The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 2

taken down by too clerk and that gentleman reprimanded. He thought such a course was duo to their is peculiarly situated, certainly, and the Brook DEMOCRATS. EDUCATION. REPUBLICANS. so satisfied that ho was the right man for their pulpit that they tendered him a coll to become their permanent pastor.

He accepted on one of itf and tbero have been many inatftacos of the keepers of lunatic asylums becoming insane through constant contact with insarhfty. It is bad policy, as Mr. Sutphen's ease showi other ward of its bIzo in tho city. Thn more wo Interfere with iho affairs of wards the moro thoy got demoralized. When we let tho wards alone they ea.lly wjttlo thou own disputes.

I movo to lay tho amendment of Mr, Harlow on the table. Tho Chair The effect of that will bo to lay tho wholo subloot on the table. Mr. Fales Thon of course I withdraw my motion. Mr.

8charmauu (Twenty first Ward) I hope. Mr. Chairman, tthat tho amendment of Mr. Harlow will prevail, and that tho opinion of Mr. Fales will wit prevail.

The Republican party is a party of profjrew and, I believe, a party of morals. If the votes when first counted numbered 239 and were incrcafed to 260 without the Intermingling of the ueiea, we must concede WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEMtUARY 5, 1879. dignity ana Ben respect. 'Mr. Culyer Do you mean me? Mr.

Huntley No, he means me. Mr. Culyer Oil, I will forgivo Mr. Huntley, rLaiiffhtor.l Mr. Williams cited a case similar to the ono referred to in the communication which had been disposed of two years ago.

An investigation ny tne Health committee brought to light the fact that there was nothing in it, ana tnus gavea tne aoara a useless oxpenallure. The matter was referred to the Committee on School House and Heating and ventilation, with power to remedy the trouble at a cost not to exceed $250. Mr. Carroll offered the following Whereas, The day for the payment of the salaries of the teachers lor this month will fall upon a legal holi aay tnererore. Resolved, That the salaries of teachers for the month of February, 1879, be paid on the 15th it being the Bdturaay pruceuuig nasningwn'n mrtnaay.

TEAOHEBS' 8ALABIES. Mr. Carroll offered the following: The Committee on Teachers and Commiitea on Fi nance, to whom was referred the following resolution "Resolved, That it be referred to tho Committee on Teachers and Committee on Finance to derise a plan by which the expenses, for teachers' wages for the year 187D Bhall not exceed the amount appropriated for that purpose for said year," respeotf uTly report that thoy have given the subjeot due consideration, and offer for adoption the following resolutions Resolved, That in all cases where tho grades of the classes are raised, it shall not affect the salaries of the teaohera, but that thoy shall be paid at the rates of the grades of classes taught by them previous to the raising of the same during the year 1879. Resolved. That no addition shall 1 made to the nres ent corps of teachers, except upon the report of tho Teachers' Committee aa to the nnceoaitv for the annolnt nient, and the committee Bhall also be authorized to recommend the transfor of teacher to fill suoh vacancy nuui any Hwiuyi wuero, in me juagment ox saia committee, a teacher may be properly spared.

Resolved, That the salaries of the following teachers be Axed as follows At Present To Receiving. Receive. SavinK. Twenty nine principals $2,700.00 82.400 $2,700.00 OnB principal, No. 29 2,296.00 2,000 295.00 One principal, No.

2 2.025.00 2,000 25.00 One prinoipal. Colored No. 1. L662.50 1,300 252.50 One prinoipal. Colored No.

2. 1,55180 100 252.50 Six principals, Noa. 8. SI, 28, .89, 40 primary 1,880.00 1,300 480.00 Sixty three heads of 630.00 900 lPO.OO One teacher in Primrr No. 4.

837.00 809 87.00 Fitg heads of departments in Primary No. 18, Primary No. 84, Primary No. 3, Colored No. 1, Primary No.

23 790.50 750 Sixteen teachers in Central Grammar School 1,000.00 900 Musio, aix teachers 1,250,00 1,300 Muaio, one teacher, 920,00 850 Music, ono teacher to be dismissed 1,330.00 Drawing, one teacher Iaj.OO 1,200 Drawing, three teaohera 920.00 900 202.50 lSOO.OO 480.00 70.00 1,380.00 180.00 60.00 TotaJU. 816,041.50. THOMAS CuinoU, a. ahmbmamn, John Flynn. N.

J. Gates, Alexander Fobkmt, 8. B. Dutches, James Morphj, W. It.

Thomas, Thomas Pbosseb, John Williams, James Hall. Coramitteo on Teaohera. Committee on Finance: Wm. Sohwabtzwaldeb,) Hr. Lowell wanted to know what was to be done with tho $32,000 deficiency of last year 7 Mr.

Carroll The Joint Committee had no authority to deal with that question. If it is possible for us to live within our income this year 1 have to think that the proper authorities will not ask us to make up tho de ucienoy out of the teachers' salaries. I think it will be made up for us. Mr. Scharmann What authorities 7 Mr.

Carroll The Board of Estimate, or a majority of them, have told us that. I will state that unless the resolutions accompanying tho report are passed it will be Impossible to carry out the agreement. Last year the raising of grades of teachers in our schools cost us $14,000 this year it will coat us nothing. Mr. Scharmann I hold this, that it we can go to tho Board of Estimate for $32,000 for the deficiency of 1878, and convince them in that year we did not make any misappropriation, we can do the same for this year's deficiencies.

I shall not therefore rote for the resolutions. I have stated hero that consider teaching to bo one of the higher arts, and I believe that our teachers are not paid too much by a single penny. If we oan ask for $32,000, why can we not ask for $17,000 more The Chair If I understand the question, it is this In 1878 we created a deficiency of $32,000. We do not now propose to touch that question, so that whon Juno comes we can ask the Board of Estimate to allow us money to meet the deficiency. If wo had no right to create that deficiency, is it wise for us to go on croating another one 7 This report brings our expenditures within the amount at our disposal.

It is for us to say whether we shall go on creating another deficiency. Mr. Scharmann I want to know whether we havo got to the bottom of the teachers' salaries or not Mr. Huntley I think that tho gentlemen who havo looked at our duties and rights and powers will determine, every one of them, that we really have no right to create a deficiency. I am sure, that while the officers of the Board are In the nature of state officials, they constitute a city department, at least so far as financial matters are concerned, and I apprehend that if the Board of Estimate should refuse to give us a doUar we OOULD NOT SPEND ANY MONEY for schools.

I agree with Mr. Scharmann when he refers to the dignity of a teacher, and I do not now believe that there is one dollar too much paid them. But, sir, what can I do what can my friend do? The Board of Estimate have said that we can have so much money. We can appropriate that money, and that is all wo can do. The report of tho committee represents the conclusions of different minds.

Wo must submit to it. There is only ono other way, which is to continue exhausting our appropriation at tho present rate, and thon close up tho schools when it is gone. That would scarcely bo a happy alternative. Mr. Rowe I contend that no gentleman hero has a right to voto away a cent of money that has not been appropriated for the purpose.

It is our duty, as public ofllclalB, to keep within the amount allowed us. Mr. Scharmann I Bay I have a right to look after tho interests of the people. The only Btauding army wo havo to uphold the republic is our publlo echoolB, and 1 exercise my right when I vote to maintain them property. I shall then be doing tho duty of a good citizen and a good Brooklynite especially.

Mr. Richardson asked if it was necessary to act upon tho matter at once. Ho did not see that it was and he would move that the matter lie over until the next meeting. Mr. Scharmann I Becond the motion.

Mr. Carroll No, Bir. We proposed this plan as the best, and indeed the only plan to meet the Issue and now 1b the time to act upon it. It was not tho desire or wiBh of any member of the committee to cut down tho salaries at all but was to be done 7 I will go further and Inform the Board that we will not ge the $32,000 unless we live within our means. If we do this I think wo can notonly get it, but we will probably get from the next Joint Board a sufficient amount to pay our principals and teachers properly for their work.

Tho resolutions were adopted. A PROPOSED NEW SCHOOL. Mr. Campbell offered the following Resolved, That the School House Committee be directed to prepare plana and specifications for building a new school, house in the Twenty fourth Ward and present the same to the Board at the earliest practicable (lav. Mr.

Murphy amended that "at a cost not to exceed $30,000" bo The amendment, was accepted. Mr. Culyer amended that the committee be instructed to have the plans provide for isolated class rooms. Mr. Williams further amended that two sets of plans bo drawn up, one of which should provide for the isolated class rooms.

This amendment was accepted, and the motion as amended was adopted. Mr. Forman offered tho following Resolved, That it be referred to tho Teachers' Committee to report to this Board before K.vy 1, a readjusted Bchodule of teaohera' wages for 1880. Adopted. Mr.

Cole moved that the matter of ascertaining what arrangements can be made for the occupancy for the year ending May 1, next, of the building now used by tho Central Grammar School, be referred to the committee of that school for report. Adopted. Mr. Forman moved that it be referred to a special committee to report upon the expediency of procuring additional superintending force for the public schools. Mr.

Cole seconded tho motion. New York had six assistant superintendents, though only twice tho number of children were taught thore that were taught here. Mr. Lowell amended that the committee consider the advisability of obtaining additional and more efficient superintendence. Mr.

Huntloy thought the original motion indefinite Did it call for moro force In the additional help 7 Mr. Cole submitted in amendment to the effect that the proposed committee be instructed to report upon the advisability of reorganizing the superintending element of the Board, Mr. Lowell said that his idea was that the Superintendent should be backed up by a man in the maturity of hie powers. Mr. Huntley would not consent to anything in tho nature of a reflection upon the Assistant Superintendent.

He was earnest iu his dosire for the welfare of the schools: was ready to do, and intelligent and efficient in doing. Mr. Cole said that the inefficient manner, or rather the lack of manner, in which the superintending duties were performed constituted the Superintendent's oflice an lnefucientone. Examinations were not made for much greater periods than prescribed by law and the fact was that there was not enough superintendence. Mr.

Rowe hoped that Mr. Culyer'B motion would be adopted. The Board of Education was developing into a great institution with tte multiplying schools, but it was going along at the old dog trot pace that it traveled at years ago. He thought that A PBOPEB SYSTEM OF STJPEBJNTENDENOE might save between $30,000 and $40,000 a year. I say here to day that there is no head or tall to the Board of Education.

I say we have no ono to properly represent it but the President. All our moet important matters, such as finance, contracts, are placed in the hands of men who give their time gratuitously. We cannot always expect to have eolf sacrificing men like Mr. Thomas, Mr. Murphy, Mr.

Carroll and others in the service of the Board. I contend, I say, that we havo no head to the Board. Beyond yourself, sir, we havo no one to look after supplies and contracts and matters of that kind, except the gentlemen whom we cannot always hope to havo. I hope the amendment will be adopted. Mr.

Gates would not vote for any motion which ever implied a reflective upon any of the servants of the Board who had served it so long and faithfully, but he thought it proper that (fie matter of superintendence should bo considered as well as other things. It did appear to him that in the examination of the pupils a great deal of careful and intelligent labor was demanded labor to which it was impossible for any one man to give his personal ottention. He said that in no insinuating or fault finding spirit. Mr. Forman said he had made the motion because, in his own mind, he was convinced that the schools did not receive the superintendence they required.

