The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1876, Page 14

THE COURTS. The Violation of the Internal Revenue Laws. A NICE LEGAL QUESTION. | Reminiscence cf the Days of Comptroller Green. THE NEW YORK HOTEL PROPERTY. A case of consi in the United States District Court, The action was srought by the plaintiffs for judgment on an agreed Hatement of facts, and was argued at considerable hn by counsel on either side. ‘the government {the Erie Railroad Company for $150,000, being a lox of five per cont upon the interest on sterling bonds seued by the company for £800,000, about September, 1866, payable in London, and penalties for failure to make returns and pay the tax thereon, All out £20,000 of these bonds were purchased and held by aliens residing abroad, and to them the t six percent, was paid in gold every six month: ptember, 1866, to September 1, 1869, inclusive. No returns of these payments were made by the company to the imternal revenue oflicers for ) tax Was paid, and no deduction of nthe payments of interest, The under’ section 122 of nuded July 13, 1366, whieh pro- vides that any railroad company indebted for any money for which bonds have been issued, upon Whict interest 18 stipulated to be paid or coupons rep- resenting the interest, shall be subject to and p tax of five per ceutonthe amount of all such inter or coupons whenever and wherever the sam} payable, including non-residents, whether ¢ s. ' Roger M. Sherman, Assistant Unite contended that the tax was upon inter trom § government cl June 3v, 1s64, the interest in rem in toe hands of the company ; that it Was the purpose of the act to tax all gains and protits, Whether used as dividends or for construction, AS a reserve, or to pay interest, and that the owner- ship of the bonds was immaterial, E W Judge Wiltam Shipman appeared tor the defendants, and, in a hy argument, contended that the claim ot the government taxed a debt and taxed property beyond the jurisdiction of the United States, and that it was in conflict with the constitution. — At’ the close of the Blatehford took the papers, reserving INTERNAL REVENUE TION, The case of the United States against Edward A, Bar: tried before Judge Blatenford, in the United States Circuit Court, was concluded yesterday, The government claimed penalties under sections 3,206, $ and 9,319, United States Revised Statutes: amounting to 91,415, the charge being that the de- fendant, a rectifier and wholesale liquor dealer, doing busiuess at No, 10 Cedar street, had made false entries on his government book of orders to one Flynn, and had received filicit spirits from a person not authorized to deal in spirits. The g ment found on de- fendant’s premises on Dec 875, four barrels ot rum, yet hot from the still, in barrels upon which LAW VIOLA- there were stamps for rectitied’ spirits which had been previousiy issued to Barry, and which appeared to have been reused, and which were entered on his book as sold to one Flynn, in Brooklyn, Buarry’s explanation was that the spirits were sent bac Fiyon, and if they had been chagged he did not know It” The government proved 1 rebuttal that the de fendant was an old offender agamst the internal rev- enue laws. Tue jury found a verdict tor the govern- ment for the umount claimed, Roger M. Sherman appeared for the United States and Thomas Harland for the defendant, AN INCORRIGIBLE BOY, Patrick Barrett, a youth fifteen years of uge, accord- ing to the statement of his mother, 1s an incorrigible lad. She says that for sometime past he has asso- ea with d cli fuses to go to school, Upon these allegations, put to- gether in proper fori, she presentod the case to a police magistrate and had the boy sent to the House of Refage. The commitment in the case was under the Vagrancy act. Application was made yesterday to Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers, for the ouy'S releuse ou the ground of te illewality of the symuiiment. ‘The case was argued at some length by Mr. Boyce on benait of the boy, and Messrs, Robinson and eribuer appear of the House of Refuge. Mr. contended that thero was no Justitlable ground under the Vagrancy act for boy and bis detention in a the commitment of the penal insutution, On the other band it was urged that the case came within the provisions of the statute providing for the reformation of ebtldren, and further shat if the phraseology of the commitment was in any respect detective that the Court, under habeas corpus roceedipgs, had a perfect right to correct the sume. udge Donohue decid that under the Vagraney act the commitment Was clearly illegal and he thereupon ordered the boy's discharg: COMPTROLLER GREEN'S REGIME. Application made yesterday to Judge Donohue for au extra g co to plaintil’s counsel in the suit tried belure him upon a contract by James Hall for grading certain strects in Morrisania, Shertif Conner attached Hall’s property, at the instange of a third party, and thereupon the Sheriff sued the city to ree cover the balance due on the contract, Judge Donohue said that although he thought the caseajust one, stillhe did not think it proper to lay upon the taxpayers the burden of paying extra costs in an action Lrought on by the wrongiui acts of the Comptroller. He would be more inclined to say that the remedy of the aggrieved party was ay: himself, and if be war placed in a similar position as counsel be should, at all events, make a strong effort to place the responsibility vpon Mr. Green’s shoulders and thoroughly test the question of his lability, Counsel argued that as Mr, Green had been raised to his position by a Mayor ap pointed by the taxpayers they should suffer the cone Sequences of their own acts atid not be allowed to thus do injustice to innocent parties. Judge Dovotue said he would take the if he should see anything to change his min Readily do so, IMPORTANT LAW QUESTION, In September last Walter Jennings was arraigned at the Court of General Sessions for burglary in the third degree, aud sentenced by Recorder Hacket to the Penitentiary for two years and six months, On tho 28d of Uctober his counsel, Mr. William F. Howe, ers, and © Would applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas cor- | pus, clatming Jennings’ discharge toe commitment on which the Jailed Lo set forth that th offence tor which h convicted occurred in the city and county of New York, and trom aught that appeared the Court of General Ses: sions had no jurisdiction in the case. was argued betore Judge Lawrence, who h the relator. Mr. Howe hus, however, app this decision, and on bis’ application Davis yesterday remitted tue entire proceedings on certiorari to the General Term of the Supreme Court, where the entire proceedings will be argued at full nthe groand that was id against aled from Chief Justice length, The point iuvoived is both a povel and inter. esting one. THE NEW HOTEL PROP- ERTY. The ease of the United States vs, Hickson W. Fields came up before Judge Blatchford yesterday in the United States District Court, The governmont claimed A tax on a succession to real estate, being an undivided fourth interest in the New York Hote! property under section 182 of the act of Juve 80, 1864, and a penalty of ten per cent of the tax for failure to make the ro- ed return of the succession to the internal revenue d, otticers, Th interest In question, it w leg was de ed wit uable and adequate con: ation theretor, 16 1870, by his father, to the dee fendant, fhe value Was ciaimed by the United States to be $1,096,000, being the amount for which it was bid in ata particular sale, in December, 1869. Mr. Homer Morgan, for the de certified that tn his opinion the value in February, 1870, was $700,000. The jury found a verdict tor the government tor $8,306, dased on a valuation of the property at $900,000, Roger WM. Sherman, United States District Attorney, appeared or the government, and