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Ma Honesty on this floor, no matter to wlmt party verbiage nnd sophistry; bottor, probably, AMUSEMENTS. So long as the soil is owned by English land BY WIRE TO DAY UNIVERSALISTS. SUPERVISORS. of the young men for that reason would not be found at our though some of the storekeepers might be kind hearted ouougli to close on that day. Mr.

Bosthoffs motion was here put and carried. Mr. BoSthOfX Unless tlio membera nr tho United no neiouga, by spoaKing ms sentiment riguc ouc voto ayo. HotchWas, in asking to bo oxouaod from voting on Worth's bill, said: During the discussion that has boon had upon the amendmont to this bill I was forcibly reminded of mo oia anocuoto ot the pot colling tho kottlo biacR, and I was lod to inwardly remark how groat are tho boouties of Mugwumplsm. The Democratic and Republican members upon this floor have, with amusing unanimity, claimed to be the discoverers of Civil Service Reform and, with pretended candor, each has assorted that his party has alone inforced this principle in tho various departments of tho Stale and National governments dominated by them respectively.

But the gentlomen tiro forgetful of history. Do thoy not well know that this has nevor sincoroly boon a party question 1 Do thoy not know inoi mm nrsi, pumio measure mirouuciug umi service into tho law of the nation was Intro duced into Congress by a Democratic representative from Ohio, and was by a Republican Speaker re forrod to a committee tho majority of which was jtopuoncan, and which nrst straugloa It, tuon burled it and aftorward danced a war dance upon its poor remains, and that this Democratic represen tative for this very act was overwhelmingly defoatod by his party whon a short timo afterward ho camo before the Legislature of this Stato as a candldato ror tlio united States Sonate. Has the history ot this groat reform addressed Itself so slightly to the attention of these gentlemen that thoy aro unaware oi mo i act mat it was reauscltatoa from Us grave, not by the Ronnbllcan narty. not by tho Democratic party, but by tho combined action of the better oioment ot both parties against tho efforts or spoil! men of each. I prido myself that I alono in this House roprosont tho only organization of mon who.

as a Douy, nave boon truo and consistent CivU hor vice roformors. A bodv which, iu tho last cam paign, was to tho Democratic party what Luther was 10 mo itoformatlon; and wnion, aiiowou, would bo to tho Republican party what Mosos was to tho Children of Israel. Now, Mr. Speaker, tho Republican leaders and tho Democratic lenders may, in doferonco to a public sontimont which Is too great to bo ignored, mnsquorado as Civil Sorvico roformors; thoy may put planks in thoir indorsing it; thoy may applaud Its virtues in public, but tho majority of thorn in thoir hoarts dospiso it bocauso it doprivos them of thoir greatest weapon patronage. Novertheloss, this reform will tri umph In tho end.

In spite of commission not in sympathy with it, it will triumph In splto of rules adopted by officials not in harmony with tho principle, oud which, in thoir operation. tAiw) tn hrinp it into disfavor. the intelligence and good businoss boubo of Iho pooplo will, in time, compel a faithful carrying out of mis reiorm, to tho evorlnstine boneltt ot mo nation and the Stato. As nn advocato of Civil Service ro form I am against this measure. I believe it to bo an entering wedgo for tho oxemption of other classes, and woro I to voto on this question I should voto "No." But thero aro many bollevors iu Civil Service roform and members of tho Grand Army in my district whoso Judgment I rospoct and who favor iiue uiu.

in uoicronce to tnoir viowa I obk to uo ex ousou irom voting. CIVIL SERVICE'REFORSI. Annual meeting of tho Brooklyn Asso ciation The iicporta. Sixteen Civil Service reformers and seven reporters nttondod tho annual mooting of tho Civil Service Roform Association yesterday evening in tho Art Association Building. Beyond the oxor cisea by President William G.

Low and Secretary illlam Potts no ono had anyt hing to say or do ex cept Dr. Paul II. Krotzschmar, who raised a Btrong ana laial objection to a portion of tho annual report. Mr. Low opened tho proceedings with a statement of tho Civil Service history of the year.

Tho mom bors ot the association, ho said, had no reason to fool dlscouragod. In the Stato and nation Civil Sorvico was ovorywhoro holding its own whore it was iiui uciuauy gaining headway, as might Do said Of Brooklyn. Mavor Whitnev referred to tho mar tor in his lottor of acceptance, and the spoakor road a ions o.xiraci irom that document, winch, nowovor, was received without any demonstration. Mr. Low pointed out as satisfactory the action of tho Mayor In vetoing tho minor appoiutuionts by tlio Aldor mon rocontly.

Ho criticized tho action of Commissioner of City Works Connors in calling for tho resignations of all tho employes of the department, and pointed out that this step was quite unnecessary, as tho city chartor provides that within thirty uays ui uis appolntmont tue head ot any department Ulav romove wllhnilt plvtnw mv vnnanna Whilo Civil Servico roformorB woro not working to establish buroaucracy or porpetuato the tonuro or vecuyuuey oi any oi tno departments; thoy uoslrea to sou mado law such rulos as would secure tho flt tost men In otllce, and iu this rospoct the now administration seemed to be doing woll. Tho Mayor's position, ho claimed, is that of tho Civil Servico reformers, as shown by tho words of his letter of acceptance, and thoy wero JustiQod iu congratulating thomsolvos on tho fact that tho systom wus fairly woll startod in Brooklyn. Mr. Low dofondod the notion of tho lato Board of Civil Sorvico Examiners in holding examinations tust before thnv m.iunoi). for, in view of tho provision of tho chartor permitting tho heads of departments to mako removals wituout causo during thlrly days, it was advisablo to have tho eligible lists as full as possible.

Tho ivavy lard, said Mr. Low, did not como strictly wiiuiu uiu V.1V11 Borvico ruios, out no nopou mat me spiritof reform which was growing and spreading would rosult in au ond of pollticul patronage at that institution. In this Mr. Low spoke at length of tho Boston Labor Enrolling Buroau systom as an advantageous ono for Brooklyn. Ho explained that the city established a labor buroau, where ovory laboror who doairod work In pdblic departments might register and tako his turn.

Kanli applicant muat bo vouched for by two citizens and uj vuu iiuuuu, anu must oo ueaimy. this was coming as near to the Civil Servico plan as practicable for more unskilled labor. It wb at all ovnnts nrnfnr ablo to soeking omploymont through political pat luuasjo. in jjusiou preioronco was givon (in soleot ing from the bureau lists) to veterans, bonds of families and men who had especial skill for the work to bo dono. Wo would much liko to see something of tho same sort here, addod tho speaker, closing his address with a hope that tho roform movomont will continuo to grow in Brooklyn, and that tho end of potty patronago is nonr.

secretary 1'otts road Ins annual renort. which covered oleven pagos of closely printed matter and inclndod a Civil Service history for Brooklyn during the year. Among other stntomouts, rather of opinion than of history, was the following: It Is undorstood that the now Commission (meaning tho now Board of civil Servico Commissioners appointed by Mayor Whitney) has asked tho Stato Commission, whose approval is nocoasary under tho law, to permit oxtoualvo changos In tlio municipal rulos. among which chaucos woro soma relieving tlio applicants for a considerable number of positions from compotltivo examinations." At tho conclusion of the reading Dr. Krotzschmar roso and said: Mr.

Chairman, allow mo to say that that statomont is utterly false. The now Commission nevor had any right or nrlviloeo to make any such changes, and I want the Commission to oo protected irom such chargos. Mr. Low Kr really Mr. (ho did not seem to recognize Dr.

Krotzschmar) I rathor think our secretary's roport ur. Krotzschmar Allow mo to stato that I am Paul II. Krotzschmar. ono of tho now Commission. and I think I know what I am saying.

Mr. Low lookod surprised and whispered brlofly wilh Mr. Potts, who seemed greatly astounded. Mr. Alexander Formaii whispered hurriedly with Sir.

E. A. Doty, who roso and said if the statement is Incorrect, wo are of course lad to be corrected. Thoro was cortainlv soinn talk in somo newspapers about somo such change, but from what I learn tho matter nover got beyond public rumor and uowspapor talk about what tho Mayor wouiu no. Mr.

l'olls 1 tool callod upon to say that I included that statomont In my roport on what 1 doomed to bo absolutely unassailable authority. I am cri eatlv surprised, but of courso we cannot have any bolter authority than Dr. Kroizschnmr. Mr. Doty (after another whlsoorod conference Willi Mr.

Forman) My inference is that somebody lias aakod tho State Civil Service Commission to authorizo the cnango, bul that tlio roquost did not como trom tho Commission. l'otts giaiiooa at Mr. Doty, nodded his head ami tho subject suddenly dropped, while vet full of suggosiivoucHB, with tho Btatoiiicut by iho Chair nun uiui poLLiuu oi ino secretary's report would Uo eliminated. The report of tho treasurer for tho vear showed the receipt of M73.3S, being mado up of tiO balance in hand, 5 '19t) ttvm annual dues and $173 rein subscriptions. Tlio expenditures woro a subscription of flo7 to tho Civtl Service Record, about 300 for printing, stationery and uostage and a number of small items, leaving a balance of if37.15 in hand.

i no uoaru oi umcors was reelected for tho cur rent year, with Iho exception that Mr. John P. Adams is substituted for Mr. Johu M. Comstock, Mr.

Ueoi'goM. Nichols for Mr. Thomas V. Moore and Mr. William I.

Proaton for Goorgo F. Pea body. Tho directorate is as follows: I'rosldent, William G. Low: vice nrosidonts. Da vid U.

Cochran, Frodorick Cromwell, Eihan Allen Doty, Richard 11. Thomas II. Rodman, M. Shenard, John Truslow. John li.

Wood ward; exocutivo committee, John I'. Adams, Franklin Allen, Thomas P. Ball, David A. Boody, Goorgo II. Fishor, William H.

Floomnu, Aloxundor Forman, Henry W. Maxwell, Goorgo M. Nichols, Ed win Packard, William I. Proaton. Jonathan S.

Prout, William Cary Saugor. Augustus Van Wvck. Alfred T. White. "LOST IN LONDON," The Amaranth Performance Academy of Mimic.

in tho Watts Phillip's four act drama, Lost in London," was presented Wednesday atthoAcadomy of Music by a strong company drawn from the Amaranth. Tho audlonco was a very largo one and was composed of peoplo not Inclinod to be hypercritical, but rather disposed to impart confldenco to the amatours by applauding on the slightest pro toxt. Mr. li. B.

Throckmorton, as Gilbert Foathor stone, owner of Bloakmoor Mine, played tho part of the roue and designing man of tho world with his usual ability, and Miss Ada Woodruff, as Nolly, tho wlfo of Job Armroyd. and tho victim of his machinations, gave an excellent Interpretation of tho character of "lovoly woman, whon sho stoops to folly." Sho appoarod to host advantage in tlio first scone, whoro, as tho wlfo of tho simple minor, she first allows horeelf to listen to tho voice of tho tompter. In tho socond scene, whoro sho was soon as the queen of Gilbert Foatherstono's London OBtabllsh mont and when tho pangs of remorse had begun to make themselves felt, she was not at timos oqual to tho requirements of the part, which is a dlffloult ono, and well calculated to tost the merit of a Taken as a wholo, hor performance was a very creditable one and she was twice callod bo foro tho curtain. J. C.

Costollo, as Job Armroyd, the lionost minor and confiding and much abused husband, was a pronounced success, and in his struggle with the peculiar Lancashire dialect he ncqulttod himself In a manner wbich could hardly be surpassed by a native. Percy G. Williams as Benjamin Blinker was for tho ovoning a genuine London "tiger," ond Virgil Lopez and A. H. Marquis, his follow servants, oo euratoly portrayed tho English flunkey as ho oxists in tho popular mind.

