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THE FASHIONS. OUR ALBANY CORRESPONDENCE. WE STILL SELL A SPLENDID SmRTENO MUSLIN, alttost as flno as the WAMBDT T.4 8, for 12Xc. good Shlrtlnis Muslins, 10c. Flno TJnblctched 10c.

uxira kueltru, 15c. and oihcr stores sell tame B.0011'' Wo' Caulmere.50C Bprlcg DelalDcs, 15c Auction Dress Goods, half price. jdM'Ii KB BK0TUES. US Fulton near High. One thing seems settled.

A wondrous transformation bat taken place this year in bonnets of every description Dut the pleasing satisfaction still remains to ns of knowing, that we are retrograding in a very handsome manner. A short time since we had the Smart" shape, and now, having rolled along with a eommendable velocity through hlBtoxlc ages, we find ourselves face to face with the bcwltchingly graceful "Marie Antoinette," the picturesque Spanish mantilla last, bat not least, the "Coronet," or "Diadem." Tulle and laco are now the materials principally used in the construction of these fairy fabrics, but straw bonnets for spring service aro considered chic; and chic, joa know, is everything. Satin, lace, metallic wreaths and ornaments and flowers of different hues are now tbe prescribed trimmings. The enlargement of the bonnet that is, what there is of it lies more in the trimmiDg, which is very elaborate, rather than in the bonnet itself. Veils may bo said to occupy the place where once the sheltering capo protected the back of the head and neck, and "Coronets" now pleasantly fill lhat meaningless void that always gaped bo tween crown of bead and front or bonnet.

For summer wear the incoming styles are in themselves the handsomest and lightest, ir not the most becoming, with which we have been blCBBCd Tor many long years. They are, to be sure, very eccentric in many respects But what or that Precisely the Bamo thing has been thought and said concerning every innovation bronn ht about in the modes by her moody damcship, fickle Fashion. THE LADIES wire out in fnll force, all tho bonnets admired, all the novelries accepted. Purses long and. ddep well filled with greenbacks were rapidly emptied, property changed hands fast, a bonnet about the size of a dollar bill is good for, well all along from $20 to 150.

Tins is tho year or our Lord ISfiS it is well to remember the date because twenty years from now we shall all wondtr at the absurdities and faBhions of tho present time. THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 20. TUi paper baa tte Largest Circulation Of any Brenlns paper published In tb United Status. Ita value as an Adwertlalas Bedlam Is therefore apparent.

Xlio President's Veto. The last Congress passed an act giving the Supreme Court of the United States the power of adjudication in a certain class of cases involving the personal rights and liberties of thecitizeD. If we are not mistaken the act was designed mainly to afford protection tc the negroes Maryland and Kentucky, who were, as alleged, subjected to injustice by the inferior courts. It so happens that a white man has ventured to take advantage of it, aud the act of the Thirty ninth Congress is repealed avowedly for the reason that a white citizen of Mississippi has sought a remedy for alleged grievances, designed for negroes in the two States named. One McArdle, a citizen of Mississippi, in the pursuit of his calling as an editor, saw fit to comment on the reconstruction laws of Congress and the manner in which they were enforced, in terms which displeased the and there is now no inducement either of economy or of superiority in any respect for going to New York to supply any want or gratify any taste.

Xbe Railroad Companies and the Street Pavement. Mention is made another column of a proposition to pave Fulton avenue with Belgian pavement, with a reference to the City Railroad Company's use of the street, and obligation to keep the street within their tracks in good repair. In view of the condition of Fulton street, it is evident that the Legislature or Common Crunc'J, whichever body undertakes to authorize the work, should come to some understanding with the Railroad Company. Fulton street was paved with Belgian pavement six or seven years ago, that is the portion of it outside the railroad track inside the tracks the cobblestones remain. This mosaic style of paving does not look well, and we have often urged the authorities tj have this matter settled with the Railroad Company, and have the whole of the street paved alike.

Betor any more Belgian pavement is laid on streets used for railroad purposes it should be determined whether the city or the Railroad Company should pay the expense of the new paving, as we understand that is the issue, the Rail road Company holding to the opinion that they rercquired only to keep what pavement they find on the street in good repair, and are not bound to lay any new pavement. If the re paving of a street is ordered the Railroad Companies have no right to interfere with the laying between their tracks of any new kind of pavement that the authorities may select, but whether they or the property owners on tho street should pay for it is another question, and that ought to be settled before any further street improvements are undertaken. Fulton street ought to be uniformly paved, and no such patchwork as is now exhibited in that street should be allowed again anywhere. The bill to repave Fulton avenue in its present shape leaves the question open whether the space between the railroad tracks is to be paved by the city or by the Railroad Company. bo thankful to Ihe foresight which led the Common Council of a dozen years ago to set tbe example of requiring from the railroad companies as a condition of obtaining the franchise that they shall keep In repair all that part of the street used by their horsea aud cars.

The importance of this provision will be seen when we state, that the annual expenditure of the Brooklyn City Railroad company for etreet repair, ia greater than that of the municipal government itself. The city authorities contract yearly for the repair of all the Btreets in the city for less than the Brooklyn City Railroad Company expend in the lepair of the pDr tions of streets used by them, no less than $25,000 a year. At fltBt sight the inference may be drawn that as the Company certainly would not spend more than Is needed, the city cannot be paying enough to keep the streets in good order. This is true to a great extent, and yet it ia easy to be aeeu why the Railroad Company's expenditure for street repair should be very largo in proportion to that of the city. The Company has nearly forty miles of railroad.

It occupies nearly all the leading avenues of the city. Tbe use of the street by the railroad cars', instead of driving other traffic off the street, in fact increases it. Drivers of all sorts of vehicles prefer to use a railroad street, crowded aB it iB, rather than a street on which there iB no railroad, and where they could have four limes as much room to drive iu. Hence the Railroad Company, in keeping in pair the space between the rails, and for some distance each way beyond, does in fact not only provide a pavement for its own horses to run on, but for the great bulk of tho ordinary vehicle traffic. A bill is now before the Lcglsla'ure which provides among other things for the repaying of Fulton avenue.

The first impression likely to be had of such an enactment would be, that it amouuts to a very handsome donation by the owners of property on tho street, to the Railroad Company. The company are, as the case stands, bound to keep the central aud principal part of the street in repair. They must do ao, for their own sake for if they failed to keep a fair pavement, they wonld loie more In horseflesh than the repairs would cost. If, therefore, the law steps in and requires the owners of property on the street to lay down a new Belgian or other pavement for tho railroad company to use, the company will save a great deal of money which they would otherwise have had to expend. But the company may justly urge that they are entitled to some consideration In tho matter, from the length of time during which they have kept the pavement in repair, not only for themselves but for tho public.

Their iron tracks are used by four fifths of the vehicles on the street, and every wheel which inns on the railroad track represents a saving lo the public of the wear and tear which, ir it were running at the side of the Etreet, it wonld cause on the city's pavement. When we see, as at TrEcnt, the Common Council hesitating as to whether it should allow some of our citizens to lay a new railroad from the Williamsburgh ferries to Prospect Park, we may well remind them that not only la every railroad a benefit from the increased facilities of traveling it affords, but that it is a positive saving to the city in friction of paving stones, by means of tho iron rails it lays down, and on which so larec a proportion of other traffic, as well as tho railroad cars, paEB along. It is stated, that flie NicolEon Pavement Company have endeavored, but without Euccess, to convince the city railroad companies of the merits of th'. ir invention. Surely if there is any merit in this sort of pavement, the city rniiroad companies would be first to discover and obtain it.

