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I oame tbe women were fighting? bnt they didn't hit one BUSINESS NOTICES. sea. The Western' District of Brooklyn will FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1878. are Rev. Mr.

Reed, of tho Hanson place Churoh; Rev. A. S. Hunt, of the First placo Churoh; Rev. George Taylor, of the "Sands, street Church, and Rev.

Emory J. Ifayriiss, of the Seventh avenue Churoh. The Conference appears to have done its important duties with what seems to bo wisdom, though of that time must be the test. Good feeling on the whole has prevailed, and the interests of the great denomination, in one of the greatest of the Conferences, are in a condition of prosperous progress and growth. Sloto and seller In the comedy of "The Mighty Dollar," now being played at the Brooklyn Theatre, Mr.

William J. Florence has identified his considerable powers with a character which has much comical and some political value. The part stands out as distinctly as that of Mark Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers. The two rolts will be regarded as the most original and diverting of any which have recently been struck out by at least any American dramatists and actors, and while there are incidental resemblances between them, the differences are graphic and fundamental. Readers will easily perceivo that Sellers is in a sonso a creation and Slote a photograph.

Like materials enter into each, in considerable degree, but the originating fecundity of Sellers is wholly wanting in Mr. Slote. Mr. Sellers is always trying to make something which will make money. Money itself is all that Mr.

Sloto wishes to void, the Supreme Court maiDtalrdng the va 'lidlty of the act, declares1 that the aet msiea it the duty of tho State Executive to cause a fugitive from, Justice to be delivered, up, and that as the duty of the Governor of the State where the fugitive was found, Is' In such eases merely without the Tight to exercise either executive or Judicial discretion, he could not lawfully isano a warrant to arrest an Individual without a law of tho State or Congress to authorize it." There aro no laws of the State to authorize the acta specified In the act of The Governors and their agents ore compelled therefore ta rsly upon the statute of the United States for authority to do the acts required thereby, and the statute of the United States affords them Justiflcatlan. It seems Impossible therefore, to hold that when they so act they act otherwise than In pursuance of a law of tbe United States. In so acting they but discharge an absolute obligation created by a law of tho United States, which they are bound to perform and for whioh there is no other law, and their acta are none the lass acts done in pursuance of a law of the United States, because, aa decided in "Kentucky vb. Dennison," there is no power in the General Government to use ooercive measures.to compel performance. This view of the scope of section 763 appears to be In harmony with tho objeot of the statute which plainly Is intended to afford to aft persons arrested tor acta done in discharge of obligations to the United States and" arising under the Constitution and laws thereof, a summary method of obtaining release from unjust Imprisonment.

Certainly thoso are entitled to suoh protection and clearly within the Bplrit of the act who. In conformity with a law of tho United States, exercise that portion of THE DELICATE AND IMPORTANT POWER in respect to fugitives from justice gran tod by tbo Constitution to the National Government, whioh has been soiled Into operation by the aot of 1793 a power of necessity belonging to the National Government, but which operates largely, II not exclusively, in the interest of harmony between tbe States. Entertaining these views, which find support in the case of "Smith" (3d Mahon, p. 131), I am bound to hold that the petitioner 1b entitled to require of this Court a writ of habeas corpus, to the end that an Inquiry be hod into the oauses ol the restraint of his liberty. A further question presented by tho petition has been diacuBsea upon this motion, and may here be decided, it arises out of tbe matter charged in the Indictment which accompanied the requisition of thb Governor of Arkansas, and dlsoloBefl te Judicial proceeding in Ar kvw pon wnlch ttD surreT; offtQ fusitlve was demanded.

The contention upon the Indictment Is that it Is nil indlotment found by the Grand Jury of Ashley County, Arkansas, and undertakes to charge McDonald with a crime not cognizable by any Court of the State of Arkansas, the charge being subornation of perjury committed within such Slate In procuring one Martin to commit willful perjury within said State before a United States Commissioner in a deposition taken by suoh Commissioner to be used in an action then pending between said McDonald and tbe United States, This indictment, It is said, la void, because it charges no crime within the jurisdiction of a grani jury of the State of Arkansas, and renders all the proceedings taken IN BEGABD TO THE SUBBBHDEB OF THE FUaiTIVB void whence, it is concluded, that the sets performed by the petitioner cannot be held to be sots done In pursuance of a law of tbe United States. But, I cannot accede to this view. If it be true that it is competent for this Court to look into the indictment transmitted by the Governor of Arkansas and authenticated by him, and It this Court can bo called upon to determine whether a crime has been charged therein in the manner required by the laws of the State of Arkansas, and whether as matter of law subornation of porjury oommitted within tbe Stato of Arkansas oan by the laws of tbo State ot Arkansas be made an offense against the laws of that State, when the perjury is committed beforo a United States Commissioner in a deposition taken to bo used In a Court of tbe United States. Still it cannot be that the petitioner, who Is simply a messenger ot the Governor of the State of Arkansas and who is not alleged to have done otherwise than is required by his commission was bound io look into tbe Indictment and required at his peril to determine whether it charged a crime within tho meaning of the laws of the United States. The petitioner did not arrest the fugitive nor demand his arrest.

The arrest was made by direction of the Governor of the State of New York upon the demand of tho Governor of Arkansas. And if there can be said to have been anything done by the petitioner in respect to tho arrest or the fugitive whioh could render him liablo in an action for malicious prosecution, his acts are plainly ministerial, and he is justified therefor by the directions of the Governor. Tbe jurisdiction of the Executivo of tho State over tho subject matter is oloar, and tho petitioner has done no more than is prescribed to be done by the laws of tho United States, acting under the directions of the Executive, who by tbo same law was authorized to give such direction. No personal liability was therefore incurred. Nor is the cose changed by the allegation that tho motives actuating tbe petitioner wero malicious.

So long as tho acts done wore within tho scope of the authority conferred upon him, and justified by the laws of the United States, it matters not what feelings the petitioner entertained toward tho fugitive, nor what result he hopod would follow from the action taken by tho Governor of tbe State. My determination therefore is, that tbe petitioner is entitled to his writ of habeas corpus, as prayed for. For the petitioner, John J. Alloa, opposed, Algernon S. Sullivan and ox Judge Kay.

VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS. STATE "ASp POTTED 8TATB3 AUTHORITY. JdOge Benedict's Bevlew el the Mc Dohaiaxaae Am Intetejtlntf and ISjc natutlrejAccount of (lie taiti Belaid lng to trie Extradition of FnKltlTes From one Stat to Another. Ajew phase has been given to the subject ol extradition aad the Jurisdiction of the State Courts over matters connected therewith by the decision of Judge Benedict oat rendered In the United Stataa Court. The Eaoijs has given fall accounts, from time to time, of the proceedings oonnected with the attempt to extradite Augustine B.

McDonald from this State. UoDouald was Indicted in Arkansas for subornation of pe Jnry In testunos presented by him to substantiate claim he had against the United States. Me Donald, who Is a British rabjeet, presented to the Commission at Washington under the treaty with Great Britain, a claim of some $300,000 for cotton alleged to have been destroyed by the Ctorernmeni during the war. Testimony relating to the claim was taken In Arkanaas before a United Stales Oommissioa er, and the truth ol the same being questioned, McDonald waa indicted in Arkansas by the Grand Jury of Ashley County for subornation of perjury in procuring tht same. Thereupon the Governor of Arkansas issued a requisition to the Governor of New York requesting the extradition of McDonald, tad also commissioned General H.

B. Titus, the agent of the State, to prooaed to Hew York and see that McDonald was returned to Arkansas for trial. General Titus presented the petition to Governor Tilden who issued a mandate to the Sheriff of Kings County, who arrested MoDonald In Brooklyn. Thereupon Judge Ray of Washington and B. T.

Wood, counsel for MoDonald obtained from Judge Gil the Supreme Court, a writ of habtat corpus, and after argument by the counsel named, and John J. Allen, who appeared for the 8tate of Arkansas, Judge Gilbert deolded thai fc? had Jhe power to pass, upon the sufficiency of the indioimenCanS as hat visa invalid, by reason of defects in form and want of jurisdiction on the part of the State Courts of Arkansas OTer the subject matter, THE PBOOBBDINOS FOB XXTBASTnON could not be lawfully BUitained, and McDonald was accordingly discharged. Meanwhile, finding that Mo Donald could probably be discharged for the reason, among others, that his offense being against United States laws was outside of the Jurisdiction of tbe Arkansas State Courts, General Titus presented proofs before United States District Attorney Tenney, who atones initiated proceedings for the arrest of McDonald for violation of Unltod States laws. McDonald was again arrested, and gave bail before Unltod States Commissioner Winslow, in $10,000, and his examination has been in progress eiaoe and is.not yet concluded. During tho interval between his dlschargo by Judge Gilbert and second arrest, McDonald had not suffered time to waste, but, in searoh of redress for the grievance of his arrest at the instance of the two Governors, brought suit in the New York Supreme Court against General Titus, tho State agent, for 130,000 damages for false Imprisonment and mallolom prosecution, and an order of arrest was issued by Judge Lawrence, of New York, holding General Titus in 110,000 ball.

The General philosophically submitted to the imposed detention, regarding his position ss that of a prisoner of State, and, after communicating with the Governor of Arkansas, applied to Judge Benedict, of the United States District Court, for a writ of habecu corpus and release under the United States laws. The question, thus presented Is a norel one, and ol Interest as touching the JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS over arrests in civil suits mado by order of the State Courts. Thero is an apparent ooniuct of Unltod States and State Jurisdiction. Thero is also presented tho spectaolo ol a ministerial ofUcer of one State, while engaged in another State in prosoouting tee object of his mission, arrested and placed in confinement therefor by the courts of the Stato whose Chief Executive has countenanced his acts and granted him othoial aid. Interstate comity, it would seem, should prevent this.

But as the States have no such sovereign capacity as enables them to treat with each other and arrange among themselves for the extradition of fugitives, the General Government by law of Congress regulates the matter, and the Governors of tho States thuB merely administer the United States laws. By a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, rendered just before the war, a Governor is lett iree to oomply with or refuse the request of another for the extradition of a.f ugitlve. That case was a demand by Kentucky upon Ohio FOB THE BETOBH OF A FUGITIVE SHAVE. Governor Dennison, of Ohio, refused to act, and the United States Supreme Court was asked to compel him. Tho defendants of State sovereignty were then already fanning the flames of rebellion, and the coercive power of the General Government was but cautiously maintained.

Kentucky, on tho border line, wavered betweon the inclination to assert her own indepondenoo of United States rule and the deBire to have Ohio oom pellod to return her fugitive slaves. The Supreme Court, although politically Democratic, sought as ever to avert rebellion and pacify tho States, and in an exhaustive review of the subject curiously declared that while tho General Government could not compel a State to extradite a fugitive, it, nevertheless, had the sole power to determine under what circumstances and in what manner proceedings for extradition should be had. Political exigency evidently controlled the action of the Supremo Court, and whother, at the present time, such a decision would bo rendered If the question oould ariso anew may be doubted. THE EXTBADITION OF FUGITIVES from State to State would seem, therefore, to be a matter of Interstate comity'; but the State officers, when they see Qt to aet, are proteoted by oentral power of the General Government. The present case was decided after full argument by oounsel, John J.

Alien, appearing for the petitioner, and Algernon B. Sullivan and ex Judge Bay opposed, and as the questions involved are somewhat novel and of general interest tho opinion of the Court is given In full as follows U. 8. District Ooubt. Eabtebk Distsiot op Nsw Yobs.

Tn the tnalttr of Iht petition of H. L. Tittuor MVIJSTIQATIOK. irjanofcmont of tbe House of the Good Shepherd Testimony Taken Before the UomtnlUbe of the Board of. Supervisors, at the Jail Keeper Stin son on the Character of His Female Boarders What the Female Captives Have to Say Who Have Been Inmates of the House of (he Oood Shepherd Inspection of the Jail A Bad Condition of Things.

