The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 10

Cr / 10 pase THE couRTS. The Murder of Avigliano in Naples—Ex- amination of the Accused, JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE CITY. | appearance and pleasing address entered the | Yesterday Denis Holiand gave bail in $2,500 be~ Yore Commissioner vsborn on a charge of having | pies down trom the shelf, Charles Holmes, the taken into his possession and disposed of apout 1,400 cigars, knowmg the same to have been emuggiea. A new Grand Jury was impanelled yesterday fm the United States Circutt Court and adjourned Ul next Satarday. J. B. Martinez and 8, Serpa were arrested ana yesterday brought before Commissioner Shields on the complaint of G. T. Moorehouse and R. M.” Kimball, special agents of the Treasury, trom Bos- ton, who declare that the accused had sent on to that city between $700 and $800 worth of smug- gled cigars and cigarettes, whic), it 1s claimed, Shey sold to dealers there. Martinez gave $5,000. Dall and Serpa $3,000, Argument on the application for the production of the minutes of evidence taken belore the Grand Jury that found a bill of indictment against Coro- mer Richard Croker, and also on the motion to ad- mit to bail, was heard yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer before Judge Barrett. Aiter a lengthy discussion and the citation of legal au, thorities without number for and against the Vourt Feserved his opinioa upon the motion to ball, and Tuling against the application to produce the minutes of the Grand Jury. A full report will be found in another column. ITALIAN BRIGANDAGE. The case of Angelo 41 Giacomo, who is charged before Commissioner Kenneth G, White with hav- ing committed acts of brigandage, and with having been concerned in the alleged murder of a young man named Avigiiano, near Naples, Italy, m the year 1867, was resumea yesterday. The accused, it Is stated, was chased by the Italian authorities for a considerable time, but without success, and finally the prisoner turns up in this city, where he is arrested under the warrant of Commissioner White to answer the accusations above alluded to. The prisoner has un- Gergone several examumations belore the Com- missioner, and at the last examination the counsel for the prisoner, Mr. F. ©, Bowen, took the point that inasmuch as the treaty NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHKET. the demorrer ve overruled, with leave to the plaints to withdraw the demurrer, &c, Jonn H. Plat! gasignne.ct Simoes Lejand, Charles Leland and Leland, appellants, vs, Wil- tam A, Harding, respondent.—Decree affirmed, With costs of appeal to be paid out of the estate of the bankrupts, TOMBS POLICE COURT. Stealing Coat Trimmings. Before Judge Kasmire. Yesterday afternoon a young man of respectable store of Mr. Philip S Taggart, at No. 388 Broad- way, and asked tbe price of some coat trimmings. While the clerk turned around to get some sam- young f pleasing address, took fourteen aozen Neoae bindings and thrust them into his gart saw bim and called in Officer ives, of the Broadway Squad, who arrested Holmes, When cearcbed at the Tombs it was found that Holmes had stolen more than he was seen to take, for bis pockets contained several other valuable samples. He was committed for trial at the General Sessions. He Had a Sweet Tooth. Jack McCarty was brought before the Court for stealing a barrel of candy from the sidewalk in front of No, 63 Barclay street. John Bergh, a waichman, caught and arrested him in the act. ‘The candy was valued at $80, and McCarty was held for examination. Taking Time by the Forelock. Yesterday afternoon George Bolle entered the jewelry store of Mrs, Lillie Davis, at No. 196 Soutn street, and asked to be shown some watches, The lady obligea him, and, thinking | that a@ certain one was best suited to | bis use, he informed the I to that | effect and left the store on @ ran without paying. Mrs. Davis gave chase, and George was caught by Omeer Rikeman, of the Third precinct, who brought bim to Court, where he was eld in $1,000 bail to answer the charge. An Old Wound. John Norton and Michael Braham were bailed yesterday on a charge of felonious assault and battery, which they committed on the person of Jeremiah Cltffora some time last month. ‘they have been locked up awaiting the result of Jere- miah’s injuries, and as he was wall enough to go to Court yester to swear out a complaint against them the Court accepted bail and set the | case down for Thursday next. BROOKLYN COURTS. KINGS COUNTY OOURT OF SESSIONS. Arraignment and sentence of Crim- inals—Remarkable Prevalence of Crime. Before Judge Moore. The Grand Jury came into Court shortly before noon and presented a large batch of indictments, Judge Moore thanked the jury and discharged them (or the term. Andrew 8. Leach was arraigned upon an indict- THE WASHLIGTON CONSPIRACY. Speech of Harrington in His Own De- fence—Energetic Claim of Innocence— Tactics of the Defence Cut Short by Judge Humphreys. Wasurnoton, D. C., Nov. 21, 1874. In the Criminal Court to-day Harrington ad- dressed the jury, saying that he was not unmind- fal of the old adage, that had grown to be almost an axiom in this country, that “he who pleads for himself has @ fool for a client;” but he felt it to be his duty to make a short address upon tne case now occupying the attention of the Court. No one could be more desirous of a speedy termi- nation of this trial than himself; tor since the 23d of April last this case had hong around him like a pall It had cast ite shade over her to whom he had given hig ®ve. It bad enveloped his prattling boy, and one whose form was bid- den from view in the tomb was covered by it. From the time when the Star Chamber report was made to the pablic to this hour he had been ma- ligned and hunted down like a partridge in the wood, The Gibsons and the Woods and the Alex- anders, backed by the strong arm of the govorn- ment, had combined to hunt him down and fasten upon him the gulit of this case. He had asked no favors, he had ciaimed no indulgence, he asked none now and he begged of counsel for the gov- ernment, when be came to make the final argu- ment tn the case and attack him and his character, that he would do it in the strongest manner and strike Lim with boldnesa and power, apd not to cover him up and weaken his case by surrounding him with his sympacny, Harrington took up the letver, Warning him of the contemplated burglary, and explained his connection with the matter, say- ing the letter was received in bis usnal mal and was shown to some of his iriends, ali of whom pooh-pooned it. He noufied the Major of Police, aud it Was not until the meeting of Richards snd Clarvoe at His house, on the night of tne 23d, that it was really decided to pay some attention