The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1873, Page 8

8 A Chapter on Our Current Financial History, Designed Especially for Real Estate Owners, he Situation in Congress and the Possibili- ties That May Grow Out of It. Secretary Richardson and Compiroller Green as Exemplars in Office. ‘There is, perhaps, no standpoint from which a more just and correct understanaing of the value, character or bearing of pending financial proposi- tions now before Congress can be obtained than the real estate market, nor of a general plan of financial reform best adapted to the sterling wants of our people, that shall prove of permanent ad- vantage to them, and not be a mere temporary re- Nef for present ills. Notwithstanding the large Speculative movement therein, there isa substan- tial basis of value in real estate, readily recog- nizable—at all events, in this neighborhood—which saved it Irom the tremulousness that overtook all other values during the recent panic.. There has been, too, a conservatism in dealings during the past few years here, especially in what may be Mescribed as first class property, that has contrib- uted largely to bring about its appreciation to a specie level, in respect to its latest formal capital- ization, that will save ir from much shrinkage in the event of gradual specie resumption. Not this, however, nor any spasmodic effort at speedy re- sumption, which could only end in failure, seems to be the prospect at the present writing. A more formidable disturbing experiment in financial legislation threatens to again unsettle existing Steadiness in values, and INFLATION, FRESH ISSUES OF PAPER MONEY, LOOMS uP, A SHADOW OF THE N TRB, promising a new speculative era with its sham appreciation, to be followed, of course, by the in- evitable reaction that sooner or later must come, when we will have reached the limit of these paper issues, and find that further watering of tne cur- rency, in spite of a compliant Bench to sustain its legal tender quality, will exhibit palpable depre- ciation that no ignorance of the national laws of trade can hide or sophistry can expiain away. Mr. Fullerton, an accepted authority in matters of finance, in bis work on the “Regulation of Cur- rencies,” uses the following emphatic language, We quote:—“There is nota single example on record of the power of creating money out of cheap materials having been endcrsed by a sove- reign State, through any length of time or through any season of public aifi- culty, without having been abused.’’ “The temptation to substitute issues for taxation, to relieve the wants of the Treasury by intercepting, through the depreciation of the currency, a portion of every payment in its transit from the pocket of the debtor to that of his ecreditcr, becomes too strong to be resisted, and the iniquity is probabiy perpetrated with the general acquiescence of a community whe are scarcely aware of its ten- dency. The career of debasement once entered upon, it has no pause till there is scarcely any value Jett to be destroyed.” Yet it is in this course precisely, upon which we entered heedlessly, under the pressure of a great crisis, that we seem to be pressing eagerly forward, indifferent alike to the warnings that come to us irom every side aud “A HR TEACH OF SAD EXPERI Nor arg (hezs warnitiys !8t2 utterances only, born ofa kuowiedge that is acquired too late ‘or appii- cation—the “I told you so” of chronic croakers, No, year: o the HERALD warned the leaders of the dominant party, and from this same standpoint, @f the real estate market, while they were yet e din jubilation over the wonderial resuits t d accomplished in their pecuilar financial poli of the false economy involved in its pursuan They were told that to tax a@ people so soon the termination of a great intern which nad prostrated many indust in the prosecution of that struggle, v Overstituulated others that Were in a great Measure its outgrowth and dependent upon it, tor the expenses Incurred, beiore an interval of peace had allowed trade to resume legitimate channels Of enterprise and given time for a healthful peration in all branches of national industry ot ouly an error of judgment, but op the theories of government that have in view a people’s weliare—a sort of demagogism Charlatanism that, armed by a display of a ri tuon of the national debt, carried on so rapidly and bo early after the war, to enlist THE NATIONAL VANITY in support of the party in power, and deceive the world abroad into the belief that our great civil War had only stimulated, not retarded, our national prosperity, Thus in four years acd four montis, beginning May, 1809, and eliding Septem- ber, 1873, Was purchased, cancelled and destroyed $323,253,800 of five-twenty bonds not yet due, ata Cost of $363,012,332 in currency; being a premium Of nearly $40,000,000 in the lawful money of te United States, that so many in and out of Congress rociaim to be the best currency in the world, tolen from the people to maiitam a ruling Majority in that Congress, and a superfiuous tax upon the legitimate indusiry of the vountry ata time when it needed encouragement, not restric- tion, to the extent of 000,000, Why wonder, then, at the great revulsion of 1873 which, post- nea for several years by expedient relies utorded ‘om time to time by the Treasury, came at last When the Treasury could no longer attord that relief, and it too was engulfed in the ruin which followed naturally as the night the day, upon the discovery \hat much of our great prosperity since the war Was a sham, a mockery, a delusion and a share, reared upon the baseless fabric of redundant Issues of irredeemable paper, cemeuted by false- hood in word and in act; @ moguwent of fraud, Ignorance and recklessness / And the question now is, and it is asked from ‘this standpoint because here we have A SURE FOUNDATION, Shall we seek to rear again this shattered colnma upon iis bed of sand, or delving down until we Teach the “bed rock” of real value upon the tw Piilars of honesty und taastry, apply ourselves with renewed faith in our powers and restored confidence in our future to build a tem ‘wherein all men, of every ciime, may enter with. out fear, and where frugality and per: rance shall be the stepping stones to the high piaces’ It ig certainly not too soon for us to set about it, for of asurety we have fall upod evil times, and the evil example Uiat Congress las set seems too likely to be jollowed elsewhere. Thus we searn that the Board of Apportionment of tms city, at its meeting on Tuesduy last, adopted a resolution authorizing the issue of city currency to the value Of $3,000,000 of bonds. A city papercarrency! Truly, With gold, jegal teuder notes, national bank notes and a city currency We are not likely soon to sul- Ser again an insumiciency of cireniating media. Apparently with a view to justify this new departure in THE ECONOMIC ERA OF CITY FINANCIAL MANAGE* MENT, we have alsoa letter trom Comptroller Green to Mayor Havemeyer, under date of Decernber 10, complaining of the non-payment of assessments, and vaguely hinting that tle Bar of this city, the Courts and the L ture at Albany are in league to embarrass lili (the Comptroiler) in the dis- charge of his duties. Hence, we Lave the infer- ence, this little experiment at inflat the Comp- Moller not being abe to raise a loan otherwise. ‘There appears here to be a