The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1876, Page 8

DEPARTENT DUEL. ent Martin Replies to Comptroller Green, OOD WITH PRECISION. torting Facts. EL STEBBINS’ LETTER. $ Martin, of the Park Department, in con- with a Hrmatp reporter yesterday, made a ply to the charges preferred by Comptroller lished in yesteraay morning's paper. He his remarks by saying that Coniptrotier made loose charges without mentioning any that he, on the contrary, would bring for. is in reply, without making He bat Mr. Green's assertions were all Of deliberate falsehoods aud unqualified mis- ts without a fact to. substantiate them, ler Green directs i} his cominunications to President and the nt Martin, after replied in detail to Mr, Greer é charges, 1g no Db ling ngainst Comptroller Green riot the Park Commissioners, They under ply to do their wuty r the inw. They further either by one word or one Green his department. grounds, point able au On every them uh rision, and hie re dar trics to obstruct neither fats nor law to sustain & lust inelaneboly resource rsoual and tres to ity, Which overy one knows it to the Park Commis. wl ument onal auin attributing mismanaged.” Tt is J le for him tos asingle fact of such mis- emont, aud he is now, aud has been, ovenly de- pedo ik Suys “that the exy Gus positions in ke ro were d and efficient meu central Park were being for the bummers of Tatn- A great any men in the las the mechanics and foremen, years protected by Green, nd spent their time As jast as charges of dagaiust thea ¢, aud lu (hat way the among there tor Hapts at Visorganizaiion, fort were susiumed and prov been removed trom ott peut has been el ever infested a city departigent. “The m have been putin their place are men of hig acter and bet The strictest possible ch is kept over y man in the force, for the man shirks bis work, or loals aroubd 10’ or pretends any political force can , ithe is nota nan—men suspended the nv THE 8. Ho says:—'They have put im tive mon where, in Ime, Only one was found uecessury.”” On the ¢ the € nlenabee and construc number of men empl this year than for %:x years before. Mr, Green The tou #9511; 1871, 44,011; L808, $773,754. jons linfit the expenditu the number of men now employ bout 100 and on police about sev- every miuen less then the number of ed im Mir. Greeu’s time and do more et- than be ever mplisbed, He kept a to 260 and u police torce of Ny. 6 ompio clive Work CISION. y have done nothing toward for- neompleted plans.”? This is usample of Jaisehvod with precision. The department has done Je else. ‘The present administration found a legacy. uncompleted work, some of it’ wholly unuecessary Mitmuch of itreckless and extravagant. They have Ken up Chis work in the Central Park and other parks, pul rigidly contined themselves to the completion of iuished work and started vo new work, I lark, such as Riversid fin xquare, tho: nothing that was not thorized oF dir ’ On the plan of cover- py, the old Arsenal with ivy, they recognize Mr. Green thority and bave done their best to make that y grow. ie says:—“Kvery competent man in the department i Boon be removed.” I, ander this charge, Mr. jreon bas the courage to mention any names we will wet him and show the corruption, malteasance and HeoInpelency of bis partisuas, whom we have ree Ved and the superior eli and fitness of the nm whom Wwe by s He says, “The Elevated Railroad bas been permitted spoil the Battery aud cut down valanble trees.” On contrary, (he action of this departinent shows thas Mine was selected to avoid avy such destruction and uable trees. Only two trees bave been cut Were removed because they had already eh condemiied, MILITARY PARADE GROUND, Ho eays, “that the Commissioners bave been trying revive toposition of the tailitary parade ground.” ir. Groen at that tine was a Commissioner and ap- ‘oved the selection ol that site, while Mr. Martin, who fax at that time an outsider, Was opposed to, Their tion DOW is based on their sense of justice aud right, 4 is clearly stated *n their Jast action on the subject” 0a the 23d of June, is7é Re. Mr. Green says, ‘fle Commissioners have nothing to show in T mpkins square for te money «pent, and iewill take twice the money already spent to bring it back to where It wi upon tt.” Ou the weil expended contrary, tae mouey and will ‘pro spent was ail ace results that will be Lwice as that © been produced in any other square in the city, The Commissioners have to Adupt it for the purposes of a mintary parade ground and also for pablic enjoyment as a park. They are not going to tinish 1 with a plain surtace like Washington or 5 , With grass aud paths, but to give each distinct character, and fully | up to displayed im Ceatral Park. The work been Ginished last tall except for Mr, Green's opposition t creat number of patting ou a suili- sul to meet the pay- J Felis ‘They are now going on under the authority of abe Common Council’s ordinance to comptete the fork, [tis no part of their purpose to bring it back ore operations Were began upon it, the ake it for tts doubie most attract. park ie all, projected from me. r the upper part of the isiand emagated With regard to his projecting thase im provements and bis action m obstructing the work, L reserve ty statement until the report, which is now Quder preparation forthe Board of Aldermen, Is seut 1D, Which Will be, probably, this week. Mr. Green says, ‘My sympathies with the laboring inev."’ As to Mr. Green's attitude toward the laboring men in reducing their wages Mr, Btebuins, who represents Mr. Green im the Park De= parimeut, has seven times moved Wo reduce the wages, as last Wedn I have sent a letter 10 on the subject, to which he has never re- he does ne t to equivocate with the sportanity to reply. it borers thero is bi THE LETTER Hon. Axorew U Sin— Bel. of ibis this dey be the wages the rates now allowed that ation the on upon the propriety allowed tu laborers, mechanics, & The question emly bearing ieasuri taxation, Whe our province: e within oned: secondary, K should be done oy ‘done by the ¢ rate we pay, or should be paid by ihe departmeut mew as ot prim View of the ity pr tions, vor of has been wut standpoit ws the bead of the Fina you favor the redactiob, aud present your reabome for ft. Kespectiuliy, WILLIAM KR MARTLEN Presidemt Department ot Pablie Parks, COMMISHONKN STRUNG LETTER, Commission Steblius bas addressed tbe fol- Jowing totter to Cowptrotior Green iw reinion to the @iMieulties Bow pending berween the Finance and Park depariments :— New Youx, August %, 1876, Axvuew Ll. pak Sun —Norie communication fr. te we daily papers en Charged with Wilfully Dis- | kind of tivologs, | whieh he has raised | whenever anything comes | before any operations were begun | » “Al the improvements, or nearly | have always been | moment to | XEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. previously, I am led to apprehend th: supposed that they have tay approval. I thi due both to you aud to myself that I shouid state ade nor in the It ie true #! mdeavored to lay before the Board at i gs cominunications addressed to the depart- ¢ Department of Finance relating to public 1g for the sole ren pe containing them was directed to me, wanication itself aod the it may be mistakenly ti bink ment from 7 ens, but I w hat ‘the euve hough the evs velope enclosing 11 was addressed to ment of Parks { certainly de uot recognise the Justive vr propriety of any action of the Board of whieh I am member which restricts or denies | my right as # commissioner to present any communication | Upon public busiuess which Teonsider proper for the consid | eration of the Board, Those communications were, in my | opinion, courteous in tone, requested ouly such information | | a> woul guide you in she discharge of your duties imposed on you by law, 4nd evinced 4 desire on your part to adjust the tnatters tn question solely on their merits. They were entirely in aceora with the views of your duties as a public ottieer, which, to my knowledge, have marked your suce | ful administrstion of public trusts for the payt twe: Tho refusal of the Park Department to receive, conside reply w them bas been the cee in of the vers delay 2 of that departinent of which it compl iy Just that those who know your long rvices, and especially that those who, |i with you, should show (heir ws by promptly correcting wis- | We were most screeably associated for won years It un udutnistration of the Park that vmeianded the contd proval of the whe uty, and we beth piuences thet ure or destrey wi wel! etal Yours very trul: G. STRBBINS. | eon, | repr ver ti 7 So Walker street, has made an assignment for the ben | ft of bis creditors, | Mas Mdbilities, 16 is thought, wilh Teach $50,000. The ussignee of the estate of Mrs. William Moller & Sons, sugar rediners, of Wall strect, has deciared a trst dividend of twenty per cent ata meeting of the credi- tors heid belore Register Dayton, of No. U22 Broadway, Messrs, ES. & J. V. Hat have been adjudicated | bankrupts by Register Fitch, of No. 346 Broadway, The list of their creditors include many prominent wholesale dry goods houses, among them being the tol- | lowing:—H. B. Claflin & Co, $1, Alexander King | & Co, $607 34; Adriance, Robbins & Co., S24 40; L. | | Mt Bates & Co., $298 44; Amidown, Lane & Co., | $205 75; Lee, Tweedy & Co., $256 45, and Halstead, | Hatnes & Uo., $215 4 Seven creditors of Char ., dealers | tn tea, at No, 102 Water strect, buve Gied 4 petition in bankruptcy to have the tira adjudicated’ bankrupt. } The amounts of the ums of the petitioning creditors are as jollows:—Cassiy & Co, $4,210 29; Butlum & | Ca, $7,821 2 G, Cary & Co., 76 84; H.W, | Cuatietd, €1,30. ., Slav S58; Runkle | Co, $1,820 Ly; ly . $1,595 50; Reeve Osbora & Co,, $796 he aggregate amount of their | chums is $19,603 SL. | George W. Gardner, uors, at No, 1 Washington strect, has filed a voluntary ‘petition in bankruptcy. pilitice amount to $7,500, and be has ho asy A bankruptey has been tiled ag: Waiter R. Sniflen, a broker, by John Snillen, Whose claim amounts to $15,000, and by SE. Briggs, whose clann is for $5,985 US. : | Edward Wilutus and Herman Duis, grocers, at No, 26 Second uvenue, have been thrown ito bank- ruptey ou thd petition of K. C, Hazard & Co. and other creditors. lo the Court of Common Pleas thero was yesterday Med uw schedule in the aseigument made by Jacob Wol- | bach to Leopold Bambergor, The hab:lities are stated | at £64,150 51; the nominal assets, $26,041 68; uciual | assets, $12,459 76, THE ‘LONGSHOREMEN, | PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE STLIKE—THE MEN PEACEABLE AND ORDERLY. ‘The striko among the ‘longshoremen still continacs, and from present appearances it can result tn no good to the strikers. Tho number of mon engaged in it has been exaggerated, and at the outside thero are not more than 300 or 400 of them, The places they lett vacant were spoedily filled with new hands, and the | overseers are overrun with appheations for work from men of all classes, Tie men employed are principally Germang, Irish and Italians, and among them areca number whose appearance shows they are unaceus- tomed to such work, but sought it in their inability to | Gud other empioyment The piers are caretully shed by the police to guard against uny breach of ce by the strikers. There appears to be no dal xer, however, for though they gather in little groups and loiter around the piers they show no disposition to be disorderly or to interfere with tho new lavorers, Several gungs were paid off yesterday afternoon, and it was feared they would be attacked on their way home, but they leit unmolested. it is difficult to see how tho strikers can hold out or, rather, accom- plish anything by doing so. ‘They can put their em- ployers to no inconvenience, because two or three men sevk cach pluce lett vacant, and while ihe umount of lavor required remaing the same the numbers seeking it have largely increased. Besides this, the companies: havedetermined not to take back any of the strikos so, even with a disposition to return to work, they would find tt difficult to get anything to do. ' They seemingly bogin to realize that thetr elfort is a hopeless one, and many of them regret it, It appears to be only a question of a few days, when those who can will re- sume their work; but there must uecessarily be a large number who must seek other work, as it is uot hkely the new men will bo thrown out to make rooim for them. HENRY SHIELDS’ TWO WIDOWS. WIFE NUMBER ONE FINDS OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF HER DOWER, Yesterday the suit of Jane Shields against tho exe ccators of the estate of the late Henry Shields came up ager, in the Kings County Supreme court, before Judge Barnard, on a motion of ex-Judge Dailly, eoun- sol for plaintiff, to compel the defendants to pay over some of the income of the estate. The case’ has been ined twice in the Supremo Court. Jane Shields claimed to have been married, according to tne Quaker | ceremony, to Henry Shields, deceased, in 1834 or 1835, In the city of Now York, her maiden name boing Val- | entine and her age sixteen years. They lived togother or thirteen years when Henry, who was then going isto business for bimself as a flour | Merchant op Broad street, ceased to visit his wile and three children which she li | ving ta Williamsburg. He pureliased a house for ber } through athird party, but did not contribute to her | support, In 1848 Henry Shields married Miss Catha- rive Lalor, by whom he had several children. He lett her the bulk of the estate, and Mrs. Catharine Snelas never knew of tho exisieuce of such a person as Ja | Valentine til the plaintul putiu her claim tor widow's | dower belore the Surrogate, the Will was pre | senied for probate. The Jegal contest was then begu | The fret trial resulted in the failure of the jury in the © LO agree as to which was the lawixl wiaow of | | Henry Suields, whose estate was appraised at | $150,000. On ‘the second trial, last winter, the jary found that the = plantil