The valuable feature of wooden pavement is that it does not Injure and wear out the feet of horses to the extent that Etone pavement doe3. This consideration has of course been duly weighed by the railroad companies, and been found not balance the defects of the pavement, or weahouldsue the Nicoleon laid down on a large scale by the city railroads. The Ntcolson people have gone so far as to propose to lay a quantity of their pavement gratis, for the we of tho city railroad company, by way of expei i ment, hut as yet the company have not thought it worth while even to take the thin? for nothing in preference to paing for cobble stones. The difficulty nf keeping pavement in repair close alongside railroad tracks, is considerable. The wheels of ordinary vehicles, iu suddenly turning in and out of Ihe tracks, fjrind away the portion of the pavement which lies close alongside the iron tracks, and thus a rut is formed, in which water collects and keeps the pavement soft and easy to bo ground away by the Iriction of tho wheels in sharply turmtg off the tiack.

Eventually, perhaps, the city railroads will find it matter of economy to lay a course of iron paving blocks cloBe alongside each track, on both Bides. stating that Devlin worked and voted for the late lamented in 1860 and in 1804, and that, as a reward for bis services, he was appointed to an office of trust and emolument in the revenue service. In all probability Devlin, like so many ot his party associates, cares nothing for politics, and assumed 'the side on which the spoils were likely to be to be the true one. The Eagle does not hold to the view that Devlin committed no crime. It prefers to wait until he is tried for the crimes of which he is accused before giving its opinion on this subject Devlin was charged before the public with defrauding the Government out of an amount stated as high as Several officers of the revenue rvice were, as alleged, parties to this fraud.

Why was he not tried on these charges? AVhy are his more criminal associates permitted to go free? Devlin has been tried, convicted and sentenced for the technical offense of being without a license in May, 1800, although it is admitted he procured a license within that year. In other words, he has been sent to the Penitentiary for two years for not paying a license fee of 100 in May, which he did pay in the following February, and that license was in the possession of the prosecuting officer when Devlin was put on trial. There was no motive shown for Devlin's laches except a desire to cheat the government out a hundred dollars. If Devlin, as alleged, swindled the government out of 000,000, of what account was 100 to him? But it may be said that he did not desire to take out a license, because by doing so, he would have been compelled to bring to the attention of the revenue officers the nature of his business and the particular place in which he transacted it, and in this way would have broughUhimselt within the surveillance of the government. In applying for license, as it is admitted he did, the authorities were placed in possession of all the facts Devlin could have any interest in concealing.

But it is said Devlin knew the law, and sbould have dogged the government agents until he succeeded in obtaining a license. Did he know the law any better than the lawyers who tried his case? It is a fact susceptible of proof, that the officers of the Court before which he was convicted were liable to be punished as severely as Devlin for neglecting to take out license as lawyers. The truth is that Devlin has been convicted of a petty and technical offence while he stands accused before the public of a series of gigantic crimes. It looks as though no one will ever be punished or tried for these offences, and the fuss made over Devlin's conviction, on a charge of defrauding the government of one hundred dollars, seems to us designed to deceive the public. As the case stands, it is as though a prosecuting officer, having a prisoner under his control accused of murder, should prosecute him for picking pockets, with a view of hiding the graver offence from public view.

Again, we ask where are fhoTappansand Til tons who were associated with how comes it that the story of the gigantic frauds is now attempted to be buried with Devlin in the Albany Penitentiary Will the Shoddyitcs answfr Railroad Murder. The Coroner's jury sitting on the latest vic lim of the Long Island Railroad mismanagement has completed its labors, and brought in a verdict "censuring the Railroad Company." If censure would ruin a railroad Opening: Day In Brooblyn Samples ot tlie Row Styles "What will Worn Wbat Is Style What Is Cblc. Every season has its peculiarities every milliner has her little way of tickling tho public fancy, and when the season comes around, and the milliners come out, the public come down. This year ihe BONNETS ABE MADB principally of tulle, ciape, and other thin and vapor ottB which vanish like the mist before tho meriiing sun, or rather, in this case, like the sun before a mist. A fog demoralizes them; renders them flaccid, limp and stringy; a shower extinguishes them utterly.

Straw is still need, bnt al'ogether in fancy plaits and braids of Italian manufacture, Iho deeper color suiting better the higher loie which Ja allowed in Btreet iiees. Tbire area few plain, fine straws, intended for elderly ladiep, but the straws generally are of fancy Tuscan manufacture, and mixed with silk or lace. The trimmings are narrow ribbon or lace barbes, tho shade of the silk, and steel, or steel and gilt ornaments, bandeaus, stars, bu'tcrflies, and the like. There are Eome charming bonnets in the new shades of color, yellow, green, Turkish red und "tea rose," and good taste does not spoil them by mixing trimminaE in Euch a way as lo produce a contrast. The peculiar colors, the glitter of frosted tulle, is EUllicitntly striking, without adding a contrast in trimming, which has only the effect of vulgarizing them.

The "Metternich" and Trianon are both new styles, one chip, trimmed with a full oi black lace, caught up in the centre with a branch or coral, coral bandeau on black lace, and tho other in black lace, embroidered by hand aud enricbod with fine cut steel and gilt ornaments. The Coiffure Manfdle is the areate3t millinery novelty but, of course, none of the milliners have it, for it would do away with bonnets. It is graceful and coqnettiBb, but not adapted to our practical character, and will, therefore, never supersede the bonnet in the estimation of the masses of American women. It is a pretty head dress, however, gracelttl for evening, opera and watering place wear. Vuils are nearly always now attached to the bonnets, and have scarf ends that form second string, narrow lies that do real duty under the chin.

There are new round vnils, however, of spotted lace, with ends which tie behind, and mask" vails, very Btnall to fit the face, and mattilla which fall upon the Bhoulders and are arranged with un ornament upon the breast. Kound hata are almost invariably trimmed with a fcorf of lace, atd an aigrette. A peculiar and veil becoming eflect is produced by massing very fine, Eelf colortd flowers over the front of white, blue, mauve, and violet bonnets, and small green, frosted leaves, over green bonnets. We recommend such styles as these especially for wear with handsomo black silk snitp. Black lace, and crinoline bonnets on the contrary arc most stylishly worn with of silk serge, no color being admissible with the peculiar shades of olive, bottle green, and brown, in which these are imported.

Goudon. Miss M. A. Gordon, at 7 1 2 Pulton ttreet, was visited by a very large and genteel gathering of callers, and exhibited some very beautiful and eleeant bonnets, among which were the following "varieties." La Belle tha peculiarity in these really pretty bonnets is that the lace in the front is rolled back over the shape Eome two inches beyond the front. One particularly is made of a very beautiful new shade of green, with diamond or frosted lace, and strings lo match the edgings are of lace, with pipings io match the strings.

This bonnet is too elaborate to be described tbe most we can Bay of it is to adopt the words of a young lady who was looking at it, who said that it was "a perfect love of a bonnet." This style is made up in ull tbe most approved shades. Two bridal bonnets, also exhibited by Miss Gordon, are made up with the good taste which usually characterizes this lady's work. They are made of frosted lace, trimmed with satin pipings, outside trlmmiujs of orange blOEEoms, lilies of the valley aud snowdrops the veils are veiy elaborate, falling over tho shoulders In three points. The Coulot, as originally designed by this lady, is reprcEcnted by every color and many styles of trimming. These bonnets are already favorites with the ladies of Brooklyn.

A large number of jockey hats of new Bhapes and original trimming are also being shown at IX Fulton street. BMiin. Mrs. D. Smith, at 135 Myrtle avenue, exhibited to a large number of callers some very rlegant bonnets.

One bridal bonnet was very handfomc, made of frosted lace and trimmed huncf Kmoly with satin pipings. Lico strings, with real blonde edgiutrs, trimmings otiHido composing orange bloEfoms and Lily cf tho Valley. Vail with three points falling over the back, with satin pipings to match the strings. Face trimming, a cluster of jsattrt loops, intermitted with orane blossoms. One bonnet in particular which was admired very much was of that elegant new shade of green frosted lace, with lace strincs to match.

Pointed vail rallin" over the back and trimmed witb real bloude lace, ornamented with steel ornaments aud flower3 to match. Tho Norma" Ronnd hat trimmed handsomely with loops of drab velvet, a cluster of drab flowers on the side, arranged very tastefully at tho back with plaited streamers of vclvot and ornaments of etcol. Next comes "La Ruse," with pointed crown and between each point a cluster of blue velvet loops intermixed with straw aud wheat, plaited at the back with blue velvet, and ornamented with steel and ciyslnl drops. GiusooiiY. On calling at the establishment of Mrs.

