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BUSINESS NOTICES. TEACHEBS' SALARIES. Kineetla'g amendment that the resoldttons be adopted as a whole and afterwards referred to tbe Chairmen of the Finance, Teachers' and Law Committeos to. ascertain whether there wo'ro funds to carry it out on the first of May. That motion was afterwards withdrawn, and Mr, Carroll moved that it be adopted as a whole, and that the officers of the Board be instructed not to pay the increased salaries until ordered to do so, Tho motion was adopted by a vote of 23 In the affirmative to 1 in the negative Tbe motion to rofer was then adopted, and tho Board adjourned, after having been in BesBion for five hours.

with pay as a teacher in the lowest class of a primary department. Instead ot learning as pupils, they are learning as teachers that "is, they aro acquiring the business of teaching, for teaching is a business, a profession, as muoh as any other calling. While learning they are paid say seven dollars per week. We are opposed to making distinctions against women, especially where they are brave enough to' challenge the world for tho wealth of honost labor, but until time had mellowed the Museum transactions', and until the oxasporated multitude had learned to look upon their easy bargain and sale as a folly of youth. But Mortin minutely describes tho making of the gypsum figure, its burial and opportune resurrection, almost before the stone impostor has finished its travols, and while tho solemn scientists, the profound philosophers, and tho accomplished antiquarians freshly remember tho ridiculous attitudo they assumed towards the weak invention.

Mortin'a impudence can go only one step farther he should lecture before the Long Island Historical Society. That learned body, having lent itself to the transparent decoptioD, can do nothing' less than aid Mortin in opening tho dull eyes of his dupes. WEBrYES XY EVENING, JUAKCBH f5. This paper lias tbe Largest Circulation of any livening paper published In tbe United States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is tliereforo apparent.

City ot Boston Safe "We may not too heartily express the grati with, by somo system holding oat an mduooment to zeal and proficiency, guaranteeing that deserving qualification shall not be trampled down or walked over by local influences or favoritism, thereby supplying an incentive that must havo a most beneficial influence among the deserving, but to a great extent, illpaid'clags of officials. Many of tho existing incongruities are to be attributed probably moro to rapidity of growth and an adherence to the peculiar nomenclature in vogue, both for schools and toachors, than to any inherent lault needing a remedy. I therefore move as a substitute for the resolution and roport presented by tho Joint Committees tho following: Rtsolvod, That a Special Committeo bo appointed to devise an improved classification of all ongaged iu teaching iu the PutiUo Schools, and a rc aajuatmont of their salaries, Mr, Kinsclla said ho hoped the motion would not prevail. It was time that somotUtng was done in the matter, and he wob in favor of having tho salaries of the teachers employed in the grammar departments Increased. As had beon stated by tho chairman of tho TeacheiB' Committee, ho know there was great difficulty in getting competent teaehora for thoso departments, as, if thoy did got them, they found it almost impossible to retain them in con eequonco of tho fact that higbor salaries could bo procured in other localities.

Tho matter of the salaries of the teachers in tho primary schools could, ho thought, bo left over for further consideration, but he hoped the Board would take some immediate action iu regard to tho teachers in tho Grammar Departments. He hopod that Mr. Hcuncssy's resolution would not boprosscd; or, if prcBsed. that it would not prevail, but that tho report would be taken up item by Item, and considered. Mr.

Nortlitm said ho had dono his best to uuderstand tho report, but had failed to do bo. In many respects it was not only obscure, but unjust, and it ought to go to a special committeo to bo revised. ANOTHER HECOMMENDATION. Barnes said ho wa3 sorry that the City of Brooklyn cut bo sorry a figure in that matter, and ihat it paid tho teachers in its public schools so very inadequately for the lubor they performed. It scorned to iiim that they should commence at tho bottom and go to tho top.

Ho found that tho average pay of teachers public schools iu Boston was $8(1 1, in Brooklyn $533, in Cincinnati $770, in Chicago $757, and in Now York $70 In Boston thero were 183 less pupils than iu this city, and yet 94 more teachers wora employed, and if tlio samo number of teachers were omployod in Boslou as iu Brooklyn, their salaries would average $997 against $553 paid to tho teachers here. At present our teachers have about 40 per cent, more BcholarB and 02 per cent, less pay than thoso of Bostou. Ifrom the figures lie had given it would bo Been that tho rato of remuneration paid to tho teachers was tos in Brooklyn than in any other of the cities ho had mentioned. To vihom were they doing that injustice? It had recently beon decided that ladies were fully competent to fill any position in tho publio schools aud ho thought tho time hud como when tho injustice ho had BcrgU's Blunder. Evory virtue in oxcess, runs naturally into a vice or error.

Thus firmness in exoeas becomes obstinacy, courtesy in excess degenerates into servility, economy into avarice, prudence into cowardice, and honorable pride, when in excess, swells into absurd pomposity and conceit. Mr. Henry Bergh has just given an illustration of how tiie excess of one virtue in an ill balanced mind can beoome exaggerated into a ridiculous foible. Mr. Bergh is gifted with peculiar sensitiveness.

He has a tender heart, which feels for the miseries of the dumb animals. His labors to protect horses from cruolty and overwork have been aa useful as they have been incessant as widely recognized and generally approved, as they have been solitary and unaided ifi their inception. But now the same exquisite sensitivenefls which has led Mr. Bergh to feel so keenly the wrongs of the dumb victims of men's avarice and cruelty, has led him into a mortifying blunder. This journal, which has supported Mr.

Bergh's crusade against cruelty to animals most steadily, has thereby acquired a special right to inform him now that he has made a fool of himself in bringing a libel Buit against the Sunday Courier, for a good humored burlesque review of himself, and his mission of preventing cruelty to animals. The Courier, on Sunday, got off a joke at the expense of Mr. Bergh and his pursuits, over which every reader, including Mr. Bergh himself, might have aughed, but which no man of ordinary thickness of cuticle could have dreamed of getting angry at. The writer gave a humorous imaginary portrait of Bergh personally pictured him as inhabiting premises sacred as an asylum for unfortunate animals, and in short, travestied him and his doings in the way that nearly every newspaper is accustomed, at longer or shorter intervals, to raise a laugh among its readers, by hitting off with humorous caricaturo the pocularities of any public man and his proceedings.

If this Cornier joke was a libel, no sketch was ever written by Cony O'Lanus, Orpheus C. Kerr, Artemas Ward or P. V. Nasby, that did not abound witlTlibels. There is, however, one practical joke about this affair, which, as a joke, exceeds the article itself; and that is, that the Justice before whom the hate humanitarian cited the publishers of the Cvuricr, did not pooh pooh such an absurd charge as he should have done, but gravely held the defendants to bail to auswer a'crimi nal indictment.

That Justice must have been akin to the man of whom Sidney Smith said it required a surgieaT operation to got a joke into his head. Mr. Bergh, it will be found, has forfeited his usefulness, to a great extent, by this preposterous libel suit against a newspaper for a. harmless joke. Sensitiveness must have boen developed in him to a degree which makes him absolutely incapable of determining what is crudty.

If he cannot distinguish a good humored joke from a malignant libel, who will bolieve him clear headed enough to discriminate between fair working of a beast of burden, and its cruel treatment He shows in this silly suit that Mr sensitiveness has become morbid and excessive and thus he neccessarily becomes disqualified from fairly A LOCAL INSTITUTION. THE BEOOKf VK LIFE IWSUBAH0B 09. 1 CHRISTIAN W. PiGUOK, Prosldent, ABEAM D. POLHBTifDS, Vice President.

WILLIAM M. COLE, Soeiotary. T. P. FAOKLEB, ConsuXfcff Actuary.

DANIEL AVRES, M.D., tf.0., Medioal Director. OFFICES: 1 MONTAGUE BHOYMCLYN. Ml BROAWAY, NEW YOEtt BENJAMIN LEWIS, General INCOME KOR 1869 85 ASSETS. MARCH 1870 03 DIEECTOHS. CHRISTIAN W.

nOTJOK, ARNOLD A. LEWIS, ABRAM D. FOLHEMUS, WILLIAM M. COLE, EFFINGHAM H. NICHOLS.

JACOB K. OLWINE, JAMES F. WHITNEY, DANIEL AYRES, M. D. GEORGE E.

BROWN, SAMUELS. POWELL, AMOS F. HATFIELD, WILLIAM MARSHALL, AUGUSTUS MASTERS, GEORGE A. THORNE, DANFORD N. BARNEY, JOHN DAVOL, DANIELS.

ARNOLD, WILLIAM H. LYON, JAS. M. WATERBURY, RICH'D B. DUYC'KINCK, MICHAEL CHAUNCEY, CURTIS NOBLE, ISAAC VAN ANDEN, AUGUSTUS I'ORD, JOHN C.

BEALE, DANIEL MAUJKR, JOHN M. FURMAN, WM. H. WALLACE, DAVID M. CHAUNCEY' EDWARD TODD, JOHN H.

BAKER. JOHN HALS ICY, ISAAC CARHART, E. BEADLESTON, Tiie; BROOKLYN LIFE, atone of all Life Insurance Companies in Now Y'ork State, guarantees a definite, endorsed, surrender value in cash every Participating Policy issued by this Company bears a certhicato stating whit this exact worth will bo in Dollars and Cents, at any time after the pnyment of two or moro premiums, you woull ije subpbiseju To see what a iino assortment of GAS F1XTUKKS, Of all the nro bo found at THOMAS READ'S 1,023 Fulton uvo, opposite Gates, n.lil! SOteod E.N CH MOKGAK tiAFOLIO Will clean paint, and earth 0:1 ware, m.ir blo, oil cloihs, woodwork. SAPOLIO "Will polish knives, stair rod Riving a Instro equal to new articled. tahti dl PARK'S BALSAM Of WILD CHERRY AND KOlt COUGHS AND COLDS.

Unequalled as a remedy for all diseases of tho throat and Iuiish. Singers and speakers uso it tocleartlw ttirnat and give tone to the vocal organs. Price sold by ail dnf' Cists. JOHN F. HUSKY, Solo Piopiiotm Collegi placo.

N. Y. jnia ly SPECIAL, WOTICES. A EE you" UOfNG TO PAINT Then buy tho AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT It costs less than ptiro lead tiad oil, ii ami wears longer, is white and in all ths fashionable shads3 ready for use requires no oil thinners or driers, and is sold by the sallon only. Eooom'iif ndod from owners of tho finest villas in tho'country.

