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QUE ALBANY COERSSPOHDSNCE. TIETTS OF COBRESPOiVOESTS. BOARD OF ALOERHEiY. opposed to the establishment of a railroad on Greene avenue, that if the sum of four thousand dollars was paid, the property owners on said avenue would be relieved of farther anxiety. The matter has been referred to a Committee for investigation, and the Committee, we presume, will find out whether or not there is any foundation for the rumor.

that, whereas, it had been reported that a certain member of the old Board bad threatened, unless $1 090 was furnished by the Gates avenue interest, to place the Greene av. railroad on Gates by rescinding a resolution placing it upon Greene avenue; therefore, Beaolv ed, that a committee of five bo appointed by tho Chair to investigate the matter and report to this Board. Aid. Carman said that tho reason he introduced the resolution was because it had been stated in tho Flour Exchange in New York by a merchant who had acted as the manager of the Galea avenue interest, that he (Ihe merchant) had been told by a member of the Board, that if by a certain Monday night $1,000 were not forthcoming, that the resolution placing the ralroad track along Greene avenue would be rescinded and the track ordered to be laid upon Gates avenue. As he knew nothing whether the statement was true, he asked for (he committee of investigation that, if true, the whole Board might not Buffer for the action of one or its members.

The resolution waa unanimously agreeJ to, and the following named as the committee: Carman, llthWard; Hatbaway, Oth; Bsrgen, 10th; Wbilinp, 20tb; and Mercein, of the 1th. Soon after tho Board adjourned. THE GREATEST STOKY" OF THE AGE, In keeping with the promise which we made eomo timo back to keep THE Is EW YORK WEEKLY in tho fropt rank journalism, and to maintain its olaim to thepontion which it undoubtedly holds that of being the leading story ard sketch paper of tha United States, if not of the world we are now gratified to be ablo to announce that we will on THURSDAY next commence tho Publication of ANOTHER GREAT STORY. It is from the pen of that world renowned romancer, IKON LEWIS, Author of "Tbe Silver Ship." "Syria, tho Jowosi." 'Tbo Step Daughter's Portion," etc etc. It is entitled THE WATER WOLF on, THE DEMON OF THE BERMUDAS.

Tho mere announcement of a story by a writer ao extensively and favorably known as Loon Lewis, would perhspi be to cau6e overybody to read it, but THE WATER WOLF" has especial claims to publio approval, in that it is some hat different from anything else which its gifted author has thus ftr given to the world. As its title implies, it is a story of thoBeimndas, and partakes largely of the wild, the weird, and the grand. Tho heroine is most glorious oreation a creature all beaaty and sunshine, tonder, impulsive, generous and comageons who is cast away upon one of the Bermuda Islands, and fills into tho handi ot i desperate villain, who is a deadly 'enemy to her father. While here, sho encounters tho dread sconrge of ths islands, the frightful WATER WOLF, the simple desci iption of which fearful monster caosos the flesh to creep with horror. Tho story is fall of action at the very start, and the reader finds his attention enchained before he has read a dozen sentences.

It is full of tho most (brilling situations, and possesses a plot of tho most thrilling intricacy and of the most ingenious character, THE WATER. WOLF will unquestionably add greatly to the aheady greit reputation of Ieon Lewis, and wi.l undoubted be extensively read. Recollect that THE WAIEB, WOI.F; on, THE DEMON OF THE BERMUDAS. BY LEON LEWIS. will ho commenced in the NEW YORK WEEKLY, ready on THURSDAY noxt.

For tale by every News Agent. Price cents onr oopy. NEW MUSIC. TUSDAY EVENING, JAN. 22.

This paper has the Largest Circulation oi any Evening Paper pnblished in the United States. Its ralne as an Advertising: Medium is therefore Apparrent. Enlargement of the Eagle A Four Cylinder Press lor Sale. Die constantly increasing circulation of tho Kaole, and the necessity no aro under of enlarging its size to accommodate our duily ineroasing list of advertising customers, compel us to substitute one of Hoe's Eight Cylinder Lightning Printing Machines for the press now used by us. By this change we will be able to print on or about the first of March, twenty thousand copies per hour of a sheet one third largor than that now issued by us.

YTe offer for sale the four cylinder press on which the Eagle is now rrinted, together with two eU of "turtles." The press i3 in perfect order, is eapa blo of printing twelve thousand sheets per hour, and Will bo sold at very much less than its value. This ohange involves an expense of $50,000 to us, which we cheerfully incur in order to place the Eaqlk in all respects among the foremost of the publio journals of the world. The Impcravive Necessity Increased Fa cilities of Communication Between the two Cities. The necessity of providing means of communication between Brooklyn and New York, which shall not be liable to be interrupted by the severity of winter, is now conceded on all hands. It is impossible to estimate the loss which the material interests of Brooklyn have suffered by the interruption of ferry communication during the past week.

Anyone who mingled with the anxious crowd which was collected around the Fulton ferry this morning, could easily see in what direction the general disappointment tended. "I have got enough of Brooklyn," "This winter will close my residence here," "Well, if I am caught next winter in this way, it will be my own fault, that is all." Nor are these expressions of discontent unnatural. It is not easy to overestimate the loss to a business man of one or two business hours. His standing and credit as a morchant may depend upon it. It is hardly too much to say that it would pay Brooklyn to expend the whole cost of the bridge annually rather than subject those who have taken up their residence here to the I033 and danger attending upon a week of interruption to ferry navigation like the last.

A stranger who witnessed the anxious crowd which this morning watched with interest ferry boats crowded with passengers, and struggling to make a voyage, in wh adventures the lookerc on did not c.a to share, would have at once concluded either that such difficulties were among the most uncommon incidents df ferry communication, or that all the resources of science had been exhausted in vain, in the attempt to provide a leruedv. He could hardly credit the facl that the incidents he witnessed were not exwaordinary, that they attended between, two great centres of population every winter, that not a dollar had been expended in the attempt to provide a remedy and that there was no question bu that a remedy could be secured, and another means of communication opened which no change of weather could obstruct. The most un American sight in America to day is that which is witnessed at the Fulton ferry. We can well afiord to bridge or dock the East Itiver, but we can't afford to depend exclusively on the existing means of communicating with New York. It makes no difference whether a bridge or a series of docks across the East River, will pay or not as speculations.

An Inquiry. Ib On Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: VCry Scuerally rumorc and believed, that (he only Episcopal clergymen in this city connected w.th the Ch rch Union paper, either as editors or or patrons, arc Messrs. Canfield, Thrall and Breer. It has occurred to some who are acquainted' With these clergymen, to inquire whether they ridoin ihk omntbui of strife, scandal and vitur.jr.., with satety to their character as Christian go to their professed loyalty to tha church Clare themselves ministers, mcl1 Ak EPISOOPAI. iNQCmEB.

The Fpiscopal Diocese of Long Island Who Shall be Bishop. To ihe Editor of the Brooklyn Eaglt: I have wailed some time to see if any one interested in the matter of the appointment of a Bishop t0 Woce8 Island, would an ewer Churchman," who appears, by your courtcsv, in the Eaole of Tuesday laBt. Bu thero ia no response. To begin, I incline to tbe belief that although your correspondent signs himself "Churchman." and notwithstanding be offers tha name or such learned, indefatigable and unquestionable churchmen as the Rev. Jacob W.

Diller, D. and tho Rev. D. V. M.

