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SWEEPINGS. THE ALD3EBMEK erence, and if the story told by Mrs. Brown can be relied upon, in the face of Mr. Wright's visit and Williams' confidence that the.bill he gave her was not a fifty dollar bill, that ahe herself scrutinized it and pronounced it a one dollar bill, and finally that the fifty dollar bill given to Commander McCook wasnot identical with that given to Paymaster Hoxsey, it would be exceedingly gratifying. out tho whole system of Federal interference.

If tho Army bill does not accomplish this purpose, another measure which has already se cured tho approval of the popular branch of the Legislature does so, and if Mr. Hayes had chosen to delay his official aetion for a few days, he would have had official notification that Congress proposes to got rid of the Supervisors, the partisan Marshals, the countless hordes of Deputy Marshals and the interference of the army in our elections, all at the same time. The Republicans propose to maintain the whole Federal election machinery, and we admit that the whole system must stand or fall together, for that branch of it which is not worthless, is vicious and dangerous. The issue Mr. Hayes has thus raised for the Republican party, and at its solicitation apparently, will be mat and disposed of.

It is a renewal of a very old struggle, and its final determination is not doubtful if the Anglo Saxon race have not lost that spirit of sturdy independence which has impelled them always to rely upon themselves for freedom, and upon their governments for nothing they could not themselves maintain. When the exact text of the message is made public it will ba in order to determine in what way the will of the majority can best be enforced. If the Democratic party had the sole power of determining upon what issue they should go before the country, its leaders could not devise ons that will better suit them than that which Mr. Hayes and his stalwart adherents have enabled them to make. As we see the cose at present, there is nothing for tho majority party in Congress to do, except to stand resolutely by the right, leaving the consequences of that determination to be taken by whoever courts the responsibility.

of horsewonuoshlp. Then bojEentucky thoroughbred. Brilliant, waa brought into the ring and ahe mounted in the sight of "(11 to ehow sho was not strapped upon tha saddle. A word about this same jewel of a horse. Ho is a chestnut with a while star on his forehead, and in form Is the very acme of equine beauty.

A more perfectly proportioned animal was never seen in the ring. His symmetry and grace It wonderful. Brilliant was brought from Kentucky by a gentleman for bis own riding, but he could not manage the high strung animal. He was sent to a New York riding school, and they could not handle him. Then Carl Antony bought him for a Bong for Miss Lake and ahe broke him.

Brilliant was never In the ring until about two weeks ago, and when first taken In for practice he simply stood on his hind legs and walked out. One of Mr. Barnum's assistant managers attempted to handle him and had his collar bone broken and several ribs smashed tor hia pains. But Miaa Lake kept at him, and now ho la conquered. When onco she was on his back ha could not get ber off.

Sho had a fight with him in tho ring in New York the other day, during a performance, and strong men who looked on grew pale, expecting to see the plueky girl killed or severely Injured. But the triumphed, and now tho beauty owns her hia perfect mistress. Her slight figure, robod. in a dark riding habit, aita in the saddle Uko a bird. A Life Guardsman could not become more a part of her horse than ahe does.

Last sight Brilliant got up on hia hind legs straight in tho air, and It looked an impossibility that any one should keep the saddle unler such circumstances, but she never slipped or looeod her hold on the bridle rein. Brilliant wound up by clearing a five barred gate at a standing jump. But what shall be said of the multiform and exciting feats that follow each other in rapid succession, of Madame Dockrill's daring four horse act of Slgnor 8e bastlnn in his daring bare back acts that are performed with a ekiU and dash perfectly wonderful of Carl Antony's trained Russian stallions and of the other feats of' daring and grace, they are too numerous to partiaularize. Tho performance closed at half past ten with John Batcheldor in his great leaping feat when ho turns a double somersault over the back of six elephants. Everything about the great exhibition Is perfect and pure.

It la uo wonder that Barnum draws the cream of the country. The only aide show that Is allowed is the annex which exhibits after the close of tho great performance. It is under tho management of Bunnell the Dime Museum man of Fulton street, and la an excellent exhibition. Iu his speech tn the ring last night, Mr. Barnum said he waa responsible for everything but tha weather, and ho hoped Probabilities would be more complaisant during tho balance of the week.

It is to be hoped that clear skies and balmy air will bo awarded for tho rest of tho stay of "the greatest show on earth" in Brooklyn. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. How tlio Act ot may 23, 1878, Affects (be VlxnTffe pf Conspiracy Agaluat Com' mlssioners Flaherty and Bennett. The trial of Oity Works Commissioners John W. Flaherty and George C' Bennett and Water Purveyor Peter Milne, on a charge of oorTpirscyto defraud the oity out of the sum of $50,000, by scuffing the rolls "of the department with reachod that stage where it may be aald that the plan of thodefenso has been sufficiently developed to enable any and every person to understand It.

8tated broadly and generally counsel for the defense will urge the following points upon the attention ot the Jnry: First That such a thing as sinecurism in the Department of City Works undor the administration of the defendants was unknown to them. Second If it did exist, it was without their knowledge and consent and was the result of corrupt practices on the part of heads of bureaus. At that point the "Dady did it" plea will be urged. Third That under the administration of the defendants a very considerable reduction was made In the coot of running the department Towfad the establishment of that point Mr. Shaffer dlreated his energies on, last Thursday afternoon, when Commissioner Flaherty was called tothestand.

Column of figures were read off, giving in detail and in the aggregate tha cost of running the department as a whole, and also the six difforent bureaus it contains, during the year. 18T7 and 1878. The amounts for 1878 were loss than those for the previous year. Having done that much, Mr. 8haffer evidently concluded that it would ba a wise thing for him to let well enough alone, and ho did not pursue his inquiries on that point any further.

When Mr. Traoy, on behalf of tho prosocutlon, pro ceeded to cross examine Mr. Flaherty, Ue made it very apparent that the figures which had been read by the defense would need verification, and then ho compelled the witness to admit that the amount of work done in 1878 was very much smaller than in 1877, or, tonse Mr. Flaherty's own words, "a complete etop was put toall publio' improvements in 1878 by MAYOR HOWELL'S IMPROVEMENT BILL." The bill to which Mr. Flaherty referred was psssod May 23, 1878, and it provides that before any public improvement, suoh as the opening of a Btroot, the grading and paving of the same, or the building of a shall be oommenced, that two thirds of the estlnistea cost of the work must be collected and paid into the city treasury.

That stopped tho Issuing of assessment bonds and afforded the city time to re3t and recuperate. It was also high time that some step of tho kind should be taken, as assessments to the amount of $1,500,000 had already been vacated or staved off either by the Legislature, the courts or the Common. Council. The amount outstanding and to be oollected was about $5,000,000, and one half of that is never expected to be BAMPB. The Opening of the Greatest Show ou Earth in.

Brooklyn The Showman and tho Fortunate Youth With an Umbrella The Trained Horses and Wild Animals The Daring: Amazonian Eqaestrlans Vaulting over Six Elephants and Turning aJDoubleSuni mersault, Etc. In the closing hours of tho afternoon yesterday an elderly gentleman stood under an awning on the corner of Myrtle and Washington avenues. He was tall, somewhat portly, with curly Iron gray hair and smooth face. The lines and curves around his mouth, indicated good humor. A pair of clear bright eyes illuminated his countenance, and he looked a man at peace with himself and all the world.

TTou would set him down at the first glance as a man who loved a good joke and could tell a good story, but who, withal, was possessed of rare energy and ability. It was raining and the gentleman was without an umbrella. He had just alighted from a down town car. As he stood there Bheltered from the rain a httle urchin came along tottering undor the weight of a good sized umbrella. "Hi, Bub," said tho elderly gentleman, "Come here a minute.

I'll give you a dime if you'll take me up here a couple of blocks with your umbrella. What do you say 7" The little fellow's eyes glistened, and with alnorlty ho accepted the offer. Dimes are not so plenty for small boys, even In these times of silver redundance. So the elderly gentleman, with tho curly iron gray hair and the pleasant face, grasped the umbrella and strodo along, tho little follow trotting by his side, chatting as they walked. i "Well, Bub," said tho gentleman, "going to tho great show?" "I hopo so, sir," said the little fellow, and his breath came quick and his eyes glistened.

Just then another boy, a year or two the senior of tho chap with the umbrella ranged alongside, and tho gentleman soon found he was tho brother of tho owner of the umbrella and both wore the Bona of a tailor in the vicinage. The elder of tho two looked up curiously Into tho gentleman's face, and as he looked, his mouth opened and his eyes dilated with awesome wonder. Finally ha burst out, "Say, Mister, ain't you Mr. P. T.

Barnum?" A hearty laugh sbooc tha Jolly sides of the gentlotuan with the ourly iron gray halt as ho answered, "Yea, I'm Mr. Barnum." By this time the gate of tho residence where Mr. Barnum was going, wa reached, and as he returned tho umbrella to tho younger lad, he Bald, with a twinkle lu his oye How, Bub, whioh would you rather havo, the ten cent piece or tho tlckot that will take you both to tho Bhow 1 Come, now, which 1" The answer waa a shout, Can you doubt It and you, reader, who was onco a boy and th circus your dream of bliss? Oh, Mr. Barnum, ploaso give ua tho tlckot. We'd rather have that." Of course thoy would.

Tho ticket waa given with a laugh and a hearty Thank you" for the umbrella. Oh, Mr. Barnum," exclaimed the elder, if we can ever do anything for you, please ask ub do, please." Mr. Barnum nodded and laughed, and disappeared in tha doorway of the residence. The lady of the mansion said that as she looked through the window sho saw the two little follows hugging each other and dancing up and down on the sidewalk in the rain.

