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NEWSPAPERS. RjNEWSPAPitt8 THE NEW CORRY O'LANUS' EPI8TLE. EOEEOTON 4V' HABDIKG, im)pobter8 and jobbebs iv'j W' SJ' or ir; 8HAX1Y WABEB, YANKEE NOTIONS; FANCY AHD WHITE GOODS. No. 11 Warren (up stain), near Broadway.

H. ABE OFFERING GREAT BARGAINS TO CASH iH2t PURCHASERS. Adjournment ol Jkc Legislature. The Legislature has ndjpurned and UWjpeo pie will breathe more freely. It ii.

impossible yet to toll the mischief it has done, and onr only consolation is in the. refleotlon that it might have done worse. Of the fate of the many bills relating to Brooklyn, which passed one house and awaited action in the other, it SATUKDAY EVENING, APRIL 21t FROM ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS Up to the hour of FOUR O'CLOOK, A. on Sunday morning, tntolllgonco comos ovor tho wlros for tho SUNDAY MERCURY. TO MORROW, lis rohmnB will contain, In addition to thoir utual variety, Uio FIRST INSTALLMENT or PIERCE EGAN'S NEW STORY, THE LIGHT OF LOVE; OR, THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP, alaloofpafslonalo ewitemout and wild adventure, In which tho rntorcst novor flags from tho oommoncoment to Iho close.

Tho SUNDAY MERCURY Is boliovcd to bo tho moBt comprehensive newspaper published In this country. ino louowuig aro somo 01 its loauiug uoparuuuuut: LATEST TETEGRAPHIO NEWS. LATEST MAIL NEWS. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. TABLE TAIJC ANIJ ORIGINAL ESSAY8.

STORIES BY PROMINENT WRITERS. HUMOROUS ARTICLES IN PROSE AND POETRY. INSIDE, VIEWS OF SOCIETY. FASHIONALE INTELLIGENCE. THEATRICAL AND SHOW NEWS OF THE WORLD.

COURT NEWS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SATIRES ON THE FOLLIES OF THE AGE. SPORTING NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS. ATHLETIC GAMES AND FA8TIMES. PITHY ED1TORIA8 ON LEADING TOPICS. BRILLIANT NOVEIEITEF.

INTERESTING CRIMINAL CASES. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CORRESPONDENCE. ALL LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST. Tho history of current oventa is brought down to tho last arrival by mall and tho last tolograpbio flaib, in (ho GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. CntCTJLATIOK NEARLY FOUR TIMES GREATER, than all of tho OTHER SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS COMBINED.

THE LAST FLASHES of intelHgenco oyer tho Telcaxaph Wires BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAYLIGHT, on Sunday morning, aro for tho SUNDAY MERCURY. Whatever of importance may havo tranapirod within thoTolcgraphioclrolo during Saturday night, is alwaya fully reported in its colmiuiB, aa IN ADDITION TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATOHES, tho GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER rocoivea EXCLUSIVE TELEGRAMS from its own Special Ancnts, in relation to all matters of prominent public iutorest. A NEW AND STRIKING FEATURE will command attention in tho issuo of TO MORROW, when tho opening chaptersof PIERCE EGAN'S Story of MYSTERY, PASSION, JEALOUSY AND REYENOB, cntitlod THE LIGHT OF LOVE; on THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP, will appear. Tho publication of this Romantic Serial will thenceforward bo continued wcokly (from proof sheets furnished by tho author), until concluded. Original stories by tho most popular writers of tho day the freshest foreign, gpnoral and local news; articles by distinguished humorists, nnd a compond of sporting and theatrical items moro comprehensive than can bo mado in any other journal in Amorica, aro tlio attractions of tho SUNDAY MERCURY, which alms to bo, and it is behoved is, tho beau ideal of a UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER.

Its present circulation EXCEEDS THAT OF ALL THE OTHER SUNDAY 8HEET8 COMBINED IN THE PROPORTION OF NEARLY FOUR TO ONE I Plico, EIGHT CENTS. ANOTHER t.r.;.;vD romance of the passions DY PIERCE EGAN, An'ilor of 'The Poor Girl," "Imofcn," "The Scarlot Flower." vo Ale, Loavo Mo Not," "Tbo Flower of the Fliwlr, "The Lilian," ENTITLED THE LIGHT OF LOVE; on, THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP, Will be commenced iu tho SUNDAY MERCURY or TO MORROW, APRIL 21 By special arrangement with tho distinguished author of thiB remarkable story, Ha publication in tho columns of tho SUNDAY MERCURY will bo simultaneous with Its appearance in Enpland. For tho cxciimvo opportunity of fucsenting It lo tuo Amoncan puouoiruiti sujis lurnisuuu advance of its issuo on tho other sido of tho Atlantlo, hna nM nhih ia Ixllmfitr) tft Im thn IflrPOSt Slim OVOT by any Amcrioan nowspnpor or othor periodical to a oreifin writer for a similar pvivilopc. Tho IMMENSE POPULARITY OF THE AUTHOR omonc tlio story roadors oi this country, and tho determination of tho proprietors of tho SUNDAY MERCURY to sparo no oxpenaoto ratify ita havo been lhe inducements for this extraordinary ontlay. To meet tho anticipated demand for thonew romance, a LAUlili EXTRA EDITION of tho GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER WILL BE ISSUED TO MORROW, in ordor, if possiMo, to provont tho disappointmohts to which thousands have boon subjected on former occasions, when stories from tlio same oioiting pen have beon introduce 1 1 tlio American publio thrjugh tho pages of tho SUNDAY MERCURY.

t.tjttt nir r.nvi? nrt THE DIAMOND AND' THE SNOWDROP," is a story of passionate loyo, jealousy, intricue, and rovengo, in which tho most striking contrasts oi chnrnctor aro presentod. The prinaipal nor eouapes are individualized with anw.ind power. Thoy In dmnn rnlinf tifcn (hfl ficlirnR SCOn tllfOUSn Etercoscopio lens. Their mental traits aro so distinctly maiHeu ana so wiaoiy uiiiorciiv iuui ii ovvwo wmui. iblo that they should all bo tho orcotions of ono Intellect, howow versatile and powerful.

From tho atraneo juxtapositions and collisions of natnro as opposite as light and darkness, or ico and tire, the most extraordinary oscapfidos mul adventures arise, and nn intonso and overpowering intorcst which deepens with every chaptoris ongondorod In lhe mind of the reader. Wild and wonderful as in story is abounding in scenes that alternately touch tho heart, charm tho fancy, stir tho soul with indignation and horror, and onliut its profoundoitt and tonilorost, sympathta it is still tiuo to nature. Each notor in tho lifo liko drama good or bad is consistently evil, or consistently innocent nnd irtuous. Tho minor character;) ore modeled with as umcli skill nnd gonius as tho stars of the group upon which the main interest centers; and tho vivacious humor which relieves the dark shadows of plot and counterplot, is as racy end brilliant as lhe pathos Is deep and toucliiliK. Tl.n r.tipnK in fipmiestoren villacn on the hanks of lhe Wye, ono of tho most beautiful rivers of luigland, a portion ot tho patrimony of tlio Earl of Lavington, ltaroii of Erowood, whose cnsllo ami haroniul deniosiio ho iu uio immediate nciphhorhood.

