The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1874, Page 8

THE COURTS. The Case of Schwab---The Question of His Bail Postponed. Curious Conflict of Judicial Opinions. Another Injunction Against the Erie Railway Company. There wi!l be no session of the State Courts to- ay, in consequence of the day being set apart for Bhe tuneral of the late Mayor Havemeyer. ‘The contest between the Marine Court Marshals and the Sheriff in reierence to the right to tssue certain processes of the Court, the facts of which have already been given ip the HERALD, is waxing more exciting and energetic. In the case of Mar- shai Phillipa, the counsel of the marshais, Messrs, Breen & Garson, obtained yesterday from Judge | Donohue, im Supreme Court Chambers, a writ of habeas corpus, returnable on Monday next Iz the Court of Oyer and Terminer. This is brought tor- ward as & test case, ana the decision 1s one of great importance to the marshals, who claim that if the recent order of the Marine Court is complied with they will be deprived of three-fourths oftheir Jegitimate perquisites. In the case of Howe & Hummel the detence was entered on yesterday belore ex-Judge Emott, the Referee, Captain Burden, Detective Elder and vari- ous other police oMcers testified to having known the Beaumonts trom twenty to twenty-five years past, and their united testimony was that dur- ‘Ing most of this time they have kept disorderly houses in this city. A lawyer, retained by the Beaumonts to institute a suit against the respon- denis, sald that they never made mention of hav- ing paid money to bribe judges, but, on the con- trary, said the money paid by them to respondents | was for the purpose of carrying their case to the | Court of Appeals. Testimony was also given to | show that the accusing parties have, since the in- @titation of these proceedings, kept a disreputable | Rouse in Cliaton place, The further examination ‘was postponed to next Friday. SCHWAB NOT YET BAILED. The case of Sigismund Schwab, the convicted liquog dealer, begins to assume a phase of un- | ‘wonted legal entangienent. The matter seems to | have resolved itseli rather into a disputation be- Bween judges holding diferent opinions, the un- licensed liquor dealers an¢ the Excise Commis- sioners. Judge Donohue, in bis decision regarding Schwab’s case, having granted the writ of error and stay asked for, expressed the opinion that the Yequest to admit to bail left the matter to the dis- posal of Judge Barrets holding the Court of Over | and Terminer, before whom the trial took place. | It being understood that this matter of bail would be disposed of yesterday morning by Judge Barrett, there was a large crowd, prin- cipally composed of liquor dealers, present on the | assembling of ibe Court. The prisoner, Schwab, ‘waa present in Court, having been brought up on &@ writ of habeas corpus, and being accompanied Dy his counsel, Messrs. A. Oakey Hail and John McKeon. It was evidently supposed that there ‘Would be no difficulty in the matter, and in fact the requisite bail bond had been prepared in ad- vance, Assistant District Attorney Rollins said Re was decidedly opposed vo taking up then the application to admit Mr. Schwab to bail. Before wu application could be properly acted upon there were many things to be considered. the case Was one oO! a peculiar Character and involv- ing Most impertant issues, and time was neces- Bary tor its consideration. Judge Barrett said he should decline to enter- ftain toe application then. ‘This was a very un- usual case and involving a very grave precedent, ‘Jadge Denohne was au able aud carefui judge, and no doubt had given due consideration to the ‘matter bejore giving hts opinion. He also requtred for himself time for deliberation. He never kuew of bat one instance jn this State of pail being granted under such circumstances, and that was deciared irregular. If Judge Douohue was right, then it rested with the discretion of each Supreme Court Judge to open ihe dvors of prisons to any prisoner under sentence. If, however, the prisoner in this case is legally cntitied to bail under Judge Dono- ‘hue’s decision, it would be very hard to keep him longer in prison. Mr. Rollins said be wonld be ready to argue the case next Monday, and the argument was accord- AD, set down tor tnat day. eantime there was in court, awatting trial, a number of indicted liquor dealers: bat tneir coun- sel, Mr. Samuel G. Courtney, said he was not ready to proceed to trial then and asked for a postpone- ment of the cases till Monday, which was granted. ANOTHER ERIE RAILWAY SU.T. A suit involving substantially the same issue as that now pending against the Erle Railway Com- pany, brought by John C. Angeil, has been com- menced against the same company by Stephen T. Arnot, as executor. The suit of the latter is against the Buffalo, New York and Erie Railway Company and Charlies F. Hunter and William B. Duncan. Application was made yesterday before Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, to Testrain the company and parties named from disposing of 5,000 shares of the stock of the Buffalo, New York and Erie Railway Com- pany until the validity of the arrangement entered into be determined, under which the shares referred to are held by the company. As will be seen this is substantially the same stock and contract attactied in the Angell suit, the par- @iculars of which have already been fully published in the HgKaLp. A receiver is also asked for of such stock until the questions at issue are decided, Judge Donohue granted an order to show cause Why such a receiver should not be appointed and such gn injunction shculd not be issued, This order was made returnable on Monday next. Meantime a temporary injunction has been granted in accordance with the petition of the applicant and the same will remain in force until Monday, BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Germans and Their Long Island City Lots. Before Judge Donohue. ‘The poor Germans who, in their anxiety to pro- @ure future homesteads for themselves, were in- ‘veigied—tor this is the charge they make—into the purcnase of lots in the vicinity of Long Islanu City from “The Co-Operative Building Association of United Cabinetmakers No. 2,” have at length some show ofnot being wholly defrauded out of the mouey they thus invested. Several days ago ex-Judge Dittenhoefer made a motion in this Court on behalf ofChristian Borveak and others against the asso- elation named and Henry fFeliman and Cody Anufanger, Albert ‘uggeman, apd dJonn A, Stemmier and wife for an injunction ist Fellman, AUfanger sad Brug; an, to