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affecting our very existence, which is jeopar FROM ALBANY. TEMPERANCE. groat damage. A young officer named Blsby, whose nerves were weak from so excited, that he shot himself through the heart. TO DAY'S TOPICS.

Butler Beaten. In the House of Representatives yosterday. the Treasury of the County by the Troasursr ireof Sco. 2. Au actB or parts of acts inouBistint with this act are hereby repealed.

OODE OP ritoOf DUBE, Also an to amend the code of procedure. Section Tho first iaraftriiih of section 256 of the code of procedure ta hereby amended bo as to read bb follows At ony time after issue and ot least fourteen days before the court, either party may give notice of trial. The party giving the notice Bhall furmeh tho court with a note of tho issne containing the title, of the aotlon, the nomo of tho attorneys, aud the time when the last pleading was served, and the olerk shall thereupon enter tho cause upon tho caloodar acaordlng to tbo date of tho issue. In the first and seoond jodiciol districts there must bo but one notice of trial and one note of issue from either party, and the aotlon shall there remain on the calendar until disposed of, and when called may bo brought to trial by the party giving the notice. Sec.

2. Section 258 of the code is hereby amended so aB to read as follows Either party may bring tho issue to trial, and tu tbe ahBonco of the adverso party, rulers of tho court, lor good cause otherwise direct, may proceed with hia case, aad take a dismissal of the complaint, or a verdict of judgmont as the case may reiuire. A soparato trial between a plaintiff and any of the several defendants, may bo allowed by the court whenover in its opinion justice w)U bo thereby promoted. No inquest shall be taken in any case for want of an affidavit of merits in eases where the pleadings aro voritted. OBSCItE MKPiTAI, l.rclll rfi by Itrv.

Juiiim .11. (luckier, in tbo Adclplii academy. The lecture of Rev. James M. Buckley, on "Obscure Mental Phenomena," delivered but evening, at tho Adi Ipbi Academy, was a magnificont effort.

Mr. Buckley has msdo this subject a mailer of special study, snd in his masterly aud attractivo prs sratation thereof, displayed a remarkable familiarity with his tbemo in itn vorious pharos, from both a popular and aciontiflo point of view. Speaking of lunattes, he ild a man In the Flatbush Asylum aBki blm if ho wai a minister, and bdng answered In the affirmative, him that it was fortunate they had mot, as the lunaUo was the oldcBt man the viBitor bad heard of, and well vorsod in Bible literature; that he wai Abel, the brother of Cam, and that instead of being slam, he was only Bcalpid fpointing to his bald head) he added that he was born up the Hudson River, and on being reminded that this was not the Holy Land, explained that this country was discovered by Christopher Columbus, which should bo pronounood "oniilST OVEB COLUMBUS," showing that the Saviour's residenoe on this hemisphere antedated that of Its traditional discoverer. Lu nubes aro not raring maniacs. Many of them are sano to nil appearances, and only exhibited mental halaolns tion ou some single aud often pcoultar topic Adlcr's Germau Dictionary, and a very celebrated Biblo Concordance were written in a lunatio asylum.

A young gjrl believed tbat she was the daughter of but dissent, from the suggestion that she was the sister of Christ, contending that as God and Christ were ono, Bhe must bo the daughter of both. Ono nvin Insisted tbat ho was tho prophet Another that ho was the Lord Jcmib Christ, ia wont of a Johu tho Baptist, which nosition ho offered to Mr. Buckley. A lady thought sho was a glass teapot, and sat with ono arm crooked for the handle aud tno other extended for the spout, and her great fear was that some careless per Jon might run against and break her. Another lady waa only CRAZY.

ON TIIE STJBTECT COPPER, and her friends indulged her mental weakness by having all tbo inteubils in tho houBo mado of ttiat mo'afy but she unfortunately read in tbo papers that a Mr. Cog perman had arrived in t.iwn, and sho wont out in search of him, with the Idea lhat he intended to marry her, nnd when she ascertained that he had left tho city he bi cams a raving mai inc. It often takes years of cartful obN'rvutiou to establish tho fact ot a persons insanity. Ktlptoman'm is ul. a form of defective mentality.

Whei a poor servant irl steals, she in a thief but there are wiveB and dauuhters of wealthy nv afflicted with this curious disease, nnd the) hteal the most ridiculotB thinRs. 'fhenthiro tB "dipsomania," the love of ardent spirits. Children are born with a predisposition to this disease. Persona suffering irom it will drink cologne, kerosene, burning fluid, or anything else containing alcohol. Oue man Buffering from monomania imagined that by ciutinual oxpcotoratiuu ho would get rid of ALL THE BVPETE MATTBlt In his system he therefore kept UP a constant spitting until tbo salivary glands refused to act.

A certain woman believed that she waa required to keep time for the universe, and her tlok, tick was rapidly and uu dized through lack of energy ourselves to organize some opposition to this party who, in pride of place and of power, gorged witu success and plethono wrtn national goia, is madly ruining the country. An opposition is needed, not, as of old, to save the Constitu tion, but to save the country for wnicn tno Constitution was mode, The Oar list Kcf olntion. It is hardly three years since a small band ofCarlists, (not numbering over fourteen persons,) ignited the spark of revolution the province of Catalonia. To day there are 25,000 men under the royal Banner. This army consists of hardy Bisoayans and Navarre66, and is a match for an equal body of Government troops.

It has of late made rapid advances, and is now in sight of the Ebro, which separates Biscay ana arragon from old Castile. In its operations tne armv is lavinp siege to Bilbao, which is ex pected to soon fall, fever within Having leni its aid to the arms of tne enemy wicnoui, This city is the capital of the Province of Biscay, and stands on the river JNerva, population about 25,000. There are productive iron mines at Vaneras, about five miles from Bilbao, whioh, no doubt, the Oarlists want. In the war of 1835 this oity was attaoked by the Queen's troops, under Zumalacarregui (who was there fatally wounded), and now it is again an object of contention between the Carlists and the de facto Government. All the combinations of General Zebala, Minister of War, have failed to arrest the ad vance of the Carlist main body, and two lead ing members of the Government are now at Santander to personally look after means to stop the progress of the enemy.

These facts show that a crisis in the revolution has arrived. Dorregarray, the Carlist General may soon cross the Ebro, with the main body of the army, though this movement would be attended with some danger, for there is discord among the Carlist leaders Dorracerav. who rose from the ranks and has rendered the best service, not liked, it would seem, by the veteran Elio, who will not serve under him, and who has to be given a separate command. How there con be co operation between the cops of the army with this discord among the Generals we cannot see, and as long as this lasts it would be hazardous, in the face of an aotive enemy, to cross the Ebro and advance into a distriot which, as yet, has not deolared for Don Carlos. The valley of the Ebro, if followed, would lead the army into Catalonia and thus enable it to establish communication between the rebellious districts in the North and South.

But, no doubt, aU the disposable troops of the Government would be directed to the south bank of the river to prevent such dangerous movement and it would seem that President Serrano and Topete hove this view. The chances of success on the part of the Carlists are certainly improving, and, if the General in command of the main body will act with prudence some decisive result may be attained. On the other hand. the forces of the Government are over whelming. The calling out of the reserves some time ago placed a large available body in the hands of the ministry; and.

though the Carlists have also mcroasod, the numerical disparity is such as to throw the chances of success on the side of the Government, which is the side of order. On both sides, the good faith of the generals will incline success one way or the other, the rank and file being, of course, under their control but less so on the Carlist side. Mounted Police The Mayor is said to favor the employment of mounted police, although opposed to any increase in the regular patrol department. We believe also, that; mounted police could be employed to advantage in some of the outlying wards of the city. But we are opposed to doing anything touching the matter until the Police Department comes under the control of the city.

At present we can only guess at what is known. When the city's right to manage its own police force shall be restored we shall know what is needed. The present Commission run the department precisely as if it had been organized for their personal profit. The offices are filled by politicians. Effective men have been discharged for no other reason than that they did not vote Gen.

Jourdan's ticket, and there is no pretense of letting the public know what the men employed on the force are doing. No citizen knows whether there were fifty or five hundred burglaries in Brooklyn last month. Until these conditions are changed we shall remain opposed to the increase of the police force, either on foot or horseback. Stranahan and Hunter The Park Commissioners had a meeting last night. Mr.

Stranahan, President of the1 Commission, was present, of course. The' Mayor was also present. Mayor Hunter and. Mr. Stranahan entertain some little differ ences of opinion touching Park affairs.

The Mayor is convinced that the Park cost, and is costing, too much; Mr. Stranahan beliovo3 the work has been, cheaply done, and would like! to spend a few millions more on the ground. Between these two gentlemen, the truth in all probability lies, rather than on the side of, either. They both mean well, and have both1 done well. They have criticised each other! much more sharply than the citizens have had' any oocasion to do.

At the meeting last night the time honored issue was brought up the Mayor insisting upon a reduction of the ex penses and Mr. Stranahan showing that to do so would be the height of folly. The oonver sation is, as reported, characteristic. The Mayor as ever, critical and aggressive; Mr. Stranahan cool, adroit and conciliatory.

Thus it will be till the end of the chapter. If there be any truth in the report of the doings of a cousin of the San Francisco Chief of Police on a recent occasion, we must believe that for "ways that are dark" the heath en Chinee is not peculiar Bret Hurte to the' contrary notwithstanding nor need there bo any apprehension that "the Caucasian is "played out." It appears that on the opening of the new Celestial temple there the other day, there was great curiosity on the part of "Melicon" men and women to witness the ceremonies. Flattered with this attention, the heathen Chinee notified the police, and requested the presence of an officer to preserve order and show the guests about. The officer sent was the cousin spoken of above, who took advantage of his position to charge an admission fee, which he pocketed without the knowledge or consent of the celestial landlords. No, the Caucasian is not played out.

The prize municipal mushroom of the country is Texarkana, in Texas, a town which about three months ago was an uninhabited: wilderness, and now numbers more than two thousand residents with several hundred' buildings already erected and in process of1 erection, two railroads, two express companies, two telegraph lines, and last, but unfortunately not least, forty taverns. Texarkana is too barbaric a name to suit the luxuriant imagination of its population, and so they have reohristened it for familiar conver 1 sation, The Enchanted Village of the Lone Star State," and fondly hope that the example of their rapid growth will be followed in many other localities along the line of the. Southern Facifio Railroad when that has been completed. Mr. Disraelli has taken a house belonging to the widow of a former Duke of Northumberland, in Whitehall Garden.