Whether It was because the work waeftoo great for one man to do or because the fault lay with the man, were matters which the committee could determine for themselves. He offered the motion without intending to animadvert upon the characters of the superintendent or his asslBtr "sir Carroll Don't let ub go off with the Impression that we have not got a great deal of supervision. Supervision la always or generally done by principala of schools or heads of departments. It cost the City of Brooklyn last year, $12.80 to educate each pupil and that Is less than it cost any other large city in the United The amendment of Mr. Cole having been accepted was adopted by vote of 13 to 3.

Mr Murphy moved that the bylaws of the Board be amended bo aB to permit the expenditure of only $10 a month by local committees instead of $20 as now au tbMrZItowe thought the committees could be trusted not to spend more than was absolutely necessary. The motion was lost. The Chair announced that Mr. Thomas W. Hines would serve upon tho committees of which his predecessor Mr.

O. Frisbie had been a member. The Board then odjourned. TWENTY SECOND WARD REPUBLICANS. A regular meeting of the Twenty second Ward Republicans was held Monday evening in Eureka Hall, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Seventh street.

Mr, J. Owen presided. Mr. Israel A. Barker reported that the cost of the mass meeting held on the 15th of October, was $19.41.

The amount subeoribed was $24.80, and the balance on hSCapWn iJo'ble, the Treasurer, sent In his resignation as a member of the Association, and Mr. A. Barter was elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Noble was also a member of the Finance Committee, and Mr.

John Buchanan was elected in his place. No further business of importance was transacted, and tho meeting adjourned. The wife of a 'Longshoreman, Ellen O'Neil, was burned to death on the second floor of the tenement house, No. 409 East Twelfth street, New York, last night. Both husband and wife were In tho habit of drinking too much and frequently Quarreled.

Last night the husband was helplessly drunk, and the wife, who was partly Intoxicated, was attending to her household duties. While sweeping the room she accidentally upset the Btove in this way, and set fire to her clothes. RuBhing about the floor, trying to put out the sho knocked over tho kerosene lamp, and was soon completely wrapped in flames. Har screams attracted sevoral people, who put out the fire, and rondored assistance to the dying woman, whoso husband lay on the bed wholly unconscious of all that had transpired. Bho died shortly after being laid on tho bed, and her besotted husband was then takon to tho station house in an unconscious condition.

The couplo have ono child, a girl of sixteen, who was. pU of tho housa whon tlw accident oqouiredj lyn manager must bear nund its geograph; cal position as a neighbor of the metropolis, but with this idea properly established he can at all times seoure patronage here. It is claimed that the Brooklyn resident prefers as a general thing to seek his theatrical amusement in New York. If that is true it reflects very httle credit upon the Brooklyn manager, for the ex penditure of time and money in a trip to an uptown theatre New York, is certainly not made without expectation of a return in kind, If tke Brooklynite spends both, it is because he expects a bettor entertainment in New York than he receives here, and while that is the casq certainly the manager is to blame. It is unques tioned that a great many Brooklyn people go to New York, but it is clear from the experience of the present week that when there is something worth seeing in Brooklyn our citizens will stav at home and see it.

The novelty of a play is not its sole attraction, 'ine fina fore" has been running for weoKs in flew Vnrk it fills a Brooklyn theatre. Mr. Den man Thompson played "Joshua Whitcomb" for three months New York he fills ttte Academv nightly. "Mother and Son" won its way to a long run last season in New York its drawing power is just beginning to be felt here. It is only necessary to recall the opera nights of the season, when prices were very high, to be assured that with only ordinarily fair treatment Brooklyn is ready to give tne most cordial support to theatrical and musical enterprise.

But it will not stand charlatanism. The Eagle's exposure of the ticket speculating fraud, to use the phraseology of the profession, knocked the house endwise," and would have been far more disastrous but for the fact that Brooklyn readiness to support a good thing had already occasioned the sale of many tickets at exorbitant figures. It will not see opera unless it is certain that the old trick of putting tip an inferior attraction in this city is dispensed with. It will not be satisfied with a poor play, with. poor players or Second rate appointments.

What the Brooklyn pub lie considers a good entertainment is another question for managers to answer. It is weary of the heavy blank verse drama, and will not trou ble itself about Shakspeare or Bulwer for years to come; it has been surfeited with strong meat. It will not ardently support French plays, which are all of them mere variations of the one theme of conjugal infidelity, although, now and then, when suoh a jMay has prestige for its plot or the manner of its performance the public will see it, somewhat grudgingly. Uninteresting stars, who have chained themselves to one or two parts for years, may draw in Pittsburg or Peoria, but not in Brooklyn, where the playgoer has the alternative of seeing new stars and new plays in New York. What the manager in Brooklyn must do is plain.

He must give, if not a new play and a popular star, good ones he must not shrink from spending money to secure a good company and good setting, and when good stars are not to be had, he must have an organization competent to play anything that comes out on short notice before it is threadbare by performance in New York. Colonel Sinn has such a company and it could have played the Kna "fore" much better than the burlesque troupe is now doing it, but then, it is hard to spoil a piece as intrinsically excellent as the work of Gilbert and Sullivan. Nor should there be but one regular theatre here. If the Court Square could be increased in size, and the Brooklyn Theatre be rebuilt with occasional dramatic performances at the Academy there would be plenty of room for all. Liberal advertising and liberal setting would beget liberal patronage.

A rush to see one piece occasions a general amusement furore, and it can be kept up. The only losers by the movement to make Brooklyn as good a theatrical city as it can bo made, would be the New York managers. Mr, Richardson's Latest Railroad Project. The Eagle last nighjt contained the an nouncement that Mr. Richardson, President of the Atlantic avenue Railroad, had caused a bill to be presented to the Legislature confer ring upon him and his company power to con struct an elevated or a depressed railroad on Atlantic avenue from the Flatbush avenue junction to South Perry.

On the editorial page of the Eagle last night we had occasion, in discussing the decision of tlxo Supremo Court declaring the charter of the Brooklyn Steam Transit Company defunct, to affirm a principle which is equally applicable to Mr. Richardson's case The people of Brook lyn have a right to decide this question of "rapid transit for themselves, in the light of all the knowledge available or of which they are now possessed. We have seen severalbills recently introduced by members of the As sembly inhibiting steam from certain streets. To these bills we object, as we do to the char ter of the company, which the Court yesterday decided to be defunct because, we believe the rapid transit question for Brooklyn ought to be settled in Brooklyn and not in Albany. It is for our people to say themselves whether they want rapid transit, when they want it and how they want it, and it is not at all for any Assemblyman or any Senator living out of Brooklyn to favor us with, or to force upon us, his decision in the matter." If it is desirable to have an elevated or de pressed railroad on the part of Atlantic avenue covered by Mr.

Richardson's bill the fact can be shown to our local authorities. If the Mayor and the Common Council are disposed to grant the permission which Mr. Richardson covets it will be time enough to go to Albany when they approve the plan and declare that, they are incompetent to bestow the necessary franchise. It seems to us that this endeavor to get a snap judgment at Albany against Brook lyn and against the property owners of Atlan tic avenue, comes with a particularly bad grace from Mr. Richardson, since he distinctly pledged himself, when he was permitted to employ steam from Flatbush avenue to the city line, to oppose any attempt to put steam on uuo the street between Flatbush ave and the ferry unless the proposition had the explicit approbation of the property owners.

We regret that Mr. Richardson's memory is so poor. The Eagle is definitely opposed to all legislative attempts either to impose steam or exclude it from any street of Brooklyn. This is a matter that concerns Brooklyn exclusively, and here it ought to be settled. It will be time enough for the Legislature to interfere when the city, through its properly constituted authorities, requests it to do so.

The Insane Pastor. The temporary insanity of the Rev. David S. Sutphen, who for twelve years has been the efficient pastor of the First Reformed Church of New Utrecht, seems to have resulted from over mental exertion, accompanied by insomnia. Dr.

Forbes Winslow, the great English expert in insanity, attributes a large percentage of cases to the want of sleep and its attendant recuperation of the brain and nervous system. Professional men are much more liable to such attacks than those whose labor is chiefly physical. Too much introspection and self consciousness is very likely to result in morbid conditions of the brain and consequent loss of self control. Rest from study and excitement and change of scene and circumstances is the best medicine and by it hundreds of sufferers have been completely restored. There was a case some few years since in California where a clergyman began to talk incoherently and even indecently in the pulpit from which the churchwardens gently led.him down and had him removed to the State Lunatic Asylum.

By.the kindly attendance of a cheerful and sympathetic physician, he was able in three months to occupy his pulpit again, "a well man." A similar case occurred among the Episcopal clergy in Newfoundland, and, as in Mr. Sutphen's case, there were no premonitory symptoms except headache. There is one observation of Dr. Forbes Winslow regarding the insane which Mr. Sutphen's attack illustrates.

He says it is quite a mistake to suppose that the patient is not himself conscious of his mental condition, though unablo to rectify it, and that in this consciousness is his greatest distress. Mr. Sntphen, when his wife was awakened by his gesticulations and excited speech as he stood on the bedroom floor at 2 o'clock in the morning, told her he was mad. When he reached Dr. De Mont's house on that bitter night his first agonized words were that he was raving mad.

Some years ao an eminent physician was lecturing to the students of a hospital upon insanity, and as he finished tho last sentence of tho closing lecture he threw up his arms and cried, And gentlemen, am mad," and so it proved, for he had to be put under restraint. The analysis of brain disease too Completing the Organization oi the New Committee. Elcetloa of Officers Speech of Jacob Bergen Tlie Eleventh Ward Trouble. A regular meeting of the Democratic General Committeo was held last evening, at the beod. jmr ters, comer of Court and Remson streets.

Tbcns Wm not a lurgo attendance of memtxirs. Mr. J. I. Itergori presided, and Henxian and Woolloy officiated as Becretarie l.

Tho resignation of Arthur J. Higgins, delegate from tho Fourteenth Ward, was received and accepted, and M. J. O'Kcoffo was appointed in Ui plaoo. Mr.

Courtney, fruin tbo Committee on Pormancnt Organization, reported the following officers tor iho current year Presidont Jicob I. Bergon. Vice Presidents K. J. Ctillen, and Francis Nolan.

Recording Secretary G. G. Herman. Corresponding Secretary W. T.

Woolioy. Treasurer Th. mas Carroll. Sergeant at Aium M. If.

Malone and A. Vorfca. Wlib regard to Aipombly District oranbuons. tho committeo aeked for more time. Mr.

Kolau said tiiat ho deollued to act as Vice President, but notwtthHUndlng hla declination, tho report of tho committee was adopted. SPEECH OP PRESIDENT DEEOEff. Orntlejibn of nia Committee I dcslro to retani my thanks toyou forelecting mo again to preside ovor your uehboratiuri lor vuo ouHuiug year, naunopej that that duty would have devolved upon Home othor gentleman In this committee who oould hava devoted more time and moro energy to promoting tlie iriteret of toU coiunuttoo than I bavo; but I will ofsure you that, hi th (uturc as in the pat, I will do all I can to gain auceo far tht organization. Applause. Wo are now entering ution a political content.