The Special Committee of Investigation into the management of tho House of tbe Good Shepherd, composed of Supervisors Stihrell, Moran, Hawkes and Nathan, met yesterday at Raymond Street Jail. TESTIMONT OF KEETEB 8TINSOH. Head Keeper Thomas A. Stlnson, being Bworn, said, he had been keeper of the Raymond street Jail for nearly two years and eight months there were about ninety female prisoners in the Jail, occupying twenty seven cells the majority were oommitted for intoxication there wore very few persons between tbe agos of fourteen and thirty years oommitted the intoxication law oommitted them for ton days; the women were employed to scrub and clean tho prison; some of them bad been recommitted very olten "rounders" they were styled; they were persons who when released got drunk again and were recommitted. To Sup.

Nathan They had esses of persons who were In the House of the Good Shepherd being recommitted to the Jail; thero were religious servioes held on Sunday in tho Jail and traots and papers were distributed among the prisoners; no trade was taught to ths prisoners; thoy had persons now in the Jail who had been in the House of the Good Shepherd. To Sup. Hawkes I should judge there are about ninety four fomale prisoners in hero at present; there are fifty four female cells of different sizes; sometimes there are as high as six persons in ono cell, sometimes four; they are not looked up in the cells; they can go from cell to cell, and the first thing I liuowl find nine or ton of them together in ono cell; tho coses we have had from the House of the Good Shepherd are habitual drunkards, I think. Sup. Hawkes What reformatory measures do yon ploy 7 Thero Is nothing more than Christian ladies come bore and disfributo tracts; I know of no oases ot leforjnatiou in the Jail.

Sup. Sawkefl J5o BU ipjfk thoy would have a better chance of reformlnaf heroM IW iEtn in the House of ths Good Shepherd'? A. I don't think it would mako any difference where they wont; they would hardly reform anywhere; I must say thoy ore very quiot hero they ore turned out in the hall to get sonio frosb air; to lock them up In the colls would be cruel I have been called in to stop quarreling among them thero are no cells of punishment. Sup. Hawkes Would you confine a young girl who was sent down for her first offense in the same place as the others oocupy A.

I would not believe In associating young girls who are likoly to fall with tho others. To Bup. Nathan He didn't know that ten days wero sufficient to effeot a reformation; escapes from the Jail were very seldom; two men and two women had escaped last year; the two men were returned, and the women had escaped to Canada. To Sup. Moran I oouldn't Bay what was the cost ef maintaining prisoners in the jail.

To Sup. Hawkes Tho two women escapod during the night. They were in their cells at II o'clock. To. Sup.

Moran Habitual drunkards could bo committed for thirty days, and vagrants fur six months. Sup. Moran Aro you aware that the actual cost of supporting prisoners here is fifty eight cents par day A. No I havo nothing to do with the aooouuts I know that the county pays thirty five cents a day for tho food of each prisoner. To Sup.

Hawkoa The Catholio priest does not come here now; Father MoElroy used to oome to visit prisoners and talk to thorn, as a father should ho advised them to lead better lives, and induoe thorn to tako the pledgo, but tbe next time he came he found tbo same parties recommitted tor lntoxloatlon, so he became tired and said there wob no use in coming the turnkey's fees were seventy five cents thero was a misunderstanding about this amount; somo thought that overy timo they turned a koy on a prisoner the obarge was Beventy fivo cents this was not so on each commitment they oharged seventy five cents ho would not want to send a girl who needed reform eithor to the Penitentiary or jail; the chances of reformation wore very little. To Sup. Moran Any kind of a respectable person was not placed with tho others. At the close of Mr. Btinson's testimony Sup.

Moran suggested that tho persons who had once been in the House of tho Good Shepherd might bo called before the Committee to give evidence. He was anxious to ascertain all that tbey could concerning the institution, Mr. Stinson conducted several women from the cells, whose filthy attire and oountenancos entitlod them to appclatlons of "rounders and swellheads," which the Keoper conferred on them. TESTIMONY OF FEMALE PBISONBBS. Ellen Smith was sworn, sho testified substantially as follows My name is Ellen Smith; I am forty years of ago; when at home I hve at G5 Floet plaoe; I have been committed for twonty nino days for iutoxioation, by Justice Hiloy; I was in tbo House of tho Good Shepherd; I went there to break off drinking liquor.

Sup. Stilwoll What reformatory measures do they adopt there 7 A. Oh, they are very goad for praying 1 wouldn't go in there again unless I was taken in dead tbo food was vory light, but we had to work hard. To Hup. Nathan I went there of my own accord I rang tho door boll of tho convont a mother or sister csma to the door and asked ma what I wanted I told her that I wanted to remain to break off taking liquor she told me to come in, and Bbe wont and called tbo Mother Muperior who uBked me If willing to stay; I said that I was she said It was no use coming in unions I was willing to stay I left myself when I told a Sistor that I wanted to go away and asked her for my clothos, she refused to give them she sold "Yon don't want to romaln because you don't want to punish your body I wont to see the Mother Superior aud told her that I wanted to go stis said "Why do you want to go away, my onild 7" I aald I couldn't stand tho work you have to be up beforo daylight in tho morning and you are obliged to work all day it was nothing but working and praying all the time aud going blind with the work; to be sure thero was oloanncss and religion.

To Sup. Hawkes It is one year Blnoo I lett the House of the Good Shepherd THIS IS MX FOUBTH TIME TO BE IN JAIIi Blnce; I was not in tho new building, but the frsme house at East Now York; I keep the prison clean; when tbey want a gang ot women to clean the jail wo are taken out; we have religious sorvioes in the jail on Sunday; I don't go to church; not All tb female prisoners go to church; we don't see much bad example here. Sup. Nathan Did the praying in the House of the Good Shopherd do you much goodl A. Tho praying didn't have much effect on mo, 1 BuppoBO because the Ould Boy" was too near to mo; I havo hoard worse language in tbo Houso of the Good Shepherd than I ever heard in the jail; I have heard the young girls there abuse thoso Sisters and call them anything but ladles; you know there are wild young girls.

Sup. Nathan Have you known anybody to escape from the Penitentiary 7 A. I saw a Httlo girl jump from the fifth story window; thoy called hor l'ankoo Nellie; Bhe wauled to leave and they wouldn't let her, so ono ovening, when wo were going to bed, she now out of the window; the next morulng sho was found all bleeding, was brought in and thon eont to St. Peter's Hospital; when she was cured they brought her back again; she is in tho Houso of the Good 8hephord now; she Is all dlBUtiured and doesn't want to loave. To Hup.

Morsn 1 have rocelvod a dreBB and a pair of shoes from Mr. Stinson; six months ago I also received a dress and pair of shoes from him; he is a very kind hearted man; the food in tho Jail Is good. KATE MCGOVEBN'S TESTIMONY. Eate McQovern, being sworn, said substantially as follows: I om 21) yours of age; I was living in No. 101 Pearl street; I havo boon committed to the Jail for Intoxication; I have beon in tho House of the Good Shepherd; I aBliod to bo committed there for four mouths, to euro myself from taking liquor; I got tired of it; I took charge of ihe classroom and looked over tho work; tbe food was not vory good; sometimes tho girls would fight; I got a severe oold aud was allowed to remain night and day for a wholo weok without any attendance; the S.sters would not allow mo to He on my bed during the day when I was sick, and lest I might spoil the looks of tho dormitory, I had to lie on the floor; I was out ol the House of the Good Shopherd ono day when 1 was arrested for being drunk; tuo SlsterB got tho worst kind of abuBe from the girls; tho girls would fhttit among themsolves ooming from the chapel; thoy would jump right up from the eewiug machiaea and flxlit and punch ope another in the snoot; I was in thero ono week when I got tired of tho place; I diet not ask to go out.

To Sup. Nathan I wouldn't ask to go out, becauso I thounht it was no uso: tho girls would light until thoy versary exercises are usually in the afternoon; and it would require a great number of oara to accommodate bo many and to get them there at a seasonable time. The' return from there would be even more inconvenient if not impossible, from the fact that the oars are usually full at such times with those returning from their business pursuits in New Tork. The expense would be greatly increased to the Sunday schools, and needlessly bo to some of them. The pleasure to be had in the church after the march would be far greater to the children than a great promiscuous gathering in the Park, and the comfort of all concerned would be greater if no additional responsibility were imposed.

The teaohers have all they care to undertake in the wey of responsibility now. The children find the major share of their pleasuro in the parade, and if that is denied them they will take less comfort in the day than they have heretofore. It will detract from their importance to remove them to the Park at a time when they have been acous tomed to have all the oity give up its time and attention to them, and to own and possess tho sidewalks as entirely as though they had right and title and foe simple to the city. And, all things considered, it seems hardly the wisest, the safest or the best thing to change the old plan for the proposed new one, or to make any other one than the present; for the reason that no new one could be devised that would make the children so happy; give their parents somuoh pleasure, and cost in time, strength and means as little bb the present vay of celebrating the children'Bjajmiversary day, pood Friday. The Lonten Fast draws to a' close, and today the Christian Church commemorates the Cross and Passion of her Lord.

Born of a Hebrew maiden, in the reign of Augustus, the golden age of Roman literature and empire, the life of Jesus of Nazareth has exercised a more abiding influence upon humanity and civilization than all the triumphs of the Ctosare. It is oertain from Josephus that Herod the Great died some four years previous to the date assigned, since the sixth century, for the birth of Christ, and, as that birth occurred in Herod's reign, it is generally conceded that the Christian era is placed four years too lato. We are thus really living in tho yoar 1880 of Christianity. The life of Jesus is oonspiouousfor its brevity. Other great teaohers, as Soorates, have reached a ripe old age before their martyrdom, but in thirty three years, only three of which were spent in public ministry, the course of Christ was run.

The picture which, with such minor differences of detail as attest veracity, the evangelists have drawn of His last hours, is the most pathetic in all history. Longfellow has said of the death of the great Captain of our age, whose victories were of another sort, "Nothing in Nature's aspect Intimated Tint a groat man was dead," But as the soul of Jesus made its painful way to God, an earthquake shook the hill of Calvary, or Golgotha, on which his cross was reored, the templo's vail was ront, and though tho Paschal moon was at its full, a pall of darkness brooded on the sterile land. Tears fall eaoh year upon the page that tells the story, except perhaps from those modern apa thists to whom tho stern centurion and the penitent thief are a rebuke. "Stabat mater dolorosa, Juxta orucem, lacrjmoua, Dam pendobat Alius" "thero stood by the cross of Jesus, in that "hour, his mother and his the "wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene." He bow their tears, and with tho sublime unselfishness which no other character in history has yet approached, addressed them with the sorrowful but tender words: "Weep not for "me, weep for yourselves, daughters of Jerusalem!" The tramp of Vespasian and of Titus already sounded in his ear. Turning to Mary and to John, "behold thy mother," and "behold thy son," was his last legacy and office of affection.

Whatever may be the divisions of Christendom, while the opposing sections of mono physites, the Unitarians who see only man, and the Swedenborgians who see only God in Him, seom divided as tho poles, snrely if both look on a day like this at that bleak Jewish hill they would "bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all," No other head has worn a crown like His. The empire which He founded is greater than that of Julius and Augustus the kingdom of hoaven which Ho set up on earth surpasses that of all the Herods of Judoa. His salvation is forever; His righteousness never to bo abolished; His dominion from sea' to sea His kingdom, as truly as right must hove the final victory of wrong, "ruloth over all." "How much oweBt thou unto my Lord?" might the churoh at such a time as this, ask of the nations of the world. "Your own poets, it might say, "have hymned His praises; your own Statesmen have built up "on his plan; your own historians have con fossedhis mighty influence for good. But for Josus Christ, ns tho candid sceptic, F.

W. Newman, confesses, woman might still have been no more than man's sensual toy and "voluptuous appondago. But for Christ, pity might still hovo been what it was to Son eco and tho best heathen moralists of old, an infirmity to be subdued or a vice to be condemned. But for Christ's spirit in the world where would bo those hospitals whioh tho sceptic Gibbon confesses wore the offspring of His church? But for Christ thoso moral virtues which Socrates and Marcus Aurolius and Epictetus so nobly taught and practiced had wanted their perfect incarnation. The aspirations of the soul findin him their truo direction.

