The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1867, Page 2

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A TALK WITH THE LATE PRESIDY NT'S LAW PARTNER. rom Our Special Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, 1L, Jan. 25, 1867, akes up its mind to commemor: correspondence can keep pace with it. After Mr. Lincoln’s nomination to the Presidency —the most Republican of all coups & etat— the little city of Springfield ascended at a bound from the commonplace to the memorable. Caravans of pati- ots from all the other States wended across the prairies to visit it. From a market town, where eggs were duly exchanged for calico, and the father of the Samily reported himself twice a year to get stone- drunk, it rose to be the home of a President, and sent him aoross the continent to usefulness and mart dom. His body lies near by it—shrine which any eity might covet—and his prim frame residence, practical and mud colored, 1 have walked around theso two nights, to find my curiosity shared by a half-dozen couples, looking upon it as if the tall ghost of its former owner might possibly appear. T came hiere to lecture: of two days leisure spared me I have passed one-half of each in conversation with & man who kuew the great citizen of Springfield for 20 years auterior to his Chief Magistracy better and eloser than any human being. Until very lately you might have read upon a bare stairway, opposite the Btate House Square, the sian of LINCOLN & HErx: DON. A year ago it gave place to the name of HERN- DON & Za Ascending the stairs one flight, you soe two doors o] to yvour right hand. That in the rear leads to w. was for one generation the law office of the President. Within, it is adis- mantled room, strewn wi ded briefs and leaves of law-hooks; 1o desks nor chairs remaining; its single bracket of gas kened in the center, by whose flame he whom our children’s children shall goveroutly name, prepared, perhaps, his gentle, sturdy utter and out of its window you get a ‘When history m o place, no speci looked a thousand times, pondering Freedom and Empire with his eye upon ash-heaps and crowing coc nd young Americans sledging or ball-playing. As simple an office, even fora country Jawyer, as ever [ saw in my life, it 15 now in the transition condition of being prepared for another tenant. In the middleof the room the future Presi- dent sat at a table side, and in the adjoining front xoom this table and all the furniture of the place is still retained, while in its back corner, looking med- ftatively at the cylinder stove, you see Mr. Herndon, the partner and anthority I referred to. He has given me permission to write what I choose of himself and his dead friend, and among all the men X havo aver met, he is the readiest to understand a question and to give even and direct answers. He sesomblos Mr. Lincoln so much, and in his present quarters, garb, and worldly condition, is so nearly a reproduction of A. Lincoln, lawyer, as he lived before ¥Fame drove a chariot through this second story, that we may as well take a turn around the surviving man and the room. Lincoln “the taller andfolder, and the senior gartner; he had been in twoor three associations with lawyers; one of his early "partners, by fraud or mismavagement, got him into debt, and he earried the burden of it about ten years; his latest partner, excepting Herndon, was anxions to be a candidate for the Logislature, and as Mr. Lincoln desired the same honor at the same time, a dissolution was inev- jtable, and then to Herndon's great surprise, for he was very young and obseure, Lincoln said: “ Billy, Jet us go into business together.” Herndon accepted the proposition thankfully. Mr. Liucoln arranged the terms of partnership, and the new “shingle” went up directly, never to be removed till the ballet of Booth had done its errand. How young Herndon might have looked 25 years ago wo can scarcely infer from the saffron-faced, Dlue-hlack haired man before us, bearded bushily at tha throat, disposed to shut one eye for accuracy in conversation, his teeth discolored by tobacco, and over his angnlar features, which suggest Mr. Lin- colw's in ampleness and shape, the same half-tender melancholy, the result in both cases, perhaps, of hard frontier work, poor pay, thoughtful abstrac- tion, and a disposition to shave the sorrows of man- kind. Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be prond— 18 the sentiment of Herndon's face, as it was of Mr. Lincolu’s—a gravity that befits greatness well, when it comes, and in the dress of the firm of Lincoln and Herndon you see this sentiment practicalized. *“Mr. Lincoln,” said Mr. Herndon, “cared so little about clothes that sometimes he did not put all of them ou. He was brought up barefoot.” Mr. Herndon, by paraliol, rs to-day a bright yellow pair of Dreechs, turned up twice at the bottoms, and looks to be a wind-hardened farmer, rather than one of the best lawyers in the Sta man, is charged with delivering the best stump speeches in Hlinois, on the Republican side, during the last elec- tion. His address is homely in form, commencing with, “Friend ! I'll answer you;” and this he does with- out equivoeation, with his long fore-finger extended, and with such fund of new information upon the wevered memory in question that althongh the Lin- eoln biographers, from Holland up, have talked with bim, hie scems to be brimful of new reminiscences. ‘With an extraordinary memory, great facility of in- ference, 1 a sturdy originality of opinion, he bhad the effect upon to stagger all my notions of the dead President’s cha, He has Dbeen a wonderful desultory reader, and in his law library yon may see the anomalous com- panions for a Prairie attorney of Bailey’s Festus, Schlegel's Critignes, Comte’s Philosophy, Louis Blane, and many of the disobedient essay He has one of the best private libraries in the West, and in this respect is unlike Mr. Lincoln, who seldom | Dbought a new book, and seldom read one. Mr. Lin- coln’s education was almost entirely a newspaper | one. He was one of the most thorough newspaper | readers in America, and for fifteen years before his election to the Presidency snbscribed regularly to T he Kichwiond Enquircr and The Charleston Mercury. He grew slowly, therefore, as public opinion gre and as an anti-Slavery man was a gradual convi whereas Herndon, years before. embraced at a leap all the social reforms, read all the agitators, and talked human liberty to Mr. Lincoln, gravely listen- ing, till a fraternity of sentiment developed, and about the year 1844 the coming emancipator declared himsel{ an enemy of Slaveholding. It is worth while to stop and ponder that while Rhett and Wise, with Slavery in full feather, wrote wery day the Inviolateness of Secession and the di winity of hondage, these two Llinois lawyers, in th Jittle square office, read every vaunting, cruel word, paid to read it, and educated themselves out of their mutual indigznations—the one to a grand agency, the