Gregory, G3 Fulton avenur, wo found she had made exttnsivc alterations and refitted her show rooms with great taste. At this establishment we were shown an imported bonnet ot Faille de fieiz chip or the most elegant and graceful shape, being neither bonnet nor hat, trimmed with wide French blonde and caught at the sido by a cluster or frosted lilac and snowdrops, from which were long lines or fine leaves frosted with steel intermixed with long clusters of lilac and snowdrops. A Bando of the some leaves formed the front, in the centre of which was a band of fine cut steel, the brides were formed of line plaited illusion edaod with French blonde and rolls of white satin caught together with three rows of Paille de Ileiz chip. This bonnet is certainly one of the most elegant we have Been thiB season. AL another imported bonnet of rounded shape, of Metternich green crape, with a Peplttm veil of diamond nut to match, nnd edged with blonde lace the same color, trimmed with a wreath of pure white 111 and brought to the front over strings of the same material as the veil, tbe whole being caught a large clutter of lilies forming the lace trimmingj.

This is an exquisite bonnet. Lego. Mad. Lego, corner of Fulton and Clark streets, made a very charming ehow with a new collectlonof tasteful slyleB. Uerrooms werothronged by her customers, and many of tho prettiest bonnets were sold.

A Metternich green lace bonnet, trimmed with' a diadem of Metternich green wreath and onanlsh veil, attracted a great deal of notice. Also a Saltan red colored bonnet trimmed with steel bandeau, with gilt and steel flowers, and a bow of frosted lace. A white lace bonnet trimmed with green leaves and May flowers was exhibited as a sample, from which a score of orders were taken. Another was a drab lace bonnet, trimmed with drab frosted wreatk and pink roses. This opening was a great Euccess, and very gratifying to the many callers.

Eaele. Mis. Earle, of 182 Fultoa street, has on show a very elegant selection of bonnots, most ol which are ot French pattern. Mr3. E.

is, however, not quite ready for asking her patrons to inspect her Block, atd has concluded to put off her "opening" for a few days. The bonnets which are already on exhibition at this establishment are pecullarly'eleg3nt and deserve a visit from thoBO who are anxiona to eee what is to be tho "thing" for the season. They comprise all the favorite shapes with trimmings of the colors of the rainbow. The "fixings," too, are tastefully arranged, and add ccnBlderably to the beauty oi tho "establishments" which 6he shows. Mrs.

Karlo will have a very choice selection to Bhow in a day or two. Bentxey The great change in the shapes of this EeaBon was to be seen at Mme. Bentley's, 11 Fulton avenue. The bonnet "Coutot" made by Mme. Laurc, of Paris, is of white chip, trimmed with cherry popieB and a wreath of fine green wheat encircling the front, with a fall of French blond lace over the back, narrow white strings finish it.

This exceptional etjlc in bine and green as wo saw them Is positively beautiful, and for a Miss, stands unrivalled for grace, style and eleeance. Another, tho "G'aronet" was made of lavender trimmed with rich, real point lace of elegant and new design, studded with Aumale violets, the effect of which is very striking au i attractive. Mme. Bentley calls to her old many French patterns, among which are the two we have described. We saw the charming "Viola," a ronnd hat perfectly new in shape and elegantly trimmed with violet and white Iaco.

Boi'LE. Miss Boyle, ot No. 180 Fulton street, exhibits a Spanish bonnet which is made of drab crape, trimmed with folds oi satin, with nartow satin strings to match the bonnet. The veil is of diab frost tulle, edged with lace of the Bame color; the veil may be called a double one, and is fastened to the edge of tho bonnet in front. The central portion is cut in tho shape of a rounded rope or mantilla, intended to be worn over the face or thrown back when it falls gracefully over Ihe bonnet.

Tbe description of the Spanish bonnet will apply in a general way to the other bonnets, the veil is generally of frosted tulle of the color to match the bonnet, the steel, jet, and gold trimmings, are extensively UEed Ihe flowtrs are displcyed in profaalpn, reminding one of nature's flowers in May. A bonnet of Metternich green has a veil to match; there is a bow of green satin to fasten the strings a wreoth of elderberry blossoms forming a line for face trimming. A bridal bonnet, made of white crape, which turned up a la turban, the edge of the bonnet being bonnd with white satin, the veil two yards lone edged with white blonde, satin strings sprays of white flowers, very small bloBSoma, run over the top of the bonnet, while the front inside haB a trailing wreath of white hawlhorne blossoms. A walking hat exhibited 1b of dark English Blraw, a deep crown, with the side turned up, trimmed with steel ornaments, and a frosted veil. A white French chip hat for a young lady, turned np at one Bide and trimmed witb white panslos, the inside of the brim having box pleatlngs or white satin ribbon, the veil of long white lace.

A flat dark straw had the brim tnrncd np at the side like a turban, a wreath ot coral, and a steel bind behind a diamond lace veil, long lace ends falling behind. ThiB is an English hat and is known as the "Tivoli." For an idea of the beautiful fabrics exhibited at tho establishments of the other Eaolk advertisers we must refer to the stores themselves and to such other details as we may from time to time famish in our columns. Some rarties prefer that visitors should call and observe for themselves, others very gladly avail themselves of the opportunity to, not only afford ns the Information, bat also expose their waros lo the public ken. Steam boating Railroad Bills Passed Only Three fourths of a Million of Dollars Wallabout and Fire Matters Devlin. Albany, March 25.

Dear Eagle: The flood has passed away, Ihe river is open, and the lordly steamers are plying up and down the stream as though there was never anything like an ice embargo across the river. The water, at ono time before the subsidence well np toward Stanwlx Hall, has fallen to near its usual height, the wharves are dry, the sun Bhining brightly, and spring In name and fact is with us. With Ihe opening river and opening spring comes the legislative rush of bills ot membera all anxious to get theirpartlcular measures through, regardless of how the remainder fare. In the Senate, bills to open Eclcford and Van Cott avenues, E. have been reported favorably.

In the Assembly Mr. Jacobs haB introduced a bill closing Hunteifly road from Herkimer and Biinbndge streets. THE WALLABOUT IMPROVEMENT bill yesterday morning also passed the House, and has been sent to the Governor, for his autograph, when it will become a law. The bill appropriating $50,000 to the Inebriate's Homo of Kings County, now awaits a third reading in the Assembly. Messrs Keady and Haynes were before ihe committcein Ub behalf yesterday.

The impeachment articles were this morning adopted in the House, and Messrs John U. Jacobs of Kings Little of Steuben, Lounsberry of Ulster, Flagg of Rensselaer, Bruce of Erie, PittB ol Orleans, and La Ban of Warren, were appointed a committee of investigation. BROOKLYN FIRE MATTERS. The bill for tho better regulation of the Fire Department passed the Assembly yesterday (as I telegraphed yon). It provides aa follows Sec.

1. That the expenses of the Fire Department shall not exceed the snm of olo hundred thousand dollars per annnm, cxclusiye of salaries. Sec. Provides that the Mayor and Comptroller are empowered to issue certificates of indebtedness of the City of Brooklyn, to an amount not exceeding the Eum of fifty thousand dollars, Tor the purpose of dc frsjlsg the expense that may be incurred for Fire Department puipoeet. for the year 1803, iu addition to the amomir already djstiued by the Alderman and Supervisors for that purpose.

Sec. 3 Creates a Board of Estimate and Disbursement, consisting of the Mayor. Comptroller, Street Commissioner, and the Chief Engineer of the Fire Departments. They are empowered to make rulea appertaining to the disbursement of moneys for maintaining the Fire Department, with power to designate the amount of mouey to be paid lor the purposes of each company annually, and tor the purpose of keeping their houses aud apparatus in rtpair. The Mayor uhall be the President thereof and the City Clerk shall act as secretary.

