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* James Long, Calcuste, Britigh Indie, Bpls- Hag ater, MD., Broomfield, Scotland, Pres- by P. 8. Baber Dublin, Episcopalian. chibald an, m, 0 Rey. mgrega- "G7 Menzies, Eeq., Edinburgh, Presbyterian, 4. Met ni Rev. Henry ites Hammersmith, England, Presbyterian. Rev. David Midlan, Dublin, Presbyterian. Rev, Joseph Parker, D. B., London, Congrega- tovalist. Rey, Thomas Penrose, Readin; Kev. James H. Rigg, D. D., land, Wesleyan. Rey. J. A. Russe, London, Charles Reed, Esq., M. P., London, Congrega- ona. ist. Key. R. Payne Smith, Dean of Canterbury, Epis- Rey WP. Stevenson, Dublin Presbyterian. v. W. F. Steve M 5 Rev, Jonn Sloughton’ D.D., ‘London, Congrega- ‘onal. Narayan Sheshadri, Bombay, India, Preaby- Rev. terian. Rev. J. F. Stevenson, L, L. B., Reading, England, Congregational. H. H, stewart, M, D., Dublin. Rey. R. Stothert, Edinburgh, Presbyterian, Rev. ©. Stovel, London, Baptist. George Sykes, Dublin, Episcepalian, Rev. br, Simpson, Derby, England, Wesleyan. wk Richard Smyth, D. D., Londonderry, Presby- rian, Rev. Henry Tenant, Leeds, Congregationalist. Rev, Char! ier, London, Congregationalist. Rey. William Tyler, London, Vongregationalist, James Tayior, Oldham. Joshua Warren, London. Rey. George Weldon, M. A., kondon, Episcopa- Man, Rev. Joseph Wilkins, Brighton, England, Baptist. an Cette Williams, Esq., London, Congrega- nAlist. Rev. John Wood, Reading, England, Congrega- tionalist. William Worth, Leicester, England, Congrega- tonalist. Esq., Principal of Training Methodist. Vestuminster, Eng- William Yorke, School, Dind a) Madras: Phe eV. . Cool School Societ: mpage ers t, Paris. Rev, Auguste Deco, Rev. George Fisch, D. D., Paris, Union des fev. Theophilus Lorrieenx, Paris, Se Cen- ev. Theophilus jeeux, retary tral Society of Prangalisation, Rev. Elie Robur, Reformed church. Rev. Nathaniel Weiss, Paris, Reiormed church. Rev. John F, B. Combe, Pialoux Drome, France, Methodist. ant Mattbiew Lelievre, Nimes, France, Metho- Rev. E. W. Hitchcock, Paris, Presbyterian. Rev. J. F. Astie, Lausanne, Switzerland, Rev. Frank Conlin, D. D., Geneva, Switzerland. Proiesser (. Pronier, D, b, Geneva, Switzerland. Rev. Eugene Reichel, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Projessor F. Bovet, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Rey. M. Cohen Stuart, Rotterdam. Proiessor Theodore Christiieb, D. D., Bonn, Ger- many. Professor J. Derner, D. D., Berlin, Germany, Professor W. Kraft, D. D., Bonn, Germany. Rev, H. Krummacher, Brandenburg, Germany. Rev. Charles Bogner, Strasburg, Germany. Rev. Leopold Witte, Brandenburg, Germany. Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, Constantinopie. Rev. M. D. Kalopothakes, Athens, Greece. Rev. Matteo Prochet, Genoa, Italy, Waldensian. Rev. John Munro, Waliace, Nova ia, James Taylor, Oldham, England. Rev. Joun Brindley, D, D., L.L. D., England, Rev. James C. Bass, Limerick, Ireland. DEERFOOT DRIVING PARK. Three Trotting Events—Nelly the Win- ner of the $200 Sweepstakes—Celoncl the Mateh of $200, and Charley the Match of $100. Three trots came off at Deerfoot Driving Park yesterday afternoon. The weather was charming and the track in excellent condition. First on the Mist was @ sweepstakes of $200, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, between Mike Rogers’ bay gelding Abe, William McMahon’s gray mare, Flora, Phil. Dufy’s sorre) mare Nelly and C. Weiling’s roan geld- img Puller, The latter was withdrawn. In the pools Nelly was the favorite and Abe second choice, Bie won the first, second and fourth heats and the race. Abe won the third heat. Nelly is a fine young mare, and if required could have distanced her competitors in the second heat. Her owner won conshlerable money on the result. The second event was a match of $200 between William Thom’s bay gelding Colonel and Dr. Heard’s biack gelaing Summit, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. The Colonel had the call im the betting. He won the first, second and fourth heats and the race. ‘The third race was a match of $100 between J. H. Phillips’ bay gelding Epizvotic and Israel Denton’s white gelding Charley, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Epizootic was the favorite before the etart, but fetid won the race without trouble—when he went for it, SUMMARY, Dyerroor DRIVING PARK, NEAR BROOKLYN, L. L, Sept. 26, 1873.—Sweepstakes of $200; mile heats, best three in a in harness; catch weights. Judges—Messrs, Keenan, McLoughlin and Wilson. e Rogers’ b. g. Abe. . Witton MoM n’s gr. m. Flor: 3332 ©. Welling’s OTs. ee vee ar, Mile, First heat... 356 Second heat.. B:0135 Third heat 2365 36 Fourth hea! 2:63.56 MMARY. Same Day.—Match of $200, mile heats; best three in five, in harness. ‘William Thom’s b. g. Colonel. r1i21 Dr, Heard’s bik. g. Summit. 2212 mit 1:22 1:28 on 23573 SUMMARY. Same Day.—Match of $100; mile heats, best three in five in harness :— Israel Denton’s w. g. Charley wee 2LUL J, H. Phillips’ b. g. Epizootic. 712242 quarter” Mile. First heat. 46 Second heat ‘Third heat. Fourth heat, PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS. Third Day of the Fall Trotting Meet- ing—The Events on the Card—Pool Selli Last Evening. ‘This is third anc last day of the fall trotting meeting at the Prospect Park Fair grounds. The events on the programme are such that the amuse- ment must be of the most interesting nature. First on the list is a purse of $1,000, for horses that never beat 2:45, mile heats, best three in five, in harness; $500 to the first, $250 to the second, $150 to the third and $100 to the fourth horse, En- tered for this are the sorre! gelding I Guess So, Day mare Lucca, bay mare Miss Miller, cream gelding Prince, sorrel gelding Port Washington, brown gelding Versailles, bay gelding Trustee, brown gelding Cheston, brown gelding Black Basbaw, gray gelding Hopeful, bay gelding Everett Ray, bay mare Nettie Walton, chestnut mare Lizzie Keeler and bay mare Guinare, Winding up the sport is a purse of $3,000, for horses that never beat 2:20; mile heats, best three im five, in harness; $1,500 to first, $700 to second, $500 to third and $300 to fourth horse. In this there are entered the bay stallion W. H, Allen, bay mare Huntress, bay mare Lady Banker, bay mare Gazelle, bay mare Lulu, bay gelding Sensation and Didck feiat Camors. Of these Camors, Lulu and oe ae a enithesa,, ts last ‘ ht at the sold on these events last a rooms of Mr. GPamberiin, Bo. 1,146 Broadway, and at Johnson’s, T the f allowing 'wenty-eighth street and Broadway, Jonnson’s. 50 55 50 16017 18 Field... first race will be called at two o'clock sharp. pees ferry, via hear Brooklyn, mile heats, Coney Island cars, from smith sient, ran direct to the RCT PARK FAIR GRot L. L, September 26.