The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1873, Page 8

8 CAPITAL F. FS. Social Life in Washington in the Season. EXTINGUISHMENT OF THE ARTS POL ‘Extravagance and Display vs. Economy and Comfort. A Senatorial Opinion of the Pur- pose of Good Society. REMINISCENCES OF JEFF DAVIS. Disappearance of the Old Resident Families. Receptions and Parties—Mrs, Freeman’s Party— General Burnside tho Ladies’ Pet—Mrs, Conkling’s Reception—Secretary Delano— The Strange Story of General Paul, WASHINGTON, Jan, 31, 1873, Reflections upon the decay of social life and en- joyment at the capital are not cheerful at any time, and at this time, having regard for place and sBcason, May not even be profitable; but they are the uabidden spectres who come in and seat them- Selves at the dreary banquet that society has this Winter spread, and they will not be waved away. The early promise of a gay season at Washing- ton has not been verified, and murmurs of discon- tent are heard on every side from tired and dis- appointed votaries of pleasure. ‘They find that the growth of the form of society has all but quenched Ue spirit that gives zest to the pursuit of social joys, and though they may not stay to reason from the cause the effect is palpable to the least observant eye, The veterans begin to sigh for the old days, and listen in sullen silence to those who would assure them that th pid days’? are never- more to be new, and that such is the inexorable logic of events, They do well to mourn! Here, a8 elsewhere, “modern ideas’ have entered upon the stage. They are “practical” and “progressive” in tendency, and tradition finds no place or welcome in the current order of affairs, In society EXTRAVAGANCE AND DISPLAY have taken the place of economy and comfort, and money—that all-pervading influence—has ‘sent vharacter into exile. Doubtless such style of ex- pression as this is now become worn and tedious by too frequent use in painting the decadence of public and social life, but it is be- cause the same agencies are at work here as every- where that the stereotyped iorms of expression are called in to describe their results. ‘f'wo of the once flourishing arts of polite life—social conversation and correspondence—have fed before the intro- duction of “the shop” into the family and social circle, and the ubiquity of the modern newspaper in social as in other concerns, and now the con- tinued and exclusive devotion of all classes to the “aseful arts" threatens the extinguishment of the poor remainder of the arts polite that are the foundation and cement of a truly social organiza- tion. Asa bay window philosopher, of Senatorial rank, remarked to your correspondent at a recent afternoon reception on | street, _ “THE PLACE AND PURPOSE OF ‘GOOD SOCIETY? in the future civilization of this people ts as much a matter of uncertainty as the place and infuence of Richard Wagner in the music of the future. ‘Tis no disrespect to Wagner that prompts the sugges- tuon that tie social is of far greater oonsequeuce than the musical problem.” Nothing is more noticeable to the keen observer of social events in Wastingtoo than the gradual disappearance of the old resident families from what by general usage 1s called society. The pres- ent standard of genieel lile is marked too high for them; and—too poor to rival the later generations and too proud to expose their poverty where pov- erty is despised—because the means of wealth are ample to those who knew and lear not vo travel the road, they learn to keep themseives off THE HIGHWAY OF FASHION and spend their sin seclusion. Young Society sees them go, and, pausing a moment to stigmatiz “old families’ as a humbug and “old houses” as a fraud, goes on with the glitter and the noise that make up modern miscalied “pleasure.” ‘Yo return to our inuttons, there is nothing to say @f last week except Lhat its record buta bare repetition of the weck before. On the same days of the week the same people have been at home in full reception dress, and the same people bave rolled up to their doors in carriages and stalked into their parlors tw repeat to them the iready said and toexchange the old formulas with the “other peopie”? whom they: met and re- met on the old reception rounds. The reception rooms bore the sell-same appearance, even the Meral decorations being as scentiess and as sightly as of old, Still, there were chauges! In botn saloon and carriage toilets there had been at least a hall turn of the kaleidoscope, resulting in new combinations ef form and color. Those who called and those who received had another week's weart- ness of the whole thing addeu to their ynmobiie | laces, and the gasliguts—Washington gusligiits, } which have been in asiow decline since t coal famine in England became epidemic—were per- ceptibly greener in hue and jeebier in illumination than when last lighted up for company, A LARGE PABTY!AND MRS, FREEMAN'S, Large parties, or parties of any kind, have been Searcer than ever this Winter, the whole time being given up to the. outer furmalit and they only tempered by the introduction of li hing and dancing here and there. A lurge party has been given at the noted house of Mrs. Freeman, on H street, near the Arlington, bringing togetuer acom- pahy hot ollen seen im these degenerate days in Washington drawing rooms. Just enough of the better Kind of society people of the present ¢ were invited to iniorm the outer worid that the shewy and formal gayeties that now prevail | are “but sorry substitutes for the real and | hearty delights of a bygone school, aud wo show how aifferent trom the inso} epulence of the railroad kings and Syndic lords and subsidy lobbyists who Naunt their ma; nificence at the West énd and on Capitol Hill ts the simple grandeur of former days. House, built many years ago by Colonei Freeman, of the army, and still occupied by tis widow and daughters, is yet the largest and finest house in town, and is more tmpesing in its simple clegauce than the latest of the late architectural triumphs, excepting, perhaps, the house of Quartermaster Geueral Meigs, on Vermont avenue, built irom his own designs alter a personal study of the finest edifices olevery part o1 Kurope. Another relic of 4 house has been brought tuto notice through the medium of a “kettie-druum’” _ given by Mrs. Wise, the widow of Captaim Heury A. Wise, bephew and namesake of the eccentric ex-Governor of Virginia. Captain Wis the head of the Navy Ordnance Bureau, aud of very cee talent in science and uter ture. Mrs. Wisets the daugbter of ward E ett, of Massachusetts, aud on her return from Europe—where sae went as a wife and return 2s a Widow—she bought back her father’s hous: just westward of the Navy Department, as a home for herself and two lovely ughters. in it had lived, after her father, Jeferson Davis, when Secre- tary of War, and J: Thompsou, when secretary of the Interier. While occupied by Davis the house wus alive with entertainment. but Thompson, Whose term of office was lieavy with plots and nes of distnion, kept quicter state, These ire both Mississippians; but the haughty lords of tue cotton fields were mever Wwoil diposed to- Yen Davis, whom tiey were fend of affectedly episiug as a plabetan, and debased.and ruined as Ley how are in position and fortune they alfect to glad to remember that amid all the hovors @owered on “Jet by the State and the confed- eraey the onor of being # gentleman was grudg. iy accorded him at bome. it js ossible that such = ane-drawa —_diserimi- but twe Southern “gentiemen’ has tle but Dia traalitions lest, and to them he clings with an energy },020 of the despair of finding anything bet- ter for bhu sn the present state of aifairs, It only needs @ few tree conferences with these gentlemen in gray, asdey Wander up tuis way now aud then to look at Ge Yankee capital and see the “nig- gers” in Coigress, to nnderstand the whole South: ern question ¢us! to lose hope for anything better Gill those of tik departing generation sleep with tueir fathers. B.URNSIDE IN soctEry, + The roand, balo\aead and big whiskers of Genera) Ambrose Burns have been cvonspicaous im society's saloons oi Jase, the General being vere on | @ “mission” jor son steamsbip men who want a subsidy to build up A Werican commerce. What a host vi reminiscences .