Next year will bo tha ftj. deutlal election, and it i Important that every lntereit in the Democratic party of this county nbould ho consolidated, so wo con go to tho front as ono Bolid voUj Jr tha Democratic candidate, whoever ho may bo. 1 therefore hoje that In thlg year we will do auch things to consolidate tho Democratic vote and not distract It. ao Uud, If possible, wo may harinonizo the various elnmcnis that exist iu our wards and brina succwm to tbo nartv in Brooklyn. Wo are all aware that this county well oa Now York and our Bouthflrn tiers of countloa, have txa virtually disfranchised by the refusal of tbo Itopublican Legislature for the past three years, to graut us a proper apportionment.

That is a matter of aorlous consequence to the Democracy of this section of tho Btate, because it leaves large portions of it unrepresented while the interior of the State, with fewer inhabitant, have a larger representation than it Is entitled to. That in tho reason why the Democratic party, year after year, ban elected its State officers and failed in regard to the Assembly and Senate. I beiiove wo could, in addition to our word associations, help this organization by another organization something similar to what is known as the Kings County Club, on auxiliary ot th Republican party. I bellove it la well for Democrats to moet once a week and consult npon matters which are of moment to the party here. I think lf tha Executive Committee, or the Committee on Organization would take that plan into consideration and sea If they cannot select some gentlemen who do not generally take much Interest in politics and assure wa da eire to co operate with them, we might bring In an element which would asxiat this organization very materially and hare a good effect upon tbo whole Again thanking you gentlemen, for the honor you ban OOJO forrod upon mo, I await your further pleaaua Mr.

Courtney said that oa Mr. Nolan lxuusfcl upon declining the Vice Presidency, he would move tnat tho resignation be accepted The motion prevailed, and Mr. O'Keeffo was appointed In Mr. Nolan's place. Mr.

Simla from the Committee on Conatttution and BylawB raported in favor of adopting those of 1S78 until tho committee wore enabled to complete their work. Carted. The committeo was also authorized to Invito auch persona as they might deem proper, to confer with Uitxn in reference to the reorganization of ward associations. THE ELEVENTH WARD TBOUBU5. Mr.

McLaughlin, Fourth Ward, moved that tho delegated returned from tlie Eleventh Ward bo admitted to seats. Agreed to. Mr. McLaughlin also moved that tho contest in regard to the inspectors of the Elevonth Ward bo referred to tbo Executive Committee when appointed. Ho Raid that four mou made up the ticket and were dictated to by three inspectors.

It was timo that such practices should coane. Mr. Flako asked if Mr. McLaughlin knew from personal knowledge that such was a fact. Mr.

McLaughlin Ab you were not present you are noi In a position to ask that question. Mr. FIko You were not present and should not moka bupu a charge. Mr. Travis Baid ho was present at the meeting when the ticket wasjmade up, and bo did not allow tho Inspectors or any one elfie to dictate to him.

Invitations to attend the meeting were sent to many Democrats in tha ward, but as tho night wan utonny there was not a large atteidanoo, and the gentleman who gave Mr. Mclaughlin hio Information requested that they ahould not tell who was present. Mr. Travis would not pay who were there, but they were all good Democrats, men who stood by the party whon it waa lu trouble. Mr.

McLaughlin said that tho majority of inspectors elected themselves, and gave tho minority no representation. Mr. Fike said ho thought tho Eloventh Ward had tieon abused, although It had stood by tho candl dated of tho party at the olection. Mr. McLaughlin In one dihtrict Rome of tho candidates ran a hundred and odd behind their ticket.

If that In not pretty good ovldcnco that tho kulfu was secretly UBO'l, I dou't know what is. Mr. Travis said it came from men who had formerly Iweu in sympathy with tho organization, but wore not now. Hc'and other had stood by tho party, although at times fresh from the Republican ranks hod beon nominated on tbo Democratic ticket. He did not believe.

It was fair to try to squeeze out straight Democrats by not Kiviug theui fair treatment. The motion of Mr. McLaughlin prevailed, and the General Committee thou adjourned. The National Educational Ansociation met yesterday in WoHhlngton, tho Hon. J.

P. Wlekersham, State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Ponnaylvanio, presiding. The only Southern State represented waa Georgia. Letters were received from a number of State and city superintendents in tho South, regretting their inability to attend. Tho State Superintendent of Louisiana wrote that tho poverty of tlie peoplo there prevented the maintonanco of efficient Bchooln and proper super vfHlon, and tiutt it is ot paramount importance that tha general Government shall take some measures to aid tha 8tate to maintain an ofiiciont system of publlo schools; Consul General Hitz, of Switzerland, read a paper "Popular Education In Switzerland." The Swiss havo a thorough system ot education, and this paper was ot much interest.

In that country a satisfactory elementary education Is not only exacted in public schools, bat it Is obligatory upon the Federal Government to exact it also in denominational and private schools, even in tho family when it la preferred to impart Instruction at home. Education ia compulsory, and fines, and In some cases aentencea of imprisonment are ixupooed for neglect and truancy. The obstacle in Switzerland to tho eflldenoy of tha public schools la the inadequate wages paid totoachors. Oca of the features of tho Swlns educational system is tha Industrial training secured In them. Such training is denied tha children of the public schools of this country.

Bov. Dr. E. C. Wines, of prison reform fame, gavo an account of recant educational progress in Franco.

This progress has been greater since tho Franco German war than in the entire period from 17B9 down to that elms. Hon. E. A. Apgar, State Superintendent for New Jersey, read a paper at the evening session on "Technical Education." Europe is much ahead of the United States in technical schools France bos nearly a thousand and Helglum has 319.

The attempt to engraft technical education In our public Bcbool system, ha said, would provo a failure. The Bj Btem has load enough to carry without Increasing its burdon. In the Keno intuiiry at Chicago yesterday, B. F. Churchill, a rancher on Tongue River, near Fort Keogh, testified.

He accompanied Cnater'a command as a packer, and vraa with the pack train on tho morning of the 25th, the day of the Little Big Horn disaster. The train was two aud a half miles away whon tha order come that tho command was fighting and th train wo to hurry forward. Witness saw Beno and Beuteen on tho hill when ho got there, and a number of men coming up tho hill. At night ho itarted out with a soldier to find Bomething to eat, and was stopped by Rano who asked what they were after. They rapliod and he then asked thorn about tho mules.

Reno spoke in a maudlin way and his motions were those of a drunk ea man. Ho struck at the man with him, and his motion sprinlled a quantity of whisky over them both. Witness thought Reno was drunk. Bono's counsel protested against the acceptance of ucb testimony, as the defendant was called to answer the) chargo of cowardice and nut drunkenness. Tho Recorder decided that tho inquiry wan for tho pnxpoao of finding out Major Rono's conduct, and sobriety constituted a part of his conduct.

Counsel Insisted that the Inquiry ahnuld be restricted to tho Issue named. Tho Court sustained the Recorder's rulings. Lieutenant Edgerly and Colonel Beuteon were both recalled, and testified that Reno gave no indication of drunkenness. The Utter said ho lay in Major Reno's bed ths night of tha 25th, aud tf he had been at any time In the slightest degree under the Influence of liquor, the witness would have known it. There waa not whisky enough la tha command to make him drank.

If there had been any in camp, ho (Benteeu) would havo had some of It. BUSINESS NOTICES. MONONGAHELA A WHISKY. THE LEADING BRAND OF THE MARKET. Pat no tot Itmikr use by JNO.

A COOK. 508 and 810 COURT ST. And SSI FULTON ST (Pork Theatre Building). THE MURPHY MOVEMENT. THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MURPHY MOVEMENT SHOULD BEAD OF THE FATB OF JOHN KDGBRTON, AND HIS DAUGHTER LUCILLE, NOW READY IN THE NEW YORK FAMILY STOBY PAPER.

For sale by all nawt designs. THE ONLY GENUINE "RYE AND ROCK" Bears my name on the label. For sale br ladine dracaiate and at my depot, 88 Chambers tooth aide, N. Y. Prio.

81 per large bottle. MarohagL FOR OUB BYE A ROCK CANDY WE USE ONLY BUMGARDNERS VIRGINIA RYE WHISKY AXD FINEST STRING ROOK OAKDY. And is aloaya reliable tor all threat and lung disease. 91 per bottle. H.

B. KIRK 4 No. 00 Pulton rt. and 703 Broadway, Ww Yort JOHNSTON'S FLUID BEEF. A concentrated preparation for nutritious Deef tea or aoap.

tho siuj azotizad constituents of th beet. To mot perfect food tor invalid introduced. Special! recommended by th medical faculty. Patented in Urea Britain and the United SUtea. Ac nts WM.

11 SCHIErTBUN 4 KKW YORK, sad sold by all retail drugcistM. ROBERT aSoBHAKER aorai Afeota for ths United Btatoa. THE SEASIDE LIBRARY. Out ToJDay in Clear. Bold.

Handaoma Type, THE ARABIAN MOHTtt, Part I Uo LATE ISSUES. iM. Gerald PjtMrarald, bv Chariea Levar too inl. The Art hlan Nihla. Part 11 190 t.

The Arabian NiajhtJ, Port I 469. Tha actor's Wife, by M. E. Braddon. 30 VA Nanr by Kboda Broaghtoo too Tho Last of tho Ruthvena, by Mtta Mulock 4J6.

Jom Halifax. Gentleman, Mlsa Unlock (clear. bandaometype) tOo 3. Hallfal. (amallor trool ....190 nui raunr, nargoon.

ueors aaaoouuoia. W. Little Barefoot, by Brtholn Auarboch. iOo too 453. Ths Prraceaa the Mi Uoor.

by K. autuit. i An Odd Couple, by Mrs. Oliphant If Lady Wm. Black Water Gypsies, by L.

T. Meade ta. More Bitturthan Death Mi On Horseback. Through Asia Minor, br Captain rrod Burnaby 1 I ft. ..10 U6.

Whrn the Ship Cornea tt. iiruj yj Ui. be At vf. llarresl. t'r ra.

II. Kiddcll, (both in one booki ((. A Lntt'iron Corpulency, br 4tA Pntr ornj Abbe (mm north. I io 10 The Notary's Dauirlit.T, br L'JJ ill Tu in TWalcar'j Bar. Hay.

A'" a secret. l. IAJ IM I hft 111 vivni 414. A Captain at IS. by Ou nr.

Verii" iscv 'nd half) tut sal. to fc f. 10 nurnb VuaVater how to overwork the brain, ifivery one knows tuOT when the greatest of Baptist preachers, Robert Hall, was shut up in an asylum, a visitor aBked him, Why, Mr. Hall, what has brought yoa hero "What you will never suffer from," answered the temporary madman, too much brains." It is very pleasant to notice the kindness and attachment of Mr. Sutphen's parishioners and of his brother ministers.

And there is much pathos in his asking for that most beautiful of English hymns, "Abide with mo fast falls the eventide." The Rev. H. F. Lyte, who composed it, was a clergyman of the Church of England, who, eeling the hand of consump tion upon him, prayed that before he died ho might write a hymn that should live after him. He did it, and his hymn is sung wherever Christianity is taught and the English tongue is known.