—Matc! ‘beat three in five, in harness, Jai ’s br. m. Lill a Carrell br. m. Nelle ATTEMPTED MURDER BY BURGLARS, CoorrrsTown, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1873. ‘The honse of Edward Edwards was entered at &p early hour this morning by three men and robbed of over $200 and a watch. Mr, Edwards was shot twice by the burglars and dangerously File CERO Y CEL A UP idl wounded, 60 55 50° } | tions between these Powers as wil NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, “NATIONAL INTERESTS. Important , Subjects for the Na- tional Board of Trade to Consider. Congress A: caled to for Assistanee by the Leading Merchants of the Country. Cuicaao, Sept. 24, 1873. Mr. Charles Randolph, Secretary*of the National Board of Trade, has just handed to the HERALD correspondent the official programme of recom" mendations and regolutions to be considered at the annual mecting of the National Board, to be held in this city on the 21st of October, 1873. As many of these are of great importance to the com- mercial community, I have taken the trouble to summarize them for the benefit of the millions of the HERALD reavers, ‘The Executive Committee submit a resolution urging that Congreés be memorialized to establish & Department of Commerce. ‘The Philadelphia Board of Trade submit a resolu- tion calling on the goverhment to establish a Ne- partment of Trade, co-ordinate with the other de- partments of the government, AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING. The Executive Council submit a resolution reia- tive to American shipping interests. Its resolved that a just regard for the increase of American shipping interesta should cause Congress to en- courage American shipbuilders and shipowners by an allowance of bounties for building ships, whether the materials used in construction be of foreign or American production, so that the Ameri- can shipbuilder may be placed as nearly as possible upon the same footing as his competitors in other countries. It is proposed that the National Board renew its recommendation to Congress that all articles of foreign product needed for subsistence and general use on board vessels engaged in foreign trade be allowed to be withdrawn without payment of duty from bonded warebeuse, and shat justice to the sbipowning interest and the best wel- fare of the national commerce alike demand that the rights be conceded by law to Amertean citizens to purchase tonnage wherever built or owned, and to place it under the protection of their own fag. UPON THE QUESTION OF CURKENCY reform the Boston Board of Trade submit the foi- lowing Resolved, That we regard it as the imperative and ressing duty of the national government to take imme- Biate measures for the reform of the currency, aud the restoration of the specie standard of values; and we earnestly entreat Co! 38 no longer to postpone the Jegislation vo essential to our, inaustrial, economical and ANancial salety and grosperiy. Resolved, That if Congress should be unable to agree in regard to the legislation most suitable for the purpose, no time should be lost in calling to their aid the best financial wisdom of the country, and that ac Pot of polfuicians, but of practical and experience chants, bankers, and men of business, should be pointe | to remain permanently in session until the sired end is accomplished. TRANSPORTATION. The question of increasing and cheapening the facilities or transportation between the interior and the sea board—a question, by the way, which has assumed vast proportions—will be agitated,the Executive Council offering a resolution requesting Congress to pass such laws as shall prevent any change in rates without suficient previous notice, and as shall simplify the means by which redress can be obtained by the weakest individual against the strongest corporation. O! course, such a reso- lution will readily pass The Executive Councti will recommend the re- newal of trade relations, on the reciprocal basis, between the United States and the Dominion of Canada. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce invite at- tention to the marme accident whereby the steamer Philadelphia, drawing fifteen feet of wa- ter, struck in July last upon a rock near the mouth of the Detroit River, within the Canadian jurisdic- tion, sustaining a large loss and disclosing a necessity on the part of the government for more thorough supervision of the waters named, to the end that the enlarged and enlarging needs of our common iniand navigation shall have protecwon from such easily ascertained and easily removed dangers. Milwaukee asks that this matter be laid before the Dominion Board oi Trade, to ask that it put forth its efforts to secure from tie Dominion government the removal of this and similar ob- structions endangering the navigation of the com- mon waters, ‘ap: de- THE BANKRUPT LAW. The Philadelphia Board of Trade ask for an amendment to the bankrupt law so that 11 be made constitutional, or for its entire repeal. Phiia deiphia will also offer recemmendations to the eneral Government on the subject of he National Banging Law, with a view tosuch amendments as will lead to an equalization of its benefits, and to the correction of sneh detects in its working as experience may have suggested. The Chamber of Uommerce, New Orleans, suggests that all States so limit their capacity to contract public debts as to establish their credit. ‘The Mobile Board of Trade allege that internal | improvements are now made without system, spas- modically and in great waste of the public money, and suggest that Congress be petitioned to estab- lish a Bureau of Internal Improvement analagous to the coast surveys, to make preliminary surveys, and suggest a compretiensive and thorough system oi improvement. THE TARIFF LAWS. Toe Cincinnati Board of Trade want Congress memoriatized to so revise the tariff laws that the duties on commissions, paekages and cost of get- ting goods on shipboard be abolished and ad valorem duties be assessed only on the net cost of the goods, thereby greatly {facilitating entry | of foreign importations and doing away, in .