striking similarity be- tween the cases ol our pattern Comptrolier and our eminent retury of the Treasury. Both claim that t e overborne by events whicu they found it ol, aud both show the same want of resignation in not making Way tor abler men, who have a superior aptitude for controlling events. The Secretary, however, shows the lughest appreciation ot the situation by quietly pointing out to Congress that, having taxed the people almost to a state of bank: Fuptcy to pay of adebt not yet due, ii must tax them still jurther now to pay the current expenses of the government or make public confession that it did not know what it was about when it under- took to pay off the debt by seeking 4 new loan now, Mr. Richardson, whatever his other errors, acts wisely in opposing inflation, to which Gongress seems to lean, and which Comptroller Green has grasped at to get himout of his littie dilemma, It is ‘THE REFUGE OF COWARDICE, afraid to bear the responsibility for the is tt has occasioned. fm the cays of Tammany we heard Bothing ot this conspiracy on the part of lawyers, courts and legisiators to cheat the city vut of its Jegitimate assessments. Tammany pushed forward improvements rapidiy, for which it must have col- lected assessments, as current history has it that the leaders feathered their own nests comfortably, Tammany was never turned from the market when seeking a loan and forced to issue scrip to save the credit of the city. The mind 1s lost in @ sea of amazement in wondering what would have been said of Tammany ir it had undertaken to issue currency, But very much depends upon whose ox is gored. The national treasury and the chief city of the Union alike bank- ruptunder reform ruie is very diterent froma similar condition of things under imere democratic rue, Citizens are invited to note the ditereuce, LOOK AT NEW ORLEANS, ‘where the party of moral ideas has held control ginee the war, The city government there uses acrip for almost everything, even to paying off oid crip with new. Educated in the schoc# of finance founded by Jay Cooke, and had tor its Ww e@oruer svope Wwe pewly discovergd truth that a na s it had | a eee NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, onar ceot wa National Diessing, It Marches boldly, coniidently forward to new issues ot scrip, de- spising the clamor of rich and poor alike, WhO equally fail to appreciate the blessings they enjoy. Trade languishes, real estate is a burden to the man who owbs it to maintain its improvements or pay taxes and assessments, and even the patient policeman mutters treason when he gets his monthly pay. But man 1s superior to fate, The miils of the gods grind slowly. Not so paper mills, and scrip upon wer fans as Congress pro- poses. Jurnishes a panacea for all complaints (°). is this to be the terminal point of Mr. Green's new departure ? Surely the real estate owners of New York county are at least interested im the solution of thts problem, Regarding the financia! situation in Congress, real estate will be best served by & new loan, provided it be not accompanied by any experimental endeavor to give it a currelicy form, INFLATION, HOWBVER DISGUISED, WOULD ONLY UN- SERTLE VALUES, as has been pointed out. Mr. Green's experiments pore to give enough trouble in this respect, nereased taxation, however discriminated, tmpos- ing an additional burden upon business still Staggering under the edfects of the panic, would retard recovery, It is, perhaps, the proper mode of dealing with the issue which the Treasury De- partment has so suddenly presented to the coun- try, coupling with it che most rigid economy in ex- pedicures, but poltcy here points out that it would be unwise to hamper the revival of industrial and commercial activity with fresh shackles, and ex- pediency requires that we take up the lesson that should hav’ been applied at the close of the war, since learned at & heavy cost, that to future gen- erations must we leave the task of wiping out from the national ledger the burden of indebted- ness incurred in securing the integrity of the na- tional territory TUBE SEEMS "TO BE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT AN IN- CREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT, with its corresponding increase of the interest burden of the country, to meet the present emer- gency. This could probably be best attained by authorizing the Secretary to issue such additional amount of bonds provided for under the funding acts of 1870 and 1871—either five, four and a half or jour per cent, as the exigencies of the Treasury may require thetr rapid placingto meet the de- ficiency in last year’s appropriations and the ex- cess of this year’s requirements over revenue receipts. The proposition now before the House to withdraw the national bank note circulation and substitute thereior legal tender notes is not of a nature to effect real estate to any extent, either prospectively or in esse. The plan is of doubtful constitutionality as well as of doubtiul | justice. The only way in which the substitution could be brought about would be by compelling the national banks to redeem their circulation as fast as presented. ‘To do this they would be compelied to present their bonds now held as security 1or their existing circulation to the Treasury in ex- change ior legal tenders with which to redeem such circulation, being A FORCED REDEMPTION IN CURRENCY by the Treasury of such bonds, after the formal declaration so pompousiy made in jomt resolution that the- credit of the Umited States was and is | pledged to their redemption in coin. Besides, unless Mr. Williams be made Chiet Justice, and alter that what may follow is impossibi Jecture, Congress is not likely to risk a@ decision by the Supreme Court that tt has no power in the existing condition of things to issue more legal | tenders, its “war powers” having ceased with the | rebellion, it must be borne in mind, too, that although President Grant in his Message virtually abdicated his constitutional power of veto in respect to | financial measures, by promising in advance that he Would submit his judgment entirely to that of Congress, he yet took strong ground against infla- | fon, in which he was more heartily seconded by | Secretary Richardson. In the event therefore of the passage of any bill looking to the increase of the present legul tender {ssue, he may yet find oc- | Casion for the recovery of his veto power, because | of its (such bill’s) DOUBTFUL CONSTITUTIONALITY, ‘ Taking the entire field, therefore, there is not much in the present financial outlook to cause un- easivess in real estate circles, Congress seems de- termiued, if additional taxation must be imposed. it will be of the lowest possiole amount. Contraction or specie resumption js tor the present postponed, Inflation is opposed by ithe administration, and, if it provides for more egal tenders, is of questivn- able authority. While a new loan, at a low rate of interest to meet current exvenses, would not materially change the aspect of the present situa- | tion, which, apart from the possibiiities of Con- fonal action, “barring”? tke vagaries of Mr. every respect encouraging, it is argued, in respect to the latter, that if the Comptroller lad pushed forwara improvements, to such completioa as would really venefit prop- erty owners he would not have his present com- plait to Make respecting