The Sun (New York) Newspaper, May 3, 1869, Page 1

= : THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. THE WAR OF THE CHURCHES MILE ASTONISHING HISTORY OF MISS MARY ANN SMITH, —— Marvelions Berors of Opinion, or Perinry— ‘The Viethodints Claiming, and the Catho= Hes Impriseoiog & HelGOrphan Girl-A | Year of Litigation to no Parpose-The Lawvers in Clover. A decision was rendered on Saturday by Judge | Butherland, in the Supreme Court, Chambers, which Asaremarkable Mlusiration of the uncertainties of the law, even in proceedings involving the personal Uberty of the individual. In this ease, th w ebure of a young girl, who is claimed to Be i! flyed on acconnt of hor relizions | Taith, Lave been ® year attempting to effect her ree fease through the instrumentality of the Courts. They now Ond, afer a protected investization ant the long delay nec fipon an ap Peal, that, #pparently through no fauit of anybody, | erytitog must be began anew, with the prospect Of another year's delay 5 th mw ta) Deing compelled to endure her imprison We Ona! decision, whenever that may be. How ThE LAWY RIS“ asarily consequen ged vie t until Tur THe son.” About a year ago awrit of Aahecs corpus was | Franted apon the petition of the Rev. J. D. Guibert, | urtor of @ Methodist Church in Newark, New | ersey, the object being to effect the releace of Mory Ann Smith, ayoung girl ot beauty and intelligence, pot then sixteen, from the House of the Good Shep Berd in this city, The petitioner alleged that the Duly reason he knew for the girl's detention wa: Rict that Ove months previously she had become » Spember of tie Methodist Chareh In Newark, and at her parents were Catholics, The Lady Superior, Yo her return, alleged that Mary Ann was taken to | the invtitution © for the cause that she had previously | of her own propensity, withont the consent , abandoned her home and the society of Der relatives and family, and had entered upon » ‘wicked and degraded course of Ife, keeping bad Company, resorting to disreputable places, and be Ing on the streets In Newark nt late and nnscesoneble jours of tie night ; that, heedless of the entreaties of er father and relatives, ale refused to return, and Bontinued her fe of wickednese; and her father, ‘apprebousive of evil befalling her, and to avert her ruin and «| ne, brought her to the House, where, yy his authority, she was detained for instruction @nd moral guidance THR HOME OF THR ABANDONED. ‘The return described the House of the Good Shep- Herd not as religious, sectarian, or proselytizing {nstitution, but as of en eleemorynary character, baving for its object the care of unprotected, way: ard, or viciously disposed girls, ihe reclamation of ‘Yhe dissolute and abandoned, and the edueatton and ‘moral training of youth; one of its special objects being the guardianship of young girl of previous Fectitude, who might evince an inciination to way Wardnes#. Such are expecially protected and in Jtructed, trained to industry, and in them the adinir Btion of chastity and love of purity are inculcated, ’ INTERVIEWS THROUGIE RON BARS. + ‘The return having been traversed, © large mass of Sestimony was taken, it was showa by tho petl- Jloner that Mary Ano member of the Me- Phodist Church nearly six months; that she was a d, modest, upright and virtuous girl; that Father Boas the Catholic priest, had said that her ther was a bad man, and not fit to have harge of a irl; that when they called Jo wee her at the institution, the interview Was had through iron bars, Mary Ann testitied that She went with her aunt to see the House of the od Shepherd, avd that utter she rs would not let her out nor tell her how long ‘Bhe was to stay, She had associated with one or two of the girls there who were put in for the same Feason as horse if—to cheuge GHeEE Mt, MOST OF Ine ‘womon were put in for crime or dissipation, and icy all slept in the same dormitory, and there was ‘every facility of association among them, She tried YW avoid them, but she was forced to associate with $hem to some extent, and they used very bad lan- ‘guage when the Sisters were absen ead been Bgiddy girl, but since joining the ebureh had Uved consistently, and for s od While before had ‘Wied to do right, ‘ WHO TELLS A No-SUCH-THING? Mr, Britian, in wh Rovember, 1987, Baughter, and hi Bud eircumsy ‘ment and conversation. entered the family she had lived « fed that she never Faw a more modest, ¢ tgirl than she was, in her deport On the other band, the 0 roomed with his aste, Rey, Father Doane testified tat sho was disobedient, Btubborn, and uninstructed; he had advised her be {ng confined, as the Dest way to eave her from the Hanger sho was exyosed to of losing her faith and moral. Her father testified that her mother Bad been dead flve years; Mary Ann }al been putin Me House of the Good Shepierd by bis authority Decwuse sho was misbehaving, keeping bad company And late hours, and disobeying him, Other testi Tony was given that Mary Aun kept bad company three years avo; and two youns men, who confessed Bhat they had been tn jai! several Limes, testided that Yhoy had had improper intimacy with her two years previously, ‘A SCENE IN THE CovRT Roc After hearing argument of counsel, Judzo Suther- Jond said the case was a very embarrassing one, and Rot free from doubts; but, on the whole, he thought Mat the writ must be dismixted and the prisoner Femanded to custody. Mary Ann, upon hearing the Beeision, burst Into tears, and weeping passionately Teft the court room in charge of one of the Sisters, ‘who always accompanied ber ‘The Metnoaists, at thelr camp meeting heli a short UUme subsequently, determined to raise funds to ap: pou! the case, and attempt to effect the release of the Bul. A CONFESSION OF PrnJURY, Tho Court, at Gencral Term, upon the appeal on We testimony taken before Judge Sutherland, and ‘pon an aMldavit then for the first time submitted of witness who had sworn to the bal character of Mary Ann, setting forth that that testimony was false, and had been given under the Influence of the girl's father ond another witness, ordered a re- Podmission of the case to the Judge at Chambers, fox Uo purpose of tuking further testimony, and Le was Wen arked to reverse his former decision, GLORIOUS UNCRRTAINTY OF THE LAW. Judge Sutherland now decides that he esnnot take that aMudavit into consideration, because it was not testimony taken before the Court, as required by the Rabeas corpus act, The General Term, he says, can only afirm or reverse the proceedings, but connot foopen them or order new proceedings, Until such Aftirmation or reversal, the decision of the