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/ NEW Okk, august VI nc 1Eibuhc
yesterday morning asserts that Judge
Barnard, now undergoing impeachment
trial at Saratoga, has placed his resigna-
ton in the hands of friends who will
present it to the Secretary Of State in
time to sorestall the consequences of
conviction. Judge Barnard's friends,
however, assert that the story has no
foundation in fact, and that it is manu-
featured out of whole cloth.
About two weeks ago information was
conveyed to Captain Saunders that two
cases Of goods were lying in the store
house Of Mr.. Hagar, 2s2 Ninth avenue,
under suspicious circumstances. The
Captain placed watch on the goods,
and yesterday afternoon being convinced
that all was not right, he seized the cases
and found them to contain silks to the
value of sac, 600, all of which is supposed
to have been stolen. The party repre-
scented as the owner of the goods is named
John Doyle, alias Durant Doyle. He
has not yet been arrested. The case has
not yet been fully worked up, and the
police are veryreticent about the matter.
The Court Of Special Sessions during
the summer months meets but twice
week; in consequence there are now six
hundred prisoners waiting trial. They
are scattered around among the diff
ferent prisons throughout the city. OF
those in the Tombs, % are charged
with homoeide; 65, grand larceny; and
the balance, to the number of 200, with
various crimes.
Judge Pratt, this forenoon, rendered
decision refusing to grant mandamust to
compel Comptroller Green to pay bills
of the Star and Sunday Democrat for
advertising. He places the ground of
denial in the latter case on want of
proof of employment; in the former,
on the ground that the claim being I'M
liquidated and disputed, mandamus
cannot issue.
A meeting of the Jews from the late
French provinces Of Alsace and Lor-
raine was held last night at Mechanics
Assembly Rooms, corner of Twenty-sixth
street and Seventh avenue, to take
measures for the founding of congre-
cation consisting exclusively Of the ma
tiyes of these provinces. A committee
to carry out this project was appointed.
In the suit between St. Patrick's Mu-
tual Alliance Benevolent Association
and the St. Patrick's Mutual Alliance
Association, the incorporators which
each claim to represent and entitled to
the funds of the old st. Patricks Pro-
teetion Mutual Benefit Society, Justice
Pratt has decided that the funds ought
not to bear the expense Of a receiver,
but as they are in bank, apparently safe,
injoins the defendant from removing
them until the title has been decided.
The delegation of the upper Brule
Sioux Indians, who have been on visit
to Washington, arrived at the Grand
Central Hotel last night. They are in
charge of General E. Smith.
The band of the Garde Republicaine
of Paris announce their intention Of Civ
ing farewell concert on Friday even
ing under the auspices of the Twenty
second, Seveuty-frst and Ninth regi-
ments, and the Garde Lafayette. com.
posed of French citizens of New York,
will take advantage of the occasion to
present gold medals to the members of
the band before their departure.
A Tribune special from Washington
says Mr.. Summers reply to Mr.. Blaine
was written at the earnest solicitation Of
prominent gentlemen in both parties in
Maine.
A Tribune special from Boston says
the Liberal Republican State Central
Committee will to-day issue an address
to the voters in the State reviewing the
course of events during the past twelve
years, showing the relations of the pres.
ent condition of affairs to those of the
past, touching also on the San Domingo
controversy, the removal of Mr. Sumner
from the Foreign Affairs committee, the
New York Custom-house investigation,
the civil service reform generally, and
the one-term principle