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4 “THE COURTS. A Revival Hunt for Moieties Thwarted. THE CENTRAL Pe le ‘Liabilities of Railroad Companies as Common Carriers. The Indictments Against Commissioners Charlick and Gardner. The government has commenced a suit in the United States District Court against Alvin Walker, as principal, and William Perime and Amos Homes, sureties, On an army paymaster’s bond for $20,000 to recover $1,643, alleged to be due as a balance by Mr. Walker to the government. A stmilarsuit has been commenced against Benjamin F, Camp, Jr., as principal, and Benjamin F. Camp and George C. Byrne, a8 sureties, on a navy paymaster’s bond for $10,000 to recover $4,865 balance, alleged vo be due by Mr. Camp to the government, Charles Callender renewed his batl yesterday in the United States Circuit Court before Commis- sioner Shields, His bondsman is Johy Baylon, and the amount of the bond 18 $16,000, Upon the indictments found by General Sessions Grand Jury against Police Commissioners Charlick and Gardner, application was made yesterday to Judge Brady, holding Court of Oyer and Terminer, for their speedy trial, and that their batl be fixed. Judge Brady will this mornig give bis decision upon the application. After prolonged delay, the trial of Mr. Roberts, | ‘one oi the parties charged with being implicated in the Central Ratlroad bond forgeries, has been commenced in the Court of Uyer and Terminer, before Judge Brady. The Grand Jury of the Oyer and Terminer was discharged yesterday, owing to the fact that in- dictmenis have already been presented against nearly all under arrest for alleged crimes of suM™- | cient gravity to require indictment. The criminal records of the city do not often present such an agreeable state of facts, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Seizure of Books and Papers—An Old Case Revived. Before Judge Blatchford. A suit by Wylie, Knevais & Co, vs. the United States was argued before Judge Blatchford. It appears that the books and papers of this firm were seized in 1870 on a charge that the firm had detrauded the revenue by importing sugars from Cuba at an undervaluation. The matter was, it seems, compromised with the government, Wylie & Knevals paying $15,000 and the government consenting to restore to the owners the books and papers in question. S. G. Ciarke received ten per cent on $4,000 as informer’s share. Messrs. Wylie, Knevais & Co, labored under tne impression that they had received back all their books and papers; | but in 1872 a second suit was commenced against them for undervaluation, and then, lor the first ‘time, they discovered that nine ot their letters still Wemained in the possession of the Custom house autuorities, Im the meantime 8. G. Clarke, who had become a member of the law firm of Staniey, Brown & Clarke, made a mo- | tion for the return of the nine letters which had been seized on the first suit against Wylie, Knevals & Co. United States District Attorney Bliss sata he had never known that these letters had been | detamed until the service of the mouon papers in the second suit. He produced an affidavit made by Mr. Jayne, of the Custom House, in which it was stated Liat those nine ietters Were retained by S. G, Clarke when he was deputy collector of internal revenue jor the Ninth district on the ground that they were o! value to the government, and that as Wylie, Knevais & Co. had press copies ol the iet- ters they could be of no value to them. Mr. Bliss 4s willing that the papers shall be returned to the owners; but the other side want the papers deliv- ered up in the regular way under an order of the | court, and the matter is now awaiting Judge Biatchiord’s decision. OYEB AND TERMINER. The Central Railroad Forgeries. Betore Judge Brady. In this Court yesterday was commenced the | trial o! Andrew L. Roberts, charged with having Deen implicated in tae great Central Raliroad for- geries oi last summer, Mr. A. Oakey Hall, counsel Jor the accused, objected to the District Attorney having the privilege of more than five peremptory challenges, on the ground that the penalty for the crime of forgery in the third degree, for which the | prisoner was indicted, was five years, and the statute only allowed that number in such a case. It seems that some two or three years ago tne prisoner was convicted of a felony 1n Connecticut, and there 1s a statute in the laws of this State wich provides that a man previousiy convicteu of a ielony shall ve subject, ti convicted alterwaras of another crime, to double the term fixed by law for that crime. Under tnis statute, therefore, the prisoner's term of imprison nent, if convicted, 1s ten years. Mr. Hall objected on the ground that the prisoner's crime Was committed outside of the State ot New York. both of his Objections were overruled by the Court, and the District Attorney was allowed twenty peremptory challenges instead oi live. Athalf-past two o'clock the panel was exhausted, eight jurors only having been obtained. The Court, having ordered a new panel to be summoned for iis Morning, imstructed the jurors already impan- @iled not tu read any DeWspaper accounts ot the case and not converse upon the subject with any person, * No Grand Jury Wanted. The Grand Jury came into Court, and were briefly addressed by Judge Brady. He imiormed them that, under the management of Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney’s office had pretty well kept up with the criminal caiendar, and that, under stances, so jew criminals remained that the Generai Sessions Grand Jury quite suMicient to dispose of the case “4 n¢ we investigation. The Court then thanked the Jurors ior their atiendauce, and discharged thei for the term. The Ladicted Police Commissioners. United states Commissioner John J. Davenport, ag counsel (or Police Commissioners Gardner and Charlick, indicted by the General Sessions Grand Jury ior violation of the Election law, appeared belore Judge Brady and demanded a speeay trial of the accused and that ball be fixed. Alter some discussion with the District Attorney the matter | was adjourned over to this morning, when the Court will decide whether the accused go to trial at once or be aumittes to paul. SUPREME COUBT—TRIAL TERM—PART 2, Suits Ag: the City. Beiore Judge Van Brunt. The following suits against the city were tried yesterday in tais Court, Mr. John Stranan appear- ing jor the plaintiffs and Assistant Corporation Counseis Forker and Dean for the city. ‘The Bowery National Bank vs. The Mayor, &c. Plain- ‘tls’ assignees of the Hamar Wood Pavement Company, pus in a claim for paving on Second and Sixth avenues. the defendants on the ground that the plaintifts had no certificate trom tue Water Surveyor. J. W. Bartlett claimed $1,463 for suppiying lamps on the Boulevard, avenue St. Nicholas and other streets, The defence was that the Board of Public Works had ho right to order the work to