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‘Beiter VE, Falk necerver appointed and referee to Valter of Kala —Aiter considering Mr, Beale’ brief 1 jailer — i, am satisfied that the application for disbursements should be denied, Cotter vs Miller.—Default pape hin five days, and sti to n ments within five ipulating ‘cause a the earliest possible a % nd Kayton vs. Hirsch.—Motion denied without costa. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company vs. Packer.—I see no from the conclusion that this case must be referred; as the issues stand it must involve the examination of a very long account Tho motion must be granted and the cause referred to 0. H. Hildreth to hear aud determine. Vissher vs, Brennan,—Sureties approved. Seibt va. Bauzer.—The plaintiff is entitied to an order ppelnaig ‘8 receiver. ardiner vs. The Mayor, &c. Motion granted on pay- ment of $10 costa, , Pelowbet va. Duncan.—Motion granted and defend. ‘Ant allowed to answer in tive days on payment of $10 costs within sueh five days. r Matter of Smith.—Application denied. Memoran- um. Kurzman vs, Siochert —Whether case in the 9th of Abbott has boon reserved by Morgan vs. Skidmore or not it is no anthority on this proceeding, for it was an ordinary action, This was a reference under the stat- ute and rection 317, expressly for simple disburse. ments. Ordered accordingly. SUPERIOR COCURT—8PECIAL TERM. By Jadge Bedgwick. Dueker, &¢., ct al., vs. Rapp, &c.—Let the within cage and ‘exceptions be filed ganc pro tunc as of 20th, and the clerk 1s hereby directed to receive and file a note of 1ssue for the February General Term, By Judge Sanford. Allen et al, vs, Daly ot al—Referee’s report eon- firmed and ju ent of foreclosure and gale. Faulks v& Kamp; Aliendorf ve. Mutual Life Insur- ance Company; Dilks vs. Chase; Purssell vs. New York Life Insurance and Trust Company; Gedney vs. Haas; Morey va, Metropolitan Gaslight Company; Pe- das et'al, ve. Coadley, and Mutual Life Insurance Uom- pany vs, Bulkley et al.—Orders granted. COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Van Brunt. Adams vs, Page.—No certificate as Lo appearance. Keabury, &c., vs. Peck et al,—-Judgment ordered. Cutmins vs,’ Blessing. Reference ordered, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Wallace, in the case of Tussin & Co. against Col- lector Arthur, to recover dutios paid upder protest upon importations of olive oils, the particulars of THE COURTS. Brooklyn Ring Suits To Be Tried in Brooklyn. REMINISCENCE OF THE GOOD OLD TIMES Interior Life of Ludlow Street Jail. A BEST IN THE PACIFIC MAIL INVESTIGATION — Rocently a motion was made before Judge Barrett, $n Supreme Court, Chambers, to cbange the place of trial from New York to Brooklyn in the so-called Brooklyn Ring suits sguinst Fowler, Lowber and Bliss, ‘who are charged with baving wrongfully obtained from Abo Brooklyn Yreasury nearly $700,000 on the contracts Yor building the Brooklyn Reservoir and the construc- tion of the Third avenue sewer. The complaints in theso actions havo already been published in ful! $n the Henan, together with a pretty full report of the argument on the motion for a change of venue. Judge Barrett yesterday gave his decision granting the | motion, and giving his reasons for doing so in the ful- | owing opinion:— Pirst.—The question is not whetber the defendants, Fowler, LOwber and Bliss, were public officers withm She meaning of the constitution, but whether they ‘were such a8 are contemplated by section 124 of the Code, That they were public officers {nu the latior sense Mhere can be no doubt. Their duties were essentially public, and they were even required by law to take an of office and to furnish bonds for the faithful per- mance of their dutics as pormancnt water and sow- commissioners (Laws of 1869, chap. 97, sec. 2). ' —The acts complained of wero clearly done Dy theve defendants ‘in virtue of their offices,” It ‘was wholly from such offices that they derived the | guthority to do what is cbarged be pote them, and that | Sethe test, It is not a question of good or bad faith, osition that the statate covers cases bg fae Inefliciency. is not. sustained | Which have beon published, the jury returned a verdict either upon principle “or autherity. = OB | for the defendant, AS a test case the decision is of im- Zhe contrary. it is well settied that even where, in @olng av aci within the limits or scope of his authority, | Portance to this branch of importers. The alleged German forger Charles Schulta, arrested opened or fee, $10 costa Of motion and $7 h0 disburse the officer exercises such authority improperly or @buses the confidence woich the law reposes in him, ‘@ ia still entitled to tho protection of tho statute (Brown vs. Smitb, 24 Barb., 419; the People vs. Hayes, How., 248; Seeloy vs. Berdsall, 15 Johns, 268; the People vs. Tweed, i3 Abb., N. 8, 419, which 1s directly 4% point and js decisive of this motion). Even alle- gations of inalice and ‘wicked combination’? will not deprive a publicoficer of the protection of such etatutes (Row vs. Sherwood, 6 Johna., 109). And upon principle this is the just rule, for otherwige the statute would al 8 bo evaded by a moro averment of bad | faith, ¢. g.:—That a sherit levied on A's goods, under ‘execution against B., and did it in bad faith, well Knowing them to be A’s goods. Third.—in one of the cases under consideration the eause of action arose in Kings county; in the other “gome part thereof,” indeed, thereof, arose here. Fourth,—The defendants cannot be deprived of their statutory right by joining other parties as defendants. The right is absolute and not a matter of jndicial dis- wretion. Lf, therefore, a public oilicer be impleaded for ‘cts done virtute officil, the suit, o far as he 1s concerned, Most be tried in the county where the cause of action orsome part thercot aroso. Any other rule would end to nullify the statute, for it would be as oasy lo goin other parties defendants as to plead bad faith, and that, too, without intending to cyade, as, for instance, to join with asherif defendant the plaintiffs in the ex- ecution who directed or the indomnitors who uphold the levy. Fifth Lastly, wo are asked to retain these cases be- case jt is claimed that atair jury trial cannot be had ‘um Kings county, But that is no answer to the motion. Issue bas not been joined and we cannot tell whether there will be a jury trial, For aught we know tho de- fendants may demur, The first thing to be done is to place the causes inthe county where by law the Wefendants have a right to have them. When an tssue of fact 1s there joinod {t will be tume enough to 1nvoke sub-division 2 of section 126 of tho Code. Mason ve. Brown (6 How., 461) ls not in point for the reason that Isgne had there-bdeen joined, but tt is an authority for 4 rule that motions to chauge the place of trial for © convenience of witnesses can ouly be made alter Sasuo joined. The same principle applies to a motion to ehange the venue because thero is reason to believe that ‘an impartial” trial cannot be had. The motion to change the place of trial to the eounty of Kings ts granted. A MEMORABLE SUIT REVIVED. Among the curious cases that occasionally are Drought to light in the courts there are few presenting a gteater variety of peculiar phases than the suits of John B. Gardner and five other claimants agalnst the city, Having wlready been sixtoen yeare in litigation the cir- cumstances of the case bave been published several times in tne Hxxacy. It is only necessary, therefore, ‘at