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AT ALBANY. SUPERVISORS. (or tbe great depreciation of tbo boat), bridges, Ucklo, and other properties of the Company,) are generally run at a loss although In duo or two years there havo been some slight profits on one or two of them, but it has been rare and cannot bo relied on. It is very certain that the running or those ferrlos is lndisponsablo to tbe welfare of Brooklyn. Tbo people of Brooklyn muse bo enabled to cross on oaoh of these ferries at tho same price.

Thero Is no reason why tho man whoso daily routo fs across tho Hamilton aroiiuo Forry should bo required to pay moro than the mau who crosses nt Fulton street, or Wall street, or at Catharlno Btroet. Un tlib ooutrary, tho transit across oaon of those ferrlos should, llko tho passage through the stroets themsalvos, ba equally open anil free from any difference ot expense. Any other rula will oprrato unequally and unjustly on all thvBe inhabitants of Brooklyn whose pursuits do not lead them to cross tho Fulton Forry. Thus It is plain that the large receipts of the Fulton Ferry are absolutely necessary to give to those who ubo tho other 'four ferries tho means of crossing at tho Hie right of Ibe company to the coupon siiext was unquestioned. This bad bean decided ovor and over again by the courtr, and ho gave the autborlUoa tho.

Oommltteo. So far as tbo investigation went, tha company courted TUE WIDEST AND MOST HEAKOIflNa IKVEUTrO ACTION'. Ho regretted exceedingly that the counsel of tbe ott sido had seen lit to cast an imputation upon the saV davit of Mr. Perrr. That gentleman was aa fine a geiv lloman as tbcro was in the Stale, bad been a director io tho company for years, and was its treasurer now, and ho thoroughly knew the affairs of lhe corporation.

Tha only qu stion was, has the Leclslaturo the power to cuect these bills into laws, and if it his, is It expedient jn view of the facts provc by affllavlt and not con tradlciod by testimony offered by the other aide. Mr. Day, one of tbe Assembly Committee, asked wh'Hlar Ju lgo Parker thought the Legislature had the wcre and are on the question of whether Flaherty should be continued in place, to make appointments for them. The conclusion of the protest is in these wonderful words Tbe President terms the action of Me colleagues In this matter "outrageous." 1 reply that this is mere ofllclal hyperbole, aud his paper a hrutumutmcn. In conclusion, the undersigned, after a lapse of twenty four houre, and upon "sober second reaffirms Ins action and begs to soy that he does not believo that from any citizens tears wiii "run down his beard, like Winter's drops From raves of reed," because of Mr.

Bogart's excisloD. Respectf ully, Geokoe C. Bennett. A duel was fought in Tennessoe, in tween a pugnacious postmaster and a wrathy Whig, because the former felt insulted when tho latter said that "the present Administra tion is one of perpetual The appointee of Jackson would not stand that. Bennett absolutely calle Fred.

Massey for he tveasury, for tho point hero at issue can be seltlod seemingly in no other Ex Alderman Richarson, a prominent Republican, in a published interview, suggests another solution of this difficulty, aud it is, to constitute the Presidents of the existing departments the solo Commissioners until their terms of office expire. If we must buy up the politicians, probably this is tho best aud easiest io do it, but surely the taxpayers of this city are not under any very considerable obligations to those who are living off ttieir earnings, and if they think it would be well to give the Mayor of the city the right to choose Jus own agents, it would seern as if the individual interest of a place, holder ought not to be allowed to stand in the way of this To the proposition to consolidate the several tax colkctiui; departments no valid ob chickens or pigs. Thoy carried fish hooks and lines by soaking their bait in rum they captured their prey readily. A chicken when drunk is as easily captured as a tramp. The result of the expedition summed up is to tttis effect That the tramp rarely suffers hunger because of willingness to steal wBere begging" fails.

That the life is agreeable to the majority of the fraternity, and the suffering endured while considerable, is not greater than is endured 'by the poor everywhere. They build large fires and manage to keep warm in the woods and when sick make for the first town. There they get hospital attention and when cured return to their old ways. Their principal privation is iu the way of but the aristocracy among tramps go in rags hence, the cast off garments of the average family are the coveted gifts they most seek after. In one sense they are prosperous, fox they get their wants supplied without labor, but in another they are the most wretched of creatures they are without ties of any land and very soon develop lawless qualities which and if tho flags wero liolstod out of respect to his memory thero was no good reason why similar honor should not be paid to all bishops at their demise.

Sup. Quiok I move to lay the resolution on tho table. Tho roll being callod tho motion was bcaton by a vote of Beventeon nayB against ten yeas, as follows: Toas Sups. Onnsbee, Quick, Crowell, Eger, Mo Donald, Walker, Egolf, Nathaa, FIceman and Van Stolon. Nays Sups.

Gallagher, Soxton, Cullon, Ladley, Moran, Hyde, Curren, Tierney, Zoblo, Brown, Anderson, Van Cott, Gubner, Wilhamoon, John L. Rider, Sup. Stillwoll was oxcused from voting. He aald he believed that the Pope was a very go id man, but he didn't believe thoy should hoist the flsgs to tho memory of any kings, emperors or monarchs. Ho asked to bo excused from voting, because he did not care to voto against tho rjsolutiou.

Tho resolution was adopted by tha following vo'o: Yoas Sups. Gallagher, Sexton, Byrue. UyRU, Lidley, Moran, Hvdc. Curren. Tierney.

Zob! BroxD, Anderson, Van Cott, Gubner, Williamson and John L. Ryder. Nays Supj. Onus bee. Quick, W'm.

J. Ki'b Crowell, or. McDonald, Walkor, Eo'0lf, Nathsu, Fic ainan aud Vau Siclcu. THE COVRT nOUSE VENTILATION. Sup.

Curran movel a preamble aud resolution de cluring that the voutilatiug apparatus owned by Potor H. Carman or his assignees, and tried in the Cnuoty Court Koom.had been considered uuea'isfactory by tha County Judge, and instructing the Court House Committee to cause it to be removed from tho building. Tha preamble aud resolution were adopted. The Law Committea was discharged from the farther consideration of a resolution authorizing the oi new wing to liaymoud strce: Jail, and ibe matter referred to tha Jail Committee. The Board then adjourned to meet next Thtir lay.

The Ferry Question TaiIer The Case for Reduction Sfatcil by (Lo AI dermanic Committoe and the Reasons Against it Presented hj Representatives of the Company. Special Correspondence of the Eagle. Albasy, February 14. The two bills providing for a reduction of the rates of ferriage now charged by tho Union Company one iutroduced by Senator Jacobs in the Senate relating only to foot passengers and one by Worth in the Assembly relating to both loot passengers and vehicles were considered beforo the Senate and Assembly Commlttoos upon Commorce and Navigation, in joint session. In favor of the bill appeared Aldermen Dwyer aud Mclntyre, of tho Aldcrminio Committee, and E.

B. Lansing as oounsel for the Committee, aud in opposition Messrs. B. D. Silllman, Amasi J.

Parker and J. Perry, The session was hel in tho Senate and tb attendance of Brooklyn men was large, nearly tho entire legislative delegation from Hiops Connlr boinj prejent, as well as a number of visitors. AinEIlMAJf DWYKIt opened the argument, sayiog I am a representative of tho Brooklyn Boara of Aldormoa, appointed to appoar bofore your Commltteo, with other Aldermen as a committee. Wo did not expect to moot euch an array of counsel as Is to bo seen upon the othor side. If we bad wo should have como butter prepared than wo now flud ourselves.

Brooklyn asks that you pass tho two bills introduced by Senator Jacobs and Mr. Worth. The Union Ferry Company is the wealthiest corporation in the State, in 18dCJ it charged ono.cent ferriage, but w'th war prices it went up as did everything oIbo, and had tho rates raised to two cents. By its charter, it is restricted to a dividend ot 10 per and all ovor thst amount it is require! to pay over to certain charitable corporations, I think the Kings County Hospital. Instead of paying that corporation a dollar, it has evaded the law by spending all over the dividend upon tiio buiHino; of boats and ferry bou3os.

It not their money that t'icy arc but that whih Kh'jul I go to the aliaritablc corporation. I would guarantoo that if of Brooklyn votors could voto upon this question, you would flod that 30,000 of them would vote for tho passage of tnat bill. Mr. Stouc, tun oditor and proprietor of the Xe io Kori Jounnf nf C.im inerce, told ni" the other day that if tho Union Ferry Company could not run tho forrles at one cent, ho would find tiiirty or forty gentfooian willing to buy the ferries and run them for that rato. I was urilw told that Mr.

Piorrepont had said he knew nothing of the ferrlos at all, but had had 500 shares ut him, so SB to act as a director. 1 am not posted ou the ferries, but we want tho Company to 'II us why this reduction should not be niado 7 I ask that the counsel of the Ferry Company bo heard and afterward the counsel ot our Commit too. Mr. Porker said tht It was usual for tho oomplain antsto state thoir case, and for tho dofendauts to thou answer. If thess gnntlomen bad any facts or testimony to presont, lot them do so aud theu they would auswor.

OOLONEI, E. B. said ho appeared in behalf of tho Committee of tho Board of Aldermen. They appeared there not as ac cusers, but in tho interest of the people of Bro the whole people. Tho faots are in the possession of the Company; we know nolhlnj.

Thoro ivere 590,003 people in Kings County, and if it was deemed uf cessary thoy coul i got 450,030 bororo tho Oommltteo in petition, asking for tho passago of the measures now beforo tho Committee. Mr. Parker said that in a long oxperirmco at law ha had seen nothing like this. They say tiny Know nothing, and that they could get 400,000 psoplo to vote for thoss bills. That is because they want a reduotlon.

So they oould to have the faro reduced upon tho New York Central ltoad. This does not indicate the Justie? of the measure, nor does it enow the power of the Committea to reducs tho rato 3. It Is not, said Judge Parlior, a question for the people to settlo. Tlio Company is operating under a lo ise from Now York City, and it charges only tho faro allowod by that contract, lloforo we go on, it s'oould bo dooided wholhor the Committee has the powor to interfere io a contract betweon man and man. Mr.

said thatthey were bore with simple proposition to ro.tuce thu fare now chargod by tlio CompDy, to a sinlo C3nt. Ho proposed that too (lis tinguistiod countiel upon tho other si lo siiowl I mc bt, that proposition. Alderman Mclntyre said his tnattor had come up throitgU a resolution of the Cimmon Council, asking th introduction of tho bills then undor consideration. There wero, he said, many people who wore convinced that toe roduction could be made. Boforo toe ono cent for foot passongers was oliarjed.

Tlioti also the Company sold tickets for toams, for 7 outs; aim it was 10 con's for ticketB, or 12 cents in cash. Judgo Parkor submitted that if thoso wero all th facts, th uourso suggested by tho resolutions passod lu tho Senate tc day, soudln for PERSONS AND PAPF.KH bo adopted, and tho facts got at in that way. Alderman Dwyer waulo! to know what moro could be state J. It was known to everybody, ho said, that the Company was restricted to two coots and that tiio monoy ovor that was spent upon tho Forry Company. Colonel Lansiug thou read the resolutions passed by tho Common Council, and when ho bad flnishod, Mr.

