The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-18


The funeral Of the late John Van Buren, viii take place
from Grace Church at ten O'Clock this morning
At meeting or the Board Of Fire Commissioners held
yesterday Of contracts for coal were made. and
annual parade Of the department Fixed to take place
November 81.
The loss by the nres in Washington and West streets
on Tuesday night amounts to $272,ooo
Cornelius Vanderbilt has bought St Johns park for
i tho Hudson River Railroad Company for 100000
cash freight depot is to BE- erected on the site.
Judge Daniels has delivered elaborate opinion in
the case OF the European Petroleum Company The
IS an important one involves questions Of the ndi
vidua liability Of stockholders for debts contracted by
q corporation
Michael Brophy was required 70 give bail in $780, to
answer charge OF arcpy in stealing lot Of clothing
/ from William D. Ingerso.
| The examination Of the ten Broadway gamblers,
charged BY George Stephenson with robbng him, has
| been postponed until next Wednesday
Ferdinand Henze, q lad, was yesterday detected In
opening tho letters Of his employer, and was committed
for trial.
Manuel Cortez committed to the Tombs yester-
day under charge of having obtained lot OF goods
from Max Cohen under false pretences.
George W. Reid committed 70 prison yesterday
charged with stealing gold chain.
Patrick Kelley and George Gray held for exami-
nation charged with stealing dozen brooms and coat
James Burns and John Collins pleaded guilty yesterday
to having stolen hawser from the Mary J.
Vaughan. They sold 1t to James Ryan, junkman who
held the charge Of receiving stolen goods
| John Brady was accidentally shot and killed by
Alexander Cassidy, near Coney Island, yesterday.
The stock market strong yesterday morning but
afterwards unsettled. Gold closed at 1As
Business fair yesterday in most commodities, and
with price gold settled better feeling gen.
orally prevailed Cotton dull and lower Coffee
steady. On Change -four active, and Sc. loo.
higher. Wheat advanced 1c &c. while was &c.
&c. higher and active Oats fully 1c higher Pork
was irmer while beef steady. Lard was dull and
heavy. Freights quiet and nominal Whiskey
steady.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Colored Convention at Albany yesterday adopted
esolutons claiming that the elective franchise should
BIO restored TO- not bestowed, them aud denouncng
$3.50 clause unjust The resolutions also look for
ward the consolidation OF the colored citizens Of the
State distinct party branch of the republican
ganization.
boiler in turning shop in st. Louis, exploded yes
erday destroying the shop and two othor buildings and
buryng large number of persons in the ruins. Four
teen dead bodies have been taken from the ruins.
Twelve wounded taken out. and sup
posed still buried under the debris The wounded
and dead were badly burned
The second engineer the ilfated Evening STAR who
arrived city by the steamship Quaker City, from
Charleston, crippled by the privation he underwent
| The who escaped with him remain in
Charleston in a deplorabe condition. They Eve
days in open boat without food or water, and
without shred of clothing to protect them from the
storm. II said be fact that the Evening Star
unseaworthy condition when she lett this port
Several more bodies have been taken from the ruins
of the burned buildings in Quebec. Others are missing
| and II Is feared are killed.
The rumorod resignation Of Secretary Stanton is q
cdnard
The receipts from internal since July
have largely Of the estimates for this
| and the receipts Of last year.
From Ave to eight persons dying per day in New
Orleans from yellow fever, which is on the increase
The claim of tho United States against the bark Sally
Magee, condemned prize, has been denied by Judge
| Belts.
The bark Priscilla Of Yarmouth, Mane picked up
! at sea, the 18th instant, disabled.
An express train on the Erie railroad yesterday
precpitated down embankment of forty feet near
Unon Pa ten of the passengers and others seriously
| injured.
Isaac Horne was killed and Andrew Blodgett fatally
| injured by accident to train on the Boston and
| Portland railroad, at Haverhll, Mass.
A heavy made the Commercial Bank Of
Toronto on the 10th, but all demands satisfied.
The names OF D. Pretto and wife, Of New Orleans,
omitted from yesterdays list OF cabin passengers
| loet the steamer Evening Star.
The testimony in the Dudley will lately in pro-
gross Albany developes interesting features Of
high life Diex the colored agent of the deceased Mrs.
Dudley, for twelve years her waiter and servant
but since his promotion to be her commercial agent has
had entire control Of her disbursements speculaons,
charities and funds generally. II alleged that he PEN
stoned his black relatives upon Mrs. Dudley and vo-
ently away Of her and dear relatives,
| not allowing them to enter her house.
James Stephens made speech at st. Louis yesterday,
which he declared that the battle for Irish ndepend
ence would commence Irish soil before New Year.
Further particulars Of tho raid of nlibusers Mata
moros have boon received General Brown refuses TO
| deliver up the surrendered gunboat Chinaco
The New Jersey abattoir at Communipaw was formally
opened yesterday in presence Of select assemblage,
| chiefly from New York.
| The Grand Jury at Toronto have found true bills
against Colonel Lynch and Messrs. Mcmahon and Lums
den, OF the Fcnians.
II is reported Governor General Monck, OF Canada,
/ is TO be recalled.
| WAR AND MILITARY RALRoADs.-We publish
elsewhere an interesting resume Of the report
which Brigadier General McCallum, director
1 and ~oraral rranagor IF ITnitad giatae mill.