The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1874, Page 14

“THE COURTS. jE Ra ee. Ex-8heriff Brennan’s Bills—Refusai of the Board of Audit to Pass Them. THE PRUSSIAN EXTRADITION CA John Dunstan and Joseph Quinn were charged yesterday beiore Commissioner Shieids with hav- Ing in their possession, aud also with passing and selling as money, certain bills made in the simili- ‘tude of $5 Treasary notes, The notes were well executed. The accused were held in $5,000 bail each for examination. Jadge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, granted yesterday an injunction restricting the Mayor and Commonalty of Brooklyn from keeping closed at night the Wallabout drawbridge. Messrs. Joseph H. Choate, Nathaniel Hoxie and George W. Soren have been appointed by the Generali Term of the Supreme Court to examine candidates for admission to the Bar. They will commence their duties as such examiners on the ‘17th inst, in the General Term Room. EX-SHERIFF BRENNAN’S BILLS, Several months ago ex-Sherif Brennan finding the Board of Audit would not give the sanction of ts audit and approval to his bill as Sheriff for the first Quarter of 1872, amounting to some $63,000, although the same had already received the ap- proving indorsement of the Board oi Supervisors, applied to Judge Daniels, then holding Supreme Court, Chambers, for a mandamus directing the Board of Audit to audit the same. Strong opposi- won was made to the application, and various aMdavits submitted setung forth certain alleged facts and statistics as the basis of such op- position, It was argued that papers in auswer to the charges made against Mr. Brennan should be presented by the latter's counsel, and a Teasonabdie time Was allowed for doing so, Judge Daniels, a8 Che “equel shows, has waited for these answering pare!* until he Was tired waiting any longer, He ser ordingiy gave his decision yester- ver; brief, but comes direct to the PoiLt, a8 follows :— “This motion was made before me five months ago. The rejator’s papers were to have been im- Mediately sent in jor consideration and decision. That never nas been done, although on one occa- sion | requested the applicant's counsel to suppiy them. It probabiy is not designed that papers shail be admitted for decision, and the motion May as weil ve denied.” The strongest affidavit in opposition to ex- Sheriff Brenpan’s claim was that of County Au- @itor Farle. if Was publisied in jull at the time im the HEKALD, but a résumé of its contents is mot without interest. Mr. Earle says that his atrention was first ar- rested on observing ln the bilis of the Commission- ers of Charities and Correction an item for re- pairs of wagons used in the transportation of risoners, jor which service the Sherif! had made large charges in his bills. This led him to in- quiries and discovery of facts which made it his @uty not to ailow the vouchers in the said bills. When tbe bills came beiore him there were no | other proofs except the bills themselves, the afti- davits of Mr. Brennan, and the approval of the Bupervisors, and from inquires made of Mr, McGowan, Clerk of the Supervisors, be believed the bills were audited without any other proof than the Sherif’s affidavits. The pills charge $11,987 | for reporting 23,974 convictions in Oyer and Ter- miner, General and Special Sessions, at filty cents each, whereas Mr. Earle says, trom iniormation derived from the Secretary of State’s office, the number of convictions did not exceed 20.201, and 29,980 Police Court convictions, at twelve anda halt cents each, are charged, whereas during that mine months no reports of Police Court convic- tions were made, except in so far as they were embraced in the Court of Special Sessions convic- tions, which were only 1,874. Mr. Earle believes the whole number of convictions during the nine months was less than 20,000, instead of nearly 64,000, as charged for. Moreover, there 1s a charge ' Of $31,641 75 for conveying 18,081 persons to prisons other than the State Prison, at $1 75 each, whereas these prisoners were conveyed by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, and only the 2,100 —— convicted in Oyer and Ter- miner, General and Special Sessions, in 1872, were | had given her a present of the house they lived in, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET. Company, of the city of New York, procured an order oi attachment from the Court of Common Pleas, by virtue of which the plaintiff was ar- rested by the Sheriff of the city, being taken from hls residence at about four o'clock A.M. and im- prisonea in the Snerii’s office until one o'clock P.M. toe same day. It also appeared that previous to the arrest of the plaintiff the Graphic Company nad recovered an attachment against one P. H. Alien for the sum Of $80, and that, Jor some malicious cause unex- plained, the plaintiff was arrested Jor not appear- ing in answer to an order trom the Court of Com- mon Pieas “why he should not be taken lor con- temp!.”’ Counsel Jor piaintif said his client was & man of high respectability, Whose reputation was beyond reproach, and was injured in his reputa- tion by occasion vt the arrest and imprisonment to the above amount. The plaintiff was but partialy examined, when | the further erty 3 of the case was adjourned in | consequence of the avsence of the Sheritt,.who made the arrest, TOMBS POLICE OOUBT. Rather Hasty. Before Judge Bixby. Mr. Charles Scannell, a cierk for the Easton Hotel, was brought to Court yesterday charged with stealing from Mrs. Reaper $30. It appears that Mrs. Reaper was a boarder at the hotel of which he is clerk, and having broken & besa on | glass was charged $10 ter the same. Scannell) Went to her room to collect the money, and sue remonstrated with him ebout the large compensa- tion he asked for the broken glass. Scannell did not deign to answer her, but snatched all the money she had in her hand. She had bim arrested jor rovbery, and the Judge held him for trial. JEFFERSON MABKET POLIOE COURT, A Robber Arrested. Before Jadge Smith, On the 25th of August last, while Herman Gold- mann, of No, 92 Chatham street, was standing on the corner of West Twelfth street, he was assaulted by two men and robbed of a bundle which he had upon his back and which contained twelve yards of velveteen, two pairs of taloons, six shirts and other articles, in all valued at $29 50, One of the thieves named Jolin § Giimore Was arrested at the tme and has since been gent to the State Prison. The ‘other, Henry Watson, alias Wiliiam Galiagher, eluded ar- Test until Friday night, when he was taken into custody. He was arraigned at the Jeiferson Mar- ket Police Court yesterday and held in $3,000 buil to answer, Silver Shavings. Alexander Pesaut, who was arrested on Thurs. day night on a charge of stealing a large quantity of silver from his employers, B. K. Bienerkase & Co.. of Nos. 7 and 9 Bond