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CONCENTRATED LEAVE: thought that the lesson conveyed in such minia. tnres of life as the "School for Scandal" might not have an entirely evil effect in these sanctimonious days. Certainly if we can tolerate the "Ballo in Maschero," and an exceedingly pretty thing it is, as presented at the Montague street es tablishmentfwe believe we can with a tolerable peace of mind assist at theatrical representations. there has been any doubt before the success the opera, and especially of the "Ballo in Maschero," must have convinced all that the Brook" lyn people, like other folks, need relaxtiou, and are no more sqeamish about it than honest, healthy minded men and women have been long before the Mayflower landed its cargo on the rock, bound coast of New England. Democratic Constitutional Convention.

This body met at "the Capitol," Joralemon street, on Saturday evening, and adopted the Constitution which had heen reported by the Committee having the matter in charge. In the absence of the President, Mr. D. D.Whitney was moved to the Chair, and Mr. Hatfield "cted as Secretary.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The convention then resumed the consideration of the Constitution, taking it up at the point where left off at the prior meeting, viz Article 2, section 1. The section was adopted. On motion of Mr. Sharkey, the second section was amended, so that member's names shall not he erased from the roll, unless in open meeting of the Association, after due notice.

The third section which specifies what officers the Ward and Town Associations are to elect, was amended, by adding the words "or City Committee," after the provision in relation to the call for the election of delegates to conventions and also that seven days notice shall be riven, etc. lady who is a governor's wife and couaa to a college professor; but suppose she was blessed with relatives addicted to burglary or sheep stealing these family revelations would hirdly be so agreeable. The correspondent of the New York Tines who got up the great assassination plot is a genius In his way. He describes Mrs. Lincoln's hair 33 of luxuriant growth of "a dark brown color, and elastic fibre." How he ascertained the elasticity of her hair and how far it would stretch without breaking, would be a matter of some interest to know.

But this is little to the other wonderful things he says. He saw the landlord of the hotel in Philadelphia "agitated beyond computation by the "presence of Mr. Lincoln, grew pale with anxiety. ''He knew not whether he was man or sky rocket he flew here, there and everywhere, like a "chestnut in a hot pot; he ran up stairs and down, "up like a rocket and down like a stick. It was "dreadful and fearful to behold a fellow creature "in such a bewildered state." We suspect that the correspondent must have had free access to the bar room before he saw the landlord ascend the stairs in a shower of sparks.

It may be said the man who saw these pyrotechnics, as the poet says of youth, that "the light that surrounds him is all from within." Sub Committee to aid in the revision of the Constitution and preparing it for publication in its amended form. On motion, copies of the Constitution as revised, were ordered to be sent to the Presidents of the different committees. Mr. Badeau suggested that copies of it he sent to the Albany Argus and some other papers, but the Convention would not hear of it. Mr.

Ward then moved that before they adj ow ned, the Convention should endorse the resolutions adopted at the Albany Convention in January. Mr. Ternan (who was one of the delegates to the Albany Convention) protested that the resolutions were not half strong enough for him. Mr. Bergen fully coincided with him, while Mr.

Sharkey said they were neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, tbey were not the sentiment of the party ia this State, and were merely a milk and water arrangement. Mr. Ternan did not think the Albany resolutions at all expressed the sentiments of the Democracy of the State; and moved that the motion he laid on the table, which was agreed to. The Convention then adjourned, subject to the call of the then acting Chairman. Brooklyn Academy ot Music.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Dear Sir, At the first concert of the Philhar. monic at the Brooklyn Academy, as many who attended bave eveiy reason to know, Brooklyn Mr. Mrs. and Miss was terribly jammed, pushed, squeezed and exercised in getting into the house, and although nobody can be blamed, yet everybody (especially those who hud seats or no 6eats) was dissatisfied. At the second and last concert, the society relieved us from the toilet smashing effects of a rush, and gave us a lesson in natience.

Two mortal' hours did those who had the time as well the desire to obtain good seats, have to wait, reading, talking, sighing and imprecating until the curtain rose. And again, is Brooklyn dissatisfied What plan shall be adopted next is the not an frequent question. The only plan wo hear proposed i6 have reserved seats and those who wish them can pay for the advantage they have in position, and those who do not pay extra, can have the satisfaction of knowing that those who have the best seats had to pay for their whistle. But I have one question to ask, and (in all humbleness) one proposition to offer. Why is it necessary that we should pay extra for reserved seats There is no heavy expense incurred in reserving a seat no hired military are required to protect them from rude assaults of Brooklyn's fair daughters or brave sons; and few, if any more, ushers are required to keep the ignorant or bold from taking possession of them.