Can ho soon at the office of the company's cijonts, SEELEY A STEVENS, 32 BURLING SLIP, mhlli lSt'eod NEW YOU IC. gEBREW BENEVbLENT" ASSOCIATIONS OF; BROOKLYN. Tho First Annual Ball of this Association, will take placo on 1'UKIM EVENING (Thursday), March 17th, 1870, at Gothic Hall, Adams at. Tbo proceeds to bo appropriated to benevolence aud charity. Tho decorations and culcium lights cro under tho direction of Mr.

Aldrigo, of the Academy of Music an! thr; refreshments under the supervision of tho wcil knoivn caterer, Mr. Danzigcr of N. Y. By JAMES COf.E'S SON. TUESDAY, March 21, At 12 o'clock, at the Commercial Exchanso, No.

StS Fulton st, oppnsito tbo City Hal). Brooxlyn. LARGE SALE OF A'ACANT LOTS AND IMPROVED PROPERTY. No. ATLANTIC A.VE A 3 story, first class, briok, store and dwelling, near Clintnn ave.

HALL ST a. 2 story, frame luune, near Myrt lo ave. No. 94 DOUGLASS SI' A 2 story and basement, brick house, near Hoyt st. No.

2ii5 WAHHEN ST A 2 story and basement, brick house, near Fourth avo. No. '273 ADAMS ST Honfis and Ptabta; a 2 story, frame liouso, aud a tew, 2 stoiy. brick stable, nei Myrtle ave. GTlCA AVE Ono lulcmnerof Uultin st.

BALTIC ST Five lots ndioinin tho abovov Mnus and full particulars at tho cthco of tho Auctioneer, 3611 l'ulton st, Brooklyn. rahlti ol' White, first class ladies' IV nurse, corrcro! Doaa street and Flatbush aven id. Goofl rulorrnro citcn. mSl6 2l jJ'EW AJNI'iiilM VOlt EASTElL By tho Popular Composer, j. r.

Thomas, "CHRIST OUR PASSOVER." Price, I.C). Sont by mail poBt paid on receipt of i lice. OLIVER DITSON A Boston. C. H.

DITSON New York. ocl tf STOKAOE FOR FUjRNITUIIK IN THK btick building, 20it Fulton avonuo, Clean, dry lofts, sspurato llarchway an hoist whorl fr heavy qo u's; rates moderate. Apply Ij W. H. BOLToN, 09 l'ulton avt.

upp. avo, mh161mf QKUOKU FLOOR TO LET OONSIST k3 ingof thrco rooms, gas water; good licalion, lintf Mock from cars ruunir.ir ukII tho ferric; viillbs lot very low to parties Unit suit. Call ou m'tmist a. 31 ist Ilnttic Mtcfr.bntwoeri Fourth airi Fifth avenues. Fo hoiou iin mediately mhlC 2tk PECIALKOTICK TO THE LADIFS OF BROOKLYN.

The Following BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS Will ho offered for few days nnti; sold. lCfl Doz. AH Linen Nankins, for SI por ire Doe. Unon Huck Towels, for $.1 per doz. fit) Dlaner Towels, lartte, fnr 12Vc, or $1 por do z.

lU'J Dr Fino jnen H'dk'fs. only 12e, north 25c. 2i Damask Towels, only 25c. encb. 2U Pieco3 All Linen Damask, for Table cloths, from 37 to i poryiru.

lies. ioc. worm ni 1 Picco Hear ivj Gros Grain Black Silk, mr $1 25. It Silk, better, for at GO; Uxtra hotter at 5173, 1 Place Blue 1 St Icnditl quality, for 42, worth $3. ic i liioicnea muslin, ior doc, worm bjo, Yp.rd Wide Musliu, tor l5o, ouual to Watusutta, Th most of theso poods wore bought at forood suction and at less than nold cost.

A call is resnocttuliy solicited. Silver given in change. johnIlholmes, 101 Fulton avo, opposite Hoyt st. THE OWN IOR OF A GOOD FARM ON Lonir Island, recontly purchasod, wishes to convert it into tho dairy and cattto business, on shares, with a cim petcnt man; distance, within ono hour from Now York Apply to W. HENRY, 15 Park RowNoyT York.

THE BEST PLACE TO BUY JFURtfl TURK in Brooklyn, is at FULLERTON'S Mammoth Salesrooms, on tbo corner of Jay st. and Myrtle ave. Fiv lloors are filled with furniture of overy description, an everybody oan bo suitod, both in price and stylo. No ono should buy without first calling here and examining tho etcck. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.

We have at our store an imnroved DUMPING WAGON, Which wo shall bo pleased to have you sob. Wo also manufacture and keep on hand Grading Ploivs, expressly for tractors' uso canal wheel borrows Washoo Picks, Shov 0lS'4C' J. R. DECATUR A 4 1H7 Wator st, N. opposito U.

j. Hotol. LITTLE, AUCTIONEERS. Mnroh 9.td. At 13 n'olook, at tho City Salesroom, 16 Conrt st, Tho v.

ituablo hoasobold property No. 112 liulton st, wont side, tretweon Henrv and Middngh ats, fonr story brick, II rooms, two water ctosots; eizo of housa 8x15, with extension 0 fect; lotMxiB. Tno lease oftho ground is very favorable has nino yours to run, with privilogo of rouewal for iifteon years more, at a rent of $350 por annum. On THURSDAY, March 24th, 1870.. At 12 o'clock, at tho Exchantjo Salesrooms, 111 Broadway, New York.

POSITIVE SALE OF AN ELEGANT RGSIDRNCE, EIGl LOTS. AND STABLE ON CLINTON near Groeno, Brooklyn, under tho direction of ICtwoocl Ci oper, who intends to lcovo tho city. CL1 NTON AV 14, west sids, 20U cot south of Groeno tivo 100 ft nn Cliaion avo. and 100 ft on Vanrtorbilt nvcnia kin? eight full lota. Tho dwollimr is nearly now built.

Sor tho ownor, by day's work, under tho direction of Air. John Wil son is of frame, and is ono of tlio Iivgest and best ventilated on tho avonno; heated by atoam; water in. nearly every room. Size, as per map: (ira noor contattta parlor, 15 ft 6iuby 20 ft; library, 15 ft 6 in by IS ft; draKiu r.roonii 15 tt Oju byia ft diniuK rooni, 21 ft 6 in by lo ft ifcin kitolN en, 17 ft by wit: butlor's pantry. iu it a in u.vy iui n.

iaun. dry, ID itSin by 11 ft6in; storeroom, two Cbjtaa olosol? KitciiOB Closet, tront and oacK umi anu ouurs. Second flour Seven commodious slcepint 5ms, wiih hot and cold wi tcr, and larue closets, onu. bat roi.mr, linon olosot, two water closets. Ac TJ iird floor Four and space for a tilth.

Tin rorij, lb ohimrass frsai foundation; oponftratos for all tlio jrn.ioal rooms Billiard renins, phtoo for buttling alleysv Collars dry and well lighted. Ontliereor is a large and noil arranged atablo, col responding wit house. This rosidencsia acknowledged to bo. tho most corunodi ous ou tbo avenue, within 30 minutes of Wall st, ana fain blocks of Prospect Park. AT THIS BAB1K TIME AND PLACE.

HKRBERT ST. Two dwolluiM. on. tho nnntli on tt west of Smith st. E.D..

with tots ttinnin thrnnoh nrdson st dwellings three story ajul bsomontfius 20x S3, containing 12 rooms. Also, No.MLAWKENCBr,botweeriWinoxiEhbyi:andEttl. ton ave 'I hice atory, DMoment and sub ooll jr book, all improvements. j.ivmuaivfl sr. too two story, attio actf juticreent framo dw.8l'inK, modorii irapi a oii tho touth eido oi lavlnsston st, tiO foet Zi lUaoW place.

amps nnu iuu jamcuuis at. mo nuctionouiK' (Wvdioff Little) offico, 151 Montaeao st, Brooklyn, aatf 71 fdar si. Unhid Bt SAL.E. TjiOlt SALIS ON COLUMiJJA. STA JL tueat tnnrkot.fnaeood looation tifctBsi wumh ironi May 1st; nillbe Ud oheap if apyhpt fotsoon, at 461 UOlUlUDla at.

r. muia 3V bj' ujk, SALiis iaA'lUltlS AjSD FIVE Proprietor fwi bnsiSoisL In" quire at 101 Fulton st. in shoe st.ow. FOR SALE A WELL KOWN BROOK" Kr York Express route, doing a good busi or OMlwnap'fct tty property Address M. Ragle oflico.

mht5 2t fORSALE THFj WELxL KNOWN PUB Uo oouBe66 Lafayette avo. yanotion of Vnlton, occupied the last stvon ycara by JOSKPH DENT, to whom iu qtilro for particulars. nthl5 2t' FOR SALE AN EXOELlnITpIANO almost now, vors low for oash. Opright and squ ir. pianos to ront at GEO.

YON KAUEBJi'B Piano Store, Cottrt st. m)i2 6tl 1ITOR SALE A FIRST CLASS eery store, Bituatod on the cornor of two leadinti nuos; will bo sold upon easy terms, toesthorwith loa of prcmisoF. Apply to K. BUXTON, 9 Willoughby st, infill fit' FOR SALE CHEAP THE STl0K; fixturea, of nn old establishofl toy, and ico cream saloon on Myrtle avo also, furniture, iic BUitablo for housekeeping. Apply at 531 Mvrlf) avo.

nihlB 3t FOR SALE A BILLIARD KOOM, ONE oftho oldest established aud be located looms in tho city, with 15 tables, and fitted upin. ccod stylo, with ovoiy thine uoocBsary for carrying on a VrekoHss business for silo low terms easy, Appb) to UOIg MURPHY, 3 II Knlton street. pWflSW Special IUceting of the Board of Educa tion Tito Salaries Received by tbe Teachers in the PaMte Schools of Brooklyn and Other Cities A. Iionff and Interesting Donate The Now Schedule. A special meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday afternoon at tho Sopot Building in Ited Hook Lano, tbo President, Dr.

Thome, in.the chair. Tho purposes for which the meeting was held wero to take action on the roport prosontod at tho last mooting by the Joint Committees on Finance and Teachers, in favor of increasing tho teachers' salaries, and also to hear the report of the special Committee appointed to confer with tho owners of tho Baoho property. The Board was called order at four o'clock, and on motion the reading of the minutes was dispensed with MNEMONICS, In accordance with a previous arranoomont Mr. T. W.

