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Tbo Ottr In tbe manure Bnslnoss TOPICS Of XO UAI. THE PQEACHERS OF BROOKLYN. by private parties. Bat if those private parties do control it, it is at least possible that they Herald, tho Rational Magazine, the Christian Advocate and Journal, and other periodicals. Bnt his clear and indisputable title to "a name to live" prevalent habit of styling ovory man who has any employment about a store or offico a dork 41 polloemon figuro among tho arresta.

and there are 13 clorgymon. rg0filsitgitilg8gfe THCJHSDAV EVENING, FEB. 4. civilization ia to bo found thoro. and thn for "LttHe Mac" to remark that wo should not bo ridloulod for the accident of birth, or tho belief in whioh they were reared, evidently ho oonntdora it disgrace to ba an Irishman.

Whoro is tho rldiculo of belli? born in suh a. country? 'tIb an honor, and woro I not a nativo of Ihis. would esteem it as suoh to claim it as tho land of my bWh, and so far as the llglous bollof, all aro froo hero to prartire that ono which Bulla them best. I have spent some tlmo in Iroland, and do but repeat b'M visiting that boautlfaloouu. ISU unrivUotl for tho hospitality of its peoplo, and their refinement 'and oulture, and those SBi.wb.l.,H"nP' cast slur on tho lDf a TOldentu hero as 6 orl wtth toouwrct.

"8 6Tld6nllJ' not conversant JS.ttS!ii.fci0ft!1.! EmoraIl BU, it is attended by KfS.S25SI2S1R. tl0Ml C2B flna it is a mean aotion oa the part of anyono to ondeavor to oast a stigma on i ball gotten up with thfcavowod intention of providing: for homele and friendless orphans, simply because they hold contrary political opinions, ana is worthy only of grab a paper aa tho Kerning Union, from which it emanated. Probably it seeks suoh a method as ffits to bring Itself from Its obscurity into notoriety through the columns of tho Kitou oheap way of advertising. The ifcal of a city government would be a system in whioh the tax payers would have nothing to pay but for looai improvements all the general oity expenditures being met oat of the revenues aooruing. Thus, it oan be conceived that if the oity, owning the stroota, iaia aown railroad traoks where needed, it might readily lease them to rival oompanies on conditions whioh would, relieve the oity irom tne cost of street cleaninsr and ranair.

With the reoeipta from the publio wharves, a model oity should be able to maintain all its dooKs, wharves and bridges. With the earn, ings of its able bodied paupers, It oan be im agined that the relief of the poor could be paid ior witn tne fines levied on offenders the oost of the judicial and police departments should be defrayed. With the offal and night soil of a great oity profitably disposed of for conver sion into manure, the expenses of the Health Department and the sewers should be paid for while the revenues of tho water supply and of the publio markets would remain, to meet the oost of the general oity government. Suoh. an outline as we have thus sketched has floated through the brain of many students of polit ical economy.

No oity has yet been able to carry on its affairs on suoh a basis but it is quite within the bounds of possibility that a virtuous oivio community, unfettered by Leg islative ohartered restrictions, might be able to derive a revenue from many departments of its government whioh now are mere soaroes of expense. Some suoh idea as this mast have inspired Alderman Cunningham in the. motion made by him the Common Oonnoil on Monday, inviting bids for the removal of offal and night soil from the oity not for one year only, but for the ten years next suooeed ing. Among the foolish restrictions upon the city government now embodied in the oharter. one is that no contraot shall be entered into, the money for whioh is not already raised by tax.

This has prevented the Common Council from oontraoting for the re moval of offal and night soil for more than a year at a time, as the money is only raised annually. Hence the contractors, in offering proposals for removing night soil, have to take into account the danger of their losing the job at the end of the year." If a man of capitil could be ensured the night soil, offal and dead animals of a oity like Brooklyn, for ten years, it would pay him to go into prepar ations for manure making on a large soale. It requires boats, a faotory at a distance from the city, oarts, horses, and various expensive preparations. No man will go to the expense of getting ready to dispose of the night soil of a great city for one year only, unless he is paid a sum lor the year large enough to seoure him against loss Bhould another competitor get the contraot next year. Thus it has cost the oity seven or eight thousand dollars' a year, for many years, to got rid of its night soil; when, if capitalists could have been assured of the perpetuity of the job, they could have afforded to remove the night soil, not only without expense to the oity, but probably to even have paid a bonus toward the revenue of the oity, for the privilege.

The Board did wellin adopting Aid. Cunningham's suggestion, and under the terms of the next offal contraot the oity of Brooklyn will be in a position to solve the problem of whether the removal of the night soil and offal of a oity, for conversion into manure, may not be effect ed, not only without expense to the oity, but become a source of revenue, eventually. 1 Scrimshaw Versus Nicolson. The Bedford Avenue Commissioners have decided to lay the Scrimshaw pavement on that thoroughfare, believing it to be the best and cheapest of the new improved pavements now before the pubhs. The Sorimshaw com position is to be laid over the present cobble stone pavement, which will give it a solid foundation.

The cost will be from a hun dred to a hundred and ten dollars a lot about one tbird the cost of the Nicolson pavement. This is an experiment worthy of trial, and it will now be tried under circumstances above suspicion of jobbery, and in a way that will afford a fair test of the durability of this pave ment as a pnblio roadway. The Sorimshaw pavement possesses all the surface advantages claimed for the Nicolson, with freedom from dust and dampness. Wherever it has been tried for sidewalks, and in Prospeot Park, it has worn admirably the Park Commissioners highly commend it, and have had the plaza and walks in Port Greene laid with tho Scrimshaw. The'oontraotors agree to lav a new surface coating every other year if neees sary, at a oost that would amount to no more than the interest on the additional cost of the Nicolson pavement.

The Nicolson once worn out has to be entirely renewed. The Commissioners who have decided to try this pavement are gentlemen in whom the publio can place the fullest reliance, J. Carson Brevoort and Frederick Scholes, both large real estate owners, and men competent to judge of the qualities of a pavement, and who could not be moved in suoh a matter by any other "con sideration than for the public good and 'the in terests of the property owners on Bedford avenue. This experiment has an interest for the whole city, for if it succeeds then the problem of a good and cheap pavement is solved. Except a few of the older streets down town there is not a decent cobble stone pavement in the city, and the repaying of the streets is a work that must be done at no distant day.

If we have to lay a new pavement in every street that needs it the cost will be very heavy, and car. only be accomplished by the oity taking the job in hand, issuing bonds to meet the expenses, as is done for the sewerage improve ments. Should, however, this experiment of covering the cobble stone3 with the Scrimshaw composition answer expectation, then we can have the streets throughout the oity provided with a smooth and handsome pavement at a cost of about one per cent, on the average value of the lots. Boabd of Health Balabies. In his letter to Mr.

