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a THE CHURCHES. 1IRGINIA CORitKSPONDMCE. AIR FITJTO. ARTIFICIAL STOW. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29.

every time. Mr. Strakosoh pathetically announced last night that he was offered immense sums to bring out "Ida" in Paris, and that he preferred to bring it out in New York. The moral improvement whioh this evidences, the square declination of a manager to make money, is the first and most remarkable surprise of the opening operatic campaign. A possible riot arising from the high prices of bread is not a pleasant thing to contemplate in Paris, and the government is in a quandary how best to meet the exigency.

With a talent for blundering incapacity as consider last mimed stone, we quote again from Mr. Owens, who says of the Portland oement concrete (of whioh, as we havo said, the Coignet stono is a cognate) that "it is the only fire proof building material," Another sample of the Coignet stone, of inferior quality and coarser texture, was subjected to the same tests, with equal satisfactory results, ADAPTATION TO ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL. In this respeot artificial Btone has greatly tho advantage of natural stone, as all forms of ornament, from the boldest to tho moBt delicate, the plainest and the most elaborate, can be rendered in artlQalal Btono at a much less price, the ratio of comparative cheapness increasing with the degreo of ornamentation. HISTORIOAL NOTICE OF THE COIONET STONE. The Coignet stone is tho rcBult of experimontt, conducted through several yoars, by Moos.

F. Coignet, a civil engineor of Paris, who perfected and patented his process in 1856. In France there was, at first, great prejudice against it and it was used vary cautiously in minor structures, but, after years of experience of its value, it received the unqualified approval of the architects and engineers of Paris, and the official sanction of the French government, which has adopted it far many very expensive works and on an Immense scale. General Q. A.

Gilmore, of the United States engineers, was sent to France to examine officially struoturea of the Coignet atone and to ascertain its adaptability to government works. In his report, made to the War Department and published by its authority, he sayB, "Many interesting applications of this material were examined, of which it 1b not ncceBsaxy to make any special mention except that in combined stability, strength, beauty and cheapness they far surpass the best results that could have been achieved by the use of any other materials, whether Btone, brick or wood. For warehouses, ctihrches and large buildings of every description, for foundations, abutments and massive walls of all kinds, for side walls, platformB and flagging, and for many other minor purposes, Coignet stone possesses not only great comparative cheapness, but all the essential merits of brick and Btone, with respeot to strength, hardness and durability, while foj many purposes, within the province of the architect and engineer, it possesses advantages peculiar to itself, aud uot equally shared by other materiolB." ARCHITECTS WHO RECOMMEND OOIONET. Among the leading architects of New York who speak of the Coignet stone without reserve, and recommend its use, are Messrs. Benwick Sands, OlmBtead Yaux, C.

Haight and R. Lock wood. Mr. Lock wood eays of it, "I have no hesitation in saying that it is a moBt valuable invention and addition to our build a section by themselves, with their boots greased greased, not blackened and stare, open mouthed, at the "squire," who pays them fourteen shillings a week, is chiefly drank therein, and goes to church to snore on Sunday. It is this alluring element of the English social system that Mr.

Joseph Aroh, to arrive here in a day or two, has determined to transform into a political power. He comes here with the avowed purpose of encouraging emigration, if he sees fit, but, as ihe emigration of English laborers could never be universal, and must, therefore, be only a local treatment of a radical disease, it is fair to presume that the ultimate solution of the English agricultural laborers' problem will not be found on these shores. Mr. Arch may be a man of broad intelligence (and, if so, he is the first of his class since Cain told a palpable lie to the Creator), and, if so, there is very little danger of an influx of the horny handed sons of toil who till the English soil all day, every day, and for the bare price of the commonest food. The Mennonites may come to America, and form a colony.

That is a practicable and reasonable idea, for the Mennonites are not numerous but intelligent. But as to the English laborers, Mr. Arch, if he knows his brethren at all, knows full well that they are too numerous, too poor, and too stupid to come. Another generation or two must pass away before any considerable body of them is likely to find homes for permanent settlement in the United States, and in the meantime, if Mr. Arch is the true friend of his fellows he professes to be, he will endeavor to ameliorate their social life, and create for them a political position that shall enforce the respect and fair treatment of their masters.

The English agricultural problem is one that must loom up with great significance before long in English political life, and to its proper solution Mr. Arch would do bettor to lond his eloquence and energy than to agitate the question of wholesale emigration before the subjects of the scheme are really aware that such a land as America exists. ATCH A FOOT3. A S. 12 WALL ST, NEW TO UK.

Wit RltUKIVrc DKPOSIT3 PAYABLK OS DKJIANO. AND ALLOW INTEREST AT THKRATB OF FIVE PER CENT. PBR ANNUM. TtROOKLYN LOAN FMCK 2500, 000 13 trust funds to Joan on improved oropertj worth double; one per cent, brokerage. DRAKE WU looghby at.

4,000 WANTED TO INVEST FROM Addresi with all particulars, CAPITAL, Eagk office. SAVINOS BA1VHS, mUB LONG ISLAND SAVINGS BANK J. OF BROOKLYN, 895 and 889 Fulton st, corner Boerum place. Open daily from 9 A. M.

to P. and am Mondays and Saturdays from 5 to 8 F. M. SaTingfi Department Interest at SIX PERCENT, per annum, commencing on the 1st of January. April, or ana October.

Fifteen daja allowed for deputes, commeneiM each quarter. Deposits also received on special account which may be checked out at pleasure. Interest at FODB PER CENT, per annum allowed on such deposits, at tha daily balances. JAMES M. 8EABURT, Pnwidsnt EDWABD B.

Fowler, Becretarr. JOHN S. Maokat, Treasurer. Jonv O. Pesrv, Attorney.

SAFE DEPOSIT. BROOKLYN OITY SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, No. ffl Montague Btreet, cor. Clinton. receives Deposits ol uiAiauriiJO, utY, SlhfBll PLATE, COIN, ONDS, WILLS, on Special or Genera) Deposit.

Rent Safes at $15, $'20, $5u and i. Their vaults are as secure as any yet built in the United Mr.tes. Location as sulteu to tno convenience oi citizens oi ljong lalanq as any. Dak'i, Cbatojcey, Vlco Pres'f JOHN HALSEY, PreVt. Abraham B.

Baylis, John P. Rolfe, Samuel Sloan, William Marshall, Jas. 8. Rookwe Jacob I. Borgon, Wm.

P. I.lbby, Jacob Colo, Georee N. Curtta. Leftehtr l. Beboen, ABa't Seo'y.

J. S. PD3RSON. Sec'y. Offlce hours, 8 to i o'clock.

THE SAFE DEPOSIT CO. OF NEW YORK was chartered in 1871 for the safe keeping of valuables under guarantee, and for the routing of safes bx ita burglar proof vaults. It is the Brat established In tha world. It occupies the entire first floor ot the marble Bre proof buliatngNoB. 110, 14 ana 146 Broadway, corner of Liberty Bt, N.

Y. Depoaita from a distance can be mada through responsible exurosa companies. Tho renta rang from $16 to 100, acoording to size and location, renter exclusively holding the key. FRANCIS H. JENK.S.

Prat INSUKAMJb. OFFICE OF CHEPPU 3UOHER 4 MULYILLE GENERAL INSURANCE AGENOY No. 176 Broadway, N.Y. No. 311 Montague at, Brooklyn.

No. 15 State st, Brwtaa. Nrw Yobk, Maroh 26, ln. Dear 8m: Wo take pleasure in informing you thatwo are now ready to furnish first class indemnity, at the stand, 211 Montague st. Mr.

BENJAMIN LEWIS ia thai only authorized agent of the Fire Association of Philadelphia, assets 82,100,909 Pennsylvania Underwriters, assets Lancsster Insurance assets 325,009 American Central Insurance assets Alps Insurance Philadelphia, assets 375,001 These are all strictly first class companies, and have an compiled with the legal requirements of this State. Soliciting a continuance of of past favors, we aro, Yonrs respectfully, CHEPPU, BUCHER MULVTLLK, General AgonU. KNICKKRBOCKER UFK INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 239 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

Assets over O. 8TANTON. President. E. W.

BANCROFT, Vice President. JOHN A. NICHOLS, Second Vice President GEO. F. SNIFFEN, Secretary.

SAVINGS BANK POLICIES A SPECIALTY. This is the best and most satisfactory system of Ltfs la surance ever introduced. GOOD AGENTS' WANTED. AETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CAPITAL 3.iM,l LOSSES PAID IN FIFTY FOUR YEARS. FORTY MILLIONS DOLLARS.

Policies Issued on promptly adjusted by most favorable terms and lossaa LOOMIS THORN, Agenta, 201 Montague st. JAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE Capital and surplus, July 1, 1873 BROOKLYH, July 1, l7t. A semi annual dividend of FIVE PER CENT, has bM declaredfthls day, payable on demaud. GEO. W.

HUNT. Secretary. ATTENTION PHENIX INS. CO. OF BROOKLYN, Nos.

12 and 14 Court st, 84 Broadway, Brooklyn, B. r. 173 Broadway, New York. CASH CAPITAL SURPLUS 895.557.lt ASSETS $1,831,017.47 Tho assets belug larger than thoso of any other Brooklrat Company, it can insure against loss or damage by Fire, or ajiainst Marine Losses, on most favorable terms. STEPHEN OROWELL, Presidat.

CHAUNCEY BEDELL. Vice Prsa. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. WILLIAM R. OROWELL, SccV of Marine DAN'L F.

FERN ALP, Sec'y and Manager B'klya Dop't. IAGARAFIRE INSURANCE 201 BROADWAY, N. Y. CASH CAPITAL Sl.OOO.IX t.tti tt fwvTnn 05 Montague st. BRANCH OFl'ICES, Broadway.

K. T. RIJJGEWOOD INSURANCE COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN. CASH CAPITAL Insures against loss or damages by fire aud the rule ol ln land navigation and transportation. OFFICES: No.

40 COURT STREET, No. 184 RROADWAY, Brooklyn. I New York. William K. Lothrop, Heniy Adams, Henry D.

Alvrator, Archibald Baxter, K. S. Hrownson, Isaac H. Cary, S. B.

Chittenden, David Dona, John E. Dow, H. K. Dodge, C. R.

Flint, H. Frost, B. T. Frothingham, Theodore K. Gibbs, Sheppard Homans, Chas.

A. Hull. Thomas R. Lewis. F.wd.

H. Litchfield. John A. Livingston, E. M.

Low, Seth Low, Wm. G. Low, Augustus E. Msrstort, Albert Mathews, C. E.

Maxwell. T. H. Mills. J.