What cared they for Jupiter Pluvius and all his floods. They had a ticket to Barnuoi'a great show. The great showman osiiy thought of It as a comical Incident, but there were two boys in Brooklyn last night who ware supremely happy, and he has won their undying friendship, that will never falter the longest day thoy live. It was a good deed in this naughty world. Aitken, but we are against doing by indireot tion what the men in power are not prepared to do directly.

If the Aldermen believe that O'Reilly has forfeited bis seat in the Bpard by bounty jumping and by accepting a Federal office, let them say bo like men. Until they do say so, or until they are prepared to say so, O'Reilly should not be embarrassed or put to shame by Mephistophelian devices. At the same time the preamble and resolution in question have been so skillfully drawn that, if the motive of the measure be ignored, it is. difficult to mention anything' objectionable in them, or any public consideration that should induce the Mayor to interpose his veto. The Rescued miners.

Accustomed as the publio has become to disasters in ooal mines, the falling of a part of a mine in Wilkesbarre, on Wednesday, failed to excite that intense feeling of anxiety which the fact that seven human beings were entombed many hundred feet underground might have provoked. It was feared, at the outset, that they could not be rescued, for nobody believed that a tunnel of 1,200 feet could be out through rock and slate, by hands never so willing, in time to bring out the prisoners alive. It was generally looked upon as a hopeless task, and the public quietly set it aside as one of those horrors which it is bootless to contemplate. Indeed, the thought that a chance of life remained to the unfortunates would, we have no doubt, have Created the most intense popular feeling. The catastrophe and the ros cuo now appear in the most dramatic contrast For nearly a week we are told, the supports of the mine had creaked and ground out their warning without attracting proper attention, and then, as if they had done their duty, suddenly gave way.

A roar of falling timbers, the shock and thunder as the earth closed in around them, and then the poor creatures were entombed, apparently beyond all hope of escape. At the pit's mouth, one may be sure the wildest excitement prevailed, and willing hands were instantly ready with pick and blasting apparatus to tunnel out a means of escape. Thanks to the engineering skill of those in charge a direot line of relief was planned. Night and day, nearer and nearer, with blast ttnd drill the approach was made, until the dreaded gas warned the rescuing party that hereafter the approach must be made entirely by picking. To the prisoners in thoir tomb the sound of the explosions came like the voice of and when they ceased resignation settled upon them, for they thought they had been abandoned.

It was not so, however, for the rescuers worked harder than ever, though necessarily with less speed. At length, after five days and a half, they penetrated the gangway and found their seven fellow workmen. Dramatic as such an entrance must have been, there was a higher quality displayed by the prisoners. A kindly Providence had supplied them with food, in the shape of a mule, and water of a fair quality. The absence of the dreaded gas had permitted them to light a fire, and when the rescuers found them they were grouped quietly round it, eating a breakfast of mule steaks.

Tranquil as they had been when the disaster overtook them, they were equally undemonstrative when deliverance was assured. They carefully extinguished their fire and followed their deliverers to the surface, where, we may be assured, rescuers and rescued were alike received with cheers and congratulations that came from the hearts of the multitude. Such a rescue is not absolutely without parallel, for such catastrophes are unhappily too frequent among miners, but few, if any, have been characterized by such tireless energy on the one hand or such calm confidence and readiness for either issue on the other. Perhaps the habits of men who pass the daylight hours down in the bowels of the earth prepare them in a measure for such an experience. To be shut out from daylight for nearly a week with an absolute certainty of final deliverance, would be an appalling prospect for most men, would perhaps render them insane, or shock them into collapse.

But the miner is already habituated to a life in the dark. While the air remains pure and food is to be found he bears his misfortune with contentment. Even the little door boy, after one fit of weeping, cheered up and maintained his high spirits, with no other complaint Something that is Valuable to Long Island Fanners. Jodgo Hilton's Attempt to Utilize the Street Swespinss of New York Tno Authorities Prefer to Dump It ia tho Bay. The garbage and street sweepings of Now York and Brooklyn make an cxceliant ttrttiittr, and woll adapted to the poorer quality of the soli on tha Island.

When Judge Hilton came to fill A. T. Stewart' place lathe Garden City enterprise, it occurred to blm that the thousands ot acres of land surrounding tha settlement might be cultivated profitably, and his experienced manager, W. R. Hinsdale, waa not long in demonstrating the correctness of tho Judga'a opinion.

Th high prices of fertilizer and the vast quantity required for so extensive a farm made Judge Hilton look about for some economical substitute, and he trid to to get the garbage ot New York but failed. During Uu past Winter, however, the Street Cleaning Bureau, through the influence of General Smith, contented to ship to tho Gardes City farm twelve thousand ton at thr rate of one hundred tons a day. The city waa required only to doliver tho sweepings at the Long Island Railroad docks In Newtown Creek, all subsequent ex penso being borne by Judge Hilton. A special contract was made for freighting tha sweeping over tha Lone Island Railroad. Judge Hilton was thinking of Increasing the shipment In bulk to twenty four thousand ton, and two hundred ton a day to be delivered, whan tba new Couunlwloner, Mr.

McLean, succeoded Mr. Nichols, and almost immediately and late at night Mr. Hilton was notified that no more dirt would be delivered. In view of the fact that the department coutiuues to dump the tilth in the bay and up the sound, doing serious damage to the oysters and clams, an Eaole reporter Instituted an inrearhjatl. going first to see Superintendent Spencer of the Long Island Bailroad.

He said that a contract had beon entered into between Receiver Sharp and Judgo Hilton for transportation of garbage at tha rate of one hundred ton per day, and in accordance therewith Judge Hilton had caused to bo delivered Beveral hundred tons which were duly forwarded to tho great farm on Hempstead Plains. About the lBth of tha month ho had ceased his shipments. "We have not yot boon informed," Mr. Sponcor continued, "a to whether the shipments are to be renewed or tho contract abandoned on tho part of Judge Hilton." He did not apprehend any serious difficulty iu a settlement for the non fulfilment of tha contract on the part of Judge Hilton In fact he believed? there was a clauso in the agreement providing for Juat this contingency. He assigned thia proceeding on the part of Judgo Hilton to the action of tho Street Cleaning Bureau of the New York Police De Eartment, but only surmised It from what he had over card.

What could prompt the bureau to uspend operation so boneQclalboth to tho city and to the Stewart eBtate, and which was Ukoly to result in a great part of the city's garbage being sent out on tha IMand tor uaa by the fanners, seemed an important matter, andconas qucutly the reporter extended the investigation to Garden City. There he found Mr. Hinsdale, ti Superintendent, engaged in laying out the foundations for tho schools, about to be oommsncod. Pindfag reporter was already possessed of soma general Mr. Hinsdale consented to urnhui the details, though al th risk of offending Judgo Hilton, who uniformly deslros to keep tgch master from public notice, unless when they may result in practical Bervico to other.

11 So far aa this affair la concerned," said he, "the result sought by the Judga has boen attained, though in a much ihorter spaoe ot time than ho probably anticipated, namely That of PROVIKO THB OOMS1EBCIA1. YALUB to tho City of Now York of Its street sweeping and garbage, which have hitherto been dumped into the bay to the detriment of tho harbor, and mads an offenne to th nostrils of Brooklyn and her suburbs. The fact ts, Uu refuse has been Bold for cash, and tho reformed Bureau of Street Cleaning puts inony into the oity's pookctj thereby." "But how about Judge Hilton' contract with th dopartmcnt for tha larrfa quantities of street sweepings which Mr. Speucor says he has agreed to ship 7" "1 don't think the Judge considers that as a binding contract, crcept, of coarse, upon his part. Ho merely mado proposal in writing to the Board of Police, which tha Board received and discussed, sent notice to Judg Hilton of their acefptenoe of it.

and began by the doliv ery of several hundred tons in accordance with the terms of tho propopl." "Can you furnish me with a copy of Judge Hilton' proposal 'I oaunot bvday. It was in the form of a letter addressed to General Smith, Prcoldent of the Board ot Police," It also suggested that it favorably received might duplicate the offer, aud tsaid that thought this would Induce other to uoe oven much larger quantities. If the department should have so much to dispose of for agricultural purposes. "Why was not the arrangement carried r.ntl" "I have already told you that the material has been sold. Here 1b a copy of tho resolution of the Po)ic Board, addressed to Judgo Hilton and delivered at hia house Saturday evening, April 18.

"You will see by this arrangemon that the ntw head of the Street Cleaning Bureau has mads a decided hit, and eclipsed all his prtdoceflsors by this advantageous agreement. The saving to tho taxpayers la Immense ta tho cost of vessel hire, towage and labor, blde th revenue received." "How does Judge Hilton regard this new contract 1" "With the utmost witlfctlon. This disposition of tho city's refuse, ao 'manifeatly in the Interest of the taxpayers, cannot but be regarded with favor by ovory one, ad compared with tho criminal wastefulness of dumping such valuable material Into the harbor." 'Ib garbage generally considered wnable a a fertil izer By those people who have had oiporiencc in lta OS it ia thought to bo of great value, and from It composition It must be valuable, If mixed with street sweep ings and applied to land alter lermontauou. Judge Uiltun offered to dispose of garbage If mixed with street sweepings, and to accommodate the Bureau with dumping ground for aahea and other auitabl tllUuga, if any difficulty wai experienced iu disponing of them, thus obviating any necessity C'Or a dumping ground In the harbor. It Is very ovldont that Contractor CHork Sou Dot teke all the garbage and street weeplng at aavaa cant a load (as per tho contract with Judge Hilton), for It Is being daily dumped down the Bay nd up the Sound.