Purifying the Die from sensuality and selfishness, he built for us tho homes in whioh affection and industry aro centered and gave to Christian marriage its sacramental constancy, its "sweet "ness" and its "light." He ennobled poverty and hardship and self denial and his spirit looks at us to day from overy good man's eyes. Tho silent martyrs whose names are never known derive their strength from him, 08 well as those who swell the church's calendar and have won names to livo on the scaffold and in the flame. All dogmatic morality and austere pretensions that reject Him will die as Jewish Pharisaism died of its own vain glory and conceit. To Jesus wo owe our holiest philosophy of life, tho ties and union of the family, and of tho brotherhood of man based in the Heavenly Fatherhood. As Ernest Kenan confesses, "There has b.

en but "ono Jesus Christ, and there will never be "another." His fragrance fills the world and makes "the desert blossom as the and another wey were not cursing we lames wanted ner to take a rod card to no to some home to got a situation; Bhe would have nothing to do with their cards. Sophia OafDn, twenty years old, testified to much the same state of affairs at toe House of Ihe Good Shephord an the previous witnesses she had been sent to Jail for lntoxloatlon about two dozen times; sbo didn't think she should reform until ahe had mado up her mind to do so tbe prisoners in tho all behaved themselves better than the girls In the House of the Good Shepherd. 8np. Hawkes Do you believe In any religion 7 A. I don't bolleve in any religion when I drink.

Sup. Nathan Tell me, Sophia, isn't there anything weighing on your mind Sophia broko out into a laugh and said: Nothing that I know of. Sup. Hawkes Why dont you go to some church Sophia Because I think tbo ohuroh would loll on mo so long aa I am not worthy to enter there. To Sup.

Moran I was discharged on Thursday last and arrested again on Saturday for being drunk. Sup. Moran Where do you get money to buy liquor! Sophia Where dol get money I I pick it up on tho streot sometimes I find it, I suppose. This closed the investigation. INSPECTION OF THB JAIL.

The Committee, having agreed to meet again at the call of the Chair, inspected the female prison. Keeper Stinson acknowledged there was need of a new Jail; so the Committee thought. Young and old wero classed together. A mother, with hor small children, minglod with "rounders" and "swell heads," In one oell a poor unfortunate girl lay Btretched on the floor, with hor head resting on a straw bed, apparently Bleeping off a drunk. In another, from which a stench was emitted that almost made ono vomit, wero seen young girls, huddled together on their beds in tho centre of the floor vice was stamped on tholr countenances.

There a coterie of old reprobates sat gossiping or doing a little Bewlng. The straw beds lav on the floor no sheeting, nothing 1 at two dark blankets over them. The reporter askod one of tho prisoners how many persons slept In a cell 7 sno answerea tnai some times nine or ton siept mere. "But you have only two bedB here," romsrked the reporter. "Well, the othors," she said "go out and sleep In tho oorridor they lie.

down on tho floor." Tho Almshouse or the Kings County Nursery Building In its worst days never presented such a picture of squalor and human degradation, nor gave forth so foul a stenoh. It is only justice, nowovor, to say that neither tho Sheriff nor his keeper is responsible for this Btate of affairs. It is a marvel to all who have visitod this vile hole how human beings can subsist there for any length tlmj or Jjyw Uje ogjiaU can waf3 oil Ihe nlagtie. CUIIRENT EVENTS. Two ex ministers and three archbishops, of the Kingdom of Greece, hsve been Impeaohed for oor ouption and Blmony, and punished with imprisonment and heavy fines.

A battle has recently oocurred between the French TroopB and tbe insurgents in Algeria, in which the latter were dofeated with the loss of 600 killed and wounded, inoluding tbeir leader. The Bosnian insurgents and Turkish troops fought a battle recently near Kjovaos, in whioh tho Turks were victorious. The members of the Dundee Committee, who were sent to tbe Doited States to investigate the Erie Railway, have mado their roport. Thoy say tho essential conditions of suooessful reorganization la the control of the road by the bondholders, the equalization oi ino uont anu tne narrow gauging of toe line. Gray, the alleged forger, has been remanded to await the arrival of tho American officer.

Snow fell yesterday in England aud Ireland to a depth of from seven inches to ono foot. Laloubere of Liverpool, have foiled. Their liabilities aro put at $350,000. Tho houso had extensive foreign connections. The Mexican Eevolutionary troops under tho command of Diaz havo possession of the ontiro frontier opposite American territory.

A stock company is organizing for tho development of cotton culture in Central Asia. Spain continues to send troops and munitions of war to Cuba, and her soldiers there aro bettor paid and fod than for years past. The funeral of Mrs. General Butler took placo yesterday aftornoon at Lowell, and was very largely attended. A flro at Chostertown, N.

yesterday morning deatroyod $17,000 worth of property. W. O. Avery, of crooked whisky notoriety, ban boon sentenced to two yoars in tho ponitentlary and a flno of $1,000. Tho Citizens' Committee of Chicago have waited on Mayor Colvin and requested him to resign.

Tho latest dispatches don't stato that hs has dono it yet. The Canal Commissioners have fixed May as tbo data for opening navigation on tho canals. Navigation in tho Northwest will soon be opon for the passage of the grain fleet. A heavy snow storm was raging along the Middle Missouri yostorday. No damage to crops reported.

The seal fishery this year has not boon as favorable as usual, and the catch i limited. Crevasses aro reported in tho Mississippi Ievoein Bolivar County, and a oonaiderablo traot of country will bo overflowed. Governor Routt, of Colorado, has mado a complete and unqualified denial of tho charge of bribery mado against him. There is somo talk of impeaching Clapp, the Congressional printer. The Judiciary Committee have deoidod not to produce Kllbourn In court in obedience to tho writ of habeas corpus Issued by the Supremo Court of the dlstriot.

The sixtieth anniversary of the New Tork Female Bible Society was held yostorday at (ha Bible Houso in Astor place, Now York. An explosion oconrod yesterday in one of the ooal mlnea noar Mauch Chunk, by which thtee mon wore killed and five wounded. Anna E. Dickinson will mako her appearance upon tbo stage in the Globo Theatre, Boston, May 6, io a play of her own composition. George William Curtis lectured last ovening in Chlckoring Hall, N.

on tho topic. "Tho Womon of the Old Timo and tho New." DIED. AINSWORTH AtOhloago, April 6, GROnai Ainbwortu, nf Hroolclyn, in his 19th year, youuitost son of the Into Ja3. and tiarnh Atnswortb. ItomatnB interrod in Groonwood Cemetery.

HKNSOtf AprilM, Kdith VsnuiLYKA, twin daughter of Fred. S. and Lottie K. Boasoa. Funeral from tbe house of hor 'parents, 70 Wilson St.

Rolsuvos and friends are invited to attend without further nottco. BLWKKn On Thursday, tbo 13tb May Adelaide, eldest daugbtor ot Udward H. and Mary U. Bunker, agod 7 yuan. Tho relatives and friends of the family aro reoDoetfuUy iurftod to attend hor funeral on Saturday, tho 19th at 2 P.

from tbe resldonoo of hor parents, Lofferte pmco. COLLINS. On Friday, April M. Mabv Hr.rzAnF.Tir, In. ant daughter of George J.

and Susan K. Collins, aged 9 mimtbs. Relatives and friends aro respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Sunday. 16th instant, at 2 V. from tho residence of hor parents, Sol Throop avenue.

DAY iES On tba 12th at Kingston, Jamaica, W. I of disease of tho heart, BamotX Davieb, of Bast Now York, In tho 4Uth year of his age. The remains will be brought home for lntermont. DONAHUE. Suddenly, on Thursday morning April t3t i Euoau JaMRB, youngost son of Robert and Jennie M.

Donahue, aged 4 years, 7 months and 10 days. Services Sunday, April 16, at 2. P. at tho residence of his pareuU, 11 Willoughby st, corner PoarL "A bud ou to bloom tu Heaven." 3 GHJCAM On tho 12th AKN, wlfo of Albort Gil lam, tn tho 6ith yoar of her ago. The relatives and friends of tho family are rospeetfally Invited to attend hor funoral from tha Reformed Church, Flatbush, on Saturday aftoraoun, at 2)0 P.

Al.t without further notlco OHEOORT In this eity on Thnrsdsy, April 13. Michael F. son of Mary Jane and wm. H. Ureffory, aged 3 yoars.

Tho frienas and rolatlvos are respootfully invited to attend the funeral on Saturday, April IB, at 3 P. M. from tho rosldenoo of his parents 832 Paolfio at near Yandsrbllt av. HITCHCOCK April 18, Kdwih P. nnonooCB, aged 63.

Remains to bo Interred in Westerly, R. I. MESOHUTT 8uddenIy, on Thursday, April 13, AHNrg OBMF.n MEScnorr, in tho 16th year of net ago. Relatives and frion.is of tho family aro respectfully in. vtted to attend the funeral, from the rosldenoo of hor pa rents, David C.

and Anna M. Mesehutt. 348 West Twonty ninth St. noar Ninth av, Now York, oa Saturday, the lath Inst, at i o'olock, without urthor luvitation. NKWTON Thla morning, at 8:3) o'clock, aftor a long aud severe Illness, Mrs.

Ehtiier B. Newton, In tho E3d yoar of hor age. Funeral from her lato resldonee, 423 Cold at, on Sunday next, at 2 P. M. O'HARA On Thursday, April 13, MAnT F.

O'Haba, aged 13 yoars and fl months. The relatives and frlondj, also, those of her unclos. ThomaB H. and Bernard J. York, aro roBpoottully invited to attend the funeral on Sunday, April 18.

at P. from the resldonoo of ber unolo, Bernard J. York, 241 Bridge streot. PARKER On Tuesday, April II, Isaac H. Pabkeb, In tbe Nth year of his age.

Relatives and frionds, also tho mambors oi Cosmopolitan Lodge, No. 585 Greonwood Lodgo, No, 569,1 F. and A.M.; Greenwood Ohapter, No. Ml Brooklyn Chapter, No. 1(8, R.

A. M. Clinton Comraandery, No. 14, K. aro rospoctf ully Invited to attend his funeral from his lato resldenco, 489 Klgmoontn on Monday, men instant, at a r.

n. Tn TlwwiUvn. nn Thursdnv mnrnlnir. Anril IS. Hvhutvtyi wifa or Marcus Haakett.

and onir daujrh tor of John M. and Sarah A. Soaman, In hor 41st yoar. Holatlvos ana inonas are iuvimju co aicona uie runorsi I IJ JIT nn Mnnrf.a 17th at 11 o'clock A. M.

1 i OBITUARY. C1LINTON COMMANDERY NO. 14, K. T. Sir Knlshts Yon aro reonosted to bo presont st tho ASYLUM, No.

Court st, SUNDAY. April 18. at pt r. xe in uniform, without aworda (haltsoarf. bolt aud whit gloves) to attend divine aervloe In a body at the CarroinPark M.

B. Church, Rsv. W. W. BOWD1SH.

By ordsr. JACOB STB I NEB, Bm. Comd. EADQUARTERS'OF CLINTON COM MANUERY, NO. II, K.

T.T31r Knlghtj, you are roooastod to assemble a tbe ASYLUM, on SUN DAY, at IP, M. sharp, in fatlgno uniform (wltn oaianoi, for the purpose of attondlngtho funeral of onr late worthy Sir Knight, ISAAC H. PARKER. HOTICBS, nOUNTY 30URT, COUNTY OF KINOS RrmMo Koettcr. Dlalntlff.

aaairut Charles P. Tlemapn aS5 others, defendants. No. l. pursoanco of a ju4s tnent of foreclosure and sals made and entored In tho above emiuea action oa irJisZ pafMran thnnlD AnDOUted.

lleroD? give n'ottoo that on Monday. May at the hour oil" o'clock, noon, at tho Commercial Eiohange, No. 889 Knl ton streot, In ths Oity of Brooklyn. County of I will sell at publlo auction, to the highest bidder, tbe lands and premises in satd judgment mentioned, and therein described aa follows, All rtat Mrtate lot, fyoeor parcel of land attuate, lying and being to the City of Brook. fy.