L. Morgan, R. S. Morlson. H.

E. Pierrepont, John F. Praoger, F. J. Stranahan, John Van Nostrand, 7 ir wviV J.

B. King, "tViTMnm A Wl.Itfl WM. K. LOTHROP, President. Wm.

A. Scott, Secretary. Branch Office 31 PEARL ST, New York. F. LOCKWOOD.

Manager. JU ILLIAMSBURGH CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OFFICES. Oor. Broadway and First st. Willlamaburgh 151 Broad OASn ASSETS.

EDMUND DRIGG3, President. N. 'iV. MF.6F.noLE. Secretary.

WESTERN DISTRICT OFFICIf, No. 20 COURT ST. WM H. BROWN. Assistant Seeretirr.

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE NO. 9S COURT STREET. CAPITAL CASH ASSETS GEO. T. HOPE, Presides S.

H. Lamport, Vice President CHARLES H. DUTCHES, Secretary Brooklyn Department I UARD1AN VJT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 187 BROADWAY, N. Y. Oaah Capital 82.I0I.I WITH LARGE SURPLUS.

Thid rnmnflnir UartoR niinl9 171 JfinUJ OI jMlireblt pro lnai roperty, at aa low rates aa are consistent witli aafet to lureuauatnev.ompauj THOMPSON. Walter K. Paye, becrotary. TNCORPORATED 1830. NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, In the City of Now York.

BROOKLYN OFFICES No. 877 FULTON STREET, NO. BROADWAY, Eastern Distrlot. HENRY T. DROWNE, President Hentiy H.

Haix, Secretary. INSURANCE POLICIES, APPLICATIONS, RENEWAL NOTICES, CIRCULARS, Ac, Printed with the utmost neatness and dispatch at tha BROOKLYN EAGLE JOB PRINTING OFFIOB. RANCH OFFICES OF THE METROPOLITAN INSURANCE OO, OF NEW YORK Art) locited In rokJyn at No. Sun MONTAGUE ST, and 'BROADWAY. H.

D. DKYGOODS, miLLIPfKUV. CLOSED DURING REPAIRS. WF.CHSLER, ABRAHAM A WECHSLER, ABRAHAM A WECHSLER, ABRAHAM A 237 and Fulton 297 and 2 Fulton st. Beg leave to inform their friends and the public that, owing to EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS, They are obliged to close their establishment Will reopen about SEPTEMBER 1 Willi a largo and magniticont st oek oi DRY GOODS, SUITS, ic.

D1 ICK1NSON JiWEST, 319 FULTON STREET, Are opening barg gins in BLACK GROS GRAIN SILKS, at S1.25 a jard. BLACK OROS GRAIN SILKS, at $1.75 a yard. BLACK GROS GRAIN SILKS, BLACK GROS GRAIN SILKS, at $3.50 a yard. "BARGAINS IN ALPACAS and PURR MOHAIR. Also, BARGAINS IN LINEN DAMASKS, NAPKINS, TOWELS, 40., 49.

'BARGAINS IN LACE SACQUES, LACK SHAWL8 And all kinds of SUMMER DRESS GOODS. 'SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS at wholesale prloofl. Just received an invoico of DICKINSON A WEST MUSLIN. ROOKLYN MOURNING STORE, 64 WILLOUGHBY ST, W. REMBLER CO.

Bonnete, Veils, Crapes, Handkerchiefs, HEYDENREICH. BROS. 4 DRUGGISTS, lfulton st, junction of Gates and Clermont ara, ana Atlantlo av, comer of Clinton ss. FRENCH PHARflcALPECLALTIBS. Agentafor the English Breakfast Packet Te.

Q. OTHERS, im nrrTT.nnnsr XTA 3AVK van, SAVE THIS J.1VJT.O v. WINE OF TIU5ALLSPICE. It is a sure 0dL6riNFANTUM, or any looseness or derangement of the bowels. It can administered to the youngest ohild or the oldest pec n' IT IS NOT AN ALCOHOLIC COMPOUND.

If your druggist has not got It, send a postal card to Ua subscriber and it will be delivered promptly. Price Ono Dollar per Bottle. G. DE CORDOVA, 63 William Btreet, New Yack. ERAUCH'S OIL FOR RHEUMATISM.

THE WONDER OF THE AGE. J. B. BRIOK, ChemiBt and Druggist, 75 Fulton street, Brooklyn. General Depot 365 Pearl st, N.

Y. POTATOES POTATOES 11 JUST RE for $3,511 por opot, 43 Atlan tic av. TJ THE BREAKFAST, LiUJJUJiUiUAl, 1 yiM.rTi im BTTPPRR TARI.E. lea PERRiNs WORCESTERSHIRE SAPOR. IS INDISPENSABLE.

JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, NEW YORK. Agents foc.tat United Stfttof ju What Das Been Done by Way of Improvement to Some of them Since the Commencement of the Summer Vacation; In a few days more that large portion of the community whioh makes the entrances and erita of city life and the seasons also fashionable, and who, when the thermometer is too high, and too warm for comfortable religious fervor and aspiration, take their flight like the swallows some to loiter at tno seaside, and some to spend their Beason among the Mils and mountains, whioh thoy have visited every year since childhood will have returned. The giddy and the Bober will again gather themselves together and "homo ward fiv" to prepare themselves lor religion ana dogma, "sweetness and light," and wend their way to their accustomed sanotuarios there to join in their "songB of praise," and "give ear" to the words of wisdom as they fall from the lips of their favorite pastor. The bracina air of Fall inspires both minister and min istered, tha clergy and laity, the saint and sinner, and the golden halo of October nils the churches tfiat were utterly depleted and enervated by the sooroblng heats of July. Muscular Christianity, whioh in Summer was altogether out of question, and whioh melted like the too solid flesh." comes into play once more.

The fashionable promenades of our lovely city are again availed of by the "fair and debonair," attired in the bright and cheery costumes of Autumn, and who make Clinton street gay once more on Sunday mornings and afternoons. And yet this return to the city has its very dark side. Many will return with the heightened and ruddy glow of renewed health upon their faces and the cheerful sound of their volcee will again be heard. But of others what a sad tale the wild waves have told, and the Beats and familiar places ef home, the Sunday School and the church which have known them onoe and many times, will know them no more forever, During the Summer, when the absence of the accustomed congregations has permitted, various churches have been undergoing alterations, repairs and improvements. Below will be found a few of the more prominent churches THE BOOTH PRESBYTERIAN OHTBOH, at the corner of Clinton and Amity streets, of which the Rev.

Dr. Spears was formerly the pastor, has been undergoing, during the Summer, extensive repairs, im provements, alterations and decorations. Tho interior of the church has boen done in the Grecian style of fresco or artistic adornmentthe sunk panels of tho celling being finished in a very chaste and delicate ornamentation and to correspond with the body of the ohuroh. The general design consists of scrolls and lines finished in cobalt blue, carmine and vermilion. The altar piece of the church has been elaborately frescoed, and bears tho inscription "How Amiable are Thy Tabernacles, Ob Lord of Hosts." Tho body of tho ohurch is in blue and drab, thus presenting a light and graceful style of decoration and serving to make the building cheerful as well aa tasteful.

The parlors of the church are fin ished in a light and airy French style of parlor orna mentation, the walls being in French gray, carmine, cobalt green and vermilion. Tho "tea room," where tea is dispensed from quarter past Beven to quarter past eight o'clock on the evenings when the young people of the church hold their social meetings, has been all newly kalsomined and reltted. In the matter of light tho ohurch will be much improved and ornamsnted, by the addition of an lmmenso chandelier of 120 lights, which will be beautifully finished in blue and gold, and will hang on a lovol with the gallerieB. The oushions of the pews will all be newly upholstered in handsome red reps. All tho aisles will be newly carpeted in red.

The vostibulOB, corridors and fitafrcaacs havo all been newly painted iu a light buff or drab color to correspond with the interior decoration. The organ has been refitted and other alterations of lessor note have boen made. The oxpense of the reBcoing will amount to $2,000, ajid iB done under the supervision of John Carateus of this city. The plain decoration Ib by George Gabb, of Atlantic avenue. The total expense of the alterations and im provementswill reach not far from $4,000.

Tho Rev Alex. Reed, D. of Philadelphia, is anuouueed as the pastor of the church. The usual sorvices will be re anmcd on the first Sunday in Septembor, the Rev. Dr.

Heed otficijting. ST. MABY'S STAR OF THE SEA (Roman Catholic), Court and Luqueor streets, of which the Bev. Eugeno CaBSidy is pastor.iB now undergoing ex improvements and decorations. A new spire has been erected which measures 210 feet from tho base to the top of the cross, the tower being composed of brick, with brown stono trim mings and the spire is finiBhed in imitation Nova Scotia slated with tho best quality of Chapman's slate, A new bell of 3,500 pounds weight has been added to the tower, and also a new clock of tho best American manufacture, the cost of which WaB $1,200.

The whole of the church has been resisted. A magnificent il luminated or gdded crescent extending from the front of the church to tho roar has also been erected. Th expenses for the work done on the exterior of the church will amount to $18,000. In the interior tho coil ing iB finished in Frenoh groy, and the mouldings in light buff. All the caps and flowers or centre pieces are in a delicate shade of light buff, the pillars are in stone green, the walls of a Biamarck brown, and the pan els in a cobalt blue.

The immense chancel avch has been newly decorated and ornamented the mouldings of the arch consisting of a light buff, tho rails of stono green. Tho flowers in the centre of the panels are composed of a golden buff and a fine cob.ilt blue, Tho panels of the church ceillug are done iu a light co balt blue with golden rays, and the mouldings of a light buff. All the walls of the chancel will be of a chocolate brown. The mouldings around the windows are finish ed in Btone green. A portion of the chancel walls will bo ornamented in gold leaves, or what is known as "stencil work." Tho inner line of the chancel or tracery arches will be decorated in carmino, with golden Bow erB the arohes and finial of the arohes being completed in stone green.

The interior of these tracery arches will be ohastely adorned by two pictures, the subjects of which are "Tho Nativity" and the "Annunciation," aud the rest of the space will be beautifully adorned with angels in relief. The altar panels will be finished and decorated in white and gold. The organ has been repaired and painted. The frescoing and interior ornamentation will cost about $3,500, ond is done under tho supervision of Daniel Mul ler, of this city. The plain decoration, including that on tho pews, altar and organ will cost $1,000, and was done by Cahill, The total expense will amount to $23,500.

The wholo of the improvements are done under the supervision of P. Koe ley, architect, and Chas. O'Neil, superintendent. The church will be finished in November. THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHTOCH, Court and President streets, of which the Rev.

H. M. Storrs was formerly the pastor, and which has no set led minister at present, has boea undergoing a general freshening and brightening up, and will be newly oar poted. Tho lecturo room of tho ohurch has beon nowly painted in French gray. The pastor's study haa ahjo received attention by being newly painted and frescoed.