Silllman closed the debate S3 to tho uutllier of proco uro by stopping forward and making the etitoinont of tbe Company and; tho argument; as to why the bills should not bo passol, MB. BlXUMAN's AROTJMENT. Mr. B. D.

Silllman said that the Lj 'isiatura wonl.l hardly pass au act of suoh grave importance without full knowlodgo of facta which would leavo no mot that 't oould be saloly done, and that it would not bo followed by tho disastrous consequences which ha thought it could bo shown would In fact result from it. The measure proposed is tbat of taking from a vital public agency a large portion of the means by which it performs au iadlspomable a vital public oer It would not bo oaBy to oxaugerata the Importance of the five lerricB operated by tho Untoa Ferry Company (the Fulion, Catharine, Wall Btroet, South and Hamilton ferries) which unite Brooklyn and Now York, and mako the two cities ono for the purposes of business and residence. Nouo nor all tho othi'r public institutions or Instrumentalities of Brooklyn aro so vital to its welfare. It is not oxtravnMnt to say this of these forrles, over which am transported annually between 40,000,000 and 50,009,000 of passengers more in nuoibor tuun ths whole population ol tho United Statos. All those persons are carried saloly in daylight aud darkness, in suashmo and tompest.

thruugu fogs and ico. The Legislature will suroly require strong reasons brforo it will ioterforo with the means of performing this groat service. Those ferrlos are model establishments and are run with such cfHcl9ncy aad perfection of coost. uotiau of tho boats, and management of thorn thit others olsewhero have copud them so far ns their means a Imittod. On those five for rics aro employod no less than Boveateou largo steamboats of from 500 to 700 tons, each coatinA' irom Jot), 000 to $35,000 each the larger portimi of thotu beiug about twico tho Bize of the oarly Liverpool paciet which made too Amorlcaa commercial mai'luo so distiuauish ei.

Tho Company have aims an 1 successfully, as is claimed, to brinj tho whole establishment aa near A POIXT OF ASOLOTE PEJiFECTION as is possible. Tnoy onapl non; but tlu most skillfull pilots, engineers, mechanics aud other boatmen and ouiployos. Sordid ur; their requirements as to pilots, and so oxactlug is the. Cumpauy as to qtia'iflca tions, that after years of training by the regular pil not one In twenty Iivo is Anally accepted tin Company. West Poiut aad Anuapolis know no such rigid si'ting.

Mr. Silliman referred to testimony taken beforo a Committee some ten years ago, said that it was proven thou aud is equally truo to day, that so strong and powi rfui aro the boats used by this Company that no less thau seven of then wore required aud Ukeu by the Government FOB WAR VESSELS duriuir the rebellion. Heavy batteries wero mounted upon thorn, anJ they iiect'irmod important aud stant sea service. The famous "duublo enlcro," built by tho Govetnmoat duriug thj rebatllou, resulted from tho ample and efllcieut Bervlco roudered by thee ftrry boats. Tho Somorset and the Clinton wero so strong that, after the rebellion was ondod, and after thoy had performed long man of war service on tbe ocean and iu tho Southern waters, the Company repurchased them from tho Government, and thoy are now performing dally duty on the feriics.

The boats of tho Company are seventeen in numlwr, of which thirteen are kept constantly running, aud four aro held In reserve as relief boats whon either of tho others needs repairs. of them is of 500 tons, and tho largest 700 tons. Whenover a now boat has been built, nothing suggested by experience has been omitted tbat could make it au improvement on those which preceded It. Tbe Company have always given anlftultod authority and insiructonB to render every new boat aud its engine as nearly as possible and no expenso has been Bpared which could conduco to that result. Amoog other unusual arrangements for strength Is the fctucture of tho sides of the boals of solid timber, placod closo together up to the water lino from each end forty feet back toward tho middle of the vessel.

(Affidavits of Mr. McFailon, the Consulting Engineer, and of Captain Luther Smith.) With these facts before them, the Commmittee will have little difficulty in deciding whether the unautheu ticated, wholesale, charges that the boats of thiB Company aro of an Inferior class, aro true or iaise. It is to be observed that theso largo vessels, carrying no cargoes, can well bear the great number of passengers who, at some times, crowd on board them. Captain Smith states, his affldavit, that their tonnage is to groat that they can, without diffl.ulty, oarry more weight than that of all persons who can stand upon their decks and cabins. As to security against Ore, we have tho Important fact tbat no difficulty or alarm has ever resulted from that cause in the thirty yoar3 of the Union Ferry Company, and no special reason is buowo for solicitude on that subject now.

Nevertheless, no precaution should be, and, as appears bv tho evidence, nouo Is omitted. It is stated In the afn.iavlt of Mr. Morton, the Chief Engineer, that each boat Is provided with Wortblng tou's powerful steam pump, throwing five stroams, each a3 large as those thrown by the city fire engines, and each fitted st all times with abundant bono, aud that the Company are about applying an additional contrivance, which, by ths turning of a valve, will Instantly drenoa tbe Interior of the engine room or mid ship hounc mo vtorinmgiou cugjuos rc i ij snip uouac iu umiuiuj. unusual power and efficacy that tho ferry boats ara i. rAniatiinn whnriever flras occur eagerly put in requisition whenever fires occur the snores or among mo suapyius.

wo but the boats are heated by steam conducted in pipes through the cabins. Thoy are lighted with gas. Kero Bsne od la oaed in no shape, and as littlo otner oil as possible. If any rational suggestion ol further security against Are can bo made the Company will ba glad to profit by it. No accident has happened from Btsam.

These ferries afford tho safest possible transportation. In forty years there h8 been hardly a life lost, whllo on tbe steam railroad and thejhorso railroad many lives aro lost annually. The annual report to the Legislature by the state Engineer of March 0, I860, abows that the number of oassenacra on all tbe steam railroads of the State, dar ina toi nrecadiae year, was and that the number of passengers, employes, and others killed ou those roads during that year was 217, and the number Injured was 272. On tho railroads operato 1 by horses. during tbe same period, there were carried 107,39,507 passengers, and tho number of pissehgers, employes and otuera killed, was thirty, and or persons injured sixty two.

Thut, where the steam roads, with 16,000, 000 of passenger (less thin half the number on the terries) lose 127 lives in one year, these ferriee, now carrying ,000,000 of passengers, have lost two lives in thirty years. Where tho horse ear roads, with 107, 000,009 passengers (or somewhat more than double the number of thoes on theso ferries) loso thirty lives In oue year, ths ferries lose two lives in thirty years. II tbe loss of life on the ferries were in the same proportion as on the steam railroads, there would be some K0 killed in one year inatrad of two in thirty yesrs; and even if we reduce the proportion to that of the horse cars, there would be some ten or twelve killed each year on tbe ferry boats, instead of two Id thirty years. The number of the injured by these boats. If in the tame proportion to the tttam railroads, woald be about 080 in each year; and if la proportion to the horse cars, about twenty.

He said that ha did not stand there to eulogize those directors, but he, woold say that if they were uot honorable, capable, honest, faithful and disinterested in taemantgeraentof these fcrriM Brooklyn could furnish no Board of Directors who would be Ho further lid that it was material net that ot THE FIVE FEBBIB3 the Fulton Is the only ono that pya 1 yields a profit. The others, (after paying the dividend to which tbe stockholders are en tl tied under tbe article! of aitocUUon, ot ten Pt and allowing Itegnlai. Weekly Meeting of the Board. Tho Question of Extravagance at Flat basli County Gas Works A Nevr Office for the Connty Clerk The Ocean Parkway Assessment Board and Care of Connty Wards The Casualty at the Lunatic Asylum to be Investigated by a Select Committee The Memory of the Pope. The Board of Supervisors met in regular Bcsslon yesterday afternoon, the Supervisor at Large occupyiug th chair.

Sap. Sexton presented the lepal opiDion of Winchester Brittou called for by resolution of tho Board. The opinion relates to the distribution of outdoor relief, the text of which was published in yesterday's Eagle. Sup. Sexton smI it seemed that the fir.

opinion given by Mr. Winchester Britton did not refer to the Law oi 1874, and hence he offered the realution calling for tho second opinion, lie moved that the opinion be printod in the minutes and placed on file. Tlio motion obtained. Sup. Bjrne presented a communication fcom the Commissioners of Charities asking lor a couferonco with the Finance Committee of the Board rdativo to the financial needs of tho Department of Charities.

Ho movod tbat tho Committoe contor with the Commissioners and report the result lo the Board. So ordered. Sup. Byrne had read a communication setting forth that the oil furnished for use at the county gas worlxc at Flatbusu was of an inferior quality, and tho msnu fncturo of gas from it was destructive to tho works. Tho Supervisor stated that there was need of oil at tlio worfcs, aud moved that thirty barrels of crude oil ho purchased by tho Supplies Committoe.

Tho motion obtained. Sup. Nathan presented a communication from Dr. Parsons, tho Medical Superintondout of tho Lunatic Asylum, being a reply Jo csrtaiu restrictions on tho management ol the institution, made in debato by Sup. Sexton.

Sup. Moran moved that tho communication be received beforo being read. Sup. Soxton I second the motion. The motion obtained.

Sup. Nathan callod for the reading of the communication. Tho substance or it was that tho alterations of tho chanel at tho Asylum wero ordered and superintended by tho Commissioners of Charities. Thut thoy were necessary to furnish accommodations for the increased medical staff and the family of tho Superintendent. It was choupar to roafee the.

alterations tiian to erect a residence for the Medical Superintendent and his family. That it was believed at the time an amusement hall would be built, which would servo as a chapel. Dr. Parsous DENIES THAT THESE HAS BEEN ANX EXTBAV AOANOB duriug his management. Sup.

Nathan moved that tho Chsrities Cotnmission ers be requested to furnish to the Board information on tho following' questions By what authority wero the alterations mado at tho Lunatic Asylum By whom wero thoy superintended and what wan the cost of making them Sup. Sexton said he still contended that the Medical Superintended waB extravagant and expensive, and there waB no need of makina the aliciations which turned tho chapel into sleeping rooms. Tho ouapol was sufficient for the use which it vaa intended. When ho was of an asylum oa Blackwetl's Island, his salary was only $1,800 per annum, with an extra allowance for his private table oi $21)0. He was also given a house froe of rent, bat all other expenses of maintaining himself and family wero borne by hiroBolf out of his inoomo.

When he was brought over to Kings County, ho was given a salary of $3,500 per annum, a house rent, free, and all essentials of provisions, etc. It was a good change for him. Do was to reform the institution of Kings County, but economy seemed to be left out of his programme of reform. Ho understood that tho doctor had a family of about twolvo persons. Dr.

