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THE COURTS. Ex-Boss Tweed’s Monster Billyof Ex- ceptions Presented. me ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST. ExLomptroller Connolly Wam'ed as a Wit pess in a Civil Suit. ——— ranged to extend tne time for patting in tarther afidavits ull Monday next, i BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. + COURT OF OYER ANO TERMINER, Apother Hig Sent to way Assailant State Priso Before Judge Brady. Jeremiah Maguire, one of the youthful assailants ‘Of Mr. Finch, during which the latter was knocked | down #na stabbed ve times, in the street, late at night, while on kis way home, was yesterday ar- | yaigmed for trial’ Mr. William F, Kintzing, bis counsel, in view of the conviction om the day pre- vious of William Adams, jointly indicted with him, induced him to putin a piea of guilty and throw i eae ala tats GE himself on the mercy of the Court. Following this ica Judge Brady commented on the aggravated BUSINESS IN THE OTHER GDURTS. | farure “or is oueuce, He wan sory to have to send a young man to the State ea RRR Prison, but ve felt that be owed a duty Convictions and Sentenves in the Oyer end Ter- | miner and General Sessions—The Jury Disa- gree in the Tompkins Square Riot Case—Verdiet Against a Fire Insurance Company. ‘The bill of exceptions in the case of William M. Tweed was brought for settiement yesterday be- gore Judge Davis, hoiding Special Term of the Su- | preme Court, Some tive hundred exceptions are mmciuded in the bill, to which the opposing side have interposed forty-five amendments. It is ex- pected the case on the bill as finally settied will yeach the General Term for argument during the | March term, and by 4 month later get to the Court of Appeals (or tinal adjudication. Yesterday the case of the United States vs. Carr & Blanchard, liquor dealers, in Front street, was tredin the United States Circuit Court before Judge Nathanie! Shipman and a jury. The action was Drouglit to recover a penalty of $300 on each of six- teen empty barrels, which, it was claimed by the government, were in possession of the defendants, mad contained spirits and had the stamps and brands unetaced, It was furtner alleged that de- Jendants had the barrels intending to use them in the transportation of whiskey. The evidence for the defence went to show that no barrels of whis- key were permitted to go oat from the establish. ment of the deiendants without having the stamp and brands thoroughly effaced, The jury found a verdict ior the defendants, Charles Stahl, charged with smuggling 500 cigars into this port, was held by Commissioner Shields yesterday in default of $1,000 bail tor ex- amination. In the case of John J. Ritter, who, on habeas corpus, had been brought before the United States District Court, seeking his discharge from the army on the ground that he was imtoxicated at the time of his enlistment and did not know what he was then doing, Judge Blatchford yesterday discharged the writ and ordered the relator to be Femitted to the custody of the proper officer. A suit has been instituted in the United States District Court by the government against Solomon Zickel, of No. 19 Dey street, to recover $50,000 for alleged undervaluation in the importation of Im the interminable case of Joab Lawrence, ‘whom certain parties have been seddlously striv- ing for some time past to extradite to Michigan to ‘answer a charge of alleged conspiracy, his counsel, Mr. Willard Bartlett, obtained yesterday a writ of error and stay of proceedings. This takes the case to the Court of Appeais for argument. TWEED’S BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. to tue public. streets Unmo! sted at any hour of the day ana | might, and hindrance of that right was an | offence o/ the grossest character and deserving of | the severest punishment, In consideration, how. ever, of luis plea 0! guilty, and Saving the trouble of his irial, he would wake his punishment one year jess than that of 1s confederate in crime, The ex- treme penalty was ten years in the State Prison, | and not tweaty years, as erroneousiy reported. He | sentenced Adams for only eight years on account | ol the recommendation to merey made by the | jury, but, as already stated, would make his term | Ollmprisonmentone year less, The sentence of the Court Was that he be confined at hard labor in State Prison for seven years, There being no other cases ready the Court here adjourned till half-past ten o'clock this morning. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The Old Rock Island Pool in Court Again. Fe Before Judge Van Brunt. The particulars of the suit brought by William | M. Earle and Lindall W. Salstonstall against George S. Scott, William E. Strong, George Wood, Frank R, Sturgis and Frank Werk, involving a claim of some $300,000, growing out of the so- called ‘Rock Island Pool,’ came up for argument in this Court yesteraay on demurrer. Tue case was very elaborately argued by Messrs, H. 3, Ben- nett and F, F. Marbury for the de‘endants, they claiming that, even assuming the complaint to be true, the defendants were not liable, and also in- sisting that the action could not be maintained, because the complaint alleged that there were two combinations, but blended two causes of action and demanded judgment equally against all the | detendants, Mr. William H. Anthon refuted these arguments in a lengthy response, and citing nu- merous authorities to show, as he claimed, that the demurrer was not sustained. Jadge Van Brunt took the papers, reserving his decision. SUPREME COUAT—CHAMBERS, Decisions. By Judge Lawrence. Martine vs. Lowenstein, &c.; National State Bank vs. Barr, Howartn vs. Webb, Atiantic Sav. | ings Bank vs. Hetterich, Thompson vs, Sickles.— | Memorandums, Spofard vs. McPhail.—Motion denied, with $10 | costs. | Motions granted, | Potter vs. Coulter.—Motion denied. | Friedman vs. Berge.—Judgment for plaintiff. G‘ibert vs. Coburn.—-Deiault opened, &c. Rusch, vs, Laior.—Granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—PART 2. The Housekeeper of the St. George’s Cricket Club Bowled Out. Before Judge Larremore, During two years Cecila Kennedy occupied and took charge of the club house of the St, George’s | Cricket Club, on the Bergen Heights Pleasure | Grounds. She claims that she was to have been paid Mr. Higgins, the President, did not understand the matter in any such way, but asserts that, on the contrary, she begued ior the place and offered to take care of the house ior the privilege of oc- Another Effort to Effect the Release of | cupying it iree of rent. The little misunderstand- the Ex-Boss from Durance Vile—The Big Indictment Rivalled by a Monster Bill of Exceptions—arguments of Coan- sel For and Against the Bill, and the Proposed Amendments to It. During the two months and over that Willtam M. Tweed, the great_ex-chieftain of the once powerful Tammany “Ring,” has been doing painful penance @t the Penitentiary his quintumvirate of counsel have not been idle. As soon as the trial closed With his conviction and sentence they began to prepare a bill of exceptions. This was a work of no inconsiderable magnitude, as may be gathered from the fact that the document when completed made up a list of some 509 exceptions, the whole em- Dracing 1,058 pages of legal foolscap. Of course every resource of iega! lore was exhausted and every de- vice of professional strategy resorted to tending to give it impregnability. This was the Gibraltar @f their hopes—the last gun to make a breach in the enemy’s ramparts through which the prisoner Tweed might escape. The bill as prepared had to be sent to Mr. Peckham, the prosecuting counsel, Here was a long job for him, reading these volumi- nous pages and submitting each objection to the crucible of the closest legal analysis. He in his turn made forty-five exceptions, and the docu- Ment, as thus prepared and amended, came up for settlement yesterday before Judge Davis, noid- ing Supreme Court, Special Term, Judge Davis held court in the Supreme Court, General Term room, the quondam meeting place of the old Board of Supervisors, where the de- thronead “Boss” once was supreme master and swayed the sceptre of imperial power. Fallen from greatness, there was none so low as to do him reverence—none, except his well-paid counsel, that seemed to evince the slightest inter- est in the proceedings or the result. An occasional solitary individual Would straggle into the room, but on learning, in response to his inquiries, that it was “‘ouly the old Tweed case up again,” he as quietly Withérew, with a shrug of the shoulders, as if to Say, ‘There's nothing tn it.” And really there was very little tangible in it, excepting, of ing has resulted in a suit brought by Mrs. Ken- | nedy for pay for two years services at the rate | mentioned and $70 additional said to have been | exyended for coal. ‘the case came on for trial | yesterday in this Court, and resulted in a verdict | lor she defendant, | COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. for Decisions. | By Judge Robinson. | Oraing vs. Geo. Kerr.—Motion denied, without | costs. | Anner vs. Keyes,—Motion granted, with $10 | | | month he cut Julia Davis in the side with a pair of | costs. (See Wemorandum.) MARINE COURT—PART 1. A Stock Speculation. Before Judge Shea. Margaret Irving vs. Jonn D. Wilson.—Piaintift | alleges that the defendant, who is her brother-in- law, induced her to invest $500 in tock of the | Amber Oil Company, representing that the com- | pany was perfectly solvent and was paying | large dividends, and assuring her that, | as he was Secretary and ‘Treasurer and his brother was Vice President, they would look after her interests, and at all | events see that she lost bone of the principal. She | received two dividends, and soon alter the last | one was pald the deiendant told her that the wells | had stopped dowing and all was lost, and that the | Jast dividend Was paid out of the principal. Plain- tiff brings this action to recover the $00, with in- terest, claiming that she was induced to part with | her money by false representations. Defendant | claims that at the time the plaintiff purenased the | stock the company Was periectly solvent and nad @ balance of over $4,000 in the treasury, but that soon after the wells stopped flowing and noth- ing bad since been done by the company. The Court charged the jury that if they found that the | defendants’ statement in regard to the sol- | vency of the company was given merely as ab opinion, even though it led to the injury of the | plaintis, he was not responsible, but i they found | that the defendant wilfully practiced deceit upon | the plaintif’ he was liable, and that persons who assume ofices of trust, especially in relation to course, the hage piles of Manuscript. Tne whole corporations, should be held toa strict personal day was consumed in technical quibbling—a accountability. The jury rendered a verdict ior quibbling of adroit ingenuity undoubtedly, but the defendant. not capable through the most deft cunning of the | most facile reportoriai pen of bemg crystallized | into a form giving it attractive public interest. | Disintegrating tuis quipbling and dispelling the environment of chaft, the substantial and reliable | Objections are capable of being very briefly | summarized, Evidentiy the most potent ob- | jection raised was to the jurisdiction of the Conrt; another objection was to the rejection and admission of jurors; another to the coustitu- tionality of the Jury law of 1873 another to the Judge's overruling motions and compeliing them to choose whether to proceed ior neglect or malfea- @ance; another to proof tending to an accumulation of offences and in reference vo the inconsistency of the accounts; another to the constitutionality of the act creating the Board of Audit; another to restricting them to five peremptory challenges, ‘whereas they claimed this nuinber for each offence Specified in the indictment; another to the insuill- ciency of the proof introduced by the prosecution to show loss of papers, the contents of which had | to be proved oraliy; and finally, the refusal of the Judge to charge as requested. Some of the objections were settled during the Progress of the argument, but decision on the majority was reserved by Judge Davis, pending his furtuer examination of the statutes applicable to each case, a8 cited by the opposing counsel. Judge Davis promised to give his decision upon all the points undecided at the earliest day possivie. Jt will take some time after this to make up the entire record and get the matter printed, which will make two large volumes. Itis now thougnt, inas- much as the case, being a criminal one, wil have the preference on the calendar, that tt can be pre- red for argument belore the Supreme Court, Neral Term, some time next month. There is Mo expectation of other than am adverse decision here, and, of course, on such decision it will be carried to the Court of Appeals, where it will like- ‘wise have a preierment on the calendar. COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY WANTED. Aight Solicited Upom a Little Note Transaction—Asking a Commission to Ireland to Get Mr. Connolly's Testi- mony. Cases are trequently turning up in the courts the trials of which are sought to be put off on the plea of the necessity 48 material witnesses of some tugitive member of the old “Ring.” A motion was made yesterday in Supreme Court, Cuambers, be- fore Judge Barrett, vy M. M. M. Budiong, to place on the short calendar @ case in which Joel E. Fith- fan, 4 son-in-law of ex-Comptrolier Conno; is LarBti, and sues On a promissory tor $5,000, left, as atated, wm bts hands by Mr. Connolly. Ibepposition to the motion Mr. Dudiey