Nixon was allowed ten minutes to explain his new system of teaching by memorizing, and was to explain his system by experimenting through his daughtor a mue gin snout iweivo years oi age. Mr. Nixon stated that tho only evidence bo could give in support of his theory were tho oxporiments through his daughter. By his system he claimed to bo able in tour nourB to maKe any clina who had a knowledge of figures perfectly familiar with tho multiplication table and to provo that such was the caso his daughter would tion which tho membera of tho Boord might suggest. Mr.

Burr, on behalf of tho Board, tlion oulted nut tho following numbers, whfth Mr. Nixon wroto down on a Ulacli hoard: 41, 5ti, 04, 70, 120 90, 83, Eli, 40, 07, 98, 44, 09, 9a, 17, 10, 7, 14, 20, '20, 27, 12, 0, 8. These figures were numbered from 1 to 24, 41 boiug No. 1 and 8 being No. 24.

Mr. Nixon's little daughter studied tho figures for about seven minutes and thou announced that she wis ready with her lesson. Tho first number called was nineteen opposite tho twenty Tho question was corroctly ausworcd, and so on through tho whole list tholittlo girl giving all tho answers correctly and without hesitation, with but two exceptions. Mr. Nixon then explained that by his system eacli figure was also represented by a letter, ono being represented by two by four by and so on, aud ho felt perfectly confident of being able iu four hours to teach the multiplication table to any child who had a knowledge of figures.

Hon. Domas Barnes inquired whether ho had ever known any other child to tocoino as pronoient as his own daughter. Mr, Nixon said he had not, bocause he had never known any othor child to bo so thoroughly instructed in the Bystcm. TEAOHEliS' SALARIES. Mr.

Burr, Chairman of the Finance Committee, then moved that tho report of the Joint Committees on Finance and Teachers bo taken from tho table, aud that tho Board consider the report item by item. The motion was udopted. The following is the report referred to ItlPOBT OP COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND COMMITTEE ON TEACHEnS. (Presented March 1st, 1870.) Laid on Hie talile, aud made tho special order at a special meeting of the Board oi Education, to bo held on Tuesday, March ISth, 1870, at four o'clock, P. M.

The Committee on Finance and Committeo on Toacu to whom was referred tboJ'ollowing resolution: llcuolved, That the question of Teachers' Salaries for tho year 1870 71, be referred to tho Finance Committee and Teachers' Committeo for consideration and report Eespectfully roport That after duo consideration, thoy havo concluded to recommond for adoption the iollowiug resolution Resolved, That tho schedule of salaries now pitd by the Board shall bo, and is hereby, amended as follow.) Teachers in charge of Grammar, or Intermediate Departments 31,000 .00 TeachcrB designated bb Assistants iu urammar Teachers ot Supplementary Classes TcaohciB in charge oi Primary Schools and De 800.00 ouu.oo partments, with an average attendance of (M0 pupils, and over 1,000.00 Teachers in charpo of Primary BchoulB and De liartmt nfs, wiiu an average attendance ot r00 pupils, and over Teachers iu charge of Primary Schools aud Departments, withauaveragiattendauco of less than GOO pupils Assistants in Primary Schools and Departments, with an averago attendance of (100 pupils, and over Assistants in Colored Schools Nos. 2 and 'J, each Piincipal of Colored School No. 4 Principal of Primary School No. 1, (Mr. Pri 830.00 750.00 000.00 fiOI.OO 500.01) dy) 2,025.00 Piincipal of Primary School No.

2, (Mr. Davi; 2,025.00 Priucii al of School No. 20, (Mr. G. L.

Martin; 2,025.00 Piincipal of School No. 2, (Mr. Sand) 2,025.00 The following resolution was referred to the Teachers' Committee: Resolved, That it bo referred to the Teaohors' Committee for report upon increasing tho salary of Mr. Merwin, Principal of No. 21, to the standard of other Grammar Schools.

The Teachers' Commitlco do not deem it advisable to recommend an increase of Mr. Morwiu's salary. J. S. Bonn.

E. J. Whitlock. Gabhet P. Behgen.

W. W. Uublmjt. John Williams. Edward Rowe.

Jas. W. Biggs. J. w.

Hunter. Mr. E. J. Whitlock, Chairman of tho Teachers' Committee, said that the fivstlquestiou which would naturally be asLed was, what will this proposed increase amount to.

A statement he had in hand showed it would involve an increase of $15,000. That was a singular amount but it was a correct one. Mr. Whitlock then gave a detailed statoment of tho different items of tho proposed increase. That was a part and portion of the report.

Tho next point to bo considered w.h whether there were any funds out of which the proposed increase could be paid. The balance to tho genoral school fund of $33,701.47 was the accumulations of former years, then there was $7,000 more to to Iho credit oi tho fund, and if they tiii year the eame amouut from the State that they did last je.ir, then there would bo another $7,000 to be a tdeil to it, and that would give a grand total of $17,701, to ho used for that purpose. Ho was of tho opinion th it tho Board did not compensate sufficiently thoso who wore employed in teaching iu the public schools. In this city tho work of teaching devolved almost entirely upon ladies, and tho grade of studies pursued In tho schools was generally higher hero than that in New York. Ia tho New York schools thero wore about 115 male assistants, who received on an averago a salary of $1, 150, Vtio do tho work for which ladies in Brooklyn are paid average salary of $700.

In Chicago, ladies aro omployed tho same as in this city, and there they wero paid according to tho longtli of timo thoy had been employed in tho schools. At present thero was a constant dralt being mado on tho teachers in tho public schools of tho city who were eagerly sought tor, for private institutions, and they were constantly leaving because the rate of compensation offered to them was not large enough to induce them to stay iu the public schools. In New York the average pay of the teachers in the malo grammar departments waB $720, in the female departments $050, and in the primary departments $500, and in no kibc were the TrUBteea allowol to pay a smaller salary than $100. Iu this eky tho average pay of teachers in the grammar dcpaitmeut amounted to and in the priniaiy departments t'j $137.50 In New York Iho salaries not only of the P.iucipal i but also of the teachers were based upon tho atloudauce, and lor that reason the Committeebad thorn lit that it would bu better that some such plan should bo adopted iu this city, in order that taoiie on whom the responsibility rested should be adequately compensated for their la bur. Mr.

Hf nuessy said hiu tho presentation ot' there port of the Ehnmco and TcacheiB' Comu.it be bad been striving to understand thequislion I iho incroiso of teachers' salaries aa proposed, but confencd ob tUKeiieBB in not being able to arrive at a satisfactory solution. He was ueiiher actuated by a or pxv simouy nor extravagance in tho expend t'iro of tho money entrusted to the Board, but was anxious to reconcile hinonelf to tho fact that he discharged tho duty expected cf him intelligently and judiciously. His brief experience had not enabled him to understand the details, of the system, but it forced tho ci nvicliou that ample room for improvement existed. Ye havo a rapidly increasing population, the of education is of vital importauco not only to ourotty but to the State at large. In ttie year 1888 nou ly ono million dollars was disbursed uuder.vour auspioos, of which $308,112 was paid for teachers' wages oxchi of cvcuini schools; theso amounts must annually increase in the same ratio as population, theroforo it ii important iu affairs of such magnitude that we bo prudent and skilful in our stewardship.

Wo have an army of teachers. Thai many of them are not receiving a iair compensation for their services cannot bo a change iu this respect should take place, I freely concede; but in any chango to bo inaugurated lot us proceed on somo intelligible basis. What do we Hud recommended for adoption, (some, of tho figures aro from the Superintendent's last report) hero is a specimen: The Principal of a school with an average daily attendance of 438 pupils, having ten teachers, is now receiving $2,025 a year, whilst tho Princip il of another school having an averago daily attendance of 883 pupils, with seventeen teachers, ia getting $1,087, and what is it proposed to do Simply to raise tho salary of tho Principal having nearly doublo the responsibility of tho preEont high salaried officer I mean high only by comparison, another caso in illustration. Tho Principal of a school having an average attendance of 754 pupils, with fifteen teacheiB, is getting now $900 ayoar. What chango is proposed Why, to iucrease the salary to $1,000.

But it will be answerod that this latter and perhaps the other is a Primary School. What if thoy aro Clearly you do not recognizo snporior scholastic attainments, for these aro demanded in tho supplementary classes. It iB true the number of pupils mas bo fewer, but they may also be as numerous as they ore in other classes. For tho highest intellectual qualifications $900 iB tho largest salary recommended, tliereforo I contend the qualifications iu a school of 754 pupils, with fifteen assistants, demand as much administrative ability in tho Principal as tho one with 438 pupils and ten teachers. But it may be retorted tho one with the least number and higher salary is a malo, and the other a female Principal.

Now I am openly and avowedly an eneny to Woman's Rights in making hor a politician, but I am as decidedly her avowed friend in claiming common justice for her; that where sho is capable of doing, and is" doing a man's work, she should, ospecially in our educational system, rcceivo tho honost reward of her labor, that Is, the same rate of pay tho man is gotting, I find another chno recommended of an increase of $175 a year, in the case of tho Balary of tho toachor of Colored Primary No. 4, with whioh school I happen to bo connected, but boforo I can vote or it, I iviBh to know upon what ground it is urged. On January 5, 1809, you will find a meeting of thiB Board took place and authorised a committoo to hire apartmonta for a Primary School, whioh was dono at $300 a year, nearly double the amouut that could be procured for ront of the placo for any othor purpose. Tho owncmnti occupant was then engaged as a Teacher at a salary of $325. She has an average atttndauco of probably forty live children, but in addition to her salary, Bhe is paid $10 por month for janitor's wages and supplied with fuel by the Board, thus getting between $700 arid $800 a year, and residing on tho promises, while thero are 301 truchers getting salaries varying from $175 to $350 aud seventy receiving only J325 a year, having classes of from fifty to ninoty children, and many of them have to pay car hire twice a day, yet it is not recommended to increase their pittance.

Let us look farther into the existing state of affairs, that thoro iB no proposition to module with it. Iu Colored School No. 1 wo find an averago daily attendance; of 105 pupila; the Principal gets $1,687 a year, and has three teachers. In No. 2 tho averago attendauco is 11(1 daily; the Principal gets salary, with teacher at $500, aud his wilo janitross rocoiving $180.

No. 3 has an avoragc daily attendance of 79pnpils; the Principal gets a year; ho has an assistant receiving $500 ho. in addition, gets as janitor, $216 a year. In directing attention to these particular cases of mis proportionate outlay for tlio work performed, I eutirely diBClaim having an lota of projndice against, or prefer once for any class or individual under tho jorisdiotlon of this Board. Now, look at some contrasts in other grammar schools.

