The New York herald., 1863-12-08

| Second and Third avenue and Harlem railroad
| companies, upon agreement with them, and pay
| ing the usual license fees required by the city
| The Mayor sent in communication containing a
| copy of the presentment offered by the Grand Ju'
ry at the close of the November term Of the Court
Of General Sessions in relation to the want OF
system in our city sewerage. whereby the health
of the city is endangered. Referred to the Com
mittee on Public Health. The Mayor also trans.
mttsd communication, signed by the Comp
troller and himself, designating the HERALD,
Times, Sun and Tribune as the four daily papers
Of the largest circulation in the city, and entitled
to the official advertising Of the city and county,
pursuant to section two of the Laws of 1868. Or
dered on file. number of papers previously
acted on were finally disposed Of, and the Board
adjourned until Wednesday next at one O'Clock.
The December term of the Court Of General
Sessions commenced at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning Recorder Holman on the bench. panel
of eighteen Grand Jurors was sworn, and Mr..
Robert 7. Woodward appointed foreman The
Recorders charge was very brief. and embraced
only the usual topics presented by law. On call
ing the calendar yesterday no cases were found
to be ready for trial, and the Court adjourned until
this morning at eleven O'Clock.
In the Surrogates Court yesterday. the will Of
A. r. Lawrence came on for trial. The probate
is contested by Chauncey l.. Norton, who alleges
that his deceased wife was the legitimate daugh-
ter Of Mr.. Lawrence and that his children are the
heirs at law, which is denied by the Lawrence
family. The will is dated in 1889, and bequeaths
very large estate. Judge Beebe appeared for the
proponents and Benjamin j. Bankman for the
cOntaefaUfa Tho SurrOraf ia hoe snff1od IA oc.
counts of the estates of Eliza Purcell, John Carly
Julia Sullivan alias Julia Clark. Dennis O'Brien.
Michael McE. Dewitt and Mary j. Ludlow, de-
ceased.
The Court of Oyer and ferminer was opened
yesterday, but no business was transacted. One of
the murder cases arising out of the July riots will
be called on to-day.
According to the City Inspectors report there
were 400 deaths in the city during the past
week--a decrease of 70 as compared with
the mortality Of the week previous, and 80
more than occurred during the corresponding
week last year. The recapituation table gives 2
deaths of alcoholism, of diseases Of the bones,
joints, &C.; 62 of the brain and nerves, Of the
generative organs. II Of the heart and blood ves-
sells, l75 of the lungs. throat, &C.; of old age.
"a Of diseases OF the skin and eruptive fevers,
premature births, 53 Of diseases of stomach bowels
and other digestive organs; So Of uncertain seat
and general fevers. 8 Of diseases OF urinary
organs, and IL from violent causes. There were
23s natives Of the United States. ll6 Of Ireland
80 of Germany. of England, Of Scotland.
and the balance of various foreign countries.
There fair business reported at the Produce EI
change yesterday; but everywhere else there but
little doing in comparison with days. The greatest
change Of the day In that great speculative
dity, petroleum The Jerome story exploded. and
the market collapsed prices falling &C. &c. per gallon
on refined, and Sc. 4c,, nomnaly, crude. There
was but little change in other commodities, as the
great regulator Of prcesaod--was about the game az
Saturday, Freighs were quiet but arm.