Field Atated that the delendant was employed py Mr. Connolly as counsel and paid by the latter $5,000 @s cownsel lee; that the note in question was merely Kiven as & memorandum note, aod that the understanding was that it never Would be pre- g@ented ior cojiection. To prove this state of facts it was hecessary, he urged, to obtain tne testi- mony of Mr. Connolly. It bad been ascertained | that Mr. Connoily was in Ireland, but exactiy where Was not known. He desired @ commission to procure his testimony before entering on the trial, Aller some furtber discussion it was finally ar- MARINE COURT—PART 2. Action to Recover Upon a Fire Insur- ance Policy. Before Judge Alker, Jacob Goldman, a Russian Pole, of abont nineteen months residence in this country, brought suit against the Fireman's Fond Insurance Company to recover $600 upon a policy of insurance held by bim to that amount, upon his household effects, wearing apparel, furniture, &c, The piaintif, a very intelligent and the chief witness in his own behalf, had been for years a resident of the city of Warsaw, famous as the scene of Kosciusko's last struggle for the freedom of nis country, When leagued oppression poured to northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her flerce hussars. asa business man dealing in the wines of the country. Having aspirations to breathe the air of freedom in a strange jaud denied him at home he came to this country, having on his way, in the city of Berlin, exchanged his Russian roubles tor Prussian whalers, with which latter coin he pur- chased a tuil outit of wearing apparel for himself, wife and three children, together with several feather beds and the appliances thereunto belong- | ing, the whole intended to last the family for some years, the whole vained at $1,000, but omly tsured jor $600, the amount invoived in the smt. By the advice of a mpatriol? he took out & policy of insuranc soon after his arrival in this city upon these valuabie family household beiongings with the aforesaid company. On the 26th of Fevruary, 1873, ne was living in Birmingham street (No. 5), renting two rooms on tue premises. About five o'clock in the evening of that day he leit home for tne purpose of collect- ing money doe him tn his business us a wholesale dealer (in a Very staal! Way) in wines and liquors, and on his return, between eight and nine o'clock, he iound two policemen and severdi firemen ta possession of the premises, and ascertained that 4 fire which had broken out in a contiguous room wo bis had communicated and had burned up the greater portion of his household goods. In due | time he presented his proof of loss to the company, | who refused to settle on the ground that the value aflixed to the inventory oi nis goods Was excessive, | that there were Irandulent representations made with regard to such values, avd that the fire, so far ag its effect upon the plaintitl’s goods was con- cer |. Was caused by the act of the piaintit himself. For the defence the foremen and captains of two fire companies who extinguished the fire, an surance agent and an insurance adjuster were ex- ami whose testimony went to show that the fire commenicated with plaintif’s room through a hole in the wail, er contrived for that pur- pose; that the remains of the charred and burned arth in ae room presented no sighs oi the de- struction of Valuable goods such as feather beds, silk dresses end linen clothes enumerated im piainiit’s bill of joss. Jadge Alker af a late hour submitted the case to the jury, who, alter a short absence, returned with a verdict for ¢ze plaintif for $450 and costs, MARINE COURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions, iy Judge McAdam, By Stark va Hovt—ser menorgndum with Clerkg nN | _ Morris vs. Barrett, Grocers’ Bank vs. Fitch.— | | $6 a week Jor ber services and coal furnished her, | | Oliast month they stole two horse blankets, the | as No, 23 Forsyth street, was brought ap for being NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Sines ys, Dupuls,—Juagment for plaintif, with | cost | Ss. Phelan vs, Drake.—Metion for judgment denied, with $10 costs to defendant to abide event. . _ By Judge Gross, Beardsley vs, Loaners’ Bank.—Motion for leave to serve amended answer granted on wanent of ) cosis to date and costs of motion, defendants to | stipulate to try caase this term. Hoimer vs. New York and Baltimore Transporta- on Line Company,--Motion tor new trial granted. | Raltistein vs, Werbein.—Upon affidavits and referee’s report motion to vacate order of arrest granted, | Wendar{ vs. Remingtcn.—Motion denied. Lewis vs. Simon.—Motion to advance cause on calendar denied, without costs, By Judge Joachimsen, } Jones vs. Hyiman,—Motion to Vacate attachment | delied, With costs, Nisson vs. Fagan.—Motion denied. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, The Tompkins Square Riot—Disagree- ment of the Jury. Before Recorder Hackett. At the opening of the Court yesterday, Mr. Mott, | counsel for Christian Mayer, who was on trial for assaulting, as alleged, Sergeant Berghold with @ hammer, at Tompkins square, on the 13th of Jan- uary, presented a number Of requests to charge, | most of which the Recorder declined to accede to, | but did instruct them, as counsel asked, vhat the DEFENDANT HAD A LEGAL RIGHT | to be at Tompkins square on the 1sth of January. | ‘The Recorder informed the jury that they could , render either one of four verdicts, according as | they eheved thé testumony would sustain— viz, an assault with intent to kill, an assault with intent to do bodily harm, @ simple assault and battery, or a verdict of ‘not guity.” In the course of his remarks His Honor suid that policemen were just as amenable to the 1aw as otuer people, and, While citizens had the right to be upon the street, yet there were certain police reguiations, which Were made for the enforcement of order, that good citizens ought to obey. He, however, lett the jury to determine from the evi- dence Whether the prisouer was guilty or not uLity. 