Messrs, Jackson & Heury for the defensants, SUMMARY OF LAW CASE To-morrow, as usual, there will be no courts. Holi- day observances do not, however, embrace respite from judicial labors on Christmas and New Year's, but during boliday week most of the trial terms will sus- pend their wonted sessions. The law does not permit Shambers and special terms to take flays than the legal holidays; so toese branches of the courts will be in active session coming week. Application was yesterday made to the Surrogate by | Henry J. Smith, a creditor of Orson A. House, deceased, upon which a citation was gerved Spon the Public Ad- ministrator to show cause why letters of administra- tion should not be granted to the petitioner or the ipistrator. On return of the citation letters ration were granted to Algernon ©. Sullivan, Pabhie Administrator of ihe city of New York, woo vy erable interest to the Erie Railroad | Company was held yesterday before Judge Blatchford, | enact of | putable boys, that he stays out late at | night, that he pays no heed to her commands and re. | ouer was detained | This question | ations On other usual during the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. statutory right takes priority over creditors of the estate of deceased persons, Michacl Noonan protests against the Commissioner of Public Works awarding to Thomas Brown a con- tract for grading the Boulevard, north of 159th street, to Kingsbridge. He insists that he put inthe lowest | bid and is eptitied to the contract, Upon his applica- | tion Judge Davis yesterday granted an alternauve mandamus against the Commissioner of Pablic Works, cling to show cause why the bid accepted puld not be rejected proved in its place. the 28th Inst, The various counsel who have been employed to Settic the question between the contesting trustees of the Sea Clit Grove Camp Meeting Association are wrangling over the order recently granted by Judge Davis reterring fhe matter to Mr. Traphagen, with in- | structions to report on the facts without any opinion. One side insists that the referee should give his opin- | ton upon the facts, and the other side 1s satisfied to haye the order carried outas given. There was quite | a lively debate over the matier yesterday in Supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge Donobue, and it being impossible to arrive at an agreement the matter was adjourned until Tuesday morning for further agree. ment, Louisa Meineke has brought a suit for limited divorce against her husband, Frederick Meincke, charging him with erael and ibuman treatment of her. The parties were married some seven years ago, and have two children, the custody of such children of course being an important element of the suit, In addition to positive acts of cruelty she charges him with hav. ing frequently threatened her life, on aceount of which she was finally obliged to leave him and seck the shelter und protection of her iriends. She asks $10 a week alimony pendente hte and such counsel fee a8 the Court may think proper under the circum- | stances. The case has becn submitted to Judge San- tord, of the Superior Court, who has taken the matter | under advisement, «G. Berth, who inflicted a dangerous wound on Catharine, with a pistol, which he says was | accidentally discharged, and which his wife, in ber nortem statement before Coroner Woltman, states pelieves to have beon accidentally discharged, was yesterday brought before Judgo Donohue on a writ of habeas corpus. His counsel, Mr. Wilham F. Howe, claimed that there was nothing appearing against him by which the man could be held under the statute, Mr. Leary, in opposition, produced a doctor’s cortificate that the Woman was in acritical condition, and urged | thut, as the case is still pending, the man should not | be dischargea or bailed out. Judge Donohue remanded isoner to await further investigation by the Cor- and the bid of Noonan ap- ‘The order {s made returnable on | DECISIONS. | SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. By Judge Lawrence. In tho matter of O'Hara; in the matter of McCloskey ; in the matter of Central Presbyterian church; im the of the Second Baptist church; in the mutter of ation Shaari Zedek; in the mutter of Hebrew Benevolent Urphan Asylum,—Orders granted, | By Judge Barrett, | _ Importers and Traders’ Bank vs, Kohn and others.— Leave torenew granted and motion granted for trst Friday in January. y Judge Brady. Flint vs, Flint.—Opinion, In the matter of Martin, &c,—Bond approved, Burns ys. Burns. —Decree of divorce granted, In the matter of Churchman; Heydecker vs. Life Association of America. —Granted, Slocovich vs. Ruger, &c. ; Gregory ys. Kopper; Her- man ys. Stewart, —Orders granted, SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Jadge Van Vorst. Wales vs, Sherwood and others.—Memorandum for counsel, SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Sanford. Harding vs. Harding.—Let an order be entered amending precept denying motion to vacate same without costs, Opinion. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, Wasutneroy, Dec. 23, 1876. Tho following caso was argued in tho United States Supreme Court yesterday :— No. 141. Utley et al. vs, Donaldson & Fraley—Error to the Circuit Courtfor the Eagtern District of Mis- sourl.—This was a suit to recover of the defendants in error tho amount of money paid by the plaintiffs in error in 1871 tor fifteen Central Pacilic bonds which proved to be spurious. ‘The defence was that the sale was at the purchasers’ risk, and to this the reply was— first, that this Was Dot the cage, and second, if so the contract was void, as being against public policy, The cuse was tricd by the Court, without a jury, and the clusion was that the sale was at the risk of the pur- s, and so expressiy; and the Court held that where the purchaser assumes the risk of genuincness the assumption does not render the contract void be- cause it 18 against public policy, ‘This tinding and the ruling upon the facts found are gned as error here, and it is insisted that, the con- sion having talled, tho money will be recovered, Debosta for plainti's in error; Krum, Patrick naldson for defendauts. CHRIS! MAS PRESENTATION. Mr. Willlam H. Ricketts, the popular ehief officer of the Supreme Court, was yesterday presented by the | other officers and attachés of the Supreme Court with a pleasant Christmas memento in tho shape of a valu- able gold watch. At two P, M, the varioug oflicers convened in the Supreme Court, Special Term, room, and having selected Mr, Peter Ewald chairman and Mr. William Lamb, Jr., as secretary, the formal pre- sentation took place, Mr. Frederick D. Story having | been selected for this agreeable duty. The presenta tion speech was an exceedingly happy one, and so especiaily Was that of Mr. Ricketts, tne recipient of the testimonial gilt, An adjournment then took place to Sweeny’s, where a most bountcous collation awaited the generous douor, which was followed with speeches and sentiments in keeping with the oocasion, many years the futher of Mr. Ricketts was janitor of | the Court House, and on nis death, eight years ago, Mr, Ricketts was appointed an officer of the Court, which position he filled with great acceptability ull his appointment three years ago to lis present posi- tion as chief ofticer—a position in which bis uniiorm courtesy has won him marked approval of the Beneb and The watch 18 worth $350 and bears the inscrip- Presented to William H. Ricketts by the Attach¢s Supreme Court, First Department, December 25, 6. On the dial is the Lord’s Prayer, butso mi- nutely inscribed as to require a powerful’ microscope to decipher it. The chain accompanying it 1s of massive and unique pattern, and the charm attached has inscribed on it his monogram, The Committee of Arrangements baving charge of the afluir were Messrs B. W. Buchanan, K. J. Knight, Gus