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THE NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE. days this feeling had increased, and even yesterday morning bo struck bcr upon the head, and continued teasing afterwards sat down with John Warner 10,000 WORTH or HOSIERY AND GLOTB8. THE LATE AUCTIONSALES VERT CHEAP. A LARGE LOT OFPRENCH CORSETS. Slightly wet, at half price, at THE BOARD OF EXCISE.

Granting and Beroeatlon or Mcennn cbango tn tne Forms of Application. The Board of Excise met yesterday afternoon at one o'clock, and proceeded to the trial of somo fourteen delinquent liquor dealers who had been Bummoned before them. Some of the licenses were revoked and some were not. In one case, that of J. Gerkcna, keeper of the Atlantic Hotel, corner of Oliver street and insisted that they should oil meet as one board, of which the Board of Health should vote collectively and tho Mayors and Quarantine Commissioners indl ridnally.

His views were anally agreed to, and thoy were then ready to go on with the business. Brit judge Bosworth, who never faU.8 to bob that business is done according to due form, objected to their doine anything without Mayor Hoffman, who was absent He did not know, but he rather thought it was essential that all the persons named in the act should be present at the time of voting. So Mr. Acton sent a telegram to Mayor Hoffman, who came about half an hour atterwards, and then, all objections being laid at rest, the Joint Board unanimously voted in favor of taking all that part of Coney Island lying to the west of a hne running due south from the southwest corner of C. G.

Gunther house at Bath, across Gravcscnd Retototng Reason. There was a dawn ofreason'in the Excise Board yesterday, the arbitrary restriction that no music should be heard in places licensed, or dancing allowed, was struck out; as also was the provision that no youth under eighteen and no female should serve out a glass of beer. This is a concession to the tastes of our German citizens who like a little music with their lager, and the idea that so humanizing an agency as music should have been proscribed by any public body composed of rational men, seems hardly credible, yet this restriction was one of the conditions of the first batch of licenses issued this year. Judge Bosworth, the only Democratic member of the Commission, is entitled to the credit of obtaining a revocation of this order. Murder toy Negligence.

In another column will be found the particulars of the death of a woman through the blunder of a drug clerk. Such occurrences are by no means uncommon, and so much has been said upon this subject through the press, that any comment might only be repetition. The Legislature has been called upon to pass a law regulating the' qualifications of apothecaries and drug sellers, and in moments of indignation, condign punishment has been invoked on the heads of the perpetrators of these fatal mistakes. It is clear enough to all that the dispensing of drugs should only be entrusted to persons of careful habits, thoroughly educated in their uses and properties. Ignorance and carelessness on the part of persons employed in drug stores sacrifice lives with alarming frequency.

It is hard to inflict any punishment on such persons, they are evidently guiltless of evil intent, and their mistakes are called 'accidents. To persons acquainted with the retail drug business, the wonder is not that such mistakes occur, but that they do not occur oftener; and instead of asking why any incompetent persons are employed as drug clerks, it is rather surprising that there are so many well qualified persons ready to accept the drudgery and miserable pay of the drug clerk. Drug clerks are about the hardest worked and worst paid class in the community. The business requires good intelligence and education, the labor is incessant night and day, seven days a week, and the average pay is less than the wages of a common laborer who feels aggrieved in being compelled to work ten hours a day. The average wages of clerks in retail drug stores is about fifteen dollars a week.

ana putyea cuius, apparouuy sociaDie ana pleasant This wicked temner showed itself only tn thn hnnan' and was mainly directed to to the girl. Miss Uoldcraft did not like Mia, and this was tho principal cause of Inc aimcuiiy. no uua Druuuea upon uer lnaiucrence until tho frenzy urged him to cause, if possible, her death. The young lady iB stout, well developed, with sandy hair and blonde complexion. She has a pleasing appearance and is beloved by all her acquaintances for nergood qualities and quiet and respectable demeanor.

Poiner, on tho contrary, 1b a rough, powerful man, with coarse hair, and marked with small pox. For the laBt two or three weekB he has been out of work, but previous to that time was employed by his grandfather as carter, and also at the Navy Yard a3 a laborer. Ho was born In Philadelphia, and his parents nowreBidoin Carpenter street, Delow Seventh. The parents of the young girl are residents of HarrlsonvUle. New Jersey.

John Warner, who was In tho house at the time of the occurrence, resides at Easton. Maryland. He is an Intimate friend of tho young lady and family. He waB aoout to leave tne city ycsEerony ior iue resioeuue of the father of Miss Holderaft, and to convey there some articleB at her Instance. A friendly feeling, tf not affection, existed between tbem, and this is said to have culminated a jealouB feeling on the part of Poiner.

The Fire Commissioners Election of a New Commissioner Bnrdett Strykor. The principal excitement in the firemen's world daring the past seven days has been the election of a Fire Commissioner. The election, which waB held at Fireman's Hall, Henry street, was very exciting by reason of the fact that the candidates before the Board had each thirty three adherents. The present President of the Board, Mr. Burdctt Stryker, is the outgoing Commissioner.

He haB been forty years a member of the Department, its Chief Engineer ten years, and nine years a Commissioner. He also occupied the position of Sheriff of the County for one year, having been appointed in 1857 by the Governor. In all these positions, is as true as it Is common place, to state that he has acquitted himBelf to the satisfaction of all interested. At the recent election Mr. Stryker waa not a candidate, but his friends insisted on hla re election.

The informal ballot was as follows Robert G. Bergen, Engine 21 sn Burdett Stryker, present Com 30 Edward Collmeycr, Engine 14 2 i Scattering 3 Total eg Two formal ballots were then bad. as follows: l8' 2d. Robert G. Bergen 33 33 Burdett Stryker go Mr.

Bergen was declared elected The Commissioners last evening dismissed the charge against No. 17 Engine, made by Engine No. 10 of running on the railroad in Smith street, near Dear! BLicci. la mm uu representative present, oran offence formerly proved, Thomas Malone, of No. 19.

suspension from the Department for six months. In the case of the charge of assault and battery against Thomas Martin, of Engine No. 5. for kicking and heating James W. Crow, loreman of Engine No with a fire cap, on May 2d, while running to a fire, Martin stated that he was not ready for examination, sb he had no witnesses present.

He had heard that the complainant had stated that he would withdraw his charge, and whip him (Martin.) Crow disclaimed any belligerent intention, and acceded to a proposal to postpone the case for one week. Adjourned. SPOBTS AND PASTIMES. Base Ball. Eureka vs.

Irvtnciton Owing to a judicious choice of Umpire, those who witnessed the match yesterday between the Irviugton and Eureka clubs, witnessed a good game. It seems strange that the diflerence between umpires should have had ueh a marked effect. Mr. B'lanly of the Excelsior Club of Brooklyn, was chosen Umpire in this game. He called balls and strikes in quick succession until the pitchers and strikers found that he was not to be trilled with when they endeavored to pitch regularly.

Occasion has been taken in these columns to complain of the reading of Section Ten of this gentleman it is not neceseary to speak of it again though the same point occurred, nor of the other points, iu which Mr. Flanly was evidently at fault. So many different constructions can be placed upon the ruleB, and so many different readings made, that this gentleman can not be blamed for any errors of judgment. The idea has been broached of calling a special meeting of the National Association good, we say, then we can have a universal reading and a nniversal ruling. Notwithstanding the trouble of not understanding the new points, a very good game was had.

The Irvingtons have showed the ball playing world, that to contend with them they must put their best foot forward, and the Eurckas were not far behind. Again on the Irvington side, Pila surpassed the others in fielding. He did not seem to be a favorite with the crowd, and the attempt as waa alleged to kick the ball from out of the hands of Lex, on one occasion when running to flr6t base, brought the hearty condemnation of the crowd. At all events the umpire decided him out, for interfor'ng with the ball. Terrell at second made a magnificent stop at eecond base, as did also Thomas at short stop.

One of the neatest plays on the Eureka side, was the stop by Mills, at first base, of a very badly thrown ball had MillB allowed the ball to have passed him the two men who were on the bases would have Becured their runs. Callaway, Brentnall, Osborne and Lewis made brilliant catches iu the field. The day was ery fine, and large crowds wended their way to the grounds of the Irvingtons. Nearly three thousand people must have been upon the grounds, anions whom wore many of the fair sex. The Press is again under obligations to the Irvington Club for their kinu attentions.

Appended is the score IUVINOTON, EUREKA. Pike, 3d 3 3 Callaway, rf 5 1 M. Campbell, 1 Mills. 1st 4 2 Leonard, a 4 Osborne, 2 2 Buckley, 3 2 Brentnall, 3 2 Walters, 3 3 Burroughs, 3d 3 2 Lewis, If. 3 3 Terrell, 2d 1 4 H.

Campbell, f. 4 2 Thomas, bs 2 3 Stockman, bh 2 3 Northrup, rf 3 0 Sweezey, 2d 1 4 Lex, 3 1 Total 27 25 Total .27 17 INNINGS. 123450780 Eureke 0 2 4 0 5 0 1 1 417 Irvington 4 1 2 0 8 5 3 1 123 Fly Catches Irvingtons Pike, M. Campbell, Buckley. Lewis, H.

Campbell, 1 total, 13. Eurekub Callawav. Mills, Osborne, Burroughs, 1 Brentnall, 1 Thomas, 3 Northrup, 1 total, 11. Passed Balls Buckley, 10; Brentnall, 12; Osborne, 2. Umpire Mr.

Geo. Flanly. Excelsior Club. Scorers Irvington, Mr. Seymour.

Eureka, Mr. Craven. Prize Game on TnE Star Grounds. To morrow, at four o'clock, a prize game will be commenced on the Star Oroumi, between the llr nine of the Star Club, and a nine chosen from the field. The prizes are a ball and a bat.

presented by Mr. Horseman. A good game will be had. Junior MATcn. On Monday, May 20, a match between the Butnside, of Brooklyn, and Rutgers, of New York, will take place on the grounds of the Burnside Club, Bedford avenue.

Game will be promptly called at two o'clock. VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS. Dead Animals In the Streets. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: May 1 be permitted, through your paper, to call attention to an intolerable nuisance, caused, it is said, by a difference of opinion between our Common Council and the Board of Health, as to who shall appoint the man to carry off dead animals from tho streets. It appears tha: lhal office is now vacant.