to the | matter. ‘they went down to the office and watched i alter the entrance 1o the hail of the buildin, by two or three persons it was decided that there was to be no burglary that night, and he solemnly affirmed that ali Lhe events 01 taat nignt which followed were the events of circumstances. Up to the time bun- self and Richards leit tae ofjcer they had tollowed the suggestions of himsell, But in all that tran- apired alterward he charged that Major Richards Was in command. They starved across the park to go to bis own nouse. Where he expected to remain ‘the rest of the night, and had it not been tor the mud in the park, which turned them beck they would not have Walked another rod, but would have gone home, Where he would have been tn en- tire ignorance of all that transpired during tne re- mainder of that might, and ai) this troubie would not have come upon him. When they had been turned from their route by the mud and taken their walk around the square as they passed the bill board aman stepped irom behind it, and almost immediately some one entered the office, and it Was at that moment they came to the conciusion that there Was really to be @ burglary. Of extradition between the United States and the | ment found against bim for felonious assault with | right, and he would not surink from assuming the Kingdom of Italy dia not come into effect until 1868, the year a/ter the commission of the alleged crime, there was nothing whatever in existence to justify the surrender of the prisoner to the Italian government. Mr. Coudert, counsel for the Itanan | guilty. He will be tried on Monday, government, took the opposite view of the matter and argued in an able manner that the treaty did apply to the offence; that, in fact, the treaty might | Jail to await trial. be regarded as having a retroactive effect, and that, this being so, the option but to surrender the that even if the treaty of 1868 did not apply to the intent to kill, He pleaded not guilty, and was re- | manded for trial. Wilham Decker, indicted for burglary in the | third degree and grand larceny, pleaded not | James Reday, indicted for burgiary in the third | Court had no | leased from State Prison on the 9th of May last, prisoner | where he served a term of five years for forgery, | to the demanding Power. He further argued | was arraigned upon two indictments, charging him | | with the commission of the same class of offence, | case of the prisoner, the treaty which had been | entered into between the United States and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies did. But it is some- | tenced him to the Kings County Penitentiary, what remarkable that, when giving nis judgment tm the now famous and very remarkabie case of @arl Vogt, Judge Blatchford, recounting the various treaties of extradition ‘now in force be- tween the United States and foreign countries, de- degree, pleaded not guilty. He was committed to | John W. Shearman, @ young man who was re- | ie. forging checks on banks. The Court, after lecturing the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, sen- i upon the first indictment for four years and six months, and upon the second for a term of three years, ‘he priscner, who was rather @ nice | looking man, hung his head and with rapid stride | lared that the treaty with the Two Sicilies ‘was , and flushed Lace tollowed the officer tothe “prison mo longer in existence, as it Was entirely super- | pen,” t g#eded by the later treaty entered into between the | United States and Italy in the year 1863. Upon the John Sullivan, for stealing $40, was arraigned, r points raised by counse! on both sides the Com- | pleaded guilty and will be sentenced to-morrow. misai: loner, for the purpose of enabiiug them to | have it passed upon by Judge Blatchford, decided | ‘that the treaty of 1868 did apply to the case. There- | Bpon counsel for the prisoner, Mr. Bowen, saed out @ Writ of habeas corpus to bring the question before the Court ior deteriumation. The writ was return- able yesterday, and when the case was called Mr. Howen opened the argument, insisting that ‘the points he nad raised before the Commissioner ‘Were well founded, and that there was notaing ‘Whatever in the treaty to indicate that, under its | provisions, a prisoner could be extradited for an offence committed before the treaty itself came into existence. He further ciaimed that the treaty ‘With the Two Sicilies, Was wiped out of existence by the later treaty with the Kingdom of Italy in | pleaded not guilty. | | 1868, 48 was held vy the Court when pronouncing | ate decision in tne case of Carl Vogt. Mr. Coudert, counsel for the Italian government, contended, in repiy, that the treaty deciared that persons who, having been Chargea with the com- mussi0n Of crimes, bad sought an eae in the United States, shail be deliverea up. . Coudert held that the language of the treaty expressly authorized extradition in cases of crime commit- ted previous to the ratification of the treaty, where ‘the party came to this country to seek an asylum 1n it, or was found therein. The language of the treaty emoraced the crime charged. He argued from the treaty recently made between the United Stetes and Belgium, that it was intended by that treaty to have no retractive effect, except as regards the crimes of murder and arson. In tune treaty with the Two Sicilles it was expressiy Stated therein that it snould nave no retroactive effeci; yet, when the Italian government came to Make the treaty of 1668 with the United States that clause was omitted, and ‘rom this he (Mr. Coudert) inferred that the intention was to make It retroactive in tts effect. The Italian treaty pro- vided that no person should be surrendered for political offences. He asked whether this was not a question for the political power to de- termine. it was complained that the magistrate had rejused, under the mandate, to take evidence of the alleged criminality of the prisouer; but this ‘Was ovly for the purpose of bringing the question before the Court. The power of! extradition did NOt arise irom the treaty; that was @ power thac vested In the general government. Even if there Was no extradition treaty between the two gov- eraments, the Moment the prisoner lanaed on the shores of America with blood on his hands he had James Garland and Daniel O’Lougniin, two youths, pleaded not gaily to an indictment for assault, and they will be tried on Wednesday. Henry Nailor, for stealing @ watch aud chato, | Trial on the 25th inst, Jonn Hayse, grand larceny, pieaded guffty. He will be sentenced on Monday. Patrick Fiynn, for biting off the thumb of Ben- jamin Fisk, Was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. ‘as remanded for trial on Tuesday. George Ambrose pieaded not guilty to a charge of