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Mr. Judd'ajury bill has not yetbeoome a law, but its sensible urovidionB wore auite rios MEJSDKESS WOTSCES. of wholesale reform. Mr. Millor is to bo credited with having faced, and, indeed, demanded examination; but, if the result of it all is only "not proven," and that by his party friends alone, that result is not in keeping with the high ground whioh should be occupied by a flduoiary officer.

The Promise and Performance oi Pub THE COMMON Ifforo Kftllroad Acconmoflnlon Wanted I. toy Enai Jf tlto tampITgTitorM TTtno Union Street Assessments Confirmed Tho Dummies OS tho Bath and Coney Inland Bail, road Co. Tho Stockholders oi tho Bast Bivor Bridge Co. Additional Hospital tlo arenucr, in tho Sovonth Ward, and the appointment of a pound master, to bo paid from tho oos oolleoted for impounded cattle. Wylie objeotod to tho inomber from tho Twentieth, providing pound for his ward, and Alderman Boggs thereforo withdraw hio resolution.

THE POLICE FORCE. Aid. Wylio offered tho following Keaolved, That the Police Commissioners be and thoy ore hereby requested to furnish this Common Cjuucil ot its next meeting with a roport as to tho number of atrolmen on the police force, wlt'i then amber detailed for special duty, tho average number sick orah cent per day, and the actual number on dnty at any one time. Adopted, A CHANCE FOB THE BOX'S. Aid.

Richardson offered a resolution authorizing but Honor, the Mayor, to offer a reward of fifty cents for each goat and hog found running at large and delivered at any one of the publio pounds. Aid. Boland thought it would encourage boys to rob and steal, and in a few days there might be murder comrtiitted in consequence of tho eagornssB of tho boy to capture a hog or a goat and thus earn the reward. Aid. Biohardson was not afraid of any raoh result, but know that if any of the shade trees in the city were to be preserved, some means must bo adopted by which tho goats should be prevented from running at large.

The resolution was loBt. i THE SINniNO FUND. Aid. Hichardson offered the following Roiolved, That tho Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be, and they are hereby directed, to report to this Board the amount of fnnds they have now on deposit berooging to the sinkine fund, and where Henitml. i fiereafler, tho Bum of ritnrnod thera.

cf to the Company, The not that tho Company thus received a my bauds $50,000, which Its MKobm' had ut tout Boon lit to pay me, ought to redoun to my credit put hero again un insinuation winch renders an explanation rit least ftpprouriato. As appear, I was to receive Mid Qh receivo flro per cent, on all expenditures up to the tune when ie toweis should reach hih water mark. A diiou3 Moll, howover, arose with the Kxecutive Committee ami rnysell, as to whether this should be applied to purchases of land.whlcn'pe Company had made. Un a strict construction of my agreeineut, I believed myself entitled to a percentage on this expenditure as upon and this view prevailed with the nuanoia oitt cera of the Company. After the subject had beau uis cuBsed at several meetings of the Executive Oommittae, it appeared to some as too exaoting, and it was concluded not to be allowed, and thereupon it was returned.

The President and the TOaattrOr bOmbihoa, in this Instance, ob in all, were the only power whioh could draw a dollar from tho moneys of tho Company. of course, nave not tho Slightest access to its treasury, and havlni beon.thus paid this amount, its roturn by mo oould be nudo tbe basis of an installation against; my integrity only by men who wero seeking ondB other than those of Justice. i I come now to the matter which the sub Committee regard bb of moat serious import in tho building of the bridge, tho reception by me at the hands of the Company of the Bum of ono hundrod and twenty live thousand dollars in lien of the BBrvioes I have performed and the capital I have employed. Mark you at the outset, that this sum has been paid to mo by the distin guiahed men controlling the building of the bridge, openly and above board, and the faot of the agreement under which it was paia, ond tho payment itself, hare at largo upon the books, While I regard this payment as by no means extraordinary, vet eo wholly am I devoted to the enterprise cf the bridge, I must be permitted to speak with auoh directness and candor, regardless even of Booming egotifm, as may leave no shadow npon a conviction, which I humbly hope is growing in the publio mind, that whatever may have been or are my desires for personal aggrondizemont in other callings, I give my heart and my hand to this work with tho expeotatlon of no other reward than shall attend its final oample tion. WM.

0. KINOBLEY'S CONNECTION WITH THB BRIDGE ENTERPRISE. It is now past six years, Mr. Editor, since I became eohvicUon of the praotioability and advisability of a colossal bridge, whioh, spanning the tast Bivor, should connect Brooklyn and harbor front more eolidly and directly with New York and the interior, and constitute in itself the most immense and enduiing structure of modern times. I had at that luno been successful in large railroad and kindred enterprises, and not anxious to permanently invoit my fortune, I concluded to devote my energies to this undertaking.

The obstaoles that rose before mo are well nigh innumerable. The publio mind had to be convinced of the propriety of the effort. For this purpose pamphlets had to be proparod and the opinions of eminont engineers had to be obtained. I opint, in thus alone, what, with lawyers and all, would to many yojinr men have been a'competonce. At length the first act for the construction of a bridge oyer tho tidewaters of the East River was laid before the Legislature in 1867, by me.

It, of course, met with opposition. A few mon, whose memories are ever fresh with me, stood by, and we pushed it through Then tho Government at Washington loomed up before tho task, ond as the structure was to cross an arm of the sea, Congress had to bo got to movo. Congress referred the niotter to the Secretary of War, who in turn appointed a Board of army officers to investigate the questions, whether the proposed bridge would interfere with, tho navigatitn of the East Biver, and whether the phm of construction of the bridge provided forBUoh strength and solidity in the completed structure aa should render its ovorthrow or downfall unlikely ond unquestionable. This Board organized, and were on gaged to the taking of testimony for some months. Again the ominent engineers had to be oalled together, audto render doubt loss likely.

a tour of obserration wftJi the nighty bridges spanning the rivers theJJuion. T.he'asscrit of Congress was at length obtained. Then came tho irksome, weary business of Brooklyn and, Now York, and men of standing to subscribe. These facts aro familiar to oil who have watohed this enterprise. I fancy they may have gone, into our looal history.

Then, at length, the work of building the Last Kivor Bridge became a fixed faot. Up foihat moment the Company had not expended a dollar, nor had anybody but myself. It had been toy business, and Ihadbornathoexpeii8o, and givenitmy tinie. I wis out of pocket more than a quarter of a million before a blow waB Btrnck. I had put it out, too, when chances of reimbursement wore hopeless in tho extreme.

THE REMUNERATION ALLOWED. I tell theso gentlemen of the Committee, that not then, nor at any moment during the whole struggle, had I tho motive of making the enterprise pay. But I wanted, in so far as my humblo oapaoitiea would permit I wanted to build the bridgo. So tho Directors wanted me. When tho subject of compensation was considered, some talked of twenty per somo fifteen, scnio ten, and some five, upon all expenditures, till the foundations wero up to high water mark.

With my concurrence, tho Diroctora finally fixed it at five per and this ia tho one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars I have received. As a salary, the Intemperate Considerations 61 the Temperance Question. We published yesterday a sermon of Ret. Edward P. Ingoraoll upon "What a Fast Life Coste." The sermon, in a measure, was an attempt to accomplish what Mr.

Gladstone alone hfis been credited with an ability to do: it labored "to moke statistics eloquent." With the internal purpose of the discourse, most men will sympathize. No one believes in excessive drinking. Those who "totally abstain" and those who take "their regular nightoap" alike disapprove of intoxication. So does Mr. Inger soil, and all sensible people do also.

But the method the gentleman took to preaoh down excessive drinking was to denounce all drinking. 1 The abuse of intoxication and the evil effects of it were hardly touohed upon. Certainly not half so much as the mere magnitude of the liquor interest and the almost universal custom of drinking. A man who sees the pyramids is said to linger ia rapt wonder round them, to take them in from all points of view, comprehensively and silently, and to feel an ability to talk about anything else rather than them. They compose and overpower tho mind except now and then of an irreverent commedian like Mark Twain.

The contemplation of a vast interest has no such effeot on Mr. Ingersoll. He capers and talks about the liquor interest in gross, with an exoite ment which bears every psychological trait of intoxication itself and with a rhetorio which maybe esteemed a more or less satisfactory substitute for the flowing bowl. Indeed this gentleman falls into the habit of nearly all our clerical reformers. They seek to impress the public with over statement, which is always weakening, or to make a point by a forced comparison which miscarries and caricatures their high purpose.

The language of moderation is the language which impresses, convinces and stimulates to action. It is the language which moves to reform, and js the only language whioh does any such thing. No prencher prospers a step over the line of temperate statement, sound reason, refined expression, dignified moderation, and maintainable, harmonious, proportioned illustration. A speaker who does not seoure the approbation of the highest culture and intellect of his audience will not even inspire the minds of the lower grade to conviotion. Ho may secure their wonder, their applause, their ignorant eulogy but only that which is temperate, true" and well considered, permanently tells for good, bi tells for other than' the demoralization alike of talker and hearer.

Did Mr. Ingersoll and his class bear these old fashioned principles in mind we would not find them running aground on absurdity and exaggerated and illogical comparison as they often do. Mr. Ingersoll, for instance, on Sunday night subjected the sun total of sales of liquor in Brooklyn, New York State and the Union to comparisons to which they bear no proper relations, and indulged in assumptions concerning the drinking of all liquor which are only true of the drinking of liquor in Bpecial instances, speoial no matter how numerous. He assumed, for instance, that all liquor when drank resulted in drunkennness.

He did not so assume in words, but such is the only inference that can be legitimately drawn. A great quantity of the liquor used is taken in in moderation a good deal is taken for diseases, and out of 80,000 men drinking in Brooklyn to day not ten per cent, will become intoxicated to night. Mr. Ingersoll was unjust to all the facts, when he did not bear this one in mind. On reflection, every one of his hearers would admit it to be a faot, and nowhere else is the over zealouB, indie criminate talker so damaged as in the reflection of his audience or readers.

Mr. Ingersoll then went on to state that the sales of liquor in Brooklyn sum up at least $19,852,300. He "calculates" that this money would build ten churches as large and magnificent as Holy Trinity. While in his comparative humor, why did not the gentleman proceed to say that the cost of Trinity itself, according to his estimate, would build and furnish and totally pay for ten iron churches of larger capacity than the cathedral itself The one comparison is as true and as warrantable cs tho other. The preacher also found that in 18157 the total liqnor sales in the United States were $1 483, 491, 86, and he announces that if the sales at that rate for two yeara could be so cured by the Government, it could with the proceeds quite extinguish the national debt.

Mr. Ingersoll's drift seems to be in favor of securing that amount for that purpose. It deserves to be ranked next to the New York Hcraffls debt destroying panacea that paper wanted all the bond holders to assemble on an Illinois prairie and burn their securities, making them a thank RIDGE. Superintendent Kingsle; Replies to the Rink Reforners. How he Meets Th irCliarges and Xnnuex does.

A SPIRITED AND SPIC DOCUMENT. Tie following eommnnioaUon appears in a condensed form in the New York papers. It ia published in full below. The dooumfnt loses its navorin being "cut down." As given herewith it affords very interesting reading Bbooilvm, April 15, 1873. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eate Sib: Upon my return home! on Saturday, I found among my papers a document deiignated as a Report of a Bub Committee of a Committee of Fifty, wherein a Jumble of false and malignant charges are fulminated against tho Bridge Company and myseir.

