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THE TRADES. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. TIIE PANIC OF THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB 10.

last act of the horrid tragedy and screaming farce whioh is Reconstruction is being played, and when the ourtain falls the expenses will show largely in excess of receipts The noat way in which the guileless Greeley was betrayed into advertising manufacturing firms in connection with Ids ossays on political oconomy was the occasion of amused remark some time ago. But the oxamplo of the Tariff men is bettered by two New York ice cream Baloon keepers who contrive to day to intorject a business notice in the body of a Tribune loader on Alaska. The Now York Poultice Pavomont Company, which began business at leas than two dollars a yard, concluded by making a roadway on Fifth avonuo dollars and eighty cents per yard. Tbe wealthy beauties of tho popular thoroughfare have au ill concoalcd partiality for pasto nndpowdor but thoy do not chooso that it shall bo applied to tho street. So the poultice is in process of ro moval, but not until tho taxpayers havo boon charged $300,000 for something which is worso than nothing.

Wo have not lately noticed any arguments in support of tho policy of annexation to Now York, but this one is too woighty to escape mention. The nomination by the President of Qon. Max Weber as a Rovonue Assessor instead of tho declining Sigel is commended by Republican organs as a wise and just concession to "the Gorman element." Weber may bo an oxccllont man for the placo, but would it nob bo well to consult some elements other than those which all citizons are supposod to mergo in tbe charactor of Americans? For example, in making appointments to office why not mako concessions to the element of integrity Why not havo rogard to the element of fitness Why not, in brief, accept tho old fashioned standard which includes solely the elements of honesty and capacity pointed and shall qualify, and the terms of office of tho present Brooklyn Bark Commissioners shall upon ouch appointment oeoee. to bo ex offloto member of the Board. See.

2. The persona so appointed, before entering upon their ofneo, and within ton daya after their appointment, shall qualify as follows: They shall oach aubscrlbo and file in the office of tho Clerk of said city, an oath of office and execute to the Oity of Brooklyn, and file in tho said Clerk's OfBco a bond with two or more sureties in tho penal Bum of $20,00, conditioned for the falthfnl performance of his duties, and for tho faithful accounting for all moneys which may come into his hands, and whioh Baid bond shall bo apbroved as to form ond manner of execution, and an to the sufficiency of tho sureties by one of the Justices of thS Supreme Court of the Second Judicial District, or by tho County Judge of tho County of Kings. And in caso any of suoh porsons so appointed shall fail to qualify or enter upon the duties of his office, or in case, for any reason, the Mayor and Aldermen Bhall fail to appoint aa hereiuhoforo directed, then tt shall be competent for the said Mayor to nominate, and by and with the consent of two thirds of tho said Board of Aldormon, appoint persons to fill any vacau cies occasioned by the failure to appoint, or qualify, of any persons heretofore appointed. Sec. 3.

This Board shall have all tho rights, privileges, authorities and powers, now vested by existing laws in the present Bark Commissioners, and all acts, contracts, and proceedings already commenced and now ponding, Bhall be fully continued, completed and performed by the Board created by this Act, as fully and with tho sumo force and effect ub if this Act had not passed. 8ce. i. Tho persons ho appointod, within thirty days aftor their' appointment, and in the presence of the Mayor, shall draw lots for their forms of office, which shall bo bo classified that tbo terms of three of said CommlBBionere shall oxplroin each year, and tho Mayor Bhall certify tbo reBult to tho City Clerk. Altor the expiration of tho term, thoso next appointed to hold office lor three years from the first Monday of July their appointment.

Sec. 5. Specifies the mode of filling vacanoies, same as 1b usually provided. Sec. 6.

The limit of expenso by tho Board in any ono year shall not exceed $500,000. The Board shall annually present to tho Joint Board of Aldermon and Supervisors the amount deemed neecsBary by them to bo raised for Purk purposes, and the latter shall determine what amount is actually needed, which shall be raised at the time the othor annual taxes of tho city aro. All moneys thus raised for Park purposes Bhall be deposited with tho City Treasurer, and shall only be drawn from time to timo as may bo necessary upon warrant of the President of the Board of Park Commissioners countersigned by tho Treasurer, or Secretary specifying the purpose and object to which the monoy is to bo applied. No moro city bonds Bhall be issued for Park purposes and no contract shall be made by the Board unless the necessary fundi" applicable to that purpose shall bo raised and in tho City Treasury. See, 7.

All contracts for materials and supplies exceeding in amount $250 shall bo mado in the following manner: By advertising in corporation neivspapors for ten days for proposals, receivable by tho Mayor up to the lime of the next rogular meeting of tho Board of Commissioners, at which timo tho bids arc to be publicly opened and announcod, tho rates proposed, and tbe names of sureties, and before aivarding contract tho proposals received to" be adverlisod ono week, except that in suddon emergency a contract may be awarded by a two thirds voto of tho Commissioners upon two days advertising the same, and alt contracts to bo awarded to lowest bidder. Sec. 8. Tho members of said Board shall receive no salary for their services. Senator Pierco introduced a copy of the same bill in the Senate to doy.

CAT. DItrVEltS AND CONDTOTOltS. Mr. Maddox introduced "An Act to authorize the Common Council of Brooklyn to regulate the employing this tyranny. Whether it goes far onough remains to bo gathered from the views of those best qualified to judge of the onse, to wit, the people of Ireland thomsolves.

In countries such as ours where the soil is divided up normally and justly among tho population we feel none of the ills which have crushed that nation in the dust. The bill will do to start with. It is gratifying to know that the axe is laid at the tree, and also to know that any lopping off of branches, only ushers in the certainty of it being laid at tho root of that tree. Carpenter's Castration. It seems to be the law of the being of the Republican party, that the moment a public man in it rises to the height of statesmanship or to the moral lovol of an honest man, ho thereby puts himself out of the pale of his politioal conneotion.

Thus Chase, Seward, Doolittle, Raymond, and numbers that might be named, found in succession that the moment thoy exercised forethought or preferred patriotism to partizanship, they were no longer of good standing as Kopublicans. So, later, it has been with Fessenden and Trumbull, and still later with Dawes. Either to look wisely to the interests of the whole country, or to revort to the wisdom of the fathers and tho authority of the Constitution or to rebuke extravaganco and denounce peculation is to ostracize one's self from the dominant party. Tho latest instance of this is Senator Uarpehter of Wisconsin. On Monday he made a speeoh deprecating Congressional interference with State government, and predicting that if Eadicalism meddled much moro with Georgia and Virginia, the day would come when a Democratic.

Congress would intermeddle severely with New England. At once the hounds of partizanship were after him with full cry. Morton, of Indiana, and Yates, of Hlinois, undertook to read him out of tho party if he did not recant his heresy just as Butler undertook to ostracise Dawes for advocating retrenchment of expenses. In Eopublicanism no man can think for himself, or speak for his conscience and his country. It is a party that tabooos wisdom and honesty.

Only jobbers in Government land, like Harlan of Iowa, and spouters of stale sontimeut, liko Sumner, flourish in it. For every man who, like Chase, rises to omiuonoe, moral and political, it has the axe and basket. It rales on the principle of Tarquin, the Roman King, who switched off with his cane the head cf every garden plant that presumed to grow above tho low level of the rest. those of tho multitude of othor pursuits subject to hla jurisdiction. But it is clear to my mind, and to the minds of all other members of Congrosa with whom I have counselled on the subject, that by no just construction can the caBo of those farmers who sell their own produce in the manner described, be comprehended within the term occupation." Tho selling is in fact, as tho Commissioner very aptly says, an "incident" only to their proper occupation, which is to raiso orops of grain, vegetables, or other artioles of farm produce, and theroforo thoy should not bo taxed forthe incidental act of selling, even though it be dono In a more systematic manner than Is possible for thoso who live romoto from largo markets.

Public policy and right reason, which aro assumed to be the foundations of all good laws, forbid that there should be any direct burden laid upon the production of the prime necessaries of life, hut this taxing farmers for licenses to sell thoir own produce manifestly is such a burdon, and tkcreforo can only bo sustained by strictness of interpretation against tho spirit and meaning of tho law. That it does havo this effect upon tho farming community, and does oporato detrimentally on both producer and consumer, is made apparent by tho following extract from a letter of Carman Cornelius, Supervisor of tho town of Hempstead, Queens County, to myself: SUXHVIXJ.E South, L. Fob. 7, 1870. I am well pleased with tho viow yon tako in reforonce to tho farmers of Long Island.

We object to farmers having to pay a licouso on farm ond garden produce, bocauBO tnere aro many in this locality who would market thoir own produce, but if compelled to get a license before going to market, thoy would, from tho necessity of tho caBo, be obliged to Btay at homo and Bell their produoo to peddlers or othor persons, forVhatever prico thoy could got, thoroby Buffering considerable Iubs. Our section of tho island is cut up into larma irrognlarly somo largo, but principally smuil farms, and the occupants of tho lattor raiso only a small surplus over thoir own consumption consequently they have but a small amount for market, aud could illy afford to pay a tax for tho privilege of taking their produce to market. Other letters, containing similar testimony, to tho effects of this decision, have beon rocoivod one dated us lato as tho 10th stating that tho writar had been advised by tho Assistant Assessor to pay $15 ($3 extra being added as penalty for foiluro to respond to tho first notification), on account of his workmen having sold in Now York a few loads of produce from tho farm. It 1b stated in a Jamaica paper that over 300 farmers of Queens County havo to pay $10 or $15 each, making an aggregate of from $3,000 to $1,000 paid as special tax at tho closo of an unprofitable season and on a branch of business which Cougress never intended to aeparato from the occupation "to which it ia a mere incident.1' How far tho exaction of this tax may have extended in other districts, I hovo no means of knowing, but if the Assessors havo everywhere been as diligent in obeying their instruction as in Queens County, tho amount taken from the farmer who produces and by him charged over to tho merchant, tho mechanic, tho laborer, tho everybody who cat what thoy do not grow, must be large. On tho 28th ult.

