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VIEWS OF COBKESPOlSDEiVTS. UP THE RIVER. PRESENTATION TO POLICE OFFICERS. Capt. W.

Name these poraons and I will have them arrested Dr. R. But, mv dear Captain, I don't know them. Capt. W.

Well, fir, if you can't name them or point them out, I cannot help you. Dr. H. Yes, but you can. I want you to tako care of me nnill I get influence to counteract tbeir evil designs.

You Just provido me with good accommodations here, for which I will pay. and keep me nntll I gain friends. I want you to send for Uev. Henry Ward Beecher, for I know he will asait me. Very soon others will do the same, and then I shall be nutabllshed.

I will pay all the expenses. Mr. Beecher will be suro to help me, and others will do the same. You might send tor my wife; she's in Boston. Captain Waddy We have no accommodations for you here, sir.

The Dr. argued at some length to induce Captain Waddy to take him to board and send for Mr. Beecher. The Captain asked him how he knew anybody wanted to murder him, but this was only answered by a repetition of the assertion that he knew the doctors wanted to kill him for envy. At last the Captain suggested that Justice Morobouse might issue a warrant for the would be murderers, or would commit the Doctor to jail for ten days This laBt suggestion seemed to suit the Doctor, and the Captain directed Officer Wonderly to take Dim to the Court.

The Doctor then took his departure, vouchsafing the remark, as ho went, that as ho could cure diseases at a distance without medicine, and had a warrant for so doinu, of course he could tell whether onyboay intended to kill him. Arrived at the Court, Justice Morehouse was found to be engaged for a few minutes, the Doctor kindly consented to wait. Officer Wood' rly went fnto the back room for a minute or two, and when he looked into the Cazn room agaiu. the Doctor was gone. Looking down Adelphi street, in the direction or De Kalb avenue, the Doctor was cn running as ir tho destroyer of souls w.is after him.

His high black hat was pressed tightiy on his head, und his right hand grasped the carpet bag if it enutoined the secrets and fortunes of ten thousand M. D's. I'ur ult was useless. It is unnecessary to av that Dr. Kavlnglon is a crazy spiritualist, the latest arrival from Hoaton.

Topic of To day. Brigham Young says Orson Pratt is possessed of a devil. Orson might retort that Brigham is possessed of two hundred devils more or less. The Viceroy of Egypt was recently approached on the slavery question by a deputation from the French and English societies. He declared himself in favor of abolition of white slavery, but Bald there was much difficulty in the way of practically carrying out the idea, because the institution had existed for over a thousand yeare, and was connected with the religion of his country.

At all events he said nothing could be done until the Blave trade had been put down, and the persons chiefly engaged in it were Europeans. An old insane woman haunts West Point, believing herself to be the Queen of England, and not ine; the improvements with a view to reorganizing the British army. She thinks that, as Victoria neglects the business of her realm, somebody ought to attend to it. Hon. Geo.

H. Pendleton delivered a long address on the political situation at St. Paul last week. A local paper, of politics differin from the speaker's, says his rhetoric would be "faultless Were it less ornate." Mr. Pendleton is conceded by all parties to be one of the most effective speakers in the country.

Hum gets so much credit and fiustly for acts of violence, it iB only fair when a roil occurB for which rum is not responsible that the fact should be stated. The Warren Division, Sons of Temperance, of Charlestown, had a lively time last week. The meeting broke up in a "free fight," in which knives and clubs were actively used to the damage of a number of Sons. It seems Daughters of Temperance were also memben of the Division, and did not escape unhurt. The affair is as complete in all its details as any whisky war at the Hook or Five Points.

The origin of the disturbance is not, stated. Surely it could not have been the beverage of the Sons and Daughters. The intemperate reeult of the meeting of the Warren Division is a sorry conseqizuce of a temperance agitation. There is a Portuguese speck of war. That is, if the doubtful Cable is to be depended on.

It is reported that a man claiming to be a citizen of the United States" has been arrested in Paris and sent to Li6bon by order of the Portuguese Government, and that the American Minister has demanded Mb rendition with the honors of a free passage on a man of war. As Portugal is not a first class power any demand will probably be complied with. Suburban Resorts Bergen Point. The returned traveler, who has "done" Europe and seen all its celebrated landscapes, is often surprised at finding near home some quiet and charming spot, whose domestic beauty, like that of the lonely violet, seems to have been born to blush unseen. So with Bergen Point.a watering place which, until recently, waB known to but a sagacious few, who have taken the precautions of buying land and building thereon every variety of villa residences, from the Sevres chateau to the Elizabethan gothic.

The peninsula known as Bergen Point, Is a long neck of land which rune on the Jersey NewarkBay and the Kill von Knll, and was originally settled by the Dutch, who seem to have transmitted to their descendants their land interest, and these descendants, by abiding their time and holding on quietly to their farms, have snddenly found themselves in possession of vast wealth. One gentleman, Captain Latourette, owns 850 acres of land, which 20 years ago was not worth $50 for the acre he now holds at $5,000. The side of this peninsnla, situated on the Kill von Knll, has a placid, quiet beauty about it, enhanced by the numerous willow trees that drop gracefully down to the water edge 01 the grove lined bankB that are terraced by a delightful road which runs round all their curves from the Point to Jersey City. Another plank road runs the whole length of the peninsula, winds through some exceedingly beautiful localities, where the primeval forest has been left untonched, and then it emerges among highly cultivated lands and over a graceful succession of gentle declivities, and along the summit of a ridge that overlooks the Bay of New York. This is the favorite drive, especially on Sunday, when a goodly number of carriages and their occupants rattle down from New York City to the La Tourette House, where a bland host does all the honors with refreshing suavity.

This hotel is very prettily situated on its own grounds, and though of a goodly size, capable of accommodating 500 guests, is almost hidden beneath the foliage of eomc ancient ancestral trees that may have been planted by the cotemporaries of Peter Stuyvc sant. There ia nothing of the discomfort of a village inn about the La Tourette House, aa it has all the appliances that metropolitan fastidiousness demand, from a barber shop to a black cloud of colored waiters. From the piazza an extended view is obtained of Sta ten Island, with its palatial mansions peeping out between the tops of the trees, ou the wooded mountains that are more pleasant to see than ascend, while below rnnB the smooth water of the Kull, that bears on its bosom, besides the great ships that go down to the sea, a perfect flotilla of small boats, from a clumsy ecow to an out rigger. About a quarter of a mile down tho shore road stands a well known anglers resort, the Shore House, built on a large pier that runs some distance into the water, and off which capital fishing is obtained, aud while the angler is enjoying the sport he is shaded by a huge awning, and beside him is a table to support his book, or his beverages mostly used for the latter. Leaving this, the piscatorial paradiBe, the visitor, in a few minutes' walk, finds himBelf on tho pebbly strand of Newark Bay.

This iB a considerable ex be one class more than another interested in a speedy return to established law it is the ereditors of the government If through the wild folly of the Radical majority, we should leave ourselves liable to the addition of the rebel debt to our own, the repudiation of all the debt would follow, and with it, not only national infamy, but national destruction. "The Noble Savage." An extract from a private letter published in yesterday's Eagle adds to the already conclusive proof of the savagery of the Western Indians. The race whosG noble virtues poets have sung, and whose heroic qualities one of the most successful of American novelists has made the material of romance, is destitute of the common instincts of humanity. The slaying of an enemy, usually through treachery and without the sanction of a regularly declared war, does not satisfy the barbarians. The frightM mutilation of the dead body affords them a brutal pleasure.

The tendency to barbarism does not disappear after years of association with civilized people, but seems ingrained in the race. What then shall be done with "the noble savage?" Shall he be exterminated? The stories of his outrages would go far to justify the "stamping out" process, could it even be excused, but a Christian nation hesitates at such a measure even in self defence. Besides, while the Indian has a monopoly of scalping, throat cutting and the like, it is undeniably true that the wrong is not all on his side. He has been shamefully defrauded by government agents. Smarting under such outrages the Indian knows no redress but such as his rifle and knife offer, and his fierce nature will not discriminate between the white man who has swindled him and all people of the white man's color.

So the first assailable party of emigrants or explorers has to suffer, and men, women, and children are relentlessly shot, scalped, and mutilated. Nothing can be said in justification of the "noble savage," but can anything too strongly denunciatory be said of the agent whose pe culative propensities have resulted not merely in the cheating of an Indian, but in the involving a whole frontier in the most fearful of all wars? Nor is swiniling all. It would seem the whites are offering the Indians an example in violating the laws of war the Sioux will not be slow to imitate. General McDowell reports that in some instances the soldiers of the United States have sold Indian captives, or delivered them to other tribes for slaughter. This policy is not likely to make the noble savage less cruel and bloodthirsty.