Parsons did state to the last Summon at tha Lunatio Asylum that he wns goiug to make requisitions ad libtlum. Sup. Strong remarked thftt parbaps thoy would not honor them all. Dr. Parsons replied that he would nevertheless mtiko tho tequlstttous nd get all coul.l.

He (the speaker) repents that tho doctor was 'X travogant; that was his reputation whorovor ho was known. He repoatod that if thoy continued to grant all the requisitions sont to them thern would bD noeil of going to the Legislature for a dlfiielctirty bill. He believod that they did not know what requisitions thoy wore sending or how th jlc ao couuts stood. Thoy left too much to the Commltteo to do. If this way ot doing buaiiios3 wont on, tho Supplies Committee would need a bookkeopor.

Sup. Nathan argued in reply that tin Modioal Superlntoaaent In 1 no: or.lor.id any work to be douo, without tho authorization of tho Commissioners of Charitios. Ha boltoved that the Modical Superintendent was qualllied for his position. Sup. Sexton I havo not spikon of his qualifioations, but I liuvc said that he is extravagant.

Sup. Moran I ask Sup. Nathan il, there is a ohapol at present in tho Asylum Sup. Nathan There is noohapDl; but the Medical Snpermtondor.t was led to believe that an amuscmout hall woul i be built. Sup.

Quick said that rolig'10113 eervicss were bolng hold in ono of tho halls of the Asylj'fl. Sup. Fteeman said ho dil not thint that the gonllo nian train the Fjuvth (Sup. Sextoa) of th lcso lutio.1 befors tho Board. lie did not ma to spak aa the champion of Dr.

Parsons, but it Beamed io him that it was not fair at tao present time ca put Dr. Parsons on trial, on ex parte evidiuce. TY.ey ought lo wait until thoy had the Information wuich Sup. Nathan's moiion calloi for beforo they him. The motion made by Sup.

Nathan whs aytecd to. aOUNTTC AS WOBiCI AT FLAT BUSI. Sup. By.mo moved the adoption of a resolution transferring tho county gas noikj to tho Commissioners of Charities as tho propsr custodians of tho eauie. So ordeiod.

A NEW OFFICE FOB THE CLERK. Sup. Curran, Chairman of th.j Court Homo Committor, moved tho ot report awarding tho contract for fitting up thi Reporters' room iu tho Court Douse as an olUco for tho clork of tho Board to Robort Falls, oeing the lowest biddor. The report was adopted. Sup.

Ryan, Chairinm of tho Military Oommlttno recommended for nduption tho foUowin, lexuluuma govorning cngineors ol armories: tiogincnrs arrno rios are the employes of 'e C'otioty iloar.l of Supervisors, and as such are unftor the immoiiato direction of tho Committoe on Military Allairs of said Board trom whom thoy will from time to time receive Htioh instruction ai may be uecessary, aud to whom tney will report on or betoro tho flrat day of each aud every month. Thoy must report in writing the amount or" coal uaod during tho past month, tho condition of tho furnaces and boilers and of tho steam pipes and radiators in their respective armoria3 also what repairs, if any, are necossary to the same in pioper order. Thoy will firo up not earlier than 3 o'elook P. M. and put no coal on after 10 o'clock P.

M. They will cause all ashes to be removed irom the engine room onoe a waek or oitencr if neoosaary. Thoy "will keen the ongioe room and suoh other Hpaos as may bo occupied by the iu a perfect state of cleanliness. They will ooonomizo in tho use of fuel as much as possible without detriment to tho comfort ol tho occupants of the armory. Thoy will treat with propor respect tho requests of tho officers in charge of tlio dili'eront nrmorios, and to all reasonablo domaud ohcerfully comply.

No deviation will be allowed from these instructions unless by consent of the Committoe on Military Affairs, Any differonoes that may ariso botwoen tho engineers and the officers of tho National Guard under those instructions must bo immediately reported to tho Committee on Military Affairs. Any violation of t'no32 insti uctiouB on tho part of r.uy eugi noer will be considered a good causa for tbo recommendation to tho Board of his romoval by tie Committee. The report was adoptel. OCEAN PAEKWAY. Tho special order of the day wa3 tho consideration of a preamble and resolutions protosttng agains: the passage of tho bill introduced by John H.

Borgeu into tho Af3omblv, which relievos privato proporty ownori of paying tho assessment for the iraproroiaeat ot Ojeau Parsway and throws tho burden on tue couuty at large. sap. HEliiweii saia ue oupposeu mat iuu retuiuiiuun would ba adopted by tho Board. Ho moved, however, to amend by substituting a preamble declaring thit the lauds p. ivala property owners wore virtually confiscated by tho ass6Ssmont; that city property wasriioio bsnotltod by the Improvement than the lands assessed, but nevertheless tho Board deamod it impolitio to re liovo privato property owners of paying tho assessment.

Sup. Egolf Baid he hoped that no such preamble woul .1 prevail, because it virtually committi the iard to an approval of the Assembly bill and oontainU Btato monts wnich ho, as the representative of tho 'i'wfnty scooud Ward, could not indorse as truo. Toe substituto was lost, and tho original preamblo and resolutions wero adopted. PBOVI3ION FOB THE COUNTY WARDS. Sup.

Curran, Chairman of tho unmittoo ou Homes aud Orphan Ajylnms, presented tor adoption tho following resolution llrsolved, That tho price or compensation to be allowed to mauagors oi tho Boveral homes and orphan asylums for the board, clothing and caro of county wards now therein or may hiroafcer bo committed thereto be and the same Hereby is fixod at twouty ttve contu por day, such compensation fo date from the first day of January, 1878. Sup. Fiooui'iu said ho was pleased that tho now Commltteo had a reduction whioh taa old Committee had labored in vain to effect. Sup. Moran said, as a momber of tho old Committee, ho was still of the opinion tnat tho institutions cannot properly maintain couuty wards for less than twonty olght cants per capita a day.

Ho would hive to vole against tho Sup. Dyruo voted against tho report for elmihr rea sons. With these two exceptions, tho niemlern of tho Board votad for the adoption of the Committee's resolution. The resolution was adopted. THE LUNATIC ASVLU1I UNDER FIBE.

Sup. Sexton moved the adoption of ths following preamble and resolution H'ftciros, It la currently reported that a pitlent, named Lynch, recently camo to his death by forcing his way through a broten iron grating to a Window of toe Kings Countv Lunitic Asylum; thoreforo bo it tlemlvtd, That the Commissioners ot Charitios bo, and they are hereby requested to report lo this Board 'who'iher the condition of the iron grating was reported by an assistant physician to the Medical Superintendent, or not, prior to to fatal jump or the insane man, and als whethor the Modical Superintendent took any action in aald report to prevent accidents. Sup. Moran said that the patlont in question had relatives living in the ward which ho represented, and was well known to him. Thore was a natural anxiety on thoir part to Snow whether oij death wag occasioned by any neglect.

It was doe to them and the publlo that a most rigid inquiry onght to ba made. He moved as an amendment that a select oommltteo of five be appointed to make an Investigation. 8np.Fleaman said as it aeerael thero existed a desire on tho part of some to purano Dr. Parsoas, he hoped, that in Justice to him tho soopa of inquiry bo enlarged to take in the entire management of the institution. Yet perhaps thoy bad better wait until tho Commissioners of Charities reported on the case msutionod In tho preamble and resolution.

Sup. Byrne hoped that tho amendment would not prevail. It was useless to appoint investigating com mittoos relative to the management of tho county institutions, because they knew by experience the Commissioners of Charities wonld not allow their employes to testify before such committees. He uuderstood that tho employes were notified that if tboy gave any evidence they might consider themselves discharged. He therefore favored asking the Commissioners of Charities for the necessary information.

Sup. Sexton said he was also of the same opinion that they ought first to apply to tho Commbnloners of Charities for tDe information required by his resolution, and if their answer should be deemed insufficient then it might be In order to appoint a special commit teibe amendment oflered by Sup. iloran prevailed. TO THE MEMORY OF PIUS n. Sop.

Callen moved the adoption of Ibe following resolution: Ratolud, That tiro keeper of tho Court House be and is hereby directed to display the flagB on the Cour House at half mast for one week out of respect to the memory of Pope Pius IX. Snp. McDonald asked the gentleman who offered the resolution, to atato why the Board should pass such a resolution. What was the propriety in doing it? Sup. Cullon replied that the resolution gave the on.

Tho flags were already displayed from the City Hall for the eama purposs. Snp. McDonald said be did not consider that because the flags were displayed from the City Hall tha; propriety of paseing the rosolntion was mado apparent. Indeel. it seemed to him an impropriety that they wete displayed.

But he sunposed that the geulleniau reason for offering the resolution was that Pope Piu IX. was some sort of a potentate whose memory should by respected be the people ol this country. If tha gentleman whoas memory was to ba honored In the way indicated had been the temporal toverelga of some country closely brought into intercourse with this country by commercial relations, if he bad been a sovereign of a powerful nation ench as the Emperor of Germany or tho Emperor oj Russia, might be proper to show respect to his memory in the way indicated. But Uw tope, it he was rightly iniormea, was a spiritual potentate, a bishop of a church, and therefore fie oould see no reason why they should be called on to honor him. He hoped tho resolution wonld be voted down.

Snp. Fleeman said he would havo to vote against the resolution. The Popo was only tho bishop of a ohurch, FHIDAI EYEMNG, FEBltUAIlY 15, 1878. l'his Paper Has tile Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper Fitblisued in tUe United Slates. Hi value no mi Advertising lUedium I tlicreloro liarent.

OTr. Pierce's Clinrtcr Act Failure to Reasons for Opposing It. Wo have waited with some curiosity to see what argument could possibly be invented against the proposed ameuduicuU to the clmi' ter of this city, introduced in the Legislature by Senator James P. Pierce. The changce proposed ore bo business like in their character, and carry in their mere statement so much weight, that they seam to have bewildered newspaper organs and partisan spokesmen, who appear to feel thatthey arc under an implied contract to oppose every measure of public policy is not designed to subserve the iuterest of their side.

Finding it difficult to assail the measure itself, the 11up.rU. in which it Irad its origin has been sought for, as afioraing possible ground for opposition. Mr. Pierce, who introduced the bill, is a and as it has become the habit of the Republican, spokesmen to assume that every Democrat who runs for an office in this country with success, is "a member of the Ring," it is assumed, of course, that Mr. Tierce is a Ring Demo "crat," aud that his bill is a "Ring measure," This sort of political clap trap has censed to doceivo anybody in Brooklyn.

