The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1874, Page 8

8 wi be thetr passport to ail they desire. They are giannied aad intermarerrentremein bere 06 thes ve remained where, al roug! ribulations—a race. | Waere the Ouriettian mingles with as in cases, ROt 1 tt in the Jew that always | But in such numbers | OUR COSMOPOLIS, wo New York Dividing Itself Into Communities. ‘The French, Jewish, German, Irish and Colored Distriets. some swallows up the do they a! here thatthe Tenth ward is, par excellence, the Jewiah one. THR IRISH AND GRRMAN QUARTES, No very distinctive quarter can be assigned to either of these two nationalities, a» in our city tor they compose alos! Janion. ‘There 18 a story told that at a public | Inceting, When the ward Offices were to be har- | mourousiy distribu, He, chairman was @ Ger map and the orator ‘ishman, The Alderman was given to and the Assistaut Alderman to the Irish, and several minor offices were distriouted am the two nuvonalities. Wheo ali had been hai ously arranged a per- gon rose and satd that one very sinall office had been forgotien aud he moved taat it be given to au American, At this the whole meeting rose up io arwa, and the speaker was ignoimiiousl: turned out of the meeting. It ts only a story; bul | illustrates very conetsely the enormous majority N. | of the two natonaltiaed hs 28 EY the Seven. oj i teenth ward. It is also one 0! A Curious Insight Into New | teenth ward. | iis ah York Life. he Foreign and the Native Aspects | of the City. comprises & vast deal of | poverty, and, taking all in all, 1s propaily the most popalogs quarter in the city, THE COLORED QUARTER. | The colored people, of whom New York is blessed ! Bay bopastion, seem e hav epateg | the Eighth ‘ward hewr centre, and | Aistinctness—that is to say, the populations become | ayo ing” the aide of South Firth avenge, | ‘Thompson ‘paraliel streets op that side of the More separately distinct in their characteristics parallel h el ound which city, they aré gathered in large numbers, ipbabit- | perdgtisinhbalioint ay sion) | ing blocks Of these thorougifares to the total ex- | they seem to move as stars around fixed orbits. | clusion of white . Years ago a colony or | As cities grow in age they seem aiso to grow ip | | ‘The older the city the more this becomes ap- them moved up to the confines of Sixth avenue, parent, and these people, who have once adopted — and they gather in somewhat formidabie numbers up to Nineteenth street, another large coloay move away from them or to break their connec- | petng found in Thirty-third street, near Stxtn ave- 1 arow! ite keGberimos pot lorth to break through this in- | Mvorite with she colored folks as oo have bees ai | | way.” Still the requiat old quarter for these erally successful, and they returl thi 4s noi generally successiul, and they return in the | foniey thal these outside colonies startet, end | In London wus pecaliarity 1s especially notable | ij which are ag marked, and even TROES 8 f je 01 m something wonderful. most effete monarchy. Money and coior are feelings, the well to do and the ilgit colored be- | 1 very remarkably in the gradual growth of distinct Chate to tue black and the . Oceasionally you with boundary lines jast ag evident as the bound | jet colored gentioman, but m tis case you ma, to thas peculiarity to @ degree which is | vice of her parents, In this quarter there are, of | ‘unsurpassed by almost any city in the world, by | a rule the colored population ia much the most ‘3 ino tow abiding that we have, or peculiar lines of business in certain particular | Brawls & cg eA « + nega mba ter gee colored b’hoys around here all carry razors lor ‘Vain for them, Trades, like nationalities,-settic pene ° these razors never sce light. me Bemarkabie degree. It would seem as if existence crime 1o this populous 7 ated, and, no doubt, there are good reasons which a aa ee QUARTER. * existed, which Jor many years the police ™ certam distinct districts. If in nothing else it 1 | phe Sighth ward, namely, jn Spring and Prince wonderful degree. Our business is simply with | broke upon the hanging o! Jerry 5 street, Wooster, jor many years. and we may be enanied to bring the fact which — a y _ aimost “broke” nd several burgiaries committed Mogether with the account of many peculiarities | 51 Srome effort'to rid himself of tia uncomfortable EN UARTER. tacit understanding that the thieves should not do ay Bing anager | anything in the ward where they lived; but as popuiation during the past few years, particularly | siegea them day and night, and at jength they elected the Fourteenth ward as their stronguoid, gent so many of this nationality out of their own aay here, in the swnall streets :.djuining reid t Meso centres, #eem theimselves to Le unable to | OF HE west side of the Avenue, ipom Fiiteenth | tion with them, as it were. Where single eforts | me. Indeed, this avenue has n to be suci a nifled with tve cuphontous title of ‘Nigger ‘vigible but none the less arbitrary law the result *: colored people is down “in the Eighth ward, | end forced back to their original starting volt. | where we fnd a number of disiinetions and the singular distinctness of particular places a. the separation of classes amongst the peopl: two principal moters of these varieties of Of late years New York has shown this peculiarity Mevung ves 10 be infinitely supertor in 0 quarters, which may be picked out snd named | piyy soe some cream colored laty married to some ary lines of the city itself, We are, inaeed, getting | Fely on it that the wile has acted against the ad- course, Colored bandits and thieves. but taken as the establishment of particular classes of people | orderiy, inoffensive an them, and though it is a jatent suspicion that the streets, out of which ome might almost scek in | seli-defence, it ts, no doubt, a weak invention of own in certata places and stick to cach other IN @ | case of Jackson, Over @ year azo, seems to have Deen the of io fteeli depended upon remaining thus closely associ- | quarter for & very loug timo. The old thieves' quarter where the established cause this congregation of homogeneous elements éneffectaally endeavored to extirpate, was also 1D Bensible in stmpli.ying the busivess 0! life in a very rhe Whitey-litey brigade, which ir Jerry O'Brien, the {Me cosmopolitan city of New York in this article, | Murderer, ine Ata Beastaaeriors “entabiiened ip = captain sc petee ate was seriously annoyed and bee! more clearly to the reader's mind, | ee eres a, io the precinc;, termined be wou.d make one ‘Which will lend interest to the enumeration. constituency. Hitherto there had been a kind of In spite of the great increase of our French | they were the first to break through this he be- | since the close of the Franco-Prussian war, which | Were ob) to move. Since that time they have country to us, tae quarter in which they have | ery, they fon Brest numbers, and from here elected to live seems not to have expanded to any | they vel ‘ards throagit all parts of the city | great degree. It is still mainly bounded by Canal | newer: of “swag.” These are very dull times, | | and there is great complains anoug street, Amity, Broadway and South Filth avenue. theve gensiemse jan neg 4 when 3 an York re tne -para of thieves passed. It is Rot that Here the French are gathered in great nombers, 1) holice have improved at all tn emciency, but | and ip going along any of the streets comprised hae there doe@ not seem to b2 the opportunity ‘witnia the boundaries named one will be apt to | there used Y ee: aos is Gg ew ihtd ee | Dear almost as much French spo\en as our own admintsters than forme:iy, and politicalinfuence | Vernacular. ‘rhe district scems to be particularly [CAME go £0 far as It wid to save sun tO hee avoided by the Germans, no doubt, because of the It was only necessary 4o be In with the gang to | old hatred, and in particular spots of this district astranger might almost imagine himseif trans- escape scot free on everytning are gone. But, im | the meantime, these gentlemen lead a somewhat | oor life of at. dust now New York is pretty tree " vi Tak “2 * 3 | casily as possible.” “Yer,” she added, in response Ported to Montmartre or Belleville. Taken a8 ‘om We), as they have gone to ply thelr trade in | Cally ae } ih ved, Gia siaicoodlices . the country districts, as usual, at this rime of year, | tO apitying word, “ive not taken my cloties off rule, this population is by no means & go: they return m great urmbers in the tall, when | DOr slept a pight in six weeks; but I'd gladly sit Fich one, and its inhabitants are mainly the State fas are over, at which State ialfs they | UP SX. weeks — more | to, eave iny | Ite engaged in all sorta of trades pecanariy | Ge cariing’s” “ile,” an eC peor tired ply tueir industry very conscientiously. pi French in themselves. Greene and Wooster streets @re full of third rate French boarding houscs, | Where the principies of Communism appear to be | Very popular. This !s particularily the case in the lower portion of the twosteets named, where fome well koown Communists keep these boarding houses and are geoerally very well pat- roniwed. The boarders are mainly workmen Jn ya- Fious branches of sicliicd trades. Que meets aleO the kind, and insert in ti.) note the promise of a Bumerons houses where the manufacture of arte | cajsry of $15 or $18 per wees. Any quantity of ficial Nowers, leathers and gnch like is carried OD | gyoicants answer the advertisement by person or toa great extent by Freacbmeu who have been | jetier, as the cave may be and are iovariably in- | Jong domictled here. Caadies and ali sorts of sug | tuat they are wanted to canvass the city | | forme ared sweetmeats are also manulactured in great | for some trifing publication or article on commis- “WAYS THAT ARE DARK.” — | | fades | A systematic plan of swind‘ing the poor ard tn- | suspecting is carsied on im this city from year to | year by a few firms who protess to be reputable. | One of these Gris will advertis2 for a “contiden, | tial clerk,” “outside collector” or sometiting of | quantities roundavout here. Lager veer afd | gion, and, be‘ore the IXary of this” un- French wine saloons also abound. aiso French | profttatic emplosment is afforded them, are Isundries. Higher up towards Licecker and Amity mired to deposit & sum of money streets the class of French poardiug houses im- | security. Whea one 1s bold enough to ask tae < | @rm if they aid not advertise fora “cierk at a proves somewhat, and the Communistic element ie | sajary” or “a collector,” of some one to fill a re- Bot so strong and the political opinions seem tobe | ommend position, fet eee Sot oaths is | . | miormed, “Yes, we did, but Ut place has ucen pons Aihial tires Aissinyte SSAA beagpat hase | filled aiready."” In ten cases oUt of a hundred Mmmates are in many cases proprietors of some | poor men and women are found who, as a last re- | small business or other, or clerks in wholesale | Se ee nae a living he strange city, bg Aad ‘a | try their hands at peddiing or cauvassing. ey Rouses or teachers. Ove pecultarity of af this | acyostt a few dollars, go gut Into the highwaya French population will strike the observer atonce. — and uy ways ani try to secure pecepescre Or sub- ‘his 1s that not one in ten of ali these Frenchmen, , serite s, but Nod they are only following in the | , 7 | trail of otiers who have beaten the same paths in | Rowever long they may have becn im the country, | vain berore them, and aiter belo fougbed tr at ean speak English so as to oe at all Qnderstanda | times inauited, aud not unirequently kicked out of | Die. While other nationalities appear to make it arn or Tuans: Gr] hd ag hay ae ie : is in disgust, aud returning, asl we their Sheir firs: business om arriving to learn, atleast | pittance of u deposit returned to them. Some poor Moderately well, the language of the country, the canvassers fave Deen Know to call day alter day Freneh, by being 80 clanuish, associating almost | for w ape not receive their money, and many exemsively with countrymen of their own, scem to it rea Daekt, SSrHeye tan petuee ae os | attuch no importance whatever to the ‘acquire- | FERON atogetner, Te ee eubie live wou thring Ment of the English language. ‘The writer bas DES Toe a i ga pb haben known Frenchmen and Freochwomen who have One of this kind has been known to chaage the firm vame nearly adozen times within the past mn here irom ten to twenty years who did not | ‘the fortune . ow aa muny words of Buglisil. This bas Its. dis: eee rere obtipie of news pier’ | a@ivaDtages. They simply seem to care jor their soggested the subject to a reporter a day or two own prosperity abd do not iraternize either wih | the Lona or the iustitutions of tae country they @weliin, It 1s an extraordinary thing to see a | Prenchipan vote, and oniy some very pecular oc- e@asion Will take him to the balot box. They weem only to cure to accumulate enough Here to give them the opportanity to return to | Ba Belle Fravce, With sudicient Jor a comlort- | | | It is strange the police do not take care of swindiers, GOVERNOR MOSES’ TRUNK, bah | m Rogue, Always a Rogne—A | Proof That Bad Blood Will Tell. | Acurious story, says the Petersourg Index, bas _ come to our Knowledge in connection with the ju- | dividual who ls now Governor of South Carolina by Ont of Amcrica to enable them to do lt. Ag a pop- the grace of federal influence and Senegambian Blation, however, the French are sober, industri. | S8eSrages. Mr. F. Moses, Jr., was married in the pS soy blah Lo ae In spite of | year 1569, or just before the war, and, while ea ds tor each Of H Dorn of political diterences, ccine Iwaichest um | Fowte to the North on bis bridal tour, had occasion Known alvong thea. | fo pass through this city, At that time Judge THE JEWISH QUARTER. | Joynes was president of the Petersburg Railroad New York, jn all probabiity. though the compy- | Company, and Major . Hl. Bond was auditor. Well, fation hus Hever been properly has more dews in proportion to the popu than almost | It seems that Moses, on his way back home, lost one of the various tranks tuat constituted ny other ciiy tn the world, perhaps excepting