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mm THE BRIDGE. INSPECTION. THE ALDERMEN. nnUanoes br the Boards of Health of Incorporated cities which, if passed, would empower the Boards of Health or adjoining cities to regulate the sanitary af faiJU.of tha City of Brooklyn, tip numbers of our factorial; impose heavy penalties their owners; destroy the right to property of many of our oitlzous, and to exercise anon arbitrary and autocratic powers within our municipality, aa would tend to endanger the peace of the community. Resolved, That the Common Counoil hereby most earnestly remonstrate against tho passage of said bill for the.reason Hist It is entirety unnecessary tor the preservation of tho publio health or the abatement of nuisances, that it is unwarrantable by the existing condition of any manufactory, pursuit or business in Oity of Brooklyn, and would be dangerous In the TUESDAY EVENING, JAXUABY 10, 1877.

Third and Eleventh streets. It soata abont one hundred and fifty persona. Two pairs of double doors four feet aix inches wide open to it from the street. There are also eight windows which open within two feet of tho ground. The building Is perfeotly sate.

The boating pparatn consists ot several stores. SECOND BEPOBMED PRESBXTEBIAN OHUBOH. Tho Sooond Reformed Presbyterian Ohuroh, on Ninth Btreet, between South Seoond and Third streets, is a briok edifice, Ths audience room is 83x43 reel, and Beats 250 porsons. A pair or double doors at the front six feet wide, opening inward, connects the street with the vestibule. Two flights of stairs, four foet wide, lead up to the andienoe room from the vestibule.

Tho doora on the top are of ampin width and swing outward. It is recommended that the front door be altered to awing outward and that tho railing ol tho front Btairs be strengthened and braced, so that it will not give way under any pressure. The Sunday School room is ln the basement, with doors it the front and rear, and eight windows at the side. Tho exits from it aro lufnoicnt for any emergency. A portable furnace heats the bulldiog.

After examining this church tha mrchitecta adjourned tho inspection until to day. religion nor. has General Augur any more tight to abet or effeot Grant's quasi interference than General Hancock would have to execute a grand Armenian expulsion, ordered by Governor Robinson. The crime against Louisiana by Grant, from whioh General Augur hesitafes, is considerably worse than the one whioh we have supposed, for the sake of illustration, Governor Robinson might undertake. General Grant essayed to prescribe a usurpation to an entire Commonwealth.

Governor Robinson would, in the case presented, be proscribing only one of the rights of one of the sects. In quality either offense is of course a superlative one; in measure, wantonness and effeot the Grant crime by far the worse of the two. We think the atrooity of the offenses of the period aro beginning to be realized. For a timo there was a certain tolerance, sanctity or immunity given them, because they were committed by offenders who collectively and by a misnomer are oalled "the Government." We Were getting almost to the doctrine that "the "Government could do no wrong." That fallacy has been abated by the very enormity of the offenses done in the name of "the Government." This rather abortive interference of Grant in Louisiana will help disonohant people of the validity of any "Government "act" committed outside of the limits and rights of "Government" and against free communities. There is no person not born an idiot who does not know that Grant had just as much right (aud no more) to telegraph Professor Crittenden, of tho Packer Institute, that all tho girls he teaohos must wear cardinal red stookings or be marked "late" every day, as ho had at this stage, to telegraph Augur yesterday to recognize Packard, when the Courts and Congress are considering the question which in itself is wholly a legislative aud judicial quostion.

The same universal understanding exists of the insolent, ignorant and utterly lawless char actor of Grant's self mooted projects to proclaim martial law in the District of Columbia, to oall out the militia without do there. Again, when leaving prison the ex convicts rarely renew their lives of evil doing, preferring to overcome their propensities or acquired habits to a renewal of the punishment endured in a silent prison. The suggestion made recently by a distinguished London architect, to the effeot that prisons ought to be made so gloomy and depressive externally that their very appearance would frighten evil doers, ought to be amended by adding that every one in the land to be conducted on the solitary plan, in order to save those who can be saved only by this treatment. A Most BemarknMe superstition. The Nineteenth Century, ably seoonded by a few scientific gentlemen, has succeeded in disillusionizing the.

world in a great many respects, but there, are still several devastating popular superstitions whioh it will require ages of philosophy, tons of discussion and an immeasurable amount of experience to overthrow. One of these is so startling when looked at full in the face that it must be spoken of carefully. The secular world believes that there are two 'classes of human beings, one a little lower than the angel, and the other very much above it. One class is ordinarily wise, witty, handsome, moral and desirable the other class is majestic in appearance, god like in wisdom, perfect in character, generous, high minded, nobly born has, in fact, all the virtues. People of the inferior olass would rather know a single member of the upper one than all the mere princes, powers and potentates of the earth; would rather talk with one than, with an angel would exchange all he or she possessed to be known as the speaking acquaintance of the worshiped being.

Strange to say that it is comparatively easy to emerge from the lower level of the admirer to that of the admired; for, the partition that divides them is not insurmountable. The iuf erior world is on one side of the footlights of a play bous3, and the superangelic world on the other. Tho occupants of the one side are mere men and womon the divine beings of the Pantheon aro called actors. It is a strange superstition that these actors, male and female, are peerless but it is actually behoved that all the virtues of their paradise can be acquired by smearing the face with a compound of lard and burnt cork, and strumming a banjo ac mrniment to a sillv sons. Of course this ferred to this tribunal, and that its decisions be final, unless both Houses concur in reject ing them.

The arrangement proposed gives the Judges the balance of power in any case and leaves the political judicial complexion of that balance of power to chance. The plan will undoubtedly divide parties both in tho Senate and the House when it comes np for adoption but it is not unlikely to bo adopted by a majority made up of votes from both sides in each House. It is too quickly assumed, we think, that the Judges would prove inflexibly partisan, and that the end could be told from the beginning, so soon as the result of the lot was ascertained. The public sentiment would be overwhelming to secure tho best men in each House to be either party's Five. The Judges themselves are men of high character and great learning.

There is a case of merits in this dispute. We think the merits would govern a tribunal so constituted, and that in any event the settling effect of such a plan would be greater and better than the likely consequences of no plan at all, in the present temper and condition of the people. A better way would be largeness enough in both Houses to see and tell the truth about Louisiana and Florida but that at present is wanting, and a plan is also wanting. Thoro is no doubt that tho provision of such a plan as this, would tond to clarify and expedite matters to a stage which would probably render recourse to the lot itself unnecessary. So far as the plan neutralizes the assumptions of Ferry, gives tho presumption of the right to be oouuted to each certificate of each Slate, from which there is only one certificate, requires the rejection of such a certificate to be a coucurreut act, and provides tellers, public opinion is with it.

The rost of the plan, in our judgment, admits of a good deal being said with force and truth bothfor it and against it, but we believe the preponderance of consideration, under existing circumstances, would bo for it, and that a result reached by it would bo peacefully and universally accepted, by a country which has to think of its interests as well as its "rights." Tho appeal of either party from a verdict so made out aud so accepted, to the people in successive popular olectious could be taken in the old fashioned American way. While a spirit and knowledge that could render recourse to the lot unnecessary au agreement on auy decisive State woidd be the best inothod, wanting that or pending that, or as a helper to that spirit, this provisional part of the plan is commendable. It would certainly provide a tribunal whoso small size aud high character would on the one hand make its action intelligible and direct, while ou the other hand it would be much more docile to public opinion, law and equity, at their best, than a body so large and so miscellaneous as Congress as a whole; beside with th? Judiciary in the lust event would be the balance of power, and that department of our threefold government has lost loss or gained more public confidence of lato years than either of the other two. Tlie Wire Contract Awarded. J.

Lloyd Haiffh, of Brooklyn, the Success' ful Competitor The Board Determine that tbe Wire Shall be Made from Crucible Steel. A special meeting of the Trustees otthe New York ana Brooklyn Bridgt vn held yesterday afternoon, at the Bridge offloe on Water street, near Fulton Ferry. Although tho session was briof ono, it was an important one, as the contract for tho wiro for the groat oables or the Bridge was awarded, the successful competitor being Mr. 3. Lloyd Haigh, of Brooklyn, who agraos to urntah the wire of oruoibla cast steel, at tbe rate of 8 7 10 cenU gold jr pound.

At the meeting last Thursday, when tho vote was taken on Mr. Kinsolla's resolution, whioh would havo roquirod tht UBQ of cxooible steel wire, the Board stood seven to oight, the motion being lost by one vote. It showed that a vory large proportion of the members ot tbo Board wero in favor of crucible steel wire, and at the meeting ot the Ereoutlva Committee on Saturday, it was determined to recoinmoud to the Board that tha contract be a warden to the lowest bidder for oruoibla steel wire. Thore wore present yestorday Hon. Henry 0.

Mox phy, President of tho Board, and Messrs. William Marshall, J. S. T. Btranahan, Thomas Einsella, Thorn Carroll, Henry W.

Slocum, Controller BurreU, Controller John Kolly, of New York: Mayor Ely, of New York; Mayor Sohroeder, of Brooklyn; William B. irfionard, John BUey, J. Van Sohaiok. Gonoral Lloyd Asplnwall, J. M.

McLean and G. J. Canda. THE PBO0EEDINO8. The meeting waa called to order at half past throe, tho roll called and sovonteon members found to bo present.

Tho minutes of the last meeting were road and approvod. The Chairman than sbatod that the meeting had been callod by tho Exocntlvo Committee to lay before the Board their action upjn tho bldB, as direct? .1 by tho Board. He then road tho report of the Committoe aa follows THB BEPOBT. Tho. Executive Committee beg loavo to report that in consequonco of tho strong vote of tho Board on the quostion of awarding tho contract fur tho wire for tha Bridgo cables to tho lowest bidder for orucible oast stool, for that purpose, after tho roferonce to tho Oommittoo to receive further proposals for Bessomor, they have not doomed it advlsablo to advertiso for such proposals without further communication with tho Board.