It hfs been so oiten presented as an excuse for official fraud, and political venality, trickery and scoundrel ism that it excites only the ridicule and contempt of the intelligent citizens of Brooklyn. We cannot imagine any exhibit so amnsinsf as the local "indepindent" politician of our day, who presents himself with a blunder on his tongue and a bribe in his pocket for the nclmi ration of an amazed constituency, as "an enemy "of tho Ring." If there be "Ring" in Brooklyn, and if it can rightfully claim credit for the act amendatory of the charter now before the Legislature, that "Ring" can certainly depend upon the support of nine tenths of the voters of Brooklyn who pay taxes. Let us see what the "Ring" is credited with We have at present twenty live Aldermen, one from each ward, who are in receipt of one thousand dollars per annum each. By splitting up what is, upon the whole, a very intelligent constituency, our local Legislature has ceased to be fairly representative of either the intelligence or integrity of our people. This statement will not be denied by any upright man of either party.

It is now proposed that ono portion of the Board of Aldermen shall be elected by the voters of the city at large, and that the constituency of another portion shall be enlarged by electing them from Assembly Districts instead of from wards. It is also proposed that the members of the Board of Aldermen shall serve without salary. Does any man doubt but that we will get a better class of men in our local legislature under this system than under that which now obtaius If we can, at the sauio time, save through it the $2:5,000 wo now pay ill Aldormnnic salaries, who will say that this ought not to bo done We have seen no atttempt made iu any quarter to question the desirability of this change on public grounds. It has been ured as un objection that tho political result of this change would be to prevent the Republican party from over obtainiug political control of tho Board of Alderman. This would not lie a good ground of opposition if it could be kIiowu to be the real, and it is not.

Ordinarily tho party which is in a numerical majority will certainly, and legislation designed to prevent it from doing is vicious legislation, and nothing but evil will flow from it. Tho majority party iu every intelligent community must present oue essential condition as a return for its success; it must secure reasonably good government for that community. If it does, the adherents of tho minority party will have no reason to complain of; if it does not, there will bo independent voters enough, to reverse the ordinary relations of parties, and to put the minority party in power. We honestly believe that, under the proposed plan of electing tho Board of Aldermen, the Republicans would have as much weight in our local government as they have ever had, while in their relation to the State and country at largo the Republican party of Kings County would be assured of a healthful vitality it does not now possess. Nobody but a trading Republican politician can look with any satisfaction on the present condition of tho Republican party in Kings County.

Not only its principles but its manhood has been traded away through corrupt combinations, and so it was that at the late Presidential election tho Democratic candidate wont out of Kings County with the amazing majority of twenty thousand votes. That majority, in a community as intelligent as this is might servo as a certification to the whole couutry that Tilden oueht to bo President. Under Mr. Pierce's bill six Aldermen are to be elected by the city at large. No citizen can vote for more than four of the six, and the six candidates having the highest number of votes shall be elected.

This insures for the minority parly one third of this class of representatives, aud we are sure the majority party could only hold its own by nominating cau didatos who deserved to be elected, aud it is alwayd easier for the minority party to do this than it isfor the majority party. So far as this clause of the charter is concerned, we do not believe that any intelligent Republican will way that his party would have anything to oar from its adoption. As to the Assembly District Aldermen it is not so easy to say at present what would be the political effect of the change in the Board of Aldermen. Taking the past ten years together, and we think it can be shown that the Republicans have had control of the majority of the Assembly delegation very nearly as often as tho Democrats. There has certainly not been a very great difference.

It is true that this year tho Democrats have seven Assemblymen as against two Republicans, and it is also true that if a reapportionment is provided for, the Democrats will have power to settle the Assembly divisions. The Democrats may be able to do better under the new division, but we doubt it. The present great preponderance of Democratic Assemblymen is exceptional. But the political comploxion of the Assemblymen would not be a fan test, for politics enters into the question Of olocting an Assemblyman to an extent it does not in choosing an Alderman. On its face the present system would seem to be fatal to any chance the Republicans might have of controlling the Board of Aldermen.

Of the twenty five wards not more than seven certainly are Republican on any general issue, yet the Republicans have now twelve representatives in the Board of Aldor nien. This we think proves only this that polities do not enter as largely into the election of Aldermen as of other officials, or if it does, that the majority party is under inevitable disadvantages in naming candidates which will be quite as fully felt in the Assembly District as in the ward, in electing Aldermen. As to the single headed Commissions. To the principle both parties are committed. The voters are almost unamimously in favor it it.

It is believed that a Commissioner who has sole control of his department will be more efficient, because of the direct responsibility placed on him. Nobody argues that we ought to have three Mayors, and nobojly pretends to thiuk that the control of one branch of the government is more laborious or more onerous than the control of the Government as a whole. The direct saving whioh wonld be effected by getting rid of the sir or eight supernumerary commissioners now in office, will be about $25,000 per annum, and the taxpayers think this Bum ought to be saved to them. It is objected by the politicians on the Republican side that the Democrats favor the single head bill now only because it will enable them to turn out the present Commissioners, a majority of whom are Republicans. But if this argument is good for anything, it will be as good for Sue parly as the other, and as good ten years from now aa it is to day.

If we cannot make a desired and desirable change in our local government until we can satisfy politicians on both sides, wo will never make it. If the office holders have liens upon those places, under the existing circumstances, it would seem best to buy them out for a round sum of money, to be paid out of the city Bamo price. It is believed that the people of lS.i2Ll,L 00," nt to a separation of at othor streets thau Fulton, to pay higher faro tiiau tlioa.i who cross at that nolnt. The ercnt de preciation of property which would follow and hn i injustice to passengers, can never pormit a faro of oue cent on the Fulton forry: ttm discontinuation (which would necessarily result) of ot least two of the others; a faro of throe, four, or flvo cents on tho remainder: and tho danger which would fo low from oer crowding thu Fulton 'oiry. The Qvo for I ries must bo sustained byjtho reci lptsof all, aud tuo dotlcit in thoso which oannot pay thoir iy must bo paid by that from which a surplus is derived, i Oa auy other principle tho pout oflleus of tho coun try could not be sustained.

This system la vital to the interests ot Brooklyn. Fulton street Is, and for ngos has been, tho grat centra! point for cross ing from Long Maud to Now Vork. It is the gruat travel worm channel. Th growth and expansion ot lirooWyn havo been lateral from Fulton street oach way, north and south. Tho Fulton Ferry Is short in distance, aad beiug at ail times to its full pacl.ty, can trausport passengers and property at cheap.

er expense and rates than any other. The travel over this ferry is Immensely increased by the construction of tho Brooklyn City all of which start from aud converge at tuo ferry gatos. Tha termini of most of tho Now York City railroads uro nearer to tiio 1 Fulton thau to any of the other ferries on the Now York sido of tho river. As a necissary coose quence tbo proportion of persons crossing at tho other forries is diminished, and their mesns of self support aro thereby also diminished. It is plum, tiicrefotc, that tho uulou of thoso foriics Is indispensable in order lhal tho surplus receipts of tho Fulton Forry may bo retorted to as the means where'iy thoss who cross at tho other four may do so a't the same pric, au with cbual accouunadatluns.

It is obvious that tho discontinuance nf a iy of the other ferries would increase still more unequally the passage over that at Fulton strcot. If tor no diarput rcaioa than as a roliof to latter, the continuance of the others is Important. It hardly be added that the five ferries iinitol can be rvcduei.jd at less exueuse than they could be separately. Tho ropair shops, sparo boats, coal depots, nraterials, aud organization of a single company, with its otneirs and clerks, as a whole, involved much expenditure than would be required by Uve diiloreut o.tahiisll meiita. The xpema of boats such aa are now leo.

Is very dhTmmt from those previously running on tho terries. Therfe large Htcam vessels cost, at pres nt prices, from $39,1130 to $35,000 ouch. Thirteen of them are constantly running, consuming lu their thirteen iurnau by day, aud part of them by niuht, very many ship loads of coal tho femes requiring in th ir inauagemiiit, on the most economical system con'I cut emV.oncy, tbe sorvic of botwe en au too men, who are constantly oruploynl as clerks, fiiu'looois, pilots, terrymusters, ooududorg, gatemen, bri lmeD, deck bands, uremcn, watchmen, earp' ulers, bluck Binitias, shipwrights, paiators, cartlnon, laborers, to say nothing ol the jrreil aad const uit depreciation by wear and toar. Although the Union Forry Company Is, by some of Its ousmles, terrue 1 a monopoly, lao epithet could In less applicable. If tho Company hold tbo Fulton Ferry ieticunbered by the others, and were receirlng and approp.iatlng its great proms to th ir own us, tliea term mou opoly woul I not bo misapplied, it is, In fact, tho converse of a monopoly.

Noihing could savor less of a tuopoly thau tho application to the forry accommodations pf oth'T parts Brooklyn of the profits ilonvel lrona the only of tho MlaWisliioents which is lucrative, insload of oon flmug tho bonnts resulting to one section i or locality. Tue. mMiagomo.it of tha lorries uuder oue organization Is no more, a monopoly tha tho mana ment of our city streets or otner municipal ntfjlis under one city gover.imcnt a mon ipoly. If it a monopoly to run all tho flvo ferries at tbo lowest faro consistent with thoir efflciency and to tr their rovonucs as a common fund, 'Jd to apply that fund to th support of all, so that tho people Iu every BeeliOD dliall ouir ferry od.itioos at the same price thon it is not probable lhat tbe citizens of ooklyii will (K.iiie the inauagriiierit ot the lorri'is to bo conducted ofturviso tiian a monopoly, i Mr. S.

said that he ha 1 ihn btatcd at ra'i a tvuglh the vital importance t'i'e ft jqJ the o.st of sustuulilW thorn, b. calHe the I. must nrr H. sarily tegard these liafore they vv th draw the moans sustaining thin urent I WHAT INt'OfttfATtON' hm plvcn In fad's have befm shown l.y I he ndvoeate? ot iho till! before tlir Committee tliat cnabio you to die', that ttm pro; osed can be safely loo the Committee i the advocates of bilifl kno thai the ri can ic i nti at one fare? We knnv they cr.n.'ipt. will show yon that they cannot.

To mere ratidom utterances loose, sweep blV luelito by ttio at tue same time they mako Tli' a' ii iy lli.it th. r.lly know noth tug about the ri il facts, we opp jvj actual Jrnowi od 'e, fr.els, 'lo r.r tone, ilvm luulion an I eln v.e oppoo simple mntle. To iri'i spo.i. un oitMLantial declaration, wooppo.vo (1 lib rale pr oh. Me.

rihlituan K'lvo a tiitory of the caipon plan, I and stated Vnat it wa iuduee.l, not ly the Ij iu lainoil by tLo Ferry Company Irom Hie sale of ticknts by ooildre.ii in tbestrc is, but because of the icee iing to pass iiif 'is from toe pros. oiro of tic'iets upon tbem by tho gainius at the appvnaehes tottie ferry. Tiio giiMC was Memleo until too lat au hour to admit of iIh r. 'rl, or cf anything in than a lusty sketch of its It was claimed that tbo ferries, at the rates proposed, cannot he Ml on the and with til inveiiieuro with whiou tbey I are. now cj aducted, and to this point tha following alli davit of Mr.

