mad low the propart To remain longer in ite presedt con \iion will be disadvuwatae geous, not only to the curch but to the city. The iair and quitnble interest of thé corporation, whavever ft may be, should be ascertained, ani the opportunity now offered tn the desire of the church to sell the property be accepted, and the amount realized, Another benedt urlsing from the sale, Le restrictious be withdrawn, will be tae increase of tax: real estate, At present we verive but » trifing facome roi tt. The value OF the fec, together with improvements, | auch as will be nocesaarily erected in. this location, will mount £9 at least $600,000 or §700,U0)-—no small addition to the oaais upon which our taxes are lovied.” THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND RECOM- MEND A COMPROMISE. The trustees continued their negotations, and Won the members of the Common Council, one by one, to thetic cause, At length tue Commissioners of the Smking Faud met and took action on their prpocerca They made the followimg report to tue jommon Councll:— FINANOR DrPARTMENT, New Yorx, April 6, 1268. To THE COMMON CouNor he attention of the Uom- missioners of the Sinking Fand has heen called to a matter, | man, Beane and Spruce streets and is | of the Irie and Common prinal wil To ail iP ad mptly attended to, will materially the (wad confided to their charge, iy nf $02, 50 eh. This o © purpy i | tees aro desirous of selling the present site for the purpore of erecting other church edfices in the upper part of the city, | and a long time since applied to the Corporation for such | modification as would ie them to sell the land to be ss purposes. Heretofore there has been oppo- sition to this arrangement from the owners of vaults, and Owing to this and other causes the matter has been delayed to the present time. ‘The ‘resent proceedings for the widening of Beekman street, which bas cut off most of the eaultsand rendered their Femovai imperative, has bronght the church and con; tution to s detormiaacion’to eoll and remove; anon the toch Of Febrosry. last the trustecs of the church obtained an order frum the Supreme Court to ell the property on the ry BuNJReT TO THE CONDITIONS AND REWTBIOTIOND IN 311M from the Cor + and io apply the is of frm Cpe ear ce Se chureb editice thereon, (ihe regort then recites the craasto the church and pro- as the alnking fund fs interested in this question, tt is ooviovs that it the taad Ie wohl at the minimum brad $226,00—the fund will receive $6,280 af principal in lieu, Anil an annual revenue at giz per ceut of 88,00 in lleu of the preseut annual reat of roprecwat a Of only 8875, with the, tram fund: therefure, Rta aimuly & uestion whether, e arrangements proposed, it sall Qiia'go5.878 of capital aud 628 69 of Annuatincome, oF Whether the opportunity of thus augmenting thefund shail benegiected ana the promised advantage be Tost. * . i While tt is conceded that this view of the anbject belongs iy to the Municysal Government, it has been urged fe church corporation that exemption from taxation for fa period of more than elyhty years, and the protection of {ys tuperty during that iony period, and its incremsed value by Ue improvements which have iovoired the elty ina heavy dest, and In burdensome taxation, they, too, ought not to bo {nurtarent to x po.tey which woud’ add’to the und for the paynient of the debi, and to tue increase of taxable aod thas ald iu equaliziog taxwilom, And it js belie ved then considerations hage their tpfluence in bringing the ened $ be the Brnete of the Brick Church, end offer the following resolution for adoption : — ‘Kesotved (if the Hoard of Counellnten conour), That the | Common Council acordu:to the propositions gontaine : in the ral ressincions uaopied by tie toned of ‘Prustery ot the | rick Prewbyverian Church, aud wii ‘the necemary | ordinance to remove tae rr ‘ievion fn the elnirch—to wit! that the grounds covered by hall | ot ve appropriated to private seouiar usem; and Glan to carry out in good faith the propositions contained tn said revolutions, aseording to ihe understanding between the truateos of the chitich aod the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, as act forth in the report of tue same to the Common Council on the $b of Aprd, 18i8, MILLIAM CHAUNCEY, THOMA OMRIBTY, Commiitce on Finance, Alderman Herrick moved that the report, together with all the accompanying papers, be laldupon table ‘aud | printed, which waa carried, PINAL ACHION OF THE ALDERMEN—THB PROPOSITION OF TAE TRUSTHBS ACCKI LED. The Board of Aldermen met again on the 2ist of April, 1856, to