Sec. 4. Provides for the manner of making contracts for materials to be uBed by the Fire Department. The bill is similar to the one under which the Philadelphia Department is governed, and is in accordance with the Eticgestions made in the annual message of the Mayor to the Common Council of your city. The bill introduced into the Senate by Senator Pierce, laBt week, for the more effectual preveution of fires in ihe City of Brooklyn will be reported favorably to morrow by tho Committee on Cities of the Senate.

The bill fixing the powers of the Board of Appeals, introduced by Mr. Mallison, has pussed tho Assembly and been introduced to the Senate. The Eagle, some few days since, referred to a bill appointing a Fire Marshal, assistant and clerk for Brooklyn. The bill is drawn by tbe Polico Commissioners, and relates entirely to New York, except so far as saying "that the Assistant IiiBpectorehall reside in Brooklyn." Notwithstanding such being the fact, and that the salaries are paid out of the Metropolitan Police Fund, an effort will be made to strike Brooklyn out entirely from ita provisions, as I am informed the Fire Marshal of that city is efficient in the discharge of his dutieB, and is paid by the insurance companies. SAVINdS BANKS AND THEIR ACCRUING FUNDS.

Mr. William Andrews of yonr city has before tho Commiltec on Banks a bill, providing that all moneys in Savings Banks, belonging to persons who die intestate shall revert to the State as do all other moneys and real estate, now at the present time. Should thiB bill become a law about $3,000,000 would have to be paid over to the State Treasurer. Devlin of your city was at the Delavan on Monday evening and early yesterday morning on his way to the Penitentiary, where he will remain until a pardon or two years shall reBnlt. The talk here is, that it is pretty tough to sentence a man for two years, lor cheating uncle Sam out of $50 Truly, O'Pake HEALTH MATTERS.

Tlio Swamps and Stagnant Water In tlio Outer Wards Visit of Inspection by tile Sewerage and Health Departments. We mentioned several days ago that the repeated complaintB made by the owners of land and esidents in the 9th and 18th wards in regard to the nuisance arising from the vast quantity of stagnant water standing on the low lands of those wards, had been under consideration by the Water and Sewerage Commissioners, who had concluded to refer the matter to the Health Department, as one pertaining directly to the public health of that portion of the city. In tue two largo wards above mentioned, which as yet are not half or a quarter built up, there have been a surfi ctent number of streets laid ont and in many Instances araded, to prevent the use of the land for farming pur poses, wnne on mo oiuer nana mere has not been that quantity of grading of lots, or building of houses. carried on, to insure any attention being paid to the drainage ol the locality. The water, which formerly found its way along the valleys to Newtown Creek on tho ono side and the river on the other, has been ponded up and stopped at various pointa by tho carrying through ot streets at a higher grade than the adjoining land, and as houses increase in the vicinity, the occupants find the proximity of large areas of stagnant water exceedingly prejudicial to health, from the noi Bome malaria arising from the ponds as the sun partially dries them up in summer and" exposes tho rot ting and fetid bed and shores of tbe pond to itaravsi producing the most objectionable exhalations, detri mental to the comfort, and even dangerous to the lives, or the neighboring inhabitants'.

In coneeqnence of the representations of these facts tho Uenith Department aetermined upon a personal visitation of the localities complained of. Yesterday afternoon Mr. George B. Lincoln, Prosidentof the Health Board, Dr. Conklin, Sanitary Superintendent, andDrs.

Bird and Fisk, Inspectors, proceeded, in company with Sew erape Commissioners King, North up and Taylor, Engineers Lane and Worthara, Mr. H. Rhodes, of the Department, and a number of other gentlemen, lo visit tbe Ninth and Eighteenth Wards. They were met and accompanied by a number of residents and property owners of the locality, including Alderman Martin, nf the Eighteenth Ward, Mr Thomas W. Field, Mr.

George C. Bennett, Mr. Chas! Goodwin, ex Alderman Adrian Suydam, Mr. Vander vooit, and others. The party first visited tho Ninth Ward, in which tbey found nearly a hundred acres of land submerged, mostly in ihe vicinity of the npper part of Broadway.

After viewing the ponds and consulting how best to remedy tho evil, the party stopped, on crossing over to the Eighteenth Ward, at the residence of Mr. Field, on Bushwick avenue and Weir field Etrcet. Mr. Field's premises occupy tho entire block lrom Broadway to Bushwick avenue, and the greater part of the grounds is laid out in choice fruit treeB, of which Mr. Field has a national reputation as a skillful and successful cultivator.

Ho believes that the excessive moisture oi the soil, caused by the quantity of water lying opposite.his property, in the Ninth Ward, to he a source of very considerable annual detriment to him in fruit raising. Mr. and Mrs. Field hospitably entertained tho visitors at dinner, after which the carriages were re entered and a visit paid to the swamp lands and submerged lots in the Eighteenth Ward. One pond alone wa3 seen which was atated to cover no leaa than forty acres of ground, and it waa estimated that altogether not less than OHe hundred and fitly acres of the Eighteenth Ward lies under water.

The residents in the vicinity complained bitterly of the malaria arising from the ponds, and the ill health caused thereby. They stated that though water has always lain, more or less, in the low lauds yet that no injurious results were noticed until of late years, when manufactories have been erected here and there, and pigs, cows, and other animals are kept, causing filth of various kinds to drain into the ponds, and render the water impure and malarious. The Sewerage Commissioners produced their plans of the intended drainage of that part of the city, and showed how tho evil would be eventually cured by the application oi the drainage system; but they explained that it was tota lly ont of their power to carry out the Bystem at present, or during the coming summer. The department atpreseut have a million dollars' worth of work in progress, in parts of the city which aro far more thickly eettled than this the whole funds available for the purpose of drainage are for the present year appltea to other localities, the claims of which are greater, from thedensity of population, than those of the thinly inhabited outer sections of the city can be. The Health officials were of the opinion that from the evidence visibly beore them, they would be bound to declare the stagnant water a nuisance, and to call on the Sewerage Department to abate it.

Mr. Lane, the Chief Engineer of the Sewerage Department, after examining the location of the water in the Eighteenth Ward, was of opinion that as the water from the upper pondB nearest the cemeteries, appeared to drain naturally toward the large pond of forty acres, and thence for some distance toward the old Flushing road, until was dammed up by an intervening hillock, he could by a shoit cutting or ditch from the last named point, carry tho water across the Flushing road and thence 'o a point a short distance below, called Vandervoort's Springs, where there was an existing water course nearly a mile long, leading to Newtown creek. It, was understood, therefore, that this should be done by the Sewerage Department, as the cost will not be great the cutting required being only six or eight feet in depth, and of not over a quatterofa mile in length. In regard to tbe Ninth Ward the difficulty is greater, both from tho longer distance the water would have to be conveyed, and from tbe necessity of constructing a culvert or sewer to convey it nnder and across Broadway, This matter, therefore, was not so positively decided upon, bnt will hereafter be considered by tha Sewerage Board upon receipt of the formal notification which the Health Officers will probably serve upon them. STREET MATTERS.

Tbe City Railroad Company and. the Street Bepalr. The City Railroad Company contemplate extending their Fulton avenue track at EaBt Now York from the present terminus to the Howard House, so that the passengers may pass at onco on board the steam cars for Jamaica without having several blocks of walking over duBty or mnddy roads from ono point to the other. They will probably effect thiB connection by a short extension across to the line of tho Broadway railroad, and thenco rise the tracks of the latter company to the Howard Houbc The City company alee intend Immediately to put in repair the their tracks oa tho various routes throughout tho cily, which have now fallen Into a bad state in many places. The public have reason to OFFICES TO LET.

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He was arrested without warrant, by a military subordinate, and was for several days deprived of his liberty. A writ of habeas corpus was ob. tamed from one of the local courts, com manding the Federal officer who held McArdle in custody to show on what ground he had ventured to deprive a citizen of his lib erlj. McArdle was produced in court, and the military officer justified himself under the vague powers given him by the Reconstruc tion laws, which, in his opinion, warranted him in arresting, at his pleasure, any man whom he might choose to consider an obstacle" to reconstruction. The Court admitted McArdle to bail, and entered such an order as enabled him to bring his case before the Supreme Court of the United States, for final adjudication.

