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A Beacon of Health.
t. '(fttgotlfl things of this world have eaoh their appointed
Itls&e mission of HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BIT-
Dfifid to prevent and relieve a great variety of ailments.
.-iWriwelve years its success as a protective and a remed#
tigs t?e&n without check or drawback. It is strong neg&-
ijve evidence of this fact, that the efficacy of the article as
for dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, nerv
ifeftpaflß, general debility, and intermittent fevers, has
•rover been questioned.
fe'AJ 4fW positive of its infallibility in such cases, the
r of public men whose names are familiar as
tM»QehQld words, have from time to time been given to
' the worfd.
jV If its reputation is not founded in faots, then truth is a
ihwdfrw, and the utterances of conscientious citizens are
• of so more value than “ dicers’ oaths.”
Atid What is its reputation ? Let the progress of its
> Bblee answer the inquiry. Where twenty dozen bottles
of Hostetter’s Bitters were sold in 1855, five hundred dozen
are disposed of now.
f Could public opinion be more significantly expressed
than by its unparalleled increase of consumption? It
seems impossible.
1 , The preparation has been imitated. Where are the
' imitators ? Echo answers. “ Where ?” To the “ limbo ”
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t’eace be with them!
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FOR STORES,
FOR SKYLIGHTS,
FOR DWELLINGS.
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Prices corresponding to the low prices of gold and cotton.
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Window-Shade Fixtubes.
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r This secret wouldst unravel, i
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lo the tender mercies of the thieves who infested them.
All places of amusement and of public meeting were the
scenes of their Spoliation. Indeed, it cannot be doubted
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Now, for the first time, a reliable and effectual protec
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; Ladies afflicted with on the Face, called
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,,
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AT GREATLY
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CALL AND SEE THOSE
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An Important Question fob You to
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ea martyrdom to live ? Ah yes, if I were only well, I
should be content. But alas tor me lam not. Therefore
you should take DR. BANKER’S HOME BITTERS
AND LIFE TONIC, and bo well and happy. It is pleas
ant to take and a good thing to have in the house. For
,sale by Druggists everywhere.
{•* Knox’s latest style of Hats for gen
jtlemen is highly creditable to his taste and judgment,
for it combines in an unusual degree neatness, elegance
1 beauty and becomingness, and appears to suit admirably
almost every style of face. It is admitted to be his great
est achievement, and of course is in great demand. Mr.
IKnox has returned to his old location at the corner of
and Fulton street, and has really a magnificent
i£tore, far superior and more commydious than the former
.He has stocked it with a large assortment of hats,
caps, etc., which will be found worthy of particular atten
tion. AU the newest styles of head covering, articles of
pie most tasteful description, are embraced in the stock,
. >nd hats qf every style. His up town store is at No. 533
g^ Way l
Broadway Cheapness.—The superb
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And Children, at GENIN’S, No. 513 Broadway, of-
A wide field for selection, and the prices are lower
elsewhere.
,)?. Doctor Hartley has removed to
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&t4wS> Partial deafness, discharges from the
catarrh and all throat and lung diseases
ra&ciaHy frea'ted. No fee demanded until a
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hgs besn started in lowa
? tifcsltb'*' How much ijiey charge for
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’ MEW YORK, HAY 27, 1866.
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THE TORIES AND THE PRESIDENT.
If there is anything that the Andbew John
son whom we once knew, must despise in his
heart, it is the transparent humbug of his pre
tended supporters in the Democratic or Tory
Party. By turns they abuse and coax him ; by
fits they dictate and jeer; now denouncing and
now cringing; but never concealing entirely
their real motives, which are entirely selfish
and mercenary. The World sneers, the News
hisses, the Herald grins, while discoursing as
follows:
“Thus the President has failed in Congress to secure a
party capable of accomplishing anything. His professed
and noisy adherents have their own axes to grind, their
own selfish or paltry party purposes to serve, and they are
like Joseph’s coat, or many colors. Hence, against the
radicals the opposition elements of Congress are as pow
erless as so many squads of bushwhackers against the
advances of a regular army.”
What a scattering and yelping of the hounds
there would be if Andbew Johnson would rise,
at once, and kick out the whole pack of them |
How freely the country would breaths again I
How loyally the Republic’s heart would beat.
The Herald advises the President to dismiss
his Cabinet and select a new one I But it is not
a Cabinet—it is a President that the People
want to see at their head. Abraham Lincoln
kept in the van of our Union march. Andrew
Johnson can do so, if he so wills. But the
Tories and Copperheads will never follow him
unless on a countermarch.
A "LEARNED THEBAN’’’AND A ‘‘NEW THEORY."j
A medical “expert,” writing under the edi
torial head of the N. Y. Citizen, favored the
public with a eciontific'treatise on Cholera, last
week. Setting out with a sneer at poor Dr.
Sayre, as a “ sciolist,” the medical authority
above-mentioned demolishes the doctor’s hypo
thesis of “excremerital infection” (a second
hand hypothesis, by the way, of which Dy. Wil
liam Sohmsele is .the promulger), and proceeds
to give us his or “ our ” (in the editorial
“lingo”) “new theory” upon the origin of
Cholera: -■ 7.
“ Our theory ie, that the pestilence of Cholera is a
mephitic or malarious cloud generated in the far
East, and slowly wafted around the earth. When it is
tempted down by atmospheric or sanitary inducements.
As on board the late Cholera-importing steamers in mid
j faioan. it descend, and strikes its victims; and, believing
( this view to be the true one, we hold that .11 qa«auiiue
f precautions, though useful, and most for iso
lating victims already affected, must proto worthless
I when the brooding pestilence has reached and overhangs
any country predestined to its ravages.”
Now, while remarking, en passant, that “ our
theory” above put forth has been going the
rounds of Southern and Western newspapers
during a month past, we wouldn’t for the world
venture to dispute its “ originality ” or its
“ science nevertheless, it strikes us as rather
curious that this medical editor should, in the
above-quoted paragraph, demonstrate that the
pestilence is a “malarious cloud” “slowly
wafted around' the earth,” and in a succeeding
paragraph inform us, very sagely, that “it is
proved that pestilence cannot be carried over
four hundred yards across running water I”
Isn’t the ocean running water ? or is our
“new theorist” slightly muddled in his anti
“ sciolism ?”
The “ Express” on Be-Constbuotion.
—Our great “ machine smasher” is out with a
bran new plan. It says that “ not complexion,
not the skin alone—makes the difference be
tween white man and the negro—but the head,
the heel, the brain, the bone, the leg, the arm
—the everything.” It goes on to assert that
“anatomy shows the difference to be about
as great as between man and woman,” and that
“the Congo negro and his descendants, until
white blood purges, purifies, remodels him, dif
fers more than the white man and the white wo
man, —and the white woman should vote a thou
sand years before a vote is thought of for the
Congo negro or his descendants.”
Here we have a “ Constitutional Union”
scheme of Re-Construction—a definite one, fix
ing one thousand years as the term of a negro’s
disqualification, and embracing “miscegena
tion,” in order that “wMte Wood” shall “re
model him.” Henceforth, “citizenship” de
pends upon “heels, brain, bone, leg, arm, and
the everything.” But why does not our Express
philosopher push his scientific researches fur
ther, and discover that a negro “soul" is differ
ent from a white man’s. If it eould only prove
that, it might shut Sambo out of heaven also.
Wigfall, the best drinker and the
worst speaker that ever occupied a seat in the
U. S. Senate, has turned up in London. Since
his famous exploit in Fort Sumter, in 1861, when
he swallowed some prussic acid in mistake for
whisky, Wigfall has been lost to ths public gaze,
but has not been entirely forgotten. Ho is still
remembered as the low comedy man who “ did
the farce” which preceded the tragedy of “ The
Rebellion.” Wigfall is about to deliver lectures
on the “nigger.” The English people will re
ceive some exceedingly astonishing and pecu
liarly new views of the vexed question which
has perplexed our statesmen for the last forty
years. However, if they only supply the lec
turer with whisky he will amuse them, for there
is no man who can talk s greater amount of
nonsense ip a given tinie than Wigfall.