Johnson, he ia not so good a churchman as he ought to be, or he would not Bpcak bo disrespectfully, not to say evil of dignitaries. Beat churchmen should be careful how they use the PresB to disparago the men who happen to be candidates for so high and holy an office, and especially cautions how they, through tho Bamo medium, insinuate Ibat those already in that office do not follow in tho footsteps of their great Head and Predecessor. There may, or there may not be much truth and force in what "Churchman" BuggeBts in some respects, but to say that our BishopB are clothed in purple and nuo linen, and fare enmpluously every day," is to soggest that they aro followers of Diva, and the lives of our Bishops, our last Bishop, will not warrant even such a suggestion. One of the candidates to whom "Churchman" refers is a moBt estimable (in the Christian Bonsoj aud desirable man for tho office of Bishop in this diocese. His early labors were devoted, in on adjoiniog Slate, to the Free Church system, and the vital motive in that system is the care of the poor.

He is learned, oloqnont and not easily dazzled by tho tinsel of wealth." His experience and character fit him for the oflice of BIsbon But notwithstanding all this; and the question suggests itself, to whom would the great body of churchmen and people feel more inclined than to some one of thoir own number some old and tried and trao man who born and reared in their midst, is known and respected' if not loved by all. Your correspondent wUl not presume reared and nurtured though he baa been within tho Church to name tho n.an; but it does seem to him that among our own native Long Islanders thero are men whose "labors without ceasing" whoso "watcbings and fastings" whose unbounded charity to all, and love for Ihe poor, to whom they are now personally known, and by whom they are dearly loved eminently fitted for tho oflice soon to be filled, wo trust, by the appointment of a Bishop for tbo Diocese of Long Island. 1 doubt not that "Churcbman" has been pure and sincere, tut think his communication, to say the least, injudicious in expression, however good its suggestions may be pronounced. Assured that your fairneBB wiU not reject so mild a reply to the correspondent who found place in your columns, I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, Lavoian. Uncomfortable School Rooms.

To Uie Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Deab Sib: Although a not actually interested party, yet my indignation has been so often excited by sketches of suffering in this regu that I determined at last to appeal to jour well known sympatby for suffering humanity to evoke your influential assistauco for the purpose oi effecting some amendment in regard to a duty most shamefully neglected. I give as au instance Public School No. 8. On account of the inadequacy of tbe apparatus, this scbool has scvoral times closed for a day, or parte of days, and in cold weather it ia an almost intolerable place lor thoso cugagod in them, oblfpc by tho nature of tbeir occupation passively to submit to this chilling temperature. This is a woll known facl, both to the Trustees and to lbe Board, but they say "the heating arrangement cost them in Ibis particular case seven hundred dollars, and it must answer" on tho principle announced by tho quack, that "his education cost him a thousand dollars, and be waR bound to get his money kill or cure;" so this verj intelligent and humane bodyot servitor, called by the dutien of Iheir office to see that its purposes are effectually acci mplished, having made tbis investment, aie determined to make it serve whether it results iu disease or not.

It is a wondor, and it does not bpeak at ail in favor of parental instincts, that this has heretofore pone unprotected; but it ceases to be a wonder when it is known of the little hope thero is in any rodress of grievances, or any imrrovement in tbo conduct of that hichly respectable Dut uncivilized aud unfjthcrly clique of BuporaLnuated gentlemen known in Brooklyn aa the "Boaid of Education." It iB indeed much to bo wished that appointments to tbis body bis Honor the Mayor will have in view tbo necessity of enlisting the efforts of active men, fitted by education and Cbristian liko prin riplo, to control all the relatione of our school interests with an cnlichtcned and truly eeouomic.1 policy, so that they shall really be an bonor to the city, instead of being a burning shame. Truly yours, To Whom it mat. Coxcesvx. The Democratic Committee. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Knowing that your widely circulated paper is ever ready to lend its columns to the party oi t'io Union, the Constitution and the Laws, I would thereforo ask a short Bpace lo pive a few suggestions in reference the formation of the Democratic General Committee for tho year 18W: Let the contesting parties have a fair hearing, regardless oi who may be interested, and it there bo a semblance of fiaud, let there a new primary called aud men of character appointed Irom the Committee to a as inspectors, (hereby showing the people at large that the Gpneial Committee intend that tbo organiznioa ball be all that tbe people were promised it would 03.

But should psrtiality be shown and Iho people ignored, the result will be the resuccitation of old committees, with all tho baneful effects we have experienced heretofore. The Committee have a cloar field, and with prudent action can Keep ii bo. Let them remember the maxim, viz: "Au ounce oi preventive iH worth a pound uf cure." Yours, x. The Ferries. To the Editor of Ike Brooklyn Eagle: Deab Sie.

During state of the river at the present time it is very dangerous lor the boats to cross amoiiK the ice, and if any accident occurs it ruipht not end so well as the Idaho disaster. I have Loliced that there are no life preservers, except one at each end of the boats. What would they be if any ac idtut should occur to one of the Fnlton Ferry boats when there aro hundreds of passengers at a time Cun there Le nothing done Where aro be authorities I noticed one morning this week that the copper on tha boat Arr erica was very much cut, and yet she was running. If the ice should knock a bole' in the wood, it would sink ber, aud probably there would be a great many lives lost. Yours truly, Citizen.

IteooKiAN, Jan. 18, 18C7. Ihe Myrtle Avenue Fire Bell. To the Editor of ttte Brooklyn EagU: Will you please inform us tbroub the columns of your valuable paper why the fire btll.corncr of Myrtle and Vanderbitt avenues, has not been repaired. It h08 been out of order ror the last three or four months and it is a preat inconvenience to the firemen in the vicinity, who sometimes do not hear the Hall bell unless there is a strong easterly wind.

Can ycu tell us who is to blame and oblige yours, A Fireman. Fifth Anniversary Promenade of Company Twenty Third Regiment. The Atlieneuni was never more brilliant than last evening ou tho occasion of the filth annual promenade concert of Compauy A of the 23d R'giment. The ariongcnu nts as completed by Executive and Floor Committees were perfect, and despite the snow bound streets a continuous stream of carriages flew about, and catering up tho fair ones landed them sifely and speedily at the objective point. Wilhin the building a scene wa1? presented to make one forget that cold prcv9iiod without, or that poverty ever croui hcd frcczingly amid its rags.

Tho cosy platform was oecupicd by the band of tho regiment, with M. Paps', ard L. Contcrlno aa directors. Among other music Ihe following pieces nero effectively rendered previous to the dancing: 1. March, Kuhner.

2. Overlure. "Bronze Auber. 3. Sont', Brightest Eyes," Stigelli.

4. Fack" t)tnz, Meyerbpcr. 5. Selections, "II Yuui. 0.

guicl step, "My Angel," Schmccr. THE DECOIiATIOSS by Fuua), were a euccespion of artistic triumphs. His success in this particular is such that now a days but few promenades take placo without receiving tho adventitious aids of ornamentation from hia graceful handiwork and original conceptions. Itadiatiug from tho central chandelier, and above its brilliant jets ran a succession of red, white and slarred blne bunting, re lievicc tbe usual tamencssof tho ceilin'and contrasting prettily with the festouned evergreen about the gallery. Over the proscenium the decorations were profuse but notcrewded; the letter of tho Compauy shone biigbt in gas jits lighting up the bunting advantageously and tastefully arrange'.