ether to as grand abhorrence. Mr. Lincoln had some six or seven places of resi- dence during his life; he was of full age hefore he left his family, never to return, and the pleasantest of his reminiscences were of his mother, to whom he imputed the best and the brightest qualities he had finberited. He broke out once to Mr. Herndon. as they were reluraing from Court in another county “Billy, all 1 am or can be I owe to my angel- mother. Asaboy Lincoln made a frontierman’s living by hard work, poling a flat-boat, getting ont cedar and chest- nut rails, even sawing wood. The scene of his early strugg! s was Indiana, and there he developed into a sort of amateur public clerk, writing letters for folks to whom a steel pen was a mystery, giving miscella- neous advice on law and husiness, and excelling par- ticularly in the ingenuities of anecdote and illus- tration. The story-telling reputation he retains was no fabulous qualification, nor was it an idle and @ossipy tecreation, but a means of making intelli- gence plain to rnde minds. At this stage of hislife he wore moccasius and a honting shirt, and was in great request by thick-headed people, because of his cloarness aud skill in narration. The jury always got from him a fair statement of any case in hand, and years later it was remarked by the Chief Justice of Ilinois that when Lincoln spoke he argned both sidesof the case so well that a speech in response was always superfluous, The habit be had of enforcing a factwitha an anecdote so far survived his moccasin daysthat itseems to have been constitutional inasense. No wan ever Lold so many stories, and be was seldom * uowi oithor L reveat ong twice or o tell ong that i i attentive ex- waa hackneyed. llmlm.vnnfl*"‘-lm‘ ., hoss ith common, native peopl quainted with a thousand mlnlmju.g and he had a familiar way of relating them that was 48 piquant as his application of them. 1t is also true liat some these stories were more cogent than delicate, yet it no single was he ever remembered to have told cdote for the sakeof that i which xception ptional. Mr. Her mistook Mr. Lincoln once as t During its recital Mr. tiently. When the man X it was ex: son who so f s story without purpose. ace worked imj said: fly put that fellow out of the office. 1 r He disgusts 1 p Finally settled at Springfield Mr. Lincoln found the Jaw jealons and niggard. He ‘was ‘always able to keep a horse, and was very fond of riding: but he made a poor income, though one not incommensurate with the general smallness of his colleagues at the Illinois bar. Now and then he was pincl hed to dis- tress, and went to bed with no notion of how, he d moet the morrow's claims. For nearly a fifth f hi « he owed money that he could sy disposition, the debt wrinkles. He cleared not pa igh of e galled him and hastened his 8. a Rimself finaily on his return from Washington City, where he sa a Representative in Congress. en he quitted Springfield for the Whita House he was worth just $30,00. Never moody nor petulant, he yet loved solitude and self-communion, and has been Lnown o sit six honrs in_one place; to lie_on his hack, for example, on the floor of his house, looking absently at the ceiling, or to sun himself sitting upon a fence or in a hay-mow all the d passing the pro- cesses of a plea through his wind foruming some political judgn The tenderness of his nature was not always manifest, yet he had his romance in o:nrly;nlnhou_ and as of this Mr. H!;llll(n_l had spoken in publi 1 asked particularly about it. A 3 ‘At Sangamon, Iilinois, @ pretty and high-apirited girl, without fortune, made havoc in many hearts, and Mr. Lincoln constituted one of three earnest suitors who wanted her in marriage. She preferred the addresses of a young merchant of the town, and gave the other two their conge. Her affianced soon afterward went East to buy goods, but as he returned was taken with brain feverin some wayside town, and lay raving for three mouths, unknown by name or. residence to his euntertainers. A rumor started that he had run_away to avoid ma rying his lady, and, waiting some time in vain to Jiear from hini, she received anew the attentions of Mr. Lincoln. About the time when they passed from courtesy to tenderness, and marriage Detwoen them was more than hinted at, the sick man returned like a ghost, ganged the dition of affairs, and up- braided the lady with fickleness. She had a delicate sense of honor, and felt keenly the shame of hav seemed to trifle with two gentlemen at onc preyed npon her mind ti'l her body. not very strong, suffered L_v sympathy, and Mr. Herndon has oral and written testimony that the girl died out of regret at the oquivocal position she had unwittingly assumed. The names of all the parties he has given me, but I 0 not nt th On the ¢ X himself nev His marriage tageous to hi nurse too nic be had, and tay ve Mr. Lincoln promised This vow he kept very | w in o every respect advan- It whetted his ambition, did not chant for home indolence that him particularly that there was something called society, which observed one’s boots as well as his principles. He was always a loyal and roverent husband, a gentle but not positive father, and his wife saw the Presidency for him before the thought of it troi He built the frame b now so celebrated, at I went over it _yesterd practicality. It stands upona pre erior quarter of the town, and w arpenter, not an archite A narrow y palings shut it from the street; the door is middle, and is approached by four or five woo steps; on the abutment besido these he stood after his nomination, in the blaze of pine torches, the thunder of huzzas breaking around his head, the only solemn man in Springfield. He might have felt that all these gratu s were such as the Aztecs spent_upon the beautiful captive who was to bo sacrificed in the feocallis. As alawyer, he was a close student of those cases that interested him. Slow to take them into his mind, passing in their consideration from stage to stage, and if he fonnd beneath an embodied prin- cipie, his heart grew into the work of dev: He frequently sat up all night preparing s ite argument, and or failed to present it so por- spicuonsly that dull intellects grew approciati nlm-wul( absorbed. Some of his leg are described as having been classical. all the drudgery of his craft, he w tician_ rat ttorney. 