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. Made a grant, giit or bequest of said lan THE COURTS. Tho 61d North Chureh—Extraordi- nary Suit by a Pewholder. FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE. Alleged Abuse of Privilege and Bad Investments. First Mortgage Bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. ‘The September term in the courts does not be- gin till next Monday. Meantime Judge Donohue ‘Will continue to bold Supreme Court, Chambers; Judge Freedman, Superior Court, Special Term, and Judge J. F. Daly, the same branch of the Coust of Common Pleas, THE “OLD NORTH CHURCH.” ASuit Involving Millions Commenced by @ Pewholder—The Old Post Office Le To Be Impeached—Charges Against the Deacons and Trustees—In- Junction and Receiver Asked for. A somewhat extraordinary sult has been com- menced in the United States Circuit Court of this @istrict, which involves property belonging to the Reformed Protestant Dutch church, or ‘Old Nortn oa&urch,” as it was formerly designated, 1ocated on Willtam, Fulton and Ann streets. It appears that ‘this church and its corporation own property in the city valued at several millions of dollars, the | Spcome from which is said to be over three hundred thousand = dollars =o per annum, The ground on which the present Post Orfice is situated belongs to the cor- Poration, The title of the suit reads, “William Hastings, plaintiff, vs. the ministers, elders and Geacons of the Reiormed Protestant Dutch church, of the city of New York, and tne State of New York and others, whose names are at present un- Known to plaintif.” The complaint, or bill in equity, as it is technically called in law, has been Med in the Clerk’s office of the United States Cir- cuit Court, ALLEGATIONS IN THE COMPLAINT. Mr. William Hastings, tne plaintiff! in this com- Plaint, sets forth the following statement of facts:— He alleges that he is a citizen of the State of Cali- tornia, at present residing in the city of New York, and that the Reformed Protestant Dutch church, or old North church, on William, Fulton and Ann streets, is a corporation of this State and most of its ministers, elders and deacons citizens of New York; that plaintiff is part owner of the property of the church; that @ por- tion of said land consists of @& pew known in the true records of said church as Bumber 76, Piaintiff fuituer sets iorth that he is entitied to worsnip in said churgh and occupy the Rem and occupy all the rights’and privileges of is grantors ana predecessors, but said delend ants, under the false pretence of possessing an ad- Verse title of plaintif’s pew, and under various other pretences, hinder and prevent your orator from #0 doing, and have deprived him of the Rane privileges and benefits to which he is en- titled ay such pewowner and tenant in common, Or, otherwise, of the property of said church an vhe congregation tuereof aud others, And your orator further shows that be is desirous of becom. ing a stated hearer of ali doctrines of the ancient Jaith us given to the saints, ana of occupying saki Pew, and of having divine service held according to the true will and interest and Jaith of the founders of said churen, desirous that the ‘temporalities and spiritualities shall be ad- ministered in accordance with the will and intent ot the patrons of said church, and tn conformity with the terms and conditions of the trusts upon which Messrs. Stemwick and Hampendicn, the donors, endowed said church, and gave, granted and bequeathed the land upon which said church ts erected, and wrongfully misappropriated by sald deiendants under a claim of adverse right and titie, and waich constitutes a cloud upon your orator’s title, and which prevents and obstructs the juli, tree and periect enjoyment of the same and defeats the conditions of sald trust. And your orator further shows, for greater certainty in the premises, that Stemwick and Jonn Ham ae 10 sal church and the members and congregation thereof, to be heid in trust, some of the conditions of which are substantially as follows, namely :— CONDITIONS OF THE TRUST. Mr, Hastings, from this point, goes on in elabo- rate and singular phraseology, to name those conditions, which are principally that the ser- vices should be conducted similarly to those of the Church of the Netherlands and in the language of the Nether Church; that tne permanency o1 the church be increased by conversious; thi the Members be built up im the taith and made the means of grace to others, which should be recog- nized of all mankind as standards of purity in morals and devoutness in religion; that the tem- poraiities oi the church be administered solely for the purposes aforeraid, and not for the purpose of serving aby personal, prolane or mercenary end whatsoever; that, on the 7th of February, 1723, John Hampendich, who had been one of the elders or overseers o1 the Nether Dutch church retormed congregation, of the city of New York, in the year 1694, made’ and published ms last will, in ‘which, amon, otuer . tnings, he devised as follows:—‘J, the said John Hampendich, @o hereby give; devise and bequeath unto the said ministers, elders aud deacons of the Keformed Protestant Dutch caurch of the city of New York and their successers torever the shoemaker’s fleld, er land, on the southeast side of Maiden lane, or ath, which leads into @ certain street, called jueen street, near Pearl street, the which said tract coptains sixteen acres, being upon Manbat- tan Island, in the city of New York.’? ‘The complaint goes on to recite ALLEGED ACTS OF MALFEASANCE im oMfice against the officers of the church; that vhey Commitied and suffered waste of said church ediiice, and diverted the same from a sacred to a rolane cause ; squandered its revenues, in order 5 benefit strangers and unbelievers ; suffered vice, trreligion, immorality and infidelity to grow an overshadow the cause of religion; exercised undue infuence upon the Vourts, Legislatures and execu- tive officers and colluded with Attorneys General in order to deleat the object of the laws and perpeiu- ate usurpations; caused or sulfered the records of the church to be altered and the numbers of the pews to be transferred and changed, together ‘with the vauits of the church in waich the ances- ‘ors of the members lay buried, and then says:— “That delendants have discouraged and prevented the builcing op and increase of a large and active church membership of spiritually minded and age gressive preachers and doers of the word and true tollowers in practice of the meek and lowly Jesus of Nazareth, and im the place and stead thereof they have fostered the retention or adhesion of a weak spirited and opener class of persuns to act as dummies, and who exercise no independent will or judgment of their own for the good of the church or the cause of Christ, and by reason of which and other low and odly devices directed said church into an Alegitimate missionary association, deceiving tue very elect, and bolstering up half-trained, mean- irited and dependent neophyte persuns