The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1874, Page 6

6 A PREP AT THE POLICE COURTS, The Criminal Tribunals of the Metropolis and Their Assceiations. How the Justices Look and Their Past Careers. THE VAMPIRES AND VULTURES. ‘There are six police courts, which hold their sessions dally, in the city of New Yor«, and these six courts are presided over by eleven police jus- tices, Whose names are Morgan, Murray, Kasmire, Bixby, Otterbourg, Wandell, Flammer, Snerwood, Smith, Kulbreth and Wheeler. These judges are the offsprmg of the last charter aud were ap- pointed by Mayor Havemeyer, and it seems some- what probable that they will remain in their seats, Twenty years ago the corner rowdy in New York, when he was hard up and desired the loan of a hall dollar, used to ask tor it with loud preiace :. WISHING FOR OLD TIMES. “S-a-a-y, Billy, lend me a ‘hall’ and I'll pay you sure when Jim Sullivan comes back from ’Frisco.”” And now there are those who beileve tn the re- tarn of the old police justices, and men to this very day base their calculations on the advent once again of the Lost Tribes.. Some of the old judges have great doubts, however, of their return and will not place any faith in the Court of Ap- peals, Dowling, @ granitic specimen of as police justice, is taking the waters at Ems with nis friend Kaiser Wilhelm; Ledwith, faithful found among the faithful few, is @ Senator newly hatched from ‘Tammany by dispensation of John Kelly ; Shandiey, abon vivant and jolly good fellow, ts found occa- sionally in his old haunts in the nethermost sec- tions of New York; Cox was last heard of ata wavering piace, and Hogan may be heard daily expounding the abysmal problems of constitu- tonal law to his patient and intimate friends; Bixby, who boids his place with greas composure and who has a great savior fatre, was in the old Board and is now in the new one. The new justices, with a few exceptions, are not ‘a8 speedy in the transaction of police business as were the ot ones, They have not yet had the constant practice of the former Board, and some ‘of them are vastly given to lecturing their hearers in court, which, of course, delays the cases, although the ermine may be never so clean. THE NEW BROOMS. ‘These poitce justices, by an arrangement ob- tained in their own meetings, are compelied to rotate from one court to another, and thus they will gradually become acquainted with all the petty criminal business of the city. The different Justices held a lottery and drew from it at the be- ginning their several terms of service. Thus Morgan, who was the Assistant Postmaster o! the city and well known in republican political circles, drew ten years, and 1s universally popular among the lawyers, the hadituésand those who have in any ‘way to ask for his judgment. Morgan has cherry cheeks, @ goodly person and a very mercifol disposition to the poor wretches who come before him. Kilbreth is an Eignt- eenth ward man, & lawyer of average Bbilities, and has very little to say when he sits with his brotner magistrates in the Court of Special Sessions, Butler H. Bixby ts a most fortu- mate man. He has a solemn, close-shaved look, and seen outside of a police court, on a plazza, Wearing a Panama nat and a white linen suit, might be taken for a Southern plantation lord, who believed In the lost cause and the glories of the day of Sbilob. Bixby was known as a “kicker” in the democratic party and made a ki figure in Apolio Hall, aa organization which had not enough backbone to jurnisn stifMess toa pair of corsets; but yet when Apollo fell Bixby rose and floated into the $8,000 chair, and holds it now, With great judgment and propriety. 4 PLENIPOTENTIARY JUSTICE, Otserbourg is @ small man, rather fussy, but good-natured, and was a@ ati Partisan of Andrew Johnson, who sent him as Minisver to Mexico. He is sometimes known as the “Lion of ‘the tribe of Judab,” and @ predilection for making a speecn to those whom he may be in- clined to send to Blackwell’s Island. por. and Otterbourg drew nie years each of service. Charies A. Flammer isa small, nervous person, of dark complexion and of German extraction, and inclines strongly to his Germanic race. Fre- quently while on the bench he will converse in the Joved German tongue, that sounds so musical at times, with the poor wretch who has been indulg- ing in riot or drunkenness. Flammer, it ts under- stood, had some education as a lawyer, and pre- ‘vious to his appointment a3 a police justice sat as @ member of Assemoly. PATIENCE 18 A VIRTUE. Kasmire is of German or Polish descent, wears glasses and has the look of a German student whose mind is divided between the possibility of having to fight a duel or drink a gallon of Bavarian beer. Kasmire was‘a lawyer and is noted for his singular patience and good temper, in which ne is only equalled by Morgan, when examining those who have complaints mace against them. Sitting at Essex Market, where the most provoking | of all police cases have daily to be heard, he never allows himself to be drawn into an argument with the accased person, and he has a manner of look- ang terribiy interested when a violent {racas about @ clothesline 1s under discussion, and ali the while his mind is revelling alar of amid the broom and heather of the Catskills, ‘This is philosopny, and oniy a great Crewe Man can atcain its height. Tosee an excited pair of women, who have de- scended from the fourth floor of a tenement house in Delancey street, come into court witn inflamed | visages and breathing fire, fury and brimstone against each other, is indeed a trial tor seli-pos- session, even in & judge. Happy the justice who Weathers the storm. When one oi the women is Irish and the other German the storm intensifies and - becomes a hurricane. Then it 18 indeed bliastul to hear Kasmire whisper to Koster, the solid old Ge! man chief clerk, “Man wants but little here b: low, but he doesn’t want that little tog long.” Henry Murray is a dark-compiexionéd, wiry gon- uweman, of remarkable energy and quickness of utterance, and was elected some years ago to a Police justiceship, but was cheated out of it by some sight manipulations o/ tae vallot box. Mur- Fay shines best in the Special Sessions, where be despatches business w.°u force and rapidity. Judge Murray has been and 1s in the coal business @8 a large contractor, aud supplies the Metropoll- tan Gas Compsny with the, necessary fuel to light Up their section of the city. Tay atelier Smith 8 not particularly notice- able, excepting that he is a lawyer and is ason of ex-iecorder James M. smith, Sherwood is a lawyeryand has a pale face with | @ grave and dignified’ look, and when o person gazes on his face the thought that wou'd come up- permost would be, “Why don’t he wear a white yy Thisseems absurd enough, and yet it 1s a Neison K, Wheeler, appointed to the Sixth Dis- trict Police Court, which comprises the two an- mexed wards, is the oldest man in the Board. He was formerly a weigher House and has not as yet developed any specialty asthe people in the Twenty-third and Twenty- Jourth Wards are said to be s0 peaceabie and truly good that they hardly know whetier they have & police justice or not in their vicinity. A PIOUS MAGISTRATE. And Jast but not least comes Benjamin Wandel!, formerly a merchant in moderate circumstances, who has 4 great resemblance to Thomas Jeferson in feavares—just before toe great statesman died. Wandeil