The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-21

elusive private use. The Board concurred to ad-
yertise for location for Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. Is. A report recommending the appro-
pration Of "a ,io3 for expenses incurred at the re-
ception of the Prince of Wales was laid over The
veto Of the Mayor of the bill giving permission to
The Third Avenue Railroad Company to lay a track
on Seventeen and l3Oth streets was taken up. and
the Board adhered to its former action bya vote
Of l6 to 8. resolution was adopted
appropratng s7,720 to meet the defcien.
cies in the funds Of the Broadway Street
Cleaning Association. Mr.. Lent claimed that
the city had no right to vote away this amount
the storekeepers on Broadway having contributed
to clean that street. An ordinance presented by
the Comptroller, estimating the amount necessary
to meet the expenses of the city, was adopted
The total amount is 1915 1922 70, and II n cipal
item is sS2 1872 70, being the expense Of entertain
ing the japanese Embassy. t. ie incurred
in joint resolution to purcl e m fire engines
for engine compani and 6, at an ex-
pense Of 81 800 for each engine. They also con-
CURED with recommendation of the Comptroller
TO take the sum of 500 80 from the appropria
ton of the Russ pavement, and credit that amount
to the appropriation for election expenses. Ihey
also concurred in joint resolution to purchase
portrait of Harry Howard for the sum Of $780,
The Board OF Aldermen were in session yester-
day but the proceedings were of little moment.
Eighteen of the crew of the alleged SLAYER Bonito.
captured by the San Jacinto on the coast Of Africa
with upwards of seven hundred negroes on board,
were brought up before Commissioner Morell yes
terday, charged with having voluntarily served on
board the Bonito. After hearing some evidence on
the part of the government, the Commissioner ad-
journed the case over to Saturday.
An application to restrain the government from
compelling George Law and Gustavus A. Conover
to pay the amount of their bonds as sureties for
ex-Postmaster Fowler. was made in the United
States court yesterday. After hearing the re-
marks of counsel, Judge Belts adjourned the case
over to the 9th inst.
The three hundredth anniversary Of the Scottish
Reformation was celebrated last evening in the
Jane street United Presbyterian church. Rev.
John Brasil delivered a discourse appropriate to
the occasion after which collection was taken
up to aid the Protestant Institute in Ednburg.
Judge Mullins, of the Superior Court, rendered
decision yesterday directing that Edwin
Jefferds should be admitted to bail. Jefferds is
witness in the double murder case Of Walton aud
Mathews.
The inquest in the case Of John Myers, the
negro who was scalded to death on the occasion of
the late explosion on board the steamboat Com.
monweath, was postponed yesterday by Coroner
Schrmer until two o'clock this afternoon, in con-
sequence of the absence of material witnesses.
The trial Of Colonel Core oran, Of the Sixty
regiment. for refusing to promulgate the orders
Of Major General Sanford to parade his regiment
on'the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales
20 ,;f,. caI of,ar
the Arsenal, before Brigader General Spicer and
Colonels Postley and Pinckney. Without coming
TO any conclusion, the was adjourned until
January next.
The Commissioners Of Charities and Correction
held their usual meeting yesterday. The re-
port Of the Committee of the Whole stated that
orders have been given to remove all lunatcs
whom the Emigration Commissioners are obliged
TO take care Of to Wards Island. This step will
not 60 far towards settling the long pending diff
Guilty between the two Boards. The report pre-
scented other feature Of special public interest
| The number in the institutions now is ,l26 in
| crease Of 1902 during the past week. The number
admitted since the last return was 1885, while
those discharged, transferred or who died, num-
bercd GAG.
The steamship Kedar, to sail to-day for Liver
pool, wiz take mail. Letters can be posted at
Mr.. Cnnard's Office Till eleven A. NJ.
Tho cotton market yesterday firm and The advance
previously noticed fully sustained The sales embraced
about snn haiag Ioa.. PEI
private tclcgraphc despatch received by house in this
city from responsible hIm New Orleans that the
sales nn1e within Tie three previous days had reached
~ oC0 bales and that the receipts - 900 bales
four days middlng cotton at 1910 The total decrease
in tho receipts q, ell the ports amounted so2 bales
and tho stock hand In that port $50 bales
puring the depression cotton some capitalists
Of this city invested money il and shipped II FOR Liver
pool the theory that in Tho face Of a shor, crop
prices would, in case Of political troubles being settled
20 up and that should dissolution cnsuc the future pros
poets 81 supplies would be 50 much influenced en-
nance the value Of the article in Liverpool Private let
by the Atlantic and Persia up the latest
state that lees panic prevailed among merchants
and manufacturers regarding the supplies of cotton
large portion q the specie brought said u be In
tended for s purchase for bills drawn against H. the
southern markets being tho cheapest were of course to
be fret rescred to. New England manufacturers have
confined their purchases chiefly TO this market,
but, finding the English about TO compete with
them at the south they have despatched agents
TO Memphis and other ports for IT, purchase ono
indiv dual preceded direct to Memphis this week with
large " documents TO obtain a supply Tor Rhode
Island which viii likely be forwarded inland by rail-
read. Flour in fair demand, and prices advanced
shade Tho sales amounted to IL, 400 bbls. Wheat
in good request and holders asking higher prices
which checked sales somewhat An active business
transacted in corn which trac dearcr. Provisions
generally inactive; pork tending downward
Rio coffee in request at steady rates Sugars
pretty brisk and prices advancing. Moasses was
quiet, Spirits turpcnine was higher with sales Of 500
bbs for demand existed for hay as we'll as for tai
low and whiskcy. The changes in other branches Of
trade unmpcrtant.
LOOK Orr FOR CHr,rs.-Thcre will be q
great many demands this winter for assistance
by the poor and unemployed upon the more