New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-19

appetite for aesh. Others then eei2td him, and a
policeman being called, Individual in the crowd
showed his star and walked the fellow of to the SG
tion-House. Fortunately the car that came up while
the muss took place had conductor off duty, who
took the ohers place, aud so he went with the officer
TO make his complaint, that the chance good
that beside the change be got in hand for the coin he
offered for bis fare, he may get what he SO richly de-
se,ves free trip in city carriage to Blackwell de-
lchtful Summer retreat
NEw-YoRK AND CoNNEct1cur BOUNDARY Cow
MISSION The Joint Commission, appointed by New
York and Connecticut to ascertain and define the
boundary line between these States, In at
the Haseco House, Port Chester, have com pleted
their survey and work of making out the boundary
from Lyons Point, at the mouth of Bran or Byram
River bsck into the country for about ten miles.
There are still about seventy miles of the line to be
examined, surveyed and marked cut and owing to the
imperfect manner in which the surveys were made
and marked ont by former Commissions it ia probable
that the present oDe will necessarily be engaged in the
prosecution of their labors for several months to )me
Some seem disposed to consider the appointment of
this Commission useless expenditure of public
money; but auch should bear mind that in the pres
ent unsettled state of afas the ends of public justice
may often be defeated and the sheriffs andother Off
GERS OF Connecticut, as well as those of this State,
fre quently find themselves in hot water in
quenco OF the parties upen whom they wish to
official documents, in the shape Of judgments, sum-
mons, &C., challenging their jurisdiction, by claiming
to be citizens and residents of the adjoining sister
State, whichever it may be, for the occasion. Prior
to November 1859, The boundary between New-York
and Connecticut from the Massachusetts line to the
Sound, ran in straight line, parallel with the Hudson
RIVER ct q distance of twenty miles therefron. At
the time above mentioned Col. Thomas Dongan Gov
ernor OF the Province of New-York, and hs Council
on one side and Robert Vroat Governor of the Colony
of Connecticut, Mayor Nathaniel Gold, Capt. John
Allen, and William Pitkins in commission with him
on the ether held Joint council ct Fort james in
New York, and agreed to make limited exchange Of
territory.
By the agreement in question, New York ceded to
Connecticut triangular shaped piece OF land lying
immediately west of the then existing boundary;
in return for which Connecticut ceded 10 New York
"trip Of spd 1872 rods wide extending from the north
EN- point of the triangle to the Massachusotts ne or
in Other words, allowed Now York to remove her
boundary lines from the Massachusetts, line to the tri-
OF gle ceded to Connecticut, 132 rods eastward The
proceedings Of thai Council, or Joint Commission, ware
not sanctioned acted upon, however, by the British
Government for period of seventeen years wdcn,
according to extract from the minutes Of ga Court
of kensipeon, held the eight -and. twentieth day Of
''March A. D. 100, at which present the Kings
most excellent Msjesty Lord Archbishopof Gamer
bury, Lord Chance lor, Lord President Duke of Boil
"ton Lord Great Chamberlain Earl of Stamford, Earl
" of Ta1kerville Enrl of jersey: Lord Ferris Lord
Lexington, Mr.. Secretary Vernon and Mr.. Montague.
"The agreement entered into by the Joint Conn
" Of New York and c. nneotout received the King and
"Councils approval On the 18th of April, 1925,
another Council was held in New York. at which
Francis HARRISON Cadwalader Golden, Surveyor
General of the Province of New York, and Isaac
Nix, eaq., appointed by his MajettJ = commits
sOn under the great seal Of the said Province dated
at Fort George in New York as above, to run mark
out and ascertain the line Of partition Of the said
" Province and Colony of Connecticut while the
side of Connecticut Jonathan Law, Samuel Eels aud
Roger Noloott were appointed Commissioners, and
John Cop and Edmund Lewis, Surveyors. Che above
named gentemeu prosecuted their abors only from the
mouth of Byram River to the upper ornorthern point
of the triangular piece of land previously alluded to,
wbe1eit ntersects with the stra ght line, doubtless
presuipe that With regard to the latter difficulty
could possibly arise. Notwithstanding the inn
probability OF auch an event, We find
that in 1871 another Commission was in
stituted by New-york and Connecticut to estnb-
lsh aid locate the boundary from the northern or
upper point of the triangle to the Massachusetts ne
but the old landmarks described N their reports, and
The monuments they raised to pcrpetuate The boundary
having principally disappeared, the present Couinis-
sion have got task before them.
It is true that from " Lyons Point, whore the
water OF Bran River faeth into the Sound BY the
course which the stream runneth to the big stone at
+" the Wadng place, they experienced but httlo diff
Guilty in finding OF locating the middle of the current;
but north OF the big stone at the Wading place, near
here the old ByrGn Bridge stands, where the
boundary tcas marked by q cheap of stones round a
" cherry tree, standing in the high road and marked
"by on the west side and C on the eas side,' or
three white-oak trees known IS the Duhe'S trees
(which by the way, have long since been hew down)
or by "heap OF stones Only, which now probably
Eorrn part Of wall the task Of ascertaning aud To-
eating The boundary line will net prove an easy or
agreeable ore. In instance, the line was found
marked ont by o small quantity Of charrcd wood
which had been buried near big stone marked q Il.
The present Commission consists of Benjamin tlelt
Of Orleans, " Y; Col. j. Tarbel of Essex Co., n.
Y; Samuel D. Backus of New. York City; Wm II.
Haley Of St snford, Conn., and - Whiting of Lltch-
Aeld Conn who have secured the services OF Z. W.
Went esq civil engineer to make The necessary sur
veys. We understand that they propose marking the
boundary from the "big stone at the Wadins place,
where it disc,yes from the Byram River, with sub
stantal stone monuments set in the groand to the
depth Of at least four feet and at such limited dis
fancss apart to remove oil doubts to the State to
which every good citizen Eviur In that section be-