Oub Martyred Firemen.—Our bells
have tolled, the last week, for more than fire
alarms. The charred and mutilated bodies of
gallant firemen, who perished in the perform
ance of their duty, have beep borne to the
tomb, followed by brave comrades, who will
risk a like fate wherever duty summons them.
But our Tory newspapers have not yet ceased
qto insult the dead by ribald abuse of the living.
How many more victims do they demand in the
struggle of our New Fire Department against
the secret incendiaries who favored the Old?
Will it satisfy the slanderers of our devoted
firemen if two, three, or thrice the number, be
immolated on the altar of faithful service ? Or
would they like to see the Paid Fire Department
abolished, and a political Volunteer Depart
ment let loose upon us again? What would
insurers and insured say to such a proposition)?
Treasonable Papers.—Gen. Grant
says that if he was called upon to “squelch”
rebels and rebellion completely, he’d begin by
suppressing the New York News. We can tell
the General that there are more dangerous,
because more insidious, apologists for treason
hereabouts than the News ever was. What
ever may be said of Ben. Wood’s sympathy
with the South, it is, at least, bold and out
spoken ; and though there is, without doubt,
much “ policy” at its bottom, it does not sneak
around, andksry “ Good Lord I” “ Good devil 1”
by turns, like some of its Tory contemporaries.
Justice Demanded.—Mr. Everett, a
Northorn man, gave way to the war spirit of the North:
Mr. Bell, a Southern man, succumbed to the war spirit of
the South. The one is dead, and the section in which he
lived has come out of the war victorious; the other lives,
and the section in which he lives has come out of the war
vanquished. Let one standard be applied to both, and
the living have equal justice with the dead!—N. Y. (Tory)
World.
That’s all, of course 1 Lyon, Baker, Wads
worth, Mitchell, and a host of loyal men died in
defence of the Union—slain by Confederate
: traitors. Davis, Lee, Longstreet, Beauregard,
and their followers, who strove to destroy the
Union, survive. Let “the living have equal
' justice with the dead!” And begin with Davis!
I
> At his Old Tricks.—That scientific
i quack, “ Lieutenant Maury,” late of the “C. S.
i N.,” is taken to task by Bob Tyler, for his state
■ ment that the losses of Southern States by the
rebellion amount to seven billions of dollars.
Bob says it will not exceed three millions, and
t he is probably correct. Maury never could tejl
; a straight story, unless jt was
j then it got crooked when he told it. ' iA' ■
NEW YORK DISPATCH
THE CONNECTICUT SENATOR.
The sudden declination of Senator Foster, as
a candidate for re-election, in spite of the vocif
erous boasts of Tory papers, that he could
easily beat Ferry, because Ferry’s nomination
was a mean trick, etc.—and the unanimous
Union vote subsequently cast for Ferry—are
matters very inexplicable to Tories generally.
Senator Foster—a very good man in his way
—is not noted for back-bone; and on nearly
every occasion when his action was called for in
the U. S. Senate, he hesitated or shifted, and
was obliged to have delegation after delegation
sent to him from Connecticut, in order to stiffen
his joints a little. Connecticut, being an over
whelmingly “ radical ” State, became naturally
weary of a representative who required con
stant starching to make him stick to his con
stituency. Hence, the caucus nomination of
Ferry, who is known to be a straight Radical,
and relied upon as a man of pluck and talent.
A clique of office-holders afterward prevailed
upon Senator Foster to place himself in “ the
hands of his friends,” and this clique cohtrived
to “approach” two or three members of the
Upper House in Connecticut, and to bring about
a quasi combination (on paper) between the
Democratic members of both houses |>ud the
two or three Union men “counted on.” This,
they calculated, would give Foster tlio election
over Ferry, the caucus nominee. But those
not
“ counted onand, during the delay to go
into a choice, the “shakey” Union members
were charged upon by their constituencies in a
way that they little expected. “Delegations”
of the people, from towns and districts repre
sented by the “ doubtful legislators,” appeared
at the Capital, in constant succeSSon; and the
radical voice of the People soon called their
“hesitating” servants to order. The result—
a bad defeat of the Tory combinations, and the
election of Ferry by his party vote. Who says
that the Union Party in Connecticut is not able
to take care of itself ? The truth is, that, since
our Republic was established, there has never
been such a compact, well-disciplined party as
the present Union organization. It presents
a solid square in every State, against all the
assaults of Hatred and Treason. And this is be
cause it is the first party that was ever consti
tuted on true Democratic principles, and the
first party that ever illustrated the spirit of
enlightened Progress!
JEFF DAVIS To’HIS SOLDIERS.
Three years ago, Jbitbbson Davis, now a
State prisoner, called himself “President” of a
“Southern Confederacy.” This man was sup
posed to be a Statesman, claimed to boa Chris
tian, and was, at least, more intelligent than
the mass of Southerns. Yet we find his name
appended to a document printed in the Charles
ton Courier of August 6,1865, in whjch he seeks
to inflame the “soldiers of Confederate States’’
against their “enemies” in the following choice
———
“You know too well, my oou&trymen, what they mean
by success; Their malignant rage aims at nothing lefcs
than the EytkrminatioH of yourselves, your wives, and
children. They seek to destroy what they eannot plunder.
They propose, as the spoils of victory, that yo»er homes shall
be patrlWoned amonp tho whoso atbocious cruel-
ty have stamped infamy on their government. They de
sign to incite, servile insurrection, and light the fires of in
cendiarism wherever they can reach your homes, and they
debauch the inferior race, hitherto docile and contented,
by proclaiming indulgence of the vilest passions as the price
of treachery. Fellow-citizens, no alternative is left you
but victory or SUBJUGATION, slavery, and the utter ruin of
yourselves, your families, and your country!”
Such is the deliberate appeal of this “Chris
tian gentleman” to the unreasoning prejudices
of his “countrymen,” as ho calls the rabble who
followed him. And he appends to this precious
document the potential signature, “JEFFER
SON DAVIS, under my hand, and the Seal of
the Confederacy!” Will any sensible man main
tain that Davis believed what he wrote and
“proclaimed,” as above ? Was it not rather the
calculating harangue of a cold-blooded dema
gogue, intended to mislead and infuriate the
Southern people by an endorsement of what the
man knew to be false and slanderous concerning
the Federal Government ? And yet there are
apologists for this Jefferson Davis! He was
but the instrument, the “representative man,”
say our Tory sheets.' Very well! if ho be the
incarnation of Southern Treason, let Southern
Treason be punished in his person! Who can
estimate what revenges, what cruelties, what
fanaticism, were incited by the above-quoted
“Proclamation!” Jefferson Davis is respon
sible for them.
The Equalization of Bounties.—The
Bounty Bill, which has just passed the House
of Representatives, has been persistently op
posed by Secretary McCulloch—a gentleman,
hy the way, who i«i bnsyiner him self with poli
tics quite as much as is necessary. The sol
diers, hereafter, will recollect who were, and
who were not, in favor of some little expression
of national gratitude to the defenders of their
country. Mr. McCulloch, during the war, was
enjoying, as ho had for years, a snug and
profitable public office, and, of course, the poor
soldiers are nothing to him. But the States, as
well as the soldiers, are interested in this
equalization of bounties; and the Bill, revised
by the House Committee on Military Affairs,
was a measure worthy of united support. The
bill, as originally drawn, provided only for the
deduction of U. S. bounties received by claim
ants ; but, as reported by Mr. Schenck, it pro
vided that all local bounties paid to soldiers
should be likewise deducted from the sums
which may otherwise appear due. This cuts off
from the benefits of the bill all who enlisted
near the close of the war, when the large town
and county bounties were so liberally dis
pensed ; while our brave volunteers, who first
responded to their country’s call, and marched
without a cent of bounty, will receive eQme re
membrance, at last, of the nation’s apprepi
ation.