om oa large tract of land in Long had been conveyed by Stemmier and ‘Didding them from interiering with said propert: either as trustees or other: , and for the polntment of a receiver. Judge Lonohue m: Yesterday the following order in the case :—‘“‘There @eems to be no doubt of gross fraud perpetrated in This , and that whatever fs leit of the property should be devoted to the creditors, and what the | ‘Feceiver shall take will be considered when he is a ted.” This order, as will be seen, ts @ injunction, and as soon as the order is set- ted a receiver will be named. & Lawyer's Commitment fer Contempt. Some time since Mr. H, H. Morange, a lawyer, attempted to disbar Richard B, Kelly; but instead @f being successiui, Kelly was wholly exonerated nd he was orderea to pay the disbursements. ‘Failing to do this, Morange was arrested for con- of court. A motion was made yester ite the order Of commitment, and Mr. Sasrons 8. Sullivan, who appeared for the motion, urged it on the ground that the order referring to the dis- sbursements did not specify any amount to be paid, and that # commitment could not be issued until order the amount to be Sntered. Judge Donohue denied ‘the motion aud to the custody o! the Snerig, Decisions. remanded Morange Borbick vs. Building Association apd Another. granted, Memorandum. ot al. va. Lane.—Motion granted, without Vail Coste. Steine! The Mayor, 4c.—Motion granted. é Rog» Mayor, &c.—Motion denied, | once pronounced them forge | 512, | o0a; concurred in by Judge Weath Daveb; settled COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM Decisions. Judge Larremore. Selby va. seins oes memorandum for counsel, McGarry Va Smmitb,—Motion deuicd. See memo- ie: By Judi Reon. BY Rooth va Brennaa 5 “coats Haruman. ve, The Mayor, &c.—Complaint dig- sed, Wath costs. Chern ys, Briant.—Findings settled, MARINE OOURT—OHAMBERS, — Decisions. Ry sedge: McAdam. Hamitton va, Gomputs,—Motion oenig.— Piuger ve K Motion Downey vs Morange.. denied, ited. denied. See Titus v& Aceredo.—Motion granted. Hotchktes vg. Kielder.—Motion denied, Prentisa Vs. OgdeD.—Motion granted; $10 costs and $25 allowance. Johnson vs. Rogers; Brewiler vs. Sadler; Hof- man vs, Hoffman vs. Hofman; Harris vs, Thorson; Frank ve. Bemark ; Hoell va. Mittnacht; Kastor va, Lion.—Motions granted. By Judge Alker. | Memorandum, Teasdi ve. es.—Motion for judgment Granted; $10 costs. Hyde Poliard.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, to abide ent. Bays va Cuave.—Motion denied, with leave to renew op payment of costs, Same ve, Same.—Motlon dented, with $10 costs, t avide event. Spronson va, Lachenmey.—Motion denied, with $10 costs, to abide event. Bieriog Vs. Smitb.— Motion granted, with $10 costs to plaintil. TOMBS POLICE COURT. Very Dressy. Before Judge Kaamire, Catharine Williams, of No. 34 Oliver street, was arrested yesterday by Officer Van Buskirk, of the Fourth precinct, on the complaint of Hannah Deuchey, of No, 73 Oliver street, who charged that Catharine had stolen underwear from her to the value of $60, In working up the case the officer found the goods which Miss Deuchey had lost in | was brought to court and a disposition made of | Mary Ann Hais, who lives at No. 30 Vandewater street, came forward and made a charge against Cathartee for stealing a beaded sacque from her which had cost $40. A complaint in this case was taken and Catharine was locked up in default of $1,000 bail for each charge. John Thomas in Trouble. Mrs. Wintired Winter, of No. 4 Varick street, charged John Thomas, of No, 81 Wooster street, with obtaining $70 (rom her under false pretences, John Thomas told her he was the owner of lager beer saloon and would sel] its fixtures to | her for $70. She paid him the money and went to take possession of the place, but found John Thomas had never owned any o! it. He was held by the Judge in default of $1,000 to answer. A Stimulating Theft. Ph. Tuska, of No, 49 Beaver street, made 8 complaint against John Aikins for attempting to steal from him.one barrel of aicohol, valued at | $80, Aikins was held in default of ball to answer the charge at the Court of General Sessions. Mr. Blatt Exonerated. On the 2d of October, Joseph H. Blatt was ar- raigned on tie complaint o! Marks Cohn, of No, 79 Chatham street, his former employer, who charged him with improper use of property. Mr, Coho now signs 4 statement fully retracting the accusation, certliying his conviction of Blatt's entire honesty and regretting the publicity given to @ baseless charge. JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. A Cantatrice in Matrimonial Meshes. Before Justice Kilbreth. The cantatrice, Jennie Hughes, at present performing an engagement at the Giobe Theatre, ~Cinims that in Muy lust she | was married to Joseph Lioyd Haigh, who ske imsists had at that time another wife living. She obtained yesterday, from Justice KIl- bret, a warrant for the arrest of Mt. Haigh. Mean- time a civil suit for divorce 13 also pepats, in the Court of Common Pleas, in vehalt of Miss Hughes, vocalist, against Haigh and a nullity of the mar- riage proceeding is sougnt, The dejence claims that at the request of Miss Hughes a snam cere- mony was performed, both partics consenting. Oo the other hand this state of tacts is aenied, and it will be lett to the criminal courts to decide which of the partics 1s culpable, A Colored Man’s Fancy. Before Judge Flammer, Thomas Brooks, whose complexion resembles the darkest ebony, was caugpt on Thursday, by Mrs, Elizabeth Gipbs, of 337 Sixth avenue, in the act of runuing away with several beautiful biond switches from ber human hair establishment. An alarm was raised and Officer Archibald, of the ‘Twenty-ninth precinct, captured the thief alter a sharp chase. H2 was committed, in delault of $1,009 bail, esterday. Brooks has been arrested several times, and always lor the same offence of stealing human batr of a golden hue, An A@roit Swindler, Joseph Jeidel, a man of good appearance, has of Jate been using the name of John H. Keyser to aa- vantage, but yesterday came to grief, He pro- cured on orders, purporting to be signed by Mr. Keyser, @ quantity Of lead pipe and solder from the firms 01 J. H. Janes & Co. and W. T. Cuir & Co. On the orders being presented to Mr. Keyser he at ties. Jeidel was ar- rested and held lor turther examination, it betag orn tuat other charges may turn up agalost Z ~ Bootblacks Operating. William J. Dempsey, a bootbiack, was yesterday arrested by Oicer Hubbard, of the Fifteenth pre- cinct, charged with attempting to pick pockets on Broadway. Mr. Tibbals, of No. 512 Broadway, Made complaint against the prisoner, and stated that he saw tim feeling around the pockets ol sev- eral persons wno had congregated in iront of No. The youth was held in $590 bail for trial. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Raids on Disorderly Houses. Before Judge Kilbreth. On Thursday night Roundsman Folk ana Ofticer Intermann made raids on three disorderly houses situated in Chrystie, Canal and Division streets, ‘Tne raids were very successful, and the proprie- tors and inmates were ali arrested, At the Ubrysule street house, Margaret Engle- bert, the proprietress, and four inmates were caught; in Canal street William and Minnie Krause, proprietors, and ten inmates were ar- rested, and in Division street Maria Schmidt and four girls were captured. ‘They were all arraigned before Judge Kilbreth yesterday and the proprie- tors held in $2,000 bail for tria!, but ali the unior- tunate inmates were discharged. BROOKLYN COURTS. CITY COURT—GENERAL 1ERM, Decisions. Phillp McDevit vs. The North Second Street Ratl- road Company.—Judgment afirmed, with costa, Opinion by Judge McCue, concuired in by Judge Reynolds, The American Wood Carboniztng Company vs. A. L. Fitch.—Order adirmed, with costs; leave to serve amended answer on terms. Opinion by Judge McCue; Judge Reynolds dissents, William Granger vs. Henry C. Foster.—Judgment reversed and new trial ordered; cosia to ‘abide event. Opinion vy Judge Neilson, cuncurred in by Judge Reynolds, George S. Dropey et al. vs. John C. Reenick,— Order aMrmed, Opinion by Judge Netison; Judge McCue dissents. Jona Wuod va. Bridget Sheehan.—Judgment reversed and new trial ordered. Opinion by | Jud; 9 ee concurred in by Judge McCue. | Louis E. deifkin v4. John J, Bate.—Order | affirmed, with $10 costs. Opinion by Judge Reynolds; concurred in by Judge McCuc. Maurice B. Lawrence vs, Patrick Gilleo.—Judg- ment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Judge | McCue; concurred in by Judge Neilson. Jesse 8. Carman vs, Moses 8. beach.—Judgment aMirmed, with costs, Opinion by Judge Neilson; Juage noids dissents. Mary English vs. John Brennan —Judgment and order aMrmed, with costs, O,inion by Judge McCue; bie) Neilson dissents, Michael Walsh vs. John Callaban.—Judgment reversed; costs to @bile event. Opinion by Judge Reynolds, concurred in by ae Nellson. ‘Veremian Hacket vs, Isaac Badeau.—Jodgment affirmed, with costs, Opinion by sudge Reynolds; Judge Neilson concurs. Margaret Sheely vs. Henry S. Bergen.—Judg- ment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Judge Rey- nolds; Judge McCue concurring. Abraham Stein et al, vs. Wiiliam C, Kibble.—If Plainti® stipulate to reduce verdict, judgment affirmed for balance without cost of appeal to either party. Ifnot, juagment reversel and new trial granted; costs to abide events, mm by Judge Neilson ; Judge Reynolds concarring. Bngb O'Donnel | for detendant, with costs. ( Drea by Judge Nell- eyDOldm & pawn shop in Catharine street. When Catharine | the charge of Miss Deuchey, another lady, named | 8. Bridget Rogers,—-Judgment | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. DEC ALbany, Deo, 4, 1874. ‘The following proceedings took place in the - appellant, va, Phobe S, dmiuistrators, Te: resumed thia morning and Ann March et al., executors, &c., re- uidenta, v6. The City of Brooklyn, appellant.— appellant, ya. John M. Jay- Oe egiea’ be W. and (, Sppellent, and Jobn C, Hunt o Ja. Welle, appellant, ve, Edmund . ent. 0. 107. K, Bennett, respondent, vs, John Se mun No, 108. Rawson ot al., respondents, vs. Alexander Holiaut, Treas, appellant.— Argued by Eenitics Coie, 0! ag for appellant, 11, David ¥."Beruey, t, va The Oyster Bay apd entiaa boat Com- eo, M. Gott Ply tor oy Young, for Ag Monday, December wot ten OOo et Calendar. The day calendar of the Monaay, Deceniver 7, is as follows: (14, 118, 116, 117, 119 and 12h, vie teeNow. 111, 113, UNITED STATES SUP2ERE COURT. Wasuinoron, Dec, 3, 1674. No. 175. Haycroft va. The United States—Ap- peal from the Court of Ciaims.—Tnis was @ suit to recover the value of certain cotton belonging to Haycroft, which had been seized and sold by the government. The petition charged that the United States had taken tne cotton in Washington county, Mississippi, from the petitioner, who had given, as confessed, aid and com/ort to the rebels, but alleged (hat the pardon of the President had restored the right to sue, and thatan implied contract had arisen on the part of the govern Ment to make proper compensation for the prop- erty. To this the government answered that the action was not brought within two years after the close of the war, as it was provided it should be by the act (1863) giving tne rizBt of action, ‘The Court held that no action would lic for cap- tured and abandoned property, except under the act of 1863, and as the suit was not withia the time prescribed by that act tt could not be main- | tained, and the petition was dismissed. It there claimed that the action can be maintained Irre- | spective of the act of 1863, and that that act re- mitted the claimant to the Court of Claims under | tts general powers aa neretolore established. Casey & Bartley for appellaut; the Attorney Gen- eral and the Solicitor General for the government. No, 176, Lane vs. The United States—Appeal from the Court of Claims.—This cause presents the same | oes as that of No. 175, preceding, and the a litional one, whether the right of those inte’ ested in the cotton depends in any way upon the status of thelr guardiac, as they could have pre- ferred their claim without using his name, stating thetr reasons for the omission, and he not being the claimant, The government submits that non-age in a claimant Is no exception to the operation of the statute in this class o/ cases as it 13 in others, Same counsel engaged. POLICE BUSINESS. How Patioimen Should Work fer Pro- motion, At the meeting of the Police Commissioners held yesterday the most important topic aiscussea ‘was that of the hours in which the streets should be cleaned and ashcs and garbage taken from the houses and stores. Commissioner Disvecker re- ported from the Committee on Street Cleaning a Teso:ution in favor of having such work done dur- ing the daytime ater Monday, December 7. Commissioner Voorhis opposed this resolution, and introduced one to ieave to the Giscretion of the Superintendent of the Street Cleaning Department the selection of the hours for his employés to labor in. There was then a lively passage at oratory between the two Commissioners. The first named official vented some practical ideas upon the preservation of ash barrels and-githage | boxes from