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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
TIE JlN1ToR OF TIE NEW COURT HOUSE.

The City Chamberlain has ordered the fam
fly OF Edwin NJ Haggerty, the alleged voucher
thief, formerly janitor OF the new Court
House, to vacate the premises Immediately.
IT, hitherto they slight the order, the only course
to be pursued s for the Board OF Supervisors to
direct the Corporation Counsel to take the neces-
sary legal measures TO remove them.
Yesterday the County Treasurer appointed Mr.
Richard flanagan to the office OF Court House Jan
tor. Mr. Flanagan mas entered upon his duties
ana Will await the development OF events as to his
pay the provisions for which seem at present to be
somewna lat complicated.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
THE CaOTON WATER.

Commissioner Of Public Works Van Mort states
that the collection ana enforcement OF the ordl.
nances relative to the water rents, by ciOse exam.
inatlon Of the hotels factories, breweres, slaughter
houses, stone yards. stables and tenemenG houses,
are being rigidly carried out, and the payment OF
dues, which were gradually passing into state Of
non-enf0rcemenL Will now be fully carried out.
The receipts from this source have been increased
to the extent OF $6l,500 during the present year
over the corresponding months OF 1871, and at this
the increase Tor tue present year would he
ward Of 500. 900 per annum.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
SUPREME C0jaT-CIaCUir-?AaT |.
Commissions as Life Insurance Agent.
Before Judge Barrett.

COnmIsSIOns as Lie Insnfance Agent
Before Judge Barrett.
North American Life Insurance Company vs..
James r. Dlxon.-The defendant was the Buffalo
agent OF the plaintiffs, and this suit was prough.
70 recover 81, 800 for premiums collected by him
which he had not RENTED. Defendant claims that
he neld them under an agreement allowing him
twelve and half per cent commission on certain
pOncies collected oy him PROVIDED the contract
should be cancelled In October, 1862 they mutu-
ally agreed cancel the contract, ana the defend
AMI claimed that the amount OF his commission OUT
balanced his Indebtedness TO the company. plaintiffs
Get up that the compensation In question mad been
fully settled by allowing 1t to The defendant In the
settlement made with him IN OCTOBER, 1867. 1t was
claimed by defendant that this contract was made
after the settlement and that ne was entitled to re-
Ceive the same amount again. The Court directed
q verdict for the plaintiffs Tor the whole amount
claimed, with interest.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
BOND ROBBERY.

A few days since William Brown, colored man,
In the employ OF Mr.. John ]. Howell, OF No. 2 Ex-
change place, stole from his employer two bonds OF
the New Orleans, Mobile ana Texas Railroad Com.
pany. The bonds were for $1,000 each, but as they
were not fully executed were OF course, worthless.
Brown took them to Mr.. II. h. Samuel ana Of
Tered them for sale, and that gentleman, knowing
all was not right, caused the "cullud" mans arrest
lice Court and committed TO answer In the Court OF
Spec al Sessions.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22

THE BOARD OF AUDIT.

POstpOnement Of the Meeting Until Saturday.
meeting OF the Board OF Audit was held yester-
day. AT three O'Clock. the hour appointed for the
meeting, ComptI oller Green said that he had re-
ceived a despatch from the President OF the De-
partment OF Parks stating that he could not be
present at the hour appointed FOR the meeting of the
Board On the motion OF Commissioner Van Mort
the Board adjourned until Saturday next, at three
O'Clock. The act OF the Legislature under which
the Board Il constituted requires the presence OF all
the members OF the Board to render tine proceed
lngs legal. :.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
DEPARTMENT OF DOCKs.