street, was arraignea yesterday, and, pleading guilty to a charge of grand larceny, was committed, without bail, to FIFIY.SEVENTH STREET POLIOE COURT. A Much Persecuted Jew—Trying to Con- vict Him on False Hair. Belore Judge Murray. Louis Warzshaur, a wealthy old Jew, residing on the corper of Lexington avenue and Sixty-first Street, Was arraigned in this Court yesterday tor the third time. Several months ago he was ar- rested at the instance of his wife, who charged him with being @ habitual drunkard and with abusing her. At the examination it transpired that Warzshaur, in a moment of overflowing good nature and love for his wife, on discovering that she was ip an tnteresting condition, worth $40,000, Various other presents of great value were also made to her by the over iond hus- band, and she adimitted that such was the fact. The trouble was not fully settled when an event occarred that, instead of being a blessing, brought in its train additional troubles to poor Warz- shaur. His wie was confined of a son, and sne claimed that the birth was premature owing to i treatment from cer husband, who had beaten her. He was arrested on complaint of her brother on a charge of assault and battery upon her; but agaim justice, tf the allegations set forth were true, ‘was not sausfied, ‘Ihe wite did not appear and the complaint was dismissed, Warzshaur thought himself @ much abused in- dividual, and now wished to take the offensive. He Imagined bis wile and brother-in-law were con- Spiringto sead him on the Island, so that they could bave fall control of his property and tbe Fevenues derived irom it. He hoped the Court would protect him. He was then dismissed, but | James B.Hergesheimer, maticious misenie!, pleaded not guilty; Conrad Steurbach, indicted for rape, Pieaded not gui.ty; Bernard McKenna, gambing, | Pleaded not guilty; Annie Stinger, arson, pleaded Dot guilty; Geo, 5, Secuamen, Philip Stark and A. V. Richards, robbery tn the first ge 9 pleaded not Francis Harrigan, Robert Kane, George nett, James Keenan, Patrick Murphy, indicted for attempting to rescue & prisoner from'a police- man. The above cases Were set down for trial on the 22d inst, OITY OOURT, Decisions, By Judge McCue, Abraham Greenhall ve. Henry C, Foster.—Judg- ment for Leyte on demurrer as frivolous. James McGill vs Jobn Donovan.—Default opened on terms. Simeon H. Butler vs, Washington J. Butler and another.—Motion lor leave to discontinue as to one defendant granted on payment of costs. Jane Cross vs. George W. Cross.—Referee’s re- port confirmed, and judgment for limited divorce granted on the ground of cruel and inbuman treatment, R. Stuart Wills referee. ~ KINGS COUNTY SURROGATE’S COURT. Business Last Week—Charitable Be- quests, Before Surrogate W. D. Veeder. During the past week the wills of the following named persons, deceased, were proved;—Jobn Dogherty, James Carlin, Reuben Payne, Jane Craner, Robert &. Story, David Wood, Valentine 1. Hall, Margaret Peppard and Janet Thomson, all of the city of Brooklyn. In the will of Janet Thomson she bequeaths $1,000 to be equally divided between the Brooklyn Society for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indi- gent Females and the Children’s Aid it 6 ‘the city of New York. Liable In the will of Jonn Dogherty Laie the follow- ing bequesta:—To the Second United Presby- terian \church, Brooklyn, $500; to the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, $250; to the Old Ladies’ Home, founded by Jonn Graham, i the city of Brooklyn, $250; residue of estate to the Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and Board of Home Missions of the same church, Letters of administration were granted on the estates of the lollowing named deceased persons— viz., Honora Keegan, ol the town of New Utrecht; Sarah A, Beaver, of Arlington, Hudson county, N. J.; William A. Brooks, Henry A, Thomas, Jonn Vertingneber, Delia Eagney, Herman Koehler, Theresia Hermann, Richard W. Moore, Catharine Seeuken, Eagene Brennan, Anthony Werneken, Sarab Williams and Elizabeth McKinney, all of the city of Brooklyn. Letters o! guardianship of the person and estate of Jennie B. Chase and Nelly L. Chase were granted to Sidna Chase, their father, all of the city of Brookiyn. NEW YORK CITY. Marshal Conklin, of the License Bureau, during the week ending yesterday granted 1,330 licenses, and received therefor $2,922 60. The police during the past week arrested only 1,812 person of both sexes in this city for various offences. “Is civilization a failuret” Hymen 1s still on the rampage in this vicinity, and succeeded during the week in making 203 couples happy by joining them in “‘holy wedlock; ‘for better or for worse.” The New York “Journalistic Fraternity” yester day changed their name to the “‘New York Press Club.” This club is composed of reporters and newspaper men generally, Commissioner Matsell will Introduce a resolu- tion at the next meeting of the Police Board re- lieving doormen from the unliorm order and giv- ing captains a discretionary power in the matter. As prophesied in the HERALD a week ago, steerage passengers were taken to Liverpool yes- verday for $10 a head. What next Saturaay’s rates will be remain to be seen; probably they will be $8 or $9, There are three vacancies in the Peabody Home, corner of Thirty-third street and Lexington ,ave- nue. The application of respectable Protestant women not ander sixty-five years ol age will be considered immediately. Messrs. Joseph H. Choate, Nathaniel Hoxte and George W. Soren, appointed by the General Term of the Supreme Court to examine candidates for admission to the Bar, will sit lor that purpose at eleven A. M, on the 17th inst. conveyed at the S herif’'s expense, and those con- victed by the magistrates and’ those sent to Randall's Isiand were not conveyed by the Sheriff, but he simply ascertained the number of wentences, as Mr, Harie believes, and charged con- ‘veyance tor all. : AN EXTRADITION CASE. —_-—+ Yesterday the case of Herman Thomas, who bad been charged with having committed forgery in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Prussia, and for whose | extradition on that charge an order had been gigned by Commissioner White, was heard on ha- beas corpus before Judge Blatehford, Mr, Brooke, | counsel for defendant, made an elaborate argu- ent to show that, inasmuch as Bavaria bad ‘ceased to be an independent sovereign State, with which the original treaty had been made with the United States, there was no power Aahatever in Bavaria, oy GVen in Germany, to ! demand the extradition br the accused. He geld that as Bavaria had beef absorbed into the Gei- an bation all the treaties it had made previous that lime were null and yoid and without any l effect. Ex-Governor Solomons, on the part | ofthe German government, took the opposite side of the question, and argued that there was full | power in the government of