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on to bis prisoner, however, until officer Archer,
arrived who secured the ssssiant Justice Qaack'
enbush held the prisoner for examination.

IRE Ninth WARD MURDEn.-Yesterlay Coroner
"idey held an inquest on the b,dy Of the late Off
Ger Williams Of the Ninth Precinct Police.
The testimony in the case elected nothing additional
TO the facts already published In THE TRIBUNE.
The jury rendered verdict of Will,ul murder
against the prisonerM Cormick."
The BooKTRADE SALE.-Despite the war and
all the troubles which our enemies saw Attic, us tls
annual trade sale of the booksellers, opens with ex.
cellent prospects The large room a, George A.
Leavft g. Co.'s was unusually well filled Yesterday
more than one hundred buyers from all the loyal
States and Canada being present. Among them
were tlree from Toronto and two from Hamilton
The bidding was brink with more than ordinary
competition for favorte lots. The first eight pages
Of the catalogue, comprising Mason g. Bros.s Lives
Of Abbott, Loring Porter, and Fred Law Olmsed's
works, various music books, Jewett's Dictionary
and tho series of French School-B0oks, were not
touched the lots offered being reserved for the pur-
casers Of the stereotype plates at the great sale on
Friday Of next week, 9th inst. Masons odd lots OF
school b0oks-grammare, readers, philosophies,
arihmetics, &c.to the amount OF several thousand
volumes were, however, sold at satisfactory rates.
G. & G. Merriam Springfield, Mass, whose special
ty 10 Websters Dictionary sold three times as many
as were offered in their catalogue. w. IL. Hill jr.,
of Boston, sold his whole line Of Bibles, children 6
story books and sermons, and many gross of Hills
Reward.of-Alert tickets for school children. James
Miller dsposcd Of large edition Of Mrs. Browning's
Poems, some purchasers taking lots of one aud two
hundred each. The catalogues of ii. III. Henderson
a. Co., James Challen a. Son, and Crissy d Mark
ley Of Philadelphia, James Mnnroe a. Co. Of Boss
ton, and William Gowsns Of New-York were also
included ia the sale.
To-day, the catalogues Of Crosby & Nichols, f..
II. Bitter g. Co., Gould e. Lincoln, Sheldon q Co.,
w. A. Townsend, Scribner, G. w. Chiids, and T..
Is. Peteron offer unusual attractions to buyers, as
they embrace the choicest and most popular pubca-
tons of the leading houses. The sale il TO CON-
cludc with the ambro,ype and photograph copies Of
celebrated PICTURES offered by Charles Taber g. Co.
Of New.Bedford, together with large assortment Of
Photographic card portraits Of our generals and
leading Statesmen. The application Of photography
TO art has developed an immense busisess, which
PAYS large profits We are informed that Tsbcr e.
Co. alone have probably sold 200 600 Of these photo
graphs within the pat twelvemouth, Of which two
thirds have been portraits of generals and lead
ing military officers. Appleton g. Co. and Anthony
Of tbis city cell than this II is esii-
mated that the public are now buving these military
portraits a, the rate Of 100 900 copies a mouth.
year and half ago. the whole traffic in Photograph
albums was confined 70 the few hundreds which
were imported from England and France. The sale
now enormous, and the variety Of styles almost
iufnitc.