The Commissioners OF the Department OF Docks
held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the fol-
loving business was transacted:-
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Executive Committee reported in favor OF no
tltying j. 5. BrOwn, street cleaning contractor, to
the gunwaes OF his garbage scOws, to prevent
garbage falling into the slip. Adopted To require
the removal OF the distractions at me end VI pier %
East RIVER. LAID over. Tie Auditing Committee
reported The bal ince on band January 81 $l03 369;
receipts and interest on deposits TO February S72 65
total $l76,O27; disbursements and amounts paid to
Commissioners Of Sinking Fund.- SIG, 002-Dalance
on hand SCOOPS. THIS, afr. Wood SAID, had been
increased by amount received from the ComptrOl-
Ter $780, 00O that the on hand Is about $105 OO
less sevel al payments. He also stated that the Board
promised 500 900 more before the END or March,
and they could not go on with their WORK before mat
was received.
REMOVAL OF DISTRACTIONS.
Mr.. KANE offered a resolution that as the Su-
preme Court has removed the injunctions strain.
ing the Board from removing certain instructions
on the water front on the North River, MessrS
Coffee, Williams and others be notified to remove
these Instructions on or before April l next or
they Will be removed by the Board their expense,
them be required to do SO on or before that
date.
AFTER this discussion, some OF the members
thinking the action was premature, the resolution
was adopted, Messrs. Agnew anu Hunt voting nay.
Several communications were received and re-
ferred aud the Board went into executive session.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
UNITED STATES DISTRICT cOuBr-In ADMIRALTY.
A Collision Case.


Yesterday Judge Batchford tried the case OF John
Kearney vs.. the propeller Vineland, belonging TO
the New York and Baltimore transportation Com
pany, and the steamer weehawken, the property
OF the Delaware and Rartan Canal Company. Mr.
Hin appeared for the lbellant Kearney, Mr.. Robert
N. Waite for the Vlneland. and Messrs. SANFORD
and woodruff Tor the Weehawken. 1t is an action
to recover damages Tor collision on the Raritan
River by which, 1t Is alleged barge IN tow OF the
Weehawken was injured by barge IN tow OF the
Vineland. The case has concluded. The Judge
TOOK the papers and reserved his decision.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS COUiT.
Charge Against n Cigar Dealer.

Before Commissioner Shields.
The United States We. Arnold Lightner.-The de.
PENDANT, who resides or carries on business in
Blocker street, was charged with selling, Offer
ing for sale, cigars that mad not been properly
stamped. He admitted the charge, stating that he
was poor and wanted to raise some money, his wife
being IN delicate state vi health He would not
trouble the Commissioner by gong into an exami-
nation. The Commissioner SAID ne was sorry TO
hear the defendants statement respecting his con-
aiton; but the law LETT hn no option except to send
me case before the Grand JurysA---.. ts,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.

before Judge benedict
The trial OF Charles Marxsen, who is indicted for
having smugged large quantity OF gold watches,
gold chains and rings, was resumed yesterday. The
leading principal parts OF the case have been
already reported In the HERALD. Evidence was
given yesterday by lido Marxsen, brother OF the de-
containing the watches found IN Udo's possession,
Custom House of1cers had informed MIN that II he
would give them TWO OF the watches they would let
him nave the box. The witness said he
did not own the box, but would claim 1t as his II
they consented to his claiming 1t; he said to
the custom House Oflicer Meyer, that lie would
give him ST. 900 II ne would let the box through; he
this country from Hamburg TO seek employment;
his brother Charles told him that he nad purchased
Inc watches IN switzerland; that he intended 10
proceed with them, by way OF Havana. to Mexico,
that this statement was well founded counsel Tor
defendant Mr.. s. G. Courtney, with whom was Mr..
b. +. RUSSELL handed 10 the witness q package.
which was found In the trunk, and was al
jdentihed the package as the his brother Charles
told him he had received, for the purpose OF deliver
ing II IN Havana to the gentleman to whom 1t was
addressed. Counsel argued IRON this TACT that
there established proof OF bona fde intention
on the part Of the defendant not TO import the
watches INFO New York, but into Mexico or some
other place In South America. Meyer the customs
Ofcer, was recalled by MIR. Purdy, counsel for gov
eminent and IN reply to questions, SAID that he had
not proposed to Udo Marxsen to get any money or
through. On the contrary, lido SAID he would give
$1,000 II ne lthe ofilcer could manage TO get the
goods Tor MIN.
The testimony having all closed. the further hear.
Ing was adjourned to this morning, when the case
VIII De summed up for the defendant and for the
government.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
PAYMENTS BY THE COMPTROLLER.

