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found vent in refusing to give a certificate of FAIRS. the contemplation of sauerkraut and the invig orating pastimes of dominoes and sixty six the finds ermui dissipated by dancing CONFESSION. mbtied good deal by being a boy twenty yean ago Wfytt lots of ftth pho conld hare bad with those mechanical toys that are so muehfm. vogue nowadaya I Snt the olden days had thoir compensation. The boys ef the present time don't know anything about a figure 4 trap for the wily woodchuck in the back lot of tue old form.

TAX COLLEOno.Y. Fnnlt Found With tlio Sratem, Is Sovon For Jont. Default Enonsrtl Row Tax Delinquencies Should (so Mot Tax Snlos iTloro Bonds Ad to catea. To the Kditor of the BrcoHyn Eagle: I desire onco more to invite the attention of taxpayers to tha subjsot of interest, or penalty, on tax and assessment arrearages, and as well also to the present systom of lovyiag tho annual tax. Believing, as I do, that no systom of taxation or im WEDNESDAY ETEA'BiQ, DECE3BER IS.

1877. jr i i Tills Paper boa ctic Larffest Circulation of any Evening Paper Published in tue United states, its value as an Advertising Medium is therefore Tasto! Table No. 2 Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Kane, Miss Judd.

FanCx Table No. 3 Miss Long and Miss Horthorne. Fauci Table No. 1 Mrs. Adams, Miss Goin, Mrs.

Nash. Fakov Table No. Mrs. Bergon, Miss Bergon, Miss Studhoff. lost Creak Mr.

Wick, Mr. C. T. Hoagland, ifr. D.

Hoagland and Mr. A. Brower. Lemonade Well Miss Ella Jarvis. Picture Stand Mr.

and Mrs. Payne, and Mrs. Phillips. Picture Gallery Mr, James A. Martin.

Post OraoE Mr. Payno, and Loiter Oarriors, Miss Ida GilL Miss Anna Payne and Mr. Honry Graves. Grocery Store Mr. Hill and Mr.

Bayley. Tha Committeo of Assistance oonslsts of Mr, Wilkinson, Mr. Batoman, Mr. Hazard, Mr. Knox, Mr.

Collins, Mr. Shannock, Mr. J. Wright, Mr. Cooper, Mr.

Street and Mr. Morehead. The Treasurer of the fair is Mies Fannie L. Jarvis. Professor C.

H. Smith and Mr. Cnmmiogs furnished some Quo music during the evening. Tho fair will close on Friday night. CURRENT EVENTS.

holders unablo to pay taxes on property greatly depfeciated in value. To have added twelve per cent, per annum default would have been ruinous, and so it was held that all taxpayers iu arrears should have the privilege of paying up, with a default of seven per cent. only. The law was adcepted.ps a generous experiment. It was the means of materially lessening the burdens of a great many worthy taxpayers, but it would seem that a corporation cannot be generous with safety, and so when it is said "corporations have no souls, only a condition of their existence is charged against them.

Tho law has been re enacted two years in succession as a temporary and we have no doubt it will find advocates for all time on the same ground. Under it, however, no corporation oan hope to collect its taxes with the required promptitude. A large and dangerous floating obligation is rapidly and a return to the old system is now a necessity, or else our looal finances will get into suoh a tangle as will involve, eventually, a ruinous addition to our permanent bonded debt. death, till the Delaine diagonals and treatment had been judicially examined. A oor oner's Jury heard both, doctors testify re spectively for and against blistering.

Then a third testified for blistering. The majority being that Way, the jury made it unanimous, and exonerated tha practitioner of twenty six years. The wonder is that the proverb is reversed, and that where dootors differ jurors can agree. The IiSte Accident. It is not to be supposed that the quality of not hurting people whom they run over can be imparted to looomotives, or even to dunv mies.

It is not to be supposed that the power not to run over people who get in front of them can be imparted to locomotives which are in motion. It is not to be supposed that an immunity from injury can be given to those who will get in front of locomotives in motion. Truisms as primary as these aro apparently necessary to bring out the accident on Atlantic avenue near Grand avenue, into dear light. The un known lady who persisted in crossing the rails against the remonstrance of the switchman and the lad who heroically died, in seeking to restrain her, were sacrificed by thomselves, These are facts and they are facts which the public should bear in mind. The woman action is inexplicable, except on the hypoth esis of her equal helplessness and obstinacy, or on the theory that she was so deaf or dazed or preoccupied as to heed nothing.

On tho contrary, James Donlon's action is completely accountable, and it redounds to his courage and to his nobility of character. He under took to save the woman. He lost his life in the attempt. He died for another, and he put hia lifo to the work and the risk of saving hers. That is all that can be said of heroes of any magnitude or time, and whether they fail or succeed, they aro equally heroes.

To their companionship and to the praise accorded them, young Condon's generous, supremely generous and gallant sacrifice of himself entitles him. There is just one thing which could have prevented this accident, and which can prevent like ones hereafter It is to have gates like those in use at the junction of Yanderbilt and Atlantio avenues, in use at every intersection of the avenue, on the line of the steam road, with the thoroughfares that cross it. We think that any action of the Company or any pressure on the Company to secure' these gates would be right and is eminently in order. The opinion in favor of this security is Bimply unanimous. Catastrophes like these will convert that opinion into indignation, and that indignation will cost the road dear in patronage, if it is aroused and not appeased.

Job ii and 111 ike. It is like the knitting of the soul of Jona than into tho soul of David, to observe the friendship of Mr. John French and Mr. Michael Dady. Aforetime, they were asunder.

The Alderman was regarded by the Building Inspector as a pious fraud. The Binding Inspector was regarded by the Alder man as a "vessel of wrath. The estimate either had of tho other did him an injustice, and it is one in which we pointedly decline to concur. Up through the baser parts of his nature, however, "Mike" was transformed into companionship with his better in ner man. The report goes, that finding that Mr.

French was. a political power (degree not mentioned), "Mike" shrewdly began by pretending to like him, aud ended by really loving him. By a re verso course, the Alderman passed from sin i cere distrust into genuine alteotiou tor tue Inspector. "Mike" owns now that the pretense was all on his side but that now he is con verted to sincerity and loyalty. He concedes that Mr.

French was originally as sincere in his auti Dadyism as he is now in his pro Dadyisui. The union betweon the pair is said to have been irrevocably established at the Twentieth Ward Republican Aldermanio primary, whereiuto Dady imported himself and wherein it was shown that one man from Flushing avenue could vote as often as four men from Clinton avenue and Adelphi street a fact which has mado W. W. Goodrich, Charles C. K.

Smith and others loso themselves in wonder aud suspicion ever since. Be that as it may, Mr. French and Mr. Dady are now arcades ambo, reformers both, and they aro ready to appear as Damon and Pythias be fore any Eepublican General' Committee at a moment's notice. Peter B.

Sweeny paid tho remainder of his $450,000 judgment on Tuesday. He sold some Broadway, Thirty fourth street aud Fifth avenue property, iu conjunction with the Bradley family, for $240,000 cash to Jay Gould, who also assumed a $300,000 mortgage on it. It is sad to see a ring man aud his money so soon parted. That iu his declining years Mr. Sweeny should thus have to strip himself of perhaps one third of that property of the people of New York which was abBorbod into his possession is really saddening if due credit be given to his constant averment to our courts and our public "My brother Jim did it all, and I am nobly protecting his memory by piling on it the acusations which wioked "men have brought against Me." It is said that P.

B. S. contemplates burying himself in the monastic seclusion of Paris. That a head of a department, with plenty of places for plenty of clamorous understrappers, need not fear molestation from the Aldermen of the period was attested, Tuesday, in tho votes of such men as Easton, Phillips, Jennison and others for such a transaction as Jourdan's. It was furfher attested in the opportune subtraction of themselves from the chamber, when the subject came up, of such reformers, at intervals, as Messrs.

Burnett and Murtha. Each person who has chosen to hang together with Jourdan on this thing will not prevent himself from being hanged separately all tho same, when citizens find that their turn has come. Four hundred dollars cannot be counted a large sum of money, but its equivalent in mosquito netting would probably suffice for the Windsor Hotel or the steamship Britannic. Nevertheless, that is the sum said to be spent on mosquito netting by our incorruptible Commissioners of Charities for our presumably little occupied Nursery, since by law that is only a stopping place preliminary to sending the children to other institutions. Tho Supervisors' Supply Committee can hardly make the Commissioners refund the money, but we hope thoy will make them explain about this thing which at present looks more gauzy than the netting itself.

The vote on the Jourdan case does not make the job less. It only makes the jobbers more. Instead of distrusting a few Aldermen now, the public will have to hold all but one of them in contempt. As a means for changing a system which blossoms into such scalla wag results, the event of Tuesday will be helpful. A NICE QUESTION.

Can a Bankrupt Escape Liability for Misapplied I'unili Oliver Titus and Benjamin Hicks were executors of tha estate of Leonard Tappen, late of North Hempstead, IQuooub County. The estate, or rather the testator's widow, aged 85, loses $1,700 br thoir' operations. Hicks ran behind in Lis business and used the money of tho estate. Titus know that he had used it, and stated that he had taken notes to socure it. The notes would not have been worth'anjrlhlng if he had taken them, and it appears now that he nerer did.

Surrogate Hagner oited thorn to show oaim why they should not be removed. Fending the decision of tho issue. Hicks went into bankruptcy and Titos made an assignment. The Surrogate removed them, and ordered tho money to be paid over forthwith. Counsel for Hloks obtained an injunction restraining all proceedings against him, on the ground that it would bo depriving his creditors of a large share of his assets.

The matter will be argued next Monday, on a motion to set aside the injunction. If it fails, they will be proceeded against criminally. Dill VEX OCT OK HIS BUSINESS. The Brooklyn Hotel in Riverhead was always a peculiar plaos. The people had railed against it frequently, but do determined effort was mado to dose it until after the arrest of the alleged dealer in counterfeit money and the scandalous developments connected with it.

Later there was a quarrel about a woman between two men who resorted to the place, and one shot at the other Ave times without hitting him. Complaint was made to Justice Griffin, and the proprietor, WiUard P. Walton, was arrested for keeping a disorderly house. Then lie was arrested for Belling liquor on Sunday. A third arrest followed for Bailing liquor to minora.

A fourth warrant was applied for, bnt before it was issued Walton begged a truce, and promised that if the prosecutions wore abandoned he would close his place at once and forever. He did ao, and the procsedings wr ri adjourned indefinitely. A THIEF'S UAL't. On Monday morning, a burglar entered the house of Robert D. Tan Yleck, No.

