The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1877, Page 5

CLUBS AND KNUCKLES. The Jury in Sergeant Thomp- son’s Case Disagree. POLICE ESPRIT DE CORPS. The Brass Button Levee in General Sessions Yesterday, OFFICER TOWNSEND ACQUITTED. Sergeant Thompson’s caso was resumed before Judge Sutherland in General sessions yesterday, and concluded in so far as a disagreoment ol the jury con- cludes such atrial, There was more than one obsti- nate juror in this case, howe: They stood seven in favor of acquittal te five for conviction trom first to list, When business was resumed in the court Sergeant Joba J, Taylor, in charge of the Fourth precinct sta- tion house on the atternoon of February 13, was first called to show the condition of Cannon when arrested and in the station house, but counsel for the defendant having already made Cannon his witness on cross-ex- amination, was bound by Cannon’s own statement, and so Sergeant Taylor was permitted to leave the stand unquestioned. Then several witnesses were called to prove the defendant's good character. On! 20 LAMBLIKE, Superintendent Walling, called to testify to the de- fendunt’s reputation for peace and quietness, sald:— “His reputation for peace and quietness 1s good, very gond.”” Inspector Thorne, called for the same purpose, said that Sergeant Thompson was a man of such a peaceful disposition he was inclined to have him trans(erred to a quieter precinct. Mr, Boll asked witness whether it was the habit of peaceable officers to push or knock down persons be- having in a disorderly manner? The question was ex- cluded, Inspector Dilks, next called, said he always beard that Sergeant Thompson was a man of peacolul ways. Captain Murray, of the Fourth precinct, said “the yeneral reputation of the defendant for peace und good order was excellent.” Captain Williams, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, said:—‘L want no better officer. 1 always found him quiet, gentlemanly and sobor.”’ Captain McCullough, Seventeenth precinct, had known the accused eight or nine years, and knew him to boa quiet, orderly officer, Captain Edward Walsh, of the Twenty-sixth precinct, said he had known Sergeant Thompson ten or twelve years, aud added, “He has beon a reserved and quiet man, not given to quarrelling or strikin, Captain Garland, Twenty-filth preciact, said the de- fendant’s general reputation for peace and quietness has been good. Captain Cherry echoed the good reputation report of the others, Mr. Charles N. Brackett and Mr, Julius F, Cheese- brough, gentlemen not on the force, contributed their mite to the pile of police testimony, in corroboration of the pugilistic Sergeant’s previous peaceable record, until the accused seemed to take on all the mild quali- ties of that amiable young curate of whom Gilbert says:— He plays tho airy flute, ‘And iooks so meek atid blighted, That doves around him toot, ‘And lambkins dunce delighted. The whole thing suggested Arcadia—a land where the police sergeants had nice wings and carried wauds which they waved to travsform evil into good; but never, ob, never, to ‘club the bead ofl” erring fairies withal, Then the case rested, with the understanding that the defence should bave permission to put Justice Kilbreth on the stand to show by him that Cannon ac- knowledged, the day after the alleged assault, that he was 80 drunk at the time of the occurrence he coulda not say what happened, GOING To THE JURY, Tho Sergeant’s counsel then commenced to sum up, but alter the first few sentences Justice Kilbreth en- tered the court room and was called to the witness stand, He could not, however, recollect the circum- stanves attending the making of the complaint before bim, and the summing up went on. Counsel, who secomed to be wholly unprepared to discuss the cause to the jury, had offered to submit it to them without ar- ument; but Mr. Bell intimated that he would sam up fof the people, whatever course the defendant's lawyer might choose to pursue. This determination induced the delendant’s lawyer to speak, and his uddress was & sort of hasty commentary which did not present the testimony in any new light He reminded the jury of their responsibility in the following way :— “On you depends greater consequence than any other tase of assault and battery that could come before you.’? Mr. Andrews, he said, was the head and front of the wholo affair and had worked like a Trojan to bring this case on. He had prepured all the witnesses, ke. As the counsel was goipg on in this vein Mr, Bell interrupted him, and Judge Sutherland told him to confine bi to the evidence, Then the Judge put on bis hat and walked out, waile counsel waded on through the testimony, putting his' own construction upon his own rr n of it, Soon the Judge turned and resumed his place on the bench. Counsel, contin«ing, spoke of the various phases of the occur- rence and the scuffle that would “incur” on such an occasion, Commenting on Cannon’s evidence, he said that witness lor prosecution stated he bad not only been assaulted with a car hook by the driver “or attempted to have been done #0,” but that he was kicked by the Sergeant, too, In such an emergency counsel asked what should an officer do? “Shall he take a ieather and tickle an who is drunk and obstructing public travel?” hen the lawyer reverted to the position of Mr. Andrews again and said it seemed to be his (Mr. Andrews’) intention to slart a new bureau for the suppression of police violecce, Mr. Andrews wanted to be the hero of a new crusade, &c, With some reference to the good character of the accused, counsel closed, THR ASSAULT UNQUESTIONED, Then Mr. Boi! arose and presented the case of the people in a concise and vigorous manner, A police officer, be said, hi 8S right tocommit an assault than an orainary citizen, He is sworn to preserve the peace and should be the last to break it. This cass ‘Was in some sense an extraordinary one on account of | the strong conflict of evidence. Every one of eight reputable witnesses called by the prosecution testi- fled that they saw the defendant strike Cannon from one to three blows. The conflict exists in the fact that the witnesses for the defence say that Cannon was only | pusbea, notstruck, Buteven on this testimony the defendant must be held guilty. The assault was un- questioned. Even the prisoner himself admitted that le bad pushed down ® helpless drunken man three times, wheu he should and could have removed him without violence. It would be hard for the jury to re- Ject the evidence of tho witnesses tor the people, To Feject the testimony, be said, you must conclude that those eight witnesses came up here and deliberately perjured themselves. Detondant’s lawyer (interrupting)—No, sir; that is hot necessary. dur. Bell (to the Court)—Am I to bo interrupted, sir, again by this man? Juage Sutherland (raising bis head and glancing sharply at defendaut’s lawyer)—No, sir. Mr. Bell—Such interruptions are unbeara bie, Imtendanvs lawyer—It 18 unvearable to hear Mr, Bell make assertions to this jury that I know are not to. Judge—Now sit down; this interruption is alto- ether improper. Thue vroweed Mr. Bell proceeded, and urged upon | the jury the strong claims upon them under the evi- | dence to convicy JUDGE SUTHERLAND'S CHARGE. ‘The Judge's charge was briel, He asked the jury to Coneider well the evidence, “Will that evidence,” he asked, “permit you to doubt that under the circum- stances the defendant was justified ip using sufficient force to loosen Cannon's hoid of tho car horses, aud also, it