sits atthe Tombs and 1s @ very small and very dried up gentleman, who speaks in a lusu- Drious tone, and is said to be adadictea w the Trusal Of sthodisticai iervor about Justice Wandeli wien he utters tae septence which has suc a prowound ce—Weil I think I wiil have to give yon ten days in the City Prison. Onicer, take him down, At the larger police courts there ia a chtef clerk who receives $4,000 @ year, four assistaut clerks whq get each $2,000, an inverpreter who re- elves $1,200, a janitor 500 and @ court at- Vendant or messenger at $1,500, ‘Tne Police Justice receives $8,000 a year, tne Same salary as a member Of the Cabinet of the United States, out if he is diligent he bas much more work to get through daily. HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO RUN A COURT. In the Court of Special Sessions three magis- trates are associated, and sit on Tuesdays, [hurs- days and Saturdays, and they usually get through at about three o'clock in the aiternoon. These magistrates do not get any extra compensation for this work, aitaough the other ne got $10,000 @ year extra ior it besides their of $10,000 annually as justices of police courts. The chief clerk, Johnson, im the Special Seasions re- ceives 98.000 @ year, and iti said that he knows more of the critinul business of the courts than any other clerk in the city, excepting Sparks, of the Geaeral Sessions. Besides Mr. Junnson there is @ deputy clerk in the Special sessions who re- ceives $6,000, named Jones, and voth of these officials hold for six yeara. ere 18 wis0 a atenog- eee &t $2,500, ab interpreter $2,000, three subpoena servers at $2,000 a year cach, & messen- ger Bt $1,500, a clerk of record for the eit St $3,125 a year, the sularies of the Special Ses- sions amounting 10 ali to $26,625. The footed up for the other courts are as follows:— $24,200; Jefferson Market, $22,iW; Kesex Yoh Yorkvule Poiice Court, $18,005 Jeu ce Court, $18,400, and the new Police one a@ppexed ward: £13,200, tno im the Custom | ‘atts’ hymns. There 13 a religious and | ‘y | mous, while | from New Yor! r NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. AUGUST 6, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. /ageregates Incinde the palarice of pe pol } tices, each at $3,000 a year, Two these gentie- re for tea years—viz., Messra. Morgan and breth; two for nine years, Messrs, Bixoy and Octterbourg; two for cight years, Messrs, Fiainmer and Wandell; Messrs. Sherwood and Smith ior seven years, and two for six years, Messrs. Murray and Kasuire. THE BEAUTIFUL CLERKS. Among was polnee, clerks Mr. Rockwell ts noted as belug most Try | mm intellect, and it is said that he can tell to a single brick how many bricks are necessary to build a three story houséin the Ninth ward, Mr. Koster, who wus once a super- lee jus visor, is the heaviest built man and broadest shouldered. Mr. McCabe is the most solid and the most glossy mustache, Mr, McGowan Nas the most symmetrical lunds, Mr. Cooney has the Most aristocralc bearing, McKeon 1s the most phiegmatic, Mr. Hetiey 18 the “fyest” and Mr. Dillon bas the largest capacity for enjoyment. The most industrious interpreter@s at Nssex Market, for be works with forty-horse power wuen an unlortauate and Teutonic witness comes to the front. “Thev a touzend vitnesses, Shoodge! Oh, yes, Shoodge, I hev atouzand witnesses!’ exclaimed an irate Israelite to a well-\nown magistrate, some time since, in acase where the sum of thirty-five cents was involved, the property missing being the lid of a stove, “{ GOT A TOUZAND VITNESSES.’? “¥es, I have no doubt you could fil! Tompkins square hthem. Butldon’t want any oi them. Go and talk to the interpreter au hour or so and | come here again precisely at five o'clock next week. Sergeant, send the off platoon with this | woman, and let them escort her home.” This, of course, Was ail understood, and not a poticeman started from hts post, Steimourger, the interpre- ter at the Tombs, is noted for his bie The tmterpreter at Jefferson Market unders sixteen languages, but nis English 1s not worth a cent, and the wterpreter at Yorkville has vague desires to go up in @ balioon, while his colleague at Harlem is a devoted attendant at the neighvo! ing synagogue. A certain janitor atone of the courts, 1% is rumored, is worth $30,000, made in Teal estate. The courts are open from eight o’clock in the morning until noon, when there is @ recess unt two o’ciock, fox dinner and intellec- tual improvement. The courts then open aad remain open until four o'clock or later, until the press of business is disposed of. Jefferson Market Court is the most crowded with business, and Judges Morgan and Murray have their hands pretty full day aiter day, so that tne work 18 Teally very the court rooms being ventilated in the worst possible manner. Essex Market Court ana Yorkville Court are the beat ventilated Of all these courts, THE COURT VAMPIRES, During the eight or ten hours that these courts are open for business they are steadily haunted by &@ host of vultures, who are known as “shy- ters,” but who profess to be called lawyers. With @ few honorable exceptions these men are en- tirely without education or decency, and many of them cannot telk 4 volume of Parker's Criminal Law irom a Greek Testament, It 1s pitiiul to see some wretch who has spent his few hard earned doliars ona debauch over night flanked and sarrounded by these harpies, who would de- Prive him of hig shirt or shoes if they could pos- gibly get @ chance at those articles, Among some at the courts they are known and addressed as “lawyers” and “counselors,” and they ciuetly Launt Coney Island on Sundays to play cards und drink cheap Whiskey. There are Many vawritten pong abounding in the Police Courts of tis y- pe RAILROAD INVADING THE GRAND PLAZA. ee ee No Parade Ground for the National Guard. Tt is only a few months since the Park Commis- sioners, at great expense, paved Seventeenth street, the upper end of Unton square, and built a grand stand from which to review troops, By an act of the last Legislature a railroad was chartered torun on this very street, thus destroying the Utility of this grand plaza. Presivent Stebbins invoked the opinion of the Corporation Counsel on the subject, and from the following answer it vw ill be seen that the rallroad in quesuon does possess the rigut to the use of this or apy other street designated by act of the Legisiatare:— Aveovsr 3, 1874. Hon. Henry G. Srxszins, President of the Departinent of Publie Parks:— Suz—Your communication of the 3ist ult. to the Coun- sel w the Corporation Was duly received. You state, in substance, that chapter 160 of the Laws of 1875 authorizes cerigin parties to iny arailroad track through Beven- ‘teenth street to Broadway and Union square, and that the company 80 au.horized is preparing to lay Across that portion of seventeenth street which is be- tween Fourth avenue and Broadway. You also staw that the north side of Union square has been laid out, at greut expense to the city, tor the purpose of affording facilities to the First division of the National Guard and to the public, whea desiring to hold ‘public meetings tor military, poiltical or other purposes; that he spot was designedly selected out of the way of ‘public travel, and that the fntroduction of a ranway direcwly across the grand plaza will limit*the facilities which your depart- Ment has undertaken to 1urnish in the wa: ; and you inquire