The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1874, Page 5

q THE TRANSIT OF VENU What the Astronomers of the Earth Are Doing. THE § EQUIPMENTS AND INSTRUMENTS, Locations Selected by the Varions Coun- * tries for Observation. ENDS AND PURPOSES IN VIEW. Past Theories of the Sun’s Dis- tance from the Earth. Ima few woeks that fine United States steamer ‘the Swatara will leave our port to convey a com- peny of scientists to very distant lands on an errand such as the world has not known for more than a hundred years, Our readers know that Preparations for observing the passage of the fair star Venus across the sun’s disk in December next have been going on ior some time past at such centres of astronomical work as Greenwich and Washington. We doubt whether many are aware how much more widely extended than this is the Present movement; how daceply stirred our Scientists are, or what truly practical uses this World-wide stir aims to secure, We say world ‘Wide because America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the mest distant isles of the sea are, indeed, Btirred by it. We present, therefore, from trast- Worthy sources, first, THE PARTIES OF OBSERVERS AND THEIR STATION. Over the illuminated side of the earth on the morning of December 8-9 there will be probably eighty stations at which astronomers, physicists ‘@nd photographers will all be staring up at that ‘Diack dot which will show Venus moving across the cun’s disk, If an aeronaut can have the power ef bis vision extendea on that morning so as to Rook down on all these stations he will look upon what might be well mistaken for some 500 up- ‘tarnea rifies; and yet he cannot think it a regi- ment, for he must be looking down upon scattered @oldiera of science standing each in his place, but 4m the wide lines reaching {rom Viadivostock, on the Japan Sea, north latitude 43 deg. 7 min., to Kerguelen or ‘Desolation Island,’ south latitude degz., in the Antarctic Ocean, and from Hawaii, ef the Sandwich group, to Mauritius and the Pun- fab, in Hindostan. SHE CORPS OF AMERICAN OBSERVERS ‘witn their stations has been entirely filled up. In the Northern Hemisphere ‘there will be tnree Parties, the chief of whom are: at Viadivostock, Protessor A. Hall, United States Navy Observatory; at Nagasaki (or Yokohama), Professor G. Davidson, United States Coast Survey ; and at Pekin, Professor 3. C. Watson, of Michigan University. In the Southern Hemisphere—at Bluff Harbor, New Zealand, Protessor Harkness, United States Navy Observatory ;at Hobart Town, Tasmania, Professor | GH. F, Peters, of Hamilton College, New York; at Crozet Islands, Indian Ocean, Captain U. W. Raymond, United States Corps of Engineers; at Kerguelen Island, Lieutenant Commanders Ryan and Train, United States Navy; and at Chatham | Island, indian Ocean, Mr. E. Smith, of the United States Coast Survey. As each station is to have under its chiefan as- @istant astronomer and two photographers, the whole number of Americans represenuing the | avy, the Army, the Coast Survey ana the profes- tonal photographer will be forty. It is understood ‘that in filling up the parties the following named g@entiemen also HAVE RECEIVED APPOINTMENTS from the Secretary of the Navy, viz.:—As Assistant Astronomers—W. A. H. Scott, United States Coast Survey; First Lieutenants E. W. Bass and S. E, Tillman, United States Engineers, and Mr. Leon- ard Waldo, of Columbia College, New York. As Chief Photographers—D. R. Clark, of Indianapolis; W. V. Ranger, of Syracuse; L. Seevohm, of Day- | ton; D. K. Holmes, 8. R. Seibert and W. B, Pyweil, of Washington, D. C.; J. Moran, of Philadelphia, and J. Pendergrast, of Boston. ‘As Assistant Pho- tographers—Messrs. H. F. Williams, H. E. Lodge, W. Bellamy, Jr., and George W. Taylor, of Boston; Israei Russell, G. 3, Rockwell and L, H. Aymé, of | Columbia College, New York; W. B. Devereux, of Princeton College; W. H. Churchill, of Greenwich, Conn. ; Dr. Ethan Watson, of St. Josepn, Mich.; B. 4. Conrad, ot Ann Arbor; Irwin Staniey, of Spice- Jand; T. S. Tappan, of Cincinnati, and G. W, Drejer, of Indianapolis, have been appointed, ‘The Swatara, if she leaves New Yurk on the 1st f June, can land the particson Kerguelen and Crozet islands in ninety days, and thence reach Slew Zeaiand and the other southern stations within the succeeding two months, The observ- ers for the northern stations will not need to leave San Francisco defore the end of August. The rea- gon jor having three partics more in the Southern Hemisphere than tn the Northern is that the me- teorological records, so far as can be learned, give so much more favorable promise of fair weather fm tue Northern that three parties there can, prob- | ably, do as much good work a4 can be expected of | five in she Southern Hemisphere. THE ASTRONOMERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, France will despatch observing parties to St. | Paui’s Island. Amsterdam Island, Campbell Island | and to Marquesas in the Southern Hemisphere, and to Pekin and Yokohama in the Northern. Ger- many will occupy Anckland Island, MacDonald , Ieiand, Bluif Harbor, New Zealand, and Mauritius, and in the North a station in China or Japan and | im Persia on the telegraph lines, Russia will equip through her immense territory, twenty-iour sta- | tions between Odessa and Japan, fifteen of which | ‘Will be 1n Western Siberia, East Russia, and around the Caspian and Black Seas. British India will | have a station in the Punjab, while Lord Lindsay takes a private expedition irom his observatory at | Donnecht, near Aberdeen, Scotland, to the Mau- ritius. England’s otner chief stations, as chosen | by the Astronomer Royal airy, are Honolulu, Hawaii, and Atooi, three on the Sandwich Isles, to increase the chances oi clear sky there, Christ | to put op nett obaee pot mus rae t. tO esr WOrk W: wi Therr stations, ‘The grounds ot the G aE wich, Wai ju, and ably of all the otber grea obsel ries abroad, have been for some tame filed with the LITTLE CuEEETTG, Bvt, and the men are gathered to their prceion work. At Washington some twenty-five within the grounds, ane the ant astronomers and photog: of bees busy in their practice. It may be though enough Jor an observer with. a jetect the instant of true lor co! i tthe case. vowing to a pel Sta opt a no! . phenomenon termed irractarion Driene Ha are too large and the dark et too small,’ to lor several sectuds alter venus: netan to ve competed her ingress or lgtten Lay, mage of the sun’s outer limb, she has a somewhat pear- shaped form, seeming to be attacned to the aun’s edge by # dark band which shrinks into » line and at iast breaks, ‘nis is known astrono- mers a6 the black drop. ‘10 observe the transit wth apy hope of success in ita great results, therefore, close here {a imperative. At Greenwich, to test. the effects of this irradiation under different circum- atances and to different obeervers, models. 