rape and Andrew Willets entered the same plea to an indicument for grand larceny. They will be tried on Friday. For burglary in the third degree Robert Jackson and James Hopking were arraigned. They pro- | tested their innocence and will be tried on Friday. Alfred Clark and William Squires were re- | | manded for trial upon indictments lor grand lar- | Thomas | for trial for felonio ceny. David Davis, alias Davison, grand larceny, and John Mankell, indicted for a similar crime, claimed to be innocent. Triai on Tuesday. Timotay Shea and Joseph Ciasson, grand lar- ceny, pieaded not guilty. Trial on Tuesaay. Edward DeLuce, indicted for burglary in the third degree, Edward Power, William Hughes aud | wler, pleaded not gullty and were re- manded ior trial, Patrick McGinley and William Darley, for carry- | | ing concealed weapons, wil! be tried on Monday. Francis Grady, for attempted burglary, was also arraigned, and will be tried on Wednesday. Benjamin Ryan, was arraigned and committed Ssault, with intent to kul. Thomas McGrath, a coarse looking man of filty years, convicted of having attempted to shoot his wife, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for six | months. Thomas Flynn, indicted for seduction under promise of marriage, pleaged not guilty, The trial is set down for Friday. George F. McCielian, twenty-one years of age, sald (0 be a relative of the General, was, upon conviction jor bigamy the day previous, sen- tenced to the Penitentiary for one year. In passing sentence the Judge said he imposed tne | lightest penalty under the law tor that grade of | Stances of the case. Do rights here, and be could be surrendered to the | iD government; ‘for we,” said couasel, *‘al- | Ways punish murderers.” He could not see the force of the argument of the learned counsel on the other side to the effect that to send the gccused back would be establishing an ex + facto law. But in sending the prisoner ik they would not be sending him back for Punishment, but for trial He quoved from a re- cent French work to the effect that in extradition treaties they could take cognizance of crimes | committed anterior to the daie of the ratification | of the treaty. Mr. Bowen, in reply, Made by the Unite President and Con; contended that all treaties States were made by the ess in the same manner as the statute Isw of the country, and io making | Which, it was charged, Dowd shot one of his as- such treaties they couid not make any of them in contravention of the constitution. He denied the Propostion of counsel on the other side that the government could surrender @ criminal to justice | Willlamson owed Dowd a bill, which he re- Without the aid of a treaty. Judge Blatchford took the papers Bis decision. Commonaity of New York.—This and several other cases were brought before Judge McAdam yester- ai in the Marine Court, Part 2. ‘was one of the attachés of the Board of Alder- men, and sued to recover $282 01, as a balance of salary due. The defence was that the sum claimea ‘Was in excess of the legai rate; that the ordi. mance increasing the plainun’ lary was illegal; that the Board of Audit so decided, and that the Piaintif had accepted their award. The plaintuT admitted that he had received the sum awarded, under protest and after notice that he would in- Bis upon the entire claim, and that the attempt to reduce it was an imposition. The Court rendered &@ judgment for the plaintiff for $281 51, the amount claimed and interest, with costs and allowance. Charles Gallaher sued to recover $186 for services a8 doorkeeper to the Board of Aldermen. The same deience was interposed, with tue same re- sult—judgment ior plaintift jor $222, the amount Clauined and interesz, with costs and allowance. Patrick Deveraux sued to recover $541 66 for Services as messenger to the Preatdent of the a of Assistant Aldermen. Same delence, Judgment jor plain for $646 86, the amount claimed and interest, with costs and allowance. Bi ol 10 recover $210 for services ne Hoard of A > Same defence. Judgment tor | remte Mey oe sonhn Coyle sued to recover $276 lor service mixth assistant clerk to the same Board Same de- fence. Judge McAdam, as in the ow cases, rendered a judgment ‘for piainum tor 2 amount clauped and interest, with costa aud al- lowance. BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. ccnctiinenncelipsieatinsiatamee UBITED ATATES CIRCUIT COURT, Dee Yesterday, in the United States Ciremit Court, Jadge Woodruff rendered the following decisions :— intiff for $251, the imed and interest, with costs dud allow. | with, The plaintiff” | commenced to beat her boy. crime, out of regard for the extreme youth of the prisoner, and also in consideration of the circum- ‘The prisoner was married in an East New York justice court to bis second wife while intoxicated. FIRST DISTRIOT JUSTICE’S COURT, The Third Street “Shooting” Case—The Tables Turned on a Complainant— The Court Holds Williamson and Mar- tin and Discharges Michael Dowd. Before Justice Delmar. Justice Delmar, of Brooklyn, yesterday rendered his decision in a very strange case. On the 29th | of last August 4 fight occurred in front of Michael | Dowa’s liquor store, No, 129 Third street, during | sailants. Henry Williamson and Jack Martin called at Dowd’s store and drank several times. fused in very offensive language to pay, Mrs, and reserved | yowd then quietly ejected Williamson and Martin, | | saying JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE CITY. | there | ‘Terence P. Smith vs. The Mayor, Aldermen and | and three and @ half feet long. they should make no disturbance They went away angry and in ff | teen minutes returned, Williamson having in nis hand an tron pipe about two inches thick Martin entered Dowd’s store again and demanded “more drink | or fight,” and he was not particular which, Mrs, | Dowd put him outa second time, after which he Dowd ran out to save his son, whereupon Williamson, Who was hiding benind a tree box, set upon him with the iron bar, struck him on the neck and breast, in- flicting serious hdd gy Ho knocked him, insen- | siole, into the street. Dowd waa picked up by his wife and carried into his store. Mrs. Dowd went for an officer, and when the latter arrived Wil- | ltamson charged Dowd with shooting him in the | shoulder, and pointed to @ wound that looked uit had been made by @ bullet. He | was taken to the hospital, but no) bullet could be found, Dowd was arrested, and, by advice of Counselor Keady, preterred a counter charge against Wiillamson and Marun, charging them with attempting to murder him. Mr | Bergen appeared for Williamson. ‘Three wit- | Mesres swore that they saw Dowd fire a pistol, one of them positively; and Dr. Rockwell, who at- tended Williamson, testified that the wound | looked like @ bullet wound, but