Tho visits of several reporters for the pnrpole of interviewing me on the subject, have induced me to believe that this document merits a reply, and I propose, instead of answering through the somewhat clumsy form of an interview, to put what I have to say to these gentlemen eoberly upon paper. A CONTBABT. THE SINK EEPOEMEBS AND THB BEIDQE COM? ANT. I might rest the issue upon a comparison of the two bodies of mon who thuB confront each other, viz the Executive Committee of the Bridge Company and the Ccmmitte of Fifty. If there Bre in this oonununity, or if there can be in any oomnmnlty, men entitled to Sublio confidence and esteem, and npon whom the pub may at all times rely for at least the honest discharge of a publio trust, Henry C.

Murphy. Seymour Husted, John H. Prcnflec, Jaines 8. T. Stranahan, and Henry W.

Slooum belong to that olass. These men arfi lifted ton far above tha rAnnh nf calumny to be safely assailed. They are, and hare been for a long series of yeans, well anfl widely known in thio city as men whoso fortunes and reputations are of tho soundest and most enviable oharaoter. Not only are the people of this oity intimately aware of this faot, but also are the people of the City of New York, and bo also, in respect at least to those of them who have figured upon the Btage of publio life, are the people of this State and nation. These gentlemen constitute the Executive Committee of the Bridge, to which Ib given the entire oonduct of the work.

They examine and superintend all its affairs they meet weekly; thoy yield to it. their time, and care, and services they laid the first atones in its towers, and, without compensation, have helped it in all its emergeuoiea. All that has been done, as the sub Commltteo themselves report, whether creditably or discreditably, wisely or unwisely, cheaply or extravagantly, has been done in their knowledgo, and with their authority and approbation. Here. I say, I might leave this controversy.

For I repeat that no amount of misstatement, no amount of malignant calumny, no amount of false prophecy oan ever lead an intelligent peoplo to believe that such men have deliberately lent their reputations and deliberately prostituted a great publio enterprise to wholesalo robbery or wrong. Who are theirassailantsT The Committee of Fifty are a txtdy of men appointed by one T. Backhouse at a meeting of people, of whioh Backhouse wis chairman, held in one corner of this city some weeks before the last election. AN ANAIiYZATION OF THB COMPOSITION OF THB BISK COMMITTEE. Backhouse incubated a long time beforo he ventured to allow these rare birds to take wings, and when he did so he magnanimously placed bimselr at their head.

Bare birds, indeed I They nover had any dtjnity exespt as thoy borrowed it from tho Committee of Soventy five, or reflected it from the reformatory spirit of tho times. They have been tho butt and laughing stook of Brooklyn from tho beginning. One of them distinguished himrclf by seriously recommending tho total abolition of tho Firo Department and a return to the old system of wells and pamps, with wator bags as a means of extinguishing conflagrations. Another has set all Brooklyn by thi ears by tho ludicrousness of his harangues at public moetings. Another has boe i posted aU over the streets as a perjurer and a aooundral, and has, at least on one occasion, narrowly escaped the penitentiary.

The mora recpectable of their number are a parcel of old fogios, who have accumulated wealth by their connection with the old farm titles of Brooklvn. having held on to their proporty in spite of every innovation, and who have been made rich by the very pro gress tney nave persistently resisted. Ihev opposed the introduction of water ami nun. they attacked the projection of a park, thoy have re HiBLou uiu laying oi evory rauroaa iracx, tney nave lampooned tho erection of every nublio institution nf charity or correction, and they have howled and hooted aoouc tuo coiossai nrojcot oi an isasi Kuer lirldco from first to laBt. At evory step in the city's progress they have started, and wailed and yelled liko a ilook of pur bund owIb Betting up their unearthly and discordant screecnmgB at every approaon or morning light.

DID THE MEN WHO MADE THE INVESTIGATION SION THE BEPOET? Here I agoin ropeat I might leave this controversy. Bnt their case is not even as good as this. I have oho sen to deal with tho whole of the Committee oi Fifty, because 1 deomod it justice to do so. The whole of tho Ccmmlttce, however, have not as yet awoke to assail us. The calumnious report to which I am replying, is a report from a sub commlttoo of tho Committee of Fifty.

It is feigned by four men, who, with ono exception, are utterly unknown to tho public, and hnvo up to this time otly a bowing acquaintance with mysolf. Thoir names appear to be Ambrose Snow, L. Mckerson, E. H. Chittenden, and Nathaniel Cothren.

Of theso four men, two of thorn never visited the office of the Bridge Company at all, and were not mombers of the Committee when it did. I refer to Mec rs. Chittenden and Cothren. Thus.o mon are, thoroforc, two vagabonds, who find it convenient to assail tho character of their foUowmou, without regard to a porsonal knowledgo of tho truth. Of the other two persons on the sub Committee, one Mr.

Snow only visited the offlco of the Company twice without makiin anv investigation olhev than what might be supposed to arise from a general conversation with myself Mr. Snow departed for Europe, and has not been ereu by me since; nor am I satisfied that ho has yet returned. L. Nickerson, the only remaining member Of the sub Committee who signs this malicious repoii, is a most unsearohablo character. His name docs not appear iu either the New York or Brooklyn Directory, and beinj, as Isuppoc.

entirely at leisure, he found it convenient to visit the office a b.alf doSn times. With him came Mr. Dunning, who appeared the more respectable man of the two. ond who it seems hag not been induced to sign the "report." It will bo seen that Dunning and Nickerson wero the only gentlemen who made even tho prciense of an investigation, and that only one of these men concur in the report. As the Committer stood thus equally divided, there should in justice have bcon no report whatever, unless, prr adventure, Mr.

Snow having got back from Europe, throw the colossal weight of his two sickly interviews with myself upon the side the obscure, but ambltiouB Nickerson. Attacked by a Sub Committee of tho composition I havo described, I should not deem it necessary to make any reply, were it not for the gravity of the subject thoy assail, and the large numbers who, reading their report in the public press, might bo affected by its statements. IS BBOOEJjVN FAUtliS REPRESENTED IN THE BRIDGE COMPANY? Tho first point made ugainst the Bridge Company ia, that Brooklyn has no voice in tho management of its ulfalra. This is doubly false Brooklvn could alone bo reprc footed anywhere in two ways, first, her people; and second, her corporation, as a city. The pooplo of Brooklyn are represented in tho Company by Henry O.

Murphy, Ibobo Van Anden, Henry Hlocum, John H. Prentice, Demas Barnes, Seymour L. Husted. Alexander McCuo, James S. T.

Stranahan, John Lewis, William Hunter, and Arthur Benson. Could the people cf Brooklyn be bettor represented than this These men, it must bo remembered, not only give, as security for a proper caro of the publio intorefats, tho weight of their eminent charaatera, bnt as private parties thoy havo made considerable investments in stock, which stand as on additional pledge aid guarantee. The Corporation of BrookljTi ia represeried by the Mayor, Controller and City Treasurer. How much farther would Nickcreon and Snow have us go Would they havo us turn out Messrs. Van Anden, Frontiee, Gen.

Slocum, and put in tho Common Council Tho Legislatures of both parties appear iucllnod to entrust tho control of the Police and Fire Departments, end tho Prospect Park, to special commissions, and whotever may be the driit of political opinion as to tho existing commissions for these purposes, aU men seem united in the conviction that these interests of tho publio are better off under commissions than in tho hords of the Common Council, or under elected officers. At all events, no sane individual will contend that tho interests of Brooklyn, in the great enterprise of tho East Bivor Bridge, would be better conserved by members of the Board of Aldermen, or successful candidates for election by tho people, than by the eminent, wealthy and honorable men who now constitute its Board of Directors. THE OITT'b PRlVIIjEaE TO PURCHASE THEBBIDQB, AND THB STOCKHOLDERS. It is again argued that the provision of the law authorizing tho purchase of the bridgo by either or both cities, after its completion, at an advanco of 33J per cent, upon tkeBtook of the private stockholders, is exacting upon the cities. This is ridiculous.

The stock held by privato parties is wholly unproductive. Tho law provides that no dividend can bo paid upon it until the bridge is flnished. Thohridne cannot bo finished inside of seven years from its commencement. An advanco of 33 would not repay the private stockholders more than five per cent, on the money invested by them and an argument that the advance' provided for would, if paid by the oity, be exorbitant, is simply asinine. NEW TORE STOOK PAID UP.

The Committee atato that payment of amounts due from New York City has been delayed by an injunction. This statement is wholly false. Not only has there never been any injunction restraining New York, but that city haB paid all the calls which have been made upon her for installments. THE TWEED, SWEENY AND CONNOLLY AND THB BRIDGE COMPANY. Bight here it will bo proper to notice what Niokerson if Snow have to say about the connection of Messrs.

Tweed, Sweeny, and Connolly with the Bridge Company. At the mere mention of these names the eyes of these two gentlemon are lifted up in holy horror, and they exclaim, Wero theso tho only friends Brooklyn had in the City of New York Now it so happens that it was early thought by Brooklyn mon that New York ought to lend Borne aid to Brooklyn in bearing tho burdens of this stupendous undertaking. An aot of the Legislature and an ordinance of the Common Counoil wero necessary in either city before it could oont.ibute to tho building of tho bridgo. Early in 1807 I set forward to get tbi9 assistance. Tho task of obtaining the assent of the City of New York soon prosented itself before me, and, as a first step, the Company and myself foresaw the necessity of enlisting the oo operation of some of the loading and influential men of that metropolis.

At that time Messrs. Tweed, 8weenyand Connolly were not Only among the most influential men in New York, but their characters were then at least infinitely better so for as I knew them, than the character of either of tho members of the aub Oommlttee. any man whose memory goes back five years dare hazard his voracity by saying that tho Company were unwise at that time in soliciting the co operation of Tweed, Sweeney and Connolly, not only as ameans of attracting the corporate aid of New York, bat of still further assistance Anxious to relieve Brooklyn, zealous in behalf of the oity of our homes, but above all bound by every pledge of life to bnild tho bridge, to whom ought the Company to havo gone for New York aid in 1887? Go baokto that time and answer, and he that answers that the Company went astray, knows that he Ilea. Times have sadly obanged with Tweed, Sweenoy and Connolly. Their ability to help the Company or their disposition to remain in its directory Is at an end.

But the great City of New York will not abate her noble participation in tho work ret before us, and other men, with equal power, and acceptable even to the delicate nerves of Mr. Nickerson, will represent her among the directors. A REPLY TO THE OOMMITTEE'S INUENDO SHARP CENSURE. I now approaoh what I regard as the meanest and most despicable portion of the report of this meanest tad moat despicable sub Oommittco. I refer to their Innendoes.

An inuendo is always contemptible, but when employed in a judicial report of a committee who ire to ascertain and proclaim tho facts, it transcends the turpitude of a Be, for it enlarges a falsehood by additional oowardice and meanness. Tako this as a thrilalioa are inine: "Your sub Committee have Been no reason to conclude that tho "aoooiintaol this Company are not properly Kept, and the prices for materials ectrn to bo reason rf 4110 purchases mado with good judgment, and fhepricee paid to mechanioa and common laborers eeem also to be reaeonablo but whether the material hoe all been delivered and labor, that has been paid CommiUeevewatwideUrmning." Now, my artful dodgers, what do yon moan by eeem You know the "priocs of mechanics and common laborers," dont you 7 What do yon mean then when yon say the prices wo paid "teem reasonable?" These tniserable drivelers who set themselves up to Judge of others, understand bookkeeping, don't theyt WelL what then ido you mean by "seeing no reaeon to eon kept?" oookoof the company are not properly will tell you what you meant. Yon meant yon knew tho prices were reasonable and the books wore properly kept, but you were so destitute of honor or fairness that you could not state it plainly. And when you capped tho climax ol your double dealing by whether he material has all been delivered and labor performed that Wo Men paid for, your Sub Commlttea means of deternuning," what did you mean? Y6u meant either thatvOU know nnthlnff nhnnf. it.

nptonft. fnn lazy to find put, butlthat in either event yon had the foulness and rottenness of heart to' Insinuate about ONLY A SMALL P. THE EftST RIVE (sBhHhb vJjPmkeb sup I i mr.i i 1 1 ii mil ii iiiiibim lull I i SERGES. Any aninltiaf id gontlemaa who reads this haadlog mast isk his lady friends for an explanation of tho term, and bd will bo enro to loam that it is a popular dreas goods, manufactured abroad and Imported to this country, and ho will probably be shown what it is by looking at the dross of tils respondent. YeMf a gentleman bo too modest to Inquire, and wishes to make a present of a handsome dross, lot him go to E.