judicial officer is flval, and the only remedy for the person in prison is to obtain a new writ of Aabeas corpus, Judge Sutherland instances as 4 proof that he can- ot now reopen the ease that the proceedings were Anstituted over a year ago, and that he did not know whether Mary Ann Smith was now an Inmate of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in charge of the Lady Buperior or not, The decision was without prejus @tce to any now proccedings that might be instituted for her release. —~ KELAIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, < The Now Pastor of the Lutheran Church, The Rey, Dr. G, Vorberg yesterday delivered his frst sermon inthe the Lutheran Church of St, Matthias, jzabeth and Broome streets, He likened the city of New York to ancient Rome, and binself to St. Vaul, He sid he had come to do bis duty like the Apostle, with fear and trembling, bat still With resolution, He comes from Milwaukee, aud 1 in place of the late Dr, Stolimann, who died about a year ago. —— The Dedicat jou a Chure! St, Paul's Reformed Duteh Church having Fortioth street recently sed the building in pied by the Kev. Mr. Frothinghat's congrea beld their opraing services in it yesterday fy) This ewe last, an that by He wai Mathe) plate late re for soon ¢ made which other not gi Doat aI room, shall cannot in fox minut Ass by Mr Webs sixty foeod them, action an Distr fearfe The Collec Anthios wen benet warn prints, Mr. musie: at his sudde th usual in his before the bi fined pointe Comm Paris. Lis re Panis Mr. & newap Ano made noise take t door tan After seareh eld large throu, wood would been Mon, orning. dieation was read by the Rey, Dr. Fe ‘and Ue sermon preached by the Rey, Dr, ‘The Pastor, the Rev. A, R. the Stey, Chad, Whitehead, and y. 3. B, Thoinpson, of ‘Tarrytown, assisted in Hee tev gear Thin tuclels during the past year bas hipped in Lyric Mall, and was formerly under pastorate of the Kev, Dr, Bethune. TLtir now is @ platy structure, capable of holding about hundied versus ddy, of Brooklyn, ae D, Yhoinpeon, D. Erte ona Ht, pon the $100,000, ¢ promises to be a gold mine for the lawyers damages at $109,000, allege} Whol ar 4s It not a very sinitic verbal batterios, bat + How a Coroner Can Make a Good Thi Loss than three w: 197 West Fifteenth street, a house witch she owned, diod suddenly, A Coroner was thy he seiaed all the jewelry, money, and papers of value that were on the premises, fact that Miss Paff was known to have six nicees and two nephews residing near Philadelphia, the Coroner bas not made the least effort to find them, nor has he even made public the result of nis ingu through the local newspapers, sworn to the Incomes of $50, Tho corps of the Revolution, pd on the Lith the from a severe attack of rhe Times on Thu lishment of th and musical departments, but in liter years ho eon. Musics ried a sistorinlaw of Mills, the great plan: reached Ms forticth year preciated usa critic whose praise or censure resied only on solid bases, ils death has create Attempt of Prisone the Queens county Jail to escape the seph Wilkinson, was aroused asistanc got loose from thelr cells, and in the hall re: punion being heavily armed, one guarded skel-ton keys, ich had undoubtedly been #upy act them fr keys to Dt most of the cel David Burke, (confined MR. LANE WANTS $100,000. - forse Again-The Demand ovey Editor of the Times for of Now York. While the legal advisers of the com: pany were reviewing the voluminous defence of the gentiomen of the Pacific Raliroad Company, to pro tect the Interests of Prince Erie, a paracra Feared fn the firane!al columns of the 7% effect that “all the recvipts of th ¢ nnd {ts teased Hines, Including the recent plantering frauds on (he Aulantic and Great Western, are granted at ones, as fast a they aro realized in cash, for the general Apeciative purposes of Could, and Piek, and Lane.” When Mr. Lane's attention was called to the pars grav, ed the arrest of Mr, Norvell, !he money | editor of the Times, In meult for Wbel xing hit He says that the aasertions in whotly falas, in gross and detail we, however, ts not nn Nearly every sper In the elty has a Libel cult on hand; but nt fact that the * oldest in 110, habitant® hes not yet seen the man who ever received foliar from the tiil of @ journal ina suit for stan: | der? Mr, Norvell has placed the complaint in th hands of Ms lawyer, The trial cannot fall to be in teresting, inasmuch as it will give usan interior Mow of Wall strect affairs. Mr, Norvell has given bail in $10,000. —— LIFE IN THE METROVOLIS. - Matrimonial Somersayte. Yesterday morning, ina difficulty between Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett Olsen, of Bergen City, arising from several attempts of the latter to play the role of Mrs. Caudie, culminated in a curious vat, The poor gentleman, however, lost his patience at nd frantically retreated from the fre of one of ins ho leaped out of the second story w and was found inthe street ina helpless condition, No then gave himself up to an officer, and virtually preferred a charge against himeelf, by confessing o had threatened to assault his better half, hold on his own recognizance by Recorder wa, eoks ago M hia F efore called and Notwiths nding the at Moroover, the names sheen taken from the door of Miss Pall's idence, and it is evident thot the house is np 6, there being a privileged few who have been -xaunining it lately after dark, - River Pilois Rutes for The Board of Supervising Inspectors have for the conduct of river pilots certain rules preseribe that steamers on approaching each shall signal by whistle, and if such igual is von engines shail be stopped ; the ascending all frat signal, and shall, ia case of kof give way to th ‘ling boat; collisions vided ; on turning bends where a steamer t be eeen for 6X) yards, a signal shail be given; the steam whistle shail be 8, Be, dese Tho Last Shot at Wall Street. ossor Webster was relieved on Saturday nF, Cleaveland, But before retiring, Mr, r left work already prepared for his fucerssor, who may be expected to prosecute about brokers, who have persistently failed or re- be at employed vy e might be taxed, His ined by Commissionor Delano, been haniled over to the new et-Attorney for prosceution, ‘There was a | Hutter among these gentlemen on day, + make returns of the vai to the end that the bas been sus! The Rich Men of Brooklyn, ¢ following named residents of tho Third tion District of the * City of Churches,” have Wand upwards set opporite their names for last year, and are ready to pay tax thereon: A. B. Baylis, $110,108; 8. B. Chit