0! the transit have been in Working order, ag at Wash- imgton. The gun’s rays are flashed through an opening 10 a biack meta! shield towards a station some hundreds of feet distant. ‘Across this open- ing is @ plate carrying & metal Aral which is. made to travel with a velocity see ing With thac ‘which Venus will have, m the observing sta- tion the astronomer must deal long and caretully eh this pth lok ns he Seaieas home, ‘nen our cl and their toKTAp hers, go they will take also for each ty one five-inch eqnatorial telescope, witn clockwork, made by Aivan Clark, of Cambriugeport; one tranelt in- strument, thirty inches 1ocal lengtn and of two and @ balf imcves aperture, wade by ep Brother, New York, and one photographic tele- scope of the new plan, prepared by Wintock, of Harvard, with the necessary photographic Vali- meyer and other lenses and equipments and with @ lull supply o1 chronometers and of tne meteor- ologicai apparatus needed. THE KELIANCE OF THE AMERIGAN PARTY being very largely ov photographing the planet alt the way along her Een) across Apollo’s Face, great care in practts! ne pRoldgraray. ia being ex- ercised. The chief photographer of each party ta one known to be sktlled in his projesston; and to periect turther their appliances and, Work, Dr. Draper, of the University, and Rutherford and Chapman, also of our city, ure coonseliing our observers and practising the younger artists, WHAT IS ALL THIS FOR? Net to determine a meré question of scientific inquiry; still less to gratily the astronomer’s curiosity or to exalt his reputation. The great object of the transitis to determine more accurate. than we ever have Known the true distance of the sun from our little planet. | The isene of the observations will probably be that we-sball know the distance within 50,000 miles of tue truth. We are a good . ways. ..of from this now, although the vast space has been of late years reduced from, the, 96,000,000 to 91,000,000 of miles; and if any one asks furtuer of What real use 18 this to the world we answer that the sun’r distance is tor all astronomical measure. ments of the heavenly bodies (and consequently of helping to determine for the mariner his longitude at sea) ; itis to him what the chain is to the sur. veyor or the yardstick to the merchant. Until we know the suu’s distance we cannot know his bulk or weight or the truth about the sun spots, the solar cyclones or currents, which certainly atiect our cyclones on land apd sea. We must Jearn it more caretully in order to periect the lanar and planetary tables needed for navigation and for the geographical position of places on land as weil ag at sca. It is curious to find at diferent pe- riods in history HOW FAR OFF THE SUN HAS BEEN SUPPOSED TO BR. The different estimates of thia are strange land marks in the slow progress for a long time made by man toward true knowledge of the heavenly bodies, Herodotus says that the first dawn of thought as regards the sun's distance made its ap- pearance in nis day. H2 gives us to gather what these thoughts were from the opinions of the earth and of the untverse then generally held by the learned Greeks. These were that the earth wus the chief body in the universe; that it was but @ Hat piane, whose centre was at De.phi; tnat the gun Was mereiy a secondary, uncertain and easily influenced body, which moved about oF over the earth, but was itself acted on by the Same lorces which we see acting around us, extent as to be blown south during the winter by the Btesian winds, Herodotus thought this most rovable, From thia we may fairly judge tuat the ptians, whom he cites, aud nis own learned Greeks, did not consider the sun to be further of than ten miles irom the earth, for they did not consider the winds at any qa, distance. Not long alter this, however, ‘Auaxagoras afirmed the rea! size of the sun to be as large as relerence to the sun’s now known angle, would indicate # Qistance oj 14,000 mules, A century later, about B. C. 250, Aristarchus, tae astronomer, of Samos, concluded, by measurement, of te moon’s distance irom the sun, that the sun was at least 5,300,000 miles of. His plan was ingenious, but his meusurements Insocurate; yet. the preat Ptolemy, tour centurtes later, adopted his determi. mation, and, combining it with observations of Hipparchus, computed the sun's parallax to be three minutes—twenty times it rue vaiue. Then, further down Time’s stream, the jamous old Kepler made the sun’s distance to be 26,400,600 miles, The wrausits of 1761 and 1769 pas it up turther 10 our late school astronomy distance of 95,00u,000, and this, py rediscusston oi the observations of 1769, by Eucke, Stone and Newcomb, hus been again put down to 91,200,000 miles. What is called the parallactic angle, the “parallax of the sun,” or the apparent change of @ heavenly body in its for instance, the Northern and Southern hemi- Spheres, as in our present expeditions—irom which angle or its subtenaed chora the distance trom us may be learned. Tnis has been mach re- duced. It will be reduced yet more, THR TRANSIT OF 1769, the only one before this ever {fairly observed, is memorable largely for its connection with the fa- mous voyage oi discovery of Captain James Cook, Severat Suropean nations sent out expeditions to distant places. ‘The Englisn fitted out Vook’s ex- ploiing expedition, with instructions to observe this transit on the tsland of Utaheite. Cook, an assistant (rom the Royal Ovservatory, and Dr. So- lander, made observations at 4 point in Tahiti observations were also made at Fort Prince of Wales, Hudson Bay; San Joué, California; Kola, m Lapland; im all at dity stations in Europe, six in Asia, seventecn in America and one in Polynesia. From the investigations of all the observations, Encke, in 1844, gave tue value of the solar parallax as 8.5776 seconds—equivalent to making the sun’s cepted until the present day; recently reduced to between 01,000 000 and 92,000,000 miles. It will not be too much o! a digression here to remind our readers that Cook’s labors were or still greater direct service to the geographer. “In 1770, aiter observing the trausit, he discovered New Zealand to be an island. He clearly proved on his second voyage tne non-existence of the South Continent, which, till then, pad been prodigally displayed,’”? as Dr, Neumayer says on the maps, reaching as lar as twenty degrees south into the Pacific; and on his return, as is well known, he discovered the Sandwich group, And it 18 @ Matter of interest that all his explorations in the Southern hemisphere, beginning with those connected with his visit to Otaheite for the tran- sit, should now, alter the lapse of one century, be re-examined by those who have been busy ever since 1870 in considering those same distant regions for hew expeditions tor the sume great object—tue transit of Venus and (a announced in Secretary of the Navy) “the determinauion of the accurate position of Lumerous points m the Pacific Ocean.” This 18 another important result to be auned at that by the assistance of Captain Chan- dler, commanding the Swatara, and