The lovely hamlet of Erewoori in thc Dnle is about to bo tho soeno of a festival, to bo liven by Iho Earl (who lias just rolunicd Irom a long so ourn abroad), on the occasion of his son and heir's tivontj (irst birthday. Tlio reader is introduced to the villagcrs who nro in a flutter of excitement about ttio earning fete nnd to tho Earl, his son Lord Erowood, ami the Lady As Vavasour, his beautiful nud passionate dauglltoi Tho scene iB calm, peaceful, end picturesque; out strong passions oro at work amid ita quiet beauty. Tlio Earl isaproyto sonic socret grief, which rondors him gloomy ond reticent; tho frank, ingenuous heir isdns peratoly in love wilh at) artless village beauty, and tho haughty and beautiful Lady Astarlo is madly ottaclioil to tho Earl's secretary, Eliot St. Croix, a young man of singular personal and mental altracllons, who reciprocates hor affection, but is loo houorablo to lake advantage of her partiality. Tho Earl receives a visit from the young Baron Novillo, anoblonian iu tlio neighborhood, who congratulates him on his return, ami wlioni he introduces to his daughter, tho Lady Astarto, the evident wish that she shall receive him as a suitor.

This young Boron is a cold, surdonle, most unprepossessing personage, of whom, lor somo undisclosed reason, tho Earl seems to cntortain a mingled feeling of tear end dislike. His Introduction interrupts a scene bu tween the lady and tho secretary, in which her lander ncss has all bnt betrayed tho latter into a declaration of bis passion. Tho Interview between tho supercilious Neville and the Eorl's daughter, in tho preseuco of tho Earl, brings out (he special characteristics of each in strtng reliof, and is exceedingly interesting. Thi thae 'is a wonderful description of a scope between Lord Erewood and the father of the village beauty, o( lvhom his Lordship is enamored, a ft sti on his father's estate In which lie rescues tlw fcrester from the clutches of a limb of the law, which Is alout to hurry Mm off to prison (or a debt generously inclined in behalf ol a supposed frionil. This littlo op i odo takes placo in tho io: oiler's ifrlagn, in the prc.

i incoofhisluirdaugblor, and a moro exquisite passa.u i ould scarcely be found in the whnlo roiigo of mojnm flclion. Returning home, Lord ErowSod (iiMf Iho young baron Neville with his father and sislor, and is In traduced to him. Tho Earl is nervously anxious to mako tho young men good friends; but the brusque anil half contemptuous manner iu which Novillo addresses him, offends young Ercsdalo, and a bitter conversation ensues between them, which comes very near ending mutual defiance. With the sharp colloquy marked ny tho keenest and most effective sarcasm on thn iiui) haiiii and insolent rudeness on the othor llio fourth chapter (with which the first installment of tho story UK SUNDAY MERCURY i to morrow will conclude) is brought to a close. The characters introduced in thoso ehoptors aro: Tho EARL of LAVINGTON.

Burou of Erowood. LORD EREWOOD (bis son.) IAD A8TARTE VAVASOUR (lna daughter.) ELIOT ST. CROIX (Iho Earl's Secretary). AMBERLY (tho Earl's Forester.) DAME AMBERLY (wife of the Forester.) CHLORIfl AMBEBLY (thoir daughter.) LAWYER WOOLCOMB (a black sheop of tho profos GARFORTH (Sicward of tho Castle, in lovo with CbloriB.) II will bo evident, to aU who read tho oponing chapters that Garforth, tho sloward, Is to ploy an important part in tho "strange, eventful history" which must necessarily grow out of tho embarrassing dilemmas in which the prominent dramatis persontn are placod. Ho Is intensely jcalouB of tho attentions of Lord Erowood to Chloris Amborly, and makcB his first appearance on tho scene as a spy, dogging tho footsteps of tho young nobleman, ond muttering vows of vengcanco, which hia naiure (outlined by the author in a fow graphic touchos) tells us he will leave no stono unturnod to ulQU.

As an expression of concentrated passion, the curso Improcat ed by this dork and dangorous man upon tho head of Erewood, whilo following him through tho foroai, may be called diabolically sublime. Wiih Iho triumphs heretofore achieved by PIERCE EGAN in tho deportment of tho passionate romanco, tho readers of tlio SUNDAY MERCURY are woll acquainted; but tliov cannot estimate tho full scopo of Ufa ponora until they shall hove read "THE LIGHT OF OR THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOW DROP" Tho latest and most captivating of all bis productions. THE SUNDAY MERCURY of tomorrow will contain (as usual) an opitomo of the KmvBfif the World, by telosraph and Moil, brought down to (ho hour of going to press, viz: 40'CLOCK ON SUNDAY MORNING. The news budget wlU includo tho latest intelligence from tho Canadian and New Brunswick frontier (embracing special and oxolusivo in formation of Fenian movements,) tno last worus liasncu ovor tho lines from Washington; Important Foreign rvirrptmnntlenco: the SDortiuo and Show News of both hemispheres; everything of local interest that may transpiro oeiween ine issue oi me evening papers uuu tho "small hours" of tho morning closing prices of tha Markets: Table Talk, "grave and gray, lively and se vere;" Original Sketches, Court Nows, together with incisive editorials on tho immodlato topics of tho day. Information of importance to evory olasj and calling is contained in the various dopartmonts of tho GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.

It embodies dou. bio Iho amount of matter published in any daily journal, and has a neorly four times greater th in the combined issues of all the (so called) Sunday now.1 popors printed in New York. STEWART Jt NO. 1C2 FULTON STREET, Are oEcrins one of largest anil most desirable stock a CARPETING ever seen in this country. Eveiy variety, at the alOKt 5JOWJIATES.

J. "WERNKll Will sell their largo stock of RICH CABINET FURNITURE, AT COST PRICE. PARLOR LIBRARY AND DINING ROOM SETTS, Warranted all puro horso hair upholstery. A II roods warranted. Plcaso give us a call at flotraJIyl 172 and lit FULTON ST.

BROOKLYN. CHOnCLiBRARY ASSOCIATION. The annual election for Direotora ot the Oathoho Library delation will be held I or, MONDAY, April 23,1803, in (lie Library rooms, 22 Court street Polls opon from 4 to 9ckP.al. BH0MAS gELLY, R00.800V, i EXCITEMENT AMONG THE LIQUOR DEALERS, Appointment of an Inspeetor Tlie New System. The Board of Health met yesterday atfcbe o'clock as a Board of Exclso and organized; elfgtnjjtbe same.officerB aa.

those elected by tho Board of Hotltb. A proposition to' appoint one Inspector of licenses for tho entire health district, was discussed at length. Col. Bertram was elected to tho office at salary pf $9,000 per annum. Mr.

Ira Buckman, and Col. Myron T. Holbrook, both of this city, were candidates for the Inspectorship o'f Excise; but Col. Bertram received six of thenino votes, and was declared elected for one year. The following are the JSEBOLuTIONS PASSED BY THE BOABD.