176 Dean street stole a gold watoh chain valued at $140 and $9 in money. The thief effected an entrance through the window of a ear eitoaslun. and vodki, indispensable requisites for keeping worm; the enlightened Jap contents himself with anatomical experiments upon his intes tines with a sword, and the Mongolian con centrates his attention in spare moments to tho reduction of his feet to the shape and size of a goat's. The Hindoo sport is to roll the Juggernaut car over native bodies, while that of the Irishman is to dance on the tail of somebody's coat and face the consequences, Coming down to our own enlightened country we find the sports vary with latitude. In the vast semi tropical fragment of this continent the languid Southerner, too weary to exert himself, places dabs of molasses upon the table and bets upon the seductiveness of his offering to the wary fly; the Westerner goes in for seven up and revolver praotice: while the Northerner shakes dice for drinks in a barroom, or practioes the immortal game of draw in the club room.

All this is general. Long Island is speoific. The Long Islander has plenty of leisure; time, even in the busy season of the year. It does not consume many hours of the day to gather the fruits of the season on the Island, and the fertility of his invention in devising snorts is therefore quito accountable. This ample leisure has produced some novelties.

It was not considered fun in any part of tho world to paint a man with tar, but behold how popular the pastime has beoome. The came of like that of croquet, has been elaborated, and the full game, as played in Huntington, iucludes a barrel of hot pitch, a load of feathers, several knives, a boat and a funeral at sea. When the game gives out, as it sometimes does, the leisurely Long Islander finds sport in trolling his numerous ponds with long lines, to which are attached fish hooks, craftily baited with red flannel, to deceive tho confiding and toothsome bull frog. At other seasons he mans his shallop, and gun in hand shoots down the unsuspecting but active turtle sunning himself upon his log. Then, too, he snares the rabbit and the skunk with varying success he practices arson and child murder in graceful interludes.

But it must not be supposed. that these pur suits are followed to the exclusion of intellectual pastimes. The Long Islander is nothing if not imaginative, and in the dreary Winter evenings, when "the chestnuts roast in the "embers and the kid turns on the spit," he can spin you a yarn on his neighbors' shortcomings beside which the flights of Milton, of Swedenborg, of Dante and of Eli Perkins dwindle into insignificance, But perhaps in nothing does tho intellect of Long Island shine moro luminously than in the noble pastime of "Guessing a Hog's "Weight." This indeed, beats fox hunting as an intellectual exercise, and supersedes chick on fighting. The game is conducted in various ways. Sometimes a casual porker is penned up in an enclosure and the delegates to the game assemble round him; view him at every point, and triangulate upon him with trigonometrical accuracy.

Then thoy guess at his weight, each paying something for the privilege. When tho bets aro all mndo tho hog is weighed and delivered to the fortunate guesser. aometimes a second cnauce is given, and the hog's weight having been ascertained the entrance fee is given to the winner, and the swiue is put up differently. A plain board is balanced exactly upon a fence. The hog is tied to one end of it, aud stones aud weights are appended to the other, until tho balance is true.

Then the weight of tho stones is guessed at. This has always proved a puzzle to Lour Islanders. It is narrated that many yoars ago a Brooklyn man being present at a guessing of this kind, and knowing the weight of the hog, guessed the same figure, i'lti pounds, as the weight of tho stones. They were weighed and he won the pork. His competitors still bolieve he was aided by tho devil.

Solictors' Duties to lie PreKldcuc'. Mr. Arthur and Mr. Cornell have the capacity aud integrity to be good officers. They, however, think that Mr.

Hayes is a moral fraud and as to intelleot a charlatan, and that Eoscoe Conkling, who thinks tho same thing, is a great man. It just happens that Mr. HRyes is President of the United States, and that his Administration, good or bad, depends for much of its success on who is Collector and Naval Offioer in New York. He has found two men who say they do not believe he is a moral fraud and as to intellect a charlatan. At the same time they are willing, if not anxious, to be mado Collector and Naval Officer respectively, of New York.

Their names are Eoosevelt and Prince. Thoy have been nominated. On the Oommerce Committee of the Senate, of which Mr. Conkling is Chairman, and to which these nominations have been referred, aro five Republicans and four Democrats. All these Eepublicans and one Democrat, Mr.

Dennis, of Maryland, have reported adversely to the confirmation of these nominations. Two Democrats have reported in favor of thoir confirmation. To day the Senate, as a whole, is iu executive session expected to considor the subject. The Democratic Senators oau cused," last night, on whether they should take any side in this "conflict" and if so, what side. The reports say that the Demooratio Senators generally resolved to vote to confirm the nominations on the ground that as Mr.

Hayes had come into bad odor with his party for doing right toward the South, the party in favor of that right doing should see to it that he was not driven back into the hands of the ultra Radicals, by giving them any Plevna victory over him, or by the desertion of him by the party believing in the policy ho has pursued. One or two Democratic Senators favored punishing Mr. Hayes for boiug fraudulently in office, by helping in their fight with him the men who voted to put him in office by fraud. It is as important that good reasons be assigned for right actions at that right actions be performed when the Son ate is the theatre. None of these reasons is elevated, dignified or respectable.

Democrats should confirm the Hayes nominees, be causo he is President aud he wants them as his agents. There being nothing against their integrity or competency, that is the only reason a Senator should need or state for his action to confirm thorn especially a Democratic Senator. A fight within the Republican party no Democratic Senator has any business to take into account. The theory that it is his business to help on one side or the other in such a fight ho has no right to entertain. The right of the Presidency to the free choice of its agents is a fundamental one a Domocratio one.

That is the ground that a Demooratio Senator should oocupy. Any other belittles him and his office. At present Arthur and Cornell are interested in making the Administration a failure, aud themselvos a bullying succes at its expense. That njfcans, in the circumstances, damage to the Government of the United States, and is the statesmanship of the tail wagging tho dog. It is Democratic to free and make controlling the Executive office, to let it ohoose for its agents men who believe in it, not men who do not.

That is the whole question for Senators. For the people, tho situation shows a headless, purposeless Administration. The fact that its own party Congressmen flout it shows complete want of merit and ability in the White House. A President of the right kind would have a policy, organize support of it in both Houses and command adhesion when he announced it. Instead of that the House unanimously says to Hayes We believe you mean a jobbers' war with Mexico.

You aro watched and suspected. Hands off. The Senate says For answer, to your gold chapter in your message, we present to you, with compliments and contempt, our action on the Silver bill, the very next day. The fact is that the incarnation of fraud into the Presidency deprives it of all clientage and influence. In addition, it is as feeble as it is despised.

Nevertheless, the duty of Democrats to the Presidency and to their party history is unchanged, and they should end the idea that Conkling is President of New York, and other Senators Presidents of other States at once, by confirming even suoh persons as the President of all the United States wants to help him in running or "wobbling" the Government. Doctor Delaine, ia practice for twenty six years, would apply a Spanish fly blister to a two and a half year old child. Doctor Charles H. Wilson, in practice for one year, would not. As Doctor Delaino had had tho first "whack" at tho child, he did apply it.

As Doctor Wilson had a "whacTi" at the child, iust before it died, his attft blister opinions Some Evidenoe of Enterprise Among the Pious LadieB of Brooklyn. Fine Displays In the Hanson Place Moth, odist, Centennial. Baptist, Summerfleld Methodist, Union Congregational and Strong Place Baptist Churches. The almanacs should have this announcement concerning the months of November, Deoembor and January "About this time loot out tor fairs," for the number of them is somewhat surprising. It would be interesting to know who invented fairs especially that breed of the epscies known as ohuroh fairs.

The latter is a marvelous creation In mora senses than one, and it remalneth a mystery unto thia day, how thoy make any money, for who buys the fancy articles when bis wife or daughters oan make as good at home It is supposed, however, that they do buy, and in any event the young man and the young maiden succeed in having a good time. And the period has gone by when you were expected to pay an enormous price for an artiole for whioh yon had not the slightest use. It may stiU bo the case that to the unregenerate and nnlnalruoted man the dainty affairs he sees exposed for sale ate so many enigmas as to what purpose they are destined io serve in the domeBtio economy, but hia wife sees. To him a piece of ornamented card board lettered "Soratoh my back" bath no significance. Be may bo told that it is a thing whereon to light matohes.

He will reply that the under side of the mantel or the sole of hia boot la better. There is no hope for snoh a creature, and the only thing to do with him is to cram tho articles into his pookot and demand the shekels. There was a time when tha sensible man fled from a churoh fair as he would from a dangerous locality on a dark nlcrbt, lest he should be plundered of all his possessions, bat now you oan purchase articles as cheaply at a fair as anywhere else, and can find contrlvanoes for sale that are not sold in any emporium on Fulton otroet or Broadway. THS HANSON PLACB M. E.

OHUBCH FAIR. The wave of fairs and festivals is at high tide just now, and last evening it daehod in an ovorwhelmu lng torrent against the Hanson place M. E. Church, piling its ohapol with tho restless force of a human wave. It has come to stay, for it will bo Friday niaht before it ia low water aud the receding wave loaves the Blope quiet and deserted again.

Tbe room is admirably adopted for tho purpose of a fair, and with the adjacent halls and parlors the church Is well calculated to take care of a B'ood slaed orowd. The chapel or Sunday School room occupies the eeoond floor in the rear of tho church proper, and is a large and lofty room, which makes a very handsome bazar, while the cnnnlng craft of the decorator has turned it into a bower of beauty. The national and oolors form the chief feature of tho decorations, but they are arranged with a taato and skill that is very effective. Two sides of tha room have archways in the side walls whioh admit of elaborate treatment and produce an exoollent effect. The orowd in attendanon was large, and the opening night of the fair may considered a do olded while the number and variety of the articles displayed Is something unusual.

Tho tables that line tbe three sides of the room aro loaded down with a deftly arranged masB of fancy articles, that it would be utterly hopeloss to attempt to partioulatize. THE TABLES, ETC. In tho corner, at the right, is the post which is iu charge of Mr. G. E.

Todd, and the delivery of malls is constant. An espooial postal card, bearing a vignotto of ox Mayor and ex Postmaster Booth and ecribed "Hanson Place Postal Card," la much used. Adjoining the post office on the right sldo of the room is a fanoy table, undor the ohargo of Mrs. Greg ory and Sirs. Greene, assisted by several young ladies.

At the table somo delicate calla lilies in wax and a number of docorated vases wero worthy of attention. Tho list of articles oxposed for sale was very largo. Next in front of the aroh over tho organ and orinine a splendid bazar was tho confectionery table, which was well stocked with all kinds of ohoioe candies. Tho venders of tho Bweeta were Mrs. Louden, Miss Booth Miss Whitenouse and Miss Thompson.

