The Brooklyn Sunday Sun from Brooklyn, New York • 4

I '111 Hr lUWOKLYtfjHUMhVV A IJl Si that It aooirltitug l.Ws that. If tl was l.i tbit, aiur're lb acui aaasuf Cotter, out Ira tbi hi Stylo. will open to many ettiaeu e( llrooklyp Ira the Wr Here that the evil lawyer if Mr. partly reprefc-u la Indeed wore th lb. dowiae, 4 thi While this large Re Wf4 Wlpd It, Wa until 11 ycr IbslM'i Fyrrot rnmpripiiR hr ilowet Ribt Ifl hi turuu-r binbid'a eatitA I fulfill ation, uf the fact we bl iiren coluiui-ming Upon, ba fff irdoi ou of the contributors tu the column qf tbp Pl-niat Bps a very favorable opportunity of reviewing several Interesting particulars of tb great divorce eaae of Furred rerrua Furrcat the Beaiber-THlon of It day The article to which jv ref will be found on the inaido page of ths Bun, and will repay perusal, especially because of tb fact that It contains dovehl Interesting particulars to the later life yt the principal actors in this domestic tragedy, which bay sot heretofore heiD published, ta Indeed 1 lbs Apparition's method arranging matter ba V-ry much tb complexion td compounding a felony.

But habit I second nsture, snd Gotur fium the time when he wa fit1 called to tb br been uasd to compounding things for bis customers tu tab. The trial not jot ended, and ft yet lure out that Cotter baa brea vlrtuoit and lucomiplibl hobgoblin. Koch may have acted oohla cabalistic word to vie ilm, and pockoted the money, for he humorously put this possibility before so anxious enquirer. Colter must not be held reapon.lble for bis aid. Every one will rejoice when th Dlcaalery proclaim that Oliver Cotters character Is as free from adulteration as the fluid which ha for a n.a-Thsriog b-H obliged to adraUcrS fowl bef friend at-d fr-im public ijiirilci clllzclil The chivalry will lirvrf rcnncd Ijr tli 1 all thi ho tk.

ta a l'lek- li- kUa no, and I ha liulrcd 11 t)it Theodora, the iwr, her? It luty he provrd so, tij that her lecture next Thur.ly ruy iraiore her is vlrUil purity lo the wtuitiloo of lha public. Though she now stoopi to Ijt we tnul nut Imagine Ural lobule final ambition! Tbt I Ugh our Academy of Mario, higher than th housetop on which she- i feet" worahlped In siy" For, sty. that rapturous lufl atlonlal, "ib 1 one of those siplrlnj devotees boA trend the earth" (and, wa suppose, the- boards) merely as a stepping stone to heaven." Her ascent may poetlbly taka place from th op of the Academy after the loc-turj leave her spirit free lo rise. There, Aeply, her once loved but now slighted Theodore may rejoin bor when be too quits ths lecture field, and "Orion asleep" mty ba awakened by the once more entwining pair whose course of Platonic affinity did did not here run smooth. thing thl rntue la lliia toualry at this lime society liaclf.

The particular fraud for a horn the ruder ahould hk out 1 himself. Dr Barer nutlM Lie Mlldere-J purler lut vrak Ubt the Arju wee ahouf to change owner, end to be tranaferred 10 the leader of Ue Slocum pemor racy. If this new he true, the MeguUr" alii be arenged after The poeocesloa of ae organ" a costly luxury, end congratulate Dr. Barac If he has Indeed lutcoedcd la getting rid of It, Ufora being compelled to part a Ith everything c-loe. Her.

Prof. Dwight after Ber. Dr, fitorra. Itee. Dr.

Bacon It efusr Iter, Dr. Dei ter. Kef. Prof. Bmyth la after Ref.

Prof. Dwight, Iter. Dr. Blorre le after Iter, Dr. Porter.