tenden, $98.491; H. B. Claflin, $90,000; Geo. L. Kont, $70,000; J. O, Low, @85,001; A 1 $225,081; EB. HOR, Lyman, $96,143; B, Rievardeon, $70,073; Henry Sheldon, $82,510; J, C, Sonthwiek, $7,450; J.8, Turner, €50,063; W. 8, Woodward, 260,700; Central Bank, $200,000. ~ ster in Ollice. Gen wly appointed Postmaster, took formal posaeesion of the Post OMce on Satur a and was shown around and lace} to the oy Mr, Kelly, Mr. Jones ta fev ble and cone assunie the ‘cares of ohice for some days; My, Kelly will therefore coutinue to act in his place. The Women's ny, Went Into their new quarter ty-ihird street, on Saturday, ‘There reigns the cent Woman's Bareat, with plonty of din ants of the grand h ng with tea galore will enliven the public ——— OBITUAR ——- The Death of a Journatin Seymour, the genial and accomptish al eritic of the Times, died yesterday morn residence, of congestion of the brain, aris atiom, His dei pected, for ho visited the oMle a@ay last, and was cng: Jabors on that day, The discase whi demise ned its most dangerous form a day of nand une e he expired, His career ax a journalist was | bert sense honorable, Shortly after the estab Timea ho took charge of the dramatic his labors to the latter, Tn 1807, he was ap. od by the Government one of the American pissioners, for the Department of Music and Instruments, to the great Exposition in He wv torn, dean able and interesting report on In the summer of tho same year he mar. in ; and bis aMictod widow js iett with one child, eyinour was an Englishman by birth, and had Belovod ax a friend, ap a void In paper and musical cireler which cannot be easily —_—$$———__— to Escape from the Queens County Jail, other attempt by the prisoners confine in vom Was ing. The turnkey, Jo in the morning by a in the lower hall of the Jali, and summoning he ascertained that several prisoners had ly to Wilkinson and his com buck whilo the other took possession of the front early on Friday me er departure, Mr entrance to the hall, when on threats to shoot the first one who attemp °, to escape or ofler renis- mipelled to retire to their cells, A secured the prisoners, they were cells, when a number of wero found secreted, I by some out rties, Purther search revealed two holes enongh to admit the body of a man, eut gli tho stone wall of the building to the ontside work, and bad they not been discovered It (have been the work of byt a few minutes to when without doubt there would have neral jail delivery, as. the prisoners. hat ls. Searching the cell of for ie murder of the private they wer the joilor bh hed together with th files, a watehman at Hunter's Point, da October lust) the pose and Wy the c weape atten Aa thls incer found a file in his bed. Burke was forierly the United Stites Navy, and is sup to be the ring-leader of the gang. Wrenches eavy pieces of iron were alro found in some of where they had been hidden to be used a» ona of defeuce. During the lust year several pts have becu made by the prisoners confued place, NEWS FROM WASHIN Tur LieKy APrrica AT THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE. - Madidle Villing their Speclal esp Wosmixctox, A nice pe The appointe Missourl, os Min | kent to him at St } 4s understood th THM Gowen ‘There is still ship of New Mex the Interior gave nor) t A by his ret bearing no Inte the public debt, 79,919.09, The Second ©. are ten of $800, In col cases, but n vn gent wi, The Hon, Be District, is here, contested election by over six bund ide the Pre ™ New Th arrangen Tho following Qition of the fix Now York ut the April: nt National bank not Tndividnal promt United st mt Iie to national ty ‘oral The followi ‘ Sonn Cran V" Golds anna Silas Wright W. 8. Saling We as eter Voatcoan, Jey and J. W i Gurhivor, Wt W. Aldweil, A.W worst dF. awl torbury ard to by man DM John 8, Moore, toon, 1 A Mee John Brow Clark, wud H. the recently ebia city, we have d w vinced that Oxde basin, the come Loxpow, Mai of a long artic nevtrabty at the begin futhorization ly real evil caused by Ht was the px tion given to the Alabama in English ports, w prohibition 1 ners, ‘The « 0 cepted. He pre found in his ruce quistiod in w baitte thrve ballets, two week, when tl have the rebel ¢ of Congress for th tal subscribed, to const 1 CONDITION OF TY Halley Brown, 1 Kd purty, dns Ogden to Saur Lane City, May 1.—The Salé Lake Telegraph (re Jo it with some ri well returned to his post yest Rawling and Attorney-Generat Hos and to be ge A, Who Was not cont of the President and Cntinet The New Mex= 2 —Postr Crea. ty, and Seerctary lett for New fora week, J. H. Jones, of Jae Minister to Bet yeand yesterday vinited the Pr pnt to the State Depertment with ition is to be t for hime PAIN. AND DRtAzite at of the Hon, 1 T. Blow, of tor to Brazil, has beon made and Louls. He will go out at once, It at Gon, Sicklos i# to be commie ed Minisver to Spain ty RHE OF NRW MEN her pty ra of whi Pp 1. Crow Mitehell (the pres understand that his resignation would week, and will set out snarl over the G lent or 8 vernor- etary of nt Gover. ed, and to his rebel whom he had van hore ho had been struck hy ure in his body. Last t found that he could not 6 installed without an act relief of his political disabilives reat, soLprens’ noun mptrolier has giv under the Inte Bounty law thot he soldiers’ claima, two checks sh: the agent or attorney for the fee the other sent direct to the sol, The fees allowed in claims of white per ce under $200, and five per cent amonnt less than @80, and 50 .0n elaina tn A cuses the #10, according as the amount due is le tween $50 and $10, oF over $100, In the whi tow u having red hb a ® SW aR APH portles were recently in t is anal tyeaix N close 0 \ \ Liat vestanil Due to other bauks wud bankers, STOM MOUSR AP fas TT Away J, kirie, view W, HL AWA L. Vratt md ad, W. Taylor 1, Mort Meock, Ke Des ett, Jon TO, Manning, 8. ey, VB. denier Th, Purley, dD. Hendorson, ‘ue i hey. J nnings, be yaph ways: “In eopsequenc pion Pace and Central panies to locate the jui roads at Ogden, or In its im ng rial $1134 principal and Interest, $2,695,0002,888,19 cash in the Treasury, $2, ally dectied te Third Assistant Postmaster Gen DISH MISSION. Ex-Senator Carlile has. Virginia disynsted with bis fittay jssion to Stockholm, ‘J, Geerm: oe telegram was sent to Gen, M MN oneking whether he would hold the oMee until {Crowe could he made ready to take it, Ie promptly replied that he would not h week to accommodate sncha man, This render ncesenry | the appointinent of some one ad ditertm to keep the | place open for Mr. Crowe. THK PUBLIC DEDT—ORATIFYING DRCRE ARE. The decroase of the public debt in April was over $6,000,000, Tho debt having com Interest ts $2,107,874/100; bearing tnterest in paper, €67,240.