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

8 THE COURTS. Governor Lyon’s Bond---Verdict for the Government. THE SAMANA BAY COMPANY Cutting Of Light and Ventilation. ee Cony OF MARSHALS. FEES duat after Judge Barrett wad adjoarnea the Court of Oyer and Termmer yesterday, counsel for Vor- oner Croker put in an appearance ready to argue the motion for nis retease om dati, An effort was subsequently made to Gad the Juage with a view to @ reopenigg of the Court, but, as the result showed, he called it @ whole day and gone | home, The motion will be brought forward on Monday, and meantime Mr. Croker will remain & prisoner in the Tombs, Coroner Woltman subse- quently visited tae Tombs for the purpose of se- | curing the sigoature o{ the prisoner to an am- davit made on the last day of the investigation. GOVERNOR LYON'S BOND. 2 ERE Yesterday, in the United States District Court, Pefore Judge Biatch/ord and the jury, the case of the United states vs. William Gibaon wae resumed, ‘The action was brought by the government against the defendant to recover the eum of $50,000, bemg the amount of a bond which he had entered into as surety lor Ca‘eb Lyon, who had been appointed Governor of [dano in 1864 by President Lincoin. On the settiement of his accounts Governor Lyon owed a balance to the government of $46,585 73, and his allegation ts that as he was proceeding to Washington to deposit this money in the Treasury at was stolen from him. The suit was accordingly | drought against Mr. Gibson as surety to indem- | ify the government for the los in question. Mr. A. Oakey Hall and Mr, Ethan Alien were counsel for defendant, and Mr. Skerman, Untted | States Assistant District attorney, for the govern- ment, TRSTIMONY OF MR. CALEB LYON. Mr. Caled Lyon sworn apa examined by Mr. | Binan Allen:—1 tive on Staten tsiand; [ iwea there in 1864 ana 1866 and ever since; 1 was appointed Governor or fdaho in February, 1864, by President Lincvin, and I remained in oMce anti! 1866, when I was superseded by order of President | Johnson; I aiso hela the position of Superintend- entot indian Affairs (bind produced); [ made that bond to the government; this bond waa sent | to me in blank from the office of the Secretary o1 | Indian Affairs; 1%} came to me through the maii, and that was the Mrst time Iever saw it; with the bond came my instructions irom tne Interior Deparimeni; f iad previously epuken to Jnage Seagur to be one of my hondsmen; I went win Mr. Gibson to the District mote le Oifice te have | €hat bond executed; Lunderstood at that time taat Mr. Deiaficid Smith was the vistrict Attor- @ey; the bond was executed on tae 22d of June, 1964; L went to tne District Attorney's office | witn Mr. Gibson and asked tor Mr. Siith 1 was informed that Mr. Smith was not | Court, but directing that the same be given to the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1874.-W cerver was eminentiy proper. In ee argon tnat a receiver only to 8 civil suit, or after ) auch sult, or tn certain specified cases stated in the statutes, and it wae insisted that the one of them which concerned this case was &@ provision ior winding up banks, and to make this appiicabie to the case tbe Court must decide tais company to be & corporat Of banking powers. The motuon wes iurther opposed by counsel represeating various attaching creditors tu which Lt Was argued that the St. Dom: Corporation bad nov ever, if the statements of Gonzales were to be accepied, aa the acts oO: # de facto govern ment, been dissoived., Gonzales, in taking away the lcase, had Kept the company alive for the pur- | pode Of maintaining his own claims against it, And be could not Liow hot and cold, Ii Kept alive | for any purpose the company was kept alive for 1 purposes, As to belug a corporation pos- sessed with banking powers, the concession did authorize them to estadiisi @ bank, but to be themselves bankers. Various attaching creditors | bad served attuchments against the company, | giving them preierences, und this appointment | Would, it was additionally claimed, deprive them Of the advan they had gained. [t was con- | tenaed, in repiy, that the company bad not only Ceased to act but the directors to mect; that. the Mat assets comprised uncollected stook subscrip- tiona, Woich #00n Would become of iltle or BO value unless some one Was empowered to collect them, sud (hat the appointment o! a receiver would ipierfere with no timate prejerences obtained by attachiug creditors, burt, on the con- trary, Would aid them.as well a3 other creditors in Obtaining their rights. The Court reserved its decision. QUESTION OF LIGHT AND AIR, r. opposition it be appoiuted Messrs. Doyle & Adotpiie wishing to connect | their store in Grand street with the house No. 85 Forsyth street ought out the interest of the tenant whose lease had but @ short time to run. In the rear part of the store was aroom having two win- dows looking into the yard, and two doors, one leading into the yard and another tuto a common haliway. A tenant occupied this room. | An agreement was made with =the landiady, Mrs. Gubert, for a lease tor five year’, under which the doors trom that rear room were to be closed and the windows | barred to keep out thieves. In this lease given to | Doyle & Awoipue are described as demised the store Of said house, wit the appurtevances, no- thing being said about @ right of access to the Yard or of Raving lent and alr for the rear win- dows, After tus Lord & Taylor bired from Mrs, Gilbert tne upper stories oj No. 85 Forsyth street and the yard aad fiso the whole house and lor No. 63 Forsyta street abd commenced to tear down the taterior of this house and to excavate the yard with the tnteation of building there and in the rear ot Doyle & Adolpue’s Windows, up to within two feet and eight inches oi tae Luilding. Notice was given to Lurd & Tayior that the courts would be wsked ur an injunction to restratu tuem from tn- terferiug With the ight and air required for this reat room and the privilege of going ito the yard. They disregarded the notice and suit was commenced ter a@ injunction by Mr. Frank Byrne in the Saperiur Cou:t, to which auswer was made tor the defendanta by Mr. iimoihy Peito bearing tue argument Judge Freedm: yesteruay, reiuuing the injunction, on tue ground | tu wpurtenances” do not include right to light and air and were not conveyed in the lease, aud, therelore, no injunction should ve granted, MARINE COURT MARSHALS. —-~- The facta of the controversy detween the mar- shals of the Marine Court and the Sheriff in the matier of fees have alrealy been given in the HeRaLD. On the yth inst. the judges of the Marine Court tasued an order directing that n>‘ ecutions nor attachments agatr~ dents shall be served by the iu. "esd - ok auat Sheriff. On this an alternative writ was obtained from Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Cham- bers, directed to Judge Spauiding of the Marine then 1 was directed to go ito another room of the office, where {found you, Mr. Allen, a3 assist. | ant; I said to you, Mr. Gibson belng with me, that | Thad come to execute the bond; you went with | me tpto the office of Mr. Rice and introduced us to him, stating that he was an Aséistunt District | Attorney; you said that you did not do taat busi- | ness, but that he dil, | fad never seen Mr. Rico | berore; there was some conversation about my bondsmen; | said that Mr. Gibson, Judge Seagur and Mr, springsteen were io be my bousdsmen; ‘Waited for sudge Seagut und Mr. Springsteen for bait an hour, but, they mot coming, Mr. Kice told me that Mr. Gibson could sign tue bond and that I could go out and get the Oloers; Mr. Gibson signed she bond, which | took and putin my pocket; tue bond was then viank, wita the exception of Mr, Gibson's signature; then | talked with Mr, Kice short time, and be Made the remark taat it was carious a Territorial Governor should be called | to give a bond, ! Q@. Now, Mr. Lyou, you say Mr. Gibson signed the bond, that you put it in your pocket, and then ‘Went to 100k for the other cureties "A. Yes; 1 went to Bleecker strect to @ boaruing house, where Texpected to lua Jaige Seagur, but did not meet him j on the game day | returned witi: the bond to | She District Attorney's office, Mr. Springsteen come | Ang with me ; { then signed tue bond ; Mr. Springsteen @iso signed it; Mr. Rice said taat was gusicient; 1 ‘told bim that Judge Seagar was si0k and could mot come; Mr. Rice said that two bondsmen bav- Yng justified that was suficient; I then took tne Dond and carriea i$ with me to Washington, The witness was shen imterrogated as to how much he owed she government ou @ settignent of Bis accounts, aud he answered tnat tac amonut was 46,585 73. That amount Was not returned vy tim the goverument. He wad asked why he bad | mot returned it, Be anawered tat he bad been | Yobbed of it. Counsei tor the government got immediately objected vo the an- Bve! Counsel for defendant put another question, Why was not that money revurned the government? Wast disposition did you make of tt? Counsei lor government objected to the question, aud in doing 60 mace a long apeech, claiming that the evidence already im the case showed that the money involved in this suit came | ito the bends of Mr. Lyon on the 26th of septem- Tf, 1866, and the pleaset up that tt waa stolen On the 14tu of December, 1656, 4 year aiter it wae received. Qvansel contended that this waa not BN LODest accounting apd could not be set Up in Gefence, as it was the duty of Lyon, under the law, to Dave hada prompt accounting wit tae government, He relerred to tuo case of Prescott, Teporied in the third of Howard, as sustetning his view, Public policy demanded that every depos- itary of pablic money should be held to # strict mocountability. The condition of the bend in Queation was that Mr. Lyon should account to the overament without fraud or delay. Mr, A, Oakey jail, of counsel fur dofendaat, was heard in reply, | He contended that the porvemment having taken issue on this point they conid oot now ovject t© the testimony. He further contended that a public officer could not be boid responsible for public moneys stolen from atm tf it was o:her- wise shown that he acted ip good taith, Mr. Lyon had returned a just account to the government, with the exception of tae money stolen from hun, od that was =!vieod from him without any u¢; ence on iliy parte Judge Biatohiord, aiter Us- lag to @ ony argument Ly counsel, satd tat ue Gid not see Low he was to admit tats testimony, Tt had veen aiwuys seid, under the law, that a Oiaim for credit must be gubspittod kis severa: | ment and allowed or dissilowed, and ¢ did no Bppear Lo nave veon r 8 Cawe, He ex- Giuded the testimony, and jor the suse of having jhe record periect!y ciear he took down the [oliow. oder from Mr. Hall :— i "IT propose to ask the witness, At the time of rewenting his accounts or boiore Re made & ima to any officer oi the Treasury (or @ credit of Sue amount set up im the pies on the ground that Mt was money fcioniousiy svolen from iim, and whether or noi Was Glssliowed by them, wholly or in part.” ‘ The government counse! objected to the question | Md incompetent, Waumate: ial and irrelevant, } Biatchiord sustained the objection and Mr, Halil Doted an exception. { @ When did you render this account and sirtke | & balance of $46,569 737 A. Lrondered shat account On the 16th of Decemper, 1444. At tais stuge of the proceodings Mr. Hal. vegged to ask the Vourt for # Continuance of tho trial until they could Obtain from the government a certificate of the disallowance of this ciatm, or their reasons (or a disallowance, Tuia was an ap- peat to, tne discretion of tne Court, The deiendant ad been taken by surprige, and tke governuent ad (Aken livtie Notice Ol she CAB except to Mle ts issuable pica belore the begiuuing of tne pree- ent term, Judge Ulatchford sald that, looking at au the Surroundings o! the case, he thonglit tt would be B Wise Exercise ol Lug discretion Of tue Court to refase to grag! Lue motion made by Mr, 1 Mr, liall vilered to prove that Gibson signed the Dond on tie understanding that Juage >eagur Would sigo the Lond aiso, and that without ais (Gibson's) Knowing it, B.C, Springstein became @urety on the bona, Lg Biatcbiord excluded the offer, and the qe Y direction of the Conrt, found a verdict for ho ads th, erument ior $50,000—the (uli dmount of ond, THE SAMANA BAY COMPANY. Sacceeding tbe revolution tn Dominica, by whtot President Bacs was Compeiied to abdicate and the Jease of the bamana Bay Company declared va- Cated, a sult Was brought by William Rowland to recover alleged advanced moneys. The answer interposed was that the company no iouger ex- lated, Upon this Mr, Rowisad appiied for the appointment of &@ recejver, 4, with view ve ap investigation of the facts, Mr, D. z Ingraham, Jr., Was eppointed reierce, Lhe mat. | ver Came LF hare in Supreme Overt, Cham. | bers, before Juage Donohue, wien she question as to the appointment argued at length, It was ciaimed | tue motion that ander tio staio of | 1870, this being @ foreign corporation amd \uere being assets in (his State, Dut BO organization w | administer them, aud also being » corporation Vito bauking powers. & NCU meas Of & se- ©) rece.ver was for | | and Oriando L. Stewart in opposition. Mr. Spencer | | Baker Coort, amd asking bim to show Cause way he gnould Dot give a phocess, the service Of which oy the mursaais Ot the aster Court was tnterdicted tn | the order reierred to to Joseph Phillips, a maranal ol the Courw The proceeding | % tn & friendly spirit, and tne present ap- pucation 6 brought forward as @ test ca: fne case came up for argument yesterday, ©. | §. spencer