All these genUcmace are belaboring one soother on scandal mat-ter. It used lo be thought that Mr. Ttltoe and Mr, Beecherbad some slight relation to the scandal, bat the one Is preaching and the other Is lecturing, nd their friends are now doing all the fighting, marly Inserted Into tb public stomsch. OCaB.r HI rrrere Diver Salk Just on week hs elapsed sine the publication of the statement that Charles O'Connor, while having enjoyed for quar ter of century the chivalrous reputation of being the unpaid legal defender of ladys right aid honor, bad actually retained a hi fee In the case very nearly all the money which the Court had allowed the lady for her decent support during all these years. Mr.

O'Canor hu bad ample time and opportunity tor publishing a denial, or an explanation, and neither bn been forthcoming. Henc the public is reluctantly driven to lha conclusion that the greatest living American advocate hu travelled for twenty-five year on a reputation for chivalry which wu la all respects fictitious the chsrac ter for courage which Bob 'Abt wu so desirous of establishing. No criticism would have been warranted in this Instaac if Mr, O'Conor had taken up the case for Mra. Forrest, as lawyers of more moderate pretence frequently do take up such cases, on "shares," trusting to be repaid through the success they may obtain In securing a slice of the fortune of one of the victims to these domestic embroilments. Mr.

Samuel Weller disclosed to the Court that Mrs. Bardells attorneys bad taken her case upon spec, and while ft would be pitiful to know that the greatest and on of the wealthiest lawyers in America, had followed the example of Messrs. Fog ft Is still more humiliating to feel that even the thrifty attorneys In the Fickwlck case rather gain by contrast with the action of the great American lawyer in the Forrest Divorce Case. is due to Dodson fc Fogg to say that, outside the court room, they sought no repute for chivalry at alb How much of Mr. Fickwicka seven thou sand pounds went to the opposing lawyers is not stated, but it 1 not disputed that of ths sixty-four thousand dollars paid to Mra.

Forrest In 1808, after a litigation of eighteen years, during which the lady was dependent, in part, on other for her living, Mr. OConor retained forty thousand dollars for himself and nineteen thousand dollars for his assistants. In other words, Mrs. Forrest after a struggle of nearly twenty years, received the pittance of five thousand dollars, while the lawyers in the case gobbled up fifty-nine thousand dollars of the amount awarded her by the court. Dodson Fogg never struck a big bonanza like this and they obtained no reputation for chivalry either.

The public and the private representation of the case are alike damaging to the now exploded pretension of the great lawyer and political reformer. Mrs. Forrest tells her story In a very lady-like Way, and without any desire to figure in public beyond verifying the truth of a statement already widely circulated. She says that when Mr. OConor agreed to take up her case, she made known to.

him the fact that she was without means. When, years after, it was intimated by the newspapers that through Mr. Forrests obstinacy in prolonging the litigation, the greater part of his estate would be divided among the lawyers, Mrs. Forrests legal advisers renewed their as surance to her that they would not charge anything. Mr.

OConor abtalned a great reputation by his success in the case, and it was vastly enhanced by the belief that he was inspired solely by the chivalrous feeling which might be supposed to Influence an advocate of great wealth, who was willing for once to use his conceded skill In defence of a womans honor. We can well believe Mrs. Forrest when she says that she was utterly amazed when out of an accumulated alimony of eighteen years, amounting thousand dollars, she was handpa Just five thousand dollars. This left her an average support of less than three hundred dollars per annum, while the Court had awarded her four thousand. Nor is this tho worst aspect of the case.