Bavaria to demand | this extradition, inasmuch a8 consuls had been ap- Se by the United States to the Kingdom of | was Warned not to further trouble his wife. On Thursday night, while endeavoring to force his way into his restdence, or rather that of his wife now, he was opposed by the servant girl (Jane Cohn), and a scuMe took place in the hallway. He was arrested yesterday on a warrant ‘ chargmg him with assault and battery. Jane, as a proof of her charge, showed to the Court a handiul of hair wnich she said was pulled by the defendant from her head. ‘The hair was subjected | | to an examination, at the request of Mr. Levi, | | counsel for the defence. The result was that the | hair was declared as biack ax araven's wing, while Jane’s was very fair. ‘The inconsisteucy Was seen at once and again Warzshaur left the court a victor over what he terms hus persecutors, | BROOKLYN COURTS. | SUPREME COUBT—CIRCUIT, The Kelsey Murder Case—The Accused, | Sammis and Banks, To Be Tricd in Suffolk County—Decision Denying a Change of Venue. Belore Judge Pratt. The People vs. Royal Sammis and Rudoiph Sam- | mis, indicted for murder; The, People vs, Royal Sammis and George B. Banks, dndicted for riot.— | Judge Pratt, of the Supreme Court, Circuit, of | Kings county, before whom a motion for change of venue from Suffolk county to some other place javaria, thus recognizing the fact that it was an dmaependent nation and had @ right to give elect -to the Extradision Treaty. '; in reply, contended that if Bavaria ot an independent country it had no power ‘whatever to give effect to or carry out the treaty | of extradition, There was ne independent sys- | tem of law in Germany but taato! the Empire. | The only power with which the United states now | had any treaty for the purpoges of extradition to | “Germany was the German Empire. The German | | | Empire was the only power with which it couid treat. The treaty making power being conceded exciusively to the Germau Empire, Bavaria was leit entirely out of the question. The Judge took the papers and reserved his decision, and the papers artd points in the case of Joseph shwick. charged in the same connection, was argued last week, bas rendered a decision denying the motion. The victim of the murder, which occurred at Hunting: | ton, L. I, about twenty-three months ago, was Charles H. Kelsey, and the circumstances, which | are ofamost sickening character, are familiar, doubtless, to the readers of the Hezatp. Last fall | the Grand Jury of Suffolk county imaicted Royal G. Sammis and Dr. Banks, the first for murder in | the second degree and the latter for riot. It was | claimed by Counsellor Brooks, who appeared for | the accused and argued the motion for change of The number of dogs received at the dog pound since it was opened Was 7,877; of this number 6,987 “were killed and 890 redeemed. The whole amount paid jor dogs captured Was $3,938 50 and the cash received for redeemed dogs was $2,670. Our city last week sustained an increase in its population by the birth of just 496 “tiny, pooty little babies,’ which increase was offset by the demise of exactly 458 persons of all station-, shades and sizes, making @ gain for the city of only 8 Baron Swartz-Senborn, the Austrian Minister, accompanied by Commissioners Laimbeer and | Stern, Jackson S. Schultz and a smail party of | \adies and gentlemen, yesterday visited Biack- | weil’s, Ward’s and Randall’s islands to inspect the different public institutions. An arrangement is in progress with the men thrown off the forcejin Westchester by the annexa- tion, to place them on the municipal police. There are eighteen of them, and the question at issue ts whether they shall be paid for the time between the day of their removal and the present time, Yesterday aiternoon Customs Inspector Corri- gan seized from 4 cart in the street a trunk con- taining 1,400 cigars, which had been smuggled from off pier No. 13 North River, and brought from. the Havana steamer Crescent City. Tne horse and cart were also seized by the inspector, and both are valued at $300, ‘The reguiar meeting of the Seamen's Protectiye, Association will be held in the lecture room of the New York Nautical School, No. 92 Madison street, to-morrow evening, at hall-pasy seven o’ciock. The Committee on Conference with the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Underwriters, the Shipowners’ Association and Maritime Exchange wili report. Commissioner Van Nort makes the following statement of public moneys received by the De- partment of Public Works during the week ending yesterday (Saturday, For Croton water rents and penalties For tapping Croton pipe For vault pe its For sewer perm For sewer pipe sold to contractors | place of trial, that it was impossible for his clients are Lo be submitted on Wednesday uext. ; to have a fair trial in Suffolk county, the prejudice | there being so strong against them, in BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. his decision Judge Pratt says:—‘It is two - | plain to require Grae ae ayery person ‘accused of erime has a right to be tried | SUPREME COURT—OBAMBERS, by an unprejudiced jury. It is, however, a fund Decisions mental principle of law, established as weil for the y protection o! the accused as for the benefit of the | with the ailments of those organs and who were By Juage Donohue | public, that every person charged with crime shall Raa Jeliiffe vs. Elmore.—The suit may be discontinued he tried by a jury of the ‘vicinage.’ This being | too poor to pay for medical treatment, This on peers * costs and oan that delendant the rule of law, in the absence of prool the pre- | dispensary ts the oldest of the kind in New York sustained by the issuing of the injunction, sumption exists that an impartial trial can be had | ¢) ¥ n 8 Mander vs. Mander.—Order granted. in the county where tue indictment is found. ‘the | Ld Ata ae pec eeore te cee D Taare Woolsey vs. Trenor.—Orcer amended, | burden rests with the party making the motion to | and @ half 3,245 charity patients ailicted with Fisher vs. Fisher.—Memorandum. | overthrow this presumption, The autnorities | throatand chest diseases Raye been treated, en- Chrishoim ys. Higgins; Koetiler vs. Saulivan; | clearly assert the dvuctrine ‘that a party who tailing only an expenditare of $6, The main Bajdwin vs. Young.—Motions granted. | moves to change the place of trial from where tne | Portion of these expenses were for rent and care McEvoy ys. Appleby; Goldsteia vs. law primarily establishes it must fail unless he | 0! premises and for modiciies und instruments —Receivers appoint satisfies the Court that the ends of mstice require | OBlY. noe. salaries | being pald to officers or matter of Halsey; in the matter of McFar- | it or, at all events, will be promoted by it.’ physicians. Of the cases treated, 2,271 were Jand; Treacy vs. Kanak (Nos. i and 2).