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§ THE COURTS. The Gauger Case---Castom House Offi- cals on the Piers. The Captain McCullough- Small Case. THEATRICAL LICENSES Thomas Dunlap, the Vicar of Bray in the polt- tics of the city, has been appointed Vommissioncr of Jurors, viee Douglas Taylor, now in Europe. The cause of the vacancy thus filled is a conun- d@rum about the City Hall as dificult to solve as the whereabouts of Tom Collins was a year or two | ago. Applicatfon was made yesterday tn the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Westbrook, to va- cate am injunction granted against Appoilio and Frank Weber, proprietors of a music garden in Stanton street, restraining them from giving any entertainments uotil alter the payment of the ueense fee. The application was based on the ground tnat they give no theatrical pertormances. Suage Westbrook refused to grant it, saying that if such Was the case an injunction would not burt them, THE GAUGER CASE. ‘The nearing of the case of Constantine Sebnerr, gauger, who ts charged with allowing men to steal quer from casks on the piers, was resumed yesterday before Commissioner Shields. William H. Toomas was examined by Mr. Ethan Ailen on the part of the defence. He testified that he wasacity gaager, and had been one for the pasi twenty years; he had assisted Mr. Sehnerr and had been employed by him; when the liquors were seized last fail there was & great deal of Work so do; several vessels were unloading at the time; witness knew from experience, and as @ rwe, that the buug starters took Nquor; the practice was to give liquor to the men; muny took 1t without asking; whea jiquor came on the wharf there was generally preseut the owner or Zepresentatives; it was ne part of a gauger’s Dusiness to prevent stealing; witness had heard Mr. Schnerr tell the men at work not to take liquor; Witness had received liquor from mer- chants; the liquor came from tne store, not from the whar!; while he was United States ganger he received liquor from the wharf with the consent of the owner; it is the business of the bung start- ers to take out the bungs from casks; he aces ‘hls under the gauzger’s orders; the gauger then gauges the casks and marks them; the cooper ‘hen puts back the bung; the bumgs occasionally Semain ous for a day or two before the cooper comes; the ganger has no epportanity ef know- ing what the character of the bang starter is; the casks were gauged at their full capacity. Witness stated that, if there was a sixty-gullon cask having only fifty-nine gallons and three quarts, he woutd mark it sixty gallons; but if it contained ffty-aine galluns and ene quart he would mark it O/ty-nine gajlons. The witness Was cross-examined at length by Mr. Purdy. He said a volange neld ball a gallo he @id 003 KnOW what hour tne seizure in tos ease was made; could pot say whether Mi | lead pipe wortn Omicer Burleigh, of the NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875—W1TH SUPPLEMENT. con Oo lemuified for the costs. Geer vs. Boggs; Pam ve. Vimar; Bailey vs, Lan- ter.—Orders Taped, Parker va, oF. --Memorangum. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT. A CHECK TRANSACTION, Before Jadge Kasmire. Chartes Sehleier, of No. 184 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, appeared before Judge Bixby last week and asked for a warrant to arrest Thomas Well- Wood, of No. 356 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, whem he charged with forging his Indorsement to & ck for $1,600, drawn by the Continental Fire Insuranee Company December 14, 1870, on the St Nicholas Bank and payable to Mr. Schieler’s order. This cueck, it is alleged, Mr, Wellwood received trom the cempaay as its ageat, to be delivered to Mr. Scuileter. instead of deiivering 1¢ be indorsed the check to his own order, signing Mr. Scnieler’s. name a8 indorser, and received the money. Mr. Wellwood was arraigned before Judge Kasmire, sitting in the absence of Judge bixbdy, and was held 1b $2,000 ball pending examination. Tue de- | fendant claims that he can establish clearly bis | innocence of felontens mtent, He was formerly | @n assessor of internal revenue ib Brooklyn, aod | | claims to stand weil in bis business relations. ‘The examination ls set down for Tuesday week, LEAD PIPE THIEVES. On Wednesday night two boys, named George | Kennedy and Joan Carroll, broke into the unoc- | cupted nouse No. 18 Leroy street and carried of ied were arrested b, Ninth precinct, and cac! 0b0 bail for trial. BLOODY AFFRAY. Cyras F, Jones, @ trackman, of No. 304 West | Eleventh street, and John McMahon, a plumber, residing in the game neighborhood, became in- voived Ip a deadly quarrel near thetr residences, The plumber used a hammer and the truckman a cotton book in ordey to settle their differences. Both were arrested 0} precinct, and Judge Dail for trial, was held in $ ANOTHER AFFRAY. Thomas Kelly, of Tenth avenue, and Christopher Kearns, of No, 459 West Sixteenth street, quar- relied on Wednesday night in Sixteenth street, and Kelly's wife attempted to stop the fight, as she claims, She @ knife with her, and her husband, seizing !t, cut Bis adversary badly apout the wrist, The wounded man was ‘unabie to ap- pear in Court, and Kelly waa held await the | Tesult of injaries. ROBBED IN A LAGER BEBR SALOON, Ernest Grauer, of No. 178 Spring street, was robved of $10 while in a lager beer saloon. He charged a woman, named Mary Davis, with tne theft and caused herarrest. She was held by Judge Kasnmre in $1,000 bail to answer. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. * Before Judge Morgan. ROBBING A GROCERY. On Weanes@ay night Officer Lewis, of the Eleventh precinct, while patroling Rivington street, noticed aman endeavoring to make an exit through the window of Lewis Meyer's gro- | cery. He assisted the fetlow to the street and then took him to tne station Bouse, where he was | searched and $2 in pena@ies found on bis person, Judge Morgaa held lutm in $1,000 to answer. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Joun Gass, of No. 801 East Twelfth street, was | attacked by James M. White and Frank Smith in Chrystie street and robbed of a gold watch worth $100. Officer Eltrick, of the Tenth prectnct, cap- tured the highwaymen, Jadge Morgan held the prisoners in $1,500 bail for trial. SNEAK THIEF. Omicer Reid, of the Math | bows asmire Leld each in $500 should have been divided. dectared ream by a hempe! ce, 2 rrydoat Was Bot aD inevitab! Was the result of pegligence on toe in charge of the steam: 3. That not being required by the circamstances, Was without titled to damages. No. 229, New Yore Harbor Protection Company, appeliants, vs. the Schooner Ciara, her tackle, &c.—Appeal irom the Circuit Court for the South- ero District of New York.