The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1875, Page 11

Ly , Ground that the advertisement was not authorized NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, THE COURTS. Argument on the Templeton Writ of Error. INTERESTING POINTS MADE. Decision Rendered in the Kelley-Taintor Libel Suit RAILROAD CORPORATION RIGHTS. Verdict Rendered for the Baron- ess Fraloff. Tn the United States Circuic Court yesterday, before Judge Benedict, the following persons were sentenced :—Louts Borero, for manufacturing ci- gars without a license, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and was fined $100; George Brews, for smoggiing watches from on board the steamship Eeypt, two months and fined $1,000; Bias de Boucbet, who pleaded guilty to selling smuggled cigarettes, thirty days’ imprisonment, Asuit brought against the city by Charles H, Haskins for payment of $3,800 fur publishing the official canvass of 18701n the Ratlway News was tried yesterday before Judge Loew, of the Court of Common Pleas, A dismissal was ordered on the | by the city. j~ The stolen Philadelphia jewelry case, in which Jonn Brennan sought to obtain $24,300 from Henry Goodstein, because some of the stolen property was alleged to have been traced to his possession, Was conciaded yesterday before Judge Van Vorst, in Supreme Coort, Circuit, and resulted In a dis- agreement of the jury. Subsequent motion was Made to reduce the defendant's bail, which was set down for a hearing on Monday next, The action brought by the broker, Eugene Kelly, against the Mariposa Land and Mining Company is gradually reacning a focus, In, the proceedings pending in the case, before Judge Sutherland, referee, the Vice President and Secretary of the company were yesterday compelled to make & further deed in Mr. Kelly’s suit to Jackson 8, | Schultz, receiver and sequestrator. The latter ha Dow temporary legal possession of the estate, and an exciting and prolonged legal controversy promises to ensue for its permanent possession. THE TEMPLETON WRIT OF ERROR. APPLICATION FOR A NEW TRIAL OF DUNCAN D. TEMPLETON FOR WCUNDING HIS WIFE WITH A PISTOL—ARGUMENT UPON THE WRIT OF ERROR IN THE SUPREME COURT, GENERAL TERM. Duncan D. Templeton was convicted in the Court of General Sessions, vefore Kecorder | Hackett, of a felonious assault upon nis wife, Ida | Maud Templeton, on the 15th of October 1873, on Fourteenth street, near Eignth avenue, he having shot her, as will be remembered, with a pistol, the ball entering her neck and embedding itself in the Jawbone. On this verdict Templeton was sen- | teneed to State Prison for seven years and six months. There was no dispute as tothe facts. The only deience which counsel sought to set up Was that of insanity. Various exceptions, how- ever, were taken during the trial, these relating principally to the rulings of the Court, upon chal- tenges to jurors, to admissions and exclusions of evidence and to the Recorder's charge. The case Was carried up on appeal to the Supreme Court, General Term, where it came up for argument yesterday, Judges Davis, Brady and Daniels being on the Lench. Mr. John D. Townsend, wno appeared on the prisoner’s behalf at the trial, made a lengthy and cogent argument in favor of tne prisoner. He Urged as h:s grounds ror reversal of the judgment, first, the exclusion by the Recorder of question Propounded by the prisoner's counsel to jurors, on challenge of their indifference; second, the ex- clusion by the Recoraer of question propounded by the prisoner’s counsel to the witness, Henry W. Depuy, as to his conclusion of the prisoner’s state | of mind during the ten days preceding tne shoot- ing; third, the exclusion by tne Recorder of ques- tion put by the prisoner’s counsel to the witness, Orville N. Adams, as to nis reason for avoiding the prisoner; fourth, the admission by the Recorder of parol evidence upon the part of the prosecution as to the con- tents of a letter written to the prisoner by nis wile; fifth, the admission, oy the Recorder, of tes- timony iitroduced upon the part of the prosecu- lion, for the purpose ot impeaching the credit of one of their own witnesses; sixta, the exclusion, by the Recorder of questiuns asked by the prison- er’s counsel of the witness, Dr. Mereditn Clymer; seveuth, the charge of the Recorder, ‘that no re- hance in tnis case should ve placed on Dr. Cly- | mer’s (an expert) testimony, the jury having as | much capacity to determine upon that as Dr. Ciymer;’’ engnth, the refusal of the Recorder to cha:ge the jury, when requested so to do by tte prisoaer’s Counsel, that ‘a person persist tantly velleviug supposed facts, which have po real existence, against all evidence and proba- | bility, and conducting tumseli upon the ussumption bt heir existence, is, 80 far as such facts are cou- cerned, under insane deiusion, and is insane; and ninth, the reiusa! of the Recorder to grant ‘a | Opposed the motion on behalf of Mr. Bowen, | lather and other relatives, bew trial to the prisoner upon the grounds arged by the prisoner’s counsel, An interesting point in the argument was that relating to the testimony of non-experts, He insisted that the rule, fairly deducible from the au- | bhorities, 1s Lnat a witness wno is not an expert | may, alter having detailed to the jury the different | factions of the accused be had observed aud tne | Gierent conversations he had beld with bim, give additional weignt to bis testimony by expressing | the conviction ne arrived at in nis own mind at the time as to whether at such times the accused was | futional or irrational. ‘The distinction between | experts and uou-experts as to the admissibility | Oi their testimony seems to be that the former | may give an opinion generaily upon facts eub- | witted to them, while the Jatter is ccnfined in | the expression of his convictions to actions and | sonversations which ne personally observed. An- | Diner point raised was tnat the Recorder erred in permitting the prosecution to introduce evi | dence to lmpeach the crediollity of tneir own wit- | bess. Alter reviewing tne evidence of Dr. Clymer be took up the Juage’s charge. ‘Ine main feature which he objected to was that no part of the Re- corder’s charge was directed toward an expiaua- Uon to the jury ol how jar respoosibie # person would be who committed crime while iavoring | under delusion, and, under the circumstances, the | Prisoner Wag entitled to have the jury instructed On that point. Altogether, he claimed that there were, to support the verdict, but three points—the | Act oO! shooting, although the prisoner had been in the habit of carrying a pistol tor years; tue un- supported testimouy of his wile tnat be bad sald if sue ever left him he would shoot her, and t unsupported testimony of Mrs. Post that the prisoner, on the evenigg belore the Occurrence, said he would shoot his wife. Against this ye presented, mn strong and forcible contrast, the " testimony of many witnesses wo ms kind and joving nature, to his periectly temperate babits and to his devotion to his wile; his letter