present, on (he revival of the suit, togive buta brief | yéoumé of the facts, Under what is called tho Guade- Sopo-Hidalgo treaty George H. Gardner put in aclaim | @t Woehington and was allowed soinething over $200,000, of which sum $139,500 was on deposit in the New York Loan and Trust er een It was discovered sbortly after the payment (hat the papers on which Gardver based h's claim were forgeries. Criminal pro- ®eedines were accordingly commenced against him wbich resulted in ‘bis conviction, — Gardner, ken with shame or remorse, committed Meantime, that in , 1854, ited States government had com- ced civil proceedings against him, under which e money deposited with the New York Loan and rust Company was attached. Poter B. Sweeny, who qwas then Public Administrator, took out papers of ad- inistration, Sweeny was succeeded in this office by Onaries A. May, and the latter by Thomas ©. Fields, A compromise was effected under Ficlds’ administra- sion by ‘wosts of the litigation. Tho amount thus turned over ‘was about $37,000. Tom Fields accounted for $20,000, ‘and the present suit is to require a further accounti there being under this compromise $17,000, with inter- | et, still claimed by the heirs of Gardner, Supremo Court, Chambers, yesterday, application ‘was made by the Corporation Codnsel to e Barrett for a com jon to examine Daniel E. , Who, as @ounse! for the deceased Gardner, claims to bave a lien on the funds, and Thomas C. Fields, who for private considerations has gone to “fresh fields and pastures new.” Th plication Was opposed on the ground that Sickles cannot tell anything about the maiter and ‘the whereabouts of Fields is unknown. Judge Barrett, © examination of the papers, granted the motion, LUDLOW STREET JAIL BAR. William Watson, Wardeo of Ludlow Street Jail, who 4e charged with eclling cigars and liquors in that place without paying the special internal revenue license, was brought beforo United States Commissioner Shields yesterday for further examination Oppenheimer, a prisoner in the jail, was the only wit- pess called. This witness was the one who it has been alleged has been occupying the position of barkeepor iu the jail, where he has deco confined for over six Years ov charges of fraudulent bankroptey. He test! fied that liquors and cigars were cold during the last year tothe prisoners from a place arranged in one of ‘tho bathrooms, bat since October last nearly ail of those saies had been on his own account. Previous to that time the receipta.had deen regularly turned in at the office, and even 1 January 1 the cigar money Went to Deputy Warden Gardner; from that time he only sold from $10 to $15 worth of liquor, making his last eaie early in January; the last purchase of liquor woade by him wag in Decomber, “Did you pay eish tor these purchases?” nquired Distriet Atworney Poster. “You must Dear in mind Mr. Foster, that Mr. Op- nheiner is reputed to be worth $500,400,” sai rely, counse! Wor the accused. Sites ease “Yes,” romarketl Oppenhenner, “and {t is just this | veputation that has kept mo in Ludlow Strect Jatl for over 81x years.” The witness continued that he had made his pur chases of one of two gallons as he required, and had never given an order In the name ot the Warden, and, $0 fect, upon Mr. Watson's appointment he had been percmptorily ordered to stop the business, Fromm that time they had been continued clan never in the presence or with the knowledge of any of. ficer of the jail The examination wil) be resumed next Saturday. THE PACIFIC MAIL SUIT. ‘The further be gin the suit of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company against William 8 King and Johu | G. Schumaker, which was cet down for yesterday forning at balf-past tev, was adjowrce’ by mutual comeent of counsel til] next Thursday, Mr. Goodwin, counsel for defendants, asked for the adjournment on the ground that ho did not expect the hearing would last so long, ond that other important matiors whieh be had to attend to wero necessarily neg- ected. §=Mr. Bonnet, counse! for the Pacifie Mail Steamship Compnoy, thoug! Mont fora tow days at this time wold be eminentl: Proper, ns some witnerses whorn ho wished to call and ‘who cou'd throw a great deal of light on the testimony siready elicited would not bo able lo arrive hero in less ‘Than five days, It was farther stated that Mr. Tolcott, ‘Whose cxamication 1t war oxpected would bo continued iY, Was quite i Commissioner Wight, on representations, adjourned the hearing as re. | Before adjourning, however, the name of M. Basbe as & witness was called by Mr. Ben. and, that geviteman oot veing present, Mr, was requested to note that (he genUeman was in DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Barrets, oe Re, va Fowler ot al. —Opi Mie Speen Creer osnnr, tne is Leon wt Protaied ; vekert ot the substantial part | neh the government received $139,500, but | Pe interest accruing on it was turned over to the Pub- | Administrator for various purposes, including the | Samuel | destinely, and | + that an adjourn. | & month or two ago on board the steamship Idaho, and whose extradition is demanded by the German Consul, ‘was brought before United States Commissioner White | proofs trom Germany, substantiating the chargos made, were offered in evidence, after which the examination Was postponed uotil next Saturday. ford, holding Special Term of the Superior Court, to | pumish Johu B. Holmes for contempt of court, for fail | ure to pay the alimony and counsel fee directed by the | Court in a suit for divorce brought by his wife. Judge | Sanford refnsed to grant the application, holding that | the proper course to obtain the money was by execu- | tion and not by contempt proceedings. Indge Barrett yesterday opened the default and granted five days additional Ume to answer the com- | plaintin the suit of Peloubet and others against Du | can, Sherman & Co. The plamtiffs left some drafis with the defendants on a London house for colloction. The money, as alloged, was collected, and the pro- ceods reaching him the day after the failureof Duncan, | firm. any portion of tho assots of tho failing firm, In the case of William A. Pendelton, president of one | of the Staten Island ferry companies, who was ad- Judged guilty of contempt of court for failing to comply | with an order of Judge Van Vorst, of tho Superior | Court, In the matter of tho injunction against the | company ag to the running of boats, tho facts of which have been fully published tp the Hera, a writ of habeas corpus was recently obtained, with a view to | securo his release under the tbirty days’ commitment, | Judge Barrett yesterday, after hearing opposing coun- | | eel, dismissed the writ and remanded Pendolton to the custody of the Sheriff A short time since James G. Plunkett, in a suit | | before Judge Speir, of the Superior Court, ‘obtained a verdict against D. Appleton & Co. for injuries sustained | by having his foot crushed by an elevator. | the Judge coinmumicated with the jury without the | knowledge of the parties to the suit or their counsoh | Judge Sanford, who hoard the argument on the motion, grauted the application, holding that though the com- | munication with the jary was at their request, it was | mot, under the cireumstances, proper. Betore Judge Gildersiceve, in the Court of General Seesions yesterday, the trial of Wilham J. Ree for alleged forgery womcontinued. George Marshall was cross-examined without eliciting anything now, George | R. Hazewell, the broker, !u whose possession the | forged notes