Now, for my suggestion. All the scats, except perhaps those in the family circle and amphiiheatre(and those too for ought I know) are numbered. If each ticket that is sold, no matter whether sold the day before or the night of the concert, bear the number of a certain seat, would not this remedy all the present difficulty Or, when a person buys a ticket or tickets, with each one he receives a check with the number of his seat stamped on it. The ticket he delivers at the door, the check he shows to an usher, who shows him to his seat, and returns bis check. If the person desiring to purchase tickets, go the box office before evening, whenever it is open, he may selects his seats from those which are not taken, but if he choose to wait until the doors of the Academy are open, he must be satisfied with the cheeks the ticket seller gives him, without choice.

Will not this sat itfy everybody It does at the Boston Academy of Music. Why not at tbe Brooklyn One word more. Why not arrange things so as to prevent tbe shoving, pushing and disorder at the ticket offices, by those purchasing tickets Here, too, the Boston Academy of Music is ahead of us. They have a railing in front of the office, similar to those in front of the ticket offices on some of the river ami sound steamboats. Only far enough from the office to alioty one person to pass at a time, and ovally shaped so as to prevent persons from the outside reaching over.

Eich person eptcrs between the railing and office, and at the end nearest the entrance "to the building, and having received his ticket and check, passes out at the other end. And whv need we be charged extra for these things Who has a better suggestion If any, speak, for him I will listen to. V. flight of the President Opinions of the Press. (From the New York Jonrnal of Commerce.) We regard the assertions of the sensation reporter of the Times as untrue on their face especially in reference to lbe statement that Mr.

Lincoln skulked ou himself and left his family to come in the train which would be sure to carry th to destruction. In fact, from the evidence beforo see nothing to justify the opinion that there llo liVo onnariraov fnr tllO aflftflSR'natlnil of Air. Lincoln, ob "Howard," the correspondent of the Times, alleges, and if the names of the Southern conspirators were in hie possession, why did he not make them public In truth, there is much in all the circumstances, hero narrated, calculated to suggest the thought that the whole affair was designed ss a coup etat to avoid apprehended difficulties i Baltimore but we would prefer to take a more charitable view and assume that Mr. Lincoln's presence was suddenly required, pending important action in the Peace Conference at Washington. Certain it is, that unless the President 'elect possessed evidence very satisfactory to his mind that some evil design against his person was contemplated, his action as finally resolved upon, conveyed a very ungenerous imputation on the loyalty and patriotism of the good citizens of Baltimore, than from whose minds nothing was more remote than insults and aersonal injury to the President elect, or any member of his family, or his accompanying suit.

Some allowance should, therefore, be mado for the natural indignation of the inhabitants of the Monumental City. (From the N.Y. World.) But even if it were true in all its hideous details, how unwisely, how unfortunately, was Mr. Lincoln advised! how deplorably did he yield to his advisers! For as lo him, we cannot believe that a man of his bold and open bearing, who has hewn his way with strength of arm, and will, and force of character to his present high position, would blCDCh at the first show danger, and of his own choice, travel by night into tho capital, whero he was called to execute the purposes of thirty millions of Americans. He would not believe, with less than absolute proof, that the state of Calvert and Carroll had degenerated into a nest of assassins.

He knew that state, governed by Hicks aud represented by Winter Davis, had a claim upon his frankest confidence, and that it became him not only to openly pass through it, but to receive the salutations or its loyal people, as he received those of other sections of the country. And hud there been peril, he was a Dial and the leader of men, and was ho not to meet it Had he known that there were murderers lying in wait for his life in Maryland, he should have refusnd the shelter of cor or carriage, and mounting a how, like a man, have called his friends around him, and he would liave.ridden into Washington with an escort of thousands and tho conqueror of millions of loyal hosts. (From the New York Times Several different theories have been given for this midnight flight, each more reasonable than that 01 apprehended how ie knives, atilletos. hand grenad or "tor.iwing tho train off the track and down a high embankment." One i that the old gentleman tiaving bocorno weary of the hand shaking and committee business, determined to put a summary stop to it by quietly running off by him self. Amtihvr is Ihat he was desirous of evading the trouble that was certain to occur at llallimore between the parlit uns ot the rivul committees who were on hand at Harrisborg iigel possession of him.

