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10 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1873—QUADRKUPLE SHEET. ] sugar is raised, annual placing roken pipes and other repairs, ; MEXICO. = [Mwiighages som | TT KORICIDE. | ALLEGED COLORED MURDERERS, | f2ci"acnt 0"m teeta acy be ong news jest ublished announces manner oftholP eosstraction. When pipe Ld gd that do Vega presented himself yesterday be- Foup Black Sharp Brothers Under Arrest for | 8° cous the ited and National Festivities Consequent on the Great Railway Opening. Grand Balls, Open Air Entertainments and a Profasion of Beauty—The Road im Full Opera- tion and Beneficial Influence on American Travel—Lozada’s Tepie Revolution— Origin, Location and Extent of the Reactionist Movement—Battle and Defeat—Review of Events— Proclamation of the Defiant Chieftain—-German In- dustrial Speculation. Mexico, Jan, 30, 1873, The festivities connected with the opening of the Mexico and Vera Cruz Railroad have about con- cluded, and commerce awaits the realization of the Advantages to be derived from a prompt com- munication with the coast and a decrease of the heavy expenses necessarily attending the diMeult transportation of goods as hitherto experienced. Jne inaugural excursion to Vera Cruz was attended with success and was followed by several large ENTERTAINMENTS, among which two deserve to be spoken of as exceeding in display and elegance, ‘fhe first of them—a large ball given by Chief Contractor Crawley at his temporary residence in the capital—was a most brilliant success, From the entrance of the “patio” below to the doors of the extensive suit of rooms thrown open for danc- ing was one magnificent blaze of light emitted from a thousand jets or gas, arranged in fantastic forms, and brilliantly iNuminating the wilderness of Mowers that crowded the “patio” or court. About four hundred were in attendance, including among them all the people of prominence in the capital. The ladies, in elegant and beautiful toilets, with an abundant display of old point and dia- monds, whose richness would distinguish their wearers at any court, all combined to make the affair most brilliant and satisfactory. The second entertainment was given by one of the directors of the road, Mr. Escandon, at his country residence in Tacubaya; the invitations were given for half past three o’clock, There was dancing im the open air until sundown, then a lunch under the trees, after which the dancing was continued within doors until nearly five o’clock in the morning, interrupted only by dinner at half past ten o’clock. The extensive grounds were beautifully illuminated with Chinese lanterns hung from the trees, forming almost a fairy picture. Six hundred persons, or more, were present at the entertainment, yet so extensive are the grounds and so spacious the house that there was no overcrowding, AT WORK. These substantially end the inaugural festivi- ties, and the road is now in full operation and open to traffic, and we rejoice most heartily in being Abie to escape the misery of diligence travel over roads that have not their equal for roughness, I think, in ali the world. Several American travel- lers have already visited Mexico, and by each ar- riving steamer it is understood many are expected, seeking to pass the Winter in a mild climate and at the same time enjoy so much that is new and strange in this curious country. The railroad trains now leave Vera Cruz at three o’clock A. M. and arrive at Mexico at nine o'clock P.M. of the same day. Leaving Mexico City at twelve at night the tram reaches Vera Cruz at five P.M. LOZADA’S WAR MOVEMENT. Great excitement has reigned in this city for the past few days, occasioned by the news that Lozada had taken the war path, pronounced against the general government, and was marching an army from the direction of Tepic, on the Pacific coast, eastward towards Guadalajara, and that there was danger that the latter city might be sacked, Notwithstanding that oflicial circles did not feel inclined happening with regard to this chief, the rumor was sufficiently accredited, and yesterday morning we had the oiticial announcement that the forces of Lozada were met the day previous, about ten miles trom the city of Guadalajara, neral Corona, commanding a portion of the goverument forces; that a battle of six hours ensued, resulting in the rout of Lozada’s forces and tue loss of three pieces of artiliery. Generals Corona and Flores are said to be in pursuit of the fying rebels. It is also rumored, but not yet confirmed, that Lozada has sent a force of 2,000 men, under Piacido Vega, to occupy Mazatian, and that General Cebal- log, of the government ‘orces, leaving 1,200 men in the city, had gone out to meet Vega with a sufti- cient force. Notwithstanding the circumstances that Loza- da’s forces are well armed they are wanting in discipline, and can only make a good fightin the Mountain iastnesses. GOVERNMENT DEFENCE. Tam glad to be able to inform you that the Presi- dent and bis Cabinet have taken ample measures to put an immediate end to this local revelt, andin such a manner as to be forever a warning against similar risings. It is very satisiactory to add that the most periect peace reigns in ail the rest of the Repubhe, and that the revolutionary chiefs in this district remain unmoved by the clouding of the western sky, evidently resolved upou keeping the peace It is greatly to be hoped that Lozada, the lexican Communist, will speedily meet with his deserts. THE TEPIC REVOLUTION. In order that your readers may fully understand the Tepic or Lozada question it is’ only neces- sary to recall the fact that this chief has for many ears been ruling in the canton of Tepic, State of Jalisco, on the Pacific coast, as a dictator, defying the federal authority. Rec ly he has indicated his intention to confiscate the property of the rich and divide it among the poor, and has also given many other proofs of his design to disregard the rights of those who have accuinalated wealth as the result of labor and hardship. Such being the condition of affairs, efforts were gaturally made a few weeks ago by the representa- tives of wealth in the State to secure arms through the federal government, with which to defeat the plans of Lozada, the Knowledge of which having reached the latter, he sent a commission of three persons to the Fxecutive, to lay the whole ques- tion before him, with a view of at least arguing the question. The commission was sent on the 6th of November, 1872, and duly reached this capital with a complimentary address from Lozada to the President, and was received by the latter. The result of the conference was an official com- munication under date of December 11, 1872, in which the Executive, through his Minister Of Government, properly declined to admit any official character in Lozada, announcing also that the questions pending in the canton of Tepic, like ail others, mast be settied by the laws of the country where clear and well defined. This Was not satisfactory to Lozada, and, although he in his communication of November 5 acknowl- edged Lerdo as President and complimented him as the intelligent head of the nation, he proceeds on the 17th of this month to pronounce aguinst the Executive, declaring war against him and using the most depreciating remarks in regard to him, LOZADA'S PROGRAMME OF CAUSE AGAINST LERDO. Ieend youacopy of his preciamation. It is so on that you may not