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may be in his dealings with others, we are al THREE CARDINALS. miRs. KESSEL ELECTED. The ConotjT; Canvnauoro Decide In his 'Favor. yesterday, and chief among.

them all lay the one curiosity of the two hundred the child who laughs. jThis is a veritable baby, a flesh and blood boy who laughs all 'ths time. Ho was born with grin on his face and cultivates that grin assiduously even among the squallers of Midget Hall. What he must think of his neighbors it is not hard to conjeo has been a factor of disoase and poison of the most malignant typej These facts were established by relays of Naval Watchmen set by and reporting to Captain Ramsay, of the Ordinanoe Department of the Yard here, and by Medical Inspectors who were on duty of observation for weeks. To their evidence and note books no rejoinder evidence was put in by Shea at all.

Ho does TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27. 1877. A Lively Meeting of the Twentieth' Ward AsBooiation, serve through the year 1878, whose duty It shall be to oirefully rerue ttie roll book. and report to the. Association tho names of persona who are Democrats, or are minors, or arc deceased, or havo removed.

Potter said. tho caucuses which had been held had 'agreed upon a list bt names which were handod The names were read and they wera appointed as the Committee of Ten. They were as follows Armory Hall Canons E. Page, E. 0.

Parkinson, Samuel Shirley, 0. Barrow and Edward Ham, Chapel Caucus C. H. E. Smith, H.

B. Evarts, C. R. Vrooman, Henderson Benedict and Cleveland. The Secrotary and Assistant Secretary ware added to tho Committee, THE PBTMABY.

The Chairman called attention to the ticket whioh had boon nominated for tho primary. Ho. road it as follows President Daniel W. Northup. First Vice President John A.

Nicholls. Second Vice President M. S. Eorrlgsn, Jr. Beoretary James W.

Monk. Aasistant Secretary Clarence A. Barrow. Treasurer Robert D. Benediot.

Delegates to Goneral Commlttee W. Goodrich, W. W. 8tephensori, E. C.

Parkinson, John 8herry, 8r. Invostlgatlug Committee E. F. Page, George Covert, Wm. Ferris.

Inspectors of Elections IP. '8. Wright, I. M. Bon.

Executive Committee F. A. Von Iderstine, James Fay, Lewis A. Myers, J. H.

Healey, S. H. Wing, W. R. Byrne, F.

B. Candler, Robert Anderson, Eben Miller. Finance Committee H. Houghtaling, J. A.

Davis, John Frenoh, Z. M. Baoon. Mr. Bon moved that the above tioket be adopted as the ticket of the Association and tbat tho exponas of printing tho tlokets be defrayod by the Association.

Mr, T. C. Cronin protested against the Interference of members ot the General Committee in tho primaries. He had supposed the delegates to the General Committee were the servants of tbe Association instead of its rulers. He did not seo why any gontleman in the General Committee should make a ticket for them.

It had boea doaa by a parson not a resident of tbe ward. He hoped that person would uo longer dictate tho tickof Tbe motion of Mr. Bon waa carried. Messrs. Cronin, Page and Mitchell were appointed the committee to onforce Mr.

Croniu's resolution. Mr. Dave Wilson read a letter from Robert Boardon denying tbat Wilson asked him to vote illegally at the primary. The letter was roforred to tho Counoll of Ton and the meeting adjourned. Howard and rttcClosker What la said, about Them at Boaie Writing from Borne about "Foreign Cardinals," the oorrsspondon: of the London Timet makes the following references to the two English Cardinal and Cardinal MoOloskey Of ono of tho two English Cardinals you know morer than men do here in Borne, He was admitted into tho Sacred College abont two years ago, not wlthoat some1 reluctaoco on' the part of tho Vatican Court, who objected to him as a man wbo had been married, and atlll somewhat mistrusted his late and sudden conronion, and dreadod that trop de tele which at Borne is doomed as ill befitting a ptolato of rank aa an Thar also, strange to say, find fault with Manning utaary aotivlty, and with the froedom with whioh he allows hisnamoto appear In print in review! or msgaairit known for thou eolectio and therefore neutral and" liberal charaotor, risking oompanioiiBhip with suoh divines as tho Dean of Westminster, or with suoh politicians as Gladstone.

The pen, they think, may be as good as the sword to open the world's ovttor. hut when mm has secured the price, when ouo has reached a very high rank in tho world, with the chance of attalnlngtha highest, a mania for scribbling simply ovinoea a disposition to gratify vanity tt the expanse of loftier ambition. This, I repeat, is tho view current abont Dr. Mauning at the Vatican. The Italian party hero Judge him more favorably; they know him to be an Englishman; give him ore lit as being a highly Intelligent, practical man, inclined to aeojmmodate himself to tho spirit of the age and tbe necessities of a difficult situation.

They assert that this disposition to compromise has exposed bim to remohstrancos, annoyances, and even to a rathor pressing invitation to Borne by tho Pontiff, but thsy have no fear that his firmness and franknoss would belle tbomselvco, even in his rnv teroouso with His Holiness. No one here dreams that Cardinal Manning will ever be Peps, nor ia he credited with any ambition in that respect. His aspiration, pooptu hero think, Is merely to bring bis country back into the Catholio fold. Ho is "a Bomanlst, If you ploase, but an Englishman first," and would gladly.re ounce not only tho hope of himself sitting on tbo throne of St. Peter, hut even of over seeing that tbrona restored to ita former earthly authority, If he could only trust to be oblo in hs lifetime to make nood his.

fond prophcoy about celebrating moss in Westminster Abbey. OAHDINAL HOWABD, a member of tbe Duko of Norfolk's family, came hew very young, and was koown as the "hamlaomeet prelate of the ltoman CatliOlio aud Apoatolio Cburoh." Hs was for many years an attendant at tho Vatican as ono of thj Household Mouslgnorl, and bocnine strongly attached to tho person of the Popo, who, for his own part, Bhowed the utmost regard to a soun of the moat illustrious English Bonian Catholic houso. Howard waa apparently less acceptablo to Antonelli and It waa only after the dosth of his Secretary of State that Pins IX. was ablo this year to fulfil the desiro he long harbored in his hoart of bostoiviug the purplo on his young English friend. Cardinal Howard is a right minded, liboral man, of a somewhat retiring disposition, but free handed and charitable, and, I nood hardly add an accomplished gontleman In bis address and behavior.

He has a good library and spends most of his timo in tt. The Italians, among whom ho bos many devoted friends, look upon bim as a thoroughly proctical man, unlikely to oberish any delusions as to th real prospeeta of the tomporal power, and! Convinced that the loss of it will ba cleai1 gain For the Ohurcb. Of OardluBl Cullon, who has been a member of tho Sacred College for cloven years, and 1b now in bis sevonty flfth year, the Italians only know tbat he Is an Irishman, aud in their opinion sure, thereforo, to follow any coiuse rhich can pnt him iuto total contradlotlon with his English ool leaguos for it is a matter of general belief in Rome that antagonism to England is tbe only motive oi Irish action. These people are convluoed that Inland stuck to Borne In tho Sixteenth Century merely bocause England went asunder from it and they take It for granted that Ireland would at once fall into Protestantism, or into no inattor what other heresy, the moment England mado a sign of going baok to tlio Pope, M'OLOBKET, a man, I believe of Irish cxtraotton, bui born, la 1801, at Brooklyn, noar New. York, and Arohbieuop of that awceie, was not long enough here to enable people to form auy estimate of his character.

Ha wot, they say, a cheerful, convivial sort of a man, very much astonished at many thiuigs ha saw, and above all tilings at seeing hiuisolf bore. Largo as the number of partisans of tbe present eiatem may seem, especially among the Italians, and faint and wavering as may appear tho opposition even among the Transalpinos of the highest rank, there Is no doubt tbat the death of Plus happon when It may, will eause a groat shifting of parties and a revulsion oi feeling among many of those who will be called together to appoint hla successor. There is no doubt that if Prinoe Bismarck, now the ruler of European destinies, 6ould tiae such instruments as he possesses in tbo Ostrnta and Austrian Cardinals to Bway tbe deliberations of the Saored College, and if Bohwarson polioy, tbe stronghold of the Vatican, now standing merely on the luurm limbs of a tosty old man, would at once oollapsc, and give way to a now and mors ratioual order of things; for the really obstinate, fanatical and absolutely lucorrigible supporters of tha No Surrender dootrlne, such as De Angells, Faneblanco and Oaterinl, are either dead or made almost entirely harmless through decrepitude aud the varioty or physical and moral oilmauts whioh it brings in its train. SUNDAY EAGLE. ORDER YOUR CARRIER TO LICAVB TUB EAGL1C ON 17 17 KTi inr A AA A A AAA A A YV NN 1) 1) I) IJ BsssS UU tin iidu AS WF.LL AS ON THE OTIIWl DAYS OF THE WliEK.

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38 Fulton at, or.PoJt Oftlosv Box BLJStooklyn andtaw York. NOTICE TO INVESTORS. The following bonds owned by the Long Island Savlna Bank are oflurod for sale. By order of tbe Kiecutlve Committee. M.

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40a 6 FULTON STREET ud 709 URUADWA.Y. N. V. ways molinea to beif eve that ne wutpe mgen "uoW. to us." Itwastbia tion, tioubtiess, wliich iiifluenoeof "3 Martingdale to aooept the oase.

