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1 or ring stono for side arohes; 3,031 luoalfeet of parapet THE INFAMY. THE BRIDGE. who, impressed with the perfect healthfulness and other of the plaoe, some seven or eight yeari ago, purchased 600 aores, opened a broad arsons from tha railway depot, nearly a mile in length, to au his stay at that house, and kia prompt convict tion by, the jdry without thjs formality" ref tiring, expressed tbiir belief in his niter dW' pravity. The language of the Recorder, then, was most just. It is difficult to conceive of any offenses moro, atrocious than those per petated by Bev.

Mr. Thompson. It seems as though just at this time the inefficiency of our church systems to protect the true Christian element from association with the blackest deeds, was being displayed all over the country. On what hypothesis can the conduct of this regularly ordained minister bf Christ be explained The charitable belief that he yielded to a momentary weakness will not meet the case. None but a habitual criminal could have committed the series of crimes perpetrated by him in the few hours of his stav in New York: none hope of the Sultan is now on the weather.

A terrific Btorm in Armjerria and in the Balkans would, make a 'Hussion advance impossible, but at present there is no other power visible that oan retard them. The war has been full of surprises, but perhaps the greatest surprise of all has been the spirit which has enabled the Russians to press for ward, despite a series of almost unparalleled defeats. Of course, the explanation of this is to be found in their superior resources. They have a population four times greater than that of Turkey to draw upon, and they have but one enemy to deal with in the field, while the Turks have to deal with three antagonists in addition to their great adversary. There is now hardly a doubt that the Turks will have to sue for peace, but even their enemies will have to admit that they have struggled bravely against enormous odds.

so, whether legislation did so or not and convenience itself will govern 'in the mat tor of the actual medium according to the incidents of distance, locale and amounts entering into transactions. Beside it is unquestionable that the act of yesterday will work a considerable sensation of justice and relief in many parts of the United States, and that is sensation very desirable for Congresses to bear in mind, when they are acting in a representative capacity for their constituents. The single standard party to which the Eagle belongs inflexibly are not 'apprehensive that any legislation proposed or accomplished oan permanently affect the potency or ever prevent the assertion of the law that the reality of value and the dominating and, indeed, the exclusive standard, is gold. The pres ent measure is builded on that fact, iu its recognition of the necessity that the proposed dollar shall havo all the silver in it which the gold dollar would now buy. While the relative values of the two metals vary while the distance between them varies while this renders the preference for and the legalization of gold" as the only standard the beBt courso for governments and men to pursue in ordinary times while we are satisfied that it would have been the best course to have pursued yesterday these other facts are to be borne iu mind Business is not uniform in the country the needs of relief and the impression of the best methods to get it are not the same the House is and should be Bepresentative its action yesterday was of that character, and it was also taken with reference to circumstances roal or apparent which many statesmen consider emergent.

In taking it they recognized the permanent primacy and the present rate of primacy of gWcl. There is no reason to doubt that their general future action will recognize the same facts, and that public opinion and the principles of exchange will, as a rule, be as abb to enforce themselves iu legislation as they will in business, quite irrespective of it. The nation was bound to got back to the silver dollar, because it was wrenched or tricked from it, not educated above it. It is gratifying that tho inevitable return, which ueod not last long, ia being made iu such good form. none, xotal of $290,631.30.

(Mlins GraWtTodpaWOMbublo'SrflS, Of six cnt'work, laaradlojf ornamental plinths, facia, petite tale and oornlcSrof "abutment piers, all Imposts or caps of small piers, and all skew backs, dentils, ccrni oesand coping. Amoant of bid, $222,975. Bodwelf Granite Company 1,681 odbla yards of rough pointed base stone, 5,880 oubie yardB of rook faced work for.apandrel face stone wall faces near entranoes and faces above oornloes on cross streets. 833 oubio yards of Bond stone for brick piers. Amount of bid, 8165,518.60." Total amount of.

oon traot, $669,157.90. Total quantity 'of stone, 20,733 cublo yards, and lineal feet ot parapet stone. la oaae Pierce, Uomn Co. relinquish the bid for parapet stone that part of the contract is to be given to the Conoord Granite Company. AU of the stone is to be granite of the best quality, the delivery of the stone must begin within one month of the date of the award the contract by the Board of Trustees.

The Brooklyn approach is tot, a a structure about nine hundred feet long on the centre line, starting from grade at street, and increasing in height until at the rear of the Brooklyn anchorage it will be about sixty feet high shore around. Owing to the oblique anslea at which the line crosses the streets, tn6ro will Da a cortaia amount of irregular shaped Hones iu tho walls on the oroHa streets also a certain amount of curved coping and cornice, due to a curve in the line, all of which will ba shown by the drawings for tho work. Tne Now York approaob. will bo fifteen hundred and forty six leet In length, starting from grade at Chatham street, and increasing in height to about sixty eight feet, at rear of tho New York anchorage. The street nails on one side of Cherry street, one side of Franklin street, and both sides of William and North William streets, will be slightly inclined from a right anglo to tho centre line of the bridge.

The walls on rll other streets will be built at right angles to the contra line. The Board thon adjourned. ITHANCES. The following is the monthly report of the financial condition of tho Jiridgo Biaiemem oi vq uaanoiai conuiuon or tne now BrooWya Bria88 he 31st day of Ootoler, 1877 CASH BEOEIPTS. Rent $73,247.06 Material sold .77 Interest 13,133.30 Horses and harness sold 2,70 "VVuarfajre 8.8S5.96 Oitr of Brooklyn uuyoinow xqtx.

z.vau.vuu.irj Soowa sold Total Enstnoortng salarioa 8293,453.25 Rent 63,645.83 Offioeexpon.os 88.23J.81 Timber and lumber 891.011.S4 Construction Contingent expousoa TodIj 18,674.24 Labor 1,0 Machinery 14X79.72 Freight, cartage aud towage S7 .987.05 Printing and advertising 8,776.71 Lund, land damages snd balldlnca 3,149,738.97 Limestone t3.61.83 Granite Interest and disoouat 163,805 03 Horses, wagons aud harness I. I8U8 Oast steel oablowlro "Mm Insurance 4.963.89 Tmbs Scows aed repairs Olfice furniture hoiB on per cent, bond Loss on N. Y. 7 per cent, bonds J. Lloyd Uaigh, on aoeount oi wire delivered in October.

U.ibLOi 30,160.40 6,16 l.W 3,609.18 Total 8.W8,6S177 uasa in Atlantio State ISank ghin Lon island moB petty Total $55,879.03 L1AUILITIE8. J. Lloyd Halgh, retained on oontraot $13,774 O. O. Burrell, retained on contract 330 00 Salaries for October 4,419.19 Bills for materials in October CURRENT EVENTS.

Mrs. Catharine Schultz, wife of Jackson 8. Schultz of New York, diod at her residence yesterday. General Grant recoived visits yesterday from Madame MacMahon, hor son and the MUHster of Marino. The Oomicon Council of Poughkeepsie have appointed three prominent cUizons a committee to solicit aid for tha Fernaudina, Florida, sufferers.

The first snow storm of the season prevailed throughout the Ontario Provinaa yoBtorday. Tha weather was cild and tho snow was from one to eight inches in depth. young lawyer named Thomas Clemens, of Bergen Point, has been missing for two wocks. His disappearance was bo sudden and unaccountable that it is feared ho may have bean tho victim of foul play. Colonel Delancy Kane, of New York, sold yesterday, at auction, all the horses that havo drawn bis Tally Ho coach.

Tho bidding was without spirit and tho prices obtained wero very low. The earthquake shock on Suurtay morning was distinctly felt in the Bay of Quinto district, tuua showing tnat it extended over a greater distance than was at first supposed. Mr. B. L.

Farjoon, the English novelist, and Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the actor, aro to bo ontertiiuod at dinner by tho Lotos Club next Saturday night, and Will haye a reception in the cvoning. Theodore C. Meyers, fourth officer of the SteaniBhip Koln, pleaded guilty in the General Sessions, New York, yestorday, of having stolen diamonds worth $11,400 aud plaliua wire worth $700 from tho steamship, and was sent to state Prison for three years. Leonard Church, one of the oldest residents of Hartford, died yostorday, aged 77 Mr.

Ohurch was formerly a paper manufacturer at Lao, and at tho tlmo of his doatu was worth 100,000. He was an unole of Mr. Ohuroh, tho artist. Quarantine went into Winter quarters yesterday. Tho Lower Quarantine has been closed, tbe crow of tho Illinois discharged, and the vessel is to be brought to Upper Quarantine for tho Winter.

Tho steamboat N. E. Hopkins has been laid up for tho Winter, aud tho crew discharged. Much excitement prevails at the City of Mexico over the numerous reports of fights on the Rio Qrande between tha Mexicans and Americans. Nouo of tbe exciting rumors haye been oonfirmed, Tbe commerce and Industry of the country are uot af foated by the excitement.

Captain William E. Whittier, Chief Officer of tho steamship Oamlna, a well known, and popular oommandar in tho West India trade, was swept from on board his vessel during a gala of wind on the 37th of October and drowned. He was on a voyago from Now York to Bermuda. pOBtmaster JftD3es reoeived fl rom I Queenstown yesterday announcing that tho Australian American Mall had reached there in tho quiokeat timo over made. It was only one day behind tho British Australian mall, which was dispatched twelve days ahead of it by the routs of the Bed and Mediterranean seas.

John W. Young, the eon of the late head of the Mormon Church, has returned to Salt Lako City with his new wife, and attended the oonterence with an armed escort. He is working hard to be his father's successor, but his olianoos aro slim. Tho Mormons dislike him, despite the fact that he is a believer in polygamy. Michael O'Rourke, of West Fifty first street, New York, who Sunday night boat his wife so terribly that her life is dispsired of was committed yesterday to await the result of her injuries at tha Yorkeilia roitce uouri.

xurs. trxiourso is at toe lioosoveit iiob pital in a dungerous condition. Thero is but little hope of her recovery. Solomon Strauss fc dry goods jobbers of No. 60 White street, New York, who havo been In business over twenty years, called a meeting of creditors yesterday.