be done. Tue Court directed a verdict for the plamtif. The suit of Burk vs. Ihe Mayor was for $258 03, claimed to be due to him as janitor of the Fourth District Police Court. In this case a verdict was ordered lor Pian, SUPREME OOURT—CHAMBERS. Whe Child Mary E£lien Wilson—She is Claimed by Her Grandparents in Eng- land. Before Judge Lawrence. A few weeks ago an affidavit was iaid before | Judge Lawrence that the grandparents of the child Mary Ellen Wlison, who was rescued ‘rom 4. treatment by Mr. Henry Bergh, with Mr. Gerry as counsel, were Living in Westminster, England. The ‘ongshoreman who made the affidavit deposed t he Knew them, and that (they bad been inquiring e@vout their grandchild. Mr. Gerry wrote to the godress given by the ‘longshoreman, and yester- day morning received a reply by mail trom the aieged grauliather, in which be says he is aware (oat ms daughter, Mary pnnors, Married a tnan named Wilson in New York, and that tiey bad one cmid, and that he vad been inquir- jug ater it, and though @ poor man he is desirous to take enarge of his granachild, abd regnests the Lourt to seud the child over to lim, The ietter was haniea to Judge Lawrence while holding tourt yesterday, aud he remarked that this puewed the importance o proceesing slowly, aud RAILROAD FORGERIES | The Court directed a verdict for | that he was more convinced every aay that the | botiom of the affair has not yet been reached, Decisions. Lieber vs, Marks; Gahagen vs. Guardian Mutual Life Insurance Company.—Memorandum, FPutier, &c., v8. Hunt, &c,—Allowance granted to each defendant. Soper vs. Fargo.—Morion for receiver denied. By Judge Donohue. Stone vs. Dodge; Campbell vs. Hoge.—Granted. e Tyg vs. Norris; Shaw vs. Chamberiin,—Motions ented, | “Brown v8, Brown; Diener vs. Diener, divorce granted to the pialatits, Lag vs. Neill, Motion granted on payment | Of costs, ‘The People, &c., vs. Craftamen’s Life Assurance Company; Hoyt va. Hoyt. Orders granted, Oakley vs. Congdon, Motion granted, Grifin vs. Helmboid. Reiereuce granted, SUPREME COURT—SPEOIAL TERM. Dec! Be By Judge Van Brunt. Smith vs, Minton, Findings settled. Bixby vs. Smith, Memorandum, Kaun vs. Cragin; Marvin va. Prentice. Settled. SUPREME COURT—CIROUIT—PABT 3. Decisions. By Judge Van Vorst. Herener vs, Bilss et al. Case and amendments settied, SUPERIOR COURT—GENERAL TERM. Liability of Railroads as Common Car- riers. Before Judges Sedgwick, Curtis and Spier. Severai weeks ago the suit of Thomas E. Fairfax | vs. the N.J. Central and Hudson Railroad Com- pany was tried in the Superior Court. Plaintiff purchased in Montreal tickets of the Grand Trunk | Railroad to New York. He left for this city Octo- ber 8, on the route of the Rensselaer and Saratoga line to Albany, and thence by the People’s line of steamers to New York. The tickets were for that | route, He had seven pieces of luggage checked by the same route. The Rensselaer and Saratoga | baggage check master delivered them to the Hud- | | Bon River raiiroad at Troy and the baggage arrived at the depot im this city October 9 Plaintiff got here October 11 by steamer and next day de- manded his baggage at the Hudson River Railroad depot, when it was found one piece, @ valise, had been stolen, He brought suit for damage, Decree of | and tne Ps, decided in his favor, on | the groun that there was an arrange. ment by whieh deendant conveyed his luggage, and he called jor it within a reasonable time. This Court yesterday, through Judge Spier, reversed the judgment, on the ground that the relations 0] carrier and passenger, Which is tae | basis of liability tor baggage, did not exist, and | | that the Grand Trunk road, by ‘ts agent, the | Rensselaer, mast be held responsible for the de- viation of route by the baggage, and that the rail- road which carried it were hot insurers and had exercised ordinary care, and that the plaintur ournt to have called for the baggage earlier, not- | withstanding that his ticket gave him a@ month to | delay en route, The Suit Against Walter Roche. | The suit of Shepherd Knapp, Receiver of the | Bowling Green Savings Bank vs. Walter Roche, | Vice President of that institution, to recover | $94,000 belonging to the bank, was decided in the | Superior Court in tavor of the plamufl. The de- Jendant appealed to the General Term, on the | ground that the verdict should nave been in his | favor on the rulings of the Court. The General Term yesterday confirmed the judgment below. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM By Judge Van Vorst. Delavan vs. Simonson et al.—Motion granted | and reference ordered. Luddington et al. vs. Miller.—Motton denied. Randall vs. Dusenbury, &c.—Finding of fact and conciusions of law settled and filed. Fuller vs, Hamuill.—Moiion denied, without — costs. Roverts vs. White et al—Motion denied. See | memorandum. | Epstein vs. Brice.—Judgment for plaintiff on de- murrer, with leave to deieudant to answer on pay- | ment Of costa. See memorandum. Boylan vs, Cooke.—Motiou denied. Hutt vs. Huff.—Matter sent back to referee to re- port on the issues raised by delendant’s answer, De Camp vs. MacKinley.—Motion granted, By Judge Freedman. | Astor vs, The Mayor, &c.—Findings of fact and decision filed. See opinion. | The American Medicine Company vs. Kessler.— Upon presentation of an engrossed copy of the cuse as settled, the case will be ordered ou fle. Rawson vs. The Columbia iron and Manufac- turing Company.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, to aide the event. Field vs. Levitt et al.—Motion denied. See opinion. COMMON PLEAS—GENERAL TERM. | | Decisions. By Judges C. P. Daly, Robinson, Larremore and aly. This Court met yesterday to render decisions in cases argued during beef First National Bank of Lyons vs. The Ocean Bank of the City of New York.—Judgment affirmed, ho by Juage c. P. Daly. Nauss vs. Feiaman,—Judgment reversed. pinion by Judge Robinson. ‘Traxall vs, Haynes.—Order reversed and report | of reieree confirmed, with leave to sue. Wheeier vs. McCabe.—Judgment affirmed. | Sherman vs, Mawee.—Order affirmed, with costs, | Rchardson vs. Kref! and Moses.—Judgmenot affirmed. ‘The People vs. Hickey and eighty others.—Cases | On lorfeited recoguizances, Orders affirmed, j By Judge Larremore, Pottier & Stymus Manutacturing Company vs. Wheeier.—Judgment reversed; new trial ordered; | costs to avide event. De Rondes vs. Oberstead.—Judgment reversed; new trial ordered; costs to abide event. Kummeriee vs. Gosham,—Judgment affirmed. Berg vs. Narragansett Steamsiip Compal Judgment attirmed. dtern vs. Nusbaum.—Judgment reduced to $53 05, and affirmed jor that amount. sebtuimel vs. The Erie Railway Company.—Judg- Tent reversed; new trial oruered; costs to avide | event. Smith vs, Cooley.—Judgment reversed ; new trial ordered; costs to abide event. Tie Board ot Commissioners of Pilots vs. Dick.