Because Mr. OConor was supposed to be acting without the hope of pecuniary re- Ik should It sol I worth, ay forty thouisud, when la brought as Wear thi C'tijr LiiU FourtMelk rat now It i Ms Whetlrll optutoa that ths completion id thi Km River Bridge of which, by the way, be was formerly a director will add from ten to thirty five pet cent to tLe valus of Brooklyn red esta'e. (uw Itofvr UU JahSA Blnoa tb end of th Great Bemdil suit la A D. 1H7S, no case In which moral Issue as well as great name are Involved hu trot inch a thrill through the religious world of Brooklyn as that now procsR before 111 a Aldermanic pedal Committee of Biothsr Oliver Colter, thn whisky brand snitched from ths burning sod eicirnil rectifier md mixer Of Ingenious but ungodly drinks. were not prewnt, owing to other engageramu tn pre-existent chaos, at ths trial of Roc rates, who, Ilka Cotter, was entirely self taught before ths Albanian diciatery, but that tribunal can scarcely bar been more august than BpAlil Committal of our Brooklyn Aldermen, whore fin dlncrlmlnAtlo in ethics may vis with that seen of ths Temperencs Brotherhood Itself.

Compsr log the two defendants, ws do not hesitate to prefer our Oliver to Socrates, although they bad many points la common. Both were perlpaletlo and cross examining mis slonarlco, and it was ths hard lot of both to at length croas-axamined themselves. The system of both was sort of house to hOure visitation, do man In Atheno, bow ever averse to th process, escaping the searching questions of Boc rates, just ai none of our beer-vending citizen can escape the rear arc he of Cotter. Both Socrates and Cotter were fond of taking men off their guard and Impaling them on the horn of a dilemmA Socrates, Indeed, was content with a dialectic victory, and nothing more reriou happened to the Individuals he examined thae a conscious ncs that the philosophic "old cure" had been too many for them, and that their answer had written down each of them an ass. The dilemma to which Cotter has reduced the subject ot his Sunday research has been less fortunate, it is said, being the fair Rosamond sort of choice between two kinds of martyrdom, either to become converts to Cotter or to be deprived of their livelihood.

There ha been great depression of spirits" in consequence in those place Where the still un-Cotterlzed do love to congregate, snd the name of Cotter has not been a sweot smelling savor," nor his countenance a thing of beauty and a joy" to those Teutonic and Celtic spirits whom he has selected as yessels of wrath and destruction. The narrowness of the Corinthian columns of' the Bundat Bun restrains our pen frbm tracing the many other points of resemblance between the great moralist of Athena and him of Brooklyn. There Is one characteristic, however, which differentiate the two. Socrates never took a drink unless he was thirsty, and taught hit disciples that It was against nature and that law of temperance In all thinga which was the chief corner stone of his teaching, to do so, Cotter differs from him lathis. Ho will take a scoro of drinks every Sunday morn lng In the year if he can only gain one proselyte or secure one conviction by so doing.

He does not cast his bread upon the water," hut he take away other people's bread by tasting their gln-and-watew. Boc rates was not popular in Athens, and Cotter Is not as popular In Brooklyn as he should be. Socrates told his judges that Instead of putting him to death they ought to give him a pension and build him statue. Cotter already enjoys a pension, and posterity, there is no doubt, will build him a statue. Everybody has read of the Cock Lane Ghost," of which even the great lexicog rapher was scared of nights, after dark.

Brooklyn has in Cotter a more efficient scarecrow, who may justly be styled our "Cocktail Apparition," not, perhaps, lovely apparition such as filled the minds eye of the poet, but a genuine "bogey" to the illicit votaries of Gambrlnus, The devil on two sticks would not present an aspect more terrible to the barkeeper before whose guilty vision Cotter, like Banquos ghost, appears, just when he is putting a stick in it." He is the Cerberus who guards our Sticks, although if he cut his sticks Brooklyn would possibly survive it. Cotter, though strong and courageous, is found that, like the patriarch, he needed assistance to support him and hold up his hands lu his pious vocation. The "Cocktail Apparition has been supported on either side by tho virtuous and the conscientious Jacobs. These aids were the mediums of communication with Cotter and conducted the almsgiving and sacrifices by which the righteous soul of the saloon haunting ghost might be appeased. A peace-offering of ten dollars made the beery locks of Cotter less terrific, and a freo-will offering of fifteen so relaxed the bottle-smelling Nemesis that It would even Indulge iu a "smile.