\ofow the man as he moves through a throng of bla &k and white shoulders, his upper eighth doating Xe & ball amid the sea of buman ia Soime mili, FY nan remembers how be saw bright-colored show’! is pasted up all over New York calling fur recrui’§ Jor the regiments of the “ever successiul Genera. ¢ 40d this just before fhe Freeman | Was long | | Qations may jail to ind appreciation “up North,” | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. the “ever successful” left the scene of his inglorious victories in North Carolina for that of his more inglorious defeats in Virginia. An diplomate, silent till he saw how the surrounding currents ran, re- vived the story of Burnside’s sel!-iinposed diplo- ms tie labors between Bismarck and Juies Favre during the siege of Paris, and told, with all the self-enjoyment belosging to a new story, how bis- marck’s malady, that sends him into retirement in Pomerama, takes always the form of the globu- lar, shiny head of Burnside, big whiskers, teeth and all, bob! around and about him like a gad- fly. But the ladies will have naugnt of the military man nor the brevet ambassador, They “dear Gen- eral” the General, and vow that, if not @ great gen- eral, he is handsome and talkatlye enough to be one, and twice as ‘nice’ as that ‘grumpy General Grant.” It would be easy to see the issue of the General’s campaign in Congress for subsidies tf the women of soclety held the casting vote, as they really do in many things legislative. MRS, CONKLING’S RECEPTION. ‘To see how the rising sun is worshipped one had need to be at Mrs, Conkling’s reception on Thurs- day of last week. It was a bad day for receptions, but not at the Conkings’. The Senator, ha new six years’ lease Of power and a four years’ Jease, in popular belief, of the place next the lmme- diate’ source of power, need fear no stress of weather, and while ly not a thought of this crossed the mind of his wife, who seems content with a wife’s real part—ao different from some others one could name—others remembered and commented upon it, Secretary Delano has got back from Cuba, and curses his luck in ever going there. Feeling much mended in health and spirits by the trip, the Secre- tary would like nothing better than tosit down in his own comfortable parlor and tell his visitors who cared to hear his sensations at leaving the nineteenth century, witn its raiiroads and street cars and modern improvements on pop- ular government behind him at New Orleans and coming slap upon the fifteenth century by a brief run across the Mexican Gulf to the Havana. As the Secretary happily expresses it, he 1ound a bit of old Spain transported bodily across the Atlan- tic, with its quaint houses, quaint streets, quaint churches and quaint people of thy costume and strange, old-fasioned habits. In this new expe- rience of the old the Secretary found the restora- tive he went in quest of, and was giad to be away for a season froin the Teton-Sioux apd Modocs, But, now that he is back, everybody quizzes him about his “mission” and commends his ‘diplomatic reserve,” while wondering what the effect of his nm investigations” will upon the “policy” of 6 administration, and whether Spain will the “chances”? incurrection are, so on intermi- nen while nobody wants to be switched off their own line of investigation by talks about old Rouses and old churches and old paintings in Havana. So Ene taae keep up their Artesian operations, and Mr. Delano finds that his “Tales of a Traveller” will get no circulation unless he ar- ranges with some Hartford house or other to pub- lish them by subscription only, or by clubbing them with the religious and agricultural weeklies. General Banks, who 1s most profound when nothing but wind is “in the wind,’”’ wears his pro~ foundest aspect about this time, and he is sap- posed, as Chairman of Foreign Relations, to have pumped Mr, Delano dry on the Cuban question and to y resolving himself into adamant lest prematur® disclosures should escape him in un- guarded moments. BRIGADIER GENERAL PAUL. A visit to Mrs, Paul, of G street, on her weekly reception day, affords an opportunity of reflecting upon the wondrous power of an act of Congress, gnd whether our Solos are so far out of the way In proposing the formula, “Be it enacted,’ asa remedy for every evil that bodies politic, and especially bodies corporate, are heir to, This lady, an cloquent apostle of social grace and culture, is the wile of General Paul, who was Killed at Gettys- burg while gailantly leading his brigade into ac- tion, That he was killed 19 beyond question, as the records of the War Department show the fact, and the proper officer was pro- moted to the lieutenant solonsley of the Eighth infantry; but = that e is palpably alive and well any attendant upon his wife’s receptions will avow who remem bers the almost blind oid man, that is yet as cheer- ful as if it were not twilight with him in sight asin years, An act of Congress placing him on the re- tired list of the army, with the full pay and allow- ances of his rank, 1” consideration of his helpless condition, gets the credit of his resurrection from the grave to which the War Department had con-+ signed him when its P. M. P., Adjutant General ‘Townsend, notitied the senior major of infantry, in July, 1863, that he was henceforth a lieutenant colonel, “vice, Gabriel R. Paul, deceased.” ‘Truly, there ‘are strange things, strange people and strange stories to be found in Washington. the Washington Society. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 1873, To Tne Eprror OF THE HERALD: Poor, much-abused capital! Everybody owns it—ergo, everybody abuses it (we can explain it in no other way). Your fair (or very unfair, we think) correspondent of last week was only in fashion when she deliberately looked through green glasses at our social life and departed scold- ing. It isa peculiarity of our guests, which is be- coming altogether chronic. They come among us with @ smile that ia “child-like and bland,” partake of our good things, then go away and blackball us whenever they can. We have “seventy times seven” forgiven them and said nothing. Now, permit a lady resident to “rise and explain,” Socicty here 1s manifold; there are circles within circles, and we cannot penctrate it all at a glance, We do not assume that our fashionable life here is all good. Human nature is about the same thing the world over, and the saints of Washington are not found generaliy among its “first families” more than in other cities, Necessarily the official soci- ety is most accessible, and it is that which comes to\the suriace. Strangers come here as they would yo to a Summer watering place for a few weeks of dissipation, and give themseives, with much aban- don, to the round of receptions and party-going of which your correspouc em, and alto, nt complains, It is pleas- ner proper, we think, that 808 01 the men they have sent here and hon- ored with high places should be open to them, and as it is morally impossible for the hostess to discrim- inate between Mrs, “fom,” “Dick” and “Harry? in this matter, her hospitality is sometimes tres- passed upon. it is noticeable, however, plaint comes oitenest trom juade most effort to attract and we secretly opine that they rather enjoy their suffering. The “season” in Washing- ton 18 very short, virtually beginning in Jannary aud ending at the commencemeiut of Lent, con- densing all the visiting of the year within a few weeks; and why shouldn’t ladies wno have all their Paris finery in readiness have a chance to display it during this time’ Ism’t the driving about and exchanging visits as profitable, pray, as worsted work or light reading at home, which, ten to one, those sdme ladies would indulge in? We strongly suspect the indignant lady who “packed her Saratogas for home" so specdily d the contents thereof eclipsed in some way, so thought the “grapes tasted very sour.’? : men and irivolous women are here; them are sent here (more’s the pity), but Washington is nog to blame tor it, Back of all its surface life, which is 80 times very frothy, the city has scores and hundreds of quiet, cultured homes whose inmates are not discussed in the papers and whose hospitality is not trespassed | upon by the coarse or vulgar. The west end of the city is occupied, in great part, by army and navy people, who are here, as elsewhere, genial and charnung. Such lomes as,General Meigs’, on Ver. mout avenue, Mr. Thomas Bryan’s umd others must prove graceful and attractive to any who have the good tertune to enter tiem. The resident citizens are always more or less ex- clusive, and as they do not attempt to cail gener- ally upon strangers or mingle much in the ofictal wiirl, one might, unless properly introduced, ran about at receptions and parties all Winter without | knowing them. Many ot these families are notive- that this com- those who have the crowd, ably active im all benevolent associations and in their gr apge churches, Mrs. Stickney (daughter ef Amos Kendall) is one among many oi our ladies whom wealth and social posi- ton do not temptio lead a frivolous or useless lite. Washington society should not be judged by | its newspaper gossip. We do net wonder strangers pronounce that altogether stale, iat and unprofit- | Society is served up to us for Sunday read- in the most startiiag manner by that Bohe- mian, the Capifol,’aud ditto the other papers, without the spice; but it is about as tairto judge from this as of New York from your column oi per- sonals. For these and sundry other reasons we enter our protest to your correspondent’s hasty conclusions, and beg that next time she will leave half her Saratogas at home and come quietly alnong U8 lor a8 any months as she did days. We deel assured at the ead of this time she will decide tosend lor the remainder aud abide with us per- manently. FON. W. GAFFNEY, THE CONDEMNED MURDERER IN BUFFALO. {From the Bufate Courter, Jan. 31.) Sinee the intelligence was conveyed te John Gaffney that the Governor had refused to commute jus sentence of death he has been in an almost dis- tracted coudition of mind. Wednesday night he did mot close his eyes in sieep, but continued pacing Jus cell, bewailing bis hapiess lot. At nine o'clock yesterday morning the Right Kev. Bishop Ryan, aecompanied by Kev. Father Malioy aud two sisters from St. Mary's Convent, proceeded to the jail. Gatlney was brought from the condemned cell to the jaiher’s office and there the Bishop adminis- | tered to htm the rite of confirmation. Soon after being returned to his cell he fell asieep and slepy the remainder of the forenoon. Between one and twe o’ciock mm the afternoon his wife and children were allowed a brief interview with him, Gatfey stil] hopes that his sentence will be changed. Ile can reconcile tis mind to no other thought, and he will continue to hope until the drop fails srom , be- neath bis feetou Friday next. SUDDEN DEATH. Patrick Moriarty, of 507 East Fifteenth street, died suddenly at his ‘residence Jast night. There Was no doctor in attapdance, The Coroner has been motided, WAILS FROM JERSEY CITY. Ex-Mayor Manners on the Situation. + A Gloomy Picture—His Opinion About the Value of Real Estate Under the Ring Government—. Interview with Senator McPherson— Another Infamous Bill for Jer- sey City—A Significant ‘Warning to the Ring. It was only when the gloomy condition of the taxpayers of Jersey City was set forth in the HERALD two weeks ago that those who had not already succumbed under the weight of exhor- bitant taxation and the general depression in the real estate market—the logical results of the ring rule—began to reflect on the future in store for them if the power of the ring be not broken by the present Legislature. When ex-Mayor David 8. Manners saw the exposé in the HERALD he remarked to a member of the Committee of Twenty-eight, “That is as truce as Gospel; I, too, would: sell out my property to-mor- Tow if I could get anything like a reasonable price, and I would give a written guarantee NEVER TO SET FOOT IN JERSEY CITY again except when I bad to travel across it on the cars.” When it is considered that Mr. Manners owns an extensive property in Jersey City, being one of the few to whom a large portion of the Van Vorst cstate fell, this statement was most significant. In addition to this it must be remarked that Mr. Manners was chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City for five years and was Mayor during the five succeeding years, having been elected by the largest popular vote given to any man in his time. In 1857 he retired to private life and could never be induced to take office since. A representative of the HERALD had an interview with him a few days ago, and the old gentleman Spoke with great earnestness and emphasis in sub- stance as follows:—I am alwa/s glad to meet any representative of the HERALD, for I don’t know what we should do in this city but for that paper. | It is the terror of this ring ‘that has hold of our ets, and J fees certain that but for the exposures | published in that paper we would be worse of than ‘we are to-day. OUR CONDITION 18 BAD ENOUGH, hloweyer. To give you an idea of the situation in my case, I need only say that the valuation of two of my houses has been advanced $7,000 in two years, My taxes for them last year amounted to $211; this year they reach $492; that is more money than | have realized on tuem in five years, for either of them