he did not probe | it, and could not say positively that it was such. No hoie cuuld be found in Wiillamson’s clothing. | Dr, Westbrook, who aid prove the wound at the Long Istand College Hospital on the night of tne | | occurrence, testified ior the detence that it Was only “skin deep” and did not look like @ bullet wound at ali. He conld not | tnd any bullet. Mr. Dowd, bis wife and Mr. Conly, who witnessed the whole affray, swore that Dowd fired no snot that night and had no pistol to fire | Dowd alieged turther that the story of the art of & conspiracy aguiust him, | shooting was and that the witnesses who swore to It testifie jalsely. The case has been under examination since the occurrence and has excited a good deal of comment in South Brookiyn. Yesterday Jus- tice Delmar rendered his decision, discharging | Dowd and holding Williamson and Martin for tne | action of the Grand Jury on acharge of attempted murder. For toe defendant Dowd, P. Keady; tor Henry Williamson, Mr. Bergen, KINGS COUHTY SUPREME COURT CALENDAR = Refore Judge Barnara, Nos, 3, 99, 22f, 230, 231, 71, 198, 282, 233, 284, | United States vs. Looig Windmulies @) Al.—Jeb | 280. 207. 208. 240 Z40, WAL. G42, 249, 244, 245, responsibility now and all tue time; out he was hot in command that night, and he did not issue a single command. Major Richards was in charge and issued all the orders, They did toliow the burglars, aod he told Tom Shepherd to go around and tell the officers in tne vear that the men had come out ia front. If he was avXious to have one of them escape would he have suggested that the wiole detective iorce be brought around to tie front to iollow and capture them? He did want to jollow them, but he denied emphatically that he wanted to fullow them with the purpose of ullow- ing them to escape. In their excitement they all followed the same man, except Williams, who followed the large man around to G street, Where he was lost to sight either under tue steps or in the vacant lot. Again, he said he (Harring- ton) suggesiea that the matter be kept from the press, and had it not been jor his action on that =point the fact would have been seut allover the world be- fore morning that a thie! haa been arrested on the steps of Columous Ajexander’s nouse, and yet it was charged upon him that he wanted to tbjure Alexander and hold him up to the world as a crim- inal, He would rather have his recollection of the part which he periormed that nigat to save Alex- ander’s name trom obloquy than to have the re- collection wiich Mr. Alexander must have for the part he had taken to biacken his (Harrington’s) character. It was lor this purpose that ne sug- gested at the house, before they started out tuat evening, tnat the three with Wuliams would be ali that would be necessary to Watch the oifice. | He did this, 80 that if no:hing came of 1t then no- | thing need be said about it or their suspivions. He next alluded to his sickness on tue night of the burglary and said it was periectiy disgusting tosee the Assistant Attorney General and the special counsel degrading tneir high positions by Making Capital out of his sickness that mgt, ihey wouid only be fuifilung their bigh mis-ion and compieting their work by getting a certiiicate irom @ physician and examiming the contents ejected irom his stomach to see il there Was not 4m it some evidence of the conspiracy. THE CHARACTER OF HAYES was discussed at some length, and ail the salient points made against him were amplified with zeal and venom. He alluded to his visit to Somerville 1n Philadelphia, and said the very means which he took to secure and punish the burgiars were con- strued agalust him to show that be was engaged in thts conspiracy. Taking up the admissions into the case of the telegrams, he spoke venemently | against the course of the government tn search- | ing the telegraph office jor private despatches. He cited various cases and decisions which have been made against the practice of seizing private papers tor the past six centuries, and denounced the action of the government as illegal, indecent and imfamous. In regard to the missing telegram be said it Was for bis interest to keep that teie- gram intact, for the government did not know who wrote that despatch, aud before they could introduce it they must prove that he (Harrington) wrote it. He would not have it destroyed under any circumstances, and he had as much rigot to gay that tue counsel for the government had abstracted that telegram as they lad to impute its absence to bim, They might not have done it themselves, but they were surrounded by @ band of men who were used to such capers, and tiey could have picked up this despatch and have eaten it up as easily as they could have eaten one of Welker’s best dinners. He spoke about the re- lease of Benton. and saia he only did what he con- sidered bis duty, and what he always would do, and what he would do again, and taat was to give every man his liberty on pall when the case War- Tanted it, At this very time, he also suggested, Hayes could procure his release on bail. r. Harrington spoke nearly two hours and closed by urging his own vindication and declar- ing bis Willingness to jeave everything, his Iife and his reputation and honor, in the hands of the jury, and saying that in all of hig offictal acts he had never yet tarnished his name or bis honor. The Vourt took a recess. Afternoon Session. After recess, Mr, Vavidge, for the fourth time Bince the close of the testimony, said he was ae- bating in nis own mind about further arguing this case. Ii there was any doubt in the mind of any man about the entire inno cence of— Judge (interrupting)—Stop a minute Mr, Da vidge, do you wish t argue this case to the jury. rt. Davidge—l am coming to that, Your Honor, Judge-—Well, if you wish to argue it, how much time you want. Mr. Davidge—f was avout to state that if there ‘was any doubt—— Judge—Pause there, Mr. Davidge, Mr. Davidge—Well, I will not pursue the subject farther in that direction. It is the wisn of m| friends and those of the defendant that I should | make afew remarks to the jury, but I do not jeel juite able to do so to-day, but if 1am pressed to jecide now, I shall decide not to speak. If left till Monday I will decide and will assare the Court I shall not occupy more than halt or three-quarters of an hour. Judge Humphreys said he did not want to press counsel. To-morrow would be Sunday and Thurs- day Thauksgiving, aud he thought by the arrange- ment now indicated he would be able to present his charge to the jury by Tuesday night or Wednes- day morning. The jury might be oul an nonr, ora day, or longer, but be should remain within the call of the Court, night and day, til the case was compieted and the jury discharged. The Court then adjourned till