appearing on vehal! of the marshals | said thero were thirty-five Of taese marshals, aod | Geor fl egation and the jury eoquitted him aving their seats. | Peschel, a youth, who was charged @ horse worth $50 on the 28th of rty of Lewts Friokle, was tied. 1 Was the a who gave the | which led to bis recovering | The jury rendered a ver- | tain tne | wi | Obark | with steal October, the it appeared that owner ipformati possession of the ict of not guity. TOMBS FOLIOE OOUBT. Three Burgiars Captured. Before Judge Kasmire. The house Of Mr. Wilitam Talelanky, at No. 91 Mulberry street, was entered on Thursday night by burglars, who took three watebes, im ali to the valae of $60, OfMicer Regan was informed of the tacts ana yesterday arrested Henry Smita, of No. | 29 Henry atreet, whom be bad reason to suspect of | che act. Smith was beld in $1,000 to anewer the i obarge of burgiary. rse. Chartes Brant and James were hela for | trial for # like crime against mre Fonn Sonctener, of No, 11 College place. They took worth of | wine ead cigars from Mr. SGanveder’s store al the | Bumper given above. A Striking Cooper. Patrick Smith, @ strikiug cooper, was arraigned for examination yesterday on an assault on Brown, & non-society man, and was held | in defwult of bail fee trial. \ JEFFERSON MARKET POLIOE OOURT. Captain Mebon: Before Judge Wandell. Captain McDonnell signalized bis transfer frow | the Twenty-ninth to the Eighth preciact by raid- ing some eight houses in Greene and Wooster streets on Thursday night and arresting all the female inmates whom he could find. He brought | his prisooers, seventeen th all, to the Jefferson | Market Police Court yesterday, where Justice Wandeli committed them tor examination. A Brutal Assault, Joun J, Chambers Keeps @ bird etore at No. 541 Hudson street. A few days ago a Iittle girl named | Katie Broome, of No. 113 Christopher street, en- tered the place for the purpose of buying sceds, Chambers, instead of selling them to ner, enticed her {nto a back room and there attempted to com- mit a criminal assuult. The little girl resisted, however, and eacaped before he could carry cut nis base designs. 5he Caused his arrest, and yes- terday be was held in $2,000 bail to answer. A Dishonest Officer. Deputy Siferi® McGuire placed a man named Dennis Kane in temporary charge o! the store of Hieter Brothers, at No. 93 Grand street. Kane's first oMctai act was to steal $17 85 worth o! faucy and dry goods. He subsequently arrested with part of the stolen properiy 10 bia possession, and was held in $500 bail to answer at the Court 01 Special Sessions, ESseX MARKET POLICE COURT, A Christian Brother Arrested. Before Justice Kilbreth, Philip Sterne, a youth of sixteen, yesterday charged brother Cronin, one of the Christian Brothers who teach schvoi in Second street, near Second avenue, with beating lim badly around the body and iegs with a thick leather strap, It appears the youth committe some slight offence on Thursaay, for whicn the Brocher pushed bim unmerctfally. in Court tue Brother gave his name as August Kramberger, and he was put under $500 but! to answer a Charge Ol assault and battery. Mr. Sadlier, of Barciay street, became his bondsman and he was released, BROOKLYN COURTS. ——— SUPREME OOURT—CIROUIT. Oripplea for Life—A Verdict fer the Cripple. Before Judge Barnard. Sait was commenced on Wednesday in the Su- preme Court, Circuit, by the guardians (the parents) of Adam Schoffer, a boy of ten years, to recover damages in the sum of $5,000 for injuries sustained by their child, Itappeara tnat on the 22d day of Septemoper, 1873, the little fellow was playing in Ten Eyck etreet witn a crowd of chil- dren. They Mace so mach noise that a man named under this order they would be deprived ot fully two-thirds of their legitimate fees. He insisted | that the power Of serving the interdicted pro- | ceeaca Was comeried om the marshals by an act of | the Legisiature passed tn 1865, and that ina gob | sequeut act ol is72 the Same power was recog- | nized and reiterated. He said farther that in the Case oO} Oly Jaaze lugrabam decided that toe mar- shale bad the power to serve these processes, | TRE Main point of Tho opposing argument was | tust @ saperior court cavnot compe an inferior | court to alter a judicial determination, It was | also cuntenced that under the statutes cited the power o! serving the processes in question was veaied wholly tu the Sheri, Judge Donohue took | the papers, reserving vis decision. | | BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. = aarlE Se a 8 SUPREME COUKT—CHAMBERS, Decisions. By Judge Lawrence. In tae Matter of Joon H. Turner.—The report of | the referee 1s confirmed and the exceptions tacreto | overruled, With oos'a. | Do Liamoges vs. Liomas.—Order ts granted. | Browning vs. James,—Motion to strike out por- tions O: tne coupiaiut bs deoied, Wilh §10 Coats, to avide the event. Ryckinan vs, Ryckman,—Order denying motion bo settie 1s9es granted, | tzimuts ve. Marx.—Order granted denying appucatton. ame vs, Cohen,—Same, in the Matter of Townshend.—Order granted, Campbell vs. Campbeil.—Oidet aenying motion to Ax Commissioner's fees. | Glove Mutual Lire Insurance Company vs. Fow- | ler; In the Matter of Forence Motntire ; Wincnell va, Witccel!.—Granted, 'y Judge Donohue. | Goepp.—Motion granted, without | Sterne vs. costa. Dambmann vs, Ratterfeld, der granted, Piants Manu ‘acturng Company vs. The Hi- bernia Insurance Company of Chid.—Motion granted. farner va, Hart.—Order granted. Garroll and Auother ve, Coyie.—Memorandum, Oppenheuner ve, Hass and Anvther.—The de- fendants may put im gt answer, provided the samo is done Heiore the 2ist inst. janepaugh v3. Savepaugh.—Order granted. | yser Vs. McCOrmick.—Urder granted appoint. | ae lider va. Hitcneock.—Urder granted. Breanan vs. Goodsteim:—Motion demted. Recto ys. Sanchez,—Order granted. Carmell vs, Lyact.—raptea. | Greer vs. Huntly.—Moilon dented, QOURT OF OUMMON PLEAS—GENEBAL TERM Decisions, By guages Daly, Loew aad J. PY. Daly. Biting Woollen Compan, Martin,—Judgme! aGirmed, Optaiva by Judge Kobinson, Lemken vs, Ke imvn.—Judgment reserved, Optoion by Judge Robinson, saerbiefiorn va Wheeler,—Motion for reargu- ment graated, | Frank va. Covert.