unpaid assessments, i Yesterday showed a large attendance at the auc- tion mart, and property was disposed of as fol- | i. Ludlow & Co. sold, by order of the Supreme | Court, the three story unfinished brown stone house and lot, 19.9x100.10, on the north side of A street, 138 feet east of avenue A, to H, F. atch, plaintiif in the legal action, for $3,500 over | | mortgage of $7,000—total, $10,500, R. Y. Harnett sold, by order of the Supreme Court, the three story brick house and lot known | | the Greece went ashore, and you may observe that | in authority seem to iguore tue law on this subjec | a Untted States Senator to help his private ven- HARBOR ENCROACHMENTS. The Evils Which Are Threatening New York Bay—Navigation Dangerous for Large Ships—Gradual Shoaiing of the Channel—The Pilot of the Greece Not at Fauit—The Prosperity of the City Endangered—What Is Going To Be Done About It? A reporter of the Henatp called upon Marbor Commissioner Binnt yesterday in relfftion to the manner in which New York Harbor is being flied up with all sorts of refuse and filth, to the great detriment of navigation and the ultumate perma- nent injury of New York itself, The grounding of the steamship Greege, of the National line, in a portion of the bay which here- tofore has been deep enough for any class of ves- sels, seems to have awakened interest in this subject and to have at last brought the unthink- ing public, who will ultimately be the sufferers, to some sort Of appreciation of the importance of taking measures to puta stop to the constant en- croachments whic are going on. @.. Mr. Biunt, when the reporter walked into his ofice, led the latter over to one corner where stood a tin can filled with mud and ashes, and in which the ashes largely predominated. “That can was seut me by Mr. Hurst, of the National line,’? said Mr. Blunt, “as @ specimen of the bottom on which it is almost exclusively composed of ashes, It is, therefore, the direct result of the manner in which steamers dump their ashes into the waters of the bay that the Greece. went aground,” Mr, Blunt then pulled out a map, which he stated had been expressly prepared by the United States | Coast Survey, to show the difference in the depth of the harbor at the last soundings and now. “This map,” said Mr. Blunt, “is accurate in every respect, and goes to show how shamefully our harbor is being abused. Here,” he said, put- ting his finger ona portion of the map near Bed- loe’s Island, ‘is the spot where the Greece grounded. You will observe that in some portions it has actually shoaled 23 feet—that is to say, at the last soundings this portion of the bay was 23 feet deeper than it is now, Look ail around here aud see Where shoalings are making annually trom three to 23 feet, ‘his spot is directly in what is known as the channel The pilot was quite right in supposing the water Was deep enough to tloat | the ship. If this thing goes on five years longer the barbor of New York whl be prac- tically useless for large vessels and in 10 years jor small ones. And when you fli up our harbor where will be our commerce and tue value of our realestate? It is a question the people do not appreciate, but atew more nts Such as this of the Greece will wake our via lors up to the fact that something must be one. Mr. Blunt then went on to say that the conduct of the pilot of the Greece had been investigated, and both the manager of the line and the captain had absolved him trom all blame, “When he leit the dock,” coutinued Mr, Blunt, “1 was clear, but When he got into the stream the fog beganto get dense, and he told the capiain just as soon as he could get sea room to swing round he would come to an anchor. In this way he tried to come to an anchor several times, but there was always some craft in the way, until he ran ashore on the ashes ot Bedioe’s Island, In view of these facts he was acquitted of ail blame. He has been a pilot ior mauy years and th is the first charge against him.’? “But, to return to the subject. It seems as ody Were pertectly indifferent on this he Police Commissioners, Who ought to be — CUBAN MATTERS IN THE CITY. The Change in the Cuban Administra- ton—Quesada to be Removed—His Probable Successor—President Cisnero’s Cabinet—sSketch of the Members—Ces- pedes Coming to the United States. The subject matter of agitation at the Cuban headquarters, in Exchange place, yesterday, was the telegram from Havana announcing a change in the Cuban Executive. That this was about to occur has been long understood, and the aunounce- ment, with a sketch of the new incumbent, Seilor Cisneros, Marquis of Santa Lucia, appeared in the HERALD more than a week since; but the telegram gave an additional interest to the question and ine creased the anxiety felt for the reception of the oficial news, With the new administration in Cuba Libre will come a change in the representar tion in this country, with which the association known as Los Amigos de Cuba, comprising a large majority of the Cubans in the city, have long been very much dissatisfied, The appoint- ment by Cespedes of General Quesada as his confl- dential agent in this country aroused among them a feeling of intense bitterness, and undoubtedly did mueh to paralyze the efforts of many who were desirous of aiding their brothers in the fleld. At the same time it is claimed that under the admin- istration of the General far more has been done to furnish the patriots in the fleld with arms and | material of war than was ever accomplished be- fore, and they point with pride to THE SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITIONS which have been fitted out ana despatched by him as an evidence of the fact. However this may be, that he is to be superseded is a generally admitted fact, and who is to be his successor is the mooted point. As the new President is supposed to be in entire accord with the Amigos de Cuba here, it 1s probable their candidate will be-appointed, and that he will have the character of Diplomatic Agent. This candidate is understood to ve Sehor Jose M. Mestre, who was formerly the representa- tive in this country, im connection with Jose An- tunio Echeverria, at the.time when Seflor Aldama was the General Agent. The Vice President, Francisco Aguilera, is 1n this country, and has ten- dered tis resignation, by which Cisneros, as Presi- dent of the House, becomes President ad interim. Aguilera has been associated with Cespedes since the inception of the insurrection, and is very popu- jar. An effort will be made to induce him to re- consider Is resignation, but with hardly any chance of success; sv Cisneros 1s like to retain the position, Under the new administration Francisco Maceo is announced as MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, This gentleman is about 45 years of age, and prior to the war was engaged in the practice of the law in Bayamo, He was associated with Ces- pedes, Aguilera and Figueroa in preparing for the outbreak Which took place at Yara on the 10th of October, 1868, and ever since that time has been engaged in the service 0i the patriot cause. He is represented as & man of capacity and fine literary attainments, and well fitted for the arduous and responsible duties to which he has been assigned. @ THE SECRETARY OF WAR belongs to Las Tunas, in the jurisdiction of that name. He was a planter at the outoreak of the war, and at once