—Granted, | nay careiully read the moving papers Busing Freie race Oe eth Ot ae y . Malle Motion denied, | e M J e a 18,6) = Campbell vs. Mal F- ra beth nied. | and am gatisfied that no case has been made out | tone 'in all. The average weekly attendance bas In the matter of Brennan, Ac. been 130 patients. A great increase in the number Memorandnm. Por old materials sold at public auction.. Total....... ” During the season just passed the Dispensary for the Diseases of the Throatand Chest, located at the corner of University place and Eleventh street, has been a great boon to many persons afflicted + Griffin and | within the principles laid down. It is not to be le, ke.— expected in this age of competition and enterprise of treatments has occurred this year, From Janu: ary 1to July 1, 1874, 1,140 patients were attended on the part of the presi aa any unusual occur. rence will be unreported; indeed it 1s impossible to. The comihg winter will draw heavily on the resources of the institution. The contributions vs SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. to prevent, even i it were desirable, more or less discussion of the facts and circumstances sur- : rounding any great crime. But it does vot follow Senior ey bee perks irom this that there is any prejudice creg smonnted’s0 5 ese. ome toe city $1.71a saan By Judge Curtis ‘ | the community against any particaiar ind the Beane CP Neeee propeaes to Lan ee ploowy ve Andrews; The German Exchange | there may be great excitement and popular | 10 $00 (Oe: Mitnettalcudn week, tor ene hag Sarvieg e Burdett Mo y; Smith Vs. | prejndice against certain crime, and a | Potsary one Soom aulensn-as ¢ 9 LOE Se eo rjloss; Kinuey vs, lves—Motions granted. strong desire to bring the perpetrators to | Modation of such pi as canuot attend in the Risley ‘vs. Smith,—Settled accordingly and or- | justice. Yet it does not follow that | day time, trom seven to nine o'clock, ‘he follow. dered on fii : : | any person charged with such crime cannot | 1" $a list of the officers:—President, Colonel Catlin et al. vs. Grissier et al.—Appeai from tax- flis to be op, | Rush C, Hawkins; Vice President, Mr. John R. Flan- | be Jairly tried in such community, served that the principal aMdavits upon winch these motions are based is that of Royal Sammis, | one of the accused parties, who resides in the town of Huntington. Thirty-four affidavits are | made by the residents of that town, not one of | which set forth any fact as occurring outalde of the | limita of said town, but simply stuting that the affiants bad read the aMdavit of Royal Sammis, | and believed the statement therein to be true, | The matters contained in the statement of Royal Yeeks,—Motion to | Sammis then furnish the basis of these motions. | “d. | Laying aside matters purely of belief and bus denied. | litte is left in the moving aMdavits to dis- Order appointing ree | Cuss, I fall to find any samcient evidence of bias or prejudice to satisiy me that the people of Sul. | hy tolk county cannot sive ee eas ie i! Anthony; trial. It 18 not a question of belief as to whether a ‘ . iene moore 8. | crime nas been committed, or even whether the | Jacob Rothermed, while in the army, sent his : defendants may be convicted therewith, but | father the sum of $600. Yeste whether the people of that county are capable of for the amount and recover agan; Treasurer, Mr. William Moller; Dr, A. Ruff- aner, Physician in Charge; Dr. Clarence &, Beebe, Assistant Surgeon, n sustained, See memorandum. joen vs. Schwarzmanu e+ ai.—Motion for ree ceiver granted. Phebe E. May vs. Marcns May.—Referee’s report confirmed and divorce granted to the plaintiff. MARINE COURT—CHAMBEBS, Decisions. By J Conklin vs. Chapel wacate order to answer den Sehoner vs. Golds Batier vs, Christian: ceiver granted. BROOKLYN, | —___—_~- | $22,117 62, ‘There were 568 arrests by the police of Brooklyn during the past week. It appears the contractor P commit suivide, out shooting, When tt accidentally went of ter O'Brien did not vs. Stine; M va, raner ; Sebiter; Martin vs. Zirk causes granted. The Patent Package Company va. Wilson.—Mo- tion % dismiss granted, furnishing ox Se eetaat eavinin notaotin Went | The liquor dealers of Kings county have resolved Bailey va, Steru.—Motion to overrule demurrer | it now ¢ 4 B ae not to support any of the candidates for Assembly granted. fined for contempt, and that an inquest was held | wi4 wii not pledge themseives to their Inserests. Martin vs. Zirker.—Motion den upon certain remains, are equally insufficient. | Geller vs. Abrabams.— Motion trea. ‘There is no proof that the reports of the proceed- | The Prospect Park Commissioners are making Bride vs. sreber: —Hotion gr ed, | nes io Wie Dene be aerentamien tent the cane preparations to sell the east side Park lands, Volt va. Harris. otion dened, with $10 cost o these ¢ e e | » havi ut _ ( Hoyt vs. (Keeler, —Motion dismisse 4, er *, | of justice Will not be promoted by # change of ve- | bo fe Ala authorized to do so by an act of costs. ’ nue. The motion must therefore be denied.” } last Leg: g The counsel for A. Jacobs and the Lager Beer | Dealers’ Association bas prepared an appeal from Judge McCue's decision, which pronfbits the sale | of lager on Sunday. Before Judge Moore. | Coroner Jones was notified to told an inquest MARINE OOURT—PART 2, Action for Paise [mprisonment. Before Judge Joi sen. | Henry D. B, Allen vs, ‘The Graphic Company.— | ‘This was an action for talse imprisonment, the | Sessions presented a batch of indictments yerter- @amages being laid at $1,000. It appears that on | day forenoon, and the following named prisoners | the Atlantic dock on Tuesday last, bbe Lin of Ayril japt the defendapty the Gri ane ATMNEG ang jndyed:—Krank Kyith aod | Jono Kaxrell. @ rooics, was jnstaptly kilied ves COURT OF SESSIONS, Prisoners Indicted and Arraigned. from private soorces during lis establishment have | ‘The receipts of taxes for the past week were | He was preparing his gum to go | ‘ | Tne Grand Jury of the Kings County Court of | on the body of Thomas Donnelly, thirty-fve years | old, who was strack with a hoisting machine at | terday by falling from the roof of a house No. 119 j Columbia street, on which he was working, Coroner Jones held an inquest, when a verdict of accidental death was rendered, The Irisn Democratic Association of Kings county have issued an address to the people, de- pro rata of taxation, Prohibit extensive public works without expression 0! the people. Subject all departments to the supervision of the Chief Executive. Abolish sinecure offices and fix a lim- itation for salaries, Pronabit the holding of more than one office, whether in the city or county. They also oppose the candidacy of any man who Is not @ representative of lavor or @ profession, ina incapable to represent the constituent trust. pltcibsatonnieis ieee eect LONG ISLAND. ee ed The