County of Kings andltaU of New York, and wblcb is bounded and described aa follows, vta. Beginning at a point on tne northeasterly side of Union street, as npw Kd out. distant one hundred fas and sovec liaohM south, eastorly from tho comer formed by the intersection of tho noSLteriy aid. of Union with tfie southeastarly Nevlne street; running thoooj northeasterly, on a fin. parallel with Kevins atrt, ninety test: thsnoe south, eastirly.onallne psialle! with Union street, twenty flvo feet two Inohes; thence southwesterly, on a line parallel with Nevlns street, ninety feet, to Union street, and Ihoncs Jorthweitorly along Union street twenty flvo feet two Inohes, to the point or place of beginning.

Dated Brook Wn Apr" 14, IMS. HKNRYLOYBJOY. Referee, "ii PK UbVewi.Ek., Plff Atf y. alt1 8wPSYrn UPREME COURT BEN A I W. Rhrwu aorfdnst Harriet Ann Miller and others.

In pursuance of a judgment order of thU Court made in the above entitled action, bearing date the 28th day of December, led. I willftailatpubllo auction, at the salesrooms of Cole a ftlurpui, no. siy ruium street, in toe vity ui urwi day of May, W6, at 13 o'clock noon, the following described lands and premises All thoso oertain lots, pieces or parcels of Una Ijlng aad being In tho Town of New Ixte, Connty of Kings and State of New York, known and distinguished on a certain map entitled Map A. Of East nsn loraiow, eurroyea ny u. d.

nacon April, and filed In the Register's offlee of Kings County as and by tbe numbors 651 and part of 660 In Block aa laid down on said map. and whioh, taken together, an bounded as follows Beginning at a point on the south side of Liberty (late Paclflo) avenue fifty (M) feet easterly from the southeasterly oornerol said Liberty (late Paclflo) aye nue and Smith avenue, thenoe southerly and parallel with aiU UUU VU rT unuw una uisuuivu aw sea XUUUVU VatrTJI 1J and parallel with said Liberty (late Paolfio) avenue forty five feet ttaonce northerly and parallel with aald Hmith avn aid mitu ayanno ono nunarea uw) in; laonoo easterly nne one hundred feet to said Liberty '(late Pacific) avenue. and tbenoe westerly along aald Liberty (late Paclflo) avenue forty flve loet to tbe point or plaoe of beginning. al.n .11 trinaatsir. nstrlaln Inta su.

n.wl. Si situate, lying and being in toe town aforesaid, known and! dUMngulsned by tbe numbers 414 and on Ulook oo tbo Aforesaid map, and which, taken together, are bounded and dewriDed as follow Beginning ai tne northiMJterly nmnr of Rmlth ini Atlaniln hutitiai. aamn are laM down on aald map; running thence westerly along Atlantio avenue Shy feet; thenoe northerly and parallel with Smith avenue ninety six feet thenoe easterly at right angles to Smith aranoe fifty feet; aad thenoe southerly along eeld Smith aveoae oJaety three feet nine lories tuts ivuLt or lAoe Beginning. uasea oroofxyD, yyM 1876 PATRlak oajSpbbll, GENTLEMEN'S FINE DBESS SHIRTS. HARDING MANTJFACTrUHINO CO.

'8 CUSTOM MADE DRESS MHIRTS, KEEP'S PATESt pArTX? MADE 6 for 49.00. li od to bo tho only Ant class Womsutta Mus. Cniifr. lh? pk.M ferod to tho public, iollars and ouffo at wholo.alo prices 47 FULTON ST. Opposite Gallatin place.

STABLE, NEAR FULTON FERRY, NO. 0 VINE EIGHT STALLS. PLENTY OF CARRli.cE ROOM. RENT 8600. Apply to W.

HE8TF.R, Kaitlo office. ABE YOU GOING TO PAINT Uso none but tbe AYF.R1LL OHKMIOAL PAINT. It Is tho best in tho world. MIXED READY FOR USE. Bond for sample card, togotbor with testimonials from owners of tho FINEST RESIDENCIES IN THE COUNTRY, AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT 81 Burlina Slip, N.

also, JOHN D. PRINOE8' SONS. SI Fnlton Brooklyn. OKO! POOL A SONS. 7J Fulton Brooklyn.

WH ITLOOK 4 KBBNAN, 419 Fulton ftrooalrn. ARMSTRONG i AN8QN; 41 Hamilton av Brooklyn. SrECIAli NOTICES. 66 A. T.

STEWART LIV1N AND DEAD." REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE Will dellvar a dlsoonrse on the LIFE AND CAREER OF A. T. 8TBW ART, THB MILLIONAIRE MERCHANT, NEXT SUNDAY MORNING, AT 10X.

I OR EXCHANGE. J70R EXCH ANGE FIRST CLASS STORE rtv In RiMim at. near Tillarv. for a mi smo.il privnio noiuo in gooa iooamr, wortu auuu. or $8,000.

Apply corner Jay and Concord sts, la the Dasery. 70R EXCHANGE $3,600 EQUITY IN two story, basomont and oellar Philadelphia brtoK SSsloo'feot, gooJ looallty, for good v'aointloU. 'Address W. M. Baglo offlco.

OR EXCHANGE STABLE, ETC. A good ohance for stableman iitu plaoe ot property woll locatod, within fivo mlnutoa' walk ol three ferries, consisting of a 8 story brlok house, 15 rooms, woll adapted, rented for boarding bonss; in the rear and entirely separate from thoabovo, twos story brlok cottage well ronUd on the same lot a substantial brlok stab). atortsa In height, sirs SlrSU; ths whole lot ls7.9il61. This property Is vary lightly ououmberod and oan bo bought at a very low figure or will be oiohanged for two (rood houses lightly aoumberwi. on the Hill' Address TRADER, Baglo offioo.

EXCHANGE A ROW OP SEVEN 1 "three story, brlok dwellings, ooatatnlng all the modern Improvomonts, In good ordor and rented valued at ew.OOO onoumbranoes, flltsen minuUs' walk from City Hail, ten minutes' walk from rwspeo' wl11 chango the whole or part foraa uronmberea lajrn. A. magulfloent farm In tho Town of HwUbgtOQ. L. L.

with largo and commodious rosldanoe and amnio ana numar ous outbuildings: tho farm Is la the blithest state oi oulti. coat OTer wH wUotad wpold mako ono ol i I 1 l.alnlm. nf Klmul ine oost courses lor uiw im horses in the oountry; amort desirable plaoo for tha organization ot a olub oourse; is rreo or onoumbrance, and will oaehango for business or dwelling property in New Vnrlr or Brooklvn Drioo. 7fc000. PrODOrly ot various kinds lu all part of Ibe 0000117 to sell and exchango.

atraet. HORSES 1 CAHBIACES, Etc. X'BAROUOHE FOR SALE CHEAP IN norn bp. APiUVATK STAjULiK. HUNT'S ALtLiUY, stalls 1 room for coaohmtu and amolo carrtaga room.

U. K. VNTON, 110 Atlantic av. BEAUTIFUL PONY PHAETON FOR oalo ouoan neatly now. Can bo eeon at private ataoio Cumberland at.

NEW BREWSTEIt CO. iln tnd ihiifta. far tula: cait. Wlttdaor nhftoton. nolo and haft.

far tula: cot unco. 4uu. Inquire at AKKNA STABLE, lUj inond et. A STYLISH THREE QUARTER BRED maro, forsaln 8 years old, sound and kind in all har notf and under sadalo. Also a side bar top wajron, at Uverj atablo, cor.

and Bridge ata. BAY MARE FOR SALE, 15 1 2 hands high, warranted Mound and kind io all harness or a splondid snddJe driver. Oan be saen at 1510 Warren it, uaar NaWhs, wttti the onrnor, until sold. A FAMILY CARRIAGE, FOR SALE, In good order, on promises of JULIAN ALLEN, Jtoilfortl av, cor. of Lafayotto; housu and trrolro lote, nJco eardeo, to lot Jou.

A STABLE AND COACII HOUStS TO lot, In vicinity of Hod ford ar. and Fulton st; full nnrtluulars during the day. at P. A. DAILEY A 818 Broadway, New York, or morning and to In ft, at 42 Sonth Portland ar.

FINE SIX YEAR OLD BROWN HORSE foraalo; porfootly sound; oan bo drWon by a lady raised owner good trotter 16 bands high would a good coupo or OArrlage horse. Call on or addroes K. J. GRANGER, 463) Tomphlns ay. A PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT, OON slstlng of a toam of young bay horses, bands fnrfOn armnii Min kinn Mtnf douMfl hATiM8.

hlan Hole, robes, aa alao a Brett aad ooupo, both Brewstor'a rauice soni iur waui ui ubo wui uo buiu ut wj un fa to. Apply at 497 uiipton st A band GENTLEMAN 'S TURNOUT POtt sain. conB.pting of pulr of bay maros about IBX a htoh 7 nf( A nlH a. rfiablft flamUv toAtn also a WosteliDStor tockaway and Viotorla, aet of double and fttaalo hornoat blanketa whip Ac To be toan at KE KN ft TILLKV'8 LoardlnK stables, 17 aud 19 Red Hook lane. PRIVATE TURNOUT FOR SALTS, consisting of two dapple gray maros.

sound aud safe, aovon and eight yoars old, respectively, woil matoltod, drlvo like ono bone; a Brovrator ouupe, Rockaway, several Bote of double and single harness, eto. sold euparato, oheap. aa tbe owner loaves for Europo the end of the month. To bo aeon at BUSH'S stable, No. SOS titato street.

A PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT, CON: alHtias of a toam of finely matched boy horsos, 10 fine long tails, sound and kind, good drivers, and Bale for women or child: 1 ooupo rockaway, (jsonts, glass windows; 1 park phaoton, soat; 1 top wagon, roan wagon, both nearly now, and I pony basket phaeton all oity make 3 Beta double and 1 single harness blankets, robes, whips, Ac, will bo sold vory oheap, togethor or separately, tbo owner haying no further use for them. Apply at 638 Union st. VERY HANDSOME BAY PONY FOR salo. 14K hauda Utah, eoveu yoars old. vory free aod stylish driver, afraid of nothing; will stand without tying; warranted to trot tn three mtnutoa and warranted sound; has neon driven oy tames coo pony paaecon, ouut or vol yer blankets, ftc full spring top buggies, new and sooond liand six stdo bar top buggies, now and second band six extension top phaetons, new and sooond hand; six out under roakawaya, now and aeoond hand; pony phaetons of elf descriptions depot wsffoua of oil descriptions ouo first class oity mado doctor's wagon.

Oan be seen at 337 Atlantic av. USINESS WAGONS FOR SALE, ALL sizes, to suit all nurnosos. suoh as butchers', bakers'. grocers', piurauara, nuia anu express, anu twu siugio aown town cruet some seeoau uaau, mmartmfint constantlron hand at ood order. A largtt aui Ji a wagon ic tory, cor of Navy and Johnson its HOUSE AND 8IDE BAR TOP WAGON and harness foraalo: ffray horso.

IB W. oan be driv en oj a iauj; win biauu wiiuum, uiug; in uuv atroju ui locomotives win trot in s.iu ana in every rospooc a gooa family horse Is made by one of tha best oity makers. AuarosA i uox cagio omoo. TJOKSES? HORSES! 1 AT BTLtlis ItXORLSIOR BOARDlNn STABLKS. 2 and SI Washington st.

Trrentr ood work anJ driving horses, just from tbo oountry, for sals and siohango. Wo will always ksop from twontr Co forty ajood horsos on band to sap our austomers. we have ths boat aooommodsttoas for DuMlag hnrmt in the city. Ooaolioj, light watronsnnd work horsos to lot. M.

A. 8TKIN, rropriotor. rriwo Kentucky horses for sale 1 Bar horao and sorrol mars, lK)tf hands, 6 and 7 roars old both handsome, ranrrv drivers; mare partlcrilartr so; nan rnt. In sound and klnrl alao a Stivers side bar ton mid a road wag un. Call at No.