It is almost next door to that so long tenanted by his, great antagonist, Peel, who breathed his last; in its diningroom, whence he could never be moved after his acoident. The backs of these houses look upon the Thames, and they ore only a few minutes' walk from the House of Commons. The Mayor of Ocontd, Wisconsin, appre ciates the power of the press. Having been1 pretty severely handled by the journals of his locality, he has started a journal of his own, and is going to pay them, off in their own coin. But there is a difference between appreciating and controlling' the power of tha press, as even Dootor Barnes knows by this time, and os.Wb Honor will discover when thi proceeds of business thrift shall havebetn expended in a vain attempt to lift himself by abusing his betters.

A gambler named Manerfleld, of New Or leans, recently picked a quarrel with another named Esquinano, and pistols being drawn, bo got a load of elugs in his shoulder and neck that will render him more peaceful shonld he recover. The Louisville, brewers talk of rais ing the prtso of lager beer from 10 to $11 a barrof. A Billy swindler named Aaron Maos, tinder took to coax money out of Louisville, merchants by giving orders for goods and paying for them in drafts on a bogus house, and got into me worKnousa for a year in consequence. G. 0.

Sanders and Edward Turner quarreled in a store at Carthage, recently. Sanders, who had a stick, waBaocused by Turner of taking advantage of an unarmed man, whereupon Sanders threw the stick away, and struck Tumor with bis flsl.to whioh the unarmed Turner responded by drawing a pistol and shooting Sanders four times, causing hlB death in, a few hours. A man who was run over by a train in Ton ncsse, last Tuesday, shrieked out "My name is Gilson," and expired. A quarry of splendid marble has been struck in Highland County, Va. McMillan, of Meridian, was choked to death at the supper table, lately, by a piece of Bteak Jackson, who was recently tried at Nobles ville, for wife murder, being confined to hia bed by dangerous illness, received the verdict of "not guilty" without rising, the Court having first required his consent to tho rendering of the verdict in his absence.

Congressional summary. Tho United States Senate, yesterday, pass ed a resolution to appoiut a oommittee of threo to attend the toners ol ex President Fillmore, and the Chair annotated Messrs. Fenton.Hamilton and Bayard, The affairs of the District of Columbia were under de hate but without definite aotlon thereupon. Tho Sen ate took the Currency Equalization Bill, aud Mr, Ferry, (Rep. delivered a long argument in fa vor of free banking on the Nauonai causing system.

He argued that the act of 1364, pledging the national fatth hat the currency she old not exceea wss violated by itself, as a section therein provided for the issue of $200,000,000 in Treasury notes, and made themlegaltendersontbelr face; so that, instead of $400,000,000, as contemplated by that act, there wero $000,000,000, and that the pledge was not warranted by the facts. He favored, the increase of the currency, and said the per capita oiroulatlon of the whole ooun try on tho basis of New England, ($62,) would require a volume of currency of $2,480,000,000. After other important business the Senate adjourned. In the House, the Committee on Territories reported bill, which was passed, to prevent the useless slaughter of buffaloes within the territories, making it a punishable offense for any person, not an Indian, to kill, wound, or destroy any female or male bur faloee other than are needed for food or for the market. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill was then taken up and discussed, and the Sanborn contracts incidentally considered.

Mr. Beck, asserted that the appropriations were $319,000, 000, to which was to be added the $4,000,000 extra for the navy, while the estimates only amounted to $308, 000,000, so that the appropriations for the year wera $15,000,000 more than the estimates. He also undertook to prove that the expenses of the current year wero iu excess of the preceding year. He denounoed the Sanborn contracts, the law for whioh, he said, had been engineered by Mr. Garfield and then, passing to the question ol unexplained balances, ho charged that otnotalB were withholding the $72,000,000 of unexpended balances, ond drawing upon them without the authority of Congress and against the law.

Mr. Butler Mass.) said that If he wero convinced that the Secretary of the Treasury had allowed money to be drawn from the Treasury on these unexpended balances to violation of law, he wonld Introduce to morrow a resolution for his impeaohment. He went on, however, to explain the clrcumBtancts, and to argue that tho law had not been violated. Beverting to Mr. Beck's Intimation about the Sanborn contracts, ho said he did not know who had engineered that bill.

If it was the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Garfield), that gentleman had not done badly in that respect. He had seen In tbe publlo prints that he (Mr. Butler) had engineered it. If he had engineered ft iu the interest of Sanborn, ho would have seen to it that Sanborn would have got the contract first.

He expressed the wish that 00 Sanborns could be let out on the rascals who had been defrauding the government, and then Congress would not be obliged to tax the poor man's tea and coffee and matcbeB. There were Btill $15,000, 000 of these direlict taxes uncollected, and Sanborn only wanted to be let loose upon them. Mr, Hawley Conn.) characterized the execution of the Jaw as Infamous it was blackmailing. Several others took part in the discussion, but no conclusion was reached on the bill when the House adjourned. Legislative Summary.

In tho State Senate yesterday, the Chair' presented resolutions of tho Chamber of Commerce of New York adverse to the proposed amendment to tho Ooiistitution for funding the canal debt. Mr. Lowory called attention to an artloie in the Commereial Advertiser, and sent to the clerk to be read a oonfession," in which, in Mr. Lowery's language, the editor of that paper labeled himself a villain. The Chair presented a memorial of tho Chamber of Commerce of New York relative to head money, favoring tbe appointment of two commissioners for the purpose of adjusting the claims of companies having paid head money, and the issuing of bonds payable in twenty years, with 6 per cent.

inU rest, for the payment of suoh claims. The bill relative to the days to bo as holidays In the presentation and payment of commercial paper was passed. Adjourned. The Assembly passed the following bills: To incorporate the Maritime Association of New York. Amending the act relating to the Supreme Court audi flection of Judges of Common Fleas (a the Oity and County of NewYork.

It authorizes the Governor to deslg nato the Judges for holding General Sessions. To amend; the manufacturing law, so as to authorize the forma Uon ox companies to manuxaoture ou. Jeroviaing regulations for the disposal of lands of which persona die seized. Prohibiting the enforcement of mortgagee on canal boats while they are moving with a oargo. To improve Fourth street in the Oity of Brooklyn.

To amend the act to equalize the State tax among the sev eral oonnties with reference to the expense of appeals, To provide iu the City of Brooklyn an ambulance ser vice for sick or injured persons. Adjourned, OBITUARY. Mrs. Cbarlotte Cattlnfr. This lady, who died in Hempstead very.

suddenly on Friday last, was of the highly respectable family of Wiggins, of Flatbush. After her marriage' to Mr. Cutting, she spent some yenrs at Stony Brook, Suffolk County, and went thence to Hempstead. At this plaoe ahe made herself useful to an exemplary extent, as teacher in the Sunday School, and organist of St. George's Eplsoopal Church as teaoher of muslo, and in every flald of duty and personal benevolence.

She was President of the Ladies' Washington Benevolent Society, and it was mainly through' her exertions that the handsome edifice was ereoted celled Washington Hall, in which axe held the' village and town meetings, and which is the principal place for lectures and popular entertainments iti Hempstead. Though delicate in health and feeble in frame, her zeal and senBe of duty led her to the acoom pushment of a large amount of meritorious scrvtoo, which will remain as her monument, while she will bo remembered especially by a large number of the rising gent ration, to whom she imparted the prioolpies of religious and moral instruction and tbe graces of a true refinement. The respect in which she was held was testified by a largo assemblage at the church at the funeral services on Monday. The ladies of the Washington Benevolent Society took special direction. Bev.

Wm. H. Moore, rector of St. George's, pronounced an affecting eulogy at the church. Bev.

Mr. Williams, of Brooklyn, assisted the services. A great profualon of flowers around the bier and altar were arranged with exquisite tastei The remains were burled in the Greenfield Cemetery, juBt south of the village. James H. IWcKinney, Mr.

James H. McEinney a lawyer of this city and ex Tax Collector of Flatbush, died yesterday. Mr. McEinney has been identified with the wealth and progress of this city. He was kind to tbe noedy, ready to help the unfortunate and beloved by tbe large circle of frlendB which be leaves to lament his untimely decease.

He was but twenty six years of age at his death, but had crowded into his life a varioty of ventures, that were of value to others as well as himself. The funeral will take place Thursday at nine o'clock A. M. at his Iato residenoe, corner of Union place and Locust street. MTJUIICIPAL BUSINESS.

ITIeciincr of the Law Committee The Extension of SotOx Thirteenth street, Tho Law Committee met last evening, Present Aldermen Bichsrdson, Bergen, Shlpman, Dor Ion arid Eenna. The petition of Charles Pratt, of the Pratt Astral Oil Works, protesting against the opening of North Thirteenth street, in a direct line through his property to the East Biver, was considered. The Commissioners on the opening allow him only $80,000 damages for his land taken, while he regards toe sum of $160,000 a fair compensation. He proposed to cede the piece of property known us Pratt street to tbe oity and be satisfied with $30,000 damages, if the street should bo extended along that street in a line to the creek. Mr.

Knox appeared as counsel for Mr, Pratt. He contended that under the act authorizing and directing tho extension of the street to the East Blver oould net be effected without bridging over Bushwick Creek Bridge, and there was so intention to build the bridge. A considerable portion of a bulkheid, whioh cost; Mr. Pratt about $60,000, was taken by the opening, but not adequately valued. The damages done to the remainder were estimated at too small a fgtjrs by the Commission.

La view of tho long litigation, and the large akaount of expense and damages whioh, in his judgment, would be entailed, if the OommlssionexV report should be sustained and! pressed by the Common Council, he thought it would be well for the oity to accept Mr. Pratt's compromise, 1 Ex Aid. Taylor also appeared for Mr. Pratt. He ar gaed that his client offered the compromise for the pub good and convenience.

The bulkhead, which would be obtained bv the extension as directed by the latest legisIaUon would be of do public convenience, because of its circumscribed limits. The objections of tbe Fourteenth Ward people to Mr. Pratt's proposition wero, he said, promy ted by a desire to drive him away altogether; because they regarded his factory SB a nulsanoe. Aid. Kenna said the act of 1869 was passed, while the representative of tho people of the Fourteenth Ward, Hon, George L.

Fox, wasslckat home. That act was repealed in 1870. The Commissioners' report has been confirmed by Judge Pratt, and he wbs'of the opinion that tho conflrmntlon would be sustained by the other courts. In view of the confirmation he didn't think it would bo hardly proper for the Board of Aldermen to. interfere just at present and anticipate tbe judgment ot the higher Courts.

He also believed that the bulkhead which would be obtained by the extension of the street under the act, could be used as a wharf and made available fox large shipping. Again, there was a gentleman on the Commission, Supervisor at Large, who bad served on similar commit Blons and must have weighed well all the awards to be made. The argnments pro and con must have been presented by too able counsel on both aides before Judge Pratt who had the rapataT Uon of being a very eminent juriat; In view of all these fads, he claimed that the Committee Bhould froth any interferehqe.) I Ex Aid. Taylor the Oommittee should visit tbe premises to make a personal examination. On motion ot Aid.