They rogard that voto, although wanting one of a ma jjrity, as decisive against the uso or Besaemor eteol: for in so important a mattor as tho main cables it would, in their opinion, bo unwlso to adopt a material wbioh is distrusted by any considerable portion of ths trustees. Tho question of cost is an Important one, but is subordinate to that of safety, and the differonoe of oxpenso botwoon tbo two is comparatively too small to prevent unanimity and entire oonfldenoe. They theref re offer a substitute for the resolution heretofore submitted by thorn, and recommend that the contract bo awarded to the lowest bidder for OBUOIBLTS CAST STEBL WIRH, upon the condition therein stated, and that the resolution adopted it tho last meeting, instructing this Oommitteo to roceivo furthor proposala of Besaemor ateol, be rescindod, as follows firsolued, That tho contract of tha steel wire for the laige cables, as provided in the specifications issued for that purpose, bo swardod to J. LLOYO HAIGH, at eight and seven tooths cents gold per pound, ho bcln tho lowest bidder for cruciblo oast Bteel wiro, provided He furnish that kind of wire as utipulatod ln bis communication to this Board, dated January 9, 1877. Resolved, That tho resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Board, instructing tho Exooutive Committee to receivo proposals from manufacturers who may choose to bid for Bessemer steel, be aud tho samo Is hereby rescinded.

Henry C. Munrcrv, Chairman. Dated January 15, 1877. Mr. McLean moved tho acceptance of the report.

Carried. Ho thou oallod for the reading of the first resolution. Mr. Burroll callod for tho reading of Mr. Haigh's letter pledging htmsoir to manuf aoture tho wiro out of crucible stcol if tho ooulraot was awarded to him.

Tho pledge was aocompaniod by bond, aigood by Henry LowiB Morris and Wm. F. Haigh, the slgnors of the bond Tor tho fulfillmont of tho contract, Mr. ltdoy thought some additional restrictions should be added to tho contract. Mr.

Strauahan said thoro would "probably ba no objection to adding Buoh restrictions as the Exeoutiva Oommittoo require. Colonol Carroll objected to making a returning board oi tbe trUBtoes and altering tho spocluoattous. Mr. Kolly thought tho last resolution, rescinding the aotion of the Board at a previous meeting should bo first passed, Tho last resolution In tho report of ths Exooutive Commitee was thon read aud adopted. Mayor Ely inquirod if auy portion oi the money on tho contraot would bo retained until the contraot was completed.

The Chairman said not, and It was oxplained that the $50,000 granted was about equal to 10 per oent. of tho amount of tho contract. Ii had ordinarily beon the custom to retain that per cent, on oontraots until they wore complotod. In this case a bond waa taken, and tho sureties would be satisfactory to tho Board of TruBtoeB. Tho resolution giving the contraot to Mr.

a. ijioya Haigh was then road. Mr. Van Sohaiok oalled for tho ayes and nays. THE VOTB was thon taken with the following rosult Ayes Murphy, Asplnwall, Motioy, MoLoan, Canda, Ely, Kolly, Sohroodor, Strauahan, Kinsollo, Carroll, Yan Hohaick, Burroll, Leonard, Kiloy 10.

NuysWni. Marshall 1. Tho resolution was adopted. Controller Kelly explained his vote by saying that tho resolution ho offered at tho last meeting was to bring in more competition for Bessemer utoel, but Binco the action of tho iCxecutivo Committoe had advised that cruciblo stool be uod, ho should vote in favor of tho resolution. Tlio Board then ndjournod.

Tho following is tho letter of Mr. Haigb, referred to ln tho report haioh'h letteb. OrrioB or J. Haioh, New York, January 11, 1877. Hon.

Henry C. Murphy, President Board Trustees A'evi York and Urookljn Bridge DE.n Sir With my proposal, banded In on the 1st ultimo. I sent a communication, referring to samples seat by me to New York pier, as being mado of crucible cast stool. In order that there may be no misunderstanding with regard to my intention to furnish that quality, if the oontract is awarded to me, I lnolose horowith an additional bond with two sureties, whioh is respectfully submitted. I also Inclose a.

printed communication, wbioh I hope will roceivo consideration, and referring to tbe improvement there mentioned on Colonel Fame's process, I desire to say it will be placed at the service ot tho Board unconditionally, llaspoctfully yours, J. Lloyd Umqii. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. Numbor of Those Who 'reach aud ol Thoso who Arc Taught in tho Suuday Schools ol N'exv Lots. The Secretaries of the various Sabbath Schools in the Town ol Now Lots and vicinity have transmitted to the Seoretary ot tbe Sunday Sehool Union the following record or attendance tor tha four months ending January 1, 187T Andrews M.

E. Ohuroh, Cypress Hills Otfloori and teat bora, 'Jl; avorage. 17. Scholars, 163; average, 89. Conversions.

1. Deaths, 1. Wm. Capes, Seorotary. Truants' Home Mission Offioeri and toaohors, average, S.

Scholars, 10 average, 38, Miss M. L. Hendrlokson, Secretary. Ebeuozor M. E.

Church Officers and toaohera, S9 avorago, M. Noumber of scholars, 391 average, 357. Conversions, 2. Doaths, 1. H.

M. Livingston, Soore M. E. Mission Officers and teachers, 10; average, 7, Scholars, 37 avorago, 'Jl. H.

M. Livingston, Secretary. Wosloy M. E. Mission Officers and tesohors, 11 average, 11.

Scholars, 31 averago, 15. Mill Ella Stagg, Secretary. Brownsvillo Congregational Offlcora and toiaharj, 13 averago, 11. Scholars, 110 avorago, 71. Woodhavon Congregational Officers aud toaohoM, 15 avorage, 12.

Scholars, US average, 82. P. Allvor, Socrotary. Woodhavon Prosbyterlun Officers and teaohorB. 22 averago, 15.

Scholars, 150 avorage, 87. Oharloi W. EUort, Secretary. East Now York Reformod Officers and teaokers, 8T avorage, 32. Scholars, 409; average, 276.

Doaths, I. M. A. Brown, Secretary. Union Congregational Officers and teaohora, 8 average, B.

Soholars, 45; average, 33. Miss Rebecca Harris, 8aoretary. First Baptist Church Officers and loaohern, 22 averago, 10. Scholars, 150 avorago, 70. Conversions, 1.

John H. Cramer, Suorotary. Number of teaohorB, officers' and Bcholars at last report, Number of teachers, officers and scholars as now reported (Now Lots Boformod School not hoard frpm), uecrease, n. Slaughter's Station was probably selooted by the duelists of lust wook with tho most gory Intentions. It proved a mtsnomor.

BUSINESS NOTICES. The Condition of Buildings in the Eastern District. Another Tour by the Examining: Archi tects Churches and School Houses Visited The Exits Arailable in an Emergency How the Inmates Could Escape if a Fire Shonld Ooenr Where Improvements are to Make the Structure Safe. Messrs. Crooks and Taylor, the arohiteota employed by the Common Council Special Committee on the inspection of publio buildings, to make an examination of all plaoea where large numbers of people assemble, for the purpose of furnishing them with prorlor means of exit and applianoes for the prevention and extinguishment of Ore, continued their work yesterday.

Thoy spent the day ln the Eastern District and examined Christ Protestant Episcopal Churoh and Chapel, St. John's MethodlBlKpiBoopal Churoh, Churoh of the Christian Endeavor, St. Paul's Protestant Epiaoo pal Church, Roman Catholic Church of the Transfiguration, Fifth" BaptiBt Church, Synogogus Beth Klohlm, Public School' No. S3, St. Peter's German Evangelical Church, Colored Publio School So.

3, Bishop Chapel, 8ocond Reformed Presbyterian Churoh and chapels connected with nearly all the odifices. Alterations of various kinds are required at eovoral of the structures and improvements wero suggested wherever they are needed. The ollowiug is a description of the buildings visited and the recommendations of the inspectors regarding them. OHBIST P. e.

cmntaH. Christ Protestant Episoopal Churoh is a very handsome stone edifice situated on the oorner of Bedford and Division avonues. The audienoo room is large and attraotivo. Its dimensions aro 65x90 feet. Tbero aro three wide aisles which intersect ample Bpaces botwoon the pews.

The ohurch has no gallones, and seats on tho floor 800 persons. Tho doors between tho audionco room aro throo in number, tho centre ouo having a width of six feet and tho sides flvo foot. Four sliding doors, eaoh four feet six inches wide, connect tbo front vestibule with Bedford avonue. Two throo foot doora at tho rear open to the vestry room, irom which thoro are ample meaua or egress. Tho voatibule doors open outward.

Thoro is a briok chapel connoeted with Christ Church, adjoining it on tno roar and rrontlng on Division avonue. Its dimensions aro 23x101 feet, and it has seats for about 800 persons. Two pairs of double doos open from it to Division avenue, tbe doors swinging outward. There are also two rear exits to tho ohuroh by single doors. The room is surrounded by windows, which could bo utilized Is moans of exit in an omer goooy.

Tho church is heated by three brick sot tur naoos placed in tho collar, and tho chapel by several Btoves, The exits from both churoh aud ohapol aro good. st. john's m. e. ohuroh.

St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church is an imposing stono structure, situated at tho oorner ot odlord avenue and Wilsou street. Tho main audienoo room Is 69 by 74 fcot, and thora aro seats in it for about 1,100 persons. Of these 750 can sit on tho main floor and the remainder in tho gallerios. Botween tho front vestibule and Bedford avonue are throo doors.

Tho oentro has a width of ton foot, and tbo sides six feet. Those doors ewlng inward, but are always firmly hooked back to tho wall when the building is in use. The auditorium Is traversed by throo alslos of ample width, which terminate at doors opening outward and loading to tho lobby. The centre door is oight toet wide, and tho sides aix feot. Galleries extend around three sides of the church.

Two flights of winding stairs, each four feot oight inohos wido, oxtond to thorn from the front vestibule. These stairs are connected with the gallerios by pairs of double doors six feot wido, opening outward. A rear exit from eaoh gallery to tho ohapol is gaiuod by doors throo foot wido opening outward, The chapol iB in the rear of the church, fronting on Wilson street. The first floor is divided into a neat lecturo room and beautifully furnished parlor, from which the oxits aro sufllolent for any emergency. Egress can bo sccurod by numerous doors and windows.

Tbo Sunday School rooms are on tho sooond floor. The average attendance of scholars Is about 800, and thoir rooms are Baid to be tho finest for tho purpose in tbo State of Now York. Thoro a small gar lory used by tho infant olass, Tho oxits from the rooms aro by double doors, connecting with numerous broad staircaaes aud also with the gallerios of the ohuroh. All tho exits from the boildlng are good, although tho ohaugiug of a low doora may be recom mended, so that thoy will swing outward. aro a large numbor of flro buckets filled with wator placod at convenient intervals in tho oorridors.