Long Island farmers cannot expeot to get thU ralubl material when Judge Hilton finds it impossible tn do o. Aud it is somothiog worthy of special note that whil a dumping ground is oilercd by Judge Hilton the department rejects It and continues the expense of the dumping and tho nuisanco which it Brooklyn can send its street dirt to the Long Island fanners at their expense, aud the hundreda of farmer would dmibtleas be able to haudle all that It gather. At Garden City alone thirty ton of It can be used annually. When it became known that It wa being shipped to Garden City tho farmers tor mile around began looking for It. There a suspicion la the minds of the farmers that the manure monopoly of New York brought about the suspennion of tho arrangement Iwtweeii the city and Judgo Hilton.

Tho farmer paid $700,000 for fertilizers last year. Several Sew ItlllierBl Sprinff Have been discovered in Germany by Cabl H. Schtjltz, oi Now York City. They upon the same principle aa the soda waUr machine, but bar th advantage orer it in that ther ond forth "purely natural" 'w. They are driven by steam, and are kuowD aa the Locating" Compressor Natural Sprinita." llUSIfVESS SOTICES.

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Bjratd. aru.cooddwslllna and well tencd, tiflpO White acres, tood bQUdina, orohard. Ac at a baj ffajn nan, 13ajrc, atxxi folldinnd stock tooto; ounTBMW FOR AliK WANOB ua wihi FOR SAI.E rAflOSv OR SALE PiANO SACRIFICE 84 per raooth to rent, with stool cd Z5l Another Brief Session of the Board. The Proposed New Post Building for Brooklyn A Committee to Confer with the Board'of Supervisors with the Yiew of Procuring the Land on the East Side or the Court House as a Site for the Build injr HowPresident Bay Thinks Brook, lyn can get the Appropriation from the Federal Government Certificates for Veterans Miscellaneous Matters. The proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, after tlie olose 6f the Eagle's report yesterday after.

noon, were as fpllowa The Committee Qa Oponlng Streets reported la resolution in favor of opening Himrod street, Irom Evergreen to avenue. Adopted. Aid. Molntyre, from the Committee on Public; Land Miff Buildings, reported that the building oooupied aa the Eighth Bub Precinct Police Station at Fortecond street and Third was utterly aunt for human beings to be In, and offered a resolution directing the clerk to notify the owner that the oily does not want the nse of it after July and referring to the committee the question of securing other premises. The resolution was sdopted.

Aid. Molntyre said that at the corner of Forty thfird street and Third avenue ra suitable bnlldlni for a police station, whioh could be secured at a rent of $700 a year. BAILBOAD OOMPWOATIUMH. President Bay announced that the following had been aES'iiJSMEK BeinK in receipt of information showing that the Kings County Elevated Bailroad Company has petitioned your Honorable Board for leave to run its road over a portion of the route located tmdeeaured by Brooklyn and Coney Island Central KaUroad Company and the Brooklyn Elevatedand Atlantio Beach Railroad Company, leasee thereof, your petitioners would therefore respectfully but earnestly object and remonstrate against your Honorable Board granting leave to the County Elevated Bjjllroad Com pany to run over tha saio rouw, tioners as aforesdd of any portion thereof. Respectfully submitted, Fbauk B.

Jouhsoh, Secretary and Treasurer of tho Brooklyn and Oney Island Bailroad Company. Albert F. Johnson, President of the Brooklyn Elevated and Atlantio Beach Eailroad Company. Bef erred to the Bailroad commuree. OEBrmOATES FOB 'VETEEANS.

rnmmunication inclosing the foUowtag preamble and resolutions adopted by Kankta PoBt, No! 10. a. A. which body directed their transmission to tte Common Council Whereas, The debt of gratitude which the nation owes tho patriotic men who, in the dark and trying hours of civil Btrife, went forward to niuum uimui j(. i n.inaHtutlnn and laws which iuuj(i, wnwiiinri.

made and preserved us a nation; and Whereat, Tha city oi ptw, nouuuw ir. it SI imt flrat in fealty to the cause of the Union, one and indissoluble, recognizing the eminent service rendered by our sons, who rallied to the support of the national stauaara, mu, wver mmr from the war, present them with medals, oommoniora tive of. their valor, and Whereas, The than Chief Magistrate of Brooklyn publicly and frequently stated that it wa the Intention of the city to present the holder of each medal with a certificate In parchment, suitably engrossed and bearing the coat of arms of the municipality, to show that the veteran soldier or sailor was entitled to wear the. medal. Therefore, be it Resolved, That the subject set iortn in mis preaniDie i.

rfAi rrt tn a Cnmmittea of the Common Council, who are hereby authorized to confer with a committee of the veterans that may determine as to a suitable de Bign for the said certificate, and report the result thereof at the next meeting of this Board, In order, if possible, that the said certificate may be awarded to the proper olaimants on Decoration day. Rezerreu to uominuiee un ui.1.wo, A NEW POST OVFVTZ BUILDING. President Bay offered the following itamvtji Tim Hnn. Arohibald M. Bliss, Member of Congress from.the Fourth District of this State, has, during the past four years, persistently sought and fiM nMnln in i mrrmrfii tiou from the United States Government, for the purpose oi ereotlng a Federal build ing in this city, to De uaea ior run uwvd nuu umw Oovernment purposes uu Whereas, Wo heartily indorse his action, recognizing ornnt nocossltv for such a buildinn in this city, and wishing to assist him in so laudabloan undertaking thereioro oe it RnhA That this Common Council do, in behalf of the truo interests of the City of Brooklyn, petition the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of Kings, to tender to the proper officers of the United States Government, through the Hon.

A. if. Bliss, the plot ot unoccupied ground (or as much as may be necessary thereof) on the southwest corner of Fnlton street and lioerum place, ior tne purpuwj ui uLcbiu a umwaKia building for Post Office and other Government depart ments. CONOBESSMAN BLISS' EFFOBTS. Prnsldent Bav We aU know that the Hon.

Archibald M. Bliss has sought to ODtain an appropriation ior a poBt office building in Brooklyn. While In Baltimore last woek I loarned that Baltimore was seeking a post office as weU as Brooklyn, I also learned that the proper officers of the United States Government had agreed if the Citv of Baltimore could get a site for UOO.000 that the United States Government would grant the appropriation for the building aa well as thetlOO.OOO for the site. The committee that had gone to Washington in the interest of the City of Baltimore returned, and proceeded to get ah estimate of what the proposed site would cost. Of course they had to go directly to the owners, and the owners, understanding what they were about, raised their price very high.

In fact, they brought the proposed Bite up to about $800,000. There was quite a laugoaoie moment in connection wnu n. uu the Commission, who were appointed to go to Washington found out that the owners of the property had raised their price had a meeting of the Board of Assessors called, and the valuation of the property was raised to the amount they wanted to sell. I thought while there, if the authorities at Washington would be as generous to the City of Brooklyn as they proposed to be with Baltimore, we could easily got our poet office, and I have no doubt that if the land wore presented to the Government the Hon. Arohibald M.

Buss would have no further In getting the appropriation through. I would say one word more In connection with this property The proporty is a nuisance and has been a nuisance for a great while. The Board of Health has tried to do something with it to abate the nuiBance, but has found it impossible. The people on Boerum street have complained to the oity authorities, but they are powerless in the matter. The oonBequenoe is that tho" most of that property facing that ground, on Boeruni street, will be unocoupled after tho 1st of May.

Aid. French said the oity had a great interest in the ground. President Eay About 9 per cant, Aid, French said the title was in the county. Some years ago the city obtained, in exchange with the county for a piece of property In the Eastern Dlstrlot, the plot for the new Municipal Building, and a committee was appointed from the Board of Aldermen to negotiate the exchange. The.

question was. whether there should not be a committee appointed to wait upon the board of Supervisors, or whether the matter should not be referred to a committee. He moved to amend that the Committee on Public Lands and BuiidingB be directed to confer with tha Board of Supervisors on the subject. The amendment waa accepted, and the resolution as amended was adopted. FBITZ'S JOKER.

Aid. Fritz moved to take from the table the following resolution offered by him at the previous meeting Resolved, That the Board of Oity Works be and it ia hereby directed to award all contracts for work or material of whatever descripllon, ordered by this Common Council, to the lowest bidder when proposals have been advertised for the same, publioly opened and announced, and after the Baid proposals have boon duly advertised in the corporation papers for six (0) days as by law directed, unless or until otherwise ordered by the Board. Agreed to. Aid. Fritz moved to adopt the resolution.

Aid. Dwyor callod attention to the fact that under tho charter tha Board of City Works had already the power to award contracts to the lowest bidders. The President explained that it was under this resolution the Board of Oity Works acted during the Summer vacation of the Board of Aldermen. Aid. O'Connell Why not lay the resolution over until Buch time as it becomes necessary to grant the power.

Aid. Fritz declared that he desired that aU contracts should be given to the lowest bidders. Hia object was to have the Board of City Works make a contract for grading and ProBpect avenue, they having a bid of $2.19 per running foot. Aid. Mclntyre said that Prospect avenue was the joker," and told Fritz that he should offer a resolution covering that only.

Aid. Kenna The usage of years has made an unwritten law, and 1 see no reason for altering it now. The Board of City Works has the power to award oontiacta, but it has beon customary to come to the Common Council for its opinion on the mattere, and the custom is a good one. To adopt this resolution would bo to waive the rights of the Board, and I am not willing to do that. Aid Fritz thereupon offered as substitute a resolution directing the Board of City Works to award tho contract for grading and paving Prospect avenue to tho lowest bidder.

Aid. Stewart and Aid. French thought that aa there were law questions Involved the matter should be referred. It accordingly referred to the Zavr Committee; and Corporation Counsel. "TWO GOOD REPUBLICANS.

