The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1873, Page 13

* THE COURTS. MAUD MERRILV’S MURDER. Hore of Bleakley’s Correspondence Put in Lvi- dence—A Strange Epistle—-The Prisoner's Appearanee and Conduct in Court. STOKES’ CASE STILL IN THE BALANCE, Decision To-Day—A Question Raised as to the Legality of the Court—Another Probable Hitch and Hindrance. INGERSOLL-TWEED AGAIN. The Decision of Judge Harding Sus- tained—The Case Likely to Go to the Court of Appeals. BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURT: A Bankruptcy Suit—Order for the Payment of Janitors of Civil Courts’ Back Pay— Business of the Marine Oourt-- Convictions and Sentences in the General Sessions, The Bleakley trial was continued yesterday, be- fore Judge Brady, in the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner. Several additional witnesses were exam- ined for the defence. The medical testimony as te the mental condition of the prisoner will be given to-day, which will close the case for the ¢efence, Mayor Hall intimates that he will probably occupy two days in summing up, so that it seems probable that the trial will occupy the rest of the week. Judge Davis opened yesterday the May term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and then ad. fourned till next Monday. This has nothing to dowith the present term of the same Court held by Judge Brady, the latter term being a continua- tion of the previous term, or, in other words, a coutinuation of the pronunciamento made by Judge Brady —made in January Inst—that he would bold his Court all Summer, if necessary, to clear our present criminal calendar. As there are fif- teen untried murder cases on the calendar, it looks very much as though it would take all the time Specified to get through with his allotted task. The distillery 513 West Filty-second street has been seized for alleged illicit distillation, and the usual monition hag been issued. MAUD MERRILL’S MURDER. Sixth Day of Bleakley’s Trial—His Ap- pearance and Actions in Court—Testi- mony to Show His Condition of Mind Before the Murder—A Leiter to His Sister. ‘s Bleakley’s trial in the Court of Oyer and Termi, ger, before Judge Brady, entered yesterday on its sixth day. As on the previous days, there wasa large crowd in attendance. Bleakley himself, through the supervisory vigilance of a well-disct- plined Deputy Sheriff, was promptly in his place— the corner of the courtroom to which he was assigned at the beginning of the trial, and where he has been kept ever since. His right arm, through the laceration of which twice since the trial began, he 1s strongly suspected of a two-fold per- petration of the farce of attempted suicide, he had suspended in a sling. He certainly looked pale, careworn and thin—though this, of course, may be Mere supposition. To heighten the effect he had to ‘be supported when he walked, and, as if this was Mot enough, he kept up an unintelligible mutter- ing while in Court. At one time he rose to his feet and evinced a strongly persistent intention to address Judge Brady in a few remarks, but was Gnally suppressed by the officer having him in charge. A noticeable circumstance was that, Meither his counsel, ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall and William F. Howe, or the prosecuting lawyers, Dis- trict Attorney Phelps and Assistant District Attor- ney Lyous, or the Judge or the jury, paid any | more attention to him than though he was notin | Court, and as though the resuit of the trial could not affect him in the slightest degree. MORK TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENOR. As soon as the Court had organized more wit- Qesses were called for the defence. These witnesses—F, R. Simmons, Timothy Meagher, Edward H. Gage, Jeremiah | Costello and Jeremiah Fielu—told about the same story. They testified to ® great change in the manner and acts of the [ert within two years; that he was very ndent, and always talking about the troubles | of his sister and the disgrace of his niece. Rose | Corrigan testified that whenever Maud Merrill was out of a place she came to her house, and her uucle generally paid her board. A LETTER OF BLEAKLEY’S. | Mr. Hall next put in evidenc fetter of the prisoner, addressed to Smitn, care of kev. Dr. Webster, Terrace place, Cork, Ireland.’”’ Mrs, Smith was his sister, but the fetter did not reach her and was returned, she having died by suicide before it arrived at its des- bination :— {ou know that I understand how everything 1s golly on. am informed that you stabed your loving husband in the head when he was dozing over the fire, and that you Were as much to blaine as he was; weil lout be as itmay will vou leave that d—d rasea! now or will you still re- main with bim & be murd Kill him & go to prison or be hun; li you come to the only relative you have in the world who cares any- | thing tor you uot excepting your children which I think | fo help you but you know f will not, tell. you well again 1 asked you irom the accursed country and came to me or will you still send me“ licing let- fers to help your children | who will never help you thanks tot intend Brooxtyy, Nov. 14, 1872. Mr Dean Sisten—I write this atter along stience, to let he way you brought them up | Now L ‘onse more (o give you a chance by sending three kets fo & Martha & Bob th or sell them let mo k Hie to me tor Tam in su 1 one that will fot lie to me & who have always been your iriend, Now T want to fell you never write to Mrs Corngan again for ahe ivan Irish Catholic & done ail she could to expose | or d_evervthing to drive | tie against you and me which jinally drove lottie away from her for she old out who was | r nds lotic | wrote you @ couple of months ago & gol mo siiswer from you know at onse & forever what you intend me You were never going to nth any more will you | ve me but this time no | v and then if yoru stay T | J no one to pity you so | now and Jet me know how everything isandall | ay be right yet. Lottie is well wish to hear from 5 remember with no more such letters to Mrs Corres Mo one will ever help you it | do not do it so you throw | Your letters away and expose you Your kind Bro. er o jf OBERT P BLEAKLEY P 8—Direct to Brooklyn, N ¥ to me Several papers and a picture of the deceased | found in Bieakiey’s pockets when arrested, were also offered! in evidence, but not veing identified | were not admitted. Other witnesses not being ta attendance the Court adjourned till this morning. THE STOKES CASE. & Decision To Be Given To-Day on the Application tor a Reversal of Judg- ment—“Points” that May Render Nall i Void Any Decision Given. The General Term of the Supreme Court met yes- éerday, Justices Ingraham and