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BUSINESS NOTICES. Col. Forney, in retiring from tho editorial con NOIITH CLASSES OF LONG ISLAND. Sensational Gossip in Newspapers. Great cities are never without their exoito.

MR. TRACY'S" COMMITTEE. THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE. amount of repaying dono, whereby muoh of the ordinary ropairo wen saved, I am free to say that placing tbe management and control of tbiabranoh of the city government under the Water and Sewerage Commissioners, has not produced the beneficial results predicted. Many of onr streets are badly in need of repair, and although the amount of money oxpended for this purpose is largely in oxcosa of former years, hardly, as much repairing has been done.

EXPENSES OF THE WATEB BOARD. While upon this subject, I feel it incumbent upon ma to sllude to another matter connected with the same department and to whioh I would call the attention of your honorable body. I am called upon from time to lime to sign warrants upon the treasury for money to WEDNESDAY EVENING. JAN. 4.

caucus, tho names of Silas B. Dutcher, (Twenty first Ward) as Chairman. Cheers. A. G.

Williams, (Ninth Ward) First Vice President A. B. Thom, (Third Ward) Second Vice President; A. H. Van Bicklen, (New Lots) Third Vice President.

T. G. Noiton, (Tenth Ward), Secretary. Charles Small, (Thirteenth), Assistant Secretary. J.

S. Cullen, (Nineteenth), Corresponding Secretary. A. D. Limburgcr, (Fourth), Sergeant at arms.

B. F. Tracy, (Third), Treasurer, I now movo that tho Committee proceed to the election of chairman for the yoar, by taking a viva voce vote, each delegate standing in his place and naming the candidate he votes for. Mr.DIomond (Third) As tho gentleman haa said, there waa a caucus held at this place, and whioh comprised a largo number of tho delegates to this Committee, but I think that to force upon this Committeo which la the regular body, the nominations of an informal meeting, la going somowhat out of order. I move to amend that wo proceed to the election of a chairman by ballot, instead of by rita voce.

Mr. Tracy Before this vote is taken, I wish to state, that at the caucus held hero on Saturday, there were 102 members out of the 135 elected, present. The nominations were unanimous. Mr. Dutcher was named as tbo presiding officer and not a dissenting voice was heard, when this vote was taken.

I presumo that all the mombers who were present at that caucus and participated in its proceedings feel themselves bound In honor to carry out ita objects, and I trust there is not a member hero who will fear to rise in his place and announce his choice of officers for the ousulug year. Mr. lUchardson (Twenty second Ward) called for the yeas and nays. The amendment was lost by a vote of 12 to 28. The original motion of Mr.

Trocy was then adopted. Mr. Maddox moved that two tellers be appointed, but subsequently withdrew his motion. MB. MADDOX NOT A CANDIDATE.

The vote was thon proceedod with until two of the delegates had voted for the Hon. Sam'l when that gontleman arose and said: Mr. Chairman I wish it to be understood by my friends, that I have no desire to occupy the position of chairman, and I hope that thoso who feel like casting their votes for me will give them to somo other person who desires to occupy the position. The Chairman announced the result of the vote as follows, 120 votes coat, of which Mr, Dutcher received 110, Hon. Samuel Maddox, Judge Reynolds, James Johnson 1.

Mr. Benedict and Mr. Maddox were appointed a Committee to conduct the nowly elected Chairman to tbe chair, Mr. Dutcher on taking his scat, was recolvod with cheers. He said that during the fifteen years whioh constituted the existence of tho Republican party, five of these had been spent by him ub presiding onleer of a political organization in the party.

This experience had enabled him to realize to somo extent the labors of a presiding officer, and had cured him of all desire or ambition to over again occupy tho position of a presiding officer, and he had hoped that the honor and responsibility would have devolved upon some othor person, but while he stated this lie begged to assure them that ho appreciated their eloction of him in tho monnor in which they did as a valuablo token of their friendship, and for this he desired to return them his thanks. They desired the purity ond harmony and strength of the Republican party in this County, aud he trusted they might all work shoulder to shoulder and give tho administration of President Grant that earnest and cordial Bupport which it so richly morits, for bis fidelity to the platform upon which ho was elected, and to the best interests of the people of this country, (cheers), which underlie tho fabric of the Constitution. Tho Buccess of a presiding officer depended greatly upon the forbearance of those over whom he was called upon to preside. During tho year in which ho had the honor to preside oyer tho deliberations of the Committeo he had mei with nothing but kindness and forbearance, and with nono but thn duct of the Washington Ohroniole, introduces his succesBor, Mr. John M.

Morris, as a valiant stand' ard bearer of the party. Mr. Morris is a North erner by birth, a South Carolina carpet bagger, who loft tho editorship of a Charleston paper be cauBo a four year old of Harper's Drawer drove him off, and is in every respect the social and moral equal of his predeoeBSor, Mr. Forney, Will som of the grocery keepers inform us whether tho prioo of tea, coffee, sugar and apices has beon reduced since the 1st of January On that day there was a redaction of fifteen oents a pound duty on tea, one and a quarter cent per pound duty on sugar, and two cents a pound duty on coffee. Of spices there is to be a large addition to the free list.

Now who is to enjoy the advantage of this approximation to free trade the traders or consumers Will some of the retail dealers be kind enough to say. Nellie Drisdale, of Boston, aged eighteen, has married her boarding house keepers eon whom she accuses of seduction. Nellie is now charged with poisoning her husband, mother in law, and herself. All three narrowly esoaped death. The majority of boarding house keepers' sons are anything but desirable husbands, and it ia not to be wondered at that the young wife tired of her bargain.

Nor is the fact that the mother in law received her share of the poison at all strange. As far as general observation goes mother in laws are not the most desirablo thingB in the world, and boarding house keepers who havo reprobates for sons, in many instances deserve the portion awarded to this relation of Nellio's Once more the Tribune has an article on the respective value of male and female labor, and again, in reference to the subject of lady teachers in the Pennsylvania common sohools, says that their salaries are as they should be, lesB than those of men who, as a general thing, have families to support, while the women, in nearly every instance, teach to obtain money to buy gewgaws. Tho Tribune, like many members of tho sohool committees, has yet to iearn that tne great need all over tho land is for efficient workers, and bo great is tho demand that there are those who will pay for it, no matter the sex. After all the cant about spheres and placeB, competency to fill any position is warrant for taking it, and suo ceBs oompels respect to its occupant, whether man or woman. The accident which occurred yesterday on the Mississippi and Tennessee Bailroad was most terrible in its rosults.

Tho train was orosBing an iron bridge in Nonconnah Bottom, five miles south of Memphis, when tho axles of a baggage car broko, and a pa3songer car was dashed down an embankment, caugnt tiro, and was soon burned. This locality ia remembered as the placo whero tho dreadful railroad accident occurred in 1853, when ox President Johnson and a numbor of his friends were Beriously hurt. Mr, Johnson suffers to this day from tho result of his injury, never having been able to lift his loft arm, owing to tho ignoronco of the surgeon who drcsBcd it on that occasion. No accurate report iB given in this caao of the number of killed and wounded. Louiso Muhlbach, in her "Letters from Egypt" tells a vory romantio story about the wife of Count Beuedetti, the French Minister Plenipotentiary at the Prussian Court bofore the outbreak of tho present war.

She assorts that the Am baeaadrcsB, who was as well known and much admired at Berliu as any lady evor there, was the slave of a Groek merchant, resident in Alexandria, who had two black wives. After tho death of those wives, the merchant adopted her as his daughter, and at his death she inherited his vast property. At thiB stage of her existence Count Benedetti, who was then only a penniless attache to the French Consulate in Alexandria, married her, and with the aid of her wealth cut for himself a road to fame. In this way, sho who was onco a slave to slaves, bo camo a star in the circles of tho Frenoh world of fashion. There is enough of fact in this story to give it a Bhadowy semblance of truth for Benedetti was Vice ConBul of tho French Consulate General in Egypt, and did marry an orphan Greek gul, who was adopted daughter of a Greek merchant, but the assertion that she was a slave or served slaves is denied by a friend of the lady in question, and MiBB Muhlbach iB Btigmatized as the German imitator of Mrs.

Stowo, whOBe ox aniplo in the Byron scandal finds a parallel in this. Mark Twain thinks that John U. Surratt's manager understands his business or else Surratt is foitunato abovo the avorage of Bnubbed and struggling would be lecturora, for every day tho newspapers reveal to the people that the gentleman is being persecuted. Ho says there aro other ways to got before the public and crowd hia houses, but this is the cheapest and suroBt. One of tho most courted lady locturers of tho day is Boaring along on a lucrative notoriety, nine tenths of which is tho result of industriously supplied two lino personal items telling how she wore her hair at Long Branch.

The kind of public interest ox cited in Mr. Surratt's case will cram tho largest halls in America, aud his sly manager knows this and keeps up the excitement. The talk of Surratt's arrest the story that Attorney General Holt offered to save Mrs. Surratt, and set her free, if tho son would take her place, which the son refused to do the announcement that his Baltimore lecture was interfered with by Ilia arroat for a non payment of a tobacco tax years ago and now, tho announcement that the Mayor of Washington has warned Surratt against driving tho poople of the Capital to extremities are the crowning triumphs of this manager's inventive genius. Mr.

Surratt, he says, is on the high road to succeas and an inoome of 425,000 a year, and tho only way to stop it is for the newspapers to let him alone. Then his littlo candle would Btraightway begin to burn weaker and weaker, and presently tho poor thing would flicker out and pass away in a film of smoke, leaving nothing behind but an evanescent stench. POETEY OF MECHANISM, Lecture by Hon. S. S.

Coxut St. Aiiii'n oifthe Heights Wit and Wisdom. In pursuance of announcement, the Hon. S. S.

Cox, SI. delivered one of his unrivaled lectures lant cvouiug, in the Sunday School room attaohed to St. Ann's Church, corner of CUnton and Livingston streets, to a largo and approchvtivo audience, tho proceeds of the lecture wcro for the benefit of tho Sunday School. lie was introduced by tho Rector of tho church, Dr. N.

H. Schcnck, who briofly aud pleisantly performed the task, and tho HON. S. 8. COX took the stand, delivering tho loottire from notos.

Ho began by making a few happy remarks concerning tho occasion and those prosont, and said be took for his Bubject what he supposed to bo a serious one, viz "Poetry of Mechanism." Poetry of mechanism is different from mechanism of poetry, ao ho would divide mechanism into two parts First, original forces not created by man, as tho winds, waves, sky, Second, such things as arc made by man, as tho ship, spinning wheel, Whence comes tho power to crystaltzo tho diamonds, guide tho Btars bo unerringly and oter nally in their courses through illimitable space? From mechanism, the mechanism of thounivorso. What can bo said of Newton who took out tho first patent for the mechanism of Hcavon? Perhaps thoro is nothing in the universe so attractive as capillary attraction, lu which water will flow up small tubes or between the surface of two glasi cs held togcthor. Tho great mistako of the world is to supposo there is nothing in the movemonts and of tho uuiverso. It is tho poetry, the mechanism of nature. THE COMMON PENDULUM, to to found in every bouse, is a wondjrful piece of mocbanism.

By its aid we havo caloulatid to tho ono twcnty fivo thousandth part of a second, and found that the length of tho day bus not variod ono second since tho beginning of the world. No rnachlno has perpetual motion, for God givos and man perpotuatea motion. As in all poetry, there aro odditios In mechanism. The speaker hero mentioned a numbor of soma of the remarkable clocks and other automaton machines which did and do exist in Europe. We would have more, pootry had wo fewer patents, but in England it is different.

Tbo race which had JEON, always won. According to tho quantity of carbon in it so is the quality of iron. It was iron and stool mado the MoorB victor, and Damascus and Toledo aro Btlll renowned for thoir swords. As late as the sixteenth century guests were accustomed to carry their own knives and frequently, wheting Btono. Tho speaker then kept the audience in continued laughter for Borne minutes relating tho history of tbo Smith family in mcjr relation to mecuanism ana iron, uo gave eovorAl foreign nomas in different languages all being the same as the English Smith, and sold that tho fate of Europe depended on the Smith, and a polltioian ho would never go back on them.