take tina) action on the proposition of Be Trustees, They then passed an ordimance, pro- That on the terms of such sale mplied with, the Mayor be and he 1 hereby authorized ant directetl to execute od deliver to the uretuner, wader the corporwte ‘neal of the reatrigtions 16 city, a release of all routs, conditions a served ans contasbed in said grant of the abth of F 1768, und & gonveyance In lee of all the estate right, Utl interest of the Mayor, Aicermen and Commu! of the and of New York in ad tb the suid cel of land, Gvery Patt anid patos! thereof, With the aypertecaneee” ‘The ordinance was carried by the following vore:~ Aftirmative—Aldermen Brown, Corwin, Healy, Hoffmire, Caney, For, Tusker, Crliiihs, ‘Glecrs, Jackson, Monahan, Valeucine, Herrick and Sita" megs dcibimonie ce joqative- Aldermen o President, Al- depmen Fuimer, bly and scvoncey—O The Trustees thea paid the amount agreed upon into the treusary of the Commissioners of the Sink- mg fund, and itis to be ‘returned with interest to the Zunes Association, THE COMPROMISE NOLL AND VOID, ‘The Mayor says that the comprouiise tuns mado = aud is ‘nul and vold, as vie Guarver of 1853 pro- vides S8Ro. 7. That all ferries, dooks, piers and slips shall be Jeased, and all teases and’ sales of pabltc property and fran- Ghises (other than the grants of land under water, to while the owner of the upMod shall have a preemption right) shail be made by pubile auction and to the highest biddex, who will kive adequate security. WHAT THE MAYOR INTENDS TO DO. The Mayor says that an application will be made to the Supreme Court for the appointment of a re- ceiver of the Temes property, pending the decision of the ejectment suit, and that some of the most eminent democratic lawyers have offercd to ald the City’s Counsel in the prosecuuion of the case. The Mayor also says that the city authorities imtend to sue the owners of the Zimegs lor six years’ back reat, it 18 said that the late Mr, Raymond had an enabling act passed by the Stare Legislature, by Which the restrictions to the oid title to the pro- perty wore reno ed; but it 14 held that the Legis. ature had no power to pass such an act, without tivst amending the ctarter ot 1664, which was Bub- mitied to the people, The litigation promises to cover a very long period, and a number of repub- licans have voluntecred to raise a fund to aid the owners of the /enes m defending their taterests, if this be teue we shall Ond the men wito are loudly clamoring aguinst alleged frauds on the city Trea- sury subscribing money to enable ihoir radical brethren to cheat the elty out of one of Ms most Vaiuwble pieces of property. CHOLERA. The Route of the Disease—The Nececsity of a Rigid Quarantine and of Great Cleanli:ess— How the Bpidomic is Bisxeminated— The Way to Treat It To Tae EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— The cholera, which reached the Unitod States in 1832, commence in Hindostan in 1626 and 1827, passed through Central Asta by way of Cabul, Balk, Bokhara and Khiva, and reached Orenburg, on tho eastern borders of Russia, in August, 1820; 16 was carried to Moscow in September, 1850, ana to St Petersburg in June, 1831. From these places it was conveyed to the following Baitic ports, viz.: Cron- Studt, Riga, Memel, Konigsburg, Dantzic and Stet- tin, From these Baltic ports tt was carried to the east coast of England, especially from Riga; and trom Engiand and Ireland i¢ was brougut over to the United States in emigrant snips. The disease is now certainly prevailing in St. Petersburg, where there have been over seven thousand cases; it has reached Cron- Stadt, the port of St. Peveraburg, the number of five hundred cases, and cases from thence have been siopped from entering Hull, on the east coast of Eng- land. It has also certainly entered Riga (106 cases iu two days), Which is the maritime outiet of Mos- cow; itis prevailing in Wilna (1,200 cases), on the River Niemen, not far from its ‘entrance into tho Baitic, Itisepidemlo in the Prasstan Baltic ports of Konigsberg (70 to 80 cases a day), Dantzic and Srettin,.and from ail these places there 1s almost daily communication by steam and sailing vessels with England. ‘The London Medical Times of August 5, 1871, says:—“We should not be astonished any day vow to hear of tts arrival at Hull, Grimsby, Liverpool or Newcastle, and although we do not rank with the nervous people we think we have good reason to feel anxious tiat the local sanitary boards at our several ports should be stirred up into activity, and that should our first line of defence pe forced every town and every village in the country should be prepared to resist the advance of the epl- demic.” As Asiatic cholera is always an imported alseaso, and can only be brought into this country by snips, @ good quarantine ts the first line of defence, and it should be recollected that cases have occurred four- teen days after exposure. Bat some cases will always slip through even the best quaranune; ior it is now well proven thata single case of the disease, perhaps of the slightest degree and quite unsuspected by the pasient bun- seifand those around him, may, i looal circum- stances of flith and carelessness co-operate, exert @ terribly infective power on considerable imasses of the population.