Mies Mamio Sloat's Tiddy Dragglothorpe was a ploco of good acting, and entirely froo from any Btrainlng for effect, and that hor talent was appreciated was shown by the amount of applauso accorded to her. MIbs Eliso Fiedler, ono of the youngest members of tho society, made hor first appoar ance as Florence, a very sprightly housemaid, ond sho passed through tho ordeal with far more credit than could havo boon exported. Sho was, in fact, as much at homo on the stago as any of thoso who had facod tho footlights for seasons. In timo, she will no doubt tako a prominent position nmona thoso who have mado for tho Amnranth a name. During tho ovoning an excollont selection of music waB rendered by Cappa's Sovouth Rogimout baud.

CAN'T STAND THE NOISE. The Trustees of tho i'arlc Avenue P. M. for 12. Church to Offer tho Property Sale.

Tho naemberH of the Park nvenue P. li. that Church mot last ovoning in tho basoment of cdiflco on Park nvonuo, ond adopted tho following: H'fti'rcrta, The nolso of tho Elovatod Railroad ma terially Interferes with our worship In that wo cannot ellhor with profit or nlcnsuro listen to or hoar tlio preaching of our pastor, and Whereat. The woathor will bo gotting wnrmor wo shull need more ventilation It will be necessary to novo ino windows open, nud Whereat. Tlio trains on the Elovated Railroad aro run more frequently Summer, tho Incessant noise win uniuour cnurcli tor sorvico, tnorotoro bo It Jiesoli'cU, Thutwo thomombers of tho Pork ave nuo Primitive Mothodlst Church nssomblod in a so cioty meeting duly callod, request aud Instruct the trustees to soil our proporty on Park avenue for tho purposo of locating In somo omor place.

Tho trustees propose to advertise Ow property for sale. than tho expected reply to Mr. Edmunds in kind. Candor requires tho Eagle to admit that Mr. Edmunds impales tho President, in one instanco, on the horns of a dilemma of the latter's own making.

He quotes from tho President's annual message a sermouical and sonorous disquisition on tho bauefulnoss of party spirit which is really tho salt which preserves roo institutions and on the wrong fulness of appointing mon for their efficiency in party work, or of removing men for their political opinions. Mr. Cleveland, with tedious nnd fatal fondness for pleasing his ear and sentimentality leads him to tho writing of many confessional or hortatory homilies that embarrass a common sense adminis tratiou of public duties, has repeatedly suggest ed that undisturbed incumbency is a right and removal a stigma that the one should not be impaired and the other affixod without real and grave cause. Ho has presented tho Senate with its best argument against himself. Mr.

EdmundB drives tho knife home and turns it around in the wound. This goody goody blunder of the President does not affect the fact that his claim to and need of his prerogative rights aro creator than his wisdom in waiving theih in public communications. An office is tho right of none. Undisturbed incumbency is the right of none. Removal is a reflection, in no sense.

A life oligarchy is not what freo insti tutions moan or will survive. A zeal to make Mr. Clevoland President equal to his zeal to be made President is no disqualification for trust under him. Parties aro made up of men who act from motives. Ambition, interest and reward are among tho most powerful of thoso motives.

Recognition of them pre serves partieB. Parties preserve government, liberty and prosperity, and a partisan and a patriot are interconvertible forms. The rights of the President's office are greater than his carouotto jeopardize thorn by resonant rhetoric. The Senate Democrats will sustain those rights with tho principles of Jefferson and the courage of Jackson. It is to be hoped the President will aid them by a prudent husbandry of his resources for Mugwump platitudes in papers that tho business of administration disenables him from living up to.

Tho Now Excioo Hoard nnd 111 Spy System. The Excise Commissioners yesterday had a discussion with a deputation of tho association of citizens known as the Excise League, relative to the law and its enforcement, and considered tho matter in a variety of ways, Tlio visitors evinced a desire to talk about tho matter reasonably and without prejudice, and found tho new Board equally willing to consider it from tho only standpoint they ought' to take, namely, tho best interests of tho community and equal justice to all parties. One preliminary principle with reference to future action by tho Board was laid down by Commissioner Cunningham that will commend itself fully to the intelligent reader, and that is that the paid spy and informer is not a first class witness. Mr. Cunningham is entirely in accord with public sentiment when he says he has not much confidence in paid spies and blackmailers, and that ho is opposed to the spy system altogether.

The peoplo of Brooklyn have long been of tho same opinion, Thoy have seen tho results of the spy system employed in relation to Excise, and our temiJorancc friends ought to bo satisfied by this time that their paid ageuts have brought on tho organizations that employ them nothing but discredit and obloquy. It is a pure dolusion that good results con bo achieved by turning to account tho natural baseness of men who are willing to become informers. The remedy for such evilB as aro complained of certainly does not lie iu creating a public sentiment hostile to the reformers, wherever else it may be looked for. The league may rest assured that it will accomplish a great deal more by allying itself with tho public at largo than by assuming, by methods such as havo prevailed in the past, to take it out of the hands of the community altogether as though it wero a private and not a public interest to see that the laws are enforced wisely and impartially. The present municipal administration, in every department, represents tho choice of a large majority of the people of Brooklyn, pledged to carry on the government in tho interest of all the poo plo of Brooklyn, and tho management of the excise is a part of the administration that wo have no reason to think of as specially Bubject to neglect, lack of intelligence, corruption or other source of unworthiness.

ISiltHrw BSefore tlio Supervisors. In communication to tho Board of Sujjer visors yesterday Architect Mundoll directed attention to the necessity of providing the new Hall of Records with a roof of suitable material. Mr. Mundoll finds on examination that the proposed covering of tin, provided for in his specifications, will not answer tho purpose. For the protection of tho terra eotta filling of tho iron roof beams a sur face of plaster slate is regarded as the most desirable.

As its adoption will not involve an increase in cost of more than $800 the Board may with propriety approve the change suggested when the report of the committee, to whom tho ques tion has been roforred, comes up for action The suggestion for the introduction of heat ing and ventilating apparatus in tho upper story of tho structure is also timely and proper and should be emphasized by the passage of the necessary resolution. Tho additional expenditures required to make the alterations at tho Hall of Records will not exceed $7,500. On tho wholo tho building is creditable to the community and its construe tion has been singularly free from extrava gance and scandal. According to tho roport of Superintendent Ryan tho County Buildings ore gonerally in excellent condition, although further repairs to tho Court House, which never seems to figuro in a state of complete ordor, aro deemed advisable at this time. Superintendent Itj an recommends that an additional rifle range bo constructed in the ormory of the Twenty third Regiment, a proposition which should not bo acceded to until the subject has boon examined by tho Military Committee.

The amount demandod is inconsiderable, but as the armory is already provided with a range the committee should understand why another is needed before recommending the appropriation of funds. Supervisor Ryder's bill, giving the Board power to legalize, by a two thirds vote, tho informal nets of any town meeting in raising money for any authorized purposo to legalize tho irregular acts of town officers performod in good faith and within tho scope of their authority; to correct errors made by town officers in assessments or returns made to tho Board and to refund taxes llegally or improperly assessed or levied was laid over for consideration at a future meeting. Tho measure is designed to meet the needs of the towns with referonco to assessment complications already existing. It is doubtless susceptible of adequate explanation, but the Board acted wisely in declining to sub mit it to the Legislature with the stamp of their indorsement until its provisions have been sufficiently explained. If tho platform and the lyceum had not ex clusively engaged the talents of John B.

Gough ho might have been a famous actor. Charles Dickens told a friend in this country that Mr. Gough was "one of tho most olo quont men with his joints ho over saw or heard. Ho cortainly was a match for tho great novelist himself in tho faculty of making bis whole anatomy speak. Editor Piatt, of tho Pourjlikcepida Eagle, voices a feeling not uncommon in exclaiming, 'I am opposed to this everlasting humbug allod Civil Service reform but fewer will indorse his opinion that overy graduate of West Point is an "aristocrat." Was Grant an aristocrat, or McClellan, or Hancock, or Thomas Is old Tecumseh Sherman on aristocrat The generation they sorved doos not so rank them.

West Point has sent forth somo coxcombs nnd somo who deserve the epithet applied by Mr. Piatt, but among her graduates aro and have been as sturdy Democrats as can bo found. Thomas H. Bonton was a great man, but when, during tho Administration of John Quincy Adams, he brought forward a bill to restrict tho prerogative of tho Prosidont in tlio manner now proposed, tho Scnato gave him what hiB famouB son in law was exhorted to givo the Democrats in 185G. It gavo him.

Jessie lords even an Irish Parliament will find it dif ficult to legislate Irish tenants into possession of it. But Home Rule will cortainly bo acted on first and tho land question will probably bo taken up aftor it in immediate succession 'i'lie IU(e John U. CoujrH. John B. Gough, who died yesterday, apart altogether from the particular work ho did illustrates the possibilities of success in life A youth less promising than his could not well bo imagined.

His parents were poor and could offer him few opportunities, but that was by no moans the worst feature of the situation. During his mechanical apprenticeship in New York ho had como to this country from his birth place, England ho fell into evil associations and early acquired an excessivo liking for drink. The one noteworthy quality which marked him was a dramatic instinct and readi ness, but even this seemed a misfortune, bo cause his mimetic art was practiced chiefly in barrooms, before casual bibulous audiences who eucouragecU on inclination already too strong in him. If anybody had then been asked to forecast his future they would have fixed its end at an early and dishonored grave. A suggestion that one day ho would bo favorably known throughout tho country, that thousands of people would crowd to hear him and bo pro foundly moved by his words and that his fame would go out to other lands, such a pre.

diction would have been classed with the rav ings of the madmen Gough himself afterward described. Bttt suddenly he resolved to stop, and ho stopped. He signed a total abstinence pledge and kept it ever after with a single alleged exception somo years later. In this new de parture he illustrated that unsuspected strength of character which often surprises the acquaintance of men who have been slightingly regarded by their friends. The story of his life told to day by every nows paper shows that few men of the century have achieved a largor personal and popular success.

The methoiis by which his success was won were woll chosen. He knew what his one talent was and ho determined to jmt it at tho most productive interest. Naturally his dramatic taste and capability would have led him to the stage, where unavoidable irregu larities of life and countless temptations would very likely have drawn him back into the old way. He determined to act, but to act upon the platform and to choose as the theme for hislrouic illustration that which would prove a re enforcement for himself in his new course. The commendation of temporance to other people ho believed to be the best safe guard against intemperance in himself.

It may bo said that thero was a wise selfish ness in this but thero was a good deal more. The quick sympathy, impulsive emotion and active imagination factors of his talent which ho possossod in remarkable measure made it impossible for him not to feel for those suffering as ho had suffered and to do sire to savo as many people as possible from the distress of which he had so keen a recollection. His high moral purpose was as indisputable as his sincerity and every effort to shako the popular faith in him by reference to the fact that ho sometimes preached tem perance for money failed. The critics will always quarrel with Gough's style of oratory, but it is not worth while. It may bo easy to examine certain printed passages the apostrophe to water for example, or a mania a pola sketch and show that it is bald turgidity or commonplace ex travagance but this is not to the purpose.

His platform effects were wrought by the man, his personality, his action, tils mag netism, or whatever term may bo employed to describe his unquestionable power. must lairness oe judged irom ins own point of view. He was for tho lecture room for the mixed listening; audience, for the present spoken appcsil. Ho was not for closet reading. It would be as unreasonable to measure him by a standard other than his own as to find fault with a fine piece of acting because the lines spoken by the Kean, or tho Forrest, or the Booth, or the Irving of tho hour were not equal to Shakspeare's.