the prowling seeker-by-nignt for fire- | wood, and dashed his remarks with the expression of | A SENTIMENTAL DESIRE | that the asbmen and street cleaners should only | Work in the warmer hours of the day, when their | | frost. | clothes of citizens from the flying dirt set upon | the alr currents by street cleaners and ash re- | movers. He had, however, @ stronger seati- | mental argument than Commissioner Dts- | becker, He ‘conceived that many of the street sweepers are men who have falien from high estates, and he urged that they who have been clerks, merchants, &¢., and who now honestly earn bread for themselves ana | Jamies by laboring hard on the streets at night, | when darkness shrouds them from re lon, {| should pot be torced to leave their labor. They care leas for the cold, said Mr. Voorhis, than for the oucrages to which their pride would be con- tinually subjected if they shovld work in the streets during the daytime. Some of them would rather starve than be butts for the SCORN OF FORMER ACQUAINTANCES, who have remained prosperous. His pathetic ilustrations did not move his colleagues, ior they all voted for Commissioner Disvecker’s resolution, When the time for their labor had been fixed upon the rates of pay of the street workers was sottied | at $2 rg day jor pangmen and twenty cents per | hour under-laborers, | ‘The Board then passed a resolation calling upon the Corporation Counse! to loiorm it of the steps that have been taken to procure the vacation of closing certain places of amusement on Sunday ta. jptain McDonnell, of the Eighth precinct, ha’ fing been offered $50 by Bradbury Brothers as a r ward for having recovered a valuable silk wedding dress, which was stolen from a messenger of the firm, the Board decided to have Superintendent Walling report whether the Captain did anything outside of his duty to merit extra recompense, One or two ambitious patroiman, having asked to be made roundsmen, Commissioner Disbecker remarked that they did wrong in adaressing tbe promotion would be to first form the acquaintance of a Commussioner and work through him, The Board dismissed from the police force Pa- trolmen D. D. Cammios, of the Nineteenth pre- cinct; Denis Lynch, 01 the same district, and Thomas Maher, of the Twenty-second precinct. Jound guilty of being absent from his post. The second was guilty of intoxication and indecent behavior toward a iady. The third was convicted of intoxication, The Board appointed the following named men as members Of the force :—Jame Price, Thomas 3. Carter, Micnael Foley, Dante ulcany, Patrick Brennan, James Leech ani Ferdinand Jurgens, and cited three others to appear before it preiimi- nary to appointment. THE POLICE AND "SUNDAY CONCERTS.” Superintendent Walling, at the instance of the Commissioners, yesterday morning called the at- tention of the captains of the vartous precincts to the numerous violations every Sunday night of the Jaw which probibits every secular pubic amusement on that evening. He read to them the part of Chapter 501 of the Laws of 1860, which conveys the prohibition of amusements on Sun- day, and instructed them 4s to the cases of viol: tion of the law which tney ure restrained by in- ordered them to suppress promptly and to arrest the parties who instigate and encourage them. A “BENEVOLENOE” PRAUD EXPOSED, ‘The Bureau of Charities reports that ome Horace G. Smith, representing himsci! as agent of the New York Provident Society, with an office at No. 3 Seventy-fourth street, is at work again col. Jecting subscriptions to this city. Being a manof | plausable address and the professed objects of the society being good in themselves, several clergy- men and a few well known citizens have been in- daced to write letters, favorably noticing tts work | witnout due investigation of its charac! The case was thoroughly examined by the Bureau of Charities in Marcu last and a report published on he 20th of that month. During the summer Smith transferred bis operations to Worcester, Mass., where he was arrested in July last. Part of tae money collected by him for charitable pur- poses Was disgorged on its being discovered tnat the society liad no status in New York. ‘The Bureau of Charities now wish to warn the ge g against giving money to this Smith, There is no such Humber as “No, 3 Seventy-fourth sireet;”’ the lowest number in Kast Seventy-fourth Street is No, 11 on the north side and No, 6 on the | south side. West Seventy-fourth street is not yet opened. Many of the clergymen, whose letters the printed report, repudiate all connecti the society, and state that t1tney wrote them it was unuer a false impression as to the society’s | position, The report ts so cleverly worded as to to the tenderest feelings of the charitable and benevolent, and suggests that a large amount of is veing done by the agency of this soctety. certified copy of the conviction of this Smitl ison file. The police of the Nineteenth precinct watched tne former depot. of the society at No, Co s hands and feet would ba safe trom the nipping | His opposing colleague was equally prac- | tical only im relerence to protecting the good | the injunctions that now restrain the police from . Boaro; that the proper way jor them to procure | ‘The first named officer had a bad record, and was | junction from intertering with. A!l other cases be | 1,202 Third avenue, and evidence has been ob- tained to show the character of the place and the mode in which the collected Jor distriba- tion among the poor were disposed of People in that neighborhood snouges that the society's office was a second hand clothing store and bought such things as clothes, shoes, gloves, &c., which had been seut there, The recora of the society has now been traced from its commencemeot in 1870 to the present Ume, and any person who may have contributed recently 1 poe § to communicate with the Bureau of Charities, No. 70 Bible House. OUR PENSIONERS. Pay-Day of the Government Wards— Seenes at the Pension Office. Yesterday being the first pay-day of the quarter there was a motiey and curious group aesembled in the rear of the Custom House; 1t was composed of young and od, the lame, halt and blind; cach person awaiting one of Uncie Sam's checks, which the clerks In the United States Treasury were Teady to cash upon presentation, When the HERALD Freposter visited the spot there was a long queue formed, and the strange humanity compos ing it would have been a prolific study for Leech, Oruikshank, or Gustave Doré. A tail negro wo- aan with a complexion speckled lke the eggs of the guinea hen jostled a hump- backed septuage- narian; a