Along tne gallery at intervals, glistening bayonets in stars a new an 3 appropriate conceit. Over all this fine munie, glad faces, happy smiles shed their varied attractions until the spectator would almost wonder if ever war was a fact. Tbo dancing was like all other occasions; a series of Lanciers. GallopB, kc, arranged with an eyo to variety. Among those present were a few officers in uniform invitea guests and tho attention which tbey received iroro tho ladic3 indi.

ated that the uniform ot the coua tr bad not palled on tho tight, even after a surfeit of five years war. The committees for the oveuiag wero as follows: Executive Committee fBlue badge) Lieut. Chis Hunter, Lieut. Joseph G. Story, Sergeant Wiilu Ogdcn, Corporal CroeII Haddeu, Corporal Von Inter, Private F.

A. Judson. Floor Committee (Red badge) Sergeant T'jos P. Hurlbnt, Corporal Wm. C.

Smith, Private London M. tan, i nvauj iwocri D. HUOrpe, I'rivato Albert T. Plumber. The members of tho Company appeared in while badges.

SOMETHING NW. Tbe of arms of the renirnent as recently scr. od upou by the memlrrs, made IU fimt oppcjrouco in public fast evening, in purple ink upon the b.ik pa.e of tbe coverof the progiamine. It includes as a centre tbe plolo worn by Ihe Eohiiors upon their breast belt; above aie Bbown the flags of tno Rppubllcaud the Stole; below appear tbo elt.T HI and anolh'r tJKtrln the letter" N. S.

N. Y. iutei laced. On cltner side, a Naliot'Ol, State and reflmcnlal flair gracefully plaeert, with stacked muskcls inning against tbo ilas, and resting upon a scroll at the on of the design, to conlain an inscription uerealter lo be agreed upon. The wholo is surmounted at upper central part of theshi.

ld proper by a wrtnlb, upon which rests a hemispiicre, Tcstainir.n an enclc with outspread wings. Tno whole is very orarefnl, appropriate, compact A good iuscrip lien, in wl'l oompleu this very taatoful regi rntntal The Poob. We hje pleased to record the fact that Mr. Davis, (ho well known "King of the of erF," has presented every day Year through the Bo ciety for the Relief of tbo Po" substauii.il loaves of bread to poor families. Tall1 5 ftn worthy of imitation by men of more "JSn SIr The Public PrintingMore Robbery oi the State Treasury Charged 1 Row About the Committee on Cities New Yorkers Getting Up Their Muscle The Kings County Members as R.R.

Travel ers Bold Adventure of Mr. Hinsdale. The Brooklyn Improvement Company Important Privileges Asked Third st. Again Payment ot the Old Commissioners! and Appointment of New Ones The Street to be Further Improved, and all old Debts Paid More Bonds to be Issued Petition to Discontinue Flat bush Avenue Through Prospect Park Washington Avenue to be Opened to Flatbush How the Members Feel Gossip About the Paid Fire Depart, ment That "Joak." Albany, January 19. The House to day has been engaged in a general controversy upon tbe subject of Public Printing.

It ori" inated in a report presented by Mr. Jacobs, from the Printing Committee, against issuing extra copies of an unnecessary document. The report was about beina adopted when Mr. Littlejohn caUed for its reading, and hearing it, expressed himself satisfied. A moment after be changed front, and made a speech against the report.

Mr. Jacobs promptly accused him of inconsistency, and Littlejohn replied that a change of opinion was an evidenco of honesty. Thus the general question was opened, and shortly after the Committee on Hules presented a report in favor of keeping such a sharp eye on the printer that cheating will be next to impossible. During the debate, it was stated that the Treasury had been annually robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the printer. This, it will be remembered, has all been under Badical rule.

A committee of investigator Becrr to be demanded. The question of adding two members to the Committee on Cities is likely to prove exceedingly interesting. The idea is, that if the increaso is made a Democrat from New York and one from Kings will be added. That Creamer, of New York, would go, there is no doubt, but I have good reason to believe that tho other lucky man would be a Republican. Tho New York del galion are in a terrible flutter over the matter, and tho talk is very loud among tho rival candidates.

To day it almost carte to blows at the Delavan. The contending are headed respectively by Creamer and Deve lin, and if I mistake not, there wlU be a clash between them in the House one of these days. How happy to represent some other place than the Great Metropolis Kings county, for instance, whose members dweU together in peace and baimony. The New Yorkers prophesy a grand smash up among the Brooklynites in a month or so. We Bhall see.

KTSG'S CO. ON THE BArLBOAD. Messrs. Keady. Burns and Hinsdale concluded to go to the city on Friday.

Their associates, thinking discretion the better part of valor the atorm raged fearfullyconcluded to remain. The train proceeded three miles and then encountered a snow bank. The prospect was somewhat gloomy. The three valiant gentlemen concluded to foot it back to the depot. At the flrBt blast they weie nearly taken from their foet, and Koady and Burns returned to the car.

But Hinsdale would not retreat. In compauy with a tough Scotchman of some sixty winters, he plodded along the track towards Albany. Two railroad bridges stood in the way, with nothing but icy beams to cross on. Below, some fifty feet, were frozen streams. But Hinsdale and his old friend prensed on.

finally reaching the city, pretty well used up. The Third Ward member must go up to the bead. And ho waa right after all, for we have just learned that the train did not get in till near noon of to day, the party hating been eighteen or twenty hours on the road, and reaching home fit subjects for tho doc BBOOKLYN IMPBOVEMEHI COMPANY. Mr. Haynea' bill, in relation to the Brooklyn Improvement Company, provides as foUown Sec.

1 gives the company power to purchase, hold, lands in tbe Sth and 12th Wards, on or east of the Gowanna Canal, and between first and Ninth streets, and any of said lands, not required for docks, basins, canals, or warehouses, cau be Improved by the erection of dwellings, kc, thereon. See. 2 allows the impany to convert bonds, evidences of indebtedness, into stock, at lbe option of the bolder, and provides that tho rapilal stock shall be so increased as to covjr all the indebtedness of the concern. Sec. 3.

Tbis section authorizes tbo company to occupy and uso lor dock, bapin and other purposes, such portions of Second, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh streeu, and 0 Second avenue, as are situated upon its own land, between the Gowauus Canal and Third avenue, and the streets and avenues, so far as, they aro so used and occupied, shall ho closed and discontinued. Sec. 4. To connect its canals and basins with each other and with Gowauus Canal, tho company may construct a canal not moie than thirty iour feet wido, through Thild avenue, between First anil Third streets, provided that if tho canal be carried through Third avenue, (he company shall construct a proper and substantial bridge, having no draw, to accommodato the traveling public. This bill is now bo'oro tho Committee on Cities, who, have, as yet, come to no coucluiion thereon.

There have been neither petitions for, nor remonstrances against the measure. THIBD 8TBEET. Mr. Hayncs' two bills on the subject of Third street, aro now beiorc the Committee on Cities. Tho first is as follows: Section 1 provides that there 6hall be paid to the Third street Commissioners, in full for their services prior hereto, compensation not exceeding $500 each, as said Board may determine to be and persons are te be Commissioners to complete the said improvement, ana eacn one shall reccivo $5 per day tor bis services, and tho improvement must be completed wilhin one year.

See. 2. The Commissioners to cause sowers to be built and water pipes to he laid, in all parts of tne street, where the same is not already done, aud cause proper connections sewer, gas ana water to be made with every lot on the street. Sec. 3.

To pay expense bonds of the city to be issued, to necessary amount, principal payable not more than twenty years from date, and interest 7 per cent. Commissioners authorized to pay amounts awarded for grading, under section 1 of Iheoricnal act, togetber wllh interest from the date of the confirmation of tbe report making Buch awards. All expenses to be collected as now provided by law. 1 he next bdl in relation to this interesting subject 13 as follows; Sec, 1. The original commissioners shall be capable of suing and bcitg sued, by the name of the Third Street Commissioners, for or upon account of any claim, demand, liability, matter or thing, accrued or occurred, or that may hereafter accrue or occur, for or on account of the improvement of Baid street.