McVearnex, Peter McAleer and Jamas J. Nealis, TO DEATH. FROZEN ANOTHER THRILLING STORY OF DEATH IN THE WISCONSIN PINERIES—A LEITLR IN THE WILDERNESS, [From the Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern, ] SrkveNs Point, Dec. 18, 1876, One year ago they lett their native land beyond the sea to seek a home in the New World. About a fort. | night ago they left this city to locate that long looked for home somewhere in the vast wilderness to the north of us, andin the spring time they were to take their families and settie down to spend the bal- ance of their days, But, alas! human calculations are full of errors, All that is left of K, Kakoll, aged forty, and &, Boercke, aged thirty-five, is lying to-day beneath the sod. | From the best information I can gather {t seems | that the two men, alter going about sixty miles up the Central Ratlroad, lett the track carly io the morning with the {ntention of looking around through the day and returning to Mediord or some other station betore night. But, imstead, they got lost, and avout a week alter this occurrence two land huuters, named respect- ively John Grossand Nicholas Cravity, being out on @ bunt, came to a spot where some one had stayed over night some Wme before. A tire had been bulit and | some pine branches bad been luid down for a bed, and sonte placed against # half fallen tree to make a shelter from the wind. Whatattracted the attention of the hunters was the a e of any marks of an axe, Everything had the appearance of bewg broken or eut withasmall knue, They stopped a few moments to make a closer luspection of the place, with the inten- | lon of finding out, if possible, who had becn there. ‘They were abous to go away, When Gross picked up a large tin tobacco box, which, on opening, they found contained @ leat torn out of a memoranauin book, with the following with pencil written upon it m the Polish language :— Decemmen 7,.187 frozen to ¢ My God! we a ath, with nothing to eat. Try lost and almost find us. KAKO. 8. BOERCKE, It is evident that they left this with the nope that some one would pick itup. In case this would not be found they had pinned a paper to a tree near by with the same as the above written upon it, which Cro: aud Cravity discovered before they lett the spot, So many days had elapsed since the two unfortunate men had stayed there that the two hunters had but litle | bopes of finding them alive, if at all; tor the note was written just the day before the long-to-be-remembered | cold Friday of the Sth inst, They started immediately upon the trail, but did not get tar before night set iD, Karly the next morning they started out again, and, velore noon, trom the warks in the snow, they came to the conclusion that they would soon tind out the fate of the two men, Now they would tind where they had falien, and Stacgeret and stambied along ® short distauce, and then, as if they had gath- ered new s'rength, wandered along in a half un- | Conscious state, with no knowledge of the direction in, through brush and against trees, until finally they caine (o @ largo fallen tree, over which, it seems, they had strength enough to get. But just on the other side the body of Kakoli was found, iyimg flat on bis | face, and avout eight rods further on that ot Boercke | was found lymg on his side. The two hunters tied | some poles together, fastened the bodies upon them and stari@@ for the track, dragging the beavy ioads | after They were obliged, however, to leave them after the first day and go and get help to bring them out, This should be another lesson to th who do ot understand ghe woods to keep out jor who can ever imagine, much bie suifering ot tho they ‘ wandered through that wilderness to a sure aud terrible death, Fors| they were taking of of the wretched state they were | | “GIVE THE WOMEN A CHANCE.” AN ADVOCATE OF EQUAL RIGHTS DEFENDS HEL- SELF. To tae Evrror or tHe HeraLp:— My communication entitled “Give the Averago Woman a Chance,” published 1n the Heratp a few days since, appears in certain quarters to have beeo misunderstood. A daily poper discussing it at length in an editorial states that ‘its greatest mistake 18 the idea that a person, whether man or woman, who has to earn a living and support a family can set out in life with the design of getting a certain king of employment, and re/using to work at all if that fails.’ Now, no such ‘‘mistake” ts promulgated in the com- munication referred to. It ts nowbere claimed that because a woman cannot get a position in government service she shall refuse to accept any other position that may be offered. All that is claimed is that a woman shall have the same chance to obtain a position in the civil service ot her country as is afforded a man. What I aim at is to open u source of employment for a very large class of women—women who are reduced from aftiuence to poverty—a class already numbered by thousands, and our peculiar civilization is adding hugely to the nuinber yearly. The woman thrown on her own resources {rom childhood does prepare herself fora future og all men are prepared; but there isa class of women, educated and capable, who are, un- fortunately, not reared to any work. 1 refer tothe daughters and wives of our rich men, They are often thrown upon the world alone and have to make a liv. ing. They are willing to work, but they naturally re- Voit at mental servicg, and are, indeed, as littie pre- pared {or such service as for any other, Government clerkships require uo special trainiug; they require a certain umount of tact and education, possessed equally by these women as by men. Men go into ti olfices as Ignorant of their details as are women, Treasury cierks at Washington aro not previously pre- pared for their work. There must be a place provided for these women. ‘Yhey should never Le brought into forced competition with tradeswomen or iactory operatives, ‘Yue lator are excellent in their way aud deserving all respect, but theirs should be a way distingt and apart trom the road followed by women of a higher education, The world is wide enough for ali grades of men—why sbould it not be roomy enough tor all grades of women ? ‘Lhe man of average education does not dream of be- coming a day laborer or a servant, Why, then, should & Woman of average education be compelied Lo starve or to accept work us severe and less pay than that of the poorest male laborer of the day ¥ Weare also told that already the labor market i; glutted; that there are more men who need emplo; ment than there are employments for men, ‘This does not aller the great fact that, whuiever the state of the Javor mart may be, women have tho game rights to share ail its chances as the men. But leaving my critic tor awhile, let me here appeal, through the columns of the HERALD, to the greut re= pubiic of Women Who are and who must be by interest aud sympathy concerned. in any question which vitally atlects Women, Let me appeal to them to exert themselves constanuy iu this cause. It isthe inertia of woman that retards her independence, She does comparatively nothing. She sits with folded hands and hsteos to the unthinking and the prejudiced crowd around her, which insists thut she has nothing to 40; and really she Seems to preier the empty courtesies which wen pay to her sex to the honest ofler of equal work. Ab! a gullant’s bow on the promenade auda smile in the parlor may be of cousideration to the woman who bas the world at her feet, but they Will not be worth a moment’s thought when sue icels the world clutching at ber hungry throat, Jn the course of ita comments upon my letter the morning journal already quoted utters these words :— “In relation to the average woman, who seeks a self- supporting position, she must give up the hope of be- commg the mistress of a man’s heart and home and the mother of children.’