The management of Indian affairs is not creditable to the Government. Whether it be decided to keep them in order by peaceful methods, and by treaties faithfully ob observed, or to sweep them from the earth by war, some system should take the place of the inconsistent measures now adopted. It to be hoped that under General Sherman Indian complications may be adjusted. The faithful soldier will not shrink from his duty, although a dangerous and difficult warfare on the distant plains mayearn less popular applause than brilliant campaigns against a civilized enemy. Bread by Weight.

If the Legislature can ever be got to do anything simply for the benefit of the people, we hope it will make some general law regulating the standard by whieh certain commodities are sold. Weight is a better standard than measure for the purchase of any article whatever, and all kinds of produce should be sold by weight. There is one article, the most important of all the necessaries of life bread, the sale of which is regulated by no other standard than the conscience of the baker. The only designations we have for loaves of bread is by their price. We mention them as sixpenny loaves or ninepenny loaves; but how much bread these represent nobody but the baker knows and few persons who purchase bread daily could give a guess at the weight of a loaf of ailg TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 16.

This paper has the Largest Circulation of any Evening papor published In the United States. Its value as an Advertising Idedlnm Is therefore apparent. Maximilian's Defence. We have at length a detailed report of the "trial" of Maximilian and the three Mexican General who adhered to his interest and who suffered with him. The prisoners were tried by Court Martial.

Maximilian was represented by three Counsel, who alternately read his defence. It was first claimed that a Court Martial could have no jurisdiction over a case which involved the consideration of the most important principles of international law. The accused had been allowed but forty eight hours to prepare for his defence. This period, it was held, was insufficient, and deprived the prisoner of the opportunity of producing witnesses, facts, and documents, upon which he relied for a vindication of his conduct. Of course these points were overruled.

Counsel then proceeded to vindicate Maximilian on the theory which has already been made familiar to the public by his sympathisers. It was stated that he was at his home at Miramax when he was waited on by a delegation representing the Assembly of Mexican Notable, and that he was then and there offered the position of Emperor, in the name of the Mexican people. He refused because he was not satisfied that the people of Mexico desired him for their ruler. An election was then held, and it appearing that a great majority of the Mexican people favored his acceptance of the Emperorship, he reconsidered his determination, but not until he had consulted eminent jurists of Europe, who gave it as their opinion that he was elected by the will of the nation. In this country the validity of this election would be held to decide the whole case.

The Mexican Liberali3ts claim that the election was held under the dictation of French soldiers, and that it was a sham and a fraud, Against this the letter of Napoleon is quoted to show that that he instructed his generals to ascertain as fairly as possible the will of the people. As the question was bet ween French domination and a government which should be identified with the country between a regular government and no government it is quite conceivable that at an election fairly held a majority of the Mexican people might be willing to try the proposed experiment. Maximilian's counsel labored to show that their client identified himself entirely with the interests of Mexico after his elevation to power; that he was in perpetual conflict with Napoleon, and steadily refused to cede to him Sonora, which was claimed as an indemnification by France. "When Maximilian," continued his counsel, "perceived the first symptoms of general discontent, lie withdrew from the capital," called around him his ministers of State, and "consulted with them about the legitimacy "of his election, and the will of the people, "and they represented to him the entire "fidelity of the people." Maximilian's unfortunate order, refusing the laws of war to his opponents, was next considered. In his defence it was urged that he issued this decree at the instigation of his Mexican advisors, who assumed that Juarez had quitted the country, and that there was no legitimate opposition to his authority on Mexican soil.

The decree, it was claimed, was issued in the interest of order, and as the only way of intimidating the lawless bands of guerillas, who were plundering and murdering the people. The decree was intended only as a terror, and Maximilian reserved under it the right of hearing all applicants for mercy. "He had given or "ders," said his counsel, "thatno matter what "hour of the day or night petitions for clem "ency came, he should be informed of it." Such petitions were never refused. The Court, of course, was organized to convict, and summarily disposed of the case. No man ever met his fate with greater dignity and courage.

That he meant well to Mexico is not doubted. His government failed; but what government ever succeeded among the mongrel race who have again the sorry privilege of bringing a disgrace on Republicanism The Surratt Case. The defence in the Surratt case makes but slow progress. The Court yesterday decided not to admit the register of the hotel, by which the defence ckimed to be able to prove that Surratt was at Canandaigua on the loth of April, where he could not have been if Ue had been Washington on the day of the assassination. Additional testimony was taken going to show that the witness Lee, examined by the prosecution, is totally unworthy of credit under oath.

The defence read a document to the jury which discloses the theory on which they rely for an acquittal. They admit that Surratt was employed as an agent by the rebel government, and that he was constantly passing between Canada and Richmond. On the 6th of April, eight days before the assassination, they say he arrived at Montreal with dispatches from Mr. Benjamin, to a Confederate General named Lee, relating to the disposition of funds in the hands of Jacob Thompson, who had been a sort of representative of the Confederaey in Canada. They say Surratt left Montreal on the 13th of April, and was at Elmira, N.

on the day of the assassination and for two days thereafter, and that on the 18th he returned to Montreal. This leaves a rather narrow margin for an alibi. This statement was, of course, not admitted, as evidence, although it was read in court. The Rebel General Lee, whose name is above mentioned, was placed on the stand. He swore that he did not remember seeing Surratt at Montreal on the 12th of April.

On the 17th of April, he had an interview with him at a hotel in Montreal. The murder it will be remembered was committed on tne 14th of April. A Presidential Sensation. President Johnson sent a message to Congress yesterday, accompanying certain documents called for by that body, which may be said do have created a vertible sensation. The majority in Congress may to use a Western phrase know where they are going in, but where they are coming out, seems to give them but little concern.

The President tells Congress that he is quite unable to say what may be the cost of carrying out the pending reconstruction law. He reminds that body that the State governments of the ten unrepresented States were administered at a cost of $14,000,000 per annum before the war. This amount was paid by the people of these States. If Congress undertakes the work through the costly machinery of military power the expense can hardly be less, and it will have to be paid mainly by the tax payers of the North. The President goes on to say "The sum expended would, no doubt, be considera" my augmented ir the machinery of these StateB is to oe operated by the Federal Government, and would be largely Increased tf the United States, byabolish coating state Governments, should become thpPSii for.llo'ilies inenrrrea by them before resource ble effons t0 icvelope their unroot fur insurrection SeKed amone whom are or portions which have ever remained lo al to the tlnff''? by persona who are the enbjects of forel pS hat aeAts.

It is worthy the consideration ffCW' and the country whether, ir the Federal GovoS8? by its action were to assume such obligation an addition to our public expenditures i seriously impair the credit of the nation. Or other hand, whether the relusal of Congress to tee the payments of the debts of thole State! having displaced or abolished their state Govern ments, wou'd not be viewed as violation oi eood faith and a repudiation by the National Legislature of liabilities which these States had justly and legally incurred." The President's point is that since we choose to treat the South as conquered territory, we must assume the liabilities as well as the advantages of conquerors. This'point of international law is well settled. As these debts are due mainly to our own citizens, it is nt impossible that a party in the Northern States, having a a larre pecuniary interest in the bonds of the Southern States, will favor the assumption of these debts. We believe the subject is, as the President says, "well worthy of the consideration of Congress," although that body does not think so.

If there Ihe Dyer Nash Testimonial $1,200 Realized Speeches of Presentation and Response. Last evening at No. 9 Court, Officers Edwin Dyer and Alonzo Nash, of the Forty flrat Precinct Police, were each presented with a testimonial as a public recognition of their services in capturing tho assassin of Wm. Bishop Carr, on the morning of the 21st of May. The facts in the caBe of the air gun murder, with tho subsequent suicide of Skidmore, are still so vivid before the public mind as to need no recapitulation.

The officers named did their duty gallantly, and a large number of citizens deemed it proper that some public indication of appreciation should bo made. A committee was therefore appointed with ex Alderman L.F. Newman as chairman, and, as a result, laBt evening a purse of $1,200 was presented to these deserving officers. Officer Dyer being thought to be more conspicuous in the work of the arrest, was awarded $700 by the committee, the balance, $500, going to Officer Nash. At a little after 8 o'clock ex Alderman Newman called the meeting to order, and presented the officers to Mr.

Thomas Kin sella, who addressed them as follows Messhs. Dteb and Nash A duty has been assigned to me to night which I assure you I undertake with a great deal of satisfaction. In behalf of a number of your fellow citizens, I am asked to present to vou an evidence of their appreciation of qualities which trust, they will never be slow in honoring fldelitv to duty, zeal, promptitnde, and courage, in the public service. A few weeks ago the citizens of Brooklvn were startled by the announcement that, to all aooear ances, a quiet and unobtrusive citizen, making hia wav homeward through a frequented Btreet in the heart of the city, and at an hour when business, social habits or pleasure, frequently call each and all of us abroad waB shot dead upon tho sidewalk. A more atrocious and unprovoked murder never was committed so far as the public could then, or can now iude.