to his wie, received November 1, 1874, showing then his love for her and his state of mind; nis @rratic and neurotic temperament from early ile; the fact that it was in contempiation three years belore to confine him in an asylum; the starting effect produced upon him by his wife's desertion | Of him three weeks beiore the sad eccurrence, as testified to by many witnesses; his constant de- Jusion, against all evidence, that lis wile’s mother and iather were peopie of the worst description and had produced abortions on his wile and ae- sired to immure ber in a bad house; his bene! and constant assertion that his wile was “as pure a$ an angel,” and Y he tould see her but 4 moment he could induce her to return; his meeting her by chance and his in- tense joy at Mnding her again; his entreaties to ber to return, that he could oot live witnout her; bis feeling toat she was purity itseli, until of (ream was dispelled in a moment by her own r Mark, ‘‘My pretty face can get me more money than to go back and jive with yon;'t the optuion ol Dr, Moore that he was theu crazy and had ben for years, and the opinion oi Dr. Clymer that he | Was vi unsound mind at the time of the shooting. {n conclusion he suomitted that a stronger brain than the prisoner's would be Itsely to reei for the Moment under the shock that he received, and that neither law nor equity require tnat the | stigma of a felon attach to this young man or his Jamily. assistant District Attorney Rollins, in bis argu- | ment in opposition, insisted that there was no | error in the ruling of the Court on the challenge | Of jurors, inasmuch as their opinions on insanity | Were not a proper subject of investigation upon the chalienge, and the Court was not bound to perm any intersogations relating to that subject. © HEXt discussed Various exceprions to the rul- ings Of The Courts upon questions of evidence, aud ten reviewed the charge of the Recorder. He in- sisted that no case had been made out on the other sive, aud that the jud@ment apd convictions should | ent a be aMrmed, Tt was a Jongthy and technical, but concise and able, argumen: ion he Cour: took the papers, reserving its decis- THE KELLY-TAINTOR LIBEL SUIT. At about the time of the jate Mayor Havemeyer’s attack upon ex-Sherifl Kelly a letter appeared in she New York Tribune over the signature of Henry F, Taintor, an examiner of accounts in the Comp- troller’s office, relating to the ex-Sheriffs oficial career, to which the latter took exception and brought suit jor libel. A demurrer was interposed to the answer, it being claimed that certain por- tions should be stricken out as irrelevant, and Dpon this demurrer there was a lengthy argument betore Chiet Justice Moneil, holding Special Term ofthe Superior Court. A decision was rendered in the case by Judge Monell yesterday, partially sustaining the demurrer and overruling portions of it. The opinion ts quite lengthy, d has been Epenered with the Chief Justice’s usual care and Y~ In regard to the matters set up in the defence, that under the Jacts stated the communication Was privileged and that the alleged libelious mat- ter was true, Judge Monell holas that the facts stated do not bring the alleged libellous matter Within any of the Classes of privileged cominuni- cations, and that it does not relate to any legisia+ tive or judicial proceeding, nor is it a private com- munication which may sometimes be published under some peculiar duty or privilege of cont- dence. Alter stating that in respect to legislative or judicial proceedings it 18 provided by statute that @ fair and true report shall not sub- ject the reporter to an action, he goes on to state that the matter alleged by the defendant did not relate to any puolic procee u “The charges were,’ the opinion continu the plainttif had been implicated in certain frauds, by which the city had been defrauded of large sums of money. Itis not aleged that any criminal proceeding or civil action nad been com- muenced against the plaintiff in respect to such alleged irauds, nor that in any way it haa been Made the subject of any judicial legislation or other public or private investigation, The charge Uherelore must be presumed to have emanated directly irom the deiendant, and he must ve held responsiple unless be can justity its publication by establishing its uth, He cannot claim that it was privileged. he matter stated, however, it it failed to justify the libel, might be given in evi- dence to mitigate the damages 1 it nad been pleaded tor such had peg SG * * * +The trathor the matter complained of is averred according to the ‘true intent and meaning thereol.’ That must be, of course, according to their legal sig- nification, intent and meaning, which ts a ques- tion of law. The interpretation cannot be gov- erned or controlled by any nidden or inteuded meaning of the defendant.’” He holds, further, that the demurrer is not weil taken to the defence; that the allegation is in effect that in the legal signification of the matter itis true, and the de- jendant has the right to allege the truth as a detence, the mere surplusage not rendering it de- ' ve as a pleading. Tis final conciusions are that the plaintii! must have judgment upon the demurrer to the sixth and seventh delences, and the defendant must have judgment upon the de- Inurrer to the eighth dejence. He gives the de- fendant, however, leave to amend his answer by setting up the matter in mitigation of aamages. THE . BARONESS FRALOFF’S LACES. The jury empannelied to try the action brought by the Russian Baroness, Olga de Maluta Fralof, against the New York Central and Hudson River Ratiroaa Company, and in which damages for the alleged loss of a large and valuable quantity of laces was laid at $75,000, came into Court yester- day morning, at eleven o'clock, alter a night’s deliberation under lock and key, and gave in o sealed verdict for $10,000, here was considerable discussion among the jurors as to the claim of the plaintifl ior a heavy verdict, which, however, re- sulted in @ kind of compromise Verdict. Tnis 1s the second trial in the case, the Jury in the former one having disagreed. Neither tne Baroness nor the defendants are satistied with the result of seeped Ad verdict, and & motion was made to fudge Wallace for a stay of judgment to enable the jatter to prepare a motion for a new trial, THE JUMEL CASE, On Tuesday last in the United States Supreme Court, at Washington, a motion was made by Mr. O'Conor, of counsel for Mr. Chase, to nave the two appeals in the Jumel matter from the judgments of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York heard together, If called in their regular order on the calendar the first one would be reached late in the spring, and the second one abouta year later. Mr. carer ‘he Court, alter hearing the argument, took the papers and reserved its decision, MLLE. JUVIN SENTENCED. Mile, Leont Juvin, who, it will be remembered, smuggled into this port a large number of silk dresses, was called up for sentence yesterday ih tne United States Circuit Court, before Judge Beneatot, who, in passing sentence, said that her case was one of deliberate smuggling tor commer- cial purposes, He bad heard irom the govern- meut ofiicera that she was Loy apn upon her The loss of her goods Was, no doubt, a great one, and she had been im- prisoned jor some time already. He then sen- tepced her to pay & fine of $2,000 and tu three months’ imprisonment, the time which she had Ts been confined to be deducted irom, that period. MARINE COURT. WORGIBLE EJECTION FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN JUSTIFIED BY A VERDICT. Before Judge Alker. Charles 8. Knapp vs. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company.—The plaintiff is an Episcopal clergyman, now in charge of the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company's church at Aspin- wall. 1n October, 1873, he was attending a convo- cation at Yonkers, and on the 14th of that month, in company with the Rev. Mr. Moore, took the two o'clock train, he having purchased a ticket for Manhattanville, paying eighteen cents, while Mr. | Moore paid twenty-five for one to Tnirtieth street. On the way down the plaintiff changed nis mind and concluded to come down all the way so as to consult some books at the Theologicul Seminary Library, and when the conductor came round for tickets after leaving Manhattanville, told him of his intention, handing him seven cents, The con- ductor demanded five cents more; whereupon platotif—as he says—explained that his friend haa only paid twenty-five cents, and this seven added | tothe eighteen already paid would make up this amount. The conductor replied that he would | have to pay the additional amount or leave the car, whicn plaintiff refused to do. The conauctor then rang the beil and stopped the train, when Piainul? said that he would pay; but the conduc- tor, without heeding him, had the train stopped, calied in three brakemen and ejected him with great violence at Eightieth street, whence he had to Walk to Fifsy-ninth street. He says he was too Jate to transact nis business in the city, never completed a course 01 lectures which ne was about to read up for that alternoon, and claims $1,000, His companion, Mr. Moore, cor- roborated plaintift’s testimony, but giving ‘more in detati the controversy with the conductor, | Which he stated was quite vioiens, saying that the | piaintiff retused to pay the additional jare, char- acterizing it a8 an Imposition. Plaintim’s counsel read to the Court the statute which compels a conductor in such @ case to put the passenger off er at @ usual stopping place or near some ling house. On benall of the company the conductor tested that on being offered the seven cents be demanded five more; tnat plaintiff re- lused because bis iriend had only paid twenty-iive; that he then explained to him that tne twenty-five cent tickets were a special arrangement, tnirt: cents being the regular fare; that on piaintin still reinsing he was told thi would have to leave toe train if be did nos pay; to wich he replied, bracing himself tn his seat, “If you want me to go out you will have to put me out;” that he then, alter the train was stopped, with the assistance of one brakeman, led tim to the door, wien he stepcen of, saying, “I will make you pay for this.” The Court charged the jury that tf unnecessary violence was used, if the conductor reiused the fJare at any time before stopping the train, or if plaintiff was ejected at @ place not within a rea- sonable distance of a habitation or usual stopping place the piain ua was entitied to a verdict; but il the additional fare was only tendered aiter the | stoppage of the train, tat then the conductor was not obliged to acceptit. The jury rendered a ver- dict in fuvor of the delendant. FALSE IMPRISONMENT. Before Judge Gross, Rosa Haymon sued Henry Chyle for {alse im- Prisonment, taying her damages ay $1,000, It ap- peared that on the 3ist of December last the piain- UM, who, with her husband and three children boarded with the defendant in Wooster strect, was locked in her room by the defendant, or nis servant by his mstructions, and detained there | against her will for some time, preventing ner from Vacating his premises, Detendant’s testi- mony Was, that being iniormed she was removing some oi his goods he started for a police oMicer (oO resirain her, aud he gave direc | tons to his cook Hot to allow her to move any parcels until returned; whereupon the cook urned the Key in tue door and locked the plaintut in. The delendant was corroborated in his testt- mony by his cook, who swore he locked the door, At Lhe close of the testimony the Court submitted the case to the Jury as & question of Jact, charging that it the piainitul was restramed of her iberty, only for a moment, through the act of the defend: aut, or by tis autiority @ Was entitled to a ver- dict, which should be commensurate with the Amount of Mental AUgUIsH she suffered during her incarceration, Verdict or piaimull, $10, DECISIONS, SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Dononu In the matter of Smi pp; Price ve. Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company; Corbin vs, Metropoil- tan Life Insurance Company.—Motions dented, Skidmore vs, Schedel.—Keterence ordered. Park National Bank ys. Oakley.—Taxation amMrmed. SUPEBIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM Py Chief Justice Monell, Kelly vs. intor.—Judgment tor plaintif’ on demurrer to the sixth and seventh defences, and Jor defendant on demurrer to the elghth defence, By Judge Sedgwick. Howland vs. Sinith.—Notice of settlement to be given, fg ne Freedman. Dow et al. ve. Darragh.—Oraer settled. COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. * By Judge J, F. Daly. Naumann vs. Ryan.—Report confirmed, with $10 costs and $61 25 for ents, bursem: Smith vs. Smith.—Judgment and findings with Clerk of Equity. Freidman vs, Stuart et al.—Injunction continued until final payment. Cause to be heard in February term. By Judge Robinson. Upton vs, Upton.—Divorce granted to plaintiff, COMMON PLEAS—EQUITY TERM. By Judge J. F. Daly. jer vs. Wehner.—-Decree filed. COMMON PLEAS—-GENERAL TERM, By Cnief Justice Daly and Judges Robinson and Larremore, Carter vs. Otterson.—Argued and judgment affirmed. Kelly vs. Mack et al.—Argued and judgment re- versed. Report of reieree set aside and case sent to be tried by a jury. iiliams’ vs, Godkind.—Argaed and taken on submission. Dixon vs. SchiMer.—Of on payment of $10 costs. ‘The Mayor, &c.; McGown et al. vs. ,—Off term. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Sutherland, ‘THE DISORDERLY HOUSE KEEPER IN PRISON AND FINED. Assistant District Attorney Nolan moved for sentence upon Saran E. Myers, who was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in Wooster street, Mr. A. Oakey Hall submitted considerations why the Court should treat the defendant lepiently. He called Judge Sutheriand’s attention to the scandalous conduct of Fox and Gilsey, who {ol- lowed Mrs, Myers to the Tombs, and aiso to the Jact that she has a young child which needs her daily care. Judge Sutherland in disposing of the cuse denounced in strong terms the unmanly con- duct Of the witnesses jor the prosecution and remarked that Mrs. Myers was delended by two of the ablest counsel at the bar, Messrs, Tull and Kintzing. His Honor sentenced Mrs, Myers to the City Prison for tour montns and to pay a fine of $250. BURGLARY Francis White pleaded guilty to burglary in the second degree. The complaint set out tne fact that on the evening of the 30th of December he entered the dwelling house of Mrs, Annie M. Ryan, No. 261 West Forty-first street, by means of a false key. He was caught in the act of empty- ing the contents of a bureau drawer. Judge Sutheriand sentenced White to imprisonment in the State Prison at hard labor for eight years, CONFESSIONS AND SENTENCES. James Williams, against whom were eight charges of larceny, pleaded guilty to two indict- ments. One charged that on the 29th of Decem- ber he stole two cloth coats, valued at $100, the property of Dr. W. P. Ackerman, and the other alleged that on the 14th of the same month ho stole from Edward..0. Harwood two coats, a dozen Poirs of kid gloves and @ pair of glove but- tons, the Scarenace value being $210, His Honor sentenced Willams to the State Prison for ten years—five years on each indictment. Robert. Pay pleaded guilty to snatching three } $100 bills and a note for $50 on the 2Ist of Decem- | ber trom a boy named Louis A. Vanderwinter while he was poonting it in the Ninth National Bank. The Judge said that this was a boid theit, and sentenced Daly to the State Prison for four years. James McCloskey pleaded guilty to larceny trom the person. On the 27th of December he stole | @ watch worth $10 irom Frederick Ellenberger in Spring street, Three years’ imprisonment in the State Prison, Antonio Martini pleaded guilty to an attempt at rand larceny, the indictment charging that on ghe 25th of November he stole twoshawis, an opera glass and a silk handkerchiel, worth $89, the prop- erty of Charles A. Merritt. A similar plea was accepted from Thomas Rey- noids, who was charged with stealing on the 25tn | of November a watch and chain valued at $260, belonging to Thomas Tomlinson, These prisoners were eaci sentenced to the : State Prison for two years and six months, ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BY . LAWYER. Late in the afternoon Charles Sacia, who is Jointly indicted with Marcus 1. Sacia(his son) and William H. Walker for alieged conspiracy, was placed at the bar. Mc. Mott, his counsel, asked that @ preliminary question might be passed upon by the Jury—namely, whether the accused was now sufficiently sane to be able to properly j conduct his defence. A jury was sworn to try that issue, and Mr, Mott called Mrs. Augusta Lewis, the baif-sister of the prisoner, and Marg E. Sacia, who testified that several members oftne Samily died in @ lunatic asylum. ‘they enumeratea names, acts and conversations of the accused, whica led tnem to believe that he was not in his right mind. he had been a practising lawyer for | Years, but they did not consider bim fit to trans- act business during the last three or four years, John Quinn, tue Warden of the Tomos, testified that Sacia became his prisoner about the 1st of September, and that a month syo he attempted to commit suicide tu his ceil by cutting his throat; he appeared to be very despondent, but was al- Ways quiet and not violent iu temper. Dr. Avery, of Jevsey City, Was examined at great lengtn as io the mental condition of the accused. He had irequently complained of noises in his head, and, judging [rom exhibitions whicn he had seen on the ferryboat and otifer places, he con- cluded that Mr. Sacia was laboring under dementia, and unable to transact ordinary business. Judye Sutherland, in his charge tw the jury, Made some pertinent observations upon the de- lence Of insanity by persons accused of crime, and | Intimated that physicians, as a general thing, | were incapable of forming ® more correct judv- ment 4s to the sanity or wsanity of an individual | than intelligent laymen. | | The jury, aiter deliberating three-quarters of an | | hour, returned a verdict that he was insane. The | Court directed the uniortunate old man to be re- mended to the Tombs till Monday, wnen the order | directing him to be sent to the State Lunatic Asy- | lum wil: be made out. MORE SENTENCES, William Campbell pleaded gulity to an attempt | at grand larceny. The allegation was that on the 30th of, December he stole @ watch and chain, valued at $120, trom the room of Paulina Metz, In | consequence of his prev.ous good character he | was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. } Peter Costello, who was charged with stealing-| | | eleven pairs of Dlankets, wortn $30, on the 19th of December, the property of Meyer Hoffman, was sent to the Penitentiary for tour montns, it being his tirst offence. | _Wilham AicKenzie, Jr., peices guilty to an attempt «t grand larceny. He stole $350 1n money from is father, The prosecuting oMcer iniormed the Judge that the Grand Jury regretted the ne- ceasity of finding the bill, and, as a coniederate got the money, His Honor sentenced McKenzie to | the City Prison for one month. | The same sentence was passed upon John Smith, a little newsooy, WhO Was couvicted of petit lar- | Ceny in steaing a silver watch on the 29th of | December, belonging to Jonn Kealy, irom an office in Broadway. Henry Russe!l, who was charged with stealing s | beaver coat, on the 19tn of Decemoer, from Peter J. Scott, pleaued guilty to peut larceny, There | were mitigating circumstances, which led His Honor to sentence Kusse!l to the City Prigon for ten days. | THE TOMBS POLICE COURT. 4 WOMAN CHARGED WITH AN ATTEMPT aT MUR- DER—A BOY RURGLAR'S CONFESSION—‘‘ED” HAGGERTY, THE CONFIDENCE MAN, CAPTURED. Minoie Mitchell, a Scottish lass, who resides at No. 44 Baxter stiect, was arraigned yesterday beiore Judge Ktibreth, at the Tombs, by Ofiver Glivn, of the Sixth precinct, on complaint of Jacob Wiliams, of tie same residence. Jacob charges | that on Thursday Minnie struck himon the nead | with the sharp end of an axe, with the intent to | take his lie, The belligerent Minnie was held in $1,000 to answer and Jacob was commiited to whe | House of Detention, | m the bank at Hoboken, the jury. OmMicer Dorsey, of (he Sixth precinct, arraigned | Jonn Golden, ot No. 37 Park street, printer, and | Thomas Donohue, who were charged by Simon | Herburger, of No, 528 Pearl street, wich burgiary. | ‘The complainant, In ois aMdavit, claims that on the night of January 15 tis stable, at the above number, was jorcibly entered by wrenching of the jock Of the outer door, and’ three deer skins were stolen therefrom, that OMicer Kiernan, of the Fourth precinct, found a poriion ot the prop- erty in the custody of the pr.soners, and that Golden, who 15 only eighteen years of age, con- fessed that he and Donohue Nad committed the burglary. Golden admitted to the Judge that he | stole the sking; but venied the charge ot burg. lary, He Was held in $1,000 to answer, and there being no testimony against Dononue he was dis- | charged. | Edward Haggerty, the celebrated confidence | man, whose picture has long been in the thieves’ ry, Was arraigned bo wgrhay 4 betore the Juage y Detective Stevens, ‘of tne Filth precinct, on complaint of Thomas smith, of No, 428 Canal street, who charges that on Thursday evening Edw: nd two companions entered the above when Haggerty engaged him in conver- while the others stole a coat worth $65. Haggerty was committed for examination. Bernhard Feigman, of No. 236 East Seventy- fourth treet, yesterday made a complaint against RapnaY M. Seldis, of ‘No. 132 Elizabeth street, & former partner of nis, with the larceny of $54 worth of dolt mus, The property, he alleges, was leit in Seldis’ custody wile the’ complainant Was absent, and was missed on return. A portion of it Was found in defendant's posseneien, and pe was committed for trial to the General 88101 The somewhat celebrated James Coburn, whose a by @ detective on Thursday night, for dra ing & pistoi upon one Burns, was mentioned in the papers of yesterday, was arraigned on the charge of felonious assault, but was discharged, the complainant reiusing to make a complaint, COMMISSIONS OF APPEALS. DECISIONS. ‘ ALBANY, Jan. 15, 1875, Decisions were rendered by the Commissions of Appeals to-day as follows:— Judgments aMrmed, with costs,—Woodworth vs, Cook ; Puray va. The New York and New Haven Railroad Company; Bneevnry vs. Westialls; Hao vs. Daly; Dennis vs. Coman; Woodhull vs. Rosen- thal: Wylie vs. ‘The Marine Nationa! Bank, of New York; Barker vs, Seaman; Gregory vs, Lindsay; Young vs. The Phoenix insurance Company, of Brooklyn; Smith vs, The City of Albany; Acheson vs. the New York Central and Hudson River Kail- road Company; lease vs. Smith; Leary vs. Miller; Freer vs. Denton, Administrator, &c.; Kenney vs. Linen; Dunning vs. ‘The Ocean National Bank, of New York; Harris vs, The Delaware, Lackawan: and Western Railroad Company; Todd, Admin: trator, &c., vs. The City o: Troy; Squires vs. Ab- bots; Bitter vs. Rothman; Noble vs. Queerpel; Osgood vs, Maguire; Keamer vs, Lockwood; Dwyer vs. Conger; Lyon vs. Yates; Westcutt vs. Fargo; Vilman vs, Sehall; Fitch vs. Rathbun; Greentree vs. Rosenstock; Gallup vs. Albany Raliway Company; Pitney vs. Glens Falls Insur- ance Company; Lyon vs. Odell; Swift vs, Prout; Rider vs. White; Burbank vs, Fay; Cole vs, Tyler; Kidd Foundry and Steam Engine Company vs. Gal- ley, Haviland and Wenie; butler vs. Wenle (stx cases in all) ; Haviland ys. Wenie (lour cases in all); Spelman vs. Wehle; Spelman vs. Wehie; Place vs, Minster; Hildebrand vs, Crawiord; Ed- wards vs. Noyes; Scott vs. Delauunt. Judgment affirmed by default, with costs,—Els- ton vs. Murray. Judgment reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide event.—Geotchens vs. Matthews; Demp- sey vs. Kipp; Matthews vs. Codey; Morrow vs, Freeman; Wilson vs, Edwards; Boylestone vs, Wheeler; Winchester vs, Osborn; ‘Trost vs. Zina Insurance Company; Degrove vs. Metropolitan In- surance Company: Adoiph vs, Central Par North and East River Kailroad Company: Manf&cy vs. Franklin, Receiver, &c., of the Yonkers and New York iusyrance Company; Armour vs, Michigan Central Rauroad Company. Order oi General ‘Term armed and judgment absolute ordered against the plaintiff, with costs,— Brooklyn OtL Retnery vs. Brown; Kessler.vs, New York Central and Huason River Ratiroad Com- pany; Carpenter vs. Black Hawk Mining Com- any. iB ‘Order aMrmed and judgment absolute ordjered against plaintiff, wit costs.—Platt va, Woodrut; Crane vs. Knubel; Lamont vs, Chesbire; Eldridge vs, Strong. Order reversed and judgment of special Term afirmed, with costa,—Mitcheli vs. Mitchell. Order armed aud judgment ordered lor the de- fendant upon the verdict, with costs.—Cook vs, Harris. Order affirmed and judgment absolute ren- dered against the appellant, with coste.—Poilion vs. Secor. Order aMrmed aud judgment absolute orderea against the defendaut, with costs.—Quackenboss vs. Edgar. Judgment modified so as to reduce the recovery to “on penalty aud excess of fare paid,’ and aitirmed as thus modified, without costs of appeals to this Court to either party.—Barker vs. ‘ihe New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company; Garden vs. Same. Reargument ordered.—Roggen vs. Avery. Not aecided.—Humiston vs, Hay; Dennis vs, Ryan. ‘Passed.—The Board of Supervisors of Delaware County vs. Foot; Uity of Watertown vs, Fairvanks; Samson vs. Rose, THE HOBOKEN BANK DEFALCATION, CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL OF KLENEN—THE CASE CLOSED ON BOTH SIDES, ‘The trial of Frederick Klenen, secretary of the Hoboken Savings Bank, for deiaication, was con- tinued in the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City yesterday. Harvey Fisk, of the frm of Fisk & Hatch, New York brokers, was sworn and tcstified:—I am a banker; deal in United States bonds and other securities; 1 know Mr. Heusman, treasurer of the Hoboken Savings Bank; sold him bonds on Decem- ber 28, 73; Mr. Heusman purchased $60,000 tive- twenty bonds—$40,000 were registered bonds and $20,000 coupon bonds, Mr. Spepherd, who was President of the Bank when the detalcation took place, testified :—Mr. Klenen was Secretary of the bank while 1 was President; I never authorized him to dispose of the bonds; when | gave him the bonds to record them he said he would do so; Kienen was never autborized to dispose of the bonds; the bonds were not sold by the bank up to tne day they were missed; it was in no part of Kleneg’s duties to dispose of United States bonds, r, Huesman recailed:—Tne cash book used by Klenen remained in use after nis fight; ia the cash book ‘he receipts are entered as [0 c Te- ceipts and expenditures; no entry of bonds was recorded in the cash book; 1 diu not have the | combination o/ the bank sale. Mr, 5. B. Dod recalies These are the vonds I received irom Mr. McDonough; these bonds were not to my recollection betore the Grand Jury. District Attoruey Garretson offered the vonds in evidence, and the prosecution rested, Mr. Abbett then opened the case lor the defence. He askeu the jury not to judge the case by news- paper reports or by common report, bul by the evidence. He contended tnat Many persons had access to the sale where the bonds were deposited were found in Londen was not traced to Klenen, mr. Keasbey replied fur the State, He animad- verted on the fact that the counsel for the delence declined to put their Client on the stand sv that De might reiute the coarges against nim, Counsel On both sides announced that the closed nere and the Court was adiourned till Mon- day morning, when Judge Hoffman will charge ST. JOHN'S GUILD RELIEF FUND. The following additional contributions have een received by the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, No. 52 Varick street, and paid over to Andrew W, Leggat, Almoner:— THROUGH W. R, TRAVERS, From N, 0. and cuildren, sees oS] THROUGH ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & CO. SENT TO THE. GUILD OFFICE Paris, Allen & Co,. 