I introduced in the Houbo of Representatives and by unanimous consent had referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, the following: Whereas, The Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue has construed the Act of Juno 30th, 18 1, as emended by (he Act of July l'Jtb, 18B0, to authorize and require tho imposition of tho special tux paid by pro diieo brokers upon farmers and market gardeners who sell the produce of their own farms or gardens from stalls or stands, thereby levying a direct tux upon the producium of the primo necessaries ol life tUerolore lie it licsolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means bo directed to wquiro into tlio expediency of reporting at tho earliest practicablo moment a joint resolution declaratory of tho true intent and meaning of tho said Act in the particular above referred to, or, if in their judgment such a course bo deemed necessary or desirable, then to ri pert a bill amending the Act in question so as to remove tho grounds for tho interpretation put upon the uct by tho Acting Commissioner," No action on that resolution has yet been taken by tho Committee, who aro now engaged in considering modifications of the Internal Revenue laws. Will not the press ventilutc tho question of tho legality or propriety of tliis special tax on farmers, and thereby aocuro the attention of the Committee and of Congress to tho matter? Very truly yours, Henbx A. Rekves. "Don't duok him in the horse pond seems to be the motto of our public offioials just now. Soarce ly lias the Dlfltrlot Attornoy's invitation to tho How York out throats been responded to by tho murdor of a first claBs citizen, than tho Sheriff does an act as wild and mischlovouB as tho othor official's wordB.

In tho heated brain of tho District Attorney imaginary invasions of Brooklyn by bands of murderers and thiovos aro developed, and the announcement of his dream brings with it a partial fulfillment. And tlienco a panio Beizoa tho Shorlff, and in every lounger on the street corner ho imagines tho nucleus of a Vigilance Committoo and tho incarnation of Lynch law. Ho shrieks to tho military for prote'e lion to tha extent ot a hundred mon to guard a Jail id tho heart of a city whore four hundred police patrol, backed, under the Metropolitan Bystom, if need bo, by two thousand moro across tho river. These public officers suroly aro not trying to bring about tho anarchy they bo unnecessarily predict and affect to provide against. It certainly looks almost as if they were as if thoy had tho same sort of intention tho man had who shouted to the mob not to duok their prisoner in tho horse pond.

And yet, knowing tho men, wo aro suro that they aro moroly tho victims of momentary panic, and in a day or two will get back to calm reason again. Mr. Morris will only try tho harder to convict the next man arraigned for murder, because Porry's caso has thus far puzzled the jurors. And Sheriff Walter will bolhink him of tho strength ot tho jail walls and tho numbor and vigor of the arms that wield tho looust clubs, and he will sleop sound without detaining his militia body guard from their biiBinoos engagements. Thoro is a lesson for us alt in the sad and startling events that have culminated in the assassination of Mr.

Voorhics. "Tho should understand, has no faculty of self execution. Its rules aro inoperative, it is powerless for protection or for punishment, unless all of ub perform our soveral parts in giving it vitality. Tho jurors that will not, agrco upon a plain matter of fact, in which they havo full opportunity to ask any quostiou wherein thoy aro in doubt, thoso are tho most in fault. If this community cannot furnish common sense jurors that can agree in one conclusion, it is useless to talk of the demerits or errors of public funetionaries.

Angels and seraphs aoting us Judges, prosecuting ofliceiB and Sheriffs, could not law and repress crime, with blockheads for jurymen. If the deplorable ovents that have happened have the offoct of impressing on intelligent citizens the duly of serving instead of sneaking out of jury duty, we shall get sensible jurieB, who will find some verdict or other on the evidence, no matter what may bo tho talk or the tone of tho Bar or the Bench. A bad workman finds fault with his tools. Just so this community, that has been too fond of shirking its jury duty and deputing the most solemn function of citizenship to mercenary talesmon and professional haugcrs on of Courts, trios now to iguoro its own fault by encouraging its public officials to criticize each other. The Sheriff's panic is so ludicrous that it relieves the horror of that of (he District Attorney.

Neithor are we invaded by any more Now York thug3, nor are wo golug to raiso a mob to lynch the one or two wo havo in jail. We aro going to turn this whole thing over in our miuds, and realize that tho first necessity for effective administration of justice moro needful even thun calmness and courtesy and dispassionate co operation between dignitaries of the law is the performing jury duly with intelligence and fidelity. This wo will do, lifter the lesson we have got. The man who goes on a jury and cannot agree with his fellows, will bo looked on, for the present at least, as a fool, not a harmless fool at that. And it will be no oxcuse that the Judge said or did this, or the prosecuting officer omitted to say or do the other.

The juror heard the evidence, andiC in doubt can have his own further questions put to tho witnesses. And if he can't r.groe in a punsiblo verdict he is not a sensible man, and his neighbors will so consider. NAVY YARD MATTERS 'IT lie I'roposcd Removal Inquiry by a Committee of Congress Views of Admiral iu Cluivgrc Kcsiiinptton off Work Appointment. The question of the removal of tho Brooklyn Navy Yard was discussed yesterday in tho nouso Navul Committee. Representative Starkweather, of Connecticut, appeared to support General Slocum's bill for a removal, and to urge that, when the Yard is removed, it should be taken to New London.

He made a long argument, and supported his position with letters from Admiral String ham and Admiral Godon and also with a letter Bigned hv Marshall O. Roberts, William E. Dodge, Russell Stur gis, Collector Grinuoll, Harper tho Appletons, Geo. W. Blunt, and a largo number of other prominent busineBS men of Now York.

Admiral Stringham briefly sets forth the reasons why the removal should be made, and declares iu favor of New London. Admiral Godon does not express auy opinion as to where the Yard should go, but writes at tougth why it should bo discoutiuued'in Brooklyn, llo says that tho first and greatest disadvantage of tho present Yard is its limited water front, which is a source of constant expense and annoyance. The capacities of tho Yard wero sufficient for the of tho Government in earlier days, but aro wholly inadequate to the present require of tho service. Tho vessels at the doek aro necessarily so much crowded as to occasion groat inconvenience, and to expose them to unusual dangora from fire. Ho mentions tho fact that tho city, sewers ompty into the docks, and says that the cost of removing deposits from this source is from $30,000 to $100,000 per annum, and that the gases from Bcwers entail an expense ol uol looo that to reptaco tho copper destroyed upon each vessel lying in the docks.

He holds that the present docking facihtiea aro not sufficient, and that another dry dock is much needed, but thoro is no room to make it. Ho sets forth generally tho advantage that would accrue to Brooklyn from the proposed removal. In. the conrse of his letter he says that tho present property could he sold for $40,000,000, and should not be sold for much les. The following arc some of the principal objections staled by Mr.

Starkwoalher and others to tho Brooklyn Yard: 'The available water front is insufficient, which occa sions inconvenience aud delay in the frequent removals of vcEBels, and expense in hiring private docks. There is no adjacent roadstead in which tho vessels can all elic whilo going or out of commission, Tlio channel is nurrow and subject to immense sewerage deposits. A right ot way is reserved to tho city for drainage through tho yard, which destroys iu a few months tho copper on the vessels. Tho area of land is inadequate to the warns ol a nrst ciuss cstaonsuraenr. xue immediate vicinity of oil woiks, threatens at all times the property of the Government, and the growth of Brooklyn aud Williamsburgh rcuders the enforcement el police regulations difficult, and has by no means bou elicial influence on tho morals of the opsmtivos." RESUMPTION OF WORK.

The Secretary of the Navy has an order ready to dispatch to the different Nay Yards, dircctirfg that all tho men be placed at work at once, on tho announcement of the passage by Congress of the Nuvy Appropriation bill. ArFOINTJfENT. Licut. Commander R. E.

Wallaco, has been orderod to duty at tho New York Navy Yard, vico Liout. Com mandor William R. Wheeler, ordered to the Colorado. the mitchell jackson court martial. The Court of Inquiry ordered by tho Secretary of tho Navy, convened yesterday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to investigate the facts of the recent Hospital controversy between Lieutenanl Commander Mitchell and Surgeon Jackson, which has created no in Naval circles.

Tho Court consists of Hoar Admiral Godon, Commander Whiting, and Surgeon Beales. Mr. Solicitor Bolles of the Navy Department conducts tho examination and keeps the records. Lieutenant Commander Mitchell was examined yesterday, and his testimony bears out in the main our account of the affair. Several Surgeons, including Dr.

Jackson, will bo examined to day, and it is probablo that the Court will complete its lahorB to day, and Mr, Bolles will then proceed to Washington to look after tho Iogal business" of the Department, which he assures tho Court, suffering by his absence. The Department will promulgate tho findings of the Court. ST. JAMES SCHOOL, Hem 5 Aiimial Exhibition Last Evening'. Despite the extreme inclemency of the weather, last ovening, the Athoneum was filled by an interested and well pleased audience, which had assembled to witness, and participate in tho soml annual exhi bition by tho pupils of St.

James' school, the well known Catholic institution, located at No. 197 Jay street, and under the patronage of tho Christian Brothers. This school has an average attendance of upwards of four hundred pupils, who, under the tuition of Brother Fabrician, Principal, and six assistants from tho Brotherhood aro taught the common English branches, tho higher mathematics, Jfrcnch other languages, at a nominal ehargo or only two dollars for each pupil, per annum. The pupils range from flvo to fifteen ycara Jn age, and the musical talent among them assumed the shauo of an organized school baud, about a yoar ago, which received'tuo name, St. James' Stiver Cornet Band, and for the benefit of this organization the exhibition was given last ovonlng.

