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JB the Governorship, there was no grumbling when he was set aside and Mr. Tilden received THE SCANDAL. ON LOOKERS. A NUISANCE. "Lord," when created a Baron, convey any seat in the House of Lords, nor in the House of Commons, to which latter he had to be elected by the suffrages of a borough, just like the late Lord Palmerston (also a Baron).

As one of our contemporaries truly says, "John "Bright, M. is not the Hon. John Bright," but it might have added that, while a member of Mr. Gladstone's cabinet, he was ex officio, entitled to the prefix of "The Right Honora that his decision that the Chair had been sustained was wrong. After a fair rontino matters wore attended to Alderman Kenna again took the floor, and, in an excited zzuuuwr, said that he bad a communication to read which would show that Mayor Howell waa in the performance of his duties.

Ho thereupon read the Domination for President of the Board of City Works of Frederick S. MaBsoy, the present incumbent Mr. Kenna was declared out of order by tho Chairman, but persisted in reading the document. President Ray threatened to order the Sergeant at Arms to taka Alderman Kenna from tho room; but tbe latter, stepping from his seat aud advancing in front of the clerk's desk, began reading tho oiUdal notification of Mayor Howell to the heads of departments that he had resumed the duties of Mayor at his house. Once more President Ray called the Alderman to order, and rapped loudly with his gavol, drown PtefeaaosUiiak, who had own teaching mualo in tout family Mr.

Sprague None whatever. 80 far as I know, Linck ia a gentleman and a dooent man. Conkling is neither. Visitor Will yon bo offended if I ask yon If tod had been drinking previous to your recontre with Mr. Conkling? Mr.

Sprague So that la part of the atory now, ia it 1 Well, I taU yon, honestly, I had not a drop of wino or other Uqnor in me at the time. I was not under alcoholic influence Had I been I should not havo givon Conkling five minutes to leave the premises. Visitor Onco more, Mr. Sprague, will yon say explicitly that you ordered Mr. Conkling to quit this house, and threatened to shoot him if he did Hot immediately comply 7 Mr.

Spraguo That is precisely what I did. Visitor Shall you publish any statement ot tho affair over your signature 7 Mr. Sprague I shall not. evening, sitting over his Greek texts in hia library, she goaded him beyond control, and with ono blow as he swore solemnly he killed her. Horror stricken at what he had done, he hid the body in a oloset, where it was discovered by the servant.

His death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. No word of justification can be said for him yet so much as this may be said with truth that the man who marries a "spoilt child" sows for himself a harvest of misery and regret, of suffering and humiliation, for which divorce may be a medicine, but death is the only cure. A Good Man's Opinion. Rev. Thomas K.

who recently discussed the issue of the Federal Election laws in the Elmira Gazette, made some very strong points which aro worth quoting. They are such points as will naturally occur to all thoughtful and unprejudiced persons, but none the less do they noed to be reiterated the nomination. Kings Coijaty rolled up a splendid majority for the nominee, and there were no stronger supporters of Gover nor Tilden than have been found in the ranks of the Kings County Democraoy. The same may be said concerning Governor Robinson who was not the first choice of Kings County, our delegation preferring Mr. Dorsheimor.

It is thus that the Democrats of this county have secured the esteem and gratitude of the party, and it is because they have al ways been consistent, fair, and devoted to the best interests of Democracy, that our delegation may be expeoted to exert an import ant influence the coming convention, Judge Church and all other Democrats may be confidently assured that that influence will always be exerted to unite the party and secure the triumph of Democratic principles, Ii Kings County is to be the umpire in this "fight," her decisions will be given with such fairness and discretion as will commend them to general acceptance. Smith, Petry and Powers. The three Republican Aldermen who joined the Democrats yesterday in resisting the attempt of Ray to embezzle the powers of Mayor Howell will, we are sure, have the hearty commendation of every honorable member of the Republican party. They showed by their manly action that the sense of decency is not dead in the organization, and that there is a Republican sentiment which prefers to forego office rather than obtain it by the methods of the impostor and the sneak thief. The question before the Board was not ono of politics but of larceny.

They were not asked to 6ay whether Democrats or Republicans should fill the commissions, but whether the offices should be 6tolen in the absence of tho official whom the people elected to bestow them. Had Ray been possessed of the powers of tho Mayoralty, every man in the Board with a spark of honor would have turned with loathing from tho work of encouraging his scandalous undertaking, for it would havo involved no less than an approbation of tho doctrine that a trust may be betrayed if disease has furnished tho betrayer with an opportunity to carry out the project. As it was, these gentlemen knew as every member of the Board did that Ray was not Mayor, that the powers he assumed to exercise were again in the possession of the man chosen by the peoplo to exercise them, and that what they were urged in the name of the party to favor was a felony of a peculiarly repulsive type. That they will bo abused by tho creatures who applauded the debasement of Shannon is as certain as that the grossest corruption gratifies sueh carrion crows when it is in their favor, and the plainest manhood pains them in the extreme when it stands between them and tho prosperity of some such scheme as was defeated yesterday. Iffonest John's Example.

The Eagle has mentioned the fact before that whenever there is any particularly dirty piece of political business to be done, Honest John Freiich will be found in the midst of it. He was on hand yesterday, and we doubt not would have been happy to open the proceedings with prayer. There was a peculiar propriety in having this truly good man conspicuously active in the attempt to rob a sick man of his official powers, for it was thereby shown that those who aro engaged in the lowest chicanery need not be deprived of the odor of sanctity a fact which but for the example of Mr. French would find few believers. It must do much to encourage sinners to avail themselves of religious consolation, when they see that a man may be prominent in the church without being bound to keep hia word or havo deference to the rules of common decency.

This saintly person was effusive in his sympathy for Mayor Howell, and as we showed last night, urged his Honor to go to the country, assuring him, by messenger, that he would be no party to the transaction of any official business that might annoy him during his absence Tho meek and lowly way in which tho good man broke his promise must do much to commend religion to tho esteem of pocketbook droppers and sneak thieves. Wo see by one of the morning papers that Hon est" John was much shocked by the beha vior of the Democrats yesterday. We trust theehock will soon pass away, and that in a few days his moral nature will be found as ro bust as ever. The "Spoilt Child" as Wife. The ex wife of the Rev.

Dr. Newman Hall, of London, oame of an excellent family, was the only child of a distinguished physician, and was represented in the evidence at the divorce suit as having been from early child hood "a spoilt child." A few years since an other divorce suit made a far greater sensation in England, for the parties moved in the inner most circle of the plutocracy, and the erring lady was what ex Wife Hall happily is not, the mother of children. Tho Hon. Mrs. Gurney, wife of one of the wealthiest bankers in Lon don, was depicted at her trial as "a spoilt child," and her maiden and matronly mis conduct fully verified the description.

She had many advantageous offers of marriage One of them camo from an excellent clergy man, the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, now Lord Bishop of Norwich.

The "spoilt child," wrting to a female confidante about the theo logical proposal made to her by this respected gentleman, who, putting his gown and bands asido is by no means a bad looking fellow, re marked, "Just as if I would marry a thing like that." An officer in the army next pre sented himself, a humble suppliant at the spoilt child's feet, but though in the abstract she might say, Ah, que faimele militaire," the warrior's sword clanged through her an cestral hall on the thigh of a rejected suitor, An amiable and generous banker was mora suc cessful, and became tho father of her children, some four or nve in numoer. there is satiety even in wealth and tho salons of fashion. The Hon. Mrs. Gurney was, like Mrs.

New man Hall, of a "horsey" turn of mind. She found, like Mrs. Hall, her affinity in an un couth stable boy, redolent of the sweet perfumes of the Btablo. Physical affection is the admirable physiological term applied to this divine afflatus by tho counsel in tho Hall case it seems to feed and grow on the aro matic whiffs of the livery stable. After much long suffering and forgiveness, Mr.

Gurney obtained a divorce, and the little children hove lived on to blush at their mother's name. The spoilt child has abundant opportunities for inflicting upon the husband however strong, noble and manly, as Newman Hall is the meanest and most irritating of petty tortures. She can fly into a rage about nothing, and raise a domestic tempest so resonant that tho policeman shall pause thereat upon his beat and knocking at the door ask what the disturbance is about. When her husband is writing for the press, or for the pulpit, Madame Virago, nee Mademoiselle Spoilt Child, oan upset tho inkstand, read or sing aloud in mockery, tell him she hates religion, destroy his manuscript and then tell him she is going to the livery stables to meet her dear and sympathising friend the hostler, who, she insists, shall be forthwith invited to become a daily visitor at the house. There is an Episcopal minister in England who, like Dr.

Hall has obtained his divorce. He also blighted his life through marrying a spoilt child. In fighting about the children she delights to abuse the Judges, and one of them good naturedly told her the other day "I "don't mind how you abuse me when the "Courtis over, but you must kindly wait un til then, for your language to me here ren "ders yon liable to punishment." A well known Latin hexameter verse tells us: "Qutta cavat lapidem, non vi std tcepe cadendo; the drop of water hollows the stone, not by force, but by constantly falling. As another proverb puts it "The last straw breaks the camel's back." A few years since a horrible tragedy resulted from the same sort of incessant aggression and annoyance on the part of wife, which must have made Dr. Newman Hall's life a weariness to him, and which has compelled him in his sixty fourth year to seek the final intervention of the law.

In this case also the parties concerned were a clergyman and his wife, and tho poor murdered woman was a "spoilt child." The Rev. John Selby Watson, M. Head Master of Stockwell Grammar School, London, was a fine classical scholar, and translated Xenophon, Thucy dides and other authors for Bohn, the well known publisher. His unhappy wife could never let him rest. She persecuted him with her mocking tongue and frivolous behavior, with her unrelenting ill humor and hourly contradiction and perversity, until one Sabbath in It be a to It FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1679.

THis Paper has tbe Largest circulation of any Evening Paper Published In tbe United States. Its value as on Advertising Medium is therefore apparent. Yesterday's Proceedings in tbe Alder manic Chamber. The outrage on common decency which has been in progress for several weeks past at the City Hall, culminated yesterday in an attempt to seize the chief departments of the city government in open defiance of law. The stupid knaves who thought they saw in tho sickness of Mayor Howell an opportunity to get access to the City Treasury by thrusting their pais into the commissions, made desperate by the information that the Executive, who has done so much to destroy their power, was rapidly recovering and was able once more to transact the business of his office at home, resolved to confirm for office nominees sent in by one Ray in manifest violation of law, trusting that what was gained by chicanery might in some way be held by force.

Mayor Howell, prostrated by his long battle against the combined political thieves who had plundered and wero bent on plundering still more tho municipality, had hardly betaken himself to his sick room when Kay rushed with all his native boorish alacrity into the official chamber full of the purpose which, developed yesterday afternoon, was, with an effrontery rarely equaled, avowed at a time when the avowal might have had the effect of bo intensifying the disorder of the Mayor as to destroy bis life. It is unnecessary to say that no gentleman would have dreamed of taking such advantage of the contingency, and that no per son actuated by common bouesty would either encoura'ge the proceeding or participate in tho profits of it. The most besotted blockhead is capable of understanding tho bearing of the fact that when Mr. Howell was elected Mayor he was intrusted with all the powers of the office for two years. That trust was as distinctly reposed in him for the general guidance of our municipal affairs as is tho power given to any captain of a sea going ship to steer his vessel to a specified port.