There Is no rnachlno yet made can compare with man. Shakespeare baa said WHAT A THINO IS MAN but If Shakspeare had lived to our day and seen one of our faabionablo ladles, be would have said, (lWnata thine is woman Nervous excitation, every littlo motion, thought or feeling was paitoftho meoiianlsm of our bodies. Woman is a machine which must bo kopt going, so she mut have bread and butter and other things to keep ber aliro and tho machinery in motion, aud without woman thero wouldn't be muoh of us to speak about. When a lady blushes, or a young lady looks across tho room for an old Iovo, or any othor tender act on their part, thoy allow the oalorio to flow which is port ox tho mechanism of tho body. The printing press, telegraph, locomotive, steam powor, improvorccnta in surgical Instruments, prove mechanism tho finest of arts.

When Morse was about ojerating tho telegraph, Congress laughed at him, but CougresB laughed at a great; many things. AXOBTTECTUBE is ono of tho manifestations of mechanism. Wo hare tho Grecian, Gothic, Soman, and the heavens which form a species of architecture. The Eddystono Lighthouse is ono of tho grandest pieces of architecture of its class tho world has ever seen. The one thing resulting from all this analysis is, thoro is nothing allowed te bo wasted in this world; everything has lta usos, and mechanism is in ovorytnlng.

The speaker wub Interrupted with froquent applause duriDg tbo lecture, and on ita conclusion was loudly applauded, and on motion of Dr. Sohonck a unanimous vote of thuuks was oxtendod the lecturer by thoso present. Tho Hon. leoturor waa In the beat of Bplrits, and delivered hia words clear and slow, and by his frequent and rapid transitions from grave to gay, to say pleasantly and raako a Joke out of that which, would otherwise have p.oemcd serlouB, not only engaged the attention of his hearers, but put them in the best of spirits also. Tne lecture was a strange mixture of thesub limo and tho ridiculous, and a grand combination of poetry and tho theory of mechanism, the whole being flavored by wit and wisdom, being one of the few leo turcs that cannot be truly reported, and must be heard from the speaker's lips to be approalated as la deserves.

The following were the more prominent gentlemen present during the evening: Mayor Kalbflefech, Hon. ti a i ivuibo uoiuitb. xrnyiuwivvi tiuuu a. uuuiuuhiuiu, D. Dr.

Hall, Cyrus P. Smith, Thos. H. Bodman, T. woou, m.

n. jsason, uen. jesse amitn, is, w. uoruoa IF THERE IS A PLACE TO BUT nB8TOLAS FUENITUEE, Of all modem and fashionablo stylos, it Is at LANG i. NAU'S, 286 Fulton street.

uomparatireiy strangers a rear ago, tno nave wn ujiuuiaauiuu mui wo uiak uuumua iqb OOUDI! cnoiT aeaire ut spjo peneot saiuiaccion to aii maycajj, wnecner poroojuing or noc. I'm oompeuea to aaa me top uoors oi ono oi uuu.di.ki iuut auu rr waif lar.u HWibiusai i ii. bonsexeepers especially should not forgot this rniton street. ALLEY'S MAOIOAL PAIN EXTRACTOR For BURNS, BRUISES. CUTS, PIXBS, SORES, RING.

WORMS, RHEUMATISM, and all diseases of the skin has no egnal. Reduces all pain IMMEDIATELY, and ALWAYS heals without SCAR. For CORNS and BUNIONS It Is warranted a positive specific. 26o. Sold everywhere.

aplllrMAW TEETH 910 A BET. A beautiful sot of teeth on rubber, the best $10; warranted to fit the month, and equal In all respeots to work at 815, Q20 to (86. Laughing Gas pore and freih daily. Operations on the natural teeth carefully and sldllfuUjr performed. No charge for extracting when work is ordered.

LONG ENECKBR, BROTHERS, Dentists, Djy28 1ySM4W 63 Myrtle avonne. ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS' SAPOLIO 18 CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN SOAPI mrll tl KELLOGG'S WORM TEA The old standard and reliable remedy for Worms. Never known to fall. Pricelo cents. Sold byalldru gists.

Wholesale at oi i JPHN HENRY'S ritUDitea State family modictne warehouse, when may bo had oyer 1,000 different oopular medicine. Trade wapt plied 8 College place. N. Y. jjsi tj TRAVEL, THAKSPOItTATfffflf, NMAN LINE MAIL STEAMSHIPS TO OTJREN8TOWN AND LIVBPfKW.

EVERY SATURDAY AND ALTEBNATK TUESDAY. tvfir uc naturaay, Jan. 7. CITY OF LIMERICK Jan. 10.

RATES OF PASS AG First Cabin $75. gold. Steerage $30, Currency Pre paid tickets from Liverpool or Queenstown to petsons sending for friends, at lowest terms. DRAFTS IsauaH nnt.hl In ftnuit Rribdn rr land. iTor further Information, applrat tho Company's office; 18 Broadway, or to THOMAS O'NEILL, Agent, 296 Fulton Brooklyn.

jjl ly TVTORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAM i.1 SHIP COMPANY FOR BREMEN, The Steamshin RTTRfN JT UnM vltr sail on SATURDAY. January 14. FROM BREMEN PIER, FOOT OF THIRD 8T, HOBOKBN. To bo followed by the Steamship DEUTSCHLAND, Captain H. A.

F. Nevnaber, on SATURDAY. Januaey 28. RATES OF PASSAGE, Payable in gold or lta equivalent In currency First Cabin $120 Scoond Cabin 7S Steerage 26 For freight or passage apply to OELR1CH8 A OO ocl28m 68 Broad street. Rational line.

Steamers weekly to and from Liverpool and Queenstown Leaving Liverpool every WEDNESDAY. Leaving Queenstown overy THURSDAY. Leaving Now York overy SATURDAY. Cabin to Liverpool or Queenstown and $75, currency; Stoorago passago to Liverpool and Queenstown, $28: Stcerago passage from Liverpool or Qneenstowq, $83. For furthor Information apply to J.

A. HORGAN, Union st, cor, of Hicks, or to F. W. J. HURST, Manager, So.

69 Broadway, New York. The steamers of this lino are the largest in the rnh22 ly. ARRAGAN SETT STEAMSHIP GO: FOR TtORTOV. Yla FALL RIVER, TOUCHING AT NEWPORT, DAILY (Sundays excepted), at 4 P. From Pier No.

ED North Rivor, foot of Chamben street. WINTER ARRANGEMENT: no splendid steamers A. G. SIMMONS, Mondays, Wednesdays and Com. B.

M. SIMMONS. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Kt.n rtlnvn rnoay. FREIGHT RECKIVKD UP TO 4 P. M.

JAMES FISK, President M. R. Stmqnb. Managing Dfrcotor. my3 1 VNLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE The General Transatlantlt's Company's Mail Steamships between Now York and Havre, calling at Brest.

Lafnyette. Roussan, SATURDAY, Dooomber 3L VUlo de Paris, Lurmont, SATURDAY, on nary 28. For freight or passage, apply to GEO. MACKENZIE 58 Broad way, N. mhily (gOUTH SIDE RAILROAD OF L.

1. FALL. AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT. Commencing MONDAY, Oct. 1870, from Roosovelt and Grand 8 A.

Hail for Patohosno. 10 A. Aooommodatlon for Babylon. 3:31 P. lixpress for Patohoguervia stage to Bellvillo and Fire 4 :30 P.

Iallp Accommodation, Saturdays, through to Patcbogue. 5:30 P. Babylon Aocommodation. 6:30 P. nforriek Accommodation, The 8:45 and 13:148 A.

and P. M. trains connect at Valley Stream for Rockaway. The 8:45 and 10:00 A. and 3:30 and 4:30 P.

M. trains connect at Valley Stream for Hempstead. ocfi tf C.W. DOUGLASS, Superintendent. TAPSCOTT'S EMIGRATION AKD FOREIGN EXCHANGE OFFICE, 86 SOUTH ST, NEW YORK.

PASSAGE TO AND FROM LTVKRPOOL AND QUEENSTOWN WEEKLY. BY FIRST CLASS STEAMSHIPS. ALSO, FROM. LTVKRPOOL AND LONDON, BY REGULAR SAILING PACKETS WEEKLY. Drafts of XI and upwards available in any part of Groat Britain or Ireland af tbe lQwostrates.

ap27 ood ly mHE GREAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINK, FOR CHARLESTON, THE FLORIDA PORTS. AND THK SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. TRI WEEKLY LINK. TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY. Sailing from Pier 5, North River, at 3 P.

M. THE SID1CWHEKL STEAMSHIPS SOUTH Captain J. T. Beckett, on Til UltS DAY January 5. CHAMPION Tt onlMvnnil nn SATUR DAY, Jam ary 7.

Capialn R. II. Leonard. on TUESDAY, January lo. Superior accommodations for passonffors Througn pas ssko tickots and bills of lading issued in.

connection with the South Carolina Railroad to all points south and southwest, and over the Northeastern Railroad to Floronco, Cheraw, and all points on the Cheraw and. Darlington Railroad, dnd with stoamers to Florida ports Insurance by this line one half por conti. Goods forwarded frnoof oam nussiou. urns oi lauing lurnisuea una sittueu on tao pior. Local nassonrter ana trcluntomco An.au liroaaway.

HENRY R. MORGAN A Broadway For through freight tariff or further iniormutioo in reference to through freight, apply to BENTSY HA.SF.LL, Goneral Agent Groat Southern Freight Line; 317 Broadway, entranco on Thomas St. mh4 ly THENCHOR LINE STEAMERS SAIL EVERY SATURDAY AND ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY TO and FROM GLASGOW and RRRY, hookod.and forwarded to and: from all Rail wuy Stations in Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, Auiorica, as safely, spoedlly, comfortably and cbcnply as by any othor routeor line. h.Ai'itb&B extka HXbAnuas. ANOLIA Sat, Jan.

7. AUSTRALIA 14. INDIA Jan. 2L COLUMBIA. Jan.

28. EUROPA Feb. 4. BRITANNIA. Wed Jan.

11 IOWA Wed, Jan. 25 TYRIAN Wed, Feb. 8. BRITANNIA. Feb.

23. IOWA Wed Mar.8 CALEDONIA. Sat. Fob. 11.

March 23 And ovprv SATURDAY and alternate WEDNESDAY thereafter, froai Pier No. 20. North. Rivet, N. at noon.

RATES OF PASSAGE, PAYABLE IN CU1UU1NCY, TO LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW OR. First Cu'dins, $R5 and $75, according to location. Cabin Excursion Tickets (good lor 12 months.) securing best accommodations, SiliS bitormediate, $33. Steerage. $29..

Cortiiicatc.at REDUCED RATES oan bo bouaht horo by these wishing to send for their friends. Drafts issuednayable on presentation. Apply at Company's Offiees to HENDERSON BROTHERS, mh Bowlina (5 N. Y. BOOKS ANDiPAEGHN.

0 i a THK HIGHEST OASH(PBrOK8 rAID FOB OLD rZIWSPAPERS OF EVBRYt SGSIPTIOIf. OtJ) PAMPHLETS OF EVBSS ZEEN'D, OLD USIAKK BOOKS ItREGH BS that are written til), And sLVkicdsof WAS A A From linkers, Tusoraace Companiusi. Brokers, Ifcxiidno Depots, Printinsr OfficasEfaokbinJurs, Public and Private Libraries, HotoK Stcambdataf, Railroad Sonapa aioe End lepras Offices, Aa. JOIST O. STOCK LU 3i' Ij 25 Ann street.

IfaroTorfc. jT Y. SUPREME CmiRT CITY AN Xt County of Tow York. JoiiaH. Maboney, kbI.

Matthow C. Fordhxm, ot al. In inurtitiou. In ruqiiWiQ of a indgiDont of this mnoV) airl oncoel in.tiia above entitled acon, bearing but ths tilth iy fri JJgsem bar, 1870, 1, the uLnlersLrnod, tbe Itofarau in siid ja4tunt named, will sell at jmblio atm ion tho Rtmi, in the County Court Houso, in.thc City of Brooklvn. Civxp'tF of Kings and Stat of Kew YiwiUon taa tlihd January, 1871, at twfilvo o'claaiiv, noon, through, H3boti McGuire, Auctioneers I.