4 "ACh late hour in the afternoon the jury entered the court room, and, upon the foreman stating that it was impossible ior them to agree, the Court discharged tuem from the further consideration of the case. Itis understood that there were ten for convic- tion of assault and battery aud two for acquictal. A Notorious Burglar Gets Twenty Years—“Entitled to No Mercy.” William Cresswell, alias Bill Connor, was tried and convicted of burglary in the first degree. The proof of guilt adduced by the prosecution was brief, but very convincing, and, as will be seen, the circumstances attending the transaction were very aggravating. Francis De Grushe, residing at No, 276 Stanton street, testifled that between six | and seven o’clock in the evening of the 30th of Junuary he saw the prisoner running from his front door; that he pursued him and was joined in the chase by Officer Dalton, who arrested the prisoner. Mr. De Grushe, upon returning to bis house, discovered that the parlor door had been forced open, but no property was taken. Officer Daiton swore that he followed | the prisoner through Columbia street, and when be caught Cressweil he struck him (.be oficer) twice on the head with a revolver. The blows stunned the officer, Which enabied the prisoner to escape. Dalton pursued him, however, and when he was about fifteen yards trom the officer he turned around deliberately and fired two shots out of a six-barreiled loaded revolver. The burglar was finally captured, and, when searched, skeleton keys and & small “jimmy” Were 1ound upon him. | Phere was an indictment against hum jor the felo- nious assault upon the officer, Alter the jury bad rendered a verdict o1 guilty Mr. Rollins informed | the Court that the prisoner, under the name of | Wm. Conners, pleaded guilty to burglary in the | third degree in May, 1869, and was sent to the | State Prison for five years. The Recorder said, in | | passing sentence, that such @ notorious criminal | Was entitied to no mercy, and directed bim to be imprisoned in the State Prison for twenty years at | hard labor. Larcenies and Burglaries. Daniel Clark, who was indicted for stealing, on | the 26th of January, $125 worth of property, owned by Charies Miller, pleaded guilty to an attempt at | | grand larceny. | James Manning pleaded guilty to an attempt at | burglary in the third degree, the charge against | | him being that he burgiariously entered the prem- | | ises of James Watson, No. 21 Crosby street, on the | | 21st of January, and siole three brass water cocks, worth $15. ‘These prisoners were each sent to the | State Prison tor two years and six mouths. } Willam H. Creighton pleaded guilty to petty lar- | | ceny irom the person, On the 2stn of January he stole ninety-five cents in fractional curreucy and some Jerry tickets from the person of Edward H, vole, As he had been convicted of a similar of feuce about a year ago the Recorder sent him to the Penitentiary tor two years. Louis Hilapo pleaded guilty to assault and bat- | very, the charge being that on the 25th of last | BCISSOrS. Rovert Short and Albert Berry pleaded guilty to | petty larceny, the allegation being that on the 27th | property of Daniel Costello. These prisoners were each sent to the Peniten- tiary for six months. Two False Pretence Cases, William Kamp was charged with obtaining twenty-nine pounds of beef, worth $5, from David Heilbrun, on the 15th of Deeember, by falsely repre- senting that his employer, Mr. Golusiein sent him for it. James Young pleaded guilty to a similar allega- tion, the charge being that he induced Anthony Neary to part with $2 by stating tnat certam boxes Which he drew irom a bag contained money, These prisoners were each sent to tue Peniten- tiary for three months, Youthful Criminals Sent to the House of Refuge. James Campbell and Join Whallen (boys) pleaded guilty to breaking into the premises of Isaac Strauss, No. 7 avenue B, on the 20th of January, and stealing $35 worth of jewelry, Lows Burgard, Woo was char, with stealing $41 in money, on the 29th of December, from Li- zetta Trouber, pleaded guilty to pe‘ty larceny. These boys Were sent to the House of Reluge, Acquitials. Carl Schutz and William Gargschaft were tried upon an indictment charging them with perjury in the third degree, The proof was that on the 8th of December they attempted to utter two | twenty-five thaler notes at the office of | Isaac Seweizer, No. 122 Greenwich street, which proved to be counterfeit. Gurgschaft testified that he kept a lager beer saloon in Ho- boken, and was in the h money into American ¢ arrived at Hoboken, bit Of exchanging foreign rrency for emigrants who Good character Was proven, and the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty with- out leaving their seats, Frederick Koerner was tried and acquitted of a charge of an attempt at burglary. Onicer Van | Raust swore that at three o'clock in the morning of the 4th of last month he caught the prisoner in the act of breaking the window of Benjamin Oppenheim & Co.'s store, So. 291 Grand street, The accused satistied the jury wno acquitted him, that be on'y “tooling” with Julius Eraosey | and broke the window accidentally, | Christian King, @ boy, was found not guilty ofa | | charge of ourglatiously entering the butcher shop | of Christian Wolf, No. 70 Spring street, the only evidence against the youth being tue possession of | a filty-cent counterfeit sta! the com- Plainant claimed to ide Acquitted, but Held. Alfred Jacqnes was tried upon an indictment for burglary in the third degree and receiving stolen goods. The proof to sustain the charge was that: | on the 3d of January the premises of Moser & Ste- vens, Np. 84 Franklin street, were entered and sixty- | nive shawls, worth $300, stolen; that an officer on te 14th went to the apartments 4i9 Kast Sixteenth street, occupied by the prison and found three oi the shawis, besides large num- | ber of theatrical dre: uggists’ scales, and burgiarious impiem: » accused admit- ted that the property \ son, Who pleaded guil them tuere, and he requested bh articles away. The accused showed, by his em- | Ployers, that he was a tailor and worked steadily. The jury rendered a verdict of not guilty, Mf. Rollins had Jacques remanded upon ‘another in- | dictment, id that his crume, brought | a to take the | ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT, Attempted Suicide from Starvation. Before Justice Otterbourg, Asad case, illustrating most forcibly the misery of penury going on throughout the city, was brought beiore the Court yesterday. Charles Lange, whose residence was givenon the returns | drunk, Oficer Draffin, who arrested him, said he Jonnd him in the street, apparently drunk, The prisoner, who is of decent appearance, when asked what he had to say, replied, “Nothing,” in a va | caut manner. Seeing a young and modest looking woman crying bitterly at the rear of the prisoner, the Judge asked her if she was related to the ac- cused. She replied that she was his wile, and told the Judge that they were married ten months ago and that her husband, who never drinks, ad bean out of work for the past three montis, He went out ae morning ear, jdding her goodby. Heved her husband was had taken poison, hot He then confessed’ that, drunk, but | c1e' | 2552, 3288, 3906, | Ous assault and battery; Same vs. Joseph Gleason, | goods; Same vs, Charlies Amnon and Morris Rosen- | werken, Sanvorn and Hawh | ments at the same time. becoming discouraged at the prospect of starvation staring him In the face, he got some Jaudanum and drank it. He was suffering from the esecws of it when he Was arrested, Justice Otterbourg became interested to the couple and handed nts bili to the woman and By @ BOOS ad- vice tothe man. He also procured