? What nonsense! what ab- solute blasphemy against womanly uature, und what stale cant, too! Just as if a woman, because she works, must not marry; just us if the earning au hon- est and independent living uufitted a woman for loving and for being loved; just as if the more worthy a woman 18 of man’s respect the less claim she has on man’saifection! Such a suggestion as tus admits of indignation, Mr. Editor, but not of argument, Again, the remark is made that the average woman who seeks or oblins a seli-sapporting position must “fling aside all womanly sensitiveness about what her neighbors will say of her.’? Really, she must do noth- ing of the sort. She should, if possible, be more cir- cumspect in her conduct, more desirous of the good opinioh ot the little world in which she moves. However, spite of all the errors into which the | critic has {alien in the course of his criticism, my censor deserves tho thanks of every woman tor his candid conlession at the cunclusiva of the article that woman is ‘‘quicker to learn, neater in ber babils and less prove to the vices that endanger business than the average man’? Surely this 1s ag much as any womun her: is It can claim for her sex, and ugsuredly it nore than suilicient to establish ber right to at Lan equality of opportunity with man to obtain this very work tor which she 18 thus pre-cminently adapted. ‘*But,” says this editorial critic, “whatever woman can bring the same influences to bear in her favor that procures a government position to a man wil, without doubt, be admitted to the public crib’? Very true; but how can a woman bring the same in- fluences to bear in her favor fora government posi- lion or any other position as a man, unless, like aman, ste basa Votey 1 pause fora reply. I sincerely wish that I could answer this question im such way as would preclude the necessity of women voting; for a female politician, us such, | pave always, woman lik detested from my very soul. All my hfe long I bave scouted the idea of women voting; but experience is a bitter teacher, and it has set me thinking. It has forced me to usk myself some very pertinent and very practical questions. Why 18 it that women, like men, are admitted to civil clerkships at Washington? Why do men hold official clerkships all over the rest of the county while women do not? Is it not because men have votes und women have none? A leading politician of tns city said to me the other day, ‘Woman's right to labor ought to receive more attention than it bas yet attracted, and that woman’s claims to equal rights ‘in work were just. But, you see,” he added, apologeticaliy, “what can we’ do? These are times when politics are supreme, and women, you know, have no political existence.’” And then he shrugged his shoulders expressively. An- other candidly confessed that if the present chaotic crisis 18 the best that men can do alter 100 years of trial it “was time for the women to try their band.’? Heally, | have heretofore never advocated woman’s voting for many reasons, I have been opposed to it; but it ts better certainly to vote than tosiurve. Even the most refined femaie will contess that it is quite as womanly to go to the polls as it 18 to go to the poor- house, and if We cannot bave equal opportunities of empl ent—equal rights with men—witiout the vote, then all women must say, ‘Give us the vote!” ‘The thinking Women of the world are aroused, and the woman proviem is the great coming problem, it will be to the politician of the next generation what the slavery agitation has been to the present, The woman will become even a more important political element than the negro, and that purty which will answer sat- isfactorily tho woman question will be ‘the party of the future.’” ri, HUGH L. BRINKLEY, NORTH CAROLINAS DEBT, IMPORTANT ACTION OF THE STATE BONDHOLD- ERS—PROPOSAL TO FUND THE INDEBTED- NESS. A meeting of the bondholders of North Carolina is called for Wednesday, the 27th inst,, at the office of John B, Manning, No. 78 Broadway, The object of the bondholders is, if possible, to agree upon a plan or scheme, to be presented to the State authorities of North Carolina, for the funding of the present debt An effort has been mado 1m this direction by the State, | but the offer to the bondholders was but a trifle short 1: Sos the interest, now 8 of actual repudiation, and was, therefore, not accepted. Reports frown Raleigh and other sections of the State indicate (hat the incoming State officers and the new Legisiature are disposed to m the creditors upon a just and equitable basis of settlement, Hence the meeting of bondholders called tor next week. The debt of North Carolia, including interest to the Ist day of last October, amounted to $41,846,930 45, ‘These figures are compiled trom the message vl Goy- ernor Brogden, sent to the Legisiuture on November a. The jodedtedne-s may be divided into five ciusses:—Mirsi, the bonds issued up to 1861, inclusive; svcond, the bonds issued alter that date by authority of acts’ of the Legislature od before the war; third, bonds issued under acts passed since the war, not “special tax,” fourth, those issued under the funding laws of 1866 and 1868; and last, those issued under special tax’? laws, amounting to’ $11,407,000. The interest past duc in class 5 1s $4,897,770; which, added to the principal, makes $16,804,770. This class of bonds the State repudiates on the ground of their iraudulent issue. ‘The recognized debt of tno State is $17,240,045, on past due, amounts to indebtedvess the North Carolina Railroad Company 18 liable to the extent of $2,$00,000; and as the property of the corporation 18 vaiuable this portion of the debt is worth about sixty cenis on the dollar, The holders of these particular bonds are, therefore, considerably better off than the others, and are not likely to participate in the proposed meeting. The special tux bonds are selling for about two ceuts on the dollar, pot counting interest. In ovber 2,116 45, Of th words, a bond now worth, with interest, from $1,300 to $1,400, bis }, has a market vale of only $20. ecogniZed debt is worth trom eight to eighteen nthe doliar, of the par value of the bonds, The bovdholderg are hopeful of beimy able to def- nitely arrange all disputed questions in regard to the in- debvedness of this State, and to fund the whole amount, now nearly $42,000,000, 80 that the indebtedness shall not exceed altogether $15,000,000. A careful sarvey of the condition o! the State seems to justily the conelu- sion of the bondholders that the State can, without doubt, safely increase the present rate of taxation 80 ag to meet the interest on the sum lust named, CUSTOM HOUSE SALE. Collector Arthur bas ordored the sale at auction of the merchandise seized for violation of the Revenue laws during tho past six months, to take place on January 10, at No. 112 Pearl street. The articles con- sist Of cigars, cigaretics, hquors, silk umbreli drugs, &e., and are appraised a $7,000, bse THE AQUARIUM, GLIMPSES OF THE CURIOSITIES AND ODDITIES OF THE SEA, There is a great temperance establishment as the corner of Thirty-fifth street and Broadway, at the Aquarium, There are iager beer saloons and whiskey bars all round it, probably to offset the great quantity of water stored 1m this fish exhibition, It is estimated that over 6,000 fish swim in the large and small tanks of the Aquarium. These Osh are surpassed only in interest by the gay throngs of men, women and chil- dren—but more especially the lutter—who come to view the living curiosities in the tanks. It 16 quite a lively sight every afternoon and evening to see the crowds of protuly dressed children trooping merrily to see the seals fed and to watch their mirth over the violent tussles of the three seals for the possession of some delicate bit of fish thrown them by one of the at- “tendant ichthyologists. Professor Butler has two pets among them which he is now educating with as