The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1877, Page 6

8 WORMONS U) MASKED, The Herald’s Work in| Uprooting Crime. WOMEN UNDER DURESS, Brigham’s Deceit—Pretending to Talk with God. 2 Bostox, May 16, The enterprise and inverest wich the NEw Yous Heratp bas ulways manifested in exposing the fear- fal atrocities which have ever characterized that Infa- ‘mous institution of Mormonism must soon meet witb serious recognition and be followed by vigorous uction | on the part of the United States government, This 1s | the enthusiastic declaration of a former resident of Salt Lake City, whom your correspondent interviewed in this city to-day in the person of Major J. B, Pond, | formorly of the United States army. Latterly he bas | been residing in Boston, but since bis removal from | Utah, ten years ago, he as made frequent visits to the | Territory, and his experiences and observations confirm | a tning of the past. Mr. Pond said tbat if the Nuw | the very worst reports and suspicions-of the complicity of Brigham Young in the numerous outrages which | have beon permitted to disgrace a civilized community. FRAUD AND HYPOCRISY, | Major Pond said:—‘l like the stand which the New Voux Herato has taken in regard to the Mormons— that is, the fair manner in which it gives intelligence of jhe condition of aflairs in Utah, and if the representa- | lives of that paper will only parsue a straightforward | tourse and not allow theirselves to be influenced in- | turectly by people who ate bought by Mormon money, Shey are going to skow up the worst fraud and the worst hypocrisy that bas existed on tho face of the | varth for the last three centuries, 1 know it. I have yeon in Utah when aGontile would no more dare to | valk tho streets after dark than Wendeil | *hillips would have undertaken to bave goue er the rebel lines during the hotiest part of the reboilion, unless be was in tompany with some Mormons thut were friendly to him, and to speak to a Mormou woman or anything of | shat kind wag certain to result In a@ maa being ‘put | *outol the way,” as they term it there. Nothing has been done to show this up, because of intimidation, | except what was printed by the Salt Lake Tribuneand | utterances of such men as General Conor, now in | Utah und ono of tbe first gentlemen there; ulso their conduct was denounced by Judge Cradel- porgh, who found it too bot for him, and could not itay there. Well, tor tho lirst few years they were sompelled to stay within the limits of Camp Douglas, Mf they held otlices; but atter civilization got there and railroads begun to be coi ucted and reached them she Mormons were more careiul, PERSECUTION OF AN UPRIGHT JUDGE, Chief Justice McKeon is one of the purest men that er lived, and he was reinoved because of his persist- | ance in showing up frauds and because he was a gentl man who could not be bought. In his case they had to resort to thoir usual custom, which is, if they cannot buy a man, to break him down with the government, Mr. Beadie has written sume books on Mormonism, | auc he wrote some facts about Mill Hickman woich @cre true. It has always been supposed Ly many peo- ple here that they were seusational, but they were Unquestionably iucts careiuily compiled, and M Beadie’s testimony and that of others, can pro them. All ol tne Mormons know that they are facts, ANN ELIZA YOUNG'S STORY NOT EXAGGERATED, The statements of Apn Eliza Young herseif in her book are facts, Her mother, Mrs, Webb, who was | terviewed by a HxKALD correspondent at Lockport Y., the other day, is a very truthiul womau, Her hus. band is a Morinon, who is still among the Mormons, and has three other wives, but be 18 afraid to tell the whole truth of the matter, | think that Mre. Webb, aua especially her busband, know a great deal more wbout that Mountain Meadows massacre than they | would tell, becuuse they lived at that time tu tuesouih- | tn porlion of the Mormon country, and could not have belped, from their position, kuowing a good acal | ebout it; but sui! I think they bave interests there, and candot make au open bgt without bemg turced over to what is known in Mormondom as the *Buffet- ing of Satan.” MORMON MURDERS AND OUTRAGES. ‘The Gentiios who have been murdered iv Utah arn without number, | remember I was travelling 16 Ualiforaia three years ago, and I found people there who had been outraged by the Mormons, aud was told of others who had been burned at the stake, aud whose trienus had been murdered when they were on their way to Culifornia. 1 remember one instance when the publisher of the Sacramento Record told me that en 4 purty was op ils way across the country they were met by tbree Women. | think they caine to them | } | | thousand, who are addea to the Territory {he Gentile A PROLIFIC KACE. “The Mormons are the most prolife race, and makes | business of increasing their population, It is ipbred 1a the iphabitants, instilled into their minds that they must marry ear!y and bear chjldren, and they do 1 with uw Vengeunce. They are bearing all the time. hore not jess than 30,000 or 40,000 children in the Terri- of Utab at this time who bave been born there. ght that Brigham Young is next to God, (bat be converses with Hi that be meets Him face to lace every da; thougut and action of ull Morinous, and watch’ by day and night, and it 16 going to be agood while before that religious conviction can be driven out of the mindsef x people in whom it ts born and bred, FOLLY OF ARMED RESISTANOS, “As far as their being able to dety she government of the United States ts concerned, they have never been uble to defy it except through their mouey.” In ausWer to an interrogatory as to his opinion of how much of an army Brigham could raiso, Mr. Pond Bull i= Well, should think that if Brigham Yo@ng was | cailed upon to ruise an army te defend bimeelt he | could bring forward between 30,000 and 40,000 men, jn {uct more than that, counting women, for I believe the women would ight ut nis command, because it is | Inbred im them that Brigham is sacred and they would nol, 1u MY Opinion, hesitate to take arms, many of | | | | them, with the men, against invaders.?’ in conciuston, Mr, Pond argued that it was only 4 question of time as to the upheaval of Mormonism. He said it had been & matter of great surprise to bum, and to every one who visited Utub and became cogal- | gant of Brigham Young’s connection with fanumerable outrages, that the federal government allowed 1 rr ou there knew of it, and he aud many Eastern people think that if the poopie of the United states | comprebended the volcano of corruption tn our lund wil the borders of Utah would be but a very short time before Mormonism wouid ve known only us Yous Hexacp would persist in its present investiga~ tious it would undyubtedly have the honor of having uprooted the Sainis, sud gain the approbation justly due the course of # fearless und independent public journal. YHE LAND OF PERFECT PEACE, [From the Salt Lako News, May 9. | Sals Lake City and Utah are as peaceable as any other purt of the Union, There 16 no thought of any- thing else than the pursuits of peace tn the bearts of the poople, and in the hearts of any but those un- scrupulous charactors who are despatobing sensational falsehoods Kast and West and their few aiders and | abettors, May be these characters, in tho guiltiness of their consciences, see horrible phantoms at every bush and troe und corner, but if they do they are all tbo creations of their own disordered Imaginations, and no” body else sees them, nobody else even imagines them. ‘The Psalmist aid in bis haste, “All men are liars,'? and