Comptroller Green Yesterday paid the Department
of Public Parks for salaries and wages OF attaches
and aborers OF Central Park, 100000; also the saa-
ries OF officers and clerks OF the Mayors Office for
January and February 1872 $4,000.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
SUPREME C0UaT-cRAfB:RS.
A Landlord and Tenant Case.
Before Judge CardOZO.

Before Judge CArd0Z0.
g. O. Hatch vs.. William II. H. Smith ct al.-The
plalntn leased a warehouse No. 4 Stone street, to
Smith, the defendant to carry on the storage bust.
ness. Smith failed to pay the rent; the plaintin
sued and obtained Judgment. Defendant now asks,
by Mr.. ThorndlKe Saunders, his attorney, to set up
the fact that he Is bankrupt, and unless something
IL done by way OF stopping the plaintin he might
collect his DEBT, which defendant thinks an I'M
reasonable proceeding
Mr.. Roswell D. Hatch. for the plaintiff opposed
defendants plea on the ground that the motion
should be to set aside the Judgment, not to Tile
supplemental answer.
The curt agreed with the opposing counsel and
denied the motion.
Decision.
by Judge lngraham.
Landon va. Tribune ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cases;
orders for commission settled. -.s.r ..---
S...Srrtcn cnno- enrn,. rrou
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
COURT Of COMMON pLsAs-speclaL TeaA

Decisions.
BY Judge Robinson.
Ontario Rank vs.. New Jersey Steamboat Com
pany.-Judgment for defendants; findings OF law
and fact fled
Wing VS.. Lee.-Motion denied, with $40 costs.
Cohen We. RubensIein.-Order OF arrest vacated,
without costs.
By Judge I4arrem0re.
Steele vs.. Bell-See decree.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22

which they required for their business. the basis
TO safes was unconu adlcted The rule of
damages. should they Id deceit 70 have been prac-
tsed, was the difference between the contract price
OF the Ice that was not delivered under the contract
and the price OF It, ana at the time he made de-
mand, In May, which was she wn to be So per ton;
should they ind this IN favor OF the defendant
they would ueduct IRON this amount the plaintiffs
claim and find for the defendant for the balance
The jury brought In verdict tor $l2,l0i % for The
defendant.
Messrs. Oakey Il Barnum for the plaintiffs and R.
q. Huntley for defendant.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
SUPERIOR CONFESSIONAL TERN.


BY Judge Sedgwlck.
Kicker VS.. Granam.-Order granted.
Buel ct al. VS.. Tobacco Manufacturcrs Assocla-
zion Company.--Order OF reference granted.
BOgart va. O'Brlen.-Order granted.
Hubbard ct al. VS.. Great western Insurance Com
pany.-Same.
Dawson vs. Parker ct al.-Same.
Holt We. Wll-Same.
Riddle Vi. Logan.-Order OF reference granted.
Lush vs.. Beckerman ct at.-Order granted
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
TIE JERSEY CITY FRAUDS.

Fourth Day Of the Trial-The Police Assessment
$4,000 for the Ring-Erasing the Pay
Eolls-Who Forged Captain Parker's
Name to a Check ?-The Case
for the s ate Closed-Mr.
PIitchard's Statement
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
r HE COUR T S.

Alleged Smuggling Of Gold watches-A Collision
Case in Aimiralty-A Case in Life Insurance
Agency-A Landlord and Tenant suit
Verdict Against the Knickez booker
Ice Company-The Bop1rd Will
Case - Business in the
General sessions.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22
BOARD OF STREET OPENINGS.

The resolution was adopted.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-21
Other COnflagrati0ns Threatened.