20 5 5 1 10 10 10 TOA] ....ssereccsseceseveccceces: Amount previously acknowledged Grand votal seseee Contributions are earn: iy"‘solicited at’ once, | and may be sent to tue HERaLD office, Mayor Wickhum, or to the Rey. Alvan Wiswall, Master, No. 62 Varick street, Also the iollowing articles have been received :— From Carroll street, Brooklyn, one package of | excess of exports over imports, the inerease in | clothing. Wilson & Gibson, one package oi fannels, William P, Yailalee, one piece of caitco, Mrs. Hays, one package ‘of clothing, W. H. Rowe, one package of clothing, A. B. Cowman, one package of clothing. Through tne New YORK HERALD, one large package of clouhing. THE JERSEY RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. SENTENCE PASSED ON M'CLELLAND FOR MAN- SLAUGHTER. John §, McClelland, the telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania raiiroad, Who was convicted of manslaugnter in the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City for having vy criminal carelessness allowed two trains to collide, resuiting in (he joss of three lives, was called up for sentence yesterday. Juage Homman, addressing the prisoner, said that very strong appeals bad been made ‘th bts behalf to the Court. In consideration of his previous good character the Court would act jenientiy, aithough the terrible consequences of his criminal hegligence called for the severest reprobation. ‘The Court then remitted the penalty of imprison: ment, and impored a fine of $260 and cosis, prisoner, Who is a quict young man ot respec Sppearance, Was quite vvercome by tals unex- pected clemency. The trunk tu whica they | The | vie | over and above the amount now outstanding. | THE STATE BANKS. Report of the State Banking Department. FREE BANKING. The Doctrine for Hard Money | Discussed. The Old System in the City of | New York. Superintendent Ellis, of the State Banking De- partment, has just submitted to the Legisiature hig annual report. The following summary con- tains the main features of the report:— h at the gold end silver now estimeted to $166,000.000, which would be increased by the sale of the new bonds toa much larger sum, so that the real contraction woula not be oppressive or severe. There would then remain ag 000,000 in round numbers, wi sub-tiLulion of bank notes for $150,000, tenders, subject to expansion and contraction - amount by the demands of trade and the ability of banks to redeem, . This would still give us an aggregate of paper Money one and @ hall times greater than was Waured before the war, with @ population im- creased by only one-third, FREE BANKING. How can we secure a uniform and stable cirow lation with a sysrem of free banking applicable te all the States and under state supervision First—Let tne federal government issue the ctr- culation o} the country. Second—Circulation shail be issued only to banks duly organized under the laws of the State whereip i jocated. Third—Avy bank so organized may, on the Tequisition of the State department which ex cises supervisory power over tt, receive as mach circulation as it siiall deposit Coited States bonds witr the general government to secure the re- demption of irs bills. Fourth—rhe buls issued to one bank shall pre- cent the same appearance as those of ike denom> | imation issued to any other bank, except the tm- | peine af the bilio: the name aud location of the ank, which shall indicate to what bank issued | ' On the Ist of October, 1874, the number of banks organized under State laws and reporting to the department was elghty-one. At tle same date in | 1873 eighty State banks were engaged in business. five banking associations were organized during the tiscal year, Three of the new banks are or- | gamized ander the law of 1874 (chap. 126), with Jess than one hundred thousand dollars capital. Four banks have closed during the year. Three of bia iidatd invo liquidation voluntarily, the tourth | faile ng eomalion of the State banks, September 13, id Due deposito: Total resource: Coudition of Due depositors 62,471,306 Total resources, 111,180,340 The diminution P during the year, while the shrinkage in depost nd in joans and discounts is considerable. This reduction is an exponent of the contraction in the volume of business since the panic of 1873. The total amount of outstanding secured circu- lation September 30, 1873, was $656,240; this sum Was reduced during the last year to $367,433, th | decrease during the year being $288,802. The gregate circulation not secured, but stiil outsta' | ing and charged to the incorporated banks, on | September 30, 1874, was $737,761 50. ‘Ihe amount | ol the same on September 30, 1873, was $743,876 50, The decrease during the last year was $6,125. I'he amount of the bis recetved snd burned during the year ts $9,368, U1 Lhese, $8,535 were notes of | free banks and $833 were those of incorporated banks. Sixty-seven banks were credited with lost circulation to the amount of $285,559, the time for the redemption of the bills, as xed by law, hav- Ing expired. The total sum of outstanding circu- | Jation issued by all the banks in the State on tne | 80th of September, 1874, was $1,105,189 50. The incorporated banks have $737,751 90 of this circu- lation. The mcorporated banks which are now in the way of closing have a circulation of $160,301, whica will be cancelied during the next year. The whole amount of securities held by the superintendent in trust September 30, 1874, was $1,320,422 69; $790,043 71 were deposited by banks 0,378 98 by trust companies, The mort- curities deposited by the banks ; only $23,900 now remain, these having been deposited many years ago. PBIVATE BANKERS. The State once prontbited private banking to ihe extent of establishing offices for discount and deposit, witnout chaiter by the Legisiature. But In the end 1¢ was thought that the prohibition was Loo harsh, and an interierence with the treedom which should be permitted in business. The re- strainiug act was, therelore, repealed. But a condition 18 now found to exist which seems to call for legislation, in order to remedy what threatens to become an unsafe and too extended kind of “banking” in the State. This ts the practice of individuals or copartnerships, who are in the “bank” or brokerage business, of taking such a title as to give the idea to the pudlic that their “bank” Is a chartered institution. There are now in the | State twenty-five or thirty “private” banks which | have assumed names that give to the world tne | strong presumption that tuey are incorporated. It is a question wnich deserves the consideration of the Legisiature whether the assumption of such specious and deceptive titles as those named by purely private bankers and brokers snouid be ermitted; whether if is justto the associated banking to remain passive and submit tnis sub- stantial overthrow of the rules and metnods of banking which experience has indursed as need- jul and salutary. Under the law passed at the last session of the | Legisiature (chap. 324, Laws of 1874) reports