It ia not likely that the hallucination as to Dr. Manning's peacefolness will ever tempt a Brooklyn lawyer to assist him again. But it is questionable 'whether this simple method of adjudicating between client and counsel is not, after all, of benefit to sooiety. The lawyer who for tho sake of a fee will identify himself with a man whom. he.

knows to be vicious must not complain of injustice if ho becomes the victim of the very vice ho is defending. There is something comical in such an abrupt termination of that ideal belief in the purity of one's client, but the reT buke is too often earned, and might be' repeated with good effect hereafter. It wouldj perhaps, cause some slight alloviation in the general view lawyers take of their opponents. Bennett and Flaherty, the pair of exemplary reformers into whose hands Mayor Schroe der and Alderman Shannon committed the Department of City Works, are, we understand, about to make "a olean sweep," that is to say, some of the oldest and most efficient servants of the city are to be removed to make places for jobbing politicians. Such a "sweep" will not surprise those who have been made to understand the true inwardness of the sham reformers who have been masquerading under the public eye but it will serve to increase the volume of light which has recently been shed upon Schroederism and all its belongings? It is eminently proper to have the work of demoralization carried to its logical conclusion.

There is no he so dangerous as a half truth and no political scheme so dangerous as that which has a veneering of respectability. Schroederism, Flahertyism and the isms of like ilk have shed their veneer. They are not dangerouso any more. When the clean sweep is made in the Board of City Works the decent men of Brooklyn, irrespective of party, will have a fair opportunity to show what they think of the enterprise. In this connection it is worth recalling that hitherto no political charge has been allowed to affect the public servants upon whom "these sham reformers have set their hungry eyes.

The Eaglk, when the Democrats were in power, made it clear that there were servants who could not or ought not in justice to the city be dispensed with, and they were The "wicked" Democracy contrived to distinguish between placesjthat were political and offices in which merit alone should be regarded. Matters in this regard have changed for the time being. We have Schroederje new politioal brood to deal with and they are all hungry. The vicissitudes of home life are often as strangely illustrated in the career of unimportant people as in that of those who have filled a great space in the world's vision. Not long ago tho Eagle found a oelebrated prize fighter domiciled in a battered hut on Rock away beach, eking out a soanty existence by rescuing timber from the surf.

Yesterday, our readers were introduced to Felipe Mer cadante, who, having shone for years as a bull fighter and circus performer, is now living as a hermit at Crow Hill. It is possible that the hermit in describing his previous life, is not above the vanity which makes worldlings paint their own achievements in brilliant colors, but after making every abatement there still remains a strong contrast between living in a hole on Crow Hill and fighting with bulls in Madrid, under the admiring eyes of olive oolored beauties and turning flipflaps in "the greatest galaxy of "equestrian stars ever collected for the delectation of a discriminating and appreciative "public." It has become a swearing match about the Huron. The men who built the ship which went to pieces insist that she was built right. The men who put machinery in her twice in the two years she was built the machinery which stopped working insist that it Was Al machinery. The trouble is just this There is no believing anything which the construction fellows and the machine fellows under Robeson say about anything.

They may be telling the truth, but their telling of so many untruths on other questions requires mankind to conclude that when they tell the truth, then the truth is a lie. That thoy not only say things because they are untrue, but things are untrue because they say them. The multiplication table and the golden rule or any axiom of geometry would emerge just as shattered from their adoption as the "Huron herself from that embrace with the rooks. A Congress examination will be necessary before men havo a right to begin to pretend to have competent data on this thing. There can be no question that the average farmer of Long Island, adhering as he does to the elsewhere obsolete belief that a good pebbly soil, thoroughly cemented by sand and emery, is the richest in the world for raising corn and pumpkins, would at any agricultural show; take a premium in the form of a leathern modal.

Reasoning by analogy it is fair to assume from various reports that tho human agriculturist of the Island, more familiarly known as the baby farmer, would unquestionably run him hard for the highest honors. There is soon to be a baby show in New York, at which healthy mothers of healthy children, twins and triplets, will jealously vie with one another, and almost unanimously vote the judges incompetent and prejudiced. To this cheering exhibition it would be worth the while of Dr. Auerbach of Woodsburgh to select from among the baby farms of Quoens County some of the saddest specimens of their nurses' art, and exhibit thom side by side with the chubby youngsters of New York, if only to show what avarice, hoart lessness and neglect can accomplish. There are Indications of a disposition on the part of both Turk and Russian to mako peace.

The Turk has made a good fight and is overpowered. The Russian has sustained losses which foroe him to respect the power of his adversary and is therefore willing to come to terms. It is probable that we shall have one more great struggle in the vicinity of Plevna and then there will be mediation. If the dispatches received this morning from Russian sources are trustworthy, the position of Osman Pasha is hopeless. His army of fifty thousand" men is confronted by one hundred and twenty thousand, and there is no evidence of anyability on the part of Mehemet Ali to raise a relieving force.

It is gratifying to know that whatever quarrels physicians wage over theoretical points, all schools have in them a spirit of practical charity which commands and deserves ad miration. It is particularly pleasant to notice that the old controversy between the allo pathists and the homoeopathists is rapidly resolving itself into an honorable rivalry to contribute the utmost possible to the amolior i ation of suffering on the part of the poor who know that they need car6, and regard with gratitude whoever will give it irrespective of schools. For this reason we commend to the attention of all our readers the contemplated fair in the Academy of Music for the benefit of the Homeopathia Hospital. The man spider, to whom attention was called in the Eaole yesterday, ought to be worked up by some social Darwin. He seems to spread his deceitful net and capture as many unwary human flies as any of his sly and sanguinary prototypes.

There is a manifest propriety, in classing men with the animals whose habits and impulses they carry into society. The snake, the wolf, the fox, the ferret and the hyena are well known in society. Tho spider has not had proper recognition but it is busy among men none the less. It becomes our Police authorities to issue forth now and again and break a few of the webs. Suicide is unquestionably wrong in morals.

It is, perhaps, as great a sin as a human being can commit, but it is not clear that when a woman or a man resolves upon suicide society is bound to prevent the act if it can. This at all events is a question which should receive the attention of debating societies. Almost every day we see fishing tackle and stomach pumps brought into play to force life upon people who are tired of it. Mr. William Vanderbilt must not drive so fast.

There is a man now dying from injuries received under Mr. Vanderbilt's carriage wheel. Mr. VanderbUt is worth $95,000,000 and the sufferer ia very poor, but even Lazarus had riehts. The Board Of County Canvassers met yesterday afternoon.

Sup. Brown stated that the district canvassers and poll olork of the Third Eieotlon District of the Eighteenth Ward were present, and ready to explain why thoy altered the statement of tbe roll originally returned by them. Sup. Eger asked that action on tho matter be postponed until to morrow, as it was very important to act judiciously on tbe return. Snp.

Brown ropliod that he conldn't boo any good reason for doforring action. This Board of County Canvassers met at an expense of $100 per day. Tbey had already spent a great deal of time in counting the votes, ond It was about time to finish up tho business. Sup. Williamson failed to see the propriety of making the motion until they had heard a statement from the distriot canvassers ond poll clerks.

Snp. Clark Bid thoy sdould not bo hasty, as In this matter was involved the election or defoat of a candidate. Ho believed that tho members of tho Board desired that the candidate receiving tho larger numbor of votes should bo declared elected Sup. Moran argued that the Board had nothing whHtover to do with roturus, exempt to oount the vote, and in caso there was a clerical error to send thom back to tbe distriot oanvassors for corrootion. The motion to postpone was loot.

Sup. Williamson moved that tho distriot canvoseors and pol 1 clerks who were present, bo heard. Sup. Stlllweli, the Chairman, decided that tjie motion was out of order, because, under tbo law, (hey had no Tight to summon canvassers or take evidence. It was moved that tbe roiurns as originally made be rooeivod and adopted, Sup.

dark said there was a olear orror in the original return. If the law is such that they cannot hoar statements or take evidence, he would be compelled to voto against bis conscience and what was just. Sup. Sexton insisted that they could not go behind the returns. They rnuat count tbe vote aa it appears on tbo face of tho returns.

They could not niter any decision made by the. district canvassers, though tboy could send the returns back for correotion of clerical errors. Sup. Clark The district canvassers have the right to correct a clerical error, and they arc here now, ready to correct the error, if it is clorloal, to tho boat of their ability. It is tho law to depute a momber of this Board to have olorioal errors corrected by the distriot can vaasers.

You have done so now I desire to hear the report. 8up. Phelps Sup. Brown took that return back to the canvassers and requostod tbem to be present. They are here, aud I think thoy should be heard.

The motion to adopt tho roturnB as entered by the olerk, waB carried by 13 to 8. Tho adaption of tbo return tbo election of Moses Kcssel to tbe office of Charities Commissioner. The original return, whioh was tho one adopted by tho foregoing voto, gives Kcssel 310 and Zoisor 200 votes this return, which was sent baok for tbe correction of a clciloal error, oamo baok corrected by the district canvassers as follows Kissel, 151, a loss of 95 votes, and Zoisor, 182, a loss of 2t voteB. The Bopublican inembars of the Board desired the corroded return to be adopted, whioh would have reduood Kos3el'a majority to 117, with the obances of blotting it out altogether. A corroct3d return from the Sixth Word gives 23 more votes to Keasol and 3 to Zoisor.

BUH0IABY AT M1NKOLA. On Friday night the store of Luke Fleet, at Mineola, was entered by thieves, who stole ready made clothing, boots and shoes, and some drygoods. On Saturday, information raaohed Mr. Fleet that three persons wero selling suoh goods, traveling on foot in the direction of Glen Cove. Several persons started upon their track, including two Constables from Homp stead, and they were overhauled.

Some of tho pursuing party made a demonstration, which alarmed tho thlovos aud tjioy took to tbolr heels. Two of thom escaped. The third was capturod. Ho is a Mr. Fleet identified his goods.

THE ALDERMEN. Stages to Run from Bedford Avenue to Wall Street Ferry. How Iho Boys Enjoyed Themsolvcs on Election Night An Expert's UM Col lector Tanner's First Communication. Tho Tolophone Folos Ordered to be Re moT od A Change at the Truant Home. Badges for the New Fire Commissioners.

A regular weekly meeting of tho Board of Aldermen was held at two o'clock yastorday afternoon, William fl. Ray, Prontdont, in the chair. The minutes of the previous mooting wore read and approvod. DAMAGE DONE ON ELECTION NIGHT. Aid.