desire to fill your columns with it, and I therefore condense it. Those whe ‘eubsc! to it, partisans of Lozada, declare that, considering that the Mexican nation has been for shingytwe years attempting to establish a govern- ment which shall be just and prosperous, and that such efforts have cost rivers of blood; that Mexico has lost one-half of ber territory to the United States, and that the present social and politi- cal condition of Mexieo is ruined by bankruptcy, owing to the corruption of legislators and the ix- ecutive; that pret has been lost abroad in con- Sequence of {he want of morality ; that the not has lost its credit; that the public debt is not paid, and that there are no gurantees. Considering that, owing te the immmorality of the rulers and the false polico of the present President of the Republic, frank relations at home and abroad do not exist; considering that the so-called Presi- | dent Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, as counsellor of Comonfort and Juarez, was the principal author of tle dishonorable acts of the administra- Uon of the jatter; considering that the law confis- Gating the Church interests was an arbitrary one, &c.; that the present bad state of the country is dae to the numerous poilticians who have only made themselves rich at the they consider themscives compelled te rise en masse ‘ainst these ener hes di gion ‘and throw Om this yoke, Serna doce The “pian” then follows, Which calls the revelu- tionary army which he hopes to establish “the Mexican arms, the popular restorer, recogniziug Manuel Lozada as Generalin Ciel, and the prin- ciple that the people shail ve governed by the people,” and pre-iding that when the movement shall overtesuw the present government a new governiwent shall be organized by deputies chosen «ne local town governments, promising all kinds of reforms, &c., &c. GERMAN INDUSTRIAL InrEenrsrs, Referring to the question of the developement of the country it is said that a line of steamers will ‘soon be ‘established by @ German company, passing to and from Havana by the coast of Mexico. it in pay nd that the vernment of Mexico has @ubventioned See tegen oy ean fi ns TSORS, Whi ouluae Jabds WPOR, 460 oh i aot OU to disclose what was | expense ef the nation, | | It appears that two Germans, Alexander Busen | and John Ruff, the former married, the latter un- fore Guadalajara with 1,000 men, and not before Mazatian, as stated. This news requires confirma- tion, and is to the effect that he demanded the sur- render of the city of Governor Vallasta and Gene- ral Junginto, both of whom refused. General Cerona is in full operation against the rebels be- fore Guadalajara. MACBETH ILLUSTRATED. A Murderer Goaded by Conscience—Albert Cham- berlain’s Crime and Confession—No Rest, Sleep or Appetite—After Confession Instant Ease and Comfort—An- other Victim for the Gallows, . CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 14, 1873. “Albert W. Chamberlain was to-day indicted for murder in the first degree, at Solon.’? Such is the message which was flashed across the wires yes- terday, simple enough in all conscience, and com- mon enough, too, in this age of assassination, But as this cage has not hitherto peen reported in the Eastern press, and as it is remarkable, far beyond the usual run of cases, as showing that conscience isnot a mere hallucination, 1am encouraged to send a brief account of the murderer's crime and the murderer's confession. On the 9th of January, at Solon, in this State, an old man named George McConnoughey was found lying on the floor of the small hut or house which he occupied alone, shot through and through, with one pocketof his trousers torn completely out. There could be no doubt that a terrible murder had been committed for the sake of robbery, nor did it take long to fasten suspicion upon and hunt down the guilty person, as on the 11th the detectives arrested Albert W, Chamber- lain, son of a well-to-do and respectable farmer in the vicinity, where his grandfather and other rela- tives also lived, He was a young man whose teachings and surroundings had been of the very best description, but for a few months he had been at Chattanooga, Tenn., where he had fallen among evil companions and been led away from the paths of rectitude. He haa just returned to Solon, intend- ing to work there on his father’s farm. On his ar- rival here he was subjected to rigid examinations as to his whereabouts on tho night of the murder and his antecedents in Chattanooga, also as to how he had come into possession of the money he was known to have used. As to his society in Cnat- tanooga he maintatned a sullen silence, but spoke freely on other subjects, declaring, doggedly, that he had been in bed at the time of the murder, but involving himself in frequent contradictions when he came to account for his money. This was on Saturday. On Sunday his father and some friends came to see him, and spent part of the day with him, Mr. Chamberlain HOPING AGAINST HOPE that his boy’s innocence might yet be proved. He repeated his visits on the next three days, each time accompanied by the Rev, L. Cooley, who im- proved every opportunity to converse and pray with the prisoner. Chamberlain’s countenance and demeanor changed visibly, almost awiully. He could not eat; would draw his plate towar him, put the victuals it contained to his lips, th R shit away, the victuals remaining untouched. He round the prison air oppressive, and compained of a sense of choking and a weight on the chest, so that he turned deadly white and seemed ready | to faint. He was feverish and cold by fits; he | tossed uneasily on his prison pallet and was unable to find sleep, waking in the morning hollow-eyed, haggard and nerveless. The clergyman frequently depicted to bim, in fervid terms, the awful horror of murder and the dread anger of God. He would listen indifferently, then say, “This would Indeed be awful, but lam innocent.” PRAYING FOR FORGIVENESS. On the Thursday morning Mr. Cooley entered the cell, and after a short conversation proposed that they should engage in prayer, ‘Let me pray alone first,’ said the prisoner; and kneeling down, hited his hands, trembling as if he were in an ague fit, he began :— My Father, who art in heaven, forgive me for the great sin of my life. Ihave committed a great crime. Lhope my life Will be a warning to other young men. Here the miserable man’s voice failed him. Every word had been spoken with dry lips and broken by convulsive sobs that racked his whole frame. His face was wet with tears, the first he had shed. The other prisoners had been attracted to their cell doors, and stood in awe and amazement. The clergyman took up the prayer which the murderer’s guilty lips were unable to finish, and when he had ended Chamberlain told him all the story of his crime, saying that for days he had endured the tortures of the damned, every word of the prayers and Christian services held in his cell piercing him through and through sharper than a two-edged sword, till at last his agonies be- came unendarable, and he reselved to confess. The clergyman at once proceeded to Chamber- lain’s father, to whom he unfolded all the sad tale. Mr. Chamberlain, Sr., an honest, God-fearing man, Was smitten with grief at the intelligence, but with Roman fortitude resolved that justice must be done and the dread secret put in the hands of those who should know all the particnlars of the guilty deed, The preliminary meeting between the father and son was agonizing. Their eyes iull of tears, the two men wrung each other by the hand, and it Was many minutes ere either could speak, until the young man gasped, “PATHER, I DID IT!”