—Motion for leave to go to the Court of Appeais granied and reargument ordered. | Opintons with General Term clerk. | COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, H Burglaries and Larcenies, Belore Judge Sutherland, Cuatles Shoutsid, ogainst whom were two | churges of larceny, pleaded guilty to one indict Mout, which get forth that on che 26th of Gotober he stole a gol@ watcn worth $75, the property of ickert, Thi prisoner Was sent to on for five years. Isavella Johnson, a colored woman, was con- | \icted of Stealing a quantity of ladies’ wearing | apparel ou tue 2d of tis month Letonging to the | daughter of Postmaster James, Shae was re- Miadded for sentenct Juiius Util, alias Greseus, who on the Tth of June | stole & SuVer Watoh aod viotuing Valued at $45, the | property o Willa i. McDowell, pleaded gully 10 9M attouipt 4¢ graud larceny, | or his parents, ond, oy legal advice, they brought | ' composed for the greater part Of lawyers of the | | the late Mrs. Henry C. Bowen would be com- | menced. The case for the plaintiil was opened by | was sufferin, | ence or inginuation that she | publisued, and that tt John Frey became @v Miuch annoyed that oe Tan out oi his store aod threatoned the children, so that they all ran away except Adam Schof- Frey, approaching ‘the boy, struck him With his ivot 60 Violently above the right hip that he fell sensciess upon the pavement. The child ‘was Carried to the residence o! his parents, where be was conned to his ved for many months and from wuich le finatty emerged a crippte for Ife, depending upon his cratcies tn order to move his buoy irom place to place, The deiendant would make no proper compensation to the injured boy this suit ior damages. ‘The Case was given to the jury on Tharsday evening, and yesterday morning @ verdict was rendered ior plaintia. who was | awarded $4,200, The defendant ts a wealthy Ger- man butcher, rio ed) CUURT OF »ESSIONB Barnes—End of a Scandal adi- i “Not | Bowen vs Suit in which Mr. Beecher was rectly Concerned—Verdict of Guilty” Rendered. Before Judge Moore. Yesterday forenoon the Kings County Court of Sessions Was crowded in every part by an audience two cities and members of Plymouth church, who were attracted by the announcement in the col- ums of the press that the trial of Demas Barnes for the publication of a siander on the memory of District Attorney Winslow, who, explaining what constituted livel, said there could be no question { tn anybody's mind as tothe gross and bratat cbaracter of this libel. Defendant coutd be held responatble for this libei whetuer participated in by him or not. If Mr. Barnes’ agent po: petratea this libe), and If he did what he could to prevent it, that must be taken into consideration by the jury. y Hevry C, Bowen, husband o! deceased, wae the first witness called, and testified that he resided | at No. 90 Willow strcet, and bad jived in Brookiyn | for thirty years; tn 1563, and before and since he | was tne proprietor of the Zndependent; Lucy M. Bowen, his wife, died in March, 1873; there were ten children—seven sons and three daughters; Henry, Edward and Ciareuce wre pow tving, au are the eldest sous; Sirs, Bowen wus confined to | her bed tor about ten weeks, and died within @ | month of her confinement; witness was present | with her during her last huurs; sie was unable to talk atall irom five to nime iu the morning, aad ! from paralysis of tne throat and | le no stavemeut or coniession, refer- | bad committed | ulhery with aoy one; shedid not mention ueury | ard B.ecutT in diy Way} Gbieused wag go- ; quainted with Rev. Mr, Beecuer for mauy yeu } witness’ relations with him were intimate; there is no foundation whutever for tne allegation that | he Ru Mr. Beecher some Gays alter bis wile’s | eath And conversed with him oo the subject; iti | Bide; she nui not true that ny enmity sprung up between Ar, | Beecher and witness, growing out of this wat- ter; Mrs, Bowen told witness mo story whatever; | it 1g not true that Mr. Beecher leit the Independent | on account of his immorality wica the wite of wit- hess, DOT was there any truth in the allegation | that he lad brought Mr, Beecher @ note requost- ing him to leave tue pulpit on account of tus tm- moralities with the wile of poe witness; the Mr panith, eget ip tue ag A caied ag fa oftice Soon alter the publication of tuo scaudaloug libel. On the cross-examination, which was conducted | by Mr. D. P, Barnard, counsel ior dtr. barnes, wit: | | Meas testified that his wife and Mr. Beecher had | becn acquainted ever since 1543, when be Brooklyi; had been on the most iriendly terms | with sir. Barnes previous to tis iivei; had known | him tweive or fitecn years; in the punticattons | connected witn the Beccher matter defendant seemed to he iricndiy; aiter the article complained of was published Barnes called on him and told mim he waa in New Yore whea the article wae cs into the paper without his kuowledge ; some of the objectionable Matter expunged from the paper; he did not write to Thecdore Tilton irom Woodstock under the weight 0/ grief as alleged, and did nut strougiy indict Mr. Beecher, came to | he hay Kate Myers also pleaded guilty toa similar of- fence, tbe indt Lioging that iu August she svule @ vel oO $50, from Mra. Fannie iy ae Was employed as a domestic, Edward Zaoriaki pleaded guilty to an attempt at urgiary in the third degree, the charge being ‘at on the 2th of Octover he entered the prem- | isos No. 42 Thompson street and stoie dresses and | @ sbaw!, vaiued at $2, the property of Mary Lit | tlewood. Dennis Donohue pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, the indictment charging that, on the 460 of this month, he stole a set of harness, Worth $75, the property of Christian Hachmeiste: The goove named prisoners were sent to the State Prion for two years and six months, Edward MoCabe and John Lappin, who were charged with entering the house of Walter vu. Woolley, 277 West Twenty-third street, and steal- ing two gaa chandeliers, worth $60, pleaded guilty + an atlempt wt porgiaty in the third degree, Mc- abe was sent to the House of Ref Lappio Was soutonced to the State Prison for two years. Mary Ang Degnan, who was charged with sseal- ing On the 16th of October @ ya O! ladies’ Sppare! belonging to Mrs. Joho Finley, pleaded gatey %0 erty tatteny, She waa sent toe Peul- ventiory for four months, Acquittals, Joun Brown was tried upon a chargé o/ stealing $49 belonging so an old woman named Margaret | Ciarence Bowea was the next witness called, aud testified :—in 186, when his motuer «ied, be Was eleven years of age, and was with her during her last iliness and up to the hour of her death; he pronounced the allegation that nis mother made any deciaration concerning Henry Ward Beecher’s aduttery with her a lie; his mother, a8 jar as he knew, did not say a single word on the | subject; knew Mr, Barnes ior a number of years, | and knew bim previous (0 the publication of tht Ubel to be iriendly to his father; witoess is @ re- ar on the 7rivune, and aisy aid some work jor he AGUS. Henry U. Bowen testified that he was the eldest son of the plaintiff and was with his mother aur- ing ker last hours; conversed with ner freely be- fore she lost her speech; she nevor made any clarasions Conceraing immoral practices with deciat Mr. Beecher, nor did she in any way redect upon him; Rev. Drs, Storrs, Uuyier and Beecher tended her funeral; there was nothing which she | said