A third is that his friends at Washington deemed his presence there indispensable ou Saturday to confer wiih members of tlio Pence Congress, and agree upon some line of policy that should govern tho ltepublican members and bring matters to a conclusion. Either of ihe three was or sufficient weight to determine Mr. Lincoln to forego all further ro ccpiions and addresses, and proceed direct to the capital; and the public would have said all right if tho uiam. uver had not been coupled with this cock uud bull story of as (From tho N. Y.

News.) The special dispatch announoing the flight of Lincoln, says: "A prolonged conversation elicited tho fact that an organized body of men had determined ihat Mr. Lincoln bhould not be inaugurated, and that he shou'd never leave the city of Baltimore alive, if, indeed, he ever entered it. "The list of the names of tho conspirators presented a most astonishing array of persons high in southern confidence, arid seme whose fame is not to this country alone. "Statesmen laid the plan, hankers indorsed it, and ad vi nturers were to carry it Into effect. As they understood Mr.

Lincoln was to leave Harrisburg at 9 o'clock this morning, by special train, and the idea wa ir possible, to throw tlie cars from the road at some point whore they could rush down a steep embankment and destroy in a moment the lives of all on board. In case of tho failure of this project their plan was to surround tho carriageon the way rrom depot to depot In Baltimore, and assassinate him Willi dagger or pistol shot." Who composed iiiisasionishiug array Who are the statesmen who laid tlio plan and Ihe bankers who indorsed it Give us the namas. Random assertions will not suffice. If ihe statement be true, the Press and voice of tbe country will unite In their denunciation; if false, its inventors should bo held un to public scorn and indignation. When the Times will give us tho name of a siuirlo statesman or banker, or person "high (n Southern conll dence," who has deliberately Joined in a plot to murdor the Presidentelect, and furnish one title of evidonco of the fact, our word for It that every Democratic press Norih and every right minded editor in tho South will not be behind that journal in branding it with the infamy it so richly deserves.

A lad in Wilmington, N. named James E. Dickson, took enough of his mother's money, on Wednesday the 13th to buv two small shot guns, with which he and a companion went shooting. The gun of his companion accidentally exploded, shooting Dickson in the head, as he was erof siDg a brook near the town. The frightened boy ran homo, lonving Dickson buried in mud and water.

He was round on tbe following Friday morning, still alive, and lived till Saturday, when he died, after relating the manner of the accident. His lylnir in tho mud, dying almost, for two nights and a day, was awful. wig Ie This PttDor haa the largest circulation of any Erening Paper published in lue United States. Its value as an advertising medium is therefore apparent. Tc Corresposdkktb.

No notice can be taken of anonymous Communications. Whatever Is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer not necessarily for publication, bus as a guarantee of Us Rood faith. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. MOM DAY EVENING, FEB. 25.1 Mr.

Lincoln's Flight by Moonlight alone. It is somewhat difficult to determine how far the managers of Mr. Lincoln are responsible for the manufacture of the canard which was pat forward as nu explanation of the sudden nocturnal flight of Mr. Lincoln to Washington. The account furnished by the extras issued by the sensation papers on Saturday, was so absurd on its face, that most silly goubcnwuche who ever swal lowed hoaxes by wholesale, would reject 6ucu a gross and palpable fabrication as that statesmen had planned the assassination of Mr.

Lincoln, bankers endorsed it, and politicians, whose fame had spread to foreign pans, were parties to the design. We would gladly be able to come to the conclusion that the sudden departure of Mr. Liucoln from Barrisburgh was in consequence of a summons from his friends at Washington who perhaps desired to avail themselves of his influence in connection with Ihe efforts at conciliation which now divide parties at Washington. But, however, the accounts of his flight differ in other respectSjthey all agree in attributing his midnight journey to apprehensions arising from rumors of a plot to assassinate him. That these rumors are fabrications without the shadow of foundation is a fact which is self evident.

In the first place the result of his assassination, it planned and carried out, and if it could be traced to the agency of men who could be taken as representatives of Southern sentiment, would be to create a spirit of indignant resentment at the North which no power could restrain; and make coercion the real sentiment of the whole people in this section. And the number of people who have been so prejudiced by anti slavery vituperation of the South, as to suppose that the cLivalrous sentiment of the people of that region wonld not 6corn a resort to the despicable and cowardly expedient of fortunately so few that there is not a respectable journal even of the most decided Republican proclivities which does not treat the rumor as a slanderous fabrication; and the flight of the President, if resulting from fear of snch a plot, as cowardly and disgraceful. And then the fabrication is so clum. sy as to carry its own refutation along with it. A breathless messenger rushed to Mr.