Dorlon, the Committee decided to do 89. tie aggrieved members showed their teeth to Butler. A hasty, unparliamentary and wholly premature debate upon the Sanborn contract business was brought on. Butler does not lack moral courage or impudence. No member would help him defend those frauds, yet he did it alone, fought every inch of the way lied, abused, villifled, raged, stormed, got himself into ft heat, lost his breath, and sat down a badly beaten man.

The facts were too much for him. Facts and forts are things that always baffle Ben. While Ben in the House was trying hard to prove to it that Sanborne is an honest man; proof was being accumulated for the night Session of the Committee on Ways and Means, that Jayne'a right hand man, his alter ego is Ben Butler. This leader of the Republican party must have known that while he was fighting for Sanborne on the floor, proof of his collusions withJayne were multiplying in the lobbies, and that the two branches of the great conspiracy were found united and defended only where Ben stood. Even in the present House of Representa tives several members seemed ashamed of Butler's shamelessness.

He, however, boasted of it, and dwelt on the fact that he has no re enrd for the Press. Bon is fond of that phrase, and believes it when he utters it. Tho worst of it is, that in having no regard for the Press, Ben shows no salient point of character for his whole career his every dollar is made up of a lack of regard for all that restrains other men. He had no record for decency as a lawyer; he had no regard for needed knowledge as soldier none for human life no regard for delicacy in woman no regard for faith to principles openly avowed to be as openly disregarded no regard for aught but tfen. It follows that his having no regard for tho Press is so perfectly in keeping with his re garcUessness of everything else, that it lacks the prominence necessary to effectiveness, even in a speech in defense of Sanborn.

Mr. Tenney, of Brooklyn, here first bus pected, and the Eagle first published, the general outline of tho conspiracy. We were threatened with a libel suit for so doine. What has become of that suit? Yesterday, on the floor of the House, Richardson, Secretary of the Treasury, a friend of Sanborn's and the employer of Javne, a man who put the Collectors of the Country at the beck and call of Sanborn even he was forced to abandon Butler oponly Et tu, Brute He actually made the assertion that he had suspended the payment of moieties to informers in cases under the San born contracts and the Custom House seiz ures. Every man in the House shriuks from all suspicion of connection with this mass of filth; and there is little reason to doubt that in it, not Butler alone, but Richardson and Boutwell will sink, and the only salvation for the party is their earliest disappearance.

A Den of Thieves. Consolidation seems to hove become "not less tho watchword of the criminal classes of tho city than of tho "professional reform ers." The latter tell us that in union there would be municipal economy and strength; the former appear to have found that it insures laroe results and immunity from arrest. The single thief or burglar can accomplish little. He is constrained to abide within very narrow limits. In combination with others he finds it possible not only to keep whole neighborhoods in terror, but, as we saw the other day, to take houses by the block and mako their despoliation a wholesale job.

Yesterday Captain Ferry succeeded in unearthing one of theso gangs not yet become effective it is true but full of promise for the future. To twelve active young men and half a dozen attractive young women, hardly anything can be deemed impossible from the robbery of a stroet cor full of passengers to the burglarizing of Hie City Hall. The Captain's discovery was mainly of value because of its sugges tiveness. Because of the light it shed on the processes by which our pickpockets, highway robbers and bank burglars are schooled in their craft. Some admirable old crone, with motherly instincts, consents to shelter them for a moderate consideration.

She places a general sitting, or any other kind of room, at their disposal. In that room the jobs are "put up at leisure;" the weak kneed are strengthened in their aspirations after State Prison honors, and ail the influences that tend to debauoh the mind and brutalize the sentiments are conserved. Gangs of this kind are to be found in every thickly populated portion of the oity. The names of the Battle Row Gang, the Silver gang, The Hudson avenue gang, are familiar. These gangs are known to the police, but from some villainous defeat in the law they cannot be assailed except when in operation.

The members moke no pretense of honesty. They acknowledge what they are pleased to call "their prof ession," and then in substance inform the polioe that punishment can only come with capture, but that they are prepared to take the risk. This was illustrated in the case of the gang arrested by Captain Ferry yosterday morning. The judge had no right to hold them he co uld simply inform them that if they did come before him on a proven charge he would make it hot for them. And he will.

But the scoundrels had to be set at liberty, although luckily it was in the'powerof the court to hold the keeper of the den, and it is not unlikely that punishment will follow her trial. While this is true, however, it is not less true that if the entire pa lice force were under proper management these enemies of honesty and decency would be so harassed by constant raids on their dens that they would be compelled to disperse. But what with politics on the one hand, orders for the suppression of news on the other, and conspicuous incompetence over is to be looked for but the state of things we have? The Lessen of tbe New Hampshire Election, The news that comes from New Hampshire is of the most saddening kind to the observer. There has ben a Democratic gain in that State. The gain, however, is so paltry that to tho observation of the unbiased, it means a Republican victory, even if the Democrats carry the State.

The sad warning of this election lies in the fact that it has come at the very moment when tho rottenness of an effete administration and party have reached a point beyond which it is icarce possible for political corruption to reach, and when its feebleness, mental and moral, as well as its degradation in spirit, is manifest even to itself and the most uncalculating of its own followers. It is estimated that so far, there is. in the election being held in New Hampshire a Republican loss of a couple of thousand Why, in face of the state of things now in existence in Washington and known throughout the country, that or any other State to whom opportunity was first offered, should have rebuked such doings by a Republican loss of two thirds of the Republican vote. The apathy of the people is one of, the very worst of signs, one of the most dangerous of effects. If a people with the power of tho ballot in their accustomed hands permit the revenues of the Nation to be parceled out among thieves, the operations of commerce to bo clogged by spies and informers, the currency of the country to re main in a state that unsettles all values or ideas of values if a people with the power of tho ballot in their accustomed hands wiU stand all this, and not feel and act so as to check the engulphing errors of a party; if they will raise no opposition to chock even, if not to displace a party so dangerous and so degraded, then is that time coming which the French philosopher prophesied for us Jin tomberont comme.

des pommcs pourittes, sans avoir jamais ete mure," De Tocquo ville is not road now, nor Jefferson, nor anything but tho money column but surely the money column, and the stock returns, and the state of the banks) might afford thinking men an evidence that we cannot go on stealing our own property in this way, making a pandemoDium of States South, and robbing as, with a "jimmy" the safes of commerce at the' North, while our lands are passing into the possession of a few railroad companies, who already control the distribution of our pro ducts and the rates of our fuel. These are not questions of politics, Demo cratio hord or soft shells, of Republican liberal or radical, of who was Copperhead before or after the war. They are questions The Academy Crowded Last Evening. AdCrvsEfsby Bcr. Dr.

Frlol and Ber. Falbtr Kcegan A Basis of Union Between tho Catholic T. A. B. Soclotlei.

A grand temperance demonstration, vmdor the auspices of tho Catholic Total Abstinence Union, of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was held iu tho Academy of Musio last evening. It was a perfect success, and if any evidence was needed of tho deep interest felt by the Catholic Church in the great cause of temperance, an abundant proof was hero furnlBhcd. Tho Academy auditorium was crowded in overy part by an orderly and Intelligent audience, largely composed of ladies, and tho greatest amount of enthusiasm was manifested in what was said and done. Over the stage in graceful half oircle hnng the Stars and Stripes, and the proscenium boxes wero similarly decorated. Tho private box to tho left of tho stage wbb occupied by Bishop Loughlin, of the Diocese, Vicar General Turner, and Mr.

J. W. O'Brien, Secretory of tho National Total Abstinence Union of Brooklyn. In another box was Dr. Henderson, Secretary of the Irish Convention, and his lady.

Upon the Btago were Fathers O'Beilly, O'Haro, Franslols, Eeegan, Moran, Fagan, Taafc, McElroy, Corcorau, McCarthy, O'Brien, and Maguire. Mr. aud Mrs. Lawrence, the crusaders, and Mrs. Laura E.

Webb, of tho ircakrn Sun, wero in the parquet. Tho music was rendered by Father CReillj's Band, under tho able leadership of Mr. Mark Halicm. Tho following societies composing tbo Temperance Union were present in regalia St. Peter's Society, 125 men 8t.

Joseph's, 200 Our Lady of Mercy, 100 St. JameB, 200 St. Mary of the Visitation, 75 St. Mary's Star of the Sea, 75 St. John, 130 Onf Lady or Victory, 100; St.

Augustine, 76; St. Charles Borromoo, 100; St. Vincent de Paul, 75; St. Anthony, E. 100; St.

Molachi, East New York, 100 Society of the Holy Cross, Flatbush, 160 St. Patrick's, Fort Hamilton, 150. The meeting was opened by the band performing a medley of popular airs, after which Mr. John F. Mur tagh, President of the Diocesan Union, camo forward and Bpoke sb follows Ladies and Gentlomon As President of the Diocesan Total Abstinence, Union, I have tho pleasure of opening this meeting and of Introducing to you the Reverend Father Eeegan, pastor of the Church of the As sumption.

BEV. FATHEIt KEEQAN's ADDBESS. The Bev. gentleman spoke in substance as follows: I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, in the name of the poor for attending here this evening, and I think It is a sign that you are in favor of the Union. You have not come to hear anything new upon the cause of temperance or the vice of drunkenness.

We are here in the name and for the cause of charity and that word has been the key note of this gathering. Who can ha.ir tbe cry of tho hungry, no matter what their creed or race, or color, without a feeling of sympathy for them. We are here then this evening in favor of temperanco don, and for the cause of tbe poor. As this is neither a sermon or a lecture I think we can speak out, the thoughts tbat are in us. God will bless and God will prosper the members of these temperance societies, for tbev ore under the sanction of our Blaht Bev.

Bishop. and of the church, and charity springing from sucb a source is blessed both to tho giver and receiver. It is to be regretted that tho merit of the gift is often lost to tho giver for tbo want of Bupexnataxal grace in THE SOUL OF MAN, but the member of theso societies who lives up to a strict performance of his religious duties will bo blessed for they aro sanctioned by tbe church. When Petor the Hermit, a poor mouk, began to preach the idea of a crusade to recover the Holy Sepulchre ho was looked upon ae a maniao or a foolish enthusiast, hated, despised and hooted from place to place to place, and yet so great was his faith, aud bo Btrong hia hope, and bo earnest his zeal and perseverance and prayers, that he not only aroused tho mind of Frasco, but really inf U30d, as it were, into the mind of Europe a kind of holy heroism, and the hosts marched onward under his lead, with tho watohword: "God wills it I God wills It 1" From that day to the present cruBadcBwcro being inaugurated aud societies organized under tho special protection of the church and under the special protection of God and everywhere with the greatest success. Beside being here in the cause of charity, wo ore here in the cause of union, to effect a greuer Inroad against the evils of intemperance.

