Burr, whose Sue 3% daily EO the “flashy ap of ngoIre a trance to the y ASIDE rooms, is a den kept dy John Pendleton, notorious cheat at cards. His game, h is swind Bing one, is patronized in a large dogros 7 salegmon and plerka, sometimes mere lads, in down-town stores, who doubtless filch from Siployers whatever money they Jose at gaming. Pendleton’s den is ome of those whic re most demoralizing, because they allure youths by the nd price of the checks and stakes. For the protection i he ercha nts benaath, and thay! in the same build ng, this game ought sup No. 145 Falton-st. 1s kept by Ebenezer Peck, Tt is a heating game, but is patronized by down-town business men, No. 146 Fulton-st. front room of the second story, is a faro game kept by Stephen Fields. It is situated over pne of the namerons clothing stores of the vieluiiy, and few people seeing the gamblers enter the promises would puspect the existence of the game. The checks in prin eipal use are of the twenty-five cent denomination. The business of the honse is done with young clerks and sales ip, pes Tow manage to win from a game that is notori o'sly uafair. No. 112 Pnlton-st., over an eating saloon, is kept hy Michael Holly. The game is faro, of course unfair, but fioarishing. Merchants patrouize the place, and play one dollars stake, No. 149 Fulton-st., appropriately located overa liquor store, tient been removed by friends, who had heard of his condition and had come to roltof. Dr. Frankel complains t the recommendations which he hag made from time to time to the Board of Supervisors, as the law requires, pave remained unat tended to, and deciards that the general mismanagement of affairs by t 8 warden and bis assistants 18 shameful. He says that while there is no qren iquor.satpon in the jail, yet such an cetahlishment is in 1 operation under the auspices of Senator O'Brien's brother. Ho says that his services are purely phitanturopic, that’ he is willing to provide medicnes, and give his attention to all the cases of sickness that WAY cur, and that although he is allowed the Jooaster sum of $400 a Ag for these ser vices, he feels anxious to alleviate the distresses of the feeble and sick, but Shh his, cfforts are futile, because Lis orders are disrexarded by the prison oflicials. XL11d CONG BESS—SECOND SESSION. tl TIOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wasnmxarox, Friday, Dee. 15, 1871. the Committee on Public Expenditures to raport the exDelhse to the Government of printing, binding, folding and delivering to Members of Congress what ara calle public documents also, the cost of transportation of the same, and report a bill to abolish the printing and trans portation of such documents; or that, If printed, they ye sent at the public expense of the members, the whole scheme being fraught with great and totally unneces sary expense to the Governmeut. Referred to the Comwm mittee on Publioc Expenditures. INVESTIGATING THE EXPENSE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Mr. SNAPP (Rep., 111) offered a resolution instructing The SPEAKER then Jrocecacd to call the Committees for bills and reports of a private character, aud many such were presented and disposed of. Mr. SLOCUM (Dem., N. Y.) presented a petitlon of the merchants of New-York and Boston for a reduction of tle duty on rice. PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR CHICAGO, Mr. GARFIELD (Rep., Ohio), from the Committee on ApRrojaiations, reported a bill authorizing the Seerctary of the Treasury to purchase, at private sale or by con demnation, the remainder of the square of ground on which the Post-Office building, in Chicago, recently stood, and not now owned by the Government; and if the same cannot be procured at a reasonable price, then to purchase some other square, not more than two squares distant from that locality, and to proceed to have erected thercon a ire proof building for the accom modation of the Custom-House, Sub-Treasury, Post. Office, United States Courts, and Pension and Internal Revenne offices, The bill APproprises £2,000,000, and pry vides that the total cost of the site and buildings shall not exceed $4,000,000. Mr. Garfield explained the features of the bill, aud advocated its prompt passage. Mr. RANDALL (Dem., Penn.) moved to strike out that part of the bill which limits the selection of the rite to within two squares of the locality of the old Post-Otiice, tie thought that such limitation would place the Gov. ernment in the power of a real estate combination. Mr. PLATT (Rep., Va.) spoke against the amendment, and