the old Scotch preacher lean he might bave said it at bis leisure also, Butif there are any adepis at telling that which is not true and of veiling witb fuischoods that which is true it 18 the persous in unis city and Territory who send sensational stories East and Weat with the view of inducing tne belief ata distanee that Utab i in@ condition bordering on in- surrection, It 13 true Lhere may be in this Territory a very few persons in that igsubordinate conuition, and those very few insurrectionary persons are these very identical” sougation-mongers. ‘The wolt not only saw the water was muddy, but he declarod that the lamb down stream bad muddied it. So tncs¢ buman wolves who are ernaily = ip venting and circulating sensational reports not only deciare that there 1s @ surging disposition to revel- Jious violence im Utab, but they ulso woltisbiy say that the most peaceavle und houest portiou of the people maouest aud cultivate this spirit, The porsistent making up of faiseboods and the sending of them abroad in the country tor (be express purpose ol cre- | ating a false impression upon the public, is ove of tho most despicable and disguating ocoupations possible to conceive, It 18 enougu, One would think, to cause people at a distance to turn a deaf car to all news of the kind from Utan, unless they are of that class uf characters that have become su thoroughly demoralized vy the morbid appetite ior new sepsa- tions that, ke the opium eating victim, they caunot resist the temptation, thoy must have their deadly sumulant, they cannot live witout 1t, and conse- quently they must bave their daily quantum of tne sensational {rom this regiov, even though they knuw it is made up of lies all tho time, Whascau de cone with such people? Not much, in the present state of Ubings, except to let thom tako their own course, revel in their own giime, and eventually porish of their own rotienuess. “DEAR BOY” GILMAN. [From the Salt Lake Herald, May 6.) It will be recollected that tue New York Herauo discovered and published tne Gilman affidavit against District Atiorusy Howard, and gave soine credence to its statements. It now retracts its suspicions and accepts Moward’s view, that the attempt to misrep- resent him “had its rise in Mormon quarters, aud was inieuded to procure his removal iu disgrace.” As is well known, the fight between “Gilman, my dear boy,” and Howard 16 vo aflair of the Salt Lake Herald’s, which invests noting in either of Lue parties to the quarrel, For some cause these two greut friends and cronies {foil out, and the vicissitudes ol political lie, brougut about by the stringency of Hayes’ civil service reiorm, led to a cumbination ugainst Mursbal Nelson and District Attorney Howard, tue purpose of which Was to secure their posiioos, Gilman happened to be one of the parties employed or who volunteered to lurnish evidence in the interest of the applicant tor Howard's place, the character of which tho public is (amtiar with, Gilmau’s affidavit Speuks tor itself, and without corroborative evidence | tnd told them that they wanted to escape; tbat | Pesos yadned on its own merite and. by the charue- iiey ‘bad ‘been imposed upon, been dragged into | ter and ‘Yepucatiou of the man who Made It. The | + iife of infamy and suame—in fact a life | gyeraid bas uever claimed to piace impiicit faith in | of slavery and degrudation and tuey wanted to eseape. | Gyiman’s statements, but hus published the details of The party put them into one of their wagons They moved on lor a day of two, when they were oyertaken by a Vody of Mormons, wio charged them with hav- ing these women, aod demanded that they return them ever to tboir custody, heir (rst impulse was to Oght \be Mormons and nat women, The Mormons Wold them they cour. | oi-t them, perhaps, for a little white, but that in tuan sIX bours they would have | feinforcements enous to capture the whole train, They conciuded, as they had not gone out tere so fight the Mormous they woud give tbe Women up, and they did so, Tis publisher said be heard witerward iuat those poor women were taken back and killed. It was pot only among men that these murders were committed bat umong wo- men. It 1s Known as the‘ bivod atonement,’ You know that when a Mormon has broken the faith or | offended the law they think that he nbust be killed in order to suve Lis soul. And the women sutfered alike With the men. Tbe potatl want to make most el and the ea I wish to convey 14,1 repeat, that if tne New York Henato will persist ip this investigation and send good, reliavle men to Utah, that are not to be bougut by Mortnon money, and men who will pur- Bue tueir mVesiigations, Mey ure going to show up | the greatest fraud in the world, I koow it i MORMON INTIMIDATION. a t the controversy, iu which he 18 simply a witness against Howard and other parties the principals, as it Is—a fight of the outs against the ins. District Attorney Howard lost his bead aud played the foolin tis case, however, wien in connection with Marsial Neisun he signed a statement charging the Mormons with uemys Ned Gilman to break bua (doward) down and secure bis romoval, knowing, as he must have done, that this statement was utterly | Jaise and worthless. But it was worse than a lie—it | was a blunder, as the lact 18 patent to every one here that Gilman has vever been a iriend of the Mormons, and is the last man they would use for any purpose whatever, Taken in connection with Howard’s con- tradictory statements in regard to Gilman the prose- | culing attorney is shown to bave been guilty of such stupidity and prevarication as to render him morally and inieilectually uniit to bold this important office, What confidence can be placed in the man who couid write the “Pear boy” leer to Gilman, promising to recominend him for an important government office as ‘a good and reliable friend of mine,’ and a iew weeks subsequenuy publicly characterize the same Gilman as “a notorious lar” and @ man utterly up- worthy of respect’ Whether Gilman’s statement is true or faise dir, Howard's ridicalogs attempts to clear himself irom the serous charges made against him and - ll ard a roe Hay i Sacramento | his taise uliegations haveinvolved him in grave suspt- fue rm ygetrose pov ins Ob lat Ae ew TTOR cion, Wnich demands an official investigation. ‘This, 7 tn iota af fe matty. el ins | wo bope, will be undertaken by the proper authorities flan met a man 1D Sun Francisco Who had beed | at Washington, for as the matter now stands District OUL WiKh a party With @ drove Of sheep oue winter iD Sait Luke Vailey, and he said sometinug derogaiory about Uie Mormons to 4 friend, ana he toid bim that be bad inadé a mistake. A Mormon spy veard what be said, and in less (hana werk uli bis sueep were driven of by the Mormons. And when you wrote let- vers to oluer parts of the country no one dared to write a word unless ho indited something favorable of \he Mormous. It was a time when uo Goutile dared to write « letter without saying Sornething favorable of | Mormons, because tuey tampered with the mails. 1 would no more dare, wuen | was out there in 1855, | twelvo years ago, send a letter East throuzh the Mor- | mon Post Office, without speaking ‘avorably of tue | Mormons, toan | would go and commit murder bere, Say # word agulust them and you Will never go out of ihe Territory alive. 