Tho candies were from Qulnn's, ou Fulton street. Adjoining the oonfeotionery was the lufant clasB table, whioh was iu charge of Mr. and Mrs. Luckoy, assisted by Mrs. Mead and Miss Saul, An ombroidored sofa ousbion was worthy of note while the stock of dolls and fanoy toys was very largo.

Iu tho next corner under one of tho three aroh ways that cross the rear of tha rooms was a llttlo lake walled In with miniature rooks and bearing divers small oraft upon Its stormy Tho bold mariners were aira, Maddook and Miss Jlao lay. Passing through tho arohes In an adjicetit and convenlont ooriidor was a Craedmoor range whora all the evening the vicious popping of a dart gun told of the marksman's skill. It was under tho ohargo of Mr. William D.iyton. In front of the tastefully draped arohes was fanoy table burdened with innumerable dainty which wa3 In oharge of Mrs.

Thompson, Mrs. Horrlok and Mrs. Duprey. In tha oorner near at hand was tho toy tablo where the little folk found an unoeaslng delight. The atook of meohanical toys was very good.

The table was la oharga of Mrs. Dodgo and Mrs. Gon eral Jourdan. Close by and oooupylnsc a table was a telophono, which extended Into the pastor resilience adjoining the church, and If you put the tube to your oar you could hoar a far off voice that sounded as though It cams through a dozen thicknesses of flannel. Mr.

J. G. Jones was the operator of tho instrument. Adjoining the telephone on thai aide of the room was a large fancy table conduoted by Mra. Balloy assisted by Miss May Howell, Miss Emma Taylor, Mis? Jennie Waterman, Mies Alice Carey, Miss Minnie Greenwood, Miss Josie Bellows and the Misses Hoagland.

An elegant sofa oUBbion, tastefully and richly embroidered, two elegant dolls and a fortune telling hon wero the attractions of this table. The fortunes told by tha hen were found in tho eggs that filled her nest. Hard by, near the centra of the flo ir, was the lemonade well, elaborately dooorated with erergrc eas, and in charge of a dark oyod Rebecca. The role w3 filled by Whs May The next tablo was in charge of Mrs, Morrow, assisted by Miss Matthews, Mlas Clapp and Miss Kelloy. The tablo of fantansies was In charge or Miss Mo Grayne, Miss Griffiths and Mies TowBsond.

The attraction at this table was a block of marblo carved, tho work of Mr. McGrayne. Near by was a table conducted by Mrs. Coffin, whero a largo variety of artioles were offered for sale. Tho next tablo was under th ohargo of Mrs.

Strout agsiatdd by illse JBoerum, Mlsa Wolff, Miss Carter, Miss Nelson, Miss Rollins and Miss Gubney, An embroidered sofa oushion and a 'foot rest were among the principal attractions. At this table a fine lot of dolls wero also exhibited, and here also was the "oi woman who lived io a shoo," the said old woman bolng a curly bairod little damsel, who answers to tbe name of Fanny Webster in real life. Iu the centre of the room wero the book table, tho Jowelry table and tho porfumory table. Mrs. Dr.

Bon nelt managed the book table, which was stocked with a fine lot of books and stationery from Treadwell'e, in Fulton street, and a lot of fanoy boxes donated by tho Methodist Book Concern. Tho jewelry and silver ware came from F. H. New comb's, in Atlantic avenue, and it made an elegant display. Everything was solid, and the designs were chaste and elegant, A pioture Bhowing a swun on a aheet of water, done in hair work in Mr.

Nowcomb's ostabliihment, was also shown for sale. Mr. Newcomb was in charge. Tho soap and perfumery came from Colgate's, and a large assortment was shown, The tablo was In oharge of Miss Lister and Miss Booth. Upstairs was the art gallery, whoro a large collection of "old masters" and modern etchings wero shown.

The gallery was in ohargo of Mr. Alfred O. Minturn. Down stairs in tho churoh parlor was the Now England Eitohen, where divers toothsome viands were to be had for a consideration. Bible Class No.

0, of young ladies, under the charge of their teacher, Mrs, Geo. Wolff, hod ohaige of this department. Tho young ladies were dressed in that ancient coBtume which history says our great grandmothers wore. There wero Patience and Faith and Hope and Charity and Morcy, and all tho others nigh unto a dozen in all, and if their grandmothers were as fair aa thoy, the old time kitchen must indeed have been a brilliant spot. All the tablci, it should bo mentionod, were furnished by somo one class in this Sunday School, and wero undor their charge.

The fair will remain open from 2 P. M. to 10 P. each day, until Friday. The decorations were the work of Mr.

William Booth, Mr. TViUium Crouch and Mr. P. H. Nowoomb.

Thoy were designed in a manner that refitted great credit upon the taste of the trio of gentlemen. The Centennial Baptist C'kurcli. When Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D.

D. started out with the new enterprise on Clinton avonuo, near Myrtle, ana which was called the "Centennial Baptist there wero many who prophesied a speedy latluroof fit enterprise, and to very many minds it seemed as though It could end in nothing but failure. It was on tho first Sunday in January, I87S, nearly two years ago, that the Doctor began preaching in tho church, and from that day to Uus the society has steadily grown and prospered. Tears ago the society waa prosperous and Influential, and then thore camo a timo of depreasion and failure, whoa it seemed as thoug the organisation would fall to pieces, bat now it bids fair to be one of the most prominent an I Influential churches of the denomination, in the city. The church property is paid for, and in tho ooming yeur a new church will in all probability, riso upon the vacant ipaoe adjoining the present edifice.

Last evening the ladles of the congregation opened a fair and festival in the basement of tho ohuroh, which will continue for one week, and a very elegant and handsome display they made. The room extends under tho auditorium of the church, about on a level with tho ground outside, and a more handsomely deoorated apartment it would be hard to find. It i devoted to the purpose of a Sunday Sohool room and ohurch meetings, but the busy eoane it presented last night gave it decidedly sooular ap pearanc. Around the sides of the room were the booths and tables where the fanoy articles were displayed, and a very handsome show they made. In the corner at the right hand as yon entered was the "Country Store," which was well stocked with groceries of excellent quality and at a low prioe.

Then along the sides of the room wero the fancy tablea with their burden of elegant and dainty artioles of whioh no man conld tell either the name or the use, unless hia wife expounded it unto him. The perfumery and toilet table displayed a large quantity of goods in these lines, and at reasonable prices. The apron and corset table occupied one corner of the room, and was well supplied with aprons of all kinds and' goods, from dainty silk and muslin to coarse and servicablc calico. In books and stationery a large and elegant selection was ottered, and the stock included very many novelties appropriate to the coming Holiday season. One corner of the room wsa taken ap with the candy table, and its Immediate vicinity woe the abiding place of a number of small damsels and urchins who were betvroon two flrot, in that the toy tablo near at hand divided their attention and their longings.

The latter booth was very well supplied with elegant toys of all description, (Q 'Mnj over too stooi. oa fejt that Its Place in the Oliris titan. System. The Catholic View as Opposed to (he Fro tcstant of a Much Discussed Question. On Sunday last a mission waa opened in St, Thcrosa'elB.

Church corner of Butlfr street and Clas son avenue, by Fathers Bronsgeost and Hlllman of tho oooioiy or Jesus. Last evening tho ohuroh was donsolv orowded. Father BroDsgoest having announco 1 that he would proach on "Confession," taking as bis authority tho Protestant Biblo. FatneJ Bron8ofa sermon was aa Christ established confession as a medium for us to gain forgivenoss for our siub. Without it forgiveness oan not bo obtained.

How often have you hoard it as times in Sabbath Schools and sometlmoa in books, in which we arocalmnnlatodandBlanderod, that Catho Uos believe that in ordor to obtain the pardon of thoir sins, all they have to dots to go and toll them to a priest, and after having dono ao they can commence again their course of sin. Others have gone so far as to say that we Caiholios have to pay to tlio priest a certain amount of money in ordor to obtain pardon for onr sins. A certain so far as to give tho various yricea for which sins aro lurmvon in me vjainono cnurcn. Ho says that whou a Catholic has been guilty of murdorlng his father or his mother and wishes to obtain pardon for the sin, ho hai to pay a pound storling. Whon ho has whipped his wife, a crown, and for gottlng gloriously drunk bf is asked to pay a shilliog.

You Catholics who have boon in the halut of going to confession since childhood, well know that you never paid one pouny to obtain pardon for your Bine. What must wo think of a religion that endeavors to put down another' by calumny and slander. IS THAT MIEH? BOASTED CHRISTIANITY Many Protestant ministers make iust such alalo mcnts as tho one I quoted. Thoy don't bellevo thorn thomeotres, they know butter, but thoy endeavor to blind their congrogationa with such misstatements. If a priest was to take money for forgiving sine, according to tho laws of the Catholio Ohuroh, that pribst could never cxerclso priestly functions afterward, but there ujvor has beon an instanoo of a prieBt do gradinc himself by taking money from penitents.

Tho Catholic Ohurch teaches us thai without a firm purpose of amoudmcnt, all the oonfassiona and all the priests in the world cannot save a sinner. Oatn olics believe that a man cannot bo furulvsu unle ho makes ri'stitutma; for without making restitution to those ho has sinucd against, ho cannot obtain pardon. Tho Frotostanls say a tow prayers, make what they call a confession of theirslns to God. and then bellovo'thoir sinB forgiven. The Calholio dootrino is, that vthon a man has truo ana Bincere ropontanoo for bia bids, and a firm resolution to do all In his power to avoid sip the future, and whon, with theso dispositions, ho confesses his sins to tho priest of God, that then the priest has the power of forglvlna his sins, in the name of tho Lord.

If a man does wrong ho must humble himself both before God aud his fellow man a Protestant will Bay, "No man can forgive sins God alone has that power. Is not your priest a maw, nd do you believe that one man can forgive another's slds It is probable that you have often hoard this objection raised by Protostauts, and wero unablo to anawor it. I will endeavor to prove that God can oommUDlcate tho mvine power lorgiving sins, and that God aotu uy gave tuas power io man for ho gavo it to tue Apostles ana melr successors of the holy priesthood. The Protestant backs up his objection to tho confessional by eaying God alone oan for glvo sins. Wo also say bo.

Tha powor of forgiving sins ia divine, and God alone bus Iho power, nnloss Ha ohoosofl to oommuDioato that powor to his Disciplos. Tho Scriptures prove that God commuuloated divine power to man. We road that tbe Prophet Elian on. dowed a dead man with lifo lhal he made the blind seo tho deaf hear, and tho dumb spoak. Again, wo Hud iojtho Holy Scriptures, that when 8t, Paul entered a town, the siok, the iaioc and ths blind wore carried to tho roadway, that his shadow might fall on them wheu he psssod, eo great woro the miracles that ho wrought.