All that cc Fyain lot. parcel of situate. uoiiuoiu uiu iiiiuk ui iinyif x.im uium iiiiu iciju, and filed by Tpomas Coegusv Mastor in CLrtnqasyiin the northerly aidbof Sands arroet, distant twer.te liya('23) fest. westerly corner of Scn? Mil Chariot troota, andaWhe souUfcrestorly oornerof iQt number 591, on raid map, and rnnnihg from the no 3 along iha westerly side of sjd. Udammnbor niniHy fleveji (97) foot ix (6) inohs to an aUdp thence westerly along said alley twenty fixo VMot numbar lM9aWaldiriap; thanoa southerly along the stnatorly aide of sai'ptr number 539 ninettf'MVfinM foousix (6) incb.03 ts taonpnherlysidaof Bands street, oastorly alonthp northerly tjdo of Sands sireot.tironjtjfivo (25) feci to Uje jWftof boginalng.

UL AlLthat. oecteun parpeVci land, situate, lying and bDincisttae City of Brooklyni KJng County, oo tho wcarjy Washington street aniboundid as fol lows, to Beginning at tha soathi9teiiroorn3r of and adjoining tliB biM now or formerljof Martin, and ranoljifltbijmweatorly along now or formarhrof, tbe saiil PtonrlslL. Martin, ono hnndrodtvid three (103) eq. six (5) icpuos to land balonyfnKorlat.bobniny to the layuvowu Uiwrau duuuuo aim ujytjyrMtO Mia uu a iiuw ronneriy Belonging to tne lnnroa rorcy sa fa' along WtabingtonitMetforiivjiftfn) foot to thplco UL AU that certain pifloaor paroal of jrrotjftd, sit Brooklyn, Klnga jUtAta fy, described aa follows, to Bnginmng at a point on.tnpi weetrly side of Chariot stroaL olghty (60) fMt south erjly froin Proapoct streotat ggoond noworUtwuUbit O. BayUs.

and running tbcpQft westerly along satpTroundidf Baytls, and ground npw, or hte of John Hal? toad, fifty (40) feet; tnonce southerly soteateon (17) foot sttXfi) Inches; theneo easterly fifty (99). feat to strat; tnapoo northerly along ChariVa street seventeen foot six (6) tncboB to tho place at Qennlng. Dated Nbw York. No wmbor 16, 1870. URATZ NATHAj; Rotor, 115 JQisiau st.

ScTy. F. E. Mather, Bhu PiCTs Att'y, 89 at. noUftwTh The above ealo adywrned until the 6th day of Feb rnary, lfjil, at tht same hour and placeBatod Sew York.

Januarys, 187L GRAXZ BftOWN. Ifeferea. B. MATliaaf itra Att'y. jaj Wts CUPBEME COURT, COUNTY, marjr a ffnsia Parne.

rayno, 4 them Ypn aw Boroby Bommoned: "and renuirou to ansvrar vua vuuiliuluu iu uiuiaciion, Tfnun was woq in tna union th5 Coonti of Kings, on the day of Jan HonseTBrooXlm. New York, and serve a oopy of your ansvres to tho said complaint on tbo subscriber, at his offlco. No JS33 Vol ton strost. Brooklyn, In tno State of New York, wltnln twenty days af tor the service of thts snmraons on you, ejolnalve of W) day ol such sor vtooiandlfyoufall to answer tho said complaint within, the. time aforesaid, tho plaintiff In Oils sotion will apply to the Court lor tho rolloJBajnandod in the complaint.

Dato4 Januarys. 1871. jai 6w JAMES TROY, Plalntifl's Attorney, UPBEME COURT, KINGS OOUNTY. flihort. TJnnf Kllnn .1.

Weeks. Francis eoks and ntH Hv virtnn and In Dursuanco of a judff. ment of oreolosuro and salo entorod this aotlon, in the office of the Clerk of Klnss County, Dooember 31. 1870, tho undortlffnsd, the rofereo therein appointed, will soil by Subllo auction, at the Commorclal Exchange, No, 383 (old io. 869) Fulton street, in the City ol Brooklyn, on tho 2Jtn day of January.

1871, at 13 o'clock, noon, the roortiajo promises In said jndaTnontdeaoribod, All that certain loi, pieco or parcel ol land, situate, lylna and bolng In the Seventh Ward of tha said City of Brooklyn, ot a place called the Wallsbout. butted and bounded as follows, Beginning against a street or avenue laidoutonamapofa part of the land of tho said Jeremiah Johnson, and marked on thesamo as lot No. (7) seven, and running easterly along lot No. 6 two hundred feet, more or loss, to land ofJohn Skillmsn thonoe southorly, the land of John Skillmsn, twonty nve feet to lot No. 8 thence westorly along lot No.

8, two hundred foot, more or less, to the street or avenue aforesaid; thence northerly, along the same twenty five feet to tne place of beginning, asthe samo is now staked out and designated on thosald map. A. ItA B.Refaree Js4SwWrS Bdjd meats. Thousands of these would be momentary, and confined to narrow limits, but for the rivalry existing between the news. papers which must supply their readers with everything in the shape of news, whethergood or bad and to our shame bo it said, the worse the news the more popular the vehicle through which it reaches the people.

Every day we read of murder, arson, burglary and other crimes indicating the existence of a phase of civilization unheard of bofore the flood. To day a husband murders his wife and blows his own brains out. To morrow a son kills his aged mother for no other reason than that of jealousy. Now an insurance company fails, and the victims find no redress. Then a bank is robbed of the wealth of a hundred rich men.

Houses' are burned by those whose inexplicable desire to work mischief gratifies it in this way. Clip from tho laBt week's files of New York papers, tho various records of gossip and crime and explain, philosophically, if it con be done on any principle laid down in books, or deduced from the over present experience of the past, or evolvedfrom tho working of busy miuds, what has produced this state of affairs now so common as to exoite but little remark among any class of people. Does the solution of the question lie in the faet that men and women are radically depraved, amd that their depravity is more apparent now than of old only by reason of the general advance of the world in morality and the multiplication of news vehicles Every decade of years is better than the on which preceded it is rendered so by the advancement of civilization and the increased enlightenment of people. We hoar and know more of our neighbors now than we evor did before, and what we term an increase of depravity is only the closer acquaintance' which tho telegraph and railroad secures to us, bringing to our doors reports and accounts which in years gone by would have been unknown. Hence, the assertion that wo are not less pure and respeo table, generally speaking, than in tho past.

But thare is one evil, as yet confined to our large citiei, and recognized as the transient ffeot of unused brain power, as marked as the advancement in intelligence, and that is a corresponding growth on the part of womou I in impurity. If anything characterizes tho lady in the real sonso it is modesty. So trite truism is needed to draw attention to tho fact that other kind of ladies are known among us, as indeed they are. Tho froedom of tho press in this country has been in no way so much nbusod as in tho manner in which women are mentioned. If a wealthy or noted woman gives an entertainment it is not to her friends.

They are merely used as an excuse for the hostess' name appearing in print. Presents to brides are rated just like other quotations of gold aud merchandise. Not alone marriages are reported now but descriptions oven to the most painfully minute details, are given as witness, General Butler's advertisement of his daughter's nocturnal linen. Sensible women shrink from these exposures, and recognize in their frequent appearance a want of proper delicacy on the part of women and a downright insult from men, who supposo it is a way to gain their favor. Said a poor illiterate woman 'I am awfully afraid for my littlo girls.

There 's no safety for them any more. Rich folks are in the papers when they get married, and when thoy want divorces, and women like me are working themselves to death to put fine things on their girls to send them to destruction. My girls want to be noticed in the paper like my neighbor's (laughter, who has been written about because she had a party." Are there not enough exciting topics in our cilies to fill up the columns of newspapers, and cannot the sensational gossip about women be stopped 't Perhaps it is tine the remark made by a silly girl the other day Oh, my brother is willing to pay to see my name in the paper." Would he be as willing to see libelous personalities about another as he is to feel pleased at a compliment to his sister's elegant appearance or pretty face. Women must assert themselves in a dignified manner, and insist that hereafter the mark of ladyhood will be to keep mention of social pleasures aud marital engagements out of the gnat papers. The freedom of tho press ox tended to such personalities aud impertinences to women should be resented by tho refining force of the cowhide or horsewhip.

Let news be gathered through the legitimate channel. Surely there are enough murders and arsons, wars and rumors of wars, to satisfy even the most insatiable appetite for variety and sensation, and let tho pure minded women of the large cities for it is in such that this practice has been carried too far demand that the respect due their worth shall be paid them by that dignified silence due to every woman who deports herself as a lady. IVciv York illiyiiiforiuation. The crab is a small red animal that walks backward." This definition," said a naturalist, with the exception that the crab is not an animal, is not red and does not walk backward, is perfectly correct." With equal accuracy a New York paper staled yesterday that whisky aud rum wero the principal beverages at the Mayor's Now Year reception. The Mayor was sick and had no reception.

Another New York journal do votes a serious editorial article to day to tho severo wounding, "probably fatal," of Mr. Haggcrty in the little unpleasantness he has just had. Inasmuch as Uaggerty was only just missed and not just hit by the bullet, his serious and "probably fatal wounding" must be in his feelings not in his person. Criticism of things theatrical over tho river is calculated to surprise the average reader. We are informed in a paper that is accepted as authority in dramatic matters and from which actors mainly make tip their scrap books, that Miss H.

acted with charming delicacy of feeling and with unaffected naturalness. Delicacy of feeling is charming and naturuluess is unaffected. There can be no doubt about that. Mr. 13.

is declared to have been frank, hearty, and gonial. We can truthfully say that if Mr. P. deserved one of these adjectives, he was entitled to tho other two, by every principle that makes pleonasm of no consequence to criticism. Tho Herald poetry is ''peculiar." Of the late lamented Prim it to day says 'J he FtuljitorV art exhausts tlie pomp of woo, And bturied urns proclaim wlio rest below.

This is not so good as the old Bath couplet which, by the way, contains about tho best puns in the language Hire storied urn an animated bunt, Show how Hath waters servo to lay tho dust. Since tho Herald's confounding of Eliza belh and Mary, Queen of Scots, as sisters, (here has been nothing in its editorials more remarkable than the Prim poetry of this morning. Marshal Storing, of the Austrian Army, whose death is announced, is another of those fortunate portions whoBO high sounding titlos Bocurosfor them obituary notices. Whoovor know before that ho commanded at tho battlo of Custozza or was present at tho surrondor of Koniggratz In this much divorcing ago, various are ths grounds of complaint, but the lady in Ohio who demands to bo separated from her husband because "ho does not beliovo in tho damnation of still born infants" is a stiff neck theologian without a morsel of logic, aud tho way sho stioka to her notions is a marvel of unquestioning faith. Tho nuns of tho Sacred Heart yesterday roceived into their midst another professor, tho young lady in this instance being Miss Ellen G.

White, tho second daughter of the lato Judge JamcB N. White, of the Superior Court. Her parents being Catholics, sho was reared in that faitn, and early formed tho resolution to bocomo a nun, which sho haa thus carriod out. Attorney General Akerman has purchased a plantation near Cartorsvillo, Georgia. Under tho present administration it ia fashionable to buy real estate as soon ao appointod to office.

In this individual ccho it shows profound wisdom. Tho Attorney General fools tho iuse'eurity of his position, when ho boos that bis State repudiates tho party which placed him in powor. Tho Marquis of Hartiugton is said to bo popular in his now position as Secretary of Ireland, and the reason given for this pleasant state of things is the fact that the Marquis ia a friond of mixed education. This now kind of eduoation ia exclusively of Irish origin, and it is presumablo that it ia opposed to all other accepted kinds. Wo have heard of common Bchool and university educations, but mixed educations are a new invention, peculiar to the locality in which the Marquis is so popular.

meeting thla Morning' A New member Received Tbe Cburch In Jericho A Spicy Seaaloa What Shall we do to be Saved from tbe Presbyterians The North Classes of the Reformed Dutoh Church of Long Island met yesterday morning in the General Synod Booms', No. 84 Vesey street, N. 7 for the transaction of ecclesiastical business, Rev. A. HiUman in the chair, Bev.

Wm. H. Ten Eyck of Astoria, stated dork of the olasses, Secretary. There were present Bevs. J.

Q. Vgn Slykor, of Jamaica, Charles I. Shopard, of Newtown, J. H. Smock, of Oyster Bay, Wm.

H. Ten Eyck, of Astoria, Alexandor McKclvey, of Greenpolnt, E. Falrchild, of Flushing, James WyckoC, of Queens, E. D. F.

Stelnfuhrer, of East Astoria, A. O. Hillman and H. V. Voorhies, ministers without charges, and elders Biohard Brush, Daniel Brinckerhoff, A.

McLean and W. Fames, Bev. Mr, Hillman opened tho mooting with prayor, and stated tbe object of the meeting to be the reception and consideration of an application for the dismissal of Bev. H. from the classes.