What would be thought of the mate of a vessel, who, finding the captain taken sick during the voyage, should because he was for tho time being in command swerve her from the well understood course into some nest of pirates, avowedly to make the previous efforts of her superior officer Of no avail This is precisely what this fellow, Ray, essayed to do. Instead of faithfully adhering to tho course laid down by the Mayor, he osten tatiously sot about a piece of treason, for which he would nave been nangea to tne yara arm the had he perpetrated it on board any well ordered merchant ship. Those who defend such behavior would defend any breach of faith however abominable, if it enriched them or forwarded some favorite proj'cct. Such action is only possible to a man who is destitute of honor himself, and iiersuaded that nobody else is controlled by its dictates. It is the action of a pirate, relying upon the co operation of a crew of cutthroats.

Our reports last evening showed how the infamous scheme was brought to naught. The spirit and vigor with which tho Democratic Aldermen resisted the attempt of the conspirators to override the law and force their creatures into tho Departments cannot be too highly commended. They would have been amply justified as representatives of the city had they, in view of the attack upon its interi thrown every one of the conspirators head long from the windows of the chamber. No man is required by law to let a robber carry off his property because there iB no duly appointed officer at hand to arrest him. There aro certain common rights which every citizen is at liberty to defend with his own right hand.

Every Alderman is no less bound to rcs'st a jjalpableactof usurpation such as was attempted yesterday afternoon. There was a fellow presuming to act as Mayor in the face of the fact known to everyone, that he was not Mayor, and he had about him a gang of kindred spirits pledged to sustain the usurpation. To say that the Democratic Aldermen were bound to let the outrage progress, and look, at some remote day, to the courts for redress, is to drivel, not reason. Their plain duty was to use every legal means at their disposal, and, when a disposition was shown to override their rights under parliamentary law, to prove, as they did, that they would neither submit to chicanery nor terrorism. When Ray decided that the Board had voted to sustain him in the role of Mayor, he knew that he had affirmed a glaring falsehood, and had the Democrats manifested the least disposition to acquiesce in it, they would have been entitled to tho contempt of every oitfzon who understands that those who claim rights must be prepared to maintain them.

Ray had to acknowledge the truth when he saw that the falsehood would not be tolerated. The subsequent attempt of this person to silence Alderman Kenna was of a piece with the first ruling. He knew well that it is always in order for the Mayor of the city, when there is no other business actually in hand, to address the Board either directly or by proxy. Alderman Kenna was exercising the most obvious of rights when, having obtained the floor, he laid before the mombers the Mayor's courteous announcement that he had resumed charge of his official business. For the Democrats to have permitted his removal from the chamber, by the order of the fellow who had but a moment before insulted the whole body by declaring a'rnling sustained that had been defeated, would have been proof thatjhey were not fit to speak for any constituency not made up of imbeciles.

The effect of yesterday's proceedings will be salutary in the extreme. A long time will pass before any other Ray sets up as a bogus Mayor, or any of his ilk undertakes to bulldoze Brooklyn Democrats. Riotous demon strations are always to bo deplored, if avoidable, but a little riot is a good deal better than the spectacle of tame, craven submission by representatives to an outrage on themselves and their constituents. Two of our weekly contemporaries have been engaged in an amusing controversy about the name and titles of Lord Macnulay. One of them, prompted perhaps by recollecting the elder Weller's injunction, "Spell it with a wee, Sammy spell it with a wee," put an for an a in the last syllable of the name.

This the other side denounces as a stupid blundering orthography," but surely wrong spelling is not orthography at all, since orthos is Greek for right or correct. Then both parties fall to mutual correction as to the prefix "Honorable;" the ono affirming that it was derived from his being a Member of Parliament, the other that it came with the title Lord," from his beingmade a Baron. Hero both are amusingly right and wrong. Lord Maoaulay was never Honorable" at all, but he was "The Right Honorable" long before he was created a Baron, and he derived the prefix not from Parliament, but from being a member, of the Supreme Council of India, whioh wai tantamount to being a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, every member of which is, as officio, a "Right Honor, "able," as the Right Honorable W. E.

Gladstone, ex Prime Minister, and tho Eight Hon. W. H. Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty," both of them commoners without i he to the be In tho to of in and to an the to A Stormy Interview Between Mrs. Sprague and her Husband.

They Return to Narrsgansett Pier from Providence and Quarrel In the House of a Railroad Conductor The ex Governor Openly Charges his Wife with Violating her Marriage Vows The Children Given in Custody of the Father The Entire Family at Canonchet What the Parties Say. The latest development in the Sprague scan dal waa mane publio this morning. For the first time since the row on Friday last, Governor and Mrs, sprague yesterday met at Narraganisett Pier. It is said that after Mrs. Sprague left Canonchet on the day of tho oncounter between her husband and Senator Conkllne ane saia one would never sleep under the same roof with Mr.

Sprague again. During the Interval between ex Governor Sprague's drive to tho Pier and his return to the house Mrs. Sprague hastily packed up a few articles of clothing ana hurried out of the back gato of tho grounds, accompanied by her three little girls, and leaving Wlllio, thepon, at his father's house. She went to the Tower Hillttotel, where she remained until tho next morning whon she took the train for Governor 8prague went to Providence by another train on tho same day. While In Providence Mrs.

Bprague lived in entire secluaion in the Narragansetl House and did not see her husband or have any communication with him bo far as can bo learned. On Monday Governor Sprague went to Canonchet, left again and returned on Wednesday. Yoaterday afternoon Mrs. Bprague arrived at Nar raganeett Pier, accompanied by a friend, Miss Emma Fosdick, of Stamford, and.Mr. Thoiupsou, a lawyer, partner of Rowland HaBsard.

Mr. Thompson drove down to Canonchet to get some clothing for Mrs. Sprague and her children.Mrs. Sprague remaining meanwhile In the house of Conductor Halo, near the station. Mr.

Thompson was met at Canonchet by Governor Spraguo, who, after some conversation, deciaed to return with the lawyer to Conductor Halo'B house. Thero the husband'and wife met in a room with Mr. Thompson, Miss Fosdick and Mrs. Hale present. A very stormy intorview of an hour followed between Governor Spraguo and his wifo.

Governor Spraguo began by demanding the return of the three little girls. The Governor waa laboring under strong but suppressed excito ment during the entire interview, lie accused Mrs. Sprague of poisoning tho minds of his children against him and alienating the affections of tho boy, Willie, through the influence of the German tutor, Linck. Mrs. Spraguo in turn accused her huBband of general brutality when under tho lufluenco of liquor, and of circulating baso aud unfounded Btorlcs against hor character.

She said that on moro than ono occasion sho had been in peril of hor life from him, referring distinctly to ono occafion when he had pointed a loaded pistol at her, threatening to shoot her. Governor Sprague reforred to Senator Conkling's intimacy with Mrs. Sprague, and she repelled any insinuation of wrong doing on her part with great indignation. At last Governor Sprague Baid: "Do you intend to return to Canonchet 'I fear for my life if I do," she replied. "I uovor harmed any one," waa tho Governor's answer, "and you are safe," Aftor many demands on tho part of Governor Spraguo for the return of the chUdren, aud firm refusals on tho part of Mrs.

Spraguo, a consultation was held with Mr. Thompson aud with another lawyer, a Mr. Skinner, who had been summoned from the Atlantic House, and it was decided that tho children should bo surrendered to their father. He placod them in his carriage with thoir nurso, who had accompanied Mrs. Spraguo from Providence, and drove to Canonchet.

Mrs. Spraguo waa greatly agitated aftor tho departure of her children, and finally decided that Bho would follow them to Canonchet. Accordingly, after nightfall, sho WOB also drivon to the splendid mansion which sho had left under such sad circumstances a week before and within which so many brilliant companies havo gathered in tho days when the husband and wife were younger in their married Wo. Mrs. Sprague waa accompanied by Mr.

Skinner, who, at her request, remained in the hoiiEe over night. Sho was very anxious that MIsb Fosdick should also accompany her, but this the Governor positively refused. Miss Fosdick is an intimato friend of Mrs. Spraguo, and has often before beon a visitor to Canonchet. Thero was another stormy scone iu consoquonco of the Governor's refusal.

Last night the house was closed aud dark. Mr. Thompson declines to make any statement what ever of tho interview, and all cards are rofusud at the doors of tho houBe. Mrs. Skinner remains at tho Atlantic Hotel.

There has boeu many reports of an intended divorco suit on the part of Mrs. Spraguo, aud a counter suit on tho part of the Governor Mrs. Sprague naming her petition iroquent alleged acts 01 orutanty oy the Governor, at times imperiling hor Ufa, as welt as referring to the temporary insanity of her husband from the effect of continued indulgence in liquor Governor Spraguo, iu his cross petition, making Senator conkhng a co rospondeut in allegations of iuiide ity but tho moeting last night may offect an entire ohauge iu sueh intentions, if thoy wero indeed ever entertained. GOVERNOR SriUGUK INDIGNATION. An Associated Press dispatch from Narragansott Pier, dated yesterday, says, that on the morning after the sceno at Canonchet, last Friday, and thesubsuqueut inectiug of ex Senator Sprague and Senator in the vlhago, Mrs, Spraguo went to Providoncc lor tho purpose of consulting her lawyers, who are prominent inon.

'ibis was alter declaring that sue would never livo with her husband again. Whan Mr. Spra read the letter published from Mrs. Sprague to day he declared that it was a tissue of falsehoods; thr.t so far from keening her without funds ho had but a very short time since giveriher several thousands of d.illars. air.

opraguu met uis wue uero iu uny anu uau a sioriny interview with her, in which he charged her with having boeu unfaithful to her vowb with some one whom be refused to name. Thero ia no mistake at all about this. as it wa3 in tho preseuco of witnesses. The Governor took charge of his children, and said that they should never again be in the custody of such a woman. A'l sorts of rumors pre vail here, but they must be taken with allowance.

FriendB of Mrs. Spraguo assort that the Governor was drunk when ho made the terrible accusations to day, but there ia the most po3iti.e testimony that not only was he not drunk, but that ho had not even been drinking to day. It 13 truo, also, lhat their interview was a most unpleasant one. Mrs. Sprague did not come bore with tho object of seeing her husband, but only to make final arrangements for collecting at Canonchet what belonged to her there and re moving her trunks to Providence.

Hor friouds assert that sho has consulted the very Deat legal aav ice, ana that she did not return to Governor Spraguo's house by their advice. Mrs. Snrague floes fcway from here "to morrow, the children remaining with tho father. It ia a matter of common rumor here that Governor Spraguo did not know of Senator Conkling's presence at Canonchet on Friday last until ha learnod it in the village. The rumor that is most current, and one that is nartiallv corroborated.