A correspondent of the New York
Herald. under date of November %,
writes that the city of Boston wa burned
by Member, of the French Commune.
The agent used was a chemical compound
| of wonderful vitality, an'. known only to
the incendiaries. After saying that some
one of the other large cities will be soon
fired by similar agencies, the CORES
pendent adds:
Sufficient time has elapsed to render it
prudent to say 2 word to the public about
the recent experiment of the Boston fire.
The comments of the press have been
read to the eXperimenters with the great
est care. and both physically and morally
We pronounce the fire a successful OK
pertinent, so far as it is understood by the
people at large; ''physically.' because it
did its work in the most difficult spot
which we could find; morally" because
its causes have absolutely escaped detec-
ton, and, we think, suspicion. We there
fore have a vast power in our hands,
with which we intend to so humble arrO-
CANT capital that it shall seek co-opera-
ton with labor. or unite in industrial CO.
partnership. The former has prayed upon
the latter long enough, and we know that
nothing less than Its absolute destruction,
or the thorough shaking of its security,
will ever emancipate labor. All is in our
hands now. The law is not adroit enough
to veX us. and half the nation turned into
a detective police force cOuld not even
trouble us, much less detect us. Indeed,
three of the five points fired in Boston
We're ignited in the presence of several
unwilling persons. In short, the expert
ment was a perfect triumph. Now, all
we wish to say to capitalists, manufacture
ers, &C., is, if they wish to save their
property land themselves-for they must
not get in our way personality let them
hasten to devise means of cooperation
with their employees. The labor of the
toiling classes of the country shall not be
mortgaged to the hcartless capi alists of
the future. Laborcrs as well as capital
lists are at fault, and those labOrers who by
their cowarIice, hopeless sness or shittless-
ness would contribute to further enslav-
il the next generation of wages slaves,
must not grumble if they find themselves
crushed along with the capitalists
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-21

In an article on this subject, II. NJ. Brew
err remarks: OF the seven kinds OF the
swallow family inhabiting North America,
all but one are known to have undergone
a more or less complete and radical change
of life, seeking the protection and COM
paniOnship of man, and making great and
important changes in their nesting, both
as to location and architectural structure.
These evidences of reasoning power in
birds are by no means confined to the
swallow family. We see its manifesto
tons in the change of life and habits of
even the prOverbially not Over-intelligent
gull, which at Grand Manan, taught by
generations Of prosecutions, and robbed
of its eggs with ruthless greed by man,
no onger rests on the treacherOus shore
but with its clumsy webbed feet builds it,
self a net in high and inaccessible forest
trees. We see it too in that intense cau-
ton. miscalled cunning. with which that
poor prosecuted bcnefactOr of the farmer,
the crow, is compelled TO guard his hunt
ed life. This caution has been taught
him by the severe lessons of experience
and by his own powers of reason. 1t is
foreign to the crows nature. In Nova
Scotia, where the absurd prejudice against
the crow has no existence, we may still
find this same species as familiar as our
common robin in Massachusetts,. And in
the West. in Iowa. for instance, where the
farmers appreciate their value and well
come them as friends, there also we find
the natural, untaught, confiding crow.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-21
Condition Of Italy.

The policy pursued by the new italian
ministry has led to the revival of enter
prise and industry i'm North and Central
Italy, but unhapp ly has thus far failed in
establishing order in the southern dis
tricts. In the old kingdom OF the two
Sicilies brigandage has taken the form of
comb nat on of the peasantry again {
the nobility and land-ow ers. The peas
ants are r, quircd to give fixed proper
ton of the crops, one-half or One-third to
tire landowners, an they cOalesce with
the bril- ands in order to prevent the pro-
prietOrs from aScertaining whether they
obtain their Iightful share of the harvest.
Ii landowner ventures out OF his house
unaccompanied by strong guard, he is
lab to be shot, or to b carr ed Oft to the
mountains. where an enormous ransom IS
demanded under penalty of mutilatiOn,
which, when paid, does not secure him
from being again seized the next day.
The only apparent remedy fer these
disorders IS to put the country under mar
tial law, but this the ministry will not do,
frOn fear of alternating the people from
the new order of things. In the Ravenna
district crime is also rampant. but from
a different cause. According to the cor
r spondents of the London journals, two
or three secret societies, headed by a few
men of fam ly and position, contrlVe 10
set all order at defiance. People are at
tackled AID murdered in broad daylight in
the streets, an judges and juries are too
timorous to condemn the murderers, for
death by the dagger awaits those who
dare give sentence against them. Ii the
Italian ministry would not cover itse
with contempt, it must speedily devise
means to do away with these land-pira es.
Italy has Suffered long enough from out
In 5 and brigand, and the first duty OF
the Italian Government is TO -render such
atrocities impossible.-Appteto'''s Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-21
Live and Dead Weight of Animals.