Improvement Commissioners of Long Island City yesterday awarded the contract ior grading said city. The French steamship Levakey, 80 long asbore on Southampton beach, is now being taxen to pieces and shipped to New York by her purchaser, The trial of William Van Houton, charged with embezzling $400 from his late employer, William 8. Gray, of Hunter's Point, will come up at the next sitting of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the 19th inst. Charles Katzey, of Huntineton, a German, has brought asuit inthe Supreme Court for $1,000 damages against Tobias Mitchell, alieging crim. con. with bis wife, Frederika Katzey. The case is on the calendar for trial at the Circuit Court at Riverhead next week, The First Assembly District Convention (repub- lican) meets at Jamaica to-morrow. The Second Assembly District Convention (republican), con- sisting of deiegates irom Long Island City, Jamaica, Newtown and North Hempstead, likewise meets at Jamaica to-morrow. On Monday alternoon, 13th tnst., there will be an interesting trot on the South Side Driving Park at Babylon, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, William Stettenwerf enters g. g. Edward Dominey enters b. g., George Hubl ard enters b. g., Mr. Beattie enters br. m., owner enters b. g. Prince Albert, owner enters br. m. Miss Jarvis. Mr. Charles 8. Green will drive Fleety Golddust and Golddust, Jr., between the heats, A little daughter of Lioyd Taylor (colored), of Woodsburgh, was burnt to death on Friday aiter- noon. An elder sister told the little one to kindle a fire while she went out forsome wood, ana in attempting to do so her clothing caught fire, When the elder sister returned she found the other in flames and ran for assistance, which, however, did not arrive in time to save the child’s life, She died in a short time, in terrible agony. WESTCHESTER, The present week promises to be a lively one among the politicians, a8 Congressional, assembly and county conventions are now in order. According to the report of the Healtn OMcer of ‘Yonkers not a solitary death has occurred at that place during the past week. For a city of nearly 20,000 inhabitants this health record is almost un- precedented, Through misapprehension the name of Owen Van Winkle was published in connection with the boat race at Yonkers last Wednesday, it being set forth that he rowed No. 4in the Vesper orew. It has since transpired that, owing to a death in his family, the oarsman named did not participate in the contest, his place having been filled by Captain Cook, the stroke oar of the jamous Yale University crew. It should also be understood that the weights of the Palisade crew were those taken before the members went into training for the race. At Yonkers yesterday Coroner Bassett held an inquest touching the death of John Dunn, a brake- man on the Hudson River Railroad, who was fatally injured on the previous evening. It ap peared that deceased, while attending to his du- ties, fell trom the top of a treight car, and under the wheels, by which he bad one of bis lower limbs severed, near the | hip joint, The unfortunate Man was promptly conveyed to St. John’s Hospital in the city above mentioned, where he lingered in great agony until six o'clock yesterday morning. A verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts. Deceased was nineteen years old, and resided in Hudson street, New York, STATEN ISLAND. A regular monthly concert of the Park Baptist Sunday school will be held this alternoon at half- past two o’cloc! The yachts lbis, Nettle and Prospero were yes- terday at anchor off Stapleton, the former being just returned from a cruise in Long Island Sound as far a8 New London, Justice Lassner, of Stapleton, yesterday sent a | little colored boy to the House of Refuge of Ray; | dall’s Island for the larceny of a silver watch from Ann Maria Dove, of Kocky Hollow. Mr. Julius Credo, the Treasurer of the village of Edge water, has completed his thirty days’ sitting, and collected over $30,000, neariy one-half of the | entire tax levy. He will now sit on Wednesdays | and Saturdays to receive taxes wilh a percentage added. | | The Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Termi- | ner, of Richmond county, will commence to-mor- | Tow, at the Court House in Richmond, the Hon. Calvin E. Pratt presiding, with County Judge Metcalfe and the Associate Justice. Abouta dozen criminal cases are on the calendar. Among them those of the notorious John Short and his three confederates for the robbery of Captain Jacob H. Vanderbiit’s house on the Clove road, some three | orfour months ago. There are about thirty civil cases for the Circait Court, some of them quite im-~ portant. | “NEW JERSEY. | | eee: ‘The “Lock-up” at Long Branch is without an | | occupant. A Post office has been established at Asbury Park, Monmouth county. | Jersey fishermen have had a good “catch” of | | Spanish mackerel during the present season. ) Three cases of alleged murder are now being in- | vestigated by the Grand Jury of Morris county, One hundred criminal cases are being investi- gated by the Grand Jury of Monmouth county, one half of which originated at Long Branch. | of Union Hill, and the place is thronged every | | day by sporting men anxious to bag the superior | samples. | The jury in the late Woodworth conspiracy trial | | in New Branswick were out six hours and finally | rendered a verdict of acquittal. Woodworth !sa | resident of New York city. | ‘The eighth annual session of the Independent Or- der of Good Templars, of the State, will be held at Hightstown, Mercer county, on Wednesday next | and will continue two or three days. It ig authoritatively stated that tne Rev. Father Conyngham, whose death was announced in yes- terday’s HERALD, was to have been appointed as- sistant priest of St. Pius’ church in Kast Newark, and not at the Cathedral. | The streets of Hoboken are almost in total dark- ness these nights in consequence of an expert- ment being made by the gas company to manutac- | ture acheap article from the rabbish of oil fac- | tories. Loud complaints are made agalost the affair. { Harry Pierson lay down yesterday on the track | of tne Morris and Essex Ratiroad, at the Grove | street crossing, Hoboken, and wouid have been | run over had not the engineer of an in-bound train stopped in time to save him, The man was slightly Intoxicated and was imprisoned. Two German women, named Maria Briickmann | and Catherine Ackermann, entered the store No. | to several pieces of dry goods and escaped. Oficer Fn bee and Roundsman Kennedy tracked them, and found Mrs. Buckmann at her residence in Washington street, and Ackermann in a house in Fourth street, The goods were in their posses- The shopliiters were heid for examination. A SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS OASE, | sion. of Elien McGuire, a woman of doubtful character, ‘who