Perry sas product i MB. PEimy'H AFFIDAVIT. Before Iho Coiutntttce on Commerce aa Navigation of tho Senate and Assembly In the m't'aVr the Union Ferry Company of i City asi County of AI hanic. hs. Josopb A.

lvny, of Kiugs CoiiNly, being duly sivo.m, that he has beeu counseled with the management of forries bo twoou New York aud iir. oklju as a lliroctor for forly two years past lhat be Is an 1 baB beou a and I tho Treasurer of th; Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn (aud the compaoles to wnich It succeede I) for about tLirty two years past; that tho books of said Company are kept by him aud its business aud unauolal affsirs. uopoucut xurcnei' sarru rust me rji oi ixremr pos serigers Bhall bo reduced to one cent, as proposal by the bills bofnro tho LsgMoUire, the rocelpts of the Company will be diminished in toe sum ot nr annum; that If tho fare should bo reduced is propos.d by one of the said bills as carriages and other vohicicB, ths receipts would be further diminished in the sum of $55,000, making a total reduction of $120,000 per aiiiium. Deponent further aalth that this statement of ths loss which would result from such reduction of fares Is mads, and atlcr and based on aa actual and careful examination, which ho believes to bo correct, ol the raceipts of monoy and tickets at the different ferrlos of said Company on Tuesday, ot the prcBeut week, and that h9 believes tbat day furnished a fair test of tho average rcoefpts at such diiloront ferries, and that, so far as he knows or believes, uo other day in tbeyoar would afford a moro rellablo basis of means of ascertaining what would bo the dlllorencesbotweon ibe receipts from fares at tho proseut rates and tho receipts from fares at tho proposed reduced rates, except that a similar examination, if made iu tho Summer, would showaslill larger loss to Iho Company, according to the best judgment and belief of this deponent. Deponent fnrthor ssitb that such reduction of $I'J'I, 600 above mentioned would render it impossible io tho operation or tbe ferries.

Deponent further says that the practice of the Coiu pauy is to mako up Us annual accounts, taking Itio business and receipts and oxpenses ol tht ferries of tho last financial year as a bash, aud example. Iiepnuout further says that it is tho pracllco of said Company to make up its llnanclal accounts, its business receipts and expenses tr tbe 1st day of May In each year; that its last aonital account w.n msJo up to the 1 of May, 1M77, and that hlnca that date its receipts have fallen 00, while its expenses havo not bteu diminished. Deponent furthr thar, taklag the business receipts and expenses of thu ferries for the year ending the first of May, 1877, as a basis and example, the actual loss at which tho ferries would be op' rated (could thoy be oporated at all) with the (iimiuuilnn of receipts which would thus result from the re lu. tion of fares (tiiO.COO), would be follow! Ibe'iiullug as rt of the expenses the 1 is' os by tho wearnud tear lo wbirb the boats, bridges, racks and other propetties of tho ferries are feubj icted (which by tue extended experiences of the Company Is foun 1 to bu about ten ocnt. per annumj and uot paying ouo cent, of dividends, to the lers.

thu actual Iojs at which the ferries would be ruu would bo the sum of per annum. J. A. Peiuiy. Sworu au subscribed before me, this ltta day of February, ln7rt, J.

C. Cuylkb, Notary Public, Albany, N. Y. IT WAK Ff'RTHER UliGEO that tho diversion of travel from the Fulton Ferry by the completion of ibe new bridge, will so far reduce the receipts of the Fulton r. that It is dounii'ul whether ihey will sufhci to sustain and the other ferries, even should tho proposed ruduction not ma le.

Again, at the expiration of the present lesso increased reuU will be. exacted of the City of Now York. Wiicu the present leaso was mads it was arranged that the fare should be reduced to one cent dnriug five hours of tho day aud to na'ilo the Company to do Uii tho money rent was reduced $10,000. The City of New xork, in December, 1870, brought a suit against the Company, which is no.v pending, to cancel tins leaso and claiming that the rent suould have been $150,000 a year, aud asking an accounting respecting tho same. It will bo very unwise to make the proposed reduction with such a suit banging over the Company.

The ferries are now run at one cent for flic hours in each day, duriug which hours all pernous cro. to whom it is of the slightest moment whether the ferriage Is one nt or five At tho conclusion of Mr. SIKIuian's argument, COLONEL D. 1.AN3IXO took the floor, no said, after prefocmg his remarks with a hope that if ho became norvoua aud excited he would not be held as being personal or ofl. nslvc lu his remarks It must bo a matter of cxeeolluit at importance, a matter of vita! interest to this corporation, when this Company must send as its represeutativos two suoh eminent legal gentlemen eminent in die State and nation, in social, logal and political cireles.

But facts are stubborn things times aro pinching pe have come down to bard pan, while this corporation has been revollng In a franchise costing it but one dollT a year. Mr. Perrv mado out) adursslon ainoug many in favor of roduced ferriage which was worthy of notice. That ouo admiaslou showed that tbe people woro only asking for justice at the hands of tho legislature. In 1850 the rrriaae of the company was duced to one cent, and It remained at one cent until 1851.

Duriug the time of one cent ferriage th declared a dividend of from seven to ten per cent each year. The population of Brooklyn at that time was uot one half of what It now is. Yet for four years, on a population of about two hundred tuyusaud, they earned money had even, SUnPLCS EAENINOS on one cent for and they now contended that wlih a population of nearly six hunired thousand and with ooal aud labor about as cheap as betwo n.n turn an 1854. 'hit th.1T conl I not re luee thoir to one cont From 18.19 to IKJl ther operated tho Fulton and South terriei In 1S50 they caino dowu in 1M1 they added tue nirunu aieuui; "mUr. tney gobbled up tour other ferry, in vifxiuuii.

"is i ferry routu, ami in s.veu inuuun i tained control of all the ferries, they raised the frin I age Irom oue to two cents. It wo plum tli.it en as they bad properly cons illdaled their monoooly thoy put up tho faros. The people were Ignorant of the Inside workings of the company, whom emlnru' counsel had given tbem very Iittie laforuisllo.i. When It was sifted there was not much It. They had hold a large surplus over to coax tbat Sew York km.

Thn lawyers on the other fide of the Host liiver were on tho lookout for a goodly portiou of lhat bi surplu of over hall a million. It seemed that preferred lo board it up rather than 10 give it to tbe people in CHEAP FERRIAGE. I Ther were not trying to protect lbs interests of I the whole people. The question, 8 cate a reduction of ferriage, was at Board of Aldermen aye. Mr.

BUatl wn ao ucwered by tue lliman argue.i that they were paying tbelr pilots iago aaisr.ea The Company did not pay these pilots more tuaia S100 a. month each. 8ome of the rlmts oeivo more than $75 per month for tue To claim that the ferries npt be one cent now as woU as fifteen years i vM ta surd. 1 recollect the time cents postage on a lotter, r.i those toresentod. In ahal I am about hope I will not bo understood a i at 1 allriue i.

si cot to Mr. rry. Hi it.uv'.ta ot tbe offl r.i I wo rtv vtuai of corporations amw i Irus have inoro of thvflo Ttso Tim irrrr) AV1T8. VJJMM S.1W Let us have a showing of du ahowUK Hini.Ion vlowatht completion ol the bridge as i rum mm. present, and tbe re luoreascd In proportion.

(., fr. Colonel Lansing conoiuui arable report upon both measures. replied to Ool nrt Ijnsirg, wring that gradually accreasea "aHd cheap system of I cents, and now ther postage. Alter tbo exilbll bm iuj fnriiA to aiaastruua.j Datif. but whon that bridge la comp ated.

tae Pop i of Long Island will doubl what It at venues of the touiuauy win uo a I I I I I I 1 right to auuul the charter of the company. hid not the power to iutorfere with tho rights of the City of York. Tho rnes belonged lo tha City of New York, and they Iciso I them. No legislation oould interfere with that. As to the to annul tho charter he was not so sure, but raUor Incline! to tho belief (hat it had fhe right ha had not 1 inked particularly into that subject, and biilimui, disagreed with him.

Mr. Silliuian thus appealed to, eaid tbat the Oom pany was organized under the general law, and that legislation particularly directed to tho Company could be bad. It could ba reached only through a in odifkation of ll general law. Colonel Linking Insieled thst iho lxijisloturo ba the right. Judgo Parker then continued, saying thai the Directors of the Company were gentlemen whu Hervc.1 alcno for the boactlt of people.

They owned no mote Btock than was necessary to entitle Uieiai It hold their positions as directors, and Ihey DID NOT Fon MOSEY. Theywerc all of tho highest standing iu the eommunf ly, they so well and uuEelflahly served. Answering Colonel Lansing's statomnnt that from 1850 to 111541 titoy ran (ho Coimanyat ono coot ferriage, yet doubled it when tlio population double.1. bo said, if tho population had doubled so hi tho oxpotises, Le ping abreast with the; Increase, for the iats and ths aconni molatious were necessarily doubled. Tha counsel (Colonel Lansing) had spoketi of the hospital fi residuary legatee, and that it had not received a dollar.

He Baid ho hid nover yet hoard ot a residuary legatee ever receiving a doilar until after the testator was dead, and this hospital could not receive anything iiatU tho company hal ceasel. With reference to tnu charge that the salaries of the engineer: wore only $75 lo $100 per month, in reality thoso saUrlos wor from J5d to 175 per month. Tho Legislators, ha claimctl, had no power to interfere In thu matttar ot rules uf ferriage, i'hena rates wero died in the ooa tract between the City of Now York and tho Forry Company, not by ttic charter uuderjwhtcb the Company was operating, and that contract was binding. He then to the Committees how tho coupon system camo to Iw adopted, ami in closing said ''This fsrrj company is op rated in the interest of Brooklyn and is one of tho means by which Brooklyu has advanood tj her greatness. It would a sorry day for that cltt when THIS AVENUE OF COMMUNICATION with the great city was with or rendered less efficient.

It Is to lay tho best forry in the world. It has the best boats la tho world, Its pilots are the best in tho world, and its directors are tho beat directors In the world. Brooklyn is blind to her interests If Hhu allows lulerfereuco with this Company, sad this action of the AlJcruioa, even for Aldormen, is tho blindest and most unwise act ever performed. If they suocood it will be only to It when it is to) late. Gol ntil Lansiug (aid that ho agreed with evorythinaj tho gontlornsu said, but ho did not gofaronongh; tbey wanted the best, and thoy wanted tho cheapest.