were found, testified substantially to the | facts detailed by Mr. Lyonsin his bs omar for the | prosecution, On the conclusion of bis testimony, Cotonei Spencer, counsel for the prisoner, moved for the discharge of his cliont, onthe ground that there ) was a variance between the proof and the indictment. | The Court denied the motion, and adjourned ttl this | morning, when the defence will be opened by ex-Recor- | der Smith, FIFTY-S VENTH STREET Betore Judge Murray. | DANGEROUS VISITORS, | On the even!ng of the 3d of January John Flood and | John Ruth paid a visit to Patrick O'Brien, of No. 840 | Eleventh avenne, having mistaken tho promises for | those ofa Mrs. Murphy. Mrs. O°Brien and two female | companions were the only occupante of the rooms when they eutered. both being under tbe influence of liquor, Just then _ Mr. O’Brien entered and ordered them to leave. Flood grasped a knife {rom the tablo, amd after defying any | One to pnt them out, he made'a Innge with the weapon at O'Brien's face, saying, with an oath, that he would cut his throat, The two ruffans then assaulted Mr. COURT. and Mrs. O'Brien in a ravage manner, Their assault resulted in Mra, O’Briou’s premature confinement, as she claims, aud in putting her life in peri, At an’ ex. | amination yesterday in this Court both of them were held for trial at the Special Sossions, HARLEM POLICE COURT, Before Judge Smith. + D HORSE THIEF, on was held yesterday inthe case of | An examins Albert Fiewel | from his brother Frank, who lives at Yorktown, West- | chester county, The defendant when arrested claimed | to bave recovered the horses from a thief at Katona | knowing them to be his brother's property. The c cumstances surreunding the case were & jous and he was held to await the arrival of bis brotber and | other witwesses. Theso proved snficient against kim to Warrapt his belug held, and he was committed for trial in ult of $2,000 bail Frank, the brother, showed a disposition not to prosecute, and he had to give $1,000 bonds to appear at the trial as a witnoss, MARKET POLICE COURT. Before Judge Kasmire. THE LAW oF 1862, Frederick fraub, ef No. 113 Bowery, and William Eisenischitz, of the V rden, No. 199 Bowery, were held for examination on a charge of violating the law of 1862, which prob place of amusement. ESSEX At the Tombs Police Court yesterday Meury Flynn, of No, 408 West Sixteenth street, was held to auewer a | ebarge of stabbing Heury Lane, of No. 217 Greenwich stroot, in the side with a knife on the Ist of February. | Eten Miller was a servant i the family of Dr. Fran- cis M. Purroy, of Fordham. Some month ago she “took French leave’ of her situats and simul taneousiy a gold watch and other articles of jewelry were missing. Yesterday the Doctor saw Ellen {a Mulberry street and answer im default of $1,000 bail, COURT CALENDARS--THIS DAY. Sorxexe Covnt—Cuamnens—Held by Judge Bar- ret, 7, 71, 09, 118, 116, 242, 243, 250, 265, 3 aL Tenu—Held by Judge Dono- ne Y Tenw—Held by Jude Joeoph Connt OF GENKKAL SERSIONS—Held by Jodge Gilder. slevve. a gery. COURT OF APPEALS, ° ALMANY, Feb. 2, 3876. Life Association Company, respondent,—Argued by A. R. Dyeté, of counso! for appellant, and by George D. F. | Lord for respondent, No, 128. Thomas William Renton, an infant, &e, re | spondent, vs, C. Godfrey Gunther, appellant. —argued by Charlee H. Winfield, of counse) for appolmn / by D. P. Mornard for respondent. XO Ses eh | "No. 188 George Sloan, appeliaut, vs. Wiliam Elmer, | respondent —Argued by A. R. Dyett, of couueei for appellunt, and by A. J. Parker for reqpeadent, Adjourned, CALENDAR, ‘The following Is tio calondar for Thursday, Febroary | 3:--Nom, 161, 102, 364, 168, 146, 142, 19 and 155, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, Wasnrmeros, Fob, 2, 1876, The following cases have Doon argued in the United | States Supreme Court:-— : Bina Life Insw Company vs. France end wife. ul Court Yor ibe Bagierz, Digirict of “wor be the Cire yesterday for further examination, The documentary | Application was made yosterday before Judge San- | Sherman & Co., were placed among the assets of tho | It is claimed that the money should be paid to | | the plaintidis and that the same cannot legally be mado | } A motion | | was made to set the verdict aside, on the ground that | Mrs, O'Brien ordered them out, | n, of No, 83 Macdougal street, who was | arrested on Sunday ona charge of stealing two horses | $ the selling of hquor io any | sed ber arrest for larceny. | Justice Bixby, before whom she was taken, held her to | Case ob—The People va, William J. Kee, for. | No. 162 Marx Harris, appellant, vs, The Equitable | ® policy of Me ‘iff delow, Court, and’ it is here under | although nominally in the jn fact, taken out apd the France, and that such being have beenho recovery, for want of an insurable in- torest It 1s also insisted that as the sister was a mar- ried woman, in no way dependent upon the deceased, ‘Bhe was without insurable interest. It is also insisted | ‘that the answers made by the deceased when insured | wore warranties, and being such, if wholly or in part falee, there should be no recovery. The defendants in error juaist that as to the disease referred to, concern- { jug which the deceased was asked, there was uo con- coalment in fact, nor was there any as to the age of | the deceased, as he stated he was uncertain aa to his age whon asked by the agent of the company. 8&. C. Perkins for platntiff in error; N. H. Sharpless for de- fendants. No. 129. Turner et al. vs. Ward et al.—Appeal from the Circult Court for the Kastern Dietrict of Michi- gan,—Thig wos a suit to recover of Turner & Co. the iJ] of goods sold to them by tho appel- | lees, the tiffs below seeking to have property | which had been covered by a chattel mortgage applied to the payment of their debi, The rolief asked was de- creed by the Court below, and the case 1 brought here and submitted on the printed briefs of the jen, the Appellants averring that certain alleged false repre- ntations made by them, if false, were not shown to been so known to the member of the firm poking them, and that the Court should have ex uct proof before rendering the decree made. ©. P. Crosby for appellants; Ashley Pond for appellees. No, 134 Eyster vs. Gaff et al.—Error to the Supreme | Court of the Territory of Colorado,—This was av action | of ejectment brought against Eyster to recover sion of certain lots in Denver City. Eyster wasa tenant of one McClure, who mortgaged to the defen- dants in crrer. Having foreclosed and obtained the title of the mortgagor they ousted the tenant by ejectmont, It is bere insisted that the Court erred in sustaiping the foreclosure or against McClure when he was a bankrupt, and the assignee was not mado a party, and that, therefore, the plaintiffs in error have no title as against the tenant in possession under him, John A. Wells for plaintiff in error; Shellabarger & Wilson tor defendants, No. 133. Smeltzer vs. White—Error to the Cireuit Court for the District of Iowa —In this case the defend- ant in error recovered upon alleged warranties of the enuineness of forty-eight county warrants, purport ing to have been issued by O’Brien and otber counties, which he purchased of the plaintiff. The warranty was that they were regularly iseued and were genuine county warrants. White brought suits against the coun- thes, and failing to get judgment on the warrants, because of irregularity in their issue, in being without | county seal, had recourse to the warranty of the Itis here insisted that the Court erred in ts required aseal; but if it is | troe that they were mvalid without a seal it was ade- | feet patent to the purchaser as well as to the seller, and berefore it was not within the warranties. G. Par- sons for plaintiff in error; Ashton & Wilson for de- fondant. On motion of Mr. J. Carroll Brewster, W. H. Arm- strong and David ©. Rarrington, of Philadelphia, Pa, were admitted to practice as attorneys and coun- sellors of this court. On motion of Mr. J. B, Sanborn, Henry ¥. Masterson, of St. Paul, Minn., was admitted | to practice as an attorney and counsellor of this court. 