senile old woman, with a garrulity evi- dently inspired hy the bottle, invoked the divine blessing “on the bist guv’mentin the wur-ruld;” & pale, 8ad creature in widow’s weeds held by the hands two sickly children as the best evidence, outside of her ‘papers,’ that she was ENTITLED TO 4 PENSION, A veteran of the war of 1812 stood im the crowd with a soldier's true dignity; he leaned upona stout staf, and, although his clothes betokened poverty, the rougher portions of the-assembly did not jostle him, his gray hair and martial bearing forbidding that. Alter a time a few old comrades gathered about the hero, end, as they came to- gether but onco 3 quarter, they ‘ought their bat- tles o’er again.” “An,” said the old soldier to the reporter, “the last time I was here there were fourteen of us; now there are but nine.” “How old are you ?” he wae asked. “Eighty-Uhree, sir; aad ! voted for General Dix. He {gs @ pensioner, and so ta Thurlow Weed. Tam as hearty asa boy yet, Ha, bia!” And the old fellow chuckled at hts vigor; but the reporter noticed as the line moved on, tnat the soldier leaned neavily on his stout stick, Alas! how much longer will the man wno FOUGET UNDER JACKSON call for his pension on quarter day? Everybody had “papers,” Some wero tied up in greasy wrappers, some were torn and blackened with much handling, many had been divided by foldin; and uniolding and were sewed together, an nearly all bore the marks of age, The boys were “chafing,” the women were chattering. At length the last of the line passed out of the street, into the basement of the building, filling every nook and corner. Mr. %. B. Dutcher, the United States Pension Agent, with his clerks, in- dustriously examined their claims, and paid them as rapidly as possible. Up to three o’clock nearly 400 had been paid in amounts averaging about $35, | In both onices it was estima‘ed about 1,600 persons would be paid out of the 7,000 to whom pensions were due, and an amount approximating to THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLTARS, The invalids were paid in a separate apartment, aud only bring their pension papers, but others have to bring witnesses every time they are paid that their children are alive and that tney are mneporing. them. There was & good deal of rapid swearing on. one old Bible, bound round with black tape, in a sort of cabvalistic way, and the way some of the pen- stoners kissed the sacred book was at once touch- ing and ludicrous. Then the signatures of pen- sioners and witnesses would have set an AUTOGRAPU HUNTER MAD, There wasthe tremulous scrawl of age, with cramped and paisied touch; the ward signa- tures of girls, and one marvellous ee eg Ad oa veteran soldier named Stelle, with the ornate flourish Of a writing mastcr; but the crosses and marks, blots and bunglings predominated. At length the hour for closing arrived, and the disap- pomted ones went sadly away, to take their turn again to-day, The Sub-Trea ury considerately kept its doors open until ball-past four o’clock, in order to cash the checks of the pensioners, CHARITABLE ASYLUMS, The State Board of Charities Pay a Visit to the Kings County Charitable “Institutions=Private vs. Public Asy- lums. The Kings county charitable institutions were visited yesterday by William Letchworth and Jonn C. Devereux, members of tye State Board of Char- ities, and Mr. Charles S. Hoyt, the Secretary of the Board. The visit was made at the iovitation of the Supervisors of the county. Previous to starte intended to be visited Messrs, Devereux, Hoyt, Supervisor at Large Fox and Supervisor Donovan held a meeting in the oflice of Commissioner Cun- Bingham, who was present, as was Supervisor Ropes. An informal discussion was started con- cerning charitable insticutions and the hest means to make them successful. Interest to all concerned scemed to be that relat- ing to nurseries, Mr. Hoyt, wio, it is well known, has more than once expressed himself rather forcibly about the bad effects of nurseries gen- erally, took the view, of course, that lie has alwayn taken. He said, that in his opinion, they were harmful in many respects, and instead of being a benefit to the poor were acurse. Lvoking at the subject in its most favorable light he could not see bow any person who had studied it im all its aspects could escape the conviction that public nurseries, a8 at present constituted, were a great evil, They were standing invitations, so to speak, |*to the poor to ABANDON THEIR CHILDREN, They were inducements, therefore, to poor parents to stife their feelings of love for tueir young, and robbed them of much of that encrgy which gives strength to those who would other- wise work to put up with everything rather than abandon their ciiidren to the care o! others, Commissioner Letcuworth contended that chil- dren could be better cared for im private institu. tions and at much less expense than at public to- stitutions. County poor houses, his experience had shown him, could not compare with tbe pri- vate asylums in this respect. Supervisor Ropes ‘Was ol the opinion that children were not 9s well brought up im the puolic lustitutions as a generat | ruie a8 in private institutions, and he veiieved that once pauperis:n got its hold on parents and chilcren it was apt to remain. After tre meeting the party pald a visit to Bishop Lougolin and then visited the Aimshouse, the Nursery Hospital aod Asylum, the Congress street Industrial School and Asyium under the care of the Sisters of Charity, the Cumberland street ou Albany avenue and St. Mark’s place. TUE POWERS OF THE STATE BOARD, Previous to 1867 the laws which related to any- thing like a rigid State supervision oi the private tempt made to eniorce them in sich a Way as to reach the heart of abuses tnat existed. There is now no longer any excuse for the existence of great abuses in asylumé, aod il any do exist in any of the institutions of charity it ts because the State Commission have not done their auty in all cases, or that the abuges are so covered up that there Is no getting at the iacts in an oficial way. The State Board was composed originally of cight members from each godicial district in the State, but the late law of 1870 made the Lieutenant Gov- ernor, state Comptroller and Attorney General ex oficio members of the Board. ‘The powers of the Board given even in the original act are very extensive. They bave the right to inquire into the condition of all the institutions (except pris- ons), compel the attendance of witnesses and ascertain whether the objects of institutions are fully complied wit! Their visit to the pubirc institutious in Kings county yester- day was by invitation, but partly. doubtiess, in accordance with the provision of ‘the law, which requires that the charitabie institutions should be visited by them at least once intwo years. case the finds that any justitution reauires “legal investigation” (to use the strange expres- sion of the law of 1873, which woula m to imply that the asaal visits to the institutions cannot be looked at as investigations at all), they must give notice to the Attorney General, who is then to make inquiry and take such proceedings as he may deem necessary. SUFFERING IN KANSAS, Aid Solicited for Poor Settlers Whove Crops Have Been Devoured by the Grasshoppers. nth New Yorg, Dec, 4, 1874. To THE Epiror OF THR HeRatp:— Jadging from a few brief items recently in the HERALD, it would appear there is much suffering in the States of Kansas and Nebraska from the effecta of the grasshopper plague. 