some assist- ance from the Fourteenta Agsembiy District Relief Association and gave tt to them. The Judge also intends speaking to some friends with & view of precanne a situation of some kind for Lange, who ‘well educated, ‘To the Land of the West. Louisa Donenheimer and ber father and mother, whose troubles have been already published in the | HERALD, were yesterday despatched to Delaware, Ohio, by Mr. Schultz, of the Children’s Ald So- The little girl, it will be remem- bered, Was arrested for stealing to keep her father and motuer from starvation. Several | gentlemen of position read the case a8 pablished in the HERALD, and, alter tully sauistying them- selves that it Was one Of extreme misery, made liberal donations, one of them even sigping the bail bond of the child for $600, Mr, Kenyon, the Clerk of the Hssex Market Court, supplied the famuy with clothing and other necessaries for their home in the West. Attempted Murder. Albert Lutzer was put under $1,000 bail for firing @ pistol at Joseph Retting, of No. 73 Goerck street. ‘They had a quarrel over some beer, and the dis- pute was renewed on the street, ‘The ball did not take effect on Rittuung, Lutzer was arrested by Oificer Reija, A Stable Burglar Caught. William H. Pooie was held in $1,000 bail on a charge of break.ng open the stable of Edward Reid, | at No, 42 Ridge street, and stealing a horse blanket, worth $40, ‘The blanket was found in the premises of the | accused, YORKVI.LE POLICE COURT. Before Justice Murray. A Cow Doctor's Tricks Detected. Charles Weil, a cow doctor, was heid for trial on complaint of Officer Fitzpatrick, of the Nineteenth precinct, who charged him with purchasing a dis- | eased cow for $6, which he intended to have killed and sold tor human food, The cow was found | hanging up, prepared to be killed, in Kisver’s slaughter house, in East Forty-seventh street, when the officer stepped in and arrested Weil. Bad Boys Held for Trial Charles Terhune, @ vicious youth, about thirteen years of age, Was committed for trial for attempt- Ing to rob the till of a baker named Jacob Webber, No. 331 East Fifty-fourth street, and also for draw- ing in ene and threatening to cut out Webber's eart. Daniel Reagan and William McGovern, two boys, who were charged with an attempt to steal a pair of shoes, were heid Jor trial, COURT CALENDARS—THIS GAY, SUPREME CovRT—Cixcult—Part 2—Hela by Judge Lawrence,—Nos. 1152, 2964, 1226, 1620, 1736, 1472, 1678, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1688, 1690, 1692, 1694, 1696, 1698, 1700, 1702, 1704, 1712, Part 3—Held by Judge Van Vorst.—Nos. 715, 505, 1257, 445, 1285, 473, 316, 1494, 1496, 1497, 2963, 853, 1337, 66949, 75, 1059, 577, 1118, 1225, 285, SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TeRM—Held by Judge Van Brunt.—Demurrers.—Nos. 25, 524. Issues of Law and Fact.—Nos, 136, 141, 163, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 185, 166, 167, 168, 169, | 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 185, 186, 187, 186, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 19434, 195, 182, 183, 184, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS—He! by Judge Barrett.—Nos. 29, 64, 55, 61, 83, 9034, 91, 93, 98, 99, 100, 103, 104, 112, 120, 124, 125, 146, 154, 15434, 105, 76, SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1.—Will not be held until Monday, Feoruary 9. Part 2—Held by Judge Curtis.—Nos. 67634, 280, 80, 726, 740, 744, 738, 204, 216, 780, 608, 622, 28, 688, 706, 1235, 812, 814, 816, 806, 472, 730, 148, 796. Court oF CoMMON PLEAS—EquiTy Tzrm—Held by Judge Loew.—Nos. 12, 16, 27, 30. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—Part 1— Held by Judge Larremore.—Nos. 2339, 2420, 2231, 2726, 1328, 634, 1528, 3374, 1748, 1369, 2348, 2273, 2409, 2423, Part 2—Held by Judge J. F, Daly.—Nos, 136, 2519, 1566, 2593, 2595, 2596, 3920, 2524, 2576, 2598, 2599, 2600, 2601, 2604, 2605, MARINE COURT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—Held by Judge Shea.—Nos. 3695, 3622, 3623, 3116, 3180, 3653, 4261, 2838, 2666, 3234, 4165, 1437, 2691, 3109, 3175, 3587, 383 S021, 3023, Part 3—Held by Juage 3. 2815, 3163, 3299, 3149, 3448, 3449, 3476, 3686, 3779, 3048, 4057, 4058, 4151, 4133, 4107, 4198, 4212, 4219, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS—Held by Recorder Hackett.—The People vs. Morris Higgins, rap Same vs. Thomas McCowan, robbery; Same v! James McTonegal, tejonious assault and batter; Same vs. Witham J. Dawson, felonious assauit aud | battery; Same vs. George-Langworth, felonious as- | sault and battery; Same vs. Joseph Isaacs, feloni- burgiary; Same vs, Willtam H, Johnson and Jotun H. Williamson, burglary; Same vs. Henry Johnson, ‘and larceny; Same vs. George A. Johnson and | eter McLoughlin, grand larceny; Same_ vs. Thomas Smith, grand larceny; same vs. John Maher and Henry Dean, L roe larceny; Same vs. Vincent Burgess, grand larceny; Same vs. Alice Keegan, grand larceny. CouRT OF OYER AND TERMINER—Held by Judge | Brady.—The People vs. John E. Simmons, homi- cine; Same vs. Mary H. Shurtiff and James Cc. Kelly, grand larceny, second offence; Same v: Raphael M. seidis, larceny and receiving stolen thal, forgery. BROOKLYN COURTS. eee UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Alleged Conspiracy to Defraud the Gov- ernment—The Case of Sanborn, Hawley | md Vanderwerken—The Detendants | Plead Not Gailty and Are Admitted to Bail Again—The Proceedings Yesterday. Before Judge Benedict. | The case of John wv. Sanborn, Supervisor of Inter- nal Revenue, Lucien Hawley, and Deputy Col- lector Alfred Vanderwerken, who were indicted on the charge of having conspired to defraud the government in connection with the legacy and succession taxes and other matters, was before the Court yesterday on a motion of District Attorney Tenney for the arraignment of the defendants. The court room was crowded by lawyers, revenue Officials‘and others who took an } interest in the case and were anxious to witness | the proceedings. District Attorney Tenney and his assistant, Mr. Hughes, appeared for the gov- ernment, and Benjamin F. Tri Davenport for the accused. Sauvorn and Van- derwerken were present before the Court opened. Hawley did not appear. THE PROCEEDINGS. Shortly after twelve o'clock Judge Benedict took his seat on the benen, the District Court was opened ana the Judge was about to call the Admi- raity calendar when Mr. Hughes intimated that the government had some business ior the Cur- cuit. Judge Benedict said that he had an Admiralty ) calendar of 140 cases, and that it would be impos- sible for him to devote any time during the pres. | ent month to business in the Cirewt. Tue whole of this month would be devoted to admiralty busi- ness, He would now call the Adimiralty calendar, and gentlemen might set down causes as they agreed. Then, turning to Mr. Tenney, be asked it there was any motion tn the