0. 14 Christian 8, Eystoe, plaintiff in error, vs. | Thomas and James W. Gaff.—The argument of this | cause was continuea by Mr. J. A, Welle, of counsel for plametf in error. The Court declined to hear further argamont in this cause. No. 135, Willwim W. Lathrop, assignee, &c., appel- lant, vs, Samuel! Drake and Johu Drake, Jr., execotore, &c., et al.—This cause was argued by Mr. D. ©. Harring” ton’and Mr, J. Carroll Brewster, of counsel for the ap- pellant, and by Mr, W. B, Armatrong for the appellees. | “No. 137.—Charlos D, Maxwell, plaintiff in error, vs. the District of Columbia. —The argument in this cause was commenced by Mr. F, P. B. Sands, of counsel for | the plaintiff in error, and continued by Mr. BE. E. Stan- ton for the defendant in error, Adjourned until to-morrow. A SWINDLER ARRESTED. Detective Richard Fields, of the District Attorney's office, yesterday arrested at Orange, N. J.,a retail | grocer named George H. Basch, doing business at that place. The arrest was made under an indictment ob- tained by the wholesale grocery firm of Bonnett, Schenck & Earle, No. 57 Park place, who complain | that Basch came to them and, by representing binself | Iaintif, to be doing a good business, besides holding real estate | in Brooklyn and Newark, obtained from them on | credit $10,000 worth of goods, It was subsequently discovered that he was insolvent when he made these | elatements, and the swindled firm went before the | Grand Jury and procured the tndictment against bim. | He was taken to District Attorney Phelps’ office yester- day afternoon and was committed thence to the Tombs to awalt trial in the General Sessions, ‘< THE DYNAMITE FIEND. The aptecedents of Willlam King Thomas, alias Thomassen, the- dynamite fiend, still remain unre- vealed. Careful inquirtes among the officers of the vessels engaged Jn running the blockade of the South- ern ports ofthe United States bave elicited the fact | that he never was an officer nor empioyed on any Con- | | federate vessel. The German Consul, Dr. Henkel, has not completed his investigation, but has learned that | the Mr. Skidmore referred to in the cable despatch | published {esterday is Mr. Edward M. Skidmore, Jr., | a Custom House broker, whose knowledge of Thomas | 1s limited to a singlo business transaction—that of en- tering and clonring at the Custom House a cask iin- ported from Bremen by the steamship Rhein in June, | 1875. What this cask contained was invoiced as pol- | ishing paste, but it Is now supposed to have beon dynamite. It was involeed to George S. Thomas, but exported on October 28 to Hamburg on of the steamer, consigned to William K. Thomas, | whom the man faid was his brother, living at the Hotel de Europe, The stories told by Thomas seem to be | absolutely false. No person has been found in Brook- | lyn that can give any information relative to his pro- vious residence In that city. It has been ascertained | that bis wife was married to him in St Louis, Mo. | Dr. Henkel will conclude his imvyestization about the | firetof next month, and then report to his govern- | | ¢ return trip ment. THE YORKVILLE SALOON KEEPERS, The German saloon keepers of the Nineteenth ward held a meeting at No. 767 Third avenue yesterday, to advocate the enactment of a uniform excize law for the | whole State. They hold that such a law would do awa; | with oppressive actions on the part of the Excise Com- ! mniesioners, to which, It $s alleged, they have hereto- | fore beon subjected. They will join their efforts with | those of the brewers and liquor dealers’ organizations to obtain the enactment of such a law during the pres- ent session of the Legislature, CORONERS’ CASES, An inquest was yesterday held on the body of Paul Stahl, who committed suicide last week. No now facts were elicited. . An inquest was likewise held on the body of Michael | Kiernan, aged fifty-five, of No. 607 Third avenue, who | was run over on the 30th ult, between Forty-eixth and Forty-soventh streets, by an beg ited ind express car of the New York Central Raslroad backing into the depot. | Tho jury censured the railway offivials for not having @ | man in the rear of trains while they are backing in, FOUND DROWNED. The body of an unknown man was found yosterday morning floating in the North River, off pier No, 40, by | | OMicer Moore, of the Fifth precinct. Deceased was about forty-five years old, five fect seven imches high, had black whiskers mixed with gray, dressed in black nts, coat and vest, gray woollen shirt aud high boots, lie body was sent to the Morgue aud Coroner Ellingor notified. nown man was also found drowned off pier No, 84 North River, at nine o'clock yesterday morning. | ‘The body, which had evidently been in the water a | long time, was sent to the Morgue and the Coroner no- | tified. The deceased was about thirty-five years old, | five feet cight inches high, light comploxioned, had ndy whiskers, mustache and hair, and wore black coat, Pabtaloons and vest, white shirt and low shoes, BURGLARIES, Atanearly hour yesterday morning burglars en- tored the clothing store of Hirsch Meyer, at No. 144 Third avenue, and succeeded in carrying away goods, consisting of men’s clothing, to the value of $1,200, The entrance was effocted by forcing open a side hall door. 48 yet the police have no clew to the robbers. The store of M. Samuels, at No. 69 Walker street. was robbed by burgiars of several articles of lady we CONFIDENCE GAMESTERS, Justin Abrens, a well-known confidence swindler, ar- rosted in Hoboken last Friday, was arraigned yesterday before Acting Recorder Strang, on three charges of obiaining money under false pretences. The prisoner | | waived an examination and was placed under $1,000 | bail to appear for trial before the Grard Jury. Me has been identified by Mra. Williams, of Rahway, N. J., as the man who swindled her ont of $300. Gustave Bern. stein, of Fulton street, New Yerk, an accomplice of Ahrens, was roteased under §5C0 bail. It be re- mombercd that Uppenherm, one of the gaug who was | arrested with these men, upon being recognized by | Some of his viettms, hanged himself im bis coll at the | Hoboken police station. WHAT DO THEY MEAN? A Dumbst of the citvzons of Union Hill, N.J., have organized ® club‘cailed ‘The Hangmen's Club,” but | decline to make pnbtic the object of the assoctution, The genera! improssio: that lynch law is a part of their oot bis sg ig are the officers of as. gociation;—Presidont, Gustavus Stahl; Scere | Rlabl and Treasurer, Georee Micke |) Stes ONO gal | coffee, flour, &e., with the rate of one cent per ounce; THE CURRENCY AND POSTAL LAWS. A mecting of the New York Board of Trade, for the George Opdyke and P, Farrelly to Congress in re- Jation to the Currency and Postal laws, was held yester- day at their rooms, Nos. 15 and 17 Broadway. Mr. Op- dyke presided, and as chairman of the Committee on Currency presented a report inclading a memorial to . Congress, The