abandorfed everything and took to the field, where he has ever since remained. He is 35 years of age, and up to the present has held the rank of Brigadier General in the Cuban army. He is an active, intelligent man, and, though not highly educated, 18 considered to possess un acute mili- tary perception and a thorough knowledge of the situation In the island, Itis thougyt by many of the Cubans that his services can be made the more useful in the fleld, and the hope Is expressed that the reported appointment has not been made. COMMANDER OF THE EASTERN DEPARTMENT. General Calixto Garcia, the new Commander-in- the first to obey the law, we caugh dumping 00 loads ol city filth into the bay, from Govern. | ss Isiaud to Bay Kidge, Tne Commissioner of Doeks damped three loads, and, indeed, all people We haye now suits against over 50 owners of eteamers for dumping ashes into the bay, Tug boats particularly offend iu this direction, and the men on them Swear to more lies than any ciass of | men lever came across. thi One of them came to me | Otver day and sia that he had dumped the | hes, but his owner had told him to swear that he hadn't, You may guess then that with such people as these and Very lmperiect law we cannot do i “iave you taken no means to introduce alaw n the subject #? asked the reporter. Well, you know,” said Commissioner Blunt, now there is a penalty of $50 against those who dump any ashes in the harbor. But we want something more stringent. Look at the dock of the New J y Central Railroad, It stops the ebv tide from scouring out the filth that is in the stream, and it accumulates up against the piers of the company and fills up the bay. Senator Freling- huysen Is the counsel and one of the stockholders in this road, and the cousequence is, when my bill to prevent harbor instructions came up in the Senate, he had {t taken betore the Judictary Committee, and there it has remained ever since. I would wish to know it it is right tor | as No. 0) James street, between Oak and Madison | Streets, to John Ca:lanan, for $4,800. | A.J. Bleecker, Son & White ssid the Goelet lease | of the three stcry brown stone house and lot, 20x | | 100.5, on the south side of Forty-filth street, 190 eet | east of Lexington avenue, to Nathan Herman, ior | $11,620, the lease being from April 1, 1870, for 20 | years, at au abnual ground rent of $520 per year. ALLEGED PARRICIDE. Two Sons Charged with Poisoning Their Father in St. Lawrence County. On Saturday evening Theodore Farnsworth, foreman of the Rome (N. Y.) Sun and Recorder, was arrested there and taken to Canton, St. Law- rence county, to be tried for murdering his father by poisoning his ale on March 27, 1872. Toa re, porter of the Utica Observer the accused stated that on the hight in question a man named Brown, who owed his father $800, was dunned for the money and threatened with a suit, when Brown pointed a revolver at Farnsworth, Sr., and said he would not live to sue him. The accused con- tinued :-— Alter the conversation between Brown and my father was related Lrown was arrested and tried for the murder in August, 1872, 1 was on the stand all of one da. heir in that case. Brown was acquitted, He said he would make me suffer. My arrest 18 probably the result of this threat. Aiter the trial 1 went to Lowville and worked in a print- ing oiice. Lleard that Hermon people said ! ran away. I remained in Lowvilie until last March; then 1 came to Kome, and was made foreman oi tne Sun anc Recorder otlice. The officer injormed the reporver that the brother of the accused, Amos Farnsworth. and a man named Smite being implicated thinks his broti: ansellor Say) re in jail at Canton ona charge of in the poisoning. Theodore ith are innocen sted to accompany the Amos was waiting upon "s daughter at Canton. His her father to forbid him i Void his company. Finding that | they bad c! sstine meetings, on the day ol the | poisoning My. Tanner offered to give his daughter $1,000 if Farnsworth would give an equal sum to his son, 80 that they could be married and go be | ys Mr. Farnsworth re- jused to do this, 4nd told his son that he would make his will and disinnerit him. Amos re- marked that his iather would not succeed in car- rylng out his threat. On that night his fatner died, These, with other facts, were developed on the trial ot brown. They were testified to before the Grand Jury of St. Lawrence county, and Brown told his story. Brown alleges that on the night of the murder | he stood across the street from the hovel, under an | appie tree. He claims he saw Theodore Farns- | | worth hold the ale pitcher over the var while Smith emptied the contents of a small package, like a powder, into the ale, and Amos Farnsworti stood guard at the door to prevent any one from entering the barroom while the dose was being prepared, NEW YORK CITY. An engine ran into a passenger car at Fifty- seventh street and Eleventh avenue yesterday, during the Jog. Fortunately no one was injured, ae A. B. Perkins wiit deliver an address this véehing at Washington Heights, for the benefit of the “Washington Heights Library.’ Subject— “Public Education.” : ‘The safe found by the police at the headquarters of the policy dealers, in the Bowery, was opened yesterday and $2,000 taken out, which was handed Wo the property clerk at the Central Oitice of Police, Nicholas Stipisic, an Austrian, 24 years of age, ‘who lived at No, 653 West Thirty-second street, Yesterday fell into the dock at the foot of Thirty- ne aud was drowned, The body was re Yesterday afternoon, shortly before three o’clock, Elias Loringer, of 67 Pitt street, was exe amining @ loaded pistol in the 1 beer st Gotted Walzer, 169 Stanton street, wien tne pie, tol prematarely exploded, the bail taking effect in Waizer’s breast, inflicting a dangerous wound, Alecture will be delivered on Friday evening at Cooper Institute, by Mr. Daniel Dougherty, under the auspices of the New York Young Men's Roman Catholic Benevolent Association, for the benefit of the Sisters of Mercy in Houston street, ‘The subject will be “Oratory,” and @ large auai- ence is confidentiy anticipated by the Jriends of bow the Sisters apd Lue leguyrer. tures in this manner? It was a bill that concerned not merely this harbor, but all harbors in the United States, ‘This. morning I learn that the Lighthouse Board has ordered ali the big buoys in the bay to be taken UP, jor the winter. This is ridiculous, for there is as much danger in winter as there 13 in summer, A remonstrance has been ned, however, by the pilots, underwriters and shipowners against any such measures, Jt is better a few buoys should be carried away by ice than tliat vessels should be lost. The remonstrance is to be forwarded to Congressman Cox, in Wash- ington, who has also got a bill, which he will ine troduce, concerning the harbor encroachments, “Another matter] snould refer to, and that is the constant encroachments made upon the river from the land. At present tnere are three hours out of every twelve when vessels cannot haul in and out or the docks, Owing to the rapidity of the current, an increase of velocity which makes a yessel unmanageable, and which is due entirely to the contraction of the space through which the Water flows. On the Brooklyn side of the East River the encroachments have been equally as great as on our own side. But in all this some ung, I hope, willbe done to remedy