3 carried hi self to the myste infirmity. says Mr. Herndon, through'a brief to the constru the moral government of God. aoul a poli- rgal study ies of public “lookin fety and shut. himself up all night, and lay on his office floor in his careless garments, revolving some problem set by a village client that had 11 human principle. At these times he s dreamer reasoning. Again, he drove miles over the orairies with his lips close shut, wrinkling, softly h ing, and returned again at night stiangely white and exhausted. Before his great publie call came he had passed the world through his silent thought, as if it Lad been logal case to be stated and argued. “Did he ever quarrel, Mr. Herndon “Seldom, friend! but sometimes. Onc incensed at a Judee for giving an unfair ision, was a terrible spectacle. As he was grand i good nature and in his rage. At another time I saw two men come to blows in his presence he picked them up separately and tossed them like a couple of kittens. H the strongest m: ever knew, and has been known t own weight and throw him o Once, in ingtield, the Iri ing possession of the polls. down the street that they would permit nobody to vote but those of their own party. Mr. Lincoln seized an ax handle from a hardware store and went alone to ope I saw him a way to the ballot-box. His appear: the il we had neither threats nor collisions all He was never sick during the whole of 3 being a man of slow cirenli- lar habits, ¢ i morsel, he wes wiry and imdur L and even with Booth's ing up the best of onr Western m hullet in_his in he lived ten hours. His life, in general, was smooth and unruffled. He ‘had no lices agninst any class, prefering the Germans of the for L yet tolerating—as 1 d ever could—even the Irish. rdrink 7 in Indiana, when he took whisky as ague- After his nomination_for the Presidency it was suggested to him that the Visiting Committee i some lospitality. * Very well! he y food that is proper I authorize to be pur- ‘ But these gentlemen expect some liquors. can't permit to stranzers what I do not do solf. No |u&lmm. Billy s the tavern!”” ! th Of miscellaneous books Mr. Lincoln’s favorites wore Shakespeare and Pope. He ne Byron, and of cotemporary American_poets preferred the trotic selections chiefly. Milton knew by f the Bible. sin- cerity chiefly ; he loved not cliques, and_ those who Knew him best were younger than he. dships, no hero-worsh s most promis less admiration than repulsion. Do arrogant in Lincolu’s piese: the latler, never sen- sitive nor flurried, so grew iperturbability hed the White House, Mr. Donglas rhody else. i g which they figured toge wvery Springlielder. Dougias, with le energy, went into it un- Lincoln hegan lucidly and cautiounsly. ne ovi of it Doouglas was worn down is remembered his powerful voi der full st When the) with rage a hourseness, and Lincoln was fresher than He prepared all the speeches of tl - paig silent meditation, sitting or lying alone, studying the flies on the ceiling. The best evidence of his super in this debate is the Republis haign document i 1860, and Mr. Douglas’s friends re- ¥ markable episode of Herndon’s conver- mation—which LTam repeati lates to Mr. Lincoln’s’ Preside: Pirations. common with most people, I had coneluded that this great honor came to Mr. coln without paving, as unexpected as it was unsolicited, and to him a stagger- ing prece of Tuck, like a lottery prize. This estimato is a charming one, but it isnot a true one. When the Douglas and Lincoln contest was ended, the defeated man suid to his partne “ Billy, I knew Ishould miss the place when I compeied for it. This defeat will make me Presi- dent.” He refused, in the interim, any proposition looking to his aceeptance of a lesser office, and this with the concurrence of his friends and family. At the same time he took no immediate weans to precipitate his opportunity, rather, like a man destined, sat more closely to study and vigilance, read all the is- sues as they developed, and waited for his call. It came, ot last, in a special invitation to visit New-York and speak inthe Cooper Institute. He felt intuitively that this was the Rubicon, and, with a human thrifl, paused and hesitated. It s possible that, at this moment, had any close friend whispered “stay,” the Republic might be dead and Abraham Lincoln living, (o, Mr. Lincoln,” said Herndon, “ make your best effort. Speak with your usual lucidity aud thorough- ness. Home said “ Go” also, He appeared in New-York, as all of you romember, and his success there drew the attention of the coun’ try to his name, The West can originate men: the East must pass thew, and the firm of Lincoln and Herndon died, in reality, when the Convention met at Chicago. He had by this time reached the highest usefulness in hiy State, of which his nature was capable. ’Ra best lawyer in it, the hero of a debate equiva- lent to a Senatorship, with a mind too broad and 53:33;".1'33"' gmlml tumlJleaugllnlu-mlly by iy iny and preparadion, Py K] Uiiitad Blaten, b wonk sy so s wind, WALl ot gmity o el | + Iz ‘stlignity ;;:MM-" z:rwmul;, i .f‘"’ 00 beslabion 10 1opoalitig and easa that made men stare, because they had not soen the steps he took upon the road. 3 At last he came to his office for the last time. “ Rilly,” he said, * we must say good-bye.” Both of them cried, speechlessly. i “You shall keep up the firm name, Billy, if it will be of use to you. oy b ’ They shook hands npon it, with tears in their eyes. o the people here; Billy, and owe them 1 m. 1f God spares my life to the end, 1shall come hack among you, and spend the remnant of my lays."” “He turned to Springficld till glory hrought him bome under her plimes, a completed life, and the prairie, like a neighbor, opened its door to take him . A : When Mr. Herndon saw him a, wshington e cares, City he was finrowed and fretted with s They talked awhile of the old office, the clients, and the town, and then the war rolled between them once more. 2 One sentence Mr. Herndon recollects of the Presi- dent before his departure for Washingtou that i3 memorable as showing his purpose. “Billy,” he said, “Thope there will be no trouble; but I will make the South a grave-yard rather than see a Slavery gospel triumph, or successful secession lose this Government fo the cause of the peoplo and representative institutions.” this Mr. Herndon added: “Mr Lincoln was merciless in the abstract. Battles never moved him. unless he trode among their corpses. He would have carried on the war forever, or as long as the peoplo intrusted him its management, rather than give up. Speaking thus, among the associations of his work- ing life, the years of Abraham Lincoln began to return in the vividness of their monotony, bleak and unremunerated, hard and practical, full of patient walk down a road without a turning, brightened by dutifulness alone, pomnted, but not cheered by way- side anecdote, and successful, not so much because he was sangiine of himself, as because he rated not ewinence and honor too high or too difficalt. Whet he found himself competing for the Senatorship with the quickest, the least scrupulous, and th most flattered orator in the Union, he saw nothing odd nor dramatic about it. His Presidentisl opportunity surprised everybody but himself—not '{|‘~ he had self-conceit, but that he thonght the of- fice possible. He was none of your Richelicus, med - tating aside the great uses to which Providenco I put him. He never made a bid for the favor or for- giveness of history, but ruled the nation as if it wee practicing law, and pract d law as if it were rulisg the nation. This real greatn of mind, oblivious- ness of