ts oiten empty. I have a ‘house in Steuben street which rented during the war tor $25 a month, and T cannot find a tenant lor it to- day at $20a month, although I placed it in the hands of my real estate agent. HOW THE TAX OFFICE 18 CONDUCTED. Among my receipts tor taxes is one signed by the former collector, John B, Haight, in full tor all taxes due. Fancy my surprise when I received a notice that my property was sold for non-payment of taxes. I called on Mr. Love, the present col- lector, and produced my receipts. He said that A CLERICAL ERROR of five dollars had been found somewhere in the accounts, and that he did not see where [ couid find any redress; that it would cost me more to contest the case than the amount involved, The collection of the water taxes seems to have been carried on in a manner just as curious, I have four lots under water—imaginary lots, you may call tiem—lying along the water front, where a street will.some day or another be located, and I received a notic these had been sold for non-payment of water taxes, Now, the tax was only $1 a lot in any case, and had I received any notice to pay it 1 would have readily done so, But by the red-tape system the taxes and costs on the four lots, Insteed of being $4, amounted to $28. Tosum up my late experience, I say most positively that I WOULD NOT TAKE THE BEST LOT on the Van Vorst estate in Jersey City to-dgy for a gilt, it it were made a condition that I should make any improvements on it. It would not be worth it. The so-called Citizens’ Reform League clected me President of the organization in my absence, but Tattended only one meeting. I want MORE WORK AND LESS TALK, Tdon’t like to see politicians turning these citi- zens’ associations to their own purposes. This Committee of Twenty-eight is only a fizzle. ‘There are a few gentiemen there of the highest integrity, but still it looks to me like aring scheme. See them moving to increase the salary of the Corpo- ration Attorney. Now, this office has always been overpaid, and yet we CAN’? GET MEN OF BRAINS to fill it. They hire assistants, and when the city becomes invoived in a big suit they hire the ablest counsel in the State at the expense of the city.” The HERALD representative then turned his at- tention to SENATOR M'PHERSON, who fought the ring charter amendments inch by inch at the last session of the Legisiature, asked whether he had any hope of relief for his constituen Mf durimg the present session he replied, after some hesitation, that as no amendments to the charter had yet come before the Senate he was unable to pronounce on the temper of that body in regard to Jersey City. There was one favorable sign, however. The President of the Senate, Mr. Taylor, who has arrived at the conclu- sion that Jersey City has been sadly misgoverned, assured him that he would cheertully support any measure Oi relief for that city, *liniend,” con- tinued Mr. McPherson, “to stand up this session and ask the Senate whether we are to remain any longer A CONQUERED CITY. If the Senate decrees so, then I say I will take no further interest In any Matter whatever coming belore the Legislature. I wiil contend for a veto power for the Mayor that shail mean something— a veto power to be overruled only by a two-third vote of the Board of Aldermen.” While Mr. McPherson was speaking Mr, James M. Brann entered and called his attention to A MOST INFAMOUS BILL introduced by Mr. Farrier in relation to Jersey City. It provides jor the enlargement of the powers granted to the police justices, diminishes the powers, of justices of the peace and confers the appointing power, not on the rnor nor the Mayor, but on the caneus of the lature. Even | the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is interiéred with, and if the bill should pass the few remaiuing BARRIERS AGAINST DESPOTISM under the name ef, republicanism will be swept aside. The bill is simply designed to furnish tat ofices to such members of the Ring fimily as have not yet been provided for and to increase the salaries as well as the powers of the resent police justices, who are certain to be reappointed. “Mr. McPherson, a.ter perusing the bill, said that it was the most extraordinary enactment yet proposed for Jersey City, and he should it fight to the last. “If we cannot obsain some.redress,”’ he added, “this session I think the people must resort to the club and protect them- selves, What do yousay, Mr. Brann A FEARFUL SUGGESTION, The reply was prompt and decisive. “I have given my Opinion before,” said the gentieman ad- dressed, “and I repeat it now, and T wil declare it in public, that ti, after giving this Legislature a trial, we be disappointed, no remedy will remain for us till the people make an ple of two or three of our corrupt officials t ating then AS THEY DO IN CALIFORNIA, Thope it will not have to come to this; but I, for one, say if the crisis comes I will be ready at all events,.’? Two gentlemen who accompanied Mr. Brann heartily concurred in this view, and visions of lampposts, Witt cross bars thereon, began to float across the brain of the HERALD man, who turned the conversation to mi jameous bills pending in the Legislature in regard to Jersey City, alter which he withdrew, The Taxation of New York. Brooklyn and Jersey City Compared. ‘ Jensey Oiry, Jan, 25, 1873 To tne Epiror or tne Hrrao:- The people of this unfortunate, over-taxed, ring-ruled city owe you a debt of gratitude for pointing out the fla- grant manner in which our people's money is daily squandered by rings and commissions, Every blow which you «med at the unscrupulous pubic planderers of our city treasury has gone home to its mark and proved a regular sockdolager to some one or other of those thieving rings with which we are cursed. Your article in last Monday's Hewat, entided “Wails from Jersey City,” on the legacy of our misgovernment and pointimg out the results of our ring rale in the exodus of our population, hit the buli’s-eye and caused an unusual stir amongst our people, as it awakened every interested citizen, and especialiy every property- holder, to the stern reality of the sitvation. As a result the “ring” papers published here were up in arms—to order, of coursoagainst your article and the start ling disclosures made by your New Jersey re porter. ‘there is. one daily paper’ published here which camot, on the most trivial ocea- sion, retrain from spitting ite puritanical bigotry ata very large clasy of our citizens because their ancestors 0 of happen to come over in the Maylower or land om outh Kock. While cavilliug at your reporter's state mente in te article reierred Wo it takes occasion to. fling. ity accustomed mud in the faces of at least one-third 9} our citizen population charges that these couplaints are made beeause Americans and Jerseymen, and pot Irish democrate, contro! the city government. Well, the ie oF, inthe words of this sheet “Americans a ‘do control our ity govern- ment, But how much cause we have to remember (his fact let the overiaxed property owners ot Jersey City answer, How and by whom We are governed and to what purpose may be easily inferred trom the fact that one of our Govertiors, or rulers, « leader ot the leaders of ring rule, an “American and