Aid. Powers offered a resolution that Dr. Jesse B. Xung bo appointed physician to the Truant Home in the place oi Dr. Tuttle.

Aid. Kane I Buppose. they are both good Eepubll Aid. Powers Certainly. pugbter.

The resolution was adopted. FOUBTH OF JULT. Tho President announced the following committee to make arrangements for the celebration of the Fourth of July: Aldermen Dwyer, Seaman, Petry, Waters and Kenna, Tho Board adjourned. MOVING DAY. Information for Householders who will Have to Hire Trackmen.

The near approach of moving day, the terror of housekeepers and the delight of eartmon, Is Been In the Increased aotivity among tho latter. There is a tradition that the cartmen of onr city, al least those whose business it is to move the household effects of unhappy or happy people, as.the case may be, from place to place at this season, make up fully the losses inourred by enforced idleness during the other months of the year. There is also a belief that these useful membera of ao ni.tv libertv dnrinc these times which try men's and women's bouIb, to charge whatever they please for their services, and that by a little combination among mem io "rmBT in carta, as it were, are able to col lect fabulous amounts for their work. This is a mis take, as far as tha right of a to charge more rm. Hian at any other season of the year is concerned.

nim fired bv an ordinance of the oity, and these rates are applicable) all the tt anma nf these men more grasp lna than others succeed in wringing from housekeep i l. era ignorant oi tne law exceooi simply transgress the law, and if reported to Inspector Daniel Jones, of the Jones Brigade, In the basement of the City Hail, will be dealt.with accordingly. The ordinance provides that a charge of $1.50 may be made mnvtnn mil hnnaino eiuih load, when the distance shall not exceed half a mile. One third of $1.60 may bo charged for each additional half mile. These rates, or course, apply merely to the removal of tho goods and the placing them inside the doors.

Bach cartman in moving has to have an assistant or assistants, and charges for this help over and above bis $10 for the half mils, and a third rnoro aa provided by ordinance. tt. riinh rioht to make a reasonable charge against his employers for this help, and any attempt at imposition should be resisted. On behalf of the cart, men, it Is claimed that they do little or nothing at other nA TTioctod to make the best bargains they can. This is undoubtedly true, but it does not follow that the unfortunate and migratory housekeepers should be compelled to bleed for the sup port of these men during oil or a pornon oi wie uauuiuo of the year.

Tha nik nf mnirtnir has iatriy DBtran in una city, md. (uwinllriff to mnorts. there Is more of it than there lias been for several years past. While some are going to Hew lork, the great bulk of tha movers seem to be onino in tha nnHvlno mrda where they secure cheaper rente and' anticipate the conveniences and benefits of rapid transit For the information oi tnoaa wiio pro nnsa to change their residences, and will be compelled ampins tha. ajTOnaA nf eartanen.

the "stands" of these gentry are given as follows Fulton and Court streets, adjoining City HaH. Macomber square. Fulton street and Ifayette avenue. 1st nnt itm? Atpara Movers wui bear to tolnd that tho charge 1b $1.60 a 1 at, nf ti. tVlinRA lonu, anu ear.

evnes Ban tuav vfc 1 ir TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1879. This Paper has tlio Largest Circulation ot any Evening; Paper Published jn tlic United States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is tttorefor apparent. TUc President' Veto message. It ia announced from Washington, this morning, that President Hayes had decided long ago to veto the Army Appropriation bill, and that he will send his veto to the House of Representatives at noon to day.

It is stated at the same time, by some of the correspondents, that the veto message has been in type for some days, and that at least two Republican Congressmen have had the opportunity of reading it in pamphlet form in advance of their associates. Color is given to this report by the fact that the more favored organs of the Administration in New York, this morning publish what seems to be tho full text of tho veto, changed only in the this, that Mr. Hayes is made to speak in the third person instead of in the first. The favor extended to the party organs enables us to consider the weight of the President's objections to the Army bill in advance of their official deliverance. The President begins by admitting that he would have signed the bill if it were not for its sixth section, which deprives the head of the Government of the power to order the army of the United States to keep the peace at the polls.

The President has, of course, the power to order the soldiers of the regular army to help to keep the peace anywhere and under all circumstances, when aid is asked for by the civil authorities of any State in which the interference of the soldiers is needed. This present bill specifically places in his hands the power to protect voters against the enemies of the United States. The Democratio representatives in Congress deny that tho interference of the army is needed to keep the peace between citizens of the United States while engaged in performing the most important duty of a citizen electing tatives. Upon this takes issue with the ocratio majority, and their own represen point the President Congressional Dem apparently with the unanimous approval of his party. If injus tice has not been done to Mr.

Hayes, in making a synopsis of his veto, it would not be possible for any Democrat to contrive a feebler defense than that which Mr. Hayes interposes to the will of the representatives of a majority of the people in Congress assembled. Referring to the section of the bill which does not meet his approval, Mr. Hayes is thus reported In the first place, it forbids tho use of troops to keep tha peace at the polls. This provision the President declares to be unnecessary and uncalled for at thiB time.

In June, 1878, Congress passed an act forbidding the use of United States troops by civil officers of the United States as a posse comitalus except in cases where such use is expressly authorized by law. Since the passage of that act no one pretends that troops have been near the polls at an election, or that he has any fears that soldiers Bill be used to influence elections. There is no purpose on the part of the Executive to make such use of troops, even if the law of June, 1878, did not effectually prohibit it. The pretense, therefore, that there is any occasion at the present time for legislation of this kind has no foundation in fact. The Tresident will hint very strongly that ft is not for the purpose of preventing military interference with elections that the present legislation Is proposed.

This argument is not merely disingenuous, but in its feebleness it verges upon puerility. If Mr. Hayes is right, in June of last year he gave his official assent to a law which forbids the use of troops at tho request of the oivil authorities of the United States. Since the law of 1878 was passed troops have not been used at or near the polls, and nobody has now any fears that troops will be used by the Executive "even if the law of June, 1878, did not pre vent it." The "pretense, therefore, that there is any occasion at the present time for "this legislation has no foundation in fact." If there is no intention on the part of the Executive to do that which Congress insists he shall not have the power to do, and if he is prohibited from doing it by existing law, why is this bill vetoed On what ground, then, can the President and his party take the responsibility of rendering nugatory the will of a majority of the people's representatives, and the risk of paralyzing an entire branch of the Federal Government If Mr. Hayes had promptly signed the Army bill, he might then have held, with a great show of reason, that there was no occasion for alarm, for there was no intention on the part of the or of the political organization of which he is the official head, to make the army a factor in our elections, at tho pleasure of the President.

If the restrictions imposed by Congress are unnecessary if the fears entertained, or professed, by the majority party are groundless, these would be reasons not for vetoing the bill, but for promptly approving of it. The veto is proof tlSat the fears of the majority are not groundless, and that the restrictions imposed on the use of the army are necessary, and ought to be insisted upon. While the President feels at liberty to allude to the proceedings of Congress, in proof of the "intiniidation" to which he thinks he has been exposed, he ignores absolutely the deliberate action of Congress, in endeavoring to defend his course. The following extract is token from what is evidently an official synop of the Yeto message The right of Congress to enact the Federal Election laws cannot be disputed by any one who studies the Constitution of the United States in the light of contemporaneous comment. That right includes the protection of the voter and his rights, and the honest counting of the votes after they have been cast.

The necessity of such legislation mast also be admitted by every one who is familiar with the history of elections in this country, and especially In the large cities during the last fifteen years Tho election laws are therefore constitu Mnni tbp.v are necessary they have been properly en acted There is no serious complaint against the execution of these laws. No laws can bo enforced without some friction, and if these laws need to bo changed Congress has the power to amend them. That is not what Congress proposes to do in this bill. It seeks to deprive the Executive of the power to enforce tho laws which, so far as this bill is concerned, are allowed to remain upon the statute book unchanged. That is a proceeding of which the President eayB ho will not approve.

To forbid the enforcement of a law, or to say that no force Bhall be used in tho execution of it, is tantamount to repealing the law itself. If Congress thinks that the election laws ought to bo amended, the President says, then let it put tho improved enactment into tho eamo bill in which it proposes to wipe out the old law, bo that the country may see that, while the present safeguards that have wiBely been thrown about tho ballot box are removed, others equally effective are enacted in their place. If objection is made to the present modo of appointing United States Marshals to serve at tho polls on election day, or if tho present law is considered to bo parti Ban in this regard, let Congress change it, and cause tho appointment of marshals to bo made by the same machinery that is now provided for the appointment of Supervisors of Election. No objection would probably bo made to bucu a change in tho law. But the army bill proposes no such amendment as this.

It teaveB the election laws exactly as they are. but makes them in effect null and void, by taking away from the Executive all power to enforce them. The right of Congress to supervise and control elections within the States is disputed, and if it were conceded, the policy of enforcing the right, when the country is in its normal condition, would find no favor with those who believe in the people and in the people's rule. If the people cannot bo relied on to protect each other in their right to to insure an honest count of their votes when cast, they have no security at the hands of their own agents. There is something ridiculous in the assumption on the part of Mr.

Hayes that, as a last resort, he can be relied upon to secure a free election and a fair count of the ballots, in viow of the circumstances under which he himself obtained his office. He has chosen to sot at defiance the will of the majority of the members of both Houses of Congress, and there is not a representative in either House who does not know that Mr. Hayes himself owes his position to false counting of the ballots to the very class of frauds he insists that he alone can be trusted to prevent. The argument advanced by the President to show that if he will be deprived of the power to enforce the laws, if he is denied the right to order troops to preserve the peace at the polls, will be accepted as significant of the animus 'Of the message, and of the party for which Mr. Hayes speaks.

