The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1872, Page 4

4 THE FILTHY STREETS. Disease and Dirt Deluging the Metropolis. Fa eeclhecennate ABOMINABLE ABUSE The Street Contractor To Be Indicted ; by the Grand Jury. ee HORRORS IN HARLEM. Me creas Se Eleyen Hundred Citizens Petition the Board of Health To Abolish the Con- tractors’ Pet Dumping Ground, One day last week the HERALD called the atten- tion of the public to the dangerous and filthy con- dition of the streets, and from the impression then made by the forcible article in the Heratp the Board of Health has taken the matter up, and there is now some probability that New York will soon enjoy the novelty of clean streets, Upon an order issued by the Board the Sanitary Inspector sent out a number of his assistants to examine the condition of the city’s surface, and the result of these gentle- men’s labors has been sent in tothe Board, One especial and very noticeable feature of that paper is the constant reference to the cobble stones and the imperfect paving of the streets, This phase of the present difficulty was first pointed out by the HERALD, and its enormity and danger to the public health had never been dreamed of until it was described in the article alluded to above, The contract under which the streets are now ALLOWED TO FESTER WITH FILTIC only asks the holder of that instrument to clean the | paved streets, and he most certainly translates the phraseology of the contract in the broadest sense. The disarrangement of a couple of cobble stones is sufficient excuse for the present Scavenging Bri- | gade to forsake an entire block, A rut in the next | row of houses will result in the same thing, and so | on for the length of an entire street, until the thor- oughfare REEKS WITH ROTTING GARBAGE. | fourth street, enst of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 187%—TRIPLE SHEET, dny*s contributions, for extra ances. The filthy and reprehensible practieesor the house popula. tion was bere apparent in the unustal amount of garbage aud house slop additions, which sccm to be prevalent wherever such houses are located. ‘The streots intervecting these avenues wore for from clean, as a rulo, | In some the process of hen the dirt had becn performed; but these heaps w Inia aud would evidently be soon scattered o 1 by passing icles. ye videmtly'in some. instances for more than * hours—of removing (ho heaps of dirt and s defeats the object of secur: twenty fc street manpre from the sire ing clean streets most effectually, ‘This condition Was observed trom Thirty first to Twenty- rd avenue. Frou Twenty-third to h'street inclusive, all east of Third avenue, ean, and had not been cleaned apparently for nee! were not some days. Gangs of sweepers wero cleaning the streets and ave nnes of the Seventeenth ward below Fourteenth street, cast oF First avenue, which were in very bad condition, Tt was remarked that, although the curts here followed tho sweepers closely, considerable quantities were left of cach pile by the cartmen, so that one could hardly be con- vinced that the work had just been done, so imperfect! were tho heaps removed. Many of the streets of this ant tho Eleventh ward paved with wornout cobble- stone pavements, and as @ consequence unclean gutters, dcep mud holes or clouds of dust claimed the From Houston, in the Eleventh ward, to Divisi Tenth ward, the'streeta and cross streets were being Clean, some of them, the most travelled and from sprinkling, being quite muddy, The gutters in nearly all were filled with a very offensive depont In the Seventh ward Di ion street, East Broadway, portions of Henry, Madison, Monroe, Cherry and Wawr streets and all of South street were found fn the usual dirty condition of a week or more absence of the sweep- ers. In those portions of these streets occupied by the tenement houses the usual accumulations of filthy ashes, rhage nnd house slops were everywhere evident to ai feast three schses In the Fourth velt streets maintained x ce for uncleanli- ness, although not so bad as has frequently been seen. A gang of cloavors were at work through them with g efiect, temporarily, at least. ‘Through the Second ward clouds of dust obscured the vision, which the throny of business pursuits would not iL. Ben nan, And, Fulton and John streets and need cleanlny. In the First ward, Pearl, Beaver, Bridge, Stone and Markettield Front, Water, strocts were vory dirty, with at Jeast a week's accumula. tion, while crosiing Broadway and passing up through Greenwich at ects they found fearfully filthy below Chambers street, the gutters reeking with the ‘abominations cast out of tenement and boarding houses. The cross streets intersecting them, trom Broad way to North River, were without exception exces- ively filthy, Bvidently there had been an attempt within afew days to remove some of this filth, but the conditi of the cobble-stone pavement sible to cleun thoroughly or keep ¢ w Chambers street. No words yd scribe them, and only ‘© compulsory ride through the can give a propel crue Throughout the Third ward, west of Broad irty. Tn the Sixth ward—usunally (he worst of any—evidently much effort has been made for the better, and, with the on of Baxter, below C 1, and some portions of izabeth and Mulberry, the Streets Were tolerably id Washington st can adequate Bighth and Ninth wards west of Broady anal to West Fourwenth street, with the exception of streets running westerly, particularly and Little Twelfth street, from Hudson to the } River, were ina tolerably fair cond:t ‘of Hudson street need cleaning may be said the dirt consists principal which be account of its dust than from any offensiveness, urleenth ward presents a tolerably clean surface, ‘Thirteenth n jeaning, man ly Rivin Delancey Lewis, Cannon, Columbia Sheritt, V ‘Attorney, Clinton and Sufolk. ard, from Bowery and Fourth avent West Houston to West Fourteenth str secting streets, iy in a tolerably fair South Fitth avenue, unpaved. Passing up Ninth'avenue, through the Sixteenth ward y, from, y much ot the Loo » kind nes pulverized, and is more objectionable on The The When the matter was started in the Roard of Health yesterday Commissioner Barr, after # long | speech upon the universal ith of the city, proposed | that the Board request the Grand Jury to indict the | street contractor or take some other definite means | to protect the lives of the people. The Commissioner Baid in the course of his remarks:—“If something is not done, and soon too, we shall | have an- epidemic sweeping this city S as has been recently devastation Philadelphia, Th subject is a most serious one and demands the instant attention of tae Board. If the contractor Will not perform the duty for which he is paid, then | the proper authority should be found out and the law enforced, itis dreadful to think what the city may be subjected to by the greed of one man. President Bosworth informed the Commissione that the Board of Health had no jurisdiction over th contractor whatey one forth, which gave the people to suppose the ard of Health had the power to order the clean- ing of the streets at any moment, Such, the Presi- lent explained, is not the case. The Board has no | power to incur any outlay unless an appropriation | it apparently unusual and ‘extraordinary amount of house as been made for that espectal purpose, Com- | Yapalring-rebuildine and the construction. of now biald. | missioner Mullaly asked the President if the | ings, pipe laying and sewer constructions, All these | matter did not come under