calling themeclves missionaries, Who are sent abroad Into foreign Barts at the expense of the church, there- by benefiting, to some extent, the British govern- ment and its dependencies in Hindostan and @lsewhiere, and where some of the revenues énd resources of the church are wasted to miake docile subjects for the British Crown, in order that such aubjecta may suffer (which they do ignominously) 4 ‘without resistance, the wrongs, usurpations an oppressions to which they are wrongfully sub- jected, aud which said pretence, on the part of said defendants and the trustees of said church, ‘Wastes and necessarily exhausts the church rev- enues, retards the growth of religion and morality in the city ot New York and defeats the purposes @f said trusts.” ‘THE CHURCH REVENUES. Alter voluminous verbiage of similar charac- ter the complaint asserts that the revenues of the church have been wrongiully used or diverted to purchase valuable real estate in another and more fashionable portion of the city, away from the ei places of the poor and wretched, and upon which real estate has been erected with tne trust funds @ gorgeous temple, conformable to u xtreme workily practice of the day, contain- tng and maintaining an extravagantly paid minis- ter, #0 called, principally to contribute to the Pleasures of sense, personal comfort and worldly ‘consequence and profit of a few rich and Pharisa- ical Church “hoodiums,’ to the exclusive and vir- tual banishment of the poor and dejected. That formerly a party known as the Englisn faction or Engish Party Company, operating and conspir- ing with Trinity church men of this city, wrong. Tuily possessed themselves of the control of the property; that the defendants are seiling a large amount of the property in violation of said trus i that they have diverted the Middle Reform: Protestant Dutch church, erected on satd land, irom @ sacred to a prolane use, and have surren- dered the possession of the same to the govern- ment ot te United States for the purposes of a Post Ome WHAT THE COURT IS ASKED TO DO. ‘The lengthy complaint of Mr. Hastings, of which the above are the ieading points, concludes with the following requests to the Court:—That de- fendants be directed to produce ia open Court the true and false records and muniments of titie under they claim adver to complainant and others entitled to minister said trusts; that they furnish an in- ventory of the property owned by the church and corporation. and render an account of the reve- | Donohue. nues thereof; that they forfeit the title under which they claim said pew adversely to complain- @nt; that the present trustees be displaced anda receiver appointed; that defendants be enjoined Irom selling or alienating any portion of the prop- erty; that the lease of the Middle Reformed Prot- estant Dutch church, known as the Post Office, be canceled, and said edifice be purified and rededt- cated Co the Service of the Lord under said trusts; that the pew church be sold; that the adverse title claimed by defendants to complainants’ pew be ordered expunged from the record and @ decree made deciaring the title in fee to said pew ip the complainant, This yoluminous document was attested before United States Commissioner White and swora to vy Mr. Hastings, the complainant, A copy of it will be turnished to Mr, George S. Stitt, counsel re delendaxts, and then an answer probably THE CHESAPEAKE RAILROAD. Some time since application was made in Su- preme Court, Chambers, for an order to show cause why Mr. Butler Duncan should not be re- moved from the trusteeship of the $15,000,000 first mortgage of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, ‘The ground of the application was his alleged fail ure to enforce the mortgage security. ‘The case came up for argument yesterday belore Judge On behalf of ur. Duncan adjournment was asked op the ground that, though the com- pany defaulted in payment of bond interest, Mr. Calioun, another trustee, is in Europe, and that the offices of the company are not situated in this State. Counsel for the company made a similar application, Counsel for petitioner held that there was no Want O! jurisdiction in the court; that it was @ special proceeding, and that, Mr. Duncan being a resident, the equity court of this State could remove him. Atter hearing the arguments at some length Judge Donohue adjourned the fur- ther hearing to next Monday. BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPREME OOURT—OHAMBERS, By Judge Donohue. Hasiam vs. Renouf and Another.—Motion to get aside default and defendant to serve his auswer within five days granted, with $10 costs, Rope vs. Seates pelorence eet. Dor y. e — Moron with costa, Wee eatin va ose urdan.—Divorce granted to plaintimt, SUPERIOR OOURT—SPEOIAL TERM, Decisions. By Judge Freedman. Michels vs. Jounson.—Appiication granted. Stewart vs. Lindeman et al.; Eddy vs, Wicks et al.—Motions denied, with $10 costs to abide event, Crescent Iron Company vs. Westray et al.— Order granted. Harrison vs. Harrisons.—Motion granted, with $10 costs. See memorandum, COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM, Decision. By Judge Robinson, Mary M. Jugenit vs. Frederick F, Jugenit.—Di- | vorce a mensa et thoro. TOMBS POLICE COURT, Before Juage Wandell. « Yesterday morning Francis W. Sepastian and James Costa, the Italians who were charged with stabbing Joseph Falino and Paulino Supearno, in their saloon, at No. 45 Crosby street, on Sunday night, were brougitup. They refused to say any- thing m reference to the charge made against them, and were remanded to await the results of the injuries of Falino and Supearno, who are both in a critical condition. Disorderly House Closed. Henry Shaler, who was arrested on Sunday night by Officer Toole, of the Fourth precinct, for keep- ing a disorderly house, pleaded not guilty and ‘was remanded tor examination. PIFTY-SEVENTH STREET POLIOE COURT. New Light on a Recent Alleged Police Outrage. Before Judge Smith, Yesterday Officer Adams, of the Twenty-first precinct, arraigned at this Court two females giv- ing the names of Kate Fenton and Maria McLaugh- in, charged with the probable murder of the stranger, Mr. William L, Herbert, who was found atanearly hour lying on the sidewalk in East Thirtieth street, between First and Second ave- nues, by the i para of the precinct named, and _b; them dragged to the station house. Here it wail be remembered that ir, some Wright, then in charge, turned the almost dying man over to the tender mercies of the doorman, instead of sum- moning @ surgeon and having his injuries attended to, The same morning the injured man was brougot to this Court in an almost insensible condition and arraigned on @ charge of intoxication. Herbert was suffering trom concussion of the brain, rendering him almost totaliy deaf, and from contusions of the body. He was unable to explain how he came by his wounds, and could only give his name. The charge of intoxication was dis- missed and the prisoner sent to Bellevue Hospital, where he now lies, according to the certificate of the surgeon in whose charge he ts, ina very dan- gerous condition, He was esterday able to identity the two women named as his assallants, an to the house in front of which he was found, where, alter robbing and beating him, they threw him into the street. They were committed to await the resalt of Herbert's injuries. Superintendent Walling has preferred a charge against Sergeant Wright ior his tnnuman conduct. COURT OALENDARS—THIS DAY. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS—Held by Judge Dononue.—Nos, 68, 140, 160, 170, 174, 190, 198, 213, 214, 215, A NEW SWINDLE. Bogus Internal Revenue Officers Fleec- ing Cigar Dealers—Over Six Thousand Dollars Paid to Them—How They Con- sent to “Square” Matters—Interview with Messrs. Birdsall and Burke. For the last three weeks a couple of bogns “in- ternal revenue officers” have been blackmailing cigar dealers in this city and have reaped a har- vest, it is reported, of $5,000 to $6,000, One store paid them as much as $700 for hush money. Their personal appearance is described by some of the victims as follows:—One of them Is about six feet high, light complexion, with small whiskers, has a squeaky voice and wears a white hat. As soon as he enters a cigar store he states that he and his companion are internal revenue officers and that they have received information that irregularities are taking place in the store and that they have been sené to investigate the matter. After fnish- ing nis speech he shows a silver badge or office. His companion 1s of short stature, and, from his speech, is thought to be a German Jew. He is dressed in & gray suit and has diamond rings and & diamond breastpin. They then proceed to examine the cigar boxes, and directly they find an empty one, which has not had its government stamps cancelled, they say, “You're our prisoner.” Each empty box with un- cancelled stamps has to pay a fine of $50. They phen read the tollowing extract irom the Internal venue law, of June 6, 1872:— Whenever an; imped taint i Fai box, cont ing, Fab td gheroots or clgarettes, shall be etaptied, {tab duty of the person in whose handg the sAme iy, be to rhe GEIR SANM gate aces see }o8 ne re re! lo Mhalt for each such offence, on conviction, be fined not Lapin | $50, and imprisoned not less'‘than ten days or more than six months. The cigar dealer will then say, “Why, I have only two or three empty ones, and through the press of business I have not had time to smash the box or cancel the stamps. The law says ‘they are not to be used again,’ and I have no intention of so doing.” The German Jew then trie “Can't help it, but we must take you before the United States Commissioner.” Naturally the dealer protests, and it is then suggested that as he has hitherto borne &@ good name the matter can be “squared,” which is generally done at the rate of $25 a bex. A HERALD reporter called at the office of Super- visor Lucian Hawley, of che Internal Revenue De- partment, in Cedar street, and learned from Mr. irdsall and Mr. Borke that complaints had been received about the operations o! these blackmailers, and that Mr. Henry Smith, deputy collector of the Third district, whose office ts situated at Third ave- 4 Seventh street, had heard that the fellows in question had been prowling around his division blackmailing the WT Lo) of several cigar stores. The internal revenue officers do not wear ®& badge, but are the holders of a commission, and have no right to compromise cases or receive money. Cases can be only compromised by the United Si District Attorney. Legitimate in- ternal revenue oficers, when they discover irregu- larities, are bound to lodge the information with a collector or supervisor of internal revenue, after which a complaint is entered through the United States District Attorney. “PAYING PENSIONS, On Friday morning next, the 4th inst., the pay- ment of pensions will be commenced by Mr. Silas B, Dutcher, the pension agent for this district, There are about 8,000 pensioners who draw their stipend at this office. Since the last payment, June 4, there have been added to the pension list seventy-five names of men who have [ost their arm above the elbow, whose pension is increased from $18 to $24 per monti. One man, who has Jost both ari has had bis allowance raised from $31 25 to per month. The payment of these le will commence at about four o'clock on Friday morning and conidnue for about two weeks, id that they lured him from Bleecker street | NEW YORE CITY. William Smith, of No. 437 Greenwich street, was ran over in front of his residence and seriously injured, Martin Burke, aged three years, was ran over lastnight, in front of his residence, No. 416 East Sixteenth street, and severely injured, The day boat on the Stonington Line to Boston will be discontinued after this date, and the Rhode Island will go on to the regular night line on Thursday of this week. Coroner Eickhot! was summoned yesterday to attend an inquest on the body of an unknown man found drowned opposite pier 42 North River. Deceased had no clothing on, The body of an unknown man, about thirty-five years, was found by the police of the First precinct floating in the water off the Battery last night. Coroner Eickhoff has been notified to hold ap in- quest. A sail boat containing four young men was cap- sized yesterday afternoon opposite the New Jersey Central Railroad wharf, The men were rescued by means of assistance from the italian ship Ceanipa Emilia and a revenue cutter, At three o’clock yesterday morning Frederick Spearer, a German, twenty-eight years of age, was found by his wife in the rear of his residence, No. 98 Ludiow street. hanged to death by means of @ clothes tine. Coroner Eickhoff was notitied, William Gomber, thirteen years of age, residing in Sixty-fifth street, between Eighth and Nintn avenues, was drowned on Sunday while bathing in the North River at the foot of br ldebeside street, ‘The body was recovered and the Coroner notified. Edward Clark, a veteran pedestrian, aged seventy-two years, accompanied Mr, Forrester Jast evening in one of his practice walks, from Market street depot, in Newark, to Jersey City Jerry—distange seven and one-quarter miies—in one hour and forty-five minutes, This was Mr. Clark's first walk for many years. He is possessed of wonderiul powers and endurance for one ko old. Forrester is much like Weston in appearance, build, walking gait, &c, BROOKLYN. The public schools of Brooklyn, which number fifty, will open to-day, the vacation season having terminated. There are 800 teachers, and the num- ber of pupils In attendance 13 about 80,000, There were two hundred and seventy-five poor men employed in street repairs discharged by the Board of City Works yesterday. There are no more funds availavle for the repairing tund, The Board of Police Commissioners devoted | several hours yesterday to an investigation as to the efficiency and discipline of the actective corps. The resuit of the dehberations did not transpire, but it is said that there will be @ reorganization of the squad at an early date, The Coroner was notified yésterday to nold an Inquest over the body of Mrs. Bridget Tighe, who resided with her husband 1n a shanty on Raiph avenue. Deceased, according to the statement of her husband, who is under arrest, went out of the house during the night to secure their geese, which were running loose. Not returning he went out in quest of her and found her lying dead ina vacant lot. The couple are quite aged, and death is believed to have resulted irom natural causes, ‘The case of Courtland A. Sprague, ex-City Treas- urer, against the city, to recover the collaterals which he placed in the hands of the Comptroller anoree: aiter the defalcation in Sprague’s office was discovered, to secure the city irom any loss, will be commenced in the Supreme Court to-day. The defaication, it willbe remembered, amounted 10 about $150,000, Mr. M. T. Rodman, tis deputy, Was uccepted as State evidence on the trial in June last, and Sprague was acquitted. The col- laterals which he is now seeking to recover are worth about $150,000, Corporation Counsel De Witt, for the city, will contest the claim. Ex- Judge Barnard wili represent the interests of the ex-City Treasurer, P LONG, ISLAND. Henry Taylor, colored, residing on Douglass street in the village of Jamaica, when returning home on Saturday evening about eleven o'clock, was khocked down, beaten and robbed of $9 by four white men, Taylor, it appears, was walking on the track of the Long Isiand Rauroad, when the men sprung ‘rom the roadside, and before he could help himself tney closed upon him, threw him down, and one of them struck him witn a brick in the temple, knocking him senseless, in which con- dition he was found by some passers by. * The herd of Texas steers which escaped from the drovers and stampeded to the woods in the town of New Lots last week has not yetall been recovered, The herd numbered twenty-eight, and five are still at liberty, although two or three are so badly wounded that they will probably die. One of the herd was killed and butchered on Sunday and one onthe Gay before. Two were also captured on Saturday and returned to their owners. There has been great excitement in the neighborhogd for miles around, everybody who could muster any description of tirearms turning out and joining in the hunt, There is an effort made in some quarters to cre- ate an impression that Milton Miller, who was found dead in his fishhouse at Greenport some time ago, Was not murdered, as decided by the medicai testimony and the Ooroner’s jury, but that he died from the effects of excessive drinking. This idea is strongly contested by those whu were most prominent in the inquest, and seems to be refutea by the fact that he was apparrently sober when last seen before his body was discovered, al- though he had recently been on @ protracted spree. And besides, the wounds on his body seem to prove conclusively that he was the victim of vioience, sonst no trace of its perpetrator has yet been jound. STATEN ISLAND. | William Fallgn, of New York, was arraigned be- fore Justice Garrett, at Stapleton yesterday, charged with disorderly conduct on Sunday, in trying to Jorce his way through the ferry gate witn @ hati dozen children without paying any fare. He was fined $10, upon payment of which he was | liberated. The Board of Excise of Edgewater have increased the license fees from $30, as follow! ‘For saloons, $40; for grocers and druggists and saloons with billiard tables, $60; for breweries, parks and gardens, $80. This clossification tas been made in consequence of grocers and druggists naving done | # large business under the old license of $30. The Board will sit to-day at the Village Hall, Stapleton. A respectable looking lady named Fitzpatrick, a boarding house keeper of Stapleton, was arraigned before Justice Kassner on Saturday for stealing six pounds of coffee from a ferryboat while on @ trip to Staten Island from this city, from John Tobin, of Rossville, and held in $500 bail. Yester- day her bondsman surrendered her, when she was again arraigned before the same Justice and com- mitted to the County Jail in default of bail. Mrs. Fitzpatrick insists that she bought six pounds of coftee in New York, and Mr. Tobin also insists that tn fstab six pounds, and that Mrs. Fitzpatrick stole NEW JERSEY. ‘The State Model School, with a large corps wf teachers, will resume business on the 7th inst, The public scnools of Trenton will aiso be opened on next Monday. The total valuation of taxable property in Mor- ristown is $5,515,000, and the rate of tax per $100 1s thirty-five cents. The poll tax for the current year amounts to $1,193, and the dog tax $426, A Trentonian named John Ciancy was seriously injured on the head and face lately on the Belvi- dere Railroad by being struck by a water spout while stealing & ride on the top ol a freight train. He was thrown a distance of thirty feet and picked up insensible, Yesterday morning the residence in Newark of Mr. O’ Wallace Boyden was broken into and about $150 carried of, Mr. Boyden advertises that if the thief will accord him five minutes’ interview “hia heirs will be entitled” to a reward of $50, which he offers. There is blood in Boyden’s eye. Congressman Clarke, President of the New Jer- sey State Agricultural Society, states that the Prospects for the fair, which opens on the 18th inst., are that it will eclipse all previous fairs, The grounds have recently undergone marked changes in the way of improved gates, extended cattle buildings, &c. The Germans of Newark are beginning to agitate the Sunday question. It was proposed to hold an antl-Sanday law meeting in the open air on Sun- day night, but the wiser heads are utterly opposed to any such demonstration, arguing that it would injure rather than help the cuuse nearest their hearts, They urge the judicial use of the ballot in the coming elections. An itinerant open air preacher named Randall is now in Trenton, propagating the Gospel. On Sunday last he preached from the City Hall steps to a motley audience, taking for his text, ‘The letter Killeth, but the spirit maketh ative.” He said he was short $100 after eight years’ miasion- ary services, and to test the charity and in 01 liberality of his hearers he took up a coilection, ‘which resalted in the sum of twenty cents. Not THE FIRST OF THE “B'S.” Opening Day of the Nine Months’ Oyster Season. OYSTERS AND OYSTERMEN. Where and How the Bivalves Are Propagated. seuseeetnedineaiiaiel ANATOMY OF THB DELICIOUS ANIMAL. Opening day in the oyster world is a day of grave importance. It concerns everybody. To the thousands of peopie who make a living by sup- plying the bivalves to hungry New York it is a day of vast concern, They have been three months watching, waiting, worrying. Their labor for the ensuing Dine months pow begins, and as there is nothing like a good beginning they turn up their shirt sleeves and dash at the millions of oysters awalting them with vehemence of spirit, Ladies and gentiemén, young and old, of high or low degree, have a full appreciation of the arrival of the month with the “R” init, Oysters are ALWAYS IN ORDER, Young men and young women who do not reside in Fifth or Madison avenue, and who do not do their eating ana thetr sleeping behind browo stone fronts, have many pleasant recollections of oysters, and in the light of their experience look forward to (tes-d-téte on snowy evenings the coming winter, Oyster stews are to young ladies “sparking” what candies are to little children who are good, Apart, therefore, from the easy digest- ibleness of the bivalve, it serves to equanimize peo- ple’s tempers and to reconcile wearied limbs to further trudging onthe slippery road to matri- mony. Everybody Knows that an oyster never hurt anybody, never interfered with the eating of “@ square meal,” never kept anybody from sleep- ing, and has always been @ welcome warmer after the theatre and filled many a ‘‘gap” when any- thipg more than fifty cenis was altogether out of the question, The oyster is @ universal favorite, as lt ought to be. A good way to get at the truth about oysters is just to imagine for a moment that | the whole crop was @ failure this year, and in that case what 4 terrible gloom would overspread the | city, and what a winter would be in store for us! But fortunately THE CROP THIS YEAR promises to be an excellent one. Reports {rom all the plantations are fully assuring that never for many years has there been so fruitful a recunda- tion, so great a thriving of the juveniles and s0 sturdy a development of the “three-year-olds,” Hence there is cause for rejoicing, and at the pres- ent moment we may in imagination look along the shores of the East River, Long Island Sound, along the rivers of Connecticut, Massachusetis, New Jersey away to North Carolina, down in Baltimore and Virginia, and we shall see the plantations swarming wivh the crusty sheils and count thou- sands and thousands of men, women and cluldren all earning a livelihood by the production, tending and transporting o! this fish that never moves, THE NATURAL BED3 AND PLANTING. Most people know that the oyster is “raised” for us with the same amount of care and with something like the precautions wita which other productions are obtained in large quantities. Oys- ters are first taken from their natural beds, that is they are caught at various places as other fish are caught. But the supply gained in this way would be entirely inadequate to meet the extraor- dinary demand were it not that the oystermen have recourse to the plantations., The planting is done by selecting several acres of water at Javorale spots near the shore, into which the oysters are thrown to spawn, and where conse- quently the crop is raised. The egg of the oyster is something like that of the fish; it spatters out, and rises to the surface, but soon settles down, catching upon the first substance it meets below. The egg will grow upon a block of wood, or a stone or ulmost any hard substance. Oystermen, however, frequently throw tuto this plantation some thousands of shells, well dried and whitened nd split by the action of the sun, and this method is considered the most favorabie to the growth of the oyster. In about two or turee weeks the egg bas become avout the size ofa three-cent piece, It ; ceases to grow in cold weather, snd sometimes the water may become too cold for & to live at ali, In the spring it grows rapidly. Uld and ex- perienced wholesale oyster dealers say that the oyster 18 fit for tae market aiter three years? growth, and, in fact, that the oysters yearly pre- sented lor sale are rarely over that age. Otters, however, say that the oyster has not reached its full maturity until it is seven years ol, FANCY STOOK. In New York tne laucy stock is known as Rock- aways, East Rivers and Blue Points. The East Kivers are an especial favorite. ‘Lnese come from all the little inlets which run into dozens of places along the river, and are said to have a more dell- cious flavor than any others. In regard to this matter, however, tastes differ, though, of course, allowance must be made for the general favorites. ‘Tne Rockaways, Bast Rivers and Blue Points are gengraty supplied to our principal city hotels. hisewhere as good oysters as these are doubtiess raised, but in our community those named are considered the “ancy” stock. OTHER KINDS. The tollowing are the names of other kinds well known throughout the country :—Fire isiand, small and very salt; Cow Bay, large saddle rocks, very salt; Stamford, Conn., very high flavor, good size; Fairhaven, Conn., smali; City Island, Long Island Sound, large, good flavor; Prince’s Bay, Long Island Sound, very sait; Amboy, Great Beds, very Sait; Keyport, ptaten Iajand, Food size and flavor; York River, Virginia Rocks, Milford, Black River, James River, Chesabeake Bay, Hampton Bay, Horn Harbor, ep Creek, Lennanen Bay and Kappahannock, of Virginia; Shrews- bury, N. J.; Massachusetts Bay, Saadle Rocks, Lynn Haven, Lynn Haven Bay, Broad Rocks, Eastern Branch, Western Branch, Mason Creck, Pagan Creek, Hampton Bars and raw Virginias. Of all these the Virginia oysters are the most celebrated jor juices and flavor. These oysters, if sprinkled with fresh water, keep jor three weeks, and even the improvement in quality is not retarded, NUMBER OF DAILY DISHES, It is dificult to make even an approximate estimate of the total number of oysters consumed 1n this city each day of the nine months of the oys- ter season, Old and experienced oystermen refuse even to guess at the figures. The following may give an idea, 80 far as the oyster saloons go, of the consumption dally when the season 1s at its height, not including the consumption in hotels or ordinary restaurants or in private jamiles:— Avorage number of stews. 580,000 Average number of trie: 250'000 175,000 75,000 25,000 Total number of dishe: 1,075,000 OYSTER SALOONS, All over the city the oyster saloons are scattered in almost every locality. The poorest sections ot wards have their appropriate oyster houses, and along the river fronts the hardy, blackened sons of the Ri and eee crenaet 4 Gs ae Se sim) aeries of bottles of mre Henke whl are always associated with proper prepare x the _ bivalve, whether stew, fry Of roast, Nowadays it is not ‘unusual to find the oyster saloon and barroom one and the same establishment, and in this double rovision for the inher wants great convenience js at once secured for the lovers of pewter meas- ures of frothy.ale, “Hard goers,” or, in other words, regular “gin-swillers,” carefully avoid a bar with an oyster saloon attached. ft is esti- mated that there are at least 7,000 oyster saloons roper in the city, all doing a thitving business. i requires but a small capital to embark in this business, and, the receipts veing cash and the fke good, the numer of these saloons has largely increased during recent years, THE IMMENSE TRADE. Along the East River, in the netghborhood of Broome street, there are Sheeaal large wholesale establishments and on the North River there are sa et similar ones, These concerns do the great bulk of the oyster trade in New York. In the busy season the river in front of the offices of these wholesale dealers swarms with schvoners and boats laden with oysters. On the East River sixty boats may be seen in a single day waiting to be unloaded, while on the North River, where the larger part oi the trade is carried on, as many as 180 boats, including some schoog- ers. have been counted, Besides these a amount of business is done with independent boats, whose cargoes are not consigned to any of the large wholesale houses, A HeBALD reporter en- deavored to find some wholesale dealer who would venture to give an estimate of the oyster business done in this city, but fatied to find one who would say more than toat the trade was really enormous, and the number of men altogether employed out side and in the city, in the business of supply, was beyond his counting to anything like ‘easonable estimate. It would be safe A gentleman, that 100,000 men make ali out of the oyster trade, out the is not confined to New York alone, e 7 Sate © @xpor' the West is about equal to the consumption in this city, Ohi does a great oyster busin and the trade with the West is increasing in proper: tion a8 the population increases there. From Baltimore, » large supplies are sent to the West. The oyster trade from Virginia is immense ™m the winter months, fully 100 sail of vessels com- ing into our rivers for the oyster market. The discouraged, he preached an ior two hours Siterward Without interruption, “He means to Dersevere in bis mission, growing proportions of the business cannot be ac- onrately measured. but that it is yearly extendin, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1874.—TRIPLE SHERT. 19 claumed by all in the trade. Some dealers, how- ever, grumole @ little that the trage seems to be nO greater now that it was before the war; but these gentlemen forget that there are a great many thore persons now engaged in it than Osre were then, so that the. posts must be diffused. ICES. Every kind of oyster—that i, each under its pecuilar appeliation—has dierent Gonreen of nae whieh the trade designates as bushels (not sold by Grst class dealers), culiums, box, single extra, double extra, treble extra. le relative prices of these are:—Culiums, 50¢. per 100; box, $1 per 100; single extra, $1 60 per 100; double extra, $2 per 100; treble extra, $3 per 100. About 200 treble extra Oysters Would fil a barrel, while it would take between 800 and 900 cullums to @ barrel, The price 43 increased according to the size of the oyster, SADDLE ROCKS. Most peopie are uot aware that there is no such oys:er DOWA as the Saddle Rock. Every large oyster be called @ Saddle Rock, but the genuine article of that name long ago disap- peared. The origin of the name arose forty years ago, and the desigpation has since been kept up. At Liftie Neck, situated about eigbteen miies up the East River, forty years ago, or thereabouts, oysters used to be from ® cove tm that vicinity, iu which was @ large rock called the “Saddie Rock,” owl to its formation. The oys‘e! taken from the oatural ced here were founda to ba of the niost delicious flavor and Of the largest size. So great was the demand for them that the oataral bed soon got to be worked o4*, and no amount of “plantiag” elsewhere couid keep the suppty equai to tue demand, Within afew years from that time the ‘Sadie Rocks” had beea a! gobbled up and no more were to be found, elther Ou the land or inthe sea, nor have they dwelt anywhere, 80 far as since Knowo, except in the Jertiie imaginations of oyster saloon keepers, ANATOMICAL scientists that she oyster is a marine aceph- aiougs moliuek of the Jamelibranchiate order ot the genus ostrea. The shells are inequivaive, lametiated, the upper shell peing the smaller and Moving forward with age, leav.og @ groove for the gament along the adnering vaive, The oyster bas no feet, the lobes are widely separated and united onty near the hinge. apie toe is car- ried on with the vascular giils. Without. jawa or teeth, the oyster separates and seiects its food by means of short labial processes, and 1s, therefore, unavie to feed upon any resistive sud- stance, The intestine is short, with few convolutions; the ventricle of the heart lies upon the rectum, Oysters have no power of locomo- tion and move only In respiration, or when sperm and ova are expelied by the sudden closing o1 the valves, The authorities differ ou the question of sex, some holding that the oyster is a hermaph- rodite, others that the female sex predominates, The eggs of the oyster are expelled ina white, greasy, viscld fluid, waich rises to the surface and which are called spats. Being beld in solution by the water, they soon find a lodgment in the bed of the bay and soon develop, fecundation arising through the medium of water, whicn — con- veys the sperm to the ova. The tides, the degree of saltness of the water and the character of the soil have all to be considered in the multiplication of the animal, From the beginning of May to the end of August the spawning takes place. It is said that the general belief that oysterg are not fit to eat during these months 1s @ popular error, started and supported by the oystermen themselves iu order to produce @ cessation in the demand. The oysterman must have a good Knowledge of the tides and of the anatomy of the ovstersin order to secure proper penne. Especially has he to ob- serve that he take the oysters from the bed when the tide 1s running out, so that the fresh water may come down from the rivers at the mouth of the beds and supply the fish with drink, for too salt water makes the oyster lean and unbealthy. In planting, however, the breeders are put in igh water; bat when the water is too salt it becomes necessary to remove the pluntation for immersion 1n fresh water, the latter imparting, according to the ju- diciousness exercised in its use, deliclousness in flavor and largenegs in size. The moon is the oys- terman’s guide, Opinions differ as to whether rocky bottoms are best for oyster beds, Many ex. rienced oystermen believe that a soit, sandy loam, like the bed of the East River, is the most fruitful. Experience is said to show that in trans- planting the oyster must be returned to a soil al- most similar to that upon which it was bred tn the natural ved, Contrary practice bas for a result an excessive mortality. THE FLOATING HOSPITAL Destitute Sick Children’s Relief Fund. The following additional contributions have beet received by the Rey. Alvah Wiswall, master of St. John’s Guild, and handed to Heury C. De Witt, Al- moner:— THROUGH W. G. SCHENCK, MERCHANTS’ HOTEL. Receipts from the sale of two pictures. $38 00 SENT TO THE GUILD OF! William Murtagh. Mrs. G. 300 BU 3.00 Dowley, Corners & Co 20 0 A.W, Humphrey 10 00 200 SSsseeEesi Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited at once, and may be sent to the HERALD office, Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; Arnold, Constable & Co., No, 885 Broadway; D. Appleton & Co., No. 551 Broadway; August Belmont & Co., No, 19’ Nassau atreet, G. J. N. Zabriskie, People’s Bank, corner Canal and Thompson streets, or Rev. Alvan Wis- wall, fore of St. John’s Guild, No. 62 Varick stree! The thirteenth excursion takes place to-day, leaving piers at foot o: West Tenth street, Market street and Twenty-third street, East Kiver, at | eight, nine and hali-past nine A. M. DR ORE venN MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. BROWN—BENNETT.—On Monday, August 31, at the residence of the bride’s futher, by tne Rev. M. McCaffrey, WILLIAM D. BROWN to Miss KATIE BENNETT. No cards, DAVENPORT—MORRIS.—On Saturday, August 15, by special license, in the chapel of Rose Castle, Carlisle, Engiand, by the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, adamsted by the Rev. Canon Carr and by the Rev. a. R Pavenpors: Mary Farrrax, daughter of Gouverneur Morris, of Old Morrisanla, N. Y., to J. ALFRED DAVENPORT, of New York. Died. ACKERMAN.—At Plainfleld, N. J., on Sunday, August 30, GEORGE ACKERMAN. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the tuneral services, at the residence of his father-sn-law, Isaac L. Platt, Esq., Plainfield, N. J., on Wednesday, September 2 at twelve o’clock, Trains leave via Central Ratiroad of New Jersey, foot of Liner, reet, at 10:30 A, M., re- turning at 1:28 and 2:61 P. M. ANGEVINE.—On Sunday, August 30, after a lingering illness, WILLIAM E. ANGEVINE, of New York, aged 2 years, 6 months and 12 days. Relatives and iriends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at 355 West Fortieth stseet, es oh avenue, om Tuesday afternoon, at two GlOCK. Brooks.—At Arragansett, L. I.,on Saturday, August 29, JAMES oes infant son of Thomas B. a Marion Brooks, of Plainfield, N. J., aged 11 months, Bugns.—On Monday, August 31, James Josera ‘Burns, beloved son of James and Julia Burns, a1 year, 1 month and 15 days. ‘ne relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his perente. 68 Pine street, this (Tuesday) afternoon, tember 1, at two o'clock. IsT14N,—On Monday, August 81, at Fast Oran |, Kate O, FORBES, wife of Ira Chris- tian and daughter of the late John L. Forbes, Sr., of New York, Notice of funeral hereafter. ig STON, infant son ol Louts Leonce and Nora K. Uoudert.’ 7 DEVLIN,—DANIEL W. DRVLIN, Only son of John 8. and Flora W. Devlin, aged 6 bhge J and 8 months, The relatives and friends of the family, and those of his uncle, James T. Hough, are invited to attend tne funeral, trom the residence of his parents, Ocean avenue, between Union and Oak atreets, Jersey cir Helgh, on Tuesday, September 1, at oWeriin--On Sunday, Angust 20, at the resi EVLIN.—On Sunday, August 30, at the residence of Mrs. Coyle, corner of Summit and Magnolia ave- nues, Jersey bity Heights, Mrs. Saran D Notice of funeral hereafter. Dorry.—On ap | afternoon, August 31, Mrs. | the beloved wife fat ELIZaBRTH DUFFY, ict of John Duffy, in the soth year of her age. Re oe aoe ot Nara m Wednesday, at two O'clobk P.M. ; w Dublin papers please copy, GoopELL.—On Monday, August 381, 1874, Jo- bya wW., i epamode of Hannah W. and the late Relatives and friends of the family are requested to attend the faneral, on Wednesday, September 2, at one o'clock, from the residence of her mother, No. 148 East Ninety-first street. Fa anday, Angus B. GORDON, son of Ann and the inte fed 20 years and 11 months, pec ly invites atten late residence, No. 10 Gay street, this ( jay) afternoon, at one o'clock. Hinrzg.—On Sunday, August 30, CHARLES Henry Hintze, aged 1 year, 4 months @nd 26 days, and ALIOg MARIETTA HINnTzE, aged 2 months and 10 8, e relatives and friends are respectfully invited th i the funeral, on Tuesday, September 1, from 13 Dover street, at two o’elock P. M., thence to Lutheran Cemetery, ‘Howt.—In Brooklyn, on Sund eee 30, 1874, EpMUND Ow8N HOLT, son of the late Henry Holt, in the 33d year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited, to attend the juneral services, at his — late residence, Clinton avenue, corner De Kalb avenue, on Wednesday afiernoon, at five o'clock. JoHNsTON.—On Monday morning August 31, 1874, at her residence, Fprieaion, Bow rsey, Mrs. Marcarer ANN, Widow of the Rev, James R. Johnston, and daughter of tne late Rev. Alex- ander McLeod, D D., of this city, Notice of the funeral hereaiter, Kerwix.—io Brookiyo, E. D., on Monday, August 31, at 6:30 A. M., Joun, youngest son of Joon and Enphemia Kerwin, aged 3 years, 3 mnths and 9 days. Funeral from tne residence of his parents, 449 First eet, on Wednesday, 2d inst, at two .—On Sunday, August 80, 1874, Mary, be- ‘eof Terence Ketlle, @ mative of county Armagh, freland (maigen ni: Mary Raferty), aged 59 years, Relatives and friends ot the family and those of her son, Jobn J. Kettle; her sons-in-law, John Mona ghan and Thomas Wail, are respectfully invited to attend the funeri om her late residence, 43 Perry street, this (Tuesday) afternoon, at Dall- bast one o'clock. bh RE.—On Monday, August Mrs, Mary L&e, aged 71 yearas’ eet The relatives and friends of the family are re Spectfully requested to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 243 Hooper street, Wililams- burg, $b Tusscas, September 1, at two o'clock » Me 3 iiretment be taken to Greenport, L. L., (ox EFURGE.—On Monilay, A\ Lavan, ——- is yuna ugust 81, WILLIAM P. ‘atives aud friends, also the members of Vale ley Forge Council, No.'59, 0. U. A. are invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday, September 2 Pi a yl has his late residence, Pall- , a Jedar Ui Helgota oe i Street, Jersey City eVINE—ON Monday, August 31, WILLIAM, youngest son of Dongies arin and: Dena J. Levine, aged 5 months and 7 days, Funeral will take place on Wednesday morning, September 2, at eleven o'clock, from the residence of his parents, No. 451 East Fifty-seventh street. Lyons.—On Monday, August 31, at the residence of her son THOMAS, No, 311 West Forty-eighth street, Mrs. ELLEN Lyons, in the 112th year of her ge. ‘A solemn requiem mass will be offered up for the repose of her soul at the Church of the Holy Cross, West Forty-second street, en Wednesday, Sep- tember 2, at ten o’clock A, M. Thence her re- mains will be conveyed to Calvary Cemetery for interment. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. MACDONALD.—At Hoboken, N. J., on Monday, August 31, 1874, KATHARINE WILLIARD, daughter ob Charles ana Sarah Macdonald, aged 4 mon! ‘Troy Times please Copy MARINHO.— Monday, trig hey 81, of a short fiilness, Jum, oneat son of B, A. and Maggie G, Marinho, aged 1 your, 2 months and 7 Sam ‘The triends of the iamily are respectiully invited to attend tie funeral, at halt-past two o'clock P. M.,on Wednetday, September 2, from bis lat restdence, No, 34 Carlton avenue, Brook! MILLER.—At Eastport, L. 1, on Saturday night, August 29, FREDERICK L. MILLER. of Brooklyn. is friends and those of his father-in-law, John W. Masury, are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 118 Cambridge place, on Wednesday (to-morrow), at two o’clock P. M. MuRPHY.—The funeral services of the late Mrs. CatHerine D, MURPHY will be held at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic church, East Twelfth street, on Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, Relatives and friends are requested to attend. MCARDLE.—ANN, the beloved wife of Thomas McArdie, a native of the city of Dublin, Ireland, in the 39tn year of her age. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, Septem- ber 1, at two P. M. McOaFFREY.—On Sunday, August 30, Jonn Mc- CAFPREY, in the 57th year of his age, @ native of Tempo, county Fermanagh, lreland. His relatives and friends are teapeortniy. invited to attend his funeral on Tuesday, September 1, at half-past snree P. M., from bis late residence, 116 Smith street, Brooklyn. NUGENT.—At Throgs Neck, Westchester, on Sat- urday, August 20, MARRY ANN D, Loury, wife of James Nugent, aged 33 years, Her remains will be interred on Tuesday, Sep- tember 1, 1874, at three o'clock P. M., in St. Rey- mond’s Cemetery, Westchester, Westchester county. O'BAtEN,—On Sunday Morning, August #30, THOMAS OBRIEN, Sr., a native of Kilreekil, county Galway, Ireland, in the 88th year of his age. His relatives and friends and also those of his son, Thomas O'Brien, Jr., and grandson, Rev. Owen J. O’Brien, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, from the residence of his son, No. 346 Fourth street, on Tuesday morning, September 1, at ten o’clock A. M. His remains will be conveyed to St. Vincent de Paul's church, North Sixth street, Williamsburg, where a solemn high mags of requiem will be offered up for the repose of his soul thence to Calvary Cemetery at half-past one | P. M. for interment. ‘O’FARRELL.—At Catskill Mountains, on Sanday evening, August 30, ALICE, relict of Henry O’Far- Tell, aged 76 years. ‘The remains will be interred from the Chureh of $250 | the Holy Innocents, Thirty-seventh street and | Broadway, on Wednesday morning, September 2, | at half-past nine o’clock, where a solemn high mass | of requiem will be offered; thence to Calvary O’HARE.—TERENCE O'H4ns, parish of Kliquade, county Wicklow, Ireland, aged 69 years. ‘The relatives and friends of the deceased and | also of his son-in-law, Patrick McCann, are re- nested to attend the funeral, from his late resi- lence, 28 Harrison street, on Tuesday, September 1, at two o’clock P. M. Amsterdam (N. Y.) papers please copy. PEPraRD.—On Saturday, August 29, at her reste dence, 68 Woodhull street, Brooklyn, MARGARET E., beloved wile of James P. Peppard, dauguter of the late John Casey, Her remains will be taken to St. Stephen’s church vhis day (Tuesday), at ten o’ciock P. M., and from thence to Flatbush Cemetery for tnter- ment. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Pic-Bors.—On Monday, August 81, at his resi- deuce, JEAN Barris Pro-Bois, in the lst year of his age, a native of France. Relatives and friends of the family are Invited to attend the Juneral, from his late residence, No. 12 Chariton street, on Wednesday afternoon, at half past one o’ciock. PURCELL.—On Monday, August 31, Marta, relict of William Purcell, Esq, solicitor. Funeral services trom St, Lawrence’s church, Eighty-fourth street, between Fourth and Madison enues, on Wednesday morning, September ie nine o’clock. Friends of the ‘amily are invites to attend. | | ReILLBY.—On Saturday, August 29, MIcHARL | | 25 0) | Cemetery for interment, REILLEY, @ Dative of Athy, county Kildare, Ire- land, aged 20 years, i if oe . | His relatives and friends are respectfally in- vited to attend the funeral, from his late rei dence, No. 512 East Fifteenth street, on Tuesday, September 1, at one P, M. ROBERTSON.—At New Orleans, on Thursday even- ing, August 13, 1874, Captain James B, ROBERTSON, of the ship Princeton, aged 60 years, RoGers.—At Paterson, N. J., on Saturday, August 29, CHARLES F. Rogers, aged 88 years, ineral from his late residence, 221 Willis street, Paterson, on Tuesday mornin; tember 1, at ten o’clock. The remains will Be Reon to Green- wood for interment. Carriages will meet arrival of train at foot of Chambers street at one P. M. Relatives, friends of the tamily and members of rote Lodge, No. 601, F. and A. M., are invited to RUSSELL.—ELIZABETH, the beloved wife of James Russell, aged 27 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re- ectfally invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, 816 Pacific street, Brooklyn, to-day fuesday) two e’clock P. M. Canada papers please copy. Saxby.—Suddenly, on Sunday, August 80, ALFRED SAxBy, aged 48 years, ‘The funeral services wili be hed, on Wednesday, 20 inst., at two o'clock P. M., at the residence ot ‘William’ Henderson, No. 322 Union tree! Brooklyn. ScHortgiy.—On Monday, August $1, MARY, the beloved wile of N. R. Bouot aged 28 years. The relatives and iriends are respectiully invited to attend.the funeral, at Babylon, L.1., on Wednes- a tember 2 ‘at four o'diock P.M. Train ves South Side Rallroad depot, foot of South Eighth street, Brooklyn, E. D., at 1:80 P.M, EE.—Drowned, on Wednesd: , August 26, J, Withid See, eldest sen of the Rev. Isaac M, and Mary N. H. See, in the 20th year of Is age. Relatives and triends of tne family abe invited to attend the funeral from Wickliffe Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J., on Tuesday afternoon, Se] . tembér 1, at four o'clock. Interment at Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, N. J, STOUTENBURGH.—Drowned, while bathing at Greenwich, Conn., FRANK, son of the late Stoutenburgh, Relatives and friends of the famtly are respect. fully invited to attend the funeral, from the Re- formed church, Filty-seventh street and Madison fad ‘at two o'clock P, M., on Tuesday, Septem- ir TOWNSEND.—On Sunday, August 30, MARTHA, relict of Joseph Townsend, in the 60th year of her ee “iter friends and those of her sons, Samuel and 8. S. Townsend, are invited to attend her funeral, on Tuesday, September 1, at twoo’ciock, irom her ‘ARD.—On Sun oun ‘Ward, ‘native of Gort, county Gal \d. way, ani Relatives and iriends are invited to attend the funeral, from No. 232 Second street, New York city, on Tuesday, September 1, at two P, M, West.—Suddenly, at Scotch Pl N.J., on Mon- day, August 31, JouN G. West, late ot Williame- burg. Holatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, at the above place, on Wednesday, tember 2, at two P, M. Preins tow ‘4 *faine--At South Bi no rei ITE. —z re on A pet bey a oe bers of National Lodge, No. 80, 1.-0. of O. Fe Noreh German and Preas Lodge K. invited to attend his fune! Pyare Fespo trl n Wedn 4 at nine o'clock A. M., from bis late residence, No 15 Backett street, Funei ihe Marine” poet sorbet” Fralcat Sat Brunt streets, South brooklyn, NaTIONaL Lopas, No. cai 0. 0, F.—The mem- bers of this are ted to attend the fu-" neral of P. G. James W. from his late reai- dence, No. 75 Sackett t, South Brooklyn, on Wednesday mor: nine o’ciock. order of ROBERT J, NG Gzonoe Surrn, Jr., Secretary. . WORTMAN.—At Peckskill, Ny ¢, on Sunday morn ing 3, Ouanuee ¥, Womrman, nged 00 Al fears and $6 months. yePanerel trom hi Inte residence, on Tuesday,. wo ba mo 1, at ‘clock. Toia pavers Diease CODTe