1b that Governor Snraaue ar rived at Canonchet Iat at night and immediately retired. His presence was only known to the servants. He breakfasted alone, It ho breakfasted at Canonchet at all, and in the forenoon appeared in the village Ho was at Billington's restaurant a while, and then went to a sort of c'ub house known as "Tho He spent some time there, aud tho report is that here he learned that Senator Coukhng was at Canonchet. One version is that, while playing a game of billiards at the club, a friend Baid, "I soo that the Senator is at Canonchet," and that Governor Spraguo asked at once when ho came. Seing told that the Senator had been thero a day or tivu, the Governor, with an expression of wrath, at once started for Canonchet, apparently very Indignant.

While in this state of mind, tho first person he saw at Canonchet wsb tho Gorman professor aud, already Irritated, he Btoppod long enough to have the encounter with Professor Linck. This over, he next sought aud found Senator Conkling. Every one who saw Governor Sprague last Friday eayg that he was pcrfeotly sober. What Mrs. Sprapuo Says.

Tho Providence Journal publishes the fol lowing extract from a private letter written by Mrs. Bpraguo to a friend, slnco the trouble between herself and her husband was made public As you must have surmised. Governor Soraeue's dis solute life and dissipated bablts long ago interrupted our marital relations, though I havo striven hard through untold humiliation and pain to hide from the world, for my children's eakes, the true condition of a tuignted, miserable domestic lire. About a year ago, even this poor Bemblance abruptly culminated, after a disgraceful orgio and arrest at Nan laskei neacn, witn tne circumstances ox which many people in Bhode Island are not unfamiliar. I then sought, with my little girls, the neighborhood 01 01a rneuas, ana tne eneiter or my honored father's former home.

There, dwelling almost within the sha dow 01 nis tomo, 1 leit more secure, less unprotected. Here kindly sympathy sought me out. and though covert malice pointed some censorious comments, relief came, and our circumscribed means were adequate our simple auu quiui muue 01 uie. Governor Snraene's irregularities havln beon visited upon him by the trustee administering his enibarassed estate, tne coniriDUtion toward the maintenance or myself and children, without a word of explanation to me, was suddenly out aown to a paipaniy inadequate sum. Even this waa remitted but for a few months then, owing to a complete rupture between Governor Sprague and the trustee, all remittances ceased, and fur six months past no money has been contributed toward the maintenance of his family or household by Governor Sprague.

In addition to greater wrongs, trades people to whom he was indented have been urgent in their demands for payment, but he gave no heed to the indebtedness, even answering, when pressed by me to find a way to meet these just demands and relieve me of importunities, that "I must look to my powerful Wash ington lrienaa ior aid," and, to my deep distress ana mortification, permitted, after a long delay, a bill for carriage hire for his mother's use, during a visit to me iu Washington, to bo paid by the gentleman who had recommended to us the stable from which the carriage waa hired. ThiB and other more unmanlv exhibitions have been incidental to tho past year, while the brutality of re wui oyouuj roptttitiouB ox similar scenes 01 violence and outrage enacted in former rears has finally driven us from the door, and filled the public prints" of the country witu a scandal too cruel to os endured without redresB. Governor Sprague's causeless and shameful persecu. tion of the children's teacher is literally true, as ho tells tbe etory, tbe real animus boing, as confessed, Governor Sprague'a unwillingness to be subjected to the restraint at the table, and in the household observances ot the constant presence of gentlemen. Tbe attempt to complicate Mr.

Conkling with thla matter is absurd. The two men never met. I believe, have never seen each other. Governor Sprague's indacenl affront to the guests in the house, waa most jprosa and without excuse. Mr.

Martin, whom I had met in a very precarious condition of health, en routt tor Narragansett Pier, I induced to go to Canonchot for quiet. and good nursing. He waa removed 'under Governor Spraguo'B threats of "murder to be done" at the imminent risk of hiB life. Mr. Conkling was, of course, as unconscious as I that Governor Sprague sought occasion to enact the tragic role of the injured husband; for, at their last meeting, not long since, Governor Sprague had sought from Mr.

Conkling not only legtl counsel, but accepted at his hand a favor, such as only the friendliest confidence could warrant. In his determination to overthrow Mr. Chafee as trus tee, and hoping to join forces with the creditor Interest to drive him from his post, Governor Sprague had carried away from the counting room of A. W. Sprague the books of the Quidnick Company, refusing to return tuem, Mr.

Chafee in turn refused, until these books wore returned, to permit Governor Spraguo to hold any busi Eoss relations with the concern, and, of oourse, refused to permit him to draw any money. This waa the situation of affairs which, bv coming to Ithode Island, I had hoped through some influence or other brought to iKsar on Governor Sprague, to help to set right, and to secure, by some means, a maintenance for tho four children, for whose wants and education I havo been and am now bearing the undivided burden. A conference with counsel employed by the firm achieved no results. Professor Linck, under a contract with mo for three months, was neither permitted to par form his duties nor paid and dismissed. We bad no ostensible means for living at Canonchet without incurring additional indebtedness, to which I refused to be a party.

In this awkward and painful dilemma I re quested Mr. uonaung, wno naa already uaon consuitea bv Mr. Sprague. and upon whose judgment and advice have safely relied in my own matters, to see Governor Sprague and try to ascertain what point there was in this proposed programmo of opposition, and what results wero likely to follow that would benefit or provide for the children. Mr.

Conkling stopped at Canonchet for this purpose, and waa awaiting Governor Sprague's return to seek an interview with him. when the now notorious outbreak occurred. If any hostile words were exchanged oetveen Mr. Oonklins and Governor Bnmsnn at Canonchet. thov alone know what thoy were, for no one else heard them.

What transpired in the villaxra I do not know beyond what is reported in the sensational accounts given in the newspapers. Coventor'! Sprajjue's Story. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who is personally acquainted with ci Ooveraor Sprague, had tho following conversation with him on August 11 Visitor Your trouble with. Mr. Conkling is the talk the wholo country.

Mr. Spraguo I am not snrprisod. Visitor Did you command him to leave this house? Mr. Sprague I did, and I ought to have done so before. Visitor Have you had any personal difficulty with a ly in of np the the and tho get tho due tho The Accounts Given of the Alderinanic Tempest.

Evidence not to be Misunderstood that the Democrats were Determined to Maintain their Bights by Force, if Ifecessary. jriio Difference Between a Knavish Uoor and a tieiulenfan. Trom the New York World. Alderman Kay, of Brooklyn, has earned his right to the pre eminence of the least modest politician of these two cltieB when Mr. George Bliss is off yachting.

Even Mr. George Bites, we trust, would blush, even If he blushed uneeen, if it occurred to him to at tempt tue acquisition 01 a municipal government by taking advantage of the illness of the Mayor. At any rate, Mr. Bliss never did attempt what Mr. Bay haa attempted.

What Mr. Bay has accomplished la apparently tho aggravation of an ilinBBs already serious; and if Mayor Howell shonld die it is just possible that Mr. ltay may begin to understand tho opinion which all decent persons hold of his conduct. Not that It will mako any practical difference to Bay, or that thero is any reason to bo liovo that Bay would not play over again to day tho pleasing game at which he waB caught and beaten yesterday if he thought ha had any chance of winning it, Tho wholo performance shows how far beneath the level of anything that can be called publio opinion Bay and tho Aldermen who acted with him live and move and have their being. Bay may or may not be capable of understanding that bis action is of precisely the same quality aa if he had become acting Treasurer instead of acting Mayor, and had taken occasion of tho illness of the Treasurer to distribute the municipal securities among his friends.

He may learn, however, what a man of right feeling and of a decant regard for publio opinion docs In such circumstances aa those in which ho has been placed by recalling the action of Mr. Vanco in this city. Mr. Yanco waa a Republican and Prealdent of tho Board of Aldermen, and was Acting Mayor after the death of Mr. Havemeyer and" until the inauguration of Mayor Wickham.

Mr. Vance waa, theroforo, much more of a than Mr. Hay can possibly bo while tho Mayor of Brooklyn ia alive. Mr. Vance, however, took pains not to embarrass his successor in tho olfice which ho happened to occupy, and omitted to fill vacancies which ho had a legal right to fill but which Mr.

Wickham had been elected to fill. Of course, such a precedent as this is thrown away on ltay. In fact everything would i)0 thrown away on Ray, with the posaiblo exception of cabbages. Tue Scene Described by I Various He Eorter. From the World.

The attempt of the Republicans at yesterday's special meeting of tho Brooklyn Hoard of AUler mon to capture tho city offices was a comploto falluro, but about as remarkable a phenomenon as a falluro as it would have been had it succeeded. Up to yestorday morning the ''situation" remained unchanged. Tbo appointment of one of a doubtful Alderman's friends to a position undor tho Board of City Works was enough of inducement to him to ro mciuber his pledges to tho Mayor, and tho olhers foil in line with the docility prospective openings for their friond i inspired. Unfortunately for Mclnr denuau liay and his follow plotters, tho nowB of tho change of baso on the part of their supposed allies did not reach them in time to interfere with a placid consumption of lunch, and between 1:30 and 2 o'clock they made their contented way ono by one to tho Common Council Chamber. The gleam of victory aud boor shone from their eyes ovon at that Btago, although what waa to follow had then been talked of publicly only in whla perR.

Tho Democratic Aidonnon, too, were promptly in their chairs. Nouoof their faoesshowod that anything unusual was Ilkelv to occur, and the Rnmililicans smiled beliiud their hands at tho prospect of the consternation that would follow AJderman Ray's bombshell of forty fivo nominations. The Kcuublicans wero naturallv cbaurincrt that their plot had beon frustrated by tho development of tho deep lying moral natures of three of thoir own bolief. but Boemed to be thankful that matters were no worse. It was some comfort to reflect that tho tussol had not advanced tlio interests of the other Bide materially, Mr.

Ray would still sit In the executive chair. So a few routine resolutions woro peacefully adonted. Then fiome of the members begau to look around for thoir hats and a motion to adjourn was momentarily expected wuen Alderman Houna rose with a bundle or papers In his hand, desira," ho said in bis blandest fashion. to present to this Board a communication which proves positively that Mayor Howell is in tho official performanco (gavel) of his duties (gavel, forte and staccato) as Chiof Magistrate of this city. (An avalanche of the gavel.) I will read what I have without troubling This comes first and is very shurt You'ro out of order you're out of order take your seat," yelled Mr.

Ray, Mr. Hay's gavel at tho aamo tiiuo not forgetting Its cunning. as 1 saiu," Aiuermau Kenna continued smilingly, this Is the Brat "To Ilia Hminruhle the Common Couneil "Gknti.emen In imrsuanco of the urovlslons of tho charter I hereby nominate, and with your assent appoint Frederick S. Maswny to lie President of the Department of City Works, iu place of Fredorick 8. Mas Boy, whoso term of ollice has expired.

Respectfully, "James Howell, Mayor. "The Rocond paper I will also read without the clerk's aid 'County of Kiugs, State of Now York Miohao! Short, being duly sworn, deposes gentleman is ou of order'' 'and says' gentleman must take lxU 'that upon tho (gavel iu chaotic Btate) fourteenth day' By thiH time the scene began to grow interesting. President Ray's gavol was hammering his desk with the force of a nilo driver aud the ra pidity of a sowing machine needle, aud President Ray's lungs were straining themselves In a style that wouid shame tho Bmall boy in a baseball match whoriO side had a man on tho third and two out with a tio game. Alde.rman Kenna was pitting him seii against nay, and Beomed llUelv to get the worst of it. Tho othor Aldermen and the Bpectators, being in duty bouud to let Mr.

