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Mis “eny time, if he deemed " WASHINGTON. Work Found for the Blaine Committee. LOOKING AFTER POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS. Important Changes in the Army 3 Register. CANDIDATES FOR THE GERMAN MISSION. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. Wasutxatox, Dec. 21, 1878, THE BLAINE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE—WORK FOUND IN LOOKING AFTER POLITICAL ASSESS- MENTS. . Senator Teller, the chairman of the’ special com- mittee appointed under, the Blaino resolution, has notified the members of the committee to meet to- morrow at two o’clock. When the committee ad- Journed yesterday it was the understanding that they should not meet for some days. The Chairman ‘was, however, authorized to call the committge at it advisable. It is stated that, as there is no fund at the disposal of the committee, the work of investigation can bo com- menced here in Washington by examining witnesses in government employ who are not entitled to wit- ness fees. Itis the intention to summon Mr. Gorham, the Secretary of the Senate, who was the secretary of the Congressional Campaign Committee, ss to the or- ders issued by his committee in regard to the collec- tionof campaign funds from the clerks and officials of the government, and also to examine the heads of departments as to the tenor of the orders and the privileges afforded the collectors appointed by the republican committee in assessing and collecting funds for political purposes. A member of the com- mittee said to-night that this work would keep the committee busy until Congress assembles, when pro- vision can be promptly made to meet the expenses necessary for sending a sub-committee to New Or- leans, THE ARMY REGISTER—CAUSES OF THE DELAY ‘ IN ITS PUBLICATION. Theannual Army Register for 1879 will not be eady for ‘publication until next April or May, in- stead of in January, a¢ 18 usual, the delay being caused by the requirements of the Army Appropris- tion bill of last June, which’ requires’ that p complete history of all services performed, whether regular or volunteer, as officer or enlisted man, shall be appended to the name of each officer in the army, and that, in addi- tion, lineal lists shall be given of the officers of each #rade in all arms of the service. Provious sorvice of officers in the ranks has never been required to be re- ported heretofore, and such information had to be called for by circular and the greatest delay is caused by the time oceupied in comparing the reports with the official records on file in the department. It is found that nearly two-thirds of the officers now in the army have performed service as énlisted men. ° GENERAL WASHINGTON ®DESPATCHES. Wasutndror, Doo.’ 27, 1878. THE GERMAN MISSION—AN EXPRESSION FROM THE PRESIDENT—A PROMINENT ISRAELITE URGED FOR THE PLACE. ‘The President stated this morhing in private con- versation that there seemed to be no special urgency in filling the German mission, and he remarked that there are three candidates in Pennsylvanis—namely, Mossrs, Hartranft, Grow and Boker—and three in New York, whose names he did not give, together with as many more scattered in other States. Fut- ther than this he silent, but the belief prevails in other quarters That Secretary Evarts will designate tle appointee, subject to the approval of thé’ Presi- dent. Myer 8. Isaacs, 8 prominent Israclite, and senior editor of the Jewish Messénger, of New York, is being urged upon the President for the vacant mis- tion. FERNANDO’ WOOD AND THE WORK OF THE COM- MITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. man Fernando Wood will not accompany “the sub-Judiciary Committee of the House to New _Xork-to,take part in the so-called “Davenport investi- “gation.” Ho has already furnished the committee with what he considers an ample basis for the inquiries dirccted by his resolu- tion, and he is busily engaged prepating measures for action by the Committee of Ways and Means involving a number of complicated questions in regard to the revenue laws. The committee have assigned three days to hear arguments on the sugar question immediately after the reassembling of Con- gress, and will then dispose of it and of as many more pending measures as possible, in time to report to the H@se of Representatives by the 15th of Janu- ary, which day has been set apart by that body ex- clusively for the consideration of business of the ‘Ways and Means Committee, _ REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY, ‘The bill for the reorganization of the army will be - called up soon after the holidays, and General Ban- ning will endeavor to have a day set for its considera tion, SENATOR DAVIS’ INVESTIGATION OF THE TREASURY ACCOUNTS, The Select Committee of the Senate, of which Mr. ( Davis, of Woat Vitginia, 1» chairman, appointed to _ for . preventing collisions st investigate the reports and accounts of the Treasury Department, hes held several mectiugs since the ‘be- ginhing of the session. Heretoforethe meetings of the committee have been devoted to the examination ot books and papers, but on the fourth dsy of Janu- ary the taking of oral testimony will be beyan. It is thought that ex-Secretary Bontwell will be the first witness, and tha> he will be called upon to ex- plain the discrepancy in the public debt statement, which resulted, it is said, from achange iu the system of keeping the Treasury books during his term of Office. PREVENTION ‘OF OOLLISIONS AT SHA—CORRE- SPONDENCE BRIWEEN ‘THE BRITISH MINISTER AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT ON THR PRO- POSBD INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS. Sir Edward Thornton in September last addressed @ letter to Secretary Evarts upom the subject of the proposed international regulations fom, Sir Ed- ward says no country has exprossed general dissent from them, and the governments of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal have formally expressed their concurrence in the draft submitted to their approval by Her Majesty's government. Fur- ther modifications wore, however, suggested by the governments of the United States, Belgium, Den- mark and Germany, and have been very carefully considered by the joint committee appointed by the Admiralty, Trinity House and Board of Trade, to whom they were referred. Sir Edward communicates the documents, and expresses the hope that the text of the proposed regulations as finally adopted by the joint committee will meet with the approval of this government. Acting Socretary of State Seward, replying to Sir Edward in October, informs him that a copy of the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea had already been subinitted to the Secretary df the Treasury, who thinks that these ‘rules of tlie road” by the several maritime nations will result in mutual advantage