lived in a certain disreputable house in Water street, The deceased, who was an Eng- lish woman, twenty-seven years of age, was ad- mitted to Bellevue Hospital on the 6th inst., suf- fering from injuries, out the attending physician, ‘who made @ diagnosis of the case, was anapie to ! qetermine their nature or extent, as there were | no external marks of violence. Elien continued to | grow worse and died the second day after admis- | Sion. The Deputy Coroner yesterday made an | autopsy om the body, and found that the de- ceased had sustained a fracture at the base of the | skall, death resniting from compression of the brain, After Ellen was admitted to the hospital no one cajled to see her, and hence the attending surgeon was unable to obtain a history of the case, | ‘The Coroner will, however, institute inquiries and learn, if possible, whether the fatal injuries were the result of accident or design. Uniess iriends of the deceased appear and claim the remains lor in- terment they will be interred in Potter's Field at the nublig expenses | dificult matter more ingeniously managed. a distance of about eight miles. | commenced, but the poles erected in the daytime | 114 Washington street, Hoboken, helped themseives | Coroner Croker has under investigation the case | CHINA. fining their position. They aavocate to limit the | American Aid to the Cause of Progress. RAILROADS CONTEMPLATED AT PEKIN, The Telegraph Invades the “Middle Kingdom.” Fooonow, August 26, 1874. You have been told for along time past of the “new era” that was “about to dawn” upon this benighted “Middle Kingdom.” It was announced, with a great flourisn of trumpets, when the treaties of 1858 were concluaed; but ‘circnm- stances” postponed 1t, and rendered necessary & little fighting between the English and French and the haughty Chinese before the long promised “mew era” could get & good start. The “conven tions,’ or supplementary treaties, which followed the war in 1860, were thought to definitely mark the beginning of said era; but Chinese conserva- tism and stupidity again postponed it. Then came the shining Burlingame mission, in 1869, dazzling the American government and people with the brilliant rhetoric of its smooth-tongued leader, who aroused our people to a high Pitch of excitement by picturing in vivid colors this ‘new era” as about to commence in earnest. China was to join the “comity of na- tions.” # Railroads and telegraphs were to be con- structed, coal and iron mines to be worked with foreign machinery, China was to wheel into the line of progress, and—best of all and most tickling to Brother Jonathan—America was to have the inside track in the matter of Jat contracts and Well-salaried oMcial positions, Accordingly, a new treaty was made, and lauded to the skies as @ treaty of the fullest reciprocity. In fact, there was not a single valuable addition to the old treaties, and the only article in it that squinted at all in the direction of Mr. Burlingame’s “new era” ‘was one that provided that when China should de- cide to enter upon the construction of railroads and telegraphs, America should tarnish engineers, &c. That barmless ‘‘when,” which escaped the notice of the American people in the exuberance of good feeling aroused by the post-prandial speeches of the Americo-Chinese Ambassador, was the crucial point of the whole treaty witn the Chinese. THE BURLINGAKE MISSION. Your readers are familiar with the American view of the Burlingame embassy. The Chinese view was almply this—the time for the revision of the treaties had arrived; the foreigners in China were clamoring for farther concesstons—-for right to trade in the interior, for the opening of goal and iron mines, for railroads and telegraphs. The Chinese mandarins were afraid that if the treaties were revived here the pressure brought to bear would be too great for them; 60 they de- vised the plan of sending Mr. Burlingame as their Ambassaaor to the treaty Powers to secure a re- vision of the treaties at the capitals of foreign na- tions that would leave matters as nearly as pos- sible in statu quo, They paid him $40,000 per an- num todo it, and he did it weil. Never was a Mr. Burlingame’s plea was:—‘China 18 anxious for Progress; but you must allow her to take her own way about it, If you press her too urgently and drive her to begin improvements before the pre- judices of the people have been removed, you will sarely defeat yourend. Just promise to let her go about it in her own way and she will soon come aroand all right; and (sotto voce) you Ameri- can capitalists and engineers will have a iat thing | oi it’? Of course this last string of the harp was not played upon when the Ambassador of the Silver Tongue stood before the governments of Europe; but there were ovber strings that made | as delightful music over there. His missioa, irom the Chinese point of view, was a splendid success. | America and Europe have ever since been looking, with jonging eyes, for the “new era,’ but the more it has been looked for the more it hasn’t | come. SCIENCE AND PROGR! About the time of the embassy the Baron de Meritens, Commissioner of Customs at Foochow, endeavored to secure the erection of a telegrapu jrom Pagoda anchorage to the Joreizn settlement, ‘Lhe work was | were summarily puiled down at nigut by tac people, who declared that the telegraph wouid | utterly and forever destroy the “fung-shui” of the | neighvorhvod. (in this place “fung-shui” may be translated ‘good luck.’’ There i# no time for a | philosophical dissertation on the subject just now.) The mandarins declared their inavility to | control the people in their prejudices, and it was | very, evident that if they did not actually eucour- | age the rubble in tearing down the ey they at | least bad no word of rebuke for the action. Of | course the project came to a premature end, and the “new era,” so far a8 Foochow was concerned, | was indefinitely postponed. Four or five years ago the foreign consuls at Shanghae made an elfort to secure the erection of a telegraph from | Woosung to Shanghae, about twelve miles. ‘The | intelligent Taotai replied to their application that | the erection of a telegraph would undoubtediy ce- | “fung-shul’”’ of the entire region, and | stroy ve rhe | that it could not by any means be aliowed. | project slumbered until twu years ago, when the foreigners, having obtained the concession of | Jand jor a road irom Woosang to Shanghae, pro- ceeded to erect a telegraph on their Owao ground, | thus for once outwitung John Chinaman. “tung-snul” has remained about ag usnal, and | | A cable having been laid | from Woosung to Nagasaki, and one also to Hoag | | Kong, Shanghae was put in telegraphic communi- | there 1s **nobody hurt.” cation with the word. As, however, there was only @ land line of twelve miles, and that on ground conceded to foreigners, not much was yet accomplished toward