rank(ori, ia Germany. They tndhere the bed jor part of his wedding paraphernalta; or Yather, of the outfit of his bride, for tt the exercive oj tat business tact and kn swiedge ‘Which seem au instinct with this wonderiul and | appeared that the contents of the missing receptacle consisted mauly of Mrs, Moses’ ape n parcl, Groat wud continaed fuss was made on the subject, and one would have thought from the abie mamicnance. So true is this that out of one hundred Frenchmen were you Wi) cercatoly find ntety-nine whe, on being questioned, wiil ac knowleige that their dream 1s a final return to their own country alter they have made enough absence of that bigotry and ub. r ise theta, 1 not completely, In part, even to this day, im some European hations. This anxiety e: , i ne ¥ of Mowes to get the trunk back that it con- 3 certainly to our advantsze, because @ tained elther bank notes of large deneminations More thrity, orderly and enriching = popu Or love letters, or something else of rare ant ex- Gon it would bo impossible toh Ceptional value. However, though every effort dows are to be found Mtsseuinated tn all quar of the city, but their one quarter par exceilenc and where they are to be found in extra rdiaary numbers, is in that district of the city bounded by Canal, Bowery, Houston aod the intervening east side streets. Here almost everything you see seems to have something Jewish atoutit., The butchers? stops have nearly all of them those mystic Hebraic signs Which inforia the passer by that therein oeat Je killed after tire ortvodox Jewish fashion. To be wure, the district named ts not that waich com- rises the wealthy part of our Jewish population, | jut to a great extent the money 1s originally Made here by them which enables them gradually Was made to recover the lost property, the trunk still continued to turn tp missing, notwitustand- tng ali tnquirtes and all searches ‘after it. Finauy Moses rendered @ statement of its contents as re- Membered, aud With if a Claim for compensation anionnt of #559, The estimate was regarved as excessive, but, to avoid any appearance of in- fictiog injury on @ passenger lor which 1edress Was denied tim, the bill Was approved by the president, and duiy paid by the treasurer of the cowpany. Not jong after, in the quietest way in the world, the trank turued up, and was tonnd to have sullerea@ no damage Whatever in the course Of its to rise to riches, when they generally move up long wanderimgs. Mr. Mi a town to wealtuler neignvornoode. In this district with pr omaptly a nd given #0 CNlerstana tent Fe existed once the old Jowish cemetery, which tue could now return the money and get his trunk arch of the population, however, swallowed up — back, with its contents uninjured and iniect. Mr. cars ufo. Mauy O! the Jews of thig quarterare ab- Moses replied (st since he bad received the Ul and ut asubsistence by ail Manney money and duplicated as iar as desirabie the ar- oue whole siveet emg occupied § ficles lost he rat concinded that he woold not almost exclusively by pigeom Janciers, They live retarn the money, and that the company was wei- im tenement he SMAlaiy, and Humbders ofthese | come to keep the trunk. The company kept ibe are occupied execiusively by members of this race. | wamk and opencd it. In pout of language there is a great contrasl bo | ‘The contelits were found to be laces, rinvons and the French popuiation before spoken of While thé nameless and number little ornamen:s of a they ali know German, which, in the mato, is their | woman's wardsabe, for which $500 was regarded Rative language, they never nogiect the language asa Very exorbitunt estimate. So the company O! the country, and all of them know it more or | determined not to seli the articles, as they evi- fess well. Their go-aheadism ts {iustrated in this, | dently would notfetch one-fourth of the sum given _s 4s, Indeed, almost useless to refer to thelr yn penalty jor tiem, and Mr. Moses was in im gay ness Cipacities, jor these are proverbial, formed that the trank was on baud, and that the ‘aken as @ rule, Jews are not employés, They company hoped he would relieve them ofa piece zeem in ail cases to piefer some liste business Of of property worthless to everybody cxcept bis | their own, however smati, and carry it along by | Ww \ hook or by cro.k watit graduatiy they rise to com- tency aad often to riches. Aud their contrast ith the French is ee ‘The offer thus was left open, and in the mean- time the War began. When the murket vaine of | that, while the wt laces, ribbons and other female doings and decora- fer sign for their natrve country, the tions of that kind had gone up about fourfold, and dows settie down here with tne ‘deter- the value of paper money had gone down on avout mination to make this their iand of | the same proportion, Mr. Mose: ears on the 3 opp scebo pasta, closes with the Li & win pend regains his trunk with its prett, ‘el 1G pa, i Sent ena magnidcence they Omy induige the taste | Lockitte VSG ae OUnicderdee wrouert wn WM proportion to their means, alWays keeping their | It was Gye O14 the e7cdual accuimMiatom Of moucy, Which | early aay adoption for good and forever. It ia pecullerity Sf the people that wille they like persoual adore. a sbarp trick aud gave evidence at that | of the talents lor dishonesty which were | | drom Sigmarengen, 1n Prussia. | more fortunate, obtained employment as a Washer- | Woman, | t.e excursion. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. AUGUST 21, 1874—WITH ste ct nn ee pe ee eee 1 ame | to maxe tne name tl of Moses the synonym of infamy ‘this 18 an o'er true tale, itleman who knew the he w hate and was given us conntry over. Ce facta aa reported. and full particulars could have been furnisbed, but it a to nar. | Tate the simple to afford particulars ir story aud ite truth Is doubled, OVER THE WATERS. A Thousand Babies on the Wing—The | Seventh Exeursion of Sick Children Yesterday—Scenes on Board the Float- | ing Hospital—Fresh Atr, Pood, Flowers | and Music for Nearly Fifteen Hundred | Unfoitunates. In an interview with the Rey. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, on Tueatay evening, that gentleman informed. the writer that froin the number of ticket: called for he expected a thou- Sand persons on board the Floating Hospital on the morrow. There Was Naturally, then, some little surprise, yesterday, when an actual count reveale:) the presence of -1,478 personson the barge, while many had to be left at each of the landimgs. The selection of tnose taken was made by Doctors Kennedy, Thoms and Brush, on the plers, those having dispensary tickets being passed over the gemg Plank without examination. The upper deek- of the large barge New Baltimore, now im use, was soon densely thronged, and an inspection by the physiclana } gave the folowing figures, which are very nearly, Wf not abselutely, correct:—Euure number on board, 1,478, of whom 431 were mothers or others having children in charge, 380 nursellnga and 667 between the ages of two and eight yeara, cripples and aged invalids. There were'203 cases ef cholera | infantum, 76 cases of marasmus (consumption of | the bowels) aud 640 cases of debility resuiung | from impure air and want of proper nourishment. | | There were no cases of contazious discases, but the usual percentuge of crippled and delormed | persons on board, BREABPAST WAS ANNOUNCED at ten o'clock A, M., when the barge left the pier at the foot of Twenty-third strect. The tables were literally !oaded with simple fare, aud for two | hours aad a half the hungry mothers and oider children crowded around them. There were con- | sumed at this meal 1 barrel of botled rice, 240 | quarts of milk, 140 loaves Of bread, 30 pounds | of butter and 14 pounds of tea, Ladies who were driven to the barge in their own carriages and were banded onboard by liveried servants were the waitresses at the tabics, and right royally did they play their impromptu parts. Once in a while some especially hungry woman, who felt that she | knew her rights and was bound to assert them, caused no little merriment, One such turned with @ loity air to the wile of a promincat lawyer ofthis city—a lady who comes every morning from her far away country seat in New Jersey to work a3 a volunteer all day apon the lower deck of the Floating Hoapital—anq, after a critical examiua- tion of the lady’s person and attire, said:—‘Yer well patd for waitin’ on us, Vii be bound;” then, upon second thought, and with atms akimoo, she added :—“Sure now, I’d like to be knowiu’ what se A volley of merry laughter was evoked by this sally, under cover Of which the amateur wait- Tess revired, While her offended whitom mistress took her seat, flushed with the proud consciousness of baving “properly put down” a stylish servant. THE SCENE ON THE UPPKR DRC was calculated 10 inspire feelings of tenderness and pity, Nearly 400 infants, with leaden hued taces and sunken, weary cyes, were lying in the arms of their mothers or siceping on their mothers’ knees. poor women, Worn out by | constant watching, had wrapped their littie ones 1p shawls and laid them # their icet. Several it tle negro children were lying among the others, sick nearly unto death. One poor woman he!aip her arms her thrrd end only remaining child, dying Irom marastous. She brougiut her into the | cabin of the barge and sat gazing steadiasuy ind tenderly into the baby’s wazted face. In reply to a question Oi the Kindty stewardess she sil, her voice cuoxing her, “I thougit Just now sie was dying in my arms and I wanted io sit down hero Where no one would see me and jet her die as | ' i heart-wrung mother gave way to her grief and her tears feil slently and swiitly on the dress of her chud, Later, under the uninterrupted attention of Dr. Brush, the baby revived a itttle, opened 1t8 eyes and moved its hitherto s*ifening limbs, and the mother kiseed tt and talked to-at an over it anew. A MALE NURSE POR A SICK INFANT. Adittie apart from the others rat a poor German, neatly dressed; and “Roldiog in hisarms a crying, struggling baby... Hall a dozen coarse cotton hand- kerchiefs pet ont irom Ms coat pocket, and he was wiping the perspiration irom lus brow with tiie seventh. A few wouien looked on, laughing, &@pd @ great maby cast pitylpg glaoces toward him, The writer sat down and interviewed him. He cou!d not speak Enezltsh and told his story in German, He was & workman, skil’ed in the making of the finer kinds of wall er and wad le had been out | of employment for six moncts, had searched for work @ a Jaborer and could find none. His wife, ana she was at home, lard at work at the | tub, while he came out, carrsing the sick vaby, oa j NUMBERLESS OTHER 8AD CASES were on boerd. feveral Let oc operations were | erformed by Dr. Thoms, and the full medical stan ad day of uousually hard labor, At noou a secret Jeaked out which gave great Satisiaction to the “lousehold” of the barge, as the reguiar attendants may, perhaps, be desig- Dated without any startiing impropriety. One or the volunteer waitresses, hy some stroke of gooa fortune, was born heir to a farm of nearly 400 acres, within a distance of six milles irom the City Hal. She bos been celebrated in the work of St. John’s Guild :as that “Mary, who was first in every good work and deed,” and she despatched @ message to her farm- keeper to bring 4 quantiiy of tomatoes, fresh from the vine, for use on the Wioating Hospital yester- | day. The zealous farm wife, with an enthusiasin | for her mistress’ work that is worthy of the Warmest commendation, sent a hamper of dell. | cacies, inciuding a g0941y supply 01 roast fowis and a basket of Eriu’s chotcest fruit. \ At this time it was announced that Adipiral | Rowan had tendered to Mr. Wiswail the services of tie band from oa board the receiving sbip Ver- mont, a8 volunteers to Juraish the wusie for the excursion to-day. DINNER WAS SERVED at two o’clock, and at that meal food disappeared With a velocity greater than thet Of @ cannon Dall, At this mea! 330 pounds 0: beet, 210 quarts of milk, sixty waves of bread, @ large quantity of crackers, , twebty-six pounds of batter aud sixteen pounds ot tea were consumed, The sail, which extsnded from near Spuyten Dayvil creek-to a point duwn the Bay below the Narrows, wae one of the most pleasant of the sé- | ries, The barge was greeted by salutes from the poor children, enjoying a trip under the mange. meat of Colonel George T. Williams, and by the firing of a gun from the yacat Raibier im the Bay, as Well as by the greeting of steam whistles and the waving of haudherchiels from all passing steamers. Destitute Sick Chitdren’s Relicf Fand. ‘The following additional contributions have been received by the Rey. Atvab Wiswall, Master of st. John’s Guild, and handed to Heary ©. De Witt, Almoner:— THROUGH AUGUST BELMONT. Joseph Larocque feserees, s+ $100 00 IHROVEH C. 7 FRG Bh, ORVIG 6. «65000040500. .codscccecees+ + nntp 10 0 THROCEH GYO} J. G, Adams,..... * 10 00 rs.T He Hoagland $1000 BR eae Lae For tive’ sick’ ‘aiid 1 H. Williams. 5 00 Eawin A. Abb’ 30 5) U6) 10 Grand total... ces ereeeee GM SZ 6D ‘To-day the ninth excursion takes place, Jeaving piers at foot of West Teuti street at eight ‘A. M5 Market street, East River, at nine A. M., and Twenty-third street, East River, at hal-past nine Contributions to the fund are earnestly soncited atonce, and tnay be sent tothe HeRALy ovice, Mayor Havemeyer, City liail; Arnold, Constable & a., No, 655 Broad D. Appleton & Cou NO, 651 | Broadway; August belmont . , No. 19 Nassau street; Howiand & Aspinwall, No, 54 Sonth street; Harper & Brothers, No, 351 Pearl street; Jackson , Schultz, No. 63 Clim Street; filany & Co, NO. 13 Union square, or Rev, Aivah Wiswall, Master of St, Jobu's Guid, No. 52 Varick street. THE LEB MONUMENT, {From the Richmond Enquirer.) Mr. Edward V. Valentine, tue Richmond sculp- tor, bas just returned from a visit to the Vermont quarries, where he selected and has hadsent to this city a very large and splendid piece of snow | White marble, from watch he wiil fashion bis cele- | brated recumbent figure of General Robert E. Lee (now in plaster), intended for the tomb of that renowned Conjederate leader and hero at Lexi: ton, Va. As