the eviis Which threaten our harbor and our city. If we had more power we should know better how to put a stop to this eternal subject of complaint.” CATHARINE BRENNAN. ps ER eis Eas Trial of Her Husband on the Charge of Murdering Her—Interesting Testimony of the Attending Doctor. vhe trial of Edward Brennan for wife murder was resumed yesterday in the Hunterdon County (N. J.) Court of Oyer and Terminer at Flemington The attendance Of spectators was nol so large as on the preceding day. DR. ALPAUGH’S TESTIMONY. Alpaugh gave the foliowing testimony Dr. There was more or less coagulated blood on the side of th in my opinion the wound was inilicted while | ¢ cendition, although it could have ndone in a standing positio eased out of the way but once: she wi ed; only prescrived once jor Mrs. Brennan, aud that was when she had a sore Jeg; always told her tuat af she would not quit drinking er leg would never heal; trom id her general appearance I should think Wk DANK PRETTY HARD, although I don’t know it of my own knowledge; her hns- band told me she did $0; the last time I saw her alive she looked bloated, aud { then said a little &quor would do her good; this Wa about six weeks before her death; on the nightot her death Iwas in my office when hor husband (the prisoner) came after me at about a quarter to seven o clock; he was very much exeited, appeared reath and in great agony; the first thing he said was “0 Lord! Doctor, come dows; my wite las burst a vessel;” I immediately started oft: he ran ahead of me, and ' had to waik pretty iast to keep up to tim; he took # sort of hysterical fit on the when i came to the hill Lran; the distance was 20 and [got there inside of four minute es; L saw no pne in Brennan's house till T reached the third story, Wwhea I percetved deceitsed ving back in the atms ol vohu Brady; Brady's wite was there and no one else; rt he eniidren; the first thing I did was to feel ot blood around before the od t gion ol r the re {her heart; found 4 stopped beating ; I then pro ome one sail, ‘) the matter:” ‘some one then made i rep) very Inuch excited, who all seemed meant, and he answe ‘was putting her to and mental sufert ‘ople crowded in renian what this jas there not been ray? like it,” everything around TL said, “Tt looks very mu Chiel of the Eastern Department, is one of the | More prominent fighting men developed by the Cuban struggle tor independence. Prior to the war he was @ resident of Guantanamo, He entered the army immediately upon the outbreak, and has been advanced by degrees to the rank of Major eneral He has commanded for several rs in the jurisdiction of Holguin, where he has led the several attacks on the city of that name, and has constantiy harassed the Spaniards in their attempt to carry supplies from Gibara, on the coast, to the interior. He is a man of education, a close student of military sci- ence, always carrying with him a military library when inthe fleld. The department to the comi- mand of which he has been appoluted comprises Holguin, Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba and Guant namo, and constitutes the principal seat oF insur- rection, The reported DEPOSITION OF CESPEDES by the House of Representatives is credited by no one, as it is kuown that he has been sudering from ill heaith Jor a long time, and from au inability to obtain medicines suited to his complaint. It is ex- pected that he will take the first opportunity to come to this country. WOMANS SOCIAL EDUCATION ed Reading of Interesting Papers—The aroubles with “Green Girls’=—A Plea for Training Schools—How Martha Washington Cooked the Food for the Family. A largely attended meeting of the Woman's So- cial Education Society was held yesterday after- noon at Plimpton Hall. The first business trans- acted was the reading of a paper by Mrs. Dr. Hall on “Truth in Amenities,” which advocated the most periect vivacity in all our reiations in life, and that white lies or black lies were equally culpable, At the conclusion of her address the fair lecturer ‘was greatly applauded by her listeners. The next paper read was by Mrs. Professor Ly- man, entitled “A Plea for Training Schools for Ser- vants.” Mrs, Lyman in opening her discourse de- picted the model home, where ail was joy and serenity, and then described jhe antithe- sis, where an ignorant or extravagant wife made home @ misery to all concerned. In the latter useless servants were criticised without gloves, as being fruitiul causes of domestic infelicity. The frivolity of the French had caused the word “home” to be almost un- known in that land, save to its peasantry. French flats are now taking the place, untortunately, with us of what would otherwise be well regulated resi- dences, What is the cause, we may weil ask, lewhich brings about this lack of “nome” in our midst? Lwilltell you. Itisanefforton the part of our women to fly from the responsibility of household duties, and women are responsible tor the existing social chaos when homes are being broken up by hundreds. I know that the question of “help” isan old and a hackneyed one, but 1 must remark, however, thatin my experience of 25 years, there is of late an increase of insubordi- nation on the part of servants towards their em- ployers, and they are not as easily made useful as they were before—in fact, the crude material we receive from Castle Garden is very difficult to mould, What we want is training schools, out ot which we can receive experienced servant girls who can sew, cook, wash, &c., aad who will not insist upon dressing like princesses while in our service. O for the days of Martha Washington, who in the morning would spend hours in prepar- ing food jor the jamiiy, and in the evening, bedia- inonded and dressed in satin, would do the honors Of the house with rare'grace! We want schools for housekeepers, for if the mistress is not able to carry on the domestic peony, the servant or housekeeper should be. With good servants we con have happy homes, where all will go on smootnly as clockwork. I will not troubie you with discus- sing the miseries we have to undergo at the nands of ‘green girls,” in the turmiture, crockery and china they smash; suffice it to say that they are most times useless as an Esquimau ina watch manufactory. Thackeray once said, “In America all the men are dyspeptic, and the women are suf- jJering from liver complaint, on account of thetr not knowing how to prepare their food.” Peo- ple require phosphorus or their brain and fibrine for their muscles; but if their food is bad or insufficient these chemical qualitie: will be lacking. Our dispositions and qualifications are much What our nourishment makes us, The Laplander’s talk 1s blabbery, while the Frenchman ts Joyous and Vivacious, never tired of singing tne charms of the wine and apricots of his sunny home, A good cook 18 a necessary adjunct in every family, but the “green girls” whom we bave to employ can only cook potatoes and tne unpalatable bread of her native land, and becomes obstreperous it her ig- norance is found fauit with, Ruskin defines the science of cookery a8 @ knowledge of meats, ba and balms. Oh, shades of Ruskin, ye have never dined in a New York boarding house! Apropos of boarding houses, With their mean gos- sip and demoralizing Influences, what a difference between them and happy. homes! After the ¢on- clusion of the address P AUbJeCt Was disc