(00 5 $2.01, ‘Total debt, amount of Y CLAIMS, n instructions fter, in paying be given—one to allowed by law, and rfor the remainder diors hen the amount duc ts fon any addition xcee8 45, $7.59, and # than $50, be- To the eo! ad , advances and no- fecs one tarlal expenses are included in the amount paid to KOGLESTON'S ELECTION RSTAMLISIED, of the Cineinoatt towed the testimony in bis as proved that he is elected jority. Tn two Domorratte co of wholesale frandy wero so plain that Democrats virtually ubandoned their case. THE POST OFFIC DEPARTMENT. Ttis hy the friends of Mr. Markland that nin sion him to West to secure tne 1 TO THR PACIFIC, Accompany has been organized, with the capi et a teloyvaph Line from #t tls, through Texas, to the Pucitle const, Some of 4 city to perfect the m NEA YORK DANKS. howing the con tional Banks ia the eity of businuss on the Lith of nasi ' 1a ‘ #20, 107.948 nts of Collector Grin eeretary | ell todweil, to be Deputy 8 Do, Dudley, vier CH Hawk Doty, Deputy at Naval ( at Urveyor, at Etiles to be 4 0) per K to Naval Officer, nt $1,200. Tulor, vieeo. 0D. ALOMi ror, at Bh Weils, view ( stbrook Warden and Lawrenes, kin clerk, Wt §l WValhont at 01,00, and AI mesten ‘Anzes, ©. 6. 8 Greenbank, Jobn, VR balwid, Ke Holdeid, W. Allen, tly and ¢ ¥. Merv y, Wo Lane, WA. Mar Forter, © Fox, 1, wad Eugene Deluar (re vat th perday Bathntan, Win. Gravara, . Tidln,J. H. Bock Wome ML Mthithy Aed, Miner, de emrichy, orgs shermna, fC, Gill, anid Fat. Maituety Tewite, Win Osborne, dus. Kennedy, dy A er eT Millon, Win, Dowerts, dy basal, Alora Price Pat. Rolly, Pat Tikghe, P a) 'Mitenell, hight Inspectury, at $3 A anteom, clerk, 4 vere, removed un. ell, I stotek itv. te Lake Tet sion of the a Great € of the ¢ Pai Railroad Cow: two ini of Ue vicinity, and erelal condition ve the oftic to Ogden, althe ry bouy in now great eity of the Of whis and the Bur rounding Territories and istates,”* —— i ways British Opinion of Mr. Sumper's Speceky vt conclusion ‘oeintnation of rebellion Was & f blockade ru a, at th h pont would have come within the operation of the rejected treaty, et England's Demand of Spain, Loxpoy, May 1.—Instructions have been sent to Commodore 9’ West India &q) billie: dron, to commanding the British emand of the Spanish au Uhoritics in Cuba the restoration of the brig Mury Lowell and an apulogy fur ber seizure Lectnre—The Laws Fotnre of America~Tempe ance mers Kee The Father Mathow temperance convention com. pleted the arrangements yesterday for the grand de- monstration to be held in Cooper Institute pext Thursday evening. An extract from a letter from George Francis Train was read, in whieh he thinks the ndvertised sutject 18 too cirenmseribed. auticnce would want more for its money, Be- ot Th sides spoakiog on Father Mathow, temperance and sobriety, be proposes to launch out tnto “the laws of health, the emantpation of the Irish, the © of egotism, the future of America, one dyed millions of people in 1000, twenty years of Father Mathew travel in thies bundred cities, vor drinking anything but cold water," &. ‘This ve the Louth lecture of his course of 6%), and he will romain in New York but one night before start. ing on Lis trip around the world, Tn lils lettor of ae coptance to lecture before the Convention, Mr. ‘Train says that he wishes to Initiate a movement towards building a Father Mathew Hall and monu- ment to thot apostie of temperance, besides erecting workinginen’s baths, and other necessary institu: tions. ‘The various Committees of the Convention made reports of progress, About 8,00 ticket have been distributed, though the num Mis not know Father Mathew band No, 8 have voluntecred to pl at the meeting, and will appear in fll uniiorm, Front seats are reserved for ladics, and speely! pain will be token to accommodate favntiles in tho hall, One hundred platform tieket® are to be issued to prominent eitizens, and a ma other cities are expected. If Warren and Costello ar- rive in the ely in time, they will be present at the mecting, taking eeata on the platform, ‘The dete to the Convention will act as door, hi 1 be and floor committees, ar corated with the flags aud regalia of the different societies, ‘The Commitioe request that the flags be brought to the hall by 3 o'clock on Thursday afterno A resolution of thanks to Fatyer Nash was passed for his offer to nake up any dificiency in the expenses of the demonstration, It is hoped, however, that there will be # consider able surplas togo to the beneft of the Convention, ‘There aro niveteen out of the forty three Pather Mathew Socletios represented in the Conventle J {ts object is to auite them all ander one hi When that is accomplished, benevolent Will be raised for the good of all the Societies, The stration on Thureday night will not be acetarian of political, but strictly confred to the cause of temperance, the a funds —— DECENT SVORTING NEWS. - ‘The Bot and Bat), Before the close of the present woek all but eof tho base ball and ericket clubs will have be- gun play for the season, To-day a game between the Atlunties and Powhatans takes place on the Capito: Hine grounds, Tomorrow the Mutool and Olymple Clubs mect on the Un aro ds, Wiliomaburgh ; also, the Champton Clab of Jersey City and the Bx colsiors of Brooklyn appear tn field games, On ‘Thursday, the Alphas vnd Atantien play thelr return game. On Thursday week, the Princeton College Club will play the Atlantics on the Cupitoline f da. This College Club defeatet the Atlanties Tat r, and came within one run of shelving that club on Saturday week, Their meeting with the Atlantios ts the first really interesting game here: about announced, Owing to the rain of Saturday, the opening days of the St, George and Willow Cricket Clad were postponed, the first to Wedner day next, aad Os to Saturday, On the Sth the Mantiattans al to. work their grounds at Hoboken, and onthe 10th the New York Club assemble, —— A Tournament. aturday afternoon dohn Decry played Witt Daniels and won Ute game on the Atty -ninth e by Sot, making an averome of B%¢. Tho win. «best run wae si, Lathe ng Saye and e ¢ ented, and th latter won by 1 points, making an averate of 19, “Snyders bent ru woe HY, and Rud neue 17% Following to a reeapit- The Grand On wat Fel war he ulation of games played: Gunes Gamer Dent Nnvner oat, ange. Ponte 1 thie Khines 0 8 ny Deeets sc tissetpinits :8 2 Py Goidnwaite 6 a anit 1 8 K 5 0 —— AL ung man, now sald tobe a person of rank in Saxony, took up his rest. dence Wilh Dr, Peifer, ot 7 St, Maeh's place, escupy. Inga room on the apber stocy, Apparently be wan posecowed Of tueaus, as his ther in Leipale remitted funds regularly tobi, He lad go made many friends in this country: but in spite of both money and fricnds he often gave himself ap to melanel said trom dteapy nted ambition in ca of Kober ahnost recklessly 5 ver eseaped ah of Hittle ote qualitying 9 recently pur: At 0 Hhible tiouse, and ing was found by one of his th th New York, leadl to t n Siturda friends, Mr. fdying condition, He diet toon afterward, A note found int m gave the di 6 papers, €e.. to Mr. Blumenthal, therefore presenting prind jucie evicence of iis intent to kill Mimnelt, filer vare 4 stil! unknown to all but bis intinate friends, vio stealiustiy preserve the secret, and by wiiont tie remains have been taken in charge, mor '. Humenthal, of 646 Third avenue, in pes i onst Damages for Malpractice. Ce , May 2.