Tho programme was replete with choice musical aud literary selections, and, though the exhibition had commenced at half past seven o'clock, tho hour had waxed quite late before its conclusion. Tho musical portion of tho programme was undor tho direction of Professors Coat es and Amend, tho former conducting tho hand, and tho latter tho vocal music. It consisted of quicksteps, overtures, and other music, all rendered in a re markablo degree of proficiency. Also, of chorusos liy (ho band and choir, a flule solo by Master Mulcairo, a brass quintette by Masters Murray, McNamara, Green, Loouord, and Lloyd a baritone solo by Mr. Albrccht a cornet solo by Mr.

McCann a violin solo by Mr. Frank Danz, Jr. a comic song by Master E. McNamara a cornet solo by Mr. Hammond; a tenor solo by Mtr, Fritsch a violin solo by Masters Kerrigan and Moehan.

and a vocal duett by Mossrs. Fritsch and Amend, all of which were acceptably rendered and warmly applauded. Tho literary portion of tho programme, under tho direction ot Brother Fabrician consisted of an original and well conceived address of welcome by Master Thomas J. CunniuRham, who ovinced ability and careful training; recitations by Masters RoBaire, Jaokman, Ec illy and Eavanagh; declamation by Masters McGrltr, Holmes and Brady; an essay on Gorald Griffin, by T. J.

Cunningham, and a laughable dialogue, entitled "Too Late for tho Train," by Masters Gallaghor and Guii foyle, with a piano accompaniment, by Master Lloyd, all of which were given in a manner creditable alike to pupils and instructors. A brief but eloquent oration entitled "Our Educational System," was delivorod by John M. Grady, A. a graduate of Manhattan Collego and Principal of the Sidney Place Catholic School, un der tho direction of Rov, Dr. Frcel aud gubjeoi to tho visitation of tho Christian Brothers.

The oration was well delivered and was an able treatise on tho offlcacy of the Catholic Bchool system. All in all the exhibition was highly successful and gratifying to the large number of ladies and gentlemen, as well as children, whose good fortune led them to be present. Lecture by Miss Holloway. Miss Laura C. Holloway will 'deliver Her lecture on "Oharlotte Bronte at tho Atheneum, on Thursday, the 2ith inst.

The lady haa met with marked success in other oities, and this lecture, as its subject would suggest, ia one calculated to prove highly Interesting to persona of literary taste and knowledge, BbiokiAtebs' Stbike. Tha Bricklayers' Union No. 20 met last night in Brooklyn, and reoeivod a communication in behalf of Bricklayers' Union Ko. 1 of Mew Jersey and No. 15 of Yonkers, the mombors of whioh Unions aro on strike against a reduction of wages to four dollars per day.

The Battblsom Colony. At a meeting this Association of Brooklyn, last ovening, tho President stated that suitable lands hod beon found inHydo Conn ty, Eastern North Carolina, at $2 an acre, 22 per cent, cosh, and the remainder in five years at six per cent, interest. A circular was read describing the quality of the land and prongs to bo derived, it was resolved to reorganize, changing tho name from Missouri Colony to North Carolina Colony, and to elect new officers at the next meeting. United Coopebs No. 3.

The annual report of tho Financial Secretary of this Union shows that tho expenditures during the yoar ending December 13, 18G9, were $497 34; receipts, $107 25; for fine3, dues, al so $25 77 for othor purposes. Balanco on hand, $3,108. In the bank at date of last roport, $G00 07. A resolution has been passed that on and after February 28th next, the hours of workshall be from 7 A. M.

la 5 P. with ono hour's intermission at noon. A Co Opebative FotTNDKr. A Co operative Brass and Iron Foundry is in process of erection at Grcenpoint. and is expected to bo in readiness for active operations in about two wcoks.

The enterprise originated with four persons employed in one of tho largest iron foundries in New York, all of whom are members of Iron Moulders' Union No. 23, and each of whom invested $1,500, making a working capital of $0,000. Additional members will be admitted as soon as tho shop is placed in working order. The establishment will bo known ob tho Excelsior Iron and Brass Foundry. A new Co operativo Foundry is also to be opened iu New York.

JSITSINESS NOVICES. HOWES MACY. BANKERS, (The fame as on incorporated bank,) No. 30 WALL ST, N. V.

FOUR. PER CENT. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. felotf IT IS USELESS Per us to say anything of tho merits of tin WHIlELEIt WILSON SEWING MA I Everybody knows what ii is, and few would think of Retting any other kind for those purposes for which it is but for tho fact thot tho various manufacturers of new and experimental machines have, in their desperate efforts to introduce their Roods, held out the flattering and seductive inducement of very EASY TERMS. Tho product of tho company's larjrc factcry, now nenry ONE IICKDRED TUOUSAN'O (100,000) MACFtlXES Iier JKir, Ina so far barely sufficed to supply tbo ordinary demands of their cash sales, and wc have, therefore, been unable to furnish machines, as no desired to do, to tho great number of persona who need machines', and would buy, if permitUd to pny according to thoir circumstances.

Tho completion of a now factory and othor additional facilities for manufacturing, will now enable tho company to fill all our orders promptly, and wo arc determined to e'tvy to our patrons such terms as will ACCOMMODATE ALL. Do not think, hecauso somo canvasser has put a uiaehiaj in your house and tolls you that it is tho best and that his terms are the easiest, that it must of necessity bo so bu come right to headquarters and find out the truth. Hor you will get every advantage CRAIGE 4 AGENTS AND PROPRIETORS, 3M FULTON STREET, (Up CORNER OF COURT. iel6 CONDENSED STATEMENT or THE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Oi1 NEW YORK, F. S.

WINSTON, FOR ELEVEN MONTHS, ENDING DJii 31, 18t. AND OF ITS ASSETS ON THAT UAi. Assets February 1st, 1869 Receipts during 11 months: Policy Fees, Annuities, Premiums and RenowalB $11 ,175,669 87 Interest, Premium on Gold and Rents 2,090,353 43 $13,25,013 35 $12,591,503 ii DISBURSEMENTS. Claims by death aud matured endowments 25 Cash dividends 2i Surrendered nr.nmtics, commissions ond commutation of futuro commissions 57 Kxnonses and taxcE 493.756 44 Offico furniture 1,079 2ff $7,379,724 74 Net assets Dec. 31st, 169 71 INVESTED AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in banks and trust companies $1,857,331 30 Bonds and munsasos 27,319,883 47 United States and Stato stocks and bonds 0,073,103 75 Real eslatf 953,717 40 Balances duo hy agents 7,511 79 $35,211,51 .1 Add: Interest accraed bnt not due $155,817 63 duo unpaid 6) Premiums due but not 14 Premiums deferred quarterly and semi 1,500,000 00 Market valuo of stocks in excess of cost 684,771 on $3,657,033 41 Gross Arsets, December 31st, 1869 lncrcaso in Ket Assets for tho II months.

I havo carefully examined tne foregoing Btatomcnt and find tho same cjrroot. (Signed) SHEPPARD HOMAMS, Actuary. Tho foregoing statomont comprises tho business of cloven montlis oniy. Tho fiscal year of tho Company has hitherto commenced on tho first day of February and expired upon tho 31st doy oi January. For soveral years past tho Superintendent of tho Insuranco Department ot this State has urged tho officers of tho Company to make tho fiscal year coincident vvith tho calendar year, pursuant to tho previa ions of a special statuto authorizing such change.

The Board of Trustees, at its mooting on January 19th, decided that tbe time had arrived whon compUanco with tho wishes of the Stato authorities was both expedient and proper, and it accordingly mado tho change. Hcroaftortho fiscal vonr of tho Company wiU extend from tho first day ol January to tho Slst day of Dooomber, both datos inclusive. BOARD OF TRUSTEES: FREDERICKS. WINSTON, SEYMOUR L. HUSTED.

JOHN V. L. PRUVN, SAMUEL D. BABCOOK, WILLIAM MOORE, DAVID HO AD LEY, RUB RUT H. McCUBDY, HENHY A.

SMYTHE, ISAAC GREEN PEARkON, WILLIAM V. BRADY, MAKTITt BATES, WILLIAM H. uouun, WILLIAM BETTS, JOUN WADS WORTH, ALFRED EDWARDS, OLIVER H. PALMER. SAMUELE.

SPROULLS, SAMUEL M. CORNELL, LUCnUSItOBINSON, W. SMITH BROWN. RICHARD PATRICK, WILLIAM II. POPUAM, WILLIAM A.

HAINES, ununoa o. vmv, WILLIAM M. VEltMILYE. JOHN E. DEVELIN.

WELLINGTON ULA.PP, ALON7.0 CHILD, HENRY E. DAVIES. RICHARD A. MeCURDT; FRANCIS SK1DDY, J. ELLIOT CONDIOT, JAJUES C.

HOLDEN, HUGH N. OAMP, 11EKMAN C. VON POST. EZRA. WHISKLHK, iiiUHAicu a.

MCUUKDY, Vico Presiaent. SHEPPARD UOMANS, Actuary. JOHN M. STUART. Socrotary.

FREDERICK SHROEDKlt, Assistant Secretary. william Setts, LL.i.. HON. LUCIUS ROBINSON Counsel. uoil iujiiivi 1.

jvir.o,; Examiners. HON. ILKiVKtf 1. UAV1KS,) G. NOS.

144 AND 14ti BROADWAY, Corner of Liborty street. fe3tf January 20, 1870. LITCHFIELD, DANA STIMSON, BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 18 Wttliam Btroet, Now York WM. B.

LITOHEIPLD,) CHARLES DANA, E. B. LITCHFIELD LEWIS A. STIMSON. Special WALTER E.

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onr successors, MESSRS. NICOL DAVlDSOff, At 683 Broadway. Onr Mr. B. V.