? A formal confession, alter the usual caution that he must expect no benefit to accrue from his act, was made, Chamberlain said that he had been told one day, in conversation with Louis Lehman, a jarm boy, that old George McConnoughey was liv- ing by himself in a lonely hut and would be robbed and murdered some day, From this little germ of @ boy’s thoughtless remark sprang up in one night, like Jonah’s gourd, the black tree of murder. At half-past ten that night, when all the family were asleep, Chamberlain rose and dressed him- self, then stole to the cheesehouse, where he found an old Enfield rifle and some ammuni- tion; then he took his N° towards the lonely hut half a mile distant. When about half way there he paused to load the rifle, putting in three bullets, When he reached the hut he saw, through the window, McConnoughey standing by the fire, in its full glare, his back to the window. Cham- berlain, without A moment’s hesitation, stepped through the snow drift to the window, put the muzzle of the rifle to the pane and fired. He saw McConnoughey fall, and then walked home ana went to bed, He knew that he could wait. Next day, with his father, he went to his grandfather's to do some chores. After breakfast, while bis father was in the stable, he ils across to the hut and found his victim dead; dead as the fire which had burned down on the hearth, He took two pocketbooks, containing $72, from the dead man’s clothing, and returned to his father's, where he burned the pocketbooks. Part of the money he spent in paying some debts, part in buy- ing some clothing, and the $32 which remained he slipped into his sleeve-lining when captured, and when alone chewed up fine and swallowed. Such was the confession on which Chamberlain was yesterday indicted, and on which in due course he will, beyond doubt, be convicted and executed. He made it with this fully before his eyes and with the knowledge that he was fittiug a hempen halter eround bis throat. Your correspondent has alluded to the remarka- ble manner in which the consciousness of guilt weighed down the prisoner while his crime re- mained untold, and brought him to the very verge of death. No less remarkable was the physical sult of his confession. From the hour of making his confession he was another man. His appetite returned, he was able to sleep, he rapidly gained ii flesh, and though his demeanor was serious, his whole appearance was that of a man with whom the world went well, and across whose future life lay no ominous shadew. In such a case as this we find a startling illustration of the truth of the great dramatist's insight into the human heart, when with all the keen agony of one, himself driven to the verge of madness by spectres that would not down, he makes Macbeth implore the doctor on behalf of one guilty but beloved :— Cans’t thou not minister to a mind diseaseat *Rase from the memory a rooted sorrow? Or with some sweet, oblivious antidote Cleanse the foul bosom of the perilous stuff That weighs so deeply on itt A HORRIBLE AFFAIR, Double Murder and Suicide Minne- His Paramour and Her Child and Cuts His Own Throat. Curcago, Ul, Feb, 22, 1873. A horrible case of premeditated murder and suicide occurred at Waseca, Minn., on Monday last. a married, owned and worked a farm together, qnd that finally Busen was driven away and Rulf took full possession ef the farm and Busen’s family, Recently the Grand Jury found an indictment against Ruff and Busen’s wife for adultery, which greatly alarmed them. On Tues 4 morning last the neighbors, in going te Busen's house, found it shut up, and on breaking} in discovered Mrs, Busen and her yor child lying on the bed bathed in blood, their threags cut from ear to ear. On the floor beside the bed lay the lifeless body of Ralf, with his throat cut. From letters left by both the man and the woman it is evident that they agreed upon this tragic methed of escaping from the elntches of the la ‘PATAL AOOLDENT,— | Hupson, N. ¥., Feb. 22, 1873. Frederick Panch, a colored boy, fourteen years old, while playing with ® loaded gun at his resi- A Missouri Wife Murderer Sentenced to Death. The Husband Drives a Dagger Through His Wife’s Heart at Midnight—“I Licked OF the Blood, I Love Her 80”—The Dead Woman’s Dried Heart in Evi- dence—Much Methodical Madness. Sr. Louis, Mo., Feb. 14, 1873. To-day Anton Holme—efforts to prove his in- sanity or delay passage of sentence on various legal Points having failed—was sentenced to execution by hanging on the 8d of April, for the murder of his wife, Ida Holme, on the 26th of July last. The followfng are the particulars of the crime and the trial, particulars which have not hitherto been Pubiished :—Holme was a native of Germany, where he had been well todo. His buainess was saloon or hotel keeping, at which he prospered, While in Germany he married Ida Holme. They removed to America, and for ten years lived at New York happily, Thence they came to St. Louis, where they arrived about five years ago, their means having been exhausted at New York, but he received some two hundred dollars a year from Germany and worked at such em- ployment as he could secure, Their relations at St. Louis changed after some time, Mrs, Holme provoking her husband’s jealousy by remaining absent frequently at nights, and pretending that she had been out *‘on business’?—for she was under- stood to practice midwifery. Her midnight works, however, are said to have belonged rather to the ROSENZWEIGIAN THAN THE ROSICRUCIAN School, as the business of midwifery was but a dis- guise for another branch of the trafic, nearly allied thereto, but not so legitimate, She also had boarding with her always one and sometimes two girls of doubtful reputation, Several times young Ernest, her son, followed her when she went out on what she alleged to be “‘Sairey Gamp” business, but found that her errands were always to the Rialto, where she met various men, evidently for mysterious purposes, as the character of the house alone would testify. Her son, Ernest, she fre- quently sent to carry notes to gentlemen, but he, believing them to be invitations, destroyed them without delivering them—so, at least. he swore on the trial. ~ On the 24th of July Holme went a short distance into the country to work at the residence of Mr. Andrew Auer. He returned here on the 25th, In the evening he went to his house and asked to be let in, but Mrs. Holme said, ‘There was no room for him in that house.’ He returned a little later, about eight o’clock, entered the house by a back window and took away aclock, This he brought back afew minutes afterwards, and begged that she would let him stay—a petition which she an- swered by pushing him from the door into the back yard, Twice more he tried to enter, and the wrangling was renewed, and she finally pushed him down the stairs, saying, “You have no right to come here any more.” Then she went in, locked the door, and went up stairs to her room in com- pany. About midnight her son, the boy Ernest, already alluded to, who was sleeping on a couch in the parlor, and had heard the wrangling between his parents, heard her come down stairs with a lampin her hand. Somebody was with her. She passed across the hall to the front door and let out her companion, ‘Then she placed the lamp on the dining room table and went to the back door. Holme, who was still there, called to her, “New that your friend has gone can’t I come in’? Next moment the boy heard her gasp, “1 AM STABBED!” and running out found that she had fallen with her head against a chair. She could only whisper the word, “Doctor.” Ernest drew @ shawl over her, The surgeon, Dr. Youngblood, who arrived in a few moments, found a wound in the left breast which passed through both the right and left ventricles of the heart and must have cansed instantanegis death. Next, or that morning—for the m»rder Was done about midnight—Onticer Martin Mueller, wno had been sent to tell the oMcers on the boats to leok out for Holme, as he was passing along Broad- way and Wash street, about lalf-past two e’clock, heard a voice from a windew say, “TRAN MY KNIFE INTO SOPHIE; 1 do not know if hurt her or not.” Entering the lodging house he was told L the keeper not to go up, as the man had a big knife and would kill him, Running up stairs he found Holme in bed, with only his underclothing on, made him prisoner and ordered him to walk to the station, At the corner of Fifth street Holme refused to go farther, saying he would die there; but the officer hit him over the knuckles and brought him along, Holme remark- ing, “I licked the blood off the dagger, Lloved Sophie so much.” At the station he tried to seize the dagger, saying, “I bought that a long time ago to do whut I have done with it.” Then asked the Sergeant, ‘‘Is she dead ?” (His son stated at the trial that Holme had once used the ag er on himself, and ‘that Mrs, Holme used to hide it.) At the trial the facts of the killin were shown and admitted, the defence—conducte by W. W. Arnett—-of course holding that the long abuse of Holme by his wife, culminating in her being taken in open adultery, would have been enough to justify a verdict of manslaughter in the lowest degree, but claiming that there was abun- dant evidence of the man’s insanity. The sensa- tion of the trial was the production by the prosecu- tion of THE DEAD WOMAN'S HEART IN CouRT, the doctor pointing out the wound that traversed from side to side the anatomical preparation which had once loved and hated. The medical evidence went to show what medl- calevidence in such cases generally shows, that there were fever and delirium to some extent, and that fever might be increased by certain contin- gencies, The testimony as tv acts of insanity went back to some six months before the murder, when Holme was employed to fold circulars at a clothier’s, He was eccentric and flighty then, A woman, in whose house he had lived for some time earlier in the year, testified to his restlessness and agitation. Another witness saw Holme a few days before the murder pill ona broomstick in the yard, fancy- ing himselfa hussar. On the night of the murder he called his wife a beast, and told witness he was going to “shoot her with this.” He was armed with @ syringe. Mr. Andrew Auer said he had taken the prisoner to work two days before the murder, Holme said he had hada fever and wanted rest, adding that he had had much trouble with hig wie, When Mr. Auer told him to feed the cows he found Holme TELLING THE COW ALL ABOUT HIS WIFE and his troubles, and then threw his arms around the horse’s neck to kiss him. He sent Holme back next day, feeling sure he was a lunatic. Indeed, he advised him to try and get admitted to the Lunatic Asylum. The keeper of the ledgin house at which Holme was arrested said he hat stopped there three nights. On the last night he came in early, acting strangely and as if he had been drunk, and engaged a room, then left, sayin, he had some business to attend to. He returne about one o'clock, and, with some of the other lodgers, who were awake, sent out for some beer, He was singing. The song had reference to @ man in prison. Holme said, “They won't trouble me, sure,” drew his knife and walked up and down the passageway, saying, “Now she got it.” The result of the trial was a verdict of “Guilty of murder in the first degree,” the jury be- lieving that the purchase and wearing of the dag- ger so long, with frequent threats, showed pre- Meditation; that he was so well acquainted with his wife’s character—even were it as black as was alleged—as to make the insanity plea idle, and bee besides a strong leaning towards the belief that the symptoms of insanity just before and after the murder were in a large degree feigned. A motion to appeal the case fora hearing ina higher Court has been made. MURDERED FOR MONEY, A Station Master Murdgred and Robbed by Two Boys. Haxtrorp, Conn., Feb, 22, 1873. Tra Bliss, the station master, at Burnside, was found in a dying condition last night, between the depot and his home, lying in the snow, his pockets rifled of his money and watch, and his ticket box which he carries home at night was gone, Two boys, mamed John Dynes, of Burnside, and Oscar Graves, of this city, aged respectively, eighteen and nineteen years, Were arrested on suspicion of committing the crime. The boys confessed the deed, and were bound over this afternoon in $3,500 bonds each for trial before the Supreme Court, in default of which they were sent to jail. Both bere cece are of notoriously bad character, and aoe been concerned in several burglaries in that own, ROBBERY AND MURDER. A Man Waylai Robbed and His Boay Thrown Into a Creck—Followed from New York. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb, 22, 1873, Monroe Snyder, an elderly man, well known and Much respected, arrived here from New York at nine o'clock last night. When between the depot and his residence he was wayiaid, stavbed, robbed, and his body thrown into Monecacy Creek, where it was found this morning. There is no clue to the murderers, Mr. Snyder bad resided in this place for eight years, He was very wealthy and carried on the ‘nee in Chapel street last evening, accidentally | siate business on a large scale. He had been cok ot his Drowuer, Dantel, aged sixteen, ‘Thy bal lecting money in New York, aad it is thougut be Aor Cousin MaMa deena, © Jas Jolipwed frou that pags, Poisoning and Breaking the Nock of a Red Man—Their Stories—The Body Ex- * bumed and the Bloodthirsty “Gemmen” in a Bad Fiz. STATESVILLE, N, C., Feb. 8, 1873. A most singular and mysterious murder has re- cently beem unfathome@ in Irdell, an adjoining county, for the perpetration of which four negro brothers, named Sharp, have been arrested and imprisoned. From the particulars Ihave been so far able to ascertain, it appears that about fourteen miles northeast of this point, near a smail rural village called Olin, there resided the four negroes above.alluded to, who were formerly slaves of Mr. Ames Sharp, deceased. Like most of our manu- mitted colored citizens, the brothers took the sur- name of their late owner, and were respectively known as Bob, Sam, Jule and Dolph Sharp. Dolph lived in a rude log cabin on the lands of Mr. Pope, and near his cabin was another one unoccupied. In the same neighborhood, and on the contiguous lands of one Mr. Frank Walker, lived a very peace- able, quiet and industrious negronamed Henderson Redman. He had rented the unoccupied cabin trom Mr. Pope. but had not yet taken formal pos- session of it, as he intended to remain in the ser- vice of Mr. Walker until the close of last year. Some time in the month of December last Bob Sharp, without the knowledge