It is worthless for any other purpose. Mr. Hayes is, of course, well aware that there is no intention on the part of the Democratic majority to allow the laws to remain upon the statute books which Hayes claims the President cannot enforce, if he is denied the power to order the troops to participate in the supervision of elections, at hia pleasure. The Democrats ore committed to resistance to all Federal interference with elections, unless when it is deemed to be required by the civil authorities of the States. The Democratic party insists upon it that the people can be trusted, and that through the normal action of parties, fair play can he insured in casting ballots ana in ctraatiug lueiu.

Tho Republican tmrtv insists upon Fed in the first instance it de eral supervision a of partisan marshals and deputy marshals without numberto aid the Supervisors, and of the army towd the partisan marshals. The Democracy would wine A Virginia Itliscegeiution Case. The United States Supreme Court at Washington will shortly have a case before it which will prove of interest to the advocates of 'miscegenation, and will define the at present rather ambiguous statutes relating to the subject. A colored man living in Virginia was recently married to a white woman in Washington City. They were lawfully married, and the wife was an actual resident at the time of her marriage.

On their return to his home in Virginia both 'were arrested, tried and con. victed and sentenced to five years in the State Prison, which sentence they are serving now. Whatever the laws of Virginia are relating to marriage between the races, and from this sentence they are clearly at variance with' those of the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court will certainly reverse the decision of the State law in this case. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and the various decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States clearly set forth the legality of marriages contracted between the races, and the Virginia courts will be overruled in this matter. The marriage was not a' crime where it was solemnized; and the United States courts will not so consider it.

State rights conflict in this instance with the laws of the United States, and it is the law that where they do the United States courts shall have original jurisdiction. A clause' in the Constitution of the United States forbids the making of' laws which shall abridge the privileges of citizens, and this clause also makes colored persons citizens. This open violation of the law on the part of a Virginia judge is not likely to be passed over in silence. The parties most concerned are behind prison bars, but their adherents will eventually carry tho case where it should go at once. The Supreme Court must take cognizance of this matter and protect these miscegenists.

Clearly theyjhave the law on their side, and however differently the people of Virginia may view it, they have the right to live in Virginia together and be entitled to all the respect they can win for themselves. Such people may not be desirable residents in a conservative community, but they have the law with them, and should be permitted to be happy if they can. Justice demands their and restitution should be mode to them at once. It is unfortunate for many reasons that the Judge who tried the oase did not know the law, and it is still more to be regretted that the Attorney General of the State has taken the stand he has with reference to the case. The prisoners at his command are denied the letters sent them from sympathizers and those who are informed as to the result that must follow a reopening of the case.

This would ordinarily be thought nothing of, but in view of the present inclination of, the Republican party to give a political signification to everything that acts adversely to the interests of the colored people, and can be construed as antagonism on the part of the whites, an event of thiB kind is as oil on a fire, which it industriously fans into a widespread conflagration. The Supreme Court will rectify the error and elucidate the law to the State Judges. Thefie are the simple facts of a case that will loom up shortly as one of the instances of tyranny and oppression on the part of the South against the colored people. A ITIiicU Needed Institution. Promised.

For many years it has been a cause of regret that Brooklyn contained no institution for the reception of women whose desire to be reformed from evil ways was sincere and based on a knowledge of life learned from hard experiences. Particularly has this want been felt by those in charge of the Jail and Penitentiary, from which two places women have been sent forth into the world repeatedly, without friends and without money. With the best intentions in' the world it has been hard for suoh women to maintain their resolve to live above their past plane. Temptation on every side, aid and protection on none, it has been the few the very few who could orercome the obstacles in their way, and rise to something higher. No one person in this city has been'more impressed with this unfor fact than the prison chaplain.

Rev. Mr, Bass, who year after year, in his reports to the County Board of Supervisors, has urged tha need of an institution where women leaving the Penitentiary could go to find shelter and care until able to get a home. Very few of the many women who leave a prison do eo with any means, and there is absolutely no place for such paupers as these. They naturally drift into vice again, and ultimately are a tax to the community'. The better class of criroinals those who are serv ing out their first sentence? and whose crime has been of the lighter kind are even worse off when they leave the prison than the more hardened criminals.

Having sensibility, and feeling acutely their disgrace, they require, in order to be saved to themselves and society, to be kindly treated. Yet up to time there has been no institution devoted to this purpose. Mr. Bass, in his last report, says on this subject "We greatly need a 'refuge' to which women found in prison whether for 'crime or misdemeanor and professing a de "sire to do better, can be taken and placed "under judicious moral and religious influ ence, and taught to earn their living by hon "est labor. They should have a chance to "reform.

Until we have such a 'refuge' "women discharged from prison, homeless, without employment or friends, willcontin ue to be the easy prey of sin and death." The matter has at last received the attention it deserves and a number of philanthropic ladies of Brooklyn and Kings County have arranged the preliminaries previous to the organization of a society for the purpose of establishing a home. There are a number of Christian ladies who have co operated with and assisted Mr. Bass' in his work among the prisoners, and these have been impressed with the necessity of having such an institution. The ladies of the Brooklyn Women's Christian Temperance Union have undertaken the work, and as soon as the formal organization of a society is concluded a house is to be taken in the suburbs, and opened at once for the reception and accommodation of all who require such shelter. The undertaking is a very noble one and in the hands of tho good women who have the matter in hand it can but be a speedy, and a permanent success, as it most certainly deserves to be.

One of the special excitements to morrow will be the Two Thousand Guineas race for three year olds at Newmarket, for which Mr. Lorillard's Uncas is entered. The field will be a large one, probably including sixteen good horses. The betting at last accounts was twenty five lo one against Uncas, whioh is pretty good, considering the chances against him. The Times of yesterday had a report that Uncas has "gone amiss," and may not run to morrow; but this may be taken with several grains of allowance.

The election of Prince Alexander of Batten berg as Prince of Bulgaria, is considered to one of the certainties of the season. He is a son of Prince Alexander of Hesse, and at pres ent an officer in the body guard of Emperor William of Germany. He is said to be a good, brave and talented young fellBw, and is not of tironounced Russian proclivities, although a oniiaw of the Empress of Russia. It may be expected that under his rule Bulgaria will fall in line with Roumania as an independent State, but with strong leanings toward Russian alliances. It is not improper to remind our Republican friends, apropos of the struggle to prevent the employment of the army for partisan purposes, fhnftVie followino is one of the many reasons assigned in the Declaration of Independence in' justification of the revolt against the Hing oi Great Britain: He has kept among ua in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

The everlasting "Pinafore" has been put in to mourning in New York, and is now performed at the Globe Theatre by a company of colored people. But one step more needs to be taken. If a Chinese company could be induced to give a "Pinafore" performance, we might finally get to the bottom of tho Tlio Supreme Court Rapid Transit Commission. The Commission appointed by the Supreme Court, on the application of the Kings County Elevated Railroad, to determine the necessity, if any, of rapid transit in Brooklyn and to designate the streets on which rapid transit routes should be laid, have reported in favor of rapid transit and their report was yesterday published in full in the Eagle. A commission appointed in accordance with the provisions of law, by his Honor Mayor Howell, had already in tho same manner passed upon this subject and their report awaits the action of tha Common Council.

The two reports are substantially the same. The reason for tha appointment of the Supreme Court Commission lay in the alternative neoessity, under the law as it now exists, of obtaining the consent of one half in value of the property owners along the proposed rapid transit routes before the road could be constructed, in case the authorization of such road were made by a municipal commission. To obtain such consent has always been difficult. Many of the property owners are non residents and cannot be reached, or do not understand the benefits whioh will result from rapid transit. Others are influenced by then: opposing neighbors, who believe their property will be ruined.

The Supreme Court Commission is organized to furnish a shorter cut to the same result. The law provides that on application to the Supreme Court a commission may be appointed which shall hear evidence, decide upon the desirability of rapid transit lines, designate the routes if convinced of such desirability, and that on confirmation by the Supreme Court the report of this commission may stand in lieu of the consent of the property owners. In other words, the Supreme Court Commission is, essentially, an adjunct to the Mayor's Commission, designed to insure the carrying out of its recommendations if the Aldermen approve the project. The Commission is organized upon tho theory that there will be no objection raised by the Common Council, and that the only objection to be apprehended will spring from property owners along the proposed routes. It must be observed that if the Aldermen do not approve the recommendations of the Mayor's Commission the decision of the Supreme Court will avail the rapid transit men nothing.

There has been some question raised as to the power of the Supreme Court to authorize the construction of roads without the consent of the Common Counoil, but this is so explicitly precluded by the law of 1875, that it need not be discussed. In short, the Su preme Court Commission has simply decided that if the Common Council approved tne plana of the Mayor's Commission, the work of constructing the roads will proceed without more ado. It will be observed that there is nothing in the report of this Commission that affects the question of damages as it has been under discussion both here and in Albany. The Commission had nothing to do with the question of damages. To this matter the Common Council will, of course, give its attention, as the public will.

Tho path being dear for rapid transit upon equitable terms, it remains for all concerned to get the terms clearly embodied in law. When the Damage act is passed by the Legislature, there ought to be very little further delay in the Common Council. A ood, Practical Suggestion. Alderman Bay did a common sense thing yesterday in offering the following preamble and resolution Whereas, Tho Hon. Arohibald M.