Want of union has been the cause of more woo and misery to mankind than anything else in the world, and as Peter the Hermit took the Cross for his standard, so do me, and what better standard Is thcro than it 7 Want of union his brought woe and sorrow upon the faco of the earth. The fair fields of France have been drenched in blood for tbe want of union. Want of union has kept IRELAND UNDER THE HEEL of the oppressor, and in chains and slavery these nisny centuries. Let a poople have but union and I care not what be their numbers, What has prcservod this glori oub land but union 7 Had you torn down that banner you would have extinguished the fire of patriotism In the breast of every one of her defenders. As in tho physical world bo in tho moral, union has sustained the church.

Though darkness and cloud, chaos and confusion, may Burround her, yet she emerges therefrom triumphant to NEW BTKENGTH AND GREATNESS, The missionary gocB forth to the ends of tho earth, carrying only his cross snd his breviary, and with tirmi alone wins his way to the darkest places of man. You temperance men who have come here this evening, have enrolled yourselves under the banner of tho cross and are Boldiers of Christ. A house divided against herself cannot Btand, and bo you must keep united Btrong in the bonds of union to win victory. Iu Heaven itself, all was peace and Joy until disunion entered, but the cross hurled the rebellious angels dowu to bell. The reverned speaker then related a Btory of a child whem bo met in York street, without shoes, foUowlng a orunten tacuer witn a uotuo or liquor in nis bosom The man dashed tho bottle to tho ground, and has nevor touched a drop since.

He cloBed by saying tbat they were there to establish a grand Temperance Union, and "Union" would bo their motto. BEV. DB. FBEKL'S ADDBESS. The Chairman then introduced the Bev.

Dr. Freel, pastor of tbo Church of St. Charles Borromeb, who was received with great apnlaUBO. He said that it was indeed a great and glorious demonstration in favor of the causa of temparunce to sea nearly twenty societies, representing three thousand members, as be saw them before him. Every oue present bad tbe consolation in knowing that he was encouraging two great virtues temperance and charity.

He would occupy their tune ror a brier Interval in calling to their muitla a few facts as to tho lessons to be drawn zrom roe uie ana success oi ine great aposuo ol temperance Father Mathew. His greatness wsb every one's daily conversation, and we all felt that his life recalled to mmd that it had been' one of constant labor and a sacrifice to the cause. Ho WS8 ONE OF THE CHUBOH's PRUDENT HEROES, and the moral leader of four million souls. What was the secret of tbat great mastery over so many souls? It was simply the application of tho divine principles of Christianity and of the Divine Redeemer of the world. It was meditation on the example of the apostles and recalling to mind tho force of the words of Christ.

"Follow Me." Alas, how many are there so weak, that the first taste of the intoxicating bowl Is followed by a thirst that, cannot bo satisfied. How many homeB have been made a perfect wreck, by the demon of intemperance. How many talents havo been squandered, or burled in gloom and Bloth. How many cedars of Lebanon have been laid low by tbe all blasting, all destroying plague of intemperance. Applause).

The victiniB of that great slu may be seen in every prison, in every poorhouse. in every workhouse, IN EVERY MADHOUSE, In the withered cheekB, and finally, we kuow too well, in the torments of hell. It 1b, therefore, clearly our duty to step between the drunkard and the gates of hell, and thus earn the eternal crown and reward of Heaven. It was meditation on theselgreat truths that caused Father Mathew to become the leader of temperance. The speaker then reviewed, In a sucolact manner, the life and work of the greot advocate of and the blessing he had been to the world.

In 1839 Father Mathew began his temperance work, and in 1851 be died. When be could no longer speak thousands came to him and took the pledge. Dead ic could not bo said that he is, for his works are still alive, and ho In them. His name Is a spell word, telling the world of every social virtue. ffe then enoke of temperance as a Christian vlrtuo, ond said, in closing, that the Cathobo Church wished to see temperance sucoeed.

Great applause. THE BESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were then read by Mr; Murtagh, aud adopted: Iteaolned, Tbat the sixteen societies composing this, The Catholio Total Abstinence Union, of tho Diocesd of Brooklyn, repxosented at this meeting, ratify the action of the Catholio Total Abstinence Union of Amor ica, in tendering friendship and alliance to the clorgj ana societies or Ireland engaged in the temperance cauee tbat we are ready to receive and welcome emigrant members, properly accredited, and Ehall do what we can to protect them here from bad influences, and help them In the path of temperanco and honor that wo thank the Cardinal. Arohbishons. Bishops and Clergy of Ireland, for their strong indorsement of our movement in this cauBe, and also for tho courtesies shown to tbe representative, J.

J. O. Mahoney, duly accredited by the National Union of Americo to represent our cause with the temporanco movement throughout Ireland, and to bring about a union of their societies with our unions. Eesohed, Tbat wo strongly recommend the formation of Catboho Temperanco Societies iu every parish whore none exist, if deemed advisable by the pastor; and also, that all Catholio Church Temperanco Societies now existing and not being attached to an Diocesan Union, that they do make application forthwith to our Board of Ofllcers, who will givo all facilities for bo itoeorred', That this Union is convinced that the establishment of libraries in tho meeting rooms of the several societies wonld be a powerful means to further the cause of temperance and benefit individual members. Resolved, That the thanks of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union Diocese of Brooklyn are gratefully tendered to our Bight Bev, Bishop and our reverend clergy for their powerful aid in the cause, especially to tho Very Bev.

Father Turner, V. to the Bev. William Eeegan snd the Be r. Dr. Freel for timely assistance to our Committees on this occasion upon their efforts to bring this meeting to a buccosb.

Jtesoh eil, That the thanks of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union Diocese of Brooklyn bo and aro heroby given to the Bev. Father OTtelUy for his very liberal offer of the use of his splendid Band on this occasion. Resolved, Tbat the thanks of our Union be and the same 1b hereby extended to tbo press of Brooklyn and New York, for its generous and gratuitous announcement of this meeting. The audience then quietly dispersed. CONGREGATIONAL DISCIPLINE.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle An opposition exists between the respective pastors of the Church of tbe Pilgrims and the Clinton avenue Congregational Church on the one hand, and the eminent pastor of Plymouth Church on tho other, in reBpcct to what was a propex course to have been taken in a case of discipline, which the members of the respective churches also participate in, those of Dr. Btorra' and those of Dr. Budington's, in the majority, sustaining the views of their respected pastors, while Mr. Beecher's church probably sanction his views, although it is said some do not. Want of harmony of action bos sprung up in reference to what is the proper course to be taken.

Dr.Storrsand Dr. Budlngton claim the proceeding on the part of Mr. Beechor and Plsmouth Church toward other churches of the same denomination embraced within a certain extent of territory, unBcriptural, and showing a want of courtesy on the port of Plymouth Church in claiming to be independent, and not called upon to submit its aotlon to a council of churches. It may be that honest'differenco of opinion may bo held by those who truly desire to walk in all tho ordinances of the Lord blameless," and to oonform to scriptural rules governing a church of Christ. The claim of independency is not at all admlssable in a case where the action of a church violates Scripture rules which all admit should govern all.

Knowing as Mr. Bcecher does what is the Scripture view of the formation of a church of Christ, and believing aB he must that while he olaim? Plymouth Church is thus must admit that other churches must albo be regarded as thus formed, and while he must claim that no Buch church may unre proved go contrary to Scriptural direction, he must admit that other churches formed life that of Plymouth, by Scriptural guiding, have a right to an answer why tbat church does contrary in a case, of discipline to Christ's word; and the plea of independence 1b a very mile one. The Pastor of Plymouth Church ib clearly iu the wrong, as are the brethren who Buetaln himi First, In doing a wrong. 8econd, In extenuating the act by saying Pybnouth Church is an Independent uburoh. Third, tn virtually declaring ether churches should not have regard to the good name of Plymouth Ohuroh nor desireits fellowship; that versatile talents and truly Christian and sympathetic character may lead him to aeo that those who take different view from what he does are In the right and decide him to join with them the wisdow of a decision of a Caunoil of Church hi much to be desired.

A Lax CoNOBfaACTOVAiirsTi Incorporation of the Brooklyn Guar anty and Trust Company. (Jonrts of WtU and Criminal Jntisdiotlon Prevention of FrandB in Sale of Straw Pay of the Brooklyn Firemen The Third Avenue Assessment BUI Estorilon of tias Companles Sammoulng Jurors Benefits of Prospect Park. Albany, Maroh 10, 1874. Mr. Allen's bill to incorporate the Brooklyn Guaranty and Trust brief abBtraot of which I sent you by telegraph, reads substantially as follows Franklin Woodruff, Samuel McLean, Geo.

L. Nichols, Fredcriok A. Schroeder, Nelson Shaurman, Silas B. Dufeher, Andrew J. Perry, B.

Cornell White, Ludorto Bennet, Loran Palmer, Alfred Becar, Samuel Bachnrds, Isaac L. Hewitt, Edward A. Fowler, John S. Ward, John W. Mason, William H.

Swan, and BUoh other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politio, under tho samo of tho Brooklyn GTJABANTY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, and by tbat name ehaU have perpetual succession, and may Bue and be eued iu any court whatever. The business and the corporate powers of said Company shall be exercised by a Board of Directors to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall cleot from their number a President, Vice President aud Secretary, of whioh Directors seven shall constitute a quorum for tho transaction of business. Said Board Bhall have power to make all such bylaws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with tho Constitution and Ibwb of thiB State, as they may deem necossaay for tho conduot of its affairs, and appoint and employ such agents and servants as the management of its bustncis may require. Tbe first Board of Directors of said Company shall consist of such of the persons named in tho first section of this act, not exceeding thirteen, as may bo chosen by a majority of all such persons at a meeting to be called for tbat purpose and to be bold within thirty days after the passage of this act, upon notice to each one of such persons signed by a majority thereof and in ca66 at said meeting so many of such persons namod in such first section Bhall refuse to serve as to reduce the number ohosan and willing to serve below 13, then these actually chosen at such meeting may at any time previous to the commencement of business au thorized by this act fill such vacancies. The term of office of such first Board shall be not less than one nor moro than three years from tho organization of said Company.