a work of art tes of Mc. Valentine's has been spoken of in terms of highest praise. When it shail be pat in all-enduring marble it will, indeed, be worthy of his tame, Mr. Valentine brought with him a number ot skilled workmen, bs uinmediately commence to develop the | Show was formed at that time, and the actions as | calamity was about to befal bim. His actions were | ever crossed the East River, | blood endeavored to cut her taroat with a case- | Were numerous ane fatal. THE BROOKLYN MURDER, Mere Clews te a Horrible Crime—Arrests and Suspicions—Italiaus and Counter- feiters Involved. The detectives hi some further clews whieh may aid themin unravelling the mystery sur- rounding the assaséina tion of the Italian, Salvadore ‘Torrina,ana the counterieiting business with which he was connected, but they fear te divuige them | at this stage of tne case, les: the ends of justiee may be defeated. Detectives Polk and Corwin Were at work yesterday collecting evidence and getting some of the letters found in tho counter- fetters den in Franklin avenue transiated. It may be ascertained through these who the parties are that were connected with the gang, ond if the evidence may not be sufficient to show their com: plicity in the horribie crime, they can, at least, be | convicted of counterieiting, One man has been found whose hands are be- Heved to be stained with Torrina’s blood, and an- other, who, if not directly implicated in the crime, is fully cognizant of all the facts concerning tt. Yhe former is Francisco San Fillpo, and the latter is Fortunato Mandalo. If the latter would reveal what facts he is in possession of it woutd proba- bly complete the links in the chain of evidence which are at present wanting. Some inducements have been held out to bim, but all to no purpose. | He persists in his reticence, fearing tiat bis con- nection with these notortous scoundrels may in- volve him so deeply that he will share the same fate as themselves, or that the authori- ties, being unable to make anything out of bim will not allow him Mis liverty again. That he knows ali about the trouble which re- sulted in the murder of this Torrina there seems to be no doubt; for it has ‘been definitely agcertamed that he’ was one of the men who called at the tiouse of Mrs. St. George, No. 66 Mon- roe street, New York, and had an interview with the murdered man at threo o'clock on the alter- | noon of the murder. They had au excited conver-. sation; but Mrs, St. George could not te what ft was all about, as she could not understand their language. THE PLOT to put Torrina out ofthe way some revelations Weil as the remarks of Torrina would seem to indi- cate that he had a conviction that some terrible such as to attract Mrs. St. tion, and he appeared as desirous of giving her some information m regard to bis movements. He never mentioned before vhat he hud any business io preokiya, or that he ut on this occasion, after the wterview and witle standing, as if meditating 04 to the course he snould pursue, be reinarked, “I am going to Brookiyu. I have great business trouble, St. George—great deal of busivess trouble.” He did not say when she might expect tis retarn; but some uvaccountable im- pulse isopelied him to step to the mantei and put on her wedding ring, on which was engraved ber initiale, “M. St. G.” He bad never taken her rs betore, and when he put it on his finger he calle her atrention to i. By ths ring, it will be remembered, nis body was identified. Mrs, St. George knew Mandalo, having seen him at the bouse at diflereat times, and she read- ily recornized him. There was & maa came to the hoose in bis company on the day of the murder whom she did not know, ana whenste asked Tor- tloa who the stranger was, he replied that it was Russo's 6:ster’s busband,, Who he-is,or what con- nection he may have with the. cage Ras Rot trans- pired, a3 be has not been arrested. Yesterday the prisoner Fun was taken to the Police Headquarters, when he wes questioned by interpreters, but he could mot be induced to say A eye atten- anythiug. He kept his head down and his eyes on the flvor When the = officers were about to bring him out they threw his limen coat to him to pat on, but for some rea- son he pushed # away and went out in his shirt sleeves. His manner at Headquarters was that of @ mau conscious of his guilt and in dread of some punishment. When arrested he was stripped and @ searen made for wounds, bul pot even & scratch could be discovered. Yesierday some parties who Saw him at Police Headquarters noticed SOME SPOTS O! BLOOD ON HIS SHIRT, and omnes to the conclusion that it was Tor- rica’ This blood, however, was from the vermin in the ceils in which he was placed, for when he. was arrested wis Haen was rfestiy clean, aid tne most careful scrutiny failed to detect aspot o! blood on the clothing he had oa. If he js not one of tne actual assassius of ‘Torrina, the evidences slows that he 1s a prominent Member of the gang of countericiters, for Mry. Burns has identities him as the one who hired her house at No. 68 Franklin avenue, and under the | Bame of Fred Adaios. Yesterday afternoon he Was removed to the King’s County Jail, by order | of Coroner Whitenill. The police are upon the heels of the third party concerned in the | tragedy and counterfeiting operations, and when arrested they fecl assured that the mystery sur- | rounding this case wi'l be cleared up, The Flush. ing avenue saloon Keeper, it ts said, has tdentified | the picture of Corameuti in the Ko2ues’ Gu llery a8 one of the parties who was tn bis place with the deceased aod partook of some refreshments with him on the night of the murder; but the police think he is inistaken. He 1s Known, however, to have been engaged in the counterieiting business in Gold street beore the war, aud it may possibiy be that he has been engaged with the gang who occupied the ttle rouse on Frauklin avenue. THE OANADIAN MURDER, The telegraph the other day zecorded a bratal | murder ut Huugeriord, Ont., and the arrest and | coatession ol the murderer. The Betleville Ontario | gives the following particuiars:— This aiternoon we learned the brief particulars | of @ horrible crime—the murder of Mrs. Francia | Mereau by her husband’s brother, Charles Mereuu, | it is one Of the most revolting perpetrated in the | county, and tbe event, o8 may be expected, has created an unprecedented excitement in the vi- cinity 10 which it has occurred. We are uvable tv give the particulars in detail jo this iesue; but as pear as we can gather irom prevailing reports they are briefly these :—On Sun- | day afternoon Charics Mereau, who had tor some | time past been ltving with is brother, proceeded | to the house of his relative and tn an'angry man- ner demanded his dinver. His brother's little daughter awoke her mother from a (proba- biy soe was indi d) amd the repast was pre- pared for him, hat followed we cauuot exactly ascertuin, bat it seeuis a quarrel ensued, in the course Oo! Which the viilain shot the poor woman several times avout the nead and neck, and when beurly exhausted from hor wounds aod the loas of @ o