Such tranquillizing thoughts have comforted manv a sufferer, and may, in this case "minister to a mina diseased. A Few Thingfe in morals. The meeting of the Republican General Committee last night was notable for a rough and tumble fight, and for the presentation and adoption of a report on the warn primary in which the following principle is laid down "That a primary which has been regu larly called and conducted in accordance with the rules and forms prescribed by the General Committee should not be set aside be cause of slight irregularities, but should be upheld if that course can be adopted without placing a premium upon or giving undue countenance to illegal voting. From this we infer that the objection is not to illegal voting but to an undue amount of it, and the test of the uncUteness will be in the relation sustained by those who do it to the majority of the committee. The frauds in the Fourth Ward are held not to be undue, though that they were very glaring is conceded in the report which the General Committee approved.

The ways of the Democrats are peculiar, but they have never got the length of distinguishing between excessive and undue fraud. We shall not stop to discuss the possible connection between this delightful ethical axiom and the pugilistic dis play to which the members were treated. We infer, however, that inasmuch as Mr. Johnston was requested to withdraw from the room after he had pummelled the Sergeant at Arms, the objection was not so much to the operation as to the undue extent to which it was carried It is easy to see how a new political decalogue might be based on this elastic principle. Thou shalt not steal unduly thou shalt not bear false witness unduly would be a vast improvement upon the rigid declaration that thou shalt not steal or he," at all.

He was a very ingenious and impartial young man who traveled through New England as the soi disctnt lecturing agent of Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton, as reported in tho World this morning, and his ingenuity prop erly directed would have discovered a new method of robbing henroosts without detection, we have no doubt. His plan was to visit some small town and announce himself as the agent of Mr. Beecher, who, he said, would lecture in such a place.

A few advertisements were inserted, tickets were printed and sold, and then the agent would decamp by the first train with the receipts, leaving his audience in a state of impatient bewilderment. This the young man successfully tried in Oneida. Then he went to Norwich and became the awant coureur of Mr. Tilton. Here he inveigled a volunteer hose company to sell tickets for him, and off he went with the proceeds.

But that hose company pledged its word to the citizens it had been unconsciously instrumental in fleecing to bring back the young man, and it did so, and he was photographed amid the jeers of a crowd. The youth is described as "wear ing a dark mustache and silk hat, weigh ing 140 pounds." A head competent to conceive this brilliant stratagem must indeed require a chapeau of unusual dimensions, and may he some consolation to the Norvegians know that it took one requiring half an acre of floss silk to get ahead of them. Of course neither Mr. Beegher nor Mr. Tilton had anything to do with this cerebral monstrosity, whose cranial development seems to be only less imposing than that of his cheek.

The Senate Committee on Territories; which has been investigating certain matters connected with Indian Territory management for as much as a year, have submitted a report. One branch of the inquiry, which is of most interest to the public, is the favorable reply given to the proposal to open all Government lands in the Indian Territory and elsewhere to pre emption and settlement. The committee has discovered that more than $200,000 of the income of the Cherokee tribe, including a portion of the school fund, has been expended, within the last five years in supporting the Indian lobby at Washington. In that territory there are 15,000,000 acres belonging to the Government which has not yet been surveyed, and this land, it is proposed, shall be thrown open to settlers. The total population of this Territory, which embraces 41,000,000 acres, is only 68,706, including 6,500 negroes, 5,000 white people and 48, 736, Indians.

The negroes prior to 1863 were slaves to the several tribes, but now they are citizens. Crime is so prevalent among the people of the Territory that the Committee urge that a United States Court be established there, and that each of the five civilized nations be allowed to send a delegate to Congress. The opposition that will be made to the changes suggested by this Committee will be immense, every vampire in the Territory who is now feeding on the Treasury of the people being ready to pour out money for lobby use! It remains to be seen what course Congress will pursue in this matter, a most important one, at this juncture of Indian affairs. A Pennsylvania woman insisted upon being baptized in a river on Sunday, despite the fact that the water was frozen over and the ice had to be broken. She was carried to the water in a chair, and according to the forms of the Baptist creed she was dipped three times beneath the waves.

When taken ashore she was well nigh dead and was not expected to recovei' from the shock her enfeebled system had sustained. Her friends did all in their power to prevent the ceremonial, and the husband was beside himself with anguish at what he deemed a suicidal act. It was certainly, un der the circumstances, an act of religions immolation, and the question is, does not the law, in intent and word, forbid such things The law interferes with certain practices, such as for instance, human sacrifices, and if this woman dies from the effect of the cold bath she has received, will it not be an offense for which the officiating clergyman may be held accountable If an act of this kind, which is clearly opposed to civilization, be permitted to pass unnoticed, what right would the authorities have to prohibit the negroes of Louisiana from committing diabolical acts in their fetish Voudoo worship They are restrained by the law; why should not a sacrifice like this one named be considered unlawful, and its instigators be answerable to punishment? The arrest of the four rowdies who boarded a Flatbush avenue street car on Monday evening, no matter whether they were there for purposes Of plunder or merely to be disorderly, should be followed by punishment of some kind of exsmplary severity. If it can be proved that they intended to rob the passengers, then of course, by all means let them receive the fall punishment provided for the offense. But granted that rowdy ism and not robbery was the.

extent of their offense, it is sufficiently grave to warrant a very severe punishment. The streetcar is the chosen vehicle of defenseless people, and the only ono. It should therefore be as inviolate as a household, and any disorder liness should be checked promptly and by the severest measures. An affront to passengers on any car is a blow at one of our social institutions, namely The right to travel at all hours nnmolested. Car conductors are instructed to allow no drunken person on a car, lest he should become disorderly.

Where four ruffians seize tho car and overawe driver and conductor, they terrify passengers if they do no worse, and for this offense they 6hould receive the extreme penalty provided by law. If anything could justify the restoration of the whipping post in this State, it would be just such conduct as frightened the ladies on the Settling Their Squabbles in the General Committee. An Animated Session Last Night The Proceedings Inaugurated with Fisticuffs A Shaii Fight Between Two Ardent Partisans Startling: Disclosures of Fraud In the Wart! Contests Reorganization and New Primaries Ordered in the Second, Fourth and Twenty flfth Uncle Joe Eceve Eefused a Hearing Business in Secret Session. The Republican' General Committee held a regular monthly meeting last evening, In Phonix Hall, No. 1G Court street Ex Judge Eraatus Cook, tho President, occupied the chair, and Jonathan T.

Norton and David Lindsay, the secretaries, officially recorded the proceedings. Tbero was a largo attendance of dele gates, Including Tax Collector Tanner, ex Sheriffs Williams end Campbell, M. 3, ftady, John F. Henry sod other statesmen. Tho hall, outside of tho delegates' seats, was crowded with outsiders from the Second, FourtlAnd Twenty fifth ward3 as it was oxpected the contests in those wards would be doclded.

Tho Chair read a telegram ffon Major Barker, stating that Colonel Stegman was improving. The announce' uient was applauded. THE SECOND WAED CCHfTEST. Mr. Charles G.

Cronin, of the Twentieth Ward, Chair man of the appointed to Investigate the 8eo ond Ward contest, presented the following report To the Republican General Committee of Kings County: flE.vTr.KMEN The committee annotated at a meeting of your body held December 3, 1878, to investigate and take testimony concerning the protest presented to tho General Committee in recard to the iwunary election held on November 23, 1878, in the Second Ward, do re spect! uuy report, lnatyour committeo'caused due noticcto be given to the Darties interested of tho timpn and ntaces of their meeting, and nursuant thereto thev have neen attended by the respective parties. inat your committee Mter ouiy consiaenng tne evidence adduced and after duo deliberation had thereon, wonld recommend for adoption the following resolution: Resolved, That a new enrollment of the Republican voters of the Second Ward1 bo ordered by this General Committee, to take place under tho supervision of a committee of three, before the 20th day of February, 1819 and that aftel such om ollment Is completed and so reported to this committee, a primary for tho election of ofBoers of the Ward Association and a delegate to the Genorsl Committee be hold under the direction of this Qenoral Committee before the 15th day of March; 1879. All of which is respectfully submitted. Datodl Brooklyn. January 31, 1879.

Oh.uii.E8 a. CnONiN, Chairman. Thomas Cobb, B. V. W.

Pomu, Qeo. Thomas. Ott motion of Mr. Fales the report was received and tho committee was disohargod, The report was thon adopted. A NICE LITTLE BOW.

Mr. Hobbsj of the Twenty fourth Ward, arose to present the report of tho Committee on the Fourth Ward Primary, when ho was interrupted by Alexander Johnson, a well known Second Ward Bepublican politician, who demanded hearing in regard to the report from that ward. He was called to order by the Chair and retorted with, "Oh, yes, you've got the Custom House now and you've got plenty of backbone. I was a Ee pubUcan here long before you came to Brooklyn." Considerable conf uaion in the hall followed this sally, Mr. Hobbs and Mr.

Fales both endeavored to speak. "I object to further interruption of tho proceedings by Mr. Johnson," Baid Mr. Fales. "You can't put me out, Fales," observod Johnson, with a defiant gesture.

"We'll eeo about that," replied Polos, but not loud enough for Johnson to hear. IB tho Sergeant at Arms prosont remarked the chairman, casting a searching glauce about the room. Burton, of the Second Ward 1b the Sorgeant at Arms. He's a friend of mine and wouldn't put me out for $200," said Johnson, laughingly. "That man must bo put out," thundered the Chair, indignantly.

"Where Godard 7" shouted Johnson. "He's got the Custom House, but he's a ho added, the closing words of the sentence being drowned in tho confusion. Meanwhile, William Burton, of the Second Ward, who is tho Sergeant at Arms of the committee, went up to JohnBon and placed his hand upon his shoulder. Johnson arose to his feet and dealt the Sorgeant at Arms a sharp blow. His fist encountered Burton'B nose.

Burton fell to tho floor and in falling pulled Johnson with him. Tho delegates and spectators left their seats and rushed in a body to the Bpot. Whilo Johnson and Burton rolled about, pummelling each other on the floor, the delegates acted as if thoy all wanted to take a hand in. After considerable pulling and hauling tho combatants were separated, and Johnson left tho hall with sev eral rrionds, vowing vengeance as he passed out. Sergoant at Arms Burton, who evidently had tho worst of the tussle, came to the front and said he wanted it understood that Mr.

JohnBon was uot a member of the comuiitteo. Thon Burton retired to "bind up hla wounds," which were insignificant. THE FOURTH WARD CONTEST. "When quiet was at last restored Mr. Hobbs, Chairman of tho committee appointed to inveHtigato tho Fourth Ward contest, pre iented the following report which was read by Secretary Norton To the Republican General Committee of the County of King The sub committee, which was appointed by a resolution of your body to inquire into and report upon the contest which coma up from the Fourth Ward at the last annual primary tor delegates to the General Committee, beg leave to submit the following: That we have from time to timo beon present at tho rooms of the General Committee for the purpose of making such investigation, and we have been attended by the sitting delegates and by the contestants and by the counsel and witnesses.