Thero is ono having 251 average daily attendance of pupils, with five teachers; the Principal gets $1,912 a year. Another, 531 pupils, and ton teaohors; the Principal gets $2,025 a year. Another, 1,064 pupils, and 29 teachers; the principal gets $2,250 a year. Iu tho next, a daily average attendance of 1,700 pupils, aud 32 tuach ers; the Principal rocoives $2,250 a yoar. If none of thoso Principals aro paid too much, to a certainty some of them must be paid too little for their sorvices.

Is thero not something exceptionable in these dill'cronces? Yet in the resolution presented, you find that numbers are recognized as a cauBO for Incroaso of pay, but it docs not touch any of tho cobos enumerated. How havo these anomalies grown up? Some of them have existed for many, many years; ovidently tho want in which they wero contrivod was a sort of technological iuvcuticn. Schools wero dosignated by resolution as creramir srhoolB. and nrcsto un wont tho Balary of the Principal of a Primary. But a few meetings back a resolution was adopted here, substituting the nguros J2 for 8, and.

thereby, $2,250 was added to tho silury ac count, without malting any lmcinai cnange in wuat was going forward in tho sohool. I think nil will admit thoro is something that needs discrimination in theso things, and having dirooted attention to them that you will offoct a reform. if somo of your grades or designations may not bo modified. In my opinion no ono should bo called a principal with Ices than, Bay if you will, thrco hundred pupils, whilo in tho report boforo you, it is applied to ono with lean than forty llvo. Adopt other appellations having adequato pecuniary recompense attached to tltom, for tho labor 1 bo norf ormed.

and lot women who avo quali fied displace thoso men who aro drawing tho public money without giving any fair equivalent for it. Why, nsTc. should anv ono havinn below a certain numuor ot pupils, rcceivo moro salary than tho person who is competent to teach the supplementary or most advancod branches taught in the BchoolB? A ircnt and resnonelblo trust is committed to us. Iu providing tho applinnceB and supervising tho oduraUon of the rioing generation, thoso who aro employed in tho development of the minds of tho young deaervo our respectitu consideration anu biiouhi oo ncau nouoramy NEW LOTS ELECTION. 'Elm "CJpslaifts" and IHc "Hegralars" 'SChc Republicans Adorn tlselr Ticket With a Democratic Heath New Lots, although smaller in population, is not behind any ward in Brooklyn in liability to fits of election excitement.

Tho coming town election, which will tako place on tho fifth of April, will be no exception in thiB regard. Considerable wiro pulling is daily carried on by tho various aspirants for office. The offices iu the gift of the citizonB of Now Lots, as in the other county towns, nro numerous onough, but only two of them aro of any importance, viz. tho Snpervisorship and the Collcctorship. Tho former office has beon almost hereditary in that town, and not a few think that the present worthy incumbent can hand it down to his heir at law.

Tho latter office, howovor, makes up for tho immobility of tho former, as it is constantly changing hands, Tho position of Collector at this is of greater importanco than on any previous occasion, as by an act oi tho prcsont Legislature tho term of olfico has been extended from one to three years. Tho pros cut incumbent is Geo. W. Palmer, who has performed the duties of tho oillco to the satisfaction of tho people of New Lots, irrespective of politics. Ho is a genuine Democrat, is a candidate for re election and will in.all probability bo the candidate of tlio regular party.

Ho will receivo also tho votes of those Ite publlcans who lay aBido politics and vote for tho beat man and thoro aro many of this class in Hew Lots, The other candidates for Tax Collector are Charles J. Hobo, tho Republican candidate, who filled that office one term, not that ho was elected, but by being appointed by Supervisor Schonck to fill a vacancy created by tho disqualification of Anson B. Forbell, and Francis Lanzer, an ex Deputy of District Attorney Morris' office. This gentleman is working hard to Becuro tho nomination from an embryo Democratic Club known as The Young Men's Democratic Club. This Club was got up for campaign purposes.

Thero are two wings of the Democratic party at present in Now Lots, known to old politicians as tho "Upstarts" and the "Begulars," tho former are mostly young men, who the ltegulars say may perhaps mean well, but will accomplish nothing savo tbe defeat of their own party although it is largely in the majority. The latter consists of those who havo long had tho management of the Domocratic party of the town, with tho five delegates to the Domocratic Geneial Committee as tho principal workers. Fcr tho office of Justice of tho Pea there are several aspiiauls. Tho probable succcsslul candidate for judicial honors will be Christian Volckmer. He has lieea a resident of the town for the last twelve years, and bis luuiliaiily with court proceedings renders him a competent person for tlio position.

Mr. Pickering is the ltipr.blicr.il candidate for the ermine, aud is in every KCiiT.c oi the word a gcntk maD, but bis politics render him, ineligible to the ballot box has said for some years past. Who is to be the candidate of the Young Mcu'y Club cannot be very well determined, as thoy themselves appear at a Ions for available candidates. Tho lucky individual will be either John Murphy or Patrick Gartonn. Capt.

Lubs will probably get the regular Dt mcoatic nomination for Town Clerk. He is a man in good standing in the town, and would undoubtedly fill the oflico with credit. Tho Republicans have nominated Mathow Cooper, editor of the East Now York Sentinel, who ran on a previous occasion for tho tamo office, and polled about sixty votes. The Snpervisorship bus occupied very littlo attention in this notice, although the moat important on tho ticket. This is owing to the fact that the present deserving and long tried incumbent will have tho unanimous vote of the town, oven tho republicans huviug taken him as the figure head of their ticket.

The following arc the tickets likely to be in tho field: Demociiatic ifsttar Supervisor, Gilliam Schonck; Tax Collector, Geo. W. Palmer; Assessor, P. Gailous; Town Cant. H.

LiUm; Justice of the Peace, Christian Yolckrher; Inspectors of Election, 1st District, Samuel Davis, D. Hoagland; 2nd District, Noyes G. Palmer, Gilliam Kldott, and a host of constables, Jrregular Gilliam Scheuck for Supervisoi Tax Collector, Fianz Lanzer, jr. Assessor, John Murphy Justice, John Kiug or Patrick Gallons; Town Clerk, dpt. Lubs.

Tho minor offices are held iu reserve for disappointed oflicc seekcrs aB a soothing Byrup. IiEFuni iCAN Supervisor, Gilliam Schenck Tax Collector, Chas. J. Hobe; Assessor, Dr. Miller; Town Clerk, Matthew Cooper; Justice, Kichurd Pickering; Iuspcc tois of Election, 1st District, Ditmas Jewell, Joachim Birkner; 2d District, August ltichter.

A town meeting will be held on tbe 22d at Brcdc's Hotel, for the purposo of making nominations when we will test tho prognostic powers of our East New York Plauchettc. BttOOKLTff PATENTS. Tlio following patents have been issued from the U. S. Patout Office for tho weok cutting March 8: PiintingPress James M.

Browuson, Brooklyn, N. Y. Itutchct and Pawl John II. Durran, Aurora, assignor to himself and William Lombard, Brooklyn. Autc datcd February 2(1, 1870.

Steam and Water Separator for Stoam Engines Chas. E. Emery, Brooklyn. Ante dated Feb, 18, 1870. Puril iug Acetic Acid Thomas L.

Otdeu, Brooklyh. Gasometer Thomas F. Eowiand, Greenpoint. Printing Press Adam Campbell. Brooklyn.

Balance Slide Valve James Fitzgerald, Brooklyn. Machine for Ke Utting Conical Valves Chas. F. Hall, Brookljn. Tablet, Token, or Check to be usod in Lifo Insurance Henry A.

Jones, Brooklyn'. Card Hack Leverett Olmsted, Brooklyn, Variable Cut oil: W. Hureco, Greonioiut, N. Y. Tins improvuiuuut has relorcuco to cut oil' gears, or motions, iu which the supply of steam ia out off ut any df sitcd point in tho stroke ot au engine by a secondary or cut olf valve, operated by an adjustable eccentric, which is distinct from the eccentric usod to drive the main valve.

In this cuiiucctiou, the invention consists in a crinbiu with a hollow or tubular crank shaft, and ccreiitiic thereon for operating tho main valve, of a secondary ccccLtric, fur controlling the cut off valva, in rtuged to rotate in a piano which is parallel to tho biv.t enticned occonlric, 'but adjustable iu relation tneieto, for the purpose or cutting oil' earlier or later iu Hie stroke, by funning tho out oil' eccentric with a h.il loivfh eve that takes its bearing within the tubular shatt, aud has a spiral plot in or al mg it, through which a fullower paciics and projects into a longitudinal or straight uroove in the interior of said shaft, bo that while tho latter serves to rotate the cut off ecoeutric through gear of tho follower, with.it, Baid tccontiic is aide capable of adjie tmcut by longitudinal sliding uu veuiciil of ILc follower, as oft'ected by a rod arranged to pmji et through th cu: oll' eccentric Cjjetable rceirr: E. 1). Averelland J. Mahn, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Thi. invention embraces a combinition of lvvcWivig series uf spirally disposed hinged vhiid, preferably of perforated or grater like construction, with external grater like cylinder arranged to rotate in a revc rso direction to the Yanes, nd operating in concert Willi suitable inlets and outlets iu the ends of the cylinder, and of au outer surtoundiug caso theroto, whereby the vegetables or rruit, being fed in at the one end of the cylinder, are peeled by the action of tlio grater like tiiuiaoes during Uic rotation of the cylinder and vanes in a given direction, au ate i iv. at the opposite end of the cylinder by the rolafum r.f said devic js iu a reverse direction. ltc diicing gear for Sk ai'i eni.iL'e Indicators: H. L.

Bit voorl, Brccklyn, N. Y. in Uio application ot the. steam engiii" iudi. atov, ttie want of convenient and universally applicable means of lr mo lion from tho pktuu of the engine to the card barrel of ho indicator has i.e.cu vet much fi It.

It has been customary to ii; up lemii. i nrily, to suit each particular case, c. lover whieh by mo ms of eauncctiug cords would produce a suitably reduced movement of the barrel, and whicli alter it has been has beeu thrown aside. This invcntiMii consists in a portable reduoing geur of novel construction provided with changeable pulleys, and luch can be con', iiuntly changed to suit of different strokes of piston. THE NEWS.