The in telligence of the crime created peculiar alarm for it was one against which no man coald guard I am within bounds in saying that every man in Brooklyn felt the presence of a danger when he read the de tails of Carr's assassination, of which he hardlv dreamed before. Whatever security we miht relv upon in the future, you gentlemen afforded us The newspapers that recorded the intelligence of the murder bore to us the gratifying news that the murderer was held firm in the iron grasp of the law. Permit me to refer to the particulars of the crime You, Officer Dyer, while in the faithful and vigilant exercise of your duty, saw a man whose movements attracted yonr suspicion. To have arrested him on suspicion would have subserved no purpose. He was liable to no charge.

Any one of a thousand excuses he, an ex policeman, could have so readily invented might have disarmed your suspicion, or, at least' would have left you powerless to punish him. As a guardian of the did your duty in watching the movements or a man who had excited your distrust but whom you had no right to arrest, for here we are tenacious of individual rights. Burglaries had been committed in the neighborhood possibly this man had been concerned in them if so, by patiently watching him you could not only gnard the property of the citizen, but might bring an offender against the laws to justice. You watched and waited, not at liberty to suspect that the man who had attracted your attention had murder in his heart. A citizen comes alon You hear what seems to be the report of a pistol, and see the citizen fall.

To hesitate in your duty for a minute, or to have lOBt but a few seconds in balancing your own safety against yonr duty, would have been to have permitted Skidmore to escape. Prompt and daring, you instantly pursued the criminal, knowing that he would not Bhrink from one crime to escape the penalty of another. Tenaciously you followed him up through the deserted streets of the Bleeping city, and not until he turned upon you did you resort to the power conferred npon you to bring him to hay. You then discharged the single barreled pistol with which yon were armed. He again turned and ran, and now, indeed, you might have felt that in case of hiB capture even the chances were that you would lose your prisoner with your life, for yon were unarmed.

You. Officer Nash, attracted by the noise, while you were faithfully attending to your duty, were prompt in coming to the rescue. Bad there been any remissness on your part; had you been off your post tor even a minute; had you hesitated to do your duty, the chances still were that the murderer would have escaped. Without hesitation, sir, you did your part as zealous as your worthy friend and associate. The assassin was secu 'ed and law and order were so far vindicated.

The fidelity, the promptness, the courairc. so markedly and advantatrenslr ahinn merit, iu the opinion of a number of vonr tellnw riil zens, a recognition at their hands, and in their name 1 am now auuiu lu inaKe it. I have heard it said, gentlemen, very frequently, since this occurrence, that you did only your duly, and that vou were paid for doin" it. Gnntlnmi.n vnn ma your duly sopromptlyand so courageously that we claim to be your debtors. Thev only did their duty yho can do more 1 The world'sheroes arc the men who in trying moments did their duty.

Along the lino of English war ships, which, in terrific array, assailed the French and bpanish fleets in rrafalgar.thcre rang iue wurua us me connici openeu, England expects every man will do his duty." They tlid their duty, and the left arm of the power of France was broken. The leader of the embattled host acrainst which Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo dashed themselves vain. claimed only that he did his duty. Whoever answered that ho was paid for doing it Coming home to more familiar and, for us, to more interesting instances the man whose name stands higher on the bead role of the world's heroes than all other names laid down his sword, luminous with the light of liberty, bcemmcd with a lustre such as never flashed from sapphire or diamond on kingly crowns and claimed only this, that he did his duly. There is a name made, in some way, more familiar daily to us all It is borne by the plain and reticent soldier to whose skill was entrusted a thousand times more than Caisarand bis fortunes the destiny of the Republic.

When his work was done, he sheathed his sword, and claims no more than that he did his duty. What churlish soul will say he was paid for doing it It is given to lew to be great.but in the sphere that is assigned us, the best can do no more than his duty. Better, far better, that the stately edifice yonder, which' represents hundreds of thousands of the public have been laid in ashes than that the assaBsin Skidmore should have escaped. A city of three hundred thousand souls rests quieter now because you did your duty. The fate of Skidmore anticipating by his own red hand the law he could not baffle iB worth millions, as a protection to the good and a warning to the vicious.

For all this, we thank you. gentlemen. Here lor both of you are purees, which bear a substantial evidence of our appreciation of your fidelity. To you wo entrust the guardianship of our property, our lives, and those who are near and dear to us. Let this occas ion bear testimony that while you are watching usand ours in the dead waste and middle of the nirrnt that we are in some measure watching you, and arc ready, as these packages bear testimony, to reward fidelity and courage in our interest.

Take these purses, gentlemen, with our best wishes for your health and prosperity, and believe us to be still your debtors! (Applause.) At the subsidence of the applause Officer Dyer responded aa follows Gentlemen op the Committee The emotions of the present moment quite crush out tbe few ideas I had summoned to meet the occasion. On behalf or myself and associate lean most sincerely thank you for tho kind words, generous confidence, and substautlal appreciation which yon and the citizens of Brooklyn generally have expressed for us. Beyond the cred of haTing tried earnt ally to do our whole duty on the morning of May 21st, we claim nothing. That much, however, I claim despite all the opinions of those who have criticised me in nublic. while t1n.mBoU...a but acquainted with the circumstances of the sad tragedy by which Mr.

Carr lost his life. To know that you, gentlemen, feel the truth of this, that my superiors in office acknowledge it, and better than all that a successful capture followed a cowardly urination, would have been sufficient without this large, this generouB evidence of your remembrance and regard. Believe me this purse shall not make me less watchful, less desirous, less earnest to do my duty as a patrolman of the Forty first Precinct. Accept for yourselves, and those for whom yon act, our most heartfelt thunks for this recognition, and for your future welfare in life. Officer Nash briefly responded in the following words: Gentlemen I am equally disconcerted with Officer Dyer, and feci that words would but poorly express my thronging thought if I could speak them as I wish.

Accept, then, for yourselves, for Manager Hooley and for the public at large a police officer's sheerest acknowledgements. Acting 8b I did with my fellow officer in the capture of Skidmore, I did what I should have done no more. The chances were heavy, but a policeman, like a soldier, must accept these dangers as indispensable. That a bold bad man was secured none more gladly learned iban we, bnt his fault" have gone with him to a higher court than ours. For the very handsome manner In which allusion has been made to our efforts, I am deeply thankful both for myself and the Metropolitan Police force throughout the District, and hopinu that my future conduct mav continue to merit your generous commendation, I beg leave again to thank all who have interested themselves in our behalf.

Both responses were received with applause, and the Committee, having closed its labors, adjourned nine die. The recipients of this flattering evidence of popular confidence then invited the Committee and other citizens to the Montauk Honse of J. A. Flanigan, Conrt street, where a short season was passed in a flow of sonl. Successf ul Bridegroom Shot by his Rival I.ove, Hatred and Bloodshed.

From the Savannah (Ga.) Republican, flth.) The town of Brunswick was on Friday afternoon last, about four o'clock, thrown into a state of the wildest excitement in consequence of a most tragic occurrence, in which ono man lost his life at the hands of another under tbe following circnmBtances As Mr. E. G. Westmoreland, acting British Consul, was Bitting on the steps of his office, in the afternoon, and at the time stated his wife sitting in his office and while he was engaged in conversation with Judge Marlin, he was approached by Captain E. J.

Martin, who was in company with Mr. Pbielstichcr. When the Captain had come within a few paces of Mr. Westmoreland, he drew a small pistol und fired a shot at the latter, the ball taking effect just above the right groin. Mr.

Westmoreland immediately aroso and started to walk away, bnt bad only proceeded a few yards when the Captain fired another shot, inflicting a wound in the central part of the breast. Mr. Westmoreland at once seized hold of the Captain and asked him, "What have I ever done to yon, Martin You have shot!" and began sinking down to the ground. He never spoke again, and lived about fifteen minutes. Immediately after the commission of the deed Capl.

Martin surrendered himself to a soldier who happened to be in the vicinity, giving np the pistol, and both proceeded to the Ocean House, where Martin was boardiHg. The news of the fearful tragedy spread like wild fire throngh the town, and in a short time a large crowd of excited people had gathered about tho house, threatening to lynch Martin, who was detained by Lieutenant D. G. Rfsley, of the Forty second Regulars, who is stationed at Brunswick, until a warrant was obtained from Judge Houston, of the Connty Court, upon which he was turned over to the civil authorities, he waiving an examination on the charge, Sheriff Dupree taking him into custody. He was subsequently sent to the steamer Sylvan Shore, under guard of Deputy Marshal W.