— Judument affirmed, | fhe Court stands adjourned to the fourth Mon- | day in June, COMMON PLEAS—3PECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge J. F. Daly. ' Ayres vs, Duich; sxaats vs. fhe Mutual Tn- surance Company of New York.—Motions denied. See opinions. 3 vs. Maginn.—Order settled. Pollard vs, Pollard.—Divorce granted. Canning va, Cauning.—Appilication for divorce denied, Cause must ve tried by a jury. Jn the Matter of Killam.—Report wanted, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. | Impannelling of the Grand Jury. Before Recorder Hackett, The June term of this Court commenced yester- day, his Honor the Recorder presiding. The Grand Jury were impannelied, and Mr. David B, Turner was appointed foreman, Alter they were sworn, his Honor, with characteristic terseness and vrev- | ity, calied attention to the statutes which tne Court is required to enumerate, and gaid that an inspection of the list o1 prisoners in the ‘fombs disclosed the fact that but Jew complaints would have to be passed upon, 80 that the term would probably be briel, so far as the Grand Jury was concerned, Assistant District Attorney Allen represented the prosecation, and informed the Judge that he had three cases ready tor trial, but gs there were nota suMcient number of jurors ip attendance the Court was compelied to adjourn. An additional panel of one hundred was or- dered, aud the absentees were fined $250 each. Attempt at Larceny. Joseph Murphy, who was charged with stealing a piece of cloth worth $40 on the 18th of May, the property of tue Poughkeeps.e Transportation Com- | pany, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand lar- ceny, He wus sent to the Pemtemtlary jor one year, Attempted Suicide in the Prisoner's Box. Just before the adjournment a good deal of ex- citement was created by a commotion in the pris- oner’s box, whicn is located in the rear part of the room. An officer rnshed into the apartment and found a colored prisoner in the act of attemptung to strangle himself, but be was prevented by his associaves from doing himsell great bodily injury. It was learned shortly afterwards from his wue, Who Was in attendance, that the man ts subject to severe epileptic fits. FIPTY-SEVENTH STREET POLICE COURT. An Unprovoked Assault, Before Jadge Smith. | Patrick McEnroe, of No. 266 First avenue, was arraigned on @ charge of felonious assanit. Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, of No, 402 East Sixteenth | Street, complained that on Sunday evening, while passog through Kast be. street, accom- b tby che’ prisoner icknroe, wuo suddenly and without any provoca- tion stabbed hun in the shoulder wiib # knile, Mcharoe was held for trial. | Attempted Saicide, yom | John Hoffinan a German resident of No. 33 El- | dridge street, while under the influence of liquor yesterday afternoon, attempted to drown himself | in tue Bast River by jumping of the Hunter's Pome | V8. Joan Elienburger, concealed weapons, | on was based on the following affidavit of Mr. | Sppear that it ever would be. | 01 order and counsel was confounding civil with | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1874.—TRIPLE Hi ferryboat. He was prevented from doing so by the Sich oy nee ee was arrested. rd a le- fault of $300 bail, mouth to the Island, 1p Another Police Outrage. Michael O'Hara, of No, 604 East Fifteenth street, appiled for a warrant for the arrest of patrolman James Brannon or Brennan, of the Eighteenth precinct, “On what charge?” asked Justice Smith. ‘Well, sir,” said Michael, simply, “he bit me a punch of his | fist in the jaw and I fell senseless on the street.” “How long were you unconscious?” asked His Honor, in a tone of incredulity, Michael saw that he was not believed, and by way | of explanation said that he was not strong or the biow might not have had the effect it did. He had spent the winter In Bellevue Hospital and the cou- sequence is he is yet unable to resume work. He 13 a temperance mau, and on Sunday evening, be went on to inform the Court, while going home from meeting he took under his protection @ hall-witted boy, who was vein; tormented by 4 numoer of other boys, He waike a long distance in search of @ policeman, aid Qnally met srannon, to whom he made some re- mark about the diMeculty of finding him when Wanted. brannon, without further provocation, raised bis clinched fist and struck the poor old an as already stated. O'Hara then went to the tion house and made @ charge against the of- The Sergeant in charge o! the desk directed make @ complaint. 8 fiver. O'Hara to come to Court ant The disposition at first manifested by the Goers to deal lightly with the complaint bad by the time O'ttara had finished his statement, and a clerk was ordered to fill out @ warrant at once and give it to Sergeant Phillipa to be served. ESSEX MARKET POLICE OOURT. A Hold Robbery, - Before Judge Bixby. Two young ruMans, named William Hade and William J. Cobb, went into the apartments of Mrs. Mary A. Greenbaum, at No. 544 East Twelith street, Saturday alternoon, Cobb demanded some money and his companion stood in the doorway. Mrs. Greenbaum quietly satd she had notuing to give | them. Cobb took hold of Mrs. Greenbaum by the throat and threw her to the floor. He then seized an overcoat which was hanging on the wall and Tan away with it. Both Cobb and Hade were arrested yesterday by Officer Cuffy, of the Seven- | teenth precinct, and held in $2,000 bail each to | answer. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY, Scrremz Court—CuamMsgrs—Held by Judge Lawrence.—Nos, 8, 40, 48, 67. 76, 79, 118, 122, 124, 27, 138, 154, 173, 176, 182. Mz COURT—SPECIAL TRRM—Held by Judge —Demurrers—Nos. 19, 20, 23, 31, 36, 37, 54, 55, 56. 57, 65, 59, 60, 61, 62, 03, 64, 65, | }, 70, 7, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 83, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98, 95, 96, 97, 98, SUPREME CouRT—Crecuit—Part 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt.—Nos. 1558, 2016, 904, 384, 1278, 28, 1568, 3 , 266, 1206, 1902, 896, 436, 2023, 1680, 1906. Part 3—Held by Judge Van NOS. 1593, 513, 467, 1875, 1613, 1571, 1579, | 31, 1283, 1697, 1719, 173%, 1747, 1763, 1677, 127, 2489, 2549. | SureRioOn CourT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—Held by | Judge Freedman.—Nos. 873, 39, 673, 1503, 1647, 851, | 917, 1663, 1875, 020, 911, 379, 671, 353, 461, Part 2— H —Nos, $82, 868, 398, 653, 1822, | 132, 730, 650, 476, 874, 632. | Court Or COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL 'TERM—Part 1— Held by Judge RKobinson.—Nos. 2219, 4072, 3883, B571, 4078, 1617, 4072, 104, 2098, 4042, 4043, 4050, 2173, 4051, 2080, 4048, 4070, 1662, 1783, 1057. Part 2—Heid | by Judge J. F, Daly.—Nos, 4121, 2610, 1682, 2709, | avin, 4062, 4158, 1477, 2750, 2058, 2759, 2740, 2741, 2742, 2 MARINE COURT—TRIaL TERM—Part 1—Held by | Judge McAdaiu.—Nos. 4625, 4317, 1459, 3101, 2800, | 4347, 4748, 6211, 5008, 5118, 5040, 4631, 5190, 5162, 4565, | 6041, 5295. Part 2—Heid by Judge Gross.