the control of the Street | add’ not only ‘to the local conditions in almost | Cleaning Commission, To this the President an- | every. street, but the dirt and refuse which are | Bwered :. he only power the Street Cleaning Commission has over the present contractor is to STOP THE PAYMENT OF HIS BILLS, and that has been done recently, but it only re- tards the work and does not clean the city. Com- | missioner Manierre proposed that in the present | deplorable condition of affairs .the pubilc be peti- tioned to subscribe sums of money, each citizen | giving what he could afford, to clean the Streets, and that the Boar undertake | to do the work. He sald that if | the plan were successful the city could be cleaned in thirty days. ‘This absurd motion was | voted down by President Rosworth, Commissioners | Oeccarini, Gross and Dr. Stephen Smith. Commis- | sioners Mullally, Manierre and Barr voted for the | motion, After some further discussion of the sub- ject it was dismissed, with a suggestion from Presi- Went Bosworth to attach an order to the report of the City Sanitary Inspector compelling the contrac- tor to | CLEAN THE PAVED STREETS, | lanes and alleys of the city according to the letter | of the contract under which he holds the position. | On the conclusion of the regular business of the | Board @ committee of citizens was received by the | Board, who bad gone there to present a petition | signed by 1,100 cititizens in Harlem and the | vicinity against the further of dumping of garbage and filth in that locality by the | tractor. The HkRAkD called attention to the | abominable nuisance in its recent article on the Streets and showed very plamly the danger that existed from it to the public health, The street | contractor bought the property some years ago ata | merely nomival figure, and without any permit or | inne commenced to fling the filth of New York nto the ground and manufacture profitable property | tor himself at the risk of thonsands of lives. Thi: though directly in opposition to law, has been | continued ever since, and the effect of it has gone | on ine sing until the people in the neighborhood now drew an epidemic from the stench coming trom THIS DECOMPOSING MASS OF FILTH. This rong which was complained of by the peo- ple of Yorkville and Harlem who petitioned the joard of Health yesterday, lies between Ninety- second and 106th streets on the East River, and, not content with making that district a plague ground, the contractors’ oMcials have even gone so far as t fill in a bulkhead close to the with the same matter thrown into the marshy ground belonging to the contractor, The petition presented by the committee was signed by a num- er of prominent citizens and the directors and as- sistants of two large schools in Harlem, one of which was attended by over fourteen hundred chil- dren. These gentlemen, as weil as the other sign- ers of the document, state that | THE STENCH ARISING PROM THE DISTRICT | complained of is so great that they have freq to shut up all the windows in their houses, ev the warmest weather, to avoid the dangerous effects of the miasma. In one office, a member of the committee said, three clerks had sickened one afternoon, and they had to be removed from the Oflice to save their lives, On the conclusion of the committee's testimony before the Board, Commis- sioner Manierre moved that the Board of Police be requested to arrest all persons dumping garbage or street filth on this ground in future, and the City Sanitary Inspector was requested to have the locality thoroughly ; examined and to report its exact condition to the | Board, At asubsequent meeting of the Board of | Police an order was issued to the force in support | of Commissioner Manierre’s motion in the Board of | Health, and thus, for the time being, the nuisances | of dumping has been abated, The City Sunitarg Inspector has been ordered to furnish hie report supplemented with a eketch of the condition of | THE MANURE DUMPING GROUNDS on both sides of the island, by Friday next, and there is no doubt the Board will then order a | thorough disinfection of the objectionable ground | at the expense of the contractor. The effect of the | prompt action of the Board of Police in sustaining ‘thé Board of Health may be seen from the report of | Street Superintendent Middleton, who says that the recent order issued to the police to arrest all parties flinging dirt into the streets | has made a ditference in the garbage carted | out of the city in one week of 1,006 joads. ‘This, im itself, is a stupendous result, and it is to be hoped | the police captains of e several precincts will | the order out in the interest of the public | welfare, The following is the report of the cit Inspector on the condition of the streets :— | In compliance with your resolution of the 6th inst. I | have the honor to report that a complete tour of observa- tion was made yesterday throughout the city with refer. | ence to the condition of the streets as regards cieanii It was found that the streets and avenues lyin ‘Third avenue and the Bowery were in @ terrible condi. | tion. The excessively filthy winter's accumulations had not been removed, East of avenue, from Sixty: first to Fourteenth streets, the streets were not well ed, and presented the usual appearance that is xen crally. observed in the interval between the weekly sweeping, with the exception of some streets where the May day exodus seemed to have caused a yoneral empty ing out from the houses of all the acoumulated household PubUIMN Of HO YORE.» i eens fellows ‘The avenues east of Fourth were v8 to-day; dirt in piles not yet om Fifty-soventh to Forty-second streets; Forty-second to Thirty-third streets; Thirty- tto Gramercy Park not clean; dirt consisting Jenith and portions of Forth utters obstructed nearly whole sand some streets, the Mutual Gas Light Company have recently been laying pipes, and tmueh refuse dirt has been left by the: ich creates @ fine dust and adds much to the nnclean conditions, Second avenue,—Not well cleaned. The cobble stone nt of this avenne, from Por econd street to e Street, presents a sure sy broken and ‘ified with sunken holes, that thorough Sanitary | st of | Lexington avenne.—Swept removed, were not we length. In these aven enteen| pidated i Nxtieth to Thirty-sixth street, is blocks, preseutiny au even surface, yacUcwlarly between Fittieth and From v8 ¢ avenue, is in such a dilapideted Soe yement, having the old cobble-stone ordinary cleaning can g “ Much loose retuse and street Out its length itio: thf ¢ it a decent appearance, dirt was observed through: | QD presented the nsns Aition of a weeiv’s atourublationn: added ee bene gen. | } an erroneous impression had | 1 eet structing th te | sections of the efty whe: | stantly | contagious diseases reported at the lariem Bridge | 4, | Making during the last century and a half. | port were ordered to be printe from West Fourteenth strevt to ‘twenty-sixth street, t streets are tolerably clean, with some few exceptions, as Sixteenth street, west of nth avenue, dirty, 5 n heaps of dirt to be removed; Twenty-secoud n Eighth and Ninth avenues, bad; Twent sixth streets, bad cobblestone pavem an ¢ pavements; Ninth av fi ith street, is paved with the old bn y~ lestone, to Forty ail. in vad condition, dnd as a consequence unclean. Fort i str Forty-eighth ith to Tenth avenue, no pay ent; I t 1 1th, f iy-ninth street, Eighth to Ninth avenue, cobblestone ; h street, Eighth to Ninth avenue, Belgian pave- i me i pa idirty, jhity