Washington sentinel., 1854-03-25
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Things In New York.-The case of Madam
i Restell and George r.. Shackford, charged the
former with producing an abortion on the person
of Cordelia A. Grant, and the latter with being
accessory thereto, was sent up for disposal by
4 Justice Stuart yesterday afternoon. The principal
witness for the prosecution miss Grant, not hav-
ing yet been found, the magistrate, by advice ofthe
district attorney, decided to dismiss the complaint
and did so, il is understood, however that the
case will not be permitted TO rest where il now
stands, but that it will be brought before other
and higher authority TO investigate. The body Of
the female, who, In appearance, resembed Miss
Grant, which was found in the East river, near
Brooklyn, some days since, was identified to be
that OF young woman who had been missing for
some time, and who is supposed TO have COM
| mitted suicide while in deranged state of mind.
| movement has been made in the city council
4 looking 10 the sale of all the public markets. and
throwing the providing of these places of sale
open TO private competition. The market pro-
perty owned by the city is estimated 10 be worth
two millions Of dollars.
A shocking murder of young German
perpetrated on the Battery some two years since,
at late hour of the night, and the was inves.
tigated by Coroner Ives, but clue 10 the affair
was obtained. The mayor offered reward Of
5000 for the murderer's apprehension but Il had
no effect, and every idea Of arresing the assassin
was abandoned. On Wednesday notorious con-
vict in the Sing Sing prison, when at the point of
i death confessed TO keeper that the murder was
i COmulilteu Dy Gaul, ftOWleu, Johnson, (nOw in
State PRISON. and HIMSELF for the paltry sum of
| $35, which they stole from the corpse, and then
pitched over the railing Castle Garden. Saul
and Hewlett il will be recollected We're hung for
the murder of the watchman of the ship Thomas
i Watson.
An extensive sale Of monster fowls was held
yesterday by well known auction-housa in Broad
way. Some of the Shanghas and Bramah poo
i tras sold at what were considered high prices say
| at an average Of Sc Muscovy ducks, SIP so;
i chtfaQOnQs. SG so. and so On ...
| Theinjunction obtained against the Cysial Palace
Association, il is believed, cannot be sustained, as
the old directors took the highest legal opinions
before borrowing money, which, it is now alleged !,
10 illegal. Al any rate, the attempt Of the stock
holders TO recover back money which has been
received and appropriated 10 the purposes of the
association, cannot otherwise be characterized
| than as dishonest
A merchant from Columbia county, in this State,
| put up at French's hotel on Monday evening. On
/ Wednesday morning he was found dead in his
i bed. He is supposed TO have died in fit. On
his table, by his bedside, $3.50 in bank bills were
/ found. His name is supposed 10 be Mr. Henry A.
i Lawrence, of Hudson.
i Another large sale teas, at auction, took place
/ yesterday, drawing together large assemblage Of
the trade. The hyson sold at 4lb "a 311; young
hyson, 65A @ SO; hyson skin, 90 "a 25; twankay,
"a q 81; Sunpowder, AZ a so; imperial II "a mi;
souchong, 25 q 81
Sailors are extremely scarce. For want Of them,
vessels ready for sea have been waiting in the
stream since the middle Of last week.
4 BaAtm0rs american.
Seizure Of Two Thousand Dollars of spu-
rious Money at Pittsburg.-Wementi in our
paper, few days since the fact of the arrest of
/ two counterfeiters named Leonard and Williams.
| They were taken 10 Cleveland, there to await
| their trial, on charge of uttering and passing
counterfeit money. The baggage ofthe prisoners
was not found until yesterday, when Hague, Of
| Alderman Steel's independent police, found car
i pet-bag belonging 10 Leonard at the Monongahela
| House. The carpet-bag contained 81 1860 in wen-
| ties altered from ones on the Commercial Bank
Of Glenn's Falls, New York $500 on the Rensae-
| laer county Bank, New York in twenties altered
from ones; also, altered notes of the same de-
nomination on the Public Stock Bank, at Newport,
/ Rhode Island, and on the Bank Of Albany, New
| York. All these notes Were altered from ones,
and in very ingenious aud artistic manner. The
| twentes on the Rensselaer, Couty Bank LANSING
| burg, New York; are very good, and we'll calcu-
| lated 10 deceive. There were also in the carpet
bag notes of the denomination Of $l25, on the Wey-
| bosset Bank, Providence Rhode Island. These
| notes were altered from bills of the same denomi-
| nation on a broken bank. The notes were found
in the carpet-bag Of Leonard (alias Stari) togeth
er with clothing, considerable amount of Jewelry,
and daguerreotype Of Leonards very handsome
| phiz. These articles and the counterfeit money
/. will be sent 10 Cleveland, and there produced as
| evidence against Leonard on his trial. The al
tered tweniies worth one dollar each, on pre-
.entation at the bank from which they issued.
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the Glenn's Falls Bank on Mr.. Sourbcck, of the
1 Railroad Hotel, at Alliance. When he was taken
/ back TO Cleveland he rcmitted the amount to Mr..
s. in good money Pttfsburg Post, March 81.
Arrest of Large Gang of Counterfeitcrs.
/ Since the publication of the arrest of two men
charged with passing $l0 counterfeit bills on the
| Cranston bank, of Cranston, Rhode Island up
| wards of fifty persons who had been duped by the
bills. have made their appearance at the Sixth
/ ward police station, having each or more of
the counterfets. One Of the accused was yeser-
| day identified by six persons TO whom he had
passed the spurious money. A man who
| arrested some months since and taken to Boston
TO answer charge of passing counterfeit money
i was found by officers Jourdan and Pollard Of the
Sixth ward, concealed in Patton's hotel Greenwich
street
/ They watched,the house during Tuesday night,
and up to 10 o'clock yesterday morning, when he
4 ventured into the street, and was captured. He
is said 10 be the party who has furnished the bills
TO those who passed them. He formerly kept
porter-house in the Bowery notorious coun-
terfeiter, named Bonney, is known TO have been
! in the city quite recently appointing agents 10
circulate the Cranston bills. His present stopping
place is unknown 10 the authorities. II is under
stood that agents have been despatched to nearly
all the large cities in the country pass off these
bills.
Late on Tuesday night, several arrests of parties
charged with passing the spurious money
made by Serge ant Elder, Lieutenant Dunn, Off
i GERS SlOuSn ana Levy, ana Otners Oh tue ponce
| Among the accused are six men and four women.
When Sergeant Elder entered the place Of one
of the men, he threw into the stove bundle Of
bank notes, which, on being rescued from the
flames, proved to be the Cranston counterfeits. The
prisoners were all locked up TO await an examna-
tion, which will take place at two o'clock this af-
ternoon. II is said that one of the women passed
off during single evening in Sd avenue, forty of
the counterfeits.-N Y. San.
Highly Important Arrangement. A lato
| Rochester Union says: "a most important ar
| rangemcnt has just been effected, by which mer-
chandise passing from the eastern to the western
States. and vice versa, be carried over the
Great Western railroad without the inconvenience
that has therefore, attended the transit, in conse-
j quence Of the customhouse regulations. Gen.
Jacob Gould, Of this city, has just returned from
Washington, where he had been as an agent for
the Central Railroad company to effect this de-
sirable object. Secretary Guthrie at once gave
his attention TO the matter laid before him by
Gen. Gould, and the following method of passing