Lincoln's bed chamber and informed him that the train in which he was to reach Baltimore was to be upset, ail on board sacrificed, and if Mr Lincoln should not be smashed in the railroad car he was to be dispatched by cold steel or viL lainous saltpetre. The 'time table" of his journey had been published in advance when the train that was to bear him to Baltimore was to start and when it was to reach its destination were facts known to all the people of Maryland But to discomfit the conspirators he lied at an unexpected hour of the night the telegraph was secured so that the news of his flight could not reach his assassins, and then his wife and the rest of the suite 1 00k passage on the very train that was to be destroyed with all the passengers on board, and with the fact that it did not contain the President carefully concealed from the very men who lay in wait to destroy it These facts are irrceoncileable with a belief in any such plot by Mrs. Lincoln and the party who accompanied her. And yet it is hard to conjecture what object the fabricators of this conspiracy story hoped to accomplish. Perhaps it was hop" ed that the war spirit which has been dying out, might be revived if it could be made to appear that the President, elected by northern votes was in danger of his lift! from southern dagrsrf If such was the hope, the atrocious conception was so stupidly executed as to fail of its end, and cannot impote upon the credulity of a single human being.

Of course the statement that prominent men were engaged in the plot rests on the mere authority of a peiiny a liner, hired to get up sensation items, regardless of their character but the men who counselled Mr. Lincoln to reach the capital of the nation, of which he is to be inaugurated the chief magistrate a week from to day, in the guise of a fugitive from justice with the police on his track, are responsible for the flight and its consequences. If no personal danger w.y apprehended, but reasons of state prompted his hurried journey, they should state the fact. I' they had possession of facts sufficient to estab ish the existence of a olot to take his life, they have the particulars at their command. If they knew of the plot they know the plotters, and must either come out with a revelation of the whole affair, or stand convicted of frabricating an atrocious falsehood, calculated to do gross injustice to the people and the section so maligned, and disgrace the country in the eyes of the civilized world, and persuade the President elect to appear in the character of a party to this base deception, or as the most craven dastard whose cowardice ever disgraced our common manhood.

Some explanation is demanded and cannot be withheld without involving every odc concerned in the promulga tian of this alleged plot, in the deepest disgrace tnat the crushing indignation of a whole people can inflict. Whatever may have been the eausc of Mr. Lincoln's precipitate flight to head quarters, whether a cowardly apprehension for his personal safety or a compliance with the summons of hisfriends, there can be no two opiuions of the nature of the stories told of the existence of any conspiracy to take bis life. It is but another of the splendid crnips (V Mat by which the Republican party has distinguished itself, and will find a place on the same page ol history that records the sacking of Plymouth Church, and the capture of thcJBrook lyn Navy Yard. Amusements in Brooklyn.

Until within a few weeks, Brooklyn has been without asiDgle place of public amusement; before that tin you could find hundreds of men who could demonstrate to you that an opura house or a theatre in Brooklyn would Vie a far more chimerical project than the establishment of an art school for the benefit of the Fege.e Islanders. It is not clear to us that in the hands of Mrs. Jellabv more money could not have been secured for the latter project than the former. The reverend clergy however, sanctioned the establish ment of an opera house; and in the hands of the public spirited citizens, whOBe names we have endeavored to make faruiliarto our readers, the undertaking ban been a great success, and despite the CaB6andric prophecies of those men who in. sist on keeping Brooklyn a subucb, the Academy is amply patronized, and despite the tight times its stock is worth one hundred cents on the dol lar, and every dollar of it has been taken.

Now it has been questioned that Brooklyn people needed amusement of any kind; it was allowed, indeed, that a few ungodly folks did surreptitiously patronize IrviDg place and the Broadway theatres; but the very least punishment snch delinquents merited was in the disagreeable necessity of a lengthy omnibus ride and a midnight voyage across the River. So far from this being true, and so much hove we changed all this, that godly menare not afraid to invoke the blessiog of God on' onr opera house, and our best citizens can actually look one another in the face while witnessing the singular scene of continental life, with which the bat. numqiic presented twice last week, made us familiar. Men are found, and men of the best reputation at that, who believe that the plays of one William Shakespeare might be introduced aud the city not meet the fate of Gomorrah, and it is even If of iB it a FOE MAKING BREAD, TEA CAKES, ALL KINDS OF PASTRY," 4c. HAHUFAOTURBD BT EDW.