P. Burns and Chief of Police J. E. Dart and their posses, brought to this city on Saturday afternoon last for safe keeping, and lodged in the county jail. He will doubtless be detained hers until the next meeting of the Superior Court of Glynn county in Octobernext, when his trial will take place.

An inquest was held on the body of Mr. Westmoreland, and a verdict of murder rendered. Captain Martin bad not been on speaking terms with Mr. Westmoreland on account of a personal difficulty which had estranged them two months ago, growing out of a duel. It seems that Mr.

Westmoreland had challenged the Captain, who accepted but, owing to the interference of friends, the affair was settled. The seconds on each side had been appointed Amelia Island selected for the duel, and the fact of the non arrival of the boat afforded tbe opportunity of an amicable arrangement. Mr. Westmoreland and the Captain were both Becking the band of a daughter of Col. C.

L. Schlatter, of Brunswick a young lady of remarkable personal charms and high intellectual ability, and to whom Mr. Westmoreland was married at eleven o'clock, on' the morning of tbe day which witnessed the death of her husband. They were to hare visited Savannah on their bridal tour. Captain Martin, the chief actor in this terrible affair, is a rice planter, owning quite an extensive plantation on tho Altamah river.

Mr. Westmoreland was quite extensively engaged in the lumber business at Brunswick, and was running several saw mills in conjunction with General Gordon. Captain Martin is a nephew of General Edward Johnson, of Virginia, on whose staff he served during tbe war. Captain Martain and hia unfortunate victim, Mr. Westmoreland, were well known in the community at Brunswick, and were respected citizens and men of considerable wealth.

A pall of gloom has been thrown over the entire town by this Bad and unexpected event. A skeleton, with an iron ball attached, was fonnd in the bank at Great Gull Island, recently. The bones are (opposed to be thoao of a body buried at A Sunday Excursion The Broadway of "Water Tnorongblares. Correspondence of the Eagle. On Board the Antelope, I Sunday Evening, July 14.

Every bright Sunday that rounds with its longed for hours of rest a weary week of the warm eeason, thousands of city people go out of town seeking the recreation that a change of scene, no less than a draught of pnre air, provides. Strict Sabbatarians (ell them they are guilty of a grave sin. The sinners seem unconscious of their crime. As to that more will be said presently, but before coming to a conclusion on the question, you had better join A SUNDAY EXCURSION. West street, as you pass through it this early moraine, wears a look strangely contrasting with its every day business face.

The carriageway is unobstructed by crowding carts and trucks. The market place is deserted. The stores where at other times men traf flck largely all sorts of commodities are closed. Even the doors of houses of refreshment are shut. Yet is the neighborhood not entirely silent.

On the riverside there are signs of animation. Bells are ringing on steamboats, which find relief for their impatience by a noisy steam discharge, or restlessly dip their paddles in haste to be off. Long processions of people move down the cross streets. Here is a solitary gentleman: there two persons of that diversity of sex which assures pleasant companionship. Next comes a family party, under the leadership of paterfamilias.

However variously grouped, these people have a common purpose. Some carry baskets and others, babies, while now and then one selfishly looks after nobody but himself. These are the Sunday excursionists. A fair choice of trips is offered them. They may go to Coney Island, or Long Branch, or Red Bank, or they may content themselves with what used to be called, when you were young, "the most delightful of all excursions, a sail across the liver to Hobo ken." If you are wise you will for the present decline these tempting invitations, and in a short time find yourself ON THE HUDSON.

Yon step on board one ot the newest looking of the many steamers at the Bervice of the public. The newest looking, mind, for, however it may be in the present case, there are, as a rule, few things more deceptive of appearance than your river boat. A few coats of paint, a little upholstery and a rechristening, and an old bull and a well worn engine will impose upon all but the expert traveler, until by and by a dreadful "accident" directa general attention to the fraud. While your boat steams along the city's mar Bin of docks and piers and factories, pushing farther each year into the country, you have leisure to observe THE PASSENGERS. They differ from those seen any other day of the week.

They resemble, generally, those who makeup a Fourth of July excursion. People who can take their out. door pleasuring at other times usually Btay at home on public holidays. The men, women and children who crowd the decks and saloons to day are chiefly those who recreate now or not at all. It is pleasant to look upon the company.

Each is resolved to enjoy to the utmost the novelty of the sensation, and each one succeeds. Perhaps of the whole number half a dozen are not excursionists, and are called from the city at this nnchosen hour by a sudden summons. But all the others are on pleasure intent. They appropriate it with a healthful appetite, lrom the invigorating air, from the vitalizing sunlight, from the panorama of the shores. They are not, as are so many weekday passengers, amusement sated, and wearied alike of art and nature to the point of exclaiming, with Sir Charles Coldstream, "Thero's nothing in it." The Tentonicelement is largely represented on board.

As usual the German brings his family with him. You can easily distinguish the plain but wholesome wife the robust and healthful girls and boys, and the brown skiined and hearty infant. Fashion makes little display on a Sunday excursion. The toilets are rarely elegant, and often dowdy. What may be called the citi fied country style provails.

Here and there you see a tawdry dress, with profuse but cheap finery, disposed with that absence of taste which is the sure index of vulgarity. Tou remark other things that may offend the super refined. Oranges abound, and the peeling and juice exlraction thereof are frequent. The mixed candy and lozenge boy does a heavy business, and his saccharine ware is munched persistently, without regard to health or appearances. The babies munch if.

Their older brothers and sisters munch it. Their fathers and mothers munch it. The engaged youn" persons who sit side by side and arc happy munch it. Ordinary restrictions on cigar smoking are removed to day. The passengers are not so acutely sensitive as to object to the weed.

While there is apparent an exceptional unconventionnlity, a Sabbatarian might be surprised at the good order maintained. There is no drunkenness no rioting. True, some people will put their satchels and their feet on the cushions and BofaB, to the vexation of spirit of a pert mulatto chambermaid, who busies herself throughout the day in enforcing "the Captain's orders:" but there is no more pronounced rudeness to be complained of. Tou search in vain for the presence of "distinguished persons." The nearest approach perhaps is a New York Judge, who iB talking briskly to a stylish lady with a bright face, and eyeB of the uses of which their owner is not wholly ignorant. There is a sprinkling of Brooklyn people, but tbey are not from the Heights, and do not claim to be first claBs citizens.

But the city is left behind, and it is time to turn from the pas scngerB to THE BROADWAY OF RIVERS. There is doubtless much in early association, but for what other of nature's compositions have you so personal, so human an attachment as for this broad and mountain bordered stream Since the day when Peter Suyvcsant soiled northward, the scene so exquisitely descriDea Dy irving uas cnangen just as the Broad, way of the Knickerbockers haB been made a different street by commercial enterprise. The parallel of the land, and water thoroughfares might be extended: but ihe Hudson, unlike Broadway, retainB a natural beau ty modern improvement fails to disguise. Wealthand liberality have done much to adorn the river's banks Here for example. In the near neighborhood of other well appointed residences is JAMES GORDON BENNETT'S mansion.

Within its walls is dispensed that lavish hospitality which correspondents of country papers sometimes describe, and which artists and public men have found it so fa'al to refuse. This sumptuous estab. liehment is the complement of the marble and iron building on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street. Other rural buildings, some equally costly, and many less ambitions, thickly stud the Eastern shore. Forrest's fonthtll frowns mildly at you fisbm the shadow of a larger and more modern structure.

When Foothill was built, the Great American Tragedian was at the height of his popularity. He was unvexed by divorce Butts. No frightful arrearages of alimony cop.fronted him. He was undisturbed by the damaging Forney letter, and the indomitable and bitter energy of Charles O'Con or had not pursued him for years. It is not difficult to conjecture that, as he watched the rising walls of his castle by the Hudson, he looked beyond to a long and happy retirement, when weary of the triumphs of Ibe footlights.

But Fonthill is the landmark of a disappointed life. It now belongs to an unromautic series of buildings, and the actor'B home is devoted to the pious uses of the Church. YONKERS is the embodiment of rapid, vigorous, nineteenth century growth. A lively, wealthy village has taken the place of the well wooded and thinly settled high cronnd which those familiar with the Hudson many years ago remember. Old farmers who were buried fifteen or twenty years ago would not now know the place.

Perhaps you will recognize in Yonkers ar chitecture and society a freshness of veneer, a mnshl room, parvenu development you will not altogether like. As you pass Hastings and Dobb's Ferry whose good old names the mushroom parvenues propose to change you observe a line of handBomo country seats. They belong to all classes of citizens retired tobacconists, successful hatters, gentlemen connected with the boot and shoe interest, members of great shipping firms, merchant princes, tradesmen who by industry and self denial have accumulated fortunes for somebody else to spend. In suggestive contrast is the modest home of WASHINGTON IRVING, where men from the remotest corners of the earth were glad to go, and wbosc genial host will, it is just proba. blc, be remembered and honored at least as long as the retired tobacconists and merchant princes.