It was rumored Washingtou last night that the House Committee on Foreign Affairs had passed a resolution according belligerent rights to the Cubans. Another life has been sacrificed to tho demon of domestio discord. George Kerns, whose, wife had deserted him, as he thought, without cause, weut up to her room at 102 West Twenty fourth street yesterday, and aftor bidding her good bye swallowed a dose of laudanum. In the British House of ConyvnonR last eyon ing the Compulsory Education Bill came up ou motion ior a secoud reading. Mr.

Dixon, member for Birmingham, opposed tho second reading of tho bill much as ho desired freo schools because it was bad iu many points. It provides no educational department or normal schools. It makes attendance compulsory, yet grants a year's grace beforo coniptilsdmi becomes operative. Mr. Dixon thought sectarian occupiers should choose School Boards, dividing expoiiBes with tho Stale.

If religious questions aro left within tho control of the Boards, cudless dissension nnut be tho consequence. Among tho prisoners sent to State prisou yesterday by Judge Uedford, in New York, was a ruffian named Michael Hallahau. He attotuplcd to kilt his father, and alter hacking him fearfully loft him weltering in his blood, unci then coolly went to an undertaker's and ordered a coffin for him. The Senate yesterday confirmed, among others, Charles U. Lewis, of Virginia, to bo Minister Resident Portugal; John Bussell Jones, of Illinois, to bo Minister ltcsident iu Belgium C.

C. Andrews, oi Minutwita, to Minister Ucsideut at Stockholm; Itoborl C. Kirk, to bo MiniEtor Resident in Uruguay. Forty members have siijned a demnnd to the President of tho fficumeuical Oounoil that the order of the deliberations bo changed, and tho sshc.mu relating to infallibility be immediately discussed. Events iu Rome oto daily becoming graver.

It is Baid that the MiirquiB Do BannoviUe, tho French Ambassador, left ycsteiday for Pans, and that tho Ambassador ot Austria at Rome litis received from his Govorunieut directions to sustain tho demand of Count Dnru for the admission of a French representative to the Council. An investigation into the stouk transactions cf the Erie Railway, during the year 18(18, was commenced yesterday in the Supremo Court Special Term, bef oi uflgi' Barnard. Tbo action is entitled The Erin Ri ilway vs. Cornelius Vauderbilt, and tho amouut involved is tietweui four and live millions of dollars. Tho un cntcl: able and wn kvll nblo Lopez is now reported as having rt treated with a few followois into a province in Brazil, in an effort to reach tho Bolivian It ontii r.

The alliCB aro represented as being like tho Hibernian "in trong hopes'' of catching him vtth. In tho British House of Commons, Sir J. Pakington said yesterday it was reported that the of Boston left America loaded twenty inches doejer than ltmlei wtiters allowed. He gave uolico that lie. should ask the Government to inform the Uouso wlvsliUpr there was any truth in this report.

In tho House of Lords yesterday, Granville explained that disturbances in Galwiy and Mayo counties, Ireland, demanded the presence the troopB, and Bince their arrival quiet had been rwtoted. In the case of William who has beou under aire Bt in Now York for uou goyment of militia lino, Judgo Ini raliam of tho Surname Court of Now York, rendered an important deBinu. yesterday. Ho decided that there is no authority in, law xo arrest members of the National Guard. Another frightful ocean ca.tastropb3 is reported.

Tho German ship Carrio and Jane Wjs recently run down and sunk by another of IK Per.insubr and Oriental BloamBhips off the wast oi Ja'jan. Tho particulars are not given, but all hjiuda sre.iro8uniod to uo lost. Documents captured by Vue Spanish troops in Cuba show that Gweral Quer.ada was really doposod from command bv the Cnbu'ii nimurcHs. and that thn cattso was his unvtanTOuUW'o assumption of dictatorial George Wukea, th.e editor of the Spirit of the Times, was heavily neQ on Broadway ycBterday by Major Leland. Mr.

Lelaud smashed a stout stick oa Wilkrs' head and shoulders, and then polished him off with his fists, v.iikesmadeuo resistance. Tho cauao wiib uu nvuaivp articlo in Wiutes' paper. The Lor.iojivnn Lefrislatnre lias nnsmrl lill incorporating tho Mississippi Volley Lovco Company, with apital of $50,000,000. This important measuro mmi'rst proposed tiie Louisville commercial Con Mrs. Sodley Brown, who was burned so bad ly at tne sprmgnem (Mass.) xncatre on tho 7th Is gradually recovering.

Her face, nook, right shoulder, uu niiu.iuvocijvwojj umui, uuir tuu uutua, nougQ excessively painful, are not deep. let the members of the Board ask themselves what boy of seventeen or eighteon commands, while learning any business a larger stipend than is paid the girls learning the business of teaching in our public school Again, of this kind of labor tlftro is an abundance. There is more of it offering than the Board can employ Of skilled labor the reverse is true, and hence, while in tho advance in one direction the Board has studied tho interest of our public schools simply, in the other it has made a reputation for liberality. For such roputation, made at the general cost, the Eagle never had any respect, and we doubt if the publio ovor had. The business of education in our public schools is in the main entrusted to women.

To encourage woman to mako a business of teaching, the Board should use its best efforts. The difficulty is not in finding women to begin the business, but women who follow it as their life protession. Every fair inducement possible should be hold out to such women. Qno way of effecting this purpose is to steadily adhere to the policy of promotion whenever a vacancy occurs. This should not be left to the discretion of the local trustees.

It should be determined by the rules of the Board. A girl entering the lowest department should have the assurance that the very highest position in tho school is hei'3 to win by being successful in her business. The best women probably find it hardest to mate themselves. The Board of Education should hold out to such women as prizes in their profession the best places they havo got to give, so that the high standard of life companionship they set up for themselvos shall rarely be lowered because in tho future there is little to hope or struggle for. The Board of Education can wisely undo one haif of what it did fast evening.

The Board acted on r. theory which perhaps can be best expressed by slightly altering Pope's lines. One mast nrve his time to every trade Save teaching teachera nil ready iur.de." The heavy is fallacious and is undeserving of tho endorsement given it by a body usually so conservative and judicious as tho Brooklyn Board of Education, Wljy 52nabamls are Watched. Tno article on ''Exclusiveness of Women," pi ruled in last night's Eagie from the Saturday n't is among the best of that journal's series of papers on domestic life as it is represented to bo in England. "The Girl of the Period" was scarcely bettor in a literary and in a social sense.

None of the elements were lacking which make up the characteristics of that paper's treatment of the married state. Whether the essay convinced or exasperated, it did each "svilh equal thoroughness. A recapitulation of tho principal points advanced can be comprised iu declaring that the Saturday indicts the matrons of the age as tyrants, jailors, and bores; they aro charged with engaging to obey, and with really and cruelly ruling their husbands; the single aspiration their fives is supremacy, and to secui'o it, they imprison their legal masters at home in actual, solitary confinement, giving them no liberty to roam at will, exacting from them full accouut of every minute, and compelling them to foreswear all friendships not shared by their wives, and in thoso wives to find all the resources of pleasure, company, and variety, which aro to be enjoyed. If this be true, slavery is not abolished, and a Sixteenth Amendment is in order forbidding marriage, or any other form of involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, of which tho party masculine shall be duly deserving. We do not intend to gush domal of these inculpations of the matrimonial condition.

Denial is well enough, but all the brides and grooms will do that with proper indignation for present purposes. Our object is better answered by admitting the soft impeachment, and by going into the causes which possibly make women despots and husbands victims. If wivoo bear rule, it must bo the result of something out of joint in civilization or in the existing character of man and of society. Man is naturally the brad of the house. If he coasos to be, he has lost his first and his right estate.

He has either shamefully abandoned it, or forfeited it through malfeasauco. Tho surviving Pigean commands the duty and the service of several squaws. The English (and by parity (l.e American) gentleman is represented as the 'a rf ef one wife. There is something wrong 11. en in cur economy or in our sex.

Is not tho fault, not in our stars, but in ourselves apprehend this surveillance to be the penalty men pay for exacting greater circumspection of women than they require of their follows. For a "fast'" man, if he be polished at the same tin.e, there is no condemnation down here, at least none which does not forward him in al' the ends he aims at. His sex, it they do noi envy him his freedom, fail to shut tho door on him. other sex aro compelled by tho conventions to pretend not to know of his wild ways, and to receive him with respect and even cordiality. This, too, while for tho woman who is even outre, there is no tnli rathm cat vanco.

We hold our wives and to be as chaste as ice and as pure as snow, yet our sons rani chums escape calumny without diin cuity, even when they confound license with liberty, This desparity of responsibility and this contrast of opportunities, women, by their own ethics, feel to be unjust; and, although they want no other code than that they are subject to, they determine to hold their husbands to the same standard. This is their method of executing reprisals on tho system men have set up for themselves. Every average woman, too, felicitates herself on the possession of the only true man among all the millions. It is her ambition to mako the honeymoon last as long as her life. Her husband must always be in love with her.

The surest method, she knows, to secure this result is to avoid comparison between herself and other women. These other women she keeps her husband away from, as far as she can, and when ho and they must collide, she manages to be there, too. Where there is no temptation there is no danger, is her belief, aud whore there is danger, it is lessoned if incurred under her eye. By this course she forces her husband up to tho line which she herself must toe, or thinks she does, which is almost as assuring. It is not easy to see how this economy of repression can be abated.

It certainly cannot be, so long as men preach indulgence for one di vision and not for the other division of the race. No woman but will rebel against tho doctrine that she is to be faultless from the cra dle, while men need only begin to be from the altar. No woman will believe that the man will not bear watching aftor marriage, who needed it before. There are differences and distinctions which men understand well onough. Wo men, so long as they are womanly, will never get them through their heads.

Nor would men have them less narrow, if you please, than they arc now. Hence they kiss the rod, "on dure the pain," accept homo reigmen as the price of a past of pleasure, and when it becomes too rigid, flatter themselvos that they have tho truest wives on tho planet, and take partial, various compensation out of "Clubs, "Lodges," and the like. Men might bid for the perfect love which castelh out all fear, and, ten to one, none of them will t'et it. Tho chance is even loss that if they got it, they wouldn't abuse it. Even as things go, with wives as foils as well as confidants, happiness is tho rule of monagamy, and so is fidelity, though many will disputo this last statement.