The amount of meat obtained from a
domestic animal sold by its live weight is
very variable, and experiments have re-
Gently been made in Liverpool to ascer-
tain the proper allowances to be made.
From the statistics to be derived from the
public slaughter houses, or abattoirs, of
Paris, or Brussels, it appears that the race
and the condition OF the animal, besides
many other circumstances affect tine re-
suit. and that certain animals yield as
much as 20 per cent. of meat, while others
only give 50 per cent. The mean weight
of meat produced, however, is calculated
at IS per cent. of the live weight in beef
cattle. In the case of sheep, the proper
ton is from 40 to 80 per cent. From ex-
periments made, it appears that the diff
ferent products obtained from oxen and
sheep are as follows: An OK OF the live
weight of 1922 pounds yields, meat.
77l.4 pounds, skin, 1902; grease. 50 :;
blood, SOL; feet nd hoofs, %; head, II
tongue, $50; lungs and heart, 1913
liver and spleen. 20.05: intestines. 66.l5
loss and evaporation, I54. 322-making the
to III of .323 pounds. The products from
a sheep weighing I10.2 pounds are rs fol
lows: Meat, SOL pounus skin. ..I4i
grease. sol blood, i.i0S feet and boots,
> POI; head, 1.40S; tongue, lungs, heart,
liver and spleen. 4.lOS; intestines, 6.6l2;
loss and evaporation, SHRINKING the
total of 1902 pounds.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-21

sit is walter Devereux.' cried the Con
fcderate officer, but not your brother
nor the brother of any man who wears
: the Federal blue. DiSmount and strip it
off; or | shall hack it from you with my
swOrdr'
80 Walter. dear Walter. do not talk
| thus. | cannot do as you say will not,
| Send your blade through my breast
cannot kill your
Cannot, cur, You could not if you
| tried. Walter DevereuX was not born to
be killed by a renegade to his country
least of all by Yankee Abolitionist"'
Sim that same" shouted a man on
horseback, who had suddenly spurred out
from among the trees; and Simultaneous
| ly with his shout came the report of a
pistol.
For a moment the combatants with
their horses We're shrOuded i'm smoke.
When it drifted away. the officer in gray
uniform was seen lying lifeless in the
road his horse going in a scared gallop
through the trees, along with a score of
others that carried riders upon their
backs.
The fall of their leader had completed
the panic of the COnfederates and those
still in the saddle wheeling to the right
about, went off i'm retreat. Besides a
dozen or so killed. like number
remained prisoners TO the accommodating
party.
Harry Devereux looked as if he, too.
had received his death shot. Dropping
down from his saddle he staggered to-
ward the spot where his brothers body
lay, and bent over it with a heart full of
agony. He had no need examining it, to
tell him it was corpse. A streak OF
moonlight slanting through a break be-
tween the branches. fell upon glazed eyes
and teeth set in the stern expression of
death!
The union soldiers, at the command OF
their beloved captain, gave the last rites
they followed him back to camp. with
hearts full OF sympathy for his suffering,
they looked more like men returning from
a defeat than victory.
In the summer of 1866 the fashionable
watering place of Newport, though no
longer the resort of SO many rich South
erners, was crowded as of yOre. The war
had come to an end, and the weeping
caused by it could not forever endure.
There was sorrow around many a desc
late hearth, and in many a home for dear
ones that We're missing, tears still contin-
ued to flow. But the bereaved did not
show themselves on the shores of Nara
ganset Bay, amidst the joy there abound
ing.
There were no signs of sadness in that
spot where Adeline Winthrop first APP
peared with Walter DevereuX. In the
same piazza where she had received the
two brOthers-one now dead-she might
have been seen with the one who survived
seated by her side. He was no longer
simple lieutenant of artillery, but the
commander of division of the United
States army.
And she was no longer Adeline Win
throp, but the wife of General Dever-
eux.' Capt. Mayne Reid in London Soci-
ETY., for NOr.