The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-07

| case OF the Texas murdercrs. who are now oetng
| tried by military commission.
| MosbY. the guerilla, has challenged Colonel Boyd
Sheriff OF Fauquier county, Va. and formerly
United StaIes army onicer, on account OF an attack
| the latter recently made on him.
Berry Freeman whose printing oif'ce In Lafayette.
Mo-. was destroyed By a party OF state militia Ia
December 1861 has commenced suit against ex-t'ov.
| ernor Fletcher and Bacon Montgomery. commander
OF the militia. claiming damages TO tho amount Of
| $4,000.
| on Monday morning, while the wortmen
! were engaged in excavating a tunnel Ia
Nicoet Island opposite Minneapolis. in the Mis-
sssippl river, they pierced sunkcn cavern
in the island below the level OF the iver The water
at rushed into the with great violence,
In spite OF all efforts to check It, ana the river 1t
| feared VIII make for itself new channel. A por-
tlou or Iiennepin island has cayed Ia from the pas
SAGE OF tho waters beneath.
TIE City.
AT the women's Suffrage meeting las evening
a resolution, proposed by Mrs. Norton, that the
women vote at their own polls at the coming State
election and submit their ballots to the regularly
constituted Board OF Canvassers, very generally
opposed bg the prominent Fighters present and
defeated.
A coroner's investigation was held yesterday Ia
the case OF Patrick Rooney, who shot and Killed
IN an ARRAY on Tuesday. by a colored man named
Robert Fry. A verdict was rendered that the shoot
ing was justlfable anu done in SELF defence. Fry.
however, was held TO await the action OF tue Grand
Jury.
The posf-mortem examination on the bodies OF
Acong and his wife and Charles ArchOe at No. CT
Cherry street, was made yesterday but the Coro-
ners inquest was adjourned because no interpreter
cOul w ia a in
man
In the Superior Court yesterday Catherine Gherkin
recovered $500 in a suit against John Piatt, on
charge or seduction under promise OF marriage.
The stock market yesterday was irregular, open
ing buoyant but closing weak after large de
cline Gold rose to l3i. closing at l3oa.
Prominent Arrivals In the City.
Governor Il. II. Haight. OF California; General
James McQuade, or Utica; Judge j. r. Reddeld, OF
Boston. ana General NJ. 7. Trumphofne OF Kingston,
are at the St Nicholas Hotel.
Judge Cochrane, OF New York; L. n. Cobb OF
Detroit; Il. IL. Bell, OF Toledo; L. Butts. or Prov.
deace; T. Hand, OF Albany and R. II. Paterson. OF
tie United states Army, arc at the Metropolitan
Hotel
Professor A. I. Barber, OF Richmond VA; Captain
G. Sinclair, Of the United states Army. and Colonel
W. NJ. SIdens OF Sacramento, are nj tho st. Charles
Hotel,
General Adam Badeau, Of London; General o. r.
Cook, OF Northampton, and O. Baliour Kinnear OF
China, are at the Brevoort House.
Captain II. W. Leroy, OF the United States Navy,
and W. Amery, OF the British Legation are at the
New York Hotel
Captain Charles Hugens OF san Francisco, ana
Lieutenant @. d. jennings oil the United state Army
are at the st. Denis Hotel
Governor Burnside OF Rhode Island; Judge Foster.
OF Boston; ]. ID. Goodwin, Of England and Zen
T. stevens, OF Boston, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Colonel ]. 7. Steadman or Cincinnali; Charles W.
Howard, OF San Francisco; Captain ). T. Tnford OF
the United States Army and MAJOR Alexander shaw.
or Baltimore. are at the Hoffman House.
Count Faverney, Charge d'Aaaires for France;
MARQUIS De canissey, OF France, and Comptroller H.
Il. Hubbard OF Washington. are at the Aibemarle
HOTEL
Prominent Departures.
General 7. G. Clngman, FOR Washington; Or.
Ganett for New Brunswick, n. s.; L. l.. Davenport
for Boston ana Cornelius i3anta and " re for Omaha