@ great measure, with the necessity of brokers, The Chicago Board of Trade will agitate for the simplifying ef the laws and regula- tions of the government in regard to the export of spirits, The Executive Committee desire to have the Board reafirm its conviction that all capitation taxes collected trom or no immigrants are odious and ought to be abolished. QUARANTINE—LAKE NAVIGATION. ‘The Mobile Board of Trade suggests that Con- gress establish a uniform system of quarantine under national supervision, for the reason that no | quarantine measures on our seaports can be e ive against the importation of diseases with- out uniformity in time and metood. ‘ ala Milwaakee Board of Trade submits a resolu- mn: ‘That the National Board, through its Execative Coun- cil, ectfully memorialize Congress to amend the laws regulating the coasting trade of the lakes, #0 as to re- auire masters of vessels, in all case arrival at or departure trom any ports States where there are custom houses, an the proper officers manifests of cargoes taken om board, or discharged at such ports. + The reason assigned for the desired change is that the laws have been amended in the interest of certain steamboat and towboat owners, and per- mit vessels having @ clearance from one port to any other port within the United States to take on board and discharge cargo, iu part or in whole, at any intermediate port or Perey est reporting uch loading or unloading to the customs oftices, rendering the oficial records of our great lake commeroe practically worthless and doing other mage. OUB SURPLUS PRODUCE, The Chamber of Commerce, New Orleana, 18 anxtous for reciprocal trade relations with Spanish American colonies, The resolutions submitted on this point may be bolled down to this shape :—The surplus productions of the United States are far in excess of the home capacity to consume; it is the common policy of ions to provide a foreign market demand for surplus; the countries opon this jtiment hi In part, been prevent from takit he surplus by an exclusive policy on their ae Which compels us to pay large balances in specie for the productions of those countries, while their own products cannot be giver in ex- change, owing to the foreign exclusive policy com- plained of. The Executive and Senate should therefore be requested to modify the treaties now ak tate the governments of the United States or adopt such ‘tal_conven- secure recip- rocal commerce between the United States and the Spanish colonial territories of Cuba and Porto Rico and a continuance of the amicable relations which have #o long subsisted between them, New Or- leans requests the appointment of a committee of five, wi rt to confer with a similar commit powe! tee acting in bebalf of the Chamber of Commerce of Havana, or any other corporate commercial body within the dominion of Spain, or of any other power on the American Coutinent er jacent thereto, or with any authorized committee oi the within such dominion, upon the rela- ught to exist between the United tions tes and the American continental or insular Stal possessions natural and nents. The Philadelphia Board of Trade asks a recom. mendation {rom the national to the local boards of the United States to u eir utmost endeavors in bebalfof the centennial anniversary of our Dect ba of Independence, to be held in Phiade! 1876. im 1871 State interference in municypal affairs excites attention at Philadelphia, whose board sends a se- Ties of resojutions upon the subject. The pream- bles are in substance that the judicious expendi- of reais for the trade and for the cial highways of the two conti- ture of public money ts of the firat importance in MAG Sap REOMR EIS cables. by cqn- | fining taxation within the limits indicated by ac- tual public necessities, The claim ts now wade that loca) municipal interests are at the mercy of State Legislatures, composed of mea having no commen- surate interest to warrant their unqualitied exer- cise of such large powers; the exercise of such wers in rs Sree aye leads conflict between municipal and Jatures, and provokes other undesirable results; pa Courts in the different ao have not a. rmly agreed supposed righ State Legislatures to exercise such rer “te resolutions are that tite cities of she United States are profoundly concerned in the exact ascertain, Ment of the rights and duties of municipalities in relation vo State authonty, and that the opinion of the Board is that the interests of the pubite wtij best be served by the least possible interfer State Legislatures with municipal mprevements, street regulations and other matters purely in character. . MYTHICAL FIRMS. The Chi: Board calls attention to the fact that the mercantile interests of the country are g! i embarrassed in dealing with parties doing busi ness under a firm name in ascertaining who are personally interested and responsible for the obii- gations conferred by the firms, Iv suggests as a Temedy that the National Board tition State Legislatures for the enactment of a law, providin, that all persons doing or carrying on any kind ol business under a tirm name shall be required to register with the County Clerk, or some other de- signated oficer in the county wherein such frm has its principal business, the name of such firm and of each individnal member thereof or in- terested therein, and that suitable penalties be prescribed to insure the observance of such laws. Philadelphia suggests the enactment of general and uniform manuiacturing laws in the different States of the Union, the essential feature of which shail be the limitation of the liability of stock- holders to the amount of capital stock invested under their provisions. ‘The New Orleans Chamber cails attention to the Mississippi River levees. Its resolution on the subject requests the attention of Cougress to the assistance of the great measure of improving the river’s banks, and asks for the enactment of such Jaws as May be Decessary, to the intent that when- ever the Stayesof Louisiana, Mississippi and Ar- kansas, or affy one of them, shal) provide by law for jeveeing the banks of the river within their respective limits, and for the issue of bonds 10 the sum of $1,000 each, payabie within thirty years from the date thereol, with interest coupons, at the rate of aix per cent per annum, which bonds are to be used or the sole purpose of defraying the expenses of such levering, and shail also in such Jaws provide for an anoual tax tor a sum sufticient to pay the interest and create a sinking fund to liquidate the prinalpal, then the United States shall guarantee the bonds so issued te an amount not exceeding, for the States of Louisiana and Missis- sippi, $10,000,000 each, and for the State of Ar- kansas $5,000,000, DEALING WITH THE INDIANS. The Chicago Board suggests the discussion of the Indian topic, offering the joilowing: Whereas it js the duty of the government and people of the United States to inaugurate and execute such a policy toward the Indian tribes occupying the national territories a8 will most rapidly bring them under the dominion and useges of our laws and civilization; and whereas experience has shown that the Indian tribes may be assimilated to the prevathng civilization of the country, and be gradually brought to a recognition of the highest social and civil relations of life; and whereas by the exclusive occupancy of the Indian territory under tribal