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BTourtli Arcnnoi ties are improving the interval in quarrelling than atones for tho doarness of fuel. Unless wo ore to suppose that tho Almshouse food doubtful it we should have had a war. Wbatovor sins Lincoln may bhve been guilty ol, ho was not guilty of OflUftOflfiS AND MMm PUMP. had lain the child in Ita cradle, where, aftor a time it began to cry, and, taking it in her arms, she started to walk acroes the room when her senses forsook her, and OUa CORRESPONDENTS' COLUMN, among themselves and the Government antici pates a divided and weakened opposition in tho fall. Laubat, just made President of the Oouncil, on his installation "declared for liberty of speeoh, because independence was assooiatod porfeotly with devotion to the Emperor." The Emperor and his devoted Laubat have been eighteen years, discovering this gratifying association, and it will probably be some time longer before the Frenoh people find it out.

The Viceroy of Egypt Is to be pitied. The Suez Canal is nearly finished and he proposes to make its opening the occasion of getting the world's sovereigns together and having a good time gen erally. Te prepare the way for this gonial reunion he has been making a rapid journey over Europe, calling on Napoleon and breakfasting with Victoria. All this time he has manifested high esteem and profound respeot for his friend the Sultan. He has even refused, in obedience to Eastern etiquette, to Bleep in any bed whereon the Turk had reposed.

And now on his way home he hastens to the Sultan only to be snubbed by that mighty monarch, who ref useB to see him, The Sublime Porte thinks the Pasha is altogether too enterprising. The rebuke is severe but may do wnoiesome. Lopez is at large again, and the number of "de cisive battleB" interposing between the Allies, and final victory is indefinitely increased. Although the Paraguayan President was reported surround. ed and cut off from all ways of escape, it now ap pears that he has checked the pursuing Brazilians, and safely crossed the Upper Parana.

Bergh's active energy in tho interest of damb beasts has stimulated New York officials to effort in behalf of human beings. The advent of truoks for mosing disabled horses has been followed by tie appearance of ambulances for conveying bruised or wounded men to hospitals. They have been provided by the Commissioners of Chanties and Correction. Like Bergh's maohine the ambulance has a eliding bottom running on rollers, but is superior in the possession of a spring mattress. When the attention of Bergh is directed to the omission he will doubtless sup ply it.

C0RRV 0'LANUS' EPISTLE. Junk Bolls and Steam Whistles A Word to stranahan What They Are Doing at the Farlc Tho Whereabouts of Celebrities A Grand Openings Deab Eagle I wish to a ddmy benediction to the rest be stowed on the Aldermen for doing something useful before they adjourned silencing junk bells and steam whistles. At the same time I sympathize with Aldermen Clan cy Bell, and little Guck. Little men somehow always like to make a good deal of noise, and Ouck, having made a good deal himself since he has been Alderman, generously wants lo let everybody mate as much row aB they like. Tho Junkmen to expreBB their gratitude and oonsolo Clancy Bell, propose to present him with a silver plated cow bell, which he can wear round his neck.

Something ought to be done for Guck, We used to feol a great relief when the Common Council adjourned for the vacation and the taxpayer ftlt that they we! safe for a few weeks and oould ven lure out of town. Now nobody cares whether the Aldermen sit or not. But the taxpayors have no relief now at any season of the year for the Commissions are in perpetual session. And the little finger of a Commissioner is heavier than the loins of an Alderman. In noticing the celebrities who are going ont of town yon don't mention any of the Water Commissioners, They mean to stick to the city all Summer.

Tho Fire Commissioners have gone. Thoy could afford to go off. They have got just so much money to spend, and they can spend it at their leisure, a month or two don' make any difference with them. Mr. Stranahan ought to come back from Saratoga.

Or elso leave some intelligent person in charge of Prospect Park. There is a genoral impression that the Park was made for poor but respectable pooplo, as well as for tho rich and gorgeous. If a man is not rich enough to own a carriage and horses, he ought io be allowed to hire a turn out to take a drive through the Park. Somebody who runs the Park police has been making a superlative donkey of himself. The carriages sent to the Park by Dan Jones have been ordered off the sacred premises, and poor folks have got to go to tho livery stable and pay a big price, or walk.

Does anybody in the Park own a livery stable 1 A friend of mine who had a sick wife, and wanted to take her to Bath for a change of air, thought the smooth roads of the Park would bo better for an invalid to ride over than the cobble stone pavements. The carriage drove up to the Park, but because there happened to be a trunk on the box it was not allowed to enter, and had to drive round, the invalid having the benefit of the rough tiding, arrived at Bath almost shaken into eternity. This is according to the rules as interpreted by the intelligent policemen. A gentleman who turns out in tip top style with a spanking team and servants in livery, engaged a non coachman, a recent importation from the South! AVhen he drove up to the Park ho was stopped by the intelligent policoman, who told him he couldn't go through. Why, he wanted to know? Because baggage wagons were forbidden.

Who did ho call a baggage wagon? Explanations followed. The African John boasted understandings of an enor mous size, No. 10'b I believe, and the intelligent policeman hud mistaken his boots for a pair of traveling trunks. Stranahan had bettor como back beforo there is a roiv. Tho Zoological department of the Park has I regret to learn fallen through.

It consisted of one grey eagle, and tho Commissioners fearing that tho noblo bird might foal Ionesorte sent him over to Central Park, where Ii6 rojoicos in the company of other birds of his feather. I am sorry for this, as I hoped to take Themisticles to the Park some day to show him a zoologioal collection of unsurpassed variety, and illustrate to his youthful mind the wonders of nature as displayed In the zebra and ring tailed monkey. The Commissioners say they were discouraged, be cause the animals didn't come in fast enough, and one eagle hardly constituted a respectable menagerie. Bichardson never Bent that car hor3e he was so busy with his law suits with O'Sullivan. Capt.

Leich forgot all about tho wild goats, aud the man who was to supply the Bnake, could'nt get them out of his boots. I bav'nt gone in the country yet. Mrs. O'Lanus expects to go next week. Tbemistocles is going to rusticate with his aunt In Williamsburgh while his mother is away.

I can supplement your list of the summer retreats of our distinguished fellnw citizens with the following: Eon. Martin Knlbfioisch is on his estate at Bushwick. Eon. A. Bliss rusticates at Oreenpoint, Hon.

Dan. Northnp is contemplating nature through his gold spectacles from his rural retreat in Williams burgh. Eon. Dennis O'Koeffe, will spend the season in Tink erville. Eon.

P. Grogan goes to Bath. Ecn. P. Tormey has taken a Buite of rooms on City Hall Park.

Eon. Francis Swift will spend the summer on an island of his own down the Bay, Eon. Trn. Stewart is at Canarsie. Eon.

E. O. Litchfield has leased Litchfield Oastle from the Park Commissioners. Hon. B.

M. Hooley is at Bath. Mrs. Conway is at Manchester. Eon.

T. L. Donnelly has a cottage by the sea at New port. Hon. M.

Sammis is at his place at Bodford. Eon. J. McOanley will visit Darby's Patch. Ala.

Cloncey is going to Europe to hear tho bells of Shan don. Aid, Guck will spend a few weeks at Hunter's Point famous for its steam whistles. Hon. A. Campbell spends his leisure on the pictur esque shores of tho WalUbout.

Assessor Field is at Bowronville. Uncle Sam is at Oanarste. Bonesteel is in Brooklyn. So is A. Miller.

Hon Ned Greenland has retired to his IoyMoun. tains. Gen. Slocum stays in town to look after the keep Richardson and O'Sullivan from getting into each other's hair. Bailroad men should nevor let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands wore never mado To tear each olher'a eyes.

As soon as tho Scrimshaw pavemont is ready for use, there is to be a grand publio opening of Montague street. The Committee of Arrangements consists of Burns Wier, and Tom Dean Father O'Beilly's Band has been engaged for a prom enade concert. Dave Cbauncey will deliver an oration at tho Acade my, and G. T. Jenks will pronounce the benediction.

Treasurer Sprague will sing the "Star Spangled Ban nor" on the Btoop of tno union oiud iiouso. Captain Dean will sing in full uniform "mien John. ny Comes Marching Home." The proceedings will wind up with a grand blow out at Burns'. The Water Commissioners have been Invited, and Billy Fowler has ordered a new neck tie for tho occa sion. Tickets may be had at Burns', Dean's or at the bex offlco of the Academy of Music, between sunrise and 11 :60 P.

M. Yours festively, COBBX O'liANtJS. Che Infant Smothering Inquest, Ar rest oC the Grandmother. The inquest, by Coroner Jones and a jury, veBterday, In relation to tho smothering of the infant child of Thomas and Margaret Fanning (instead of by Its grandmother, Bridget Fanning, at the residence of its parents, In President street, bo tween Third avenue and Nevins street, fully oorrobora ted the report contained in the Eaole, showing, aa there stated, that the child was smothered to death by its grandmother whilo in a state of Intoxication Tuesday afternoon. According to the testimony of tho mother, she went from home at about noon, on the day la question, leaving her babe, only six months of age, in charge of the grandmother, who had been previously drinking, but was not then intoxicated.

from home dur ing the afternoon, the unfortunate mother returned at about five o'clock, when Bho found tho grandmother helplessly drunk upon the floor, and upon looking for her infant, she saw its lee proVrnotos Jioxq btsHHrtn the grandmother, and upon removing the helpless old woman, the mother found tho oorpse of tho babe. The grandmother states, that eho had drwik soma and Li Fourth Avenue is being paved. The Com mission in charge of that street, having ob tained $150,000 more from the late Legis lature, are now spreading small stones on the surface and it looks as if a good macadamized driving road would be made. Certainly the money is ample for the purpose, and as to the powers of the Special Commission, they are unlimited. These gentlemen have earned much obloquy by past selfishness and blun ders.

There is a chance for partial redemp tion of their official oharaoter, by their giving the people a really good macadamized road from Flatbush avenue to the city line. Who their contractor is, or whether they are paving by day's work, we are not aware for Commis sioners work in secret, and their ways are past finding out. But this much is known they have plenty of funds to make a good finish to their job and the result will determine whether they are willing to do it and thus in some measure atone for past blunders in the exer cise of their usurped powers. It would be a great card for them and even for the Commission system, if they ended by giving a good hard road surface, and showing that a macadamized roadway can be laid quite durable and efficient for oity travel. The Water Commissioners are testing various kinds of pavement.