The ohuroh and chapel aro hoatod by brlok sot furnaoes. ohuboh or the ohbistian endsavob. Tho Church of the Christian Endeavor is a brlok edifice on Hooper and Howoa Btroots and Lee avonue. Tho audienoo room is 66x90 foet. There are five aisles, which intersect 210 pews.

The seating capacity ia about 900. Two sliding doors oonnoot tho front vostlbule With Hooper strout. Thoso doors have a width of sevon feet. Tho doors between tho ohuroh and front vostlbule are also eoven feet wido and swing outward. The Btairs at either end of the vestibule leading to the outer doors have a width of eight feet six incbos.

Tbe front vestibule is twelve feot wide. A door (hreo feot wide opens at each side of the pulpit, and connects with a staircase loading to tho yard. A small choir gallory extends aoross tho rear of the audionco room, and is oon nootod with the ohapol by two doors. The chapol is looatod at tho side, aolng on Leo avenue, in a wing of tho edifice. Tho doors botwoon the lobby and tbe street are eoven feet wido.

The first floor is UBOd aa a lecture room, and the second as the churoh parlors. Tho dimensions aro 33 by 05 feet. Iron rods connect the floor of the parlors with tho roof. The stairs leading to tho first floor from the parlors are throo feet nine inohes wide. The parlors are also oon noctod with the churoh gallery.

The leoturo room on tbo first floor is connoeted by sliding doors with tho Sunday School room, whioh oeoupies the entire base mout under tho main edifice. Six doors and numerous windows afford ample exit from tho Sundoy Sohool room. Tho church and ohapol are heated by briok set furuaaes. Tha exits aro very good, but a few altera. tions and improvements may bo suggostod in tho official report of tho Committee.

st. Paul's p. x. ohuroh. St.

Paul's Protestant Episoopal Ch jrch is a stona building, Bltuatod at tho corner of Maroy avonuo and Ponn Btreet. Tho Biso of tho audience room is 39x92 foet. Thoro aro three oiBlos. Tho dutlot to the street Is by a door six feet wide, opening inward. It is recommended that tho door be changed to swing outward.

There aro seats for 650 persons. A door throo feot six inches wido opens from tho rear of the audience room to the street at tho side of the edlfioo, It swings Inward, at present, and tho arcbitocts recommend thai It wing the other way. The basement is used as a Sunday Sehool room, and thore are from it two oxits, ono of which 1b at tho front and ono at the roar. Ample exit oould also be secured through the windows. The ohuroh at present is heated by throo brlok furnaces, placod ln the oeliar and well protected from tho wood work by iron screens.

B. C. CHURCH OF THE TBANSFIOUBATION. Tho Roman Catholio Churoh of the Transfiguration Is a brick ediflco on Hoopor street, between Marcy.and Loe avenues. The audienoo room is 45x85 foot and eats about 650 persons.

Thoro ore two aisles which terminate in two vestibule doors eaoh four feet eix inchos wido opening outward. Thoro are two doors aix feet wido which opon out from ths lobby to the street. An additional door opens from the side of the building at the front with a width of four feot. Two doors, oaoh three feot wide, connect with tho vestry room at the rear and thore are doors from this room to the opon air. A Bmall choir gallery, which is acoossible by a single staircase, extends aoross ths front.

The building is abundantly supphed with exits, every window being an outlet in oase of emergonoy. Tha ohuroh is heated by several brick furnaces, which are in tho basement, ro nioto from any inflammable HUbstanoe. Tho removal of a line of pews noar tho front door or tho auditorium la recommended in order that tho aisles near tho main exit may be conneoted. FIFTH BAPTIST OHUP.OH. Tho Fifth Baptist Church is an ancient stone building of quaint aspeot, Bituated on Hoopor street, at the oornor of Harrison avonuo.

There is but one room in it and that is 30x55 foot. There aro seats in the church for about 250 porBons. Tho door leading to tho street at the front is five feot wide, opening inward. There is also a door at the rear, whioh opens outward and has a width of three foet. The churoh is beatod by The doors at eaoh side are near the ground and the exits are considered sufflciont owing to the small Blxe of tho struoture.

SYNAGOGUE BETH ELOHIM. Tbo Hebrew Synagogue Beth Elohim is fine new brick building on Keap Btreet, near Division avenue. Tho audience room is 60x71 foet. Thore are 116 pews on the main floor with seata for 600 persons. Three aislos traverse the interior.

Three Bets of double doors connect the front vestibule with the ohuroh, all of them opening outward. Tha centre door Is six feet wide, and tho Bide doora Ave feet wide. One roar door conneots by Btairs the pulpit end of the ediflco and the school room in the basement. The door between the front lobby and the street is a Blidlng one with a width of fifteen feet. The gallerios extend along each side ol the synagogue, and seat about 264 persdnB.

Bear ouUide exits from both galleries and the main floor are recommonded, aud also that the fmprovo nientB be made at an early date. The basement la used aa a school room, and it is well provided with exits. PUBLIO BOHOOli NUMBER THIBTT THBEB. Publio Bchool No. 33 Is three story, brick building on Hayward street, near Broadway.

The average at nnM of scholars is 1,500. The basement Is used as playground. There aro ten class rooms on each floor, which are separated by aUding partitions of glass. There are seven exits from the drat floor by doors opening outward. Leading to the second and third floors are three staircases, two at tho roar and one at the front.

Tho architects recommend additional stairways to tho second story in order that the outlets from the upper floor can be used without difficulty and that hn dlntinct rear exltB from each Btory. AU IIKHD JJ the doors in the structure aro of ample width and open outward. The building is heated by brick Bet furnaces. ST. PETEB'S GERMAN ETANGEHCAli OHUKOH.

St. Peter's Gorman Evangelical Church if a small frame building on tho oorner of Union avenne and Scholea afreet. The andienoe room is 35x65 feot and seats 300 persona. The door connecting it with the Btreet is four foot six Inohes wide. ThlB door opens in ward and it huecoinmended that it be altered to awing outward.

The windows aro within eny reach of the ground and oan bo usod as a means of egreas if necessary. The basement is used as a day and Sunday School room. Four doors and several windows afford ample exit from it. The building is heated by stoves. OOLOBED SCHOOL NUMBEB THBEE.

Colored Public School No. 3 is a small frame one ntnrv buitdinst oo Union avenue, near Scholes street. The average attendance of aoholarB one hundred and forty. There are three entrances, one of which is at tbo front, one at the rear and one at the side. Tho doors aro of sufficient width.

Exit is also rurnisbed by tho windows, which are near the ground. The school house is heated by stoves. BISHOP CHAPEL. The Bishop Chapjl la a small brick place of worship where cilorad psople assemble, at the corner of South is a is Ifo Choice for President of tne Board. Election of "Honest" John French as Per.

inanent President Pro Tem. Improye. ment of the East Side lands Construe ttonof Storm Sewers Additional Hydrant Inspectors Coal for tho Pumping En. pines The Inspector of the New Manic ipal Bnildiner The Committees Balloting for President of the Board. The second regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen for 1877, was beld at two o'olook yesterday afternoon, and an hour before that time all the vaoant apaoe outside tho railing was occupied.

Tho crowd, anxious to gain admtttanoe, waa eo large, that eight offloers of the Central Squad, under oommana oi Her mural Boners had groat difficulty iil clearing passage way for the members of the Board and others who had business to transact inside tho Chamber. As the time for the meeting approached the and corridors were crowded, aud between fifteen hundred and two thousand persons were paoked Inside the Chamber. Among them were 8am. HoLean, George N. Nichols, Sheriff Daggett, Oity Auditor Searing, Corporation Counsel William C.

DaWitt, Commissioners Fowler and Adams, Supervisor at Largo James Howell, David Williams, Ben Wilson, Benjamin Lewis, W. A. Brown, Michael Coffey, Detoottves Zuudt and Powers, H. D. Dumont, Bobert Furoy, ex Aldermen Hiu, Bobbin, Boland, CBeiUy and Dwyer, ex SUorlff WUliams, Colonel Thornton, Patrick Keonan, Supervisor Nathan.

A. J. O'Brien, Garret Bergen, Bernard Peters, Lemuol Burrows, Justtoo Guok, Colonel Samuel Biehards, John Cunningham, Dr. Ottorson, Tiiomaa Foran and many others. PRESIDENT PEO TEM.

At two o'olook John French. President pro said: "The Board oi Alderm will please cumo to order; tho Clerk will proccal to cull tho roll. Aid. Easton rose and moved that Aid, William H. Murtha be appointed President pro tern.

Aid. Fisher rose to a p.iint of order. Ho said the motion was out of order for the reason that a President pro tern, was elected until a permanent organization waa effoctod. Aid. Fronoh ruled that the point of order was wol) taken, and said ho had aa opinion lroin the Corporation Counsel to that effect.

Aid. Murtha said he had no desire to interrupt tho proceedings of the Board, but as taac ws3 uieuni imm such a quoBEiou nau ariuuu, iw should like to ask whether tho onloion was a verbsl (2T a written one an a case of so much importance, he th: ought, it should bo llinn a vm lml Rtatement. Aid. JTropch said it was a verbal statement. Aid.

Fisher said ho was not aware or any municipal or legislative body where tho tomporary presiding ofll ranr until a organization was effected. On tho oontrary, it was a well aetrled rule innn that tnmn presiding officer held oiuco until the permanent organization should be effected. Aid. Donovan said In explanation of my Vote for Chairman pro I understood ic meant for tho timo being. That "timo being" has passed, thereiore I think it is nocossory and in regular ordor to elect a Chairman pro turn.

Loud applause. Aid. Burnot askod what business was before tho Board. Aid. FroAfih said he had deoldod tho point of ordor railed bv Aid.

Fisher to bo well taken. He toon direet ed tho olerk to oall the roll. Aid. Murtha said no suoum appeal irom mo mciai ju of tho Cfiair and on that he called the ayoi and a iys. Tho Board voted to non suataiu the Chair as follows Aflimative Aid.