It has been argued before that tribunal. It was contended that, under the Constitution, no citizen can be deprived of his liberty witboutdue process of law, and that there is no power in Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus except in the time of war or invasion, when the public safety may require it. The judicial decrees of the Courts of Mississippi are unobstructed. There is no interference with the civil authority except that which Congress itself offers. It that body can place the liberty of the citizen at the will of a military subordinate, civil government is it an end.

The case was so clear that there seemed to be no doubt as to the decision of the Court, and if, as was anticipated, it would be favor of McArdle, the whole Radical scheme ot military reconstruction would fall to the ground, for under the act of 1867 a Radical Congress had unwittingly provided that a white man in Mississippi had the same rights under the law as a negro in Kentucky. The repeal of the law was effected by a trick which no fair man can justify. While a revenue measure was under discussion, by Radical concert of action, an amendment was proposed which was assumed to be germane to the bill. After it had been passed, without debate, it was ascertained that the clause smuggled in curtailed the power )f the Supreme Court, and threw the McArdle case out of court. Yesterday the President vetoed the act, for reasons which he sums ap cogently and tersely, as follows It is apparent hat the two sections were conceived lnaveiy different eoirit, and I regret that my objection to one imposes upon me the necessity or wi' hholdioe; my sanction from the other.

I cinrtot Rive my assent to. a measure which proposes 10 deprive ODy person, restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the Constitution, or of any treaty, or Jnw of the TJr.tted States, front tbe right of appent to the highest judicial authority known to our Government. To hi cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and onr posterity, ie one of the declared objects of the Faleral Constitution. To assure those, gturan tees are provided in the same instrument as well against unreasonable Eearches and seizures, as against the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, unless when in cases of robelliou or invasion, the public safety may require it. It was doubtless to afford the people the means of oro tecting and enforcing these inestimable privileges, that the jutisoiction which this bUl proposes to take away, was conferred upon the Supreme Court of the nation.

The act conferring that jurisdiction was approved on the 5th day of February, 1S07, with a full knowledge or the motive that prompted ita pissage, and because it was believed to be necessary and right. Nottiioe has since occurred to d'sprove the wisdom atd justice of the measure and to modify it as now proposed would be to lessen the protection of me citizen from the exercise of arbitrary power, and to weaken the safeguard of life and liberty, which can never he made too secure against illegal encroachments." Of course the President's interference will be of no avail, but by offering it he adds another to the maDy evidences he has given that he believes the true purpose of government is protection of the rights and liberties of the citizen, under the law. Owing to the manner in which the act was smuggled through Congress, it has altogether escaped public scrutiny. The newspapers have not even published it. Prom the President's veto it appears that the two sections of the law provide for diametrically opposite ends.

The first section secures the right of appeal in certain revenue cases which are not now subject to review, except at the treasure of the Court which tries them. This section commends itself to the President, for, he says, it provides means for obtaining uni formity by an appeal to the Supreme Court of the "United States, in cases which have now become very numerous, and of much public interest, and in which such remedy is not now allowed." The conflicting char acter of the two sections of the law shows that the whole legislation of the country is shaped to accomplish temporary partisan ends. By this law it is provided that a man accused of distilling whisky illegally in the Northern States may appeal to the highest court tor justice, while in the South a citizen may be sent to rot in a cell on the order of a military officer, and neither himself nor his friends have the right of asking in a court ot law what justification the military bashaw has to offer for this outrage. If loyalty can be fostered the South by such legislation as this then Poland cannot be otherwise than loyal to the Russian government, and of all the countries on the earth, Ireland has least reason for disaffection under English rule tc day. The history of the world is as idle as a shepheid's tale, if our despotic sway overmen of our own race at the South does not recoil upon us in the everlasting hate of a people whom we mock by holding out to them the promise of the government of their fathers.

A Sensible Measure. The Common (Jouncil nave done wise ly in adopting the motion of Alder man Richards on Monday, directing the Comptroller to Bell at auction to the highest bidder, the property belonging to the city on Myrtle avenue, opposite Fort Greone, between Hampden and Canton streets. The Corporation Counsel, at the instance of the alderman of the ward, reported some weeks since that there was no doubt this land belonged to the city and had done so for thirty years, though during the whole of that period, owing to the city having no use for it, the land had lain idle and unimproved, occupied by squatters, like Jackson's Hollow. The Mayor, also called the attention of the Board to the fact that Mr. Peter Reilly had erected a frame building on a portion of this land, without any authority from the city.

The land comprises over four full lots 100 feet front on Myrtle avenue and more than 100 feet in depth and the sale which is now ordered will no doubt realize to the city treasury a handsome, sum of money, besides leading to the erection at thuVpoint in'aeading thoroughfare, which has so long presented an eye sore to the public, of buildings of a valuable description, which will add to the taxable property of the Eleventh Ward and tend to improve the character of the surrounding property, Devlin's Case. The junior member of the shoddy firm offers the following conundrum, which seems to be designed for the amusement of its more inflated associate: "In any cape, is it not rather small business to quarrel about Devlin's politics when his crime was connived at by men of both parlies? Wo believe the Eaole 1b the only holder of the view that he has committed no ciime' We did not raise the question of Devlin's politics. "We were taunted with the statement that he was sent to Albany as the fore moBt Representative of the Democracy in 1 he Penitentiary. We set this matter right by Legislative Kills. Senator Murphy has a hill authorizing the Comptroller and Mayor of the City of Brooklyn" to is Eiie certificates of indebtedness to the amount of $18,000 to pay for the new hose bought by the city at the close or laet year.

Senator Murphy also has a bill to allow any street railroad company to use the track or any other company, on obtaining the consent or the latter thereor. Senator BankB has a bill to lectify tbe mistakes certain religious societies or this and the neighboring city have committed, iu recording their certificates in the wrongcounty. The bill declares Ihe recording to be valid as If it had been entered with the clerk of tho proper county. Mr. Mallison has a bill amending the act or last year rcr tho re paving of Fulton avenue, Livinzaton street, and HanEon Place, which enables the Mayor, Corporation Counsel, ad Street Commitsioner to repair said 'ticets without requiring the consent of the property owners.

No provision is made to exempt the centre (jfFnllon avenue, which at present the City Railroad Company have the obligation or keeping in repair. Smntor Edwards has a bill exempting the town or Hnntir.cton rrom any sharo in tho provisions ot the act reloting to the town of Flushing, Queens County. Mr. Keady has a ill which orders the Union Ferry Company to "run their boats, at intervals of not more tbnn fifteen minutes, rrom iho Toot or Whitehall street, New York, to the root or Atlantic street, Brooklyn." Tbe bill docs not provide fnr the return of the boats, nor for the quantity and thickness or tie ice that shall lie in tbe river, nor for the quantum of obstructions the boats may meet with fftm sloops lying or passing in front of the slips, nor for a breakdown of the cngineB, nor for any other contingency of the journey. Mr.

Tower tas a bill in the Assembly lo aboliih tho Banking Department of the State, which costs 20.000 a year, and is rendered unnecessary by the oawtilleh ment of the Federal currency system, Mr. Mallison's bill extends tho term of the Messenger of the Board or Aldermen, us well as the keeper or the City Hall, tolbrec years. Mr. Maddeu has a hill (o lay East Second street, Long Island City (Hunter's Point) to etreet, iu Blisfevllle, Queens County, nnd thence along street to Grecnpomt avenue in Bliseville. Hair the expense is to be paid by the properly benefitted and the other hall by the town of Newtown.

The under the Act ore Charles Stevens or Hunter's Point, Tims M. Evans of Bllssvllle and F. T. Covert oi Newtown. They arc authorized to close West avenue fn West First, elrect to West Second street aud Wost First street from West avenue to the East River, and East First street from East avenue to Jack's Creek, Long City.