—S:mon, Thus a patient with slight cholerine may travel, apparently well, from New York to Boston, Pbila- deiphia, Bu‘Taio, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, or some other distant place, and recover so perfectly and easily that he has hardly been aware that he has had More than @ stight diarrhcea or summer complaint, and yet may have distributed the disease in many and distant places. But those places’ must have been filthy, for the choleraic infection does not scem able largely to injure any population unless a filthy state of things pré-exists. The infective material must have op- Portunities of action which decent cleanliness would not have afforded it, It renders other stagnating filth equally poisonous with itsel’, and the disgust. ing leaven of the disease then spreads in the air or water, 10 be breathed or swallowed by the popula. tion. Cioan streets, good sewerage, proper house dratn- age and a Water supply give to town i. Uons alinost absolute security that cholera, if iasro- duced among them, can aave no means of spreading Xs infection.—Simon, This ts the second line of defence which should be thoroughly carried out im every city, town, village and house, Munterpal anthorities and householders should be equally on the alert. The stigma of carelessness at least should rest upon’ every town and house into which chulera ts intro- duced, ‘The proper management of the patient will do Much to counteract the effects of carelessness in quarantine gnd In cleansing of towns; for cholera Is 80 little contagions that Hf proper precautions are trnatees up from thelr proposition of $1/,0U0 to ope which wilt secure the, fund £58, aud eeoon ce WY to. he taxable propesty of 3 berdinasarinianitunie ii G0, Compirolier, JACOB A. WESTLRVELT, Mayor. F. W. EDMONDS, Chamberlain. Tam reconciled to covettr in the within report, provided the portion of the availa to the elty ve ity per cent . K. TILLOW. | THE PROPOSITION PAVORABLY RECRIVED BY THR ALDERMANIC COMMITTES ON PINANOB, The communication of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund was referred to the Committee ou Finance of the Board of Aldermen, who made tho Tollowing report; — Thaton February 25, 1906, the Corporation of tne City of New York losand t Rey. Dt, Rogers aud bis amsocintos Yor, ever the triangular piece of ground now occupied by the Krick Ciurch, on express ion that the sald premises Mould never forever after be appropriated to an rent of 240, which ront i ptember 3, 1785, whan the Corporats ent Lo £91 Us, at which sum it has remain 82. the tristees of the Brick Oaurch, at co per erat jarge number of vaults on Wired grounts for the interment of the dead, which proaised to ytvid @ very handeome revenne. ‘This Wax ce- | nied them by an ordinance of the Common Cotueil the same year, Which requited that no interment should be made south Of Grand surest, under heavy penalty. Some t trustees erected m bailding for a leoture HF chuteh, and permission was @ Luatees to rent such part Of thexarve ws might OF Feiiglous Uke AS KOME equivalent ror the 1 the revenue thoy Hud wntiefpated ‘roa tae vaults, oeiely HOW OecUpYing tue preniises Haye heen for desirous 01 #eililn, ty, aud have ap emission aad authority to the sam, which was vraated Fevraary 15, 1853, Subsequentiy they appitod tothe Corporation to anite |, Joan thea ia eautng wad conveying. the pretsines, and often, fog Wo thie dity fifteen thousand ( oliars,’ whieh was considered too trilin gum for the Interest of the cliy, having for over eighty empted ft from ion, tho protection “of tte property tor that | long period, and tie great incresse in tts valne, Improvements which tave involved by tne, tinny the elty inn heavy debt and burdensome tuxstion. Thess, With OWner consilermisna, induced the rusteds .o offer to (he City ane quarter of wwe amount for whioh the property eat be sold, ang xing the minimum price st