third strect, Bighth to Ninth avenue, cobblestone; | dirty. | art street, Eighth to Ninth avenue, Belgian | ir AS‘a general rule the nearer one approaches to the North and East Rivers are found the most neglected | streets, both as to cleanliness and faulty pavements, ‘The central portions of the city are In very good condition be- tween Third and Eighth avenues. Atiother reason tor the pearance of many streets lies In the fact of an carted to and fro trom these operations keep the streets littered with dirt dropping therefrom, and the immediate blocked up with the same materials, not only ob- | street travel but preventing thelr proper cleaning. ds of dust from buildings being demotist or repaired, with th ed heaps of san add greatly ‘to our di: 3 culariy at this thr when for want of rain ear\hy matters become reduced to powder. ‘Although the strects and avenues of the city enerally do not present anything like the dangerously gilthy con- ditions that they did some three or four weeks singe, yet it Is perfectly evident that a weekly going removing | but a portion of the accumulations cach time, will not an cannot keep the city in such a sanitary condition as the season or the enlth demand. Without ita an apology for neglect or rant of Well ¢ it may wi be that the unc! tof the stre rent my ctive terms of the stre: a weekly cleaning. r there is great density o! lation in tenement houses, we ing cont | opu- require, a8 a sanitary ne- ceasity, st least three cleanings per week, these inelading all those wards lying easterly of the Second avenue, from Tharty-fourth strect to Fourteenth street, and all of the city south of Fourteenth street, and portions of tle wards lying west of Eigth avenue, trom Fourteenth strect to Fifty-fourth stres Another fact aunivation, and Health Inspec markedly apparent in this hasty ex- been frequently dwelt upon by th 1, in many place really dange: obbie stone pav ments. It is but too evident that the worn out, disp ‘old cobble stone and rotien wooden pavement have v much to do with this unsanitary and unhealt tion, for the rule was almost without anc streets From t an ption that d avenues so paved were those most filth the irregular system of collecting welt nage by the contractor, has followed the almost univ glect and violation of in the throwing into the puclic streets ‘y fuse and house filth, thas causing a seeming indifference | to the public health. With decomposing tin the 4, diving of p or with impalpable clouds of street dust penetrating Jungs, what better 1m mployed, it ma: asked, to invite epidemics and endemics or cause pest lences to flourish. As sanitarians and guardians of public | health these conditions not but © anxiety and | simulate us to renewed exertions to place the city in a better sanitary condition. SMALLPOX. | ‘The following is the comparative statement of | Bureau of | | Sanitary Inspection for the two wecks ending May 18) | rt} 5 Among the smallpox cases occurring during the | past week twenty-four were fonnd who had never | been vaccinated and whose ages ranged from | twenty-four days to thirty-one year | METHODIST GENERAL CONFER. | ENCE, - The Bishop's Report—Addresses by Drs. | ‘Wiseman, Punshon, Crosby and McKay The Conference met yesterday, Bishop Ames pre- siding. After reading the journal, Dr. Lanahan complained that his report had not been published | in the Daily Advocate, and Dr. Slicer joined issne | with him in an assertion that the journal in ques- tion had designediy omitted several important matters that should have been printed. The Special Committee on the’ Bible Society | Anniversary reported the names of a deputation appointed to attend the society's meeting in New | York. ‘The Bishop's quadrennial report was then read. It was very voluminous, and in regard to | the rapid progress which Christianity had been The membership of the Charch during the last four years was 27 While its corporate wealth had increased wonderfully. The statistics of the value of Church property were interesting. The annual collections for the relief of aged and needy minis- ters, or their widows and orphans, since 187 amounted to $5, being an Increase | of $137, The port referred to the | visits of missionaries to foreign climes, ap- | plauded the munificence of laymen who had Made handsome endowments for educational | purposes, decried the action of the Roman Catholic priests to destroy the fundamental principle of our Ivee school system, and stated thatit would become the Methodist Church to celebrate im a proper manner the centennial anniversary of the nativity of the nation, four years’ hence, On the motion of Dr. Nures 000 copies of the re. | After the announcement of the special committees had been made Drs, Luke BH. Wiseman and W. M PUNSHON delivered eloquent addresses, and the ad. dress of the British Conference was read by the Secretary. Dr. Wiseman spoke in enthusiastic terms | of the cordial welcome which himself and cotlca | had received from the Wesleyan Methodists in Eng- land, and gave some interesting statistics in re- gard to the rapid growth of Methodism in that | country, He said that sect were no longer looked upon with disfavor by the wealthy and nobie, many whom were liberal Bere of the Chureti. | ‘The Sunday schools in England did not ocenpy the same position that they do in this ener educational question has lately been much agitated | among the higher classes, the American system was meet ng with approval, and, owing to the disestablishment of the Church of England, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were now open to the children of Methodists and other denominations, Missionary work was rapidly | progressing all over the Continent of Europe, | nearly every country in which sent out servants of | the Lord to diffuse Christianity among heathen | ons, mite Rey. Mr. Punshon was received with much applause, He svoke in elowing terms of the state but the | Aifth street, Ninth to Tenth avenue, cobblestone; | ; | that a few day | thty of bad books captur | ness of this trade, whieh. for thirty y | delphia, New Hav of the American Church, and:showered encomtums upon the people who so ably supported it. Four years ago, when here, he witnessed the Admission of colored delegates to the General Conference and now laymen were admitted—this was progress, He spoke of the increased respect with which the Methodist Church in England had gained lately—it was no longer regarded as a species of fanaticism, but was accorded its true place. The speaker then referred to orphan home schools, and said his codelegate, Rev, Mr. Stevenson, and himself, were about to found an orphanage in Canada, After reading a letter from Bishop Ashbury, dated Mareh 31, 1808, he said he fully endorsed the doctrines therein ex- anded, er referring to the loss the Church jad sustained by the Ghicago fire, the learned gen- tleman concinded, Chancellor How ARD CRrosBy was the next speaker. He said that the Church of Christ now needed an overflow of social and Christian feeling, rather than business, ‘The aspect of affairs is far more glorious to-day than Atty years ago for Christian unity, The Methodist Church had instilled life and energy into the Presbyterian Church, The Rev. W. McKay spoke of the condition and progress of Methodism in Ireland. Since 1830 his church had lost 28,000 members, most of whom had come to swell the ranks of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this country. He considered Romanism the bane of any people, but Methodism was the anti- dote to it, The hour of adjournment being passed the com- mittee on reception merely introduced the remain- ing fraternal delegates—G. R. Sanderson and A, Sutherland, of the Wesleyan Church in Canada; J. Wild and M. Benson, of the Methodist Episcopai Church in that country; Mr. Pope, President of the Methodist Conference in Eastern British America, and R. Dobbs, from the German Evangelical Associa- tion. These delegates will have an opportunity at @ future day to address the Conference. © Dr. Cooper, of Philadelphia, was appointed to read the devotions to-day, after which the Conference ad- eurame to the sidewalk to have their photographs en. THE MAY ANNIVERSARIES, The Reports of Societies from All Parts of the Union. nt The American Tract Society on the Suppression of Obscene Literature—The Methodist General Conference—The Universal Peace Union Denounce Indiredt Damages—The New York Association of Universal- ists—The American Home Missionary Society. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. Forty-seventh Anniversary Meeting Yes- terday at Association Hall—The Ques- tion of Suppressing Obscene Literature=— Important Action Decided Upon, The forty-seventh anniversary mecting of the American Tract Society was held yesterday at As- sociation Hall. In the morning, at nine o'clock, a number of gentlemen assembled and at once pro- ceeded—after prayer had been offered and a dozen or more of letters had been read from friends who had found it impossible to attend—to receive the reports of the various committees, of which the following is a summary :— y has been vigorously great disadvantages, ar ire ntelling 0 new story, inthe Mansard style, has been ere the whole'building, and the’ manufacturing operations d into the three upper stories, leaving most of the r part of the building to be remodelled and rented in stores and offices. The committee found this. measure pressed tipon them by all sound financial considerations, as custodians of a building oceupying so central and eligible a site as the tract house. the new publications of the society 8 h and About Spiritualism Mark Hopkins rosby, ler id Mrs. Brandegee; a hew popular illustrated tracts on a Nent volumes for the young of all ten new and choice pocket tract tracts and two pac ume 1 of n Spanish 3 n mnissions, sin Hawaiian, one a translation of o » Dictionary ;* three volumes int West Atrica, and others in Zulu, Cre “Modern Sk books of practic ni and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Knight series of thirty-t large seale; fifteen i nn . “Tustrated Bib! J nea language, and Lakota. The whole number of new publ ‘Tract House during the year was rere Vo fons issned from the which forty-seven y six period: Mincher Hotwhayler, (he Mt, monthlies, and’ the Deutscher Volkssruend, pe Mustrated Ch illustrated wee! During the ver, publi ations for circulation among the destitute, in nnuities, h have been granted, amount- ing to $4!) or nearly seventy-five million page The tollowing is » financial report :— Re- ceipts for the in, donations and legacies, $126,833 4 it sking, with balance inth books and tr periodicals, t nYestnent all other 882 19. Total, inelnding 42 stu- inaries, labored ning British ligious meet- s for foreign and pagan lands, on account of the Ge Wood fund, expenses, mM fas by the treasurer's rep Balance ‘ hi treasury, 283 col Diiring thy dents from 1 provinces. ngs; made 25 : con d with 176,138 families who habitually neglected preaching: 11,917 families of 4 fan itnie oF ail religious books ex: Protestant families without th word of During the 31 vears since missionary colportage was in- augurated by thi y the statisti foliows :—Time ed equal to the 0,2 54) volun igions mectinus 5,839, 01 held’ or O18 famtites ine 5 595,004 families of Rom iamilies destitute of the of all religious b x! Dr. BUDDING tion, though evidently with some go he had inspect 1 by the oMeers of the y impressed with the awfal- retance, said law. He was profoundly carried on withont let or hindrance ve the black- mail paid to the detectives, In some instances quite large snms had thus been paid, and the ex- ecutors of the law had become silent partners in this hideous business. Of the terrible character of | the literature thus circulated no description could be too severe. It carried the classica) scholar back to the worst days of Tiberius, and, in a word, it was s0 bad that the area of support to the efforts that were now being made for its suppression, not only over the whole area of the Christian Church, or of those who have an ethical sense, but over the whole area of all who desired to presrve the purity and honor, ay, the very life of our community. To him the most astonishing fact about this matter was this, that just as we had a Christian Sunday school literature, so by the same horrible inversion of good that made the kingdom of Satan the opposite of the kingdom of God, this abominable tramMe bad a de- partment for the circulation of impure literature among the young. The object of these works seemed to be to so train up children of from nine to twelve years of age that when they passed the crisis of their maturity they shonld be prepared to piunge themselves into the depths of the most awful Pagan licentiousness, He could not command words to do justice to his deep | | sense of the horror of this business, which seemed to be perfectly organized on a vast scale, requiring large capital, and with branches in Boston, Phila- na of the land where our youth of either sex were gathered to- gether, Efforts of the most determined character were now being made to suppress this giant evil. ‘The Jaws of the State about this matter would soon be remodelled 80 as to make it a perfect in- strument. This discovery of the extent of the evil had, however, he thought, opened out a new field of usefulness to the Tract Society. It seemed to him as important to suppress vile literature as to cirenlate books of a high and useful chavacter. He moved, therefore, that, under the direction of the secretaries, a bu- reau be formed, the object of which should be the execution of the laws against obscene literature } and all its Le op and that they be requested to receive funds which are now being jaised in this community for that purpose. Dr. Hiscox in a few words spoke to mach the same purport, and alluded to the poblished state- ment that a manufacturing establishment devoted entirely to the construction of vile implements, when ‘stopped by the law, was found to be under the superintendence of a woman, and nearly all the operatives in the factory were girls. Dr, BUDDINGTON, after a littie more desultory dis- continued to say that our children of the age are subjected to evil influences, the extent of which we liad no conception, A friend of his bad surprised his little son, less than nine Years of age, reading one of those vile publications, and had said that he would infinitely have preferre ‘hat some brutal rufian had beaten him and stamped upon him rather than that he should have placed such poison in his hands, He, himself, was pro- foundiy impressed both with the awfulness of this thing and the dimeulty of successtnily contending againstit. They knew how unfortunate had been Some of the efforts made in this direction in the past. The burnt child dreaded the fire, and it was Well, therefore, to be wary in action, git having been suggested that the Young Men’s Christian Association had already taken this mat- ter in hand, and that it would be somewhat un- gracious, therefore, for the society to usurp