nis naval omicers may de attained. It is) like toe other gov- erument surveying objects now golbg on in the Pacific—our ocean. HOW 18 THE SUN'S TRUE DISTANCE T0 BE DISCOVERED? The answer to this, which we quote irout Pro- fessor Hiigard, appears the most satisiactory. It mas Harbor, in Kerguelen Island; Christ Church, ‘new Zealand, and Alexandria, Egypt, with sta. | tions also in Australia, Asto Italy, which has | #0 wondrously worked recently to distinction in | science, as of old she had it im art, we have not learned what parties go jorth, but we know that the illustrious Padre Secchi proposes a peculiar | adaptation of the spectroscope to watch the | ets approach and contact with the snn, Boson, ‘Taccuini and other Italians, who form tue | “Societ& Spectrocopistica Italiana,” are specially | ANterested in this transit. THE OUTFITS AND PREPARATORY TRAINING, Independently of the outlay of transportation by natioual vessels and of the use ol telegraphic fand tines and cables, the dierent governments have liberally appropriated the means for these | expeditions, We believe the United States have | Deen the most liberal, The commission appointed | by Congress June 10, 1872, and composed at first of Admiral Sands, Professor Henry, Prolessor Pierce, essor Newcomb and Protessor Harkness, of the United states Navai Observatory, wud at present ot Admiral Davis, Professor Henry, Captain Pat- terson, the new head of the Coast Survey, and tie two proiessors named above, are expending care- fally the appropriation of $150,000 made in 1872. The English have a subsidy Of £10,000, besides their | ald from too Admiraity and trom the two branches | Of the service. The Russians and Germans are | maing their funds largely, English, Germans and Americans are in correspondence and complete | Rarmony with the Russians in their plans, The French do not Senerally work with otters, UP MENTS, arnt ideas of all the instruments necessary such distant work and for their transportation Will be had from a knowledge of those to | De used by Oar American parties, [t is evident on Smoment’s reflection that, although this is to be | sscronotnical work, mainiy ol the same kind which | {8 usually done in onr old fixed observatories at home, yet on such distant, numerous and, in some cases, almost barren shores ag these observers | crease of geographical knowledge are tu be secured | visit, even buildings of the right kind cannot bo | erec! So that little observatories fend all neces: sary instruments must be made at home, tried, | Practised on and then transported abroad.) The Swatara is to take al) our bulidings and equipments with the astronomers to each south- | ern station and bring them, we trust, salely home, siter December 9, 1874. But it is also evident that so. msny Observers Will absolutely need vo know how | shows the case Without a diagram, and expiains small black Spot on the face o/ the sun, about one. tenth of its diameter from the northers edge, tid. way on the corresponding chord. This is what Js called the conjunction of the planet. Now, to an observer at Pekin, which is 62 deg. directly north of the presumed central station, the planet being between the earth ana the sun will appear projected to the southward of the position in which it is seen at the first statfon by about one- hall of its own width, the sun being at an eleva- tion of 28 deg. above the southern horizon, On the other hand, an observer at the South Pole— which, ii it couid be reached, would be tue most advautageous station ior eet this transit— would see the planet projected to the northward of the first station by about the sume amount, the san appearing at an elevation of 23 deg. ubove the northern horizon. The apparent dispiacement of the planet, expressed in angular measure, gives us the parallactic angie subtenied by the dis- tance between the two stations, rom which, by means of the known ratio Letween the distance of the earth and Venus from the sun, the correspond- | lpg angle at the latter body, and, conse Va be nbs the distance may be deduced.” ‘ms is the pro lem. There are other plans jor solving it; one by the observation of Mars in opposition; another once took Gilliss to Chait third 18 by comparing the time required jor light to traverse the distance of the diameter of the earth’s orbit with the ve- Jocity of light a8 ascertained by mechanical appa- ratus, But the observations of the transit by the great expeditions soon to sail form tne only STRIOTLY GEOMBTRICAL, ASTRONOMICAL PLAN, Who will not follow the fleets and the men who go for this purpose from cultured and yefined pomes to the lands of barbarism with fervent sup- plications for a saie voyage, lair skies on the event- ful day, and with greetings of success on their re- turn to high honors ? The preparations which we have shown to be making all over the world are sure to concentrate and keep tue pubite attention ‘upon it, When our readers keep in mind thut the practical improvement of navigation and tue in- by this great work, they will not be surprised to hear chrough our columns of its movements, They will hear Oo! the Work by the flashing of the cables which now girdle the earth; for these are to be nsed generously and freely even after December 8, in determingng longitudes, and they are to work in this irom Hobart Town, Singapore, Bombay, St. Petersburg,.Greenwicn, to ps, aod back amain to Australia, NEW YORK HERALD, MOND. eee el Site population, who soughtin th . jut tO so great an | the Peioponnesus: such @ size, considered in | | Seg bit as Seen by two persons widely distant— | known tothis day as Venus Point. Many other | distance 95,300,C00 miles—a distance generally ac- | the letter of the American Commission to the | why 80 many observers must go north and south. | | “Aba point im Australia Venus will be seen as a | —— we SUNDAY. IN THE SUBURBS. Yesterday, the first sunny day of tue seagon, was utilizes by ‘many thousands of pl It will befseen by the reports given below that the try the simple pleasures tha velesco) to the tori ho ain ing he totiers who live laborious days. . The Day im Harlem. Yesterday with pleasure seekers from the ‘city. ‘They arrived by every ‘conceivable mode ‘of con- veyance and tn every grade or stage of mebriety. of the season, landing at Astoria and Eleventh street euch way, The accommodations for the travelling public were ampie, ‘as the rival lines strained their utmost to gain favor. Tne Sylvan Dell and’ the Sylvan Stream, connected with the Metle, steamers, Water Lily aud Tiger Lily as Harlem. Bridge jor High Bridge and Kingsbridge, while the steamers Harlem and Shady Side made hourly trips throughout the day. The same scenes that are enacted on every pleas- ant Sunday @iternoon during the heated term were yesterday told over and over again. The same crowd of weary, overworked people, were |. pressing cagerly lorward, anxious to shake the the welcome day of restamia the budding beaa- ties of natures At Hartem Bridge and. vicinitya thriving