, 1873-06-20

Customs Ernuds..Chcnr TrnnHpOrtt4
tion--Co1orcd NIcn Want Places on
the Police Force--NIail Nfnttcr Burn.

tion-.C01orod Nron Want Places on
the Police Eorce--Mail Mnttcr Burns
cd.-Hltscel1ancot1s.
sptcfa. Dtspafch to This chieaac Tribune.
NEW YonK, Juno 19-Jamea Stephens left on
yesterdays steamer to tako charge OF the Irish
Republican Brotherhood In ireland
ETo fhs Associated Freas.l
New YORK, juno 10.-Tho customs authorities
are making au investigation into m attempt to
defraud tho revenue by what iB characterized as
a "heayy and lithorto respectable mercantile
house." It Heema that tho house which ia In
vo1ved imported from Huddershold, England,
twelve largo casoB of 1no Moxican ehawls and
shipped thom to Mexico. scyon OF these were
at 1880 O shawl. Examination showed tho in
voice value Of tho ahawls at Huddorsfold to DO
1o8 shillings sterling. or about d thousand por
cont moro. The goods arc now in tho aefzure
room Of the Custom House.
An adjourned meoting Of the business mon
who are interested In solution of tho railrond
transportation problem waa hold yesterday, and
Q. permanent organization was effected BY tho
election Of William Du45yoa, chairman and g. D.
aignod to DO N active and influential auxiliary
to the American Choap transportation Associh-
tion, organized by the Produce Convention, held
In the Astor House in May. In thoir addroas,
Issued, the promoters Of tho organization favor
clusively for freight, to be owned but not
operated by tho Government, by means Of
which goods can be laid down in Chicago,
Cincinnati, or st. Louis, from New York, In about
dross alaosa that 1t ia not intended that this
movement shall be political one any further
than the present monopono8 compel 1t to be.
Tho Postmaster at Batavia, n. Y, has In
formed the Postmaster Of tl1ia city that the mail
matter which left this city at $50 O'Clock on
Hudson River Railroad, was noarly all burned
before 1t reached that place. The matter WAS
nearly nll intended for delivery in the Western
States, and included, boBidea tho Now York mail,
Of letters, tho large Eastdrn mail received At Al
bAny. An investigation has been ordered.
Exhibition bill.
bert, 8 eurb-stone broker, At Reservoir Square,
charged with attempting to negotiate. bonds
stolen from Ketcham'a banking house, Toledo,
Ohio. Ono Of tho stolen bonds for q, 900, No.
81. wae found on his person. On the 9TH Of
April last, bonds Of $21 900 altogether wero
atolen. Lambert has bean arrested before.
Thoro was graat excitomont at the police
headquarters owing to report that the Com
nissioners were about to appoint twenty-
five colored men on tho police force as patrol
the rumor arose from q resolution yesterday TO
appoint twenty-five colorad men street eweep-
orB, but il tho motion ia made to appoint colored
patrolmen, he will support it,. az the question Of
equality is settled and colorod mon should have
their rights.
Tho Attorney General has decided TINT the res
ignation Of Surveyor Cornell took effect On tho
3tBt Of January last, and not on the day Of tho
appointment Of his succeasor. This deciaion is
believed to deprive Cornell Of his share OF the
moiotleH from the famous phelps-Dodge caso,
amounting to 600.
Tho Coronors jury to-tlay found Edward Kirt-
land guilty OF killing Patrick Duffy, by atabbing,
on Sunday night, aud lirtland was sentenced TO
the rombH.
Con, Horatio G. Stevens WAS buried to-day.
Ho commanded the fort at Castle Garden in 1879.
The Order of tho Cincinnati attended tho fiji
neral. Ho YVES the first militia Gonoral In this
State,
In the Supreme Court, to-day, n. Ii. Newman
recovered $s9, ,09o gold, Of George Goddard,
tho latter being charged with driving tho former
from his store In Arkansas In 1861.
Tho hoas to-day waa excessive, tho mercury
being 90 In tho shade. Ihere were number
Of sunatrokes.
-. Among the speakers at tho National Division
Sous Of Temperance. to-day, was Mrs. De0eer,
Of 1llin0iH.