Lincoln, published in the Eagle some days since. District Attorney Morris unintentionally underestimated the amount contributed by this County to the salaries of the Health Department. The $25,000 a year at which he estimated it, represented merely the salaries exclusively paid to the Brooklyn officials of the Health Department. By far the greater part of the item stated as Brook lyn's proportion of the general expenses is applied to salaries also, being the quota levied on Brooklyn towards paying the salaries of the Board and their chief employes in the chief office in New York. It is only fair to state, however, that the Board have recently effected some reduotion of.

their salaries and staff for Brooklyn. By the ap dointment of Dr. Stiles two offices are consolidated into one, and at a less salary than the predecessor of Dr. Stiles received. The demand made on this county by the Board of Health for 1868 was nearly $40,000 it is to be the changes recently the demand for the present year will be several thousands less although the entire system is constituted upon far too large and oost ly a scale.

Chtttbnden Oobbeoted, The New York Times mildly rebukes oar friend Chittenden for another display of his weakness, conspicuous inexactness," as follows Mr. S. B. Chittenden should be more careful than ha io in dealing with facts and figures; for evon the extenuated form he hag recently givon to his Chamber of Commerce raid on the "rotten National Banks" leaves him open to the ohargo of extraordinary ignoranoe. He says that what he meant wan that tho capital of one third tbe National Banks is impaired." Mr.

O. probably has preelsfl knowledge of the condition of one bank from his position as director; but he ought to know that sworn official returns demonstrate that the svrplms of the aggregate National Banks la more than twenty per cent, of their capital, Mr. O. Bhould be more careful or he will have his editor turning the tables on him, by offering to bet five dollars that there is "apair of "em." The examinations and reports mode under municipal and State authority were too minute and conclusive to encourage the Texan theory that the cattle disease of last year was a pure invention designed to influence the meat market. Boef eaters were possessed by a panio whioh for time banished the juioy joint, and the tender steak from the dinner and breakfast tables.

But the alarm passed away and the most popular article of food has since been consumed with absolute confidence. The news from Fiahldll, un leoB strengthened by intelligence from other quarters, will hardly shake the trust of the carnivorous citizen. The Dutchess County rumor is that cattle belonging to one Haight have mysteriously sickened and suddenly died in great agony. From this fact farmers and correspondents deduce an imminent cattle plague. The interesting Eastern question presents itself to day in the customary double aspeot.

One telegram says Greece has signed the protoool. Another telegram says Greece has not sighed but the Ministers have resigned. of to J. so ing The most is that of undertaker, whioh calling oily furmshod srven arrests In the wholo Metropolitan Distriot. AJntlSEMEltTS.

Booth's Theatre. Tho now theatre built under tho direotion of Edwin Booth and to bo by him managed haB been fully desorlbed to the Eaous. It only remains to record Its opening by oomtnon consent important epoch in tbe dramatic history of tbe country, marking, It is anxiously hoped, bright en or the latter day stage. Aa the Greeks based their chro nology on the Olympian games and the Bomus theirs on tho building of the city, so it is believed will Now York date the ffieatrtoal triumphs In reserve' for her from the initial night of Booth's Theatre. The hope' is not extravagant, booanee on the corner of Twenty third street and Sixth avenue there isdisclosod to sympa thetic and helpful pnblio ample evldenoe that all that money, skill, taste and? patient enthusiasm can do will be deno to realize with at levst approximato worthiness the only works of dramatic art whioh adapt themselves to every age, because they Include to their comprehensive grasp all human elements.

When the tinsel of transformation scones, the twinkling of ballet limbs, and the fllppanoy of bouffe shall be swept away with the vast accumulations of the ephemeral. Shaksoeara'g wonderful dramatic stories will remain for the artlstio nourishment oi distant generations, and will quloken and delight the centuries of the future as they havo quickened and delighted the centuries of tho past. xne wen aressea ana intelligent audience and in this case the phrase ia truthfully expressive: pootry, the arts, the bench, the learned professions were rorj rescnted, while the circles rojoioed ir toilettes suoh as hitherto only the legitimate opera has cbmpellod which filled every seat and occuplod all the standing room of the houso, differing perhaps as to dotalls, agreed in this, that the new theatre aa an entirety is an elegant and elaborate affair. The architect has succeeded in the prim essential of bringing th auditorium into comfortable relations with tho stago in making what is said and done on the latter' intelligible to the ear and eye of the listener and apootator. If there be an exception in this regard it is in the depart ment of private boxes, whioh strictly follow the old fashioned system of so disposing their oosupants as to be seen rather than to see.

The ohairs are comfortable, the ornamentation nth, the ventilation far better than ueual, and tbe light abundant and soft. To a satisfao illumination the ehandellor lends important aid, although it own beauty is lost oxcept to tho more curi ous through its modest retirement olosoly beneath the lofty celling. In the Betting and appointments of tho stago the be holder finds the gratification whioh comos from a sonao of largeness, fnllness and sumptuousnoss. Aoouraoy and liborallty havo guided tho managerial hand. Nothing is sllghtod, howover minute, and things subordinate are provided without stint.

It is difficult to apprehend, still more to fittingly Indlcato, (vith tho aid of a single examination the careful and olaborato mounting of a play which has receiver! Bomany months ofstudy and labor as havo boen given to "Romeo and Juliet" by Mr. Booth and his assistants. It is enough now and it is also entirely eafo to say that the tragody haB novor beforo boen presented with anything like the present complotcneBB sinco ShakBpoaro wrote it. Tho scenery is admirable in its detailod workmanship and in its aggregate effeot. The maohinery worked stiffly and slowly last night, but BucoeodinB performances will roalizo ooneecutivo improvement.

A final and promaturo opinion would bo more unjust to tho actora than to the material appointmonte. They who think Snakapearo is for tho closet rather than for tho stago must be strengthened in their belief when the complaining murmurs of reluctant rollora an? the sorooohing of unfamiliar whocls accompany peculiarly poetic passages. It is not surprising that Mr. Booth last night Bometimos camo short of the repose and solf forgotfulnoss whioh aro conditions of his tin. Qteo aa ho will play the oharaoter to night and horoaf tor.

In the olroumstances Miss Mary McViokor. who as Juliet made her first appearance beforo a New York audience, was singularly oalm and solf rollant. She is young and polite and apparently light calibrod, but pleasantly free from faults for whioh the Western an toccdontB of an artist proparo us. Some things on tlio balcony scene were said and done with com mendable naturalness. Mr.

Edwin Adams, as llercutio. so positively achieved tho success of the ovenlnc that it is only fair that tho faot should be as clearly rocordod as it was emphatioally recognized by the audlonoe. Mark Smith was a "comfortable Friar," to the appreciative publio as well as to tho lovers. Miss Morant'a Nunc waswollBoted but rathor youthful in make up. Mr.