assed, and it was agreed that initiatory steps snould be SOCIETY, the place was in contusion: saw three pools of blood away from the body, on the floor, and one pool coming ont from under het person; saw bloodstains on the Stairs and ow the wall; a smear of blood was on the edge Of wie door leading Into the room, hear where the body lay, and some more on the outaidé: saw drops of bioed onthe wall of the stairway, about six fect above the sleps; this was on the second taht of s directly to where the body was found; the THRE POOLS OF BLOOD were clearly separated; there was no line connecting them; the large pool was about 18 inches in diameter; the body was exhumed on the of November, and Drought'to the house of Patrick Hynes, near the Catholic eburch, at Clinton, where it was placed on a table and mnination made by myselt and Dra, Toda and it was in @ state of good preservation. Beasely made @ most searching cross- jeading Mr. examination, and sougnt to impeach the direct testimony of the witness by urging questions touching on the theory that death resuited from the accidental bursting of the pudendulam artery. Doctor Join R. Todd next took the stand and Raid that he nad assisted Dr. Aipaugh in the post- mortem examination on the body of Catharine Bren- nan. He was proceeding to give a@ statement of the observations he the time for adjournment arrived. taken toward the formation of training schools for servants at the next meeting o! the association, FIRE IN WILLIAMSBURG, Destruction of a School House. At ten minutes to seven o'clock last evening Mr, Edward Bush, principal of public school No, 18, Mauger street, between Lorimer and Leonard streets, Williamsburg, while sitting at his desk on the platform, waiting tne arrival of the scholars preparatory to opening the session of night school, thought he saw fame breaking out in the rear of the school house, and at once started in that direction to discover that ade on that occasion, WHEN |+the puilding was on fire, the flames breaking forth from the ventilators, He at once ordered the PRINT CLOTHS MARKET, few girls who had gathered in their de- ponemernd artment to leave the botlding by ee e " Cdoe standard and extra Oy, with some choice | Jay zens, too, lent @ willing hand in removing the valuables from the large room into the trout wing, Thousands of peopie had by this time gathered; frantic mothers after young children who had started for the school some time previous, but whose hea Were reheved when they found that no boys had reached the building yet, and that the girls were all safely brought out. For a time it seemed that the whole building would be destroyed, but by almost superhuman ex- ertions on the pn of the firemen, under Chief John Smith and Assistants Frost and Minard, the flames were confined to the roof and y floor. The whole building and turmiture have been damaged by water. Two fine pianos on the upper floors were utterly ruined and the building dam- aged to the extent of $25,000. As the building is heated by steam and no fire used about the school rooms, no cause can be given jor the fire, BAR ASSCOIATION. Special Meeting Last Night—The Amend- ments to the Special Report on Law Reporting—The New Scheme Adopted. The Bar Association held an adjourned meeting last nfght at their rooms, No. 20 West Twenty- Pseventh street, Mr, Edgar Van Winkle in the chair. Mr. Augustus R. Macdonough acted as Secretary. The special object was the special report of the committee on a new and better scheme for law re- porting. Tne committee reported that they had made certam amendments to the report already published in the HFRaLD. In the first rule the cities of Troy and Utica were added to the cities Which may appoint one member of the Council of Law Reporting. The amendment to the second rule 18 as follows:—The members of the Council to be appointed by the Court of Ap- peals and the Supreme Court shall not be residents of the city of New York, The term of office of three of the members first appointed by the Bar Association, to be determined by Jot, stall be tor three years, The term of office of their successors and of all the other members shall be for five years. The ninth ruie was amended by adding the words that the reporter “shall be paid by the Council.” To the twenty-second rule the word were added, ‘and tor any portion of the set (of reports) such price as shall be established by the Council.’’ Mr. S. P. NASH moved tne adoption of the report. Mr. Da Costa said a great many reports of cases in the Superior Court and other Courts were not worth the paper they were printed on. Mr. R. J. MOsEs tuought instead of publishing all Teports they should conflue themselves to ube cases in the Supreme Court. There was no neces- ay for going into the publication business. ir. ©. WuITNEY sald he did not like the idea of going to the Legislature in this matter, for as long as they expected favors in Albany they would be expected to reciprocate, This scheme was a mere question of money, and the spirit of the asso- ciation would carry it thro ‘There would be great difficulty in getting the funds, but as soon as these were obtained the Council would possess the power to override these miscellaneous reports. Juage Emorr thought the scheme ought to em- brace the entire State. He was in favor of giving the broadest approval to this scheme. They could not accomplish their purpose unless they went to the Legislature. The Legislature authorized the appointment of a reporter for the Court of Appeals andthe Supreme Court. There were no reports that were so discreditable as those published by Mr. ‘Tiffany of the cases in the Court of Appeals. They constituted as solid a monument of stupid law re- porting as could be found in any country. The report as amended was adopted, subject to any future modifications which migut become ne- vessary. Mr. Lewis L, DELAFIELD moved the following resolutions, which were adopted :— Resolved, That the chairman of this spe ting: appoint 10 members thereof as members of the Council of Law Reporting, that he notify the Court of Appeals and the Justices of the Supreme Court designated to hold Gen- eral Terms, of his appointqent und request them to ap- point two members of the Vouncil, Resolved, That the Council of Law Reporting be re- questes| to organize, at the earliest practicable day, to prepate and obtain signaturos to the guarantee provided y rule % toissue an invitation to the profession to sub- scribe to'the reports, and to prepare proper laws incor. porating the said Council and regulaung the subject of reporting generally as recommended in the scheme, and to take such steps as may be necessary to secure the passage of such iaws by the Legislature as to insure the success of the scheme. . The association then adjourned, THE EOQARD OF EDUCATION. The Last Meeting of 1873—Honors to the Memory of Agassiz—Mr. West and Mr. Jenkins in Arms=—The New Bylaws Amended and Passed. A meetmg of the Board of Education was held yesterday afternoon, President Niclson in tne chair. The report of City Superintendent Kiddle was read. It stated that Primary School No. 33 was in a very crowded condition, thus necessitat- ing-the refusal of admittance to many pupils. The Teport was spread at large upon the minutes, HONORS 10 THE MEMORY OF AGASSIZ. The following resolution was offered by Commis- sioner FaRR:— Resolved, That the members o{ the Board of Education have received, with feelings of the Seppest regret. the announcement of the cecease of the distinguished scl- per be font gt ons A ern on the lath pn yrs ie; atin is dea: not only our nation en ie ne eitize ecomplished scholar deprived of an uprigi and the scientific world of one of its most conspicuous o1 ents and most untiring and successful workers, but that the cause of true scientific education has been be- reaved of one to whom it willever be decply indebted for his wise and effective efforts tor its advancement. A resolution was offered and passed thankin| President Wilson, whose term of office expire with the meeting, for the efticient and prompt manner in which be has discharged ali the duties of his office. The President responded to the reso- lution in a few appropriate remarks. A resolution to send & committee of three to Boston to examine and make a report on the sys- tem of teaching muste in the ols there was offered. Mucn debate resulted from the proposi- tion, and some of the Commissioners were very personal in their remarks about the drafter of the resolution—Mr. Jenkins, Commissioner West said he was very favorable to the opinion that the com- mittee that would go to Boston had its work already cut out for it. Mr. outs, @s soon as the assertion was made, Jumped “to his feet and said he repelled the vile aspersion cast upon his bite. rity, Commissioner West meekiy took hi seat, and in a few minutes, becoming thirsty, he went for water to the stand near Commissioner Jenkins’ desk, A few words passed between the entlemen, and from the mutual smiles at parting it is safe to conclude that no biood will be spilled. ‘The new bylaws next came up for consideration, and the rest of the session up to a late hour was consumed in amending the proois, A MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A JOURNALIST, CINCINNaTI, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1873, For some time past the Covington department of the Cincinnati Commercial has been made very lively by the graphic pen of Colonel G. W. Tyrell, well known in the West as a humorous | and caustic writer, and especially has he distinguished himself by sharp attacks upon the delinqueat oflicials of every grade on | the Kentucky siae of the river, an attention which | they have never before received, though richly merited. Colonel Tyrell has carried his inquisi- tions to the bitter end, and exposed in the most unrelenting manner every sneak and rascal to whom he devoted attention. Among his latest | efforts in this direction was @ Justice | named A.J. Francis, a pursy old pump, whose record he traced out for several years past und showed to be delinquent and fauity in the highest | degree. He showed that, although doing a very largé magistrate’s business, the Squire re- turned to the county treasury very few fees and fines, while, at the same time, he was acquir- ing property. misexposure deeply incensed the Squire and nis jamily, especially one of his sons, a man about 30 years of age, who armed liimself with a bowie knife, in genuine Kentucky fashion, and hunted up his man to-day, Colonel Tyrell was found in the Clinton House, Where he boards, and, while taiking to his son, was attacked by Francis without any warning other than “I have a grudge to settle with you,” at the same moment plungimg his knife into Tyreli’s right side, Tyrrell raised a goid-headed cane and struck his assinilant over the head a blow which staggered him and cut him to the seaip, Colonel Tyrreil fell to the ground faint and was carried to his room, Where the wound was explored and dressed, It was found to be of the most dangerous character. ‘The abdominal eavit deeply penetrated, and it is feared the liver ig cut. The physicians to-night speak hopefully of the | patient, but it not generally believed that Colonel ‘iyrreil can possibly recover. fie was for several years editor of the Lafayette | nid.) Journal, but gave up newspaper business uring the war, and received an appointment as Paymaster in the United States Army, After the war he was appointed Postmaster in Newport, Ky., but was removed and his place filled by the jate Jesse Kt. Grant, which deeply incensed him against the President. . Colonet Sere well known in Washington as an active politician, and his death would be re- gretted by a large circle of acquaintances, East as as West. At the iatest moment Colonel Tyr- reil’s condition was reported to be extremely critical, Francis is in jail, HIGHWAYMEN AT WORK. On Monday afternoon last Mrs. Peter Shotwell, of West Hill, while on her return from the villa of Huntington, where she had been to purchase some goods, When about one mile trom the village on her return home, was stopped by three high- THE RYE NECK MURDER Continuation of the Trial of Peter Terrell a¥ White Plains—An Extraordinary Chain of Circumstantial Evidence—Sounds Heard ina Sick Chamber on the Fatal Night— The ‘Tell-Tale Soldier’s Overcoat. The trial ot Peter Terrell, indicted for the murder of Gilbert H. Robinson, at Rye Neck, Westchester . county, on the night of April 26, 1869, was con- tinued tn the Court of Oyer and Terminer at White Plains yesterday. There were comparatively ews Spectators outside of the bar enclosure at the’ opening of the Court, but as the day advanced, and curing the afternoon session, every available seat was utilised by u deeply interested auditory. THE TESTIMONY for the prosecution was resumed, the most im ~ portant parts of which are as follows:— Mrs. Mary ©. F, Fisher testifled that on April 24, 1869, she gave birt to a child, and thata Mrs. Roselle was the nurse who attended her during * her illness; the prisoner wasa hired man in the employ of her husband at that time, and slept ing room immediately over the kitchen; she had more than once seen « soldier's blue overcoat in the drawer of a bureau in errell’s roofits Cross-examined—I saw the soldier’s overcoat in the drawer betore my illness; did not subsequently see it; did not suppose, but believed it to be an Overceat; the accused was at our house seven months; a@ portion of his work was to drive a milk / wagon for my husoand, Mynatt Fisher, husband of the last witness, dex posed that he had ient a black horse to the prisoner for the purpose o/ riding over to Mamaroncek, @ distance of six miles, on the second Sunday aften the murder; on tliat occasion Terrell told him that the deceased and himself had been intimata friends, and, as he (ferrell) owed the murdere@ man $17 for a watch, he was anxious to take the money over and yive it to the relatives of the de- ceased; witness gave Terrell $20 at the time; the barn where Witness kept his horse was in the rear of his house, the road leading to it from the main avenue passing quite close to his dwelling; he had only one horse, and tie animal had a short, quick,, high step. WHAT A NURSE HEARD. Mrs. Margaret Roselle testified that she was by occupation a nurse, and had attended Mrs. Fisher during her illness, commencing April 24, 1869; that, during the greater part of the night of April 26 she was waiting on a sick child; about half-past tex o’clock in the evening she heard some person lead a horse from the barn and go out in the direction of Lexington avenue; the horse’s step was bold’ and sounded as though the ground was hard; at about three o’clock next morning heard a horsa being taken in again to the