LEWIS Nos. and 26! Fulton st, and ho will be shown a fuUI assortment of them, and just the thin for a serviceable present IiA MARGtfERlfS P6LOlfAISEit The Polonaise salt is roaUy One of the most graceful tbat has been offered to our ladles' for many' yOars. The dl. tlnotlvesult whioh bears the. oame ttho i Hole, must prove eminently popular, if graoefolaosa in enapo and outline be an objeot of consideration with tho ladies.

Mossrs. JOHN8TOV 4 BAHGERTT, No. 107Fpl ton stJiavB In their now a lhof.thlapattenKirUo is everything that oan be dmlrnd by their onstonieTa. "M.ORE DIE IN SMALLPOX OASEB," A respeotable physician remarked, "from the wantof propl er nursing than in any other siokness. A stupor siae uwjuuiueB tun auuuHpuere ana Drovnnfn tha Mntarfon, but, by inspiriting tto WlU the A revqluti6inohTna.

The report is that tho Mikado has boon threatonod with assassination by some of his Japanoso snbj jets alsj that the revolution in China is not yet subdued. About the 1st! tor assertion thero is truth, as any one may learn of A BOB1CB A KnFultcn at, if they ill iagW tno prio is of thoir ohlna, and tho revolution thoy havo wrought in them. AT OPENING There will bo a grand opening on tti morrow and Thursday, at the store of Mo sara. ME ARES A JONES, No. 20 East Fourteenth it, Now York.

The various departments under their proper heada, will embrace a fall Hoc of silica of all colors and qualities, ol suite, laoos, ombroldarjcu ribbons, trimmings, hosiery, gloves, oortete, ladies' un dor wear, and housekeeping goods. By thm much confusion will be avoided, to the comfort of the la dies. Their atore is on of the finest upon this thoroughfare, and we bespeak for them from our Brooklyn hvdlss. careful examination of qualities and prices. FOB MOTH PATCHES, Freckles and tan on the face, use PERRY'S MOTH ANI FRECKLE LOTION.

The well known reliable and harin leaa remedy for brown discolorationa of the face. Depot 0 Bond at. Now York. Bold by erery druggist In Brdoklrn and elsewhere. apiUifniW SAM PEEK, FEEAN CO'S LONDONBISOUITS NOTICE.

Several imitations of those celeb rad'BiMuita'nnow Plewe observe that oar full names or InlHals are stomped nnpnj oaoh Biscuit of our leading vm B.a" fcrillfsWoornhills, Dominoes, KTigt nle, Fancy Mc Nacs, Gems, Pearls and Rings. PEEK. FttEAN A CO. Too bdoto imported and for sale O. O.

YVKLIN 4 SMITH, mhM ImSTnATh 8t' C1 EXTENSION CHANDELIERS. Wo are now offering a beautiful assortment of OAS FIXTURES, suitable for cottago or palace, at prices satisfactory to every ono, ARMSTRONG BLACKLIN, S2S FULTON ST, and cor. COURT and UNION, mh 7 ly ThSATo VEGETINE Has neror failed to effect a cure, giving tone and strength to the system debilitated by disease. 1 VEGETIRK. NO medieroe has attained suoh a great ropntAtion as this justly celebrated compound.

apll 2tThTu IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Many readers of the Kaqlk are at this time puzzling their brains with tho important question of where they may obtain the finest China, Glass, Crockery, Plated Ware, Cutlers for konaekeepinff. To those who nro about purchasing the shore line of Goods, and who deslro to make capital go oa far as possible, it is essential to look about, this trouble is not necsssarr, for goods of tho finest kind, as above, may be obtained for the least money, from the old established Crockery Hous of THOMA8 CAMPBELL, corner of Fulton street and Flatbush avenue, opposite the Novelty Buildings. A visit to thiB establishment will convince the most skeptical, that it ia the cheapest place in Brooklyn. LADIES' BOWS? I have just received a very ohoico lot of NEW SPRING STYLES LADIES5 BOWS, Which I am offerlmr at low prices. A.

F. FARNBIX, 231 Fulton st, near Concord, Next tho Brooklyn Savings Bank. scl6 tfSTuAF LIGHTNING POLISH It is fast taking the plaoe of those gritty preparations which destroy tho plating. It gives a brilliant polish with out scratching, all (grocers keep It. ap413t ThS ATn GRAEFENBERG MARSHAIJAS UTERINE CATHOLICON.

THB ONLY CERTAIN REMEDY FOR FEHALS WEAKNESS. Thousands who have used it bear testimony to its wonderful curative power. For sale by bU druggists. foa3moTu4Th SPECIAL NOTICES. A HUNDRED DISEASES MAY PROCEED Cja from one tource a diseased or debilitated stomach.

Nonuman being can be healthy when digestion is disordered. Tone tbe stomaoh and liver and regulate tho bowels with DR. WALKER'S VEGETABLE VINEGAR BITTERS, and the work of assimilation and ozcretlon will go bravely on. By insuring porroct digestion and a proper flow of bile, it insures pure blood, a vigorous circulation, and tho prompt dtschargo of all waste matter from the system. TTENTION LADIES WANTING Their silver ware retiniahed, can have it done at FIRST COST At SI.

MOOKE'S, SILVER AND NICKEL PLATING MANUFACTORY, No. 16 Fulton st, up stairs. jnhSOly STuiTh A BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF SPRING MILLINERY AT NORTH'S, ICS FULTON STREET BONNETS and HATS of evory kind, from the coarsest Rough and Ready to the finest Leghorn. LEAVES, VINES and SPRAYS; very elegant. All tbe new peculiar shades of GROS GRAIN RIBBONS.

OSTRICH FEATHERS, BIRDS' WINGS and AIGRETTES. Ladles should call and lnolc nt our new goods, HATS and BONNETS altered to the new shape. WANTED, Several first class milliners, At NORTH'S. At NORTH'S. ITY CLERK'S OFFICE BROOKLYN, mnrcn iqji'.

All persons to whom Uceiisos have been granted for the year ending April 1, 1872, are hereby notified that the same will expire on eaid dato. "Applications for Licenses" for the year next ensuing must bo made at the Hack Inspector' office, Ko.5basement,City Hall, andattheCityClerk's rfl.ee, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M.

on the following days: MONDAY, AFIHT. MONDAY AND TUESDAY, Intelligence offices $20.00 apbil 15 and 16. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, Billiard tables APBIL 3 AND 8, I Bowling alleys 3.00 Junk dealers $3l00 wednzbday and thubs IHUIISDAY, FRIDAY AND DAY, APBIL 17 AND 18. SATURDAY, APBIL 4, 5 ExproBsmen $3.00 AND 6. FRIDAY, APRIL 1ft Venders of Pawnbrc' are $60.00 MONDAY AND TUESDAY, jRailroad cars 30.00 APBIL 8 AND 9, 8ATUBDAY, APRIL 20.

Venders of fish, fruit, I Public portora $1.00 Ao WEDNEBDAY AND THURSDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, APBIL 10 AND 11. APRIL 23 AND 33. Dirt carts carts $1.5 FRIDAY, APBIL 12. WEDNESDAY AND THURS Public hacKS; $3.00 DAY, APRIL 24 AND 25. Drivers truoka $2.00 SATURDAY, APBIL 13, I FRIDAY, APRIL 2S.

Venders of charcoal. $0.50 SATURDAY, APRIL 27. (Butchers $1.0 N. B. Bankable money only received.

Drivorsof hacks, carts, express wagons and every dosoription of vehicles applying for licenses aro requested to have their vohlcloa ready for inspection iu the rear of the City Hall in making their application for licenses. mb23lm WM. G. BISHOP. City Clork.

XCiSE NOTICE OFFICE OF BROOKLYN BOARD OF EXCISE, No. 349 Fulton st, cor. Myrtle ar. All persons whoso Licenses from tho Board of Exclso will expire on the 1st of May, are hereby notified to apply immediately after that date tor their Licenses for tho ensuing year. By order of the Board.

JAMES COEBOY. President. Thomas J. Kenna, Secretary. N.

B. Offloe hours from 9 A.M. to 3 P. M. 18t FURNITURE TO LET A FAMILY would rent their furnituro to a responsible party on moderato term p.

Address L. Eagle office. G'REAT REDUCTION IN PRICE OF UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WKINGKRS. SS4.50 to $5 acknowledged by all to be the best wringer la tho market. For sale wholesale and retail, by W.

H. BOLTON dealer in hardware and house famishing goods, 613 Fulton, ton at, junction of Flatbnah av. mhl4 XTOSIERY, GLOVES, AND UNDERWEAR, AT PINDBR'S. NO. 203 FULTON STREET, Sign of the Plaid Stocking at the door.

jea lyi nxnas IfiA PERKINS SAUCE. Prononncod by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD 8AUOB." It improves oppotlto vnd digestion, and it (s unrirsled for Its flavor. Wo ro directed by Messrs. LEA 4 PERKINS, to prosecute all parties making: or rending? counterfeits. JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, Agents.

fe2SMtTiTu New York. MANUBE THE CONEY ISLAND AND Brooklyn R.R. Co. will receive proposals for the manure made at the stables corner Fifth av and Ninth st, until May 13. 1872, noon, for ono year, offers will stato amount per horse per year.

About the 1st of July. 1873, the present stables will be removed to the Depot of the Company at City Line. Address J. S. HO AG LAND, Superintendent ap i S6t IVIRS.

LOUISE HIGHAM, XTJ Fulton sK corner of St. Felix st, AGENT FOR K. BUTTERICK A PATTERNS OF GARMENTS, AND THEIR CELEBRATED SHEARS AND SCISSORS, apti ly STnATh ROOSEVELT DISPENSARYNa 74 Lv Roosevelt st, N. Y. All couizhs and colds whioh lead to consumption are treated.

Advico free to all. No charge, no foes. Free vaccination. Hours 1 to 3 and 7 to P. M.

Convenient to Catherine and Fulton ferries, apll lnv HE MOTH PROOF TliUNK, AIR TIGHT, CEDAR LINED. FOR SAFE KEEPING OI? FURS, WINTER CLOTHING, BLANKETS. 40. Every family should have this invaluable safeguard against moths, at greatly reduced prices ot R. W.

NIOHOLS, S08 Fulton Btroet. DAYTON 4 CARTER, UtTnThAS 603 Fulton avenue. 1 Entirely now fall dress uniform, oompleto. for will fit a young man of light build irithout alteration. Address UNIFORM.

Eagle offloo. aplSSf THE BEST PLACE TO BUY THE "Adolph Lance" Dresdon watoh, is at SQUIItB'8, No. 97 Fulton st, N. V. This watoh is a stem winder, lnl Kgold oasoi, has IB jewels, an Uothrtmotu hairspring, made throughout of the best workmanship, and thoroughly adjusted.