whetber the deparunent hi authority to prevent any mutilation of the or its diversion trom the uses to which it has been dedicated, You state also that, by chapter 89 of the Laws of 1432, Union placc is bounded on the north by northerly hine of Seventeenth street, and you suggest that tie | ground embraced by Union’ square or park, aud over | which it us proposed to lay this railway, was the property of the citizens of this city, awarded for'speciile city uses; but that it is not city property in the sense which woul authorize the state to grant the privilege of a railway over its surface; and you desire the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation as to whether the railroad company can lawfully the track across and through Sevenicenth ‘street, as proposed; and aiso wheiher the route between Seventeenth s:rect and Uniou square on the northeast and Fourteenth street and Union | square on the southwest can be changed from that now | Proposed by way of the north and west sides of the square to une by way of the castand scuih rides of the | uare. “MVhave carefully examined the questions submitted by you and am satstled that you are under a tmisappreien- Bion as to ihe nature of tue tite of the city to the vor- on of seventeenth street referred to by you. seven: teenth street was one of the streew in this city laid down | upon the map of 187, and the pruceedit to acquire | tile to thai portion of Lhe street betwe Sixth and | Third avenues were completed in the year (331, the report of the Commissioners haviag been contitumed by the Supreme Court on the 224 of April in that year. | The title whieh the ci , therefore, in that portion of proceedings were taken, is tne ty hag in all streets laid down | same as that which the c | mpon that map, and to which tide has been acquired in the manner prescribed by iaw. under these prenies: the city | iand, and hol it is well settied that, acquires the iee of the lds the same lor public use. the-Luws of i882, reierred to in your letter, | tended Union place to tae north side of | ‘ath street, does not im the aslighiest degree | change che nature of the title by which the city holds } the fee of this street, It merely: extends the boundaries ot Union place so as to inciude Seventeenth street, and it | has been within the power oj any Legislasure since 1&2 (o movity or entirely Tepeal this law. 1 do notsee that | there can be any question that, ws the the power to pass the act ot isd, it tirely to repea! it and restore | former condidion as one of t Leyisiature bad | as the power en- eventeenth street to itt ordinary streets of th city. | | Tim unable tosee, therefore, why the Legislature has | | not just as tuli und complete power to ruthorive the | laying?of the railroad track throuyh that parto! seven- | | teenth street thatit has to authorize the ‘ying of such tracks rough apy of the other strects in the city. Since the passage of the act of 1832 above re‘erred to, which makes a portion of Seventeenih street, Broadway, | Fourweenth sireet, and Fourth svenue parts of Union place the University piace and the Belt Kdilroaa mpanies have been authorized tolay their tracks | ugh Chose streets, this ¢ creates a stroug | streets in Union | | Bluce did not forin any oustacle to their being used. tor | treet railway purposes. Aside, however, (rom any in- ference wnich might be drawn ‘irom considerations of | this sort [have no doubt tuat the powers of ihe Legisia- | | ture over Seventeenth and other streets which iormed | portions of Union place are precisely the sauwe that they | | wre over the other surects of thls city, | | The question as to the rignt of the Legislature toan- | | thorize railroad tracks to ve laid through the streets of | | this city is wo well settled to admit of discussion. matter was finally settied in the Gourt of Appeals, in the | | case ot The V'eople vs. Kerr 27 New, York leports, page | 158), ater elaborate argument by such counsel as Messrs. O'Couor, Evarts, Noyes, Van Buren, Dickenson and Anderson. 7 | “1 am compelled, therefore, to advise you that the Legisiature had full power and anthority to pass the law | authorizing the laying of raiiroad tracks through that portion of Seventeenth street which is included in Union the | lace, | | With regard to the second question submitted by you, T am aiso obliged to say that J do not think that either | the railroad company or the ‘Lepartment ot Parks, or both, of any ouier municipal authority, have any power to change the rovte Jaid down in chapter 160 of the Laws of i875. It was (ormeriy contended chat the Common Council had the power to grant the right to lay | through the | railroad ‘tracks streets of this city, | but it was finally setiied that the Common Coun: | | cil had no such power, and, by an act passed in 1480, being chapter WW of the laws ot at year, 1 it was provided shat it should pot be lawful, thereaiter, construct or operate any railroad in any o1 the | streets of the city. of New York. ext ity and snbject the regulations a. | the Leyisiature spoula thereatter tand provide. it | | isclear that the route preseribed by the act of 1873 is through and along Seventeenth street, across the Fourth enue, and continuing in that street to Broadway, and thence down Broadway to Fourteenth sireet, ‘and, | @ above stated, 1 do nOt think that this route can Le | changed except by an act of the Legislature of this state. Taw, sir, yours very respecttully, GORGE P. ANDREWS, Assistant Counsel to the Corporation, E, t under the author. restrictions which | A VIRAGO AT SING BING. | Dire Threats of a Visiting Female to Demolish the State Prison. A fiashily dressed woman calica at Sing Sing into the clerk’s office with deflant mien demanded | permission to see & convict named Robert Camp- bell. It was at once apparent that the female nad been indulgmg freely in strong drink and had George B, Gifford, ventured a mild remonstrance against her unseem'y conduct, and was instantly rewarded bya blow which was intended tor his | nose, but iorvanately strack his hut, As the irate female then threatened to demoiish the whole in- stitution while asserting ber “rights,” and had commenced the work wrenching ay tae wire screen in the telegraph office, 4 constable was procured, whe pat her in 4 carria and ; Grove her to the Village lockup. Here the | prisoner became terribly abusive and blarphe- roclaiminy that she was ‘a lagy? and her name was Campbell. See- | Ing that she was notin a state of mini to respect | the “majesty of the law,” Javtire Hyatt ordered her to be locked up antil she became sober, pad Mei toa cell by tig efforts of ae me her screams and. objaygasons mixh Dave bees beards sauare of » , | tives. , McFadden | been seut to the Almshoase, Prison yesverday afternoon, and having strode | Mt. Hitchman, of the Western already arrived at the pugilistic stage if intoxication. she wane Dat an Nentire | stranger to prison officials, the clerk, Wille | NEW YORK CITY. A fre took place yesterday morning in the hol- low tree on the corner of Twentieth street and Gramercy place. Comptroller Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yester- day ;—Claums paid, $658,236. Receipts, $35,445. Henrich Drokens, of No, 36 Hester street, fell through the hatchway of @ new building, where Le Was at Work, to the ground, yesterday alter- noon, aud was almost instantly killed. ‘The Iruit stands ta the markets were yesterday loaded