—Mr. Justice Clifford delivered the opinion of the Court. Remuneration is claimed by the libellants io this case, ag the owners of the steamtug adjudged guilty of negligence in tho case just decided, for salvage service rendered by the same steamtug and the offieers and crew in charge of ber in sub- duing the fire on board ihe schooner and in say- ing the vessel from destruction, Enough appears in the opinion delivered Im that case to show that the schoouer caught fire {rom the fertyboat which was taken in tow by the steamtug, and tnat the collision between the two vessels was caused by the want of proper precaution, care and skill on the part of those intrusted with the control and management of the steamtug. SumMcient account of what occurred prior to the collision and to the time the schooner caught fire from the burning of the jerry boat is given ip the other case, and need not be repeated. Three attempts, it will be remembered, were made without success to tow the burning ferryboat up tne river by means ol @hempen hawser before the schooner caugat fire, and that the burning lerryboat was, by the force of the wind and food tide, floated against the schooner and set ner upper works on fire, Both tne ferryooat ana tne schooner being ou fire, those in cuarge of tne steamtug made anotner attompt to accomplish what they originally in- tended, and the pleadings und evidence sowed that they lastened the hawser to the ferryboat and suceerded Im dragging ber clear of the schooner; but it algo appears that she immeduacely sunk and beeaine & total loss. All necessity for ser- yice in that behalf being ended, the allegation is that those in charge of the steamtug immediately turned their attention to the schooner, Which Was burning fiercely from her furemast to her bowsprit and including ail her head sails, and the libellanta claim that the officers and crew of the steamtug made fast the schooner by a liane, aud that they passed a hose on board the burving veas:] and brought two or more powerlul streams of water to bear upen the flames, and that they by their exertious, which contiuued for wo or three liours, succeeded in subduing,the flames aod in preserving the schooner from entire aeatruc- tion. Service was inade and the owners of the schooner apented as respondeats and filed an answer. ‘They admit that tue steamtug uitl- mately succeeded m dragging the lerryboat ciear of the scnooner and that she returned to the schooner after the ferryboat sunk, and that sbe rendered service subdu- log the flames and irom complete destruction ; deny, in the most positive foro: that tne libel- lapis are entitled to salvage on account of th wervices rendered, fur the following reasons:— pt Becuuse the schooner would not have caught re if bhowe I charge of the steamtug nad ex- ercised due and proper care in their attempts to tow the burning ferryboat irom ber siip up the river. (2) Because (be schooner was run into and set on fire by tne carelessness, negligence ana in- attention of those who rendered the alleged sal- vage service, and bot from any fault or neglect of duty onthe part of the schooner. Further dis- cussion upon the matters of; fact involved a those propositions are unpecessary, a8 they have all been conclusively determined in favor of the present respondents io the preced- ing case, which leaves nothing for decision In the case before tue Court except tbe question whether the claim for salvage compensatiom Can be sustamed, in view of the facts set fortu in the propositions submitted by the respondents. Sal- Vage is well defined as compensu:ion allowed to persons by whose assistance a ship or vessel, or “bue cargo of the ssme, or the lives of the persens belonging to the ship or vessel, are saved trom danger or loss in case Of shipwreck, derelict cap- ture or other marine misadventures, &P, on Ship. 477.) Other jurists detine it as the vice Wich volunteer adventurers spontaneously render to the owners in the recovery of property the schooner, Schoerr was preseut or not; it vas be the practice the United State! uger half Dramdy; the. quer was taken both belore and alter the | Hquor Was gauged; lt had always been the prac- | tice jor the Men W iake wOai liquor they ceuid get; | ‘Witwess gauged liquor jor the merchants after the Dnited States gauger; Witness coula not discover Whether liquor ww@ taken out before tne United States gauger marked bis gauge; he sent returns to the Merchants; When be Was assistant United States gauger he sometimes made private returns to the Merchants; witness never made any bar- gain with the merchants, bat took whut they gave; Witness saw several of Scanmerr’s bang gay Whether Scbnerr Knew it. Augustus H. rush was next examined, ana testified that he had, in conjunction with anower officer, been ordered u luquor from cas! Know that Was taken by tne loaders. Puilip A. Powers testified that he worked for Mr. Schoerr when he was United States gauger; Witness was @ clerk, Making out returns for the Custom House; be remembered tne occasion of the arrest of the parties for taking liquo erence to the private returns to the merchaass, ‘bero was ne regulur charge, but no merchant ‘Who @id not pay got returns &@ second time; wit- nese never gave any favors to merehants by mak- ing sort returns; It was a daplicase of the Cus | tom House return; it was the practice to give liquor to the mon working there bad seen alone given away; Mr. Schnerr get liquor tike | be otbers; it Was Cy gg Sard preset, prop- riy Od bonestly come by; Rothenbetg was = | el ed by Mr. Schnerr, bas me never heard bim | mskign any threats, | In reply so Mr. Purdy the witness stated he | ‘worked for Mr. Schnerf for ten months; witness made out the returns for the government; they were correct, because he followed up tbe gauger; be did not gauge nimsel{; be could not mention tho name of any merchant who gave liquor; ne | Krew of men taking Nquor jor sScbuers, but eiways with permission; be (Witness) once wok a gallon of wine trom a@ cask at er 21: be collected about $500 for mak- | 1g private returns which be gave to merchants; | Be made no retarns directly to Schnerr, bus | loaned Lim money; bis salary Was $100 a month; he made his returos as city gauger, then he copied them sad gave them Wo the merchants, for whien he got from Sve to ten cents 6 O»k; could not ive the Dames of any of the merchants jor whom e nade returns; sometimes he made the returns tothe merchants beiore he made them to the | Wustom House; he never toid the merchants that Re would make @ liveral gauge; Schuerr owed ‘witness $460; Schnerr borrowed mouey from sev eral of the m more money than they earned sod put the amounts Gown on the payroll, so that he migat get Bimeelf lor the extra work which fie performed; Sennerr Knew this, as he Made oat tue payroll. | Mr. Schnerr @ia bot CI Counsel for Sehnerr admitted this stave of me | cognigable in the admiralty, and where tue re- | aregs sought is for an injury caused by one ship or vessel t) another, the remedy of the owner of the Injured snip or vessel may be elsher by Dut observed that this extra money was applic to the payment for extra work done by other eierks, for whom no provision was made by law. - The further hearing of tne case was adjourned Until Weamesday next, at one o'clock. MCULLOUGH'S LEITRE DE CACHET. Mrs. Annie Small was a witness in the habeas | Corpus proceedings about the ebiid Annie Small, , and recently before the Legisiative Committee testiSed agains: Police Captain. McCullough. she