Koch and Jacobs carried on the mediatorial work; they were the "daysmen who laid their hands upon tho ghostly Cotter, on the one side, and the mixers of strange beverages on the other. This is what the wicked say; but, of course, we dont believe it. is sometimes unadvisahle for a Cocktail Apparition to be visible, but there Is no objection to a ghost writing letters, especially if that ghost has a literary turn of mind. Cotter is well known as an author by those from whom he selected his Ideas and letter writing came as easy td Oliver as the mixing of liquors used to be iu the 'days of his carnal mindedness. Cotter has a good epistolary style.

One sample gives assurance of the rest. "Sign this pledge and we will take the charge back. Some of your friends may say, better not do it, because the evil is worse than the disease. Oliveb Cotter." Or words to that effect, for the letter was not produced before the Aldermanic dicastery, aud the witness only testified kM HmUUai Urp (Ww.bl.ad nrtlt Puf r.M.r. 'h to-.

to theraWre Tu twiin 1w n-rtluhd rrorv tb-da, tlM FT- Senna ailo lha Prookly rf '-r 4 fuody Miiuifc MflM fasten. o( tba leenl ft via furnish the litvil Ivleflvpki vwmvI hvi (tea pull of ill world, Ii Ho uf enlarprta la the fruhn-il tot wMp of tu eootouu, ttehnllsngu loapul' with Ho Ho Tort oonlomporartoo. sad Uo toleaal aompstlior. TU Bcwnav lo publlabad oa IU day la IU toU IU paopla Un uu al Uliun 10 not. II a tWisrad a waleoma gvool la iff oviU la a city Ulf a mUlwa of lahabi-.

As advertising acsdlua It wtll umpare Ihu favorably wlUi IU awj widely alraa I of IU Brooklyn dally pa Pf Itonl dlooooal lo lull ud Moody advertiser oa oouiaoloolioao about addressed. "BROgELTN Bl'NDAT BUN," POM, 101 Washington BA. ear. JohaaM, Boor Uo Pool OIBoo. SUNDAY nOBBIBO, APRIL I The latest political rumor 1 that gammy TDden and John Kelly her ap.

Big Indian! Ugh! 'facie made BeopecUnlly auggoated to Albcif Roggott Wko would loop watoh, Ibis stoat do: Pocket bio welsh, ud votoh hlo pocket too. The O'Rourke demonstration In the Jtygs against Tilden was a failure. Uncle Baanol has keener defenders in Brooklyn fkti anywhere else. A despatch from London yesterday tells to a rumor is spreading that the Pope Is npidly falling. It seems to us we haf read something like this before.

Will Mrs. Bradshaw tell what she knowsf What is there to prevent her, while the Mew York Sun In its present temper on the Beecher question? Congressman Archy Bliss appears to he as popular among his associates at Washington as he is at home. In a quiet way, Archy. has made himself very influential. The Republicans In the Legislature have made the Ogden charter bill a party quea.

tin. The fire Republican Assemblymen who oppose it make it a personal ques-tin. We think the caucus will order them In vain. Xx-Btreet Commissioner Furey is to be investigated, but as even Dr. Barnes paper Bays it is only a clerical error of $13,000, which can easily be arithmetlzed right, reform would seem to be barking up the wrong tree.

Archy Bliss pension bill, being a new way of increasing the national has not made rapid progress. It is only likely to increase the debt by the amount of the piece of the type and paper it took to print Congressman Bchumaker has not been investigated, and he dont ask to be. Ben Butler laid down the statesmanlike axiom, that he had no respect for a man whoVas running around soliciting somebody to investigate him. Will you folks renominate Chittenden?" said a Republican to a prominent Democrat the other day. Why do you ask?" was queried in return.