Iu tho 9th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew we road that a man sick with the palsy WAB LAID AT THE FEET OF JESUS, who saw that tho man's heart wat dead, hlf soul being plunged in sin. aod had oompasalon on the mau, and He sold, "My son, bo of good heart, thy aius aro forgiven." The Pharisees who gathored around tho Almighty callod Him a blasphemer, saying that no man could forgive sIub. The Lord said, "loan forglvo sins bocouso 1 am God not only as Uod can I forgive slnB, but as a man. When I becomo man tho Lord vosted mo with all the Divine powers, but I im about to porlorm a miracle, not as God, but bb man." Tbrn tho IiOrd said unto tho man, "Toko up thy bod and walk Into thy house," and tho nick man was instantly cured Tho Protostauts call the man who siys ho can forgive Bins a blasphemer, as did the Pharlseos oall Joans Christ cighicou hundred years ago.

As a storokoopor givon his clork power to conduct his business, so dosa tho Almighty communicate His power to nis chosen servants. of Ht. Mattuow.God says to His Apostles, "I will give to you the'kpys of tho Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall bo bound in wliatsnover you shall loose in earth (hall be loosed likewise in neovon." Hero, oiirlrd gnvo to His apostles tho koys lo uulock Heaven for the on trannoof theropnutaut sinner. When our Lord wan about to be crucified, Hln apostlee fled fronl Ulm and took vufugc in the place whore tho Almtuhtv had taken His laBt supper. SndJonly He appeared among thorn and showing the'ii His wounds, eald, "All power halli boon given Me In Usavou and on parth, thoreforo, an tho Fathar hath sout Me, I also sohd you; aa I have been vested by tbe Futhsr with all powor, so I also solid you voKtod with all power," and then breathing upon Ihein Ho said, "Receivo ye theHolv Ghoit, whoso eius you Bhall foruiro, they aro forgiven Diem, and whoso sins you shall retain, they rts retained." If my Protestant friouds, who profeia fo I guided by tho Bible, would study tho Liblo, study tho words of Jotus Christ, thoy would ceaje to hoap oalumny on us, Oalhollcs.

If the Protestants will look in their Biblo, thoy will find the passages cxaolly as I have quolcd them. If auy reasonable man, of unbiased, mind, will oarof ully study tho text which I quoted, Ho will most surely be convinced that God gave tho power of forgiving sins to His ApoBtles and their sucooBBors. It is a mystery to mo how ProtostnntB, who road tho Biblo, oan say tho CONFESSIONAL WAS INTRODUCED BY A I'OVK, or Is, in faot. an Innovation made by tha Catholic Ohuroi. St.

John sayB: That If a man ooufeasoj his sins, tha Lord will bo faithiul to His promise, and forgive thorn. The Holy Soripturos stato that multitudes of the faithful wont to St. Paul aud confessed their misdeeds. Iri the 19th chaptor, 18th verse, of the Acts of the Apostles wo read "And many of thorn' who believed, camo, confessing and declaring thoir doods." They did tho same as Catholics do now they confessed their sinB to the bi'hopa ana priests of Goil. SU James, tho Apostle, sajs to the priest of the Church, "CouIcsB your sino one to iho other, and pray one for the othor, that you may be saved." I will quote from tho early writers of the Ohuroh, tboae who lived in tho very dayB ol the Apostles, and who received all their Christianity from them.

It will be seen that in thoir days, eighteen hundred yeara ago, ths doctrino cf eoufcsslon was preaohod as nmoh ae it ispronohod now. Bt. Clement was a disciple of St. Prter the Apostle, and bo alter ward booauio Popo. Of St.

Clomotit, St, Paul says lu one of hia epistles, Tho namo of Olomtnt is written In Iho Book of Life." 8o the Blbla tesliflos that Clement is a saint of God. In his first and sncond epistle to the Corinthians, Clement Bays: "Blesstjfl Potor has taught, that tho faithful aro bound to confess their sins to tho priests of tho Lord. If, therefore, auy ono of you boa conceived In his hoart, UioughlB of infidelity, of onvy, ol Jealousy, or any other evil thought, lot him not he ashamed to confess this to the priest of tho Lord, that by salutary counsel, and by the Word of aod, he may bo hoaled by Sevcnteon hundred years ago, Trrtulllan wroto a book on contesHion, whioh is callod "Ponltontia." Iu that book tho author enters Into all tho particulars of the subject how coufcsulon must bo made what preparations must be made for it and what aro tho dispositions we muBt havo in ordor to obtain tho pardon of our sins. No ono can read ibal book, wrltlon seventeen hundrod years ago. Vfltiwut boiog convinced that confosilou was.

at that limo, brlloved by tho whole Christian world. Protestantism was introduced throe hundrod nqd fllty years ago, and sinco its inception its ministers havo searched for authority to provo that the oonfossion has been introduced into tho Catholic Churoh, but in all that time thoy have unable to provo the truth of their assertions. Tho conecquoncos of this constant rcaoaroh are that twrnty flve hundrod Protectant miDlaters have Joined tho Catholic Church. Thoir research proved to thorn that the coufusiiluu wai Instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and NOT BY ANY OF HIS DI30IPI.EH, who came after him. Cardinal Manning, who Is now at tho head of the Catholic Church lu Uuglanil, was lonnorly a Protoataut minister.

So wore Archbishop Wood of Hnltlmore, Ilishnn Giluioro of Cleveland and UlKhop Beckwlth, of Wilmington. In New York there Is I'utner Preston and soror.il other eminent priests who were formerly Protestant ministers. Father Duane, Yio.ir General of Nowark, is a convert. Theso mon, whoso names I mentioned, in Kiarchiup for authority to overthrow the oonfeFsional, saw the truth anil thoy ombraoad it. Home ProtoatanU Buy that love of nionoy tempts thplr mlnlilors to Join the Calholio Church.

To ahow the fallaoy of that olaim, I will call your attention to the case, of Bishop Ivex, who was Protectant ItlBhop of North Carolina. Bisbop lvea was boiDg paid a salury of twelve thousand dollars a year whou ho became a convert to tho Catholic Churob, aud soon after he taught a school iu Munhattauvllle, for which ho waB paid fifty dollar per mouth. Whon acked wh7 he had thrown up his lucrative position in the Protestant Ohurch, to beooms a Catholic, Bishop Ives replied lu tho words of Jesus Christ. "What doth it profit a man to gain tho whole world if ho loso his soul." TI1K DOUBLE STANDARD. lb the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Few people aro awaro of the offeot on our foielRO exohangcp, that ths restoration of tho double standard would havo, as It stood previous to 1878.

Before the suspension of specie paymouts In 1802, although wo had nominally oDd in law a double standard, gold being choapeat, it was practically a single gold Btaudard, the silver dollar being at a promium lu gold, was driven from clreulation and cxportod, and silver could only bo retained In olroulation for small change by lessoning tho weight of tho colus in 1853 below the denomination of ono dollar, 6.91 per cant. The exohange on a single gold ourrency country previous to 1B73, was quoted in gold or its equivalent. But If the double standard in now restored, silver being now cheapest, foreign exohango will bo sold and quoted in tho latter matal. The par of exchange on London for silver dollars, 41 grains each, at tho following quotations of market prlceB in London for silver Ia Silver Sliver Dollars, par 900 Fine, U35 Fina. 41SXGrs.

At Par of exohango on London for 1 $5.71 At Rid Par of on London for Xl 46.637 At blA far of xchanae on rJbndon fox S5.bl7 Al Par of ou London for 1 96.415 At 64d Par of exchange on London for 185.315 At 56d Par of exchange on London for 1 SJ5 218 At Md Par ol niobmnge on London lor 1 S5.135 At Md Parol exchange on London for JS1 At Md Par of exchange on London for Jt'l iiMj At 68 993d Par of exohango on London for 1 84 80S3 When silver la about 59d per ounce, 925 flno, on London, tbeir market price for silver is to their fixed Mint pries for gold as 1 to 18.988, being tho same ratio as United Ktatoa previous to 1873. Therefore, whon silver i 59d per ounoe, if our double standard waa rettored of 1 to 15.983, tho par on London for 1 would bo t. 8SG9, both in silver and gold coin, but if silver fell in prlco below 69d per ounce exchange would rise is sliver coin as shown above. If, on the contrary, tiio prico of silver should rise on London above Md per ounce, then tho quotation for exchange on London would bo in gold, as then the latter metal would be cheapest, thus proving that what is erroueoualy termed tbo double standard is under all circumstances only an alternatu one. It will ot once appear from the above facts that If wi should ro adopt double Btaudard that as long as silvor wai cbuapust in tbo world's markets we would pay our debts in sliver, and if gold should ogoiu, as bo twoon 1848 and 1H70.

become the ohcipcat metal, we would pay our debts in gold. Uxnrt Kemp. LOAN EXHIBITION OF PB. CL'TLEB'8 CHl'UCH. Extensive preparations are being made for the grand loan exhibition to bo givon in Rsv.

Dr. Cuy l.t'a Churoh, on tha 18th, 19th and 80th Inatant. The Committee announce that they have reaaou to that this exhibition will be ono or the most unique, in creating, complete and bosutlfnl ever Been in this oity. It will be made up of valuable paintings and statuary, wood carvingB, bronzes, antiques, brlc a brao, pottery, laces, anclont relics, valuable jewols, epeclmeus of woman's handicraft in various occupations, valuable curiosities, etc. Among other things already secured, la a collcotlon of Mr.

Frederic Brldgman's masterpieces, suoh as never has been seen in this country. Tbe decorations are to be of tho most elaborate description, and every evening there will be raualu by au orchvKtra of twenty pieces, iu connection with tho organ oi the church. The entire ohuroh edifice will Im thrown open for the reception of visitors. Mrs. Patriok Leahey, of Morris slroot, Nevr York, was gathering amalt plecos of word yeatorday, at a building at No.

50 Pine street, whon she tell from the third llwy nod was inpuntly killed, The oan Ire ef the room was occupied by two elegantly decorated bowera, trimmed with evergreen! and fragrant with pleasant odors. One was the floral temple, where the fair flowers wero rivaled in their beauty by tbe sellers thereof. It aeema to be a rule with, fairs, that the prettiest girls in the Sunday Sohool are supposed to look after the floral temple. Bui don't you dare' to Bay so, you fellow, or you may get yourself In a scrape. If you are asked if you don't think so, discreetly say that you haven't seen the others.