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859 Fulton strent. ly opposite City Hall. legal and Illegal Shysterlng. We published a few days ago a copy of an act now before the Legislature, the object of which to prevent persons not formally admitted to the bar, from earning an odd dollar in the lower courts, in making the worse appear the better rea son, in humble imitation of their more pretentions brethren.We notice that the act as published in this paper, has been cut out and attached to it is a pcli' tion invoking the Legislature to forthwith pass the said act. If our Albany Legislators are at all familiar with the names of the gentlemen who make up the Brooklyn bar, the petition cannotfail to have the greatest possible weight.

Seriously the passaee of any such act is the sheerest farce admission to the bar is now so easy, so much a matter of course, that it confers no distinction and is not a guarantee of proficiency or ability We recently bad occasion to comment on the manner in which these affairs are conducted we gave a few examples of the profundity displayed by some of the would be Blackstones. And we will venture to say that onr readers agreed with us, that it would save time, and be more honest withal, to throw down this feeble barrier do away with the solemn humbug of an examinationand leave the profession open to every fledgling (hat is ambitions to figure in it. The honest, laborous student of the noblest of all studies, is not protected by such ex minations as are now gone through with; more than all others, he has reason to complain of the present arrangement for by proficiency and incapacity are placed on the same footing, and admission to the bar which would otherwise be a distinction and a gnaran tee to suitors of ability, is an empty compliment well known to prove nothing but the good nature of the examiners and the radical defect of the present plan. Now a lawyer must earn for himseif a reputation by his own talent the fact that he has a legal right to practice confers no distinction upon him, because he shares it with every blockhead who chooses to spend three months in acquiring a of legal terms. If the examination for admission was abolished altogether he would just stand in the same position in time the really good lawyer acquires reputation and practice, while the incapable sinks to the level of a Shyster, and lives a life to which that of a decent hod man is nobility itself in com" parison.

The' law to which we have referred will not remedy the evil. If shystering is to be abolished the qualification for admission to the bar must be made more stringent; if shystering is to he retained it does not make the difference of a three cent piece whether It is to be doue by the unauthorised shyster, or by one who has the authoiity of the law for hazarding by his knavery or from ignorance or natural stupidity the dearest rights that may be entiusted to him: A Public Market ior Brooklyn That a city of 300.000 inhabitants should be without a public market, though it is a singular fact enough, is not half so remarkable as that any of its citizens should argue that there is no necessity for one. We have a county lying back of us, cultivated with the intent of meeting the wants of a great city. The produce raised there, passes by the doors of those who desire to purchase it; is brought across the East River at loss of time and money, carted through the crowded streets nf nnothep nUv ornuoeri into an inadequate market, while the people who desire to purchase the very articles that have passed their door, must at a loss of time and money, spend a half a day going over after them) and then cart them back to the place they passed in the morning. Who except, perhaps, the Ferry Co.

can have any interest in this? The purchaser Certainly not the farmer most decidedly not. That there should be an ample, pmnmnrtions. convenient public market in this city seems to us bo obvious that we have no patience in arguing the matter. There is no argrr menls that can be used against it that are not equally cogent if they were urged in favor of a project to abolish all the banks, insurance offlcesi lawyer's offices, our new Academy of Music and making Brooklyn in fact what one of its representatives claim it to be, a suburb of New York, no more in need ot the accessories 01 a city than Harlem or High Bridge. list at this time when we are making some progress in establishing a local spirit and building up institutions that have benefitted our city and spread its name abroad, it is hardly "on the square" to have a geu tleman who represents us and who deservedly has great weight, proclaim at Albany or elsewhere that Brooklyn deserves no consideration except as a suburb of New York.

It may be that this is not the proper time to undertake this project, but if it be postponed we hope it will be for this reason, and not because it is not a necessity which ought to be provided before we can with propriety expend one dollar for a park or boule vard. There is no project now under consideration that would be more favorably received by the public, or that would do more for the fostering of the local trade of Brooklyn than the estab. lishment of a public market. It would be of the greatest convenience to our citizens and it would keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in Brooklyn that are now spent in New York by the farmers of Long Island. Topics of the Day.

Tub Leading Topic of course is the flight of Lincoln. The Express finds several precedents for the solitary midnight excursion of the President elect. Charles II. ran off to England in the livery of a servant James II. left Whitehall at midnight in disguise, with only Sir Edward Hales to attend bim Napoleon Bonaparte endeavored to escape from St.