Mr. Jacobs' bill dividing the Ninth Ward makes Fulton avenue tlie divlriou line und provide an Alderman of Ihe Twenty first Ward the Flushing avenue half of the existing Ward at the next election, who thai hold office lor one year. Mr. Smith has a bill amending the Legislature in regard to the widening and improving of South Seventh Flrccl, eo that half Ihe expense flhall be paid by the properly on the line, and tho other hall by a iEttict to be fixed by the Board of Gen. Slocum and ex Alderman Bliss, of this ci'y were among the corporators named in Senator Genet's bill for an underground railroad from the Battery to the Central Park, New York.

Mr. Jacobs has a bill to widen avenue ftom Atlantic to Flatbush avenue, to 100 feet. Tie' expense is to be psid by certificates of indebtedness to be if Filed by the cily at large, and the Common Council, is to fix a district of assessment for the improvement. IN RELATION TO SHEnrFFS. Senator Mnrpby introduced a bill providing for increasing the lees of Sheriffs to Jl for servlDg a summons for any court of record fijr serving summons and complaint, $1 ISO or a notice of object of action with summons $1 50.

An order ol arrest, and perhaps connected therewith an attachment against tho per Bon, or a writ of ne exeat, 00 for each defendant, to be paid by the plaintiff; for taking aud nnproving ol an undertaking irom a defendant on nrrost, $3 for each defendant, to be paid by said plaintiff; lorn bond on attachment pgainEt property Jz and for each copy and notice of such warrant of attachment served, aud for taking and attaching any property, in addition to all tbe necessary expenses, tho same fees on the amount claimed us arc herein specified for collections and executions; said fees to be paid whether eaid pro) crly Bball bo Bold or the action settled fiild fees to be paid by the plaintiff except when a bondshall bo given, then by tho party giving the bond; for serving an attachment for the collection of money or a warrant by the Comp ti oiler for the Enme or by any Coaniy Treasurer for collecting $250 or 5 per ntd Tor any amount above that eum, percent. When a ealu is made by an auctioneer of any property geized his commission shall be 5 per cent. io cenUpermilo lor traveling expenses to be allowed. For all sales or real esiale, 10 for every deed of conveyance and for making aud tiling a report or sale, $3, together withall legal expenses, printing, posting, All Eales hereafter made under any Judgment of any court orrecotd, to be made by the Sheriff. All processes Issued by the Marine Court or the city or New York, to be sent to tho Sbcnfl'of th.it county.

For takii charge ot any property levied upon, fa forevery twenty rour hours and alt other expenses incurred in Btorage, insurance, Where executions are returned "no property" the Sheriff shall receive $1 for attending any court, except in the city of New York, 20 for serviEL' a warrant in criminal proceedings, 1 for serving a tubpeona. So cents, with mileage at 10 cents per mile for summoning a jury in civil actions, 5U cents for each causa noticed for serving a writ of poesesslon or of restitution, for lakin" and approving any bond of indemnity, $10; for pre" paring a certificate of sale of real estate, i5 for certificate of redemption of same, $5, and for deed of the Eamc, $5. Amusements. Kemble. Mrs.

Fanny Kemble has at length made up her mind to como to Brooklyn. Simo years ago a "committee of the first citizens'' sent her an invitation to read over here. She paid no attention to tbe invitation. A sub commitleo was then raised on the lady, and began to tell her you know, you know, when she very cava'lcrly interrupied the spokpEman and told him she was in tho habit of attending to her own business. She didn't know as she cared lo goto Brooklyn nt all.

but when she made up her mind she should act through her agent. Until now she has been "minded" to keep away. She has concluded now lhat she will come, and her agent has, after the manner of men, requested us to announce lhat fact. She will read on the 18tb, 17t), and ISth, twice in the evening and twice at a matinee wbat she will read wo do not know, and her ab cent "dare not oek her." This drcadfuCparsona.sc will be well worth teeing and bearing. She Is ns excellent on the ttoge as she is abEurd off of it.

Park Tueathe. Mr. Davenport made his third appconince lastnipht at tho Park Tncatro as Othello," in Shukspcare's tragedy, of that name. Notwithstanding the fact that he was evidently Buffering from severe indisposition, his acting in the part of Ihe revengeful Moor, was marked by that care and effccUvences, which always characterizes his representation. The wero given with great correctness, and in so acceptable a manner as to merit the frequent applause with which he was greeted.

Mr. Conway's Isgo waB iu eveiy tense of the word excellent. Hie reading was correct, his emphasis good, and his acting natural throughout. Mr. C.

is familiar with the part, and has always played it with great success laEt night only confirmed our opinion that as logo, Mr. Conway is almoit withont an equal. Mrs. Conway'E Emilia was aUn excellent, and she was received by her patrons with well merited applause. Witb such a trio in the cast, a dramatic treat was a foregone conclusion.

The support by the stock company was very uneven. Eaves as Montana was good, Ityau as Roderjgo out of his depth, and Violet Campbell as Dcsdemona much too melo dramattc. To night Richard III. Richard, Mr. Davonport; Elizabeth, Mrs.

Conway. Ole Boll. We remind our readers of the treat in Btore mr them this evening at Plymouth Church. As a violinist, Ole Bull is without an equal the breadth and rlcbneaB of his tone, his power ot swelling and attenuating tho volume of tho single tone, the perfection of his staccato, and withal tbe poetic Impressibility of the man himself combine to make bis playing marvellously attractive. Wo go to eee and bear Bull play, very much as we went to tea and hear Dickcus read.

The programme prepared for the evening Is moBt enjoyable, and the long list of names a guarantee of a delightful concert. Hoolev'b. The rush to hear ViviaD, the concertina soloist and the other stars is as great as ever. Hughes and Reed continue their comicalities nightly, and the cry Is still "hurrah for fun." Tha "Wild Fawn" is still steady on lis pins and draws like a honee on lire. Till Tapping.

Two boys named George Wilson and Adam Henderson, aged respectively 18 and 15, were arrested yesterday by Officer Sntton, of tho Forty third Precinct, on complaint of Frederick Wil kins, at Ihe corner of Atlantic and Bond streets, who charged them of havintr robbed bis monoy drawer of (9 in stamps and pennies. TSese bovs aro also charged with havinc robbed the tills of Mr. Feldhauser, of Nev. ins Btreet, and tbat of Mr. Seurln, of 63 Power? street, from which tnoy obtained In all 70 cents.

Wilson when arrested was searched, and tho money Ukon from tho till of Mr. Wilkins waa found in bis possession. Bold or cumulation. A Handsome Bribe Honorably Refused. It is said that one of the Senators from this County and not a wealthy man, either was offered and refused a retaining fee of enormous amount in the complicated litigation arising out of the affairs of the Erie Railroad.

The intention, no doubt, was to procure for the money not only the legal services of the counsel, but his vote on the pending legislative action in the State Capitol relative to the railroad. Such, at least, was the construction put upon the offer by the Senator, and, with a sense of honor not always evinced in such matters, he declined the tempting induce ment. Such honorable conduct strengthens the hope that we may look with confidence to our representatives in the Senate to kill the tribe of extravagant and outrageous bills which the Assembly delegation are pushing through their branch of the Legislature. Topics of To day. Judge Black, one of the counsel for the President in the Impeachment case, has retired from that position.

Ilia action ia variously explained, a guano island and the claim of bis clients thereto being involved according to one account. It is said Judsje Black will shortly publish a statement of facts. A bill before Congress provides for the issue of a new series of coins. The one and ttvo cent bronze pieces, the three and live cent silver coins, and the three, fire and ten cent noted are to ho withdrawn from circulation, aud their placss supplied by one, three and five cent nickel copper silver coins, uniform in design, with raised numerals, so that they can be distinguished by the touch. Lopez, the Mexican, who enjoys the doubly difftraciful distinction of having first betrayed his country to Maximilian and (hen Bold the latter to the Juarez party, is in prison at Vera Cruz.

