The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1872, Page 4

WAR WAGED. Sabbatarianism Vorsus Sunday Music and Rhine Wine. —- PAUL FALK’S FIGHT. An Extravagaaza of Methodism ‘and Morality at the Essex Market Police Court, —aee The Case Against the Proprietor of the Tiv_.i Garden Dismissed. The quiet dulness which usfally reigns in the \precincts of Essex Market Court was yesterday morning varled—not unexpectedly—by tho hearing Jn oxamluation of the cause célebre of The Mctho- Misia of the Seventh Street Church vs, Paul Faix ‘at an early hour, when the hard benches of the Broa of justice were, as ever, crowded by the frionda of the prisoners who had been arrested by the watch of Monday evening, Buta different sort ‘of spcotators soon began. to be visible, and formed background of faces and forms wherever there ‘was room to stand: When Justice Shandley, with his) usuat keen and quick perception of truth, had dismissed the motley and ragged array of pris- oners—some to their homes and others to the penance of their sins—the Court began to be less thronged, althougt very few of the curious afd un- fortunate who had taken their stations for a diifer- ent-reason wero willing to depart so suddenly. Tho fumor of sensation enticed their native apprecia- tion of the startling and humorous, and with few exceptions they remained, and at ten o'clock the scene was animate with envious eyes strained to the highest pitch of eagerness, and multitudinous necks stretohed to survey all the paraphernalia of the benoh and its officers, Shortly after the striking of tho hour a bustle occurred in the outskirts of the pudience near the door and way was mado through the crowd for the entry of several persons, Mr, Paul Falk looked as if his hair had been freshly Cut and nis mustaches carofully trimmed. He, foo, made a deep impression, especially upon his fait and jovial-faced countrymen, who stood or |e, in the first places and nodded at him with coll dont and appreciative smiles, There was allence in the Court. firm voice the Sergeant called the cage of The Sey: enth Street Methodist Church vs. Pulk, and ex- ectation reached its highest, and wes shortly to with manly front the in- Paul, who had passed one night in adun- goon, stepped forward, and at the same time the if fe that would be afforded by The scene was eminently Judge Shandley sat with the stoiclsm tified. Boldly an: i counsel for the prosecution, who had previousi. arrived, in feverish anxiety to wage battle wit! every advantag romptitude of attack. ludicrous. With clear and it proves. Fa to show the aN sold on Sunday ie ae i ‘ * wet riemtate ‘concern. Heth wig sy ius sta tt prohibited must be intoxicating, Why should you hold a man to-day, the caterer for the most réspectable of our German citizens, who > nent his music hatls and hia gardens for quiet and orderly recreation? Because he sells Rhine wine on Sunday! Are these Puritanteal Pharisees to come into Court and make oriminal charges againat my client, and deprive him of hits ftb- erty, when taey oan bring nothing to au) t their empty assertions? Ltell them now that for every time they arrest Mr, Falk they tu their turn will be arrested. And for every time bo has been dragged to # Folice Court they will bo. made to sufler 89 ig- nominious inoarceration tn Ludiow Street Jail, Mr. TH ought to remember that part of the Lord's Prayer which says, “Lead us not into temptation (sensation). bee ro ected to being called & spy, bub hla conduct, own samisaions, had boen & Spy and an tnformer. On'the facts of the oase, whic wert distinotly shown to be without austalaing p ask for ra Sahar Mr, Quackenbos claimed that the case ee ae: clearly proven; but Honor, Judge Shandiey, did not conour with him ta that jon, Ho con- sidered that the cage had fallen to the grouad, and he therefore dismisaed the oman, f ‘Aa the curtain dropped on this lateat scene of a time-worn farco the applause of the spectators war tremendous, and the hero of the play was received with the shouts of the pooplo, Z CUSTOM HOUSE AFFAIRS. ‘ The Month's. Transactions—Daties Fall- ci U—Ooffeo aud Ton Free Boing a Partial Onase-Upwards of Thirteen DALItion Dollara Collected im September Noarly One Million Dollars Refands Paid in Nine Months—Important Order to Provent the Lutreduction Into This Country of the Oatile Pla; ‘The olose month yesterday witucased cou. siderable sy la every branch of tha goveru- mental department, The receipts for duties during September wera by no means aa heavy a3 those of the previous month by several mitilons, yet the business trangacted and the withdrawais for consumption make a very extensive show. Had the reductions of ten per cent consequent upon the new tariff, passed June 6, 1372, aud which went into operation August 1, not been made, the amount of import duties for this month would have beon greater than for the corresponding poriod of 1871, One of the causes for the falling of of the rev- enue may be traced to the abolistiiment of the du- ties on coffee and tea, which, for the month of Sep- ber, 1871, amounted on the former to $1,124,882, td on toela UE, BEE ta O30 8 while this year these articles pay nothing. ‘The “refunds” on excess of unascertained duties patd back to importers during 1871 amounted to $1,025,259 12, gold. » A +a The following sums were refunded on tlhe same score since the beginning of the year, as follows:— + 8959,008 70 paid out in checks rang- from 50 cents to $20,000, ‘he monthly salaries to employés of the Custom of @ sphynx listening to the story of the chief wit- ne3s of the prosecution, a man named Hill, who had, a8 appears by the evidence, so unsuccessfully ing, House were attempted to perform the part of It was very funny when Counsel Howe pressed the witness to say Whether he had ever got drunk Quackenbos ob- jected to the word drunk, standing before the bench if fit 58 | d relleved | and his hands, gloved in across his noble breast, at it Was a good old Saxon word, whereupon Justice Shandley admitted the ques- tion, and the witness answered, with little reluc- tance, that he had got drunk on Rhine wine, thus | a8 @ judge of the liquor on Rhine wine, and when Mr. with a puritanical expression which was ver and becoming, He was attired in simple blac! broad white cravat adorned his throat an the outlines of his chin, lack, wore folded calmly Howe retorted proving hia efficienc; & spy. id yesterday, amounting to upwards consequence of whioh the greatest of $200,000—in good humor prevailed among tue recipients, One of the most important documents received by