—-In the ease of Ordway against Dr. Haynes, for alleged malpractice, the Jury igreed hipon a verdict at 12 o'clock ast night, after a scesion ol Wirtecn hours, [tis reported) thi the plulntia recovers daimages: somewrh below $1,000. At a F previvus Wial the Jury awarde ~ $2,200 damages, Murder In the Nineteenth Ward, suddenly yosterday xvuminution revealed © e of injury to the Lew wud its said that Le had been kicked out of « bar or's shop, ———— Scarcity of North River Sind, Tho number of shud in the North River is de- sing yearly and itis feared this fine escnient ray ultozether disappear fro our waters, A law br fiening for ahiad oxcupt Letwecn the Ist nd in of May is anzgested und will vobably be discussed in tho next session of the Legislature, ; Cocaine The Pacific Railroad Through, San Fraxcisco, May %—The Central Pacific Railroad Company yesterday finished their part of the road with the exeoptic of two connecting roils whieh Goy, Stonford will lay on Feiday or Saturday of the present week z cea LOSSES BY FIRE, —— Arnon in Jernoy City. At about 1 o'clock yesterday morning fire was discovered in the groerry at 225 Wayne street, Jersey City, Atter the @ames had been extinguis! basket was found in the basement filed with pap ratorated with kerosene, On tla evidence, 1 Hueh, the proprietor of the grocery, was arrested ¢ the charge of arson, and held in default of bail, | He was tn bed when ihe Ore was discovered, The stock, It as alleged, Wie Insured for €1,800. pnd oAtabes Other Losses by Fi James Wood, of Mount Kisoc by fire; Insured ‘for §5,000, Jute's Inger beer brewery in Roxbury, Masa., wes burned on urday afternoon, with @ dwelling house adjoining, Loss, $10,000, Hawkins Brothers’ cotton factory at Battenkill, , has lost $14,000 kill, N. ¥., wus burned on Saturduy inorning, Lsos, £70,000; Insurance, $40,090. J id The store of Curtis, Howley & in St. Jo- sph Mes Was burned on Saturday morsing, Loss Lust evening a fire destroyed the tower of the First Presbyterian Coureh, tn the roar ofthe Roch: ester City Hall, Theinverlor of the eburch was badly damaged On Saturday nigh a larxo three-story. brick i building, owned by Chas. Mefivaine & Co,, "in Rall road avenue, near Hamilton street, Newark, was damaged to the exter t of $100, Laird Brothers! grocery, on Fourth and Walnut pees, Dee Moines, lowe, a the whole powers burned on Saturday, Tho loss ,t i i surance, $20,000, “4 Be | as In the caso of Benjamin W, Cole, the Sunday Sehool teacher tried last wook in the fassaic County Lourt for alleged rape on one of ble scholars, the Jury . edict of assoull, Ce ———— FROM THE STATE CAPITAL annette WILD THIS LEGISLATURE SIT UNTIL THE FOURTH OV JULY? - Railroad Speed in Legistation—How Bust~ ness is Done at the Liat Stage of the Sexe lon Probabilitios of Adjowrumont- Kab rond Tort Bpecial Cor ondente of The enn, Aunaxy, May 1—The current of legis! ponrs along rapidly and almost noisclessly, deep ond Wide stream swollen bya flood, Hour ater hour sit Senators and Aseomblymen at their derks, while their reepcetive clerks, in voices threadbare and husky frou: constont use, rattle off in almost tn audible tones the verbiage of bill after bill; listlessly the members, busied with their fies and letter Writing, respond to the ¢ of the roll; the Chater rapidly announces the passage of the Dill, and “third reading of a Will procevles the repetition of the per formance, The clerk calls out the number of the Dill to be read in clear and strong tones; this fs all that any ono generally cares to know, and the rest follows mechanically, How rapidly this sort of business fs done may be Inferred from the fet that village charters, and other bills of thirty or forty Jong sections, aro frequently “read through and passed In five minutes, Now and then, however, comes a bill on whieh there Is to bo a real division At the announcement of the number members prick up their cara; the clerk fees from the sensation on the floor that he must really read; members bustle about the floor sccking to get votes for or against: runners are went to the neighborin bring in absentees; and overythiue is done with the greatest deliberation, 1 are, however, the ox coptional cases; at least nineteca bills out of twenty are those purely local wires which nobody ex- cept n J then the Governor opposes, or thin’ of opposing Aisposition on all hands now fs to talk little and work constantly, Outsiders Inter cated in bills aro getting feverishly anxious for fear that they will ho lef in the lurch, and they give their members no peace night or di WHEN WiLL THE tt It will take all next w wa LATERR AnoURN? k to got through the tndis pensable business of the session, such as the Supply Nh, th vies, &e. A determined thongh quiet st ruge 4 going on over the ers! Dill, Which Mr. Hichmond managed to keep back fn the Assembly Inet week, when he was ordered to Hit, It bas, at fength beea reported, and may De published; but the contest over it is likely to engthen out the session, RAILROAD MATTERS, Wo shall have some excitement about railroad matters again in the Senate this week, The Con solidation and the Central Serip bills are to be up for consideration, and will probably pass—that Is, al- ways supposing that the parties en; really desire their pastage, Bat their inter stock operators may be opposed to and be greater than their interests as stock hollers. BUSINESS IN TH KENATE ON SATURDAY. The Railre ‘Vax ‘ax Comminaion 4 Committee reported adversely upon bille—For an underground railroad west sido of Now York, For the better protection of travelers on, Fourth avenue. ‘The Utartemn mille bill, Railroad in Twenty-third street, Alle steam on Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, Kxten ting ths powers of the Erie