Tho causes of suspension were tbe depreciation in merchandise generally. A compromise was suggested, and a oommittce appointed to arrange terms of settlement. Tho firm's liabilities are about $140,000. The aotual asaots amount to $110,000. It was understood in New York yesterday, that the certificate of incorporation of the Funding Association of the United States had bean granted by tne Secretary of State.

The object of this Association is to mako arrangements with States and municipalities (more especially with the Southern States) that bars defaulted In IntoreBts on bonds for tho funding of debts and the payment of interests in tho future. The company wlllorganlzo in Now York to morrow. An attempt was made early Sunday morning to enter the reaidenoe of the Cashier of the Cumberland National Bank at Providence, B. a The Cashier's residenoe and the Bank are in tho same building, In placing a ladder the burglars made considerable ooiao, and tMs awakened the cashier's wife who gave the alarm and caused the burglars to flee. The motion of Rev.

C. P. McCarthy for a mandamus requiring the Committee on Fellowship, Ordination and Dlsoipllne, of the New York Stato Convention of Universallsta to restore him to fellowship, was yesterday disposed of by Judge Dono huo of New York. Mr. McCarthy claimed that he had been unjustly dealt with by the Committee and Convention, but Judge Donohue deolded that the matter was purely eculeslastloal, and that therefore the oourt had no control over it.

The firm of 'Straiton Storm, of Pearl street. New York, cigar manufacturers, telegraphed yesterday to San Francisco for 500 Chinamen. At the inauguration of the strike this firm bad 1,009 persons of both sexes iu its employ. Under tbe reduced ratcB then paid tbe averago earnings of the employes was $2 a day. Several shops reopened yeaterday with American girls, who perform the work very satisfactorily.

While the new operatives were entering the shop of a manufactnrer, yeaterday moraine, a crowd of 200 strikers, men and women, threatened tbem with violence, but were driven off by a squad of police. The funeral services over the remains of the late Senator Oliver P. Morton were held at 1 P. M. yesterday, in Indianapolis, and the funeial prooession consisted of not less than 5,000 persons.

The church was elaborately decorated, and there were many beautiful offerings. Bev. Joseph B. Cleaver preached tho sermon from the text, Saul is dead," and the eulogy was pronounced by Rev. J.

H. Bayless, who dwelt especially upon his private life and character. The remains were deposited in a vault io Crown Hill Cemetery. A. decree has been issued at Havana declar ing tbat all estates rained during the war, and in the way of reconstruction, shall be free from contribution for five years from the date of the decree.

Every new estate and all new property acquired In cities or villages of the Central and Oriental departments, will have the same privilege. AU industries and commerce In said departments newly established will be exempt for three years from contribution. All female cattle, elthor Spanish or foreign, Imported Into Cuba with the exclusive object of raising stock, will be duty tree tor two years. The decree 1b received with much favor. A public exhibition of the Doremns fire extinguisher was made yesterday and was attended by an accidental explosion.

The extfngnisbera are made at Prinoe'a Bay, Ststen Island and a steamer with about fifty persons went from New York to that point yesterday. An abandoned canal boat was used for the experiments, and the hold of the boat was partitioned off into sections, one of which was filled with combustible matter. To make sure of a hot tie, two barrels of petroleum were poured into the aoctiou by over Eealous workmen. The extinguishing apparatus being arranged a torch was llgbtod and thrust into the hole. The petroleum exploded instantly, blowing the old canal boat into a thousand pieces.

Some thirty persons were find log npon tho boat, and singularly enough only two wero injured; fire citlnguiahing apparatus consists of iron cylinders charged with liquified car bonio acid gas. An oil tank was set on fire, and tha flames almost instantly extinguished. i i arm of Hempstead Bay several avenues parallel and at right angles, and upon these erected tome Bitten or twenty cottigei, thus adding a new part in modern architecture to (bs hamlet. Two or three years 'later Mr. Wood erected tbe very spacious and admirably arranged Pavilion Hotel at a cost of over $200,000, whioh will aocommodate about 500 guests.

It Is supplied with avery modern convenience baths, gas, call bells, fee, and its present host has mads, it a first dais hotel. These cottages, with tho old hamlet, constitute a small but pleasant society of cultivated people including eight to ten families from New York and Brooklyn, During the list Wlntor the intelligent people of Hewlett's and poean Point united last Winter to sustain a lycoum, debating club and dramatic association. Woodsburgn and Hewlett's austain four small churches, the Episcopal, (Rsv. Mr. Sayer, rector,) the Methodist, Free Methodist and ItomnD Catholic (Father Dowd.) Tho Episcopalians (Society of Kov.

Mr. Sayer) have nearly completed a commodious gothio edifice, English rural architecture, designed by J. Cleveland Cady. It will scat about 700 persons. Thtro are several cultl rated families at Hewlett's and WooJburah, whose beads go daily to New York and find it pleasant tho year round, there being three morning and three oven Ing trains 7, 8:15 and 10 A.

M. to New York, and 4:50, I 5:50 and 030 P. M. down. Mr.

Wood has seven or eight vacant oottages which are commodious and pretty in arohitoctural design, that can be rented low or pur chased low, and are very desirable in view of tho per tectly healthful conditions of the plaoe. A SEASIDE CITY. At Ocean Point Station, les3 thau a mile below. Is tho residence of Mr. Marsh, who oamo from Now York and purchased a tract of 100 or 150 acres, several years ago.

He aud othor owners have opened sovoral broad ave nues, central avenue lengthwise, aud seven to ten i aveuues at right angles to this and tha turnpike or Broadway, which maps out the entire distanco bstwoon Woodsburgh and Lawrence into villa sites or a oily by tho sea. And Lawronce being a part of Far Rockaway, it carries this projected city of sea side homes to the beach. A spot, embracing so many advantages of easy and quick scojbb by railway aud water of fruitful gravelly loam, and under soil on whioh the rains never stand of diversified landscape wood and field; of daily ocean breezes through all the Summer and Autumn, cool and refreshing but not too damp an atmosphero of great purity and Bweetnoss a sito having so many desirable qualities can scarcely bo found on Long Island. Let a fow onterprislng capitalists begin tho work of improvement with tho wise foroslghl which A. T.

Stewart appliod to Garden City. Dig a contral well, as he did, of fifty foot in diameter, which would yield a lorRe supply of the purest of water or, three central walls, with their Holly engineB, which would distribute an ample supply in all homos tbat might be cractod as ha uld, let them build their gas bouse and ight their houses and tho streets near the homes as they rise, and no suburban oity would surpsss it in beauty dSh comforTT AN EDITOE'S COUNTRY SEAT. Apout a mile from Woodsburgh, and midway between It and Yalloy Stream, is the country residence ot Mr. Thomas Kinsella. Mr.

Kinsella's place la known as "Blooinfield," and comprises obout twenty seres. bought the place years ago, when it was very unpretentious indoed, tho house being on tho sida of the road, almost ovorehadowed by a big willow trao, one of the largest, perhaps, on Long Mono, Tho old house hna disappeared, and iu it etoad, back from tho road, a large aud haadsomo double house haB been oreolod, containing all tho improvements expected in ovon a olty horn's. Tha gcouuds in front aro tastefully laid out, and when tlmo doaa for tho treosand shrubs what only tlmo can do, tho plaoo will ba one of tho haud eomest in this section. On tho ground thoro is a prot ty house, occupied by tho persons who work on the place, aud surrounding it are the stables, etc. Among the horses owned bv tho oditor is "Dandy," who has 'dona" his milo in 231, when that was good time.

His owner ts not a hard or steady driver, and "Dandy" can hold his own still with almt anything ho meets, and can go ''to tho ond of tha roal" with any horse on the Island. Mr. Kinsella Is constantly improving Bloom probably hopos eoma day to regard from it, iu retirement, tha activities and strifes of public 11 fo lu which he is still so conspicuous, THU FUTUBE OF BOOKAWAY BEAOH NEW HOTELS. Bjtwoon Rockaway and the Neptune House mauy minor improvements have rocantly boon made. During tbo last year Captain Hillior erected a email but neat hotel opposite the Neptuun Houso upon tbe lauds of DeWitt C.

Littlojohn. It w'ss well filloil from early June to the oil so of tho Beason. Beyoud this Mr. Littlojohn has a thousand feet along the beach. It Is understood that a company has bson forniod or is in progress, to oreot upon the Bito a first class hotel of 600 rooms.

A negotiation has also been in progress to oreot ouo upon the point of laud projecting down from Ja m4os Bay, near tho surf aiiors. During tho soason.tho Shoriff of Queens County bas establtsbcd a police foroa of twenty five mon aud a Captain along tho entire beach whore oooupled, so that ganjulrs, rowdies aud thieves navo been excluded. Tbe Railroad Company havo fully appeoiated all thee improvements, ond havo correspondingly iucroasod tho moans of cheap and quick access. It cannot be long ere facilities and oouveuencea for the Summer rosidonco ut Far Rockaway nnd too Bunch will bo still moro increased. And much mora that is not known might be said ot all tbo southern shore of the Island to Montauk Point.

Although the chanROS in the ownership in this network of roads on Long Island in the last few years, and Ihe hard times may have temporarily arrestod tho rapid growth of villaies and population, and may havo lessened the resources of tho roads to enlarge tho facilities of travel, both tho roads and the Island havo a great future in prospect, and under tho managomont of tho experienced officers now iu oharge tho roads muBt eventually pay a largo interest. O. A REMARKABLE MAN. Departure of Mr. Emeus morris lor Para Amazon, and Somo of tho Unexplored ltoglons of Ccutral SoutU America.

Saturday last Mr. Erneat Morris, accompanied by E. L. Rand, of Boston, sailed for Para, In tho schooner Jacob I. Bidgway, oommanrtt ty Captain TowDsand.

