New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-12
BROOKLYN ITEMS.

COURT or SESSIONS Judge Moore pre-
siding Daniel II Crawford, indicted for burglary In
TIE third degree IN breaking INTO the dwelling house
OF Jonathan Strickland, IN Williamsburg, IN Octo.
Der last, was placed on trial on WEDNESDAY ana
convicted OF the ofiense. Sentence deferred.
Patrick Mulhgan was placed on tTlai on me charge
o. oIgamy. IL appeared that defendant married
Margaret Connolly, the complainant, IN Ireland,
some SIX years since. Subsequently coming 10 ths
country, he married another woman, with wnom ne
has since resided. His wife arrived here within
wear after her husband but failing to enter the com
tlaiDt within tee period de fined BY the statute of
limitations the jury. under the instruction Of the
Court, found verdict OF not gdlity.
lNQUEsT.-An inquest was held on we'd
resday by Coroner Bali, upon the body Of Patrick
Buns, who q patient at the County Hospital,
Of ship fever 1t appeared, On the investigation,
that deceased was missed from his room ABOUT a
fortnight since, and was not seen aiter~ard unti
his body vas found cay or two back IN refuse
hole near the building into which II is believed be
bad fallen in the night time. Verdict, Accidental
Death"
The Lecture of Rev. DR.. Beecher on
Monday nigh, the subject OF the Imagination az
tIacted large and DISCRIMINATING audience, VINO
were delighted with the manner III winch the lee
rmer treated his theme. The imaginative facui'y
was not held high in popular estimation because I,
was supposed be the attribute Of the dreamer and
not of the money maker. TINS notion was the incu'
bus that subjected the Imagination TO all the preu-
dices OF popular misconceptlon. But the mind oen-
clent in Imagination is also dehclenI III souno JUG
III.
TO act alone but in conjunction with other iacutes
and in proportion THIS action is harmonious Is he
mind symmetrical. Without Imagination and Its
connecting influences, We can never aspire 10 sym
na,hv with the harmonies and beauties of nature
10 excellence in the fine arts. This deficiency Is not
inherent ia the American mind-on the contrary, IL
possesses elements OF various merit, the comDlna
ion of which forms a basis of character for winch
no enterprise would be too alduous, no superiority
too high With such materials our tendency should
not be downward but upward to the realms oil taste,
where the natural genius may nave iair pay Ihsn
our ambition would not be satisfied with money
making alone but would also aim at d Juster cult
walton OF the fine arts-a OF which have vital con-
nection with the faculty OF the imagination
The Long Island Bible Society cele~
brated it's Thirty sixth Anniversary, at Jamaica,
day or two since Rev. John Goldsmith, OF New
town, was chosen President. This Society was
organized in the year 1915, since which time u mas
received $37,432 30. OF this amount Sl9,42o ~ mas
been paid to the Parent Society as donations, ana
$2l, sol 20 on account. During the entire period,
So $50 copies Of the Scriptures have been cIcu.
la.ed~772 of the number having been distributed
during the past year. The whole nunDer Oh Lie
Members of the Society is $40
The Court OF Sessions convened on
Tuesday morning before Judge Moore and Justices
stilweli and Lott, when the folio wing Grand Jury
was empsnnsled and sworn; warren hicnm mo
G. Childs Andrew Dickinson, Peter ). Berry
Ewont Van saun, Peter Wyckof. ~, samuel
Lott, George Cowenhoyen, Peter O,hara, runs ;.
Bersep, Ralph Lane, Djamn Baldwin, Eleazor
Tompkins, Richard Covert, Lewis Nichols, Thomas
Booth =,
"A petition from numerous respectable
colo,ed neonle of the Ninth Ward was presented
to the Common Council q! their last meeting, pray
ina the passage OF law granting them Ike pIlvi.
lege with white people to ride In omniouses Inc
question beng very ticslish one, the Board decioeo
not TO entertain the communication.
"A new Typographical Map of Kings
County is nearly ready Tor publication. II Will be on
a large scale showing ali farms houses, roads nils
valleys. woods swamps names OF residents, &c. IN
Drpps No 1903 Fulton.st., Nsw-York)
A sloop heavily laden with lumber ca
Ietped on her beam ends about O'Clock on Tuesoay
afternoon while sailing up the East River and SCOT
filed with water. She was subsequently to"ed ou
of the stream. 800
There are at the present time l3a
teachers attached to the public schools OF this cry
-Four Yeas ago there were 50.
An alarm of fire on Tuesday noon was
caused by the burning of she'd in the rear OF house
No. II Crapberry.st. Damage immaserial.