The particular case I wish to speak of Is this: Last Tuesday a horse fell dead in the street, nearly in front of our House; this nuisance is still here (on Friday). You may judge what effect it has on the neighborhood in the vicinity: besides, live horses have, in some cases to be turned around and backed past the carcass. We have a station house near us the 50th Precinct Captain and officers of which are gentlemen of the first order. They inform us they would help us it they could, but they are ashamed to say to their continual complainers that they can do nothing for them in the matter. This iB Brooklyn as it is.

Respectfully yours, D. C. Milleb, 568 Pacific street. A Question. To the Editor of Uu Brooklyn Eagle Will you with your usual courtesy inform ub and many others through your valuable paper why it 1b that the ashmen refuse to take away ashes from factories? Our building covers four city lota, and we do not have as much ashes as four dwelling houses, yet when we ask to have our obIicb removed tne drivers of the ash carts only laugh at us.

By answering the above you will confer a great favor. Maut Tax Payeiis. Report to Street Commissioner Furey.j LAW INTELLIGENCE. Decisions at General Term at Pough keepsle, IWay 10, 1867. JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS APKIRSIED OPINIONS BY JVSTJCE GILBERT.

Fitzgerald vs. The People. Munsoll vs. Mills. Kose vs, Phillips.

Wundorlee vs. Schults. Mumford vs. Mitchell, Newell vs. Wheeler.

Sly vs. Nanny. Arnold vs. Tho Hudson River Railroad Co. Hoyt, Trustee, vs.

Lott, Kxectitor, OPINIONS Br JUSTICE LOTT. Law vs. Biancard. Whipple vs. Whipple (Opinion also by Justice Barnard) Elmore ys.

Sauds. Hall, Executor, vs. Tollman. Myers vs. Bum.

OPINIONS BY JUSTICE BARNARD. Champney vs. Blanchard. Morgan vs. Willetts.

NO OriNIONS DELIVERED. Buchanan vs. Pioneer Paper Company. Commissioners of Excise vs. Cookingham.

Pindar vs. Fry. Tnhnase vs. Wells. Neilis vs.

Neilis. Rcifenburgh vs. Rink. Wynn vs. Wynn.

The People vs. Trustees of Morrisania. Eddy vs. Eldridge, Hart vs. Clute.

People vs. Copper. Johnson vs. Johnson. Blyden burgh vs.

Bingham. Blydonburgh vs. Bingham and Dccker. Bech vs. Shelden.

JUDGMENTS REVERSED OPINIONS BY JUSTICE LOTT. People vs. Mlnchen. Wilson vs. Collins.

Brady vs ShartB. Baker vs. Alger. OPINIONS BY JUSTICE BARNARD. Architectural Iron Works vs.

Phenix Warehousing Company and others. Lewis vs. The People. Hi.ch ings vs. Hubbard.

Demott vs. Demott. Mackey vs The City of Brooklyn. Stlllwell va. Stillwell.

OPnUOKS BY JUSTICE GILBERT. Qninn agt. Skinner. Bunnel agt. Greathcad.

Fo gerty agt. Stratford. NO OPINIONS DELIVERED. Kelsey agt. Burke.

Southard agt. Mead. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF ON SUBMISSION. Hagaman agt. Harman.

MOTIONS DENTED. Stewart agt. Stewart; opinion by Justice Lott. People vs. Com'rs ol Greenburgb.

Tyler ra. Gardner. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. License the Goats. Catherine Mclntyre, Mary Mnrphy, John Hughes, John Shannon, Elizabeth Judge and Honoria Mnrphy, were each fined $2 by Justice Dunne this morning for keeping goats without a license.

The parties all reside in South Brooklyn, near the gas works. Unlicensed goat kcepera will please take notice, as they will be dealt with in a like manner if they continne in their illegal course. It is not necessary, however, to obtain a permit to feed or milk gonts, or any other animals producing lacteal fluid, although It is not known how long such liberality will continue. Admissions to Tins Bar. At the General Term of the Supreme Court now being held at Pough keepBic, present, Judge Lott, Barnard, and Gilbert, the following named gentlemen were admitted to practice as Connscllors at Lnw Obed Wheeler, Chariea W.

Nasson, Asa Parker, John H. Lockwood. John O. Stevens, Wm. A.

Smith, S. L. Williams, S. Webb. E.

M. Cullen. A. W. Bailey, F.

G. Smalley, G. M. Ball, N. Baker, W.

M. Dame, J. H. "Bennett, W. W.

Pearson, H. Graves, Samuel Marsh, H. C. MillBpaugb, A. H.

Wardrop, H. C. McKeown, J. C. Hubbard, D.

fi. Pope, J. It. Kahn, L. P.

Kiley. Boy Badly Hurt A lad named AVm. Kingsbury, residing at No SO Carll street, was seriously injured last evening. It appears that he got on a furniture ear, and placing his foot on tho wheel, It waa caught in the spokes, and tho ankle was fractured. Tho physicians in attendance are of opinion that tho foot must bo amputated.

Organization of tbe Incorporators Hod. Henry C. IHurphy Chosen as President. An adjourned meeting of the incorporators of the new bridge was held, yesterday afternoon, in the directors' room of the new Conrt nouse, the Hon. Alex.

McCne, temporary chairman, in' the chair, and William A. Fowler acting as Secretary. The roll having been called, twenty incorporators answered to their names, when tho minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The chairman stated that the first business in order, as there was no regular order of business yet adopted by the corporation, was the reception of the report of the Committee on Organization, and he called on the chairman of that committee for a report. Edmund Driggs stated that the committee, after having given care and attention, had agreed to report the permanent officers as follows For President Hon.

Henry C. Murphy. For Treasurer William C. Rushmore. Temporary Secretary J.

B. Myers. Mr. Driggs said that the committee bad reported a temporary secretary, not having seen Mr. Myers, and not knowing whether he would accept or not.

Mr. Myers, who waa present, signified his acceptance of the office, and the nominations were unanimously confirmed. xioil. injury juiuyujj in uiMug mo cuuir, untmy addressed the meeting. He Bald he hoped he would be Eermitted to say, in accepting the office, that it had een entirely unsolicited and unexpected by him, and to add that it was not either his desire or his inclination to occupy the place permanently.

Ho accepted the position with the understanding that whenever the interests of the company required a change, the position was at their service, and that he would be allowed to resign whenever his own business demanded that. He felt a deep intoreBt in this enterprise, and he was willing to devote any talent he possessed towardB its success, and he was fully impressed, not only with the necessity for this bridge, bnt with its pecuniary success, in a business point of view. This bridge was to unite two great cities together physically, which had long been united interest, but which had been divided by a river. Such a union would be fraught, in his opinion, with great advantages to the people of both these cities, and would bring and add to the wealth of both, by Increasing their means of population, and therefore, greatly advancing the value of property. In either view, what had heretofore been probably uncertain in the minds of many men, to him (the speaker), had become an absolute certainty, and when they conld transport people across the East Eiver by this bridge, as we can, from the head of Main Btrcot, in Brooklyn, to the City Hall, in New York, or Chatham square, as may hereafter be decided on, in five minutes or less, and at the same cost which is now charged on the ferries, no one could doubt bnt that the enterprise would be a success, and that aU this could be done, he (the speaker) had not the least doubt.

He badno desire at this time to indulge in any specula ions, but plans had been shown to him, which satisfied him thoroughly, that this bridge would become tho great highway between the two cities. Other bridges would doubtless be erected at other points, but this bridge must still con. tinue to be tho great bridge, connecting as it wUl with the great business centres of the two cities. It would not interfere with the ferries, for they would still continue to be used by people living and doing business in the portions of both cities lying along the river, but it would connect the hearts of tho two cities, and will draw into connection a population which is now, to my mind, for the first time realizing the dangers which environ the vasulv increasing travel over the ferries. (Applause.) Mr.

Murphy then took the chair and remarked that he supposed it would be proper in the first instance to have a committee appointed to frame by laws, for the regulation of the meetings. "Mr. W. Hunter, moved that a committee oi three be appointed to frame by laws and report at the next meeting. The chair At the last meeting a resolution was paesed directing the chairman to appoint a committee of nine for the purpose of having the necessary surveys, explanations, made for this bridge.

It is very important to have an examination made of the character of the soil on each side of the river, with the view of fixing upon the proper places for the abutments, and also determining the character of the abutments which will be necessary, and the length of the bridge. Of course this committee will be at some expense in having these examinations made, and I would suggest that a Committee on Finauce he appointed. Air. Green suggested that before appointing any of the permanent working committees it would bo well to wait till after tho report of the Committee on 13y laws had been received. The chair stated that he only suggested the Finance Committee as a temporary one, with a view of providing the means for the committee of nine to make examination.

The motion to appoint a Commiitee on Bye Laws was adopted. Mr. Fowler moved that a temporary committee of five, on finance, be appointed. Carried. The Chair, after a short consultation, announced the following committees Committee on Surreys Andrew H.

Green, Martin Kalbfleisch, Alfred W. Craven, Seymour L. Husted, John H. Prentice, Henry G. Stehbins, Isaac Van Anden, Alexander McCue, Samuel Booth.

Committee on Bye Laws GrenYille F. Jenks, T. Baylcy Meyrs, Arthur W. Benson. Committee on Finance William Hunter.

John Roach, William MarshaU, John P. Atkinson, Smith Ely, Jr. Mr. Ely, moved that the Hon. Henry Murphy be added to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. McCue moved that he be also added to the Committee on Bye laws. Both motions were adopted, and the meeting then adjourned. THE EIGHT HOUR QUESTION. Meeting ol tSie Worklnsmen's Assembly Discussion of tlic Subject Wliat Is Proposed An Effort for the Movement Soon to be Made in Brooklyn, Last evening a regular meeting of the Workingmen's Trades Assembly was held at No.

360 Fulton street, the President, Edward Gallagher, in the chair The attendance of delegates was large. After the transaction of some routine business, the special order of the evening, the discussion of the eiirht hour question, was taken up. The representatives of the carpenters, coopers, plasterers, and bricklayers reported that the reeling: their respective trades was in favor of making an effort to secure the enforcement of the law, making eight hours constitute a day's work. Mr. Mulvany, of the Carpenters' Society, said that the Eight Hour law was just as much law as the Excise or any other law, and it devolved upon the workingmen to carry it out, but in so doing they could aflortl to be magnanimous.