—Nos. 4537, 4025, 4936, 4923, 4972, 4982, 4181, 5079, 5084, 5086, 5087, 5083, 5039, 5091, 1608, 4262, 2044. Part 3—Held | by Judge Spauiding.—Nos. 4294, 4994, 5332, 5352, | beg 4948, 3641, 4637, 4308, 5055, 4653, 5095, 5094, 5095, 96. Court OF GENERAL SESSIONS—Held by Recorder Hackett.—Ihe People vs. George Williams, rob- bery; Same vs Frans Pospiscuil, rape; Same vs. William Dick, telpnious assault an battery; Same vs. James H. Heavey, felonious as- sauit and battery; Same vs, Michaei Kiernan, felo- pious assault and battery; Same vs. Selina Hutchins, felonious assault and battery; Same vs. | Michaei Garry, felonious assault and battery; Same vs. Jonn Pell and samuel Jackson, burglary; Same vs, Sarah P. Kirk, grand | jarceny; Same vs. Wilham Carrire, grand larceny; Same vs. Francie B. Dye, graud larceny; Same vs. Daniel Dowan and James McCarron grand larceny; Same vs. Timothy Purcell, rand larceny; Same vs. Peter Foley and Edward Morris, | grand larceny; Same vs. George Bell, larceny Irom the person; Same vs. William Stone, !ar- | ceny irom the person; Same vs. Abraham M. Frances and David Tims, iaise pretences; Same COURT OF APPEALS CALENDAR. ALBANY, June 1, 1874. The following is tne Uourt-of Appeals Day Calen- dar for June 2:—Nos. 63, 56, 57, 33, 47, 62, 59, 62. BROOKLYN COURTS. COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, The Grand Jury—Murder Trials. Before Judge Pratt, AGrand Jury was impaneiled yesterday morn- | ing, with Augustus Morse asforeman. Judge Pratt | delivered the usual statutory charge to the jury, | Lunay read a paper on ‘Christian Monuments and | the supreme Vourt of the United States, a graduate and they then retired. There 1s not a great deal of business before him. j District Attorney Winslow asked that days be | be fixed for the trials of Sarah Merrigan, for the | rigan’s case will be tried immediately afterwards, COURT OF SESSIONS. The Case of Ex-Treasurer Sprague=— Pleading Former Acquittal as a Bar to Further Prosecution. Before Judge Moore. Yesterday morning Mr. D. P. Barnard, of coun- sel for ex-City Treasurer Sprague, applied to Judge Moore to withdraw the former plea of not guilty to three other indictments against Mr. Sprague and put in the plea ofa former acquittal. The applica- | Sprague :— Kings County Court of Sessions—The People of the State ot New York vs. Cortiandt A. for malieasance in oft lyn, s8.—Cortlandt A. Sprague, the ab fendant, being daly sworn. deposes and says that on the | 4th day ‘of October, 1873, four several indictments were found against him ‘as tollows:—One against deponens lor embezzlement and grand larceny; one. against deponent tor malfeasance in oltice; one against de- | with Dr. | to see such a day, | were among personul friends. | with it. ponent and Marvin 1. Kodman’ for conspiracy; that on we 7th day of etober, 1873, deponent | ! was arraigned on all four of said ‘indictments, and required to plead: that thereupon D. P. Barnard, de- | jonent’s counser, stated that all he indictmen.s seemed jo be for the same crimes and offences, and that de- , ponent w with the understanding that upon in.uetments the pleas ot not guilty should be withdrawn, and deponent should be allowed to plead, in-bar to the other indicynents, the acquittal or conviction in tne Hirst indictment tried, and that Winchester Britton, Esq.. the uld plead not guilty to ali the indictments, ¢ trial of one of said | then Distr ey, in open court assented to said | unders anding; thereupon dewonent pleaded not guilty to a!l tour indictineats. | And deponent further saith that on the 7th day of May, | 1874, he was duly tried betore this Court on the first men: | tioned indictment and acquitied, and the judgment record of this acquittal has been duly flied with the clerk of this Court. And deponent has been advised by his counsel, D. P, Barnard, and believes that it is necessary that ceponent should have leave to witharaw his former pleas of not jg to the other three indictments, and to. len ereto is acquittal on the other indicuents in bar to any jurther prosecution of said three indictments. CORTLANDY A. SPRAGUE, District Attorney Winslow objected on the | ground that it was against the practice of the Court in reference to ind:ctments to allow the de- fendant to take the initiative and bring an indict ment before the Court. He contended that the mo- oD Was out Of Lhe jurisdiction of the Court. The | indictment was not before the Court, and It dic not | The motion was ous | criminal business. | Mr, Barnard contended that tne indictment had | been in this Court since Octover and could not go out without the order of the Court. H Alter some further discussion Judge Moore said | he would announce his decision during the day. | He subsequently decided to grant tue motion. THE “OLIPPER PIEND" OF THE COUNTRY SaNCTUM [From the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times,} In Thursday’s 7imes we published an editorial from the New York HERALD on the mixed school feature of the Civil Rights bill. The clipping fiend who presides over the editorial columns of the Commercial, seeing this upon our third page, swooped around it with his scissors, revamped it, remodelled it and dit sundry otver things tot, | and at last forgot whether or not it was orignal , matter. So we find the HkRkaLD articie in the | Commercials editorial columu next morning, in aii the glory of leaded type and periectly inuocent ol quotation marks. This sully commits ine Come | mercial iu favor of Mixed schools, | THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. The following pamea nilemen were elected members of the Board 0; Directors of the Kast River Bridge Company at the annual meeting of the stockholders, held yesterday moony Henry ©. Murphy, James Y. Stranahan, Alexan- der McOue, Isaac Van Anden, Wiiuam C, Kingsley, vy. Hl. Vanderotit, Joan He Prentice, A. ©. Keen min FP, Tracy, Hasson H. Wheeler, J. Robinson, Abram s. Hewitt, Seymour L, Liusted, W. Marshall and Henry W. slocuu | ment which appeared ta your issue of the 23d inat. | State, and that we now realize how badly we have \ THE METHODIST MINISTERS. Prospects of Fraternization and Organic Union Between the Methodist Episco- pal Churches North and South, Yesterday was devotional day with the Metho- dist Episcopal preachers, and after several prayers had been offered up and hymns sung, the Rev. B, W. Gorham, an evangelist who has been laboring during the past winter and spring in Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska, being invited, gave an interesting sketch of bis work. He looked upon the past winter as the best and moat giorious in all nis ministry, He had seen greater displays of Divine grace and power thau be had ever witnessed beiore. He had seen more con- verts brought into the Church and more peculiar cases of conversion than ever before. Besotted drunkards, who had gone to his meetings in their drunkenness and been cut to the heart by the power of the Gospel truth, were converted, and he gave two interesting cases of men of that class, named Curry and Steel, who are now doing mia- sion work in Nebraska. Dr. 4. & Hunt, of Brooklyn, addressed the meet- ing on his reception by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which met in Louisville, Ky., last month. Dr. Hunt, together Fowler, President of the Northwestern University, of Evanston, lL, and General Clinton B, Fisk, of Missouri, were appointed by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872, alter the adjournment of the General Conference in Brook- | lyn, @ Commission to bear the fravernal greetings of that body to their brethren of the Soutnern Methodist Episcopal Chureh, Since tue separation on the slavery question in 1844 the two Methodisms have held no official relations. 