Of Mr. Morris, much has been said by tbe press during the last six months aa a youthful, but eminently successful oxplorer and advonturor. His trip last year up tho Amazon River, thenco up one ot its great tributaries, the Tap.ijos, to tho unexplored regions toward its source, and his success in dealing with the thoroughly savage Indian tribes of the country, have given to him deserved celebrity. Mr. Rand is woll known as a writer and scholar.

His journey, he said, is the fulfillment of a long oherlahod desire to study in its native habitat the magnlflcont tropical flora of the Valloy. His rocontly published volume on "Orchid and Orchid Culture," is a work of value. Tho study of this lutertstlng family of plants which abound in tho Valley of tho Amaxon, and the collection of specimens in entomology are among Ihe objects of bis Journey. Tho aim of Mr. Morris is to revisit tho wild lands known as the Campos, comprising the elovutod grounds or plateau south of the Amason in Contral South Amerioa.

Those elevated grounds are droinod by the great rivers which flow northward Into tho Amazon, aud southward to tho La Plata. In ascending Borne of tbo Amazon tributaries the travelor encounters rapids and falls, aud is beflet with other difficulties. All obstacles, however, wore aurmountod by Mr. Morris during his last visit, and ho re enters Ihs field of exploration with enthusiasm, and without doubt of suocess. Among tho curious and very rare objeots which bo seoured' on bis former Journey among the wild trihos, are ten human heads of nslive Indians, male and female, onred or preserved by boing smoked.

Tho art of doing this seems to be well understood by tho natives, but they wore very unwilling Mr. Morris should know the kind of wood used in the smoking, or that any of it should be brought away. Mr. Morris, however, succeeded in secreting a stick of it In hie luggage, and it la now together with the ten heads in possession of the writer of this artlolo. The flesh and muscles of the smoked heads are shrunken and hardened, but not wrinkled or disfigured.

Tho linoamentB of the face, and the oxpressioa or the features are wonderfully well preserved. Many of tham aro tattooed. Tha hair is long, black, and very thiok on tho scalp. In few instances some of tha red paint or ooloring matter with which the natives adorn thomBelvss remains in the hair, and we And it very difficult to remove It. All the heads are more or losstornamantod with feathers, strings and other appendages.

In most cases the front teeth have been knooked out, and sticks thrust in tha mouthB to whioh strings are appended. Mr. Morris learned that tho teeth which are knocked out before tbe smoking, are in some oases used to adorn necklaces worn by both men and women. Tha heads, of Which there are no others in the United States, so far as I know, from the same regions, wero obtained by purohase. The natives, however, get them as trophies In war, or otherwise, for human life appears to be held in very slight estimation among thoao undeveloped tribes.

I quote from a letter which I reoeived from Mr. Morris. "The heads are those of the Parreboate Indians better known as the Parrintintins who inhabit the land of tbe upper Tapajoj. Thoy are taken In war, and kept as trophies and are preserved by smoke from a root which they call oarrooopowpow. They are just as they appear in Ufa exeept a cord is put In the mouth to carry them by, and the oyos are covered with a mass of wax, "The practice was long ago current among ths Mun durucu tribe, but has been discontinued, and is now practiced ouly among those tribes which inhabit tho uppor tracts around the Hiugu and Tapajos rivers.

"The heads were taken about two years ago excepting one, from enemies of the Campenarles, and said to be cannibals." Mr. Morris hopes to push his Invalidations muoh farther than before over tho region in queslion. He goes out better equipped than on tho former occasion, and has the benefit of experience. One result of this journey may be looked for with confidence Important additions will be made to out stock of knowledge concerning a region ot whioh almost nothing was known previous to Mr. Morris' visits.

Nor have his visits added much to our stock of knowledge thus far, as tbe copious notes made by him havo not been published. How far the companions In this journey will travel together drcumatanoet will determine. In the ability of Mr. Morris as an explorer and observer we have groat oonfldenco. His oredontlals as to character and integrity from those who knew him In Indianapolis, where he was born, aro of a very high order.

He is young, only twenty one years of ag, and the ruling passion of his life is for adventure aud ploratloa. Of this he may be sure, wherever he goes In the tropical lands he proposes to visit, the warm wishes of friends at home will follow him. E. Jn. EOBUKKIEB.

An overcoat, valued at $15, was stolen from the hallway of John E. Bounce' house. No. 191 Bedford avenue, by a sneak thief. James McCarthy, of Sands street, near Gold, was arrested by Detective Denbam, of tha Eighth Product, laat night.

He was caught in the act of picking money out of the till of Philip Bender's butcher shop, 551 fifth avenue. Two fifty cent pieces, whioh he bad stolen, were found on him. He had taken a dollar bill beside, but be had passed it to an acconyitice, and it was not recoverod. Judge ferry committed hun for trial. James Hopkins, of 675 Hicks street, a bartender, was arrested on a warrant issued by Justice, Ferry, on complaint of P.

W. Fannon, who resides in, ths same house, and who accuses Hopkins of having stolen an overcoat, valued at $28, from his apartments Co (he night of the 91st Inst. Hopkisj, who Is oonyjilteJ to denies the charge, How jghannor'j9. Treachery Has Affected the Police Department. Bcorganlzatlon of the New Board 'Oand Dome Sam" Richards Again to the Front.

A Significant Order Abont the Ballot Boxes. The complete accomplishment of Shnunon's infamous Job produood considerable excitement it Polios Headquarters vesterday afternoon. Politicians of high and low degree beset tbe entrance ready to poonoo on the new Commissioners and buttonhole them in the lntoroets of some candidate for the positions, whlob. It is confidently beliovod, will be vacant in a fow days. Tbs Republican attaohes were greatly elated and tbe Democratic correspondingly deprossed.

It was evident even to tho casual obBcrvor that ths Shannon shock had disturbed the smooth working; of the Polico machinery. Ex Commissioners Tyburn and Hurd bad taken their departure from tho buildinff early in tho afternoon, so that thero was no expectation of a scene, should any objection be raised to the organization of tbe now Board. Tbe Inevitable had to bo faced, although not only Lemocrats but Republicans admitted that the change bad boeu wrought by ouo of the most infamous political jobs ever concocted in this city. At about 3:30 P. M.

the now Commissioners, Colonel Rodney C. Wtrd and Mr. Thomas F. White, aocompanied by Ocneral Jourdan, left the Mayor's office armed with his Honor's indorsement of the approval of their bonds, and immediately proceeded to Headquarters and entered the Commissioner's taking thoir rcBpoctive soata, Mr. White, setlling down in that which was graced by Mr.

Pyburn aud Colonsl Ward occupying that ot the venerable Dr. Hurd. For half an hour or so, the Commissioners held a sort of levee, aud wero overwhelmed with congratulations by the hungry seekers for offloo and their baokors. Among tho callers were Honest" John, French, Alderman Oriswold, Alderman Williams. Frank Swift aud Charles W.

Cheshire. At about 4:15 instructions ware given to Danny" Wilkes, the doorkeeper, to admit no moro visitors, and ths Commissioners being by themselves sottled down to buBiness. They wars ot once confronted with the following communication Onnoi or rm Cirrer Clerk, Depabtmkot Police and Excise of thk City or Iibook I corner Court and Livingston streets, Brooklyn, Novotnber 5, 18T7, To the Honorable Wie Commissioners of Police and fascist of the City of Brooklyn Gentlemen I herewith resign my position as Chief a Clerk of thia Department, to take effect immediately. Very respootlutty, E. B.

IiAJfBlKO. Colonel Lansing having sent in his resignation, did not wait to find out whether it would be accepted or not, but hurried from the building. It was wsll known that his removal had boon determined on, and. ho only anticipated hia displacement by a day' or so. On motion of Colonel Ward, the resignation of Colonsl Lansln was accepted, and on motion of tho same Commissioner, Samuel Richards was appointed to Oil tho vacancy.

The lattor seoms to have ben mysteriously notilled of tbe action ot the Board, for the appointment bad scarcely been made when hiB stalwart form was obsorvod Blowly aaoonding tho Btalrway aud going; in a dlroot lino to the CommiiBloners' room, where ho at once took his saat opposite tbo President. Business was than proceeded with without any further interruption from outside parties. WHAT WAS DONE. On motiou of Colonel Ward, Commlsaionar White wm appointed to take supervision of tbe Excise Buroau, and on motion Commissioner White, Colonel Ward was appointed Treasurer. General Jourdan then called the attention of Iho Board to the fact that the resonroes of the Department would be strained to the utmost to perform thoir ao oustomed duties to day.

There were, he said, 38 mora polling places than last year, and out of the 461 patrolmen, 398 would be required to bo present at the polling laces, thus leaving only 58 mon to the various station oubos. He suggested that in view of this 'aot, ths services ot the Bpeoial ofttcers should be seoured. Colonel Ward anil Commissioner Whits oolnolded with the Oenoral's views, and a requisition for a number of special oflloars, nut to oxoeod 100, was made out and sent to the Mayor, who immodlatolv approved of it. Tha pay of the spools! officers ia to be $3. Ou motion, Suptriutoudout Campbell was then direotod to notify tbe special offioers to report tn ilay at Police Headquarters and the various station houses for duty.