An Irate Mayor. —The city of Mem
phis appears to be blessed with a kind of pig
headed fellow for Mayor. The Argus, of that
city, had the temerity a short time since to al
lude to his incoherent conduct during the re
cent riots. For a Mayor to be called “inco
herent” is “ flat burglary, by the mass,” and it
aroused all the indignation of the Mayor, who
is said to have surpassed old wooden-legged
Peter Stuyvesant in the good round oaths he
swore. Nothing but the heart’s blood of the
viper that had applied the term would satisfy
his great revenge, and he indited the following
fiery epistle:
To the Editors of the Argus: Fpr your uncouth and tyi
gentlemanly remarks in regard to myself in this morn
ing’s issue, I hold you personally responsible. Select your
friend to arrange this difficulty. Most respectfully,
May 17,1866. John Park.
There may be those that suppose that this
would crush the editor ; but it didn’t. He
actually snapped his mental fingers in the
Mayor’s face, and directed a letter, declining
to be sacrificed to appease the wrath of the
chivalrous Mayor, in the following insulting
words: “To His Honor, John Park, Mayor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of
Memphis.” This capped the climax, and Park,
the peppery, unable to enunciate “pen and
ink,” seized upon a knife, and, plunging it
about a sixteenth of an inch into his arm, drew
blood, in which he scrawled the following dire
ful words:
Whenever you choose to act the coward, keep all com
munications within your office, as above.
John Park.
May 19, 1866.
What the reply of the editor to thia last epis
tle was, we have not yet learned ; but we fear
much that he did not treat it with the gravity
it deserved. However, we await with impa
tience the next scene in this exciting drama.
Gen. Scott’s Sickness.—Gen. "Win
field Scott, it is reported, is failing fast, and
messengers have been dispatched to bear to
his family the sad intelligence. This veteran
of three wars—this victor of a hundred battles
—has beheld his country grow up from infancy
to manhood, and that country will never cease
to cherish her ancient soldier in life, or to
honor his memory when he passes to immor
tality.
Gen. Robert Anderson has been likewise lying
very ill of late at his home in St. Mark’s Place.
Hotel-Burners vs. Theatre-Incen
diabibs.—The World insinuates that the Acade
my of Music was set fire to by a well-known edit
or, in order to spite Maretzek, and that Barnum’s
Museum met the same fate because it belonged
to another man whose “ establishment don’t ad
vertise in the Herald." We should think the
World editor might look nearer home for in
cendiaries ; particularly the gentlemen who
Stop at hotels, with “ black carpet-bags,” and
“ Southern” cards behind them.
The speck of war in Europe has
grown to be a portentous cloud—black with
threatenings of a general Continental war.
The latest news is that Prussia and Italy have
formed an alliance—defensive and offensive.
The troops of both Austria and Prussia are
marching to their respective frontiers. Italy is
ablaze with enthusiasm. Garibaldi has taken
command of the volunteers, and declares that
he soon expects to lead them against the tyrant
that holds Venetia in chains. War may be
avoided, but by the light of the latest foreign
news it seems to us very improbable, if not
nearly impossible.
Senator Doo-little.—Thia gentle
man is mis-named, for he must really be doing
a great deal, since on him and Senator Cowan
appears to Jevolve the whole Work of proving
President Johnson’s consistency. The Demo
cratic papers assert that the above Senators are
“ known as the chief exponents of the Presi
dent’s views.” We wish them success. There
was a man once who had two wives, and they
devoted themselves to the task of removing—
tne one all his white hairs and the other all his
t)laek onbs. Wo trust honest Andy will not bo
polled in that manner.
Startling.—The Canadians were
e.i & uiv U ßa out of their wits by the powerful de
monstration made by the Fenians against In
dian island on last Monday night. Two boat
loads of the Fenians invaded her majesty’s ter
ritory, and were only deterred from doing some
thing desperate by a show of opposition on the
part of the citizens. Such a dauntless under
taking hasn’t been heard of since Falfstaffs en
counter with the men in buckram on Gadshill.
The New Aqueduct.—The bids for
$100,006 New Aqueduct stock will be opened on
Tuesday, the 29th instant, at 2 o’clock. This
is an excellent investment, as it pays an inter
est of six per cent, per annum, payable quar
terly, and the principal will be redeemed on
the first of August, 1884, frojp the sinking
fund.
HORRIBLE MURDER!
ESCAPE OF THE ASSASSIN.
OFFICERS IN PURSUIT.
About nine o’clock, last evening, Capt. Mount, of
the Seventeenth Precinct, received information
murder had been committed in basement in the
rear of No. 166 East Fourth street, occupied by a
tailor named William Cormick. He immediately pro
ceeded there, and found lying on the floor the body of
a man named Bichard Pollard, quite dead. Deceased
had been stabbed in the breast near the right shoul
witix <x knife, - causing a ghastly wound, from
which the blood was flowing quite freely, the clothes
of the deceased being saturated with the life current,
while large pools lay upon the floor beside the corpse.
On a chair lay the coat and vest of the deceased,
with a large cut through each. It is probable tha£
when the unfortunate man felt him self stabbed, he
obeyed his first impulse to throw off his clothes and
ascertain the extent of his injuries.
This was the last effort of expiring nature, for he
apparently fell back upon the floor and immediately
expired.
The captain at once searched the place, but could
find no trace of the murderer or the knife with which
the act was committed.
From the statement of persons living in the house,
it would appear that the deceased had worked for Cor
mick for some time past, but about eight days since
he left and engaged himself with some one else.
Both men had been in the habit of taking their
meals with a Mrs. Ahearn, in the same house, and
slept together in the basement.
When Pollard left the employ of Cormick he went
to board with a family in Sixth street. Last evening,
about 8 o’clock, he was seen to enter the apartment of
Cormick, and nothing further is known of him. No
quarreling was heard by the other inmates of the
house, nor is there any sign of a scuffle. The position
and direction of the wound would seem to indicate
that it was inflicted while Pollard was sitting down,
and must have been delivered with tremendous force,
as the weapon passed through the coat and under
clothing of the deceased before entering the body.
Shortly after the entrance of Pollard, Cormick was
seen to leave the house. The corpse of Pollard was
found by some children, who gave the alarm.
The shirt of Cormick was found upon the bed,
stained with blood. It had apparently been torn off
after the commission of the bloody deed.
The body was conveyed to the Seventeenth Precinct
Station House, and Coroner Gover was notified to
. hold an inquest.
Meantime Captain Mount and some of the most
trusty officers of his command went in pursuit of th©
murderer, but up to a late hour no traces of him had
been discovered. He is so well known, however, that
h© ramnot long escape detection.
The deceased was a native of Ireland, aged 24 years
and unmarried. Cormick is also a native of Ireland,
and about 27 years of age. He has hitherto borne a
good character. The act was probably done in a mo
ment of passion, as none of the murdered man’s valu
ables were taken.
ami
Chicago is a queer place, and no
mistake. Recently a rich man by the name of
Hopp was tried for the deliberate murder of his
wife. He was acquitted on the plea of insanity.
A motion was made to hold him in confinement
as a lunatic, when the Judge decided that he
was insane only on the one subject of his wife’s
alleged infidelity, and as he had removed that
cause of mental disturbance, he was a safe man
in the community and must be discharged!
“O, wise young judge ! how we do honor thee! ”
Two young pen of Troy were sere
nading a young lady a few nights since, gently
they sung “ I sigh for thee,” when the lady’s
sire appeared at the window, with anger on his
countenance and a kettle of boiling water in
his hand. Suddenly there rose as “ wild a yell
as if all the fiends from heaven that fell had
pealed the banner cry of hell.” The father had
scalded the poor youths, and the gentle maiden
had enjoyed their discomfiture from behind a
convenient window blind. “ Bich is life.”