much cure as Was ever lavished apon the son of a Heidelberg professor. Fanny is being taught to ring with her ilippers the bell which usually announces that the seals are about to be fed. “You soa,’? suid the Professor humorously to the Heratp’s ichthyological emissary, ‘‘wo are now paying on attendant to do this work, and why should we do so when this young lady can be taught to siton her vertebrw and do it gratuitously ?”” Fanny will be remembered by all who have visited the Aquarium, Sbe is quite a fashionable lady seal, She wears a sealskin jacket which fits her as cloacly as though it had grown upon her. THK ORGAN GRINDER, PERD. “Then we have another seal, Fred, we call him, because he has some of the warlike qualities of Fred- erick the Great,’’ continued Professor Butler, ‘‘and he is going to perform on an organ—not a grand organ but a grind organ. You see our band is ex- pensive—it costs us about $60 a day—and we might as well give ope ot our seals a musical education and save the pay of an organ grinder, 1am training Fred now ina little tank ina private box, and I'l! warrant you before long he will grind an organ as well as the West Italian organ grinder.” Tne Heratp’s representative inquired why Fred was not taught the piano, which is more fashionable than the hand organ, and the proficiency on which would take him at once into the best society. But it appears that this is reserved for a later stage of bis musica! education. WHERE ARE THE MERMAIDS, Apropos of the musical seals, the question occurs at once, Where are the mermaids? Alas! there are none. Mr. Coup, the manager of the Aquarium, who has out expeditions for walrusses, sea elephants, sharks, &c., disdains to search for the mermaid, He does not believe in her existence. However, it is quite possible that one of the wonderful ichthyologists of the institution who succeeded in implioting the divine germ of music in even the torpid seal may yet evolve the mermaid out of some beauteous representa- Lives of the finny tribe. SWALLOWING LITTLE SALMON. One of the funny things which periodically occur at the Aquarium with the greatest regularity is the In- advertent swallowing of young salmon by visitors. There are thousands of tiny, newly hatchea salmon in the hatching troughs, which are under the supervision of Professor Mather, of the Smithsonian Institution, A tumbler stands generally at the edge of tho trough, which the Professor uses to fish up some of the tiny specimens of tho hatehing process, Sometimes the tumbler remaius therc for a while, and the visitors, seeing the fresh water flow freely trom the -brass cocks, think this is drinking water, seize the tumbler and gulp down its contents, both water and salmon, the | being so smail as to be scarcely observable at ac glance. One cause for this frequent and ludicrous mistake also arises from the fact that not one visitor out often, when he comes to these five hatching troughs, knows what they are until he hears the Professor’s .explanation, One of the most won- derful sights here 18 to watch, through the Professor's microscope, the circulation of the blood of a sh hatched salmon about an inch long. The millions of intinitesimal rosy corpu: cles in the veins are seen to move with wonderful di: tinctness. In fact, the newly-hatched fish 18 so trans- parent that the beating of the heart and circulation of the blood can be seen even with the naked eye in these troughs, and nothing is more interesting than to examine the eggs of salmon, whitefish and trout— tiny yellowish globules, with their two dark dots for eyes, pe THR SALMONESK TWINS, Weill bave heard ot’ the wonderful Siamese twins, whose autopsy afew years ago created such a sensa- Yon throughout the medical world. Well, the Aqua- rium also Las its twins. They are not Siamese, but salmoneso twins. They are two baby salmon, hatched only on October 25, and each bearing bisilttle red. sac, Which is the yolk of the egg, and remains attached to the abdomen Jor thirty days ufter batching. Pro- ssor Mather says that when each little twin has ab- rbed bis sac they two will be knit together by the skin, They swim sideways, with their faces turned toward each other—certainly a monotonous outlook for both, for they are compelled to keep their tiny eyes riveted on each other, The blood of one flows into the circulation of the other, and when the one dies the other must also perish—juat as in the case of the Siamese twins. The salmonese twins have this great advantage over their Siamese precursors—while the latter were hideously ugly specimens of their kind these twin salmon, swimming together, with their faces turned to each other and their rea sacs knitted into one, form the very daintiest and prettiest sight imaginable. A microscopic inspection shows that the connecting vesicle is filled with ofl globoles, arteries and veins. Frofessur Mather expresses the op'nion that there is but little chaace of their living alter the absorption of the sac, for if they survive tll that time the abdomens will still be joined by the membrane of the suc and, compelled to swim on their sides, it will be very difli- cult for them to obtain food, Some of the other curi- osites, Which are promised us in the salmon hatching troughs, ure two and three headed salmon, VAIN AND DRESBY CRABS, The extravagant love of dress in our fair ones has often been a subject of regret and reprobation. How natural must love of dress and decoration of the body be, however, when even such horrid things as spider crabs display it! Just look at them as they come crawling along. With their briarean arms they pull off some of the red or green alge ta the tank und daintily cover their heads and backs and legs with them. They bave a certain eye for coiors, too, and love to blend them in the most appropriate fashion. Now they pull off astrip of green seaweed and then a little red, and then they twist these quatnt ribbons over one another, some- times forming quite artistic contrasts. Professor But- Jer says there 1s no doubt that it is vanity which im. pels this queer periormance; for, after they have decorated themselves with the variegated algw they come floating forwerd to the very frontot the tank so awto show themselves to the admirers there p: ot It willthus beseen how much resemblance t between a spider crab and ayoung lady going to ball—both love to show themselves, There is anothi strange foature in which the resemblance may be observed just as the young lady maturing into matron lays off the gay dresses ana trinkets 0§ ber ball room days, so the vain spider crab, as it grows older, be- comes indifferent toeven the brightest tinted aign and ¢isdains to trick herself in colors other than those of ber own, Itis only in her “salad days’ that she is so dressy. THK WERMIT CRAD PIRATES, Scarcely less singular than the spider crabs are the hermit crabs. They are called hermit crabs probably from the fact that their habits ure the very reverse of hormit-like, but rather more those of strolling ban~ ditt! or pirates. Imagine a creature whichis going about constantly dispossessing others of their abodes aud appropriating their residences to themseives, ‘This is what the hermit crab does, It takes a defunct shell, but very soon considers that itis too smail or humble, aud tmmediately serves au ejectment writ on another crab which lives im a larger or more beautitul shell, and summarily dispossesses it, The so part of its body beimg unprotected, the hermit cr: | carries this shell around on {ts back until its co ous eyes fall upon another larger or better snell, when it instantly proceeds to seize that. It will be seen, therefore, that Mr. Coup’s hermit crabs are somewhat of the nature of Southern carpet baggers. But these crustacean maraude! as Tesourceiul as a clam bellied Yankee—they will take bold of anything in ti shape of ashell and convert it into a