Burnet, Aitkon, Arnott, Griswold, Bay, Acker, Cottrell, Baird, Frilz and Negative Aid. Sterling, Blaek, Shannon, Kane, Phillips, GuuJor, Donovau, Reardou, Orrnsbob, Duano, Jonnvson aud Eiaton 12. Aid Murth and; French were excused from voting. Aid. Donovan was loudly applaudod on voting with his Democratic colleagues.

Aid. Griswold nominated Aid. John French for President pro tent. Aid. Eastun renewed his motion that Aid.

Wm. H. Murtha bo elected President pro tem. Aid. FiBher aid the President had not been deposed and ho hoped no rnimbar would so far forget himself as not to rauiombor what was duo to tho presiding offloor until ho was deposod.

Aid. Griswold then moved as an amendment to Aid. Easton's motion that Aid. John French continue to aot as Preeldout pro Cent, until a permanent organization was eftcotod. Tne motion was carried by a vote of thirteon iu tho affirmative to twelve tne negative.

Aid. French voted for himseli and Aid. Donovan also votod'with the Republicans. The roll was then called and tho mlnutos of tho three previous meetings read and approved. THE EAST SIDE LANDS.

Aid. Murtha presented the following An Act to enable tbe City of Brooklyn to raise fur thor moans for tho improvement of and salo of certain portions of Prospect Park. Tho People of tho State of Now York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact ni follows fciEOTiON 1. Tho Oommju Council of tho City of Brooklyn are hereby authorized to raiso a further sum of $200,000 for the grading, draining, regulating and otherwise improving tha lands or Prospect Park, pursuant to Chapter 378 of tho Laws of 1870, and uctB amondatory thereof, and to make provision for tfoo expenditure of the amount raised, aud for tjo purposes of this aot may bo iaBued, in HUch form and payable at such times and iu such manner us said Common Council may direct. Aid.

Murtha oifored the following Re Jhei, That tho Board of Aldermen approve the provisions of the aot ontillod "Auaot toonnblo the City of Brooklyn to raio further moans for the improvement aud sale of oertatn portions of Prospect Park, in said city," and that the City Clerk be directed to forward a copy of said act and this resolution to tho Senators and inouibors of the Assembly representing this oity in the State Legislature, asking th.nr support and oo operatiou iu ail honorable means to havo the ald act become a law at as oany a daio as possible. Alderman Murtha said that in September of last year he had offered a resolution looking to the improvement of had boen known as tho oiao Lauds, since that tho mitler had been fully discussed by tho Mayor, Corporation Council, and other Executive omcerB of tho city, and met with their uojrty approval. it would, in addition to cinng tho city an equivalent for overy dollar expended, provide a way by which employment could be immediately furnished for a large number of the unemployed laboring men who wero now clamoring for work. Employment could be furnished those men, who only asked that they might ba sot to work, and did not desire to be regardoi as paupers. Applause.

Tho act would give to the Common Ojum il full control over tho money to be expended, aud also over tho disposition of whatever (nods might go into tho sinking fund from tbe sale of the lauds. Aid. Buruet said he fully sympathized with the object of the gertleuian from the Ninth, as at the present time tne cities oi rew mm auu uiwumju uu uuu oull problem to solve. Many thousands of working mtu wero out of employment aud ir any method could bo devised by which work could bo providod tor them ho thought the Common Council should do all in its powor to promote it and thus give to the laboring inen who did not desire to be considered as paupers, an opportunity to earn a living. Applause Aid Griswold thought the subject of so muoh impor tance'that he suggested it bo laid over for ono week in order that eaoh member might make inquiries respecting the act from the Law Department of tho oity.

Aid. llurtha said the act bad been prepared in tho Corporation Counsel's office, and he had been assured that it waa strictly legal, aud iurthormore it would not permanently the mdod debi of tho city. The resolution was adoptoi by a Diva tioce vote and the lobby again applaudod. STOBM 8EWEHS. Aid.

Murtha offered tho following Whereas, This Common Council having for the two yoars had nuder consideration the necessity of building storm Begets in various pDrtlons of the city for tho purpose of "preventing damage" by flood, and JFfiereas, Tho Board of City Works have proparod plane for Baid storm sowers as recommonded by this Board and have requestod his Honor, tho Mayor, for authority to build uch Bewors In accordance with a resolution of the Common Counoil at an expenso not excooding S50.000; therefore Resolved, TKat lus Honor, tho Mayor, be respectfully requested oonseut to said application. Resolved, That in case tho requisite authority be obtained for tne construction of Bald sewers thoy bo built under the directions of the Board of City Works by tho employment on the part of the oity of uch labor as may be necessary for tho proper construction of said S8Refotred to the Aldermen of the wards in which tho sewers are to be constructed. WITHEBSPOOM BTBEET, A oommunioatlon was received from h. E. and W.

T. Miles protosting against tho proposed grading of Wituerspoon street, from Lewis avenue to a point 405 foot from the easterly line of Lewis avenue toward Stnyvosant avenue, and asking to bo heard by tho Grading and Paving Oommittoo. Referred to tho Grading and Paving Committoe whon appointed. M. F.

TUTPBB. Tho communication signed 'Jl. F. Tupper" was read a published in last night's Eaols. Referred to the Committee ou Education when appolntetl.

HXDBANT INSPEOTOBB. The following was receivod irom tho Board of City Depabtment or Crrr January 15, 1B77. To the Honorable the Common Council Gentlemen Tho amount asked for by this Board for tho proper care of that portion of tho Water Works under the immediate care of the Wator Purveyor was largely reduced bj the Common Couuod for the year 187R This necessitated the reduction of hydrant speators to nine in number. The Winter has tnus far boon unusually severe, and the proper carp, during the Winter montbB, of fire hydrants, 700 drinking hydrants and other appurtenances, distributed over 825 miles of streets, is beyoud the physical ability of the present number of inspectors. In 1633, with 800 fire hydrants to care for, situated in a compaot dlsirict ot 120 miles, eight inspectors were not considered too large a number but with enlarged area of the pips district tho number has been increased from timo to tune until aa many as eighteen have been employed.

We would theroiorb ask that the sum of $2,500 may be set aside and appropriated from water revenue to aooount of water maintenance, for tho purpose of employing extra inspectors for the space of three months. Wo herewith transmit a copy of the communication of the Water Purveyor to this Board in relation to this sabjeot. Respectfully, on behalf of the Board, D. L. Nobthdt, Secretary.

Aid. Ray moved that It bo referred to tho Water and Drainage Committee when appointed. Aid. Burnet said he bad learned from the Water Purveyor, Mr. Rhodes, that owing to the present condition oi tho fire hydrants there was extremo danger that in case of a conflagration tbe city would 8 offer in consequence of a want ot water.

Mr. Rhodes had told him that durine the last four weeks it had been found im possible to keep the hydrants open, the extreme cold weather was freezing them continually, and it looked 88 though the Department was short handed in the matter or inspectors. Halving on that statement, ne had a resolution to offer which he hoped would be BUULHCU. He then offered a resolution that the amonnt asked for bo set aside from the water revenue to the Water Maintenance account. Aid.

Ray thongnt it was well known to every member of the old Board why tho Board of City Works was in such a predicament, which was because they had run over their appropriation at; a tremendous rate, and what was dono with tho money he did not know. All they did know was that it obliged them to cut down their expanses, and he thought they discharged four or rive hydrant inBpeotors. Years ago the hydrant inspectors never did any work, and never attempted to do any, and wore never expected to do any. He had known hydrant inspectors who were employed for years and nover did any work. There was no doubt the hydrants were froz jn, but whether the adoption ot tha resolution Just ottered was going to do any good wta another matter.

Aid. Murtha suggested that the matter be referred to the Aldermen from tho First and Thirteenth wards to report what should be done at the next meeting of the Board. Aid. Burnet said he bad no objoctionB to that course, if the Alderman from the Ninth should be added to the Committee. The matter was so disposed of.

COAL FOE THE POMWNO ENGINES. The following wa reooived from the Board of City TVorks DEPAETMENT OF Crrr Works, January 15, 18TT. 2o the Honorable the Common Counctfc Gestlemen The present time is most propitious for procuring a supply of coal for uje ot tbo pumping nf nstn works dor ih 2 the present year. Wo would respectfully ask for an appropnaf on lrom tha Water Revenue of $100,000 to bo applied to tho above purpose. Respecttully, H.

W. Jtcwir, President. Aid. Raymovod that the communication bareferrod to a Special Committee or Throe. Tho motion was carried.

Aid. Jenhlson Bubsequently offered a re30lut on that tbe money asked for in the commun ication be transferred as recommended. Adopted. THE NEW HEALTH BILIi. AM.

Fisher offered tha following, whi was adopted: Whereat, A. bill Is now pending in thi Logislatura entitled "An Aot to provide fjr tha abatotnont of the of the all tbe the tho the be bo act had any far and hv in in was to to aud I ho oi had tho to Hay in no bo be Tins Paper bas me inrccit circuia iton ol any Evenimr Paper Publlvhctl Hi tlic United Males. Its valae as an AUvei'ttNiUff Medium is tucretora an parent. The AViro for tlic Orcat Cablosi An Excellent Conclusion. The Executive Committee of the East River Bridge Trustees, yesterday, brought the controversy touching the kind of steel wire to be used in the great cables to a speedy and most satisfactory conclusion.

It will be remembered, after the bids had been received for wire they were referred to the Executive Committee. The Committee reported some three weeks since, with apparent unanimity, in favor of entering into a contract with the Messrs. Koebling for Bessemer steel wire. Bes Heraor is admittedly the lowest grade of steel, and is used mainly for raih oad rails, heavy plates, as an improvement, in desirability, upon iron, which it does not very greatly exceed in price. The argument in its favor for use in the manufacture of the wire for the great cables were, in the main, that it was the cheapest, while the test of the samples presented showed that it might be mide to come up to the roqmromonts of tlio ongineers.