P2I5,800, which wiil, At hae saun, yinld the olty 46680, ant it ie believed (here wil) be realized (rom the male a much iarger aum, where now ely receives annaally only B62 W tor the remt of these sa inom. ccomuntitee are in favor of accepting the proposition the | didinfectants; all bedding and Huen, and clotues | bolate of ime and the comin quickly fastenod down, taken there is scarcely any risk that the disease will spread.to oviers. But Ignorance, carelessness and bad sauitary conditions may develop its pecuhar contagiousieas With Lerribie joree, and enabdie it to operate at considerable distances from the sick pats son, All matters which the patient discharges itom his stomach and bowels, even in the siigiitest form of choleraic diartiwa, are infective, ‘The patient's power of tn-eoti: other persous Js represented aimost exciusively by these discharges, and thoy minst be disiufected tmmMediately by the addition of a saturated solution of copperas and carbolic acid. The infective Jatinence of cuolerate diseharges attaches to whatever bedding, clotning, towels ind like things have been contaminat: by taem, These should ail be thoroughly disinfected, or, wiat is better, destroyed at once. Dr. Bud, of ris\o., Engiand, who has forntshed # perfec: ‘exanjie of | cholera prevention in cities, disiafected te rice | ver discharges immediately on they iasue ite body; ved paus and privies were dreneued wivit sotied with cholera discht Were burned; in case of death the body was fairly embedded in care Then tue house Was thoroughly fumigated, white- washed, and the floors scrubbed wiih a sejulion of permanganale of potash or chioride of lime. It is well to add tuat at the very beginning of the medical atiendance the Carpels were taken up, curtains taken down, all superduous articles of furniture and ciothing removed from tue sick room, The bed was Placed In the middie of the room, so as to nave free Ventuation all around and render the pauient and then, with bare ‘oors and every article not absolutely he to the corpfort ot the sick person Tomoved irom tho room, the struggle with disease Was mmaintwined with every reasonable prospect of Tellef to the patient and an almost absolute cer- tainty that the contagion would extend no farther. With these precauuions, wiile Bristol was ip daily, rapid aud almosé incessant intercourse with the 14.8 seen case ocour In A house which cameunder Umely treatment, With these (acts vefore us it almost allowable to hoid physicians responsible for the spread of tho disease to other members of (he tumug, or tothe neighborhood, AS regards the prevention of the «ise toremember that apples, peactios, cuc soft crabs, clam a or cholera morbus, LAL Ley cannot bring On Asiatic cholera uniess the eXperimenter has already been exposed to the disease. It is well tor mrad people to avoid these ariicles merely to save them- selves needless anxiety and fright. Tn cities like New York, where the drinking water canuot well become contaminated, there 18 HO diane ger of contracting the disease unless one comes in Absolute contact with & cholera patient or with lid soiled closhiug, A teaspooutul or to of table salt per day is an excellemt preventive for those who are expose | to the disease; and one grain of suiphate of iron three or four times a day will check ite disorder in Ata metpiency. Tt is well to add that nearly one-half of all cases will recover from absolute repose in bea, between blankels, without any idedicine whatever. But the patient should not rise or get out of bed on any ao- count or for aay purpose, and the obill from linen bed and mght clotues will destroy many a promis- ing case. 3.0 Po Preenuttors in Euntand Acuinst the Ou4olera. Mr, Simon, medical ofMlcer of the British Privy Coudeil, has issued @ circular containing precau- tions against cholera, Ho says that cholera Is, happily, so ite contagious m the sense in waich smallpox aud scarlatina are contagious, that tf reasonable care bo taken where tt 1s present there is scarcely any risk that the disease wilt spread t persons Who nurse and otherwise closely atten upon the sick, But the cholera has an infectiveness of ifs own. It 18 characteristic of cholera, and likewise of the aiarrhwa produced by.the prevailing epikiemte, that ail matters discharged from the stomach and bowels of the patient are imifecttve, and that if they be left withont distofection alter they are discharged their tnfectiveness for sone days grows stronger and stronger. In the event of @ny escape in the drain into Which such discharges are cast, tie Well or Water sources might be Infected. He