Heretofore the bosses had seemed to think themselves above discussing labor questions with working menj but the bosses should now be invited to discuss this question with the men. They might thus come to a friendly arrangement a3 to applying the law practically. The matter of strikes ought to be blotted from the records of working men, hut if the bosses Bhotild refuse this or any other just demand, then there was nothiug left for the working men to do but to take the matter into their own liands. Mr. Plimley, of the carpenters, expressed Bimilar sentiment.

Mr. White, carpenter, also thought that a mass meeting of the men should be called aud the bosses invited to meet with them and discuss the question. There was not strength enough in the Assembly to properly argue the question. A brick layer eaid it was very doibtful about the bosses meetiDg the men to talk about this or any other matter. If the men intended to do anything they must do it alone, and then tell the bosses what they wanted.

Mr. Mulvany was of tho opinion that the bosses would discuss the question with the as a matter of interest, because they were affraid in the present state of affairs to make contracts, lest great charges should be made before their contracts were fulfilled. The state of affairs was different now from what it used to.be now the workingmen were strong, aud their employers knew it, and would be glad as a matter of interest to discuss this question. A mass meeting of workingmen was not the place to discuss it, because there it would he all one sided. The mcmnera of this assembly were able and the proper ones to discuss the qnestion.

He would therefore otter the followin'r resolution Resolved, That the employers in the various trades be invited to meet the members of this assembly for the purpose of discussing the eight hour question. The motion was seconded. Mr. Quinn, cooper, moved to amend by first taking a vote on the question ill the assembly. The motion was declared out of order as not being an amendment.

A member wished to lmow what the various societies were to do when they met, and what was the relation between them and the assembly. The President answered that the various societies were at liberty to act as they saw fit. Tim assembly was for the purpose of uniting the societies in any movement for their mutual benefit. A cooper eaid that most of his trade worked by the piece, and generally as many hours as they could. He would like to know what they were to do.

Mr. McLaughlin, bricklayer, had understood that one Society should enter on the movement at a time, with the consent and support of other Societies. As to meeting the bosses it was useless to talk about it. The President said he thought that the delegates were sent for the purpose of legislating for their Societies to a great degree. They should take what action they thought best and lay it before their Societies.

The plasterers would shortly make a move, and would expect the Bupport of all workingmen. They did not propose to take any unfair advantage or act rashly, but they must strike if they could not obtain their rights in any other way. Strikes wore a necessary evil. Mr. Mulvany said the workingmen generally did not appear to realize that eight hours constituted a legal day's work.

If they did not apply it they did not deserve it. Mr. Doran, machinist, said that in Mb and other shops the men had been notified by their employers that hereafter they must work by the hour. What were they to do Strike for a reduction of wages Mr, Melvin, Of tho Dry Goods Clerks arly Closing Association, thought that 'an invitation to the bosses to discuss the question, would bring it before the public in a proper light. Mr.

Walsh, President of the Plasterers Society, asked aud obtained, leave to speak a few words. He made eome vejy able remarks upon the importance of the question, and said that the working men should move cautiously but surely. He alluded to the meeting ol the plasterers, (previously reported in the Eagle), and said that they intended to act as pioneers in the eight hour movement in this city, but would not take any unfair advantage or make any unjust demand. Nevertheless, they intended to gain their point. Tho question was, who would support the society that moved first.

It was desirable for tho men to be united, and let the various societies and the associ tion take one and the same action. The resolution inviting tho employers to discuss the question with tho men was then put and lost. Mr. McLaughlin moved that the further discussion of the question he laid over to next meeting, and that all the delegates be requested to attend at that time, aud report the wishes and intentions of their various organizations. The motion was carried.

Mr. Quinn offered the following: Resolved, That this.Association pledge itself to aid any Trade Society that may strike for tho eight hour movement. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr: McLaughlin raised a question as to what were the bricklayerB to do who were in tho habit of plastering. The President remarked that that was a question for their respective societies to decide, but he thought there would not be any trouble on that score.

Tho meeting then adjourned for one week. METROPOKITAN BOARD OF HEALTH. Quarantine Selection Sunken Lots, Etc. The Board of Health met immediately at the conclusion of the Excise proceedings. After the usual routine business had been transacted, tho Attorney presented a communication from the City Clerk of Brooklyn enclosing a resolution of the Common Coan cil by which the cleaning and emptying of tho vacant and sunken lots in the Twelfth Word was referred to the Board of Health, and their attention called to the fact that they arc nuisances necessary to bo abated.

Col. BlisB also submitted the award of tho arbitrators appointed to decide between the Board on the one band and the owner of the Rod House in Harlem, taken for awhile last Summer as a Cholera Hospital. The owner asked $83,000 and some odd, for the use of the premises, or about as much as they were worth, including the buUding and Beveral lots of ground. The Board would not pay this, and in this they were sustained by the arbitrators, who only gave the owner S3 000 and 1,000 costs. It was movedand carried that the Treasurer should be directed to pay the amount.

Mr Bliss also presented a complaint lodged against the vacant lots between Douglass, Bond and Bergen streets, in this city, as nuisances. On recommendation of the engineer, it whs referred to the Sewer Commissioners, Brooklyn. QUARANTINE. At this point in their proceedings the Board of Quarantine Commissioners, accompanied by Mayor Booth, entered the room and took Beats along with the Board of Health. They had come for the purpose of finally and formally expressing their choice of the west end of Coney Island for alandingand boarding station, and of a portion of Barren Island us a place of detention.

A resolution of concurrence was submitted to the Board of Health by Johnston, the counsel of tho (Quarantine Commissioners the concurrence being as to their selection of locations for these purposes. Judge Bosworth objected to that form of proedlngs FRIDAY EVENING, MAT 17. This paper lias tlio Largest Circulation of any Evening paper published In the United States. Its value as an Advertising: HEedlum is therefore apparent. The Politicians and the South.

The attempt now being made by the party in power to organize parties in the South, not on the basis of principle, but of a color, is conceded to be mischievous by fire sixths of the people of the North. If the interest of the negro was regarded, no such attempt would be made. Let us take it for granted that the worst the Radicals fear should happen, and that the negroes should generally vote with the whites of the South in favor of such a policy as would seem to conserve the interest of that section, the most enlightened as well as the most selfish motives would unite in inducing the Southern whites to treat the negroes kindly, and to use ever effort to elevate the conditions of so useful and so necessary a portion of their population. On the other hand, if the black race should place itself in direct antagonism to the white, disturbance will be perpetual in the South, and from it the negroes will be the chief suiferers. The largest army cannot afford individual protection, and the enmity of the whites would be shown in a thousand ways, and law would afford but a slight safeguard.

There is no tyranny like that of public opinion, and if it should be turned against the weaker race, the ballot even will afford it but a sorry protection. The negroes are now in a minority in every State but one or two. Every day is strengthening the numerical strength of the white clement, and proportionately weakening that of the black. Mr. Greeley in his recent speech in Richmond, speaking on this point, said: "For tliey are not only a minority of onr people, font their numerical importance is steadily declining.

"When our first Federal census was taken, in 17D0, they were nearly a fifth of our entire population when our last census was taken, in I860, they were but an eighth and the child is now born who will see them no more than a twentieth. I do not believe that they will prove unable to hold their ground among us as freemen, nor that they will prove leas prolific in freedom than in bondage. But there is no African immigration to this country, and never has been any voluntary immnrraiion of negroes to any region outside of the tropics. They may be dragged into the temperate zone in fetters, as they have been; but in freedom (heir tendency is wholly the other way. And.

on the other hand, the waves of a great and steadily swelling European immigration are constantly breaking on our chores, depositing hero some 350,000 persons per aunum, mainly in the prime of youthful vigor. By this gigantic influx, the character of our population is being constantly modified, so that the Blacks, now a majority in two or three States, will soon be a minority in each, and an inconsiderable, powerless fraction of onr whole people." Mr. Greeley adduces these facts to show that now is the proper time for securing to the blacks equal political rights. Do they not at the same time illustrate the folly of pitting the two races against each other? When such a conflict assumes its worst form, party lines will not divide the white race. As the old saying is, Blood is thicker than water." The soldiers of the United States army, who, of all men, may be supposed to have least sympathy with the Southern whites, have confirmed the truth of the adage every time" they have been called on to interfere in quarrels to which the whites and blacks were parties.

The Herald has its use among political journals, inasmuch as it is ever watchful of public opinion, and always content to follow it rather than to direct it in any given direction. It is now among the foremost in pointing out the results likely to follow from the attempt of the Radical propogandists in the South to array the two races in opposition. It says "The New Orleans riot, the fomphis riot, the Mobile riot, the Richmond riot, and the disturbed elements of society in most of the cities, as well as some parts of the country, nil showa very disordered state of things and point to danger in the 'future. The only exception is found in the rural and plantation districts away from the towns, where political agitations have not reached. The cause of all this is found in the struggle for political power.

The question at bottom is, what party shall train the ascendancy or who shall govern the country? The negro vote, therefore, is the object in view; for that is regarded as an important balance of potver. That is what led Wilsou, Kelley and other radical orators from the North to the The peace and harmony of the South, its restoration, the industrial and commercial interests of both North and South, are as nothing in the estimation of politicians before this all absorbing object. To obtain that they would foment a war of races, inaugurate over again the dreadful scenes of San Domingo, destroy the productiveness of the Si.uth and the commerce of the North, and Durtlen the loyal btates with a vast additional debt through the necessity of keeping a large standing army. The negroes would have been quiet, rejoicing in their new born freedom, and would have gone to work cultivating the soil and improving their condition, had they been let alone. Now that their passions and cupidity have been aroused, they arc looking for confiscation and a distribution of the lands among them, exemption from labor and elevation to positions they are totally unprepared to occupy.

Hostility between the blacks and whites is the natural consequence hence we see the former congregating in the towns, making violent and armed demonstrations, and the latter alanned and excited. Can we wonder, then, that such riots as we have referred to occur? Or should wo be surprised if worse were to follow We saw in the case of Kansas what trouble the rivalry for political ascendancy created but the foloody drama there, with all its disturbing consequences throughout the rvt of the country, was a small affair compared with what we may expect to see in the South if a solution be not found for the difficulties of that section. The Herald's solution of the difficulty is ingenious, and, if it could be applied, would be effective. The Radicals arc now arraying their forces for the Presidential campaign of 1868, and the Herald thinks the people may anticipate the action of the politicians br nominating a candidate in advance, whose claims and fitness will be so generally recognized that the politicians will give up opposition as hopeless. The Herald thinks General Grant is such a man.