Communications wore then forwarded to ei Oom misBloncrs Pyburu and Hurd, Informing thorn of ths ai tioa of the Common Council, and the reorganization of the now Board. On receivingthem.the cx Commlssloners meroly said, "All right." Tho following communication was sent to Supotln. tendont Campbell COMKISSIOKEBS' OFFICE, Novombor 5, 1877. Mr. Patrick CampbtU, Svperintendent Police: Bin 1 am direotod by tho Board to Inform you thai the following resolution was unanimously adopted! That tbe Huparlntonclent of Polioo bo, and la hereof dircoted to order all commanding offioers or prsoinots end sub praciucts to take charge of all ballot boxes which will be used at tbe soveral polUng plaoes on tha Qth in their respective preoinots, immediately after the aloso of the canrtss of ths votes, when the eavoe Bhould have beau tSoktd and scaled by ths oan Tsasors.

and shall havo bean rooelvod at the resoeotivs Station houses, aud convey said ballot boxes to Polios Headquarters on tho morning of the 7th inst, said boxes to be delivered to the Superintendent, who will take charge of tho same, and will cause them to tn securely locked up and guarded in the large room on the fourth story of tills building. Yory rospeotfully yours, tUuCBxRioiiAUDB, Chief Clerk. The now Board did not take any other action of Ira. portnuoe, although they remained in session till aftet so ven Superintendent Campbell, who had previously sent tout a general ordor to the various preelncte, notifyln gho captains of tbe organization of ths new Board, iummoned the captains to Headquarters and verbally snstructed them in relation to the employment oi racial officers, and the custody of tbe ballot boxes. There will bo no changos In tho personnel ot tha nartment until tho eleotlon exoltement is over.

Ths action of tho Board in relation to ths ballot boxes hat been unfavorably critlolaed, and it is gravely suspsoted tbat there is soma Job in the matter, and it is probablt that the District Attorney will have soma advice to gtvs to tho captains before to morrow. IsUNINIiISS IMO'lIUlia. FURNITURE COVERINGS IN NEW 8TYLE8, LACK OURTAIN8 NOVELTIES IN FRENCH ORIITONNUS Kvory varloty In WINDOW SHADRS, Tbo Lalost Oestrus in ENGLISH WALL DECORATIONS, And a esnernl stock of CURTAIN TRIMMINGS, Fit I NOBS, Aa, Aa Largest Stook and Lo.io3t Prices. W. A ti.

MUMFORD, 8P0 nnd 392 FULTON STR15ET, Nonr Smith. OLD AND NEW No raattor how rusty lu appenranco, restored to orbrinal luttre, and warranted to withstand WAT DAHPNRSH and Hi'. A Aiu. an ill visit a niesMO Building Broadway nnd Fourteenth at, N. MrooUlyn o.nue, ym riuwaii.

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To which general atook tboy have this year added a vea iBnte ud uninue masoTtment of PORCELAIN E. FAIiSNOB AND MAJOLICA WARS WDion witn inoir mm ana increasing bum oi itjuii uiia Anil iiH Ai mutt uuuua, tii AVii T.TKrs ninnirn RnnMrina Farm one of the most attractive itocki la the olty for thi eleotlon of WEDDING PHBSENTS. SO and 22 John itroat, Nstr York. THE SEASIDE LIBRARY. LATEST I8SUB5: 12a.

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IOST AND FOtirtD. OST ABOUT t)54 IN MONEY, SUP possd to have bean lot on Fulton it. Hamilton buahavs. A soluble reward will be for tura u. k.

nr tha Allantlo Hour nulla. LO8 D007FROM ITT OAKKOLL 8 a black and tan Urrler. with UaUier collar and a erf i An. Tom rotumUlS BIUO Will Wf in one ear. rswaraaa.

noT A UT.ir.K ONYX AND GOLl BROOCH, wltn ruiM 3. a. tl itw av. car or on 'V li'alSffA'J Flndor will olaaaa rotura it to Mrs, A. BlUilONa GaUu lnot.

881 Qulncy t. Etc. X'siNGLE ONE" HORSE TRUCK POl lalo aim a number ni butinass wagons, all sliea (3 Sit purposoa: butchers', bakers', grooMa', plumbero' milk and eiprtMiall warranted ol tha bait maurial. I Urge assortment aonstantly on hand at lbs comer ot Navi Johnson ats. "INN CARRIAGE MAKERS, I A FACTORY 47.

and BKROKN REPOSITORY sad 280 i'LATtlUaH AV, Near 8evnth ar, m.MiHnniiUnri fcn uftortmnnt of carrlaffsa atrat ducsd prioes. Coupes, four aud six saat rockaivayt, utel mum tors' i both new and Moondhaad oairUsJt. a. Immense Travel of this Season Freedom from Accidents Elements of tbe Growth ot Long Island Tillaffe ImproTement Societies Peculiar Advantages of Far Rockaway Who are the Cottagers Far Sockaway in Olden Times Its Habitues from Old New York The Air of the Beach and Adjacant Country Advantages Orer the Jersey Shore Woods bnrgb, its Society and Churches Hewlett's, at Far Rockaway, a Seaside City Site An Editor's Country Seat The Future, of Rockaway Hotels in ProspectNew Police Force The Prosper ous Future of the Island. Correspondence ol the Eaglo.

Fas Bockaway, I 1., November 8, 1877. Both Kookaway Beach aud Far Rockaway have rarely witnessed a more serene Autumn than the present. Noarly all tho hotels were closed four weeks na mor3 ag0j bm many of tho coUa8ors have lingered to enjoy tho bright halcyon days of October. Nothing oould exceed the golden serenity and oharru of tho first three Sabbaths of last month. On tbe return of each sacred day one was forcibly reminded of tho beautiful lines of Herbert "Sweet day so cool, so calm, so bright, Tne bridal of tho oarth and aXy The dews shall wipp thy fall to night; For thou must dio." THE IMMESf8E THAVfir.

AND MANAGEMENT OF THE ROAD. Not within the memory of tho oliiesl resident has tha beach been visited by so gicat a inii'tltunc as during i the presout season. The uuuiuer la estimated at up. ward of 250,000. Tho of this soa Bhore and tno aujkCeut country as a stttutnor rcsuenpe, and indeed of many other purls of Long Island southern shore are but little koown to the multitudes of tho great metropolis who havo for years been tho habituea of more distant watering places.

The Blrlusront conditions of business, tho hard times, and superior railroad facilities, exceeding any wnioh havo over before beon offered tn this direction, have turned a great tide of travel to all those places so Balubrious and ao easy of O000B8 at a very small expenso Early in, tbe urnner. i STU fi.v.,ri to ro and roturu, good for one day and three days, to Far Rockaway aud Iho beach, at fifty to sevonty flvo cents each. During the season it ran twelvo trains per day oaoh way, and with such psrfect promptness as to time and caro io tbe running, that not a single interruption or acoident Joocured. ThiB care iB largely duo to the intelligence and excoltont character of their conductors and brakemeu and tho superior discipliu.0 of the force. Thoy have gone through the Bummer wittuut any reduoUon in wages.

Tho Company decldad early In the season to reduce thorn ten per but when the Btrikea occurred on the Erio and other roads Wot, tho resolution was rescinded. This was in part due to the sagacity of Mr. Hinsrtalo, tho Vice President of iho road, who has proved a wise and prudent manager. THE NEW PBESIDENT. Colonel Thomas It.

Sharp, tho new Prosldent, bad just entered upon his work when he was appointed receiver of tho road. Colonel Sharp was many years with Thomas Scott in the servloe aud management of the Pennsylvania Central, and for the last alght yeard has been Master of Transportation, on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Road. This long service has made him a thorough master'o! all the details of railroad management and will make Mm an invaluable officer in the future direction of the net worn of the Long Islaud roads. His experience, added to that of Vioe President Hinsdale aud Superintendent Fisko, is an augury of aucjese, not only lu the direction, but lu tho future growth aud prosperity of tile Island. THE GBOWTH OF THE ISLAND.

Fow poreons have any oorreot estimate of the rapid growth of Long Island in population and wealth. Tho net work of railway reaohing to every part of it will ba the chief agont Iu this growth, The people of New York and Brooklyn have not studied the salubrlety of its climate; Its softness and parfeot healthfulness in thousands of pleas ant spots within forty or fifty miles of the two cltlos whereon delightful homos, fruit and flower gardens may bo located. Tne outh shore coming within this limit extends to and beyond Islip and I'utchogue. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES. One of tha valuable things needed is a voluntary village improvement society iu evory small or larger settlement, whioh shall take proper oare of the landscape beauty of the place, shall exort a controlling influenoo over the width and quality of strears; shall soouro comfortable afdewalks and ornamental shade trees; shall preserve and Increase groves of wood and shall look specially Into all needed drainage of tbe plaoo and itB BUrrouudltigs, It could also greatly promote the architectural beauty of its dwellings.

Tho cntiro south shore from Consy Island to Sag Harbor and Montauk is free from chills and fover. In many of the plaoes, like Jamaioa and a fow others, wh.re chills formerly provalled, they aro rapidly dying out. There is only noodod the caro of such improvement societies tis banish it. The caBes in Jamaica and its surroundings are now comparatively few and isolated among intelligent people, PEODLIAB ADVANTAGES OF FAB BOOK4.WAY AND THE BEACH. The tido of travel whioh has sot so strongly to this point this season is but an earnest of Its important future.

Far Bookaway has suffered somewhat of lato years from the mixed character of its eight or ten hotels. Thoy are very well kept (especially two or three of tho largest) In their way, but like those at Coney Island they seek profit too much from the patronago of the bar by transient visitors. Let a first class hotel of five hundred rooms be erected upon tbe grounds of 'Mrs. Horaeo F. Clark, daughter of the late Commodore Vanderblit, another upon the lawn of Mr.

Ohesver In front or the still water bathing, and both easy of aooess to the surf, and let the United Stales be turned into a genuine Congress Hall, and thoy would all be filled by first olasB patrons. The air hero Is in ooolness and softness muoh like that at Newport, but' fogs are less frequent at Bockaway, and bed linen does not mold nor silverware become dark as lu dwellings near tho surf at Nowport. A cottager at Far, Bockaway for thirteen years duectly in front of the water and but a short diBtanoa from the surf closes his dwelling on November 1, and in May finds It froe from any Bpecial dampness or mold. The cottagers at Far Bockaway are ot late Inoreasing. TVe find, near Lawronoo, Daniel Lwd, Alban P.

