New-York daily tribune., 1843-12-19

IMPORTANT CHANCERY DECI5loN.-Vlce Chan-
| ceIor WMTrLEsEY has recently decided that
mortgage, at ten years, bearing interest at seven
Der cent. per annum, given to the American Life
Insurance and Trust Company OF Maryland, up
on a loan of Sterling bonds OF that Company al
twenty-five years, bearing an interest OF five per
cent per annum. issued at an Office kept III the
city of New 7 ork Is void
lst. For usury.
3D. The sterling bonds being issued to bearer,
contrary to their charter.
3d. The Sterling bonds being evidence OF debt
issued to be loaned in violation Of the restraining
laws of this State. Buffalo Com. ADV.
D It is stated in the Philadelphia Gazette
that Gen. EaroH, formerly Secretary OF War,
and Judge HoooLEY, OF Pennsylvania, have &c,
clared, In an official document, that they could
not, as gentlemen and officers of the Govern
mcnt, hold any farther communication with
James Madison Porter, Secretary OF War.
u On Friday evening last, colored man
succeeded in entering unobseryed, the house Of Mr. Samuel
Wait Green-street, Albany The maidseTrant, who i'ad
supposed alone III the house lock the front
door when she encountered the fellow" who pleaded OF
bread for his ,rusion. On being told there none h
INSISTED there was ard he should have IT, She then
the door, where he discovered another fellow under
the stoop. Iu the coniusion however both escaped The
girl very rute!y treated, and her dress fragments
0y Tie rufllH.
SNAIL PoX IN CMcXNAfI,-The Cincinnati
Commercial says ;a, there least eight hundred
thousand Of small pox that city and adt This is
ar:nng or rather would be- net FOR the fact that
but very !syv deaths occur from Il.
u MIR. Choir OF Ann Arbor, Mich charged
.-oC., t,-.I
asi, has recently been tried and found gli}ty.
Is The Dry-Eousc Of the pTint works OF
Brown Han Co. in North Asl1las, Mass destroy
ed by fire the 6th inst Loss i2O0-nsured.
y We see it stated that n. P. Willis has sued
ths propre,ors OF the Boston Transcript for libel
1P Mr.. BURRlr has been reelected Mayor Of
the City of Montreal, Canada East.
SHOCKING DEPRAv1TY.-Poor human nature Is
indeed fallen The Rev. H. C. TAYLOR, editor
OF the Obern Evangelist, was on Friday last
committed to the Jail of Lorain county on charge
of stealing money at different times and in vari-
Gus sums, all supposed to amount TO large sum. He
stole from the Evangelist Office and the Oberlin Post or
ce in both which he has been clerk He is also charged
with s-ducing girl in his family, procuring an abortion
We learn that his he fully cont-sses all the
crimes and euornes charged and was required by justice
Birch Of Eyra to give bail for ai N the Of $1,000
in default of which he is in Jail.
ried his second wife and stated that the sancmonious
hypocrit preached moral reform his wedding
We are Informed ,i,st much cred, is due to Mr. G1L-
LETT publisher of the ObeIln Evangelist for trreng
the vaines of the hypocrca scoundre and to the Fa
Guilty aud citizens Of Obern for their prompnes
ing him into the hands Of justice. Although Taylor had for
years been leading member of society," and hsd stood high
clergyman and editor of Of the widely circu
lated religious journals Of the West all refused TO bail him
screen the exposed moral leper in the least The Evan
| hash
for the punishment of crimes against chastity, and the de-
prayity of the editor furnishes melancholy but conclusive
edidence of the necessity and justice of such laws
We learn that Dr. DRyER physician at Elyfla has been
arrested for assisting in procuring the abortion an. held to
bail. Cleveland Herald.
LIBEL SuIr-Thc action of Francis c. Tread
well against Gcrsh & Edwards the propetors of this pa
per libel, tried in the Supreme Cour, Monday
and Tuesday Of this weekJudge Shepley the bench.
The alleged libel published on the l4h of June last
The Plaintiffs damages laid at Ten Thousand dollars
The Defendants pleaded the general ISSUE with brief
statement Of the truth IN justification There was also
part of the words published that Defendants
would contend hs !ihelous and did not snp
port the nuendoes laid.
The Judge charged that the article whole libel
ousthat il the Jury ouud the justification made on: BY
the evidence their verdict should De for the DefsndaMs
otherwise, thoy should find for the Plaintiff with such dam
ages the case mi ght seem TO them to require
The given the Jury Tuesday evening, and
the next morning they returned verdict for the Defendants
Portland Advertiser.
CHARITY RosPlrAL.-keport for the Month of
November, loi3.-Whole number OF patients, III OF
which IN the Insane Department 62 admitted, 557 do Of
, 3e ~ snaa ~0 IL
- osn;,,, ~ 500 n dsce,eld of w,
, f 80 tf,i,ed !; 49, revious ,o,b
w o'''.A'
foKoEKy.-Cn Saturday evening last, ceEtl-
ncate OF deposlts LOT olooo 10 te ofdsI OF -
6akeI pu'portn5 10 oa issued by me Chemuns -anai
BANK was Isceved oy the Bank BY mail om broker IN
Sufaio ne ceFAcae supposed 70 nave oeeA cashsu
d ,i aIG =, 10 W.
stances read i, certain that the forgery was the work of