circumstances, ascending from a practice of three thousand dollars a year to twenty-five thot and, as if there were no contrast between them, giv ing “ Billy " permission to use the firm style as I fore, without a conscions poetic trait, yet ever in absent moments looking very long away ponder- ing the distance of rewards, promises, vindications, with a longing that was poetry,—these compose some of the character of one whose fame differs vastly from his life, and must do so by the anomaly of i‘ha "he strongest of his loves and faiths was The 4 more roverence for them in bulk than exemplars, Religiously he erent man withont creed, believing in a 1t God—no more. No denomination has a to him; he was not a ular church- goer w clergyn n liked recom- mended themselves on personal grounds : he ref psed to argue on religions matters, but inclin o toward Congregational independence. His mother and sis- tors fond of ¢ ml‘ etings, and a rather hu- morous letter held by Mr. Herndon says that a por- tion of their family regularly converted every year, and backslid in the Winter. 1 Know of no better illustration of the difference Detween the real life and the ronown of M than you get by visiting his grave. A horse twvo milos long, leads o it, in the cemet Ridge. Behind you is his real life, Springfield, a Western market town, set upon the monotonous with the chatter of politi w, for all of whom th and savoring much of the the frost and the front pretty prairie city, b eapitalized so that what the State has not done for o town, and what the people expected it to do, e finienied desultoryness, "All at ovce, s approach th agamon River, the scene Stalwart mun7 oaks of natural growth become plentiful. The landscape is plowed with leafy ravines. Bold knolls start up. creek goes around the abrapt hills. Shadow, murmur, ises sueceed the ievel life of th I these mysterios, itsel of onr age, the vault of the P temporary edifico of brick, and the one of the handsomest cemeteries in th with the winding brook be rie, half the year n cians, plethorie with law is less than enough to d you changes. drive of & 'tw A 0 and all the whi s aple and ash trees cluste; mument. About §7 tobe his 1 . Jected forit up to and it ix supposed the e 0,000 in all. There It would sphemy 1 man’s grave with a mero prettyness of marble or smartness of 1 Let the fiery, untamed Western genins be of timid chisel here 1 Lincoln ™ 18 a good epitaph if lainly lette 11, will any monnment e like th ot a seulptor's e Def ild get no notion of Mr. gory would be unlike him, » 00 inexprossive. 1 the puld be called by his name, that would be an either ; but this man will trouble any ar- lio was 8o unlike any model. — THE CANADA GOLD FIELDS. —— this tim From Our Special Correspoadent Brovioere, C W, Feb. 4, 187 ament in this vicinity has not aba. men of the I regard to At capit in risking the cha slopments bave opened their movement the Rich The gold exe ted. At last, she money Deing stirre The early rumors i were 8o v , not to say have hithe not but v ity are [ ent de last there almost at an hour’s noties gentieman desired to take 10 shares, another 6, 2 ca. A party wis then dispatehed to Boston to ne- e with Carr and Johnston (the nominal owners, )0 o of the law) for the interest this morming to the effect that terms that were likely prove satisfactory were soeured. This little bit of history is only important to the public because it embraces the first test of confide home in the gold discoy It is not osw i“ficnlt, through' the a local press of K attest their may not that another rie s time in the W report, in it to act, A speci this pl i quartz T don Sat which ia said Lo have yielded o s Wol to two pounds and a half of rock. This may or may not Do true 10 its particulars; but your correspondent saw fair specimen of gold that._probably came from s de- posit, worth perliaps 5 or 75 conts. The owner of this posit, un Americ that he'conld ot be st of money, his imagi as ranging somewl bt there ave o dozer n Madoc s already so elated with by chanice It d o part with it for a large ation having counted its w of houest nu u the neigh dicato richer 1o te Division, discovered ta,and i tho faith he pos- Government somothing the advaneed figure now 3 veral apparently rich doposi woson s purchiased from 4 1iko a thousand acres of Las This, added to t anded. , It 18 nederstood, ho in- Shonld he succeed, the world will have cause to add another to the list of Peabodys and Stownrts, and shonld ho fail to find gold, the search Ao something toward resto in this locality, now consid: ot of poiss. i o iu this locality. Tn or he owns 4 village in the comprehensive sense that iy be aid to own o house—becaiso he built it, wy and not be cticed within ifs limits. **No spitituous liquors sold is one of the important dicts Chat I o the thirsty continne to thirst, for ue a and rune it pronouncing whiat pr 1 ApiriLiios baveragen be founnd. At this odel village—this village of Bridgewater, with w the Hon. Gentleman of temy ow_erecting a hotol to accommodato 0 The work - menced, wnd will oarly in the scason Iulsernmnl:luhlftl‘.. o the present time the Government has sold wild land ible its former value, viz., §1 per acre, (o the extent owing : Madoc, 4,500 acres, at §1. Elziver, 5,900 acrvs, at §2 Tudor, 560 acres, at §2... Marmora, 510 ucres Total 22,20 And purchases aro still being made, faster, it is under- stood, than Rulnun can bo 1ssued for them by the em- o loyés of the department. There 18 plenty ‘of Crown Lands unsold in these townabips yet, fmni’«r. ough, porh. ,mkm-,nlm clerks busy parehment-writing avd record-reading for stx mionths to come. The Deputy-Commissioner of Crown-Lands was hore from the scat of government last week. e recoipts of cash for lands at his department must have h A more prompti periis and thern la if, indesd, other motives e i of a pnyen Ir at thia inclement 450 joe, at all events, and he left the township excite gl it i difficult to sy what lio could have seen b 1 abundauce of suow-capped hills and a fow seoro of voracions gold-huntars. His mode of travel is kaid to havo been by cariole and French pony, and his route across the country some huundred miles— Proof positive of earnestnosa. A traveler from one of the eastern townahips reports f”“’ found in Loughborough, 50 milos east of i place. e says in localities farmers have built fence with quartz owing its churscter, and that fine speciimens Dbeing found in quartz that hit 2 1 worthless. My informant b g THE CITY. mofel tenement-houss will so0n be a4 anwholesome s though none of / . thean v bon ke, eloruaton s Ui maier ca, in 108, be made perma forciny owners pr———— {antloant property the e ToF L3 tomatimeat, Woally, oF I reapons necessary, more frequent insj ement-house, ' from garre to cellar, houd be made by r competent anthor- 7. who abould exact from each tenant sirict compliance with such rules g ecessary to the salabrity of & dwelling, and any tenant who per. il in living in detrimental to the bealth of METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTIH. THE TENEMENT HOUSES OF NEW-YORK AND BROOKLYN. The Board of Health met yesterday aftornoon, the President, Jackson 8. Schultz, in the ehair. B aelehbors Sshouid "so longer be sliowed fo remsin. Sueh 2 arviein would 800m improve _the habits of the " tenants, The regular weekly report of Superintendent Daiton was read by the Secretary and placed on file. and the certainty of & 7 inapection would at least secure & 3 Tigorous clesnsing at those times—which of itself would prevent the i " e accuaulatiofs of f1th which are now & disgrace to s many_ prop- Bome time ago Superintendent Dalton was instructed to | FICEICEAE L ont housekeeper shouid also reside on or y.