835 Noatrand arenue, noar Union ac PROPOSALS. ROPOSALS. NOTlOB TO CARPENTERS. Scaled proposals are soltoVtod and wlU be received by tha nndersijrnod Commlttoo, at tho oiflco of tha Olork of ttm Board of Supervisors, Room 10, Oonntv Court House, until 8 o'clock P. ftl.

of Wednesday, tho 19th Instant, for furnltdi uiff the necessary matorlsls and labor for celling tho main drill room of the Tblrtoonth Rooimont Armory. Specifications for tho sarnn can be seen at tbo omco of the said Clerk, wboro blank forms of proposals oan be obtained. No other form of proposal will be reoolved. By order of the Board of Soporvlsors of Kings Uonnty. 11.

O. WAB1. J. B. BVBNB, VICTOR BOER, S.

O. YKArON, fi. O. II MOWN, DANL. RYAN.

aH it A. O. "J3ROPOSALS. BLANK BOOKS. Sealed proposals aro solicited and will bo rccolrcil bl tbs nndersla uecl Committoe atiho office of tho Olsrk ol the Board of Supervisors, room 10, County Court Houso.

until 8 o'olook, P. of Wednesday, tho 19th dsy of April Instant, for furnlilifwt thirty tiro (43 Wank books (ooplsa of assessment rolls). for tho eamo can bo soon at tho offloo of the satd clerk, whore blank forms of proposals oan bo obtained. No other form of proposal will 10 received. By order of Board of Supervisors of Kings Connty.

)KN6T NATHAN. JNO. T. MORAN, J. H.

SNYDKR. JAN. TIBRNBY, R. O. WARD, al4 Committee on Printing and Stationary.

CORPORATION NOTICES. OTICE OF ORDINANCE TO DIRECT th intantlnn of the Hninmon Counoll of the City of Brooklyn to put an ordlnanco to direct tbo owner or owners of tho lota on both sldos of Myrllo avonne, between Central snd Bushwick avennba, to Qny tho sidewalks in front of said lot. with blue stone flagging, to thu width of sir foot. Is horoby given to svory person to bn affected by tho ssid ordlnance. Da Brooklyn, April 14, 1876.

HBNBY W. 8LO0UM, WM. A. FOWLKlt. THOMAS W.

ADAMS, Commissioners of City Works. Attest D. L. KORrmrp, Secretary. all If OTIOE OF ORDINANCE TO DIRECT FLAOOIaTO BIDUWALKH ON FOURTH STIUCET.

ibtloe of tbe Intention of tho Common Council of tho Oifcv of Brooklvn to nasi an onllnanao 1st rilmct the owner or owners of the lots on both sides of Fonrth streot, between Hoyt and Bond streets, to Bag the sidewalks In front of aald lots with blue stone flagging, to tho width of mix feet, is horeby given to evory person lb be affeoted by the aald ordinance. Dated Brooklvn, April 14, 1870. HENRY W. SLOOUM, WM. A.

FOWLER. THOMAS W. ADAMS, Commissioners of City Works. AttstjD. L.

Nobthpp, Seoretary. allJOt XrOTICE OF ORDINANCE TO DIRECT 111 FLAGGING SIDEWALKS ON SIXTH STB BET. Notioeof tho Intention of tha Common CoanoU of the City of Brooklyn to pass an ordlnanoe to direct the owner or owners of too lots on the north side of Slith street, bo tweon Fifth and Sixth avenues, to nag tha sidewalks in front of said lots with blnestons flagging to tha width of six foot, is hereby giren to every person to be affected or tne saiu uiuuwuuo. isiw oraourn, Apru li. isto, WM.

A. FOWLER. THOMAS AD 4MB. Commissioners ol Oity works. Attest: D.

L. Nobthtjv, Secretary. all lot nSs. OTICE OF ORDINANCE TO DIRECT FLAGGING SIDEWALKS OH OAKLTUN AVE Nrrtlftn of the Intention of tho Oommoa Gounod! of the City of Brooklyn to pass an ordinance to tKeeat tho owner or owners of the lota on the west side of Carttoa avenue, between Do alb and Willoughby avenuee, to flag the sldewalka In front of said lota with btuettone flagging tho wldtn of six feet, la hereby given to even person to be affected by the Mid ordlnanoo. Dated Brooklyn, April 14, 1876.

HENRY W. SLOOUM, WM. A. FOWLER, TUUMA3 W. AUASm, Commissioner of City Works.

At toft; D. L.Nobthup, Soorelary. alilOt OTIOE OF ORDINANCE TO DIBEOT FLAOOINO HIDBWALKB ON GLABSOrT AVE. IE Natlea of tha tntsintlnn nf the Clommon Gonnflll nf the Oity of Brooklyn to pass aa ordlnanoe to dlrsnt tha owner or osmore of tho Iocs on Classen avenus.at tha Hath west aoraer of Willoughby avonae, known as lota 1 to I. block 86, Seventh Ward map, to dag the sidewalks In front oi saio.

lois, who. oia.scane io wo vnaia or SIX feet, is h.reby given to every person to be affeoted by tha ua giuiuaav. imou orwuD, April ttKCVKK W.BUJ WM. FOWLS UM, WM. FOWLER, THOMAS W.

AD IMS, umisaloneta of Ottv Work Commissioner, of Ottv Works. Attest: O. L. Nomnrop, Sejoratary. aU Wt TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS.

DEPARTMENT OF COLLE I Booms 6. 7 and 8 Oity Hall, Brooklyn, April Is, 1874 Notloe Is hereby given that ths assessment roll In tho following eoUttod matter baa been oompletod, anil the warrant for the ootleetton of tho assessment mentioned therein, has thta day been delivered to the Collector of Taxea and Asaaaamenta, and all persons liable to pay such assessment ate required to pay the aama without delay at bia omoe, under tha paoarty of tho law Grading and paving Slashing avenoe, from Broadway to Cypress avenasj, BXTRAOT FROM THE LA Bsotlon 10 ol Title 1 of Obit. SIB of the Laws of New Yore sated Jnoo ss ioit OnailtaiosoTasaosvnents which i shall be paid to too ColftoVOTbero the plr.tlon of thirty days after the war. rant Torthe coltaotion of the same shall have been dellv mnA to him an allowanoe shell bo inads to tha person or pe. mmktag the rate of Sevan and Siroe tenlhs per centum per annam for the rmeapired I voir tlmTthe roof, and Uio amount ot auch allowance shall bo eredlted to the account of the Collector and oharged to tbo aooo an tot the Revenue Bund.

On all tasaa and assess mVntapaldto htm after the eiplration ofslity ds from the deteof tba warrants, ona par sent, shall oo added, ana one per osnt. additional for aver thirty days thereafter. onurJuohts.orana.rgj.lIBirTi all SOt, 0llMr4ioiTKHM4MaaQVt bn nblA to annriftoh the Parte bv the suoenor'l roads already provided, and the main bridge over the rivet, the one now.inder complean, will afford New Yorkers andther meahaol reaching the sea via Prospect Park. many years will pass before this statement will be realized in faot. There" is reason "to believe that the work will be worthy of the cities It Will serve.

Health, art, eiviltefttion itself will be promoted by the rulfilhnent of the conception here indulged. The completion of Ooean Parkway will be the first link in the great ohain, and it wul make Brooklyn the (first, as she will be the greatest, gainer by it. Barney Williams, Barney Williams, the Irish comedian, whose art and humor hare for more than thirty years helped to beguile the leisure and lightened the languor of American life, is lying seriously sick in Now York City. It would not hare astonished the physicians in attendance upon him had he died last night, and it will be to them a most agreeable surprise if he survives for many days. His malady, paralysis of the brain, is one that rarely admits of complete recovery.

It often toys with its victim, and now and again seems to relax its hold, but experience shows that it is never more to be dreaded than when after obtaining firm possession it appears to be driven off. That the admirable actor and sound hearted gentleman, who is now suffering from it, may have the good fortune to escape is a wish that will be entertained wherever hiffname is known, as sympathy will undoubtedly be felt for both him and the generous lady whom bis illness" threatens with widowhood. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams are people who represent the gentlest and purest side of theatrical life.

No opponent of tho stage has ever taken exception to any performance given by them, and no friend of the theatre has ever been afraid to let their deportment in public and in private rebut the calumny that integrity and virtue are inconsistent with the profession of acting. Mrs. Williams has everywhere carried herself in the spirit of clean womanhood and Mr. Williams has become as well known for undeviating honesty and general rectitude of character as for the possession of dramatio humor and pathos. His career contains elements of incitement to manly effort that would look by no means out of place in the reoords of "self help" collected by Samuel Smiles and others for the encouragement of the young.

The reputation and the material wealth he has acquired are forcible illustrations of the maxim that "man "is his own Btar," and of Longfellow's aphorism that wo are tho architects of our own fate. He came to this country a poor Irish boy without influence and without education, beginning the battle of life with nothing but a stout heart, an honorable ambition and intelligent tenacity of purpose. If he should die to morrow he would leave behind a considerable fortune, an honorable name and a host of mourners. The close of his career contrasted with its opening stirs the heart and dispels dejeotion. After considering what ho has accomplished, the lines of Fitz Greene Halleck aro applicable to whoever complains of the obstacles that stand in tho way of advancement If dcepondonoy weigh down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions, then Despair, thy lot is written on The roll of common men.

Of the characteristics of Mr. Williams' genius it is not our purposo to speak at present, albeit an analysis of it might be both instructive and entertaining. Suffice it to say on this point that in "Rory O'Moore," the "Coonie Soogah" and kindred plays he opened up the Irish heart to the gazo of audiences in a manner never before familiar to them. He was by no means the first actor who portrayed Irish thought and emotion with success, but the rule before his time was burlesque and exaggeration rather than portraiture, while ho, feeling the subject and understanding its relations, presented a rounded, finished conception at which men might laugh and wonder or sympathize and weep. Others have carried this remarkable and excellent work to still greater lengths, but no subsequent achievement can dwarf the fact that he was in an obvious sense a real and valuable pioneer.

The announcement, however, of his probable early demise 1b chiefly suggestive of oertain names that have for many years past adorned the etago toIL and which have either already passed into the volume of reminiscences or seem about to take their places there. Tho old men about us delight talk of the groat actors whom they saw in then youth, of tho Eeans, the Siddons, the Cooks, the Barrys, tho Blakos, the Booths and their kindred, nnd we moderns listen to tho tale with something of regret that we were held in nothingness until their disappearance. It is apt to be forgotten that there are men and women on the stage to day, or were upon it yesterday, who will be the subjects of remembrance curious and interesting, and that wo will be envied by the next generations even as we envy our predecessors. It is by no means oertain that greater actors ever lived than have appeared before the American public within the past thirty yoars and several who are still appearing. Already Blake, Placide, Burton, Macready, Forrest and Hackett have taken their plaoos in the pantheon of memory, although it is but yesterday, so to speak, since some of them wero playing for our amusement and instruction.

So it is with men whose careers aro about to close, or at all events with men whose careers aro already old. John Gilbert, John Brougham, Jefferson, LoBter Wallack, John E. Owens and Davenport aro all men who, while still delighting us with their genius, have a historical post of most decided interest, and are assured of remembrance for many generations to come. Let the reader turn these and kindred names over in his mind and say whether the modern stage has not been as splendidly filled as was that of any age in the past. Among these names that of Barney Williams properly holds a place, and with them he will be transmitted to the next generation of playgoers as one to be talked about, admired and regretted.

Not merely, however, does the intelligence of Mr. Williams' sickness suggest tho past and future of the stage, but it fixes attention upon the fact that, Occidents apart, generations of actors go and come together, and that a very great generation has commenced to leave us and will shortly be quite gone. James Wallack, Forrest, Macready, Frederick Conway, Char lotto Cushman and Hackett belonged to it. The curtain has fallen upon them forever, and those who linger behind do so in such shape as to show that their parts in tho great play, of which ages are but scenes, are near an end. Mr.