Bey. Mr. Fairchild moved that the gentleman be dismissed. Rev. Alexander McKelvey moved aa as amendment that the brother bo dismissed.

Mr. Faircbild replied to that with a suggestion that they would 'dismiss from him tho title of gentleman, and ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AS A "bEOTHEB," whereat some little merrlmont prevailed. jov. air. nicneivoy toougnt tno classes snouia not dismiss their brothers in such a loose manner without knowing a reason, and at a hint from the Chair, brother Voorhies said he bad received a call from NyacK, which was in tno Dounas or tne classes or paramus, and supposed the people might think it neoossarv for him to be there.

This was considered satisfactory, and on motion the brother was dismissed and the clerk Instructed to furnish him a certificate. A report was then called for on tho INSTALLATION OP A NEW PASTOB, Eev. J. G. Van Slyker, over the Dutoh Reformed Church at Jamaica, wnicn report was suomittea oy itov.

Mr. Shepard to the effect that the said pastor was Installed December 20, 1870, and referring briefly to the services. TIDINGS PB03I JEMCHO, Rev. Mr. Smoek wished to know from Mr.

MoKclvey wnat naa oecome oi tne promisoa ooutriDution irom his ohurch for tho building of the church now under erection at Jericho. Mr. MoKelvey replied that they had taken it, but as he heard no more appeals from that quarter, he concluded thoy had no neod of more monoy and had turned it over to one of the oustomary channels. Mr. Smock, who, it appears, has been laboring mightily for the consummation of tho Bold church, gave a brief Btatcmont of tne condition matters wore lu at that place.

Tbe church was nearly finished, but was in debt. Mr. Smock had become personally responsible lor tne aeot. ana unioss $iou were raised beiere tne 10th the carpenter, who hod a lien unon it. threatened to sell it.

He, Mr. Smock, had paid him $275 on it, but after getting it he made the threat that unless hi had tho rest by the time named, he WOULD SELL THE CHUBCH. It seemed that a certain cider maker, whose factory was but ii jiow nunarea roas on, lustea alter tno ouna ins. and saia tnat "xiomimo omocs; naa uunt tne ohurch much better than ho could build it, and he wanted II Tho carpenter, said Mr. was put up to it by thial INFIDEL CIDER MAKER, who shutlho peoplo out of the school house, and thus nocesBilatid tho buildine of a church.

Mr. Smoek spoke vonV strongly in favor of redeeming tho church from tbislman of vinegar, and asked that the classos 1UU 11, 9 Rov. Mr Ten Eyck promised him aid noxt Sabbath, when ho Suld take up a contribution. Mr. Mo jolvoy said, Wall, he didn't know it seomod as it bis pi Dplo lacked, well, denominational zeal.

Thoy fee that tl Dutch Church is 1 COINO TO OEASS. They had just built a big church, and roceived no help from others, and did not feel encouraged to aid others. A certain uhiirch, be said, had recoiyod aid of to koop it out of tho Prosbyterians hands. He thought that was only giving tho money away, for it would eventually go to tho Presbyterians. Mr.

Smock said tbo circle at lin was a little circle Of four or Five hundred, lnrffolv nnmnnRivt nf Onnknrn. exceedingly wealthy, some of thom, from $4,000 to $5,000, and some hah a million, but they COULD NOT GET A OENT from them. A few were very aniinns fur chnrnlt nnrl gayo liberally, considering thoy aro not professing christians. They are anxious to have tho Gospel preached to them. Thoy listen attentlvelv in nuv nnn thnt claims to be a teacher, but they aro taught such doctrines ss that the Garden of Eden is in ourselves and that there was no material garden, oto.

Tho wholo indebtedness of the church is $1,252. air. tnougnt tue or ion onurch entitled to sympathy. ThiB church, ho said, was LARGELY PRESBYTERIAN. Thoro were but two families in it that wero Dutch who had tho Dutch blood in them.

Thoy would go over readily to PrcBbyterianlsm if ho was to say "Come, lot ub go over to the PrcBbyterian Churoh." Thoy had contributed a email Bum for the benefit of the Jericho church it wasnt large he had it to give to the Board of Domestio Missions for tho Jericho churoh. and if they would givo it to that ohurch, he would pay it oyer. mr, Duiuujt sum it was given to tno Jjoara, ne wouia not get hold of it, as it would be applied to the paying for ndrvicea already held thero unless it was eivon for tho cburch extension fund it would bo out of his powor. Mr. Ten uyck then gave a LITTLE DISCOURSE ON FAULT FI (DERB.

and hiB experionce therewith. He fiought thoso in charge of such matters better qualiiied to judgo of them thau wo who look at them from tho outside. Ho had no idea that the Dutch churoh waB ruumng into tue gronnu, it was going anoaa. Mr. rihepord eaid bo hanncuod to bo a minister of tho Board of Homo Missions, and know somewhat how these ninttcrs worked.

Ho though the best way in such matters taking collections waB to state the object of it. He thought also that tho classes should raise as much for the Board as thoy asked the Board to givo. Tho classes usa givon about si 74 uud asked il.U'JJ. no had faith in God, but ho believed that there was such a tmng us FAITn RUNNING TO SEED, which was presumption. Mr.

voorhies thon said what was wanted was a straightforward, manly Christian policy, and it would not then be related as a fact that a certuin mau went down Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thicvep, (Merriment and laughter aud great dolight at tho happy hit evinced by Mr. McKolvoy, who cried, ciacr manors turning cuurcu to a viuogar "We want to take hold with a new zoal." continued Mr. Voorhies, "to save it from tho Presbyterians. Ah 1 do we 1 Wo want," contiuued he with fresh earnest nosB, "to elevote the choractor of tho commuuity an to make tho ministers feel strong. No man in tho church that is a man is afraid to speak for Jesus in a manly way.

All tno policy we ask Is that thoy let ua snow briefly bow much thoy want and we'll go and raise it." He hinted at an independent Board of Missions, and hoped for such a state of things that there should not bo this dropping off till thoy became infiuitentmally email. Mr. Ten Eyck rolatod a littlo anccdoto of his own church, prefacing it with, "I hove one fault finder in my congregation." "What, only ono," interrupted Mr. McKelvey. "Yos, only ono," replied Mr.

Ton Eyck." Then you arc very lorrunate." Several ministers present on'orcd to obtain aid for tho Jericho church. Mr. McKolvey then rose to romark that ho was A POOR HAND TO DO THINGS BLINDLY. Ho outertaincd Mr. Voorhies' views.

Ho favorod tho manly out and out way. Tho Boards nor tho roprs cnuiuves 01 ino noaras mustn't ton us we aro lauit finders. He then stated some things which seomod not to bo known to tho crenoralitv. aud to be tho pecu liar property of tho Board, and said that he felt tempted, after bearing yoar after yoar with tho abuses ho alleged against tho Board, he felt tempted to advise nlHicuurcu to ao its own work. Mr.

Shopard wautcd to know if BrotUor McKolvoy was, as bo said, a poor hand to work uudorhanded, how he found out Mr. McKolvoy. intcrruntincr I didn't say so. I dlam't suy underhanded. Here somo little aisputo lonowoa Detwoon tuo two, as to what bo did Bay, but others sustaining Mr.

Mc Kelvey's assertion that ho said "blindly," Mr. Shopard lot umteu uimscu oy sayiug tnat sucn was tno nnpros liop ho received, and proceedod to ask how ho found it tueso mingB, ana ue mas.es a tirroat tnat Mr. MoKolvey No, I didn't mako tho threat. I said Mr. Shopard You did threaten you said MoKolvey No.

I ouly soid I folt nrovokod to nroposo that we should go and form a now Board of Missions. Mr. Shopard thon proceeded to say that tho Board would bo under great obligations if Classos Bhould ro lidvo tho Board of tho domands upon thom. Thoro was one church he kuew that didn't do what it ought to do far tho Board aud tho Classes. Tho Hoards, ho said.

were not sou appointcu. iuey wore ostaousuou uy tno noral synou 01 tuo cuurcu. tie went on to say tuat tllero was monoy in the churches and it could bo ob ttjincd. This brothor (Mr. McK.) know that we'! enough, and none had labored more than ho.

"I don't nioan to flatter tho brother," said ho, "for I FELT MORE LDXE KICKING HIM than flattering him." Hero Mr. Mciieivoy laughingly interrupted to oxplain that "Oh. no. ho don't daro do that lie's afraid to do that," upon which Mr. Shopard proudly contradicted: "no, he waB not afraid," but aa it was all "iu fun," ana the contestants wore ministers, no blood could bo ox poctcd to flow.

Mr. Buepara conciuaea oy saying tuat "as oiassos wo ought to do moro for ourselves," wo don't know enough of tho operations of tho individual Boards. Mr. Faircbild said he had a crood place for a church. and Mr.

Poppenhensen had offered two lots for tho ounuiug sito, auu no tnougnt, as tno netgnDornooa was Gorman, that services in English at morning a' I iu German at evening would bo a suocess. Ho oIbo thought that the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WOULD DISUNITE again after the reunion. It waB human nature to love powor, and this love of powor would load them to this. (Mr. MoKelvey exclaimed "nonsenBo," and Mr.

Ten Eyck "yes, 1 think sno Thoro would, said Mr. Faircbild. be auother Babel scene, until the inortat foil down in tho mouths of tho people, and then they would ALL SPEAK "DUTCH" AGAIN. Laughter aud obasiderablo amusoment prevoilod, called out by this romark. Mr.

F. said, in illustration, that a small ohuroh'was oasior to wield than a. large body, for good. Some further business succeeded, tho most, inmrost ing being tho promiso of aid to tho littlo ohuro'hat Jor icho Rev. Mr.

Van Slykor was substituted in. placo of Mr. MoKolvey, to visit tho ohurch at ABtoria during the season of prayer, and was added to tho Committeo to visit South Bnshwlck. The names of a number of clergymen appointed to mako visits to tho several churches wore read, and it being tho hour of high noon and tbo ministers waxine huncry. the mootlim ad journed in tbo greatest of harmony and tho best of good tooling, sir.

auoparu aiuu't kick urotuor Aiutioi yoy, and Brothor MoKolvoy invited him to subsoribe for his paper, The Sower and Gospel DEMOCRATIC GENERAL COMMITTEE, Ihe Oeimans and tbe Plmaxles The lepjular monthly meeting of the Demo cratic Goneral Committee was held si the headquarters of the organization corner of Courtand Bemsen streets, last evening, General Thomas S. Dakin, Vice President, in the chair, and Secretary George Q. Horman recording. The minutes of the lost meeting were read and ap roved, and tho roll call commenced, when His Honor be Mayor, President of tho Committee, entered the room, but declined to take the chair which was offered by General Dakin, and at the conclusion of the roll oal), business proceeded as follows Upon a renewed invitatioiufrom General Dakin, Mayor Kalbfleisoh took the chair, and announooct that aa tho Committeo would meet for organization for tho year, on tho evening of the third Monday of tho present month, it was necessary that somo action should bo token with reference to the holding of primaries. On motion of Mr.

Robert Furey, it waa rcaolvod that when tho Committee adjournod it do so. to Tuesday evening lor tne purpose 01 calling tne primaries. Mr. Furoy offered a resolution that tho Committeo respectfully recommend tho Germans of tho oounty to assemble in their respective waTds aud towns and to form organizations for the purpose of choosing ono ueicgatoirom eacrtwara ana town to tno uommittoo. Mr.

Furey stated that tho resolution had not boon offered bofore because it woidd havo been looked upon as a bid for tho Qermau vote. The Committeo, ho sain, desired to deal, fairly with tho Germans, but, as these) wcro two German political organltations in tho county, it was difficult to dotermine which was tho proper coo to recognize, and thoreforo it waa proposed that, tho Germans should have a fair representation in tho. Committee by election. Mr. Patrick Kconan, of tbe Sixth Ward, moved to lay tho resolution on tho table, as he didn't wank that it Bhould he dictated as to whom should bo elootod.

Mr. Furey said there waa no dosiro to dkitate, but that tho matter was to bo loft entirely to the Germans themselves. Neither the resolution nor motion were seconded, and the committee adjourned to Tuesday evening without transacting any further business. Navy Yard Admiral Smith of the Nary Yard Is sick. Captain Wolsoy, who has been confined to his home by sickness for three weeks post, has resumed his duties.