Sec. 2. Taxes aud moneys levied and raisod, or to be levied ond raised, for purpose of said improvement, which have been or shall bo paid into tho Brooklyn Treasury shall be under control of said commissioners, and makes them liable for judgments rendered and requires payment of Eucb judgments. FLATBUSH AYENUE AND PBOSPECI PABK. Mr.

Jacobs to day presented the following petition: The undersigned, citizens of Brooklyn, ask that a law be passed to discontinue Flatbush avenue, through Prospect Park, and to exteud Washington avenue to Flatbush. 1. The Park is now divided into two separate parts by Flatbush avenue, and for that reason the Commissioners have resolved not to improve the part lying on tho oast side of Flatbush avenue, and it is in contemplation to sell it. By closing Flatbush avenue tha Park will bo kept as an entirety, and tho magnificent viev of the panorama Irom Iteservoir Hill perpetually preserved. 2.

Tho road to Flatbush can bo made much CKBier as to grade and nearly as short in distance by using Warren street (one of the boundaries of the Park) from Flatbush avenue to Washington avonue (another boundary of ihe Park) and through Washington avenue to Fiat buih. 3. By an airangcment made between the U.S. government and the city of Brooklyn, Washington aveuuo is about to be extended acrot the Navy Yard lands in iront of the Naval Hospital to Williamsburgb. By this means the Park will be brought as near in distaucefrom Williamsburgh as it ia from the corner of Snds and Fulton streets at present.

4. By keeping tbe prefent boundaries of the Park it will be made available for the whole city, aud not for the southern portion of it only, aj will do the case if tho eastern portion ot it shall be sold. Signed by John P. Bolfe, John Haisey, Richard B. Leverich and others.

Upon this queetkn thero is a great diversity of opinion here, as in Brooklyn. Probably Mr. Haynes, who is a Park Commiefioner, and Mr. Jacobs, who repiesenlsa word, in which the Park is extensively situated, are the only two "Assemblymen whose constituents have land interests directly at stake to any great extent. Haynes, of course, wantB tbe southern extension Jacobs insists that, extension or no extension, the Oth Ward shall be let alone, or, if anything, given more.

Hmsdale, Burns, Oakey, Dixon, Keady, Buckley and Raber look on in peace, intending to wait and hear all sides. The fight will bo a pretty one. but at present 91b Ward stock ia up, and a further advance is cou. stantly expected. Why the bills are kept back is bard to Bay.

Ia there a screw loose anywhere? Come up to the scratch, gentlemen, commence tho battle aud fight it out like men. Just now, when business is not heavy, tbis qucslicn might as well be settled as not. TB33 FIBB DEFABTMENT. The New York Fire Commissioners keep one of their members here all the while to look to tho interest of their Board, and see that no one gets ahead of them ou Brooklyn. I am more than ever satisfied that tbe bill, an abstract of which I sent you the other day, is the result ot their scheming, thongh tbe real intention is to consolidate the two departments.

Information also reaches mo that the Brooklyn bill Jo. lteeve's schema differs somewhat from (hat printed in your columns, but in what rojpect we are yet unaware. Jo. will certainly be flanked by tho New York machine, for Piuck ncy. Brown Company, are determined that if they cannot get your department no one else Bhall bavo it; in shcrt that tbeir powers must be co extensive with those ot tne Police Board, and until ihey are, that iho volunteer system Bhall live in Brooklyn.

Now, the Commissioners have, it must ba remembered, a powerful bicking at tbe Capital. Their patron, age alone, would ensure tbem this, and tbis backing is not alone tho Republican party, but extends to tho other. Thus, you may have noticed Democrata presenting billB for the increase of pay to the firemen, to $1,000 per annum. Tbe Department has become a great political machine, and is respected in consequence by though as a means of extinguishing tires it ib the most complete humbug in the State. It they use their power for lbe defeat of a separate paid Department measure for Brooklyn, it is inevitably lost, and, in that case, tbe question remains, could they command strength cough to pass their own consolidation bill? Between tho two contending elemonts, there ia sonie hope that tbo tax payers will not be further overburdened in tills respect daring tho presout ynr.

KEEPEU Or IDE CITS HAUL. Your coUmporary of WlllUmaburab, thinks It a joke or jour correspondence, in saying that a bill was lo be introduced abolishing tho office of keeper of the City Hall sad "other offices," and appointina jCoinmia to nil them. The "joke" ii made evident by a reter ence to Houto journal of tho day that paragraph wan penned, tho journal saying, under the head of 'Noliccs of Bills:" By Mr. Lelcvcr That will, at some future dav, introduce a bill abolishing the office of keeper oi the Oily Hall, and other offices in tbe or Brooklyn. On (he samo day.

Aid, Cis'jow, Bli9s aud othors of the deflated 'Ring" weic here, Pro of the party toid tie iulontion was to bavo a Commit'don to fill the vat anclfs. Your corrc spourfent may buve bca misinformed as to the presence of Mr. Benefit, but hav ing iue picoomo oi mat uentieman's acquaintance, too, the vioid of another in the matter. The Iuishtown Eakuehs. Ike 15tk annual fancy, chic and military dress ball of tho Irisht5vn Rangers will be given at Gothic Hall on Monday evening next.

Tbe Rangers are a jovial set of fellows who bave always aimed to niak their balls tho most onj iya ble offuiiK imaginable, and the coming ball will doabt Ubs be aB successful as its predecessors. THE MEW COMMITTEES AT WORK. AWARD OF STREET CLFANINS CONTRACTS. The Eastern District wants a Public Market. mm FOR THE 10 NEW ALDERMEN.

MMAL COMMITTEE TO ALBANY PROPOSED ALLEGED OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. An Alderman Charged with Demanding $4,000 to "Fix" the Railroad on Greene Ayenue. COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION APPOINTED. The Board Unanimous for the East River Bridge. IMPORTANT BEPORT ON THE WATEB FRONT OF BROOKLYN DECISIVE OFFICIAL ACIION PROPOSED The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, at 3 o'cloclr, P.

absent Aid. Cashew, Steers and Brady. The first important matter brought up was the following, presented by Aid. Hinsdale, of the Third Ward: Tbe Committee cn Laws, to whom, on the 10th day of December last, was referred sundry resolutions, renting to tbe water front of the city, recommending among other things the adoption of measures to render the river front more accessible for public use, respectfully bepobt: That in their opinion measures should be taken forthwith to secure the objects aimed at by the resolutions, and they recommend: 1. That all streets which have ever been laid out to tho river and which are now obstructed or encumbered should be immediately cleared and freed from all erections and encumbrances st and near the river; that all gates should be removed that the Street Commissioner as tho executive officer of the city be directed to carry these measures into effect, and that the Metropolitan Police Commissioners bo requested to instruct their officers to cause tbe ordinances of the city relating to tho obstructing of these streets to be obeyed by the summary arrest of all parties placing obstructions thereon, as they aro authorized to do.

2. That all streets which would terminate at the water if opened should be forthwith opene.1, and to this end that an enabling act, should be passed by tho Legislature authorizing tbe opening of all streets leading to tho river without the procurement of a petition of the property owner or owners thereof, through whoso property the same would run, (and in this connection that the act passed in 1802 to attain this result in regard to the streets in the E. D. of this city bo amended so that the expenses of their openings may be included in the general taxes of the wards interested, as named in resolutions of tho Common Cocncil fixing tbe district of assessment, as it is difficult to lay a local assessment to embrace so many lots as is required by the existing law. 3.