The exterior of the church has been brightened up by the addition of paint. ST. CHARLES BOEROMEO, (Roman Sidney place and Livingston street, of which the Itev. Dr. Friel Ib pastor, haa bieu beautified by the addition of fourteen paintings, known to tho Chnrohas via cruris, or Stations of tho Cross.

The following are the subjects 1, Jesus Condomued to Death 2, Jesus Bears His Cross 3, Jesus folia tho first time beneath the cross; 4, Jeaus meets His mother; 5, Simon of Oyreno helps Jesus to carry His croBs; 6, Jesus and Veronica; 7, Jesus falls again; 8, Jesus comforts the women of Jerusalem; 9, Jesus falla the third tiroo 10, The Saviour stripped and drenched; 11, Tho Saviour kneels to the cross; 12, Jesus dying; 13, Taken from the cross and laid in Mary'B boeom; 14, Jeaus laid in tho tomb. These Stations of the Cross were all painted by a monk in Rome, and were put in tho church during the last week of June. THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS, RemBcn and Henry streets, (the Kev. It. S.

Storrs, D. has been cleaned and freshened up, andvill resume services tho second Suiday In Soptomber. The Hev. Dr. ia now staying at Princeton, aud iB ex pected to retiu if tha city at that time.

THB FIRST EEFORMED CHTRClI, Joralemon street, (tho Bev. Dr. Jos. Kimball) has beeu thoroughly cleaned and renovated, and will reopen the first Sunday iu September. THE HANSON PLACE BAPTIST Church, of which Bov.

Justin D. Fulton, D.D., is pastor, is undergoing very material improvements. The church will be greatly enlarged by adding the lecturo room and Sunday School room to the church proper. It previously gave accommodation for 860 people and, wheu finished, will bo capable of holding 1,850 persons. The floor has been lowered three feet, and arranged with a slight incline toward the pulpit, the seats being so arranged as to allow the audience to face tho speaker.

Spacious galleries, extending completely around tho auditorium, have beeu added to tho church, and immediately back of the pulpit the organ will be placed and accommodations afforded for the choir. There will be four vestibule entrances, or stairways to the gallerieB, and rive outside entrances, opening directly from the auditorium into the Sunday School room. New arrangements will bo adopted for opening two spaciouB stairways from tho pulpit plat onn into the gallery. Beneath the ohurch will bo placed tho apartments for baptisms, the paBtcr'B Btudy, eto. The size of tho church in the galleries will bo 124 by 65 foet, Tho side walls will be remodeled, ond the entire church and panel work will be mado to harmonize with the present rich style of freBco.

Adjoining the church a now Sabbath school room of ono story high, 05 by 27 feet will be erected. ThiB building will be used also as a lecture room. Tho seats and woodwork of the church will be finished In imitation blaok walnut. Tho improvements complete, including carpets, frescoing and upholstering will cost about 16,000, and aro done under tho supervision of John Wilson, arohiteot of this oity. The Church will be open for worship on the first Sunday in October.

The pastor, the Rev, Dr. Fulton, is at present sojourning at Bolton, Lake George, with his family. The Clinton avenue Congregational Church, thj Bsv. W. Ives Budington, D.

is having some general repairs done to the outside cf the building, and will open the first Sunday iu September. The Churoh of the Saviour, Bov. A. P. Putnam, D.

D. bs been thoroughly overhauled and cleaned together with Borne painting on the exterior of tho Ohuroh. Services will be resumed on the first Sunday in September. TWENTY FIRST WARD REPUBLICANS. meeting ol the Party Association Last Night.

The Twonty Arat Ward Republican Association held a meeting last night at Hiokok's Hall, Lafayette avenue, between Tompkins and Mflrcy, to complete organisation and enroll now members. J. W. Morris presided, and George J. Collins acted as Secretary.

The minutes of previous meeting were approved, after which the first question that arose was in reference to a suitable room to hold meetings iu. The oholoe was between Foster's Hall and Hiokok's Hall. It was finally moved and seconded that tho two halls be hired alternately, the meetings to take place on the second Thursday of each month. The Commltteo to draft new bylaws for the Association then offered a report that their work had been completed, and concluded by reading the bylaws. A motion was then mado that the Committee's report be accepted, and the adoption of tho bylaws by sections.

Carried. A vote then followed on the bylaws, taking section by BeoUon in their order, and with the exception of a slight amendment to tho sixth artioto, tho bylaws wero all adopted aa read. The Committee was then discharged, with the thanks of tho meeting. The meeting then, on motion, resolved itself into an informal gathering, and proceeded to the enrollment of new members, in which business tho evening was ood A Brooklynite Surveys the land on the 'Northern Necit of Virginia S2s Opinion. (From an occasional Eagle correspondent.

Kino Geohqe, O. August 27, 1873, With all tho varied correspondence from seekers of rest in country retreats, I have seen nothing from the "Northern Neck" of Virginia, a beautiful part of our country, but little known to the ordinary traveler. The particular place to which I refer is King George, C. in the county of the same name, pleasantly Bltuated between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, within easy reach of Baltimore by the regular steamers on both rivers, or about twelve hours from New York, via. Perm, Railroad and boat from Washing ton.

I have traveled much in the West and North, cue never nave I seen a part of the country more blessed with natural advantages. With a mild and extremely healthy climate, fruit of all kinds grow in abundance, and better corn, wheat, oats, where properly oared for. aro not to be found. The country ia divided into meadow and table lands. with a bountiful supply of streams for mill power, and plenty of good timber, and intersected by ranges of beautiful hills, on many of which are to be seen the fine old mansions, with their numerous whitewashed outbuildings, so well known to the traveler in Virginia for the hospitality of the landlords, which hospitality, as one of them told me, still exists to all but "carpetbaggers." The people are for the most part refined and well educated, as their numerous churches and schools would indicate, and deserve great credit for tho large quantity of land under cultivation with the means at their disposal for doing the work, all being more or less impoverished, not having fully recovered from the eff eots of the late war, many of them having lost all but their lands and dwellings.

But they are rapidly taking up with the new order of things with a will that will surely tell for the better, re gardless of the sentiments recently expressed by Jeff. Davis. They have already formed an Emigration Society and an Agricultural Clnb and offer Inducements in tho way of oheap lands to those who wish to settle among them. I found one family from Brooklyn hav ing a farm well under cultivation, having been here nearly two years, living contented, happy and independent. Two other Brooklyn men have bought in the vicinity.

The time is not far distant when land hore will greatly advance in prioe. A man now with a small capital, say $2,000, can purchase and Btock a very comfortable little plaoe, and if industrious, be very happy and independent. There is also promise of a railroad to the great and growing markets of Baltimore and Washington, which, with the advantage of tha two great rivers, will make this one of tho most accessible parts of our country. Fine apringB of cold water aro abundant mills for flour, lnmber, are within easy reach of every section. I must not forget to mention the productions of the rivers vast numbers of shad, herrings, and other fish are taken with nets and BeineB geese, ducks, and other game are found in abundance, so the sportsman finds ample use for his gun and rod at all times thus comes the saying that the people inhabiting the Northern Neck" of Virginia have meat houses on the water as well aa on the land.

C. V. B. PROCEEDINGS IN DELHAR'S COURT. In the First District Court yesterday, Justice Delmar on the bench, the following cases were disposed of For being intoxicated in Bergon Btreet Wednesday evening, James Penderghast was committed to jail for five days; Bridget Carney, under the influence of rum went sailing down Hamilton avenue, sent to jail for ten days; James Terney got furiously drunk in Fifth avenue, ten days; Elizabeth Delaney spirited her way throagh Hamilton avenue, ten days; Michael Murray, drunk in Atlantic avenue, ten days; John McCau ley visited too many liquor saloons in Cole street, ten days; John Daly got drunk in Fifth avenue, but sentence was suspended George Schmidt, for being a vagrant, was sent to the Penitentiary for sixty daya; Richard Kingsley, vagrant, sixty days in tho Penitentiary; Thomas Morgan, also a vagrant, County Jail twenty nine days; Thomas McCullough, for peddling in the public Btreet without a license, was fined William Caddon, for lounging on the corners, was fined $5.

ASSAULT OASES ADJOURNED. Mary McCanley, a strapping Hibernian, walked up to tho JUBtice's bench, and said that her husband (who was with her) had struck her on the head with his fist. "She wouldn't get me my supper, and I simply spat her lightly (illustrating the movement with his band) on the cheek." "No, your Honor," said she, "he is a bad man and quarrelsome, and keeps telling me that I can 'paddle my own that he will not be afther helping me," The husband began to expostulate to the Judge, but was cut short by the lattor saying, "Adjourn this case until September 5, and we will lot him paddle his own canoe till that time. Take a seat, John." Ann Bourke, who lives at the corner of Dwight and Dikemon streets, said that Mary Eagau, a neighbor, assaulted her on the face by striking her with some unknown weapon. Tho case waB adjournedjtill September 5, at 9 o'clock.

Catharino Reel, of No. 324 Van Brunt street, told the Judge that on the 26th of August Margaret Tyack atrui her over tho shoulders and face and kicked btr in the eido. Margaret denied the charge, and the case was Bet down for Septembor 4, at 9 o'clock. The cane of Ellen Allen against Catherine Combs, two combatants, was Bet dowu for trial September 6, at 8 o'clocK. HAS MAKING.

Testimony ol an Export Kef ore the Alderuianic Committee. The special committee of the Common Couucil, appointed to inquire into the advisability of the citj'a mating gas, held a meeting laat evening. There were present Aid. Taylor, Kodaian and Brovrn, of the committee, also Mr. Libby, of Citizens Gas Company, and Dr.

Wm. Q. Wren, an oxpert in gas malring, who reBideB in this city. Mr. Bunkev, former Superintendent of the Citizens' Company, had been subpenaed, but did not put in an appearance.

Dr. "Wren I have had experience in the manufacture of gas from coal aud other ma to rial havo made teats of gas made by companies in this city, principally the Brooklyn, for the past year aud a half have tested all except the Citizenu and tho new Nubbjhi the standard burner ueed in testing is a live foot burner the standard photometer is the Bunce and Richard photometer I found by teats made twice each week that the best quality of gaB delivered to consumers by any compauiea except the Citizens and NaBsau, was 11.23 candle power, and the lowest 7.84 I think that tho average quality was 11 candle light coal varies as to its gas producing quality; tho Pennsylvania coal, which is generally used by the gas companies, averages a yield of 9,000 cubio feet to the ton; tho gaa will heal out 11 candlelight; it requires a proportion of eauntl coal to make gas of 16 candle light the cost of making gas, that is for material aid labor, as now made by the gaa oompanies is about $1.10 per cubic feet. I am tho patentee of a process for making gas whereby it con be mado much cheaper than now. I would like to take a contract for furnishing gas at $2 pt thousand tunic feet, aud that would make 900 per cent, gross profit. The Brown Band process is an infringement cn my patent my business is to erect gas works, and I am now engaged in places in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio.