down with peaches, Piffydour car toads have, so far, arrived in a single day, Prices range | irom $1 to $1 50a crate, Handsome vaskeis bring $1 25. Frank Reis, of No, 214 Bowery, was badly burned last evening by a can of nitric acid that exploded on, the sidewalk at No. 81 Park row, through hav- Ing falien on of lis hands, He was removed to the Park Hospital. Manhattan Market was yesterday sold at the Exchange Salesroom, No, 111 Broadway, to Mr. Henry G. Harrison for $216,956 48, The building commenced at $3,100, but the contest speedily ter- minated in Mr. Harrison’s favor, Mrs. Scully, of No, 63 James street, has claimed the boy as her own who, on Sunday night last, under the name of Frank Phelps, arrived at the stains Of blood, ag though a bloody knife had been wiped upon it. A Coroner's jury was immediately sum: which, after investigation, found a verdict that the deceased had met his death by violence, but at whose hands was uukaown. From the conditions under which the corpse had been discovered it oa jatpad thas there had been an ai + to conceal @ murder, and suspicion naturally turned to the man Ashbury, who firat brought the news of the murder to the authorities, and he was accordingly |, and is now heid to await examination. STATEN ISLAND. At the first meeting of the new Board of Trus- tees of the village of New Brighton the village po- hice force was abolished, Mr. Van Nest was elected Village Marshal, Mr. James Seaton was elected Village Treasurer, Daniel O'Neill aad Patrick Donovan were made special officers to as- sist the Village Marshal and Andrew Young was made Janitor of the viilage Court House. About the 1st of May last the Village Assessors of Edgewater gave notice through the pubito prints that they had compieted their assessments, and that at a certain time the roll would be on exhi- bition for correction, the assessment being at the same rate as in previous years. This roi, how- ever, it appears, was given Up as worthless, and a new one has since been made, which the taxpay- ers have also been calied upon to criticise and amend, It appears now that there is a question as to the legality of the last rolls Grand Central depot, having.a tag on his preast marked “Mrs. Scully, No. 62 Jones street.” The contractor for paving Broadway from Thirty- second to Fifty-ninth street has notified Com- Missioner Van Nort that, having received the money due him on his contract irom the Finance Department, he will resume work on it on the morning of the 6th inst. Lewis McCrea, aged forty-three, born in New York, died suddenly yesterday morning at NO. 76 ‘West Broadway, where he was employed as clerk to Alexander McWarron, cigar manuiacturer. His disease was supposed to be an affection of the heart. Coroner Woltman was notified. Mr. John H. Draper, by order of the Collector of the Port, yesterday sold at the Messrs. Robertg’ salesroom, Nos. 97 and 99 Water street, 440 lots of unclaimed goods at the publicstore. Bidding was brisk. The catalogue valuation was in accordance with the worth of the goods at the time of impor- tation. The city showed marked signs of activity tn bus- imess yesterday. At the hoteis the influx of mer- chants, especially from the West, was most notice- able. Freights tor grain were higher and the de- mand for transportation tn excess of the accom- modations, City business brightened up propor- tionately. The new steamer City of New York, of Messrs, F, Alexandre & Sons’ line of Havana steamers, maae her last trip from Havana to New York in three days and eleven hours, being the quickest passage between those two ports. She also made ber two previous trips in three days, twelve and a half hours and three days and thirteen hours, A horse attached to a vender wagon, owned by Casper Schneider, of No. 57 Cook street, Brooklyn, E. D., ran away 1n Barclay street yesterday morn- ing, and at the corner of Greenwich street, came in collision with a horse belonging to Peter Devitt, of Centre Market, and broke one of his forelegs. The wounded auimal was taken to Centre Market Place and there killed by a blow on the head by one of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At a meeting of the Importers’ and Grocers’ Board of Trade yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. Booth presiding, &@ communication was read from the Manufacturers’ and Grocers’ Board of Trade of In- dianapolis, asking for iniormation relative to the street raflroad system o! tois city, and the Secre- tary was instructed to procure the annual reports of the different city raliroad companies and send them to Indianapolis, ‘The steamship Guatemala was an American tron built ship, the cost of construction being, it is said, $250,000, Her total loss, including outfit, coal and stores, is set down at $316,834. The net loss to the company is figured down to something like $80,000, ‘The vessel’s net earnings tor her two | first voyages was $15,020 88; the prepaid freight | for her iast vovage Was $2,053 18 and the insur- ance was about $200,000, The residents in tue vicinity of Washington square complain in consequence of the youthful vagrants who infest the park and who paddle their dirty feet in the fountain. Yesterday af- ternoon one of the boys went so lar as to divest himself of everything in the shape of | clothes, With the exception of a pair of pantaloons, Aud was just reauy to take a plunge in the water when tis comrades irightened him away by crying “Police ))? BROOKLYN. The deficiency inthe present year’s tax collec- tion is estimated by the Comptroller at $1,000,000, A temporary loan of $500,000 will have to be nego- | tiated by the Common Council. Mrs. Isabella Graham, @ young woman residing | at No. 54 Ryerson street, while laboring under an | attack of mental aberration, caused by domestic trouble, attempted to drown herseli yesterday afternoon by jumping from the deck of the ferry- Doat Hamilton mto toe river. She was rescued by a couple of deck hands and restored to her reia- | Application was made to the Board of Aldermen yesterday by Mary Hanley ior the reward offered for che murderer of Charles Goodrich. Miss Han- | The Unsafe Condition of the Reservoirs— ley, it will be remembered, accomplished the de- tection and arrest of Kate Stoddurd after all the ingenuity of the detectives had exhausted itseif in useless pursuit of information over that well beaten course Known as the “wiid goose chase.” The reward claimed 18 $1,000, At the special meeting of the Common Conncil | yesterday Alderman Richardson presented an in- | vitation irom P. H. Reid, requesting the pleasure | of the company of the City Fathers on aa excur- sion over tne East New York and Canarsie Railroad and Rockaway beacu Steamboat line on any day the Aldermen could make it convenient to accept the invitation, The Aldermen were only too happy, and the matter was !e/t t6 Alderman Ricii- ardson to make the necersiry arrangements, At the regular meeting of the Kings County Board of Commissioners of Charities, yesterday afternoon, the entire medical staif of the Lunatic Asylum tendered their resignatious, on the ground | that that imstitution was “encumbered with igno- | Fant and incompetent subordinates, with no sense | Of responsibiiiuies of their position.” The resigua- tuons Were accepted on miotion of Commissioner Midas, and the matter of employing other medical nen Was relerre i to a cuminitice, The door of the grocery store of Lawrence