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V. HAUGHWOUT 4 0 488, 490 nd 493 Broadway, cor. Bwomp PAEK'S BALSAM ov WILD CHERRY TAB. ron COUGHS AND, POLDsj slats. fcSIJjf Description of tho Caisson and Us JLny in tf Tho Foundation ol tho Brooklyn Bridget The 31anvfacturcr mid, Builder for the current liionth contains an interesting article on tiro Brooklyn Bridge, illustrated by a section of the caisson now being built, and by a handsome view of the structure as it will appear when completed.

This monthly magazine, it is bnt just to say, is not made up of odd cUp phigs, from foroign papers, and advertising puffs of individuals and their inventions insertod as editorials, but containB on almost.ovory pago information readable by ovory intelligent man, whilo Bpocially interesting to tho mechanic or tho scientific reader. Among tho points mado in its bridge article is tho prediction of a futuro DANQEB TO EAST BIVEE NAVIGATION. Tho amount of water passing through tho EastBivor at every tide is enormous the velocity of tho eurrout, always great, has increased with tho improvement of the Hell Galo channel and (when all tho obstructions shall have been removed from that channol, tlio current will bo still moro inoonvenient, chiefly to tho Bteam forry boats, which to tho number of twenty live, by Boven different forries, now transport weekly ono million porsons aoross this river, between Now York ond old Brooklyn, not to speak of tho eastern district of BrooKlyn, formerly called WiUiamaburgh, whioh is connected with Now York City by means of Boven othor steam ferries, all crossing tho same river, IMPBACTICABIUTY OP A QUEENS COUNTY CANAL, One onthuBinstie party suggested the formation of a new Ensfc Rivor, east of Brooklyn, by uniting Jamaica Bay with Flushing Bay by moans of a ship oanah This would bo equivalent to cutting off a slico from Long Island and annexing it to Manhattan Island, to double the size of the latter. Such a now canal would, however, soon be Bwept out to au enormous depth and width; all tho full tido now pouring through tho East ltiver would expend its force on tho new canal and tho possible disastrous results of this dangorous undertaking can scarcely be foreseen. Those plans wero nover considered worth noticing by those in authority, who rightly concluded that tho East Kivor muBt not only bo maintained, but, in tho course of time, possibly wiil liccomo tho main ontranco to Now York harbor, when the Sandy Hook channel wilt perhaps havo followed tho example of several othor similar channels, aud beoomo so far filled up with sand that tho large ocean vessels cun only enter it with difficulty, or not at all.

These vessels aro ffouBtantly being increased in draught year by year. A TUNNEL COSTLY AND DIFFICULT. A tunnel has beon proposed, in imitation of tho tunnel under tho Thames, in London; or the Chicago sub fluvial tunnels; or tho one now to be mado under tho Detroit River. Bnt the circumstances aro vory different tho depth of the Thames is only some twenty feet, and that of tho Detroit River forty; and both flow on a bed of uniform clay, easily cut and supported with water tight brick masonry. Tho East Rivor, on the other hand, is sixty feet deep in tho channel and tho bed is composed of rock, interrupted by cractts rilled with earth and boulders.

This heterogeneity of tho substratum would present great difilcultics and, although tho tunnel cannot bo pronounced impossible, the oxponse of its construction would be very great. It will be lef Lto posterity to construct ono, when cxperionco aud knowlodgo in this kind ol work have sufficiently advanced to uu dorlako such a gigaut.c work, with a proper confidence of success. No doubt, in tho course of years, not only eteiim ferries and bridges, but also tunnels, will bo needed. TJio population of Now York aud its onvirons will, at the present rate of growth, in half a century sui puss that of London at the present day. In fact, if we compare the favorable situation of New York, with re.ipcct to the chances of growth Willi the situation of other great citieB, wo can but declare that nothing but a grand earthquake cau prevent New York city irom he coming tho greatest metropolis of tho world.

The plan of a bridge is preferred to those of a causeway and a tunnel, and considered at the present day tho most dcsirablo and practicablo: aud, as the dopth of water and tho requirements of navigation preclude tho building of arches on plors, nolhing is loft but the cou siruction of a suspeusiiu bridge. The article goes on to givo the history and description oi the Roebling plans ond intended struc. lure, with which our readers aro familiar. It then pro ecids to describe, in a moro detailed and precise man. ner than has yet hoeu dono in public print, tho FOUNDATION OF THE BROOKLYN TOWEIS.

The New York tower will bo situatod where now a dilapidated pior, known No, 29, is located; that of Brooklyn, in the east slip of the Fultuu ferry. Tho labor on the latter was commouced on Monday, Jan. 3d, 1870 and has since been continued by moans of dredging, machines, preparatory to sinking tho colossal caiston, which iB now being built at Grcenpolnt, and has advanced considerably toward completion. The caisson is building at the yard of Messrs. Webb and under tho superintendence, on behalf of tho Bridjio Company, of Colonel William H.

Puiuo. It was expected that it would bo ready to launch during, March; but, making allowance for inevitable though unforeseen delay's, wo will say April. The river shoro will be dredged out to low water line, and tho caisson floated into position at high tido. When tho. water recedes, it will bo anchored or seated.

To explain the manner in which it will be sunk to tho required depth, it is necessary to desoribe its construction. DESCRIPTION OF THE CAISSON. A caisson is literally a ohest. Applied to bridgc buildiug, tlie term signilles a wooden box or frame of strong timbers, used for laying tho foundations of a bridge in situations whore the coffer dam can not bo employed. In the present instance, there having been no suitable rock foundation found on tho Brooklyn shore, tho caisson itself will form part of tho foundation, as wo shall show.

Tho system adopted involves also the principle of the pneumatic pile, which is usually a tubular pilo or cylinder of largo dimensions, forced down by atmospheric pressure. In this case, however, the atmospheric prossuro is assisted by the continual excavatiou of material beneath the mass. In fact, there is also something of the diving bell in this apparatus. The caisson proper, or chamber within which TEE WORK OF EXCAVATION will bo carried on, is rectangular in shapo, 108 feet long and 102 feet wide on tho about 13 feet high. The sides are wedge shaped in section, tho lower edge being eight inches, and the upper eight feet three inches thick.

The roof resting on these sides is fivo oot thick, leaving a working chamber (tho dimensions of roof ana sides being allowed for) 100x98 feet in ground area, and 0 feet in height. Tho whole is constructed of yol low pine timbers, a foot square the soams aro paved with a vcgctablo tar, to ronder thorn imporvious to water; and between tho outer layers of timber, is a Bheathing of tin, between two of felt, iutended to prevent air from leaking through. As tho sharp lower edges are intended to facilitate tho sinking of tho caisson, they aro made vory strong. The first course of timber is oak to this is bolted a cust iron itichou Wide, ntltl oval on ito laea, nn.iujT Mtrp inonoa nur.K in the centre. Around tho shoo is placed an armor of holler iron, extending three feet above, on both sides of tho wall, tlio wholo being strengthened by heavy interior angle irons.

Especial pains is taken to provout tho corners at the bottom from "spreading" under tho groat pressure to which they will be subjoctod. At each corner, in the second course, is insorted a knee of hardwood timber, extending twenty feet each way. The timbers of the caisson arc all bolted together vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, with l'x inch bolls, varying iu length from two to seven foot. Tho bolts are, on an average, eighteen inches none more than two feet eight inches apart throughout the whole structuro; aud (ho heads and nuts aro made air tight by rubber washers. As this hugo framo is Bunk to its desired position, thirty feet below lbw tide, additional course of timber will he laid on tho top, to tho height of fifteen feet, and filled in wilh concreto; aud when tho whole mass has Income fixed in its final resting place THE TOWER WILL HE BUILT on (he solid foundation thus obtaiuod.

Six Bhalts, lined with half inch bailer iron, pass through the roof of tlieoaisson. Tho two outside ones are rectangular, and six feet six inches by seven feet in Bize. These are the water shafts, in which the water collecting in tho caisson will rise by the atmospheric pressure to (he height of tho tide outside. Next to these aro the two man shafts or supply shafts, circular in form. Through theso tho workmen will pass, and tho earth be hoisted.

The last pair are the air shafts, also circular and forty two inches in diameter. The shafts are made in couples, both for convenience and for safety. Through tho air Bhaits largo air pumps will force air into the caisson, expelling tho water, and enabling the workmen to descend and work upon tho bottom. The earth excavated will be deposited around the square walcr shaits; and a Cumming's dredging maclmio will lift the mud and damp it into scows. As the oxcavations progress, tho caisson will sink.

During this operation, it is to bo hoped that the edges will como upon no lar'o boulders. It is of the' utmost importance that tbis heavy structure, which will not he very manageable when it is once under water, shall move downward with quiet uniformity: aud lortunate we have no reason to expect in the sand of the Brooklyn shore any serious obstacles to this part of tho work. Gas is to bo introduced for lighting the caisson. The following figures will givo. to somo readers a better notion of tho sizo and importance of this, construction: Length of caisson, 168 feet; width 102 foot; height, 15 feet; holght, inoluding suporincumboiit timber and concrete, 30 ioct; timber in caisson, 1.5C0 000 feet, (105,000 cubio feet weight of caisson, 2,500 lo3000 iron employed in bolts, angle irons, and plates, 100 tons lumber in launohing frames and ways, 127,000 feet.