Why he was put ihere the teleeram does not state. It says, however, that the press and judiciary now declare that the law against traitors, under which Maximilian was shot, is unconstitutional. This tardy declaration is of little practical service to the late Emperor and will prove slight consolation to his friends. A remarkable robberv is renortnd. Vnnr men on Tuesday night drove from Providence to North Scituate, forced their way into the bedroom of the cashier of the National Bank, bound and gagged him and his wife, took the kovs ot tho limit nj failing to open the vault, returned for the cashier compelled mm to open anu carries away 35,000 and valuable papers.

The story excites suspicion as wen as cnriotiiy. Blot, who seceded from New York, has pone over to Boston. He accepts the directorship of the Kuiriord Food laboratory of course no common term, such us restaurant, or dining saloon, or kitchen, or victualing shop, would serve Blot will make ar rangements to send warm meals to any citizen of the Hub or suburban New Englander who can be reached in ten hours. While the Government has purchased a site for a New York Post Office at the crowded end of ihe City nail Park it selects an up town location for other offices. They will be removed on the first of May to a building on the corneror Houston and Greene streets, for which the snag rent of $25,000 a year is paid, and which is fitted up as it the new occupants Intended to stay.

Annual Conferences ot the Methodist Church will meet in this and the neighboring city next week. The New York Conference includes the city churches lying west of the Bowery and Third avenue and in some of the liver counties. It will hold itsBCssiunin the 125th street church, Harlem, under the presidency orBiBbop Clarke. The New York East Conference includes the churches in New York east of the line mentioned, those in Brooklyn and on the rsst of Long Island, and iu Connecticut. It will meet in the Wash! ington avenue Methodist church in this city, and Bishop Janes will preside.

John Hecker, of flour and farina fame, is re poitcd to be making arrangements for the publication of a newspaper devoted to relorm in morals, iood and politics. This will not be Hccker's first venture in periodical literature. He was once proprietor of a High Church journal, and was projecting a religious daily just at the time the World began to cultivate that newspaper specialty. New York lost a venerable and veritable miser the other day in the person of one Peter Ander sen, v. ho died in a miserable earret In Willett street.

where he had resided for some time in a wretched state of filth, cold and hunger. Besides a deed of the build ing of which he occupied a part, there were found in his possession Government securities and bank books representing over two thousand dollars. Two married daughters who are said to live on Long Island will probably not hesitate to avail themselves ol a knowl edge of these financial facts. The Senate yesterday received the Presi dent's veto of the bill abridging the right of appeal to the Supreme Court in certain cases. It was debated by several Senators, with the understanding that the vote should be taken to day.

The report of the Com mitlee on BuleB was amended and adopted. The Army Appropriation bill was reconsidered and referred. Among bills introduced and considered were ono in regard to the rights of married women in the District of Columbia, one for the provisional government of Alabama, and one in relation to appropriating public lands to the Pacific Railroad. The House passed the bill for the exemption of manufactures from tax, after amending it, and briefly considered the Pucidc Hail road tariff bill. Cable telegrams are few and condensed The French Legislature has passed the bill regulating public meetings.

Anti Prussian delegates to tho Con greesof the Zollvercln have been chosen in Wirtom berg. It is said Priuco Napoleon has remonstrated ogainEt the absorption of Poland by Russia. TheBmae of Commons passed the bill abolishing church rates. Yesterday was the first day of the Epsom races, Blue skin winning tho Metropolitan stakes, and Clemenco the Prince ol Wales stakes. The Railroad war will be extended to the steamboats the coming season, and Drew and Vander bllt propose to engage In a lively opposition on the Hudson As this will result in a reduction of the rate of faro the public must gain by the competition, provided the law against racing ia enforced io the pre vention of explosion and collision.

As spring weather approaches people ex cepting those who are engaged In rnnntbg steamboats, furnaces and factories aro less interested in tho price of coal than during the cold months. Tho same influence will affect the market rates. At the monthly sale yesterday there was a reduction of from twenty five to forty six and a half cents per ton. At her recent reception Queen Victoria adhered to the "customary salt of solemn black." She wore a black moire antique, with crape and jet trimming, and a long white crape vaU. Contrasted with this were the toilets of the other royal ladles: PrinceBB of Wales, white silk, gold and sliver fringe, lace, feathers, peorla and diamonds Princess Chris tian, white moire antique, lace ana wnue roBes; Princess Lonise, white satin, fringe and velvet.

Minister Adams was not present, not caring to appear singular aad ridiculous in a waiter's coatume, as he would have been compelled to by the millinery regulations of Congress. The East River Bridge. The result of the conference held between the Common Council special committee and the representatives of the Bridge Com pany, on Saturday and yesterday, is that a unanimous report by the committee will be made to the Common Council on Monday, in favor of the city contributing three million dollars to tho Bridge, on condition that the Major, Comptroller and City Treasurer shall be exqffltio, directors of tbe Bridge Company, and that the Bridge Company shall raise two millions of its own, and pay the same by instalments, pro rata with the city's subscription. The law requires a vote of two thirds of the Common Council to make the subscrip tion valid. HORSE FLESH.

How It Tastes to London Sanderson's Practical Joke and 1 ow it Went Down. Col. Sanderson, formerly of the New York Hotel, who is one cf the best known men in his line the world over.and whoso commissariat services during the late war were most properly recognized by the government, is now at the heaa of the most complete hotel in the world, the Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London, where he entertains more Americans, including Brooklynites, than all of the rest of the hotels combined. Recently, in a fit of practical jokinc, Col. Sanderson projected a "Banquet Hippophagigue, with a bill of fare that would give many an old stager the blindest kind of blind staggers.

Concerning the dinner ourcorrespondent.tte Rev. Henry 6ends the following omitting to state, however, that each guest particularly relished a pony ot brandy before talicg. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; Tbe epicures in horse fiesh at the head of whom are Forsyte, Q. and Mr. Bicknell, F.

J. G. T. have jnst afforded an opportunity to a large number of gentlemen, (when ar i the gentler eex to be permitted a taste ol the noble animal's edible quality of putting thiB new meat," ns it ia now called, to a practical test. A grand banquet hippophat ique as the menu described it, has recently taken place at the Langham Hotel, at which there were some one hundred and fitly diners, nil prepared to tickle or astonish their palates by introducing thereto a species of food which our forefathers would not regard as particularly acceptable to a dog, if he had been accustomed io be fed on dainty bits.

The opinions of gaslronomers are much at vartanc" but it must be confessed teat the great majority of the company at the recent banquet avowed themselves to be in favor of Ihe food, it was particularly noticeable, however, that in many instances those who professed a pi oround liking fur it, were by no means displeased if the waiter removed his plate prematurely while he was dallying with the viaud after a fashion very much the reverse of the manner in which a hungry hunter would treat a piece ol'honest rump steak. Tne waiters were aclive in the discharge or their duties, hut not more to than the company liked for the timely notice which Col. Snuderson, the eneigetic superintendent of the hotel, gave at tho commencement of operations, that gentlemen wonld be pleased to "uke their time" was scarcely heeded as a recommendation. To say that tbb lletjh ia not eatable il not actually palatable would, of course, be a paradox; but to compare it Willi the meat of the ox that good ox meat would be to cast a brand noon the bovine contributors to our festive enjoyments which the least, tractable beast never merited. It is cnarsc grained, boo dened, weak and undecided in flavor, and almost entirely destitute of juice nnd fat; while it suggests to the reflection of the eaicrthnt be would be iucline i to bury his face in his napkin ir he were caught swallowing it stealthily.