Man, James DeForcat, Charles Howlett, A. H. Clark, Nathaniel Jarvls, Mr. Reed, of tho Hoffman Houbo, New York ex JudBe Alker, Mr. Le Montagno and tho Birdaalls are all in one cluster, lielow and nearer tno water are Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court Wm.

H. NeilBon and sons, of tho Stock Exchange, and Geo. Ticknor Curtis. Mr. Cbeevor and Mrs.

Horace F. Clark oooupy two of Iho moat beautiful sites in tho place. Below and near Jamaioa Bay Kurtz, the photographer, is completing a tasteful and comtnodioua seaside home, and Mr. MoNaU, of South street, is building another near Lawrence. BOOEAWAY IN OLDEN TIMES.

Bookaway Beach, Far Bockaway, and the villa improvements upon the near approaohes to this sea shore are as yet in their infancy. Twenty one) years ago, Mr. James Bomssn erected the original building of what is now the Sea Side House, oonduoted by Romseu A Wainwrlght. There wore then only three small houses along ths entire besob west of Far Bookaway. Mr.

Berne en had then only six small bathing houses, and as many bathing suits. He leased this hotel for fourteen years, but has greatly enlarged and conducted it himself, for the last eevon. In their early history Bockaway and Far Bockaway were reached by steamboat, or by stage route over the turnpike across the meadows, about eight miloa from Jamaica. The old toll gate was but a Bhort distanco west of Ocean Point Station. The old Pavilion and one or two other hotels at Far Bookaway, thirty and more years ago gathered every Summer a goodly number of tbe old families of New York.

Thero wero the Asters and Langdons, ana Gillette, the Hones, tbe Bradys (Androw Brady's cottage Is now oooupled by Judge Donohue), Ogden Hoffman, Governor John A. King, the Morrises and Sohormer horns. Mora than thirty years ago, when those and other old Now Yorkers were among its guests, the Pavilion was kept by the late Hiram Cranston, famed as tho host ef the New York Hotel. THE ADJACENT COUNTBY ITS ADVANTAGES FOB NEW YOBKBBS OVEB THE JEB3EY OOA.ST. The air of the Beach of Far Bookaway and over the stretch of land oxtendlng along the old turnpike road from Far to East Bockaway, a distance of eight miles, Is much like tbat of Newport, This land la at all points from one and a half to two miles from the surf, all tbe way abreast of it.

It is the coast land betweeu Jamaioa and Hemustead Bays. Over all of it the air is softer never as damp or raw as on the Beaoh in Summer Fall or Spring. It la a sandy, gravelly, porous soil into whioh the rains sink rapidly. The water never stands in pools; it has no malaria, no chills and fover. It is productive for ordinary farm growth, for small fruits, fruit trees, vegetables and flowers.

By all these qualities, and by its diversified scenery of green fields and wood, and its dally tempered sea breezes, it is admirably fitted for Summer or permanent homes. And it opens at Far Bookaway upon a beach seven to eight miles in extent, one of tho safest and finest on the coaet. While Newport, Long Br 3D oh. Sea Bright, Anbury Park, Spring Lake and Sea Girt Beaches have become known and have grown into popularity, ibis splendid Bockaway Beach, and this beautiful country near it, a perfeot sanitarium of health, lying at the very door, and within one hour of Nevf York by railway, and yet to be reached by express trains in forty five minutes, has been comparatively neglected, and Us superior advantages overlooked, Tbe advantage of this beach and surrounding country to Mew Yorkers over Long Branch, ABbory Park and Spring Lake beaches on tbe Jersey shore is, that it can ba reached In half tbe time and at half the expense by ten or twelve trains per day, and has a cooler air during tbe heated term of July and August. From three points of compass.

Southeast, South and Southwest, during much ot the dog day weather, the light winds always bring a cool air along the Bockaway shore, when it is comparatively still, or a cairn on the asasbore of Jersey. 'A BEAUTIFUL DKIYE SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN EA8T AND FAB BOCKAWAY. The old turnpike road from East to Far Rockaway, winding with the curve of ths seashore, is one of the most beautiful drives in this part of Long Island. Along the entire distance of six to seven miles thero are no two houses alike, and at every point you meet a iucossilan of plsaiing landcapos ome new asp30t of Heidi lawn or wood. Returning from East to Far Bockaway toward ovenlng, you drive directly iu the aoa of the cool sea brcew and sniff the salt air at every sVep as you ride.

WOODSntTEOH AND ITS SOCIETY. 1 Tho plaoa takes ita name from Samuel Wood, a tnil I lionalre. foimerlv of Brooklyn, now of Murray Hill, n. The Autumn R. a a y.

Meeting" thiB Trustees. of Tbe Old Question of Bessemer ts. Crucible Steel Up Again The Contracts for Gran. He for the Approaclles Progress of the Work Finances. The' superb' weather vrhioh has lasted through the Fall months thus far has been most favorable to the progress of the work upon thi East Klver nnA it lma hnnn tnltfm advantage of bv the en gineers to the fullest extent possible.

Mr. Martin, the gineers iu nrss SEBlBUtm, aajo ua uu nu weather, and only within a week or two has it been of a oharacter to oblige them to lose any tune. The engineers flud that fogs and high winds blowing across the line of the Bridge are the only things that ipterfero materially with the work. Bain, and even moderately cold weather do not hinder the oable stretching or strand making. They expect to keep the work going all Winter, bat of covune during the season of frost aud snow and high winds, and cold weather, thero will be more or losa time unavoidably lost, but unleSB the Win tor should prove more severs than is anticipated tha work of making the strands will go steadily forward, and unlea tho delay from the weather should beunu BUBlly long there win be work enough in the intervals to keep the men employed.

At tho present writing twenty two strands havo been completed and ore in position, and two more will be flulshed within two or three days, if the weather hold good, and by the new year three or lour more will bo completed and in place. It may safely be calculated that at least thirty strands will ba finished by tho time the Spring is fairly open. The work of Btrand making was begun in tbe early Summer, and it has progteasel much more rapidly than the eugineera supposed it would. The machinery was untried, the scale of the work was very much larger than anything of the kind over befora sttompted, snd the workmen were untrained in the, to them, novel duties whioh they wero to perform; but, in spite ot these drawbaok9, the work has not been materially hindered. Of course, as everything was new; it was necessary at first to proceed slowly, until it was found that the machinery worked all right and the workmen became acoUBtomed to thoir duiics, but gradually, as it was found possible, the speed was increased, uutil now tho wire oan be run out at a rate of speed considerably in advance oi that at first attempted.

It takes from ten to fourteen minutes for tho "carrier" to travel from the Brooklyn to the New York anohoraga with the loop of wire. The space In which the meD work is so circumsoribed that only a cortain number oan bo employed about the caoie spinning, sojik suyu rue oi bjkbu. wiuium.wu., ever, has beoa oaused by the laok ot wire, as the ma oMnes used It up raster man cuuiu uo piuyiucu. Even after the wire la" received from the mauufaotory it has to go through a process of oiling and drying, to proiect it from rust, and then has to ba "dramtnea up," or coiled on a hugo drum, before it oan be reeled off into tho strands. All of this taltes timo, and the rapidity with which the coats ot oil dry depends in a large measure upon tbe weathor.

It is expected, however, that tho delays caused during the Wintor by the inclemency of the soason will allow ot tho accumulation of a considerable stock of who in advance, for tne contractor will ran his works at their utmost capacity through the Beason, and get a largo amount ahead, and tho work of oiling will also be constantly under way. But It will.be a cold berth for the workmen on tho oradiee, suspended in nnd air, during tho Winter a a Bon, where tho wind has a full sweep on all Bides with nothing to break its foroe. Little sentry boxes have been erected on tho cradles, howover, whore the workmen oan sbelter themselves while waiting for the "carrier," with its loop of wire, to como around. THE APPB0A0HE8. Tho work on the foundations for the approaches to tho Bridge is proceeding as rapidly as possible on both aides of tho river.

Yesterday the ground was broken onthoiu. thersidsof Cherry atrost, New York, from the anchorage for tho foundation of that siJo of the arcb, and in a few days the labor of sinking the pit for the foundation on the uppor aids of York street will begin. Tho foundations are ot concrete laid down at a sufficient depth to sosuro a il.m bod, and support vorloil briok archoa upon whioh the bupecstruuture of tho approaohes will be raised. Quito a large number of workmen are employed iu this department of the enterprise. Tho olearing away of tho old builiings on the lino of the approaoh is also under way in New York.

In a oertrtln sonso tho Brldga may be said to ba built by telescope. 'Colonel Roeoling, the Chief Engineer, is still ooufluad to his house ou Columbia heights, with the nervous disaaaa that has orip pled him for so long a time, aud is unable to be ou the work. Ho, therefore, has a large tolescopo 80 rigged that he oaa inspect the wo'k as it goes forward. He is in constant oommuuioation with the Engioeor staff and tho plans for every detail of the work pass under his eye and are oonslderad by him. MEETING OF THE TIIU3TEE8.

At a nvetlug ot tho Board of Trustees, yesterday, the old qtiaatlra of Bosseiner vs. Cruolulo Bto I oamo up in connootion with the discussion upon the specifications for tho wire suspenders of the Bridge. Tho suspenders aro wire ropiia whioh are to hang from the great cables and to whioh the truss work of the roadway will bo suspended. The spooifloatlons called for Bessatuor steel, but a portion of the Board are lu favor of using oruoibla steal. It was llually decided to a alter tho apeo.

flcations as to ooll lor bids tor ropes of both materials. The contraots for the grauite atone for tha faciogs and archos of tho approaohes were also awarded, alter some discussion. A very good class of contractors are said to have been secured. These two themes oomprisod about all the business transacted, but considerable time was consumed. THE PBOCEEDINQS.

The regular monthly meeting of the Board of True leea of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was held yesterday afternoon at the Bridge office, i Front street near Fulton Ferry. Present, Hon. Prflmt. Ra HUnhnnnk. Maolay, Hall, Carroll, Controller Burrell, William Marshall, Hon.