trafic was, going on all day.in the sale and consumption of beer, The deyotecs of Gambrinus were out in full jorce, and the fmmiense pile of empty kegs told the story of how fiercely the battle hud raged, Notwithstanding the intense heat there was an immense amount of muscular exercise gone through with in the mat- ter otrowing. There was not a rownoat to be had except by waiting two or three hours. The river ‘was completely checkered over with little craft besring pleasure parties. ‘The landing at the bridge was all day long a scene of constant mo- tion and excitement. The frequent arrival and departure of the steamers, the crowds of people, the snouts of lauguter, the mingling of voi the shutting of huudrede of feet and the shri screams of Che steam whistles made # din which |, ‘was almost deafening. Probably the greatcat namber, however, were gathered at Hist Bridge. On either side of the viver the various pleasure grounds were well pat- Tonized by impromptu picnic parties, Family groups were seated on the grass, tue male mem- bera with coats of, reading newspapers and smoking, the iemule portion looking out lor the children, chatting and in some matances sewing. The note: outie west side of the. bridge was the resort of parties elas Rg from the city. Situ- ated as it 18 On almost the edge of a clit, with ro- mantic walks, adwiravly shaded and with sech an air of simpheity retirement pervading the. whole, no .wonder the. visitors were loath to leave, Towards evening the rush for places on the boats returning to New York was sumply imusense. The lUltle Tiger Lily jairly groaned with the weight of ner living ireignt. The movement of a crowd from one side, to the other would cause the tiny crait to careen over in an alarmmg manner, causing Jotense fright to the ) Bervous portion oi the excursionists and a propor- tlonate aegree of delight to the half grown youth, who is never really Nappy Unless engaged ta mis- | ohtef of sume kind. Fortunately the day passed without any serious accident. Fully ~ 20,600 | people visited Westchester county durt tne Gay. This is accountea for by the jact thac in the | years of 186% aud 3869 the excise laws were passed | | Promuitiog tue sale of quors on the Sabbath, festchester was nat then anuexed and our Ger- an feilow citizens gat ito tue habit of going to jariem to enjoy im repose the rights which were } dented them im the city limita. Since that time it | has become one or the most popular resorts for Sunday excursiontsta, aud as comparatively tew | depredations, are committed they are made wel- | come by the citizens, On the last boat which left Harlem at huli-past ‘six o’clock P. M. there was searcely room to stand, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The gudden outburst of “Old Sol’s” warmest rays upon these parts had the effect yesterday of turn- img the greatest number of people towards Pros- pect Park ofany day this season. It cannot, how- ever, be satd' that those who wended their way to the popular resortio! tne masses were all satisied with their visit. .t must be said that the absence of sbade from every part of, the park, save the “Dairy,” on Cottage Hill, and the “Snelter House, near’ Neathermead Concourse, had the effect of | aiscouraging any who cannot stand exposure to , the torrid:rays of the summer sun, such as burst | upon this section yesterday. The havens of | rest mentioned. were thronged to repletion and the urbane caterer, Bogart, realized the first | ) day's profic of the zeason. On the lake, too, which has au area o! siaty-two acres of water, Captain } O'Brien's fottila, consisting of sixteen rowboats, | | Was kept busy in skimming, the waiers lagen with | joyous Ireighi, the merry laughter of which rung | again along the undulating banks. The award is | green. anc rich and a tew flowers are in bloom, | but the trees nave not yet commenced to leaf, which, isa drawback. to pedes- trians who, growing weary oO! walking over | the hard the, must seek a _ irtendly | aren beneath some bridge jor shelter. In the al- ternovn the roads were thronged witn vehicles of | every description, and a display of horsefiesh of , NO mean character was made. The “sparrow” | sentinels or Park police were very offictous in dic- tating Lue precise route which pedestrians should | take, and, as usual, a few wordy altércations en- | sued, Water carts were kept steadily moving over | | the roadways and rendered good service in keep- | ing aown the dust. Tnere is no work in progress | ins weaoa to, advance tue appearance of we rl The Day in Staten Island, j With an astonishing leap, ignoring spring alto- | gether, summer has burst on us. It canght peo- ple unawares, or the chronicle of the exodus the past beautiful day of rest would have | become much fuller, The enjoyment of such a day depends a good deal, of course, on digestion, and aiso, to a marked extent, on the Saturday's marketing. ‘Hans and nis frau, and his dozen ortwo Of children are prepared ag the summer advances | lor their seventh day outing. The family basket k is amply stored with the fragrant Schweitzerkase, , the succulent leverwirst, the bewildering Bologua , and stone jars of beer and slender-necked flasks of | the good Rheinwein lurk lovingly, with lettuce, | under the snowy canopy of enclosing napkins, | But, alas! yesterday the good helpmeet had not | filled her basket, and much, for awhile, did the | , happy families bemoan the want of premonitions ot the superlatively brilliant day; but not | ; for long. Their journeys were, perhaps, not jo «6Tural as «they might nave been, but ho doubt the gardens within easy reach of tne | Street cars, where the materials for teasting are | ever ready, consoled many of them, If not as nu- merous then as might Mave veen, the parties to our Isle of Wight, tue emerald gem or our harbor. ‘were large enough. Perhaps 12,000 people availed | themselves of the double tacilitles: now offered tor reaching Staten Island, the north shore boats running in rivalry with the» old line trom early dawn, and carrying very respeetabie cargoes of joyous human ireight all day. But | after noon and up to three o'clock the crush be- came larger and larger. The turkey and fixings disposed of, and the postprandial pipe whiffed out, as tne ladies and children proceeded to don their scrumpti us bonnets. linen suits, kid shoes and re- | Splendent sashes, the strenm down Broadway was incessant and brilliant as a kaleidoscope or the | | new flower bazaar which opened as irby mame | under the shadow of the Heranp_ build ing. The trip on the water was deligh | tal. The gentle breeze fanned the glowing cheeks, | ruddy witn the exercise o1 tramping down from the cars, and got loiks down into a dehignttul dolce Jar mente sort of lazy excitement that just fitted them to enjoy the verdant shores, the budding fTeenery, the snow white apple ‘biossoms, the bright winged satis of ship and: sloon—tne whole ! ure seekers. | Swe AY, MAY 1), 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. Boston