Burnet presented a petition from Bush nell Btatinn tbat on election night a mob of hah growu boys and mon In tho neighborhood of Tillary and Gold streets, tore down and burnod a fence Inclosing bis property on Gold stroet, doing dainago to ths amount of $10, whioh amount he asked to havo paid by the city. Boforrod to the Law Committoo. Aid. Griswold presented a petition from Wm. Baker, asking to have roplaced a fonce which was torn down and burned on elootion nigbt.

The fence lnclosei property ou the northeast corner ot North Elliott place and PttrJr avenue. Beferred to the Law Committee, OHANGE OF NiMH. Aid. Donovan presented a petition from owners of property residing on Church stroet, asking that tho naino of that thoroughfare be changed to Ninth street. Beterred to the Commutes on Lands and Plaoos.

FLAGGING FIRST STJiEET. Tho Board of City Works transmitted the following approximate estimate (or flagging sidowalks on tho east side of First street, between Broadway aud South Sixth street: Flagging lent, 25 $910 00 Survejor 6.00 intoreat, two yaiwt, seven por oent 84.44 Assessor's feel, t.ro por oent 5.61 Collector's loos, tiro per oent 6.78 Total S33U7 The estimatos were adopted. THE ANNUAL CONTRACTS. The following wus received from tho Board of Oity Works To the Honorable the Common Council Gentlemen The oontract for printing tbe minutes of your Honorable liody, and also tho oontract for repairing, lighting and extinguishing the public lamp! and furnishing gas therefor and lor tho publio build ingfl, will expire on December 31. Wo would respectfully ask for authority to advertise for proposals for tho abovo mentioned printing, gas, he, for the yoar 1878, in accordance with specifications attached to the contracts for said and work lor tno year 1877.

ItHpcilully, H. W. Slocum, President. Tho request was granted. AN EXrEUT's BILTj.

Tho following was received from tho Corporation Counsol OrrioE of Conror.ATioN Counsel, City Hall, Brooklyn, JVovcmbor Hfi, Ta the Honorable the Common Council Gestlemen I hcrosvith transmit the Anal bill of Sir. Samuel McElroyfor sorvicos us oipoit auriojor and engineor in the case of Klugsloy Keenoy against tho city. Mr. McKlroy's services wero protracted and laborious and bis bill hi moderate. I rucommond its payment.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, William C. DeWitt. Tbo amount of the bill is $5UU. llefericd to tho finance Committee. EXCEEDING THE APPROPRIATION.

The following was received from the Collector of Taxes and Assessments To the Honorable the Common Council: Gentlemsn lhero was included iu the Tax Budget for 1877 ttio sum of for tbe pa.vmout of salarios in tbiB Department, including transferred from the contingent fund, and also the sum oi $3,000 speot flcally appropriated for tbo employment of temporary clerks during the mouths of January and Decouiler of the present year. Investigation shows that tho palsrlcd of tho Department havo been so orrangud during tho yoar, by my predecessor, that bad they been oontiuuod nt the same rato until theSOth of Docomborthoro would bsvo boon a doflclonoy oi several hundred dollars ou the payment of tho rogular force alouo. Ono half of the $3,000 appropriated for tho omployraont of temporary oicrks elioutd ba to our credit now, but is not. 1 ttioroiore respectfully requont that your Honoralilo Body tako tbo necessary stops to provide for the payment of these extra clerks for the month of Doccmbor. Which will require about $150.

Signed James Tankeb, Collector of Taxes and AssuBBtuecfs. Accompanying the above was a resolution, which was adoptod, directing tbe transfer by tlio Controller of tho amount uskod for to salary account ol tho Department ot Collection. 8TBEKT CLEANING OONTBAOTS. Tho Law Committea offored a resolution that tlio Board of City Works bo directed to advertise for pro. possls for cleaning tbo streets in the sevoial wards of the city during the year 1878.

Tho nutter was laid over for one wcok in order that tho Bpeciflcations might be prluted. STAGES. The Law Committee, to whom was roforred tbo petition of Charlt'B J. SandB to run a tine ot stages l'tom Bedford and Lafayette avonues to tbe Will street Perry, reported for adoption the following: Rewired, That this Common Council grants to Charles 3. Sands the right and prlvllogo to ope.rote aud ruj a line of stages, for tbe convoyauco of passengors during week days, along and through tUe following streets and avenues, to wit Commencing at a point upon Bodlord avenue, between Fulton street and Lafayette avenue, through Bedford and Lafayette avenues, and through 8chormorhorn and Clinton streets to tho junction of Fulton aud Clinton streets; al.o from that point through Joralemon and Fur man streets, to the junction of Montogue street, and from thenco to the Wall stroot Porry.

Also from Bohormerhorn street, through Court to Joralemon, to Clinton. This is granted, subject to such rules aud regulations as the Common Council may at any time provide, and upon tbe condition tbat the faro shall not exceed ten cents a passenger, and that the stages shall not be run upon Montague stroot, where tho ptosont line of oabs is established, Ala. Burnot Mr. Chairman, a few weeks ogo permission was granted a gentleman to run a line of cabs from the City Hall to the ferry, and it has so tar mot a want of tha community, and appears to be in a prosperous way. From the experience in that case I think we are Justified in saying it is a public benefit, and a gentleman has made application to run a line of stages to the ferry, aud upon consultation with and agreement between all the parties Interested, it was decided tbat he sbouli Dot interfere with tbe cab route.

We have therefore directed that tbe stages shall run down Clinton and Joralemon streets to the ferry, rather than Montague street. It will benefit the public, those who desire to ride in stages rather than in tbe cars, and will at tun same time be productive of a small revenue to tho city. The resolution was adopted. AIKMAN'B CLAIM. The Law Committee, to whom was referred the claim of A.

H. Aikman for $500 for use of ga regulators, offered a resolution tbat bo be paid $203 iu addition to the sum of $150 already awarded to be paid to bim, Upon his executing a release to the City ot Brooklyn of all claims and demands aud upon his guaranteeing to keep tbe mrlers in repair for throe years from the time they were put in. Adopted, TBS TELEPHONE POLES. Aid. Starling oHered tbe following Wlwreas, Certain parties haveeroctod telegrspb poles in Front, Washington and Water afreets without the consent of this Common Council, therefore, Resolved, That the Board of City Works be directed to notify the party or parties who eroded the same to remove said polei within three days from the psagc of this resolution, and In default of such removal to raze said poles to tha ground and remove the same to some convenient placo of storage.

Aid. Sterling said he had ascertained Ihat tbo poles rere boing erected by a Tolophone Company and he had been informal! by employes In the Board oi Llty Works tbat no authority bad boon given to have the work done. The resolution was adopted. WATCHMAN Or THE TBUANT HOSIE. Aid.

Sterling moved thai Patrick Kelly be appolntel Watchman at the Truant Home in place of Aaron Clark removed, the appointment to date irom Bowiobcr 1. The motion wu carrlod by a viva voce vote and without debate. OmOIAt DADOES. Aid. Fisher offered tbo following Resolved, That the proper officers be and thoy aro hereby directed to procure an official badge for David Williama, President of the Department of Firs and Buildings; Jams Byn and Bernard Gallagher, Commissioners of said Department, at an expoaso not to exceed tho sum of $150 and charge Bame to tbe appropriate account.

aid. Fisher said the Reason for offering the tion was, tha If tbs TrealJent of tbe Dopirtmenl should attempt to get Inside the lines at a fire and was not provided with a badge, he would bo stopped oy tbo policemen, The resolution was adopted by a votA of IJ Id tw i affirmative to five, Aid. Murths, Ounder, GrUwold, er dou and Cottrell, in the negative. Tho Board tben adjourutd. Two Latge Roman Catholio Church Entertainments, The Church, of the Assumption Pair' Fair of St.

Anne's Church. Since Thursday evening last a very successful fair has been held by the ladies of the Church of tho Assumption in the hall corner of Jay and York streets. The hall is handsomely decorated with flags and bunting. Last night the attendance was not very large, but, as it was, the ladies In charge or tbe different tables wore kept busily engaged. Thore arc flvo tables in tho fair, and all of thom are liberally patronized.

Table No. 1 is under tho charge of Mrs. Joseph Gardiner, Miss Leaky, We Misses Nellie and Mamie O'Brien, Miss Minnie Surrey, MIbb Zerega, Miss Eg gord, Madame Oohl, Miss Hetife Mofiride and Miss Jordan. The central object on tbo tible is an oil painting of the Bov. Father William Keegan.

Tho other articles which command attention aro a number of largo bronze, lamps, a crayon picture of the Saviour, two sets of silver, one set, donated by Mrs. Fitzharris, being very beautiful papier maeha table, a msrblo top table, handsome vases, a large assortment of silk handkerchiefs, fiftcon sets of glassware, a walnut bedstead, two suits of boy's clothing, a largo counterpane, a water oolor painting by Miss Mamie O'Brien, a largo number of toilet articles, orders for ooal and wood and a set of furs. One corner of tbo table is devoted to cologne, hair oil and brushes. On taolo No. 2 1b to be found sevorol clusters or beautiful wax flowers in glass oases, a handsome gold watch, an embroidered reoeptlon chair, silver ware, a large photograph of Fathor Keegan, a crayon drawing of the Sacred Heart, a very targe doll dressed in greon silk, and dubbed the Maid of Erin, a large assortment of dolls and an immonse quantity of fancy articles.

The interests of this table are looked after by Mrs. Breslln, Mrs. Collins, Miss McNamara, Miss McQoni glo, Miss Kennedy, Miss Conroy, Mies Byan, Miss Jordan Cliss McQlincoy and Miss Peskie. Table No. 3 is made attractive for tho reason that two of tho best prizes in the fair are to be found there, two checks for $50.