or did, by sign or otherwise, to justify the | story. De Witt G, Ray, city editor of the Aryes, testi- fied that he wrote the article reierred ¢o; met Mr. Henry M. Smith at the residence of Theodore Til- | ctosed, the time tor the redemption ot ‘these lan ton, Livingston street, Angust 23, and there | fx.d at Ni ber 26 and Vecember 2, 1874, respoot’ Mr. Smith made the statement published; | ont Aye a 2. pa Ee take suena Hos Witness took brief notes and made up tne | mm themes aroperty bets ticle from on meinory the following day; | rinw 2 Vemipa, Lag e mee was tguticient to sam im the sarticniacs tf he i when tao ith gia With Rey, Dr, Pathe, ve Cuivero, lo ly mame of Mra. Bowen mentioned it made Mr. | Tilton very angry, and he said he never believed H any of the statements made against Mrs. Bowen; Mr. Barnes did not know that be was writing the article ne time, as he was in New York that ; morning; When defendant revurned and found out | aboat the articie he had it changed and the name of Mrs. Bowen taken out; Mr, Smith bad said that if the facta published were denied he would sup- port them with an aiMfdavit. ' Mr. D. P. Barnard moved to acquit the de‘entant on the ground that a libe! againse the dead must be shown to have been perpetrated with the de- sign to bring the living relatives ino contempt. | The indictment alleges this article in effec’ that the defendant charged that Mrs. Bowen bad committed adultery with Mr, Beecher, The tou- endoes tailed aud the averments were detective, There was no proot to show that Mr. Barnes tad | dea.gned to bring afr, Bowen and hts family into contempt. Counsel then opened ior tne defence, and Mr. Maverick, mauagtng editor o: the Argus, and Mr. Barnes testified as to taeir innocence of | the offence charged tn the indictmeat, , after two hours’ deliberation, rendered | ‘of “Not guili COURT OF APPEALS. ALBANY, N. Y., Nov, 20, 1874, In the Court of Appeais, Friday, November 20, 1874: — No. 60—The Trustees of the Town of Brook- | haven, respondents, ve. Chartes T. Strong, appel- iant.—The argumeut was resumed this morning , and concluded, No. &2—Frescentia Angell, respondent, ve, The Hartford Fire Inscrance Vomapany, appetiants.— argued by F, W. Hubbard, of counsei tor appel- lants, god by A, EB. Kilby, for respondent. No. 37—Frank 8, Atwell, adaumistrator, &c., re- spondent, vs. Charies . Brown, appellant,— Argued by James 4. Gale, of counsel for appeliant, and oy A. K, Hadley, lor respondent, Proclamation made, and the Court adjourned to Monday, November 23. Nos. 19, 31 The j a verdict Tho day calendar for Monday, November 23, ts » T2, 6844, 83, 20, 91 and 93 UNITED STATES COURT. Indictment ef Llicit Distillers. Before Judge Benedict. Yesterday the Crand Jury came into the United States Court and brought in eleven indictments against distillers who tiad violated the Revenue law. Marshal Harlow arrested Curistian A, Steia, Philip Lowenstein and Thomas Conneily on bench warrants issued by Judge benedict for tltelt dis- | tuing. There are three indictments againgi Low- enstein, on each of which he 1s required to tur- nish $5,000 bail; one agamst Steiv, on which he was required to give $5,000 bail, and one against Coanelly, Stein alone urnished bail, The other prisoners were sent to jar. The Proctor Libel Suit. Yesterday afternoon ex-United States District Attorney Tracy appeared belore Judge Benedict, and, a8 counsel for Miss Kuna Dean Proctor, made auote of issue in the sult brougnt by hig client against Francis D. Moulton, the “mutual friead” of Tilton and Beecher. ‘The case is set duwn on the calendar for trial be ore the December term of this Court, Ex-Judge Fulier:on, counsel for Mr. Moulton, was present yesterday but wade no ob- yectton, MUNICIPAL NOTES. ES The dilupidation of the “New” Court House, for the completion of which about $15,000,000 were appropriated by the Legislature, daily becomes more and more apparent, 1s 1! ever going to be completed’ Echo, Architecturally and other- wise the building may be eet down as a gigantic failure, « The Coroissioners of Gas (ominous title), con- sisting of Mayor Havemeyer, Comptroller Green | and Mr. Vao Nort, opened bids yesterday for the furnishing of light to the city forthe first four months of 1875. The companies offered to provide @as in their several aistricts at the following prices per lamp each month:—Monhattan, $12; Harlem, $13 95; Mecropolitan, $15; Mutual, $12 75, The bids were laid over for iuture consideration, ; that of the Mutual beimg deciared irreguiar, Alderman Van Scuaick has vi-ited the Boreau of City Kevenue, in view ofa thorough examina- tion of the records of this department. The Aldermen want a report irom Vomp‘rolier Green On the Management 01 thia branch o1 his duties. The Aloermen tiaving conciuded their examina- tion of the estimates for 1875 tne Board Of Ap- | portionment wil meet next week lo examine tue | Suggested alterations, The two days’ voting and diucuasion of tae former Kourd may not avail a | particle in the Oval determination. fhe Verk Of Arrears aunouuces that all prop- erty On Which assessments have been levied and | remained unpaid since tue cuafirmation of said aasessments lor streets, avenucs and park open- ings, widenlog and extensions prior to January 1, | 1871, with be sula on the 15th of ex: imen.n tor the lowest term of years at which any person shall offer to take the same. A pamphlet giving ali in- | formation On this matter is on tie wm the Clerk of | Arrear’s ofiice, The sale of pictures tn the Governor’s Room under a judgment vpiaimed by Anthony Lickho& for some $9,000 againet the city, Was advertised to | take piace to-duy. A nolice 01 appeal has been | served upon the Sherif, which wil operate as @ stay Of procecding#. Ihe adverusement o! sale Das beech posed up conspica usly on the batietin board at the Cou ptrolier’s ome. Coramissioner n Nort hus transmitted to tae Board o: Assessors the certificates of the cost ot tke tollowing Improvements, in order that the | reior maay be made: lating, grading, &c., Eighueio street, trom Etgote avenue to Hudson River.... $32,027 Paving First avenue, from Sixty-trst to Ninety-secund street... Outivt sewer in Manhattan aircet, &c -s3teRts Outiet sewer m seveatcenta { Kieveath avenue and = Twe BUOCT, KO... vereeeseesees os * x Sewers Ninety-fiith and Nioety-eignth { streets, between First aod fnird uve ' DUCE, ACriseeseeeeveemeeeeeeetaenerceseues 60,883 TOUAl.... +6 seeeeee $596,114 © | COMMISSIONER VAN NORT AND COSPORA- | TIUN CUDNSEL SMU Rumors of Removal by Mayor Have- meyer. Rumors floated around tho City Hall yesterday | as to the proposed removai of Corporation Coun: | gel B, Deiafield smith and Commissioner Van Nort, OMctais were found to assert toat the whole thing was culand dricd aad that churges were about ; belog preferred agaist those two gentlemen, | Mayor