Resolved, That all licenses Bhall be signed by the President and Seoretary, with the aeal of the Board indorsed thereon, shall be In the form this day submitted by tho counsel, and shall be granted on the form of application also submitted. Resolved, That there bo two classes of licenses, one for which the lee shall be $250, and one for which the fee shall be $100, and (hat in granting licenses It shall always be stated to which class it shall belong, and that no license shall be delivered or take effect till the fee 1b paid. Third Resolved, That tho Secretary and President be authorized to procure an engraved form of license end seal, to cauBO to bo printed the necessary books and stationery. Fourth liesolved, That the Treasurer shaU pay due weekly to the Treasurer of tbo Metropolitan Board of Police all sums received by him, receiving, however, from the first receipts, to be fixed hereafter by tho Board, to meet tho expenses of tho Bame. THE PROVISIONS OE THE LAW.

By tho new law if la enacted, 1. That the Metropolitan Police Commissioners shall bo the Board of Excise. 2. Tho Board shall appoint on Inspector of Excise. 3.

Ho person Bhall sell strong or spfrituouB liquors without a lincenBe from this Board. i. Licenses to bo granted to persona of good moral character, for not less than $30, nor moro than $250. 6. Such licenses shall be posted in a conspicuous poBidon in the rooms whero liquors are sold, G.

licenses granted, only upon written application to said Board. 7. Persons not licensed may keep and soil in quantities not less than fivo gallons, but not to be drank on the premises whero Bold. 8. Forbids tho sale of any liquors on Sunday, or on election days, within ono quarter of a mile from tho place where said election ia held.

9. A record of all licensee granted to bo kept. 10. How to prevent disturbances in places whoro liquors are sold. 11.

Ho liquors to bo given or sold to apprentices or minors without the consent of niastorB or parents. 12. None to bo sold or given to habitual drunkards or to any intoxicated person. 13. Hone to bo sold or given againBt the request of wile, husband, parent or child.

14. All places when licensed to bo kept orderly and qui and "between tho hours of 13 at night and sunrise, and on Sundays completely and effectually olosed." 16. Ho unlicensed person permitted to kcop a sign or notice that liquors aro sold. 16. Penalty for violation from $30 to $100, or imprisonment from 10 to 30 dnyB, or both flue and imprisonment.

Also liability to a penalty in a civil for half of this to tho person or person complaining. 17. Ho recovory fcr debt contracted for liquors in quantities less than fivo gallons. IP. Conviction for violation, forfeits and annuls lucernes.

19. Evory sheriff, constable, policeman and officer of police shall compel tho observance of this law, by summarily closingplaces where it is violated. 20. Evory such officer shaU forthwith arrest all who shall violate any of tho provisions of this act, and every magistrate shall cntortain the complaint made upon the oath of said officer. 21.

Every such officer Is empowered to arrest overy person found in the streets or public places, who is intoxicated, and tako them before a magistrate. 22. The Board of Excise may annul licenses when tho perBonB violating them have been complained of. All feeB paid to said Board to bo uoed for diminishing the expenses of said Police Department. 25.

All courts having juiisi ctt' ui der tin law, shill Instruct and chaige grand jurors, to inquire and to indict all offenders. UNDER THE OLD SYSTEM, licenses were granted by three Commissioners, appointed by the County Court. Tho Commfssioners rcently acting wero: Thomas Murphy, of tho 16th Ward; HURh McLaughlin, of the 2d Ward; and Wlllet Jarvis. William M. Cole haB heretofore acted 88 Clerk to tho Board.

The receipts for licenses varied considerably at ono time reaching $60,000 for Kings County, and the next year thereafter falliing off to almost nothing. Tho prico heretofore has been $30 per Itoense, and the clauBe requiring a good moral character to procure ono, was emphatically a dead letter. A greot deal of illegal trafflo in intoxicating drinks was also permitted. Tho now Board has decided to begin tho issuo of licenses on lhe first day of noxt month. Ho bar room known to bo the resort of thieves or other disreputablo persons will bo licensed; neither will any corner grocery be allowed to sell ales or liquors over the bar.

By theso two restrictions alone, it is estimated that four thousand of the ten thousand drlnking placeB in this city and New York will bo closed, Theso measures Btrike hard blows, at tho Btot, against thoft and wretch edncss, which result from tho drunkenness of married women and young jhildrcn in the lower paths of life, whoso first step in tho downward path of life Is taken by yielding to the temptation of dr inking beor at tho bar of the corner grocery. From the receipts for licenses tho Board hopes to receive a rovenue in hand, before tho middle of May, of ono million dollars a sum equal to half the annual expenditure for tho PollceDepartment, and which has for years boon lost. For onforclng the provisions of tho Excise Law, the Commissioners havo tho euli! 0 Police force at their beck, and by a vigorous and faithful administration of their trust they can confer inestimable bleBsinga upon the inhabitants of tho District, FIXING THE BATES. In tho courso of the discussion yesterday, Commissioner Acton said that ono man in Hew York city owns fourteen dram shops; another owns nine; others own three or four each. Last year tho Metropolitan Police made several thousand arrestB for drunkenness and for crime resulting from drunkenness; and since the Me tronolitnn Police aro to got nine tenths of the money which ia derived from licensing, Mr.

Acton proposed that tho men who make bo muoh work for policemen should be coerced into the navment of a handBome sum for their licenses. He therefore hoped that the Board would requiro every appucant, to wnom tnoy migni grant license, to pay $250. TVTflssrfl. RnrTMi and Manierro concurred. Dr.

Swinburno remarked that if tho Board would grant cheap licenses say $25 to venderB of lager beer, and if they would cultivato among the people a taste for beverages which are comparatively harmloss, thon the Board would work a true reform. Mr. Bchultz and tho physicianB of tho Board oudorsed this view. After considerable discussion, it was voted that thoro he two classes of licenses, and that tho first class license fee, or the license to retail alo, beer and spirituous li quorB be $250. In fixing the prico for a license to retail only ale or beer there, was no littlo difficulty.

One gentleman proposed that the fee bo $150; another $100; another 76, and nnothor $60. At length $75 was adopted, but before tho vote had been rocorded.are consideration was moved and carried, and tho license fee for the retailing of ale and beer was fixed at $100 annually, Judgo Bosworth voting in tho nerotive. Commissioner Bergen estimated that under the roso lutions thus far adopted tho Board will peremptorily close four thousand bare in Hew York and Brooklyn, This will leave about six tliousand persons ond firms to whom tho Board will grantlicenso. Assuming that one half of theso will pay $250 each, and tho residuo $100 each, we have an annual revenue of $1,050,000, ton per cent of which goes lo the Stale Inenriato Asylum and nino per cont toward (ho support of tho Metropolitan Police. Blank forms for application and for license having been adopted and the Metropolitan Polico having been properly instructed, the Beard adjourned to 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon next.

The Board of Health 'J lie Cholera in the Bay Brooklyn Streets again Cleaned on Paper The Cellar Population. In tho Board of Heolth yesterday a report waBread from Dr. Dalton, the Superintendent, Btating that the disease on board the Virginia, now in tho lower bay, is tho cholera and that thero havo been onehundred csbcb in all, of which forty five had proved fatal. Evory. thing possible Is being deno for tho comfort and safety of the remaining passengers.