States that she was previously waited upon and asked whether she was going to testify againct | the Captain; that sho said she would not volun- | ‘eer testimony, but ifsummoned she should ao so, and that thereupon sue Was cold if she gave testi- mony against the Captain be would not aliow her wo live in New York. Pollowing the giving or her testimony, which told severe: & charge Of perjury was preferred Captain MoCuilougn. Succeeding cbarge and her arrest upon the same @ writ of lorari was tained by her counsel, The case came up fora Rearing yesterday before Juage Wi ‘00k, in the Supreme Court, Chambers. There med to be considerable aifference of opinton between the Court and counsel ag to whether a review of the ‘testimony before the conimuisting magistrate could be entertained on a statutory certiorari, the Judge holding tbat there was no provision in the starate to authorize a review of the evidence *@t all, and counse! holding toat toe cases in this @igtrict led toa diderent conclosion, ani that the evidence a: well as the commitment might be reviewed. Alter a friendly discu-sion the matter ‘Was adfoarned uotli to-morrow, when counsel inst Ber by for Mrs. Suiaii Will bring Jorward cases in support | of biz Motion, THEATRICAL LICENSE, Frederick H. Drew, who keeps a lager beer galoon in Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street, ‘With accompanying stage periormauces and masic, ‘Was sued by ancighboring bearding house lana- Jady for creating @ Dulsence with bis banjoes and violius, but the lager beer man came out vic- torious. Recently au agent of tne Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents waitea upon Bim, and warned bim that uniees be paid the cal license by the 6th inst. proceedings taken agaist him, Drew, therefore, ry injunction takeo out against tue the matter came before Judge Sedg- Superior Court yesterday, on an Weause why the injunction should rmanent. The Court dissolved the would be had # tempo: an 1200 by law. prestut sd DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, age Westbrook. The Grocers) Baas. A O’Borke.—Movion granted ‘with costs, unless $10 coste of motion are paid In Wwenty days and a new anawer Vanderbilt ys. rbilt.. Mad Gousial 16rme the matter a men | luguor outof the casks, Vat he cuald not | see what men were | any of his men stole liquor; the uquor | tal stubborn and would give no satisfactory expian: tion of the charge against him. whether 1¢ was 6 he should be tried; but he Owally olected to go to the General Sessions, al 22, UNITED STATES BULE OF DAMAGES IN CASE OF MARINE TORTS— ‘The New York Harbor Protection Company, appel- lant vs, Augustas M, Cox, Lemuel H. Hopkins, et he guve the laborers eredit for | ai, Appeal from the Circuit Court for the South- ern district of New York, Mr. Justice Clifford | Itvered the opinion of tne Court. upon the Captain, | and allege that the steamtug | amoun ing that the sootety only ae 4 | Awood vender named Timothy Parcell called at the residence of Mrs. Beatty, No, 222 East Tenth street, and offered some wood for sale. Mrs. Beatty left the sitting room for a few mo- ments to sce if she needed any, and in the mean- time Purcell avaued kimeelf of bsence to ap. propriate over $100 worth of jewelry. He waa subsequently arrested by OMicer Byrnes of the Seventeenth precinct, and was identified by Mrs. er Judge Morgan beld bim to $1,000 bail for Tia! ROBBED IN A CONCERT SALOON. John Sellers, a sailor, entered the concert sa- loon No, 23 Bowery on Wednesday night apa met there Miss Carole Bauer. Miss Bauer helped | horseii to $10 Of the sailor’s money. The police | of the Tenta precinct then made a raid on the place and arrested all the inmates, avout ten in Dumber, including the proprietor. Caroiune was heid im $1,000 ball for trial, and the oteers dis- charged for want of evidence, FIPTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Before Judge Kilbreth, VIOLATION OF THE STEAM BOILER LAW. Joshua D. Miner, a contractor, who ts engaged in Diasting the rocks of “Sebastopol,” Seventh avenue ana Fifty-seventh street, was held for trial on a charge of employing aa unltvensed en- ami Jobn Crowley, to run an engine charge of @ steam boiler, Miner w Re aid not care tae Special or General Sessions COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. PREME COURT—OMAMBRRS.—Oalendar called ven A. M.—Heid by Judge Westnrook.—Nos. 4, ‘32, 88, 72, 74, 94, 128, 161, 164, 167, 173, 175, SUPREME COURT. WHEN PERIL 18 CAUSED CANNOT RECOVER. Wasurncton, July 22, 1875. No. 280, Tne steamtog Clara Clarita, herengine, | BY BSALVYORS THEY Marine torts as well as maritime contracts are & proceeding m rem or by & sult ‘mn personam, at the election of tae owner, ii whe offending stip or vei is found within the district where tue suit 19 instituted. Damages are claimed io this case by the OWDers O1 the schooner Ciara against the eteamtug Clara Clarita for that the latter envy and wrongfully caused the ferryboat James Watt, which the steamtug had in (ow, aud ich was at the time on fre, te ron into the ooner while she was lawinily lying at enor, as alleged in the libel, whereby the schooner was | also set on Ore and sustained serious injuries and | damage, as they allege, to the amount of $7,000. Process wae served and the owners of the steam. — tug appeared and filed ao answer, They admit tm their answer that the lerryboat was oa fire, assistance, and that those in cn of the steamtug, Snding it impossible to extinguish the fire decided to remove her from her anchor- age, aud for that purpose they made fasta haw- wer vo hier ond towed her out into the stream With the intent to move her up the river to the Hoboken fate, where, they believed at the time, She could be beached fm safety, Throughout tne period of that Manwuvre the ailegation of the anewer is that the fire was below the decks; bat it is conceded that the Dames, after the boat was | moved from her slip, suddenly broke out through | the decks, and that the hawser by which she was being towed borned Of and tnat the burning boat floated adrift imo the stream. Two other attempts Were made to make fust to tne burming ferryboat, both of which were ineffectnal to accomplish the intended purpose, one for the same reason as the Urst atvompt, because | the mawser was burved off, and the other for the Treason that the baa ag | pulled out or gave way, and iis conceded {n the apawer that the ferryboat then went adriit amé that she float ed, by force of the wind and food tide, against th bouner of the libeliagts, Which thereupon caaghkt fire belore the ferryboat could be dragged away. Testimony Was taken on both sides, and tee District Court entered @ decretal order that | the ltbetlaate do recover the damage which they sustained by reako” Of the collision, end refer. | Ted the cause to a Co.amissoner to compute the Due notice pavin, time and piace of hearing, appeared before the Commiseioner, they havi n fully neard, be reported that the bea tained by the schooner, inoludin mt rage, amounted wo $6,080 72 Xce pio were taken by the respon to the report of the Commissioner sue iret of which Was sustainea