GOVERNMENT AND THE FARMERS. The TTax on Fanners as Produce Brok. era Letter from Congressman tie eves. Washington, Feb. 14.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In your influential journal of a recent date appeared an article calculated to convey a wrong impression respecting tho question whothor farmors whq soil tha produce of then? own farms from atauds or stalls are or aro not required by the internal revenue laws to pay the special licenso tax of $10 imposed by thoso laws on "JProduco Brokers," That question remains in an unsettled and unsatisfactory state. In a recent interview with tho Commissioner of Internal KOTtnue, I learned that he adheres to his decision that tho farmer "who makes it his business to sell'' his own produce becomes thereby a "brokeir," and must pay tho broker's licenso. His view of the matter is that the "business" of a former is to raise farm produce, and that the selling of such produce is only an incident thoroto that such being tho case, it is right to tax farmers whoU their legitimate business of growing grain, vegetables, etc, add tho "business" of soiling thoso articles, just as it is right to tax mon cngagod iu two or moro lines of trado for oaeh ono of Buch liucB. It is propor to say that the Commissioner expressed a strong desire to see farmers relieved from this tax, and declared it was reluctantly and after long deliberation and consultation with his subordinates that ho felt it his duty to construe and promulgate tho law as abovo rooitod; and it will be remembered that in his last letter on this subject, rocont published ho instructed tho assessors to bo leniont and liberal in thoir enforcement of the law. But whilo this statement is due to Mr.

Dslano and his associates, it will hardly BUfBce the large class whoso interosts aro affected injuriously by this dooision, to know that individual cases as thoy occur under it are to be treated liberally. What farmers and market gnrdonerB, who occupy stands or stalls in city or village markets under rental from municipal authorities, and there sell during a few months of tho yoar tho productions of their own farms and gardens, object to, and what tho great mass of purchasers of such produce, who alter all are tbo most nearly interested in tho matter, object to is the possibility of euoh an operation being construed into an "occupation" or "business" within the meaning of tho act of Congress imposing a special licenso tax on produco brokers. It seems to bo quite certain that it was not the intention of Congress to impose that tax upon any ono except thoso who make it a "business" to deal in form produce, buying of farmers and gardcnerB to nell to hucksters, grocery keepers, or directly to consumers. Tho Commissioner admits that such may not have beon tho design of Congress in passing the law, bnt lfe holds that the language of the Act warrants and requires the interpretation ho has put upon it. Ho cohcedes that the ordinary icooptatton of the term "broker" Implies the idea of a faotor or intermediary agent betweon the producer and oonsumer, but maintains that statutory terms are to be construed strictly and sometimes in a quite different sense from their usual one.

His whole reliance for the deolslou in question, tried in the jurt of final analysis, hinges upon tho word occupation." Does a farmer or gardener, Belling his own produoo as above, take upon himself' in bo doing a new occupation 1 Does his selling the surplus of his production In a portloular manner from a stand orBtall onoe, twloo or oitener, each 'week for one, two, three or four months ditheyenr' constitutesuob. a "business" of brokerage in farm produce as Congress meant to tax If it does, then, of course the Commissioner is oorroct in hia decision and the assessors must ssboss tho tax upon all such porsonB bo ongaged in soiling farm produco or. gar don "truck," nor doea there stem to ba any euffloient reason for lenieUpy of application (whioh theOommlB monor dircota to bo given) to rack cases than to Tills paper lias (lie tlon ol any Evening in tbe Vnited States. Advertising medium parent. Largest Circuln paper published Its value as an Is therefore ap AVliiting and lighting.

Alderman "Whiting, if the Republican party comprised all the peoplo, and tbe Twontioth "Ward all the city, would be a model representative. plan is to look out for his Ward especially, and for his party invariably. Yesterday the New York papers, pretty much all, assorted, on the allogod authority of a statement by Mr. "Whiting in the Common Council, that the Street Commissioner had caused or allowed the city to pay forty thousand dollars, if not a hundred thousand, for lamps never furnished to the city. If this were the fact, Mr.

Furcy ought to be sent before the Grand Jury, and Mr. Whiting ought to be im ponched for not having revealed so monstrous a fraud sooner. But Mr. "Whiting did not say what ho was represented to have alleged. Bis assertion was that whilo the lamp posts in tho middle of last year were contracted for at $12.50 and tho lanterns at $1.50, the Street Commissioaer went on paying, several months after, the old prices to Mr.

Howell and Mr. Derundion, who, before tho contracts were made, supplied posts at and lanterns at each. This subject of the excossivo cost and too great number of new lamps is not now to the readers of the Eagle. In tho summer of 1SG8 we wrote frequently and strongly upon it and Mr. Whiting in tho Board of Aldermen was the very man who censured the Eagle and undertook to break tho force of its rebuke on this itom of civic extravagance.

There formerly, under Mr. Tinnoy, Democratic Street Commissioner, was a contract for lamps. Mr. Nodme, his lvepublicau successor, purchased without contract, from Mr. Howoll.

Mr. Furoy, Democratic successor of Mr. Nodino, continued the practice of Ids predecessor, but at a lower figure. It is stated by Aldennan Clancy thai whereas Mr. Nodine paid twenty dollars per post, Mr.

Furcy paid but eighteen dollars. The pi ice of iron was then so high that thi3 figure is alleged to have been not unreasonable. "When the price of iron fell, Aid. Whiting himself, and one or two other aldermen, knowing, or being able to learn, that the current price of eighteen dollars had become too high, and yet that thoro was no contract existing, and no doubt that each lamp supplied would lie charged at a price that had become excessive, procured resolutions ordering tho lamps of whole wards to be reset and greatly increased in number. Then was tho lime for Mr.

Whiting or any othor alderman who wanted economy to have reminded tho Board that it had no contract, and no security against overcharge. But they said not a word, and when the Eagle denounced tho extravagance of resetting and multiplying the Iainps of the Twentieth and other wards, it was Mr. Whiting who attacked tho instead of joining us in cheeking the waste of money and supererogation of lamps. The only result of tho Eagle's comment was that after the horse was stolen the stable door was locked Mr. Whiting, after his own ward had been relighted at the costly non contract scale, carried a resolution directing a limit to the nearness at which, thenceforth, lamps should bo set.

There are now about 11,000 lamps in tho city. Of these, nearly one half havo been added during the wild rush for new lamps which Mr. Whiting himself was the second if not the first Alderman to promote, and whish the Eagle alone checked. Meanwhile Mr. Furey reminded the Board that they had no contract, and so did the Mayor, repeatedly.

Finally, in the summer of 1809 after every Alderman had got his ward lighted to a dazzling point of radiation, contracts were ordered at the reduced prices. Some of the bills of the old lamp purveyors wero paid in November, five months after the contract was awarded at cheaper rates to other parties but it is not asserted by Mr. Whiting that these bills were for lamps ordered subsequent to tbe contract. CTL.C fcLkctt tlioro io dofioionoy bill before the Legislature, to raise over a hundred thousand dollars extra for last year's lighting account. The Board of Aldermon are the chief offenders in ihis matter, and none of them more so than Mr.

Whiting. The time to save the people's money was when the Eagle spoke in lt 'G6, before the Twentieth and Seventh Wards were doubly illuminated. Mr. Whiting knew as well then as now that there was no contract, and that the city was at tho mercy of the men who supplied the lamps. He not only did not speak for the city then, but rebuked the Eagle for doing so.

Now that the extra lamps are all up and the assessment comes to bo paid, he throws tho responsibility oil' on to the Street Commissioner. That officer is tho mere agent of the aldermon. Ho puts up no lamps but by their order. They, not he, had tho power to make a contract in 1808, while they were ordering hundreds of lamps at a time, and they are blamable for not contract ing then. There is of course no foundation for the sensational and false report given by some of tho papers, of Mr Whiting's speech.

He did not say that any lampBhavo been charged for that are not erected for the monoy is paid only on the certificate of the Gas Company that the lamps are set and in use, as well as of the City Inspector that they have been erected. As to Mr. Whiting's suggestion that the overcharge or high price makes the assessment invalid, we can only say that if this wore law it would vitiate every city assessment we over heard of, for there are none in which, what with fees and extras and three years interest added, the priae ultimately assessed on the property owner is not such as any fair valuation would pronounce excessive. Aid. Whiting is a smart man for his ward and his party.

The moment tho extra lamp mania set in he got the Twentieth Ward reset throughout, under a resolution the most sweopingof any the Board adopted, saying nothing then about thoro being no contract and a notoriously too high price charged for lamps. Having thus fixed his ward all right, he now seeks to serve his party with equal zeal, by diverting the entiro blame of tho Common Council's r6ckles3 lamp lighting mania upon the Democratic Street Commissioner, who had no power to set a lamp or pay a dollar, except as tho agent of the very body by whom it is now attempted to saddle the whole responsiblity upon him. This is the usual course of local Boards. Order the work recklessly one year, without counting co3t; pay the bills next year and enter into a low contract after the rash of work is over and then the following year let tho original perpetrators of the extravaganco, and nog lecters of the duty of contracting in time, hunt up some scapegoat lor themselves, and if possible, for the party they belong to, in the person of some department officer, who, if responsible at all, is so only to the extent of having acted in the matter as the agent to carry out the orders of the delinquent Board. Relief (or Ireland.

Ireland shakos tho Commons. Mr. Gladstone has backed his new bill with a speech. The bill provides that tenants can buy lands in fee simplo from landlords, by offering such a prico as a Court of Arbitration determines to bo fair that in such purchase, improvements made by tenants shall count in exact value as a part of the payment that tenants must have a year's notice from the end of the current year when required to quit, and that an eviction for unpaid rent shall bar all claims against a tenant, These are innovations with a vongeance. They amount to just this real estate owners cannot refuse to sell their land, or cannot sell it at a price set by themselves, if the Court of Arbi tration decide otherwise landlords wanting to oust parties in rent must give them a square year's notice, and when they turn them out for non payment (which is eviction, and which must not be confounded with the year's notice required to quit) they cannot afterwards prosecute the evicted parties for Tent.

These measures would be revolutionary in America, where landlords have some rights which laws are bound to reaped. Mr. Gladstone's bill squints wholly in favor of the tenant. The situation, however, most not be misunderstood. Ireland, as is notorious, has been for centuries so landlord ridden that anything short of a redistribution of land trill almost fail 4to do justioe to tho people.