We have taken a large amount of oral testimony and received and examined many affidavits, and much other documentary ovldence relating to the manner of conducting tho primary; and we havo given to the whole subject such careful consideration as our time ooidd permit and the occasion required. In making the investigation wo have kept in view two ideas, which we have supposed ought to be controlllug in all such cases, the one lhat a primary, which has been regularly called Tmd conducted in accordance with tho rules and forms prescribed by the Genoral Committeo, Bhould not ba set aside because of slight irregularities, but should bo upheld if that cause can bo adopted without placing a premium upon or giving undue countenanoo to illegal voting; tne otnor mat a urunary uugui uui iaj do uyuom notwithstanding it may have been conducted in accordance with established forms, if it was at the same time ao characterized by fraud and improper voting that it can fairly be Inferred that there was no juet expression of the will of the association. Viewed in the light of these two propositions tho case as presented by the evidence is not free from doubt. We are of opinion that the evidence which waa presented to us established the following facte First That the credentials of the sitting members from the Fourth Ward are signed by two of the lawfully appointed inspectors of the primary. Becond That the credentials of the contestants are signed by one of the lowf ul inspectors and by ono of the supervisors appointed by the General Committee.

Third That tho count of the ballots as they came from tho box was correct, but thoy ovorrun tho poll list by about 29, and showed an apparent majority for the Dady ticket, socolled, averaging about 63 that the poll list won not strictly correct, and that probably four or live names of persons who voted were left off. Fourth That tho roll book of the association contains the names of several persona who are dead, tho names of many Democrats and a largo number of persons who have removed from or do not reside in the ward. Fifth That a large number of personB voted at tho primary who were not legally entitled to vote thereat, some voting on the names of persons who are borne on the roll but have removed from the ward, some voting on tho names of persons who are dead, and a far larger number voting on the namos of persons regularly on the roll but who did not themsoives attends the primary. Sixth That the illogol votes cost at the primary would probably aggregate about fifty, but thore is no evidence on which it could be determined on which side illegal ballots were cost. Seventh That the Supervisors who were appointed by the General Committee to take charge of tho primary were very remlsa In their duties, one of them taking no part and the other but partially performing his duties.

And on these foots your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions First That the primary election which was hold in the Fourth Ward on the 20th day of November lost, for ward officers and delegates to the General Committeo, be declared valid and the sitting members entitled to retain their seats in the General Committee. Second That a thorough revision of tho roll book of the Fourth Ward Association be at once had under tho superviaon of a committee composed of three membera of the General Committee, appointed by tho President, and Mr Benj. B. Hopkins and Mr. Joseph Keeve on the part of the association, which revisions shall Include the addition of now names, provided the parties present themselves before the oommlttee end show themselves to be eligible to membership hod they applied iu tho reg Third That the General Committee censures the conduct of the gentlemon who wore selected as Supervisors of the Fourth Ward Primary for the reason that they did not faithf ullyperfonn tho duties which they were called upon to perform.

All of which Is respectfully submitted. Dated January 25, 1879. Edwabd H. Hoods, David LiNnsAr, A. L.

Duuvea, RiCHABn Hassabd. The following was submitted by Parr Harlow, a member of tho committee The undersigned agrees with the findings of thlfl report and with the resolutions oppended thereto, so far as they go, but farther recommends that, upon the completion of the re enrollment mentioned in said resolutions, a primary of the Fourth Ward Association be held for the election of association offlcers and delegates to this General Committee, and that the committee appointed to make said re enrollment act as inspectors of said pri jjjy Pabb Haelow. A TALK ABOUT THE FOURTH. A voice I'move to refer the whole thing back to the The motion was not seconded. Mr.

Godard (Eighteenth Ward) I move that the report be adopted. Mr Falea (Third Ward) Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of tho report with the resolutions recommended by the majority. Mr. Parr Harlow (Twenty first Ward) Mr.

Chairman, I desire to eay that thoeo who have olosely followed tho reading of the report will find Irom the facts that fraud appears in the bite primary in the Fourth Ward. Those findings of foots embraced In the report do not state all tho circumBtances of fraud as thoy were presented to the committee. It would weary the patience of the General Committeo to have the facts referred to in detail, but one or two points may be mentioned. In the first place the poll list showed 227 names. When the ballots were counted before they were opened they were 239 or 210 of them.

When thoy were counted after they wore opened they numbered 258. That is a rather peculiar state of affairs and indicates that there was something crooked. We had aflldavits from twelve individuals whoeo names appeared on the Doll Hat who swore they were present at the primary and did not vote. Evidence was also given that twenty four individuals whose names were on the poll list did not reside in the ward. They had also evidence that several parties had voted two or three times.

A person was allowed to vote for instance on the name of John Smith and John Smith coming up waa also allowed to vote. The committee were eaflsuad that there was fraud in the primary. The great difficulty waa In coming to a conclusion as to WHERE THE FBAUP LAY. While they were satisfied that there was fraud they were not satisfied, and there was no legal proof as to which side the fraud waa on. I take it that this General Committee ought to set up a standard against fraud at primaries, and, as the report well atates, nothing ought to be done that will place a premium on fraud.

To send back the same men would be to have a repetition of the aame or similar circumBtances. I am In favor of allowing the sitting members to retain their seats till a reorganisation can be had and the primary takes place. If they can go back to the ward and maintain their positions I am perfectly willing that they should retain their seatf. The difference between my position and that or the majority of the committee is that ITU in favor of having a primary after the re onrollmenttakoe place, or whataTaU ia it to have a reorganization if there if to oe no change In the methods of conducting primaries i rvetounendtho report of the comraittee bv adding to the second resolution the following "And that upon the completion of said reinreUment primary of tho Fourth Ward Association for the electron of association officers and delegates to the General Committee beheld under the supervision of the committee appointed to make the re enrollment, and that said committee act as inspectors of sold primary." Mr. David Jones, ui UJOfJJiwyjyi vaiu, citedly to bis feet and shouted, 'As Harlow don't belong to the Fourth Ward and has nc.

business thuro, I'd like to know how long ho has beej an oflico holder in tho Republican party." Cries of "Order" from all parts of tho room, and Mr. Jones sat down, Voaving Harlow bewildered by the magnitude of the, Conundrum which confronted him. Mr. Fales BeHoviryg as I do that tho boat way to rcHIo a difficulty in a ward is to leave it to itself, I am cpp'XMl to tha amendment vif Mr. Harlow.

Wo had tho rame troub'e in tho Thi rd Ward not long oro. It was left to U3 to settle and tu uMloA it. Th v.crd I thini wiil now Giro a better amount of ltseU oa dav than, any condition which, after considerable discussion, has been accepted, that none but pastors be longing to the Manhattan Association should be invited to take part in his installation. He has thus at the very outset of his permanent charge of the church identified himself with a party in a dead issue and divided his congregation into two sections. For a while, and until some fresh spark rekindles the confla.

gration, all will, no doubt, go well and the two sides will "agree to differ." But sooner or later the occasion of controversy and separa tion is snro to come and the men of JusJah will fall to fisticuffs with the msm of Israel. It should surely have sufficed for Mr. Field that being a Congregational minister invited to the pastorate of a Congre gational church he should be installed by Con gregational ministers, invited at the discretion of the church, without respect to tho particu lar clerical association they might happen to belong to. If this schismatic principle spreads, it must lead to the separation of the two par ties into two distinct denominations. The term "Congreeationalism," as a generic name, no longer means unity in independence as it once did.

The Roman Catholic, the Protestant Episcopal and the Presbyterian systems of church polity ore all intelligible and stand for definite principles of union, government and responsibility. But a system which has union for a major premiss and separation from the miinn for a minor oreniiss can have but ono logical conclusion uon existence as a unit, Educational Expenditures. At last tte Board of Education has come to the audaebus conclusion that it cannot proper ly spend what it has not got. Toajitizens who are not nembers of the Board this declaration of principle may seem to be neither novel nor iconoclistic, but if the Phillistine taxpayer were admitted to the charmed circle of Red Hook lane, he would discover that the real mysteries of are truisms. When the Budget for tne current year had been made up by the Board of Estimate and approved by the Common Council, the members of the Board of Education found themselves confronted with the "staggering" prablem of having to get along with $17,000 less than they had anticipated.

That is ta say, instead of getting a round million from the city and the State they were allowed $17,000, less than mil lion, and were therefore forced to deal with the difficulty of not expending more than We use round figures to the end that th reader may the more easily appreciate the complicated task set before the mighty minds of our natrons of "eddication." This great question was approached in three ways. A few held that there was no difficulty whatever in abstaining from expending what was not in the treasury. Others held that the permanency of our "institootions" would be jeopardised if it were for a moment to be admitted that the Board of Education was amen able to vulgar business principles. A third, and, perhaps, the largest class, maintained it to be among the sacred and inalienable rights of the Board to run in debt, leaving the heathen plebeian taxpayer to meot the bills at what Mantalini would call his "dem "nition" leisure. How it camo to pass that the first view so far secured favor as to obscure the others, as was tho case yesterday, we shall see presently.

The debate on this matter was not without interest. Mr. Schav mann remained loyal to the notion that if the Board over acknowledged itself bound by the doctrine that the servants of the city must not spend what has uot been provided for the schools, the country, and perhaps our boasted civilization, would go to the bow wows. Rising upon the wings of Red Hook lane rhetoric we find Mr. Scharmann expressing himself in the following stirring and highly original strain I say I have a right to look after the Interests of tbo pooiJo.

Tlie only standing army wo havo to uphold tho republic is our public schools, and I oxeruso my right when I vota to maintain them properly, If we mistake not we have seen it intimated somewhere before that the public schools form the standing army of our institutions, but never until now have we seen an effort made to deduce from this fact the novel proposition that members of the Board of Education are not bound like other people to cut their garments according to the cloth at their disposal Mr. Rowe, who is a very matter of fact gen tleman, held that "no gentleman had a right to vote away a cent of money that has not been appropriated for the purpose." and Mr. Huntley agreed with him but Colonel Carroll and President Whitlock took what may be termed middle ground. They explained that this case need not be considered a binding precedent, and that if wisely used it might en large the liberties of the Board in the future. We quote the following delicious bit of dialogue Mr.

Lowell wanted to know what was to be done with the $32,000 deflcienoy of lost yoar. Mr. Carroll Tho Joint Committee had no authority to deal with that question. If it is possible for us to live within our income this year I have reason to think that the proper authorities will not ask us to make up the deficiency I think it will bo made up for us. Mr.

Scharmann wnai amnoriuosv Mr. Carroll The Board of Estimate, or a majority of them, have told us that. I will state that unless tho resolutions accormmuyiiiK the report are passed, it will bo impossible to carry out the agreement. Last yoar tho raising of grades of teachers in our schools cost us $1 1,000 this year it will coHt us nothing. Mr.

scbarniann I noia uiib, taut we can gu iu iuo Hoard of Estimate for for tho deficiency of 1878, and convince them in that year wo did not make any misappropriation, wo can do the same for this year deficiencies. I shall not therefore vote for the roso.u tions. I have stated hero that I consider teaching to be one of tho higher arts, and I bolievo that our teachers are not paid too much by a single penny. If ive can ask for $32,000, why can we not ask for $17,000 more The Chair If I understand the question, it is this In 1878 we created a deficiency of $32,000. Wo do not now propose to touch that question, so that when Juno comes we can ask tho Board of Estimate to allow us money to meet the deficiency.