aJerseyman,” has but i returned'atter serving # (erm in our State’ Prison for the mauner jn which he coutreled our city government from the City Clerk one day that | Can the ring organ point toany such performance by an irish deruocrat’ in Jersey City tT guess hot ad But with regard to the question of over-taxation, the cause of the exodus of the people trom our citys ry ly in the Herap Shy pee Ly gg“ any- in City will not ier compariedn. or Jersey City. is in either of the former cities. slightest fear of contradiction. It is sap tended that the assessed value of real three cities fixed on @ ket value. Let us see how out. A friend of mine, say Mr. A, at present owns a house and loton Monwomery. street, Jersey city, desira- bly situated, purchased in for Flag t4 sequent roved by a considerable o been on the market for the “offered at $5.50, without Anding,& erty is assessed tor tax i what it might actually tor. In other words, it assessed at twenty-five per cent over the supposed stand- ard of the ‘asesrment value. Anowier party, say ME. B, owns a property on one ot gthe avenues New "York, vetween ‘Twenty-first ind Twenty-neo- ‘ond streets; this was assessed in 1872 at $4,000 for urposes of taxation, and can be sold to-morrow for ey Here we have the standard rule hold good, 1 increase in value for local causes and improvements. { couid cite other and numerous in- stanves, both in Jersey City, New York and Brooklyn. nd these are neither isolated nor exngptiansl cases, 15 can be atany time proved by a comparative table of the relative values of propertyin the three cities named, with the amounts tor which they are asse: in each city for taxation purposer, So that if Jersey City, real estate was fixed at a relative value, or brought wn the standard of value atepied. by New York and Brooklyn—that is, one-half its real or market value, instead of $52 80 per thousand, as is now shown—our taxes would be $50 to $60 per thousand, or nearly double what taxes are in New York with all her gigantic trauds, So much for being ruled by “cor- rupt rings,” or, as the “ring” paper has it, “Americans and Jerseymen,” and not [rish democrats. ‘The corrupt rings, which control our city affairs, bave muzzled our local press, and but for the independent New York Uxraup T know not what we shouid do. It would make a very interesting chapter in our city affairs to bow much this nuzziing process has cost our citizens and tax- pauers, within the past two or three years. The Hxraup meh yey ere many large rents or’ leaks in our city’s strong why not give us a chapter on “advertising ane Dee, vy" It the city “pap” was withdrawn tron ‘our local press to-morrow we would have morc premises “to lev’ in Jersey City. Hence the rings hold swat, and we counnly meen thei through your independent jour-/ nal, may it wave. 3 AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT AND A JERSEYMAN, FIRE IN BROOKLYN. One Building Destroyed and Two Dam- aged=Narrow Escape of the Occu- pants—Loss $21,000—Arrest on Suspicion of Arson. ‘There was a fire on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, which came very near involving loss of life, The City Hall bell rung off the alarm signal at about fifteen minutes past four o’clock in the morning, and the Fire Department lent a prompt response to the summons. The scene of the con- fagration proved to ve a four story brick building, No, 807 Fulton avenue, The fire made its appear- ance on the first noor, which was occupied by C. S. Furst, a young man who leased the house and kept a fancy and dry goods store on that story. The smoke burst forth in a dense cloud, filling the entire upper part of the building and almost ‘suffocating the tenants on the upper floors, who barely escaped with their lives out in the cold, frosty morning air. William P, Howell, together with his wile and three young children, made their escape by hurrying down stairs, but half dressed, through the smoke. Mr. Bennett, who lodged on the third floor, had also a narrow escape, The fourth story was occu- pied by two sisters, Misses Crouans, who were compelled to make their exit THROUGH THE SCUTTLE TO TIE ROOF, the stairs being cut off by flames when they were aroused. The poor girls were released from their cold elevation by some residents of houses in the block and were given sheiter until they could make permanent provision tor new lodging. Building No. 805, occupied by Edward Koopke, also caught fire and was damaged to the extent of $3,000. Mrs, Cox, who rented the first floor, where she kept a fancy goods store, lost on stock and fixtures about $1,000, Otuer tenants lose on iurni- ture $300, No. 809 was damaged to the amount of $1,500. Mr. Jamison, who kept a lancy store, lost $500 on stock. ‘The loss was occasioned chielly by water. N. P, Howell, who lived on the second floor of No. 807, testified peiore the Fire Marshal that ne returned to his home about half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday night,and that he saw Furst in the store counting his money when he came in; he went up stairs and retired; about four o'clock in the morning he woke up and heard an unusual noise in the store beneath, to which he cailed his wile’s attention; somebody went out the kall door and then came in again; Howell fell asleep, but sub- sequently awoke, hearing a violent ringing at the door-bell; he jumped out of bed, drew on his pan- taloons and one boot, and seizing his children rushed down statrs; his wile also escaped with him; one of the children was ALMOST SUFFOCATED BY THE SMOKE, so that medical attendance had to be procured for her; on reaching the sidewalk he observed Furst standing there, having on his cap and overcoat. Howell, who is a hard-working man, lost his farni- ture and effects, valued at $1,000, all he possessed in the world, Charles 8. Furst testified that he hada lease of the building No. 507 for three years from May next; he visited a neighboring liquor saloon after closing his store on Saturday night, and there met three men, whom invited to his store to play cards; between twelve and one Kk, und remained until four o'clock yesterday morning; they ed sino” and “euchre” for drinks, Furst furnishing the whiskey; there was a self-feeding stove in the rear of the store, about two feet from the counter; a good fire was Kept up ail the time; as the amen were about .o leave the place A BOX OF MATCHES was accidentally set on fire, but the blaze was stamped out by one of the party before leaving, and they all went out on the sidewatk, about four o’ciock, and Furst was leaning with his head against the awning post when he observed smoke issuing trom the store, which soon proved to be ail on fire; his loss on stock is about $7,000; he has insurances in the Phenix and Imperial companies— a policy for $2,500 in the former, and one for $2,000 in the latter, The building which was destroyed was owned by Peter Flynn, and was vaiued at $7,000; insured tor $6,000 in the Mechanics’ Company. No. 806 was insured for $1,500 in the Phenix, and in the Atlantic for $3,500, Sergeant Campbell, of the Fourth precinct, ar- rested Furst on suspicion of arson, and locked him up to await examiuation beiore Justice Riely to- day. aliowing for a sligh LIFE ON THE BOWERY. A