During his. absence Captain Nicholson served as Executive Offlcor. The Tennesson will receive her offlcerg and men to morrow. The One Man Power Supreme TRACY'S "SLATE" COMPLETED President Grant Triumphant SENATOR FENTOU DITTO Incidents, Cincidenis and Clownisliness THE PROCEEDINGS TRACY ALL THE TIME. The: KeublicaTi.

Goneral Committee of Kings County is no moro. Heretofore a very lively body; run 01 pith and long talk; anxious to secure recognition among similar bodies in the Empire State, albeit the County of Kings had the perverse habit of rolling np reliable Democratic majorities, the body laid some claim to party recognition. Accordingly, it was reported in the Eagle the same as its offset in morals, xne Young Men's Christian Association." During December the trusting mombers of the party met in primaries in fact they met otherwise, as Morton's damaged optio and Jakey Worth's swollen digits could sufficiently comprehend. The primaries, as pri maries must, bad a result, and last evening the Committee of 1871 met. It met in a room over the U.

S. Post Office. It elected as President a IX S. offlco holdor one Dntcher, It was engineered by another TJ. 8.

officer holder ono Tracy. Tho balanco of its offioors, with two exceptions (pos sibly throe), are D. S. office holders. And tho President is U.

S. Grant. Thus has WEBSTER ACHDJVED A NEGATIVE TRIUMPH. Beaten at tho polls, pulverized his "whisky dis trict," he has finally assumed the negative possibilities of the game, and clearly won. Blissed, Godarded, Rich arosoned, Maddoxed and Dutchered, ho fell gracefully back after ascertaining that ho could not do anything else.

And behold the result which Webster can take to Washington and announce with puffing lungs and monBtacho oxtra fierce. Here runs the tale "Although Slocum boat mo for Congross, Mr. Presi dent, see the result. Whiting is not a Congressman neither am I. But the U.

8. havo triumphed. Dutohcr is tho Chairman and a U. S. Supervisor Tracy is tho and U.

8. Distriot Attorney. Smaller fry vegetable in tho Custom House, tho Navy Yard, tho Assessors' offices, and although ronton is nominally ahead, bo is really beaten. Grant must bo tho next President and Wobster la his soul saver." To all of this tho Committee, Mr. Tracy's United States Republican Genoral Committee of Kings County, aro expected to acquiesce.

Well, lot's sco. THB STRUGGLE FOE PRESIDENT. The Eaole has always boon willing to givo ovory foe a fair ohaucc but it has also beon tenaoiouB of its victories. Tho election of Dutcher as President of this sublimated surge of politicians is a triumph for the Eagle for it was tho Eagle which first nominated him for the position. And when eloctod laBt evening, ho came up ana endorsed tho Eagle by saying that for flvo of the fifteen years during whioh the Republican party had boon a party he had presided ovor a similar body.

Which statement is a matter of great doubt. Whether tho cool, clean shaven, decontly well possossed Silas B. ovor undertook such a job of control as laBt night, let the tenacious Whiting, tho roystering Itich Brdson, tho foxy Maddox, tho velocipedian Wobster, the now amiable Morton, tho ohild liko Worth, the managing Fisher, the "sober Barnott Johnson, the slimy Felt, the disturbing Johnson, tho vindiotivo Oakey, the unsuBtaincd Bonnett mako roply. And next in order came tho elections, THE WAR DOGS WERE HOWLING all day yesterday ovor the result of tho caucus on Sat urdoy evening. Thorn, tho Alderman of tho Third, from which B.

F. Tracy (tho manager) also halted, was wonderfully dissatisfiod that he was not first Vice Pres ident. A. G. Williams, of tho Ninth, named as Second Vice President, had oxpected, through his frionds, to be a candidate for Proaidout, on a split on Dutcher.

Furbish was rampant that ho was not Secretary, as previously understood. All dny long tho war was waged, Tho smoke of battlo Btood proudly aloft, aud visions of heroic action ap pean.Jinovorypuff. Tho evening camo. Tho cohorts assembled, with crowds of sympathising Domocrats, who, unlike lianquo's ghost, would "down" into a Beat and stay there dcBpite all the courtly efforts of the well meaning tomporary Prosidout from tho Twontioth Ward Hon. George G.

Hoyuolds. But iu the midst of all this preparation for the siu guinury, the comic would creep out. In tho main aislo a mau named McGahy, evidently an enthusiastic Republican and quite as ovidoutly Burchargod with "tho compuincntB of the seas )U," caused much determination of blood to the organ of mirtlif uluoss, aud was with difficulty subsided by THE PANTALOON PROPULSION bestowed upon him by tho tomporary Sorgonnt at Arms one William Wallace, of Scotland, if Scotland bo in tho Eleventh Ward. Mr. Burnett Johnson, from Gravosend ono of tho side judges, who are supposed to fling wisdom into tho main judicial ear essayed, with somo considerable success, to assumo tho rolo of clown, much to the dis gUBt of Mr.

John Oakey, who usually does the Republican fuunyisms iu public Joimsou sundry times struggled with an iron post iu front of him, assumed a suspicious and evaucscant perpendicular, and succeeded in introducing his intellectual muddling stick by frequent endeavors to raiso a "pint" of order, whilo evidences of quarts of enthusiasm wore plainly visible. CAPTURING THE CLANS. At lost, after tho roll had beon colled throo times, and overybody had become seated aud iu reasonable order, the run of tho machine began to Bbow itself. Telegrams from Washington could not hive "303 led" the whole matter more surely. Not a man iu all that Committeo could be induced to bo President but Dutcher.

Not a man dare mako a motion except Tracy. Not a heart beat oxcept at "regulation" tattoo not a foot was planted save in tho wonderfully attractive trucks of U. S. District Attorney Tracy. U.

S. Tracy moved that U. S. Dutohor bo President. It was carried.

U. S. Tracy moved that A. G(raut) Williams be first Vice President. It was carried, U.

S. Tracy moved A. B(oltor) Thorn be soiond Vico President, and it was about to bo oarriod when Mr. John Oakey moved to amend by shortening the farco. And then U.

S. Tracy moved, Thorn Second Vice President, Van Sicklon, Third Vice President, three Secretaries, a Liniburgcr chooso from tho as Sorgeant at Arms and wound up tho succession of enormities by moviug U. S. TRACY FOR TREASURER. And ovorything was taken down tho throats of tho delegates.

At last, with Barnott Jo bnBon doing his boat in his character of clown. United States Tracy moved to adjourn and tho Committeo Boparated. Onco or twice Muddox spoke once Morton attempted onco Richardson tried thrico Whiting O3sayod to say something; but over and above all, recognized by the chair Judge Reynolds would como tho ever prevailing utterances of that United States Tracy, spoko by tho card, and whose voico was supposed to be that of tho greater and yet lesser U. who sits in tho big. chair down in Washington.

SUMM1NO UP RESULTS. Thrco wards, tho Fourth, Tenth and Twonty contested. In the Fourth tho Radicals don't liko tho. Limbergcr ticket, its too unctuous of tho Bmoll of impure primaries. In the Tenth, Wass wnboaten by lames Jourdan, and tho usual Dan Has'aouck without knowing why.

In tho Tn anty first Folico Captain Leieh sticks to what he conaidiirs his rights as the sound of his name would load one to expect, aud proposes to oust Fisher, Flinn, Flavin; and Ellorj. Theso matters havo to a Committoe for settlement. How Tracy could make this concession is not understood; but tho Committee porhaps. have eoxno rights which United States olUclals aro bound to respect. B.

Johnson scorned to appreciate in the midst of a non undoqstandabh) speaohi on a "pint" of ordor, ho soeondear a motion lo. adjourn United States Tracy's motion, by the way. Conkling wins because Dutohorls a Fenton wins because Dntahor Is a Gront wins boaauso Duipnor is an administration man. This much for goneral. facts and nowvfnr details as told in THS The meeting was csltod to ordor proimptly at half past bovoh, by W.

Bennett, toVChairmon, who said, that in accordancA with tho power irested in hira by tho Constitution the he would uow call the meeting to ordar, and he nomimrlod tho Hcun. George W. Reynolds, aa tomporary Chaunaan. Th nomination was, received with, cheers and rtkj. fied, and Mr.

Rey.ojaa on taking, hue seat, briefly turned thanks foiae honor donct, hira by tho Hon, and expressedtche deep intoiosst.h felt in thaauci. cess of tho KepuitilioAn party. Mr.HasbrouJ((Oenth) move, Hot the rules of, or derof theprevtpuBjAeneral Cojamittae bo adopted' oa the rules of ordac uf this, untiltnflw rules aro odooteuT Carried. Mr. Mortoc.moscd that JoSmsB; Norton of tVcTonlh Ward and ChjOi.

Small of the, Thirteenth Wwk bo chosan as temporary Secretaries. Adopted. The calling ef the roll was, thon oommoucefs, but owing to tfefl fact that a grcsirnany outsiders had, seated scats, it was forma, almost impossibly tor members tlioir namoB.wraoallod to get to their seats. Mr. Whitmg (TwontiothJ'nMvcd that thouoomlie oloar ed of ollibttt delegates.

Hisses from tho outsiders. Tho Chsarman Ob, 1st ub got throrb I nominate Johu.leeaB Scrgeanltit Arms to onforco odor. BancU Johnsua (Gcayesond) Mt Cbateman, it is impossible for tho delegates from tlKj County towns to get to thoir seats, move that att gentlemen horo bo aljpwed to tako'tta rear scats bo thajr tho County towns can Ret to thoir seats. IXaunhtnr Tufs will all to Indus time. Will Mr Wallace be kind enonsh to act as Sor geant at Arma? Mr.

Wallace (promptly) I wOJ. Mr. Barnott JohnBon Mr. Chairman, it has ahrays been tho custom of tho Republican party Hero Mr. Wallace in hia efforts to clear tho room, reached Mr.

Johnson and hustled him into a Boat, which had the effect of dam ing his flow of oratory. Tho colling of tho roll was thon proceeded with, when the Chairman announcod that tho orodoutlals from all tho wards appeared to bo oorroct, aa oaoh was signed by a majority of the Inspectors, Thoro wero protests, however, in tho oases of tho Fourth, Tonth, anaiwonty firstAVards. Thoso would bo left for tho consideration of tho Committee to he annoiutod on Contested Seats, Mr. WhlOnBl beg Ioavo to hand In this paper, and tostato thot I do not know what Ita contents aro. ELECTION OP OPFIOBBS.

Mr. Traoy (Third Ward) At a preliminary mooting of the delegates elected, which was held tn this room on Saturday last, thoro being 102 mombers prosont, I wsb instructed by tho meeting to prosont to this Committee a list of names whioh were rooommoiided by this meeting as candidates for officers of this Committee for the ensuing year. In nursuance of this I havo tho honor to present, as the" action ol this mooting, or What Mr. KaMeisch has to Say in Review of the Past Year. THE FINANCIAL CONDITION THE CITT.

OF Return to Purely Municipal GoTernment Recommended. The following is the text of the annual message of His Honor the Mayor of Brooklyn, present ed to the Board of Aldermen this afternoon Mayob's Oitioe, 1 Bbooslyk, January 3, 1871. To Iht Honorable the Board of Aliermtn Gihtlimkt: Under the provisions of our charter the duty of annually eommunloatlng to tout honorable body a ganeral statement of the situation and oondltion oi ino city, reianvo to its government, nnancefl ana im provemtsM, again devolve! upon me. TEX I VENTS 07 THE TEAK. The year which has expired has not been an evantlet period In our city's hiatory.

On the whole, wo oan look back upon its annals with satisfaction. They include no great local calamity, Tne puduo peace ana suety have been but rarely disturbed. Id the two moil flagrant eases in one of which an Industrious workincr man lost bis life while guarding his employer's pro perty, ana in tne other, a vainea ana punuo spintoa citizen waa shot down without having offered the slightest provocation, each of the men by whom the dadly weapon was ao fatally em gloved, was a resident of the adjoining city. The pub health, too, baa been maintained, notwithstanding the ftlmoai unprecedented character of the prevailing weather. The feara of malignant epidemic, so sedulously disseminated during the latter part of the Summer, proved unfounded.

The Bpread of smallpox, at a later period of tho year, was a more actual danger, but by the precaution! of our Health Department it was oheoked with comparatively littlo mortality. Our citizens were, however, for a considerable period oxposed to groat peril by the outrageous condaot of the contractors employed by tho Health authorities of the neighboring city, who persisted, In disregard of publlo de oency and of the health of the entire surrounding population. In throwing the offal and dead animals of Mew York into the waters which wtah our ebores. I would most strongly urge your honorable body to demand, through our County Delegation In the Legislature, the Immediate passage of a law oxplioitly forblding the rapotltion of such an outrage. During the past year one of my predecessors in ths office, Hon.