1 asked au influential Mormon “How is it a man can marry thece of Brigham Young's deuguters and it cause uo special remurk, und everything can go oif aat- | Wsfactory 1” “Ob,” says be, “those things when @ mau might wake up in the n bis own brother dead on his door 8 got to do is to go on about his urred in Utah, orning apd find nd ull ke has | 8; bv matior ind your own business’ is the | , You know, not to ask any questions, | tnd nobody dares to. [1 wus a reign of terror, 4 was @very poacorble, quiet city in those days, and it was | ben Mormonism reigued supreme tion, except froma tow Gentiles, There were a tow | Wout hearted Gentiles who were kept at bay. Their | wily safety, however, lay jn being to wil appearances yriwons, paying Uthing and saying nothing, Brig sain Young never paid « cent in Uliose days, He wade | ibe Mormons pa THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS CHILDREN, | Mrs, 8. A. Cook was the first Mormon apostate who | aver brought a suit against Brigham Young ond ever Fou a judgment agawst dim. Lt was for $2,000, but fluo did not get the inoney fora log time, ‘When it | wus paid Mayor Wells, who was a Mormon, got ber to | sigh u receipt for the money, and he wok tue money and in some way applied it Lo a payment for the lund that sho owned, Which he claimed sue did not own. bbe kept fghumg upul she made tin | Sho was | the first person that ever made Brigham Young pay in | V United States Court. She was the woman also who dad charge of the children who were saved atthe Mouu- | win Meadows massacre, 1 Saw ber three years ago und the had two photographs of the two boys. Ste jbowed them to some people at the Peoria House im Peoria, Ii), Those pictures, il they could ve found, might be very vaiuable now. I the parties Who were there at the bouse at that time could bo found aud interviewed very likely they coula give worne valuable information. It is the custom tu wmong the Mormon ollicials to put every itelligent wn why might be usetul into some ofticial position, id they utilize tho best men imevery branch of art ond the indusiries BMIGHAM GETTING DESPERATE. In answer to @ question as to what be thought of the mature of Mormouwm, whether or not i iw going to toutinue to be a perwancut ‘ism’? in the United States without opposi- tnd continae also to dely the jederal gove ment, Mr. Poud said | think the porsist- pot efforts of = brighim Young and that kind of thing Jooks as thougn ne wns on lie “ast jegs,’’ as the wayiDy 18. He knows he hus a very short Mimo to live, and he might jurt as well, in bis opinion, make a good fight, for the Mormons are ready to g any longih (80 be says). No inatter what and directs, they will doit, The Mormous have got five or six bundred missionaries ib urope, and they keep | faleenood is many. an opposite view, | fire is not to sinother it out of sight. them there, and their acquisition of Mormon reerusts from the lower classes in Europe is trom three (o wiz | Attorney Howard (ails to possess the confideuce of the people and wll be apt to be regarded bereatter as an obstacle rather thay ap aid to the promotion of justice and the execution of the law. “GENTILE LIZs," [From the Salt Luke Nowa (Mormon), May 11. | Of the papers whieh indulge in these expanded sensations tue New York HeRALD 18 one of the fore- most, one of the most “enterprising” im this par- ticular field of jocrnalistic enterprise. Truth is one, Perhaps the very multifariousness of the latter renders it dear to the heart of the “enter- prising’? correspondent and newspaper man, Kaleid- oxcopic many-sidedness, which characteristic taise- hood undeniably possesses, may be invaluable wo a newspaper man whose journal lives ou its ‘enter. prise,’’ and whose readers look tor somothing sen tional froin it to help down their every matutinad meal, If newspaper readers expect lies, demand lies und will pay for lies, such mental alment will cer. tainly be furnished them daily, for there are men and justiiutions im the country Which will furnish any- thing lor woich there 1s « paying demand THE REAL DANGER, [Prom the Salt Lake Tribune, May 13.) And herein lies the danger. Brigham Young is malignant enough, if he finds there is no escape trom he toils that involve Lim, to cause trouble to the race of men whom he #0 cordially dotesis, It he should order resistance his infatuated slaves will resist. If he should command a massacre the horrors of St. Bartholomew will be repeated. Says the Ogden Pree- man:—"the leaders ate to be brought to justice, and their followers are wondering What is to’ become ot them hunter, turning im trantic fury upon bis parsnors.” Against this danger we want to guard the community, and we ask the reader whether we have not wone our | duty in making putic the dangerous designs of the common enemy, to act. Now it is the part of the authorities PUDLIC PEACE IN UTAH. {From the Salt Lake Tribune, May 13.) But ousiness men of a diflerent irame of mind take Thoy say the way to extinguisn a A sensible man does not build his house on the side of an active volcano, We must have a safe and assured social con- dition before we cry to the world ‘Peace! peace!’’ and invite our brethren to come here with their skill and their capital to aid us in the development of this rieh Terriory. They admit that the treasonable mil- itary preparations are all sham, but inquire is tt a proper thing to passively permit several thousart ignorant fanatics with arms in tieir bands, who are taught hatred of the human race as part of vbeir rel gion, and suppose the Lord will fight on their side as He aided the ancient Israciite# in battle, to prepare thelr mings ana discipliue thoir bodies tor open and armed rebveilion? Such » condition of things ina menace to the iife and property of every non-Mormon NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, lt is the buflajo bull, mortally Wounued by the | in the Territory; it is a gathering of inflammable while we are gaiu' wut very sightly on material which would ignite at the first spark. settlemont, because Gentiles, you ‘Know, are obliged to At the August city election in this city, ip go there adventurers and miners. There is no in- | 1874, the Hiberal party insisted on paving # ducement for them to settle. They cannot get bold of | fair vote; La under the provisions of the the land. United States Election law, United States Mar- shal staxwell appointed a dozen or ao special depu- ties to protect voters in their mghts and roan Pts as the polls. This perfectiy proper step brought out an exhibition of the temper of the ruling prieathood. The people {elt elated aud said among themeelv Sam is running Zion to-day.” But it wa: lusion, Hall a hundred armed Danites were siowed away in an upper room in the Uity Hall, and several hundred other Danites were thick at the city polls armed with the authority of special police, In the alterpoon o small disturbance wus provoked at the Fifth precinct poll, abd this was made the excuse for dozen police ruftians making a sudden agsau!t upon the deputy marshals, several of whom they lelled— bleeding and senseless—-with blows upon the head from iron billes, This brutal outrage was submitted to without resistance. But suppose any one of those deputy marshals, whose sworn duty it wus to preserve the peace at the polls, bad tired at his assailants and erhaps killed a man, What would have (ollowed ’ Vhy, (nose fifty secret assagsins, stowed away in that ublic building, would have been Lrought out to the jcony, and irom there they would bave fred an in- discriminate volley upon the heads of the crowd. To this extent would bave proceeded the resistance of this murderous priesthood to the jaw, and a wide- epread massacre was ouly averted by the sheep-jike submission of our deputy marshals. Not ouly the parties who discuss this ularming topic 10 our sanc- tum, bat every honest citizen will admit