Thomas Kiosolla, Hon. J. S. T. Stranahan, AloBsrs.

Davis and Haswell. A quorum being presout the Board was called to order shortly before tour o'clock, and the minutes of tbe last meeting read and Too rapart of tho treasurer wob thon read. It showed that the receipts for the past month wore $101,485.38, of which $50,000 were received from tho City of New York, and $50,000 from tho City of Brooklyn. The balance front rent, etc. Tho expenses dutiug tha same period were $116, 653.20.

The reports of the Exeoutlvo Committee were read and adopted. It was stated that the contract for foundation Btono for the approaches had been awarded to W. Rich at $3.40 per cubic yard, he being the lowest bidder. The contract for altering of the CUH stores on tho other sldo of tho river was recommended to ba awarded to James Grineli he beiug tho lowest bidder. It was also recommended tbat the contract lor wrought iron wire rope sockets be awarJod to Lou dcrbach of Pittsburg, at nina coals par pound.

It was also recommended that the contract for granite lor the appioaches boattarued to tho four lovvo3t bidaers, the oontraot being divided between them. The Executive Committee also roccmmondcd that Bessemer steel be usod lor the wire suspeuuers of the roadway. This brought up tho question of BESSEMlIB VS. OBtrOini.E STEEL, and in that connection tho President read a report" from the Committee setting forth the rosults ot the lnvestigation.of the Committee in refereuoe in the use of tbe two materials. The report stated that tho Executive Committee hd Investigated tbe merits of tbe two different kinds of steel Bessemer and crucible, and wore of cbo opinion that Bessemer steel, whioh was recommended by tbe Ghiet Engineer, wasentirely suitable for the purposes of the suspenders.

There would only bo a certain amount of strain npon the suspenders and the tensile strength of Bessemer Bteel was mofe than sufficient to support the weight; If at any time a suspender Bhould become damaged by tho action of the weather, or from any other cause. it could be taken out and replaced witbout danger io the integrity of the rest of tue structure. If cruoible Bteel was Used it would not be necessary to use so large a wire rope and the strands would look detract from the architectural appearance of tho structure. Another and important item was the oust; Bessemer steel suspenders would cost one third less thin if made of cruclDle steel. Only a certain degree of strength was required, and that could be attained by the use of BcEsotntr and, therefore, it was claimed it would be a useless additional exDonso to use crucible steeL Mr.

Kinsella suggested that they advertise for both kinds, and In case there was not very much difference in the price of the two steels they might conclude to use the crucible steel. At the suggestion of the President he put the suggestion in the torpa of a motion. Colonel Carroll said he was in fayox of crucible Bteel even if it coat a quarter more. Mr. Kinsella said he understood tbat the bids for tho two kinds would come very close.

Mr. Stranahan said the Bessemer steel gave all thoy wanted in tensile strength and was one tblrd oheaper than the other. They had no money to throw away, and therefore it was tbe material whioh they should US' Mr. Marshall said it was not a question between tho steels but whether thoy would adopt tho reojmmondo tions of tne Engineer in Chief. He did not believe they should send the matter back to tho Exeoutive Committee for dlscuaiion.

He was well satisfied that Bessemer wob tho kind of steel whioh thoy wanted. Colonel Carroll thought they should lay the matter open to botn kinds. He wanted to know whether tbe Bessemer steel did cost ono tbirJ less thau crucible. He had been told by. a steel importer thai the crucible did not cost one quarter more tnan Bessemer.

Mr. Kinsella moved that bids bo invited for both kinds ol steel. Mr. Stranahan said it was a question as to whether they would accept the reoommendatioaB of the Chief Engineer, and what regard they wonld pay to hlB experience. It would, he thought, bo a reflection upon the Chief Engineer.

Mr. Kinsella said they had refused to adopt the raoommendation of the Chief Engineer in relation to the other wire. He believed they should ubo the best mateilal for the Bridge. He had asked Colonel Payne what kind of steel tuey should use, and the Colont I said the best they oonld afford to pay orv and that cruoible steel was undoubtedly tbe best. Mr.

Kinsella'a motion that the officers be directed to advertise for both kinds of steel was then adopted, the ayes and nays being called, the vote standing 8 to 5. The specifications, as amended, so as to call for both kinda of steel, were adopted. GBANTEB. The Executive Committee also reported in favor of awarding the contraots for approaches to Pierce, Roma 4 Collins Granite Company, the Bodwell Oramto Company and to the Concord Granite Company, in case pierce, Rome Co. decline to take all of their contract.

In the specifications the right to divide tbe courract was reserved and different kinds of stone were divided, according to the varieties of atone used whether pilasters, dam stones, spandrels, base stone or facj tone a Mr. Hall moved to lay the matter on the table for few days. He did cot understand tha matter at all in reference to the bids for granits. Mr. Stranahan said the Committee had found that no one contractor was within their reaob, but they found by dividing the oontraot they could et the stono at a very maoh cheaper rate, and they would secure a very fine lot of contractors.

Colonel Carroll said tha report of the Committee on the bids for itons did not explain the matter The kinds of stone were designated by numbers and the prices were not given. They wanted to clearly understand why they gave a contract amounting to $200, 000 to one man, and the like amount to another. Tbe President suggested that if they would go Into executive session the whole matter could be explained, A motion to go into exeoutiva session was then made "boExeoutivo session, the mailer of the cbntracts was disonssed, and the report of the Executive Com raittee adopted. THE 00NTBACT8, as awarded were as follows Pierce, Home 4 CO. cublo yards of pier, pilaster and Jamb tone; 2,184, cublo yards abutment pier stone with clampered angles; 1,898 cubic; yards arch face or ring stone for main arches; 12 cubic yards arch lace i i 1 TUESDAY EVENINO, NOVEMBER 0, 1877.

Tlits Caper nas cue circuta Hon ot nnr JGYMMmjr Paper Published in Ibc United States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is tnerelore apparent. "TUe Dollar of the Dnddlcs." "When the old silver dollar was demonetized in 1878, the words of the law iu which it was accomplished were obscure and not capable of being instantly understood. There wore very few persons who were aware of the movement to outlaw that dollar. The project was smuggled iuto the bill as dexterously as ever a pickpocket fearmg detection put the purse he had lifted into the pocket of some innocent porson.

It is literally true that neither House of Congress know that it was demonetizing the dollar when it was doing eo. It is quite possible for the Senators and Representatives to be imposed on in this way. Bills are not always read through at any stage. When they are read through, they are frequently read hurriedly and muddledly; little attention is given them. A great deal is trusted to the honor and intelligence of committees.

The confidence is misplaced in some instances. The old silver dollar was demonetized, declared not a legal tender by a clause in an act which was passed by a success of mystery, collusion and false pretences. The press of the United States did not know that the thiug had been done for several weeks. A fow ring Congressmen and the Treasury Department of the United States were' only aware of the effect of the proceeding at first. They kept quiet about it, until they had perfected all their arrangements for making their exclusive knowledge profitable to themselves and their friends, in the money markets of the country.

When the people were informed of the fact that by a put up job silver had been demonetized the surprise was complete. The wisdom or the unwisdom of the act aside, there was never an act of Congress accomplished by means more sneakishly and flagrantly immoral. The House has as suddenly openly and passed a billromonetizing the silver dollar of 1873 as the Congress of that year secretly and unwittingly demonetized it. Though in a thin House the vote was 163 to 34. a surprisingly larse one and at the same time by a vote of 143 to 48 the House ordered debate on the bill repealing the date clause January 1, 1879 set for resumption to Ijegin to day, continue a week and that then the bill shall bo put on its final passage.

If tihe effect of this proceeding could end just here, there is no doubt that a smarting senna of wrong felt by the House, would be appeased. The question of political economy apart, it must be said that that resentment was legitimate. For a House to bo tucked into something it did not want to do, and never would have done if its leaders had honorably acquainted it with the effect of its own course, is a very serious and aggravating iusult. It rankles for years. It ponetrateB constituencies.

House bequeathes to House the dbsiro and the duty of revenge. The Southorn and Western people who wero tricked into a demonetization of silver, four years ago, feel much more indignation towards the men who played ou them there than the country as a whole feels toward the Beturaing Board villains, intense as that feeling is. It is in view of this resentment that the act of yostorday must be regarded. The net is a natural and for long time evidently inevitable sequence to the "surprise" of 1873. The House by this performance which gave it relief yestevday fconi a sense of victimization is placed in a much better mood for the wisdom which comes of deliberation.

Of the bill the provision is simply this It authorizes the issuo of a silver piece of about 412 grains as a dollar to be a legal tender. Ab that much of silver is worth a dollar in gold in now, the act provides a new medium and a new metal of legal tec dor ratherthan any new standard. In this view the talk about a double standard is orroneous, and very much learning on that weighty subject is in the circumstances misplaced. A double or a couple of mediums of tender do not make a double standard when both are worth the same in price by the laws of trade, entirely irrespective of the declaration of Congress. A Congress direction that the sun shall rise in the east would bo such an enactment of a habit of nature as would be as harmless as it would be ridiculous.

But it would not establish a double astronomical system. Neither does an enactment that as much silver as a gold dollar can buy shall itself be called a dollar establish a double standard it but provides another medium of circulation, iu this case restoring an old one which had a strong place in tho affection and hnbits of many of the people comprehending tne citizens of great States and sections, en masse. The act of yesterday of itself wears an Ohio aspect. That State has been managing tho finances of nations and tho equilibrium of tho solar system almost exclusively for years. The Democrats there wanted the 409 grain silver dollar of 1873 "the dollar of tho "daddies." The Republicans tempered by Garfield wanted such a silver dollar as in its intrinsic selling value, metallically considered, would command tho price of a gold dollar.

That required about 412 grains to be in the dollar. It was that kind of dollar the House favored yesterday. Of course the Senate and the President havo yet to pass on tho measure. The probability is that the Senate will pass it. If so the certainty is that the President will sign it.

