Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-20
Our New York Dispatches,
Celebration of the Chinese New Year
Hartford and EriC-Thc Prosecution of
National Banks-The Case Of Father
Farrell, etc.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 10 The Chinese employed
at Belleville last evening celebrated the 48l9th
anniversary of their new year with dinner and
music.
The argument on the motion to continue the
injunction restraining Alden and the Adams eX-
press company from continuing proceedings in
bankruptcy against the Boston, Hartford and
Ere railroad company, has been adjourned by
Judge Woodruff until next Saturday.
The report that proceedings have been begun
against the New York national exchange bank
to recover Sli,00O penalties for omission TO
make returns Of the amount of its dividends, Is
untrue. The banks against which the charges
are made are the Central national and the Shoe
and Leather.
The removal or retention of Father Farrell, of
ST. Joseph'S church, who incurred the displeas-
ure OF the archbishop on account of his liberal
views as expressed in his letter on Italian unity,
is still unsettled. A meeting of the parish has
been held, and petition for his retention sigh
ed The parish priests, with the exception of
those who took part in the council which voted
Tor Father Farrell's removal, have also asked for
his retention through a petition. An answer
from Bishop McCloSkey is now looked for.
The fifth annual dinner of the graduates of
Harvard college and Its professional schools,
will take place at Delmonco's, on the evening Of
Mashington's birthday anniversary. Presi tent
Eliot and members of the faculty, Mr.. Bryant,
Hon. WIN. NJ. Evarts and other distinguished
guests will be present.
VIM. j. Lamphert who is held for trial in de-
fault of $4,000 bail, on charges of being con-
ccrned in robbing Jos. W. Drake of bonds and
money in December, has the following extra
ordinary history He has been in the brokerage
business about a year; was formerly president
OF the Hercules life insurance company; a few
months before that he was general agent for
the Equitable life insurance company. Before
that he was idle for a time. He has been in Eu-
a me in San IFrn, noisp and in
Boston. He was arrested in September last
about $4,000 bond has been arrested three or
four times; once for arson. He is forty-siX
years OF age, and native of Boston.
The United States frigate California, Captain
Clitz, which lately arrived ut this port from the
Charlestown navy yard, will probably sail on
Thursday for San Francisco, where she will be-
come Admiral Winslow's flag ship. The voy-
age, except through the straits of Magellan,
Will be made under sailionly, and the vessel will
probably be absent three years.
Two hundred and fifty wor5men were dis
charged at the Brooklyn navy yard yester-
day.
The French relief fund now amounts to $685.
000
The Swedish bark Aetta cleared Yesterday
for Hayre, with 5,211 barrels of -four
Negotiations were finally completed Saturday
by which the BROOKLYN bridge company obtains,
for SSOO,O00, the Roosevelt ferry slip, as Il site
for the New York tower of the East river bridge.
AuC Itildi CAlltS lcib IoL w dSilllHUOu lttSL
evening, and on their return, will accept a
public reception at Jersey City.
James Boyd of Frelighsburg, Canada, was
committed yesterday, in default of $4,000 bail,
for wholesale traffic in counterfeit money. Boyd
is a sheriff, mail carrier, and a revenue officer
of the Canadian service.
NJ, House, the fraudulent divorce lawyer of
this city, was committed at New Haven yester-
day, in default of $4,000 bail, on two charges OF
subOrning witnesses.
The case in which Capt. Peabody, and Mayo
and Shields, the first and second mates of the
Neptune, were charged with cruelty treating
some of the crew, came up for examination be-
fore Commissioner Shields. Edward Rose one
of the coored sailors, testified that no crueties
were practiced during the first twenty days of
the voyage. He then had trouble with the cap
tain and second mate. He told the second mate
he could not haul the topsail halyards because
his hands were sore. The second mate struck
and cursed him. The second mate struck him
several times on the face and hands, knocked
him down and kicked him. Shortly afterward
he took him in his room and punished him. He
told the captain about it, and showed his hand,
which the captain pOulticed and then struck
him twice, knocking him down.
After this his hand became very bad, and the
little finger dropped off, and the captain poul-
ticed it again, and then called him a French
man" derisively, and struck and kicked him.
Shortly after this the second mate came down to
his bunk and told him to turn out and 90 to the
wheel. He told the second mate he could not
work, and the second mate struck him in the
face with his fist several TINES. The second
mate was in the habit of striking him whenever
he methim on the deck. One thine when he so
met him he called him a Frenchman, and said
he had a revolver in his room with which he
thought he would shoot him, as he did not like
Frenchmen. One day the second mate sent him
on the poop deck, striking him twice, and say
ing that his hands were not frozen enough, and
he would send him up to get his head frozen.
The second mate came to the kitchen one day
and struck him on his worst frozen hand, in-
Turing it so as to cause him such agony that he
could not sleep at night, and causing 1t to bleed
freely. He had seen VIM. Oliver, another
sailor, struck by the second mate. The second
mate was more cruel than the other officers.
Examination will be resumed on Monday.
1t is decided that the change in the collector
ship will not be made until next week, or per-
haps the week after The resignation of Col
lector Murphy was written and placed in tue
hands of President Grant over six weeks ago,
with a request that he should accept it when
ever he thought the interests of the country and
the republican party would be subsnrved by so
doing, There is not much doubt of its being
accepted and successor being appointed short
ly. There will be no reorganization, as stated
by unauthorized parties to-day, of the under
officials on the part of Secretary Boutwell,, as
the secretary knows probably not over dozen
of Collector MurphYs appointees. There will
be many changes, however, under the new col
lect0r, ana sever Il Will be made consequent
upon revelations unearthed by the congressional
committee now here. Judge Fra1cis, editor of
the Troy FINES, is understood to have declined |
the protfered collcctorship. So has eX Governor |
Morgan, and it is stated that President Orion of |
the Western Union telegraph also declines the |
office. The new man is endorsed by Greeley, |
Peter Cooper, Stewart and all our leading inn
porters and merchants.
Judge Woodruff has decided the following
points in cases arising before him: That steam
boat companies must pay taxes on all gross re-
ceipts from passengers they carry, including re-
ceipts for berths, staterooms, ETC., as well as
simply for passage; that the only wholesale
liquor dealers who are exempt from tax, as
wholesale dealers, are brewers, selling at the
place of manufacture in original packages; that
express companies and other corporations
whose receipts are taxable must be taxed at
figures expressing their receipts reduced to cur
rency-that is, if the receipts are in coin the tax
will not be simply on the number of dollars in
gold value, but on the number of dollars in cur
rency value.
An effort was made yesterday to induce lead |
ing republicans here to subscribe largely to stock
in projected new weekly republican paper, to
be under the supervision of Col. Duganne,
although professedly in the interest of General
Grant as the next republican nominee for the
presidency. Not enough stock has been sub
scribed to assure its success.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth Of opera glasses
were burglarized from Kaun & Co.'s store on
Maiden lane last night
The Erie and Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroads have amicably settled their
difficulties.