he was drunk, to use sutlicrent force to put bin on the sidewalk off the street? Did the deiend- ant, atter he unloosened Cannon's hold of the reins, of the car horse, unjustifiabiy, violently, maliciously and unnecessarily either knock or push tim down once or oltener??? By maliciously the Judge did not mean to imply that the jary should conciude that the defendant acted spitetuily, but merely that he did an unluwiul act, which wouid of itsell imply malice, The | prisoner swears he shoved Canuon dowa three times, fue did not strike him, They were to consider this as well us the evidence of the witnesses tor the prosecu- tion, several of whom swore positively to having seen the blows struck, and their verdict must be guided by their belief or disbelief of what they heard, AN AGRERMENT IMPOS*IBL At twenty-flve minutes before two o'clock the jury went out, and at ball-past three o'clock Judge Suthor- land sent for them. “Have you agreed upon a verdict?” the Clerk asked, Foreman—No, sit. Judge Sutherland—Is there any prospect of an agree. ment? Foreman—I think not, sir, stood on the firsi ballot. “Suppose you were kept together until to-morrow morning with nothing to eat or to drink, do you think that would make you agree?”? ‘A juror—Tbat woulan’t change my mind, Another juror—It you should kept me here a week I shoura not change my mind, Juage Sutherland (to the foreman)—So you think your minds are made np and you shall continue to dis- agree on this case henceforth and forever? Foreman-—I don’t think there is any prospect of an reement. eradge—Then, gentlemen, I willdischarge you, though We stand now as we NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. sideration of the case they said that they stood five for conviction against seven for acquittal from first to last, Doubtless the Sergeant's good reputation in the wp this instance. friends had tendered him their con- gratulations he passed out of the court room to return once more to his sphere of duty. OMcer George A. Townsend, of the Tweaty-second precinct, was arraigned at the bar yesterday by Assist- ant District Attorney Lyon, in the Court of General Seusions, Part 2, Judge Gilderslecve presiding, charged with baving, op the 18th of June last, violently as- saulted Edmund Gough, a shoemaker, with a club. The prisoner, who was defended by Mr, William F. Kintzing, wore bis uniform and was surrounded by several members of the force. He isa tail, muscular man, with full beard, the compiainanty being quite diminutive in stature, In reply to Mr. Lyon he test- fied that on the day in question he was in the yard of his house, No, 521 West Forty-third street; his little daughter brought in a piece of wood which she had found in an adjacent unfinished building; she was followed by a watchman; the complainant averred that the uccused then entered and commenced clubbing him without provocation, striking him once on the arm as he was warding off a blow, and that be subsequently clubbed him on the way to the police station. He further testified that the effect of the punishment thus received incapaci- tated bim from labor for @ period of three months; he denied huving in any way provoked or assaulted the officer, His testimony was corroborated to some extent by three firemen, named Patrick J. Byrnes, William J, Nobie and Patrick Hanion, who stated that they were attracted to the scene on the day in ques- tion, and on looking up the alleyway tbat led into’ the yard saw the accused clubbing the compiainant twice and knocking him down; there was another man holding au olticer samed Jeflerson, but he subsequently got away; Gough also tried to get away, but not until after he nad b with aciub. Margaret Hartinet and Li te: cross-examination by Mr. Kinizing the witner net became sowewhat belligerent toward the counsel, who succeeded in showing her to be a lady of not the most amiable temperament, TUE DEFENCH, In bis defence the accused testified that he was standing at the corner of Forty-third street and Tenth avenue, in company with Roundsman Coleman, when @ mao notified thom that a fight was in progre: ard mentioned; he at once proceeded th found the complainant and the private watchman quarreling about the possession of a piece of board; tnat he tried to separate them, and that both immediately set upon him, wi the complainant struck bim with a stick across the hand, He denied having used his: club until he had been bit by the complainant, and said he only used the requisite force to take him to the station house, The witnesses further stated that this wus oue of the worst neighborhoods in the entire precinct, and that on the night previous he was compelled to drive the complainant away from Forty-third street for his disorderly conduct, Ho turther testified that the com- plainant resisted him and kicked him on the way to the station house, Ovflicer Jeflerson corroborated this Stutement, bo having been on the spot at the time of the occurrence. Frederick Snyder ulso testified that the compluinant struck the office! Mr. Kintzing called several witnesses, Including Captain Ward, of the Twenty-second precinct, Captain Ulinchy, of the Thirteenth precinct, and others, who testified ag 10 the good character of the accused, who had been a mem- ber of the force for eight years, Mr. Kintzing tnen made a vigorous address on behalf ot his client, con- tending that the character of the complainant and the testimony of the witnesses in uis beball were not such as ought to justify a conviction, The Assistant District Attorney in his reply, which brief and to the point, submitted that the must be treated like any other case, and that the main point to be determinca was whother the police officer @t the bar had used more force or violenee than was necessary in performing his duty. THE JUDGE'S CHARGE, Judge Gilaersieeve then charged the jury. He said the evidence would not warrant a conviction on the first and second counts of the indictment, namely, an assault with Intent to kill, or of an assault with intent to do bodily harm, as the weapon used was not of a character that would readily produce death. Atter briefly reviewing the evidence and pointing out the boaripg on the question at issue, Judge Gilder- went on to say that this was a case that de- ideration, because it was one of importance, It was important, because the police force shoulda be protected and sus- tained in the discharge of their duty when they did bot exceed their power and authority, and when they exercise the power and authority which they possess in a decent and justifable manner. The safety of the community requires very ba ene that thig encouragement should ve extended to them. It gives them courage in times of difficulty and affords them satisfaction in the discharge of their duty, when they are right, for, although at times they are com- pelled to use violence, they should nevertheless bo sustained in their acts, Ou the other hand the people must be protected from the acts of unreasonable officers who may exceed their power and authority. The uni- form should be no safeguard against discreditable or unjustifiable acta, When they offend the law they are equally guilty as apy citizen who may happen to do so, The two sides were thus presented and it was for the jury to determine what the facts were, the accused being entitled to every reasonavle doubt, ACQUITTED. The jory then retired, and after an hour's deliborn- tion returned a verdict of not guilty, whereupon Officer Townsend was discharged. OUR COMPLAINT BOOK, THE FOURTH AVENUE CARS. To tam Epitor oy Tus HEeraLy;— Might I suggest through your “Complaint Book” the inconvenience patrons of the Fourth Avenue Railroad are subjected to on Sundays, The cars run on an aver- age of about ten blocks apart, and then are so crowded as to render it impossible for one to obtain even standing room. — Is the railroad too poor to provide a few moro through cars? Yours, DISCOMFORT, A COMPLAINT AGAINST OURSELVES. To tHe Eviror or tHe Herap:— Inthe Herap, Sunday, March 11, you mention at tho head of the first column on the first page that tho Directory for Advertisers may be found on the finan- cial page, but after a carctul rescarch, as directed, 1 have tailed to find it. Inconsideration that your issue of Sunday contained no less than ninety-6ix columns of reading and advertising matter, it is gratifying to one to know that through the medium of this directory may be touud, at short notice, any particular subject. But, Mr. Editor, would it not expedite matters a littie if the directory were placed in a more cousptcuous place ?