were made on the 40th of sune Jast by twelve moneyed corporations, variously styled trust, or loan, or indemnity, or guarantee, or mortgage companies. | These reports show that the companies have an | aggregate capital of $11,752,040, Their deposita | amounted to $38,479,764, a sum which 1s neariy | three-ditns as muco as the entire deposits held vy the State banks. The ratio of increase in the number or State banks has been jess tor the current year than | heretotot The reason is obvious, lt may be | Jound in the depressed condition of manafaccur- | ing, industrial and mercantile pursuits of the country. THE CURRENCY. Do we require the present existing volume of currency? in 1860, before the normal monetary | conditions of tne country were disturbed by the rebeilton, we had a circulation of about $207,000,000 of bank notes, in all the States, with gold and sil- ver of about $140,000,000, in all $347,000,000,. The Population at that time was, in round numbers, 31,000,000, ‘the amount Of paper money per cap- ta, $8 59, The population, January 1, 1874, was ; ta round numbers 41,000,000; an increase of 10,000,000, while the paper money was, including fractional currency, in round numbers $778,000,000, which, added to the gold and silver, $140,000, 000, | Made the total circulation authorized by aw | $918,000,000—a per capita of $22 86, Deducting the gold and silver which 1s practically withdrawn irom the channes of business, and we have a | Paper currency of $778,000,000 and a per capita of | $1U 08, against $207,000,000 and a per capt a of | $6 59 In 1860; an increase Of population in the last | fourteed years ol about 3345 per cent and an in- | crease of paper money of nearly 350 per cent, the demands ot vusiness were iully met in 1860 with the thep circulating medium, and it would | ve a hard task to now that an increase of circu- lation, if redeemable in coin, in proportion to the | increase of popuiation since that dute, Would not | be commensurate with tne requirements of the | business of to-day, Many considerauons enter | into @ discussion of how much money 18 needed Jor a medium of exchange, and no specific or ap- proximate amount can ve determined until its | quality is fixed by the common standard, and then the quantity may be jeit to regulate itself. Bat im measures advocated to reform the paper | moner, {he amount oi which has been limited | arbitrarily by law, it i8 proper to look at existing | conditions and attendant results. Tne natural | Increase of business and wealth, improved | metnods and multipiied tacilities ior the conduct | of commercial transactions, rapidity and cheap- | ness wit which products are marketed—these and j many others bear a direct relation to ihe question of resumption, It is urged more money 1s required | than heretofore because oi prevauing high prices; | that resumption can ve maintained only by a con- ; traction ol the currency, The first proposition 1s | true, in a quailtied sense, but rendered sv because ; ol the character of the money usev. The second | 18 unquestionably true. Actual resumption of specte payment, and apaper currency redeemabie | 1M coin on demand, cannot be maintained wituout a@ contraction Of the Outstanding paper in some | degree, There must be just relation inamount and value between coim and paper, in order to make resumption and redemption possibie, condition must be attended not alone by a con- traction of the paper money, but by a general re- | trencnment in public private expendipres; greater economy in tee affairs of business amd do- | nestic Ife; less specolation and stockjopving. | PRESENT CONDITIONS FAVOR RESUMPTION. | The present business condition of the country, | the limited trade, a lack of confidence in iutute | legisiation, the temper of the people, all favor a quick return to tue old landmarks, | _ Prices of the great staples, breadstums, cotton and woollen goods, iron in all its varied jorms, are nearly or quite as low as they were when the | Inflation began, and the maximum during tnat | period was fully double the minimum or present price, The gradual reduction in the gost o: liv- | Ing, the price of labor and ail manufactures, tne | the accumulation of gold, are all lavoraole to re- | sumption, METHODS OF RESUMPTION. How shall we resume ? Primarily, a veliet in the doctrine of bard money, or Its paper equivalent, is necessary; a | just conception oi sound fluancial principles and | ® ready co-operation in measures adopted to es- tablisi them are prerequisite. Public sentiment | tain in everyday practice the agencies d, and thus make resumption not only P bat profitabie. Any method which wiil substitute the goid and silver coin oi the country | fora uke amount of greenbacks; or, to state it | disferently, auy metnod which wii bring the paper | Money to a goid standard of Vaine, and thereby permit th® gola to circulate freely, would so sar remove the assumed necessity jor the present amount of paper. This can ve dove only by pur- chasing the greenbacks with gold, ana by making bank notes redeemavie in specie. it would be feasivie for the government to issue bonds Leartng a low rate of interest ior the pur- case of goid; with the gold avatis of the vonds begin Immediately to purchase and cancel green- Dicks AT Lhe rate of $60,000,000 & year anti the | amount outstanding shai be reduced to $150,000,000, Also call in and destroy the frac. tional currency and issue silver coin in’ its stead, in denominations of trom five to fity cents. | _ Establish (ree banking, With the condition of re- | demption on demand, Finally, provide for the giadual cancellation of the remaining greenbvacks, in sums equal to the increase Of bauk pills issued While this would contract the paper money £278.000.000 in fram four to five vearm i would ees gages have nearly disappearea in the list of se- | banks to allow thts practice; whether it is sound | That | ana by what bank redeemable, Fiyth—All cicculation so issued shail be ree deemed bythe bank to which it 1s issued, im Specie, at One or more of the great money centres of the country. Sizth—All bills to be sent in the first instance to the Banking Department or other State depart- ment sathorized by law tn the several States, tor regist’ation before delivery to the banks, Seventh—Che organization, direction and super. Vision of all banks, Une rate of interest paid and all the practical details of banking to be leit to the legislation of the several States. fhe tree banking system of New York was re | garded as the most perfect which was ever devised Drior to the estavlishment of the national plan, ‘The national system 1s one Of the products of war, It is equal prool of the soundness and excelience of our Free Banking law that the natioval ia' a transcript in toe most of its essential features ang fundamental principles from the New York laws, Jt 18 in the novel and distincuve characteristivs of the national plan that the gravest detects an¢ | most serious jars are found in the practical ope rations of the pational banks. Hence the national scheme