as othe wite of | Hewry Shields, and as such was entitled | to adower interest im the esta On June 18 judg. inent was entered and it was tinally stipulated by buch | parties that defendants should pay Mrs Jane Shields | | $10,000 1m cash in tiew of dower awd $1,250 for costs, | Subsequentiy the plato! repudiated this agreement, Yesterday def ndants’ counsel opposed the motion to ent of some of the income of the | pat plaintiff made a subsequent pro- seltic the case on condition that Jane Shu a house worth $7,000 on Henry street, $6,250 | | for counsel fers and 2,000 cash. ‘his proposition was | rejected. Counsel for’ Mra Catharine Shields asked | that counsel for plainuif be coimpelled to receive « no- | tice of appeal and that a stay of proceedings be granted. | | Defendants’ motion was granted und the motion of | plaintif’s counsel denied, KINGS COUNIY SUPERVISORS, No * RepucTION Ov SALARIES—-THE NEW UTRECHT COURT HOUSE JOB AND THE | FARMERS. | Sheriif, to show cause, | compelled to give banl for ber apy At @ special mecting of the Kings county Board of Supervisors, beld yesterday afternoon, a veto message was reeeived irom Supervisor-at-Large James Howell withhoding bis approval of the resolution recently passed by the Board, which bas a republican majority, Proposing to reduee the salaries ¢f certain county | officers, deputies and subordinates in the employ of the | Board of Supervisors Mr. Howell, in his message, | says that tt is a purely political partisan measure, and was carried through under the cover of retorm, the r As to | action which It would oflect in the burdens of | The | t not @ snare, | county taxes, it was a delusion, | Board had wot the power’ to reduce the salary | of the District Avorney, from whose income | 1t was proposed to deduct $3,200, They hat not the power to reduce the salary of the Supreme Court ste. | | nographer, though the resoiution contemplated a sav. tng of $178 om that em, Every person whose. saiary | | was reduced was of the party iu opposition to the re. | publican majority of the Loard of Super The entire saving, if elected, would amouns to but $7 or tree cents on every $1,000 Valuation of Kings | county property. He was not in trver of cutting down the lower grades of salaries, bul would by reduc. | ing tue salaries of the highest oiicers, 15 system $200,000 per year could be saved to tue evunty wreible language, denounced | hveratic Supervisor-at- Large ves of tue republicans in the salary ro. me. The message of Sir. Howell was ordored on file. A petition, extensively ed by larmers aud tax | pmyers of the town of New Utrecht, | that the Board of supervisors wou | the threatened burden of taxation contemp | « cours Louse tu ir town, Last May ata | ction beld in New Ucrec | § a vove was taken | ing Of tne court Louse aud the assess. | Gpow the bur ment of | amount of $ surrounding property toeretor io the wheats of the measur vy great majority of those wne were not aware of the elvction (ill after the vote was announced, After considerable discussion the B rd rejected the ot paswed by the election at New urt house question, the subject belora. | petitioners’ prayer and adopted + the State Legi#iature authorizing Utreent tor the submission of tae The anti-coart house party will | Wwe Court. | cover a debt of $20: THE COURTS. A Woman's Protest Against Legal Strategy. Making the Herald “Personals” a Legal Medium. THE WARPATH. HACKMEN O As reported in the Hxgatp a few days since, Judge Goepp, of the Marine Court, granted an attachment to bring before the court for contempt of its jurisdiction a Mra, Taylor who keeps a boarding house in this city. The alleged contempt consisted in the lady not having appeared in court in obedience to an order supple- mentary to judgment, Yesterday the lady appeared before the court in tho nominal custody of a Depaty through counsel, why she should not be puvished for contempt, Her counsel presented affidavits of Mrs. Taylor and other parties im her house to the effect that no proper service of the order bad been made upon her; that notwithstanding the ailidavit of the plaintill’s boy whe served the order, he did not show her the original atthe time of service, nor did he call ber attention to the Judgo’s signature thereon; that all he did was lo appear at ber dyor, at the suine Ume that 4 gentleman Was entering, and thrust a small package into ber haad, ted to the botiow of which, alter the boy bad left, she found the copy of the order; thateven then sbe Was Willing to appear but was advised by her counsel that she need as no proper service had been made upon her, Her alement a6 to the mubnerin which “the package | was handed to her was contirmed by two other witnesses ip the house, and that yo origmal was ghown her, and her counsel coutirme Fr statement that she acted uader bis advice tu Dot apy img. At this point Judge Sheridan, who occupied the Beneh, c@led attention Of counsel to the fact that (he attachment was issued by Judge Goepp, and being to punish for con- tempt, according to the practice, proceedings to purge the party of tue contempt should be before the same Judge who issued it, He theretore would not hear the case further, Counsel for Mrs, Taylor then inquired When Judge Goepp would be on the bench, To tind this out, Judge Sheridan rephed, counsel would have to put himself tu communication with Judge Geepp, who 18 in the country, Counsel then said that Mrs. Taylor, his choent, Was aresident of this ciyfor many years and u houseboider under a large rent, aud requested that sue be allowed to remain to bis (counsel's) nomi- nat custody until Judge Goepp’s return, Judge Sheridan asked plaints counsel, what objec- tion there Was to that, to whieh the latter replied that there were several objections, among them that the defendant, as he believed, was disposed to dely the laws of both God and man, Ho wanted that she be vunce, Judge Sheridan—Let her give ball, then. ‘, partic- thereupon retired irom court in the direction of the Sherilf’s office, Mrs. Taytor, the de- iendant, large, motherly and benign of countenance, looking far too substaatial to avoid aby responsibility which could arise [rom so commonplice an affair as un unpaid butcher's bill. THE HERALD “PERSONALS.” A decision on a motion to compel the Union Dime Savings Bank to pay over to William H. Belden a cer- tain portion of a deposit of $390 59 standing to the credit of Hannah Osterhoudt on its books was yesterday given by Judge Goepp. It uppeurs, trom the papers sub- iutted to the Court in the case, that in September, 1867, @ joint account was opened in the bank to the credit of Hannah Osterhoudt and Bernard MeAncrny, which ac- count continued down to the latter part of the year 1874, when tho lust draft was made, leaving a balance on deposit of $890 69, Of these drafts a portioe were made by Hanuuh Osterhoudt, to the extent of over $1,500. Iu May, 1876, William H. Belden obtained a Juugmont against Hannah Osterhoudt to the oxtent of several hundred doliars, und on the