giving the “new cra” a start. THE TROUBLE WITH JAPAN. But now it seems as though the Japanese are destinea to do the world the favor of giving the “new era” a substantial lut. Your regular cor- the | 8 t hot,” the company made three distinct propogi- tions to the mmandarins jor \he construction Une from Foochow to Atoy, there to be connect with the sea cable, and put I graphic communication with Europe and America, ‘rhe; wisely chose Mr. Delano to put it through them, having had quite as much experience wit! the British Consul as tiey cared for, I am hap to that he has again been completely successiul. The high provincial authorith have accepted the second of the company’ Propositions, which was that they woul erect the line at their own expense, and give th officials a separate wire for thelr own use, to ba under their sole direction. pany has, already, Slarted Overland to survey the route; and as t! Toaee tai a“ on ge oe it there ts littl ine will be compleied in a few months, and *peeny will be undisturbea, INTERESTS, AS another result of the Japanese invasion we hear irom the North that Li-hung-chang 18 talk ing of @rallroad irom Pekin to Tientsin, gnd an- other to the coal fleids at Pao-ting-tu. He is cers tainly the foremost man among the statesmen of Onina to-day, He has for interpreter Mr. W. N.! Pethick, of your city. Tweive years ago this yor man Was Working at the jewelry trace in New York. Under ie impulse of patriotism he went to =the war, and Sheri- gan’ corps at Appomattox when the re< ped. enbared nth oe and entere e ét maeaune of Messrs, Apgnatus, Heard & Co., Pekin to study United States ee bate hai d with -hung-chang, and undondtedly has : influence over that eminent mandarin’ deus ped hoped that he may beip him to enter upon.s more: enlightened and liberal policy aan the old con~ servative do nothing-that-you-can-help-tsm which Daa te lon; [hee ba todd of progress in rl pire. Mr, Pethick 18 spoken of as the probab! super e of De tens, aa ee Inited States Legatiot tor cepted the offer of an ental pi a Ne the University of Callornia, Mr. Pethick has ac-| quired great readiness in speaking the language! and an excellent knowledge of the written cha. racters, and we all say success to the New York! boy, THE SITUATION AS IT 18, To sam up:— 1. The “new era” was never contemplated, and{ would never have been introduced by the Chinese; government of itself. 2, The Japanese, by invading Formosa, to de: themselves with the savages over whom China sl never had any real control, have stirred up th Mmandarins to a sense of the Value of telegraphi and, if they will only hols on long enough, will} likely secure us railroads, the openiag ot mines! and other real steps in progress. 3 Energetic and enlightened American omelals,, lke Mr. Delano and Mr. Pethick, may do very much to promote the real introduction of tho! “new era.’” 4. Although it is well to remember the old adage, “Don’t crow before you are out of th woods,’ we may modestly nope that our “new era’) has begun to have a beginning; and if tho! ae will kindly tarry long enough in. Formosa, it. will get so much of an impetus that it will be im= possible to turn it back ward again. . STREET CLEANING. pegs Ey a Benefits and Difficulties of Doing tho Work at Night. On Friday night last the new system of clean~ ing all the streets of the city during tne night, was put in operation, and, in the opinion of the. Street Cleaning Committee of the Board of lice Commissioners, Disbecker and Voorhis, it hi proved successful. Among the benefits these) Commissioners say derived from the new plan are! cleaner streets, a large saving of money to the de~ partment and private individuals, and an opening up of employment to deserving, needy men, who: were betore shut out from such work, The thor- oughfares can be more carefully swept, they hold, because they are less burdened during the night than in the daytime. This is most particularly the case in the lower wards of the city, where the: traMc of carts ana heavy vehicles Is very great dumng the day. In many of the narrow streets the sweeping was imperfectly done, owing! to this reason, and constant complaint was made by the citizens. Every time a@ sweeper made am attempt to use his broom he was obligea to desisu to give room to one or more vehicles to pasa, Thet consequence was that not a third of the dirt was! ever removed. At night, the Commissioners con~ tend, these streets will be clear and the sweeping{ can be thoroughly done. In some py-streets, where cartmen leave their carts out all night, the: Board of Police is going to arrange with the Board) of Health to pass an ordinance compelling thet cartmen to sweep the part of the street immedi~ ately covered by their carts into the middle or al thoroughfare, so that the dirt can be easily. and readily removed by the street cleaning men in! passing that way. ‘The Commissioners have dis-| covered that a large proportion ot tnese vehicles! | that encumber the streets of tue lower wards be-) Jong to residents ol Jersey City and rerpn ns who; leave the carts on this side at night and take their! horses to stables across the river. All these par~ ties are now being looked alter, and they wil juture be compelled to take the carts with th horses to where they live. An injustice is done 11 several ways by this system, it is contended, t the owners of property im New York, who are for-. saken for the sake of lower rents, and! to the residents of the streets on which’ the vehicles are allowed to remain. In the saving of money to the department and} citizens the Street Cleaning Committee are, under the impression they can get a better class of workmen at the night work than at the! day, and consequently an improvement) in’ the quality of labor. Citizens — will be saved many unjust charges and impositions! by the street cleaning officials that are dificult to be Fc: @t under the day plan, but which the night wil completely destroy ali opportauity of practis~ ing. With regard to the men employed and to whom employment will be opened up the applica~ tions for work that have been made during the. past week fully bear out the expectation, There are smany respectable, well qualified, needy men, who can go out at night to labour on the streets, ‘who were prevented under the old arrangement, from doing so by the exposure to the public aze. This 18 Of all otner Classes im tne community the one most wanting help, and) by this means they can get i%, giving) im return an equivalent. One of the greatest diffi- culties in the way of the work at present is the re~ | moval of the ashes and garbage; but that the | Board expects to be able to get into working order after a week or two. The peop:e, they say, will be~ come accustomed toit, and then like it better tham | having the ash and garbage boxes standi! om | the streets all day. In the dowutown districts, | where stores