Conklin Brush, closed nlonglifo of useful publlo serricoand honorable business record. poraU history, among whom I may mention our former friend and colleague, Mr. C. Franks, have gone from among ns but on the whole there has but littlo shado so yet Deen cast upon tno sun glowing picture ox our fair city. Its uroKrcsa amazes and gratifies us ever anew when wo stop to observe it.

But the oity cannot grow so fast as do the burdens an utterly rooklosspolioy nas lam upon it. wo cannot eat our case onco ana again and always koop It too. We oannot discount our future In nve or Blx different places and nope to realise it also. The ratio of our oity'B growth from period to period will be soon from the following COMPAEATIVB STATEMENT OF THE POPULATION AND DEBT: Population in 1880 17,000 47,000 1850 180,000 1860 260,000 1870 400,0) Compare with this our publlo burdens: Taxes levied In 1840 8 1850 483,900 18J5 1,600,000 1860 a.ooo.ooo 1865 8,700,000 1870 8.000,000 Oily debt inonrredup to 1850 865,000 in iBoa In 1660 5,600,000 in 1865 8,700,000 1870 S6 m'm I challenge any of thoBe who are so ready to de nounce me as a croaker and alarmist to say if the faot Drought out oy these oxhlbite is not one that needs lo be incessantly pnt forward in the strongest way in all such communications as the present. Here it is shown that for ten years past wo bavo boon borrowing money in vast sums, mortgaging our future with Incredible recklessness, and at the same time swelling our expenses at a rato to wnicn tne growtn oi tno city, rapia as it is, cannot begin to afford a parallel.

Why bavo wo borrowed unless that our present payments may bo light7 Yot wo have added to our present payments, as If we wore paying cash for most expensive permauont Improvements, and then we turn around and borrow millions after millions, yoar after year, as if wo wero paying cash for next to nothing, and leaving every payment to posterity. Wo aro burning the candle fast at both ends, and still hope to keep our light, and to nave it permanently increasing in brillianoy, THE PRESENT DEBT OP THE CITy. Your attention is called to tho fact that I intimated in my former messages, that on tho Slst of Docembor, 1870, our city dobt would reach thirty millions of dollars unlesB greater caution was oxcrcised in inourrlng increased liabilities. My predictions bavo not only been vennea, but our (loot now is even niucii greater than I anticipated, having reached a total of thirty millions, five hundred thousand dollars, incurred already, and flvo millions, six hundred and eighty ftve thousand dollars in bonds are authorized to bo issued in addition thereon. Tho present liabilities of tho city aro as follows Amount outstanding on tho 30th oiiJuno, 187U as por Atatouent of Mr.

Rosa $33,725,000 Ffiteen sUteontha of the County liabilities, Deo. 31,1870 Amount of bonds Ifisuod slnco Juno 30: Prospect Park $500,000 Briilgo 600,000 Sowerago 835,000 Local ABsossmonts 420,000 Do. for Water Board Vopavlng 600,000 Dolicionoy Certificate 63,370 Bonrd of Kducatlon, do 90,000 Fourth avonuc WntorLuan 150,000 ContrAl avenue Sower 15,000 Union street Improvement 80,000 Bushwlck avenuo 111,000 Kentavonno Basin 30,000 Total $3,958,970 From which doduot amount of bonds redeemed since Jnno SO 166,719 Leaving 3,781,651 To ho added to the amount outstanding in Juno, and making tho total of aotual liabilities on Dooomuer31, 1870 $30,507,651 Tho amount of bonds authorizod to bo Issued In addition, and which will further increase our liabilities are as follows Bnlanco Subscription to Bridge $1,800,000 Park Improvomont Sower Central avanuo Afiflcpsmeut Fund Bonds for various Iraprovonlonts under contract, suy. 500,000 Contemplated Reservoir first instalment 1,400,000 And wo have $5,685,000 which will have to bo addod to our already enormous liabilities. LOCAL ASSESSMENTS.

I am frequently told, by tho advocates of oxtrava gance, that wo get valuo roceived for every bond issued, and that many of thoso bonds will be redeemed from local at sosEments. This cannot bo effocted uuder tho Xircacnt system. Tho amount rcooived from assess ments is a more tnue compared with the increase of our bonded debt. Tho incroase during the last six months in Park, Bridge, Water Loan, otc, bonds alone is ono million four hundred thousand dollars, not ono dollar of which will bo repaid to tbo city. Ono million five hundred thousand dollars of bonds bavo beon issued during tho Bamo period for various local improvements, and tho paltry sum of ono hundred and sixty Bix thousand dollars of outstanding bondB havo beon redeemed, a trifle over ton por cont.

of the increase during that time. This is not all, but it is a very common occurronco that assessment fund bonds have to be met by the Isbuo of now ones, in place of thoso falling due, and for which no money had been collected. A REMEDY PBOPOSED. This matter should, as I hone it will, at onco bo duly oonBidercd, and If your honorable bodr atrrco with me In my views upon this subject, tho Legislature should oe Bssea to immediately ropcai all laws authorizing tno Issue of bonds to pay for local improvements. Tho advocates for the passage of these laws originally may have been impressed with the idea that they would facilitate thUB stimulate building operations, but the evil oousequences whioh have bocn en tailed upon our city novo not neon mitigatea oy compensating benofits.

To pay contractors for locol improvements boforo tbo monev to nav for tho exnensos incurred is collected by local assessmout, as now practiced by the iesuo of bonds, and raising money upon the credit of the city at large, has proven to bo dangerous in principle, and so utterly at war with true economy, that its continuance should no longer be permitted. There aro still other serious objections to this system. By tho issue of bonds the city assumes all tho responsibility of tho legulitv of the proceedings under which theso improvements are authorized to bo mado, and may be compelled to provo affirmatively tho regularity of all action in the matter beforo becoming able to collect the money paid from the parties for whose ospcclal uoncnt tno improvements were made. THE PAVING OS FOLTOV STREET. I will simply allude to one of many cases to Bbow this.

Fulton Btreet was paved with Belgian pavement in 1801, the city paid the contractor in oonds, which became due and were paid by tho city in 1864. Thus far the assessment has not all been collected. Payment is refused by many on the plea of illegality in the proceedings, and an appeal is had to tho courts by whom tho question has not yet boon docidod. Thoro aro numerous other cases similar to this, and I doubt not that when repayment for expenses lnourred for local im provements is exacted by the city, it will in many Instances be refused, and endless litigation result. REPAYING STBEET8.

In addition to this tho cower to inoraasc without limit tho amount of Assessment fund bonds, to pay for repaying streets uob 01 law been conferred upon tno Board of Water and Sowerago Commissioners: how lav ishly this power is exercised by theso Commissioners may bo Been from tho fact that thoy have callod for no lets than six hundred thousand dollars during the past six months. Some of the contracts made by thoso gentlemen are remarkable. Your honorable body bavo contracted with Peter Riley for grading and savins Sovontn ave nue for nearly its whole length, from Flstbush avenue to uroenwooa uemotery, at lo.ou per running root. Thero are but a few occupied dwellings on the avenue, although it is over a mile and a half long. Tho work of putting down the paving stones is far from being completed, and when finished is to be paid for in bonds Issued for that purpose, singular, however, as it may appear, before this pavement is actually laid, aoontraot is made by the Water Commissioners with the Sorim shaw Pavement Company to plaster it over at a cost of $3.60 per square yard, or about (13.15 per running toot.

This will require the issuing of a large amount of bonds to pay for the expense, which is more than double ths original cost. I am told that this repaying is asked for by the owners of property along tho lino of the avenue. This may be so, but, let me ask, did the law conferring upon the Commissioners the power to repays streets intend to authorize them to enter into contrasts to repaye a street before it had actually boon paved at all. Is it not fair to presume that the law only intended to confer the power to repave such streets as bad bocomo unfit for travel by long continued use, but not those that had only been paved recently Some streets in tho same neighborhood, the original paying of whioh had been finished but a short time slnoe, have already been what is termed repavod, by giving the newly laid paving stonos a coat of Sorimshaw. If it is deemed desirable at all that those newly paved stroets should at once receive a surface of SorunBhaw, why should it not be done by the owners of property along tbo line of the street and tho expanse paid by them Wo should protest against allowing tho credit of the city to be used for objects liko this, ontlrely unnecessary, not called for by publlo need at present, and with grave doubts existing as to the powor of compelling payment from the owners to roimburse the oity for the monoys advanced.

BTREET CLEANING. Tbo streets have, with some exceptions, beon kept tolerably clean for the post yoar. Many of our citisens, residing on prominent stroets, have clubbed togother aud pay monthly a stipulated sum. In otoois of their tax, to have tho streets cleaned. The inorease in tho number of connections made with the water mains and sowers has also lessoned the ordinary amount of dirt to be remored, thus accounting, in a great measure, for the improved condition of our stroets in rogard to cleanliness.

There are, howover, othor questions whioh may bo asked as to oloanlng stroets. Cannot this item of expenditure bo roducod Why not give tho eon tracts for cleaning stroets to tho lowest responsible bidder? And is the present condition of our streets snob, as to warrant ths very largo inorease of expondituro over former years? When ths matter was under tho control of the Common Counoil tbe average amount of monoy oxpended from 1884 and moulding 1808, a period whereas the water Commissioners bavo expended dur ing inn pu year iiu. Aiu. wuu a loir proapeoc oi ao In View Of the larea lnnrAAflA In thn AvnantlnfAa tnn I street repairing, and taking into aooount the vast This Paper has the Largest circulation of any Evening Paper Published In the United states. Its value as an Advertising Medium is therefore apparent.

Have they a Band of Kidnappers in Willianisburgh Tho disappearance of the well known lawyer, of the Eastern Dietrict, Mr. Charles M. Briggs, following cloBely on the heels of the equally mysterious disappearance of Mr. Thomas C. AValsh, ex Superruor of the Sixteenth Ward, excites grave qnestion as to whether both gentlemen may not have met with foul play, aud from the same gang.

That New York City contains villains of every description, who, for reward or the prospect of plunder, are ever ready to make forays upon this city, is unquestionable. We published not many days ago a confession from a New York gang leader, that at the solicitation of politicians, and on tho promise of a reward of three thousand dollars, he brought a hundred law breakers over hore from New York to violate the election laws. This mau boasted that he would escape punishment, and that his influential politicul friends would find straw bail for him. At the time, we attached less importance to the assertion than we are inclined to now, when wo find from the Court records that not only has the criminal disappeared, but that Iub bondsmen caunot be found by the Court officials in other words, the law was first violated on a wholesale scale, and when tho ringleader was arrested, the law proved powerless to punish him. That was in the Federal Courts.

For another instance in the same Courts, take the case of the drawback frauds. Influential politicians and oflicials robbed the government, over a year ago, at the Custom House, of snms which no estimate has placed lower than a million dollars. The Courts as late ns yesterday were discussing technical points preliminary to some future trial of one of the minor offenders; the leading participants in tho robbery have not begun to bo tried, and nobody who knows the political power which a stolen million can exert, experts that they ever will be. Then look at the State Courts. The abortionist of Chatham street, the so called Dr.

Evans, a professed and weekly advertised practitioner of virtual child murder, was at last arrested and brought before the Courts. Now he, too, is allowed to escape on bail purporting to have been given in the largo sum of seventy five thousand dollars. A Mr. Kennedy, who gives his address, writes to the Sun to say that the sureties do not own the real estate in this city which they sworo to as the ground of their justifying in so large bond. The houses in question, Mr.

Kennedy says, namely 153 Adams street, and 100 Ninth street, are in dispute between the Kennedy family and Evans, who was the medical attendant of the former owner, with more profit, Kennedy states, to his own pocket than to his patient's health. In view of such instances of how easily crimes can be condoned and penalties escaped, it does not seem at all incredible that organized schemes of villainy may be concocted in the neighboring city, to be put in operation in this. The burglary of Monday incfriiing, at the Water street Spice Mills, where six men in a gang were found operating upon the safe, one of whom, fortunately, was shot and nr I rested, indicates that the New York criminals have adopted the plan of banding together in (heir predatory excursions in this 'city. Hitherto, as in (he case of the iiimdtror Perry, they have come singly lo commit their depredations and assassinations. l5iit now they seem to be altering their tactics mid in squads; and when such disappearances as those of Mr.