fashionables are preparing for the rush to ipacott. ‘Tee Clarendon, Long Branch, is elrea@y re- | 4 Roview of the More Recent Operations NidiDgs are | sudUrba‘os the city werecrowded with the working | Cetving guests. P..H. Goetchins will open the Summit Hill House, Catskills, June 1, ‘The Wnite Mountain nouses will open between the 1st and 15tn of June. Bresun, Purcell & Co. will open the Grand Union The residents of Hariem were periectly overrun | Hotel at Saratoga June 1. The Atlantic City Review is to be ruminto a cally , om the opening of the season, ‘The Cilfton Hotel, Niagara Falls, is open, and Tne boats were rouning ther reguicr Sunday trips | commands a fine view of the rapids. ‘Tae Brighton House, Perth Amboy, will be opened by H. B. Kent in a few days, Drawing room cars will run through from this clty to the White Mountains toils season. “The Sherbourne House ts a new candidate for the patronage of visitors to Atiantto City. | Board at Manchester, Vt., can be had in nice | private houses at from $5 to $10 per week. Fire Island is uot, as its uame would imply, a | ‘Warm resort. On the contrary it is @ cool spot. ‘The restdence of George W. Fearing, of this city, at Newport, is nearly completed and will be occu- Pied/ thin season, In view of the boating furor young ladies who Gust of the city from of thoir feet, and spending | go to Saratoga this season should take their “SPect to this very: subject Of value thatit is not | “skulls” with them. t AU the hotel ‘clerks are practising on the re- sponse *esticando,’’ so ag to be ready for guests | who are dissatisfied with their room assignments. A ratiroad from Ticonderoga to the foot of Lake George is to be butit and ran in connection with | the steamers on Lake Champlain and Lake George. ‘The Freeman's Journal suggests that those New Yorkers who have not been there, and who desire @ quiet and heaithin! summer resort, make a trial of Cooperstown. Batchelors take notice, White Sulphur Springs, Va., is noted for bringing together souls with but @aingic thought; but a local paper significanuy says, “No Yankees need apply.” Thirty-nine excursions have been arranged so far over the West Jersey road ior the coming Cape -May season, which is largely 1n excess of the num- ber up to the same time last year. Schiiling’s orchestra will supply the musie at the Palisades Mountain House, the Park House, Sum- mut, N. J.; the Mansion House, Long Branch, and the Palmer House, Nyack, this season, The Grand Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, Va., has been leased’ by a New Yorker, who says he is Getermined vo make “the thing pay,” Noone donbts the facility New Yorkers have for this sort of business. The cost of the new Cooperstown hote), the Fen- imore House, was $100,000. It will divide the patronage with Messrs. Coleman & Maxwell, the popular proprietors of the Cooper House. The manager is James Bunyan, late of the St. Cloud, New York, Horace Waters and family, No, 126 Pierrepont | Street, Brooklyn; Jeremiah Skidmore, No. 25 Park ‘avenue; Oharies Kolstead, No, 46 East Twenty-first street; W. J. Appleton and family, Thomas 8. Davis and family, have made arrangements to spend the summer at Palisades Mountain House, Englewood, on the Hudson. The Hightand House, Garrison’s, on the Hadson, opens June 1 with A. B, Graves and family, No. 29 Weat Thirteenth street; J. E. Read and family, No. 70 East Thirty-iourth street; A.B. Whetmore and family, No. 24 West Twenty-fourtn street; Mr. Wetherbee and family, of the Windsor Hotel, and Mrs, A. Alvord and daughter among the guests. ‘The Manchester (Vt.) Journal says that the much-talked-of tourists’ line from New York via Troy, Bennington, Manchester, Rutland, Mont- Peller, &c., through the Green Mountains to the White Mountains, will, if carried out as proposed, produce @ large tncreagze of business to the rail- Toads, and be the most popular pleasure route in this country, Among those who have engaged rooms at the Cooper House, Cooperstown, for this season are HF. Phinney and family, Mr. and Mrs. Olcott and family, Mr. ana Mra. J. ©. Work, Twenty-third street; E, @. Fabbriand family, £. P. Fabbri, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Curillo and family, Mrs. John Bonner and family, Mrs, Randall and Miss Randail, Mr. Loomis White and family, Mrs. Theo- adore Dwight and family, Mrs, Ward and family, of Forty-seventh street; Mrs. T. W. Osborn and fam- fly, Mra, General McKeever and family, Rev, Dr. Cook (of St. Bartholomew's church) and family, all of New York; P. Ten Eyck and iamily and Hon. A. Bleecker Banks, of Albany; Misses Thompson, E. 8. Clark, J. 0, Gifford and family and Miss Tre- vor, of Phiiadeiphia. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. THE BOOKSELLERS in Mulhouse and other Alsa- | tian towns have been informed by the German | government that all their publications in the Fretich language—newspupers, magazines, &c.— will for the fature be subject to thé revision of a censor, whose office will be in Strasburg. THERE ARB 140 newspapers printed in Texas, of which 110 have been started since the war, EiguT or Taz TWELVE members of the present English Cabinet are authors. Mr. CHARLES NorpHorF has been studying the 1 communistic societies, and is writing a book giv- ing thelr origin, history, religion ana literature, In ANSWER TO the report that Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, on account of ill health, will not give to the public anything from her pen for several years to come, the publishers of the Christian Union an- | nounce that she is im good health in Florida, ana | that they will shortly commence in that paper.a | new serial from her pen, entitled “We and Our | Neighbors.” Mk. Frovpe’s history of “The English in Ireland | in the Eighteenth Century” goes more largely in | the second and third volumes ito the Protestant | revolt, the absentee landiords and the Irish | Church. The story of Ireland's efforts after home rule m the last century nas never been told in a | more interesting and brilliant manner. Mr. | Froude has here curbed that hostility to every- thing Irish which disfigured his first volume. Tue NeW EDITION of the “Encyclopedia Britan- nica” will begin to appear during the fail of 1874, A COLLECTION OF BALLADS in the English Gypsy dialect, with translations, is in preparation by Mr, ©, G, Leland end Professor E. H. Palmer, of Cam- bridge, England, 4 A Great Lirerary curiosity has appeared in Paris. This is a collection of 435 broadsides and | bills posted up during the slege of Paris and the | reign of the Commune, All are reprinted in one volume. THE YEAR 1874 1s the four hundredth anniversary Of the supposed introduction of the art of printing into England. The printers are accordingly organ- izing an exhibition of typographical antiquities and curiosities connected with the art, T “DAHOMEY 48 It 19" 18 the title of @ narrative of eight months’ residence in that barbarous country, by Mr. J. A. Skertchiy, who went to