Petera waa an excellent Peter, and the others without being powerfully impressive were satisfactory. "Romeo and Jullot" evidently has entorod upon a long and prosperous career. Tostee at the Academy to night in Barbo Bleuo." A crowd in epito of tho weather may bo re lied upon. After Dark" is drawing so well at the Park that Mrs. Conway is wisely letting it run.

Hooley is the moat munificent manager in the eity. Not content with roducing tho prioos of ad mission, ho 1b giving peoplo money to attend his Eastern District Opora Houso. Twenty flvo dollars iu greonljaoks, in five dollar prizes, are distributed among the audionce evory night. In this Distriot tho performance at Hooley'B Opera Houso ia attraction suilloient to fill the house. Donnelly's Olympio has a paying oard in Fanny Herring, who is doing tho "Frenoh Spy" to tho delight of tho Olympians.

Nod Greenland's beaming countenance grows broader every night over the in creasing flow of groenbaokg to tho Troasury, and Joe Hays hasn't done such a big stroke in the tlokot busi ness since he challonged Joe Reeve on his oitlzonship, while Tom Stewart is so olated with hia sucoess that ha talks of buying the old graveyard noxt door, and start ing a sheet iron circus like tho ono in Now York. The subscription books for Maretzek's sea son of Italian Opera aro now open at tho Academy of Music, and those who apply earliost will got tho flrBt choice of Boats. Subscription for two seats for the six nights of Opera entitles tho subscriber to a tioket for tho "Bal d'Opors," with which tho season will close. Mrs. Augustus Maveriokwill give Poetio Readings at the Atheneum en Monday ovening noxt.

The National Allegorical Tableaux will be presented at the Academy of Muslo to morrow evenincr. and at a Matinee on Saturday af tornoon for tho benoflt of the Graham Institute, or Old Ladies' Home. The second Organ Concert at Plymouth Church will be given on Saturday afternoon at four o'clock. Tho admission is IS cents, to cover expenses only. VIEWS OS? COIIRESFOMnjJNXI).

Democratic Troubles ia (be Nine teenib. To tho Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Trouble might in future arise in case the "slalo" nominations for mombors of the General Committee from tbe Nineteenth Ward were admitted to have been elected. It would "barm the party." But outsido this, llin statement of tho election of Mr. Beams your issuo of Friday was "conspicuously inexact." No ballots woro counted. The chairman of tho inspectors, seoing that tho "regular" nominations were utterly defeated, attempted to "walk off" with tho ballot box, and during tho cainuous ruction which took plaoa upon an attempt to provont such action, tbe box was broken and the ballots scattered to "the four winds of Heaven." Yours, he, Democrat.

"Hurry Up tbo Improvements." the Editor of thi Brooklyn Eagle Your remarks in last Saturday's paper havo right rinp exactly. More than one looallty that has suffered from this "dog in the manger polioy" will thank you for it. Bedford and Fulton avenuo corners favorably situated for a good business centro, but every lot of land is owned by those who will not improvo or Bell to those who would, and so right in the heart the City not a house or a Btore has been built theso thirty perhaps forty years. The streets remain unopened and every thing is aa dead as if it were forty miles away in tbe country. From Jefferson street to Wyckoff, Borne ten blocks between Franklin and Perry avenues, a house has been built for ten yoars past.

Lying oast of Bodford and south of Putnam is a large farm BtonDina all streets and imnrovements. Other largo sections contiguous are kept back in the samo way. Tom jL ranKun avenue to new xoric avonue not a nouse been built these ten years. Stores and bouses are rising rapidly north and oaot of theso looalltlcs, and lots h'gher than In this much bettor position. You truly that the men who dictate this policy to wholo neighborhoods deserve no sympathy from any quarter.

Some power ought to be invoked that oan opon the streets and givo people the right of ways, at least free from the embargos of theso bloated land holders. So hurry up the improvements, the bridge, the underground railroad, cut up the farms that stop a city's progress, into streets and if tbe old fogies are afraid of the locomotive let them get out of the way. Bedfobd, Tbe femerakt Ball, the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I read in your Saturday evening's issue an answor to a low, mean, scnrrilous attack made In the Union on tho Emerald Ball and the ladies and gentlemen attended it, and with many others was highly gratified at the manner in whioh "Little Mao" treated the BUbject. There was one portion, however, of tho Union's attack, that he left unnoticed, which is my apology for trespassing on your columns, and that was the reference mede to a vonna lady who was conceded to ono of the handsomest and best dresscdladles of the The Union speaks of her as having "all her clothes upon hor baok and trunks empty at home, and from her leather brogans it could be readily soon that was a gay bog trotter aftor all." I had the pleasure of attending that ball, and noticed lady in question, and I think I express the views of but one, who observed her, that her attire was ebaste, neat, and in excellent taste for the occasion. Upon inquiry I ascertained that she was the daughter an eminent German physician of this oity, and was company of a gontlcman who is one of the proprietors of a weekly Journal in our neighboring city, who, tbo way, did not read the artiolo in question, or, if did, the oommuBlty would have since been startled heading Bemewhat like the following: An Editor cowhldcd In his offlce," rho second beating within a month, for publishing slander," kc, ho.

The only way I can account for tho cowardly attack the possible refusal of tho lady in question to dance with this "fool of an editor," or tho omission of tho Committee to furnish him with a supper ticket and an invitation to the committee room. Boing somewhat acquainted with the regular reporters of tho Union, I certain they did not, nor could they be paid to write article in question. One Pollard was assassinated for a libel upon a young in Richmond, bnt this scurrilous attack deserves scarcely such a punishment certainly cowhiding is about its penalty. d. the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: It is farthest from my intention to trespass either on your time or the space in your truly conservative paper, is dovoted to muoh more Interesting subjects than the present ono, but having read in Saturday's issue an article purporting to reply to a rather uncharitable criticism which appeared in tho Morning Union, on the Emerald Ball, I think a few words are necessary in justification of a portion of your readers.

The author "Little Mao" although his intention was good in attempting a reply has actually made matters worse. The Eaolh circulates among that class and portion of the respectable community that rarely, if ever.get a view of the obscure Union, and also among Democrats of the city, and aa "Littlo Mao" accepts most of the ideas expressed in the artiolo he endeavors reply to, as truths, I therefore do not think ha utters sentiments of those it was hia intention to defend. tho'contrary he allows a certain portion of the Eaoli'b reader! to lay under a slur, whioh he failed to deny. i Ireland has been vindicated by abler pens than that the obscuio writer, and every one that pretends to slightest information concerning the nations of the world must admit, that Ireland in every respect 1b equal to any nation on the face of the earth, so far as learning and civilization are concerned. Haa it not produced scholars and poets second to none? Is not as refined and arlstooratlo aa other nations? Does not its "native mualo" rank among highest, for beauty? In faot.

everything that indicates Um highest atate of culture and JOB OF and ment true of and Bond ir The promised Spanish reinforoamenta have at last begun to reach Cuba. A ship load arrived at Havana on and'more aro expeotea soon; In the meantime threatening riots are reported in various parts of the Island. Continual contributions to the Zoological De partment of the Central Parkpromiso to provide there a rare and valuable collection. Among recent additions are two OBtriohesrrom the Bio Grande, one from Brazil, two eagles, a peccary, a Bussian rabbit, a red fox, a blauk bear and a deer. The Central Park is managed with taBte and skill too much, let us hope, to tolerate the erection in it of the ugly bridge whioh lately disfigured Broadway.