Ray aud Aldurmau Kenna exorcise their freedom of speech, and, with an eye to history, yolled oncouraiiement first to one. then to the other, and then to both together. Tho chamber becamo a great stage, with two soloists aud an overwhelming chorus. Alderman Kenna saw that to bo heard to ad vantage he must cet closer to Mr. Rav.

With the affi davit bofore him, still reading it by Bnatchea, bo slowly edged around the room until he stood at the railing in front of Clerk Bishop's desk. Mr. Ray was about four inei iu iruui oi uim. "This la proof of service," yelled Mr. Kenna.

"Call tho Sorgeaut at Arms," chimed in Mr. Ray. "Further saya that" "Arrest this "As follows, to wit:" The chorus wero nutting in the fine work luitllv aU this time, when tho appearanco at Mr. Henna's side of a tall, brown bearded, pleasant lookiue man caused them to explode with a fiorcc yoll. Tho brown bearded man he was tho Sorgeaut at Arms, and has the misfortune to be named Ray puthis hand on Kenna'a arm.

'Dis ability which induced me' "Kenna went ou without noticing tho hand. "Arrest him taka him out shouted President Ray, and tho hand closed on Kenna' arm. "Let me alono," Kenna Bnarlod, turniug on tho mild faced oillcer relieve you from all' "Put him out! arrest mm Tho officer raised his other hand toward Kenna' arm, but a pull from behind forced It back to his Bide, a fist rapidly approaching his face set him back a Btop or to, wun Aiuermau Kane 01 me aixtn Hard, tumbling after him lu this assuring style, If yon lay your hands ou a member of Board I'll smash your no3e off you I We'll see, if you will try to arrest an Alderman." Officer Ray turned to fly. but on one side stood Phil Jjuny, me tievontn ward giant, with hia sleeves rollod up uuny naa leaped tne lour loot ran tnat Koopa tne reporters from contamination, with a "This looks like old times; oome on, you you," and on the other side was Jim Donovan, the Twelfth Ward Aldorman, with his shoulders striuned. darincr anv man to inter fere with an Alderman's sacred rights.

At Konna's side stood moro body guard of various sorts, while tho majority of the other City Fathers, In various pugilistio attitudes, were cither within the reporters' inclosure or were porched on tho rails ready to jump In at the first blow. A section of police who were on duty in tho room enjoyed the scene from a safe distance without venturing the RlllMc Interference. Tho final retreat OI the Sergeant at Arms having removed the probability 01 a rougu anu tumble fight, Mr. Konna went on, with President Ray's kind aid. to flnlBh reading tho affidavit.

VYhert'he hii Snihnii Mr, Hay ruled Wo? out of order aud deciarod the Board adjournod. Mr. Kenna appealed and Mr. Ray's big slouch hat bobbed through the crowd and disappeared, with him under it, behind the anteroom doorway. Mr.

Konna's appeal was bub tainoa ana mr. nay ajuss loiioweu tneir leader, From the New York Times. Tho Prosidout then announced a communication from the Acting Mayor. Instautly Alderman Kenna Jumped to his feet, and excitedly objected to the communication being read. Ho aaid there waa no Acting Mayor.

President Ray ruled Keuua out of order, and desired him to take his seat. The latter, shouting at tho top of his voice, said he defied tho Chair to make him take his seat no desired to appeal from tho decision of tho Chair. Ihe appeal waa put, and tho vote stood 12 to 12, amun, retry anu powers voting with the Democrats When Smith cast his vote, in a Bhaky, tremulous voice, against sustaining the Chair, Denny Short. the Mayor a factotum, applauded vigorously. Presi dent Ray, mistaking the appeal fora vote on an affirmative motion, declared the chair sustained, and dirocted the Clork to read tho communication.

The Clerk read I hereby nominate A. Stewart Rowley aa President of the Board of City Works, iu place of Frederick S. Ma sey." At this point Kenna, who had not resumed his seat, orieu out mat the appeal had been sustalued, and that ho defied the Chair to make Bnch a ruling. The President, aftor a short consultation, discovered tho error, and said "I don't wish to ho wrong, and the Clerk informs me that I am, and now that I see the matter in tho proper light, I believe that I am wroDg. The question was, shall the Chair be sustained, and it was lost oy a tie vote.

I wish also to state, however, that while I am President of this Board If any gentleman again assumes a defiant attitude to the Chair unnecessarily, I will order tho Sergeant at ArmB to arrest mm. lAie.y 11 nas been done on several occasions. It is unnecessary, because I think every member here anows mo. 1 am not easily scared, either by the fliee or calibro of any member of the Board. I wish to do my duty, and I will do it unflinchingly, fearlessly, neither oariug ior one member nor the other, I happen to tread on any one's toes." This little speech, delivered in a determined tone, had for the time a quieting enect.

Alderman Kenna said he had no intention of insulting tho President, but ho meant to maintain his rights by all the mental aud physical power he possessed. Some routine business was next transacted and then Alder man Kenna again rising said. "1 have a communication to read wnion is periect ana absolute prooi that the Mayor 01 tne uity 01 Jurooxiyn la in tneomciai perform ance of his duties as chief magistrate of this city." (Tak ing from his pocket a paper and reading.) "I hereby nominate ior rresioent 01 tne jjoaru 01 city WortB, Frederick S. Masaey." At this point the confusion becamo so great that nothing further could be beard. When Kenna first commenced to read, the President declared him out of order, and directed him to take his seat.

The order waa accompanied by a vigorous pounding on tho desk with the savel. Kenna paid no attention to the Chairman, but leaving his seat and advancing toward the deak. commenced to read In a loud voice the communication sent by Mayor Howell to the City Clerk on Wednesday, directing that officer to notify the heads of departments that Mr. Howell bad resumed his duties as Mayor. President Ray called on tho Sergeant at Arms to arrest Kenna and take him out of tho chamber.

Tbe Ser Seant at Arms, a large, stout man, advanced timidly and ud his hand on Kenna'B shoulder. Baying at tha same time, "Come along with me." Kenna threw up hia left arm and shouted, "Take your hands off me." This was Bignal for a grand rush on the part of the roughs in the lobby. Thoy bounded over the railings, overturned the chairs, and in their anxiety to get near tho Sergeant at Arms tumbled over one another. Alderman Kane, of the Sixth Ward, rushed at the frightened officer, and gripping him firmly by the neck raised one baud to strike him. Kane was followed quickly by Alderman McCarty, of tho Fifth Ward, and ex Alderman Dunno, who at one time figured prorninently in tho prize ring.

Tbe din was deafening. The rounhs. stimulated with drink and furiously angry, howled and swore. Men placed their hands on their pistol pockets, and the police crowded round the President, but took no other action. Had tho Sergeant at Arms attempted at that moment to arrest Kenna he would certainly have been seriously in jured.

President Ray had lost control of the Board. Mob law had been established, and the situation waa indeed alarming. Fearing that Btrious results would follow if any further attempt were made to remove tho refractory' momber, and finding that the Democrats would not take their seats. President Ray declared the Board adjourned, and taking up his bat left the chamber. Ho was qmckly followed by the other Republi cans.

Kenna, still standing In front of the desk surrounded by his body guard ot roughs, called out wildly that ho appealed from the decision ot the Chair. City Clerk Bishop took a rote, and declared the appeal suBtaiued, although there was not a quorum present. All the men in the room wore standing when the vote waa takep, and the pretended quorum waa secured by a Ring Democrat voting on tho name of Alderman Dwyer. Mr. Dwyer waa one of the first men to leave the room, bis seat being sear the door, when President Ray declared the Board adjourned.

Petry, 8miUi ana Powers, alleged Republicans, voted with tbo nine Democrats, but 13 votes are necessary to constitute a quorum. After the clerk had declared the appeal sustained, Alderman Kenna aaid that tho President had run away, and moved that Alderman Black, of the Fonrth Ward, be made Chairman. Tbe motion waa declared carried, and the roll being again called only 11 Aldermen answered were put down aa answering to their names. Black then announced that thero was no quorum present and that the Board stood adjourned until tho next regular meeting. From tie Tribune.

President Ray deciarod the Chair sustained, and ordered the reading of the paper to proceed. Tho City Clerk proceeded and read tho nomination of ex Alderman A. Stewart Rowley for President of the Board of City Worka In tho place of Frederick 8. Maaxey. At this point Alderman Kenna again objected, and said that his previous objection had been sustained.

President Ray consulted with, tho Clerk, and aoknowelaged I is of in On it is a by of the to tbe The New York Pilot OoniDiiasioriere to the Brooklyn Board of Health, Reiteration of Charges Against the Night Soil Contractor Pamping Liquid Ahom Jnations into tbe Slip AfBdarit of CitizensReport of the Dislnfector of the Pilot Commissioner Something for Contractor Shea to Answer. On tho 30th day of July last the President of the Board of New 1'ork Pilot Commissioners, Mr. Ambrose Snow, whose office is at Mo. 1 Burling Blip, sent a communication to the Rrooklyn Hoard of Health stating that filth was thrown Into the waters of Walla bout Day from the Urookiyn offal doci, Pier 1, and that the dislnfector of the Pilot Commissioners reported a canalboat loaded with night soil sunk in the Cob Dock also that it was the custom of the Brooklyn ulght soil contractor to pump tho liquid portion of his cargo Into the slip dally to the great annoyanco and Injury of peo pis having mnidcnces or business In the vicinity. Tha communication asked the Hoard of Health to abato tho nuisance.

To this communication Mr. La Fotra replltd, under doto of Augnut denying the allegations mado. It waa only the bllgo water tint wai puuiped Into tho dock so that the boats might bo kept afinat. Ho also said that tha canalboat sunk at the Cob Dock was empty and waa run on the flat to keep it from sluklng that only tho water leaking into the offal boats wa pumped Into tbo slip. He said that the Rrooklyn Board of Health eould not be deceived, as tho dlmeusloua the boau wero known.

He however asked for the evidence on which tho statements of tha Board of Pilot Commissioners were made. In anBwor to this the following letter, nEronT and affidavit was fowardod to tho lirooklyn Rnard of Health yesterday OrricE or tue Boaud of Commishowehs oy Pilots,) New Vonit. August 12. iHTj.f To the Honorable Board of Utalth of the Citsi of ISroob Itjn Gentlemen Your communication of the 6th in reply to nno from till" II ar.l of :10, ln'reci lvivt and a reply to yyurj has been delave 1 until tho return of our Inspector who ban been wut 'if town. In our commissi.