PItANKIiIH WOODKTJIT, SAMUEL MO MAN, Frederick Schroeder, Andrew J. Perry, and liudovto Bennet aro hereby appointed commissioners to open books for subscriptions to the capital acock of sold Company at such time and place as they may deem proper, and fox Each amounts aa in their judgment tho business of the Company may require, but for no less than $.00,000. The capital stock of said Company shall be $500,000, divided into shares of $100 each. When $250,000 Bhall have been subscribed, and $100,000 paid cash. The company may proceed to business, and said capital Block may bo increased from time to time as may be deemed best.

The Corporation EhaU have the general powers and privileges and be subject to the liabilities mentioned in title 3, chapter 18, part 1, of tho revised statutes and in addition shall have power to guarante tho payment, punctual collection and payment of promissory notes, bills of exchange, foreign or domestic, claims, accounts, evidences of debt, bonds and mortgages, or in other words, the power both of a trust company and a bank. It ehaU bo lawful for said Corporation to sell at public auction or private sale, as may be specified in any contract between the parties, nil property of what kind soever which shall be iu their possession after two months shall have elapsed from tho time ot the maturity of any obligation and under such contract (or immediately upon tho discovery of any fraud, misrepresentation or concealment in regard to the ownership or character of the property mentioned in or affected sucb contract) and re emburse themselves out of the avails of such sales for the money due them, with the interest, cost and charges. In case any property deposited with Iho Baid corporation upon which any advance Bhall have been mads by them, shall, before the maturity of tho contract, from any cause, decrease iu value from the price originally fixed, said Company may give nolioo to tho owner of said property or hiB agent to perform the conditions of the contract or make good the deflolenoy caused by such dccrcaBc in value within thirty days, and in default thereof may sell and dispose of such property at public sale, and out of the proceeds thereof may retain tho amount duo them under the contract, togothcr wtth the costs, charges and expenses. This is probably the most COMPKEHEN6IVE AND SWEEPING act of this nature ever submitted to a legislative body, and were it not for tho names whioh appear in it names of meu who aro Bupposod to be actually in earnest in their desire to procure its passage ono ooiiil scarcely avoid believing that it wsb Bomo stupendous joko, originated to test the credulity of mankind in general and legislators in particular. The bill contemplates tho establishment of a vast pawn shop, which will gobble up everything offered, but will be restricted by no such regulations as bind leas favored Institutions of the some character.

Mr. McGroarty will introduce An Act to amend tho act relative to Courts of orvlli AND OHIMINA.1. JTTEISDICTION in Brooklyn; passed April 14, 1871. SECTION I. Section 1, of the said act, passed April 14, 1871, is' heroby amended so as to read aB follows: Section 1.

The civil jurisdiction of the Jnstloes of the Peace, of Brooklyn, hi actions as provided for in Section 53, of the Code of Procedure aud in actions for tho recovery of personal propcxty as now provided by law is hereby extended to $500. SECTION II. Section 2, of Bald act, passed April 11, 1871, Is here by amended so as to read as ollows; Soo. 2. In all actions hereinafter commenced In said Courts, where the amount of recovery shall be $100 or more, the plaintiff, when defendant does not, appear and answer, shall recover tbe sum of $7, and in oil such coses where an issue shall be joined and a trial had, the sum of $12, and where the amount of recovery shall be $250 or more, the plaintiff, where defendant doQB not appear and answer, shall recover $15; and In all caseB where an issue shall be joined aud a trial had, $25 as costs, in addition to the costs and fees now allowed by law.

SECTION nr. Sec. 3 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows Sec. 8. If judgment be given against the plaintiff In any such action after an appearance by the defendant, the defendant shall recover $7, when judgment is ordered without a trial, and $10 when a trial Bhall have been had, iu addition to the costs now allowed him by law, except where tbe personal property sought to he recovered shall amount to $260 or more, when the defendant shall recover $14 when judgment is ordered without a trial, and $20 when a trial shall have been bad, in addition to the costs now allowed him by law and where a trial shall be postponed on cause shown, after issued joined, the oourt may impose 'costs to the amount of $5, exoept in actions where the sum sought to be recovered shall exceed $250, fn which oase the court may impose costs to the amount of $10 beside disbursements, as a condition of the postponement.

The same gentleman has a bill for the PEEVETNION OF FBATOS on the sale of hay and straw. It provides that hay and straw ehall be sold by net weight, and any yerson falsifying said weight shall be deemed guilty of a mte demeanor. Mr. Mel pin, of Sings, who is still smarting under the cutting repartee of Mr. Wegstaff but week, purposes presenting a bill burlesquing the Bergh Cruelty to Animals act, which was pressed by Mr.

Wagstaff. The leading provision of the burlesque act is one ordaining tbat any person convicted of cruelty to any animal shall receive TWENTT F1VE LASHES ON THB BABE BAOE at the hands of the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and 111 the presence of the President of the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, who shall report the puniahment and the man ner in which it is borno to the Governor of tho State, The bill abounds In abstruse terms of natural history, and is altogether as rldioulous a compound of sense and nonsense bb could well be conceived. Its.originator oould not have entrusted it to better hands. The sub Committee of the Whole will to morrow favorably report Mr. Bennett's Grand street Opening Bill, with some unimportant amendments, one of which extends the street about a mile further into Newtown.

For reasons which have already been de tailed in the columns of tho Eaole, there is not much prospect of the passogo or the bill, although tho persons interested in it will use every exertion to carry it through. Tbe secret is leaking out gradually tbat (tie cheapest way to improve valueless property is to get the city to do It, and should this bill pass there would be an avalanche of Bimilar measures poured upon this luckless Legislature. Mr, Bonohue's bill increasing tbe pay of 1 BBOOKIiTN FIBEMEN will be favorably roportcd to morrow. That gentleman Is In receipt of a statement from a committee consisting of Chas. F.

Pouch, Michael Carberry, CuarlaS Travis, and Bicfaard Lamb, setting forth that the yearly cost for uniform to each fireman is $96.60, not including $7 for a fire bat, and that although their duties are the same as those of the New York firemen, their pay is much smaller. The following shows the difference New York. Brooklyn. Foreman $1,500 $1,100 engineer 1,560 l.los Driver 1,200 1,000 Stskor 1,250 000 Private 1,200 900 The document contrasts the pay of tbe policemen $1,100 with those of the firemen, and finally urges the passage of Mr. Donahue's bill.

Mr. Melvin's IBIBD AVENUE SEWEB ASSESSMENT Bill, and Mr. Worth'B bill relative to repairing Court street (putting one third of the cost on the oity), will be reported to morrow favorably. EXTORTION BY OAS COMPANIES. In Committee of the Whole this evening the bill in troduced by Mr.

Mo Afee, of New York, and entitled An Act to prevent Extortion by Gas Companies, came up. It reads as follows: Section 1. It shall not be lawful for any corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of gas in the counties of New York or Kings to charge a greater sum per thousand for cbs suDDlled to one oonsumer or class of consumers than other consumers, but the rate shall be unilorm to an consumers, proviaea, nevertheless, that nothing In this act contained shall prevent any com nanv from chontlns city or village municipalities a leas sum than may bo charged to private consumers or from msKing a special race zor any Duuaiug, useq ror cuan table. publio or recreative purposes, nor from charging provided in all oases tbat the charge per thousand feet to those consuming equal quantities suaii Do tne same. If anv corporation shall violate the provisions of this act, Buch corporation ehall be liable to pay a penalty of nity aouars lor eaon tnousana zeei so overouargea, to be recovered in an action bv the person or persons against wbom Buch overcharge la made.

Mr. MoAfee ably supported his bill, and produced evidences of extortion praotlced in his own district. After objections on tbe part of Col. C. S.

Spencer, who is becoming a chronic objeotor, the bill was ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly. Mr. Bennett Introduced Ah Act to amend an act entitled, "An Aot in reference tethe BtTMMONINO 07 JTJBOB8 in the County of King, and fixing the compensation, of the Sheriff therefor: Passed April 1, 1873. LTho eeoond aeotion of ah vsl entitled (see title), passed April 1, 1873, Laws of 1878, Chap.

166, la hereby amended so as to read as follows "Hut grand and petit Juroxa shall the same as now, paid, ont of Journalistic Oomments on Current Events. How nunpshlre Bntlerlsm In "the Party The Claim of Locality Down Town Lodgings, etc. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. The Timet prepares its readers for Its reflection! on the probable defeat of "the party tu Hew Hampshire by Blurting out with the assertion that pohtioal con tests in Now Hampshire derive their chief Interest from the even division of parties." Having thus pre pared the itepuWloan mind for the unpleasant contem plation of figures which do not lie, it proceeds to explain the Bucoesa of the Democrats on the theory that Republican majorities there have always been small, the Democrats have therefore been lnolted to increased exertion at each election, taking advantage of local fends and personal preferences. It says the reBUlt of yesterday's election was not very conclusive, "bat it is no worse than that of 1871, whioh was a lore "runner of the grandest political triumph ever "achieved by the Republican Party.

It is a gratifying "fact in yesterday's election, that the Bepubtlcans "gain in the country districts. It shows that the larm "ers, who have always been the chief support of the "Bepublican party, still sustain it." BCXLEEISM IN THE PABTY. The World, though doubtless concurring in the well deserved criticism of the Times on Butler, is not pre DaiMl to accept the saorifloe of even so great a mon eUoaty as Butler as all that is needed for the good of the country. It says: "The Timet would have it be 'lleved that Butler Is the one black sheep of the Bepub lioan flock. In tact, Bntler differs from the other effl "ctent Bepublican leaders only in possessing more ablll "ty.and greater Intrepidity.

The "Butleriem" on which "tho Time pours out the foaming viols or its inaig "nation, is only a bolder type of "Grantism." Grant began by beEtowing fat offices on all his relations by blood or by marriage, and on all who had made him presents. Bntler, with a deeper insight into politic, "saw that political power needs to be kept as well as used, snd favored the bestowal of offloes rather upon unscrupulous intriguers who areoapableof efficient service than upon poor sticks of blood relations who can give nothing In return. In point of respectabili "tf, 'Grantism' has no advantage over Da point of eenBe and 'soonoe' Butterism is superior, since it is better to have augers that will bore (to use "a favorite expression of President Lincoln's) than "augers that will not bore." THE CLAIM OF LOCALITY. The Tribune is disgusted with the olauns of looalMs already heard, as influencing nominations of Congress grcssmen to be elected this year, and says "From "several districts reports are coming in ttisi the "Honorable L. O.