Rithioad. Incorporating the Long tsland 'Pan- nel and Railroad, Kelating to the foreclosure and sale of the New York and Wostecester Rullrond, Bills were passed the American ast Company. of the York kiya an ve North Se ly focal neacaaments in opening, widening, and exte ing #treets in New York, whereby the eliy will pay 4 port for te general good Whe State Pecive Law was rec tod for amend ment, so as to apply to the sile of alo or beer, and Kive the Conmissionsrs of xo power to > the sale of mult Hquors at not less than §t) eneh Hens, ASOMMBLY Bille wero parse nUMINESS ON SATURDAY. —In relation to the Brooklyn oud Newtown Rallroud nist A receiver of toxew In New Kochclie, rease the eapltal fthe Leng Island Safe Deposit: Corp tablishing a now drive on West Kleve t north ty the f Excise Commie voke a Hoc on paftictoat The bill ng the Ftaton any was ordered toa third readin 4 reported ptroller of nidsnlonors, vod from the Governor, ——— ormans aud the New School Commix= sioner The German Republican Central mot yesterday afternoon, Mr. Gras Action was taken in reference to the or the new Board of School Commissio pointed by te Mayor, Dr. Gerke, Dini ofa German Academy, wis nominated, to be reco mended to the Mayor for appointment on the new from. 196th ir Mind. Allow ably on the ow Vora to Another velo wa The ¢ Committee in the hair, nlzation ra, to be ap: Board, cd a Committer, composed of Dr, Sehware enberg, Louls Neumann, and Mr. Grasse, wos Appointed to press the nomination, and to take such action as may be deemed necessary, It was reported that the nomination of Dr, Gerke would be supported by Messrs. Conkling of Tum Sun, Raymond of tho New York Timea, and Greeley of tho Zritune, The Vu it Is expected, will second tho nomination, ‘Tornverein, on Saturday, adopted the memorial of the Republican Central Committee on the seh: Accident on the © Yesterday mornir night expross train from Wushington was approaching the bridge across the Delaware river at Morrisville, opposite Trenton, the head of the train ran olf the track, owing to a mnleplaced switch, We are informed that two of the cars took firo at one end, and were somewhat burned, but no on was injured, Between one and two Lours was consumed in getting the train back upon the track, and it did not reach Jersey City til 3 o'cluck, But for the fact that It was movin at the tine of the accident, the consequences would have been very serious, — Extending the Morria and Essex Ratirond, Negotiations have been instituted by the Morris and Itatiroud Company for right of way tor tho ext of the road between Paterson and tidewater, which, If successtul, will furnish a new route from the cos! mines, os Well as an hpor tunt parsenger route through Coutral New York to Lake Ontario, oe George Francis Train in Bridgeport, Coun. Mr Train deli purse of Jnvior Branch St, He kept his andic urs, Cheer the ball from. th soubatireing address of jon, and their leader to Buiporront, May 2. ono hundredth’ be eture the elo t men's chy the Presidential chair in 1872, ae BROOKLYS ae Sustic ornwell retired from office on Satur- ny, and took with him « @400 diamond ring and the Kool! wishes Of his friends, 1 ginning to From the extensive preparations going on in the Police Departucnt. here, it ts believed that Durglar may be arrested In afew days, It isa i time sinew one was troubled by an M, K the watch case manufactory Gustay burglery bi viessed, and disclosed the hiding place of much of Messrs, Wheeler, Parsons & Co. property Yesterday morning the residence of Mr, rih street, Greenpoint, was and clothing ‘aud epoons Yulued at 200 The employees of the Houston strect Ferry Company have consented to make trips more fre von'ly,anil ave agreed ‘vrnish w wk oul for onthe ferryboats and public build. ‘amebur were hung at helfmast on honor of the late Abraham Meserole, took place from the Ceatral Baptist eh hw wen & member, ly one hundred and fifty Mormon families reside in Williomaburgh, each family averaging ten members. ‘birty of the heads of families mentioned ave apluralty of wives, the lurcest number, eleven, boing sealed to & husband of sixty-three, ‘The young: eat, furest, and favorite of the number is only tire ton years of age, She Is already a mother, Scaaeereee The position of Postmaster for Hudson City, made vacant by the demise of Mr. Tripp, has beow Giled by the appointwent of Ms, Henry ‘A, Heller- wan ee au nor - The Tron Montders’ Strike-The Germa Carpenters The ‘Tatlorst | Strike —'Thy Shirt Cutters and the Coal Miner The period for strikes, if thera is any partiontar perlod for th t yet arrived, and movements iy that directs still very slow and quiet, The fron Mout Vnion, No. %, had a meeting on Saturday ev When Ferointions were adopted reciting the well-known frets that house rent hos increased 900 per cent., provisions 20, and clothing 150 per cent. since 1861, while the waxes of me chanies and Inborers has Increased only 40 per cent. They therefore resolved further that they would to: day ask for an advanes of 10 per cent. on tir sont rate of woes, and give theit employers one week to consider, after which, In of refusal, ning, pre- aairike will be ordered, It was also decited that ho moulder should work in any shop in which all the men are not getting the advance. The German Carpenters have just formed an or. gantzation, nambertug at prosent about 9)) m with @ view of securing an Increase of their wares An hell yesterday treet, When additional members were enrolled, action was taken to complete the organization Tangements were held in the course of the present week, The wages Of this class of workmen range from §15 to $22 The mass mecting of the custom tailors, which had ten called at the Germania Assembly Rooms yes terday, was postponed on account of the weather, The shirt cutters are waking up to their interest, and are organizing with a view to secure better wa A meeting of tie craft will be held at Har Tall, in Essex atroet, next Wednesday eve There are estimated to be about 1,89 of them ity, and thelr wages range from $15 to $25 verage being about @3) inors througlout the anthracite regions nsylvania have joined the strike, Several cellng Ww Ar made for a moss meeting to be 8 mo fog. PRICE TWO CENTS, HOBOKEN DUNGEON, MEANEST PRISON MovsE of TUE FACE OF THE BARTH, sory What Becomes of the Grocert the Sore cade ter-The Hoboken Councilmen, To the Btitor of The Sun. Fin: Our new daily, the Hudson County Datly Democrat, Was this paragraph to-day: “Tie Honored Deearow ‘Trader this caption, the THE THe New Yors stn te the Hoboken station honee without merey, vening palylial commtnieation f er of