—say at the bead of the first column on the first or editorial page? If one always knew whero to find the directory its usefulness would be greatly euhanced, AN ADVERIISER, LOCKED AND BOLTED CHURCH Doors. To tux Epitor or tux Heranp:— Allow me, on behalf of church goers to call your attention to locked and bolted church doors during service. Being obliged to come out of the church (the Holy Apostles, corner of Ninth avenue and twenty. eigtith street) before the service was over a few Sun- days ago, | found, to my astonishment, that the doors were all bolted and locked. It took me about three minutes to get out of the church, CHURCH GOER, UNNECESSARY ENCUMBRANCE OF THE STREETS. To THE ‘TOR oY THK HERALD: — Please add to your list of complaints the unnecessary obstruction of our streets by the negligent depositing thereon of tracks, wagons, sleds, &c., over night. In mavy instances these vehicles are Jeft standing across the street, occupying some ten or fifteen feet. Some are left two and three deep, and all are left trom ove to five feet away from the curb, without any reterence to the space or the requirements of the street, And yet we claim to have a police, cIVIS. PAWNBROKERS’ LAW. To tax Epitor ov Tux Herato:— 1s there any law to protect poor people, who are compelled to deal with pawnbrokers against their overcharges for intercat and advances? A few weeks since I was obliged to pawn a watch with a pawnbroker in Catharine street, Six weeks after I went to redeem it, when he charged me eighteen cents interest on the $3 loaned and twelve cents extra for keeping the watch in bis sale, He charges, also, twepty-tive cents oxtra for banging up a coat’ or dress, atid from six to ten cpnts for a piece of old musiin or calico that may bo wrapped round pledged goods, Cau theso charges bo legal? I think not, W. A, BROWNING A RAILROAD NUISANCE, To tux Error or tik HeraLo;— Permit me, through your useful Complaint Book, to call attention toasmall but very mean nuisance and swindle perpetrated by the Broadway Horse Railroad Company. ‘They switch off some ot their cars at Broome street and cume no turther down town. These cars are of the same color ag those coming down to Barclay street, oxcept a red stripe at the top, on which they write “Broome street ;’ while below, in large letters, exactly like the down-town cars, they have ‘University piace’? painted, which misieads thousands, requiring them to pay again to get down town. 1 saw several ladies to-day :hus misled, and had to waik in the rai to Wooster street aud pay again to get down town. There should be authority somewhere to force this company to paint their Broome street cars entirely different from the down-town oars, so that at a gian and bowever much hurried, a person could tell which car to take, The company no doubt doable their farg thus, and take it Irom people the least prepared to en- aure it, A VICTIM, UROPH. The steamer Wisconsin, which sailed yosterday for Liverpool, carried an enormous mail, consisting of 36,814 ordinary, 465 registered letters and 60 pouches of newspaper: being ihe heaviest mail taken by any you Could hot agree, Myben the Jurors had beun released from further con- one steamer in several yeara, A SOUP MATINEE. OUR COOKS AND WORKINGWOMEN LEARNING TO PREPARE SAVORY SOUPS-—-PROGRAMME OF THE PLAIN COOK'S CLASS—HOW TO RENDER CAB- BAGE ODORLESS, The plain cook’s class of the New York Cooking School at No, 8 St. Magk’s place was formally opened yesterday afternoon by Miss Juliet Corson, that bravest of all women, who has undertaken the formidable task of teaching New York bow to cook, It was Talleyrand who said that America was a country of many religions but only one sauce. Wo have tmproved since ‘Talley- rand, if not in religion at least in our sauces, York can certainly not be said to be now a city of only one sauce. When ladies like Mrs, Paran Stevens pay cooks like the litigious Godeur $45 a week, and when some uptown restaurateurs and clubs pay even much higher salaries to artistic French chefs, there can be little doubt that our taste for good cooking is growing apace with our appreciation of music, art and litera. ture, A first rate cook will now earn as much as an experienced bookkeeper and as many a well educated physician and lawyer of small practice, At restau- rapts like Delinonico’s the bighest order of French cooking may be enjoyed. This, however, only re- moves a small portion of the trouble. While the class of people who can afford to eat at Delmonico’s and the few restaurants of an equally bigh order, and who can pay their cooks $454 week, undoubtedly may revel not only in many religions, but also in many sauces, it must be remembered that they, after all, form onlyan exceedingly small part of our community. COOKING CHEAPLY AND WELL. ‘The question is not **How well can we live if we havo plenty of money ?’’ but ‘How well can we live if we are moderately poor?’ In almost apy of the capi- tals of Europe a good wholesome meal may be ob- tained for filty or sixty cents, and good female cooks may be hired tor $6 or $8 a month, Most of us here cannot certainly afford to imitate Mrs. Paran Stevens in paying aman cook $45 4 week, beside his board, which is probably moro .than the average well edu- cated New Yorkercan earn in these dreadtully bard times. We are glad if wo can flad some humble Irish womua to do our cooking for $12 or $14.0 month. Many of us cannot keep any cooks at all, and itis among this immense class that Miss Corson seeks to accomplish ber beneficent work. Her aim is not only to show that food can be mudo palatable and even delicious which 18 generally spoilt; also to prove that this may be done economi- cally and by people of the most moderate means, Good cooking also means economical cooking, ‘aud the bad cook will waste enough in the preparation of # dinner to provide the goou one with a modest but savory and wholesome meal. Miss Corson, during her cooking lessons, lays the greatest stress on this point of economy, and it isher special pride that she can teach a cook to prepare a yood dinner more cheaply thau be or she could prepare « bad on THE PLAIN COOKS’ COURSE. Yesterday wag a *‘soup matinée,” pot for ladies and housekeepers, out for workingwomen and cooks, aud the lesson inaugurated the popular school of cookery which bas been founded by some of the prominent and partie spirited women of New York, The Board of lanagers consists of Mrs, Robert L. Stuari, of No. 154 Filth avenue; Mrs, Henry 3. Leawitt, of No, 1 