A Paragraph for Ladies.—The ris
ing generation can hardly realize the escape
they have made in losing the necessity for pois
onous preparations. “ L’Email de Paris” is
alone necessary to preserve to the complexion
in adult years, the exquisite softness that char
acterizes it in childhood. When every lady re
lies solely upon this preservative, as they will
after once trying it, there will be no more
pimpled and freckled necks and faces—no more
morphew or disfigurations of the cuticle. Sold
only by L. Isabbau, No. 822 Broadway, sole
agent; mail orders should be addressed to Ja
red & Rere, general importers, New York.
The Boston Voice says : “Before
Fitz John Porter left Colorado he was as effect
ually played out there as he was in army.
Among other things his accounts with the min
ing company, of which he was superintendent,
were found to be $75,000 short.”
A bashful lover in St. Louis, about
to ba married, took morphine to steady his
nerves. Result; he forgot to wake up at the
wedding hour; the bride was disgusted, and
the wedding indefinitely postponed.
In Paris there is a hospital for su
perannuated cats, and one for dogs is about to
he established in London. We shall probably
hear soon of a hospital for goats at Madrid, for
pigs at Dublin, for rats at Edinburgh, and in
this city for disappointed politicians, or other
members of the “happy family.”
One of the'Japanese mission notes
in his diary that they were received in this city
with shouts of “Peyapipehare,” evidently in
tended for “hip, hip, hurrah,” and the writer
adds, “The meaning is not clear, but it appears
to be a congratulatory expression.”
Gold during the week went up
from 130 Jto 139 J. Jbie advance is attributed
by some to the AnafieiaJ panto at jpresent pre
vailing in Europe, by ethers to the recent sale
of some thirty millions of gold by oijr Secretary
of the Treasury, aild by others id the threaten,
ing war cloud which now darkens the daylight
of the old world; hut jre, <&r.®arqful consider
ation, can attribute it to nothing less Qian the
several heavy lottery prizes heeq
oasjied during the week vy fbsEt'n Bates, at
No. 18 protdiw, ' . .
The Raleigh (N. C.) Progress of
Tuesday says: “Spring chickens, larger than
sparrows, were offered in market this morning
at three dollars per dozen. Twelve dollars’
worth would make a comfortable dinner for any
sick man.”
An elderly gentleman, named Rob
ert Alexander of Salem, Indiana, recently com
mitted suicide by shooting himself. He was
70 years old, and might have waited a short
time.
A man named Ellis has made pre
parations to hatch “ sixteen thousand chickens”
by steam, during the coming season, on his
ranch on the American river, in California.
An editor out West, who had served
on a jury, says that he is so full of law that it
is hard for him to keep from cheating some
body.
One part of Alabama is rapidly fill
ing up and that Is the Penitentiary.
. of Amusement.
MUSICAL.
Tat; Academy of Music, to the re
gret of hundreds of thousands, has been burned to
the ground, and is now an unsightly mass of ruins.
To allude, now, to the incidents of this most deplora
ble event, connected as it is with the loss of life,
would be useless in view of the fact that they have
been placed before the public fully by the daily
papers. The stockholders are going to work with
spirit, and a new temple, devoted to lyric art, will
soon rise, Phoenix like, from the ashes of the old one,
which was endeared to the people more by associa
tions than architectural merit. Max is out with a
card in which he says that all of his engagements will
be fulfilled, and that in October he will commence his
season.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC—ITALIAN OPERA.
[Wil Establishment does not advertise in the Hew York Herald.]
This establishment has been burned to the ground;
but, as I have no intention to solicit pity or chanty, nor,
being capable, to use such a horrible catastrophe (which
depraved several persons of their lives, and hundreds of
their means to support their families) as a favorable op
portunity to advertise my business, I will abstain from
enumerating my present losses, or from hsrald-ing my
future movements. However, in order to allay any ap
prehensions on the part of artists, choruses, orchestras,
and other employees. I deem it consistent to declare, that
all engagements made for the next Fall and Winter sea
sons remain in full force, and that operations will com
mence early in October next.
The public’s faithful servant,
May Maretzek.
Staten Island, May 24.
"Una Noche en Sevilla” is the title of« charm
ing little opera that was sung in an abridged form, at
a matinee given at Wallack’s Theatre, on Friday last,
under the direction of the composer, Signor Barilli,
and the management of Signor Fossati. We have
only space to say that we were surprised at the beau
ty of the music, which shows depth of feeling, great
harmony and a finish which could only have been
given to it by the most dilligent labor on the part of
the composer. How he could sit and hear it man
gled by such orchestration as that of Friday is more
than we could telL The fact that the opera
survived and came successfully through such an
ordeal is one of the strongest points in its
favor. We cannot go into analysis to-day of the opera
or its execution, and only say that Mad. De Lusaan,
Mdle. De Gibele, Signor Fossati and Mr. Farley, were
all very meritorious; the latter especially so. The
opera should be again given without abridgement,
and by an orchestra that can be kept together and be
able to interpret its many beautiful melodies. The
so-called symphony of Prof. Janotta is an enigma to
us. It possesses the merit of some originality in not
possessing any merit at aIL
At the Theatre Franoahs, English opera, under
the direction of Mr. H. Draper, will be given on to
morrow evening, and the “Doctor of Alcantara,” by
Mr. Eichberg, of Boston fame, is to be the initial work
of the season. The Athens of Massachusetts has given
its sanction to this effort of Mr. Eichberg, and, judg
ing by what wo saw at it® rehearsal, we should deem the
verdict a just one. The company includes Miss Caro
line Backings, Miss Zelda Harrison, Mrs. Mozart, Mr.
Theo. Seguin, Mr. Castles, and Mr. Peakes.
Blind Tom at Irving Hall.—lt will be seen by a
notice in another column, that the wonderful pianist,
Blind Tom, is about to give four more farewell per
formances at the above named place, commencing on
the 31st. inst., (Thursday next), concluding on Satur
day evening, on the afternoon of whioh last named
day he will give a performance at 2 o’clock, for the
accommodation of schools and families. We have
already written so much at length about the surpris
ing abilities of this artist, that even a word further on
this occasion is unnecessary.
The Seventh Sacred Concert of the season will
be given this evening at Irving Hall. These enter
tainments are delightful, and we are pleased to say,
liberally patronized.
The Steinway Music Hall, the corner-stone of
which was laid yesterday, will be one of the finest
edifices in the country. It is to be built in the most
substantial manner; it extends from the rear wall of
the present building through to Fifteenth street, a
distances of 123 feet. The Hall will be seventy-five
feet wide and forty-three feet high. The basement
walls are granite, three feet thick; the first-story walls
two feet eight inches, and the walls of the Concert
Hall twenty-eight inches thick from wall floor to ceil
ing, with heavy supporting columns, all laid in ce
ment. There are two center walls, running the en
tire length of the building, from the foundation di
rectly under and supporting the beams of the Concert
Hall floor, each wall twenty inches thick. The Stage
will be placed at the end fronting Fifteenth street
and the main entrance will be from Fourteenth street
but there are also two doors of exit on each, seven feet
wide, on either side of the stage, leading directly into
Fifteenth street, thus allowing the Hall to be emptied
in an incredible short space of time. Fronting Fif
teenth street and alongside the Hall on its westerly
sipe, an additional building is being erected, contain
ing the artists’ dressing-rooms, oven with the Stage.
It will be ornamented in the highest style of art, and
will boa great addition to the many attractions of the
Metropolis,
The Ornheoniot vnanty umidren’s great Sing
ing Festivals, directed by Mr. Jerome Hopkins, will
come off at the Cooper Institute, instead of at the
Academy, since the latter is in ruins. They will
occur on Friday and Saturday, June Ist and 2d; and
although the number of performers will have to be
materially reduced, the affair will nevertheless be a
grander musical display than any previous thing of
the kind ever held in our city. About 500 boys, men
and ladies will appear, and will render the “ Halle
lujah Chorus,” with gu»nd orchestra, in a manner
never before equaled here. Signora Boschetti and
Signor Orlandini have kindly consented to sing, and
Mills, the great pianist, will play. t?he affairs will
doubtless prove a great enjoyment, notwithstanding
that they will not be at an Academy of Music.