The lemonade well occupied the other central booth and did a flourishing trade. It was managod by several Bebeocas, and if she of old was as busily occupied watering the thirsty flocks of Laban, all day long, as were her aftertypes last evening, then the office was no elneoure. Downstairs was the dinlngroom, and yon reached it by a Btairway draped with flags and bunting, while tho same Btyle of decoration covered tho sides of tho apartment, making a very pretty and tasteful dinlngroom. A bevy of young ladies wero in attendance, who Berved you with a Centennial bill of fare that made yon wish you would live a hnndrafl yoars, for the pleasure of eating such toothsomo things. A paper called tho Centinnial Outlook is published by tho ladies during the fair and will bo Issued during the As last night was tho opening night of the affair thore wore some things which tho ladles Bald wore not quite In place yot, but everything will be iu full swing to night.

An art gallery, with gems from old and modern masters, was one of the attractions of the evening, and irll) doubtless prove of great value, as an art educator dur iuK the week. The crowd in attendance was quite large, and all the tables did a thriving business. The following were the ladies in oharge of the various department General Manager, Mrs. James M. Meade Assistant Manager, J.

G. Whipple Treasurer, Mrs. Goo. B. Ste phenBon Secretary, Mrs.

H. M. Baker. Fakct Table Mrs. Geo.

Cummins, assisted by Mrs. 8tephenson, Mrs. WilkisoD, Misses Oumminge, Walker, Gonly, Peterschon and Meade. Books and Statiosebv Mrs. Conanr, assisted by Mrs.

J. B. Field, MlsseB Cook, Pope and Thurlow. PKBPOirKHr AND Toilet Articles Mrs. Bell, assisted by Misses Tucker, Wing, Bostwiok and llililreth.

Cairoy. Table Mrs. ffammes. aaststod by Misses Bwift, Steele, Mead and Mattlo Tucker. Flower Bower Mrs.

Synu, assisted by Misses Hit ler, Ella Bitter, Emma Tucker and Bella Syois. Lemonade Well Mrs. A. T. Henry, assisted by Misses Young and Lydia Ganly.

ArnONs and Usdibweab Mrs. Dillon, assisted by Mrs. Brown, Misses Dillon and Frost. Tox Table Mrs. McNaughton, rassletod by Mrs.

Webb, Misses Webb, Hardwick aud Nolllo Fulton. Country Store Mrs. B. F. Field, assisted by Mrs.

Lowell, Misses Yass, Ida Boone ana Fannie Boone. Art Gallery Mrs. Terhune. Restaurant Mrs. Whipple, assisted by Mrs.

Si mons, Kittle McGrow, Konnio, Taylor, Weber, Boutelle, Shelly and Johnson and Misses Fulton, She lly aud Hurley. Strong; Place Baptist Church Pound Part) A pound party took place last night in the Slrong place Baptist Church, on tho corner of Strong place aud Degraw street, under the auspices of tho Young Ladies' Belief Sooiety. Tho people began to arrive very early with their paokagos, and as thoy en terod the door thoy throw them into a largo basket, where thoy soon reached a pile of considerable dimensions. Those who did not bring a pound paroel ol something had to pay fifteen cents for admission, but thore were very few of this class. About nine o'olock all the packages wero disposod of to tho highest bidders.

Mr. George W. Wickcs acted aa auctioneer, and performed bis part not unlike a professional. During the evening the' audience was entertained with some fine music. Tho proceeds of tho party will be devoted, to the poor.

The officors of tho Kolief Society are Mrs. Charles T. Goodwin, President Mrs. William II. Allen, Vloo Prosident Miss Birohard, Secretnry and Miss Itussoll, Treasurer.

Sum erf! eld Church Fair. An attractive fair was opened last ovouiug in the Summorfield M. E. Church, corner of Washington and Groone avenues. Tho iecturo loom, in which the fair Is being held, was decoratad in a pleasing manner, and overytbing that would lend additional )rettl neas ta the scone was in a position where its oharm would not bo lost to view.

The attendance was very largo, the roomB being thronged with visitors from an early hour until the time for dosing. Among tho prominont persons presont were. Judge Reynolds and wife, Mr. aud Airs. McCoun, Mr.

and Mrs James Ponderiord. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Tatt and others, There aro in all somo ton tablos, at which articles of every variety and description can be had at moderate prices.

Tho ladies in charge aro obliging and at teutlve, aud do all la their power to accommodate visi tors. Table No. 1 contains books nd stationory. All the latest publications and an assortment or books carefully and judiciously eolooted, together wlthnne fancy stationary, can be obtained hero. Among the articlos aro albums, paper plotures frames, scrap books, Bibles and a list of ohuroh publications.

The managers of this tablo aro Miss Emma Pease, Miss Fannlo Pesso Miss Mary Myrick, Mrs. William Read, Mr. W. Thack ray and Mr. William C.

Wallaoe. Tables Nos. 2 and 3 are devoted to fancy artioles. Tho display is a fine one, and thore is a great demand for things of this description. Among the articles for sale here are nicknaos of every kind, perfumery, looking glasses, pincushions, silverwaro, tablo mats, in fants' sacquea, colored pottery, toilet cases, glass match boxes, dolls, of ovory order and pioture frames.

Tho ladies in oharga are Miss E. W. Beers, Miss Kate Gillespie, Miss Altnona Watson, Miss Belle McGulre, Miss Martha McPheraoa, Miss Jessie Smith, Miss Mary T. Davenport, Mrs. Thoodoro H.

Leggelt, Miss M. B. McCoun, and Mrs Conway Jenkins. Tablo No. a is devoted to toys.

The assortment of toys and games 1b largo, and all the novelties of the season oan hero be found. The table is under the su pervision of Miss Nettie Wilson, Miss Frances T. In graham, aod Mr. Conway Jenkins. At the confectionery table iwcotmaats, candles and otbor delicacies are proffered.

This is tbe favorito tablo with the children, and everything they desire can be supplied. Miss Martha B. McCoun, Mrs. Toft, and MIsb Laura O. HenBhaw are the ladles in chargo.

In one corner, all to itself, is a grocery store. Fanoy groceries of all kinds, oanned fruit, flour, orackers, soap, almonds and raisins, and, in faot, everything that a first class grocery store would 'be supposed to contain can be found here. This department docs a large business, as it la one of the prinoipal features of the fair. Mr. John H.

Read, Mr. Henry T. McCoun, and Mr. Morcoin Thomas are the gentlemen in charge. At tho rear end of the room is the pagoda, or tablo where Japanese ware is to be obtained.

Japanese cabinets, Chinese dolls, trnys and handkerchiefs are a small portion of the peculiar articles for sale. Miss Frances A. Evans, Miss Lydia R. Reynard and Mr. John D.

Craven preside here. At the refreshment tables delicacies and substantial can be bad at reasonable prices. Mr. Thomas O. Allen and MleB Theresa A.

Uowe, assisted by the young ladies of tho Snmmoifleld Association, attend to the wants of visitors bore. Miss Lizzie Read Is in attendance at the Post Office and manages tho large moil in a creditable manner. Sweet scented flowers send forth a rloh perfume from a bower in the ccntro of the room. Miss Franoes A. Evans, Miss M.

Lillian Evans, Miss Joiio Wells, Miss Ella Gillespie or Miss Carrie Henshaw will here fasten a bouquet on any gontluman'a coat that may desire Among the other attraotions are two side shows, one the "Baby Huow," and the other "Tho Long and Short of It." In tho former, wax dolls of every size, color and description, are very plentiful, while in the latter is a large looking glass, which gives a broad and short reflection. Good rnusio is continually urnishod bytho Athcneum orchestra. A spicy four page paper, called the Charity Bazar, is published daily, and gives all tho news and ocurrencci connected with the fair. The first issue contains a pretty eight verse poom on "Fairs." Mr. Mercoin Thomas ia tho editor, Mr.

Charles F. Lewis, the publisher, and the contributors arc Mr. D. P. Darling, Mr.

Froncis H. Taft, Mr, George F. Barlow, Mr. John H. Road, Mr.

S. Hatetead, Miss E. W. Beers, Miss Kate Gillespie, and Miss Martha McPherson. Tha fair is under the auspices of tha Siimmorfleld Association, an organization composed of the yonnger members of the congregation.

The Association holds a young people's prayer meeting every Sunday evening in the parlors of the church, and the lady members meet twice each month to make garmonl for tho poor under their supervision. The officors of the organization aro Mr. Frank B. Beers. President Mr.

T. Reynolds, Vice Proaidont Mr. H. T. McCoun, Rocording Secretary Mr.

Walter Thackray, Corresponding Secretary Mr. Gtorgo Martin, Treasurer, and Mr. Cyrus H. Taylor, Crltio. About $1,500 Is expected to be realized by tho fair.

One half of the proceeds will De given to tho poor fund, and the othor half will be devoted toward defraying expenses in tbe improvement of the oburch. For the first night, tbe fair was eminently successful. It will continue till the evening of the 13th of this month. Union connrelational Church Fair. On Monday nigbt a fair was opened in the Union Congregational Church Sunday School rooms, under the of the ladles of tho church, who have arrangsd everything in a very pleasant manner for the convenience of themselves and visitors.

On every side large and substantial tables may be seen loaded with very inviting artioles, both for tho young and the old. On entering the room the first thing that strikes the attention is the floral alcove, which is arranged with flags and evergreens on the outside, while within sweet bouquets are to be found in quantities. A fine photograph of tho pastor, tho Rov. Joseph Wild, D.D., occupies a prominent place in the centre of tbe room, aud duplicates may be found at almost every table. The grooery store is an establishment well worth seeing.

It contains more articles than a great many country stores, and is fitted up with iktu. The fancy tablea contain great quantities of holiday presents whioh are sold at a very reasonable price. A post office ia established near the door andfmany missives were dropped into the box last night. Under the room where the fair is held the dinlngroom is located, and supper may bo served here at any hour either cold sr hot. The tables and the names of their guardians are as follows: Refreshment Table Mrs.

Payne, Mrs. Sales, Mr? Wilkinson, Mrs. Speck, Mrs. Ryokman, Mrs. Walker, Mrs.

Phillips, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. Studhoff, Mrs. Whit lock, Mra. Templeton, Mrs.

Potter, Mrs. Maynard, Mrs. Riely, Mrs. Jock, Miss Hubbard, Cashier Miss Swell, Miss Davis, Mlsa McGIll, Miss Weber, Miss Wilson, Mm Gllmore, Miss Holtz and Mlas Potter. GorKTRx Store Mr.

Jsrrls, Mr. Frederick Wilkinson and Mrs. Cotton. Conteotiohert Mr. and Mrs.

Eels, Miss Eddy, Miss Row and. Mr. Dnrando. Art Gallkbt Mr. and Mra.

Savoy arid Mrs. Fry. Fishing Pond Iliss Susan Totint, Decorations Tfx. Payne, Mr. Hoyt, Mr.