Davis on the bench. It having veen announced that a decision was to be rendered on the application of counsel! of Ed- ‘ward 3. Atokes, under sentence for the murder of James Pisk, Jr., the court room was barely ade- quate to contain the large number of people who congregated there to hear the final result. There ‘were many eminent legai gentlemen present, with mumerous representatives of the general public, anxiously expecting the result of the Judges’ liberations. Shortly after the Court had con- vened it became known that no decision would be rendered, as, for some reason or other, if had been postponed until to-day. Aramor son spread abroad that the decision was already prepared, and was adverse to the granting of @ new trial, It was understood, if such should be the case, that a further effort would be made to pave the prisoner's life by recourse to the highest ‘and last irMinnal, the Court of Appeals. It must be aid that the gencral impression Was and is among NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 18783—QUADRUPLE SHERT. lawyers that a decision otherwise than Stokes was and is simply impossible, even the question ve carried to the Court of Appeals, It is now argued by thoae learned in the law that tf the General Term suould decide contrary to the wishes and expectations of counsel for the con- demned man, the following points will be raised rejative to the formation or construction of the Gencral Term:—Fuirst, that Justice Davis having al- ready passed upon questions in the ‘case on his review of the testimony in the preliminary appil- cation for @ stay of proceedin: which he ted, Ww: by reason of such review, dis- fratined from ait? asa member of the General Term. Secondiy, that cach member of the Geaeral ‘Term must be designated hy the Governor of the State as a Generai Term Judge (rom some district, or else he is incompetent toact. It is claimed that Judge Fancher was not so designated, but was in- vited by Judges Brady and Davis to sit tn the places of Justice Ingrahum., Cousequently it will be con- tended that, as the formation of the General Term was contrary to law, any decision rendered by that “tribunal, either for the prisoner or for the people, must be declared nul! and void. Mr. Dos Passos, the junior counsel for Stokes, expressed a determination yesterday to imme ately acquaint his associate, Mr. Lyman Tremaii of the points to be raised, and probably action wilt be taken 80 soon as the an Wil be made known, which will be this morning. It was also stated yesterday that the Judges of the General ‘Term had themselves discovered that there wae some technica! objection to their proceedings, and, in consequence, deckined to "ender tne decision he- botore consultation, for that réason postpouing it until to-day. THE INGERSOLL-IWEED CASE. i Motion for Repeal of Demurrer Denied, The interminable suit againat James H, Ingersoll, impieaded with Willigm M. tweed aud others, went through another process yesterday in General Term of the Supreme Court, before Judges ingraham and Davis, Mr. Charles O’Conor and Mr, Peckiam— the latter representing Attorney General Barlow— for plaintiff, Mevsrs. David D. Field, KE, W. Stough- ton, W. Fullerton and i, Root ior defendant, case was brougit up on a motion to reverse decision of the Genera! Term of the Third Dis: Judge Ingraham, on delivering the opinion ad- verse to the motion, sai Tiugs Court heretofore held that the Board of Supervisors could maintain an action in these cases, but expressed no opinion as to the right of the people. We understand the General ‘Term of the Third District held that the peopie could maintain the action, The further expresaion oO! opinion that the county had no right of action, was not involved in that case and was hot necessary to tts decision, There has been there- fore no conflict between us. Since ttiat decision was made the charge of collusion in the suit brought by the Supervisors has been stricken out of the complaint in the case of the people, thus re- moving one of the principal reasons given for sus- taining that action, Under these circumstanees, and as the counsel desire to have the case decided here as speedily as possible, we think the order should be aflirmed and the case can go to the Court of Appeals, BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. Abe UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. The Grand Juary—Sentence Deferred. The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court came into Court yesterday morning, when they informed Judge Benedict that they had not yet concluded their labors, Judge Benedict said he hoped they would be soon able todo so, and they were then discharged till the 14th inst. The crimi- nal calendar will be called on Monday next, the 12th inst., before Judge Benedict. Newman and Deviin, who had been convicted at the last term of the Court for committing perjury while presenting themselves as sureties in a crimi- pal case before a United States Commissioner, were to have been sentenced for that offence rentercey: but it was notified to the prisoners, on the applica- tion of their connsel, Mr. Rk. W, Waite, that sen- tence would not be pronounced upon them until Monday next. Quashing an Indictment, Some time since an indictment was found against John Washing and Sigmund Washing, charging that they had committed acts of fraudulent bankruptcy. Their counsel, Mr. R. G. Newcombe, went before Judge Benedict and made an arguinent, showing for several reasons thet the indictment was bad, Judge Benedict bas just filed an opinion sustaining the views of counsel, and quashing the first, sec- ond, third, seventh, and eighth counts Of the in- dictment. SUPREME GOURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Barrett. Mult et al. vs, American-Mexican Railroad and Transportation Company.—Order granted, Judah vs. Meagher et al.—Tne testimony and pro- ceedings belore the referee are not annexed to his report. utnal Life Insurance Company vs. Martin ct al.— Order settied. Wallace vs. McConnell et al.— Report confirmed and order granied. Banks et al. vs. Banks et al.—Memorandum for counsel. Penfield & Co, vs. James et al,—Motion granted, with $10 costs. Appleton vs. Bowles et al.—See memorandum of decision. ‘SUPERIOR covaT— ECIAL TERM. Decision: By Judge Sedgwick. Solms vs. Rutgers Fire Insurance Company.— Motion dented, but the order may be entered put- ting cause on calendar, and at the place it would have had if put on the foot of the calendar when marked down by Judge at Trial ‘erm. The Board of Water Commissioners of Detroit vs. Henry A. Burr, Sr.—Allowance of $1,500 granted, Leconite vs. Markert.