-."nng , A 'ses. whose duty it should be to keep the halls, water-clos of the house clean sud in repair. It is i a great taeasure due ta the negleet of these reasonsble precautions that 80 much inhor and expens s forced upon the pablic or sanitary messures « roborative of the statcieuts | have made as the resulta of observation, [ beg to submit the fow panying reports of sanitary inspectors, an would respectfully invite especial attention to that of Dr. . gpon No. 135 Weat Tueutsaisth No. bowing that the report to the Board the condition of tenement houses in the cities of New-York and Brooklyn. The following is Lis report : PICK SANTTS SopErisTENDRNT MATROPOLITAN BoARD Heautw, New-Yokx, Jan. 27, 167, Scuvirz, § ‘Metropolitan Board of In obedicnce to Instractions from the Metropolitan Board of Health tious made in tils report are Sin cartied out where the owners erry-st., o Health received on the 24th inst., 1 beg respectfully to submit the follow- | o ble and " Upon tenement bouses in the cities of New-York and Brookiyn. | GrHFRCry T Ly e ths sbor o Ap sl roperty are really d hat Is right. Very respectfally, e gity the namber of Sk houses paratively small, beiog | your ghedieat servant. Eowarp B. Dautoy, Sanitary Superintendent ‘aud while some of them are deteient in ligbt, ventilation, an: There being no other business, the Board adjourned to there are but very few cons for their filthy and neglected sonditon, andslmet ot o el e e of waomsat bvarcs | et 0n Thiursday next at 3 v'clock p. ul in thiscity 8 1552 The olowiag lable hoes_ the master o teir dis- ———— Urbation(n the Tacions , sud the saaber which are in bad sanitary CITY GOVERNMENT. Tnbadsan- Tn bad sen- ¢ ALDERMEN. itary cond- itary condi- BOARD OF AL nm:a 3 Totalnumber fionfrom tion fom | CELEBRATION OF WASHINGTON'S ~BIRTHDAY—RE- Mesumbbuee. | dogist. Syends MOVAL OF THE NEW-JERSEY CENTRAL RAILROAD 5 COMPANY'S BUILDINGS. 0 250 The Board met at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, = > the President, Alderman Shannon, in the chair. The 1,841 m resolution of Councilmen providing for the appointment [ 32 of a special committee of five members from each Board 650 £l e to make suitable arrangements for {he celebration of 40 % 19 Washington’s Birthday, and appropriating $—— there- e & L for was laid over. 50 i 215 Alderman NorTON offered a resolution umni uRnn 50 2% EH the Street Commissioner to state his reasons why he had 200 " 1= not ‘r.eglwd to the resolution Olln%ulry. heretofore adopt- 1,500 218 P ed, asking why o p ings had been taken in the 2,39 am 118 matter of removing the buildings now occupied and used 227 118 1506 the New-Jersey Central Railroad Company, at Piers o L] fred o8. 14 and 15 North River, 1= ris Alderman MooRE said it had become a question of law whether this Railroad Company had the right to run the lerrry at this point to Communipaw, or not. Alderman NorToN said the Company were running a ferry that was bringing them in a revenue amounting to from $15,000 per anuum to $£20,000, but as yet they had not paid a dollar for the franchise. The resolution was then adopted, and the Board ad- Journued for one week. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. ADOPTION OF ROUTINE PAPERS. The Board met at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the President, James G. Brinkman, esq., in the chair. The Board transacted mere routine business only, and ad- Journed for one week. PR MEETING OF THE METROPOLITAN FIRE COMMIS- SIONERS. The Board of Fire Commissioners met Wednesday morning, the President, Mr. Pinckney, mn the chair. A communieation was received from Jackson 8. Schuitz, President of the Board of Health, in which he solicited the use of an engine-house for the -lnmiu' of disinfeetants, Referred to the Committes on Buildings aud suppiies. The following resolutions were adoptod : Teesolred, That the magnitude of the conflagration in the premises of Messrs. Chittenden & Co., on the uight of the [1th inst., and the set ascertaed cause of s orighn aud exteusion, demands of tis Board therough inquir on the “Resolved, thevefore, That' 8 meeting for this purpose be hel Board on Friday, the 15th inst., at 3 o'clock, p. m.. and that the g wieh offcoes and “arly at the scene be forthwith ascertained and otified to be wination. After the trausaction of a large amount of merely rou- tine business, the Board adjourned. i p— OFFICERS oF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.~The an- nnal election for officers of the American Institute was beld yesterday at the rooms of the Society in the Cooper Union. The following are the officers andjCommittees chosen : For Piesidant—Horace Greeley; Viee-Presidents—Dud- gory, Orlando B. Pot William H. Vauderbilt. ordding Secretary—Salom K. Wales. Seeretary—8amuel D. Tillman. —Sylvester R, Comstock. J Butler, Thomas —William H. J. Groshen Herriot, Robert G, i Carpenter, Orestes Cleveland, pine, William H. Hicks, J. Owen Rouse, C. ward Ruggles, Lloyd Aspinwall, Charles per Lord, Davis Collamore, Lewis Feacht- wanger, Samuel C. Bishop, Frank Moore, J. Wilson Strat- ton, Charles K. Hawks, Ixaac Walton, George F. Dawson, Samuel D. Tillman. « the Admission of Members—Charles E. ett, Johu W. Chambers, John F. Cory, X 814 9046 the reports of the Sanitary Tnspectors, '» namber of bouses occupied by several families, living but baving & common right in the halls, ‘privies, and sinks. 1t will be e the_foregol e, that of the entire number of tenemeat Houses in the City of New-York, 52 per cent are in bad sanitary condition ; that is, in & condition detrimentalto the health and dangeraus to the lives of the oceupants, aud sources of infection to the neighborhood, and insalubrity to the city generally; 32 per cent are in this condition purely from overcrowding, aceamulations of Bith, want of w 20d other results of neglect. The danger to ent of an epidemie, which s “xpressed by thess fGgures £ the tenement houses ay localities where almost entire e, all of which are in bad eondi- ‘greatly increased by this very groupiog. respect, a8 will be seen by reference to the lower portions of the city, at intervals and along its bigh a8 Forty-second-st. on the east and and np‘:';::nl e s i tly of each other, table, are in nd weatern border, a3 xtieth-at. on the weat. of the improper » The itary condition of tenement houses m be classed nnder two heads, vie.: First, those due o fanlts in the o nal construetion of the building, and, second, those due to overcrowding Promineat under the frst bead are: cwstom of erecting a front awd rear tenement house on o single tot.