Thore aro also on this table no less than 100 sets of glass toilet articles. Besido the glass ware there are exposed for Bale by chance two sets of silver, a very fine aet of French ohina, a number of large piotures, a large easy chair, a set of laoo ourtainB, wax flowers and fruit, and many other fanoy artioles. Many of tho articles on this table wero donatod by Mr. Qeorgo Nichols. The ladies in ohargo are Mrs.

Nichols, Mrs. Hugh MuLaughllnMlsa M. E. Van Stolen, Miss Nettie McLaughlin, Miss Major, Miss Grace McLaughlin, Miss Susie Van Slclon and Miss Gallagher. Master Harry Niohols, aged seven, looks after the sale of small fancy articles.

Table No. 4 is under the supervision of Mrs. William MoLaughtin, Mrs. P. H.

Murray, Miss Kate Groan, iliss Farrell, Miss Curran, Miss Mary Doberty, MIbb Susie Green, Maggie Bond and Miss Lynan. Onlnis table is tSe "most attractive feature of the fair, a statue of the Madonna six feet in height, The other articles olalming attention arc soven boxes of Htgplns' soap, three boxes of prepared flour, a large oil painting, orders for several tons of coal, a barrel of flour, silverware, vases and other fancy articles. Tho Refreshment Tablo bos been well patronized, and very pretty display of large cakes and oonfec tions is made. The table is under the charge of Mrs. MoDermott, Miss Annie McKeercr and Miss McMillan.

Tbo fair will remain opeu until Saturday evening, and evory night a oonoert will be givon by Professor Nolan's band. tst. Anne's Fair. Last night, iu tho basernent of the church edifice, corner of Gold and Front stroets, the ladles of St. Anne's Church oponed a fair.

Tho large room was literally packed, and at no tlino during the evening were there less than six hundred porsons present. Tho ladies made a fine display, and tho number of useful and ornamental artioles exposed for sale is Tory large. Ae is always the oaae in fairs, the costlier articles will be sold by chance, while small fanoy articles ore sold outright. To add to tbe attractions of the fair, every ovening during tho two weeks that the fair will remain open olthor musical or dramatic entertainments will bs given by professionals. Tho fair proper closes at 9 P.

and then the entertainment is commenced. The hall was beautifully draped with handsome flags, sweet music was discoursed by a large orcheBtra, and if the ladles continue to do as well as they did last ovening theirs will be ono of tho most successful cburoh fairs over bold in this oity. Each tabic is manned by a bovy of pretty girls, and tbolr faces, baoked by glib tongues, did much toward omptylng the pockot books of those wbo visited the fair. St, Anne's Fair Journal, a small sheet which gives much attention to tho Buasian Turklah war, is published by the ladles. Upon entering tbe hall, tho first tabic met is known as the Sodality Table.

Hore arc small fancy articlox in abundance, and the ladles la charge of the table were kept busy during the evoning. Tho most prominent Articles on the table are a number of oil palutings, a large piotura of the Blessed Virgin, picturos of Cardinal McCloskey and Bishop Loughlin, three sets of valuable furs, a handsome sliver pitcher, and a lady's working table. Tho table Is under tho charge of Miss M. Halloran, Miss M. Dougherty, Miss A.

Kenny, Miss K. Moriarty, Miss M. Hayes and Mies E. Goodman, Table No. 2, is looked after by MIbs Connelly, tho Misses Fitzpatrick, Miss Ackley and Miss Julia Dris coll.

On this table are a number of silver casters, several olustors of wax flowers and fruit, a large eaiy chair, a large painting of a pastural soene, called Noonday," several smaller oil paintings, a number of handsome shawls of different patterns, a set of fine jewelry, a set of soa! skin tare, laoo curtains, silverware, and several oases of wine. )Three large oil paintings of religious subjects occupy a prominont place on TaDlo No. 3. There are, beside, on this table ordors for several tons of coal and loads of wood, a barrel of Hour, a number of handsomely bound Bibles, fanoy articles and a largo photograph of Father Smltb, Tho ladies at this table are Miss McCarthy, Mrs. OoUius, Miss Kerwln, Miss Quigley, Mrs.

McKenna, Miss Shells and Mrs. Byrne, Mrs. Guerin, the Misses Gnerln, Miss Archibald, Miss Cooney, Miss O'Donnell and Miss Byan preside over Table No. 4, on which are some of the most costly articles in the fair. In the oontre of the tablo, under a glass case, is a large solid silver fireman's trumpet.

The other articles of value are a large sliver pitcher, a Wheeler Wilson sewing maohlne, a ohest of toa, a large picture of Pope Plus, music boxes, several sets of silver ware, a sot ot flue Bohemian glass ware, a largo wax cross and a large assortment of fancy artioles. Tho School Table Is filled with artioles for juveniles. There are scores of dolls on the tabic, aryiug dolls, sleeping dolls and creeping dolls. Several waRon loudt; of toys also prove attractive. The ladies in charge are Miss M.

Foley, Kennedy, Miss A. Miss E. Dornian, Miss E. Guerin, Miss J. Siiannon and Miss L.

Byan. The Refreshment Table is looked after by tho Mos damesLano, McMcnomy and Dougherty. A largo floral bower, where nosegays aud bouquets aro sold, is made the charge of Miss Gill, MiBS Piummer and.MU8 Lyuch. After the fair closed, a onucort was given by Mr. J.

N. Patterson, Miss Agnes Sheobau, Mr. Gerald O'Hara and Mr. W. S.

Bising. The porformors wore loudly applauded, and all of thom wore compelled to uns.Ter to numorous sncoreS; dotvard (Colored) Orphan Asylum Fair. The orphans' festival and bazar, of the Brooklyn Howard (colored) Orphan Asylum, was openod laet evening in the upper portion of the Lyceum, in Washington stroot noar Conoord. Thero was very fair attendance present, and the tables wero well patronized by all. The different tables wore ranged round the sides of the hall, and were festooned over with flags and streamers, while tho hall itself was tastily decorated in a similar manner, A handsome bower of evergreen graced the centre of the floor, and round this the truce ta promenaded.

There were iu all eight tables. Tho first was tbo dry goods stall, over' which Mrs. Jacob Eato presided; she was assisted by two young ladies. The noxt was also a dry goods stall, but not home mado goods, Mrs. L.

Cooper aud two young ladies had charge of it. Miss Maria Ellis, assisted by another lady.bttd charge of Table No. 8, on whioh was displayed a quantity of fanoy crockery, and which attracted considerable attention and many purchasers. No. 4 was tho fancy goods table, and was In chsrge of Mils Qertruda Coopsr.

The next table was in obarge of Miss Han nob Spearer, who bad a quantity of fancy articles for sale. The confectionery and rrult table was presided ovor by Mrs. E. A. Taylor, and Mrs.

Mary Jackson( with two other ladles, sold excellent ice cream at the adjoining stall. Miss Butb Baynard bad charge of the supper table, which was at the extreme end of the hall, aod was largely patronizod. Miss Baynard had throe or four able assistants. There was a post office department in one corner of the hall, and the younger visitors found plonty of fun in transmitting letters and messages. During the ovenlog the members of tho Young Men's Literary Association, of which Mr.

Walter L. Livingston is tho President, sang some glees, quartets and ohorusoB, and were loudly applauded. The officers of tho fair aro Mrs. Sylvania B. Thompson, President, and Mrs.

Isabella Poterson, Mre. M. AugUBta Johnson, Mrs. Ann Gladeator, Mrs. 6.

D. Williams, Mrs. Margaret E. Payne, Mrs. Anna Bers, M1b Fannie Meadow and the Bev.

W. F. Johuson aro the Vice Presidents; Miss Paulino Phlllls, Boorotary; Miss Susie Payne, Assistant Socrotary; Mrs. E. A.

Taylor, Treasurer; Mrs. Hannah Thompson, Aislstaut Treasurer. The. Managing Committee consists of Mrs. Mary Jackaon, Mrs.

Mary 8cudder, Mr. Lorenzo Pjyne, MrB. Mary Ellis, Mr. Robert Wilson, Miss Hunt, Mrs. Charlotte Knowlos, Mrs.

L. A. Cojper, Mrs. Michael Peterson, Mrs. Jacob Eato, MIbs Fannie Dartrls, Mrs.

Henry Smith, Mrs. A. V. Turptn and Mr. W.

L. Ryerion. The Advisory Committee consists ontirely of ministers, whose names aro as follows A. N. Freeman, J.

Thomas, W. T. Dixon, B. Whooler, Joseph Francis, B. N.

JohnBon, Mr. Rogers, H. H. Garnett, D. C.

T. Sbephard, B. L. Porry, W. Dickson, Jacob R.

Thomas. Among those present wero the Misse9 Powoll, Fowler and Cooper, Miss Julia Bayles, Miss Ruth Baynard, Mr. S. Lyons, Mr. J.

Bolden, MIbs Hannah Sparrow, Mr. W. L. Byorson, Miss S. J.

8tovens, Mr. and Mrs. Turpin, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Miss Georgians Eato, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Livingston, Miss Miranda Kemp, Miss Annlo A. Hanson, Miss M. Saunders, Miss V. Stokeley, Mr.

Bobert Wllfon, Mr. Richard Maze, Mr. Michael C. Thompson, Mies i B. Stansbury, Mrs.

M. Ellis, Mrs. Dorsey, Mrs. B. Wilson, Mr.

and Mrs. P. Moore and many others. The fair continues until Friday ovening. To night MIbs Thomaslna Hamilton will give a select reading to morrow the Young Ladies' Tent of Brooklyn will give an entertainment, and on Thursday there will be ainging and caliatheruc exerclsea by tha orphans, who will be served with dinner at two o'clock, Qu Friday there will he music, singing and addresses.

THE EMERALD S0GIETV. The annual meeting of the Emerald Society for the election of officers will bo held to nigbt in the Halsey Buildings, on Fulton etreet. The 8oclety will also take action concerning the death of Mr. Thomas Borke, one of its former presidnts. Mr.

