The New York herald., 1867-01-28


William r. Henke. 40l Pearl street; John Hey, II
James street. George Kesser AIS Pearl street. were
wn Hs,11s violating tho ns
required the defendants to give bail in the Of $500
each to answer before the Court Of Sessions
JnFKEx0N MARKET POLICE COURT.
The following liquor dealers were arragned before
Justice Dodge for violating the Excise law:-Henry
license; Edward Dcgnan and Bridget Degnan, OF 3o5
Seventh avenue, for selling liquor without license and
sc' on SS
John Elmo. OF e. East Fourteenth street Frederick
Neis Of Ss Macdougal street. and Charles Duhocp Of
for selling liquor on Sunday The accused parties were
held 10 bail to answer.
The following parties arraigned at the Essex Mar
ket Police Court FOR violation OF the Excise law receiving
ss ssnssns ao No. Sixth street JoSn
Sieuben, No q Fifth street; John Wntz No. 81 Chrystie
AT rnE FOURTH DISTRICT roI1cE COURT
samuel G. Sweetzer. corner sixth avenue and Fifty.
ninth street Firth Avenue Skating Rink; John Burns
No S47 East Thirty-third street.
The Excise Law in Brooklyn.
The vigilance OF the police OF the Western District,
Brooklyn yesterday, failed TO elicit the usual quota Of
transgssson Of the Sunday clause Of the Excise law
and II would from the fact that each successive
Sunday witnesses steady dimnution In the number Of
arrests that the liquor dealers and beer saloon keepers
being fully impressed with the determination Of the
authorities enforce the law have agreed TO general
submission. The only arrests MADE In any Of the pre-
cncs during the day was that Of liquor store keeper
on Fulton avenue named Henry Kercher, who was ar
rested for keeping open after twelve o'clock Saturday
night and locked at the Forty ninth pecrct station
Three were made in the Eastern District yes
terday for violations Of the Law, but for intoxca
ton The following the Of those arrested for
the former 0hence-Luke Rugen, grocer corner South
Third and Eleventh streets arrested by the police OF the
Forty nth precinct Jacob Reith, lager beer saloon,
corner Leonard and Scholee Streets and Carl Frchcr
OF No "a schoes street. arrested by the police Of
the Forty sixth precinct
The Sunday Law Sustained-Mass Meeting Of
Germans ut the Cooper Institute.
Pursuant call previously published in the German
city papers large assembly Of respectable clas Of
German citizens who in favor Of strict enforce
ment Of the Excise and Sunday law attendance
at the Cooper Institute last night for the purpose Of
expressing their views regarding this much sgtated
question The platform was occupied BY number Of
well known citizens and clergymen, Germans and
Americans among others che following: Carl
Bclefed j. Bank, +. Stems, r. ETdmann, r. Neumann
A. G. wedskind, John Miller, Bernhard Pick, G D. +.
Acton. white Hadisy, J. w. Morrison, Winston, James
Brown Moler, Tracy, A r. whitmore, Rev. DR.. Prem
% The meeting % Was opened Sy the singing Of Luhers
well known hymn Fine Jeae Burg - wnsey Cot, where
upon prayer was offered y.S Dy sns Rev. H0oer Nsumann
Professor SCnAYr was In. first to address the assem-
bly, who in the Of his remarks said that IL was
bss are opposed 10 the Sunday law They are opposed
70 that law the thief 10 opposed TO the law making
stealing crime, the slave dealer opposed to law
prohibiting savrey, murderer opposed 70 the law
making the crime Of murder shall be punished with
death The results Of the operations Of the Sunday Law
fully prove It's bepencent influence They there to
protest against those who in meeting in July
last in the name Of one hundred and nifty thousand
Germans resident in this city, agitated against
the Law. Had they. the assembled consented
TO these proceedingsY They, the assembled, were
daughters, to uphold the law He denied that beer
drinking was . German custom; u was an abuse
IL was custom like the custom of eating opium Il
was misrepresentation OF the German character
sert that beer drinking habit general among the
German nation. The speaker severely ccnsurcd the
German newspaper writer's who assume 10 teach the
Americans regarding the best mode Of preserving Aeri
can free institutions These would tumble down within
. certain period the laws were not respected and the
Christian Sabbath preserved OF tho educa-
The neyt speaker was the Rev. A. C. wrpEaKyp, who
observed that the American citizen is looking with sus
picion those who neglect TO keep holy the Christian
Sabbath, and under NO circumstance was II
proper that the foreigner settling this coun-
o the iand This demons,ra.ion had for ia object 70
preserve the honor Of the German name II had been
asserted that the Excise law tyrannica measure,
that robbing OF tho aborng classes the op
portuny 10 enjoy for the benefit Of Their health fresh ali
at least week. To this he would reply that this
class Of people relieved from breathing Sundays
Sabbath. Or It inhuman tyrannica TO dry the
tears Of many prevent crime and rowdy
ism on sunday' During the last Sundays while the
Law has been enforced, hundred thousand dollars
were saved for the families Of the aborcr and the
mechanic which otherwise would have been expended In
dissipation ell ID
were introduced and read by Mr. GrsAvs scHwAs and
adopted BY unanimous vote the audience rising
whereas the Enc.s law passed s n. .s Lssl.ssr 7. s