expisined that even with the proposed limitation the Government would still have 24 squares to select from, «0 that there was nothing to be feared from any such combipation, Mr. HOLMAN (Dem., Ind.) moved to reduce the total cost Lo $2,000,000, Mr. PLATT opposed that amendment, and referred to the fact that the Post-Oftice buildings in New-York and Boston ure to cost $3,000,000 each, aud to accommodate only the Post-Otiee and United States Courts, Mr. RANDALL advocated Mr. Holman’s amendment, contending that $2,000,000 was a liberal allowance for a site and building. Mr. KELLEY (Rep., Penn.) diszented entirely from tho views of his colleague. The Government could guard against fraud in the expenditure of the money there, as it could anywhere else—except, perhaps, in New-York, where the Tammany leaders had so corrupted the whole atmosphere that honesty was almost impossible in any department in that city, He was willing to vote for four willions for Chicago, and only regretted that the amendment had been redoced from five millions—the amendment recommended by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Mi. RANDALL reminded his colleague that the ques tion was not one of charity at all, Mr. KELLEY replied that he was not asking charity; he was only asking that the Government would deal with a generous justice to a stricken people—that was all. There was no charity in the proposition, Mr. BANDALL—Tuat was the line of the gentleman's argument. Mr. MARSHALL (Dem, IL.) said that as a member of the Committee on Appropriations, he had given his as sent to the bill, He protested that neither Chicago nor 1ilinvis asked any appropriation on account of charity. Chicago—a great city, one of the finest on the continent —the most rapidly growiog city ou the face of the earth, had been desolated and laid in ashes. The Government Lad important interests there; it bad no Custom-House there, uo Court-House, no Post-Otiice, no public build ings, and it was the duty of the Government to furnish proper accommodation forthe transactionof its business, Mr. Holman modified his awendment so as to make the total amount $3,000,000, Mr. FARNSWORTH (Rep., Ill.) opposed the amend ment, sud advocated the larger appropriation, due ro posed building was to accommodate the Pos “Oto, Custom-House, courts, Sub-Treusury, and Internal Rev. cuue business, whereas the New-York building was only tor the Post-Office and courts. The Government had a Custom-House building in New-York which had cost $1,200,000, and there had alrewdy been expended on the Post Oftice, which had not got beyond tne first floor, nearly $2,000,000. Tne building would probably in the end cost over $5,000,000, whercus the building proposed to be erected in Chicago, for all the Government offices, was only to cost $4,000,000, He did not stand there asking charity for Chicago. Chicago was still great in its deso lation, as it has been great fn {ts life it was rising from its ashes, and would show that it would in a few years require a building of the extent proposed for the traus actioy of the publie business, Mr. DAWES (Rep., Mass.) sald he desired to disabuse the bill of any prejudice growing out of the public build ings in New-York. He believed that the bill should stand upon its own merits. As to the New-York Post-Oilice costing $10,000,000— Mr, RANDALL said he meant $10,000,000 for Loth the New-York and Boston Post-Oflices, Mr. DAWES regretted the gentleman did not always say what he meant, If 1t were necessary to drag the Boston Custom-Iouse into the discussion he was cer tainly willing that Customu-House had never been en Jarged a hairs’ breadth, vor had a dollar been expendea ou it beyond the limitation put on the original bil The gentleman's new-born zeal in regard to corruption had led to confusion in his mind, and to mistake as to what he was talking about. It was the New-York Court-House that he was thinking about that had cost $10,000,000, and Le regretted that the new role the gentleman (Mr, Ran dall) was sitampting had led him into confusion. Mr. RANDALL~The United States Courts are to be accommodated in the Post-Ottice Building, Mr. DAWES—Do your owu talking iu your own time. (Laughter. Mr. RANDALL~I will correct the gentleman's state weuts whenever I can, 1 or out of my time. Mr. DAWES—The Boston Court-House has no more con nection with this subject than the New-Orleans Custom House, which is a grand demonstration of the zeal and econowy which the gentleman’s political associates are accustomed to fllustrate fu their lives and votes, The cost of the New-York