Moreover, there has been a praoticol prohibitive duty on the acquirement of freehold tenure by the people. Ski DU1 begins to tafce notioe ot Tbe outrages practised on sailors by boarding houso kocpers and their associato kidnappers aro among tho doepor and moro flagrant disgraces attaching to Now York. Congress has beon appealed to, often and vainly, to take efficiont action to proveut systematic abusos which Mr. Bergh would not for a moment permit toward dumb boasts. Tho Tribune refers to a plan of reform as a big job" and a necessary one.

As Congressmen have a keen scent for big jobs iu another sense they may be at last decoyed into doing something for the poor sailor who has no friends, but stands especially in need of them as ho is a persistent and tireless enemy to himself. "Tho woman who dared" is Susan B. Anthony. She dared to publish to the world her actual ago to enable her friends with mathematical accuracy to congratulate her on her fiftieth birthday. Tho wisest of us can.

only guess at women's ages. Knowledge of tho facts must be postponed until death puts an end to the vanities of youth real or assumed. Even then tho mystery romainu unsolved. In ninety nine cases of a hundred tho coffin plate and newspaper obituary aro silent on tho important subject. Such a disclosure is of no concern to the dead, and living women may bo compromised by comparative statistics.

Miss Anthony has often and vigorously expressed her scorn for distinctions of political privilege founded on sex, but in nothing has she moro clearly demonstrated her superiority to feminine weakness than in announcing lior semi centonnial. Her proudest epitaph will be Here lies a woman who did'nt about her age. People who urge the recognition of the Cuban Republic overlook ono very important consideration. Such a measuro would iuvolvo the instant death of tho Sun. Tho loading article is essential to the life of a journal, and it has boon' plain at any time for months that the removal of Secretary Fish and his son iu law from a position of antagonism on tho Cuban question would doprivo the leader writers of tho Sun of all matorial of vital sustenance, and thoy and it would forthwith and pitiably perish.

Wo cannot afford to lose tho Sim. It is a curiosity of journalism. It is an il lustration at onco striking and amusing of what may be dono under the expanding and tho condensing It will condonso you a really important event into a dry and juiceloss paragraph of marvellous narrowness, and it will ox pand you au informal fight of two snarling and snapping cuim in a chinch yard into a column sen sation. In tho circumstances we can hardly afford, oven in consideration of Cuban independence, to lot our Sun go down iu darkness. 9 The crude and monstrous creations which make up the Congressional collection of art at Washington have boon so ottcn criticized that it is not worth while to add anything to tho volumo of just ridiculo and deserved contempt.

But tho pro posed appropriation of $5,000 to some unnamed artist for an oil painting of President Lincoln will not escape remark. There aro three loading objections to it, and tho friends of Mr. Lincoln ought not to be tho lawk tn qnffaooi (hem. The first is economical the country cannot afford now to incur unnecessary expenditures. In the second place, tho measuro is plainly a job iu tho iutorest of Bomo ambitions hut unappreciated painter, who will only add to tho gallery of rubbish which will serve as material for future bonfires.

The third objection rests on tho more general and obvious fact that the day of personal momorials in stone or bronze and on canvas is past. Public men who are worth remombering build more lasting mounments for themselves, and thoro is no danger that thoy will bo forgotton. Testimo nialH of brass, marble, or pigments are inconsistent with the spirit of tho age. Co The late Daniel S. Dickinson nover made a speech without introducing the couplet, "No thief e'er felt tho baiter draw with good opinion of the law." Dickinson having died and his concodod copyright in tho quotation expired, and a suitable period of tho abstinence delicately duo to tho deceased having beon observed, a morning papor ventures to reproduce tho familiar extract.

But it has lost whatever charm and force it once had. Innioad of tbe quality of an occasional stimulant it has that of a depressing drug. Diclduson made it unavailafllo for at least a generation. Speakers and writers who remorselessly work a good thing to death, or who pervert a slyle fealuro to an exasperating mannerism, should reflect that thoy impair tho rhotorical resources of mankind, and shut out their fellows from the use of words and forms often apt and oxpedicnt. Tho Shakspoareau phrase, "last, not least," was once terso and effective but who can write or speak it now without loathing Tho same qusstiou may be asked of another Shakspearcan pliraso, "to tho manner born" which nino times in ton, ovon by thoso who might bo expected to know better, is misquoted "manor." So of Dickinson's single excerpt from tho poets.

"Beneficial attritions of thought" is good. It is employed by the accomplished Mayor of Now York, who introduces in formal official documents a light, gushing airiness of style and rhetorical graces, which must astonish the dry, dusty, old fashioned files to which they ultimately find their way, and whoBO messages and civic correspondence bear a likeness to Leader paragraphs and burlesque librettos. "Beneficial attritions of thought" occurs in a lotter to a Committee of tho Legislature recommending a reform of the criminal codo of procedure. The Mayor sensibly suggests that the tediouB, cumbrous, and often absurd methods which originated at a remote time, under obsolete laws, aro inconsistent with "this ago of nowspa pciB, telegraphs, and" here comos in the admirable passage already quoted. As often happens, the chief charm of tho phraso Bos iu the uncertainty as to its signification.

It may mean anything or nothing. Among the "attri tionn" which may bo considered "beuelicial" wo can hardly includo squabbles in Courts botwoen judges and prosecuting attorneys or official proclamations by the latter io tho criminal clasros. Yet tbis "attrition" is peculiar to our age. It is doubtful that tho Legislature will find time to rc movo from the statute book tho ridiculous incongruities to which tho Mayor properly calls attention. Tho matter does not present itsolf as ono of tlioso "attritions" which havo hitherto proved "beneficial" at the Capital.

The "attrition" successful at Albany is tho mstle of greenbacks, and there seems to bo nono of that in tho Mayor's proposed reform. Tho New York Bar Association continues to act as its own reporter and, as might bo expected, its reports aro unsatisfactory. Tho official announcement of last night's proceedings, supplied to the morning papers, should havo been by them remitted to an advertising column, as in no sonso is it such a record as a journalist would provide for his readers. It appears that officers wore elected, including such influential and representative mon asWm. M.

Evarts, SamuolJ. Tildeh, and others. It further appears that tho Association has adopted a constitution and proposes to issuo an address, but as to the provisions of tho constitution tho public is loft to conjecture. Does the Association propose to occupy itself in the re enunoiaiton of "glittering generalities" on the glory and dignity of the profession which may bo found in "the books" from timo immemorial, and which Mr. Sand.

Warren especi ally has set forth in words as glowing as tho pages of his avowed fictions Or does it propose to ad dress itself directly to tho practioal work of local reform For oxamplo, will it at tho outset ref ubo to admit to membership unscrupulous lawyers who unite with equally unscrupulous Judges in the gross abuso of the romedy of injunction? Or will it be so catholic and genial as to include iu its companionship lawyers who prove that "the Receiver is as bad as tho thief?" The joke is already threadbare, but its truthful pungency justifies its repetition. In regard to these and othor interesting questions the public is profoundly ignorant. The Association may claim that it is engaged in a private and voluntary movomont and has a right to regulate not only its proceedings but their pub lication. Btrictly, this is true. And it is also true thfttlnihocircumstanoea tho Association cannot expect tho public to ontertain a Uvolg iin its proceedings or to anticipate for Its operations anything but a farcical fiasco.

of conductors and drivers on horse railroada iu said city." Tho Common Council of the City of Brooklyn aro liore by empowered to require the employment of both conductor and driver on every car used lor the transportation of pasBcngors on tho various horse wilhin the limits of safdeily, as In thoir judgment tha public convenience and safely may demand. AN 05D3N. As Mr. Maddox arose to introduco this bill, the cou tcstant of Mr. Joucb, Win.

W. Goodrich, was seated r.cnr to Mr. and tho Speaker's mind being engaged in thinking about Goodrich's chances of bucccss, he in his recognition said, "Tho gontlemun from Kings, Mr. Goodrich," instead of Maeldox. This caused a twitter of mirth to possess the solemnities of tho introduction of bills.

Mr. Goodrich is making a persovering effort to havo his caso closed as soon as possible, but the chances aro that the twenty witnesses yet to be examined on cases prior to this will not be completed until March 1st. Tho case has not been calendered. WIIXIAM8BUEGH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Mr.

Maddox introduced ''An Act to amend the charter of tho Industrial School Association of Brooklyn, Eastern District, Section 1. Empowers the Association to purchaso and hold real cstato sufficient for tbe actual occupation and necessary iscb of tho corporation, and toreccivo by gilts or devise, as provided in the several laws relative to the benevolent and charitablo associations, and possess tho rights and liabilities of such societies according to Tillo 3, Chapter 18, Part 1, of tho Kevised Statutes. Sec. 2. Limited to $100,000 real, and $75,000 personal estate, aud property so'hcld exompt from'taxation.

Sec. 3. Legalises tho action of the Board of Female Managers, past, present and future, and the manner of election, as usual. See. 4.

Slates as ono of the objectB of tho Association, to provide temporary homes and relief for adult destitute, unprotected, and friendless females. Sec. 5. Authorizes tho appointment of all necessary matrons, to give the children under their care, and proscribe their course of instruction, same as.naturul guardians. Sec, 6.

Gives full possession of thoso children surrendered to them by their parents or guardians. The indenture Io be approved of by the Mayor and Surrogate. Sec. 7. The children educated in tho iuBtitution entitled to an apportionment from tho Common School Fund of the city, according to the average attcudauee, in tho same manner as other children attending other benevolent and tho Public Schools.

Sec. 8. Constitutes the mother the capable party to surrender tbo child, in caso of death, imprlsonmont or abandonment of the father. If tho mother be dead, imprisoned, or abandons the child, or tho parenls not found on diligent inquiry, tho Mayor or Surrogate to sign away the custody of tbo child. Sec.