therefore recommends that all discharges should be aisinfected before neing thrown into the drain, and that all clothes, toweis, or bedding in the least tainted should aiso be careiuily disintected. He re- Marks that the main object for endeavor mast be to secure such. locat circumstances that cholera-con~ tagium, though not disiniected, shall be prevented from acting extensively oa the population, He goes on to remark thus:— ‘The dangers which have to ho guarded ngalust aa favorine | the spread of cholera-contagiom wre-particuiariy two. First, nd above all, tere ie the danger of water, suvpit aro in any (even the slightest) degree tainted by how or otuer like kinds of ith; as where there 1s outdow, | age or titration from sewers, house draina, vrivies,” cess 0 ul ditvhes ortie like, into streams, springs, wells or ea, from Wien ths sity ris drawn, OF the soil ih which tho wel exist on a mall aoale (but, perhaps, oiten re- in the same at ‘the pump or of a private howse; of on a large and Vast se water works, 1 the source of supply pf pubii naly, there is uke dang eating air which 1s alinvin trom the sat of Amnparity, diate and searching examination of sources of water supply should be made in ali cases where the sonrce fs in any di:gree open to the private and pnotic sources should be examined, a lulion ts discovered everything practlexbls suould be done to prevent the pollution from continuing, or, if thin ob- ject cannot be aitained, to. prevent the water from Similtaneous\y there should be immediate thorongh removal of every sort of house refuse and o filth which has accunmiated in neglected pix r c mulations of the same sort should be prevented, attention should be given to all devects of house di Vk fs aly gecupied, should be pr Disinfection should ‘be very freely eyed in and round about honses, wherever receptacles or conduits of filth, wherever there is tilt sodten oF porous.earth, Wherever anything else, In or w or about the house, tends to make the atmosphere foul. In the absence of partaanent safeguards no approach to security can be got without jacessant cleansings aud disinfectious, or sible contaminatioa of drinking water, Meved that in considerable parts of the country condi! favorable to the spread of cholera are far bundant than at former times of visitation; but itis certain that 1a lkces the conditions of security are wholly, or to be hoped that in atl thia under present efroum- f thing which inthe remaining the can be done to Jua:l’y the trust reposed in them by the legislation for the provectioa of the pubite health, The Cholera Im the Northoasteru Ports of ind. Mr, J. Netton Radclitfe, of the Medical Depart- ment of the Privy Council, has now completed his tour among the northeastern ports of England, and, from the Humber to Berwick, has placed them all in a state of defence against the importation of cholera. He nas also been in communication with the shore authorities of the several towns in the district, and has ascertained that there 18 1p all of them, as far as structural deficiencies will permit, a conditiyn of prspared $3 against any possible outbreak. Mc. Radcilie’s visit has been every wher cordially weicomed, his counsel sought, an nis recommendations either carried into effect or earefuity noted agamst fataro emergencies. He will almost immediately proceed to the southeast. ern ports on a sitnilar infssion; for now that the disease has reached Konigsberg its frequent ar- rivals on our shores can hardly be long delayed, and {t is, perhaps, most likely to be brought to the jorta most Used as places for tho landing of pas- engers from the Continent. The port London and the mouth of the Thames generally have been a —— | DSUBLED UP =v DEATH. THE BODY IN THE BOR, An Apparently Impencirable Mystery. Coming from Canada and Going to Hor Grave— The Medical Muddler—Where Are the Mur- Gerors?—The Mysterious Woman—Tripp, the Truckmen—Looking for e Dector— The Post-Mortem Examination. Every possible kind of conjecture and speculation {8 afloat upon the unfortunate subject found im th@ box at the railway depot on Satarday. The simple fact that the body of a beautiful woman could be used in that inhuman manner in the heart of a large city is in itself suMicient to create the. deopeas indignation, Where the horrible story, so shrouded in darkness, began, and how it was continued, is the theme of general discusston, One theory after another is-started and discussed; but few, if indeed any, lead to anything like a satisfactory soln. tion of the mystery. That there has deca FOUL AND BLOODY WORK done in the case