Circuit the District attorney desired to make ¢ Mr, Senney—Yes, sir, The arrangement at the’ last Circuit was that these deiendants, Vander- » Were to Come in to- day a lead, Yadge Benedict thereupon directed the crier to open the Circuit Court, which the crier accordingly de Mr. Tenney—Now, I move the arraignment of | Alired Vanderwerken, Lucien Hawley and John D. | Sanborn on two indictments, to piead to the same, Mr. Tracy—They are present. What indictments do you present? ir, Tenney—They are FOR CONSPIRAOY TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT out of large sums of money. Mr, Tracy—Let us see them, Mr. Tenney—The Clerk has them. Judge Benedict—Are yqu ready to plead? Mr. Tracy—I suppose the last imdictment is for the same offence, only in different 1orms. Mr. Tenney—Yes, the same subject matter, Mr. Tracy—I suppose the District Attorney must eee Qrst beiore he asks us to plead to the | second. Mr, Tenney—Not necessart), Mr. Tracy—It is a mere mat ly. tter of form. I sup- | pose he does quash the first. | Mr. Tenney suggested tnat that was a matter for | @ motion. Mr. Tracy—Which indictment do you arraign us on? Mr, Tenney—On both, Mr. Tracy—We object to qesding to two indict- Ve supposed that plead- ing to the second quashes the first. judge Benedict—Better move arraignment on the second one. Mr. Teuney—Ther I move their arraignment on the second. Judge Benedict (to defence)—Do you plead not guilty? Mr, Tracy—We PLEAD NOT GUILTY for the three defendants, Mr, Senney—Is Mr. Sanborn in Court? Mr, Tracy—He is, What will be the amount of bail hall agk for Sanborn $25,000; for $26,000 and for Hawley $10,000, Mr, Tracy—{ think that is extravagant ball. We gave Pere for Mr, Hawley and the ovher defend- ut Mr. Sambora was required to give only $4,000 bail. ir, Tenney—That was done in Washington and not bere. Mx Dayennort was aboujp sneak when Judce ken 3 | clent. , depth and degrees of flthines: 6, 1824-°TRIPLE SHEET. Benedict inquired for whom he appeared. Mr. | Davenport replied, tor Mr. Sanborn only, Mr. Tracy, said he, himself appeared for the three de- fendants jointly. Judge Benedict said he would hear but one counsel, | Mr. Davenport then addressed the Court, saying that the Beach warrant and indictment agaiust Mr. Sanborn were sent to Washington and Mr. | Sanborn surrendered himself. He was taken be- | | fore Justice Carter, who filed bail at $4,000 for nis | appearance that morning, He was present how. | Counsel thought that | SWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS BAIL WAS TOO LARGE. Mr. Sanborn would have some difficuity m pro- | curing itas he was astranger jn Brooklyn, not | having been here haif a dozen times in his iife, If | he were in New York or Boston, it would not be Bear as dificult as here, Mr. Tracy—The fact that $4,000 bail has been sudicient to produce him here, is evidence that $25,000 bail is not required. Mr. Hawley is also a stranger in Brooklyn. Judge Benedict—Mr, Hawiey found no difficulty when he gave bail before, Mr. ‘Tracy—There 1s objection to giving extrava- gant bali in a minor offence, Mr. Davenport—The amount which the govern- Ment is claimed to have been defrauded out of is oniy $4,000. Judge Benedict—Of course, if it is impossible for these ee geory: to give bail im such an amount, I should not have any great dimiculty in reducing the bau; butif there is no difficulty, as there was not in Mr. Hawiey’s case, | do not see Auy reason why they should not give the boil. {After a slight pause) 1 will make the batl $15,0U0, J think that is enough, Mr. ‘Tracy—They could give $50,000 RATHER THAN GO TO JAL but the fact of $4,000 being sufficient to produce Mr, Sanborn here is evidence that no $26,000 is necessary. Judge Benedict repeated that he would fix the bail at $15,000, That was sufficient, he thought, Mr. fenney—Is Mr, Hawley in Court? Mr. Tracy—If he is not be will be here in a few moments. Mr. Tenney—I dislike to take ex parte statements that they cannot furnish ball, Judge Benedict—1 think '$15,000 will be sum. | I should, have reduced it to that if they jound any DIFFICULTY IN FURNISHING BAIL. 1 howigg in a charge of this kind that $15,000 is suffi- | cien | Mr, Tracy—Now, I have another motion, that the | District Attorney be required to file a bill of partic- ulars in this indictment, Judge Benedict (to Mr. Tenney)—Are you ready to consent to that? Mr. ‘Tenney—No, sir, Judge Benedict (to Mr, Tracy)—You had better make the motion when I have no calendar. I will ae ne mouon where there is opposition in the Yircuit. It was agreed between counsel that they should appear belore Judge Benedict in Chambers on Sat- urday morning and then and there submit their arguments on the motion, ‘The Circult Court was then declared adjourned. Messrs. E. S. Sanford, Vice President of Adams ms rome and Western Union Telegraph companies, and Franklin Woodruff, chairman of the Committee | oi One Hundred, became Sanvorn’s bondsmen. The | other defendants retained the bondsmen who jus- tified at the time of the arrests, District Attorney Tenney will urge a trial at the March Circuit, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Mrs. Dunbar’s Divorce Suit. Before. Judge Pratt. Mary Dunbar has instituted a suit for divorce | from Captain Wilham F. Dunbar on the grouna of | cruel and inhuman treatment, They were mar- | ried in 1852, and have had five children, the eldest of whom is ason of nineteen years. The plaintiff charges that her husband irequently got drunk and beat her; that he wasted his earnings in | riotous living and neglected to provide for her | and her children; that on one occasion he aban- | doned her for eight months, and that when he did return he was drunk, and threatened to shoot her. ] No answer has been made by the defendant, | Yesterday morning Judge Pratt, in Chambers, sent the case to a referee to take testimony and report. CITY COURT—TRIAL TERM. Pedestrians—A Contractor Mulcted. Before Judge McCue. In November, 1871, Miss Ida Catherine Suydam, an elderly lady, was passing the new bank building at the corner of Broadway and Fifth street, E. D., when she fell over a roller used in moving large | stones and had one of her ankles fractured. She | was, in consequence, confined to the house for six aoe and even now she walks with the aid of a | suck. Yesterday Miss Suydam sued the contractor en- | gaged on the vuilding, William H. Corey, and claimed $25,000 damages. She claimed that the sidewalk in front of the building was so encum- | bered with building blocks, &c., that there was | but a narrow passage for pedestrians, and that in Perils of | ths passage the roiler had been carelessly left by the workmen. | The defence was a general denial and an allega- | tion vhat the accident was the result of plaimud’s own carelessness. ‘The jury rendered a verdict in favor of plaintif, | and assessed damages at $2,500. \ William C. De Witt and G. H. Fisher for plaintim; D. P. Barnard and R. E. Topping for defendant, CITY COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The Zhart Divorce Suit. Before Judge McCue. | John C. Znart sued for an absolute divorce from | Matilda Zhart, on the ground of adultery, and the | case was referred. It did- not appear that the | couple had been married; but it was established that they lived together as man and wiie tor a number of years. Finally Matilda, as charged, left Jonn and married another man. Hence the suit. The referee reported in favor of allowing the divorce applied for, Judge McCue, however, de- clined to confirm the report, and yesterday decided that “there was no marriage by present words, and that the report of the referee should not be | confirmed and the defendant is entitled to have the complaint dismissed.” | COUNTY COURT, | A Novel Suit. \ Before Judge Moore. | Rey. Father McGuire, who died in 1872, left an | estate worth about $75,000 to his nephew, Hugh McGuire. The testator had several other*nepnews, | but did not leave them anything. The fortunate | man was naturalized, so that he could inherit. Yesterday an application was made on behalf of the other nephews to have the naturalization | papers set aside, on the ground that they were im- | properly granted, ff this was done Hugh McGuire, | | their mouths. | children, described his condition and that of hts | words—‘No shoes, no coat, no fire, no iood! | family possess an old broken-down stove, which | looted, bein, | in the alter exhaustion of the last stages MISERY AND POVERTY. How Some of the Wretchedly Poor Exist in New York. WITHOUT FOOD, FIRE, HOME OB HOPE. Thrilling Details of Terrible Suffering in the Fourth and Sixth Wards, ee Facts are more eloquent than any eloquence, and consequently the following facts in reference to the condition of the poor and wretched in the city of New York, at and during the period of the present snow storm, which has given to rich and happy New York its best opportunity yet for skat_ ing and sleighing, will be more suggestive in their terrible details than any sermon, These facts were obtained by @ representative of the HERALD from | personal observation and irom the statements of experienced police captains and ward detectives, who are of all men in the city the most practically cognizant of the misery, as well as the crime, within it. WHERE THE BOARD OF HEALTH HAS MADE 4 MIS- TAKE. In the first place it is claimed and earnestly tn- sisted upon by the police authorities that the raid made by the Board of Health upon the down-town | lodging cellars, though well intended, was a prac- tical mistake, so far as any benefit to the poor is concerned, The police hold that the poor are more wretched than before tnis closing up of their “basement homes,” while they are not @ whit more clean or more moral Since the ccl- lars have been shut up the scum of the town have sought refuge in the attics of old rookeries, the top stories of tenement houses, where they are just as vile and as filthy, only more cold and even wet than before; for most of these attics have broken windows, through which the wind howls terribly, and they have leaky roofs, through which the snow and the hail and the rain penetrate fearfully. Mew and women are huddied together just as closely as they were in the cellars, and they pay the same tenor fifteen cents a night, so that in reality, while change has been made, no improvement has been gained. Dan Casey, who kept the miserable lodg- ing cellar in 356 Water street, where he sold straw beds to human creatures for fiteen cents & night, now sells to the same persons the same straw ior the same tariff in the top floor ofaden in Baxter street, “Old Mother Burley,”” who used to keep the far famed infamous “Black Hole of Cherry street,’ having been driven from this locality by the Board of Health, has transferred her business and ber boarders and keeps an equally foui establishment at No, 349 Water street; aud any number of stmi- lar instances could be cited, showing that the “closing up’? movement of the Board of Health has resulted merely in a change of localities, but not in any improvement in the condition of the poor. And what the condition of the wretehed poor in. the city of New York really is let the following additional facts snow :— MAC THB DUTCHMAN'S—FIGHTING POR PLACES ROUND THE ONLY STOVB, At No, 394 Water street is a huge lodging house kept by @ man called, in the parlance oF the neigh~ borhood, “Mac the Dutchman.” The house is, lite erally, a big barn—cheerless outside, utterly desti- tute of furniture, carpets or beds within. Some thirty or forty wen, women and children *bunk’? on the straw in this barn nightly, and pass the greater portion of their existence {n fighting with each other for places around the only stove in the building, a broken down affair, on the first floor, whose heating propertes, imperfect as they are, are 80 highly prized that tist encounters in- numerable have taken place for a chance at their temporary enjoyment by wretched “lodgers” in | this “den.” The saddest yet most natural feature in the case is that, being the weakest ol course, the children are compelied to go to the wall, and thus the poor little ones, who reaily Deed tue fire the most, are compelled tocry and shiver in the corners, while the men aud women curse and quarrel nearer the Wished-ior stove. This nightly fight for @ seat near the fire at Mac the Dutchman’s is really a curious @ contemptible picture of buman human misery. In this “establishment” there are at the present moment five or six women who ave no bonnets; a number of children who are compeiled to beg in the snow bareioot. Two or three of the “families” have lived for some time past wholly on garbage aud the refuse they have picked upin the streets, while last week a wo- man who had not been six days a mother was forced (0 arise, take her baby in her arms and beg barefoot in the streets, “NO SHOEZS—NO COAT—NO FIRE—NO FOOD!” No. 19 Cherry street is a wretched tenement, near an alley. It is full of poor tamilies in the frout, and tuuer of very, very poor families in the rear. ‘There are six or seven families in the trout and twelve families in the rear—fiilty-two people, it is estimated, in all, The iatmilies im the front live irom hand to mouth, The families in the rear seldom get anything in their hands to put into One man, the father of several family very simply and very forcibly in eignt ne they bought when they were ‘tlush” for $1, and tor 4 While they managed to pick up by hook or by crook enough wood and coal to keep im it @ scant fire, but there have been 80 many bundreds of people lately “picking up’? coal and wood, and the children were so tender- bareloot, that this resource ulti- mately failed them. As for food, they have not “eaten & square meal,’ as the father phrased