Monday, METING OUT JUSTICE IN JERSEY, In the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City | yesterday Thomas Fox was convicted of an as- sault and battery on James Bond io a barroom on election day, and was sentenced to the State Prison for one year, A boy named Michael Tigne, | who nad been in the habit of pilfering from the | shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad, sent to the State Reform School John Larkin, auother youth who attempted to steal from @ store wt the corner of Krie and ‘Third streets was aiso sent to the Reform Schook Frederick Schelbe, indicted for the murder of Jacob Schultz by stabbing him with a knife, at Floral Park, Waa arraigned and p\eaded not guilty. His trial was postponed till next term, as the in- dictment was found so late that tt would be impos- sible to have the trial take place tuis term, PROBABLE WIFE MURDER, A case of brutality shown by a husband to his wife was discovered yesterday afternoon which may result in @ homicide, The police of the Twentieth precinet were iniormed about three o'clock that Mary Ano Kinsella was suffering in- | Tensely from wound@ inflicted upon her by her husbaod, Michael, Sha was visited at her resi- dence, No, 509 Eleventtt avenue, and tonnd to be So seriously hurt that sbé was removed to Belie- vue Hospital Laver in phe afternoon her hna- band was arrested and locked up in the Twentieta precinct station house. +s, Kinsellais abouts forty years Old. He did suggest that the burglars be | | followed, and he did it because he thought it was the necessity of | » please state | NEW YORK CITY. Dante? Connel!, a laborer, fell Into a sewer in Ninety-second street yesterday afternoon and bruised himself pam/éully, A child named William Whalen, aged two years, died suddenly yesterday aiternoon at the resi- dence of his parents, No, 869 First avenue. The police made 1,927 arrests during the past week, There were 521 deaths, 457 births, 107 mar- riages and 44 stili birchs during tne same period, Hon, Carl Schurz will deliver the second lecture of the Hebrew Young Men’s Association course next Wednesday evening, on “Educacional Problems.” Treasury Agents Howe and Brackett, assisted from the corner of Twelith street and Fourth ave- nue yesterday, Rev, 1. De Witt Talmage will lecture on “People Woe Meet” to-morrow svening at the Spring street Presbyterian church, near Varick street, Jor the benefit or the Sunday school. Shortly before seven o’clock yesterday morning a fire was caused in the steam fitting shop of Fe- tx Demartin, on the fourth floor of No. 40 Greene street, by a spark froma forge. Damage $25. A woman named Doyle, sixty years of age, who had not been seen alive since Wednesday evening last, was found dead yesterday in her room, at No. $9 Cliff street, Coroner Woltman was notified to hold @p inquest. A lamp exploded yesterday at noon and caused a fire in the bookbindery of August Walton, on the second floor of No. 186 East Thirteenth street, Fire and water damaged the stock to the value of $200, and the building to that of $50. At the meeting of the Geographical Society to- morrow evening Dr. I. L Hays will make nis re- port of his recent travels as the soctety’s rep- resentative in iceland, and Dr. Du Chatiiu will ilius- trate the habits and customs of the Laplanders. The managers of the “Peabody Home,” corner ‘Thirty-third street and Lexington avenue, desire to ivform those who have made arrangements to become permanent inmates that, unless they enter immediately, their places will be given others. Michael Cavanagh was taken sick yesterday morning while in Canal street, at the corner of Church. He fell to the pavement and died almost instantly. His body was sent to the Morgue. Cav- anagh Was aged thirty.two years and resided at No. 32 Jay street. The triends of the colored orphans wish to give a Thanksgiving dinner to the 280 children at the Asylum, 143d street and Boulevard, and would gladly receive donations of eatables or monoy, which may be left at Mra, Landon’s, No, 7 Hast Fourteenth street, or at Mrs. Stokes’, No. 37 Madi- son avenue. The City of London, Inman line, sailed yester- day, carrying 26 cabin and 300 steerage passen- gers. The Ethiopia,, Anchor line, sailed with 20 cabin and 335 steerage passengers, The Hohen- staufen, German Lioyd’s line, carried 38 cabin and 106 steerage passengers. ‘The Baltic, White Star Mne, took 01 cabin passengers. An inquest was yesterday held by Coroner Eickhoff in the case of Nathan Bass, a German, nearly forty years of age, late of No. 42 Clinton street, who died from injuries received on the 19th ult, in Second avenue, near Third street, by being run over by car No. 60 of the Second avenue line. | Six of the jury found that the occurrence was ac- cidental, but the seventh juror censured the rail- | road company. The newly organized surveying party for work among the antiquities of Palestine, under the leadership of Colonel J. C. Lane, will start from this city next Saturday and proceed via England, where it will receive reinforcements. Professor Payne, who has been on the ground for two years, will soon maxe his report. Rev. O. S. St. Jonn, Secretary, No. 26 Exchange place, will give any desired iniormation. A fair is to be heid at No. 30 Union square in aid of Giris, whose admirable institution, at No. 136 Sec- ond avenue, is doing a noble, charitable work in ing class of young women, who, except for the assistance of the Kind women who give their livea to save them, would soon find homes in dens of vice. The entertainment will open December 1, and continue for two weeks. | Mr. Cyrus W. Miner, residing at No. 471 West Twenty-second street, fell from the Elevated Ratl- way track in Ninth avenue, near Twentieth street, yesterday morning and was badly injured. He maue an effort to cet on the twenty-three minutes to eight train, Which was moving south from the station, despite the admonitions of the station master, and missing the platiorm jell headlong to thesidewalk below. He was carried to his home, and it 1s believed iis injuries are serious, Lieutenant Colonel Josepb Laing, commanding the Seventy-ninth regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., has ad- dent of the National Rifle Association, expressing the Rifle Association depriving the Seventy-ninth of the Gatling gun, the prize lately shot for in a | contest at Creedmoor, and announcing that the on ig atthe disposal of the association. Colonel aing argues against the judgment of the Board, but concludes by saying that bis regiment having taken whole batteries m the shock of arms while fighting for the National Union, can afford to lose one for unton and good jecling in the National juard, ‘The Ladies’ Association of the New York Hos- pital for Women will give an informal entertain- ment 