New-York tribune., 1867-07-27

LICENSES FOR HACKMEN--lt Will be remem-
bered that when the Legislature attempted To transfer all
the license business from the Mayors office to the Police
Commissioners the Common Council Immediately repealed
all the hcensc ordinances sur was nlOIgnt @ ~
utey to test the constitutionahtY OF me aW ana o
Supreme Court unanimously decided tmt II Was uicon-
sttruonal and did not dyest the M Mayor & Oh ms
Appeals where it has been argued but h9t deoiHea'
Mayor Hoffman the 2sth OF June addressed the oOW-
iis '''''' " MAYORS orHcE, Y June 2a 1851
GyrF he case before Court Of Appeals Involving the
eyT Win not nSderstap be decided until september
the recent decision Of the supreme court ogs 10 @
to the licenses and proceed with granting eese &C. a: he supreme &
oTt, police aati as tSs Court Of Appeals otherwise dg
No reply had been received up.to yesterday TO TINS
letter
An ALLEGED FoRGER CoDuTTED.-Several
weeks since ono John Brown arrested for attempting
10 pass a forged check at the Fourth National Bank the
character of the check having been discovered Dy ne
Paving Teller Mr. Connoycr since his arrest it has been
ascertained that he has passed forged cnecks a. var m
places VIM Tratel OF no. si 90 rtb of da
April Brown purchased from nm Sl2oO WORTH VI @ uL
monds and iewery, and In payment gave bll i CeIt
fed check Tor that amount on Iic @ @ VS. EIorcrc and
Bank puTpOrng 10 be drawn Oy Wm - fioIclcc alu III
made inyabe 10 s. Phillips order. Mr. Florence the
weIknOWn actor, whose signature IL purpoted tOpe,
testified that II was forgery joseph H. Mino, % 9-
man in the employ OF Thomas kirkpatrick OF 10. 5Vo
Broadway. stated that on ApIi ~ Brown vst & o -
him iewery to the amount ol 800 ana IN p'{
certified check on the Tradesmens NATIONAL BANK ioI tt
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452 Pearl-st Mr. George Smith, one OF the hi tesntd
that the signature forgery On these statements
Justice DOwling yesterday committed Brown TOT ulal
III general dealer native OF this city, aged - years
and lived in hrsst. He claims to be III
nOcCnt
CHARGE OF ABANDONMENT. - George w.
Chandler travelling actor OF notorety in his pro
fesson was yesterday brought before Justice Dodge at
the Jefferson Market Police Court charge OF aban
donueut preferred by his wife, Maria T. Chandler Ihey
npnearod I'm late an hour that the examination
was not then proceeded with neither party being sworn
but the complainant In answer 10 some questions OF the
JUdgp said that she married 70 the defendant az
Philadelphia ab0ut 10 years ago. and has two children 6y
him that two three after ts marriage the ue
PENDANT cft her and elopcd with his own brothers wife,
mud went 10 England where they remained about hVe
wears Che brother pursued the couple Tor me out at
last gave up the pursuit obtained divorce from ms WI
and has since married again. After while the dtield,
INIT returned 10 this country, and when his we aSAed
him what had become of the woman whom nc TOOK away
with him. he rcped that she was In south America Ms.
Chandler had her husband for more dh year
rrovDuS 10 his arrest hut few days ago she WAS IN
formed that ne had recently obtained divorce fun her
An thc state Of Indiana, and married a2alh she
therefore had hu arrested charge ot ablhdohtht
The dcfcrdants counsel offered proof OF the Indiana
divorce lut the counsel for the Ompuuaut objected on
the cruuud that 10 such divorce had ht'h ou-
tlucd t was Illegal aud null The defendant was heId
10 bail iu the sum Of S5OO for q further examination