The argniuout on tho other side was that upon a point of the work so vital, the Trustees would not bo justified using the poorest material because it was (he cheapest. Too much property was at stake, and too ituwh risk in life would til ti rnntcly be involved, to try au experiment, as the use of Bessemer steel for such a purpose coucedeJly was. In tho opinion of experts, there is hardly any material as uncertain ns Bessemer steel. It was so generally accepted as 'iug below the requirements demanded for safety that it was excluded specifically iu advertising for bids for wire for the temporary structure, which now Bpans the river. Can the Bridge Trustees, it was asked, venture upon using material for the permanent structure, in which many million dollars of public money are to be expended, and upon whose safety thousands of lives may be risked, while they rejected it in the temporary structure, whose strength is of chief concern to the workmen white engaged constructing the great cables What at first appeared to bo the minority of the Board of Trustees succeeded in delaying action on the report of tho Executive Committee, aud iu haviug the facts in its possession printed for public discussion and consideration.

The result seemed to show an almost unanimous public stinlimmt against tho use of an inferior article of steel. At a meeving of the Trustees, held on Tlr.ir last, it was proved on a tost vote, that even when backed up by the authority of the Executive Committee, the advocates of Bessemer steel were in a bare majority, while the maiu question was, necessarily, so presented, at the time, that many of the Trustees, who were opposed to the use of Bessemer steel, voted against deciding to exclude it at that time, in order to ascertain, liy reopening competition, the lowest price at which it could be supplied. The Executive Committee accepted the vote of Thursday as, in effect, settling tho main question. While the Committee were directed to solicit additional bids for Bessemer steel, and were given ten days within which to do so, its members united in a call for a meeting of the Trustees, which was held yesterday. Tho Executive Committee then reported, in view of the vote recorded at the former meeting, "although lackingone of a majority, still as de cisive as against the use of Bessemer steel, for in so important a matter as the maiu cables it would, in their opinion, be unwise to adopt a material which is distrusted by any considerable portion of the Trustees.

Thov, therefore, offer a substitute for tho resolution heretofore submitted by them, and recommend that tho contract be award ed to the lowest bidder for crucible cast steel wire." This report was adopted with substantial unanimity, aud to the manifest satisfaction of nearly all the Trustees, who felt that they had placed themselves on the safe side, on a con tested issue, of great concern, and that they would bo sustained in their action by tho vast majority of the people of the two great communities interested directly in the suocess of this work. 'The Trustees had the additional satisfaction of kuowing that after competition in which the leading wire manufacturers of this country and Europe took part, the lowest bid dcrwas Jlr. J. Lloyd Brooklyn, whose steel wire had satisfactorily stood tho tests to which all tho samples submitted had been subjected by the engineers. The taxpayers of the two cities will be pleased also to learn that in insuring for the Bridge the best grade of steel, instead of the poorest, no great extra cost will be incurred.

The quoutity of steel wire required is estimated at six million eight hundred thousand pounds. The price bid for the Bessemer steel was six and seven eighth cents per pound. Mr. Haigh's bid is eight and seven tenths cents per pound for orucible steel wire, guaranteed, uniformly, to come up to the standard established by the tests of the engineers. The difference betweon the two bids, in the aggregate cost of the wire, is ono hvindred and thirty two thousand dollars, a comparatively small sum when compared with the total cost of the Bridge thirteen millions of dollars.

In Mr. Haigh's bid the taxpayers are believed to have secured all tho advantage of dull times to purchasers, and all the security for a fair price that the widest competition could give. Sir. Haigh is bound to furnish crucible steel, which is the best steel, aud ho is at liberty to get tho best where he can, so as to insure steel wire that will come up to the very high requirements of the specifications. Experts will understand how high these requirements are when they aro told that tho wire must possess a tensile strength equivalent to one hundrod and sixty tho.isind pounds to the Bquare inch, and a limit of elasticity of forty seven per oent.

of the tensile strength. The conclusion of yesterday is a very fortunate one, we think, aud those who were largely instrumental in bringing it about, in tho Board nud through tho newspapers, are entitled tr public recognition for good service. The Trustees have provided for getting ttio bust wire, and ft fearful responsibility would have rested on them, we think, if they had' ventured on using any other. We have only to add that the cost of the host wire is far within the price estimated by the engineers some years since. XUo "Plan." The Joint Committee of the two Houses have, it is aid, about agreed on the report of a plan to the Senators and the Representatives for their adoption.

The plan is a little altered from what was at first semi officially given out. It now provides (1.) That the exclusive duty of the President of the Sen ato is to open all the certificates of the Electoral vote by him received, and that in no event is he to omit any or count any Q) that they are to bo all given to two Senate tellers and two House tellers for counting (0) that no certificate from any State from which there is but one certificate shall be rejouted, without the concurrent action of both Houses 1) that when there are two or more certificates from a State, if both Houses agree to recognize the same certificate, that ono is to be couuted (5) that when neither House can mutually eleot betweon rival certificates, the election is to be referred to a provisional tribunal thus formed Five Senators chosen by ballot in tho Senate, five Representatives choson by ballot in tho House and six Judges of the Supreme Court, three of them Republicans and three of them Democrats, and one of tho six Judges to be dropped by lot. This would make the tribunal consist of five Republican Senators live Democratic Congressmen and five Supreme Court Judges. If the dropped Judge should chnii'3 to a Republican, the five Democratic Representatives and the three Democratic Judges would form the eight persons who would make a Democratic majority of one in the provisional Tribunal of Fifteen. If tho dropped Judge should chauco to bo a Democrat, the five Republican Senators aud the three Republican Judges would make eight, or give that party th majority of one in the tribunal.

The plan further provides that overy election between rival certificates which the two Houses cmnot make, be re extreme me pnDuo wen are oeoause oi me armirary Sower it would give foreign Boards of Health over the bertlea and property of our citizens and the conflict authority that would inevitably ensue from the usurostion of the erOBatlvo and duties of our local health authorities by those of another oity. Resolved, That copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions be forwarded by the City Clerk to the President of toe Senate and Speaker of the Assembly, to members of the health committees of both Bouses, aud to each of the Sings County members of the Legislature, who are hereby respectfully petitioned to use honorable means to defeat the passogo of said MIL I THE SALABY Off MICHAEL J. DAD ST. Aid. Burnet offered the following Resolved, That the Auditor bo directed to audit and Controller to pay to Miohael J.

Dady, Inspector of now Municipal Building, the sum or $120 per month during aud for the time he shall hold tho dosI tiou oi Inspector of tike new Muniolpal Building, said compensation to b3 taken from the appropriation for construction of the" newMnniolpal Building. Aid. Burnet moved that ths resolution be referred to Committee on new Sfunloipol Building and that they report at the next meeting of tha Board. Carried. THE COMMITTEES.

Aid. Griswold offered the following; Resolved, That untd the election of a permanent President of this Board for the curreut yoar, tho Committees of the Board of Aldermen shall continue and oomposed as they were at tho timo of tho last meeting of too said Board in the year 1876, so far as the members of snoh Committees respectively are still membors of this Board, and in all cases wherein the numbor of members composing any of tho said Committees, as established in the year 1876, shall not ba complete, the Bald numbor as well as all vacancies shall rillod by tho President pro temnovr presiding. Resolved, That the said oomtaittoas be directed to as such until such election. Aid. GriBwold Baid he did not wish to debate the quostion, and only desired to say he had offered the resolution in good faith and not in a party spirit.

It been prepared under the dlreotlon of the Law Department, and ho Baw no reason why thoro should be opposition to it unlosB some gontlemon thought more of political interest lhau of the publio good. So as bo oould asoortain, thoro was only ono Committee, ami thai not an important ono, on which any one could be appointed, that was tho Committee on Health, ho had confidence that tho Prosidont would mako that appointment in a non partisan spirit. Aid. Murtha was pleased to hoar the statement made Hio onHnmnn frnm tha Rlfwunth. ftud if Hlicb rpsnlll tion had emanated from what was tho majority party tho BoarJ it would havo boon an eminently proper one.

If tho gentloman from tbe Eleventh waa sincere hi desiro to promoto tho publio good ho might easily assist to organize tho Board, but such a rosolu Hon na he ntttxr aA nraa nltnulv Itftnttm, tllA rirwil around tho stump. Tho goutloman assorted that it onorcu In good faltti anil tor tne puDiic goou. whorous it was only a partisan spirit whioh was seeking give lo tho old Oommitteo a control which belonged tho majority party of the Board. Aid. Ray said tho resolution was an eminently proper one, but tho gontleman was mistakon in saying that only one vacancy remained to be filled, as tbe chairmanships vacant wero those of tho Committees on Finance, Grading and Paving, Educallou and Truant Homo, Railroads, Lamps and Gas, Election Returns, Public BalhS.

add if the Prosidont took his advice would mako tl) appolntmonh iu noa parlian spirit. The Committees might only have to act ior one week or two, or they might havo to act uutil tho first uay, as some oi tne memoers seeaiod to tiiinir, aoa theroforo ho thought tho resolutionwas an eminontiy proper ou9. Aid. Burnot had doubts about the matter of tho Com mittooa. In the first doubted whether they authority to appoint Standing Uommitteoa temporarily, and be hod not had an opportunity to Diamine subject.

Ho should dislike very much to act as the Chairman of a Committee in whioh tho Republicans were in the majority, with a Democratic majority in tho Board, because questions might oriBe of a partisan charaoter which would be reported on by tbe Republicans and then have to bo passed upon by a Domooratic Board, That would be placing all parties in an awkward position, and he thought it would be wiser to let tho matter Ho over for anothor week, and should mako a motion that it bo so disposed of. Aid. Griswold said he had no objsotun, and the motion waa carried. THE PRESIDENCY. On motion of Aid.

Easton tho Board then proceeded vote viva voce for Presldont of tho Board. The first vote resulted in tho usual style Blaok 11 Ray Donovan 1 Aid. Donovau raised a laugh by voting for himself. Aid. Buruet tbon moved that "wo now proceed to eloot a Prosidont or tho Board vi'do voce." Aid.

Murtha moved as an amondmont that "we continue in that oourse until otherwise ordored." The amendment was aocoptod, aud us amoudod the motion was carried. Aid. Sterling renewed Aid. Aruott's motion that the niombers bo oxousod from rising when naming thoir caudidoto. Carriod.

The roll was then called and Aid. Donovan again voted for htmsjlf. Aid. Ray bIbo voted for the representative from the Twelfth Ward. The result was Blaok 11 11 Donovan Tho Presideut announood "no choioe" aud the'olerk again called the roll with tho following rosult Black 11 Ray I Doaovan 1 Tno next ballot being tho twenty ninth also resulted a similar manner.