A little further np, at TARRYTOWN, is the pretty cemetery where Trving's grave is made, near the little church, that is the central pomt of many an old story, and not far from the bridge over which the terrified Ichabod dashed on hia midnight ride. The monument to the captors of Andre is not far off, and historic spots are of a constantly renewing interest, although their stories are many times told tales. From the other side of this widest part of the Hudson reaches ont the long dock, now superseded by Erie Railroad enterprise. Above is the pleasant village of Nyack, whose church bells are ringing as the boat touches the wharf. The next stopping plaou is Haverstraw, whence a stretch to the opposite shore brings you to the home of the convicts.

Sing Sing. Work is snspended to day, and the prisoners are resting, so far as their weary life can know any period of reEt. Sing Sing is not a cheerful locality, and it is relief to push on to Grassy Point andVerplank's, more rural landings than any yet reached. At Peekskill, yonr journey's end, there are tall chimneyed and smoke blackened foundries and machine shops one doeB not need or care to go out of town to see, but a little way from the river is a charming country. HENRY WAKD BEECHER'S FARM is not far distant, bnt the time will not serve for you to seek it.

Even when you essay a short walk to the village the sun beats npon you so fiercely that you retreat, and turn aside into a hostelry hard by the water. Here you may have a good dinner in the company of many of yonr fellow passengers. The Excise Law is not in force if you care to avail yourself of the fact. By the time yon return to the boat the German families who remained on board have nearly accomplished another of the many meals with which they diversify the day, and the hour of departure is at hand. You leave the hot landing place and once more face the refreshing breeze that fanB the river.

The home journey seems shorter than the outward trip. The passengers are rapidly picked np at the Beveral villages, and the boat is again crowded. The tree crowned bluffs are soft and cool to the eye, and distant hills mellow in the evening sunlight, as yon sweep with the majestic stream in its stately progress to the ocean. The hot and' dusty city comes too soon in view, and the faces of some of the passengers percept tibly lengthen as they return to the toilsome monotony of every day life. Yet who shall say that the weary workers shall not be helped in the coming Week's labor by this grateful Sunday pause Are they not mode more cheerful, more kindly, better, by this glimpse of the Lord's nature on the Lord's day Bnt some ono shall say they would be more strengthened far the world's work by a day in the chnreh.

PoBaibly bnt how if they win not go to church Shall they be shut in cheerless homes and deprived of other wholesome influences Onr Sabbatarian friends would moderate their views if they would take the trouble to see for themselves what a Sunday excursion really is. Tappaan. The steamboat docks and land adjoining at Bap Harbor, have been purchased for $3,600, with a view of establishing ship yard. The Pavement Question A Jew Project. To tht Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle The extraordinary interest which has of late Seen awakened on the subject of pavements is but the natural result of the annoyances which every ono in 8nffer? hoariy from the pavements now In framing noise, the dubt fu dry weather, tho mud in wet weather, the slipperyness, their vile ueast Jl imDossibtlity of giving invalids a gentle ride without first shaking them nearly to dissolution for two or throe miles before reaching the soft country roads and again on the return, are some of tho annoyances which the public are now more earnestly than ever before, seeking to escape from.

The progress from the Cobble to thcRnss.from tbe Ru. 's to the Belgian were slight improvements in some respects but were failures in others. If the Nicolson were durable it would be a decided improvement on the stone; hut what Is tbe sense of using a material so des tructible as wood, with tar and gravel, when it has already been abundantly demonstrated that tar and gravel with another kindred material will make a concrete stone surface, far superior, more durable aud cheaper without the wood than with it. It is the tar and gravel that give the wood of the Nicolson lavement whatever durability it does possess. It Is tho wood that prevents it from being more durable than it is, because it cannot absorb more than a thin coat of and hence can onlv hold a small quantity or gravel ana sand.

The Nicolson pavement demonstrates the immense value of tar and gravel for a pavement when so thin a coating as covers the wood will maSe it last, as Is alleged, 8 or 10 years, whereas the wood aloue would propably be in tatters in twelve months. rnerc is no longer any question in manv minds in this country that the grand principle of pavements lies in coal tar. concreting other snitable substances, for its excellence and durability have been proved in many placea in thia country for many years. Hence they aid not need to be confirmed in their faiih in this kind pavement hy the announcements lately mode by Ibe New York Times, and the correspondent or the Christian Advocate others, that the citv or Jfans had adopted a similar pavement, aud that'the hnest streets and boulevards or that mairniflcent city are paved with it. No doubt many who have not known that au American had im ented such a pavement, and that it has been in successful use in our own country or manv years, will be more rcadilv disposed to examine its menta now that it has been adopted in Paris.

In 1S59 George Scrimshaw, of Central Pennsylvania, invented and patented a concrete pavement, in which he uses iron cinaer or broken stoue. gravel sand, anthracite coal ashes and coal tar, and he laid Buch pavements in many places in Central Pennsylvania; with such success that a leltcr from that region, of the 12th ultimo, from a trustworthy person, describes the pavement as being, afler eight years of use, "as firm ax any rock, and to all appearance never will wear out." This pavement has bei laid in many other and whenever Ihe work has been done by persona properly skilled, it has proved to be an excellent and durable pavement. The merits of this pavement are in part these It is smooth. Carriaee wheels passing over it make no noise, and horses make very little. It inakeB no mud in wet weather.

it makes no dust in dry weather. It is not slippery, hence does not kill horses. Invalids may ride on such roads with perfect comfort. It is so durable that after eight vears' use, it is pronounced to be better than when first made, and to all appearance never will wear out. The first cost is Icbs tf an either the Rufs.

Be'gian or Nicolson. The American invention is, no doubt, superior to tbe French, because of the use of anthracite coal ushos with the tar as a concreting material, not used by the French. Well may the New York Times referring to the advantages of this kind of pavement remark "could anything De more perfect in the way of pavement Humanity to man and beast is consulted in such an invention which is so incomparably superior to the vile beast slaying pavement which occupies our streets that for an American to see it is to covet it." In conclusion I have to say that, the propiictora of the right under the Scrimshaw patent for Long I dand are now prepared to make this pavement and intend forthwith to apply to the Brooklyn City Government to have it tested in our streets or avenues. J. P.

C. The Clinton Street Commissioners and itlr. Bonesteel Card from Jtlr. Stanton. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle At a meeting of the property owners, held at the Atheneum on Thursday evening la in reference to repairing Clinton street, some remarks were made by a Mr.

Bonesteel, which he alluded to an interview had by him with oue of the Commissioners of tbe Clinton street improvement (meaning myself; and pretended to give a statement of what I said on that occasion in regard to the Nicolson pavement, and of my desire that it should be laid down in front of my property. What be said in regard to myself is an utter perversion of the truth, and as his remarks were fully reported in your issue of the I2th justice lo myself and the public requires that his misstatement should not go uncorrected. I therefore ask a brier space in your columns for a reply. Sir. Bonesteel states I called on bim while he was engaged in laying the Nicolson pavement in Nassau street.

New York, and repeatedlv invited him to come and see me; that he subsequent) complied with my request, and that in an interview at my place of business I Btatt to him that I owned some propcrty in Clinton street and would like to have his pavement laid down there; thnt I was the oldest merchant in the City of New York, had extensive correspondence in Canada, and could be of great service to him, ami that it was for his interest to allow this pavement to be put down in front or niv properly, because I could beol great service to Now the only foundation tor the whole of this statement iB simply this; While the Nicolson pavement was being laid in Nassau street New York, in isti'J, I frequently had occasion to pass it, and as the subject of re pavlng Clinton street was then being agitated, I naturally observed the manner in which this wa being laid and watched its completion with a good deal of interest. On one occasion while passing it I was caught in a shower and temporarily sought shelter under the portico of the Treasury building, at the corner of Pino and Nassau streets. The person who appeared to be superintending the work took shelter there at the same time. Being thus thrown together I entered into conversation with him about the pavement, in the course of which he set forth its advantages over other pavement, but stated that they were working under great disadvantage in doing this job, on account of the nigh price of materials. Being favorably impressed by what he stated, ai.d what I had seen, I irave him my address, and stated that I was interested in property in Clinton street, Brooklyn, and that the sub ject of repaving that street was then under consideration.