that the people of Utah tnust run no more such risks. It 18 disgraceful to the aayborit: the peace of the city und the safety of our lives are only to be preserved by submission to an outrage which the freedmen of the Souta would resist. UTAH’S BASHI-BAZOUKS, [From the Pittsburg Commercial, May 15.] | What the government may choose to do with poly- gowy isone thing. That tsacrime which bas been tolerated xo long that it has acquired a certaty staud- | ing, which makos it a question how to dispose of it with the leagt injury to innocent parties. But the Mountain Meadows massacre is an event by itsell. It was a crime against the law of.God ind man. What- | ever paliuation or excuse there may have been is a matter for evidence. Young declares that the imini- grants were arivald set, and that they insulted the women and poisoned animals, and Were insulting and | vicious, It thus seems that he claims to have known | about them. Whatever may be said or proven in paili- ation of the guilt of the parties they are clearly guiity of crime, and the point now is to Ox this crime, by legal evidence, on tho guilty parties. The contession of Lee makes Youngan accessory before aud after the fact, and us such guilty of the crime itself. He should be arrested, tried, and, if tound guilty, punished, But the time is at hand when this entire question of polygamy, under tne pretence of religious {aith, sbould be taken in hand and disposed of. Cousidering its duration and the numbers attached to it, it 16 as completely covered with horriblo crime os was sla- very in its worst days, It muy possibly die a uaturat death, but it is @ grave question whetber a blood. stained institution like this should be allowed to per- petuate itself for generations, It is offengive to our people and a blot on our ‘stitutions. It 1s olfensive to the civilization of the country and age. Should it be allowed to remain? There can be no question that the sentiment of the country will tully indorse the enactment of a law by Congress specitically abolishing this feature of Mormon practice as being repugnant to our civilization and the genius of our institutions. But for the present let Brigham Young be arrested Salt Lake 7ridwne:—* ‘Sbe will be buried from the Sixth ward schoolhouse to-morrow,’ says the Sait Lake Herald, in a death notice yesterday, Strangers, which that Church Journal 1s all at once so solicitous to attract to this city, might im their heathen biind- ness, inquire why funeral services are hold 10 wéchool- house? Outside of Zion such an anomaly 18 not heard of, The answer 1s, we have uo school houses io Utah, except one or two mission buildings of that character. The Mormon children are taught in con- venticles—-assembly rooms they are calied—designed for religious services ana dance parties. When {ob- tivals and monthly fasts and funeral ceremontes are held, tle educational wants of the scholars have to give way—theso uetrauded young folks are turned out to receive their education on the streets, But we are a peculiar people, and the luxury of witnessing funeral services in a ‘school, house’ w aflorded to nonoothers.”” Gold Hill (Nevada) News:—‘Brigham Young, the prophet, seer and revolator of the Mormon Charch, does vot imitate tho example of Jesus Christ, He is not modest by any means. He is exceedingly imperti- nent, and he deliberately imeults the nation which has tolerated him and his infamous religion for so many years, In the Tabornacie in Salt Lake City last Sunday ho made use of these memorable words—we say mem- orable, because wo waut all our readers to remembor them in tho future, when the doom of this boary- headed old scoundrel overtakes bim:—‘I{ they want biood they can have it, and, indeed, they are likely to bave more of it let out of their veins than they can spare, at an early period.’ This, of course, refers to | the Gentiles of Utan, to citizens of the United States, who do not believe in Brigham Young and bis Church Ivig evident {rom this specch of the arch assassin o | the nation that the story about the Mormons arming is no fiction, Thoy have evidently made up their minds to save Brigham Young irom thé executioner by engaging m a rebellion inst the government. Very well, let them try it Gentile blood will fow, as the prophet, seer and revelator says; but the Mormon Church will be wiped out of existence. Rutheriora B. Hayes, and notJames Buchanan, 1s President of the United states to-day.” Salt Lake Woman's Exponeni:—‘“How mistaken the world are when they represent Mormon woinen in bondage to men, There is bo greater treedom than the Gospel gives to woman. And 11 is this that, makes Mormon women consctous of their power. You think the Mormons an insignidcant body of people; they are mighty in spirit, and their women are united in ono grand solid phalanx to belp build up Ziou, to sustain their own tnstitutions, educational and social, and woe be to nim who dares to lilt his hand against Zion.” Sacramento Record-Cnion:—'We have no imtention of dotng Brigham Young an injustice, nor shall we knowingly print misstatements concerning the -Mor- mons generally, but having some acquaintance with the extent to which the servico of the Mormon Church 48 supposed to justify or excuse deceit and conceal- ment, We must decline to accord full credence to the statements of the Mormon organ until advices from less biased sources confirm them.” it Lake News;—'*Fair play 1s a jewel not only de- manded by the highest interests of the country and of humanity, but due in common justice to every clitzen and to every community in the Union, But it will never be secured until these lying and venomous cor- respondents and slander concoctors are kicked oat for their knavery and more honorabie men installed ip their places.”’ vugden Junction ‘Tho vusiness men of Utah are beginning to awake to a perception of tue evil infiu- ence of those infamous persons upon the commercial aud mining interests of the Territory, and, if they are | wise tu their generation, they wii repudiate the vile lainous weribes, and by withdrawing toeir patronage from a sheet unfit to be taken imtoa decent famiiy, they will compel its proprietors to change 118 policy and get decent men to mauage tt. | EXCURSIONS FOR SICK CHILDREN, The recent hot weather has hastened the prepara- tions at the Seaside Sanitarium at Far Rockaw and the first colony of children will be takou there the Orst woek inJune. Arrangements have been made with the Long Island Railroad to run special trains direct tu the beacu at reduced rates, aud threo or tour bundred sick children aud their mothers will be takem at one The managers desire coutrivutions of beds, chairs, bedding, towels, bathing dresses and other such articles, and beg an immediate response from the charitab: Dooatious may be sent througa Henry Bergh, Fourth avenue and Twonty-secoud streei, or Honry King, chairman, office of tne Seusive Sanitarium, No. 408 West Twenty-ninth street, Aw n Will call jor articies dunated where it The wants of the institution are many and | | is desired pressing. BUYING” AN IMAGINARY BosiNuss. At the Tombs Police Court yosterday Louis L. Van- derhoven and Thomas R. Major were charged with ob- taining money under false pretences. appeared adverticed a few months ago fora partuor with $800, to engage ina legitimate business paying $200 per inonth. Russell G. Tomlinson, thi ro pias ti Ani, answered tho same, and had an interview with Vanaerhoven, at the Jatter’s office, No, 1 Duane street. ‘auderhoven (old ‘him that the business was that of | sporting novelties, avd reprosented that they had cus- | tomers ail over the world and were doing a very large | business, He wished to get a partner tn the place of Major, who, be said, was auuicted to di Major, he believed, would seil out for $500. Tomlinson paid the money and remained with the concern six weeks, during Wuich time he found that tue customers were imaginary bewgs. tHe also dis covered that tho furniure of the firm was heavily | was | their heavy artillery and wero | Unuous stream ot molten metal is poured ‘The prisoners |t | MAY 20, 1877.