—The plaintif! was com- pelled to bring action because ot breach of obliga- tion by defendant, The plaintiff should have from the fund an amount equal to taxable cosis to be taxed by the Clerk, and $150 allowance; the de- fendant not to have costs or allowance. by Judge Curtis, Donahue vs. Jones.—Motion granted, Pollard vs. Rocke.—Oraer granting motion. By Judge Van Vor: Muishane vs, Haney.—Order vacating former order, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge C. P. Daly. Stevenson vs. Stevenson.—Divorce granted, By Judge Loew. Greer vs. Gould.—Motion for leave to serve amended answer granted on payment of $10 costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—GENERAL TERM, Salary of a Civil Court Janitor. Before Judges C, P. Daly, Loew and Robinson, In March, 1570, Michael Sullivan was appeinted janitor of the Sixth District Civil Court, at a salary of $1,250 a year. He received the appointment irom the Common Council. He was paid regularly up to January 1, 1872, when the Comptroller re- | Jused to pay his salary any longer, on the ground of the illegality of his appointment. Application was made to Judge J. F. Daly tor an order directing the Comptroller to continue the payment ot the salary, which was denied, n appeal was then taken to this Court, and yeaterday a decision was given re- versing that of Judge Daiy and ordering judgment | for the plaintii Judge Loew, who gave the | opinion oi the Colrt, held that the appointmeng was | legal; that the Common Council had the right fo fix | the salary, and that, under the recent decision in the Court of Appeais in the H r case, the provision in | the, Tax Levy of 1869 relating to raising of salaries | and creating new offices was uucoustitutional, MARINE COURT, Business for the Term. ‘The calendar of cases for the Marine Court pre- sents for the Judges all the business they can pos- sibly get through with during the May Term. Parts 1,2and 3 opened yesterday, with Ohtef Justice Shea and Judges Joachimsen and Gross holding Court in the“order given above. Judge Howland holds Special Term, thus alternating with the Judges who sat during the April term, There was the usuai rush of lawyers and their clients that marks the openings of the various terms of this Court, and which indeed presents little diminution till the last day for the calling of acase, The only drawback to a perhaps more complete disposal of the ever increasing business of the Marine Court is perhaps to be found in the lamentable lack of Court accommodation. The work of the Judges bas kept more than pace with the extended jurisdiction which the Legislature has from time to time given to the Court, but no corresponding lacliities have tollowea to carry out these measures | of the Legisiature. There is no lack of disposition, however, on the part of the Judges, who, in their miserable quatcéts, conscientiously and cheerfully as may be work through the Summer and Winter months, and suffer equally, if not in like de- gree, from heat and cold, through the want of the accommodations rejerred to, MARINE COURT—PART 2. A Timely Warning to Jurors, Yesterday being the first day of the Trial Term of the Marine Court for the month of May, the Clerk of the Court called the jury panel, and, several jurors not having answered to their names, Judge Joachimsen ordered that they be flned every day they may fail to answer. MARINE COURT—PART 3, Action tor Broker's Commiss! Before Judge Curtis, Morris va. William A. Morria,—In thia Richara D. ‘action the platintieiaimed to recover $200 under |S special contract made with defendant, General Morris, of Governor Dix’s stat, to exchange aad te the exchange of certain real estate, The defendant admitted (the contract, but set up that the plaintuy induced mim to make an mjurieus contract by means of fulse representations. Judge Curtis instructed that the onus was on defendant to show that plaintid made the representations aleyed and that the same were untrue; that, if it was established that i inti Wits the laitiieas and corrupt servant of defendant, instead of laboring in his iaterest, aud that he in- duced deiendant to make the contract for the ex- change of the property by means of false repre- seutations, lie could not recover, Jury found tor the plaintid’ in the sum of $200, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Sutherland, Kmpannelling of the Grand Jury. The May Term of this Court was opened yester- day, His flonor City Judge Sutheriand presiding. Assistant District Attorney Russell represcited the people, The and Jury were empannetled and Mr, George J, Forrest appointed to act as fore- man. After a brief charge by the Judge they en- teed apon the performance of their duties. Grand Larconies, Peter Woods, who was indicted for assaniting George Cunningham on the 20th of April aud steal- ing $6 from his person at 408 West Sixteenth streets pleaded guilty to petty larceny (rom the person. Mr, Russell informed His Honor that Woods was a bad teliow, and that he understood he belonged to the “Teath Avenue Gang." Johu Adams pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, the allegation being that on the 2ist of April he edected an entrance into the fancy store | oi Meyer & Groman, 13 Wooster street. He was arrested with burgiarious implements in his pos- Session, but fortunately no properiy was taken. Woods and Adams were each sent to the State Prison fur four years and six months. Alexander James and George Youngs were tried and convicted of grand larceny. On the 23d of April they went into the tailor shop of Caspar Goets, 861 Sixth avenue, and while one was pr tending to purchase a pair of pantaioons his cot jederate stole iour yards of cloth, valued at $28, ‘They were each sent to the State Prison for four yoars. Henry Frey and Bernard Bush pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, the charge being that ou the 21st of April tney stole shawls and silver- plated were, the aggregate value of which was $192, from the house of Paul Schultze, 108 Riving- ton street. Bush, being known to the police as a thief, was sent to the State prison jor two years and six months. Frey was seut to the Penitentiary tor one year, that veing his first offence. An Assault. Martin Bennett, charged with cutting Robert Cunningham in the hand with a knife ou the ith of April, pleaded guilty to assault and battery, He Was sent to the Penitentiary for five months, Petty Larceny. Thomas Ryan, indicted for burglariously entering the grocery store of David Short, 344 East Twen- tieth street, on the night of the 16th of April, pleaded guilty to petty larceny. As there were mitigating circumstances In the case of this boy, to which Mr, Kintzing called the attention of the Court, Ryan was sent