residence, The other day Mr, Hamilton, the advertising agent of the Aquarium, threw the bowl of a pipe into one of the tanks, and suge enoagh a crab emerged trom its shell and proceeded at once to wriggle tuto the bowl, to the infinite amusement ofall the bystanders, AN EXPENSIVE BOARDER, But it ts the whale, the large white whale, whieh, in size, is the most formidable object in tho great exnibi- tion. The wha an expensive boarder at Mr. Coup’s establishment. Kos altnost as mach to gratity ty wauts as it did to sauisly Mrs Casselman. fhe wha eats about thirty or forty pounds of live eels a day. He would rather starve than to touch them dead; they must be alive and fresh every day trom Fuiton Market, The ecls cost filteon cents a pound, so that his food comes to from $450 to $6 a day—a race at which any one of his captors could live at the most expensive restaurant, Theso cols present quite a pitiful sight. They evidently seem to know their jminineut danger In the presence of their monster enemy, for you may often®see them crowd tremblingly near thegdge of the nk when the whale approaches them. Wille his food costs {rom $4 50 to $6 a cay his daily bath aud drink costs about $6) a day, for every drop of the 30,000 gallons contained in the mammoth tank has to be fetched daily from tne ocean (about two miles below Sandy Hook) in a steamor, specially chartered for (he purpose, aud carted irom tho ‘Tuirty-iourth stroet dock iu largo water carts ond then amped in, A monotonous existence the whale must as in his costly glass prison (it coet $5,000), turning wearily round and round in the eame limited space, with the lazy snatoning up of a few dozen trembling cols for his only diversion. “You see, sir,’ said the jocose attendant of the white aside, “the expense of his jood is very light compared with the cost of bis drink, but that’s the case with mnost people in Now York, isn’t it?” CUDDLING AN ALLIGATOR. It 1s wonderful how the attendants of the Aquarium become habituated eveu to the most repulsive and loathsome sea monsters. They caress and fairly cud- die them. There was Mr. Hamilton, the advertising ent of the Aquarium, for tn the other tenderly holding wp in hie hand ao baby alliga- vor about nine inches long, but quite as hideous as its grandfather could possibly have been. He stroked it and caressed it and fondled it, and the little monster sevmed to appreciate these caresses, for it nestled alfec- tionately closer to bis pala. “I wonder how you can fondle such a hideous little monster,’’ said a Visitor. “Why, I love him,” the faithful alligatorist re- turned; *‘see here!'’ And with this he put the alliga- tor's peg to his, and imprinted a chaste, long kiss upon This was certainly a strange action, but the whale’s guardian tersely explained it to all the bystanders by saymg, “Ob, be bas no sweetheart to kiss him !’” HOW THR FISH AKE FED, Very few of the visitors of the Aquariuin probably realize how difficult it is to procure the proper food for all tuese tish curiosit! how varied the food sup- ply must be, bushel of round clams a day to feed ud- fish, lobsters, &c.; and to give them a chal ot diet Protessor Butler alternates the clams with small fish cut up. The small fresh water Osh are fed with about four quarts of earth worms, which it is often very difficult to procure, and which have generally to be dug up froma hot house. The sea horses, which are probably the most remurkable looking fish in the entire collection (bringing vividly before the spectator, as they do, tue pictures of the fabled unicorn), ted with a peculiar little parasite which grows in itan River aud has to be brought thence to the Aquarium, The large fresh water fishes, such as the large ickere! &e, are fed with half a bushel of minnows per day. Professor Butler gives the trout chopped beel’s liver. “The: wet ae fat on that,” said the Professor, “as Taper beer Dutebmen do on the Firstavenue, | sometimes put cream on it and that makes them grow still fatter.” There seems to “be a sort of punning atmosphere about the Aquarium, for the Proiessor dryly adde: “You see they are good livers—Il mean the trout,’ The Protessor showed the wriicr how the anemone. which are both vegetable and tish and play so impor- tant apart in Darwin’s theory—ate a lip of scollop, and it was most curious to see the tentacles of this sponge-like fish-vegetable close around it and to see it slowly disappear, The experiment of cutting an ane- mone into two has been tried atthe Aquarium, and it wus found that both purts lived, HORACE GREELEY AS A FISH, Of course fishes have a certain resemblance to men, But iMagine the amazement of the writer when one of the attenuacts, nUNY ata wide, while skate, whose mouth and gill oPetings are like a flat, old-fashioned human face, said, ‘This is Horace Greeley, You see his littieefes and his broad, white hat aud overcoat !’” DEPARYURES AND ARRIVALS. Mourntul to state, tue sea lion about to take his departure for pastures new. His marrow-pierciag, hideous rowr and his by no means fragrant eflluvia will not be missed, more especially as we are promised Other arrivuls, such as walruses, which have never yet been thken alive; sea ciephants, sea cucumbers, &c. The sca cucumber is described by Mr. Coup as being exactly of the shape and color of a cucumber, and takes 113 food with a tentacle som: Ke those of the anemone, but which often looks like a bright, waving plume, A COMMENDABLE WORK, Perhaps there is uo branch of natural history in which Americans take such little interest as in the nature, habits and culture ot tish, Any one who has frequented the great Hamburg and Brighton Aquaria will bo ustonished at the ignorance displayed by the weries of the visitors at our Now York exhibition, Even highly educated men gecin to be wofully deticient in this one subject of fish knowledge. Considering the fascinating tuterest of this particular branch of natural history, and the great importance of fish culture, i will be conceded that the Aquarnum, besides offering a’wholesome and instructive ainuse- ment, exerts a beneficial influence. It spreads a kind of knowledge which bas been hitherto greatly neg- lected and the dissemination of which ts much to be desired, Mr, Coup deserves the thanks of the com- munity not only jor establishing a place of amusement which, in these days of the bailet and the leg drama, appeals to tbe purest intelligence, but also for gratui- tously opening it, as he daily does, to all orphan asy- lums und charitabie institutions, whoze inmates could otherwise never alford the ineans of enjoying it, FOREIGN YACHTING NOTES, {From Bell’s Life.) The Shamrock (schooncr), Earl Tankerville, ana Derwent (schooner), Mr. H. Bridson, at Cowes; aud he Chazalie (ss.), Mrs. Gerard Leigh, at Gosport, are fitting out for a winter cruise to the southward. Mr. H. S. Baillie, who Yad the famous Vanessa built, died on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus the day after the vossel’s leaving Southampton, He was on his way tothe East for the bonefit of his bealth. old Friend, Admiral Rous, who seems to have lost taste for matebmaking, is absent ultogether, — RACES AT SANDOWN PARK, DECEMBER 6, ROYAL WUNT STEEPLECHASE, —(Ni Boyne Water, eine a Dutch Sam. Great Easte: PRIORY STERPLECHASE,—(Five ran, )- Luey., Gamut, Alwalton Florimel, . Juvenis. Sugarean, A PROPOSED FOUR-MILE RACE [From the Turf, Field and Farm, Dee, 22.) Thursday, August 20, 1874, at Saratoga, Felloweraft, Wanacrer and Katie Peuse faced the starter in the four-mila dash for a purse of $1,400. The track was fast, but it haa not been specially prepared tor the race, While Fetiowcrait had shown well in previous efforts, it was uot believed that he had the capacity to beat such a rapid horse as Wanderer, But Anthony Taylor, who trained Fellowcraft, had been fortunate im bringing his horse te the post in the prime of condition, Wanderer