Kast Fortieth street; Mrs. M. M. Quackenbos, M Youman: dire, Clarence 1. Mitchel West ‘twenty-fourth street; Misa Youman-, John W. Mitchell and Professor E. 1 and other well known ladies and gen! course of this school of cookery will be as follow: Twelve consecutive lessons will constitute a course, beginning with general stock for soup, Scotch broth, pea soup, consominé, vermicelli and spinach soup. Second lesson, March 15, tish boiled, baked, fried, broiled, and made into fillets. ‘Third lesson, March 20, ragouts, blanquettes and curries of meat, and brolled meats. Fourth lesson, March 22, large meat disbi @ la mode beet, canton of lamb, stuffed breast of veal, and baked bam, Filth lesson, March 27, uliry and game, roasted, tricasséed, boiled and browed. Sixin lesson, March 29, vegetables, Scventh lesson, April 3, macearoni, Eighth lesson, April 6, eges Ninth Jesson, April 10, bread and biscuits, Tenth lesson, April 12, cake und pies, Eleventh lesson, April 17, cuokery for the sick. ‘Iwelith lesson, April 19, dishes for children, A record will be kept of the progress and skill of every pupil, from which her certilicate or referenco will be drawn, These Classes are to be gell-supporting, astar as possible, by small tuition fees trom pupils able to pay, snd to be turther sus- tained by subscriptions aud gifts; all funds received to be expended under the direction of the managers and by persous appointed by them, The toliowing schedule of tuition fees has been fixed upon:—For gi bear their own expenses, and the wives and daughte: of working men, tifty cents tor a single lesson, or tive dollars a course ; charitable societies, in behalf ot their protégés, five dollars @ course; voluntary suscribers will bo entitled to select for traiming intelligent and respectable girls capable of being made valuable heip for young housekeepers, and to send them to a course Of lessons alter consulting tho managers; ladies who wish to send their cooks tor instruction can do so by paying ten doliars a course; the conditions of admis- sion ip exceptional casea will be determined by tue manugers. THR ‘SOUP MATINKR’’ YESTERDAY, Scotch broth, pea, vermicilli and inach soup formed the programme ior yesterday's matinée. Owing to the threatening weathor the class was small, Dut it was an interesting one, nevertheless. Instead of the ladies i rustling silks, such as we had seen at the *omdélette matinée,”’ previously described in these columns, there were a buinber of female cooks {rom Fifth avenue and less pretentious residences, and some sturdy, intelligont working women of the beter class, Who Were anxious to delight their lords with a bow! of delicious soup. 1t would, of course, be impos. sible to describe at length the preparation of the soups, as artistically accomplished by M. Pallas during tho two hours’ lesson, The stock having been mude be- forehand, the pupiis saw, as it were, only tne finale of the soupy periortance. | Miss Corson explained every detail with (he greatest patience, and made her pupils take constant votes, which she careluily revised beiore they lett, “When you cut up the vegetables, girls,” sald she atone timo, ‘do itin a8 pretty a manner as possible, You can cook just as well When you cook nicoly and prettily. There is a great deal 1h the appourance of the food, and the better, the prettier it looks, the more the eaters will like 1,” ‘The “giris” laughed at this good-naturedly, and to judge from their faces they seemed to cordiaily concur ‘with Miss Corson. They were ali very atteniive and eager to learn, but occasionally, when Miss Corson used some word they did not understa.d, suci as ‘nutritious,’ for instance, they seemed slightly stag- gered, Miss Corson, howover, seon tell into « more familar strain of conversation, remarking, pleasantly, “T mast learn some Saxon words,”’ CABBAGE FRAGRANCE, Luckily there 1s uo cabbage soup; but, in spoaking of tho cooking of vegetables, Miss Corson reveuled a new theory of cabbage cooking which, if {teun be up- plied to the national sauerkraut of the fatherland, is well worthy the aliention of Prince Bismarck, Count Moltke and other gentlemen who kindly take ‘care of the German nation. *‘{1 you want to remove the smell from cabbage while you ure cooking 11,” said Miss Corson lightly, and evidently quite unconscious of the greatness of her discovery. ‘puta tiny bit of washing soda into it—a piece not larger than the up of my lead peucil—aud you will find {twill entirely lose 11s disagreeable odor.” Several of the “girls” must have been very fond of cabbage, particularly cabbage without a smell, for they looked immensely pleased at this useful piece of inior- mation. It 18 needless to say that the soups were ail a great success. The pupils smacked their lips apd deciarod they were the best they had ever tastea, M. Pallas stroked his black and glossy mustache with great satis- fuction, cast a lew demurcly tender glances at his silent but admiring scholars, and the curtain fell on the soup matinge. The next lesson will be on ‘Ybursday (to-morrow) and wiil be devoted to fish, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. Another case of corporal punishment was brought before the Committee on Teuchers yesterday for inves- tigation, Tho charges are preferred against Miss Mary Cohen, teacher in the primary department of school No, 26, Seventeonth ward, by the parents of Master Kitnn, the child chastised. After a protracted session, arigidexamimation and cross-cxaminatiop, the cow- mittee decided that aithough Missy Conen had techni- cally violated the law relating to corporal punishinent it Was through inadvertance, and sue was accordingly but slightly censured. SCHOOL RECEPTION. The opening reception of the primary department of Grammar School No, 87 (Eighty-seventh street, near Fourth avenue), took place yesterday morning. Among the visitors present were President Wood, Commis- sooner Trand, ex-Commissioner Fuller, Rev. Dr. Nor- ton avd Mr, David H, Kaapp, | All these gentiemen, with the exception of Mr, Trand made brief ad- dresses complimenting the principal Miss Marvaret MacKean pon the appearance of the scbool and the excellent results of her instruction, The building hus been greatly enlarged and modernized and the recep- tion Was a sort of commemoration of the event, BROOKLYN GAS EXTORVION, Considerable indignation was expressed yesterday among the consumers of gas in South Brooklyn grow. ing out of a notification sent around by the Citizens’ Gas Light Company of an increase in the price of that commodity, About a year ago the same company was constrained to reduce their price of gus, which was rapidly being abandoned for oil, from /$275 per 1,000 feet to $2 26 per 1,000. This action bad the efleet of inducing many consumers to Use gas again. Emboldened by tho quiet submission to enormous bills, and the aecept- ance of @ miserable quainy of gas, the com. pany has now raised the price from $2 46 per 1,000 to $2 50, the increase to date from Maren 1, ‘The result will be favorable to the oi and lamp dealers, 4s 1 the prevailing cycle of economy in expenditure necessitated by reduced incomes the long suffering customers of the Citizens’ Gas Company wiil ve likely Wo give oil a trial, THE GAME OF LOVE How Pretty Mary Bischoff Lost the Right Bauer, WOOING A FARMER'S DAUGHTER, A Rustic Maiden Seeking Judicial Balm for a Broken Heart, “Will Your Honor be able to commence the trial of my breach of promise suit to-day?” asked Judge Thompson, yesterday, of Judge Barrett, as the latter was about to hear counsel sum up ina suit which bas been on trial before him for several days, ‘It will take the entire day to fuish this case,” an- swered Judge Barrett, Then | suppose I can tell my clieut she need not stay in court upy longer ?”