One cseo of cholera is also reported at Astoria, Long Island. OUB SIBEETS. Commissioner Crane offered the following, which was adopled: Resolved, That Assistant Sanitary Superintendent Conklin be requested to report to this Board, on Thursday next, the general condition of the Btreets of Brooklyn, and in special detail, those streets which aw filthy and in a ejato detrimental to health, and specify the wards in which they are situated. Tho matter of the Italian ship loaded with rags, now at the foot of Partition street in this city, was referred to Commissioner Bwinbourne with power. Gen.

Chatfield again appeared for the Bedford Brew cry, and tho Board, having listened to tho testimony, ordered that "the business of brewing and distilling now conducted at tho Bedford Brewery, Brooklyn, be 1 uspended until the mode of conducting the said business be so arranged that no water, or washings of grain shall escape into tho Btreot, or be collected or retained above tho surface of tho ground, or so that any offensive odor or effluvia can eBcape therefrom into the air." Gen. Chatfield, on retiring, remarked that he was satisfied that the Board had dealt with hla olients as leniently as they could under the evidence. TEE TJNDEBOBOUND POOB. The following resolutions wore referred to tho Sanitary Committee; Whereas, We are admonished on all sidea that cholera is near at hand; and WhoreaB, It devolves upon this Board, as gnardiansof the health of the city, lo act discreetly and effectively In the direction of efforts to prevont, if possible, the Introduction of cholera, or, introduced, to limit its ravages, therefore, Resolved, That the cellar population of Hew York and Brooklyn he removed from their underground abodes to more healthy positions. Resolved, Ihat tho Superintendents of tho Sanitary Board be end are hereby directed to secure temporary hospital accommodations in snoh parts of tho cities ot New York and Brooklyn as will bo likely to be viaitod by the disease, and to arrange for supplying medicines, the means of applying heat to tho surface, beds, blankets, and obtain good nurses.

Resolved, That this Board proceed to secure the B5r vices, when needed, of physicians who woro successful in the management of cholera during its former visita tioiiB, Renolved, That this Board put forth an ordor interdicting the Bale of certain unwholesome artioleB of food, Including veal and other young meats, So. Roaolvcd, That this Board send out, nnder its authority, a bulletin containing advice and directions for the people on the prevention and management of cholera. CoBBEcnoN Mb. EnnoB: In justice to myself I request you insert in your paper the honorable discharge 0 Bernard McCourt on an action brought againBt nim by Peter Reilly, of Ho. 6 Flushing avenue, for embezzlement, the court deciding Bernard McCourt a legal partner, Respectfully yours, Bebnabd MoCotrar.

THE CHAIN OF STEWB Would be broken once a week and remain aeterod faV twelve hours trat for tM CONNECTING LINK between Saturday and Sunday afforded by tho loeal, goneral and tclegraphlo Intelligence in tho SUNDAY MERCURY. To morrow, in addition to the latost intelligence on every subject within thenrovince of journalism, this groat INTERMEDIATE GA, ETTE will contain tho opening chapters of a now story, by1 PIERCE EGAN. bearing tho nanio of THE LIGHT OF LOVE; on, THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOW DROP, (ibemottstrikinpandabsorbinc romance evor wrttton by that popular autneroiwhf SHEETS are furnished exclusively, for a large consideration, in the SUNDAY MERCURY. Ine a tweivo nours gap leic in, ourrent nwory or tno to say nothing of a compendium of local infor nation on all subjects of class or general interest, nnoqnalod as regards fullness and accuracy, byanypross In Now York. Ths olr culotton of Iho SUNDAYMURY IS NE ARLYFOUR TIMES GREATER THAN THE AGGREGATE CIRCULATION OF ALL THE OTHER SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS (so called) PUBLISHED IN THIS crry.

Prioe cipnt ccnig. THEE VENT OF TO MORROW will be the commencement of PIERCE EUAN'S enchanting story, THE LIGHT OF LOVE; OB, THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP, IN THE SUNDAY MERCURY. The early sLcets of this splendid, sorinl romanoe wore received from Liverpool, and a new installment ill bo pro eented every week in tie colnrans of the GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER, until the story reaches too dunoumont. THE PROOFSHEETS being furnishod by tho author exclusively TO THE SUN DAYMERCURY, "The Light of Love; or, The Lily and the Snowdrop," cannot mako its debut in this country through any other channel. In the various departments of the SUNDAY MERCURY, the very iatcst information on subjects of immodtate Importance to every class and interest tho community wilt bo found.

The politician, tho financier, the sporting man, the actor, the man of leisure, tho literary man, tho lawyer, ths iatcst emiciant. the "oldest inhabitant," and every man who raids English and wants to know anything that can bo communicated through the oolumns of a UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER, will obtain from one or other of tho numerous subd.v.'Bicns of tho SUNDAY MERCURY tho satisfaction he desires. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES from all parts of the United Statox up to tho hour of going to rms. which is LATER THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ON SUNDAY, Circulation, nearly four times (hat of all (he (so called) Sunday newspapers published in New York. Price, EIGHT CENTS.

A CARD TO THE ADMIRERS OF ROMANCE. TO MORROW, FIERCE EGAN'S latest, and (in tho opinion of oompo tent critics), best story, entitled THE LIGHT OF LOVE; on THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP, Will open in tho SUNDAY MERCURY. By the terms of anagreemont ontored into with tho Author, the PRIVILEGE OF PRIORITY in the publication of (no story has been secured. Tho revised proofs aro transmitted by MR. EGAN to tho SUNDAY MERCURY as the work goes to press in Englnnd, and henos it will reach tho English ana American publio simultaneously.

The exneusu of securing this advantage has, of courso, been heavy; but tho immense circulation and the largo business nitronage enjoyed hytho SUNDAY MERCURY justify the most liberal expenditures in providing for the gratification of its readers. A liberal outlay in every dopsrtineutEditorial, Rouor torisl. Epistolary, Commercial, Political, Literary, Sporting and Miscellaneous established the GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER; and by the samo means that gave it ouleb rityand stntus, its rank and standing ns first class medium of intelligence will he maintained. ITS CIRCULATION, which lias steadily increased for the Inst ton years, nnd is still increasing, is, at this time, very nearly FOUR TIMES THAT OF ALL THE OTHER SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS PRINTED IN THE OITY OF NEW YORK. Prico, per copy, EIGHT CENTS.

ALL THE WORLDS WHICH GO TO THE MAKING UP OF THE WORLD AT LARGE, will find that their speoial wants ond tastos linvo been oa tfcrcd for in the SUNDAY MERCURY OF TO MORROW. Therefore, the uews loving world, tho gossipins world, tho trorJiingnorld. the leisure worjd, the sporting world, the theatrical world, the nthlotio world, tho sonthuental world, the fnfihionnblo world, the travoling world, tho comnioroinl irorld, tho fun loving world, tho political world, tho crinoline world, the broadcloth world; Bhort. the I WHOLK WORLD AND HIS WIFE are invited to tho feast of reast of reason, fancy, hnmor, Ac, which will bo spread out for thoir delectation in tho FIFTY SIX OOLUMNB oi the GREAT SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. Moro especially tho STORY READING WOULD is recommended to peruse tho first installment of PIERCE EGAN'S magniMcont romance, THE LIGHT OF LOVE; on, THE DIAMOND AND THE SNOWDROP.