New Hampshire, North Carolina, Louisiana, I use crude petroleum Instead of naj htha; If the gas is made too rich by the use of naphtha it will be smoky, just as if made too rich by rich coal the poorer the gas the more will be burned a decrease of preeeivre at the will naturally decrease the quantity flowing through burners in tho streets or elstwbf re; I examined the quality of gas made by tho Brooklyn, People's and Willsamaburgh Companies, and found it only to be of the quality stated. No other testimony was taken, and' the Committee adjourned, subjcot to tho call of the chairman. Next week the Committee will probably go to Philadelphia to make an inspection of the gaa worka there, whioh are owned by the city, and gas furnished at $2.23 per thousand feet. RAPID TRANSIT WANTED. To the Editor of the Brooklyn EagU We have been building up the Twenty first Ward during the past year, under tho impression that our railroad facilities would be increased, and we were promised that the Putnam avenue and Halsey street read would be finished at once thus relieving Gates avenue line, now overcrowdod.

But the matter drags along and the people residing uptown aro compelled to pack in or walk. Now if we have any rights left, certainly a company having secured au additional route should be compelled to complete it or relinquish it. Quick Transit. EAST AW YORK REPUBLICANS. Conclusion ot lc Bc Eiirolluicnt An Amicable Settlement.

Tho Eagle readers are familiar with the cauE08 of a rc enrollmcnt of the Now Lots Republicans, and were duly apprised of the disgraceful proceelmgs at tho hands of the Ives's faction at the last meeting of the Committee. Dr. Ives's moil did not want anothor enrollment They thought they had grt the names of all their men down, and that they had shut off grtat number of tho Watson faction. Tho Committee, however, would not do this. Colonel Connolly said he had come to enroll the Republicans of the towu and not of a faction, whereupon the Ives party, knowing they would be beaten, were exceeding wroth, and threatened to burn out tha sub Committeo of tho General Committee, if they showed themnelves in East New York Again.

Wednesday night, however, Colonel Connolly, Mnjor and Mr. Cobb were on hand at Miller's Hall, on Shefli' Id avenue, but the Ives's party made no demonstration. The Doctor In fact was not present, but they hud had a conference with the VTatsou uieu, and ashed for a compromise. The latter generously consented, stating they wanted no dissension amongBt the party, and all they had got the General Committee to re enroll for was that their rights as He publicans should bo recognized, aud they were satisfied tp bury tho hatchet. So there was no trouble.

About sixty names were enrolled and there were about forty rejected names out of the entire list. On motion a committee of six was appointed to decide upon these names, the committee consisting of the following gentlemen (three from the 'Watson and three of tho Ives party): Messrs. McGeehan, Cobb, Piatt, 'vrolfert, Stagg and Mitchell. Out of the forty rejected namea which they passed on only ono was thrown out. The Enrollment Committee then took down tho list and adjourned sine die.

Their report will bo presented to the Republican General Committee, and it is mutually understood by the two factions that the list aB taken by tho Committee shall hereafter be considered as the roll bcok of the New Lots Republican Association. Something that created general comment was the fact of throe policemen In full uniform marching up and enrolling their names. They were Roundsman ThomaB J. Herbert aud officers Oloss and Hayes, all of the New Lots police. It is said General Jourdan so ordered them.

BUSINESS NOTICES. DURYEAS' SATIN GLOSS 8TAROH, In Six Pound Slide Cover Boxes and in One Pound Papon TRY IT. GIVES A BEAUTIFUL WHITK AND GLOSSV FINISH, BKSIDK RENDERS FABRICS VERY DURABLE. NO OTHER STARCH 80 EASU.Y USED OR 80 ECONOMICAL. USE IT ONCE AND YOU WILL USE NO OTIIRR.

DURYEAS IMPROVBD OOBN STARCH, Mado with Great Care from tho Choicest White For Sale by Grocers Generally. Nono genuine without "DURYEAS' on eerf Packago. KHEUMATISM CUBED! BY FRELIGH'S REMEDY. Depot 81 For sale by all dmggiaU. FIVE HUNDRED PIANOS, ORGANS and Melodeona.

new and second hand, of flret olMl 2f.ni "Ki? aUotoPor "oountrTby HORAOB WATERS rtaE5S iffored before to thi in N. trade. BROOKLYN EAGLE JOB PRINTING OFFICE. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OK EVERY DESCRIPTION, LITHOGRAPHING. STEREOTYPING AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURING.

BOOKBINDING DONE Hi EVERY STYLE. MAMMOTH POSTER PRINTING A SPECIALTY. THF.FtNKST COLORED WORK IH THB COUNTRY, XIe TTorlcs nnfl Uroundn ol the New Yorfc 'nna Long Island Coignct Stone Goinpanr Xne Brooklyn Stojio an Improvement Upon that of tlie Inventor Business Done by tlie Com pan The Grand Fountain at Prospect Paris A Tiling; of magnificence and Boanty Scientific Examination and Test of the Coignet and Other Artificial Stones. The New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company, whose manufacturing establishment is in Ibis city, located on Third avenue, and occupying tho whole space of five acres between Third and Sixth streets, inolnding the advantage of the Fourth street baeln or branch of the Gowanus Canal, and extending to the Oanal, la an enterprise the nature of whioh commends it to the consideratioa of all who study building materials in regard to finer development of taste, durability, and economy in the sxpendllure of money. It is hardly necessary to oonsiler the merits of tho Ooig net stone for the benefit oi men engaged in building enterprises, such as architects and contractors, for that ouvbs of our citizens appear to be already in possession of many important faots as to its many advantages, for while they do not generally alopt it or even recommend It, they have (many of thorn at least) confidence in tho merits claimed for it, but ia the absenoe of scientific knowledge are patiently awaiting the results of the experiments already made by builders who have UBed it iu ways upon etruoturei of different kinds in this city.

Meanwhile the process of manufacturing the artificial stone goes on, mostly to supply new buildings of churches andprivate residences in country towns within easy reach of New York, locations where the test will be of great value on acooimt of their exposed positions. The Company, which appears to have all the anxioty for success that might be expeoted in an enterprise involving so vast an outlay of capital, are nevertheless not impatient. Their operations being based upon thorough scientifio inquiry and a sound practical knowledge of tho powers of endurance of the artificial stone, they are in no way uneasy as to what the ultimate result must be. Their greatest anxiety is in regard to proper and ample preparations for the demands to be made upon their resources in the near future. Iu Europe, before the atone had reached the perfection of that whioh is manufactured here, that made under tho original Coignet process was adopted for many of the moat important purposes in public buildings, Including light houses, sowers, aqueduots, bridges, syphons, tunnels, oto.

From a report made by the United States Commissioners to the PariB Exposition of 1867, it appears that Beton Coignet had been found admirably adapted for morine structures. Tho Suez Canal, the docks of Boulogne and numberless structures of this kind bear witness to its strength and utility. It Bhould be known that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company have not rested in content in using merely tho Coignet process. By persistent experiments and tests thoy have so far advanced from the original prooess as to obtain from the inventors in Europe the acknowledgment that the Company hore is making a stone greatly superior to any that has been furi ished in Europe. While the experiments have been in progress, and new processes have been adopted iu the production of this pe'iocted Coignet stone, the work of supplying orders for tho new cathedral in Fifth avenue, Now York, and churches and rejldences out of town, ob well as for bulldiugs in different parts of Brc.okl) has been steadily going on.

AN EXHIBIT OF BUSINESS. The business done by tho company on tho Gowanus Canal ulono furnishes a partial indication of whot has boon done to tho past year. Tho materials received by canal, at tho factory, from July 1, 1872, to July 1, were as follows 40 cargoes of sand, 2,500 toua sundry materials, 3,800 barrels Portland cemont, and duriug the same time. 705 building pieoes of Coignet Btone were shipped. This aceount does not, of course, include the vast business done by means of truoks and carls, THE NEW FOUNTAIN AT rBOSPECT PARK, The stone for tho great fountain at the plaza at Pros pec Park, near to the statue of Lincoln, is finished, and is in the yard awaiting removal to the place of oon strtruction.

The present tomporaryfounfain will soon bo removed and the new and magnificent atruoturo of Coignet stone will take its plaace. As was previously set forth in thoEAOLE, tho new fountain, whioh will be the moBt spl ndid architectural display of tho kind in the country, will be erected upon the present ampleoundation in the centre of the basin. It will constitute a grand dome one hundred and thirteen feet in circumference. At the base will be a series of gothic arches, up the sides of which are defined, in exquisite waste and wprkmanBhip, beautifully trailing vine loaves, up to where the arches rest, as it were, upon a ring of smaller circumference, from whose Bides shall issue jets, bo arranged as to form one entire shoet of water, which shall bind itself gracefully oyer the arcUen and fall into the basin, without a drop falling upon the arches. From the summit of tho superstructure will issuu tha usual fountalu, unless the plan may have been changed.

Siich will be the arrangement of this fine structure that the apace beneath the dome and inside the arches at the baao will bo urnish with gas fixtures, provid ing for the lighting of tho fountain far the dc ieocation and admiration of viBitura to the Park, Citizens may anticipate this lioce of oriiamontation aa being creditable to the taste of tho architect, Mr. Vaux, to the spirit of the Commissioners and to tho capaolty for fine vork of the Coigaeb Stone Company. THE EBOOKLYN OOIONET STONE SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED. A gentleman, who devoted about two years to investigation and experiment in building materials, who claims to have had unusual facilitioa for arriving at correct results, sometime ago furnished a statement of the ret i.1'. of his work to tuo Boston Daily Advertiser, which i of interest to Brooklyultoa, as tho Btone manu factured here appears to have come out of tho ordeal not only vindicated, but with it properties and quali ties fully defined.

The artificial stones examined were the American Building Block, made by tha Middlcsax Stone Brick Compauy the Frear stone, made by the Massachusetts Frear Artificial Stone Company; the Union Sorel stone, mado by the Union Stone Company; and tho Coignet Btonr, mado by the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company. The gentleman mail tho tests offers the following PBELIMINABY OBSERVATIONS Mauy object to artificial stone becuuse it is artificial, A miilicii nt answer is that very many of the moat vain able materials of industry are artificial i. thoy are con poecd of native eleroentB brought into new relations and forms by tha labor of man, guided by knowledge. which is tho result of accident or Btudy. Among these are iron, in the forms in which it is ordinarily used, i glass, brick leather, vulcanized India rubber, a list which might be indefinitely oxtoudod.