O'Neil, on Coles street, near Manhassets place, waa found open by Patroiman ‘Travis, of the Eleventh pre- cinct, at an early hour yesterday morning. The officer entered the siore, in which a ilght was burning, and was astonished upun seeing a man standing behind the counter, quietiy packing teas, cotfees and other groceries invo a pag. Travis col- jared the iellow and staried out doors with him. | On the sidewalk they encountered thomas Gar- rey, of No, 420 Hicks street, and cwo women, Jane and Mary Gallagher, The trio an effort to compe: the police man to relinquish his hod of the pris- oner, but they were unsuccess(ul. Assistance arrived and ‘iravis led four persons into captivity io triumph. The alleged burglar gave his name as. Daniei Carmichael He lives at No, 60 Union sireet. Justice Delmar, before whom the prison- ers were arraigned, committed them to jail to awall examination. made LONG IE . PATS ST EERIE The foundation of the now Covaty Clerk's office of Suffolk county at Riverhead is already com- pleted. It is substantial in character and gives good satisfaction. A family named White, consisting of husband, wife and six children, have been discovered living neat Pope’s Park, East New York, in a complete state of nudity, having nothing to cover themselves with save a few pieces of old carpet, They bave Steps are being taken by some of the most prom- inent residents of East New York for the purpose of placing the town in telegraphic communication With ail parts of the world. Messrs, Smith and Reid, of East New York, have Somrecanared with Union, im regard to the matter, and that gentleman has pledged him- Self to lay the poste and wires to the Howard | | House in consideration of a guarantee of $600 for | thé first year of the operation. His terms have | been accepted, and tne laying of the wires will be commenced immediately, | Tue mysterious death of Mr. Miller, the fisher- | Man of Greenport, causes a great deal of excite- | Ment among the residents of that place. Is will be recollected that he was founa lying dead ina | fish house used by him about one mule west of the ; Village on Friday morning last. The news of his death was first conveyed to tue vill by @ fellow fisherman named ls Upon going to the | place the authorities found the door ened on | the iusiae. When access was gained to the. prem- | lses the body of Miller was ‘fang with ine head | lying toward the door. Upon examination,of the body there were found to be @ number of stabs | about the neck and chest, s two or three of | Which would have been sufient to have caused | death. There was an immediate search for the kulie or other instrament with which the | accident in several papers, setting forth that @ | tunately which will probably be tested in the courts, unless the Assessors should conclude to forego their latest action, in which case it is probable that no here have to use the water, so that T have & very ~~ interest inthe sudject. The press and the a ought especially to take up the question. ” Im conclusion, the Professor observed that he had alrea:ty discussed the matter with the Ohief Ineers Of Newark and Jersey City, had travelled with them, and they concur in most of his conein- sions, The two cities must join hands on the mat- ter, or it will fall through, ‘Newark 18 @ great manulacturing city,” he added, ‘‘and with & pure Water supply many more factorics would spring up, for in the manufacture of paper and textile fabrics, for instance, unpure water could not be Mayor Trapbagen, of Jersey City, is sojourning for a few ‘days at, aratoga, and on his return he ‘will devote three or four days to this subject, and travel over the great water sheds of the Siate, THE FLOATING HOSPITAL. The Excursion Yesterday—New Life and Restored Health to Dying Infants. The moat interesting, most peculiarly touching of all the tree excursions which the charity of this city has accorded to the children of its poor was that of yesterday, when the Fioating Hospital tor sick children, under the direction of Rev. Alvab Wiswall, Master of St, John’s Guild, made its Orst voyage. Some delay in the arrival of a most necessary portion of the commissariat detained the barge at the north side an hour or two longer than the time appointed for the departure. at pier No. assessments cam'be made until next year. Mean- fume the q Of raisi the rate of assess- Ments, to with recommendations of the 8 8, is being seriously consid- ered, and er discussed by the Su visors and rs at @ meeting called jor the 14th inst., at Police HeApgpexrare in Edge- water, at half-past one o’clock P. M, NEW JERSEY. The Overseer of the Poor has notified the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City that he can afford no more relief to the outdoor poor, as the appropria” tion is exhausted. Rey. Mr. Verrinder, a city mis- sionary, also asks the Board for a special appro- priation, He says that this is the first time in twenty years he has had to make such a request, A suit brought by Mr. George Lane, of Spots- wood, against the Freehoid avd Jamesburg Agri- cultural Railroad Company Jor damages occasioned by injuries to the plaintiff, has resulted in the sus- taining of the verdict on the second trial of dam- ages jor $4,000. The case has been beiore the courts since June 4, and a few days ago the piain- td was paid the amount awarded, There jives in Newark avenue, near Monmoath street, Jersey City, a woman named Curley, who is suffering severely from wounds inflicted by a mastiff ‘last Saturday night. It was only yer terday that the case was reported by the attend- ing physician. It apy '§ that the brute not only tore her arms but took a large piece of flesh out of her back. Justice Corrigan despatched @ man to kill the dog, we AOoroner in Monmouth coun*y summed up his charge on Tuesday evening, in the case of awoman who was found dead after her husband had fed from the place, as follows:—‘Gentlemen of the Jury, it becowes my duty to expound the law to you. The question is, What caused this person’s death, and who Was te cause, and, finally, gentle- men of the jury, whu sfall bury her? I leave the question with you.” NEW JEESEY DEMOCRATS. Opposition to Despotism and One-Man Government. ‘The democratic committee of New Jersey bave issued an address to the democratic and con- servative electors of that State, calling on them to exercise, at the approaching election, the right of franchise for the good of the cémmonwealth, The address sets strongly forth that the despot- ism, centralization of power, deiiberate and giar- ing corruption by the party now in office have been borne until forbearance ceases to be a virtue. These and other systematized plana have given un- limited power to individuals, who have even now, im their sense of strength, inauguratea measures looking toward the foundiag of a one-man govern- ment, with powers paralleled only by the worst of desptismms, The committee exhorts every patriot, democrat or republican, who loves his country to be up and doing, to be aroused to determined and vigorous action’ The grand object, a complete and thorough organ- Tzation, can only be obtained by the personai ertion and untiring zeal of each and every dem crat and conservative voter. Unity of object and concert of action are sure harbingers of success. The only bope, the address continues to say, of their adversaries ts in the Iakewarmness and tn- difference of democrats and conservatives