Ashbury, owner of the English yacht Cambria, has accepted the challenge of Douglass, owner of the American yatht Sappho, and proposes to ran from Cowes, through Spithead, around the Islo of Wight to Cherbourg, and back to Cowes through the Solent. As the Sappho has already been badly beaten by tho Cambria the race will be unusually interesting to those who believe the defeat resulted from ill lack, or bad manage ment, or anything bat inferior sailing qualities. The Duke of Magenta, who has been liyincr lux uriously in Paris in these "piping times of peaoe, is ordered to gird on his sword and betake him self to Algeria, where the natives have risen in revolt. Fighting the Algerians is about as plea ant servioe as fighting American Indians and as productive of popular glory, but either sort of campaigning is believed to be an excellent sohool for a soldier. Only the Duke of Magenta proba bly thought his soholastio military days over Later news says the revolt is at an end, and per haps the Duke will be permitted to remain in Paris and tranquillity.

If problem solving depended solely on persist ent effort tho patience of aeronauts would surely be rewarded with suoceBs. The collapsing of neither balloons nor theories seems to dhsooar age these indefatigable experimenters, who re turn from eaoh defeat to their specialty as cheer fully and with a faith as admirable as Arotio ex plorers renew their search, for tho Pole. M. Chev alier, recently arrived in New York, is one of these heroic adventurers of the upper air. He is a Swiss who has spent a large fortune on fly ing machines.

Men of narrow praotical views think he has wasted it, but Chevalier is of a dif ferent opinion. He believes all previous failures have culminated in a success in the shape of an aerial ship of a bird like model, propelled by fan sails worked by a steam engine. In this vessel he proposes soon to start for Europe. One of the conspicuous theatrical sensations of the season so powerfully attractive as to draw to a certain theatre in a single month more money than flowed into the treasury of any other house in New York was ahead of light hair. The question of its reality or artificiality shared the anxious interest of the public with specula tions as to Grant's Cabmet, the succession to the Spanish throne, the signing of the protoool by urecco, tne settlement of the Alabama claims, the building of the East Biver Bridge, and the fight between the Morgan and Fenton factions of the Radical party.

Partisans of the hair Baid it was real, and skeptical journalists said it was artificial. Doubtful it stood until this morning, when the wearer of the hair finally settles tho dispute by saying that she was born a blonde and a blonde she will die or rather she won't dye. The controversy is a first rate advertisement. Tho only pity is that the hair is not artifloiil. In this material dram atio age it could make no difference to the publio, and the advertisement would have been com pleted and nicely rounded by a puff of the coiffeur who had successfully counterfeited the blonde.

In the Senate yesterday Conkling introduced a bill to encourage the building of steamships in tho United States. Tho business needs encouragement, whether it will get it from Congress or not. Ihe bill referred to exempts the material used in building and tho ships, so long as they shall carry the mails, from taxation. Trumbull's Judiciary bill was reported. It provides for a Chief Justice and eight Associates, and for nine Judicial Circuits.

The Diplomatic Appropriation bill after amendment was pasaed. The Suffrage Amendment was debated until adjournment. The alleged stationery and printing frauds of the Interior Department were before the House. A joint resolution forbidding the payment of money on certain contracts was adopted. The Sergeant at Arms brought to the Bar of the House Florence Soannel and Henry Johnson, of New York, wanted by the Committee investigating election frauds in that oity.

Both said they were ready to testify, and were remitted to custody with that view. In the course of the discussion Robinson used the following nuiua; jruruups tug oxjiiuruon wnicn we nave, presented is the best example of the tyrannical course which men will pursue when dressed in a UHiobriof auUiurity." Aitiiuugn the sentenoe has an undoubted Shakspearean flavor some members thought it unparliamentary and the words were taken down. The Speaker thereupon declared Bobinson out of order. No other punishment was inflicted on the representative of the Third Distriot. The Washington Military Bail road and Naturalization bills were considered.

In the evening the Internal Bevenue bill was debated. Eighteenth Ward Soworoiro, A meeting of the Eighteenth Ward property holders, called for last evening, was held at tho residence of Mr. J. H. Hart, corner of Gates avenue and Broadway, and attended by about thirty gentlemen interested in property in that locality, An organization was effected by selecting Mr.

Hart as Chairman, and W. J. Irvin, Secretary. Water Commissioner Northup was present with maps showing the extent of tho district to bo drained, and the most praoiioable means by which to effect the object in view. A someifcat lengthy discussion on tho respective merits of the plans proposed, the cost of tho improvement when tho amount to bo assessed upon each lot, onsued, and it was finally decided to submit an act to the Legislature, embracing a plan of tho work, whioh on being read, was found to require some slight alterations, and action on the matter was delayed until the ensuing meeting.

Mr. Thomas W. Field, favored the getting up of a petition showing tho necessity for tho improvement, to accompany the bill mentioned and was instructed to circulate such a paper for signatures. From careful estimates made by gentlemen familiar with this class of work, it waB found that the cost per lot would not exceed ten dollars, and for which it is proposed to issue city bonds for the entire cost to be paid by the district owners in yearly installments cr ten years. This amount it is believed will bo amply sufficient to cover both prinoiple and interest of the cost, Tho statement given below which was laid before the meeting by Com.

Northup will sorve to onlighton those not already cognizant of the features of the proposed Improvement. The total number of lota of 2500 square feet area in map drainage district No. 87 is 35,190. The num ber of lots, the drainage of which passes through the main sewer in Vandervoort avenue, at Cypress Hills Plank Boad, (head of Newtown oreek) is 28,620. The estimated cost of a main sewer from the Cypress Hill road, through Vandervoort, Knlokerbooker, Greene, Johnson, Woodbine and Central avenues, and Margarotta street, to and serosa Broadway, and thence through Halsey street to Balph avenue, will be $210,000 if inBteadof following the above lines the smaller branch, continuing along Woodbine street to and across Broadway and thence through Monroe to Balph avenue, were built, the cost would be about $141,000.