barn; Terrell occupied @ room immediately over the kitchen, and could easily go to and return {from the barn if he wished to do so; was in the habit of making Terrell’s bed each moruing; on Tuesday morning saw @ soldier's overcoat lying on a chair at the foot of the bed in the room he occupied; Bridget Gorman, the house servant, tol@ Ie on that mocning that Terrell had informed her of the murder; aliuded to it while the latter wag at his breakiast, when he did not reply, but his, Jace flushed and he uropped his eyes; did not know of any other hired man sleeping in the house at thas time. The witness was cross-examined at some length Without Varying wom due material portious of hes testimony. ci DAMAGING TESTIMONY FOR THE PEOPLE. Mrs. Mary Richardson testified :—I live in Mama Toneck and am 31 years Old; my maiden name was Seaman; George ssaman, who was my husoandy also lives in Mamaroneck; have had three chit~ dren, two of whom are now living; in April, 1869, lived in the house of . Morris, neat the Mamaroneck bridge; knew thd deceased ; his place of business was in Rye, on the other side of the bridge; had been often in his store and knew him well; have known the prisoner for the last seven years; first became acquainte: with bim when he was keeping bar tor my has- band; the accused remained in my family for about ayear and then went to board with my aunt; he was then in the habit of doing odd jobs for people and also loafing halt his time ; he worked accasion-= aliy for the deceased im the latter’s store; did hig washing and mending for him, as my aunt was able to do them herself; also made shirts tor him during the winter previous to the murder Terre! oiten worked for the deceased aud SLEPT IN THE STORE with the latter halt of the time; when he left my aunt’s to go to White Plains be took away two bo cels, in one of which I had packed @ soldier’s blue overcoat and a drab hat (the hat found in the mur. dered man’s store was here produced and identified by the witness) ; the overcoat had been formerly Jeft at my aunt’s house by a man who had beex boarding there; recollect the night of the murderg went out with my little boy for a pail of water ana saw Terrell; this was between ten and eleven o'clock; asked the prisoner where he was going, when he reple tnat he was going across the bridge to transact some business; it Wasa moon. light night, and i saw that he had on THE SOLDIER'S OVERCOAT and a light felt iat; ae went on the left side of the bridge; there were two other men on the bridge at the same time; (id not know who they were; saw Terrell on the secund Sunday after the murder; he came to Mamaroneck on a black horse, from White Plains ; he came to my aunt’s house, and I met him atthe gate; asked him what he had murdered Robinson for, and he said he didn’t know; whe! he entered the house he took off his coat and sat with his face in his hands; when [| alluded to his having been in the village on the night of the mur- der he replied that he rode over on the same horse. that he then had with him; also satd that he went to bed at nine o’ciock on the Monday night, and afterwards got up again; Terrell subsequently told m@piat he had killed deceased with a gun’barrel, for’l8 money; he oiten thanked me for not tell on him in regard to murder; told him I wanted to tell the authorities, but that my husbund would not allow me; on one occasion he was ry about a book, and, after’ swearing @ good deal, told me that I wasa bad woman andcould not get any one to believe me if l testified against him; told several nei about Terrell's statements; some of the parties are now in Court; also told some of them, includin a husband, on tue same Sunday that Terrell first told me. ‘The witness was subjected to a severe cross-ex- amination, mtended to draw out, among other matters, the aleged imfldelity to her husband, ag wellas other acts of immorality, But in this ree spect dt Was @ signal jaiure, the witness denyin, pasitively each and every unjust accusation again: er. As she is tie principal witness for the people. | it was all important to the defence that her story should be belittied in the eyes of the jury, aud her veracity, i. possible, destroyed. Notwiths Standing the persisient edorts of counsel jor the deience to accouplish these ends the witness bore herself weu the stand, and repeated ove! and over again without confusion what she hi sworn to in her direct examination. The above haviug closed the case for the prose= cution, the dei’ called a namber of witnesses, some of whom contradicted the statements mad by the Woman Kicaurdson, and others tried to im- each her veracity by swearing that she was not to believed under sath, Among vhege latter was & brother of Mary Richardson, Whose testimony revealed a shocking and unnataral phase of family: quarrelling. Some o: these witnesses were pretty Touguly handied by the District Attorney in the cross-eXamination, one of them admitting thata@ friend o1 the prisouer had given her a written ment embodying what she had given as her mony. The case wiil probably be concluded to-dayy THE MARKETS AND ENCUMBRANOES. Corporation Counsel Delafield Smith has fore | Warded to the Comptroller his opinion ag to the. powers of the Superintendent of Markets and the Superintendent of Encumbrances, the main point of which are as follows:— oseihe The Superintendent of Markets, who is an officer the Winange. Depurcinent, poswesses, under lexis ation exe ning through a series of years, ample aud useruly powers in the control] and management of the markew and market places of the city, The more feceng statuves creating the Important officer f Superintendent of bneumprances gee burene, in 9 Mepapinent of Pune Works do pot Woridxe the lawtu powers or tl 2 Supsrintend tof Markets, a ut Wncumbrances has, however, ther tea remove encumbranees trom all pihces Ms ieekted to pole wes his duties extend (0 the vieinte 4s to oiler portions of the: othe markets as Biperintendent ihe Markets nor city. and weiter, diy amveriere with Mini in the die Charge ot owendent of Markets and the Superintend~ ent of Racuinbrances have concurrent power to clear, tha avenues and ‘approaches to the markets, but not to! engumberjances of the city authorizing any ofticer to, enh Stor ‘abstract part of any street, sidewalk or ublic place opened to the use of the people at large are Heyal and void. BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT, President Vance, Commissioner Wheeler and the Comptroller met yesterday in an executive session of the Board of Apportionment to examine the | estimates for 1874. here 18 a general impression | among the well informed that at the meeung | toslay the estimates will be stij tly modified, but that the reductivus of the Board of Aldermen will be rejected, “CITY RECORD,’ Waymen, Who eme from @ p! of woods. They presented their guna to her head, compelling her to give up ner money peo) sa her goods, a One of the men then pol un at her, threatening her with instant death, while his com- panions rode away; he them sau into the woods Lenk Wars PR LapA aud at Work Cit: | aad Way soon lost bo Aleit THE The oficial Journa: of the city continues to be @ | very expensive mode of advertising public notices, | The monthly report bas just been sent in to the Mayor tor November, and the expenses of printit are $924 And the receipts $62 & 1085 Lo the city $862 per month,