All the recent styles of Jewelry and Sterling; Silver Ware. Diamonds a specialty. UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE TAX Assistant Assessor's Offlce.Nc S18 Dean; au Please take noticeAll persona not having made their returns of income or speoial lioense tax la my division within fifteen days It will be my doty to assess with the penalty, by law. The boundary of my division Is north, Ful ton av; south, Fourth place, and Court and Boerum Fifth avand Flatbush av. Apni id.

una. eanuaii JTclUBT Assistant at" Thirteenth Division, First District, W. CAULFIELD'S PIANOFORTE recital at Ohandlnr'. Rmm, Art Building THURSDAY, at 8 o'clock. apl6at fob sake Seal estate.

OR SALE AT ELIZABETH BAR gainsln lots, building altes and plats of ground by ro. J. M. MEEKER 4 SONS, Elizabeth, N. J.

le sera. apl8 6t OR SALE REAL ESTATE OR Ex change for tmprovou property, 14 lots in tho Twon IV Hr.f. Wrrl Tj.nl. nv Address GUCK. 16(1 Graham av.

Mart st, ou easy tonus 6PI3 Jl" FOB SALE REAL ESTATE OR EX ehange for Brooklyn property, a shore front farm, or country aeat, of 16u aores, on the north sido oi Long Island. to mllea from New York do enonmbraaoe. Address R. Freshpond P. I Ho agonta intervening.

SALiPREAL ESTATE WITH A Jt builder's loon four lots In one of tho finest looationa in the TwentytatWard; stroot gradod, pavod as, water, Ac A liberal loan will be made to a responsible Dirty. Apply to D. H. FOWLER, No. 11 Willoughby st.

from WAKtJaP.M. TjOR SALE REAL ESTATE OR JC1 ohango for Improved proporty lights onciimbortj all.oraporUontif eighteen lots In a desirable port of the Twenty first Ward, near three lines of care, well ciaptoa fortondlnannrposea; will be old at actual value. Apply hOH DUFFY, Attorney, 75 and 77 Naasa jjtj tern OR SALE A PLW'wTXim ON Hlcka st, lSOiM foot, 6 troTo Harrison rt. west side, oontral KlnnbM trrtm ka Hiver will D6 old separate if roquirod, and on eaay terms: fine for teno rnont or mannfaotuiing purposes. Apply to JOHM FAG AN, WHloksst.

Boutn nroomyn. aploet' irfii A r.BJliAJ, TSSTATR TWO DI suable lots on vjimsob av, oaou i twl Minu nn T.tviffltOn ST. UCaT I ticeably acted; up to in Oxjj selection oie Hyde Jury yesterday. Prom the reports printed, it is plain that in several oases men who admitted they had an impression whioh evidence could remove woro satisfactory both to the people and the prisoner, as well Fas to ij the Court. Considering the notoriety of the case and the wider circulation given to it in the local press, the prompt seleotibn of a jury was very gratifying and almost remarkable.

The case cannot, it would seem, last many days, and it is commendable in Mr. Britton to give at the start the lie, to rumors tht ho would employ private counsel, by appearing onlv with the regular staff of hia offioe. Doubtless a stout defense, at loast in its be made, and the reports will be very readable. The decision of Judge feilson, whieh we published yesterday, enjoining the Elias Chemical factory, was marked by a luoidity of thought and a conscientious patience of investigation, which rendered it as sound a piece of literature as of law. The sum of it was that by the way in which the works are conducted, not only is injury done to contiguous persons and property, but that the injury is in increasing proportion to the yearly more aggravated offensiveness of the establishment and "the growing defeot in the works." At the same time, evidence and experience alike went to show that such defect and suoh injury are no necessary incidents of the business, because other similar places avoid them.

It is rare that a citizen holds his own in legal toumoy with a powerful corporation. One cannot but be gratified that personal rights receive so plain and praotical an enforcement as in this decision. It is also remarkable over what a range of theoretical and praotical matters the glance of the Judiciary must attend. We doubt that even the multifarious duties of our own profession exaotinore varied consideration. But the bench and the tripod are similar in respect of applying to all questions the touchstone of hitmen rights and human interests.

Tho last brought Westfield case has been carried into the Montague Street Federal Court. Surely the State Courta have proved adequate to tho trying of these causes. Indeed the rule is that juries in State Courts disrelish corporations, and juries in Federal Courts disrelish private rights, when the' two come into collision. NEWS SUMMARY. The U.

S( Supreme Court, yesterday, rendered an important decision In the Mormon case. Under the Territorial law of Utah, Jurors are ejleoted by what are termed County Court Gommiisionara, and from them the jurors nave to be drawn to Bene in the Territorial Courta. In the cose appealed, Judge Mo Kcan held that the Territorial Legislature had no right to prescribo the manner of selecting jurors for his Court, and ho issued a venire to the United States Morf.hnl for that district to summon jurors, from which list the Judge himself aelocted tho panel. One of the parties to this suit objected to having his oase tried before jurors summoned in that manner. The exceptions were noted, and the case oame before the Supreme Court by a writ of error on a bill of exceptions to the decision of Judge McKean on that subject.

Tho decision, yesterday, was that Congress has no right to pass laws relating to the Territories, whioh it has not a right to pass for the States that the duties of tU. S. District Attorney and 17. S. Marshal are the same as they aro in the States, and that the Grand and Petit Juries drawn in Judge MoKoan's Court duruvj the past year have been illegal.

It is claimed that the effect of the U. S. Su preme Court decision yesterday in the case of the Mormons (elsewhere referred to) will be to mobe void all the Territorial Court proceedings of Utah for the past year and cause the discharge of 138 prisoners. Judge McKean was supported by the President, though it is said the U. S.

Attorney General has always regarded his proceedings illegal. The House of Representatives received no bills yesterday of general publio interest. A bill waB pusscd authorizing the appointment of Commissioners to look after the Mexican frontier. Small fires are reported from Olaverack, N. Exeter, N.

Stockport, N. Toledo, and elsewhere. Joseph H. Fore has been acquitted at St. Louis of the alleged murder of Munsou Beach.

Alluding to his trial, the writer of "Local Short Stops" for the Missouil Democrat remarks: "It is said that one man, ut least, of the Pore jury ii favorably disposed toward the prisoner. Ho is the Fore man." Jesse and Ulysses Grant, sons of President Grant, will make a trip to Europe in Jnno, and return to America with their sister Nellie about the time the season at Long Branch closes. The man who disturbs Boston's serenity, and momentarily attracts its attention from thoCo! isoum Build'ng by garrotinj and robbing defenceless ladies of $200 watches is a youth of 19 yoars, named Thomas Horton. On Friday night he attaoked ono Mrs. Trull, and was delibeiately robbing his victim, when a policeman arrested him.

Thomas has been in prifion several timea, and now expects a long term. Sometime after midnight yesterday," says a Boston paper of Saturday, "as Thomas Ituarkwaa passing through Bowker street, he was set upon by thrco roughs, who knooked him down and beat him, and were only prevented from robbing him by tho timely approach of some citizens who frightened the scoundrels off. Ruark's injuries were of suoh a serious naturo that ho had to be assisted to his home in Commercial street." Occurrences like this are so raro in Brooklyn that thoy aro dc3ribod in prominont typo as of exceptional local importance. In Boston they aro slurred over with half a dozen lines, and tho side caption Bobbery," dimly hints at what follows. In St.

Louis the city engineer has notified the contractors that he will not pay them a single dollar on their contracts until their whole districts are cleaned, and requests everybody to send him informa tion when the streets need cleaning. The Naval Investigating Committee las! evening had the Hosmer claim under inspection. A. A. Ilcsmer and ono or two other witnesses were sworn.

No money was traced to the Navy Department. The Houso Ways and Means Committee havo agreed to abolish the stamp tax on matches and the duty on copper ore, one cent a pound. The firs; decision ever made in ihe U. S. Supremo Court, it is stated, involving Churoh and Stato relations, was rendered yesterday at Washington, in the case of Watson against Jetmer.

These wero the representative sides of a broken Presbyterian Church Society at Louisville, Ky. The division occurred about the time the war closed, and tho question appealed was the ownership of the ohurch building and other property. The church originally belonged to the "Old School" General Assembly, and during the war on various occasions gave expression to 1st loyalty but when the military arm was withdrawn from Kentucky and Mir. souri, there was quite a defection with a class of members who sympathized with tho Sonlh. They withdrew, declared their opposition to the General Assembly, and a similar result foUowed throughout the denomination in tho Border States, the seceding members forming new Assemblies and Synods.

Suit was brought in the Kontucky State Court to decide who woro the lawful trustees and elders of the Louisville Church, that court overruling the deoision of the General Assembly. Some of the members who resided juBt across the Ohio Bivor, in Indiana, brought suit in the U. 8. Circuit Court at Louisville, to have their right to the uso of the church as a place of worship protected, and the decree of tho U. 8.

Olroult Court was yesterday affirmed by the Supreme Court. It is learned by the London Daily Kelts that blowing sixty native Kookas from the mouths of British cannon, without trial, has been condemned by the Indian authorities. Now is it not odd that auoh a gentlo way of exteiminating a revolting people, without trial, should excite Buch a Bent jnent and thrust an unpleasant subject before Parliament? The New York Bar Association Committee appointed to investigate onarges made against Judgos of the Marine Court have examined eight or ten witnesses. Three or four of them testified to tho use of insulting language by Judge Curtis on the benoh. Others rendered evldenoe respecting his rulings in violation of law and precedent.

Judgo Ocrtis list night expreEsea nimsoir ready to substantiate charges mado, and to refute thoso against him before a proper tribu nal, but not before that Committee. La Truit, a Washington gambler, recently sentenced to a year's imprisonment, as a warning and intin: ldation to the proprietors of other hells in the city has been pardoned by President Grant. A mob of twenty seven disguised men at tempted one morning last weok to capture the Jail at ujinton, Kentucky, but the jailor and citizens drove them off. The JaU holds ono Cunningham, a murderer, and two men charged with rape. The mob claimed to want to lynch the latter, but it is believed they desired to release Cunningham.

The Cases" were duly exchanged at Geneva yesterday. Disraeli last night in the House of Com mons again became impatient about those official do umests referring to the claims, and Mr. Gladstone BOolhod him by saying they should surely be presented to day, Then wont we catoh it 1 Senator Conkling yesterday offered a bill proposing to sell the present Post Offioe Bite in New York to the Chamber of Commerce for 200,000. ihe House Banking and Currenoy Commit tee have invited Mr. Henry N.

Smith to Washington to teu what be knows of the late corner in greenbacks in connection with the Tenth National Bank. "Unole Dahl" will also be Invited, bathe has already risen to explain that he's just as square a man as you of ton meet. In the S. Senate yesterday, there was some debate upon the Defloieney Appropriation bhli' Some amendments were made. The quarrymen'e i in New York, wbioh yesterday unuqed rather a riotous oharaoter, did not develop any'vlolence, and, the sections of polloe hold in resorvofor'emBTgenineo ere dismuiaed.

lieorse Bice, of Fottstown. Ffe. who was robbed throe months elnoo of (15,000, has been missing since April 6th, when he left the fifth Avenue Bote), in New York, for home. It is feared that he has been robbed and murdered. Be was an engineer and raU road contractor.

It ia the theory of Bev. Robert Moffatt, an African missionary who haa penetrated that abaraninc country 1,600 miles, that Dr. Livingstone, his son in law, la eafo at the headquarters of some chief, awaiting remittances from borne: It may be reasonably aa BUmed that wherever the Doctor ia he would, for a short time at least, rather be with bis mother in law. In the House of Eepresentatives yesterday the chairman of the committee appointed to investigate sale of arms to the Flyhoa reported the eyideneo conclusions of the Oomlnlties Secretary of WffcisexqBatod. The River mm Improrc oS th bj I TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16.