Statesman, who has for two terms "represented the distriot composed of Subsidy, Grabbe "and Steele Counties, Is about to retire in accordance "with a general demand from the last county, which "has not had the representative for three terms. No "dissatisfaction is expressed with the sitting member. "But he Is called upon to get out of the way and to "allow some raw office seeker from an other county to hare his share of the glory and profit whieh comes to the average Congressman, and the man who per haj a had reached the stage of intelligent dlsoharge of duty retires to private life and passes the rest of his days iu watching for a chance to cnt Into the game "in behalf of the justolatms of old Subsidy." "It would be hard to imagine an abuse more injurious to "tho public service than this. It violates the very inten tion aud spirit of the Constitution in providing that "members should represent tbe States, and not counties, townB or villages." THE ABBEY FOB LIVTNaBTOKE. The Herald refers to the offeror Dean Stanley, to Liviogc tone's give the remains cepnlchre in Westminster Alboy, without waiting for the oustomary request on the part of friends, as a "very gracious "thing," and says By all means give Livingstone a "resting place in the Abbey for few mon who re.t "there have done as much for the true glory of Eng land and the English name.

Not since Columbus made "his renowned voyage, has mankind seen anything "that approached the dauutZessncss and eagaolty of 'the iron hearted explorer of Africa. The world knows "what he has done since, when, in 1810, he landsd in "Africa, a timple missionary of Christ, and it is need "less now to repeat the record of his brave, self deny "ingllfe. The Nile problem, which so exeroised his "mind, aud to the eolation of which he has set the seal "of Ann It was one whioh has engaged the minds and "fired tho ambition of all hiatcrio ages." DOWN TOWN LODGINGS. The Journal of Commerce objects to the manner in which the peoplo who are endeavoring to turn a lot of down town lofts into residence! for olerks and others, not only because they are organizing an association, when the business could better bo done by two or three persons in a private, unorganized way; butalso because they are parading their purpo3e as one of "charity" and "grand moral influence," when it should bo a business affair, and nothing else. The Journal is rijht, but not severe enough; for this movement originated in the natural desire of property owners to turn their lofts to profitable account; and to call it in ony sene, a "work of charity" is to offer an insult to the Bdf supporting manhood which is expected to occupy the buildings, and to the common sense of the wliole community.

Of the projcot itself, the Journal cays "Ono authority assures us that lof t3 15 by 100 feet "could be remodeled into lodging apartments for "000, and easily leased so as to yield 11 per oent. on the "Investment. There are top floors down town "to hold 100,000 people comfortably. These floore, It "is assumed, could be rented cheaply on long leases, "and when fitted up for ocoupanoy, could be profitably "sub let to people at much lower rates than they now "pay for less room up town, or in Brooklyn, or Jersey City." Sews summary Additional dispatches from the Gold Coast report that Gen. Wolsetey recrossed the Elver Frah February 15.

Three of the six Kings tributary to King Koffco have submitted to the British. It is thought that the Ashantee Kingdom la broken up. The London News and Telegraph announce that tte Ashantee King agrees to pay 50,000 ounces of gold as war indemnity; renounces all ciaim'to Adansi, Asahi, Derkera, AWro, and Wassaw; withdraws his forceB framthe ooast belonging to Great Britain or under British protection; to maintain a good road from Ooo nussie to Prah Elver, and protect merchandise passing overthe same; to prohibit human sacrifices; and swears a perpetual peaoe with England. Gan. Wolseley does not expect the entire indemnity will ever be paid; but considers the other pointa of far greater Importance.

A garrieon is to be maintained by the British at Prah su. The London News has an appreciative obituary article on the late ex President Fillmore. The Telegraph publishes a long statement signed by Charles Orton, in which the writer confesses that he recognized the Tichborne claimant as his' brother the first time he saw him, and that silence on his part was bought with 6 paid monthly for year, and the promise of a thousand or two additional at tbe conclusion of the trial. A furious saow storm, accompanied in some placeB by lightning, prevailed in England yesterday. Emile Olivier will probably be reoerved intoi the French Academy without apubito testimonial.

A movement was made in the Frenob Assembly yesterday, toward the Impeachment of Gambetta for sacnflclng national defense for political designs. The hands ot the steamer Edgar Stuart at Baltimore were paid oil yeBterday, and the vesBel released. Franklin Fredericks was arrested yesterday near Pottstown, charged with being couoerned in the attempted robbery of the Pottstown (not Pastown bank, reported yesterday. The Vermont State Grange made arrangements last Thursday by which members can buy and sell gocds through a State agent. James M'oEenna was knocked against a wall by a train of cars, near Fall River, last Saturday, but he rebounded and fell on the track, when the oars passed over and killed hint.

Wm. H. Patridge, aged 1G, waB arrested for forging orders on Boston firms to the extent of 100. Mr. Dain, of Yorkville, was shot in the abdomen by a burglar on Monday night, and died yesterday.

No arrests were made. Tho Virginia Senate yesterday passed a resolution calling on Congress to indorse $17,000,000 of hi 0 per cent, bonds, in order to restore the credit of the State and induce immigration and the develops ment of her resources. The press feeders on the Philadelphia Evmrng Telegraph struck for higher wages and the control of their hours of work yesterday, and quit work when the first edition la usually issued. They were promptly discharged, and girls taken on in their places. A man named Fitzpatrick was yesterday: arreBted in Chicago, on suspicion of having murdered his wife, who was found dead on the floor, with her head crushed in.

By a sudden thaw, the village of N. 8., was completely flooded last Wednesday, and many families abandoned their houses altogether; while others took refuge in the second stories, while travel could only be accomplished in boots. The next day, the mountains of ice, the logs, uprooted treeB, and other things, were frozen solid, and the village is now imbedded in a soa of ioe, and the river is indesorlbablej Two hundred head of cattle were driven through a thickly populated ranch, at Brownsville, Texas, on the 5th, by twelve well armed Mexicans. Early yesterday morning nine houses, or one block six on one side and three on the other in Jersey Cltf, were entered and robbed by burglars.1 Three hundred dollars worth of property was taken altogether. In one house, a little girl waked and saw a negro standing by the bed, and when she attempted to give an alarm, he clapped a chloroformed sponge to her mouthy and ahe became unconscious.

In another house, a woman who waked up gave the alarm, and the negro fled. Joseph Longwortb, of Philadelphia, has as an endowment for a department in Cincinnati University. Two young men were sent 'to prison for. four years in Newark, N. on Saturday, tor arson.

The Baltimore Annual Methodist Conference has unanimously expelled Bev. Albert Jump for gross immorality. 1,. M. Hale, the Vioksburg Chief of Police, has been arrested on tho charge of blackmailing gamblers, Three burglars gagged and bound th? watchman of the Postown (Pa.) National Bank last Friday nighty having offeoted an entranoe through the sidewalk grating, and bored away at the chilled iron doors of tho vault UU four o'clock Saturday morning, wMhontmaMrig any Impression.

avion, which arrived at Portland, from Liverpool, last Friday, was the roughest sheerer experienced, a cyclone baring bunt njpoa her on the 2fltu etui lag WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 11. This I'apcr Has the Largest circulation of any Evening Paper Published In the United States. Its Value as an Advertising medium is therefore apparent. Kate MCotfdartf'fc Booh.

Kate Stoddard, or as she is now beginning to be better known, Lizzie King, has been a long time in jail and is really in need of money. She has been lying in jail under A legal suspicion of murder. Ex Chief of Police Campbell, having, through the instrumentality of a female detective named Henley, traced Kate's intimacy with Goodrioh, and finally having laid a trap for her caught her and so caught her as to decide her guilt in advauoo of her trial, as far as public opin'en is concerned. This was one of the q.iietost and best pieces of detectivp t. oric ever wrought out in Brooklyn Ci' jn'cw York.

It will bo recollected that Commissioner Jourdan pooh poohed the chief, bad his own theory of the murder's being no murder at all but a suicide ond it will also be recollected that Jourdan disorganized the police force itself to obstruct Campbell in his pursuit of the murderess and that Campbell actually paid Mary Henley out of his own pocket at the close of the working of a plan ho know to bo perfect. "Well, Campbell, for political reasons, was removed but Koto continues in jail. She has no money and has taken it in her crazy, or pretended crazy head to dismiss her lawyers, and has no adviser now but Jourdan, who always did oppose Campbell steadily, till Campbell quietly proved his wisdom by proving the wholo case. Kato goes to Jourdan. Jourdan and she talk this matter of no money over; and Kate issues a copyrighted pamphlet, which through Jourdan she is persuaded to print.

Tbe pamphlet appeared yesterday. Now it were easy to censure Kate for trying to make money of the tragedy of Charles Goodrich's death; but after all the woman must have money and takes what she thinks a ready way to get it. In this pamphlet Kato says she did not shoot Goodrich, and believes he shot himself! Twice in the back of tko head, once in the forehead She says AftfT going up stairs I went to Bleep. I presume I had slept over two hours. I was awakened by tho report ol a firearm.

I did not know at first whother It was in the house or outside, as all the doora were closed in the hall. I dressed and ran down stairs. 3)n dining room door, at tho foot of tho sHirs, Was locked. It was not locked when I went up Btairi. I went through tho kitchen and opened the door Into the dining room.

A coal fire was glowing In the heater. Charlie was lying upon ths floor with bts own silver plated revolver near his feel. His arm was partlv outstretched. know no one had entered the house, because the basement door front was locked Bnd barred. The police found it just as Oharlio had fastened it.

Up stairs the doors were securely locked. No one could have entered exocpt with a latoh key. No one had a latch key. I recall distinctly the smell of tho powder as I entered the room. I was amazed but not frightened.

I took bis head immediately iu my arms. I pressed my Hps to his. His mouth was quite warm. He had not smoked any cigar that evening. I saw the tliickeced blood that had matted the hair at the side of his head just back of the cmplc.

As I held him in my arms his face grew chilled and cold as marble. I never saw any one dio, and I did not know it when ho was dc.a'. The English of the pamphlet is too nearly Grammatical to have been written as it is by Kate; but the flow of statement, and the morbid sentimentality of it is hers. She says "From the moment I fonnd him I did not notice the least change on his features, or the expression of them. then adjusted bis head upon the floor.

His boots stood by the hearth where he left them. I placed them under his head, also a piece of carpet that was on the hearth. I opened his eyes which were partly closed, that I might look into them, aud how kind and lovingly they looked up at ma I as if he had found peeled peace. His watch was on the table, also his purse. It was two o'clock in the morning.