furnishes botn positive and negative testh mony of the superiority of the New York plan, Apprehensions of an excess of paper money, Is- sued by banks under the exacting conditions of making its value co-ordinate with gold, need nog be discussed or entertained; and any device which | Undertakes to create a circulating medium for the measures of values resting on the theory of prom- ses to pay, instead of payment itsell, will prove to be # fantasy and a iraud, Public exigencies may be 80 great and lous as to justify desperate remedies to maintain na- tional existence; but, when the crisis’ 1s past aud the danger is removed, sover judgment and en- lightened experience snouid lead us back to sale harbors and a secure anchorage, A speedy resumption of specie payments, a unt- form, stable, redeemable currency, and & return to State banking, will prove power/ul factors, to be employed in the solution of the grand probiem of the juture growth and material prosperity of the Republic. ‘rhe State of New York, foremost 1n population, wealth and commerce, prompted by a common tne terest with her sister States, should pecuny, 26 equivocal position on the subject of finance. Reo ognizing the truths of history—the lessons oi the past, the needs of the tuture—it should be ner duty as Well as pride to leaa the effort to plant tne standard of @ sound curreucy on solid and endur- | ing ioundations. HORSE NOTES. W. H. Wilson, of Cynthiana, Ky., purchased fora | gentleman in Westchester county, New York, the | fast trotting bay gelding Dick Jameson, by Joe Dowling for $10,500. Messrs. Lawrence & G. Lorillard have pur- chased from Jonn Hunter the brown two-year colt Am»ush, by Australian, dam Dolly Morgan, by Revenue. J. L. Eotf, the well known trainer and driver of trotting horses, has been ruled off the Bay District Fair Ground track at San Francisco for life for abusing the Clerk of the Course. Eoff has been very unpopular Jor a long time, and this ruling has not been unexpecied, ‘Ihe San Francisco Chronicle of the 5th inst. saya that the trotting horse Sam Pordy was given @ trlal of two miles and repeat, and that he trotted | the first heat in 4:47 and the second in 4:45, withe out # break in either neat. J. D. Waiton will winter, at his stables in Thirty. ninth street, the iollowing well known trotters :— fe stallion Redwing, by Badger, with a record o! L Bay mare Nellie Walton, by Jules Jurguson, with | a record of 2332, Bay gelding Harry Walton, by Jules Jorgusom, | with a record of 2:35, Bay mare Midget, by Jules Jurguson, with @ | record oj 2:34. Bay mare Francie, by appr Medium. Bay mare Pertect.on, by Winthrop Morrill, Bay mare Bessie Knox, by General Knox, Sorrel gelowg Frauk, by General Knox. Bay gelding, Jour years old, by Tom Pavchen, Bay statliou Von Moltke, six years ol Ben els is wintering a jour-year-old bay filly, @ sister to Belia, and a bay four-year-old geld- ing, bv Jupiter, in /nirty-uintn street, These two youngsters are very promising. and are nicely broken to double and single harness, Toe Melbourne Cup was won, as the telegram told us some weeks back, by Haricot, a son of kirk, out of Sauce adykirs, t | Winner, was bred by Sir Tatton Syke: Saucepan, the dam. Laayhirk was got u'Rourke, out of a@ Sleigut-oi-Han Saucepan by Colsterdate, out of a Danie! | Mare (sister to Grid Both sire and dam were sbipped to Austialla in 1863, TROTTING ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, The Whitehall Trotting Club Association gavea trotting meeting last week on the ice of Lake Chame plain which was well attended and produced fine sport for the spectators, The mecting was highly successiul. The following races came off, the first being Jor horses that had never beaten 2:4); the second jor 3 minute horses, and the third free for SUMMARIES. TWO-FORTY PURSR, Charles Baldwin’s cn. m. Dollie Dot.. vote’s bik..m. susie G. Ingall’s b. g. sleepy David Tom Sheppard’s b. Rosie. not taken, THREE MINUTE PURSE, C, Baldwin’s b. m. Alice 8. Foote’s blk. m, Susie. F. Grady’s bik. g. samm. T. Sheppard’s » Rosie. O. Collins’ s. m. Farmer’s M: | D, Jenkins’ b. m. Lauy Finch Time not ta! FREE FOR ALL PURSE, g. 8. Joe Brown A. Dantortn’s g. g. Highland Gra} d, Dugrey’s d, iora Lee G, Ingalls’ b. g. Sieepy David... Time not taken, THE HELL GATE IMPROVEMENTS. | RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE EAST SIDE A850= CIATION. A meeting of the General Committee of tne East Side Association of the City of New York was held at the rooms of the association, corner of Eighty+ sixth street and Third avenue, last Saturday even- ing, when she following resoluuons were unank mously adopted :. Whereas the time has again arrived when action is sired on the partof Congress toward the successful crying on of ihe Word 1H progress for Temeving the obstructions i the hast River entrance to the New York harbof, aud it 1s toe opinion of competent engineers that many years will be required to compicic the removal of those Odstructions at the rate ot progtess, heretofore made, and that, with appropriations adequate for te Purpose, the work couid be coupleted Wituin @ very short period of time; theretore, Kesolved, That the growth of the commeree of this city. the equal interests of our whole country in an ea: accessibility of Ulis port tor ships and steamers ot tae largest tonhage, the thousands of lives aud vast amount of property daily exposed to the perils ot Heil Gate, Ul couswntly recurring delays to flees of vessels engages in the coasting traue, and the saving ot time, distance and expense to all transatlantic steamers, are conside: ations imperatively Gemanding that tnls great wo ie: omnes some econ peered Oem eemaim eceonm Dan Jenkins’ moore mom anor mone shall be completed at the eariiest possible period; and with that view we respectitliy and carnestiy urge Upon Congress the necessity of largely increasing the amount annuaily appropriated to that object. Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in | Congress are re uily DUT UrgentlY requested to use ery proper eit: secure At (he present session propria‘ion of at least $558,000 jor that objects tl nount being no larger ian is necessary to enable the men to be employed that can be worked to advi age. The Committee on Hell Gate Improvements, | Messrs, Eaward Roberts, Charies Crary and T. J. | Crombie, were authorized to prepare & memorial to Congress in accordance with the loregoing | Teaolutions. | _ After transacting some routine business the committee adjourned to tagain this evening, JERSEY CITY'S DEFAULTING TREAS- URER, Alexander Hamiiton, the defauiting treasurer ov Jersey City was vrought into the Court of Quarter bessions at Jersey City yesterday wo renew tis bonds, District Attorney Garretson asked h.m #f he would be ready for trial when called on and he replied im the aMirmauve. On being called to give | Security his fatuer appeared and tendered bait [oF him, He amount being Hxed at $15,000, The trial was set down for oext Tuesday, Hamilton and | Ktenen met face to lace aad tuey greeted ether warmly,