and tend to lessen the dangers of navigation on the high seas, With. ref- erence to the provision of paragraph A of rule 15 of rection 4,283 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, prescribing that stcam vessels shall sound a steam whistle at intervals of not more than one minute, Mr. Seward states that the attention of the propor committee of Congress will bo called to the propriety of amending that provision in harmony with the proposed internationsl rules of the road, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878—WITH SUPPLEMEN’ should the same be adopted by the several maritime nations. THE OBNOXIOUS CONSULAR TAX IN HAYTI. ‘The Department of State for some inopths past has been endeavoring to have removed the Consular tux of one per cent on the value of merchandise exported from this country to Hayti. The reasons assigned by the Haytian government in defence of the policy of the tax are not considered sutinfac- tory by Secretary Lvarts, who has instructed Minister, Langston to protest aguinst the tax ts decidedly offensive, at least in form, to this gov- ernment, and to, express a hope that the proper au- thority there may see the expediency of such further legislation as may obviate the objection, The British governmonthas applied to this govern- ment to join with: it in protesting against the tax, but it has not ‘been thought advisable al present to accept the invitation, Our Minister, however, may confcr freely upon the subject with the British repre- sentative there, as such conference may make it easier to conrpass the common object. LOTTERY CIRCULARS THROUGH THE MATLS—A N VEL YEQUEST PROM A POST OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Postmaster General Key to-day took action upon a novel request received from one of the New York posts of the Grand Army of the Republic for permis- sion to send through the mails to all posts of that Order throughout the country @ printed circular offering ® life-size picture of the present Grand Com- mander by a miodified lottery scheme, to aid in the con- struction of #monument at Binghamton, N. Y., to the memory of the dead soldiers of Broome county. The Postmaster General, in response to this application, quotes the law which prohibits the transmission of any species of lottery circulars through the mails, and says he is advised by the law officer of the de- partment that he hus no discretion in the matter, and, therefore, while expressing earnest sympathy with the movement, informs Mr. Royall (chairman of the council of administration making the request) that the desired permission cannot be granted. THE RENO COURT OF INQUIRY. PACTS PROMISED WHICH WILL STARTLE THE COUNTRY—ANTE-MORTEM STATEMENT OF AN _ OFFICER OF THE SEVENTH CAVYALRY—CHARGES OF COWARDICE AGAINST CUSTER’S SECOND IN COMMAND. ; (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Wasutxaton, Dec, 27, 1878, The court of inquiry ordered to investigate the al- leged misconduct of Major Marcus A. Reno at the battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, when General Custer and five companies of the gallant Seyenth cavalry lost their lives, will meet at Chicago January 6, when, it is alleged by officers who claim to know, the facts connected with Major Reno’s con- duct at that batile will startle the country. AN OF¥ICER'S ANTE-MORTEM STATEMENT. One of the officers commanding 4 company of the Seventh cavalry under Reno on the day of thé disas- ter was Brevet Lioutenant Colonel Thomas B. Weir, who died in New York city in December of the same year, and who is said to have mado and sworn to a statement before his death, in which he clsimed to have been in full view of the Custer fight when ho was sent out to reconnoitre during the action, and that he so reported to Reno and urged that help bo given their comrades. The statement adds, it is said, that Reno flatly refused to make the movement as urged, and was openly accused at the time of cow- ardice by his own officers? THE SOUND OF CUSTER’S FIRING, Colonel Weir's statement alleges that when he moved out with his company the sound of the fring from Custer’s column was disti: heard by, the whole command, and that the point from which he obtained a view of the battle was not more than a ‘mile or aimile anda half from where Reno’s com- mand lay. This sworn statement was placed, before Col. Weir's death, in the hands of a well known New York ex-officer of voluntears, who is widely known as an adinirer and biographer of the late Gencral , Custer, and who solemnly promised Colonel Weir not to rest until the matter was officially investigated aud not to let the contents of the statement become publicly known until an investigation was ordered. A YIMIT 70 THE LITTLE BIG HORN. The, statement, was pleced in the hands of the proper authorities last summer, after the War De- partment had ordered an. investigation, and was so startling that an examination was ordered into some of the allogations made, During the past summer a party of officers, including Gen- eral Nelson A. Miles, colonel of the Fifth infantry, who was then commanding the Yellow- stone district; Colonel Edward W. Smith, aide-de- camp to General Terry, and Lieutenant Edward Mw guire, corpa of engineers, chicf engineer officer on General Terry's staff, visited the Little Big Horn and made a series of experiments and measurements, with results which scem fully to prove the assertions made by Golonel Weir and other surviving oilicers of the ill-fated regiment who wero present at the battle, The distance between the points where Reno retreated to and remained, and where Custer fought and fell, was accurately measured, and is found to be much less than has always been claimed by Reno in his reports. It was also demonstrated, as refuting Rewo’s statement in his official report that the distance between the two commands was so great that he could not hear the firing of Custer's column, that a single shot from a carbine or pistol could be pay, heard frorg cither point, in nearly every con- ition of the wine ORDERED TO CHICAGO, The following named officers have been ordered to Chicago to Yeatify in this caso:—Colonel E. W, Smith, Aide-<te-Camp, and Lieutenant Maguire, Corps of En- gineers of General Terry's rtaff, aud the foliowing of the Seventh ca’ :—Colonel: Frederick W. Benteen, Captain Thomas H. French, Myles Moylan, mdward 8. Godfrey and Edwari G. Mathey, and First Lieu- tenants Charles C. de Rudio, George D. Wallace, Charles A. Varnum and Luther R. Hare. THE LATE REAR ADMIRAL HOFF. Wasntnaton, Dec. 27, 1878. ‘The Seerctary of the Navy to-day issned.a genoral order announcing the death of Rear Admiral Hoff, in the seventy-third year of his age, and saying that during his lohg commection with the navy he had per- formed his dutics with ebility and zeal. On the day ufter the receipt of this order the flags of the navy yards and stations and of all ships iu commission ‘will be displayed at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and thirteen minute guns will be fired from each acaree ond station flagship and vessel acting ely. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE FUTURN OF THR PORTSMOUTH. [BY TKLEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Wasuinatox, Dec. 2% 1878. The United States ship Portsmouth, Lieutenant Commander A. 8. Crowninshield commanding, which arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard last Sunday, will remain there until utter New Year's, when she will be sent to'Hampton Roads to remain till spring, and will be made an additional training ship for naval apprentices, WHEREABOUTS OF THE ENTEPRISE AND WYO- MING, (vy cary 10° THe HERALD. ] Loxpox, Doe. 27, 1878. ‘The United States corvette Enterprise arrived at Gibraltar 27th inst. The United stites corvette Wyomitg arrived at ‘Villa Franche on the 26th. THE BLATR-GRANGER MARRIAGE. CHARGES OF BIGAMY AND FORGERY AGAINST THE DRIDEGROOM. (BY DELEGRAPH TO THR HERALD.) Wasutneton, Dec. 2%, 1878. Captain Thomas Biatr, of the Fifteenth infantry, against whom chatges have been filed at the War Department for bigamy in having last summer been married to the Of General Gordon Granger, thie former colonel, of his regiment, while he hus a wife and two children living in Scotland, has been pee tip be to enable Kim too matter, te stated at ‘War Si) great St tae Sk SeoereD fe ‘clear hiinselt, @ bi he will bo tried for having forged the name of jutant General ‘Townsend to ap all letter ace his tesigna- tion from . th Tt is learned hero thet Mrs. Fmy, if was aware at the time of her marriage that Captain had been entangled in Scotland and that he two childron living. It is thonght that, — tender his resignation rather than stand a tri PACIFIC RATLROAD SUIT. ADOLPHUS MEIER ET AL, VS. THE KANSAS PA- CIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY-——IMPOSING ARRAY OF COUNSEL—EFFORT OF JAY GOULD & CO. TO HAVE THE CASE REMANDED TO THE STATE courtT, Wasuinaror, Dec. 27, 1878, ‘The case of Adolphus Moicr and others against the Kapsas Pacific Railway Company came up to-day in the Supreme Court room, before Mr. Justice Miller, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Judge C. G. Foster, sitting as in the United States Circuit Court for the district of Kansas. AWRAX OF COUNSEL, ‘The case as presented to-day involved several ques- tions incidental to the foreclosure of the mortgage, and the several parties were represented by counsel as follows:—For ‘Trustee John A. Stewart and the first mortgage bondholders, Mesars. Henry Hitch- cock, of St. Louis; James M. Woolworth, of Omaha, and Artemus H. Holmes, of New York; for ‘Trusteo Adolphus Meier, Mr, T, A. Hurd, of Leayen- worth; for the Kansas Pacific Railway Con- pany and the junior eucumbrancers, Messrs. John R, Shepley, J, W, Noble and James Taussig, of St. Lonis, and Mossrs, A. L, Williams, of Topeka, and J. P, Usher, of Lawrence, Kan.; for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Mr. A. J. Poppleton, of Omaha; for Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon and Russell Sage, Mr. A. J, Vunderpoel, of New York; for the receiver of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, Mr. Wallace Pratt, of Kansas City. MOXION TO REMAND, Before argument commeneed Mr. Hurd presented @ letter addressed to the trustees in the mortgage by Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon and Russell Sage, claiming that they hold $1,000,000 in Denver extension bonds, and as such owners requesting the trustees to con- sent that the case be remanded from the United States Circuit Court to the State Court in Kansas in which it was originally brought, on the ground that the rights of the United States as second qmortgagees could not be adjudicated in the United Stutes Court, but could be out off by the State Court, Mr. Noble opened the argument on bebelf of the rties moving to remand the cause. He was followed yy Messrs. Woolworth and Hitchcock, who, on behalf of the complainants, the trustees and the bondhold- holders, argued against the motion and in favor ‘of maintaining the present. juris- diction. In course of the — discussion’ the | question was raised whether the plaintit Meier, being @ citizen of the State of which State certain junior incumbrancers citizens, had been removed from the office of trustee by the bondholders. ‘This point was argued pro and con by the last named counsel and by Messrs. Hurd and Usher, as the special representatives of Mr. Meier. Subsequently Mr. Williams made the con- cluding argument in support of the motion to rel the cause. The Court took the papers. After some conversation between the Court and counsel the question of revoking the traffic contract, between the inion Pacific and. Colorado Centra) Rail- road companies and the Kansas Pacific Railway Com- pany and its receivers, was set for hearing to-morrow. THE YAKIMA RESERVATION. PROSPECTS OF TROUBLE AT AN END. Wasuineton, Dec. 27, 1878. The Indian Office is to-day in receipt of another telegram from Agent Wilbur, at the Yakima (Wash- ington Territory) Reservation. He says the Indians remain perfectly ‘submissive and there is no prospect of blo ed. The Smoballas, heretofore reported to be en route for the Reservation, were cx- pected to arrive to-day. Four of the Indiad murder- ers of the Perkins family are in irons. One commit- ted suicide while attempts were being made to cap- ture him. Only two more are at large, and Moses’ men are after them, with a prospect of capturing them. MAILS FOR CUBA AND THE BAHAMAS. WasHIncton, Dec, 27, 1878. Arrangements have been made by the Post Office Department to despatch direct mails for the Bahama Islands and Cuba during the winter months b; steamers starting from Jacksonville, Fla. Tho sail- iuys for January from that port will be as follows:— On the 24 and 10th, to Nassau, N. P., and on the Ikth to Nussau, and thence to Havana. This: service will be in addition to the present arrangements for direct imails by-steamships from New York. PON SER eae SUBURBAN NOTES, * Chancellor Runyon, at the request ofthe directors, has ordered a dividend of ten per cent to be paid to depositors by the Newark Suvings Iustitution. It is payable January 18. The Pennsylvania Railroad) Company have dcter- miued to appeal from the veraict in the Righter case, and will carry it to the Supreme Coart on exceptions taken to the Judge’s charge. 