of either Mr. Pope, the proprietor of the unoccupied cabin, or of Hen- derson Redman, its tenant, moved with his family into it and became by right of squatter sovereignty its possessor, This proceeding, of course exctted some ill will and caused not only angry words but THREATS BETWEEN REDMAN AND BOB SHARP, But no hostile collision took place at the time, nor is tt Known that anything of a serious nature trans- pired until Christmas day—the day above all others when there should exist peace and good will among men. On that day the snow fell rapidly and eovered this entire section, close to the spurs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the depth of several inches with a beautiful white, mantle. Henderson Redman, having no other way to pass the great holiday went rabbit-hunting through the woods in the vicinity and remained out until the afternoon, at which time, upon his return, he went tothe cabin he had rented, then occupied by Bob Sharp. All of the four Sharp brothers were present, as if spending the Christ- mas, and this circumstance afterwards looked strangely suspicious. What transpired at the dis- puted cabin has not yet been developed; but about four o’clock that alternoou a messenger reached the residence of Mr. Frank Walker with the sad and unlooked-for intelligence that Henderson Red- man was frozen to death. Urged by feelings of hu- manity and instincts common to all Mr. Walker left his comfortable fireside and family, then in the full enjoyment of their Christmas pleasures, and pro- ceeded immediately to the cabin, which was fully two miles distant trom his house. When be arrived upon the scene he was more than gratified to find the Sharp brothers all engaged in the laudable effort to restore life to the inanimate body of Red- man by RUBBING IT WITH CAMPHOR; but, alas! it was no use, life was found to be ex- tinct, and the soul of Redman was freed from its tenement of clay. Mr. Walker observed that the floor of the cabin was very wet, and when he made a remark as to the cause of this one of the negro women present said she had accidentally spilled a bucket of water on it, and the extreme coldness of the weather had prevented it from drying sooner. With the knowledge thus in pos- session of the people in the vicinity it was deemed proper to hold an inquest, and, accordingly, one was summoned to meet on the next Saturday fol- lowing, the 28th December, 1872. In the mean- time, the body was kept in the custody of the township officials. When the inquest met Dr. Parks made a partial post-mortem examination of the body in the presence of the jury and witnesses, at the conclusion of which the Doctor stated that he had discovered traces of POISON IN THE STOMACH. Bob Sharp, who was known to have been at en- mity with the deceased, was examined, and he stated that Redman had come to his (Bob's) cabin in a state of great intoxication on the day of his death, and had commenced dancing; that the fleor of the cabin had been very wet, and was then ; frozen and slippery; that Redman, while dancing in his intoxicated condition, had ss and fell very heavily upon the floor; that after he got up he beren dancing again, but that he soon complatned of being sick, and said he would go out in the open air, Bob further stated that Redman did go out; soon after which allof the others who were pres- ent, including his (Bob’s) wife, left him alone in the cabin, where he remained sitting by the fire, with the door elosed; all of the others had gone to Dolph’s cabin, and Bob thought he sat by himself over an hour; he then thought he would go out and look for Redman, whose body he dis- covered not more than twenty or thirty yards distant frozen to death. The state- ments of all the other members of the various Sharp families agreed substantially with that of Bob, and rather served to contirm his, than other- wise; and upon this evidence the jury returned a verdict that ‘the deceased came tonis death while ina state of intoxication by exposure to frost and snow. Soon after the inquesfthe body was interred.in a colored graveyard, located on the lands of Mr. ©. A. Tomlin, Now comes the sequel to the proceed- ings above narrated. It was not long after the burial of the body that the suspicions of some citi- zens in the vicinity, including some of the jurors became aroused. ‘They were not satisfied, upon more mature deliberation, that the verdict ren- dered by the jury was correct, and some of them specially noticed the fact that the head of the cue rolled with great ease and facility trom side to side, while the joints of the body were immova- ble and stitfened. A neavy United States rifle, known to have been in the possession of Redman the day he was hunting, had disappeared very mysteriously, and nis freezing to death within thirty yards of the cabin where Bob Sharp lived and was then sitting without making any outcry seemed rather incredible. These and sev- eral other minor circumstances caused the citizens in the neighborhoed to visit W. P. Caldwell, So- lcitor for this the Tenth Judictal district, and ask for another examination of the body. In accord- ance with the facts stated to him the Solicitor at once gave an order to Dr. Wiliiam M. Campbell, a distinguished surgeon residing here, to EXHUME THE BODY. On the 16th ultimo Dr. Campbell, accompanied by several citizens from this county, visited the grave- yard, and when the body was taken up, nineteen days after its first interment, the Doctor made the second examination. He reported that he found the articulation between the third and fourth of the bones of the neck ruptured. A portion of the fibres of the articular ligaments were broken and a an elongated so as to allow great mobility in the joint. Upon sawing through the lamin and re- moving the spinous process of the vertebra the Doctor found aclot of bieod resting upon the spinal cord, jast at the origin of the third pair of nerves. The remainder of the spinal cord, as faras the examination extended, was found to be entirely healthy. Upon these facts, which were testified to before a bench of magistrates assembled specially for a rehearing of this remarkable case, warrants were issued for the ARREST OF THE FOUR BROTHERS SHARP. They were duly apprehended, none of them hav- ing attempted to escape, and after a brief exam- ination they were all committed to jail toawait the action of the Grand Jury at the approaching term of the Court, which meets in April next. Since the trial by the magistrates some additional facts have been developed which have not yet been disclosed. It is known, however, that there was a fight Bob Sharp’s cabin between two of the Sharps and Redman on Christmas Day, when the latter died, There is sre excitement among the negroes in the vicinity over the murder, and the trial in April is looked forward to with the most re- markable degree of interest. THE CLOAGA OF NEW YORK. Nearly Three Hundred Miles of Sewers Built of Brick and Stone—The Cost of Keeping Them Cle: nd in Order— Condition of Drains and Culverts. Of the 286% miles of sewers in this city 219%, miles are built of brick and 67% miles are of vitri- fled stone pipe. The use of pipe for sewers was first introduced in 1865, and for several years the cost of cleaning them was less than ten dollars per mile per year, while the cost of cleaning brick sewers in 1868 was $239 per mile. Up to the acces sion of the present Commissioner of Public Works, Mr. Van Nort, the sewers