TblB Paper has tbe Largest Circular lon of any Evening Paper Pnbllsned iu tbe United States. Its Valne as an Advertising Medium is therefore op. parent. The management of the East River Bridge Enterprise. In another column we publish Mr.

William C. Kinsley's reply to the report of the subcommittee of the Kink Reformers, who undertook the business of investigating the management of the East River Bridge enterprise. Mr. Kingsley evidently aooepts the report of the Committee as a covert attack on a great enterprise, and he replies to it in this spirit. "Every man," says Mr.

Kingsley, "must have somewhere an object in life, with which a greater than money allies him. This is mine." He repels the accusations of the Committee) with a foeling and an earnestness which may be pardoned in a man who finds obstacles thrown in the way of a great project with which his name is intimately connected, and allied with which it bids fair to go down to those who are to come after us, as that of a man who has deserved well of his fellow citizens. That portion of Mr. Kingdey'B communication in which he pays his respects to the assailants of the enterprise, will possibly secure the largest shore of local public attention. We propose, however, to deal with the points at issue between the Committee and the representative of the Bridge Company, because we deem it of vital concern to Brooklyn to have thi3 enterprise go on successfully and rapidly, and in order that it may do so, it is necessary to retain for the project the confidence of the public.

Mr. Kingsley begins by contrasting the citizens who have undertaken the management of the Bridge projoct, with the man who questions their integrity. All that has been done, has been done with their knowledge, and under their direction. An assault npon the existing management is an attack upon them. Tho question arises just here are Henry C.

Murphy, Henry W. Sloo'jm, Isaac Van Anden, Seymour Huested, James S. T. Stranahan and their associates deserving of the confidence which we must repose in comebody? If we cannot trust these men, upon what equal number of our citizens can we rely with more confidence It will be impossible for the Rink Reformers to name a Bingle member of their body who will gain anything by comparison with any of the citizens we have named. For all that has been done, these men accept the responsibility.

The objection raised against Tweed and Sweeney, who appear among the Directors, would carry weight with it if the question was now before us of inviting the co operation of these men. But it must be borne in mind that their connection with the Bridge Company dates three years back, and long since that time it was possible for Tweed and Sweeney to secure an endorsement of their management of the affairs of New York from such men as John Jacob ABtor and Marshall O. Roberts. Tho Bridge projectors can hardly be censured for not having foreseen subsequent events, and for not beiDg wiser in their generation than their fellows. Tho Eagle has never been accused of dealing gently with the men who have been convicted of betraying their public trusts in New York.

Neither themselves nor their misdeeds are likely to be of any further public concern. It is due to them to say that they dealt more liberally with Brooklyn than any men who have preceded them in the government of New York. The policy pursued by that city has been, in the main, antagonistic to the interests of Brooklyn. It is the opinion of many proporty owners of New York that the more embarassmcnts which stand in the way of communication between the two cities, the better it is for them. This is, we believe, an illiberal and short sighted policy, and it was never shared in by the lata rulers of our sister city.

Whon they relinquished, on the part of New York, over one hundred thousand dollars per annum, the amount of rent paid by the Union Ferry Company, on condition that at certain hours oi the day, the fare on the ferries owned by this Company should be reduced to one cent, they did for Brooklyn what Brooklyn had for years been trying in vain to accomplish. This was a large minded and liberal policy, and in the line of it wes their conduct in favoring a losn of a million and a half of dollars toward tho erection of the East River Bridge. There men did not fear rivalry between the two cities. They accepted their interests as identical, and the Bridge as a necessity. In this regard, at least, they may challenge comparison with our Rink Reformors.

It is unfortunate for the Reformers of the Itin; school that they have not made a report touching the management of a single department of our local government, in which they were able to sustain their accusations. They accomplished their purpose in firing off their blunderbus and taking to their heels, without waiting to see what was the effect of their fire. Tho report of the Bridge investigation is no exception to the rule. Of the three main charges that they make, two of them are proved by Mr. Kingsley to be false, and one is shown to be based on perversion of the facts.

They have asserted that much of the lumber used by the bridge was purchased of a saw mill company, in which Mr. Kingsley is said to be interested. What does this much" mean Ordinary readers would assume that it included the greater pavt, or, at all events, a very considerable portion. The books show that $313,945.97 was paid for timber and lumber, and of this amount but $24,110.07 was paid to the Saw Mill Company referred to. Men assuming to be acting in the interest of Brooklyn, who could make a statement of this kind, knowing it to be false, in order to bring into discredit a great undertaking, of vital concern to Brooklyn, are in our judgment, unworthy of belief under oath.

We prefer to accept Mr. Kingsley's statement that the men who s'gn the report, never mzie an examination into the affairs of tho Company, deserving to be called an investigation, and that they accomplished their purposo in getting facts sufficient to conceal the truth, but adequate as a foundation for a structure of falsehood, which would st. juHt long enough to challenge an asutmlt beforo which it was certain to topple over. Mr. Ii? jRley meets boldly and frankly the charge that he has received one hundred and twenty five thousand for the services ho rendered the Bridge Company.

He secured its incorporation in the difficulties which stood in the way of tho project in its inception arc only outlined in his communication. It had to fr iti way inch by inch against great opposition at Albany, at Washington, in New York and in Brooklyn, it htd to be proved to be feasible to Consiuisiaonera appointed by tho War Department: it had to be made satisfactory to the Federal Government, It had to right its way in Congress in the Legislature in the Hew Common Council, in the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen. The bridge will one day rest on the niawivo towers now going upward, but it has rested ou tho conrage and confidence, and fortune of William C. Kingsley. When the onterpritie passed into tho hands of the present corporation, tho elder Roebling had been for yean in in its service a dozen or more of the mo3t eminent engineers in the country, had inspectsd, in the interest of the East River Bridge, every suspension bridge in the Union.

Mr. Kings ley affirms that a quarter of a million had been expended by him in all this, and he has received one half of it back for five years labor, including the superintendence of an expenditure of two millions of dollars. If it had been possible to have entered into contract for the work done on the bridge up to this time, and if a profit of one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars had been made, who would say that it was excessive It is five per cent', on the outlay. It is the ordinary compensation given to architects, entrusted with the superintendence of a public building. Does anybody suppose that the Rink Reformors wore not in possession of these facts, after their investigation, if they made one Can they be held to be blameless in suppressing them If their purpose has not been frustrated, they have injured an undertaking of the greatest possible concern to Brooklyn.

But we will not believe that they have sucoeded. It is inevitable that this work, jUke all pthar undertakings, Accommodation for smallpox Pa tientsThe Celebration oi tho Fourth Of July Information wanted from the Commissioners of tho Sinking: Fund Interest on the City Deposits. A i regular: meeting of tho Board of Aldor men 'was hoi at. three o'clock yesterday afternoon, Jacob I. Bergen, President, in tho chair.

Thi minutes Df the last meoting were read and ap pro vou. ill. BOOHESTEB AVENUE. McOroartv nrosented a notltion sletnnd hv Jacob H. Sickmnnn and others asking permission to bo allowed to grade ond pave Rochester avenue, from At lantic avenue iu acino uiroet, at ineir own expense.

A resolution granting the request of the petitioners was adopted, i EAST NEW TOBK CABS. Aid. Boggs presented a petition from the residents of Fast New York, asking that the Board take steps to have an additional number of oars placed npon the Atlantic avenue touts during the morning and evening. Bef erred to the Railroad Commutes. A OONTBAOT BEBCINDED.

On motion of Aid. IMchardson the contract entered into with Patrick O'Haro to grade and pave Fifth avenue from Atlantlo to Flatbnsh avenue was rescinded, on the ground of there being an error in the speciiicd tiens. The matter was recommitted to the Grading and Paving Committee. THE IiAUPLIOHTEBB. For the purpose of providing for tho payment of the lamplighteis previous to the time of entering into contracts with the gas companies, Aid.

Biohardson offered a roaoluUon authorizing the Controller to pay the bills of tbe lamplighters in the Twenty second Ward for their services from the end of March to the lath of April, npon the certificate of the Alderman of the TV ai and the Street Commissioner. After considerable discussion it was resolved to include every ward, and thou tho whole subjeot was referred to tho Gas Committee, ia order that they might ascertain what sums are actually due to tho lamplighters, and report tho saxno at the next meeting of the Board. The following was KECEIYED FBOM THB COBFOBATION COUNSEL To tlie Honorable the Common Council of the Cltj of Brooklyn: Gentlemen By the extension of Prospect Park, made in the years 1868 and 1869, a gore of land sitn ate at the corner of Tenth avenue and Fourteenth street, and numbered 1817 on the Map of the Improvement, waB taken for tho Part purposes, and an award made for the sum of $4,882. The title to this property was oonalderod doubtful, and a suit was commenced in the JSupremo Court, in March, 1869, to which all the claimants were made parties, and by a final decision Just rendered at General Term, tho title to the award has been adjudged to be in the city subject only to the right of dower of Harriet 1). Taltnage, the widow of the former owner, whioh right has never beondis puted by the city.

The value of her dower right has been settled by the Court at $725.21, whioh, with her costs and Interest la payable from tho award, and tbe remainder of the fund should be, paid into the Revenue fund of'the city. I Suggest that jour Honorable body cause the name to bo dona by the passage of the proper Bespectfuliy submitted. Wm. 0. De Witt, Corporation Counsel.

A resolution in accordance with the suggestion of Mr. De Witt, was offered by Aid. Bergen, and adopted. A BOSE OABBIAQE FOB THE TWENTY 8E00MD WAED. The.

following was rocelvod from the Fire Commissioners: FlBE DEPABTHEXT 07 THE CITY OP BSOOKLTH, April 16,1812. To the Honorable the Common Council Gentlemen Tho Board of Fire Commissioners are in recoipt of your communication of April 9, containing copy of a resolution adopted by your Honorable body March 25, 1872, relative to the location of a hose carriago with nose at the Eighth Frooinct polioo station, or at some other proper place in the immediate vicinity thereof. The hoso and carriage to which your resolution refers as having been removed from the Fifth avenue Railroad depot Is now stationed within threo blocks of the Eighth Prcohick police station, in case of fire will be operated.by tho members of the Fire Department. The Board, however, has no objection to locating it at tho Btation house, provided the mombers of the Police Deportment will operate it in case of fire, and tho Commissioners of tho Police Department will be responsible for its proper caro, and I will communicate with them on the subject. Yours very respectfully, F.

8. Massky, President. Ordered on file and to be printed in the minutes, IMPBOYEMENT OF IiAWTON BTBEET. Aid. Dawson presented a communication from property owners on Lawton street, asking that the contract for grading and paving said street be awarded to Jeremiah Hackett.

Kef erred to tbe Grading anoVPaving Committee. UNION STBEET PAVEMENT. The Law Committee presented for confirmation tho assessments for the repavemont of Union Btroot from Columbia street to the GowanUB canal. Aid. Bergen stated that the street had been ropaved with Micolson pavement, and tbe payment of the assessments had boen contested in the courts on the technical ground that notice of the intention to repave said street had not boen advertised for ton days, in order that objections might be heard.

The matter had been before the Law Committee for a considerable time, and after a full investigation thoy had come to the conclusion that the objections to the assessment were merely technical, and they therefore asked that they be confirmed. The report of tho Committee was adopted. STATION HOUSE BEPAIE8. Aid. Wylio from tho Committee on Public Lands presented a resolution that a contraot be entered into with John Brady to repair the Fifth Preolnct Station House at an expense of 1,400.