The suggestion is simply impracticable, and, in hoping tor success under it, the Herald under estimates the pluck and audacity of the Radical party. They have no more fear of Gen. Grant's reputation than they had of Gen. McClellan'3. If he were once in the field, the inuendoes of to day would be put forward with all the energy of conviction, His reticence on political affairs Wendell Phillips would construe into owl like stupidity, his stubborness in the field he would attempt to prove to have been reckless brutality, and a poor substitute for the skill and combination which effect in war great results with comparatively little loss.

The Radicals will not be overawed by the great name of Gen. Grant, and they are already anticipating a coup such as is here recommended by mapping out a political campaign against General Grant, should he be nominated which will prove to be as violent and virulent as any in our annals. The time to have averted the dangers wThich now threatens the South and us was when Congress attempted a scheme of reconstruction not in accordance with the Constitution. What followed was predicted, and does not surprise those who opposed it a particle. Governor Penton has signed the bills providing for the improvement of Bedford avenue and Fulton avenue and Livingston street.

These bills provide for the repaying of the streets named, with such pavement as the Commissioners may select, at the expense of the property owners, on the line of the thoroughfares named. This "Commission" is made up of the Mayor, Street Commissioner and we believe the Corporation Counsel. The Governor has also signed the bill introduced by Mr. John C. Jacobs, placing the city parks proper under the control of the Prospect Park Commissioners.

Under the bill, the Commissioners have the same power over the smaller parks as they have over the larger one. The bill provides that an iron fence shall be placed around Fort Greene before the 1st of January next. This park we expect to see one of the chief attractions of the city. Its location and the historic associations connected with it, alike commend it to favor. The expense incurred under this bill will be a tax on the city at large, unlike the cost of Prospect Park, which is paid for by the first twelve wards of the city, for whose benefit it is designed.

The Eigiit Hour Law in Bbookltn. At the meeting of the "Workingmen's Assembly, last evening, the Eight Hour Law was discussed by the representatives of labor in this city. The assembly without expressing any opinion as to the most advisable course to he pursued, pledged itself to support any trade that might strike for the observance of the Eight Hour Law, So far the Assembly holds out an encouragement to the working men of Brooklyn to try the experiment that has resulted disastrously at Chicago. We could add nothinff to the iorce of the presented by the practical test in that city against any such movement at this time. The Tvorkintrnien of Brooklyn have heretofore distinguished themselves by their moderation and good sense in their efforts to better their condition, and we believe they will take a rational view of this Eight Hour question, and profit by the experience of the working men of Chicago and St.

Louis. BRADBUKY'S PIANO l'OKTES. myl cod2wr00m Broome treet. New York. MAY, 1867.

DEVLIS 4 CO. WE OPEN THE SEASON WITH A SUPERB 8TOO or ELEGANT CL0THIXO. Call and examine before purchasing. I'rtco lav BROADWAY, Comer GRAND STREET. BROADWAY, Corner WARREN STUEKT.

myl lOieod LIGHTNING LIGHTNING 1 1 SAVE YOUR PROPERTY HAWXEY'S PATENT LIGHTNING P.OD, A combination of IRON, ZINC AND COPPER. THE ON1Y LIGHTSlt BOD WHICH IS A PEUFKOZ CONDUCTOR OF ELECTRICITY. Call and axumlne It at DAVID S. QUIMBT'S myl4 6t No. 4 Henry street, near rmton.

BATCHELOK'S HAIR DYE. ThUt splendid Hair Dye the best In the voriai tha only true and perfect Dye; harmless; reliable; Instantaneous; no disappointment; no rldtculoua tints; remedle tfce 111 offects of bad Dyes; Invigorate! and leave tbe Hair soft and beautiful black or brown. Bold by all DrugEUte and. Perfumers. SILVER PLATED WARE, HAVE BT THe CZLEBBATED REDFIELD RICE MANUFACTURING 00..

OF NEW TOBK. EQUAL IF NOT SUPERIOR TO ANT Uf TOT MARKET. RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. Haying Become lately Interested In the above nome, asd after several years experience with thetr arapN pared to offer a large assortment of tho above goods a) strictly wholesale prices, thnB Baying to tho consumer law usual retail profit. Every article marked la plain Ogana; and courteously exhibited.

W. R. TICK, Jal2 3awtfS 237 Fnlton street, cornor Jolmooa. PAPER HANGINGS, AKD INTERIOR DECORATIONS, UPHOLSTERY GOODS, WINDOW snADE3, WALNUT AND GILT CORNICES, LACE CURTAINS, We offer special Inducements to parties decorating tlielv houses. Our styles have been selected with great osn, aud comprise the newest in the market.

PUKE hah: mattrksses, FEATHER BEDS, PILLOWS, LACE CURTAINS CLEANED EQUAL TO XRW. IV. II. MUMFOHD, No. 218 and 0 Fnlton streo.

mnSO jeeod between Pineapple and Claris J. F. WEUNEK, DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS RICH CABINET FTJRNIT1TRR, PARLOR, L1BHART AND DINING UOliM RKTO, Warranted all pure liorsc lmlr upholstery. CHAMBER SETS of an eutlro now style of arohltccvoj All gaoda warranted. 172 AND 174 FULTON STREET, AM) 108 AND IDS OltANQE ST.

mfiB UNITED STATES MEAL MILLS, FOOT OF DEGRAW ST, lllloOKLVN. The subscriber bavins leased tlio mttl In tho United States "Warehouse, is prepared to furnish the trade with MEAL. FINE WHITE. FINE YKLLOW, GROUND FEKI). RYE MEAL, GRAHAM FLOUR, 4, At the lowest market rales.

Oatsnnit Corn rlirert from boaLs. CENTRAL DEPOT 13 FULTON AVENUE. mySlOt" REUBEN U. KBNMKT. SPECIAL, NOTICES.

JM. VHEELAND, Z6 PULTON STUKET, Wnoi.KSAl.E IIEALV.K IU BUTTER, CHEESE. LAlitJ. EGGS. e.

Constantly on hand a fine selection uf Huuer from Orange, Delaware and Ctienano counties. In putts and. tuhs myl7 2t JOSEPH HEGEMAN, AUCTIONEER CENTRAL SALESROOMS, Wllloustitiv. orm ot Pearl Btrcet Regular of Furniture ic. every Friday MONDAY, MAY At o'clock A.

at the Cenlr.il Salesrooms, corner of TYilloustibv and Pearl streets, Brooklyn. SPECIAL SALE A central assortment of ros walnut, oak and mahogany miirblc top parlor, chamber mid dining room furniture, mattresses, cntna, 2l WJAW DUST A LARGE QUANTITY OK superior saw dust forsale cheap, either by tile r.isk or load. Address or apply at Ii'jom No. 5 Lyceum, Navy Yard. New YorK.

WHElf YOU CROSS TO NEW YORK call on RICH ()N, PS Fulton aliove Cold, and sec his Enalisli. Irish and Scotch Provisions; tln take a or It.dia I'alf Ale, or Guinness' Extra Dublin Stout, both of whieti are Imported direct and drawn from the wooo Stilton and Olus'ter Cheese, Yarmouth Bloaters, Sprats, Hltterl TITHE GREEN MOUNTAIN Ii. li. C. IS 1 now rt ady to conmi' U' with In Iha coiiiUrv.

CliiiltcniTtw thou Id hi; Bartlttt street, Brooklyn, K. D. at to H.SNYDEU.3I ALL PARTIES WISHING TO BUY houses, lots, farms or count rv seat of any kind, will do well to call on til" ST A Fulton street, corner of Hicks. Several croct rius, bakeries, todl. posc of.

Also Ileal Estate Brokers ami Ir.surimco eentP. myltiGL WAN TISi)" SEIt TyANTS OHDElt and 1 flrwt class cook. 2 wet invalid with anr number of girls to do jrencral liouiouorK, i. All the placcf; of chambermaid, waitress, nurie Ki am ptross in first cian families. From tho at number of I ullei Jills.

Without a number or irl aa fcWiT, MKS. "WELPLY opens her utile rnon at 1 10 Fulton street, corner of Mfddairh, to all rj liaMc and eood servants, free of charge, tinui Situation? for men of all work on hand, noth re and at irr. Welply'ti otliee. No. Whitehall irivt.

New Vor.i. Sn ail and irirls lately landed, anil st w.ini in isk demand, and yi very 1 in; watro. Males and (c nnW.s who want employment come at once here. OFFICE OF THE MECHANICS' FIRE t'OMCANV OF (UK I. VS, No.

1 Montanue street, (Mechanics' Bank Building.) Brooklyn. Mav 1(3. The. annual elceilon for Direetor of Hits mipany, ami for Inspector of the next election, will ho Iieidaillit ofllce on MONDAY. PoM i open from U' uYluek M.

till 1 I. M. mylfir.aw JwTh IV A I.TKII NirnOI.S, Sec. 6 I THE CO PAliTNEKSHIP Xi heretofore cxi Ung under tin: firm name of I'OYN WAIiDEN, Florid. Mreel.

Urooklyn, tg this dfsoved bv mutual con eiif The will from this date be conducted bv THOMAS roYNTKK, and all debts of tin heretofore iirm lijtildatufJ, and alt bill collected, by the und T. iu'ru on the pruiu fees in Smith street. TfiOMAh I'dYSTtlU. May 13th, IStTI. BASE BALL," "CRICKET, ARCHERY, Croquet, and tne Aerial Cricket.

Inr ''ttnit i above complete and of best make, as well as other social games, constantly on band and ior sale, at wholes de an 1 retail. Price lists on appplicallon. o. r. A.

il ii h3, ISO Broadway, (up st a'rs New T'ork. myl'i 1 1 0. JACOIIS. ronm rly of Knlton Inn removed (lis Block of Kim; Wines Liquors Atlantic street, lio'ld, where, lie will lie to reedtTU orders from hip old friends customer ijcnerallv. C.

JACOBS' Family Wine mil l.iotior Slore. rrljlfi Atl. tfltjc street. RIDING ITESSONS FOR LADIES and gentlemen, on well trained saddle or ok Hers' horses. Horses trained for plain or school rldlnff.

Apply at private stable, in Lefferts between Cladjou and Franklin avenues. EMU. KKI.DKH, mylft 3f Late from the Hohokeri Riding School. GREEN BEGS TO INFOUM HIS friends that he has opened Ids old stand. 1S2 and lot Concord street, near Hudson avenue, for the matiufito tnre of carts, wagons and trucks; also all kinds of heavy hardware, picks, crow bars and hatters' heaters constantly on hand.