Why then may not man, having the lime, alumina and silica, and otht elements which enter into the composition of bo many of the best natural stones, combino them in ao cordage with the laws of chemical affinity, and make a tone which shall have all the valuable qualities of a natural tone 1 This question has peculiar force when wo think of that old artificial stone of Home, which remains to thiB day as hard aa flint, while tho natural stones, of which it formed tho mortar bond, have in many instances been disintegrated and decayed. He then presents the points as to whioh comparison is dcBirnble, which ho claBsifios under tho heads of strcugth, permanency, resistanco of frost, resistance to high degrees of heat and adaptation to the construction of fireproof buildings, and adaptation to architectural ornamentation. THE TEST OE STRENGTH. TiVoBt of tho stones of either olaes, as well as hard bricks, have BUfflcient strength for any probable nood. Buildings of brick have fallen, owing to tho poor quality of brick or of tho mortar.

The crushing strength of weak, red brick is from 500 to 800 pounds to the square inch of surface; that of tho beat quality is 4,400 pounds. Buildings of so called artificial stone have also in some inatanoes fallen. The case of the Howard University, built of tho American building blook, is well known. Samples taken fro the fnpj wall had a g'g strength of only 173 ponnas for samples four monthB old to 443 pounds for thoso twelve mouths old, much less than that of soft briok, while the Btrength of the Union (Sorel) Btouo and of the Coignet stone (both of them artificial) is from 5,000 to 10,000 pounds to the squoro Inch, that of tho best marble being 8,050 pounds, and of Quincy granite, 15,300 pounds, and of brown stone, from 3,060 to 6,500 pounds. THE TEST OF PERMANENCY.

On this point wo prcBentan extract from a paper by J. H. Owens, M. a distinguished English architect, who, speaking of the use for building purposes of Port laud cement concrete (whioh is reolly an artificial stono, crude indeed and roughly made) says: Evory other material used in building, except the hard granites and the moat compact HmeBtonBB, depreciates with time and exposure and requires an initial excess of material to be used, whereas Portland cement concrete ia permanent and durable under all ciroumstanccs, and increases rapidly and enormously in strength, and continues to increase, but in a continually diminishing ratio, for as long bb obBervationB have, up to the present time, been made upon it." The Coignet stone, which, lite tho Ponland cement concrste, is a hydroailioate of lime and ulumlna, but far superior in the density and homo genoouneBB of its structure, resulting from the vastly sui trior conditions and methods of Its manufacture, possesses the same characteristics, specimens more than a year old having shown, under hydrostatic pressure, a crushing Btrength of over 12,000 pounds. BE8I8TAHOE TO FROST.

This depends very much on the structure of the stone. Granite and marble aro granular in Btruoturo, whllo brown atone Is laminntod and liable, from the natural cleavage, to scale off, in consequence of alternate thawing and freezing. Artificial atone is frequently bo mado as to be liable to the Bame diffloulty, a liability entirely obviated in tho Coignet stono by the method of aggregating the partioles patented by M. Coignetj producing a perfectly homogeneous stone resemoung in its structure the most compact marblo, and without tendency to oleave in any particular direction. It is also, ocoordlng to the testimony of Dr.

Walz, analytical ohemist of Now York, who subjected specimens of it to very severe tests, "prootioally iniporvlouB to wator." RESISTANCE TO HEAT, ETO. Iu refereooe to this point the writer subjected aam ples of various natural and artificial stones to the following tests Pieces of the different kinds were heated to redneBS and then allowed to gradually oool, Othor pieces of each Mud were heated to redness and immediately plunged Into cold water. Quinoy granite was in both oases disintegrated. White marblo was muoh weakened to the flrBt teBt, so bb to be easily broken by tho fingers in tha seoondit was rendered quite pliable. Soap stone was, in either case, offeoted but very slightly if at Brown atone (good specimens from Portland, In both oases was disintegrated quite as much as the granite.

Brown atone from Seneca, Md. (the most compact brown stone ever examined by the writer), in both tests appeared to bo uninjured. Nova Scotia freestone wb somewhat weakened, but endured both teste better than the othor natural stones, except soapstone and Seneca brown stono. Of the artificial stones, the American building blook (samples from a blook made by the Middlesex Stone Brick Company, and more than two yoars old,) was in both tests even more comnletely disintegrated than the granlto. Froor stone (made in Worcester, and about, eighteen months old) was affected ratner more man tne marble, becoming very brittle.

The Union (Sorel) stone (two years old) was in tha first test disintegrated as much as the granite; in tho second test, when the heafc pieoo waB plunged Into tho water, ohomloal change was Immediately produced, Indicated by a vlolont effervescence, and the stono crumbled into Bmall grainB, The Coignet atone endured both tests equally well with the soapstono and the Seneca brown atone, not appearing to lose any ot It strongth. AA to tlie result ia tiw The Iiiut Excursion of tlio Series A Trip to Sprlnir Hill Oroye What tho Fund hasDone tUls Sumiiier, Tho Doble charity designated by the above title brought its Summer picnics to a close yesterday. Since tho commencement of the Summer there have been NINE OPEN AIB EX0UBSION8, most of which have been to Ganarsio, and one to Book away Beaoh. The total number of excursionists who have been the recipients numbers over 4,000. This num ber does not Include 100 families sent singly to the sea shore, provided with enoursion and lunch tiokets, and eight or ten in ill health, who were boarded for short periods where they could get good sea air.

The entire expense of all these exouraions has been little over SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS, mere trifle, when it is taken into consideration how much good has been done with it. The entire management has been in the hands of MB. WM, SIBKBY, of the Newsboys' Home, and that gentleman has worked most faithfully and with a singleness of pur pose to benefit his fellow creatures, rarely'to be found. THE LAST EXOUB8ION of the series took plaoe yesterday, starting from Mar ton's wharf. A contract was made with the tug boat E.

Myers to start at eight o'clock, but it was after nine before the tug made it appearanoe, and the barge, the Wm. Myers, with about 100 on board, proceeded towards South Ferry, where some 400 moro were taken on board from thence to Hamilton Ferry, where the last batch of 300 more were pioked up, and about ten o'clock the barge was fairly on its way to SPKDJO HILL OBOVE about twenty miles up tho Hudson. The excursionists numbered 800. It was expected that 1,000 would hovo boen present, and preparations for that number were made. Most of those present were residents of tho Twelfth Ward, a large number, however, residing along the water front, from the Second Ward to Bed Hook.

The large number of women with ohlldren in arms was a noticeable feature of the entertainment, the excursion, to them, being evidently a rare treat. COLONEL JAMES ADAMS MARTIN had used great dlaoretlon in tho distribution of invitations, and superintended the embarkation at South Ferry with intense satisfaction. Two youths were walking through the gate alongside the ferry with alouohod hats drawn over their eyes and hands swinging by their sides with short Jerks, like the preliminary movement to a song and danoo. Thoy were decidedly of the gallus" persuasion. "Where are you going, young follqw said an ofii ccr, who was quietly looking on.

"I'm goin' on the boat, of course; where d'yB s'pose I'm goin'7" 'Do you mean the excursion barge?" es." 'I guess not." 'What I There's my tioket," and the young man pulled out a Fresh Air bond with lunch coupons at ached. "Where did you got it said the official. "It was giv' to me." "This man here giv' it to us," said tho othjr "young fellow," who was a meek looking one. That's all right," said Ooltnil Martin, "that's all right." 'No, it ain't all right. Here, give that ticket," and the officer quietly possessed himself of both tickets.

The Colonel was about to Interpose in favor of the young men, when he was rendered speechless by a feat of agility on the part of tho policeman. That individ ual inserted his left band down the back of the first 'young fellow's" neck, as though he was about to but ton his Collar, his right hand closed with a vice like grip on a portion of his trowsers which was convenient ly loose, throwing up his shoulders, bracing himself and breathing a silent prayer for the benefit of his muscular system he fired that youth through that gato as though he had been Bhot from tha Union gun; and "young fellow" number two folded his hands meekly and walked quietly after him, convinced that in this world there is not rest for the weary those who talk otherwise notwithstanding. "What is tho meaning of that inquired tha gallant Colonel. You don't want thorn fellows with you," returned Jourdan's man. "Why so "Why beoause they're licks." And as the conviction dawned on the Colonel that the young men were notorious for their total disregard of the Seventh and Tenth Commanements, he replied "Ah, yee all right" looked pleased, and returned on board.

Numbers of working girls were on board the barge, and when a portion of CONTEBNO'S ORCHESTRA commenced operations on the upper deck, in a twink ling they and a few young men were whirling and pivoting to the exhilarating Btrains of the "Beautiful Blue Danube." Aboutiwelve o'clock a lunch was prepared, and the ragged, rugged and healthy little urchins gi with it in a manner astonishing to behold. SandwicheB and milk, with tea for tho women, was gratefully accepted, and about holf past twelve Spring Hill Orovo waB reached. As soon as the planks were lowered the young Arabs, with yolls and cheers, rushed along tho shore to a suitable bathing place, where over a hun dred were, in the twinkling of an eye, tumbling in the river, diving from a little dock, playing "porpoise," "treading water," under the watchful eyes of Offi cer Bacon, and a man in a small boat who was detailed to look out that no accident happened to them. As the Hudson Biver Railroad trains rushed shrieking past, they wero saluted with a volley of yells that would have done honor to the throats of a band of OomanchcB. After the bathers had thoroughly cleansed them sa'Ivib, they were sent to the Pavilion, where Mjssrs.

Daisey and Campbell had got everything in readiness, and exhibited to tho dclighcd youngsters the PUNCH AND JUDY 'how a really fine performance, which wos received with shouts of laughter even from the mothers prosent. The "Persecuted Dutohinan" was intensoly funny, ond the "kicking mule" provoked a great deal of merriment. After which Brigadier Qencrol Morton suggested a swim, and a portion of tho Committee accordingly started to tho other side of the river, whore they found a good bathing place, from whence Morton, who is a capital floatist" ho weighs somcthiug under 350 pounds WANTED TO SWIM BACK. The rejorter grow pale at the suggestion, and Kirkby thought he would go out a little distance first and try his strength. Well, he went and came back perfectly satisfied tired out.