This estimate assumes that the streets are graded. It is believed that the excavation necessary will causo the amount to differ but little from the above estimates. The meeting was adjourned at a late hour to be con vened on next Tuesday evening at tbe same place. Tho Nicolnon Pavement on lob Avo. The Grading and Paving Committee of the Common Council met again lost evening, on the subject Leo avenue re paving, but the matter was adjourned for another week, there being nono of the owners present but Mr.

H. M. Beams and Dr. Wren. These gentlemen repeated their objections to the pavement, and alleged that tho remonstrance they produced was signed by nlno tenthB of the property owners on tho Btreet.

On the other hand, Mr. BonesteeL manager of the Nicolson Company, denied the statements as to the expense of the pavement. He said his bid was $10 75 per lineal foot. The carriagoway of Lee avenue was thirty fivo feet wide, and the cost per twenty foot lot would only be about $100 each property owner has pay S8 SB per foot por front of his lot. The only other bid before the committee for Lee avenue paving is that of Edward Steel, for the other description of wooden pavement known as the Lafayette.

This bid was at the rate of $1 25 por square yard which makes it a trifle lower than the Nicolson per square foot of superficial area. Aid. Thorno held that the remonstrance of tho owners came in too late for tho Committee to take it into consideration, the Common Council having already do cldedthat tbe street should be paved with wooden pavement. Finally Alderman Nolan, tho ohairman, Btatod that the Committee would hold one more meeting on the subject, on Wednesday next, when tho property owners could attend and statewhat they wanted dono in regard to their stroot. Fibb James Stbeet.

About three o'olook this morning a fire broke out in the room of Felix Campbell, situate on the thrrd floor of tho tenement house No. Jamos street. The fire was discovered by some of the Inmates of the house, but not until it had burned through tho floor and a portion of the urnituro was destroyed. Tho fire was put out by the inmates with a damage of SCO to the furniture belonging to Mr' Campbell, and $50 on the house, which is owned by 8. Swanrt.

A Man Feighotjlls Scalded, About eight o'clock this accident which will likely provo fatal occurred at the distillery, corner of John street and Gold. It appears that a man named Henry Hen eotb, was employed oleanlng out a swill tank, and whllo occupied the side gave way and hot swill, from another tank, poured in upor the unfortunate mamscold him in a frightful manner. He waa at once removed to the City Hospital. Embezzlement John Meyer was arrested yesterday on warrant of Justice Lynch, by Officer Bolton, ef the Forty ninth Preotaot, on complaint of a. Pherron, of 2181 Fulton avenue, ohargod him with ombeefUng the sum of three dollars, the property of eii Hurron, Xbe aweS was held for trial.

in at It or J. is of his to his at will consult their own interest by giving the several contracts to the lowest and most ad vantageons bidder. If "a gentleman named Eingsley has a oontraot to build the bridge for $8,000,000, what cornea of the argument that the parties controlling the direotion will represent only a tenth of the oapital? Where is the difference between five and eight mil lions to come from The seonrity we have for an honest adminis tration of this great publio trust is in the oharaoter of the men who kave control of it. It is not too muoh too say that an equal number of better men were never associated in anv looai enterprise. Here where they are known pest JOr.

Uiohmonds assertion that they nave aireaay made oorrupt contracts, or contracts of any sort, will bs dismissed as a malicious libel. Of "the gentleman named Eingsley" nothing worse is known here than that he has had large oontraots with the oity, that he has made good his obligations, and that whatever profits he may have made from his enterprises are retained in the oity in which these enterprises were conduoted. No contract has been made with him or anybody eise, ana there is, therefore, Messrs. Assembly men, ao chance for "a Among the directors of the Bridge Company are Mayor Kalb neisch, Senator Murphy, Messrs. Chittenden, Marshall, Pierrepont, Benson, Husted and other men equally worthy.

When these men agree to a oontraot we shall feel disposed to regard it as a good one. The representatives from Kings County in the Assembly ought to be familiar with the faots we have given. If they hesitate to press them home on the strikers they will be in no sense representatives of our people. Every year we suffer from sins of commission on the part of the Legislature. It is hardly oonoeivable that by their negative aotion they will venture to delay one of the noblest projeots ever nnder taken in our State or Country.

Some Bills at Albany. Some very crude and some very sensible legislation is daily being proposed in regard to this city and county. The engineers of the Court House had a bill continuing them in office and mukmp them Indenondent of their appointors, the Board of Supervisors, 'ihis bill nas been reported adverse, as it should have been. If the local authorities cannot be trusted to employ and dismiss the men who heat a publio building, there is noth ing concoivable in the way of publio business mat AiDany coma saieiy leave to tbe discretion of the oity or county officers. The police application for more pay has also been rejected by the Assembly.

The bill making the Begister's office of Kings County a salaried one, was reported favorably. A bill is introduced the Assembly fii'int? the rates of wharfage at more reasonable figures than they now are. The wisest course in reference to the wharves would be for the Legislature to take its hands oil and allow wharf owners, like owners of house property, to arrange with those who went to hire of them, what rates are to be paid. The publio interest would be adequate ly protected by the competition of rival wharf owners. Those who charged the lowest rates and kept their wharves in the best condition would attract the most business, and it would then be the interest of every wharf owner to afford all the facilities to commerce whioh his wharf was capable of giving.

'Iho bills relative to the Litohfield estate, introduced by Senator Murphy, are unobjectionable. The extension of the new canals to Fourth avenue will be the quickest way to put the meadows to some useful purpose. The other bill, relative to Third street assessment, seems to be a compromise by Senator Murphy between Aid. Bergen's bill which confirmed the present assessment, and the bill whioh the Alderman in his spaeoh in the Common Council stated had been drawn by Mr. Litchfield, whioh proposed to vacate the whole assessment and begin de now.

Mr. Murphy now proposes to deduct from me xnira street assessment of tnia year nineteen twentieths of tho $17,000 charged for interest, and to spread it, like the principal, equally over the twenty years of repayment. This compromise will probably be satisfactory to all parties. In the Assembly, we notice a bill which facilitates the laying of railroad traoks in streets where the property owners are opposed to them. In this city, the effeot would be to enable the Company of which General Slooum is President to carry out their VanderbiK avenue railroad to Prospect Park, and also to take their unfinished track on Willoughby street up to the Court House and past the City Hall via Jerolamon street.

Mr. Madden, of Queen's County has another batch of roads and bridges to be built, each with its separate commission. The County of Queens will soon have its taxes higher than Kings, unless it strikes a bargain with Supervisor Covert and his friend Assemblyman Madden, and pays them an amnesty eaoh on condition of their restless projects being abandoned. While Mr. Madden is urging one projeot after another for costly roads ami bridges over swamps, Mr.