same day sue xave uotice to the bank that her deposit book had been lost. The bank now submits to the Court the question whether it 18 safe im paying over on account of the judgment against Hannah Osterhoudt any portion of these joint deposits, as the bank ollicials cannot distinctly say how inuch of the money in their hands belongs to the judgment debtor and how much to her covepositor, McAnorny. The lady in the case, it is claimed, cannot be found since threo weeks past, und her co-depositor and alleged former admirer is somewhere sailing “the salt seas over.” In deciding the motion Judge Goepp said:—“I have no doubt, upon the facts shown, this (und cag be appro- priated to the Joint property, Kit er joiut tenant may alien it volun- tirily, dnd alienation by either may ve Compelloa by the creditor of either, There being no partnership, there are no conflicting equities between partnership and individual creditors, But notice should be given to the Judgment debtor if possible. Let the plainuif advortise once a week for three successive weeks in the “Personal” column of the New York Hxrap, Hannah Usterhoudt is required to report to the Marine Court in New York city.” The present appli- cation tnay be renewed at the close of one week atter tho uato of the third publication, Proceedings to stand adyourned 10 the meantime. COMPLAINING HACKMEN, The hackmen do not relish the restraint exercised by tho police upon their efforts to secure passengers upon the arrival of trains at the Grand Central depot. Under tho present regulations the kuights of the whip are not allowed to enter the building, and, im fact, bave to keep outside the curbstone, Thinking this an unjust and arbitrary rule, they have determined to bring tho matter to a legal test. Ernest McDonald, a member of the Hackmen’s Drivers’ Association, having yesterday trespassed tnside the forbidden lines, was arrested and taken before Justice Wandell, who fined bim $10. the charge beimg tue violation of a city ordinance regarding hackmen. A, tion was nado to Judge J. ¥. Daly, holding Special Term of tue Court of Common Pleas, for a writ of habeas corpus, which was made return able to-day, when the facts of the controversy and the law governing the same will be fully discussed, THIRD AVENUE SAVINGS BANK. Asuit relating to the aflairs of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, and which prove the piobeor te humerous others of the same sort, has been commenced by Mr. Horatio F. Averill, of this city, as attorney for Leonard Ellis & Co, The suit ws brought against Danicl Bates as a trustee of the Bunk to recover $50 ig the Third District Court. It is ¢laimed in the com- Ra that while Bates was a trostee of the bank, and had Knowledge of thd bank's insolvency, he induced plainuits to open av account in the bank; that they did open such ab account Ww theextent of $750, of which sum $50 remained in the bank atthe time of its fuil- ure, aod sUU remains uapad, This $50 piainufs claim they have lost through the fraudulent tisrepresenta- tons of defendant, and they seck to bold him respon- sible xccordingly, The summons in tho case 13 return. avlo on the 11th inst, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. In the inst ‘ring’? suit brought against Jobn O'Don- nell, already published in the Hxnanp, a notice ot lis pendons was yesterday filed in the office of the County Clerk against property claimed to velong \o defendant, Several days since, reported at the time in the Heratv, Judge Westbrovok granted a temporary in- junction on application of Corporation Counsel Whit- vey, aguinst District Attorney Britton, of Kings coi Cuarles Jordan, and others, restraining them {rom interfering with the action of the Street Cleaning Bureau of the Police Department of this city trom the duimping of garbage 1m the lower bay, This injunction was mude returnable yesterda dl waa expected to pe urgued belore Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, bat was adjourned to the 14th inst, to ac- commouate counsel Joun Frederick, in asuitin the Marine Coart to re- an order of arrest againat the latter ou the ground th the credit was obtained by misrepresentations as to his uipercial responsibility, Yesterday, in granting a motion to Vacate the ordor of arrest on the ground that the representations oever had beeu made, Judge Goepp rred to this class of representations in language as yws—While on the one hand buyers trequentiy make (aise representations to obtain credit, merchauts are also prone to sell without close juquiry, and when become dificult’ bethink themselves of ations which woud otherwise not have been heard of When @ seller pushes his researc! no further Yuan to elicit an assertion that the customer ts worth a certyin amount of money, without either writtug or witnesses, ne bas hunself to blame if the customer afterward releases nimsell trom arrest by swearing that he did not make the assertions,” COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, Before Recorder Hackett, OPENING OF THR AUGUST TERM, urt opened at eleven o'clock yesterday morn- This | ing tor the month of August, Recorder Hackett on the hb. AS soon as the Grand Jury was empaneped, of wiieh Mr. Thomas Palea was appointed foreman, the Recorder proceeded to deliver bis charge, in which ho (ook occasion to again speak of the miserable accom- vodation provided tor tie Court of General Sessions the city autuorities Two of the judges tad dy Leeuw prostrated from baving been compelied to continuously, dunng the past two mouths, the polsovous atmosphere, and be bimsell, though be bad been on « vacation for u mouth, did Bot yet feel fally recuperated. Io fact, when he w he discovered that Le weighed forty pounds lea than be did & short time belore, “In iact, geutiemen,”’ said the Kecorder, “the present court room te a public nuisance aud ought vo be abated." The Recerder aise told the Grand Jury Wat the caiendar for the present month was a very heavy one aud the character of the cases such as to call forth « very patient investigation, DISHONEST PORTER, Tho firat case placed om trial was that of Henry Lerstel, who was aceused of breakisd open the trank of tnba ayment of the debt. The money is | against Ludwig Sebacn, obtained | William Thompson and stealing therefrom wearing &pparel vaiued at $120 Some time ago Thompson w: Stopping at a hotel at No. 47 Bowery, where Lerstel was porter, He left the hotel for a tew days, and when he returned he found his clothing gone and Henry Lerstel also. Lerstel was subsequently arrested in Philadelphia with some shirts belonging to Thompson on bis person, The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, and the Recorder seston him to two yearaand six months at hard r THE YOUNG AND THE OLD. A Nttle girl named Ano Reilly, thirteen years of ago, and Mary Ann Hagan, a gray haired woman about sixty-five, were jointly placed on trial for grand larceny and receiving stolen goode. John Coney, a butcher, doing business at No, 101 Frankfort street, testitied