Csrriaire painting, strinlnir and lettering will he done for custom or trade. Jobbing In all too above branches promptly attended to and neatly executed. inyl6 3t PROSPECT PARK LOTS THE A ER tiscr will exchange a choice plot on Seventh avenue, between Union and Third streets, or a portion of lt for a desirabls dwelling ou tbe Heights. Address HARK LOTS, Eagle offlce. mylO DISSOLUTION 6F PARTNERSHIP All persons are hereby notliled that the partnership heretofore existing between DAVID GliKE.N and JOSKl'H DAVIS Is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

DAVID GHKEN will collect and pay all claims for or against the business of tbe late linn. Dated Brooklyn. Maj Uth, 13.57. DAVII JOSEPH DAVIS. The business in future will be carried on at the old standby myl63l' DAVID GREEK.

EARLY CLOSING THE ATTENTION of tho purchasing public Is called lo the following resolutions, passed by the WOKK lNOMES'S ASSEMBLY of Brooklyn, and bv the. Plasterers. Bricklayers. Carpenters, Iron Moulders, Painters, Coopers, and other Trada Unions respectively Whereas, The Dry Goods Clerks complain, and Terr Justly, that by the h3blt of shopping after 7 o'clock, I. 31., we are taking from and depriving them of time muob needed for their intellectual Improvement, and fir moral and phvsieal exercise, time, which as men, Is theirs by right, therefore be it hereby IlcFolved, That this Assembly do, from Ibis time forward, desist from and discountenance all shopping after 7 O'clock P.

and further, that they do, so far as practicable, buy their drygoods only at those stores which dowj close at 7 o'clock, I and be it farther Kesolved, That we, as delegates, do lay these resola tlons before our several societies, and do all we can t9 have them fullv Indorsed by all IhC members thereof, and do request the Corresponding Stcretaryoi each separate Society to communicate with this Assembly when thesa resolutions are passed at his L'nion. so that they may published bv the Drygoods Clerks' Early Closing Artfc lion for Its fjcncfit. By request of the Worklngmeri's Assembly, we publlsn a list of the I)rv Goods Merchants, who cioso at 7 o'clock. Tradesmen will please cut this out and use. it for future reference.

.1. W. White, 179 Fulton street. Howard, Iiurhads Fulton street. II.

P. Morgan Fulton street. "Walter Lockwood. 247 A Fulton street. .1.

C. Moore, jr.3 Fulton street. K. Lewis 4 SS5 Fulton street. Jonathan 26 Fulton street.

T. K. Horton i7J Fulton street. Weclisler A i Fulton Btrcet. D.

H. Fulton street. K. Newman. S91 Fulton street.

Dickinson A West. 307 Fulton street. O'Hclllv Brothers, Fallon treet. Foster" Welsh. No.

Fulton avenue. Samuel Mclntyre, No. Fulton avenue. Journeav Burnham, ill Atlantic street, O'Brien 173 Atlantic street. By order of the Dry Goods Clerks Kariy CTooing Am E.

J. JfACGltOTTr, 2'rcsldmt. J. A. VjLNCBNnoFF.

liecordlng Secretary. myU 6V IE MANN'S I LAl BI.UK FOR FAMILY USE. This blue Is manufactured bv the old establiihod and well known manufactures of line colors, D. F. TIEMAN.V CO.

It I perfectly pure, and needs but to be used to bo treclatcd. Sold by grocers and druggi ls thro ighout the r.el States. J. n. TIEMASN.

mvll lm Sole Agent, ilia Pearl street, X. T. NO I THE "CO PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between WILLIAM II. 1IOOPKK HUSKY VAN SINDEN. Oil Kctlners.

of Jfith street. Prookl. n. has this dav been dissolved by tuatuai consent. The liabilities of the firm will be paid bv I.

HAUDT. corner i 27th street and 'M aicme. HrooVlvn. Brooklyn, 1ME. WILLIAM II.

HOOI'Eil, VAN SINDEN. COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE CITYiHALL. Brooklyn, l'i, IM; Ir. accordance with a I'esolntlon of the Common Coun 1 passed April 107, I will sell at public auction at tho ipciratloii Vard, corner Myrtle avenue and flajnpden street, on TUESDAY. Mav 3S.

at all old malt rials, and truck of no use to the city, and now lying In said Yard. THOMAS H. FAHON. Comptroller. ICd CORPORATION NOTICE GRADING and paving Nostrand avenue, bet ween Butler street and City Line.

rt A petition has been presented to the Common Council of the CItv of Brooklyn, to grade and pavo Nostrand hctKcen "Butler strict and tty Line; the Common Council have fixed the district beyond which the assessment for said Improvement shall not extend, to wit: One hundred feet In drpth on either side or Nostrum! avenue, between Butler street and City Line. Kemor.stranc.'s (If any) against Ih i said Improvement, be left at the Street Commi. sloncr's offlce, on or before the Stli day of June, as the Common Council will nn3lly act upon the same at their next rn.ulnp meetlnir, or as soon thereafter as convenient. Dated Brooklyn. Mav If III.

1S67. 1JOUEKT VUIIEY, myic Itt MrectCommlssioner. IN PURSX7ANCK OF AN ORDER OF WILLIAM V. of the Comity of Rings Notice Is herebv given, aivorillnir to law, to aU persons having claims against DAVID T. LAUJIAN, lato of the City of Brooklyn, deceased, that they arc reiittircd.

to exhibit tie same, ltu the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, the executor, at his offec 131 Nassau stresi. In the Cltvof Sew York.on or before tho 20th day of July next. bated Januarvla. 1SS7. Jais lawomTu STETUEN H.

THAYEB, Executor. and New Bowery, It appeared that the policeman making the charge (that liquor waB Bold on Bunuayj had sent a young man in to ask for a drink, and then went in after him, and asked bim what ho got, to which the reply was, "Bonrbon." Gerken testified that the aforesaid young man and himselx were ene mlcB, and the Board apparently thinking that there might be something wrong in tho get up of the case, did not revoke his license. After they got through with the trials they proceeded to other businesB. Tne first thing was to approve fifteen hundred applications for license, which wore presented with the endorsement of the Committee on Application. Judge Bosworth rose and remarked that he had a change to propose In the form of application for licenses, not, however, in respect to the "hole four inches square," but In that section which stipulates that person nnder eighteen years of age, and no female shaU be allowed to take part in waiting on customers, or attending In the place where liquor is sold, and that jwmuBic, dancing, or the like shall be allowed therein.

He moved that that Bection should be struck out, as tho law was sufficiently clear as to the reasons for which a license could he revoked. His motion waa adopted by the Board, and on motion of Mr. Manlerre the canceling of this stipulation was made to extend to all the licenses heretofore granted On motion tho Board adjourned till next Thursday at one o'clock. A DAT WITH ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

What He Thinks of the Bebelllon The Part He took In it. "Mack" prints in the Cincinnati Commercial an entertaining account of a visit to the homo of Alexander H. Stephens, the principal part of which we give below "Returning from the farm, Mr. Stephons talked freely of the late war. The South, he believed, made two leanui x'itbi, in going to war at all, and secondlv.

in the oblect for which thev wnnf tn wnr It waB a great absurdity to think that there could be bucu a luiug ua perinnueuL eepuraiiuu OI tne tWO Sec tionS. HC Was ODDOSed tO Secession In th first nlnr bnt when he could not resiBt that when OenrMa wpnt nut nTiiJ ha na a Qtatn'a irrhta man fV.1t t. with Georgia, then he wanted to fight only on terms of reconstruction, such as would cement the conntry on a better basis than it ever stood. Jefferson Davis and the fire eaters fought for Southern independence, and ruined the South in doing so. I called his attention to reports in Southern newspapers during the war, that he, Stephens, had declared Tub opposition to reconstruction upon any terms.

They were all false, he said, and he was sorry to see in Pollard's Lost Cause, which he considered a wretchedly bad history of the war, what pretended to be an extract from a speech made by him at Charlotte, North Carolina, after bis unsuccessful attempt to confer with Lincoln at Fortress Monroe (before the Hampton Roads conference), in which he is represented as Baying that under no circumstances would he consent to reconstruction. He never Baid any Buch thing. He was a reconstructionist, he said, from the first day of the war till the last. Referring to politics in the North during the war, he expressed his regret that the peace party had not been successful in 1804. He thought the Democrats made a mistake in nominating a war man.

If a straight out peace man had been nominated be might have been elected, and the recon etrnctionists of the South would then have made terms of peace and re union with them. "But," said "in the North the people could not be persuaded that the peace party was not a secession party." "There's where yon made a great mistake," said Mr. Stephens. "Jeff. Davis wanted Lincoln elected he told me so.

The reconstructionists of the South wanted you of the North to elect a peace man, and we would then have overthrown the Davis war party of the South, and made terms of reunion without any difficulty." Ire plied that I thought if the people of tho North had had any assurance that the election of a peace Democrat would have restored the Union on honorable terms, they would have elected one. But tho Democratic party of the North had made itself obnoxious as a secession party its leaders had been to a great degree instrumental iu oriugiug me wur auuui oy assuring the Southern fire eaters of a fire in the rear party, and while they might prefer union to secession they certainly preferred secession to war while the Republican party preferred Union to anything else, and were willing to keep up the war ten years to secure it. Besides, if there were so many ro constmctionists in the Sonth, why did they not make their influence felt why not make overtures to the Republican party of the North Mr. Stephens replied, "There were a great many of ub, but we couldn't get the helm. One man at the helm of a ship has more power than five hundred amidship.

But, if the first desire for peace had come from the North we would have been strengthened so that we could have broken down the permanent separation party. All we wanted was for you of the North to show that you wanted peace and re nnion and then we could have responded. Take the State of Georgia, for instance. While there was an immense majority in favor of keeping up the war as long as the Federal army was in the field aguinBt ns, there waB a great majority in favor of reconstruction, but they wanted the first indications to come from the North." Speaking of the conduct of the war on the part of tho South. Mr.

Stephens cricitised it as extremely unwise. It ought never to have been an offensive war, and if the resources of the South had been economised, instead of being wasted in aggressive battles, the North would certainly have been worried into giving up the contest. Then in a few years the South would nave gone back to the Union without a doubt, for tho dream of a separate nationality would soon nave been dispelled. The great error of the North, he thought, was in adopting the policy of coercion. If South Carolina had been permitted to go, and a few other Slates with her, secession would soon have boon at an end.