Hodges proposes to repeal the Maspeth avenue Act. If any roads from Kings to Queens is needed, it is Maspeth avenue, which leads direct to Maspeth Village. It would be much cheaper and more sensible for to hurry up the improvement of Maspeth avenue and of the old Flushing road, than to carry out Mr. Maddou's coBtly idea of extending Grand street from Metropolitan avenue to and aoross Newtown Creek, where a long bridge will be needed, where the swamps cannot be made habitable, and the cost of a solid road and bridge will approach half a million dollars, which the confiscation of the property along the route would not suffice to pay. Mr.

Graof and tbe Worms. Mr. Graef is still after the worms, and at last the Common Council seem disposed to furnish him with the ammunition requisite for carrying on his campaign. For more than half a dozen years past this indefatigable vendor of Sidonia Bitters has been seeking to induce the local authorities to allow him to experiment with his vermifugal preparations. At one time, backed by the potent recommendation of Professor Crittenden of the Packer Institute, he succeeded so far as to induce a committee of the Joint Board to recommend the raising in the taxes of no less a srim than twenty thousand dollars to shable him to carry on, a wholesale crusade against the worms.

But the present Mayor, who was then in his first term of office, ignored the recommendation, and the money was not raised. The worms, however, seem to have got wind of the matter, and for some years after they feared to show themselves in great numbers. Last summer they reappeared, but not to any suoh extent as they had done in 1863 and previous years. On Monday, on the application of Aid. Whiting, the Board of Aldermen voted $100 for Mr.

Graef to experiment with, under the direction of a committee of which Aid. biting is chairman. Technically the appropriation is not a valid one, there having been no fund raised to whioh it can be especially chargeable; but no great harm can result from the trial of Mr. Graef experiment, and his perseverance through so long a series of years in urging his idea upon the authorities, almost merits the award of $100. We fear, however, in view of the demand made in 1863 for so large a sum as $20,000, that the $100 now voted is meant to be only the entering wedge for a "big thing." That the worm nuisance of late years has so much abated, is probably due in the greatest measure to the efforts made in Prospeot Park to domiciliate the sparrows and other small birds whioh feed on the worms.

The time was, ten years ago and previously, when small birds were almost extinct in and around this city. Every boy who could buy or borrow a gun used to prowl about the suburbs, shooting every bird he could see. Thus the birds were driven off and the worms multiplied without fear of their natural enemies the birds. But now the extensive area of Prospeot Park, as well Greenwood and the other Cemeteries, is a sanctuary for the birds, and it is no uncommon thing for a score or more of'sparrows at time to visit any house or garden in the suburbs where crumbs are thrown out for them to oat. The birds, thus multiplying, will afford to our trees perfect insurance against the worms andfthis natural and inexpensive mode of checking the ravages of the worm upon our shade trees, renders superfluous the Graef plan of squirting poisonous liquids over the foliage, a rests more particularly on ms great mstoncai works, "The History of the Religious Movement of tne Eighteenth Oentury, called Methodism, considered, in its different Denominational Forms and its Relations to British and Amerioan Protestantism," in thrco large volumos his separate "History of the Methodist Episcopal Churoh in the United States of America.

and "The Cente nary of American Methodism A Sketch of its History, Theology, Practical System, and Sao cess." In the last mentioned work Dr. Stevens says: "Aggregately there are now in tho United Mates and uanada. as tile results of tho Mnt.li. Odism of 1766, 1,973,770 ohuroh members, 18,680 mnouug ironuuen, iowu preaonors, nearly 200 colleges and academies, and mora than an nn. A nbn Ann iiuuiuu uuuuuauuuB communicants, and nearly 8,000,000 people." In this aggregate no British North American Province is included except Canada, as their Methodism did not nnVin.

ate witn tne denomination in tne united fltafa The Primitive Methodists are also omitted. In HIS rULPIS HENISTBATIONS Dr. Stevens deals usually with arsrumentativn subjects. He is amlful in dialeotioa. and Dossena es roe quality, so rare among prisoners ana orators, of never misstating or coloring the opinions of hlsoononentfl.

We wars mnoh stmnlr Jw mm uniiuur tu Butiuiiioiit on Duiiuav last, wnen he delivered two able and logical discourses in i i a i ri a i answer to tne ratlonanstio obieotions to nraver. xi any were present ne muse nave confessed that his position in antagonism to orthodoxy oould not have been morefairlv and dianas i i sionately set forth. Dr. Stevens Dreaohes without notes. He is fluent in his language, logioal in his arrangement of thoughts, earnest, sometimes to vehemence, in Dresshur Dractioal truths nnnn his hearers, and has a vivacity and intelligence whioh compels attention.

He is a gentloman and a soholar, as well as a divine does not think it a ueauiy Bin to uimta or ieei nanny on tne Hahimth day, and as well in church as out of it, is wholly OUR ALBANY CORRESPONDENCE. The Brooklyn Improvement Co. and Its ennuis Third street Assessment The Eot Hivor Tunnel Qaaens County matters aiasjpoth and Held Avenues, Sec. Albaht, Feb. 3, TBE BBOOKLTH IMPROVEMENT 00.

In the Senate this morning Mr. Murohv in iroaucea a Dm wnicn autnorlzes this Oompany to ex tend its canal, in the Oity of Brooklyn, as now laid down ana partly constructed, and to oontinue and maintain the same in a direct line to Fourth avenue and to oon neot tho samo by a contral canal with any basin or oa nal which, in accordance with its oharter, it may horo after construct between First and Third streets, provided that said Oompany Bhall construct and iorevor maintain, durable, permanent and free bridges, with out draw or other opening over said canal wherever it may be extended across any publio stroot or avonuo. such bridges to bo first approved before the making of such extonded canal, by the Mayor of said oity, by his written approval, filed in the office of the Clark of said City, as to form, slzo, height, and matorial of suoh bridges. THE THIRD STREET IMPROVEMENT. Mr.

Murphy also introduced a bill to oorroot the taxes of 18(18, of Brooklyn, bo far as tho samo relate to the oost of tho improvement of Third street. It authorizes the Collector of Taxes to deduot from the taxes of the year 1868, imposed upon property chargod theroiu for the cost of the improvement of Third street in said oity, nlnetoen lnentieths of the amount ineludod in such cost, and assessed for interest, as the same shall be certified to said Oolleotor In writing and filed with him by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of tho County of Kiufs. The amount go deduoted Bhall be re assessed and levied as a part of the cost of tho said im provement, as provided by law. The aot to tako offoct immediately. TBE REW VOBE TUNNEL COMPANY.