And last, but not least, tho ADVERTISING WORLD is requested (for its own sake) to remember that tho aggregate circulation of all the other (Bo cnllcd) SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS is littlo more than ONE FOURTH that of THE SUNDAY MERCURY. Price, EIGHT CENTS. NEW YORK AT BREAKFAST TIME TO MORROW will want to know all that may; have transpirod worth knowing, within the rango of mail and telegraph, during Saturday afternoon, evening and night. Whero can this information, in iw fullest and most satis faotory foim. bo obtained 7 FROM THE SUNDAY MERCURY (which goes to press a little before dawn, with all tho intelligence received up to that hour), and from NO OTHER SOURCE I Years have been spout in porfectiiiK tho various departs nients of this model Sunday Nowspaper, and its reports of Local Incidents, and Proceedings, OoiTcauondouco by Mail, Special Lightning Dispatches, Political Intelligence, Commercial ond Shipping News, Theatrical and Show News, Sporting Items.

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Deab Eagle I am still in status quo. I await tho first or liay with resignation. Tho Tribune Bays there aro a seat in Texu called the donftardna dams. I guess I belong to the order. It 1b a comfortable thing to have your mind made up and bo prepared for the worst, I have been down to the jail and examined the premises.

Tho Sheriff is having a couple of cells whitewashed for my accommodation. They aro pleasantly situated on tho second tier, and command a cheerful view of tbo corridor. Mrs. O'Lanus ia not reconciled to her lot. She would rather have a bouse and lot.

Sho don't think the jail ia a good place to bring children up The educational facilities are not good. I admit it; but what are we to do. Landlords are still inexorable. Tho best way is to take things philosophically. Philosophy is a great institution.

When a man can't be anything elso, he can bo a phil. osopher. Philosophy don't pay as well as politics, but it is more respectable, and don't require aa much capital to start wilh. The jail ia a good place to cultivate philosophy in, because you have nothing else to do, and thoro ia nothing to distract your attention. Philosophy accepts thinp as they aro and finds abstract reasons to console us for what can't be helped.

The maxim of philosophy is "what can't bo cured must be endured." I have been trying to inculcate this principle into tb0 mind of Mrs. O'Lanus. She don't see it 5 The female mind is not philosophical. It is given to contradiction, and Instead of accepting things as they are, is forover sighing for something that ought to be, but isn't. That is how Evo came to involve Adam on tho apple question, whereby ho forfeited his lease of the promises ho occupied, and had to movo.

And man has been moving over since. Moving is a law of naturo, the world is continually on tho move, but it rovolves in a circle and always fotche8 up whore it Btartod from. My orbit has not yet been defined, and I don't know whero I Bhall ultimately fetch up. I must belong to the comet family, whose movomonts are described as eccentric. Nobody knows whero they come from, or whoro they go to.

Perhaps they are victims of celestial landlords on house hunting expeditions through spaco. When I scttlo down into philosophy I Bhall investigate tho Rubjcct. Last Saturday I went to tho SUMTER BANQUET. It was quito a Bumptuous affair. It transpired at tho Mansion House.

Brother Yolo invitod us last year to dine with him, His generosity bo overcame tho club that fuoy eleotod him presideni on tho spot. As a further testimonial of their regard they raised a contribution of three dollars and a half each to pay for tho wine. For fear the wi ne might get into tho heads of some of thoBpeakors, Yale kept ifiu the cellar. This may account for tho drynoss of tho spocchos. Except Tilton's.

I think Tilton must havo taken too much ico oream, which caused a rush of blood to the head, and violent violent synrploniB of color on the brain. Tilton says ho Is an African citizen of American descent, and wishes to bo regarded as a white negro; Bainum used to bavo specimens of tho animal at his museum. Only ho used to caU them Albinos. Perhaps Tilton wants to got an engagement as a living curiosity. Tilton regards it as a great misfortuno that ho was not born black.

It is to be regretted on account of tho white raco, but then the blacks are to be congratulated. They havo enough to endure as It 1b. Tilton might get over tho difficulty by joining Hooley's Minstrels. He could there cultivato bis favorite color, entertain tho public and cam an honest Hying without disgusting anybody. I recommond Hooley to look after Tilton, I think ho would draw.

I don't know whether ho can Bing, and I never saw him dance, but ho is groat on a stump speech on tho crisis. You should have seen him dofy Andy Johnson's photograph which hung over tho table Ho told Andy's picture to Mb foco that ho wasn't President; said Fred Douglas could lick him, and I oxpoctod every moment to hear Tilton wind up with a challenge to fight the photograph for a bottle of wino. Several ladios became alarmed and got up and left the table. Tljey didn't know Theodore; he is quite a harmless young man. It is only a way ho has of talking.

He will know better one af theso days. Patiently awaiting the first of May, I am Yours philosophically, Conav O'Lanus. Meeting of Master Mechanics Abont Economy and Wages. A public meeting of master mechanics of this city, was held last evening at No. 0 Court street, Wm.

H. Hazzard, President of the Master Mechanics' Association, in tho choir, and Peter Milno, Secretary. Among iho misceUaneous business transacted the death of Mr. Charles L. Dennington, a member of the Association was announced, and, on motion of the Secretary a committee of three, consisting of Mossrs.

England, Mundcll and John Stevenson, was appointed to draft resolutions appropriate 10 the event, mo resolutions wt.ro presentod and adopted. The gentlemen present then commenced to relate their experiences. Mr. Carson, marble cuttor, thought thatthe workmen, as a rule, did not unorstand tho secret of economy, and mentioned tho caeo of a book keoper in Hew York who supported himself, wife and two children; furnished one floor of a houso in a respectable neighborhood (including a brussels carpet); kept a good table, with a turkey occasionally upon it, and when ho felt ho would like it, a portor honso steak, and his salary was two dollars fifty cents per day! Tho secret was a vy siniplo one he kept away from bar rooms. The Chairman stated tho object of the meeting.

It was lo get lhe master mechanics of tho city to be moro closely united together for their mutual benefit, and in tho course of hiB remarks he said that tho chargo had been brought against them that they wcro over anxious to moke a profit out of labor. This was a mistake, for taking the labor bills which they bad paid, uU the way through, he would venturo to slate that thoro had not been lour per cent, made on them. Mr. John French made a few remarks tending to show that the recent agitation in tho ranks of labor was gradually settling down and things resuming their normal condition. Ho thought the Master Mechanics' Association had (lono some good and was calculated to a groat deal more.