Meantime it is a business fact that as much gold as thero is in the present dollar will buy as much silver as there is in the proposed dollar, and the bill proposes to legalize (hat of silver into a dollar too. Thero is much to be said about the convenience, inconvenience, fec, of the new medium provided or of the familiar medium it is proposed to restore, but the hard money priuciple is recognized first substantially in the silver itself, and secondly in principle, by the requirement that tho metal shall, so to speak, be "dollared" up to the gold standard of about 412. "We are much more inclined to attribute tho action of the House yesterday to a desire to got square with the demonetizing tricksters of 1873, than to the actual iuflueuce of the owners of the silver mines on the Congress men in bulk. That the silver mine owners in some cases sit in Congress, and that they hnvfl ronresentatives there is as true of the 41 bonanza" interest as it is of tho confederated railroad interest but it is equally true that the fact that it has these special adherents there weakens the bonanza interest just as it does the railroad one. Colleotively Congress is superior to any special interests and suspicious of them all.

It braces itself against them. It has done so ever siuce the Democratic party came into control. The Houses have been honorable since then, not always wise, but never by any possibility unjust or corrupt. A good deal of sentiment, a good deal of crudity, much resentment, but no corruption dominated the House yesterday. The Southern and Western Congressmen who voted together are men of whom it is possible to say that they voted differently from those who opposed them, but that they voted less honestly or less intelligently would be an assertion of sheer They are as honorable men, they are as learned men, they are as ylicinf orPRtprl mATi fin LVifiir nnrvnnflnr.ft.

The question was one admitting of difference of view. and sreat aa the disparity was between the vota, both parties and all sections were represented by both the affirmative and the negative. The journalism which accounts for the act on the hypothesis of the collective ignoranoe or interest or corruption of a great majority representing both parties is itself a journalism of ignorance, impudence or corruption. It is just as impossible to make the remonetization of silver, on a gold basis of value, separable from the benefitting of those who have silver to mine, as it would be to make tho authorization of a new building for the Patent Bureau separable from the profit of those who have marble, iron, granite or whatever the material used might be, to supply. There is nothing in the socaUed double standard business to alarm or incense anybody.

It can hardly be made a practical question. Legislation itself defers to the dominancy of gold in graduating the coinage of sdver to its value. Business, exchanne. nricos would do but the most depraved of human beings coidd havo been guilty of that which is more than a crime, the slander of a virtuous woman. This shown, what sort of probationary system can that be through whioh suoh a man as Thompson could pass to become a minister of tho Gospel It is high time for the churches of Amerioa to wake out of sleep and look to it lest the thoughtless mind of the age, by constant association of crime with professed Christianity, should fall into the error of identifying them.

The Xroffadj" on (Sates Avenue. A striking illustration of how much proximity has to do with the play of sympathy is afforded by the tragedy on Gates avenue, as contrasted with the frightful sacrifice of human life in a Scottish coal mine two weeks ago. We can all, in a certain dull way, enter into.the feelings of the two hundred and fifty miners when they found themselves out off from the outer world, and in the presence of crumbling beams and suffocating gases gasped their last supplications to heaven. The wives and children, the brothers, sisters and other kindred bemoaning their terrible affliotion, take shape in tho imagination and move tho heart; but they were four thousand miles away from us the coal mine has no counterpart in our own experience it does not occur to us that what happened to these Scotchmen maybe repeated to friends of our own, and there is so much suffering in tho world that tho agony of the bereaved ones takes its placo among the misery which we cannot lessen and with which it would be almost folly for us to try to deal. But when in our own city, in a house such as many of our neighbors and acquaintances inhabit, a mother and child perish before a cause that is near to every one of us, Rympathy is quickened by the sense of personal fear and the appeal for aid finds a startling echo in the possibilities that are recognized in every household.

The home tragedy has its lesson intensified by the fact that every normally constituted being feels bound to lessen if possible the woo within his or her reach. It is quixotism for a man to make a crusade upon evil iu general; but it is duty for him to assail it when it comes clearly within the radius of his personal influence. That this account of tho difference between suffering near to us and suffering at a distance is correct, can be proven by a vast array of facts known to every intelligent person. For instance, twelve months ago a tidal wave in tho Bay of Bengal destroyed the homes and the lives of two hundred thousand persons, but no person here felt much more deeply moved by the news of that visitation than would have been the case had it boon a thoatrical representation. How different was tho feoling with whioh our peo plo learned of the Brooklyn Theatre fire and the fall of the Ashtabula Bridge.

Again, during the past two' years thero has boon a famine in British India, which has desolated great provinces and made tho highways ghastly with famished bodies. Yet hardly an American paper haB felt justified in describing the land or the people so terribly afflicted. Contrast with that indifference the effective response with which the heart of the country met the news of the Chicago fire. This seems to bo a selfish account to give of human sympathy, but if it is the true account the chargo of selfishness will not hurt it. There is some good reason and some right reason why tho loss of a single life in our own city is felt by us to be a more important thing than the sacrifice of a hundred lives in a foreign land.

If the reason here given be the right one the basis is laid for a local duty which should be strongly urged. As to the unhapyy woman who perished with her child, yesterday afternoon, the direction in which sympathy should turn is against the capitalists who construct houses that are death traps and against the laws that permit their construction. Hcsumptlon. When January 1, 1879, was in 1875 ordered to be the date at which specie payments would be resumed, the act and tho naming of the arbitrary date were disingenuous. The entire thing was a Sham.

Being a Sham, no gold was reserved against the time named. No policy was begun to moke ready either for the possibility or the period ot Resumption. The aot was passed simply for effect," as journalism is fond of calling transient successes of delusion which havo no effective quality in them at all. Since then a Democratic House made the Government frugal. One.

party appropriated the money which the other party spent. Natur ally the appropriating party kept the spending party on as short allowance as possible. By division of power economy was onforced. That as a fact and an example in the Government made the nation begin to prosper. We are therefore gravitating to specie quite irrespective of the 1875 act, iu spite of the no policy policy which it bred, and solely by virtue of the retrenchments of the Democratic House.

On those accounts this House should lot the date clause in tho resumption bill alone for the present. If we get to ppeoie before next January a year, it will be all right. If we cannot got to it by then, that fact will be evident when Cougress meets in December, 1878. There will then be cause and argument to extend tho time or repeal tho date. There are neither now.

The House should therefore let the business alone for this year. If the House won't or don't, the Senate should. Jlf neither does, the President should veto the bill as certainly premature and probably unnecessary. On the finances the House should never do to day what it can put off till next year's short session. Dredger, the chicken thief of Parkville, to whom attention was called in the Eagle yes terday, ought to move to Brooklyn.

He would find a great deal of congenial company among the opponents of the Ring." Mr. Dredger, it appears, is a pious person. He excels as a singer of religions hymns and is reputed to be a powerful exhorter. It is a great mistake for gentlemen like Mr. Dredger to squander their fine talents upon a rural community when piety of the kind in which he delights is received with so many evidences of favor in the third city of the Union.

Mr. Dredger's case would have borne a very different appearance had he been able to say that the owners of the chickens were Ring men," and that he had in his proceeding been actuated by a desire for reform. Let him, when in bis quiet cell at Crow Hill, ponder on the difference between his caso and that of the pious frauds who have by bribery broken "the Ring" and obtained control of several public departments in this city. Libby O'Brien, the little girl thief of New York, oonfessed yesterday to stealing from ten or twelve families for whom ehe worked. With the detectives vlatted several pawn Bhops, where jewelry and silverware, valued at over $5,000, and believed to have been stolen, were reoovered.

From the large number of claims made, It Is believed that tbe total amount of the thefts will be from $8,000 to 10,000. The girl la only 13 years old, and the extent of her thefts astounds tbe de teotlves. Two foimal complaints were mode against the girl at the Essex Market Police Court and she was held In 3,000 bail. "Three benches in tbe oourt room were occupied by persons who had suffered by tho thefts. Mbby O'Brien was arrested In May last, with Mrs.

Catharine Closey. of No. 337 Avonue A. The girl oonfessed at that time that she bad committed a number ot sneak robberies, at the Instigation of Mrs. Closey.

Mrs. Closey was sent to prison, and tbe girl was discharged. Blnce, then, numerous sneak robberies have taken place. It is probable that she will be sent, finally, to some reformatory institution to remain until she la of age. The law provides this punishment and none other for so young a thlet.

The bankruptcy proceedings against William C. Oilman, tho forger, were begun to prevent Talmadge 4 from securing a preference over the other creditors, by virtue of their attachm.et proceedings. They have waived; that preference, It Is stated, and the creditors will probably move for an early settlement of the estate so as to secure a division of tho assets In proportion to the amount of losses eustainsd. The assets, it is understood, will realize about per cent, on the total loss, exclusive oi $60,000 insurance on Oilman's life, which has been asslpned by Oilman for the benefit ot his creditors, and on which tuey will be compelled to psy the premiums as thay mature, to secure payment at his death. Boardiuc Bouse Life.

Those fortunate human beings to whom it has been given to live at home may congratulate themselves upon the comfort which such I a privilege affords, upon the sanctity of the domestic hearth and the freedom of speech and thought, as well as the immunity from annoyance which their seclusion brings. At the same time they enjoy their quiet at no little expense. To judge human nature properly it is necessary to meet it on neutral ground, and there is no ground so neutral as the boarding house. In a large establishment of this kind, many of which flourish in Brooklyn, one may encounter all sorts of people. There is the passe belle of former years still decking herself out for the dinner table and trying to captivate tho bachelor there is the loud mouthed oracle, who knows" everything and bawls his empty opinions in toneB which drown down even the clatter of knives and the chatter of small talk.