to the City Prison for one month. : John Shea, a boy charged with stealing $75 worth of lead pipe from the premises of George Holliday, 409 Sixth avenue, on the 17th of April, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand ‘ceny. Being under six- tecn years of age, His Honor sent him tc the House of Refuge. Acquittals, Richard Maynes was tried upon a charge of lar- ceny. The complainant, Julius Schieuter, a printer at 27 Rose street, charged the accused with feio- niously appropriating twenty-four electrotype plates, valued at $60. It was shown during the progress oi the triai that the defendant and other youvg men threatened to sue the complainant for the Non-payment of wages, The accused swore that he did net steal the plates, guilty’? was rendered by jury, Frederick Toole, a respectable looking man, was also prompily acquitted of a charge of burgiary. It seems that he was returning home tate at nigat in an iutoxicated condition, and attempted to get into the dwelling house of Josep H. Marshall, at 203 Kast 109th street. As there was evidently no felonious intent, Assistant District Attorney Rus- sell abandoned the case, and the jury discharged the defendant without leaving their seats, Assault Upon a Policeman. John Dasey, a youth, was tried upon an indict- ment charging him with an attempt to kill Omcer Michael Rowan, of the Seventh precinct, on the 30th of March. The testimony for the people A verdict of “not showed that OMcer Rowan was assisting another officer to conduct a prisoner to the station house upon a charge of disorderly conduct; that while near the corner of Grand and Pitt streets a crowd followed them, at- tempting to rescue the prisoner, and that at thot, juncture Officer Rowan was struck on the side of the head by Dasey with some missile, which split his ear and produced concussion of the brain; he fell on the sidewalk and was taken to the station | house and froin thence to Bellevue Hospital. The physician testified that the wound was dangerous and that the officer is still disqualified irom per- forming his auty. ‘The jury rendered a verdict of simple assault and battery, and Jadge Sutherland sentenced the boy to the Penitentiary for one year. ° YORKVILLE POLICE COURT. Pickpockets, Watch Smatchers and | Swindling Conductors at the Bar ot | Justice, | On Sunday afternoon, while Mr. James P. Lynch, | of 97 Clay street, Brookiyn, was admiring the’ pair | of sea lions in the Central Park, his watch was violently wrenghed from his vest pocket by Wil- liam Simon, who says he resides at 720 Third ave- nue. The thief tried to getaway among the crowd, but he was prevented, and he now awaits a trial in the General Sessions on a charge of larceny in de- Jault of $1,000 vail. Lieutenant Schofie'd, of the Central Park Police, on Sunday took into cnstudy Edward Martin and Peter Van Giesen, whom ie detected in the act of eket picking in the neighborhood of the Arsenal, ‘hey were comniitted for trial. Complaints were taken against James Daly, who, on Sunday aiternoon, in Cusick’s liquor saloon, 1,389 Broadway, fired a shot from a pistol at James Brady and attempted to fire at Michael Smith. He was unable to give the required batl ($1,000), and was committed in deiauit thereof, Jane ‘Tyson and her child, eight years of age, got on a Tenth avenue car, at Filty-sev- enth street, yesterday afternoon, and gave | the conductor ten cents to take a fare and a half out of it. He, instead, kept all of it. Hot words followed, when suddenly Mrs, Tyson's clenced fist fell like a sledge hammer on the con- ductor’s snub nose, which sent ierth a small catar- act of blood. The female Nemesis was, of course, arrested and taken to Court, Justice Coulter, when he heard the tacts, said she had done periectly right, yet he held her in $300 bail to keep the peace. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Four Burgiars Captured. Leob Frankenthal’s tailoring store, at 70 avenue B, was burglariously entered on the morning of the 8d inst. and goods to the value of $550 carried of. It seems that the basement under the store is oceu- pled by Thomas Cassidy as “a rag emporium,” and rom this place the thieves bored holes in the floor above and removed the boards suf- ficiently to allow of their crawling up through. At an early hour on the morning above men- tioned an Officer of the Tenth precinct noticed five men coming out of the store with large bags, apparently well filled, He approached them, whereupon the whole party dropped their plunder, and made of at a rapid gait. The officer gave chase, however, and soon succeeded in coming up with four of them, whom he arrested. Yesterday they were taken to Hssex Market Police Court, where they gave their names as William Flack, Frank Clark, James Cassidy and George Massett. They were committed jor trial. BROOKLYN COURTS. —— SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Eva, the Octoroon. Before Judge Pratt. The report of the referee, awarding the custody of the octoroon Eva King alias Griffing to Frederick Griffing, of Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, was con- firmed by Judge Pratt. Mr. Griffing took the child from her parents in the South, with their consent, the understanding being that she was to remain with him until she was sixteen years of age, and then she was to go wherever she chose, When | Mr. Grifing took Eva she was about seven years of age. He brought her on to Hrovklyn, tovk her into his family, named her Aya Grifing, and sent her to school. She is now about sixieen years old. Severai months since a colored miuister named Thomas, in New York, endeavored to obtain the custody of the girl by virtue of a power of attorney from the mother, and sued out a writ of habeas corpus in the su- preme Court, The case was reporied in the HERALD at the time. Eva was contented in her Brooklyn home, and it appeared to the satisfaction of the referee that it was tor her interest, morally, to remain there. Mr. Grifting and his wile have no children of their own, and they always treated the girl as their daughter. The Goodrich Estate in Court. David Goodrich, father of Charles Goodrich, who was murdered in his house in Degraw street, near Fifth avenue, contracted with Susan Finlay to dis- | dants were subsequently arrested aud committed | afirming | ments of the last two or three years, pees. of two of the Degraw street houses (one of heya the house in which the murder was com- mitted) for hor share in the ownership of the clipper brig Hattie Haskell, Mra. iimluy owned nine-cenths of the vessel aud made tiis agree- ment, a3 alleged, ou she oth of April last. David Goodrich charges that she subsequently failed to carry out the contract, and he obtained a tempo- rary injunction to restrain her trom disposing of her interest in the veasel> Motion was made yea- terday ou her behalf to have the injunction dis- solved On the ground of irregaiarity in the signing, of the coniract and of false representations as to the vatue of the houses, Decision reserved, CITY COURT—SENERAL TERM. Decision. Ry Judges Neilgon and McCue. Annie Farnan, Rospondent, va. Francis Feely, Appeliant.