control of this healthy movement, Dr. Buddington with- drew his motion, and another was substi tuted, re- quiring the secretaries of the society to confer with 12 great quan- | rs had*becn | the Young Men’s Christian Associations and agree upon mutnal action, ‘The report was then accepted, and the board of officers chosen for the present year. The principal change is that Mr. Shearer and Mr. Rand, who have hitherto been assistant secretaries, are now raised to an equality withthe principal secretary. Now, therefore, the socicty has again, as formerly, turee coequal secretaries, In the Svoptng which the principi again dialated u Father Gavazzi, { public meeting was held, tn al features of the reports were in, and brief addresses made by rr. Hall and others, NEW YORK ASSOOIATION OF UNIVERSALISTS. Annual Conference Meeting at the Bleecker Street Ohurch—Reports of Committces—General Proceedings. The annual conference of the New York Associa- tion of Universalists was held yesterday morning in the schoolroom of the church, at the corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, The pastor having called the meeting to order the proceedings were opened with a prayer by the Rev. Charles Fleurer, after which the election of oMcers for the ensuing year was proceeded with. Mr. William A. Conant, of Huntingdon, was elected Chairman, and Mr. F. B. Mayhew Secretary—both by acclamation. The minutes of the last mecting having been read and acommittee on credentials appointed, Mr. Fuller presented his report on the state of the Church, as ordered last May. He spoke of the dificulty he had experienced in obtaining accurate and reliable statistics, and recommended that in fature all re- turns should be sent in before May 1. When Mr. Fuller had concluded reading the report he had compiled from the state- ments forwarded him by the superinten- dents of the various branches of the association the Rev, Mr. Sweetser objected to its adoption, He thought that the report was very incorrect, the statistics evidently being the result of mere guess- work, as they confounded materially with the re- ports of previous years. He finally moved that the report be accepted, but again referred to the com- mittee, and, when completed, published in the Christian Leader, Mr. NYE was sure that over-estimates had been given in many cases, especially with regard to the average number of worshippers at the Sunday ser- vices in churches belonging to the association. ‘He seconded Mr, Sweetser’s motion, and it was accord- ingly carried, The Committee on Credentials then reported an addition of about ten delegates, after which Mr. Sweetser read the constitution of the association. Mr. Needham moved that it be again read, section by section, for adoption by the Convention. Some of the sections were made the subject of lengthy debate, but were amended so as to suit every- body, and ultimately adopted. Mr. Sweet- Ser was then appointed to report upon religious meetings, and Messrs. Nye, Mayhew and Stratton as a Nomination Committee. It subsequently appointed Rev. Almond Gunnison the preacher of occasional sermons and Mr. Sweetser the committee to report on the state of the Church at the next meeting of the Convention. then proposed that the next annual meet- ld be held out of the city, as such a course would tend to foster the benefits of the assoctation. Mr. Nye, however, thought that it would be better ymore attention to home business, for there was sin enough in New York, and he was by no means satisfied with the progress of the associa- tion in the city dis —it was almost snail-like in its slowness. He proposed that meetings of the different branches of the association in New York sheuld be held more frequently. Mr, Chase and several other delegates advocated /ie proposition that the next May meeting should be held at Huntingdon, Suffolk county; but on the motion being put to the vote it was not carried, and it was finally decided that the annual meeting of the Convention for 1 should be held in this city on May 9 It was also resolved that copies of the constitution of the association be printed and distributed, A vote of adjournment was’ put, car- ried, and after a prayer the meeting dissolved. UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. The Reports of the Branch Associations A Violent Denunciation of Indirect Damages. The sixth annual anniversary of the Uuiversal Peace Union was held yesterday in room 24 Cooper Institute. The morning session was com- menced at 11 A. M., with Mr. Alfred H. Love pre- siding, and Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake Secretary. President Love made a brief opening speech, in which he explained the object of the Peace Union, and how, although it might bea matter of time before they could accomplish their purpose, still they should hope on, hope ever, for a brighter future. People may say, what do we want with peace, because we are at peace now; but we might be at war again to-morrow. What we want is Universal peace, Mrs. AMANDA Deyo then read the annual report of the Union, which referred with exultation to the Treaty of Washington as a great forward movement in favor of peace. The reprisals of the government | in the Corea were mentioned with considerable dis- favor, Mention was made of the visit of Mrs, Julia Ward Howe to Europe, where she intended holding monster peace meetings. The report also alluded to the recent account given by Mr. Amand Gregg before a meeting in Philadelphia of the struggles of the Peace Unions in Europe. A new monthly journal, entitled The Voice of Peace, has heen started to disseminate the truths | and right of their Union. For the furtherance of | the peace policy the Union appealed to General | Grant to remove the sentence of death on the Indian chiefs Santanta ard Big Tree, and were in- | strumentalin saving their lives, as the sentence was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for life. The report of the Pennsylvania branch was then read by Mrs, Lillie Devereux Blake, after which Mrs, | Deyo ‘read the report from the Duchess county | branch. Reports from lowa were then read, which | alluded to the victory in behalf of peace which was gained by the abolition of capital punishment in that State. Mr. L. K, JosiIx then gave a brief description of the success of the peace party in the East. A peti- tion to Congress to strike out of the constitution all the war ciauses was then laid on the | table for the signatures of all who felt | soinclined, A letter from a Peace Union in Balti- more was then read by Mrs. Biake, after which President Love favored the audience with a com- | munication of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, written just before she left for England. President Love then read a series of resolutions especially denouncing the death penalty, military training, mulltary taxes, the army, the navy, op- pression in every form, inequality of rights, intem- | perance and INDIRECT DAMAGES, ‘These resolutions were unanimonsly adopted, and the meeting then adjourned until two P.M. During the afternoon session a letter was ad frem the Indians in reply to the efforts of the Peace | Union. Addresses were made by Dr, Frederick P. | rin, Mr. Wardwell, Mr. Saul, Mr. Masquera and | President Love, There was a large attendance at the evening Session and Mr. Alfred H. Love was re-elected President, supported by about forty vice presi- dents; Robert Wallcut, Treasurer, and idea FP. | Child, Lydia A. Schofield, Albert Wadhams, Lillie Devereux Blake and Amanda