Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-10
Our New York Dispatches.
Hartford and Erie MISUNDERSTANDING
Broker sent 10 PrisOn-RHid Oh Houses
OF EII-famc, etc.

New YORK, April 9.-In the Boston, Hartford
and Erie case in the United States circuit court,
| yesterday, Mr.. Choate stated that since an as
| sgnee had been chosen by the creditors in Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut :and New York, arrange
| ments had been made by which compromise
| might be effected and litigation stopped and
| moved that the motion be so modified. The mo-
| ton was granted
George w. Chadwick, tie broker, who was
| convicted of having an altered $4,000 bond in
his possession, was sentenced yesterday in the
| United States circuit court by Judge Woodruff,
to ten years imprisonment in the Albany peni-
| tertiary, and to pay fine of $1,000
AT three o'clock yesterday a numerous body
| of police made simultaneous descent into
| three of the most notorious dives in Green
witch street, which they pulled in the most
unceremOniouS fashion, making prisoners of the
female inmates and their male companions. No
less than siXty-lour prisoners, male and female,
| were diSinterred from one basement, and alto
| gether $50 girls and young men, most of the
| latter llborers and visitors from the country,
were marched through the streets to the 18th pre-.
| cinct. The names and residences of the prison
ers being taken down they were all marched Off
to the tombs to be dealt with by the police mag
iStrate, The station room was crammed to the
door with the motley gathering of criminals
There was the hardened city backguard and the
rustic visitor, the tawdrily dressed madam and
the blushing girl without bonnet or shawl, and
the bold amazon who had taken her choice TO a
life of infamy. Some six or eight were exceed
mgly beautiful young girls, dressed in purple,
with the dresses fashionably "decOllete" The
rest were middle-aged, withered looking women
with babies in arms, or young yellow-faced
girls evidently natives of southern Europe The
arrests and professions of the poor creatures at
traCted immense crowds. The women were ar
raigned in the tombs police court and sentenced
to six months Imprisonment each. The pro-
pretOrs OF the denS were held for trial at the
general sessions i'm the sum of S1000
The German peace celebration committee to.
day resolved to send a copy of resolutions to be
adopted at the Massachusetts meeting tomorrow
to Bismarck and the president of the rcichstag
The resolutions congratulate the German peo-
pie upon the conclusion of peace; the disarm-
ing of the enemy who prevented German unity;
the union of the Dorth and south German
states and the possession of the reichstag
elected by universal suffrage; express confidence
that Germany will provide for invalids and
widows and orphans; and promise assistance
from the German people in this country; trust
that the people of Germany will repulse, with
the same strength used against foreign enemy,
any attempt, by rulers, to abrdgc their rights;
express the hope that Alsnce and Lorraine will
be won back to the fatherland and that an alli-
ance may be formed with the United States,
wherein many Germans have found new
home.
Houses in German sections of the city are
deliberately decorated with flags Of the United
States and Germany, and the streets this eve
ming are thronged.
The jury in the Buckhout, Sleepy Hollow,
murder case was discharged yesterday, failing
to agree, after forty hours deberation. Eleven
jurors favored conviction, and the result of the
trial has caused great indignation among the
people of Westminster county.
TIE Deums were sung to-day in the German
Catholic churches, and special services were held
in Lutheran churches. There is general il
Elimination of German houses tonight. Fifty
thousand persons are expected to be in the pro-
cessiOn tomorrow.
The notorious Jim Cusic&, who is training
Jem Mace for prize fight, was yesterday sent
to the penitentary for a fortnight and fined $50
for assaulting a horse-car conductor The
united efforts of a dozen heavy ward politicians
most unexpectedly did not avail to save this
New York statesman from the disgrace of i'm
prisonment.