'The new Cominon Council of Newark, N. J., will meet and organize next Briday bight It is proposed to cut down the pay of city officials, fifteen por cent and that of the police and firemen ten per cent. At Fiéinington, N. J., yesterday, Mélick Staats was | |; committed to jail to await trial on an, indictment chai eS with the murder of Joseph Dall. The wiars of the crime were published in ‘3 BRALD. y ‘There were 227 deaths roported as having occurred in Brooklyn last week. The foar chief cuuses were cons tion, 31; pmeumonia, 20; diphiheria, 17; scarlet fever, 15. Of the deceased eighty-six were children under five years of age. Right Rev: John Loughlin, Bishop of Brooklyn. who recentiy celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as bishop, was on Thursday evening presented by the pastors of the diocese with &@ crozier and a horse and coupe. ‘The trial of Abraham Beach (Colored), charged with the murder of the boy Eugene ance, ‘was resumed yesterday at New Brunswick, N. J. ‘The evidence so tar elicit shows that Beach intended to shoot Robert Howard, but that the ball lodged in Munday’ s abdomen. The identity of the man who shot himself at the Market street depot, Newark, N. J., on Christmas night is still undiscovered, ‘The body will be photo- hed, it not claimed in « few days, will be ry in the Potter’s Wield. Many persons have viewed the romaius. . ‘The committee of citizens of City appointed to discuss the feasibility of making t city a port of entry, were to have held their final meeting last night. A quorum was not presont, and after several short speeches favoring the giving of custom house facilities to the city, the meeting adjourned subject to the cull of the cliair. : Rev. E.G, Porter wae astonished on Thursday af- ternoon by the crack of glass in his study win- dow, at No. 221 ‘mer street, Williamsburg, right after the explosion of some firearm. He found the round hole of a bullet, which, passin; hee pa the window, had spent itself against a on the library table. No clew to the shooter has yet been found. ‘The valuable mare of Mr. Frederick Scholes, of Bedtord avenue, Williamsburg, which under such suspicious circumstances, as did the two watch dogs, as to lead its owner to, suspect poisonizig, has been found by the veter! surgeons who le the autopsy of the body to have died from “conyestion of the spinal cord,” the result of culd and exposure. Hepry Pierman and John Fleming were arrosted at No. #6 North Fourth street, Williamsburg, yesterday, for steuling chickens. Eiglity chickens, one ‘goose and one duck wore found on the premises, Pierman acknowledged having stolen the poultry, sdying thut when they centered « coop they ‘‘burned 4 little sul. phur, and the chickens kept still till they got away ‘with ‘em.”” Ex-Judge Samuel D. Morris made. motion yester- in the Ki compe, Sagres, Court, before Judge Gilbert, in alt of Mra, Julia A. Cornwall, for the appointment of a receiver of the Carmiols Chemical Works Company, at Long Island City. Some time ayo, Mr. Morris stated, Mrs. Cornwall secured ajadg- ment of $20,000 against Anthony Lk. Pirz, onc of the Judge Gilbert reserved his owners aud proprietors. decision, + Elias B. Denton and Ezra 8, Iréland were buried on ‘Thursday at the sate time from the Presbyterian Chureh in Jamaica, L. 1. They were brothers-in-law, having married two sisters on the same day, Shey died within two hours of each other, Mr. Denton in Jamaica Mr.Ireland in Brooklyn. Some years ago the father and mother of their Wives died within ond hotr of eact other and were buried at the same tinte in one grave. x Goneral Sv Hancock, with his staff, paid ait ofietal int to ne rooklyn Navy Yard youterday, and was received with the onagponneny. salute of thir- teen guns. Comm lore J. W. A. Nicholson con- them through the various departments ot the yard, on bourd. the training ship Minnesota and ; the receiving ship Colorado. Geueral Heucock com- plimonted Commodore apon the improved condi- tion of the yard during the past year. The contested clection case of Malone va. Joyce, to force the latter to vacate his seut in the Jersey Uity Board ot Police Commissioners, which has oecupicd the attenfi@n of the Hudson tgp (N. 3.) Chrenit Court, was concludud yente: » dudge Knapp. de- Hivered a terse charge, and the jury retired at noon for bag hh vane ey haben y Nebo pi] agrec, were again sent back. Dhey, were locked Mees he ele te ie anit thoy staataie to ie, General Benjamin F. Tracy enteted the supremo Court, ee county, lay, and made & motion hefore Judge Gilbert for the release of Willlkm Morris, otiae William Porter, the Reymond Stweet Jai) on bail. Morgia was recently tried in the Kings Connty Court of Sessions, before Judge Moore, for Longe gone in the ty oh a ae Brothers’ store on, Grahain ayenue, Bro: nm. The fury, afer lengthy Mciberation, failed 10" ugtos. dee hie decisi Gilbert reserved ion. Papers wore served yesterday for a foroclog of the aking Fuad oe second Mortgage bonds ‘ot the Southern rs of Long See tee te i. reconstruction agreed, upon , by . the bondhold- brn tho Rae ie to. be | iiade “wubject. 0 the first mor! of , $750,000, the — simkin fund being $1,500,000, ‘The plan of reorgam- gation also takes itr the thitd niortgages, ammount. ing to See According to the plan the holders of sinking fand bonds are to be allowéd sixty per cent ond the third my bondholders forty per cent bonds, to paid on their either in new mortgage Poul oF protersed stork Of tie Fecomstrueted cou: patty. THE CHARTER OAK CASE. | VALUATIONS OF NEW YORK REAL ESTATE-—WIT- NESSES DIFFER 10 THE EXTENT OF 4 MILLION IN THEIR ESTIMATES: Hanreorp, Conn., Dec. 27, 1879. ‘The proceedings in the Charter Oak Insurance trial to-day were limited mainly to the presentation of tes- timony regarding the value of the New York property held by the Charter Oak, and especially the real value of the properties embraced im the three mil- | lion dollar “downtown” purchase by Furber. ‘Thi has been characterized as a ruinous investment, aud | « low appraisal of it was one of the principal means | which enabled the special insurance commission to show the insolvency of the Charter Oak in 1877 and to secure the withdrawal of Furber and his associates, ‘Phe appraisal referred to was made by J. M. Taylor, F. P. Furnald and Isaac A. Lawrence, all of New York, at the instance of the spécial commission, and aggre- gated only $1,445,000, or more than a inillion less than was given in cash and trade by Furber. WORTH OF “DOWNIOWN”’ PROPERTY. After annoying delays the State's witnesses as to this appraisal arrived here last night. On the open- ing of the court this morning Mr. Tyylor was called to the stand and gave the following as his appraisals: — Nos. 78 and 50 Broadway, $325,000; Nos. 9, 71 and 73 | Broadway, $440,000; Nos. 64 and 66 Broadway, $225,000; No, 39 Broadway, $75,000; No, 38 Broad street, $90,000. He said he had valued this as he would value any other real estate, but believed that if there was on the property a first niortgage of $595,000 and a second mortgage of $800,000 the property would not be marketable." Continuing his valuations he placed Nos. 17, 19 and 21 Browd street at $425,000, No. 57 Broadway ut $135,000 and Nos. 38, 40 and 42 Broad- way at $130,000—making a total of $1,845,000 for the | properties taken at a consideration of $3,030,000, His appraisals of the uptown property was—Nos. 444 angl 452 Broadway, $405,000; No, 20 Howard stroet, $45,000; No. 84 Howard, $55,000—total, $505,000, This valuation was made in May, 1877; but witness did | not belicve that the property was worth any more in December, 1875, that if he had known that the eight downtown prop- erticy had rented for some years for a large and re- munerativo rental he might haye given ten or fifteen per cent greater appraisal, but ho had placed the figures that he had given on the idea that “New York is moving up town, away from the property.” F. P, Furnald, for the State, testified that he had also appraised the property, making his figures on the “downtown” $55,000 less, and on the “uptown”? $60,000 more than Toylor's; he did notthink that his opinion as to the futuze yalue of the property would be modified by a knowledge that it was paying six r cent net on & valuation of $3,030,000, ‘The State closed its testimony with that of Andrew D. Melick, Jr., who had apprai ed the downtown | property at $30,000 more than Taylor's figures. ‘The State sought tg get his valuations of sone property On Sixty-tirst atreet, New York, owned by the com- pany, but it was ruled out under the ment by which the State was allowed the privilege of re-open- ing the case to-day. TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENCE. "Tho defence then opened with the testimony of William Dewey, He produced rent rolls of the prop- erty when owned by Matthews. FE. Z. Lawrence claimed that the property had enbanced in value be- cause of the elevated railroads, and Henry Morgan testified that in 1876 Furber had an interview with , at which he gave the tollowing valuations, Property. Value, Rent Roll, Taxes, 89, 71 and 73 Broadway.$700,000 © $68,000. $6,060 Nos. 78 and 40 Broadway... 485,000 "38,750 4,920 No. 57 Broadway... 280,000 16,900 1,540 No. 38 Broad street. Nos. 64 and 66 Broadwa; 350,000 Nos. 38, 40 and 42 Broadway. 300,000 Nos, 17, 19 and 21 Broad st.. 725,000 No. 30 Broadway. sesees 90,000 10,445 ‘He (witness) believed that this $3,030,000 purchase would yield a net income to the Charter Ouk Insur- ance Company for the next five years of six per cent. At the interview at which the above figures were pro- duced witness told Furber that this property would be good to buy*for cash, and that if he could make a trade instead and get rid of the worthless second mort bonds of the Connecticut Vulley Ratiroad it would be a good thing, but not gor the map who took the bouds. Witness appraised the uptown property as follUwe:-Now. 444 auid’ 493 Broslway, $516,000; No. 34 Howard street, $80,000; No. 29 Howard street, ‘$65,000. DECIDED DIFFERENCE OF QPINION. Anthony J, Bleecker, of New York, valued the prop- orty ax worth $3,699,365, or over half » million move than the consideration given, and he believed the property worth fully as much in 1875 as in 1875, “though you couldn't make sonte people believe it.” General Egbert L. Viele valued the property as of December, 1876, at $3,850,000. Did not believe the value of this property, owing to its location, would fluctuate much for years to come, Hall J. How testi- tied to a valuation of $3,545,000. President Bartholomew, of the Charter Oak, said that the real cost ot the whole property to the com- pany was about $3,890,000, and he ‘believed it really worth, cat a than. Shae napre, Would, not trade back and take the Valley ‘oad ‘bonds and the Higga- num mortgage, Dr. 8. R. McNary, one of the directors of the coim- pany, said he ba: Mieved it fully worth what had that it is an ‘excellent asset, ‘The Court adjourned to Monday, one of the coun- sel for the defence remarking that the defence would furnish their testimony on that day. ST. CROLX, 200,000 THREATENING LETTERS—SHOOTING AND “ CENDIARTSM. Sr. THOMAS, Dec, 21, 1878. The white inhabitants of St>Croix aro still in a In- great state of four. Many threatening letters have | ing. been received saying that the negroes’ time will come and containing warnings for the Christmas season. Governor Garde, with the Danish inan-of-war, is in St. Croix, A body of sailors is to be lauded to pro- tect West End, and the soldiers guard Bastin and the | jec centre of the island. Last week at from the cane pieve, Ho was not hit, and the per- son firing the shot yot safcly away. i On cross-cxamination witness suid | t | exumined the pro} , and be- eat Dade it, and ‘| } of being deprived of it by legislation. OPPOSED TO RAPID TRANSIT. MOVEMENT 10 PREVENT THE ERECTION OF THE SECOND AVENUE BRANCH OF THE METEO- POLITAN ELEVATED RAILWAY. About two hundred gentlemen opposed to the erection of the Second avenue line of the Metropeli- tan Elevated Railway met at the Germania Assembly Rooms, in the Bowery, last evening. They were for the most part persons who own houses or keep stores on Allen and Division strects, and were nearly all | Germans. Mr. G. Rothman called the meeting to order, and Mr. Henry H. Haight, of No. 24 First aveuue, was elected chairman, Mr. W. H. Carpenter secretary, and Mr. Jacob Lamour treasurer. Mr, Haight said the route laid down ior the new road runs oyer Division n streets, t avenue, ‘Iwenty-third strevt mil avenue to Harlem River, He pointed out the nécessity of opposing it before any part be built, ssying that the principal reason why the property holders of Sixth avenue failed to defeat the company was that a large part was already standing before any vigorous effort was made against it. “Now it the Sixth avenue road is a nuisance,” said he, “how much worse will one be that runs through such nar- row streets as Dfvision and: Allen? It is true, one runs through Pearl street, but this thoroughfare is chiefly occupied by wholesale warchouses, and few people live there. But on Division and Allen strects the population Is very large and consists chiefly of poor people, and the business is such as would be greatly injured by the structure. He be- lieved that when the Legislattre and the Com- mixsion granted the charter and laid out the route they did not know the yreat wrong they were doing, and that the former body, if it were addressed now, would feel itself bound in justice to repeal the | charter of the roail.” A geutleman expressed some dissatisfaction at the small number of those interested who were present; but Mr. Carpenter thought this gave no ground tor discouragement, a8 many were non-residents and muny had not yet heard of the movement. He thought the business of Division street would suffer greatly by the road, and that the tenement houses which line Allen gtreet, and are chiefly occu- pied by poor people, wobld become uninhabiteble. He said people on the lines of the present roads sut- fered much trom the smoke dnd noise, and that it would be much worse in narrow streets. Mr. Christof Stickel said most of