Some time after this I again met him accidentally, and reminded him that he had not called to see me. He replied that be bad not, hut that some one would soon do. Some little time after thia. a nerson whom I had never seen before, to my knowledge, called on allndid to the Nicolson pavement, und stated that he bad called to see me in reference to it. I then stated to him that the subject ol repaving Clinton street was.

then under consideration, and if his pavement was all that had been represented, and could bo laid cheap enoneh, it was the one which would probably be decided upon. I then allnded to the dlsadvantagei under which they were laboring in laying the pavement in Nassau street, of which his supereutendent bad informed me, and stated I had done business with lumber men in North Carolina and Canada, and thought I could introduce him to parlies through whom be could get his lumber cheaper. I tucu aaKcd him to give me the lowest price at which he eouM lay the block in front of my house willi this pavement, and said to bim that ir the price was reasonable I thought I could get Mr. Montgomery, a neighbor of mine, to join me iu having it laid. He promisee: to let me know, and then we separated.

This is the BiibBtauce of the whole conversation between us, which was very brief, and this was the sole origin and occasion of the interview, and it tjok place months before I was appointed a Commissioner on the Clinton street Improvement. I never invited Mr. Bonesteel to call and see me otherwise than as I have just stated, and I never had but one interview with him, to my knowledge. I never suggested to him that I desired to huvo the Nicolson pavement laid in front of my property, except as above Btaten, and I never stated to him that I was the oldest merchant in New York, or that it was for hia interest to allow pavemei.t to be pnt down in front of my property because I could be of great service to him. All of his statements to that effect are utterly false.

With this emphatic denial of Ids statements I leave the question of veracity between us lo tbe decision of the public but It is proper that I should add thai Mr. Bonesteel lias never fulfilled his promise to give mo the price at which he would lav down his pavement in front of my property. But, had he done so, the result woulrt have been the same, whatever might have been the price named. Since my interview with him I have become satisfied from my observation of the of the Nicolson pavement iu Nassau street. New York, aud from information from olners, that the representations made to me as lo its character, advantages, and dun bilitv, were wholly unwarranted, and I should now be unwilling to have it laid in front otmy pronrty, even irit could be done free of expense to myself.

Bv publishing tbe above you will do me an act of justice, and afiord the public ti means of judging what motives prompted Mr. Bonesteel to so fir mis lake the facts. C. Stastos. It is proper to say that our "Shoddy" cotempnrary refused to publish the above communication it reflected on Mr.

Bonesteel." Comment is unnecessary. management of tbe Conoy Island Hall road, To tlie Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle I would like to call your attention to the way in which the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad ia managed. Last Tuesday myself, with a frie id, Btarted for Coney Island. On gettiug to the city line wc were told that a car was guiug in twenty minute At the expiration of that time, there being about ten passengers to go down to the Island, I waa azttin told on inquiry that a car would 20 in twenty five minutes. After forty five minutes of waiting we were started for the Island, It taking two hours and fortv ilve minutes from Fulton Ferry to Coney Island.

Now I would Buggest, that whoever has the man tgement of tnai roau, iimi luey tuuu ears 10 ioney lsianu in some reasonable time, and not wait uniil one car is so crowded that ladles have to out atid wait forty five minutes more, only to go through the same performance. I have goi.e over tho same road before, but never until now, round bo much trouble in getting to Coney Island. That road, a year ago, enjoyed a good reputation and now, ir the present managers do not attend to their business, or learn how to ruu a railroad, it will soon degenerate into what ia commonly called a "One borse Itoad." Your obedient servant, W. L. What Ik a Billion To the Eclior of the Brooklyn Eagle I desire, for the benefit of a number of tho readers of yonr valnabie paper, an answer to tho following question: What figures are necessary to constitute a billiou We shall look, with interest, for an answer in your coming edition.

Yours, a reader. Nix. According to the English and American system of computation, a billiou is a million millions 1,000,000,000,000. According to tbe French system, a billion is a thousand millions 1,000.000,000. Squabble between Partners.

To the Editor tf the Brooklyn EagCe: As will be shown on the trial of this case, Goldsmith is tbe assistant and not Cooper, and the Illegal holder of notes belonging to Cooper which he (Goldnnith) denied having the possession of, and stated that they were destroyed. After being charged with Becreting the notes, he finally produced one, and Cooper tore it np. Hence the charge. There has been no settlement up to date of the co partnership business of Cooper Co. ehitai.

An Arrival from Boston Tbe Vagaries of a Hvll Stylcd Doctor. Yesterday morning, as Capt. "Waddy, of the Forty fourth Precinct, was sitting quietly in his office, smoking his pipe, Officer De Clue came in with a well dressed man carrying a carpet bag, and stated that the gentleman had churned hia protection. Tho Captain invited the stranger to be seated and toll his story. A glance at tbe person showed him to be a man of gentlemanly addresa and good education.

HJs visage was thin, 'hair, eyes and whiskers almost black, bnt about tbe eye was a peculiar look indicative of excitement. Ho slated blB name to be Dr. James Rav ington, and that he was from Boston. He satd he disliked to trouble the Captain, bnt his (Dr. It's) life was in danger, and he knew not what moment It might be taken.

Tbe following dialogue then took place Captain Waddy Well, air, tell me all about the trouble, and if I can I will assist or protect you. Dr. Ravington Oh, It's too long a story bat my life is threatened I am followed by men from Boston who would murder me. They tried to do so la Boston, but 1 ercaped from them. Cap aln W.

Why wonld they murder yonr Dr. All for envy and hatred. (Confidentially.) Capt. W. About what Dr.

R. My Fuccesa as a physician. Yon see I am a Spiritualist Doctor, and hive and can work great cures. The oiber doctors are jealous and intend to kill me. Some followed me from Boston I eluded them in New York, but find they havo enlisted other doctors here who arc on my track, and will aurelr takti my hfe If I am not protected.

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CLARETS Orniedlum and line gradeu. Also, Sole Acents for A. KEI.LEIt'S OLD BOURBON AND RYE WMHK1K3 Orders received for direct shipment In bond froji Cro Ihlurn.Ky. VVe have constantly on hand fine old whiskies Samples can Ue seen at our olilco. Je7 SIXVER PLATED WARE, MAOK 1IT THE CELHR VTBI, RED FIELD WK MANUFACTURING OF new Yor.K.

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R. TinR, Jal2 3awtf5 297 Fulton street, corner Johnson. THE LONG ISLAND SAVINGS BANK, or Corner of Fulton and damg streets. MITICK OF UIV1DKNO. Interest at the rte of SIX I'KK (IE NT.

per annate, free of uovernment tax, on ail deposits for three ana sl monlkb. Mil be due on the 1st day of July, and payable Ob the 15th fuaUnt following. Intercpt not drawn wU) be placed to the credit of depositor and bear fnteren the Eauie as principal. Alt ntot.cjfl deposited on or before tbelSta of July will draw Interest from the 1st. Six per cent.

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AND 65 COLUMBIA STREET. BROOKLYN UEIGIITS. Hours LADIES, A. M. to 5 P.

M. GENTS. A.M. to 9 P. M.

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The Bank, after the Hrt or July, will bo open on MONDAY and SATI HIlAY KVI instead of Thursday evtuli.es, as heretofore. CORNELIUS DEVEIt, President. I. Br.AxlCiUK, Secretary. Jel7tf BUSINESS NOTICES.

IRON FOUNDRY AND SAFE WORKS dlroail and Jouhlne Castings. Fire and Burglar ioof Safl'B, 30, S5. IS, lt. 11, 13 am 15 KCRMA.V STREET, (Near rulton Ferry,) Brooklyn, N. Y.

yyl53m SIIAICTS CO. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT MY WIFE, Mary M. Wallets, has left my and board without Just cause or provocation. I forbid all persons liar bonne or trusllm: her, as will pav no nllls nf her cou trading. (j)loai xuvm it.

it r.isn. ATTENTION A SYSTEM OF LADIES' dress cuttlnj; bv measmeieent, superior to Taylor '4 or ul.y other sj m. Lining? cut rr.iti. to demonstrate Its Buperlotitv. Ladles learning this system and actios as audit, eaii make from t'M i 'W per month.

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b'S jmeodM The quarrels of the Associated Press have led to an occurrence not especially creditable to tne parties concerned. Some members of the Association who had found fault with the policy of the Atlantic Telegraph Company were, with a View of smoothing over the difficulty, invited by the Cablemen io dine at the Union League Rooms. It is reported that Mr. Cyrus W. Field became greatly excited during the dinner, and made observations which were accepted as insulting by the Press guests, and particularly by Mr George Jones, the publisher of the Nuw York Times.

Probably a pugilistic encounter would then and there have ensued had not Mr. D. D. Field, the lawyer, and the venerable Peter Cooper interposed to preserve the peace. The irate JoneB, having slept on the affair thought no better of it, and next morning resolved that he must have satisfaction.

Accordingly, he dispatched Mr. Raymond to Mr. Field charged with a demand for an apology. The bold Cyrus peremptorily declined to offer any. Under the old chivalrons code a challenge would have followed, but in this latter muscular Christian era of prize fighting things are managed differently.