by the court, which reduced the amount reported to the sum of 7 08, a8 ap ears by tne final decree of th trict Court. Susseguently the respondenia sppoaled to the Cirenit Court, new te ony take’ snd, the par ving bee! ain beard, tl Circuit entered # fina) decree aiirmip; cree of the District Court. Whereupon Spondent appeaica to this Court, Two errors are signed in substance and effect, as follows:— | 1, That the Clroult Court errea in affirming 4 ee of the Disiriet Court, 2 That thé achOove! e parti the re ed. wae in fanit in not keeptng a competent watch —ASs the Surrogate | as lay atanchor, aod thay wae gage erred, pave paseca BRQA LWA leased Me phen bin TOR Bly | filthy water. | dance i! duiged i bees given of the | from loss or damage at sea uuder the re- sponsibility of making restitation ana with a lien for their reward, (Macalach! on Sap. 523; the Neptune, 1 Hag. Adm, the Thetis, 3 Hag. Adm. 431.) Persons who reu der such rervice are called salvors, aud a salvor is defined to be a person Who, without any particu- lar relation to the sip in distress, proffers uaeful service oud gives it a8 a volunteer adventurer Without any pre-existing Contract that connected him with the duty Of employing bimseif tor the preservation of the vessel, Enough appears ip those definitions to show that the elements neces- Racy to constitute a Valid salvage claim are as lol- lows :—First, a marine peril to the property to ve | rescued; second, voluntary service not owed to | the property as a matter ol duty; tuird, success in saving-the property Or some portion of it from shat impenaing peril. After reviewing the case in point, the Court say that, as the scnooner’s peril was occasioned by those who rendered the salvage s#ervice, taey cannot recover. Alfirmed. UNPARALLELED BRUTALITY. AN OLD MAN DRIVEN TO DEATH BY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREX. One of the most shameful cases of wanton abuse and tnbuman treatment of an aged husband and father by his wife and children that has ever been recorded came to hight yesterday through the | medium of testimony at a coroner's inquest, Last Wednesday morning, at an early hour, the sharp report of a pistol was heard coming from the back yard of No, 1,646 Third avenue. On look- ing to ascertain the cause of ihe report tne nelgh- bors saw Stgismond Stetter, an old and feeble man, lying dead in @ pool of muddy water. right hand he beld a revolver, with which he bad -biown out his brains. The deceased man was married many years ago to @ woman very much younger than Bimsell, and with whom he lived very happily until within three or four years, Two strong, lusty boys were the product of this marriage, and they are now respectively nineteen and twenty-one years of age. The old gentleman at the time of his death was seventy-six years of age. His wife is now about forty-five. Ifwhat one-half the nelebbers who lived contiguous to the restdence of these people say be true this woian and the: are simply BRUTES IN HUMAN SHAPB. As stated above the fata) shot was fred at an early hour on Wednesday morning, the body of the unhappy man falling into a pool of stagnant, Here it was left all day beneath the rays of @ scorching sum, the wife and sons refusing to touch it, A number of times they were heard congratulating themselves upon what tney saw ft to designate a “good rid- and one of the boys several times in- about the appearance of tre ‘old man,” as ho | Stark and cold in death. the scene of the tragedy about six o’ciock on Wednesday evening, and removed the body from the yara 10 the house. The inquest was held yesterday. Some fiteen | or twenty witnesses were examined. Wilnam J. Heller testified :—I reside at No. 311 Weat Tohirty-#ixth street; am a@ furrier; have kaown Stetter tor the past ffveen years; he was al- ber and industrious and seemed to be a a; the deceased told me that wi 3 Jast week the man Visited my place twice, and stated that he would ma! till further eforts at conclitation, in view oi the near approach of Wi eldest son's birthday. Charles Stalte testified:—I have known the deceased about ayear and a half; he orten got ne to go home with him to endeavor to conciliate bis family, but I was never successful; the youngest son has often, in the presence of his mother and wolie | was standing by. said,**i am going to KILL THK OLD DOG," ailading to his father; old Stetter bore everything quietly, aithougt bis wife even behaved immorally in his presence; at last his mind became greatly depressed in consequence of the ll-trearment he reeeived at tne hands Of his family, «nd | ain satis | fied in my mind, from my intimate acquaintance with bim and statements he made to me, that be committed siticide only On that ground; he wa unable apy jonger to bear the abuse. Another witness swore:—I nave known the de- ceased since 1452; he was @ good man and sup- ported his family as long a8 Ne was able to do 80; he often complained to me that bis wife and children threw him out of the house when he was sick, and wanted to get rid of him; the deceased to my knowledge has been saving money and laid the foundation of the business now carfied on by the wife and sone; Stetter also did bis utmost to educate his sons. The oMecer who first saw the dead man swo' that he asked the wife if she would bury the vody, and she replied that sie would not spend one cept on that man, The officer was also told that one of tho sons pelted the old man with rol- & few days belore bis death, ten ‘The jury rendered the following VERDICY :— That deceased came to his death »; from suicide, hird ave- was committed igtol Bhot wound, at No, 1,646 find that the deed am of bis wife, Maria Stel- ter, 2. 'e also erely censure the said w' nd two sons, Emi! William, 10) their inbdman treatment of thei id Jather their brutal conduct in allowing the remains if the deceased to lio, exposed to pablic gaze, in the ommitted. nis pa wife and three exem; 7! HAR hat oe kotion ac tas the sum of $300 Cad one om the very #pot where the deea was Or below are af- 1D hawser at the drifung of accident bat rt ot those Ww to keep & Watch under fault ond is en- in his | what he considered facetious remarks | y Coroner Kessler visited | oe from #0 aggravated case of lary sone were | Cas “THE TAX LEVY. THE BATE YOR THE YEAR 2.{4—MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISONS—RKPORT OF ROY AS AN ECONOMIST. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after noon in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen anda passed the tax levy for the year. Supervisor Lewis occupied the chair, After calling the meet- Ing to order the Chairman aunounced that the consideration of the tax levy was in order. Sapervisor Gross, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, read the report on the tax lists of the county of New York, giving statistical data of the taxation im previous years and showing the gradual growth which has led to our present tax levy. be at the rate of 2.97 0n personal and reat prop- erty. The re;ert was read as lolilows:— REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTER. The Committes on Finance, to who were re- ferred the assessments on tne real and personal property in the city of New Yerk tor the year 1875, a8 made by the Commissioners of Taxes and Asse*sMents, aua also the appropriatioas of the Board of Kstimate and Apportionment for the purposes O/ the city government during the sawe year, ay adopted December 24, 1874, on offerin the customary Ordinance to enable the Board o} Supervisors, oneer the provisions of the law, to ralse, levy aud Collect the necessary amount re- quired lor the city government, the payment of lnierest and principal failing due on the eity debt god tue quota of the State tux jor the current brief statement in explanation of the causes act- log on thelr decision and ‘orcing on them the recommendation of a higher rate of taxation, ano personal estate, instead of $2 85, whichit Was In 1574 ‘The assessed value of real estate was:— $272,481,181 217,800,754 In other words, the assessments on real estate are $2,696,550 uigner, an? the assessment on per- sonal estate $55,181 27 lower in 1875 than to the | preceding year, making the total valuation for | 1875 $1,100,943,699, agaist $1,154,229,176 in 1874. Was Caused by the purging of the roils of all as- sessments which were lound by the Commission- ers of Taxes and Assessments uncollected, and To all appearances wicollectadle, Thus, by a recurrence to said rolls it will be found that in 1872 the uncollected tax was 1,487,706 49, representing $61,252,523; in 1873, #1, assevsed Value. For this assessed value, repre- senting the unceliccted city taxes, the city, cur- nas had to pay to the State tm tax $1,900,000. ‘Inis unreasonable burden, caused by ine reten- tion on the rolls of unproductive values, tue lax an exteut.warranted by past experience. From the late report ot the Tax Commissioners the specified cases and exacts figures can be learned, Owing to this large amount of uncollected taxes an annual deficiency has been caused tor which provision im the next following tax ievy had to be | made, adding in that proportion to tue regular annual appropriations, For the last five years this deferency has Leea $1,000,000 and more per annuz, all of whicn had to be added to the next coming estimate of expenditure, save the» ae- ducte: preceding year. to be added to the appropriatiors made by the | lJate Board of Estimate and Apportionment, tn order tu cover forthcoming deticie s in the collection Of $82,171,472 23, 18 $526,505 63, making the total amount to be leviei and collected Jor the purposes of the city government during the current year $32,608, 027 86, which 1s less by e 53 than the law authorizes you to raise levying on the real and porsonai property. ‘our Committee, on close examination, havo , found tue limits of the tax rate, withta which It seemed judicious to rove, to be from 2.06 To 2.98, and they decided to recommend to you the mid- die between the twoextremes—namely, 2.97, as aforesaid. ri If, owing to @ considerable falling off in tne amount ol uncollected tax and to presumable uu- | | | | expended balances Of appropriations, 1b should be | Ascertained, at the close of the fiscal year, that | the foregoing $32,008,027 86 have been amply sul- ficient to meet all ordmary reqaliements of the city government, and tiat tle customary def- elency has been wiped out, a guiding rule Jor the Jature is gained, the consctentious application of | whiott must be followed by a constant lessening of jhe burdens of the taxpayer. The committee recommend the adoption of this, hance. Some discussion ensued on the particulars of the levy. Supervisor Purroy offered an amendment pro- posing to aller the item Of $626,656 63, for contin- gencies, in tue report, by imeerilag $190,272 62, Supervisor G.oss epposed the motion and said he thought it was impossible to make up defi- cigncies unless this were done, | carried by 12 to 7. Supervisor Vance moved to insert $416,461 2610 ita place, as be believed the treasury would be | crippled if my aid not. | Supervisor Parroy opposed it on the ground that it would increase tae rate of the tax levy. | Tbe amoudiment was lost on the same vote. Alaerman Billings proposed that tne sum of $806,366 89 be fixed as the one which should be placed on the levy for contingencies, Which Would make the rate $2 95. Alderinan Vurroy still insisted there wouid be no necessity for any such sum, and tnat nove of | une extraordinary reqairements of last year would come in play, and he still neld tbat $106,272 52, which would make (the rate $2 94, was quite enougb, - ‘A vote was taken on this original amendment to the report, and it was caTriva by a vote of 13 to 6, the report itself being adopted. This makes the $100, instead of $2 97, as originally proposed. ‘The tax levy Was passed at twenty-eigut min- | Board of Aldermen. IMPORTANT TESTIMONY BEFORE THE LEGISLA- TIVE COMMITTEN YESTERDAY —SUGGESIIONS PROM AN EX-COMMIBSIONER, The Legislative Investigating Commistee helaa session at Castle Garden yesterday—the longest and most importanc session since It arrived in town. Oniy one witness was exainined—ex-Vom- missioner Stephensou—and the examination oc- | cupted nearly five hours, Mr, Stephenson stated that he went into office appointed he was made Chatrman of the Wara’s Island Committee. At the first inspection of the isiand he remembered that ne was teld about the charcn, and at the ims @ suggestion was offered that it would be weil to erect a new ohuroh for those who did not belong to the Catholic Church, Mr. Stephenson said he would vote for no such measure, and the subject was never referred to again. Mr. Stephenson’s belief was that the church was built for emigrants, not tor any sect or denomination; and he believed It be- longed to the State, not to any Courch. He at- tended a conference with the steamship men, at whici the subject of head money was spoken of. Mr. Stephenson was thon and is now of the opin- ion that the Commission cau be run at the rate of $1 560 per head foreach emigrant. He believes that all public business should be done as men do | their private business, 43 cheaply as possible, and he would give $1,000,000 boad that he could do it. In March, 1874, ne made a motion to curtail ex- penses; put it was laidover, When he entered the Board he saya it Was im a state | of perfect disorganization, Ue disorgani- wetion can be called perievt, Bach Com- | missioner seemed to act independentiy, | For instance, he would discharge an abie-botied man from the island today for insubordination and {nsuiting language, und in a few days he arch meeting, at which he no quoram nd conse- missioner. Aiter the suggested the curtaiiment of expens could be obtained lor #IX weeks, quentiy no action was taken in the premises, also recomnmended in I874 that the hospitals on the island be consolidated, as there were then ninety per cent less patients than in 1813. In tho motion he had the concurrence of Drs..Chapin, Mann, McMany and Ford. He mude the sugges- tion for the reason that coal, gas, &c., would be savea by so doing, Imp some of tne | wards fitted up for thirty patients only | |x or seven were to be found. ‘ints motion was never acted upon during his term of office. of