That public docks should be constructed where ractieable, at the termination of all streets leading to the river, whero none now exi6t, as soon as funds can be raised for that purpose, and to this end application sbouid be made to the Legislature to pass an act authorizing the erection of piers at the foot of every street opened to the river, without being subject to the existing regulations as to the distance at which piers may be constructed from those adjoining; and thai pr( ccedings should be taken to acquire the fee simple absolute ot all the water front occupied by the Btrceta which terminate at the river, and the land under water over which tbe piers may be built, in order that the authority of tho city over tho same may be beyond dispute. i. That the interests of the city demand that no more granls of water rights and privileges should bo made by tho State ot land under water, adjacent to our shores, to private paities; and that all acts pf the Legislature which have the effect to deprive the public of landing places from tbe river should: (so far as is practicable and not interfering with vested rights) be repealed. 5. That tho District Attorney of this county be requested to present to tho Grand Jury the names of all pvrBons wUo have seized any portion of tbe public streets, or erected obstructions thereon, and that tbe Corporation Counsel be requested to give to the District Attorney any assistance that he may require, your Committee being of the opinion that tho prosecution of such parlies, under criminal proceedings, and their exposure to public cdium as having been guilty of unlawfully taling and holding the public property, may have a salutary effect.

Your Committee, therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution Kc solved. That the Counsellor prepare an act to bo preFeijted to tbe Legislature to carry into effect the objects above set forth, aa to which legislation is necessary. Besolved, That tho Street Commissioner be requested to givo tho aid of his department to all citizens and others to whom access to and from the river is unlawfully denied, and that tbe Metropolitan Police Commissioners and Lbe District Attorney of this county be requested to co operate with tbis Board in the matter of clearing from the water front and public Btreets leading thereto all illegal erections and nuisances. TnioDonE Hinsdale, A. Cunningham, Committee.

Jacob I. Behoen. Ordered printed and laid on the table. HYDRANTS. A communication from the Chief Engineer called attention to their bad condition and upon a motion of Aid.

Hathaway, it was ordered that tho snow be properly cleared away, so that engines can reach the hydrants. OrdiLarily the Alderman said that ha understood it was incumbent upon the owner of tho property to keep the hydrant approachable, but tha present heavy snow was an exceptional case. STT.EET CLEANING CONTBACIS. On motion of Aid. Guck, the contract for clcanlncr the streets of the 16th "Ward was awarded to Adam Steinbeck, for1 $2,315.

On motion ot Aid. Bliss, the cleaning of tbe Btreets of the 17lh "Ward was given to Jonathan Moore, for $1,795. Tbe 15th Ward contiact waa given to John Fitzpatrick, a'. S51.3S9. The 20th Tvard was awarded to John ttogers.

UNANIMOUS FOB A BRIDGE ACEOSS THE BAST BtVEB. Aid. Whiting presented the followiog in referenco to the present project to bridge the East Itiver. Whereas, Hon. Henry C.

Murphy has given notice of a bill which provides lor the construction of abridge across the st Itiver; therefore Kesolved. Toat this Common Council do hereby declare that lbe btst interests of both cities require such increase of facilities oi communication aa will be urn. ished by a bridge, and do earnestly request the Representatives oi Ktugs County, in Senate aud Assembly, to five their influence and votes to the adoption of some proper measure to secure its speedy construction. The resolution was adopted without a word of debate. M03E POWEB FOB THE ALDEBMEN.

Under the old system the Alderman of each ward had tho power of awarding the contract for cleaning tho streetB in bis ward. By the creation of the Board of Contracts this power was taken away, and when the tho Board of Contracts was relieved of duty, the old power wae not restored to the Alderman of the ward. To obviate the palpable difficulty of the power vesting nowhere, Aid. Aimfield presented a resolution request iug the Legislature to pans an act giving this power to tbo Alderman bb before. Aid.

Bliss favored the resolution and desired to add that tbe samo official bave equal control in the repairing of streets. He believed it was timo that the responsibility should rest somewhere, and that the Board should tree itself from Ihe unjust imputations cast upon it during tbe last six months. Both resolution and amendment were agreed to. AliMFIELD GETS HIS FOOT IN. It has been tho custom in tbo Board heretofore to pass certain resolutions for tbe expenditure of small amounts of money without referring tbe matter to a committee, thus saving time tho convolutions of red tape so common in public bodies.

Aid. Arm field presented a resolution that horeafter no resolution calling for the expenditure of money should be passed until it bad beeu first submitted to the proper committee and reported upon, Tbo resolution was adopted. Aid. Armfield (hen presented a resolution for the purchase of 60 keys for the members of an E. D.

Engine Company, at an expense not to exceed $35. Before the passage of tbis last resolution the money would have been voted without question, but now the Chair ruled that tbo resolution laid over under the rule just adopted. Tbe laugh was on the Alderman of the 13th; he tried to get the rules suspended. Aid. Whiting held that it would be the height of inconsistency to suspend tho rulo alter having but a moment belore adopted it, and the motion to suspend waa negatived by every member exci pt Aid.

Armueld. The keys therefore, go to a committae. SOUTHSIDE RAILROAD A MABKET. Aid. Armfield presented a resolution granting the Sonlhside Kailroad Company tbe privilege of running cars through Metropolitan avenue and North 2d and North 3d streets, E.

also to erect a public market at the foot of Scuth 3d street, E. D. Beferred to tho Railroad Committee. A resolution to purchase a badge each for the new members, was reltrred to tho Committee on Schools Arts and Science. A GOOD TIME AT ALBANY.

Aid. O'Kecffe presented a resolution asking for the appointment of a Special Commit ee or five, to whom tho Mayor shculd be added, to visit Albiny to look aftsr certain legislation necessary for Brooklyn. Aid. Hathaway thought that as tbo Board had a Committee on Laws and Applications to the Legislature the matter could De salely intrusted to them instoad'of a Special Committee. Aid.

O'Keeffe Btated that a Special Committea was usual, and that it was alfo usual tor the city to pay the expenses incurred. No member was going to Albany on public business at bis own expense, and unless some I sued aclion is taken, tho Board would be charged I with not properly lookinsr after tho interests of the eitv He hoped the resolution would pass. Referred to tho Conumittce on Laws and Applications to tho for report. WHO GOT IHE FOUR THOUSAND Aid. Carman, towards tho close of tlm nnin and throw in a bomb shell in the hape of a resolution) The Fxtension of Flatbush Avenue to Fulton Street.

The project of opening Flatbush avenue to Fulton street has been discussed almost as long as we can remember. The neoessity for some straight and wide thoroughfare connecting the ferries with the Island, was felt by the generation which preceeded us. Every year has made the want more clearly felt, and every year the work is delayed will only add to the cost of an undertaking which is certain sooner or later to be accomplished. One improvement necessarily involves others. We are about to lav out a great public park, and it will be necessary that we shall be able to get to it by a wide thoroughfare worthy of it and of a city destined to be the home of a million of people, before many who are now living shall have passed away.

Fulton street, followed the zig zag path way which was worn by the feet of past generations of wayfarers, who were desirous of getting in the easiest way to what was once the village of Brooklyn, as distinguished from the settlement known as the Old Fulton Ferry. It is not conceivable that every subsequent generation will be content to follow the palh which once wound round corn fields, and terminated in what was then regarded as the probable limits of a city which has since grown into imperial proportions. In this country no mistake has ever yet been made by those who have been de siious to provide, on the most extensive scale for the future. When the opening of Flatbnsh avenue to Fulton street was first mooted the cost of the improvement would not have been a tenth or a twentieth of what it is to day. If delayed ten years the cost will be ten times more than it need be now and the necessity for the improvement ten times more pressing.