knile, The scuMe must have been fearful. The and furniture are Lesmeared with blood, pools of hich are also outside the house, leadiag to the Inference that the victiin of so much batcery most have attempted to escape trom her murderer but was intercepted, Mra. Mereau linzered in @ very painful and critical Condition until twilight last Cveaing, whea death relieved her of her sufferings. The wounds. floor No cause can be assigned for the committal of so grave an offence. Mr:. Meréau is alleged to have glivays treated her brother-tn-law kindly and in a | spirit of the utmost friendliness, and there.ore the Wilial aasauit upon ner lite 1s regarded as fendig and brutal. The Ceccaved’s husband was absen trom bome at the time of the murder, “A REAL HERO, A Man Who Chasged Upon His Mother= in-Law’s Affections and Eleped With | Her. {From the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, Angust 17.) On Saturday morning Detective William F. Knox arrested at the Virginia House, on Grace street, between Eighth and Ninth stroets, two fugitive jovers from Portsmouth, known hore as “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yore,” but really named Mr. Heory Yore and Mrs. Saran Wood. They are natives of the State o1 North Carolina, but for a good while lived in Portsmouth. Yore married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wood, and lived with her unti about three months ago, when she died m child-bed. Since that time some sort of atwacbment was formed between tue widowed son- in-law and the bereaved mother. On Monday last they reachea the determination to elope irom the residence ot Nr. Wood, and, in a private convey- ance obtained jor the purpose, Yore, Mra, Wi Wood and her son (six or seven years of age) rode irom Portsmouth to Suiloik. At the latter place they left the vehicle and took passage on the cars for this city, On Toesday pd applied atthe Virgioia Mouse for accommodations, and were furmsbed with arcom. Yore stated to the gentiemen about the hoase that he came here to seek work, and said he had no trade, but intended Lo Obtain employment as a@ laborer if he could get rt, Hs eForis were unavailing, and he had about made up his mind to leave Richmond when he, with his companion and her child, Were taken lato custody. A short time before the artival of Detective Knox, Mrs, Wood, alias Mrs. Yore, was seated in the hall in conversation with the father of the landlady, and was quite communicative to him. In the course of bor taik, the rem: md that her | ‘first husband’? (meaning Wood) was @ worthless | sort Of fellow, and killed himself drinking; bat her “second bushand’ (meaning ner odbsi4) Yore) wasa perfectly sober man, and a mighty | good ieflow, and she had never seen him intoxi- cated but twoor three a dd then it was at Ouristmas, When spe though! ich things not so very bad, She seemed to have & tender feeling for — Yoro, and displayed agood deal of genuine artec- tion for her little boy. At the first station house Yore confessed that the woman Was his mother-in-law and the boy his brother-in-law, and gave as the reason why they fled from Portsmouth together that Mr. Wood treated Mrs, Wood very badiy, and he could not bear to see it done, and so resolved to remove her to this city, where he thought she would leada more peaceable and pleasant life. However, s brought aay a consideray!c amount of Mr. Wood's SUPPLEMENT. - | the Hon. Mary Dorothea Paimer, secoud daughter nd about $7v or $80 Of it 18 currency anc } $8 or $Y in coin were found in possession of ¥ore, and Mrs. Wood comessed that she bad given him @ portion of it. Yore is thirty-iour years of age, was bred @ farmer, ia quite a good looking man, and has evidently been accustomed to @ Ite of ae- Vere labor, Mra. Woud ia inirty-nive years Bt ae. Ond though not decidedly hancsoine Is Dot. ali gether uoattr ve, Son-iu-law, brother-in-law aud mother-in-law were con/iued at the First sta- tion house Saturday night and will be brought be. fore Police Justice White for exainination this morning, and by that time it is mvt uulikely the injured husbaud Will be here. WEDDINGS IN HIGH LIFF. (a Marriage of Earl Waldegrave Hon. Mary D. Paimer. {London Morning Post, August 6.) The marriage of Karl Walderrave aud bts cousin, of Lord aud Lady Seloorne, took place at St, Mat- thew's churca, Biackmore, near Petersicid on August 5. ‘The wedding party assembled at te church shortly alter balf-past eleven, and among the friends invited by the parents of the bride to be present were the Marquis aud Marchioness of | Hertford, the Marguis and Marcnioiess of Salle bury, tae Cauntess of Kothes and itou. G. Walde- vave Leste, Viscountesa Chewson ani Hoo, i. N. Waldegrave, Viscount Viscountess Cardwell, Hon, Mrs, Claughton, Ho». Mr, Walde- grave and Mr, and Miss Waldegrave, tle Rev. W. and Lady Maria Brodie, the Right Hon. sir George and Lady Grey, fon. R. Ashburnhato, Hon. Lady Gordon and the Kigut Hon. Montagu Bernard. The bride arrived at the chureh shortly after the ) our above mentioned, and, leaning oo the arm of | her father, passed up the aisle, while the hymn | “The Voice ‘that Breatued O'er Eden’ was sung. Eight bridesmaids were tm attendance, ‘Ihe orice Wore a dress of white satin, richly triamed with Brusseis lace flounces, and aver a wreath of blossoms und stephanotis (real flowers) a russole lace veil. ‘he ornaments were @ ri neckiace, earrings and braceict. The Right W. the Lord Bishop of Rochester officiated at the solemnity. fhe marriage took plaice at tle chancel eteps, aad ag the Kariand his youug bride walked to the altar Psalm cxxvill. was chanted. The bride wea given away by her father, and the bridegroom Was aitended by his brother, the Hon. Henry Noel Waldegrave, ag best man. At the couciusion of the ceremony, and the marriage register having O signed, the bride and bridegroom, foliowe: thetr friends, qaitted the church, The seiool children tIined the fe a aud as the bride- groom and young bride Walked away they strewed ely Mowith tiowers. ‘The pridal presents are said to have been very Dumerogs ant costly. Marriage of Captain Egerten Leigh and Lady Elizabeth White. {London Morning Post, August 6.) Captain Egerton Leigh, eldest son of Colonel Egerton Leigh, M. P., of Jodrell Hall and High Leigh, Cheshire, and Lady Elizapeth Gore White, eldest daughter of the Ear! of Bantry, were mar- ried on August 5, at St. George’s churc:, Hanover Square. The ceremony was performed by the Rey. Godfrey Obaries Smith, rector of St. Vlan’s, and chapl@in to the Earl of Buntry. The bride was ven away by her futher. The bride was attired jn adress of white satin, trimmed with antique Spanish gutpure lace, and a chatelaine of step- henows, inyrtie and orange blossom, with tulle Fell, fastened with Giamond stars, the. gift f her father, and diamond ndant, the and lace, over pale ; headdress cot of tulle, bide aigrette, marabout feathers an wells. Kach young lady wore o large gold locket with ratsed” monogram, the gift of the bridegroom. drove to No. 38 {eh des square, where the Bari aod Countess Of Lowndes square, wi Bantry received the ioilowing relatives ana friends :—Coloneland Mrs. Egerton Leigh, Baroness Burdett Coutts and Mrs, Brown, Sir Robert and Lady Cunliffe, Jane Duchess of Mariborough, Sir Arthur and Lady Olive Guinness, Coloneiand Hon, Mrs, Long and Misses Long, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Lord Edward be my Charchill, Earl-of Powis, Viscount Hawarden, Viscount Berehaven, Rev. L. and Mrs,,.Burton, Miss Egerton Leign, Countess of Dovoughmore. The bride and bride- groom left for Southampton en route tor the Con= tment, ‘The presents were very numerous, CITY TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the following disburse- ments aud receip!s of the treasary yesterday :— DISBURSEMENTS. No. of Warrants Amount. Claims 2 Gah Payroll 18,073 Total. 