got the best of the start, but before reaching the tura yielded bis piace up to Fellowcratt, The pace was hot,” The first mile was rua in 1:4734, the second in 1:50, Felloweratt leading Wanderer three lengtha Under the wire; the time of the third mile was 1:61%,,' Wanderer being closer up, and making an ate of 5:20; the pace bad voy tue fourth mile, the time befag 1:50, ‘clloweraft floished two lengths abead of Wanderer, and ran the four miles in 7:194, a quarter of a second faster than Lexington’s famous performance at the same distance. The chest- nut son of Australian and Aerolite was four years old at the time, and he carried 108 pounds. The race, it ia contended by many, would have been still faster had Wanderer been permitted to take the track and run upon bis courage. He was pulled nearly double for the first three miles, and sprawled from one side of Gondr Meee cone cone etm gone The Dolphin, cutter, of 50 tons, has-been purchased by the Rev. I. N, Palmer, The steam yacnt Edeline, Earl De la Warr, which has been laid up in the Suuthampton Water, Just above the Royal Pier, since the spring, when she returned from toe Mediterranean, is again preparing for the same place. Her sails have been bont this week. ‘Yhe steam yacht Queen of Palmyra, the Marquis of Exeter, Commodore of the Royal Victoria Yucht Clu arrived at Southampton ov Sunday from Dover, au on Monday she went into Mr, Alfred Payne’s yard, at This work Cravinton, to be refitted for the winter, will occupy about a month or five weeks, owner wiil then cruise in hor antil: Paris Ho has, it i neighborhood ot Torquay for a few months, Mr. Payne 1s building tor the yacht a new steam launch, She is twenty-seven feet—two oat longer than the present one—ind of very handsome design, The engines, &c., of the old one are to bo transierred to the new one, which, it is expected, will attain a high rate of speed. ‘Ihe schooner Lady Evelyn, the Marquis of Ailsa, Commodore of the Southampton Yacht Club, is hauled up and being re- coppered. Mr, Payne has au eighty-ton yaw! in f and a twenty-ton racing cutter completed, but the la! ter willnot be launched uotil toe yawl, which iin trout of her, ig put alloat, At Mr. Payne’s yard at Northam the schooner Zouave, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, is hauled up to have new bulwarks and stanchions, and the Gertrude, Professor Aciand, will ve recoppered. At Fay’s yard, Northam, the new yaw! which Mr, J, Dummer is building tor Sir Francis Black’ Bart., is nearly ready for her copper, and when she is launched the schooner Egeria, Mr, Mulholland, M, P., will probably be hauled up. The schooner Daring, Sir Charles Harvey, Bart., when she was fied out a8 a racer, had her mainmast shifted, but it has now been placed mw its origin position. She hus not been afloat this season, but will, no donbt, be out next, as her top sides nave been caulked, as have also the deck of the cutter Vol au Vent, Colonel Markham. The steam yacht Glowworm, Mr. Charies Gardiner, which recently returned from the Arctic seas, is laid up pa the mud at Fay's lor the winter. Messrs. Hateher & Co., of Belvidere, have been engaged In extensively altering the cutter Veronica, belonging to Mr. T. G. Freke, owner of the little Freda, The work ts «pprouching completion, and she will soon be ready to leave the way. Her mast was stepped on Wednesday, SPORTING EVENTS ABROAD. The Pall Mail Gazette of December 7 contains the fol. Jowing article on the wiuning owners of the turf dur- Ing the past year:— Last year, as in 1874, Lord Falmouth headed the list of “winning owuers,” bat he ouly occupies jourth place in the returns for the present seasun, having won but £10,060, as against the totals of £17,650, £14,360 and £13,190 credited to Count de Lagrange, Lord Dupplin and Lord Rosebery, The French sporis- man occupies the first place, as in the year when Giadiateur swept the board of the great three-year-old prizes, though it isto be noted*that on the present occasion a considerable proportion of his victories as been achieved by the aid of his two-year-olds. Lord Dupplin, upon the other band, owes nearly thi whole ut his winning score to thé prowess of his three-year-olds, and, though of them Kaleidoscope and Admiral Byng rendered him some service, the best of ali his sixteen winners was Petrarch, who curried off the Two Thousand Guineas, the Prince of Wales’ Stakes at Ascot, and the St. Leger. Lord Rose- very bas to thank Coutroversy and Rosbach for the most valuable of the twepty-tour races placed to his credit: and the former secured, in addition to the Lin- colushire Handicap, several matenes which were well worth the winning, Rosbach won some good two-year-old races, und Levant, whose three-year. old career did not come up to her two-year-old promise, was yet Half enough to meet animals worse than berseif in several heavy engagements, Although Lord Falmouth sustained some severe disappoint- ments inthe running of his three-year-olds tor the great races of the season, one of them, Skylark, least paid his way, and amoug the other animals which contributed to make up his total of £10,060 were the two-year-olds Lady Golightiy ana Silvio, Lady Go- lightly won six prizes, including the Champagne Stukes at Doncaster, whilo Silvio was four times vic- torious, and King Clovis, Young Roscius and Kiuty Sprightly also earned winuning brackeis. Mr. Houldsworth, who bas hitherto met with but scant luck in racing, bas done well this season, for be has a total of twenty-five races, worth in all 782, the majority of which e been won by Springfield—who has run nine times without a defeat —aud Coltness. Sir George Cnetwynd, though his .colors have been successtul po fewer than forty times, has won neariy £2,000 less than Mr. Houldsworth, as most of bis victories have been achieved in selling pilates and small handicaps, and he is not far ubead of Mr, A. Baltazzi, who has Won five races, worth in all £7,426, One of these races was the Derby, in which Kisber secured tne first of the two .races which have been credited to him this season the second being tho Grand Prix Par! which is not inciuged in the English reiurnus, Mr. Hector Baltazat stands eighth with twebty-two winuers of £7,000, and Is tollo' by Mr. W. 8. Crawfurd (sixteen winners and £5,171) and Captain Macbeil (wweuty-tive winners and £4,612). In addition to these ten owners there are seventeen others, among them being Lord Wilton, Lord Harting- ton, the Marquis of Huntiy, Prince Soltykoif, the Da ot Hamilton, Mr, Bowes, Mr. Savile, Mr. T. Jenninj and Mr. Pulteney, whose total winnings exceed £3,000, and there are fifty-six more who have secured be- tween £1,000 and £3,000 each. Lord Zetiand, for in- stance, has won fliteen races, worth £2,696, and Mr. Heneage mine races, worth £2,280, the greater part of which sum was contributed by the recontly deceased Freeman, the Duke of Westminster has won with Dalbam, Helena and Sly dve races, worth £2,070, and M. Lupin, although his Enguerronde only divided the Epsom Oaks with Count de Ligea Glin, is credited with £2,800, in worthy cA nol Let a A, pohte ee eccrine tihyany, who occapied Bo a place in the of 1874 and 1875 with the Tae mosbe winners, George Frederick and ery bave this year won but three races, worth , between them, and Mr. Cha- in has only one prize ef £100 to bis credit, Mr, G. | Payne ta algo very iow Gown the hist, from which bis she track to the other in his efforts to got control of his bead. Leaving might-have-beens ou: of conside eration, Fellowcratvs achievement was, a great one, He carriea the weight and reduced the time reeord which had remained stationary for nineteen years, Since then he has changed owners, and been retired from the varf. After making two light seasoms in the stud i is claimed that he is ia a fit condition to be trained once again for the track. Mr. Littell, his fore mer