and their failure to rally together or eifictently organ- ize, Tue utmost exertions, therefore, of the re- publican party will be devoted to misrepresenting the important question at bome and in seeking to weaken the ties that should unite all true demo- crats, conservatives ‘and friends of reform and economy against the party of discord, misrule and corrupt.on. It advises to cast aside all apathy, to be not divided by local issues or personal bicker- | mgs, to select trae, tried ana honest men for can- aidates and complete without delay the work of organization, THE TRENTON RESERVOIR DISASTER, False Economy. The damage cuused by the bursting of the reser- voir in Trenton, as already reported in the HERALD, does not exceed $5,000, The report of the block of houses was swept away and other valu- able property devastated, is entirely erroneous, No lives were jeopardized, and beyond the tearing | up Of a smail portion of the streets and a few side- | Walks in the vicimity no serious Gamage resulted. | Asmall squad of workmen were engaged yester- day making temporary repairs, and no steps will be taken for waking permanent renovations until 0 official inspection is made of the dilapt dated basia. ‘The general reservoir, which 1s unharmed, will, in the Meantime, prove ample to supply the city with water. Many citizens complain of the unsaie con- dition of these reservoirs on the grounds that the | embankments are composed of nothing but loam and sand, and are Mable to break at any time When the basins are nearly full of water. For- | for tie invabitants of the city their | capacity 1s Only about fifteen million of gallons and t site on which they are built 1s not very | high. The false ecouomy practised by the city au- | thorities in not having the embankments con- | stracted of solid material is londly condemned. | Tne irentonians consider themselves fortunate ia | not haying been visited by @ second Mull River dis- | aster, THE POISONED PASSAIO. Professor Wurtz on the Situation—How | Long Are the People of Jersey City and Hoboken to Endure Itt Choléra morbus is making fearful ravages in Jer- | sey City just now, and most of the cases are ascribed py the physicians to the poison in the Passaic water. The anaiysis made by Professor Wartz, of the Stevens Institute, in Hoboken, | though incomplete, was sufficiently startling to | arouse the people to asense of the dangers that surround them. Still, the apathy of the municipal authorities im tue cities so affected is positively astounding. Not one step has been taken by them to remedy the evil. A HERALD teporter called on Profeesor Wurtz yesterday at his residence, and among other ques- tions asked was whether he intended to give the analysis, when completed, to tue public, The Professor's views are substantially these:—“Any further analysis I may make of the Passaic water will be in the interest of myself and my family. Inave already set forth facts suMcient to awaken the public in this most important matter. But it seems to me most extraordinary that nothing has | since been done. The result of my analysis last year should have received wide publicity and a printed copy been placed in every house. Fancy my surprise when [ learned that only 600 copies were printed. Batl suppose that is what | is styled the policy of economy, and this too na matter of iife and death. It isa mistake to P pose that 1s 18 In the vegetable matter carried in' the reservoirs that the chief danger lies, On the other hand the poison consisis in tae organic mat- ter held in sojution. This matier develops itself quite plainly when the water ts left consider. able time in @ warm temperature. this subject # great deal of odnsideration last year and even went to Lake Hopatcong, which is a delight- ful sheet of water. My reply to the argument you fay is advanced - f some Newark people, that the supply woal be insuificient, this, that I would add to that the water shed of tie Rockaway River, which would give us a clear area of eighty square miles. A portion of that water shed is 160 Jeet higher than Hopatoong. Or take, if you will, Greenwood Lake, another delighttul sheet Of water. I nave very littie faith in filters, do not destroy the organic matter contained in einen. A man has just invented an iron filter in En; d—a preparation ef iron oré—which he asse! ia the best ever discovered, but it wilite too expensive for the masses. If the joint com- mittee, to whom this subject of the Passaic water has béen referred in Jersey City and Newark, id discuss the matter, would be | Wounds were inilicted, but ous BUC. | 208% bus @ piece of panes found near she body, upon whi wag jound sevesa) meet an only too ha) to answer Nt Sad even go ta them, Why port iy fam 27 a crowd of mothers and little ones, with Dr. Thoms, who may justly be called the physician in ordinary of these excursions, and a HERALD re- porter waited expectantly a long while for ita appearance, The monotony of waiting was, how- ever, broken in srather startling manner by the sudden cry of “SOME ONB OVERBOARD,” andthe immediate plunge of a man from the whari tothe rescue. At first tt was thought that One of the children had tumbled into the water, but the appearance of @ man clinging to one of the piles of the wharf, supporting on one arm the semi-inanimate {orm of a woman, showed a wholly different state of affairs. A woman, whose name was afterwards found to be Margaret Dwyer, had made a deliberate attempt at suicide, and was only frustrated in her rash effort by the prompt and gallant conduct of Mr. J. H. Parkinson, who happened to be on the pier at the time, and without a moment's hesitation leaped in and saved the misguided creature. Bhorey after this occurrence the wished for barge came in sightand moved up to the wharf, The pand was playing; the upper deck showed a good pumber of neatly dressed women with babies in their arms, and many little faces peering out to watch the new comers join the party. 8 detachment being taken on board, the Harvest Home was towed up stream to receive another iot at the Joos of Sixty-first street, On the lower deck were laid out tables loaded with subsian‘ial viands and manifesting in their arrangement the taste- ful, careful management of those truly KIND LADY MEMBERS of the Guild who yesterday gave thetr valuable assistance to Mr. Wiswall. Shortly after de- ‘ture irom the Sixty-first street pier all were treated to @ breakiast of tea, milk, bread and butter and excellent cold roast beef and corned beef, The barge continued her way up the river, and by aud by the effects of their good meal and the fresh, invigorating breeze that came with mer- olfal, healihiul influence on tne crowd of weakly infants begun to make manifest its benefit, The weary, languid little heads lying listlessiy on their mother’s bosoms gradually ‘uplifted, and te pain- wrung eXpression Of their pallid jaces grew mo- mentarily less and less. The change from patient quietude and suffering to quick returning jue was absolutely astonishing. It was really at first a floating hospital of ailing, sickly babies; but, if alter the two hours’ sail, and while the barge rested in mid stream, opposite Fort Schuyler, & stranger had come on board he would have seen a merry, laughing, joyous crowd of little folk, with well pleased, happy mothers moving among the ever varying throng. ceptious—many to whom pleasure must ever be only of &@ comparative character. A poor