study the | fauna of Africa. He gives a horrible account of | some human sacrifices he witnessed. beautiful landscape, Tie resorts near the land- ings, where wholesome retresiment ia provided, | Were thronged, and it was nov till dusky twilight | bid the glories of the scene that the mass of revivificd dwellers in Gotham thought oj re- turning. Atv Fort Hamilton the scene was | | the same, The Brookiyn car = routes toither leading were as well patronized as the | Doats, and on the route the turnout of the popula. | | ton en masse was remarkable, Carroll Park | | Seemed too inviting to many to be passed, and many broke their journey tnere and found it so Pleasant that they lngered and went no further, | The Excursions Up the Sound. There were no excursions up the Sound, The boats, it appears, do:not run on Sundays yet. Had they been running it is certain they would have been as well crowded as all the other means of conveyance to every other point, Along South Street Jock was in his glory, Bunting flaunted from every lofty spar, and the gallant sons of Neptune, in jaunty rig, washed, with pipe in mouth and arm linked with messmates, rolied along, happy and | ehreless as chitaren. ‘Neat Wall strode terry: an | ampromptu religious service was got up, and a mouthy, horny-hanaed member of the maritime protession neid :orth to the edification of quite a | respectable congregation of his consréres, perched | about on box, barrel and atringpiece, ob every | colwn of vautage, \ A RBFRESHING SPARK of Independerce has been exhibited by the French Société des Gens de Let- tres. This society has been tn receipt of an anaual , Subvention from government of 12,000 trancs, and | the demand has been mate by the press that this | society should expel its exiled Communistic mem- bers, The government has therefore demanded that the mames of all literary men aided by the LE ; Soclety shall undergo ministerial inspection. The | for the physteal first, bat not less the moral ana Secretary Nas reaponded with a fat refusal. Ho Says that the society renders its aid without re- | gard to politics, and views its democratic members Not as revolntionists, but as littérateurs. TAS DaNisH CRiT10, Dr. George Brandes, has j0st published another volume of his “Main | Streams in the Literature of the Mueteenth Cen- | tury,” an admirable work. APaMPHLeT by Miss Natalie Zahle on “The Intel- Tectual Culture of Women” is making 4 great sen- sation in Denmark, MR. HALLIWELL will contribute to the transac- tions of the new Siakespeare Society a letter on | the way to determine the date of Shakespeare's Roman plays. ’ M. AMEDEE TureRRY's last work has just been pubiished, It is entitled “saint Jean Chrysos- tome.” | *mand—the matheniatical rule which regulates all 2 and the Lessons They Teach. THE NEWLY ANNEXED DISTRICT. Recent Transactions in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards and in Westchester Qounty. ‘The week which closed ou Saturday night was foil of cheering and encouraging indications of increased interest in this market. While in respect to actual transactions this interest cen- tred principally around the continued sale of the Motvestate, there was maniiest im the improved inquiry alarger disposition in this direction and a better appreciation, if not mayhap understand- ing, of the conditions affecting real estate as a marketable quantity, in what constitutes its pres- ent value. Agd let it be here observed in re- every man in the business of real estate dealing who knows what value ia, | i ACTUAL VALUE should de distinctly understood, where property is offered'in the open market, to be precisely what it will bring, We are accustomed to look upon gold as the highest of all values; yet one can readily imagine circumstances in which goid would be ut- teriy without value and a loaf of bread incompar- ‘ably beyond value, ‘Takea wrecked crew, thrown on a desert island, without food, but their belts | full of gold; would not @ loaf of bread or & glass of cold water be worth more to them than all | their gold? Now commerce is only a graduating } reflection of these conditions—supply and de- Teal intrinsic values, which in poss, in respect to demand, creates a speculative value, and inesse, im respect to the power of conversion, determines actual value. It our real estate owners, dealers and operators would only bear this in mind they would have aclearer understanding of THE CURRENT CONDETION OF THE MARKET. The quast organ of this interest, speaking of last Week’s business, says :— ‘The week opened better than the last, and closed with fairer indications than we have seen for some time. In- Quiry increased, and several negotiations were broguht to jonclusion, giving: fair r ‘accomplished sales. The chiet interest of the past, as of the preceeding weel dontred’ in the publie offering of tho Mott estate. the maining, lots ot which were closed out at auction at re rates. Pricessecured were not iuily up to. previous sale, but neither did the lots | average ad well iu respect to location and-choice. ‘hei { were a limited number of lots on the Riverside Bou! Yard sold om this occasion, belting revious sale cluded a greater portion of property ot that description, ‘with the addition of several lots on the Grand Boulevard, ly good, in all, the estate Basar Pele ite m has not suffered for the experiment = In’ gained conddence and Owners are More assured. ‘Which, being interpreted by the rules given above, | means that the enthusiasm evokec by the presenta- tion of the Mott estate in the market, immediately alter the President’s veto of inflation had given | increased stimulus to real values, fell off slightly | between the first day’s sale and the last;'not sufi- | ciently, however, to ignore the intrinsic value of | the property offered in respect to its converti- | sy, yet reducing to Some extent the speculative | value Which it_had acquired in the assumed pres- | -ence ol an actively reviving market. In respect | My this sale the following supplementary details are fl ven :— HUDGON ‘RIVER FRONT AND WATER LOTS, CARMANS | VILLE, BY A.J. RLEECKLR, SON & WHITE, MAY 9, | 1 water lot, No, 165 12th av,, 8. w. corner of 96th st, 25.9x1003 i, % Soe S water lols, Nos. sto 0 itth av., w. ectecre vere aeieggeaaeapene awater tot'No. 171 13k 22 1" size; same Karey same bi 7; 8,500, 1 Water Tot, No. 180 ith aves tw. cornet 252 }; John ower. dy 1,a00 L water lot, No. 182 12th av., w. , adioinin, Theda Pinaatseee 2 ec einite: above og IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT equally unsatisfactory results to thuse noted last Versa! languishing to a the budding trades, grow. 3 jan; ing tri f ny then the ‘unbatistes er ‘OW- ing out, in part tory relation berween masters and journeymen, bosses and ‘Workers, which has been tor so long @ discordant condition in trades relations in this city, bt accumulations, has provoked extreme caution in | than common attention to. tne uncertainty of in- | vestments that may depend for profitable | realization upon the chance — phiiosp! of | associations composed of men wholly or- | ant of the first. principles not alone | of political Dut, fnaucial economs, under the con- | trol of leaders equally bea but with gl | tongues and possessing the ambition to rule in Hades rather than serve in heaven. Every day brings us nearer a stagnation in respect to the building trades, which can only oe relieved by a readjustment of the pecuniary relations between LABOR AND CAPITAL. | ‘The latter at the present time ts reserved, cau- | tious, conservative and indeed timid. Labor in | the buijding trades does not yet appear to haye learned the lesson of the panic which was candidly pomted out in this column at the time. ana has | since been intelligently applied by operatives im | the manufacturing districts. And that is, that in the approach to specie payments the inflated rices of labor must suffer a reduction correspond. | ing to the shrinkage im respect to current values, which has taken place elsewhere. In what is | known as the Mberal employments labor has | safered a gradaal shrinkage in the absence any xed standard, Obedient | only to the law of supply and demand, but in the mechanical trades among our artisan ciaas there | 18, it 18 to be feared, a severe experience yet to be ) endured. The present high price of labor in this ceuntry a8 compared with England and the Conti- | nent is largely due to that tremendous specula- | five energy whlca. hag been 20 marked a feature of | our progress as @ nation, Of our own peculiar civ- tlization a8 our Engitsh’ would-be exemplars say. | But WE HAVE JUST TAKEN THOUGHT on this subject, and are not likely te rush quite so madly aheau for a little wulle. The failure of the Northern Pacific Raiiroad fas checked more | Tailroad enterprise than could have been an- ticipated, and the change from Tweed and Con- nolly, with Green in the-Ventral Park Commission, to Havemeyer and Green, the latter as Comptroller, |; is equal to the iamous difference in respect to ‘tweediedum and tweedledee. ‘the one firm pro- jected grand improvements upon a liberal outlay | hat Were never ‘accomplished; the ovher accom- piishes a lideral outlay without projecting or car- Tying out any improvements. Tuis 13 one suMicient reason for past and lingering stagnation in real estate and building operations, 201 Brothers, of this city, have recently pub- A MAP OF THE UPPER PORTION OF NEW YORK, comprising the Twelith, Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth wards, the two last named being the newly , annexed district, formerly a portion of Westcnes- ter county and comprising the townships of Mor- | Tisania and West Farms. These latter subdivisions | include in them many partially built ap settie- Ments, such as Mott Haven, North New York, Port Morris, Melrose, Woodstock, Highbridgevilie, Clare- mont, Mount Eden, Tremont. Fairmount, the Plleges of orrsanie, an Fordham, Spuyten Duyvil, Inoshola, ‘erdale, &c,, besides many acres 0! farm land yet innocent | oi the city surveyor's compass, theodolite or chain. | This map gives tis a very Jair idea of the compara- | tive area of the mew section, including the Twelfth ward north of 1z5th street, as it retates to the city below. ‘Tnus the city south of 126th street to the Battery contains a superficial area of | 430,153,516 aquare feet, while north of that bound. ary, with tue new wards, We have @ superiict area Of 661,660,000 square feet, making a total of 1,100,814, 516 square leet, or 89/¢ square miles; the | poruion of the city north Of 125th sireet beiug | nearly double the area of that below. Here is cer- tainly rvom ior expansion, and when we look ai our crowded tenement houses and lever breeding wards down town, in which men, Women and children are huddied together like pigs io a pen, to use a homely simile, What wonder is {t that the ery yous. up to our rulers: to give us some fori o1 rapid transit that will enable us to utilize \ | PHIg VAST ONBUILT TERRITORY BXYOND THE HAR- M RIVER intellectual regeneration of our people. ‘Tne map, concerning which reference hag beep made here, although lacking in many things one would expect in @ Work of its mize, such, ior instance, as a clearer exhibit of topographical conditions and a | more satisiactory definition of the boundaries of | different estates, will be found of great assistance to those seeking investment in tnis uptown dis- trict. Nor are these few, as the names on the map will testily, nor jaggard at the present time. in the oe ea ye: Red real Pode | ‘of recent date U1 follow: ‘ans: in the new wards :— sal sid ail ied BECENT TRANSFERS IN TWENTY-THIRD AND TWEN- TY-FOURTH WAKDS, Beceawiys w. Cy ey eecen © . rans north fie are y Wroreeante dade, wei to Henry L. Horton, March 4s % Plot 100 tt. ¢, of #roadway, in rear oi other lands $f Horton, on Broadway, adjoining Janet &. Walker (gore 19 ft. wide at one end, 40 ft. wide at other, x indefinite length); Janet wire of George B. Waiker, to Heury 1b, Hort March IREAL ESTATE ut alo because of the circumstance that the panic of last | September, while reducing the amount of available | capitul for ouilders’ loans, as well aa in checking | lo! the matter of all investments, ana drawn more | solid ‘to confine her to bed. | Donohue.—Nos. 2, 4, 31, 49, 62, 73, | 108, 104, 106, 107, 108, 115, 127, 129, 130, y 578, West I nuns, Nelmons, | Cliff st.0%, 100 f. e. of Cones Mornin: Sn wie of itetey nchaasen, nia, to e J. poner Ss Decker, Broosiyn, De- er st, W. 8, lois Sriy, toxidd, Pordh owls! Ps weg EP ‘averwey st, s. ©. corner of ( pas West Farms: Phone k ye ‘A. Watson, fe Jersey City, to Cal and John J, Maskell. abrilantne es Fe et A‘exan raf , lots ai 34 and 38 South ‘ise s; Phittp * See ee La Ue, 8) Legrett avice. a, 20 it. v, of 186: st., 100xi: T, ung Tpemeuend, Jobanna ates i deed eae ris John Me Quade to Mary A McQuade, tort Ste pbalevatd, vy norinwest Ts 2B.. Marion av. 122.5 ft. nas Drew, Brooklyn, April 2... esces-e Union’ av. n.'e, corner Cambreieng a Union av., n. w. corner ot Frederic 9t., witht’, College M0), 1121 1902005197. 10. a ereged " ‘tinton bereits iam ur ur Arthur st., e, 6, 98.6 ff. 5. of ey teh one u , easterly corner of Arthur. q seman ty soe ty of Wels Raab rner of ‘Fréderic’ at., corner ‘of’ Buyard’ et, | ti Block). ai Walton ayy. W, 8 adjolning 3. formerly Mount Buena, thence w. div fi. Water mark Harlem to Walton av., same, runs into rr tains 3 873-1,000 bor, Mich, to kimma B. stevenson November 28, 2873.. ris i o As an evidence of :ow mach this activity in real estate north of the Hariem River ts bona Ade in- vestment, KLSEWHERE IN \RSTCHESTER COUNTY, outside the annexed portion, the lollown ng trans- fers recorded between Murch 30 and et nee and comprising only those where the was over $10,000, are given :— Cortlandt—Oorner Hudson and Washii ots, (Peekskill), 160x235; Vincent U, King to James H. Kobiusou, New York.........