He walked out about half a mile mud knee deep and had succeeded in reaching water ehoulder deep. Morton experimented on tho buoyancy of the water, found out that it was too thin," an 1 con ludtd he would not swim across of course he did not mind tho distance it was only a mile and a half but he was afraid it would delay the party, and Kirkby want: to get back by three o'clock. The reporter incautiously suggested that he was scared," whioh rash remark attained itB just reward. An eggplant was eonvi uiently floating past Morton that individual's righteous judgment caused him to seize it then to propel it in an exactly straight line for the reporter's physiognomy, at the distance of three fcct.and the force of the concussion caused that unfortunate man to turn a somersault, showing his muddy feet one moment, and a demoralized head afterward. The next hour was agreeably spent by the rest of the osmpany in combing out egg plant hair and mud from tho poor man's head, alter they returned to the grove.

At half past three, the return home was ordered; the tug blew her whistle, and the stragglers from the woods were recalled. On the trip down, icecream and cake were handed round, after which the dancing was resumed, in which Oflloer McMnhon specially distinguished himself. Tho ladies and gentlemen who assisted Mr. Kirkby on the occasion, were Mrs. Kirkby, Mrs.

Hudson, Mrs. tho Misses Berrian, Andrews, Fitch, Mali, MaUbryT'f Mudge and Smith. Colonel James Martin, Messrs. Morton, Douglass, IngallB, Hudson, Whltnoy, and officers Waldron, Bacon and Powers, 6f the Central office. At six o'clock Hamilton Ferry waB reached, and by seven o'clock tho last of the excursionists had landed at Martin's Dock.

To day the dishes and excursion paraphernalia of the Freeh Air Fund were packed away for the season. Among the principal subscribers to tho fund are: James W. Elwell, a benevolent gentleman, who has personally assisted the manager at all but the last picnio Curties Sons, W. W. Wicks, C.

D. Wood, A. S. Barnes, KelBiy 4: Iioughlin, A. A.

Low ai Messrs. A. T. While, and MoWillioms. Subscriptions to the Fund have also been Bent to the Eagle olhce.

COURT INTELLIGENCE. Decision by Justice Neilson in the Case of Seibert against the Williamsburh and Flatbush Itailroail. The following is a copy of the decision rendered yeaterday by Judge Neilson, in tho case of Valentine Seibert vs. Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad Company On reading and filing the petition of Robt. JohnBton, the receiver heretofore appointed in this action, dated the 23d day of August, 1873, upon the exhibits thtrcunto annexed, and on motion of Messrs.

Wern ljerg Riley, attorneys for said receiver, It is ordered that Robert Johnston, the Receiver aforesaid, do proceed according to the statute in Buch case provided and according to the rules and practices of this court to cell at public auction to the highest bidder the defendants interest in the stock, franchises, property, real and personal effectsof the Bald Railroad Co Xiauy and reduce the Bame to money. And it is further adjudged that out of the proceeds thoreof the said Receiver after first deducting the lawful commission and and charges ho pay to the Attorneys for aaid Baoelver, the cobU anil disbursements of this proceeding to be determined by this Court after said sale and to take their receipt therefor, and out of the residue thereof to pay the judgment duo tho plaintiff in thiB action, and all other debts due and owing by said oompauy and claims for which havo been or may be filed with said Receiver or so much thereof as tho moneys 69 collected and received by said Receiver will said moneys are not sufficient to pay the whole of said claims, and to take the receipts of the proper claimants therefore and if It is further adjudged that after the payments aforesaid the said Receiver bring the residue, if any, into Court and deposit the same with the County Treasurer, there to await the further order of this Court, and that the said Beoelver make a report of his doings under this, order in due form and time, according to the statute in such oase made and provided, and that the plaintiff or Receiver before taking anv proceedings under this order serve upon defendant herein a notice of at least ten days of the entry of this order and with said notioo to serve on said defendant a certified copy of this order. Neilbok, Justice. STRUCK "WITH A STONE. On the night oi the 27th Edward Martin, aged 17 years, quarreled with Edward Dougherty, at the latter's residence, No.

232 Pacific street. Buring the quarrel, which ocourred in the yard, Martin plokod up a stono and struck Dougherty on the head with it. He then ran away, and was not seen again until last evening, when Officer Campbell succeeded In arresting him. Dougherty, who received a scalp wonnd, was taken to the Long Island Hospital, where he still remains. His injuries, however, are bat alight.

This morning Martin was arrafgned'before Justice Deltnar, and again committed for trial, which will take place on September 6, at nine o'clock. A DROWNED CHILD. Yesterday morning the body of a drowned in fant wbb taken out of the water at the Pierrepont storo dock by Officer Dunham, of the First Precinct. It was taken to tho Morgue and the Coroner notified to hold an inquest. The body wi entirely naked when found.

TUis paper has Largest Circulation of any Evening Paper Published In tlie lulted States, Its va tie as an Advertising Medium is therefore apparent. The Defalcation in the City Treasury. The defalcation in the City Treasury looks worse with every fact which was brought to light yesterday in connection with it. However guilty Rodman may be, it is impossible, in the light of recent devclopements. to hold him as being the only man guilty of b.tse betrayal of private, as well as public, trusts.

Let us look for a moment at Rocunnifs relations with his associates, so far as the public know of them, and their treatment of him. When the Trust Company was compelled to suspend payment, Rodman its Secretary, was on hand with assurances that its affairs were all right, and that the action of the Nassau Bank in refusing to act as its clearing agent, was an outrage: Twenty four hours had not elapsed before it was found out that Mills, the late President of the Company, was a defaulter to the amount of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollar, and that he was a defaulter with the knowledge and through the co operation of Rodman. It was discovered at the same time that Rodman himself had taken thirty eight thousand dollars of the funds of the Company, and was virtually a defaulter to that amount, as there was no pretext that he had borrowed the money in the ordinary way. That Rodman was not at once arrested led inevitably to the suspicion that the men associated with him were afraid to move against him, be oause he knew too much. The developments of the last two or three days can hardly be regarded as "sensational;" they are accepted as a confirmation of a general suspicion.

After the disaster to the Trust Company, men who had business at its office saw Rodman moving about with his old business associates as confidential as if he had done nothing to forfeit their good opinion. He was Secretary of the Trust Company and he was Deputy City Treasurer dual positions which made fraud easy to Uim. He betrayed the trust reposed in him in both capacities. Ho was tardily suspended as Deputy City Treasurer he was allowed to go about as he pleased, and if he is to day in Brooklyn it is because he has assurances for his safety of which the public knows nothing. It can hardly be possible that the raids which have been made on the City Treasury could have been kept unknown a day after the character of Rodman was discovered, through the catastrophe which overtook the Trust Company.

The public will distinctly remember that the late Receiver of the Trust Company, as well as those moat largely concerned in its affairs, repeatedly appealed to the depositors with the Company to present their books of deposit so that they might be compared with the entries in the lodgers of the Trust Company. The delay on the part of the depositors was held to account for the delay in ascertaining the exact position of the Company. Well, the largest depositor with the Trust Company was the City of Brooklyn, through the City Treasurer. The amount of its deposit was well known. By direction of the Controller, and in compliance with a law enacted last year, the City Hanks, holding public money, are obliged to send to the Controller weekly, and to scud to the Treasurer weekly a state ment of their balances to the credit of tho city.

It has been the Eagle, for months this weekly statement. tlif custom of past, to publish The balance to the Trust Company for the reason that the credit of the city iu was eryiecially noticalle, it was very large, tud that it lately reached the round sum of half a million dollars. City Treasurer Spragne was, up to within a few weeks past, a director in the Trust Company. He kept his office virtually in the same room. In tho performance of his duty he was there daily, and every hour of the business day.

What more natural than that the very moment he knew Rodman's betrayal of the interest of the Trust Company, he should turn to the ledger of that Company to ascertain if the accounts of the city were all right, and balanced with tho returns made to the Controller and to the public. It appears from the statement of Mr. Warren, the accountant, that the defalcation was self evident. The published returns showed that the city had on deposit in the Trust Company over five hundred thousand dollars. The books of the Trust Company showed a deficiency of between on hundred and two hundred thousand dollars.

Is it conceivable that the City Treasurer made no investigation, while the means of doing so were at his hand Is it conceivable that the Managers of the Trust Company, while advertising for looks held by small depositors, never thought of examining the large account with the city, or having examined it, that the defalcation was not then discovered, and kept from the public So self evident was the discrepancy that the fact comes to light to day that tho lately elected President of the Trust Company was not half a day in charge before he ascertained that the city had no such amount in the hands of the Trust Company as the weekly balances made public seemed to show. Of course there is an explanation of Mr. Schroe der's conduct in keeping the facts from the public for several days, in his desire to give the City Treasurer an opportunity to make good the amount his account was deficient, as it soems he hasdone, but what possible explanation can there be of the course pursued toward Rodman, by Rodman's immediate associates, if Rodman is alone guilty It appears from the statement of ATr. Warren, the accountant, In wot cnlim'tnrl LirlUr Suramin friends, to "Mm 'i Vff''aaa the Treasure! accounts. ftTered on this duty on the 21st inst.

He found that the return of the balances in the Trust Company made after Rodman's suspension, it will be remembered was a little over On referring to the lodger of the Company," says Mr. Warren, the bal "ance in favor of the City of Brooklyn was only a little iu excess of 300,000." Sub sequent investigation showed that the discrepancy was not so large, but this is the state of affairs the accountant found "on reference" to the ledger. It is not jjos sible that the defalcation was unknown up to that time. As late as Wednesday last, Mr. Sprague is on record as stating to a reporter that if there was any real deficit in his ao couts he did not know it.

Rodman cannot be made the scapegoat of all this business any longer. It is shown that one of his alleged defalcations is three years old that the fact was suppressed for all that period by Mr. Sprague, and that the amount of the fraud was mado good by Mr. Sprague himself within the past few days, An innocent tnan so wronged, would have been tempted to tear Rodman to pieces. For three years, Rodman, a known defaulter of public funds, as alleged, is kept in charge of public money.

For thes years, his first apparent defalcation is covered up. Every man is anxious to narrow guilt here as much as possible, but it is not possible to concentrate it upon Jtod man, and give other men who have been closely connected with him credit for intelligence of the meanest order. Mr. Arch ana the Laborers. There lives not upon the face of the earth a mors densely ignorant being than the average English agricultural laborer.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate his benighted condition. The abolition of the curfew boll, perhaps, is the only alleviation of hiB position since the Conquest, and thiB, of course, vas accom plished not only without his aid but in spite of his crass stupidity. "Hodge" in England is worse off in some respects than his naked forefathers in the Kassiterides themselves. His work is of the longest, his pay is of the slenderest, his employers of the harshest, and he himself with his traditional smock frock, his gigantic boots and his vacant grin, seems to have been born into the world, by on anachronism, centuries after Feudalism went to the dogs. In English agricultural districts there are no schools for the children of laborers, there are no means of instruction for them, and at the parish church, they form able in its way as the stupidity that has been manifested in thiB country on the same question, the French authorities imposed very high duties on some products of the soil that were almost indispensable to existence.

