The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-03-07
In Chancery.


MARcH 6.-Monroe rs DousiGss-The further argu.
ment postponed account Of the indisposton Of
J. w. Gerard, Esq, Mr.; Belts having concluded his
4 opening argument yesterday.
Waisort6 Clerk in Chaneery, vs Farmsrs' Loan and
Trust cSmpGsy-ln this case, the heirs OF Henry A.
to the clerk for $40 osc Ssins monte. Of Mr. co.,srs
conveyed to the farmers Loan Company: In April.
1897 the then clerk in Chsncery discharged the mort
property The latter proved to be insufficient and after
foreclosing It, there romans some $4,000 due to the
heirs They insist that the clerk had right to dis
the order of the Court. The Farmers Loan Company
claim that they advanced the consideration on the faith
mortgage was actually paid The day was occupied in
reading tho pleading. and testimony, which are very
voluminous W. M. Evarts and Prescott Hall appeared
for compainants and T. Fessenden and II. ketchum for
Farmers Trust Company.
FROM TExAs.-To the Captain OF the steamship
Alabama, which arrived on Saturday from Calves
ton. we indebted for late Texas papers The most
important item IL that in relation to the u 3. Revenue
Laws, which went into operation the 18th inst the
Texas law having ceased TO exist that day. The
laws The Corpus Christi Gorette OF the 4th
tains complete list Of the officers Of the u s. Army
engaged in the cause Of public education At meeting
on the l4th memorial to tie Legislature was voted II
~: 70 Ss ssoo
cipality.-NsU OrIeans Topic. Fs6 %.
merts Of the Comet, discovered by Mr. George p.
Bond Of the Cambridge Observatory, on the 26th Of
February. They computed from the observations
Of Feb 26h and March lat and Sd. and satisfy those
observations, a. well those of March I'd, within
minute Of arc. They are therefore, only sufficiently
accurate for first approxim Perihelon passage
March oth, 366 Greenwich m. l.; inclination, $40 81
longitude Of psrihelion 80. % Longitude OF ascending
node, TIE l. Motion direct
The Comet il slightly retrograding in right
sion, and moving north at the rate of about de-
grees in a day. BENJAMIN PIERCE.
Harvard University, March 4, 1916.
RAILROAD AcciD ENT.-The Boston Journal Of the
9Th inst, says.-The mail tram from New York,
did not arrive till about O'Clock this forenoonowing
10 detention the stonington road caused by acct
dent TO the engine yesterday afternoons train for New
York. when about SIX miles beyond Providence. When
this train reached stonngton, much time had been
expended in obtaining engine carry them on that
the Mohegan had LETT for New York. In order that she
might not lose her tip and passengers and mails which
lett here yesterday afternoon, have to lie overr in
StonDgton, till to days train
FIRE At BROOK FARM, WEST. RoxBURY The
large edIiic, erected by the Brook Farm Association
on their premises at WestRoxbuTy, entirely con-
sumed on Tuesday evening. The edi6ce consumed was
oil wood, three stories high and one hundred and
sevenyfve feet long divided into fourteen tenements
or dwelling houses for the families OF the Asocistion
The cost OF 1t, a. far completed $1,000 and ~
had not yet come into by the Association no insuf
ance had been effected.