111 it in Htoteu (upon the evidence of our Inspector) that "a loaded night soil boat sunk at Cob Dock "was being pumped into the water of tho Bay." Alao that "it is the enst of the contractor to pump the liquid portion of his cargo Into the dally and "wo respectfully call tho attention of tha Department thereto" that abatement of tho nuisance may le effected. The reply of tho Department is understood to bo a general denial of tho charge, aud we are called upon for proofs which are accordingly herewith supplied. With respoc more to tho scow said to havo been sunk with her cargo of filth, which waa betaa pumped into tho Day, It will be observed that she la now lying still about ba'f full In the slip on tho Oovorn mont side, and maybe inspected by an ofl'jcor sou for that purpotMs. Tho letter and affidavit of citizens and officials haying business In that neighborhood, will bo found to fully substantiate the very moderaU charges made In ou: communication of July 30. Trusting that tho objectionable practice may bo etoppod, I remain by order of the Board, very roapeot fully, AumtosB Snow, President.

New Yoke, August 11, 1S7. Board of CommtWniwra of Pilot: Gentlemen Having made a second examination Into the manner of conducting affairs at Pier 1, Walla bout, I beg leavo to say that in my previous rcjiorl stated that there was a sunken night soil boat at tho Cob Dock, and that men woro there pumping" the night soil into tu basin. I found upou inquiry yesterday that on Tuesday last she was floated off and hauled Into the slip on the Government side, where she now Ilea aground. I wont on board and found that she In moro than half full of night soil, the openings of her dook boing partly covered with rough boards. I was in.

formed by tho wharfinger that only a few day, ago an old veHscl was brought to the dock to receive night soil; they commenced loading her, when they were obliged to pump out as fast as It was thrown in. Another Instance of loading an old hulk called tbo Hottentot, at tbo sams dock, with night soil cho also sank. A steaming was employed and brought alongside, and putnjicd her out Into tho slip. Tim next day sho was placed on tho berth to receive another cargo. Wm.

Ford, tho keeper of a saloon on lier Wallabout, stated to mo yesterday that on several occasion he bad g.mo on the dock when they were pumping out these vassels, and protested against their emptying such filth Into tho slip, but ho only received abuse from Shea, a brother of the contractor. In my opinion, gentlemen, the vessels used for night soil purposes are entirely unfit. All that I have seen are very old and scarcely able to hold together. Too much reltauro is placed on tho contractor for the faithful imrformanco of his dutteB. Very respectfully, Joseph Conway.

Cuiifuin Prtfident Hoard of Commissioner! of IHInt Wu, tho undenugned, citizens of the City of Rrooklyn, and uioKt of us doing liuine8S daily in the Immediate vicinity of the night soil dock at Wallabout Basin, do certify that we havo repeatedly seen within the past three uvuitbt men pumping a dark, thick and offonnlvo liquid from the night toll boats, when thoy were filled or partly with, night noil, which liquid floated and covered the surface of the water In tho Wallabout liaaln, and which we to have been night soil, produo ing the uiotU sickonlng olfect upon us. Aud wo belliive, further, that the waters in th baida are even to the Navy Yard and all around Cob Dock, by the presence of the night soil and offal boata in their prenont locality, U. Van Wyck Powell. Dockmaster. Joseph HoiiHiiTS, Pier 2, Wallabont.

Pkteh Cl'nninoham, lier 3, Wallabout. William Fohd, lier 2, Wallabout. (Ivuus D. Pier Wallabout. Cim.

T. Oiiotjan, Assistant Dockmaster, W. B. VrcTOR A. Snvier.

lier 3, Waliali out. W'M. Kase, No. 12 Fourth street, E. D.

Join Pier 2, Wallabout. J. Wallabout. Cboiw. AtwTis As Kent avenue and Cross street Wm.

Duefy. lier 'J. Walla! out. Victor KaKlt, 173 Uooruui street. State op YniiK, Chl or limn Affidavit of al.

persons to tho truth of above statements sworn to before Wm. II. t't'uTt AugUbt 11, 1879. C'oiuiuiiulouer of Deoda. POIH.

SKLI.EItS. Arret and IHncImrKi' of Four ot Them, The pool sellers iu Long Iidnml City nro masters of the situation, and their business is not Ukoly to be again Interfered with, as the police and other authorities In the city havo heretofore refinc to inlorfcro. Yesterday four officers from Jamaica raided tho pool rooms and made four arrcsti. From Harry Hill's room they took Jauerf Illigi, Irom LovelJ's room they took the proprietor, William Lovell, and from Kelly Biles" room they took Nicholas W. Mooney and John Quirk.

The priaonera wer arraigned before Justice. Bdtta, lu Jamaica. Counselor Noble appearei for them and ralaed Ihe question nf Jurivlirtlon. 1I read t'o Bectlona frora tho charter of Long Island City, tbe first depriving non resident Junlices of jurisdiction over crimes committed in the city, aud the reooud prohibiting the pervico of any criminal process nltliin the city by a non resident oDtable. Thw wora fatal objaotluns, and.

Justice iietti discharged the prHuiiers. BADl.Y KWISIH.RD. Harriet Day, a colored oman, residing at No. Wl rJalric' street, called at the Bergen street Station last night, and reporlej tnat wMI' admiring the show window lu Loner's utore ou Fulton street, yealerdaj afternoon, a colored man approached hr and told her that ho had Just found a bag of gold dollars and wished to exchange some of them for silver. fih unflUBpeci bought six of them for live dollars, but found that they were wurthle.

H0RE I'LECRO PWKUBQHtA. A cow belonging to Jacob Herat, a Now York butcher, having pleuro pneumonia, was condemned aud nlaugiib rcd yesterday at the Johnson avenue slaughter house and removedjto the offal dock. The fourteenth annual gathoring of the Fat Men occurred yesterday, at Gregory's Point, Norwalk, and the officers elected were President, Milliard Perkins, of Waterbury, who lacks four pounds of 400; the retiring president, Mr. O. W.

Bradley weighs 31J. Tbo Vice Preildut are, H. D. Busch, of.Hoboken, til Patrick Murphy, of 8auga tuck, 278 J. E.

Wheeler, of flaugatuck, 375 W. B. Sharp, of Daiibury, 218 Andrew Hull, of Danbury, Mu Thiodoro M. AmadaU, of Albany, 230 William Werner, of Now York, 330 A. (Wallace, of Brldneporl.

330; William H. Kluley. ot Berlin, 22J Jamea Illllendor, of Netr York. and J. A.

Knrr, of New York, 2T. Thero woro IfM members present, and the dinner provided consisted nf scventy flvo bushels of clams, three barrel of sweet potatoes, fifteen hundred pounds of Ash four thoueand ears of corn, fourteen hundred lobsters, and one thousand chickens. What was left of this food after tho members and their friends bad completed their meal, was given to the small boys who had oongregated around the enclosure. Since the new tenement houao law went into operation a great number of plans havo been submitted tothoNowYora Board of Health. Tha surveyors engaged In tenement house inspection havs completed 2,133 visits.

They constantly have a great number of complaints made to them, particularly on account of the Insufficient light and bad ventilation of ths hooseo. NOTICES. SUNDAY EAGLE. ORDER YOUR CARRIER TO LBAVB TUE EAULB O.I SM(1 8 3 ii uu A. AA A A AAA A A NN NH Ntti DO AS WELL AS ON THE OTHEB OF TUB WEEK.

CONTAINS ALL TUB NEWS, PRICE THREE CENTS. Parties desiring the StntDAT KacilB left at thai rat dence can tbtir adiirefu (o Wu office and tt will be aiven to the carrier wild lerfos the BaOU ia titlF district. THE REV. T. DEWITT XALMAQB'8 First letter, entuM "Orat Britain Through lHun Spectacle." fir to dtjm the NEW YORK tAUILt STORY NO NEED TO UO TO NEW YORK.

WHITE'S HAIR STORK, NO. 28S FULTON BTBBBT. To reduce atock. we are sacrificing 8,000 SwttatHM. Our goods at S3 our fjl al Si.So: oar S3 at THE SEASIDE LIBKABY.

Out this week, in clear, bold handsome type; 547. The (inker's Daughter, by Magdalsn St. John Thompwin, Louisa SUA A UirPs Rrance. F. W.

Robinson anvi. Kenton's Quest, Miw M. E. Braddoo ail. Tho Yellow Mask.

Wilkls Colhna ",2. Cousins, by I 11. Walford 563. Mignon, by Mrs. Forrester 5i.

mdoaie, by Alphonae HrORTINU. 10 Mo. lOo. 1 10a ro. sow.

lOe. KKJHTON BEACH FA1K UKOUND8. AUOUST 13, 14, 10. IB. 21 and KVRRY TUK8DAY.

THURSDAY AND SATURDAY During the season at 4 P. Jt Steeplecha aa or hurdle raoa each day. ing air. nenna voice. No heed Deing taxen 01 tne calls for order and tho continued rapping, President ltay ordered the Sergeant at Arms to arrost the offending member.

Thereupon arose a scene of tumult. As the Sergeant at Arms approached Alderman Kenna and said, "Come along with me," Alderman Kane, (Dem.) of tho Sixth Ward, and McCarty, (Dom.) of the Fifth Ward, sprang from their seats, ruBhed forward and loudly protested. They began to roll up thoir sleeves, when tho Sergoant at Arms foil back, whilo overy porson in tho room was on hia feet. Nothing could bo distinctly hoard amid the confusion. Hopeloss of restoring even the semblance of ordor, President Ray, who had not ceased calling for order, and rapping loudly with his gavel, shouted abovo the uproar: "It lmpoi alblo to transact any business.

I therefore doclare this Board adjourned." He and tho Republican momlwrs of tho Board, with the exception of Aldermen Powers Petry aud Smith, then left the room. From tho Herald. "A communication from the Acting Mayor," said Presldont Ray, handing the clerk the communication The Chair had no sooner made tho announcement than Alderman Kenna rose, and in a loud voice said "I object to any communication being read ot thlj time from the acting Mayor. Thero la do acting Mayor. The Mayor haa resumed tho discharge of tho duties of his ollice, and 1 ask, therefore, that the communication be returned to the source from which it emanated." Applause from the Democrats in tho lobby.

"I rule the gentleman from the Fourteenth out of order. The gentleman will tako his seat. Tho clerk will proceed to read the communication," cried tho President, and ho struck his desk with the gavel. AI.DEBMAN BAY MAKES A MISTAKE. "Then I appeal from tho decision of tlio Chair," exclaimed Alderman Kenno, who had remained standing.

"I call for tho yeas and nayB." The roll waa called, aud tho clerk, amid applause from tbo Democrats, announced tho result. "The vote stands 12 to 12." Aldermen Smith. Petry aud Powers had voted with the Demo crats. The latter party, therefore, felt sure that no appointments could be made, but to tho surprise of all President Ray announced, "Tho Chair is sustaiued. Tho clerk will proceed to read the communication from the acting Mayor." Mr.

Bishop, the clerk, proceeded to read "I hereby nominate A. Stewart Rowley as President of the Department of City Works in place of Fredorick S. Massey." AKlorman Kenna intorruptcd the reading, saying, "I object. I object to the document being read, on the ground that the Chair was not sustained by tho veto on the appeal. I defy you to rulo other than according to the rules of order.

You cannot claim the right to do otherwlHo," Applause and excitement.J president Ray The gentleman will tako his seat. I dou't wish to bo Insulted. After a brief confuronco with Mr. Bishop tho President said The clerk informs mo tnat I am wrong. When I seo it in tho proper light I Bee that I am wrong.

