The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-10
THE C0UR rs.
Marital TribulatiOnS of a
Prima Donna
Interesting to Smokers of Inn
ported Cigars.
Proceedings in The oyer and Tsrminer
and General SESSIONS.

Yesterday. in the United States Circuit Court
before Judge Nathaniel Shipman and . jury, the
case OF Mary 4. Wright. executrix OF Isaac NJ.
wright vs. the EXECUTORS OF simeon Draper was
brought TO u conclusion. As already stated in the
HsRALD the action was instituted to recover the
value OF quantity oil cotton which had been sold
by the defendant as agent FIR the government in
the sa,e o. seized and abandoned confederate
property. The clam resisted by the govern
ment on the ground that at the time tn property
in question WIS seized and sold state war, JUS
tlUlng such seizure ana sale, existed In the coun-
try. The JURY, however, re,ecUng this idea, found
verdict the palr tn assessing the value OF the
property at ST. 600 and damages lor the detention
OF the same at s574 being SIX per cent interest on
the value aforesaid, from the 18th OF April
1856.
In the case OF william II. Young VS.. the Execu'
tors OF simeon Draper. involving question ex-
acty similar 10 that IN issue IN the Above reported
matter, tie jury, without eayins their box, found
a verdict Tor the paintin-ss,o0o as the vaiue oil
the property aud S,ll6 damages or the detention
of TIE same The DEFENDANTS were allowed 90 days
10 make case with liberty TO turn the same INTO
q BIN oil EXCEPTIONS ana 1t was ordered that GER
tlfcafe OF PROBABLE cause OF seizure be entered.
Yes erday Commissioner Osborn rendered his
decision IN the case OF the United states vs.. Dr.
Jacob A. sherman, who mad been charged with
sending obscene pub icatoGs through the mails.
The Commissioner discharged DR.. sherman as the
book complained OF turned out TO be work or
pamphlet ON hernia, which was only iorwarded to
those VINO made application for 1t.
Yesterday Judge Benedict sat in the United
States Circuit Court No. % Chambers street, for
the purpose OF proceeding with the trial OF Benoni
Howard who Is indicted counterfeiting match
stamps Mr.. b,ankman. OF counsel Tor defendant,
SAID he wished to cell the attention Of the Court 10
the report OF this case which appeared Ia the Sun
OF that morning. That report, observed counsel
grossly false, and the writer oil it deserved to
be punished and ought to be imprisoned. The
extra panel was exhausted in an Intellectual effort
to complete the jury, only one additional juror J.
Fl. Warden, having been obtained from this panel
by direction OF the Court 10 talesmen were sum-
moned; from these two more jurors. ). d. Ship
man and James Campbell, were selected, and 10
more talesmen from whom to draw the twelfth
juror were ordered to be summoned Tor Monday
next, 10 which day the Court stands adjourned.
The case oil Benoni Howard, above referred to, Is
exciting good deal OF attention, though it has
been before the United States Courts for four or
five years. where it has been once tried. The de-
fence In this matter claims that Howard had
caused to be engraved steel plate: that from this
plate were printed likenesses OF the heads gen.
erals who, in Howard's judgment, had acted as
heroes in the war OF the rebellion; that a likeness
OF the head and face OF General Butter was con-
spicuous on the plate that, after the Fort Fisher
business Howard's opinion OF the military skill
and genus OF the General grew small-so small
indeed, that he had the Generals "aead' removed,
not from his shoulders, but from among the
''heads" Of those whom Howard regarded as
worthy OF being immortalized on his plate-a pic
ture and that the result OF this was to enrage
General Butler such an extent as TO induce him
to put up this stamp counterleiting job in order to
have revenge against Howard This is what the
defence claims among other things; but, OF course,
1t remains to be how far these statements
Will De sustained by evidence when the case comes
before the jury and ali the evidence is spread out
upon the record