Bliss, Member of Congress from tho Fourth District of this State, has, during the past four years, persistently sought and failed to obtain an appropriation from tho United States Government, for tho purpose of erecting a Federal building in this city, to bo used for a Post Office and other Government purposes and Whereas, Wo heartily Indorse his action, recognizing the great necessity for such a building in this city, and wishing to assist him in so laudable an undertaking therefore bo it Jlesolved, That this Common Council do, In behalf of th trim Interests of the Citvof Brooklyn, oetltlon tho Honorable Board of Supervisors of tho County of Kings to tender to tho proper officers of the United States Government, through the Hon. M. Bliss, the plot of unoccupied ground (or as much as may ba necessary thereof) on tho southwest corner of Fulton street and Boeruni place, for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for PoBt Office and other Government departments. This is a recommendation which ought to be acted upon favorably by the Supervisors. The ground in question would make an excellent site for the office, and it is not needed either by the city or the county.

It is moreover, desirable to have our public buildings as near together as the conditions of the city will permit of, because the convenience of the people will be thereby contributed to and the artistic effect would be better than if they were separated. That Brooklyn is entitled to have a fine denies. It is city in the Federal building no one unjust to have the third Union deprived of facilities which are given to fifth rate 'Western towns. That tho likelihood of obtaining the appropriation for which Mr. Bliss has so zealously labored will be largely increased by having the offer proposed by Mr.

Kay made, is not questionable. We are glad to see some tendency exhibited by Mr. Eay and his companions in the board to consider material questions that are not political. There are a great many excellent things that might be done for Brook. lyn if the Aldermen would give less attention to petty politics.

A Cruel Resolution. Alderman Aitken, of the Third Ward, has hit upon an ingenious but hardly justifiable means of torturinr Mr. Daniel O'Reilly. Ait ken, if we are not misinformed, served in tho Union army during the war, and has, there fnra ft natural distaste for the company of bounty jumpers and deserters. The exigen cies of politics prevented him from moving for the expulsion of O'Reilly from the common Council, when his bounty jumping record was published in the Eagle, but that he desires to get rid Of him must be inferred from the nreamble and resolution which he offered yes' terday; Aitken, itappears, Jiaa.

discovered that the City of Brooklyn promised through its Chief Macistrate, several years ago, to issue proper ly engraved and stamped certificates to all the soldiers who went to the war from this city and returned without dishonor. This promise he now, in the name of the Grand Army of the Revrablio, urges tho Common uouncii to make good. He wants a comrnittee appointed to confer with a committee of the veterans, to tha end that the certificates may, on Decora tion day, be publicly awarded in the presence of our citizen soldiery and emi autnonues. We leave the reader to consider the effect of this nroiect noon the mind of the "bould O'Rfiiitv. It in fast nossiWe that Bay, the President of the Board, is in the Aitken scheme, and will appoint O'Reilly on tha Conference Committee, so that the spectacle for gods ana man mav be Dresented of a deserter and bounty jumper certifying to the patriotic ser vices of the sons of Brooklyn.

This is a de vice for driving O'Reilly out of the Common Council to which the Eaole oannot give its assent. We cannot withhold a certain ad. miration for the ineenuitv shown by Mr, CURRENT EVENTS. The amount of $10 funding certificates sold at tho New York Post Office was $85,000. The Washington Art School is to petition CongresB in behalf of a national school of art.

Dr. Stephen R. Harris, ex Mayor of San Francisco, ilea yesterday. A petition is circulating in New York, asking that General Alexander Shaler bo appointed by Mayor Cooper to tho vacancy of Fire Commissioner. Arrangements have been made for refunding the debt or Virginia in bonds bearing a much lower rate of Interest than those now outstanding.

Bey. J. F. Hurst of Drew Theological College Is Darned as the probable successor of the late Bishop Ames. Mr.

William H. Vanderbilt and tho officers of the Lake Shore Eailroad left Now York to day on an extended tour through the West on matters couuected with Mr. Vandorbilt'B railroad interests. Applicants for the vacant positions in the Custom liou'o, New York, are to appear for examination before tho Civil Sorvlco Comrniasiou on Thursday and Friday of this week. The funeral of Mrs.

Atwator, wife of Professor Lyman H. Atwater, D.D., LL.D., of tho College of Now Jersey, took place 5'eeterday in Princeton. Bra. McCork, aad DufOeld officiated. IJesolutions of respect In honor of General John A.

Dlx were passed by iha Trustees of thoAstor Library, New York, yesterday. General Dlx was one of the trustees of tho library for many years. The destruction of the Herkimer Paper Company's mill, and tho burning of Engineer Henry Deltz to death, was caused by the drunkenness of the englneor. Mr. Abraham S.

Jones, an old Wall street broker, died on Sunday last. He was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, aud was a deacon iu the Butch Reformed Church. Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine, has received painful Injuries from two falls which he has had recently. He dislocated his shoulder by trying to board a train at Harriaburg, on Saturday.

The fifth anniversary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, will be celebrated iu tlio Brick Church, Filth avenue and Thirty seventh street, Now York, this evening. Hon. Wliham E. Bodgo will pro side. The Howard Clock and Watch Company, of New York, has failed with liabilities of Tho assets are largely in excess of this amount, consisting of two large factories, tools, machinery and Btock at Boston and New York.

Nine thousand negroes have been sent to Kansas from St. Louis, and few of them are to get employment. The people of Wyandotte are sending them out of that place as fast as money can be raised for the purpose. San Francisco'Ss First Assistant City Treasurer, W. F.

Cassobohm, committed suicide yesterday. He has recently lOBt $3.1,000 in speculations and had used $20,000 of tho city's money to oover margins. He was a natl of Oonnany and was fifty yeara old. Francis Cosgrovo was arraigned in the Court of General Sessions, New York, yesterday, as an accomplice in tho killing of Cora Sammls. The Judge granted a postponement of one day, and the trial was set down for to day, Yesterday the Bank of New York obtained a verdict for $6,463,09 in tho Supreme Court before Judge Van.

Brunt against Hogan Billing, on a check given on Deoember 29, 18TT, to tho order of John Bonuor Co. This ia but one of many suite growing out of Bonner's rehypothecationa. Nearly the entire business portion of tho Village of Gorham. N.H was destroyed by fire yesterday. Bcsldences, stores, offices and the Grand Trunk lull way sheds to the number of twenty were burned.

Part of the property waa insured. Thirty families are homeless. Congress will have the opportunity of passing a bill making it a misdemeanor for common carriers to transport cattle affected with plenro pnoumonia or other contagious diseases. The House Committee on Agriculture is to report Buch a bill to the House immediately. General Alfred Sully, TJ.

8. died at Van ver's Island on Sunday. He was a sou of tha eminent Philadelphia artist, Thomas Sully, aud was Colonel of the Twenty first infantry. He distinguished himself in the Indian campaign in 1B63 and during tho war did effective Bervico In keeping them under subjection. In 1865 he was placed in command of the military district Of the Bppor Missouri.

The Senate considered iu executive session yesterday the various questions involved lu tho pending nominations for promotionn and appointments Iu tho army. The Commltteo on Military Affairs have bocomo Impatient at the delay of the Judiciary Commltteo In reporting upon thomalter, the nominations themselves remaining in tho meantimo suspended in tne uanus oi the former commltteeo. No doflnlte conclusions were reached, but it iB believed that all the appointments mado will be confirmed. The marble memorial tablets in honor of tho six pioneer professors of tho Princeton Theological Seminary were dedicated to day. They were erected iu the old chapel in a Bemibexagonal retreat, five feet deep, at the back of tha pulpit.

They bear the names of Archibald Alexander, D. James Wadael Alexander, D. Joseph Addison Alexander, D. Samuel Miller, D. John Breckenridge, D.

and Charles Hodge, D. D. Bev. Drs. Prime, Theodore Cuyior, vt uuaui pallet and William Paxton delivered addresses.

The sum of one hundred dollars was yester day presented to each of the rescued" miners at Sugar Notch, near Wilkesbarre, by the stockholders of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, through President Parish. A concert for the benefit of the men waa given to day, when one of their number told the story of their captivity. Nothing la said as yet about rewarding tho brave men who rescued tha entombed party. They worked incessantly for four dayB anl nights, and cut a passageway oi J.auu leei uiruuBu slate and coal. The scheme to extend the New York Elevated Boad down Park row and Broadway to tho Battery in New York has aroused tho opposition of property owners along the proposed route.

Petitions to the State Legislature, protesting against the grant of additional privileges to the elevated roads, have been signed by owners of property the streets south of the City Hall. The petitions have been signed by the officers of banks and Insurance companies, and by many large proporty owners on Park row, Broadway, Nassau, Broad and Wail streets. A party of men are dicing for lost treas urea outside of Cape Henlopen, and the people of Lewes, Delaware, and the surrounding country are greatly interested in their work. The treasures were wrecked in Revolutionary days. A ship was lost off Capo Henlopen carrying a large quantity of gold coin, and the raon who are diving and digging believe that thoy can find tho lost money.

Gold and silver coin of an oia aaw wm washed up last Fall, and the people became Interred then in the possibility of securing the fortunes that Uo at the bottom of the sea. General James P. Brownlow, son of ex Senator Brownlow, of Tennessee, died in Knoxvllle, on Saturday night. During the war he was in engagement, and waa promoted from tho ranks to the poeiOon of Brevet Brigadier General of United States Volunteer. In 183.

He was quite a young man, and hia death la a sad loss to his widowed mother and nnmerom slaters. After the close of the war General Brownlow lived a retired life in Brownsville. He wai six feet ix inches in height, and waa a splendid specimen of a man, physically, mentally and otherwise. One steamer landed 758 immigrants at Castle Garden yesterday. A large increase to Immigration is anticipated by Superintendent Jackson thli year.

Thousands, of mill operatives from England are preparing to com to this country, and many Germans are to come during the Summer. At least 100,000 people are expected before January next, and Superintendent Jackson think this is perhaps a low estimate. Since 1863 there has not been such desire on the part ot foreigners to coma to this country. The people of Newark charged by the Citizen' Association with having violated the law by KUlag good or doing business on Sunday, were arraigned yesterday before a Just.ce of that place. They were all fined in gums ranging from $1 to $4.70.