Tho question was. Khali the Chair bo sustained 7 and it was lost by a tio vote. But I xhall also state that whilo I am President of this Buarrt If any gontleman assumeB a defiant attitude to tha Chair uu neci'BjiarlJy that I will order tho Sorgeaut at Anns to arrest him. Lately it has boen done ou several occasions. It 1b unnecessary, because I think overy member bore knows mo.

I alu't easily scared either by the size or calibre of any member of the Board. I wish to do my duty, aud I will do it unflinchingly and fearlosaly. neither caring for one member nor another if I happon to tread on any one'B toes. Aldorman Kenna said he had nevor attempted to intimidate anybody by using defiant or insulting lan guage. "Idoprecato anything insulting," said tho Al dorman, warming up as ho went along but I do maintain tho right to stand upon this floor and exerclso my rights as an Alderman, with all tho power, mental or pnysical, that I may possess, and I do not propose to be trodden upon bv anv one.

I accent tbe aimlouv nf the President of thla Board, and if one Is required of mo I am ready to make It If I havo dono anything which requires it," A DISORACEPOTi SCENE. Two or throe routine naners were h8nded In 1it Ihn Aldermen and wore referred, when a sceno of turmoil aud excitement was sprung by the sudden and, to tho Republicans, uuoxiweted action of the Irrepressible Alderman Kenua, who rose, holding a paper before him, and addressing tho Chair, ho oxclaiun in as loud a tone of voice as he could command, I have a communication to read which is jnirfect aud absolute proof that the Mayor of the City of Brooklyn Is in tho official performance of his duties as Chief MagUtrato of this city. 1 hereby nominate for Prefidout of the Board of City orns rojencK a. Massey," read the Alderman. Tho President arose from his crlod out.

"Tha gontleman lu out of of order. Tbe from the Fourteenth will take his scat. I declare him out of ordor. If the gentlomau persists iu reading I will order the Sergeant at Anns to arrest him." There was commotion apparent upon all sides at this juncture, the political lookers on within the Inclosure began to move uneasily forward, and the Aldermen all turned toward the defiant Kenna. A buzz of voicos druwned what ho was saying, anil tho patriots" in the lobby rose and pressed forward to tho railings.

Alderman Kenna, insisting that ho was In order, loft his do.sk and walked towards tlio Clerk's desk, immediately in front of the chair, with the f.iouing document in his hand, which lie was shouting out and vainly endear oringt mako audlbte NOTICE OP BEHVICE. County of Kisor, Htatk oy Nr.w Yoiik, sr. Michael Short, being duly sworn, doposes and says that upon the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord 0110 thousand eight hundred and seventy nino. he personally served upon William II. Hay, President of the Common Council of tho City of Brooklyn, a notice lu writing from tho Hon.

James Howell, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn, addressed 1 1 the aforesaid William II, Ray, President aforesaid. Deponent further says that he knows tho contents of Baid communication, aud that it was as follows lion. William II. Ray, President of the Board of Alder, men Vkar 8tn The temporary disability which induced me to call you to transact the ordinary daily duties of the ollice of Mayor has ceased to exist. Thanking you for your compliance with my request, I hereby relieve you from all further action in the premises.

I will myself transact such business horeaftor. Very respectfully yours, James Howell, Mayor. Dated August 13, 1B70, at 1:30 P. M. Sworn to before mo this Hth day of August, 1379.

Owr.s fl. Bovla.v, Commissioner of Deeds. A disgraceful flcono of diro confusion, such aa is rarely witnessed even in a Common Council chamber, thsn ensued. President Ray scowled down from hiB diary upon the now terribly excited Aldorman and exclaimed "1'ako your seat, you havo no right to road that. It Is altogether out of ordor.

If you don't take your seat tho Sergeant at Arms will arrest you no notice was taken or tho admonition, when tho President called, "Horgfeant At Arm, arrext the Alderman and remove him from the Coiumoa Council Chamber." Sorgoantat Arms Bonjamln Wray. tall, powerful looking man, camo firward iu obodleuca to the summons aud took hold of Alderman Keuua by the left arm aa he said, "Com? along with me." In a moment Alderman Kane of the Sixth Ward, waaat the eldo of Konna, and catching hold of the Sergeant at Arms, ho said Bharply "Hero, we will have none of that." Kenna stopped reading for au iustaut, aud raUIng his right hand, clinched his fiat an though about to strike the Sergeant at Arms, and exclaimed: "Lot go of my arm." Deputy Coroner James Dunn, Aldenuau McCarty, Mr. J. Fitzgibbon and other stalwart men soon were by the side of Keuua, ready to assist him, whon eovoral policemen camo running In by the side doors to "preserve tbe peace." The ys" in the lobby were climbing over tbe railings and Alderinanic chair wero upset. But during all tho excitement, though the prospect of a free fight waa uever more promising, nut a sin glo blow was strufk, The Sergeant at Anui let go of Henna's arm and retired from Bight, and President Kiy Shouted, loiid enough to bo heard abovo the din It is impossible to transact any business.

I therefore declare this Board adjourned." The President aud Acting Mayor then put on his hat and left the Commou Council Chamber. Alderman Keuua then appealed from the docislou of the Chair, and the appeal was sustained, Aldorman Smith voting with the Democrats. Irlnnly IiidiKiiation. 7'o the Editor of the Irooklyn hajte: In common with every citizen of this city with whonj haye convened on the subject. I regard tbs effort of Ray auu others to climb into control of tho city government over tho prostrpte body of Miyor Howell, not only a violation of common but a deliberate outrage on the wholo peoplo of Brooklyn.

Decent Republicans condemn such hih handed proceedings quite as promptly and emphatically as Democrats. Tho acquirement of political power under such circumstances Is barefaced roblery, and if Mayor Howell should die in consequence of the excitement and worry caused by this base conspiracy, an indictment for murdor would lie against all the party concerned lu it. Is thero no power to squek'h this lot of schemes, this band of ruffians Ia there not enough manly spirit left In Brooklyn to consign them to tbe Intainy theydeicrve? A Taxi ah'ic, FROM THE Ell Ell A Li) ISLE. Observations of a Urooklyitllo in (re land Beauties of Natural Scenery Dcacribed Ancient TIanuaerlpia Sliotv iug Ireland to Have Attained A High Degree of Civilization at an arl Afre Correspondence of lh Eftgle. "C'irr OF THE YlOLATEP TREATY, Limebick, Ireland, July 31, 1871).

I arrived here last evening at seven o'clock. You are in Brooklyn, and you ought to ba happy in Btaying there. I have seen no better place since I left it. While in England the weather was horrible rain, rain, cold, shivoring, and so on to tho end. While there I tried to observe aud report to you candidly all that camo within my notice.

I remained chiefly In Lancashire and Yorkshire manufacturing districts where, it seems to me, all are put to work at a very early age, wulcuy probably, accounts for the ugly, uncouth and dwarfish appear ance of tho inhabitants, both men and women. They look besotted and dull, and haul and maul each other In the streets in a manner that would not be consistent with etiquette in Brooklyn. Sfen and women go to the dram shops promlscouBly, aud both drink to eicess. Oh, what a curse I to see men and women in rags, going to the dram shop while thoy have a ponny left to pur chase Intoxicating liquor with. It Is simply frightful.

must add that drinking Is also carried to excess In this, my native land; but there is a better type of men and women hers, and I think a higher state of morals than in England. I bad a pleasant time In Dublin and its suburbs made excursions from there to Wlcklow, saw the Meeting of the Waters, and tho tree under which it is eaid Moore wrote ihe song of that name. The meeting of two rivers, the Avon Mor and tho Avon Beg, mcau tho big Avon and the little Avon. There la also, about three miles distant, a second meeting of tha waters be tween both Avons, now one, and another river the name which I forget at this moment. I went out by a four hand ooacb from Dublin to Wooden Bridge, fifty two miles, stopped there over night, at a very fair hotel, leaving next morning at seven.

four of us In company, by jaunting car, over Olenmaluro to otends lough, twenty five tniUa, and saw the remains of the Seven Churches, a Round JTowcr and St. Keven's Bed, whore, on old legend says, he hid from Cathlcon and I eat by that Laja whose gloomy shorn Skylark never warbles o'er. It Is surrounded bv hills. Over two thousand feet high three sides. It ia reallv anrettv rilace.

although bad not Moore written about it, perhaps I would not think quite so romantle as it appears. After a good luncheon we returned to Rathdrum and took tbo tralu there for Bray, where we got out and proceeded by coach to iraoun, anom eighteen miles. inua 1 spem TWO VEBY PLEASANT DAY8. In Dublin, through tha kindness of a friend of Mr. Y.

Hickv. I was shown somo very ancient Illuminated Irish manuscripts, dating back to the Fifth Century. The Society for the Preservation of the Irish language now engaged in mailing translations of them. Ono fact la mado patent through these old document, and the high state of art in which they are executed, that at very early age the Irish had attained a high degree of civilization. I saw, also, armitnenta of gold and of Iron, nroduced In the Ninth and Thirteenth centuries.

that would do credit to arUxana of, these times; thoy consisted of necklaces, bracelots, belt, ic, In considerable variety. I also visited the Moore Library, given by his widow to the above named society. I looked through a few of the books, among them a volume entitled, "Variations of tho Protestant Boasuai, Bishop of Aleiux, containing 00 the mar' gins many pencil marks and references by Moore, and from which, I have no doubt, he drew very largely in writing hia "Travcla of aa Irish Gentleman In Search a Religion." My kind friend also took me to the City Hall, where, through the courtesy of the Clerk of the Council (Mr. Beveridge), I saw parchment grants of Henry II. to his lleae subjects of Bristol, residing In Dublin, dated 1170, giving them rights and privileges over the natives of city.

Similar granta, or charter rights, were added and continued by other roonarcbs down to recent dates. I saw one by Edward II. dated in 1310, and from which It apnea ra that the Encllsh ruled and pernccuted Irish when both cations were Catholic, aa well aa since the socalled Reformation. James M. 8 ax ah am 5 A mixture of Figures, Fiction and Romance.

The following paragraphs have appeared in the editorial columns of the Eastern District I'imes. The first paragraph, which deals with matters of official record in this county, is essentially misleading. We hardly know what excuse the Times has for again directing public attention to the private and family affairs of one Fiahertv. who is. un to this writing, at all events, a private citizen, whose matrimonial and other domestic relations can hardly be ot any concern to the public.