Phillips, Mr. Gllmore, Mr. Knox, Mr. Smock, Mr. Speok, Mr.

Tount, Mr. Byckman, Mr. O. Hoagland and; Mr. P.

Hoagland. Flower Basher Miss Higgles, Miss Hoyt, Miss Manning, Miss Ella Gill, Miss Knox. Doll 8TAND Mrs. Cortolyou Ohubou Table Mra. Donct, Mrs.

Jarvis, Mrs. Big ley, Mrs. Hill. Faxoy Table No. 1 Mrs.

Golden, Mrs. Allen, Mta. Saw? 4 vvuji position of penally for default ahould obtain favor, when suoh system or imposition Is oppresilvfl and unjust to cither tho prompt taxpayer or to the dcling.uon, I proposo in this commnoioallon to opou the subjects to publlo view, and yet I can only refer to either of tho propositions In a general way, as tho unjust and rois ohiovouB elements intprwoven with tho present systom of levying the annual tax and penalty, if given in detail agrecablo to tho possibility of thoir operation aud offeot, would requiro too muoh of ray time, and too much space in your columns as well, thoreforo shall only offer snfficiont data to enable taxpayora to supply details from their own stand point. The ousloru now prevailing in regard to assojsldg and making up tho annual tax lory in Brooklyn la demoralising iu its tendency, yet taxpayers passively submit to tho usage soomlngly without sny appreciation or apprehension of tho injtiitlco of the custom, whioh, when they oouia to understand, I havo no doubt thoy will agree with mo that it should bo abaudonod at ono and a tair method be Inaugurated instead. Tho present custom Is caloulatad to decoivo tho taxpayora as to the real of annua! tax, and tha actual prroentago thereon.

For example, in making up tho annual levy lu anr ward in whioh aur lax of tho piurlous year romaioa unpaid, such dedoioucy has boon added to tho tax of tho ctirrout year and apportioned throughout tho ward thus compounding ths default up.iu both tho prompt taxpayer and tho dolln qupnt this praotice affords the reason why ditTeront wards aro charged different percentages, aiirooablo to tho sum of default in caob. grooaoio Now, Biipposo tho ontiro valuation of real ostate in tha City of Brooklyn to bo two hundrod million dollara and the sum required to meet tho interest on outstanding bonds aud tho current expensos of tho city government to be six million dollars, tho tax would bo three por cent, on the assessed valuattou. Suppose, also, that two million dollars remain unpaid until tho next levy is mado that boiug about tha averago sum of arrearages then those arrearages aro added to tho tax of tho ourroot year, and we havo eight millions to pay Instead ol tlio six millions, aud consequently tho porcentauo 1b increased to four por oent instead of three. Thus tho prompt taxpayer is obliged. for the ttUlO bWnc to lur Four I dollais.

and the dollmment taxnawr ia iini hi. arrear luxes, a well as on tho assessed value of his oa tnto. Those facts alone inrniii ninnd a change, and the abandonment of tho pornt cious custom of lappiug defaults over yoar after voar Iu regard to tho penalty or interest on 1 i claim thai ths raio of sovon per rent, nor nn, sufficient, aud in no taso should oxcoe I the sum of interest provided by law. iiavins given these subjects consiilerihln tiinnoht will venture tosurgest what I believe would boa mdi. oal remedy for the positive and poskiblo oviiB of ths presont system of Iovying taxes and Imposing penal tics in tho City of Brooklyn iirst Abandon tho custom of lannlnu thn it r.

roars of tho lusl yoar upou tho lovy of the present year. Second Lot tho arrears bo Drovided for in mnm equitable manner, to wit, as is hereinafter proposed, or by somo other equally Just method. Third Make a general and equalized valuation, agrooibio to tho State standard, of all real, poisonal and corporate property, excepting only that whioh belongs to tho municipality. The poroontiae on avion valuation to bo ufflolent to cover tho ouriont espouses of the city govornmont to tho required bv the lourth Provldo for tho dofleionnr defaults, by tho issue of oily bonds for a long term of ip, nijiDu ua nun nsnrasjueoi arrearage bonds, bar lntorest not oiooodiue six nsr iux inum Iho property in default to be ospeoiallv holJen for ths payment of tho intorost and prinoipal of Bnch bonds uutil released by payment of tho arrearages thoroon In caso of falluro to pay arret rasa a far the farm nf sovon years, thon at tho oxplratiou of said lerra, or as soon thereafter as.may bo praotlcablo.suob properly shall bo sold at public auction for suoh lax aud assessment, together with tho interest aocruod thoroon; tho ownor or reprosontativo if accessible to tyoiiollnofl of suoh salo, suojcot howovor to tho right of redemption, for tho term of two years from tho dato of such sale by tho payment of Iho sum of tax aud assessment, tho Interest accrued thoroon and the exnnnao nitnn.imn such sale, together with a redemption penalty at and after tho rto of fifteen per cent, por anuuin from end alter trio ante of such salo. If not rodcomod within tho said term of two yoars, then aud thoroaftor suoh salo to be absolute and irrevocable, this nrnvisinn should bo retnuotivo In offeot In conclusion, I believe tho measures above nnnnnnt.

ed would corrool Iho now faulty method of Iovying tho annual lax. No property owner would be wronuc.l lu thn least degree, prompt taxpayers would pay Iho loal linialo tax on their own property only, nnrt tho delin quent omy woun suuer oy ueiaull of payment. Tho plan 1b very simple aud also practicable, and would moto out ovou justice) to all and iiijtue no ono Croakers might Insist on oxoesslve penalties, because tuny olatm that there aro somo property holders who withhold tho payment of their tax and use their money; otherwise, this olass boiug so small thoy aro not worih coueltloratlou whon wo compare them with that othur and muoh larger clasB who can hardly meet their tor, much less an excessive penalty. Thcue persouR should receive tho consideration duo tliom and should bo lav orod by tho city iu any reasonable and legilimato way. 11 should bi rnmombered that II Is possible by oxeps sivo penalties lo rourlrr It imposaililo for tho tailor class to meet the tax dsmamla, ami if ever thot time shall oomo our city treasury will be liankvnpt.

In tho interest of Juntio; to all, the awve sng. stimiH arn rrspeolfully subuilitod. Yours moHt truly, ii. Dakliho. BnooKLYN, December 7, 1877.

(Tho viows of Iho Kaoi.e ou mint of tho points above touched upon will bo fouud elsewheio In theno ool umna.lCu.l PAUK COMMl.s.SIOXER.S. ITl iil hly Mootlnir E'lunnoial Htnic lii on I Hxrcutlre Si salon lo CoUNlder Park A rogititir monthly meeting of tlio I'nrk Commldjiouera was held laat ovaulng, present Cora miaaioncrs Htraualian, Pronlice, James, Haynrn, Powoll, Marshall aud Hohroodor. The Socrotary read tlio following FINANCIAL 8TAIBMENT HKCEIPTS. Balanen November 1, 1877.. 4H.7tt.M lloei'lvotl for Waihlngton Park, lm proMHUont of 9BIA77 Uet oWod for Main Kaatern IHI.07 lloei'lvod (or runt B3 0O Iteceivml for boat Unona3 01 Kocelvnd lor carriage llcenao B76.f)0 Uecolved from counsel 20.53 $1,583.31 Total 10.8t 88 Exrr.siurunas.

Tald salaries and omployos Paid Voipero and Inboreri fl.filil.IXJ Paid rent ef olllce Soii.ou 8 0Mt! llnlnuco Docemhor 1,1877 82.41(1.69 Total BliOAriTULATION. MMSTEKANCR. Krpondert onPiosneol Park (Ja.DM Kxpnniteiloa Waatn'airt in Park Hii.tii I')xpendoil on Carroll Park PU.oJ Kxpondod ou City Park H1.18 Kxpondod on City Hull I'Rrk lo.fll Kxpondad on Tompkln Park 8 31 Exponiled on Kantorn Parkway 474 74 Kkpendod on Ocein Parkway 4(4 Kxpondod on Conoy Inland Coneonm. 1U3.01 $8,701.81 CONSTRUCTION. Rxpnndod on Washington Park Kxpondod on ParaOo.lirouml Hi 2J 609.11 Total Tho atatemant was rcaclvad and order on file.

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127 FULTON 833 SIXTH I v.t, Brooklyn. 613 BKOA Yor MISSlSQUOl SPULNO WATEIll The mtorof Mill great Bprtnj la a pino lor aanur. Itrijibt'a aoaae, acrofuls, oataneous affeJtlona and all dlaoaioa arlaiiur from lmpurltlei of the blood. In oassaol oaaoorlt rellovei ihi lancinating pains at onoe, and da uoyathe offonalre odor by aitsrnal application alona. Fur tale hi all protnluent draigliti, A fresh supuli lost recrlTodby JOHN K.

IIENKY, UUIIIIAN A leuo Now York. TO DEPOSITORS. Tho following nittc to tho depositor It limed by the Dank Notice heruby Won to tho dnpojlton ol the LONO bliued thr 80 por cont. proposition and all those who ihH fUok toukeef1 pfcrtyoni. ol tiulr that the llrstdlri dowi at 10 par coat.

"1)1 bo paid at the Ilsak on aatj tor ttu Nt't ly ot Dsojiuber, 177, and that all tho 19 who hall not oldct to Uku HJ por and Uavo not fcltto4 tho 1(0 per coat, proposition will hs piht tUir depot! ta full, pursuant to tho ordor ot Hi Cuart vi foltone: nor omt tho oart of ix month. 'Jt par cent, at thn ui twulvo months, par o.mt. at tho and of OluUtaea ionths and 5 i nor COUt, ftt Iho uml of lVrtmW Ioo.T mnilKs from (iio liih dy of NoYombur, Li7T Oatod, Brooklyn NuTouiDor 1G, Local Tax Collection, Arrearages and Default. We publish in another column a somewhat lengthy communication on the general subject of the best method of collecting the city's levonuos from taxation tho annual income through which the city meets its expenditure. The writer of the communication roferrod to has frequently advocated hia views through those oolumns, and ho does not claim too much for himself when he says he has given considerable thought to the general subject under consideration.

The result, however, would have been better if it were not for tho fact that tho data on which our correspondent bases the main pointB of his argument are erroneous or defective, as we believe we will find no difficulty in proving. Our correspondent begins by stating tha the custom now prevailing in regard to tho assessing and making up tho annual tax "levy" is not only unjust, but it is "demora "lizing in its tendency," and he then proceeds to prove this by assaihug a "custom" which has not prevailed for some years. "In making up the annual tax levy," says our correspondent, "in any ward in which any tax of the "previous year remains unpaid, such dofici enoy is added to tho tax of the current year, and apportioned throughout the ward thus comnouudiiiK the default upon both the prompt taxpayer and the delinquent. This practice affords the rea son why different wards are charged different per centages agreeable to the sum of default in each." In other words, if the First Ward tax levy amounted to, 8500,000 last year, and $100,000 of this amount remained unpaid, then the amount in default would be added to the quota of the ward for the current expenses of the government, making it $000,000, when its actual quota of expenditure would be but say $500,000 for that year. If that system prevailed there would doubtless be considerable discrepancy in the tax rate in the several wards and in the same wards in various years.