Mr. Fiorce introduced a bill amending tho Charter of the Now Vork and Brooklyn Tunnel Oompany, by pro viding that wherever 200 snares of the stock of Bald Company shall bo subscribed, tho Board of Commis sioners, or the Committee of thirteen whioh has been appointed by the said incorporators, shall oall a meeting of the stockholders to chosBe fifteen Directors for said Corporation, who Bbbll hold their offices for ono yoar. and until others Bhall boelocted inthoir places; and tne said Board or Commissioners or Committee shal cause to be given ten days notice of the timo and placo of meeting of said stookholdors, to choose said Directors of said Corporation, said notice to bs publichod in one daily papor in eaoh of tho cities of Now York and Brooklyn. The said corporation may oroct a tunnol or tunnels of iron or masonry, or both, across the bod of tho East River, between the two oitles, and also aoross the bod of tho North Biver, from suoh point or points as shall bo determined upon by tho said corporation. For tho purpose of constructing and operating the said tunnel or tunnels, tho said corporation may enter upon and take possession of the land on each aldo of tho rivor or rivers, where the terminus of said tunnel shall be erected, and Bhall givo to the owner or owners the vbIuo of so much of the same as may bo neoessary for con Btructing tho approaches, ito, If any person shall wilfully impair any of the property of the Oompany, ho shall forfeit 81,000 and coats Tbo Oompany is authorized to transport passengers and charge at lowest rates of toll, not exceeding tho rates at presont charged by the different ferry oompanies lor orosslng the said river or rivers.

The corporation Bhall oom menco the werk of construction within two years af7 ter tbo passage of this Aot, and tho tunnels Bhall So comploted within seven years thereafter. HOWABD LITBBABY ASSOCIATION. Mr. Pierce introduced a bill incorporating John B. Leech, Henry H.

Wheeler, J. H. Copperthwaito, Victor A. Wilder, O. Tj.

Foster, John Whlton, John D. Klwell, Goorgo P. Sheldon, John J. Williams, and Harry Barnes, undor tho title of the Howard Literary Association. The purpose of tho corporation is to oroato and encourage tho pursuit and cultivation of literature and art.

The corporation Is authorized to hold real ostato to an amount not exceeding $60,000. A LITTLE SPIOE. Tho proceedings of tho Senate were sprinkled with a little splco to day tho first of the soason sevoral days ago, Mr. Von Petten moved a resolution calling upon tho new Adjutant General to report the faots relative to contraot mado by Governor Fenton's Commissary Oeneral with parties in Ehode Island for altering 10,000 muskets at a cost of $70,009. It ia alleged that this contraot was a "job," made without authority of law, and a figure at least $10,000 highor than other parties offered to do tho work.

Tho Military Oommlttoe was directed to make the investigation Mr Yoi a Republican, Is Chairman of this Committee, is anti Fon ton, and ia also Eaid to be intoreBtod in an Armory in thia State. To day, aftor having possession of tho sub ject several doys, Mr. Von Pelten asked to be ro'iaved from its further consideration, and that it bo passod over to the Judiciary Committee. This was hotly opposed by tho Fenton mon, 'thoy felt that that up of bitter anti Fontonlto Republicans and Democrats, would carry tho investigation to most oxti ome point, not only as to the legal boarlngs involved but as to tbe motives of those who wore parties to tho job, on the part of tho Stato. Tho debate was warm enough to indicate that the sores mado in tho Senatorial fight still rankle, and it gives promise that sonrt of the short comings of tho Ex Governor are to be exposed.

On tho vote the Democrats joined the anti Fon ton men, and thus tho work of invoatigation was passed over to the Judiciary Committee. In the Assembly, Mr. Jacobs Introduced a bill amending the Quarantine Act It provides Sectioh 1. The words following Bhall be added to section 3G of the Quarantine Act passed April 29, 18G3, viz. From tho provisions of this seotion Bhall bo exempt such boats and their orowB as are authorized to colleot manno news for publication in tbe daily newspapers.

The Board of Health of the Oity of Now York shall, upon application from the proprietor or proprietors of such daily newspapers, grant a permit to board them tho purpose of collecting marino news, and for no other purpose. Mr. Madden introduced a bill providing for tho erec tion of a new Court House and Jail in Queons County. Edward A Lawrence, of Flushing; Charles G. Covert, Newtown; James Nostrand, of Jamaica; Carman Cornelius, of Hempstead; Benjamin W.

Allen, of North Hempstead; and Townsond D. Cook, of Oyster Bay, appointed Commissioners to locate and build the Court House and JaiL Tho location of the buildings to be fixed at the place to be selaoted by a majority the above named Commissioners. Bonds are to bo issued by the County authorities, to meet the expenses be incurred. Mr. Conant lntroducod a bill for tho relief of the Northport, Huntington and Oyster Bay Steamboat Company.

The name of the Oompany is changed to "Oyster Bay and Huntington Steamboat Company." The capital stook may be reduced to tho amount of stook now paid In. Mr. HodgoB introduced a bill to repeal the act for the improvement of Maspeth avenue, Brooklyn. Mr. Jacobs introduced a bill to alter the Commission map of Brooklyn as follows: The northerly termination of the weat line of Held avenue, shall hereafter be as follows to wit: From the southweBt corner of Pulaski street, north in a direct lino to an intersection with Broadway, seventy eight feet six inohes from the present northwesterly point intersection of Broadway and Retd avenue.

And all that part lying northwesterly of Roid avenuo which was declared closed by the aot of May 1st 1865, shall bo and hereby known as Eeid avenue. Mr. Madden Introduced a bill to lay out and construct a road in the Town of Newtown, from Jackson avenuo to the village of Newtown. Henry S. Anablo, Peter G.

Van Alst, and Frost T. Covort aro namod as Commissioners to earry out the provisions of the bill. Tbo Keport of tbe Police Commission era The Metropolitan Polioe Commissioners have submitted their annual report to the Legislature Like all the reports of this body it is as conspicuous what it omits is for what it publishes. Thore is a mass of general statistics about the number of Station Heuse lodgers, and tho number of hours lost by sickness of members of tho force. The returns are ohiefly made in the aggregate, and very little information of strictly local interest Is to be'gathered from the report.

number of passengers transported over tho different ferries leading from Now York, during tho year 1b returned at over eighty two millltons, ofwhiohtwo thirds orossed the East Biver Ferries which are ropu aB follows: Union Ferry .40,000,000 Houston street Ferry 1,932,000 Peck Blip and Grand street Ferries Grcenpoint Ferry. 1,513,000 Hnnter'B Point Ferry 2,185,000 Jackson Btreet Ferry 1,400,000 Gate Ferry 125,400 The number of arrests made in Brooklyn during the year 1868 waa 18,700, classified nationally as follows: Born in the United States, Ireland, Germany, 1,970 ail others, 1,353, In classifying the offences and occupations the whole Distriot is jumbled together, and we do not get tbe figures for Brooklyn, the occupations, housekeepers figure the highest, 3,778, which conveys an unjust impression of the morals of that useful class. The way it is, the police enter every woman they arrest as a housekeeper, if ana has other occupation; clerks 00 uw next, owing to a in To the are it of not just i has are say To who be ball. she the all, of the by he by ii am the lady To tho to the On of the it the NUMBER FOUR. THE REF, ABEL STEVENS, LL.B, The Methodist episcopal Church in tho United States Its Status in Brook, lyn Pacific Street m.