1n their new butlding, at the corner of Lex- ington avenue and Thirty-seventh street, on Tuesday evening, November 24. This is the first of u series of entertainments to be given by tnese | ladies preliminary toa grand fair at the end of the season, Distinguished artists in the musical and dramatic professions have tendered their ser- vices. The officers Of the association are:—Presi- dent, Mrs, Parke Godwin; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Jonathan Sturges, Mrs. William M. Kingsland, Mrs. Horace F. Clark, Mrs. Seiein H. Wales, Mrs, Josiah M. Fiske; Treasurer, Mrs, William L. An- drews; Secretary, Mrs. W. A. Ogden Hegeman. ‘This institution has been at work for more than six years, at Second avenue and Twellth street, where it has treated some seven hundred women, | mainly as charity, and, needing more room, has lately purchased its present quarters, for which | it owes $90,000, and appeals to the public for aid | to discharge it, The tickets for the opening en- tertaimment are for sale at Rushton’s penraacy. Broadway, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; price $1. BROOKLYN. There wore 484 arrests in this city during the past week. The total amount levied by the assessors upon the city at large for the Gowanus Improvement $85,782 30, Aldermen elect James Kane, of the Sixth ward; Charies T. Trowbriage, of the Tenth, and David Acker, of the Sixteenth, were sworn in yesterday. Yesterday Comptroller elect Samuel! 8S, Powell, took the oath of office before City Clerk Bishop. Mr. Powell has been three times elected Mayor of Brooklyn. In ald of the poor of St. Ann’s parish a lecture ‘will be delivered in the church, Front street, this | evening, by Rev. Father McKenna, the Dominican bei eae Als subject will be “The Altar and the ice. Of the total amount of the tax levy of 1873 to be ber 14, Collector Burrows has collected $6,230,220 11, leaving 4 balance to be collected of $1,639,438 77. This 18 reported asa@ fair collection, as compared | with other years, William Muir, arrested on charge of offering a $1,000 stolen bond for sale, was arraigned yester- | day before Police Justice Walsh and was com- mittel to await the action of the Grand Jury. ‘Yne accused furnished bati in the sum of $2,000 and was released trom custody. ton avenue, was entered by thieves on Friday the rogues, making their way up stairs to tne sleeping apartments, coliected diamonds ana wearing apparel to the value of $800, with which they made their exit undetected. No arrests. Detective Looney yesterday arrested Jonn Gil- len, twenty-one years of age, charged with being implicated In the murderous assanit upon Patrick Briody, an old man, who resides at No. 454 Colam- | the hands of a party of roughs on the 2th of last month, Application was made in the City Court yester- day, before Judge Neilson, by Carl Jouach, as Pres- | ident of Moltke Stamm, of No. 165, of the Order of | Red Men, to restrain Carl Kuhnts et al. trom draw- ing $600. deposited to their credit in the South Brooklyn Credit, bot which plaintiff claims. It ap- pears that a division occurred among the officers | off the funds, which they deposited to tne credit | of the new lodge. The Court ordered that tne case should stand over until Saturday next. LONG ISLAND, ection, The new barkentine Tyler was Iaanched from the shipyard of Jesse Carll, at Northport, yester- day. ‘The appliances of the Flushing Fire Department srasaidia be entirely inadcuuate in case of a by Inspector Fidean, seized 4,000 smuggled cigars — the Association for Belriending Children and Young | the care and reformation of @ large and interest- | dressed a note to Colonel! Wm. 0, Ubarch, Presi- © surprise at the decision of tue executive body of | | raised in Brooklyn in the year 1874, up to Novem- , ‘The residence of Mr. Wagner, No. 460 Washing. | evening last while the family were at supper, and | bia street, and is now in @ very Criticui vonaition, | consequeat upon the injuries whicu he 1eceived at | | of the Stamm Lodge, and the dissenters carried | Dishop 1, Wistar Morris, of Oregon, te aa- need to preach in St. George's chareh, Heme | stead, thts forenoon, and to address the of the Suoday school at half-past two o' P, A fatal case of smativex has cceurred at the | Queens County Poor Farm. The subject taken was | to the istend about two weeks ago os a and the disease Was developed In a row days 4 ‘ver. The carriage house of Mr. thieves, WLo stole doavie The house of Mr, Willtam Wagner, at Lavret 5 violent contact with up insensivie ton’s, where her harts were Doctor bas little hope of ber recovery. The dedication of the First Methodist church (formerly the Old church) at Rockville Centre will take place to-day. The Rev. Alexander Clark, of Pittsbarg, Pa., editor of the Methodist Recorder, will preach the sermon, ana the Rey, J. J. Smivn and other well kno: ministers will take part in the services, The accom moO dating about 600 will be continued durin society, but they have Gunti ty, y a music, by a vote of Tuesday last. They each stood » pressure of from 110 to 120 pounds, whon, IM each case, a do- fective length of pipe was discovered and re- laced, aud they are both now capable of stauding ne required ximum pressure of 150 pounds, although the ordinary pressure is expected never to exceed 100 pounds. ‘Tue engineers and con- traciors propose to have a final test of the entire works on Thanksgiving ; if shat i found to be impossible, there will be an extibition of the capacity of the works through eecuion of in the northern part of the village, evening there was a meeting of citizens im trustees’ room, at Which arrangements were for a suitable celebration of the completion works on Thanksgiving Day. There Will be cession, with music and addresses, and it cled that the public testof the works will ract a large attendance. WESTCHESTER. A “Yonkers Bar Association” ni by the legal raternity of that city. at been formed The official vote in the county for Governor, as — announced by the Board of County Canvassers, 16 Six women had thelr pockets picked while at tending @ funeral at Kingsbridge a lew days siace, A female operator is believed to bave done the “liting.”