the property owners on these ktrecis were poor men, who worked all their lives to save a little money, and he did not believe the Legin- lature would be’ so unfair as to take half its value away by ti permit @ monopoly to séteu a guillotine ‘betere thas docra. Ate,” Gustare wis stire property would be, depressed one-thizd in value along the road. He thought the sympathy of the whole public could be aroused for men who had worked hard for fifteen or twenty years to gain a few thousand dollars, and who are in danger “as tor the poor people inthe tenement houses,” said he, “how are they to lfve ?”” ‘They cannot open their windows on account of the smoko, and they carinot sleep on account of the noise. They cannot move up town because they cannot live far from their places of business, It the company is to ruin thé roperty. muke them Ph it up first.” Myr, Toe man said he had talked with many of the uewly elected Assemblymen, all of. whom had prom- ised to favor the repeal of the charter. Mr. Stickel had canvassed 100 to 150 houscholders, all of whom promised to support the moyemeut with word and Thoney, All preseiit were then, on motion, requested to contribute $1 cach for the expenses of the meetings, and 2 committee was appointed to canvass in each of the different blocks along the line of the road for re- cruits to the opposition movement. About $30 was collected, after which the meeting adjourned till next Monday evening, ut eight o'clock. “The mecting will be held in the same place. INFANTICIDE. THE BODY OF A BABE, FROZEN STARK AND STIFF, FOUND IN THE STREETS OF PATER- SON, N. J. The very latest excitement in Paterson, N. J., is in Teference to the finding of the body of a child, frozen stark and stiff, lying on the sidewalk in the First | ward, north of the Passaic River. About twelve o'clock on Christmas night three little boys, named respectively Cornelius Bush, Arnold Fluke and Charles Durand, were passing through Water street, when young Bush struck his foot against a large par- cel. ‘The sensation on touching it was so peculiar that the boy stopped and examined it. Ho found a bundle carefully done up in a thick manila paper wrapper, aud that whatever was cnclosed was yicld+ ing to the touch, and then came the indefinuble fecl- ing that there was something uncanny about it. ‘The boys, however, concluded to investigate, and carrying the object to the corner of Arch street un- CONQUERING THE AFGHANS, FURTHER, DETAILS OF GENBRAL ROBERTS’ DE- CISIVE VICTORY IN THE PEDWAR PASS—HARD FIGHTING AND HOW THE INDIAN ‘TROOPS SZOOD UP TO IT, {London Times’ Calcutta Correspondence.) Mahonmmed Azim’s: Fort in’ ti Kuram Valley was oveupied without opposition by: General Roberts’ torce on the 25th of November, on witich date the ad- vaneed yuard under Colonel Gordon, consisting of the Twenty-ninth Punjab native infaytry, the Fifth Punjab infantry, a mountain train battery and a squadron of the Tenth Hussars camped.on the plain near the fort. Wood and eupplies were scarce and great confusion was ap- parent in the commissariat arrangements, ‘The division was gradually concentrated here, ahd on the 25th advanced toward the Petwar Pass, a @ls- tance of fifteen miles; in two ‘brigades, The First brigade, leading the way, consisted of the foot, Fifth Punjab infantry, Tete ee fantry and ‘wenty-third pioneers, with a mountain train. ‘The Second brigade, following, consisted of the Seventy-second Highlanders, Second Punjab in- fantry, F and A batteries Royal Horse artil- lery, the ‘'weifth Bengal cavalry, with one squadron of the Tenth Hussars and the Fifth Goorkhas, Brigadier Cobbe commanded the First, and Brigadier Thelwall the Second brigade. The advance began at three A. M., the troops marching in a biting, cold_wind, blowing over 4 stony plateau, till about eight, when the Twelfth Bengal cavalry, reconnoitring in front, reported that the enemy had been seen In the villages and undulating ground be- fore the Peiwar hills. The ‘Twenty-ninth and Fifth | Panjab intantry aud two meuntain guns were at once detached to the left, and proceeded under cover of alow raage of hills till they reached the Mangal village of Looserunge. INIO THE DEFILES. From this point the road turned up a steo} and crossed ranges ovortooking the village of Burgin Here thy ny Was first seen, some swarming up the pass thers stil fardown, The Fifth Punjab int rapidly pushed down and occupied the village, while the Twenty-ninth went up the len, hoping to gain the summit ‘ore usk. The enemy now commenced firing from higher ground, but ‘theTwenty-ninth pushed on and the leading companies aucceeding im gaining a posi- tion well up the glen, amid a thick pine forest. A hot skirmish then opened, the Afghans using their artillery, while the remainder of the division, pash- ing on directly to the front, ¢ inte action and replied by a sharp infantry and artillery fire. Even- ing.was bow far advanced, it was impossible prop- erly to support the Twenty-ninth native infsn- try, and the troops had been under arms since three A. M., so the General ordered the fcree tire to bivouac. On their way back the Twenty-ninth came under,a heavy fire from the . who crowned the crags aboye and poured down a brisk fusi- lade. The Fifth Punjab infantry covered the retreat ad- mirably, and the whole force ultimately bivouacked under the pass. There was, of necessity, much con- fusion in the camp. Our casualties are, Lieutenant Reid, of the Tweuty-ninth, dangerously wounded; about sixteen Sepoys killed/and wounded. A NIGHT DEPLOYMENT, From. the 28th to the 30th the division halted to enzble supplies to come up. The enemy’s position, ve trong and impreynuble in front, consisted of a high range of pine clad hills and precipitous clits 'The road over the pass led throagh high commanding hills. The enemy occupied @ front of some seven miles and numbered 4,000 men. They had twenty- tour guns, all placed on commanding/ points. The front was also strengthened by felling pino trees and erecting breastworks. They placed field artillery on the crest of the pass and amused themselves by firing long shots into the camp. ‘Lhe position haying been thoroughly reconnoitred, General Roberts, on the night of the Ist, made a march with five regi- meuts, tour, Horse Artillery nL nse and a mountain. battery, w: a view to surprising and turning the enemy’s 1@ flank. A force was left in the to make a front attuck and silence the guns in position. The moyement was well planned and ably, carried ont, despite the difticulties attendii the night march. ‘The force moved’ due sou three miles, then turned up’ the bed of a torrent toward the Spin-guwi Kotal, orcrest | under main . The Sth Goorkhas leading, next the 72d Highlanders and the 29th, with a mountain battery, as the assaulting column, came at dawn unobserved defile on the enemy’s iutrenchments in the dense pina forests, As) the day