Blaine is put by Mr. Morton in a very embarrassing position. Unless Mr. Blaine gets out in better form than he seems able to do, the Democrats need not number Mr. Blaine among the gentlemen from whom will be seleoted the man to be beaten for the Presidency.

Neither, in that evorrt, need Mr. Morton be numbered among those gentlemen. The person who sends Mr. Blaine to Coventry will himself also bo sent there by the Republican party. We do not think that Roscoo Coukling would invest five cents in life preservers just now, either for Mr.

Morton or Mr. Blaine. The South Carolina and Virginia Conventions of Republicans to nominate delegates to Cincinnati were marked by dodges which Mr. Robert Macaire oould not have bettered and by violences which Reddy the Blacksmith could not have worsened. The exhibition each Convention made of the rowdy side of Southern Republicanism is a good thing for the North to study just now.

It is becoming an interesting question whether the Southern Republicans, who can contribute no electoral strength to the Republican candidate, shall nevertheless have the naming of him in the Cincinnati Convention. The decision and opinion of Judge Benedict in the Titus habeas corpus case, which we print in full in another column, is of interest in that it deals with a question rarely presented to our Courts namely, the power of States under the Constitution and the responsibility of State agents acting under State instruction that are not at variance with ihe Federal Constitution. The opinion of Judge Benedict is, we believe, in accordance with law, and we are certain it is consonant'with common'sense. A benefit entertainment will be given at the Wultamiborgh Sooth Eighth and Fourth streets, Tuesdsy evening next, bj the employee of the Brooklyn Tint. The proooeda will ba for the bensOt of Mr.

K. Broaa. an old employe of the paper, who Uaa become uxcapadUtod tot tabor bj aicknsaa. Tills Paper bas the LiOTgent Circulation 01 any Evening Paper Publlabcd in Che United mate. Its ri nn Advertising Medium therorore ap parent.

Steam Western and Kaatern Dinrlci Experience With the completion of the South Side Bail road soino eight yenro ago, it seemed as if Brooklyn had an opportunity of, in port, remedying tho blunder mudo in driving tbe Long Mnnd Hnilroad from our city giving it a bonus, in fact, to transfer its business and tho trade of tho road to Long Island City and to New York. After a tedious struggle, permission givon tho South Side Railroad to use dummy enginoa on its road from Bushwick to South Eighth street, Eastoru District. Hardly year passed that tho managers of the road wero not called upon to maintain their privilego at some coat and great annoyance to themselves. Sometimes opposition oame from the property ownora on the line, at others "from a single public official. Without any apparent reason, a move against them would sometimes be mado through the Board of Alderman, at others the Legislature was moved in Borne mysterious way to a sudden concern for the intoroBt of the property owners in Brooklyn.

In February last, the South 8ido and Long Island Bailroad came under the control of the same men, and an opportunity following tiiia, the main torminua of tho South Side Bond was transferred from South Eighth street to Hunter's Point. The rails lying between Bushwick and South Eighth street are now being removed, and tho only link that oonnected Brooklyn by steam with the oountry surrounding it has been severed for good, and throngh tho action of the managers of tho road themselves. We are free to admit that it would be difficult to name streets less adapted to the nse of steam than those through which the South Side Road ran from South Eighth Btreet to Bushwick. Tho streets are narrow, tho neighborhood is built np, and tho Germans who in tho main occupy it fully maintain their repute as a sturdy and prolifio race. On a fine afternoon more children may bo seen on a single block on Boerum street (E.

than tho census taker would bo able to discover in a whole section of a morB fnshionnblo quarter of the city. Despite all this very few accidents of nny sort ore recorded as having occurred through the use of the dummy through this populous section. Tho fight against it was kept up all the same, and tho railroad manngors have now endod it by transferring their business too more friendly locality. The dopot at Bushwick is still maintained. But'BuBhwick is no nearer to the offlcinl and business centre of Brooklyn than EaBt New York is.

A lawyer residing in Jamaica, and having business at our Court Houso, finds himself in this position. Tho seven miles which separnto him from Bushwick, ho can rido over in less than twenty minutes. By walking three blocks he can get on a Flushing avenue car, and he is fortunate if he can walk this distance and got a cor within flftoen minutes. The Flushing avenue car will take him to the corner of Flushing and Classon ovonues, where ho is again undor tho nocessity of changing care, in order to tflko a Myrtlo avonuo car. Five or ten minutes nro lost in this way, and he lias still half an hour's rido before him.

If ho reaches the Court House in an hour and a. half from tho time ho leaves Jamaica he does about as well ns he enn hope for. And this if) the relation Brooklyn bears to a village juBt ten milos distant Following tho action of the South Side Railroad Company, wo havo, of course, the usual story, as told in yesterday's Eagle. The business people of Williamsburgh discover all at once that the road brought a good deal of trade in one way or another to the place, Rnd inasmuch as they were fighting the road they cannot understand why those in control of it should end'the row by quietly withdrawing from it, and transferring their business whero they will bo regarded with some favor and as having some rights. So far as the interest of tho stroots on which little business was done was involved, tho people find that tho road was of hltlo direct concorn to thorn, ono way or another.

They miss what had come to bo familiar, and that is all. The fow property owners who iDg Htenm" on Atlantic avenue would, we believe, bo moro disappointed than anybody else if tho railroad people withdrew altogether from tho scheme of restoring steam communication between Brooklyn and Long Island. Thoy havo far more interest at stake than had tho people living in tho Eastern District, on tho lino of the South Side Railroad. Tho streetB in tho Eastern section of the city wore ill adapted for tho use of steam, for tho reason that they were narrow and built upon by a class of houses which could bo tised only for the purposo for which they were erected tuaiuly homes of moderate pretension, usually occupied by two or moro familios. With Atlantic avenuo tho enso is ontircly different.

Steam has been on the street. It is the natural and diroct outlet to Long Island from tho western section of Brooklyn. It is so now, with tho wretched means of communication we havo. It is a wido thoroughfare and can accommodate all tho travel of every sort which is ever likoly to seek it. Moro than all, the street is mainly unbuilt upon, and until its status as a street is fixed, it will bo avoided for building purposes as it has been.

The defeat of the steam project now under consideration at Albany would leave tho street worse off than over. Tho Common Council, by on almost unanimous voto, has decided that the street can accommodate a steam railroad, under proper restrictions. Tho people of Brooklyn almost unanimously support it in doing so. Now if tho project should bo by any chnnco defeated this year, it will bo renewed next year, and the agitation would bo kept up year after yoar imtil it should ohd in success for Brooklyn will not be, and cannot bo, contout until its natural connections with tho country surrounding it are restored. Moanwhilo what will bo tho position of Atlantic avenue It will not have the advantage which would naturally follow from a steam railroad making tho street tho very central point of Long Island and yet it will bo deniod tho advantages of a street designed for residences.

Do tho property owners who are now in opposition to stoam believe it to bo their interest to bring about this condition of affairs? Atlantio avenue, east of Flatbush avenue, can bo made a business street, and its property will bo valuable for business purposes. It can not bo made anything else while tho steam railroad project is in abeyance. Tho owners of property on Atlantic avenue cannot shut out thoso facts in the consideration of thiB question. Lot tho eiporimont'be tried. If it fails, the railroad managers will be tho first to recognize the fact and to transfer their business to whore it can bo conducted moro profitably.

If it is a success, and the trado and travel of Long iBland oan bo diverted to Brooklyn, Atlantic avenue will, of necessity, be the best business street in this city. Wholesale 6tores of various kinds, hotels, saloons, will be established near tho terminus, and you cannot build up one portion of a street without benefiting all of it. For tho upper portion of tho street rapid transit will bo provided, and it is needed to bring tho property into tho market as desirable for residences. The Village of Hempstoad, twenty miles distant, will be nearer to Flatbush avonuo for all business purposes, than East Now York now is. Can the storekeepers on Atlantic avenuo believe that this will not bo gain to them? Above all, tho unsettled status of the street will be fixed, and fixed in tho only way it ever will be by making tho street what it was designed to bo, tho chief business thorough faro of Brooklyn.

Hlotliodlata. Tho Methodists havo made the ohanges in their pastorates which were anticipated in the Eagle before tho Conference met, and the new pioachers who come to Brooklyn are Bov. A. Ketteli, who becomes pastor of the Summerliold Church, on tho corner of Washington and Greene avenues, nnd Rov. G.

N. Sites, who becomes pastor of tho Simpson Ohuroh, on the corner of Clermont and Willoughby avenues. Acceptable pastors, whose limit of three years has not been reached, continue here still, aad among them make, Invention and speculation characterize Sellers. Sheer thrift or tho direct pursuit of the main chance characterizes Sloto. Sellers devises the schemes he presses.

Slote presses' other people's schemes. A croator like Sellers would have been a sweet boon to Slote. A pusher like Sloto would havo been a sweet boon to Sellers. Sellers is an anterior complement to Slote. Sloto is the material appendix toSellei s.

All this was probably undesigned by tho later author, Mr. Wolf, but both he and Mr. demons struok a lead in the same vein. It is general and formative where Mr. Clemens worked.

It is concrete and solid where Mr. AVolf worked. Mr. Clemens reaches the close of his story at Washington. Mr.

Wolf begins and continues and ends his story there. Sellers blazeB a path round the House. Slote is in and of the House. Sloto is the man Sellers was looking for. Sellers is just such a perennial fountain of taking devices as Slote would hail and love.

Mr. Clemens gives his Sellers a whole continent for area and plans without number for evolution. Mr. Wolf confines his Slote to a capital and to a single bill. Mr.

Clemens makes oventa subsidiary to and radiant with a personality. Mr. Wolf maks a personality fuse itself into an exciting event, and tho two divide the attention of the audience. Mr. Clemens wishes to emphasize a type of man.

Mr. Wolf makes his type emphasize a inodo of legislation. Each author causes a little love story to revolve as a wheel within the wheel of his main purposo. Mr. Clemens' incidental story is garish and unpleasing.

Mr. Wolf 's is probable, calm and clean. Every "lesson" enforced by Clomens is satiro. Every lesson enforced by Mr. Wolf is salutary and kind.

Mr. Clemens' women come out worsted in roputo or fortune. Mr. Wolf saves his ladies and makes everybody happy. Mr.

ClomenB' conclusion is on auti clnnax. Mr. Wolf works his people up to tho altar, and the curtain falls on a prospect of orange blossoms, reform and cradles. Excopt Sellors, Mr. Clemens' characters aro average plotters, good folks and foils.

All of Mr. Wolf's characters havo a uniquo cast. Wo speak to the characters, not to the very moderate success with which they are interpreted, uBido from Sloto and Mrs. Gilfory. There is no intelligent observer of or participator in Washington affairs who will not relish Sloto.

Thero are parts of him in not a fow statesmen. His make up is not unlike that of tho late Ookes Ames. His rolling voice is an echo of Old Subsidy Pom. His humor rocalls a whole scoro of uuderbred frontier law makers. His eye for gain has the sharp power of near vision which distinguishes the cross roads squiro who has been shot higher than his strength will stand, when chawbacons fired him into Congress.

His foiluro to see far enough to assure final success is as creditable to his not wholly demoralized nature as it is indicative of his limited range of faculty. Congress has been aforetime stockod with just such bustling wags and half bakod, not well done, corruptionista as ho, He has brought his little wits, his naive humor, his quaint manners, and his keen but contracted abilities to i market in which, firmot nerves, finer airs, larger brains and worse hearts than his toko tho lead at a pace which his considerable goodness and only partial villainy prevent hiin from living. The audience sees that ho can do little more than opo tho tactics of the school in which he is not vicious enough to graduate with first class dishonors. Sloto at once atttaches himself to a railway magnate, but tho ordor with which ho desires to get his eloquenco appreciated is greater than his zeal in promoting the bill. His passion to make tho Demosthenes of tho township the oraclo of tho House is natural.