We confess that Mr. Scharmann's argument seems to be a clincher. If tho Board of Esti mate will make up one why won't it make up a dozen The pertinency of the question is as obvious as the candor of Col onel Carroll in disclosing the pledges of our financial authorities is commend able. If we do not mistake, the posi Colonel it is that his as 532,000 by abstaining from tion of the genial sociates can make spending $17,000 which they are not authorized to spend. It is, however, possible that the Eagle misses the drift of the argument, for it is exceedingly difficult to read the pro ceedings of the Board without feeling premon itory symptoms of vertigo.

Brooklyn as a Theatrical Cjr. Among theatrical people, Brooklyn has won the reputation of being the "poorest show "town" of its size in the United States, inspite of its being the third city in the Union in point of population. It has, for the greater part of the season supported but one regular theatre, and this and two variety theatres have divided the whole amusement patronage in the Western District. An occasional week of more or less unprofitable business has been the rule at the Academy of Music. But even when the Brooklyn Park Theatre has had no competitor, some of the star performers have failed to fill it, although they rank at the head of the profession.

That as eminent ax. actor as Mr. Barrett, for instance, should for a week be distressed with a "beggarly account "of empty benches" does in the abstract strike one as extraordinary, when the public had the alternative of seeing him or nobody. Contrasted with this state of things is the present week's amusement record in Brooklyn. Three legitimate theatres in the Western District and one in Williamsburgh, and two large variety theatres hereabout are running for the most part with overflowing houses, and it is more than a coincidence that the attractions offered by their respective managers ore very desirable.

At the Brooklyn Park Theatre the brilliant lyrio satire upon our British cousins, written and composed by two of the family and played as M. S. Pinafore," packs the house nightly. It could do no more had the manager a monopoly of the amusements of the city. At the Academy of Music Mr.

Denman Thompson fills the great auditorium with his Yankee drama, and he could do no more, were the Academy the only theatre in the city. At the Novelty Theatre in Williamsburgh, a company for the most part consisting of the artistes who originally played "Mother and Son" at the Union Square Theatre, cheer the hearts of Messrs. Theall Carton by leaving not a vacant seat while at the Olympic and Volks Theatres the variety performers are drawing crowds. The only exception to the general good fortune is the Court Square Theatre, where an unlucky accident has deprived the star performers of the assistance of a valuable member of their company. However, in Brooklyn, which has for the greater part of the season but comfortably supported ono regular and one variety theatre, five out of the six houses are filled to overflowing during the present week.

Under these circumstances it is nonsense to say tUstf BsoWyU ft fiOM How the Expenditures are to be Reduced. FigTirb. to Keep Within the Appropria tionThree Hundred Dollars a Year Taken from the Salaries of Most of the Principals Promotions to Bring no In? crease of Salary Resignations, Promotions arid Appointments The Sanitary Condition of School No. 19 A Committee to Report on the Expediency of Reorganizing tho Superintending Element of the Board ft TiscclIaneous Business. A regular meeting of the Board of Education was held at tta heodquartel 1" Ked Hook Lane yesterday afternoon, tho Presii lent Wutttook, the chair.

TheminuteBof the provlora mMUn8 wore raad and approved. A communication was reeetvA 4 61 Lee avenue, calling attentimA 'J10' tho janitress of Public SchooX No. 3 (colored), Union avenue, had failed to liquidate debt3 amounting in all to J36, contracted by her. Mr. Ammorman moved that the a vttor be referred to the local committee of the school.

Mr. Rowe did not see what the Bo had to do with the failure of the janitreBS to pay her debts. If she was an improper person to occupy tho the Local Committee should discharge her. Hew ould amend that tho matter iay upon tho table. The amendment was adopted.

Communications were received from ex Mayor Edward A. Lambert and John S. Hulin, caMng attention to the merits of the Universal Car Yea tilator," and suggesting its adoption for use in the school's undor tho control of the Board. Referred to School House Committee A COMPLAINT. A communication was received frorntlis National Fur niture Company, complaining that a.

contract was awarded to Messrs. Robert Patton Son, for furnishing study desks for which the company owned the patent. The letter detailed the ntans taken to restrain Messrs. Patton Son from carrying out the contract, and complained that they had been permitted to furnish an Inferior article. Referred to School House Committee.

A number of mmimloM were received from publishing houses, asking that certain books bo placed upon uie ubi 01 tne ttoard, Mr. Huntley called attention to the visits of book agents to the various schools, and said that the practice of permitting thnm tn tm thnre was an outrauo and a Bhame. He wished the Board would thluk about it and determine to do something. They bad.n right to see the principals, except at their homes, and he hoped books, the agents for whioh visited the schools, would be rejooted by the Board. Mr.

Rowe said the Book Committee had done everything in their power to break up the practice. The communicatinTiR wat a referred to the Book Com mittee. Mr, Thomas offered the following: Resolved. That it bA referred to the School nouso Committee and Committee of No. 41 to prepare plans and advertise for proposals to furnish new building, No.

41, with suitable furniture; and to contract for the eame wren me lowest responsible bidder. The Chair could not understand why the nronoeals should not be placed before the Board just as proposals for other supplies. He did not see why the committees referred to should be granted the power of awarding the contracts without first submitting tho proposals to the open Board. Mr. Murphy amended that the committee report the proposals to the Board.

The amendment was accepted and the resolution adopted. A similar course was adODted with regard to the fol lowing Resolved, That it be referred to the School House Committee and Committee on No. 42 to prepare plana and advertise for proposals to furnish new building No. 42 with suitable furniture, and to contract for the samo with the lowest rosponBible bidder. xue uommitcce on Teachers report tne rouowing BESIONATIONS, PBOMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS Resignations No.

5. Miss Maria F. Hennessy, Third Grade Primary; Miss Maria F. Johnson, Fifth Grade Primary. No.

7, Miss Eliza A. Leary, Sixth Grado Grammar. No. 15, Miss M. H.

Blending, First Grade Grammar, December 31. No. 31, Miss H. Affleck, Ilrst uraae ramary. No.

32, Miss z. E. Kyoer, xmra Grade Grammar No. 34 Miss O. E.

Friok, Third Grade Grammar, January 1. No. 25, Miss S. L. Knaobol, Bec ond Grade Primary, December 31.

PBOMOTIONS. No. 2, MisB S. F. Powell, to First Grade Primary (raised); MisB N.

Schilling to Second Grado Primary (raised); Misb A. 8. Desmond, to Third Grade Primary (raised): Miss A. A. Kirby, to Third Ward Gram mar (raised); Miss F.

M. LucVeu, to Fourth Grade Primary (raised); Miss M. M. Slaynard, to Fifth Grade Primary (raised); Miss 0. E.

Martiu, to Fifth Grade Prima ry o. 3, fliiss ivina apencer, to aixth Grade Grammar (raised); Miss M. McGovern, to First Grade Primary (raised); Miss G. Brown, to Second Grade Primary (raised): Miss Rasmusson. to Second Grade Primary (raised): Miss A.

Desendorf, to Third Grade Primary (raised); Miss K. Russell, to Third Grade Primary (raised) Miss M. Kelly, to Fourth Grade Primary (raised); Mies J. Boylan, to Fifth Grado Primary (raised), January 2. No.

1, Miss A. P. Carman, to Third Grade Grammar (raised); MIbs M. Reynolds, to Fourth Grade Grammar (raised); Miss B. E.

McElroy, to Fifth Grade Grammar (raisod); Miss E. A. Leary, to Sixth Grade Grammar (raised);) Miss M. Stevenson, to Second and Third Grade Primary (raised), November 13. Miss M.

A. Brant, to Sixth Grade Grammar, vice Miss Leavy, M. Stevenson, to First Grade Primary, vice Miss Brant; Miss M. J. Oonroy, to Second and Third Grade Primary, vice Miss Stevenson; Miss E.

D. Goodwin, to Fourth Grade Primary, vice MIbs Oon roy; Miss A. ruompson, to firm uraae i nmary, V1CO miss uuuuwiuj HLmn a. virarvey, to Sixth Grade Primary, vice Miss Thompson. No.

25, Miss M. L. Cunningham, to Second Grade Primary, vice Miss Znaebel (resigned); Miss E. T. Cai laghan, to Third Grade Primary, vice Miss ham; Miss 8.

T. Young, to Fourth Grade Primary, vice Miss Callauban: Miss L. A. WUdes, to illth Grade Pri mary, vice Miss Young. No.

81, Miss L. F. Conktin, to Fourth and Fifth Grade Grammar, consolidated, De comber 20; Miss M. J. Bohen, to Fourth and Fifth Grade Grammar, consolidated; Miss J.

Holcomb, to Sixth Grade Grtunmar, vice Miss Flynn; Miss T. J. Flyna, to Jjirst uraae ramary, vice iviibb AmeuK, resignea; aiiss E. H. Kelsoy, to First' Grade Primary, December 21; MIsb M.

J. McAdam, to Second Grade Primary, vice Miss Goodwin, December. 20; Miss M. E. Goodwin to Sixth Grade Primary, (new class.) No.

32, Miss L. V. Sampson, to Third Grado Grammar, vice Miss Ryder (re8ignea)rjanuaiy auaa ajary u. ioano, to Third Grade' Grammar, vice miss Frick (resigned), January Miae H. T.

Hall, to Fourth Grade Grammar, vice MIbs Doane; Miss M. E. Malcomson, to Fifth Grade Grammar, vice Miss Hall; Miss E. 0. Blakeman, to Sixth Grade Grammar, vice Miss Malcomson; Miss L.

E. Dickinson, to First Grade Primary, vice Miss Blakeman; Miss E.P.Arnold, to First Grade Primary, vice Miss Dickinson Miss M. A. Mnrrinnn. to Second Grammar vice Miss Nason: Miss A.

Nason, to 8econd Grade Primary, vice Miss Arnold Miss A. V. Hill, to Third Grade Primary, vice Miss Weber; Miss E. 3. Weber, to Third Grade Primary, vice Miss Morrison Miss E.

L. Davis, to Fourth Grade Primary, vice Miss Burke; Miss M. E. Burke, to Fourth Grade Primary, vice Miss Hill; Miss M. H.

Bartlett, to Fifth Grade Primary, vice Miss Davis Miss A. V. Hue band, to Fifth GradePrimary.vico Miss Bartlett; MissM. A. Sixth Grade Primary, vice MissHueband.

86, MIbs F. Higbie, to Fourth Grade Grammar, Miss M. J. Burnett, to Fifth Grade Grammar; Miss J. Thompson, to Fifth Grade Grammar; Miss A.

I. Cregier, to Sixth Grade Grammar; Miss C. J. Smith, to Sixth Grade Grammar; Miss L. Munn, to First Grado Primary; Miss V.

Parrott, to First Grade Primary; Miss S. J. Long, to 8eoond Grade Primary; Miss L. Brainerd, to Second Grade Primary; Miss H. 8.

Cook, to Third Grade Primary; Miss M. 'Willis, to Third Grade Primary; Miss I Hurst, to Fourth Grade Primary; Miss E. Klinck, to Fourth Grade Primary; Miss E. E. Kenyon, to Fifth Grade Primary, January 1.

Appointments Central Grammar School, Miss M. H. Blanding, bookkeeping and penmanship. No. 3i, Miss Ida B.