laws the hand of industry and the arts of civilized lite have been excluded from‘a large area in the midst of the Continent—an area rich in agricultural and’ ca mineral resources, with highly tavorable climatic advan- | tages, and whose exhaustless treasures need to be developed to supply the surrounding and incoming white Population now pressing into the Southwest, and thu: contribu prosperity. wer whole country; an whereas the enlightened and cultured among the tribe: have indicated their unequivocal desire for the of our civilization in their midst their struggle tor @ higher soc whereas the President of the United States in nual Message did invoke such legislation by Congress as will contritute to these high purposes; therefore, Resolved, That Congress be and is hereby respectfully memorialized to establish withont delay a territorial government over the country known as Titory, bringing the people thereof under Jurisdiction of the United as will secure—first, A homestead t Indian family, the title to which cannot for a designated term of years, Second, The sale of the remaining lands on such terms as will induce the rapid settlement and development of the Territory: the pro- ceeds of suid sales to be held or invested by the govern- ment as a tund, the intercet on which shall pe disiributed nnually and equitably among the-several tribes. Third, he establishment of free schools, to the end that the fodian may learn the arts and occupations of elvilized fe. The Executive Conncil will recommend a reduc- tion of and uniformity in postal rates; the estab- lishment of the postal telegraph, and @ uniform system of weights and measures, It will thus be seen that the measures suggested for the consideration of the National Board of Trade are of unusual importance, and to their dis- cussion should be breugbt all the wisdom and patience that can be concentrated in the important assembly. BROOKLYN’S PARKS, KR AR Annual Report of the Commissioners— The East Side Land. ‘The Park Commissioners of Brooklyn are prepar- ing their report of the work done on the varieus parks during the past year. The following are among the main features of the report:—In con- sequence of the last $500,000 of the $2,000,000 appropriated by the Legislature toward the beanti- fying and embellishing of Prospect Park being | nearly used up the work is going along siowly, and many improvements which the Commissioners have in view must necessarily be laid over until such time as the citizens of Brooklyn see fit to assist in the completion of @ park superior in its present state and natural advantages to anything of the kind on the Continent, There is some planting yet to be done on the | south and west sides of the Park and on Lookout Hill ere the work for 1873 be completed; but that cannot be done till the proper time comes, which is during the month of October. The question has been asked frequently of the Commissioners and | officials when the work on the Park will be com- pleted. Two very important features of the embel- lishment are not yet commenced—viz., theerection of the hotel and refectory on the south side of Lookout Hill, and the observatory, which will be erected on the spot now occupies by the bell tower. These buildings will be of elaborate design and, naturally, expensive. The plans of them were pub- lished two years ago. In addition to these is the consideration of build- ing @ Wall around the Park of substantial and handsome stone, the present common wooden fence being not only out f place in connection with the general appearance of the Park itsel/, but even offensive to the eye after having looked at some of the interior work which engineering skill and good taste have produced, ‘The Commissioners will offer for sale the east side land, consisting of 117 acres, or 1,404 lots, lying east of Fiatbush avenue, as soon as a favor- able market presents itse! ‘These lots will, it is claimed, realize $1,500 each tm ashort time, and the sum total of a@ successful sale would be suficient to insure the completion of the Park. Tne Mayor ifin favor of letting the land in ques- tion remain idie for # year or two. Comptroller | Schroeder and President Stranaban, of the Park Commission, coincide in this view of the propriety of delaying the sale until the panic has passed away and the market Is ri In relation to the Sprague checks which wer manded by District Attorney Britton from the fereon Car Spring Company,” the prosecuting off- cer of Kings county, Mr. Winchester Britton, made the following statement yesterday to a reporter :. “( Mr. Sprague received trem the Comptroller cer- tain certificates of indebtedness—known as de- ficiency certificates— as cash. Instead of disposing of them ’for cash, and putting that into the city treasury for the benefit of the city, he borrowed money on them for the Trust Company, using them as collateral, drawing upon the same mis own checks, and using such checks for purposes of his own specalatior ‘Th ist Company were reimbursed by collect- tag the certificates of indebtedness from the city n they fell due. Not finding these checks in the Trust Company, where they ought to have been, and learning that they were retained by the Jefferson Car Spring Company I sent for them, but they were not delivered to me. I sent again, after a d or two, reminding the officers of the Car 1p ‘that unless they were de- livered they could be procured by the Grand Jury and obtained in that way, As the result of that ex-Jn E. Moore, who is counsel for Sprague, and seems to be counsel likewise for rodauced them to me yester: rely corroborative of the si Hoihing new to report in. ine Tressur new to re} for several days past, and all the published reports parperting to ave | information on the subject are ‘Without any foundation whatever. AMERICAN BOARD OP FOREIGN MISSIONS. Mrnnsarouis, Minn., Sept. 26, 1873. ‘The third and last day of the meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions closed yester- day. The morning session was opened with the reportsof the different committees of the Mission in the different flelds supported by the Beard and addresses from distinguished gentlemen present and retired missionaries. Senator Buckingham, of the Committee, made an able speech on the work among the Indi: of America. He spoke of the peace policy of the government, Sad said the President had inscribed on his banner “No more Indian wars.” He #aid the poticy of the Prestdent was to gather the In- dians on reservations and protect and educate them, General Whittlesey and General 0. 