1 can, indeed, vouch for the justice and truth of those items; for I came but « few weeks ago from the piague- stricken region of Kansas. I have come in behalf of our poor cburch, which was destroyed from top to boitom about two years ago by a terrible tor- nado. Partial and total failure of crops have ever since been our lot. The grasshoppers Jeft nothing undestroyed. Sadness, woe and misery have spread their sable mantle over the people of that once happy land, | Nothing before them but starvation, at can in money or kind to this society 3 re- | tho | EMBER 5, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. i ij | | | ing out to go the rounds of the places that were | | be Gnished before the Ist of January. The question of most | | occupted by | | | | | Vania, Asylum, and the Koman Catholic Orphan Asylum | asylums were rather meaiingiess than otherwise | and but little good was ever effected by any at. | | Week. such peo; ao? They cannot their Weweresreeae much their overtarned little churo! aid of generous, chari- ouls we will have to remain for years, pere "7 cer 80 altar to offer sacrifice to the God of Cry Oh! Lhope the Lord in His mercy will tnspire those Christian souls who are ever reaay to work in the cause of suffering humanity, of ro- ligion and of God to extend, now or never, th hand of Coristian charity, of divine fraternity an love to their woe-strickén, suffering brethren in the far West. Ali donations will be duly acknowl- ged, 1 reside while here with the Redemp- t No. 234 South Fifth avenue, near bs street, New Roo ccatatt pili remain, dear sir, most res; iy, your hnm- X. NON AN, bie servant, . A Missionary Priest of Ottawa and adjacent missions f Kansas. FArRs, A fair for the benefit of the Church of the Resar- rection will be held in the Filty-ceventh street church, near Lexington avenue, on Monaay, December 7, and will be continued for one week. One of the features of the entertainment will be a New England kitchen. The church will be open every day and evening. Admisalon, fifteen cents, ‘The attractions to be offered are of the most varied and elegant character, Achilcren’s fair in ald of the French Orphan Asylum will be keld at No, 26 West Forty-eighth streeton Thursday, December 17, and tollowing Gays. Admission, twenty-five cents. A grand fair and entertainment by thé ladies of the Fourth avenue Presbyterian (Dr. Crosby's) church will be given at the Masonic Temple, in Twenty-third street, during the afternoona and evenings of December 8,9 and 10. The object of the entertainment is to ald in building @ chapel for a Hope Mission, Admission, twenty-five cen A most attractive fir, now open at No. 30 Union square (Fourth ayenue), ts intended to aid the House of the Holy Family, an excelent institution for the rescue of fallen women, at No, 136 Second, avenue, It presents many and strong attractions, and will continue to appeal to charitable pleasure- seekers throughout all next week. ‘The ladies of the Church of the Strangers open & fair in Republican Hall, Thirty-third strect, one door east. of Broadway, on Monday evening, to be kept open througli the days and evenings of the ‘This church has been successful tn attract- ing immense audiences, It is dotng much good in many ways. Theseats are all tree. The fair 1s to procure money for needed repairs. NEW YORK CITY. Chamberlain Lane reports that the amount of interest on city deposits for November was $12,630 53, Joun W. Earley, of No. 553 Gouverneur strect, died suddenly last evening at his residence, without any medical attendance. The Coroner was notified to hold au inquest. Patrick Stack, of No, 343 Greenwich street, was severely injured yesterday morning by being run over by a butcher's cart, driven by some unknown map. at the corner of Chambers street and College place, Michael Gardner, fifty years of age, who resides at No. 609 East Eleventh street, while at work yes.erday afternoon on board the steamship Cromwell, lying at pler No. 9 North River, fel! iuto the hold of the vessel and was severely injured. Fanny Layburn, aged 40 years, residing at No, 653 West Thirty-seventh street, attempted to com- mit sulcide yesterday morning by taking a dose of laudanum at herresidence. She wus sent tothe Bellevue Hospital by the police of the Twentieth precinct. A fire broke out yesterday afternoon on the top floor of the two story trame house No. 116 East 124th street. The furniture of Ellen Hall, who occupicd that apartment, was damaged $1,600. The building Is the property of William H. Colwell, and it was damaged to the extent of $50, ‘The following steamers arrived at Castle Garden yeeterday : Algeria, from Liverpool, with 83 cabin and 86 steerage; Kiopstock, trom Hamburg, with 21 cabin and 148 steerage; P. Caland, from Plym- outh, with 4 cablo and 16 steerage, and Elysia, from Glasgow, with 67 cabin and steerage passen- gers. » The New England Society held a private spectal meeting at Detmonicus last eventng, to select a nominating committce for a board of officers to serve the ensuing year. ‘The sixty-ninth annual meeting will take place on Monday evomiug, De- comber J4, for the cicction, at the same hour and Place. Only two more courses of stone, besides the one now going on, remain to be laid on the Brooklyn tower of the East River Bridge. Owing to the want of stone it is doubtiul whether the pier will On the New York side work will continue tor the present but will cease when the cold becomes severe. A fire occurred yesterday Morning 1n the one- storied frame carpeuter’s shop in Eighty-second , a occupied by W. | street, near avenue A, owned Newhouse, It caused $400 da also damage to stock. uiding Was also eodore Asslin; & bruh factory. His 1088 