broke of Sniders from the Goorkhas smote the Afghan line, and in a very few minutes Major Fitziugh and hia qullant little Goorkhas had captured the line of the enemy's intrenchments. THE ENEMY GIVES WAY. The Seventy-secoud Highlanders and the Twenty- ninth Punjab intuntry, pushing rapidly on, now gave iushaxish eamlabence, 404 haterk ile ate wpe ane up the whole of the enemy’s left flank was gained, Re- sistance, though short, was determined, the enemy leaving ‘seventy dead onthe ground. On our side der a street lamp they took off a portion of the paper and revealed “something with ears,” ax they after- werd declarod, and, being seized with affright, they | dropped the parcel on the waik and ran home. Next morning Mr. Abram Bush, tather of one of the boys, net knowing enything of affair, was on his way to his store at an early hour and in passing saw the lying apparently in the spot where the boys, hud drop; it, He hurried on to open his store at the corner of Clin- ton ania Water strevis, but could not forget the quecr looking parcel. A half hour later he went back, re- solved to learn what it was, but it was nowhere to be seen. Throughout the day he still thought of it, and the more so when his son told him whuta partial luinpse hed revealed. On Thurada: y evening Mr. “Bush, in company with several others, went forth to institute a thorough search, and they soon discovered the mysterious behind @ grocer’s coal box, near the corner of Arch and Water streets, where the boys had leit it. But in the meantime some oue had been buey with it and had removed the yer and substituted an old piece of striped bed tick- Within was found the well developed body of a mule child, apparently several old. It was quiie nude, except for the rudé outside wrappings, aud was trozen stiff, When the boys had it in their possession it was limp and soft to the touch. Cor- oner Wurner ut once took the case in hand, and yes- a poetsortem was held and the lungs sub- to the usual treatment to discover whether or they had been inflated. It was found that they not @ manager of one of the estates was fired | had. ‘The child, then, had lived, and it was clearly a case of infanticide. 6 child was very lurge, weigh- ing over twelve pounds; quite as large as many chil- A house was set on fire in West End some nights | dren of a,week oldor moro, A jury was empane}led ago, but the flames wore extinguished before they had got headway. ‘The perpetrator was not discovered. | eliciting the above facts, and is shows a disturbed state of affairs, as the crime of incendiarism is very little known in these parts in ordinary times. The soldiers that had been taken off to St. Croix are to be sent back to St. Thomas to-day. re is little likelihood of any trouble either in St. ix or St. ‘Tho! nas, though it is no doubt well to be on guard. JAMAICA, SIGNS OF PROSPERITY AND PROGRESS—NEW and a few witnesses examined et, afternoon, inquest was then adjourned nntil Monday afternoon. CHAPEL DEDICATION. ‘The chapel attached to the, Romah Catholic Cathe- dral of Brooklyn was dedic: yesterday forenoon. Bishop Loughlin perforthed the ceremony of conre- cration, assisted by Rev, Fathers O'Hare, Wood, McCabe and: Dougherty, of St. James’ Cathedral. The sermon was preached by Very Rev. Thomas 8S. PUBLIC WORKS—TELEGRAPHS AND RAILWAYS. | proston, who said the day must be one of joy and Krxosrox, Dec, 19, 1878, Jamaica has not enjoyed an immunity from that world-wide depression which hag been so marked, especially in England and the United States. Ad un- remunerative market for our. produce has told upon industry and rendered taxa tion in consequence very onerous, and many tt a7 Totiel puss, The ‘were ready to cry ont “Ruin.” Tho more sanguine, however, regarded these ovils as only ten and looked forward to the time when the country should tide over the diffictlty and resume its march on the of progress. ‘This anticipation is now fast eng realized, as will be made evident from the important facta which follow. ‘The improvements immediately contemplated are the layin, Ponses, in island. and-where the pi ¢ district of Munchester, the centre of the ucts of the northwestern interior are collected. ‘Thon there is to be & line of telegraph from Kingston right agrees Spe talons to Montego Bay, with branch lincs to Falmouth, St. Ann and Port Antonio on one vide, dnd Savanna-la-Mar on the other, A telegram has been received from the Secretaty of State for tlie Colonics announcing that the arrangement for the railway been completed for a eum of £00,000. You have donbtiess 1 the fact by cable direct fro: London, COLOMBIA, POLITICS AND HIGH WINDS—COMPLIMENTARY VOLES. , Panama, Dee. 19, 1878. ‘The Legislative Assem“ty of the State of Patiitma, now fn session, hax passed a vote of confidence im tie adininistration of General Trujillo, President of the Republic. ‘The great northor at Aspinwall subsided on the 14th inst,, and the steamers were able to come along- aide of what poor fragments of wharvgs were left. Thore were 16 Wrecks of losses to re] addition to those already forwarded in these despatches, General Correoso, President of the Staté of Panima, resigned his position om the 16thinst. The Assen: bly refused to accept it and passed a unanimous vote ‘contidence ih hit, It is supposed that his rewig- nation wus only @ ruse to obtain av empuatic indorse- ment of his policy by the Legislature, as hig onemics liad circulated rumors to the effect that that body was upfayorable to him. RARE SEA ANEMONES, ‘The steamship Ethiopia, which arrived at this port on Thursday, brought over a number of superb apeci- mons of fringed sea anemone (Metridinm Marginatim), a contribution from the Royal Aquatitm at Rothe- say, Scotland, to the New York very beautiful, and of many s! largest imiéns are five or six inches high, ‘three or four inches across the diag, There down of a railway from Kingston to The cadet Lucea to | was held yesterday at No, 66 Wall street. This society 1 | mont, for deverving families from among the working gre.t consolation to the Bishop, who was beginning to #06 clearly the completion of that grand Cath which is to stand asa monument to the piety an devotion of the Catholics of aia and the en- uring glory of his bishopric. The chapel, whish is the firs: portion of the new Cathedral completed, is of Gothic architecture and is built of granite. The pews wainscoting are of black ut and the windows tar, which is ot white mutble, is a fine specimen of sculptural workman. ship. ‘The door of the tabernacle, which is of goid- lined thetal, sets off the surroundings in « manter at once chaste and beautiful. There are threo stained windows above the sanctuary, which represent the Sacred Heart of Jests, the Blessed Virgin and the patron saint of the chapel, the spostle St. John, twelve large windows, six on each side, will accommodate five hundred people, SOCIETY