that on the 22d of June-be leita package containing $175 tn bills on the counter while be wont outside the door for a few moments. There was po one in tho shop at the time bat the Iitle girl, Ann Reilly, Shortly after bia return he missed the money. Later 4p the day hoe procured the arrest of Ann Reilly, and sbe acknowledged having taken the money, but sad she became afraid and gave the money to Mrs. Hagan, who toid ber she would bring 1tto the butcher. Tho following day Mary Ann Hagan was arrested, and was tried yesterday ior receiving swien She deniod having received the money, but her stuto- ments about 16 were 80 contradictory (one of them be- ing that sho wagin Jersey at the time of her arrest, which took place in New York) that the jury found her guilty, as they did also Ann Keilly on ber own conies- sion. Recorder Hackott committed the latter to the Cathohe Provectory and Mary Ann Hagan to Stato Prison tor one yoar. ASSAULT AND BATTERY. On the 10th of July Peter W. Ratt, of No. 278 Broome Strevt, and Joseph Gratfol, of No, 212 Forsyth street, had an altercation iu Broome atrect, near Alleu, and Ratt was stabbed in the shoulder by Graifel Graftel was placed on trial for felonious assault aud batiory Yesterday, and, after hearing the evidence of the com- Plainant and defendant, the jury dound the prisoner guilty of simpic assault and battery. He waa sen- touced to one year in the Peulteutiary. AN EARLY BIRD. Patrick Roche. a boy fitteen yeurs of age, was com- mitted by Recorder Hackett yesterday to the Peniten- tary for five years, having been found guilty of bar- Glary in the second degree, At ive o'clock on the mornmg of the 7th of July Officer Donovan arrested Roche and another voy as they were running through East Eighty-tourth street In the possessivn of the other boy was jound @ part of a cage and & canary bird, be- louging to Mrs. Frederick Becker, of No 249 East E1ghty-secoud street, whose place had been broken into Uhat morning. Roche's companion is now in the House of Retuge, und young Roche bas been out of the samo institution but two weeks. As he had been arrested twice betore ior larceny the Recorder thought it neces- sary to place him under severe discipline, PLEAS AND SENTENCES. Annie Saunders entered a plea of guilly ona charge of grand larceny, and was sentonced to the Siate Prison for five ycars, Henry Blezord pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, and was sentenced to six mouths in the Penitentiary. Henry C. Nelson and Joseph Quinn were sent to tho State Prison for three years for burglary from the store of Patrick Harrigan, on Third avenue. Archibald Brown, who’ was convicted, last term, of grant larceny, was sent to tho State Prison for two years, James Kelty pleaded guilty to erand larceny from the person of Joshua Lawrence, Sentenced to State Prisun for three years, DECISIONS. BUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Westbrook, Tho Park Bank vs. Plat. —Memorandum, MABINE COURT— CHAMBERS, By Judge Sheridan, Batler vs, Hardonbrook. —Urder denying motion, Schwartz va Harlem ot al.—Order appomting Her- mau Hahlo receiver. Leece vs, Grinnell.—Order opening default, Friedman et al. vs. Meyer.—Order tor judgment. ment, &c. Black va. Evans, —Order denying motion granted. property. Harris vs, Strickland.—Order for plaintiff to deposit money with clerk, &c. Rooney vs. Trask; The Penbryn Slate Company vs. Meyer; Ablowich et al. vs, Wemberg; Macomber va. Harlem et al.; Hawthorne, Jr., vs. Hunter; Maxwell vs, Hall et al; The Bigelow Biue Stone Company va. Same; Jacoby ct al. vs. Mayer. —Orders signed, ‘By Judge Goepp. Frederick vs. Labach,—Motion costs, See indorsement Lynam et al vs Reilly.—Motion dented with $10 costs. : Be!l ve, Rhodes, —Motion deniod without costa. See opinion filed. Belden va. Osterhoudt.—Sce opinion tiled, Castnor, Jr., et al vs. Gartner et al.—See opinion filed. Richard ot al vs, Boller.—Motion denied with $10 costs, Opinion tiled, ‘ COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Cuamnens—Held by Judge Dono- ‘anted without hbue.—Nos. 10, 44, 50, 61, 36, 8%, 91, ‘93, 97, 100, 1U2, 194, 107, 115, 121, 180, 131, 141, 153, 173, 174,’ 186, 18%, 191, 193, 205, 210, 226, 230, 432, 238, 240, 247) 248, 250, Couxk? oF GENERAL SEssions,—Held before Recorder Hackett.—The People ve. Willam Conklin, robbery; Same ve. Timothy Quinian, burglary; Same vs, Alex- ander Wilson, burglary; Same vs, Maggie Kinsley, bure glary; Same vs, Remembrance K. Knowlton, burgiary; Same vs. James Haley and James O’Brien,’ burglary } Same vs. Louis Warron, talse pretences; Same vs. George Rogers, gambling; Same vs. Richard Fernun- dez, gambling; Same va. John Brennan, petit larceny ; Same vs. Martin Sullivan Archibald White, and Louis Brown, grand larceny; Same vs, Morris Hyman and Julius Crane, arson POLICE COURT NOTEs. Atthe Fitty-sevonth Street Court, yesterday, Ellen Maloney, of No, 411 Second avenue, was churged with striking her next door neighbor, Ellen Fitzgerald, oa the head witha Jid lifter, cutting asevere gash. It was the usual tencment house quarrel, and Judge Wan- dell summarily disposed of the case by fining Mrs. M. loney $9. In the Tombs Police Court, yesterday afternoon, Jo- seph Howell was held for trial by Judge Murray tor burglary, im forcing an entrance to the residence of Charles Reincg, at No. 7 Spring street, and stealing $70 worth of clothing. Jerome Fuerth was held for trial by Justice Murray ,on a charge of obtaming $78 53 worth of cigars trom Frank Brothers, wholesale cigar dealers at No. 34 Beaver street, by means of a forged order purporting to come from his father, Nicholas French, a tatlor of No, 20 Oak street, was held tor trial ona charge of pawning $60 worth of coats which he had received trom a Broadway cloth- ing bouse to make and afterward selling the tickets lor the property. Jobn Gordon, aged twonty-three yeurs, of No. 217 Rivington street, one of tue men who were arresied on night by Udicer Morris, of the First precinct, of carrying off $4,000 worth of tobacco irom the bounded warehouse of Samuel Carey & Co., at No. wv Marketield street, was again brought betore Justice Murray, inthe Tombs Police Court, yesterdsy, and committed for examivation tu-day at two o’ciock P.M. Colonel James H. Biood, the reputed husband of Victoria C, Woodhull, appeared betore Justice F. Sher- man Smith at the Washington Piace Court yesterday alternoon and obtaiwed a warrant for the arrest of Josoph Treat, % medical practitioner, on u charge of libel in reterence to the careers of Sines, Wood- bull and Ciatiin, The subject watter of the com. plant is of o nature unfit’ for publication, The warrant was piaced in the hands of ser- geant Bergholz and Otticer Pieming, of the Court squad, who yesterday alternoon arrested Treat at tis piace of business, No, 18 Bond siroe. The prisouer was jocked up in the Filteenth precinct to await tis Qrraignment at the police court this mormng During ap tulerview with a Hkkacp reporter, yesterday even- ing, Treat said that