1n 1848 DR. LOVICK PIERC, still living in his ninety-frst year, was sent by the Southern Church as iraternal delegate to the | Northern Conierence, by which body he would not be received officially. . The breach nad been widen- ing ever since, until the war intervened and re- moved the disturbing element. ‘then the last Gen- erai Conterence authorized the bishops to appoint this fraternal commission. The members of the commission met in Cincin? nati and remained in consultation there until they agreed on their moce of procedure. Froin ail the evidence they had before them they could hardly expect a reception at all, much less such @ one as was accorded to them. Dr. Hunt was providen- tially assigned to a home with un vid cullege mate of his, Dr. Smith, whom he bad not seen for years and who greeted him most cordially. The leading men of the Church South in the Conference aiso showed their joy at the auspicious event, And some of the older members who had been in the struggles of ’44 wept wita joy that they had lived The citizens of Louisville took up the same spirit and vied with each other to make the commission feel as welcome as if they The day of their reception by the Genera: Conierence, May 8, was one of wonder/ul spiritual power and maniesta- | tion of the Divine presence, and the Louisville pa- pers were full of the proceedings next day and gave editoriais to it predicting THE ORGANIC REUNION of the two branches of Methodism. Mr. Speed, the most prominent Methodist belonging | to the Church North, in Louisvilie, invited about sixty of the most prominent members of the Con- ference—bishops, presbyters, judges, &c.—together | with ministers o! different denominations in the city, to meet the commission at his house, where | the most cordial reception Was given the repre- | sentatives of the Methouist Episcupat Church. an effort was made at the close of this address to have the question of the desirableness oi or- ganic union between THE TWO METHODISMS discussed by the meeting, but the sense of the brethren was against such discussion at this time, The question of woman suffrage was then | proposed, and Mr. Buckley, of Brooklyn, was ap- pointed to open the debate, but his necessary ab- sence in another engagement on vext Monday caused ® postpopemenié of this topic. Several other theological and practical themes were sug- gested and laid aside, andthe Rev. M. S. Terry ‘Was requested to read an essay before the meeting next Monday. EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONFERENCE. A Paper by the Rev, Dr. J. P. Lundy on “Christian Monuments and Sym- bolism.” The regular Church Conference of Episcopal clergymen of this city wes held yesterday aiter- noon at the chapel of the Church of the Incarna- tion, corner of Madison avenue and Thirty-fifth street. Tne attendance was rather small, being limited to about ten persons. Rev. Samuel Usgood presided. Alter prayer the Rev. Dr. Montgomery moved that when this Conference adjourn it be to mect on ‘the 5th of October, and that the Committee of Ar- Trangements be empowered to engage the services of two eminent divines for the purpose of address- SHEET. FIDELITY REWARDED. Romantic Attachment of = Wealthy Young Man for Zulu Azra, the Be: tifal Circassian—A Few Weeks in = Lunatic Asylum—The Ultimate Mar- riage of the Couple. Prrrsnura, May 29, 1874. Mention was made a few months since in the columns of the HeRaxp of the romantic attachment of a young man named Bruce, of this city, for Zulu Azra, known as the beaatifal Circassian girl, who last Summer travelied in a professional capacity with Barnum’s circus, and who during the past winter attracted many admirers to Burnell’s Mu- seum at this city, where she was on exhibition. Bruce, who is a man of considerable fortune, made a proposal of marriage to the beautiful Circassian, wno put him off from day to Gay until he, tearing that he was thwarted in his love, became very much depressed in spirits, He actually hauuted the museum wherein the girl was on exhibition, and on her ultimately reiusing to see him or to allow the correspondence to con- oo] further, became melancholy, and soon EXHIBITED SYMPTOMS OF INSANITY. The symptoms developed so Fapidiy and were of 80 Serious @ nature as to cause his friends to have him removed to Dixmont insane Asylum. At this institution he remained until a tew weeks ago, when he was pronounced cured, and accordingly Ae tee With liberty came the old and strong affection for the Circassian, and he made inquiries in aimost every quarter of the C3) as to her present waere- @oouts, Ascertaiuing that she was travelling with O'Brien’s circus, then in the ioterior of New York State, he nastened thither, and came up with the ie of his search at a small village called Fair Hill, This was on Friday last, and the meeting be- tween the couple ts said to have been an EXCKEDINGLY CORDIAL AND JOYOUS one.” He again told hero! his love and again pro- posed marriage. Greatly to his joy the trials and tribulations of @ very romantic courtship were brought 10 a happy eud by the acceptance of ws offer, The next day, in the presence of all those connected with tue circus and attending side shows, the young couple were made man and wile, Alter the Ceremony they were the recipients of numerous congratulations, and the contract of the lady with the circus manager having been annulled to the satisiaction Of all concerned, the couple leit for Pittsburg, where they arrived yesterday. Bruce is rather fine looking man and the heir to a large estate. HARROW ESOAPE AT NIAGARA, A Man Near the Edge of the Falls—The Excitement in the Village—Herolc Con- duct of Tom Conroy, a Guide, in Ac- complishing a Rescue. NiaGaRa FALLs, N. Y., June 1, 1874, This village was tne scene of u terrible excite- ment this morping 1n consequence of a painter named McCullough, who was employed in painting the bridge leading from Goat Island to the Three Sisters, having fallen from the bridge into the Tapids below. He drifted with the current to a point within forty feet of the Falls, where he found anchorage in the