Tho course pursuod by tho journeymen had had a very injurious effect upon business which ho was afraid it would not recover from this season. After sonio brief further conversation, the meeting adjourned. The Army and Wary Association The Need of Immediate and Liberal Aid Suffering and even A meeting of the Army and Navy Association of Kings County was hold last evening at their rooms, Ho. 315 Fulton street. No formal business was transacted; but tho reports of the various members present and of the officers of the Association wero Buch as should awaken tho sympathies iho mirsr RtrinpR of everv citizen of Brooklyn that has any thing to spare to roliove the sufferings of their reuow oeings.

men wno navB rougat iur men country, and have perhapa been disabled for lifo, should not be allowed to die of Btorvation and such cases have actually occured in this city ncr Bhould fie families those who bavo fallen or been reported missing be permitted to drag out a miserable existence, lacking tho commonest necessities of life, Tho President stated that cases of absoluto want and tho most acute suffering wero daily brought before them, which they bad not the means to alleviate. Tho treasury of tho Association 1b empty, or nearly so. They have made an appeal to tho various churches in the city for aid, and it will, doubtless, be liberally answered. Meanwhile, every truo man, in tho Church or out of it, baa a duty to perform. Immediate and efficient aid is needed.

Shall it be given, or Bhall it not Contributions may bo forwarded lo any 0 the officers of the Association; or to Hon. Oeorge Hall, office of Firemen's TruBt Insurance Company; Mr. Jeremiah Mundell, No. 129 Fulton atrcetj or Arthur BenBou, Esq. This is not a charity; it is merely the payment of a debt.

The First Artillery A Correction. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Deab Sib: An article headed "Beady to go," in tour issue of yesterday, BtateB, that "the First Regiment Regular Artillery was surrendered at Fort Sumter by Major Anderson, and has been at Fort Hamilton ever since." Allow me to correct this statement Anderson surrendered but two companies, and thoBe two went to the field. Every one of the twelve companies in the Kegi ment has served throughout tho rebellion on active dutyand with dlsiinctlonj and now, after twenty years frontier duty and four years against the rebels, tho remnant is sent in their proper turn to garrison tho harbor forts. The head quarters of tho regiment arrived at Fort Hamilton only this laBt February. Your article pretty plainly says wo have done no duty since Sumter.

Fort Morris Wand, Olustoe, Gettyaburgh and a hundred other fields tell a different story. The following are a few of the names that appeared on the list of Regimental officers in 18G1: Gen. Vodges, comd'g at Fort Hamilton; Gen. Bran nan, comd'gDept. of Georgia; Gen.

Seymour, comd'g at KoyWc6t; Gen. Rickets, Gen. Scbofleld, Gen. Davis, comd'g Dept. of Tennessee; Gen.

Slocum, Gon. Kil patrick, now in Chili. Oblige mo by thiB refutation. Yours sincerely, Foet Hamilton, Fibst Abtilleot. April 21st, 1860 Ont Soor Sports Base Ball.

The Contests. This club held their annual meeting on Thursday evening, and elected the following officers, Presfdont, Charles Hough; Vies President, George Tompkins; Secretary, J. Boerum; Assistant Secretary, F. Boone; lreasurer. 8.

Boone; Captain 1st. Nino, S. Davenport; Their days of practice will bo Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday of each week, and they will open play on Wednesday the 25th, on the Contest grounds. PBK, RESTAURANT, 366 FULTON STREET, (PARK THEATRE BUILDING,) Hndor the management of nuar, jtate of Taylor's, HetrTork. aa3teod STATEMENT OfljTBJSiOOTOrnO.M.PfTrD! PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY BltOOKXYN, On the flat day ot January, 188.

STEEHEH "CKOWELL, Pnaident. OioWEXL, Vice President Rhlandeb Shaw, Score iary. CAPITAL. The Capital of said Company actually paid up in cash, is 00 Tho Surplus on tho nit day of January, 1366. 33 Total amount of Capital and Surplus fa ASSETS.

Amount of cash on hand and in bank 9103,170 26 Amount of cash in hands of Agents, in course of transmission 30 Amount of loans on bonds and mortgages, being first lien of record on unencumbered real estate, (mostly dwelling houses In the City of Brooklyn,) worth at least 9662,700, rata of intereslfper cent 265,201 29 Amount oi LoanB on demand, seenred by pledges of Rood Bank and other Corporation Stocks as collaterals, tho market value of which is ak leasttWiSe 130,135 60 Amount of bills receivable for premiums on Ocean, Marino and Inland Navigation Risks. 20,233 id Amount invested in public sooaritics, vis; 9600,760 U. S. Treasury Notes, two, market value 9606,110 98 955,000 U. S.

Bonds, 1881, market val. 67,631 25 4.000 1B67; 4,800 00 66,260 6 20, 67,860 00 17,000 10 40, 72,380 00 1,200 Certificates of Indebtedness, market value 1,206 00 12,600 San Francisco City and County Bonds 12,600 00 10,10) Tenn. State bonds, market vol. 17,600 00 80,000 Kings Co. bonds, 30,000 00 18,000 Wisconsin State bonds, 18,000 00 788,118 23 Amount of stocks and bonds of incorporated Companies, viz: 92,600 Brooklyn Union Ferry Compa ny.

94.000 00 3,000 Bond Brooklyn Union Whito Lead Company, market valne 3,000 00 7,000 00 Amount due for fire premiums on poiiciesissued at office 14,35105 Amount due for marine and inland premiums issued at office 42,601 48 Amount of acomed Interest 10,692 48 Amount of Real Estate owned by Company. 7,633 14 Amount of other proporty, miscellaneous items, 10,701 13 $1,693,192 72 LIABILITIES. Amount of losses incurred, and in procoss of adjustment 9187,316 88 MISCELLANEOUS YEAR 1865, Amount of Fire Premiums written from Jan nary 1st lo Decomber 1st, 1865 623,189 60 Ditto of Marino and Inland Fromiums 862,192 25 Total ain'nt of premiums written for the yoar.91,485,381 75 Amount of Fire Losses paid, which occurrod dttrtop; the year 9317,426 00 Ditto Marine and Inland, which occurred during the year 316,496 26 Total amount paid for losses during the year. 9663,921 26 Unsettled Fire Losses on the 31st December. 160,620 49 Unsettled Marine and Inland on 31st December.

106,826 39 Total Liabilities 9167,316 88 The Company obtained its Charter in September, 1653, and commenced bnsiness with a Cash Capital of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, which was increased in Mareh, 1864, to a Cash Capital of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, and again increased in July, 1565, to its present CASH OAP1TAT OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Sinco its organization it has recoived In gross Firo Premiums $2,452,610 98 In gross Marine and Inland Premiums 1,552,890 61 Total gross receipts 91,005,501 69 And during tho samo period it has paid in cash Firo Losses, amounting to 91,215,630 08 Marino and Inland Losses, amounting to 832,709 81 Total amount of Losses paid 92,078,239 69 Number of dividends deolared 22, amounting to 9484,000 00. Extract from tho Third Annual Report of the Superintendent of tho Insurance Department of the State of Now York. WILLIAM BARNES, Superintendent. "Tho premium income of the mass of our Firo Insuraneo Companies is by far too small for their capitals, and inadequate to the proper support of a separato and independen corporation.