Looking back from Cough's services to tem perance, lrom his success in Uto wliothor we tako this in the narrower individual sense or in the broader acceptance as of something done for others and recurring to tho turning point of his career, wo find a wholosomo lesson for re. formers. Does anybody suppose that a pro hibitory act in every State, supplemented by a federal statute of the same sort, would have arrested Gough's descent '( Nothing would have done this for him but the strength of will suddenly brought into play. Nothing can do it for others but adequate force of character. It is hard to better the instruction of the Apostle as to any variety of moral regeneration "Work out your own salvation." If even the Divine Law cannot accomplish tho result it is idle to appeal to tho Legislature.

The Senate Republicans and lUe iilent. The Senate Committee on tho Judiciary comprises tho following Sonators U. F. Edmunds. John J.

Ingalls, S. J. K. McMillan, Cicorgo F. Hoar, Jamos fc Wilson ami William M.

livarts, Republicans; and Senators James L. Kichard Coke, Goorim U. Vest and Ilowoll U. Jackson, Democrats. The Republican members of this body have submitted resolutions and si report to the Son ate on tho question of the President's right to withhold papers touching suspensions from office They call themselves the commit tee." Being tho majority they have a techni cal right to do so but in fact thoy represent tho six Republicans out of the ton members of the committee, and the four Democrats on the.

committee nre of another way of thinking altogether. The majority present a partisan view of a political question for political effect. Tho minority will do the same by their aide of the case within tho next ten days. The whole matter is entirely a partisan ono. It will be passed on within pre existing linos of politics.

No now views will be expressed. No existing views will bo changed. A political question of tho first dogree of intellectual intorost and of no practical value whatsoever will bo projected on tho country. The President will not furnish the papers requested. Tho Senate Republicans will insist that he ought to do so.

Many arguments will bo heaped up on either side if tho matter ever enters into voting, tho pcoplo by a considerable majority will decido in favor of tho principle that a President should bo able to romovo whom he ploaBos, without interference by the Senate, while that body Bhould confine itself to the scrutiny of nominees proposed to succeed those who have been retired. Tho Eagle has repeatedly stated its reasons for maintaining that exocutivo officers. Republican or Demooratic, shonld bo free to' romovo agents distasteful to them and soleot ngonts agreeable to them. Tho abuse of this power is less an evil than interference with the power tho abuse can bo punished at tho polls. Interference with the power generates abuses which voters ennnot directly punish, for Senators nro selected by a process to which tho pcoplo are only proximately related.

We have not one set of principles on this subject for a Republican President and another for a Democratic. Tho Eaoms sustained the principle of executive responsibility for Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. It sustains it for Cleveland. Wo aro convinced that just men who resent quibbles and believe in business principles hold to tho same view, irrespective of party. Thero is no need of incumbering these columns with the mass of argumentation Mr.

Edmunds for his associates presents to tho country. The proofs he adduces that Presidents have furnished information about offices and officials to Congress or to either Houses of Congress aro cumulative and convincing; but it was mostly lurnisnoa tor the purposo of enlightening legislation it did not como in response to an assumption that tho Senate had a right to question tho President's power of romoval, excepting iu tho caso of Andrew Johnson, and when his term expired Congress rescinded as much of tho Ten uro of Office act of 18G7 as required reasons for suspensions to be filed with tho notification of suspension. It is a truth that if tho Senate extends to Mr. Clevoland the treatment it in point of fact has extended to overy President in a hundred years, excepting Andrew Johnson, Mr. Edmunds' onso is surrendered in advance.

Tho President stands on the rights of his office and for the treatment accorded to his predecessors. The Sonata seoks to require of him, being a Democrat, what it would not require of him, wero he a Republican. Tho plain people will got that into thoir heads. It will serve them better than Mr. Edmunds' COLONEL SINN'S PAKK THEATER.

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wit'i MO.VDAY MATINEE, SALSliUUY'K TROUKADUURS CAUEMY OF MUSIC." AMERICAN OPERA THEODOItE THOMAS Mniic.il Dirootoi THURSDAY HVPXINll. Filr.iirv 25. mi THE MERRY WIVES OK WINDSOR, With all the in iiiciii iln ill vk mt PAUt.lNH 11 A KTI.KTT DAVIS. MAY h'lKLDlNG. MVIWN V.

WUITSEY. Al.ON.O 15. STODDARD. HOWSO.N". WM.

II. l'ESSENDEN, KDVVAKD WM. ilAMH.TO.S'. GRAND ELFIN HAIJ.ET by tan r'nimii re i Kncuml Danc r.1 and THE AMERICAN OPERA BALLET. THE UNRIVALED THOMAS ORCHESTRA.

THE AMERICAN OPERA CHORUS OF 112. THE ELABORATE NEW YORK MLSK EN SCENE. Hunts now nil salo at F. II. CHANDLER'S, 172 Mini tngue st, "oWLTYmLWE EVERY WEI).

AND SAT. MATINEE, JAMES S. WAI.LACK'S BANDIT KING. lntroiiuciiiK his quartet of ACTING HORSES. Next Woi'k Katharine in tho Forsakon." GRAND CONCERT.

EIGHTY PERFORM ERS. GiviMi by tint lV'cYs i.ir anil pupils nf HENRY MOLLENH UER'S COLLEGE OF MUSIO SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 'JU, 183G, At o'clock. Admission 50 cunts. Reserved soatd 31. 0 7.

PROGRAMME vert nro Hcbriilfii Mendnlssohn hynlplnniy pianos La Jolie Ooiiuette Trio piano, vii.lin, cello Fantasie piano WotltliiiK March Tannhauser Minnnt Concerto ten viijins Concerto violin Im prom if piano Spinning mik liian Arieao violoncello Danso Hollandaiu violoncello. Overture Fidel in Moilenhauyi Haydn Asehei iels.sol Waniini iclierini Moilunliauei Liszl Roinecki Dnnkloi Beethovei rROOJvLYN INSTITUTE. FORTY FIRST ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS, ADMISSION FREE, MONDAY EVENING. February 22, 18SG, WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. ANNUAL REPORTS BY JESSE C.

SMITH, President. ADDRESS FRED. W. HI.VUICHS. SUBJECT, 'WASHINGTON'S FAREWELLS." BY ART AND THE ART CLASS.

ADDRESS BY FERD.T. LEU BOYLE, N. A. D. The Drawing Suliool will bo opened to tlio public at th closo of tlio oiercises ami tho work ol pupils eihibited Doors Open at 7.

Proceedings Commoneo at 8. WASHINGTON STREET, Corner of Concord. A. T. BAXTER, Secretary.

rpiiE PRINCETON COLLEGE GLEE CLUB WILL SING AT LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL HALL, BROOKLYN, SATURDAY' EVENING. Vhmnry 20. 1880. Boats may be secured at Cli.mdlur's. No.

172 Montagtn street. POPULAR PRICES. AGLE ALMANAC FOR SALE At CHANDLER'S, 172 MontaBuost. IT CONTAINS DIAGRAMS OF ALL THEATKRJ AND CONCERT HALLS IN BROOKLYN. PRICE 23 CENTS.

CI RAND TESTIMONIAL BENEFIT, TEN JT dered to GEORGE W. ANDERSON, tlio woll known Palace t'avorito an'I champion, or WEDNESDAY EVENING. Ki hrnarv 94. at Ih. PALACE ROLLER SKATING RINK, Clermont av.

Mim Lillie I.mvis. champion fancy trick aud artistic uxhibittox skater. Great milo urofessii medal. Miss L. Morehouse ami George W.

Anderson. 'o raeu ior an eioirant gold 7 lleso artists will skate as jockeys on this occasion. Music by Professor Wilson's Culubratod Band. SKATING TILL IIP. M.Tiukets 23 cents.

bfe A IR AND WATER, THE WONDERS OF COMMON THINGS" Third Practical Talk tn Young Mon only, by l'roicssor W. C. PECICHAM, of tho Ailelphi Aca ASSOCIATION HALL, SATURDAY, 2()tli inst 8 P. M. Illustraloil with brilliant chemical and physical experiments.

Tickets free, at tho Y. M. C. A. 1'iuildiUK, 5M Fulton St.

jf1 RANT AND THE AR X. Illustrated by 130 Magnilicont DISSOLVING VIEWS, Together v. i'h i Thrilling Lecture by JOHN W. FLETCHER, CONSERVATORY HALL. c.

r. Bedford av.and Fultontt TUESDAY EVENING, t'eoruary 23. Commencing at 8 o'clock. Admission 50 couU. iiEcnuKs.

SSOCIATION HALL. Mme. HENRY GREV.LI.E, Tho di. tingoi li Froii' li novelist and loci urer, will lecture in abovo mil THURSDAY' EVENING. February 2d Freiieh Unobiect i.

liable Novels," in Englisll. WEDNESDAY EVENING. Marjh Subjeci: "Hon I Became an Author," in French. 1'rico of tickets, including res rved soats, $1.50 am? $1, according to i cati m. For sale at Chandler's J.

B. POND, ManigOT. Everett House. Now York. HJltOOKI.YV LECTURES.

jO Mr. WILLIAM BRADFORD, the Explorer and Artist, on account Ihe interest nrinifoitj.l in tho two Ro. itals already giv. villgieau additional Recital, il 1 ivitll S'ereop ic'in views at tile ACADEMY OF MUSH). On FRIDAY'.

Fobruary 2ti. at P. M. Subject THK GREELY RELIEF AND THE DkLONG EXPEDITIONS. Reserved Soati.

73c. an I For sale at tlioLibrnrj and at Chandler's, Montagne at. A TTERNOON LECTURES ON GEOLO iY. by Prufes.T DANIELS. MARTIN.

Coursp ol tttn lectures, on SATtTRDAVS af '1 P. lu'iMiininir FEtt HUARYlHUn tho SEMINARY liUII.DINti.l at. Tickets and circulars ivt Chandler's. AUCTION SAL.F5. WHLLIAM COLE, AUCTIONEER.

7 By COLE MURPHY. City Salesrooms, 370 Fulton ax nntl to 353 Adams at. SATURDAY. KERRUAHY "JD, At 11:00 o'clock. REGULAR WEEKLY SALE OF IIORSES Now find soennd hand ciirriflod.

busies, it Imp tons, connes and othor vohiclo.s. licht and heary harness, robos. blankets. vrmps, oto, Brawsttir ton buirirv in irood order and oiti made road wngim. THE ATTENTION" OF PURCHASERS AND CAPITALISTS Is callod ti tho snlo of tho fallowing valuable property, tt bo sold at foreclosure salo, on TUESDAY.

Eebruarv 2 at 12 o'clock, noon, at KERRIGAN'S Auction Rooms. No. 35 "Willoughby si TEN LOTS ON COURT STREET, including both corners of Grinnoll anil Lorraine sts, with a 3 story brick houso noty occupied as a liquor store and 2 story brick stublo on roar on Lorraine et, being 200x100. Tho above proporly being within a fow hundred feet ol tho bay, whoro there is water for heavy shipping, and also noar tho canal, in very valuable for factory purposes: tho streotB are pavod, griuitul and and only about ten minutes' walk to Hamilton Eorry. qeorge w.

Lewis" AUCTIONEER. 9 BOERUM PLACE. "Will soli on SATURDAY, at 10:30. regular weekly sale ol horses, carriage, carts, phaetons, business wagons, now and second hand harness, blankets, robes, whips, double sleigh, as good as new (second hand top business wagon, three second hand coaches, harness, two socoud hand business wagons, harness must bo sold; 5 horses. Description ayo sale.

raTlLLY A MC ELHINNY, AUCTIONEERS, WILL SELL TO MOKUOW, AT 12 O'OLOOK, AT CS NASSAU ST, NEAH MAIDEN LANK, N. RICH HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE SUPKRB ROSEWOOD UPRIGHT PIANOFORTE, cabinots, laco enr tains, lmtiKinp. lino oil painting. 0O0O HOLO, MAHOGANY AND EBONY PARLOR SUITS Of lntvst dcai'Kns unci made by best manufacturers. OARVKD MAHOGANY, OHKRRY AND WALNUT 0HAM11KU Beautifully tinuhed with springs and mattrnssns comploto.