middle of the stream that sepa- | rates the islands by coming in contact with a rock, to whicn he clung. In a few moments the | news of the accident spread like wildfire through the village, aud an immense crowd of spectators gathered to look at the UNFORTUNATE MAN'S PERILOUS SITUATION, from which it seemed impossible to rescue him. McCullough had given up all uopes of being aided; his arms and body were iast_ becoming benumbed and losing their ho!d on the slippery rock, when & shout went up from the turvats of the spectators which told him that aid was nigh, In taat vast crowd which had assembled on the islands and bridges there was but one man who was willing to risk his own life in trying to snatch a fellow crea- ture irom out the jaws ol death, TOM CONROY, A GUIDE atthe Cave of Winds, jumped into the rapids, and, holding in his leit hand the end of a rope and swimming down the current, he reached McOul- lough in safety. He immediately tied the rope around himself and the neariy exhausted man, and they were both saiely landed asbore in a few moments. mcCuilough was badly bruised about the head and body, A PURSE WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN UP for Conroy, who is to-night the hero of the hour, The season here is fully thirty days later than last year. ‘fhe arrivals at the hoteis are meagre. YALE LAW SOHOOL, The Semi-Centennial Anniversary—Pre- parations for the Celebration—Chief Justice Waite to Preside. New Haven, Conn., June 1, 1874, In this city on Wednesday, June 24, the semi- centennial anniversary of the Yale Law scuool will be held at Centre church, on the Green. It will be a grand affair, and preparations to make it 80 are now going forward. A committee, consist- jog of Henry White, class of 1827; Judge K. K. ing the Conference on the suoject of “Foreign and Domestic Evangelical Work.”” The motion was carried. After abrief discussion {n regard to the proposi- tion to hold a Church Congress like those frequently held in England, in order to stimulate discussion | in matters of religious interest, the Rev. Dr. J. P. Symbolism.” He began by saying that the eariy Christian Monuments illustrated the history of tue church in a most admirable manner, THE ARCH OF TITUS IN ROMB murder of Margaret Hammill, and Thomas | for instance, under which he (the speaker) had | Loundes, for the murder of his wife. The case of | frequently passed, told the sad, terrible story of Loundes was set down for the 15thinst. Mrs, Mer- | Jewish ruin, of the downfall ol that once so mighty Ppeopre, with a force and power which must needs | come home to every heart. To look at it was to see again beiore one’s mind's he bd the faded giory of the nation, aud the triumphant victor riding in his proud chariot. _1t was &@ monumental stone over the grave of the Jewish nation, Religion must always seek association with the forms which were apt to eee) un idea ot the at- tributes of the Divine Being. The ancient nations endeavored to express, by outward syiibols, their religious iaith and spiritual thought. These sym- bols were sure to impress the mind powerfully. it ‘was, indeed, difficult to see how the Jaith sould be preserved and the worship transmitted to other generations without some outward symbols or rec- oids, True, there were certain dangers connected ‘here was, for instance, the great danger that the symbols might ne devasea into idols; and thus, instead of sustaining and preserving ihe faith, serve to underiine it. ‘This was the great fault of the Hindoo, Persian and Egyptian religions, They allowed their symvuolsy to be prostituted to i@ols, ‘he reverend gentleman then showed, with apt illustration, how tne ancient nations had | . first cried to express their vague ideas of THE HIDDEN POWERS OF GOD. Zoroaster consecrated caves to the worship of the Supreme Being, whose power was already then i instinctively by the human mind, ‘Tacitus, his vivid und picturesque account of the ancient Teutons, related how tuey cousecrated | to God their woods and forests as they would not be hampered in their worsip by the confining walls ol a tempie. Tue origin of the first symvoiic forms was then told by the speaker. Speaking of | the origin of the use of the circle as a religious symbol he asked why the beara, bodies were all | Spherical, why their orvits were elliptical, why the earth Was round instead of being square? From | the aspect ol the glorious vauit o1 heaven the first | ideas aud furms ot God were probably derived; indeed, the universe wou d ever remain “he grand- est symboi of the divine power. In this connec- | on he protested against the fallacy of worsh:p- Ping Dature any more than as A MEKE SYMBOL OF GOD. This was ee nee error, und it was also greatly to he deplored that the cross should be perverted by any Church as a crucifix requiring upivers: reverence, and that the symbolic wine and bre: should ever have become the Corpus Christi. As to the symbolic use of the cross it was alread, in ancient Egypt, India and other countries, a precious embiei Of the opposing forces of nature, ‘and m one shape, a8 a sign manual of the illiterate and supersti(ious, 1t had come down to the present generation ior several thousand years, Mosea took the circle and cross only trom the signs which | God had hung on all the battiements 0} nature, and among the ancient Hindoos, fourteen centuries ve- fore Christ, a cross formed of two pieces of wood, to produce fre by friction, was the first symbol of the fre-god, o1 the tight and tie of the world, Tne cross, in tue Christian catacombs of Rome, was the symbol o! spiritual light and lile and oi the Lord of salvation, Alter listening to the learned discourse, which | was replete with interest, the Comerence ad- Journed till Ootober 5, THE MARBLE DUST CONTRACT, Orrick WEsTOHESTER MARBLE Dust Company, SING SING, May 28, 1874, To THE Epitor or THE HERALD:— My attention has recently been calied to a state- on Sing Sing Prison, averring that we claimed to have received a title of sale from Alired Waiker of anengine and other property belonging to the a Foster, class of 1837; Governor Charles R. Inger- | Boll, class of 1844; Judge E. J. Saniord, class of 1849; i.wuis H, Bristo, class of 1861, and Morris F. Tyler, class of 1873, are now putting forth circulars conta:ming infor- Mation relative to the exercises proposed | to be held, which will be sent to the alumni throughout the country and to all past members of | the senool 0 far as tneir names can be ascer- tained. tion. Morrison T. Waite, Chief Justice of CORONERS’ CASES. —tbmaeeinedioranteamn Drunkenness, Destitution and Starva~ tion. The attention of the Sixteenth precinct police ‘was yesterday called to the death o/ Rosa Moran, an infant nine weeks old, whose parents live at No. 431 West Sixteenth streei, The chiid died on Saturday morning, and no report of the fact was made till yesterday. Oftcer Shauwaeker, on going to the house, found