Post-Oftice was limited to $3,000,000, and the enlargement, to which the gentleman refers, is underground. When they came to lay the foundation it was tound that they had to sink it thirty 1eet before they could get a solid foundation, and Congress appropriated $500,000 more to finish it up—that underground work, which gives one-third additional room—that is that en Jargement; and $3,800,000 is the limitation of the entire cost. It would never exceed that unless those who now control the ‘I'reasury of the United States shall pass out of power, aud that power shall go into the hands of those who would rather preach than practice. Mr. SWANN (Dewm., Md.) expressed his regret that an attempt had been made to make this a party question. He approached it without reference to party, He ap proached it for the purpose ot doing justice to a stricken community, which had been vires by a calamity un precedented in the history of the country, The gentle mau from Pennsylvania (Mr, Randall) had said that this Wis Hot question of charity, He (Mr. Swann) did uot approach it as a question of charity, but he did approach it as 8 question of sympathy. His own jufigment was that every dollar of the four millions aol he required to erect a building adequate to the business necessities of Chicago, and such a8 would comport with the character aud trade of that great city. He did not advocate any niggardly Joiey in reference to Chicago or any other city. He Lope that members would divest theiuselves of all party feeling on this question and ald In bringing back that once great eity to her ancient prosperity. Mr. RANDALL cowpinined that an attempt had been made to chulge the issue, which was siw os one as tw the amount tobe expended. He had been taunted with ROW Dorn zeal but no later than yesterday there had buen such in the Benate an attempt to screen the Admiu The SPEAKER ealled Mr, Randall to order, remindl bim that it was not ny eg it cio EW: in order to refer to what took place I. RANDALL remarked that there was no disposition S30wa by the Republican party in tbe House to ferret A, raud und corruption in the Administration, ide’ he usked, was there A man on the Republi Sap side who had the courage, the juteqrit or the hon esty of Charles O'Conor or Samuel J. en, who had Jjuccd out wrong-doers in the City of New-York, even at i" 1azurd of tle defeat of thelr own party 1” trong arguments were made in support of the $4,000,000 RE prauon, 7 Messrs. VOORHELS, BANKS, GAR tion and COX, Mr, GARFIELD saying that the position of Messrs. Randall and Holman reminded him of A 4h tute passed by he Legislature of Massachusetts, au hofizing the establishment of a “hie wale” (so Spelled) 12 miles westward from the town of Salew, sud the Wo with the sentence, which Is Yiovably as far in Than a 4 road will ever be heede nts were voted down, the bill passed a8 it came from the Committes on Abpropriations.y o House AYPROPIATION WILLS SASSRD. Wh en went into Committee of the ole Mr Wheoie of the Chair, and Jasssd the two bills re ported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs making phe] to pay the excises to carry out the ty of Washington. The House also pasead the bill sppropriating $23,000 to jest the deficjency caused by the defalcations of I, A. Masartuey, the lute dishursiu glerk uf ‘the Pust Offs Departmeit. Adjourned antl A er The wife of the Russian Czarowitz, the former The wife of the Russian Czarowitz, the former Priucess Dagar of Denmark, Who Las had the reputa tion of being the handsomest woman In Russia, 1s des olared to huve faded ao yap dly within the past three {ours that she wonk! hardly be sospected at pressat of iaving been a beauty. THE HEATH-RAPHAEL ERIE STOCK. RESTORATION OF A PORTION OF THE STOLEN SHARES. Jay Gould, upon learning, yesterday, that he was to be brought before the Master in Equity, avoided coming by sending a written request to the President of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company to register the certificates for the 47,292 shares of Erie stock to be deliv erod to Heath and Raphael. The parties to the litigation then appeared before the Master for the purpose of transferring the stock in obedience to his order, when it was discovered that Mr. Smith, the Assistant Secretary of the Rrie Railway Company, had carried off the certificate representing the 12,732 shares of stock to be held in abeyance until the question of ownership 18 decided. Upon this discovery, Mr. Southmayd, mo mentarily losing his temper, said: Yes, I supposo Ac. This is a specimen of the way in which this whole d—d thing has been carried on.” Mr. Beach—I Rresme thot Mr. Smith took that certi flcate Away, ALL) Hay, through a misapprehe histo; and I don’t think. therefore, that any dishonest motive in doing so should be imputed to hin. I have advised compliance with the Master's order, and I know that it will be complied with. Mr. Rolston—I do not require instructions from the Eric Rallway Company to register that certidcate. 