Mr. Raymond simply reported unsatisfactory progress, and sailed at his appointed (lays for Europe. Meanwhile the belligerent Jones bided Ma time. The hour of vengeance arrived for liim yesterday afternoon. Meeting the great telegraph man on the public highway, he of the Times grasped him, not by too hand nor by the coat collar, but by the nose.

This organ is satisfactorily developed in Mr. Field's case, we believe, and Jones had no difficulty iu securing a firm hold, and vigorously pulling the sen. sitive member of the offending Cynt6. The latter did not retaliate, Mr. Jones, appeased as to his wrath, re linquifhed his grasp, and thus the matter ended.

It is a pleasant telegram for the cable that its chief pro. meter so iar forgot dignity and decency as to insult his guests, and that several days later, after passion had time to cool, his nose was deliberately pulled by a member of the Associated Press. No wonder even the Herald proposes to retire from the organization. The German singers were warmly welcomed yesterday at Philadelphia, and the Saengerfest promises to be a great success. A concert was given last night at the Academy of Music to an audience of 3.CC0.

The programme opened with the overture to 'Obcron," and ended with the "Hallelujah Chorus." The orchestra numbered sixty and the chorus 1,000. A correspondent of a morning journal calls attention to the fact that translations of stories are often produced in this country, and England as original. He might have included appropriated plays in his statement. The younger Dumas, author of "Camille" which people used to pronounce "highly immoral," and at the same time cry over and of a more advanced drama in which the soiled dove is not theatrically killed, but restored to a brilliant and honored position in society, was recently criticised by a religions paper in Paris. In reply to the strictures, he said that the stage makes good impressions, but unfortunately they are not permanent.

It is perhaps well that the doubtful impressions made by the career of Dumas' last heroine should not be permanent. The New York Times intimates that there is more liquor drinking in that city on Sunday now Iban there was before the Excise Law went into opera lion, and Bays the police returns for the coming year will show whether such is theJact. We do not clearly see how. If the Consnmntinn la ffrnflfer than haMtn. fore, it is nevertheless in a great measure surreptitious, and the results which appear in intoxication and violence come under the eye of the police Icsb frequently than when the eale was open.

Arrests for StlP.h fjmatta will rlinraforrt Iwi l.u than before. The police returns will not afford a fair basis for au estimate in the premises. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were not specially animated. The session of the Senate was enlivened by a message from the President, in reply to a retolulion asking information as to certain matters connected with reconstruction. The President makes the startling suggestion that not only will over two million dollars be required to execute the military act, but that the administration of the government of the Southern States must be paid for by the Federal Government, involving an exoenso of fourteen million, and that the United States may be called npon to assume the debt of the ten Confederate States, incurred before the war, amounting to about ouo hundred millions.

In the House, Mr. Robinson, of this city, moved the appointment of a committee to investigate the working of the detective system of the Internal Revenue Departmeut. The resolution went over. A resolution to test the sense of the House on the question of paying members mileage lor the special session having been suggested, the House precipitately adjourned. The President's nomination of Henry J.

Raymond to the vacant Austrian Mission, has been approved by the moderate Hepablican press. The action taken yesterday by the Senate, when the nomination was laid on the table, is not regarded as favorable to a confirmation, but an effort to reconsider the matter will be made to day. The New York Gazette in its "Gossip about Writers" prints a pleasant and appreciative sketch of Joseph Howard, of this city. It says he "is one of the busiest men and most voluminous writers on the New York press." Besides doing "brevier and minor topics and local politics" forthe New York Times, he conducts thej Brooklyn Press, and has many other newspaper engagements. He "is a genuine newBpaper man," and "has all a newspaper man's love for sensation." He is "very and companionable," "has the indescribable aspect which we usually term "dresses with good taste," "has a pleasant residence in the 'aristocratic' quarter of Brooklyn," "has a strong love of home and family," "is young yet, thirty two, and is destined to wield much influence over the community if his life is spared." The record of the death and birth of comic newt papers fills a large space iu the mortal and vital statistics of Journalism.

A short time ago a weekly called the Owl, which announced its purpose oi being very funny, was started. It is already defunct, ami in its place is published a paper called the Humorist. If the latter be as dull as its name its career will be brief. The successful gathering of Catholic clergy at Borne is to be followed by an assembly of Protestant Episcopal Bishops in England The Archbishop of Canterbury has invited the head of every diocese in the world to meet him at a grand convocation. The Dominion of Canada has won its first victory and beaten the mother country at that.

A St. John's, New Brunswick, boat club won two prizes at the Paris international regatta ou the Seine yesterday. Its competitors were Oxford and London boats. This triumph is not the less suggestive because peaceful. It may teach our neighbors over the border an early lesson of independence.

The case of the rash Pole who fired at the Czar has been promptly disposed of. Found "guilty with extenuating circumstances," he has been' sentenced to a hard labor imprisonment for a life term. Before the Czar left Paris he magnanimously urged Napoleon to pardon Berezouski. Will the Emperor magnanimously grant the request 1 A religious paper congratulates the Herald on having abandoned the Catholic Chnreh. Most peo.

pie would extend the felicitation to the latter. Fire and Arrest. Yesterday, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon a fire, broke out in the frama dwelling house of James Gerraty, Eighteenth street, near Sixth avenne, which was inconsiderably damaged by smoke and water. The flames originated in a quantity of rags which were stored near the base boara at the head of the stairs, on the second floor. They were extinguished promptly, with less than $100 damage the flames communicated to an adjoin, ing house, which was damaged slightly.

The building was. insured in the Lafayette InBurance Company for $2,000, and Sergeant Mackellar, of the Forty eighth Precinct, subsequently arrested Gerraty on a charge of hnving fired the building. He was taken for examination before Justice Comwell, and committed. The Confidence Man Still in the Fibld. On Saturday the confidence operator, who professes to repair roofs and skylights, measure rooms for carpets, but who steals whatever he can lay hia hands on, called at the house of Mr.

H. Poor, No. 231 Union street, with the intention of stealing, but after bt ing admitted by the servant was frustrated by the lady of the house, who had read the warnings in the Eaqus The operator went off mad," and minus any booty. panse of water, as from this point its extreme shores are barely visible. Here one is far away to all intents and purposes from the busy hum of humanity, and no sbriekin wnislle or noisy carriages jar hia nerves or recall him to the disagreeable points of civilization.

Every Wednesday evening the grand drawing room of the hotel is filled by a bevy of elegantly dressed ladies, and the visitor, after having enjoyed during the day all the beauties that scenery to those ol animated nature, and whether It be a sly flirtation on the piazza, or among the trees, or during the stately quadrille, romping reel, or whirling waltz, he has an unconscious feeling that the locality Is imminently dangerous for any but confirmed bachelors. Early hours are the order of the day, and midnight generally finds the inmates enjoying undisturbed rest. Seven P. M. and the bathing house is full.

Eight A. the breakfast table resounds to the clatter of knives and forks 8:30 the boat is at the pier, and after half an hour's sail, with a cool, refreshing breeze, the heart of the city is reached, and 0 A. M. finds the denizen of the city at his usual commercial post. Amnscments.

The Park Theatre. The couccrt troupe appeared here last evening and gave a rather lengthy musical entertainment, which was followed by the comedy of Charles LT. The lattet performance was marred by the absence of Mr. Duff, who appears to have been struck with one of his periodical vagaries and did not put in an appearance, and his part had to be read by somebody else. The concert troupe comprises four ladies and five gentlemen the three Misses Queen and Mr.

Andrew Queen comprise the best voices in the party. The other artists, who are announced as "late members of the Hitchings Opera Troupe," are not brilliant, and the concert, as a whole, iB rather tedious. Tne idea of brinrring all tho singers out on the stage at once, and keeping them there through the performance, seated in a row like negro minstrels, is new but not specially commendable. It must be embarrassing to the artists to sit for an hour an a half staring point blank at tho audience. The programme comprised fourteen pieces too many to sing at one sitting.

The best selections were, Glover's "Wandering in the May Time," sung by Misses Laura and Fanny Queen Five o'clock in the Morning," by Miss Julia Queen Kiss me while I'm Sleeping," song and chorus, and a now national song and chorus called "Tse Star Spangled Flag of our Land," sung on this occasion for the first time. Tho same programme will be repeated this evening. Hooley's Opera House. The promptness of the public to appreciate novelty was shown last nigbt in the crowded house that greeted the production of the new panoramic piece, "The Progress of a Nation." The idea is similar to that illnstrated last season in the "Trip Eound the World." In a series of dioramic views, twenty in number, the salient features of the history of this country from the voyage of Columbus to tho present duy, are illustrated. It is introduced in pantomimic fashion by the inevitable fairy who waits upon the company just as they have concluded the opening chorus and proposes to show them the past, present and future in a vision.