—Judgment and order appeaied from aitirined, with custs to the respondent, CITY COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Neilson. Daniet Gallagher vs, Wilham B, Nichols.—Case and amendments settied, Chureh vs. The Lafayette Fire Insurance Com- pany.—Application for 4 new trial denied. Stone vs, Macke {njunction continu Henry vs. Karcher, Sued vs, Cagger. aside, Brown vs. Richardson,—New trial granted, the conclusion of the jury not appearing to have been equitable or consistent wath the spirit of the in- structions given Gallagher vs, Nichols.—Lease and amendmenta | settled, Valentine vs, Hyde.—On payment of costs ease restored and to ve Neura ab the next General Detantt set | Plaintis defauit si aside on payment of $10 Costs, and stipulacin, if plaintift previuis no costs be taxed ia ber favor for prior terms of the Court. Donovan vs, Bamber,—The injunction granted by Judge Thompson i continued; the question in- volved cannot be tried on allaavita, Jennerick ys, Waterbury.—Application for a new trial denied. et at | | COURT OF SESSIONS. A Policy Dealer Sent to the Penitentiary. Before Judge Moore, Nicholas Powers, who was convicted of being en- gaged in the lottery policy business in Peari street, was yesterday sentenced to nine months imprison- m in the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $250, Judge Moore, in passing sentence, said that auction had to be taken to stop this, the worst species of gambling, and he was determined to punish ail persons guilty of the offence severely. The case of John Siacts and John Primrose, Policy dealers, was called for a second trial The defendants failed to-appear, and the Court directed that their bonds should pe forfeited, e deten- to jail to await trial. The Grand Jury. A Grand Jury was empanelled yesterday, and charged, in the usual manner, by Judge Troy. There are but comparatively fow cases for them to pass upon, BUSINESS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. —e ae WASHINGTON, May 5, 1873, The Court of Claims to-day rendered only one judgment—namely, in favor of Charles Wilson and Others, of Savannah, for 20,000 bales of upland cot- ton, taken by agents of the United States, amount- tng to $4,032, Motion was allowed for a new trial in the case of Marshall 0, Roberts and others, of New York, against the United states—a claim ior over a mulion dollars on asteamship contract for carrying the mails. Argument was commen: plea to jurisdiction in the case of xelley, in- volving the question whether parties relieved by President Johnsou’s amnesty proclamation from | liability to seizure of their property ander the | captured and abandoned property , can bring | suit after the expiration of the two years’ limita tioy prescribed by said act. This proclamation of amnesty was not made until the two years from the date of said act had expired, A mandate of the Supreme Court was filed | he judgment of this Court in favor of | A. Heury, rendered on May 26, 1871, for $12,546, the government's {Bee | | SUFFOLK COUNTY SUPREME COURT. + Action by an Expressman for Ejection from a Steamboat. David A. Barney vs, Oyster Bay and Huntington amboat Company.—This was an action for dam- ages claimed by the plaintit for the arbitrary and illegal act of the defendants im excluding him as a | passenger trom the steamer D. R. Martin, on the ground that he was engaged in the express busi- ness. The jury rendered a verdict for $500 in favor of plaintiit. Motion jor a new trial overruled, } | A NEW ELLCTRIC LIGHT. ebrcyrettinant [From the London Standard, April 9.] The York road, Lambeth, is not precisely the place from which one would expect a new light to shine forth upon the world, but yesterday evening | P ho sooner had the sun disappeared sufficiently far | below the horizon than passers by were astonished by having thrown upon them a glare of light as white as that of the moon, and apparently almost as intense a8 that of the solar sphere, Following | up the light as it poured down a side street one | came to the gate of an engineering factory, just | 1 within the limits of which stood thé apparatus | whence the brilliant rays streamed, To all in- tents and purposes the light seemed that of an ordinary electric machine greatly intensified, There were the wires bringing and carrying off the current; there was the concave reflector and there were the bits of squared coke which act as wicks or poles, But every one who 1s accustomed to judge of the intensity or the illuminating power of the electric light must have seen that the rela- live proportions were those of Venus, or at least Jupiter, to ap asteroid, Inquiry was ‘not courted, but information was not refused; and it turned out that this light, Wasting its glories on a Lam- beth lane, is one Of the chief sclentific achieve- A number of gentlemen and a few ladies were present by private Invitation to witness the demonstration of the powers of this new arrangement of electric power which, there seems to be little doubt, has overcome all, or nearly all, the technical. dimicuities that have stood in the way of utilizing electricity both for lighting and jor heating. Indeed, oue may almost say that the problem has bceo svived—-liow to produce cheap electricity. § of the most eminent of our. men ot science are said to bave examined the apparatus and to bave declared the results far beyond any hitherto achieved, The light thrown from hal!