Borka died this morning at 263 Clermont avenue, Hs was thirty five years ot age. He leaves a wife, but no children. The funeral will take place on Thur aday morning, from the Church of tho Kacrod Heart, qa Clermont arena. Ttal Paper litis tnc g.nrtrcst circulru lon of any Evening jPapor rubllslied in (be United states, its value as an Advertising OTctltwiu in tliereiore apparent. Tlie four ot It.

It dies liard in disgraceful cause does the Republican remnant in the United States Senate. Its lendors, Messrs. Conklmg and Edmunds, sink the sanctity and dignity of their Senatorships into tactics which would disbar the counsel for a mule thief in a negro justice's court on the fringes of Arkansas. All day and all night struggling against the inevitable, they have put themselves on the wrong side of decency, on the wrong side of the public composure and welfare and on the wrong side of the principle of representation and majority rule. Those phases of their action have been made sufficiently clear with sufficient frequency to the country.

How thoroughly the Republican party is put by this action on the wrong side of any opportunity it might have, or wish, in the future is well worthy of public attention. It is or should be plain to everybody that except by a conciliatory policy that organization has no future in this land. It is, or should be, plaiu that its whole course in iu addition to being crime, was a moBt stupendous blunder. Instead of recognizing that fact and trying to Nationalize itself, which is the word and work Mr. Evarts would have it address itself to, the party chiefs in tho Senate are seeking to prolong the first, last and worst results of reconstruction government not based upon consent by placing Corbin and Kellogg in the Senate, so that having been the plunderers of the liberties of two States for twelve years, they may be tho traducers and def rimers.

of thorn in the Capitol for six years more. AU this is sought to retain a majority which cannot be maintained evdn if thoy are admitted, and which in any event is bouud to pass from the minority party in a few months' beyond any prevention or contrary possibility. "While this unworthy spectacle iB going on, the South having become "solid" heretofore has such an inducement to remain so as a people never had before. The mere presence of Kellogg in tho Senate with Corbin would be such an advertisement to the South of her victimization and such an evidence to her of the "good faith" and humanity of tho Republican party as would make it impossible to render any county below tho Potomac Republican, for as long as that nnme is in use as a political designation among men. There must be some Republicans who perceive this but none of them have shown that they are included among the Senators of that party who have been promoting this long seige in the Chamber of States.

Nor is tho North any more favorable to this narrowing hate policy than the South, the sufferer by it, is. The prolongation of their sectional questions destroys the prosperity of tho United Stales. It prevents either party from proposing helpful to the industries and interests of the people. What a spectacle is prtsentod from day to day The Senate is debating whether to admit to its number men who are nnflt to bo at large, and who were never elected, or men who were chosen by the Legislatures of their States, and who represent the' character, deoency and culture of their people. The delay to admit the rightful men is made in tho interest of the adventurers whose names have become a stench round the world.

It is the united Republicanism of the Senate which is advooating these men and which is retarding Congress from doing anything for tho welfare of tho people who are suffering, to a degree and in circumstances not now predicate of any other people. AU this, that the beaten Republican party may hold on for a fow mouths more to an ascendancy which the people deliberately ordered them to relinquish. In the North, West and South, the anomalous news conies: The crops were never better, and men and women are starving there is a noticeable increase of business activity, an increase of orders is registered ou all sides, and men and women are starving. It is so in these cities. There never was a time when so many persons were soliciting oharity or when the official almoners of relief wore pressed by such large numbers of porsons.

A railroad ride of a hundred miles in any direction will take one through fields which have yielded full aupplies, through cities which are busy with the hum of workand trado, by rivers that are white unto the harvest of commerce. Yet at every ten miles the evidence will be forced on the traveler, that whole branches of trade have been thrown out of work, that whole classes of artisans or skilled laborers have been alienated from employers and that many thousands of families are wanting bread and wauting the means to earn it. Anomalies like these never confronted another people. Prosperity and starvation nowhere else ever before went tandem. Nature and God have done more for us than for any other people.

The fathers bequeathed us a govarnmout, of which the honest business administration brought peace and plenty for sixty years. Now for days and nights the Senate has been busying itself to see if a longer life of six years can be voted to that incident of reconstruction misrepresentation which has perverted this government, divided this people and made famine iu tho midst of abundance for long years past. It is to this end that the Republican organization has committed itself. It is this situation the Republican Administration witnesses, could end, and does protract. The appjal which was once capable of being made to tho better elements of the Republican organization, has now to bo made against that organization as a whole, and to the people outside of it.

The only way to end misrepresentation and abolish the abnormalities of the public situation is to destroy the Republican party root and branch. It stands in the way of all and any full prosperity. It ended any purpose it was meant for years ago. It was fairly outvoted and ordered down. It accomplished fraud to stay in a little longer.

The malign, but retributive results of that fraud are evident in the debasement of the party organization to its meanest uses, on behalf of the meanost men, and in the very incapability of a people with a lie for an Administration from taking advantage even of the benefits nature grows for them and which their own activity on laud and sea briiiRS to. their feet. Republicans recognize nothing so lion Republican as tho Republicanism they are asked to support and which ia now at such foil work iu Washington. They have left that party in hundreds of thousands. It is requisite to the national prosperity that the organization as a whole be abated and that on this issue of misrepresentation, through the per petuatiom of carpetbaggery, it be not only beaten but that its power to continue itself be forever destroyed.

A New Ieparture Where was Needed. The contract with Shea to remove the garbage, the dead animals, the offal and the Might soil has been ordered to bo annulled on and from after next December 31. This was done yesterday by the Joint Hoards of Health tmd City Work6 which by law have the making, supervision and unmaking of such contracts. Tho vote stood For Shea, James Jourdan, of the Police Board and ex officio of the Health Board; Henry W. Slocum, of the Board of City Works 2 Against Shea, James Crane, M.

President of the Health Board and the Health Officer; William Ray, President of the Common Council and ex officio member of the Health Board; John W. Flaherty and George C. Bennett, members of the Board of City Works 4. The contract wBs made in and for it Shea receives $22,750 a year. The evidence showed that the collecting work was not properly done, and that the deporting work was hardly pretendedly done.

It is stipulated that every day the dead animals and offal shall be taken from the offal dock by steam continuous and quick carriage in the interest of the public health being necessary, and that they shall be cargoed in air tight secured boxes. They have been taken at an average of every three days on a sailing vessel in open barrels it sometimes being five hours liefore the craft gets out midstream from tho dock, tho tide beino oont.rnrv This ture. Perhaps even Malthus, could he see thiB little philosopher among so many discon tents, would recant, and ohange his belief that 1 all babies should be suppressed. The show includes many other infants of note, but not one bo desirable as this youngster who grins. But, strange to say, he did not create the sen sation it was expeoted he would.

Mothers did not seem to mind the cries that filled the hall with discord and they paid more attention to tho crimped haired, wax doll looking infanta than thoy gave to the hero of the occasion. Tho absence of all the malo relations of tho infant brigade wbb commented upon and could not be 'accounted for. Some of them must have fathers, but none appeared. Only women were, there to smile I upon the worming, squirming lot of small pugilists who clutched at thin air, when there wore no babies near onough to stick fingers into, and who lay back, in their cradles and howled as only sweet little angels can when mothers are trying to show them off before company. Something Now in lieeal Squabble.

It is noted as poculiar that Shakspeare displayed an unusual familiarity with legal literature, and upon this familiarity is based the belief that he had passed his earlier years in the study of law as it was known in the Elizabethan age. That in that glorious epoch tho legal profession played no such part as it does to day is well known, and the omission of the profession from the seven ages devised by the molancholy Jacques as a summary of human life, would indicate still further that the jurist was not a person of as much importance in the Sixteenth Century as he afterward became. The lawyer exists merely to satisfy a demand. The rapier and pistol of earlier civilization settled disputes which the courts of to day are called upon to adjust, and hence the lawyer was not as powerful a factor in society, either numerically or in influence, as he has since become. Litigious ness is always an accompaniment of the highest form of oivilization.

It is the alternative channel of violence, and the outlet of passion whioh formerly found its current in the duello. The Athenians who represented the flower of Grecian civilization were noted for their litigiousness. Their proneness to squabbling pro forma in the courts supplied to the keen and buoyant humor of Aristophanes many a theme for comic writing, and his exuberant pen has doubtless furnished for the present generation more than one model of the legal practitioner. The characteristic of American oivilization is clearly identical with that of the Athenians, and from this grow complications of legal relation which ave entertaining and often times instructive. Tho pleader occupies a sort of intermediary relation between tho law and the offender.

He is, for the time being, the mouthpiece of tho defendant, privileged to express his opinions and belief as though speaking for tho do fondant. At the same time he is the servant and functionary of the Court. His relations are numerous. To the Judge he is respectful as to the incarnation of ideal justice to the jury he is diplomatic, as to the influential element of emotion, the human weakness of justice to the witnesses he is a vigilant persecutor or friendly conductor, as the case may be to opposing counsel he is the bitter and vindictive enemy, ready to shatter his case, to demolish his law, to ridicule his rhetoric. This quadruple relation may bo still further enlarged by including his bearing toward his client.

Usually tho latter is but a dummy and he the operator, but occasionally the identity of interest ceases, and this it is which provokes thiB article. It is a modern improvement, a further evidenoe of the complicating influence whioh American socioty exerts upon the staid and hitherto immutable customs of bar and The disturbance of the relation between counselor and judge used to be a very oommon thing in the days gone by. Curran was a constant offender in this regard. He was constantly treading on somebody's toes neither bench nor bar was safe from his stinging sneer, nor from his sharp rebuko, when anything went wrong. Very soon after his admission to the bar ho found himself embroiled with Judge Robinson.