although was not a graduate of any recoguized ‘medical cytlege he was wholly en- GAKed In the pursuit of medical science. He claimed that the alicgations contained in bis published pam- phiets were true, aud that be published them tn the in- | terest of public decency, Theodore Cardinal, of No, 516 Broome street, fell asleep on a bench jy Union Square Park yesterd morning, and James Lyons, aged nineteen, of No, East Niveteeutn street, and another mau, after kuock- Ing Lim down, stile $9 trom his vest pockek Lyous Was arrested by Ullicer Coen, of the fwenty-seventu preeiet, aud ou being arragued defore Justice Smith, atthe Wastington Place Court, yesterday, he was heid for trial in detwult of $1,600 bail While William Murray, of No, 448 West Thirty-sev- euth street, was waiking past the corner of Thirty- fourth street and Eighth avenue yesteroay morning, he was assailed by Frank Reilly, of No. 410 West Thirty-third street, and Johu Shea, of No. 517 Seventh avenue, Who knocked him down, beat him severely aboutthe head and tace, and robbed him of bis gold watch and chaiv, valued at $140 The rullians were ar- Tesied by Oilicer Giuss, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, and on being arraigned betore Justice Smith, at whe Washington Place Court, yesterday, were eld foc trial in default of $3,000 bail exch. On Sunday @ party of geutiemen and ladies visiting War Rockaway lured batiing ouse Na 71 irom Mn Jobn Clark, manuger of the Neptune House, and de- posited $700 worth of joweiry with hin for sate keep ing. A thief, uoder the pretence of being of the party, obtamed the jewelry auu tled. Yesterday de- Nectives Ferris anu Williamson, of the Central Onlee, arrested Tommy Moore, « notorious pickpocket and eak thief, io Park Row, ay being the man who stule the jewels. On being arraigned vetore Justice Smith, at the Washington Viace Court, yestorday, Moore wad remandod watil (o-day ior examination, JOHN O'DONNELL'S JUDGMENT. As the Sherifl was about selling the pictures inthe Govervor's room yesterday, to satisiy the execution on the judgment recently obtained againat the eity by Joba O'Donnell, for $9,000 tor materials furnished for Harry Genet's Court House, in the Ninth District, he Was served With an order staying all proceedines in the matter, Jobo O'Dommell had been paid lar; ey from the City Treasury during the ring rule, Comotrolier Greon was desirous of prevenune to Crocker vs. Kennedy ‘et al.—Order vacating attach. | Drayton et al. vs, Vetter,—Order to sel! perishable , | | collection of this judgment, and has used every means io bis power to effect this object. Proceedings ha’ been commenced by the People of the State of Ne York to recover about $350,000 claimed to have been fraudulently collected by O'Donnell, and an attachment has been issued against bis property, which includes this judgment. AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. EMPLOYES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. A supposed conspiracy on the part of some of the employés of the Pennsylvania Railread Company to defraud that corporation out of a large amount of mouey received through tho sale of ferry tickets at the offices of the company, at the foot of Desbrosses aud Cortlandt streets, was revealed beforo Justice Murray, inthe Tombs Police Court, yesterday. The facts in relation to the alleged attempt, as tar as could be ascer- tained, are as follows:—James Decker, a Acket col- lector at one of the terries; Goorge West, also a col- lector, and a Mr. Van Valkenberg, a ferry master, aro cbarged with lorming a combination about the latter part of May, 1875, to defraud the company ‘by the resale of terry ticketa. One of the partics is said to have sold the tickets to the passengers whieh they were required to band to the collector be. fore golng on board the bout. The latter, instead: of depositing them in a box prepared for that purpose to return them to the company, is alleged to have kept a certain number each day. In tho cross-examination of Plattner, who is the complainant in the case, yester- day, ho stated that fri the Ist of May antil Decemb v0, 1876. they had taken and resold on an average of from 140 \o 250 tickets per diem, dividing the proceeds every ovening. Ibis thought tilis conspiracy has ex- tended for many years back, and that the company bas lost neavily. ‘The case was adjourned for a further ex- amination, and the parues admitted to bail, = ATE. ‘The only sales of real estate at the Exchange Sales room yesterday were as follow: R. V. Harnott sold property, 25x100.5, on the south side of East Fifty-fourth street, 7 feet west of First avenue, for $7,000, to James A, Olwell. Also the lot, 25x1005, ddjoting, on’ the west, for $7,050, to the same purchaser, TRANSFERS. Df. w. of Madison av. Iv George Nom. 14,500 20,100 41,500 5,300 Morris av., w,8. 93.5 ttn. of Donman st, 28d ward); t. P Lynch and wife te Nom. 11th st, 8. Wit. w. of 2d av., 25 Fox wo \ P. Nom. Clift s8.,.0, Clara’ Dee! 1,100 Water st (No. wife to Brooklyn Bridge Company 15,400 30th st., 8. 8, 180.8 f. @. of Bd ay., 16,8x98, Winsiow to S. Hi. Tyug, Jr. Nom, 3.4x100; J. J. Freeman, refore Hudson #t, to Green to G. T, Codi 7,000 & 8, 20 w. of 2d w n Broock, referee, to J. Rundolph 18,000 ste. 8 fw. of 4th ay. t . Nichol 5,600 100 fh. @. 0 ‘ 15,000 Wost Washington squaro land to T, Egleston; J. 1,875 MoietcaGEs, ma Anmatt, Geerge and wife, to J. Anstatt, Terrace place, 23d wards 3 years 4,000 Faulkner, K. U., to German Savings Bank, 5. w. ner Worth aud Kim sts; 1 your ; Jobnson, 38, bd id wife, to w,P. Esterbrook, th st. Madi ean Mars, Frederick and wite, to P. Faullab: 130th st., between Lexington and 4th ava.; lL year, 1,000 Saul. Maciida B., to G. Hewlett, w. , of 10th av., n. of 161st st. ; 2 years 2,000 wite, to” Mutual’ Lite’ Tosurance of 40th Smith, G. B. Protestant Dutel of Sth ay Vaihter, 1 year ave Woolf, Daniel und wife, to Mutual “Life Company, 8. 5. of Madison st., w. of Clinton; surance 1 yenr.. se 5,000 Vian Alon, Wiiitim 6. and wife, to Greonwieh Sa: ings Bank, Cedar st 30,v00 MUNICIPAL NOTES, Mayor Wickbam has-signed tho ordinance providing for lighting the docks and piers of the city, The De; partment of Public Works is now authorized to carry out thia necessary work. A number of local statesmen left for Saratoga yes-" lorday afternoon tn order to attend the meeting of the Democratic State Committee. Anti-Tammany and Tammany men speak hopefully of a union of forces in the November contest, the preliminaries ‘of which it is probable will be secretly talked over -to-day at the State gathering. Another mecting of the Committee on Lands and Places of the Board of Aldermen will be held at tho ©uy Hall to-morrow aiternoon to take into considera- tion the removal of Castle Garden from the Battery, A DUSKY THIEF. Emma Bannister, a colored woman, residing at No. 145 West Fifty-second street, was held for trial by Judge Wandell, at the Filty-seventh Street Court, on a charge of stealing about $250 worth of property from