His support for the bill is Mb enlistment in tho industry ho finds prevailing round him. His first words aro against tho press which nothing extenuates of his jackassicality. His following thought is of the railroad moasure. Ho boars through all the sceneB, expressly set to portray tho progress of tho lobbying, his printed speech, and he organizes every situation into an imagimary House before which ho longs to deliver his pioco. Ho has in exaggerated copy all tho faults of tho average oratory of tho House.

Tho peculiar sympathy of his knees with the rising inflection, which makes him twist himself highor and shout louder at the same time, is as characteristic of an hundred pudgy, nimblo, brass throated Congressmen as can bo imagined. The way in which he crosses his foot, swells his chest, and throws back the lappel of his coat while ho opens the valves of his throat to talk pompous bathos or cooing persuasion is delicious, and the swift descents he makes from flap doodto to colloquial jokes and sensible hints are as enjoyablo authitheses as tho time affords. "Lines," "business," "make up" and tho way in which tho character ob a wholo is vivified by its interpreter constitute a study tho moral andridiculous side of the politics of iguornnco and jobbery which is as instructive as it is diverting. Thoso who havo seen Sellers as a force should see Sloto as a product. Tho country is fortunate having each character assigned to an artist who fits it like a glove and then acts it like an inspiration.

Than Mr. Raymond no American aotor could better interpret Sellers nono could probably do it so well, for any other would have to copy him. Mr. Florence as complotoly mootBtho requirements of Sloto. Each of these gentlemen is as excellent in his part as Mr.

Jefferson is in his immortal Rip, and while there is no likeness between Rip and the other two, Rip is not more characteristic than either Sellers or Sloto. The Coming Sundny School Celebxa tlon. Tho manngors of tho Sunday School Union in this city are arranging for the annual Spring celebration, and the much mooted question between them all is What shall we do to make the day delightful Thero are many opinions on this subject and not a few are as yet undecided regarding the best way to celebrate tho day. Tho anniversary iB, first of all, tho children's, and their comfort and interest ore first to be provided for. Then next, the exponso is the parents, and in times like theso tho most pleasuro should be gotten out of tho least outlay that is possible.

The old plan had no needless expenso attached to it, and most likoly that will be adhered to again. It certainly is the best that oould bo devised for the oocasion. The day is a peculiarly children's day, and the city is never bo charming on any other day in the year as on this. First, then, we must not lose the celebration to the city. It would hardly be a oity's festival if the little makers of the feast should be out of tho streets on that day, and hence, tho suggestion that has been made to celebrate the day not in the city but in the Park is altogether objectionable.

Each church can best provide for its own, for while the union of all the Sunday Sohools sounds very well in sentiment, in reality it would be found a bard task to care for and entertain such a great number of children as would congregate there if the plan Bug. gested should be carried out. The Park is a beautiful plaoe, and for a small proportion of the ohildren it would be very pleasant, but thero aro no accommodations either within or without tho Park for so many. The anni ''Slocumltoa" Objected to. To tht Editor of the Brooklvn Boole For some time past I have notioed that your paper, in common with several others, has characterized tho new Democratic General Committee as the "Slooum Committee," and its members aud advocates as "Slocumites." As a member of that Committee permit me to protest against tbe use of those terms.

Thero are many Brooklyn Democrats who have grown to feel that they arc wholly unrepresented by tho party machinery which has dictated Democratic policy heretofore, and that If there has hitherto been tranquillity in the partyilt has beon tho tranquillity ofnn imperious and vigilant despotism, the degree of which may be measured by its effects. They believe the old party organization to have been guilty of follies which go beyond rldloule, and dishonorable) praoticee which flit them with disgust and indignation. They have recognized tho gist of the evil as being tho Imposition upon tho people of incapable and Irresponsible leaders, and the establishment of a system of personal politics, containing all tho elements of the worst form of "boss" government. Some of these gentlemen have come together to do what thoy oan to remedy this state of affairs and to utter a proo tlcel protest against the oldmothods. Such being their purpose 1 wish to protest against the justice of the terms "Slocumites" and "Slooum Committee." Gen oral H.

W. Slooum Is, in common with others, a member of the General Committee, but no more. So far as I hare been enabled to learn the views of tho committeemen tbsy bolievo that capability is the koy note of good government, and that the ascendancy of individual force of intelleot is the only admissible form of authority. If any ono member of our Committee shall hereafter have a preponderating might in our councils it will be becauso In each instance ho proves his propoBod measures to be just and reasonable. While General Slooum is my friend and a oAntlnmsn whom I rosDeot.

thero is no man whose plana and schemes I would more readily combat, if he were unable to convince mo that they wero essentlaUy right, and I believe thla to bo the feeling of every man in the Committee. I believo justice to oo tnsomy pouoy wnicn an non est and intelligent man may know, and so, on behalf of all the earnest men lntercstsd in this movement, I trlab tn sav that we know no policy but the right, and accept no' leadership oxcept that of reason. In calling us Slocumites, you aro virtually and unjustly acousing us of sacrificing to the worst of the principles whioh we oondomn. We xeoognlze no personal supremacy, and are no man's ollowera and for mysolf I recognize no party supremacy which oonflicts with Justice, but shall fearlessly utter tho truth, which I see Independent of all personal or party dictation. By publishing this protest you will obligo, XUU1U VtU iCPKVMluij, WlIXIAM M.

ivnts. Democratic Bcfarmem lb the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Thirty vears' residence in Brooklyn, and all Ulat UU1U tt iUKUOl Ul tUJ UUWIU1U(JU. IU put to ths old Bird a few senalblo mterrogatorios, wnicn nope yuu wiu uuu ui buuiuiuu, miuics. tifr me with answers. It is well known that a number oi our highly respectable citizens, against whom never a word has ocen sposen to meir uiscruuu, uuurujy ujs satiBfled with the management of their party, assembled togethor and determined that tho admitted mis rule should ooase, and then and there pledged their fortune and tholr sacred honors to rescue tho grand old Democratic party from tho ruin into wnicn it nod fallen.

All this they havo done and aro doing in good faith, and at their own ooBt. Scarcely, however, had thoy hoisted their banner of reform before an army of sympathisers oame to their Bupport, auxiliary organizations wero formed In the several wards of the city, and to day from six to eight thousand Democrats aro registered as oo workers. Now, ono might reasonably ask what Is thero objecUonable in all this 7 and I an swer, nothing to fair and honest Domocrats, but ol groat moment aud concern to trading politicians. But In doing this these good citizens have been to a certain extent unfortunate. They havo, by some means, inourred the displeasure oi the Eaole, and today, instead of kindly assisting them to cleanse tho party of itB impurities.

It stands apparently in a position iiaiul nnnnBpcl to them. Scarcely a crood word or honorable mention has so far been made by tho Eaoxk of their self sacrificing labors in the osuse of reform. Now, I would ask, in tne language oi too iaio Ariemus "whV in this thus Can it be nosslblo thst tho Eaolz is down on the old Democratic party of Jefferson and Jackson, and ceases to affiliate longer with its old friends and associates 7 Surely an organization containing such sterling Democrata as ex Governor Dowe, Henry W. Slooum, and Win. L.

Marshal, cannot bo entirely unworthy of confidence. Anyway at least aix tnousana dduu. wu; aokucux uu iirau. thnm an leaders in this movement for reform in the party management, and will continue to do so until they are ineu auuiuuuu ijiuiwii wvoouiiiuio ths onnnmo newsoaaer that It is, has in tbe way of local Interest, given abbreviated roporta of its meetings, and for thla many manas, oui a regret to say, and I trust you will pardon me for so doing, Its references editorially have bcon utterly unworthy ths splendid reputation of the "Dally Eaole and Kings County Democrat." I do not profess to be a prophet or even tho son of a firophet, but I give it hero as my honest belief, from a ong experience in looal politics and a sufficient knowledge of the men composing tho new organization, that at the next general election In this county a ticket will be offered to the people which will give entire satisfaction to ail honest and tax riden citizens, ticket wbloh may justly clslm and I feel assured will recoire the united vote ot all parties. And in this I would solicit the co operation of the Eaolb.

Let us onco again rally to tho polls in our entire unity of strength and purpose as in days of yore, and when tho sun goos down on the day of election may my prophecy be fulfilled, and the air again resound with the shouts of victory and fifteen thousand Democratic majority. JBjryXBSONIAN. Scbool No. 29. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: "Will von DM mit mo through your paper to put a few questions to the Local Committoe of Public Hcnool no.

as, regaramg me a pupil named Boss, in tho playground of tho school, on the llth ultimo, by a dog which was kept in tho basement of the sohool by the Janitor'e son 1 Will the Committee please state why tho Investigation was not made before Monday last? Why no mention was made about the affair at the regular mooting of the Board of Education on Tuesday last, and why thi Janitor has not been dlsonargea lor snowing nis sou to wp a uuu dog in the school 1 Is It because the girl is poor the Committee wish to hare the matter hushed up, and do not intend to do onythlng further about It 7 Will the Committee explain 7 T. Stewart. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagl The votaries of Mammon exhaust the language of eulogy on the deceased millionaire Stewart, the whole end and aim of whose existence seems to have beon that of personal aggrandizemsnt. Nothing higher, nothing holier. In every adventure that he engaged in, there was nothing ol philanthropy or a generous sentiment for the welfare ol others, but simply and Bolely an endeavor to inoreass his private fortune; to take from the little heaps of others, to add to tbe ever swelling mountain of his own gain.

The old maxim of the school books, thst "loarnlng is better than house and lands," seems to be superseded In his oassby another maxim, that enormous wealth Js the summum eenum to be desired. Before the millionaire's pslace, learning, literature, and philanthrophy must stand with their faces vaUed. If this is to be the success in life," that is to be held up to the admiration and emulation of our youth, pushing and squeezing as engrossers and monopolizers of the fruits of labor, onr worth as a people will rapidly sink. To destroy independent competitors In trade and reduce rivals to the condition of employes, to control, limit or defeat the free agency of other people by one dominant will, seeking solely a personal and surely these things an nothing to be eulogized. That "honesty Is the best pouoy" is true, but that is the lowest motive on which ita observance can bo based, and tho merit of "perseverance" dependB entirely on its application.

In truth, tho existence of many such millionaires is not a blosBing to the community bat a our so. The diffusion of wealth Is as necessary to the body politio as the diffusion of blood Is to the human body, and tho apoplectic head is tht sure sign of exhausted extreml Mr. Stewart appeara to me to have been like a greedy man seated at a festive board arranged for a large oom n.nv vrhilathe rest of tho comnanr are ezuraned In laughter and good humor and Jokes, and thinking only secondarily of the food and luxuries, the "perseverance," of the greedy man ta busy emptying the distant lux ury Into his own plate, forestalling the efforts of another by overreaching for the titbits higher up the table monopolizing a savory sauee, and general de stroying the comforta of many to flu uta pUta with that yj aicaeni wnue auncua. W. a writ of habeas cornus, Apru 11, isle.

ckhedici, j. Tho petitioner, H. fi. Titus, presents bis petition for a writ of habeat corpus directed to the Sheriu of tho County of Kings, to the end that ho may bo dlsoharged from the ouatody of such Sheriff. The facts npon which the petitioner bases hia demand for a discharge are as follows On the; 7th day of November the Governor ol tho State of Arkansas commissioned the petitioner to present to tho Governor of the State Now York the requisition of the Governor of Arkansas lor the surrender of a fugitive from justice from tho State of Arkansas, named Augustine It.

McDonald, together with a duly authenticated copy of an indictment found against tho said McDonald by tho Grand Jury of Ashley County, Arkansas. In pursuanco ol hia commission and the instructions of the Governor of tho State of Arkansas, the petitioner as such agent presented slid requisition together with said authenticated indlotment to the Governor of the Stato of New York who thereupon issued to tho Sheriff of tho County of Kings his mandate directing THE AEREBT OF MODONAIiD and bis delivery to the petitioner, the agent ol the Stato of Arkansas, duly commissioned and authorized to receive Baid fugitive, in acoordauoo with the laws of the Unltod States in suoh case made and provided. The Sheriff of Kings County on receipt of the mandate of the Governor arrested McDonald for tho purpose of delivering him to the petitioner in accordance with tho terms of the mandate, but before such delivery was made the fugitive was released from the custody of the sheriff npon habeas corpus issued by a justice or the Supreme Court of the State of New York. After being so released McDonald brought an action for malicious prosecution against the petitioner and obtained from tbe Supreme Court of the State an ordor for bis arrest, in pnrsuanoo whereof he is now held in custody by the Sheriff of Kings County. Being so detained in custody, ho presents MB petition to this Court setting forth the above facts and claims his discharge at the hands of this Court upon the ground that ho is detained in ouatody by reason of acts committed by him in pursuance of the Uwb of the Unite! States and which are Justified by suoh laws.