—y thi plan the rear end of each rear house ix within short Adistance, varring in snrn-m instances from ai rear end of the rear house, sit x and neglect. First : The . There are many blocks It is that the ba frow direet sunlight, and the veutila- These spaces, 100, hetween houses dvery frequently from beinz wade v excrement, urine and garhage, give off most ofersive re either diffused throngh the ouse, or co lenauts to keep the rear wiridows constantly closed. and thus destr slender means of ventilation which their presence Fven the front rooms of such bouses sufer in ot to w0 great a degree, the prascat of the hig Jals by & narrow court, allowing but meager v wecessarily very imporfect. e alvwars dark, s & very common evilin tene [ Deficient ventilat i Therefore the tenants keep all is entirely eot of from the extersal at the street eutrance. el save such as may be adonted by the rvoma. The slevping jraple closets with sbwo: For the same reasons that the halls are rk and damp. No sunlight cau 45 %0 narrow that a proper e ded. A large proportion of Absence of Light. never seatilatel, they are al there. The space allowed for the b impossble and quate skzlight prov Livean Balla arv sa dark, that at wid-day it s fmpossible to discern objects there without opening some adjacent room door. ny limtances the Hoors are damp and rotting, asd the walls and bamuister aticky with & constaut moist Fourth . Basecvents or Collars—The hasements ot cellars are ofien e celing being & foot o two belax the level nd illy-sentilated y vecu pied, 5 o cominy ple entrance. and in wh udent upon artiseial light by day as well tations in_the lower part of the ity are ooding by tide-water %o the depth of from w0 wuch %0 48 o keep the children of the A large number of tepements hare 0o con. es K. Campbell, Edwd, , Wi, Swinton, Richard W. er. toel Committee on _Repository —James Bogardus, Albro vete, st fur Howell, Joseph Dixon, Nathanicl Wheeler, 8. Starr u the o unnittee on Manufactures and Machinery—J. Wyatt rl('ol‘)'vlli George W. Quintard, Thomas D. btet Rowell. n Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology— Dubois D. Parmicles, Charles F. Chandler, 8. Newberry Engineerin wing immediately aui thesee o ang inte the atreet " and_Architecture—R. Commit o T brough hese draing s gene ay ~ » . e b il il | O: Hatfield, Leopold Eidlitz, Samiuel McElvy, John W. aterial or by the d ut Lreaking down of the 1ling. tenil, 18 the sved oont and o Agriculture—Jobn T. eliar where Bl Bui s take place beneal| euat, the whole honse becomes permeate saae Buchanan, Benjamin C. Townsend, Jawes Hogg. Commit on Commerce—Jireh Bull, Frank Moore, Luther B. Wyman, James H. Sackett, John P. Veeder. iy THEFT OF A STEAMER—ARREST OF THE CAPTAIN. —About eight months since, the st Irving, Capt. George Olney, commander, at that time ply- ing between Norfolk, Va., and Southern ports, was seized v from the stagnant it way up through the waste pipes and wcaping into the balls and roome. Srth - Inadequate provision of water-closets or priv wsterclosrts ol frequently of imperfect const o for fushirg them. Where p wnly blt, des o of sewer by Sheriff Diggs of folk, ou a writ of attachment. One Olney threw off the fastenings and started for sea 1 A% AL 0N phed to the nd a vesscl d, five adually dropped aste nd stood out to sea. Trving was not yel ouf of range, ax eral shots were | fire twoor three takisg effect, but doing uo serious damage, and the course, and finally escaped, the pursuing vessel failing to o t Why the marines did not_prevent Capt. Oln escaping the second time does not appear. The ael, on reaching this port, w 1 over tothe owr Micksia. Mott & Co., by ( e of Gen. «t of Gov. Pierpout of Virginia. Oluey seaped. n @ roquisition by Gov. Pierpont by Detectives while passing through South-st. cadquart: rs, where Sheriff Diggs At 2 0'clock the prisoner Arising_from oven e, exerement, and 6ith of n aad overtowin, All theae Aggravat s dwellings unt for haiitation. panta, and eapecially to the indiference of the reat measte the orig thes pre atcet peeaniary adva they are called, wh ofts, xod who by divids be property as or lease them ar destror the wud erowding three or The iatter is f in ntended for tevement he the pd Amboy boat, on hi privi dences, arranged st for € but a few minutes before starting, i e family. These * tniddin men the law firm of Be Dean & Donahue mad from._the owner, whe o g'cd rece with a writ of 15 corpus issied by Justy ot e Bhat ¢ the 1d of the Supre purt, directing that the prison ) Lim for & hearing this morning at 10 brought before The prisonor was th recouducted to Police e Tug ELEVENTH-ST, SUICIDE—INQUEST OF CORONER PEY.~AD inquoat was yesterday held by Coroner at No. 159 East Eleventh-st., on the body of Adam Cashel, who committed suicido by shooting himself in the k= liead with a pistol, a8 already mentioned in THE TRIBUNE. rany aerenigmnesr b | Prom the evidence of the wife, it would appear that for Chatyman Sanitary Committee M. 11 Health. wions to s death, deceased had been un- b your instructions | beg respectfully to lay ed to the house. At about 3 o'clock on noon his wife went into the room, was 1 was seized by her husband, who same time threw over her head a tight, confiuing her arms to her y for such he seemed to be, then threw pon the floor, and with the cord bound her feet The s ms of Mrs. Cashel bronght to the pre: ions it houses were the lirst Vers reapectfilly, your the following recom- provements in the con mendationsin regard to certain i struction of tenement houses: « oF THR BAN aeveral d; M T Joww 0. Sroxe, M. D, well i befora you certain recon acter ind condition of tenen Brookiva, K | nowse, which he d ot apace allow of proper 0 and light of the inmates of the adjoluing rooms, but as -I;:hm:n; ve | s about to enter, Cashel produced a pistol e Al ed 1o shoof any one w should the balls the beneft of the windows. of $he _Woweh ~more - cODKR- rest, finally seized Mrs. Cashel by the d her into the hall, when the husband and comme k the furniture, neigbors , but before he arvived a pistol shot w On the arvival of an off s iwmproved moderate sized thires square feet in ares shonld be cut now have 0o opealng sare Ue doar from tor class of bouses thowe windows already exist, aud are of great value " ed by the Kngineer of ased was found Lying upon the floor, dead. He tly pl 1 the pistol to lis wouth aud fired, pasating upward nluo fhe brain. The bureau, ehairs, and other urticles were sinashed into pieces. P loft vacant, and & Lirge veut bt placed i o The jury rendered a verdiet “that the decensed com- \ll-lnlvurrllnwrruuvrulv-lm s lefs in the foors of the differvut | mitted suicide by shooting himself through the head with .a..f'.