Bnt there is no such discrepancy growing out ef such a system, because there is no such system. Such a system has existed but it has been abandoned. There is a discrepancy in the tax rate, between the wards in the two sections of the city, but this is due to other causes. In no ward in the Western District (old Brooklyn), for instance, does the tax rate this year ex coed $3. 'H and in no ward in this district is the rate less than $3.22, showing a difference of loss than two cents in the rate in all the old wards of Brooklyn.

In the Eastern District wards (old Williamsburgh), tho rate varies from $2.93 to a little over $2.98 a difference in the rate between the Eastern District wards and those of the Western of about twenty five cents, but a difference of less than a cent and a half (except in one instance) betweon the rates in the several wards which make up the Eastern District. The difference betweou the tax rates in the two districts is accounted for in this way: The Eastern District is exempt from the payment of any share of tho interest on the Prospect Park debt. This is an annual item of over half, a million dollars, and tho seven Eastern District wards are relieved from its payment. The burden of tho Park debt falls exclusively on that portion of the consolidated city kuowu in times past as the first twelve aud Twentieth "wards' and which now includes (ho Twenty first, Twenty second. Twenty.

third, Twenty fourth and Twonty fifth wards, because the Twenty second Ward formerly formed part of the Eighth Ward, and all the other wards were once included in the old Ninth Ward. AH our correspondent's reasoning, based on the notion that there exists a great discrepancy in the taxation of the several wards, growing out of the fact that the city at large kept, as it were, a distinct account with eaoh ward in making each responsible for its tax delinquency fails tothe ground, and requires no further consideration. This about disposes of all the complaints aud of all the remedies he proposes for them. There is a single topic left, perhaps, deserving of consideration. In regard," says our correspondent, to the penalty or interest on arrears, I claim that the rate seven per cent.

per annum is sufficient." This is a question on wbioh it is useless to speculate, since Brooklyn has settled it by her ovru experience. The city must collect its taxes promptly, or it must enforce their collection. It has no capital to start with. It must collect its revenues in advance of spending them. If soven per cent, defaidt was found to ))e an adequate penalty to enforce the collection of tho taxes due tho cify, then seven per cent, would be sulncieul, and to exact more would be unjust and harsh to ihoso who find it difficult to pay their taxos, aud who commonly delay doing so.

Brooklyn has found by experience that a seven per cent, per annum penalty is not sufficient, aud wo will have to go b.uik to the old rate of twelve per cent. Our correspondent's plan of issuing bonds in large amounts, and running over many years, to make good tax delinquencies, is not to be thought of. No city could stand such a strain upon its credit as this would be, and if experience has justified us in saying anything it is Once tho city's credit is pledged for any purpose it is almost impossible to shift back the burden to the shoulders of those who of right should boar it. Tweed and his associates found out very early in their management of the municipal government of Now York, that there was no more easy way of covering up their misdeeds than by making good deficiencies by temporary loans, aud finally by transferring thest temporary loans into permanent obligations. Under the prodigal rule of these men, the tax rate in Now York was kept at very little over two per cent, and they were in tho habit of boasting that despite of the lavishness of their public expenditure, aud of their individual opulence and show, the taxrate in New York was fifty per cent, less than it wbb in Brooklyn.

We on this side of the river were plaoed at a disadvantage by this state of things, and wo could not explain it. Finally the day of reckoning came, and then the taxpayers of New York discovered that the amount raised in the tax levy in those times never mot tho current expenditure of the local government, and that the deficit was made good, year after year, by the issuing of what were called "revonue bonds." A line or two in a bill authorized tho transfor of revenue bonds into permanent bonds, until at last New York discovered that, instead of being in debt forty or fifty millions, as was supposed, her bonded indebtedness had reached one hundred and thirty millions. No friend of any city will ever consent to the issuing of a city bond for any purpose, if it is at all possible to avoid it. The tomplation is almost irrosistiblo to shift temporary burdens into permanent obligations, It is true, under a special law which will remain in force until May next, any property owner who is now in debt to the city eau cancel his obligations by paying the amount due with sevon per cent, interest. But this law was designed to meet an emergency, and its re enactment is not to be thought of.

We wish it were otherwise, but it is not, and the rights and interests of tho individuals directly concerned demand this early announcement of the city's inability to carry on its affairs any longer under the law in question. The law was designed to be temporary, and it ii in direct conflict with our whole scheme of municipal finance. Take as an illustration the taxpayer who paid his taxes for 187(5 in July, 1877. They were received by the Tax Collector, who added one per cent, per month interest, or six per cent, in all. The same taxpayer might have retained the use of his money, and allowed his taxes to remain unpaid until January, 1878 next month and then they would have been roceived by the Registrar of Arrears with seven per cent, default so that under existing laws, the taxpayer has a direct interest in refusing to pay his taxeu for six months togelher.

The seven per cent, daw was passed in 1875, jf we mistake not, and it expired under its own provisions in one year. It was advocated on the ground that the collapse of 1873 had loft a great many deserving property Mr. Oakey Hall lectured last evening in Washington. His leoture was well received. Mr.

Elibu Burritt is seriously ill. had several hemorrhages of the lungs lately, Ho has Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, Ib improving, and hopeB ore now entertained of his recovery. Peter B. Sweeney sailed for Europe to day.

It is stated that ho will soon return and ontor upon tho practice ol the law. The President subscribed $100 yesterday to tho fund of the Morton Monumental Association of Indianapolis. Patrick S. Gilinore's suit against Sheridan Shook, to rooovcr oertain rocoipts of Oilmore's Oardcn, was discontinued yesterday in Now York. The Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition is in debt $378,000.

lis totol rooeipts since May 10 have boon $107,800. Arnold, Copstable Co. have subscribed $500 to tho Seventh Regiment Armory fund, in Now York. The cat show is to open Monday, in New York, Somo singular specimens aro alicady iu tho Museum in anticipation of the opening. Sydney Smike, B.

the English arclii teot, Is dead, at tbe ego of soventy seven. He obtninod tho gold medal of tbe Royal Academy in 1819, and had a wide reputation In his profession. No more bodies are known to bo aboard tho Huron wreck. Niuoty bodies are saved of theso eight officors and seventy one men have been identified soven bodies are unknown. Cornelius Van Winkle, a veterinary surgeon of Forty first street, New York, was found wandering in Jersey City, yesterday, having been suddenly overcome with blindness while passing along tho streets.

Pour hundred and eighteen deaths were reported aa having ocourrod in New York during tho week, ending Saturday, December 8, 1877, an increase of nine as compared with tho prccoding week, but sixty flve less than wore reported for tho corresponding weok of 1878. John Oothout, the victim of the mysterious robbery in Jorsoy City, on Monday, la not dead, as reported. Ho has fully recoverod consciousness bul is not ablo to throw any light on the strange occurrouco. The police ore of tho opinion that somo one in the shop oouimittod the robbery. The trial of Dr.

Thomas S. Lambert, "President of the Amerloan Popular Lifo Insurance Company of Now York, was continued, yesterday. Tho cross examination of Deputy Superintendent John McCall was resumed, after which John F. Trow, a director of the American Popular, testified. The statistics of tho State of Maine show that there is Dot proportionately one tenth of the liquor Bold and used in that Stato that thore was forty yoarc ago, and drunkenness, pauporism, and crimes of violence having their origin iu tho uso of liquor, have largely decreasod.

Tho revolution in Ecuador has collapsed artor eighteen hours' hard fighting in tho City of Quito, whioh waB defended by tho Government with 000 soldiers ond over 1,000 mllltla. Tho robel forces numbered 3,000. Tho battle was commoncod ou tho lith of Novembor and on the 15th tho ammunition of tho rebels gave out and then a few of the pickets of tho Government made a sally and won the victory. It has been reported to the authorities at Washington that Sitting Bull's camp is continually re enforced by accessions of Sioux from Montana and Dakota. Sixty lodges reoently reached thore, in accordance with tho dying roquest of Crazy Horse.

It is believed that iho whole Sioux nation at present on the Unitod States aido of the line will oross over to Can uda, and that In the Spring they will begin to light again. As an illustration of red tape it is mentioned that when Master Conway appeared in citizen's droHs before tho Court of Inquiry, whioh is investigating the loss of thq Huron, he was sternly asked by Admiral Rodgors, tho presiding offloor, why he was not in uniform, In accordance with the regulations. Conway saved his life by swimming ashore, and as ho lost evorything thot ho possessed on the Huron and had no way to obtain an advance of pay wherewith to re equip himself, he was necessarily compellod to wear the oul fit givon him by his oomradOB at Norfolk. When ho told the Court in a quiet, sad way that his appearance was no evidence of disrespool on his part but was duo to his unfortunate condition, the naval magnatos had nothing more to say. The founders and friends of tho ChriBtian Homo for Intemperate Men, at No.

48 East 8eventy eighth street, New York, held a publlo meeting at Association Hall, in that city, lost evening. William T. Booth, President of the Homo, presldod, and addroasos wero made by Rov. Mr. Bunting, tho resident Manager, Rev.

Dr. Taylor and others. Mr. Wm. E.

Dodgo said the gentlomen who bad Btartod the Home now called upon the publlo for sympathy, enoouragement, prayers and money. The Homo wbb $1,800 in debt. A collcotlon was takon up and $1,600 was realized, Mr, Talcoit, tho Treasurer, and Mr. Dodgo, who is Vico Proaiacnt, headed a subscription list with $.260 eaoh, and iu all $1,000 was pledged. The Homo wos opened in Juno last, aud has oared for nlnely six inebriates iu that time, Tho ball of the Crescent and Cross Society, at the Academy of Music, New York, last ovoning, was a sucoess iu everything but numbers.

Tho attendance was confined almost entirely to those who purohased boxes. Thore wre two bands in attendance, Graftilla'a and Lander's, tho former furnishing the promenade muslo an 1 tho latter playing for the dancers. The supper was sorved in the basoment and was doclorcd a great iucccsb. Tho best tociotj ol Now York and neighboring cities was well reprosontod at tho ball. Tho toilettes were fresh and handsome.