Rnllordeaks.wlnganddraiTor bookciisps, lamp, centor tablos. SUl'KRB DINING ROOM FURNITURB Embossod leather chair, massiTO oxtonsion table, sideboard, tine china, silverware, eutlory. ELEGANT FOLDING BK11R, CHIFFONIERS, WILTON, VKLVRT AND BRUSSELS CARPETS, RUGS, Etc. Tlio entire contents of an elegant mansion. XOTICES.

THE REV. WAYLAND HOYT; D. OF Philadelphia, will preach in tho lecture room oi tho Tompkins aTonuo Congregational Church this orening at 8 o'clock. Ilin numerous Irioml.s throughout tho city arj cordially iuvitod to attoud tho Borviooa. IN I RAILROADS THE COMMITTEE ON Railroads will moot in tho Committeo Rooms.

City Hail, on FRIDAY, Foiu'itary 11', 1MS6, at 8 o'clock. P. M. The Committee will hear all person interested in tho Kings County Klevattjd Road. Bv order of JOjIN airCAUTY, Chairman.

TiKYAL AKOANUiVl THE MEMBEKS iV KIDGKWOOD COUNCIL, No. fi78, R. aro roTine ited to attend ilivino servico at tho SOUTH BUSH WICK KKKORMKO CHURCH. Buslmiok av and Kos auth place. SUNDAY KVENING, February ai.

Tho Council will meet in tho SumUy school room at 7 P.M. sharp. Members of sister councils aro cordially invited to attend. C. II.

FANCIIliR, Rosont. rpENTH WARD DEMOCRATIC ASSOCI JL AT ION will meet at WA.RRKN HALL. 302 Warren st, on FRIDAY KVENING, Fobruary la, 1886. at 8 P. M.

M. F. 'MoDONALD, Prosidont. ir. ii.

nucieiary. B. F. STItAUsa, Assistant Secretary. MOUSES, CAItltlAOlES, AC.

BARGAINS IN CARRIAGES, ONE NEW and one secondhand coupe rockaiviiy; the latest stylo and best quality: i lso, cabri, lots, surreys. phsetonSj top and no top new and secondhand. YOUNG, Atlantic av. NEW AND SECOND HAND LIGHT AND heavy top business wasona for sale, one light furniture truck, very little um also one Imsgyaull doctor's plinoton. 7S.

I. 7111, 7IJ, 711 Atlantic it. ORSE BLANKETS HORSEMEN AND lifrv urn now tnkiiii; iidvatitage of tho low prices wo av scllititf Ivmo blankets for, by providing themselves with enough tor lie lialance oi ino winter. Suuaru blankets of list aro 1.75, $2.50 83 IK) $4 1)0 $5 00 am' ijl' lf. 1 thero aro shaped blankets at See, SI.

and SI. 50. Blanket section. WKCHSLliK A AUKAH UL MIS' a.mj found. LOST SKVE TERRIER.

ANSWERS TO name of Jack. Strayed Irom 2 Monroe st. Liberal reward for 1 OST ON TUESDAY, SMALL, SCOTCH JLi TERRIKR, with red oollar; answers to the namo of Tip? Liberal reward for lna return to 4Uj Horkiiucr st. TOST EASTERN DISTRICT RES I jLi4 dents who dosiro toadvortiso under this caption oaa Jmre their advertisements at, the F.aglo brauoh offioa, Broadway, by 11:30 A. M.

for the afternoon edition aftdbj 10 o'clock Saturday evonlnit lor Eoi.u. MM MM II A ODD OOO MM MM II A A MM II KK A A I) MM II AAA It A A DfiD OOO SaleBmon ottond those meetings moro regularly we wiii imvu uu urKumzauon. A member asked if thoro was not an organization of tho dry goods clerks last year. Mr. liesthoft That is dead.

Wo havo now a now organization which takes in the clorka of tho clothiers, hatters, furniture men and im dealers. It Includes tho clorks In ovory buaiuoaa except that of Mr. Korn I do not approve of this mothod. If tho dry goods clerks of Brooklyn would only come to (jetuur tiiuuuKivra, wo couiu close the dry goous buiiuu iii i m. ii mo lurnituro mon wish to have thoir stores closeiknt that hour thnv run do so.

Mr. Bostholf opposod Mr. Korn and hold that by a uimeu euort on ino part ot tho clorka In tho dry goods, furniture, hat and shoo stores tho stroots af ter P. M. would bo deserted.

Ilosldo, the orguil zation, comprehending representatives of various industries, would bo moro ofliclcnt. Thoy would not always havo tho somo men going around to influence the store keepers; now faces woro wanted for mat buainoss. Mr. Rosoubusch. having lust entered tho room moved that the aaaoclatibn reorganize and tako iu uiu oierKs oi mo lurnituro mon, shoo doalora, etc.

A mombor oxploined to tho crnntlnmnn that, hv tho recont organization of tho association furulturo men, snoo uenlors, otc. were Included. Mr. Korn still inslstod Hint tho dry goods clerks, to bo successful, must work independently. Ho was in favor of an association composod exclusively of dry goods clorks.

Mr. Bios sold that the moro business branches represented in the organization tlio moro men would tlio association have to work for It and tho moro mou on tno committoes to visit the storekeepers. Mr. Korn admitted that tho earlv closing move ment rosultod in a brilliant success last Spring and niut iuey couiu again succoou li tney actod independently. Mr.

Bios Tlio only thing to have done Is to havo a committee of clorks In tho various bronchos Appointed to wait on tho merchants ami nnnak tn them. Two weeks ago tho dry goods morchatits ond furniture dealers had a mooting at which thoy uKiuuu iaj uuiiiiiu uours ior opening ann closing. Why not lot Iho clerks havo somothing to say Mr. Besthoir The morchants decided to close till March 15 at 6 P. aud asked foro report from this association, but no report was mado and for that reason thoy seomod to have lost all respect for tho Tlie secretary stalod that at tho nrovinns mnmlnn a committee of nine had been appointed to visit the clorks In tho stores on Grand street, Ewon streot uuu inuiiuwiiy ui rogara to ine early closing movo uiuui, uuu immn uacit.

koho oi me committees appeared. liio choir found it nocossary to remind thoso presont that tho organization compriaod snlosmou, not only of tho dry goods stores, but of tho urnituro stores, Mr. Rosoubusch objoctod that the organization has tho work of nlno or ton mou and uoithor constituted a quorum. Mr. Boathoff Thero woro thirteen men.

The committees aro not horo to roport; that Is always tho wny, Mr. Kern Lot matters stand ns ihoy nro till we got tho dry goods mou horo; thoy woro not ropro Boatod at tho meeting which took placo two wooks Mr. BIOS All tills illflPHRqtnn ta nf nnla.i tl.la Is nn association of tho unitod salesmen, and ff tho dry goods clorks wish to form nu association of their own wnoro thoy can kick lot thorn do so. Mr. Besthoff And if thev do.

the furniture men and tho others will say: "Wo will havo nothing iuluuui iu uu wii.il uio urygoous mon. Agoiuiemau rocontly romarkod in Washington Hall that thoro was uo principle in tho dry goods clorks, that thoy lyuiuaiiuiii lu ixaa. cuoir omptoyors to snorceu meir doy's work. Mr. Bios My employers said that if I did not at tenu mo eany closing mooting 1 ought to have my day's work occupy twelve hours.

But tho ronsou why tho drygoods clorks tailod to oppoar at tho muciiuo was luu tear oi losing meir positions, illr. Korn They havo not honn trnnlnil rlirhtlv. On evouiugs announcod for meetings thoro wore no ineeuugs. iiiai was no way in which to treat tho members of tho association. Mr.

Bios If any employer discharged a man for bolouglng to this association he should bo nunlshed sovoroly. Such a thing might do in Now York, but not in urooKiyn. i uo not thlnit that it could happen hero. A gontloman representing tho clorks of tho furulturo storo3 assured tho association of their co op orotivo old. Tho motion of Kern that businoss bo dispensed with till a larger numbor of drygoods clerks bo prosont was then carriod and tho mooting adjourned.

CURRENT EVENTS. Clara Morris is ill at Baltimore. Queen Victoria will visit the Itiviera in April. Princo Bismarck's Spirit Monopoly bill has passed the Bundcsrath. Tho New Hampshire Grand Army yesterday elected delegates to tho National Encampment.

It is now believed that the recent damage to tho Honda orango crop by frost was smallor than at flrat reported. Mrs. Crawford, tho respondent in the Dilko scandal caso, bos fled to Italy. Two bodies and a quantity of wreckage from au unknown wreck, have been piokod up on tho shore of tho Bay of Biscay. David B.

Reed, an Asbury Park druggist, was fined 100 yesterday for illogal liquor soiling. In a fight with Apaches yesterday eight sheop herders wore killod on tho ranch of Solomon Lima, in Valencia County, N. M. Three Poles who participated in the church riot at Tolodo last Summor woro convictod yostordny and sout to the penitoutinry. Tho harness makers of.

Cincinnati, who aro on strike, mado a riotous demonstration yesterday against somo non union' hands, who had been brought from St. Louis by tho manufacturers. Tho Christians of tho Island of Croto havo protostod to tho foreign Ministers at Constantinople against any foreign intorvontiou iu tho trouble be tween Turkey aud Greoco ami ogolnst a naval dem onstration in Suda Bay. At Springfield yesterday the Illinois Coin mondory of the Grand Army of tho Republicpassod a resolution roquostiug Congress not to restore General Fitz John Porter to the army. J.

A. S. Bobout, proprietors of tho Sunday Democrat, of Toledo, woro arrested yos torday on a charge of souding obscouo litoroture through tho mails. George Q. Cannon, the Mormon leader, in stiff and sore from his recont injurios but modical oxaminers say ho will recover.

The Rov. J. B. Moffatt, D. president of Washington and JolToraon College, at Washington, has boon callod to tho chair rocontly vacatod by Mr.

Kellogg at tho Theological Seminary, Allogheny, Pa. A fire broke out at Calcutta yesterday on tho British bark J. W. Parker from Montevideo. Tho vessel wna loaded and ready to sail for New York.

Tlio flamoa have not yet boon extinguished. On his arrival at Philippopolis in his ca pacity of rulor of Eaatorn Roumolla Princo Alexan der mot with an ontliusiostlc reception from tho pooplo. During tho day all tho cousu Is excopt tho Rusaian callod on the Prince. The vessel which recently sunk in Lynn Haven Bay during a storm is now known to havo bcou tho schooner Arthur Godfrey, Captain J. T.

Riffgln, of Norfolk, Va. Captain Riggln had with him on board his wifo and five daughters and a crew ot four mon. Sing Lee, the Chinese laundryiuan who is supposod to bo suffering from leprosy, was yostor day Bent from Waterbury, to tho Chinese Hospital, on Mott stroot, Now York. In Loudon 3resterday tho Rev. Mr.

Dyson a Wesloynn minister, and Mrs. Bnrtlott, widow ot a Plmlico merchant who diod rocontly, woro commlt ed for trial on a charge of murdering Mr. Bartlett. tThe victim is alleged to havo died from chloroform administered by the wife in ordor that sho might marry her clorieal paramour. At the burning of the Polish Church in Tolodo on Woduosdoy night, tho Rov.

Father au gustinski, tho pastor, ottirod himself in his best elothos and mado au attempt to spring into tho flomos. Uocrlodout: "As tho church Is burning I may as well burn with it." The excitod priest was re strained by main forco by threo stalwart Poles. It is boliovod at Wheeling, W. Va. that tho prolongod striko of nailers in that vicinity nearly at an ond.