were cleaned by con- tract, a stipulated price being paid for each cart- load of dirt removed from them. During the last six years the cost of cleaning sewers was a6 fol- lows:—In 1867, $14330 per mile; in 1808, $198 34; in 1869, $108 28; im 1870, $173 65; in 1871, $157 42; ‘in 1872, under the | pres- ent’ administration, by ‘day's work, $50 26 TF mile, or leas thas half the cost of cleaning dur- ‘ec ey he year. The relative cost of yee ing brick and pipe sewers rear was about two and a half to one, it bell sewers and $22 13 per Of cleapins pipe wewers is test the contractor by he Department, and, if skitfully and carefully laid, will work for many years with- Oat cost for cleaning or repairs. If sewer pipes were laid by day's work, under rigid superintend- ence, like the Croton water pipes, they could be made not only as durable as brick sewers, but far leas expensive to clean ‘and maintain, and much cheaper n. The averse. cost of branch pipe sewers is from 25 80 $476 per lineal foot in earth, and $6 per eal foot in rock excavation, The average cost of branch brick sewers is $6 per lineal foot in earth, and $7 60 per lineal foot in rock excavation. In each cage the cost of rock excavation is additional to the above at $4per cubic yard. A r exca- vation is for brick sewers than for pipe sewers, bysy: the cost of the former nearly double that of thelatter. For large main and outlet sewers brick is preferabie; but a large portion of the old sewers in the lower part of the city, which are rapidly becoming useless, and even to health and property, could be pipe sewers at comparatively vantage to the community, laid very raplaly, are offering very little interruption to t! of houses in replacing old sewers. It is estimated that 100 miles of the old sewers are unserviceab! To replace them with brick sewers would cost at least $32,000 per talle, or $3,200,000 in the 28 gate, provided no additional excavation should be Tequired, To replace them with pipe sewers would cost $17,160 per mile, or $1,716,000 in the aggregate. DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS. The Work of Inspection Still Going On— More Rickety Schoolhouses and Un- anfe Edifices. The following additional buildings have been re- ported as requiring means of escape in case of fire since last report:— 18 Madison street, James O'Brien, owner; fire men Madison street, James O’Brien, owner; fire escape, tenement. i N olan ¢ street, John Duroche, owner; fire escape, oarding. No. 16" Clarke: street; Rebecca MoCoy, owner; fire escape and ladder to roof, tenement. No, 18 Clarke street, Isalah Chase, owner; fire escape and jadder to roof, tenem No. 22 Clarke street, A. tenement. ‘No. 24 Clarke street, E. Gilles, owner; fire escape, tene- ent. Bleakley, owner; fire escape, ment. No. 25 Clarke street, Isaac Purnell, owner; fire escape, tenement, No. 26 Clarke street, corporation Trinity church, owner; fire escape, tenement, No. 2 Clarke street, Henry Demarest, owner; fire escape, tenement, ‘No. 210 Spring street, Samuel Belmont, agent; fire es- cay nement, (0: 218 Spring street, Samuel Belmont, owner; fire es- cape, tenement 0. 220 Spring street, Mrs. Charles Cook, owner; fire ¢s- cape, boarding, 0, 224 Spring street, corporation Trinity church, owner; fire escape, boarding. (o. 234 Spring street, William Johnson, owner; fire es- cape and ladder to rogf, tenement. Jo. 242 Spring street, ‘Decker & ‘Bro., owners; fire es- cape, boarding. (9. 256 Spring street, Michael Golden, owner; ladder to root, dwelling. No, 76 Water street, Thomas Storms, owner; fire escape, workshop. No. 80 Water street, James P. Harper, owner; fire es- cape, workshop. ‘o. 120 Water street, Beards & Cottrell, owners; fire es- cape, workshop. . 124 Water street, Degroot & Peck, owners; fire cape and ladder tg roof, workshop. jo. 1 Macdougaf'strect, Richard Hollmann, owner ; fire escape, tenement. r No, 13 Macdougal street, William B, Astor, owier; fire escape, tenement, No. § Dominick street, J. Lewis, agent; ladder to root, tenement. No. 12 Dominick street, A, Forbes, owner; fire escape, tenement. No. 12 Dominick street, rear, A. Forbes, owner; fire es- cape, tenement. No. 14 Dominick street, ©. B, Lebaron, owner; ladder to roof, tenement. No. 15 Dominick street, ladder to roof, dwelling. No. 536 Broome street, J. H. Haward, owner; fire es- cape, tenement. (0. 543 Broome street, James Turnbull, owner; fire es- cape and ladder to roof, tenement, No. 550 Broome street, Wiliam Conklin, owner; ladder to roof, tenement No, si Broome street, John Moller, owner fire escape, ing. 20 Pearl street, John B. Stevens, owner; fire es- workshop. : 124 Pear! street, Augustus Whiting, owner; ladder to roof, Warehouse. (6, 164 Pearl street, Michael Lienan, owner: fire es- cape, workshop. ‘No. 24 Vandam street, rear, Gertrude Chatillon, owner; fire escape, tenement. No. 4 Vandam street, fire escape, tenement. No. 36 Vandam street, Samuel Lowe, agent; fire escape, tenement. Southwest corner Wall and Water streets, Hazard Pow- der Company, ladder to roof, warehouse, No. 82 Wall street; fire escape, workshop. No. 83 Pine street, W. & KE. A. Cruikshank, agents; fire escape, workshop. No. #8 Sullivan street, Friend Pitts, owner; fire escape, tenement. No. 18 Chariton street, Ellen Paulding, owner; ladder to roof, dwelling. No. 2% Chariton street, Ellen Paulding, owner; ladder to root, dwelling. No. 22 Charlton street, Ellen Paulding, owner; ladder to roof, dwelling. z No. 24 Charlton street, Ellen Paulding, owner; ladder to roof, dwelling. No. 30 Chariton street, William Schultz, agent; ladder to roof, dwelling. No. 48 Maiden lane, Anson Livingston, agent; fire es- cape, worksho (0. 45 Maiden lane, Francis & Loutrel, agents; fire es- bes Py weno. 0. 63 Maiden lane, Richard Mortimer, owner; fire es- cape, workshop. 73 Maiden lane, John D, Wendel, owner; fire es- ° ‘shi cape, workshop. No! ge William street, R, Hoe, owner; fire escape, work- shop. No. 34 Platt street, Kissam & Co., owners; tire escape, workshop. ‘o. 29 Macdougal street, Martin Durnie, owner; fire es- tenement. (9. 229 Spring street, corporation Trinity church, own- er; ladder to scuttle, dwelling. No, 233 Spring street, corporatlon Trinity church, own- er; fire escape, boarding. 0. 241 Spring street, Mrs, Gollibatt, owner; ladder to scuttle, dwelling. No. 247 Spring street, James Young, owner: fire escape, &c., tenement. No, 249 Spring street, James Young, owner; fire escape, tenement. No. 1 Vandam street, Burnham, agent; fire escape, ten- emen No. 38 Vandam street, Samuel Lowe, agent; fire escape, tenement. No, 40 Vandam street, Samuel Lowe, owner; fire escape, &c., tenement. No. 136 Varick street, F. Burdge, owner; ladder to roof, huis § No. 146 Varick street, Robert Jones, owner; fire escape, &c., tenement. No. 150 Varick street, Robert Jones, owner, ladder to root, dwelling. pecs {te Varick street, Robert Jones, owner; fire escape. oarding. Inspectors Hyde and McMillan report the following public school buildings as having been examined :— Grammar School No. 11, 314 West Seventeenth street, four stories, brick, 100x96 and'é5 feet high; walls good ; venti- lation partiaily by flue and generally poor; water closets under wing and poorly arranged. Heated’ by eight hot- air furnaces in good order; primary departments heated by wood stoves; pipes worn and in need of repai Front, stairs, wood, 5 feet 6 inches wide, to OFS 5 two flights, Wood, 3 feet; outside, primary'to