With this thoy would attract from the shores of New Jersey, whither thoy are going now, tho sturdy mo ohauic, the worktug girts, the laboring men, atid then Brooklyn will enter upon that career of progress whioh will make hor, as she ought to be, the pride of tho nation. This virtually closed ths and after tbe Chairman of tho Joint Committee had stated that It the Committees should desire any more light upon ths du'nj oei tho Forry Company and tho Alderuion should informed, adjournment was hid. L11IHT PIUSONt To the nf the BV'. I noticed in tho Eaoi.f. of Fobruory it, lecture delivered by Chaplain McCabe, In which pr.

fesfos to hare found a bright sido to llfo in Ltbhjr Prison, something, I think, that no other mortal, of tile many indued (hero, ever discovered. I was prisoner in Liboy Prison only a Bhort time, but long, enough to have caught just a glimpse of the bright side had there boon one. Perhaps, however, the reverend genllomen entered as 1 i amc out, or camo oul Just went in or, io other words, there might havo been a nuoMn change in the atmosphere of Libby Prison. I wastaten prisoner ouo Sum afternoon during short battle of four hours. Libby being tho uearosl prison, I and a host of otour unf ortiinatos were bur rl 'lo'Jto that doiblittul abo lc.

On entering I waa in line with other pnsotiors, and searched for inoiiny, I may hero add my coat, bat ai'd lib bad been appropriate! by the chivalry earlier In th" day. Tin soirciiing business ovor, I qn rod of on" ot thu older lumaios of tha plioo, what tix prospect was lor unething to eat 7 Ha replied "Wo had a small piece of corn bread about four o'clock and exp ct nothing luorou itll fonro'clock to morrow." No as 1 hud tasted not a mouthful ot food sluoei six In tho morning tho Information tbat I must fast twenty one bonis longer did not bolp to disclose) "tin iiriitlit sido of life In Libby" at least to me. There was no help for 1, aud wwarlly dropping dowu on tho dirty burd floor fnotwiihi tandiiig being packed to together more lik sardines than human beings) 1 was soon soundly sleeping, and did not JV pjiq, a streaming Into tho miserable prison, seem mlYnw awaken until bright cun beam mat gionoiiB roorn (oe in nach one of us llko au angel of merer. After rubbiug my oyca I aauHtered to the nearest window and was indifferently gazing down upou tho street below, when strong band caught mo by tho arm and ulled mo back exclaiming: I Cap, the guard will shoot you through tho bead tC ho catuhOB you at tbat buid.iess," and pointing upwurd showed mo the casing riddled wltn bullets that told more eloquently than wordai oould do. tho story of unsuspecting lives vleldt up to gratify tho" malignancy of life III.

hmond Home Guard. I was iu Libby Prison about ten days, aud during that time our fare consisted eaob day of about four ounces of corn bread, with small plooa of bacon so wormy tbat fow of tbo now arrivals thought thev would aver be hungry ououyh to eat it. No sooner would a piece of baooa and worm be thrown into a spittoon or on tha flows thau some poor fellow wno nod seen more oi ma bright side of I.lbby" than wo bad, wonld lmmadi ately dofour or lay it by lor future use. Chaplain MeCabo says, If any one thinks that ill tbat men did in Libby Prison was to suffer, starve and dlo, ttiev aro vory much mistaken about the plsoe. 1 solemnly affirm that was tho principal business going on while I wss there," I was for oi ae uionUit a prisonci In different Southern prisons, AndersonvJllo Included, and tuy experience has lurarlably beea that not mors, Ibin ie poison In one hundred had a cam of money, and as for reading matter I nover saw a paper, book or parnphl 't In any of thorn.

I did occasionally sea pack of cards with ths spots nearly worn ofT (that our captors did not think worth taking from us). Thuo wore usod principally in gambling for oaoh others' ratious. During my stay In Libby the prlionors were anj. thiuj but facetious, but ou the other hind were aa dorrnhesrtcJ, sick, starved aud dixconraei that they would Fit together for hours and not speak a word, oar bcdiQ Libtiy Prison was on floor, anl In Anders onvillo, tnc ground; r.nd as for the nlghttresiea that Mr. speaks of, such luxuries were novor ones thought of duriug my prison life; wo were only too tl.asbful for day.Iress.

Libby Prison never seoiu to mo tho most horri bl p'aee iu tho werli." It was moro ouduroble tbn Au lers mv.lle tint Is. hua ever, saving but little for it. I verily believe it auolhar Duulu shoul I a'lso aud wish to describe a lic.l lie co ill tin no better than to obtain a truo history of Anoersonritle. O. K.

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an onlcrlalnuaont will be given by Barbara Freltchie Post, O. A. in all of Its chanty tunl. Oa. of tho attractions will be a humorous lecture by Hsv.

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Chords. CIll'IlCH OK CIIKIsmX EXDEtrOK. Iu tbe Church of Christian Endeavor but ulglit a popular" entertainment was given. Tha at teu lauco was large. The contributing talent included Mr.

I'. A. Stearns, organist Mr. Henry Gait, elocutionist Mrs. Charles Merrlok, aalst, and Mr.

P. J. Smith anl Miss Jennie Fiitgis. vocalists. jiiiNinij; rvivi HON DAY EAGIjR.

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K'lRK OO, aad Broad Y. leaps from the manifesto he would mangle to the man who wrote it an "official hyperbole and a brutuin fulmen." There should bo buckets of blood for this; but we suppose Massey will take a subtler and crueler revenge, by provoking Bennott to write some more "protests." The reference made by Bennott to his "sober "second thought" would be harsh in its from another. Coming from himself, who ought to know how often sobriety aud thinking are contemporaneous in him, Bennett's modesty in numberiug the occasions at only two, aud his candor in thus reflecting on the condition of hisfint thought, when "he "ran Dady in" are really entitled to praise and will excite no dispute. Tho concluding poetical effusion is unique. Bennett did not understand it.

Flaherty did not appreciate it. Northup, who, like Tony Weller, thinks tnat poetry is low, was angry at it. Only Massey was apparenty calm. Tho "liues," it is said, gave him tho key to the authorship of the entire protest of Bennett, and he really could not see that they were any mora out of placo in the paper than Bennott is out of place in the Board itself. Beside the original appearance of the ''sentiment" of "citizens' tears" and "the eaves of reeds," in a casual encyclical of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, escaped notice, as a general thing.

It was, therefore, characteristic of tho author, and quite defensible, that he should re issue his poetical prose and his prosaic poetry through tho bulk and brain of Bonuett, and dedicate them to the desert and destiny of Dady. Tho The most exciting proposition before the Supervisors yesterday afternoon seems to havo been one to display the Court House flag at half mast for the late Pontiff. Iu a mixed community, like Brooklyn, such propositions ought not to be made. They certainly can in no degree affect the dead whom they are do signed to honor, aud they aro something of an insult to the living who profoundly cherish his memory, for thoy imply a belief that political capital oan, by bunting and ciap trap speeches, be made out of sincere religious son timont. There are, wo aro confident, just as ow Catholics, who will thank any person for making Pope Pius a subject of debate in the Board of Supervisors, as there are intelligent Protestants who do not think highly of his personal character.

Another communication was rocoived from ex District Attorney Britton on the outdoor relief question. The communication states, what is not doubtful, that the Chanties Com missionors aro responsible for distributing tho roliof to proper persons, and that the Supervisors havo no further responsibility iu the matter than to see that the aggregate allowance is limited to the reasonable needs of tho poor who fall undor tho provisions of the ra lief law. In othor words, if the Charities Commissioners give relief to ablo bodied persons, or to any persons except thoso who cannot, by roason of sickness, ba ro movod to tho Almshouse, they will bo liable to dismissal from office aud imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Thore is, however, an intimation, iu Mr. Britton's opinion, that without technically violating' the law the Supervisors may establish storehouses or depots whence tho supplies needed for tho disabled poor may be drawn.

We do not caro, at present, to argue about technicalities. The fact, however, is that no snch storehouses as some of tho Supervisors have in view can be established except in flagrant defiance of the spirit of the law, and in most flagrant defianco of tho rights of the taxpayers. Since the outdoor relief system was stopped we have had abundant proof that private charity is equal to the care of all who can bo legally helped by the county authorities. To propose to re establish the outdoor relief system, on any pretext, is to undertake in a brazen, wanton way to squander the money of industrious people upon lazy paupers. It has not been shown audit cannot be shown that there is a single person in Brooklyn entitled to relief under the law, who is not being relieved without resort to law.

The So cioty for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor stands pledged to relieve all such peisons, and till that pledge at least is shown to be invalid, Brooklyn will not tolerate the re establishment by the Supervisors of a system that fell to pieces because it was rot ton. Iu several forms the of the Lunatic Asylum was called in question. Mr. Sexton charged the Doctor with oxtravaganco and negligence. The negligence specified consisted iu the Doctor's failure to have the iron bar replaced in tho window through which an inmate recently loaped and killed himself.

It is quite probable that there are several things about the Asylum management hich need looking after, but Mr. Sexton's charges soem captious rather than serious. The Board adopted a preamble aud resolutions protesting agaiust the passago of the bill introduced by Assemblyman. Bergen to throw upon the city the assessment for Ocean Parkway. The bill is an impudent attempt otho part of the property owners to repudiate a debt and is entitled to no toleration.

On this matter the Board was certainly right. MassncIiuscU' Solution of the Tramp Pvoblonw Massachusetts has very wisely and very DiMclicallv taken the tramp conundrum iu 1 hand, and has begun its solution by investi 1 gating the true character of the real tramp. This was most successfully done by sending out two amateurs to study by association the ways of that individual. These two men, after a prolonged tour, have returned to Massachu setts and made a statement of their experi ences. They were sent out under instructions I from the chief detective, aud were employes i of that office.

They left Springfield in July last, and were supplied from place to place with money enough to keep them from suffor ing in case they failed to succeed in begging their way. The tramp proper is supposed to steal what is not donatod to him legitimately, but being law abiding citizens, they were provided with funds to enable them to live honestly while on their travels. Their first highway acquaintances informed them that thoy could get no food excepting dry bread, and sometimes a little milk by bog ging. Solid food was not offered and that they must secure by stealing. These two men, like the majority with whom the amateur tramps were thrown, had been at the busi ness for eight and nine years, and preferred it to a life of steady employment.

At one place in the woods tho two novices came upon i a family of eighteen tramps, and remained with them some days. They lived on chick ens and potatoes stolen from the farmers in the neighborhood. The men wore of every nationality, the German and Irish predominating, the remainder being French, Dutch, Swedes and Americans. When moving about the country, the tramps divide into squads of four or five and agree upon some future meeting place further on. It is deemed best to work the country in small numbers, as in divided ranks there is more certainty of success than iu union.

When the two men required food thoy wonld go alone to some farmhouse and buy what was expected of them aud return with it to camp, leaving their comrades in ignorance of their mode of procuring it. In moving over the country the party make sigus at the prominent points on the route to direct those behind, and one of tho disclosures made was to the effect that every tramp goes well supplied with several kinds of chalk. An arrow of white, blue or red is usually made upon large rocks, trees, to direct each gang to the place of rendezvous. Young tramps, find it harder to beg food than old ones the latter appealing effectually to the compassion of tho people. Stealing seemed to bo the preferred mode of getting food; aud liquor was more desirable than bread.