Walsh and Mr. asonably to bo feared lvw. the victims of foul erous gangs of New The advantage to the working in gangs i obvious. Not only ai'e of overcoming the police observe them, but ill ease of arrest they can swear each other out of Btrouble, as was attempted and nearly accom ffdishiliu the case of Perry, whose defense I'd only because his confederates could ar to having been near enough to the I ijuite contradict all that the prosecn proved. The only thing peaceable peo chii do is to beware where they go aud rn i hey encounter, at night; and to be I liimed, both when alone in unfrequented its after dark, and at home in tho nights, burglars in gangs of five or six may be 4bv uwlini' around.

'I he Comedy Season of 1.S71.JS, It is an old story related of Plymouth Church to day. The pew selling and the high protective tariff on the gospel in that conven (icle, aie ushered in about the same time and with much of the histrionic circumstances of the Christmas pantomime. Tho comedy, however, has a longer run than tho theatres are generally favored with. Mr. Bcecher has had undisputed possession of the boards for years.

The occasional appearance of other performers, during the Summer season, or during Mr. Beeeher's off nights, has not been so successful as to encourage a frequent engagement of them, lloforo the served seats were taken for the season 7 it was slipulatod last night ktlie eminent actor would steadily con uo till the mid summer vacation, when the establishment is to bo repaired and re car peted for the greater accommodation of patrons. The prices ruled high the parquette spaces commanded the largest sums but the balcony, dress and family circles were much Bought after, an equal view of the stage being had from all parts of the (jmuflcjind the orchestra and chorus baling placed in (he rear so as not to interfere with tho proceedings in the loast. samp mirt gentlemanly uihers will obhn duly as heretofore, and every amuse ment for the comfort of the audience will bo made. is resnoctfullv reriunsteil liv the management that the audience will be in their seats ten minutes before tho time advertised.

Tp show tho prosperity of this popular resort, is only necessary to state that the holders of seats for the season paid in the aggregate more forty two thousand dollars into the Treasury lo secure tho success of moral inelo i drama and ehurchly comedy for the ensuing year. 'J he poor are respectfully informed that everything will be done for their accom modation consistent with the reservod rights lfthericb. Should any of tho latter bo da tained by sickness or removed by death, their seats will be publicly eligible at auction for the unexpired term. A few of the best seats I in the house have been secured by atockhold ers, and desirable parties will bo dealt with on Lthe highest terms. There are two porform auces every Sunday a matinee at half past ten, and the regular evening entertainment Lat half past seven.

A change of bill every Time, i nd no postponement on account of the reather. We aim to please tho public, and vilL'do all in our power lo secure to patrons urih of their money. Startling novel aro in course of preparation, which will llv announced from time to time. Car Swhich can bo ordered for half past and half past uino P. Iiproach tho main doors by eet, on the North side, and bnn in line on Cranberry, Hicks (Streets.

Car linos from all parts Itll.r "141 WUl UUllUlUg 11 bhorus will perform popular airs beginning of the performance. attention on tho vmrt of porteA fa the management. All fiig, stamping, ami all demonstrations disapprobation, are strictly forbidden. honld tho holders of season tickets find their aces occupied by others, thoy will commuui ushers, and the intruders will be tlosilf. with.

Thn frAft list ih nni ud until further notice. Arfehip of reprint Radical organ rnauas ayain. The air of Brook ttiil to hack nartv nrrmiiR and ti 1 sis as pay sauries ana engineering expenses oi tno water Board, amounUnK in tho aggregate to very large snms annually, anese amounts xor tne past year tortus sev eral montns were as iouows ffor fl February Maroh April SWS178 ay 17HW.S7 Juris 69,378.30 JUij 48.oro.si October 7M58.1S 44,734.11 Making a total for 1870 of. B574.491.il A detailed account of the items composing this vast ui money snouia oe xurmsnea tno Mayor Derora bbavu to amx uis name to warrants drawn upon the treasury for their payment. In 1858 the total sum drawn from the treasury for monthly ernansAa of a similar character amounted to only $350,127.

No one oan fall to seethe extraordinary inoreosein the amounts expended, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars for a single year. Does not this call for somo explana THE COST OF STREET LIGHTING. The expenses for lighting streets have likewise in oreasou in sucn a rauo tnat wo bavo to raise lartre amounts of monoy annually for deficiencies. Unless some onsnre is msae in tne present modo of lighting, it will cost the city for the ensuing year not less than three quarters of a million of dollars one hundred and uivy inousanoi uoiiars mors tnan was required ten yesrs ago to carry on the whole oity (mvammnnt. The disDenainff with tnellaht nn hpfoht.

mnnniivhi nights does not meet with popular favor, notwithstanding that a large saving might be effeoted without tho least inoonvenienco resulting from it. Another remedy "i BugBoeiuu ujr ma gas uuuipauieg, namely tuat or reducing the size of the burners from fnnr i.n t.hvnn rant The sooner this or some other plan is adopted tho better, so that we may Bave ourselves the disagreeable ne nossity of being compelled to again apply to thsLegisla uavava uwiuinj hi iMwa xarfje amount oi money to pay for deficiencies. means should also be provided to ensure us tho full supply of gas contracted for, and that the gas furnished is of good quality. This subject is of considerable importance, both in a pecunhuy point, and as it affects tho nnmfmi and travel. I hope your honorable body will give it Ihn naitaD nobJktn THE PARK COMMISSIONERS.

Concerning the one Department of our City Govern ment, upon which tho Legislature of last year omitted to lay its reforming hand, the Park Commission, I need add nothing to my former statements and opinions, so uiijr juiu utuiuu jim uu yivnuua ucuusiuns. xnei'ara Commission is antt renublican. and I believe uncon stitutional in its formation. Originally the child oi tne juDany loony, it nas maintained itself from year to year in defiance of nonulnr sentiment, by annual and prolonged anneal to thn cor rupt source oi us Doing, it nas involved our city in a debt greater already than the wholo cost of our magnificent system of water works, and instead of a com pietca pars, at moaerato cost, lor whioh the site chosen afforded peculiar advantages, it has treated na as yot only to what one of our publlo Journals, with truthful satire, described as little more than a new branch of the Coney Island road. If wo are to have any reform of local affairs, the prosont, I should suppose, will be the last reference nssd make to this last of the special commissions.

THE CAUSE AND THE REMEDY. I bays entered somowhat into detail concomini m. travaganco of present expenditure, to show that I give full weight to one of tho causes of bur present condition, and do not seok to cast upon anothor period, and another party than that to whioh I bolong, mora than Us fair sbaro of blame. But I shall remain of ths opinion, and the figures as well as your own rooolleo uon win convince you, tnat tne mam cause of our difficulties was in the vicious commission system, the evil offocts of which will remain to afflict us long after the last of these anomalous bodies Bhall have been abnl. isbed.

In tho last ton years we have added fifty par cent, to our population but we have meanwhile added four hundred por oent. to our debt, and added three aunarea por oent. to our curront expenses. The war and the derangement of currency do not oxplain this, foi both tbo dobt and tho expenses havo grown, if anything, faster from 1865 to 1870 than from 18C0 to 1885. Nor is it any fair explanation to say wo have been making costly improvements for tho greatest and most valuable improvement of all.

the Wntnr Works, was completed and in full operation boforo I860, and so muoh of the dobt and increased expenditure as it represents appear in tho figures of 1860. The greatest fallacy of all is tho pretense that our oltv's growth was being checked for wont of these later improvements, and that they havo virtually paid for themselves by helping tho city to grow. On tho contrary, the growth of the city, rapid as it still is, has nover boon so slow, it has never shown so email a porcontago in any former period, as in tho period from 1860 to 1870, whilo commissions nourished and tho debt and cur rant nmanDoi nn tlmi. hia ntli 1 gubbiUg ltr ahcad of the city's rate of growth. Already the accumulating burdens, inBtoad of helping tho oity to grow foster, havo retarded her provious ratio of progross.

Premature "improvements" havo proven tobosuacea ana oostrucuons, insteaa oi aius to our termor noiltuy development. But, it may bo asked, if the commission system was the main cauBe of our financial burdons, why did not tho abolishment of nearly all of them roiicva us To a considerable extent it has done so. In the item of po lico alono, tho budget for 1871 calls for loss than was expended each year under tho old system. But tho commissions struck their fangs doep into tho municipal body beforo. by tho defeat of tho political party that created and sustained them, thoy could bo removed, iney lncurrca ouiigauons which tne municipal government, succeeding to tho functions thoy had diverted from it, is corapollod to discharge.

They loft vast logacies of debt wo cannot easily get rid of. HOW THE CITY CAN BEDUOE ITS TAXES. Of more importance now than to inquire bow tho city bocamo so entangled, is to discover how it can ex trlcato itself. I believe, in alTciudor, that whilo tho task to quite feasible now, yot if it bo postponed the result will Do most disastrous to ovory proporty intorost in Brooklyn. I rejoico to seetho attitude our local press is taking in this matter, though I do not wish to be understood as endorsing all that may bo proposed therein.

Another four per cent, tax we cannot have. Next year wo must go down below three or up beyond five. If wo aro to go on as now, ''repaying" vacant nowstreots bofore thoy are paved or built upon, and erecting additional gas lamps wherover the ingenuity of an interested owner of property can discover a vocunt spot between tho infant trees in front of his vacant lots, it needs no prophet to assure us that tho four per cont. tax will oxpand to five next year, as tho three per cent, tax of tho year beforo swelled to four this year. And anothor such rlao would simply stop all building, drivo our fow corporate tax paying Institutions awoy, and leave ns thousands or old houses uninhabited, iuBtcad of thousands of new houses built and occupied.

The present is evidently the taming point in our city's career, Tho city is staggering under a load whirn, in the face ol the warnings I havo uttered in previous Messages, it was madness for any man in public office to have wantonly increased during tho past year. With tho meetiug of tho Legislature wo shall soon sco whether tho load is to be lightened or made more heavy. A bill is threatened already to ropoal tho most considerable direct saving of last yoar, by restoring tho salaries of the Police Department to the old Metropolitan standard. If this is the kind of legislation wo are to expect, men of limited means bad bost begin at once to save money toward paying their noxt year's taxes. THE LEGISLATURE MUST GIVE BELIEF.

Wo must look to the Legislature for aid, not for discouragement, in our effort to bghteu tho public burdens. Last year wo wero considerably aided by tho legislative representatives of the County. Thou wo asked them to deliver us from the Commissions, and in tho main they complied. Now wo have to ask them to complete our dcliveranco from tho Commissions; to abolish all unnecessary Boards, leaving tho Mayor as tho ono Exccutivo of the whole city, with no powor to shift tbo blame if any dopartinent officer has wasted public funds and he has failed to suspend him and lay tho caso for investigation before tho Board of Aldermen. We want in a singlo city no little imitation common councilB, not elected by tho people, yot claiming to bo independent of your honorable body, whom tho poo plo have olectcd.

In this room, by you gontlemon of the Common Council, all loglalativo deliberation can bo intelligently, and what Is more, responsibly carried on. For exocutivo. charge of department! but one head is wanted for each, and all Buch heads should bo directly and entirely responsible to you, as you ure to tho people at brief intervals. THE ALTERNATIVE. Our choice is botwoon a roturn to simple honost, Democratic City Governmout, by one popular looal legislature aud ono head under it for each dopartmont, or to drift along, with independent departments employing their own counsel to prosecute the Mayor in tho Courts whenevor ho presumes to try to save the treasury from paying or borrowing monoy that it cannot afford for uses that it does not need.

Out of orderly, responsible local government wo cannot fail to got economy and such a reduction of taxation as wouiu restore to our city the long lost ratio of growth which prevailed from the beginning until 1800. Out of the present auarcby, if prolonged, we cannot avoid still highor taxation next year, and that wul create a statoof things whioh will put it out of tbo power of thoso who now bavo tho powor to save oithor their own intorost, as public mon, or the interest of tho great body of the oil'zens, as residents and property ownors. Thero is uotulug desperate or even daugorous in tho situation yet, except the unaccountable apathy to conscquoncos, exhibited last year In so many quarters. Our laws still give unlimited facility to four or flvo different local authorities to involve the city in debt. DlrccUy you and I together eanuot authorizo a dollar to bo spent boyond tho amount already in tho Treasury for tho specific purpose.