yard, two tights. wood, 3 feet 6 inches; primary ‘to playground, two flights, wood, 3 feet 6 inches; rear ot playground, to third floor, one ' flight; to fourth floor, other flights. These last two flights are much in need of repair. There is not sufficient egress from third and fourth stories, and ‘we would recommend an additional stairs of proper material to those stories and that the ones now in use be properly repaired. Also that stove pipes spoken of be re- laced by new ones. General condition of building bad. it is very dirty Shroughoutand needs a general overhaul- ing. Attendance, 1,000. ‘ammar School No. 28, Nos. 241 to 250 West Fortieth street, four stories, Mansird roof, brick, 90x95 and 7) food; ventilation by flue and fairly ide and in very bad condition; should have immediate attention. Heated by stoves: | fome of the pipes in girl's department not properly secured. Class rooms on ground floor poorly lighted and ventilated and unsuitable in other respects. Exit—Front stairs, wood, 5 feet 6 inches, to all floors: four flignts stone, 8 feet, enclosed, to all floors. Windows in front Fooms primary departinent should have guards. | Kecom- mend that water closets be put in order and slate sub- stituted, stove pipe secured, proper guards placed over windows spoken of and use’ of rear ground class rooms discontinued. Attendance, 1,650. Grammar School No. 17, 327 to 337 West Forty-seventh street, three stories, brick, 9 fect front, 10 feet rear, 100 S feet deep and 66 feet high; walls cood: ceilings of some of the class rooms prima: Af de; sm dangerous and need immediate repair; céllar open all around, glaas be- ing out of doors, &c., and di heating build! iMculty is experienced in ol Closets, boys’ department, wood. cated in vard; heated by steam safe condition, Exit—Front . Wood, inches, to all floors; two flights stone, 3 feet, enclosed, to all floors; glass room doors, grammar department, open inwardly. Recommend subatitution of slate in boys’ water closet; class room doors be arranged to slide to primary ceilings; cellar openings be pl order; openings made in rear wall to ligh pimary it Attendance—Primary, 1,230 Grammar School No, 86, M9. to street, four stories brick, 100x100 ai good ;' ventilation by flue and g Closets outside and in good orde ore 5 < widi pores inches, primary. 'y stone, 3 feet, enclosed, to ail. fh excellent ard means of escape ample for any emergency. This is in every respect one of the best school ngs in the cit ttendance—Primary, 750; grammar, 50); tal, if 17 temporarily occupies basement of eat pectin church, Forty-second street and Seventh avenue; will remove about May 1 to premises West Forty-second street. A GUILTY CONSOIENOE. Attempted Suicide of an Alleged Rob- ber—A Hint for C. M. Congressmen. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 1873. | Recently @ man appeared at the Police Head- quarters and reported he had been robbed of $750, and suspected that the theft had been committed by a young man named William Semmes, an inmate of his family, and lately employed as a plate printer in the Treasury Printing Bureau. The detectives last night traced Semmes to a house of ill-repute, and; while searching for him, they heard several reports of @ pistol. eeding to the room whence the sounds came, Semmes was found ry? on side of a bed, blood re from wounds and a Sharp's four-shooter lying on the floor. jared that when he committed the robbery he fully made up his mind not to be taken aliv id only re- Psdagpy he had not succeeded in himself. of the money was recovered. was Femoved to the hopplial 1p eritical paRALoN, * THE DOCKS OF THE CITY. Annual Report of General McClellan, En- gineer in Charge. A Scarcity of Money Has Seriously Impet.4 the Work of the Department. The following report was made to the Dock Com- missioners on April 30, and is now published for the first time :— nt or Docks, ENGuveer’s Bureau, sieges sangeet T ONORABLE COMMISSIONERS 01 i “GentLEMEN—In presenting statement of the Spern tions of this Bureau for the year ending April $0, Ir desire to submit a few preliminary remarks. TI regret extremely that we cannot report greater ress but the Commissioners stacles were of a nature entirely beyond my eon- trol. You are well aware of the | ver! wy inconveniences under which this Bureau has labored for several months past, in consequence of the inadeq and uncertainty of the financial supplies at the disposition of the Department, and you will not, regard me as goin beyond the limits of this report when I repeat, what have often stated to you heretofore, that it is, and wil always prove to be, impossible to carry on & work of such magnitude as ours with economy and despatch un- less the ay propristions are sufficient e and the gens allo " a) expenses scene ee opening of the working season, a certai that the funds. will be forthcoming’ when they are needed: The disturbed condition of affairs during the few months has been such as to render the for carrying on our work a matter of but Ifeel it due to mysel ‘ this uncertain’ ‘to the Aisposal of the Board, I have been unable tO make any arrangement for the supply of material or the ‘making of ia contracts for the construction of the river wall beyond. e portion commenced last year. All these srrange- ments tor future work should have been perfected during the Winter, and we ought now to be gneaged on the tension of the new qTiver | wall. xo ex- the locality even of next be” per- formes not decided upon; the peceeary rights are not acquired; not an Tra looking to future operations has been made, ‘with the ception that the general working plans are ready for tha’ part of the work which I have constantly recommended as the next to be taken up, so that under the most favor- able circumstances now possible we cannot avail our< selves of a great part of the working season of this year. The experience of another year has only strengthened my convictions of the soundness of the’ general aun adopted for the improvement of the water front, Since the approval of these maps, which covered only a mm of the city front, other plans and mepe have been sub- mitted to‘and approved by the Board of Dock Commis. sioners, embracing the upper portion of the island. The Brnsperity: of the city of New York is greatly de- pendent upon the prompt execution of the improvement of the water front as contemplated by this department. The Board of Commissioners well understand my views astothe great natural advant of the port of New York, and a close acquaintance has only the more con< vinced me that the present condition ot the wharf facili« ties seriously impairs these advantages. iew York can- not reap the full benefit of her position and facilities of access unless achange is made in the condition of the tront. The portion of the new river wal soutl wate of pier No, 1, North River, which was commenc during the past Summer, is now Ganley! nearly to low warter mark. This part of the work is of granite, resting upon a riprap foundation, carried down toa firm bet he aiter dredging out the mud. From the exposed nature o! loci id the very severe Winter and Spring ‘th en dificult and tedious, The necessity of Pier No, I for the use of commerce at present, it impossible to carry the new river wall quite up to that piers Granite was employed for the entire section of this portion of the work, for the reason that it was not possible to complete the pre ara~ for the manufacture and tse ot ton