Adopted. THE BU8HWICK CEEEK BEIDOE. The special Committoe appointed to ascertatn tho amount of deficiencies due for tho building of the uuBnwicK ureen linage, reported tnat tuere was 12,000 oloiincd by Franoie Swift on his contract, $1,000 by Air. Meserole for engineering Borvices, and thoro would bo about $8,000 required to pay for tho completion of the apprcochcB to tho bridge. The Committee offered a resolution instructing the members of the Sonato and Assembly from this oounty to have tho sum of $31,000 inserted in the Deficiency Bill for the purpobe of paying existing claims with interest for tho construction of the Bushwick Creek Bridgo approaches and tho completion of the Bame.

Aid. Bopca thought the Committee did not appear to be satisfied rewpeoting the rogmarity of the claims. Aid. Nolan explained that even if the amount should be inserted in the Deficiency Bill, the claims would not bo paid before being investigated by the Common Connoil. Tho resolution was adopted.

THE BATH AND OONEr I8I1AND BAILBOAD. Aid. Wjlio offered a resolution that the petition for tho removal of steam from the Bath and Coney Island Road be rcferrod to the Corporation Ofeunsol lor bis o.iiLion as to whLt jurisdioto a tho Common Council hus in tho promises. Aid. Berccu said citizens living in tho Eighth Ward weve very much annoyed at tho dummy engine running ou Fifth avenue up to tho main entrance of Greenwood C.incttry, and it seemod to him that it wjb a thing which should not bo allowed by the Common Council if in their power to provont it.

Aid. Wylio asked for tho reading of a bill which passed the ABf.ombly on the 8d confirming tho acti cf tho Bath Coney Island Bridgo Company, and authorising them to sell out to tho Bath Coney Island Bailrcad Company. Aid. Bergen eaid that showed where the littlo joker wsb, but he believed there was a bill before the Legislature prohibiting tho use of steam on that road, as tbe peoi lo could not now drive their horses along it without watching tho time table of tho drummics, when thoy to slip from ono placo to another. Ho know bow it was himself, us it was only on Saturday last that he had to do a little watching ino der to avoid the dummy.

Ho thought it was the duty of the Board to aid tho peoplo living along that road iu their effort! to havo Btcani removed. Aid. Itaber would he in favor of having stsam removed from Fifth avenue, if the Board would also agree to havo steam removed from Boerum street, in the Eastern District. Aid. Richardson said that as to steam being injurious to that portion of Fifth avenue he did notbelieve it was.

What was injurious was tho grado of tho street, and tho cemetery company took pains to have it kept in a bad condition. It would kill any horse to drag a car up suoh a grado as that, but it cotdd be very easily oured if it were not for the opposition of the Cemetery Company. On motion of Aid. Bopes the resolution was referred to the Committco on lUilroads with instructions to report on Monday next. FULTON AVENUE OABS.

Aid. Wylie a resolution that the Corporation Counsel take Buoh action as shall compel the Brooklyn City Bailroad Company to increase the nunibe? of ors between tho Fulton Avenue Car Stables and Eat New York. Aid. RopeB moved its ref erenoe to the Bailroad Committee. Aid.

Wylio said the matter had already been before the Committee, and no good result had followed their actios. Aid. BoggB had boon informed by Mr. Sullivan, the President of tho Company, that twenty new cars were being constructed and would be placed on the route as soon as possible. Aid.

Bergen suggested that information should be obtained aa tp the time on which cars are run between tho points mentioned in the resolution. Ho moved as on amendment that tho Committee on Bailroads obtain tho desired information and report to the Board at its next meeting. Aid Wylie accepted the amondmont and it waB oar ricd. THB BAST BITEB BBIDOE STOOE. Aid.

Wylio offered tho following Jtesolvedr That the Controller be, and he is hereby directed to furniBh to this Common Council, at its next meeting, a Btatement of the namos of tho stockholders of the East Kiver Bridge Company, the amount of stock subscribed for by each, and the amount actually paid in by each stockholder also the amount of bonds issued by the city for tbe purpose of constructing said bridgo, tho not amount for which said bonds sold, to whom sold, and how much of Baid money has been drawn from the City Treasury, and by whom and on whoBO account. The resolution was adopted, but unanimous consent was ubjected to by Aid. lUchardson. THE QUALITY OF OAS. Aid.

Taylor offered a resolution that tho proper officers see that the different gas companies do not furnish gas to the city of a poorer quality than that for which tho city has agreed to pay them sixteen candle light. In moving its adoption Aid. Taylor said his idea was that the burners now in use wero very much out of repair, and should bo replaced by new ones. The resolution was adopted. THE CB0S8 TOWN RAILROAD.

Aid. Connolly ofi'ored a resolution that the Corporation Counsel bo instructed to compel tho Cross Town Bailroad Company to repair that portion of thoir roulo lying between Grcenpoint avenno and Nowtown Creek. Adopted. THE SMALLPOX HOSPITALS. Aid.

Boggs offered the following: hereai, The Mayor and Hoalth Ofllcor of the city, and tho presiding officer of the Kings County Medical Society, did, on the 8th instant, certify to this Board in accordance with the provisions of the Oity Charter that it in neceEBary to prevent the spread of smallpox, now eo prevalent, that additional hospital accommodation shonld bo provided, and that a vaccinating corps should bo employed to visit certain parts of tho oity, for the purpose of vaccinating those requiring it, and that tho money required for that purposo would be about $0,000, thereforo be it That this Common Council hereby deoide to authorize the proper officers to borrow the sum of $8,000 to bo expended undor the direction of the Board of Health, for the purpoBO of erecting a hospital building on the county farm at Flatbmsh, and far the purposo of paying the vaccinating oorps employed by thorn, and that $4,000 of the amount so borrowed by them is hereby appropriated for the purposo of ereotlng a suitable ballding for the reception or pationts afflicted with smallpox, and for providing suitable bedding and turnituro for tile Bame; and be it further llesolvedf That the sum of $2,000 is hereby appropriated to pay for tho services of the vaccinating corps employed by tho Board of Health. Aid. Blchardsou inquired what sort of a building could bo procured for $4,000, whether it would bo anything more than a rough board buWUag 1 The specifications woro read, from whioh ii appeared that a well flnished substantia ly built frame building hi to bo erected ut a cost of $2,800. AM. Bichmdinthenalcd what the other $1,200 wna for.

Aid. Clancy said tho communication from His Honor, the Mayor, as'sont in oxt Monday last, would explain tho matter. 1 The communication was read, and Aid. Boggs stated that the other $1,200 would be required for furniture and bedding. Aid.

Iiichnrdson moved to amond by inserting "of which nmcnnt $1,200 thall be for furnituro and bod Am. Clancy objected to tho amendment, on the ground that it would apportion the money so that it would not be used for any other purpose. In answer to a question from Aid. Bopes, Aid. Biohardson said hia motion did not mako it compulsory on the Board of Health to expend the $1,200 on furniture and bedding it simply dividod the amount of the appropriation, bo that tbey would know what the money was going for.

'Ala. Ropes thought It was very unreasonable on the part of the member of the Twenty Beoond Ward to deoide that the Board of HoajiMByijiab' competent to expend i4noney to thSsSHBBBHGLV Aa ho, understood, lic opinion. The Geneva Board of Arbitration for the consideration of certain differences between tho United States and Great Britain, believed to have been put by the Treaty of Washington in a fair way of settlement, reassembled' yes terday. The meeting passed quietly. There were no belligerent demonstrations.

The diplomatists did not fly in a passion and fire reciprocal inkstands at mutual heads. The English representatives did not indignantly witndraw their oase because the Ameri can: representatives did not withdraw their claims. One side did not threat en to seize Canada unless all the expenses of our civil war were paid. The other side did not proudly retort that "Britons never would be slaves" and send home word to have the army and navy put on a war footing. And yet we were justified in expecting that all this or something very like it would happen if we believed tho emphatic expressions of sentiment made through the accustomed channels in Eng land a few weeks ago.

Yesterday the Board, under the mild and dignified presiden cy of Count Sclopis, peacefully received the counter cases and then adjourned. The situation could not have been so tranquil had pubho opinion kept its promise to the letter. But publio opinion never is so exact in its per formance. Last year public opinion in New York City was aroused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. If any corrupt person had a chance of living longer in the State of New York, that was all he need oxpeot.

That one who held office under the Ring, or in any way promoted its pur poses, escaped summary hanging from the nearest lamp post was proof of the proud self control of an intelligent and cultivated coai munity. The suggestion that any Ringleader or retainer might possibly escape swift justice was dismissed with contemptuous ridionle. Every one of them was to be promptly punished to the full extent of the law. More than that, the people were about to ta'sa con trol of their own affairs and the looal adminh tration would be purified and radically reconstructed. Who ha3 been punished What substantial measures of reform have been perfected? Havo not the politicians still con t.ol of affairs These questions would all have been satisfactorily anowored if public opin ion always kept its promises; but it nover does fully keep them.

The crowded and "earne3t meetings in the Rink and Academy last Fall indicated an activity of opinion that promised the largest results. What actually are the results Contracllng the view from broad and comprehensive affairs to minor matters, we still find a wide variance between the promise and the performance of public opinion. Not alone "indignant subscribers" and "regular readers" record the popular protest against car discomforts, ferry annoyances, and the varied aggregate of familiar outrages, but publio opinion thereon is well ascertained from the common utterance of the universal voice. We have been assured from time immemorial that nothing eon stand against publio opinion. The public's servanta stand against it with tolerable success, and the overorowding of conveyances, extortion in carrying rate3, and kindred abuses continue unimpaired, year after year.

If public opinion alwaya kept its pro mises England would now be in a state of war with U3 the New York Ring thieves would all be at Sing Sing; tho government of tho two metropolitan cities would be reformed to a point of Utopian purity; and cars and ferry boata would be run for the popular convenience instead of the profit of monopolists. But public opinion often "keepB the word of promise to the ear and breaks it to tho hope." It is a valuable force when wisely directed, but its force is frequently wasted. Beside, sometimes we mistake "sound and fury, signifying nothing," for the voice of Dublio opinion. Delays Which are Dangerous. The Justices' Courts of Brooklyn are nothing, if not gradual.

One reads every day of so and so arrested and arraigned for breaohes of the peace, robbery of the person, and "held to await examination," or that a hearing was set down for such a date. Why are the offenders not tried on the spot? Half tho time the officers who are the main witnesses are present. Always they can be at once secured. No object with which justice and an example to offenders are concerned is subserved by these delays. If the delays are made so as to secure to Court attaches or shyster lawyers a chance to pluck the accused, the sooner they are sent up the better for them.

Yes torday morning, for instance, John Denpsy, William Carmody and James Belford wore brought before Justice Delmar on the proved in advanco charge of assaulting Officer Campbell, of the Tnird Precinct. They would have killed him had not an officer reinforced him and menaced them with a pistol. Instead of hearing this scandalous case at onca, and promptly punishing the wretches, or sending them to a higher court for severer punishment, the record reads "held for examination. Why thus was the trial put off Why was not the examination held at once and a decision found It would have been every way more salutary. Not Delmar's Court alone exhibits these inexplicable delays.

All the Police Courts do. Some of them do in much greater proportion than Delmar's. There may be defenses of the policy. It does not look ai if there were any. If there are, the public wants to hear them.