? Yonkers (Rev. Father Slevin, pastor), @ grand sacred concert will be given this evenin; oj which occasion a brilliant array of voca) musical talent has been secared. aid the school in connection with the church, An intelligent dog leading a horse tnrough the Streets of White Plains may be witnessed at that place almost daily. The rope afixed to the halter | ts tied around the neck of the dog, which rs to conduct its equine charge Ro a8 to avoid pass- ing veuicies and other objects with a sagacity almest human, laries and robberies which have lately taken place at New Kocbelle, a number of the citizens of that place -have determined to form a vigilance com- | mittee for the better protection of their lives | and property. To this end an organisation numbering over fifty men has been effected, cach | member having signed an agreement that he will devote one nighv in the week to patrolling the village. Tois arrangement will allow a formida- ble torce of armed men to be on duty nightly, and shonld any nocturnal prowler fall into their hands he will doubtiess be roughly dealt with, Since whe Yonkers Board of Water Commis- sioners has adopted the plans.of Engineers Wilson and Greene, vroposing to construct @ storage reservoir on the Grassy Sprain River, @ pretty general opposition to the scheme is being manifested by the people. Walle the latter admit that they Want @ plentiful suppy good water and are willing to be taxed $600,000 for that Wend vagal they decidedly object to the costly experiment of | locating tne aqueous receptacle on a deposit of ator mock; for although Professor Chandler the objectiovable feature named would not affect the purity of the water, with similar ingredients have just been made by two prominent citizens, who thereby demonstrated a contrary result, It ig rumored that the ald of the courts will be in- voked to restrain the Water Commissioners from | carrying out their present resolves in connection | with the Grassy Sprain. Meantime @ mass meet- ing of the citizens has been called for the purpose Of taking action In the premises. STATLN ISLAND. The County Court, Judge Metcalfe presiding, will convene at Richmond on Tuesday next with a petit jury, for the trial of civil causes carried over from the last regular term and new causes on ap- peals irom decisions of justices of the peace. Mr. George A. Middlebrook, of Port Richmond, has been appointed by the Supervisor, Justices and Town Clerk of Northfield as Justice of the Peace, to Mill the vacancy occasioned by the death of hts father, and has already been sworn into | omice, About ten o’clock last evening, as Antoine Francis, a sailor on board the pilot poat Nexus, the dock at Stapieton, he lost his hold ana fell upon the gunwale of the boat, breaking one of his Jegs and tuence tell into the water. and would doubtless have been drowned but jor the efforts of Officer Brown, who, hearing his cries, rescued him and conveyed him to the Seamen’s Retreat, where he received proper attendance. The chieken roosts about Clifton are again Friday night severai of the chicken houses in the outskirts of the village were entirely stripped.” It 1s supposed that several persons who are going the rounds pretending to be purchasing chickens, aud who are shown the places where they are kept, return at nignt and commit the depreda- | tlons thd tht of. Some vagabonds near the | wood road are supposed to be implicated. NEW JERSEY. Hon. N. P. Banks lectured last evening in Easton on “The American Republic—Will It Endure?’ A crowded audience greeted him, It 1s rumored that the Pennsylvania Ratiroaa Company contemplates purchasing the old ord- nance works, at Trenton, with the intention of making a repair shop for jocomottves, Rev. Dr. 5. A. Clark and U. 8. Livingstone have gone to Pittsburg to formally announce to Dr. pedal his election as Bishop of the new | Episcopal diocese of Southern New Jersey. An old tax warrant just discovered sets forth that Joseph Bonaparte was taxed in 1821 $160 for 1,600 acres of land by Nathan Satterthwaite, then Mr. Satterthwaite still | Assessor of Bordentown. rich and could stand it.” A petition, signed by Senator Frelinghuysen and a large number of Newarkers, having been pre- sented to the Court, praying that sentence be in- definitely postponed in the case of John A. Broad- well, the defaulting Tax Receiver, Judge Depue eee, announced its indefinite postponement, ‘nls bears out the HERALD's remark that the case Was virtually disposed of. The case of the Attorney General and the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Monmouth County vs, | the New York and Long Branch Ratlroad, came up before Chancellor Runyon yesterday for argu- ment on the injunction to restrain the company from building two draws, forty-one leet wide, over Ocean Creek and compel them to make tne draws sixty-one feet wide, As the plaintiffs did not ap+ pear the injunction was dismissed with costs, Fires continue to rage on the Blue Mountaina, Warren county, and on the Sparta Mountains, Sussex county, Considerable destruction nas oc- curred to the property of the Delaware Water Gap Company, in the iormer place, aud a force of about | fifty men was called oat a few days ago to save the butidings belonging to that company. The origin of these fires is traced toa party of hunters, and steps have been taken to prevent trespassing on these lands in future yin order to insure against the occurrence of any similar acta of cure- lessness, Several thousand acres oj timber have been destroved op the Sparta Mountains, ‘ & valuable barrelled gan and & lot of barnes, Depredations ty chicken thieves are quite common im that peigh! | oa 1chOwer 9,166; Dix, 7,145, and Clark, 4 At the Church of the Immaculate Conception, The proceeds will goto | In conseauence of the numerous petty burg- | a8, a8 the result of his analysis, reported that | was attempting to get into the small boat from | suffering from the depredations of thieves, On | lives and says he “stuck it on a little, as Bony was fheinstiation at sna Four Buildings Shattered in Jer4 sey City. Aber K. Beden, of | 4 Colored Woman feriously Injured—Providens Hempstead, was broken open on Friday night by tial Bseape of Ten Persons—The Boiler Thrown © Distance of Four Hundred Feet. O'clock yesterday morning o terrible plosion took place in the soap factory of 4. Wellwood, Nos, 335 and 331 Newark avenue, City. AS Will be seen bya perusal of the With the explosion, it was the ree it Consisting of a metallic rake re+ iron soap vat and connected engine, was being tested when Occurred, Mr. Wellwood bad saiety valve at fifty pounds essure and soon afterward directed one of the mechiniste to see if there was sufficient Water iu tue boiler. The machinist did go and re- | turned to the front building. No one remained in | the botier room, [a the front part of the building, and within thirty feet of the boiler, were Mr. Wellwood, his two sons, aged about six and ten | years, his father, our workmen and two machine ‘#ts, making teo in all. Mr. Wellwood nad bis / hand on the supply Valve, ready to proceed with the tes!, when the ex, occurred, The shocking afair will be best unaerstood by his own relation of the circumstances: “While I haa my hand on that valve (potting it out to a Henaxp reporter), as you see me no" a terrible concussion took’ place. Por a tow ments I could not realize what