Wood, to Sixth Grado Primary, vice Miss Reynolds, January 2. Temporary Appointments iNo. 5, MIbb Alice W. Holt, to Third Grade Primary, vice Miss Hennessy, (resigned;) Miss Kate Cordon, to Fifth Grado Primary, (one month), vice Miss Johnson. No.

7, MIsb Esther Frost, to Sixth Grade Primary, vice Miss Garvey, January 1. No. 25, Miss Carrie Crane, to Sixth Grade Primary; rice Miss Wildes, December 31. No. 32, Miss Margaret P.

Smith, to Sixth Grade Primary, vice Miss Farrell, (resigned), January 2. Mr. Thomas said that a bill for $212 had been presented to tho School Houbo Committee for painting and repairing School House No. 32. He did not know anything about it.

Mr. Lowell said that the work was necessary, though he did not think so much Bhould be paid for it. The man who did it should get a fair price for it, and no more. Mr. Murphy said he understood tho School House Committee to disclaim any knowledge of the bill.

Mt. Rowe thought such things had gone far enough. It was due the Board to know who had ordered the performance of the work, and by what authority he had done bo. The matter was referred to tho School House Committee. BILLS TO BE PAID.

Mr. Murphy, on behalf of the Finance Committee, re norte'd for payment the following bills For work done under authority of Local Com. mittee For premiums on policies. For rent of primary sohool houses Forworkaa directed by Committee on Attendance $422.71 40.0(1 420.83 6130 53.15 For work as directed "by "Committee onErening 114.70 1,382.41 m.ix For snppliefl For law eipenaes on purchase of law college. For woric done as oireeieu ffflS For books, slates, Ao Mi For work as directed Ventilating Committee a 99il Totll 812,064.08 The "report was received and ordered printed in the minutes.

The following communication was read rUBLIO SCHOOL NUMBER NINETEEN. To the BonorabU, the Board of Education GENILSMES having been made against the sanitary condition ot Public School No. 19, (South Second street,) an examination has been made by the officers ortrAs department, who tod condition ol affairs that mast hove eacsped the attention of your Honorable Body or could not hav been permitted to exist in with a bniUnng wherein assembte daily over a thousand ladies and children. The Mrrage Sent of the water closete foul air from them is carried through the cold ait box to the heaters and than distributed to the class rooms above, The water closets are also ventilate chiefly by means of the stairways which lead to the different rooms ocoupied by the school. This condition of affairs your Honorable My tffl al once see must be provocative of health of the attendants at the school, and we therefore earnestly regjiest that the cause of the nuisance be hBoard respecWolly guoBti that a Committee of your body may bVdirected to visif the school with the Sanitary Superintendent of this department, in order to devise the proper remedies.

By orderof the Board, H. A. LaFktba, Secretary. Mr. Lowell said that the conununlcaiUon only verified prophesies already made KJ?" school room in BXklyn in which there were not four or five children with terrible colds and on the way to pneumonia or diphtheria.

He moved that the matter be referred to thaHealth Committee. Mr. Huntley asked why it ould be sent to that committee when probably no be receptor a month or two? Why not It to the School House Committee or some commlttoe with pow to do something 1 He would amend to add the School House Committee to tte ConmiUtee Mr, CarroU further amended that thecommunicaon be referred to the Sohool Bonse ana Heating comrnit teee, with nthority to EEMEDY THE EVTL AT ONCE. Mr. Huntley accepted the amendment to the amend "MriOulyer said that the subject wa ''riB one.

There was an evident distaste on the part of the i into consultation with them Heating and VeatBrtM Committer Tb miBtaKe was tnai one ruie Mr. Huntley did not thinU that the nature of the communication warranted a diBCUsaioa on entila UMr Culyer thought it would be absurd for the Board to adopt themotllnlf it was not designed to adopt a proper remedy. There were thousands oflives involved on ho question of ventilation He beloved many deaths were traceable to the fact that children sat where a cold blast blew in upon them from one direction and a hot air blast from another. It was a att which ehooldnot be lightly laid aside. He knew of cUliten who had taken sick and died the school IwcauBO of such a condition of affairs.

Perhaps a complete remedy might not be easily applied, but the Board ought to go to tho root of the matter. Mr. Huntley Tho gentleman can taUc about this matter aa long Mr. Culyer I can talk about it as lone as you can. Mr.

Huntley Yoe, you can talk twice as long and uot say as much. Mr. Oulvor I can say that this Is a place wli'jre honorable ljeuttemon come to conduct yuolio bcnii ass. isvisu turnup yuuWtf'tt tsBoijui pJwW Tliis Plcr tl10 I'arrest Circulation of any Evening Paper Published in tac United States. Advertising Mediant parent.

its valne as an is therefore ay Proposed Abolition ol Two Important County Offices. As was announced in the Eagle of Filday, a bill has been introduced in the Legislature by Sir, Stephenson, having for its object the abolition of the offices of Supervisor at Large and County Auditor, and clothing the President of tlio Board of Supervisors with the functions of the two. At whose instance this bill has been drawn does not yet appear. It is introduced by a Republican member, and at first sight it would seem to be the natural effect on the Legislature of public opinion caused by the action in the jail matter of the present Supervisor nt Large. But it is just as likely to be a project conceived by the present Board of Supervisors of Kings County to render ruoro easy the jobbery of which they have shown themselves capable.

Both of these offices are important, the former exceedingly so. Both these officials are elected by the people of the whole county, and for a necessary and obvious reason, when we consider the important duties devolving upon them. The Supervisor at Largo has very great powers. His office is only second to that of Mayor of the oity. When filled by a competent and honest man, any roguish diverting of the people's money to improper ends is well nigh impossible.

When the present Mayor was Supervisor at Large he signalized his administration of county affairs by a rigorous adherence to principles of honesty and economy. He stood in the way of every schemo of jobbery that unscrupulous politicians endeavored to pass. He demonstrated in a notable manner the im portance of the office and the necessity ol having it filled by the right sort of a man. By electing this officer at large, it is improbable that with public attention excited, an incapable or weakly scrupulous individual will ba called to fill it. It is no reason for abolishing the office that the present incumbent has failed in his duty.

It is among the remote possibilities that an incompetent man may come to fill any office in the gift of the people, no matter what safeguards may he thrown around the method of appointment or election. It should be remembered that the term of the present incumbent of the office of Supervisor at Large expires with the present year. If, therefore, the promoters of this bill imagino that by the abolition of the office simply they will render jobbery in the Board loss likely to occur, they are mistaken, and have gone to work in the 'wrong way to effect what cannot, except by moral means and the exercise of public opinion in the disgrace of offenders, ever be absolutely effected Upon whom does the bill propose to confsr the important functions exercised by the Supervisor at Large and the County Auditor? Practically upon one of the Supervisors, a man who shall represent only a very small part of the county, and a ward politician. Such a result would utterly destroy every safeguard now thrown around needless, wasteful and criminal extravagance. Such a result would be practically to turn the county over to the men who have shown themselves not above plundering it.

In order to make perfectly easy and, on its face, perfectly lawful, any scheme of jobbery these men might agree upon, it would only be necessary for them to put their heads together and elect as President of the Board any one of their number who would lend himself to their projects. Such legislation would simply have the effect of giving to the Supervisors the power of approving thoir own resolutions. The same objection applies to the proposed change in the Auditorship. Undor the proposed bill the Supervisors would be empowered to audit the bills they had approved for payment. Between them and the County Treasurer, in case of a combination with dishonest contractors, there would be no barrier.

It is the duty of the Auditor to assure himself that the work and material called for under any resolution of the Supervisors have been furnished before the contractor receives his pay. It is no news to any person familiar with our affairs to say that frequently Supervisors endeavor to get bills approved when neither the work nor the labor called for has been furnished. The recent unseemly haste shown by the present Supervisor at Large in approving the resolution to expend $250,000 upon the jail suggests the propriety of so far modifying the law as to divest him or his successor of approving ony resolution within five days from the time of its passage. The right of the people to know the full import of any important ac tion of the Board is unquestionable. Measures of great significance are hurried through that body and become a law binding the county and necessitating large expenditures before the press has had time to discuss it or the people who are affected by it have time to understand it.

This should, not be so. The law ought to be so modified as to insure an opportunity for public sentiment to manifest itself upon any resolution providing for the expenditure of considerable sums of money before the resolution can be made binding in law. The Process of the Beno Inquiry. The Reno investigation at Chicago, which is now in its fourth week, has been successful in establishing damaging evidence against Custer's ability as an officer, if it has not exonerated Eeno from the charge of cowardice. In fact, it appears more an examination into Custer's conduct than a trial of his subordinate officer's inefficiency and failure.

Colonel Ben teen was so critical of Custer in his testimony that the Recorder asked him if he had unfriendly feelings against his superior officer. His replieB were evasive, and the opinions he expressed of thff order Custer gave him were, to say the least, insulting to that officer's competency. The Court ruled out this testimony as being irrelevant, and its tendency was thus mitigated. It, however, remains plain that at hast Reno and Benteeu, the two officers to whom he committed the duty of leading the right and left wing of his little army, considered him an incompetent officer, who went into the fight without any definite plan of action, and whose massacre was due to that fact. If Captain Vhittaker can secure a Congressional investigation of this affair, as he is trying to do, perhaps a different view of the matter will be had; at present it is all against Custer and all for Reno.

Custer, for many reasons, had enemies among his brother officers, and at the time of the massacre theia was severe criticism passed upon him by anoy people, who ascribed the disaster solely te his intense thirst for notoriety. He led his men into danger recklessly and sacrificed them, it was averred, for the sole purpose Of winning personal renown. His writings were condemned long before as being unfair in tone, ana after his recall to Washington and his rebuke by the officials there, he went back to the plains resolved upon some desperate adventure in order to win the applause of the nation and so retrieve his lost position. Had he been governed by less selfish motives, the men who were with him up to the time of his dividing his force are of one mind regarding the final result of the fight, which was imminent. He could have waited for General Terry and the combined force would have at least fared better than the faction of it under Custer did.

But Terry ranked Custer, and the officer who had led a brigade himself could not bear the thought of being subordinate to and under the orders of a rival, and at the moment a more' successful officer than himself. But what the result would have been is simply conjecture. The Indians were in numbers many times as great as the combined forces would have been, and they were intent upon a hard struggle. Tho fate that overtook Custer's men may have been that of others, and the death roll might have been much larger. It iB not the time now to discuss the possible results of a different course it is to find out if Reno failed to obey the orders of his commander, and by so doing is indirectly responsible for tho massacre of Custer and his men.

Certainly, thus far the inquiry has not been sutis faetoryiu this regard. to notice how the results of the ecclesiastical partisanship which accompanied the Tilton Beocher trial still crop out here and there The Rev. Richard E. Field has been at Uw Puritan Church tnat mere was gross fraud In the primary. 11 uie auendment dooa not prevail wo will put ourselves in a position of sanctioning fraud.

If we do that we step in tho l'ootpaths of our political adversaries. I'd rather see tiki ward turned upside down and have an voto itUAn to have a dishonest one. Wo will profit by it in the iang run. No party can possibly profit by f. atid.