memorial claims that convertible pa- por is equal to coingrhen issued only to the amount pecessarily required for trade, but that inconvertible paper is injurious, inasmuch as itis issued at the ca- price of the government, The present volume of in- convertible paper was found to be only a Httle in ad- vance of the rate per capita as it existed before the war, through which the currency was greatly inflated; but a return to epecie payments, aithough much to be desired, would be disadvantageous unless the govern- ment had at least $150,000, 000 in gold in ite vaults. As this amonnt is not in the vaults by at least two-thirds, resumption = in woul be impractica- bie, as the drain of gold from this -coun- try is much greater than the import of foreign goid. The report recommends that Treasury Department «add $10,000,000 annually to its gold reserve, and that tho national banks be compelled Wo retain all gold received by way of interest; that the act providing for resumption on Junuary 1,' 1879, be repealed; that iqueeabacke tothe extent of eighty per cept be issued fp the place of national bank notes with- drawn trom circulation ; that $5,000,000 worth of United States bonds, Lesa ghd per cent interest, be author- ized, to be convertible at pleasure into legal tender notes; that the national banks of New York be clothed with power to establish a uniform rate of discount and to chauge the rate whon deemed necessary; that the np issue of the legal tender notes and the present National Currency act remain unchanged until the market value of the legal tendér note substantially equals that of coin. The adoption of these recommen- dations will, it is claimed, restore confidence and re- move fear of future financial trouble; will give more elasticity to currency, and firally lead to resumption ata time when it will be beneficial to the commercial interesta. The report of the Committee on Postal Rates was exceedingly voluminoza It claimed that the discrimi- bation beiween the rates on articles of printed matter and other articles was very injurious. It was stated that “tor the promotion of the general business of the country bulbs, cuttings and samples of merchandise shall be carriea at as low rates as sample copies of books and printed maiter,’’ but not at such a rate as would impose a tax on the people jor such trangporta- tion. The report recommends that first class matter should remain unchanged; second class matter should comprise ores, minerals, jewelry, seods, teas, ir, third class matter to consist of books, maps and other WEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, I876“WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE CRAMMED CARS. SUGGESTED. To tim Rorroz or ras Henalp:— Your efforts to secure comfort for the patrons of street cars entitle you to the thanks of a suffering com- munity, and will, I trust, be attended with success, I ‘waut to call your attention to another imposition upon | the travelling public. The trains of tho Harlem and New Haven railroads are supposed to start from Forty- second street, but, in fact, start about four blocks further up town, all passengers being obliged to walk avout 900 feet to reach the cars, which stand near the bs gd entrance of the depot in order tbat the smoke of the locomotives may not injure the beautiful build- a? As the Reng ery will not allow any but ticket holders to enter, frail women returning heavily laden with shepetnt spoils, and invalids, however feeble, are deprived of their escorts at the wicket gate. and, as no substitutes are provided, have to take the weary walk alone or depend upon chance courtesy of fellow —— Many instances of hardship could be cited, at I forbear. I once ventured to s$ to the super- intendent a simple remedy, but no attention has been paidto lt, I proposed that the track nearest Forty- second street be raised a few inches above the grade, 80 that be bangs upon opening the brakes, would run by gravitation to the other e1 where the jocomotive could be attached, The time, temper, and strength Of the passengers, and the beauty of the building, would, by this arrangement, be charmingly conserv: New Yor, Feb. 1, 1876, ERCHANT, THE RIGHTS OF CITY RAILROADS. To rug Eprror ov rns HERALD:— Interested In your statements of the rights and duties of our city railways under their charters ami the law, I would on behalf of myself and others of your readers be pleased to have your opinion on the following questions, in regard to which there has been some discussion :—First, Can a city railway company legally aemand the fare from a passenger as ho enters the car, or can @ passenger refuse to pay the fare until he dosires to get out? Second, Can a conductor, act- ing for a company, eject a passenger who tenders a bill fora larger amount than the conductor can or will change, and refuse any other method of payment, or muust he carry the passenger as far as he desires to go without payment? , EQUITY. Nuw Youx, Feb. 1, 1876. A PLEA FOR STEAM ENGINES. To tag Epitor or tax HxraLp:— ‘All horse car riding pooplo in America, and “there's millions” of them, will feel most grateful for your just ‘warfare against the extortion and abuse of the horse railroad corporations. Bus the people are much to | to pass over a smal} portion of the Battery, which was | | they claim the right of way through the Battery. They | ing to about $10,000 | for the year 1876:—Support printed matter not rogularly tssued, with the rate of ne cent for two ounces, and fourth class matter to consist of newspapers atthe rate of one cent for four ounces, It 1s believed that these rates would make the department self-sustaining. If cach class was made to pay its own way written correspondence might bo re- duced from three to two cents. Among those who participated in the discussion were Peter Cooper, FE. &, Sanford, of the Adams Express Company; Sinclair Touscy, B. K. Bliss, W. Orton, @. B. Satterlec, G. W. Chater Clarke and P. Farrelly, of the Amorican News Company. Messrs. Opdyke, Orton, Toueey, Satterlee and Clarke were clected as a delega- tion to present the currency memorial to’ Congress, and Messrs. Farrelly, Clarke and Bliss were elected to convey the postal memorial. PSs CES EE a THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. The Executive Committee of the National Board of Trade will hold a mecting in Washington on the 8th inst. to decide when and where the annual meeting of the board will take place, The delegation appointed to represent the Produce Exchange of this city, of which Mr. Franklin Edson is chairman, have requested tho Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade of New York, the Importers and Grocers’ Board of Trade the Choap Transportation Company to unite with them in inviting the National Board to meet in New York. blame for the growth of this abuse. A iady said to me to-day that she ‘“‘would prefer to stand and hang by the straps than to bo left om the corner waiting for another car, and that it would be very wrong not to allow a person to enter a car merely because there were no vacant seats for a person who felt satisfied to stand up.’’ Multitudes of people feel thus when in haste, and so have aided in the growth of the injustice we suffer, But the railroad companies claim that they cannot carry any more passengers than they now do during the busy bours—that cars leave their depots every two or three minutes, and that they can do no better, even if they would. My con- viction bas long been that the only rescue from all the trouble is to use steam engines appiied to larger cars, to be drawn on the present tracks, abuse of horses and drivers and conductors the way — are pow managed, A law should bo passed ing mak ita crime to work conductors and drivers over | tem hours. needs. Hence | urge that steam power should be tried now on all the great routes of this city. There is no need of inpre elevated railroads, if on the roads now Duilt they will at once apply steam power and draw double deck cars far more rapidly than horses now travel, Put an engine like the new ones on the Ele- | vated Railroad in Greenwich street, on the Fourth The Importers and Grocers’ Board of Trade have re- | avenue road, and draw four cars, and put covered seats | ferred the matter to a commistee, with power to assént | on charging three cents for outside and five cents or dissent to the for imside seats as far as Harlem, Inside mentioned view t seats will hold twentytwo persons, and probable that th outside ones twenty. Four cars of this kind, propelled by steam, would convey comfort and speed 168 persons to Hariem or to the Grand Central depot, and produce for fares §6 80 foreach trip, not counting any way passengers. The cars can be made much larger, 60 that two cars would carry the passen- gers of four. Let the experiment be mow triod. We have been ac- eustomed to the swiftest trains passing Fourth avenue, through Harlem, for years, and no one thought that horses should be used to draw those trains. Horses become Koon accustomed to a steam engine drawing a train. The new engines of the Elevated road make but Nttle noise and scarcely any smoke, and the engineer can stop atrain as quickly as when horses are used. People are so accustomed to stand when they cannot find soats that very many would complain at being It was inoyed that, inasmuch as the council advocate | obliged to watt fora car pot full, Henge law should the reduction of tax on domestic spirits to fifty cents | be passed preventing pcople ling—making per gallon, that they consistently recommend to Con- | {t a punishable offence to tal any per- gress the reduction of duty on mpported spirits to $1, | son wl cannotsi The ‘no seat no fare!” and that the time for such spirits to remain u bond be | cry wil! only partially reheve, for too many people will extended to at least three years. The motion was re- | profer to stand and pay than uot ride when they wish ferred to the Legislative Committee. to. The companies are not ‘now compelled to put on WINE AND SPIRIT TRADERS. The council of the Wine and Spirit Traders’ Society met yesterday afternoon. Acireular letter addressed to the trode, drafted by | the special committee appointed for the purpose of | suggesting to Congress amendments to the existing Tnvernal Revenue lawe, so far as they relate to the taxing of distilled spirits and explanatory of “sach | amendments, was then rcad and accepted. On motion | it was ordered that copies of said letter be printed for | distribution to the trade. ed more cars, and hence it would be their revenge to put ‘THE INCREASED ELEVATING RATES, | © the non-paying passengers and not put on more cars, 60 as to drive the pegs to terms. nee let a law be passed forcing the railroad companies to use Messrs. Hughes, Hickox & Co. sold Messra Marsh, | steam applied to larger cars, and then draw three or White & Co, 2,800 bushels of grain a few eays ago and { peor of few Keopleebnsge now be bad goes tented : | along, overloaded with weary, standing, crusho 3 charged the increased rate of three-quarters of a cent | sengers. The Third and Kighth avenue lines should be per bushel for weighing and elevating. Marsh, While permitted to ay soather track for fast trains, stopping & Co, refused to pay the additional quarter of a cent, | only occasionally, Let poor men who are infirm be vi beast cor- whereupon the sellers appealed to the Board of Man: | employed as guards at every block, for it would be | lots, each 25.2 by 100, on Fifth avenue, nort ; agers of the: Produce Reemange for a decision in the pee Vor: 0 bole. & dabger for | ner LF cna Roary i yee” acl ae a is case, After both sides of the case had been fully stated | fast passing trains. I do not mean lightning | $40,000 to Josiah Jox, for $9,850 0 gage, the managers rendered the following decision, which establishes a precedent on the question which has | hour, The people no longer avold, but, on the con- caused s0 much comment among the members of the | trary, seek, the railroad tracks, for they find it easter recently :—That inasmuch as nothing was | tor loaded wagons. regard to any special rate until after the conclu- | up the cry of “No seat no fare.’ Unless you do so the railroad corporations will still continue to order their conductors to cry:— x said in sion of the trade, the buyers must take the grain at the customary rates of weighing and elevation which are one-half cent per bushel each, “A boff trip slip for a three-cent fare,” ny he apt Syd tor the pessenaste " 7 0) @ six-cen! “ig DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. ‘fislno matter If there lsno alr “A blue trip slip for an eight cent fare,” Puneb! punch! panch! the ps re! Give your money or give your buir, Ifyou can’t sit down then hang up there! For you are only @ passongore. w. FP. Arcgular meeting of the Commissioners of Public Parks was held yesterday morning at ten o'clock. A communication was received from Mr. Whitey, the Corporation Counsel, who gave his opinion in regard tothe Battery extension of the Elevated Railway. He said that the Board could grant the company the right CLASS STREET CARS, To Tae Epiror or tHe Hwraip:— Permit me to correct an error in my letter published in the Heratp of the 27th ult., om@rst and second class strect cars for New York city. In suggesting the rate of fare to be charged on first class cars, I put it at eights cents to Fifty-ninth street and ten cents to Har- wished to notify tue Board of their rights in the | lg | lem, instead of ten cents to Fifty-ninth street and ten wes, They say that if the power to extend their line is | cents to Harlem, as my letter was published. A charge given to the Elevated Railway Company it will in- | of ten cents fare for any distance rode might be too fringe upon their rights. } Tires Hids wore reccived for the priviloge of making | high, and an objection defeating the jreposed system | or plan. A majority of New Yorkers would be new uniforme for the Park police, The Counsel of the Corporation was instracted to | willing and able to pay the oxtra two or three cents acquire title to Westchester avenue, between the town | fare to Fifty-ninth streot and four eepés to Harlem for of Morrisania and the Bronx River, and also to Morris | g comfortable scat ina ‘first class car,” and many of avenue, between Third avenue and 156th street, for tho | the so-culled -poor and people ip muderate circum- stances would avail themselves of the benellts of the purpose of opening those strecte, | The Commussioners directed specifications for laying | grst class cars. Tho suggestion that this system would rednce the second class curs to the level of hogpens it | out the hydraulic concrete for paving the City Hull | Park should be made. ‘The work tg to be done by con- | tract The sidewalk along: Chambers street must be all | paved with it, and a central strip must be laid in each | of the other Walks of the park as far as the money that has been appropriated for that parpose will go, amount- | formerly a strip of land covered by high water, About | the other parts of the Battery bis