? pursued Judge Thompson. “Certainly,” replied Judge Barrett, “only have her and your witnesses here in the morning, as the case is the next to be tried.”” The eyes of many among the curious throng of spec. tators which filled the court room—and it 1s a profound wonder to many where these throngs come trom and bow they can spare so much time for court attend. ance—had noticed a solitary young lady seated at tho further side of the room, under one of the mammoth windows. As her counsel whispered to her and she rose and left the room more searching was the gaze, for, alter what counsel stated, she became at once an object of increased interest. Plainly but neatly dressed, rosy cheeks and of buxom figure, and posse: ing features fair to look upon, though not chiselled ia the delicate mould of a Venus de Medicis, it was quite evident from her diMdent manner—and many, doubt- less, thus guessed it—that sbe was not a city bred girl, buta bouncing country girl the bloom of whose cheeks and the sparkle of whose eyes bad budded and bright ened in some remote rural district, LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM Cochecton Centre is in Sullivan county, of this State, Mary W. Bischof was born in this town of curious nomenclature in 1854, apd 1s now in her twenty-third year, Her father is an humble farmer, a ropresenta- tive of one of the early and frugal German sottiers in the county. Mr. Valentine Bauer, also of similar. descent, occupied an adjucent farm, Tho latter had a son, Philip N. Bauer, who 1s now about twenty-five years of age. These two children of course became acquainted with one another in early childhood. Ac- cording to the statement of Miss Bischoff, tho adolescent Philip early evinced a partiality tor her society, and she was not at ail loath in reciprocating his juvenile attentions. They went to school together, ‘went on Fourth of July picnics together and together made merry at country winter gatherings, and not unfrequentiy indulged tn the luxury of mutual sleigh. rides. In short, they grew up a8 country young peo- ple grow up, and, with increasing years, became moro strongly attached to one another, SEXKING A FORTUNE, After all, a humdrum country life did not suit the aspirations of the growing young farmer. A higher ambition seized him, and, tiring of being a ploughboy and living the monotonous life of a farm lavorer, he Persuaded his father to sell the farm and come to this city, in the hope of bettering their fortune. Nothing better presonting itself, Mr, Bauer, Sr., opened a bill- jard saloon at No, 696 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Young Philip was hero installed as barkeeper of the establishment, a position for which, It is stated, he showed great natural aptitude; so much so, that he speedily developed into a concocter of mixed bever- erages of rare and skilled merit, THK MARRIAGE BNGAGEMENT. In the early summer of 1875 Philip revisited Cocheo- ton Centre, and for threo weeks was a guestot the family of Mr. Bischoft. During this visit, Mary states in hor complaint, an engagement of marriage | ‘was entered into between them, and the 21st of August fixed upon asthe happy day. This ante-matrimonial ir having thus been satisfactorily settled, Philip returned to Brooklyu to his vocation as barkeeper. Meantime Mary remained at home in happy anticipa- tion of her coming nuptials, MISSIVES OF LOVE. Like most youthtul swains, the cacorthes scribendi, soized Wbilip, and he began writing to his afflanced. There is no groat literary merit in bis letters, bat it certainly cannot be said that they lack ia oxpressions of evident ardent attachment. The following extracts from some of these episties reveal, as claimed, the “true inwardness’’ of Philip at that tim: CANNOT SLEEP, Brooxtyn, July 1, 1875. My Daruino Lirtis Wire: I ag that these fow lines will meet you as well they have left me. If you only knew how J love you! I wish you would lown. arted. Last night I could hardly sleep. I hope you will love no one else Father and mother and tho girls are well satisfied that we are going to be marriod. I will now close my lettor by sending my love to you and all the folk. Your love husband, Hi BAUER. DREAMING OF HR, Brooxiry, Aug. 3, 1875, T feel awful down-h My Dartisa Litter Wire: Tain dreaming of you all the time and I wish that you would come down #0 that I would feel better, for I feel mi able, Mary, if you know how 11 11 well nnd send their love to you all, s you teas soon ux you can and lek me know how youloveme. * * * [will now close my letter by sending you all the love I have for nny one in this world, und I hope that you love mo as well as I love you, I think we ouxht to get niarried as soon as we can, I'don't know of anything else to write, From your loving husband, PHIL BAUER, ‘TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. BRooxtyy, August & My Dean Lirrix Wire rat 1s to Bi: How aro you enjoying yoarself up there. * * * Now, love, 1 want to tell you one thing, that is that you take good care of yourself. * w close my letter to You by sending my best respects to all the friends I have up theo and also by giving my heart to you, as [ hope that youhave given yoursto me, Your loving husband. t HOW DO YOU FREL, DARLING? Brook .yn, August 15, 1875, SUNDAY MonNinG—-7 o'clock. My Danuina:— How do you fool this mornin, * * Dear, you stay up tll L come to ybu, because tt {sno more than right that we should get married up there. Father thinks so. * * * My. pets | bop “A im good care of y eee Tr wilh asting Jove to yon, m3 our loving and intenited hush: PHIL BA THR SPIRIT OF HIS DREAM CHANGED. Miss Bischoff alleges in her complaint au uncondi- tional promise of marriage by Philip Bauer. The later, in bis answer, admits that there was an engage. ment of marriage, ‘but says that it was conditional upon the consent of his parents, A further letter | written to the plaintiff by the defendant, notwithsta: | ing what appears in the above letters, gives what parports to be the result of Philip’s interviewing his | father om the subject, and who, according to the ac- | count given by the gon, might very properly have sat for a portrait of ‘my Awiul Dad.” Hero is the Jevter:— arself. dvrling. LR, Goopny. Broonuyy, Aug. 20, 1875, Many — When I told father I was about to get married he became very wnery with me, and said ‘Against his wishes and that we coul gether any longer. Twas ob dived to cl 4 small sum a week for keeping bar, dew of getting married at all, tor if L did 90 tender, Father is very angry, a p my present place. IU muxt giv for Lam unable to take care of a wife. So 1 will bia goodby. Forever yours, PUL BAUKI ‘The above ietter, a8 will be seen, was written on the day previous (0 that appointed for the marriage. In- | stead of the expected husband and the expected gala | wedding feast, oF Which preparations had been made, | there came this cold, cruel letter. There is one more letter of the defendant, the closing of this opistolury correspondence. We give this letter verbatim et liter atim without further comment, TAKES BACK HIS GUN. BRooKiys, position of bur- to do as he wants up my engagement, Sep. Ist., 1875, Miss Bisenore :— You will please give Billy my gun and ohlize n PHEL, P, S.