The Fourth avenue gentlemen may have a worthy ambition to show that they, without experiments or interviews with patentees, are able to make the best driving road in tne city. DrvoEOE Allowances. A case was reported in yesterday Eagle in which a divorced wife claims that her husband's income has increas ed since tne decree ot separation was pro nounced, and therefore that her allowance of alimony should be inoreased in proportion, It may be that her olaim is good in law, pro vided she establishes the fact of the husband's improved circumstances; but as a praoti cal question it would seem as if the arrangement made on the pronouncement of the divorce ought to be final. If not, the divorce, instead of being the end of the litiga tion, may be but the beginning. At every ap parent improvement of the husband's affairs the ex wife may sue for another increase of al lowance; at every depression of finances which the husband suffers or appears to suffer, he may, by the converse rule, apply to the Courts to reduce the amount due from his es tate for his wife's support.

Thus an ill assort ed couple, instead of being parted once for all, would more resemble a pair of dogs chained together and incessantly quarrelling yet unable to wholly free themselves from each other. If there is power in the Courts to revise the amount of alimony once agreed on, it should seem there is equal power to set aside or mod uy the divorce itself. For tho amount of alimony is a part of the terms on which the parties were parted; and if it is fluctuating and liable to be varied up or down according as husband or wife may move the Court from time to time, why should not the fluctuating power extend to the divoroe itself, and the erring husband on plea of subsequent good conduct get the wife ordered back to his 'bed and board." Two refractory bill posters were fined fifteen dollars each by Justice Eiley yesterday for pasting over the bills of a rival. An example or two of this kind was needed, for we have heard a good deal of complaint of the bill posters lately. When these fellows fall out, instead of damaging themselves they destroy other people property.

In their warfare they pull down or paste over each other's bills, the innocent party who has paid for the printing and pasting of the bills losing the benefit of them. It may be fun for the bill posters but it is a little too expensive for the advertisers, and it is time this sport was stopped. If the bill posters were not blockheads they would see that this destructive business is bad for Liheir calling, as it discourages that form of ad vertising the benefits of which the bill posters' rivalry places in doubt. Wanton destruc tion of property of any kind ought to be se verely punished, and show bills pasted in lawful places are just as much nronertv as drv goods or groceries. The sending of the Hon.

Henry T. Blow to Brazil in place of Gen. Watson Webb, is a comparative, improvement. It substitutes a positive Blow tor a superlative blower. It is said that Secretary Fish finally gave his consent to the laying of the French cable at Duxbury, because he became convinced up on geographical inquiry that it was not practicable at present to have an Atlantic cable with both ends on American soil.

'iOl'JCS OF TO DA Journalism is threatened with another eruption of maps. Two New York papers seem to have re solved on a Tehuantepeo Railroad "beat," and with tho assistance of a glowing report by tho company conducting the enterprise accomplish their purposo this morning. The aacompanying maps perhaps cloud the text and perplex the reader less than usual. At all events it is appar ent that the Tehuantepeo Bailroad a thing of magnitude. Whatever tho compromise between the State Department and tho French monopoly may prove to be in it8 results the new cable has been landed on the sacred soil of Massachusetts.

There was a holiday yesterday at and as the cable fleet approached it found about a thousand people waiting to welcome it. The shore end was finally secured amid cheers and cannon firing, and there was altogether such a time as the oldest citizen of Duxbury had never known before aud tho youngest citizen probably will never know again. There was a development of amiability in the House of Commons last night when the differ ence with the House of Lords was finally adjust ed by the passage of the Church bill amendments agreed upon by both Houses. Gladstone magnanimously disclaimed having won a victory bat said the Ministry had rather succeeded in securing harmony. He desired that every bitter word might be forgotten and apologized for any warmth he had shown.

The chilly Disraeli thawed a little and said the two Houses had won the confidence of the country by their behavior and the settlement was satisfactory. Of course there was great cheering." Another version of the late battle between the Cubans under Jordan and the Spaniards under Valmesada comes by way of Washington. Instead of being beaten, the patriots, with a loss of 62, repulsed the Spanish troops and inflicted on them a loss of 800. No mention of the woundipg of Jordan is made, although he is reported to have been in tho fight. General Sickles who was sent to Spain, some say as the flower of our democratic republican refinement, a perfect illustration of social culture and moral worth others say, to negotiate a treaty for the purchase of Cuba arrived at Madrid yesterday.

The Republican agitation seems to have subsided in Spain, and the Carlists are taking their turn. These dissatisfied Monarchists give the Regency mxeh trouble, and such is tho excitement created by their movements that the Government contemplates a proclamation of martial law. While Peabody is availing himself of the sanitary and social privileges of the White Sulphur Springs Peabody is remembered and honored abroad. Yesterday the Prince of Wales relieved the cares of State, which are making him prematurely old, by assisting at a graceful tribute to the banker and philanthropist, to wit, the unveiling of a statue near the Exchange, London. The Lord Mayor, Minister Motley, and Miss Counts were also there.

Whether the statue is as ugly as some of the bronzes and marbles among whioh it takes its place the Saturday Beview critics and Punch will let us know presently. Lord Carrington, who assaulted Mr. Murray in London, has been found guilty and bound over for a year, while the convicted confederate of "Reddy the Blacksmith" in a New York robbery has been pardoned. The ruling classes in America have larger privileges than the ruling olasses in England. A Havana telegram says that Spanish explanations of "the execution of Americans" are satisfactory.

Satisfactory to whom Hardly to the Americans who were killed, or their friends, or to tho Cuban patriots, or to their sympathizers here, or to the fugacious Junta. Probably it means satisfactory to the Spaniards, and possibly to Admiral Hoff. Prince Napoleon as to whom there seems to be a difference of opinion whether he is a feeble, minded sensualist or a greater man than the original Napoleon promises a speech in the Senate which body will be busy throughout August in carrying out the proposed constitutional reforms. Meantime the Corps Legislatif, which claims to be the only representative of the people, will not be permitted to meet until October, after all'tho matters about whioh it aemanas to tie neara shall have been disposed of. The liberal depu 1 apoBincy.

OITJLEB AT OAMPMEETINa. Kev. T. L. Cuyier has been at campmeetino! and re ports for the Evangelist.

Ho does not think highly of mo periormances oi an Aiotnoaut Brethren at Uound Jbato. Ho savn of the oathorlno: It In mmnlv an on scmblage of tho advanced school of "porfeotlonists," wuu uiou luuewer to relate experiences, and to "pro molo personal holiness." Their aim Is not, to my mind, agvviso and happy. Their favorite theory, viz that ordinary conversion is a first stBgo (which thoy call thn "liaH(tnt ntntntH 1 iV er stogo of porfect Banctiflcation, is not, in our view, a scriptural ono. Somo of tho arguments used for it in joan iuojf juuuuu.iig were crude as a ball baked loaf. or a fainous preacher he Bays: Bishop Simpson preached a powerful sermon to eight or twelve thousand auditors on Sabbath morning.

The great leader of American Methodism lookB worn and feeble but he aroused mo uru.erB Humowuai wiw me uuturie stylo or magnot km in his Sunday sermon, CATHOLIC NEWSBOYS' HOME. President Richard Ternan and tho othor officers of tne society or Ht. Vincent de Paul, of the Diocese of urooaivn, nave issued an appeal in behalf of the Cit hollo Newsboys' Home, No. 7 Poplar street. They say This pro pert has been secured at a mndnrAtn ontlav.

and is in every way admirably adapted to the purposes ul iiu luuuuiuon. aitnongn neany a year nas elapsed since the title deeds were obtained, the Managing Committee appointed by tho Council for this "St. Vincent's Home" have not been able, for lack of funds, to open it. THE CATHOLIC COLLEGE CORNED STONE. To morrow Bishop Loughlin will set the corner stone of the Catholic College, corner of LswiB and Willoughby avenues.

Bev. Dr. McGlynn of St. Stephen's, New York, will preach on tho occasion. PERSONAL.

Eev. T. L. Cuyier has mado "a raid into Canada" and writeB about it to the Independent. Bev.

E. O. Bolles of this city will assist in tho recognition oxercisoa in the Harlem Universalis! Ohurch tomorrow. Rev. E.

E. Sweetzer of Syracuse has been unanimously called to the N. Y. Bleeuker street Universoliat Church. Bev.

Dr. Kennedy of this city preached the dedication sermon in the Woodside Pre3byterim church, near Troy, on the 15th IiibL Professor B. D. Hitchcock fn ranMlv his indisposition, and bis friends look for tho speody and complete restoration of his health. Rev.

W. H. Boole. Of this oitv. was anions Minna, fhn Methodist sayp, "to whom the peculiar honor of preaoh ing mo wora was awarded" at uound JLake oamp meet ing.

Rev. Dr. Curry, oditor of the Christian Advocate, was at the Wesleyan University commencement, and de uunuetj it in uia putjur. Rev. E.

L. Janes on Sunday morning last nrennhmi on tcmporance in St. John's M. E. church, Brooklyn.

Bev. Mr. Halloek, who was burned to death in tho Erio road disaster, was born at Brookhaven. I.nr Island, on tho iilh of February, 1801. Dr.

Bellows' article in tho Examiner on the new Re formation is attactiug considerable attention. Bev. J. W. Chadwick and Rev.

H. Camp. Brooklvn ruiuiaters, contribute to the Liberal Christian. Rev. H.

Blanchard, formerly of this eltv. has boon lecturing in Chicago on lree trade. Archbishop McCloskey confirmed 130 on Randall's Is land and ti'J on Hart's Island, The Rev. J. V.

McNamara was on Sundav. 11. inMiillcd by tho Rt. Rev. Bishop Gibbous as pnstor of ltaleigu, tbe capital of tho Stato of North Carolina.

An ther McNumara is well known in this city. He wa3 chiefly instrumental in raising tho fund for the now Ca'holic College, the corner stone of whioh is to be laid to morrow. THE CIGAR DEALERS. An Internal Revenue Law which Wo. body TTntleistaMds Oppression and Injustice Complained of Ex Commissioner SSarlau wants a.