opiuion has not yet | been handed in. A copy of a decree in a certain suit | of the New York City Central Underground Railway was served by them upon the Commissioners, in which be nearor cars for the transporiation of swine than they now are, and by some rogalations and laws compélling the companies to run a saflicient number of second class cars to prevent ‘packing,’ and affording at lenst standing room, they might be made more comfortable, healthy and decent than they now are, and thus accommodate better those in moderate circumstances and the very poor, and un- i The rest of the meeting was occupied with merely | routine business, COMMISSIONERS OF DOCKS. The above Board held their regular stated meeting | yesterday afternoon, all the membors present, t would be practicable. The plan of faroshing ever, A communication was received from the Hoboken | pasyenger with a soat at a uniform rate of fare. seems Ferry Company asking permission to place a fog bell | to me quite difficult, as thero aro hours in the on the French steamship dock, one pier belowChris- | Orming and evening when the tracks, with resent low o topher strest ferry, owing to the fact that the bell | @% niadeuncor, woald me"? accom ton cannot be heart from their slip or ferry house in con- | guM@cient to furnich all with seats, as it would require sequence of the high sheds of the two wharfs adjoining. | nearly threo times the number of cars at present u! ‘The same was referred to the Chief Engincor, to seat all passengess, und at the City Hally where so The Board denied the request made by the New | many diiferomt lines terminate, there would be more England Gaslight Company to grant them a pier to | or jess of a blocka dy pian was not to “perfect the erect one of their illuminating dock lights. They also | gtrect car system,” bot to relove all classes in a meas. seat before the car was up town, and through the crowded portion of the city, where there is so much jamping off and on to ride short “distances, this plan rejected the proposal of the New York and Brooklyn | ure until such time as we may. secure clevated rapid Ferry Company to grant them a lease of tne Grand | transit; and it sooms to be porn fey well understood new Strect terry slips at $1,000 per annum for ten years | that we shall not have any complete cure for the diff. The Treasurer reported a little over $957,000 on ‘hand, | culty until rapid transit is accomplished. Under the proposed ystem of first and second class after which the Board adjourned, cars the present cars used would be utilized, and could be made comfortable as second class MUNICIPAL NOTES. | ears, while a new first closs car could bo turned out at " ” | about the same cost as the present car used; liga ‘The protest of the “Hump” Uoesinon Coanell t© | cies, wall ‘ventilated and ited alter the Improv. Comptroller Green against paying salaries of the Board | pian (so that reading would te in order), of Aldermen and attachés, has had its effect. On ap- | red, with division s nd to cwrry only @ specified piying for warrants yesterday some of the City Hall | Mumber, seated: wherca ofiicials were inform | car syetem would neces: ate the building of all new they could not be paid for a or two until the Comptroller had ‘cae 1b esomtee qin agg Be dean ps i gore | ee @, with the — prospect. "of fapid | transit A meeting ot the Board of Aldermen will be neld this afternoon, Patrick Maguire, one of the attachés of the Com- mon Council, has been removed by Mr. Toomey, chief clerk, THE HOUSE OF DETENTION. Commissiongrs Smith and Wheeler, of the Police j Board, paid an official visit to the House of Detention | yesterday to see what repairs, if any, were necossary io render the place mofo comfortable for witnesses. Certain alterations will } obably be made in the in- terior of the building be om JERSEY CITY'S ANNUAL BUDGET. The following appropriations have been made for ex- penditures by the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City of outdoor poor, $12,000; , and the consequent withdrawal ot | from the street cars, the companies would wh toa 40 es ny such change or plan for the benedt of the public, and any bill introduced for such purpose would Legislature. What, then, must be done for rehef? Some plan must be presented that can be enforced oF that will not arouse the strenuous opposition of the companies, aud tho plan of furnishing a numbor of first class cars would bd the least expensive, and, by Going away with the conductors and substituting tho ber of the strect, Apaying investment. Lam strongly of the opinton shat @ woll regalated system of first aud second class street cars would be of great benefit to all classes of the com. munity, the regulating of which might be governed by enactments and laws. - Ww. BW. DON'T FORGET RAPID TRANSIT. To rae Epitor ov tux Merann:— inti tats 4 000; armeriei 4,000; Brine $Siets ransiag, 0" numbering. otras; | _ ToS" oolumne sem tobe open tat om the erest car 1,000;" pudlic bath, $1,200; Fourth of July, $2,000; | question, Even the “characteristic” ration Dav. £200, | i@ heard 1 don’t suppose the public care much abowt it 1a a cruel | The present tracks are sufficient for all | express trains, but trains going ten or twelve miles an | Bat until some relief comes keep | scoms to mo {8 crroncous. hey certainly could not | well uohol- | radical change in our street | elther be smothered or defeated by our incorruptible | money box and the Gnger post to indicate the num- | these cars might be mado | | | der this system nearly all passengers would secure a | the RUBEN Gf wotk & Ghdestor does for $2 The ‘Great question fs the comfort of passengers, None of your correspondents have solved the problem of how to get a seat fora and never will while horse cars railroad ocmnpanr) wowd not pre vs =A vot matters. Ai ol the peincaal ly hnes at certain times of day gain idence of the impossibility of seating all ngers wrthout making & continuous train of cars. ee or may reasonably insist on the companies running more cars than they do—say one every block—at certain mes of day, and when the seats are filled show a sign to sts effect, and leave people to their option as to g. Ifcars with double the present seating ca- acity can be had, so much the better. 1 seyome thas ‘ew Yorkers are seusible and practical. Give us some- thing practical—more cars, and of improved patterna— and in the meantime, don’t forget to push rapid tran- sik LP. HOESE RAILROADS IN JERSEY, The horse railroad agitation bas extended to nearly every city of New Jersey, and such pressure has been exercised upon members of the Legislature that Mr. Egan, of Elizabeth, has introduced a bill concerning horse railroad companies, It provides that it shall be lawful for any city, town or township to pass, amend and repeal ordinances for any of the following objects:—To regulate and prescribe the rate ot fare, provided such rate shall not ox- ceed the sum of five cents for each adult passenger; to grant licenses to, any company for cach car run or operated; to compel the payment to each city, town, &c., of a license fee for every car; to regu- late the running and operating of every railroad in Such a manner as will conduce to the wellare, comfort and convenience of the travelling public. The second section provides that it shail not be lawful for apy company to run their railroad to any township, with- out the consent of such township having been first ob- tained, anything in the charter of such company to the contrary notwithstanding. It has been