on Stock is estimated at $400. Both par- ties are insured. The steamer Sylvan Glen, of the Harlem line, on her seven o'clock down irlp yesterday morning, collided with a schooner when oppovite Hell Gate, The Glen had her bow stove im, but the schooner sustained but slight injury, and went on her way. Toe Glen was laid up for repaira, and there was 00 Lalfpast turee boat irom the city tor the after. noon, The Dell has taken the Glen’s place and a new time table will be issued to-day. Atthe monthly meeting of the Board of Man- agers of the American Bile Society memorial pa- pers ‘reepecting the late Jonathan Sturges ana Caarles N, Talbot were adopted. The former was elected @ manager of the gocte’y March 3, 1853, and in May, 1864, was clocted a member of the Comaiit- tee on Legacies. Mr. Talbot entered upon the Board of Management in 1848. The Bible Housc is one of the monuments of bis labors—trat, in to building and ex connection with the committee appointed to se- | lect the site, and afterward as one ol the Building | Committee. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest in the case of the late Rev. John 8, Ebaugh, of No. 13 | East Hamliton square, Jersey City, who, on the evening of the 29th of October last, was acoi- dentally run over in Broadway, near Fulton street, by stage No. 934 01 the Madison avenue line, and fatally injured. In their verdict the jury “recommend that venders’ wagons, with flaring lights, bo removed from Broadway of an evening, . as the places they occupy serve to crowd the thor- oughfare and olind drivers of various venicles that ply on the street, preventing them from see- ing pedestrians crossing.” Mr. Ebaugn was sev- enty-nine years of age and a native of Pennsyl- BROOKLYN. ——— Justice Riely yesterday committed Robert Han- cock to the Penitentiary for larceny and personat- ing @ reporter. The new Baptist House, corner of Greene and Throop avenues, 1s nearly completed and will be Jormally opeved February 1, 1875, The total amount paid into the City Treasury yesterday was $239,286 83, of which sum $230,719 13 was received irom the Collector of Taxes. A benefit for the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum will take place at the Academy of Music on Mon- | day evening, When a concert will be given. | | There are 239 causes on the City Court calendar for trialim December. The most interesting cases | are Tilton va. Beecher and Field vs. Kinsella. The calender of the County Court, Judge Moore, will be called on next Monday. All next week and three days of the encceeding week will be de- voted to the trial of civil cases im sala court. The committee of the Board of Education on Free Scholarship meet this afternoon to con- sider the report of the Superintendent on selection of candidates for the Cornell University. A ret jJady has passed the best examination among the candidates, T. B. Sidebotham, publisher of the Sunday Re. view, Was arrested at the instance of J, W. stoops yesterday on a charge of having published a libel on the name of the compla The de.cndunt Was arraigned before Just Semler and dis- charged upon his own recoguizance. A formal order was entered by Judge Woodrut, im the United States Circuit Court, yesteraay, grasiics motion made on Tharsday by counsel for | iss Proctor, in the livel sutt against Mr. Moulton, to amend the complaint by substituting the word “citizen” wherever the word “resident” occurs, Drill Captain Jewett, two sergeants and thirty men, have been ordered by Poiice Superint donn 8, Folk to meet the funeral cortége of rib Havemeyer, at the South ferry today and act scort to Greenwood Cemetery. The route will be up Atlantic avenue to Fourth avenue and thence to the Cemetery. Pension Agent Cvlonel James Mcleer, com- menced to pay the pensioners on the rolls in bis keeping, for the gnarcer just ended, at the Arsenal, Portland avenue, forenoon, There are 8,000 wido' and wounded soldiers in Kings county, and ai ng them $126,000 Is distribute The payment commenced ‘avout five A. M. and as continued pp fo sevem P. Mo } —_-—__——_ Mesers, Farwell, Sage & Co., contractots for Faising the grade of the streets of Long Yeiang City, have contracted Wo million yardé of sur. plug earth from Me: fa: Foster & Thompson, 8 used in grading the streets. sp " - In the Queens county Court of Oyer ana Tere miuer yesterday, the last day of the term, George i, Pratt, indicted on two charges of burglary, im hav! on the 98 of October, entered and robbed the dwellings of Messrs. Germ: and Little Neck, pleaded rely 3 aia wa vontences ts the State Prison at Sing ing for five years, The prisvver 14 said to be a professional Bursiars when arrested Was we'l supplied with the most Proved tools of the burgiar’s pro‘ession, | with two navy revolvers, héavily loaded and After Pratt’s sentence the Court adjourned, for the term. STATEN ISLAND. By consent of the New Brighton authorities Messrs. Bostwick & Vo. are sonstructing an ex- tensive sewer from Central avenue down Arietts street, Tompkinaville, to the Staten tant, wherevy all the waste matee tres aes ood the Bostwick works is emptied into the The schooner Mabel, Captain Bebee, from Dem. erara, with sugar, ashore on Southampton beach last week, near the wreck of the steamer Yaveny, Was discharged of her cargo and hauled off on Thursday night by the Coast Wrecking Company's Fteamer Reliance and towed to the company’s dock at Stapleton surly yesterday morning, where the captuin and crew left her in charge of the wreok- e er which she w lace cree 3 pi on the WESTCHESTER. Mrs. Scott-Siddons delighted the people of Sing Stog with her readings, at Ulivo H: oy evoning. ‘ ee Voracious doga, it 18 understood, are causing considcrabic havoc among the sheep in the uy; Portion of the county, . i iit Since the recent disastrous fire at Katonah the citizens of that village are taking active steps toward tho organization of a fire department in their midst, e . The advocates of rapid transit between the lower portion of Manhattan Island and this county sre already preparing for another and more de- jormaned ult on the subject with the next Legis- re Chloride of sodium, or common sait, was suc- ceasiully used at New Rochelle a day or two since in extinguishing the flames produced by a kero- sene lamp which exploded, and alter water had jailed: to produce the desired etfect. THE STEAMSHIP MEN'S VICTORY. All Employ Non-Union Men at the New Rates—No Delay in the Sailing of the Steamers. As far as the steamship lines are concerned the *Longsboremen’s Union has undouotediy been de- feated, for the combination of steamship men is yetin full force and its stevedores go on with their business as usual. Watth Brothers still re- tain thoir old trade, although the union has done everything in its power to crush them. Yesteraay afternoon a rumor was started that Mr, Dale, the agent of the Inman line, had alsmissed Walah Brothers from his employ at one o’clock in the afternoon, owing to the delay in discharging and Joading the City of Montreal by the jabor of now upion men. This, if it had only been true, would have been & great triumph for the Nongsnorémen; for, somehow or other, their enmity secms to be principally directed toward the above-named frm of stevedores, aud it has been thought (hat if they couid only bring Walsh Brothers tuto trouble they coull carry the day, Inquiry at the Inman line’s onice, however, elicited the fact that there was no trath tn the rumor, and that Mr. Dale was pericotly, satisfied witn the none union meu empioyed by Mis s:evedores. 