the dead babe lying on the table, terribly emactated and bearing the appear- ance of having been starved to death; in fact, the father, who was found drunk in a neighboring roggery, said his babe had died of starvation. rs, Moran, the mother, a0 habitual drunkard, was then off on a drunken spree, and had been for sev- eral days leaving the infant in care 01 its inebriate Jather and two other children five and seven years old. Mrs, Moran but recently returned from the island, where she had been lor her besetting sin, Moran was brought down town, and Coroner Wolt- man committed him to the Tombs. A warrant was also issued for Mrs, Moran, and she will be sent te the lockup to look alter her husband, who, how- ever, Works when he 1s sober enough to doso. The other little childrey of Moran will be looked alter by people in tue house where they live. Suicide by Cutting His Throat. About seven o’clock yesterday morning Philip Fritz, a German, thirty-five years of age, by trade @ tinsmitn, while in Doyers street, near the Bowery, cut his throat with a razor, death speed- ily ensuing from hemorrhage. Deceased had seemed a little bewiidered 1n his mind tor some days past, and on leaving his home, No. 16 Forsyte street, in the morning, Fritz kissed Dis wife and children and suggested to the former that they should die together. She passed the matter off, and Fritz, leaving the house, took his liie soon aiter- wards, The body was taken to the pixth precincé Station house, and Coroner Wollman notified. Patal Car Casualty—A Censure and a Recommendation. An inquest was yesterday held by Coroner Wolt- man in the case of William Kienck, eleven years of age, Who was killed a few days ago by being rum over in Elm street, near Pearl, by car No. 46 of the Bleecker street line. In their verdict the jury “censured the railroad company jor permitung their drivers to go up the hill at that point at suck @ rate of speed, und aiso recommend the cowpany toexercise greater precautions in tuture 80 as to prevent such accidents trom occurring.” Sudden Death of a Venerable Gentle man. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Kessler was called to No, 110 East Filty-sixth street to hold an inquest over the remains of Mr. Samuel Jaudon, ayentiemam nearly eighty years of age, who had been found dead im bed the day previous. More than forty years ago Mr. Jaudon was well known throughoul the country a3 @ politician and friend o! Daniel Web- Ster, and im 1od2 he was un Oficer of the United States Bank. Suicide by Hanging. Bernard Crapp, a German, twenty-five years of age, late a salesman in the store No. 749 Broadway, yesterday committed suicide by hanging himset betiind the door in his room at No, 209 Sixth street, Deceased had been very intemperate in lis habits and no other cause for the commission of the deed is known. Coroner Kessler was notified to hold @n inquest, Found in the Water. At ten o’clock yesterday morning Oficer Wood, of the Thirteenth preciuct, found the remains of a male iniant floating in the dock foot of Broome street, Kast River, and it was sent to the Morgue. Coroner Woltman wul hoid an inquest, PARADE OF THE POLIOE. ‘The annual parade of the members of the police force took place yesterday aiternoon. At a little after eleven o’clock the men assembied in Battery place under their respective captains ana ser- geants. They were formed into three divisions, each under the direction of an Inspector, and ata quarter past twelve they marched in column up Broadway. Captain Speight, riding a handsome white horse, headed the colamu, He was fok lowed by twenty-iour men of his command. Twe open carriages, containing three Commissioners and the superintendent, came next, aud alter them Gratuila’s military band. ‘tne progress through tuc lower wards of tae city was Watched by a large concourse 01 citizens, and the force was reviewed by the Mayor im jront of the Uity Hall. The march was then continued up Broadway to Union square, where the men were dismissed. ‘The columu was composed of 1,400 men, tae com- panies consisting of lorty men each, & Ccaptar two sergeants and two roundsmen. in the line march the first battalion was commanded by In- | spector Thorne as Colonel, with Captaiua Mount as Lieutenant Colonel, Capiain Ward as Major, Ser- gent Tuck as Adjutant and Serzeant Slater as Ser- cant Major, The companies marched in the fol- jowing order:—fourth precinct, Captain Uiman; Filceenth, Captain Byrnes; rightn, ptain Wile hams; Fourieeath, Captain Clincny; sixih, Cap- | tain Kennedy; Twenty-seveuth, Captain Lower; ‘Twenty-oiath, Capiain McCull.gh; tenth, uuuer @® Sergeant; Seventeenth, Captain Yule; Fifth, Cap- tuin Petty. inspector Walling acted as colonel of the Second battalion, witu Captain Allaire as Lieuvenant Coie nel, Captain Helden us major, Sergeant Hull as ud- jutant and Sergeant McGiven as sergeant major. ‘the folowing Was the order ol jormation:— | Of the schvol, will presice; an oration will be de- | livered by Hon. Edwards Pierpont, LL. D., of New York, and Ex-rresident Woolsey, VD. D., LL D., Will make an iistorical address, At tne ciose of the exercises there will be a re- | Union of the alumni past members of this depart- ment.of Yale iu the lecture room of the law school, and @ collation is to be provided. Addresses will also be made by members of the different classes, OAPTURE OF A HIGAWAYMAN. Ata late hour on Suaday night, asa young man | named George N. Wright, residing at No. 108 Frank- un enue, Was walking through Wythe avenue, Williamsburg, he was stopped by a rough looking fellow, Who demanded his money, at the same time threatening to lay him out with a lager beer glass, telling him tuat he had already jaid out one man. Mr. Wright, who was no maich for the robver, bandew him tweaty five cents, saying it was all he had with him. Mr. Wright then leit and soon after Meeting Uilicer Scuilen, of the Filth precinct, told him what had occurred. Tne officer went back with Mr. Wright, and in a@ lager beer saloon near the scene of the robbery arrested the thiel. Yes- | terday morning, Upon being arraigned before Jus- tice Elliott, he gave his name as Michael Delaney, @ moulder, and, pleading not guilty, was committed | | Lo jail 0 await examination. | | "FATAL ACCIDENTS, WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 1, 1874 On Saturday last a boy named Pevitt, aged six- | teen years, was ran over by a train of coal cars at Laurel Run slope and was killed, his head and shoulders being crushed into a shapeless mass. ‘The same day John Warnick, a driver boy, aged eleven years, while uunitching a mule from a loaded car at Madet slope was crushed todeatn by the animal suddenly starting on, On Sunday @ son of Michael Madigan, aged thirteen years, was drowned in @ pond near Kid- der siope. The water is deep and the body nas not yet been recovered, A YOUNG MAN ATTEMPTS SUIOIDE, PATERSON, N. J., Jane 1, 1874, A young unmarried