0. Howard also spoke of the work among the Indians and tes- tifled to the necessity of more workers, The old Board of OMeers was then re-clected, Though tnis was the firsgmeeting of the Boara ‘West o/ the Mississippi it is geueraliy acknowledged W be agreat success, | | i | | that the employ¢s of the hotel bad THE COURTS. Counsel for Mr. Heinrich, who was arrested several months ago on a charge of having ob- structed one of Commissioner Davenport's election «epnties 1p the discharge of his duty, complains tijag) He cannot get Davenport to dispose of the ¢ Apally, although his client, he states, is under I ail, in. the sum of $10,000 all the while, Counsel claims that the matter ought to be determined without further delay, 's The Oyer and Terminer Grand Jury were re- ‘egived in Court by Judge Ingraham, at twelve o’clock yesterday, The foreman handed in a large batch of indictments, including fresh ones against the alleged Central Railroad bond forgers, Yates ‘and Johnson, and some against parties not yet in custody, who are believed to be their confederates, Yesterday the trial im the General Sessions was begun of Michael Foran and James Broderick, charged with perpetrating an eutrage upon Ellen Stone, on the Ist of this month, at a lumber yard, corner of Thirtieth street and Eleventh avenue, A number of witnesses were called for the defence by Mr. Mott, prisoners’ counsel, The case will be finished on Monday, Daniel Lyons, a little boy, whe stadded Jeremiah O'Connor, on the 29th of July, pleaded guilty and was sent to the House of Refuge. UNTED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Charge of Ceounterfeiting—The Case of Edmai Walker and His Family. Belore Commisstoner Davenport. Yesterday the examination of Edmund Walker, his wife, son and daughter, on a charge of having been concerned in counterfeiting near Tremont, Westchester county, was commenced before Com- missioner Davenport, The accusation against Walker is that he had in his possession plates for the printing of counterfeit money, and the charge against the wife, sop and daughter is to the effect that tMey were detected in passing bogus stamps. Mr. L, W. Emmerson appeared as counsel for the defendants; and W. A. H. Purdy, United States Assistant District Attorney, prosecuted on behalf of the government. The evidence tended to show that @ Week ago jast Saturday night, Mrs, Walker and her daughter, purchased ata store @ tin cup and paid ten cents for ‘t, giving in payers a afty cent stamp, which was alleged be bad; at another place they bought some roast beef, offering in payment for the same, a fifty cent counterfeit stamp; and atathird store they purchased some peaches, The person who sold the peaches did not like tbe money offered in payment, whereupon, Mrs. Walker said she would give good money, which she did. producing a genuine ten cent stamp and a@ five cent piece. The owner of the store, however, Was not satisfied, and as soon as they left he followed and caused Mrs, Walker and her daughter to be arrested and lodged in the station house. On being searched no bad money pa! feppe upon ti oe ee the mean fame, boy rom the store where the twa women bad last been went out with wyantare = Picked pe Package containing twelve f(ty cent counterieit stamps. He bronght the package to the police station, saying, ‘1 have found that stuf Did you (addres- sing the young woman) throw it away? She burst out crying, and said ‘! threw it away.” Thereupon @ police oMcer began to question her, asifhe knew the whole history of the affair, and the result was that the officers, on going to the house of Walker, found the plate already alluded to, It was not proved that the young woman actually passed any ofthe bad money, and there was no evidence at all to show that the son had any band in the affair, and he was accordingly discharged. The women were held to await the action of the Grand Jury, and the examination into the charge a8 cain the father will be entered upon next week, SUPERIOR COURT. The Hotel versus The Baking Business. Before Judge Curtis. Allen S. Barnum and J. N, Green, proprietors of Barnum’s Hotel, corner of Broadway and Twen- tieth street, have commenced an action in the carrying on the baking business, as he now con- ducts it, at No. 910 Broadway, adjoining the hotel. | They aver that at one o’clock im the morning the baking commences and continues about two hours; that during that time loud noises and sounds prevail, which prevent the guests of the hotel from siecptng, thas making rooms on that side practically useless, and injuring the plaintifts’ business, the other side, it is set forth that the baking for thirteen years, and no complaint was wade by | the seven: previous proprietors of the hotel; that | no machinery is used, ali the bread being je by band, though he serves 1,000 families daily; that the work is done heiw ilve o’clock a ht and | four the next mornir —:e noise being the same all this time, and is no move at any time than is inci- dental to any first cluss bakery. It is alleged also been in the habit of throwing robbish and bottles on' the roof of the bakery and breaking windows; that fre- juently his store is assailed by disagreeable smeils from the hotel kitchen, so that Mr. Russeli’s cus- tomers have asked him whether there was a fat- boiling establishment in the vicinity, and that a Maueard roof, recently put on the hotel building, greatly increased the fire risk of the adjoining A motion was made yesterday for an injunction against further carrying on the vakery business at that place. Decision reserved. SUPERIOR COURT— CHAMBERS. The East River Floating Baths. Before Judge Monel, Judge Monell has rendered a decision upon the application to continue an injunction against the Captain of the Port, restraining the removal of the floating baths at pier No. 55 East River, owned by Frederick Hoeft and others, The removal was threatened on the ground that the baths were an obstruction to the pier, as the pier was used for discharging large quantities of marble brought from Italy. Judge Meneil holds that the Dock De- artment, which gave permission to leave the bath jouge there, had power from the State Legislature to do 80, and unless the space was needed for com- merce and the occupying of it did not essentially interfere with the free and common use of the river, the possession thus obtained could not be interfered with, it being within the power of the State to make such grant. That the space was so needed, or that it did go interfere with naviga- tion, was a mutter of fact to be established. There- fore be continues the injunction. Decisions. By Judge Curtis. Grant vs. Hubbell.—As to matter in answer stricken out. See memorandum, ‘Towusend vs, Martin.—Motion to make answer more definite and certain grantea, Ross vs. Moore.—Motion granted. Buschell vs, Smith.—Order granted. McDermott vs. McDermott.—Motion granted. McUullogh vs. Norwood.—Motion denied. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Joseph F. Daly. Sophia Clifford vs. Isaac Schweizer.—Motion de- nied, Without costs. See opinion. James H. Sackett vs, Selah Hiler.—Injunction | premises, | continued on terms, MARINE COURT—PART |. te Imsurance Companics— Action on a Policy. Before Judge Curti: Jacob Goldman vs. The Fireman’s Fand Insurance Company.—Thbis action was brought by plaintia to recover upon ® policy of insurance, It appears that at a time stated, as alleged by plaintiff, a fre broke out in the dwelling house in which he re- sided, and his personal property, consisting of and ‘urniture, bo ag hry He was Important baste insured to the extent of Defendant denied the damage to the | Sep denied the value of the same, and set up that the plainti was guilty of fraud in his sworn statement to the insurance com- pany, and that thereby the policy became vitiated under the express terms of the instrament, Judge Curtis charged the jury that it was incum- bent on the plaintiff to estavish the identity of the property destroyed with that policy, to show the value of the sequent loss by the fire. The |i nucence of every man until hi established, and the burden of proot is on the d dant cor- paee to show that the plaintif® made, as al- jeged, a faise and fraudulent return to the insur- ance company. The general rule of law that gov- erns in that behalf is that the jury must be satisned that the plainti@ wilfaily, with intent to defraud, made the statement and swore to it; that a mere error in judgment, an honest mistake in the ab- sence of intent to defraud, would not bar his right of seeerery sor such an amount as he had shown his loss to be. ‘The jury retired, and after an absence of about an hour gens word, through their foreman, as fol- lows:—Jury say they cannot agree ;. that they have stood elevén to one since they went out, and the one is 80 pigheaded that he ts not fitted to Leona jury.” But in about half an hour after this extra- ordinary communication to the Court they came in with a verdict for plaintiff in $450, ARINE COURT—PART 2. A Plevrant Start, but Most Unpleasant Ending. Before Judge Shea, Edward Drummond vs, Rober} R, Hastic apd Superior Court to restrain James Russell from” oO business has been carried on there in the same way | 5 Elliott Mantle.—Piaintiff, who is a merchant tailor, doing business in Canal street, alleges that, on the 8th of this month, while somewhat under the influ- ence of liquor, he was invited by the defendants to take @ coach ride. He objected, stating that he had no money With him and did not wish to en- croach upon their hospitality; but they insisted and forced bim into the coach, They stopped af two or three drinking places and all became pretty drunk, Everything was pleasant among them antil something was said about paying for the coach, when plaintiff told them, as he had said before entering the coach, that he had no money with him and could not pay for it, whereupon Hastie strutk him a violent blow on the head, and he knew nothing of what occurred after that, Mr. Williard, the coach driver, testified that, by direction of one of the defendants, he stopped at the hotel, corner of Broadway and Eighth street, where the defendants got out and went into the hotel. After waiting ten or fifteen minutes, the defendants not appearing, he went into the hotel and found that they bad gone out St apecher door, He then went back to and on opening the door found the plain- tif in ad insensible condition. He then, by the advice of the hotel proprietor, started for the station house, but before arrivii there the plaintiff came to his senses and informe the driver where he lived, and he took him home. Beth his e; were blackened, and bis head was bruised in laces. Hastie, one of the de- the assault, but said the plain- first aggressor, and he was forced to do it in self-defence. The Court, in charging the jury, said:—‘‘No man can get drunk or riotous in the company of other: to which drunkenness he has contributed, an then say that he is not in some sense the author of that injury which the pies has caused his frfend to commit upon him.” jury found a verdict for ue detendants, The Court adjourned for the m, MARINE COURT—CHAMBERS. Deciai By Judge Joachimsen. Samuel vs. Birnbdaum.—The motion must be ranted; the judgment is void on its face; th Jourt had no jurisdiction, and has none now. Mr. Sampter endorses the papers as plaintif’s attor- ney. It is, therefoxe, not an appearance, We can- not gtve costs, Donnelly vs. Malloy.—On payment of $10 costs of inquest and disbursements and $10 costs opposing motion, answering within three days and taking short netice of trial for first Monday o! October next, the default may be opened, levy to stand as security. If not complied with, motion denied, with $10 costs. Van Hora vs. Sanborn Machine Company, Bern- stein vs. Hartman, Malcolm ve. Canan, Campbell vs. Maltette, Pfeiffer ¢s. Stein, Gould vs. Tyson, Woolsey vs Agresta, Ferguson vs. Healey, Ferri- gan 113 Bernstein vs. McDonnell.—Orders granted, Weber vs. Blalsdell.—Order granted; striking out defendant's answer as trivolous and ordering judgment tor plaintif for amount claimed, with costs and $10 coats of motion. Somers vs. Wets.—Order granted denying |mo- tien to vacate order of arrest. Howes vs. Osborne.—Order striking out answer as shown and for judgment granted, with $10 costs of motion. . Selmson vs. Bischoff.—Motion granted, with $10 costs. JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. The Misfortunes of a Stranger. Agentleman name’ Edwin Fuller, residing in Philadelphia, recently came to New York, andy after a conv?vial entertainment with a party of friends, at an early hour on Wednesday morning last strolled into Bleecker street, in a state of in- ebriety. Here he was met by Charles Barker, of 114 Bleecker street, who, observing his con- dition, joined him, and induced him to go to tne Devos House. Here the stranger was assisted to @ room and at once retired to bed. When he awoke at a late hour he found bis watch and $225 in money had been taken from him. He at once proceeded to the Eighth Ward Station House and stated his case, when Captain Williams despatched an officer to look up the victim’s quondam friend. Barker was subsequently arrested and the watch ound in his possession. He admitted he had taken the same, but in order to preserve it from some dis- honest persons. He was taken before Justice Cox, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, yesterday who committed him tn delault of $2;000 bail to answer. YORKVILLE POLICE COURT. In the case of William Hawkins, charged with stabbing William J, Connolly a few days since, ball has been accepted in $1,000, Patrick McCauley, No. 1,907 Third avenue, being the bondsman. The security given is