Because if you dont, we will. There seems to be significance enough in the remark to justify the Sun In malting a note of it. The Eagle refers to Isaac Badeau, broken down in health and ruined in fortune, ns an awful warning. One half of this is untrue, for Badeau is in apparently as good health as ever he was in his life. The balance of the statement is believed by a good many people to be quite as unreliable, 8.

B. Dutcher gets into the traces of a member of the Board of Education as if he were trained for it. The happiest speech made ht the entertainment at Public School Mo. 10, nignalizlng the withdrawal of Garry Bergen from the Board, must be credited to Mr. Dutcher.

Charles O'Conor is another of the victims in the tragedy of the Forrest divorce. His connection with the case, and the disclosure that be made forty thousand dollars out of ft, besides the chivalry," are very fully narrated iu an article elsewbore published in to-days issue. The party whip is to be applied to get Mr. Ogdens charter through the Assembly. Mr.

Ogden has given notice that he will move for a call of the House on Wednesday next. Amending a city charter in a political caucus at Albany, would seem to he an odd way of doing business, if we had not got used to it. Robert Furey, as ex-Street Commissioner, is the latest subject for Aldermanic investigation. Bob intoi views to the effect (hat tf there be any one thing in this world which he prefers rather than another, it is an investigation Into his official conduct. And so both sides being willing, there is nothing now to prevent the business from going ahead.

One almost wishes there was no' such thing as a government When one reads the papers which spread their records of corruption from Washington. It is nn-aivory enough in all conscience to find any corruption in government quarters, but to isd it universal is nauseating. We have jH seen no evidence that the investigators are anybettter than the investigated, or that the people are better than either. The Victoria IIr TSrr. Borne friendships, as well a cnmltlel, sre too hot to 1U They hum out quick, and th comparisons they leav sre odorous.

IsUcaiI of chests lilies and whits roses there is an aspect of csbbsgq-hesds, snd Instead of a sweet emell there Is a stink." Who would have thought, a few yearn since, when Theodore Tilton sat with hi arm Plstonlcslly twined around Victoria Wood bulb and whispered to her that when ib wu climbing to the roof to be nearer to the midnight stars, she looked chastely beautiful as Bt. Simeon Btylitea op Lis pillar, and she, Upping his hollow cr nlum with her sentimental fives, assured her marvellous boy that he looked not lee than archangel ruined and the excess of beauty obscurgl," through not having his hair cut who, we say, would bavt taken up bl parable and said that theie young loves would ever be divided Arctu rue and the Pleiades that winked upon their fondness would have acouted the ides, and Orion would have bet his belt that thi could never come to pass. Yet there 1 nothing sadder In the history of "loves young dream" than the storm riven and severed affinity of Theodore snd Victoria. Nothing but leaves" is left of it, and these far different leaves from those which composed the rhapsodic masterpiece Tilton's Life of Woodhull." Then she was his Victoria, so named in infancy on the principle of non-resemblance, the peer and spiritual, though superior, counterpart of England's Queen. On the grand empire of the latter the nun never aets; on the sublime subject of the former, namely, the mentally auriferous Tilton he, her brain-food devouring captive, never dreamed that she would go back." He never thought his Vic could turn a vixen, while she called him "Dory, her hunky Dory." She called him also her Infant Moses for his law giving, her infant Samuel for bis piety, her infant Samson for the little hands that were to pull down Plymouth Church, nay, the young Christ for his melancholy beauty.