heretofore the custom with railroad com- panies to proceed to the Legislature and procure char- ter priviloges, right of way andexemption from mu- nicipal taxation, ignoring entirely municipal authority. An ordinance was passed several years ago by the “| Jersey City Board of Aldermen providing that no train Fhould be ran within the city limits at a rate exccedin, ‘six miles an hour, but the raiiroad companies hay disregarded {t, and trains on the Pennsylvania Railroa dash through the most Populous sections of the city at the rate of twenty-five and even thirty miles an hour, The Jersey City and Bergen Horse Railroad Company cantinues to charge a faro of eight cents within the city limits in spite of repeated efforts te compel a_re- duction, A similar fare is exacted by the North Hud- son County Railway Company. CONVICTS’ CONSPIRACY, A BEVOLT AT THE KINGS COUNTY PENITEN- TIARY PLANNED AND FOILED. On Tuesday night two notorious characters, named Benjamin Webber, alias John Williams, agod twenty- one years, and Michael Smith, aged twenty-four years, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to effect the escape of convicts from the Kings County Pentten- tary, Both men are cx-convicts. Smith was arrested at No. 60 Canton street and Webber at No. 42 Skillman etrect, Byooklyn. While serving their time in the Penitentiary they familiarized themselves with making shoes, and upon the expiration of their terms of service as prisoners the; be 2 at their own request, retained that employment by the Bay State Shoe Manufacturing Company. A few days ago a conviet who worked in the same shop saw that Smith and Webber had knives and pistols in thelr possession, and that they were ‘ving liquor to certain other convicts. He kept a close ut Fecret watch upon the movements of his fellow prisoners, and suspected that about twenty of them were ina plot to egcay nd that their leader was one William Baker, alias “Titus,” who is uuder sentence for aterm of five years for burglary. The convict finally informed a deputy keeper of what he had learned, and Warden Shevlin at once ordered that the convicts be searched. The result of the search was that knives and jistols were found on them, and that nearly all the conspirators had gray pantaloons which they wore under their co’ vict dress, These garments had been made from their blankets and were to be unmasked when the convicts had got outside of the Penitentiary walls, The men who were implicated in the scheme were immediately laced in the ‘black cells and reduced to low dict. Phe outbreak. was originally fixed tor Monday night, but owing to the failure to perfect some detail in the arrangements the signa! agreed on was not give Depaty Keeper Conners notified the police of the Fourth precinct and the latter arrested Smith and. Webber. REAL@ESTATE SALES. Very little property was offered for sale yesterday at the Exchange. Richard V. Harnett sold, by ordor of the Court, the four story double tenement house and lot, 25 by 100.5, No, 648 West Forty-fifth street, south side, 150 feet east of Eleventh avenue, butlding 25 by 50, subjectto two mortgages—viz,, one for $6,000, to run until Jan- uary 1, 1878; and the second for $2,000, to run till April 10, 1877; to John C, Clegg, for $1,975 over the said mortgages, in all $9,975, said property being valued at $16,000, George H. Scott sold, by order of the Court, four all $49,850, said property having sold three years ago for $90,000, Pever F, Meyera sold the house and lot, 20.10 by 100.11 on East 112th strect, north side, 226.4 fee: west of avenue A, to Thomas Mackeller, for $7,200. BUSINESS TROUBLES. The affairs of the firm of Koebler & Kupfer, wholesale liquor dealers, No. 82 Broadway, which suspended recently and of which Mr, Uriah Herrmann, of No. 67 Pine street, was appointed receiver, have heen settied, Mr. David M. Kochler assumes tho debts of the firm, compromises at fifty cents on the dollar and continues the business, Mr, Kupfer retring from the firm. The liabilivies are estimated at about $100,000. Mr. Thompson J. 8. Flint, receiver of the Peekskill Iron Company, has sold some of the material at Peeks- kill, Suit has been commenced by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company to set aside the mortgages, which amount to $350,000. It ix expected that the cage will bo settled this week, after which the receiver will proceed to immediately wind up the aif ‘of the company. Schultheis & Mensing, drugs, No. 36 Water street, made an assignment yesterday to Mr. Ashbel P. Fitch, of No. 93 Nassau street, The liabilities of the firm will probably amount to $50,000; their nominal assets are much larger than this sum, buy the shrinkage in values: will reduce them nearly one-half. As the firm were ex- tersively engaged in the importation of mimeral waters and drags from Germany a large proportion of their indebteduess {8 held in Kurope, and as soon as their creditors can be heard trom it is expected that fayora- - ble arrangements will be made for a compromise. ‘The creditors of Squier Brothers, buildors, met esterday ai the office of James V. Dwight, Register in Bankruptcy, No. 7 Beckman st and after proving their clarms Mr. Joho H. Piatt, of No, 40 Wall street, was choeen assignee. The creditors of Messrs. Charles Bellows & Co. met yesterday afternoon, at the rooms of the Wi and Spirit Traders’ Society, No. 125 Poari strect, w! Mr. Bellows read a statement of the affairs of the frm, which, he said, was not perfectly accurate, but nearly so, A correct one would be presented to the creditors ag soon as jt could be made up, Before reading the statement Mr. Bellows made a few remarks, in which ho stated that his house was the successor of that of Archibaid Gracio & Co., which was established in Now York in 1626, and was the oldest in the city, He said that ten days ago he was perfectly unaware that a suspension of payment would be necessary, ana attributed his misfortane to tho general debility of trade. Everything he had, personal and real, he de- livered inte (he bands of his creditors, and hoped they * would make a careful examination of the books of the firm to show that all the dealings of the house were ty honorable. aon eleyies ts the etatement of the condition of the bouse as per balance sheet to January 1, 1579, with probable changes to February 1 January 1; total Navilities...... seenes ee $101,890 08 Of above, due to our own correspondents abroad + + QU, 941 05 Leaving Merchandise on duction of valu Sho Baujort to probable yluange 1 ae ‘merabatndie: without real and sonal property of Charies Retlows, sub to eucumbrance on real estate, ainou 10g 10...00045 os Juang secured by merchandise, se Loans secured by pleage of certiseates of 009 00 Mr. Jolin L, Beecher (of Iver, Beecher ke Co.) them moved that a committce of three be appointed by the cha Mr. ©. McK. Lovser, to rake An exuinjna. tion of the Grm’s books and roport at an adjourned meeting of creditore, to bo called when the committee are ready to report. This motion was carried, and Messrs, Buccher, Crooks (of Crooks & Reynand) and Souvene (of F. de Bang & Co.) were appoiuted 10 sare on tee Sorumaittes, . e well known Orin of provision dealors, Mosers. J. W. Boardsley & Co., No, 198 Chambers sireot, ean assignment yesterday to Barak G. Coles, A Dunano re] iF catlod mt the oflce of the firm to try to agcer- tal ause of the trouble, Dut the gentleman whom be saw stated that he preferred to say uotDiug abut ‘the matter, oxvept that the creditors will hold a moet (CONTINUBD ON NINTH PAGER.