9. Constitutes tho Mayor or Justice of Peaco of any cily or town whero tho child maybe indentured, the officer to hear complaints in regard to ill treatment of tho child by Ub guardians, and on proof of tho truth iulueEB of tho charges, tho child to be returned to the institution. Tho guardian may be required, after tho child has ottained tho age of twelve years, to pay ten dollars per annum to tho treasury of the institution, to be the legal property of tho child and if a girl, the aggregate, on arriving at eighteon yoars of age, to bo paid to her in sixty dollars, and ninety dollars to a boy when arriving at twenty years of age. Sees. 10, 11 and 12.

Constitute tho Board of Managers, tbo referees in all coses concerning tho children under their care, and permits the Legislature to alter the law at any timo. EESIONSTBANCE. Senator Murphy presented a petition largely signed by the citizens of Grsvesend, New Utrecht, and Flat Lush lor the repeal of tho Boulevard Act of I860. The Boulevard was to extend from tho Prospect Park to Fair Grounds, a width of two hundred feet. lie also presented the remonstrance of owners of proporty on Rutledgc street, against closing said street.

PBOSPECT l'ARK. Seuajor Pierce presented another series of remonstrances against the proposed sale of lands lying east of i'lalbubh avenue aud belonging to Prospect P.u'k. The Mayor aud other influential citizens signed it. BROOKLYN DEFICIENCIES. Senator Murphy's bill, "to authorize tbo City of Brooklyn to borrow and raiso money by tax to meet certain deficiencies and liabilities," was reported favorably from Judiciary Committee FIIIST BILL TO PASS.

Mr. Cullen's bill "in relation to the American Baptist and Missionary Union," passed tho Souate. and is the first bill introduced by tho Brookl delegation to pass both houses. THE BUOOKLVNITES here to day are Ex Snpervlsor Fred Scholcs, looking alter the Bedford avenue and Wallabont Improvement Commissions, and trying to impress the Senate Judiciary Committee with tho importance of continuing them until tho difficulties between the Contractors aud tlio Commihsiouors were settled. Also Messrs.

C. W. Dieek3, Samuel Maddox John S. Hobby, M. Murphy aud othors.

crre pake. Mr. McBoly will report favorably to morrow from the Committee on Cities, Mr. Cullen's bill giving a portion of the City Park to tho Twenty third Regiment for military use. MAIN STBliET.

Mr. Moscly's bill rcpoaling tho act wielcning Main street and providing for the expense incurred, was considered in Committee of tho Whole this evening, ami ordered to this Engrossing Committee. Mr. Jacobs drew an explanation from Mosely by tho usual method, who recited the difficulties in the matter of Mr. Mosely held tho position of Chairman of ouo of tho Committees of the Whole, this evening.

NOBTH THTBTEENTH STJ5EET. Mr. Maddox will introduce a bill to repeal Chapter C07 of tho Law of 18G9, entitled "an Act to alter the Commissioners' Map of Brooklyn," the samo being for tho purpose of opening Pratt street, in said city. Seo. 1.

Bcpeals tho Act and all proceedings had thereupon or now ponding thereunder or by virtue thereof are hereby stayed, except North Thirteenth Btroet mentioned in the Act, which is to bo roatorcd as it existed prior to suid Act and ony obstructions therein shall bo removed by tho Street Commissioner, or otherwise under tho direction of tho Common Council. Sec 2. Tho Board of Aecessors of Brooklyn shall ascertain and detctmino what amount of expense (if any) haB been incurred under tho Act hereby repealed for which tho said city is liable, as well as the cost of re moving tho obstructions aforesaid, and ukall roport tho amount thereof to the proper authorities, who shall include the same In tho next general tax when leviod and collected. Last year Mr. Hodges introduced tho bill sought to bo repealed.

Tho bill closed that portion of North Thirteenth street nearest tho river, aud thus destroyed a way to tho water front, for tho benefit of Pratt who have commenced to orcct a large oil v. art house on the premises. To tbis tho oitizons of tho Fourteenth Ward decidedly object, consequently the bill to bo introduced by Mr. Maddox was drafted. Seawanhacka.

TOE MEWS. Miss Susan B. Autliouy is an old mnid of fifty, and is not ashamed of it, on tho contrary sbo feeiB proud that she has seen her half century of independence from mole control, aud on last ovening celebrated hor semi centennial otthe rooms of tho Woman's Bureau, in IhomoBt gorgeous style. The' New Yoilr. Bur Association last night olected William M.

Evatts as President, Samuel H. Tilden, Junior W. Gerard and others as ViCe Presidouts. They offered $5,000 reward for tho euscovory of the assailant or Mr. D.

B. Eaton, Tho Parisians are eniovinc a Skatine Carni val. Ycslorday tho Emperor appeared in public for tho first timo since the riots, aud with the Prlnco Imperial passed eomo time, on tho ico at Ihe Bois de Boulougue. The ubiquitous, unkillable and nnbanishablo Lopez has again turned up, and 1b now reported to havo fought and defeated a foroo of Brazilians ut Elo Verde. Somo of his officers are reported to have gone over to tho Brazilians.

A large number of Now'York merchants aiid others propose to show tho appreciation "in whioh thoy hold tho veracity of Mrs. Harriot Bocohov Stowo by celebrating on tho 25th of April next tho annivorsary of Byron's diporluro irom England. An epidemic of murder rages in France since tho execution of Traupman. Tho latest case is that of alootmonin tho employ of M. Lonfbart, formerly French Consul General in India, who having quarrelled wilh hiB mistress, with a knife severed hor head nearly from hor body.

Tho murder was committed in the presence of tho husband, who is a paralytic, and was unublo to move from his seat. Francois, the murderer, gave as a motive for the crlmo that his mistress had charged him with Bleating a bottle of wino and getting drunk. After his arrest he took the affair very coolly. John A. Adourve was hanged at St.

Johns, H. yesterday, for the murder of his mistress, Catherine Vail and their ohild, in September last. The murderer wsb a married man of good social position and hiB victim a beautiful young woman, whom he had seduced and then murdorod to got hor out of his way. The Armenian Catholics havo deoided not to recognize tho authority of tho patriarch becauBO thoy say he is too old and ffleblo to resist the enoroaohmohta of Borne. Jacob Dardolier, a shoo dealer, doing business In HudBon street, New York, committed suicide yesterday, by shooting hlmsolf through the head with a Commodore Champlin, the last surviving officer of the battle of IaSo Erie, is lying dangerously to Butrwo, Extension of the City.

One question, which has not been in any shape formally propounded at Albany, amid all that has been said respecting local government reforms, must nevertheless have obtained more or less consideration from ovory public man of Kings County. That is, why should not the city limits be extended so as to include the whole county of Kings? The agricultural portions of the county towns could be admitted as ''agricultural wards," and exonerated from sharing in the burdens of a strictly civic character, such as the cost of water, gas, sewers and other city improvements from which they dorive no direct benefit. But for two separate local governments to be maintained, as we have them now, one for the whole county and the other for the fifteenth sixteenths of the poople and property of this county comprised iu tho city, 6ecms quite unreasonable. Either the county towns should be annexed to Queens County, or they should be included in Brooklyn. They are a mere fragment and fraction of the present county in wealth and population yet for their benefit alone we keep up two sets of local government, where one would suffice.

We must have a Board of Aldermen for the city and then, because one fifteenth of the poople of tho county are not included in the city, we have to keep a second Board, the Supervisors. Wo have a city treasurer and a county treasurer a city school superintendent and a county superintendent city coroners and county coroners a county judge and a city judge and so on all through, we duplicate our local government, because a small fraction of our county population are outside of the city. There are no real constitutional or practical difficulties in the way of making the county government answer for a city government also. We should thus save almost one half of the local administrative expenditure at a stroke. Wo should thus give the county government what it has long wanted, an executive head, in tho person of the Mayor of the city.

We should avoid no end of duplication and circumlocution of administration simplify accounts and operations, and above all, the votors' duty in holding the real authorities responsible. Eventually such a change as wo now suggest mst come. One county town, Flafcbush, is virtually annexed to the city and converted into city lots, by the vicinity of the Park. It at least ought to come into the city and shjire the gas, wator, sewers and taxation. Part of another, East Now York, is built up now more densely than many portions of the city and it needs city government protection, and city improvements and hygienic precautions.

There may not for many years be another as good opportunity as now to extend the city over the county, and to substitute one county Board for the double set of local Legislatures we now have. This, however, is one of those questions of organic 'change, which may well be Bubmittect to the popular vote. We want some local issue for tho May special election, to bring out a full vote on the Court of Appeals, and secure that tribunal to the Democracy. This victory, desirable always, has become essential to self preservation now, by the indications Congress shows of passing the revolutionary bill to en force the Fifteenth Amendment. We need a Court of Appeals in this State, that will stamp that infamous bill with the stigma of unconstitutionality which no Democrat can doubt attaches to it.

"What issue would so fully draw out the vote of Kings County, as the question of whether the city shall extend over the whole county, or not Less Appealing, but moue Justice. A bill has been introduced by Senator Murphy which provides that no appeal to the Court of Appeals from a judgment in a personal action, where the amount is under $500, shall hereafter be taken or allowed. This is a move in the right direction. The frequent and interminable appeals now allowed by law amount to a virtual denial of justice." When it takes years to finally decide a case, tho man in tho right is kept out of his rights to such an extent that he necessarily suffers hardship and wrong. No justice is just that is not prompt and speedy and final whether it concerns the punLshmont of crime or the enforcement of a claim to property or to compensation.