ig now decided beyond all dental, but now i was execnted or by whom perlormed time alone can tell. One of the stories much re- peatéd yesterday was ‘that the lady had been an actress, and had only just arrived mm America when some trouble befel her, Another, and a very much more provable talé, ts that she came from the country for the benefit of medical ade vice aud brought up. at Brooklyn, from where the body was yesterday transferred ta this city. Several facts in the detatied action of thé man and woman who brought the corpse to the depot help to substantiate or at least give a strong coloring to this view of the affair, The body is now lying in the dead-noa3e at Bellevue Hospital, and & More feartul aight could pot be contemplated, From a young and beauttiul woman in the prune of life it has changed to A BLACK 00ZING MASS terriple to lock upon and revoiting to approach, ‘The face Is frightiully swollen and darkened tn aps peatanve, Tho eyes have seemingly started out of the bead, and the pupils look decreased to balf thetr ha‘ural size from the immense surroundings of glaring white aronud them, ‘The cheeks, lips and neck are feartully swollen, while the rich abundance Ol hair is thrown in a tangled mass behind the head, darkened and wet by THH PUTRID WASTINGS OF THR BODY, If those parted, heavy lips were for & M+ meat restored (o living action what a ievelation they could make! If that rotting tongue could move again in speech what a story would tt tell to nh astonished world! Would it be one of trusting ove aud consequent betrayal, enaing in a frenzied etfort to destroy the result of an unforiunate confl- deuce, or would it be one of a premeditated and knowing dash into iorbidden ways, ending fatally tor the miserabie woman? ‘there it ties, ail that is lett of a oneg beautiful woman, beneata the scrutinizing and wondering eye of a curious multitude, and yot no goand comes forth to clear up the mystery of ner aking away. No word can she now pronounce toe tell of all the agony and sudering she went througa before death came and shut out with his tron grasp the torments of her ile, ‘There, extended in & common case, ts the remuant of a datnty presence that men approached wiih respect and adimiration, but now they Oy trom tt, driven away by THE SICKENING STENCH. This lovely woman, who during life was, no doubt, the cherisnéd darling of a doting household, dise covered in her death the vregence of the maimed and broken boay by the very filth of decaying hu- manity, ‘Thryughout the night on Saturday aud ath day yesterday the police were unremitung in their eitorts to find the first clue to the daring murderera Wao brought this lady to her death, but up to a late Rour last night nothing had been fonnd out to en- lighten them in the search. When the boy, Alexane der Parks, told lis siory about the truckmal inspector het 4 set every means on foot toflud the man ‘Tripp, as the poy had said thal Was the name patitted on the truck that brougus the trank with the body lu it to the depot. But one regulariy licensed trackiman of that name was found and the boy sald he was not the one, A mat named Trapp was then found on the Bowery, brought to Police Headquarters and retained until iri boy came to seo him, bat when Parks arrived e said Trupp was not the mancither. Trapp, hows ever, told the police that a man cate vo bim am Friday and told lim there was A TRUNK IN BOND STREET that he wanted him to take away, and as soon as It was ready he would come and fetca lim, Thig man, he sald, never came back, but he knows pie. aud told the police who he was. Parks was thet sent over to Lrapp’s house to look at the truck, bas eneral order was sent to all the tarious in the city to for a committed to the especial charge of Dr. Buchanan, wh well-known zeal and experience will leave nothing undone to unite local authorities Into. com- bi ed action, and lo carry out whatever precautions the short time will allow, and the results of past negligence may sull permit to be enforced. ‘The Epidemic in Russia, ‘The Messager Opiciel publishes the following state- ment of the progress of the cholera in Russia during the present year, and of the means adopted to check it:—“From the beginning of January until the end of February the cholera continued its at- tacks, although not with any degreo of Intensity, except at St. Petersburg. On rebruary 23 it re. appeared at Moscow, where only a few slight cases occurred at first. Early in March the cholera made rapid progress at St. Petersbu where It assumed an epidemic form, but toward the end of April and the beginning