The abatement of those duties will diminish the price of bread, and allay a very dangerous discontent, and this measure will probably be resorted to. No sympathy was felt for a white man hanged in California yesterday for the murder of an Indian. The California murderers of Indians naturally feel only disgust for such of their number as get found out, or let themselves be taken. NEWS SUMMARY. Gerrit Smith writes from Peterboro to the Independent that his method of shutting up liquor saloons would be to have government class the dram seller with high criminals, and punish him accordingly.

Mr. 8mith regards absolute prohibition" as "absolute folly," and his views seem Bomewhat confused. Balleni, who dropped into the chasm at Niagara Falls Is a native of Warwickshire, England, and thirty two years old. He is slim built, of medium height and weighs 133 pounds. The representatives of each man killed in the recent car collision known as the Lomont disaster, in lllinoiB, have been paid $5,000 each by the Chicago and Alton Company.

So Bays tho Chicago Post. The Fat Men's Clam Bake at Norwalk, yesterday, was participated in by 143 persons. Their average weight was 230Jf pounds. Mr. W.

Denning, of this oity, weighing 212, Oharles T. Duryea, and Captain P. Smith, of Huntington, L. weighing respectively 247 and 236 were among the guests. Ex Judge David Burnett, of Paterson, N.

died yeBterday, aged 73. He was a man of much local prominence and very highly respeoted. The Iowa train robbers keep pretty well together near their supposed rendezvous in Missouri, occasionally visiting the villages to do a little trading. Citizens stand in owe of them. It is a very healthy Btate of things.

Dr. J. C. M. Showalter, of Baltimore, re ported to be dissipated and quarrelsome, cut his wife's throat laBt evening and then hiB own.

His wife died, and he was removed to a hospital. They kept a boarding house. An old quarrel between Dr. Wm. Titus and Col.

E. L. Price, citizens of Roaeville, N. resulted on Wednesday night in a challenge from Dr. Titus.

The challenge was accepted and bowie knives were to bo the weapons. At Ave o'clock yesterday morning the fight was to come off near Station, but only Col. Price and his second wcro present. The valiant Dr. ovidently preferred to do his carving of human subjects in the dissecting room.

Both men were yesterday required to give bail to keep the peace. A story comes from abroad with a very marine flavor of a boy carriod off by wolves in bis infancy, reared ty thorn, recaptured, and now undergoing a gradual education in the ways of civilization, be ginning with a lunatio aBylum. Except that he walks on all fours occasionally, has long hair, a scarred body, cannot talk or understand a single word, oats raw meat, and bites and snaps at any one who offers to touch him, he iu a very companionable youth indeed. The discovery of gold in Vermont is an au riferous tale that has started on its annual tour. It is located this time about seven miles from Butland on tho Mill Biver.

A wicked man who went fishing the other Sunday on the river a little below Athens, says he has become a fixture to the rock he waB seated on and he cries with extreme pain when his friends attempt to remove him. He has been informed by am "unseen presence" that this punishment is a judgment of the Almighty for Bwearing and Sabbath breaking. More over he is to preach at his own funeral. An Athens pa per tills this story calmly and without prejudice. Count Manderstroem, a Swedish statesman, is dead.

He published during his life several historical and biographioal works. He waB 67 years old. A correspondent of the Herald has inter viewed Crowley, the Springfield, 111., horse doctor, who claimed to know all about Tichborne, not necessarily the claimant, for of that he is suspicious, but the real Tichborne. Prom the published interview, the man Crowley appears to be one of those self complacont buzzers who can talk all day and on all subsequent days of any slight relations they may ever have had with persons who aro wealthy or distinguished. Crowley sim ply claims, however, that ho know tho real Roger Tich lorne, and he could prove that ho know him, and could easily tell whether the claimant is a fraud.

Now why uot scttlo this by asking tho claimant what he knows of Crowley 1 Hon. Elisha Mears was shot and mortally wounded on Wednesday, by some unknown person, while going to hiB home at Clarksville, Ark. He was a Circuit Court Judge, and is reported to hare been on termB of intimacy with a woman whoBe husband didn't like it. It is reported that during the recent hurricane on the Nova Scotian eoast over 100 vessels were driven aBhoro and wrecks on the beach are very frequent. The man "Col." Young, the alleged forger of money orders who escaped from an offlcor tho other day by jumping through the window of a passenger train in rapid motion, has at last been re arrested.

Ho as secreted at the house of his father in law in Arco l.i, Illinois, and there Chicago detectives secured him he had fired at them several times. He was wounded before he would surrender. Wm. Boyce, sixty years old, a wealthy merchant and a Bank President, in Lynn, committed suicide in Boston, on Wednesday, by cutting lus throat in a bath room at tho United States Hotel, He was a Quaker, and there is no known cause for hii act us his life in every relation ia not known to hav had a single trouble. Charles Schultz shot Mary Harnish, yester day, in the jaw and hand, and then (according to tin style prevailing this week), tried to kill himself.

Schultz is a painter, 52 yoars old, and has recently dropped into cigar peddling. Mary refused to abandon her husband lo live with Schultz and hence the difficulty. Son); people would think Schultz rather exacting. The wo man may recover, but Schultz, it ia rather confidently expected, will die. John T.

Irving, as he gives his name, who claims to be a native of Sunnyside, and related to Wash ington Irving, the deceased author, has confessed, to the second mate of the British Bhip Conluskyle, the murder of Mr. Nathan. He is a Bailor and is now in jail at San Francisco. His wife, ho says, is in New York. He describes the murder in detail, and says the proceeds were stock in Pacific Mail and Boston, and Hartford and Erie, a memorandum book and over $0,000.

That memorandum book has the names of Albert Cardozo and two other gentlemen, and several pages ol Hebrew writing. Many of 1tj ungs, in eluding the, um book, he reports to bo at his house in New York, Two Catholic Bishops, Ledoesowski and Koltt, of Berlin. Prussia, have been sentenced to pay fines of two hundred and four hundred tlmlers, re spectively, for appointing clergymen without the ap proval of the authorities. James Campbell, a hotel owner, at Hamp ton, N. was shot dead in a riotom picnic, on Tuos day.

They find in New York, that there is no provision in tho new license law for prosecuting those who sell without a license. John Sharkey was stabbed last night by Michael Hoggerty, at 608 West Thirty seventh street, New York. The men were previously unacquainted with each other, and Haggerty was drunk and quarrel some, Sharkey's recovery is doubtful. Ho ia 30 years of age and married. Haggerty is 38 and also married.

The "veiled murderess," Henrietta Robin son, after Berving eighteen years of a life sentence at Sing Sing, is reported to be mildly but hopelessly in sane, and she has been transferred to Auburn, Wm. Allen, of New York, was running away with a horse and wagon at Paterson, N. when an ofiiper boarded his conveyance and, after a short en counter, the thief jumped out. The officer yelled at him to halt, or he would be Bhot. The thief told him to "shoot and be" (degree'd) and so the officer gave him a uliarp salutation in one leg, He went a few steps farther and gave it up.

He said he never was much of a traveler. The mistake of taking bedbug poison for a medicine ended the earthly career of Stephen Donegan, of Lowell, on Wednesday night. A disastrous fire at Gloucester, at aaearlj hour yesterday morning destroyed property es timated to be worth $80,000, Running into standing trains is the latest novelty in ilroad acoidtnta. The rear of a stock train at the CheBtor Valley, intersection on Wednesday night received the onset of a passenger train. John McDowell, flagman, was killed.

On the same evening the Columbus oipreaa ran into a freight train at Mound ville, Va. The engineer wa killed and two persons were wounded. An aged couple, husband and wife, the former blind, wero both instantly killec! yasterday at Bath, on the Hudson Biver Bailrosd. They com mitted the often fatal riistake of Btepping to the other track to get out of the vrsy of an approaching train. It so happened that a trail was that moment parsing on each track, It is some comfort to report the arrest of Beane, the coal train coiductor who took his cars to the bloody slaughter on thf Chicago and Alton road, the collision whioh the station agent at Lemont listened for that foggy night, There is a dreadful rumor of the capture of Fort Sill in the Indian Territory, by a large body of In dians, and the massacre of nearly half of the Fourth 0, B.

Cavalry, including some women and children. Tho report is discredited at Washington. It appears that the story of the young man Mathias who was said to have died at Westminster, Md, as rejorted yesterday, and returned to life, was Blight, exaggerated. This is the way it is to aay The appearance of his skin led to a difference of opinion among the physiofans as to his death, and this led to a postponement of the funeral. The body has a perfectly natural appearance, and up to last evening no decomposition has been noticeable.

On pressing tho lira with the finger they turn white, and on removing tho finger they resume their natural color. Tho gener al impression is, However, tnat ae aoau ing operations one that will meet a great architectural want, that of affording tho means of the highest orna mentatiou, joined to great solidity and strength, at a coBt far below any other enduring materials." CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS. lis Cities and Villages Described and Visited. Correspondence Eagle. BnooKviKLD, August 27.

Thore are many points of interest and branches of industry in central Massachusetts which are worthy of the attention of the readers of tho Eagle. Worcester, in particular, owing to its rapid growth and advanoenient in wealth and prosperity, resembles Brooklyn in a marked degree. It of course lacks tho population of that city, but its rapid progress in building, its manufactories, and vanouB indUBtnes, gives it air of progress and an appearance of real prosperity second to that cf no town in the country. It haa several lines of street cars, and tite various railroads which centre in the town place it in immediate communication with New York, Boston and neighboring cities of more or less note. Worcester has a park which ia not eo pretentious ob the famous Boston Com mon, but quite as useful; several Institutions of learn ing, two of which are quitj cehbrated and belong to the Catholic and Baptist denominations beside an im posing City Hall and other pullic buildings, and nu merous churches, JUBt now the various railroad companies are erecting an Immense depot for the usiof the various lines which centre in Worcester.

Tho erection of this building will greatly improve a hitherto neglected part of the city In looking oround in Worcester tho stranger will find lorgo manufacturing interests, in which all branches of trade are concerned, and in whioh the prosperity of the city apparently centreu. Great iron works and machine shops are met with at every turn, and Beveral large cotton and other factories may be said to line a water course which passes through its western bounds. The boot and shoe trade, also, has a largo amount of money invested in the business, and the weekly production of goods amounts to several thou sand cases. There are no less than twnty flvo establishments engaged in tho manufacture of bootB and shoes in Worcester, and of this number tho Bay 8Mi Shoe and Leather Company produces no Icbb than one thousand cases of goods weekly. WOBOESTER COVNTY.