1 sat down by hie side Bed talked to him for hours, and sang, In a low, contented murmur, Now may tho grace, mercy, and peace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ remain BLd abide with you forever. It is to be hoped that Kate will realize a useful sum from her now copy righted connection with the Goodrich tragedy, for the county is not liberal in paying for witnesses and as the lawyers who are assigned to defend her will not be paid a cent, they can scarce be called on to defray the necessary expenses. The pamphlet is not precisely pleasant reading foe a healthy mind but one can buy without reading it, and thereby help a woman, who needs help and pity if ever woman did, who needs them much if innocent, and also needs them more if guilty. There is, however, too much rewording of the matter madness would gambol from in this pamphlet to leave any doubt now of Kate's sanity, for Kate's pamphlet is but a reproduction of the old narative of the case as given in the Eagle, Kate only altering the passage in which she now claims Goodrioh shot himself. Tho Temperance Movement Brooklyn mass meeting The systems of temperance mass meetings in this city is on the steady increase.

There is to be a mass meeting to night at the Leo avenue Congrogatianal Church. The ladies connected with the Forsyth street Church had a meeting yesterday, tmd the Rev. W. H. Mil burn will preach next Sunday.

Surely no one can say that in this new crusade the women of Brooklyn are keeping their hands from the good work. There will bo a large Catholic meeting at the Academy; and there is scarce a religious association that is not doing something to swell the passing wave of invading Temperance. The cause is a good one no better. Nothing could or would conduce more to the benefit of this and every other people now alive than the practice of temperance; and from the intemperance of men, women suffer much. They have invoked the aid of the church, and the Church has at once aided and intensified their efforts nnd this in en unusually good and unsectarian way, that conveys clearly the idea of a common cause.

It is painful to be forced to add, however, that the opportunity for display proved too much for some of the less sincere in the causo. About nine o'clock yesterday a number of ladies visited the saloon of Mr. Myers, and there prayed, out of place if not out of season. They then annoyed Mr. Myers a little longer by catechising him about his private business, and informing lvim what his duties are to his own wife and his own children and Sunday being Mr.

Myers' flay of rest, and that of his family, they borrowed his reading room to tiold a prayer meeting there. Mr. Myers, being better bred than his visitoas, respected their sex, treated them kindly, and even promised them the reading room. They shook hands with him all round, ho asked them to come again, they went, he Bhrugged bis shoulders and quietly resumed his business. He was not hurt, bore the annoyance like a gentleman and the ladies had made their little parade.

So that as to the first perambulation in Brooklyn it went off harmlessly tnough. Of course this sort of thing will pass away like any other epidemic; but care should be taken that tho Temperance movement and the interest of our more sensiblo women therein pass not away with it. It is possible for each woman to bring her individual influence to bear for good on those naturally subjected to it, her neighbors and those she deals with in her domestic affairs; and she Bhould never cease to do so. From Synagogue and Cathedral, from Church nnd chapel, let her voice ascend in prayer for the regulation of this dread appetite of man, ond making home more attractive than tho tavern let woman add the evidence of good works to the word of supplication. But this is the work that needs continuous doing, and continuous Bclf sacrifice in short, the work that it needs a woman to do, for it asks to be renewed daily for a life time.

It is very evident that all liquor dealers are not Myers. It is very evident that if it comes to tho worst this avoiding privacy in prayer to woo publicity in a gin shop cannot last long, if it is ever seriously undertaken, for it will ond must be put down as a nuisance; but when that has died away, like any other epasm, let not the church meeting and the holiness of prayer bo unused in the cause of temperoilcS. And the sincerity of this movement will be best proven by its The bill authorising tho extension of the tracks of the OBEENE AND GATES AVENUE BAILBOAS was yesterday morning ordered to a third reading, ae was the bill relative to the canal on the west side of Newtown Creek. BENEFITS FROM PBOSrEOT PARK In the Sonata Mr. Jacobs presented the following: An Act hi relation to tho assesement upon lands outside of Prospect Pork, in the Oity of Brooklyn, including laud in the town of Flatbush, for benefits derived from the opening of said Park.

Section 1. Tho report of tbe Commissioners appointed to lay an assessment for the' benefits derived from the opening of Prospect Park pursuant to the act entitled "An Act for the further extension of Prospeot Park" passed April 24, 1868, duly verified by the signatures of the Commissioners and filed iu tho office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, on December 30, 1873, apportioning and assessing a portion of tbe cost of land taken for Baid park, partly upon lands within the City of Brooklyn, and partly upon lauds within the Town of Flatbush, which lands are deemed to be specially benefited by tho opening of the said park, Is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed. Sec. 2. Ol the assessments thus laid and confirmed, 20th part of so much thereof as relates to land within Uio Town of Flatbush shall bo annually assessed in each aud every year commonoing with the year 1874, for twenty successive yearB, and shall constitute a lieu from tho time of suoh assessment upon tho several pieces of property speolfled in tho said report, and the said 20th part, with interest from tho filing of said report upon the amount remaining due at tbe time of such annual assessment shall be annually included by the Supervisors of the County of KtngB in the taxes to be levied and collected for twenty BUcceeBiTe years In the same manner as taxes upon other real estate, provided, nevertheless, that all amounts not exceeding twenty dollars upon any one lot or piece of land, shall be levied and colli cttd in 1874, and upon all amounts not exceeding twen I dollars bo apportioned there shall be levied andcolleoted not lees; than five dollars and interest In each year, except tbat in the last year the balance remaining due, although it may not amount to five dollars shall bo levied or collected in said lest year.

The collector shall receive the same fees that he receives for ether tax collections and EhaU forthwith pay over the net proceeds of his collections to tho City of Brooklyn to be applied in the manner and for the purposes specified in the act above referred to and the said Hens mar ab any time be discharged in the manner pointed out in the said act for the discharge of similar liens in tho City of Brooklyn. Tho bill was submitted to the Judiciary Committee, who will decide whether the State has tho right to assess the town of Flatbush for a city Improvement, ThiB ngnt tne cmzcnB or nuousn deny. COE'S OHABITY BILL. Mr. Berrl, last ovening, moved that Coo's Charity bill, which had previously passed through the Committee of the Whole, be recommitted to the Committee on Cities.

He wants to make a slight amendment to It. As be failed to require that it retain its plaoe on the tbird reading of bills for final passage, the bill will have to go through all the usual formalities over again. Ma A. KATE STODDARD. Her Very Latest Account of the Goodrich Murder.

"She Did Not Kill Him, and Does Not Enow who Did" She Inclines, However, to the Police Theory of Suicide. Lizzie L. King, alias Kate Stoddard, now in Baymond street Jail, awaiting trial on an indictment for tho murder of Charles Goodrioh on the morning of Thursday, March 20, 1873, has published a pamphlet entitled "What I Know About the Goodrich Tragedy." Lizzie or Bate, as she is called at convenience, baa favored tbe publlo with several accounts of that occurrence, each differing from the other. This, the latest, differs from them all. She now not only denies the murder, but evidently Inclines to Gen.

Jourdan's theory, that Goodrioh committed suicide, that is, that he put two bullets in tho book of his own bead, and then lay down like a Christian to die peaceably. The sum and substance of tho pamphlet is contained in the following excerpts My trunks had been removed to 204 East Forty second street, Now York, but I still remained In the fifth house on Degraw street, Brooklyn, intondlng to stay thre until tho party entered who had hired the house. I hod not then found a boarding place that suited mo, but bad obtained storage fox my trunks. Charlie remained at the houses during most of the day. Ire member Thursday night, March 20, that It was raining hard when I went home.

I bought a newspaper ki tha car. It was tho Brooklyn Eaqlz, the some copy that wbb found under the sink in the kitchen by the detectives. Charlie never read tbat paper; be always took the New York Times. I found him at home, and he had the supper all ready, after eating which he told me he should have to go to South Brooklyn to see an old gentleman who contemplated buying the houses. I believe this gentleman 'b name was Cole, I remember hearing him converse with Charlie about tbe houses.

He had a severe cougb, Charlie left me saying he would be back about nine o'clock, I don't know where he went. With the additional information I have gleaned since his demise, I recall very few instances that he went where he said he was going. I remained in the dining room until he came home, which was not until afterten o'clook. Whenheoame into the bouse be made the remark tbat it was a Bevere storm outside, and so much hail came with It that he slipped on the pavement and nearly fell. Hs told me he did not find the parties at home he expected to see, and that waiting for them had detained him.

I noticed that he appeared very melancholy and depressed. When I asked him (he cause of his low spirits he answered me evasively that he bad a headache, and thought he could drive it away if he smoked a cigar. Bo I left him in the dinahg room aud went upstairs to go to bed. When I left him he was sitting in the armchair beside the table, unfolding the New York Times. He bad taken off his boots and put on his slippers, aa it wae tua custom to do every eveaing.

After going up stairs I went to sleep, I presume I had Blepl over two hours. I was awakened by the report of a firearm. I did not know at flrat whether it was iu the House or outside, as all the doors wereolosed in the ball. I dressed and ran down stairs, Tho dining room door at the foot of the stairs was looked. It was not looked when I went up stairs.

I went through the kitchen and opened the door Into the dining room. A ooal fire was glowing in the heater. Charlie was lying upon the floor with hiB own sliver plated revolver near bis feet. His arm was partly outstretched. I knew no one had entered the house because the basement door iront was locked and barred the police found it just as Charlie had fastened it.

Up stairs the doors were securely locked. No ono could have entered except with a latch key. No one had a latch key. I recall distinctly tho smell of the powder as I entered the room. I was amazed, but not frightened.

I took his head kn mefiiately in my arms. I pressed my to bis. His mouth was quite warm. He had not smoked any cigar theteveciog. I saw the thiokesed blood that had matted the hair at the side of his head just back of the temple.

ALONE WITH THE DEAD. As I held him in my arms his faoe grew chilled and cold as marble. I never saw any one die, and I did not knowit when he was dead. From the moment I found him I did not notloe the least change in his features, or the expression of them. I then adjusted bis head upon the floor.

Hie boots stood by the hearth whexe he left them. I placed them under his bead also a piece of carpet that was on the hearth. I opened his eyes, which wexe partly closed, that I might look into them, and how kind and lovingly they looked up at me I sb If he had found perfeot peace. His watch was on tho table, also his purse. It was two o'clock in the morning.

I eat down by bis etdo aud talked to him for hours, and sang in a low, contented murmur, Now may tho grace, merer and nence of our Tiood and Hnvinnr Christ remain and abide with you forever. Aitnougn ue was lying mere aeau, ana ooid as marble, yet I think he heard every word I said to him. He looked happy. The room seemed filled with a deep peace. The quiet of the house was to me a holy quiet.

Outside the rain fell heavily. I felt protected by the storm. The skies wept for me when I could not weep. Beside the light on the table, there wero two candles in tbe room. I lit them.