the" Sore Head At sociation,” tre ati F entjects ae well, Incl Acevere reference to aue of one Couaelin shall ta. trond to inquire In We the tenth of thi aud wl Peter tot natin on Moulage, nen w, that sounds well, but it don't amount t vt. We might even await firrther develop , if wo lad ony fearon to believe the eoncle sions Would not be biasted, But the cheap arrange ment, thongh costly enough to the taxpayers, whic Printed the above, coutda't live without city Jobe an dit is not ikely to say much aguinst the party Which ao liberally bestows them, Will iteall the jail a pen, worse by far than ang of the old slive pens of the South, whieh were bad en Aud say that steps should be taken at once by orities to have A new prison before suminet r will it assert that the accommodationt are good, that they will compare favorably with those of our nelghboring cities, and that uo clange or inv provement is necessary ? - Will it sdnuit that ve or moro bills are presented and ortered to be pald at every meeting of th¢ Board of Councilmen for grocerios for the poor, while at the same time the citizens are taxed to sup port an almshouse? or will it falsely deny the same, and say the affsirs of the city are watched by the € with an eye to economy (it might by Way ot uid that no groceries are paid for by th r N anyt! pun! the aut isonns? collicrica ave been closed during the past week, Tho supply of coal, ax mined this year, ts about on and yet th stock on hand is less this your tn the same prop tion, ) tone in exces# of last ye Cont Strike Sen vwton, May 2.—) naylvantns ¢ was given yesterday by the miners’ organisations to the coal operators of ty that no coal would be cut or loaded after this ev May 8. _ Printers’ Strike tu Albany, Aunawy, May 2.—Tho printers of this city aro on a strike for an advance of five conty por th ‘The printers aro nearly unanimous in the dem Wut the employers refuse at pr o Printers’ Strike in New Have Naw Haven, May 2.—Tho printers of t are on astrike, demanding from 4) to 45 cents per ad, nt Lo aecede to It. thousand, ‘The employers refuse to pay the scale, - The Printers of Moutvent ‘The Montreal printers’ atrike {s continnod, and the employers are advertising for girls to wet type, — GHEAT STORM, —> A Sloop Capsized in the North River-Nare row Escape of the Cr Between 10 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning, as the stoop Mary, loaded with brick, was beat- ing down the North River she was sutenty struck THE by © squail and capsized just off Guttenburg. She filled with water and rank, There were on board two men, the Captain, named Stephen Madrick, and a colored man, who wore fortunately reseucd by ome shad fslermen — A Tuilding Blown Down, A frame building, newly furnished, near Union Mil}, on the Hackensack road, was blown down by the stormon Saturday night, The roofs of anew row of frauie buildings on Clinton ay., Union Hill, ere cmreted armel) ming In front of Clark & Co.'s grocery was rlvo blown away, ‘The reel: deuces on the Hoboken Mats are inundated, geicarte The Gate at Southwout Pas New Onteans, May 1.—A severe w torly gale yesterday at the month of the Mississtopi, swept away the galleries of the Hghthouse and the Night. Keoper's dwelling at Southwest I. lestroyed the light bouse boats A blew fly et water into the Hithouse and dwelitn The buitdings wetted foot. The storm also aged the rigging of ver sels at the Pans, —s Disastrous rew Moy May us yanks, aid miele € corn jae ‘Tho rains still continue, aud the farmers ave mueh depre Snow Storm in Philadelphia, Pinvapecema, May 2.—The rain « im, Which has continued tor the f wos Interrupted this morulng by a tall of svow, hh lasted an hour —— Obio Rejects the Fifteenth Amendment, Cocemmus, May 1.—The Sen, Jost night, by A pirly Vote—yens 19, nays 13—pansed the Jolot reso lution. refusing Oblo's assent to the proposition to amend the Federal Constitution, Aw the joint res lution hat previously passed the House, It ly now final, faxed, Immutable, that this Staite, as in the past, refuser her assent to the negro race enjoying poul cal partnership with the whites, As the Repubiican party, inthe next Congress, will take wn appoal the plopls to reverse this verdict, 1 may now be considered as the great hone th thé next campaign, oo - JOULINGS ANOUL TOWN. - Mes. Augusta Rosenberg, birth to three children, held in the House of 1 prisoners wor nilon yesterday beeause Wey are poor ‘Tho body of an unknown man was found in the st River yest foot of Nineteenth street, Sebultz & W: A their @4l water Kiosk at Mur on Saturday O mineral Tho Manuf sand Builders’ Bank, at 833 Third avenue pened on Saturday, Tho Working Women's Protective Association has zone to ites new home, 13 Bleecker street ‘The Cuban Fair is to be kept open a few days longer, possibly all this week, It has been a decided auceosh thus far, Harvey Howard Wan arrvnt seri At 2 an Bighth Ward. politician, 1 and focked up on Saturday, os a de United States Ariny mine yeare i sterday a fire damaged a frame dwelling cet noir Tenth avenuc, occupied by Daniel Dic ss, $1,000, Two mon were rowing @ boat last evening on the Hh jear Contral Brldge, when. the bont was eapsized,'and Thomas McManus, of West chester county Was diowned The only son of € mmodore Livingston, who Jied ut Brunswick, Germany, on the 10th ult. is to be buried tha moroing from Grace Chare, Broad. Way, near Tenth street, Allarlom passenger, at the New Haven depot, refused to pay the Mount Vernen fare, as demanded, and the conluctor locked him tn tie car. The pa wenger smashed the door and got out at Harlem, The Police Board wiil reorganize to-day proba: bly, with Cominissioner Brennan, President, and the newly appointed Comunissionc® Smith, who Was sworn in on Saturday, Treasurer, Peter Young, one of that race which is not all dead yet, was delivered of $150, on Saturday night, by @ Teatonic damsel named Amelia Vesterveck, whom he found at 7 Delancey street, Kehoe, the famous Indian club man, and a plumber named Richard Carleton, were coumitted Justice Dodge on Saturday, on w charge of Ligh way rolbory preierred by Brink D, Slocum, of 2 West Nintti street, who swears that they look §197 from b The new Internal Revenue Collestors, Bailey, of the Thirty-second, Pieasontony of Ore’ Fourth, Gridley, of the ith, Darling, Of the Ninth, and ri, of the Third (Mrookiyn). assumed the duues of their respective offices on Saturday cious firemen, named Ned Roach t, baving renewed their courage by ns of furil on Satur lays went to the e house wt ast Broadway, aod attempted to an old gradge against ®amucl Best, the forcinn, but a blue coat-and