Let the primaries be honestly conducted ho that every moo in tho rooks whon he goes to tho voting place will know thai bis vote counts cue. Applause. Tat CoikH'tor Tanner (Twenty second Ward) I cannot allow this matter to go to a vote without being heard on tho point raised by Mr. Fales. I was connected with tho Third Word cose, and in that case I was favorable to tha men Mr.

Fales represents. In the Third Ward tha caxe wo very different from that in tho Fourth Ward. There were simply sonio OHAEGES OP IMPROPER ACTION at tho primary, and not having the utmost faith in ono or two of the'frontlemen complalnlncr, we let them alone. I have no peraouai feeling in this matter, but It seems to mo that this la a terrible indictment the majority of this committee' have brought against'the Fourth Ward. If I wore sittlng.as a member from th Twenty second Ward under sunUar conditions, 1 would ask the committee to send mcbari for another triil by my constituents.

I would ask the Secretary to agahi read tho finding of the majority! ot the couimilteo. The resolutions were read. Mr. Jones (excitedly) should like to know what Mr. Harlow has got to say about Collector Tanner feel, Mr.

Chairman, that I must range myself with the minority report. Wiien a committee of this General Committee makes such a pre eentoient as that, my HerpabUcaatum won't allow to indorse' such a course of Kepublican action. It isn't charged that there was' fraud on oithor It is a good timo for tho Fourth Ward to clean house and get things to riffhts. iADDianss.) Mr. C.

W. Godard (Eighteenth Ward) I more that Mr. Joseph Boevo have the privilege of the floor to od dretw the committee about Uio Fourth Ward troubles. Several objections wore raised by delegates. Tho Chair held that one objection was sufficient to preclude the right of any ononot a delegate to speak.

Collator Tanner uiovod that tiw bylaws be suspended so that Mr. Reeve could speak. Ex Sheriff Campbell made the point of order that the committee could not suspcud tha bylaws without giving, a month's notice. Mr. Q.

P. Willey, of tho Sixth 'Ward, had no objection to Mr. Reeve, but ho thought there should be some limit to outsiders coming iu and takingotp tho timo of tho comuiittee A voloe Give us Joe Reevo The Choir There is evidently aims man in tha room who want to be expelled. Mr. Wilioy In aU probability th4re will in the future bo more important questions before tho committee.

Should we ailow tho precedents, other parties would come in and claim the right to be hezrd. Mr. Jones (iudignsntlj) There are several members of this committee who don't wantto hear this thing. If they want TO CHOKE IT OFF in that way, they can do It. Why don't' they bring tho question right up whether or no and act on It? We don't want to stay hero all night.

Mr. Harlow I aoove that the rules be snsponded, and that Mr. Hopkins oa heard on ono Bide and Mr. ltoevo on tho other, Mr. John F.

Henry (Tenth Ward) I risoto a point of order Mr. Chairman. My first point of order is that uo man not a member of this General Committee can speak if a single objection is made my Becond point Id that the bylaws cannot be suspended if objectton is made without a month's notice Mr. Godard I am In favor of a suspenalon of tho rules and of giving both sides a full hearing. Mr.

Fales I move that five minutes each be granted the gentlemen. The Chair The quesaon la now on tha Buspaneion ol the rulos. Mr. Henry I object to the suspension. Mr.

Hubbard Hendriekson I don't see any necessity of any gentleman presenting a case here. We have the findings of facts which are all we want. Tho Chair The rules eannot be suspended when ob jection Is made. Mr. w.

u. uurtis (excitoaiv) on. res a Democrat can get the privilege of the floor iu fids committee. I've seen them give DeWltt the floor and we shouldn't stultify ourselves now by refusing it to old Joe Reeve. Mr.

B. F. Hlalr (Tentn Ward) According to Article 16 of the Constitution, tho rulos may be msDvnded by a two thirds vote. I appeal from the decision of tho Chair. The Chair Tho Chair will rule then lu accordance with the constitution.

Mr. Henry Kiid tha committee bad spent threo or four months ou the cane. They agreed upon all ijuestions of fact, and he could not soe tho necessity of tryiug tho case again. 'ino mouon to suspena tne rules and crlvo Joe Keoe a hearing was then lost by a vote of 47 to 3i. I he report or the committee, with Mr.

Harlow a amoudment, waa adopted. Air. Hoove declined to serve on tho Committeo of lto vision. Ho said he had enough of Fourth Ward primary elections. Ou motion of Collector Tanner, A.

D. Bergen was de puted to servo In hiB place. THE TWENTY FIETII WARD. Mr. McMIckon.

of tlie Eloventh Ward, presented tho lollowlug Brooklyn, February 1, 1STO. To the Tlonorable the Republican Geucral Committee of Amy county Gkntlemen The committeo appointed by vour Hon orable Body to hoar and report the contest from tho Twenty fifth Ward us to tho primary election there held November 26, 1 1 3, would, after a loug and careful In vestigation, respectfully report as follows I'lrst iimt said nnniary was irromilar and Illegal; that no poll list whatsoever was kept of tho voters that no tally shoots were ina le or kept by tho inspectors as as required by chapter 4, article of the bylaws; that tho canvass of said votes was not duly ccrtilied by the luRpcctors, as required by chapter 7, article that tho inspectors in many cases opoucd ballots handed them by voters before depositing theui iu the baliot boxes, and that tho roll book was not redelivered to tho Secretary at the closing of tho polls. Second That bv reason of tho primaries, which are admitted by both parties, your committeo is unable to determine tho extent of the frauds committed, or alleged to have been committed at tho said primary. Thiru That, in tne opinion oi your committee, frauds were oommitted at said primary. Fourth That said inspeotors were guilty of either the grossest ianorance or tho most willful disobedience of the bylaws of your body.

we would, tnererore, recommena tne ouoption oi tne following resolution: Revolted, That the Republican primary election held in the Twonty fif th Ward on November 26, 1878, bo and the same ia hereby declared null and void and of uo effect, and that a new primary be held on February lBl'J, iu tnat wara unaer tne airecaon oi tuo ueueroi committee. All of which Is respeotfully submitted. Jajies A. McMrcKEH, Wm. E.

8. Fales, F. M. EXtQKHTON. The report of tho committeo with the appended reoo Iutlons were adopted without debate.

Mr. W. E. 8. Fales moved that the Twenty fiifth Ward primary be held on Tuesday, February IS, from I to 10 o'clock P.

M. Mr. A. J. Perry, of the Sixth Ward, Chairman of tho Executive Committee, said ha had a report from tho Auditing Committee.

It waa a report that should bo made In executive session, and he hoped tho committee would go iutoexecutive session. The committee then went iuto executive session and did not return until about midnight. CPKRE.VT EVENTS. The thirteenth annual dinner to the Harvard Club will take placo at Dalmonlco's on Friday, the 2lBt inst. When Ashburton Webster, grandson of Daniel Webster, was buried at Marshfleld, last week, the lid of the colBn of the dead statesman waa rawed aud tho face exposed to view.

It was perfectly recognizable, the body having been embalmed. A number of prizes were given yesterday by the New York Horticultural 8oclety to exhibitors of plants and flowers. Some rare pink camellias from Japan, and some Bcarlet double poinsettias from Mexico, attracted much attention. Thoy were shown by William Ueunett, of Flatbush. The display was unusually fino.

Charges of malfeasance in office have been made against James H. Romer and Eugoue Archer, Justices of the Peace, of White Plains, Westchester County. Twenty one charges have been made against Justice Romer, and twelve against Justice Archer. Perjury and conspiracy are the chief acts charged against thorn. The Senate Committee, who have under consideration the matter of opening the Indian Territory, are agreed in favor of opening all Government londB, both in the Indian Territory and elsewhere, to pre emption and settlement.

A general measure to that effect will be reported at the next meeting of the committee. A bill has been prepared for presentation to the Legislature favoring a reduction of salaries lu Ho boken. The bill, which waa prepared by a number of prominent citizens, provides for tho reduction of all salaries under the present city government, also abolishes tho Board of Education and Board of Pol Ice Commissioners, the work to be performed by the Common Council. It also abolishes tlie office of Recorder, the work to be performed by the Mayor. $00,000 will bo saved annually if the bill is passed.

Yesterday Chairman Whitthorue, of the House Committee on Naval his report on tho evidence taken by his committee against Robeson, Has com and others. It was approved by every Democratic member of the committee, without exception, and by ont Republican member. Tho report shows that the ovldence justifies tho indictment of those ex officials of the Naval Department for tho attempted destruction of the American Navy in peace. Flagrant maladministration is charged is specified cases, and the indictment of the guilty parties Is urged. A vote will be taken in the matter on Thursday.

The Pilot Commissioners of New York yesterday appointed a committee to call upon Mayor Cooper on Friday to make complaint against the Police Commissioners, for having garbogo dumped in the main ahlp channel and in the lower bay. On Monday four bcows discharged their cargoes of garbage and ashes in the bay. Tho Staten Island people are loud in their protest against th contractor of the Xew Jersey Central Railroad, for having tho mud dredged at Elizabetbport dumped in the Staten Island Sound. Not only ia navigation aeriouBly damaged, but tho oyster business is endangered. These complaint are among the several to be made by the committeo to the Mayor.

Madame Anderson is walking in Pittsburg, her time being up on Monday next, when she will have walked 1,330 quarter miles in 1,330 quarter hours. Her next walk will be in Chicago, where sho will walk a quarter of a mile at the beginning of every ten minutes for two weeks. She has Issued a challcngo to fcuioio pedestrians many of whom it Becma, have challenged hor to matches as follows To walk one quarter of a mile at tho commencement of every ten minutes, oil to start at the same time, the last party to leave the track at finish of said task to receive all tho proceeds arising from the above contest; each ono to pay share and share alike of nil expenses, and the same tobe deposited two weeks prior to tie contest taking place. Abraham Peristein, the Ludlow street, New rork, Incendiary, was sentenced by Judge Cowing to State Prison for life, yesterday. Fcrlatein set fire to the tenement house No.

11 Ludlow street, which at the timo was occupied by over twenty families. He waa ono of a gong of fire bugs who fired places to obtain insurance. The method adopted by these Incendiaries waa that whoever owned the apartments to bo fired should be conveniently absent, so that an ali'W could be set up In case of arrest. Tho gang were watched and finally caught in their villainy by the Fire Marshal. Berneteln, another of the gang( was put oa trial to day In the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

The French cooks' ball, at the New York Academy of Music list evening, not aa great a euo cojs as in former years. Tho display of culinary art. If. Nllsson Hall, was poorer than in previous years. A pieces were, however, obe for their origins' Itr.

Tho most ambitious ornament waa tho Tower of 'Mala koff," from tho Windsor Hotel. The Lotos Cl'ib was represented by tho emblem of the club an Egyptian girl upholding the lotos flower. Tho figure war of pure v.hite Mtgar, tho iw.dtsUl representing the trjuk ft the ljtos tre'j. On cithor si Jc of 1 Cgura columns of Jelly, filled in nv te de fiiiJTls. A hi' remarKnuie lor us ueayuiul j.j v.

tlul of iuUaufish girl carryinfT flatter ol frlrl Biaij.U Jho ball Ia largely jeer i8 m. sNstt".