Here aro two specimen advertisements. Tho Louisiana piebald Legislature, intent on jobs, publish ready made letters from Ku Kluxers tbrefttenine their valueless lives. As a recoil of this fabricated peril they will pass the jobs. Again Lydia Thompson, British blonde, com ing East, and angling for audiences and lucre, telegraphs to complain that a woman has every where persecuted her with attentions, assaults her with violent attentions and batters her with boquets, jewelry, The woman has only seen Lydia in stage dress, and has taken her for a man. That's what's the matter.

Bat these advertisements will do. Queer times in New Hampshire. Mixed pol itics up there. Ex Internal Commissioner Rollins, on tho surface of events for the first timo sinco Brother Binckley boostod him out of Washington, writes for Mr. Economist Dawes to como and stump the State and save the party.

Dawes fills out a folio to say that he can't come. Sharp fellow, Dawes, he knows a sinking ship. The same telegraph brings news of immense labor reform meetings at Concord and elsewhere. Thoy mean business, and with a competent degree of energy the Democracy can bag the State, "when the spring time comes." Double headed Senators from Georgia! Messrs. Hill and Miller, decent natives, wero chosen two years' ago, and have been hanging by the eye lids ever since.

Yesterday a Major Whitely and a Colonel Faron were chosen for the others' identical terms. Isn't this rather accumulating the agony To be sure Georgia has been dono over twice, and in a sense is entitled to two Senators, but things under our system have never multiplied in that way before, and we respectfully inquire, "Why is this thus Texas yesterday "ratified" the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Keep it up, gentlemen. The more coerced ratifications you impose, the greater the nullity of that proposition. An amendment, no more than a contract, cannot agreed to, under duress. The OUR ALB AH CORRESPONDENCE.

Kniportaut to EScal Estate Owners Pro loscl lie valuation Statclat Auction Prices Sidewalk Assessments not to lixeced Malt' tlio (Lot's Value Tltc Proposed New Park Itoa.rd Mr. Goodrich Recognized by the Speaker as an AssciiiMyiiia.il WilliumsburgU Industrial School Grounds, Boulevard, ice, Albany, Feb. 15. Last evening tlio Senate had a small attendance, and Long island unrepresented. Tho only business of general importance was as follows DISTltlBUTION OF INSTJBANCE DIVIDENDS.

Senator Banks introduced this eveniug "An Act to amend the Act to prorido for the incorporation of Life and Uealth Insurance Companies aad in relation to agencies of such companies." Seciios 1. All Life Insurance Companies chartered by or organized under, or in pursuance of the laws of the State, and which do business on tho principles of Muluul Insurance, or in which tho policy holders aro entitled to share in the surplus funds or net profits thorcof, may, anything in any law, charter, or articlo of association contained to tho contrary notwithstanding, make a distribution of such surplus as thoy havo accumulated or may accumulate, annually, or onco in two, three, lour, or fivo yours, as tho Directors thereof may be from timo to time determined. Sec. 2. Such portion of surplus funds as tho policy holders may bo entitled to, may be distributed among tho policy holders of such Companies, In proportion to tho sums of money which each membor has contributed to tho total of tho surplus funds to bo distributed among all the policy holdors, uud including iu such distribution a just and equitable allowance for interest, and any such dividends ot surpluB may at the option of the Company, bo credited to the holder of tho policy, to accumulate lor his benefit or may be paid in cash to tho policy holder or bo applied to the purchaso of additional insurance, or in reduction ol, or towards tho payment of premiums and it shall be lawful for any Company at any time, by agreement with the policy holder, to take a surrender and cancel any dividend which may bo or now is standing to the credit of any policy holder, or any additional insurance that may have uoen purchased with uny euch dividend.

Boliciea which havo Uccomo puyable before the timo when such distribution is inaiio, and after the uato of the last previous distribution ol surplus, may share in tho same, equitably aud proporlicmibly. Sec. a. Any policy in favor of a married woman; or of hrr ami her children, or assigned in her, or her and their favor, on the. written request of Baiel married woman duly uclmowledged before a Commissioner of IX'tds, or other officer authorized to tako acknowledgc nn uts of detds, in the same manner as ia required by law to pusB her dower right in lands ol" lier husbsml, and on the written request of tho policy holder, may bu surrendered to aud purchased by Ihu Uorupauy isBuiug tne same, in the Bunie manner as any other policy.

ADJUSTMENT OF ASSESSMENT. Senator Cauldwell introdticod "An Act for tho moro equal adjustment of real aud personal proporty" last evening. Section 1. It shall be the duty of tho Assessors of he several towns and cities of this State, between tho first days of May and July in each year, to ascertain by diligent inquiry the names of tho tuxablo inhabitants in thoir iespective towns or aleo all the taxa lltt property real and personal within thy same, aud have tho said property appraised by the owner, occupant or person having tho cnargo of the same, under tho oath or aliirmalion of tho person bo owniag tir representing tho same at ita lull and true value, as they would appraise the same iu payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor, and iu conformity to tho form, or form to be prepared as hereinafter provided. Sec.

2. It shall bo tho duty of tho Comptroller of this State on or before the first of April next to prepare blank form iu the following maimer: 1. Dwelling house, barn, carriage house, and other outbuildi agB, with description of situation. 2, Descrile concisely cuuh separate lot or tract of laud, tho number of acres, or part of acres in each, aud on whom bounded. 3.

Store. i. Mills, manufactures, 5. Ilorsea, mules at each. li.

Cowb and othor neat cattle, each. 7. Sheep and swine, exceeding in vulne $75. 8. Coai lies, wogonB, and other carriages.

9. Forming utensils, exceeding in value $200, 10. Mechanics' tools, exceeding in value $200. 11. Gold watches oxceeding in value $100.

12. Other timepieces, exceeding in value $30. IS. Piuno fortes and other musical instruments. 14.

Household furniture, exceeding in valuo $800. 15. LibraiicB, exceeding in value $500. 10. Bank stock, numbor of shares of each kind of stock, provided the same is not assessed at tho Bank or place of business.

17. Gold and silver plate, exceeding in value $50. 18. Insurance and Manufacturing stock, provided it is not previously assessed. 19.

Bridgo, Turnpike, Stato, and all other stock except United States stock. 20. Averace amount of goods for tho year. 21. BoudB, Mortgages, and other securities, not above mentioned, on which money is invested boaring interest.

22. Cash on hand exceeding $500. 23. All other proporty not Bpeoially montioned. Following this is tho blank form of affidavit to bo sworn to certifying to tho correctness of the return.

Sec. 3. Tho assessors are to ascertain by the affidavit of the owner, or those lawfully representing tho owner or owners, the amount justly due on any mortgage or mortgages, remaining unpaid, and which aro a Hen bu such real estate at tho timo of assessment, and iu caso they be not satisfied with the correctness of such affidavit, so they shall not bo able to obtain the Barne, they shall have the right to ascertain tho amount ol such mortgage from au examination of tho Connty and the amount of unpaid mortgages so obtained aro to bo deducted from the asteBsed value of such real estate. Sec. i.

All personal property shall bo subject to a uniform rale of assessment and taxation and bo subjected to a deduction of the just dobts and liabilities duo and owing by tho person assessed. Sec. 5. Wu never any person Iiablo to taxation Bhall refuse or neglect to give to the assessor a full statomont, us required and provided by this act, it shall be tho duty i.f the assessor oi the town or ward to assess tho Baid person in conformity with this act as ho shall deom juBt, and from which there Bhall bo no appeal or offset, lixeupt to deduct tho just deedB not Bocured on raort gage or real estate, owing by the person so assessed to niiu, and the amount of any mortgage remaining unpaid on the real estate so assessed from tho valuo of such real estate, aud tho said assessors aro. empowered to tako affidavits or affirmation for the carrying out of the piovitions of tho act.

Sec. C. Whenever tho assessors beoomo satisfied by reliable information that the persons so OBsessed have not complied with tho provisions of the Act, and havo misrepresented tho amount of thoir roat and porsonal property, or have withheld ony portion of thoir properly from aBScoamont, tho Assessor shall notify the said party to appear belcro him to correct said assessment, ond in case suid assessed party foil to appear when bo notified, tho Assessor is empowered to correct Baid assessment as he Bhall deem just. To day tho following business was transacted, and which in of vital importance to tho citterns of Brooklyn: FLAGGING SIDEWALKS. In the Assembly Mr.

Jacobs introduced to day "An Act to amend tbe charter of the City of Brooklyn." Seotiom 1. Bub division 12 of Section 13 of Title 2, of Chap. 304 of tho Laws of 1854, is amendod, ao as to read; Sea 22. To oause sidewalks to he improved by tho laying of flagstones theroon, or Buoh othor matcrlal ai tht may deem expedient for tho purpose of making a nr. nut atrifwnllrt, in a safe condition; also set or reset old curb and gutter Btones, and to cause tbe expouBO thereof to be assossea upon the adjoining lots, and to be collected in the same manner as that of grading and paving of streets.

No petition for any of tho improvements in this or tho following Buh diviilon of tlila Section mentioned Bhall bo noccHsary, but no assessment shall be laid whioh shall exceed one half the actual valuo of the lot to be. assessed. Sec. 2. Section 1, Tltlo 6 of said Chapter is amended so that tbo final sentmoe Bhall read "All contracts shall bo awarded to tho lowest responsible bidder whose pr'o pceal shall in the opinion of sold Common Oaanoll be for tho best Interests of the oity.

NEW PABE COMMISSIONERS. Mr. Jacobs, also, introduced "An Act to provide for tho reorganization of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners." Section 1. The Mayor of Brooklyn Bhall within twon ty days after the passage of tbis act or as soon thereafter es may be expedient, nominate and by and with thecon sentof two thirds of the Board of Aldermen, appoint nine citizons, residents of said city to act ao a Board, to he known ajs the Brooklyn Park Commissioners, aud the personB bo appointed Bhall. after qualification frdm the Board, hold their offices for tho termi alter mentioned, and until their raooejuron ahaU be.