=I have taken Horace Greeley’s advice to po West PHIL BAUBR, WALM VOR A BROKEN HEART, Miss Bischof! places ber damages at $5,000, Sho os that if Philip did go West he is now back at tis | old place and in partnership with his father, She says, further, that they have accumulated a handsome | property and own two brown stone front houses 1) Brooklyn, Sho that ¢he does not care for inon butin bringing the uit i actuated by a sole desire to punish the periidious Philip. The further statement is Made by her, thongh these latter allegations are not coutaived in'the complaint, that Phiip, four months | alter breaking off his engagement with her, married a | young lmly in Brooklyn, though she does not show | any indication of beioe broken hourted it evident that the sentiment ofthe poet O, twine me a Bauer of woodbine and roses does not fod the response in her heart these lines | formerly would bave evoked, and that she uo longer 18 quite | sings ag did the Pert in Lalia Rookh. There's n Buner of roses by Kendemeer's And the Dightingale sings round it all th | but rather gives utterance to the flat-fooied statement | that her old lover has goue “where the woodbino twineth."” A PREINCELY DONATION. A check for 000 was received at their meoting last evening by the trustees of the “8, I. Smitn In- firmary,” of Staten Island, trom Mrs, Jobn ©. Green, a8 a donation from the estate of her late husband. In accordauce With ber suggestion the amount is to be securely Invosted and the interest devoted to the care and support of victims of sudden accident or tem. porary illness, for whose relief the infirmary is maintained, THE NEWARK RAILROAD TRAGEDY. WHAT CAME OUT AT THE CORONER'S INQUEST— CORROBORATION OF THE CONDUCTOR'S STATE- MENT—THE INQUEST NOT ENDED, In Newark yesterday Coroner Bassett and a highly respectable and intelligent jury of we! men began an inquest touchtag the causes leading to the death of Joseph Prinz, the Newark and New York Railroad victim, The evidence adduced went to corroborate the statement of Mr. McVay, the conductor, published in yesterday’s Hxnauo, viz:—That Pring, behaved indi cently and was ejected trom the cars at the Kast Ferry street Station, without updue violence, and that his in- juries were the result of being struck by another train while walking along the track. TRSTIMONY OF PASSENGERS, The Grst witness placed upon the stand was Mr, Joseph H, Bunsted, uf No, 14 Virginia street, Jersey City Heights, Mr, Bumsted testified that be is a New York merchant and w: passenger on the half-past six train, on the Newark and New York Railroad, to Bergen avenue last Friday evening, March 9, 1877; the car in which witness rode was comfortably filled; after the train bad been in motion five minutes, and when near the Commupipaw station, witness noticed a man with a glazed satchel coming from the forward part of the car; as he approachod, saw that he was improperly exposed; witness stood up and opened a paper, which be was reading, to obstruct the view of the lady sitting in the seat with him; when the conductor came through he informed him that there was a man so exposed; the conductor asked where, and witness replied that he would find him before he got through the train; witness got off at Bergen avenuo; when on the plat- form, before alighting from the train, looked back and sawthe man sitting in the last seat in the rear; he was talking to the conductor; witness spoke to the conductor because there wore ten or twelvo indies in the car; witness judged that the man was undor the influence of liquor; bis appearance indicated that and his countenance had the expression of a half witted he walked the whole Jength of the car in his 'd condition; he did not stagger like a drunken he was unconcerned avout his personal appear- ance and passed on to the end of the car; believe there was @ water closet on the car, vames Evans, of No, 33 Mandeville avenue, near Jer- sey City, another passenger on the same train, testi- fied that wnen near Communipaw station he’ saw a passenger with a black satchel coming trom the for- ward part of cur; tho man was exposed; should think the man was drunk; he swayed in bis walk and came along slowly; be had a blank smile on his face and looked foolish; do not think be smiled on account of recognition of iriexds; Witness spoke to him and told him that he had better hurry along as he was not ina fit condition to be up; no ono interfered with him; the car was lighted; did not notice in which end of the car the closet was located; witness got off at Bergen ave- nue and saw no moro of the man, Henry Schorb, of West Side avenue, Jersey City, still another passenger, had a similar story to tell. THK DOCTORS STATEMENT. County Physician Leslie 1), Ward testified to mak- ing & post-mortem examination on the remains of Joseph Pring on Monday afternoon; found that eight ribs on the right side were fractured, jour of them in two places; the right lung was lacerated in two places and tho liver was torn to tho depth of about ten inches, onthe right lobe; there was blood in the cavity of the chest and abdomen to the amount of about two quarts; there was a wound across the fore- head, from tho centre to the right; it was through the ecalp; thero was no’ fracturo of tho skull, only scalp wounds; there was a wound on the right arm, avout half way between the shoulder and the elbow; it was a small, penetrating wound; the wounds on ‘the forebead and arm seemed as if produced by a sharp instrument; caunot toll whether or not the wounds were inil.cted by a sharp instrument; the wounds had been dressed before wit- ness examined them; there was nothing which ine dicawd a blow; think a piece of iron could produce such acut; the Wound in the arm had the appearance of having been made by some sharp instrument; the immediate cause of death arose trom blood in the chest and abdomen; the lung may have been lacerated by the broken rib over it; tho liver seemed to have been broken from tho jar he 1s supposed to havo re- ceived bf A TICKET AGENT'S STORY, Abvrabam Turbett, of No, 90 Jackson street, Newark, testified that he was station agent ut tho East Ferr; street depot of the Nowark and New York Railrond; was on duty Friday night, March 9, 1877; tho five mine utes past seven train from Newark struck a man at Madison street bridge; witness’ station was closed at that time and he had left; was in bis father’s house, corner of Madison and Dowing streets; heard the en: gineer whistle down brakes and went out to see what was the matter; found aman lying on the northerly bank of tne road, east of Madison street; took hoid of the man and asked him if he was burt; he said that he was poisoned; askea bim It he could stand up and e said = *Yos;” he stood up; witness banded him bis’ satchel and his bat; asked him where he lived, and be replied in Prince ‘street, noar Springtield avenue; he said he wanted to go home; his face was bloody; witness took the man to Mr. Burns’ drug store, corner of Madison and Ferry streets; Mr. Burns washed his face and then a policeman took him to the police station; the man walked from the drug store to the police Station; witness was with the man about an hour, but he complained of no other wound but that on his head; he talked as if he was intoxicated; he suid that he was struck by the train; be said nothing about being struck by any one; he said that he had been put off the train from New York and that was the reason he was on the bank; he said that the conductor put him off because he wanted to change his seat; he = did) not say—stthat— the conductor used any violence or had any holp; bis dress was disarranged, but he was not exposed; he aid the conductor put him off the cars at East Ferry street; he said he had been to New York and foit sick; think the man was struck by the engine of the five minutes past seven train from Newark; the train stopped and backed up; George Marsh was conductor; witness told him that be would look afier the man, and then the train went on; witness smelled the man’s breath and believed that he had been drinking; the man insisted tn the drug store that he had been poisoned, and spoke of his wile and children; Madison street is tbree- quartet a mile irom East Ferry strect; the bal!