1 will do so Without. The Master then telegraphed to the Erie office for the certificate, and the proceedings were adjourned til 2} p.m, In the mean time Mr. Beach called up, before Judge Blatohford, the Totision for an order directing the Master to hear evidence as to the ownership of the 12,732 shares out of the 60,056 shares of the Erie stock claimed hy Heath and Raphael. Gould’s claim to these 12,732 shsres 6 based upon certain certificates for them which Mr. Dawes (Rep., Mass.) introducéd a joint resolntion granting catmon for a soldiers’ monument in he says are in his posscasion. The granting of such an order was opposed by Mr. S8outhmayd on the ground that these shares of stock were brought into the posses slon of thé Court by fraud and device exercised by the petitioner, and that, therefore, be can in a Court of Equity gain no advantage by his hwproper con duct; that any certificates for these shares, w ich Gould may have, were obtained by him in London, and are, therefore, to be made good in London, where the mens of identifying them alone remains. As Mr. Southmayd in Nis opening argument, was laying out a very broad fleld over whioh he proposed to roam, Judge Blatchford stopped him, saying, Mr. Southinayd, it seems to me phat Jou are going too extensively into this matter. It is n Decogsiry to go all over this case again, The fact is, I am slok of this case ad nauseam.” Mr. Beach—Your Honor cannot be sicker of this case than I am. Mr. Southmayd—T am sick of it too, and sick of every body and everything connected with it. Mr. Evarts—We can't help going into the case, as the opposing counsel has declined to open. Mr. Beach—No, I have not declined to open; I will open now, Long arguments on both sides then followed, in which the Erie litigation was reviewed from its inception down to the present time, Judge Blatchford reserved his decision, which, if he denies the petition, will com pel Jay Gould to try, fn an Euglish Court, his right to the 12,732 shares clalined by him. At the close of the arguments, Mr, Field filled a cross bill in the case of Heath and Raphael agt. the Erie Rail way Company, and asked that, pending that particular suit, proceedings in all the other suits be stayed. Decl sion reserved. The abstracted certificate for 12,732 shares was pro duced before the Master at 24 p. m., when the transfer of the stock was made in obedience to his order. It will now be registered under his direction, and as fast as registered, will he aclivered to Henry Swan, the sUiormer, in fact, of ITeath and Rapnael. Thus, after a con est of nearly three years, these English holders of Erie stock have obtained pos. session of 47,202 of the shares which were stolen from them, The Probabilities are that the contest for the pos session of the remaining 12,732 shares of that stock will not last much longer. THE GRAND JURY ASK ANOTHER EXTENSION OF TIME—WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. The Grand Jury entered the General Ses sfons Court-room yesterday and, throngh their fore man, presented the folowing document to Recorder Hackett: Reasons Why the Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions Want an Extension of their Time. —This jury was impanele! on the first Monday of November last. That being election week, by adviee of the Court the jury did no duty until Monday, the Lith of November. In abont four days, the Grand Jury baving passed upon about seseuty cases of ordinary character, they were called into Court by His Honor, Jadge Bedford, and specially charged to take up, examine, and act upon the alleged immense frauds upou the public treasury of the city awd counts. In deference to that charge. the jurv immediately commenced such inves tigations, and have pursued them with zeal avd diligence from that date to this, They hegan with the case advised by the is Justo Attoruer General, Mr. Charles O'Conor, as they were recommended to do by His Houor, Judge Bedsord. The firat resolution adopted by the Grand Jury was that all bills of in dictment ordered by them in these fraud cases shoula be prepared by the District-Attorney, aided hy the representatives of the