IFoo ot SIO.OOO. A meeting of tobacco and cigar dealers and manufacturers was held last evening at 151 Fulton avenue, tbe occasion of which was tbo presont uncertain Btate of tho Internal Reveuuo Law. Mr. David Kohler was elected Chairman, Mr. A.

Paul Murray Secretary, and Mr. George McCormick Treasurer. The Chairman said that tho laws relation to tho du ties on tobacco, which are frequently amended, aro very difficult to understand, oven tho Govertment officials in many cases being very ignorant on the subject. They wanted lo find a remedy lor IhiB, as woll aa a remedy for unjnet seizures. Mr.

J. Davidson recounted how three officials oame to his store and threatened to seize it because soma plug tobacco there was not caddied. He could not see ihe justice ol compelling a man to stamp his goods twice, as was now doue UHdor tho law of July 20th 18G8. The Secreiary said tho trouble was that nobodv knnw how the law ought to bo interpreted. They were all law abiding cilizens and meant to obey tho law, but what was it? He complained strongly of the odium which a man had to encounter among his noighbors after hiB store had been Beized by aoveenment ofilciala.

Tho dealer might have beon trying to do right all along, but his who did not always understand that, could only see that tho officers of the law were inside aud in possession. Mr. John H. Allen said that Wm. M.

Evarts, D. D. Field and others had pronounced the law of July 20th unconstitutional. He "urged organization aud the car ryinn of a test case into the courts. Tho law was ex post facto; it impairod contracts, and it was productive ol unequal taxation, xne late Deputy Commissioner Harlan would conduct the test case for tho Association for a feo of $10,000 if successful, or for 3,000 if unanc ceSEful.

Mr. T. D. Mosscrop opposod all this. What utilitv would there be in trying a oase only coveriugone or two points1 ho moved tne lormanon or au Executive Committee to confer upon the questions of law.

and prepare a list of questions to bo sent to Commissioner ol internal wovenuo Delano, ana upon his answer te bate the suit at law, which was carried, and the following were appointed tbe Executive Committee: T. Mosscrop, George McCormick, A. P. Murray, David Kohler, and 0. Trum.

Tbe meeting then adjourned, snbjoct to tho coll of tho Executive Committee. SPORTS AN1 PASTIMES. Base Ball. Atlantic vs. Orientals.

The Orientals of New York, came over to Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, to receive tue worst mrasuing mey nave prooaoiy over experienced. It was said that tuy "were three moa ahoit, but since they played tho Mutuals to suoh close games as tney uiu, tuey should not have allowed tbe Atlantics to run up a score of 81 to their a. But suoh was the fact, and this was done iu six innings, for that was nil that were played. The game was given ud at the request of tho Orientals, who were thoroughly disheartened. The Allantiea demoralized thom iu tho first innings by making twenty one runs, folloalng it up "with nine, then bix, then eighteen, fifteen ud closed the gamo with twelvo rung.

Tho first iuuiuas brought tne Orientals one and tho sccoud two, the balance resulting in blind scores. Tbe batting of thi Atlantics was simpiy terriOc, and pitcher after pitcher was presonled only to bo knocSed far away, aod tho fielding was also first class. On ihe other baud tbo fitldiip of the Orientals was miserable, and they could do nothing with the "Obarmor." The full ninrf of tho Atlanlic Club was present, and they played in good spirits. Sir. C.

Glover of the Empire Club, acted as umpire, and proved to be an impartial, prompt and intelligent ono. lo record tho hits made, would occupy more space thau can be (jlvon and for the details tbe following comprehousivo Bcore is referred to: OMENTAL. O. H. 1st T.

Delmargf 1st 0 12 A. Smith, 2 111 Gallaghfr, 3 0 0 0 Bunting, 2d 2 Oil Delany.es 3 0 0 0 l'prine, If 2 111 Hartley, 3d 2 0 0 0 McMurray, 1 1 1 1 111 Totals 18 3 6 7 ATLANTIC O. n. lSl.T. Pearc, ss 2 9 7 Smith, 3d 2 9 7 8 Start, 1st 0 11 11 15 Chapman, 1 11 10 15 Ferguson, 4 8 8 15 Crane, 2 8 9 14 Zettleln.p 3 7 5 Pike, 2d 2 9 0 11 McDonald, 2 9 4 5 Totals IS 81 07 US INNINGS.

2 3 Oriental I Atlantic, 21 0 18 0 15 1231 Umpire Mr. C. Glover, of the Empire Club. SeoreM Messrs. Miller and Delany.

Time of Game Two hours and five minutes. Atlantic Teip to Tbot. The Atlantic Nine leave for Troy to morrow night by tho Troy boat, at six o'clock, from the foot of Canal streot. Tho Nine and members of the club accompanying it, meet at Henry's Atlantic Club House, No. 352 Fulton street, to morrow afternoon at four o'clock.

Eckfoiid vs. Ibvington. The Eekfords went over to Irvington yesterday to play tho club of ibat placo and name, and returned vic'ors by a lartro score. The Eekfords! presented a full nine and tho Ivvingtons, In their demoralized condition foil victims to lheir prowoBS. The following is the score: ECHFOBD.

O. B. 1st. AUhod, 1st 3 4 0 0 Patterson, cf 4 3 4 5 MartiD, 5 4 5 0 Nelson, 3db 2707 Hodes, as 2 7 8 4 Jowett, 5 4 2 2 Tieacy, I.f 2 0 6 10 Wood, 2db 2 5 4 7 Pinkham, r. 2 5 5 8 inmoTos.

o. n. 1st t. Buckley 3 2 3 3 H. Campbell 4 2 2 2 M.

Campbell 2 10 0 Crawford 1 1 2 2 Boltz GO 1 1 Greathoad 4 2 2 3 Lime 3 2 1 2 Eaton 2 3 2 3 Bayloy 2 3 2 3 27 45 41 54 INNINGS. 12 3 271015 18 78 9 410 15 I 2 6 1G 4 5 Ecltford 0 Irvingion 6 4 11 3 1 Left on Bases Allison, 2, Patterson, 2, Wood. 1. total. 6.

ly.caccneu auisod, i anpraoD, poison, nouos, 2, Jewett, 1, Treacy, 1, Pinkham. total, 12. Bucklov, 2, H. Campbell, 1, M. Campbeii, 3.

Crawford, 5, Boltz, 1, Lime 3, Eaton, 2, Bayley, 1 total, 18. Foul Bound Catcbes Nelson, 1, Jewett, totul, 4. Buckley, 1 total 1. CatchfB on Strikes Jewett, 1 ttal, 1, Base Play Put out by Allison, 7, Nelson, 1, Hodes, 1, Jewett, 1 total, 10. AsBiBted by Nelson, Hodea, 3, Wood, total, 10.

Put out by M. Campbell, 5, H. CumpboU, Crawford, total, 8. Assteted by Buckley, 1, H. Campbell, 1, M.

Campbell, 1, Crawford, 1, Boltz, 1, Groathead, 1 total, 0. Double Plays by Wood, Hodes and Martin, I total, I. Cruwlord, total, 1. Outs on Foul Eekfords, 5 times, Irvlnglon3, 8 times. Umpire, Mr.

Bitter, of tho Rosoluto Club, of Ellzabtih. Scorers, Messrs. Watson and Williams. Time of Game, 2 hours and 50 minutes. Babe Ball Challenge.

The followine; ohal longe bas been sent to the employes of the Register's Office of the City of Brooklyn "We, the employes of tho Registei's Office of the City of New York, do hereby challenge you to play a game of base ball on any day and at any time and placo you wlah to name. Hoping this will be favorably received, aud an affirmative answer given. Wo remain, yours Wm. G. Olvany, Captain." Tho reply of tho Brooklyn Register's staff has not yet been made known.

The Turf, There was a sweepstakes trot for $1,200, with mile three in flve.in Fashion Course yeBterdsy, which was one of the most exciting races of the season. The horses were W. Lovell's bay gelding, Young Commodore, Dr. Ogle's bay gelding, Hod Rover, John Hazlett's brown gelding, Mountain Boy, and U. Anderson's chestnut gelding, Willie Kim my tbe laBt two in harness, aud the former two to wagons.

Kimmy won ihe first heat, but came in fourth on tbo second und wbb distanced on tho third. Mountain Boy won the BoCend and third heats. The fourth was a dead heat, all thret horses crossing the acoro oa the line. Mountain Boy won tho fourth heat and tho raco. Time: 2 47, 2 43.

24l, 2 14, 2 9. Lady Thorn and Goldsmith Maid are matched to trot a race for $1,000 a side, half forfeit, mile heats.best three in five, in harness, on the Union Course, next Wednesday, In view of Goldsmith Maid's recent victory over American Girl, this will bean interesting race. Inhuman Abandonment. At abont eight o'olock last evening a female infant, apparently no moro than a month old, was found where It had beon inhumanly abandoned, in some vacant lots at the corner of Dean street and Classon avenue. The llttlo waif was taken to the City Nurse, by Officer Mo Mahon, of tho Fiftieth Precinct.

Small Btjeolabt. At about day light, yesterday mornlDg. Smlth'a grocery, oorner of Fulton avenupanXrameto anterad thronBh ttfn U8M, andflvodiilara luourrenoy stolen from the money drawer, sno baa no further recollection. A verdict was rendered in nocordanoe with the facts, and, after a consultation between Dr. Jones and Dls trlct Attorney arreBt of the unnatural grand mother was and she was taken Into custody by Officer McLaughlin of tho District Attorney's Office and Hack Inspector Jones, by whom Bho wis takon to the Jail where she awaits thepresoutment of the osse to tho Grand Jury.

THE JUNKMEN IN COUNCIL meeting of the Junkmen's Beneficial Society The Bell Ordinance and what they TlUnli of it The Eagle (he Poor man's Reliance. A meeting of the Junkmen's Beneficial So cfety, was held last evening at Weber's Hotel, on the corner of Prospeot street and Hudson avenue, for the purpose of considering and taking some action in re gard to the recent ordinance passed by tho Common Council forbidding the use of bells on the junkmen's carts In the streets. There was quite a numerous attendance of Junkmon present and the meeting was called to order about eight o'clock, when on motion. Mr. Patrick McCoy took the chair and Mr.