Aid. Burnot Jala I oannot bso any object in our Bitting bore any longer; we nave served tho public in toroets and done our duty in that respect, and as I boo probability of our ogreeiug I move that wo now adjourn. The motion was oarried by the following vote Affirmative Aid. Burnet. Aitnon, Shannon, Arrtott, GriBwold, Donovau.

Ray, Aokor, Cottrell, Williams, Baird, Fronoh, Fritz 18. Nogative Aid. Sterling, Black, Kane, Phillips, Murtha, Gundor, lteardon, Ormsboe, Duane, Fisher, Joa nison, Easton 12. The Board then adjourned until noxt Monday. A SEXTON Why He Wont and Wliat Ho Took.

LourlDB" tbo Church Without fire. Tho Coiiarrejratlon Frozen Out a. Be mnrKable Condition or Affairs. When the congregation of the Reformed Churoh in Jamaica ropairod to thoir edifice for divine worship on Sunday morning they found thB large entrance gates fastened, the paths uncleaned of snow and ice, and the doors of tho churoh locked. What could the matter? Some surmised that the sexton waa sick, but others who" know him better thought he might be drunk.

Neither Burmise was correct. When nually an entrance was effected the churoh was found to cold as an ice house. Tho congregation are oasting around for a preaohor, Bov. Mr. Van 61yke having aocoptod a call to Kingston.

This churoh id the largest and wealthiest ln Jamaica. It was too cold either for rogular sernco or abort season of prayor, and the gentleman who had been sent to preaou to the pooplo repaired to the church of his choice, and the oongrogn tiou did the eamo. OI course tho other ohurchos wore crowded. WHITHEB WENT THE SEXTON Inquiry revealed the faot that tho sexton, Edward Peterson, had fled for parts unknown. Ho quit Jamaica suddenly on Saturday afternoon, Bonding tho keys oi the churoh to ono of tho prominent stores by a little boy, who, not knowing Potorson, oould give no eiplonation of tho matter, aud tho storekeeper allowed thorn to remain on his desk, supposing some ono would call for them.

Peterson has always been a hard oaae, and it has boen a matter ot wonder in tho town, that the oburcn continued him iu the sextonship. His brother is a worse oharaotor still, and la now ln the Hempstead jail on a oharge of attompting to steal from the person. He was denominated the assistant Bexton, Tho secret underlying their omploymint, however, is that tbe7 were the solo supp jrt of thoir mother. Their father bad been sexton for many years. It was a desire on tho part of tho congregation, and a very commendable ono, to assist Mrs.

Peterson, as she is an estimable lady, that kopt tho boy's in ths church's employ, The one who has now fled, was tho associate ot disreputable men and women. He had porvortod tho chapel into an assignation house, and soma or tho members oi tho ohuroh living in tho vicinity of tho onapol, having their suspicions arousod, kept watch, and suocoeded ln catching him in the building with a lowd woman. This little piece oi aoiaouve worn waa performed by a woman, with in eye small aud sharp enough to por through tho ksyholo and scan the whole interior. Whether this was over made known to tho trustees, cannot now bo state 1 with certaiuty, but It enn bo truthtully stated that ho waa njt dismissed from his position. A LADY KILLEB.

Ho has always been regarded, and prided himself as "a woman capper." His last trouble arises from tint sourco. About three months ago ho was seoratly married to a domoatio in the employ of tho Bov. Mr. Stocking, who is a rotirod Episcopal clergyman. Thoy left tho village Boparately, met at the Fulton Forry, crossed over to Brooklyn and were married.

It wis a month beforo tho tact of thoir union leaked out, whon Peterson reluctantly acknowledged it. Although a mason by trade, he had not worked at it of late and could not support a wife Perhaps he never intonded to. His wife continued as a servant in the clergyman's family until tho faot of the marriage came to Mrs. Peterson's ears, when she, thinking that her eon might reform and bo a man among men, took his wife to her homo and thoy were all living happily together. Bat there was anoth er woman with a claim upon bim.

It appears that he had been paying attention to a young woman living in tho eastern part of tho town, whom he had robbed of her chastity on a promise or marriage. This girl had not heard or his marriage, as it had never been published and very Utile in auy other way had boon a about it Sinoa his marriage he haB boon paying close attention to this unfortunate girl. On Friday evening he was with her. She is soon to become a mother and natux" ly wa, anxious thathe should foUII lus promise. He told her he could not do it, aa he was married at ready, and at the conclusion of a scene that can batter brimaginod than described, she threatened him with "rh'n he was In a dilemma.

Ho concluded to fly and did. On Saturday afternoon he took view of tha ohureb and its steople as he passed in the rear of It on a Long Island railroad train for New York. He had not gone an hour too soon. The deceived girl had been true to her promise and the offl. ers were looking for him.

A telegram to tho Long Island City police was delivered too lata to have him Mm intercepted. To prepare for fltght and to insure himseU against want for a time, at least, he did not hesitate to rob his aged mother and his wife. From bis mother ho stole $50 and from his wife $200, and also took some articles which he can pawn. There is great Bymnathy for hi. mother and also for his wife.

The latter had saved this money piecemeal from her small earnings since her arrival in this country from b0t seven years ago. Peterson is a tall man, with blonde mn.taehe and large blue eyes. Ho speaks rather quickly ana often IndlBtinotly. SP0KTB AND PASriSIE3. Skating.

Ice Ssating Stopped. The rain of estor day put amporary veto on fnt' of to day promises to continue It. Well a little interval of tho tdnd wll do no harm, in fact, it wui give new ze7t to the sport whon the cold snap to come gives "Tittering surface to the skating lakes, something they have needed recently. Koiakb Sjw ttng. Despite the rain of last night and the slippery work podestrianfl had to do, tho Kit was numerously attended, over a hundred skaters begTthe floor.

To day the school receptions com rneSo ta" nnlns with that of Plymouth Church The wSr yesterday prevented the attendance ol the Tabernacle school. FKKE SO P. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Kaole: "Wo are giving away to the poor every Mou dav. 103 quartu of coup, the same as last Winter. Any ladles in want of tickets to distribute, can hayotho same tree of expanse by applying our mtrkot, B.j Bonanza, 715.

and i CURRENT EVENTS. An American pilgrimage will reaoh Koine about the close of June. The Masonic Grand Lodge of New Jersey holds its annual meeting at Trenton to morrow. Mr. V.

E. Beamer, a well known theatrical manager, diod of consumption at Jacksonville, Sunday. Antonio Mataran, the well known New York rostauranteur, was buried yesterday ln Calvary Cem otery. "William A. Wheeler, the Republican candi date for Vice Prosidont, called on the President ye8 terday.

The health officials of Jersey City are vao clsating the children in the public schools. Smallpox increasing in that city. A fat man's race is to take place at Gil mare's Garden, N. this evening, for a purse or 20. Twcuty ono contestants have catered.

A groat grandson ot Tecutnssh, the Shaw nco Coicf, is lecturing ln some small Kentucky towns. His name is Captain Hobbs. The woather stood at 8f5 degrees liulow zero Huuday, at Tongue Blver, cantonment, whore General Miles troops are now cnoauiped. Street car travel in Omaha waa abandoned on Saturday night. Tho snowdrifts wero too high for headway tj bo made by hordes.

Mails on all the routes are delayed on account of iho storm of yostorday. On some of the linos the mail trains wore twelve hours behind time. Miss Emma Abbott is sick in New York, of diphtheria, though tho diueasc is not considered alarming in hor case. The Anglo American cable, laid iu 18GG, was broken on Tho point at which it is broken believed to bo about 130 miles from Heart's Content, Newfoundland. William E.

Warren, well and favorably known as a publio accountant and an expert in investigating ontauglod aud complioatod lodgors, died iu New York, last Saturday, of disease of the heart. The now Strakosch Opera House of New York is to bo roady for ocoupany by the first ot Octobor next. It is to be planned by Mr. Arthur Giluuu, tho architect, and is to be erected on Fitth avenue. Fifteen thousand dollars have been subscribed to the luud now being raised for a monument to the memory of General Robort B.

Loo. Tho monument is to bo erected iu Lexington, Va. Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, whose work, tho "Dreaming lolanthe," attractod much attention at tho Cenlonnial Exhibition, is giving exhibitions of modeling in bultsr, at the room adjoining the Aquarium, Na.v Yurk.

The remains of Mr. Thomas Hastings, a younger brother ot Hugh Hastings, who diod in Now York on Saturday, wore takon to Albany for interment ye3ferday morning. Mr. Hastings was a plumbar in New York, aud was fifty one yeare of age. Dr.

Homibold's reception, announced to be held at tho Grand Opera Houso, Now York, yestorday afternoon, did not take place, owing to the fact that no ono responded to the invitation. Ho proposes to try it again on a Jess stormy day. Rev. William R. Alger, of tho Park avonue Unitarian Churjh, Now York, has boon invited by the managers and aotors of this oity aud Now York, to ro poat tho sermon rooontly delivered, on tho "Theatre and tho Church," at as early a date as la oonveulout to him.

He is promised a good houso if ho complies. Rev. A. O. Hubbard, of the Baptist Church of Danbury, Connecticut, has requested that bis salary be reduced, thus enabling the expenses of the ohuroh to be paid despite tho hard times.

Mr. Hubbard thinks that tho church oannot be alive spiritually whllo in the least trouble flnanoially. The Railroad Committee of tho Now York Aldermen yesterday again conBlderod tho advisability of hoating the street cars during the Wiutor months. No decision was rescued, though tho opposition to Uio plan was noticeably groat among those interested in the matter. Two suits for libel are pending iuNew York against James Gordon Bonnett.

Thoy are both brought by women for allogad libelous advertisements. Ono is in the namo of Phobe Robertson and the other of Matilda Wallace, and both are before Judgo Spier, ln the Supremo Court, Spsoial Term. A meeting of the Independent Greenback party is to bo held at Springfield, Illinois, Tuesday, January 23 the object of whioh is said to bo tbe consideration of means roquirod to oxtend and strengthen tbo organization or tho party, and to effect a more active propagation of its principles. An attempt was made yestorday morning by two men, who had boon placod in tho hospital ward of Blaokwoll'B Island for medloal treatment, to escape. Thoy forood their way down to the large sewing room, where the female prlsonors are kopt at work during tho day.