The South was getting very sick of it, when the call for 75,000 troops came ont. A tariff of twenty per cent, on everything produced in the country had been levied by the Montgomery Congress, and it had caused a rise in rices and great discontent. One thing after another ad occurred to persuade the people that secession was a foolish undertaking, but when troops were called to invade the South the tide immediately turned the other way and the separationists triumphed everywhere. He regarded Jeff. Davis as a man of kind heart, who meant well in what he did, bnt was not fitted for a nation in a time like that of the late war.

He would listen to no advice, and heed no warning. Because he wanted to succeed, ho thought therefore he must, and he had no idea of giving up the contest until Lee telegraphed him that his lines were broken, aud that he must evacuate Richmond. The capture of Mr. Davis, Mr. Stephens thought a great faux pas tor the North; better a good deal have let him go wherever he wanted to go.

I asked where Davis was going when he was captured. Mr. Stephens said he didn't know be doubted if Davis knew himself. He seemed to him to be running about like a gad fly in a stable, after the boys had taken his eyes out bobbing up and down, running againBt everything and hitting everything, utterly unconscious of what he was doing or, where he was going. He believed the government would release Davis without any trial.

The Supreme Court decision in the injunction cases would have an important bearing on the trial. If the injunction was not granted, he could not see how Davis could be tried for treason for the refusal would convey with it the assertion that the Southern States were not States of the Union, and therefore their citizens conld not have been guilty of treason in rebelling. This seemed to him to be the light in which Charles O'Connor, who was counsel in both cases viewed it. He spoke of the Hampton Roads conference as having been consented to by Jeff. Davis only to thwart another proposition looking to peace and reunion.

The Confederate Congress was about to pass a joint resolution in favor of a cessation of hostilities, for the purpose of calling a national convention to settle all existing differences. Davis wanted to defeat tlti by making the Southern people believe that the North would accept no terms but an unconditional surrender, and this he thought the Hampton Roads conference would accomplish. Mr. Stephens on his return from Hampton Roads felt, convinced that the Southern casue was lost, and told Jeff. Davis bo, but Davis wouldn't believe it.

He soon after started for his home in Crawfordsville, where he remained until arrested by Wilson'B cavalry, and taken to Fort Warren. He is now engaged in collecting aud arranging the materials for a book to be styled The War, Its Causes, Conduct and Results." It will be in two volumcB, the first to appear about the close of the present year. He told me he would say very little about battles or battle fields, for he has an utter loathing for them. He holds that war degrades any people who engage in it, and retards instead of advances civilization. His book will be on the war in Ub relation to civil liberty and republican government in this country and throughout the world.

Respecting the present political contest in the South he declares no public expression of Mb views. As one who is disfranchised and a paroled prisoner, he feels it prudent for him to keep quiet and take no part in public affairs. I shall, therefore, say noihing in this letter touching hlo position on the qncstion of reconstruction under the Military Law. He converses freely on the subject, and has no hesitation in giving his opinion when asked in bis own house. He does so, however, with an injunction that no public use shall be made of what he saye on the subject and he has a right to demand this much.

No man in the country loves the American Union more than he does, or more sincerely desires its preservation no one is more ardently devoted to constitutional liberty than he no one is less of a monarchist or an aristocrat, or more of a republican. He takes little interest in parties, except as they tend to promote the cause to which he is bo warmly attached, and views all questions as a philosopher rather than as a politician. ANOTHER HORROR Ui PHILADELPHIA. The Wonld he Murderer Cuts his Throat Jealousy the Alleged Cause. From the Philadelphia Inquirer of this morning.

At one o'clock yesterday afternoon the Second Ward was the scene of an attempted murder, followed up by the assailant cutting his own throat from ear to ear. The house In which the occurrence took place is located at No. 633 Wharton street, at the corner of Mar garetta street, and is occupied by Mr, James Schaffer his wife, Maria Schaffer, aged 60 years, and two grandchildren, namod James Poiner, aged, SG, and Maria Holderaft, aged 15 years. The two latter are the names of the parties figuring in the drama, which almost resulted in a tragedy. The facts in reference to the affair are as follows Miss Maria Holderaft, itappears, had gone up stairs after dinner, to her room, which waB the third story front.

Passing through the room of Poiner, on the second story back, she found him lying on a lounge alongside of his bed, with coat and boots off, He had refused to come down to dinner, by making no answer when called. The girl states that he came to her in her room, while she waa diehaKUe, and told her to send the razor (holding one in his hand) to her father. She answered bim that her father did not want any razor. He then, remarked, angrily, ii she would not lake it, he would and, grasping her by the throat, he cut her first on the side of the face. The young girl, being very powerful, menaced to throw him over a trunk, when Poiner drew her down, and, with the razor, cut her several times on the throat.

While the struggle continued, a suppressed gurgling sound was beard down stairs, where was sitting Mrs. Sfaria Schaffer, the grandmother, and John Warner, who was on a visit to the house. Tho grandmother proceeded up Btairs, and, missing Poiner from his room, it immediately crossed her mind that he had gone to tho third story with evil intent. When opening the door a horrible sight met the old lady's view. Poiner and tho young girl Jay on their backs weltering in gore.

The Bhrleka of Mrs. Schaffer broueht John Warner to the scene. As he passed Mrs. Scharier.hc called to Poiner, "Jim what havo you done Poiner at the time was hacking at his own throat, having already inflicted a gash, and rising upon hie side, the blood pouring from his wound, leokuig ghastly, he asked if she was cull He then Bald She would not make up with me, and I was bonnd to do it." Warner with the assistance of Mrs. Schafler, carried the vounc girl to the first story back room, where Bho was placed on a lounge.

A physician was sent for, and Officer Scbaffcr, of the First District, and Weston, of the Second, were notified of the occurrence. The latter soon appeared and proceeded up stairs to the third floor, but Poiner was not to bo found. With the aid of a light the first named officer ascended to the loft. The trapdoor was down, but on raising it the assailant was discovered iu the extrcmu end of the loft The officer called upon him to come forward and make no resistance. If he did he would shoot him.

Poiner said, "Shoot and be Assisted by officer Weston Schaffer dragged him out, and in lowering im down Poiner fell to tbo third floor. Gaining his feet he ran to the second story, and bid himself under tho bed in the back room, where, from the loss of blood, he soon became unconscious. It was found that his throat had been cut from ear to ear. No artorleB, however, were cut. In the meantime the young lady had been attended by Drs.

Guth and Wallace. The wounds of Miss Holderaft, although of a very ghastly appearance and numerous, crossing each other on the left cheek and neck, are not considered fatal hopes of her recovery being entertained by the phy s'cians. Poiner then received surgical aid, and was removed to the hospital, where he now Is in a critical condition. The honse hi which thiB tragic affair occurred, Is a threc Btory brick, with six rooms, two on each floor. The front room on tho first story is a candy shop, with a room In the rear, and a ennimer kitchen.

For eome time past Poiner has exhibited an irritable disposition towards Miss Holderaft, who Ib hla first conBin, going bo far as to strike her and threaten her, but nothing waa thought of It. During the past few Bay ana wj iu iue Atlantic ocean, and also in favor of taking "all that part of Barren Island which lies south of a line commencing at a point distant southerly thirty feet from the southerlv Bide of a creek commonly known as Indian Creek, and which point is on a line due south irom a marked cedar tree, standing about three feet and six inches westerly from the westerly coper of a wooden bnUdlng commonlv Known as the 'Long and running from Bald point due west to what is commonly known as Barren Island Creek, or inlet, and west of a line extending from the point aforesaid due south to Rockaway Inlot, as a site upon which to erect a temporary structure," as a place of detention. The part of Barren Island thus taken is the southwest part, the property ot the Lott family at Flatlands. It appears that the powers; of the Board of Health in this matter only extend to tho approval of tho selection of sites. At least that was tho statement made by Mr Johnston yesterday.

At the conclusion of these proceedings the Board adjourned till four o'clock next Thursday afternoon. Opening Day at Coney Island. According to the almanac and the customs of the climate, wo ought now to be enjoying that eercneness of atmosphere and geniality of temperature which Invites ua to seek ont door pleasures. Nature never looks so inviting as when she first puts on her robes of verdure in spring time. Tho bright freshness of tho wood9 and fields is such an exhilarating contrast after the dull, dreary aspect of winter, and the dwellers in the pent up limits of the city long for the opportunity of flying to the green meadows, or to the sounding sea Bhore, where the air is more invigorating than the best of artificial tonics.

This year everything lias been behindhand. The weather has been so capricious that no calculations could be madci and all out door affairs are in a state of backwardness. Hut the weather can't hold out in this way all the Bummer. The days are got tin0 quite warm, and the showers will soon dry up, and people will begin their usuai summer recreations with all the more zest on account of the delay. We are fortunately blessed with a seaside rcso rt easy of access from the city, where we can stand on the verge of the ocean and inhale tho vigor.

giving ocean breezes, as pure as those which ran the brows of the denizens of fashion at Newport, and Where the luxuries of sea bathing is within the reach of all. A grand democratic resort is Coney Island. To the Brooklyn and Coney Island Eailroad Company wo owe the privilege of being able to reach the Island at all hours, and at a cost that brings the luxury within the compass of the poor man's means, kach succeed ing year Bince the railroad has been opened has the nonularity of the Island increased, and the visitors, which were formerly counted by hundreds, are now enumerated by thousands. The summer travel to Coney Island has now begun, and the Eailroad Com pany have made arrangements lor the public to the required extent. Yesterday a formal opening of tho season was made by an excursion to the Island of a party officially re presenting the city of Brooklyn, tho otllcers ot the Railroad Company and other prominent citizens, uoi, Morgan furnished a dashing four in hand to lead the procession, followed by other vehicles, and a pleasant drive brought the party to Green's Hotel, where the ceremonies of inauguration were performed.

Green's Hotel sprung np with the Railroad, of which it forms the terminus on the Island. The new era opened by the railroad required other improvements to correspond, amongst the rest more and better hotel accommodations than were afforded by tho slow going estab lishments of other days, and Green's Hotel, which is conducted on the modern and popular style, with all the latest improvements, has become the leading hotel of the Island. Yesterday the reputation of the house was fuUy sustained by the superb table set by the hoBt; in the taste of the arrangements and perfection of the cuisine Delmouico could not have surpassed it. After the banquet the usual flow of oratory was indulged in, and the affairs of the Island and the railroad discussed. Mr.