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. PUSSIAN GREAT GUNS The Government Foundries at Oboukhoff and Perm. The Ordnance of the Imperial | Russian Navy. | HOW THE BiG GUNS ARE CAST. | re ‘The naval and military resources of no country in Europe are less known than those of Russia, Her policy of allowing few if auy foreigners to visit ber dockyards, worksbops and forts bas had a good effect— namely, that of onknown strength, which ts syuony- mous in the opinion of most men with great strength. Few men except Russians know of the great fortress of Modlin, as one writer bas aptly termed )t the “RK stranger bes ever entered it, The navy itself is better known than the army, but the dockyards, toundries and workshops, from whence it draws its materiel, are but litle known. The great foundries at Oboukbof, near St Peiersburg, which rival those of Herr Krupp at Kssen, furnish the steel rifled guns used in the Russian navy, Tho foundries which are in private bands, but which have guarantee of their tie being all tiled by government work, occupy government buildings, are now under govera- ment supervision and are virtually government works, Ybey are named after Mr. Obouk off, a mining engineer in the government service, who invented in 1891 an AU this time entirely dependeut Herr Krupp for naturally anxious to establish a home manufacture. Vontraciors and capitalists who were already in rela- tions with the imperial government were in- vited to start the enterprise, and the government, be- sides advancing large sums of money, gave alson tract of land vear the river Neva and the government buildings which stood thereon, Mr. Oboukhol! was one of the company ; bis process was used,"nnd ho became superintendent of the works, Work was commenced in 1864, In 1866 Mr, Oboukboff retired, aug Captain Kolokotzof, an ofticer of the imperial navy, was ap- pointed general superintendent of the works, Colonel Musselius, a naval artillery officer, was made technical superintendent, and the present successiul career of the Oboukhof fcundries commenced. The fires gun from the foundry was sent for triai in 1864. Lt was a imuzzle-loader, of eight-inch calibre, carrying a ebell ghing 200 pounds and using 30 pounds of charge. At 3,600 yards an armor plate four and a half inches in thickness was pierced. The gun burst at the 109th shot. This led the manufacturers to make various experimente in the manulacture and casting of the steel, which led to such favorable re- sults that, m the same year, they turned out a nine- inch gup, carrying a shot weighing 112 pounds, apd aving charge weighing 37 pounds: which, after 614 rounds, showed no interior chango, In 1805 the Krupp breech-loading system was introduced at the Oboukhoft foundries. In 1867 tho hooping system of General Gadolin, of the Russian army, was adopted to strengthen tho guns. ‘The foundries in time of peace empioy some 1,500 men, but now many more are employed and the works are at their highest capacity and workiug night and day. upon MANUFACTURE OF THE STREL. The cast iron used is from the blast furnaces of the Ural district and is manufactured by what ts known as the “charcoal method.”” The sieel is made tn cruct- bles, of which there are somo four hundred, bach crucible has a capacity of ninety-two pounds. During the process of melting, which Jasts some three to four hours, the manganese and other ingredients are added. The crucibles are placed two and two on the Siemens gas furnace, tho fuel used being peat, large dojosits of which ure found in the vicinity. The crucibles are manufactured in the works, are made of plumbago and clay, and serve for five castings. Some 120,000 of the crucibles are manufactured yearly. Great cares taken that all the ingrodients in the crucibles to be used for the same casting sbull be of the same quantity aud quality. Tho amounts of each ingredient are caretuily wetguod, and by chemical analysis their quality is de- termined, THE CASTING OF THE GUNS. When all is ready the converted contents of the cru- cibles are poured into a cast iron mould lined with sand, in which the steel gradually cools, forming a homogeneous mass. Two men carry each crucible to rows around It, and the work js so timed that # con- into the mould, As many as 120 crucibles are used tn the cast- ing of a twelve-1nch gun, and it is an aifair of only from fitteen to twenty minutes, The steel uscd for the cast- ing of the guns contains trom one-half to three-quarter percent of carbon. Somo ten or twelve hours alter the filling of toe mould the core is taken out and water let in to cool the cucting, The stream of water is continued | tor several days until the gun is thoroughly cooled. Alter 4 casting has been made a sample is taken trom the muzzie ond, the breech and the centre@ These samples are subjected to physicul and chemical t Kircady’s well known machine being used tu the for- mer case. FINISHING THE GUN, Alter the casting ts dnished the crude mass !s hoisted out of the pit and is*taken to the sinithery, where it {8 put in the Siemens heating furvaces and then toughened by being iifted into dn immense cylincer containing voiling linseed oi, The two together are then gradually allowed to cool, This whole uperation, from the beating Of the gunto the moment of its beipg taken out of the performed with great regularity asto time an tho other conuttions, which have been determined by many experiments as being the most favoravie, This methed, waich ts not used by Herr Krupp, bas been found to give exceilent results. In Kygland Pallisser and Armstrong use it for mterior tubes, Which are comparatively light steel masses, ‘The guhié then hammered tuto ite proper shape. The outside is then turned and the interior chaunel bored out, These are jong and tedious pro- cesses, Which require great care. The main tube 1s now ready to be hooped. It 1s piaced in a vertical po- sition, and tho first layer of Loops, having previously beet Heated 1n boring lHuseed o:l, are passed over the muzzle and outo the tube, Contracting biter they cool, they tit accurately. The tube, with one layer ov, js then taken to the tarning establishment, and tho layer {§ turned smooth, Tho other layers, up to the required wumber, are then added in a elmilar manner. Great skill is required in the manufacture of the hoops #0 that they shall it accurately and each exert the saine pressure. Above all, they must not exercise too great a pressare ou contraction, The second layer Js calculated so 4s 10 exercise a greater pressure than tho first, and so on in succession, Arter the dil operation of booping has been performed the breech 1s shaped, the rilling of the bore ise tly perfortned, and the shutting mechanisin wt the breech put in place. of closing the breech by eyundro-prismatt- cai wedges ix used, while the closing of (he tmterior aperture left by the wedge ts efccted by what is known ag Broadweil’s civeular ring. Not long ptain Kolokotzot! invented a new process of reiiuing the guns after tbey bad served ior S0v shots Formerly, alter this kmit of satety bad been passed, the gun Material Was recast into various Shupes, such