-+ ~+816,900 Greenburg—Northwest corner Main ton sts. (Tarrytown), about 35,6128) pe First Bupiist chureh to John D. ‘OPK. ++ as Harrison—29 acre: e George G. T. Burting, Hi 5 New Rochelle—Huguenot st., nb. w. &, £0 ft. s. W. of land of Charlotte Dean, ‘about ipxse Abram. Hirsch to Philip 8. Underhiil, New heile, N.Y, 15,500 «ling to Tuckahos Yonkers—1023 acres on road lea ‘and op) mi) Hyate’ George W. McLean to Jumos M. MeLean. New York. wigan, rel st. ns, advining land of 5 3 3x10); 'Fraices Lyou to. siten Loulsa Butler, Vineyard av., 6. &, BU ft 8. of iligin fee Maloney to James Markey, New YorK......1+ vs+.14,000 With these encouraging signe presenting them- selves from Gay to way, and the restored confi- dence brought into a market where tranaactio are 80 hampered by delays in the transfer of title g8 to require tue most permauent currency, effectual stop put to inflation by the veto, a8 Well ag the improved understanding that. the market has gained oi late m respect to whas constitutes values, there is INORBASING HOPR ¢ that the change of tone first positively displayed in the sale oJ ihe Mott estate on last ‘Thursday week is not delusire. It would not be well, how- ever, to anticipate any immediate rush of myes- tors, as, if there !8 one tuing more certain than another, at the present time, it is that capitalists just now are notin # gushing humor. ‘Tots’ 18 that has brought into relef in the market class referred to avove, to thoroughly place whom it was necessary to borrow a figure from Thackeray, No man, be he’ ¢ver go experienced can, at. this present tine, ices | dogmatically respecting real estate values city, and they who denouuce any statement of this kind because of its belag only an iniereuce,’ from the fear that it would depreciate real are equally shortsighted as others who lat the utter separation of real estate from the in- fluence of receding tides in the value of other especies oO! property, and both im their we minded contempt ior and disregard of. eir dogmatic assumption and intelectual betong to that genus so apiy singled out Thackeray, Who pretend to ve what they are” 2.850 | and would shrink from acknowledging or euel are, should any iconociastic interlude of amination give them an inkling of the crush. | venterday bringing’ with Iv the promise of areas \ wii P or Reeser (QOH ACTIVITY CANM | MUCH A CANNOT BE LOOKED. : | wefore tall, univan it may be In the mation of ban sales, which, however, are not 0. } up tothe experience of former years. It | doubted whether the class of small savers, wito | constitute the principal buyers at these. | ™ & condition this year to become pure! | Tealtty. Taen, too, we nave the digappointmens sn | the matter of improvements upon purchases formerly made, as @ result of the recent pania, than which nothing ls more likely to deter. friends of former purchagers from too fi ior wing their example, it In spite, however, of al! drawbacks, we haye the assurance tat real estate, in this chy ae least, reacned & settled basis beyond the. Sone i elnndg ate sad van: an e ground of hope in this, oe peaks PIFTY-SEVENTH SIREST POLICE COURT. A Fast Youth. Before Justice Smith. Mr. John Fettretch, of No. 1,036 Third gvenne,. entered ® complaint against a fast-looxing youth named Louis Vanderburg, who, while in his em ployment as clerk, had converted to his own use about $50 collected by him for Mr. Fettreteh, in answer to the interrogatories of the Court the ac- cused admitted ms guiit in part. but it is douberul if he can be held on the charge preierred. agaiost him—that of embezziement—as he is a minor, ie may be sent to the Reiuge or the Schooiship. Whiskey to Blame. Patrolman Douglas, of the Eighteenth precinct, enarged Michael Clifford, of No. 353 Tuird avenue, with having assaulted Mrs, Clifford so seriously as He await the resuls of her imjuries, ke ee es Dillon, of No, re art Twenty-second reet, met the same iate and Kimilar churge. said thas whiskey was the cause, ing OOURT OALBNDARS—THIS DAY, SUPREME COURT—CaAMBERS—Held by Jud; Cy 85, 065 81.10) 142, 148, 103, ie - 6, 246, 248, 249, Bn ae bi (GENERAL TRRM—Held by Jud co PPT MH sage fre 154, 159, “160, 161, 166, 167 24, 169, 170, 2 Lid, 17: 2 182, 10, 18, 19,'176, 1% 118, 179180 BL baduotain SUPREME JOURT—CiRCUIT—Part 1—] . Judge Donohne-—Court opens at Peleg id NOS. 1621, . 1623, 1625, 1027, 1629, 16314; 103%, 169 1639, 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651, 1653, 1655, 1687, 1 1061, 1063—Part 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt Court opens at hali-past ten A. M.—Nos, 7763¢* {asi 25,1730, 03, 1476 08, 8304, 8290 oe soa 387, 2 » 1204, 8226, dz Aa’ Part 3—Held by Jndge art ater al ria on we gn 2549, 1505, 1700, rong ‘98, 27, 2921, 3127, 31; 2749, 3006, cis 483, 476, b87, 2480,” Rs 9006) 89,2208) aR UPEBIOR COURT—GRNERAL Tie —kdvenrnet unt! Monday, May 11, at eleven o'clock A. M. Seen Gount—Taiat Terw—Pare i—Held by Ju urtis—Court opens at eleven 0% M.- . 131, 873, 879, 823, 18ti, 62%, Sat, “ass, vite 9 1780, 1127, 023, "oaT” Pare -2LHOR oy judge pier—Cours opens at eleven o'clock As fem ey 678, 870, 900, 384, £24, 962, 998, 780}¢, Court oF COMMON PLBAS—Equity TERM,—. journed until Tuesaay, May Ta : Ag CouRT oF CoMMON PL¥aS—TRIAL TeERM—Part 1—Hela_ by Judge Loew—vourt opens ot eleven A. M.—NO8, 367, 382, 2609, 2165, 1631, 4883, 8571, 3770, 2080, 1166, 2173, 570, 2219, 2632, 874, 4051, Part a Adjourned until Moad .y, June 1, 1874, OURT OF COMMON PLEAS—UENBRAL TERM—Held vy Judges Robinson, Van Brunt and Larremore— Motion In case of Muldoon vs, Picket,--Nos. 21, 23, 62, 116, 17, 24, 171, 70, 43, 1, 34, 50, 4, 26, 33, 96, 40, 44, 56, 57) 38, OL. MARINE COURT—TRIAL TreM—Part 1—Held_; Judge Gross.— Nos, 4206, 4335, 4848, 1083, 3908, 3900, 4175, 4188, 4236, 4204, 4322, 4785, 4475, 4477, $490; $482 tmusen.—Nos, 4207, 4296 S88, 4116, 190, sbi, 429 NOS. 4207, 4 4118, 4169, 4457, 3671, 3599, 3603, 4492, 3987, S¥0T, 4425, 6022, 4406, 4627, ‘Part’ §—Held oy Judge Spaulding:—Nos, 4203, 4604, 4778 47% rhe so are 3636, 3899, am” 453) ris 5192, 5156, 6183, 5214, 2400, 4505, 4507, 4010,2678, | Part 4—Held by Judge McAdam—Court ns at ten A. M.--Nos, 4301, 1988, 508, 3008, 8180, 37b4, 4062, 6002, 5176, 4455, 4459, 4460, 4461, 4403, 4404, 4470, 4471, 4473. Part 5—Heid by oF A ae, Sa ase Set aren ae aa COURT OF GENERAL 10N8.—Held by sadge Sutheriand.—The People v8. Julius Saraer, jury; Same ve. John Gould and Wiliam Fy , rick, rovbery ; Same vs. John Mara, oe vs. kdwara Broderick, Joho H. Decker and. james O’Brien, robbery; Same vs. Anton Brener, fe! nions assauit and battery; Same ve. Jonn Kéhers, feionious assault and baitery; Same vs. William Melody, forgery; Sume va. George Lewia afd Oharies Re btm J grand larceny; ety ert Holder, i fareeny ; Same vs, Heary A araud laree! ; , ay That was a happy thougnt tO appease Wankel A young anwarried clergyman in Brockport, N. Y., sald that young ladies nowadays can make rich cage, bat tuevy cannot make good bread. A few days alter, the divine revetved fourteen loaves ol bread, with the compliments of a8 manv young ladies of lis congregation,