The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-17

the actual overy day social condition OF the inhabitants
Of that island after hundred and years
Of British rule are fully treated of In very interesting
special correspondence which publish in the HERALD
this morning The matter is dated on board the steam
ship City OF Boston, on the 4th instant and in
Dublin on the 3D. One portion OF IL contains i'm
porant facts relative the escape OF the Head Centre
tephsps and the anxious search made for him board
the City Of Boston by officers from British frgate The
second letter reports the melancholy social aspect
which Is TO be in the country at the present
moment and treats Fenianism as the effect OF the
famine rule OF England.
There session Of the Fenian Senate In this city
yesterday Important matters which it is not deemed
desirable to make public said be the taps The
newly arrived Senators up hearing the Union
square side Of the controversy yesterday The old mill
tary department having gone with the Senate Mr.. OMa
hony is reported TO be getting up new one for Union
square The Knights Of st. Patrick have passed resou
tions OF non intervention in the Fenan difficulty.
The Board Of Councimen held short session yester
day resolution was adopted recognizing Mr. John
Houghtaing as member Of the Board during the pros
ent year. he having received certificate that he re-
ceved the largest number Of votes His seat was con-
tested by Mr. oBrien. The report Of the Committee on
Finance Of the Board Of Aldermen reference 10
atlng market stock for the purpose Of erecting market
in the Eighteenth ward called up and occasoned
lively debate The mandamus issued by tho Supreme
Court compelling the Common Council TO take action
upon the presented Further proceedings on
the subject postponed till Monday.
The skating was naugurated yesterday In New
York Brooklyn and New Jersey. The Park not
ready in consequence Of the large extent Of surface Of
the lakes but will doubtless SOC in COM
plcte order The Fifth Avenue Pond was extensively
visited also the ponds In Brooklyn. Everything
promises nne for the lovers of this healthfu
sport
The present season promises to one Of tho gayes
which we have had for many years In the annals OF
Terpsichore from the Of balls military and civic,
which are announced to take place in this city There
already held several very popular Ones notices
OF some OF which will be found elsewhere in our
columns.
In the United States Circuit Court yesterday Judge
Shpman sentenced the Italian counterfeiter Francisco
Burglar fifteen years imprisonment, with hard labor
at Sing Sing, and to pay dne Of Ave thousand dollars
John Thomas alias Kane, found guilty before Judge
Shpman Of passing bogus hundred dollar BILL was
sentenced to six years Imprisonment
Henry Htman, grocer, doing business the corner
of York and Charles Streets Brooklyn, yesterday
committed for trial by United States Commissioner Jones
charge Of having for time past been in the habit
OF passing on his customers counterfes OF the quarter
dollar currency notes
case was up before Judge Mullen, In the Supreme
Court during the three days just past which possesses
interest regards the coal trade and the respons
btes OF parties who transacted business in this limo
during the rebellion The entitled Easton
versus Martin In june 1884 plaintiff furnished four
barges and sent them to Baltimore, tho defendant
tracing to them laden with coal from the Cumber
land At this time Eariys raid took place. rem
derng It impossible alleged for the defendant TO
carry out the contract For the delay and dsappont
experienced by the plaintiff suit was brought for
ak thousand dollars The jury rendered verdict for
the plaintiff giving nine hundred dollars The case will
be taken to the Court OF Appeals t54 =
The jury the case Of John Hackctt tried in the
Court Of Oyer and Tcrmner, the charge OF killing
John Grocn at three O'Clock yesterday brought in vcr
dict OF murder in the rst degree and the prisoner WAS
remanded for sentence.
In the Of Eegar ST. john versus Timothy Daily,
triod Court ec Common Ploas Friday wherein
the plaintiff sued to eleven hundred OIL
lars alleged DO due proissory notes given for the
good win Of livery stable in East Seventy first street,
the jury rendered verdict in favor Of the defendant
The trial of Of alleged outrage young lady,
by ply sican OF Brooklyn, concluded In the Court
OF Sessions, in that city, on Friday The accused was
Dr. Joseph g. Walters and the complainant Miss Lucy
Jones' Of West Springfield Massachusetts, The offence
charged 10 have been committed in Tho fall Of 1884
whilo the lady visit to her brother In Brooklyn,
and willis Dr. Walters attending her professionally
Considerable testimony taken, including that Of the
accuser herself the Jury aor long delibsratien
found the Doctor guilty but recommended him to mercy
William Marley, alias Reddy the Blacksmith"
keeper of saloon OF No. Chatham square, was yes
terday arragned in Tombs Police Court and required
to give one thousand dollars bail TO charge OF
having on tho 9Th Of August last, Of the house OF
Broad street banking firm, falsely sworn that strange
man who accompanied him was certain Charles Z.
In Mia
moros Mexico and payable in London, which was pre-
sontcd to this house to be cashed and which, as the
nrm aogo they did cash, the strength Of varleys
statement that stranger who accompanied him was
really the Aikens named in the bill II subsequently
appeared however alleged, that the bill Of ex
change had been lost by the genuine Charles Akcns
and that by time II reached London from the Broad
street house this city payment on had been stopped BY
him Tho indiv who is supposed to have pcrsonatod
| Mr. Akcns in tho affair, and who, by endorsing his
name the draft, has rendered himself liable to the
| charge OF forgery, has not yet been arrested.
| young gentleman named H. N. Fay, formerly an
assistant OF the Davenport Brothers in their alleged
spirituaiistic egerdeman exhibitions performed num-
Dor Of tricks, nd supplemented them with an eIrlsns
tory lecture before small assembage In Cooper lnsti
tute last night in exposure he stated, Of the hum
buggcry and deception practised tho public by his
| late associates.
| Another meeting Of members OF the Sixteenth New
York cavalry regiment held In this city last night 70
complete arrangements pressing their claims for the
reward offered for the capture OF Booth the assassin Of
President Lincoln. The applications are 70 be trans.
| mitted TO the War Department next week
| The Second regiment Of Maine cavalry, numbering
ave hundred men, arrived here from Pensacola on Fri
day last and left the same day for Portland where they
will bo mustered out and discharged. The Eighth Con.
necticut Volunteers, numbering two hundred and
ssvonty three mon, from City Point Va, also arrived
| here on Friday, and left that evening for Hartford
About twelve thousand gallons Of whiskey. seized on
board vessel lying at the foot OF North Fourth street,
Brooklyn, e. d. August last and conAscated BY gov.
srnmcnt for evasion Of the internal revenue sold
at auction 10 that city yesterday and brought two dollars
ard ,hir ~ throa rarta uer Uallon