50 much for the ongsicremeh empivyed On the steame ships. TIE UNION MEN IN EMPLOY. So far as those whe are working on the sailing vessels are coucerned the situation ts very much what 1t was be ore the lock-out. he action of the 'Longshoremen’s Convention, which compelled | these men to join the strikers, having been re- scinded, they returned to work On almost all the ; Piers, where no boD-society men were cmploy at the ola rate of iorty cents for day wor! and at sixty cents Jor night work, For merly these men were paid forty cents for day and eighty cents ior nignt work, but in joining the strikers they actually struck for lower rates, as the steatmsuip ‘longsnoremea were only paid sixty cents jor night work, Of course some of them grumbied at (his upsatisiactory state of things and a sew went 0 lar as to say yesterday that they were very foolish in allowing the untoa to take the bread out of their mouths for wo | weeks and then to compel them to return to work at lower rates than they had been paid pre- vious to the strike. Morcover, many of the Owners of sauiing vesscis, like Griunell, Minturn & Co,, Mallory and otbers, bave relused to take back: any union Men whatever, on the ground that the existence of this organization was @ continual threat to the siipping merchants. THE STEVEDORES' MEETING Y AD attempt was made yesierday to unite the stevedores into an association, whose object 1§ should be to protect their interests as against | thoge of the merchants on the one side and of the Nongsnoremen on the other, and also for the pur- pose of maintaining uniform rates jor stowing and discharging cargo. Such a society existed some ten or eleven years ago, but proved then a toral failure, owing to the lousy of many of the stevedores, who were constantly detected in at pic hod to obtain the jobs of others by offering to work for cheaper rares. The meeting yeste: | was snnouoced to take place at Nu. 41 Sout | street, mm the office of Captain Wilson, @ well known stevedore, at three o’ciock in the after. noon, but at that hour tnere were but three or jour stevedores present, aud this number in- creased only to a baker's duzen.. There being at least sixty stevedores iu the city this was rather an fuadequate representation of the steve- dore interest, and the prospect of any business ocing dove was not enhanced by the assertions of geveral of the gentlemen present ' that, as soon a2 an agreement as to rates should be arrived at, it was quite certain it would be broken by stevedores who would TRY TO PROFIT AT_THEIR EXPENSE. | “There's no use doing anything uuless every one of the stevedores ts with us,’ watiedone, and ; another exclatmed, ‘Gentiemen, betore the last asgoctation of stevedores was formed I had pienty of business, and tts only resuit, so far as | was | conccraed, was that I lost it all,” So, after walt- ing awhile, the stcvedores got tired and dis- persed, Captain Wilsou exclaiming thas there was | More honor and esprit de corps among the ‘long- storemen by far than there was among their em- ployers, the stevedores, One reason why the sailing vessels are now mostly loaded by union men is that the steamships have greater (acililies, through their superior Machinery, in stowing and discharyiug cargo, and consequently tt is easier to yet along wWitn inex- Perienced liands, Capta n Wilson intends to put | Ov to«lay 300 of his old anion men, but one firm of | shipping merctants, Lawrence, Child & Co., have | positively declared that they wilt not allow ‘him to empioy union nen on their ships, j THE STEAMEUS NOT DELAYED, The ot of Antwerp, of the Inmau line, will not. sail unui Tuesday, and the Celtic, of the Waite Star line, Wul leave this alternoon, on tine, Mr. Corts, the agent, says that tue splendid manner in which the enormous cargo ot this steamer was stowed attests the efficiency oi the non-union men employed by the steamship companies. she wilb carry out $900,000 In specic aud aso the Austrae Man mail. Tne Ville de Parts ts to be loaded by union men next week, and ail the steamers now in port will probably sal at their appointed time, *Longshoremen in Brooklyn. Yesterday forenoon the Brooklyn police, who for | the past tnree weeks have been copelled to do extra duty along the more exposed beats of the river front, arrived at the glad conclusion that they were on the eve of enjoying that ior whicn they had 80 long mentally implored the “strikers” of the Nongabore fraterpity—a rest. The Executive: Council of the society hdd given permission to the members ot t! ion to accept ofers of employ. ment irom dores aud others at the rate: of torty 6 per hour for day labor and sixty cents pér hour for might work, The stipulation maie by the society, nowever, wherein 4t was declared Chat no man should work on ® vessel im conjunction with nun-members, was dis- regarded on the shipping in front 0; Haroeck’s and the Empire stores, No distinction on that ground was made. Men who were of the society were also found 10 ‘turn to” with houk and willing hands for Walsh Brothers, despite the rule of the society to the contrary. ‘the poor fellows ap- peared to be glad that the ban had been removed and that they might once more cheerily earns livelihood for their isamilies. A small force of policemen was kept on duty yesterday in the Vicinity Of the docks. The Union Men of Hoboken, At Oda Fellows’ Hall, Hoboken, yesterday after- noon, 450 ‘longshoremen assembled to discuss the situation of the organization in that city. Several forewen of the steamship companies were present, Offering a renewal of the terme previously held forth to the strikers, About three hundred (OONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE.)