The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-05

1 OF the members mace t"o'' 'ifS
the chamber but not the Number nee 'ssarJ TO co''as
| a quorum. and an adjournment without ths "'''''
4 of any business therefore took place .,..
i Tim mestins 81 tia Board of Fire co""'
Yesterday Commissioner AbJs ,ns'aiir' anu 'nc
BOARD proc ,cded to despatch large a'aoun' oil business
Various orders regarding new companies wore m''''
6naacia, matters disposed of and ofgan'Nt''" "''''
insuguraied on an extensive scale Tne c'' 'o' p""
Is discarded and hereafter meetings are 70 10 'pe""
press aud public
| Yard this morning.
oove,nment nv Wcseryelt Son, sailed yesterday for
| yokoham, Japan under orders TO touch at Cap, dc
! va,,a Cana of Good Hop, Java, and al Hong Kong,
China She ia under charge Of Captain Franklin Hset
well known in the merchant. service, by whom she will
M deivercd to the japanese authorities through the
American Minister resident in Japan
Professor Love- accompanied by two enterprising gen
,,.men Yesterday assembled in his mammoth balloon
from the vicinity OF the Park, bent ON an excursion
among the clouds The BALBOA was cut loose al forty
aovcn minutes past four o'clock p NJ and up to the
hour Of going to press had not been heard from.
Tho Coroncrs jury the body OF Catharine Clccves.
burned 10 death during the late fire In John street, have
found verdict in which they declare that the re was
the result OF spontaneous combuop Of the signal lights
IN the store Of Thomas Jones, and Mr. Jones
and the MeSSrS. EQ8e AOtu1ok kCafuuB
in his store contrary to the city ordinances and the lat
ter for supplying Mr. Jones with fireworks liable to
| explode at any moment.
The September Of the Court OF General Sessions
opened yesterday Judge Russell presiding. District At
torney Hall and his assistant Mr. Bedford will conduct
the prosecution. quorum Of Grand Jurors not being
present. those who answered to their names were dis
charged till this morning. whom additional number OF
gentlemen will be summoned, and Judge Russell will de-
cho rborla he 0f n fOnp
and liquor Canal street. convicted Of stealing
sixty dollars from Patrick Lee returned soldier, carly
in July Annie Wilson, who, the District Attorney adj
mittcd was wife Of the prisoner jointly charged
with the commission of the offence, acquitted. Will
son. was remanded for sentence. Francis A. Wheeler,
| who was charged with receiving seventy dollars from
| Elizabeth Mcintyre, who as charged stole 1t from
John Boudoin in alleged disrepuabe place, was &C
Quilted IL having been discovered that the woman was
| State Prison convict.
| Tho following were among the commitments made by
the police magistrates yesterday AN old man. who
fused give his name, who 1t is alleged was caught 10
the Of stealing prayer books from Trinity church, and
who il is charged has stolen hundred dollars
worth of this kind Of property; John Monahan, alias
| Muigan, charged with burglary at 223 Water street;
John Grant, lad Of nfteen charged with burgariousy
entering No % Roosevelt street and stealing therefrom
considerable amount Of property; Thomas Shannon,
James Fleming and Francis Coyle supposed TO be men,
bers Of the gang who recently effected the death Of po
liceman Walker tho 18th ult In Seventeenth street.
on charge being sneak thieves and attempting to rob
Bartholomew Foley of 1o4 West Twenty eighth street,
and resisting the officers who arrested them;
Patrick Riley on the charge of stealing ninety dollars
from James Walsh John Marshall and Charles Smith,
charged with burglary In breaking into the premises Of
Joseph Cunny 139 West Broadway and stealing twenty
ave silver Watches valued $780, Peter Weller charged
with being in the murder OF John Steen, at
Reading Pa week SINCE Fredorca srob. servant at
No 1853 Washington street, Hoboken, charged BY her
employer with having stolen two hundred and ninety
dollars and various other articles and David Deacon,
charged with being pickpockot
little girl Of twelve years. named Bridget Mack, who
confined in the Magdssne section Of the Tombs
charge OF larceny made her escape Sunday afternoon
forcing open the CRATE damper Of her room crawling
thence through the chimney 70 the roof jumping down
thirty feet into the prison yard and scaling the
picket fence and getting out into Franklin street She
received injuries iu her struggles for Freedom and
late the day she found secreted under bed In
house jackson street. rearrested and recomm,,,ed
Delegates were evening appointed by the various
democratic organizations in tho city to represent the
New York city democracy ia the Slate Convention 10 be
, | held tomorrow at Albany. .ak..r.AA aAs-->
Joseph Holt resident OF New Brighton, Staten
Island shot Sunday evening last by two soldiers
Although the wounded mai alive Q late hour last
evening his wound is considered mortal, and no hopes
were entertained Of his recovery
The propeller Mollican, of New York. exploded her
boiler Trenton, N. j., yesterday, killing lady
named Van Dyue, seriously njuriog the engineer and
the captain
some Of the members OF the commission sent to treat
with the Indian tribea beyond the Mississippi have
arrived at II. Louis. The commission is to meet at
Council Bluff the 10th inst, and heuce proceed to
Rice where the council TO be hold October Is
Gre at the Pennsylvania oil regions Saturday last
destroyed property the Of eleven thousand dol
lars seriously threatened the destruction OF tho
of Petroleum Centre.
The bark Clara Bell belonging 10 the Russiap American
Overland Telegraph Company arrived at Stka Russian
America, June H. with the propeller Lizzie Horner, In
good order
The Illinois State fair opened yesterday at Chicago
der the favorable auspices and with every Indica
ton OF great success Not only Illinois but the several
Northwestern States represented Generals Grant
end Grierson and Governor Qsesby expected, and
General John A. Logan had already arrived at the
| grounds.
We publish elsewhere The appeal Of The ladies Of Mis-.
ssspp soliciting Executive cemsncy for JEFF Davis II
Is unfortunately worded The grounds upon which the
plea made that before the Davis held import.
ant positions in the State and federal governments
''cheefully accorded him by OF his undoubted
ability and unquestioned devotion 10 his native South
and that he the unanimous choice OF the Southern
people as their representative
Qnite domestic tragedy occurred in Pigvilc, OF
the puriicus Of the city Of Hartford Sunday
night last One Daniel Sullivan having caught
named william Dwyer In bed with his tSuvan's, wife,
arsL stabbed him Ia the abdomen and then Knocked him
down stairs. causing his death almost Immediately.
Sullivan was arrested
According 70 the City Inspectors report. there
s3i deaths In the city during tho past wcckbsng de.
Of II compared with the mortality Of tho week
previous and SO less than occurred during tho CORE.
spending week last year The recapulaon table gives the
wing result Acute Diseases ose chronic Diseases
204 external causes &C., a. There s11 natives OF