Collector Arthur for some time past was an or- der of Acting Secretary Richardson in relation to the prevailing “rinderpest”’ in Russia, Germany and Great Britain, which came to hand yesterday, and the following ts a copy :— Treasury Derartuenr, Wasainaron, D. C., Sept. 23, 18/2, Department has information that th exists in portions of Russia, Germay G@ Bri and, therefore, to prevent its int into the United States, sary instructions to th 8 juction you are requested to give the neces- he customs officers at your port for "i Falk's | the careful observance of the existing regulations, which arden. “us. "Howe's “previous “allusion” “to | !evont ne portation of meat cattle ot hides frou Eu ry ‘0 pot cert vr ie! a strengthened Justice " Shaudley's conviction re- | tion of country where the digease does ree 1 4 rding the ease. W the @pectators, had ‘weakened’ and Mr. - audience. au their entnusiastic expression of approbation, ‘Was Paul Falk, rescued from a dungeon, THE EVIDENCE. The first witness, Darwin /. Hill, said that he re- vided iu 22 Seventh street. Mr. Howe, with play- ful abraptness, asked him :— i “Who requested you to make this complaint ft “1 came at my own request.”" een ill you swear that no one prompted ‘ou 5 Witness—It was talked over by several gentle- men; but the Rev, Mr. Parke the only ones that I remem! Counsel—Dia Dr, Parker ask trap Mr. Falk? word “trap,” but it was admitt Witness—The pian was my ov Counsei—Then you went tiiere to play the part of 8 Spy On your own responsibility ¢ Counsel for the Methodists in Seventh street—I object to the word spy. ‘ustice Shandiey—We will admit it. Witness—I wil! not answer such a question, Mr. Howe, with solemnity, asked—On what round do you deciine toanswer! On the ground hat it will tend to degrade you ? Witness—No, sir. “you to go there and Counsel—You knew that you went there to be an | informer ? ‘Witness—No, sir. Gounse|—Did you not say while in Paul Falk's on Sunday night that it was a gross outrage ¢ This question was objected to and exciuded. 1 then asked—Did you have any conve: tion in tnere ¢ Witness—Yes. Counsel—What did you say ° Witness—I asked jor Rhine wine, but they said they had nothing but German cider, Counsel—Did yoo ever get drunk on Rhine wine? Mr. Quackenbos here stepped up vefore the bench with an expression of holy anger and demanded by what right the counsel forthe defence presumed a touse such a word towards @ genileman and an | honored member of the Church. Counsel—It is a good Saxon word, Judge. i Judge—I think it will have to be admitted; it ts & word that fs used every day in the Police Courts. Witness—I have got drunk on it twice or three | times. Counsel (with a confidential look)—That was good Rhine wine, wasn't it ? Witness—Yes; much stronger than what I drank in F '$ garden the other night. Counsel—Do you know of what the tlonid you drank In Paul Falk's waa composed, which the waiter called German cider ? Witness—tI do not. 5 Mr. Howe here tnrned to the counsel for the ieee and, With atriumphant wave of the hand, said, “Mr. Quackenbos, hi ness,” and quietly retiréd from his former position. oth The witness was re-examined by Mr. Quacken- ae who elicited litte Which was iavorable to his Be. Mr, Howe then continued, and ‘he witness testi- fled that he had also tasted in Falk's Garden, on Sunday evening, some champagne whict a party of: gentlemen were drinking ata table next hin; they wero remarking about the poor quaiity of t wine, and Mr. Hull, ieaning over in bis © in'an insinuating tone of voice, “1 wou: w taste of that win @ glass Was at once offered him, which he sneceeded in emptying; he had drank champagne pefore, but he could not swear gai Yignt of truth upon 8 course Which efmine-robed justice had already pointed out. The scales gently tipped; the prose- cution, iv the patofs of the clan who were aad Fal ed hig liberty amid the applause of | certificates of such invoices are presented on entry. Behind him stood a few of his coun- landlords and customers, and even the decorum. of the Court could not a The anger that was pictured upon some flerce Teutonic | faces changed into smiles, and the hero of the hour | r and Mr. Clinch were | 3 {AN Objection was made to the | ere ig your wit- | pl remarking, “We have had enough out him. i WILLIAM a. BigHiA RDB Hon. Cursrer A. Anravn, Collector of Customs, Ne ¥ The above instructions were turned over to Spe- cial Deputy Collector J. R. Lydecker, to whom all very respectfully, Mr. Lydecker has fustructed his entry clerks to re- tain all entries of that kind, without special orders to the contrary. The certificates issued by Consuls on this subject are like the following :— Cosutate OF tue Ustren States or AMERICA, } ASPINWALL, Sept. 15, 1872, "5 | 1, Charles Erasmus Perry, Consul’ at the port of As- | pinwall, United States of Colombia, do hereby certtly that | to the bést of my knowledge and belief there exists Ho cat: | ue disease in Central America or on the Isthmus of 1’ nama. 1lven under my hand and the seal of the Consulate the day E and date above written. HARLES ERASMUS PERRY, United States Consul. The annexed sums show the amount of duty col- | lected during the month of September just passed and a comparative statement for the same period | last year:— Séptember, 1871. September, 1 | $15,734,891 £6 + 13,281,927 28 THE CRUISE OF THE NAUTILUS, —-—+ A Trip Around Manhattan Island—Inci- dents of the Cruise=Time Occupied in the Passage. It is customary with the boat clubs of New York, especially those on the Harlem River and those at the foot of Christopher street, North River, | to occasionally Make tour round Manhattan | | Island. The course {s a pleasant one, provided you | make matters all right with both wind and tide, Ifnot, look out for a bara time anda hard fui. | Sunday is the day generally chosen for a trip of | this kind, for the reason that on that day the rivers | are comparatively free of steamboats. Last Sunday | | & boat's crew of the Nautilus Ciub, in the six-oared | | barge Nautilus, left the boat house at half-past ten | and started around, The wind was high at the time and the tide was nearly flood at the Harlem River. |The crew was as follows :—McLaughiin, bow; Perry, No. 2; Jenkins, NO. 3; Walsh, No. 4; Sweeney, | No. iile, stroke, and McKay,'coxswain. ‘Three, guests occupied seats in the stern of the | | boat, aud took an occasional hand at the oar. Going | | Over the dangerous rapids of Spuyten Duyvil and | through the tortuous creek which leads across the | upper end of the island, Jim McKay, whose name is | fawiliar to amateur oarsmen in and around New | | York, had the rudder. The scene was an exciting | | One as the barge shot under the bridge-of Spuyten } Duyvil. With two exceptions no person in the boat had undergone tie experience before. Down over the rapids the boat went like an arrow from a | | bow, and then into the boiling, surging waters that | swept~om toward the Hudson, MeKay, with a merry twinkle in his eye, ‘calied Out to al) to sit stil, a8 one or twWo gens passed over the side of the boat, Hail tull of water, the railroad bridge at the Hudson River side of the eek was reached, and aiter relieving the old of the water the course southward was a All the way down there was a a and a heavy sea ov, which altogether wiraiized the advantages of the ebb tide. Off | p e white caps danced in glee, and seemed | take @ pleasure in wetting the ‘venturesome | nen, compelling them to seek the shelter of | and and pull down under its jee, By half-past © foot of Dey street was reached, and ull scpbarked and had dinner, he boat was manned in tie siream, to find that the tide was running Wich a heavy wind and a young flood tide the p short as it was, round to tue | | | | } | | | | | } | up. | nl, | Hall organization. THE SUPERVISORS OF ELECTION, rs The Rival “Halls,” Tammany , and Apollo. Barrett, Apolloite, vs. Spencer, Tammanyite. ——+ SPIGY DISCUSSION BETWEEN COUNSEL. ‘amen The Oomtest To Ke Re- neowed To-Day. Yesterday, about hatf-past eleven ootocks A. M., Jutgo Woodrud catored the Untted States Circutt Court and reaumed the consideration of the busl- ness tn reference to the appolatment of Super- vigorsfor the forthcoming election, At the hour named the court room was nearly Mled with that particular class of persons called politicians, who; upon gala occasions, are supposed to weer thick ‘gold ohaina, toud veats and velvet coats. But upon yesterday, in the Court roferrod to, whatever may have been the character of the dress of the ma- _ jority of those presént, there cduld be no mistaking the fact that’ some of them wore more*famtiiar with the barroom and election rows than with the aolemn and grave proceedings of a court of juatice, N@ARING OF APPLICATIONS, Sudgs Woodruff said—in accordance with the notice given yoaterday the Court will bear any per. sons interested in the applications that were tatd before the Court yesterday on any queation touch- ing the construction of the act and ils import upon which they desire to be heard, TAMMANY A BASTARD DEMOURACY, Me, William 0, Barrett observed that he did not intend to take part in this investigation. The or- ganization which he represented—Apollo Hall— was entirely Indifferent, provided honeat and re- spectable citizens were appointed ag supervisors, He heard that there were some objec- tions to @ great number of the parties named by the organization called Tammany Hall. He had not heard of any list of objections submitted on the part of Apollo Hall or the repub- Ycans. The great point he desired to lay before the. Court was thal the orgectzation of Apollo Hall was, in his Judgment and he ke igved in the judgment of every sensitle man in the Community, the party that represented the democratic Ad of New York, One argument would satisfy the Court upon that point, He fuund here two gentlemen repre- senting ‘'iammany Hall—the learned ex-Judge Spencer and Mr. S.J. Tilden. Last January Mr. Spencer was nominated as the Tammany Hali can- didate for a high judicial ofice, to which he was en- titled from his past experience and legal a(tain- ments, He was opposed by the Apollo Hall candidate, and Tammany Hall, whose candl- date Judge Spencer was, was defeated, He was defeated by the organization of which he (Mr, Barrett) was a member, Then he came to Mr. Tilden. Though he was a violent op- porene of Apollo Hall, he was elected in the district in which he ran in opposition to the Tammany can- didate. He (Mr. Barrett) wanted to know if any- thing could be more conclusive in showing that Apollo Hall was the true representative of the democratic party. He did not mean to say that ‘Tammany Hall had not become more purified; he did not mean to say that some bad men nad not been removed from it; he did not mean to say that the party that had nearly brought the city to ruin had not been purified to some extent; but he did mean te say that they were now a disorganized association. They have not the democratic standing that Apollo Hall has. Apollo Hall had now & registered list of 43,000 citizens, and in any election that had taken place in the city since Apolio Hall had been established ‘Tam- many had been ina minority, and that was one reason ee the Court should select the men named by Apollo Hall to be supervisors of election. Mr. Spencer said that Tyameey Hall represented the democratic party. He denied it. "The Maif-aban doned the princfples of democracy. He Ked on Tammany a4 a bastard democracy. He had nothing | to say against their candidate. He haa NO CONFIDENCE IN THE POLITICAL INTEGRITY OF | | TAMMANY. | | They had taken up the bitterest enemy that the | | deniocratic party ever had, Though Apoijo. Hall | | had not declared whom ‘she would support, he | | could say that Apollo Hall went solely for a demo- | cratic election, and he would like to hear from his learned friends on what authority they meant to ask this country to give a preference to their or- ganization. While Apolio Hall was certainly as | Tespectable as Tammany Hall and largely in excess | of Tammany Hall in numbers, he did not pean to say that there were not some respectable men con- nected with Tammany Hall, but his friend would not say to this Court that the majority of men of respectability, wealth and the heaviest taxpayers | were not connected a8 members with Ba | He, therefore, trusted for e reasons that the Court would not give the ap) it~ ment of supervisors to Tammany Hall. APOLLO HALL TABOOED AT SYRACTSB, \ Ex-Judge Spencer rising said that on the subject he was now avout to speak of he expected Mr. | Samuel J. Tilden, in his capacity asa lawyer and a citizen, and in his position as head of the demo- cratic party of the State, should present .their views, and until a few moments ago be supposed that Mr. Tilden and not himself (Mr. Spencer) was to vay What was to ve said on the cneation, He had heard with much pleasure the gentleman on the other side, who represented Apollo Hail, He aid not stand there to traduce the men who formed that organization, nor in their individual capacity. He did not etand there to claim for the democratic party that the Court was