Deyo, Secretaries. Letters were read from several infuential men, Miss Dietz recited an appropriate poem and Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake made an excellent speech, showing in glowing and picturesque language the . horrors of war and for what sma}li trifies thousands of lives were often sacrificed. The Convention ad- | | Journed at ten o'clock P. M. AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, ‘The forty-sixih annual meeting of the American Home Missionary Society was held yesterday after- noon, at the Bible Honse, Fourth avenue, Rev. | Theodore D, Woolsey presiding. The forty-sixth an- nual report was read and adopted ananimously: | From it it appears that the number of missions in | the various States controlled @ by the Society The receipts for the year have been $294,- 566 86, the expenditures $281,182 50, leaving a balance Of — $20,202 65, receipts exceeding those of i former years by $11,463 90. Gifts to the amount of $50,000 have been given outside the treasury during the year. The following oMcers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Theodore D. Wool- sey, D. Dy Vie Presidents, EF. B. Webb, D. Dy and Ezra Farnsworth; Director, Rev. George P. Boem; Honorary Secretary, Rev. Mitton Badger, D. D.; — Secretarie: Drs. D. B. Coe, A. H. Clapp, Hemry Treasurer, William H. Smith; Auditor, George 8. | Coe; Recording Secretary, Austin Abbott. The | meeting then adjourned, NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. ‘The annual mecting of the National Temperance | Soctety was held at 58 Reade street yesterday after- noon, James Black, of Pennsylvania, presiding. The report of the Secretary, J. N. Stearns, ana publishing agent, showed that during the year clos- ing last month the society had stereotyped and pub- lished fifty new books, tracts and pamphicts; seven volumes for Sunday school lbraries; two volumes miscellaneous, five pamphlets, ten sermons, twenty-six tracts an the regular monthly issues the papers. Concerning the papers, the report stated that the Youths’ Tem- perance Banner had reached a circulation of 130,000 monthly, and that during the year ow ged coples of | been paid. Ld Stas Temperance Advocate had been circu- fated. The receipts for the P-yabd year were:—Publication department, $42,916 64; donations, bequests and Memberships, $6,432 25, ‘The soclety in need of fans, ond eat upon, tts e society is and calls upon, frienas tor ald, , my THE COURTS. Interesting Proceedings in the United States Supreme and New York Courts, _——-—__. Madame Fraloff's Laces—The Valk-Warmser Bankruptcy Case—An Old Counterfeiter Com- mitted—Charge of Bigamy—Transfer of @ Bankrupt's Liabilities—Business in the General Sessions—Decisions, UNITED STATES SUPREME couRT. Important Decisions—The Case of Paige's Right in the Chancery Reports Disposed of in Favor of the Publi hers—The In- crease of Twenty Per Cent Added to the Salaries of the Subordinate Government Officials in Washington, Wasninaton, D. C., May 8, 1872, ‘The following decisions were given in the United States Supreme Court on Monday, the 6th inst. :— No. 59. French vs, Edwards et al.—Error to the Circuit Court for California.—This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintii in error to re- cover possession of a tract of land in Sacramento county, being a part of what is known as the Sutter grant. The defendants held under a sheriff’s deed in pursuance of a judgment in favor of the State for unpaid taxes. The Court sustained the deed and directed a judgment for the defendants, This Court reverses the ungeeus, holding that as the entire tract was sold, when a portion of it would have satisfied the demand for delinquent taxes, the statute was violated and the rights of the former owner were infringed. Mr. Justice Field delivered the opinion; Mr, Justice Miller dissented. No. 165.—Carnenter vs. Boyer—Error to the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals of West Virginia.—Dismissed for want of jurisdiction No. 571.—Cockroft et al.'vs, Vose et al rror to the Supremo Court of th ate of New Y ork.—Dis- missed for want of jurisdiction, No. 166.—Coperton ys. Baldw ror to the Su- reme Court of Appeals of Wesi Virginia,—Dismissed for want of jurisdiction, No. 146.—Pugh vs. United States—Appen! from the Court of Claims,—Decree dismissing | ution afirmed, No. 187. Paige, Executor of Paige, v AnKSs et al.—Appeal from the Circuit Court for t outhern district of New York.—This was a bill in equity to obtain an injunction and to compel the firm of Banks Brothers, law booksellers in New York, to make an accounting for printing’and selling the first volume of “Paige's Chancery Reports,” after Janu- ary, 1858, thereby infringing, as claimed, a copyright ofplaintifs. ‘The question Was whetherby an agree- ment between the testator and the publishers, made in 1828, the entire property in the Work was trans- ferred to the latter, so as to preclude a subsequent copyright by the former. ‘he Court below held that there was at least a perpetual license to print given to the publishers by the contract, and the de- cree was for them, This Court allirms that decree, holding that a fair and just interpretration of the terms of the agreement indicates unmistakably that the anthor of the manuscript, in agreeing to deliver it for publication at a stipulated compensation, in- tended to vest in the publishers a fullright of prop- erty thereto. Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion, No, 158. Hook et al. vs. Payne et al.—Appeal from the Circuit Court for Missouri.—This was a proceeding by the heirs of one Curtis, a resident of issouri, the heirs being residents of Virginia, to make Hook, as Public Administrator of the county in which Curtis died, and his sureties, responsible Jor interest on moneys and mortgages of the estate which remained in his hands. The decree was for the heirs, and it is here affirmed as to certain of the parties, but reversed as to others not neces- sarily joined, without costs. Mr. Justice Miller de- liverea the opinion. Nos. 169 to 172. Republic Fire Insurance Company of New York vs. Wilde, and three other insurance companies vs. same—Error to the Circuit Court for Minnesota.—These were actions by Wilde on poli- cies of insurance issued by the several companies on his stock of goods. The defence was that the assured refused to furnish the companies with proper evidence of the quality and value of the goods destroyed, and particularly that he neg- lected to produce certified copies Of invoices, as provided in the policies, the originals being de- stroyed by the fire. The error assigned is that the Court rejected evidence tending to show that de- mand was made for these and that they were re- tused. This Court sustain the ruling of the Court. below, finding that the evidence offered did not tend to show when the demand was made—whether before or after the suit was commenced, or whether it was refused by the assured, and besides, the Court say the bill alleges that duplicates and not certitied copies were demanded, Mr. Justice Strong delivered the opinion. No. 140.—Steamer Patapsco vs, Boyce—Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Second Circuit.