One largo manufacturing company has compromised with Its employes, and it is thought othors will follow thoir example. Tho Chicago dressed meat dealers aro great ly dissatisfied with tho schedule of freight rates odoptod by tho representatives of the Trunk linos in New York City yesterday. Thoy say that thoy have been unjustly discriminated against, ond that thoy will mako a fight for their rights in tho courts. The Spanish Government has recalled Count do Soto, Minister to Switzerland, becauso ho appoarod at a ball recently givon ot Geneva in on intoxlcatod condition and behaved In a rude and uugeutlomanly manner. Tho Count is said to bo insono.

Counsel summed up yesterday in tho cobo of tho Rov. Robort p. Whito, of Purdy's Station, who is on trial at White Plains for criminal assault. District Attornoy Baker, who argued for the prosocu tion, characterized the conduct of tho dofondant in scathing terms. The caso will bo givon to tho Jury to day.

President D. L. Smoot, of the Western Elec trio Company, diod yostordny In Chicago. Mr. Smoot was tormorly a lioutenant in tho United Statos army, and moro rocontly acted os superintendent of the Romington Armory at Illon, N.

Y. Whilo journeying on Tuesday last from Huntington, L. to Now York Mrs. JameB Temple, wlfo of the proprietor of tho Rossmore Uotol, lost a sachol containing diamonds and Jewolry valued at $1,500 aud $300 In monoy on a Huntor's Point ferryboat. Detoelives who nro searching for tho treasure had found uo traco of it up to last night.

Goorgo Pancoast, a wealthy manufacturer of New York City, has Instituted a suit to annul tho marriage oi his daughter, Mary Arcbor, with William II. Van Dorn. The young woman Is a deaf mute and hor husband is an athletio young mon who had boon engagod by Mr. Pancoast to givo him maasago troatmont for rhoumatism. It is claimod by Mr.

Pancoast that his daughter is insnno. Tho couplo woro married last Novembor, but tho marriage was conconled until a few days ago. The brido is worth iOO.OOO lu her own right. A gang of bunco steerors inveigled a re Epectablo old citizen of Allegheny City Into thoir don In Pittsburg, yoBtorday. Ho hesitated to participate in tho game thoy woro playing aud, becoming impntlont, thoy BOizod him aud robbod him of J2.000.

Tho thieves thon mode thoir escapo. The Knights of Labor nre organizing the girls nnd women employed In tho shirt and collar factories and lauudrlos at Troy, N. Y. Already moro than 1,000 havo boou enrolled. At present there ore more minors at work onjjio Monongoliela River than at nny timo during tho past yoar.

All tho works aro running full lioudod aud tho indications oro thot should thero not bo nnothor lockout moro coal would bo mined for tho lioxt run than for ooveral yonrs. Tho Grant Monumont Association met in Now York yostorday. Only twouty of 000 mombors woro prosont Aftor a number of speeches by gontlomen who had solicited subscrlptious to the fund tho old Monument Association was disbanded and tho project was placed iu the honds of the newly In i corporatod Grant Fund Association, who will on deavor to sooure onough monoy to comploto the work. So far only has been subscribed toward tho $1,000,000 which the comnuttos had hoped to teXw. They Hear Some Plain Speaking at Dinner.

Eev. WHUam Lloyd on Christian Democracy and Mr. E. Streeter Brooks on Aggressive Church Work. Tho monthly dinner of the Universalis Club was oaton last evening in the chapel of All Souls' Church, South Tenth streot.

Tho club Includes ropresontativos of tho Uuivoraalist Church, both pastors and pooplo, in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Newark, and at its dinuors, which nro sociable and pleasant, It is seldom that loss than 100 guests are seated at the tablos. Tho chapel or All Souls' proved an oxcollont dining room, bright and spacious, and during tho dinner an orchostra in ono of tho gallories playod soft.swoot musio, such as Is usually played when a collodion is token up. A substantial menu was furnished and oaton without rosort to colored liquids a circumstance that oppoored to elicit no unfavorable comment. After coffoo had boon sorved and a liltlo routino business hail been transacted ltov. William Lloyd, of tho Central Congregational Church.

called on by President Charles 11. Baton to respond in ui orauio in mo Minn American Jlcvicw on tho oristocrotio tendencies of Pro'eatmtisni Mr. Lloyd's remarks took tho form of nn'ottnek on supino and pnmporod members of tho clorgy nud vioaciiuou u. vigorous ana aenvo unristtan democracy ns the best consorvator of the nrinclolo laid down by Christ nnd tho oarly teachers of Christian religion. IJuoting Felix Adlor.

ho asked Wliern aro tho churches that preach and practice tho othlcs mught by tho Supremo Man on tho slopo3 of Olivot?" The churches of to day aro largely for uiu nun uio most popular clergymen are tlio boat housed nnd beat fed. Thoy aro seldom found in mo novois anu tonomonts of tho poor. The work uigmau seoa this and, while ho would follow tho cnrist oi he refuses to bo patronized by Christianity of New York. No volco In tho present dOV is Clearer than tho voice nf tlin linnnln. Tho social forces of democracy aro forces which tlio urisuan must study os oaruoatly ns tho politician.

Nihilism, Socialism. Fonianism and Natloimllnm areall indications of tho increase of the domocratlo movomont, ana wo aro nil conscious of a social strain In this country, a tension in tho relations of ciass to class that may at any momonl break oui into open hostility. There is a rankling augor in mo hoarts ot millions at tho ovor widoning gulf botwoon labor aud capital, bo twoon what Henry Goorgo calls the House of liavo and the uouso of Want. Mon soo that a priv ileged fow aro gaining ail tho prizos; that thoy aro gaining higher capabilities of onjoymout, whilo tho labor class is being crushed undor yet greater misory nnd deeper degradation. I novor felt more liko shouting Laus Deo than whon tho whito slaves of Now York car companioa forced thoir taskmasters to yield to thoir demand for twelve hours as the limit ot a day work.

We must bo rondv to wel come tho demand of tho pooplo to tako part In tho woria work, as did the church of old, when, at the wrock of a Roman civilization sho learned to build up, by means of tho Teutonic snlrlt of individual froodom ami social fidelity, new and higher order CIVU1.UWU11. ine oormon on mo juount contains tho chartor of tho world's liberies, and its ni lnci plea applied to existing social conditions in our ianu wouiu creato such a revolution as thoiworld has novor known. Christian doinocracy Is the only uomocracy mat can bo victorious over tho selfish ness, greed, pride and ambitions of mou. Mr. Lloyd's address was warmly applaudod.

He waa lollowod by Mr. E. Stroetor Brooks, of this city. wnoso paper on "Aggroaaive Univorsallsm" waa to tno following tonor: Whon Anselm, of Bee, tho saintly and bravo hearted Archbishop of Canterbury in tho rough old days of tho Norman kings, darod to fnco, in behalf of what ho judged the right, William tho Red tho fiercest and roughest of thorn all ho said iu simple out unoquivocni words: "Thou must go mywav, lord king, for thy way is hell." Decision is a duty, and not a cliolco. Thore Is no compromiso with conscience, and coercion is sometlmos tho most gracious charity.

Tho Unlversalist Church to day Biauus at a critical point. This statement has been made any time during the naat hundred years, but It ia truo nono tho less. The causo of Christ is always critical. The momont it bo comes othorwiso it is in danger of stagna tion ana aocay. 'i no flory zeal of tho purposo Oiled crusaders won the Holy City.

The ovor security of tho Latin Kings lost It forovor. Progress must uo always electric it must bo always aggressive. Tho custodian of tlio grandest truth of tho ages, tho church. Is iu danger of lettini? that truth slip from its custody, either through lack of energy or bocauso of an inclination to cater to tho present wouueriui arm irom creod to incredulity. Tho Uul vorsalist Church should not cator it should capture.

Inertness in religion is Banning all tho churches, ours among tlio rest. The decline of spirituality is noilcoamy apparent nnd mou drop tiioir roligion with thoir Sunday elothos to put it on again only at thoir next Sunday's toiloL The great army oi tue unchurched is growing daily. Desor uoiiB irom the camps ot the creeds to tho througing ranks of doubt are stoodily increasing and how is trie onivorsaiisiutiurcu striving to stnud In tlio gap? Wo are to savo tho world from itself. Our duty lies, not so much among tho dusky henthou of a distant Congo, or among tho donaor heathenism of our own abject and cliurchloss poor, as among tlio cultured and churchless woll to do the thousands of intolll gont. mon and women who.

thinking for themselves. think boyond themselves, nud tho only bar to whoso bouI destroying ultra progroas must bo our own determined blocking of iho wav. The day for aggres sion against tno sironguoius oi ioasn laitna is past. Tho advancing thought of tho hour is changing. slowly, perhaps, but surely, tho sombor huo of ovory creod in Christendom.

Tho darkening shadows enshroud nono but thoso who aro happy only as thoy aro ensnrouuea us la tho Scotchman who glories in Ills Scotch mist. Those will remain beclouded only so long as thoy cannot or will not soo tho light. Our work is not with them. It Is with that moro thought tui and tnorotoro moro energetic malority which. dotnchlng itsolf from tho old timo bigotries is drifting toward Iho sunrise.

1 bollovo in tho vlrtuo of negation. I hold thoro Is a good sido ovon to ovory bad quality, and that tho vorv existence of evil is prooi oi me coriain ana unai supremacy ot good. But slmplo negation is only stagnation. Negation must bo vitillzod Into positive action. The agnosticism of to day that is honeycombing the creeds of Christendom can lead but to two resultslight or oblivion.

It is for us as Christian workers to soizo our opportunity aud bring in tho light Aud that light must be tho strong, pure. stoady flamo of a positivo, Christian univorsalism. Wo must koop paco with tho advancing thought of tho day? Yos. But we must not sook to clarify our univorsalism wilh tho thought of tho dav we must centralize tho thought of tho day in our univorsalism. Thoro is far loo much talk among us of de Boctarlanizlng our church; thore is too apparent an inclination among our laity to boeome undenominational Lo drop the distinctive name of Univorsal ist from church fronts aud cornerstones, to sook sheltor behind thoconvoniontuncortiiiunossof omar rowlosa liberalism, to put forward as roprosoutativo men thoso selected rathor for tho stato of thoir fluaucoa than for the strength of their faith.

To mako tlio bnivorsallst whurch nonsoctarian is to make it agnostic, and to mako it agnostic is to doom it to spiritual death. Iudifreronco is moro to bo droaded Umn inlldelity. Wo can bo moro aggressively Univorsnllst ill our homos. In the future of our children lios tho future of our church. And yet In how many Unlvorsalist homos aro wo training umvorsa lists How many children tako from our Sunday schools tho sood thoughts that promise healthy Christian growth? How many taking such are lod by homo culture to givo thorn proper caro? Tho main cause of the lack of tangiblo reaults in Sunday school work islncomplotonoasof devotional training in tho homo.

Wo leave tho religious edu cation of our children to youug minds almost as im mature as their own that tor loas than ono hour each week strugglo with themes that not two in ten of Ihoni understand. Religious talk is aa taboood a topic in our homes ns aro tlio shady and unsavory evils whoso shamoleas blazoning wo would, if wo could, cut from the heaiilines of tho daily press. We aro too content to listen to ono or two good sormons a wook, pay our pew rent, feel a sonso of relief if the church j'onr shows no doilclt, and willfully neglect tho spiritual upbuilding of snul3 and the honoring of om feilow men. A chronic rowl at tho frequency of calls for money to bo used in holpful ways Is not the best evidoncoof Christian serenity. Even a dollcit may sometimes bo a duty.