The New York Methodist Conference yesterday adopted a report setting forth that there ought to be no indiscriminate condemnation of amusements, and that while membera of ihe church should be advised "to discourage late hours, undue excitement, and pleasures of a low kind, Christian charity should be exercised among people of differing opinions. This was a very good report. The action could have been improved only in one way by taking no action at alL Such a course would have more effectively done what the report clearly intended doing leaving the question of amusements to the intelligence and conscience of the individual. This is the inevitable drift of the time. The Methodists, hitherto regarded as the most anti worldly of the sects, have quietly assumed the right of forming for themselves their pleasure taking habits.

The authorities of the ohurch have very wisely acquiesced in a proceeding they are powerless to resist, and the amusement controversy may be accepted as settled i accordance with liberality and common sense. The liberal and common sensible course on the part of those whose business is moral and religious censorship should be emulated by those whose business iB amusement making. Disputes as to certain specialties of pleasure should now be in a fair way of adjustment. The old controversy between tho ohurch and the stage has been conducted with by no means the best temper on either side. A better feeling in the church ought to be rivaled by a better feeling on the Btage.

A larger measure of self respect will commend this policy to the members of the theatrioal profession. They have had a bad habit of nursing their wrongs. They make altogether too much haste to' proclaim their outlawry, A sisgl8 example will make this dear. Some time ago, a New York olorgyman injudioiously refused the funeral hospitalities of his ohurch to a dead actor. There was nothing to show that any other clergyman in the country would have acted in like manner.

Yet the members of the profession, with a strange lack of dignity, represented themselves a3 unchurched, proscribed, outlawed; and throughout the land "the little church around the corner" was theatrically and sensationally celebrated as the only one that would bury an' actor. The affair is now recalled by the theatrical and sensational announcement of tho funeral of an actor from "the little church around the corner." The profession should self respectfully put itself on a level with all other professions, and the first step in that direction is stopping the nursing of, wrongs and the advertisement of affronts. Let us have an era of good feeling. Moral and religious leadors ore recognizing the worth of the Btage. Now let the stage conoede that good influences can do it no norm and that an elevation of tone is quite consistent with its success.

If the Quaker Citizens are as wise as their ancestors, they will not permit the lesson of other cities' experience to escape them. Philadelphia whioh in its struggle to get away from provincialism has been imitating the corruption of New Yorkhas a Municipal Reform Association. This body is a parallel of the Committee of Three Score, and Ten over the river. The and how large a portion of Baid money should, in their ujmiiuu, uu uitnwu uuiiuh ux iuo city, ana also wnac amount it is necessary to koep on doposit uninvested, and for what purposes. Adopted.

INTEBEST ON OUT DEPOSITS. Aid. Richardson offered the following Rceolved, That tho interest of 3 per oent. on daily balances, the same to bo settled and' credited monthly, shall be the rate of interest charged on the city moneys deposited in tho basks of this city on and after the 12th day of April, 1CT2. Aid.

Biohardson was informed that the Bank Presidents hod agreed to pay and wero now paying interest at the rate of 3 per and thereupon he withdrew his resolution. ANOTHEB EFFOBT IN FATOB OF THB BOYS was mado by Alderman Boland, who offered a resolution that the Fonndmasters be authorized to employ boys at then own expense to impound all stray goats and bogs. A motion to lay on the table wag oarried. Tho Board then adjourned. MUSICAL.

Clinton Avenue Chobch Ooncebt. The organ concert of the Clinton avenno Congregational Church (Dr. Budington's), took plaoo last night, under the direction of the young men of the ohurch, and the programme was ono of more than ordinary merit The organ sololsta were Henry Eyre 1 Browne, the fntnro organist of the church, who playod with much taste and execution, pieces from Woly and Biohotr; John M. Loretz, Junior, and J. B.

Lonta, Sr. W. C. Baird, the future choirmaster of the church, who possesses a rich baritone voice, Bang with good effect "Ho every one that thirs.eth" and "Nazareth." The acleotiong "MIgnon" and "She wandered down the mountain side" were rendered by a lady whose name did not appear on tho programme. DRAMATIC.

Jennie Cabbolis Benefit. "Satan in Paris" and Temptation," is the programme that Jennie Carroll offers for her benefit to night, with the additional attraction of Henri Drayton, in Scuied's grand dramatio ecena of The Wolf," and the reappearance of Mr. J. W. Carroll.

On this night, above all others, thlB houso ahould be crowded to the full, for tho lady is one who deserves the fullest recognition of her earnest endeavors to pleaso and gratify tho patrons of the drama. How popular she is need not be told here that she has won the reputation of never disappointing an audience is well known, and that Bho is always pleasing, intelligent and effective has passed into a proverb with tho habitues ot the Park. 6o on this night of all nights, whon the publio can testify their appreciation of a eorvitor in the realm of amusements, tho house should be jammed. The play of Satan in Paris" has not been played in Brooklyn for years, and it is needless to say that tho fair bmefl ciare will play her several parts well and thoroughly. Temptation" iaanothor drama comparatively new to Brooklyn, and with Messrs.

Drayton and Carroll the attractions are very strong. The Bbookltn Theatbe. The dramatic success of the season at this theatre has been the production of Daly's exciting piay of "Divorce." Not on'y has it been presented in a style superior to any thing ever attempted in this city, but taking tho oast right through, from tbe leading characters to the minor parts, it has boon shown to bo a far stronger one than that glvon the drama in New York, and most assuredly it has been better performed here than at the Fifth Avenno Theatre. Mrs. Conway has not appeared in any play this season to greater advantage than in the character of Fanny Ten Eijck in while her daughter Minnie, has surprised her edmirera by the natural impersonation of the pail of Lu TenEyck.

That excellent comedienne, Mrs. Farren, too, aB the fashionable maneuvering Mother, ifrs. Ten Eyck, is admirable throughout. Mr. Lamb's part of Templeton Jitt, the divorce lawyer, Is inimitably acted by that talented comedian whose popularity is bo great in this city.

Tho A If red Adrianee of Mr. Eocho is a well performed character, marked by much discretion and excellent roading, while tho veteran Chippendale appears to great advantage as the eld husband of the young belle. Captfiin Lynde, too, finds an able representative in Mr. Kennedy, a character in which he has won his greatest succbbb, and tho fair Grace finds charming dual in Miss Burns. Indeed the whole ca3t is ono oapitally suited to the requirements of the ploy.

At tho request of numerous patrons, Mrs. Conway has concluded to perform "Divorce" through tho week. Pabk Theatbe. "The Ticket of Leave Man" was produced at this theatre to a fair house last night, and the performance elicited ep plauBe, espccjally the very effective personation of Hawkahaw by Mr. Little, and that of Mai) Edwards by Jennie Carroll.

Jim Dalton, too, was well performed by Mr. Jordan, But both Mr. Cbarlo3 and Harry Clifford wero out of their clement in tho characters aligned them, and though Mr. Gossiu mado Bonio good points as Bob Brierly his lack of intimacy with the dialect of the part marred the effect of the performance. The drama was well placed npon the stage.

Hooley's Opbba House. There was another full house at Hooley's lost night, and the new bill of the week was very well received. The old favorite, Archie Hughes, received a flattering testimonial of applmss on bis reappearance in the oompany, and the new pieces were greeted with shouts of approval. Kelly and Leon make special features of the two new farces entitled "Domestio Bliss" and "Tho Bolles of ti Kitchen," end the other stars of the troupe appear to great advantage in the new aketchos, farces and acta of tho week'a programme. The Olympic Theatbe.

Miss Kate Raymond, in her specialty of "The French Spy," attractod a good house last night, the Female Minstrel Oonceri and tho variety bill proving to be features of tho week's programme. The Benefit fob the House of the Good SBEPnEnD. The bill proposed for tho 30th inst. promises to be a very attractive ono in all its features. Tho Committee who have charge of it aro dally receiving offei of assistance from both amateurs and professionals of very high Btanding among us.

Tho Park will bo represented by Jennie Carroll, Piko, Virginia Campbell, Miss Peck, Mrs. Vanderon, Mary Kollcy, J. J. McCIoskey, J. W.

Carroll, J. G. Little, G. Jordan, Georgo Charles, H. Fay, D.

Fitzpatrick, H. Clifford, and J. L. Qossin. Hooley's, by John Mulligan, Cool White, Billy Rice.

J. It. Campbell, Luko Sohool craft and Archy Hnghes; and last, though not least, tho ronownod Kolly Leon, New York, will send over G. L. Davenport, Harry Cunningham and Harry McCarthy.

The amateurs will also be very strongly represented. As a matter of simple conrtc3y to that very estimable lady, Mrs. F. B. Conway, we desire to Btate, in view of an offer by her of a performance at the Brooklyn Theatre, which eho intends giving at an early date for the same object, the Committee hesitated soliciting tho addition of her company to the bill.

The Cibcus. The good time is coming" for the boys and girli and ths old folks, for the Circus is coining to town next Monday for throe days. This time the Stone Mu Company pitch their tents on the plaza, corner of Atlantlo and Flatbush avenue The Bboadwat Theatbe. The principal novelty in the dramatio lme in New York thVi wce'r, Is the new play of Gold," pe.formcd at the Brcidway Theatre, by the company of which Misa Burnside is the brightortioular star. The Tableau Exhibition at the Academy.

Last night, despite the low and rain, thero was a largo gathering of Lishiouahle people from the region known as "on tho Hill," a locality which even towors above the "Heights" in geographical ascendancy if not in a Booial aspect. The occasion was the grand exhibition of tableaux vivants given under the auspices of the ladies of St. James (P. Church for the benefit of the Ohurch Mission fund. The success of the previous tableau entertainment given at the Atheneum was such aB to warrant a full attendance at this special exhibition, and no doubt but for the nnpropitions weather the Aoadomy of Musio would have beon crowded.

As it was the lower part of the house was well filled, and pecuniarily the entertainment was decidedly successful. Tho programmo embraced the selection of a number of classical Bubjccis whioh if due attention had baen paid to the historical ocou aoy of tho costumes and Bet sconory would have boon admirable pictures. Tho individuals wore there ready to tako their places as personators of tho historical figures but the necessary appointment! and tho art experience in preparing the tableaux for exhibition were apparently wanting in Borne instances, and hence tne artistlo failure of soverat of tho prominent tableaux. The euo cesses of tho entertainment were "The Artist's Dream of Fame," "The Little Bachelor," "Lessons in Drawing" the most effeotive of the series ond the statuary pictures. Excellent musio was furnished by Berstein's orchestra, several selections from Martha being noteworthy.

The Amaeanth Reception. The entertainment given to invited guests of this Society tomorrow night at the Academy of Musio, comprises the comedietta "Delioate Ground," in whioh Mrs. St. George and Messrs. Thomas and EdBon take part; the farce of the "Cup of Tea," in which Miss O.

V. Morean and Messrs. Bambnrgh, Thomas rod Oakey appear, and the reading of the trial scene from "The Merchant of Venico," by Wm. Bond. The social reception in the Assembly room follows the dramatio performances.

THE PAINTERS. An Eight Hour Man' a Views. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: One of your correspondente has considerable to ray about the bosses. If the boss painters were forced to accede to the eight hour system at thirty seven and i half cents per hour, they would have to contract very close to get a job. Now, your correspondent can rest assured that no boss will put himself out for him unless he gets half profit on his men.

As for getting to work late on a job and making the hours Bhorter, or not getting to work right, if he was a mechanic he would know how to get to work right. As for distance, his boss will make him bo on time, unless he is one of the boss's pets tbat tells the boas what tho other men are doing, and makes his story good for himself. As for tbe bosses returning the compliment whon the season gets dull, ho can rest assured of that. As soon as the "shoe makera" and "tailora" got the rough work dono, the bosses Bend them back to their holes to cobble Bhoss and patch old clothes tin tho next season oomes, and then rack thoy go again to rob the honest Journeyman who had to serve his time at the business. As for the avor i to system of eight hours, the bosses are the men that started it, and if your correspondent had boen here all tbe Winter he would have known it.