John A. Ricard, the new President of the road, who occupied the chair on the occasiob, said that the company had carried their enterprise through difficulties which few roads had had to encounter the travel which was to support it had to bo created. They had created an immense summer travel, which at times had taxed their resources, hut they had resolved to make the road popular and have strained every nerve to fully accommodate tho public, and in the season now opening they expected to do better than ever. Mr. E.

F. Drayton, secretary of the company, added eome particulars of the history of the road and assurances of the liberal intentions of tho company. Mr. George Green narrated some episodes of the career of the Coney Island Railroad and what it had done to popularize this summer resort. Other gentlemen in turn bore testimony to the fact that Mr.

Green knew how to keep a hotel, which was a pleasaat fact to visitors to the Island. Finally the party adjourned, and such of them as did not live on the Island returned to Brooklyn, to assure their fellow citizens that Coney Island is now open for visitors and may be reached half hourly by cars from Fulton ferry. THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Reminiscences of Old Biitcliers A Lecture by Mr. Thos, V.

DoVoc. The Long Island Historical Society held a special meeting at its rooms, last evening. Judge Greenwood occupied the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary and approved. No report was received from the Librarian.

The first business proceeded to was the election of new members. Alt who were proposed at last meeting were unanimously admitted. The following list of nominations for membership was read by the Secretary: Dr. Otterson, Rums r.iplcy, Wm. P.

nollis, Edward B. Gilbert, Wm.E. Brown, F. Judd, Dr. J.

J. Culdwell W. E. Ilaward, Charles H. Mills and Wm.

Edsall. The Secretary announced that at the next regular meeting there will be read a paper on Australia by Mr. A. Young, wbo has resided for a long time in that part of the world, and who has an intimate knowledge of that country and its products. He also invited the attention of the members to the collection of antiquities from the north of Europe, now on exhibition in their rooms.

It is the finest ol the kind ever brought to this country, and is mainly composed of implements fishioned before the inhabitants had acquired the knowledge of the working of metals. The collection comprises daggers, arrowheads, spear heads, axes, and chisels of stones, and a few articles of bronze. The greater number of them were found in the island of liesan in the Baltic Sea. They veiy cloBely resemble the manufactures of the aborigines of this country. Mr.

De Voe was now introduced by Judge Greenwood, and proceeded to deliver his lecture entitled, "Historical Reminiscences of old Brooklyn." In the outset he alluded to the advantages of such a society as that which he was addressing, made a brief reference to his recent work on the markets of our great cities, and then proceeded with the subject proper, commencing with the settlement of New Amsterdam by tho Dutch traders, who purchased the products which the Indians had to offer for sale. This trade brought many Indians from various localities, and no doubt those from Long Island furnished a greBt deal in the way of food, as wild fowl and game were abundant round its shores, while the lands were easily cultivated. These prolific and attracli ye lands, found so near the island of Manhattan, engaged the attention of the government which made a treaty with the friendly In soon thereafter a number of traders and agriculturists, became the first settlers on Long Island. Prior to this, the Indians no doubt had selected the best landing place, and traced the best roads across the "broken hill" (to which the lecturer thought Brooklyn owed its name) to their huntih" ground. It was at and around these that the first white settlers located themselves.

A ferry soon became necessary and was established. It soon became ot such importance that the authorities proclaimed certain regulations, with a view to preventing extortion. A great impetus was early given to the growth of Brooklyn by the retreat of a number of butchers from New York, who were driven thence by an onerous law which was intended to force them to use and occupy unsuitable places called public slaughter houses. They were a thrivin" and public spirited class of citizens and for a long lime appear to have been the most important class of residents in Brooklyn, where they filled all kinds of honorable posts. The lecturer gave a brief narrative of the personal history of a number of these men including the names of P.

Vnnbeek, Roloff Jansen, Pater Jansen, Everardus Brower, Israel and Timothy Hosfleld, John and Benjamin Carpenter, the Connels, Suydams, Everctts, Garrisons, and lastly Jacob Patch en, the stubborn old litigant, and the last of the leather breeches," whose determined opposition to the opening of a street through his property, between Fulton and Main streets, is still occasionally used as an illustration of stubbornness. The lecturer closed with a brief panegyric of the virtues of the men of old Brooklyn whose bistories had made up the greater part of his lecture. On motion of Mr. Alden J. Spooner, a vote of thanks was tendered to Mr.

DeVoc, and a request made for a copy of the lecture to deposit in their archives. The meeting then adjourned. Progress or Drooklyn. (Trom the N. Y.

Sun. The growth of Brooklyn during the laat thirty years is without a parallel in the history of cities. Chicago is commonly supposed to be unrivaled in its rapid expansion, but statistics show that Brooklyn has far outstripped the great Western city, as well as all others. In 1835 the population of Brooklyn was 27,854 in it was in 1855 It was 203,250, and now it must be at least 400,000. The State census of 1SB5, which is notoriously inaccurate, gives Brooklyn credit for only 296,886 inhabitants at that time.

Tho worthlessness of that census is shown in the fact that it returned the population of New York at only 726 3S6 which is 87,283 less than the city had in 1800 a manifest absurdity. It is now asserted by the statistician of the Board of Health, and by other good authority, that the real population of the city in 1865 was about one million. Wo have no doubt about the correctness of thiB estimate, nor do we doubt that the population of Brooklyn is correspondingly greater than appears by the last census. Since 1835, therefore, Brooklyn has considerably more than doubled Its population every ten years. New York, in the same period haB increased in only about one third that proportion Therefore, when we consider the marvelous progress which Brooklyn has made In the past, and is now making, in connection with its natural advantages there can be no doubt that it will eventually become the great residence locality for all New York.

It requires but little prescience to see that the time is not far distant when the whole island of New York wilt be abu Biness mart. Every year the expansion of business is forcing the residence locality further northward, and its entire occupation of the present city limits is only a question of time. Where, then, will the people live? There is abundant room in Westchester county, it is true, but that district is so far away from the business centre, that people will cast about for a more desirable locality before accepting It. Brooklyn presents every advantage that can be deBired by the New York business man, or rather it will when the proprosed East River bridges shall have rcen completed. Even now the residence centre of Brooklyn is nearer than that of New York to tho business centre of the latter.

Each succeeding year will increase the advantago offered by Brooklyn in this respect, for the location of that city is such that It can expand laterally, while New York cannot. There are other advantages, however, which add greatly to the attraction of Brooklyn as a place of residence. The city standB upon high ground can be easily drained and cleaned, is free frgm the smoke and offensive odors which are occasioned by manufactories, and, in short, Is healthful and well adapted for a comfortable home. These inducements are not merely fanciful, but are realities which are understood and appreciated, as tho rapid progress of the city proves. New York wiU always be the great centre of business, for its commercial advantages are almost unequaled and it Is no less certain that Brooklyn will ere' long become tho locality where our business men, of all classes, wiU reside.

Gotjgh at the Academy. John B. Gough delivered his well worn lecture on "Habit," at the Academy of Music last evening, with his habitual success in the way of attendance. The houso was well filled with an audience to whom nearly all the stale Jo MUleriBms and antiquated jokes, with which the lecture abounds, apparently had the sparkle of originality, and provoked the most Bide splitting merriment. The Wallabout Commissioners, consisting of Messrs.

S. L. Husted, A. P. Campbell and Alex.

McCue, met ttiis morning, at the Mayor's office, and organized by the election of the first named gentleman as Chairman, and A. F. Campbell as Secretary. Topics ofTo DaT. Dehnonico, the famous feeder, returns an Income of $206,601.

Gavazzi, of whom nothing has been heard in a long time, is preaching in Florence. The "Veteran Observer" writes from "the beeches" which may be a misprint for breeches about female suffrage. The brigandB are infesting Sicily. Three hundred are reported to have descended on the island. It is proposed to change the name of the Keformed Dutch Church to the Beformed Church of North America, The President has finally decided to attend the Masonic celebration at Boston.

Senator Doolittle will go to Russia chiefly for his own pleasure. Incidentally he will attend to eome business for the Western Union Telegraph Company. He is charged with no mission by the Government. General McClellan and family are expected at Florence. Judy Green, an negress aged 109 years, died the other day at the Colored Home in New York.

The Supreme Court has denied the motion for an injunction in the Mississippi case. The unsightly obstruction of Broadway and Fulton street, called the Loew Bridge, was reopened yesterday. It will be used by comparatively few people, hardly at all by ladies, and will probably be removed in a short time as a nuisance. Last winter Secretary Seward sent a long Atlantic telegram to Napoleon abont French Mexican affairs. The cable charges, $19,000 in gold, have not yet been paid.

Last night the Italian actress, Ristori, was entertained at a banquet by a number of Italians. A medal, with an Italian inscription, was presented by an Italian school committee, together with an Italian address. Whereupon, the Herald says, the Italian Bistori replied through an interpreter." Vagrant dogs should be slaughtered if not muzzled. A little girl died of hydrophobia in New York yesterday the third fatal case within a short time. In Western cities dog madness is prevalent, and the authorities have taken efficient measures to prevent its horrible human results.

Old Bowery Pox is litigating with Clipper Queen, in a matter of alleged libel. The point involved is whether Fox had any relations with Miss Fanny Herring who does the "French Spy," Three Fast Men" and Jack Sheppard business beyond those usually subsisting between manager and actress. The Judiciary Committee continues to examine witnesses touching impeachment with what result is not suffered to transpire. General Burton has been summoned to testify as to any conversations he may have had with Davis about the Lincoln assassination and other matters. In connection with the President's pardons, Kohnstamm's case will be considered.

Stephens, the great C. O. I. R. who promised to make Ireland a free republic "before New Years," is enjoying himself at the Exhibition and other places in Paris.

His victims would like to hear him deliver another addrcBS in Jones's Wood just now. People who want to know why Greeley volunteered as bondsman for Davis, are coolly requested by the Tribune to read Greeley's Richmond speech only three columns and a half. Sumner has written and already printed one hundred pages of his Russian American oration. How many more pages there will be is yet a dreadful mystery. Jefferson Davis did not go to the French Theatre last night as several Now York papers said he would.