Many attempts have been made to indicate the particulur flavor of the meat; but it may De suggested that the nearest approach to a correct descifbtlon ot it would be to cay that it is like coarse, ill fed beef cut with a venisony knife. Many were much disappointed the other evening when, upon the arrival of the piece rertttance (confuting ol a baron of borse borne on the thoulaers of four men, to the tune "of the roast beef of discovered that that which was to take thepiace of ox had not Ihe advantage ol horee radnh uccompai.inient. And yet almost every thing appeared to he done that could be done to keep the diners constantly reminded of tho Tact that they were banqueting on hcrse. If yon put to the waiter the usual be'thrusta Iresh plate before yonr excited paze "What's this?" "House" was ihe ready reply, ns if determined to show that each ctonghty knight of the table was to feel the entire weight of his responsibility, and here a question naturally suggests itself, viz: whether, considering that the horse, as an ammai to be devoured is made to enter the lists with the bovine masters of the field, it is altogether fair to test his edible qualities to an extent to which tho ox has never yet been subjected. Did the hungriest worishpper of the good things which fall to an epicure's table ever hoar of ox flesh served at one and the same dinner iu eome twentv oifierent forms, and only diversified by a rtlsh of fish and a roast lurkeyf And yet such was tbe tremendous ordeal which horse flesh underwent at this banquet hippophagique," as if, because he is often exposed to nnjust treatment during life, ha is deserving of even Icbb consideration when dead I Moreover, it would be Bomewhat surprising to a man bent upon the enjoyment of a eood dinner to receive a certificate on bis entry into the salle a manger to tlio eflect that the ox, of whose jointB" ho was about to be a partaker, was perfectly free from organic oisease hut nevertheless it was thought advisable, on this memorable occasion, to produce veterinary testimonials to this effect and when theBC were followed, in the courBD of (he evening, by photographic representations of the three animals (a grey gelding and two brown ones) whoEe flefh the company were progressivcy consuming, it was only natural to conclude that the disciples oi hippophagy have themselves something to learn in the matter of taste.

It would doubtlePB ho a great boon to ar.imal atiug mankind were every slaughtered carcass exposed to a medical examination before it was cut up and dished up; bu. such a proceeB would often lean to suspicions, wticb, however unjmt, could not produce a oeneilcial effect upon the appetite. Whatever may be tbe ultimate retult ol the Important question which has thus been inised, it is now time that some means were ucvised for biinging horses to the shamble, and aFCertainiDg. by a practical tCEt, whether the poor" will be disposed to use it as an article of ordinary consumption. I)u rcfle, the dinner was admirably contrived, and Colenel Sanderson was an excellent and ubiquitous master ol ceremonies, a position which he has suc cesprnby maintained during his vigorous nnnasemeut of the hotel.

H. W. VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS. Correction." To the Editor of the BrooHyn Eaqle In your yeBterday evening's paper you Etated ihat it was tbe engineer of Steamer 12" that dropped the can of fluid in the store room connected with the Chief Engineer's office and ran awoy. Now in justice to myself I would like to state tho real fncis in regard to the above.

Mr. Brennau, Engineer of Steamer 7, was the man that was oriwing tho fluid when I diicovered tbe fire. I immediately ran in and attached tho hose, and with the assistance of a member of Engine 7, together we extinguished the fire, and I did not leave the room until Mr. McNamara came in. I was in the room with Brennau at the time, but did not touch the can in which the fluid was.

Yours reEpeclmlly, Robedt Corcoran, Engineer of Steamer 12, A. Complaint For tbe Ilealcli Department. To the Editor of the Brookyn Eagle Pleae grant a constant reader a small space in your colnmns to call the attention of tbe Directors or tho 8aultary Commission to a moflt Intolerable nutBancoin Marshall street, south side, between HndBon avenue and Little street in the shaps, of an ammonia; factory, which extracts ammonia from the refuse matter from the tanks of the Brooklyn Gas Light Company's Works. As there are a number of consumptives and invalids lying ia this neighborhood, the cause of humanity requires that some relief should be afforded to those at least, from thejvillainous odor emitted from this establishment. The smeU la utterly intolerable, and In many cases causes incessant vomiting to those living in its immediate neighborhood, and prevents people from sleeping by its elifltog smell dt night it oven penetrates people's clothing, as also the food brought Into tho people's rooms in its Immediate vicinity, and in a very short lime renders It unfit for nse.

Here is trnly a ease for tho Intervention of those having the public health in charge. A BrrrjKBEB. Unlicensed Cautmen. John and Thomas McGnire were arrested hy Officer Bellott, of the Forty third Precinct, charged with driving a public cart with. ont bavins Pai1 the special license.

Justice Delmar will examine the charge. company, or shame its directors into a decent regard for the safely and convenience of the public, then the Long Island Railroad would ither have sunk long ago under the weight of obloquy or have become a model road. These verdicts ot censure are stereotyped nonsense, and are getting to be an insult to the common sense of the community. When a person is lulled on a railroad it ought to be determined whether tho kiss of life was due to unavoidable circumstances, to carelessness on the part of the sufferer, or was traceable to the negligence or recklessness of the railroad people. If to the latter then there should be some legal responsibility some punishment attached.

The victim in the present ease was a newsboy named Oscar Lobdcll, who was crushed to death between two cars. The investigation showed that the accident arose from the bad condition of the road, the lies were so rotten that they would not hold the rails in their place, the rails "spread," throwing the locomotive and some ot the cars off the track, and the cars jammed together catching the deceased be tween the platforms. If a failure to keep the track such repair as is necessary to assure the safety of travel is not culpable negligence then we have always misunderstood the definition of that term. Considering the nature of the accident, it is a wonder that more damage was not done and more lives lost. The victim was only a poor newsboy, and the railroad company may felicitate themselves in fretting off cheaply this time.

If there should be any relatives to put in a claim lor damages, a considerate jury may value a newsboy at a lower figure than they would a grown up passenger a New York merchant or a Long Island farm eft It seems to be impossible to attach any criminal responsibility to railroad people. The suit for damages is the only way of punishing them. After the fearful collision at Jamaica, in the summer ol 1805, when five lives were lost and two or three persons maimed for life, the con ductors of the trains and the superintendent of ihe Long Island Railroad were criminally tndicted by the grand jury of Queens County. It was as clear a case of criminal recklessness as ever was proved, and there was ample evidence of this given on the inquest on the victims, and at the preliminary examination. Tet the case was never brought to trial.

The destruction of property in the collision and the several judgments rendered agamst the Company made it an expensive affair for them, but from the disclosures made in the recent investigation it does not appear to have cured them entirely the managers of the Long Island Road seem to be as careless as ever of the public safety. It has been said as much in earnest as in jest that the safety of railroad travelers couTd only be assured by making a director of the road ride on every train. Sending a superintendent to Sing Sing occasionally might answer the same purpose Interesting from Mexico. A very interesting piece of intelligence comes from Mexico, that the Supreme Court has declared the law under which Maximilian was executed unconstitutional. There is a grim humor about this discovery which raises a smile in spite of the tragic features of the case.

The Austrian prince is tried and shot, and nine months afterwards it is de clared that the law under which he was con demned to death was unconstitutional. It is something to know that Mexico has a consti tution, though they do not take the trouble to look into it until it is too late. For any other nation than Mexico, for any people having a decent respect for public opinion abroad, this confession would be awkward, that they had butchered a prisoner of state, but Mexico as regards the rest of mankind is like Daniel in the lion's den, Daniel didn't care a cuss for the lions, and the lions didn't care a cuss for Daniel. There is much in common between the Mexican rulers and the Radicals in Congress, they now have un opportunity to learn something of each other. The Radicals have impeached the President for violating a law which is likely to be declared unconstitutional.

President Johnson willonly lose his official head, but as the Mexican case, it may be embarrassing to learn from the Supreme Court that he had been unlawfully removed. The Mexicans to avoid any further unpleasant decisions should follow our Radical example, and take away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The milliners of Brooklyn have this year resolved to start even with New York competitors, instead of waiting until the latter had taken the edge off the interest in the new fashions. To day is the regular opening of the Spring fashions, and our Brooklyn miliners boldly challenge comparison with the fashionable establishments across the river. The day for dependence on New York for any of the luxuries or necessaries of existence has past Brooklyn can boast of as elegant and well stocked emporiums of fashion as any that adorn Broadway.

It is the duty ot every resident of Brooklyn to encourage local trade..