polieemen, for Whom there was n faland, reduced, and it was done after muck di cussion and delay. He also wanted to have thi Jange lorce of cle! reduced in the winter time, when no work war to be done. In his opinion tt could be done in Castie Garden as it 18 done in the Hire toe clerks whtle the work was nit was over disoharce them, Io lis Kulled labor in thet branch of the busi- Tax OM big and whe: | sort of clerr | men employed. force of sweepers, who ded of th He also awk: re paid $24 day, around ae Garden discharged. The could have been done by ahy twenty the 200 able | Dodied men the Commisionors were feedibg on THE FINANCE COMMITTEE—SUPERVISOR PUR- | The report recommended that the tax levy | | year, beg leave to accompany their report with a | Damely, $297 on every dollar of she assessed real | ‘The falling of in valuation te the amount givea | 1,099,634 14, representing $43,085,300, and 1p 1874, | 1,041,560, representing $87,198,557 of the total | ing the last teu years, from 1565 to 1874 Inviusive, | | these extensions, but will, at an early day, render Commissioners have very properly wiped out to | ‘Au aoditional amoubt of, personal property | heretofore assessed has likewise been stricken | irom the roll In consequence Of judicial decisions, | amount of unexpended balances from the | ‘The amount recommended by your committee | thetr report, together wish the appended ordi- | ‘fhe amendment to strike OUt $526,505 63 was | the tax levy for the year at the rate o! $2 S40n | utes p: two o’ciock, Which time was noted ac- | cording to law. Tue Board of Supervisors then merged {nto the fn the year 1873, and when the committees were | would go back by the order of some other Com. | He | He #iso asked to bave the standing army | daty On tho | + Was Only the most ordinary | bread which cost ten cents a loaf, when It comld Rave been provided by Ward’s Isiand at five cents. Seepmensen thinks that Caring his term of office $150,000 was spent for which there was no y Witness bas known of cases where men with on thelr persone have goue up to the island and j lived all winter at the expense of the State. ‘They were caoullers, and when the canals were clesed instead of paying their boorg they became paupers until spring, Mr. tepaenson offered @ resolution In June that | the coal for tue mnstitution be purchased then, a9 | 1} Was much cheaper than at amy other time of | the year. The suggestien ‘of acted on, The | coal was bought in October at an advanee of | $12 on the June price. He also wanted to bave the steamship companies held to their bonds to support the emigrants, but the Board would not consider the mutter, the objection being that the | attempt would entail @ fliteen years’ litigation. | His opinion being asked, he said he thought that one Commissioner, With @ good salary, would be | better than the nine which now cobstitute the | Commission. Ail responsibility would suen be Hl located and ali things would be more system. attgally arranged, Adjourned until nalf-past ten to-day, RAPID TRANSIT. INSPECTION OF THE GREENWICH STREET ELB- VATED BRAILWAY—ADDITIONAL PLANS FILED YESTERDAY—A LEGAL BUGBEAR. In response to an invitation from the oMcials of | the Greenwich Street Elevated Railroad the Rapia | Tramsit Commisstoners—Messrs. Seilgman, Dela- | mater, Mott, Canda ana Brown—yesterday made | a trip over the road, accompanied by the officials, Messrs. Courtright, president; Wallace, vice President; Cowing, secretary and treasurer; Wyman, sapertntendeat, and several 0! the direc- tors. His Honor the Mayor, Mr. Peter Cooper and several other prominent citizens accom- panied the party. A special train was in waiting ut the depot at Bowling Green at eleven o'clock, on whieh the party embarkea, and on arriving at ‘Thirty-lourth street the train continaed up to Thirty-sixth street, where tne work of improve- ment aud continuation of the route to Sixty-first street 18 being pushed through. The Commissioners and invited guests expressed themseives as well pleased witn the manner in which the work ts being done. On returning to the depot at Bowling Green the party went | across the Battery to inspect the proposed roate | of theroad from Greenwien street along South | street and across asecilon of the Battery to South | ferry. ‘Ihe officials of the ratiroad have already petitioned the Commisstonera for permission to extend the route at this point as well as from Thirty-fourth street across to the Grand Central depot, Forty-second street, ‘The Commissioners have not given as yet any formal opinion as to a@ decision, The ratJroad oMcials seem to be hopetul of a judgment in their favor. Ik consequence of this inspectiin no session was held yesterday at the rooms of the Comiission, be sent in, . plans oi Mr, Wiliam Kumble, ef Morrisania, and dulbert and Audio, of Connecticut, That of tne former geutieman is an elevated road ou singie columns, on the sides of the streets, the columns being thirty-seven and @ half feet apart and about | eignteea feet hign, Messrs. Hulbert and Aubio’s scheme js an arched elevated road spanning the entire street irom curb to curb. ‘Ihe arched columns are to be abuut thirty feet apart, to be of iron. There wiil be provision made for four tracks on the eleva- tion and two surface tracks bemeath. One of the advantages of this plam 1a that very little light is excluded irom tne adjacent buildings, and the artistic effect of the arch ts very pleasing. A !ull deacription of this plan will be given a laver stage in the proceedings of the Commission. A LEGAL BUGBEAR. Section 4 of the act under which the Conmis- sion 14 appointed has a proviso as to tie selection of the route, in which if is declared that “the con- sent of the owners of One-hal! in value of the pronrets, bounded on and the consent also of the josal authorittes having the control of that por- tion of astreet or hignway apon whieh it is pro- posed to constract or operate such railway or railways be first obiained, or, in Case the consent | of suca property owners Cannot be obtained, that | the determination of three Commissioners, ap- pamet by the General Term of the Supreme Sourt 10 tie district of the proposed coustruction given alter @ dus hearing of ail parties interesced and confirmed by the Court that such railway or railways ought to be constructed or operated be taken in lieu of the consent of such property owners.” It was yesterday ascertained that the horse car imterests are wits! ing to intimidate capitalists | by representing inthe event of the courts | Deing called upon to assess damages to owners of arCiany, along the 11 f the roads, a large sum of the capital will be swallowed: up. clared to be simply a great bugbear, whtok should | make po one tim the property of the State, and the city authoriti | are the ustodia A road construc! | upon the streets 14 not an Infringement upon ta Tights of the property owners along the line of the streets, and it is beleved that if any damages were allowed it would be a mere nom- inal sum to compensate the property owners for the damage sustained on account dences, Indeed, tt 1s a question whether the ad- vautages