Helena in a beer barrel the nephew of his uncle got out of prison at Ham by pretending he was a laborer; Louis Pbillippe ran away from Paris with a sailor's jacket on, and last, but not least, the great Magyar, Louis Kossuth, after receiving, we do not know bow many tremendous "public demon, strations," left for England in a very great hurry to the utter astonishment of his friends, disguls ed as "Alexander Smith." When a man gains an accidental notoriety the newspapers furnish a biography describing himself and all his ancestry from the landing of Columbus. They have recently improved the idea so as to include com plete histories of his wife, if he has one, and all his female relatives. Not only is Mrs. Lincoln ihe subject of these delicate attentions, but the wife of every man whose position or acta bring his name into the papers. We ohserve a paragraph goine the rounds, copied from the Danville (Va.) Itcynlir, informing the public that the wife of Gov.

PickcnB, of South Carolina, is a native Virginian. Her maiden name was Lucy Hoi. combe, and she was born in LyDchburg. The family subsequently removed to La Grange( fifty miles from Memphis, and afterwards to Marshall, Texas, at which place she was married to Gov. Pickens immediately before his departure to St.

Petersburg. Mrs. Pickens is related as first cousin to Professor Holcombe, of the University of Virginia, and also to the Hol combes of this town (Danville, Va.) There are two sides tothis sort of biography. The Ho! combes of Danville are no doubt flattered by their local paper tracing their connection to a of it. on so Mr.

Bergen moved to amend, so that the second parograpn 01 we section would read, "Ballots for tillers, and delegates to the General Committee shall contain only two names for said offices the person in each case receiving the largest number of votes shall be elected." Mr. B. observed that there was a provision in the section giving the minority a representative in the board of tellers and the some principle was in operation in our general elections. The amendment, if adopted, would give a minority a representation also in the General Committee. He did not propose to give the minority a representation in conventions.

The General Committee was a body which should (if it could be done) represent all the Democracy. They were more of an executive body than anything else, and so he thought a minority ought to be heard in that Committee. The majority would have the control of it, and he could not see any evil to result from it, but he did anticipate much good. They would always have minorities. When ihe party was united, there were no two or three parlies as now.

But in many cases wards were divided, and there might be a very small majority in favor of the candidates elected. It was a difference of opinion about men and not measures. He would have that minority represented so that it might be heard in the General Committee, and be there for the purpose of attending to the interests of those they represented, and see that the majority carried on busines fairly and justly. Mr. Sharkey had hoped the matter would not bave come up that evening.

He had supposed the great object that Convention had in view, was to do awuy with divisions in all the wards to entirely obliterate everything of the kind to have but one party. Then if this constitution wa to be the basis of reorganization, why should the convention anticipate an evil they were then trying to get rid of The proposition offered by Mr. Bergen was in his opinion one that would divide the party to all eternity, because men would say "here we are in a minority, even if we number but a dozen, and we will be as good as the majority so we won't vote with them, because if we do, we will be swamped among the mass." The proposition was based on a principle that reccgnized minorities as haviDg equal rights with majorities one antagonistic to the fundamental principle of Democracy. If it were right that there should be a minority representation in tbe committees, then he would say, carry the principle out a6 to Conventions. Mr.

J. Wilson did not look on it in the light of making a minority and majority party. It was a mere matter of running four names on two tickets, taking two from the highest, and then one from the next highest. There would always bea minority, because there must be a majority; so then it" was only giving one out of three. It would not at all "answer to carry the plan into conventions, because that might occasion much trouble.

This proposition only applied to electing presidents, and tellers and delegates to the Standing Committee. Mr. Badeau thouaht it would be a bad plan to admit a foreign element into that committee. Tue object of the General Committee was to endeavor to carry out the principles of the Democracy as pure as possible, and a minority coming in, of course must stand upon a different platform on a measure. There must be men and mei.sures.

This minority, if there were any difference in men or principles, might carry the entire of some wards. It struck him that this plan as proposed, would impede the harmonious action of a General Committee. Mr. Fitzgerald was of the opinion that the adoption of the amendment would entail almost inextricable confusion upon the organization and though, have the effect of stirring up dissension in the wards and perhaps in some wards where no division existed, it would result in bringing forth minorities. Mr.