They generally had rum which beside being used as a beverage was kept to saturate tho bread with whioh they caught 1 I I i has been made, or can possibly be ieotion It will reduce the number of officials, and this is all that can be said against it. One of two things is certain Mr. Pierce's bill will pass or the political party which may choose to assume responsibility for its defeat will find every taxpayer in Brooklyn arrayed against it. The real danger is that the politicians may be able to divide the Legislative representatives of each party on the bill. In this event it will be for the tax to mark the individual rejireseiatative, and to see to it that his political life ends with his performances at Albany.

Bennett's Briifuiii fulinvn. To become the most ridiculous mau in a city requires different action on the part of different men. i'or that purpose George, tho Count has to act Romeo. George Francis Train has to hire a hall. George C.

Bennett but needs to write a protest. He wrote one and we printed it yesterday. The protest can either be taken in bulk, as Bennett takes his refreshments, or hero a littlo and there a little, as Bennett does his naps in tho Board. If Bennett wrote and expected the people of Brooklyn to think well of it, he took this public for a fool. If somebody olse wrote it for Bennett's use, that somebody else played Bennett for a fool, aud landed him in that charncter.

Who the author is, is of no consequence. Bennett has proudly inserted his own ears jnto it, and has informed its syllables with tho bray of his 2'ouuiicint ion. The document is apparently meant to be an antidote to Mr. Massey's protest of the day before. It is then seemingly further designed to give Mike Dady what tho politicians call a first class notico." How these purposes havo miscarried, even Bennett by this time appreciates, if the loudest laughter Brooklyn has indulged in for long yeais has waked him up aud penetrated his alleged mind.

Dady is declared to be "a skillful and experienced "mason," to start with. Skillful had been enough if not, it could legitimately go with any other adjective than experienced, without luirtiug tho souse. In that view it would have been perfectly possible for Bennett to have said a "skillful and iwoxporienced "mason," which would have been almost as preposterous as Bonuett himsolf. Bui it is only one step from the sublimo to the ridiculous. Aud it is only one stop from Dady's trade to Dady's traits for Bennott, He next unhesitatingly declaros that this skillful and experienced mason is affable in mauner, eflceou, and apprehensive of intol lect." The yet," if it has any sense, implies that Mike Dady is a remarkably venerable person, and that it is wonderful that he still retains possession of his faoulties.

There is a transient suggestion that Dady may be ono of George Washington's nurses in disguise, or that perhaps he is the Wandering Jew, or Captain La Brush revisiting the glimpses of the New Municipal Building. When the sort of faculties this immemorial Dady is credited with by Bonuett is borne in mind, the average render is simply overwhelmed with astonishment. Dndy is "affable in manuor, yet keen, mid approhensivo of intellect." The necessity of an affablo manner" in a Sewer Inspector, is not half so plain as the impression that it must have been a process of sewer inspection that led to Bennett's discovery as a Commissioner of City Works. Nevertheless, though Bennett is not acceptod as a Chesterfield, it is very evident that he has an idea that Dady can be trusted to deal with sewers in a suitably "affable maunor." He will be expected by Bennett to approach a manhole with a series of bows worthy of a French dancing master, and a succession of smiles modeled on tho Flaherty grin, which is warranted to give a doorknocker the hysterics. Afterward he must lower his ladder and examine the sewer pipe with a grace and unction pattorned on those with which his political patron, Mr.

John French, delivers his remarkable obituary addresses on ex City Fathers who have joined tho majority party. But manner, not even an affable man "ner," makes the man or tho Sower Inspector, in the ojuuion of the beer and bourbon of Bennett. Tho man must be "keen," in Bennett's opinion, although Mike Dady's reputation as a keener is quite as well established as Bennett's idea of what "keen" is. Why the eulogist did not rise to the comparative from the positive is only to be explained by his complete superiority to grammar and such things which to him, like "astronomy to another local statesman, is all a mystery." Not only, however, is this "skillful and oxperienced mason got keen, but ho is also "apprehensive of intellect." ft is not revealed from what quarter Dady is thus "apprehensive of intellect." When the document was being read by the dazed and distressed Northup, Boimott was asleep. On being waked up to respond to tho question "From what quarter is Dady 'apprehensive of in tetlect Bennett looked in the direction of Flaherty and smiled with the leer of compliment iu his left eye.

Flaherty, however, resented tho insinuation that anybody had a right to bo "apprehensive of intellect" iu him' as very like a personal reflection. Uncle Dan, who saw that the words were vory rough on Dady, and who likes on principle to stand as well with the coiuiug Seiver Inspector as he did with the going one, hero interposed the remark that the words made the records of the Board look ridiculous, and represented Dady as "apprehensive of having "an intellect," or as panic stricken at the idea of being suspected of having a mind. As nobody suggested that it was gettiug to be a long time between drinks, none of these remonstrances moved Bennett. He insisted on "apprehensive of iutoltect," confident that that the remark was purely literary," and that neither in his own nor iu Dady's case was there tho slightest ground for such an "apprehension." From this rare, radiant aud racy point, it is pretty plain that our readers, last night, perused tho protest with critical attention. They saw how Bennett dropped into Scripture iu a friendly way as Silas Wegg was wont to drop into poetry, saying that Mr.

Dady had won the encomium, "well done good aud "faithful servant jn previous important public "relations." The Scripture reserves this "encomium" till the Day of Judgment and for those who are so fortunate as to escape having their resurrection baggage cheeked for the place which Mr. Beeoher, Canon Farrar, Dr. Nyo and Mr. Chadwick have, since the Scripture was written, very kindly abolished. Bennett, however, is not hindered by any of these things.

Without arrogating the functions of the Judge of all, he considers that ho is competent to play Providence with himself and Dady. So he defends his own English and passes that "encomium" on Mike Dady in the same aromatic breath. We do not know that the hardiness of even the Hardy Norsemen will not confess itself outdone by this deliverance of Bennett on Dady, in its terms. By the statements of the protest, it then appears that Bogart's removal and Dady's appointment had been requested Bennott says "besought," as if he wasdjvine and tho suppliants had bowed down and worshiped him. In this there would have been no infraction of the decalogue, for beyond doubt Bennett is unlike anything in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or in the waters under the enrth, and only such things are prohibited.

There would be no idolatry in praying to Bennett. Thore would be no public loss in making of him a burnt offering. But to those who "besought" this appointment: They are stated, among others, to have been Aldermen Burnet and Shannon there is a conjunction for you and City Fathers Frenoh, Fisher, Baird Williams, Fritz and Aitken. So these wanted Dady, did they, and wanted him at the horny hands of Flaherty and the literary fist of Bennett, Explanations do not explain as the Committee's report on Flaherty is proof. But confessions sometimes enlighten, and this disclosure of eight Aldermen suing Flaherty for favors shows what excellent judges they i make them dangerous to the community.

Massachusetts proposes to rid herself of the fraternity, and tho Legislature has now before it several bills looking to this end. No man is to have freedom in tramping in that State hereafter, and it is likely that other States will soon follow the arbitrary stand taken by it. The result of the long investigation, made in so practical a way that it must be believed, will be to correct many wrong notions entertained by the public regarding this class. It can but convince the majority of thinking people that tho tramp, as an institution, is a great curse to the country, aud that speedy and effective laws must be passed and enforced to cut it off in its childhood. Were it to become engrafted upon our country, the injury would be equal to a locust plague or a prolonged epidemic.

Massachusetts has set all the States an example which ought to be followed, and the sooner Now York begins lawmaking on the subject the bettor for all concerned. Subjects for the Disscctlua: "fable. Respect for the dead is a sentiment which is confined to nn one class or country. It is universally held and is exhibited in various ways. The pageantry of modern funerals is but the outward expression of regard for the memory of the deceased, and it provails among all races and conditions of men.

It is this sentiment which has stood in the way of progress so far as the incineration of dead bodies is concerned. There can be no question about the sanitary advantages to tho living whioh can be subserved by thus disposing of the bodily remains of the deceased; tho sentiment of affection naturally rocoils from the thought of consum ing aud destroying all that remains of those who have been dear to us. The sentiment is perfectly natural and is not to be sneered at. The feoling of surviving relatives and friends ahould rightly be considered in matters of this kind, and no amount of argument can touch it. Tho same foeliug prevails relative to tho the dead.

It is just as satisfactory to survivors to learn that tho body of ft dear one has b9on out to piocos iu tho intorasts. of scionoe, as to know that tho cremation of thoir dead is of great advantage in fertilizing anew tho Holds and forests of this coatinsnfc; and since this is true, it is manifestly improper to wound tham by insisting upon either. At the same time soiouce has some claims. It is necessary for tho sake of the living that dead bodies should constantly bo subjected to postmortem examina. tion.

The rapid advance of msdical aud surgical kuowledg.) within the past century is due in a great measure to tho careful examination of tho human frame in the dissecting room, and for a thorough practical understanding of tho diseases which afflict maukind a certain number of subjects must be provided. There is nothing offensive in tho mera act of dissection iu tho abstract. It is only where it affronts tho natural sentiment of the living that it can for ono moment be questioned. The laws of most Statos in this country have mot the difficulty gonorously by permitting the medical colleges to take po3S3S3ion, iu proper shares, of such bodies as are unclaimed by relatives and friends at the hospitals and asylums. Tho rule is generally to give such notice of the do cease of patients as will pormit the proper persons to take them away tor burial, and there is, we believe, no claim set up.

that this rule fails to furnish the proper number. A violation of it, therefore, appears to be without justification. The indignation of Mrs. Pfaff, consequently, at the mutilation of her husband's remains by tho authorities of the Insane Asylum, as reported in the Eagle yesterday, will be uudor stood and shared by a great many people. Carl Pfaff, her husband, died of apoplexy at the Asylum on January 4.

Mrs. Pfaff was notified, and tho next moraiug a relative, accompanied by an uudrtaker, weut to tho Asylum to claim tho body. Thoy were told to wait, however, and after doing so for some time, tho undertaker forced his way into the disseotiug room and found that the physicians had just completed an autopsy of the body. The undertaker took possession of it, conveyed it to his establishment aud thonco to Mrs. Pfaff's house, where the discovery was made by her that the remains had been mutilated iu the interests of science.

It is even charged that some of the vital organs 1 had not been replaced in th9 body, but had been retained by the authorities for further study. An interview with Dr. Parsons revealed the fact that the dissection of deceased patients, whether claimed or not, is the rule at the Asylum, and not the exception; aud he justifies this action by tho fact that the inmates are supported by tho county and should therefore belong to the county. This is a mere assumption, which cannot be maintained. However, whothor it can or not, it is not tho law and tho authorities are making a great mistake at least iu permitting the pr.ietioe.

It is not long since a more serious case than that of Mrs. Pfaff occupied the attention of the Commissioners. The relatives of tho deceased were not even notified of death, and only learned it accidentally after a post mortem. In neither of these instances can it be claimed that an autopsy was necessary to decide tho cause of death. It was made iu the interests of medical education.