to consider any hall— TAMMANY HALL OR ANY OTHER RALL, The democratic party had not come there to take any such position ag that. They rose far above any local organizaiion, far above any organization cou- nected With the city, county or State of New York. Their position was THE POSITION OF THE NATION, and he should spend very littie time in anewcring the arguments of the gentleman as to the relative | ated of the two halis or other locai organizations. he paper that he held in his hand was the appii- cation that had been made through the Chief Su pervisor of this Judicial district with re@pect to the appointment of Supervisors. The statite was Plain apon that point. It was that tie Court | shoukl appoint men who may be of DIFFEREN? POLITICAL PARTIES, This was a national right, and had reference to | national interests. It was to guard the ballot box when they were to send men to Congress to elect a President and Vice President through the elec- tors, There were two great political parties in the country, That could not be dented or ignored— one party with Ulysses Grant at its head, and the | other with Horace Greelcy at ite head, They were the two great political parti ‘They had@ organ- | ized jrom the nation to the State, and from the State to the city. Perhaps it would be wet! to refer | to one or two facts tn connection With this matter, tor the purpose: ee those parties, There was amovement carly in | th ring which resulted m theConvi of Oin- cinnatl. This Convention was formed of the liberal arty, and it nominated Horace Greeleyifor Presi- dent. Then there was the SS von- Yention at Rochester, ,Apetio. Hali,of which Mr. Barrett was a member, went there asa part of the democratic party, bat they werede! ission. The delegation of the party which he represented were admitted to that ion an were recognized as of the d When the democratic. party met at nomi- nated: Horace Greviey for Presid dB. Gratz Brown for Vice President in the mee the Cincinnati Convention > had hem. complished their purpose agaitiet Tammany Mal the Drought ‘about the reform #0 much needed; and the he (Mr. Spender) was a victim of tho tidal wave that aye, the city, and ead e political “haracter, atiit he LS pind to the taken om: that occasion, Ho Pottoved ‘tut wthat ‘oat revolution did not der the interests. of men, but the interests of the ally. tr was brought about bye combination of domocrata and republicans, ne Committee of Aeventy did a work ta that combination, He waa aurpriacd to hear that it wae by Apolio Hall the. whole.of that work was done. Ho saw around him men who were republicans sil their lives bes were foremost ta that work, Mon went into i work who never dai ed the doors of Apollo ot He waa not tho apologist of Tammany enn He never was @- mombor of Tammany a] Legions of the domooratio party were connect swith that aasootation, pone men had orept nie it for a had purpose, and ft was to.aweep away ns mon and place Tami Hail ta a better on that mon like eal ms 0" a 1, Sauuel J, Tidon and Auguste cont! . Look te He ACHMED OF TAMMANT HALG, and say ifthey were not representative moa, ir. Barrett—Namo fr, Apoucer repltod yee hg, aXd not ant Yo aa awer these remarks, He know One party, and the pacty at the other ly might be ait that wasatated, When the election of next Fall would be over tt would be found-that Apollo would have @ lea Yanot tho anestion bors. Th party that he rep: ‘Wada not the question her 2 resouted wae tho party that ‘ahowtid havo pt POIMTMENT OF egpeetterir 4 fet some. ron aa .to the On of the i puanotie mat we witndvaw the name OS the liat ae whom leadt auspioon’ Could be juatiy ie. Peter Mitchell, represen: Apollo Halt, metal eens roa, Piabtet ies A Tammany waa routed at the.iast eledtion, and that, thero- ‘ore, body. could ‘Rot now, lay claim to the Sppotntment of supervisors, ' He oli ‘Teme with having heen guilty of. Reet ATING ANP BALLOT-BOX ST and urged that the ty tte rooure Intorvention of Apollo Hall, entitied that to tho ay intment of supervisors. further claimed that Apollo Tall were SUPPORTERS OF FRANOIA KERNAN for Governor, and he aaked the Gourt ¢o give them the representation that belonged to them. Iisa remarks were applauded by the spectators, but the Sudge said the Court would be cleared if renewed, ‘rhia latter remark of Mr, Mitchell drow from 'TRFING, mi tnroug asaoclation e, Mitchelt Kernan, meoting of scone in favor of Horace Greeley, r presented, after which fled name Judge Woodrum mace som ar course of which he said that W hé ricads of any and every candidate for office in the fppare fa tao city and county answered the definition of the act of Congress in relation to the appointment of su- pervisors he apprehended that that interpretation of the law would be rejected by every intelligent citizen. On the other hand, the Court, executing the law, could not be expected to inquire of every applicant for supervisorship for whom he Intended to vote. Im such a case the inquiries would pro- ceed to such an extreme that the Court could not apply the law. In his mind it would not be wise or proper to down from national definitions to questions of a local character or of local politics, After some other remarks the Court adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning, when the further hearing of the matter will ve resumed, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. \ | Tuk New Boor of President Thiers will be pub lished in November. In January the new French university for jour- nalists will open in Paris, with St. Mare Girardin for President. | THE KING OF Saxony, who has always been a busy | literary worker, and whose translation of Dante | makes three huge quartos, has in press his transia- | thon of Shakspeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ | THE Atheneum calls the composite story, “Six of | One by Half-a-Dozen of the Other,” by Edward E. | Hate, Mrs. Stowe, e¢ a’.,a “meagre and incoherent” | productfon. “By ail the rules of arithmetic a book written by six good anthors ought to be six times better than a novel written by only one; but like a plum pudding made of nothing but plums, or an apple pie made entirely of quinces, the résult does | not answer expectation,” Mr. JOHN Forster has nearly completed the second volume of his “Life of Charles Dickens.” THE CoBDEN CLUB, of London, have done them- selves the honor to reprint in a handsome volume Mr. David A. Wells’ “Second Report on the Assess- ment and Collection of Taxes in New York,” made in February, 1872. THE GRAND DUKE OF MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN has prohibitea the New York Stunday Mercury in his dominions. Cause—that paper has spoken yery disrespectfully of the Grand Duke. Pav. DE Kocx's novels, copyright and all, were worth half a million francs afew years ago. Now they are offered by his heirs at 20,000f, and no takers, “THE CITY OF GOD AND THE CHURCH MAKERS" {is the title of a new book on modern Christianity and its representatives, by R. Abbey, forthcoming from Hurd & Houghton’s press. Mr. HENRY BLACKBURN, accompanied by one of the Punch artists, is in the Hartz Mountains, pre- paring @ book of travels, to be published by Messrs, Low & Co. THE FouRTH VOLUME of Mr. Lane's Arabic Lexi- con will be published shortly. Tae Rev. MR. MARTINEAU's hew Essays, which are appearing in the Boston periodical, Old and New, will also be issued In England, THE AMERICAN SysTEM Of government has been well elucidated In “A Manual of American Ideas," Just issued in San Francisco, by Caspar T. Hopkins, the author. tions in our country in an exffet, thorough, ele- mevtary manner, aud supplies information impor- tant to all. THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. THE COURTS. Interesting Proceedings in the Now York and Brooklyn Courts. WMTED STATES CIRCUIT COUNT: Tadtetmonts, Yostorday the Grand Jury presented tho follow. ing indictmonta to Judge Blatchford :— Charles Mackey, Edward M. Grandin, David Mas- moneee Henry Camp—mailing obscene Iitoratura: Kappen, Thom: Anderson, Mariin Onur ‘tt o “cept io Joba Horn— voarding vessels without authority. moharies Rosenfeld and John Tick —presonting war 0 writ: to & United States officer. vig Bsngost cone iracy. —forging a money order. William De Lace: oulng letters entrusted to + poy i —haviog in his possession un- by yr gre idonating & revenue oMoer, John M, Adams and Joha Warstiug—Craudutent bankruptoy, Tho Criminal Caiendar. Judge Benedict sat at ten o'clock to open the critainat term of the Crrouit Court for October, and | hoard tho. excuses of jurors. He adjourned the | the | laytag tim, this waa | OfMlice Department of the United States, the latter Judge Spenser the observation that he had not yet seen any public declaration on the part of Apoito Halt that they intended to support Francis had heard that they dare not calla their General Committee, for it migtt toheit daid it had not met for such @ pur- e yot, an nll discussion then ensued in reference to | ¢ the manner in which the appiications had been Mr. Davenport vead the onjections that had been | granted, gf the a} polniment of certain persons aapervisb ‘4. He atated that objections were filed againat some because they were in the 88. liquor ba: = oat Jec ing concluded, 4ug Tenaacrs OF the. guiections ation in the It.deals with political and social ques. | | ‘The National Rife Association held a meeting | yesterday, lt was reported that there were on hana for the use of the association, freshly imported from England, fifty target slabs, one doubie and two single mantelets, seventeen ringing centres (aud appurtenances), and fifteen trigging tests, Ali these necessaries @Te said to have cost $4,000, | A report was made that the interval between the iwo embankments at the range had been filled up to make a continual embankment of 190 yards jong and 25 feet high. ‘The range, it w given out, ig so fixed already that twenty targets can be accommodated, thus enabling a full rey "4 | ment 10 exercise at wili without danger to the “surrounding circumstances.” Uaptain Wingete, from the Committee on Range, reported that the work on the range was progress ing rapidly,that six mantelets on the Hill system had been completed, and that the remainder would be done tn a few daye. Adjutant Harding, of the Twenty-second, on the | | | Gourt until ten o'clock this moraing, waea the criminal Gaiendar wilt be called. UHHTED STATES COMMISSIONERS” COUT. Charge of Assault Against a Maite. Before Commissionor Osborn, “tne. Batted Stxtes vs, John Ovtling,—the defen- dant, who ia mate of the Amorican ship Koaster, Was held ta $500 bail for oxaminaffon on a charge Of asaaulting a person ou board with an tron be- Assaulting a Letier Carrier. Tho United Stated va. Philip Perkina.—The de- fendant surrendered himself on a charge of having on the 25th of September maliciousty assauited one Louis Lennon, a letter carrier, employed in the Post being then in uniform and eagaged in the discharge Of lis duty on route, Perkins gave bail in $509 tor hia appearance, and bis examination is tixed for this day, SUPREME COURT—SHAMBEAS, Deot Be Ry Judge Leonard, ? W am Fitch v4. Thomas Curry ct at.—{njuaction ontinued, : Mary EK. Henry va. Hiram F, Hong referce confirmed, and judgment Brink et al. va. The Republic Fire Insurance Company.—The motion is denied, but without costs, Ta ey eee SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERA. Decisions. Ris By Judge Curtis. Gharles WH. Hollyde et ai, vs. Edward al. Order granted. * s Frank Goodman va. Le Grand Lockwood et al. (two cases). Motion granted by default. Gustavus A, FudeKar vs. the Guardian Mutual Life Insurance Company. See memorandum on papers for counsel. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TEAM. Deciston. By Judge Dal: Henty A. Richardson vs, Pauline Davison. Order denying and setting aside stay of proceedings. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Supreme Court—Onampers—Held by Judge Leonard.—Reserved cases, Nos. 70, 74, 86, 120, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 148, Call, No. 149. Mann CouRnt—GENERAL TéRM.—Calendar con- tinued. Y.—Report of for divorce MOH sees Kissam et BROOKLYN COURTS. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Justice Pratt. People ex rel, Ditmars Vi. i G. Debevoise.—Mo- | tion ¢0 change place of trial deniea. By Justice Tappen. In Matter of Petition of Nanuet New City Rail- road vs. ©. De Clark.—Award directed to be in- creased $300, making $1,800, ‘Ten dollars costs. J. R. Neeyers vs. H. F. Harris.—Deciston that costs | are not recoverable against executors in this case. By Justice Gilbert. G. De Forest Lord vs. John Ballet al., No. 3.