as axles, shatis, wheels, Kc, Captain Kolokotzofi’s iden was to bore out the interior anew after tho safety limit hud been passed, and to Insert, in thickbess, and (he gun {8 again rifled, A boop pre- viously cated in of), us before deserved, 1s placed on the muzzle, and each hot as It comes out tends to es- tablish a more perfect contact between the old and the new material, According to this process 4 gun having been dred 800 tines Is relined, and serves for 500 shate; being again reiined 1 serve for 300 shots, ihis method has proved very successtul, and iy certainly very economical, PRODUCTION OF THR WORKS. ‘The foundries at Ovoukhoef produce many sizes and classes of guns, [rom a four-pound howitzer to a sorty- ono-ion gun having @ twelve inch bore, carrying a shot weighing 715 pounds ang using a charge of 130 pounds. The average production im guns (or the la: jive yours of peace has been some five thousand tons, at a cost of, m round numbers, say of $1,600 per ton in finished guns, apd the army as weil as for the navy, and manufac ture also some forty thousand gun burrels per annum. In time ot peace a large amount of railway and otber toatorial 16 manGiactured. Since their establishment these works have furnisbed somo four hundred guus of heavy cailbro to the Kussiun Imperial navy. The following tuble of the steel rifled guns forming the ordnance of the Russian Imperial navy will vg found especiaily imteresting :— STHEL RIFLED GUNS USED IN THR RUSSIAN NAVY, MANU- FACIURRD AT OHOUKHOF?—SYSTEM KTP, Diameter of Bore, Weight} Weigh| Werk o mortgaged, The prisoncrs were each held in $1,000 bail. Breechloaders, | Without) of | af Groaves. | Gun. | oh'rye.| Sheli, Tuches | Inches. | Tons | Lbs | Lb 12-ineb caltore; 1200) 12 41 Li-iweb eulibre| 11.90 1 geineb caliore Y.00 300 Sch calibre &.00 100 Geinchealibre} 6.06 90 Oth bowitzer) 4.2 7 i 41b, howien ba. def Ufo ! waters, use the eight-inch guns. sian Gibraitar,” pear the Prussian troptier, and now unproved process of casting steel 1n great masses, | the Russian Ordnance Departmen, | the side of the casting pit, where thesxarn. ranged in | under Lydraule pressure, an iwterior tube of one inet | ‘The works furoisu gune tor fortresses | ri : Chaeye| Jwitiat ae in Shell, | Velocity, out ‘Lta | Peel.” |, Tous Iaincb ealibre..| 17.0. A-ipeh calibres.| 15 ¥-inch calibre. 5 231000 8-10en calibre, | 6-iwel calibre, . 1b. bowiizers, 4-1b howitzers, 6 1.00) 15,000 6,000 1,u50 3 s i THE DISPOSITION OF THE OBOUKHOFF GUNS LN THE 1M- PERIAL NAVY, The large iron-ciads,xuch as the Peter the Great, the Popotfkus, Novgorod vad Vice Adural Popot!, use the twelve and eleven-inch guns. Some of the iarger ture Fretted trigutes also use the eleven inch guus. Tbe wa- jority, howover, of tuis class of shipe and the monitors use the aine-incn guas. ‘Tbe scagoiny frigates aud cruisers, 6uch as the fagstip Svetlana, bow ty our fhe #ix-ipeb Ovouk- nol gubs ure Used on board ibe corvettes and clippers | ov the Lmperial pavy, as well as on the const defen genboats The new gunboats, built in sectious and capavle of being traveported, about which much curi- osity ts felt sud from which so much is expected, are | said lo easily steam eleven and one-half knots, and to | giveousy andiing of their powerful eleven-inch thirty- ton guns. The nine-pound howitzers are used oo the smalier Vessels of the navy as a supplementary ord- nauce. They are also usea on yacots and guabosts. ‘Toe four-pouod howitzers are used on the dulwarks of large sbnis tor defeuce against moving torpedoes. The only ciference between ihese Oboukbof guus sent to she pavy and those made jor the fortresses lies in the carriages. [be powder used for ail these guns is that known 4s prisinationl THE GOVERNMENT GUN FOUNDRIES AT PERM, hese great Works, Woieh tarnish principally the aPUilery used io Russian fortresses apa in th sian army, ure situated ou the leit bank of tke river Kuma, about four versts {rum the city of Pert, the chief seat Of (he district ond government of the same name. These works produce large steel guns up to as bigh aa | eleven-ineh bore of the group (4), and guns and pro- | Jectiics ap to twenty-imeh diameter iv the group (bv), | Held urtiliery, musket barrels, projectiles, &c. The works were started by the imperial Russian govern- {| ment in 1564, wud now have an apoual production of } War materia: of from 20 to 25 steel guns of various calfvres, rom 20 to 24 nine-inch mortars, weighing from | 280,000 Lo 350,000 pounds: from 10,000 to 15,000 musket barrels; yung of cast irop, weighing from 600,000 to 800,000 pounds, and of projectiles of bardened cast trou some 300,000 pounds, ‘the total annual produc. tion amounts in Value to about $1,400,000, The total hutnber of workmen employed is some 2,300. THE WORKS, The various steam evgines employed have a pacity up to 2,300-horse power, There are 240 {urnaces jor the muanuiacture of cast st which are beatea with wood and 144 which use coke, There are 10 ovens of the systems known ng iscbing, and 1 of that known us Peray; 3 puddling furnaces, 8 welding ovens, 7 for gaseous cast; Li reverberatory furnaces, 2 Awerican furnaces and about 100 smiths’ hearths, ‘The urray of stoam hammers 15 formidavie, There ure | 1 with a capacity of 60 tons, 1 with 15 tons, 1 with i2 tons, 1 wito 5 vons, 1 with 245 tons, L with 800 pounds, 1 with 80 pounds and finally 2 with 400 pounds, ‘The cast iron used Is received trom the groat Diast (urpaces tn the mining district of Goroblagodat, whose great magueuic iron mountain Blagodat has the {unense annual production ot ore of 40,000 tons of 2,000. pounds Some puddied stcel is received at tbe Perm Guo Works from the mining district of Zlatoust, in ibe Ural, but the major part is manufactured on the spot. Coe following description at these works of a 2C-inch Rodman cast iron gun, of ite mupufacture ana trial will be ‘ound interesting :—The gun is 216 inches; ou side diameier of the breech, 64 incucs; weight of the gun, 45 tons; weight of projectile, a hollow spberieal Cast ron shot weighing 1,250 pouuds, On is trial this gun was fired 314 times, with charges ot from 100 to 180 pounds (Russian) of prismatic powder. The vore haa expanded ut the conclusion of the trial 0,005 inches, | | r CASTING THY GUN, Six gae furnuces were required to smelt the amount of cast iron used in the casting of the gun. In each furnace 28,440 pounds were s\uelteu, The smelting of | the cagv iron touk between four and 4 half and four | and three-quarter bours. [he pouring of the molten | cast frou into the casting form was made without any interruption, aud in the short titne of twenty-three minutes. ‘The cast mass was allowed to cool te hours before the core was taken out. [his operation took abouttwo bourse, The water was then let into the bore, and a continuous stream passed through upul the mass had cooled thoroughty, which took place after 161 hours. Tho casting mixture was compused of sixteen and two-thirds per cent of remelted cast troa and eighty-tbree and one-tuird per ceat of new bay- onet cust iron. Ot the latter one-hait was mavulac- tured of maguetic oro from the Blagodat Mountain, oue-quarter was from a mixture of matunip and brown jron ore, and anotber quarter o! brown iron ore alone. Under physical tests five pieces of standard cat froma circle two inches in thickuess which bad been cut out of the cannon uear tls mouth gave the tollowing excellent results ;—Averags tenacity, 35,300 pounds to the square inch in. short pieces and 29,200 iu long pieces. The average {ull stretch belore breaking was 080288 ; the average clustic stretch, 0,001 Phe