Havomejor, who must first move in the matter before any definite action can be taken, denies thatany suca ideas Moated through his prolific brain. However, the roport was yesterday Circulated through the deparument, Js it another move o! His Honor to make place lor fiends before taking leave of the fxecative chair? Has Nelson J. Waterbury any amoition to ry hg, people in the seat o! hr, & Delafield | macht ‘hese were questions originated yester- ay by those most interesced. here can be no removat of these officials without a proper inves- | tigation, Ihe charges must thea be sulin:tted to | Governor Dix for bis approval. Atter a thorough examination the latter gentleman ts empowered to act in his discretion, and remove the party or arties, if Le thinks there ts sufficient cause, The Jorporation Votnsel ts arpeeared for lour years aod th¢ Commissioner of Public Works for the game ierm, Th laity galore OL Course, ts by far the more important oF the wo. Tue patronage is very large. | Furtner devciopment in the proposed changes may be expected to-day, | QITY PROPERTY SACRIFIGED, | — ap Cowmissioncr Van Nort has addfeseen phe fol- lowing communication to His Honor the Mayor, advising lus of tue sale of property belonging to the Groton Aqueduct by the authorities of the city of Youkera for non-payment of assess. “exotoning Daranturxr oF Poste Worns, ‘New Fors, Nov. 19 avi Hon. Wesay F, Havemmren, Mayor of the City of New York : 7 Riki am in receipt of a printed communication from | the Mayor of tte exty of Youkers (Hon. Jose ph Masters), im relation to thy dampen of lands soid tor the non- Davinent of ments, dated Ovtover 8, 1874, aim Wiien are noticed three for regulating, &c., Glenwood | avenuo, from North Broadway to pur‘on avenue Grove street, ssc d tothe Croton Aqueduct Ue- | arumeut, Nos 2, | Som the asseasinonig wap and | 58 and 15 on ap of the village of Yonkers, | Aug ast, IMp4, rounting to... | b 25 OST Fone 33 aifsade avenue, urton avenue, nd 5Y Of Mase a7 & Also for re-regaiating from Elm street to Ash lake wiae nase seed mont map, lage of Yonkers Expenses inou rred TORR .oo0e.so0esseveseveeerrssvssaescssssseee ey $1,129 80 In due cotiese of events the Department ot Public Works drew upon the Comptroller requisitions to moot 10 Original AMOUNTS as Lollows ‘ausuritied April £2, 1873~ Requisition No. 4169 fintwvo of the city of Yonkers tor $900 26 Tranemitted February 12, Is73—kequ | 939, im favor of the city of Youkers,, 161 33 | $96! Total. te or . . A 58 Through the lachos of the Department of Finance the | additional exponses have eeu incurred, and in no wise dues this department hold itscit responsible tor tho lose | to the city of $161 32 for expenses so tar incurred, or those | still to grow due, Nor it it within the power of’ this Do- partment in any wise to liquidate or cause to be the @inonnts j due the city of Yonkers in tho primises. = in accor with the printed uutice, herewith en- 4 ing to the ouy, ane ocoupled y i err eabauss “Very respecte a GEORGE Be VAN NORT Works Commirsigace of Publis as the ; Mr. Robinson, ‘“taat the Stock Exchange have | Biso be given by Mr. Bergh ior such iniormation as , Mics iu length, | award. | Street and Eighth avenue, ITH SUPPLEMENT. AMONG BANKERS AND MERCHAN' ‘Trade Topicsa—No New “Northwest” For- geries—What a Prominent Banker Says There was but littie goasip in Wall atreet yester- day, and no events of importance in the stock market which could not be briefly chronicled by the vartation in prices of the different securities dealt in on the Stock Exchange, The bankers very gone: ally feel alarmed atthe risks they con- stantly run of accepting as a good dclivery FORGED OR ALTERED BONDS Uke those of the Chicago and Northwestern Rall- Toad Company. Ina conversation yesterday with Mr. Kobingon, one of the frm of Mesara, Drexel Morgan & Co., bankers, that gentleman told the H&BALD representative “that tnoir drm would not accept as collateral or evea buy LITHOGRAPORD RALLWAY BONDS, as they considered them dangerous and easily counterfeitea, Every bond should be engraved on @ steel or copper plate, should be executed tn the uighest style of the engraver’s art, and == the taka employed enould be those which would stand obemical tests, renaering alterations or crasures imposat- ble—or very dificult, at least. 1 believe,” added taken some action in regard to ltthographed bonds, declaring they should not ve dealt in.” CORRESPONDENT—Have any ucw bonds of the Northwest Company been declared ‘forgeries otver than the fifteen whose oumbers were published in yesterday's joarnals? Mr. RoBIssoN—No more that [ have heard ol. ConessronpENt—These honds came through your bouse from Philadelphia, did they not’ Mr. Rostnson—Yes; nd from this fact, and tf in connection with it be considered the late forgerics of Pbiadelpuia city warrants the conclusion ts natural that the counterfeiters and forgers have thelr headquarters at or near TUR QUAKER CITY, CORGESPONDENT—liave you any suspicions as to the guilty parties? Mir. Kopinson—Yes. U think the city warrant ana bond forgeries emanate fiom the saare sources. OAPTAIN SAMPSON, of the Stock Exchange, was found at toe United states Treasury vuiuding. He told the reporier “he velleved these fiteen bonds were tke identi cal bonds he had two years since seied us torged The Assistant Secretary of the AGO ANY NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, who was found at the company’s office, No. 62 Wall street, said “that the fiteen bonus were all 60 far discovered and pronounced spurious. There were no developments, ée far a4 he knew, farther than those published in the mourning papers. OF course all proper efforts were being mado to dis- cover the criminaia.” Among the CHEAP TRANSPORTATION ADVOCATES two subjecis in regard to Aillway matters are en- grossing attention—viz., the first shipment of grain to Kaltimore, frum Atoion, Ind,, over the Chicago division of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, and 10 connection therewith, the importance Ol Baltimore as a shipping point and iuvure grain centre, as aticcting the New York commerciat in- terests, and seconiy, the MYSTERY OF THE PAMRAPO DOCKS, near Pamrapo station, N.J.,on the New Jersey Central Railroad, Three yeara since five acres of ground and over 600 feet of water iront on New York Bay at Patarapo were solu for about $15,000, and lact spring resold to Morris & Cummins, con- tractors, 1or $50,000, ‘hese gentlemen inime- diatel, commenced AN IMMENSB RAILROAD PIRR, supposed to be for the Baltimore and Ohio Rull- road or President Asa Packer, of the New Jersey Central Ratiroad, as au ally of the former road Mr. C. J, Hutcn, a local editor, told a HBuALD rep. resentative yesterday that he had frequently THE DEIECrIVE | sought information irom the Contractors as to the uses of the pier and the names of their employers, but the batiders were A8 TURTLES, A SILENT At present the compaay—in whatever interest they are working—have Control of a water front Of over 3,000 eet, with @ buiknead of about 500 Teet, and a depth of three leet of water at low water mark and eight feet at high water. No wonder the merchants down town discuss these mysterious piers, NEW YORK CITY. Some of the long expected “beautiful snow" fell in this city early yesterday morning. {¢ only iasted for a few minutes, uowover, itis rumored that the new Board of Aldermen will repeal the ordinance providing that a pav- ing, &., shall de gone tn the winter months, Muorael Salares, aged Gity yeura, residing in Jersey City, wag ‘received at Bellevue Hospital yesterday morning, bis right leg velng fractured by 9 Liow Irom & Lorse’s hook James Walah, aged forty-five years, of No. 1i4 Thompson street, fell down the hatchway of the teamship Crescent City on Touraday evening. 