—Five per cent allowance to plaintiff, to be paid out of | proceeds of sale, | COURT OF SESSIONS, A Brutal Outrage—Policemen Clabbing a Man Unmercifully and Then Arraign- ing Him for Trial—A Case for the Grand Jury and Two Prospective Vacancies | in the Police Force. In the Brooklyn Court of Sessions yesterday Oficers Martin and Cully, of the Butler street police | station, were complaining witnesses in the case of John Davis, of Columbia street, who was indicted on the charge of having committed an assauit and battery with intent to kill. It appeared from the evi- dence that on the 11th of August last Davis, while | ii tohis home, was robbed of his week's | wages, $15, by a gang of rowdies, who attacked | him in Columbia, between Centre and King streets, In the struggle which took place between the rob- bers and himself he drew a knife to de- fend himseif. He was knocked down and | had just regained his feet, still having possession | of the knife, when these officers ran eRe clubbed | him unmercifully, fracturing one of his arms and otherwise severely injuring him. He was laid up for several weeks and when he was able to appear in the Justice’s Court the officers preferred tnis charge ore: him, and the Justice committed him to await the action of the Grand Jury. The officers x was drunk and made so strong a resistance that | they were compelied to use their clubs. Davis de- | | esterday swore that the prisoner | HENRY VANDERVOORT. Rattromont of Hoary Vandervoort, the Venerable. Cloric of the Const, of General Sestions—Elo- qnont Reviow of His Character and Of- cial Life by “Recorder Hacketi—Eule- gistic Remarks . John Me- Keon, o Gar. via, Ex-Judge Beebe and Me, 6. 8. Spencer, ‘Yeaterday, Hefore the trial of Fredorick Rega, q charged wtth murder, in the General corder Hackett presiding, was resumed; aw tnter- cating scene took place following on tho Official an- nouncement of the retirement of Mr. Honry Van- dervoort, the vonerable and highly reapected Clerk: of the Court for forty-two years, made by Hla Homer Recorder Hackett, pacer ol fin ME. YANDERYQORI'S LETTER, OF RESIGNA URT OF GENERAL SrsslONS OF THR Fie 5 3 Oreek's Orvice, New You, "es dallpeastioneaarareenorees © 19 Col oral jon :— OWUTLE MeN. consequence of eontinued 4 heatd Bert) i—In bv the, advice of trisnds, 1 here w Br block ot the Court of General Norton trv rafter the date hereof: Toyou 2 all comnecies with the Court f ro % ihn ie" Wide = . pi flenay VANDERY ks an perv aly, BECORDBER HAGKETT'S. RULOGY ON ME, VANDE: ‘VOOR! 2 The Recorder thon dolivéred.the fonowing eulogy. on the retiring clerk :— . The voluntary retirement os: Hen : Vander” voort from ti ker iat of fl oon i which ho been. the | red: and 4 servant of the public for iorty-two consecutive years, demands tb the Judges o/ this Court official recognition by appropriate mention to be entered upon the minutes, During the whole past year Mr. andervoort has peen dealrous of resigning, hue the Judges of this Court have rapeatedly reiused to conalder the subject, in tho eizeere hope that time, which hag so gently dealt with Mr. Vandervoort’s* mental qualities, would restore him to full phyatoat vigor. Probably the best tribute to the siya clerk wouid be simply to record the fact so well Ete te Benctand Bar that Mr. Vandervoort haa: sacri te no ditga OF posty But the name of Mt Vem to tao duties of his » Bu nai . = gervoor ya long ‘teen a household word to thou- sands Uy thousands of our citizens, who ag wit~ nodads OF Tueymon oF in other official relations: have met that genial and scpomllahed reer that the Judges of BS, Court may well be par TAPtHse fer tide, It is certain that he quita the out ever having le an enemy. Seung I was @ man who only pakod want duty, a ee noghing for SXROMIGRDS) Maay ha may' have temporarily oncped. but to Over scnoas Cool reflection has brought Tépect afd Tadeod r erence for his unflinching rectitude, Du long service he has not, until Jately. "a 4 during any of the Court sittin, ue ti marvels of neatness gnd acai A ‘No Court re ords have ever )9e4 lost or inutilated while in gapecial ciislody, He hands over to his successor, unspoliated and methodically ite by the: entire records of this Gourt from ita fous: dation. Mr. Vandervoort has not only proved. a facthful’ and honest clerk, but he hae udoubredly acquired, better than any juriat now ting. a phugsophical and accurate understansing, of the theory ana practice of criminal law. His tirement, therefore, net only Sosastons.s oat the generat public, but an ¢spectal one to Judges and practitioners of this Coury. ail oficial connection with the clerk's office wi the Districh Attorneyship ot Hugh Maxweu, “4a la, ‘ stilt living LAion d esteem at thy and during the ee one oF the unsullied Richard Riker. Mr, Vandervoort has also outlived the courteous Recorder Talmadge and the zealous Recorder Tillou, a3 well as two City Judges. Ho has also outlived the energetic Phillips Phenix, the courtly Matthew C. Patterson, the un- daunted James Kk. hiting, ‘the eloquent A. Bowditch Blunt and the ehivairic Lorenzo Shepard, who respectively filled the office District’ Attorney, He has been the valucd feng of such constant practitioners in this Court, aa thé causa Amprose L, Jourdan, the witty Johw Van Buren, the Cleéton! éronian Ogden Hoffman, the pee David Granam, the brilliant William |. Price, the peerless James T. Brady and the alert Edward Sandford, all of Hits a have changed thelr spheres of 6) ag au uiviser and sound of auch judges and suck au adviser and con Vecates maki also a nigh ate ie Bi charactor and attainments. It is fortunate day Bar and genera public that he is su late Deputy Olerk, Mr. Sparks, who durii two ears has been Mr. Vanderyoort’s friend and pupil. The Court is sure that in now bidding Mr. Vandervoort an affectionate farewell, and in wish- ing him many, many years of enjoynzent, with health restored and cessation from routine a and, in ordering this very imperfect statement transcribed upon the minutes, the Court wilt £0- ceive the approving concurrence of everybody. “>, Mr. John McKeon, District Attorney Garvin, ex-' Judge Beebe and Mr. Charles 8, Spencer delivered brief and highly eulogistic addresses. They all He asst ei of niocty, wenty- | spoke of Mr, Vandervoort’s affability, kindness, in- tegrity and wonderful knowledge of criminal law, and of their poe indebtedness to him in the discharge of their professional duties. =Mr. Vandervoort retires with the heartfelt wishes of his old associates in the oficial department of the Court for his future welfare, who were all present in- terested auditors of the eult of Recorder Hackett and the other gentlemen of the Bar wno followed him in testifying to the Hig esteem in which their associate and friend was held in all the years he filled his most arduous and responsible oMce, MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, City Finances—Statement of the Chame- berlain. , The usual weekly statement of the City Cham- berlain, made yesterday, 1s as follows. It will be geen