‘“"n"'f"ffi"" b-?’::n.lhv;:n:-;wl“ § Jovpee railing or brek | pistol, while laboriug wider temporary insanity.” De- B e o s s v:fl:‘yull“lul‘hl A tenes | geased Was i native of Germany, @ years, and leay cs 2 ug dorteoced, and, excepting | oy wife and five childron. He was cmployed as porter by in the rare instances where irou lulders have bee attached outaide the Liouss, the tenants ure eatirely eut off from cacaps. Fo mauy terrible casuaities have occurred from this causo, that the demand is certaioly most imperative for some ehange which shall secure greater safety to the thousands who must uecessarily live in these tevoment-bouses, and who fajden-lane, and bore ady wan, Mossrs. Packard & Jo tho reputation of being i g CIVIL, COURTS, o U. 8. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE—FEn. 14.~Botore Com missioner OSBORN. ALLEGED FALSE PERSONATION. 4 United States agt. Mary 8t John. In this case one Hannah Burke testified that she had deposited fn the United States Treasury money to the extent of over $13,000, and had received certifl cates therefor. Her certificates were stolen from her, and she, on the usual proof and bond of indemnity, pro - A Mr. Dufendorf presented one of the on'being informed of the fact that the n, gave information that they had been presel o by n man of the name of Foster, Who had raised money on them and who had produced the prisoner as Hannah Burke. The prisoner was committed for trial. —— SUPREME COURT—C1 Frn. 14.—Before Mr. Jus tice CLERKE, THE COLUMBIAN INSURANCE COMP. ASSETS, Bensjab Leffingsrell Rier, &e., agt. Eben B. Crocker This was an action to recover the amount of 5 premium note given to the Colnmbian Insurance Com. pany for #7500, It appeared that the defendant had o valid set oft previous to the appointiment of a receiver, and judgment wus therefore entered for the balance, 5,052 34, in favor of the Company. Dudley Ficld for plaintiffs; Ira D. Warren for defend. ant. Betore Mr. Justice E. D, SMiTH. AN OLD TITL & Sylrester Cabill agt. Courtland Palmer and others. This was a suit invelving the title of a tract of Jand on the East River, extendiug back in hundred-and-tenth-st. to the N T he neighbor- uth-ave. The ant made lu 1647, : between two hood of On plaintiff claims title to it und fl Which givesa certain point of I Kills, and which, according to the lon put on 1§ by Mr. Serrett, the City Surveor, fuclided a portion of the traet taken by the Central Park Commissioners, neae One-hundred-and-ninth-st., and for which over §0,00 was awarded. The title of the defendant rnns back to nearly the same period. The case has oecupicd a week, u greay rt of the time being spent in an efforl to define the undaries of the old grant. The Court ultimal direeted a verdict for defendant, chiefly on the grow that adverse possession had been made out by hint. Mr. Dyett for plaintiff; Mr. Burritt for defandant. PROMISSORY NOTE CASE—WHAT ARE THE DUTIES 08 PERSONS WHO PAY OUT A PRON Ss0RY NOTET - Jame skint Swan, The plaintiffs sold to the endants, in March, 1857, goods to the amonnt of §975 35, fendants pad toe them in their promissory note. o1, 1857, the de- fendants failed. On the 11th or 1th of November, 1857, they delivered to the plaintiff, in payment of their own note, the note of Bambeyer & Brothers of Kentucky, dated Angust 17, 1857, but really coming into their posses sion on the 4tih of November, for $75, and t.e plawtify od the note. Bambeyer Brotliers failed Novem iffa claim that when this note was shown ndants represented to ud in good standin fendants, if 1ot cog them t Brothers were solvent reality they had failed, n t of that fact, knew that they seeking an extension of time on their liabilities. drh-n‘nl.-m m out a claimed that the plaintiffs had sought th asked for the note, taking it eutirely on their own reapon- sibility and knowledge. “The Court charged tliat payment on the note of a third od paymentif so aceepted. If it wis taken v own risk a5 to the responsibility ant are gone, hand they were take it on any presentation as to the responsibility of the maker, ebiald be o frand. Any misrepreser.t :1ions of tha§ kind that induced them to take the ) o e, and upon I they relied in taking the note, would be a frand acticed on them, and would void the contract and it them to their original rights to recover for their originul property. 1f their was any fraudnient conceal. ment, the eontract was void. The de ntx were bound to aet honestly and fairly with their asked them to take this note in satisfa bound to speak the truth if they spoke at defendants represented it to be good, and they knew it to be good, the fact that these persons fuiled four or five days affer 18 a sufficient answer to that repreacntation, and if it was in fact made, that would be ¥, actical de- ceit, and would entitle plaintiffs to recover if they estals lish their case. If they knew that the credit of these mea was doubtful, and that they knew they were here scok. ing extension of eredit, and concealed that fact, aid said they were good, that would be a fraud, for they were bound to tell the plaintiff the trnth. The jury found for the defendant.. Mr. Uray for plantiff; Mr. Boardman for defendant. b ErAmBERs—Befora LEONARD, J. ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A WIVE—THi DEFENSE INe SANITY OF THE WIFE. Silabee agt. Silsber. agt. Silsber. This was a motion to strike ont part of an answee aa irrelevant. ‘The complainant asks a linited divores oo PErson Was o0 the ground of eruel treatment by the husband. ane swer denies the cruelty, but claims that any appearauocs of harshneas that may bave existed arose from the plain- s fusanity, which and the necessity whi trolling her. The pl timately sent her to an sayiu et hioand was ‘inder of oon: ntiff’s connsel claimed that the trial would show a peculiar state of circumstances ao- compunying the sendl the plaintiff to the asylum, The Court reserved its decision. DECISIC Edward F., Hobbs et al. agt. Wi, B. Hall ot al— Motion denied with $10 costs. Wm. H. H. Cook agt. Jane Honora Cook.—Report filed and confirmed. Judgment of divorce granted. ———— AL TERM.—~FED. 14.—Before Justice JONEs. DECISIONS. Annie Lawler, &e., agt. Joseph H. Bearns, Edward €. Robinson agt. The St. Marks Insurauvce )y, Lisotte Tranmann agt. Adolph Kerbs, Mary Ann Haisoy agh Luther C. Carter, Thomas Beanes agt. George Coates.— Motions grauted. ————— COURT OF COMMON PLFAS-—SpeciaL TenM.—Fe» 14.—Before Judge CARDOZO. DECLSI0) Taylor agt. Shaw.—Case settled. Betore Judge BRADY. Galway agt. Adaiws.—See opinion. SUPERIOR COURT: COURT CAL SUPREME ¢ RT—CIRCUIT. Pant I—Before Mr. Justice IGRamax. No Civil calonlar. ™ Over and Terminer vl be cont.: Paky L. —Before Mr. Justice Ii, 3un—Bigelow 221, Brekingbam. 05— The Smith & Raud Powder Ca —Andrews agt. Giles. | agt. The Krie Load Co. % 1L —Before Mr. Justice K. D. Surrn.” lield at No. 73 Dusco b Court opens at 108, Sliort Catacs. [ os. Herker. 