That unworthy Justice rendered a decision to which Curran objected, with the remark that he had never found the point of law involved laid down in any book in his library. "That may "be, sir," said the Judge, "but I suspect that your library is very small." Curran retorted that his shelf was not disgraced by any such rank absurdities that their authors were "ashamed own them," and that ho "found it more instructive to study good works than "to compose bad ones" a hit which went home. "Sir," exclaimed the Judge angrily, "you forget tho respect you owe to the dig "nityof the judicial character. "Dignity," retorted Curran, "Allow me, my Lord, to instruct you on that point from an authority "with which you may not be unacquainted," and he proceeded to quote from "Rod "erick Randon," applying the moral with killiug effect. you say another word "I'll commit you," said the Judge angrily.

Curran replied still more hotly "If your "Lordship shall do so, we shall both have the consolation of reflecting that I am not the worst thing your Lordship has committed." This sort of encounter between bar and bench is not common, it must be admittod, in American courts wherein the dignity of the bench is not trespassed upon. However, the annals of the bench are not free from them. There is a story of a famous Attorney General who had been listening with some impatience to the long winded decision of a judgo, until his discretion gave way, and at the fourth remark: "I rule," he exclaiuied "You rule! "You wore never fit for anything but a copy "book." Of the encounters between opposing counsel, nobody who has passed any time in our own courts but can furnish a number of sharp contests from his own experience. In dueling days these argumenta ad liominem frequently involved the use of the pistol. It was on such an ocoasion that Curran made his famous remark to an opponent in the fiold of honor, who complained that he offered a much larger target for a pistol than did Curran, who was very small in stature.

"Very well," said Outran, "You chalk "off the size of my person on yours, "and all that goes outside of the mark shall not count." Indeed, it appears to be the correct thing for opposing counsel to fire into ono another whenever opportunity offers. In contests between lawyer and witness tho popular drama and the newspaper paragrapher abounds. Mr. Boucicault and other bright writers know the detestation in which the counselor is held by the witness, a detestation which is too well justified by the bullying tone he adopts in general to confuse the witness. A sharp retort at the lawyer's expense in the play always brings down the house, and a passage at arms of this kind, properly arranged, has been known to savo an otherwise tedious and execrable piece, like Colonel Sellers." As between counselor and jury there is, of course, less chance of hostility, although a quick tempered lawyer may easily be led into the expression of a cynioal opinion of its intelligence.

Indeed it is not unlikely that many of the popular conceptions of a jury are derived from some suoh outburst of forensic disgust as that which compares the absolute uncertainty of a verdict with that of matrimonial happiness or the jump of a Ilea. But the entente cordiale between counselor and client has usually remained undisturbed, and a rupture between them is bo rare as to merit especial reference. Such a case occurred a day or two since in the disturbance, of friendly relations between one Dr. Manning of this city and his lawyer, General Mar tingdale. The General had been retained by the druggist to conduct His suit against his (Manning's) brother, and the management of the case not giving to the client the full satisfaction that it should have done, the enraged victim, as he calls himself, of legal malpractice attempted to adjust it to his own ideas by shooting his lawyer.

It now appears that Dr. Manning had once before made a similar attempt npon the life of our esteemed fellow citizen, Judge Morris. It may suprise the reader that any lawyer, knowing the disposition of such a client, would be willing to tako the risk, but we have tho auhorisiu that "However disingenuous a man Honest John French Pleading for Fair Primaries A. Wrangle Over Republic cans yi ho. Toted for Democrats The Coming Primary, etc.

A regular meeting of tho Twentieth Ward Republican Association was held lut evening in the Chapel, No. 266 Cumberland street. The hall was well Oiled, about three hundred persona being present, among whom were City Treasurer William Mayo Little, Alderman John French, Iaadoio Bon, Timothy C. Cronln and other prominent members. In tbe absence of tho Chairman the mooting was oallod to order by E.

O. Parkinson, and on his motion Mr. John A. Nicholls, the Vice Preuident, took tho chair. Major F.

B. BissoU, the Assistant Secretary, kept the official record of the meeting. Tho minutes were dispensed with. A QUESTION OF FUNDS. Captain Parkinson said he desired to bring up tho matter of tho expense of distributing the oards before election, in order to get ont the Bepublioan voto for registration.

He moved that the Secretary get the bills to bo acted npon by the Association at tho next meeting. Tho motion was oerrled, Mr. E.F. Page said that no expense was attached to the distribution of the oards In the First District, excepting what ho had paid himself. Young Mr.

Cronin wanted to know whether tho present Finance Committee bad to raise tho moner Captain Parkinson did not Boa how the present Finance Committee could havo anything lo do with it. Mr. Fay said thore was no expense for distributing the cards ia the Sixth District, for he had done the work himself with the aid of a friend. Captain Parkinson said the only object of bis motion was to find one the names of those to whom tho Association owed money that the might be paid. HONEST JOHN'S HONEST RESOLUTIONS.

Alderman Frenoh said he wished to offer for adoption by tho Association seme preambles and resolutions, wblcb were read as follows Whereas, The Wise Patriots of 1770, after long suffering and oppression, declared in tho Magna Charta of Amcrloan liborty, lu such thunder tones the reverberation of whioh Is still heard by all tho nations of tbe earth, "That all men are created equal that they are endowed by.thelr Creator with certain inalienable rights;" and Whereas, The Constitution of the United States declares that "AU persons born or naturalized in tho United States and aubjeot to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," and "The right of citizons of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude:" and Whereas, The Constitution of the State of New York, Artlole Seotlou prescribes the qualifications and privileges of over male citizen twenty one years of ago as to his right to rote; and Whereat, For the purpose of oarrylng out the great and responsible privileges and duties conferred upon us ward associations have been instituted, with rules and regulations for their government, primaries are called and held under authority of the General Goni mlttte, to ascertain by ballot from the members of soli word associations wbo may fill the important offices of ward, city, county. State and nation, so far as it is in their power to determine; and Whereat, The purity of said ballot ia of the very utmost importance, for if the foundations of tho primary are laid in fraud we may bid farewell to the elective franchise of the citizens of (he United States and Whereas, It is nported and bellevod that some of the mombera of the Twentieth Ward Republican Association have been guilty of procuring persons to vote who were not entitled to Bald right, thereby in some instances, it is bolieved, nominating or electing persons to fill important offices, who by a fair and honest vote were not nominated or eleotea to said offices therefore, Resolved, That we do most emphatically brand all persons wbo may hereafter Do the means of such fraudulent acts as enemies of good government and unworthy a membership in the Twentieth Ward Bopublican Association, or any other Republican association of this oity. Resolved, That It 1b tho Bftnse of the members of this Association that any member of onr Association who may hrreafter be the means of, or party to, any fraudulent vote cr votes at any of the primaries hold by this Association, upon proof of bis guilt, bo expelled from the Twentieth Word Republican Association of this city, and that the Beoretary of this Association be and be is heroby directed to send the name or names of such party or parties oxpelled to the Republican Gen oral Committee of Kings County, at their first meeting after said expulsion, and request said General Committee to publicly annonnce the action of this Association. HONEST JOHN'B HONEST SPEECH. Alderman Frenoh said: In offering theso row.iuttono I am reminded that tbie is a time of peace and there is an adage which says, "In time of peace prepare for wur." It is a fact that the things charged hare been done here.

Poraons havo booa voted on at primaries, or tbeir names bavo been voted on, who have not been in the city. A man who has been dead over two years was voted on at the lost primary. These thiauB have been done and I proposo to put brand upon it. There may bo rules of the Association oovcring this which are very stringent, but I never heard them read at a publio meeting. At the last primary held in this room there were a large number of parties from the Ninth Ward who tried to vote and if they did nor, the credit does not belong to those who brought them here.

This was not very creditable to the partleB engaged in it. In some of the cases I believe these parties did vote. I'vo been told so. If it is tbe sense of the Association that this should be so then the fraud oannot be got at. I don't say that last year's primary was not fair, but there was a close vote tho majority I believe was not over twenty and there was a possibility that it was wrong.

This thing ought to bo stopped, and I believed tho best time to stop it was now when wo seem to bs on the eve of tho millennium In the politics of the Twentieth Ward. A little contest 1b not objectionable. There oan bo no objection to it. It brings out the sentiment ot tbe party. I presume we shall have a pleasant time to morrow I recommend peace and believe we shall havejieace.

Faint applause. Captain Parkinson seoonded the motion for the adoption of the resolutions. He wished to oall tho attention of the Association that thoy had a bylaw whioh PBOYTDE8 FOB THE PUNISHMENT OF EVEBTTHING uugentlemanly and unrepublloan. It was well, however, that.tho resolutions should pass. He did not sare who tho people were who commit ted the wrong.

Ho believed they wore always sntisHeJ to have their own matters attendod to in tbeir own way. They were competent to take oare of their own interests without any advioe or assletanoa from others. There bad been names improperly voted upon at the primary. One oase was so palpable that it was disgraceful. It was only one oase out of many.

It was uot the desire of tbe Republicans of tbe ward that the thing should be carried any further. They should all put tbolr hands out and stop it. They did not, a minority made a majority but wanted every man to have his rights. He trusted there would not be a dissenting voice in the adoption ot tho resolutions. Mr.

Timothy O. Cronin said ho wis awaro ho might as well ask for an amendment to tbe Soukira'ion of Independence aa to those resolutions, yet how general thoy were. Who were the guilty parties named If any one was guilty, the speaker hoped steps would be taken to bavo bim brought before the Association. He called the attention of the gentlemen who moved and seoonded the reaolutiouB that tbey contained no specific allegations. He asked their consideration of tue matter because he had heard of theso frauds.

It was right and duo to tho Association that while the resolution should pass there should be. an investigation. Aldorman Frenoh I wish to declare a general amnesty for the past, but. I wish horcaftor that there should be no more of it. Captain Parkinson said the person who told him of the fraud was Colonel Stephenson, The guilty person had told htm of it himselt.