1s injuries were Very severe, and Be Was yester- Gay sent to the Park Hoapital, A homeless old mau, Who has been ia the habit of sleeping in the staole No, 552 Broome street ana paying ior bis lodgiug by caring for the horse, was found sick yesterday and sent tu Bellevue Hospital in an unconscious state, About two o'clock yesterday morning a fire, of incend.ary origin, occurred on tho canal boat Cap- tata Trowbrid: lying at the foot of Kast Seven- teenth street. ‘Ihe bout, which is the property of Edward Monuhan and uuinsured, wasdamaged to the exteut 0: $200, :The Society for the Prevention of Orueity to Anitoals announces that it wiil pay a reward of $50 jor the arrest and conviction of any gang of coo! or dog fighters, and a reward o! §26 for the convic- Uon OF the proprievor or keeper of any place kept or usea fur their accommodation. Rewards wiil will Jead to tho conviction of persons violating | ats the laws for tue protection of duinv ani- mals, BROOKLYN, It ia proposed to extend Ocean Parkway to the Oceun, and tien balld & road 500 feet wide and 3,000 feet in length along the waterfront, The bew extension wil make a drive #ix and @ half A lecture in aid of the Relic! Committee of the Young Mea's Chilatian Association will be deliv. ered by Hon, John Oakey, at their hati, on Wednes- day eventog, December 2. ‘The io ict will be, “Our Jonn: What Shail We Do with Him?’ Jacob Stauder, a érippie, thirty years of age, quarrelled with his father at nis place of resi dence, corner o/ Bultic and Barbor streets, East Now York, yesterday morning, and, going out of the house, produred @ pistol, with which be shot | himself in the head. The body was removed to the eee Gi Wis father and the Coroner was notified, Yesterday the /ormal order of the Geueral Term | of the City Court afirming the oraer of Chief dudge Netison, at the Special Term, denying the application of the defendant fora bill of particu. lard 10 the case of Tilton vs. Beecner, was atgned by Judge Te ‘The counsel for Mr. Beecher has decided to apyewl from the order to the Court of Appeals, ‘rhe Common OCvuncil Law Committee met on Thursday evening and considered the application of the counsel for Miss Mary Haudiey, the female detective, for the recovery of the reward ox $1,000 offered by the city for ‘any person woo shall tur. nish inforwation which shall iead to the deteotion J tbe murderer of Charics Goodrich.” Alderman ichardsoh did not ace how the city could syvoid paying the reward, but the otner members of the cummittee determined upon examining Misa Handley, ex-Chiet elects and Commissioner Jordon upon the subject before making the ; A SHARP DISOUSSION, A ball waa given by some colored people on Thursday night at the corner of Thirty-third Some of the malo at- tendants were boisterous in the carly part of the entertainment, but as morning neared they be- came rampant. A discussion of some point of honor produced a fight at about hal i tour o'clock yesterday morning, pee fh John Harper, aged twenty years, who resides No, 105 Went Fortieth sireet, was stabbed io the groin, though not serious. It was Hts wound 18 painiul, dressed at the Twentieth precinct station Louse, from where Harper was senthome, He relused to gay WhO stabbed bim, HE WANTED TO BE OREMATED, A Strange affair has come into view through an accident which happened yesterday afternoon in the waiting room or the New Haven Railway to the Grand Central Depot, Aman, who gives his Dame as James Husted, fell ina ft there and cut his face and the back of hia head very severely. pit sent to Bellevue Hospital, where, when ho wi arched, a loaded revol aud the following strange note were found in tis pocket: — To those who find my body:—My name ts August Verrier. Being sastiod that this lile has nothing more interesting tor me here fe done thisact You may take my body for cremation. It 13 probable that the man intended to commit Suicide, but taas his nerve failod him when he reviowed the prospects of iutarity, and that be + Was Windy il by tue subsequent Icar Of Gombe | The requisition is then subrattted to the commaa rm ; the Fourth Avenue POLITICAL CORRUPTION: Abuses at the Boston Navy Yard During the Late Campaign. Developments Disgraceful and Damaging. Congress To Be Appealed To for an Investigation. Boston, Nov, 20, 1674. ‘The Henan’s correzpondeace from thia quarter has already intimated something of the corrupt practices employed at the Boston ‘Navy Yard just provious to the late election. The corraption was so barefaced and transparent that even the ad- ministration papers here were forced to notice i¢ in terms or severe condemnation, In the midst of the gencral excitement and indignation the Bos ton Labor Unton appointed @ special committce to investigate the matter, and I have beem tuvored with an advance copy of their report, which & shortly to be presented. ‘The period covered by the alleged abuses they find to be at least TWO WEEKS PREVIOUS TO THE DAY OF ELECTION, before which period the numver of workmen w all the departments was about seventeen hun- dred. ‘thes find that at this time the appropria- tions of Congress to meet the expenses of the yard were insuficient for paying the wages of the nor- mal number of employ¢s, and that, in consequence, several of the regular hands had been suspended; also that the suspension nad been countermanded by the authorities at Washington, as thoagh to give color to or to justily the sudden employment of agreat number of additional hands, which im- mediately took piace. They find that there was ne emergency or necessity for pushing forward we government work that tequired any addition to the regutar force of workmen, and that bad there been euch necessity the hundreds of iresn hands get to work were entirely unqualified for the na- ture of the work; that they consisted of men of RVERY VARIETY OF BUSINESS AND NO BUSINESS; that they were distributed