Siuce there are plenty of cadavers, lawfully provided for this purpose, tho authorities at tho Insane Asylum have no excuse for outraging the feelings of relatives by mutilatiug their dead. The War. Tho English fleet is now in command of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, tho Bos phorus aud the marine side of Constantinople. In a few hours we shall learn either that the Russians have seized the land lines of the city, or, acting under the moderate counsels of Gormauy, have changed the programme announced by Gortchakoff on Tuesday last. The probabilities aro that the Russian programme will not bo changed.

Hence, it is safe to say that by to morrow night the Russians and the English will be within range of each other's guns. Peace is trombling in the balance. Interests which are not well defined will turn the scale. It is useless to speculate what the result will be when we shall probably have it definitely announced within a few days, and when all speculation just now must be conducted in the dark. That England is prepared to fight if Austria will join her is not doubtful.

Whether she will fight alone is uncertain. What Austria will do seems to depend first upon the policy of Germany, and second upon the concessions or rather the the retrogressions which the Russians may be found willing to make. Every civilized man must be sick at heart as he contemplates the possibilities of war between England and Austria on the one side against Russia on the other. The first shot exchanged between these powers will set two continents in a blaze, and before the conflagration stops the whole face of Europe oiay be changed. Today the existence of Austria is as much at stake as is that of hapless Turkey, and the Empire of India is threatened.

Germany, France aud Belgium are also profoundly concerned. The third anniversary of the dedication of the Groenwood Baptist Church will bo celebrated at 3 o'clock next Friday afternoon in the edifice, corner ol Fourth avenue and Fifteenth street, on which occaaion there will be some very interesting exercises. A sermon will be preached by Rav. Emory J. Haynes, pastor of the Washington avenue Baptist Church, and addresses will be made by Rev.

Edward Bright, D. and Rev. Halsoy W. Knapp, D. D.

Rev. A. G. Lawson, in an invitation to the services, expresses satiBtaction at the progress made by the church. Be says that the home school has more than 600 pupils in attendance, and the branch school over 100.

During the past year thore were baptized 133 persona, of whom 09 wore adults and Ct were young people. A Urge number of friends of tho church will bo present. COKKEST EVENTS. Mr. Bernard G.

Mulouo, for fourteen years Clerk of the General Term of tho Court of Cjuitnou Picas, died yesterday. No fears need lie entertained of an ica famine this coming Summer. Tho harvest is bidng gathered now, and already 800,000 tons about half the crop is under cover. Tho Centennial anniversary of the birth of Robort Emmet, tho Irish patriot, occurs on tho Ith of March and tho Irish Amoriunn eitizons of Washington aro making arrangements to celebrate it. An unofflcinl census of Providence shows a population of 98,501, a falling off in threo years of about 2,000, resulting mainly from of tho various manufacturing interests.

The Now York Post Office officials report that more volontinos passed through that yesterday than have sent iu years. It required a large force of employes to distribute them. The Union League Club, of New York, last cveninc passed resolutions of respoet to the memory of the lato Theodore Hooscvclt, for many years a member of the club. The sale of Charles A. Lamout's collection oi oil paintings, at Caickering Hall, New York, was conoluded last evening.

'Iho total amount realized from the sale of the collection 153 paintings was 281.50. The Cougrass of Beauty and Culture," at Gilmoro's Garden, New York, does not continuo to attract crowds Binco the polico force haa been incrousod. Only about 300 persons were present last night, and tho eotertainmont was voted a bore. Irish tapestry is the name given to the gray and eoru linens used for upholstering furniture and for curtains. It cotnos in basket woven checks with damask borders, or else it Is covered with damask designs.

The legislative investigation in the alleged cruelties in tho New Jorsey State Prison is slUl continued at Trcntou. The feeling against General Mott, tho Keeper of the prison, is very biller among a lavgs liloss of peoplo in Trenton, The fourteenth annual dinner of the Dartmouth College Alumni Association was held last evou ing at Dolnionico's, New York. Spoeches wore made by the President of tho Association, Mr. R. B.

Kimball, President Bartlett, Rev. W. J. Tucker, D. and others.

The Canard steamship China, which arrived at Jersey City yostorJay, retort tho first and second officers wasaod overboard during a sevore storm whioh she eunouuterod when a fow days sail from the American coast. Dnustially heavy weather was experienced during the entire trip. The funeral of the lato Kobert Lennox Taylor, of New York, took place yesterday, from tho Scotch Prisbytorlan Church, Fourtoonth street. The church was crowde I with the frioudB of tho ox l'Uot Comnussioncr, and there was a delegation from tho pilots of the port present. Seorotary Sherman has informed Cougrcss that compared with tho last fiscal yoa und according to tho present rate of Income, thora would bo a deficit during tho flsoal year of Ho recommends increased taxation or roduced expondituros.

The Lord Hicks hearing, which had beeu set down for yesterday before Ju le Donohue in New York, was postponed by conseut of lawyers, going over thi3 timo to t'ao 21st. The lawyora are busily engaged upon a compromise in privato, and it is no! likoly that the esse will ever bo heard of again through the oourls. Rapid transit will ba au accompli tilted fact iu Now York by iluy 1. In Sixth avenuo tho road is nearly finished, and on tho East aide the work is progressing as rapl lly as possible. Traius will be running on the Gilbort road, between Bowling Green and Central Park, by the first of April.

Miss Eobinsou, daughter of Governor Itobinson, gave a brilliant rocoptlon at tho Governor's houao in Albany last evening. Thero were about Are hu idred guests present, including many State oflioials and distiuguishad people all parts of the State. Senator Jones, of Nevada, spoke yesterday in dofonse of the Silver bill. His speech was of groat length, and be was congratulated on hla effort nt Us conclusion. Mr.

Blaine submitted a substitute for the Silver bill, of which he gave notico sovoral doys ago, when he addressed tho Senate. Alexander M. Turney, the former paying teller of tho Bank of North America, was arraigned yesterday in the Court of General Hesjions for embezzlement, and pleaded not guilty. An adjournment was granted by Judgo Glldorsleeve, without (lung any specific day. Tho amount of Turnoy's defalcations is about $105,000.

John S. Morton, ox President, and Samuel P. Huhn, ex Troisurer of tho West Philadelphia Ps souger ltadway Co upiny, both withdrew their pleas of not guilty yesterday and ploadel guilty to both oouuts of tho Until tho trial the accused are lo remain iu prison. No tiino has b.oa namad for tho trial. Right Reverend Bishop Fallows, last evening, administered the rito oi confirmation to a gooily number of candidates iu tho Java etrcot Beformod Episcopal Church.

A full attendance ol members of the congregation and others interested witnessed the ceromony. Tao Bishop preached an appropriate sermon. The Newark, N. Relief Association assist ovsr families each week, yet the dostilution is bo great with all tho ail it furnishes there is much suf fonng. i'ji of work and tho savings banks disasters aro tho causes of th; widespread poverty.

Citizens buy the tio'i ots by the Association and distributo them to the needy. Louis G. Fouse and Henry 13. Herehber ger, of Foh6c, Hershbergar 3c mercantile agents, "New York, havo boon lodgod in jail la dolault of fcVJoO ball each. Tho oharge is that thoy appropriated to their own use the procoods of claims intrusted to thorn for by Siondenbach, Schwab of 5il Broadway.

The fuuoral of Hou. Gideon Welles, ox Secrotary of tho Navy, was attended at St. John's Church, Hartford, yoatPrday. Tiio ceremonies consisted simply of the burial servico of tho Eptscopaj Church, which woro conducted by Bishop Williams, Itov. Dr.

Washburne, of Calvary Caurib, Now York and Mr. Miller, rector of St. John's Church. A largo number of frloods wero present. The Rev.

Dr. Woodbridgo, rector of the Monumental Episcopal Church, of lllcumoud, for forty years, died yesterday, agod 74. Ho was a native of Massachusetts aud a graduate of West Point. He subsequently edited a political newspaper in Maryland and then wont to tho ThoologloBl Seminary at Alexandria, wboro he was ordained. He never had any othor than the Monumental Church, which charge ho held for tho long time named.

The Importers' and Grocers' Board of Trade of New York met yestorday and passed the following prolost against tho proposed remonotizatlon of silver The Importors' and Grocers' Board of Trade of tho City of New York 'respectfully but earnest protests against tho passage of auy bill romonetlzlug silver, or proviJtng for tho payment of our Government debts in any money but gold. Aa merchants and men of business, we deny tho right of debtors to offer in payment of their obligations anything less valuable than their promise to pay implies, deeming such an act of partial repudiation dishonorable aUke in nations or in individuals. Dealing iu articles of foreign production, which must bo paid for in goll, and which are in dally use by every fatnilr, we realizo how severe muni bo (he burden of increased ooat to those who are compelled to receive a depreciated curreuoy iu payraout for their labor or produce, Tho evils of a depreciated and fluctuating currency, from which tho country has bo severely Buffered, aro still too apparent nut tp excite alarm at too pryspoet of any legislation ca culatod to defer the promised return to the gold standard iu January, 1810. The bill to grant pensions to soldiers and sailors of tho Moxican war was dioussed beforo tho Honse of Representatives by Mr. Horbert, of Alabama, who advocated the bill, and by Mr.

Powers, of Maiue, who opposed it. Tha bill directs tha Secretary of the Interior to placo on the pension rolls the names of the surviving officers and enlisted men, Including militia and volunteers of the military and naval services, who served sixty davs in tho Mexican war or thirty days in the Creek war, or the Seminole war, or the Black Hawk war, or to their surviving widowB who have not married. Mr. Powers opposed it on the ground that it opened wide a new door by which millions of dollars would b2 drawn from the Treasury. He believes that the annual drain nnder the bill would be $7,500,000, to say nothing of arrearages, and thinks the whole outlay would not fall short of $100,000,000.

The Committee which estimated tho bill reported that the annual outlay would bo 11,500,000. Captain J. H. Ankers, master of the wrecked Metropolis, has made a sworn statement denying the testimony given by George A. Yohe and P.

J. White beforo the Investigation Commission io Philadelphia on Wednesday, to he effect tbat one of the owners of the vessel told him, in easo ot an accident, to make a aaoi wreck of the ship. He denies that he ever made such an insane remark. His he eay, were to keep the vessel in order, to satisfy the charterers (Messrs. Collins, of Philadelphia), and keep the vessel i in tho employ.

His last order from the owners was, be says, "that Captain Bourne had suggested uaai as were was fever upon the Klver Amazon, it woald be advisable to give the crew a portion of quinine aftsr arrival at Para each morning, and the last articles sent oa board by the owners was mosqnito netting for the tue of the officers and crew on the aald river." Captain ADkers, who is confined to bis bed, states that he cannot understand the object or motive of persona who expressed aueb gratitude for his exertion la saving their lives in now endeavoring to ruin his character. He mido oath to bis denial, and sent it to tho United States Steamboat Inspectors of New York and pkHM ANRSTI.Y 15 TWO TOFO WRFKS wiTHOCT THR KjilFB, UQATuRJ OR CAl'hTHV No ctw whatever utU 8.