The World states that Horace Greeley accompanied him to his hotel on Wednesday night, and was closeted with him" for some time. It adds that Greeley advised Davis to keep secluded while in New York. Jenkins, of the bank and the concert saloon, left his wife and children 5,000, which he had secured to them some years ago by a life insurance policy. Ristori says farewell to America to night at the French Theatre. The performance is the one hundred and seventieth in this country.

The play is Medea," in which Ristori made her first appearance in the United States. Dexter beat the Goldsmith Mare yesterday in Orange County, in three straight heats, the best time being The first half mile was trotted in V.WA. The premium offered by the Pleasure Ground Association was 3,000. In its leader this morning, the Journal of Commerce announces that, there being no more geographical discoveries to be made, there is a "growing disposition to study the moon." Augusta Moore, who once published a Bcecher book, is writing letters from Murderkiil Hundred, in Delaware. The following is a statement of quick passages across the Atlantic by sailing vessels The Adelaide, commanded by Captain Cutting, made the passage ont in 18 days and 12 hours; the ship Dread naught's (Captain Samuels) quickest time was 13 days and IS hours, and now the ship Thornton, of the Black Star Line of Liverpool packets, commanded by Captain Wells, has made a trip to Liverpool in the short space of 13 days aud 10 hours.

This last is the shortest sailing passage on record. Work is progressing on the old and new St. Patrick's Cathedrals in New York, in the latter case in building and in the former in rebuilding. In Mulberry street the roof, the iron column work and window tracery are finished, and a part of the arching and ceiling needs nothing but the ornamentation. An organ for temporary nee has been presented by a member.

In Fifth avenue twenty five feet of the walls all round have been raised, and the bases of a number of the marble columns arc in position. This snperb structure will be 325 feet long, 174 feet wide, and 325 feet high. It will accommodate 16,000 people. The New York Gazette says that when Mr. Lincoln was re elected the late Governor Wright applied to him tor the Berlin mission, "but the only TJnion man at Washington who seconded his views was bis old friend, the Vice President, Andy Johnson.

Mr. Johnson wrote a strong letter to Mr. Lincoln, urging Governor Wright's re appointment, addressed "To the President of the United States." A fortnight later, the Governor presented this epistle to the writer of it, who had become President, and it was duly honored." Wendell Phillips rejoins to Gen. Rousseau's reply. He said he made no reference in the lecture criticised by the General to the latter's military record He referred only to Rousseau's attack on Grinnell for words spoken in debate, which action he pronounced and again pronounces cowardly." He further says that the Senate should have punished the General by rejecting his nomination as Brigadier General.

Of the fact that Iowa did not return GrinneU to Congress rhillipB says To the utter and damning disgrace that State, this is true. She enjoys the bad eminence of being the first free State that ever thus publicly endorsed a Southerner's insult to one of her Eepresenta tives. If I lived on her soil I should make one effort to raze out this stain, and, if I failed, quit the spaniel State forever." When Ketchum was found guilty of swindles of unparalleled magnitude and sentenced to Sing Sing, it was predicted that before the expiration of his term of imprisonment steps would be taken by influential citizens to procure his pardon. Less than two ycarB has passed and the machinery Is in motion. The Governor is besieged with applications from the most respectable sources." Among names mentioned in this connection, arc those of Horace Greeley Wm.

C. Bryant, Secretary McCulloch, Senator iSissen den, DrB. Parker, Buck, and Lindsey, and many prominent merchants. The argument in behalf of Ketchum is that be was subjected to strong temptation, was under great speculative excitement, did not mean to in" jure anybody, and conld not have been sane when ho committed the acts for which he is undergoing punishment. The Governor may yield to the pressure of Bocial, commercial and political influence, but if Ketchum be pardoned it will seem a farce hereafter to punish minor offenders.

Ketchum was tempted so is a common thief. Ketchum claims to have been insane: so docs the Connecticut child beater, and so does every felon who sees no other way of escape. Ketchum was of good education and associations this la rather an aggravation than a mitigation of bis offence as com. pared with that of a wretched, ignorant outcast, who pilfers a few dollars. Ketchum didn't intend hurting anybody the pickpocket has no malice toward his victim, but, like tho larger operator, merely desires to carry out his purpose of realizing funds.

The reporters of the Richmond press supper, gathered up some bits of Greeleyana. Mr. Greeley sat at the head of the table but did not eat or drink anything. Ho said he was opposed to sapper but had no objection to a goon dinner. The Bubjcct of white hats being introduced, he Eaid he never had but one white hatT in bis life.

Ho told these stories: "On one occasion, while walking along tho streets of New York I heard one Irishman say to another, There's says the other, 'that can't bo, for Greeley's a On another occasion, while traveling on a rail car in the West, a Hoosier was very much surprised t0 finS tllat 1 wa9 not an us'y man' Ue said the other passengers had told him I was the ugliest man in tho world, and he came forward to where I was attempting to get a nap to look at me. I told him it was all a joke on the part of the passengers; that I was the handsomest man in the car," He said the New York riot of 1883 was as much a part of the Rebellion as any battle of the war." He remarked freely bnt not enthusiastically on Butler, concluding that ho was "a very, very smart fellow." Mr. Greeley also responded to a toast, and spoke in favor of Is it any wonder that druggists are sometimes unable to get competent clerks to work from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, bunday in cluded, at this liberal rate of compensation The druggists may meet this point with the like argument that every business has a right to regulate its own affairs, and pay whatever wages may be agreed upon between employer and employe. The objection to the rule in this case is here, this is a hazardous business in which incompetency endangers the health and lives of the people who must patronize drugstores, and the public have a right to require that competent and reliable persons only shall be entrusted with the dispensing of drugs. By paying such miserable salaries, men possessing the necessary qualifications for the business, are driven to other pursuits and their places in the drug stores are filled by errand boys whose prior experience in the business has been confined to washing bottles, carrying out the medicine to customers, or drawing soda water.

If the druggists do not exercise more care in their business it will be necessary to hand them over to the mercies of some such body as the Excise Commissioners who will require every person dispensing drugs to take out a license, the condition of which shall be approved evidence of compe eency. The Era of Extravagance. The Editor of Hunt's Mercltants' Magazine has collected statistics to show the relative expense of the government now and in the wasteful clays when the "corrupt Democracy" had control of it. All classes, and especially the workingmen, who have been struck, and hardly know who hit them, can study the following table at their leisure 1800. 1S60.

Increase. Civil service 0,133,173 Foreign 1,163.201 175,181 27,430,044 6,773,487 Interior 18,752,116 Navy Dep't 11,518,150 43,321,118 Total $50,852,472 It must be borne in mind that all this is exclusive of the extra expenditure caused by the war, for no account is taken of the public debt or of the interest thereon. It is seen that under the "profligate Democracy," the bug a boo employed to scare honest voters the administration which cost the country less than sixty millions, now costs over three hundred and eighty seven millions. We remember very, well how the Republican papers used to point to the first named amount as too large, and how they promised that if entrusted with power it would be greatly reduced. They told the people that nothing but a corrupt misapplication of the public moneys could cause the expenditure then incurred, and they promised retrenchment" and reform." What is it that now makes the ordinary expenses, as above exhibited, more than six times as large? How can it be accounted for without putting down the greater portion, at least tour fifths, to profligacy and peculation These are questions which honest Republicans must ask themselves.

We are all party men, but we have all an interest in seeing that we shall be allowed to use the greater part of what we earn. Our honor is pledged to honestly deal with the public creditors; can we if this waste is continued? If we had a Punch among us he would satirize these times by picturing a sanctimonious political knave, blubbering over the wrongs of the negro while both his hands were up to the elbows in the public treasury. Iilgrlit on Dark Questions. We publish in another column the report of a conversation between a newspaper corre spondent and Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the defunct Confederacy.

It will be seen that Stephens agrees with Horace Greeley, that if no attempt had been made to check by force the political vagaries of South Carolina, her sister States of the South could not have been induced to join her in her secession folly. The South ern people were sick of the experiment of secession, according to Mr. Stephens, before it had well commenced. A permanent disunion, he holds, would have been impossible in view of the interest both sections had in maintain ing a common Government. Wide currency has been given to the report that the rebel sol diers in the field received the announcement of Gen.

McClellan's nomination for the Presi dency witli cheers and other demonstrations of satisfaction. This was in all probability a canard invented for political purposes, but, if true, it would seem that they did not know the true interests of the man of all others most interested in the success of the rebellion Jeff Davis. Mr. Stephens says that Davis desired Mr. Lincoln's re election, and he made use of the fact to show that there was no hope of a peaceful reconstruction of the Union.

The original opponents of secession, on the other hand, looked anxiously for the success of the more moderate men of the North, for it would have, Stephens thinks, so strengthened the friends of reunion that they would have been enabled to break the power of the extremists of their section. Davis appears in a yery bad light in this conversation. He persisted in continuing the conflict after all other men saw that it was hopeless. He had it within his power to save his section from many of the misfortunes it has suffered since the war, and from the evils which now menace it. When at length he gave his consent to negotiation, it was only in the hope that it would fail, and while the failure of the conference at Hampton Roads was regretted by moderate men in both sections, it was as gratifying to Davis as it was to the Radicals of the North who ridiculed Mr.

Lincoln for any part in it. The report to which we have referred will repay perusal. The falling off in the public revenue dissipates all hope of a continuance of a reduction of the public debt, and the chances are, says the New York Times, that the debt will be increased within the next three months. Says the Times: "Business is dull prices are bo exorbitant that labor, which commands enormous wagea, can scarcely earn a Hying, the profits of all branches of industry nave fallen ofiand everybody begins to feel comparatively poor. Evidences of this are seen in every direction.

There is nothing like the expenditure among business men, or in society and private life, that was witnessed a year ago. The action of Congress at the last session tended to make things worse. It was utterly impossible to get the attention of the majority to the finances as a subject of paramount importance. Political projects absorbed their attention. Nearly half the aggrs gate income tax was deliberately thrown away.

Instead of aiding and fostering Southern industry, so as to augment Southern ability to pay its share of taxation, everything done tended to depress and crush it. And the Times to show ii's consistency will support the men responsible for all this next election. The Supreme Court has refused to amend the Mississippi Injunction motion, and has dismissed it, as it stood before the court. Ten States of the Union and eight millions of people seek relief from a law they claim to be unconstitutional, and it is now affirmed that there is no legal and peaceful way in which this question can be determined. Let those who will rejoice, over this construction of our system of government.

We cannot I oaco and harmony..