Attornev-General, to wit, Mr. O'Conor and Me, Samuel J. Tiluen, This was done with the expressed hearty concurrence of District- Attorney Garvin, and the object was to secure the correct technical accuracy of any bills of indictinent that wight be fically passed by the Jury and signed i" the lore: man; and to make all the.e gentlemen ees) respons sible for sach acenracy. Afler any days of coutinued labor it was fornd that it would be ia impossible to complete sa proper javesnigs tion before the close of that term of the Court, when the discharge of this fury would be a matter of course. On a representation of these facts ulze Bedford immediately extended the tenn to the 13th fhst., and after ward stated that further t. me would be given if the jury required it. The fury have now a very eousiderable number of cases in “the hands of the istrict-Attorney aud Mr. O'Conor, and are waiting the return of the proper Jayens for the final action of the jury, but have not time to finish those and others ready to sabmit, The fury will state another and farther reason why they desire more time, To the ueglect of tueir private affairs, muny of the jurors have pursusd this investigation as a matter of duty, and they are all unwilling hat their work should be lost and their acts made void by any unforeseen technical difficulties, They desire this Court and their fellow-eitizens should anderstaid that they do not shrink from the respousibilities of action. The attention of the jary has been called to the i stat ute of the laws of the State, to be found Sectiou 27, Chapter 539, Laws of 1870), volume 2, page 1,300 A Grand Jury way be impaneled in the Court of Oyer and Terminer and another in the Court of General Sessions, and mav meet at and daring the same time, but in such case the Grand Jury ia the Court of Sessions shall only act apou such matters as shal! have been heard before a committing magistrate, and shall have been submitted by the District Attorney,” The district Attorney expienies his readiness te submit these and all other cases he Jury wish; but the frand cases on which the jue are engaged have vot been beard before a committing magistrate.’ ‘ie contingency referred to in the statute now exists. Doabt less the crowded condition of the Prisons rendured the impaneling of the pew jury a oecessity, and especially as this jary Lad Shented hearing Fries cases in order to hear the frand cases, as fequen by the Court. n this state of affairs, the jury asked advice of the District Attorney and Mr. O'Conor as to the effect of this act npon their official decisions upon complaints before them: and, althongh those gentlvwen think the action of this jury, if taken during the session of the other Grand Jury, wonld not be tuereby rendered null and void, still the Jury think it would raise questions that might, aod doubtless would, take the cases to courts of last resort for discussion, and thas delay, if not defeat, the course of justice. Under these circumstances, the jury respectfully ask that their term may be so extended that they may pass upon the cases now being prepared for action after the dis charge of the other Grand Jury; and to facilitate such results, propose to act upon prison cases at the same time with the other Grand Jury until such cases be all disposed of. To this arrangement the Distriet Attorney gives bis approval, awd Las aiready sent to this jury numerous prison cases, on whicli they are now acting, and bave passed upon some 170 cases, Lucius Comsto€k, Foreman, Recorder—Very well, gentlemen, I receive the paper. You may proceed to business, and Judge Bedford will tell you on Mouday what course to take. The trial of Joshua D. Minor, the alleged oldest and most successful counterfeiter in the United States, was continued, yesterday, in the United States Oirguit, before Judge Benedict, Col. Hiram C, Whitley testified: I am Chief of the Secret Service Department, and have been siuce May, 1369; am familiar with counterfeit money, Q. State all you know about the pactuie of ecoun terfeit money produced in coart! A. Kennock brought a large package of counterfeit money into wy office on the 17th of last October; according to my custom io such cases, I diected Kepaock to mark several of the bills; he did ro, aud put a date on them; ps the package tied up and pat in mv safe; is was taken out and brought into court by Mr, Chester; when the package was Jpehed there was in it a counterfeit $20 bill and a counterfeit $2 bill: on the 2th of August, 1870, I had Bill Gasuev under arrest in my office; he is a notorious