Bergen said that the gentlemen who had spoken saw nothing but death and destruction in tbe amendment, but he did not see such harm as likely to result. He nrged that according to his amendment, it was quite obvious the majority would have two to one in the General Committee. Moreover, that large majority might become oppresslve tney might originate and carry out plans of a detrimental character. Besides the arguments of the minority ought to be heard' for oftentimes those arguments might hive the effect of changing the views of the maioiitv There wonld be differences of opinion always Then as to the objection of minorities being on an equality with majorities, he asked (Suppose a ward had a thousand voters.five hundred would elect three delegates, and the other four hundred and ninety nine would have no representation. Would it not be better to let the five hundred have two delegates, and the four hundred and ninety nine one delegate Mr.

Sharkey observed that so far as the inspectors of election or tellers were concerned the provision was only a matter of expediency Theii office was merely executive, but not so with the general committee, which was legislative He also objected that Mr. Bergen after all the trouble he hud taken in preparing the constitution now appeared to distrust the very parties the constitution provided for that the majority of the people of the ward would abuse the power given Uiem, He especially ohjectad to the priaciple of minorities being so represented it would be following tbe bad example set by the Republican party, as in the case of the Supervisors of New York and bo forth. Mr. Bergen's amendment was lost, and the section as umended adopted. The 4th section was adopted after being amended so that members must have the names on the roll three days previous to the election, instead ol "seven." The 5th section was amended so that the election returns are to be certified to by the president and secretary of the several associations, and are to be deposited with the general committee within twenty four hours after the election.

Mr. Sharkey offered amendments to the 6th section providing that the enrolling of voters ia the naids shall commence ou Tutsday the blank day ot blank, from 5 to 8 P. and on the following Thursday from 0 to 9 P. and then on ttietuccicaini; commissioners are to meet at M. to revise or correc, the rolls and proceed to organize the associations at 8 P.

M. A no also, that the general committee shall hold office for one year, all of which were agreed to anil ihe section adopted. Ti third article with someunimportant amendments was adopted. Alt. Sharkey the following, which was agreed to, as an additional section.

"It shall also be the duty of the General Committee, on a charge having bieu preseuted by a democrat in good standing, or on well authenticated Tumor, ihat a nominee of any convention held under the cull of the General Committee, has been guilty of bribery in the purchase of the vote of any member of the convention which nominated hiua, to investigate such charges, and if true, to dcclire such nomination voia, and proceed to fill the vacancy thus made, as provided for in section one ot this article, or by calling a new convention, as in their judgment they deem proper. The fourth article, which refers to "finances," was adopted without amendment. The filth article was adopted, with the addition suggested by Mr. Badeau, that on the aceeptince of this constitution all existing committees ahall be dissolved. TheOth and last article was adopted, with the amendment, that the constitution is not to be altered, amended or repealed, except by.a convention called for that purpose ou a request ot a majority of the ward and town Associations.

Mr. Badean moved as an additional article, that the Chuirmen of the other eommittoes appoint commissioners and communicate fhniv names to tbe President ot the Convention by the 1st of March, which wasagreed to. Mr. R.Ternandrew attention to the need of having notice of the calls of the General Committee thoroughly circulated in the wards. His idea was to have the mass of the people brought to a knowledge of these elections by posters put up through the wards.

Mr. Bergen suggested that provision could be made in that way at the end of the 3rd section of article 3, that notice be given by posting up written notices or by hand bills. Agreed to. On motion, Messrs. Ternan, Sharkey and the Chairman (Mr.

D. D. Whitney), were added to the The Niagara Homeward Bound Letter from on Board Death, by Accident, of a Brooklynite, We have received the following letter from one of the officers on board the Niagara which will be found to contain several particulars calculated to interest the readers of the Eagle U. S. S.

S. Aden, Arabia, Asia, I January 17th, 1SG1. Deae Sir: We set sail from Hod? Kong, China, on the 15th December last, and arrived here on the 14th by way of Singapore, (called in there), through the Straits of Malacca Pe nang, Siam (called in there), passed near Ceylon, and through the Arabian Sea and its inlet, the Gulf of Aden, right to this port. This port or town has got quite a population, and is owned by the Erjglish, who have got a number of troops in It is a short distance from the entrance to the Red Sea, the Strait of Babel Mandeb. It is a barren neighborhood has got a mixed popula tion of Hindoos, Arabs, English, Parsees, Mil lys, Mocha (the great coffee port) is only a little way from here, situated, too, in happy Arabia.

The American Minister, Mr. Ward, of Georgia, left Hong Kong for Washington in this ship, and will proceed home from here by the mail route (overland). We leave here in a few days for Cape Town, where we expect to lay a few weeks to clean up ship and set things in order, and then, if the weather prove favorable, make a direct run to BostoD. We expect to get there about the end of April. Our outward bound run was not very interest, ing after we got used to the Japs.