little boy was there, a wretched sufferer o/ disease of the spine, crouched LIKE A FROG upon a seat, his back bent double, bis head | pressed deep between his shoulders and his legs emaciated to a degree, Yet even to him some alleviation came. The pained compression of the thin pale ips departed, and the ay thoughtiul blue eyes took @ greater interest the scene about nim. “Yes, sir,” he piped in bts ieevle treble, “I am having @ good time.” Poor child! A pretty delicate-faced little girl, witn apirituel expression, dark brown eyes and luxuriant brown hair, seemed, as she sat on one of the benches, to trom her shorough sense of enjoyment, @ picture of health, ana yet a victim of that most grim enemy—the crippling hip disease. The number oi instances pres ent of chronic digease—the result of foul air, neglect, and bad diet—were too many to take in detail. A minute inspection of all the children on board by Dr. Thoms revealed to the HERALD representative an amount of occult infantine disease that was quite appalling. Yet, most of these, this experieaced physician of the poor 18 convinced, cah be cured, or at least alleviated, by nature’s best. medicaments of fresh air and good foud, The cases of cholera infantum were numerous, and the effect of the voyage on the in- valids was wonderful. A pretty, very pretty littic COLORED GIRL, about two years oid, tastefully dressed, and with a nice blue silk Bretagne bonnet, lay helpless, mo- tiouiess, in the arms of its anxious grandam at the whari, beiore the barge came up. Its father and mother were far away, sieward and stewurd- e83 on board @ slip that had gone to Australia, ‘This little one was uble to walk about the deck on | the return home. Another wee bit of bamanity was brought ou voard at Twenty-third strect, looking more like a dead child than @ living, aud before the end Oi the trip thia one was sittwg up in its happy mother’s arms and with bab wonderment gazing at the busy stir aroun The many various forms of suifering which on this day were congregated together are too nu- merous to give in detall, and yet so beneficent to | them was the aay’s outing, tue fresh, pure alr, the good food, that most appeared at the end of the trip resiored to comparative health, The Women and the children, it has been sald, were neatly dressed. 80 charitable to the poor as the poor, in every tenement house the whole resources of the impecunious establishment were called ito play to furnish forth “poor Mrs, So and So and her sick baoy” lor the occasion. Of the numerous instances of PATIENT SUFFERING and privation whica yesterday’s excursion pe- vealed the limited space of tuis description can None are “but give the most scanty idea. The barge, with its jiving ireight, returned, after a iew hours’ stay Opposite Fort Schuyler, making landings at Simy-first, Twenty-third and Market street piers, gud then goiug round to that at tne loot of West Tenth street. The Union Home Sand, directed by their master, Mr. J. S. Johnson, supplied ex. cellent music throughout the day. Exciuding the item of $178 for crockery, cooking wveusils and other been -eee og ! the, expenses of the excursion amounted to but $134. That the expen- aiture has reached this very small sum is mainly due vo the generous assistance that in Many quar- ters was accorded in ald o1 the movement. A present of a chest of first quality tea was given, .no charge was made jor the barge, the butchers at Wasiington Market gave the neat at cost price, Mr. Simmons, of Murray street, gratuitously pre- pared it; the American Ice Company contributed 800 pounds of ice and the Condensed Milk Com- any gave Lg of condensed milk. Mr. ViswWall bopes to have many such excursious dur- ing the heated term. The next will be on Friday, the 7th inst. —— Destitute Sick Children’s Fund. Excursion ‘The’ following additional contributions have | been received by Rev. Alvah Wiswail, Master of | St. Jonn’s Gaild:— . b 3 00 5 . iM 0 00 500 George &. Ward. 60 500 GO. B.. 10 ischmann & ©. * Co. . 50 Ov Chas, Luling .... 2% ou Smith & Underhill... “6 00 00 a Total... .. sos same. Amount previously acknowledged Grand total....... ae. : Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited at once, and may be sent to the New Yorx HERALD oMce; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; Arnold, Con- stable & Co., No. 885 Broadway; D. Appleton & Co., No. 651 Broadway; August Belmont & Co., No, 19 Nassau street; 8. i, M. Barlow, No, 8 William street; Ball, Black & Co., No. 56 Broadway: or juild, Rey, Alvan Wiswall, Master of St, Jona's No. 52 Varick sweet, SINGULAR DROWNING ACCIDENT, At Sing Sing yesterday morning Coroner Bassett held an inquest touching the death of John Nich- Ols, aged twenty-seven, whose remains were found floating in the Hudson River on the previous aiter- noon, Deceased, who it appears was a good oars- ,Man and an excellent swimmer, went out ina gingte shell boat on Sunday morning, and while rowing mn the vicinity of Croton Point was seen to lean torward and fall overboard by some partie om the shore. As the man did not rise again rowboat was at once propelled to the where the shell was found right side E sthe oars Testing in the rowlocks, Although the fiver was. dragged, cannon fired and _ ni! reerine ploued over the place where Nichola went dow: ‘Bll efforts to recover the body ved futile, un’ the aiternoon indicated, when ie wes accidentally discovered floating some distance irom the scene. ‘here were of course ex- | x= THE POSTAL CAR CONTROVERSY, Colonel Bangs” Reads Hinckley the Riot Act. Final Correspondence—Short, Sharp. and Decisive, Much has been written and said concerning the refusal of Isaac Hinckley, President of the Phila- delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Ratiroad Com- pany, to carry the United States mail between Philade:phia and Baltimore. Mr. Hinckley had de- termined to charge au additional compensation of sixty per cent to couvey the mails between the above-mentioned points or not carry them at all. Mr. Marshall, Acting Postmaster General, referred the subject to General George S, Bangs, Genera} Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, who has been in communication with Mr. Hinckley per- sonally a8 weil @8 by correspondence. The nume- rous letters which have passed between the parties interested have been published already, and yes- terday the end of the controversy waa duly reached, The length of the route over which the mail in question is transported is ninety-six miles, but the department allows Hinckley for one’hundred miles at the full rate allowed by Congress. Whether the President of the P., W. and B, R. RB, stirred up this strife to advertise his road or really meant to ob. tain the increased remuneration demanded, one thing is certain, that he could not have known shat neither che Postmaster General nor any one else had any power to pay more than the laws ot Congress permit under existing contracts, Colonel Bangs was in this city, with his assist. ant, Mr. T, N. Vail, when he concluded this intor- esting business. Had Mr. Hinckley held ont in his demand for the sixty per cent additional, or im hie threat to accept as settled that the same would be paid if the mails are delivered to his road, Coloned Bangs would have despatched the postal matters via York and Lancaster, @ route twenty-seven. miles longer, and ignored the P,, W.and B. R. R. altogether. In all probability some