-past six o'clock train from New York is due at East Ferry sireot at five minutes to seven; witness got on the train and rode up to Ferry street; saw the man put off the train at Ecut Ferry street; think there were live cars on the train; the man was put off the fourth car, wt the rear; witness got on tho same plat- form; this train always stops at Kast Ferry street; tho man was put off as witness goton the train; the con- ductor sald, “If you won’t behave yourself you can’t ride any further on my train,” the conductor called upon Witness to assist; witness took hold of the man’s right hand and belped him to alight; the conductor | banded him bis satchel and his coat atter he was on the plattorm; the conductor took bold of him by the left arm; the man was not put out violently; he went out peaceably and mado no sensation except by taiking; witness was the first person to reach the man alter he had been struck by the locomotive; conductor did not toll witness why be put the man off; there are about fifteen blocks between Hast Ferry ktreet and Madison sireet; when witness stepped on the platform of the cur the man was sitting in @ rear seat; he was shaking his finger at the conducter and he said, +1 will fix you,’ the conductor said that he must get off it he did not behave himself; the conductor’s name was McVey; witness took bold of the man’s band and he got up and walked out quietly; the 6:30 train was on time; witness picked the man up from the bank about | eight or ten minutes pust seven o'clock; on entering the car the conductor sald to witness:—"Here, Ed, give usa hand,’ and witness helped; the man stepped off the car himsolt. Atthis point tho Inquest was adjourned until this afternoon. THE BAR ASSOCIATION. The regular meeting of the Bar Association took place at the rooms No, 7 West Twenty-ninth street last evening, the chair being occupied by Genoral Charles W. Sandford, vice president, The treasurer reported a balance to the credit of the general fund ef $6,656, The act for the pumshment ot defaulting assignees, | referees, trustees, guardians, executors, &e., prepared by a ‘committce {or presentation ‘to the Logis: | lature, was read by tho secretary and drew | out some opposition, On mouon of D. Lb. | Katon the committee were requested to promote | such amendments to Senator Gerard’s bill on the | same subject, which bas passed the Senate, as will | embody (he main features of tho bill submitied by them — A discussion occurred on the relative merits of | Croop's Jury bill aud that of the Judges? bill on Mr. the gaine subject, Mr. Delatield offered « resolution requesting that the Commissioners for revising tho stutuies be requested to adopt suggestions made to them by the judges, The motion was lost and the subject wastdropped, On Sunday night last a row took place bet ween somo young men in a concert garden at No, 128 Clinton strect, In the mélée Josoph Becker, of d 3 Pee atreet, was stabbed ia the right shoulder, When he was first struck he thought he had been bit with a siungshot, and did not know he was stabbed tli he felt the blood running down his back, He was taken present suifering severely trom dungergusly injured. Hin allog Kiniman, of No. 540 East Eleventh street, w: rested Meer Johnson, of the Thirteenth p Yesterday, aud was vrougut before Jadge Wandell at Essex Market Police Court The prisoner remembered being at the garden Sunday night and saw the row; bus said he knew nothing about the stabbing. William Hill, another person who Was present at the time, tos. tifled that be saw the row and saw Kininan stab Becker in the shoulder, Kiniman was committed to await tae result of the injuries Le inflicted. FIRE IN JERSEY CITY A fire broke out on Monday night in the here of Henry Voening, on Grace street, near Summit avenue, Jersey City, during the absence of the family, and betore the flames could be brought under control tho adjoining building, owned by Joun Babm, also caught fire and was towully destroyed. The logs on both build ings 1s $4,600, which is partially covered by insurance, | to bis residence by bis friends and remains there at | THE MARSH DIVORCE A Decree Entered in a Jersey Court Against the Faithless Wife. AN APPEAL TO A PARAMOUR —— os Vice Chancellor Van Fleet on the Mars riage Relation. BS aS The divorce case of Marsh vs. Marsh, which created such excitement at the time of the hearing, bas beea decided in favor of the complainant, Mr. George W, Marsh. The parties move in the best society and arg well known in Brooklyn and New York, Mra, Marsh, a preity blonde, 1s the daughter of Henry C, Foster, « wealthy beer dealer of Brooklyn. She was considered quite @ belle before her marriage with Mr, Marsh, Yesterday Vice Uhancelior Van Ficet read the decree, which contains a brief résumé of the evidence and states at length his views of divoree, TUK DECKKE The complainant seeks a divorce from bis wife on the ground of adultery, The adultery is alleged to have been committed’ while the parties resided 10 Jersey City. The husband's vesiness kept him in New York three nights of each week until pear midnight, ‘he other four were spent at home. The defendant and her alleged paramour became acquainted about t 1st of June, 1876. From about that time they were Vogether two or three ovenings ofeach week, generally, ant was absent They u or in tho street. A servant girl who lived in the complainant's tamily during the whole period of the intimacy swears that the person with whom the adulvery ts charged to havo been committed came to Mr, Cook's almost every night; if the complainant was at home, the defendant would stay in, but if he was away she would go down and they would go out together; that sho threw notes to him outof the window; te tended evening picnics with bin, and on such sions, when she was with them, in charge of the feudant’s babe, the delendant told ber to addr as the wife ot the alleged paramour, by cult —-," mentioning his name. This witness also to declarations by the defendant tally admitting the adultery. it is undisputed that on the evening of July 13, 1876, these parties met by previous appoint= ment on @ street corner iu Jersey City, walked & short distance together, then took a street car to the elevator by which the ascent to Jersey City Heights is made, ascended vy the eievator and passed along the public way tor pearly a quarter of a mile, then turned into a pathway and went to aplace situated ina so- cluded spot, distant from 100 to 160 yards trom the public way, The husl to watch them on this occasion, two of whom pursued up to near the p reached the pl he crawled up io within yerss, of them and saw sufllcient, if bis evidence is be- teved, toestablish thoir guilt beyond all doubt, Tho alleged paramour has been examined as a witness on behalt of the complainant, Ho Swears that he never had crimioal intercourse with the defendant, but admits that he confessed to the complainant ha had bad, but says the