Patrick Dorsey acted as Secretary. After the reading of the call for the meeting Mr. Mc Coy, the Chairman, explained its objects, MB. MO COY'S EEMAEKS. He said This meeting, as you ore all very well aware, from the reading of the notice, is called in re lation to me oppresive ormnance passed this week by the Common Council.

This matter is now removed from the control of the Board of Aldermen, and our only action now must be with the Mayor. It 1b for him to veto this matter, aud send it back to the Board with his objections. We can take such action here to night as we see fit, but In my opinion the proper way would Do io araw up a pennon in proper rorm, ana appoint a committee to wait on the Mayor and to htm the the reasons why we think bo should veto this measure. I think we should state in the petition that we would be in. lavor oi a moaincation of the ordinance by doing away with the large cowbells, and allowing us to use the ordinary sleigh bells.

There could be no objection to this. In winter sleigh bells are used on all the streets by the rich, and if those who can afford to ride in sleighs can use them, why should not the poor work ingman be allowed to use them to earn his living (Cries of "Good," We don't want one law for the rich and another for the poor (cheers), and if this mat ter is properly lepresentea to tne siayor, I don't think he csn have any objection to grant our request. If it ia not granted, then we will never cease to agitate until we do pet the rights whioh we think beloDg to ub. (A Voice) "If we don't get our rights, I will never vote for another Democratic Mayor or Alderman." (Another Voice) "I don't think Mayor Kalbflelsch would begrudge a poor man tho means of making a ltviusr. The Chairman There are a great many old and feeble men making a living at this business, who could not do so if (hey are obliged to use their lunns shoutina all day ibrougn the treets.

Mr. J. Taptue I move that the chnir appoint a committee of five to get up a petition, and wait on the Mavor. in company with Alderman Clanov. who has kindly volunteered bin services.

Tho motion was adopted and the chair auDointed as such committee James Tague, Patrick McGeough, Patrick Quinlan, Dennis L. Howard and Patrick, Mc Gaffray. At this point, the Chairman suggested that as there wre a number of junkmon in the room who were not members of the Society, and as this movement was for tho general benefit of all, that those who were not members should contribute something towards defraying the expenses of tho meeting, advertising, A large number responded and several dollars were con tributed. MB. HOWABD HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THE "EAGLE" AND ARGUES THE POINT WITH AN ABISTOCBAT.

Mr. Howard Whon the ayos and noes were taken on this question, I looked in the papers the next day to seo the names of the men who voted for it, but I could not find them. Now, as there is a representative of the EAQI.E here, I would like to ask, through you, Mr. Chairman, that the ayes and noes should bo published in that paper. There is no man here to night woo is not a good Democrat, and it is too bad that our own party should oppose us when our opponents did not.

We poor men are always used to look to the Eagle to see our rights protected, and I hope they will publish the ayes and eoob. Now, If I do not take up too much of your time, I would like to tell you a conversation I had to day. (Cries of "Go on, go on," Well, you see I was going with my cart along South Oxford street, wnicn nas crown stone nouses ana ueigian pavemont. A ocntleman steps out of one of the brown stone houses and cornea np to mo, and say3 he, "Are you aware, sir, that there is an ordinance against carrvine bells Savs "I rend it in the Eagle, but I believe it is not a law yet till tho Mayor signs it." Says he, "I have been at borne this half day, and no Iobb than thirteen junk carts have passed through this street, and I think it ia a great outrage." I says, "I admit it is a nuisance, but anything which helps the poor man along seems to be a nuisance to tho rich." Says "Suppose these thirteen men, had each gone np to your front door and rung your bell, while you were lying comfortably on your lounge, and disturbed you and your lamily every time they you think it would be a great nuisance?" Sajs he, "I admit that it would, but I think you might make less noise than you do." "I admit tb at," saya "and I think if those people who were writing to tho Eagle about ns had made any suggestion of that kind it could have been settled without taking all our privileges away." He said, "I think your remarks are correct, and if you had less bells and lighter bells there would be no complaint." I did not ask the gentleman's name. and we parted, but I hope that now, that any man who has extra sized bells on his cart such aa cow bells, will modify them and bo give ne citizen a chance to gram bie, The Chairman I agree with Mr.

Howard, There should bo as little offence givon to the public as possible. The meeting then went into the transaction of routine business. THE MEETING AT THE OITY HALL. The call for a mooting of the members of the Junkmen's Society In particular, and all junk dealers of Brooklyn in genoral, ot 369 Fulton street, was not very numerously responded to last evening. The meeting was to have been held at six o'clock, in the hall or sky parlor of No.

369 Futon street, and at the hour namad about twenty men, supposed to have been constituents of Alderman Clancy, were collected on the sidewalk attainst tho railing surrounding the City Hall Park. None of their number appeared to know why they had been called together, and in a short time the majority commenced, io aisperso ana were soin nomewara oouna. A few of their number haunted tho spot until aftor eight o'clock, when they also left, and thus the great bell ringing nuisance etill remains open for a lively debate. Another Tunnel Project. A writer in the Tifhes, E.

commenting on tho descriptions of East River tunnel projects, which appeared a tew days sinoo in tho Eagle, sug geslB another plan, as follows: It may 08 well be constructed mainly of wood as of iron; and probably the former would be more durable in tho vater, completely excluded from the air than the latter, and with this advantage, whether of an oval or flat form, or arched, the size may be optional suited to a doublo railway track and foot ways on each side, or more or Jess. Any ship builder can tell how to do it, ub well ob how to build the hull of a vessel with either flat or oval bottom. This problem being reduced to the simplicity of an overy.day structure, the only remaining one to be solved is tho METHOD OF EXTENDING IT ACBOSS THE BIVEB. All concede that there is no difficulty in determining tho exact fopoRrapby of tho bottom or bed of thoEiBt River say from South Sixth street to auy point on tho opposite New York shore. At this point the average depth of tlio water is less than fifty feet.

At least thirty feet depth mnbt be miintalned for tho purpose of navigation, above the arch of tho Tubular Way. A very boal dredging in some places and filling in in others would give the requisite space below, for a fourteen or sixteen feet depth of tubing. An easy grade can be effected by a winding, arched or open way from each Bhoro to the bulkhead, and to the pter line, and down to the traveled bottom of the tube. Within this shore structure on either side, ample space for depots, tarn tables, will be and also sDace for constructing the tube or of putting it together in sections of any desired length, one succeeding the other. Suppose this to be done on tbe Williamsburgh side, and on the opposite shore within tho space from which the water has been shut off, a stationary hydraulic or steam power were placed with suitablo drums.and two ormore chains extended along the line of the trench to tho Williamsburgh enclosure, within which has been constructed a section of the lube, twenty five, fifty, or one hundred feet in length on ways as simple as a rail track, and on a level with the river bed trench.

Tbe chains are connected with the sectional tube and are drawn through an opening in the front ffnllef the shore structure in a way to exclude the water from rasbiDg in except at the outer end of the lube. The inner end is made water tight, with ahead that Bhall bo easily displaced when the next section shall have been joined and ready to be drawn forward conjunctively with its predecessor. All these conditions any ingenious mechanic or architect will roadily conceive aud supply. The tubes that have been drawn out are filled with water and so buoyant, yet loaded so as not absolutely to float. Spiling being driven on each Bide of the trenchway would both serve to guide into line and add permanency to the position of tho tube.

The spiling, of oourse, would be sawed off at the requisite height and receive a cap if desired, and this cap could in turn be bolted to the centre of tho arched tube, and held by keys or nuts on the under side. NO DUTICDXTT ABOUT IT. When all the requisite sections had thus been drawn across the river, and entered through the wall on the New York shore, the work of pumping the water from the tube would constitute only a short job, and the archway is then dry for any inside completion called for by the plans. Every Intelligent engineer must readily concede, that the power requisite to draw a half mile of such a structure, whether of wood or of iron, along or across the prepared bed of a river, buoyed of nearly its entire weight by tho inside and outside waters, would not be either very difficult, or formidable. The hydraulic power exerted in launching the Great Eastern" according to published descriptions at the time, would more than four fold suffice for this purpose.

And thus all ceffer dams would be dispensed with all interruption of navigation in the river would be avoided only submarine bells and armor would be essential the whole structure and every joint (and if of wood there woul be no joint more than in the hull of a vessel) would be made on shore, and whatever strength or size or thickness of ribs and planklug might be deemed expedient could be adopted or changed at pleasure. The Editobshd? op the Times. The Sun eats We understand root the proprietors of tho Times have formed themselves into a joint stock association, and on Thursday last formally tendered the editorship of that journal to the Hon. John Bgelow, at a very liberal salary. AlthouRh Mr.

Bigelow had made hts arrangements for a trip to Europp, he has sot them aside, ana accepts tho position, tho duties ofjwbfoh he will assume on Monday next. Tbo proprietors had under consideration the names of Frederick Hudson, formerly of the Herald, George William Curtis, the Hon. Wm. M. Evarts, the Hon.

Luthur R. Marsh, and other gentlemen distinguished in tho field of letters. Tho selection of Mr. Bigelow over theBe able and eminent gen gentlemen is a compliment of which ho may well feel proud. We welcome his return to the editorial circle, assured that under his experienced guidance tho Times will do no discredit to ita well earned reputation.

The Late Mb. Eoebling and the Doctors. The IForW says: Tho doctors aro disagreeing about the nooesslty of the death of Mr. Boebling. That gentleman was a man of knowledge, likewise of Jacksonian will.

He decreed hydropathic treatment, and had it and died. But others are daily dying of lockjaw who are undergoing the most rigidly regular remedies. Which school knows tho specific for tetamiB If any does, let it promulgate and demonstrate it. If none do, let thom all Btop wrangling and hunt scientifically, or even empirically, for it. Amusements.

At Hooley's Opera House the usual minstrel entertainment will be given this evening. On Monday next the Butler pantomime tronpo will appear in the Eacol pantomime of the Mr. J. M. Ward took a benefit at Donnelly's Olympic last evening.

There was a good house and a good performance. Miss Fanny Herring, Mr. Ward and Mr. Jas. Duff appearing in three pieces.