The mendicant brothorhoods of the Romish Church alone savod tho world from selfishness in the old days of grood and rapine. Wo need to bo oHucatod to givo rathor than to got. Tho aggrosslvo unlvorsallQui, therefore, for which I pload, is to bo shown not so much by tho pulpit as by the pews. Tho proclamations of tho seventh dny ore void indeed, if thoy lead to no practical ondoavor in tho other six. Are not moBt of your acquaintances timbor from which substantial work for tho Lord could bo mado Are they not thoughtful, honest, clear minded, big brained, Indifferent, non committal, oven disbelieving Thoy go to such and such a church, caroless of its croods ind doctrines, uoeauso ot its social atmosphere or of family friendships; or they go to no church at all oh, how ninny of thorn bocauso they "tnko no stock iu ohurchoa" ond havo driftod uoyond church moorings, purposeless, rudderless, itiort uoblo crofts, caught in a Sargasso Bon of indifference and doubt churchless Christians who disboliovo too sincerely not to bo mado to boliovo Etrongly.

And horo is tho missionary work for tho Universalis! Church to make thoso mon and women bollovo strongly. Wo can do it by the infusion of a positive conviction into our thought and life and actlou, by showing a rea Bon for tlio faith that is in us, and by a strong in slstonco that Unlversallsm is the only name whereby mou may bo saved. laymon of tho Unlvorsalist church, workers for tho upbuilding of the most glo rious of all tho faiths of all the ages a faith as old as Origou, as old as Paul, as old as ChriBt do not nogloct your opportunities. Uni vorBalism, which was once radicalism, is fust becoming conservatism. Contont to see tho current setting In our direction, wo aro negloct lng the strengthening of our own raeoways and mill wheols.

Our history is tho history of tho world's nwakonlng conscience. Our apostolic succession is clear and unmistakable, ovon though wo may not traco it back to tyrannical and lustful English King, orBtill furthor back through a lino of oven moro tyrannical nnu lusuui Laun popes. UnivorsallBm is not simply orthodox It is evangelical. Univorsalism is not simply a sect in tho church it is tho churoh. Univorsalism is not simply Christian it Is Christianity I A Btronger infusion, then, of Univorsalism In namo and in methods alike In our churches, our homos, our business, our pleasures and our aims will show the world that the faith that has leavened tho creeds can load them, and that tho spirit of kindly but of open and aggressive assault upon indllloronco, supinonoss, agnosticism and unboliof is but following out tho supremo toachlng of tho groat Captain of our salvation, who will have all men to bo sivod and como unto tlio knowledge of His truth.

Mr. Brooks' paper was received with many expressions of indoraemont. Tho company thon adjourned. Among thoso present last ovoulng woro Dr. Almon Gunnison, Dr.

A. G. Canflold, Rov. C. II.

Eaton, Rev. Joseph K. Mason, Hon. Charles II. Russoll, Qeorgo Iticard Conner, ox Buildlug Commissioner Gaylor, Assessor B.

W. Wilson, Hon. George H. Fisher, Counselor A. C.

Hockemoyor, Rev. C. U. Fay, Drs. Hallom oud Underwood, J.

C. Goodrich, K. IColshaw, Jamos Slater, D. T. Marshall and E.

It Holden. Ropresontativos woro presont from Sc. John's M. E.and Bodf ord avenue Reformed churohes. THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

A Mooting: of the Enntcrii Hitrlct Clerks and Salesmen In response to a widely circulated oall for ft muss meeting of tho salesmen of tho Eastern District a largo number of representative mon met last ovoning at Stauf 's Casino, C97 Broadway, Brooklyn, E. for tho purposo of devising means by which tho time exactod of thorn by their omployers Bb.aU be shortened. Mr. Charles Bios occupied the chair and Mr. Goorgo Hasslingor recorded.

Mr. Bios stotod that tho mooting was undor the auspices of tho Unitod Snlosmou already organized, thoobjoot of which was to iuduoo tho dry goods, furniture stores, shoo doalors and hatters to close for olovon months In tho year at 6 1'. M. Mr. Goorgo II.

Korn The dry goods clorks are dissatisfied with tho way iu which tho early closing movomont has been managed and many of thorn havo statod that thoy will not attend theao meetings any moro. An announcement was mado somo timo ago that there would bo a meeting of tlio dry goods clorks, but somobody Bout round word to somo of tho clorka lu leading honsos that thero would bo no meeting, so that whon thoso who did go to the placo designated thoy found that thoro was no mooting nud they did not like the way in which thoy had been treated. Slnco that timo I novo boon told by clorks in large liouses that thoy would como to no moro meetings. The only way now by which wo can secure the attondauoe of tho clorks is for us to have a committee appointod to wait upon them and explain mattors to thorn. Thoy will not como hero in rospouso to circulars ond postal cards.

I movo, therefore, that a committee ot throe be appointod to visit tho different stares and see If wo cannot iuduco tho clorks to ottond a mooting to be called at onco for tho purposo of shortening tho day's work. The motion was put and oarriod without dissent. Tho chairman appointed George H. Kern, A. Bostholf and P.

Sohrafol. Mr. Besthoff moved that the meeting bo on Tues day next, Mr. Korn I movo to amond by making it Monday night after tho stores are closed. Mr.

Dosuion Monuoy wi" oo a nonaay ana some The Late Horatio Seymour's Memory Honored. Architect Miindeil nnd the Hall of Records Once More Seven Thousand Fivo Hun dred Dollars' Worth of Suprfrestions An Assessment for Neir Lots. Tho Board of Supervisors mot yesterday aftornoon, with Supervisor at Largo Qulntard presiding. Immediately after tho reading of tho minutes Supervisor Lamb offered tho following resolution: Whereas, In tho death of Hon. Horatio Seymour the Stnto.of Now York has lost ono of hor brightest ornamonts and the nation ono of its purest and ablest statesmen, a man whose namo is tlio synonym for all that is noblo and disinterested in public lifo whoso caroor, covering many years, challenges tho admiration of evorv natriotie citizen.

imnnrt. ivo of who was a master of State craft in its host sense; who in his declining years well expressed the story of his long life when ho said, at the last public mooting ho attomiod at his homo iu I'tlca: I love tlio State of New York;" whose heart so throbbod wilh sympathy for tho unfortunate that his addresses to tho convicts of the Stato in recent years aro among the classics of our language; therefore bo It Remlreii. That this Board publicly put on record its appreciation of the groat servicoa ond sterling wortli of Xew York's dead statesman aud its profound sorrow at his demise, though ho passed away full of years and honors. Ills lifo was gentle, and tho elements so mixod in him that nature could stand up and Bay to all tho world, This waa a Sup. Fitchlo moved that as a mark of rospoct to the dead statesman tho Board adjourn.

On culling tho roll tho majority favored tho motion. Sup. Pigott chaugod the tide by calling attention to the fact that an adjournment without hearing tlio report of tho Finance Committeo would embarrass many pooplo who noodod their monoy. recall of tho roll was ordorod, ond tho mooting continued by a vote of IU to 12. Sup.

Watson presented a letter from Architect Mundoll on the noods of tho Hall of Records, aa follows: Thore are ono or two mattors in relation to tlio now Hall of Kecords to which I would liko to call your attention ot this time. In tho drat place, as regards ihe roof. At tho timo I wrote tlio specifications for tho orectlou of tho building I waa informed by partioa whom I thought I could rely on that a tin roof would bo tho propor material for covering tho porous terra cotta filling between the iron roof beams, oud I so specified in the specifications; but on an examination of buildings so covorod I find that it is almost impossible to cover tho porous lor ro cotta. It is vory apt to be cracked and brokon, tho sheots of tin boing nailed on. I find upon examination of tho mattor that eithor "plastor slato" or tho Star roof (somplos of both of which I havo suumutou to mo comniitteoon Hall of Roeords) will moke a good and durablo root and will be guaranteed for ton yonrs by tho parties contracting to put tho same on.

Tho difference botween tin as callod for and the plastic roof is about ifWO. The othor matter to which I wish to call your ottontion ia os to hooting and vontilaiing tho top story of buildings. Thoro has not beon astnglo change In tho plans of tho building Binco they wero adopted by Iho Board of Supervisors of ISSf. Tho rulos for compotlng architects at that time called for a two story building giving tho number of rooms, otc. romiirocl, which I have given in ovory instance.

Tho desiro to koop Iho elevations of tho building up to a hoight about theeamo as tho Court Houso necessitated putting a third story to tho building, giving ono room 40x53, ono 30x40, ono 23x52, two 20x24, one 22x3Vand threo 18x20, three 14x 10 which our contract called to bo finished comploto, with plato gloss windows, steel rolling shuttors, Georgia pine floor, doors, trimmings, oud in fact everything with the exception of heotiug and vontilatlon. Theao rooms, if healed, I thiuk can be ntiiizod for many purposes and I thiuk arrangements should bo mado at tliia timo for so doing, as it can bo dono at one half the oxponso and trouble it would cost heroaftor, ns it would necessitate larger boilers, largor supply pipes, than callod for by your prosont contract. Messrs. iakor, Smith tho pnrtios who aro doing tho boating undor the present contract havo an esti mato and agroo to heat and vontilnto tho top story complete for the sum of $3, 189, whicli certninly Is not out of tho wny 03 regards price. The wholo extra cost of tho building, of heating, roofing, gallery (a3 requested by County Clerk), extra thickness of iron pipe for plumbing work, as required by the Board of Health (as per low pnssoU In February last, sornrai montha after contract for plumbing waa awarded), will not exceed $7,300, about 3 por cent, on cost of building, which, if token in consideration with tho fact that tlio contractor took tho contract for lower than the low oat bidder, should convince this couuty that is getting a vory cheap building.

As for the character of tho work and tho building itself, it stands wli'ro all can sco it and spooks for itself. Respectfully William A. Mcnpf.i.i, Architect. Sup. Watson, of the sub Committee on Roofs, indorsed Mr.

suggestions, and said lie did It houoatly. Ho had, In company with Sup. Wlllia, visited buildings in Now York roofed with piaatic slate and found thorn perfect. The lottor was referred to tlio Hall of Records Committee. Sup.

O'Koerro presented Superintendent Datilol Ryan's roport of tho condition of the county's buildings. Mr. Ryan found most of them in good shape. Ho also cited a request from the colonel of the Twonly third Regiment, that a rifle range bo built In tlio cellar of tho regiment's armorv. anil left tlio suggo3tiou to tho mercy oi tho Board.

Ho also re ported, through sup. Iveofto, that $100 would pay for retiliug part of Uio Court Uouso floor. On motion of Sup. Willla, specifications for the work wnrn ordorod to bo prepared. Attor that tho board accented an invitation lo at tond tho Stephen M.

Griswuld Association's annual ball, tendered by Sup. Cullen, and Sup. Pigott. acting for Sup. Uolfort, of New Lots, offered reso lutions levying au assessment of one twentieth of tho total amount assessed, to establish geuoral grndo for tho town; also iS'iO additional for intorost on bonds issuod oil account of tho improvo monts.

Carried. Sup. Ryder prcsonttd tho draft of a bill inm. tend the powers of boards of sttrjori lsorn in conn. ties of ovor 300,000 population." Whilo applying to all towns its onactmont is said to bo devised for tho benefit of New Lots.

The full text is as follows: An Act to extend tlio powers of boards of super visors in counties containing upward of threo hundred thousand Inhabitants. The pooplo of the Stato of Now York, rnnrnsnntmi In Senate ond Assembly, do enact ns follows: SECTION 1. Tho Board of Supervisors nf each county in this Stato containing upward of three hundred thousand inhabitants shall havo powor, by a two thirds vote of all tho mombors elected thereto, to logolizo the informal acts of any town mooting within such county iu raising money for any purposo for which such money Is authorized to be raised by low, ond by liko voto to legalize tho irreg ular acts oi any ono or moro town officers performed In good faith and within the scouoof thoir authority. nnd also by liko vote to correct nny manifest clerical or other error in any asssessmonts or returns mado by any ono or more town officers to such Board of Supervisors, or which may or shall have properly come bofore such Board for 1 heir action, confirmation or review; and it may cause to be refunded to any person tlio amount collected from him of any tax illtiffnlly or improperly assessed or lm iod. in rawing uio amount so refunded, or tho amount nocoasary to supply tho dolicioncy caused by the correction of any errors in such assessments as aforesaid, such Board shall in tho samu or next ensuing annual tax levy adjust aud apportion said amount upon tno proporty el the sovoral towns and wards of mo county as shall bo just, taking into conaideration iho portion of State, county, town and ward tax included therein, and the extent to which onch town or ward has bem beuollted thereby.