average of ful compression produced by a weight of 50,000 pounds to toe syuare inch was 0.00646; medium of constant | compresgion under the same circumstances, 0.00425. The cust tron bad a specific gravity of 7.271 Phe gua cost to manulacture $5,950, or avout $2.15 per 40 pounds. The two foundries sbove described are the | principal ones tu Russia, though there aro several smaller ones, both governinental und private—notably the Alexandrovskii works in the government of Olonetz. THE COURTS. In the suit of A. Hewlett against 5. A. Wood, on trial for a week past vefore Judge Barrett in the Su- preme Court, and involving the validity of che will of ‘Abrabam Wood, the facts of which have already ap- peared in the Heracp, a verdict was rendered by th jury yesterday. ‘The jury found that the paper pur- porting to be the last will and testament of Abraham Wood, dated August 4, 1466, was his lust will and te: tament, executed according to tho laws of the State of New York; that at the time be executed it he was | mentally competent to do it and to dispose of the | estate devived thereby; that such will was not pro- | cured through wndue influence, imposition or traud; that the codicil to such will, beariug date December 16, 1808, was executed by the testator according | to tho laws of the Stato, and that at the tine | he executed it be was of sound and disposing mind, and 1t was pot procured by undue influence, imposition or fraud. The piaintiff in the case, as already pub- lished, 18 a nepluew of the deceased, und, believing tbat he had not been fairly dealt with under the pro- visions of the will, and that the defendant was likely to reap in the end wore than his fair share of the har- vest, and believing no doubt that the testator was of weuk intellect and had been unduly influenced by the desendant, attacked the validity of the wil! on that | ground, The above verdict sets the qnestion of the | validity of the will at rest for tue present, and sustains the rights of the defendant, The whole estate dyosed of by the will ts estimated at $500,000. BANK. | CHAMBERLID RUPTCY. On the 29h of January, 1877, John F. Chamberlin filed a voluntary petition 1 bankruptcy in the United States District Court, setting forth as @ debt to be | paid in full, that of the people of the State of New York, ropreseniud by tho Attorney General. The amount of the debt was $10,000, and was coutracted in | 1874 as surety on two bai) bonds tor Willtam Honuessy Cook. No creditors were set forth as holding se- | curities Chamberiin’s iiabilines amounted to $245,330 28, and his assets of clothing valued at $185 and 131 shares of stock Indifferent companies, ihe nominal value of which was $13,100, His petition for | the adjadication was uot granted. On the day that tue petition was filed Chamberlin proposed a composition of one per cent, to be paid within* ten days alter the | final order on composition. Sixty of the creditors, rep. resenting $170,044 C1, confirmed the composition, At the lirst mevting ol the creditors tho debt to the State of New York was not proved and at that meeting the sbares of stock placed among the assets were | Slated as of no Value, Ail of the sixty creditors, with the exception of one, appeared and sighed by tho suine person as tuetr attorney in fact, Ihe Attorney General of the Stute tiied a proot of the debt (o the State at the secoud meeting of creditors aod the prool was not ob. | jected to, When application was made (o the court | for the conirination of the composition the Attoruey Genoral applied tor an order that the people of the JOHN F&F State of New York be pad the amount aue betore the proposed compromise should be carried vat, or | that the compromise be subject to the debt. In a decision rendered yesterday Judgs, Blatchiord si bays that the State cau only have under the comy tion atid stutuie a priority in payment out of what sets the devior hus which would go (o bis assignee in baukrupicy. If the debtor bas any assets they must | Kentucky, aud ali the furniture in my house, No. - | wlzo the | eream piteber and mili¢ pitel a leave al! my baus stock in the Bank of Loerie, first street, New York c which is at Tiffany's, in New York, and plated ware, To my grandson, Robert C, Wood, the watch which belonged to grandfather, aud ‘my grandson, Bringier Trst Wood, the stiver cup marked N. E. W. 1p case of the death of my daughter Sarah before mine I leave my silver tea sel, consisting of teapot, sugar and slop bowls and to wy son R. C. Wood, my silver butter dish to my sov J.T. Wood; to my daughter Nina Von Grabow, my silver tankard, epergne and four vegetable dishes; the balance of the ‘silver ta be equally divided, except tbe siiver pitcher, whien [ Jeave to my aaugbter, Numa Von Grabow. To my sister B. 7. Dundridge. 1 leave $2,500 of toy stock in tha Bank of Louisville, Kentucky, The balance of my property to be equally divided witb the exception of $500 for the grave in Lovkport, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES, In the case of Conrad Frize, who pleaded guilty, in the Court of General Sessions, to the charge of stealing $15 worth of barness trom w# stable at the foot of Seventy-first street, aud who was sentenced to two Years and six months’ imprisonment, tho statewent that be ever lived at No, 20) Mast Forty-Ufth street is denied by Mr. Richard Bigley, the owner of tna premises, It was stated yesterdsy, for informatiov of mem. bors of the Bar, that on Monday (to-morrow) a number of decisions would be rendered i General Terw, Su- preme Court. Some of the cases then expected to be deciaed ure of considerable public importance, Christian Silverharn, a youth, was before Judeq Barrett, in Supreme Court, Chambers, on rit of habeas corpus, yesterday, In April last the boy en- listed ia the United States Navy on board tne ship Supply. The application, under the writ, was for nig discharge trom service, and there being NO opposition it was granted, An attempted sale of the schoolship Mercury, the usefulness of which seems to have temporarily ceased or Want of an appropriation, took place tn ove of the yooms of the Supreme Court yesterday. The ship was atup for sale at x limit of $10,000, but the highest Pid made Was $4,500, and she was temporarily with. drawn, ‘The argument in the habeas corpus cage of Joseph Lopez against Frederick J. Morrison, to obtain poss sion of his wife, whom, he says, Mr. Morrison (net father) restrains of her liberty, which was to Lave bees heard in the Supremo Court yesterday, wi diourned over until to-morrow, The husband {uaists that his wit is sane and bright of tniellect, and wants to live with bim, while ber father regards ber as of weak mind and tie Inarriage the rosult of ber 1mbecility. The report of the Commissioners of Estimate and Ap+ portionment for widening the Boulevard on the wost- erly side, between 107th and 108th streets, was tilod io the Supreme Court yesterday. Tho damagvs are us- sessed at $15,655 and the costs at $1,216 15.—10 ull $16,901 80. Honry McCabe and George I’. Betts are the two commissioners who sign; Ci:nton W. Street, sho other commissioner, does uot sign, Half the as. tessment fs jevied on the city. and the balance DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT-——CHAMBEBS, By Judge Barrett. Matter of Bartlett, &c.—Granted. Matter, &c,, of Stewart,—Referee appointed to take proof and report. Gates vs, Gates. —Upon these papera the plaintiff can take an order vacating the stay. RUPERIOR COURT-—SPECIAL TERM. By Juage Sanford. Canby va, Dutcher.—Receiver’s bond approved, Townshend vs. Allon ot al. —Releronce ordered, Savery et al vs. Low,—Order grauted aud under: taking approved. Hayno ot al vs, O’Connor.