OF ST. JOHNLAND. The annual meoting of the Soctety of St. Johniand was established in, 1870 with the following objects :— First—To provide cheap and comfortable homes, together with the means of social 4nd moral improve classes, patticnlarly of tho city of New York. Sceond— ‘Vo cate for friendlces children and youth, especially cripples; and to maintaina home for aged men in destitute circumstances, Third—To assist indigent one to prepare for the ntinistr; St. Jolm- nd ix situated on Islaud nd, forty- five miles east of New York, and comprises 665 neres, 225 of which ure arable land, the remainder woodland and salt meadow. The society was founded by the late Dr. Muhlenberg. At the miecting yester- day the following officers and trustees were elected :— President, Adam Norrie; Vice President, Heman Dyer; ‘Treasurer, Howard Potter; Secretary, William Alex- ander Sinith; trustees, Adam Norrie, Howard Potter, E. P. Fabri, John Cotton h, D. D.; Bawart a, hbarn, D. D.; Froderivl Winston, W, Alexan- der Smith, Frederick De P. Foster, James M. Brown, Rovert §. Holt, J. Lawrence Smith, Heman Dyer, D, Di Amne Ayres, Willi E. Chisolm, John H, Karle, J, Pierpont Morgan, Henry C, Potter, D. D.; J. F. Sheafe, Henry A. ley, Edward Schell, Henry J. Seudder, Auson W, Hard, Cornelius Vanderbilt, L. W. Bancroft, D, D., and Tasker H. Marvin. BUSINESS TROUBLES, Mullins, Highera & Co., shipping ahd commission merchants at New York and Havana, have failed, with Liabilities of about $50,000 and assets $11,000. Mathew J. Passin & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, made an assignment yesterday to Henry Ash, giving Fett eye to four creditors for $11,211 49, Tho inbilities are cetimated at about $40,000, A. De Hopping’s Son & Grifith, wholesale dealers in wooden, ware, made an assignment yesterday to en Nine preferences are given for poor Captain Kelso, of the artiliery, was shot dead, and several, Goorkhas and ® uumbor of the Seventy-second Highlanders were hit. The troopa, sweeping through the intrenchments, on: @ : wide: plateau of the ridga to the left. ‘The Twoenty-ninth wore sent out to skirmish throtigh the pine forest ‘along the backbone of the ridge leading down to the Pass, the Goorkhas and the Seventy-second High!anders acting as « support, with the Second brigate in the rear. The object of the movement was to join hands with the front attack from the camp, Whence out heavy guns and the Mar tim-Henrys of the Eighth could be distinetly heard, The ‘Swenty-ninth pressed on, and fora mile met fo résistance, but on reaching the ridge over- looking the Kotal the enemy were seen crowding up the slopes and forésts to the right front, evi- dently with the object of cutting fi our fear, Ee hes nish ensued, Some of i! 'wenty-ninth pushed on to thé eneniy’s ridge, but, whelmed by stperior numbers, had to full a short distance. Afghans were now in great force, and from bine to four our troops igrricog na engaged. A battery then the Afghan left tlank, and the whcle ot our front was lined by the First and Second brigades. An incessant fire waa kept up, but at five the General, taking one brigade, mude 8 flank movement’ to cut off the enemy's re- trent, leaving the Second Punjab infantry to line the ridges and the Twenty-hinth to guard the wounged, Loo. About four the pass was evacuated, and at dusk the enemy were in full retreat, the dank movement evi- dently making them fearful for their communica- tions. Our troops bivyouac! op the field at clevu- tions varying from 6,000 {ct to 9,000 feet, Water ‘was scarce, but wood, fortunately, was abundant. Our loss was two officers ‘and twenty men killed, and two offers and seventy-one men wounded. _ it is sup- posed the euemy left neurly three hundred dead, over one hundred and thirty being found on the field. Twenty guns and a large amount of stores aud ritles were captured, and by the 4th of De- the Afghan iield force wus in utter rout, The success Was most complete. The position taken could hardly havo been stronger. ener; fought both with #kill aud determination. As in a cover LS seen the element of chitice played s con- siderable part, leaving little room for generalship. ‘The night niarch being undiscovered was # most for- tunate circumstance. Had the enemy kept the slight- eat lookout we must have ae with a reverse. The front attack was well ont, the Kighth foot and the Fifth Punjab infantry up within one thou- sund yards of the pass, while the horse artillery made splendid practice, completely silencing thelr guns by two P. M., and at three the place was evacuated, “THE AMERICAN MINISTER.” THE LIBELS AGAINST THE BEY. FREDERICK BELE AT NOTTINGHAM, [From the London Times.} The hearing of a charge of Mbel, which has cre ated great intorest in Nottingham, was congluded be. fore the Borough magistrates on Friday,December 1%. The prosectitor was the Rev, Frederick Bell, a religious. lecturer, who has been holding services in various towns in the country, and the defendants were the Rey. Richard F. Griffiths, a Nottingham eee minister; Mr. W. H. Stevenson, @ ry itor, and James D. Norton, « printer. J+, defended Mr, Poland prosecated; Mr. Buszard, Q. C., Mr. Griffiths; Mr, Rolland, of the Northern Circuit was for Mr. SteVenson: Mr. Stauger, of the Midlan Circuit, for Mr. Norton. The bel tained in a handbill bearing the signature of Mr, Griffiths, which stated that Mr. Bell had been ot immorality both in America and England, snd which was extensively circulated in ottinghain while Mr. Bell wis holding services there, wae stated that the detendant vevson took the manu. script of this handbill to the defendant Norton and gave instructions for the printing and circalation ofa quantity of copi 1a the course of his cross-exawi- nation the pre tor said that prior to his conver- sion he had travelled about the country as a eumia singer, had drunk, bled, rum races and oeca- sionally fowaht, and that he was converted whi tering from delirium tremens. Witnesses for thode~ fence were hot called, the istrates being of jon that a primd facie case to go betore, a jury ‘been made out against Mr, Grifiths and Mr. Stevenson, and thoy were committed for trial, The summons against Norton was dismissed, p UNCLE SAMS TRAMP, James) Thompson, @ tramp, acedsted’ Datectiva: Schmidtberger on Thursday night end told him he had been in the United States Army and wae very hard up, ‘The officer thinking that hemight be @ deserter took him to the Twenty-ninth procinet and Under Captain Williams’ instructions proceeded to inquire into his case, The fetlow told « tremendous story about his enlistment here and departare Kort Sucliing, Maint se Biotaatek bub eceeeeiiee, travelon 6 ratt on the river, ped, ee eg and final a Es was discovered that he had beon, dishonorabiy. die charged aid that his yarns were wotounded in ‘Thay he or st Bast is not Soi eu ee aoe ae auarters on the Island, ea “a