Under a reciprocity treaty of mutual cawing, to which the stars were witnesses, when they sat together on the roof worshipers in the sky," and which some casual cat in airy climb might have overheard, he was to be her Zerubbabel and rebuild the temple of Womans Right and she was to be his love upon the housetop, his dove in the secret places of the stairs whose life he was to write in second Solomons Song when his head was filled with dew," even the Dew of Ben Nevi which stimulates the brain. Which he did; and the sceptic for whom the Gospel miracles were incredible calmly vouched that his adored one had straight-tened the feet of the lame; opened the ears of the deaf; brought to light hidden crimes; solved physiological problems; unvallcd business secrets; prophesied future events. "Alars, alarsl Is she now vindicating her miraculous powers in a way unforeseen by her biographer, while she was his tree of life and he her ivy green? Is her clear truthfulness going to straighten Tiltons feet and lay him pretty flat? Is she opening the ears of this, the ass on which she rode so long as he was hers, or is she pulling them and, female Balaam that she is, belaboring his back? Are the voces amblguas which she scattered over a re porter of the Eagle, respecting her former T. the prelude to a bringing to light of hit hidden crimes? Has her familiar spirit, Demosthenes, in his Greek tunic, bidden her let the cat out of the bag, and that cat her. favorite Thomas? Perhaps the Athenian orator is jealous of Tiltons superior Philipies.

Or, perhaps, Theodore is also doomed to suicide by poison from a quijl that quill the pen and that poison the fury of the woman scorned of WoodhuU. Is her panegyrist, who gave her life to the reviewers, the physiological problem this stony and damaged Sphinx is going to solve? Is it his business secrets she is beginning to unvail? If so, it ought to damn Storrs we this little commune has stood a deal of damning. Yet Tilton draws crowded houses snd Woodhull has just hired a new office in Park Row at a rental of $7,000 a year. People seem to like a spice ot the devil, even 'such- very good people as the church-goers of New York and Brooklyn. Evidently Mrs.

Woodhulls blood is up we do not allude to Dr- Blood, her bus band, whom she prudently keeps down. If she has been wronged, ss she asserts, no one will blame her for setting herself right. We have her discarded biographers word for it that she was the true wife, who called on God and the spirits to wean Woodhull from his mistresses, when his infidelities "stung her to the quick, and the shock awoke all her womanhood. Yet we remember tjiat her Weekly once branded chastity as a crime against nature," and gome further doctrines which we may not The Captar Bank Taller, The regret produced by the Intelligence tbat Rogers, lha Fallon Bank Teller, has been ciDturad In Tennessee will ba somewhat tempered by the reflection that he must be as much fool a kniva Had he shown himself a clever lellow," the niggardly policy of the bank would have made peoplo wish him a happy exile, but there can be no sympathy for a fugitive, laden with $33,000 In greenbacks, who rushes South when be might safely have crossed the Canadian borders. Moreover, bad he made good hla escape, the whole fraternity of mod eat and ever tempted clerks would have been under obligation to him, but In permitting himself to be nr-roeted, he hu done them an unpardonable Injury.

We shall not be astonished to hear that the weekly stipend of all the teller In the city 1' to be reduced to enable the banker- out of friendly feeling to make good what the Fulton Bank hu been compelled to spend in this chase. It is with bnk tellers, as with other absconder the crime Is not In the deed, but in being caught. A little knavery can be pardoned, but atupldlty such as Roger hu shown la absolutely without excuse. No man has any right to abscond who bu not sense enough to run in the right direction. We -shall not be sorry to see Rogers condemned to act the teller of the Fulton Bank for the remainder of his natural life at the atrocious salary from which ha fled.

PERSONAL. Briggs. Police Commissioner Briggs has nearly recovered from hla recent sever lUneaa. Butts. A very quiet, faithful and zealous public offloer, of whom othara might take pattern, I Detective Butts.

Morris. Judge Morris hu grown fat, elderly and dlgnlUed whloh are all three quite reoent developments of obaraoter. Barwick. Mr. J.

W. Barwlck, a well- knowa Brooklynite, Is uat recovering from a dangerous Illness. Spear. It must annoy Dr. Spear to find that Dr, Van Dyke's votoe oan flit the church which Dr.

Speare'a voice was so successful In emptying. Haddon. Miss Ida Haddon, a very talented young lady, of Brooklyn, will recite a Centennial ode on Easter Tuesday evening at the Academy of Muslo. ODonneld. Of the tribe of ODonnell Aboo," writes a man might strike with a aledge hammer, but the deuoe of it the printers can make nothing of it.