—Order reviving action Branied. Jaaner etal. vs. Cander et al.--Order granting leaw to sue. Rothman vs. Neverath et al,—Order tor publication granted. Fowler vs, Keligau.-—Order amending order of May 5 granted, Miller va, Lyuch.—Ordered on day calendar for May 24. ‘Tne Republic of Peru vs Reeves.—Judgwnent signed. Hunt ys, Motcher et a!,—Commission ordered. Cary vs. Cary.—Order grautod and undertaking ap- proved. kovbins ys, Falconer,—-Mouion to vacate order of arrest grantod, with $10 costs, Levy vs. Grossman, Order denying motion for ine Junction and Receiver, with $10 costs to defcndant. Farkingion vs. Delebanty.—Order granted and ua. dertaking approved. The North River Savings Bank vs. Foran et al.— Order appointing R. M. Goff receiver, &o Wilson vs, Adriance,—Order granting defendant an extra allowance of $250. ¥ Hoe vs, Smith’s Homeopathic Pharmacy; O'Reilly vs, Bowers; The Dorchester Union Freestone Company ys, Blesson et al.—Orders granted. By Onset Justice Gartis, Butler vs. Austin, —Order lor commission, Quinn vs. Van Pelt, —Ordered on day calondar for Monday, May 21. Ross vs. Harden et al.—Order restoring cause ta calendar, Tho Gutta Percha Rubber Manulactaring Company vs. Torrey. —Order granting plaiatift an extra allowance of five per cent on ainount recovered, ; Lestor vs. Jong.—Ordered that proceedings be dis- charged as against Edmund Long. By Judge Sedgwick. Wover, &c., ve. Schrof.—Motion granted; new trial ordered ; verdict set aside, Adoipa vs. The Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company. —Case and amendments sottled. @ common PLEAS—SPEGIAL TERM. By Judge J. F. Daly. Mutter of A. and K, Fiaurand v3, Shaw.—See mem- oranda with oierk. New York Lite Insurance Company vs. Silicock. ~ af | Memorandum ior counsel. Field and another vs. Sanford,—-Sotion denied appears that there {sa denial of a matorial a! of the complatat; also that the indebteduess was ex- tended by a note failing due only after this action was commenced ; $10 costs to defendant Conas vs. Masters.—Motion denied; cause not ¢ larty on calendar. Durand vs. Tne Ornamental! Mirror Company. —-! fault opened on payment of $10 costs, and doiendant stipulating to place cause on Friday's calendar May 20, 1877. Sherman vs. McGinnis.—Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel justiled in ordering an extra allowance. Motion granted, without costs. Hollywood ys. Houywood,—Further proof wanted as to fact nate material by section 42, article 3,2 R.5., 145, Imhust Burke.—Proposed supplemental answer should ve served with motion papers. Leave to re- view motion granted. MeMurty va Kerwie,—Motion cented for waut of proof of service of amended complaint on parties ap- appearing. No costs, Gunnison ys, Nichols,—Motion granted, A receiver shoula be appointed, but he shouid aot be a party to the action, owing to the nature of the dispute us to the | debts to be paid out of the collections, MARINE COURT--CHAMBERS. By Judge McAdam, Biauvelt vs Parker.—Costs against the estate of deceased person bo allowed only upon the special order of the Court, (3 Wait’s Pr. 539.) The case in the 14 dowart, p. 431, ajpiies only to cases where execu- tors aro plaintifts and fatl in the action, The motion | will, theretore, be heard on the merits, on the 23d fost, atten A. M. Ross va Grand Trunk Railroad Company. —Taxation affirmed. . rie vs. Newman,—Arrest vacated on stipulating not to sue. Lewis va. White.—Seo indorserent on papers. Hudson vs. MeArtour.—The defence {6 4 technical and ought not to be favored, The defendant's ap- pilcation 9 compela reply, being discretionary, wiil toeretore be dent No costs. Fisher vs. King; Smith ve. Rowe.—Motion for judg- ment granted, vonditioually, as por indorsement on apers. - Casanova vs Traguilo, (thi cases).—Judgiaent for pluintifl on demurrer, with coavs, Comstock vs, Ramsay. —See papers, Raveustein ve. Brennau.—Decisioa tea. Thoraton va. Wograts; Krizer vs. Ber; vs Donnell; Ford ve. Keai (three ca: granted ~ Bioomer vs. Yerby.—Wroceedings dismissod. agedale v8. Grifia, Vannett va. Usboru; Peck vs Many, Gottsveben vs, O'Connell; Beertieer vs. Schoo- ley, Tallman vs, Keer; Barnum vs, Carpenter, —De- fuults noved. uite vs, Mann,—Motion denied, naeter Vs, Stegner,—BSir, A, C, Anderson appointed ; Rimba! Motions y vs. MeGili.--Motion granted; no cos Wheeler vs. Drenpaa,—Delauit opened and caase re- stored iv culendar for May 24 on payment within two days of $10 costs 1 motion aud $10 Term fee, chott vs, Hamilton,—Under the prayer jor relict | the appellant wiil be allowed to serve a proposed caso within tree days on payment of $10 costs. Disou vs, Lewissx—A. H, Roudeoush appointed re- be devuled in sittisiaction of this claim, batore any part of them can be devotod 19 paying any part of tue composition to the general crediors. ‘be State 1s en- titled to examine the debtor im the composition pros | ceedings, uud also io Cxainine Witnesses Lo ascertain | whether the debtor has assets not yet disclosed. It it | | should turn out that the dobtor has no assets of any | vuiue, the fact that the Staio would vo tied to | priority In payment out of the asser, uf there were | any, would be no impeaiment to the coutirming of to | | composition; and the composition, If confirmed, wil dind the State equaliv wiih other credivors whom it will bind. WILL OF GENERAL ZACH LOWS DAUGHTER, The willof Ann M, Wood, a daughter of General Zachary Taylor, whe died in this city on the December, 1575, bas been admitted to probaio, The surviving heirs and vext of kin are Joun 1. Wood, a sou, of St. Jamas Parish, La, and Nina Von Grabow nd Sarah K, Wood, daughters, of Frieverg, Germany. Toe will t8 as follows:— H I leavo to my son, J. & to my sather, eral 7 | siunw, and 10. y son Kobert C, Wood | presented by Congress to my Saiver, Genera Z. tay- of, and also my silver buwer dish and milk pitener, To my daughter, Nina Von Gravow, my siiver | punch ladle, She and my daughter, Saran K, Wood, | Wul draw for my silver piteber, Which was presented 'TAY- s x. N Nov. 2 Wood, the sword pr 1809, ented the gold meval Taylor, by the Stato of [ul | ceiver. Marks V8. Rawley.—Motion to vacate arrest denied, but speedy trial ordered. In re Hotoucr.—Detendant discharged on his own recogniziuce and examination set down for the 28d. Merrill va. Duparquet; Fiugger vs, Same,—Process amended mune pro tune, No costs, Mullen va Larkin; Brick vs. Steinberg; Konnell vs. Graves; Lanny vs. Flanagan; tn the matter of Willa Morgan; Kirkland ys Solomon, Kittnick vs, Kelly; Hawk vs. Vhilbrick; Hoes vs. Morraville Manufacture ing pauy; Bernowsky vs, Jacoby; Folxarh ¥% Felix. —Ordors granted, Howell v8, Behring. + Be Inspection atlowed, THE ALLEGED FALSE 7RUMORS. in the case of George W, Stow, who Is jointly ime dicted with #. F. Brown and C, F, Timpson tor having | circulated falso rumors in reference to tho Delaware | aud Hudsou Canal Company, bar! was given for his ap | powrance for triniin tue sum of $1,000 by Mrs. Teresa | Bh. Rooney, No 45 St. Joba's place, Brookiy a WIFE'S SUIT, ln the Brooklyn City Court Mre, Minnio Gans bet brought action for limited divorce against her hue band, George P, Gans, on the ground of cruel aad 10+ buimuW treatment. Defendant, who is a clerk, wal | married to the plainwit im Septomber, 1873, when the) latter was only fiiteen years of age, he being masy A YOUNG to my lather, at their death to be given to my srande top, Wilite Boyce, To my daughter, Surah K. Wood, 1 yours hee senior, = Tho an 3 have Lwo children, ai reside at No, 296 Lexingwon avenue.