Miss Belmont wore a palo blue velvet, made with a court train and draped with point laco, which waa caught at tho right side with a diamond clasp of antique design. Tho corsage was out square and low a wroath of scsrlot roses and leaves flnlihod the drapery on the apron front, and a spray of tho same flowers was festooned on the shoulders. The ornaments were diamonds aud opals. Mrs. William R.

Vandcibiit woro a dress of black tulle, oovorod with jot, made over block satin the train flouncod up to the waist with ruchings of thread lace over this a fall of Jetted tulle. The eatlu pottiooat had an apron over it of solid Jet. Tho waist was low nook, trimmod with laco and plastrons of jet. Ornaments, diamonds. Mrs.

John Bigolow wore a bluo silk ball drejs, cut decollete, mado long train, with plain pottiooat diamond orna niouts. Mrs. Marshall O. Roberta woro a blue aud white brocaded satin, train of plain white aatln, petticoat of bluo and white brocade, elegantly draped diagonally across the front with flounces of round point clusters of lilies of the vailey and forget me nots caught up the flounce and adorned the petticoat. Mrs.

Lester Wallack wore a oharmlng toilet of cream colored silk, with drapery, of embroidered orepo caught together with white lilacs; low, square corsage, waist finished with old point laoo; dlamoud necklace and antique bracelet of Roman gold in tho shape of a enako. Mrs. ChBrlcs Wallack were blue Bilk and blonde lace combined with vory long train, ornamouted with white flowors gold SDd diamond ornaments. Mrs. John Jay wore a dark blue brooade Bilk, out low neck and short sleeves, with long blue gloves.

Mrs. Clar onco Dinsmoro wore a Worth drcaB of white brocado silk, embroidered tullo sleeves, corsage decollete trimmed with whlto satin bows ornaments diamond necklace, earrings anl bracolets. Mrs. It. M.

Vail, President of tbe Society, woro a yellow oorded silk, with plaited flounces of yellow tulle these flounces trimmed with yellow satin ribbon. A fringe composed of long yellow grasses trimmed the tablier front, headed with brown beads and this again headed with red roses. It was made with long tho cuirass oorsags of silk, low neck, trimmed with a bertha of tullo and knots of grasses end red roses ornaments, diamonds and sapphires, with necklace of the same and ornament for the hair. Mile. Aimeo wore a light shade of bluo pompadour corsago, trimmed with Spanish laco; pink tobcs in her hair; very long train.

Miss Adole Cooper woro a Worth dross, made with square train of palo blue silk, with sides formed of plaltlcgs of crepo Ilsso over this waa draped white silk grenadine, beginning at the left side and laid in soft upturned plaits across the front at tba left it was caught In large loops, and then thrown oarelessly across the train in festoons, each festoon hold in place by a spray of wheat and oats, sprinkled with sliver powder corsage a la Pompadour, trimmed with lace the sleeves reached to tho elbow, and ou the left shoulder nestled a spray or frosted wneat an oats; diamonds and pearls completed the costume. Miss jlia Vail, of Brooklyn, wore a ball dress of wl. tulle, made over silk, en train, Bkirt trimmed with suaii.i of tulle, which were trimmed with bands of satin, theso bands heading a deep fall of Spanish lace, beaded with white bngles; garlands of apple blossoms from tho sldo, falling toward the bottom of the train; Pompadour corsage, trimmed with the lace and apple blossoms, elbow sleeves of lace, oanded with satin. CONGRESSIONAL SUJ1JMRY. A bill was passed in the House yesterday which provided that the naval authorities shall remove the bodies of tho officers and men who were lost in the wreck of tho Huron for burial in the Naval Cemetery at Annapolis, and reimbursing tha relatives for ex penses already iucurred in removing bodies from tbe coast of North Carolina.

The bill included the relatives of the men lost from the wrecking beat, B. A J. Baker. A great number of petitions from all parts of the country were offered in tha Senate yesterday. was to prohibit, by Constitutional amendment, Slates from disfranchising citizens on account of sex; another for a commission to inquire into the alcobolio liquor trafflo and against revision of the tariff until Congress shall have ascertained by inquiry the condition of tha business of tho country.

A resolution was adopted, providing for a com mittee of seven to inquire and report what measures oan be devised to promote a commercial intercourse with Mexico, and establish a Just and peaceful condition of affairs on tho border. Tho Deficiency Appropriation bill was reported bask, and tho House voted to concur in certain of the Senato amondmenta and not in others. Tho bul therefore, goo3 back Io tho Senate Congressman Smalls, of Bouln Carolina, appeared in his Boat Monday for the urei "ma einoo nis ureal, trial wuvlctioo in Columbia. We desire to state here that no man charged with official responsibility in Brooklyn oan do otherwise than resist the ronewal of tho soven per cent, default law this Winter, at Albany, and all who are in arrears for taxos ought to take advantage of it before tho 1st of May next. If by that time the law will not have subserved the purpose for which it was enacted, it never will, and it must be abandoned.

The Eastern Question. It is possible that the hopes of peace raised by tho fall of Kars and the surrender of Os man Pasha at Plevna may not be realized. The Turk is a very uncertain quantity. He astonished Europe by meeting Eussia single handed. His amazing vitality on the battlefield has been a very grim commentary upon the various funeral discourses proached upon his nationality.

He may now resolve to continue tho war, although tho wisest Christians have concluded that a further struggle must end for him in deeper disaster. Still we may assume that he is completely beaten, and tha. a truce will shortly be obtained, and upon that assumption some consideration of the Eastern question as it now appears to diplomatists is in order. Tho Eastern question is not what it was in 1853 when the Crimean war began. At that time Prussia was a second class power.

Austria was at the head of the Gorman Confederation. Italy had not attained to unity. Cavour and Mazziui were dreamers aud Victor Emanuel was only King of Sardinia. France was supposed to bo tho arbiter of Europe. Denmark had a significance and was looked upon asjnn ally that England could call upon in the last emergency.

Tho Liberal party in England believed that the integrity of Turkey was necessary for the protection of British interests in tho East, and Gladstone was a member of tho ministry that arranged the alliance against Eussia. To day, Austria is at the mercy of Germany, led by Prussia. Little Denmark has sunk out of sight. France is dangerous to no power. England has changed her col lonial policy, and the Liberal party, led by Gladstone, believes that British interests would suffer in no respect if the Turk were driven out of Europe and Armenia surrendered to the Czar.

The greatest writers in England are friendly to Russia. John Bright; Fronde, tho historian; Freeman, the historian of tho Norman conquest; Thomas Carlyle and other conspicuous leaders in the domain of thought join with Gladstone in declaring that Eussia ought to control the Black Sea, and that to close the Dardanelles to the Cznr's ships of war is an outrage under which tiiat jiotentate ought not to rest. There is no power in Europe disposed to resist a partial dismemberment of Turkoy. Even the Disraeli ministry have givon notice that their chief concern is with tho Suez Canal and Constantinople and that if these be untroubled by invasion the Queen's government will not move. Tho Eussians have modified their views.

There is reason to believe that they no longer hope or wish to capture Constantino pie, that they have modified materially the old programme for sweeping the Turk out of Europe, and that they have set their hearts upon Armenia rather than the Danubian provinces. In brief, the Eastern question has lost much of its significance for every power but Turkey and Eussia, and for these two it has been modified. The Turk is by no means so eiok as he was, and the Russian has oircumscribed his ambition. The question in its plainest terms appears to be this Shall tho Turk retire from Bulgaria and Herzogovinia, grant to tho Eussians possession of Ears and Batoum and yield This tent up the keys of the Dardanelles would not to any considerable ex lessen his revenue or weaken his fighting power but would very greatly dimin ish his territory, and would practically end his control over Christian people. It does not appear that there is any European power save England disposed to go to war to answer that question in the negative, and at most England is only concerned in the proposition that effects the Dardanelles.

Tho Lib oral party led by Gladstone would be glad to see the Eussian piogramme as here expressed fully carried out. The conservative party will hesitate Ion gbof ore risking a war for the control of the Black Sea. But supposing conservative Eugland to be resolved to resist Eussia, the fact arises that Germany must be takou into account Austria must be regarded, aud Italy has soma influence on the Adriatic Sea. If the Eussian dosigns are satisfactory to theso throe Powers, it is to the last degree improbable that any conservative ministry oan bo found to make war for tho purpose of restricting the size of a Eussian fleet, where the English fleet must, for the next century, at least, be amply ablo to protect British oommerce. The peculiarity of the Eastern question to day, as contrasted" with its shape twenty five years ago, is in the fact that the views of England have been so essentially modified, and her possible allies so greatly weakened, that Turkish integrity is a Turkish and not an international affair.

I.outf Is laud Pastimes. The philosopher who told his biographer that a history of his life which did not contain his famous saying, "Let mo enjoy Ui6 'sports of a nation, and I care not who doos "its hard work," would bo glaringly incomplete, was evidently a gentleman and a scholar, a perfect Ulysses, "over wandering with a "hungry heart" for novelty. Wo are not personally acquainted with this incomparable human being aro ignorant even whether he was a Hindoo pundit or an Ethiopian cannibal a slaveholdiug Cuban or the first gentleman in Europe. The human mind, however, is prono to the concrete, and loves to embody an abstract idea iu some easily apprehended form. In looking over the roster of great Americans we find two porsons only to whom the phraso can bo attributed.

One was Benjamin Franklin, the other is Eobert P. Schenck. Since the present eye praises the'present object see Shakspeare we incline to the belief that it was our late Minister to England who thus anticipated history and eclipsed Tup per. The belief is strengthened by the truly missionary spirit in which that esteoined person crossed the Atlantic. He looked with a tearful eye upon the field ripe for the harvest, and doubtless pondered with a saddened heart tho conservatism which clung to long whist and cricket.

Once installed as the representative of a great and progressive country, Mr. Schenck proceeded in the execution of his benevolent design, introduced tho art of gambling in mining stocky and published bis "Hand Book of Poker," which placed for ever tho second initial in his illustrious name. It is, therefore, doing no violence to probability to suspect Mr. Schenck of some day writing a sort of Peter Parley Encyclopedia of the sports of all nations, and as the Eaole is at all tirnos willing to help even the humblest with its information, we lay before him a brief abstract of what he ought to do, dwelling with pardonable local pride upon the contributions which Long Island will furnish to his forthcoming volume. He will observe, and may devote several chapters to an elaboration of tho fact that most countries have their national games.

Tho Spaniard finds enjoyment in witnessing the perforation of a professional abdomen by the horn of a Castilian bull the Frenchman, according to the opera bouffes and dramas of contemporaneous interest, languidly passes his days in scheming how to obtain possession of his best friend's wife, or dropping in a perfect hailstorm from the bridges of Paris into the turbid waters of the Seintf tho German devotes himself to a long stemmed chins pipe,.