New Music.—We find on our table the following
■ from Horace Waters, No. 481 Broadway; “Oh, you
must be a Lover of the Lord,” words by Watts, and
the music arranged by Mrs. Parkhurst; “Told in the
Twilight,” a song and chorus, words by T. Johnson,
and inusic by Augustus A. Crilley; and the “May
Waltz,” a beautiful composition by A. Melon; not a
musk or a water, but an Alfred Melon.
Bryants’ Minstrels.—Our readers should bear it
In mind that this is the last week of the season at
Bryants’, and probably the last opportunity they will
ever have of seeing the old favorite Dan Bryant per
form under cork, as rumor hath it that he is now
about to embark in a new line of business, of which
corked faces do not make a port. Be that as it may,
this is the last week of the season, the programme
standing pretty much the same as last week, to wit:
the Elephant, with Dan Bryant and Seymour in their
world-renowned scene, Les Miserables; our African
Polka; the Nerves; Tyrolean Galoots; Black Chem
ists; U. S. Mail; Ten Minutes at the Academy; Plan
tation festival; How are you Greenbacks ?
San Francisco Minstrels.—This company are still
doing a splendid business at their neat hall in Broad
way. We have not, as yet, hoard any report of the
close of this place, and are therefore of the opinion
that they will continue open during the entire season.
The bill here this week is as follows: The Broker’s
Sons, Sleeplong and Eatmuch; Mazeppa, a la Menken,
Charley Backus aS Mazeppa; the trained mule, Foxey,
received with shouts of laughter; Billy Birch as Fat
and Greasy; double clog dance; Wambold’s beautiful
ballads; comet solo; Bernard’s historical reminis
cences; operatic airs by Bice, Nancy Fat, COoper and
Fields; tragedy rehearsal.
Tony Pastor’s Opera House.—Continents may
tremble and opera houses may bum, but there is no
such thing as suppressing the indomitable Tony and
his neat little opera house in the Bowery. Enterprise
and energy is the rule here, as will be seen by the bill
prepared for this week, which will consist of an en
tirely new local drama, dedicated to the mechanics of
the metropolis, entitled “ The New York Ship-Carpen
ter,” the cast being as follows : Lucky Jack, a news
boy, Tony Pastor ; Dick Harkins, a ship-carpenter,
Mr. G. F. McDonald ; Hans Hofendeifer, Mr, T. G.
Biggs ; Emma Arden, Miss J. Engel; Kate Hofen
deifer, Miss F. McDonald. A grand Allegorical Tab
leau, The Trades. A new grand Ballet, The Pearls
of Steyer Mark, will also be given. New songs by
Tony Pastor. Carleton in new Irish songs. Matinee
Wednesday and Saturday.
DRAMATIC.
At the Olympic Theatre, Mr. George
Fawcett Bowe has given us a version oi “David Cop
perfield” which has proved very acceptable indeed.
Mr. Rowe’s Micawber is different from that of Burton
or Brougham, but it does not lack very fine points.
His drunken scene and ponderous oration were excel
lent, and drew down the house. The Mrs. Micawber
of Miss Eliza Newton is not a piece of acting to go
into ecstacies over. The Emily of Miss Kate Newton
was good from first to last, and Mr. Studloy deserves
great praise for his fine delineation of Pegotty. Mr.
Morton's Ham was acceptable, and Mr. Boniface’s
Steerforth good. The gem of the piece was Mr. Stod
dkrt’s Uriah Heep, one of the finest pieces of charac
ter acting—though somewhat lacking in quietude—
that this excellent actor has given us for a long time
The piece is finely mounted. It will be given on to
morrow night. Mrs. Wood’s benefit on Friday was a
perfect success in all points of view. The house was
crammed, and {he pieces—A Loan of a Lover” and
“ Cinderella e la Oomare’’-went off with great spirit.
On Wednesday evening the Treasurer, Mr, Sutton,
will take a benefit, and will present a good biU. He
is an accomplished officer and a courteous gentleman,
and wp sinccroly hope that his good qualities and
claims will not be overlooked by the public.
Ar the Gabden, Mr. and Mrs. Barney
Williams have concluded a Very profitable and suc
cessful engagement. On to-morrow night Mr. C. M.
Waloot, fr., will take a benefit, with the “Colleen
Bawn” as the attraction. On Monday, the 4th of
June, Mr. John Brougham will commence the Sum
mer Season at this bouse.
At Nieto's there is nothing pew to record. “Bel
phegor” still.bolds the stage, gaining in popularity
each night that it Is represented. The earnest and
truthful acting of Mr. Dillon In the part of the Moiin
tebaiih, has caused this play to be one of the most suc
cessful productions oi the season. “Belphegor" wiU
be played “till further notice.”
At yf oon’a the Worrell Bisters have lost none of
their power of attracting good audiences, and the
is announced to be played this week. There
is a matinee performance given by thasc fascinating
ladles each Wednesday. ,
At rm; Cxoadwav, the very succMsfiff engagement
of Miss Mbnkep wtus-brgught to a close fest night, and
m Monday evening MisiHolea Western will begth an
United weeks. .Tho
andtMbfiny‘find In Uto toinjar mS Wdatem en*.
tains six different rite, latter sh 4 Wffl en»
with a fair reputation as an actor. The “Corsk 73,ll
Brothers” is underlined.
At Wallaces, “.Never too Late to Mend” has
proved so great a success that the manager dops not
think he could mend idatters by withdrawing ft at
present,
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music the season
closes on Monday aua Tuesday evenings, with Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Williams, Who appear in “Shandy
Maguire,” “Ail Hour in Seville,” and the “Connie
Soogah.” The latteb jrfece will be presented with all
the scenic and mechanical effects used in its produc
tion at tiie Winter’G&rden. The season at the Brook
lyn Academy has been artistically a brilliant one, and
pecuniarily a telling success. *
New Bowery Theatre.— We are to have a grand
sensation here this in the shape of the first ap
pearance of Madame Celeste, in the grand drama,
from the French, entitled the “ Woman in Bed,” in
which she will sustain three characters, vis.: Miriam
(a Jewess), Rudiga (the Woman in Red) and the Count
ess Montalba, supported by the entire company in the
remainder of the cast. The “Woman in Bed‘* is a
drama replete with thrilling incident and exciting sit
uations, knd with an actress of tho reputation of Mad
ame Celeste in the leading part, sustained by such a
company, cannot but produce a sensation on the east
side that will be long remembered, and fill the New
Bowery from pit to dome during its run. In addition
to this, the nautical drama of “ Gale Brcezely” will
also be given every evening. By the above it will be
seen that Mr. Lingard is up and doing, resolved that
no want of enterprise and liberality on his part shall
be wanting to make his house the most successful on
the east side. .. - -
Fox’s Old Bowery.—The revival of the sensation
al, musical and mirthful drama of the “ Three Fast
Women’’ is announced with Miss Fanny Herring in a
variety of characters, new songs and dances. Those
who want to pass a pleasant evening cannot do so bet
ter than by dropping in and seeing her wonderful
changes in this piece, which was originally placed
Upon the stage expressly to show her versatility. Mr.
G. L. Fox appears in the part of Hezekiah Larkins
from Rhode Island on a lark. Every member of the
company assist in the piece, and the celebrated Fe
male Minstrel scene wifi be introduced, replete with
wit, humor and song. The play will close with a
grand display of Fireworks, which is in fact a prelude
to the coming Fourth of July. The performances
conclude with the romantic drama of “ Robert, the
Devil.” During the week the very popular play of
“The Female Detective,” we are informed, will be
done—a piece that has heretofore had a great success,
and which never fails to crowd the house.