man named Browning, a | harnessmaker by trade, boarding in Hotel street, | attempted to commit suicide yesterday afternoon by taking a dose of carbolic acid. He was not dis- covered until several hours aiter, when medical aid was summcned. He is still alive, but tv a pre- carious condition, He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church and oj exemplary character, An unaccountable depression of spirits is believed to have been the cause of his rash attempt. THE PRODUCE BXOHANGE. The annual election of the Produce Exchange was held yesterday, when the following were elected as the executive oj the Exchange :— For President—Franklin Edson. For Vice President— Benjamin W. Floyd. For \reasurer—Benjamin . Bogert. For Managere—W. il. Phillps, Wiliam 1, Piiips & vo: | John G. Agent Inman line; b. J. K, Transportation Compan, lerrick & Uo.; A. 8. =paui J. A. Bostwick le, dent National rick, J. HL onard Haze ltine, | john Romer | pectors 4 Hi, Pearsall ros, t | bald Harris, K.P. urrie & Co.; PF. Allen, F. Alien & Co.; Charles W. Strachan, Charles W. Stracha: Georve i, Webster, Arinour Plankinton & Co. “NEW ENGLAND GOSPEL OF HATE," {From the Nashvilie (Tenn.) Union.) been Victuinized by Mr. Walker, Such statement 1s founded on an erroneous impression, In the et piace, We have not been victimized at all by Mr. Walker, but, on the contrary, we consider the urchase made from him of the marbie dust con- actin every Way advantageous to us, and we should require a handsome bonus to surrender It, Second, the prope:ty you mention as having been | auwarrantably suld 10 us by Mr. Walker, and ve- longing to the State, was never sold to us at ail, nor did he claim that he possessed tue same, but, on the contrary, always averred that {t belonged to the State, and the Svate has always had possession oi the same. by correcting the great injusuce | done in this particular you Will greatiy obig & JAYNE, Superintendent Marble Dust Company. After the passage of the Civil Rights bill, and after Stewart’s Sixteenth amendment to enforce mixed schools at the point of Federal bayonets and Gatun guns if necessary, what next? John ' krown's soul keeps marching on, ‘The radical party could not stop there, * * * The spirit of | unrest will not cease tll every federal o1 the souinern States is colored. Then would the New Engiand gospel of hate be accomplisied—the Negroes rulgig tueir former masters. ihe Civil Roghts bili itsell proves that there still lingers in | the Massachusetts mind @ craving to punish and — humiliate the South even further than It has been, | Else why strike down the school system, tothe | detriment of the negro, leaving its possivie res: reclion to the tardy coutingeucies Of a constitu. ona amendment t | | eral meeting 0} Tweltth precinct, Uaptain Bennett; Third, Captain Leary; Nineteeuth, Captain Guaner, Thirty-tourth, Captain Steers; Twenty-first, Captain Burden, ‘Twenty-third, Captain McElwain; Seventh, Cap. fain Seibert; Thirteenth, under a sergeant; Thirty- first, Captain Saunders; Tuirtieta, Captain Davia. The furd battalion was under the charge of In- Spector McDermott as colunei, assisted vy Uaptala Washburne as Lieutenant colonel, captain Tyna as major, Sergeant GrimMth as adjutant and Ser- geant Hooker as sergeant major. ‘The urder oi the companics was a3 foliows:—Second precinct, | Captain Caffrey; Eleveuth, Captain Murpuy; Six- tecnth, Captain Cherry; Thirty-third, Captain Rub- 1 webty-eighub, Captain Garland; bignteeata, | Sergeant Wertz; First, Captatu Van Dusen; Ninth, Sergeant Swift; Tweuty-second, Captain Kuiilea; Twentieth, Captain Mcpunneil, Drill Captain Copeland acied a8 Adjutant General. STRIKE OF THE HOD CARRIERS, By order of the Laborers’ United Benevolent So ciety, of this city, all laborers employed in attend- ing upon bricklayers and plasterers struck yester- day for higher wages. The movement was simul- taneous throughout the city, the employers being notilied that they must pay the brickiayers’ attendants $2 50 aud the plasterers’ atteadants $2 75 per day, or they would quit work. The em- ployers refused to comply with the demand, and the result is an entire cessation o, building, a4 it is iinpossibie sor toe bricklayers or plasterers to carry on their Work without laborers lo vring (nem materials. Many of the lavorers Would Wilke ingly continue their Work at the present rates, but are obliged to obey the rules of the Union. ‘Pre- vious to February last these laborers were paid $250 and $275 per day, but on account of the Staxnation in trade since then the wages were reduced. Tus was subinitted to a6 the time, a8 there was no possibility of relief, but with the revura o1 the building business tue strike was determined upoa, it veing sap posed that the season would prove a iair opportunity for the laborers to obtain their demauds, The em- ployers say that tue buliding trade has not veen co dull in years as at present, aud in view of this iact they hold that 1t is tmpossible ior thea to advance the presen, rate oi wages. There has been 20 consultation among the employers as to the course to be taken tu overcome the s rike, but thes lieve that there are enonga men idle to fil the | places of the strikers. As there is no apprentice- ship required among this ciays ot laborers, alter @ lew days’ p-actice the green hands will do as well as the old workers, ‘The laborers have no united plan of action, but on Weduesday evening » gen- fallthe delegates will be held to consider the strike and to provide the necessary means of carrying it on. THE COOPERS’ STRIKE IN WILLIAMSBURG. ‘The men belonging to the Coopers’ International Union, employed im the various cooper shops im Wihamsbarg, are still holding out against whas they deem the unjust demands of the bosses, who insist that the men shall renuunce the Union. This the men decline todo. Yesterday morning Messrs. . brought @ number of non-society mem reine Willtansbur , but trom tie threatening demonstrations made by & crowd of the Uniow men, wo had congregated about the place, Mr. Briggs was compelled co call upon tue police to protect them, pore the past three weeks the police, under Captain Wogioi, o: the Futh pre- cinet, have bad a great amount of extra work to perform in guarding the nou-society men from the assaults of those of the Union. KOSOIUSKO'S MONUMENT. The Commissioners of Parks have declined grant a place in the Central Park for a stavue of Kosciusko, Messrs. J. Q. A. Ward and John Taylor Jounston, to whom the matier was relerred, re porting that the mode! does not possess the artiste requirements to entitle tt to a piace In the THE COLLEGE REBELLION BNDED. PORTLAND, Me., sane 1, 1874 ‘The refractory Bowdoin students have decided to return and renew their matriculation pledge, ‘| culty a8 & looking apon the ultimatum of the Pact! eoupromise, There ts tte doubt that ac onl | tary drui will be abolished a the end Of the cure | reut cullemiate years