It is questionable if men would urn true in easier harness, and it is not doubtful that "when wamen are taught to make allowances," they will soon need them to be mads for themselves. The Saturday itself, in over' stating the situation, is not hardy enough to propose to abolish it. We may conclude of the whole matter that it wouldn't be so if there wasn't good reason for it. Lot us have peace, More Pettifogging Legislation. Tho Leg.

islature, we observe, in tho minuteness of its for Brooklvn. is determining who shall keep the dead house for next three years, There is iust one meaner official place than this hi the city tho keepership of tho front part of the City Hall basement. Will not some legis lative exponent of local self government pro pare a law of tho Empire State, to determine who for the next few years shall till this elevat ed and salubrious post of honor and emolu ment? The Senate Foreign Committoe acted wisely in resolving to report adversely to the treaty for the acquisition of San Domingo. The issue resolves itself into two questions Do wo need any more territory If we do, is this particular territory desirable Some years ago the men who now favor various schemes of annexation wero vigorous in opposition to the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and its practical realization. Their argument a plausiblo and strong one was that we wero well occupied in governing and developing the resources of the country, as it was, and that if we auccoodod in upbuilding and maintaining democratic repubUcan institutions on our share of the earth's surface we should amply fulfill a brilliant national mission.

Whatever force that argument then had is now incroased by recent evonts. As to the second question, apparently the most that can ho said in support of tho annexation of San Domingo is that, having conspicuously failed in a real estate speculation at tho North, tho Government proposed to mako a counter experiment at the South. Tho Boman Council surpasses any socular body that can just now ho rocalled in keoping its present proceedings and prospective measures secret from the outside world. Tho leading journals have correspondents in the Eternal City and they must at loast seem to earn their money. So wo have telegrams tolling us in ono sentence that tho dogma of Infallibility has secured oyer six hundred votes, and in the next that tho opposition to it is largely and steadily increasing that tho French Emperor is soriously obstructing the policy of the Pope, and that the French Emperor has rosolved to let tho Pope do as he pleases that the Council lias nearly finished its business and is about to adjourn sine die, and that the Council will sit indefinitely, perhaps for many months, perhaps for many years, with a recess during tho summer.

Those aro specimens of the contradictory announcements from Koiuo. Either tho correspondents of the London aud Paris press aro far inferior to tho enterprising American reporter in worLing up a case, or tho Holy Father and his Bishops are more shrowdly reticent than any civil convention or political caucus. Andrews' oil on tho troubled wators of Method itni doos not scorn to havo altogether tho desired effect. The caso is a vory plain ono. Cortain charges of fraud in tho management of tho Book Concern had boen made.

It by no means followed that the charges wero necessarily well founded. And if thoy were tho church at largo by promptly exposing them and condemning the porpotra tors could save 'itself from damaging consequences. It would not havo boen tho first timo that a religious society had suffered from tho secular faithlessness of its agents. Any danger could result only from an attempt to concoal or exeuso corruption. The charges wero oxaminod by a committee which roported that thoy were well founded and that the Concern had been badly swindled.

Had the affair then been permitted to take its courso, boforo the ecclesiastical tribunals or the civil courts, Methodism would havo boon saved harmless and the mattor now been romemborcd only as any other breach of trust. But just there tho business began to wear an ugly look and to attach discredit to tho church. Tho charges wore reconsidered and tho Committoo, ignoring the former report aud the evidence on which it was based, gravely annouucod that thero had been no fraud or even carolessness. Not satisfied with tliis il went farther and put forth an extrajudicial opinion to tho effect that tho administration of the Concern was a model of management which all mankind might well imitate. Just here comes tho able and eloquent pastor of St.

John's in tho Preachers' Meeting with a peacemaking resolution approving the majority report and rocommendhig that all agitation of the subject coaso a resolu tion which is commonly regarded as composod more of whitewash than oil. Whothor agitatior is to end will be seen whon Dr. Andrews' Confor ence meets next month. Tho cowhidiug and caning business is at best beastly. It shows that a brutal instinct underlies our boasted civilization.

It damages the asstiilani moro than the assailed, and probably thore never, was a rightminded man, betrayed by whatever provocation into seeking physical redress in a mo ment of passion, who did not dooply rogret itevor after. This obvious and trite remark is suggssted the performance, yestorday afternoon in Eroad way, iu wnicu major vuiuam w. ijotanawts uu cliiof actor aud which supplios tho morning pai era with a sensation. But while the code of tlu bludgeon and tho fist must be rejected, flaorgt Wilkes is the last man who should complain of 1 tt ipplication to himself. Thero is not a moro vi cious and virulent pen than ho employs iu hi porting pavor.

Ko journalist has pursued ne ttonal controversies so remorselessly or pnshol them so recklessly boyond tho rules tint commonly control newspaper warfare. TlD paragraph which occasioned the encounter will Ldaiul was unmeasured in its abusiveness aiil was a fair specimen of tho stylo of Wilkes, whos at tho same timo bo sensitive to reflections on hs own character and conduct that the mildest lib' sends him hastily into court looking for satisfac tion and demanding damages. There aro ottvr easons why Wilkos should submit without a murmur to his chastisement. Tho prize ring iai specialty of his sporting paper. It magnifies tb heroes of tho bullet head, tho cropped ha, the )ow brow, and the brawny arm.

Wilkes hs several times been abroad, a self eonatitutd representative of tho Amorican nation in mattes pugilistic. Black eyes aud bloody noses aro a iV light to him, and broken jaws and ribs a sourcoif rrofit. When tho manly art of pummelmg is illu tratcd at his personal inconvenience the puV ic may object to tho broach of the peao, but why should Wilkes Again, Wilkes omploys or omployed until tho Administration undortoct to roward by official patronage the gallant behaviff about to bo mentioned as dramatic critic Bruiser Butler, the nephew of Uncle Bon. In performng his function as consorvator of stage rnoralityaid artistic purity Butler assaulted and boat a dranaiic manager. Wilkes' sporting paper, far from demning, approved and rejoiced in the act.

frs tice is even handed iu commending tho mustnhr method to tho sporting editor's owu penon. Upon tho whole tho absence of profound aad widespread sympathy with Wilkes in his chastsad condition is not surprising. Cm RAILROAD REGPLATIQft'S. In this city it is vain to try to persuade cur Common Council to take any interest in saporviitig the public travel. Thoy do not even collect the $31 license from half tUo companies, with docont proiutl tude if at all.

Nor can they bo persuaded to feefcid cars to stop except at tho commencement of each hoik, which would bo a relief to passongors, conductors nid horses alike. But in Philadelphia tUo Councils readtte ovdu tho mannor of crossing intersecting streets. Ye notice that Mr. Franciscus on Thursday last oileed, ho followiug bill iu tho Select Council: "The Select and Common Councils of the Citr Df Philadelphia do ordaiu, That hcroaf ter passenger nil way cars, in crossing at tho intersections of strooti, ho cars running north and south shall have tho riglt of wuy, anu Buau oo umawiui ior any unvor 01 8 nr running east or west to cross a passeugor railway trak, until niter tho car running north or south shall hvo passed, if tho said last mentioned car shall be witln forty i'cet of the crossing of said roads. Providd, cutting the squares diagonally, shall bo cousidoredis running cast and west, lor tlio purpose of this oijt nanco.

Any person violating the provisions of Us ordinance shall suffer and pay a line of ton dollars or each offense, for the uso of the city, to bo recovered before any alderman, as fines aro now recoverable." Tho ordinance passod without any opposition, od the same day it was mossageu into Common Coucil and there unauimoualy coucurrcd iu, Tho Mayor fled hia signaturo to tho bill, and it is now a law, and obeed 11B BUCh. A LARGE SEWER. Philadelphia is building a great sewor. ie section now in process of construction is two thoushd six hundred and forty seven feet long. It is laid in ftono with a brick lining eighteen inches thick laidu cement, Tho stono wall is at loast thirty foot widat the base, but becomes narrower towards tho top.

ic conduit is of twenty feot diameter from sido to sidetid of about ninoteen feet height. Tho upper half is a sill circle, and the nottom, of courso, is thus flattened, lie inside cvoss seclion area is two hundred and sovety nine fect. It is estimated that 300,000 cubic foojof water per minute oau pass through this conduit a a gradient of 322 feet per mllo, or 7 inches in 100 foi Hocis in Society. Ji you had travelodjas much as I havo; if you had scrambled as much ij I havo for Beata, and for tlio beat on8 for bad maners aro contagions; if you liad traveled as muoh as I live on sieamboi'tB ana seen now poopio mat aro mostlc corous at home, when tho boll rings, and thore aro tbo two tables, rush through tho cabins and down stab) to their mt alp, yon could apprcciato the necessity for Reform iu this matter. But I fio not think you neejgo to Btcamboats or railway dopots to bo convinceqof this.

If you havo beon Invited to fashionable purbs, and seen what pigs men make of thomselvoa who Iro well led al homo; how thoy bnhavo at tho rcrroshnint lnljle; how thoy loso thoir solf rospcct, you do lot uccd any further argument on this subject. Beeim: Decline op American Shitping. Then is silence in American phip yards, though tho clang oftho hummer is loud on tho banks of tho Clyde and tho ccr soy. Moro than this, tho groat steamors, that a Jew years tiuco were tlio pride of our raarluo, nro bjns rapidly dismantled and laid aside. Tho Fulton, title in 1855, of moro than two thousand tuns burdonlnd having two engineB of (520 nominal horse power, iilow being broken up.

Tho sumo Is tho case with tho finding Star, built in 18B4, of two thousand flvo hnjjroil tuns and having a beum engino of 81 inch cylindoand twelve feet stroke. It is said that thore aro othcBUos tiued to sobu go iu tho same way. American Aiisan. tude and relief which the above announcement will afford to the people. It had become demonstrable, on every re 3eived preeedont, that even to hope for the ultimate safety of this steamer wft3 unreasonable.

She was given up as lost beyond doubt. For a long time fear was upborne by a feeble trust, which somi assnring telegrams and opinions from both sides of the Atlantic only served to lessen, they being plainly the outgrowth of solicitudo rather than the result of the least evidence. One by one, every avenue of possible safety was closed up. Thore is no need now to tell the Btory over again, the story of apprehension, reviving confidence, dissipated confidence, aud final despair. The most practiced maiine judgos eoncedod nearly a fortnight ago that tlio City of Boston had gone down, and had left no sign.

Romance was uniting with conjecture to form the causes which had wrecked her. The fault was laid to the hurricane, to the waves, to the icebergs, to collision, to any and all of tho causes which sond bravo ships aud brave souls to a death which none survive, and tho story of which could never bo told in time. The Atlantic had been traversod by ships expressly despatched to find and succor the steamer. Tho Irish Sea and tho German Sea were scoured in the same quest. Evory possible pent a(; whie'i the vessel could put in was on the look out for her.