The short sightedness of the property owners who resisted the opening of this thoroughfare to its natural termination in Fulton street, is seen in the fact that the property which would have been taken, has not advanced in value in proportion to the property surrounding it, for the conviction cannot be removed that the project is not abandoned but only delayed. We know of more than one case in which contemplated improvements on the line of the proposed avenue have been abandoned, owing to uncertainty attending the execution of this project or rather to the certainty that sooner or later it will be carried out. The advance in the value of property in the Fourth and Eleventh Wards would itself pay for the improvement, while the city would gain immensely by the opening of a direct thorough fai which would bring Prospect Park within easier reach of half New York than the Central Park now rs. If the project of building a bridge over the East River is carried out, on the plan which now finds most favor, this great thoroughfare will teiminate where the bridge and the drive through and from the Park aa oss the bridge will surpass anything that either the Old or New World can boast of in the way of boulevards. Tbe opening of Flatbush avenue is a necessity.

There is nothing to gain and much to loose by delaying it. We trust the present Legislature will not adjourn without providing for the immediate execution of an improvement which the short sightedness of a very few property owners has been suffered to delay too long. Current Gossip. We understand that resolutions favoring the establishment of a Paid Fire Department in Brooklyn will be introduced this evening in the Republican General Committee, by an aspirant to one of tbe four $3,000 places it is proposed to provide for hungry placemen under it. Now, we call ourselves Republicans and Democrats, but the payment of taxes is not confined to either class.

If the Republican General Committee desires to reduce its adherents to those who live by politics, and who have never earned, or sought to earn, a dollar by honest labor, it will givo its assent to the schemes of the played out politicians who look upon parties only as a means whereby they can secure the bread they decline to try to earn. The long contested dispute for the naval ofiicership it is said will be decided within a very few days, so far as the President is concerned. The Tribune reproduces an article from a Washington paper to show that President Johnson intended to act with the Democratic party from the day of his inauguration as President. Does the Tribune forget thatit asked the people to vote for Andrew Johnson for Vice President, because he was a Democrat, nominated in order to strengthen Mr. Lincoln with that party? The drawing of the Crosby Opera House Art Association took place yesterday at Chicago.

A man named Lee, of Illinois, drew the big prize, the Opera House, valued at SG0O.00.0." If there be anything in the following from the Tribune, there will be lively times among the "lovers of art" who participated in the scheme. We quote: Chicago, Jan. 21 Midnight. It is asserted in best informed circles that Croaby holds tbe tickets for tbo three chief prizes next after tho first, and it ia not certain that he has not that also. It also turns out that the Opera House to be decciod is not the v.

bole building, as represented, but only the audience room in tbe inaccessible ceutrr of the blojk. If tt'is tbo bigeet swindle of the season no one will pity the victims. Congressman Williams, yesterday, introduced a bill which provides that no decision shall be given by the Supreme Court of the United States on the legality of Congressional legislation, without the concurrence of all tho Judges In other words, if eight Judges are of opinion that Congress is usurping power which does not of right belong to it under the Constitution, one Judge, in the interest of Con gress, may tie the hands of his associates. This monstrous proposition was entertained by the House by the emphatic vote 101 yeas to 39 nays, and the Tribune favors it. It says: It may be that there is a way by.

which a check can be imposed upon the enormous political power now wielded by the Supreme Bench. From the present temper of the majority of the Judges, it is plain that tbe people to whom power belongs must And some remedy against tho encroachments of the judicial authoiity." The Court wields no political power. Its plain duty is to expound the Constitution, in case of division between the other two coordinate branches of the government, and this is the very thing the Radicals fear. The Court was intended to be entirely independent either of Congress or the President. The latter cannot interfere with it, though it will be seen the former body intends if it can, to scare it into compliance with its wishes.

The Radicals are playing a high game, but if they lose a singlo trick they are gone The investigation into the charges made against the Aldermen in connection with the laying of railroad tracks on Greene avenue, will result in one of two good things if there be "nothing in it" it will afford good ground for believing that there is very little real ground for many of the loose charges made against the Aldermen otherwise, there will be work for tbe Grand Jury, and an addition to the population of ihe Penitentiary. A Pleasaut Sobpeise. The ladie3 of the EeKalb avenue M. E. Church, Rev.

J. w. Pastor ot a social gathering held at the parsonace on last evs made a very pleasant and agreeable Burprise to the good lady, and daughter of the Pastor. Mrs. Gardiner on behalf of the ladies, in a mat little speech, presented each of them with a handsome set of furs.

Mr cck responded feelingly to the good wilt and kiuduesj of tho laaVes of the Church. Ball op MiHANic Hose No. 2. On Thursday evening tbe Mechanic Hojo Co. No.

2, wfll (jWo their nnnual ba), Gotnic Hall. Tho Mechanics are Rood workers in ncli omBe and will doubtless have a pleaeant time. Amusements. The Park Theatre. "Pauvrette; or, Under the Snow," one of Bourcicault's adaptations, from the French, was produced last night for the first tims, at the Park Theatre, before quite a largo audience present.

The piece which consists of a prologue and four acts, ia founded upon the incidents of tho French Revolution. The prologue opens in Russia in 1812, when the grand army of Napoleon is on its disastrous retreat from tbe ruins of Moscow. Bernard, a sergeant, (Mr. B. F.

Conway;) Michel, a drummer, (L. Mestayer;) and Marie, wife of Bernard, (Miss A. Meeker), being all that remained of one of the grand regiments of Napoleon, have taken refuge from tho fury of the Cossacks in a deserted hut, with two children one of tbem the daughter of Bernard, and the other the daughter of the Colonel of the regiment, who was killed on tbe retreat. Whilo there, the Duchess De Beaultsu, (Mrs. Howard,) the wife of the late Colonel, who had deserted him and her infant shortly after its birth, comes upon the refugees in the hut, and demands her child.

Bernard upbraids her for her desertion of her husband and child, and shows her the two children, his own and hers, and tells her to pick her own. She cannot tell the difference, and Bernard refuses to enlighten her. She goes off to bring tho soldiers to compel Bernard to reveal the secret, and before her return, the party Is surprised and separated by the Cossacks. Between the prologue and the play, a period of 18 years is supposed to have elapsed, and considerable changes bave happened in the fortunes of the persons in the prologue. Bernard's child has been brought up by tho Dutchess de Beaulieu, in mistake for her own child, as tbe heireBB to vast estates, and her own child, who iB supposed to be that of Bernard, has been brought up in her father's native Tillage in the Alps, as Pauvrette, the village orphan, whose duly it is in winter to live in a hut near the top of the mountain, and take care of cattle of tbo villagers during the winter period, when she and the cattle are shut from the outer world by the avalanches.

Bernard has been exiled to beria by tho Russians, and Michel has been promoted to a Captaincy in tho Army. The Dutchess de Beaulieu, her euppoeed daughter. Captain Michel and Count Maurice, the intended hUBband of Louise, come to the village where Pauvrette ia staying. Count Maurice con. ceireE a desire to climb to the top of the mountain, and when near the top ia overtaken by the avalanche arid; rescued by Pauvrette, who lakes him in her hut just before the avalanche covers it for four months from the outside world.

