Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-18
NEW YORK.
POlice Debate on Professions.
John i. Hoffman Hung I'm Eff
figy.

from a difference of opinion concerning
the recent riot in this city.
The Police and the S8idIery.
The Board of Police has assured the Of
hcers of the Eighty-fourth regiment that
the conduct of that regiment during the
riot was entirely justifable and proper
under the circumstances. Gen. Varian,
commander Of the brigade TO which the
Eighty-fouIth regiment belongs, has sent
q letter to Lieut.. Col. Mitchell, of that
regiment, stating that the only reason for
changing the position of the regiment du-
ring the riot on Wednesday, was because
of the severity of TIE first attack on that
regiment. Gen. VsIisn also states that
the attack required prompt and immediate
repulsion, and, if present, he would have
Civ en- orders to fire without hesitation.
A Coward COurt-martiaIed.
The officers of the 64th regiment, last
night, voted to expel Lieutenant Mack
min, of company G, and take steps TO
courtmartisl him, for cOwardice and con-
duct unbecoming an officer. They also
adopted resolutions omplimenting the
police for gallant conduct during the;
riot.
German Know NOthiDgs.
Two German clubs have bsen organ,
lied in Brooklyn since the riot each
member pledging himself that he would
vote only for citizens of American birth
to have Office.
Scattering SawduSts
New YORK, July 17.-John Roe was
arrested at the instance of Joseph Ford,
of Astoria, Fulton county, Illinois, for
swindling the latter to the amount of
$3.50. Ford paid the money for coun-
terfeit notes and received q box of saw
dust.
The Agricultural Editors.
The Agricultural Editorial Excursion
party will leave this city tomorrow morn
ing for the Mammoth Cave, KY, Kansas,
Colorado and the Rocky Mountains.
TurnVerein.
The cornerstone of the building for
the New York Turnverien Society, on
Third street, was laid to day. The
building has 80 feet front and is 100 feet
deep; containing an assembly room, lee
ture room, school rooms, gymnasium,
etc.
ProcessIens-Debate of Police Com
missiOners.
In the Board of Police to-day, Com
missioner Maniere offered preamble de-
claring that the occupation Of public
thoroughfares by parsdes and professions
has grown TO be an evil Of such magni-
tude as to require police regulation or
prohibition, and that such occupation,
which is not right but only liberation,
has become odious and dangerous; there
fore,
Resolved, That, excepting National
Guard and funeral professions, no pro-
cession Of any kind shall be permitted to
occupy the streets OF New York without
the permission of the Board of Police,
IN which event the Superintendent shall
give escort and proper protection.
Commissioner Barr offered resolution
for the obtaining of legal opinion on the
best method CT dealing with street pro
cessiOns.
Both resolutions were referred to a
committee composed of Messrs. Bos-
worth and Barr.
Onkcy Halls Defense
Mayor Hall, in seconding Bars reso-
luton, denied the lawful right of any pros
cession except military to occupy the
streets. and said that the authorities were
perfectly justified in forbidding pro
Cessions, and that it was done in recent
instance for the first time, which simply
shows that this question was never before
presented for decision, end never before
did shy procession engender circum-
stances threateninga breach of the peace.
On the Mayors motion, three days
leave OF absence, in patches of hundred
at time, was granted to the patrolmen
who faithfully performed their duties on
the 18th inst.
Funeral.
The funerals of two more victims of
Wednesdays riot took place to-day. Al
gustus P. Gilbert, compositor of the
Herald office, was buried at Cypress Hill
Cemetery, and Jas. A. Clark, proprietor
of q paper collar factory, was buried at
Greenwood. Two more wounded died
to-day.
Drunk.
At the Yorkville Police Court this
morning, John Mshoney, a respectable
young man, was arraigned at the bar to
answer the charge of felonOus assault
committed by him on two officers of the
list regiment yesterday, while on their
way home from the obsequies of young
Page. The prisoner said that he was
ashamed of the position in which he
found himself, but he had no one TO
l. - Ir,A no hox
drunk al the time. He was held in bail
of So, 900 to answer.
Scauetzenfests
The New York Schuetzenfest corps,
under command of Capt. GeraTds, aIe
holding their fourteenth annual festival
to-day, and will contend during the next
three days for prizes worth 81, 900. Dele
cations from other cities will participate.
Death of an Old Enickerboeker.
Cornelius V. Roosevelt, one of the best
known old merchants of this city, died at
his summer residence, Oyster Bay, Long
Island, this morning, after al illness of
but two days,
Hung In EfIgy.
A large party of Ioughs in the 18th
ward, Brooklyn, hung an effigy On Ham
iton avenue this morning, bearinga breast
plate labeled John 7, Hoffman, Governor
of New York, died July II, 1871.
Jem Mace,
Jem Mace, the pugilist, has issued a
card waving the decision of the referee
in his favor in his last match WITH Co.
burn, and Offering to fight the latter for
five or ten thousand dollars side within
one hundred miles of New Orleans. In
the event of Columns, declining, he is
willing 10 transfer the chsllenge to
O'Baldwin.