We landed them without much show or ceremony in Jeddo, their Capital, where we stayed a few days. The crew and officers went ashore in the town of Yukehama, near Jeddo, and were very hospitably treated by the natives, but their accommodations asd style oi living, although novel, are not the checker towards our arrangements home. The Government, through us, presented the Japs with some specimens of our small arms and amunition, and sent aboard with us a civil engineer, an ordnance lieutenant, and a machinist, to be located in Japan to instruct tie natives their several departments, but. it turned out that from their advanced slate in those arts that they did not require those officers, and so they did not stay there. We al60 took out with us a Mr.

Hallenbeck, bearer of official despatches to the Minister to China, and I understand in the private capacity of correspondent of the N. Y. Herald. His correspondence on being known, proved to be too true and plain for the Captain's (KcKean) peculiar taste, and made his position on board so very unpleasant that he chose to leave us in Japan. A very tad accident occurred to one of our firemen on the day we arrived in this port, 14th Whilp nn tonu when firing up right under an open hatchway, a heavy iron bound block (28 lbs.) carelessly made fast on the spar deck, parted by its own weight the weak lashing it was made fast with, tnd fell his head a distance of thirty five feet, causing serious a fracture of the skull that he only survived it about an hour, and was the next day by his acquaintances in grave yard ashore here.

Little did he think a shsrt time previous that his bones would lay it the desert sands of Arabia. His name was Wiliao. L. Day, of Brooklyn, (Forty acre crowd, Eigine No. 5, and has got a brother named or caled Chippy Day).

On a little inquiry it appeaed tint the place where these blocks were hug was pro nounced dangerous, and the offices cunningly denied oDy knowledge of their beie; hung there, when it is well known that by theii orders they were put there. Yours truly, G. N. Our Albany Corresponflnce. Albany, Neither House is in session to cy.

The Assembly met, but there was not a qirum present and a motion to adjourn until Molay evening prevailed. The Senate will met to morrow morning, but there are not more ian a dozen Senators in town, and it is probae that they will adjourn over until Monday nigl The Assembly Committee having! charge the Park bills have held two or threisessions for their consideration, but a majorityf the members 6ay that they have not yet ide up their minds how they will report. I presnc that they will report to the Assembly within week or ten days. The Kings County Senators 3 not seem to take much interest in the matters yet, being apparently indisposed to meddle th the bills until they reach the Senate. The bill relative to assessments local improvements in the City of Brook)(introduced by Mr.

Spinola last month, and pubhed in the Eagle at the time,) was reported implete last night, and is now ready for a third iding. Also Mr. Gardiner's bill, authoiizing ispectors of Election to administer oaths to pies offering to vote, as to their quolificationThis will do away to 8 grent extent, with theecessity for Commissioners of Deeds at the Us. It will prove a great convenience to voter LONG ISLAND STEAMIiOAT COANT. The bill amending the charter one Long Island steamboat company was cons'red in committee of the Whole, and finallyrdercd to a third reading, without alter.it.ionlt increases the capital of the company to $30,1, and allows the boat to land at any point west olirog'a neek.

The clause prohibiting it from lling at any point in Brooklyn, or in the cour of Hudson, New Jersey, is retained. COUNTY TREASURERS AND THEWE TAX. A law is being framed by one oie 8tate 'officers, the object of which is ti npel county treasurers to pay over the Slate ta'cry year, on or before the 1st of April. It appethat in some instances the money ia retained biunty treasurers until the end of the year, andmetitnes longer, to their profit, of course, but the loss of the State. New York and Lewis oties, it appears by the Comptroller's bookail owe a balance on last year's tax.

The Citroller estimates that if the State tax oromptly paid lost year, for all the counties, State would have saved $50,000. THE LmUOIt QUESTI The prohibitionists througbotie State are making a stroDg effort to secure adoption of the resolutions to submit to the lie tfie prop osltion to amend the constit.utio as to prohibit the sale of intoxicating lies as a beverage; and there is a chance of sss with the present Legislature. The resolns will then bave to be submitted to the nexttfslature, and if again people will', an opportunity to come to a direct vote oie important question. Sewerage. Between the 1st fay and the 18th of November, 1800, thirty of sewers were laid in the streets oi this citit is expected that an cquol if not a greater at of ground will be piped in the season novtjning auspiciously early..