im season. In the portions of the wall ereafter fo be constructed it is intended ta use large Beton blocks to a very greatextent. The plang and specifications have been come for alanding for small boats at various stages of the tide en the south tront of the wall now in process of erection. i t Proposal for building the same have been advertised tor and bid¢ are now under consideration, _The general working plans for the extension of the river wall from its present terminus, near pler No. Lup to pier No. 20 North River, are prepared, The borings along the ling ot the river wall trom pier No. 20 to tha foot of West Tenth street, except under the existing piers, have been recently completed, so that the Inform: Hon how exists for making the general working pla for that locality. The hydrographic and surveying operas tions have been extended entirely around the is! land, so that the proposed lines for the new system are now laid down for the whole water front, Up to the present time 24,360 soundings have been taken.» The tidal observa tions have been continued, and results of great impor- tance, with respect to the action of the tides, have been obtained, ‘The lines of levels necessary to establish per: manent bench marks have been extended around the island, and numerous bench marks cut in suitable places, An additional cony ot the series of maps of the water front (rom Corlear’s Hook, East River, to Sixty-first street, North River, has been made, also new maps in triplicate of the water front on the East River, from Cor« lear’s Hook to Rifty-first stree', and a series of maps cov- ering the water front from Fifty-first street, Fast River, around by, the Harlem) River and’ Spuy- Duyvil Creek to Sigty-first , North River. On these new maps trom Corlear's by the Harlem, to Sixty- the proposed lines for the new 8 down and approved by the Board of Dock Commissioners. Within the limits covered by these last maps the lines are, to all intents and purposes, the same as those of the Harbor Commissioners of 1857.’ Numerous special sure veys have been made, and the maps thereof executed. A large number ot tidal diagrams, current charts, grade profiles, working drawings, &c., Nave been made, The followlag summary Will ‘show the results of bor- ings during the year ending April 30, 1872:—There have ‘been taken with the floating machine "Woodcock," th large borer and hand rod, amounting in all to 1.b42, 0 which 1,570 are with the “Woodcock,” 276 with hand rod and the remainder with Jsrge borer, This machine hag been delivered since the date of the last annua Feport It, has | fully | answered the | purpose for ‘which it was intended, and by the rapidity win Which it can be taken apart, removed and put topether again has been productive of great economy. With the large borer praced on the piers borings have been taken from Wall street ferry, East River, around the Battery ta pler at the foot of Beitiune street, North River, at inter- Jals of about three hundred, vards, excepting’ the space between Pier No. 1 East River and Pler No. 1 Nort! River. These borings in every case go down to the be rock.. With the floating machine, worked by hydrostatio pressure, borings to rock or to very solid bottom have heen taken from the commencement of the new wall at the Battery to Pier No, 62 North River on the line of the ace of the proposed river wall and on two parallel lines, respectively thirty fect inside and outside of 1t, these bor: ings being at intervals of about twenty fect, with the exception of the spaces occupied by the piers, which were necessarily omitted for the present. Bormes at in. tervals of about twenty-five feet have also been taken on the sites of the first nine of the proposed new piers on the North River. A dredging force was organized in 1871 with two Osgood dredges, two tugs and six mud scows, which have been in operation since June 10, 1871. They have been continuously employed in maintaining the Tequisite depth of water in old slips and in dredging to the proper depth alongside of new piers. Since the date of the last annual report there have been excavated by greczes of the Department, from June 10, 1871, to April 27, 1872, 282,251 2-10 cubic yards, and under contract with Morris & Cummings, for ‘construction pur- pores: 2a eubie, yards—in all 256,294 2-10 cuble yards, he large floating derrick, which has been constructed by this Burean, is now completed and ready for use, and has been proved on trial to work as was expected, In conolusion, T beg to call the attention of the Com- missioners to the t that the outlay charged to this Bureau for the construction of the necessary appa- ratus for the prosecution of the work laid out, as well. a for the purchase of tugs, dredges and scows ‘used in the is dredging of slips, &c.,’ work previously performed b; contract, neccessarily ‘appears in the account of thi year's expenditures. This property now belongs tothe city of New York, is in good condition, and is necessary for the prosecuti¢n of the work. Respéctiully submitted, GEORGE B. MCLELLAN, Engineer-in-Chief, Dredging done during the year ending April 90, 1872 redging done during the year endiny ril 3 = Cubic Fas, Ouble Fda, Battery, by Morris & Cummings.. 4 Battery, by department dredges x — 44, Piers 37 and 38 North River, by department dredges... a i Gansevoort Little Twelfth River, by department dredges Hers 56 and 57 North River, dredges. eye ee street, meni Ca - Thirty-eighth street, North ment dredges Piers 12 an ° ag this point being to raise a sunken crib). Seventy-ninth ‘street, North River, by depart- ment dredges... . Fifty-sevent ment dre‘ Piers 43 an it dredges........ 1,540 Laight street, North River, dredges. by department Forty-fitth to Forty-eight street, North’ River, tment dredges. < Keventoonth streets, East River, redges.. seventzenth. and. Bighte River, by department dredyes. Piers ¢ and 5, Kast River, b; dredges. sssce OF, riers © to 7%, East River, by department 106th nrect, East River, Mf department dredges. 1,990 miyiagton street, Ei i by department Total. . . oe . The two sunken cribs off Fifty-ninth 4,840 treet, Nortly 6 | River, which were a very dangerous obstruction, have been removed ; as also one at Forty-seventh street, North. River, and a large one between ere. 12 and ny North: River, referred to in toregoing statement of dredging. BUSINESS IN THE BROOKLYN SUBROGATE's couRT. During the past week Surrogate Veeder, of Brooklyn, admitted to probate the wills of Eliza. beth Skaats, Hugh Beil, John Wall, Hefnrich Hagenbasch and Melville}Hay ward, all of Brookiyn; and granted letters of administration on the estates of Jane H. Shotwell, ef Plainfield, N, a3 | James C. Mattheson, of New Otrecht, L.1, and Mary 8. Taft, formerly Mary 8. Lewis; Elizabeth H, Franciseo, Fitzpatrick, Morgan Charles Meyer, Jacob Franze, Juliet Savage, hind Lowrie, Martha Folwell, Samuel Smit! pie P, Gooen,’ Susan Warner and James ©. Light, of rookiyn. Letters of administration of the persons and estate of Charles, Peter, Emil, Barbara, Willian and Joseph Heutschel were granted to Teresa po gl Tod John J. and William Pallos to the KI ist Company; of Augustus Gleichman Brool to Gotileb Gleiehman; of Eva Nichols an: and Elizabeth Rottman to Lorenz Denustentenl Sarah E. and Julia F. Savage to Joan M. P! H of ‘helpa John Dean to Elien ; peg AR Dean; of Ellen C. Rofford’ te T; of the person of David Donnelly to Amos Carroll and of the estate o to the Broonly