it, this year. NLY A BOWL OF COFFEE IN TWO DAYS. I 344 Water street, on the top floor, ina dark, bleak room, Whose iurniture consisted of a broken chair and a bundle of rags and straw, | called @ “shakedown,” answering the purpose of # ved, ina corner, Officer Musgrave, of the Fourth precinct police, found & woman lying on the bagel 0! hunger. The windows Were most of them broken, the roof leaked badly, and the poor creature was shivering, as well a8 burning al fainting. When found by the officer the wowan was too weak of course, would be an alien. | to speak a word, and she was taken at once to tne The application was opposed, and counsel for Hugh McGuire submitted these points :— First—That the petitioners were attempting to set aside a final judgment of the Court, which, ac- cording to the ruling of the Court of Appeals, could not be impeached by parties litigant, Second—That the petitioners could not evade the result of the decisions quoted by changing the form of proceedings, and commencing these by petitions, | as such @ course was Without precedent, Third—That the Court had no power to revoke its former judgment and decree. Fourth—That the judgment and decree did not affect the petitioners. Fi¢th—That the State having made this law affecting private rights (for the United States law alfected no private rights), it was and must be for the State Courts as such and alone to ascertain | and determine those rights in actions between parties, Sixth—That the petitioner had no standing in Court, the United States being the only party that could make such petition, Seventh—That, tiough the United States were substituted for the petitioner, that Court could still have no jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed for. That im any view of the case the petitioner must fail on the application. Decision reserved, COURT OF APPEALS CALENDAR, ALBANY, Feb, 4, 1874, The Court of Appeals day calendar for February 5 18 ag 10110WS:—Nos. 10, 59, 88, 87, 35, 11, 14, 17. THE MISSION OP EX-RABBI SCHLAMOVITY, | Professor Emanuel H. Schiamovitz, having found from his interviews with the Jews of this city that Many are deeply interested in the question of the Messiah, is encouraged to commence a course of lectures on the “Evidences of Christianity.” Through the kindness of the Rev. Father Larkin, pastor of the Church of the Holy innocents, he 1s enabled to give these lectures in the boys’ school room of that church, corner of Thirty-seventh Street and Broadway (entrance from the girls’ Schoolroom). The Hirst lecture will be delivered in the German language tn this room on Saturday, February 7, at three P, M. Subject—"The Atone- ment of the Messiah.’ The Protessor will also be in attendance at said room for interviews and in- structions daily, at nall-past three P. M., Sundays and Mondays excepted. He states that in under- taking this work he has no other motive than love for his own nation, and no other object than the good of his hearers, and he earnestly invites all true Israelites to attend, SLI IN THE STREETS, New York yesterday again showed her municipal incompetency to care for the streets soas tomake them commodious thoroughiares. A rising tem- perature found the streets covered with snow | Park Hospital. It was afterwards ascertained that. for two days prior to having been found by the policeman she had tasted no other nourishment than one bowl of coffee, which had been kindy sent up to her by a poor woman down stairs, who had nothing else to give her, and who had nally gone to tue police station herself and informed we oilicer of the woman's condiion, in this particular case the poor woman recov- ered; but it sometimes happens that the victims of hunger are not so fortunate, STARVED TO DEATH, In the basement of Nu. 56 New Chambers street, on. | the last and lowest step of the closed basement, which had once been a lodging house, a poor wretch, without friends, without home, without money, Was lound last week freezing and. starving to death. He was taken by the police officers to the station house, and was irom thence borne on the | ambulance to the Park Hospital; but he died the next day—*Died of want ol food,” said the doctor. And ever and anon there are poor wretched vagrants who find it but a step FROM THE STATION HUUSE TO THE MOSPITAL, just as they find it but another step from the hospital to @ pauper’s grave. On three separate occasions this winter the ambulance connected | with the Park Hospital (in the City Hall Park, tor- nierly used as an engine house, then as @ hospital | Jor sunstruck patients, now as a temporary hos- | i that snould have been removed promptly as it fell. | lush, of varying one of it pleasant to encounter. Nature prasuaily carried @ portion of it Into the sewers, but the bulk, night’s frost, still remains, to make New York streets for the next mouto @ horror anda re- DOM This the sunshine turned into | stiffened by last | ban! | | pital), has been telegraphed to come at once to the police station of the Fourth precinct, to bear trom the station house to the hospital some poor devil of @ Vagrant—some station house lodger who has been seized with some mortal sickness wumid the rest of the dirty, greasy, wretched pummers, @ mortal sickoess aris- ing from = sheer want of the commonest necessaries of humanity. And in each o/ tre three cases reierred to tae victim of starvation has died, though these deaths are seldom recorded in the papers. It is calculated by @ fla captain. cognizant of the general facts of the subject in question that from fifty to sixty deaths have already occurred this winter trom sheer starva- uon, MISCELLANEOUS MISERY, A hatter in the Tenth ward, avery respectable man, told the writer that he ana his wife had aver- aged only five or six meals & week for the last two: months; “and even these meals we would not have called meals in the old time,” he said. Stone masons, house carpenters and hod- carriers find this stormy weather specially terrible. A man woo keeps @ house of tll-repute in Water street shows that, despite his calling, he 1s not wholly evil, by going around among the dance houses and demireps of his district and collecting subscriptions of twenty-five cents each to keep & worthy house ¢arpenter, out of employment, and his wife, in Rose street, frum literally starving. these facts und many others that could be men- tioned did space permit will serve, feebly but truthfully, to illustrate the dark side of that snow storm which to the rich of New Y brings but another pleasure, we en BROOKLYN CITY FUNDS. The balance of city funds remaining in the city banks on deposit to the credit of the city of Brook- lyD, on the 3ist of January, was $2,601,758, The ks have reduced the rate of interest on the general fund deposited with them from three and @ half to three pér cent. ‘This reduction will prove an anpnal Jona fo the ClLY OF BOUL $15,000.