One of the convicted barbers gave notice that he should appeal from the decision of the Justice to higher court. Tho result of this appeal will be watched by Newark residents with great Interest The Citizens' Association believe that tha absurdity of the "blue Uw" has now beon shown sufficiently to secure their repeal at tho noxt session of the LegioUUure. This waa tho object tn viow for which the attempt to enforce, Uu lawi has boa made. paid. There will thus be a sum of $1,000,000 that must he paid by the oity, and for that purpose a bill has been Introduced Into the Legislature providing for tho funding of the vacated assessments, and that every year a certain amount shall be raised in the tax levy to form a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds.

After the passage of what Commisaioner Flaherty called the "Mayor's MIL" In May, 1878, there was ft step put to the carrying out of looal Improvements at the expense of the city, and as a matter of course tho Aldermen and Commissioners Flaherty and Bennett were not only very muoh annoyed, but they regarded the passage of the bill as a personal upon them by his Honor the Mayor. It tied their hands in tha matter of recklessly voting to open streets and build sowers through open lots where there Is very little probability of a house beiDg built for the next ten years. Assemblyman Sheridan recently introduced a bill having for Its object the repeal of what may be termed the two thirds olause" in the bill passed last yoar. There is no likelihood, however, of Mr. Shoridan's effort to benefit' the politicians at the expense of the city meeting with any success.

Mr. Flaherty's sneering allusion yesterday to the bill of May, 1878, elicited some spirited and pointed remarks from Mr. Thomas McOann, whose experience In municipal affairs entitle his opinions to considerable weight. He said "that bill was the best thing that could possibly be done for the City of Brooklyn. It stopped all those unnecessary improvements that had been going on for years and pretty nearly bankrupted the city.

The bill has given the city a rest and that is what it required more than anything else." In connection with that bill tho question has boon asked how it is that millions of dollars of assessments are uncollectable, and that they do not constitute a lien on tho property benefited 7 It appears that the bulk of these uncollectable assessments aro for Btroot openings and that tho city will be compelled to pay them, for tho reason that there wore Informalities in tho proceedings of the special commissions appointed to assess the damages and lay out a district of assessment. The Corporation Cdunsel is the legal adviser of all said Commissions, and it ie difficult to avoid coming to the conclusion that great negligence has been shown in the manner of discharging a most important duty. ST. PETER'S. Arrangements for tne Fair at the Acad emy for tUe Benefit of St.

l'eter's Hospital The Opening Protrrammo for To morrow Evening A Worthy Enterprise. The preparations for the diocesan fair to be opened to morrow evening at the Academy of Mualo for the benefit of St. Peter's Hospital are rapidly approach lug complotion, and there la every indication that the affair wUl be one of tho most attractive and interesting which has ever taken place in thiscity. It will be given under the auspices of the Sisters of the Poor of St. FranciB, whose labors and self saorlflces In behalf of suffering humanity the world over havo made their name synonymous with all that is beautiful and benefi cent.

The directing head of the worthy enterprise is Rev. Father Fransioli, pastor of St. Peter's Church, through whose fostering care and careful management St. Peter's Hospital has become such a noble instrumentality for succoring the poor and the suffering. Extensive as the institution has grown the good sis ters have frequently found occasion to regret the lack of more accommodation, and the fair has been projected for especial purpose of raising funds to extend the scope of their usefulness.

It has been a fixed principle with Father Fransioli to keep out of debt, and the institution consequently has been alwayB cn a sound financial basis. There aro at present building facilities to considerably extend the institution, and it depends altogether on the response of the public to the appeal presented in the pleasant form of a grand fair at the most attractive building In Brooklyn how much extension will be made to the hospital. It is expected that the proceeds of tho fair will enable the managers to admit fifty more patients. It is not necessary to make any remarks euloglstio of the hospital, as It Is well known that there ts no Institution of the kind in the country where patients receive more tender treatment or better medical assistance. The atmosphere itself is conducive to recovery and the kind hearted ladles who have charge spare no effort to relieve the suffering of the patients and to see that their every want is supplied.

THE FAXB AT THE ACADEMY will bo well worthy of the noble cauie which called it into exlBtence and will no doubt meet with the most enthusiastic support from all classes in the community, irrespective of creed or politics, for the institution in its beneficial functions knows neither one nor the other. The Academy will bo as usual on such occasions floored over from the end of the stage to the balcony seats and will be handsomely decorated under the artistic eye of Mr. Aldrlch. Fifteen fancy tables and one candy table will bo arranged around the circle and a magnificent floral bower will be erected In the centre. Tho space usually occupied by tho stage will be devoted to the re freshment department, which will be one of the Bpecial features of the fair.

It ia proposed to make it quite equal in all its resources to a first class restaurant, and a largo corps of beautiful young ladies have kindly volunteered to officiate aa waitresses. Care will bo taken to exolude from all the arrangements everything which approaches the vulgar or objectionable. There will be no Punch and Judy shows, and no wheels of fortune. The fancy tables will be supplied with a stock of useful and ornamental articles, and the prices will be aa reasonable, If not more so, than in the Btores on Fulton street. The collection of lace and worsted work will be large and attractive, and there will bo Borne works of art of special merit.

For the amuse tnent of the juvenile visitors, there will be an exhibition of marionettes in one of the ante rooms. Thore will be several competitions which will give a personal zest and Interest to the fair. Prominent among these will be that of a gold badge to be presented to the Police Captain receiving the largest number of votes. Mr. John J.

Eernan, who has taken great interest in the success of the fair, has presented two beantif ul flags an American and an Irish to bo competed for by the various societies. Kef erence has already been made in the Eaole to the magnificent picture, nine by six feet, entitled Bemlnlscence of the War," donated by ex Sheriff Daggett. The fair will be opened to morrow evening at eight o'clock with imposing ceremonies. Professor Mulcare'B fine band will furnish the music and the ladles who are to assist at the tables will march in procession. The opening address will be delivered by Bight Rev.

Bishop LoughUn, and Bev. Father Malono will also speak, Ex Governor Samuel J. Tilden will also be present, and may also make a few remarks. Tho Common Council will attend in a body. The fair will continue for a week.

TUB STAMLET COUBT HABTIAX. At the Stanley court martial yesterday in New York General John M. Palmar, of Illinois, testified that at Stone River General Hazen's position was tne key to the battle. There was a long argument by counsel over the evidence offered by tha Judge Advocate. General McMahon objeotod to the testimony of yesterday as to that of the past few days, It not being competent within the recent decision of the Court.

That rule gave the Judge Advocate the privilege in rebuttal of refuting if he oould any fact established by the defence. The latter, he added, had offered no testimony at all as to where General Hazen was in the morning, whether with the advance or the retreat, What the defence wanted was evidence respecting General Hazen's position from and after a oertaln time. The brigade, it was claimed by the defence, was at a certain place, but General Hazen was not with It The udge Advocate replied that he intended to show that while General Hazen was at Pittsburg Landing, that witnesses for Colonel Stanley were mistaken as to the time. He was there, but not during the action, and it would be shown why he went there, and under whose authority. The Court, after long consideration, refused to aoospt aa evidence General Nelson's official report of the battle.

The Court, refused to hea the evldenoe of Captain Scully, who was Assistant Quartermaster at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, in reference to a conversation held with Colonel Stanley regarding General Hazen. The Judgo Advocate then said that the several adverse decisions of the Court had broken Mb line of evidence somewhat, and he asked for a postponement until to day. A STREET BBAWI. Officer Hirst had his attention drawn by the noise of a spirited affray two o'clock, yesterday, the location of which was at the corner of Johnson are nue and Humboldt street. He reached the spot in time to secure a man named Gnstave Weber, who was charged by George Smith to have been engaged in an assault upon him.

Tho complainant aald he bad been attacked by three men, without provocation, while ruusing the comer on hifl way home. Weber denies hartog had a hand' In the assault, aaying that it was in Brogreas aa he came up, and that tha lusgaUant had fled at hia approach. It la surmised that Smith, who waa rather drunk at tho time, may be mistaken. Smith lost a silver watch durlug the fight, whether by theft or otherwise he la not certain. Justice Guck has ordered so examination for Thursday next.

Sitting upon the bonches under the great canvas of Barn urn's great show, aad chatting with the great showman himself, the writer remarked that If ho wished to confer an unspeakable blessing upon a boy, he would give him a ticket to the circus, and that drew out the incident narrated above. A few minutes after Mr. Barnum stood bareheaded In the centre of the ring, bowing and smiling in auiwer to tho apptauso and cheers that made the great tout ring and drowned tho noise of the pattering raiu outsido. It was a perfect ovation, Barnum may well be counted among tho benefactors of his race. He has done more to minister to tho innocent enjoymeut and hearty pleasure of the people of tho United States for the past thirty odd years than any other one man in tho country.

Our fathers and mothers went to see Barnum's Museum, on the corner of Broadway and Ann street, New York, in the old days. Thoy laughed at the woolly horsa and the mermaid, but their hearts thrilled and tho tears molted when Jenny Lind wooed them with her matchless song. And now their children take thoir youngsters to seo "the greatest show on earth," and the little ones dilate with wonder and pure delight, while the older heads confess that tho sawdust ring, tha dashing riders, the glitter and the spangles have not lost their old time charm. THE OBEATEST BHOW OH EARTH has been on the road slnoo 1869, and with each succeeding season Barnum surpasses all his previous efforts. The season of 1879 opened in New York the other day and yesterday the vast caravan and its attendant paraphernalia was transported to Brooklyn where, at the Capitoiine Grounds, on Sostraud avenue, it will remain during tho ourront week, giving afternoon and evening performances each day.