Barnum’s Museum—Uncle Tom’s Cabin.—The pro
duction of this piece last week, with Mrs. G. C. How
ard in her great and original impersonation of Top sty,
caused the greatest crowd both day and night that
has ever yet assembled within these walls. We will
not attempt to criticise Mrs. Howard’s Topsey— that
has already been done throughout the length and
breadth of the land, and in a tone of unqualified ap
probation. The piece has been well placed upon the
stage, and the scenery, by W. Heilge, the admirable
artist of the establishment, is most appropriate. Miss
Anna Prior plays the part of Eva very prettily, and
sings the song to her father with much feeling. Her
mother’s Eliza is excellent. In fact, the piece is well
played throughout. Mr. Jamison, although suffering
from a severe cold, illustrated Uncle Tom solemnly,
and with great earnestness. Mr. Daly, in George
Harris, was manly and energetic, though the speeches
of this part fail to have the effect they did when
slavery existed. Messrs. Hadaway and Bridgman and
Mrs. Jamison were capital in their several roles, and
the young man that played Marks has a fund of quiet,
comic humor. Among the minor parts, we shall
mention the auctioneer as being well done. “ Uncle
Tom” will be played at the Museum till further
notice.
The Circus in Brooklyn.—The company of dash
ing and daring riders, agile acrobats, and athletic
gymnasts recently located in Fourteenth street have
changed their base of operations to the junction of
Fulton and DeKalb avenues, Brooklyn. They give
their first performance on Monday, and continue
there the whole week, giving two exhibitions, one in
the afternoon and one in the evening. James Robin
son, the most daring of living riders, and M’lle Car
lotta de Berg, the jvost graceful equestrienne, con
tinue with the company. It will give exhibitions in
Williamsburgh on the 4th and sth of June, in Jersey
City on the 6th, in Newark on the 7th and Bth, and in
Hoboken on the 9th.
SCRAPS MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
There were to have been two Hamlets in the
field at Philadelphia on the 21st, Mr. Edwin Booth at the
Walnut, and Mr. Edwin Adams at the Chesnut. At the
former, Hamlet is now in its third week, quite a
lengthy run for one of Shakspere's plays in that city, al
though we see that “ Richelieu” and “ Othello” are to
be sandwiched with “Hamlet” this week.
Miss Grace Darly is the name of a young lady
lately added to the company attached to the Academy of
Music, Milwaukee, Wis. She has already made her mark,
judging from the tone of the press of that city.
The Newark, N. J., Theatre was re-opened on
the 14 th by J. M. Ward, with “Never Too Late to
Mend.
The Webb Sisters were at the Opera House,
Rochester N. Y., last week. On the 28th, they open in
Philadelphia, at the Chestnut.
Marietta Ravel commenced a brief engage
ment in Utioa, N. Y., on the 22d, with the “French
Spy.”
Zoe opens a two weeks’ engagement at the
Howard, Boston, on June 4th.
Mi’s. D. P. Bowers was at the Academy of
Music, Albany, N. Y., last week, opening in “ The Mys
tery of Audley Court.”
The Columbia, Tenn., Theatre, was opened
on the 7th inst., by a portion of the company of tne old
Nashville Theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mordaunt are to have a
testimonial benefit at the Academy of Music, Philadel
phia, on the 30th inst.
.At the Leavenworth (Kansas) Theatre, Liz
zie and Emma Maddern were the stars during the week,
commencing the 7th.
Julia Daly and Sam Ryan have played to
pretty fair houses during their stay in Cleveland, Ohio.
Grover’s Washington Theatre closed its regu
lar season on the 19th inst.
The theatres in New Orleans are now running
their summer season. The Varieties Theatre re-opened
for the Summer season with the Ella Wren Nesbitt Com
bination, on the 9th inst.
The Variety Company at the Academy of
Music are now in their last week. On the 6th. Mr. Rob
ert Hart, Ethiopian comedian, and Mr. Hernandez, pan
tomimist, had a joint benefit, which it is needless to say
was a perfect ovation.
Mrs. Charles Howard Watkins, of the Olym
pic, having closed her regular season--on the 6th inst., in
ttUKurated lraiSuinm»r season on the 7th, with “ The
Daughter of the Regiment.
Forrest in San Francisco.—An auction was
held in San Francisco lately for the sale of choice seats
for the first appearance there of Edwin Forrest,
Manager Duffield, of the Richmond, Va.,
Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne has arrived in San
Francisco from Salt Lake City.
Lucy Rushton is at the Arch, Philadelphia,
whore she was billed to ooen on the 21st inst., as Rosa
hnd. in As You Like It,” and sing the Cuckoo Song.
Harrison’s Dramatic Company was announced
to open in Allentown, Pa., on the nth inst.
Emma Cushman took her farewell benefit in
Indianapolis, Ind., on the I4th inst., appearing in “Deli
cate Ground,” “Sweethearts and Wives,” and recited
Bingen on the Rhine.”
The Wilmington, Del., Theatre was opened
on the 14th inst., by J. B. Furman, with a dramatic nom
pany.
“Faust and Marguerite” was announced for
production at Woods’ Theatre, Cincinnati, on the 21st
Mlle. Augusta continues the principal attrac
tion at the Metropolitan, Buffalo, where she has been for
the past two weeks.
Yankee Locke concluded an engagement at
Louisville, Ky., on the 15th inst., whioh was far from be-
J 1 Vii iself CTatiVe t 0 tllß managemenfc ’ or pleasing to Mr.
The Holliday, Baltimore, closed its regular
season on thel l9th inst., with Mad. Celeste’s farewell ap
pearance. The theatre will remain closed until the 30th
inst., when it will re-open for a brief summer season,
with Lotta as the star.
Lucille Western opened at the Providence, R.
1., Theatre, on the 14th inst., with a dramatic company,
supported by O. Barton Hill
Howard’s theatre, at Kansas City, Mo., has
“gin ©out.” ¥ rs : Howard’s benefit took place on the 9th,
the French Spy” and “Spectre Bridegroom” being the
attractions.
The New American Philadelphia,
will re-open for a summer season on the 2d of June, un
der the management of H. A. Earnshaw, with a dramatic
company.
The Ravel family commenced an engagement
at the National, Cincinnati, on the 15th, and are doing a
big biz. They remain until the 29th, and will be succeed
ed by the Hanlon brothers.
The business at the different theatres in Bos
ton during the past week has been quite fair.
J. E. McDonough has purchased from Messrs.
House and Palmer, the sole right to the production of
“Arrah Na Pogue” throughout the country.
The Academy of Music, Pittsburgh, “has
•’closed, after a season of two weeks.”
W. It. Floyd will be lessee of the Varieties
Theatre, New Orleans, next season.
Mr. Waldron took a farewell benefit on April
17th, at the Salt Lake City Theatre.
The Holman Opera Troupe is now playing in
Philadelphia. ‘ °
dpity anil fubuvH
COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE JUSTICES KELLY AND DOWLING.
A SNEAK-THIEF BAGGED.
Thomas McManus, a very genteelly-dressed young
thief for a dock-thief, plead not guilty to attempting to
rol? Catharine Conway, who resides on the dock foot of
Chambers street. She found the thief in her bedroom,
sneaked under the bed, and the window raised. She gave
the alarm, and an officer came, when he was caught.
When asked why he came to get under the bed, he said
he was in liquor and he went in the house to get a snooze.
It was a very lame excuse. If drunk, he would have tum
bled on the bed after having hoisted and crawled through
the window; but instead of that he crawled under the
bed, and was there most ignominiously found coiled up.
That chap got six months.
HE KNEW NOT WHEN OR HOW HE WAS ROB
BED.