The keepers, on hearing ths noise, had them both handcuffed and put in the dark cell." William McManus, the little son of a widow lady living In West Nineteenth stroet, New York, was fatally injured yestorday aftornoo n. Ho had fastonod his sled behind a grocer's wagon, and was enjoying a swift ride, when, while going down a hill, tho slod sped forward under the wheels of the wagon, and the boy was run over and crushed. The term of Governor Porter, of Tennessee, expired yesterday, but tho Legislature was so excited over ths senatorial contest that it failed to provldo for hla formal relnauguration. Tho candidates ln tho oontest slues the withdrawal of Souilor Koya aro Messrs, Bailey and the former, it is believed, will be elected to day. The services tho remains of Lucille Western were held in Boston yesterday afteruoou.

At tho samo time Borvioes were hold over tho body of Sallio L. Hobbitsoll, a ntoco of Miss Western, who died Do oember 31, and whoBO romains havo since been in tho receiving vault. Kav. Mr. Winkloy, of Boston, preached the sermon, assisted by Bav.

U. Wilsou. Tho romains were burled at Mount Auburn. A number of people attended the funerals. General Jefferson C.

Davis, Colonel of tho Twouty thlrd Infantry, Is In Donver, on his way to Ohoyenne, where be will assist in tho oourt martial ordored for tho trial of Colonel J. J. Reynolds upon oharges or cowardlco and dlsobediouco or ordoro pre forrod by Gonoral Crook. Colonel Reynolds was a brave volunteer officer and will doubtloBS bo exonerated. The Sioux Indians have gone into the British Territory north of tho Block Hills country.

It is in thiarogion of tho oauntry that those Indians derive thoir power toroais! tho Govornmont. Thoy trade hides and fur leltB for rifles, and this Winter, it being a prolific one for trapping valuablo fur bearing animalB, tho trade will be flourishing. Anothor Ind'au war will, therefore, be likely to break out in tho The plan of compromise said to havo boen preparod by tbo Commlttoos of tho Senato and House on Counting the Electoral Voto is to be presented to each House of Congress to day. It provides for tbo couutiug of tbo roturus of tho eotorat vote; tha rejection of disputed votes aud tho appointment of a Board of Arbitration to settle all questions in illsuuto. A bill to prescribe the manner in which the Electoral voto hall bo counted, and to provide for the aettlemont of any disputed quostions that msy arise is also to be pro ented.

Tho fooling in Washington Is that the plan proposed, ir adopted, will work good results; if not, the members or both parties reel that it will be a hopeless task to undortake to harmonize the two Houses of Congress or to eeoure tho adoption by both of any given plan of counting tho vote. FLORENCE HICK KNOX. The Debut ot Brooklyn's Favorite Contralto in Italian Opera a Triumphant Saceetii The name of Florence Eice recalls the most delightful reminiscences. Brooklyn has boon prolific of celebrated vocaliBts, but among them all none has attained just the place in the admiting affeotion and esteem of the multitude which Mrs. Florence Bice Knox, the contralto, oooupiod during her residence ln Brooklyn, prior to her going to Europe to pursue her musical studies.

That affection has followed her wherever she has Bojourned, and now that the tidings of her triumphant suooess In Italian Opora cornea from Malta, thouBandB of old timo admirers will rejoico in her aucceai with the giftedlady of whom Wartel, the great Frenoh maestro predicted two yoars Bince, that she would be tbe great elngor of tho future, and the rival or Krausa. Mrs. Knox has been spending tho Winter with ber husband in the Island of Malta, preparatory to her entering upon an engagement at Co vent Garden, London, in the early Spring. Hor debut was made under the stage name of Bicca, tbe opera being "II Trovatore," Of her success, the Jfulfa Timet and United States Service Gazette makes this mention Madame Rlcca as iuia, who hid never before appeared on any stage, enchanted tbe audience. Her lino clear nbtos, high, middle and low, but particularly tho latter, aro such as have been rarely uttered ln our thoa tre.

Since the timo of Blgnora Borghi we do not remember having listened to voioo that will buar eo bo confronted with that ol Madame Kloca. Her first song wdB rapturously applauded; her duet with which follows, was splendidly sung and acted in tne third act, when arrested and brought bofore the Omi it. her exculpatory notes were highly ynP8UJ: her defiant tones Btlll more admirably effective In the rfni ot tr(ti wero really enchanting, inTprodach in the audience a JJSZ, eion or which it is impossible to describe. Bravo I was heard from every quarter, and Madame conuratulate hersolf on having SS? grater even than that which report had induced the publio to oxpeot. The Sews Is still more enthusiastic in lis praise of Madame Rlcca, and closes Its article, saying: "Sho will remain with us until tbe close of March, when ho London season commenoea.

and will thon mako hor cfclmt In Covent Garden, whither all musioal and vocal talents emigrate irom overy quarter of the globe, and wo hopo to see Signora Rioca at no distant day balled ib one of the principal stars in that musical flraia mont," It may well be tha pride of Brooklyn that one so long her favorito in song la achieving such signal auccaiaes abroad. Tbo public wUl wait with ardent eipectntion to give her a hearty greeting at an early day ou her native shores. ing it through the State Governments, and to "hand over" the Government to this, that or the other porsoa, when all ho has to do and what ho has got to do, on March 4, is to lot go of tho Govornmont and get out. There is, in fact, a grand compensation, when publio opinion is looked at, for all these antics and outrages of the Exeoutive office. That the devil of militaryism should tear and gnash on the people, out of whose system it is being expelled, is neither surprising nor deplorable.

Not the behavior of the emerging imp of force, but the effect of its behavior on the people will be the valuable thing for the future. Grant has made the people in love with law and statesmanship for an hundred years to come. Tho Louisiana outrage he essayed, and which seems to have miscarried, was avowedly undertaken by him to delay or prevent the popular resolution to succeed him with the elected candidates of law and statesmanship. The menace was made as large as the country. The response is proving just as large to the full.

Through the prejudice for liberty which Augur has, Louisiana so far has escaped, but the hand of force to effect fraud which did not quite fall on the State did threaten, does threaten and is exposed to the country, and the very air it vibrated has proved such a fillip to the manhood of thenation asno other move in the conspiracy has proved. Packard's cause is as limp and contemptible as over. Governor Nicholls' moral position has been made stronger than ever, and tho cause of the people for majority rule for Louisiana and for tho nation has been made stronger than all and stronger than ever bofore. It was tho President who invoked the sword. It was tho soldier who said tho sword shall sleep.

The Aldermen. The Aldermen did not elect a President yesterday. Eleven Republicans voted for Mr. Ray, an equal number of Democrats for Mr. Blaok and Aldorman Donovan for himself.

Donovan is, we believe, called a Democrat he was elected by Democrats, but his action in this contingency is of interest only as indicating his great loyalty to the Donovan party. It is very amusing to see Mr. Donovan steadily voting for himself, but nevertheless, in doing so, he exhibits a most reprehensible readiness to sacrifice both party and public interests for ends of his own. On motion of Alderman Murtha the Boavd approved of a bill, which the Legislature is requested to pass, empowering the to expend $200,000 to grade, drain and regulate the East Side lands. ThiB proposition was made some six months ago, but was received with disfavor.

It was sustained yesterday by the Board on the ground that the sum specified will enable the city to find employment for men who are now out of work, and who, if work be not found for them, will become dependent on public charity. This is a spacious plea, and in its time has been made to do a great deal of useful political service; but none the less it is a vicious plea, and will do vast mischief in this country yet if our people assent to it. As a simple business matter, there is not a member of the Common Counoil who would at present expend a dollar on the East Side lands. In the present state of the real estate market it would be usolesa to put these lands up for sale. To put $200,000 into these lands to day would simply be to throw away the interest on that amount of money for an indefinite length of time.

The only plausible reason for making this proposed expenditure is that it will give employment to men who are now idle. The sufficiorit answer to this argument is that it is not the business of the city to finu employment for anybody. If any particular Alderman feels moved to deeds of charity let him bo charitable with his own not with other peoples, money. The one thing that the Common Council and the Mayor can properly do to soften the hardness of the times is to reduce taxation by economizing at every point. One reason why times are hard is that the American people have been living beyond their means.

Surely there is not even an Alderman so far gone in Macaw berism as to think that the proper thing to do is to contract more debt. That tho times are hard ought to be reason sufficient for declining to add an unnecessary cent to current taxation. Moreover, it is a matter of experience that money taken by Alderman and others out of the public treasury for the employment of poor men does a most prepos.terously small quantity of good. The lion's share of such expenditures has never gone, and in our judg mont, never will go, to tho deserving poor. I If it can be shown that the city will be ben efited by having the East Side lands graded, in the manner specified in Alderman Murtha's resolution, the work ought to be done, but it is not to the purpose to show that certain laborers will be benefited by being employed.

It is entirely proper for the Board 1 of Aldermen to consider whether the present I low price of labor ought not to be taken ad I vantage of by the city in getting work done that will of necessity have to be done at no i great distance in the future, but apart from that consideration the condition of the labor market is not a Common Council problem. The Commissioners of City Works asked permission to employ some additional hydrant inspectors. Action on the request was de ferred. Accepting the statement recently mado by Fire Commissioner Massoy as relia 1 ble, if an increase is not made in the number of inspectors, the city will suffer in some very manifest way before the Winter passes. Frozen fire hydrants will give us large fires.

We think a few additional inspectors will be a more rational investment than a conflagration. The Board stamped with disapproval a Health bill recently introduced to the Legislature by a New York member which, if permitted to "become a law, would practically place Brooklyn under the thumb of the New York Health Board. No such bill will pass. The advocates of the solitary confinement prison system have much cause to rejoice over the facts and figures given in favor of the system by recent official investigators. The statistics go to show that theylisci phne of the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary is far better than that of any other prison in the country in certain important parcieu lars; i they are to others of uke size, tne recoiu 1.

aamran A I mitnienis oi pnsonorw wuu imm I term there are of a lower percentage, i The reason assigned is that acquaintances and associates are not formed among the i convicts as in congregate prisons, and the criminal amateurs do not become experw wnue and, also, they prove that wmie tne r.norm Arn as wrse as a a I I i i I I 1 I is believed principally by women, but the men are firmly convinced that a woman can be thus exalted by taking off as muoh clothing as the police will permit, and giving lessons in anatomy by wholesale This seems to us a monstrous superstition, aud it will be ages before it crumbles away. Perhaps even to some of our readers it may be necessary to remark that an actor is usually man or woman, aud sometimes a child that actors, whether men or women, are as good and as bad as any other men or women, as good looking, as wise and as witty. They have precisely the same qualities as other people, and usually know a little less, though they thiuk they know a little moro, than anybody else. In fact, the only difference between the actor and tho man is that the self esteem of the former is frequently developed at tho expense of his intelligence. It would be strange if it were not so.