Si'c. 2. If such error in any nssossmonl roll shall hove occurred by reason of uvcr valuation, tliosamo shall not be corrected in the manner herein provided, except upon Iho certillcato nf the assessors of tlio town, mado and prcsmitod toxoid Board within ono year alter the assessors shall have finally com pleted and verified sucli assessment roll, which certificate shall state under oalii or onlrinntion the facts whicli may bo iwiriinont and material to show me grounds ot making such correction. Sec. 3.

This act shall not amilv to the eltv and county of Now York. bee. 4. au acts or parts of acts inconsistent with tho provisions of this net ore horebyropoalod. fee.

o. inis act snail tone ollect immediately. On motion of Sup. Bell resolution to forward tho measure to Alblfnv. with ft renliesl Ihnr the l.erriln ture ffoateu lis passage, was laid over that its text and purposes might bo better considered.

sup. icj dor prosontod the 1'Uianco Committee's roport. It was accoptod. Sup. Pigott thon moved that tho Board adlourn out of rospoct for tho lato Hon.

Horatio Seymour. tho motion was carried, though Sup. linker objected Ho held that tho Board ought to havo odlourned at the llrst call, and not having dono so it might Just as woll keop on until its work was ended. Tho declaration of vote 20 to 3 settled tho quosllon. Previous to the calling of tho voto Sup.

Manrer askod for unanimous consent lo introduce a roport. It was denied him. Tho report announced thot the Gatling Battery Armory was ready and noodod only tho official acceptance to permit Its occupation Action will uo lOKon on tho matter next Thursday. POLITICAL POINTS. Tammany Hall has roconiniencleil Hugh Mastsrson to Governor Hill as a caudidato for Railroad Commissioner.

Tho resignation of Controller of tho Currency Cannon has not yot been accoptod oud he is still an officer of tlio Governmont, although he hasacceptod the vico presidency of tho National Bank of tho Ropubllc of Now York. Among the nominations confirmed by the Unitod States Sonate yostorday woro thoso of James B. Groomoto bo Collector 'of Customs at Baltimore; Lowis L. McArthur to bo Attorney of tho United Statos for Oregon; David R. Waters, Uulted States Marshal for tho Western District Michigan, and William F.

Howland to be Collector of Customs at Beaufort, 111. Tho Boston llerald (Mug.) thinks Congress is wasting timo in tho prolongod discussion of tho Fits John Porter bill. It adds: In tho prosont state of legislative business, tho House should not give up a wook to talk on tho Flu John Porter bill. Tho subject has beon discussed threadbare, and the rigor of tho rules should hnvo boon invoked to bring it to a voto. With Iho session half gono, and nothing of consequence dono, moro work aud loss talk would Improvo tho record.

Tho ilbatiy Tiia (Dom.) reviewing tho Presidential campaign of 1880 attributes tho defeat of Gou eral Hancock to tho elomonts which nt that lime controlled tho Democratic mnohlne lu this State. In tho courso of its remarks on the subjoct It makes tho uppouded reference to tho port Brooklyn played lu tho contest: The machlno tactics of defeat took on active stops in Now York City, whore, with tho nomocracy unitod on local candidates, tho candidate for mayor was cut down to a beggarly plurality of 3,000 by tho machinations of nntl Tnmmonyitos, and in Brooklyn, whore tho usual Democratic majority of 15,000 or 20,000 was reduced to about 9,300. In Now York City Uonoral Hancock hold own with aomethlug of his Gettysburg galloutry, oven against tho mayoralty difficulty, reaching a majority of 41,300, but In Klugs his reduced vote was his defeat Kings was thou on ospoolol stronghold of tho machinists, who mournod ovor tho dofeot of Tllden at Cincinnati. THE EAST RIVER K0T A RIVER. A IDoIinilion by Judjro Brown WhicU Hurtu a Ferry Company.

Tho ferryboat Garden City, plying between Now York and Long Island City, took flro on De comber 18, 1833, and was burned, with a number of horses and trucks, for tho valuo of which tho owners brought suit ngoiust tho ferry company. Tho forry companysot up in answer domurror to tho oftoct that tho Court lackod Jurisdiction, under tho not of March 3, 1851. Judgo Brown ordorod tho suit to go on and sold: "A river Is a considorablo stream of wo; or that has a current flowing from a higher lovol that constitutes its source to Its mouth. Tho East Rlvor, so callod, has nono of thoso essential elements and canuot bo hold to be wlthiu tho exception of tho olalmauts." 2,000 Wmppors. Call fur a lot in Golyj Coin Omr, Ohow Golu Cois Tosacco, tho best mado.

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Addrsss THE COMIC WliliKLY, Qhaaben st, Now York. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1880. This i 1io IjarircKl Circular Hon of any Uviiiiiff lupcr Published In the Uniiu.l status, sis vnlut! um an Advcrtiwisis; MetH iimi In flieri l'oro up parent. Tho Kaclk Almanac for tlio currant your, tho tlrst nnd tho only Brooklyn alnmnuc publinhod, Is now for snlo ana enn bo obtained in tlio Kaolk's counting room, as woll ns at a great many places annouiicoti in our ndvoxtising columns. It is tho completes! publication of Ibo kind issued from any newspaper oflloo iu tho United Slates, while as 10 Brooklyn and Long Island it supplies information lurnisneu nowimi else.

Jn addition to all tljefouo ral features of almanacs, it is lull of information for Brooklyn and Long Island people. It is a book of IKK pages, printed on au excellent quality of paper from now plates and tho prieo is only coats per copy. It will bo sent by mall, postago prepaid, to any part of tlio United States and Canada, upon recept ot :0 cents at tho Kaijlk ofneo. Civil Service If oformcrn Who I Not IIcprcNciit tlie ZVoplc. If popular intercut in the cuuso of Civil Service reform its to be gauged by tlio size of the attendance, on the annual meeting of tho Civil Service "Keform Association, held in fhis city last night, there is not much of it, for tho gentlemen who thought it worth while to put an appearance numbered just sixteen.

IVe believe, however, that this beggarly array does not by any means repro Bent the public mind. There is, in our opinion, a wide, intelligent nnd growing sentiment in favor of declaring a divorce between the subordinate oilice holders and partisan politics, but this is rathor burlescpiod than expressed by tho officious, and, despite their pretensions, not very weighty persons who have Xut themselves forward as the self constituted guardians and promoters of tho reform. The truth appears to be that instead of helping the work along tho chief Bpirits in associations of the kind in question seriously retard it. They misunderstand tho people, they have no living sense of what the word Democracy means, they habitually talk eneeringly of tho laboring masses, and it is their especial delight to liguro as types of what they term the better element in the community. Tho reform to which these gentlemen might, 'ith perfect public approbation, give atten tion is that of their own minds.

To get rid of inobbery, of self conceit, of the insane vanity that leads them to force themselves uninvited md tmwelcomed on the general attention, would bo a great gain. After tho mental purging involved in the elimination of these elements they would be partially fitted for the discharge of useful functions as citizens of Kepublic whose corner stone is tho doctrine of human equality. The plain people are the only authorities on any species of roform designed to take effect in our Government. What they desire will be carried out nud what they oppose will certainly fail. They do not desire any application to our affairs of any system of tests with which they are unfamiliar in the circle of ordinary business or which experience teaches would, if adopted by private establishments, involve Jhcir ruin.

Every attempt to make tho right Jo employment as clerks, laborers or mochau depend upon the possession of any species Of knowledge not unmistakably required for the cfiieient doing of the work contemplated they rightly resist and will not for any great length of time tolerate. But, given a straightforward and business like system of examinations, and they will support tho competitive principle, so far as it is not ineom lialible with the sovereignly of the ballot box, nud they will support it, because it means equality of opportunity, an honest return in labor for money received and stability of employment to men who are at once competent and faithful. Tim doctrine of Civil Service commonly preached and urged upon our authorities is, howeer, very different both in form and intent from this, and is utterly detested by the plain people. They are not blind to the meaning of the everlasting gabble about the evils of illiteracy by nam who have to pay their own hall rent when they wish to hear themselves talk and who are distinguished in their regular pursuits for the remarkable unanimity with which their townsmen refuse to make them custodians of any trust. The lawyer without clients, the physician without patients, the merchant never heard of on 'Change, the literary man who has never earned either a living or a hearing with his pen and tho would be statesman whom constituencies invariably elect to stay at home, these are our apostles of the kind of Civil Service reform which the common pooplo do not want and will not accept.

Tho transactions of tho mooting last night need not bo discussed. Except as they involved a sueer at Mayor Whitney by one whom good taste ought to have restrained, an ignorant assertion about the action of tho Mayor's Civil Service) Commissioners and on attempt to justify tho stuffing of tho eligible list by the late Commissioners during the last week of their term of office, they might as well have taken place in Alaska for all the pertinency they have to affairs in Brooklyn. Mayor Whitney will riot be discomposed by the sneers of any sweet sixteen, the new Commissioners may bo depended on to hold their heads up despite tho disapproval of tho little coterie whose favorites thoy displaced, and it will still romaiu ihe common opinion that reformers who just before retiring from office resort to trickery in order to forestall tho action of their successors, are not ideal gontlomen. The truo cause of Civil Service reform, however, will prosper, and this too in spite of the gentry who invented system designed to shut out the Democracy. Homo If ale ami (lie Irish ami Question.

Tlio reassembling of Parliament yesterday A'as important not for what was done in tho fiouse of Commons, but for the definite promise made by Mr. Gladstono with reference to the Homo Rule question. Tho amendment of the rules of procedure has been referred to a committee, consideration of whose report will naturally tako precedence of other business. It is quite possible that the opposition which was credited with a determination, while in office, to alter them in a manner calculated to deprive tho Parnellites of power to call for an adjournment, will contest the inoro liberal procedure of the Ministerial party. It was not so much on this account, howover, wo supposo, that Mr.

Gladstone deferred the introduction of a bill providing for the contemplated reforms in Ireland, as from a desire to give tho subject tho largest amount of study possible. He has named March 22 as the day when lie will mako a positive declaration of his Irish policy, and this will include not only tho Homo Rule question but two others, namely, those of tho laud and social order. It ought to be said that with regard to the last ho has already made one declaration, namely, that the Cabinet has no intention of goi2ig back to coercion or anything like it. Mr. Parnell has been interviewed by tho Tribune's correspondent relativo to the poBt ponomout of tho discussion and expresses his entire satisfaction.

The Cabinet met only threo days ago, ho intimates, and surely tho Homo Rulers can afford to tvait threo weeks. An organization which has contested for ono Object 60 steadily and patiently as tho Nationalists have dono, and hus at stako so great tin interest would certainly display weakness in attempting to hurry a friendly Ministry in tho development of si scheme for their benefit, especially when tho difficulties lioforo it are concedodly great, and the public mind is by no means illumined. Tho attempt yesterday to draw Mr. Gladstone out by putting questions to him based upon falso assumptions seems to have encouraged a belief that tho rromier had nbandonod his original intention of putting Homo Itulo at tho head of tho list of Irish questions. There is nothing in oithor his voluntary stato mentn or his replies that justifies any such supposition.