Richard P, Dalton, a veterinary surgeon, at 1,560 Broadway. On Sunday afternoon Mr. Dalton left nis oflice to get a newspaper and was absont only a fow minutes. When he returned he met the detendant as she was leaving his office. He thought she bad gone in there merely to arrange her dress, which seemed to have been out of order, He never thought for a mo- ment she was a thief, Twenty iminutes later he missed his vest, in whgch was his gold watch, $80 in cash, a pair of gold spectacles, a gold pencil and other articles. Oflicers McArdle and Cottrell.arrested Emma yesterday and found all the stolen property in her possession except the $80, She admitted her guilt, but ead she was driven to steal by want. Emma was not, however, particular as to quantity. ALMOST A ‘TRAGEDY. Ex-Alderman George Brown and his brother Joseph appeared in the First District Police Court, at Jersey City, yesterday. Joseph was charged with attempting to murder his brother. The evidence showed that the Browns boarded with u Mrs, Sttles, who wus engaged to be marricd to Joseph. Lately ber affections were gradually withdrawn frdm him and translerred to George. Joseph beeame desperate, purchaxed a revolver, and at o “lay morning he re- turued to the house, climbing the fence and forcing Ins way in. The brothers encountered each other on the stairs. Two shots were fired by Joseph, but without taking effect, During the scuifle Officer Beakea ar- rived on the scene, and Joseph ran out and tried teescape tn the direction of Hob hh, but be was captured after a lively chase, Justice Keese committed him for trial on charges of burglary, intent to kill, carrying a con- cealea weapon and firing a pistol in the street RAIDA ON FERRYMASTERS, The new system of collecting fares from passengors, adopted by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at the Jersey City ferries, has not worked as succossfully as was anticipated, In spite of the precaution of having one forrymaster collect the money and is: tickets while another a tew feet further on would r @ tho tickers and deposit them in a box, 1t was observed for several months past that the recerpts became greatly dimin- whed. Detectives were set at work, avd the result was the urre-t yesterday of three ferrymasters, Morgan wecker, Jacob Van Valgenburg and George West, They were taken to the Twenty-seventh precinct station, whence they were conveyed before Justice Murray, who committed them in default of $2,000 ball each for ex. amination this morntog. Meanwhile the investigation of the accounts will be continued at the railroad com- pany’s office in Jersey City, VERY SANE IN ANITY. ‘esteraay forenoon a shabby and wild looking man called at Police Headquarters, Brooklyn, and told the Inspector of Police that he wanted to be locked up, a8 be was afraid be would kill exJudge Samuel D. Morris if he was left to himvetf, Me said his nume was Jobo G. Manning, and he kept a drug store in Clinton street His wile procured a divorce trom him about four years avo, and she subsequently shot at him, for which he bad her arrested at the time, Sanning, who ts evidently out of bis wits, says that Mr. Morris gave his wile counsel which Was the cause of all nis misery, Hecalied ou the ex-Judge last Thursday and asked him why he had wronged him. At the time he dad @ dagger in his pocket, bat did bot ase it Judge Morwe sent Manning to jail for twenty-nine days, THE GRAND STREET MURDER. Coroner Croker yesterday took charge of the case of Paolo Tropiano, who died on Saturday night im the Chambers Street Hospital from the effects of a stab wound at the hands of Join Lazeria Lazeria was Urought before the Coroner and commited w the ‘Tombs to await the mauest. Or, MeWhinnie madea post-mortem examination of Tropmno’s body, and found that deaty was the result of compression of th brain, due to a panctared fractur by 4 stab wound iniheted with som SUICIDE BY PAR Martin Turner committed suicide on Sanday morn- ing by taking Paris green, Coroner Ellinger took charge of the case yesterday moPning., Deecased was a carver and moulder by trase. Some few months ago lhe became involved in a quarrel with hw wie and family and teft them, going te reside with a Mr. Phluger, at No. 422 Wost Thirty-seveuth street About two o'clock Sunday morning be was hoard to leave the house, Atten o'clock he came back and was almost immediately taken sick, dying two hours jater from tho effects of Paris green, aa_giterward ascertained, taken with suicidal inveny - } : } : IMPORTANT RAILROAD WAR. The St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute | Railroad Company’s Suit. d | ANSWER, | GOVERNOR —TILDEN’S An Inside History of Railroad Speculations and Combinations. Yesterday Governor Tilden and codefendants filed their answers to the bill of complaint im the suit ofthe St Louis, Alton and Terro Haute Railroad Company, plaintiffs, against Charles Butler, Samuel J, Tilden, Russell Sage and Robert fayard, defendants. ‘The points and several answors of the defendants are put in, in which they set forth collectively :—That the two agreements between the St, Lows, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company and the Belleville aud Iinostowo Railroad Company, one of which was Signed by certain of the first mortgage bondholders, and the other of which was signed by certain of the second mortgage bondbolders, were not.of the same tenor or effect, Lut were esseptlally distinct and differ. ent in their objects and provisions; that the principal object of the agrcement of the first mortgage bond- holders was to create an association of such first mort gage bondholders able to induce the bidding upoa and purchase of tuo road by parties who should agree beforehand to protect tho interests of such frat mortgage bondholders, in the event the road should be sold either under a foreciosure of the first mortgage, or under any decrees which should discharge and exe tinguish the henof the said first mortgage; thats single bondholder, or a few bondholders, owning @ smail part of the bonds outstanding, would, except for gome such agreement, bo exposed to the necessity at the saic of either buying the whole road and paying in cash all the purchase money, except the small part thereof which might be awarded to them on account of their own bonda in the distribution of the proceeds of the sale, or, on the other hand, of allowing the road to be sold to anotner purchaser and contenting themselves with the share of the proceeds of sale to which ther bonds would be entitled on the distribution; that the first mortgage bonds were so discreaited that their market value tell to about forty-tive cents on tho dollar ot the principal, although they bore twenty-one per cent or more of overdue interest, and smail quantities only were gala- ble eveu at such rate, which made the aggregate value of these securities somewhat less than $500,000—the sam for whicn the road was bid off at the sale—and yet it was believed by the holders that if the payment of interest should be