-inch carbon points into the York road last night was fully equa! to that of 7,000 candles, and we are iuformed that & ight equivalent to 10,000 or even 14,000 candles has been produced. But the great value of the light is that it is constant, The current is abso- jutely unintermittent. The machine acts without tor, and consequently there is not only ssion, but there is no variation. What the light is at the end of the first five minutes it is at the end o{ the hour or so long as the carbon points remain unconsumed, and the process of production of the carrent is so simple that it 18 marvellous it has not been betore discovered. Two or two and a hal horse power are ample to produce the rotation of three bobbins or broad edged discs covered with copper Wire, and acting upon six pairs of soft iron parallel bars, similarly covered. Magnets disversed with in the production of the er, Which is derived altogether from friction, e being no battery brought into the circuit in any shape or form. The amount of the electrical current of the machine at work last night was | estimated as equal to that of 500 Bunseu’s cells, andthe inventor is now making a larger one to equai 1,000 of the same cells, for the purpose of per- | forming at a rapid rate some of the most ba tant operations of manufacturing chemistry. Thus | he proposes to produce chemically pure copper, which is now worth from three to four shillings & pound, at the cost of ordi- nary commercial copper; potassium and s80- di at less than half their resent pri aluminium, now at seventy-five shillings per pound, at thirty or thirty-five, and maguesium calcium and othe rare metals at prices which will bring them into cbmmerciat use. But even in its | application to the purtfication ofiron alone there would seem to.be an immense field for the use of electricity, the inventor of this machine having the courage to declare that he will purify two tons of pig iron trom phosphorous, sulphur, carbon and silica in eighteen to twenty minutes, at a saving of two-thirds of the coal, On this point no opinion can be expressed, but everything seen last night cortainly tends to the probability of sucha triumph. ‘Thus a platinum Wire of about eighteen gauge was melted in forty seconds, and a copper wire in le: than two, A piece ef solid stee) serew, four or fi inciies long, Was burnt away in avout five minutes, and a piece of diamond bas been vaporized in a few seconds, So constant is the current that one of these machines, experimentally supplied to the ‘Telegraph Department, has been for some time creating the power by which the whole of the London district. wires ave worked, Last night, in the works of Messrs. Whictdon, Lecky & Oo., en- gine though a machine shop fall of benches and tools is not precisely the place most favoralle | to scientine demonstration, those who were pres- eni by invitation or accident saw enough to con- vince them ol the very great future betore this machine, Which, 80 far back as July, 1871, received the marked approval of the Academy of Sciences in Paris. It is understood that the light—which last night, With Only a strength of three or four thousand candies from small points in the interior of the works, made a jet of gas throw a distinct though ghostiike shadow on a whitewashed wall— | will be publicly exhibited soon after Kaster in | London, 44 well a8 inthe Vienna Kxhibition, wham | it will be tested thorough under the persol | suverintendence of its mvegtor, M. Gramue. ‘ | pretty potpourri of the prin MUSICAL REVIEW. nL Le Among the many nuisances which characterize © publishing in this country, the most intoler- able is that of writing for the church. Every or- ganiat perpetrates aome atrocity in this line, for in few cases are the church compositions in America worthy of the nama of music, A Catholic church Organist will write a mass, and very seldom ta it Worl, in an artiatic point of view, the paper on wich it ia written, The organist of another church mduiges in a Te Deum or an anthem, the tmustoal value of whieh represents naught, The approach of such festivals as those of Christ- mas and = Easter brings forth quite & brood of unheaithy pieces, which are some- times tolerated for the time being and soon forgotten, Then we must again speal of tue many songs and ballads which are weekly inficted upon the public. Their name is legion and their mertts exceedingly small. Among ptano compositions the standard of merit is higher, eape- cially those of ropean origin. Few of our owa pianists have shown any industry in enriching the catalogues of the publishers this season. It may be on account of a dislike to iabor for which tiere is uo return from those peculiar business people, music publishers, " Louis Berge, Fourtcenth street, publishes the fol- lowing :— “La Reine du Bal,’ a>. Maytath, One of those britliant and singularly effective works that com- mands immediate interest. “he tiemes are taking imevery sease of the word, and the treatment of them-is characterized by # clear, ready, sparkling style that seizes at once on the ear, “vening Star.” Mazurka caprice. J. N. Pattl- son, This celebrated pianist and composer has In this: work shown some of his happiest and most gentai thoughts in the mazurks line, [twa gem worthy of any player Benjamin Hitchcock, Third avenue, publishes the following “Lhe Klopement Galop.” sparkling salon piece, Lawrence Stoddard. A “sunshine After Rain, Song. E. Rankine. ‘Trivial and commonplace, @ Keve des Anges.’ Stoddart. Good for be- ginners, with tender fingers, Balmer & Weber, St. Louis, publish a very bril- liant aud effective set of waltzes by Signor Operti, founded on tie romance irom “L’Eciair'—Call me thine own.’ It is worthy of this popular com- poser, Ditson & Co,, New York and Boston, publish the folowing :— A very neat, convenient and cheap edition of all the great oratorio works, which wiil be found of interest to our vocal societ “Thy Vows Are Ali Broken.” Song. John Daniel. ‘Trashy in the extreme aud an insult to the oeauti- ovtry of Lord Byron, een Alanna.’ Song. J. R. This Thomas, favorite song writer should not allow himself to degeucrate to the low standard of such a song, is entirely unworthy of him. “sweet It Sing.” Duet. W. A. Smith. Uninter- with a barren subject. ” Song. Virginia Gabriel. A pretty Rae , neat and graceiul and appropriate to ords, “My Soul Waiteth for God.” Recitative and aria, Isaac Goodell, Without any great preten- sions, there is u quiet grace and beauty about this tuelody and its accompaniment that render it quite attractive, “Iwo Nests.’ Ballad, graceiul, “The ‘Tryst.’ Song. gem, full of beauty. : “Dancing Leaves.” ‘Tito Mattel, A flashy, showy su/on work, well adapted for lady amateurs, “La Carita.” ‘Transcription of Rossini’s quartet, by Liszt, ‘There is hardly a trace of the Abbate’s peculiar style in this transcription, it reminds eae of Thalberg, and as such isa delighuul work, Regarding the well known “Moses in Egypt” fantasia, by Thalberg, and the overture to “Mignuon,’ published by this house, it is only necessary to say that both editions are neat and handsome, Edward Schaberth, Union square, has re large consigument of the best st works trom the principal Eurepe: and Breitkopf and Huaertel are spe sentedon the list, which comprises W composer, irom Bach down to Wagner, Erpst Reinking, Fourth avenue, has a number of publications by August Cranz, Leuckart, Sim- rock, Cotta, Breitkopt and Huertel, &c. Among these works are the lollowing, with the names of the European publishers : August Cranz, Hambur, “scene Romantique.” Fantasia, Alexander Dre. A good exercise in chromatics and trill but rather overstrained for an w sinple melody. It is a more {nun its merits prove on close investigation. “La Campanella.” lmpromptu, Dreyschock. glittering, order, very labored aod ineffectiv “Vogleins Erwachen.” Morceau. felde A long, labored composition, there is hardly an intelligible suoject, It hardly repays the trouble of playing it. “Zitherklinge.” ©, Killing. A delightfal work, combining charming themes with a richness and variety Oi treatment that sets them oif te the best possible advantage. “Dinorah.” Fantasig, for four hands, H. Alberti. Very neatly and efiectively dene, and simpie enough Jor every amateur. “Martha.” Funtasia, H. Claribel, Simple and L. H. Southard, A little A unmeaning example of the “bells” Fr. Bauen- in which Alberti, A rather tow’s opera, aud a good exer we tor pupils of lim. ited experience, “IL ‘trovatore."’ Potpourri, H. Alberti, The same remarks will apply here. The arrangement ppie and tasteiul. Tannuhiuser.” Potpourri. G, W. Marks, This isa more important work than ¢é! is leucilous treatment of an extremely difficult subject for the plano. The leading themes are splen- didiy worked out, and yet the arrangement 1s by no meuns dificult. It i8 the best specimen of the much abused potpourri style of writing we have seen jor a jong time. Leuckart, of 8 tasia,”’ by Han jan, publishes a “Mazurka Fa Von Bulow, Which has been pla in concert here some time ago, Like the vest of the worthy Beron’s works, who combines in him- self the accomplished pianist With the notoriously dull composer, it is as uninteresting as can be imagined. ‘There is an aimiess groping in the dark from beginning to end, abundant technical disfti- cuities and nothing else Von Bitow ts another of that Class of musical writers who depend extirely upon mechanical edects, Whatever the result may be with the orchestra it is a most lamentavie tail- ure ou the piano. “Im Buchenhain” (In the Grove), Fritz Spind ler. Very pretentious, and, at the same lume, ve commonplice, Arpeggi are tie principal ele- ments, but they are used @ fa “A Maiden's vrayer.” Mr, Spindier does not always write like this, and it is to pseli im such gretyed that he should thus hurbiliating position, & & Martens, Broadway, publish a “dubi- by Mosenthal, which has the merit o: pul subjects of Flo- | her of the pre- | ceding, and the adaptor deserves high praise for f | last. She is 3 iP) MARSHAL BAZAINE, . > Prussian Evidence in Favor of the Defender of Motz. with RAE PBINCE FREDERICK CHARLES OF PRUSSIA. ——-—-— Result of a Herald Interview—The Imprisoned Marshal’s Assortions Confirmed by the Red Prince. Bexwin, April 3, 1873, A few days after the surrender of Metz the ekaLp published a special cable telegram of several col- unins in length, giving the particulars of an inter- view between one of its correspondents and Mar- shal Bazaine, who at that time (November 7, 1870p was a prisoner of war at Cassell. Among the nu- merous questions them propounded by your corre- Spondent and freely answered by the Marshal was the following :— w were your relations with the Prussians after the surrender, Marshal ? Marshal Bazaine replied :— They were excelient, Prince Frederick Charles ts anexcelientman, He deeply sympathized with as in our iuisfortune, and we shall ever owe bim ®& debt ot gratitude, He said to me, in parting, “Should yeur military honor, Marshal,’ ever be as- ante call upon tue dnd I will aid you in defending THE RURAL ROME OF THE RED PRINCE. In view of the great mterest excited by the im- Pending trial of Marshal Bazaine, your corres pondent, recalling the above words spoken to him nearly three years ago, determined to call upon the “Red Princo,” for the purpose of obtaining from him a corroboration of the above assertion. Your correspondent left the Potsdam depot at Berlin on the morning of the 2d of Ap his destination being the small station of Zehiendorf, ten or eleven miles distant from the capital. From there he took a carriage for the “Jagdhaus Dret Linden,” the hunting-box of Prince Frederick Charles, distant three or four miles, Well aware of the Prince’s preference for the pleasures of country life on his estute to the splendors of the Court and nis own palace, your correspondent had some misgivings as to the propriety of an intrusion, But the thought that his mission was to the Field Marshal and soldier rather than to the Royal Prince, and that a good purpose prompted the inquisitiveness, gave him courage. Driving up to the neat CASTLE OF THE DREI LINDEN, which is situated snugly buried amid the wooda, we were ushered into the presence of the personal adjutant of His Royal Highness, a young and handsome captain of hussars, from whom we learned, to our disappointment, that the Prince was absent, roaming over his hunting grounds, ‘When in the city,” said the Captain, “the Prince scarcely ever gives an audience to anybody, much less would he be inclined to do so out here in the country; though, If you apply to him in writing he will certainly give you any information you desire, for the Prince is full of good nature and kindly disposed tewards everybody.’’ As the handsome adjntant spoke his eyes lighted up with enthusiasm for is Prince, yet his words were uttered with such military precision, and at the same time with the utmost courtesy, that we at once determined to make him, if possible, the vehicle of communication with His Royal Highness. BAZAINE’S MILITARY HONOR DEFENDED BY & PRUSSIAN PRINCE. Your correspondent then laid before the Adjatan® a copy of the znaLp of November 11, 1870, con- taining the above mentioned interview with Bazaine, translated to him the substance of the sume, dwelt upon the fact that the Marshal's as sertion respecting the words of the Prince waa made shortly aiter their meeting, and that, if true, were of considerable consequence in the Marshal'a present situation, The Captain listened atten- tively. He, too, had been before Metz, in the same | capacity he now holds, and knew how starvation was staring in the face of Bazaine’s army, not lesa than of the town and its garrison. Captain Vom N. did not hesitate to agree to our prop- osition that he should speak with the Prince about our errand, Here is his, or rather PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES’ ANSWER 10 THE NRW YORK H&RALD. JacpuHaus Dret LINDEN, April 3, 1873. His Royal Higiness the Prince Frederick Charie: authorizes nic to say, in answer to your request yesterday, that he does not recollect the precise Words of the conversation he had with Marshal Bazaine. His Royal Higimess is convinced, how- ever, that