Bowen. The Patriarch Is slxty-flve. He looks just at present as If he bed spent about ten years of that period where the woodbine twlueth. McGill. Jim McGill hu been assured that the subscriptions to the Slocum Committee were bogus, exoept hla own.

Whereat he waxeth wroth, and is troubled in spirit. 8locum. Itffs hardly credible of General Slocum, this report, that when the reservoir's bursting was hinted to him, he growled, dam It. Littlefield. Mr.

J. H. Littlefield, the artist, of this oity, delivered his lecture Personal Reoolleotione of Abraham Lincoln in Philadelphia yesterday evening. Cromwell. Profeuor Cromwells art entertainments have proven a very popular souroe of enjoyment for many of our best oltisens, and orowded houses have greeted hla appearance each evening.

Muldoon will deliver a lecture at the Aoademy of Music, on Easter Tuesday. Subjeol Bohemian. Illustrations Kenward Pbllp and other distinguished members of the order. Davis. Rev.

Wesley R. Davis will offlotate in the Simpson M. E. Church for the last time to-day. He will doubtless have two royal sermons.

He goes to St. James, In Harlem, and he la a great loss to Brooklyn. Livingston. Mr. Carroll A.

Livingston, of this olty, started for Iowa on Tuesday evening last, where he will embark In the bneinesa of stock raising. In hie new enterprise, Mr. Livingstone bu the best wishes of his many friends. Thd5Leh- Mr. Theodore Thieler, the energetio editor and proprietor of the Brooklyn Magatin and Liberal, spares nothing to make his journal spicy and Interesting for Its reader, and that hie efforts are meeting with success Is shown In Its inoreased circulation.

Hudson. Mr. William C. Hudson, of the Union, a very modest and exemplary young joarnallst, hu sprung Into sodden fame by becoming the victim of oertain larcenies perpetrated by Felix Murphy In the Legislative Post OOlae at Albany. Hooker.

Fighting "Joe Hooker, who made Stewart Hotel in Garden City hla home for two years, la now at the Hot In Arkansas. Hs hu it far recovered the use of the side that wu paralysed thathe can ride on horseback with eue. Kinsella. Mr. Thomas Kinsella was presented with a little bill of tats the other day fines for falling to answer when hla name wu called to serve a Grand Juror.

He failed get the notice, or put It In the wute basket and that wu the oauee ot It. Irving. The admirers of Washington Irving intend to petltira the Park Commissioners either tQ. remove Ihe Irvlog boat, presented by Mr. Demu Barnes (when ba wu a candidate ior Mayor), or to replace ths obeap pedestal on which ruts by something more worthy of the Park and.

the genial historian of lha Knickerbocker. The expert, Mr. Seamen, who hu been employed for several months put In examining the uoounta of the Water Department, certifies that Its book are better kept than those The Washington scandsli fill wearily, by their repetition, on tbe public ear. If should be annouucedi to-morrow that the Treasury safe and contCMtj were mlsaiog, It would be accepted by the perplexed and jaJed public with "It no more than ought to be expected." Whilw the Republican organs would itoutly ask if a little thing like this should eipoeo the country to the dangers of the tcactionary policy of the Democratic pirty." A reaction of some ori will be neceeaary. or there will be nothing left to ateal In ashlngton.

Brother Henry C. Bowen not able to tell whether he Is or la not guilty of the charge of elanderlng r. Beecher until he is put in possession of the evidence of Mr. Bradshaw and other. Thli wee understood to be about the p-wltion of the Irishman In a eomewhsl famous cise.

Let us not be understood ae desiring to Insult a large class of our citizens by Intimating that there la anything Irish about Bowen. Bowen is not a type of Any rice. Nature broke the die in forming Bowen and everybody Is glad 6f it. A movement li on foot to provide a pension for public school teachen who ahaQ have served A the profession females, twenty-five years; males, thirty. It hae the approval of some of the most influential friends of our Fublic School system in this State.