The scene then changes and discloses Colnmbns on his voyage. Next follows an Indian scene, in which tho episode of John Smith and Pocahontas is laughably travestied, with Mulligan as a truly "big Indian," with a war dance. With this scene comes the appropriate song, "Why docs the White Man Follow my Track." The next scene is the "Landing of the Pilgrims," at Plymouth Rock. Then follows the landing of another class of pilgrims, the Irish and Dutch emigrants, which introduces a very amusing scene between an IriBb couple and a Dutch couple, impersonated by Mulligan, Hughes, Dave Reed and little Joe. Sentiment is appeased by the song of the "Exile of Enn," by Church.

Then follow views of the progress of the earlier settlements and the Indian wars. Wo then come down to the Revolution, which is illustrated with tableaux of Bunker Hill, the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Washington crossing tho Delaware, accompanied by appropriate music and "The Sword of Bunker Hill," sung by Nevers, The celebration of peace follows with the song of "Uncle Sam's Farm," by Dave Iieed. Next comes tho war of 1812, illustrated with a naval fight between the Constitution and the Guerriere, and a tableau of the Battle of New Orleans. Another celebration of peace follows, introducing song and dance, after whieh we have the Mexican war, briefly depicted in the capture of Vera Cruz. The discovery of gold in California intervenes between that episode and the Rebellion, which brings up the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and tho fight between the Monitor and the Mcrrimac.

Wars being at an end we lapse into allegory and apotheosis, with a prosy scene in Washington, to introduce Mr. Dick Carroll as a dancing newsboy. The piece winds up with a striking tableau illustrating the promising greatness of our national future. Altogether, this makes a very pretty entertainment. It is the design and work of Mr.

R. L. Weed, who painted the scenes and wrote the dialogue, and both aro well done, The most striking scenes are the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Bunker Hill after Trumbull's picture, and the moving diorama of Washington crossing the Delaware. The dialogue is telling, patriotic and witty, and nevdr tedious, the point, many of which were very good, were well appreciated. The muBic too, iB well selected, and the comic scenes judiciously introduced.

Judging from the reception of this piece last night it will be a dc. cided success, and carry this house through tho summer season with flying colors. The second part of the performance includes the usual variety of acts, songs, and dances. Budworth's Combination. Mr.

J. H. Budworth will give his dramatic and musical enter tainment at the Atheneum this evening. Tho programme comprises two farces and a variety of musical selections. Mr.

Budworth will be assisted by Miss Chapman, Messrs. J. A. Graver, J. A.

Herman, W. J. Budworth, Jas. McCloskey, Frank Gerard, Signor vayo, A. Sedgwick and others.

SPOUTS AND PASTIMES. Base Ball. The following matches will be played on ine oays oi uie oaten uamea July 18 Peconic vs. Dictator, on Capitoline Grounds at 3 P. M.

July Hi Peconic vs. Independent, (second nines) on Peconic Grounds, at Bedford, at 3) P. M. July 18 Oriental vs. Mohawk, at Greenpoint.

July 19 Eckford vs. Star, on Union grounds. July 20 Fnlton vs. Unionville. on Satellite grounds.

July 27 Star vs. Irvington, at Irvington. Irvington vs. Eckford. As we write it would appear as if the thousands designing to witness this game, will be disappointed.

The clonus overhead threaten every moment to cast their watery load upon the earth. Pike. This celebrated player has left the Irvington club and joined the Mutual club. Whcre npon the Irvington clnb, in very bad taste, expels him. It is very poor policy, and only serves to show the miblic what undoubtedly the Irvintrton wonld like to conceal, that they feel his loss greatly.

We doubt if tne action wui prevent, rute irom playing on the Mutual nine, unless some serious charge can be preferred against him. The best policy, when a man thoroughly makes up his mind to go, is to let him go in peace. Leavenworth. This fine vouns nlaver. from the Union club of Lansingburgh, has also joined ine juuluui ctuu.

i uese two auamons will make mem extremely strong. The Indian Ball Players. A party of eiguiceu jruuumt, iiiuiauB, wuo are remarkaDiy proficient In the La Crosse game of ball, are on their way to New York from Canada. They will give Beveral exhibitions of their skill during their stay. Their vis it wui ou uue ui buw sensations oi tne season fn ball circles.

A New Base Ball Club. A new Base BaU Club, under the title of the "Irvino nn Club," (Junior) of Brooklyn, was organized on last xucsuay evening, wnen tne rouowing omeers were eteccea: President Frederick Koch. Captain Frank Post. Treasurer John McManns. Secretary James L.

Connelly. The Club numbers at present tweoty fire memqers, all of whom are experienced players. It is anticipated that it will not be far behind the prominent junior clubs or this city. The Secretary's addresB is J. L.

Connelly, room 21, County Court House, Brooklyn. Lepferts' Park and the Gates avenue Cars, Although the Greene and Gates avenue line of cars has been in operation over two months, it was not until last evening that the cars were run down' town after eight o'clock. They were then run until half paat eleven o'clock, and the great number of persons who took advantage of the accommodation testified to tho public demand for the continuance of such trips on this tine. Almost every evening the Park is filled with gay throngs of dancers, bnt last evening the number was unusually large, the attraction being an invitation entertainment given by the Flying Scud Social Clnb. bread, or whether the quantity bears any just proportion to the current price of flour or not.

Flour has varied in price four dollars per barrel during the past two months it has declined twenty five per cent, yet no one can tell whether his baker has added one fourth to the size of his loaves of bread in consequence In England bread is sold by weight, so much for the quartern or four pound as the flour market varies so does the price; the loaf is always the same in size, the price changes and the consumer can tell whether ornot his baker is keeping pace with the fluctuations of the market. Our bakers have no standard but their consciences, and there is little or no competition in the business, so that the consumers are pretty much at the mercy of the bakers. The only test the consumer can apply as between one baker and another is a comparison of size of the loaves sold at the stated price, and the apparent quality. Here we come to another bad perhaps the worst feature of our system. To make the loaf look as large as possible, bakers employ materials that give the bread the consistency of a sponge, often destroying much of its nutritious quality, if not rendering it positively unwholesome.

Flour of inferior quality is bleached by the use of alum and sale ratus, and even soap is used to make the bread light. You can take some bakers loaves and compress them in your hand like a sponge. Such bread is not nutricious it is wasteful as it dries up in a few hours and is unfit to eat. Eating new bread is provocate of dyspepsia in persons of weak digestion, and it is asserted by the best medical authority to be one of the most active causes of that sad complaint; yet if people use bakers bread they must eat it fresh or it is not palateable. It bread were sold by weight bakers would have no inducement to puff up their loaves to make them appear large.

To our thinking the baker is a person who could and ought to be dispensed with altogether. Every housewife ought to make her own bread, as she prepares other food for the family it is a lazy and wasteful custom to buy bread at the bakers. Let the family be ever so poor and buy flour by the pound at the corner grocery, better and cheaper bread can be had than the bakers shop affords. But we must with things as they are; a majority of housekeepers in our cities prefer to deal with the baker to save themselves trouble, regardless of health or expense. The baker has therefore become a most important and indispensible personage, we are at his mercy and have no check npon him.

We ask that he shall be placed under the same regulation as the butcher or grocer, who sell their goods by weight, are subjected to legal inspection to see that their weights are just and true, and that they do not sell unwholesome meat or vegetables. Having prescribed the conditions under which we shall drink, our considerate guardians in the Legislature ought to vouchsafe us some protection in what we eat. Caution to Housekeepers. Housekeepers and servants should be on their guard against thieves, who are on what the police call a "new lay." A man calls at the house to look at the roof, the gas fixtures, or water pipes, with a view to repairs; or as a messenger from an express company, or some errand another, as an excuse to get into the house, when the operator takes whatever valuables he can lay his hands on and leaves. These gentry are easily checkmated if a stranger comes to the house don't let him in on any pretence.

FntE Commissioners, Eastern District. An extra session of the Board was held last evening, at which were present Commissioner D. Donovan (in the chair) and Messrs. Perry, Murphy and Williams. The meeting was called for the purpose of hearing the excuses, of delinquent members of the Department who had performed less fifty per cent.

Are dty during the six months ending May 1st the most or whom were present and and were excused, either on pleas of sickness or that of business requiring their absence from the city. A communication was received from ABBistant Engineer J. W. Smith, complaining of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 for their disobedience of Ms order to stop their apparatus on Friday afternoon of last week, while running alonf First street, whereby the track was run into Engine No.

5, which was upset consequence. The clerk was directed to notify the parties to appear on Wednesday evening next to answer the charge. The Board then adjourned. Home Again. Justice Comwell, who has had a short vacation in the country, has returned and resumed bis Beat upon the bench, looking ranch improved by this short reBt from judicial labor..