that there is nearly $5,000,000 in the treasury :— ores Receipts. Payments. Balances Sept. nied that he made any resistance, inasmuch that he was clubbed the moment the oMlcers came up. | Judge Moore, in charging the jury, said that they | | Must be satistied that the prisoner did make an | | aseault on the officers with the intent to take life | before they could convict him of the offence. So | far as he could see there was no pretence in the case that he even touched the officers. It did not appear, therefore, that he had been guiity of even | a simple assault. There was, however, some very | | strange differences between the story of th ences and that of the prisoner. ‘The diticer charged | Davis with attempting to strike him, and then | Martin struck bim on the lead. It seemed very strange to him that two strong officers could not take this man without clubbing him in this man- ner. If the story of the prisoner was true he was perfectly justified in using a knife; and it would be arelief to the community if more of these men who go about the streeis and rob rr were stabbed or shot down. The wounds being on the back of the prisoner's head, it was evident that he | Was etruck by the officers from behind. | The jury Nenana se acquitted the prisoner and tie Conrt requested District Attorney Britton to | call the attention of the Grand Jury to the condnect | of the police omcers and have the proper proceed- ings taken against them, COMMISSION APPEALS CALENDAR, ALBANY, Oct. 1, 1872. The following is the calendar of the Commission of Appeals for Wednesday, October 2:—Nos. 498, 06, oh 802, 427, 434, 446, 603, 507, O11, 613, 614. 515, 6, 490, THE ALLEGED HOMICIDE OF PATRICK MOR- P Green yesterday at his office. City Treasury......$8,607,015° $297,302 $600,050 $3, Sinking fund, re- euempuon 135,707 28,¢49 60,000 101,886 hi eee ae * 999,941 13,680 - - in ol ¢ MOR ssc: yam = 127 «or Board of Apportion: ment... 2. 811,754 ia’ — soe | Interest, geld. 4.065 | 8.78 u Wohl 823,018 $080,263 $4,993,473 Opening of Avenue St. Nicholas. Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of ‘ublic Works, announces that the Avenue St. icholas (the portion formerly the old Harlem lane), from the Central Park at Sixth avenue and 110th street to the Eighth avenue and 121st atree Conte ny with McComb’s dam road, being a gravel road, will be bl gins opened for public use to- d@ay and on each day of the Jerome Park races. ‘The easterly half of the Boulevard from 111th, Street to Manhattanville at 128th street is com- pleted and opened to public travel. The Twenty-third Street Railroad Fran- chise. The franchise of the Twenty-third Street Rall- road, which by law was directed to be eold at pul- lic auction, and which was sold some time ago, realized the sum of $150,000, for the benefit of the | city of New York. That sum has been paid into the City Treasury, as by law directed, The Comptroller and the Veterans of 1812. A delegation of the Veterans of 1812, neaded by General Henry Raymond, called on Comptroller The object of theis ha ‘ | i$, jattery, wae A tough | A short time after the organ- | part of the regiment, offered to the association for RISSEY, visit was to procure permission to erect a fagsted Ne eer re pees Magar Song than he | one. There was @ good sea on, but the old | ized throughout the State: arty | the individnal use of the members the regiment: be on the site of the old fort, near the powder house, thi He s Sopard ta. tbe identity of what he sup- Nautius behaved. Well, and, with the excep- | met at Syracuse, ties | range at Clifton, N. J.,on Mondays, Wednesdays | Closing the Case—Discharge of Mr-) at the upper end of Central Park, and to fire OI Bae caerienes 6 at ything PAM ber neues, OR woerd, | On the Sake toes Gov- | and Fridays until the association's range is com- Ewen salutes there on Washington's Birthday, 4th o 5 pressed a few appropriate renti- everything issed Of viegsantiy. With her | ernor. On that oc pleted. s | Jul: 4d evacuation D: ‘They desired t bi ments in regard to the consistency o! conduct bow headed for home and a good tide the crew | from Ne The reputed Morrissey homicide case was con- | July an ecuns jay. They desired to hai * . ry General Shaler reported that the county appro- which ty was the duty of aChureh member to dis- printion of $5,000 authorized. by law was teady for use at any time the association saw fit to draw for settied down to their work, and reached their’ ization boat house, on the Harlem River, at ten minutes to , did noi five, the whole time absent from the boat house | ask to be: thie request granted in time for them to fii their first salute on Evacuation Day, 25th Novem- | ber prox. The Comptroller promised to lay their tinued yesterday afternoon before Coroner Herr- man at the City Hall. It was sought to be proved i i s ir, Geeckepheg The witness, Your Honor, is not & Member of the Seventh street church. luon about Tammany Hal). It spoke the amount, ‘he association then adjourned, | | request before the Commissioners at the earliest bemg 81x hours and twenty minutes and the time | and tl Alte? advert Blaha bee gc et abc ang | that there had been some bad feeling engendered | Hl On Grane wae nine wins? tt (he lduor which | actually engaged in rowing tound the island ove | ing t@ t taken | goLUTION OF THE WILLIAMSBURG MYSTERY, | vetween the deceased boy and Frederick Ewen, °PPOrtunity, the uestion Was objected to, but the witness ad- | parasite fo hemi sacl he BRE | coming M seein j The howad Yemsine fond Ji w tate tn the | the foreman, relative to the raMe of a watch at the THE CITY'S CREDITORS, A mitted the uncertainty of his belief, NFANT: that had to Mr. Daven; ellen sara N@ | store 262 Greenwich street, which watch was won cans ult, Howe Yetta your complaint yon swore post. INFANTIOIDE IM BROOKLYN. | Commissioner of ‘Supervisors, by the democratic | Neighborhood of the cooper's shop of John T. Brigg®, | vy the voy Morrissey. It isalleged. that Michael i eather Geeunestun ines we Nlanate . | arty, and said e Was no vulart 4 — ‘Tho counsel here ced five or ex long-necked A young unmarried female, Mary Fitzgerald, | Party Word in that applica- | Williamsburg, on Monday night, particulare of Nolan, a boy who worke in the store, said, imme: | bottles, all of which were full ofsome liquid, which he said was of the same kind as had been drunk by Mr. Hill on Sunday night. . My. -Faik then made use of thé following ridivuious caprewies, the ab- surdity of which provoked a roar of laughter :— “T veel sui t dees vot is in des: to reporthers, a4 I dink «ley are de t sh ‘ The cou the complainant (of course with no at sellishness attaching to iis con- juspicion duct) uttered an emphatic obsection to the above are. baw a oe | ; lit he met Mr, e Was passing out of Paul Faik’s garden, 4nd at his golicitetion he turned b and togethe, they ives at atable. Mr. Hill asked fora but was told that they sold none | He then asked for t wine, received the. same response. in - then caiied. for Rhine wee the 8 ‘Wesel German cider, which le the Wine.’ The witness (Mr. Phuger) rom that what he drank was the i }, but Of an inferior quality, Honor, my clients Mr faite ih very dees con ‘ » Mr. Faik, 18 very desirous sworn, 40 that he’ can i athe ive an explanation of the Ceatimony of the last witnen ; but 4 don't think tt wecessary, our Honor, what should be ta} covered Ia the + thirty years of age, left her sitnation, which wag | that of a domestic in the family of Mr. Simons, corner of De Kaib and Kent avenues, on Friday | | Jaet, complaining that.she was in delicate heaith. | | She went to live witha Mrs, Phillips, her cousin, | at 841 De Kalb avenue, & tenement house, Mary ; had pot long been under the shelter of her new piacé of abode before she was taken very ill, and upon being questioned by One of the tenante as to | the Rattife of her sickness gave an evasive feply, morning marks of bicod were dis- t Out-hotse, and A police oMver was summoned te investigate the case, when the body of a fully develope! new born intant was found in the vault was thereu) precinct station house, on was made by Dr. Berdick, who reporter that she was not a mother, fo) prisoner was thereupon released from custody. The st Was held be- fore Coroner Jones yesterday aw when Dr. Pe 0 ct. rendered a ver- | diet finding Mary Fitzgerald gilts of infanticide, and the Coroner issued a warrant for the arrest | the accused. Her whereabouts are at presemt an- known to the police, . " ‘ jon taken to the Ninth | ere A Medical examina- ont demo- cratic party, Of the City and county of Nee for Yor and he presumed thet when Mr. Deven: port ww et ee of applicants on As Tomman: i} he aid because “f at the General Co the democratic party met at Tammany Hall, and that bad brought on here the argument as tothe relative merit of the two “I a ncer, having read the ap of the ji con me that here mittee with respect bang nt on to say 3 DOL & nee ofa citizen + politics who: wor st presented to re } hip, foe parties in the country. Grant afd the other Aibron It would be fice blind thing to other principlé Hut this in making t ments, APOLLO TALL HAD NO STATE OR NATIONAL IZATION. bs wl They were a faction, however respect “its members, With regard to the struggle of I, there was a combination of republicans 0+ crats of every character and every stripe for the purpose of political reform in the State and county, and their object was the best that any party orgniy organization could have as a basis of action, evs | been identified, which were published in yesterday's HERALD, have Yesterday morning Mr. Briggs calles at the Fourth street police station and re- lated that his brother, Alexander T. Briggs, a resi- dent of Furman street, had been studying medicine and that some months ago La sae adi the remains from Bellevne Hospital, and, having dissected them, placed them where found, HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN WILLIAMEBURG, At about three o'clock yesterday morning OMicer Timothy Phaien, of the Filth precinct, Williams | detory statements. burg, while patroiling his beat, North Sixth and | Firet streets, obeerved one man knock down apother and wrench from his hands a satchel. The gh wayman, having thus obiained possession of the sate hel, ran swiltly away, but the officer, who is swift of foot, pursued and captured him. He | took botli men to the Fourth street station house, where the highwayman gave the name of John | Quinn and his age thirty-four years. His victim's name is James Duil, pedier, who resides at 76 North Wighth street. ‘The satchel contained goods valued af $75, Quinn was leld by Justice Etllolt tv await Oxaarination, diately after the ovcurrence, that he saw Ewen throw down tbe rope on Morrissey; but when under oath Michae! ewicd having saitt that he saw anything | f the kind. ugh ry ead that he heard Nolan say he saw Ewen throw or drop the rope on deceased, and faw him jump back from the hatch and knew him by his curly head. Evidently there was little | or no reliance to be placed in the testimony of the boy Nolan, as he had made at least two contra | The jury found no testimony to connect Mr. Ewen | With the death of Moprissey, and accordingly ren- dered @ verdict of accidental death. The Morrissey family was much dissatisfied with the verdict, and made some violent demonstrations against Mr. Ewen after his discharge by the Coro- ner and while leaving the court room, but he escaped unharmed, SUICIDE OF AN INVALID LADY. Mrs, Julia Marchand, fifty-two yearsof age, and | anative of France, who has been an invalid and slightly deranged for many years past, died on Monday evening at her residence, No. 628 Sixth avenue, from the effects of @ quantity of Paris een, Which she had taken with suicidal intent, Jorguer Young was yotiligdh the Supreme Court on Monday Next. Yesterday afternoon a HgeraLy reporter called upon Mr. Palmer, the President of the Tenth Na+ tional Bank, at 3483 Broadway, ,to sec what action he intended taking with reference to the communt- cations published im yesterday's HExaLp from Comptroller Green, regarding the debt of $277,930 which the bank is owed by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, a substantial report of what Mr. Palmer said:—“The ease Will be prought on for hearing next Monday in the 8 notifi should be compelled to resume litigation in this case, Which it was presumed would have been | closed according to assurances already given. The Comptroller has it in his power to pa: by authority of the same law under whi the balance due on the Parks account of 1871, and should not force us to 1s solicitous for a speed and will make every e1 ward, as that appears the on): under the cireumstances. The effort within its power to avoid the present posi- beg but has been forced into tt by the delay apon the witich (9 ® plaja duty,” The following is reme Court, and the Comptroller has been to appear, The bank feels aggrieved it wy 1. the claim ich he paid ‘0 to law again. The bank settlement by that mode, it to push the matter for- solution probable ank has used ever f art of the Comptroller in performing that