Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-15
NEW YORK, April 10.

NEW YORK, April Is.
Tie unusual spectacle of a funeral
procession on Broadway was seen on
Saturday last, on the occasion of the
burial of Sir Edward Cunard. The
funeral serces were performed in Grace
Church and the remains were placed in
a family vault at Trinity Church.
Last year, thief, named George
King, stole 100000 worth of bonds
from Messrs. Cambreling 4 Pyne.
Strange to say, he was caught, tried and
convicted, and sentenced to term at
Sing Sing. He was despatched for
Sing Sing in charge CT a Deputy Sher-
if, named Moran, who actually travel
led several squares from the City Hall,
towards Sing Sing, in Is hours. OF
course, on SO fatiguing journey, it was
absolutely necessary to take rest and re-
freshment several times, and between
rest and refreshment the prisoner, of
course, escaped. People are asking how
much Moran got. He is now on his
trial. Will he be con victed?
With chs racteristic uncertainty, this
April morning of ours has frowned, and
smiled, and wept alternately, half
dozen times between six this a. m. and
the hour of this writing-10 o'clock.
Up town there is much excitement
over new goods. new styles, new bon
nets and at this identical writing,
elaborate preparations are making for
thirty-nine hundred and seventy-seven
toilets which, before the clock strikes
three, will illustrate and astonish Broad
way.
Down town there is also excitement.
There is always more or SIS of it, par
ticularly in Wall Street. But this
morning the excitement is special and
particular. You will remember, of
course the nature of the war that for
months past has been raging between
assessor Webster and the brokers.
| Webster had satisfied himself and
great MANY other people that bankers
and brokers, by evasions of the revenue
law, had-shall we say defrauded?-
well, we'll say deprived the Govern
ment of millions of money, legally and
legitimately due for taxes. Webster
had further succeeded, so it was under
new Revenue Commissioned the le
gality and propriety of the steps he
had taken against the brokers, and tax
payers were rejoicing in the prospective
payment from Wall Street of several
millions of dollars. When, 10 and be-
hold, like clap of thunder in a clear
sky, comes this morning the news that
Commissioner Delano had despatched
instructions eXempting our wealthy
brokers from the payment of taxes
which, if collected, would amount to
about ten millions of dollars per annitm.
Our feelings here are too big for utter
ance.
With the increasing mildness of the
weather, Genital Park becomes daily a
greater object of attraction. One can't
but be agreeably struck, even if he hap
pens to be frequent visitor, with the
rapid growth of its manifold beauties.
With the exception of the youth of the
trees-and this defect will, of course, be
remeded by time alone-Central Park
is acknowledged by men of extensive
European travel, to have scarcely an
equal in the Old World and one can
always forgive. any amount Of supertlu-
Gus enthusiasm with which the Man
haitian Islander may, at times, dwell
upon its glowing wealth of natural and
artificial effects.
One of the most interesting features is
tle Geological Collection, to which
many valuable contributions have been
made of late, and which is open to the
public, free of charge. The old State
Arsenal, on the east side, with its four
roomy floors, affords an excellent men
agerie for elephants, leopards, lions,
monkeys. and a vast variety of beasts,
birds and fishes, as well as numerous
stuffed specimens, and the grounds in
the immediate vicinity are surrounded
by cages containing such birds and ami
mails as do not require extraordinary
shelter from the rude winter of our eli
mate.
True, the Central Park menagarie
may appear insignificant contrasted
with the great collections of Paris and
London; but every enterprise must
have beginning, and much valuable
information respecting natural history
must have already been impaired to our
people of the humber class by the nur-
sery of living curosities in New York,