in all the departments, meohanica and taborers 1n ludicrous disproportion toeach other and to the work required to be done; that they were employed at every descrip- tion of make-belief work, or at no Work at all, and frequently c.owded aside into unirequented places for the sake Of appearances, AN INELUX OF VOTERS. ‘The committee flud that during these two weeks bo less thau 750 men were thus pourea Into the yard from various districts in and around Boston, and employed at an expense to the nation of $1,500 per day at Lhe lowest calculation, and tha¢ they rendered—to the nation at all events—ue equivaient for the outlay. They have oo reason whatever todoabt that this great influx of an- skilled and nondescript workmen had no other purpose or object than to influence by a large number of vozes THE RLECTION OF CERTAIN CANDIDATES to cMce, and taat they believe that the candidate in whose favor the votes were required was Mr, Gooch, Should any doubt extet as to the purpese for which these frea hands were employed, it &# only necessary to say that on THE DAY AFTER THE BLECTION no less than 590 of them were discharged. They find also that this army of voters were hired by the foremen of the various workshops on the RECOMMENDATION OF MB. GOOCH, and tuey have evidence that, in some tastances at | least, the foremea were ashamed and disgusted | py the task imposed upon them. AS An instance ot Unis it was stated by @ reliable informant that the ioreman ,o! the workshop in which he, our iniormant, was employed, stated to lim, that “were it not tat @ turge and expen- sive family depenied upon him for p- ort he would not remato in the Navy ‘ard another day.” ‘They also Mud that, in acal- toa to tng suaimeful abuse of offictai patroauge in hiring, certain of the regular and colapeteat me- chanics of the yard have been summarily dismissed, for no reason whatever thao that they tad ine quiet and unexooptionable, but public manner, exercised their undoubted right and duty of su porting and voting for such candidates fo bite Oifco as their cons-ience and poiitical opinions preierred. A WHOLESALE DISCTARGE AFTER ELECTION, The committee add that it nag Just come to their knowiedge that all the men employed tn the con- straction department of the Navy Yard have now been indefinicely saspeaded or discharged, and are waitiog for their pay. This tnciudes by far the largest number of men employed in any one 4 partment. The committee feei that their wor will be only hall done if they do not cudeavor to show on whom ° THE RESPONSIDILITY POR THRSE DI2GRACEPUL PRO DING! ox! 8 really reste, aud in order to do this tt is necesaat to describe the metnod and form of hiring ant discharging workmen, The work of the yard is divided into departments, such as the constritc- tion departivent, the ordnance department, and 80 On, each having its separate head and al) sab- ject to the commandant or commodore of the yard, In each department are one or more works Bhops, each shop having its foreman, Whon addi. tional help is needed in any shop the loremau ol suck avop fills up a form of requisition, stating the nom. cer of men needed and the names of tho persone he proposes to hire. He then hande toe requisi. tiou to the head of his department, who sigue it Uf be approves, or reduces tho numve or substitutes other names at his discretio ‘ant of the yard, woo indorses tt with his signi the approves of it. ‘Ihe foreman tnen hires the men in accordance with the requisition «6 amended—ii amended at all—and 60 offically signed by his superior officers, ‘his 18 the normal course of procedure, and seems unodjectionablo; but in the trreguidrities be.ore us it has been subjcct to tho grossest abuse. Names of men not needed for any proper purpoge tn the work of the Navy Yard have beca recommended by outside politicians to the variown foremen, and have been by them filled into requi- sitions, which have probably been duly signed— first by the heaas of departments aud next by the commandant of the yard, It is impossible to come to any other conoinsiom than toas jor all these fraudulent Ee yh the commandant, the neads of departments, an all the foremen of workshopa are responsivle ig the first tnstanco, : But the committee can bave NO desitation ta eXpressing their conviction that these offictala, howevor morally responsible, are notthe prime Movers, nor can they think that Mr. Gooch iF pay et other non-oMicial personage would be 4 manipuiate so many persuus by lis own private induence, [tis then TO WASHINGTON that we must look for the secret spring that vas get the machincry m motion, and where the ultimate responsibility must lle. ‘The committee | further Mud that the whole ol this unjustitiuble hiring and discharging has beon done in ‘ne incat shameless and anaisguised mannor, to the GREAT DETRIMENT OF TUK PUBLIC S&RVICE sue Cry vine Carmine aie althou; 9 facta ATE WALL Koown tn thy lvcait and have become a bLic Bcandal, id crdoi to pre- vent arepetition of gnch ects d to punish the perpetrate iD this Instone, tt ! sary Uae he wubject enould not be allowed to pass inv Oblivion as ‘s Uine days’ wonder,”’ but enould be made the occasion 0; @ thorough omicial tavestiga- tion, with a view to the substantation or revuta- tion of the charges, aud the Axing of the crim: nality on the parties really responethle. The committee recommend thas the council ex- tend their powers, #o that (ney may sidudt Cap above statement, through the representativos ia ; Oongress of the State of Massachusetts, to the {| Senate and House of Ropresentative of the United States, praying those august bodies to appointa | apacial comouussion to imgutre thto tae alleged core rupt and disgraceful practices. CORONERS’ GASES, A man named Abraham Jones, who waa re- cently committed to the Toms for a minor offence, died esuddealy yesterday fiom heart aie |; Oase. The body was removed to the Mcrgue and Ooroner Woltman notified, Deceased hag frien who will claim the body for burial. i Kate Kennedy, a domeatic, woo lived at No. East Thirty-trst etroet, died in Bellevue Hospi to which titution sue was laken by some Clb wens suffering from severe buras of tie body, bat to what manner received did not appear, Coroner Kes was notitied to hold an inquest over (ae “Coroner Flethom yestord roner Fi yesterday hold an taqnuest ta the Case of. Matt! McDouala, a man thity-fve ears Of age and born in ireland, whore dead ly, Was found ing under the trestie of ‘adroad, near Listh street, om the moruing of. the Sd tast., he having beon rus over during the night by a passing train wile at- tempting (0 cross the trestle work bridge va b way home, The evidence failed to Siow wi! train killed deceased, aithough etrenious efforts nad been made by the relatives Of MeDonnid ond bho Twelith precinct police to learn Wiickh of $43 \OONTINUED OW HINTH PASE.)