contession was made under fear of @ threat that he could be seut to State Prison, the complainant representing to him that he could prove the adultery by four witnesses, Ho also admits that he knew the complainant was unwilling he sould associate with his wile and had “hard feei- ings’ against him for doing so, He also admits that since this suit was commenced the defendant has written several notes to him which were delivered vy an unknown man, and that alter reading them they were returned to the unknown person at his requosi. He also says in September last tho postman Jott at his residence a letter addressed to bim, without signa- ture, dated Brooklyn, September 12, 1876, in which the writer suys:— Cae de= ACIUNG POR MIM, You poor, denr darling. you luoked #0 T saw you tat my he hed for you. ran through me should not ale and thin when t made acold chil Jor, {t wnyching should happen to you, T etolive enother iinute, fort love yeu. Ro. My lite would be w biank without you. if Twas sute L was all in all to you [ would be happy nd reconciled to what may come. I have several times tried to get out of you whit your imtentions aro toward me, but [ never couid et you to tell me plainly what you intended to do situs this thing ix over. New, why do you not speak plain right out and pat my mind Wt ease, tor it this uncertain at fair 1 shall yield to & great temptation put bef re me. You tor 1 have proved it to you in many ways nxious to sea you, Answer this right away, and speak your mind to me in your letter It will reach no other harids than mine, and I will return It to you ‘Thursday evening it you come o nd L shail expect you toretura imino, “Tt fy the salest. wud best way. Ont how my arms are aching to be i your neck, my preclous darling. * * * remain, as ever, yours till death. WHAT SUCH A LATTKR MEANS, He jurther says he has never seen the defendant write, but he subsequently stated he had received notes from her both velore and alter this letter wus received, and that when he received this he supposed sho had written it. If their intercourse had been puro aud innocent it would have been impossible tor such a thought to enter his mind. He could uot havo sup- posed she wrote it unless he knew her mind and heart were utterly depraved. It contained a plain demand upon him to declare whether, when this divorce suit was over, he intended to marry her or not, and aiso a declaration as plain as janguage could make jt that their relutious had been criminal, A wife who writes to @ man not her husband and with whom she has associated nightly at other places thag her home in the absence of her husband, **You know that [ love you, for 1 have proved it to yous many ways,” “my arms are aching to bearound your peck, my precious darling,’ assures him of a lusuial love and reminds bim that he has had many proofs of itin their licentious enjoyments. ‘The letter reminded tha ‘amour of the repeated attempts the writer ba made to find out what were his inventions toward her; it confessed a lecherous love for him, and appenled to his recollections for the many proots that bad been given ot it, Lt was impossibie for him to believe toe defendant had written it uoless all these were to him internal evidence of its authenticity, 1t spoke of Secret transactions in which they alone wero the actors, and unless tts statements were kuown to him to be truthful he could not have supposed she had written it, The complainant’s brother, who swoars that he ts acquainted with the defendant's bandwrit- ing, says he believes the letter was written by the fondant, Her father swears he does nov think wrote it, while the person ty whom it was sent, and who had been in the habit of receiving notes from her, says when he received it hy snppusod she had written 1, IT have compared tt again and again with a lever in evidence admitted to have been written by the de- fendant, and 1 ai compelled to say that I cannot get Tid of the conviction they were both written by tha same hand. THK MARRIAGE RELATION. Civilized government wverywhere rests upon the marriage relation. The courts sould never dissolv the relation except upon full, clear and conclusiv: proof of the cause of tivorce, A judgment of divorce should never be pronounced upon doubttul proofs, If mistakes ure committed they should be committed in favor of the continuance Of the relation, no matter bow painful the consequences are to the immediate parties concerned. Suitors should understand that marriage is sacred ond inviolable in the eye of the law and will never be broken by the courts except the proots make the path of duly plaiu and clear. 1 have considered this case with an oarnest desire to ascertain the truth, 1 contess I hava | examined it with a hope that I might be able to reach aconcl.sion that the conduct of the defendant had be: ly impradent and not criminal, But the prools will not permitit’ They force me to the conclusion that the de endant ts an adultresa, and I must so de. clare. A divorce a vinculo will be advised. The Chancellor directod the complainant’s counsel, Mr. W. D. Daly, to enter bis decree. KIDNAPPING IN BROOKLYN, Catherine Young, a bright colored cuild of about ten years of age, disappeared rather mysteriously om Saturday last from the residence of her aunt, Mra Demarest, No, 335 Gold street, Brooklyn. A Vigilant search wae made to discover ber whereabouts, and yesterday «tternooa the lice found her stowed away in the apartments of Heary Cornelius, colored, No. 353 Gold street. Cornelius was al once arrested, 48 also Catherine Crosby, residing iv the same house with the cbild’s aunt, on the charge of kidnapping, The child stated that she had been bid away under Cornelius’ bed tor hours at a time, and that yesterday morning be took her to a house in Adelphi street and tried to bire hor out for a servant, bat she was too stall and the lady refused to have ber, Ju Walsh yesterday committed the prisonors tor examination. VALENTINE'S VILLANY. ele An examination was commenced in the Sixth Dis. trict Court, Brooklyn, before Justice Semler, yester- day, of the charges of assault against Kdward Porry Valentine, ‘The prisoner, who is respectably con: nected, 18 accused of aysaulting In a most outrageous and bratal manner Mary and Annie Maco, who are sisters of his wife, and are aged thirteen and sixteen = years = respect. ively. The complainants and their mother ‘estfied to the particulars of the assault, which are unfit for on, The accused, Who 8 about twenty-six ud UNprepossessing im appearance, ad- intited the fact charged. The prisoner's wite testified jo bis behall, wud a man named George Bail testited ag against the reputation of the complainants for truth, His testimony was contradictory aud was stricken out, The case was adjourned tilt to-day, JERSEY CHARLER ELECTIONS, The Jorsoy City Democratic General Committee has appointed Tuesilay, the 27th inst, for the primaries and the 20th inst, for the conventions, The election will be uuusually exciting this year in consequence of tho passage of tho vill abolishing legisiative commis. sions Tho mowmbers of the 7 od Pablo Works Board are to be elected by the people, one from each Aldermanic district. No fewer than forty-t patriots have offered their services to the peo; the vacant commissionerships in the Second district alone, At uneasy feoling prevails among the mombors of the Police and Fire departments, as well as the other office holders, at tho prospect of a change under the new administration whieh will be of a moro comapleg character than any other régime