Tho fact is that, as ho portinent ly observed, the throo questions of legislative independence in local affairs, ownership of laud and polico are inseparably connected, and scheme which provides for one without taking cognizance of tho others must bo incomplete, and may bo faulty. It is necessary, therefore, in drafting a bill for tho establishment of Irish Homo Rule to mako duo provision for the subordinate questions. Mr. Parnoll is right in saying that Homo Rule takes logical precedence of tho laud question; it certainly does, but ennnot bo put into practical operation until a right relation between the Irish people and tho soil they live on is reached. Attempt to Rob a "Washington County Bank.

The Grconbtish (Wis.) Horror A Fatal Street DuelTlio Shooting of Captain Crawford Apaches Desirous of Becoming Farmers The Fire Record. Sakatooa, N. February 19. Jlui'elars during tlio night mado an unsuccessful attompt to burglarizo tho Flrat National Bank of Oroenn ieli, Washington County, sovonteon miloB distant from Saratoga. Tho watchman, who slept in tho socoud story, was awnkonod, by hearing tlio burglars at work.

Glancing down through an aperture in the floor, a placo whoro a roflocted light shone upon tho safe door, lie delected sovoral mon ongagod In tearing oft tho combination lock, but thoy woro so situntod that ho was unable to fire at them. Ho thou gave the alarm, whon tho men took flight and mado good their escapo, loavlng some of their tools behind. Tho watchman did not recognize any of thorn. Tho Greenwich Bank Is ono of tho largest in Wash ington County. This institution is a reorganized concern.

A few years ago tho cashlor was charged with boing a dofaultor and the loss foil heavily upon tho farmerB of that county. Greenwich ofllcors woro in Saratoga this morning, having tracod tlio burglars as far as this place. THE GUEENBUSU HOLOCAUST. A. Suspicion that the Firo Succeeded a ltobbci y.

ri.VMOUTir, February 19. Tho vordict of tho coronor'3 Jury in tho holocaust at Groonbush i9 not accoptod with any dogroo ot unanimity of opinion, and suspicions of a torriblo crime being hidden bonoath tlio blackonod ruins are by no means allayod. It Is woll known that Ehlo frequently had largo sums of money In tho house, and tlio positions In which tho calclnod bodies wero found havo lod to tho suspicion that the Iiouho was robbod and flrod by unknown mis creants. Tho hlrod man Is no longer rogardod with suspicion, his Btory boing gonorally nccopted as true. No arrosts havo boon mado, but a quiot in vestlgation Is iu progress.

A FUSILLADE ON THE STREETS. Two Men Fatally Wounded A JLovor's Fai I It leamiena. Kvansville, February 19. Nows lias Just reached horo of a shooting affray which occurred Wednesday night at Ilnwesvillo, botwoou Ed. Coonoy and John Koown, In which both woro injured fatally.

Coonoy has for some time boon paying attentions to Koown's slstor, and was ongagod to hor, but lately showed a disposition to brerfk off with hor. Koown demandod that ho mako good his intontious, which Coonoy agrood to, sotliug Tuesday ovoning for tho timo, but failed to appear. Wodnosdny night ho passed Cooney's resi donco and was stoppod by Koown, who domaudod an explanation of his conduct. Coonoy, who was drunk, replied insultingly and then the fusillade bognn, and tlio mou lost no timo in emptying their rovolvors. Coonoy wa3 shot through tho neck, tho ball baroly missing tlio Jugular vein and ranging downwnrd.

Another rakott his abdomen. Keown was struck Just abovo tho left oye, tho ball going through tho brow bono and glancing around to tho sido of his head, and another ball struck him in tho chin. Tho ball iu tho hoad lias not been oxtractod. Coonoy was arreslatl. Tho greatest oxcltomont provails, both parlies having frionds who are bittor in their oxpressiona ns to the affair.

Tho Mayor of Hawosvillo fears trouble botwoon the two factions and has sworn in a special polico forco. THE SJI00TJ.VG OF CAPTAIN CRAWFORD. An Interview Willi itSaurico Ralidon, Vice Consul ot Mexico. Leaven wouth, February 19. Maurice Rahdon, Vico Consul of tho Republic of Mexico, is in the city and was intorriowoU last ovoning about tlio killing of Captain Crawford, of the army: In answer to a question he said: I do not, of courao, know wliothor tho shooting of Captain Crawford was a mistako or not, as I bo liovo no ono can positively stato, but I can say this, that tho Moxican Uovornmbnt deeply doploro such a thing and will tako ovory stop possible to roetify tho matter by punishing tho ofTondors, if thoy bo BUCh." "Is there a prejudice against tho United States in Moxlco?" Thoro Is not.

can say positively that thoro is Just tho opposito fooling. Mexico is very anxious to preserve ponce botwoon tho United Statos and horself. It Is to hor interest to do so, and I can Bay that no ono moro deeply doploros this untimoly accident than tho Govornmont officials of Moxico. SMALL SYMPATHY FOR GEUONIMO. SSin Own Tribe Would Not Mourn Should He be Haiiffcd.

Santa Fe, N. February 19. A band of Chiricahua Apaches havo Just vlaited Santa Fe nnd callod on tho territorial odlclals. To Governor Ross thoy exproesod a dosiro to abandon thoir prosont reservation lifo and own thoir lands in severalty, for the purposo of farming and raising stock, liko whito pooplo. Tho Governor askod thorn if thoy woro willing to givo up tho contributions thoy l'oeoivo from tho Governmont for thoir dun port and told thorn that would bo nocossary If thoy wont to farming.

Thoy replied that thoyi wore and that many of their trlbo felt the Bame way, as thoy saw nothing but ultimate extermination in reservation lifo. (iorouimo Is a mombor of their is half American nnd is rogardod with distrust and avorsion by tho majority of tlio Chiricahuas, on accounts his many orlnios uud tho constant atato of turmoil iu which ho keeps the low bucks ovor whom he has influonco. Should ho bo hangod or shoe, thoro would bo no mourning among tho Apaches. Thoy would bollovo that ho mot his Just deserts. MAXIAC SIIOLTY It HUNK II TO DEATH.

IJloomington, 111., Fobruary 19. David Sholty, tlio maniac who last night fired a barn ami shot two persons, was supposed to have escaped to the timbor, but this morning the charrod bones of tho lunatic wero found In tho smoking ashes with his revolver and a gun barrel bosido him. His brother, Levi Sholty, unhurt, the revolver nail lodging in his clothing. Mrs. I.ovi Sholty reccivod thirteen wounds iu the bacK from a gun charged with mlssllos ranging from birdshot to rifle balls.

She will dio. Her daugiilnrroccivod a bullet in tlio arm from tlio same shot. Tho barn cost fV.000 ami was full of hay and trmin. Insurance, $2,000. HUSKY.

WATTEK803 HU'ltOVKD. Louisville, Fobruary 19. Hon. Henry Wattorson's condition this morning is roportod improve I. Ho had an oic eodiugly quiet and restful night.

This morning his intelligence is at times clear for a fow seconds and thon wandorlug; spirits good, tongue moist. His tomporaturo has fallen, lo 99 and pulse 9G. STERLING'S NAME IN ALBANY. Tho Unjust Attack by Krwin During; the SMsciisslon of Worth's Hill. LSpecial to the Eagle.

Albany, Fobruary 19. During tho discussion on Sonator Worth's Votoran bill yostordny roforonoo was mado to Mr. Goorgo II. Storling, of Brooklyn. Asserablymon Longloy and McCanu immediately camo to tho defonso of that gentleman in a bold and emphatic manner.

The following is a verbatim report of tho discussion ns transcribed from tho notes of the official stonoKi aphor: F.x Speakor Erwfn, of St. Lawrence, In his speoch said I do not wondor that tho distinguished gentleman from Now York (Mr. Hnggorty) is discouraged with tho administration of the Civil Service. Look at the mothods In Washington for a momont In placing a man named Hlggins, from Baltimore, In control of the appointments of tho Governmont. And In tho City of Brooklyn a man by tho namo of Sterling I do not romomber what his business was, but I be liovo it was keeping a gin mill, or a rum shop, I havo boon told was put in a placo in the City of Now York as weigher, In placo of a man named Bacon, from my own county, who had befen in that pinco for fifteen years and was an old soldier.

Such things have truly dlscouragod tho frionds of Civil Sorvico roforni. In roply to this stigma upon Alderman Storling Assomblyman Longloy, of Brooklyn, said: It appears to me that In voting upon this question ns woll as In tho discussion of it thero ought not to havo boon and thero ought not to bo any politics In it. And so I hove seen gentlemen opposod to each other in politics uniting thoir votes on tho Bame aids of tho question in reference to tho amendmont to this bill. Now, Bir, In tho courso of tho the distinguished gontloman from St. Lawrence, Mr.

Erwin, took occasion to comment upon a case which is local in its character and happens to bo located In tho city of my rosldonce. Sir, I appronond thoro was very Iittlo of tho soldierly element or of tho civilian olemont that enterod into tho queatlon of tho romovnl of Mr. Bacon and tho appolntmont of Mr. Storling. I apprehend, sir, that the question was not propoundod by anybody, wliatwas tho occupation or previous profession of either of thoso two gentlemen.

Mr. Bacon undoubtedly was a good, pure and honest man whon ho loft his native home In St. Lawronce County. Mr. Erwin would not havo allowed him to go down to tho City of New York had ho bhon otherwise, bocauso Bt Lawrence allows no other kind of mon to mlgrato from Its pure torri tory.

But Mr. Bacon was found to bo incompetent. Mr. Sterling's occupation was not that of koeping a gin mill or running Baloon. Ho was a member of tho Common Council of tho City of Brooklyn and ono ot Its most honorod and esteemed cltizons.

I simply want to say this oluglo word for Mr. Storling who ennnpt horo spoak for. himself. Timo will vlndlcnto him. It does vindicate all things.

I havo conscientious feeling in rogard to this bill na It now stands, but doairing to do Bomo thiug and oil I can In favor of tho soldiers and sailors of tho lato war I voto ayo. Mr. McCanu also roforred to. Mr. Sterling, and took occasion to criticize statements mado by Mr.

Ifotchkfss which woro published In tlio Bagle dispatch yesterday. He said I dosiro to re ocho very heartily tlio words Mr. Longloy has utterod in reference to Mr. Storling. I dosiro, howovor, to any that 1 know IHr.

Storling, as tho gentleman from Erlo (Mr. Shoehan) says ho does not, and I thank Mr. Shoohnn for his words in dofenso of Mr. Storling. I know him to bo tlio peer of tho gentleman from St.

Lawrence (Mr. Erwin.) Ho is not a lawyer, ns that gontlomen iB, but ho is a gentleman. Ho is a woll educated man, a man excellently flltoil for the position to which ho was appointed. I can say nothing more for him, but I can simplv say that I thought that tho politics of tlio goiitloman from St. Lawrence wero entirely too athletic to permit him on this floor to bo re echoing tho ridiculous yawps of tho Mugwumps or tho country and thoir organs.

The gentleman from Kings (Mr. Hotchklss) mado ono of iho most singular stalemonts 1 havo ovor heard fall from tho Hjm of any man on this floor. Ho told us that all tho spoilsmen of both parties were against Civil Service reform, but the honest ppnpJo of both pirtio'; were for it. I don't protend to po. ie.e.

is the gilt edged iijoas of politics that ho ovi' lently possesses, but I am not second to him one iota in honesty, and I am aguiust Civil reform as it now stands. Uo declares that his conscience will not pormlt him to voio on tins question. Will not his conscience pormlt him to be honest) If all the honustv of both parties is In favor of Civil Sorvieo roforni why don't lie stand up for what he calls the boat elements of tho two parties and vote against this bill 7 But ho asks to be excused from voting. 1 protost as man and a Democrat ncalnst theBO ridiculous gilt edged Ideas which soom to bo taking possosslou of tho country and of tho Slate, and I that overy man would represent Ills conscience and represent.