4 ng $54,613. RKCEIPTS. From arrears of taxes, asyesrments and interest... $11,222 From coliection of assessments and interest > 23,73 From market rents and fee: 413 Frou water rents 1,078 n licenses, Ma ict Hrom permite Mayors ofle zy rom warer permits (to tap pipes) FEU Tees'and tes, District oes From sewer permits, a S00 From sites vitrified stone pipe. 1065 From water purveyor (materi: 73 From vault permis, ar 10 Total... s+ eosspeeese G4L,016 BIEAM ON TAE OITY RAILROADS, The Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company of our sister city, Brovklyn, has been authorized to use steam in place of horses for street travel for a dis- tance of four miles north from East New York. It i understood to b2 the mtention of the company to apply the authorized steam power by means of dummy engines or fre'ess locomotives patented by THE COURTS, Tracing a Stolen Certificate of Bank Shares—HMysterious Complications. RECOVERIZS IN SBIZURE SUITS. A Further Fight Against Lot- tery Policy Dealers. Raiding on Lomppost Let« ter Boxes. In 1871. the University or th> City of Now York contested @& assessment of $1,000 for supposed benefit by the extension of Church street, where- upon the city soid the Untverstty buildings to Mr. Williaty B. Altken for twenty years. The trustees of the University were not disposed, however, to acquiesce in this summary disposition of theit property, and, on motion of their counsel, Mr. Eliot Sandiord, Jadge Donohue, in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday granted a perpetual in- jaction restricting the Mayor from executing the | lease. This victory for the University over the city maxes an action agatust the latter by Mr. Aitken to recover his purcbase money the next move in order. Wiliiam Mullen, of the ship Knickerbocker, yesterday made a complaint against the master ol the veasel, Captain Kembie, for cruel treatment. The Captain was arrested and brought before United States Commissioner Stillwell, who beld htm in $3,900 bail to answer, Mullen alleges thay he was tied up for forty-eight hours by the bands and suffered great agony. Captain Kemble states that complainant was nota seaman, but a stow- away, and had not signed the articles. If the late ter statement is correct the Commissioner has no jurisdiction 10 the case. BURTON'S BANK SHARES, ~The dwelling of Oscar Burton, at Burlington, Vt., ‘was robb2d on the 3a of June iast, and among tne property alleged to have been stolen was a ceriifi- cate for twenty-five shares of Hariem Vank stock, worth $100 per. share. The certificate was in- dorsed by Mr. Burton, On inguiry at the bank Mr. Burton ascertaised that the certificate had been surrendered bya man giving his name ag Thomas Caseity, Who, had a ‘now certificate made out in his own name. Subsequent invetigation, it is said, developed the fact that on the 23d or July Cassidy and a man nainod Sccia applied to John C. Qhew, @ bruker of this city, to negotiate tho cer- tificate, who in turn gpplicd toa Mr. Dever. Tue last named party made inquiries at the bank and ascertained that the certificate was entered m) Cassidy's’ name, Thereupon Mr. Cuew ad- vanced money on it, borrowing money ior the pur- poae from Mr, Joun E. Ripley, and as Mr. Ripley advanced the money, desiring the certificate to be transferred to bis name. Meantime Mr. Chew was negottating for 4 purchase of the certificate. Dar- ing this time Mr. Burton, who was Stiil actively at work trylng to trace out the certificate, applied to Mr. Whipple, a lawyer of his acquaintance, if he had any stocks to sel. Mr. Whipple mentioned this particular. Harlem Bank cortificate and Mr. Burton promised to parciase the same and pay 9234 cent, As soon as Mr. Dever handed ihe certificate to Mr. euippie and the latter handed 3 to My. Borton, expecting to receive a check im ayment, Mr. Barton at once put the certificate fr MMS pPOCkGt aud caused the arresp of Wruppie. Doxey Qnd Sects. Subsequently Mr. Whipple was. discharged by a police mazisirate and the other two ; beld for examination. Dever and Secia were yes Paes brought before Judze Donohue, in Supreme Court,’ Chambers, up6n writs of haves corpus and cértiorarl procured by thetr respective counsel, George E. King ond Levi S. Chatfle!d. ‘There was | quite an extended argument in the case. On benall | Ofthe aceused 1 Was insisted that there wus no | evidence against them and nothing wiatever to sbow tho commissiGu of any crime on their part. | On the contrary, Mr. Dana, of the District Attor~ | ney’s office, contended the facts were suiticient ta | Warrant the holting of the prisoners. He said | that they were in complicity with Cussidy, who is | now in Ludiow Street Jail uuder commituies | United States Commissiouer Osvorh Oa suspicion of being in complicity with Van Eeten, the jorger, | who recently committed suicide in the Hudson County Jail, the basis. of tae susptcion belag docu- ments found in Van Eeten’s trunk, The argument will be resamed this morning. | PERCENTAGZS IN CUSTOMS SUITS. In the United, States District Court Judge Blatchford yesterday rendered aa important de- | cision, which settles, for the present, a question a3 the Ammonia and Thcermo-specific Propelling Company, of New Urieans, A dozen or two of these ongiaes are said to be in use in New Orleans, aud the Number isto be increased, In Chicago some of theta have been put to use. The {all charge of steam required Is two hundred | ange and one charge will be sufficient ona level tratk worun the engine twenty mil locomotive can be easily changed in 2'4 minutes, and only one per- son is required to manage tt. Stoppages can ve made every 1Wo or toree biocks with ease. One or two Cars to each locomotive willbe the average, Last March the Common Conneil of th’s city adopted an ordinance permitting the use of steam on any of our city raiiroads, and it 1s qatte probabie, it the Brooklyn experiment should prove a success, it | Will lead to the atoption of suci a system of locom- otioa here. Some capitalists are understood to think favorably of the plan. INMATES AT WARD'S ISLAND, The number of inmates at Ward's Island the present season is far less than was reported in the institution at thts time last year. The report of the Superintendent yesterday shows that 218 men, 716 women and 76 children are cared for in the hospital. Of the Insane there are 94 men, 94 women and one child cared for. and ta the Reiuge department are 35 males nod 35 jemales, aud in the Nursery 16 women and 78 children. ‘The total number of Persons now cared for on the tsland tg 763, The present statement suowsa & marked ¢ creuse. Over 3,000 persons have at d.flercnt fi Tigds been cared for in the institutions. SPANGLES AND SAWDUST. infatuation and Fall of Two Glovers- ville Dameeis—‘The Way of the Transgressor is Hard”=—A Circus Por- formance Not in the Bills, [From the Albany Times.