elub appearing, they went off’ to jail, A Coroner was summoned y in the following cases of suddi ‘ u, bit ATS West Thirty Seluiman, aged B84 at 160 Third street; Margaret Foohey, aged 22, at 2 First avenue; and Mary Pha lon, aged %, at 878 Bust deverty fourth street, Ws Mat terday morning ath: David Lit urth street: Caspar city that are consumed by Councilmen's families? As for the term “sore head,” it is a low-priced sort of argument, used by low-priced men, who ard not lotelligent or manly enough to make even pollh tics a decent business, “We shall take the tronble to inquire Into the truth of thess reflectt@ne,"” Good! But it atriket me “we are more solleitons about Inquiring Inte the reflections apon the Couneilinen than * we" art abont the reflections on our own charneter. While referring to these reflections (‘* reflections is goed) which will all be cleared ap of course, why not clear ap that litle matter about the letter re colved from the Stevens Battery yard complaining of the moan, dirty way the workmen are treated Don't you recollect? Why, yes, you got itand took it to the head agent of the late Mr, Stevens, and told him you wore (reated roughly yourself by the men ig charge of that yard; bat with the hope, I presam of obtalaing permission to visit the yard, you re marked that the letter would not be published, If that was his wish, It waa his wish, and the greivances of the hard-working man whose chame pion you assume to be, never appeared. Come, you have just started your daily, and you ought to commence with a clear record. Let ue know whether you are going to stand by the people and the workingmen, or whether you are yet in the hands of po! 1 mean to continue 60? ‘Tne SUN tsa powerful mediam, and we have the a co of its managers that its rays shall pene trate the corrupt places and place the shame upon the proper parties ; and this being the ease, It shonld be taken and read by every free and independent think ing man, FAIR PLAY, 4 Moonen, N. J., May 1, 1999, —— T PROM SPATS acne ~ LATL D urbance Approhenacd Of the Troops nt Saragovsa—Rejeetion of the Amendments to the Coustitutio Manuin, May 2—In the Constituent Cortes, the debate om the mow Constitution hay ended, Alt the amendments proposed have been rejected, The Cortes have votod an amnesty for all persons whe took part in the insurrections at Cadiz, Melaga, and Xerea, Deputy Cistellar moved that the amnesty be oxtended to Carliats hinplicated in inserrestionary movements, but the motion was not agreed to, 9 A serious disturbance at Sara apprel It is reported that the troops there are in ¢ discontent and partial insubordination, ——_— Preparing Medical Prescriptions. Atmaxy, May 2.—Tho following is the toxt of bordiant 0 | the act ntrodtced b of the Asseme bly, and aweiting t nature, Pegs lating the preparation of medieal prescriptions : Seerton t. No person employed or tn attendance ag any drug store orapachecgey shop shall prepare. ®. mo Unlew ho has served hve years’ ape ly Mall ae PiIReg OX cations are sot by ret al Up for wale oF Use, io br preparation there? therein by iilows suc person hag served two y n'a retail ecw store,or ts @ graduate of @ Hoge of phakiuney. N vio acing guilty oF ® ite f inthe n vio gulity ofa $1.00. prsont te Prison for a term two years nor more than (oUF yearyy hy both Que and Imprisonment tn the diseretioa of Buc. 3, This cet sail take effect tn: — the Telegraph. to navigation, #4 Association have gone home, ‘nie pediately Sparks The Lakes are of ‘The Lilinols Buthilo is moving for a reduction of canal tolls, Tl protocol for a conference between France and nin has bees 1 ‘Vhe health of Alexander 1, Stephens is mach im» proved, The op accounts frou all parts of Georgia ar mond Southern Optiton W. Rives Pob i» den inmath is about to have a home fur fallen wo: Cin mon ‘The Peravion monitor Manco Capac arrived at 8t ard the ead yf last month, A snow storm swept over Schuylkill county, Penay on Saturday ut Lopez, of Paraguay, with 10,000 men, ing (9 take the offensive Over four hundred Fronch Canadians left Montreal Friday for Boston aud New York, ‘The British steamer St, George, ashore on Blonde oi, Wn total lose William A. Richardson bas declined the appoint tor dudge of the Supreme Court of Marsachusete, Vincent Colyer is with an expedition to the Territory, accompanied by an Interpreter, aner Nick Wall, from St. Louis to Fort struck a suag below Brownsville, Neb. and oun ‘The pariizana of President Lopez are numerous nnd active to the Cerroleon and Logow Disiriets, where they are’ pursuing a guerrilia wartare. ‘The Tenth Provinelal Council of the Roman Cathe ile Chureh, which bad doen in seesion tn Baltimore, ade jourve | yesterday, Eight propellers left Buifalo on Saturday morn for Chicago: one, however, bas returned, being w to get Uirough the lee. ‘The convicts in the chal shop at Sing Sing Pr attacked a Keeper in (holt roou on Saturday, aud Murtha vere manner, J.J. Atkinson, Treasurer, and one of the oldest ployeee of the Balt 0 Railroad, died @ude ) On Satarday evening iM Haltumore, Stephen Runnells, a pewsboy, was killed on Satan day, might by fall from a Car on the Fitchburg fuilroud. rilay evening a horse was frightened near the Hrightoo House, Clueinaats, ing Mary Me lester from @ buggy, of he (ght eye, pher Townsend, of Newpor pimctiaged, at a cosh of #26 (00, 9 ballding tn ct aes Wich he proposed to couvert into ® * People’ Pree ‘The Russian Counell of State propose to grant reater power to the municipal eouneite chroughost Tngire.to ealaretue dumber of voters, and fo modiep the Drees law. mittee of Congress will visit Moutreal speed: range with tho Cavadian olga a buaifor nue tech prosity treat Airs: Margnret Wiseman, of Baltimore, committed of three white infants were found tn ail Unigrdgewterday. * vet ane ihc morning train from ite River Jane Concord and Loweil to Boston: 13 ace. O] Library A Sub-Committee of the Ways and Means Com snicide on Satnrday by taking potson. ‘The dead ater the LEth inst, aad from Bostou to erHood The fourth anniversary of the National Tem. perance Society Publieat House 1 to be cele. rated in the large hall of Coopor Institute on the eveuing of M 4 The Hon, Dodge, Pre- sident of the Society, will preside, Addres may bo expected from Dr. ¥. BR. Lees, of England, the Koy. J. D, Fulton, of Boston, and the Hou, Henry Wilsou, yt oming, Penn., on Friday night, J. O, maker & Son's tafe was blown open and roobed of in Government aad, Lackawanny and ploomabarg han bee obeed’’ © SO, Aes Gov, Bowie, of Maryland, has” appointed Friday, rein eee Aecte Seere i man, Reta wo mad ou the woUnlaly doar