In thty case Mary Gleason, a fair daughter of Eve, met
a sojourner from the land of Canaan, in the streets of
New York. Mr. Henry O’Donnell had just arrived from
the unlicensed land of liberty. He was a Fenianist all
over. He came here to make an excitement, but the first
excitement he made was a shock that shook himself. On
being sworn he said—and it is best to let this C. B. have
his own say—“ To the best of my belief I lost sl7 or
i_^ as ln > the Bowery, or some street leading to
it, slightly under the influence of liquor, when I met
the prisoner, when she took me to the Atlantic gar
£®5 s .’> «J& d J’°" j^ our money then?” “I think I
had. Where did you go then?” “We then went
to an oyster saloon anq refreshed ourselves.” “ Did
you pay for your .oysters ?” “O, yes.” “Had you
your money then?” “I had some of it I know, or I
couldn t have payed for the oysters.” “Well what then.”
v J 9 #. ..£ me vrith tlie woman—and—well.” “Well
JL hat 2 O now yoti know what,” echoed the witness
with a simpleton p ensile as he looked at the counsel. “ I
What you mean, sir;” said the counsel, “unless
yo H ln yojMT ipajmatiye powers. I
want to know if’frhen you entered that house with this
woman you knew had or any money ?” ‘‘ I don’t
know. AJI I know is I looked the door, I put the key in
my pocket. I got up 6t sty in the morning, went down to
VStff IN A SHADOW?
MJ® hwfes’o&l Facing
’ EditioE
let, when he thought nobody was observing him.
he thrust his fingers therein, and with lighW
ning transposed Mr. Ferden’s pookeM
book to his own pocket. The defense was that somsH
yiiy thief had done it. What ft lame excuse! Thai
tX ®f/hat event would have to again steal to te<r) tW
fruK 8 his ill doings. Penitentiary six months.
\ HO! FOR RAVENSWOOD.
Thomas and James Hickey (whiteYwera charged, 1
a colored woman from the Workhouse on;
Blackwell sIX and. From the evidence it appeared that}]
there is a regular organization of young desperadoes whal
make a speculate of sailing around the Island in small
boats and taking from the Penitentiary the handies#
prisoner, expecting fe? be paid something. The prisoners
m this cAse took the African slave to a bath-house ini
Ravenswood, but it so Bsnpened the charms of the bath*]
house overcame their better sense, and they were ovecwi
taken by two of the keepers of Blackwell’s Island, They]
were convicted of attempting to aescue prisoners frosft.l
prison, and sent to the Penitentiary themselves for six]
months each. A ohance is novndven for some colored
woman to pilot along the Island, take these youngsters
off and drift off as they did to a batik-house at Ravens-*,!
wood.
THE BENEFIT OF A MIRROR. ? f
A mirror has its benefits undoubtedly, ft shows
what we are and wliat we are not. Mr. Herman Shydel it)
80 «APJ>ened, had a mirror in front of the beer drawer.!
and while drawing some beer, saw a fellow, who gave Lia}
name as James Wilson, lean over the counter, draw out
the till, and take all that was in it. Mr. Suydel, the bar*!
tender, like a gentleman, put the ale before nis customer;!
and when a quarter was tendered him, he opened thai
drawer to throw a five cent niece back. But the drawee
was as elean as a newly-finisned piece of wood—there was!
nothing in it. “See here,” said Suydel, havo!
r °bbed me. ’ “ Rob the devil! Do you mean to insultt
me ? No, no, I don’t mean that.” T ‘ And what in —*
do you mean ?” “My monish—you cans have all de beer]
you want.” “ Beer be ; I don’t want it.” Wilson had
vi ra « xi b hJl 6 ?' v an(i of -Cf >tt V‘9 V B3 satisfied. He tried tas
blun the Dutchman off by hitting him on the nose. Tho i
result was six months in the Penitentiary.
NO. 19 BOWERY.
This establishment can either take this report as a puff ■
or otherwise, but here are the facts: The defendant, Wil-’
ham H. Lackey is a bookkeeper or cashier at No. 19 Bow-'
ery. Ihe complainant, Mrs. Sarah Boyd, went into
uiis establishment to buy oilcloth, and here is heri
adventures. She said-" I live at No. 9? Henry street ti
was assaulted by the prisoner. I went Into No. 19 Bowery,
to buy some oil-cloth. The man then offered to sell ft,
for 35 cents a yard, then he came down to 30, then to 28;j
then to 26. I said I wanted yards, and after
what it would come to,ne said 5312.1 went up to the book-]
keeper, the prisoner to pay it, and gave him $4. Ha
said it was $3 27. I had given $4. I said $312 was what
the man sold ft for. He then said the man knows noth
ing about it. Then I said give me ‘my money back.*
He said, I have got it and I am going to keep it.’ I
we j? v Oub asked a policeman to get my money back,
and he said I would have to sue for it. I then went back
and asked him for my money, and he insulted me. I.
WO h what he said unless the Court says eo—very
we ri ii en him if my husband was here he would
n °sV a lr s<> * haven’t got a husband,’ he said. I
said, You are an impudent scamp.’ He said he would
keep the four dollars, and come and spend the balance
Sa Imght.lmght. I then slapped nim in the face.
•i ? .\ e hit me on the face and struck me with a piece of
oii-clotn. . A money porter corroborated this statement,
and no witnesses for the defence were produced, and
Lackey was fined $lO, and ordered to give bail in S3OO to
keep the peace.
This is the way that business is transacted at No. 19
Bowery, according to the evidence adduced in court.]
OLD OFFENDERS. |
Ellen Johnson alias Mather Lee. the wife of the celc- ,
*u a z. • P ic kpocket, Bill Lee, and Ellen Sanders, sister to
tne Gipsy fortune-teUer, two of the most expert pick-
Pmk L n female line, were convicted of tho “dip” ;
on i nursday, and sentenced to learn the oakum picking
tor six months, beside being fined SSO.
COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE CITY JUDGE RUSSELL.
TRIALS, convictions and sentences for the week, s
John Vernon, indicted for murder in first degree.l
through an error in the indictment, was allowed tG<
Plead guilty of manslaughter in the third degrees.
State Prison four years. William H. and James'
bmith, plead guilty of an assault on Officer John-
Callery; remanded. William Kelly, plead guilty of as
sault and battery; sentence suspended. Peter A. Burley,,
pfead guilty of an assault on his father, with intent to
,? a „2 dll^u har I n; Penitentiary one year. John Martin/
VvaWfiF in^infAd SS f^ tand ? a 1 ttery; sanded. John O,
Oulu ’vxiHri ed f°r grand larceny; acquitted. James
°f receiving stolen goods; judgment
? and pr^on .?£ discharged. Wm. Brown, pleaif
TS^i b « SaU i lt Sjdangerous weapon; remanded.
J™„. a x? L 9 wls ,’. plea d guilty of an attempt at grand lar--
ceny. Penitentiary one year. James Riley ancTWillianx
St«to^A ad smlt-yof an attempt a/petit
X® ars - and six months each. William
i^;^ en 4 ead of an attempt at burglary; State
s7Xa^ ar <k a ?i d 8,1 m? n lhß. Michael Lahey and
ewarb ’ convicted of grand larceny; State
Prison three years each. John Gardiner and
Launger, jointly convicted of grand larceny; State Prison
two years and six months each. Wm. Canby and JarnS
Connolly, jointly indicted for robbery in first degree’ ac-
Babcock, mdicted for granflarceSr
acquitted. William Mason, indicted for theft, acquitted
Henry Allison and Wm. Robinson, plead guilty of grand
Pr ,| So ?>r aix month, SJ
mdicted for rape on Mrs. Isabella McGin.
C'^Ar^w 5O w Vlct K d «* of - as . 3auJt an d battery; remanded;
ted g Wm* Pa l to I R be i r i : pad dlC^- d I° r grand larcen y>’ acquif
ame U-- 1 »Hdty to an attempt at burglars
Send one year. John
plead guilty to attempt at burglary in third degree* State
™®. n 1 two years.. George Rotherman, inSted fm
cen y» ecQuitted. John Archer, Ciiinaman ideal
bnnXvnnH SSaU r ol rxr Celestial; discharged.’ Wil-
Wm. Stockton, plead guilty of netii
larceny, Penitentiary six months and fined <BIOO
cem- fedtPnt' Plead guilty °t an att empt at grandltr-
An’ jW’ ll ® ?’ ear ’- James Curran, plead
Tnhn tempt at burglary in third degree; remanded.