But for every uow street graded and pavod tnreo year bonds are issuable without limit. Tho Water Board can spend all tho water revenue in salaries, if it ploaso, and call on the tax lovy to meet deficiencies. Audit can ropavo streets, old and new, with scarra any restriction worth noticing. RETRENCHMENT NEOE88ABY. Tho Snnervlsors can order a new Jail, to cost half a million dollars any day thoy think proper.

Tho Park Board have thoir half million per annum for construction, and ono hundred thousand dollars for maintenance, and "boulevard improvement" powers within aud without the city, tho vast cost of which has scarcely yet begun to bo felt in our burdens. It is idlo to hope for substantial reform, or for a much longer post ponement of an evil day for Brooklyn, unless wo get a law empnatically forbidding any more issue of city bonds, by any local body, on any protense whatever, until our present debt shall be at lesst one half paid and bringing every local authority under the direct and unquestionable oontrol of your honorablo body, who, whatever our own faults, as in the matter of the gas lamps, can at least claim that whatever we do is in public sight, and would be far more koenly watched if it were understood that without our public action aud approval hore, not a dollar could be spent, nor an oxec uvo official remain in place. When the public know exactly where to look, and wo know that thoy aro looking, the solicitations of interested parties would no longer avail to induce unnecessary expenditures, against the interest of an overtaxed city and tho sentiments of a critical constituency, To the political majority of your honorable body men of influenoe in tho party locally dominant I say, in oonolusion, and in all moderation, that If WO Biana up Bgairist, or for auyiuuiy ibso tana uo nroscnt nubllo demand for a radical looal reform, wo can so stand only until our constituents got thoir next opportunity to sweep us into deserved political oblivion. we Ola not mase tne aiinoursy, ana wiu temporary alleviation of it was hod last year, was the work of tho party now in powor but if reforms, far more thorough still, aro not made this year, tho pooplo will forgot who caused the trouble originally, and punish ouly those who, haying tho power of it with a hesitating and insufficient hand. Vory respectfully, MAnTiH Kaldfleisoii, Mayor.

8TBEBT CAE STOVES VS. STBA.W. An Eagle correspondent mokes some complaint about an insufficient amount of straw in Borne of tho city lino oars, and states that upon one of them ho suffered greatly from cold feet. In a casual conversation Alderman Biohardson as to the merits of Btraw for warming a oar, an Eaolb roportor wob informed that on his lines, tho Atlnntto street to East New York and to Greenwood via. Fifth avenuo ho uBod no straw at all except to "bod" the horses.

"Sinoo the introduction of stoves in my cars and tney aro now in all of them" continued Mr. I find that there is not tbe slightest need of straw, matting or the wooden grate on tho floor is all sufficient. Tho foul and offensive odors and the dampness created by tho straw, aro no longer subjects of complaint." But, Mr. Biohardson," said the reporter, do not poople grumble about tho cars being too hot Mr. B.

Thero are a few who rldo on all roads with whom tbe oar 1b too hot or too cold or too something ox other, but I find that my regular patrons aro almost unaulmonBly in favor of thostovcB, If the oar la too hot the ventilators in the top will carry off tho surplus and leave a summor temperature. I have no desire to return to tbe use of straw, kindest feelings toward all the gentloinon present, and the niost earnest feeling for the success of the Republican party. He ugaiu returnod thanks for tho honor conferred on him. (Cheers). Mr.

Tracy nominated A. G. Williams, Ninth Word, for first Vico President, and Mr. Williams was unani mously locted. air.

Tracy nominated A. B. Thorn as nooond Vice President. Mr. Oakey moved that the wholo list bo taken ud and voted on in one ballot.

Mr. Hasbrouck moved, as an umondmont. that A. B. Thorn bo elected by acclamation.

Adopted. Mr. Oukey renowed his motion to olect the remainder of the ticket by acclamation, when Mr. Trocv nut the nomination in that form, and tho remainder of thp ticket uomiuuted by the caucus was unanimously olectcd. Mr.

Morton moved that a Committeo of one from each Assembly Du trict be appointed to prepare a Con stitution and By Laws for the onsuing year. Adopted. Mr. Whiting moved that a Committeo of one from each Assembly District bo appointod on contested seats. Carried.

The mcoting thon adjourned. THE ADELPHI ACADEMY. The Enginery of Thinking Lecture at tho Adelphi Academy by Prof. Vou The twelfth lecture of the course of lec tures being given'at tbe Adelpbi Academy was deliver ed last veiling before a large and appreciative au dience, by Prof. E.

L. Youmans, of Columbia College, New York. Tbe speaker illustrated bis lecture by re ference to several diagrams which hung on the wall at the rear of the stage. Prof Youmaiis first referred in an interesting manner to Dr. Joseph Priestly the discoverer, in 1774, of oxygen gas.

Ho was a preacher in the de nomination of Independents in Birmingham, England, and among other advanced ideas believed in the infi nite perfectibility of human nature. He was in all re spects in advance of his age. Regarding tho Fronoh Revolution as an advanced movement, in tho yoar 1791, when its succois was boiug celebrated iu somo localities, ho preached such a sermon upon tho event that he was mobbed and hie house, was burned. This was the discoverer of OXYGEN GASr the most abundant material known in nature. Geolo gists hive ascertained the conuitious of the earth for twenty miles.

They have discovered forty or fifty different elements, most of which are metals, and all in combination witJi one common element known as oxygen. Its proportions in some of the substances aro as loiiowfl in tuo sauasiouo roeKs about ouo half their weight: iu the lime stone and marble and chalk for every two tons we found one ton of oxviron in the alate rocks wo had two fifths oxygen to threc fiftlis metal; in tho granite, which go below all tbo ot here, we find several metals, aud one half of the whole is oxygon. In the world of waters, lakcj and oceans, wchuve eight ninths oxygon in tho air, only about onc fiitb it entirely pervades tho animal and in the vetiir)le elements four fil ths ia oxvuen. So the conclusion is arrived at, that the cu tiro crust of the globe wv.d till there is upon it largely consists of this one I substance. THE AT.MOSInEEE I is composed of oxj geu.

with other elements mixed with i Oxygen is free to do us work, that which it did. iu the beginning and always will do. It tako possession where other clement a are not in pawer. It iB performing a process of destruction in. the living body, dissolv ing tuo air at every auu causing us to eat and drink to keep the equipoise.

'When we die oxygen carries the elements of our bodies back to the atmosphere lion whence they came, except a few ashc. We find our earth encompassed by this inveterate foe to Ufo. TVere tho globe to bo given over entirely to this in a short time there would ceaso to be life. How little did tbe discoverer of this olemcut euapect its depth and immensity. He wroto a hundred volumes on theelogy.

No one reads them now, but overy ono rcmembcra that bo was the discoverer of oxygemgas. ROBBING THE ATMOSPHERE. Vt'e are told that the atniosnbero gives a pressure of flftounipoiiiids to the squaro.iuL'b. Of thu, twelve ia nitrogen gas, but it does not act. Each liviug person tnkes from the utmosphorc two pounds every day; Ho takes nil tho oxygen from an, area of two thirds of a tQuara inch clear to tho top of tho forty five miles of atmosphere In a year ix is '213 square inches, and a man who has lived seventy years has robbed tho atmosphere of 118 square feet; and has poisoned ten times as much and as he has used.

At every movement of overy muscle, when ne has been Stboring or overy movement has involved a chauge in tho constitution of the atmosphere. The speaker next remarked upon the mysterious actiou of tho leaves of trees and shrubs, which had lately been discovered. It was only within hundred years ihat attention had bceu turned tb these things. Now ton queried about it, but he was too early. He was linked and limited to his time, more nn alchem ist than a chemist.

The ancients know that animals would die for want of fresh air, and that there wasa property in it indispensable to life. Newton, said it might perhaps be the office of the comets totiautportzt, they bad long tails for which we saw no In introducing an astronomical solution of tho queJtlon.hc was notflo far wrong. Therojwasa prophecy cf the truth. THE OF THE PLANTS i Bimply reverse tho chemistry of They absorb tho carbonic acid, and decompose it. We are all built up in plants, are manufactured it) leaves, of muscles, sinews, nerves and bono.

This clchemiatic power of the leaf was tremendous exploit; The decomposition of tho leaf is produced by tho light of tho syn. The life of the earth is dorived fromi thasun. This has become an accepted fact. The sua is a. star and all tbe stars are? suns.

Iu a brinSallnsionitD the planetary system thc'Speakcr, to give a relative idtea of Wio size and distance ti the planet Nt7toue, mat tho sun bo regarded as a globe two feet inidiamc tcr, and the earth, as another Kioho ia large as pea, 215 feet away, and Uismoou of similar size to the earth and seven inches from it. With such a'elativociiclation ebiptoeach other, Neptune woulcj.havc to be. represented tho size of u. plum and two aiad a iquailor miles from the sun. the subject of distxiuce, it was i tivtcd it would tafc GOO years for light tu reach the iAnrs of the toulhiumgnitudo.

ChVUteu.of fifteen years beholding nny af: Sie fixed stars ice visited! TJy light of thoir own Tho speaker gave.au Jnteresizmg ANAUXSflfl OF A BAY Off LIGH3Tr and stated tint1 Mr. Iluggins had beyond a doubt that the rays of: light emanating Sfoni the nearer fixed stars than tho sun possessed the element of heat. It bad bceu rcuantiy established tfcfttibe suur did not develop a suUiciena amount of hoaVsor omruscs. Iiat wo get from battery of the hef pen all round the earth Tsfcutwe may call thrrfouudatiim of heat. car, ryiiig it wuto oiivou poiut auuBur ciru star distritf uting it.

The speaker, reforrinn to oca of ttte diagrams, gave, an elaborate description of tne coiiaaractiou of thore and tbe manner iu which jr.rpceivw impressions A theory prevails and appears to Inconsiderably tuined Iho outer wcfJdJs Si darkness; but the fonniiion oi tbo eve is BiuhiiB to tilango the elomeuC heat iu tbo atmosphero tcv light ia ita passage through the lifclloafc Jy constructed tUsucs and membranes. En describing; the tie speaker rcfcrfdl to iiho order of tbohesthaated insportancebogin tbe tactual wijiscpsfivf touch, dwelling. briefly ou' ilbe gustatory, the auditwy. anji tho visuii. A diagram reesojotiug tho braira the lunga and tbo hearty conaidorod jiuintor eatincr manner.

Impure air was cited as the intimttftreloifoiis of these remaps Snp i and. that some person manufactured Kasiifatfae room bo neatb, boring in tthe ceiling for is escape, the is. associated wftU matter. It is assoHatedt with itia Movements: a rataoDsl, sound, restxmsibte mind is I vsociated with matter in a certain of movemont, anu u)K is uy ouaxmoai njpsjjuza. THE TAXES.

Backwardness of the Praperty holtji in laurlyrs tn CouwxiC Forward. Oulj. about of the tax lexy, of nearly $8,000,000 for 1870 to.poaeod through tU. hond3 of Captain QUI, tbe Assistant Collector nnd officio cashier of the Tax DeputmoaL The warrant Col lectoi Badeau for the present collection weuft. Into, operation on tho 10th of fcstt month, and the average, daily collection slnco that ttoo.

nas beon but $JEjO00 In round BUmbera. The smallest amount collected In any single day was $20,000, and tho largest collection. was on Saturday, when doubtless, ia anxiety to begin tho Hew Year free from debt, tho tox payors rallied in considerable numbers asd paid $149,000 toward reducing the levy. Ycetorday $105,000 was rocolved, asd tovtay tho taxpayers are crowding the Collector office, and the vestibule of tho City Ball in such for.ee. that ii may be reasonably assumed that the rocerpts will be largely increased, as thoy should be, noj only for tho good of tho oity but for tho good of the people, as woll, in order that tho oxtra one per cent, moj bo added to as few bills aa poBsiblo next Wednesday morning, Tho faot should ba borne ih mind by property holders that next Tuesday will bo the last day of graco, and that all who fail to walk up to the Captain's ofllco and aottlo boforo the lose of that day will bo obliged to pay the extra one por cont.

penalty. An Excellent Article. Meb. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup is an excellent articlo for all diseases of children. It rellsres the ohlld from pain, rogulatos the stomaohand bowels, and, by glying health to the ohild, comforts and rests tho mother.

Puring tho process of teething ita value Is inestimable' ouras wind oollo and griping In the bowels. ana many oiners..