From receiving the constant adulation of the publio the actor really begins to believe that he belongs to a superior race of beings that there must be something about him which ordinary humanity lacks he must bo fascinating. It is a natural delusion. A man of only average intelligence and appearance, who is constantly in receipt of letters from women, breathing admiration in every line, must attribute such power of conquest to something. It would be unnatural to ascribe it to the idiocy of the writers, so he assumes it to be the natural effeot of his own charms. A woman who receives costly bouquets and languishing glances aud precious gifts with billets doux from a dozen gentlemen an evening would not be ft woman if she did not become vain.

They must become vain the public forces them to do so. Tho Montague rage not long ago was simply a and nobody felt it more keenly than the object of the unmaidenly persecution to which he was subjected. Thus beset with temptations on evory side, actors would justify tho popular belief in their mental and moral superiority did thoy not occasionally succumb. When they do they are unquestionably punished for it, since every action brings its reward or penalty. It sometimes happens, moreover, that thoy are falsely charged with yielding to temptation as the case of Devere, the banjo player.

Of course each mind has its own ideals, and the graceful Montague could win no more tender smile3 on the negro minstrel stage than Archy Hughes would at Wallack's. It is therefore quite conceivable that a highly romantic maiden could find her ideal in Mr. Sam Devere. To the ladies who frequent theatres graced by his presence we have no doubt that he is a "combination and a form, "indeed, where every god did seem to set his seal, to give the world assurance of a man." The horrid little girl who appeared before Justice Walsh, a aw days ago, evidently thought so, and though she could not possess this ideal being, coidd at least make the world think so, which, to the feminine mind, we believe, is the next best thing to possession. This is one of the disadvantages of being common property, and an example ought to bo made of the dreadful little creature.

Supposing all the admirers of an actor should thus discount their fondest hopes, where would the drama bo? It is all very wrong and foolish, but man kind is not particularly wise. An audience can never be made to understand that the commonest of clay oan be calcimiued into a good sfage counterfeit of marble, and that the virtues of the ideal being porsonuted by actors may be put off with the false hair on their faces. One of the most remarkable qualities of Macaulay's New Zealander will be his power to discriminate in the manner indicated. Tlie Academy of Mmlt'i The anuual meeting of the stockholders of the Academy of Music was held last night. It does not appear by the Treasurer's statement that the past year brought any dividends to the stockholders, but the current expenses were all defrayed by the receipts and there was surplus enough to put the building in excellent order.

The directors can console themselves with the reflection that they have fared better than the majority of theatrical and other amusement managers throughout the country. The number of managers who are as well off to day as they were a year ago is not great. The Executive Committee in their report dwell with just satisfaction upon the fact that Through all tho large number of engagements, extending over a period of sixteen years, has Hover been even tbe appearance of a lire to disturb the tranquility of an audionco, nor the slightest aooident which could tond to impair tho public confidence in the Bate construction ot tho building or the competency of the management. To this source of pride the directors and stockholders may properly add the reflection that, if they have not made money, they have made the majority of Brooklyn people their debtors by furnishing them with one of the finest public meeting places in the country. Eeferring to the recent theatre fire and the effect it had of awakening the owners of theatres and other public resorts to the necessity nf nnomonKncr tho mfiftna of nraventint? fire J.J4 i and the means of escape for the public when fire does ocour, the report contains the following reassuring piece of information There are in the gallery of the auditorium, 000 Beats with Bix ample exits, a lobby of 86 feet in width and a large Btalrway on oaoh Bide of the hallway.

The dross circle bas 491 seats with seven doorB of exit into a lobby of 28 feet in width, whioh communicates by four double doors into the Assembly Rooms. This room Is provided with two largo double doors making six in all swinging inward and outward and opening on tho stairways whioh lead to tho gallery. Tho seating oa paolty of tho balcony and parquot together, is 012; the lower lobby, has standing room for 300 persona, and tho vestibule will accommodate the sama number. There are four passageways from tho parquet, one of which leads dlreotly to the door on Montague street. near the Directors' bbi.

There afl Bevon do6fs of exit from the baloony into the lobby, and those from the vestibule Into Montague street, (eaoh of whioh is five feet six inches in width), and additional means of IegresB on Montague street from four other dooi beside tbe larger one that opens from the stage. Beside these the windows on Montague street present an opening of 88 feet, and those on the south aide ot 68 feet each, thus making a total of no less than eighteen exits from the parquet and balcony alone. The stage is entirely eeparatel lrom the auditorium (with tho oxooption of the prosoenium opening) by a solid brick wall two feet in thickness, extending ten feet above the roor a perfect protection of tbe gal leiies from fire. AU the stairways ore supported by nl innloudd In brick walls, and all partition walla in evory part of the building are of brick. The shigo aresBing roomB are lncioseu in za men uriun vrtutu, uu side ot which there are circular iron stairs leading to side ot which the floors abov These aro provisions whlcn added tu ln New York At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held lfwt evening, tho following officers were elected for the ptosuinu roar: Joseph 8.

Spinney, President; Jamos Btorke, First Vice President; W. B. MaSdook, Second Vice President; W. H. Clemont, Troasurer; fJelutoD, Secretai Wm.

J. in the United States, except Booth a Ihaatre, 1 i Louisiana Under tbc Sword. As published in the Eagle last night, the President's order to General C. C. Auger leaves something to be desired by both sides.

It has emboldened Packard to issue one of the most singular proclamations any alleged Governor ever did issue, ne orders tho Nicholls Legislature to disperso and the Nicholls militia to disband. He does not order them to do so within a given time, neither does he undertake to threaten to make them do what he tells them, in case they refuse or neglect compliance with his proclamation. On those accounts the proclamation is only request and advice. The request has been ignored aud the advice has not been taken by those to whom they were addressed. The want of power with which tho proclamation speaks and the entire omission to montion the alternative of force, make the document differ from any Executive paper on a like subject ever put forth.

Mr. Packard cannot oven nias quorado as Governor, for he is not the Governor, lias none of the powers of Governor and does not even with the backing of the President daro to speak as Governor to the people of Louisiana. He oannot provoke their angor, for they despise him, and he is conscious that ho would excite their derision even by hinting that he would inforee his pretensions upon tho people of the State. He theretoro does not undertake to do so. The effect of President Grant's "inter "ferenoe" in other directions is not less ambiguous and ludicrous.

General Auger explicitly declares that the order of the Executive produces no chauge in the situation and that he simply remains a peace preserver between the claimants. He understands that if contingency arises in which he must "recog nizo" either, he is told whom to recog "nizo;" but he also understands that he is left to be judge of whether any events which may arise amount to, or produce, any contingency in the sense contemplated. General Augur must be the judge of any recognition as an act; the President has only directed that when General Auger has made up his mind to "recognize" either Government it must be under present circumstances. Packard's. The Nicholls' Govern ment being recognized by tho people asks and declines no recognition from the military.

The Packard government continues to get no recognition either from the people or from the military. The situation in point of fact was not at all altered by the order of Grant yesterday. The Government of Louisiana went on as before. The regime of Packard got some reporter to write an empty proclamation for it, to which the people paid no attention. At this writing just such a station as wo have stated continues to exist.

There is no prospect of any change iu it for some time to come, but thorp is a possibility of a chauge in it at any time. The whim of Grant may change the mood of Augur may change. Eaoh, under the prescribed policy can precipitate Louisiana down the steeps of anarchy. So long as Grant sticks to his merely quali fied and contingent recognition of Packard or so long as Augur interprets that recogni tiou to bo only qualified or contingent, Mr. Nicholls will govern and Mr.

Packard will make believe to govern. An extra glass of grog may at any time start about Grant tho tho well understood statement, "the Old Man is mad again." A slight real or apparent may mako Augur resolve tht.t it is his duty to intorfere. For the present, however, tho President is not reported to have auy more "neuralgia," and General Augur, who is pre sumably a gentleman, has shown no inclina tion to impose himself upon the moribund frame of Packardism and warm it into a passing Bham of life. The Senatorial Group disagree on the Louisiana question. To that disagreement is attributable the qualified order of the President.

When Morton, Chandler and Cameron were with him on Sunday morning the Presideut was for Packard "red hot;" but Senators Edmunds and Conkliug are understood to have borne down hard on the other side on Sunday night, and to have secured a partial modification of the programme of the bacchanals of that morning. It is a matter of thankfulness that thoy did, that tho telegram sent to Auger allows him to make something or nothing out of it, and that he prefers to make nothing out of it. Meantime this substitution of a policy of military whimsicality for a policy of law is worthy of the attention of the country, especially of those citizens of the North who yet remain under law, with all its imperfections, and who do not enjoy the sweet simplicity of tho sword. If Lucius Robinson should tomorrow doclare that all tho Methodist meeting houses iu the State of New York should be taken for use as. drill rooms for the National Guard, and if General Hancock should empty the horbor forts of their soldiers to carry out such an order, the presumption would be instant aud universal that Governor Robinson was a lunatic or a rascal and that General Hancock was a rascal or a lunatic.

The Assembly would impeach and the Senate would convict the Governor in the most summary way, and he would be out of office in a week. Tho United States soldiers would refuse to obey General Haucock for such a purpose, or the militia of the two cities would sweep tho Federal forces into the station houses, while the Judges would send them all to Sing Sing out of hand. Law would take care of lawbreakers at once. Well, President Grant has no more right to interfere between the people of Louisiana and their chosen Government than Governor Robinson has to intorfere between the Metho diils of New York SUto add their chosen I 1 AN a f.oa ekk A a (i a r. A A (1 I.

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