,ey > J° h ° Kelly and James Cooley plead guilty
of assault and battery; remanded for sentence. Gcorga
years? convicted of fals e pretense; State Prison threa
A Banking-House Victimized—The
Firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co. Swindled to trf
Amount of Over $42,000 ey a Defaulting Clerk-He
nA - fr ß ?s? TE + l> ■A ND , Commi tt ed .in Default of S4O 00Q
Bail.—Capt. Jourdiin, of the Sixth Precinct, yesterday
arrested Louis A. Colin, on a warrant issued by Justice
Dowhng, of the Tombs Police Court. The wan-ant wm
issued by the magistrate on the complaint of Mr. Willfam
B. A. Mackintosh, of the firm of Duncan, Sherman A
Co. The complainant states that about six months sinca
the accused, who had been employed by the firm as a
clerk, left their employ, stating that he in-,
tended to go into business for himself. He had been
employed by the firm to take charge of the securities left
by persons who had procured letters of credit from the
firm when about to travel abroad; and so great was tha
trust reposed in him by the firm, that his accounts wero
not scanned by them. The money and securities intrusted
b’s care amounted m the aggregate to a large sum. 1
After Cohn left an examination of his books were mad*
and it was then discovered that he was a defaulter to the
amount of $42 f 74p, divid-ed as follows $28,000 in United
. s ";° C( » u pon
WO,OOO in bonds of the Lake Erie, Wabash, and St Louis
?aj«of°S n i > 000 y ’ Snd ° ne Galilornia State bond of tba
I ?’?'i iate ' l Z af,er ,eavi .”S the firm he sailed for Eurone '
and did not return until recently. In the mean time th*
warrant for his arrest had been issued, and as abov*
stated yesterday, Capt. Jourdan succeeded in takinS
him into custody. None of the missing money or boAdS
Europe“t he
«e^‘r ter ’ ,ort, °" of
On a statement, of the above facts, Justice Dowlin<3
committed the prisoner to the Tombs, to await an evamiS
nation m default of 840,000 bail. Ho is ver™io “mmu“4
native m regard to his movements while awav cS n. ! 3
good address?’"' 35 yeare ’ ° f a PPearanoe
An Exciting Scene in the Court of
General Sessions.—A curious case was tried hAferJ
Judge Russell in the Court of Sessions on Fridly which/
aßtheaffawnow stands, places Policeman
of the Twentieth Precinct, in aUvery unenvialflen<wi?iiS4
The case is as follows: On the night of thTilth'of M
ruary Patrick Kenny had a horse sto'en from hisstablel
On the strength of information received he caused Ihhl
arrest of George Rotherman, who was indicted
larceny. On the trial Mrs. Stowell swore that
offered her fifty doltMS to become a witness* SSthf
Prisoner, and Mary Brown testified that Officer BmitS
had offered her ten dollars for the same uurnose
Smith was called, and under oath denied
of Mary Brown. Assistant District-Attoriev
ed him and brought him back to the bar, producing atthi
same time a descriptive list, purporting to refeTtoth,
prisoner and alleged that he was a deserter from th
United States army. The Court, after looking at the pa
per presented, asked the officer what authority he had tc
make such an arrest. Officer Smith: Our Orders are from
the Governor of the State to make arreste oFall dS
tors. Judge Russell : Before you arrest a citizen yo 3
must have proper authority. Now let this man be die-<
cnarged. and (turning to Officer Smith! if you dare to
touch him again, I wifi look you up. Clear out of her*
Mr. Rotherman then left the court, and the officer foQ
lowed, rather discomfited. The court directed the nami
and precinct of the officer to bo noted: and Mr. Snenoar
stated his determination to bring an action against Smith
for subornation of perjury. »»««« “ v
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A Gang of Thieves Arrested.—Yesrt
terday, the officers attached to J. O. Kinner’s Merchant
Detective Police arrested the following young men. on
the charges named below: Thomas Meeker, for stealing
Sr cloth ’ va,ued at SBO, from Herman A Co., of
No. 108 Duane street; Henry Young, on a charge of steak
' mg a coat, valued at S2O, from Geo. A. Davis A Co., of
No. 394 Broadway; anLJames Brown, for attemiiting to
Pl°2? r , e fcwo J>2E es of hafc £.’ valued at S2B, from the store
of Fisher, Williams A Co., Nos. 89 and 91 Chambers'
street, by means of a forged order. It is stated that all
the prisoners belong to a gang of sneak thieves. The/
were committed for trial by Justice Dowling.
Relief for Disabled Veterans.--},
The regular monthly distribution of relief to the most'
' needy disabled veterans, and also the wives and
of deceased soldiers and sailors, will take place on next’
Thursday, at the office of the “ Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Em-j
Sloyment and Relief Agency, No. 36 Canal street, under
le management of Col. Herman. The doors will b»|
opened at 1 P. M., precisely, and none but those who hava
exchanged or received their relief tickets before the 15th
of this month will be admitted. The ticket holders are •
requested to take with them their discharge or pension '
papers.
A Correction. —Many of the news-’
dealers throughout the Fifteenth Police Precinct are
laboring under the impression that Captain Caffrey has,
issued an order to the police under his command, to notify'
them (the newsdealers) to close their establishments on
Sunday at 9 o’clock, A. M. No such order has been issued
by the Captain, nor did he ever contemplate issuing such
a one. The whole matter grew out of the stupiditv’of
two or three new officers, who misconceived the orders
given them by a sergeant—to prevent all boys who might
have rigged up temporary news stands on the sidewalk
from conducting themselves in a disorderly manner •
much to the annoyance of the denizens of the immediate
neighborhood.
The Last Leap.—A United States'
detective passed through Jersey City on Wednesday even- j
ing, having in his custody a prisoner whose alleged crime 1
is not known, en route for Washington. The parties took /
the half-past seven P M. train, ana after passing through-
Rahway, the prisoner made a desperate attempt to eflJ;
cape, and leaped from the train. The train was stopped.]
but the fugitive could not be found, and it was supposed'
he made good his escape. On Thursday morning, how-!
ever, his dead body was found beside the railroad track/
a short distance from where he made his “last leap.” .•
H
Decidedly Cool.—As one of the at*,
taches of this office was passing down Eighty-third
streethyesterday morning, where a sewer is being
he witnessed a blast that was only Second to the springy
ing of the mine before Richmand. Rocks flew in every
direction, and one in particular knocked a hole in thd
fence of Mr. Peters, the Comdian, large enough for a
man to walk through. Stones from the blast rattled
against the windows like hail. The contractor when told
he ought have done bet ter, very coolly replied, “Are you
a judge?” Captain Hutchings ought to have an office*
detailed to look after that chap.
£
Pfingst Montag.—Several German,
singing societies, rifle clubs, and other organizations.’
celebrated the “Pfingster Fest” (Whit-Monday), at JonesV
Wood last Monday. They turned out in very large num-*.,
bers. enjoyed the inusic or Mensohine’s and Kissenberth’jL
bands, drank lager bier without restriction as to quantity
and did many other things which we have no room hera
to make mention of, but which they enjoyed
Stabbing Affray.—On Friday night,
two colored men, named Alfred Howard and Isaaq
Stephens quarreled at the corner of Grana and Sullivan
streets, and Howard cut his opponent in the face with a
knife, inflicting a severe wound. The injured man had;
his wound dressed, and was then sent to his restt
dence, No. 19 Grand street. The assailant was arrestedii
and yesterday was discharged by Justice Ledwith.
The Oldest Inhabitant.—Mary Ann,
Bastine came into this world in 1748, and left it last
day. She was a native Of New YOrk, and was, unqueKu
|ionably, “the oldest inhabitant,” h6r experience covert
ing a term of 118 years. rf
Robert Martin, a printer, fell ouk
of a third story window »t Rochester, N. Y., on Sutf
day, and was killed.