a lot worth $7,500, situate in 143d FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD COLLISION, Two Engines on the Midland Road Rush Into Each Other. A Freight Train and a Passenger Train in D2+ bris—Names of the Wounded—How the Disaster Occurred—The Scene—Ter- rible Result of Carelesmess Somewhere A Slow Watch the Cause, A collision occurred yesterday morning, shortly alter six o'clock, on the Midland Ratiroad, a few hundred yards from the Homestead station on the Northern line and about half # mile from New Darham, which resuited in seridus, if not fatal, injuries to three or four men and the total wreck, of the two celliding engines and of several cars. One of the trains w: freight train going West- ward and the other a passenger train bound for Jersey City. A dense fog overhung the scene of the disaster, and thongh this was by no means the cause of the collision yet it had something to do with preventing the engineers from seeing shead to any distance, ‘Down brakes!” was whistled when the two trains were but a few hundred yards of each other; but, of course, such a signal at such @ time was perfectly useless, The freight train had ten cars, the passenger train only two, one being @ combined smoking and baggage car, Both engineers came along at their usual speed, and the shock on colliding was ter- Tiflo, at forty persons were in the passenger train, The force of the collision waa so great that the tenders of both-engines were smashed from the engines, the tender of the freight train being thrown up over the engine. The front car of the passenger train was telescoped, and three of the freight cars were smashed to pieces, Both locomo- tives were so crushed and broken as to be almos& worthless in the future. The brakeman, & man named Brock, on the pas= senger train, a green hand, stood by his post ang was badly bruised. He was extricated with some aiMculty from the débris, John Kelly, the engineer, of the passenger traia, had his left arm broken an& his side seriously injured. The fireman of the pas- senger train, Nathan Soledate, escaped by jump- ing. Cornelius Langdon, engineer of the freight train, jumped and escaped unhurt. Albert Meis- ner, fireman of the freight train, received serious, injuries about the body and had some of his bones broken. It is feared he will not recover. J. 3. MeNeill, the station agent at New Durham, on the northern road, who was on the passenger train jor New York, received a fracture of the skull and had arm broken. The doctors have pronounced his wounds as fatal, io conductor of the freight train was J. H. Gil- 3! ay and of the passenger trata 0. P, Fisk. Neither was hurt. A few others sustained com- aratively slight injuries, those who suffered most. being Abraham Charles, slightly burt in the eye; Cornelius Day, fo Tia hurt in the leg; 7. New- man, left arm slightly bruised; Mr. Gracie, slight cuts in the head; R, Ames, ankle injured; W. Burt, foot hurt, A train of the Northern road, that passed soon after the accident, took the passengers of the Mid- land train on board and conveyed them to Jersey City. The injuries sustained by Kelly and Meisner were found to be so serious that these two men “on their arrival in Jersey City were at once conveyed to the Sisters’ Hospital. At @ late hour last night both men were suifering very very severely. James 5. McNeill, who resides aS New Durham, was taken to his home, but scarce & hope is entertained of his repovery. Brock, the vrakeman, is at St. Mary’s Hospital, in Jersey City, in @ precarious coadition. ie acene at tho place of collision showed what a frightful accident had occurred. The engine of the freight train, broken and bent, lay until about half-past three o’clock in the afternoon, embedded in the road. ‘The parta of the three freight cars were in a débris scattered about on every side. Barrels of four, rovision boxes were piled uo eld, having been caretully col lected from the heaps of timbers and+metal that strewed the track. 1 track itself was broken in several places and workmen were coreged during led or bags of sugar and ina adjoining street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Dr. Bowden, of No. 819 East Nineteenth street, sent a certificate to the Court, saying he had examined the day in effect the nee ‘epairs, so that trains might pass unimpede At about four o’clock the track was so far improved as to be tirm enough to allow trains to travel over it. During the morning and early af- ternoon trains bad to stop at either side of the young Connolly, and thinks that his Bpeedy re- covery may be expected ‘4 no unfavorable results occur trom the wound,” which 18 in the side, AD application was made by the Jather of the wounded young man for a warrant for the arrest of Hawkins’ father, but it was refused, The “Baby Farming” Case. | Aceording to adjournment this case came up again yesterday for examination; but the prosecu- | tion having been unable to find Dr. Wooster, an important witness, the counsel for the people moved for another adjournment, which was granted untij next Monday week. ManinE Covrt—Held by Judges Shea and Cur- tis—Non-enumerated motions and appeals from motions.—Anton Beuner ve. Isaac H. Herts, Same vs. Same, Frank Engert vs. Isaac H. Herts, Henry McDougall ve, Henry Klein, Joseph W. Bray vs. Byron U. Pickett, eobold Sanders ve. Joseph Schnuttaker, John Kaiser, Jr., vs. Frank Hoey, Jobn M. Jones vs, Wiliam Ferguson, Nathaniel Kelly vs. Isaac R. Irwin, Andrew J. Crogsry vs. Isaac J. Salomon. a ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1873, ‘The following is the day calendar of the Commis- sion of Appeals for Saturday, September 27:—Nos. 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, The Commission adjourned until to-morrow at ten A. M, COURT OF APPEALS CALENDAR. ALBANY, Sept. 26, 1873. The following is the Court of Appeais day caien- wreck, and other cars were required forthe rest of the journey westward or eastward. ‘The cause of the accident is not The freight train was, it 1s said, abou! behind time, and the passenger train was rR on time at New Durham, passing that station at 6: W. ©, Lewis, the train despatcher for the road, arrived at Homestead soon alter the eccurrence and the conductors of the two trains at once ae- livered up to im their watches. Mr. Lewis is of opinion that these watches could not have been tampered with, for both conductors had been, since the accident, closely watching each other lest a change of time might have been made with the watches, It was found on examination that the watch of the conductor of the freight train was nine minutes slow, and that between this watch and that of the engineer of the freight train there was nearly eight minutes’ difference. The conductor of the passeny ain bad his watch at correct time. Be- fore starting @ train it is usual for the conductor to compare his ‘‘time’’ with that of the engineer, but om this occasion it seems thts was not done. A rumor was in circulation yesterday that Conductor Langdon was told at Jersey City by Brakeman Brock that the latter had not the true time, and that the reply was simply @ sharp retort about his 1a to “run that train.’ It would therefore seem to be evident that this collision occurred because @ conductor happened not to think it necessary to set his watch correctly. The Midland road has obly track, and, from the West End to New Durham, where there i8 a switch, is avout three miles distance. The freight train, it is said, should have ran these three miles in three minutes in order to prevent the collison. ‘The wonder is that the passengers op the train for Jersey City escay 80 weil. ately only to be in ti car, and fact that the thé wounded 8 few men happenet to this is due t! dar jor September 20:—Nos. 14, 11, 16, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28. § REPUBLICANS. A Noisy Meeting ef the German Republi- can Central Committee. The German Republican Central Committee William Gelimann presiding, held @ meeting at No. 49 «Bowery last night, when the Execu- tive Committee, through Leo Weil, submitted a report, inciuding resolutions, which were adopted in substance as follows:—That they endorse the platform and principles adopted by the Republican State Convention at Utica and the candidates nom- inated by that Convention for the State ticket; further censaring the omission and refusal of the Board to confirm or te take some action in reference to the nominations of Mayor jor Police Justices, declaring that omission involves a violation of the law, and ti it is not in the province of the Aldermen to deter- mine the constitutionality of the law. A resolution wi Iso passed denouncing the projected new City Prison as @ scheme that ought not be car- ried out, the ground that it will in- volve an unnecessary expense of millions of the public treasury. An excited and irritating discussion was entertained, for @ considerable length of time, on a motion to expel two members, deiegates of the Kighth Assembly district, in con- sequence of some scandalous affair in which they are alleged to bave Been involved, and no definite conclusion was arrived at, BELIOS OP 818 JOHN FRANKLIN. New Beprorp, Mass., Sept. 26, 1873, ‘The bark Glacier arrived to-day from a whaling voyage in Hudson Bay, bringing as passengers Captain Parker, James Connor, George Wood and Frank Potter, the officers and fourteen of the is 80 small, A SCHOOL TROUBLE. The Seventeenth Ward School Griev~ ance—Faurther Action by the Germans. At Concordia Hall, in avenue A, another public meeting was held last night for the purpose of re- ceiving a report of a committee appointed at a previous meeting to investigate the trqubles occa- sioned by the want of sufficient amd proper school accommodation in the public @ghools in the Seventeenth ward, The committee were com- posed of Michael Hahn, A. Steinmuelier, Charlies Weltz, F. V. Euring and F. G. Langbein, and ,from the report submitted, it appeared that they found that, since the reopening of the public schools at the close of the vacation on the ist of this month, some 1,400 children were excluded from the public schools in the ward for want of sccommodation, and who are now without school instruction; yet ail the schodis were overcrowded and ot the Classes ill ventilated. A resolution was passed to present these facta to the Board of Trustees of the ward and to call upon the school guthori- ties to take immediate steps for the erection oi a new school building in the ward, and to provide for other additional school accommodations vy enlarging the schools in First street, Houstow street aud other schools of the ward, JOHN HOWARD PAYNE The Unveiling of the Bronze Bust im Prospect Park. This afternoony at three o'clock, the bronze bus@ of John Howard Payne, presented to the city of Brooklyn by the Faust Club, of thas city, will ba unveiled at Prospect Park, in the vicinity of the Farm House. The programme for the occasion hag siready been published in the Hsraup, A bras@ crew ofthe bark Orray Taft, and John Wittiams, the mate, and two men of the bark Ansell Gibbs, the vessels reported to be lost in Hudson Bay. George Keiser, German, of the Orray Taft, died on the passage. ‘The Glacier brings several sapposed relics of the Sir John Frankiin expedition, pur- Bay, the na- ‘iam’ chased of the Esquimaux at tag iy 2 frye “ having obtained them King 8 PALL OF A BRIDGE, A Number of School Phildren Hurt. HoNRSpALe, Pa., Sept. 26, 1873, About one o’clock yesterday afternepn a bridge, spanning the Lackawaxen River “at the foot of ‘Tenth street, in this place, gave way and fell into the water below. At this time a number of school children were playing on the -structare, and were Precipitated with it into the river, which, fortu- nately is quite shallow there. Annie Bode, aged six years, was taken out insensible, has been pronounced fatally injured. All of the children were more or less hurt, three very se- The bridge has long been in a dangerous | condition and blockaded against the passage of | teams, [undreds of persous were compelled to | cross on it to and fro daily or go a mile around, That ita jailing was attended With so littie latality ig ost Miraculous 6 2 s 6 riously. band will play a choice selection of ‘ical music ; the Dubliesctoo! children, numbering about 500, i bing “Home, Sweet Home” and other choruses. ‘A poem has been written in honor of the event by John G@. Saxe, and will be read by the author. William G, De Witt will deliver the oration. To equestrians and occupants of carri- permission has been granted by the Park Com- miele to them to drive up to the rear of the Farag House by the equestrian path and end of the road. Special accomm been provided for invited guests, the press, ‘the Mayor and Common Counell of the city, the Pi Commission, heads of departments and “ot! distinguished persons. Nothing but inclemenoyof weather will siop the unvening, Fi a) be ces Of the displayed ali day on the newspaper o1 she b. Ciub House in Remsen street and other public * buildings. f a city, the City Hall, the Park Theatre, » A OOAL TRAIN WRECKED Honoxvs, N, J., Sept. 26, 1873, oe a i is kee te 4 $ Last night, at twelve o'clock, as att eastward J bound train was passing this station’on the Bria’? Railway it ran off the Crack,’ and twenty eats of | coal were wrecked, blocking up bot twelve hours, There was uo «ne tracks for lujured, thet brakemen escaping mjwry by jumping of, Tha, : Toad 18 noW clear dud tulus are TUDUINS OD CAG, ) ‘

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