Man Knocked Down and Robbed—He is Found Bleeding on the Sidewaik. About four o’ciock yesterday morning Reunds- man Coulon, of the Fourteenth precinct, found a man lying cut and bleeding in front of a turniture store on the Bowery, near Canal street. He picked him up and placed him on his feet. The man was too much intoxicated to give any coherent account of himself, A boy who was passing at the time told the ofcer that he saw three men attack the bleeding man and take from his person two watches, The boy aiso tola the otlicer that he saw one of the men go into a su.oon opposite where they were standing. The oiicer and the boy went over to the saloon, and the boy pointed out a well-dressed young man, named David Cunningham, just as he was passing out of the ,door. Koundsman Conlon arrested Cunningham at once, As soon as the oili- cer’s hand was placed on his shoulder he threw something into the street. The officer picked 1t up and found it was a watch, which was subsequently Wentified by the wounded man as art of his property. Cunningham was arraigned botore Judge Hogan at the Tombs Police Court esterday morning. As the complainant, Wilham eegan, of 119 West Houston street, was somewhat under the inflvence of liquor, the case was re- munded till more conclusive evidence could be produced, THE FIGHTING FINANCIERS. — + Fierce Attack on Chamberlain Palmer by Comptroller Green, Alengthy document, purporting to have been written January —, 1873, by Mr. Comptroller Green to Mayor Havemeyer, has just been allowed to come to light, In this communi- cation Mr. Comptroller Green commences by asking aid from the venerable Omer Magistrate in correcting the “abuses” in the Chamberlain’s office. He states that he has re- ceived a demand from the State Comptroller for an uhpaid balance of the taxes of 1871, amounting to $65,816, with interest at ten per cent from the date at which it became due. He asserts that he long since paid to the Chamberlain, as County Treas- urer, the full amount of the State tax for 1971, partly to Mr. bradley and partly to Mr. Palmer, and that the latter — still holds the sum of $40,816; that Mr. Palmer paid over the amount of the tux reguiarly until the Legisia- ture of js72 adjourned, aud then he commenced making deductious from the payments to the State Comptroller; that he (Mr. Comptroller Green) then made arrangements to pay the money over to the State oflicers directly through the State Agency in this city, but Mr. Palmer would not let the money on the ground that it should pass through hands; he claims that the money held back inures to Mr. Palmer's pecuniary advantage. He attacks the Broadway and Tenth National banks, and concludes with a statement of his views pf the case between Mr. Palmer and himsel!, and a sched- ule of the amount of money held or claimed or drawn by Mr. F, A. Palmer and Mr, Walter A. Painer in thel.several capaciticw, REAL ESTATE MATTERS. A BUSY WEEK JUST CLOSED. Important and Heavy Sales Effected—The His- torical Jones Wood Property Invaded for Vulgar Traffic—Staten Island Looming Up for Disposal—The Brilliant Future of ‘Westchester—Its Annexation and Re- sulte—The Natural Ontlet of Our Parke—About the Industrial Exposition—Highly Impor- tant Sale of West Side * Property To Be Held This Week—Legal Sales Advertised. An eventful week to the real estate interest has Just closed, not that an overwhelming business ‘was done, but the tone of the market was eBtab- ished ona firm basis and the keynote of future transactions sounded by the Gollahs of the ope- rators in property. Every broker, great or small, has his hands full of traific at the present moment, and although the columns of the press are not teeming with full details of sales made, neverthe- lesa an immense anfount of property has changed hands during the past few days. So far very little is done in improved property, the bulk of the trans- actions being lots in parcels of a single one to plots of blocks or acres, During the present month several large estates will come into the market by order of executors as partition sales. The disposition of the celebrated Post estate, sold by Muller, Wilkins & Co., on the 29th ult., may be considered as the pioneer of fu- ture ones of the same kind to be heid anon, The prices reallzed for this property were, on an av- erage, very large, and fully up to the anticipation of the partics in interest. The total amount this estate brought was $335,000, No less an important sale was that effected on private terms by Messrs, Allen Dooley & Henriques of the following east side property, a portion of which, embraced in the Jones Wood estate, realized $250,000 :— Fonr lots located on the southeasterly corner of av. A and 74th st., and lots adjoining on the rear tronting on the st.; 4 lofs located on the northeasterly corner of av. A ‘and 73d st, and 8 lots adjoining on the rear, fronting on the street; 10 lots. on the southerly side of 73d commencing 198 feet easterly trom Av. rtheasterly corner of ay. A and 72d st., and 14 lots ad- Joining on the rear, fronting on the street; 4 lots, each 2x64, fronting on’ 72d st, Commencing 8 ivet westerly from ay. Band 24 lots, 6L.4x98 located on the nortli- westerly corner of av. B and 72d’ st,; 8 lots (entire front) on av. A, easterly side, between Zist and 72d sts. ; 18 lots (all the street lots), sotitherly side ot 72d st.. between avs, and B; 3 lots on the southwesterly corner of ay. B and Ted st. and 18 lots on the northerly side of 7ist,st., com. JUL lots (all {ull size except when noted). 6 | Owl OF About Mr. Benjamin P. Fairchild likewise effected a very extensive sale last week of West side prop- erty, located near the Riverside Park, tor a total sum of $108,000. THE TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND skirting the outlet to the ocean on one side and the Kill Von Kull on the other, known as “Staten Istand,” is looming up, and enters the lists of com- petition for increasing its quota of inhabitants. In short, the citizens of this vicinity are inviting the public to invest their surplus cash in property, build up Richmond county and become permanent residents thereof, and thus escape, not only the high rents of New York city, but also the annoy- ances experienced by the frequent blockades of the present “slow transit” by the New York street railroad transportatious, THE BRILLIANT FUTURE OF WESTCHESTER, Rapid transit, the opening of the Hell Gate chan- nel and the proposed deepening of the Harlem River through to the Hudson, all conduce to raise the liveliest anticipations respecting the future of Morrisania, West Farms and Kingsbridge, the lower towns of Westchester county, that are knocking at the city gates for annexation. Natu- rally they belong to vhis city, the greater part of the territory within their limits lying southerly of the present city’s northern boundary, and the water way between the two counties, with its A; 2 lots on the projected tunnels and accomplished bridges Jorming @& bond of re-union rather than of separation, it is evident that if Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek are to be- come the channel that is expected, both sides of the narrow stream must be laid out, reguiated and improved under competent