Not far from him is tho gross old glutton, who grabs at every dainty the table and encircles his plate with a barricade of eatables which, when opportunity arrives, ho rams down his throat at the point of his knife. A few seats further on aro the three or four withered matrons who talk scandal of everybody, including all the preachers they have heard of except their own, and pck over the food with their forks, muttering a running commentary of execration upon its quality, which is, doubtless, bettor than they over before sat down to; and so along the table aro ranged various grades and specimens of humanity, whose characteristics temporarily disappear the moment they find themselves away from the neutral ground of the boarding house. Thoro is probably no large boarding house iu which the counterparts of these curiosities of human nature, or some of them, are not to be found. But there is another specimen with which the householder is not familiar the professional boarding house beat. It is of both sexes and all ages, and operates in so many ways that the landlady who escapes being victimized is indeed fortunate.

At one time the boat is a handsome young mau who makes love to the landlady or her daughter, and ob tains a discount on his board bill for his gentlemanly manner and social qualities. He is satisfied with everything, borrows an occasional half dollar from the landlady and takes her out to locturos and such small dissipations as his acquaintance with newspaper men and agents will furnish free of cost. Another boarding house beat, compared with whom the first is innocuous, is always expecting a remittance, and when it comos al ways finds himself many weeks behind, until some day when he has otner uses for his money ho leaves and goes forth to victimize some other patient and already suspicious landlady. Another one stays but a weok at a time and never pays, preferring the risk of exhausting the city to that of empty ing his purse. Still another remains, becomes sociable, lives well, makes friends and en joys life, till a combined movement on the part of plundered boarders reveals the fact that he has been luxuriating upon thoir silk dresses, overcoats, spare trousors and loose jewelry.

Then, there is tho young man who engages the best spare room, takes one meal and disappears with valuables. Among the other sex the varieties are limitless. Woman's fertility of invention is boundless. Sometimes she takes board and plays the destitution dodge, appealingly begging not to be thrown upon the street with no roof but tho station house to shelter her at times she assumes the indignant when asked for money, and insists on remaining till she can hear from her brother here she follows tho sneak thief's vocation and plunders in secret; there she goes to work openly and strips her fellow boarders at one stroke. Now, at length, this sort of thing has ceased to be profitable, and we find a now dodge.

Mrs. of Prospect street, and her boarders are the victims. The boarding house beat comes in the guise of a handsome and well dressed woman, who engages a room, pays for it in advance, and conducts herself becomingly for a time till the first natural distrust of her subsides. After a day's absence she drives up to the house in a coach, sends for the landlady in the parlor, sends out for bottled porter which she drugs, and having thus sent the good dame to she pillages the wardrobes of the boarders, crams their goods into hor trunk, has it put into the carriage and drives off in safety. The publication of the story may assist those landladies, if there are any, who are still believers in the honesty of chance boarders.

All chance of loss by this means tho householder escapes, but it is worth while to obtain a little practical knowledge of human nature even at the sacrifice of comfort for a time. IZelijrlous Depravity. The exposure of several rogues in business circles who have enjoyed participance and distinction in the Evangelical churches to which they belonged, and in somo cases still belong, illustrated the deplorable laxity of those organizations regarding the admission of members. Not a few of tho most hardened rascals havo boon identified with church leadership, and tho only inference possible from this circumstance is that the churches are criminally negligent on the subject of the personal morality of their members. Deplorable as is this laxity in placing the seal of Christian approval upon men of the basest character, it is by no means the worst feature of American church organization.

If care should be taken in admitting men to church membership, how much more careful should the churches be in securing their pastors and thus recommending men to the privileges and confidence bos towed upon pastors of churches. The case of the Rev. Alfred Thompson, pastor of the Methodist Church of Elgin, is one of tho most suggestive of modem times. In sentencing this minister 'of Christ recently, to five years' imprisonment at Sing Sing, the Recorder expressed his opinion that "A more filthy beast he never met with, and a more depraved clergyman ho never saw." It is painful to think that these two clauses should ever have been brought together in the same sentence that the holy office of the priesthood should have been entered by one who provoked such characterization at the hands of a judge. Harsh as the condemnation was, however, there is not a man livins who can, in view of the clergyman's conduot, believe that they were ill chosen or undeserved.

The speciflo offense alleged againBt this detestable person was theft of money and jewelry from the wife of another clergyman. Mrs. Cobham is an English lady whose husband has jnst gone out to the West Indies as a missionary. She had come over to this country on a visit to relatives Texas, and on ship board met the Rev. Alfred Thompson, who was returning from Europe to rejoin his church at Elgin.

Ignorant of that laxity which characterizes the American church systems, she supposed that a clergyman could be trusted to possess the ordinary, virtues of a human being, and placed herself in bis charge. He conducted her to the West Side Hotel, and there robbed her of all her money and jewelry. He was arrested while in the act of exchanging her English gold for American currency, and the jewelry was found in his possession. His ticket for Elgin was already purchased with her money, and but for the vigilance of tho police he would doubtless have returned to his Western flock to preach righteousness and pure living. On his examination in Court this abandoned wretch, not content with robbing the unfortunate woman, most foully ahvnderet her, attributing publicly to her the monstrous wickedness of a Messalina, and swearing that she had given him the property he stole.

Fortunately, the landlord of the West Side Hotel was present to testify to another thrift committed by this hardened criminal during Sclirocdor's Iinrjncy of In the bustle and excitement which attended tho close of the political campaign attention has been diverted from the main questions involved in the very important changes which have just been made in soveral of tho most important departments of our local govern ment, by devices and schemes which aro condemned by honost citizaus of all parties. No intelligent citizen can possibly bo imposed upon by tho pretense that either tho wretched follow, Shannon, or the tricky politician who 111 the Mayor's office, was actuated by ricrht motives when they entered into a com bination to change the most important branches of our govornment ou the eve of an election. Mayor Schroedor is not the brightest man in Brooklyn, but ho knows enough to know that when he made his apology for himself nnd Shanuon at one of the ward meetings the other night, ho was trying to make tho people believo what he did not believe himself. If we are to accept Mr. Schrooder's word for it, Shannon was elected as an "Independent" Alderman, nnd he was under no obligation to either party to do anything which he did not consider to be for the advantage of tho city.

Schroedor says that even iu ad vanoo of the election Shannon had entored iuto an agreement with him to vote for his (St hroedor's) nominees. If this is so, what becomes of Shannon's independence Shannon recently took occasion to publicly declare that ho never entered into any arrangement of the kind, and that he intended to vote so as to retain in office men whom he declared wero his ersonal and political friends, and men he has since boon induced to voto flgftinst. Hero is a direct question of veracity betweeu these two worthies, and wo don't propose to decide botwoon them. Shannon, unquestionably, ran as a Democrat, and appealed as such to the voters of one of the strongest Democratic constituencies in the city. Suppose we take Schroedor's word for it, and accept Shannon as an Independent Democrat.

Does Schroeder expect the people of this city to believe that an Independent" Democrat, or an independent representative of any politics, or of no politics, would have voted for the removal of Andrew Cunningham, for instance, from the office of City Treasurer in order to give his office to a man who has no claims to it except that he is "honest" John French's son in law Is there an "independent man in Brooklyn, of any party, who would vote to displace fire Commissioner Massey.by "Dave" Williams, a Republican with a record so smirched that on a former occasion Schroeder declared the Republican party even could not take the responsibility of giving him a local office Are D. D. Whitney, William A. Fu rey. F.

S. Massey and Andrew Cunningham tho kind of Democrats independent men desire to drive out of office in order to promote Tnnner and Williams and Little and Eyan and men of then stripe Schroeder and Shannon havo left Brooklyn a legacy which will survive any issue which can possibly be settled by tho voters to day. Wo have had for years a Fire Department which the city was proud of. Calamities from fire havo fallen upon almost every great city of the Union Brooklyn has not known anything which could bo called a conflagration since the present Fire Department wa3 organized. We have, apart from politics, some home brod rights fireside privileges.

We have a right to the best attninablo protection for our property, and for our homes. There is not a man who owns a house in Brooklyn there is not a citizen who has a dollar invested in tho business of fire insurance, who does not regard the breaking up of the present organization of the Fire Department as an outrage which may bo the source of catastrophes and calamities. And this is what has been done in the name of "independence" in politics, and under the miserable subterfuge that a gin mill keeper and an official trickster who had been given the chief honor at our disposal, are incensed by the present management of our local parties. We have had for some years a creditable Police Department. Our policemen were rapidly becoming to be polioemen in the best sense.

When this department oame under the control of tho local authorities, its members were regarded as a hostile garrison, rather than bb guardians of the public pence, having a direct interest in promoting good feeling and good neigh borhood for their among those who wero taxed support. "Clubbing" was of al most daily occurrence, and the policeman, instead of being regarded as a welcome friend of peace and order everywhere, was feared as a man whose indiscriminate use of his club more than offset the advantage he was paid to render. The department at last passed into the control of two of the worthiest citizens of Brooklyn, now no more, and while the force lost nothing in energy and vigilance, it gained immensely in securing what it had not had, the confidence and good will of our people. That organization the Republicans broke up as soon as the power to do so was given them by ascendency, not in Brooklyn, but at Albany. Then set in the memorable police era of Jourdan and Jensen, until the force oame to be the laughing slook of tho country.

Chief Campbell was turned out of office because his success, where no aid was given him by his superiors, made their antics only the more ridiculous. Under Jourdan the police became a machine that was not efficient in politics because it was inefficient in every thing. Jourdan has been again placed in au thority, and he had not full sway for one hour yesterday before he began with indecent haste to gather again around him his political henchmen. We are prepared for a repetition of the political antics of the past in both these important departments at the hands of the trading politicians who have now got control of them. Schroeder himself had not the courage to again come before the people.

He has left us a legacy of Schroederisin, and then "out'stick," and the most pressing local question is, How soon can we get rid of it To us this day's work will be bf value, in Brooklyn and throughout the State, to the extent it may give the majority party the ability to answer it. The tide of battle in the East seems to have turned completely against the Turks. Nothing short of a miracle can now save Kars and Erzeroum, and tho position of Osmau Pasha at Plevna aDnears to be desperate. The beat.