resumed, or new bonds substituted under a new ownership, the faarketable value of those securities wotld or might bo enhanced nearly threes fold, which expectations of the holders were in fact realized, inasmuch as the new bonds, in which the ace crued interest of the old bonds was funded, with the principal thereof, became aud have remained worth paf’ ormore, + ’ And those defendants further answering say that the said purchasing committee of the,first mortgage bond- holders not only made settlements with the parties to the two several agreements of the first and second mortgage bondholders, and with every such persoa, but exercised their discretion ina spirit not ouly of equity, but of hberal relief; in favor of every other creditor who appiied to them, and in favor of every stockholder who applied to them; that they made set- tements and allotments m two or three thousand cases, inany of them anomalous and capable of being disposed of only by the exercise of a summary judg- ment; that although the time limited for tho first and second mortgage bondholders to become parties to the agreement, aad for all other creditors and stockholders. toavail themselves of the discretionary recognition contemplated thereby, expired within sixty days alter) the Ist day of May, im the year 1861, the gaid pur- chasing commitice continued to watve this limitation,) whenever occasion arose during many years therealt and nover enforced it wgainst auy person, if Mi. TILDEN'S ANSWER, And the sald defendant, Samuel J.. Tilden, furth answering, says for himself that during ail since July, 1862, as well us beiore that time, and untif’ some time in June, 1873, the said ‘Tilden acted, at th instance and request of the said purchasing committ as their counsel in divers important matters, and th for such serv he has received no compensation, such, whatever; that during all the eleven years tween said dates the said Tilden, at the instance a request of the complainant, as well as at the instan of said committee, was accusiomed to render prot sional services as couusel fur the complaimant, whi ‘was in frequent and almost constant need of prok sional advice and other professional services; that suc! services have so climes been laborious, protracted dificult, requiring special and peculiar skill and abil ties, and were ot great ana acknowledged usefuin value to the complamant, among the truita which, 1 two instances, is the continued ability of tl complainant tw pay interest on its mortgage bon and avert a fresh bankruptcy; that for non of these services has the said Tilden receive any compensation from tho complainant, whic | from is organization in June, him no compensation lor any prot has he received any cowpensatio: said purchasing committee. And these defendants, tu ther consigering, say touching sud coucerning the all) gations in the said bill contained respecting the pensation of members of the committee purchasti (ho railroads aforesaid and vesting thom in a new ca. poration, that at the tirae of the creation of said cons, mittee, and long prior theretww, 1 was believed first and second mortgage bondholders signing ¢ the agreements herein before mentioned that the to be imposed upon the said committee was one of wi difficulty, responsibility aud Jabor, requiriog great dustry, devotion and skill for its adequate accompl ment, ‘bul that the aetual work, rexponsibility and. bor of the said commitiee greatly excocded such ex; tation; that the task has embraced the obtaiain; session of the railroad, protecting its mmcomes am ebues and administeripg 18 business, the continu: the plan for the creation of u new ownership of Tatiroads aforesaid, the peaceful reconciliation of and opposing interests, the preparation of great ni bers of legal and other documents, the furn! necessary legal couasel and advice to protect the und interests of the new o' rehip, the formation rporativn and putting i im a condition prosecute wilh vigor und, success the business which it was organized, the supplying of the ne ties of the road by loaus of money and otherwise the new company was i a condition to sustain ite the oxamination of some thousands of cases in wh claims aj st the insolvent corporation sou, recognition and the prosecution and delence of div. litigations; that these labors began ata period le ucfore the committee was actually constituted, have bot as yet who.ly ceased, inasmuch as the committee has never refused’ to re@ognize any cl made by any creditor or ckholder of the insolv, corporation on the ground of any neglect on prescotation thereol, but has uniformly, a spirit of liberality and fairness wi these defendants believe the first and mortgage bondholders wished to exhibit tor such creditors and stockholders, recognized ev claim found by thetn alter examination to be m torivus, when presented by any such creditors or ste rs, BUtWithstanding any del jn the prese and these defendants, further answerin; touching ther settlements and allotments of bor stocks to third parties and the account asked and by the bill of complaint hereim, in respect and every of these transactions, and a detail of et and thing concerning them, that the said tran” Uons, two or three thouxand in number, most of w were done and completed fourteen years ago; that. and every of th transa ns Was, at the time th duly ol ad proper acquiltances executed Bb persons having any imterest im the »: wud appr wud ratitied by each and every boudholder w. or the relation of principal lo the said puretiasit ittee; thal the said purchasing committee would / bave underiakeu sv compicx and difficult a busin their rights wod obligations in respect to such had not been caretully defined, qualified and ly a written agreement, or if they nad been ex; review ov ail these transactions, under any pret each one of tue thousands of parties other principals whose tnteresis might ve sup affected by What Was dene Lem, Of & review persou of corporation claiming to represent su es And touching 4s weil these dis) as also the disposal of such might remam after these dispositions mad (bese delendants deny that the purchasing agents oi the bondholders were or any manper habie to review by tbe complaiuant 1B, Which Was Got and is not « party to any under whick the said purchasing committee any relatiou of agency or any duty or ooligation premises. Wheretore these defendants say that no relati agency Bove al any time subsisted of m ch thenmsely a complainants in respect to any of the matiors said bill of complaint coutaines complainants have no right, tite’ or in equitable, im Or to any of the bonds oF stocks time issued and delivered by sard complainants) purchasing committee last aforesaid, or any of aby «account, or make apy di is wud stocks, or either and as to all and every the as to which these deiendant are or ts iy abd by the said and called upon vo make except ose alters as to whieh discovery has been made, these ¢ Hunts and each against all the discover sought by the (CONTINUED ON NINTH P, piuint mterroga