counterfeiter; went with him to see Minor: Applegate fol lowed ns; as we neared Minor's stables he eame up to Gurney, and sad, “How are yon, old stick-in-the mud 1” Gurney introduced me to Minor, and told bim that he (Gurney) was in troable Minor asked if he could do anything for him; 1 took Minor aside and told bim that I bad satisfactory evidence that be had the $20 plates upon which were printed the hills found upou Giarney when he was arrested Minor denied that be had the plates; I insisted that they were in his possession; be finally said that should have the plates, bat that he did not want his name connected with Gurney's in the SEUSApETS; I told bin that his name should not appear in sach connection: then sppointed a weeting with we in the lower pat of the Astor House; 1 went there at the time set; a few days after told me that I should have the Plates; I met Minor there, and he said it was all right, and that I should have the ig in a few davs; he asked we to come to his houmse, saying that he to see other persons first about 12 or 15 days after I went to Minor's house; 1 saw Minor there, and talked to bim a long time about the counterfeiting business; he then told me that he was not quite Jendy to give ap the plates, as he bad to go to the races; I advised him to glve ap the counter feiting business, as it only injured the poor, and not the Government; he replied, "1 give yoa my word that I will have uothiug more to do with that business, so help me God;” 1 told him that Garney wus a bad wav. and that I did not want to use Lim as a witness: after this I called at Mi nor's house again, and he agreed to surrender the plates; be sent me a check for a trunk In a letter; I sent it to A. C. Beatty, a detective fn my employ at Ratherfurd Park: be got a trunk there om thai check, and brought it to me; I opened the trunk, Q What did you see! [Objected to and ruled oat.] Q. On the 25th of last October whom had you in your employ in New. York? A. Aplegate, Nettleship, Bauers, Fitzpatrick, Cauldwell, Drummond and me; Whitman never was in wy *uplor; he was only sn informer, and I Jee bim for his fuformation; 1 gave the officers who arrested Minor their instructions ahont as fol. lows: This is a matter of great importance, and you must act with great caution and care; am in ed that Cole expects to meet Minor to ny Oet. Bia about 7 o'clock. Cole is not certain when the deal is to id when Minor makes a deal be usually has a third man with him, and you must be careful to see if anything A slung.” Applesate was instructed to take charge of the expedition, and Kennoek Bauers were told to “pipe” Cole. I told them that I expected they would captare a counterfeit #20 plate and a connterfeit $10 plate; about half an boar before this, I had given Cole $1,500 lu good money, whieh bad beens marked a list of the marks had also been taken by Mr. Sullivan. The witness then corroborated the statements of the other Witnesses as to what took place in bis oles after Minor Lad been arrested aod brought there, A long cross-oxamination failed to make the witness contradict himself, and elicited no new tacts. Ad Journed till Monday, at 11 a, m. nr. UNWARRANTABLE STATEMNTS OF THE EFFICAC OF PATENT MEDICINFS CONDEMNED. TT mem a TREN ANVAMAN VWVWWaANAAIRRANVNYAeL A pateut medicine case has just been de cided by Judge Brady, in the Supreme Court, the parties belug Dr. Byrn and The American Agricuiturist. The latter, it would appear, has been classing the plaintiff with Edward A, Wilson, whom the newspaper designated a8 An he altignted scoundrel,” and added: “One of these chaps pro essen LO Jublish a monthly paper to dis seminate universal intelligence. We have one of these jireclous sheets, aod find 4t to be of the Infi t-murder and ieeitivus order. Dr. Byrn makes a very ad book, and veuds medicines to mateh, and ia another nuisance.” The defendants say in théir anawer that the plaintiff advertised a drug as nn specific for almost all dlsensos: that it was not calculated to deceive the public Ahn ie did not cqutain what it purported to contain; that the Platt iff puta up the ruil patent medicine in Jacrazes about 4 {ety in Jen and About 2) Inaba yridets UpPOIny gad Vi th onto ni hit yrs Al A] ray, Ag Athos Li whitch be alvertises as an entidote tor tobacco, and de THE COURTS. INVESTIGATING TAMMANY FRAUDS, THE MINOR TRIAL, COT WHITIFPY'S TESTIMONY fondant believes that the same Is not an antidote for to bacce hut 8 swindle and calculated to deceive and de frau tho publie. These and other allegagions the plain a TE L008 Uohts tour u nies