Mr. Requa said if there bad bian a flagraDt outrage it was novor too late to punish it. The motion for the adoption of Alderman French's resolutions was carried. WHO "VOTED FOR A T1EMOOBAT. Mr.

Cronin said that in this connection aod in view of what had been statod in thn resolutions adopted, he had prepared a resolution whioh though general iu its terms would be appropriate at this time. It was his intention that no man should be condemned who was innocent, that no wrong should be done and that every man should exercise the rlgut of suffrage as he saw fit. The resolution, Mr. Cronin Bald, levolved a future report as to the facts. It was follows Whereas, It is represented that members of this Ward Association voted for and opsnly supported and advocated tbe election of certain nominees on tho State and local ticket at the last general election, be it therefore Resolved, That the Chair appoint a committee of three to investigate the above representation and report to the Association at the next meeting tho facts and recommend such action as may be deemed proper.

Mr. Potter said that if Bucb a report should be made it would be found that nearly all the Republicans in the ward voted for some Democrat. If that was established tho next course would be what to do If the proposition waa to discipline the gentlemen who votod the Democratio ticket, why shouldn't tbe inquiry Btrotoh further back 1 There were very few people who don't vote for some candidates on the opposite ticket. Mr. Bon apprehended that his friend did not understand the true purport of Mr.

Croniu's resolutions. He didn't suppose tuat Mr, Cronin meant to iin ply that gentlemen MUST SWALLOW THE BEPOBHOAU TICKET from top to bottom. He did not bolieve they could get more than one half of the 1,700 members on the. roll book to say they would voto for no other candidates exoopting those on the Republican tioket. Mr.

Cronin said that be knew that many honest Republicans did not always support all the Republican candidates. He would be tbe las' one to introduce a resolution to infringe upon a mail's riht to vote as be pleased. Mr. John Shorry asked if the resolution referred to any particular candidates. Mr.

Cronin replied that it was general in its nature. Mr. Shorry said had been fighting the Democratio party for the past half century, and bad never deviated from the regular ticket more than two or three times. If the resolution was entertained he would liko to know about tbe result In the Senatorial District two ytaru ago. If they should bring up those who scratched the name of the Bepublioan candidate tben they would find tbeir name was legion.

The resolution would not benefit them in the future. He know of uo other plan excepting to appeal to the Republicans' duty and patriotism. If tbey brought np all tbo persons who have deviated they would find a great work on their bands. There were gentlemen in the Association who had worked and given their money to aid tbe Democratic candidates. That was a notorious fact.

What were they going to do about it? How oould they discipline the offenders 1 AU they could do was appeal to them TO STAND BY THEIR PBINOIPliES. He believed the resolution was impracticable. Captain Parkinson, to illustrate the aotion of ono individual in tbe last compalgn, said that the person he spoke of openly supported a Democratic candidate for a very important offloe. More than that, he expressed bis willingness to contribute 1250 to the expenses of the Domo ratlo candidate. Tbe same gentleman bad given S50 to the Bepublican candidate.

He was a Btaunon, good Bopublloan, but "had a personal friend on the Democratio ticket. The Association could not discipline bim. Mr. Abe DuMott said he knew who the gontloman was who had tried to defeat the Bepublican candidate. He bad supported Democrats before, and two years ago had tried to defeat them in the ward.

At the close of Mr. DuMott'a remarks youthful Mr. Cronin expressed his disapprobation with a most insulting groan. Mr. Bon said the reason why he advocated the resolution was that it might reash a certain evil.

On the rolls of the Association were the names of persons who were only Republicans st the primary eleotions. On election day they could be seen working hard for the Democratic ticket. They could not discipline a member for voting as he uleased, but they could do it when he worked for the Democratic ticket publicly. Mr. Cronin said there were many things in this world) and one was to attempt to control the conscience of any man.

He was in favor of getting at the faots in connection with the resolution. It did not follow that anv one would be punlAed. Bis triend whose hair had grown gray In the service of tbo Republican party spoke of their candidate for Senator who had been defeated two years before. That candidate had received the usual majority in the ward. His point was that THERE WOULD BE AN INVESTIGATION.

The explanations might be satisfactory. He did not behove tbat any gentleman was his equal wbo came there and enjoyed the benefits of the Association and then went to the polls and voted and worked for the Democratic candidate. Ho denied the right of any member of the Association to openly advocate the cause of any Democratic nominee. Such a man had no right In the Association, and the speaker would not stay ia the Association with him. Mr.

Sherry felt it was the duty cf members to vote the Bepublican ticket all the way through, Mr. Covert wanted to know if there wasn't something in the bylaws on the aubjeotT The Chair said that there waa a tradition that the Association onca bad some bylaws, but no ano bad ever seen them excepting the most venerable members. The resolution of Mr. Cronin was adopted. Mr Potter offered the following in behalf of all the parses in the Association Revived, Ih; a committee, of ten be appointed to not seem to have been summarily dealt with, for last year he was brought before the Joint Boards and notified that he must fulfill his contract or it would be taken from him.

For nine weeks past this matter has been pending, too, and he made no sign of defense or improvement. General Slocum in voting for Shea, however, took tho ground that the former Health Board had known and cane tioned his violation of his contracts and that it should be the one punished, not Shea. The four who voted to annul the contract voted on the facts just as they were. General Slocum and Dr. Crane have been made a Committee to agree on a plan for proposals to bo advertised for, for a new arrangement, after they have been considered by the joint Boards.

Dr. Crane is said to believe that the work cannot be combined, and should be separated. He is in favor of dividing it up into at least three heads and hands, so as to exact a greater responsibility. It is stated that he thinks the dead animal and offal removal a work for which a royalty should be paid the city that he would give it to the highest bidder, to the man who will pay the most for it to the city. i The night soil and the garbage work ho would also separato and he would divide the city by wards or districts and hold a body of men col lectively and personally responsible.

He is said to be of the opinion that on the former work 20 per cent, can be saved, and that by dividing all the work an exemplary discharge of it can bo socured. It is but fair to say that he inherits into these practical convictions from the even larger and harder fight he had in the old Metropolitan Board with Frank Swift, whom he then beat tho same as Shea has been beaten hore. That General Slocum and Dr. Crane will be able to agree on a plan which will save money, effect the work and dopoliticalize this long festering and feculent service is most earnestly to be hoped. The open advertisement for proposals and the division of tho work mark a right beginning in a right direotlon.

That no defense was mado and that any effort to make any was confidently omitted argued a reliance upon a tie vote, whether or not, which would have continued the present state of things. The reliance was misplaced and the public has a chance to get bettor service and not squander its money. Tbe New Jail Project. Major eloct Howell is at present Supervisor at Large. In his letter accepting the Mayoralty nomination, Mr.

Howell stated, with gi'eat emphasis, that, in his judgment not a dollar should be added to tho publio debt of Brooklyn, for any new project, oxcept under the most imperative necessity. Mr. Howell, as Supervisor at Large, has now before him the resolutions adopted by the Board of Supervisors, through whioh $300,000 is to be expended, under plans accepted by the Board, in erecting a new jail. If Mr. Howoll should write under the resolutions that he disapproved of them, they will have no force or effect, and the question of furnishing additional jail accommodation can be takon up de nova.

We are well aware that Republican jobbers in the Board of Supervisors and outside of it were earnest advocates of a new jail until the control of its construction was taken out of the hands of their favorites, and we know that the Municipal Building ring and its allies are now opposed to the building of the jail chiefly because they will not be able to boss the job. We have no respect whatever for theso schemers or for their opposition. Some fow fussy and officious busy bodies, who contrive to attract an attention as representative taxpayers, which as individuals they could never obtain, have obtruded themselves on public notice as opponents of doing anything whatever with the jail, on the ground that we have jail accommodation enough, or that, if we have not, we can make it by sending short term prisoners and minor offenders to the Penitentiary. The present Jail is inadequate it is and has been for years indecently over crowded. Sending prisoners to the Penitentiary will not afford tho remedy required.

The Penitentiary is now approaching the point of being self sustaining. Its organization as effective as any in the State would be demoralized by sending short term prisoners to the institution. It is not the place for them, and if it were otherwiso we would have, in the event of making this change, to spend the cost of a new jail iu enlarging the Penitentiary. When all this is said and admitted, we believe still it is the duty of Mr. Howell to veto the action of the Board of Supervisors, because it comes within the restriction Mr.

Howell has laid down for his aotion. We do not need a jail that will cost $300,000. We are satisfied that the plana adopted cannot be carried out at a cost of $300,000. We need an addition to the Jail, and the additional building required can be put up on the ground recontly purchased by the county, and the new building oan be constructed with au especial view to the incarceration of minor offenders, such as drunkards, etc. The new building should include workshops, in which the prisoners can bo made to help earn the cost of their maintenance.

It should be under tho direct control of the Board Supervisors, and under the charge of a Sin rintendent, as' the County Jail itsolf was some years ago for a short time, and when the cost of its maintenance ran down to about a third of what our Sheriffs have exacted from the public treasury for its support. Such a building need not cost more than one hundrod thousand dollars. At all events the taxpayers are not willing to spend four or five hundred thousand dollars for p. new jail at this time, and so wo think Mr. Howell would give very general satisfaction by votoing tho resolutions in question, as wo know he will if he thinks it ought to be done.

'J'lie Convention ot Bnbloa. Tho National Baby Show in Now York provides the music of the future, and boIvob the question affecting the minds of some worthy pcientists as to what will constitute the chief characteristics of the coming man. Very evident is it that if the two hundred babies ou exhibition at Midget Hall yesterday are any criterion for statisticians, the chief business of coming man will be to yell. The babies of all colors, ages and degrees are alike in this one peculiarity that they can and do cry all the spare time they have, and furthermore that they never upon any occasion cry in a low tone of voice. Like Wagner they believe volumo, and so far as their lungs will inflate do they inflate them.