Tho bill will be repeated to night, which is Mr. Ward's last appearance. The concerts at the Rink grow in publio favor. Tho Rink is tho pleasantest summer resort Brook Iyn'has ever had, and the mnsioal entertainment furnished by Dodworth's orchestra Is worth moro than double the price of odmlsalon twenty five oents. Aebkstbv During the week ending to day, the police of this oil? have made 183 arrests, against 467 last week, being an increase of sixteen, consequent upon the excoBBive number talfiing auA cases of Intoxication, which havo recently Increased the Banal number of weekly arrests by at least one contractors arc stimulated more by philan thropy than by profits, and that they have ro solved for the sako of obarity to the poor to supply the Almshouse at figures below oost price, wo may surely congratulate the publio on the sudden fall in the prices of the neces saries of life, as evidenced by these bids, The mutton, veal, pork, at three cents a pound, are especially gratifying.

How can anybody fail of getting plenty to eat, when a pound of any one of half a dozen dif ferent meats can be bought for the prioe of a box of matohes Either we have contractors who are willing to lose money in supplying the wants of our county poor, or else the prices of provisions have fallen suddenly and mysteriously, and an era of plenty and pros penty is opening before the people. Blow to Abate a Nuisance. The oase of the acid manufactory on the corner of Carlton and Flushing avenues, which was reported in the EiOLEof Thursday and Friday, illustrates tho uselessness of the Met ropolitan Health Commission, both aotually and inherently. The reports show that for over a year the neighbors complained of an intolerable smell. One doctor after another in the pay of the Health Commission came and looked at it, and each went off and wrote piles of reports and minutes on the subject.

A medical inspector, a medical superintendent, and a' medical analyser, all tried the effect on their noses. Enough documents were written to account for a large share of the many and big bills for stationery, which the published accounts of the Health Commission associate with the name of that eloquent opponent of all local extrava gance but that which is Badical Alderman Whiting. Enough red tape was consumed during the year to "run a string of it round the earth and tie it in a big bow knot." Still the nuisance factory continued to flourish, and the neighbors to fall sick. The Health Commission doctors suggested changes in the mode of carrying on the works. Those were car ried out and aocording to the official doctors' theory the nuisance was But accord ing to the olfactory perceptions of common men, there was as groat a nuisance as ever.

So the reports and the red tape were spun out over again, the case of tho official scientific opinion versus the popular sense of smell was tried by the Health Commissioners, and re ferred to their clerks, who took evidence, and prepared more documents, and expended more red tape. Finally it occurred to some ante diluvian Democrat, that there must have been some way of abating nuisances before Metropolitan Commissions were invented. Taxing his memory he recollected that there is an old fashioned tribunal called a Grand Jury, and a publio of ficer known as District Attorney, who may present nuisances for indictment, and gener ally protect the publio and bring up for trial offenders againBt the pBaco and safety of the community. To District Attorney Morris the afflicted neighbors stated their case he inquired into the facts and found there was a real nuisance, dangerous to health had the parties arrested and brought before the Police Court and thus in three days the District Attorney accomplished what had taken the Metropolitan Health Commission over a year to vainly attempt the total suppression of the nuisance. This instance shows how utterly useless is this Health Commission, which by special Act levies nearly forty thousand dollars a year on this city for the support of its little army of Badical doctor and lawyer politicians.

When there is a real dangerous nuisance, there is ample legal means to abate it at once without their aid. When there is only the ordinary run of petty nuisances, the old city Health Department, one doctor and two or three detailed policemen as inspectors, are ample to carry on the routine work. One educated Health officer, two or three able bodied police men, with power ot calling the District At torney when the nuisance is serious and de mands prompt judicial action, can do for one tenth the money all that the Health Commis sion could do, even if it meant business in stead of red tape, and public duty instead of overfed sinecurism. Sale of lUempstead Plains. The Hempstead Inquirer regards the town vote of last week as conclusive in favor of the consummation of the sale to Mr.

Stewart. We should be better pleased, however, if it were able to point to some official utterance of the Town Commissioners, showing that they regard it in that light. We are not apprehen sive of litigation from Mr. Harvey so much as of the Town officers reopening the whole matter, on the plea that the Wood and Camp bid was higher than Mr. Stewart's, and that a now advertisement for sale ot the land may bring out offers higher still.

The inter est of tho town in concluding the bargain with Mr. Stewart is not by aDy means the amount of money he offers, but the use to which he will put the land. If a speculator gets the plains and begins to sell them off in 25x100 lots at free lager auctions, it will be twenty years before they are fully populated, and then mainly by an unimproving class of resi dents. But if Mr. Stewart gets the property he will begin at once to build, and tho entire domain will be well populated within three or fsur years.

The Inquirer remarks Tlio attempt, if attempt it was, to creato a diversion and di aw off votes from Mr. Stewart, by the ioffer of Messrs. Wood and Camp of sixty dollars an acre, after tho opening of the polls on the day of election, proved abort.vo and ineffectual. Id fact, if, at that late day, $100 per aero had been offered, it would not have materially affected tho result. The voters had faith in the declarations of Mr.

Stewartas to his disposal aud disposition of tho lands, and ltnew that he had tho means and the ability to carry out bis contract, with an aburidance left for immediate improvement. With this they were satisfied and did not wiBh or look for anything bettor. No flattering promises could induce them to Rivo up a certainty for an uncertainty. As to injunctions, the most ignorant pettifogger in the land would say that thoy would avail tho defeated party nothing. Thore is no way known to the law, whereby the agreement can bo so constructed as to lo gally compel ttie town officials who signed the same to proceed one Btop further with the party of the third part toward perfecting a contract.

The action of tho electors has been warmly and UEiuirnousIy applauded by the Press of tho eitlos of New York and Brooklyn, tho Eagle going so far as to say that Hempstead could afford to give Mr. Stewart the Plains for notbiug, provided he will spend his millions in building upon thom. After ibis demonstrative expression of the electors at the polls in favor of Mr. Stewart, it is probiblo that all the competitors for the purchase of the PlainB will retire in disgust from tho field and leave him id qulot and undisturbed possession of the situation, YVe would perhaps be premature, even if we had the space or in oiimitioD, to enlarge upon the many advantages and benefits likely to grow from tho salo of these lands to Mr. Stewart.

Let it suffice to say that wo all anticipate a new era of enterpriso and activity, and that now residents will rapidly seek a habitation in a town which offers such attractions as low taxes and a healthy situation. A Civil Official with a Military Staff There is one loyal man, at last, who has stuck to his colors, and not gone back on the Boys in Blue after paying court to them while an aspirant in office. When Mr. Allaben and Mayor Weekes were rivals for the Radical Assembly nomination, and so many and such long speeches were made pro and con by the delegates, in the intervals of the several hundred ballots they took before Allaben won over the one vote that turned the scale, Weekes friends made it their point that their man was a Boy in Blue. Allaben's friends retorted that if Weekes was a soldier, Allaben was a true nd feithfal camp follower.

That if Weekes was elected only one Boldier, namely Weekes, would be the better for it but that if Allaben was elected, he would do as well for several soldiers as any one soldier could do for himself. It is only fair to say that the pledge has been redeemed. Allaben voted for Fenton for Senator, and Fenton made Allaben Assessor. Now Allaben has cleared out the loyal stay at homes from balky Dave Kilgour to the smallest man of the party, and has surrounded himself with a purely military staff. His list of appointees reads like a chapter of the war.

"Colonel Stillwell, Captain Buckridge, Captain Flavin, Major Dawson, Captain Smith," are among the staff of the new Assessor. The peaceable civilian chief must feel nervous among such a martial crowd. He deserves not merely epaulets, but stars, himself for his solitary instance of Badical fidelity to obligations to tho Boys in Blue. Let the new Assessor be brovetted Major General, at the very least. We disapprove of politicians electioneering on soldierism and keeping up the war feeling after Grant and the country have said Let as have peace." But if a man does get into office by that ladder, it is a credit to him that he does not be ingrafe enough to kick it away when it is no longer neoessary to his elevation.

Allaben has been a camp follower and traded in the loyal and patriotic capital like his feVVow laflicalis lest, he has shown that his friendship for the Boys in Blue was not wholly simulated and selfish. An Attack on tho Dycin To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Why is it so many individuals in your city Tho men in your mldnt wtio cau i 'erman ently transform, by "daily dyeing," rod ha. ad beards and red eyebrows into capillary adornme. oi a jotblaclt hue, may pretty safely be set do a1 thorough paced and sytematfo hyprocrifes and an lers men capable of all forms of false pretncos ct bio of beating their foluers, and of attempting to bl ol mail any weaker dupes. In thoir oxternal appearand tbclr wholo lives ore a lie: and thoir morral nature aro seldom at variance witn their physical aspect, I regret being obliged to bring this subject beforo you, but experience has taught mo that tho mon who wear dyed rmustachos aro a general rule, oithor rufflarw or gamblers, J.

An Anonymous Inexactness. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will yon call the attention of tho anthori Hob to tho fact that tho liquor stores on tho corners of and streets are open every Sunday and visited. by hundreds of drunken and disorderly men. io tho great annoyanco of tho residents in tho neighborhood. A Constant Rkarbb.

Tho obovo illustrates tho correctness of the nslo not to publish anonymous communications, and It Is printed only as the exception that proves tho zule. The writer hereof lives on tho block named, and nevor i aw or heard anything to warrant tbe snspioioa that Iho Btores in question do not comply strictly with tho Ex cise Law.3 Where is Mr. nergn 1 To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle For several days thoro has boon wauilerlna i i aud down Fulton avenue in tbe vicinity of the Dis trict Justice's Court tho charred remains of a onco I 'ou tlf nl horse. It seems this horse belongs to ono 6 urn mers, a contractor, and was in tho stablos on Fui ton avenue whioh were bnrnod about a woek ago. Vtu poor animal Is in a terrible condition, and it would hi an act of immunity to Bboot it; but somo ono eavs it InBured for 5500, and that Mr.

Summers will not kill for fear of losing Ms money. His skin fa literally fal I ino from his back and lianrinrr in larim lmrtinnn nhmi blBies; his eyes are almost burned out of his head, and hB whole body ia iu a perfect crisp. Let tho severest penalty of tho law be Inflicted upon tho culltr one in this case. I am, sir, yours, N. Steele, Reid avonuo.