From tho Azore3 came no word of her appearance. Inward and outward craft reported cither no sign3 of her, or recorded with trag.c significance, a disabled steamer passed in mid ocean which boro painful likeness to the ship all were lougiug to hear of. What was learned was as sadly significant as what was not learned. Those most sagacious and also most sanguine of judges, the marine insurers, were the last to "give up the ship," and days ago declined all propositions to take risks on the steamer which bore the hopes of Christendom for her safety. "When the men ot business, aud the themselves abandoned hope, tho masses shared their convictions, aud the City of Boston became a sacrifice, a memory, a sorrow, a ship that had been.

Those who in both hemispheres, had kindred aud friends on board, mourned them as dead, and the settled, regret which succeeds to tho first shook of sorrow for death, had already begun. The world found melancholy compensation in the fact that the passenger list was exceptionally small. Journalists, the slowest to surrender confidence, again and again were constrained to inform readers that every probability of the ship's safety had vanished, and, the worst task of all, we wero called on to rebuke tho shameless shifts of sundry ones who made merchandize of the public grief and hoaxed tho cities with false news of the arrival out of the steamer. This time there is no doubt of it. The despatches, though not full, are authentic.

The news is true. The City of Boston is safe. In our news column will be found as much of the narrative as has come from cue continent to make happy the heart of another. Honor to the ship, honor to her officers and men Congratulations to passengers saved and to those to whom they are saved, and joy to the people whoso lost hope and recent despair are changed to smiles, thanksgivings and cheers ''eacters' Salaries. Tho Boaxct of Education has, wo believo, never been charged with being over liberal to its employes.

The Board seems, however, to have been in an exceedingly generous mood yesterday, for on a proposition to increase the salaries of a certain class of teachers, tho whole nubject tto.1 taken up the salaries of all grades of teachers, except the highest, were advanced, and an addition was thereby made to the public buithens of an amount variously estimated at between fifty and seventy five thousand dollars per annum. Perhaps in no direction would generous dealing with public employes bo more generally sustained than in thi. Bui unfortunately thoiuancial condition of our city is such that no department of its government is justified in being at this timo even generous. In all directions the necessity of spending more money seems to be felt: under no department of the loeal government does there seem to be any disposition to save. The manner in which tho Board of Education lias dealt with the subject of salaries can hardly bo deemed to be juaioious.

It has boon pretty generally admitted that the salaries of a certain class of teachers iu our public, schools are lover than thoso paid in other cities, and by semi public educational oit.iblish monts in this. The Board is not always able to procure teachers fully competent to take charge of tho higher grammar departments, or tavir.ghelpcd to educate them up to the proper btandard, to retain such teachers. For many years pas', and while the currency of (ho country was greatly depreciated in value, the Board set its face steadily against any advance in the pay of teachers. Nov. when wo are sociaingiy on the eve of a practical return to a sound currency, the Board deems it necessary to increase all the salaries at a jump.

It appeared from the statements made in the Board last evening that the amount expended for salaries for the past three years has been within the amount appropriated. The aggregate saving in these three years amounted to about fifty thousand dollars. This sum, at least, was appropriated last evening aud made a permanent annual addition to the expenses of the public schools of Brooklyn. If our circumstances justified liberality, liberality in no direction would be so generally sustained as here, but it seems to us that in the financial condition of the citj', if thoBe who are entrusted with the expenditure of public money are fair, it is as much as they can afford to be. In tho Board yesterday afternoon there seemed to bo pretty general agreement on the proposition to increase the salaries of the teachers in the rnoro advancod departments, for the reason that the salaries now paid aro not sufficient to command and retain the kind of talent tho Board needs.

In other words, woman who havo adopted teaching as their profession and are skilled in it, can dispose of their labor in a better market than Brooklyn presents. On. account of tho inadequacy of salary alone wo aro annually losing from our public schools tho best and most valued of our teachers. A private individual could not carry on business with success in this way, and would be compelled in justice to himself and his business to adopt, to this extent, the course the Board decided on. But the Board wont a great deal further, and without regarding the inexorable law of demand and supply, advanced the pay of all classes of teachers employed in our public schools.

A very pretty case can be made out in favor of the very interesting class of girls who servo as teachers in the primary departments of our Public Schools during the very interesting period between adolescence and marriage. Tho salary paid is moderate. The lowest salary is as low as thrco hundred aud twenty five dollars 2er annum. This is less than seven dollars per week for the year round, and on than ten for the number of weeks during whiah tuoy are at work. It is said, and truly enough, too, that this is less compensation than wo pay a cook or a housemaid, aud it is with some force asked if it be either fair or politic to put our children in the hands cJf teachers who are induced to serve us for a stipend no larger than is paid a house servant.

It is claimed that teachers must live and dro3s respectably, audit is added, by way of a clincher, that they cannot do so on the salary now paid tho teachers in tho lower classes of the primary department of our public schools. Under this statement the imagination is left to picture tho temptations that beset this most deserving and interesting class of public servants. But there aro two sides to thi3 question as there are to most others. Girls educated in our public schools, who chose to become teachersfor tho most part while waiting the drawing in the matrimonial lottery are to day in the highest class of one public school, a pupil without pay, and to morrow a pupil yet but pointed out should no longer provail iu tho publio schools of this city. Ueaolved, That tlio Public Schools of tho City of Brooklyn shall bo divided into four grades: Grade 1 Any school having 1,200 or moro scholars; Grade 2 Any school having 800, but less than 1,200 scholars Grado 3 Any school having 500, but less than 800 scholars Grade 4 Any school having Iosb than 500 scholars.

Resolved, That tho salaries of the Principals of said schools per annum, shall be, for Grado 1, for Grade 2, $2,700 lor Grade 3, and for Grade 4, $2,100. J.csolved, That the salaries of the First, Second and Third Assistant Principals of said schoels shall be: for those having 400 or more scholars in thoir departments, to first Assistant, to Second Assistant, to Third Assistant, $1,200. To thoso having 300, but Icfb than 400 scholars in thoir departments, to First Assistant, $1,350 to Second Assistant, to Third Assistant, $1,050. To thoao having less than 300 scholars in their departments, to First Assistant, to Second Assistant, $1,050 to Third Assistant, Received, That tho minimum salary paid to any teacher in any school under tho control of this Board Ehitll bo $100. and tho maximuunaalary shall be $1,003.

Resolved, That tho Teachers' Committee bo and thoy arc hereby direeled to make such a classification of tho salaries to be paid to tho teachers iu each school us, shall carry out tho K.re"oing schedule and ccinalizo remuner ation for services performed, upon tho bc.it basis they adopt, and report the same to this Board. Rcaoived, That tho basis of the number of acbolirs in the foregoing resolutions shall bo the avera attend ance in each department referred to for the year ending on tho previous thirty Hut day of December, and when any new school shall be opened the grading and classili tion thereof shall bo tho duty of the Teachers' Coaimit tee. Mr. Barnes said ho believed that all the evils com plained of wero ovorshadowed iu tho resolution he bad jUBt offered. What might be the expense incurred in carrying it out he was not prepared to say, but he believed it would be between $50,000 aud $100,000.

It however it should involvo an outlay of $100,100, he thought Brooklyn could uot afford to labor under the injustice ot any Icngcr inadequately romuuerating the ladies cm ployed as teachers iu her public schools. Mr. Field was doubtful whether the best toachors was alwayB employed who could be secured, even for tlio inadequate rates of remuneration complained of. Ho had no doubt but that plenty of teachers could boprocuced to tako charge of tiie lower classes, and for that reason he thoiiKht the place to becin at was to bicrease the sal aries of these teachers employed iu (eactiiug the higher graucs. mat was me gap to bo lined, lor, as it had already been Baid, tho greatest difficulty experienced in Kcttim; competent teachers for the hi 'her claSBOB for the miBcrablo pittanco now paid.

Mr. l'aron roBB to asu wuat particular business was before tho Board. The President drew Mr. Faron's attention to the sub stitute offered by Mr. Honnessy nud as the subject was apparently rather a knotty ono Mr.

Northttp rose to straighten matters out. Mr. Whitlock moved the adoption of the report as a whole. Mr. Kinsella seconded the motion.

Mr. Faron then ollered the folluwincr as a substitute for the report of the Committee, and the amendments otVered by Mi. Hennc BL and Hon. Demas Barnes. Resolved, mat the schedule ol salaries now paid by liis Beard be and the samo is horeby amended as follows Teachers in charge of Grammar or Intermediate Dcparinicnts $1,000 Teachers designated as Assistants of Grammar or Intermediate Departments 800 Teachers iu charge of Primary Schools 1,000 Teachers designated us At'siiitants in Primary Schools or Departments 000 003 700 050 000 D50 525 590 475 450 425 400 400 400 Tiachers of supplementary classes Teachers of first Grammar Grade Teachoi'B of second Teachers of third Teachers of fourth Teachers of fifth Teachers oi sixth Teachers of first Primary Teachers ot ficcoud Teachers of third Toachers ot fourth Teachers fif th Teachers ol sixth Teachers designated as Assistants iu Colored Schools kob.

2 ana 3 ooo Piincipal of Colored School No. 4 5(i0 Principal of Grammar School No. 20 2,025 Principal of Grammar School No. 2 Mr. lfaron staled that tne expense ol can vim; uu nis plan would bo about $13,000.

Hn wan in favor of paying iccofding to petition aud not according to tne numuor of children in the different classes. He did not wiih all Ihat had been said in regard to tho toachers iu tlio primary departments. They had charge of a much I'Hiter number ol children man those who taught iho higher classes, aud their labors were fully as ivut. Another iiicvuiry was mado in to tho particular mattiiy under coiiPiileriiiion, and Mr. liotve said ho thought it was about time soino definite action was taken.

lion. Eeuias Bainc said be had no desire to press tlio miitter to a conclusion. The subjeci under cousidera ion wan one of the most important which had ime bolore the Board since he had had tho honor of being couLceted with it, aud conlj not oo disposed of at ono meeting. Ho was in favor of having the fala.i.'s of the parlies fixed at high rate for th. purpose of securing the very best ta lei.t iu that lino which could be procured.