—This Was a proceeding to recover for coal furnished the steamer by the appellee, a coal dealer in Baltimor The question was on whose account or on what ac: count the coal was furnished. The Court find from the evidence that the credit of the company owning the steamer was not relicd on by the dealer in parting wiih his coai, ana it Js sald that as the com- pany was a distant corporation of no established name, and without personal liability in case ofa fajlure of the enterprise in which it was engaged, it would be hard to believe that the merchant in- tended to renounce his claim against the steamer. The decree below sustaining the lien against the steamer is therefore affirmed. Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion. No. 159, Carpenter vs. Montgomery et al.— Error to the Circuit Court for California.—Phis was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error, to assert titie deraigned from Maria Ivdora Perolta against the defendants, who claim under her brothers an undivided interest in the Ranche San Antonio, which her father seized and had ob- tained by grant from the Spanish government. The Court hold that, as the sons had procured the confirmation of the father’s title, and had legally obtained possession of the land, their title, or the ti- tle of those taken from them, could not be questioned in an action of ejectment. The judgment below, that ejectment was not intainable, is aflirmed, Mr. Justice Bradley delivered the opinion. No, 157. Easley’ vs, Kellam.—Appeal from the Cireuit Court for the District of lowa.—This was a roceeding to foreclose a mortgage given by one johnson, to the appellant on pre-empted lands before the issue of patents therefor. The Court held that under the twelfth section of the act of 1841 ail transfers and assignments of the rights secured by pre-emption prior to the issuing of the patent are nulland void, and, consequently, that the mort- gage in this case was of no effect. ‘The decree below for the appellee is affirmed. Mr. Justice Bradicy de- livered the opinion. No, 151. Bigler vs. Woller, Administrator, &¢.— Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia.—This was a suit brought by Bigler to have acertain bond and trust deed in ‘the nature ofa | mortgage on property in Virginia, decreed to have | The decree below for the appellee, and the Court finds the decision correct as to the | merits of the issue between the parties, but reverse the decree because It directed certain payments to be made ey Bigler to the administrator (appellee) in coin, decision of the Court in Knox vs. Lee, and Parker vs. Davis (12 Wall, 457) is made the rnie by which the Court below is to amend the decree entered. Mr. Justice Strong delivered the opinion. No, 204, United States vs. Miller and nine other Appeais from the Court of Claims.—These e actions brought to recover twenty per ‘cent additional to the salaries. of the petitioners under the act of 1868 making such allowance to persons employed in the civil service, including persons in the office of the Superintendent of Public Build- ings, &c., at Washington. The petitioners heki various stations under the Superintendent of Pub- lic Buildings, such as Capitol police, prison wate men, &c.; but the allowance to them was retused on the ground that they were not persons in the oMce of the Superintendent in contemplation of the act, the government taking the view that only clerks and the higher officials were comprised in the act. The Court of Claims sustained the claims of the petitioners, bolding that they were ‘persons in the employ” of the officer named, and consequeftiy were within the act. This Court affirm that decision, and the result, is that the twenty per cent must be allowed to | about fifteen hundred government employés ef the lower grades, to whom it had been refused, Jastice Clifford delivered the opinion. | No. 132, Home Insurance Company, of New York, | ys. Barton—Error to the Cirenit Court for Missourt.— | Mr. | In this case it is held that the granting or over- ruling of a motion for a new trial in the @ourts of the United States rests whoily in the discretion of | the Coart to which the motion is addressed, and | the judgment of the Court in this case, denying such @ motion, is afMirmed, Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion, No. 31, Holmes and wife versus Levier et al.— Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern dis- trict of Arkansas.—The bill in this case was to en- forco the payment of a balance due on a promissory note given for the price of slave property. The Court below dismissed the bill, holding the contract to be vold for want of consideration. This Court reverse the decree and remand the case, with di- rections to proceed in accordance with the opinion of the Court in the slave property cases recently decided, in which such contracts, where legal when made, were held to be valid. Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion. No. 178. Steamtug R. 8. Mabey vs. Atkin et sl., Helen R. Cooper vs..same.—Ap- and No. 174, ship peals from the Circuit Court for tthe Southern dis- trict of New York.—In these cases the ship J. 7 Chapman, owned by Lie was seriousl; be while lying at her pier in the East River ing Tun into by the Cooper, in tow of the tug Mabey. The decres sustained the libel as to both the a and the tug, and this Court affirm the decree. je Justice Clifford delivered the opinion. a, No. 163. Creevy et al. vs. the Eclipse towbo: Appeal from the Circuit Cours for the District of Lovisiana.—In this case the Court hold that where tugboats are employed to assist a ship when the latter is under steam and directing her own course the tugs will be regarded aa under the control the ship, and not ‘Tabie in case of a collision occa- . nee Or mismanagement of the sion the ne Ciitora delivered the opinion, Business of the Court. Gince the Court met on the 16th of October laat it has heard, on motion and on their merits, 348 cases, Eleven cases have been dismissed on motion of the parties themselves and elght have been dismissed under the rules; forty-nine cases have been ad- vanced on the docket and heard out of their regular order and nine cases go over to the fall session of the court for decision, some of which have been ordered for reargument, ‘The last case reached in May, 1871, was filed De- cember 11, 1869, ‘The last case now reached was filed December 10, 1870, Three hundred and forty- six cases were filed during the year 1871, UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Madame Fraloff’s Laces. Before Judge Shipman, ‘The hearing of the case of Olga de Maluta Fralo# vs. The New York Central and Harlem Railroad Companies, was resumed yesterday. It is anac- tion, as already stated in the HERALD, to recover damages for the loss of laces, valued at $100,000, which the plaintiff, who isa Russian noblewoman alleges were stolen out of her trunk. She claims that the trunk was broken open while she was trav- elling in the train between Albany and Ni: Falls and the laces abstracted. Messrs. Gerard and Buckley appeared for the plaintiff, Messrs. Strong and:Shepherd for the defendants, AN INTERESTING LAW POINT. ‘The plaintitr’s counsel offered in evidence certaim depositions of witnesses in Russia, in the execution of which Inquiries in one case had been taken down in writing In the Russian language, and in the others tn the French lan, ected to the admission of Defendant's counsel in the English. ane The point is one of great novelty, fen) pete tae tions were made from elementary works some few authorities in which it Was, supposed. tulteng had been made in cases of an analogous character. Plaintiff's counsel took the point that, under the praesie of the Court, the objection should have een interposed within a specified time after the filing of the pl arated s 80 that the defect could be