During tho four months which Count Maurice is compelled to spend alone with Pauvrette, ho teaches her to read and write, and finally conceives a passion for her, which results in her ruin. On being released Le Eeeka hia friends, and preparations are made for bis marriage with Louise, but before the union takes place he is seized with rcmorae for his conduct to Pauvrette whom he still ioves and refuses to bo married to Louise. Pauvrette has disappeared, but finally appears at the bouse of Louise, who treats her kindly and here sho finds out who her deslroyer is, but out of gratitude for the kindness of Louise, declines to tell the story of her aflionced's baseness. In the meantime Bernard tho real father of Louise turts up, having escaped from Siberia, and after some little misunderstanding, he identifies Louise db his daughter, by a piece being shot out of her ear by a stray bullet. The finale is that Count Maurice marries Pauvrette, who is restored to her name, and Captain Michel marries Louise, who has always loved him and not Count Maurice.

Of course everything is as happy as possible Tho pioce is pretty well put on tho stage and will probably have a run. The Popular Concert. The eighth of the series of "Monday Popular Concerts," under the direction of Messrs. Bateman and Harrison, took place last evtning at the Academy of Music, tbo entertainmer beiDg for the benefit of the Messrs. G.

and R. H. At water, the gentlemanly and efficient ushers of that establishment. There waa by no means a large audience present though about the largest that has attended any of these concerts. The programme for the occasion was well selected and opened with the overture to Auber's "Massaniello," admirably performed by the full orchestra under the baton of Theodore Thomas The orchestra i tha prominent feature ot iheae concerts.

Mr. J. ff. Hill, tenor, made his second appearance, and sang the songs "Dearest, then I'll love you more," and "Love's Request," in quite an artistic man. ner, eliciting hearty applause and an encore in the flrat piece.

Miss Nettie Sterling, who was so acceptably substituted for Miss Hauck, at the Philharmonic con. cert, on Saturday evening, sang the cavatina "Ah I mou ills," and tho song "The Three Fishers," with fine effect and wsb encored. Miss Sterling has a mezzo soprano voice of good compass and well modulated, One of the best orchestral pieces of the entertainment was the "Carnival of Venice," with a solo for each instrument. The fantasia "Visions in a Dream," with Mr. Heindl's zither Boio, wa3 repeated for the 31st time and received tho usual encore.

The romaining orches tral pieces were the romanza "L'eciair," with Messrs. Schmidt and Eben's horn and flute solos; overture, the "Poet and Peasant," and Wehli'a "Madeline Waltz" all of which were well performed and heartily applauded. Mr. G. W.

Colby was the piano accompanyist of the evening. On next Monday evening the niuth popular concert will bo given at the Acadtmy, on which occasion Madame Parepa, Signor Biignoli and others will appear Hooley's Opera House. This house was filled as Ksual last evening, and tho audience wore taken Round tbe World, across lots, regaled with illustrations of tho national music of the various countries they visit. Then came the melaBge of singing, dancing and comic acls, in which Mulligan, Archy Hughes, Dave Reed and Hernandez appear. In conclusion a new pantomime called "Tbe Refugee," turning upon incidents of the war, was presented for the first time here.

It is very amusing and introduces some novel tricks. Hernandez displayed bis extraordinary agility and pci tornimic skill in several comical situations. Dave Iteed also deserves mention for his performance in these pantomimes; he takes to this new business quite naturally, and is a very clever support to Hernandez. Lecture at the Academy. The Eev.

W. W. Hicks will deliver his lecture for the benefit of tho widow and children of tho Bev. Newton Heslou, lato pastor of the State Street Conerogational Church, at tho Academy of Music, on Thursday evening. Fire Department Ball.

The annual 'oall of fho Fire Department for tho aid of tho Widows' and Qrpbans' Fund, will be given at the Academy of Music on the 4th of February. Gough's Lecttjkf. John B. Gough will repeat bis lecture on "Habit," at tho Academy of Music to night, under the auBpices of the Young Men's Christian Association. Obituary.

The world of letters has sustained a twofold loss in the death of N. P. WiUis, and of Alexander Smith, Secretary of tho University of Edinburgh. Tho former died at a ripe age, and had been so long an invalid, that the public were fully prepared for the evont; but the latter, a man of splendid talents and rising reputation, was cut off at the early age of 37, just as bis genius was ripening. Alexander Smith died Jan.

6, at hia residence, near Edinburgh, aged 37. Of humble origin. hia father having been a designer of patterns ho exhibited such decided marks of intellec'tual power when a school boy that his pareats wisely resolved to fit him foraprofesi sion. Many oi tho ablest preachers of the Church of Scotland have riseu from tbo humblest beginnings wise parents having denied themselves to pay college dues, and reaping afterwards in their old age tho bright returns of seeing their son eminent, comfortably off and beloved by the flock. In Alexander Smith's case' however, his ill health fiustmted their intentions, and be followed for a while bis father's business, as a maker of patterns for alaco factory iu Glascow.

Whilst thus engaged, his th oughts were "fancy free," and resulted in the "Life Dra ma," bis first published poem. This was followed by his "City Poems," tho best known o( all bis works. In private life Mr. Smith was nxaoh be. loved, and his loss will be deeply felt.

A'alhaniel Parker Willis was born In Portland, Jan. 20th, 1807. His father and grandfather were publishers, the latter having been an apprentice in the office with Benjamin Franklin, and a member of the famous Boston Tea Party. His fathor was one of tho founders of tho BoBton Recorder, the first firmly established religious newspaper in tbe country. Nathaniel, whose father and grandfather had both borne the game name, received bis education at the Boston Latin School, the Phillips Academy at Andover and Yalo College, where be graduated at the age or 20.

Mr. Willis was twice married, his first wife being Mary LeigUon State, daugb. ter of an English officer in command of the Boyal Arsenal at Woolwich. He fought a duel with the lato Captain Marjatt, It. the novelist, whom bo bad challenged, but happily no blood was spilt.

Mr. Willis's connection with tbe American Embassy at Paris in early life gajre bim great opportunities of viBiting tho chief European cities and forming an intimate acquaintanco wllh their languages and manners. The polish and refinement thus acquired were very mmifest in hi writings. Mr. Willis, as a poet bud a widespread popularity in his earlier days and has still a large number or warm admirers.

But ho wrote for the passing hour, and his poetry, altbouch sometimes very beautiful, does not seem to aim at literary longevity. Mr. Willis bad many Ultimate fiicuds in the circle nf authorehip on both o( tho Atlantic, by whom he will be roxrotted. He died on the anniversary of bis birtb, aged 60. VISIONS IN A DREAM.

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I'ABVlintO KLLIE B. Hall, all of this city. No cards. DIED. A vila On Mondav.

21it inst, wifo of Samuel A. AviJs and dantbler or Wm. T. A.1. The fonertil wip take dace at the bouso of her father, 167 Dufiietd on Wednesday, 23rd inst.

at 1 o'cl )ck I' M. Friends of the familv, nntl lbre of her father in taw, John Aviln, are lefpocttuily invited to attend. Muiinrv On Monday Jantury 21st, af'ora (inpericg ilinejp, A iiTii VR Murviiy. of ttie Pandh of Ka'a cutkiid, County exitrd, Ireland, in the IGlh. year of ni ape.

Iho friends of the family are resppc'ully invited to at nd his funeral, from St. Peter and Paul's Ctmrch, on Weauttday alter noon, at 2 oVock Hendebeon On Mondy, January 21st, Matthew ILkk dfiuson, in ihe 3iat year oi ois ace, 'i he i lends acd relatives of tho fa mily are respectfully invited lo attend the funeral from hit lite residence, Np. 6 Flatbush avenue, on Wednesday afternoon, 2 o'clock. JACKSON In Brooklyn, on Tuesday. January 22nd.