Beneath their light his face shone white and oalm, and hia eyes had that look of rejoicing in them which was not "wholly a fancy." The room was like a sanctuary to me. I would have stayed there with him for months forever if I could have kept it a secret, I took the scissors and out a lock of hair from his head just where It was wounded. From this wound the blood had oozed drop by drop, and had trickled down to the back of bis bead. I went to tho cupboard, took the same china cup that I had always drank my chocolate out or, and with the edge of a silver spoon I took up the dotted blood on the side ef his head, and put it in tbe cup; also the drops of blood that feU from tho baok of his head. I then wrapped the cup in a towel.

This cup is now in the possession of the property clerk. There are gilt letters on the cup, but the lowering is nearly effaced. I bathed his face In water, and wiped Mb hair with a wet towel. The bathing of bis face was merely an act of tenderness, not for the purpose of removing any blood stains, for I did not sea any on his face. When Tread in the newspapers that an incision was found in the right eyebrow, I was surprised.

I saw nothing of tho kind, and account for it by a bullet passing out that way. There was nothing against which he could have fallen, to leave any cut; nothing near the mantel which if he had struok, would have produced a wound, I took the seal ring off his finger and put it ou my own, Tbe watch and purse were on the table. I took them. My motivo In doing so wbb because they had been used by him. It was four o'clock.

I knew that I must go away as soon as it was light. The fire had died out, I placed the revolver under his right hand to indicate the manner ef his death. I had some weaxintt apparel at the bouse which made quite aparcel. I took a photograph album off the table upstairs that I might know my enemies when I met them. I kissed Charlie ROodbye for the last time, pronounced a olessing on him, and went out of the house, never to return.

I went out of the front door and it locked in shutting. OUT INTO DAYLIGHT. The storm and darkness were over; the daylight came bright and clear. It was about six o'clock when I left the house. I toot a car for Fulton Ferry, and went torn tbe ferry in a Second avenue car to 201 Bast Forly Becond street, New York, where my trunks wore stored in a furnished apartment.

In the afternoon I made up my mind that, if Charlie was all alone in the house that night, that I would go over and stay with him, I had the latch key that opened the front door: I thought if no mention wbb made of it in the papers that it wonld be safe to go, I started about five o'clock. When I got down to Fulton Ferry, I noticed couples of policemen walking indifferent directions and talking earnestly. It appeared to me that they were looking for some one. did not cross iho ferry: I bought an Eaole at the entrance on the New York side, and read an account of the tragedy ta Degraw street, I had on the same preen veil that I wore out of the house in the morning. But I ttad a drab veil in my pocket, and I put it on immediately, and then took a car back for East Forty second street.

It was snowing lightly when I returned. I bought nearly every New York paper that was printed after that, and made clippings of everything touching the esse. The detectives found these ollpplngs in my trunk. I was much surprised to learn that there were three bullets in his head. I saw only a little blood, and knew he had killed himself.

The preceding pages were written the first month after my arrest, I was then expecting my trial to take place In the Fall. Whether the late Charles Goodrich came to bis death by his own hand, or by the hand of another, I know not. But this I know for tho infatuated devotion with whioh I chenBhod hia memory, for this I was arrested; for this I have endured the martyrdom of eight months imprisonment and for this I am to be sentenced, A lad of 17, who was out Bhooting near Louisville, recently; slipped over a tree trunk and the gun was discharged, lodging tha load in his side and causing his death. terrupteuiy repealed a sno leit mac sne tuusi give utterance to any other words, Bbo managed to crowd them in between the ticks. A roan was mentioned who thought the coaling up for the world devolved upon him.

A handsome and accomplished daughter of a nobleman in Glasgow indulged in an affectionate correspondence with everyone sho met; Impostors took advantage of this weakness, which so increased that tho lady's friends were compelled to consign her to an asylum. A certain gentleman wbb made aware of tho approach of a periodical crazy spell by the recurrence of a thirst for magnesia, when he would hasten to an asylum and there remain until he Informed his steeper that he wbb ready to return to hlii business. Th Bpeaker thought that as It 1b bo difficult to discover insanity in some cases, as every man has his peculiarities, and what might be argued turn compos mentis in one individual would not bo considered suspicious in another, therefore, when evidence of alleged insanity ic presented to a jury, EVERX JUROR IN THE BOX Bhould bo on hiB guard. A sudden change ia a man's regular habits furnishes symptoms of an impalrod mental condition. Delirium is a sort of insanity.

Tea and coffee and fevers mako poople delirious. Spleen, or hypochondria, renders Its victims very uncomfortable, but tho scenes in which they parlicipato aro some timeB very ludicrouB. A person reading a book In which hundreds of diseases aro described will feel the symptoms of every one of tbem. But temporary or permanent, cures aro often effected by sudden harmless BhockB or a resort to something vf hereby tho hypochondriac Bhall bo compelled to take violent or other physical exerciso iu tho freBb air. Old pooplo, tirod people and peoplo whose thoughts arc two much centered on themselves arc troubled with this mental infirmity.

In the latter case, if a man's thoughts can bo turned into a new channel or bis interest or indignation be roused by means of an earnest or warm argument, he is relieved for the time being, snd mimerou repetitions wtll undoubtedly result In permanent healing. Illusions of the senses tire also mental malady, A clergyman, alter leaving bis study one day SAVT A BLVE VQ1 following him, and it eontinued his constant companion until the day of his death. Wuen he entered his pulpit, tho peoplo in tho congregation saw him step back as though to let the dog go under tha seat. If he had really believed it waB a bluo dog, ho would have been a lunatic, but aB he knew it was only an Illusion, he was a good acid useful man until he died. There arc also illusions of hearing, proved by ventriloquism and by occurrences in every day life.

More people have these allusions than wo think they havo. The character of our dreams depends largoly on our physical condition and the contents of tho etomacb. The alleged wonderful rapidity of dreams is without foundation. A man in a reverie will travel as fast and as far as in a dream. Only the IMAGE MAKINO FACUITY is active in sleep, and in somnambulism tho samo faculty connection with certain muscles.

Grand music and beautiful poetry have beeu composed iu sleep, and written down whon tho sleeper awoke. Dreams often come wonderfully true, but as they are made lip from the thoughts and occurrences of our daily lives, which In tbecemmon experience revolve on half a dozen pivots representing all the interests of individual human existence, tbe wonder is that among so many kaleidoscopic Images what is dreamed of docs not oftener happen. These omons of dreamland do not compare, with th coincidences of our waking moments. Mr. Buckloy thtn spoke of mcanerlsm aud the surgical operations performed while patients were under Its influence detailed the history of magnetism, biology ond spiritualism and their early advocates, aud referred to the lectures he had given In places from which, as a result of bis efforts, spiritualism took an Ignominious flight.

He said that these things wero all EXPLAINED ON NATURAL PRINCIPLES. It 1b not the passing of the operator's hand over tho eyas, nor hlB powerful mental influence upon tho sub jct, nor looking at a coin, nor electricity that mesmerizes a person; but his own strong, fixed mental effoits by the exercise of expectation, reverence and confidence up to a certain point. Thus mediums and spirit rappingB aro produced, and tables ooUpped. Let a man go into a trance, and he will dream onto what ho cannot speak when awake. A man's strength and not what ho can do with hia will, but what can bo developed from within.

Somnambulfits exhibit herculean Btrength when In their trance. There is nothing superhuman In all this. It Is only the exeroiBe of certain faoulties which temporarily assume complete control of the mental forces, and should be classed with fear and anger. Mx. Buckley, In closing, remarked that he could perform all the so called wonderful supernatural cures professed to be accomplished by tha mesmerists.

BOILEB lA'SPECriOtf. BnoosLTH, L. Maroh 10, 187. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle I understand a bill has passed the Senate empowering the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company to act as excluslvo Inspectors of Boilers, thereby superceding our present inspection of steara boilers. Very few manufacturers using steam power hava given ibis Bubject the consideration its importance deserves.

The mere fact alono of placing the power to condemn, or require extensive repairs would be considered unnecessary by a disinterested party, upon any boilers that were not insured In this to be sufficient to condemn the measure. Our present system ot Inspection ia working very weU, and there can be no question of choice between inspectors who have no interests to be subserved aud a company who desire to extend their business of insuring boxers, andlbavethe appointing of their own inspectors. I trust you will lend your valuable aid in proteotlng the manufacturers of Brooklyn. A MlHUTAOTUBKB. JOSEPH HOWABD'S CASE.

New Youk, March 11, 18T. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Permit me to call your attention to a oourt news paragraph in yosterday's Eagle, which that I requested Judge Pratt to try tbe oase ol Sanderson vs. Howard. Tho report ia absolutely false. I have not spoken a word on tho subject either to Judgo Pratt or Judge Gilbert, and If I had, I would have justified a verdict to the effect that I was the monumental ass of the Nineteenth Century.

Beapcctfully, Howard, Jr. George F. Butler, of Sandisfleld, sues Mrs. Suf an B. Blchards, of Newton, for breach or promlBe, claiming $10,000.

Ho alleges that they wero engaged to bo married, and that sho has married another man. Her present husband is a lawyer and her counsel in the' else. Jlnch SicHness Undoubtedly, with children, attributed to other causes, is occasioned by Worms. Brown's Vebbii TVOE Comfits, or Worm Lozenges, although offootnal in destroying worms, can do no possible iniurr to tho moab delicate child. This valuable combination has boon inc.

cessfully used by physicians, and found to be absolutely sore In eradicating worms, so hurtful to ahlldren. Sold by all druggists. 25 cents a box. Treating the Wrong Disease. Many times women call upon their family physicians, one with dyspepsia, acothor with palpitation, anotberCwltb trouble of the breast, another, paro here asd there, and In this way they all prosont alike to themsolves and their oasv going and indtffereat doctors, separate and distinct diseases, for which bo proscribes his pills and potions, assuming thcra to be such, when, In reality, tbor are all symptoms caused by somontcrine disorder; and whUe they are thus only ablo perhaps to palliate for time, they are Ignorant of the cause, and onconrago their practice nntil largo bills aro made, when the suffering patients are no better in tbe end, bat probably worse for the delay, treatment snd other complications made, and which a proper medictno, dtreated to the cause, would have entirely removed, thereby Instituting health and comfort instead of prolonged misery.

From Miss Lotlnda E. St. Clair, Shade, Athens October "Dr. B. V.

Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Your Favorite Proscription If working almost like a miracle on me, I am better already than I havo been for ovor two joara." From Vila A. Schafer, Zaxesville, August 3. 1873: MDr.

Pierce I received the modlclno you sont mo, and began using It Immodiato). Ab a result of the treatment I feci hotter than I have for threo roore." From Mrs. John K. Hamilln, Odoll, March 19, 187: "Dr. Pierce The Favorite Proscription has done me good, whtch I am very thankfnl for." Cot Rid of Vour Cougb.

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