owner, hus been trying to perstiade Mr. Penistan, his present owner, to prepare bin tor arace next yeui He suggests that tho association at Lexington or tl Jockey Club at Louisville offer a purse for a four mile dash, limited to Ten Broeck, Tom Ochiltree and Fel- Joweralt, requiring ali of them to thom to start. The Kentucky courses are specified for the reason that it is well known that Mr, Harper has declined to come east witn his horse. While Mr. Penistan is not anxious to make a match, we fecl at liberty to say that the suggestion of Mr. Littell strkes bim with favor, Should a Nveral purse of the kind proposed be offered, we do not believe that he would bo the last to enter. Fellow- craft will be soven years old iu the spring, an e ia perfectly sound, there is no reason why he should not make a grand race if properly trained, Ten Broeck « hae beaten his time, but he carriea four pounds less weight, which fact leaves room Yor comparisyn and ar+ gument, A great many look upon Fellowcrait’s 7:1934 as better than Ten Broeck’s 7:15%. If a tour mile race could be arranged between Tom Ochiltree, Fel- lowcraft and Tem Broeck, public exeitement would run high and the crowd would tax to the utmost the ac- commodations of the grounds of theJockey Club which would be chosen for the battle. TROTTING IN CALIFORNIA, {From California Chronicle, Dec, 16.] The contestants for the purse for the 2:39 class at Oakland yesterday, aud the way in which they sold in the pools, were as follows:—Frank, $25; Billy Lucas, $25; Miller, $20, and the field, composed of Lady Emma, Charles Fraok and Woodward, $10. The con- test was a close one between four of the entries, bug there was so much breaking and wild driving as te scarcely necessitate any !engtheued description of the trot. In the Orst heat at the lower turn almostali were on the run, and Lady Emma, bebaving the beat, took the heat by a length from £. H. Miller, who had the like advantage of Lucas, Time, 2:40. In the second heat it was a desperato match, as it were, between KE, H, Miller and Lucas, the former winning by balf a length, Frank being four lengths behind. Time, 2:38%. The betting now was $20 on Miller to $30 tor all the remainder. Tho chief contestants on the third heat were Billy Lucas and Lady Emma, she winning by a short head, afier a pretty trot up tue stretch, in 2:39, Fravk being « good third, 1n the fourth heat it was the turn vf Lucas and Miller to force tbe pace, and at the hull-mile the latter led by ball a length, but when well in the stretch Lucas made a terrible bad break and passed under the wire on a galiop, head and head with Sfilier, but ne ‘Was placed last tor running, and to Fraok and Lady Emma were given the second and third tons, Time, 2:39. For the concluding heat Miller sold 1 $50, Frank $20, Lucas $5 and the Field $15, and the former took the jead and maintained 1t eusily to the end, although on the backstretch he was bred peg by the gray Ubarles Frauk. Time, 2:40. KE, ier took first, Lady Emma second, Billy Lucas third and Frank fourth moneys. PIGEON SHOOTING, Captain Bogardus weut to Sacramento yesterday a! ternvon, and will give an exhibition to-day at Agricul- tural Park, returning in season for his exbibition at Oakland Trotung Park to-morrow. He will endeavor, during the latter part of the month, to get up a mateh, under the English rules, open to all, with tive traps placed five yards apart, and both barrels loaded, the rise to be rom twenty five to thirty yards, and the best shots Dandicapped. 1k he will be chailenged by a ni and Sacramento aimateurs beiore be leav C. A. Brown, of Monterey, it is understo to meet him in a inaich. Mr. Brown says that he would require the Captain to use one-haif ounce oj shot and (wo and a balf drachms of powder—tne same as he uses, LOSSES BY DEATH AND ACCIDENT AT WOODBURN FARM. The losses by death and accident at Woodburn Stock Farm, Kentucky, during the past year, saya the Turf, Field and Farm, have been tar greater than ever before, in common with all breeding farms of similar magnitude death is ever busy, and this year from the list of matrons Ove were stricken, consisting of im- ported Belle Boyd, by Longbow; Ardelle, by Grey Eagle; Alice Jones, by imp, Glencoe; Edina, by imp, TheKuigntot St George; Kitty Clark, by imp, Glencoe, and Voiga, the sister of Vandal, by imp Glencoe, Of these the first two leave nothing behind them to bo remembered at Woodburn save, perbaps, their names. From the loing of the other three, however, descended somo real good ones. From Aiice Jonea, by ‘mp. Giencoe, out of the tamous Blue Bonnet (\he dam of Lightning, Thunder, Loadstoue, Lancaster, «c.), came toe flue hurdler, Jouesvoro, and Anuoite, the winner of the Ladies Stakes at verome Park, in 1870. Haine, by imp, The Knight of St. George, ous of kdb (ue dam of Stonewall Jucksoy, || Shylock, &e) coniributed Minue W., also called Minnie Mac, a very fine race mare, and the winuer, umoug other events, of the second renewal of the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga, in 173, deteating Sallie Watson, Lizzie Lucas, Sunrise, C\ jun aud others; she wat iso dam of Elem, derable success in the colors of Hon. fT. J. Megibbb Kinny Clark, by imp, Glencoe, out of Miss Obstinate, by Sumpter, &c., furnished Woodburn with a long list, prominent among which are Apna Clark and Mutae the latter a fine winner, and, especially, a brood mai Oi great merit, ag is evidenced by ber sons James A and Parole, Volga produced, among others, the cupi- tal pertormer,Barney Wilhams, &c. The mortahty im the ranks of the youngsters was aousually severe, no less than nineteen having succumbed from various causes during the year, Austria, by imp. Anse tralian, out of Lindora, gave birth toa dead Mly by Asteroid. Sue Washington, by Revenue, out of Saran Washington, to the cover of Asteroid, foaled a de- formed and dead colt. Nora, by tmp. Sovereiga, out of Chioe Anderson, had a {filly foal by Asteroid, which died, shortly after its birth, ot rheumatism, Fauchon, by imp. Australian, oat of Idlewild, slipped her foal by Asteroid. Edina, by imp. The Knight of St George, out of Edith, died in giving birth tos cheatnut Dliy by Lexiugion, and close upon ber death came that of the filly olrheumausm. Tiny. Inverness, vy Maccarout, out of EI lost Ler bay colt by Lex. ington, brought avout ‘beutmatisin, tb weeks alter its birt, Alabama, By Brown Dick, dum by Bos- ton, had a chestnut filly, by imp. Australian, which died of rheumatism, and She was full sister to Dickens and Mudge. Kmeti, by Asteroid, out of the dam of Mollie Jackson and Laura Farris, lost her chestout by imp. Australian, from Rheumatism, Veritus, ‘Yull sister to Vauxhall ana Foster, gave birth to a foai by imp, Australian. Night Kose, by imp. ‘t! ra “rt George, out of Relouse, loxt her bay filly, by imp, Australian, trom rheumatisin, Lending, vy Lexingtot out of the dam of Onward, her buy dily, by imp. Australian, also from rhoumae tiem, Lerna, by Asteroid, out of the dam ot Harry of the West, Fanny Cheatham, &c., to the cover of tmp. Australian, bud » bay fily which had its leg broken and was destroyed. Geneva, by Lexington, out of Grigette, bad a gray filly, by Aap. ‘Ausirabian, that died from the cifect olakick. Heswer, by Lexington, ous of Maggie Hunter’s dam, lost her bay filly imp. Austrahan, from the eflect of rheumatism, and tl 48 doubly severe on account of being full Springbok. India, by Lexington, out of # inoie Milteu, shpped ber foal, a ebostnnt imp. Glen Athol. Davee, closeiy following its birth. Heire by a Scythian, out of Hester’s dam, lost her bay colt, by Planet, from rheumatism. Lilla, by tmp, orkeh out of Victoire, Jost her Losing oo oye Obl ja rheumatism, Litla 1s the dam ne aan out od < fiily, by bs a Lily Duke, Vandalia, by Victorre, had a bay lly, vy Fianet, when ‘died of rheumatism sthel lost her chestnut colt, by Wae