Mart Jake cauc titer ol Uavid aud Margaret iu tho Mh )qbt ff her Th Iriends of tho firrily are raapsctfully invited ty attend the cunoral from the rpr idenee of her paronti. No Carll 6irctt. on Wednedaj, Janunry 'iJf at 3 o'cljck P.M. McCOYThis morninr. the 22.J, of Sirs ElXtN McC'OY.

in theSSth year of her ago. Further notice oi JuncraJ to uiorrow. IIOBFOHB In Brooklyn, on Vonday morning, JaDUary Thomas snn ol Wm. J.nnd Mara 'do'ord, azeJ 1 year. 9 months, and 21 cays.

Tto Mend and re'ativen of tne family are invited to a'(ei)d Ihr icneiai, Irem Bridge street, Brooklyn, on Wet'Ectffy, ICrd its, at 1 o'clock P. M. Vilkox On the 52d inst. limcnT Lincoln, sin of Ticn isS. and T.

Willcox, anod 1 jear aud 6 The fanrral will take placo from residence of Ijm pnitn't. No. 16 DulltTOi street, Brooklyn, at 2 o'clock toimeiicv altcxnocn. ALL LATjHRS OF THE ETiVTEKN and We. tein District arc invi'Rd ti nt e.

i a uu, to beheld ft 22 Com ttreef, TIICIi.iDAV MVK.N 1MJ. Jaimarj 24ih, 1C7, at half p.ist 7 o'clock icTl2 JA.UKS DAY. Prp idnt. liMHbT URN1 JL1 TEMPEBANCE MKETISG TH PLYMOUTH TEUPIJKAN'CE SOCIETV Will be I eld on WEDNP.SDAV, JAM 23D, AT M. IN Pf.YMOUTH OflPItJa.

Addrpte5 will be delivered by Bev. HENKV WAitD Bi KOHEK. Rev. Ir. 8TKYKfc.lt, Ht H.

M. GALLAuBR r.6 ohi rS Sincing by tb) ojTA'iORlO Mr. F. AIULJ ER rUi ft J. ide at tbe Urand Orvjn.

Tbe pahlic are Titfid. JUUUK DKA MKV I I NO AT AN JJ aij urrc! rree.ioff tho BROOK i.lQVOtt VEAl.kRS.held at Mi tST A QUE HALL, on Kridar er infr Ibm, a Jr. Jocn ljanunan in lae coa'r, it i resoiViiu to have a conera. fathering of tbo Liquor Hosier of King CourJy, At tbetime placs, on TUE8 DA EVENING noxt, at 7H clock, to take cteps for obtunin a modideaiion or revision of tbe present Excuo Law. Alt ocrtoas Interested, are requested to attend.

J. LANG ST AFT, Chairman. J. B. Reh.lt, jaW 3f DKM OCB ATIC GK If KK A COMMUTES OF KINGS COUNVY An adjourned meeunc of thm Committee will be he'd at their room No.

37 Kut'n Mieet. Brooklyn, on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT. Jan 32d, at o'clock. By oner of Iho Committee. E.

J. LOW BE Prwidonr Geo G. UimiAH. Bccrotarv. 4t LECTION MJTK'E THK AN A meeting of the of tbe Brooklyn.

Uitb and ocey 1 land Baiboad Company, for the eiecu in of Director aod tbiee Inrectori id Election, will ba held at tbo office of tho Company, comer of tlrtel aod avenue. Hrookljn. on JANUAHY JO. "mincsj motft ioc 12 m. Pull ro.ii one to two M.

jBlVtd OHAf POST, 8rcr. OFFIC S. WANTED SITUATIONS ALL KM ploycrs in want of Kood, captbo cml cerTin'f. of riiliVrrut nation, for ail kindi of ro fc, ProttUt)t nl l'atlich with rU rcf rct.ces from thir ta jtlv.v'. can tiro by far th la (ret etec ion ia i c'U.

A rMMJ'S o''l ftal Hitcd Aii' icy. 15 r. of Jor. Ii mot. vipf nor now a 1y a.l lmtt ot irt varl ivan'.

Viw i Uie) ndd: a vmn; Cr! VUi i jt.i:ih'I fl. tlit. bct fomilioj in fcjc ity j'ti 1 Either will pay Brooklyn, and if private parties are not williDg to run the risk of being refunded for their expenditure in either scheme, the city itself must undertake whichever shall peem to be most feasible. We have no desire to impede in any way the passege of Senator Murphy's bill, providing for bridging the East Kiver. But we are not sure but that the end we have in view would be move quickly accomplished by the passage of an act more general in its character.

We want to connect the two cities. How it shall be done with most convenience to the public is a question on which we desire more light than we now have. Whether the bridge be vested in the city or entrusted to private corporation, is of very grave concern. On principle, we are opposed to entrusting to governments, local or national, anything which can be done by private parties, but the rights of hundreds of thousands of people cannot be safely left at the mercy of any private corporation. The cost of the bridge will be comparatively trifling.

A great public park is a luxury; it is folly to say that a city which can afford to expend millions on a park cannot afford to provide for the first necessity of its existence uninterrupted, safe and speedy communication with New York. Irreparable injury will have been done to Brooklyn if the legislature is suffered to adjourn until authority is given us to assure thoso whose business takes them dally to New York, that the scenes which aie common this winter arruncl the Ferry houses will never be repeated. The Growth ot the Cities. A short time ago we published a statement of the number of buildings erected in tbis city during the year 1SGG. The number of buildings of all descriptions was 2,178.

A similar return buildings erected in New York, during the same period has been published, from which it appears that only 1,670 buildings were erected in our sister city, or 508 nearly twenty five per cent, less than in Brooklyn, Yet it is claimed that the returns show greater activity in building duiing the past year in New York than in any preceding year since 1863. The war checked building enterprise everywhere, yet there has been a steady insrease of dwellings, stores and factories erected in Brooklyn every year. From these returns which are perfectly reliable, being gathered by the Police Department, it is apparent that Brooklyn is growing more rapidly than New York. In New York the lower portion of the city is compactly built up, and unimproved lots within any reasonable distance of the business portion of the ci(y are held at a very high figure. In Brooklyn land is comparatively cheap, within easy access to the ferries and with the advantage of pleasanter and healthier location.

New York has come almost to a stand still in growth, and population, the chief canse of which is the want of some more rapid and convenient means of traveling then the horse railroads furnish. The necessity for railroads worked by steam, Which will bring Harlem, Bloomingdale and Other suburbs of New York, within fifteen or twenty minutes ride of Wall street, ia fully understood, and an earnest effort is being made to induce the Legislature to charter underground Or overground railroads. The opening of a direct and rapid communication between the upper and lower sections of New York, Will turn the tide of population from this city, Jinless we provide similar facilities for travel Una bring the outer sections of Brooklyn within as easy reach as the upper part of New York. J'his fact should be impressed upon our representatives at Albany. Aa soQn Qg New York lailroads, underground or overground, on which cars are propelhd by Steam, Brooklyn iiust have them alBo, or our mateiial interests V1 suiter by the tntn of population in another J'rection.

I The Geeene Avenue Eaxl. od Again Tho Greene avenue Railroad is a ii source of trouble to all concerned. The Co urts bavin" disposed of the question, it comes up again in the Common Council, a rather unpleasant Shape. A rumoris afloat that a member of the last Board of Aldermen intimated to.