What's in n. (Street) iVnmo To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Am I am I or ain't I am I If I'm nob ami, whom (thunrlor) am That's the question, and a serious one, too, I can (oil you, Mr. Editor. A mouth or two oco I was a countrvman. I am at ori ent, or believe I am, a Brooklynlle.

Wo, that is my wife and myself, niovod hero tho first of June. We had been talking for a long time about housekeeping, and visions of brown stono fronts floated iudiMorimiuntifly in the brain of that dear little woman but slern neces sity could not allow of moro than a brick front with Btono Irirominge, so we bad to be content. Wo found what we wauled in Ryerson street, and all wont haonv as a marriago bell. But Btop a little, what is thU? Tho deed was done, and we found otiraolvos not tlio Dosses BorB of a houpa in Ryerpon street, but Trotter, vulgar irouer. jusi iancy our wo are a little high notioned about somo thiuns, and to bo swindled in that style was abominable.

We consulted tho house ogont, and was informed that it was all right. Trottor streot was tho original name, and it was now Ryerson stroot by law. Tins soothed our wounded feelings, for ia not the law majestic? Nwtlvng low, nothing vulgir about law. So wo moved in, and cot comfortably soltled. Sunday came; wo are church going folss, aud of cottrao went to church on that day down Gates avenue to Hill coming back by Greeno avonuo, and what? "Cum lirldge Place." Now, I loavo it to you.

Mr. Editor, is tbis fairl I buy a house; I pay tho money. I got in my furniture, and seltlo down, ihinking that at last, I have not to hvo In a trunk, that I am a little something bettor thau an airy nothing wilhoul a loi al habitation and a namo" and find myself mistaken, I am nibody, I know anybody, nobody, knows me, and I don't know where I live. 1 won't stand it, and I've a right to know, I don't cemo homo at night and try to ooeu tho door with a watch koy, nor I don't expect to find the milk tlod up in a rog or layiDg around looe. I count myself a re9peo tablo menibor of Eocioty, and I call on th law that gave mo my deed to tell ino whom I do live, in Ryorfion Ftrecl, Trotler street ov Cambridge I'laco 7 if Ryorson I'll Btand it, if Trottor, woll, I won't aay anything about Trotter.

Cambridge Place soundB moro aristocratic and ban my preference. If nothing Is done, I'm afraid I shall lose my way soroo flarlt night mid full acainst lliut lamp post at tho corner of Fulton avenuo nnd Trotter street, if I do well, I weigh somewhere about 200 pounds and I know what will hnppt to that lamp postl Now please, Mr, Editor, do something for hh, tell whore wo live, tako pitv upon us, and lut mo whisper (wo'll subEcribo to tho Eagle) Yours mournfully, Job TxtoTTBii. The Eclectic Dispensary. To the Editor of the Brooklin Eagle The Trustees of the Brooklyn, Eclectic Dispensary desire through tlio columns of your valuable paper to express their thanks to tho membiTs of tho Starlight Glee Club, and especially to tho managors, J. J.

Tonnor and W. IV. Riehardson.for tho very gouoroug benefit given to our institution at Sawyer's Rooms, on Monday evening Inst. We feel deeply grateful for the same, bb our instilution is much in waut of ium is at the prr serit time to purchase mcduiues.oto order that we may minister to the wants of iho imnj poor people who are dally thronging our Dleponsary for medicines and advice. Daniel P.

Barnard, E. D. Smith, John T. Sheppard, Merrill Greenwood, Jouathin Jones, W. H.

Bowlaby, M. Trustees Brooklyn Eclectic Dispensary, 240 Myrtle aveeue. MIDDLETOWN MINERAL Never before have any Mineral Waters attained in so short a time a reputation bo gonera) aa tbo Mideiloto Mineral Spring Waters, solely, too, by the nutnbor of almost marreions cures they hare effected. EXTRACTS FROM A FEW OF OUR MANY TESTIMONIALS: Eotrrn Bboosmn, N. 21th, 1859.

My wifo hnB boon utilluted with a Tnmnr fnr nnvnrtiti months past; Blnco she comincncod UBinit your mineral water ber health has greatly improved, and I think by the tiuio abo uses tbis case of the water, sho will be quite cared. tours rsBpecuuiiy, li. nl. UA11HAH.T. Eleventh Bt, near Third aye.

A. R. Grant, No. 269 River at, Troy, N. Y.

(Kidnor Dis ease), bujb: 'It has renovated mo thorooizhlT. killed my mino. anil given me back a healthy appotitu, digeution and cituula UOD." F. K. Bnrlock, No.

89 Clinton place, N. (General Da bilily), says; "I am sure that I owo my present health solely to tho daily and persistent uso ut the water." Geo. M. McCluro. Middletown, Yt.

(Scrofula), says: "My Eon has beon troubled with Scrofula from bis birth until recently at times in dangerous lorms. lam haopy to eay my child, to oil appearance, is as well and aithy to day aa any porson. I attribute all this to tbo use of the water from your mineral spzincs. For further information with regard to tho case, or tho correctness of myskata. lnenfc, 1 woald refer to my family pbyaioian, Dr.

S. H. Ilaynes: of Middletown.1 D. C. Bronthton, Poultnor, Vt.

(Ohronio Diarrhea and Salt Khcum), says: "I havo not hod an attack of diarrhea since I began to uso the water. When I began txs'wii tlio water, tin palms of my hands were erackod in every direotion. They aro now cmooth, and the ekin is soft." Tho nev. John Nonman, D. who is familiar with many of their cures, Bays: "The spiinRs of Middletown, aro in ooroDinion, destined to perpetuity of wider Muio for itoaimg virtues than any heretofore discovered on this oonlinant, if not in tho woild." The Bev.

John Goadby, D. of Poultnoy, Vt says: "I cannot but regard theso watore as a preoious boon to many afflicted once." The Eev. J. W. Carhort, D.

Alechanicsville, N. says: I havo used the water from your sprinc. and havo cm p'oyed it in my family sufficiently to Batisfy myself of its valuable qualities as a remedial agent." Call for a copy of testimonials in full. This water is for sale Dy all tirst class druggis'tB. Address MIDDLEFOWN MINERAL SPRING COMPANY, MIDDLETOWN, S.

H. SCRIPTURE, General Agent for Now York City and vicinity, No. 193 Broadway and No. 50 Liberly at, Sew York. jy2l 2tWAS DRY GOODS! GRKAT CLEARING OUT SALE OV SUMMER GOODS.

D. MAGUIRE, 275 Fulton avenue, Will offer on MONDAY, July tbo l'oning bargains: Striped Grenadines. 15c. and 18c. worth Wlv.

Mriped Kubmx Poplins, 2oo. per y'c re il value, BOa, Wash Poplins. 18c. and 20c. orl.h is.

fid. Double fold Alpacas, nil und 39, 3lo. reuularprioo, COo. Granite Poplins, 3s. Hd.

per yM worth 4s. and 63. Double fold I'iiicapple cloths, 50c. woll worth 75o. I'ido black Alpacu, 2s.

4s. and IB. Auction lot of Lawns, an low ns le. Black Iron Grenadine, for shawls, 20; 2y'ds wide, line white Bareno Shawls, 50: worth $350. Ultra quality fine Grenadine.

1 and $5. fcuromer Shawls, handsome styles, only $3. Brocho Iodk St'iiwls, Irom SIS to $7o. Broolie itiuare Sbav ls, iB and upwards. Proihe shawls, leversiblo, $7 60; worth S12, liitori Sharcls.

lino quality, ot $:) 60. liiuck Llama Laco I'oints, $15; worth .9.10. Mack Silas from auction. Hit 5n, $1 To und $2. Heavy Grain, 26 inch, $0 :,0 per y'd value for $3.

A large assortment of colored Silks, at low prices. JapaneFO Chick Silks, all colors. Jrom SI per j'd. Brothers' real Irish Poplins, in all shades. LINEN Go.iDK.

Yard wide linen, 31 e. lo 75c. pnr yar l. Extra Satin Damask, 2 yds. wide, 41 ner jn.

worth $1 50. H'O Pieces Scotch Diaper. SI 50 to S3 the pieco. hi Napkins. $1 10 per extra laree fringo towels.

18o. nun. 25c. each. 12! Uoriey Comb Quilts, Alndatj Quilts, $1 25 each Marseilles Quilts, from $2 50 to $5.

2 Lots White iCc. aod 25c. one Lot Piques Chintz Fisuief, 30c. worths 0. Good White Flannel, 25o.

Gilbert's Upera Flannels in all tne colors; a large uss irt and i'0. yard. Yam Wide Flannel, good quality; 3s. 60 und ment ot Check Flannels for fchirtini', Sic. to 5Uc.

Bed Flannel, twilled and plain, 21c to 5Ui. per yd. GOT I ON GOODS. Yard Wide Bleached Cotton, I2c. par yd.

Yard Wine BiownSheetinn, I2Xc. uud 15c. 5 4 Pillow Cose Muslin. Heavy Bfeached Sheeting, SWyds. wide, 50c GhEi.T SALE OF HOSIERY AND FANCY GOODS.

We havo purchased an entire Btock of Ribbons, Hosiery acd Fam Uoods, at fifty cei.ts.on the dollar, and wo are nowotleringthematextraoraiuary low prices. ParaboU and Sun Umbrellas at cost 2t TH LARGEST STOCK or BBFIUGFHATOnS, MEAT SAFES, WA.TER COOLERS. PLATED ICE PITCHERS IN THE CITY, Together with a full assortment of KITCHEN UTENSILS, Ac, Ac E. W. NICHOLS, Lato WHITE NICHOLS, No.

208 Fulton st, corner ef Pineapple. my22 S.TuAl ourI BATOHELOfi'S HAIR DYE. this splendid Hair Die is tho best in the world the cnlf roe and perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, instantaneous no disappointment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the ill eQootj of bad dyes; invigorates and leaves the hair soft and bearrll (nl black or brown. Sold by all Druggist and Perfumers and properly applied at BATOllELOR'S Wig Factory, Bond streBt. New York TuThASW ESTABLISHED 1843, GEO.