Ho found tliat the annual average cost of each scholar iu the City Urooklvn is $10.18, in KbW York in Chicago .02. iu Cincinnati $17.12. and iu Bostou $22.23. It utd thus be seen that the cost of each pupil in the publio schools of this city was nearly $2 a year less than iu any other city, aud that amount was saved from the salaries of tho Indies employed in their tuition. Ho was alto prepared to show that while tho teachers were more poorly paid iu Brooklyu than in almost any other city they had much moro labor to perform, as statistics linn the avuiago number ol scholars to each tiaclier in this city was forty six; iu Cincinnati it was 1'tHy two in Boston thirty Uiree, in Chicago it wjst'no sunn ns in this city, and iu New York only was the number greater, there being an average of fifty three scholars to each teacher in that city.

Mr. Kinsella said the propositinn to increase Iho salaries of the teachers was a very old one, and on other oc asions had almost invariably been killed by loading it down with Ho wat iu lavor oi advancing it, but it was well known that there were numerous applicants to fill positions im tho primary departments, wlii re teachers were paid at the rate of about $ta a week for the time they were actually employed, aud thoro was therefore no necessity to increase the sularios if those who were fillinL' such positions. It was vaiv different, "towever, in tho higher gr tdes, where teachers were inadequately pi)id and could not iuducod to remain ior the salaries they wore receix.ig. The report before tho Board was well calculated i get over tho difficulties with which Cxvhml to or tend. Horcto loro all such itnms had been overloaded, aud he trusted that would uot bo tho fate ot tho ono thou under discusbion.

Mr. Hennccsey and Mr. Whitlock had a short conversation relative to a "trap hole" which the former said ho had discovered in the report. Mr. Northup and Mr.Khodes talked of "fillibustering" and indulged iu a littlo recrimination respecting their mutual fondness for talk.

Mr. Carroll epoko of tho qualifications necessary to the advancement of teachers. Ho said in somo instances they roso by ability, but whero the ability was not very great a pretty face and plenty of brass would be sure to Becuro tho advancement of their possessors. Sometimes the advancement of a teacher depended altogether on tho training sho had received iu tho primary department, aud in consequence of tho lack of proper training they were never ablo to advance. In ono instance he knew that a teacher of ability had beeu laboring for mauy years at a salary of $305 Bimply bocause sho had not boen properly trained while herself a pupil iu tho primary department.

It was a consideration of theso circumstances whicli induced him to thmk that the salaries of the teachers the primary departments should alBO be iucreastd inordoc that tho uett talent might be procurcu lor tuosc orancuc3. Mr. Murrhv rose to correct what he thought might create a wrong imprcssiou, and that was tho statouicut that tho avcranc annual cost oi cacu pupn was omy $10.18, wberoaB bo found on referring to the roport that tho expense was f2(i. air. luurpny opposed any general iucrccBo of Balaries at the present time.

THE SCALE OF SALARIES. On motion of Mr. Kinsella the question was then taken on Mr. Farou's amendment and the following reBolutions were adoptod, item by item. Rtnolved, That the schedulo of salaries now paid by this Board bo and tbosamois hoi by amended as follows: Teachers in euarge of Grammar or Intermediate Departments $1,000 Teachers designated as assistants of Grammar Departments 900 Teaohors in charge of Primary Departments with 400 aud more pupils 1,000 Teachoi'B iu charge of primary departments with less than 400 pupils 830 Teaohors designated oh assistants in primary schools or departments with average attendance of 400 aud over 600 Teachers of supplementary classes 930 TeachcrB of first nTiimniar grade 800 Teachers of secoud 7C0 Teachers of third GOO Teachers i fourth 550 Teachers of fil th 025 Teachers of Bixth 500 Toachers of first assistants ill primary departments 1 BS than 400 pupils 630 Teachers of first primary grade 475 Toachers of second 450 Toachers of third 425 Touchers of fourth 400 Teachers oriifth 400 Teacbors of sixth 400 Principals of Grammar School No.

20 2,025 Principals of Giammav School Ko. 2 2,025 Principals of Primary School No. 1 2.025 Principals of Primary School No. 2 2,025 Principals of Grammar School No. 24 2,250 A long discussion ensued before tho resolutions woro ndnniAil fnr tho salaries of the teachers iu tho lower grades of tho Primary Departments ut the amounts given above, but the motion finally provailcd.

Tho resolutions to increaso tho salaries of tho assistants in colored schools No. 2 and 3 was lost, and during the debate which ensued on that subject, it was stated that each ot the scholars in colored sohool No. 1 cost tho city annually about $150. WHERE IS THE MONEY TO COME FHOM Mr. Kinsclla moved that tho resolutions as adoptod be referred to the Chairman of tho Fiuouco, Teaohors' and Law Committees, to ascertain whether they had uot appropriated moro money than thoy had iu hand.

The motion wob seconded. Mr. Faron then moved as an amendment that the report be adoptod as a whole. Tho salaries as araoudod, ho Baid, would amount to about $44,000, and from tho balance furnished by tho Secretary ho had ascertained that thero was a sufficient amount of money on hand to meet tho appropriations. At tho suggestion of Mr.

Carroll, Mr. Faron also moved that tho resolutions should tako effect on tho 1st of May. Mr. Faron did not like tho smilo which ho said played around Mr. Kinsclla's iuce while moving for this reference.

Ho feared it was intended yet to break down the action of the Board. Mr. Kinsella said ho was acting in pcrfoct good faith. Tho Board had resolved to spend a very largo amount of money. No member could accurately Bay bow muoh.

He did not believe in "going it bliud" iu this instance. His poaition was not doubtful. Ho was iu favor of increasing (ho rate paid a class of teachers who not bo employed and retained at tho Balaries now paid. Beyond this he did not ao at this nicatinu. aud ho would be in favor of stopping at this point at the next rftPoWng ana ai every meeting.

Mr. Faron afterwards withdrew" his 'and Mr, Carroll Bftorwavflt! offered as a suha.tHv.tQ' (ov Mr. judging between a man and his beast. The same sensitiveness that shrinks from a newspaper joke, will shiver without reasonable provocation at seeing a horse pulling a moderate load, or a cow feeding iu an uncarpeted stall. Mr.

Bergh has shown that his tenderness of heart has done away with his clearness of head and by making himself a public laughing stock by his lawsuit against the C' vricr, he has raised a presumption against himself of being always in the wrong when he brings suits against tho owners of cows and horses. The Ladies a he Amused. The Brooklyn Woman's Club held a social mooting last night, and were entertained with, among other things, readings by a gentleman publicly addicted to that wearisome business. His selections for the ladies, however, are described by the gushing reporter of the Tribune as a "series of poetic jollities." Among these "poetic jollities" is mentioned "The House that Jack built." Headings have boen generally voted a very dull entertainment, possibly because the readers have confined themselves to Shakespeare and other standard poets. Let them take a hint from the reader of the Ladies "Club, and read selections from Mother Goose, and give their audiences "The House that Jack built" "Little Bo peep" After this we are not at all surprised to learn that "The Club is becoming eminently successful, weekly increasing iu size and influence." Now that the City of Boston has turned up all right, it is amusing to turn to tho revelations of clairvoyants and spiritual mediums, who have been enlightening the public as to the fate of that long missing steamer.

They do not agree, as usual. Two said that the vessel had gone to the bottom another said she was all right, while Madame of Brooklyn, publishos this morning a glowing account of a vision she had of a burning steamer off the Irish coast. Tho conflagration took place on the 25th of February, and every soul on board perished, excopt one, a man by tho name of Seymour, who was supposed to be still floating about the Atlautic. These ladies should take the advice of Hosea Bigelow, to "never prophecy unless you know." The Senate Committe have resolved to re port against the proposition to annex San Do mingo. Wnicn is sensible on uie part oi ttie Committee.

We have territory enough to begin with and more than enough of tho turbu lent and fighting element in our population. The principal occupation of the Dominicans is fighting at present the Indians give us as much opportunity for fighting as we want. After Sheridan has exterminated the Indians, we might, to keep his hand in, annex San Domingo. But the population are negroes and not Indians, which would make a difference. Sheridan could not butcher them with, tho same impunity, and the chances of ultimately getting rid of this impracticable race would be small, and as long as they cumber territory it would be worthless to the United States.

Tho prosecution of Mr. Fliess by Collector Bailey was dismissed yesterday. That was tho ninth timo this gentleman has boon before Commissioner Osborne's Court, and now Bailey sent word that he has no evidence to give against this merchant, whose books he has ille gally seized, and whose character he has caused to be slandered in all the newspapers by his charges of defrauding tho Government. Unless the revenue laws are so framed as to destroy all pre existing individual legal rights, the merchants who have been the victims of this man Bailey's seizuro3 and slanderous charges, should have power to call him to ac count in manifold suits for trespass and for false arrest Mr. Beechor's Star Paper studios of natural his tory have introduced to him a number of cones nonconta some or whose communications no con siders this week.

Ono of them, writing from Brooklyn, anks whether snnkoa sing, and oiTors tho opinion that thoy do at least in Connecticut. In that State, noted for artificial nutmegs and other curiosities, tho correspondent has often lic toncd to music which could ho traced to no living tiling othor than anakoa, and theroforo must have been mado by them. Once, just aftor a myatori ous miiBical utterance had been heard, "a snako with hia head orect and his mouth open" was found. This is a vory protty snake story, but, to employ a saying suggested by tho Plymouth preacher's animal casava, Mr. Bocelvov is too old a bird to bo caught with suoh chalT.

Perhaps too ho has a vivid rocolloction of hia roacnt oxpori onco with tho patent truss advortiser. At all evonts ho gives no oneouragomont to any future exhibition of "wonderful Hinchlir snakes'' that may havo been contemplated. The old theory that tho gravity of crime con sisted not in itself, but in its discovory, ia rovorsod in lator practice. Tho anciontg might steal with out a pang of conscience so long as they were not dotectod. Tho moderns who wish to steal com fortably and with solf satiBfaction have only to stoal openly and on a largo scale and undor a euphonious name.

Tho thiof who secretly picks a a pocket when caught muBt go to Sing Sing. Tho bolder robber, who appropriates thousands of dol lars from the Govornmont or a corporation, may at tho same timo move calmly and resplondently in the best society. Tho rule holds good as to tho indirect swindling amiably called humbugging, Bamum behoves ho atonos for his sovoral imposi tions on public credulity iu the matters of mer maids, wooloy horsea, WaBhingtouian nurses aud the like by explaining elaborately how it was all done and thero aro many who accept tho showman's unblushing book as such an atonement, and further roward tho clovor manager by paying him for tho privi loon of lcarniwr how they wero be fooled. With astcravatod effrontery the mamv facturor of the statue of Cardiff disoloses tho de tails of that giant fraud. Bamum at loast waited.