The New York herald., 1869-05-22


Board OF Tax Commissioners, consisting OF J. j..
| Creamer, W. Ii. KING. g. H. Andrews ana NaInaniei
| sands.
| The Pearsall and O'Connor contempt case came
| up before Judge Cardozo yesterday and was par
| TALLY proceeded with. Judge Cardozo offered TO
| admit the prisoners to bail, but they declined 10
\ accept bail aud the case was thereupon adjourned
| TO Tuesday.
In the gross receipts OF the places Of amusement
during the month Of April, Booths makes the high
est return $4,000; Nlblos next, s3s. s.oOO and Wal
| lacks next, s35,0O0
| Mr.. Theodore Allen was again in court yesterday
before Justice Ledwitn on charge of rescung .
| prisoner from o detective named TOwnley The
charge was preferred in March last but this was the
first time that the prisoner could be produced.
Aliens friends thronged the room and one, an alder
man. seated himself within whispering distance OF
the Justice. Under the circumstances the Court post
poned the case for week, and Allen gave bail and
withdrew.
In the case OF Connors, the Broadway policeman
charged with assault and battery the jury yesterday
returned verdict Of guilty. ConnOrs not having
appeared his counsel stated that he did not know
where he was, and Judge Bedford ordered his bail
10 be forfeited aud bench warrant to be issued for
his arrest.
W. Ii. Livingston, clerk at Stewart's and man
OF family. whom Judge Bedford and the District
Attorney commended as having been OF the highest
respectability and most unbemished honesty here
toiore, pleaded gully to embezzIing $4,000 from his
employers and was sentenced to two years in the
Penitentiary.
The stock market yesterday opened with great
animation, New York Central advancing to 1927.
Under sales to realize the whole market fell or from
one to three per cent but recovered portion Of the
decline and closed steady. Gold fell to 140h, but
acted to 141k at the close.
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
Ex-Governor W. Dennison, ex-Congressman 8.
Sheabarger and B. E. Smith. OF Ohio; ex-Coneress-
man ]. s. Marshall Of Illinois; Judge w. I. Straub;
OF Cincinnati; Henry Keyes, Of Vermont; G. A.
Miller, OF Alabama; J. P. Folsom. w. II. Anderson
and G. H. Latham, Of Lowell Mass, are at the st.
Nicholas Hotel.
Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army,
and Colonel Daniel Gardiner, of Philadelphia, at
the ST. Charles HOTEL
A. s. Merriman, OF Washington; G. J. Atwood. Of
New Jersey; W. Boyce, Of Canada A. Tingue and
George o. Jones' Of Albany; J. Henderson, Of Baln-
more; J. F. Gulick, Of Indiana; c. G. Huntley, Of
Montana, and G. s. Warner Of Portland, Me-, are
at the Metropolitan Hotel
Professor Thorpe of st. Louis; Captain Samuel G.
Nevins, Of Baltimore, and E. R. Donaldson, Of Que
bee, are at the ST. Julien Hotel.
Ex-President Franklin Pierce, Of New Hampshire;
John G. Sake, Of Albany; General George w. Buck
OF Chemung; D. Lyman, OF Middletown; J. P. voor
hees, and J. Tucker, OF Philadelphia, and Benjamin
Douglas, Of Connecticut, are at the Astor House.
Prominent Departures.
Senator Zach Chandler. Of Michigan; Senator
7. W. Osborn OF Florida, and his brother Rev. DR..
A. c. Osborn, Of st. Louis, sail to-day in the City Of
Brooklyn for Europe.
DR.. J. r. Groesbeck, Major Davis, United States
Army; Colonel M. O'Bren, Professor A. Hail. and J.
Rogers, United States Navy sailed yesterday In the
steamship Henry Chauncey for Aspinwal.
II. J. winser, United States Consul at Sonneberg,
saxony, sailed yesterday in the steamship Bavaria
for Hamburg.