471 —Schamberzer agt. Woiler, 1= Delaerit agt. Uritton, t. Corle. v, agt. Eveua, X act. French. o agt. Veu Ness. Colen. Spriugmeser et al. agt. Deroe. 170—Pallard et . Daveson. Nos. 25—Dursters ot al agt. eks o 2600—0 Connell agt. Van Winile et i—Mullods |25 Nehlesin, o agt. W oolsay, W01 —Firsh agt. Copelond 21— Kravns agt. Woolf. H0—Krauss agt Wooil. hling azt. Holbrook |2125—Weich agy. Rasa. SUPREME COURT TAL TERM Before Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND. Court opesat 10 & m. Deuwurrens. al. 215—Reed agt. Fitrgrald 287—Hen agt. Bier 22— Bentler agt. Bradford. itadlit agt. Cassiiy. 3—Dorman sgt. Scha-pel " Myers agt. MeSherrs 201 No. 22—Daiese agt. Allen. 4 188 888 Lnsues of Law and Fact Noa. 176—C 115~ Warren agt. Vance. Billings azt. Lawless. COURT—CHAMBERS, Court opeus at 104w, Cali of the eab rred Causes. ©SuUrK Bofore Mr. Justice L NALD. endar & 13 . " N s4—THaahe agt. Merritt 125=Marriner agt. The Gutta Pos —Morange agt. Wheeler, chia Masul Co. 10 hall at, Covert 190—Reade agt. Sedley. 11—Cuter agt. Watkiss. | 131—Owens agt. Hort. ehall, 132=Burrows agt. Hilyer. v 13— Pt 140—Ker 141=Whi —Oreaman agt. Jon 123—Foulke agt. Tapscott. « General ell commences at No. 142—Bloonfield agt. The Poople's Gas Light Co, of New - York. UPERIOR COURT—TRIAL Rowrxrsox. Courtopees atlla 126—Parish azt. Matthews. 2036—Williams agt. dlorse. —Deaise agt. Ride Niridas ot al. ¢ 3W—Preg agt. tasher. S64—tso0dridge et al. agt. Nat. Fire Tusuraue | 3132—Briggs agt. Pleru. 28— Rertram 513 Davies agt. Matthews. 09— Badger agt. Sirapson 315—0)rth agt. Setton. 1680 Rosenthial agt. Seaile. 40— Bolt agt. Grademan, S122—Beebe agt. McConn 3152—Maguns agt et . COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TEKM. Pant I—Adjourned for the Term Paur 1i—Belore Judge Caiposw. Court opess st 1l & La Noa 45 Tarlor agt. Conlter. HT5—Klenkneeht agt. Beador. it oung ast. Miles {1004k 1002— Eddy agt. Musgrase. 1k Lovs—schuits axt. The mq\‘mk!%wf 03— 4—Abhott agt. Bates. | 642-Vau Biel agt. Borabard g Auderwon agt. Ho MARI Before Mr. Justice ALKKR. an. | . COURT—TRIAL TERM. Court opens at 108 . waeivospveeries o ke any proviaio (ot heir o potetion Tne Steamsuie R. R. Cuyter.—The Hon. Henry i this city thousands of these hows-s, wany of them wodels | Stansberry, Attorney-General, in an opinion addressed to IR ol acape ot | Swmuol G. Courtney, exq., United Statos District-Attoruey, upon the case of the steamer Cuyler, saya : ued. Many are #o much thiat o fire-cacape leading ot upon tir at such circumstances given by the stated, the provision of exter. acconding to the p prion of out tof April 20, 11 ishuwent of certal sciing "to would aford o light and free on the balls and rooms. r: [\ would dimiuish to & v8at degree the loss of lifs by fire, aad would afford LA, apportanity, by meass of the outaide tower, of placing the water- i siuks outaide tie bordy of the bouse, and thus relieve the latter of ane grost source of infiction. An lnstance of the practical and successful working of thix plan is dessribed in the accompauring roport of Sasitary Inspector Janos upon No. 12 Wrat Twenty-sixthot, with diagram. With the exception of the opeoings in the hall floors and the fact that the tower communicates througbout ite entire hight with the bodv of the onse, I corrcaponde with he plan proposed. ke pas bere described by De’ Janes ananers bly for bowses where there are but two fami- lica o each door, but amang the poor classas, where there must be four wilies on each eted by bridgus, 0 b rlvllu rior hlll ¢:umu of bl;:;;ul 6 double the amor ue of essel aud cargo on , lncludi b AW Sowditicace thef the Taesst sheil ek be employed by sack gwmees o cruise of commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens or rty of my [iovy hxl-« or ll'-t-, or of suy "fi‘:‘, mm:;; le '.'{:! -{n- - s are at peace, &4 provi b it e pruledrlr:;‘n el T g The Secrotary of the Treasury forwarded this opinion to Colloctor Smythe, with the following Alm!rlmlluny: TRRASURY DiPARTNRNY, Fobruary, 167, Sun: Ttransmit herewith a copy of letter of this date from the Attor- Hoor, the tower should oaly'be eo: there may be abundsnce of light ir he rear dwelll e e o e omtas “oxist " "bosk | ne7-Ganeral of the United States, at New-York, to the Unite States Dis- Ky [ oo i e il VOt | (Rl Altorney at New-York, reiaiive o the steamabip K. K. Cuyler Ao vl e o Bt from 000 dwelling-room, e herehy instructed to carry out tho decision of the Presids the I K Cayler to the o ited States District-Attos red bond bas bee Procesdiags iu court dismissed. Very 1 pefl'llly,..‘ " mzu.oon‘uu ‘Hry of the Treasury. s being advised in writing by " nicati ould be €at betwoon the two. " In aldition'te thieae windows, the bedrooms should alse be veutilated by shafts runuing 10 1ho roof, and & separate flue for ench room, as otherwise the contam- inated air from the rooms below would euter thoss above This plan is carmedon e o anemnta, 1y vory et To ey ciouey in drainage, it is only n v jumbing of the bouse Zhould b o the properplas. wow My recogaised by ‘architects and Plumbers, and where sewars do not yeb axist: that the gradiog of the tors should be faithfull Il‘ roper {15 of itself be of no s onse constaut watehfuluess, aad i H. A. Buxrux, Collector of Tue New-JERSEY LEGISLATURE.—The Senate yes- torday passed the bill consolidating the Camden aud Am- boy and New-Jersoy Railroads by a unammons vots. A DIl has besn Introduced in that body authorizing the ‘u.."'.'n; sisks Sl wettnols 4¥ to-pipes and deatroyin :lluruun and Delaware Bay Railtond Company (o issue St Qou o I pihaag hotires purboh Desiods ill |..M::: “-:-mw Lo amount of $2,500,000 additional to thoso now os. I 5—Coleman agt. Raoney. Van Horen agt. Steetts. t Loo Jouen on 135—Kuox agt. Pierson. —Bowwan sgt. Gleucove Starch 136—Carron agt. Lake. Company. 177—Stagy 3gt. Braon. 66—Bailey agt. fne. 13— Whiting agt. Fallos. —Dowling agt. Cutting. 130 Kerns agt. Daffy 100—"Taylor agt. Newniaa. 140—McElroy agt. MeCabe. 129—Nehueider agt. Sills. | Il—Sanger agt. Hermas. 1047 Dounell agt. Shipman. 142—Meyer agt. Kelly. 131—-Dayle agt. Monaban. 143—Meuts agt. Schaall 1R2—-Mouroe agt. Keith. CRIMINAL COURTS. e COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER. (Before Judge Tugrabam. | ALLEGED WiFE KiLLING.—Patrick Byrnes pleaded guilty of assault and battery on an indictment for ms8 slaughter, which charged him with killing his wift Catherine. He struck her in the face with a elub on 25th of May, and she died on the 18th of June. She the erysipelas, and the physician was not certain wh it wad the disease or tho blow by her husband W caused her death. The Court reserved sentence. o — COURT OP GENERAL SESSIONS. [Before Judge Russell | Texerep By BA Bovs.—Andrew McCarran, aged 14 years, pleaded guilty of petit larceny, on an indictt for grand larceny from the person, and was disc i senteneo suspended. He was umi:ll abstracting $92 10 monoy from the cost pocket of Johu Murray of No. Titat Wiftiotin alos whila o was ataudiug wb Ube cOrUer