Congressional action wouid then have been taken next winter op this subject, if not carried into the United States courts before that time. In all this vexatious bus- mess Postmaster George W. Fairman, of Philadel- phia, has taken an active part; but the affair seems to be settled for the present, as the mails are des- patched to Washington over the old route witb the accustomed regularity. The following is the last letter addressed to Mr, Hinckley by Colone? Bangs, to which, however, he has not received, nor expects, a reply :— Post OFFICE, New Yor«, August 8, 1874. Isaac HINCKLEY, President P., W. and B, RR, Co., Phitadeiphia, Pa, :— Sin—I am in receipt of a letter from Hon. J. W. Marshall, Postmaster General, written after read- ing your telegram 0! the 1st inst., authorizing and directing me to make the following statements to you in writing:— First—That the mails will be tendered to the P., W. and B. R. R, Company at Philadelphia and Baltimore, to be transported over their road at. the usual hours, on this day (Monday), in the manner in which they have heretofore been and are now being transported. The mails are now carried over that road in postal cars, Second—That under the present laws of the United States the P., W. aud B, R, R Company may refuse to carry them in such cars, but may offer to carry them in the manner contemplatea oe provisions of the act of Gungress, approved ‘ch, 8, 1878, that ts, in @ car or apartment properly hghted and warmed, with sufficient and suitable room, Gxtures and furniture tor route agents to | accompany and distribute malis, As stated in @ previous communication to you, the present amount of car space, fixtures, “&c., furnished between Philadelphia and Baltimore, 18 the least that can be accepted as adequate’ to a proper performance of the service. ‘Thira<that under no circumstances can or will the department dirvctly or impliedly undertake or assume to pay @ reater compensation than that | fixed by law, havin, regard vo the mode of trans- | portation. I am, furthermore, directed to reqnes’ of you snenersin writing to the following inte: sogato- ries, viz :— . First—When said postal cars with contents, the same being mails and the distributing clerks, are | tendered to the P., W. & B. R. 4 Co. as described | in my first statement, will you, a8 President of tho above company, receive ad. cocvsv the same in the usual manner and at the rate ui compensation fixed by existing laws of the United States, or will you refuse them carriage between the points bamed, Baltimore and Philadelphia? the event of a reiusal on your pert to perform what 1s known as the postal car ser- vice twice dailyeach way between Philadelphia and Baltimore, wiil you, for the purpose of sup- Piying mails to the people Vegi aependent upon the following for railroad mail commmnica- tion, continue the present form of service (which is Known a8 the route agent service) between Philadelphia and Baltimore once daily each way, between Philadelphia and Port Deposi¢ twice daily each way, between Philadelphia or Wuming- ton and Crisfield, Md., once each way, and between Philadelphia or Wilmington and Wy- omipg, Del, once daily each way, at the rate of contpensation fixed vy law for that Class of ser- | vice, accepting at your pleasure the modifications | in the release of certain car space, &., submitted to you ina recent communication from tue Post- master General? In this connection I desire to inform you that if this latter service is discontinued no possibie arrangement can be made which will prevent an umediate and permanent interruption of mail communication for the vartous periods of from | twelve to seventy-two hours in deivery for the entire section of country traversed by the lines whjch you represent. ‘This letter will be hinded you by Mr, W. | Hunt, Agsistant Superintendent of the Railway Mall Service, who wul await your answers; and while Lassure you that tuia letter, written by the direction of the Postmaster General, is penned in # irienaly apirit of business as betweea man and man, lhave to respectfully inform you that the answers to the questions here given must be ted tive sod iain short, airank and simple “Yes’? or **No.' | ‘Now that this controversy is about to be ended I wish to make a few remarks reviewing briefly the situation 4s follows:~The law has been plainiy defined, and the absolute Impossibility of the Post- ; Master General to go' bean the timits, of that | law needs no demonstration; the efforts of the Postmaster General und his eMfcers to meet your arguments or grievances in a fair am open man- ner cannot be denied, and, turthermore, aside | from this controversy, the officers of the Post | Office Department have labored hard to get to- | gether information, and committees pave been formed to solicit the views of the leading ratiroad Managers on toe subject, the object being to se cure & basis ior adjusting compensation to rail- | roads, which would be fair, Just and satisfactory | to contractors. | You can but seo the bag eget o1 completing | @ matter of this nature ina month or any stipu- lated time. Congress could not have been called together tosatisiy your demands, however just they might have seemed, and it isa tedious task to educate Congfess suficientty on the peculiari- ties of this transportation question to secure we passage of a bill, In conclusion 1 would apologize for writing at such length, but inasmuch ag the matter at issue now rests between yourself and, the people, and tie people, not you orl, are tobe the sufferers, I would earnestly ask that your decision be for the speople’s interest, but in, either case final, I am, | dear sir, yours very respectfully, GEURGE 8, BANGS, General Superintendent, R. M. 9. The Controversy as it Stands—The Malls Still Moving On. Wasnineron, August 5, 1874. The postal ear controversy remains unchanged, Mr. Hinckley seeming-satisfied to allow the mails to go, under his last assurance Jo the department that a tender of the malls would be considered as an acceptance of his terma, and the department ing willing to send them, after repeated notifica- Perey Mr Hinckley tHarho more would be paid | than allowed by law. The latter places much sete aain tt Sob a ride has ry a 1 | So} @ much higher rate per mile than iphia, Will and Baltimore road, The contract on the Mantua and Gray's Ferry road, which is but three miies long, w: Made many years ago, and is nominally denomin- { | | “messenger service.” An effort Was made tov indnoe the, devertment te contrast for service over ti nnsylvania read, which ie filty-one 1d rate per mile, and then to @ conventence Of all parties, ‘at road over Mr. Hinckley’s. ee aster General refused to con- scans to +4 ‘\gemen' PIRE IN” -BIGHTH STREET. A fire broke out Iast night in the two story frame: butiding in Eighty-eignth'street, near Fourth sve- nae, that caused a damage of $5,200. The fire ex- tended to another similar stracture adjoining, Which was siso destroyed. One was ocoupied a8 ‘an Italien boaraing house. From this second house the flames swept across to the jiquor Ohristian Mang, on the corner of Fourth avet' It is tho friends Geceased was | and Kighty-eigiith aircet, taking in the three story either overpowered by she heator that he wae | brick Daloginy to ©. ¥. tenor ‘The brick hous¢ seized with heart disease, A Verdict of accidental | wus occupied by Uharies Miller as @ bakery. All drowning wag rendered ‘ Se ee pl ‘