authority that will act as aunit. This is recognized in the present con- cession of jurisdiction over the matter of the Cen- tral Park Commissioners, but the existing arrange- ment presents the anomaiy of oiticers of the city of New York exercising authority in matters of very great delicacy and pecuniary importance over an- other and separate political subdivision of the State that is not directly represented, and it is also liable to delays on the proper payments by the towns tor their assessed shares in the work, such as have already occurred, and been of considerable damage to all the parties interested in the improve- ments, "4 Y ANNEXATION AND ITS RESULTS. The towns referred to, disunited, are denied the use of the Croton water, that might most readily be supplied to them for manufacturing ad- vantages as Well as household conveniences, ‘ire Department and Police, on the advanced scale now in operation in the city, and, of what is of impor- tance equal to the foregoing considerations com- bined, the credit of this imperial city in raising at a Paes all the moneys required for the public works that the municipal charac- ter of the towns now demands, With annex- ation accomplisied, the capiral indispensable for the prosecution of private improvements would flow in to Morrisania, Kingsbridge and West Farms as readily as it now does into Hariem and Yorkvilie, and from the property thus enhanced the city would receive its compensation in taxes; the increase of which would be but slight, com- ered with the increased value of the property axed, NATURAL OUTLET OF OUR PARKS. The views herein expressed are substantially the opinions of those who have heretoiore waicked closely the progress of real estate on New York island, They see plainly that the Boulevards run- ning north from Central Park have no other outiet than Westchester, and that the “west end’ must extend indefinitely in that direction, The outlying territory to be annexed has the same water front on the east and west as the city, where com- merce and = manufactures will gradually find their resting place, and between and bordering on the railroad now running through the valleys are elevated plateaus that correspond to the much desired and adve: tisel-for portion of the city, ‘between Fourteenth street and Central Park and Lexington and Sixth avenues.’ These pla- teaus, Where accessible in large parcels, are al- ready in demand for improvement; but where more remote from stations they are gradually falling into the hands of holders who will probably occupy them as elegant seats during the better part of their lives, and then fall into the hands of the gen- eral public through the manipulations’ of the Bieeckers, the Millers, the Ludiows and the Mul- lers ot the future. A comprehensive bill looking to annexaltidn will be introduced into the Legisia- ture this week. os areal INDUSERIAT, BXPOSTEO, ‘The final settiement for the proper, be occupied by the Industrial Bxposke gees to been periected so far, but it is expected that the final documents wiil be exchanged in @ few days, ‘This much has been stated to us by reliaiie authority, On saturday a number of shares were subscribed for by business men at the downiwwn office, SALES TO COME. on the 6th instant Messrs, Adrain H. Muller, P. R. Wilkins & Co. announce a very importaat sale of eighty-seven lots. located on the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, St. Nicholas and New avenues, Ninety-ninth, 1ddth, lovth, 114th, 120th, 12ist, Lzsd, 126th, 128th, 129th and 208th streets; also a three story brown stone house, 111 Kast Sixty-fith street, the whole the property of Mr. Benjamin Lehmaier, who is about taking up a permanent residence in Europe, Jn our advertising columns the full particulars of this property inay be seen in detail. PUBLIC SALES FOR THE WEEK. The following legal sales are advertised to be held at Un Real Estate Exchange during the ensuing week :— 4th avs., w.8., 79 south of a nd 169 w. Sd a¥., 19.0x41, by Te &. Cor, S6th st, 756x118. 8x32.8x96.8; 55th ‘W6.9'¢, Broadway, 26x84.5x25.1x82.8, by William Seay ee GL6 & 108th st., 17.8x100, by Richard Vv, , Feb. 4 serav ef, 1002 8. 105th st, 17.8x100, by Richard V. Harneth Oadway, 0. %, 198.1 w. Market st, 251x601, t feadiow a Co., Foo. 5 y Hast Hroadway, i. s., 264.2 w. Market st., 24.11x68.10, by E, Hi, Ludiow & Co., February 5, Hudson st., 8. w. Corner Jane st., 19x55, by James M. Miller, February 5. Hi. &., 287.2 @. 4th ay., 18,8x102.2, at Sheriff's sale, 78th ‘st. City Hall, February 5. pith st. . w. cor. Madison av., 11x100.5, by E. H. Luds February 5. in. ¢. cor. Madison ay., 622x100. by B. H. Lud February 5, Vest, 31, i 8, 445 w. Sth av., 25x98,9, at Sherii's Hall, February 8 at, & & sg & X. av., 32x100.5, by James M. & 8. U5 6. 3d ay., 15%100,10, by A. J. Bleecker & ry 6, 5 X.'260 0. 3d av., 15x100,10, by A. J. Bleecker & Co., Pebruary 6. Hi7th sty S Sy 722 @, Ath’ ave, 11OXOLII, by A, J. Bleecker & Co,, February 6, 6X st. 8. 8, 91.96. 4th av., 129x105, by James M. Mil- Jer, February & SALES HELD ON SATURDAY. At the Exchange Salesroom Mr. H. N. Camp closed the business of bhe week With @ Supreme Court sale of the premises known as Ne. 137 Duane street, sold mde the direction of G. 1. Whitehead, Feleree, No, 137 Duane st., 200 ft w. of, 24. b, andi. b, and ‘ohuren Fria Prt 5 5; Marg J, Drew. $26,100 Wingion ane nisi, Clinton st, 333 12;800 Southtst, No, corner Pine wie S036: mertaage "et V. K. Stevenson & Son have sold the brown stone building’ No, 11 Pine street toa prominent bank- ing institution for $85,000 at private sale. STATISTICS OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. Monthly Report No. 2 of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics isin press. It contains the statistics of our foreign trade for the month of At 1872, and for the eight months ended the same, cem- pared with the corresponding periods of 18712 The Chief of the Bureau furnishes the following synopsis:— Periods. Import, | faker Values). Mogan cnaedAusust 81) 67,076,080] $80,007,778| $1,988,722: cy aera 97,709,555] 81,882,023) 1,683,670" Eiht a 479,924,793| 359,763,252 16,340,267. gust hy Lor 408,503,331 $54,894,890] 19,911,585 The amonnts of the soregaing, which consisted of merchandise and o: specie and bullion, respectively, for the eight months ended August 31, 1872 and 1871, Were as follows:— Do ee ports + | Amports. | (Specie | Exports. Vaiues). Merchandise... Wet: :| Sm: 740| Sue Sst GSS] ° HE Specte and bul- 5 1872.1 L587,064| °75.218,010) 5 AO SBk lion: + U1STA.}13)814;571] _ 521563,587] 10/044,753. Of the above the following are the values carrie® in American and foreign vessels aad m cars and other land vehicles, respectively:— Domestic Imports, | Exports | Roveign ralues). or ‘Amer’n vessels. '82,615,952| $113,326,622| $4,915,109" Foreign eww) 172. Ssecier oral zens xs) Ss olen Land venicles.. ALTA Sal 2,806,907 Amer'n vessels. BAA07 821 LIT UBL ASC GABE Foreign ewala 197. 273.332) 663} 2 39, 208) 213, 289; Land vehicles. . 10,673,366] — 3)857\045] 1,489,620 The value ot foreign* commodities remalling in the warehouses of the United States, August 31, 1872, Was $91,653,265, a8 compared with $70,301,126, August 31, 1871. Allowing for the difference in the warehouse account, the imports for the eight months ended.’ August 31, 1872, are in excess ol the domestic and, foreign exports combined to the amount of $104,518,732, wiule for the eight months ended August 31, 1871, the imports exceeded the exports by. $13,323,335, a i ‘The number and tonnage of Vessels engaged in the foreign trade, which entered into and cleared) from the ports of the United States during the tweive months ended August 31, 1872 and 1871,. Tespectively, were as follows :— Entered, Cleared. Ho. | Tons | Wo. |_Tom. 3 { 1872}10, 89519,755, 188] 10,790) 3,706,073 Amerioan’ vealed a 7a | Foreign vessels. ..... {157i |10\741|1794186|19.112| 645823" In addition to the usual monthly summaries, this: report cantains a table showing the immigration: into the United States, by calendar and fiscal years, previous to and from 1820 to 1872; statements: showing the value of the foreign trade of the United States from 1821 to 1872; value ot the for- eign trade of the United States by months dnring the fiscal years 1871 and 1872; statistics of the ves- sels engaged in the foreign trade of the United States, including the vessel built, from 1789 to 1872; foreign countries to which the principal do- inestic commodities of the Uuited States were ex- ported during the fiscal year 1872; number and tonnage of merchant vessels belonging to the sev- eral customs districts of the United States, June 80, 1872; statistics of life insurance companies in the United States; statistics of the free city et Hamburg from 1833 to 1870; pyrulaion of France according to the census of is '2;/production of su- gar and molasses of Cuba from 1863 to 1872; ex- ports and tonnage of Havana: Cee) of gold and silver coin and bullion from New York during the 8ix weeks ended December 14, 1872; and a partial statement of the imports and exports of the United States for the month of September, 1872, so» far asreturns had been received at the date of sending the August report to pri A WAR REMINISCENCE. A Good Story About Bob Toombs, of Georgia—‘Bell Clapper” Bob’s Opinion of Himself. A gossipy correspondent of the Cincinnati Com- mercial, writing from Atlanta, gives the followe ing:— The fiery and untamed Toombs has been here several days swearing at his ememies and bemg jolly with his friends by turns. He 18 of a lively and social disposition, and, when surrounded’ by @ dozen gay and festive companions, his tongue runs like a bell clapper. Sometimes he talks sense and sometimes nonsense. He can talk either about as well as any man in Georgia. 1 heard a story about Toombs the other night which deserves a place in history, A gang of leg- islators were uround a@ lestive board excnangin; ideas and cigar stumps. ‘Just at the close of the war,” said one, whose time it was to tell something, “Toombs came down into our county to get away from the Yankees. They had destroyed his property and were after him with sharp sticks, He stopped at my uncle’s, and pretended to be a rich South Carolina planter, moving abont for lis health. He shaved close, cu his hair short and wore a broad-brimmed slouch hat. Nobody but my uncle knew who he was. My uncle kept @ little country post ofic®, aad the neighbors used to come in and read the papers. One day one of them sat down by Old Bob and read the particulars of Toombs’ flight to Cuba, for it was reported that he had gone there. Old Bob listened attentively. “Il knew Toombs was too sharp to stay here and let the Yankees catch him,” suid the innocent reader; ‘he'll spend his days in Cuba, He is gone now, but I tell you, boys, he was one ot the smartest men we ever had in this country.’” “Yes,” said Toombs, looking: as innocent as & lamb, “he was a pretty smart man; I knew him well. He was alittle pecuitar sometimes, but as big a hearted fellow as ever raised a boil of cotton. I wonder what the Yankees would do if they should catch him? “They would hang him to the nearest limb,” Paty in one of the boys, “And I ain’t sure but the; ought to,” put in another, At this Toombs lanncheds into an eloqnent «efence of Toombs, the best tl ever heard, and said he would yet walk on Georgia soil. and lay his bones under Georgia soil. The oid. fellow warmed up considerably, and my, uncle, seeing that the conversation was taking a rather personai turn, changed it. Toombs remained with us a month, and was known only toone man. He heard himself talked about more in that month,. provably, than ever bi KELSEY SEEN AGAIN, Mr..Storms, late conductor of the Long Island Railroad, and well acquainted with Kelsey, of itunt- ington tar-and-feather notoriety, whiie travelling fora well known firm in New York, met Kelsey last week in a smail village in Ohie, Mr, storms saw the man at the hotel where he was stopping, at which ume the recognition was mutual. me little conversation foliewed, but before tie partica- lars could be ascertained from the dltege't victim: he had quietly settled his bills and decamped. He Was stopping at the hotel under an assumed name. FIRE IN GRAND STREET, A fire broke out in the fancy goods store ot Isaac Bernstein, No. 35134 Grand street, last night,. wnat caused & damage OF $1,000. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY, SUPREMe Court—Crkcvuit—Part 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt.--Nos. 772, 1008, 108644, 993, 2182, 150, 504, 5145s, 680, 654, 79044, 75434, 1010, 1060, "1062, 1064, 1060, 1068," 1872," 1074, SUPREME COURT—SpecIAL TeRM—Held by Judge Barrett,—-Demurrers Nos. 1 to 39 inclusive. Issues. by’ — a Nos. 1 fai 293 Inclusive, UPREME COURT—CHAMBERS—Held Davis.—First Monday calendar, pipet SurReMe CoURT—GENERAL TRRM—Held by Judges: Ingraham, Fancher ang Davis.—Nos. 54, 91, 120, 1d, 144) 150, 152, 153, 1d er 175, 178, 177, 179, 180, 182; 184, 186, 258, 188, 189, 191, 192) 103, 104." * SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL TeRM—Held by Judges: Bartow, Curtis and Sedgwick.—Nos. 1 to 45 in- clusive, Surenior Court—TRiAL Tenm—Part 1—Leld by judge Monell.—Nos. 2235, 189%, 493, 1231, 1617, 1831, 709, 1855, 1575, 1825, 1W2l, 1625, 1978," iva7, 1665, Part 2—Held by Judge Van Vorst.—Noa. 1458, 2026, 1512, 1506, 1140, 804, 370, 1572, 1674, 1482, Lodo, 1608), 560, 1578, 1602. Court oF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—Part 1— Held by Judge Robinson.—Nos. 146, 2790, Li2i ss, S66, 59, 1366, 68, 1598, 1051, 1156, 874, 2495, 1 . 506, 2807, 1247, 1854, 1303, 1685, 612, 1649, 9 1618, 1092, 1644, 511, O44, 50, 1709," 164, 328, 1352) 290, 1256, 1599, 1760, 1617, 1936, 481, 1337,’ 20u1! on rag yo Judie ea ge Nos. 11, 1693, 706, 740, 746, 1740, 1 11, 1782 158, its 1700, Wel.) i vemibieiiad OURT OF COMMON PLEAS—EQutry Tenm—Ite Judge Larremore.—Nos. 1 to 61 inclusive. aang pe ouRe ag psa PupAs GENERAL TERM—Hele judges Robinson and Loew.—A H ' Monday in March. idjourned to frst MARINE Court—TRIAL TERM— — Judge Joachimsen.—Nos, 592, ‘sos, ee! aan set 1320, 1828, 1720, 1832, Jang, 1280, 1202, 1204, 13047 122, 1104, 1124, 1302, 2064, Part 2Held by Judge Sree NOt gti, 0d 1249, 1247, 1365, 1415, 1810, 1239, 1901, 1967, 1275, 1917, 1269, 1795, 1437, 141, 1257" 1435, rer, Part stleld By Judge Spaniding.—Nos, 708, 1719, 1720, 1723, L724, 173 2 Hus, 1726, 1790; 1ia4y tage 474% 1745, 1720, 17a,