The experience of tho Phenlx (of Brooklyn) and some other companies, has demonstrated that, with proper skill, taot and sagacity, businuss can ho increased and managed to an indefinite extent, with entire safety, end even additional security to tbo company, "In the courso of a few years, their business can be safely doubled, and even quadrupled, without doubting or qua drapling the yearly expenses. Any considerable expansion of bnsiness must, of course, bo mainly effected through tho instrumentality of reliable, safe and woll managed agen cies." mh3l Sw.BtW STRANG ADRIANCB, No. S55 BROADWAY. GREAT BARGAINS Will bo offered at retail on MONDAY, from the heavy auo tion sales of last week, comprising BLACK AND COLORED SILKS In every vnriety, 8 4 and BLACK WORSTED GRENADINES, BLACK BOMBAZINES TAMISE CLOTHS, DELAINES AND ALPACAS. HOUSEKEEPING GOODS Of evory description, muoh cheaper than heretofore Also, FANCY DRESS GOODS, from lowto fine quality.

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ESTABLISHED TWELVE YEARS. The only gooa9article, and tho only preparation that cleanses the glovo handsomely without injury to the nap. Sold everywhere at35 cents por bottle. Wholesale depot, No. 62 Fulton streot, Now York.

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Price, tvWaatWM This paper has the Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper published in (he United Stategi Its valne as an Advertising Medium, is therefore apparent. Taxation and Representation. If the reasoning of the New York Tribune is not always convincing it is generally plausible. In commenting upon the President's recant speech, in which he contends that taxation without represontalion is not only anti Republican but practical despotism, the Tribune says: "Now (bis great piinciplo is all forwhlck thoso whom tho President 1ms at tiroes had tho bad iaste to stigma llzo as disunionists insist on. II' tho President will help them to establish this, ho will never moro bo provoked nor inclined to speak of them reprochfully.

Only lot it be established and recognized as a fundamental basis of American code, 'no taxation without representation, 'and out people will thenceforth bo prosperous and united. All can bosottled all rescntmonts buried, all dmcultics removod by tho general recognition and' adoption of that principle. Then why noi adopt it? Why will not the President give his justly great influence to secure its adoption? Mr. Johnson cannot, on reflection, suppose that the loyal whites of Iho old tree States will ever consent to give to two ex Rebels in tho South as much power in the Federal Union as is wielded by three of themselves. Then why not imnkly tell tho South that sho must cither enfranchise her blacL or renounce her claim to count them as a basis of Federal power Is it not plain tbat she must como lo this at last Then why not at once 't" The President, it seems to us, is doing all he can to secure for the States lately in re bellion represontalion in Congress.

The Tri bune's friends oppose him under tho pretence, as we understand it, that negroes will not be represented. It does not follow that those who do not vote are unrepresented. Mr. Bergen, for instance, represents not the voters who elected him merely, but tho interests of tho people of his district, including minors and women and those who voted agaius him. The representatives of the Southern States in Congress tvjll, took after the especial interests of their several States.

Now the interests of the whites and blacks aro not distinct, and the negroes will share in all the advantages of representation. To snpport tho Tribune's theory it will be necessary to show that the negro has especial interests, and to carry it out to its full extent, it will be necessary to introduce the negro clement into Congress. Just yet we believe there is no party prepared to go this far. President Johnson is not an autocrat. He is bound by the Constitution.

Under the Constitution each State is entitled to two representatives, for instance, in the Sennta Why is this fuudmcntal 2'rinoiple of our government, disregarded The clap trap that two ex rebels will wield as much power as three loyal whites of the old tree State0, under the amended Constitution, is unworthy of the Tribune. Eepresentation is based not on voters but on population. A negro in this State, who is not in possession of fteehold property worth $250 a year, counts fcr no more nor no less than a negro in Alabama. The foreigner who landB on our shores the day before the Federal census is taken, though he does not vote for years, and, it may be, never will qualify himself to vote, counts in tho basis of representation. The negro in the South stands precisely as well.

A non voting negro in this State counts one; under the cousiiti'. tion, before it was amended, it took fivo negro slaves to count as three. The advantage was on our side, but the Souh did not complain, for we had no moro than the Constitution gave us. If each negro in the South now counts as a white man in the North, it is under an amendment to the Constitution, which the Tribune most earnestly advocated. The Tribune asks, why does not the President frankly tell the Southern States that unless they do so and so, they cannot have their old place under the government.

This country is not governed by Presidential ukases. If tho President has the power to say to the South, if you do not enfranchise your negroes they will not be counted ns a basis of representation, he has the power to say that no man in the South shall vote unless he weighs iwo hundred and fifty pounds, or measures, in his stocking feet, six feet five. The constitution of the United Stales provides "that tho electors in each State shall have the "qualifications requisite for electors in electing members of the House of Eepresontft "tives requisite for electors in the most "numerous branch of the State Legis "ture." Tho States, of course, determine the qualification of electors to the State Legislatures. Is the Tribune of opinion that Andrew Johnson can set aside a plain provision of the Constitution like this Our government must have drifted very far from its moorings dur ing the war if there is auy such power in the President as the Tribune pretends to claim for him, and which he does not claim for himself. It is, perhaps, possible to force tho South to give the negroes the right to vote, or to deny (hat section in part, or entirely, representation in Congress.

By the first, what are tho negroes to gain Suppose that we in this State were compelled to permit negroes to vote, who are now excluded, does anybody suppose the negroes would profit by it Would not the measure rather excite an enmity against the voters thrust upon us for whicji the right to vote would be but a poor compensation. It seems to us that on this negro suffrage question the New York Times far more truthfully expresses the sentiment of the great majority of the Piepublicau party even, than does the Tribune. We quote from the Times: "In the present state of the Southern mind, universal negro suffrage forced upon tho Southern people would inovilably increase the prejudico and hatred which are assumed to exist toward the negro race, and would thus lead to collisions and conflicts which could not fall to prove disastrous to the weaker party. We are afraid that our oxtremo men in Congress and elsewhere, who are eo exacting upon this subject, are beginning at the wrong end, and that their policy, if successful, would prove injurious rather than beneficial to the class they seek to Bervc." Judge Dick Busteed, of the United States Supreme Court, has rendered "an opinion as is an opinion." An adventurous passenger on one of the steamboats plying between Mobile and New Orleans, tried his luck at a little game of cards, and come out $700 worse than he went in. The passenger; being unlucky at oards, tried his chances at law, and sued the captain of the boat for the amount of his loss.

Busteed decided that the captain was bound to protect his passengers, and directed a decree to be entered against him for the full amount claimed. This decision is novel in law. Under it a passenger can "fight the tiger," sub rosa, and if he should get the worst of it, the captain will be obliged to moke good the loss. Big encouragement for novices at cards, but bad for steamboat captains. Dick is as "glorious" on the bench as he was off it.

We call the attention of ourreaders to the report of the proceedings of the Army and Navy Association in another column. The treasury of the Association is empty, and the appeals of the suffering families of soldiers and disabled Toterans for aid cannot be responded to. We trust, for humanity's sake, that the report that deaths from starvation have occurred in this city, among thoBe who have a peculiar claim upon the publio, ib unfounded. There is no doubt, however, but that great destitution ex ists, and unless Our citizens come to the aid of the Association, much suffering must ensue to many families who gave their protectors to the country in its hour of need. We pledged these brave men that their families should be cared for in their absence; we are afraid the pledge has been forgotten.