This immense exhibition may be said to be divided into two parts, the museum and the circus, and each is larger than any of its compeers. The museum contains the largest collection of animals outside the London Zoo, while tho circus is far ahead of anything ot the kind ever seen in this country or in Europe. This ts not hyperbole, but is an actual fact. There aro six riders, five ladies, and one gentleman, oach one as good as could be had for money. The ladles include Madame Dockrill, called the champion bareback rider of the world, and a very daring performer she is.

There are four or five clowns; they aro so funny it is hard work to keep track of the exact number. But first the canvas under which all this la shown. Thore are three immense tents, opening into each other, and the smallest of the three ia aa large as the usual olrous tent. Entering the first you find yourself in the wonders of the museum, which it would be utterly futile to attempt even to catalogue, but there are things that have never been seen before in this country, Tho first two tents are taken up with the museum and menagerie. The latter includes ten elephants of aU sizes, including two baby elephants, that make a tremendous crying and roaring when their comrades are away in the gnnientree.

Tbereisthe black rhinoceros, tho only one of his kind in the country, He lies in his cage snoring like a pig. There ore two black elephants, and they are a wonder, for they have never boon shown before either in this country or In Europo. Only three were ever brought into Europe, and Mr. Barnum's agent captured the whole lot. Two are travelling with the Bhow, and one awaits his orders In Hamburg.

He has also the only eland ever shown in this country. Thore are two polar bears, panting and blowing, and wobbling about iu tha curious way peculiar to their klud. Then there aro monkeys by tho score and birds and beasts; two footed, four footed creeping things, in all OVEB THREE HtTNDBED ANIMALS are crowded under the two large tents that make up the menagerie and museum. It is a course in zoology to go through it. Beyond is the crowning charm of the whole, the circus tent.

This is 250 feet long by 110 feet wide, and will seat comfortably 8,000 people. Last night, in spite of the pouring rain, thore was good audlenco, There must have been fully 5,000 present, and it should bo re mombered that they came In the rain, not before It, and then were caught when the deluge came down. And right here mention should be made of the admirable weather proof tents. Notwithstanding the steady down pour all last evening not a drop found its way through the canvas, save perhaps where tho poles passed through the roof. The seats were as dry and aa comfortable as in a theatre.

The tents are entirely new. "Barnum nevor ubos the same canvas two seasons," said one of the agents last evening, "and sometimes does not use the same canvas through the entire season." THE PEBFOBSfANOE, But tho bell rings, the band dashes off in a grand march, and every boy and man in the huge assembly is on the tiptoe of expectation, whan the grand cavalcade enters, iu all the pomp of purple, android, and crimson and soarlet, huge elephants, wry necked camels, graceful giraffes, and, oh, such horses 1 It is a long procession, and each now feature ia received with tremendous applause. Finally, it disappears behind the curtain, and in come the "living curiosities, the tattooed Greek nobleman, Colonel Iiutb Goshen, the glaqt Miss Minnie Heeler, the "Little Queen Mab" of tho arena. Then comes Mr. Carl Antony and his two royal stallions, Pasha and Marmeluko.

Not a word does he say to them, and they go through their evolutions guided only by his gestures. It seems as if the intelligent animals could comprehend what he wanted in advance. They perform all aorta of quaint antics, and finally dart off to their stalls amid the plaudits of the crowd. Then comes a wonderful balancing feat by Wm. O'Hale Stevens.

It Is far ahead of anything tho Japanese can show. Largo globes and a good sized table are kept in the air, balanced with the moat consummate Bklll. Slgnorina MarcelluB next appears, iu an equestrian act, which is done with exceeding grace and beauty. Mr. James Holloway, the "boss" clown, appears at the same time, and creates a great uproar with his lightning changes.

The Egyptian jugglers come next, with their quaint antics and feate of dexterity, tossing balls, balancing feathers, spinning plates, and the like. Mr. Barnum brought the first plate spinner to this country, nearly thirty yeara ago. It was thought a great thing then. Next tdaoTtB Miss Kate Stokes, in a sensational bare back act, and a dashing one it is.

It is marvelous how any one can cling to tho back of a horse in the way these riders do. Tills young lady is a favorite, for ahe Is as good a girl aa she is a daring and successful ride. She trots away amid the cheers of the audience, and is succeeded by the Herbert brothers in their aorobatio feats. They are very graceful, and Introduce many novel features. Miss Linda Jeal, "the only female hurdle rider," says the programme, comes next and her performance seems the very acme of reckless daring.

Mo wild Comanche dashing over his native prairies ever threw himself in half the strange and wird postures thai this young lady does as her bareback steed dashes around the ring. Dressed in jockey coetumo, she flies around the ring half on and half off the horse's back, clinging to sir at times with her heels hor head hanging nearly to the ground, or hanging on with one arm and one foot, or springing over the hurdle at full speed. It seemed tho very ecstacy of equestrian achievement. Carl Antony next appeared with a beautiful boras, Malakoff, who did some splendid jumping, olearing five barred gates, and leaping over the backs of her Btable comrades In gallant style. jwiTttana DOOXBTXL was the next sensation, In her aplendid bareback riding, and she was heartily cheered.

She ihowed at onco that the claim made for her that she Is the finest equestrienne in the country, i not oaf oaxtded. It la no child's play to spring through ten or a dozen covered hoops in succession, and sho showed her exlll splendidly last night, when, in jumping the broad web of cloth, through the carelessness of the attendant It became entangled in her feet. She did not lose her foothold in spite of the mishap. Tho Mlaca Brothers lo their ccmieal scenes followed, and then came one of the prettiest scenes In tho whole exhibition. There wa a beautiful drawing room menage, with Mia Emma Lake and her trained hones, ehe first entered dressed in a riding habit and mount ed upon a milk, white ateed, who waltzed and nlrouottod around the ring in perfect time to the music.

It was very graceful and Hits Lake showed she had the seat and bridle hand of ft comolete mistress of tha art than that mule meat was unnecessarily tough eating even for a miner. It is singular that no able dramatist has utilized the situa tion in which these poor fellows found themselves. It is oertainly one calculated to try individual character to its very core, and to develop what is a man. It has not tne ex citement of shipwreck or battle to divert consciousness from surroundings, nor weary the mind into apathy. Every sense and faculty ot the mind must be doubly alert, because the body is at rest and all the energies are intel lectually concentrated.

The Fifty Dollar Case Still Perplexing. The testimony heard by Justice uttorDOurg yesterday in the interesting suit which has already been discussed under the title of the "fifty dollar case" was sufficiently dramatic to intensify public interest in it. This was foreshadowed in the Eagle on Sunday, when what seemed to be a most satisfactory explanation of the case, justifying at once tne colored sailor and the cashier, was transmitted through Commander McCook to the public. It will be remembered that Mrs. Susan Brown the old colored washerwoman, called upon the commander ana toia mm taac on examining tne casn in ner uiue bank she was surprised to find for the first time that in place of a one dollar bill wrapped round the half dollar and handed to her by Williams she had received a $50 note, and that this discovery was made on Saturday.

Such an explanation, without additions, seemed to be the missing link, and cleared both parties to the suit of any imputation that deception was intended. Notice that it would be sworn to on the witness stand at tracted a large number of people to the Court room, but the result was by no means what had been popularly expected, The testimony of Mrs. Brown drew out a great deal more, and developed certain insinuations of a most important character. The defense first called upon Mr. W.

B. Stiekney, Secretary of the Indian Commission, to testify to the fact claimed by Merritt, that the bill received by him was a one dollar note. Mr. Stiekney admitted that a partition intervening between himself and the cashier prevented his seeing what really occurred at the cash drawer, although he was positive that the bill handed to MX. merritt was of the one dollar denomination.

Mrs. Brown told her story substantially as given, but her memory failed her upon an important point, namely, whether she scrutinized the bill Williams gave her. She also said that ahe had been visited' on Saturday afternoon by a white gentleman, who turned out to be Mr. George W. Wright, amanuensis of General Merritt, uncle of the cashier, and that this gentleman looked over young Williams' papers.

Later in the day she discovered the $50 bill. Thereupon the colored boy Williams was recalled and circumstantially related his giving the bill to Mrs. Brown, who, he eays, looked it over and pronounced it a "one dollar bill, chile." The bill handed to Commander McCook by Mrs. Brown was passed to Williams for identification, and he confidently swore that it was not tho $50 given to him by Paymaster Hoxsey. The officer who accompanied Williams to Mrs.

Brown's house on Saturday, subsequent to the visit of Mr. George W. Wright, stated that in reply to Williams' question whether the bill he had given, Mrs. Brown "was not a one dollar bill," she answered that it was. The other occupants of the house, a Mrs.

Hopcrof white, andPeter Brown, colored, nenhew of Mrs. Brown, were also sworn. The testimony of the former was to the effect that she had been present throughont Mr. Wright's visit, and had subsequently burned Williams' papers without giving a reason for so doing; that of the latter showed that, in spite of his being in the twilight condition of intoxication, he fully appreciated the value of aneffort to "save Mr. Merritt." The case is now in.

the hands of Justice Ot terbourg, who will give a decision on Friday afternoon. It was not submitted, however, by Mr. Merritt's counsel without innuendo to the effect that the charge against the cashier was a conspiracy to injure the Metropolitan Hotel, while Mr. Price, counsel for the young sailor, intimated the existence of a conspiracy upon the other side. It does not seem, from lijfe' evidence, absolutely necessary to asuie guilt upon either side.

Any reasonable! hvnothAHin whinri will exrilnin the case without imputing dishonesty to either party suouid. certainly have the pref.