would not bé on the side of the property owneis. it 4s confidently asserted that @ properly constracted road on the ‘third aven for im- | staace, Would draw to the shops and stor | the route an increase o! custom that would wise be distriputed On adjacent avenaes, At first sBhopkeepers might object, but in the end they | would reap a large share of the benefits of rapid transit. AFRAID OF STARVATION. A MORBID MAN COMMITS SUICIDE FOR FEAB RE WOULD SUFFER HUNGER'S PANGS. George Fredericks, of No. 202 Rast Sixty-third street, committed suicide on Wednesday, at No. 088 Bowery, by taking seveuty graius of mor- pbine. | his pockets, addressed tu the Coroner:— Jovy 21. Dear Sin—I do this thing with my eyes wide open and ail my senses about me, ido it sieaply to avoid starvation, watch I believe is evitable if stay in the world. Since M noon 1 | have eaten but one meal. f have t | grains of morphine in the forw of pills, made by ' Some years ago. Let no one persuade you that | am insane. On the contrary, 1 never had my senses more | perteciir in my life. | Ido this for the purpose of pleasing my eldest brother, | who, as president and treasurer of this company, owes | ine # large amount of money which he doss not wis! neod be no post-inortem, as I have tully ex- cause of my death. Very respectully, GKO, FRBDERICKS, The company referred to in the letter is the American Fire Detector Company, whose office is at No, 288 Bowery, where the uniortunate man died. Fredericks bad studied medicine in hi | earlier days, and knew well enough that poison taken into an empty stomach would effectually do its work, Just belore taking thé morphine he | wrote a letter to a brother, &, D, Predericks, hg bas living in Brooklyn and baving an office at | No, 7 Chambers street, setting forta HIS INTENTION TO KILL HIMSELF; another to his wife, one to his eldest son and the One above published. Mr. L. D, Fredericks was at sapper when bis brother’e letter reached bim, ana, dropping everything, he hurried over to this | eity’and at once went te No. 484 Bowery. ‘There he found the door locked, but to burat tt open was ‘the work of a moment. On gaining access | to the building he found tne unfortunate man lying on tho _ floor, heaa ona city directory and four chairs raoged in @ row on each si¢. bi him, He was still perfectly rational and che toh bs iy talking of bi Tapidiy approaching death. He said that he ha | retramed frem eating that the poison might be the more sure to effect its purpose. Me readily drank the warm water, mostard and salt that bis brovber prepared, but complacently remarked tha’ IT WOULD DO NO GOO! I D, adding that all the doctors in New York coutd not | save him, Several physicians were cailed 10, but their services Were Unavailing, and, after afew honrs of iniense agony, the desperate man finally | passed away. The brother referred to in the letter herewith publivied is Cuarles D. Fredericks, tae ploto- grapner, in Broadway, opposite the jetro- poltan Hotel. The writer called upon hin jast evening and learned that the Amert- can Fire Detector Oompauy owed the deceased $400, which amoant would liave been paid nim io aiew days, He was Secretary of tue company, ge, eatd Mr. Fredericks, was not in such straitened circumstances his letver would lead one to suppose. He owned some little prop- erty and his credit was good wherever he was Known, His brother, L. D. Fredericss, often offered him money, but he always retased it, saying thas tis brother Charies owed nim money and he did mot want any from any other source, From all that coula be learned yesterday it seems evident that tue deceased was of a very morbid dispositios, apd was constantly imagining, that all manner of alreiul catastrophes ‘youd eventually overtake him. Severai years ago ne made ab attempt on big Yle, but was saved by the tumely interference of friends. He leaves & wile | aud seven chilaren, Ad inquest was held by Coroner Woltman at the Coroner’s office, yesterday, im tne case of the Italian Morrelii, who was stapbed in the chest by Joseph Frango, on the 15th ins! gee died at Bellevue ital four days lave! othing that | je not already known by the pudlic ia regard to | the case w divulged by the evidence. The jury rendered erdict against the prisoner, Wy Was | Femauded to prison to await nis trial, The streets of tuis city are | | of cutting off light irom tier stores and rest- | | fo { The following letter was found in one of POOR CHILDREN’S PICNIC. Ee: FIRST EXCURSION THIS szason—2,500 TICERTS DISTRIBUTED TO THE CHILDREN YESTERDAY GREAT ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE LITTLE ONES. There is always 4 fall outgoing sympathy for every effort made to help the children of the Poor, These little watfs, whose homes may be sald to be in the streets during these summer months, scareely know what it is to have afew hours’ enjoyment, suck as children onght to have. ‘Their pleasant surprises and morriest excitement come to them only from sights which children should never see. Green flelds, bine skies, river scenery, delight/al views of country places they know notof, Their eyes are strangers to every pleasant sight, as their ears are to instructive; pleasant words, IN SUCH BEATED WEATHER asthis we now have these children become ex~ hausted in the filthy streets in whick they are compeiled to live and-where they eke out an ex-! istence in a way scarcely conceivable. In the’ midst Of most noxious atmospheres, with every~ thing around, im house and streets influencing’ the child to the towest level of mind and body; anything that heips to cheer the little drooping: Spirit, or that creates a new and fresh feeling, OF that tends to restore childhood to the prematurely advanced boy or girl is itself an object, to attaim which 18 worth far more trouble than is required” in securiog it, The thousavas of youngsters, in all the downtown wards of the city more especially, offer ample opportunity for effort ina benevolent undertaking, which, while affording enjoyment, would also add & lasting benefit to the children in many ways, The piam) whica was carried out so successfully in former: of giving the poor children of the differen? A DAY’3 SAUL ON THE RIVER, with all the necessary equipments for mental and’ bodily nourishment, ts about to be revived, and) under the same auspices. Durlog the past two summers thousands of children were enatied tor experience pleasures never before understood by, them, by means of these excursions, and for afew: times in their brief Ktves to experience a little’ of the enjoyment of which poverty nad hitherto deprived them. ‘There 1s not @ ward in the city in witch the summer excursions! oflast year are not pleasurably remembered by, the poor children who were made happy in hav« ing participated in them, and eagerly have they watched and waited this summer for the welcome announcement that these picnics were to be re- sumed, It may seem a trifing thing to some that’ several hundred children should get @ sail Gow’ the bay or up the river on a hot day in July, but: to fully apprectate the extent of the valite of one of these excursions It would b9 only necessary tar see the children in the ‘ UNBOUNDED ENTHUSIASM OF EXPECTANCY , as they present themselves for vickets ioe gene on board the excursion boat. For several days ig | had been known in the Sixtn ward that there was to be a pienic for he poor caildren of the districts) some day during the week. ‘This news set all the} little boys and giris Lo conjuring up mighty ex-* pectations of a aay’s grand enjoyment, and the expericuces of last year and toe previous one Were reiearsed and disputed with great serious- ness and considerable variety of sentiment, The* Sixun ward station house, in Franklin street, re~* ceived several deputations of Juveniles anxious to’ learn all about the picnic—whea it was to come off, where it was to be held, who was getting it, up, Where the tickets were to be distributed ana, at what hoor precisely the children should appear, collectively to receive the much coveted card of Admission. Captain Lowery received the little visitors with ali due seriousness and pro; patience, and informed bis interrogators t there undoubtedly was to be a ptonic for the Sixth’ ward children; snat the day fxed for tt was Sature day, July 24; tnat THB SCENE OF THE JUBILATION was Excelsior Grove, opposite Yonkers; that the tickets would be distrinuted on loursday alternoom) at three o’clock, in Franklin street, opposite the: station house, and that Mr. George F, Walliams, . Who was the originator and organizer of similar picnics during the last two summers, was again to lake command of the jens army of bealth seekers, and thateverything promised to be on a scale of astonishing variety. Each deputation, | after being dixmissed by tee captain, was itself the receiver, in iis own atreot, of several others from the puriieus of the famous locality, and ag: doubts were not infrequent as io the veracity of some of the previous interviewers, Captain Lowes ery 8000 discovered tat the station house was beginoing to become almost A BORD OF INTELLIGENCE OFFICE in the matter of the children’s picnic. Franklin street yesterday morning, however, showed that the news had traveled with no inconsiderable | surety all over the ward, and asearly as pine o’clock the sidewalks contained several battalions oO! the picnic army, maie and Icmuie, ranged along the curbdstoves, ‘ihe object of attack on the occa~* | sion was to eee Mr. George F. Williams, wuo, how- ever, Was safe until three in the afternoon, at which hour the assaait upon him was to come mence. Hour afver hour went by, each bringing! with It strong reinforcements for the assault,: those youngsters who at times retired to thet homes in the neighborhood invariably returned with a goodly addition of recruits, more anxious aud determined than even the early comers, At on¢ o’clock the sidewalks were filied /rom Centre to Baxter strect, and ‘he streets in front of the station house was & solid phalanx, There must have been at least ONE THOUSAND CHILDREN IN THE STREET from one to two o’ctock, and the sight was in it- self a novelty to look at. Most of them were bare- headed and hare-footea; the boys wore garments which bad the advantage of giving the wiud easy access to the skin, and the dresses of the litte giris were seldom without arent. Unkempt and untidy were all of them, boys and girls, and the juxury of @ wash seemed not to Rave been ex- erlenced by most of them since Sunday last. No 1g boys OF girls were allowed to get tickets, and as this had been wéll uaderstood tew of them were present, But AMONG THE CROWD wore slender littie giris ana boys of tender year: who were, to all appearauces, wasting awa: Dirty-faced cherubs, with laughing eyes and go Datured faces, were, huwever, by n0 means exception, and there were not afew hardy fisted young wretches who could not keep still, and Woo persisted in digging holes and knocking beads with their clenched fists. Locomotion was almost Impossiole in the crowd, the result being that “scrooging’’ Was a necessity, and of course’ the exercise became a delightful source of amuse- ment to the urchins who were suffering neither ain nor ache and only wanted fun. But the ma- jority of the children were quiet and orderly and ‘stood or sat patientiy awaiting the long expected ticket, As the hour of three approached ail eyes were turned 1a the direction of Centre street, t police officers, some eight or ten of wi ‘were present to preserve order, were beginning to have nothing todo. A few minotes a'ter three, o'clock, however, Mr. Williams turned the corner. Of tbe street, aud the thousana little throttles at’ once set up suck SCREECH OF A CHEER A | a8 Was never heard since a@ similar occasion last | summer, The youn; » wathe in the their litte skeleton arms rejoicing, and a rush and frightiul crusm Immediately made to get near the station houge stoop. The hurran was so loud that a number of mothers poured in from the vicinity,’ having tiny litsle children by the hand, these, doubtless, being too feevle to be left alone to ine Mercy of the crowd. This excited and enthusias- le \cpsenpars J stood silent fora moment, and Mr. ‘iliama, standing 00 the stoop, biew a fow magia, notes on a whistle, whereupon the officer lunged into the crowd and in he gitis were separated from lormer were coming on in single file, iciure of earnesiness, but with a shade of> rouvied doubt upon their faces, Taere were now TWO PICTURRS, nd one the beslegers and the other those who bad: triumphantly borne off the trophy of victory. Was carious to watch te faces of the two parties, ‘The child, coming along in line, kept a fixed eye on the ticket dissributor aa upon an enemy; but had no sooner received the prize than there wag a face suffused with a joyous amule, and both ey were bent with a proud glance upen the words of, the sesame as sne moved away. It was most psinful vo watch the anxiety mani! ea; by the girls, The boys, however, had nothing, more serious to annoy them than, to hold their: places im the line or to elbow # néighbor out % priority when opportunity offerea, Several ynese Kage | rascals, who were inclined o to behave themselves with proper solemnity of demeanor, felt the force of an Officer's ratta Groups of ohildren’ ther here and there them in token of: When foubd transgressing, might be seen gathered ft speiling out the words on were Cons vy | coming , On the al see justice done to their offspring. The po! ; chased away as soon ar ail the children’ had got their ete, bat when the crowd! jarge some of the more knowing young~ EMBRYO FUTURE STATESMEN, played “‘hookey,”’ and instead of retiring, a6 cors, ool boys Would have done under: for the second time, romising ‘repeaters’ were ar~, romptly wich alk, It must also be petit larceny c of guardial Willams stances these rested in the act, and punished the penalty of a rattan. that there was some mitted even under the ey of the public morals. It pened on severahy occasions that some weakly child, unable to pro-, trophy she had so patiently fougns for, of it by sume litte ch thief, who, ? y compunciion of heart, ‘“vamoo! a'h, round the corner at @ furious speed, waving bi victim sobbing and io teara, Tickets to the ni ICONTINUED ON NINTH PAGE)