HUDSON BONB, COR. FULTON AND YORK STREETS. Opposite Old Stand, 76 Fulton at, PLUMBERS, OAS BITTERS PAINTKRS AND PAPER HANGKKS. PAINTS, OILS' BRUSHES. ETO.

AT RET Alt. Work in all the abora branohei raomptly eecoteJ by competent workmen, and contracts made for ganeral ro pairs in all departments under our personal supervision. mlilS GKO. HUDSON SONS, USE JEWELL BROTHERS' If avorito Brands of FAMILY FLOUR, PA8TRY" AND "NASSAU;" Also their SELK LKAVENING FLOUR, Floor guaranteed and delivered to any part cU CHv. Vol a)o ty an Oroceia.

BROOKLYN GOT M1LLIA A CRITICISM. OH REN AN. One of tbe characters in Charles Beido's latest novel, 'Put yourselves in his Place," says that Sooinus was satisfied with proving Christ a man, but Benan has proved nun a jxencnnaD. METHODISM IN OOEK. Methodism originated in Iroland, at Cork, in 1748.

In famous sermon in the open air to more than a thousand people, and in the following month incorporated in Church fellowship some converts. In May, 1760, Mr. John Wesley preached in Goik, and was burnt In effigy by a frantio mob. Mr. Wesley's last visit to Cork was only two years before his death.

Methodism is now strong ana mnuenuai id me city. THE OBTHODOX FBEENDS at their yearly meeting in Now York reported an aoces slon of 0 now members. Their membership in thla uuumry, ureat Britain ana uauaua, now numbers 82,. THEODOBE PABHEB IN AF3I0A. At the lato Parker fraternity picnin in Boston, nainf, Waldo Emerson stated that he had recently received a letter from a young minister of Cape Town Afrioa, a native of that place who wrote to lnauire connnmw tha manner of organizing a society similar to Theodore jfaraer's as ne wbb no saiunea with tho Established unurcn mac country.

TOMPKINS BQUAEE METHODI3T OHTTBOH. Tne members oi tne Tompkins Square Methodist unurcn on ureene, near Tompkins avenue, hove so cured a fine plot of. around, seventv five bv torn linn. dred feet on which they propose to build ultimately a church sixty feet by ninety a paraonugo and Sundav ttM.1 nt.ni.ftl mt.n 1 1 duuuwj luaui, j.u uiiapm iu uuw complete ana ready for dedication, which service will tsko place to morrow tbe Rev. Dr.

Jesse T. Peck officiating. Tho chapel is a jjem uuu iuuuiuua name ounoing, ioriy Dy seventy feet. CAMP MEETING PIONroS. The Methodist says Our gieat camp meetings seem more and more every year to assume the character of great picnicB so tnat it is nerd to ten whether the lead lng feature of the meotincr is social or relicrtnnn Pure, bracing air, good flBhhig, delightful drives, beau "tcunjf.

uuo uuiuiug, are some oi tne attractions Doi uuhii iu me Din oi iare. Anotnor manifestly picnic feature of modern camp meetings is what is emieu me reiresnment stona." Nobody will pretend coir 4tn 1 a it i oj tua uia uiuuieo aoia nere aro essential to a religious meeting, what has piety to do with pea nuts or with soda water? or with ice cream? or with tobacco? or with the score of other wares exhibited for Bole at Buch times? Thnsn fnntR. With Atlinva iiiuijr luuiuuw mui, mo pmmu pari oi me "camp meet Jdr" is fast oYerriding the spiritual and religious foa "dootob of MTJSTO." Tho Christian Advocate thinks littln of mnoJr, aa science or the Boston Jubilee as an achievement. Be isaraing on tne degrees conferred by Wesleyan University it says: But tho most curious case came last of all. A nArtaln musical man of Boston, (bis name we hoard spoken, but it founded Frenchy, and wo have no notion hoiv it should be spell.

wanted to ha mnrln Jin A 1, there was opposition, also from the East As to his classical or literary claims nothing was said; but he wsb declared to be a prodigy in music, and tho grace was given in his favor by tho statoment that the wonaonui i eaco juunee was largely the result of Irs wonderful doings. Alter that statement it Rnnmpfl almost an insult to offer him the degree of Master, aud so a faculty, no two of whom could probibly road a strain of music, and a Board scarcely one of whom conla distinguish a major from a minor key, proceodod to make the jubilee performer a Doctor of Music I We have often heard that there is but a singlo step from theBUblimeto the ridiculous; in this case tbe gradation was reversed, and the Dassaae was advenfiirnrf from tbe ridiculous to tho sublime. Tbo wondtrful feulH of St. Cecilia are quite eclipsed by the Peace Jubilee aud its faithful recorder, tho Wosleyau University. All hail, Doctor Banjo! LAV DELEGATION.

Thonositlnn taken bv thn anH.T.iv Ai1nni nt tha question is Sot settled by the vote, has aroused the Methodist, which in strong terms tells the clergy they will be faithless if Ihey do not go on and complete the 'It gives us pain to address such words to our minis terial brethren but they aro called upon by an official organ of venerable name to cipher themselves out of the ir obligation, to regard the wishes of the pooplo as expressed in tbe recent vote. Wo beg them not to deal in thiB deceitful arithemetic. That is a sufficient mn. jority which substantial cxpressea tho mind aud feeling of the Church. The General jnferonce bound the ministry to act upon tho majority or votes cast, and tho obligation has been accepted.

Wo cannot evade that obligation, we ought not to try to evade it. The arguments intended to show that the vote is insufficient uro specious, but they are so obviously prompted by a had spirit that they should be received with great hesita tion, it is iBBulncicnt to ansiver to them all. that this policy they are intended to justify would be treacherous and dichoneBt." HENBY J. BATMOND AND THE MINIS TBY. The late Henry J.

Baymond. says tho InteMniintmr. joined the church whon a young man. and when'ho left college intended to enter the ministry. He was obliged, however, to return home to assist his father, and he gave up the idfea.

After his entrance on political life, its excitements tended to draw away his mind from spiritual things, and he was not openly idontiilod with religious movements. SUNDAY IN ABlS. Paris bas no Sunday iu the American botihg. Rnlla ring out for service, but not so merrily as on Saints' days. Whon a Saint's day falls on Sunday, or when there are races, tbe stores 6hut up early, not because it is Sundav, but because there is fun aolna on.

Thn places of amusement, even those shut on other days, are opened. It is a groat day for visiting, publio dinners and private entertainments. ITBST BEFOBMED OHTJBCH, BEDFORD AVENUE. The congregation of the First Boformufi Brooklyn, E. expect to occupy their new building on Bedford avenue and Clymer stroet on tho second Sunday in September, at the close of the vacation.

The building, which has been in the procoss of erection during tho past two years, is now so near completion as to justify the hope that it will bo ready for use on tho day named. "kitchen OHUKCHES." A correspondent of the Liberal Christian savs Ten mission churches, as they are called, kitchen churches, as I call them again, to which we 88Dd the broken moats of the ministry, and expect the noor to come and nat and be thankful ten churches of this sort aro nothing uy wuiyoiiBvu wiui uue une inat jij wnicn a orave and eloquent man, who has something to sav. and is nnmn. thing back of his sayings, preaches to two thousand people. A HINT FOB YOUNO BEEOHEB.

Bemarkins on a recent charge to a newlv orrtninofl youDg Eev. Beecher not to forget his fathor, grandfather, and uncle, the Liberal Christian saya We have never known Bny man who made it his special business not to forget his illustrious ancestors and distinguished relatives, who evet did anything in tho world wsrth remembering. Such recollections are about the poorest lumber a young man can stock bis brain with, and the more be cultivates them the leBS of anything else will grow. Young Beecher hud better get his name chaugod, forget bis ancestors, begin anew and try to ba aome body on his own account. AN EVANGELICAL ORGAN.

The Liberal Christian says Kumor says we are to have a new Evangelical religious papor in this city. It is to be run on tho union narrow gauge track, and its projectors are confident thut it will leave the Tndepin. dent far behind in point of circulation, brilliancy and Orthodoxy, especially the latter." TTMMINS. The Liberal Christian says: Rev. Thomas Timmins preached at the Church of tue Saviour last Sunday week to large and interested congregation with excellent accepiance, making a very favorable impression.

He bus como to this country from England, bringing the best testimonials, and proposos to identify himself with us henceforth. Ho is about thirty flvo years of age, hag an exceedingly good voice aud impressive delivery. We thould think the society quite fortunate that should i secure his services." BOLLEs' CHURCH. The Christian Leader soys The Brooklyn First Church (Rev. Mr.

Bolles') have taken the next step havo iu btnicted the Trustees to put up a vestry on tho notv lot on Clermont avenue, the coat not to exceed 20,000. A QUESTION OF IDENTITY. The Dnivorsalist organ sajs: Again we soy, De not direct letters lor us to the Leader but Christiari Leader. Never fail to prefix that word Christian. It is afraid of being identified with the organ of tbe Tammany Ring.

ORTHODOX AND HETERODOX COURTESIES. The Unlversalists of Whitowator, Wis consontod to recognize the Christian claims of the Episcopalians in gelling up a Fourth of July dinner, for the mutual benefit of the two Churches. We shall never lose, says the Christian Leader, by such exhibitions of the true Catholic spirit. A RELIGIOUS DRAMATIC CRITIC METY AND WAX WOBK8. The dramatic critic of the Christian Leader says of a place of amueemont Those of our country friends who have scruples in regard to witnessing dramatic entertainments, will certainly got thirty cents' worth out of the innumerable, and in many instances, very unique curioBilieB.

Probably nothing in the way of gass blo.v iug has ever been exhibited to tho public superior to what at most any hour of tho day may bo seou at that establishment. Wo must also specify the wax work. Tbo artistic skill oxhibited in tho face of tho jailor is a masier piece. We know of nothing in tho world of wax that can approach it. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD.

Bev. Dr. Osgood, lato of tho New York Church of the Messiah, writing to the Evening Post from London Bays I saw the Bishop cf Oxlord pleasantly, and enjoyed his free, shrewd and scholarly conversation, but regretted that I was not able to hear him preach, as he is called one of tho best English preachers, both in substance and manner. It is not unusual for liberals to mako light of him, and call him tricky. I have not followed his political career, and cannot of course go with him in his High Church policy but ho seomed to mo a most genial and entertaining companion, and a hearty, outspoken and even blunt observer of the men aud man nerB of Ibe time, both inside and outside of his own church circle.