Notice of the application having been given to the attorneys for MoDonald, at whose suit the petitioner is imprisoned, they have appeared and, in opposition to the petition, deny the Jurisdiction of this Court to issue tho writ of habeas corpus, upon the ground that the acta of the petitioner which were the foundation of the aotion against him are not acts done in pursuance of any law of the TTnUort states, and the further eround that the indictment presented to the Governor of the State of New YorK, ana upon wmcn no iwuua uuiw wj ho aiAHir AtMM nnt hharoa anv crime of which the Grand Jury of Ashley County, Arkansas, oould take cognizance wnonoe is oonicuucu mat uii mo proceedings toward the surrender of McDonald were void and oflord no justification for the petitioner and no rniinrintinn for tbe mterooBitlon of this Court. By the Constitution of the United States the whole Bnbjsot of Interstate extradition Is remitted to the cognisance of the general government. This JUBISDICTION or 138 GOVEBNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES is exclusive. (Prigg va. Commonwealth of Perm.

IS. Pet. p. 6M.) The act of 1193, now SeoUon 5,278 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, provides the method by whioh such extradition is to bo accomplished. That statute authorizes the ExeouHve authority of any State from whioh a fugitive from justice may have fled to demand his return of the Executive authority of tho 8tate to which such person has fled, upon producing to such Executive a copy of an Indlotment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of the Stato, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony or other crime, such indictment or affidavit to bo certified as authenUo by the governor or chief magistrate of tho State from which the person so charged has fled.

Upon receipt of the requisition and certified lndlctmont, the Executive authority of the SUte to whioh such person has fled Is authorized to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of tho arrest to be given to tbe Executive authority making the demand, or to the agent ol snob, authority aopolnted to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to ba delivered to such agent when he shall appear. The petition and accompanying documents disclose plainly that the only acta charged npon tho petitioner, and because of which he is arrested, are acts performed by him as the agent appointed by the Executive of the Slate of Arkansas, in pursuance of the oommiaslon issued to him by such Governor, which acts are those prescribed by act of 1793 as above stated. The case of toe petitioner, thorefore, is that of a ministerial officer aotlng within the scope of an authority oonf erred upon him by tbe Governor of a State by virtue of the provisions of the act of 1793. who. being held In custody by reason of suoh acts, applies for his discharge from such oustody by virtue of the provisions of law found lri Chapter 13, Title 13 of the United States Bevlsed Btatntes.

Those provisions of law make it the duty of the Judges of the Courts of the United States, within their respeotlve jurisdictions, TO GBAKT WRITS OF HABEAS OOBPUS for the purposs of Inquiring Into the cause of restraint of liberty where a prisoner is "in oustody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United Statea." (Sec. T53, U. S. Revised Statutes.) The question, therefore, Is whether the petitioner is in custody for sots Intended to be covered by Section 7S3 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. It is contended in opposition to the petition that acts performed In and about theBurrender of fugitives from Justice are not acts done in pursuanoe of the laws of the United States, bnt are the acta of a Governor of a Stats done in discharge of his duly to the State, and not otherwiae.

Reliance is placed npon the case of Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Dennison." (24 How. p. M), for thia position. But I do not find the position to be supported by the authority referred to, nor do I consider It tenable on principle.

Th case of "Kentucky vs. Dennison," simply decides that the Supreme Court of the United Statas has no power to Issue a mandamus to compel the Governor of a State to causa the surrender of a fugitive when demanded by the Executive of the State from which he ba fled. The question here raised oould not arise In that case, for the reason that in that case the Governor of Ohio refused to act at all. Here the Governors respectively have acted, and the acts performed are those required by the laws of the United States to be performed. It seems clear that the authority exerolsed la an authority conferred by the laws of the United Btatea and by no otaer laws.

The Supreme Court of the United States In "Prigg vs. Commonwealth of Penn." when speaking of the act of 1793, say aa to the authority so conferred upon State magistrates, while a difference of opinion hat existed and may exist still, on the point, different Statae, whether Stat magistrate are bound to aet under it none la entar 1.1S.A hr thia fltn, th.t ntib masiatratos may. II they choose, exeretn that authority, unless prohibited by State legislation," So in "Kentucky vs. penataon," Where waa argwiu tun ih 1 HPKA.lt OWXT TO AT ATS ATrTHOBXTXBS, i ita TuraUnn wholly to the authorlUes of ih Statea themselves and therefor ta be wero tired there wes no interference on the part of tne sisters. To Sup.

Moran I hove boon arrcstod twice; I was mmmltted to the House of the Good ShoDhord on the first of Dooembor; tho day after I was discharged I was arrested again; I don't do much work in tho Jail; I havo scrubbed a little since I have beon here; THE BISTEBS ADVISSD MB TO BE OOOD and lead a moral lifo; 1 heard of more bad places thoro than I ever knew of before; soveral girls wanted to got out, but tho Sisters didn't wish thorn to go. To Hup. Hawkes I was arrested once before I went in tho Good Shepherd: that was beforo I was married: tho Sisters would not go near the girls when tbey wero fighting, because thoy would tear tho vails off their hoads; the girls do nothing but fight and quarrel; I found fault with the food; I left tbe Houso of tho Good Sucpliard lost Monday and I was in Jail on the next day; that was the result of so much prayer. To Sup. Moran I'm married; I loft my husband a month al ter I was married; I thon wont to live with my father; I remained with blm two weeks and thon went to live with a woman.

Sup. Moran Whore did you get money to support you? A. I got money from my husband. Dup. juorau wuitv in uia uuuu ui wu woman wiiu whom you lived 7 A.

Her name was Mrs. Roddy she used to livo In Pearl street I don't know whero she livoa now. Lizzie Walkor, Bworn, said I am twenty eight years old lived in New York four years ago I oame on tho ferry, was arrostod and committed to the Houso of tbo Good Shepherd, which was then In the frame building at Kast New xora i was seat more lor inree monens I worked In the laundry I heard very bad lanauogo used by tho girls thoro the herd work had aluioBt killed me. To Sup. Moran I havo been arrested several times for the lost nine years i was givon to anna, ana couldn't keep irom Binoe my nusuana aioa.

I HAVE BEEN ON BLAOK WELL 8 ISLAND ten or twelvo times for drinking over here; I have beon oommitted perhaps about six times. To Sup. Stilwoll Whilo somo were praying in tbe Good Shepherd, othore were fighting; the Sisters gavo me good advloe; you cant got along with tho girls; Ihe reunion was good enough, but the place was unhealthy; tusy had tbe chills and fover; when Bhe told ths mother sho was sick, she said "she had better work it off and do Bomothing for my sonl;" I would rather go to the Jail than tbe House of the Good Shepherd. Sup. Nathan UOB wu iiuue you wero Bout lu iuu cniiiViitnrr or an Institution for a year you would learn to stop drinking? A.

I don't think it would do me any good to soud mo to an institution for a year. Hup. Hainan xou aro irouuieu witu vulmiu uuu of sickness in the head 1 A. Iam troubled sometimes in my head. Bup.

Nathan And i it when you are sick in your head that you take drink A. Yes. I was a long time without taking liquor after I camo out of the House of the Good unepnera; i was very sick wuen i leii; muj all pretended to be sicli, but two or thtee were really sick; I would die first before I would go back to the House of the Good Sbepberd; tbe girls would beat the mothers; the girls there were awful; tbo belter behaved you were, the woreo you would be treated; a good many girls listen to the mothers' advice, but they laugh at them aiterwara. To Sup. Moran I was eighteen months out of the House of the Good Shepherd bofors I was arrested Bgain; while there I went to my duty; Father Delanoy, very good man, heard our confessions; he mado me promise that I would not touch any liquor, and I kept my promise for eighteen months af tor 1 came out.

To Sup. Hawkes After left tbe House of the Good Shepherd I wont to live with a German lady over In New York; hBr husband. I think, was a rag picker; the board st tho House of ibe Good Shepherd was poor enough; ths female prisoners In the Jail did not quarrel nor uso bad language; I have nothing to say bad of Sisters; they gave them all good advice. Sup. Nathan asked If it was a regular habit for Fathers to visit the institution 7 A.

It was a regular habit for the clergyman to oome there; he only came to say mass and hear confessions; when you oome to tbe Good Shepherd of your own accord you can leave when you want to; bnt if you are committed you have to remain until your time Is up. nana ureeuaiJ, tnumi bmu bmw rj night and was arrested; tht was sent down this morning; Judge Blley sent her once to the House of the Good Shephord becauso she didn't want to go to the Penitentiary; he first sent her to the Penitentiary for sixty days ana wnoa sav urarsu Ttu niwi Hhnnhorrl he sent her to the Utter place for aix months; she was arrssted for being arnnic; in tne huubb v. wo worked on the machine; ahe would rather be in the jail than there because she never heard each bad tan luaee as she did there; tho food was bad; the tea and coffee were mixed up together, and hash snd soup wero made no from odds and ends; ahe saw one girl beaten bvoiber girls; this girl said something to one of thorn and three girls attacked her. blacked hr eyes, kioked and lumped on her and pnlledithe bslr out of hsr head; the mother assistant said It was good for her because she wouldn't have been beaten if she hadnt deserved it; when she was oommitted ahe told tho Jadgs she was 36 years of age; there were old women there; the sisters never spoke to hor; ahe didnt boo six pounda of beef cooked there while she remained; she enjoyed Kood health there. To Bup.

Nathan Bridget Gallagher was there for "toS fupMoran I couldn't say how olten I have been arrested, about five or six times. OABD PLAYING TN TUB JAIL. niav cards in the Jail one day there was a gentleman and two ladles visiting the Jail who threw ttrnn pennies to see the woman ar a.i vnnw nth in abont I it; ahe had aeen uviki vUitlng the Jail; the day they the funeral pomp of all earth's merchant princeB and imperial heads has less true majesty than to day's burial in the garden of the silent form of Him who was "the Prince "of Peaco Completion of Ocean Parkway Assured. In the opinion of Mr. Henry C.

Murphy no more legislation is needed to authorize the Board of Supervisors in the issue of bonds, for tho completion of Ocean Parkway, by the Park The Law Committee of the Board of Supervisors have been impressed by this opinion, and will report to the general Board in favor of the issue of the bonds. One may hardly doubt that tho bonds will bo issued. We will take this occasion to say that Mr. Murphy's opinion, whioh the Eaole published last night, strikes us as a very clear, strong and convincing statement of the law, and it is entitled to the respect which the county legislators by their action pay to it. Tho likely completion of the Ooean Parkway is a fair subject for public congratulation.

The drive now extends from the further side of the Park to the Fair Grounds aad race oourse. A mile or two beyond is the ocean. Eventually, it is contemplated to Extend the road through the property of the Fair Grounds Association. Provisionally the law contemplates a road one hundred feet wide on either side of the grounds, thence toward the sea to widen into the 210 feet which mark the breadth of the main "way" between the Park and the Fair Grounds. At the sea there will be a ooncourse or plaza for carriages, probably somewhat eliptical in form, and in length 1,000 feet.

This will make one of the finest drives in the world. The accomplished improvements under way in these two cities will enable the Central Park and the ooean to be connected by a drive of this comprehensive and elegant extent; From Central Park to the bridge spanning the river at Blackwell's Island, from the Long Island terminus of that bridge, by fine streets, to Bedford avenue, along Bedford avenue to and through Pros peot Park, and thence on the Parkway to the.