We publish on our fourth page a historical sketch of the ravages made by the cholera since it first made its appearance to scourge humanity. There is no occasion for panic about the cholera, but by knowing we can about the enemy we will be the better prepared to ward him off, and to limit his operations, if he make his way inside the lines of our great cities. is impossible to say anything until we have fill" ler details of the events of the expiring hours of session. The charter amendment bill, it was proved, was mislaid in plainer English stolen on Wednesday last We presume it has not turned up since. We have no account of the passage of the deficiency billi but it is baldly possible that it has beon over, looked.

The Five Cent Eailroad rare bill ig among tho slaughtered innocents. Senator Hereon is a very excellent man, but when he was selected to represent tho district we pre. sume he accepted the fact that the majority of his constituents were quite' well satisfied to pay six cents fare. The bill taking the powor of appointing a Commissioner of Jurors out of the hands of the Surrogate, District Attorney, and County Clerk, and plaoing it in those of the Sheriff, County Judge, City Judge andSurrogata which passed the Assembly, does not appear to have been acted upon by the Senate. Tho office is to be filled by the first of May, and is a very desirable one.

The Heights Bill and tie Clinton avenuo Improvement Bill have both, it would seem, been defeated. Very considerable encroachments have been made upon the poweis of the Mayor; the position is now little more than that of a clerk. If Mayor Booth has not been disgusted by the legislation of his party, it is only because his temper is much better than his office. Tho position of Mayor was once considered a very honorable one. Shorn of its dignity and power we believe it is irksome to the man who fills it and useless to the people.

The leaders of the party in power are driving their steadiest supporters from them by their folly. Before a year is over the tax payers will see that tho policy of centralization is not only anti Eepublican bat that it does not pay. By the passage of the new Exoise bill the office of Excise Commissioner is wiped out. Of the now and very stringent law governing the sale of liquor, we give very full details in another column. If the law can be carried out, it will effect revolution in the liquor trade.

There will not be loss drinking, but the trade will be concentrated in fewer hands. Heretofore tho attempts to restrict the traffic in liquor have generally beon urged foiwaul by men who expected to make money in resisting the laws of their own devising. The liquor traders have been plucked like geese, for tho benefit of legal shysters. If the Excise Commissioners are not out in their calculations, they expect to make the liquor sellers pay the greater portion of the expense of the police force. If the law be onforced strictly, it seems to ns that the income derived from licenses in this city will bo very moderate.

Centralization is tho order of tho day. Tho big liquor men will make money by it; the lesser lights in the trade will find themselves, like Othello, without occupation. Stand from Under. There are exciting times in Washington according to the Herald. A panic has seized the office holders, and they are visiting Washington in large numbers, with the purpose of assuring the President that they oppose him only in a "Pickwickian sense." The expectant office seekers are just as anxious to convince the President that unless changes are made the country is lost.

The number of "Old Line Whigs" who have turned up suddenly is the mos remarkable political event of tho times. Men who were red hot Kepublicans three months ago now declare that they were really never at heart with the party in power. Inconsolable for the loss of their old political organization an organization, let it be confessed, as patriotic as any that evor existed they have since been wandering about in (politically) a distracted condition, and by a sad accident they fell in with bad company. Mr. Bates, Attorney General under Mr.

Lincoln, got off one good joke in defining an "Old Line Whig" as "a thorough "gentleman, who took his liquor regularly and ''votedthe Democratic ticket occasionally." It is safo to say that the "Old Line Whig" party never numbered as many adherents in its life time as it dees at this hour, accepting the verbal evidence of tho "Old Line Whigs" themselves. The "Old Line Whigs" are welcome to the right side. They woto venal sinners, at worst, and will be received into Andrew Johnson's bosom with the warmest welcome. The Johnson Meeting on Wednesday Next. The gentlemen who have been entrusted with the work of getting up the meeting to sustain tho President of the United States in his efforts to restore the Union, aro vory much indebted to the organs of tho de moraUzod Badical politicians for the attention they have given to the meeting, though it has comein the shape of senseless and and frantic abuse of the project.

One of them, warns the people not to go, for it says that the little ferry boat load of ward politicians "are "unprepared to declare themselves defi "nitehj for. or against either Cong "re. or the Prescient." The people are, however, fully prepared to declare for the restoration of the Union on the basis of the Constitution. On Wednesday evening, at the Academy, the people of Brooklyn will endorse this simple and patriotic platform, and we will venture to say that even the Eadical politicians will be quite willing to put in an appearance. The Legislature has adjourned without pass ing either of the under ground or over ground railroad bills, and New York and Brooklyn must wait one year longer for the relief they so much need.

It seems as though a Bepubh ean Legislature was incapable of doing anything for the relief of the cities unless some political advantage was to be gained. Commission after Commission has been instituted to billet Republican placemen upon the tax paj'ers, and help the party, under a loud pretence of solicitude for our moral and physical welfare, but when an effort is made to pass a measure of unqeBtioned necessity, but through which no partizan ends can be subserved, it meets with opposition and defeat at the hands of the men who pretend to be so anxiouB for the welfare of the city whenever a new Commission is projected. Meeting of the Sash and Blind Makers' Society The valuable claBS of mechanics known as the saBh and blind makers recently formed a society which promisee well, being formed of first class work men. A meeting of tho Society was held last evening at a hall Ho. 428 Fulton avenuo, opposite Pearl street.

The President, Joseph Hyer, occupied the chair, and William Cannan, tho Secretary, was at his desk. Tho attendance was large and several members epoko of the advantages derived from the union of working men of a trade in a society. Several new names wore placed upon the roll. The sash and blind makers of New York now receive $3 60 per day, while hero tho pay in only $3, a aUTeronce which, it is jusuy claimed, is not justifiable. It is said, also, that some sash and blind makers are working in this city now for $2 per day.

Many in tho trade, however, work by tho piece, and are thus able to make moro than they would otherwise. The society formed is building up rapidly and promises to bo one of the first of tho trade societies in this city. Dobemus' Lecture. Dr. Doremus will deliver his last lecture on Chemistry at the Academy of Musie this evening.

Theso lectures have proved lute, resting beyond all expectation. Such, a thorough exemplification of a scientific subject has never before been attempted hero. We have endeavored in our reports to give the reader an idea of tho lecture, but tho great feature tho experiments have to be seen to bo understood. Tho lecture to night will bo the mostintorostlng of the Bories which has but one fault that of being too brief. Subrogates Couet.

Tho wills of the following named persona wore proved during tho week, before Surrogate Brainard Hotso Van SlndoreD, of the town of Hew Lots; Richard Kemson Bennett, of the town o( New Utrecht; Maria Bergen, Julia C. Douglas, and Gar" ret D. Tunison, all of tho city of Brooklyn. Lottora of administration were granted on tho estates of tho following named deceased persons: Elizabeth Jordan Catharino Maginnls, Patrick Higginn, Charles F. Froyclson, Edward Byan, Job Davis, Edwin Thorn, John McMahon and MlchficlTaggart, all of tho city of Brooklyn..