the motion, holding that, thou the allusion to the heathen Clunee may be immaterial, yet the portion of the charge in regard to the tobacco antidote 1s entirely relevant in other words, if it is not an sotidote it is caleulated to deceive, and is a fraud, The seller of a drug who vends it with an unqualified statement of its re Wo take the consequences if his representations be untrue, Kpecifics against tho thousand natural 1ils that flesh 1s heir to” are not easily attainable, and the medical profession do not claim to have devised many through all their experience and ro search, hoy are, nevertheless, devoutly prayed for, and so potent is the desire for them that reasonable and indeed unweasonable assertions of their discovery aro hailed with di and the public confidence is readily secured, hen a person, therefore, assumes (0 have divined one, the public has a right to rely upon the assurance given, however foolish such a confidence may seem. Drugs shonld be dispensed with groat caution, and the laws which are designed to pro tect the people from the use of them save under the guidance of the expert chemist, conscientious druggist, or skillful practitioner, cannot be too stringent. I do not design to express any opinfon of the character of these preparations. Whether they are good or bad, injurions or harmless, I am not called upon to declare, but of the propriety of holding men to a strict accountability who attempt to practice upon the credulity of the afflicted ow subject thew to greater toue Cowpany. For argnmert, 2173..1n tle matter of Edward Gar- 31d. Hickman agt. Warner, Dick risou, bankrupt. son. McElrath, Andersos, 3200, Moore agt, Dupignae, Abrams and Willeta, Col kr oF ArrkaLs.—ALBANY, Dee, 15.=The following i» the eal endar for Dee. 1: Nos 484, 485, 486, 471, 407, 472, dw, 406, The Builders’ Association adopted, on 10TS= day evening, a report presented by i sub-comnnittee, con sisting of Matthew Byrnes, John McCool, and Leander Buck, on the charges preferred against James M. Mac gregor, Superintendent of Buildings. The report states that Mr. Macgregor's official acts, as shown by a pro longed examination, have in every instance beeu per forwed strictly in conformity to law, and with a desire to subserve the public interests, and the committee not only exonerates him from the charges referred to, but also declares that his duties as Bo perintendent of Builldiuge have been dis charged in an honest, intelligent, and impartial man ner. The records of the department are said to prove that as much labor has been performed as waa Jossiile, and that the system is business-like and faithfully car ried out. The Committee regard the Department of Buildings as one of the most essential and useful depart nent the metropolis, tending to assist an able Fire Department by providing for the erection of substantial buildings, to save the city from devastating conflagra tions aud constant accident, to which Chicago has beea recently subjected. The Committee, in conclusion, reit erates ta confidence 1 the Superintendent, character jzing him as an houest, upright, and estimable citizen o skillful and experienced mechanic, and 8 faithful and capable public officer—one who is in every way capable of discharging the duties of the responsible position be holds." TWO CONTINENTS FOR A CONGREGATION. Lhe Sermons ane pray el =o A wn of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the Pastor of the Brooklyg Tabernacle, are receiving a printed circulation In vance cf that given to the discourses of moat olesgy Iota, Tue publication of his morning sormons ju TAs Me each week has been the rule for wonths past. The re VYived Interior, of Chicago, has made its appearance in lull form ahd Ketowed apirth and an0uI00e that here. after it will print regularly er-mee ing lectures. TAe Frisian ge aud Fhe Chrloian World, of London, England, orgens of the Methodist and Pree byterian denominations of Great Britain, have beea for vome months republishing bis serinons weekly, and the former has just made an application for the exclusive right to print his evening sermons iu Fatofecat) appli Saiion founded upon yg of exceptional lberality, by fosars. Dickinson igham, the Propritors, whose proposition 1s now under consideration. This gives to the gentlcman ui SUdinnos Creu pabed only by the Limits within wideh the Eughel funznage is read and shoken., {Lrvukiyn Eagle. A CONSTITUTIONAL OUESTION. THE RT ATK FRIDAY GOLD CASES. TITIDS'S BATT CIVIL. NOTES, CRIMINAL COURTS. DEIKIONS Dre 15 COURT CALENDARS =Twis Day, MACGREGOR WHITEWASHED.