The amount required to carry out the proposed change will be comparatively small, while, it Is argued, it will be well spent In encouraging the Adoption of teaching as a profession, and not, as It ia at present too frequently, a temporary calling. The Board of Education proposes to call a public meeting to discuss thi questlo of introducing the study of German as a branch of public school education. Mfayor Schroeder committed himself to this policy In hip Message, and at the proposed meeting ho will be called upon to give his reasons for asking hit tallow citizens to pay for perpetuating the use of a language not native to this country. The spectacle of a Mayor of the "Third City in the Union on this side of the question wifi be a very Interesting one. Does the Board of Education propose to close the Mayors political life through their proposed meeting? Uncle Colt is disgusted by the efforts of Mr.

Harvey B. Farrington to palm himself off at Albany as "the original anti-steam man. Mr. Coit sets himself right in a communication to the Sun, in which he says I was," says Coit, engaged in the warfare against the use of steam as a motive power when Fulton was preparing for his trip up the Hudson, and had my efforts succeeded, the romantic hills and vales of our coblest river would have never echoed back the scream of the steam whistle, while Kip Van Winkle might have slept in Imperturbable repose. Coit is not merely eloquent, like Farring ton, but he is original, and this is the higher claim.

The concession that has been made to blatherskites and demagogues in testing an unfinished reservoir, beyond the point to which it is completed, is a disgrace to the officials concerned. It wiU be marvelous it does not result in a great loss to the city, and in the practical vindication of the noisy little gang who are so sorely disappointed by the success of the test they clamored for so eagerly. Either the officials ought to muster up courage to do their duty, by sustaining their professional employes, or they ought to give way to those who will. The present unfinished condition of the reservoir is not a disgrace to Brooklyn only because the men who speak for Brooklyn do not represent her at all. If, in trying to satisfy such eminent engineers as Dr.

Barnes, Mr. Farrington and Mr' Billy Beard, the unfinished dam of the reservoir should be in suit should liqfgr damages against the official poltroons who mistake the puff of a dunce for the echo of fame. Mr. Hassan H. Wheeler, Who ia rapidly rising into prominence as one of the leading real estate agents in our city, gives it as his opinion that Brooklyn offers the best investment In real estate of any city in the Union.

Sitting In his cosey chair in his office, corner of Fulton street and Myrtle avenue, one day last week, Mr. Wheeler said to a representative of tne Sun: You live on Clinton street, and your house has cost you $33,000. It is three quarters of an hour from the New York City Hall, and communication is not, at all. times, certain. It is easier to reach your house now than it Is, say Thirty fifth street, New York, from the City Hall of that city.

Now the com- pletion of the East River ridge will bring your house as near toWaU street as a house on Fourteenth street, N. Y-, now Is. Your bouse on Fourteenth street would, even now, be worth fifty thousand dollars. Why ward In this case, a number of the repre-sentatjve women of New York presented I been already damned that had to do with him with a very costly silver vase. He the Tiltoman scandal.

Strangely enough mean Tilton; at least, If everybody had not accepted the present, and confirmed In his speech the chivalrous notion that was entertained of him. Again, his brethren of the New York bar saw in Mr. OConors action in this case wbat they supposed to be an opportunity of signalizing tho exhibition of the highest duty of an advocate, to succor the weak, and to aid, as an officer of the law, In the establishment of the right without regard to pecuniary profit. They oined in presenting him with a very elegant memorial of his successful labors gratuitously rendered, and Mr. OConor still kept up the pleasant fiction and figured a veritable legal knight of the round table in his chivalrous regard for woman.

It is true that at thi time Mr. OConor had not obtained any of Forrests money, but neither had his client. "When the money came, the lawyers took the Uoua share, and at a time too when Mra. Forrest.