remedied; and that having failed.to do so the de- fendants should now be estopped from making the objection, It was urged as a reason why answers were taken in Russian that the principal- ity of Tambof, where the depositions in question were completed, is in the heart of the Russian em- pire, and there it was easy to procure an interpreter to translate from English into Russian, and not y to find one who felt himseif competent to nslate from his native tongue into English, Baron Ostensacken, many years Russian Consul General in this city, testified On the stand that the translation of the depositions which had been made by a Russian in this city, was a verbatim transla tion of the answers in the depositions, Counsel for plaintiff! said nothing could be as- sumed against the validity of the papers unless there Was something shown that would actually vitiate them, Judge Shipman rejected the depositions, holding that the answers should have been reduced to writ- ing in the English language. He had consulted Judge Blatchford on the point, and the Judge said he had never had a case like this before him. He would give the plaintit? the benefit of an excep- tion. ‘TRSTIM OF BARON OSTENSACKEN. Baron Osten en testified that about three Years ago, in the month of November, Madame ‘ralof, whom he had seen then for the first time, called upon him in reference to getting her trunk from the depot of the Harlem Railroad; he went there, got the trunk, and had it taken on a carriage to Madame Fraloft’s lodgings in Twenty-third street 5 € man from the railroad ofice came with the trunk; one of the locks was broken; the trunk was fastened with straps and nails; it was opened in his presence, and Madame Fralotf put her hand down into it and took up some gold buttons. Q. By Mr. Buckley. hen Madame Fraloff put her hand down in the trunk and took up a set of gold buttons what did she say? A. She said, “Now, that is strange. These are valuable things, and they did not take them.” That was addressed to me. Q. In what language did you speak? A. Im Fre ; I conversed generally with her in French; she spoke the French language. In order to show the social standing of this lady Mr. Buckley pat a question as to whether the Baron knew that she had letters of introduction to distin- guished Russians in this country; but the question was ruled out by the Judge. The Baron said he had visited the lady on some occasions and she was rather richly dressed; she wore on the day she came to his oMce what looked like a set of Russian sable; they attracted his attention, but he did not examine them closely enough to say whether they were genuine or not. TESTIMONY OF MRS. CARTER. Mrs. Esther Carter, who stated that she had re+ sided in New York for twenty-four years, deposed that she was in the Jace business at 917 Broadway, near Twenty-first street; she was acquainted with the value of antique and modern laces, and had laces sent to her from the establishment of A. T. Stewart & Co. to give her opinion as to their value; Point d’Angleterre was a very old and valuable lace, as well as Point d'Alengon; bnt little of it was now made in the old style; both those laces are hard to purehase in London and Puris; the Regency and the Mechlin laces were iso old and valuable; there were one or two books on the subject of laces, whi were regarded in the trade as an authority; one of them was written by an English lady, and witness had seen the work in question with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Barlow, who had purchased laces of her; she had seen Madame Fralorf at her lodgings; the lady hada great many jewels, but what attra the attention of the wit- hess Were those antique laces, a portion of which Madame Fralof said had been stolen from her. Q. What laces did you see in Madame Fraloffs room? Describe them? Objected to as irrelevant, and question ruled out on the ground that the loss of the lace must be proved before such an inquiry could be put. The Court adjourned until this morning, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. In the case of John Sedgwick, assignee in bank- ruptcy of Abraham and J. Volk vs. Abraham Warmser, Judge Blatchford dismissed the bill, with costs, on the ground that the allegations of fraud were hot sustaimed. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Charge Against a Counterfeiter. Before Commisstoner Shields. The United States vs. Henry D. Cole.—The defend> ant was committed in default of $10,000 bail ona charge of having in his possession $3,000 worth of counterfeit money. He was the principal witness for the government in, the case of the United States vs. Miner, for alleged counterfeiting, when there was a verdict of acquittal for Miner. Cole has already served a term in the State Prison for coun~ terrelting. Alleged Violation of the Revenue Law. The United States vs. Charles P. Meyer.—The de- fendant, who keeps alager beer establishment a& Ti and 79 Essex street, is charged with taking reve- nue stamps of lager beer kegs and reusing them. He waived an examination, and was held to await the action of the Grand Jui SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. An Alleged Forger Admitted to Bail. Before Judge Ingraham. In re Henry Cole.—It will be remembered that Cole is charged with having sold in this city a quan tity of alleged forged school bonds of Allentown, Pa. He has been in prison some considerable time, the opposition to his release on bail being that there were confederates in the case who con: of regular counterfeit: Yesterd tion of Mr. Abe H. Hammell, Cole was brought before this Court on writ of habeas corpus. . Hammell strenuousiy urged his discharge on bail. ‘The Coort fixed the bail at $15,000, Charged with Bigamy. An attachment was asked by Colonel CG. & Spencer, as counsel for Emma P. Hart, for am a@t- tachment against Thomas Hart, from whom she is seeking a divorce, on account of non-payment of alimony as ordered by the Court. Ber statement im that she was married to him in 1863, and that seom alterwards he deserted her and married another woman, by whom he has twochildren. Application was also made to have the issnes referred to ® referee, The Court granted an order to show cause ‘why an attachment should not issue, and se decision upon the application for a reference unee hearing the motion in the matter of the attachme! Decisions. Hall vs, Stratton.—Motion granted. Bird vs. MeCullough.—Same. le vs, Mitchell.—Same. fen Brock ys. Seaman.—Simne. Slater vs. Willard.-—Same. va I nauer vs. Conrad Fichenaner. Report of referee confirmed and, judgment of dix vorce granted. Alexander 6% al. VS. a htophens ‘vs. Stephens. —Motion granted. Wise et al, vs. Morri otion denied, ‘ Greenwood ct al. vs. Buist..Mouon granted fom first Friday in Jnae. f Brown ¥ Wing.—Motion granted for fourth Fris, day in May. Wiley «s. Blas Same ¥s. Same. Sylvester.—Motion granted 4 —Motion denied. ‘Motion granted for reference, y Judge Brady. Buxton vs. Rensselaer and Saratoga Railvead Com» pany.--Application dented, See opinion. Roberts ys. Bishop.—Same. Clifford va. The Washingtoa Iron Works.—Motion granted, Same, Enwright vs. Enwright.—Same, Tovey vs. Liftchild et al.—Motion denied. orunion. Wilson vs. Hull.—Same, By Judge Van Brunt. Smith va. Osborn.—Application must be made a& Special Term. . MARINE COURT—PART |, Transfer of a Bankrapt’s kénbilizy. Before Judge Gross, Kehoe va, Fowier.—The assignor of the plaintift sold to one James.A. Boyle, then propristor of the Sea Knickerbocker cotyame, about eight hundred dol-