An invasion of this domain seems to us to be uncalled for and impertinent. We presume our contemporary picked up the domestic gossip which follows in one of the barber shops of the Eastern District, and that it has its own reasons for making editorial mention of it. We quote from our contemporary Olio word about Flaherty and Bennett. They wore convicted a conviction that was prooured simply to get them out or tho Board of City Works. The prosecuting lawyers, as soon aa this object waB BOourod, made haste to bco that nothing more waa done, than simply to inflict a line of $250 and the sterling and upright Judge who saw that the verdict of tho jury waa baaed on a mere technical violation of the charter, and that the really involved only an injudicious expenditure of some iMO, from which the commissioners thcm.

ioivcd derived not tho bonoilt of ovou tho fraction of a cent treated tho convicted with so much consideration iu pronouncing eentence, that ho incurred the sneorB and ill will, if not the actual abuso, of tho crazed aim passion.no organ mm lor tuoir ooa. We aro compelled to confc33 that Flaherty snrprisod us, as he did hundreds of his fricndB, while on tho stand as a witus. Being questioned by his lawyer whether ho was married, ho promptly ausvrored that ho waB, and that hv was the father of quite a family of children. And this, when ovorybody supposod ha had always lived the qwiet lifo of a bachelor. That a man could live thus, and that for years, in a groat city, was, and IB, a startling mystery, and seemed Mae a romance, 1 ho excUHe, that having married a gin of ono religion, and hia mother being an intonso dovotoe of another, ho kept the matter a secrot for the Bake of hia iiKcd ruotXcr, gives quite a romantic turn to tho affair, and aXords a strango illustration of what must bu considered a singular devotion to tho mother that bore him, but it docs not give quite a satisfactory explanation of this myHterioua mode ot life.

Yet, whatever may ba said of Mr. Flaherty's domestic relations; whatever may further be added, aa to his technical violation of the city charter, by which ho gave employment to a few friends of Aldermen without appointing them at a joint meeting of tho Hoard, it does not appear, has not at least so far appeared, that he was not porfectly satisfied with his ono wife, or that he ever crossed tho threshold of a riend'B homo to tho rum of th A friend's domestic poaco and comfort. In this respect Jlr. Flaherty seems as yet a model man. It was shown on the trial of Flaherty and Bennett, that tens of thousands of dollars of the people's money had been squandered by theso worthies mainly in supporting political heelers and in keeping up political combi nations, by which they had profited, and by which they hoped to continue to profit.

Their friends invoked mercy on their behalf, and it was extended. Their conduct since, and tho iusolenco of both themselves and their spokesmen, prove that mercy in their case was a mistake. The trial half failed of its purposes, because its results were not sueh as to warn all whom it may concern that Fiahertyism in the conduct of Brooklyn affairs must cease. The Times, we have no doubt, stands ready to sustain the restoration to office of both these worthies, and as this is said by the politicians to be among the possibilities, this community, in ougkt to ha'vo iusisted upou' it that they should have been sent to the Penitentiary, and kept there until Fiahertyism had been eliminated altogether from the conduct of the city government. Our contemporary's acquaintance with everything which might be termed romantic, is very limited, otherwise it would never think of elevating Flaherty into the region of romance.

The excellent Brooklyn school manns, who still roam "in maiden meditation fancy "free, "deal more witli romaucethan tho editor of the Times, aud we are satisfied that their opinion of the romantic Mr. Flaherty differs essentially from that of our pin headed contemporary. 'flic Democratic State Committee. The members of tho Democratic State Committee meet at Niagara Falls to day, to perform tho duty of issuing a call for the State Convention. In several respects this session of the committee is important, and interesting developments are expected.

It is known that a large delegation of Tammany politicians went from New York to attend the meeting, and that many auti Tammany politicians drifted in the same direction. Democrata from all parts of the State have been arriving at Niagara Falls, forming a sort of outside and irresponsible convention, formidable in numbers and influence and energy. The object of theso outsiders is to affect the action of the committee in favor of or adverse to certain candidates. The purpose of Tammany is plain enough anything to beat Robinson but the intentions of the other self appointed delegates are not so clear. It is rumorod that an effort will be made to pass in the cotnmit tee a resolution pledging the support of all its mombers to the ticket which may be nominated by the State Convention.

Such action is not only uncalled for, but would be futile. It is not the province of the committee to bind its members as regards their conduct in the convention. Its business is to designate the time and place for holding the convention, which will be entitled to pass upon the credentials of its members, ruling out, if it chooses to do so, those who will not agree to be bound by its nominations. The State Committee does not nominate any candidates, nor has it the power to bind anybody to tho support of any possible candidates in the future. If such a resolution should be adopted, the Tammany men would oppose it, unless Robinson were excepted from its operation, and would not consider it as binding upon them.

Its only real effect would be to draw a line between Mr. Tilden and his opponents, and to show which faction has a majority of the committee. This, after all, is the real question to bo settled to day. It may be settled without any extra official action on the part of the committee, and we cannot believe that the friends of Mr. Tilden will favor such action.

In view of the preliminary organization of the conven tion, which may be controlled by the commit tee, this question is an important one. Last year, the committee favored Tammany by 18 to 13. It is thought that there have been such changes that there is now a majority of one against Tammany but Mr. Kelly's friends claim to have captured one from their' opponents. Chairman Purcell denies that tho important question will be settled by the vote on the locality of the convention, and professes to believe that harmony will eventually prevail.

Tbe Position of Klngti County. In the interview with Hon. Sanford E. Church, published in yesterday's Eaolk, the Chief Justice generalized very successfully, as might reasonably be expeoted to do. He occupies at present a peculiar position in regard our State politics.

Filling the highest judicial office, he is considered in a manner out of politics but at the same time he is prominently named as a Democratic candidate for Governor, and is supposed to be measurably disconnected from the factions whioh aro seeking to control Democrats of the State. This being the case, and considering the probability of his acceptance of the nomination if it should be tendered him, it is quite proper that he should careful in his expressions, if not reticent. respect to one point, however, he speaks very plainly, and his observations are so important that they are reproduced in this place. Judge Church said Kinge County haa an opportunity that is not ofton presented, and may not be again tho opportunity of naming the next Governor of the State. In fact, she ia umpire in this light.

What her delegation will do remains to be seen, but if they act with wisdom and ia I oretlon it strikes me that they will have in their hands a tremondous influence for the good or the party. The truth of this statement will be evident all who have watched the course of the Kings County Democrats in the conventions the party. The Kings County delegation always exercises an important influence Demooratio councils, and' particularly among tho delegates from the interior of the State. Kings County occupies this exceptionally advantageous position by reason of facta whioh have impressed themselves upon all fair honest Democrats. She has never sought control a convention, to dictate to it, to bulldoze it, or by any means to influence it in unfair or injudicious manner.

She has always subordinated her own desires to the best interests of the party, has cheerfully accepted candidates agreed upon, has done her best secure their election, and has honorably and faithfully supported them when elected. When Judge Church, who is still a favorite in Kings County, iwas pressed by our delegation for a CURRENT EVENTS. The receipts from Internal Revenue yesterday in Washington wero $362,337.33. The health of Pope Leo is failing, and his physicians havo ordered an immediate change of, resi dence. A party of Austrian and Hungarian noblemen are on their way to this country to make a hunting oxcurslon in tho West.

Shirley H. France, tho actor, died in Boston yesterday. He had been an invalid for two years the result of a sunstroke. j.ne in warn metnociist Episcopal camp meeting was opened at Camp Tabor, near Danville, N. yestorday, by BlBhop Simpson, and it will be con tinued through the month.

The National Convention of Irish National. Ists in sasBion at Wilkesbarre, tho past ten days ad journed yesterday. The proceedings of the convention were Becret. It is denied that the Princess Louise will return to England in the coming Fall. A number of English friends havo been Invited to spend tho Winter ot Itideau Hall, and an exceptionally gay season is promised in Ottawa.

A circular is to be issued by tho executivo committoo of tho railroad companies, setting forth an advanco In east bound rates on the basis of thirty cents for grain, thirty five cents for fourth class, and forty flvo ceuts for livo hogs from Chicago. These new rates will take effect tho 25th lnst. There were forty cases of yellow fever yestorday in Memphis, thirty of whom were colored. Ono case has occurred in tho Caulield Colored Orphan Asy lum, wnero tnero aro forty children. Yellow (lags havo ueoupoaiea ou au tno nouses where tho fovor has appeared and tho work of disinfection is to begun immedi atoly.

A meeting of delegates of orthodox Jewish congregations waB held in Now York Tuesday ovening and twonty Bix congregations wero represented. A permanent organization was effected under the titlo of Board of Delegates of United Hebrew Orthodox Con gregations. Its purpose Is to unite orthodox Judaism upon a firmer basis. An urgent appeal has been made to tho Governor of Tonnossee to call a special meetii.g of tho Legislature to make an appropriation for the boiioflt of Memphis. In lieu of a session, which will cost at least $20, ODD, it is suggosted that tho Govornor order that eum to bo sent to Memphis, aud when the Legislature ineeta it can indorse the step oa one impelled imperatively by humanity.

The merchants and planters of Mississippi havo sent a party of colored men to Kansas to see tho country and remain if thoy wish. If they return it is thought thoir vordict will avert tho threatonod oxodus another season. Tho exponsos of the party aro borno by tho merchants and farmers who havo uuitod upon this plan of having tho colored people know exactly tho prospects that await them in the Northwest. Senators Kirkwood, Plumb and Dawes com posing tho Commission appointed to Investigate the Cheyenne raid of last year, and who havo beou for somo time in Kansas for that purpose, loft Lawrence in that State yesterday for the Cheyenne Agency, a distance of 125 miles. Thoy wore to make tho trip in privato conveyances, and twelve days wore to bo cousumod in it.

A number of officers and an Interpreter accompanied them. The students and friends of Pennington Seminary, N. will enjoy their annual reunion at Ocean Grovo, on Monday next, the day being tho first of tho camp meeting. The annual supper will be en joyed iu tho evening, aud toasts will bo responded to by the aluiuui and distinguished visitors, among others Dishop Simpson and ox Governor Parkor. Dr.

Stockton, of Newark, and Professor J. A. I.ipplncott, of Dickinson Colloge, will mako addresses iu tho afternoon. The National Cotton Exchange yesterday elected tho following officers for the coiuiug yoar President, John B. Lafitto; Vioo President, William P.

Campbell; Executive Council, W. W. Gordon, W. M. Gwathmoy, W.

H. Gardner, W. M. Souter, W. M.

Moody, S. L. Taylor, T. G. Jervy, E.

L. Donnis, L. E. Campbell; Secretary, Henry G. Hester; Treasurer, William C.

Black. Four committees reported the result of their labors in considering tho subjects before thorn. Tho assessments for dologates was raised Ivom $00 to $10 a year. Tremont Temple, Boston, wa3 destroyed by fire last night. The flue organ was destroyed and tho building ruined.

The loss on tho which is owned by tho Amorican Baptist Society, is estimated at from $100,030 to Several firomen wore injured by falling walls. Tho fire originated, it ia believed, from combustion of At one tinio the Parker House was in imminent danger, but beyond the scorching of tho walls adjoining the rear of tbo Tomple no material damage was done. Tho fire waa undor good headway before It was discovered. The crockery dealers in New York have formed themselves into an association for the purpose of compelling the tea dealors to cease tho habit of giv iug to each person buying a pound of tea or cofTee an article of crockery or glass ware. This habit has resulted in cutting down the retail trade of the crockery men alarmingly.

The latter have determined to buy and soli oil kinds of teas and coffees to their customers at oost prices. They oontend that the teamorchauts aro making a profit of from 20U to 300 and aro fast breaking down the orockory trade. By soiling teas and coffees at oost prices, the crockery men will hurt the tea business as much as their own has boeu injured. A judgment against the Government has been rondored by Judge Wheeler, of tho United States Circuit Court, in the suit brought by Christopher C. Campbell and against Thomas L.