As for our being remarkably well off, tho most of us are, as wo have the talent, and money muet buy it. As for leisure time, we have a right to it, for when we work eight hours, which. I am doing, I can do more than two such men as your correspondent in ten hours, Eighth Hotms and Thbee Dollars. DOGS. flo the Well Carprt 'fflal' To 4'e Editor of the is entirelyjOTT' jdea with uw; insUftcOs are kmluthSK UHWDHIiA.

uwuuu uuu uiijr uuuiimuy uuuiu get my servioeb for during tho same time, and in the face of one half the adversities. As a remuneration, to a contractor toking charge of so grand an enterprise, it ia well nigh insignificant. THE BEIDOE WILL BE BUILT. Every man mnBt have somewhere an object in life, with which a greater than monoy allies Mm This is mine My object is to build the bridge. I know it will ho accomplished and when its massive towers and Bweepirg arches compass the river over whioh it shall prosido, it will 1 11 with no alloyod pride and gladness tho mind of one who has, at least, labored long ond faithfully in its behalf very respcotfully yours, William C.

Kinoslet, General Superintendent, New York Bridge Company. THE ACADEMICIANS. A regular weekly meeting of the Committee of Seventy five was held last nijht, Mr. Wm. Marshall in the chair.

Thcro was but a bare quorum of the members present, and it was well on to nine o'clook before even that number assembled. During the interim, however, the moro prompt and folthful few amused each other by relating their oxporiencos at Albany. Every soul was ready to protest that things had just turned out as he anticipated. Mr. Marshol had always been confident that Tracy or his friends would kill the charter unless made from top to bottom in their interest indeed, so confident had he been, that ho had wagered a basket of wine upon tho result with a Republican Assomblymon, but now that he had won it ho did not feel altogether cor tain of getting it.

These reformers are bo slippery. In this oonnection Mr. Marshal added that the Eagle's views wore his views, and that tho ablest article he had read for several years appeared in tho Eaqle on the evening of Friday lost, relative to the Commissioners. Somo littlo conversation sprung up here as to whoso man Morton (in tho Assembly) was. The decision appeared to bo in favor of Aid.

Hichardson, for lie always stops with Morton when at Albany. If this conclusion bo true, Mr. Moh ardson mud, according to Mr. Marshall, to coucidored ono of tho Greatest hyiwcritos that ovor lived, for he has all along protested that he was opposed to the continuance of the Commissions. After the minutes of the previous meoting had been read and approved, Mr.

Farrington, rising to a question of privilege, said that ho had been incorrcotly reported at tbo laBt meeting, by the Eagle, whioh represented him as making reflections that ho did not utter concerning Mr. Merlon's family, and, secondly, ue having said that this Committee had not rooommcjdod one of tho Commissioners, whon his words wero that it had recommended but one, while Mr. Morton had very on rioufily paid tlat tho Committee recommended thorn all a statement which, to say the least of it, was an error on his part. Thoro being no other business beforo the house, tho Committee then went into exeoutivo session. SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Base Ball. Atlantic vs. Chelsea. The Atlantics yesterday, April IB, wero to have pJayed the Burusidcs on the Capitoliuo GroundB, but owing to tho unpleasant character of their meeting on the ground in praotico last week, no game will be played between them at all now. In placo of tho proposed contest tho Atlantics played with the Chelaoa nine, and despite the chilly and unpleasant weather a well played practice game was had The Atlantics did not havo either Carney, McDonald or Chapman, the former was present but was not well enough to play.

Tho latter has not put iu an appearance yet, John preferring to wait for warm weather before ho takes the field. Barlow caught to Britt's pitching and ably ho playod tho position, tho swift delivery of Brilt being finely attended to behind the bat. delivery is not unlike that of Cummings, and he promise! to excel undor Rob's tuition. Ferguson pkiyed third baso in hia old stylo, two splendid throws to first base marking his play Dehlnian quite distinguished himself at first base, capturing fourteen players there. Kenney fielded out Blx iu good style, though one or two errors of his, and a dropped fly ball by Brown p.uveutcil the OhelseaB from being "Ohicagocrt." Burdock did service at short stop; in batting Dehlmau took tho lead, Barlow marHng his play with covoral prettily hli fair foula.

On the Chelsea sido Gordon played well, both as catcher and pitcher, some pretty stops in front of the bat being noteworthy. McCormack's delivery of tho ball was aa wild as usual, he still continuing to saclfice command of the ball to paco. When will pitchers learn the important fact that speed is practically useless without comirand of the ball 1 Hurley, Coulglen and Harrigan all did service in their positions, and snowed themselves good ball tossers. Briscoe was accidentally hut in tho second inning and had to retire. He stood right in tho way of the base runner in one instance, and the result was the injury ho sustained.

A base runner is entitled to the right of way 1 1 a base except when a fielder is t.wing to catch a fly ball from the bat. The umpiro evidently had not read ihe new rules in regard to calling balls. He Bhonld remember that eozry "unfair" baU mvt3t be called. The following is the full score of tho game: ATLANTIC. I 0HEL8EA.

B. IE. P.O. A. In.

P.O. i Bnrdook, s. 2 1 1 8 0 0 3 2 0 0 8 1 1 9 Hurloy, a. 0 3 2 14 0 Gordon, 1 1 a 4 0 1 Horrigan. 0 9 0 1 0 Cooiglen, l.

0 0 2 1 0 Oassidy, r. 2 0 0 1 6 Antoin, o. 1 0 3 0 O'lSrlscoe, 3db 0 0 10 narrow, a FerKUSon.lid Dehhnan, BriU, 3 Bomcen, o. 2 Brown 1. 1 Kenney.Sd Perry, r.

0 Total 18 13 21 12 Total INNINGS. 12 8 .4 21 II Atlantic, ....7 ....0 3 3 0 2 11 18 0 4 JJmpho, Mr. McQinnis, of the Athletic Club." Timo oi grnie, 1 hoar, 45 minutes. First base by errors, 4 times, Ohelsoa2 timos. Runs ourned, Atluntto 3, Chelsea none.

Total fielding orrcrs, Atlantic 7, Chelsoa 23. 1 hough it was the ISth of April tho gamo was stopped by a fall of Bnow. It iB about timo that Messrs. Weed and Decker see to it that the ground is cleared of spco tatcrs when play is called in a game. Yesterday thero was considerable annoyanoe from the orowd.

Babe Ball Gossip. The Boston Club played tho Horvarda on Saturday, and though Harry Wright was not present, ho having been called to New York to attend iho old Fogy's meeting, the Rods dofoai ed the now nine of the Harvards by tbe following soore 123400789 Boston I Harvard 0 1 12 2 2 Two hands' wero out in tho last innings and not a run bad boen scored, when the Collegians made two or throe rallying hits, whioh gave them two runs otherwise they would have been "Chlcajoed." The Beds won their first gome by a ccore of 32 to 0 thoir second by 30 to 8, and their third by 12 to total aoore, 74 to 10. This iu a premising opening. They leave for New York April 29, and play the Athletics lor the streamer on May 4. Our lecal dubs apparently, axe blind to the Pecuniary importance of having the first ohampionship gamo played hoie.

I The now Mutual nine met on the Union Grounds yectorday for the first time, for training purposes, but no game could be played, as thoground is too soft. Tho nine ore to play an amateur team on Saturday, in tho latter of which will be the following players I Pitcher, Charles Walker; catcher, Wm. Bestlok; let John Kelly; 21 baso, Biohaxd Hunt; 3d base, Nathan W. Hicks; left field, Charles Hunt; centre field, Daniel Patterson; right field, Wm. MoMahon; Bhort 4)top, Wm.

aaUaghor. i We notice that tho New York World is again taking the lead of tho Now York dailies in base ball matters. To day they give the full scores of the Boston and Harvard and Atlantlo games. No other New York daily had tho scores. i The Trov nine onenari nlav mi Hutui nir Drann.n And played a strong field party by a score of 17 to ueuiiey ana xinues aoiea as piconer and catchor, the former Bending in a swift ball in Cummings' stylo.

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Mr. Ingersoll seems to forget that in respect to several things the national debt is a greater curse than the liquor interest itself. A man may or may not patronize the liqnor interest. The Govern ment compels a man to do his share toward paying tho national debt. Aye, the Government makes the liquor interest itself help pay the national debt.

We do not say this is not right. It is right. But we do say, that, considered as a pecuniary drain on the resources of the country, the national debt is worse than the liquor interest. It is double in amount, according to Mr. Ingersoll, and it is perpetual in obligation and exaction and interest.

The plain teaching of all the centuries should not be forgotten. In every age many men have used liquor in various forms. To the end of time they will continue to do so. There are two giand ways of ameliorating ihe evils incidental to this fact. The one way deals with the individual ieason and conscience of the drinker.

The other way contemplates the purification and improvement of the drinking supply, of which the inevitably army of drinkers, perpetual or occasional, moderate or immoderate, will partake. The individnal must be dealt with on the basis of exact and conscientious truth. Ho must be shown, in his case, the real effect of liquor, as he takes it, on his health and circumstances, and on the circumstances of his family, and others near and dear to him. He must also be shown the insidious tendency of the habit of drinking to grow upon him. But he carnot be convinced by empty denunciation.

He will only be bewildered or disgusted by the wild waltz of the Ingersolls of this world round non related statistics. The purification and improvement of the drinking supply will be reached through the naturalization and adoption of light wines and beers. So universal is drinking that no church has dared to make any grade of drinking 6hort of habitual intoxication a bar to membership. Many churches promote, many ministers advocate total abstinence. Many of them labor for the reform of (ho drunkard.

The motives of these effort and the laborers themselves are praiseworthy wkr.n the sin of intemperate language is not perpetrated as a means to an intrinsically high end. But that sin is almost invariably committed. Irrespective of that, the fact remains that for no drinking but drunkenness, will the churches discipline a man, howsoever they gossip about him. There is a drinking which does not intoxicate. Italy and Germany and Southern France partake of light wines as frequently as Americans partake of tea or coffee and at tho same times.

Those beverages cio not intoxicate, enervate or brutalize. Their introduction into America would be a positive gain to the cause of "temperance." They would drive out in time the adulterated compounds whioh send torchlight processions down men's throats. Yet instead of flanking and nullifying drunkenness in this way, the temperance talkers wage an impossible war for the total abolition of all liquor selling and drinking whatsoever. The miller mass. The Legislative Insurance Committee have partisanly divided on the question of Insurance Superintendent Miller's guilt or innocence of the charges made against him.

Strictly Bpeakang, the division is not so nice as that. The Republicans say he is shown guilty malfeasance. The Democrats declare that the charges against him have not been proved. Neither was the Burdell murder proved against Mrs. Cunningham, though people have pretty clear impressions on that subject.

If the inquiry 27i re Miller has become a matter of politics, it has become degraded below what it ought to be. If the Republicans propose to make a Democratic offender and the Democrats a Conservative liotim out of Miller, the original charges whioh. went to the matter of common honesty deepr and higher than all politics have got sadljj perverted. The Legislative habit of splitting up into party divisions on subjects not remotely relating to blackmail shows either how frivolously allegations are made or how stoutly they are repelled for partisan effect. We can see a party reason in the Republicans a such "going against" Miller.

We fail to see any propriety or sound strategy in the Demoorats handicapping themselves with the support of appointments made during an era of Carnooh nn and TwAPfl Tf M. Millar Via innnliant i fn It be shown ontogh.B'lia fairly fex.