It is capacity alone that is lacking to make each and every one of the infant army at Midget Hall a great bawler. They do the best they can considering their lungs, and their industry is only equalled by their mothers' indif feronce. Kind hearted and affectionate as some babies are, they cry as do the peevish little dots of humanity who never give up the effort to outcry all creation. The noblest product of American industry is the baby, and those who feel inclined to tost the matter can visit the gallery where the phenomena are on exhibition. The double jointed baby is there, the possible successor of Keely, tho motor man the baby who has an aversion to strangers tho squint eyed one who can only see a small portion of space and howls at it continually the small mouthed cherub and the dainty light weight child who at the age of seventoen months only weighs five and a half pounds, and the fat prodipy who marked the scales at fifteen pounds tho day he appeared in this sphere.

The owl eyed baby is there, the jaw toothed baby, and the apprehensive child who clutches at everything for fear that it will not get anything. Layers and layers of babies were at the show yesterday, and it was a rainy day; to day, and for six more dayR, they will add to their numbers, until for blocks around the hall, their wailings will bo heard. These babies are exhibited for prizes, and every mother among the two hundred expects to win the first one. The babies themselves are less con corned about the prizes than they are about their prerogatives. If their rights are not in vaded, the result of the exhibition is of little concern to them but the business of their 1 lives is not to be interrupted even for a silver breastpin or an enameled locket, i The triplets in the cradle; tho hairless child, the wonder without nails, and the creator prodiav with them, were to bo seen CURRENT EVENTS.

A. larpe frame dwelling house at Clifton, S. occupied by two families, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The Iobs was 10,500, Mr. William H.

Camp, a prominent cilizen of Newark, N. died on Sunday night from injuries received while jumping from a moving train. Antonio Er ico, the Italian accused of the stabbing of Michael Cataccl, in New York, on tho night of Thursday, the 22nd, was arrested last night. The Thanksgiving Jubilee of the Yale Alumni Association is to be hold this evoning at tho Union League Theatre. Tho programme is full of attractive features.

The schooner Frank Jameson, bound to Biohmond, loaded with ico, was wreoked on Smith's Island, below Norfolk, Sunday night. Tho crew of eight men wore all drowned oxcept ono boy. Tho vcstel wont to pieoos. At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Amorloan Home Missionary Sooiety in Now York yesterday, Rev. A.

H. Clapp, D. one of its Secretaries, resignod his office order to reduco expenses of administration. Louis F. Therasson, the alleged New York defaulter, has not yet secured bail.

A lady who was said to have $160,000, in personal property, offered to go on his bond, but tbe offer was decliood by Major Quinoy, at the Sheriffs office. The largest cargo ever taken from New York by one vessel was carried away yesterday by tho steamship Hooper. Tho cargo consisted of 97,010 bushels of oorn, 33,910 of wheat, 13,806 of poas, 1,900 barrelB of flour, 1,700 balo3 of cotton and other merchandise. The case of Dr. Thomas S.

Lambert, the President of the American Popular Life Insurance Company, was called for trial yesterday before Judge Davis in Now York. Dr. Lambert waa unable to appear. Tho caso was adjourned to next Monday. Keyner, the ox Riug plumber, was agaia beforo the New York Aldermanto Investigating Committee yesterday.

He teBtiflod unwillingly regarding tho two assignments which ho mado in 1871 to Jackson B. Schultz. He testlflod also in respect to his books, which ho sal were very bally kept. To day and to morrow about 150 warrants for tho ejectment of strikors will bo grautod iu Now York, Tbe orders for cigars, usually heavy at this season of the year, have fallen off greatly, and ono largo manufacturer in New York yesterday stated that bo had not had an order for a wcok. A number of prominent merchants and bankors of New York recently invited Mr.

John Welab, the newly appointed Minister to England, to a private dinner in that oity. Mr. Welsh declined tho hospitality on the ground that the preparations incident to his early departure would doprlvo him of the pleasure of visiting Now York. Eight thousand three hundred dollars' worth of silk and fringe was stolon from tho bonded warehouse. No.

437 Greenwich street, New York, yesterday morning. One hundred and thirty pioccs were taken, worth $8,000, and the fringe that was takeu was valued at $300. A largo reward is offered for the reoovoty of tho property. It is believed in San Francisco that there will be serious trouble with that portion of tho community opposed to the Chinese unless suitable protection is given tho latter by the authorities. It is known that the Chinese are well armed, and that if the worst comes, they will strike back.

It Is understood that the President has ordered the United States Marshal and Distriot Attorney to place themselves in co operation with troops at Mare Island. It is proposed to effect a union of all the congregations in the Board of Delegates of American Israelites of the Middle and States, and of the United Amorloan Hobrew congregations of the Western and Southern States, and a meeting for that purpose waa held in New York Sunday afternoon last. Tho report of the Committoo was accepted, and in accordance with ita suggestions the administrative functions of the union, it was deoidod, shall be vested in an executive committee of fifteen delegates from each of tho two Associations. William Edelsten, as the counsel for George W. Butt, the koeper of the Bayard Btreot, Now York, livery stable, at which tbe old "stable gang" met, has brought proceedings for the purpose of having Tweed moke an assignment for tho benefit of his creditors, and bo thereupon discharged from custody.

Yesterday iu Supreme Court Chambers, Judge Lawrence granted a oltation lor tho oreditois of Tweed to appear in court on January 24, 1878, in accordance with the act under which tbe presont proceeding are had. Butt olaims to bo a creditor of Tweed's to the amount of over $1,000. Sentences were passed by Judge Townsend, at Columbia, S. yesterday, on Frauds L. Csrdoza, ex TroaBurer of South Carolina, for conspiracy to defraud the State, to two years imprisonment In Jail and $4,000 flue, and one year's imprisonment added if the fine is not paid at the expiration of two yoars.

Robert Smalls, Momber of Congress, for accepting a bribo of $5,000 while Member of the State Senate, to three years' imprisonment at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. L. Cass Carpenter, formerly proprietor of the Columbia Daily Union, for forgery in raising tho amounts for publishing tho laws in his paper, to two years in Jail and $1,000 floe. Appesle will be made in all thceo oases. M.

de Zamacona, who has been appointed by Mexico as a special agent to this oountry, has arrived in New York. He comes to remove, if possible, the misconceptions entertained by the peoplo and Government of the United StatoB, with reference to Moxi co, and he purposes calling attention to tho natural advantages for traffic between Mexico and the United States, so that, by developing commercial relations, a more cordial sentiment may be created, Mextoo, he says, gets her cotton goods from England, and her hardware from England and Germany. This oountry, be claims, Imports fruits from Panama, Porto Blco, and even from Europo, while taking scarcely a basket full trom Mexico. M. de Zamacons represented Mex loo on the Commission of Claims, and served as President of its Centennial Commission.

He was astonished, he said yesterday, at observing at tbe Centennial how many important Amorloan manufacturers were unknown in bis country, and how many Mexican products were equally unknown here. Ex Mayor Oakey Hall lectured in Boston last night. The night was stormy and the audience small. It was expected that his address, which bore the title "What Snail the Yerdlot Be 7" would be a skctoh detailing some of the facts regarding the Bing troubles, but ho made no allusion to that sabject. His lecture was an elaborately wrought allegory, representing a trial in the rotunda of the Parthenon of history, to determine which of tbe Presidents should havo the wreath which Fame had prepared for tho tomb of him who had done most to honor his oountry and his peoplo.

Each of the centuries was mythically represented by a pcraonage, bearing in his person, dress or manner, tbe historical attributes, common to bis epoob. The lecturer described the Parthenon la gorgeous language and the descriptions of the personages introduced as Fame, Time, the Constable and Jury, wero apt and clothed in beautiful language. The ballot of the Jury stood six for Washington and six for Lincoln. The locture waa a scholarly effort. The losses by the storm in Virginia, Maryland and tbe District of Columbia were very great.

At Biohmond the loeBes of p'ivate property amount to nearly $200,000. The waters of tho flood are steadily falling, and it is expected that by to night the streets will be clear. The damage iu Manchester, on the opposite side of the river, will probably reach $100,000. Mayo'B bridge, acrwa tbe James River, was tho only one that succumbed to the flood. All the railroad bridges orojslng tho river at Kiohmond are safe.

The AmherBt bridge, 900 feet in length, noar Lynchburg, was swept away Saturday nigbt, and with it two new iron bridges of tbo Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad below the city, the lattererectod at a cost of $70,000. The telegraph lines are down at Lynchburg, and the particulars of tho damages of the flood are not ascertained. The damage to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by the flood has been considerable. The Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad is badly washed in places between Harper's Ferry and Cumberland. Commanders of several vessels that have arrived in New York report that the storms on the Atlantic during the past week surpass anything in their previous experience.

The hardest gale of the Beaaon began on Friday at Long Branch and continued up to yesterday morning. A conspiracy against the Government of Guatemala and the life of President Barrios was discovered on the iBt and seventeen of the C'jn splratorB were shot on the plaza of the capital. The leaders bad formed an association with secret signs and passwords, composed of a few soldiers and arti zans, and reckoned upon a large discontented clasB for support. It waa not until November 1, the day fixed upun for carrying out the sobeme, that the President and Ministers became aware of the full extent of the danger threatening them, although they had received several warnings that something was on foot. The' confederates, to the number of a hundred were to unite about twelve o'clock at nigrt at the Artillery Barracks, to whioh they were to be admitted by one of their number, where they were to be armed.

A priest, wbo was one of the conspirators, had undertaken to drng the guards at the Presidents house and at the palace. The conspirators were then to gain en trahoe to tho Prosident's residence, and having assaa ainated him and hla" family, to call the ministers by means of the false orders and aasasslnato them likewise. The conspirators were thus to dispose of twenty four of the leading men of tbo administration, and afterward to arm the mob and inaugurate a new government. Fortunately the plan misawted, although, It would appear, by very little..