of May it began to diminish In-severity. At the end of May and the commencement of June, when the warm weather approached, the disease became more virulent. in the middie of June the epidemic broke out tn other arts of thoempire, The Minister of the Interior immediately upon learning the progress which tho epidemic was making, in addition to the precau. tlonary measures recommended by the medical faculty, requested that funds might be placed at bis disposal to enable the provincial autnorities to provide for the medt care of the people Wwyuun thelr districts. A sum of 000. was granted for that purpose, and physician surgeons and medical students have been sent to thi governments of Tambov, Jareslav, Novgorod, Veadi- mir and Olonets to assist In the treatment of cholera patients. x the same time Dr. Tarnovsky was Bpecialiy despatehed by the Mipister of the Interior to examine thase districts with a view a ‘aomng measures +0 arrést the progress of the epidemic, ome yeeeet cholera nbeine occurred among the risoners Who were being removed from Nijui to m % was specialiy sent to in- sure them medical | altercation, and after @ short time the husbands of | | the corner of Hamilton avenue and Hicks street, attendance while on thei road, an generally. to adopt measures to pre’ if the exte: of the disease among them. At pro- sent, with the exception of Moscow and some dis. tricts in the government of boy, particularly in those of Borissogievs< and Kirsanov, and in some districts of the government of Veadimir, the epl- demic has alregty considerably dimmisied in Inten- sity, but, In ant tion, of Its probable revival, especial: ah the fair, the medicai de- pateen which is closely watching the course of he disease, keaps in readiness a certain number of Beals 3d and students of medicine who can be | ‘ent to any istrict where a renewed ontbroak may render necessary addjuonal medical ald. EROCKLYN AFFAIRS, ‘Tne servidcs of the entire force of the pollee of the Ninth sab-precinct were called mto requisition yes terday afternoon to quell.2 desperate fight between three families in the tenement house No. 859 Gates avenue, Mi Grady and Mrs, Bagat got into an the women aisy became involved in the afiray. Joseph Bagat went to the assi#angs of is Wife, aud kicked Mrs. Grady on the head. James Grady went to the | rescue of iis wife, and was assisted in the dgnt.by Patrick Grey and his wie. Both Bagat and his wife were cut on the head with a fat iron whicn was used in the fight by Grey. Mra, Bagat was attended by Dr. Corbin. The parties were ail arrested aud locked up Ww await examination, Perilous Pistol Preotice. OMcer MoGowan observed an Intoxicated {hdivid- ual firing a large navy revolver while standing on ‘The Weapon was aimed at a certain Jon Tighe, with whom the stranger Dad had a dificuity a short | ume previously, ‘The o#icer arrested the man and conveyed lim to the station housé, where he gave lus Dame a8 Patrick Lysaght, He is held to auswer, Fise. A fire broke ont about eleven o'clock yesterday Mofuitg in the two story frame pbuilding No, 67 | Seabring sireet. The structure 13 nsed as & match factory utd is owned by George Wills & Son. A 1085 on Luling and stock equal to $1,000 Was Incurred. Tae femmes grantor to the adjommg structure, owned by Francis B. Cutting, which was damaged to the extent of $1,000, The fire was of accidental origio. A FORGERY PASTENDD. Naw Yor«, August 26, 1871. ‘To Tas Korror or T4e8 HERALD: — In this morning’s issue of the Times there is an article headed “How Do Poor Democrats Like This!"? signed J, 1. Mott, Harlem. Permit me through re did great cuolera felds of London, Liverpool and Rot+ terdain, in 1966 Dr. Badd sueceeded in staying the epidemic at ono, although the etty was Uriel on almost overy polnt, by cases which hit escaped qua. ranUne, and alter the infection had broken out In no Joss tau twenty-six cenires or fells, Ja ao lastance columns to pronounce tho article a forgery. hot write one Word of ft, and cannot Imagine who | small hands and feet, and ni, he at once suid it was not the vehicle a with the name of a Tripper or ainted upon it and three t slate on each nd at the same time to search all the livery stabi jor the man that drove the iady to the depot om turday ina@coupé This driver was found on ‘ corner of Twenty-third street and Tuird avenue brought to the office. He said it on Sacurdi {ternoon @ lady came to the stable and told he wanted to driven to the depoh He wag harnessed up and aitting on tl He answered that he would take her the: for a dollar and a half, put the lady said she only @ dollar and gould not givo him any more, He then consented to take her for a dollar, and did 6g accordingly, When they got to tne depot shi jumped ont of the coups, gave him the dollar, an he drove off. He had no recoliection whae ever of the lady’s face or encsat appear. auce, as he hada scarcely looked at her, and would not know her ¢gain, he sald. Hé had simply taken her up at the siable, driven wo the depot, got his money and goue away, So fay the work of the police seemed to produce but little satisfaction, but during the morning yesterday Dr, Snine came to the Central Office and sald that on last Friday week he was in the office of Dr. Nagle, Depaty Register of Records and Vital Statistics, when a lady came there to look after A MISSING FRIEND. There being no entry of any one having bee! found tat answered to her description she ask the Register if he knew of acertain doctor in Oak street, Search was then made in the books of the department, but no such Medical man was rec there. This seemed to asiouish her a good deal, she told Dr. Nagle that she had come from ’ ith # young Widow, a frlend of + ~~ vanad Been suffering for son time v ers, Wid hy hea ae O TUM, ANd who J ween advised to come to New Yorx and go fibier the care of {%% doctor, They hud been a Sew York but afew cd os wi THB Yor ipo from their house | t f° judy as beme « t peoaston, biona batr, of “ about twenty-ti: accords 80 eXs 5 that & good ‘ea! 6 tow wudyhes lady, but she fies :01 yel come fo the aura Dr, Shine says fti't, as well as can remember, ee A ~ lack, he thinks silk; © 13 about © ns age, and er bar inf) two” -vrtyellve soarsor = Corning slighby gray. iniite easy tnt: Ma Mm wood ‘circunseaneed somewn= _ vet b aner and self-poagessed, bu’ fre “ep ATinious an | nervens about her misatt ‘end. One of the b. et extraordinary features tins siravge escape vind savsequent death is te clevern hg Pile every § detail hag na ‘ot once throughout ti entire alae dia the woman who conducted tt fore getherseif, Whether sae had confederaces or wi Forking on ber own responsibility seems Tm posal: bie to find ous. Her plans were so weil lald out and carried on with sucti rapid adherence to rd ranged system, that it will require THE UCMOST INGEN! of the authorities to get at her. ‘The suspicion that she brought her burden trom Brooklyn ts a surewd Ong, and shows to What extont Ypie will go who deal iu things prohibtted by law, and eadanger hie by their villainous practices, This woman Tse voty well have come from the eity over the Water and cross the ferry at Twenty-third si from where she couid have walked up to the liver stable from which she procured the carriage, me trunk ,aud Its _contenis, might origibaily have come street, Could Very easily have been trapsported to Brooklyn aad then brougat back again with tty object Of blinding the eyes of the detectives, Since body bas been found the people in charge of 16 wave done everything in their power to prevent & Tecognition of the woman. 1t has been allowed to lie iu the dead-house fa @ in, decomposing, without ice or any other means of preservation having been used, THE POST MORTEM EXAMINATION, Dr, Joseph Cuguiman made a careful exainipaiion ou the body, which was tha: developed woman, About twenty-one years of age, who apparently had been dead for two or thres days. Deceased was five feet three incnes 1; height, win delica’e and finely-moulded featu @ profusion of au: burn hair, et eyes Were swollen, moath open and tongue protruding. On opening tne abdointnal cavity Di, Cushinan found unmistakable indications of an averuon, Tae bran, heart, lungs aod otier organs were In @ healthy coudition. THR OPINION OF DR. CUSHMAN 1s that doath was caused from acute peritonitis, the resnitt of an abortion. ‘The trunk ito which the remains were cramme:t 1s vhiriy-two inches i length, eigiteen in width and fourteen Inches in depth, It will be seen, there ore, that extraordinary pressure, as well a3 nerve, Was necessary to get. the body lito so small a space. Alew strangers Called at tie Morgue yesterday, Dut none of them could identify the pou. Une lad in deep mournins, who gazed on the decomposing remains, turned awayewreeping, and ject the hospi+ tal without saying @ Word in explanation. ‘The pody Wii be Kept as long as possible it 18 believed She appeared to be p. ge wouid take the li to write any article aad use fab are eee iF edge of ite cane i deny article or @ kuowledge . i, MOTT, for whe purpose of identification; bur they wilt not ‘be cltimed, as that Might result in ox- posure and possible puuishment ol we guulty 2, partes ° a