are closed at six o’clock in the even- ing, arrangements will be made to remove the dirt on their opening each morning, and every op= portunity will be given the owners to comply with! respondent has made your readers familiar with the | the police regulations. Mr. Voorhis says that all Game 1s abundant throughout the upper portion | points of the case between China and Japan in re- |'the leading streets and avenues were cleane gard to the savages of Formosa, a8 well as inre- | guring the night previously, and he secs no reasom gard to the progress of operations by the Japanese | why army in thatisiand, Unquestionably the most ac- curate and thorough reports of that expedition printed in America are those sent to the HERALD by your special writer, Ineed say nothing on that matter. {have to dedl only with the elect of this the narrow streets, where the poor live, should be deprived of the same benefit, The Ash and Garbage Order. { New York, Oct. 9, 1874, Japanese invasion on our Chinese mandarins. At | To rig EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— the time the invasion commenced there was an | application pending before the high provincial au- thorities here for the construction of a teiegraph | Can your paper, which 1s open to complaints of the injured and unfortunate, give us any informa~ irom Pagoda anchorage to Foochow. The appiica- | tion touching the latest order referring to ashes tion was inade by the Company, which is a Danish corporation. The chief advocate of the Consul of the United States; and it is mainly due to his untiring energy and perseverance that | barrels left out all night, when they are so Ire- it finally succeeded, Utidoubtedly the Japanese considerably. might be very desirabie sometimes for the high of- ficiais at Foochow to communicate instantane- ously with the arsenal and the gunboats. So Mr. Delano found the mandarins in a good irame of | mind, and With the help of other consuls soon se- cured the banks of the river. The company went work at once, put up the poles on the north bank | ‘oochow Chamber or Come | | morce in nevalf of the Great Northern Telegraph | grant was M.M. Delano, | it | trouble helped the promoters of the telegraph | authorities, so hard to ‘The arsenal is at the anchorage. It | and garbage ? Can you inform us how tenants, | With a business closing from three to five, can, putt out their refuse between the hours of six P. M. and seven A. M.? And what will become of ash quently stolen in broad daylight? Perha) et at through ordinal channels, Will grant a little information through, | your valuable Grae a bid jail ‘il aS 1% | Jast notice any provision for tenants of our class. ste A TENANT, FOR OTHER How It Operates. permtssion to construct the telegraph along ‘To rue EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The late singular order of the Police Commis~ from the anchorage to the foot of Kooshan Moun- | gioners, like many others that have emanated from tain, laid a cable three-fourths of @ mile long across the river and put up the poteson the south | | bank to within hall a mile of the foreign sevtie- | | ment, when they met with A DIFFICULTY, ‘They found it necessary to leave the bank of the river‘and to go across some rice flelds and along apublic road up to the settlement. they required new permission for this, which was | according! sought. The mandarins feared | tb woul excite « riot among the | people and objected to nting | desired §permission, ‘Tois Was sn appropriate Of course | the | lost six barrels. them, on the collection of dirtand garbage at night time, seems to me to be most ridiculous, t | think every housekeeper apd storekeeper should | protest against it, As well might you throw your sweepings in the street as place them on the sidewalk after nightfall, for in a | few mimutes after you put out your barrel it 18 done for you by the street urchins. The barrel is gone, but the dirt is lett. I have already In future I intend to throw the dirt myself in the street, in order to save the | place for the British Consul to back out, which he | boys the trouble of doing 80 and myself thirty virtually did, saying privately to the mandarins | that it was not a British affair, and he didn’t care to pursue it further. In spite of this disheartening | circumstance, Mr. Delano persisted, promise from the mandarms that the telegraph might take the route desired, provided the people | were willing. He sent his linguist to talk to the | people, secured their about twelve hours’ time—the telegraph was © pleted, the much dreaded people actually helping to dig the holes and erect the poles. For severai | weeks now we have had TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION | with the anchorage. The Taotal has inspected | the operation of the telegray sell highly gratified with it. have been sent b: of telegraphy. The “new era’? fairly launched, and “{ung-slut” has’nt peeped a solitary objection, TELEGRAPHS IN TIME OF WAT Next comes Shen, the Impe' attend to Formosan affairs, al tages of the telegraph, and makes @ contract with and declared bim- good will, and one day—in | tise young Chinamen the mandarins to learn the art | 1 Commisstoner to e to the advan- | turued avery barrel In the block, and our street the company to erect a telegraph trom Ta-kao, at | the southern end of Formosa, northern end, to a village at the thence to lay a cable to the main- | snovel and put the dirt back, | land, and erect @ land fine up through Hinghwer | that she got very indignant and tht to Foochow! There is a little hitch just now, in | nov her work. [ | regard to the terms; but it 18 not thought that any dejay will be occasioned thereby. | CHARTER RULES. Acting on the motta, ‘pwikg while the yon ig cents every day for a aew barrel. All sensible | men and women know that the morning, after seven o'clock, ts the proper time for the col! ity and got 3 | when people are cleaning up for the business o! he day, and not at night time, ee WEST SIDE STOREKEEPER. Overturned Barrels and Boxes. | Lo THE Eprror oF THR HERALD :— I think that the ash question requires an imme+ diate remedy, as the present system 1s an outrage to the community. For instance, my servant put out our garbage and ashes at the usual time last evening, and certainly has obeyed the orders of our good Street Commissioners; but this morning, on looking out of my window, I find that the ashman did not call during the night, and the consequence is that some boys, or rather loafers, have overs was fliled with little heaps of dirt and garbage. Of course, being ashamed of the condition in front of my house, I asked the girl politely to take the and [need not say 3 that ite tainly coined with &@ cor | Ol Six and eigtit A. M. suit bel jue, that the hours ‘tor for the collection of garbage and would bea great advantage t housekecpers WEST frueTo | respondent in your to-day’s