His speeches in the House of Lords of late have been strong and sagacious, and ho evidently means to make the best of tbe movements that he deprecates. He holds great literary, charitable and religious trusts in his hands; and I can assure those who habitually disparage him, that in the onaritable institutions under his charge, which I have visited, his name is revered and his presonco devotedly welcomed. ABCHBIBHOP MANNING. Dr. Osgood thus refers to the Oithoho Archbishop of Wettminstcr: Hereafter I way write something upon tho Engl'sh clergy os preachers, and now I will only add a few words upon a thooloizlan of a different stamp I mean Dr.

Manning, the Archbishop of noted eeccder from tbe English to (he Romish Cnurcb. I was told that he was reserved, and would say little or nothing to me, and therefore I lei it to him to appoint an interview or not as be choose, merely telling him that it might be mutually instructive. I found him most geniBland communicative, and ready and earnest to converse upon tbo inmost subjects of religion. He laughed at the idea that I had been led to torm of him, and declared that in hij way he was very much of a Methodist, and bis religion was of tbe heast a perpetual joy in God and in the boundless fellowship of the Church universal. He lives in an ample house, but simply, and ho lools more like an apostle than either of his brother Archbishops of York und Canterbury.

His views are oxtreme, wholly ultra, montane, and I at once admired the man and dissented from the doctrine. His conduct seems liberal.mem orably so in BOine dirocttons.and he told me that he had been that week at Dean Stanley's, where I understood that such men as Dr. Carpenter, Mr. Martinean, Tyn dall and tbe philosophers met in due turn to disiuss matters of science. Dr.

Manning's sincerity is not questioned by his former associates, who lament his defection. He baB helped mo to understand the state of religious opinion in England, and it Boomed to me, as an inquiring pilgrim from the new world to the old shrines of faith and learning, not well to fortjet the present chief of the Roman Catholic Church in England. He looks somewhat like Rev. Calvin Lincoln, of Massachusetts, but is taller. PIEEEEPONT STBEET BAPTIST OHOBCII.

During the summer vacation of the pastor, tho pulpit will bo supplied by Rev. Geo. F. Pentecost, of Covington, Kentucky, tho Brooklyn of Cincinnati, one of tho most elegant young preachers of the West, we are told. Ho aBBumed his present charge about a year ago, slnco which timo about 110 persons bave united with his church.

From what wo hear of this clergyman, it would seem that his temporary sojourn among us waon so many of our city paBtors aro absent is quite fortunate, WAS LINCOTjN a catholic Under this head "A Catholic" writing to the Tablet eays In a paragraph published by you from the Paris Monde, it is atsorted by M. Martin, on tho authority of the late Bishop Lefevre, that tho lata President Lincoln was baptized a Catholic, and that he was also a Freemason. I doubt M. Martin's statement. It is simply a hyperbolical assertion, indulged tn extensively by French writers of M.

Martin's stamp when writing about this country. The same accusation was brought against Mr. Lincoln while a candidate for the Presidency, by some over zealous Catholics. It was asserted that tUia and that Priest had baptized him, but It was never pioved, and there was no truth io it. To show tho fal acy of M.

Martin's other assertion I can say positively that President Lincoln was not a Freemason, and never tried to bo one. This I havo from a Mason. Had he been a Mason Wilfcos Booth would not have assassinated hln, aB Bootti wifc ot tha great gnus" of Masonry in this country; aBwere, In faot ah" the Southern renels. Ihe same may bo aaid of Mr. SowaTd.

Ho is no Mason. Had iincoJn and Soward been Maaone, It la SATUttDAY EVENING, JVliY 24. This paper lias the karsrost Gircnla ton ot any rotting papor published la tao Ifntced States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is therefore ap parent. sous Democracy and the Proposed Constitution.

The Albany Argus intimateB Its willingness that the Demooratio party should sustain the Judicial seotion of the proposed new Consti tution of the State, while voting down the rest of that cumbrous and ill assorted doou ment. The substanoe of the seotion and of tho argument for it, is this that the litigation of the State has so greatly increased that it has outgrown the capacity of tho ap pellate tribunal established by the present Constitution in 1846. flenoe there is suoh a great accumulation of cases before tho Court of Appeals that none can be reached in reasonable time, and thus a practical denial of justice is sustained. The cases in which the people at large are interested are given precedence. so that questions as who ought to hold a publio office or whether certain aots complain of are lawfully within the power of the par ty undertaking to perform them by publio authority, or whether Uwb passed by the Legis lature are within the constitutional powers of that body suoh important public questions as these, by getting precedence on the calendar, are usually reaohed and disposed of only about a year or so after the period at which their so lution is required by publio interests.

Thus, if A intrudes into an office to which has a rightful claim, and the term be three years, may calculate on getting his right affirmed by the Court of Appeals when just about half the term has been stolen from bim by the intruder. This was the case with the intrusion of Mr. F. C. Kirby into Mr.

Henry Corr's place as Superintendent of the Poor. Corr won his case in time to get about half his term. Bat the precedence given to these public cases in the Court of Appeals, does but operate to throw the private business more and more into arrear and it is now imperatively needful that something should be done to clear the calendar. For several years past at Albany proposals have been made for joint resolutions to amend the Constitution so as to give an additional judicial staff to the Appellate Court, and clear up the arrears. The Radicals, however, would not adopt this course, but resolved to hold back the proved necessity of additional appellate Judges as a means of forcing Democratic lawyers and litigants to support their contemplated new Constitution.

It has however been provided that the judicial section Bhall be submitted separately from the rest of the Constitution, and Democrats who desire to strengthen the judicial appellate bench can accomplish that subject by voting for the Judiciary Section, while voting down the rest of a Constitution which is in some respects worse and in few better than the existing organic law of tho State. Carroll Park and City Parlt. Carroll Park is one block, in South Brooklyn in so good and fashionable a locality that Park Comptroller Taylor, Counsellor Brittan and several of the gentlemen whose names are associated with Park matters, live close to it or quite near it. On this one block nineteen thousand dollars were spent in embellishment, last year, and it looks as charming as it is costly. Children play there and adults walk there, and strangers ride past and admire it as the nonpareil of Parks.

City Park is four blocks. If the Park Commissioners ever spent nineteen cents on it, not to say nineteen thousand dollars, the expenditure is not apparent. There is the old fence there always was, and the trees grow as before; but the Park Commissioners have never shown any interest in beautifying or preserving it. In one of their reports they say the city ought to sell it but they have disclosed no plan for disposing of it, nor have they applied for an Act to enable them to sell it. Last winter they' had a bill to enable them to sell the east side of Prospect Park, but they wanted powers to expend money, in sums not exceeding $100,000 at a time, in improving the land first, so that it should sell for a large sum.

It never seemed to occur to them that they had the City Park io sell too, and might as well put that in the bill with tho east side of Prospect Park. Bat while the Park Commissioners thus ignored City Park, neither improving it nor providing for its sale, other persons were not so unconscious of its existence and value. A bill was introduced in the Assembly and came near passing which proposed to give away City Park practically for nothing, to a private com pany named in the Act. The Park Commissioners seemed ignorant of this; for nothing 1 appeared in the shape of opposition from their body to this outrageous scheme of confiscation of public property for private benefit. The Eagle exposed the bill, and by awakening the Brooklyn members to its demerits, de feated it.

The Park Commissioners were too busy explaining to tho Common Council how they came to spend so much money on Carroll Park, to have time to protect City Park. This City Park, if retained by thepublic, ought to be improved, and could well bo, out of the $100,000 a year which the Park Commissioners are allowed for Park maintenance, in addition to the construction work on Prospect Park and Fort Greene. With those two largest Parks in the construction account, and Carroll Park beautified to the utmost extent, surely there should bo a portion of the $100, 000 a year applicable to City Park. But if the Park Commissioners are determined not to improve it, let them bestow on its intended sale some of the care they devote to their designed disposition of the east side of Prospect Park. City Park can be sold in lots suitable for manufactories, for not far short of a million dollars.

If the scheme confiscating City Park had passed last year, the neglect of the body to whom the care of the parks has been committed, would have been primarily tho cause of it. The Park Commissioners, by their utter indifference to City Park, neither improving it nor preparing to dispose of it, do in fact extend to all legislative jobbers a standing temptation to purloin this million dollars worth of property from the city. Their attitude is this let us sell the east side of Prospect Park, and we don't care what you do with City Park. If you will pass this bill of ours, you may steal that park and welcome, so far as we are concerned. "Won't some of the leading employes and ex Counsel of the Park please to live near City Park? Then, if the extravagant ornamentation of Carroll Park is not paralleled in it, there will at least be a probability that the existence of this valuable city property will nat be wholly forgotten and if the city is to part with it, there may be money paid to the city for it, instead of its being legislated out of the possession of the public without any equivalent.

Good News for Housekeepers, Judging from the bids sent in to the County Treasurer's office on Thursday for the supply of food and other articles for the poor in tho Almshouse for the ensuing year, there is really room to wonder how any body can become so poor as to be driven to take refage in that institution. One firm of butchers offer to supply thousands of pounds of veal at three cents a pound. A fish dealer offers sea bass at five cents a pound. Brown Sugar is tendered by a grocer at eleven cents a pound. And this grocer offers Bio Coffee (qy.

rye?) at twenty two cents a pound, and best Java at 35 cents. No less than 25.600 lbs. of rice are offered at ten cents a pound. The same philanthroinst offers salt at 90 cents a bushel. A shoe dealer offers brogans at $1.20 a pah', balmorals at $1 to $1.15, boots at 80 cents to $1.20, and shoes at 50 cents.

The only supplios in which this astonishing cheapness is not maintained, are fael. One coal dealing firm want eleven dollars and a half per ton for Lehigh coal, and others bid nine dollars and nino and a half for white ash. The bids for wood are ten dollars per cord and four dollars for that indefinite small quantity, a load. Considering the vast quantities call cd for, these fuel prices are pretty sfcoep; bat fael ia a minor consideration in housekeeping at this season of the year. The extraordinary cheapness of the food, however, mora.