New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-26

TIE ORR PoIicE.-The appea taken b the RoayI
Of Police from the decisos Of the Supreme Court.
seoerL tenn. VII DO argued next Tuesday ct Cae
CouI. Of Appeal.
The ships FideGs, Manhattan, Harvest Queea, N.p-
ture aud Jss Foster jr., Of the Black Bal Line of
Liverpool packets, dressed in bunting yesterday
from truck to deck. on account Of a marriage ia the
family Of C. H. Marshall, esq., the agent Of the line
THE KIpsArrisG CAsI.-The case Of James p.
Finley. alias Henry A. Howard and Anna Brs:nard,
siss Anna Howard charged with kidnapping coiorsi
r;,l of It's city, named Sarah Harrison, and taking her
bey ond the limits Of the State with me intention Of
selling her into Slavery, up before Recorder Bar
psrd Yesterday afternoon. mistake hiss crept into
the papers as tie real of the gill alleged to
have been kidnapped, it having been heretofore pub.
lished 10 Sarah Taylor The girl, herself, made the
correction yesterday before the Recorder and said her
fathers name was Harrison. Her mother having mar
red a second husband by the name Of Taylor. ex.
planned the reason why she populary called Sarah
Taylor The kpnspped girl has rather intelligent
face for one of her Glass; The prisoners entered tho
RecsrdeIs Office under the charge of Officers Barry
and LUX of the Fourteenth Ward Pof,e, through
vlose efficient agency the ugitves from justice
tracked Ito the State Of Maryland and finally arrested
and brought to this city Among thu sc who testified
y their presence and interest in the escape of
the Young gil from Slavery she being only Ia years
DID, were Lewis Tappan, eco, and DR. McCune Smith.
few coOred persons were also seated by the eide Of
Miss Harrison. The being called up the Recorder
said to the prisoners
81 was under the impression your sent here
for preliminary examination by me, but on looking
t .he napers find YOU have already been indicted at
~ tle Genpral SessiOuE. Ii therefore
only remains fer to TX the amount OF ball. in default
Of which you must be imprisoned to answer at the
General Sessions II Is ordered by the Court that You
find bail in the sum of s, 600 each"
Finley. alias Howard, appears to be in the neighbOr
hood Of &c or y years DID, and said he had been in the
United States but about three months. He is Cans
clan by BIRTH The woman is apparently about 80
years of sge.
After TIE amount OF bal was fixed for the prisoners,
the Recorder said though he confessed it peculiar
hardship that he felt it his duty to order the witnesses
in tie case to give bail for their appearance on the
trial or be subjected to temporary confinement The
witnesses being persons in quite humble circumstances
as well as humble life, Mr.. Tappan suggested to his
Honor that he fix the bail in their light pos
sble 10 the propfiety OF which the Recorder readily
assened. and therefore fixed their bail at $OO each.
Upon this, Lewis Tappan, esq, and DR.. Mcclure Smith
offered themselves as slretes for the appearance OF
the Witnesses and accepted. Durirg these pro-
ceedings the room was uDcomiortsby crowded.
DISPUTED TILE TO A CHILD.-A case has been IN
progress for come time before Recorder Barnard in
voying tho title to child two years old, which came
mp again before him yesterday, and was finally dis
posed Of. The examinations have been numerous and
PIC acted but the of the evidence has been such
as was scarcely fit for publication. The case was
brought up by writ Of habeas corpus on the petition of
Dung woman OF rather interesting appearance, and
no small degree of personal attractivenes7, named
Agnes Riker claiming hers child in the ossession
of enc Stephen Brewer. There was 10 dipute on
either tide that Brewer the father of the chill and
that the woman Rker its real mother; bat the
child unfortunately, was born without the ordinary
sanctions Of marriage between the parents. When
te child was about two months old the inotuer having
repeatedly solicited from Brewer AID f'ed to get from
him such financial redress a. she fincied hsr due
in the prenises day took the child 10 her arms
aid started for the residence of his parents and ela
tives il Foulth avenue in expectation Of Notifying
them TO come down Enteiipg the house, che
placed on tie sofa what she pronounced the son of
Steuaen Blower aud then turned and left; but the
friends AID relatives of the new conner instead Of
being mortified By his presenCe TO the eItent that
Aetts hoped they might he, were rather pleased with
his introo Gctiou, they having no children OF their
owl and they immediately "took the young stranger
in and cared for il and nursed it with all the
fonjuess q parental and family affection. In
this Agnes was disappointed and she Immediately
commenced efforts to get possession OF her child az am
She repeated those efforts from time to time, from
Mach 1876 down to March, 1888, TIL finally sho sued
out The pesent writ and brought the case before Re
colder Barnard. 1t appeared in the evidence that the
father and his friends were abuI dainty able to make
every necessary provision for Stephen Avenue, as the
young euhjett Of this family controversy was called
and that they had become terderly attached to 1t, and
were very anxious 70 retain IT, aud that during ne Two
wears since It's motLer had abandoned Oh their SOFA
they had cared for it with The fondest solici.ude Va
the cthtr hand, the mother incortestiby shown,
hy aLy quantity of both propetors aud ffequenefs oil
the !ant establishments OF Newlo,k, to be an Lablt-
usl irequentsr Of those Institutions, and consequently
u fit deposi,ory for the nurture aud education oil al
infant son. As general rule, III the case oil az ne
climate child the mother is entitled to Its CUSTODY
But where the mother is shown to be OF the charac'er
Of the petitioner the law takes 1t from her snd gives he
preference TO the father. The Recorder yesterday
scted Upon this principle # az, aud awarded tie
young gentleman to the father The relatives Preseu1
(nae and female expressed decided gratlhcatoh AZ
this decision ana left the courtroom, pressing their
recovered charge stil closer to ther b1'om'. Inc
yourgster is light little chap was nesy and PRETTY
dressed but utterly UNCONSCIOUS VIVA; al. THIS !u''
was about.
TIL ASSAULT oN MR. BCRroN.-The statement III
Thursdays ThIBrsE Oh this subject Ii contraAe'ed n
some particulars by tie friends of Mr. sanderson' II
is alleged by NJ. Ssnderson ami he states thas ne %
able TO prove, that while he was quietly going ia!o
Buttons Thester with two friends from Phhadeipnia