} ‘Tuis morning another example was given of the manner in winch silly young girls are sometimes injatuated by the glitter and tinsel surrounding a oircus life. A lew days since the Great Eastern Circus, in its peregrinations about the country, called at the village Of Gloversville, Fulton county, and two performances were given there, At the evenin erformances two girls, named Mary Smith au ete Reid, young daughters of two o: the most re- Spectaye aud Wealthy families of: the village, visited the show and became in atuated with two ot the persons connected with it, The girls found @ means of communicating with the objects of their allections, and glittering and romantic des- criptions of the lie and pleasures of canvas tented people were given to them, instead of the hardships the performers really have to undergo, many of them being up sometimes twenty and even more hours out of twenty-four, being out in all Kinds of weather, rain ‘or shine; partaking by | baci at tines of bad and scanty fare; being | thrown Into all kinds of society, suffering, maylap, from heat and cold and wilh sickness among | strangers—tor the concern cannot stop, it must go | on to the next and next town—and to be leit to die and to be piuced in a pauper’s grave. but, hke many before them and perhaps many to come, tiey fe!l. The circus departed from Gloversville for other places, followed in a few days by the girls, and yesterday it came to this city. With it came the girls. About two o'clock this morning the girl Reid entered the Adams House, kept ‘by 8 V. R. Brayton, at No, 684 Broadway, with one of tne men in question, Who, she suid, was her husband, and cnguged a ved, They were accommodated, and in a mo- ments the girl Smith, accompanied by another man, entered, said sho was irom the Elariage House, wauted to seo her sister, and acked for at- other bed, This pair Was also accommodated. A third person, whom it is alleged ts also connec! with the circus, was observed by Mr. Brarton at tempting to clandestinely get to the rooms of the pas ics. Mr. Brayton ‘smelled a mice,” ejected ae person from the house and tis morning, as the men deciared they were not married to the iris, he allowed them to depart, and arresting he girls took them belore Justice Clute on the charge of being common prostitutes, After an examination the Justice committed them to jail for a turther examination, whieh will take place to worrow mornin, is done to give time to the relatives of the girls to come to this city aud Teciaim them. Ti they do not ie girls will prob ably be semt to the penitentiary for one year, to the riglt of the United States District attorney nd Clerk of the District Court of this district im | the matter of fees on suits brought under Cus- | tom Houses seizures. The points on which the | suit was brought ana decision rendered are ag | foliow3:—The sum of $444 37 is in the registry of the Court as tie gross proceeds of an execution issued against stiputators for the value of the | Property seized and proceeded against, which was | seized and condemned as forfeited for a violation | Of tie laws reluting to the revenue from customs duties, The District Attoruey presents for tax- | ation an attowance claimed by him to be payable to pim out of such proceeds, amounung | to $8 88, belng two per cent on the amountof such proceeds. ‘The clork presents for taxation a bill of costs in this suit, oue tein OF Whi is the sum of $4 44, bemg one per cent on the amount of | such proceeds, Cluidied by hin to be payable to him a8 a fee for--receivmg, keeping and paying | out the amount of such proceeds, Questions are now raisedts to whettrer sucn two items are how taxable in view Of the provisions of the act of Sune 22, 1974. ee ) . In his opinion Judge Biatchford decides that the | United states District ACrornoy ts still eaticied to his Percontage of two per ceut and tue clerk of the District.Court to ome per cent on all moneys recovered in Custom Mouse service suits com- | enced tu this district, ‘The Judge aiso folds tiat The lan of 1874 abotishing mojetic’s ayd o'her nu- metus fees docs not inferiere with the allowance of tuispercentage, which is given tp leu of all costs aud crarges to Witch those officials would be otherwise entitied, * A LOTTERY POLICY GAME. Frank Farrell and Charies Witliama were ar. { | rested on the 15th imet. by Officer Brookline, who | made accusation that ho found them “in charge’? of No. 665 Washington street, in which were un- Jawfatly dold littery tickets, The prisoners were committed by Jastice Morgan under the Lottery act, enacting that “any person selling lottery pol- icy cards, papers or documents “iu the nature of a bet: or wager or insurance, or drawing of any public or private lottery, or indorse a book or other aocument for the purpose ot enabling. others to. sell lottery policies, shail be takea and held as a common gambler.” The officer's averment was that he found these men ‘an charge’? of what he described as a lottery shop—only this and nothing more.” ‘The prisou- era were yesterday taken before Judge Dono on a writof habeas corpus sued out by Mr. Pi Mitcaell, who cited numerous authorities to s| that In this case there Was no statutory ofeace alleged, that the ground for the commitment wag simply a conciusion of law, that there must be a detnite charge and evidence taken to sustain fi by the committing magistrate, and that the y oners were not hoand to disprove a fact mate to Lie offence as in this case, Where no evide was offered to sustain it. The prisoners were or- dered to be discharged. ROBBING LAMPPOST LETTER BOXES, . While Omecer George A. Leas was on duty at two o'clock yesterday morbing at the corner of six- teenth street and Third avenue, on which is placed & lamppost letter box, he nottced three men stand- ing together and acting suspiciously. As soon as they saw the officer thoy turned and fed. One of the three threw away a number of letters and the Jock of the box. The officer picked oP the letters, the lock, aud also the key with which it was opened, which aiterwards proved to be a genuine st key. While thus engaged he noticed, two men on tue opposite side of the street, one of whom he recognized as belonging to the party of three ortzinally Giscovered. This man ne pareaed and succeeded jn capturing him, ‘tho. prisoner gave bis nameas Michael Hartous, Yesterday morning he was brought before United States Com- tissiover Stillwesl, who committed him in default of $3,000 bail, The key with which the box Was opened being a post oflice key leads to the saspl+ (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE)