The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1874, Page 4

er - 4 - THE © OURTS. ter Wallack aud the Sotiety for the Befor- mation of Juvenile Delinquents. THEATRICAL LICENSES. Important Question in Bankruptcy. ‘SUITS AGAINST THE CITY. Yesterday, in the United States District Court, the folowing goods were condemned by default, | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 18 of the commnmtty orlocallty. He urged farther that gg yen apertegy ho 1872, 18 not public. The Juvenile Delinquents’ Society is a rivate charitable one by virtue of its imcorpora- ion statute, 29, 1824, and many times amend and is a private charity io all re- specta of control, Management and ureement. In iNustrating, Mr. Hall said that whenever Mr. Weston takes moneys tor pedestrian exhibitions the Legislature may enact wnat he shall apply for @ license and pay the fee to the use of the Society ‘if which authorizes this imposition of license as & proper exercrse of police power. Either the management of a business or {ts inherent lmmorality must stamp it with the ne ceasity of police regulation by the Legislature. But neither in their earliest origin nor in their portrayals have dramatic exhibitions necessarily, nor usually, noreven per se, ministered to dis- order, to injury of health or to immorality, tho three insptrations of police regulation. lt has mever before been pretended that theatres, any more than lecture rooms, or Spiritual meetings, or rivate bustnesses generally, which did net per se vite public regulation, ought to be supervised by the police as the act of 1872 supervises plaintitr’s | place o1 occupation. And it seems to be super- mo person appearing to claim the same:—4,450 | €rogation to argue that the plaintif’s business cigars and 1,450 bundles of cigarettes, seized at the Custom House, and 257 watches, seized on the | does not encourage immorahty because there will | not be @ preteuce by deiendants that the theatre and opera, as conducted by plaintiffs, are not steamer ogypt on suspicion of having been smug- | worthy of al moral and legislative support. Why, pied, Judge Blatchford sat yesterday in the United States District Court jor the purpose of proceeding | then, should | we think it sbould, that the theatrical licen-e act ip is ie of revenue is void, proceed to up- | hold the stacute becanse of any considerations of lice regulation? Shall the unconstiiutioual act his Court, after determining, as | Ped vs. Plelding.—Writ of inquiry or- ered. Pursons vs. Sutton.—Proposed case and amend- ments settled. By Judge Van Vorst. Eitel ve. Bracken et al.—Order resettled. MABINE COURT—CHAMBERS, Decisions, Gross, for tue Baptured and Crippled. As it may ve By judge urged that the Legislature cousiitutioually exer: asin vs. Aurrig ds. “fie pats 's demurrer to cised powers of police regulation in ad ray ios coun! os ‘Lovie. <ikeelan! — Decessity for the license and imposing tt, the an- | Simonse WV grante Swer is, there is nothing in che business of plain- anne ana Schenck vs. Alton; Stewart, &¢., ve. Campbell — | Demurrer overruled 98 [rivulous, Jonnson vs. Hali; Schuman ve. posrees Weil vs. Lange; Schwagscnind v8. Oppenbum; Webster vs. | Yerunce.—Motions to advance granted. Bartofo vs, Gardner aud Porter vs, Wyman.— | Motions for commission granted, | Wiggins vs. venbolm.—Moiton to serve bill of | particulars granted. | Werder vs, Duncan.—Motion denied, but with- out prejudice. Lewis vs. Groszcky.—Motion to strike out | answer granted. Bearups vs. Wotton; Weaton va. Osborne.—Mo- tions granted. Bear vs. Harris.—Motion to amend answer | grauted. Meyer vs. Rouse.—Motion to serve case granted. MARINE OOUBT—PABT 2 Judgments, | Before Judge Joacnimsen, | | Blum vs, Cranelle nuactoring Company.— Judgment for piaintlf for $847 04 and costs and $25 auowance. ‘with the trial of causes on the Admiralty calendar, | Very few iawyers were present. Nota singte case : ‘ zi if | the cultivaved ciasses who nightly grace the opera | ‘was ready for trial, owing to the engagements of house or the theatres of the piaintifis, and who are | counsel, either for plaintitT or defendant, in other | compelled by virtue of this statute to contribute Of 1872 remain on the statute books not only a Haun vs. Schroeder. Standing stigma to managers, but an insult to all s. Schroeder.—Judgment for plainufl for $121 75 and costs and $25 allowance, Koehler vs. Schtuser.—Judgment tor plaintiff for $367 61 aud costs and $25 allowance, courts. The calendar will be called again to day, | moiéties of their admission moneys toward sup- | porting the juventle convicts whom the statute Yesterday Giovanni Monfaleoni and bis brother, | Eopites the former aid and abet, or else to have Vincenzo Monfaleoni, who are accused, under the the police, at the beck of this private society, sum- , . Peyd vs. Schwad.—Judgment tor plaintif® for $227 16 and costs and $25 allowance. solomon vs. Fagau,—Judgment lor plaintiff for $70 60 and costs, Glidersiceve v3. Deming.—Judgment for plainti! Extradition law, with having murdered Vincenzo | marily enter the opera house and the theatre and | for $351 60 and costs and $25 allowance. Framentano, in the streegs of Palermo, Sicily, Were brought before Commissioner White, who committed them jor examination on Wednesday mext The {acts of this case, so far as they have been developed, have already appeared in the HERALD. Rovert Brown, No.5 Dey street, was charged yesterday before Commissioner Betts with having gent a scurrilous postal card to one John Good- man. Hg was discharged on bis own recognlz- ances. William Yust, No. 553 East Pifty-fourtn street, who surrendered himself, was beid in $2,000 bail for examination by Commissioner Shields on a charge of having been concerned in illicit distilla- tion. In the case of Henry J. Salisbury, committed by Judge Murray on acharge of forging various checks of bis employers, Mitchell & Bowen, for small amounts, applicasion was made to Judge Barrett, in Supreme Court, Chamvers, for the prisoner's re- lease. The grounds 0! tae application were that the prisoner was unde!ended and was not told of his right to oral eXamination, and that neither he nor the witnesses were eXamined and tuat he was not toid the nature of the charge. Jadge Barrett Says in his decision given yesterday:—‘The ob- | sammari close them. At the Close of the argument the Court took the | papers, reserving its decision. THE AMENDED BANKRUPTCY ACT. Confiseation of Debts and the Distribu- tion ot Bankrupt Property. Yesterday a case involving the constitutionality of the recent amendment to the Baukruptcy law | came up for argument beiore Judge Blatcnford, in the United States District Court, in the matt-r of | M. Remair & Co. Under the amendment to tne | 95:1 of august, at pier 4, North River, | law in question the bankrupts proffered to pay a | tenced to the State Prison for three years, | composition to their creditors of ten per cent in cash, and two subsequent payments of ten per cent each, secured by notes, one note being pay- able mm four months and the other at eight months, Mr. Campbell, of the firm of Hilton, Campbell & Bell, appeared on behal! of certain creditors to oppose the confirmation of the proffered compo- sition by the Court. He contended that the re- cence amendment by Congress to the Bank- ruptcy act was unconstitutional, inas- much as it provided for the confiscation of debt, and not lor the distribution of the bank- rupt’s property among his creditors, which was the main and eésseatiel element of all bankrup.cy law. The surrender of such paukrupt’s property Was a principle known at the earliest period o: the Jections are reaily to the ‘orm and not to the sud- | Roman law. The Bankrupt law required the sar- stance of the proceedure, The prisoner does not aver that he demanded an examination or that be prisouer remanded.” THE THEATRICAL LICENSE FEE, This question, of sach grave importance to the- | he | render of the bankrupt’s property jor the benefit of his creditors, and, having made such surrender, shall not become liable bankruptcy. In Story’s “Commentaries” it was laid down that tne general object of all bank- Tuptey and insolvency iaw was, on the ove hand, to secure to creditors an appropriation of o | debtor's openly among them, and, on the other | hand, to relieve honest uebdtors from being perpe- tually bound to their creditors. Yhe amendment atrical managers—the question of the right ofthe | to tne ai Gel law did not fulfil any oi these Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delin- quents to compel the payment to It of theatrical licenses—is gradually reaching the final stages of | legal procedure. Some time since Judge Dononue conditions. The debtors merely said that they Would pay @ certain percentage upon their depts. Mr. Boardman, on behal’ of the debtors, con- tended that lus learned iriend, Mr. Campbell, was eutirely mistaken in saying that no bankruptcy | law provided for @ composition, fhe law of Eng- gave decision denying such right, holding tne | land provided jor such a composition, and he read @secuon of the English law to sustain lis asser- | claim unconstitutional through taxing a citizen Under toat law compositions were ire- | jor private use. An appeal was taken from tais decision and the same was argued yesterday in | Supreme Court General Term, Daniels and Lawrence. | £. Randolph Robinson opened the argument in meant, Race Jones Davi | themselves to pay to the creditors, in instalments, tion. juentiy effected by debtors with their creditors, | what was the Meaning 01 composition? It sums less than they were originally bound to pay them. In this case the composition provided for B his s an asked the magistrate the nature of the charge | pe ge iE apa ted Teri ep agaist him. The writ must be dismissed and the | debts he hi ior tne | incurred up to the period of bis | Anderson vs. Brown,—Judgment ior plainuff for | $260 and costs and $25 allowance. Reche vs. Heury,—Verdict tor plaintil $100 16 and cosis and $10 allowance, Wolf vs, Nathan.—Verdict for defendant. Motion for new trial set down lor hearing for 12tu inst. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, Barglaries and Larcenies. Before Recorder Hackets, In this Court yesterday William Burns, tried | and convicted of steaiing @ sliver watch worth | $40, from the person of Edmund sutler, on the was sen- James Sullivan, indicted for breaking into the | elgar factory of Stephen A. Bassford, on the 16th of Septemoer, pleaded guilty to an attempt at bur- | glary in the thira degree. A similar plea was accepted from William Edwards, who was jointly charged with two others | wiih G4 riously entering the grocery store of | Merrick rrs, 875 Seventh avenue, On the 19th 0! September, and stealing four and tea valued $51, | Jonn Gilmore, who on the 25th of August stole Wearing apparel valued at $28, the property of Herman Goidman, pleaded guilty to an atvempt at grand larceny. ‘Yhese prisoners were each sent to the State Prison for two years and six montis, | John White pieaded guilty to an attempt to com- Tit petit iarceny trom the person, the ailegation being that on toe 18tn of August he stole a silver | watcha worth $15, from Christopher McGuire, He was sent to the Penitentiary Jor two years. Adelaide Sands, who was employed as a domes- tic by Augusta Carpenter, at . 576 Broome street, stole a velvet cloak, worth $55, on the 2ist of September. Pleadea guilty to an attempt at | grana larceny. Sent to the Penitentiary for one ear. Owen McGinty, tried upon a charge of stealing a 1,015, on the 15th of July Brotherton, was found AS | horse and pig, Valued at | the property of Wilham guilty of an attempt to commit grand larceny, | there was no proof that the prisoner offered to | Beli the property and as witnesses were called by Mr. Hummeu to show that McGinty hada gooa | reputation for honesty, the Recorder modiflea the | punisorent to one year’s imprisonment in the enitentiary. Acquittals. Wiliam Goetling was tried upon od indictment | thumb with a pocketknife on the 18th of June, in this connection, that the debtors bound | The accused satisfied the jury that the complain- ant first assailed him and that he accidentally cut | | him. Discharged. | | Mienael Tuily, a boy, was tried upon a charge of | satisiactory indorsers upon the notes. | burglariousiy entering the Manbattan Market, in support of the appeal. ‘This, he said, 1s an appeal | POS Teer tchiord asked Row tt was to be found | Thirty-fourth street, on the 25th of July, and steal- from an order made at Special Term, on the 20th of | ous that the indorsers were satisfactory. | ing $50 worth of lead pipe, | the county of Suffolk to some other county, The youth swore that | July, 1874, continuing, pendente lite, an injunction Testraining the defendants, and each of them irom beginning or prosecuting against the plaintiff, who is the proprietor uf the place of public amuse- mentin the ctty oi New York Known as “Wallack’s Theatre,” any of the proceedings authorized by any of the sections o! chapter S56 of the laws, The sole ground upon which action 1s based, and upon which the orders granting and continuing the in- juction were made, is tiat the act in question 1s ‘unconstitutional and void. entitled “An act to regulate places of public amuse- ment in the city of New York.” It pro- vides that it shail not. be lawful to exhibit to the public, in any building, &c., within the city of New York, any dramatic periormance, &c., until a license tor the piace of such exhibition jor sach yurpose shail have been first had and obtained, | Tie Maniiest Object of the present as well as of the previous acis was to provide by taxation a Jund in aid of the Society for the Retormation of | Juventle Detinguents, it was foundea in purely | public venevolenee, and administers a purely | Mr. Boardman replied that the words “satisfac- tory indorsers” in this case, though their names | Were not set out im the composition, meant per- sons Whoee pecuniary responsibility was good, and notning more toan that. As vo the quesuon f the constitutionality of the law raised vy Mr. Campbell, he (Mr. Boardman) had \o say that 1t Was within the power of Congress to select sucn machinery as it chose for the purpose of giving | | effect to the Bankruptcy law, and this mode of The uct in question is | composition was just one of the modes for giving effect to the law. Mr. Campbell priefly replied to the argument of Mr. Boardman. He contended that, under the composition, the property of the debtors would revert back to them, and the creditors whom he represented would inen be leit to some indefinite remeay. If the debtors did not, at the end of the time specified, pay the amount of the composition, Where were they to be jound, as they would then have taken possession Oi their property and proo- @biy disposed o| it? Judge Biatchiord, who said that the point was an important one, took the papers and reserved pudiic function, having jor its object the custody | is decision. and rejoriuation of juvenile criminals commited 10 its charge by sentences of the courts and Magistrates of this state, The society bas no dis- cretion as to whether it will or will not receive sueh persons as are committed to its charge. The question thereiwre whether the imposition of a license fee upon a@ particular kind of business, and the ap | propriation of the same for the mainteaance of @ corporation created and existing for uo purpose Of private gain ur benefit whatever, but solely to administer a purely public function, and account- ground that being salaried officers, employed by | able to the State for the manner of its administra- tion, is inhibited to the Legislature by any pro- vision of the State or iederai constitution. The use in the present case, within all the authori- ties in tus State and elsewhere, 1s clearly and unquestionably a public use, and 1s not Habie to objection, even under the decisions Of whose States SUITS AGAINST THE CITY. Fifteen ex-clerks of the Board of Aldermen, 18 | whom the Board of Canvassers selected to perform } its clerical duties, and for which they were gener- ously voted $350 each for about three weeks’ work, and which the Comptroller refused to pay, on the the city, they could not receive additional pay tor Services to the city, assigned their claims to Jacov F, Oakley. With a view to get bis money, Mr. Uak- ley brought suit against the city, and the same came to trial yesterday, betore Judge Van Brunt, hoiding Part 2 Circuit of the Supreme Court. Mr. Dean, Assistant Corporation Counsel, moved to ‘Which are relied upon by the ii a as holding qismiss the compiaint, claiming the ground taken that taxes for other than public usés are nuconsti- tutional. Is, then, the charge and custody of juve- pile criminals, and the endeavor to educd Treiorm them, aud convert them ito resp Jaw abiding citizens, a purely private matter, or “the mere pursuit by inuivic branches o! business or industry, is an absence of all public inter and palpable as to be percey ery mind at the first biusli,” so as to renuer it & private use within the authorities relied upon by the other the use 1s having no hin those same authorities, it is enurely immaterial, With respect to the validity 0! tie tax, that this public use 1s delegated to and administered by a private cor- poration, and that a sarge and wh cretion ts yiven to such corporation in its adwinistration. The imposition o! a upon a business which | ministers to the juxuries apc not the uecessities | ol the peopie would seem not only nobjection- | able, but expedient, and the suggestion that in | appropriating the tax to the care of juvenile criminals the theatrical busiuess 13 stigmatized, is an unfounded inierence of tee Ivarned coun- | sel for the plaintiffs, wholly ioreign to | the benevoient purjose of tue Léegisiature. He argued iurther, that, independently of the taxing power, the act in question is valid as a police regulation, and that in tuis point of view the Legis- lature may probibit @ particular business within the State, or it may authorize it upon such terms and copditions as it deems proper, and that it may impose a @ condition the payment of money to any person or institution precisely as it may | impose any other condition deemed proper. in view of the above cases he also insisted that the Proposition that the theatrical business ia 60 en- urely disconnected from any question of public morais and pubite peace that, with respect to | | it, the Legisiatare Las no power of police regu- lation, is stmply prep sterous. If tne Legislature such power then the present act is @ valid exercise of it, and the | reqnirement of @ license fee 1s as Valid a condition as the other con- | ditions tmposed by the prior act of 1862 to “regn- | late places of puoilc amusement,” viz. :—thas Mquor shall not be sold and jemale attendants shall not be employed on the prel and the ultimate destination of the license ie¢ 18 entirely immaterial. His final point was that in no aspect of the case was the piaiuti? entitled to an injunc- tion. A, OAKBY HALL IN REPLY. Mr. Hall, for the Associated Theatrical Man- agers, argued, first, that the provisioual remedy asked and sed’ Was legally appropriate, apd the plaintiff is entitiea vo the reel demanded by his complaint. His second point was that, in any aspect, the co-delendant, the private society, could not prosecute the piaintu? nor initiate an: of the proceedings authorized by the aoresal statute, becanse tie obser co-deiendants, the Mayor, Aldermen ana Commonaity, the only party im interest that couid ceed to collect the license fee in tuon. He urged as bis third ~—s pot. that this law of 187218 void and unconstimtonal because it authorizes @ substantia: tax ior objects and uses not withio the scope of the taxing power; and takes the private property of citizens to give it toa private and local citizen corpora- tion, thereby taking the private property of one citizen and giving it to another without any com- sation, Which is 4 violation of probibitions in | Born ‘State and lederal constitutions, te aiso ar- uued tet there are | pro- | which n0 concerning the property rights of the 1g of more Sreasoenging moment— viz, W! ‘ture may thus compel or te entel or object Piller mar ineidentallv promote the genaral god is presented the inquiry than | by the Comptroller to be periectly just and proper. Sucge Van Brunt held to his views and dismissed the compiaint. Woen the above cases had been disposed of the sult of Daniel Collins, formerly Assistant Clerk to the Board of Aidermen, came on for trial. His sutt is for $202 18, being salary with interest as such clerk in 1871, and the defence was that the ap- ointment was made after June 15, 1570, when a aw Went into operation forbidding the Common Council from creating any new offices. A different view of the case was taken by Judge Van Brunt, and he directed @ verdict to the full amount claimed, ees | BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPREMB COURT —OHAMBERS, Decisions. By Judge Lawrence. ge vs. Hughsoo.—Memorandum for coun- sel By Judge Barrett. Hecker vs. Jost; Burknalter vs. Raymond; Citi- zens’ National Bank of Waterbury vs. Hamill (No 1); Same vs. sawe (bgt) ; Ryerson vs. Keskman; First National Bauk of Montgomery, Ala.. vs. Hill; Bryant vs. Fowler et ai.; and another; Scofield vs. Scofield; Meehan vs. Wright and another; Bray vs, Pouion; Haspenan va. Talpot; Esterbrovk vs. Chamberlin; Douty vs. | Forsyth; Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron | Company ve. Church; Milbank vs. Albert; Jansen ys. Watkins; Moore vs. Brett; Randell vs. Mackel- | ler; Moore vs. Waddell; Philadelphia and Reading | whereupon Mrs, McKay was held for trial. On pe- | Coal and iron Company vs. jandivode; New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company vs. Fiynn; Campbell vs. Barr; Ripley vs. Mil- dieton; Dusenbury vs. Green; Randeli vs. Mackel- lar; Benjamin vs. Joseph; Cook vs. Reid; First Nationai Bank of Montgomery, Ala., vs. Hill (No, 1); Lindiaw vs. Lindiaw; Johnson ve. Schuyler; ‘k ys. Burbank; Koberts va, Held; Ryckman vs. Schawer; bradiey vs. Sherman.—Motions vs. Moore.—Judgment | granted. Allerton and another ‘ented. | eT roCanin vs. O’Shea—Memorandum. The com- jaint and motion ig Poe are wanted. Clark vs. Pryor, &c.—Allowance of three per cent to plaintill and one per cent to defenaant. Norwalk Steam ue Company vs. Lawton Barge and Steam Uollier Company.—fotion de- Di morandum. son vs. Gassner.—Reports confirmed and ord ‘anted. Loughram ye. The Mayor, &c., New York; Gibps vs. Webber; in the matter, &c., of Morris Watson Manufacturing Company vs. Lerdell.—Memoran- ins. Salomon vs. Berg.—Motion granted. Reference red. ofstain vs Priedman; Morris vs. Steinrich.—Mo- gues. | tions aented. Geraty vs. Montgomery.—Motion granted. Memo- randam. Salomon vs, Ryder.—Motion granted. Reference ordered, In the matter of Salebury.—Writ must be dis- missed and prisoner remanded. Memorandum. Binney vs. Oimstead.—Memorandum, Myers vs. Zeaming.—Motion dented. Greene vs, Hugart.—Memoranduim, CUPERIOR OOURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decistons. By Judge Ourtis. Hegeman vs. cantrell et al.—Plaintif’s prepared issues Not aubmaitted, ‘erenond vs. Sigerson — | he ran into the place for his bali, and produced it. | 4 verdict of not guilty was rendered. TOMBS POLICE COURT. A Would-Be Murderer Captured. Before Judge Bixby. Yesterday Officer Fitch brought to court Ferrario | Petraro, an Italian, who attempted to kill aman | mamed Benson Williams. It appears that Mrs. Williams, who is tue sister-Mm-law of the injured man, keeps & boarding house at No. 248 Water street, at which Petraro boarded. Yesterday | morning he was detected in an attempt to steal $5 irom one of the boarders, and becoming frightened attempted to Jeave the house in the | atternoon with his effects. As ne was leaving Wuliams saw him and took his vallse away. Petraro became enraged, and drawing a kaoife inflicted two ugly wounds on Williams. Judge | Bixby committed the Italian to await the result of | Wilitams’ injuries. JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. The Dangers of West Street. Before Judge Smith. Michael Smail lately arrived irom Europe in the | steamer Republic, of the White Star line. He is | $0, OH, GA, OR, Oe ON e108, ‘Tl, 84, 132, 188, 134, 185, 136, 187, 185, 139, 1 SUPREME CoURK—CIRCUIT—Part 1—Adjourned until October 19, 187%. Part 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt.—Nos. 2 2156, 2158, 2163, 2104, 2170, 2172, 2178, 2180, ah. 2186, 2188, £190, 210% 2104, 2196, 2195, Part 3—Held bj waite \ohue.—Nos, 2217, 2921, 1475, 9035, i, £191, 1793, 1705, 1797, 1799, 1801, 1803, 1805, 1807, 1809, 1811, 1618, 1815, 1619, SureRion CourT—TRIAL Tsrm—Part 1—Held by Judge Moneil.—Nos, os 870, 681, O83, 6x6, 687, 689, 691, 693, 605, 607, 701, 707, 709 Part 2—Ad- journea uotu October 12, 1874, Ba: ‘TeaM.—Ad- COURT OF COMMON PL! jJourned unt Cetober 8, 1874, COMMOM PLEAS—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—Held by Judge Loew.—Nos, 1991, 1035, 600, 782, 100%, 118: 1188, 1184, 1185, 1186, 1187, 1188, 1189, 1190, 1191. Part 2—Held by Juage .—Nos. 1167, 1168, 1169, 1170, 1171, 1172, 1173, 1174, 1175, 1176, 1177, 1178, 1179, 1180, 1181, MARINE COURT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—Held by Judge Alker.—Nos, 2657, 24, 25, 68, 69, 1005, 1: | 985, 225, 10, 30, 75, 1:8, 275,'277 Part 2—Held py Judge Joachimsen.—Nos. 273, 197, 1088, 239, 1239, 1240, 200, 274, 24, 447, 1035, 290, 201, 202 293." Part $—Held ‘by Judge Spauiding.—Nos. 1037, 120034. 441, 103, 61, 1041, 294, 1116, 1011, 1097, 905, 1196, 1281, 295, CouRT OF GENERAL SEsSIons—Held by Recorder Hackett.—The People vs. Josepa Vaccari, murder; Bryson, manslaughter; Same vs, James O’Brieo, robbery; Same vs, Thomas McCarthy, feiomious assault and battery; Same vs. William Houser, burglary; Same vs. Jobn M, Ralph, burglary; Same vs, Henry Weeks, gratd larceuy; Same vs. Joho Jennings, games Farrell and Jobn Jones, grand larcen) ume Vs. Charles E, Moulton, gran ceny; Same vs. Edward Watkins. grand larceny. UYER AND TERMINER.—Ine People vs. Henry Meyer, violation of the Election laws; Same v8. James B, Lunt et als., violation of the Election laws; Same vs, Morris Kraus, violation of the Election laws; Same vs. Joha E. Warren, violation | o: the Election laws; Same vs. Michael Foiey, vio- lation of the Election laws; Same vs. Join Mc- Cabe, violation of the Election laws; Same vs. John H. Strand, violation of the Election laws; Same vs. Samuel W. Cox, violation oi the Election laws; Same vs. James Keegan, violation o1 the Election laws; Same vs. Patrick Barry, violation of we Election laws BROOKLYN COURTS. EINGS OOUNTY COURT OF SESSIONS. Narrow Escape trom State Prison. | Betore Judge Moore. | Inthe Kings county Court of Sessions, before | Judge Moore, yesterday, Joseph Warren, an alleged thief, who, the police gay, has served twenty years in the State Prison here and in New Orleans, ana William Smith, a boy, were brought up on a charge | of burglary. Tuey were found and fired at in Dr. | Olmstead’s yard, corner of Union and Henry streets, on the 30th of June last, were arrested and committed for the action of the Grand Jury by Justice Delmar. They have been in jall ever since. A jimmy was iound near where Warren was arrested, aud matcnes and candles were found in his pockets; but they had broken | hothing, had stoien nothing, and Smito was too drunk to doeitner. District Attorney Mooie asked that a nollie prosequi be entered, saying that the evidence was not sufficient to convict them. P. Keady appeared for Smith, and stated that he at least had po intention of stealing. Judge Moore lectured both on the danger of coming 10 Brook- | lyn on thieving expeditions, aud intimated that he bad no coubt of their object in entering the yard where they were found, They were then dis- charged. | Prisoners Sentenced. | Louisa Edwards, alias Mary L. Kuowlton, was sentenced to three years and six months in the | Penitentiary. The prisoner was in the habit of | sus veriiy Caer ene todo housework. After she had been a day or two in employment she | would help herself to articles of value and decamp. There were numerous complaints against her. | James Kennedy pleaded guilty to burglary and | grand larceny. He was sentenced to one year and | three mouths in the Penitentiary. KINGS OOUNTY SUPREME OOURT—SPECIAL TERM. | The Kelsey Murder—Motion to Transfer the Indictments. Before Judge Pratt. ‘Yesterday argument was heard in the Supreme charging him with cutting Adolph Ayane in the | Court, Kings county, befure Judge Pratt, on the | motion jor the removal o/ the indictments found against Royal and Rudolph Samuis for the murder of Charles G. Kelsey, of Huntingtou, L, L, and alsé for the change of venue in the trial of Dr. George B. Banks for riot and assault and battery, trom The murder occnrred in November, 1372, and the ac- cused were indicted by tie Grand Jary of Suffolk | county last winter, ‘rhe counsel for the defendants, Mr. Cuarles W. brooke, main- tained that it was tmpossible for his | clients to get an impartial trial in this case in the county named, Prejudice in the case had ex- tenaed into every phase of life there. Even fam- | ilies and churches were divided by the occar- rence. Jn support of bis assertions the counsel | read several newspaper extracts. | Ex-Attorney Geaeral Barlow appeared for the | people and strenuously opposed the motion to | trausfer the indictments. The Court took the | papers and reserved tie decision. BROOKLYN CITY COURT, The Marder of Tor-ina. Before Judge Reynolds. Yesterday San Filippo and Mendal', the two Italians who were arrested some time since on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Salvador Torrina, were taken before Judge Rey- noids, in the Brooklyn City Court, when Mr. Shorter, their counsel, moved that they ve discharged, there being no proof against them, The Judge reiused to discharge them, butemade out an order tice on or belore October 10 for examination on | | now stopping at Sweeny’s Hotel in Chatham street. Mr. Small left the hotel last evening to go over to where the steamer Republic is lying, at | the foot of Christopher street. In the saloon of | the White Star House in West street, near Tenth, | Mr. Small met a@ sailor named David Phieian, em | | ployed on board the Republic, and witn whom he | | Was acquainted. They had several drinks to- gether, in which the barkeeper and several others Who were hanging around the piace joined. When Mr. Smali pulled out the money to pay for | the drinks he brought from iis pocket | a gold chain, valued at $: David Phielan asked to look at the chain, and when it was handed him he put it in his pocket. The owner requesied Phielan to give the chain back, wherenpon Phielan, | the barkeeper, Peter Doyne and several others, 1t | is alleged, attacked Mr. Small. knocked him down on the floor, rifled his pockets of his papers and | every valuable about his person, including @ gold chaih which was around his neck, and fifteen | sovereiens. In the work of plunder these despera- | does tried to force the rings off his fingers. Ofiicer | Laird, of the Ninth precinct, yesterday morning | arrested the sailor, David Phiélan, and the bar- keeper, Michael Doyne, Phielan was held by Judge Smith in $2,000 ball to answer on a charge of grand Jarceny, and Doyne was held to answer on charge 01 assault and battery. | PIPTY-SEVENTH STREET POLICE count, A Successtul Swindle. Before Judge Murray, Hannah McKay, of No, 232 East Twenty-ninth | street, was charged with deirauding Mary Smyth, | | of No. 240 East Thirty-sixth street, out of $30. Mrs, | Smyth testified that she purchased a sewing ma chine from the defendant for $30, and this mach‘ne | she represented to be her own property. Subse- | quently @ deputy sheriff, under the authority ot a | civil process, took from her the machine, ana it then cratespired that it had only been rented py | Mrs. McKay from the manufacturers. An agent of the machine company made affidavit to this fact, | | | ing asked by an officer What she had done with | the money the prisoner replied that it was none of | his business. The Little Flower Giri’s Protector. | On Monday evening iast a little flower girl en- | tered @ ballroom on avenue A, where a large | number of young men and young women were en- | joying themselves. While soliciting the custom of those present she was approached py Charies | Feeney, of No. 540 East Sixteenth street, wuo | made insulting remarks to her. George ell, | of No, 423 East Fourteenth street, ordered Feeney | to desist, and on his reiusing several of Gravel’ trienas assisted him in ejecting the iellow. Whie | being forced irom the room the latter drew a knile | | and stabbed Gravell tn the leit cheek twice, cut- | ting lim severely. Feeney was arrested and held | for trial at this Court. | A Trio of Juvenile Robbers, George Hill, Thomas Brown and James Neary, three boys, were placed at the bar charged with the robbery of a valise containing ninety dollars | worth of wearing apparel. The vaiise belonged to Miss Washbourne, of 103 Kast Twenty-first street. She gave it to an express man to have it deitvered at her house, but the expressman instead of taking | it bimseif sent hts young son with it. The prison- | | ers attacked the boy aud tuok it away irom him | by force and violence and pawned the property in ir, Several o1 Mrs. Klien Townsend, who wtih them wis arrested and brought to court yesterday. Mrs, Townsend was discvarged and the three boys were com- COURT CALENDABS—THIS Day, SurnEMe Count—Cuampens—Held by Judge Bar- | mond, KR A. Biekneli ve. Lancaster City and County Insurance Company, Jaue K. Taylor vs. Join Hoey. the tickets were sold vy tiem to, the petition of the deiendants. lt isordered tnata | complaint be preterred against them tor the crime alleged to have been committed. It is said the peanere Willbave an examination before Judge oore. Deputy SheruY Tuorn was present tn the City Court with an order 0; arrest on the part of the United States authorities cuarging San Filippo and Mendali with counters feiting, The prisoners have no money, but =Mesers. Kosso| & Lonzirottt have become responsible tor the counse! fees. Rosso is the proprietor of the grocery store in James street, New York, and is the brother-in-law of San Filippo. Lonzirotti is a feather brosh manufac- turer, and resides in East New York. They beiteve the prisoners to be entirely guiltiess of the mur- der, Whether tuey will be abie to prove they had no connection with the counterteiting den in Franklin avenue, where the police discovered couuterieiting stones aud presses, remains Ww be seen. Chauramenti, who was arrested last week, on & charge Oo! being concerned in the marder, will % arraigned beio.e Judge Moore on Friduy, Before Judge mcCue. | Field vs. Kinsella. Yesterday morning the suit of Thomas W. Field, Superintendent of Public Schools, against Thomas | Kinsella, ex-Postmaster of Brooklyn, for $50,000 | damages lor alleged seduction of the wife ot the plainud, was called. Counsel for deieudant, Wii chester Britton, answered that they were ready. Judge Emott also announced that he was ready, but requested that tne case be placed at the en of the calendar. The prooapbility is that the case will not be reached ts term, the calendar beng very heavy. COURT CALENDARS—THIs DAY. | Krxas CouNTY SUPREME COURT.—Nos. 38, 43, 46, Ey, 4 4, 60, 61, 52, 68, St Bb, 62, 8%, 66, 804 60, 1, 62, BROOKLYN Crry CovRT.—Nos. 43. 44, 54, 58, 62, 64, 41, 11, 65, 68, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 60, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93. COURT OF APPEALS. Decisions. Aupany, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1874. The following decisions were handed down to- day in the Court of Appeals:— Judgment afirmed witn costs.—Alvin C. Bradley, Supervisor, &c., vs. Ward et al.; Victor Vincent vs. Allred B, Sands, John St. Peter vs. Henry D. Denison, Joseph Taussig et al. vs. Will W. New- combe et al., Joseph P. Steanam et.al. va, Watson Saniord, Theodore D. Hadly vs. Joseph Barton, William Jenning et al., &c., vs. Alex. Whittemore, &c, ; John E, Bilas vs, Charlick Lawrence, The Sait | Spring National Bank of Syracuse vs. William H. eet eae a Le by pithy ce hg &C., VS. Peter Hadney, &c.; William Koenig vs. Adam Steckel etal, Elien Andrews vs. Daniel W. Ray- Judgment reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide event.—Kobert M, Masterton va the Vil- | lage of Mount Vernon; The Dutcuess and Col. | Raiiroad Company vs. James Maboett; Daniel | Batton ve. Edward Baxter et al; Thankinl P | Cook vs. Chester C. McClure; ‘l, M. Davis, Re- ceiver, &c., vs. Ainsworth brown et al.; John J. Weber vs. the New York Central and Hudson River Kauroad Company; Joun A. Foster vs. John B. Nerbrouga. Judgment armed with costs of both parties to be paid out oi the eatate.—Wiiliam H. Learned et al, executors, &c., vs. Abby J. Bell et al. Motion granted, with $10 cost of one motion.— Edwin L. buttertield vs. W. Rodde, and one other case against the same defendant. Motion denied, with $10 costs.—Kiiza EF. Ehle vs. The Trustees of the Village of Canajuuarie, Order of General Term affirmed and judgment abroiute on stipulation, with costs.—Inomas Mar- tin et al. vs, Angus Smith et al. ret.—Nos, 64, 96, 92, 118 Cail 182, SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TeRM—Held by Ju | | matted as Vagrants. The property was recovered. | es Davia. Daniela and i.awrence,—Nos, 6% 74 76 77. Order of Genera Term, 80 fur As it sets-aside the Joe ent entered upon order of Judge Rumsey \ and directs further trial of issues at Syscial Term, Same vs. Edward Quim, murder; Same vs, Henry | tare | 74.—TRIPLE SHEET. reversed, and order of ern ae SY atanding near fhe Park svenue, West Hoboken, a denies motion to vacate jadgment ente! by thief named Martin Darcy jumped inte the vehicle direction of Judge Bumsey, afirmed, withou' Hi pe ‘= ihe costs of subsequent procecdings to ether and drove away. He was ang Peg ‘Eee the other.—Jobn Parker va James e committed for tr eta. g @re abundant in the northern part of Hucson Order affirmed with costs,—George Carpenter | Sounty. ve. Theodorick Engelskircher. Order of General Term reversed and judgment on rt of referee afirmed with eosis.—Urian O, Whitlock vs. James Hay, dismissed with costs.—J. Butler executors, &¢., v8, Daniel L. Gardner et Calendar. Court of Calendar for Wednesday, Oct. Te Roa MeL too a 129, 160, mae 178 GENERAL AGRAMONTE IN COURT. Yesterday afternoon the Tombs Police Court Was graced by the presenceof General Agra- monte, the Cuban patriot. He came over from Brooklyn to file an aMdavit against Antonio Borje, a Cuban cigarmaker, whom ne charges with having stolen $50 worth of jewelry (rom his rest- dence at No, 65 York street, Brooklyn. The Gen- eral knew the Jewelry had been stolen, but was not sure who was the culprit. On the night on which the trinkets disappeared Borje was the General’s guest, and although suspicion attached to him the host was loath to make any accusa- tion, Yesterday, however, he was informed by Mr. Antonio Ro: rigueT, of No. 134 Christie street, that Borje had sold hime pawn ficket for some | trinkets which were the same as had been stolen— to: wit, a ring and earrings. On going to the A nt etal THE STATE TAXES. Equalizing the Assessments—Tax Com- missioner Andrews Advocates the Rew 1 of the Law Taxing Personal Prop- erty—Important Statistics. As stated tn yesterday's HERALD the Committee on Ways and Meane of the Assembly, consisting of Messra. Batchelor, Beebe, Spencer, Prince, Brewer, Alvord, Lincoln and Blumenthal, met yes- terday in the Aldermanic Ohamber of the City Hail, pursuant to adjournment om the day pre- ; Vious. Thetr session in this city 1s beld pursuant to a resolution passed by the Assembly to investi- gate the question of State assessments with @ | view to their equalization in the different counties | of the State. General Batchelor, chairman of the committee, presided, A large number of eminent | citizens were present, among them ex-Speaker | Husted, Tax Commissioners Wheeler, Andrewa and Moulton, Aldermen Otteudorier and Koch, Isaac Sherman, Cyrus Clark and others interested in tho question of taxation, Mr. Anarews addressed the commitvee tn an pawn shop Rodriguez recogniztd the articles end brought the General to do the same. Upon | able and exhaustive speech, fully setting iorth these facts the joint atidavtt was filed, Bocje | every requirement in the premises, He said that was arrested, and Judge Bixby committed Lim for trial in default of bail. NEW YORK CITY. he appeared before them as an individual and a taxpayer, and not as a member of the Board of Tax Commissioners, to which he belongs, He Eight full lots on Eighty-etghth street, between Fiith and Madison avenues, have been sold to Am nold & Constable for $96,000, all casty The Rapid Transit bill heretofore reported as vetoed is not the Gilbert Elevated Rauroad bill, but the oue in relation to “Spear'’s Travelling Sidewalk.” Rev. Edward Eggleston, author of the “Circuit Rider” and other admirable pictures of Western life, will give a lecture, with humorous recitations, to-morrow evening, at Bedford street Methodist church, in aid of the Sunday school. Information has just been received from Albany that Governor Dix has aM™xed his signature to the act passed by the Legislature last winter, con- | firming and legalizing the opening, widening and | straightening of the Kingsbridge road, from 155th street to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and authorizing the Department of Public Works to proceed with the improvement of the road. To-day Columbia College Law School opens. | Judge Dwynt, who was lately appointed by Gov- | ernor Dix as Commissioner of Appeals, is still the | director and lecturer at the school, which bis abu- ity has made the foremost seat of legal learning tn Ameiica. Last year 190 young men trom all pari | of the Union were graduated and all admitted to | the Bar by the Supreme Court, | Ata meeting of citizens of the Fifth Assembly | | district, hela last evening, Mr. Jawes D. Malone was called to the chatr. Resolutions were unan- platform and candidates and warm and earnest support. The mecting also | name of ex-Coroner Nelson W. Young as a candi- | date for Alderman at Large, and expressed its aversion and disapproval of the press gag law. Yesterday morning Coroner Kessler held an in- No, 6 Amity street, whose death, last Saturday morning, was regarded by some of the relatives as being somew showed most conclusively that death resulted Jrom natural causes, and the physicians, it a) Telatives seemed fully satisfied at last that every- snag possible had been done to save the life or eas BROOKLYN. Registrar of Arrears William O. Little reports the amount received for arrears of taxes, assess ments, water rates, &¢., dur! the past week as | being $72,167. = ne R | John Hawkins, thirty years of age, was arrested on Monday last on complamt of Mrs, Kate Arongo, of No. 511 Lafayette avenue, charged with at- imously passed endorsing the State democratic | ledging them a | very heartily commended to the democracy the | quest in the case of Mra. Elizabetn Sacket, late of | at suspicious. The testimony | peared, treated the oase with great skill, and Bis i should advere to hard facts, and give them thé weight they deserve intrinsically. The burden of | State taxation piesses ee vig on. 8 e sections, on account of lis Tneqality. ‘he ee ah was not 80 much with the law as the administration of tt. He claimed that this city was taxed greatly in | excess compared with other parts of the State. Here and there there mignt be a town as highly | asseased, but that did not affect his statement that | New York was too highly assessed. This city ts assessed at tie rate of sixty per cont of the nom- inal or market value of its properry, while prop- ; erty iu some of the counties was assessed as | low as fifteen per cent. He then spoke of exemp- | tions, and gave the value oi church property in | tnis city at 50,000,000; churches, almshouses, schools, industries, &., at about the same amount; United states property at $14,000,000, amd city | property at $15,000,000, These large eXempuons | make the taxcs so much heavier on the ovher property, and he claimed a reduction should be made {in these exemptions. Tue Young Men’s Christian Association building and Academy of | Design are exempt. The income of the tormer from stores, &¢., is $63,000 a year, and some churches | have tenement house property, and even their | basements are used for business purposes and bring in revenue. Where this is the case, he | claimed taxes snould be imposed. On the other ‘hand, ne thougnt that all private hospitais and | Charitable institutions, where persons are taken in and cared lor without payin should be seemah irom taxation on the broad ground o1 | charity. | ‘fhe Chairman interrogated the speaker about Columbia Uollege, to which Mr. Andrews replied that the entire one hundred acres owned by that institution were exempt. . In reiation to Trinisy church Mr, Andrews said | that only the church property proper was exempt. | The Trinity church corporation was taxed on iour | hundred lots, The speaker remarked further that the Increase of State tax renders revision becessary. The pres- ent law jor real estate is good—* full and true valuation in State and in city, the sum for which such property tn ordinary circumstances would seiL” Itis preposterous to suppose that nearly one-half the value of real estate in this great stato | is to be found on this island of 13,000 or 14,000 | acrea, and yet this city pays one-half the State tax. ‘Ifhe was asked how to insure uniformity, he would answer he did uot know under the present aystem of choosing assessors in this State. On the subject of personal property, Mr. An- drews hkened the present iaw to a tub without a bottom. It ts held togetuer by the cohesion of habit, custom or usage, and could not siand & shake. The inequality of taxation on personal pr¢ ty | was demonstrated by Mr. Andrews by the submis sion of tne following important table:— 100,000 imported goods, and is exempt. 100,000 miscellancous goods, and 1s taxed, 100,00) zoo is consiznea, and is exempt D has $100,000 goods which he owns, and 1s taxed. ae i¥),U00 koods manufactured in New Jersey, and exem| i é Ite peck bas $10,000 goods manufactured in this city, and is tempting to kidnap her daughter. taxed. sé 4 | "G'has $100,000 goods, for whith he filed coupon United to the effect that they be taken be‘ore some jus- | A reception will be tendered Rev. Dr. Cuyler at his chureh this evening in honor of his retarn | from Europe. Quite an array of musical talent will be in attendance to swell the chorus of wel- come to the pastor. The contractor for the annual snpply of groce- ries to the Commissioners of Charities has discoy- ered that he cannot afford to furnish tea at fitteen | cents per pound, and therejore seeks to be re- | lieved irom the obligation by the Bourd of Super- visors. In the tax levy last year $125,000 was raised for the maintenance of the Park, and in the three- quarters of a year which have elapsed the money has been expended.’ The Commissioners bave conseyuently been compelled to discharge nearly all their employés. | A fire broke out at an early hour yesterday morning in the building occupied as a foundry by | G. B. Reeves, No. $5 Furman street. The flames extended to the adjoining house, leased by Beach & Nostrand. manulacturers of sarsapariila, The damage to the iatter structure, which 18 owned by Thomas Messenger, 18 $1,500. Mr. Reeves! loss is about $200 and that of Beach & Nostrand about $200, The origin of the fire is not Known. LONG ISLAND. School district No. 25 of the town of Brookhaven ig to be abolished, the territory which it comprises having been assigned between two adjoining dis- tricts. Fireplace district, in the same town. Is to have a new schoolhouse, 27 by 34 feet, with twenty- foot p' sig. ‘The water rates for the village of Floshing, as determined by the engineer, Mr. Ketcham, are as jJollows:—For a one story building, $5 per annum; one story anda hall, $6 60; two stories, $8; two and a hali stories, 39; three stories, $10; three and a half stories, 312, The crop of appies in most parts of Long Island is @ Very heavy one, and, as prices are not suiil- cient to pay Jor the labor of picking and market- ing the tail varieties, thousands of bushels will be leti to rot, while other thousands will be made into elder. @iready busy, STATEN ISLAND. John Livingston, of East Brooklyn, was yester- Gay sent to the County Jail by Justice Kane tor the term of thirty days for stealing two geese at Clifton. A target company, composed of hatters from Newark, visited Becntel’s Park at Stapleton yesterday for practice, the first of the season on Staten island, | Mr. Jonn Hase, an old resident of Clifton, who | recently fell rom the steps of the bank at Staple- ton, dislocating his thigh ana injuring his spine, ig still confined to hig house and his condition is 80 serious that i¢ is eared he will be disabled ior Mie. Mr. Credo, the village tax-collector of Edge- water, will sit for the last time to-day at the vil- lage hall in Stapleton for the reception of taxes, with one per cent added. Hereaiter five per cent will be charged. The increase in Valuation made | by the State Assessors put the rate a fraction higher than jast year, NEW JERSEY. New Brunswick is about to erect a $100,000 hotel. Eleven criminals were sentenced to tne State Prison, in the Burlington County Courts, just ciosed. The Hoboken Common Council settled their quarrel with the Police Commissioners last even- Pn! oy. consenting to pay all the policemen their salaries. An itinerant glazier, heavily laden with glass, While inspecting the upper story windows in | River street, Hoboken, tumbled into a coalnole tn the sidewalk and mashed nis prittle ware and a few iingers. ‘The travelon the Delaware and Raritan Canal has been lighter last month than for any corre- Libel 8 time in flve years past. Coal fraMc on the Beividere and Delaware Railroad has also | been very small. | Henry Fredie, of Orange, narrowly escaped | drowning last evening, having fallen into the North | River at te foot of Newark street, Hoboken. Cap- tain McDonough vesoued him in a dying condition. There is no protection for foot passengers at the place. During the monwh of Sepvembsr the Overseer of The mills jor the latter purpose are | States bonds, aud is exeinpt. pats, $102.00) goods, which ho sold United States nds Day tor, ant 1s taxed. Thas 100,00 in ships plying from this port, but regis- tered in Bos'on, and ts exempt, i | , J nas $.00,00) in ships piytug in Pacific, bat registered | here. and is taxed. K has $10),cW mortgages on New Jersey property, in- terest paid in Jersey City, and mortgages de,osited there. and is exempt, and is taxed. pt. L has $100.10) mortgages on city prover: M has $100,00) money 1 bis pocket, and Is exempt. | N has $100,000 mouey in bank, und 1s taxed. © has $1000 certificates 0: deposit in Sab-Treasury, | and is exempt. : P $100,000 certificates deposited in bank, and ts taxed. ‘ 2 his $100,000 specie in the Assay Office, and ls ex empt i¢ has $190,000 specie in his aafe, and is taxed. yt hus $14,lw check on the Unked states Treasury, and | exempt | *"has'$100.000 cheek in bank, and is taxed. | U has $100,000 in Tressury noes, and isexempt, V_ has $10/,00) luepromissorv notes, and 1s taxed. | W has $1000) in Untted states bonds, and ia exempt. |X as $100,000 in State or city bonds, and Is taxed. | ¥ has $1000 In certiticates of indebtedness, United | States, and isexempt, Z has $100,000 in certificates of indebtedness of @ cor- | poration. and 1s taxed. Mr, Andrews in continuation said:—“Can you | call this asystem? Is thts jast? Is this equitable? | Can any person administer such a mediey satis- | factory? The present law obstructs enterprise | by hindering loans on mortzages—the only deot a | man oaght never to incur uniess be be engaged in | business. One county retuses to assess mortgaves, | Yon must be convinced that the present method 13 morivund ; you caDnot patch it up; you cannot ‘cure it, ‘axing all visible and tangible property Without deducing _—. is in- equitavie, and would arouse pposition, | You are to consider what ought to be done and What can be done. New Jersey, Connecticut and | Pennsylvania tust infueuce and iargely control your activn. As an abstract proposition, personal property shoutd pay its share, but, by cause be- yond your control, it 1s made tmpossibie. Taxation in New York is driving people out of the city to live. Capitalisis caa protect tuemselves. but most shopkeepers convot 80 easily. Since 1853 thirty- five coun‘ies have reduced tie assessments on per- sonai property $18,8c0,423, while Albany, Niagara, Onondaga, Orange, Orleans, St. Lawrence, Wash- ington, Westchester and Wyoming have remained stationary. Tue country has ocen the first to break down tue law.” He made the tollowing sugges- tions :— First—Would amend the law to deduct the as- | sessen value of the real estate of corporations and tax all corporations on the same principle as banks, | aud tax all corporations directly vy the State | througn the same State oflicors, ac two per cent. | Second=-Would exempt, all manufacturing cor- | poratious manntacturing in this State, third—Would repeal all other laws for taxing | Personal property. This method of taxation would yteld $7,000,000. | ana as the State tax must diminisa this tax would soon pay the Whole State tax. | Mr. Andrews concluded by stating that tne State tax on New York had increased $193,957,601 | in the jast twenty-one years, while in the other ; counties of the state it had decreased $18,500, 423, Mr. Isaac Sherman, @ wealthy retired New York | citizen, then took the floor, and in @ most inetd, | practical and clear manner advocatec the repeal | Of taxation on personal property, speaxing on the eubject some time, after which the committee took @ recess until three o'clock. On organizing after recess, Mr. Alvord moved that when this committee adjourns finaily tt ad- | journ to meet on Thursday, the 12tn prox., which ‘was adopted. Mr. Sherman then continued his address for a when the Seventh regiment nove tn | short time, sight, and the meeting adjourned untu ten o'clock | this morning. Long {sland Equalization. The table exhibiting the equatized value of reat and personal property in the various counties o! | the State, as determined aot a meeting of the Board oi Equalization, held at Albany, on the 25th | of September, shows that the valuations in Suffolk county have been reduced by the sum of $469,087, which will effect a material reduction in the amount of State taxes in that county. The num ber Of acres of land assessed Is 438,164; assessed value of real estate as made by the town asses- BOTS, $10,099,887; assessed Value Of personal prop: erty, $1,057,800; aggregate assessed value of prop- ertyin the county, $12,057,687; amount deducted from assessed value of rea! estate, $459,087; equai- | \zed Value of real estate, $9,040,800; total equal- | lwed value of real and Porsunai property in the | county (on which taxes will be levied), $11,598,600; | Jull value of real estate as estimatea by | the state Assessors, $22,954,238, The dgures | tor Queens county are as lollows:—Acres of lana | Ssseased, 119,174; assessed value O1 real estate, | $22,207,8' to which bus been added by the State | Assessors the sum of $2,664,044, waxing the equal- | ized valuation $24,872,514; asse: value of per | sonal afroperty, $3,858,788; total e@ualized value | of real and personal property, 729,507; toll | Value Ol real estate as estabilshed by tne brate | Assessors, $59,220,"36. The figures for Richmond | county are a8 foilows:—Acres of iand assessed, 80,203; assessed value O/ real estate, $6,794,109, to | which’ i added by the State Assessors $816, assesse the Poor of the city of Trenton has afforded relief | Making the equalized vaiue $7,009,502: to 125 perraanent end 160 transient people; tramps wore accommodated at the deaging Poors, and the coat of proviaiong amounted bdo, Turty-two inmates aro now in the Almshouse, | While Wiliam Qiarkeon’s hame and bugey were 100 | Value of personal property, $526,245; total equal- ized value 0: real and personal pro; 134, 747 | full value of real eatate us established sche State 0 eens al 0 counties have been vary cnnisaraaly inoreased~