the Marshal’s statement is periectly cor- rect, and that the words as given in your journal ty ‘eaily been spoken by him (the Prinee), since they really express the views entertained by His Highness. The sald conversation between the Marshal and His Royal Highness took piace on the 29th of October, 1570, in the Castle of Coray, om the day the French troops marched out of Metz. With the Righeat consideration, I have the honor to be, de, ke. VON N., Captain and personal adjutant to His Royal High ness. THE STEAMSHIP PENNSYLVANIA, — Pioneer Vessel of the State Line—Hea Dimensions, Accommodations and Off rhe The new iron steamship Pennsylvamia, the pio neer vessel of the State line, Glasgow to New York, | arrived at this port a few days since, and is now lying at the company’s do hear the Martin Stores, | Brooklyn, Yesterday was set apart by the agents, | Messrs. Austin, Baldwin & Co., for a reception om | board, and during the afternoon many ladies and | gentlemen availed themselves of the opportunity | utforded to inspect the vessel’s pleasant accomme- | dations. The Pennsylvania was built by the Lon- don, and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuild- | ing Company, at Glasgow, both in hull and machine ery, and was launched on the 12th of February with a very dull | 450 feet over all, 36 feet breadth of beam, 29 feet theme, ‘there is little intere: wz inthe church | depth of hold; has three decks; drawa compositions of the present and a mere | 45 feet of wuter with 1ull cargo, and ie knowledge of counterpoint cannot compensate ior ¥ te abuehee Of melodic Oeawis. von | 2,500 tons, gross British measurement, The mo “Wehniuti'’ (Sadness), Mme. Bonenitz Volk- | tive power of this vessel consists of compound mann, Yhere ure some good ideas in this little jece, bub Very ecceutric treatment of them, A notable mista urs at the commencement of the sixth bar, on the fourth page. M. Gray, sab Fraucisco, publishes the following + May Win Him Back by Kinduess,"’ Ballad, us. Not certainly with such a meiody as this, Wi is so commonplace. try someuing jresier, Mr. hvans, “Fannie Marston Polka.”? pleasing, like the photograph on the tt “Ajaddip Sehottuische.” Carl Hess. hoped that the composer never intended this piec to be danced by the ladies to whem it is dedicated — ig! Sisters. It is beneath notice, je sane house publishes a comic song, sung by one Billy Emerson, Crit would be lost upon it. “Ot in the Twilight.” Ballad, Made to order, evidently at a moment's notice: tor Mr. Thotas is too good & Musictup to write such a melody under other circumstances, “No, | Never Can Forget,” ballad, J. R. Thomas. Better than the other, but not enough to excite in- terest. “How Cheering a Glance at Old Erin Would Be.’? Ralad. Wellman, Jr. Yes; but we have tad so many Musical glances of this kind that they be- come tiresome. 1 18 4 machine-made melody, THE WEST Vs. THE EAST. v «of the Producers and Consumers. To-day the “producers and consumers” meet at the Astor House, to agitate the cause of the “West vs. the Hast.” They havewnvited ail the producers and consumers to be present at the gathering; but as the Astor House will not hold 40,000,000 of people it is surmised that there will be a few ab. sentees, However that, “Mr. W. C. Flagg, Presi- dent of the Limois State Farm thousands ot others in the Western and Bastern States,” have thus expressed themselves :— We are all cither producers or consumers, and, as such? mutually interested. Let all commercial bodies, ali jarmers’ organizations, all n and Western manu- facturers and all merchat n this great work, The Senate on “transportation routes,” have expr their approval of the meeting and promised to be present if posstbte in person, or vy delegates, aud have offered the fol- lowing resolution :— Resolved, That with a vie tigations, the Select Coun to th “Yor George 1. F le page. y te its unite facilitating their inves. on Transportation Routes request that the state go chambers of commerc he satel Ways? w of tt rail. ating to Internal ore as may be F. G, Carnes, Nice and | bullis divided into It is to be | J. 1%. Thomas. | tet ’ Association, and | direct acting engines, having two cylinders, 84and 46 inches in diameter, with a stroke of piston of | four feet. Steam is supplied by two balers, each with six furnaces; and independent steam fire and bilge pumps, With aii other improvements, are seem in place in this department. The propeller is 1¢ feet in diameter, and has a pitch of 25 feet. The eight water-tignt compartmen: and the rig ol the vessel is that of a three-mas' briganti The ac modations of the Pennsylvania are of a very superior order, and reflect credit upon the company. There are roomy staterooms, fitted with inciuding electric bells, every ‘convenience, for 72 first class and 32 Ont | passengers. The saloon, amidships, is 2% jong by the — entire breadth of the ship, and is iitted in the most comfortable mane ner, making it an exceedingly agreeable place. | The finish isin hard wood entirely, maple, rose- wood and oak being used in such taste as to pre-~ sent a beautiful contrast. Then there are mirrors in profusion, a plano and Hbrary and other appoint- ments in excellent taste, pedi that it has been the desire not to be behind other lines in providil with a liberal hand everything ornamental as we as necessary. ‘The ladies’ cabin, an agreeable apartment, opens from the main saloon, and it prettily finished and furnished. On deck there is = smoking room, and, in fact, everything has bee! provided which will conduce to the eoinfort passengers. The steerage, equal to an a modation of five handred persons, is thoroughly: ventilated, and every improvement has beem adopted that will add to the pleasantness and privacy of emigrants in @ voyage across the Atlan- te. The Pennsyivanta will leave this port on her return trip to-morrow (Wednesday), the 7th inst. She will be followed by the Virginia, of the sawe class, and the third of the line has been named the: Georgia. This line has been called the “State,” im honor of the United States, and it is reported that much of the stock is owned by Americans. The officers of the Pennsyivania are as (ollows:— captain—A. G. Brags. Ofivers—Kirst, Jofm White; second, Jamea Knight; third, Henry Banks; fourth, Wm. McDou walle . Purser—Thomnas Bowman, Poctor—Wm. Anderson, Engineers—Chief, Donald Med Jolin Anderson, R. M. Findley. Donald. Steward—John L, Hunter, Id; assistants, \d' Robert Mo charged by lis employer, Jacob Van Nostrand, of No. 221 Greene street, of collecting without autho~ rity the sum of $41, and appropriating tie game to its own use, He was cominitted by Judge Cox, im default of $500 bail, to angwer.