The country around Worcester is gcnorally hilly, in point of fact very hilly, and shows but little signs of progress in any particular. To the resident of Brooklyn who is familiar with the country on Long Island, anywhero within twenty miles of the city, its fine im prove me nta arc in pleasing contrast to tho nogleot and wnBtc which is a feature of rural life and scenery in the immediate vicinity of Worcester. On Long Island wo are accustomed to see elegant homes surrounded with faateTully kept grounds and other objeots indicating wealth and refinement on the part of the inhabitants. Even the humble homes on Long Island partake of tho haractcr of the rich and aro noatly kept in every particular. As a contrast tho farm houses eround Worcester are, as a general thing, structures which date from revolutionary times and from appeor iLnces have had no repairs done to them during tho present century.

Tno outbuildings are even moro dilapi dated than the dwellings and the genoral effect ia that of improvidence and neglect. Tho country too, is in keeping with these ancient improvements. The land during past years has boen literally "skinned" of its timber and now itB placo has beon filled with a sort of second growth which in of little value. Between Worcester and Brookfield ono can travel for miles and scarcely bco a farm house. They exist, but are so situated behind the brush whioh grows by the roadside, that they are out of sight.

The growth of urush on tho route is also unsightly and shows a want of thrift on the part of the people which is anything but pleaBaut to see in a country which makes bo many pretentions to wealth and refinement. This state of affairs is due to tho fact that nearly tho entire population of central Maseaehussetta Is engaged in manufacturing, and boots and shoes are the mam productions of the country, The towns aud villages are filled with foctories, and every other farm house is a shoe shop, and acts as a tender to the larger establishments. A now immijira tiou of farmers might improve the charaoter of the farming lands in thiB acction of the state, but the im provement would only prove temporary, as tha manu facturing Ib so much moro lucrative, that it soon attracts tho attention of the new comers. BBOOKPIELD. The western part of Worcester County ia divided into several hamlets, one of which is designated as abovo, and the others have tho prefix, to designate them from the parent town, of East, West, North or South, as the case may be.

Those villages are manufacturing towns solely, and, unuko the country plaoes in our own state, receive no support from tho inhabitants of their immediate neighborhood. North Brookfield Ib probably one of tho most thriving of this cluster of villagos, and uas one oi me largest neot and snoe manufacturing es tablishments in the State. It employs fourteen hun dred men and girlB in its Beveral departments and turns out about fifteen hundred coses of finished work weekly. This village, asido from ita great boot and shoe works, is one of the moat attractive places in the neighborhood of Worcester. It haa a large and well planned hotel, numerous beautiful villa residences, a town hall and several churches, Tho village green is ornamented with a large aud tm THlfiinc monument of am frrnnttA TuKlnl, n.

'TTTZn sculptor, named Milmoro, and ia quite equal in its sculptured beauty to any monumental work In Green wood. The viow from the hills on which this village is situated, is one of great boauty, and makes a summer's sojourn here very enjoyable. The drives aro fine iu every direction, and if the viBitor misses the beautiful farming lands of Central Now York, he will yet find much to admire in the numerous pretty manufacturing villages which show in every direction. OTHER VILLAGES. East Brookfield is situated on tho line of tki Boston and Albany railroad, ond about four miles in a southeasterly direction from North Brookfield, Thore is a delightful artificial lake or pond in tho centre of this village, which forma a pleasant feature in tho scenery.

The all absorbing manufacturing business, however, takes up the entire attention of tho people, and therefore tho attractiveness of this lovely shoot of wator is entirely unappreciated except by the strangors who may be sojourning in the town. South Brookfield has a little lake, which is still more boautlful than the one above mentioned. It is a natural pond, andisqultea resort for fishermen. This villago also boasts of its monster shoe faotory, and haB in addition many of minor importance. The work produced at thoso faotorleB ishardly adapted for tho Brooklyn trade, but rathor for that of the Western States.

However, some of it is neatly mado and finished, and fit to be worn anywhere. Spencer, a neighboring village on the east, shows many improvements which partake of a metropolitan character. It has a fine hotel of modern construction, a large town hall, a commodious academy building quiil in size and convenience to the best school structure in Brooklyn, and four stores. Its streets are also lighted with oil. The boot and shoo mauufaoturing business is the leading olement of trade hore and upward of two thousand cases of goods are sent weekly to the New York and Boston markets.

Spencer has also a spirited weekly journal, a cotton mill and numerous other manufacturing establishments. For tha entertainment of its inhabitants it has a free public library and Beveral benevolent societies. Charlton, which Is another member belonging to this interesting group of villages, bears more of an agrieul tural charaoter than any of its neighbors. It has only one boot and shoe factory, and that is of minor impor rsnoo when compared with the great establishments in the neighboring towns. A SUMtfEB BEBORT.

There Is no part of Massachusetts which presents more attractions for the Summer visitor than Charlton and tho towns around It. The situation is hilly and pictureeque in the higheBt degree, and abounds to pleasant walks md drives, Tho ground, aa may bt expected, Is high and the air ia pure and braoing. Mag gitt Hill (what a name) is a young mountain in fact and lies Bbouta mil east of Charlton village. II Is the highest point of land between Worcester and Springfield, and from Its summit tho view takes In Worcester and many other villages, and ft one of great beauty. The neighborhood is already a favorite Summer resort, and among the preeent visitors are several families from Brooklyn There are numerous brooks and millponds scattered throughout the country, and pickorel, peron and bull, heads or "pout" abound in all of them, and fumish.fair sport.

The pine groves furnish shelter for putridges and rabbits, and during the shooting season, whioh begins October first, there is a promise of good sport in that direction also. All of 'these villages aro within a distance of from fourteen to sixteen miles from Worcester and easy of acceaB by the New York and Boston Eailrood line. Soulhbrldge is a thriving village of several thousand inhabitants, situated on the Boston and Flshklll or Erie Baflroad, about six miles south Worn Charlton and fifteen miles southwest from Worcester. To those who wish to spend the coming month In the country Worcester County, will be found a de lighttu BDQt, The Sinning Season. If any one doubts that this is the age of investigation he does not read the newspapers.

During the winter time the Legislatures and Congress can be relied upon to conduct about fifty investigations at the same time. These last over into Spring and early Summer. But the season of vacation has not realized its name this year so far as Brooklyn ia concerned. Something and somebody have been under investigation all the time. The offal contract and Edward Clark, the Commissioners of Charities, and Messrs.

Powell and Wills and Scott, the Trust Company and E. S. Mills, the City Treasury and Rodman, and the Jail bills and the Sheriff, have played important and exciting parts in investigation. Some are playing them none of them are completely through investigation, though it has been suspended in the cases of some. A fair illustration of the account to which public offenders are being held, was furnished in yesterday's Eagle and is continued in to day's.

The Commissioners of Charities were held up to sufficient ridicule and condemnation by the faithful report of their own doings. Commissioner Cunningham does not fill the bill of capacity laid down for a Commissioner of the period, for he neither steals nor likes stealing in others. He entitled himself yesterday, however, to public gratitude because he did not equal his colleagues in their peculiar qualities, and because he did succeed in exposing their rascality to the fullest extent. We defy any man to read the report of the Charities' meeting yesterday, and then insist on the honesty of the men exposed, without his reason giving the lie to his words. Contemporaneous with the Charity corruption, was the record of the robberies of Rodman.

And iu company with the farther record of the latter, to day comes I the report of the investigation into the Sheriff's office. Surely Brooklyn sups full of the facts of fraud. We do think ihnt those who have been unable to trace resemblances between Brooklyn and other places will have less difficulty. We wish they had more. The straits to which the County was put yesterday to get the truth about the Sheriff's bills are unpleasantly significant.

There is more than an odor of ashes about burnt ashes. There is an odor of Tammany. The only way left to prove or disprove the bills paid was to contrast the bills charged with the amount of subsistence rendered, on the terms in whioh the bills are made out. That course was adopted, and it was made too plain that more food was attributed by tho implication of bills to prisoners than had ever been furnished to the County. This is but a natural incident to a now conceded habit of getting more money for prisoners than the Sheriff has incurred of expense for their board much more than any ordinary profit would explain.

Of this habit of charging board when none, or le3s than the amount charged, can be shown, of the like habit of charging parts of days as whole days, we doubt not that the present and former Sheriffs would conclude "that the least said the "better." The same remark holds good of the burning of those vouchers, despite the plausible case suggested on behalf of it. But folks will talk about it, and the opinion of the right sort of people is that the practice of constructive maintenance is not justified, because it was inherited from former Sheriffs, and because former Sheriffs are claimed to have made a better thing out of it than the present Sheriff. Nor are people surprised that the burning of vouchers has prevailed about as long as the habit of overcharging for board. The two things mate with one another. Unless facts change very much under further inquiry this investigation was not begun a moment too soon.

The whole round of exposure which our reports pursue is not creditable to the morality of the official life of this city. In points these exposures are notable. They involve men of all grades of culture or pretension. They tbose baptized as reformers are i'ess embarrassed than the coarser publicans who never claimed to be as good as they might, or better than they should. We think the showing as a whole is mortifying, and our consolation is that the rebound of public virtue will be as high as the tone of official life has sunk low.

The people are sound, and such persons, high and low, as have not resembled them in that respect, will find it out. A local Sir Boyle Roche, not long ago, said that the axe is to be laid at the root of the tree, and that we are to got back to first principles. We think he was about right. The New York papers print to day long reports of the fat men's clam bake. Such affairs were funny once, but they have become a tremendous bore.

The general gauziness of the story published this morning of the voluntary confession of another is it the last of three dozen of Mr. Nathan's murderers will impress itself on the minds of most readers. It is not improbable that some lunatic, with the assistance of a blarneying Bohemian in San Francisco, has related the marvelous tale, but there is something shocking and repulsive in seeking to make an ephemeral sensation from the wreck of a man's brain. Hodman's doctor says he had the intermittent fever. That's the wrong disease for Bod man.

If he should have an attack of remittent, now, there would be some cents in it. Citizens of Newburgh, with soma assistance from the War Department, propose to arrest the decay of the old headquarters of Washington, contiguous to that city and preserve it as a place of pilgrimage for future generations. Is there never anything to be done in Brooklyn to keep from going to ruin the three or four different headquarters of Washington that are said to be still lingering here Prospect Park is in itself a fine memorial of the battle of Long Island, so faithfully described by the lamented "Corry Olianus," but our several headquarters of Washington are much neglected. The Great Eastern continues at work grappling for the lost cable. When the Hliad of ocean cteam Berries is written, this grand old continent linker's name, lute Ben Adhem's, will lead all the rest.

The prospect that New York and Brooklyn will hear "Ida" and "Lohengrin" this season, grows small, because Max Strakosoh began to promise to produce them last night. Such premises hayo been mado before, and, broken.