happened—a hundred bells were ri n my eare. Before I had rully recovered my senses the Moor came tumbling down; but, thanks to Providence, that row of soap boxes caught It on s § & 3 plosion the ii | and thas that side of the ceding remained In place. | But for these two ciroumstances you would be now | searching for the bodies of us all. My nret im= | puive was to rush for my little boy, who was stand« C | living soul in rowest cocape over Eaare. Itcleared over houses, telegraph wires an | “The boller fell beside the trestle work of ! Mersey oly ge Raliroad 409 feet from its 81 Point @nd unbedaed itself in the swamp. feet of it avove the An examination of it showed ‘hat part which yielded was the fire box. The smok | Chamber became detached in the ascent and fel | Op the sidewalk in ark oyeane, smashing ‘ parreis. ‘Ine felting which covered the boiler spattered against doors aud windows unde: | the track pursued by the boiler, | When the bouer went up tue work of destruction commenced. A colored woman named Eliza Peterson was sitting in her wood Louse spiit- | ting Wood When the structure was swept from i posiuion and turned over on its side. The iall- ing timbers fell thickly upon her till her head pre- eonteda wok ae ge She was conveyed to the Ory uspital. Sue was the only person | injured, although the explosion took ly on the midst of a densely populated district, Nowlog , more proviaen' ever aecurred. Pou ' buildings in ali were shatvered. The bua ing coals from the turnace were das! against @ smaii irame structure, used as a and set itou fire. An alarm was rung, firemen were on hand jess than en m and within tea minutes afterward the ‘dre was exe tinguished, The vicinity Of the explosion ta exclusively & negro settiement, and the resident were seized With the wildest terror while the fire lasted. There Was no insurance on tue bulidings destroyed, | THE, FREEHOLDERS’ FRAUD’. Presentment by the Grand Jury— y | Peqniations on the Part of Chosen | Pre iders Remained Unchecked=—A H Lesson for Taxpayers. | It is now some weeks since the Hrnaxn called attention to the frands perpetrated on the tax- | payers of Hudson county, N. J., by oMeials ap- pomted by the Board of Chosen Frecholdera, Facts were also presented to show that some of ; the Freeholders themselves were directly or indirectly concerned in these frauds Ag investigation was ordered by the Board and the result was a sweeping condemnation of one memper of the Board. All the papers in the case were sent to the Grand Jury, who concluded their labors yesterday. They found 160 vills of indictment during thé term, and they submitted the following presentineat:— The Grand Jury has examined a large number of wit. Nesses und Ustened to tesumony regarding certain holders of this county, and wonld present as follows :— ‘The Grand Jury is satisfied from the testimony before | followed by many menivers of the ‘of Chosen holders, having or in any wa; conten Cs is n o ‘use, furnish the same to the county elther tn their ‘own name or in the name of some other person, 6 jolal ‘positions. acts, if not actually criminal, we consider HIGHLY The Grand Jury lation of (the first section gf the act enti allegea acts of members of the Board of Chosen Free- | them that for several years past it has been the y Free- erty which the county mieht ) themseives by means of | ngpaeni and think they ought to be d) panied itogethe: Ms sntietod that: these sets are ofticers, revent municipal mit ic contracts,” engroved February which vides “that it shall not be lawful for any member of | Board ot Chosen Freeholders, or of town: commi' tees, or of any Board of aldermen or by ie any city or borough in this State to be directly or ins Girectly concerned in the construction of any Te vats any kind whatsoever to be construct the public use or | AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE, | of to be 8 party to any contract or agreement, oither ag rincipal or surety, between the couuty, township oF rough, ag the case may be, and oer ener ary te ‘The penaky for the violation of this sec the act { be praia’ in the nextsection of the samo act, which ig 8 follows 1— “that any ceca. Frecholder, committeeman, Alder- man or Common Counci!man, asthe case may be. who | shall violate any of the pees 4 1 eetages ecction | anal unto the corporation r body of which he isa member the full amount of bi ment, the same to be . costs of suit in any ¢ | the said corporation or by any person or persons It maj | authorize to prosecute for the same,” so that it woul | geem that indictnents would not he violation of the Bratgection of the act ana the Grand Jury would recoue mend that actions be brought at once to RRCOVER THB PENALTIE® provided in the second section of this act. ‘The Grand Jury consider the practice of any publia officer whatever having any interes tn furnishti ~ a Piles of any kind to or being Inte sere oF fi ; Fectly in contracts with the bodies of which Lag | a | officers ay oblectionable. and that the same a be prohibited by law and offenders proceed: — d to by indictment. ‘Tt al Gra 9 Iso appears to ti Jury ood, and especially Magee have furnishe: ke Hall nt RNORMOUS IN QUANTI | and exorbitant in cost; at for years past and up to the present time the members of ihe diiferent comute tees connected with publio Institutions, with some honorabie exceptions, have bose, im the habit of eq dering annually thousands of dollars for the pare! of champagne, costly wines and cigars which were for the gratification of their own and friends’ appetites, | thos using for ‘THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT | Moneys which the iar ‘sof this county Sates a for the matatenance of thé paupers, the insane | convic | It turther appears to the Grand Jury that belonging to the county has at various times been | moved trom Shake Hill by diferent members ot Board of Chosen Freeholders for their own ase, but im | some cases the evidence was | 700 INDEFINITE | to warrant the Grand Jury in finding indictments, and in others the matters testified to cecurred more than The a m it their duty court it the sieteet grand Sury’ that the _ somettutign” Board of Chosen Freeholders of this county and the Fights, duties and privileges of the members and, thetg relations to the Board and to the county shall receive | the attention of the Legislature, D. D. VAN REIPEN, Foreman. The committee of which Mr. Roh was chairman | are entitled to the credit of discovering the [rauds | alluded to, although the most strenuous efforts were made to thwart investigation. The irrega- larities set forth will be followed up, and it is likely that a bill will be introduced at the ensu Session or the Legislature which wili go meet case that the guilty parties may be mada amelie | able to justice, suse u