James, Postmaster of New York, and Charles Eddy. The suit was brought to recover damages for tho alleged infringement of a patent on a post office post marking and cancelling hand Btamp, originally granted to Marcus P. Morton, and la in reality against the Government. Tho machine is now in use In all the largo post offices in the country. Judge Wheeler decides that tho patent Is valid, that the defendant has infringed it, and that an accounting be had to ascertain tho profits and damages with costs, The suit involves millions of dollsis, Commodore Shufeldt, in command of the Ticonderoga, now in the Congo Iliver, Africa, informs tho Navy Department regarding the scope and extent of the Presbyterian Board of Missions in Africa.

Tho headquarters of the mission aro on the Gaboon Itlvor, and there aro 400 children under Instruction In their schools. The Commodore thinks that if American ships of war would only visit such places, where the sight of the flag Is as rare as an angel's vlBit, it would add to the prestige of the nation and its usefulness in tho work of civilization. He recommends the appointment of consuls along the coast by our Government as calculated to give our flag a recognized status and create a rallying point for any future commerce from thb United States. The Postal Guide, which has been printed by the Post Office Department quarterly heretofore, is to bo Issued henceforth as a monthly. The January number of the OuiiU will contain all the alphabetical and classified lists of tno post offices now published, The Issues for the other months will contain the list of new offices added, offices changes of namos, o.

Many matters which aro really important in practise and which become tho subject of decision in special cases do not get to the postmasters generally, becaUBe of the great expense and delay attending tho issue of circulars. The monthly publication of tho Ci will obviate this. Its cost for the next year will be $19,250. In nlnoty years the number of post offices In the United States has Increased from seventy five to 0,876. The Eight.

Rev. William Henry Odenheimer, D. Bishop of Northern New Jersey, died yesterday afternoon at Burlington, Now Jersey. His health failed in 1874, and Brlght'a disease of the kidneys rapidly de veloped. He was born In 1817 in Philadelphia, and was graduate from the University of Pennsylvania.

This institution conferred the degree of D. D. upon him In 1858. Three years lator ho was chosen tho third Bishop of New Jersey, to Bucceed Bishop Doane, and was oonse crated at a meeting of the General Convention, held in Richmond, in October, 1859. His diocese comprised tho seven northern counties of New Jersey, and he resided in Newark until be went to England, a year or more ago.

On hiB return he gave up work and retired to Burlington. Last Sunday was bis 62d birth day. He leaves a wife and three children. The State Department was informed recent by a dispatch from the Charge d'Affairtt of the United States at Berne, Switzerland, that the poor au thorities at Basle intended to send to this country an elderly man who haa spent the greater part of his life tho House of Correction for Crime. He had become refractory and refused to perform the duties required him, and the poor authorities decided to rid them selves of him by sending him to the United States.

The Castle Garden authorities have been noUfled by the State Department and ordered to send him back. The emigrant authorities in their watch for this case have discovered others. A passenger who arrived in the steamer Amerique on Wednesday, was a single woman was sent from Hoilstein, Switzerland, by the poor authorities. A woman who oame over in the same steamer and knew of her character, stated that she was thor oughly bad; was the mother of illegitimate children and had spent much of her life in prison. She will be sent back to the authorities who sent her here, aa an such paupers will be In the future.

An accident occurred on the Atlantic City Narrow Gauge Railroad yesterday afternoon, which resulted in the death of fire persons and the Injury of two others. A special excursion train of nine cars loft Philadelphia for Atlantic City with 300 men, women and children on board. A freight train waa coming from Atlantic City, which it waa expected would be passed at Clementon by the excursion train. Tho trains met before reaching the place designated, and two came together where the road was nine feet high. The freight train was partly ditched other remained on the track.

The engi neers and firemen 01 ootn trains jumped on De fore the collision occurred. Tho conductor of the ex cursion train and tho brakemen rushed to the brakes. he, with two brakemen and a deaf mute boy and nows agent, who were upon the platforms, were almost instantly being jammed in between the cars. There was great excitement in the cars when tho collision occurred, and tho fright of tho women and children was not dispelled until thoy were all removed from tho cars. They had to be taken through the windows of the cars, and It required two hours' time to them out.

Trains from Philadelphia wore sent to sceno of tho accident, and the passengers were taken away. The persons ou iuu iroigui iraiu were nut injured. The cause of the accident appears to have been to gross carelessness on the part or some 01 the Camden officers of the road. The train orders sent to freight conductor wore so improperly worded that thoy were misconstrued. a or and kept before the people.

Mr. Beecher thus states the question that divides the two political parties "Has the Federal Exec iitivo a rieht under the Constitution to superintend elections all over the land He truly asserts that no such right was nmr exercised or pretended before I860 nnrl tho convulsion of civil war. Ho might have stated further that the pretended right was not attempted to be exercised until the war was ended, when tho Republican party sought by means outside of the Constitution to consolidate and perpetuate its power. Mr. Beecher is unable to perceive that sueh a right has boon gained as a result of the war, and goes on to ask whether the Federal Executive has "a right to assume that fraud, violence "and disorder are intended by the peo "pie, and proceed to set armed guards "over everv poll in the land." It is clear that sueh an assumption implies an in sult to tho people and a doubt of their capa city for solf government.

The courts, as Mr, Beecher says, ore open for the trial of disor derly malefactors, and any citizen may lodge information; "buthas Congress gained a right to enact laws for such a supervision of the polls as shall prevent fraud and disorder He then cornea nearer to the gist of the matter, and thus makes another point i. It wero indood desirable to provent all disorder and crimo on any aud on all days. But, human naturo being what It is, is forciBlo prevention practicable 7 Ana party spirit being what it is can any set of partisan offi cers bo trusted to superintend citlzons upon election day, deciding who may auu who may not vote 7 It is clear to the reverend gentleman, as it must bo to every independent citizen, that Federal control of elections is essentially and necessarily a partisan control, and he sees no reason why tho supervision of the polls should be safer in the hands of the Federal Govern ment than in those of the States. He thus ex presses himself on this point 5. Conceding that elections need supervision bv some governmental authority, how cau it bo shown that Washington rulers are any safer or more nearly impar tial man tue ruicrs at Aioauy, uoiumous or uoluinoia btate capitals 7 la Washington an Olympus? Are tho great oneB thore bo enthroned that thov are diBDassion aiv an mu very goua ib rvutuenoru tlayoB ijoa bless him, honest man that ho in,) moro honest or firm than ijucius kouiubou? cjoncouo mat elections need super vision, why should they havo Federal supervision If Mr.

Beecher had had under consid eration the character of the men who have been appointed under the Federal Eloction laws to control elections, he would have expressed himself much more strongly. A glance at that disreputable array of gamblers, thugs, rowdies, bummers, State prison birds, and men accused or convicted of all manner of offenses against human and Divine laws, is sufficient to disgust any decent man with the practical operation of the Federal Election laws. He makes ono more point, which cannot be too strongly impressed upon the intelligence of every American citizen and finally. Gentlomon, follow citizens all When any people have bo back sliddeu from honor, honeBty and fair play that they cannot peaceably assemble and vote aud oouut up their votes without help from rulers, thoy have forfeited the rights and the powers of self government. The evil is remediless.

Electors must their own poilB. or era many years they will havo no polls worth guarding. These statements need no commont. They are unanswerable. The people should respond to them with an indignant uprising against the insulting and oppressive usurpation of the Federal Election laws.

The well authenticated fact that a shark lunohed recently off the back and legs of a member of tho Young Men's Christian Association, who was visiting Ocean Grove for the combined purpose of physical and moral ablution, has caused a not unnatural panic among the many thousands of revivalists, who divide their time between singing hymns on tho beach and floundering in the waveB. It seems reasonable to suppose that the laudable efforts of the clerical fishermen to "enclose a great multitude of fishes" have attracted the attention of that distinguished branch of the finny tribe, the shark. He would seem to have a weakness for Baptist tenderloin and Primitive Mothodist "shrunk shanks." The perspiring preachers are hence "skeered" of the water, and their outicle suffers for the cleansing wave. They like to think of Jonah as swallowed by the whale and to expound "the leviathan who takes his pastime therein," but it is quite another matter to feel a shark's teeth penetrating their own apostolic gristle a sensation which the Christian young man referred to describes as "like the pricking of a hundred thousand needles." By the death of Bishop Odenhoimer, of New Jersey, the Protestant Episcopal Church loses one of tho most learned, refined, amiable and eloquent of her prelates. So commanding was the pulpit power of the late Bishop that he was generally selected by his Right Reverend peers to preach the sermon on any remarkable occasion.

The fact that he was chosen to fill the plaoe of so distinguished a prelate as the late Bishop G. W. Doane whose reoumbent effigy in stone, in full canon icais, forms so scruung a teature in the picturesque churchyard at Burlington, where Bishop Odonheimer will also be buried was proof of the high estimate which his follow churchmen entertained of him. The late. Bishop was a man of most graceful manners and distinguished presence.

He was beloved by men of all denominations, and probably no higher tribute was ever paid to the character of a Protestant chief pastor than the words of the late Roman Catholic primate, Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, shortly before his death "That my conduct should be com "mended by such a man as Bishop Odenhei "mer is one of the most grateful memories of "my life." So it appears that the master spirit behind Ray Co. was Frederick A. Schroeder. The Eagle has not regarded this person as burdened with many honorable scruples, but he has shown a capacity in this matter for self debasement that we did not think he pos sessed. It is now we apprehend pretty clear that the man who, in the name of reform, in duced the Legislature to treble his own Balary, who jobbed out the departments of the city when he was Mayor, and conferred upon the municipality the sweet boon of Fiahertyism, is made of material of which there is a super.

abundance in Brooklyn. Ray's action ib bad enough, but what shall be said of the ex May or who egged him on The Indianapolis Journal speaks of Dr. Blackburn, the recently elected Governor of Kentucky, as "the yellow fever monster." Dr. Blackburn's connection with yellow fever was the Summer of 1878, when he went to Hick man and fought the fever so bravely and suc cessfully that his courage and skill were commended all over the United States. The Jour nal should not be too stalwart in abusing a political opponent.

We submit to the Board of Health that they ought to relieve the nostrils of the city from the offensive stench of the carcass called Ray. may be that an extra allowance will have to made to the offal contractors for removing subject so malodorous, but people of cleanly habits will, if neoessary, submit cheerfully to special taxation rather than stand the intoler able smell. It is merely a coincidence that Brother Hayes pardoned Eph. Holland out of the Peniten tiary just in time to permit Ben. Butterworth appoint him as a Republican election manager.

Judge Westbrook has vindicated the law," says a Republican newspaper up the country. remains to be seen whether the law will vindicate Judge Westbrook. It is to be feared that John Sherman is not putting enough of his own capital into his preliminary canvass for the Presidency. If the doctrine of transmigration of souls is true, was it a mosquito or a hyena that died when Alderman Bay came into the world I of of patent of nobility, wor ma mo who id".