B. Church Bio graphical Sketch of Bev. Abol Stovcns, IiL.D. As a Historian and Editor Bis Pulpit ministrations. The Methodists, are tho largest religious body in the United States.

The history of this powerful aenominanon nas a charm equal to romance from its first germ in the soul of John Wesley at Oxford to its active mission when he and Whiteflold preached the gospel on these shores, and thenoe tnrongn its progressive record to the oreaent dav. its introduction into America about a hundred years ago happened ouriously. Wesley visited Ireland in 1763 and became acquainted with a uerman irishman, one of a Colony of Germans wnose racners Had emigrated from the Bhine, in we reign or yueen. Anne. This voune man.

Philip Embury by name, converted by Wesley's Deoame a looai preaober, ana nine years later quitted Ireland and settled with a small oompany of his countrymen in New York. After a period of indhTerence to religion, consequent on roe deprivation oi tbe religious ordmsnoea they had olung to in Ireland, they were aroused to renewed life by a devout woman, Barbara Heck, at whoso entreaty the preacher held ser vioes in bis own house, a humble one story building, and thus inaugurated the first Hetho dlst Hooietym America. In two years more he dedicated the Fast American Methodist Chapel, On the 2d of September, 1784, John Wesley believing, to quote his own words, that ha was a Scriptural episcopoa as muoh as any man in Eng land" and nad therefore the right to ordain and consecrate others, ordained at Bristol the Bev. Thomas Coke, LL. of Jesus College, Oxford.

and a presbyter of the Established Churoh of England, as Superintendent or Bishop of the jnetnoaist uocieties in America. At the same time he ordained Richard Whatooat and Thomas Vaaey, the three devoted mission aries set off on a longer journoy than was ever thought of by Paul or Barnabas, arriving in America on the 3d of November. Eighteen times did good Bishop Coko croBB tho Atlantic at his own expense. If the consecration by Wesley (who was assisted by the Bev. James Creiehton, also a Priest of the Church of Englaud) is allowed to be valid, then Methodism may boast of having given the first Protestant Bishop to this continent and of having founded the first Protestant Episcopal Churoh vpf the New World, Upon the "If" with whioh our last sentenoe commenced depend some weighty eocleBias tical questions, affecting: the ultimate prospoots of a reunion of Christendom.

It was illustrated not long since in England, when the warm heartofi and learned Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, the muoh talked of Dr. Pusoy, mado overtures to the Wesleyan olergy in tho hope of in ducing their conformity to the Church of England. His well meant appeal was not reciprocated with muoh affeotion, this question of tho validity of Wesleyan ordinations being one of the points at issue. The office of a bishop in tho Methodist Episcopal Churoh differs considerably from that of the Episcopalian and Roman Catho lio Churches. In the two latter a bishop has jurisdiction over the olergy and ohurohes of ons particular diocese, but the Methodist bishops divide among themselves the superintendence of tho ohurcheB, olergy, miaaions, 4c, without limit as to locality, so that a bishop may one year engaged on Borne speciflo department of work in America, and the next year on quito another branch in Europe.

In the old world the. name of tho denomination is "Wesleyan which is synonymous with "Methodist Episcopal' in this country. In the matter of dootrine, there is no material, difference between the Methodists an the Established Church of England. Like that church, Methodism which so directly emanated from it, has had and still has contending parties within its pale. George Whiteflold, it will be remembered, was a strong he had a large number of followers who adopted similar views.

The two Wesleys, on the other hand, were Arminianin their teaohing and rejected the notion of a limited salvation. John Wes ley sent the MothodiBts of America a printed Iturgy or "Sunday Service" as well as a bishop (who was to ordain ministers). This liturgy con tained, besides the usual prayers, forms for "or daining superintendents, elders and deacons, "the "Articles of Religion" (omitting that bulwark of Calvinism the Seventeenth "Of Predestination and and "A oolleotion of Psalms and Hymns." His brother was of higher church views than himself, was the author of some very beautiful ones. His famous hymn commenc ing "Lo, on thiB farrow neok of land" composed at tne juand's End, uornwau, is laminar to all hymn lovers. There la another hymn to whioh wo must allude in passing The God of Abram praise, Who reigns onthroned above Ancient of everlasting days And God of love written lone ago by a poor desnised Methodist cobbler, Thomas Oliver.

Southoy and other able critics have given it the first place among English hymns. It was sung with grand effeot at the unurcn or tne noiy Trinity, on tho occasion of Bishop Littlejohn's oonseoration (possibly soloot ed because the good Bishop's first name is Abram.) Among that great assembly of orelates ana oi ciorgy we wonaer any nymn ioarnoa divine cast a passing thought on the poor Metho dist cobbler saint. Oh, that the haloyon days would come aeain when the Christian church might, be one Fold under one Shepherd We proceed to a brief survey of the history and status or THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL OEUBCH IN BBOOELTN. As early as the year 1781 the Methodist itiner ant preachers found their way into Brooklyn. At first they preached in the open air and private dwellings; audit was not until the year 179i that tne urat methodise meeting nouse was erected on the site of the present Sands street M.

E. Church. A preliminary meeting, for tho eloction of six persons to act as Trustees of the first Methodist Church in Brooklyn, had boen previously held at Peter Cannon's, near the Pulton Perry, and on the lBt of September the Trustees so selected purchased the site in Sands street from Joshua and Comfort A. Sands. This place of worship was dedicated June 1st, 1794, by the Rev.

Joseph Totteri, who, in 1797, became the first Methodist Episcopal minister regularly located in Brooklyn. Some thirty churches are the offspring of that little company of worshipers. They continued to assemble in that church until 1810. when they built a larger one, and again in 1843 this was removed, and a brick edifice was erected. in iBio cue nxst riaooatn Honooimiirooiuyn was opened in Mr.

Kirk's printing office on Adams street, it being considered indecorous to holdlt the Churoh. Of the Methodist Episcopal Churches Brook lyn the most costly and attractive is the pacific street m. e. ohubcb. It is built in the Romanesque style, of brown stone.

Its history may be thus epitomized On Tuesday evening, Ootober the 1st, 1851, a few persons belonging to the denomination met the house of Aaron B. Marvin, corner of Court and Livingston streets, to deUberateas to the purchase of tho property formerly occupied by the South Presbyterian Church, on Paoifio street, between Court and Clinton, as a place of worship for the Methodists in South Brooklyn. A Committee was appointed whioh lost no time in effect ingthe proposed purchase for the sum of $6,600. The Rev. George Feck, D.

then editor of the Quarterly Review, having been appointed to take charge of the movement, preached the first sermon on Sunday, Oct. 18, 1844. On the Sunday following, October 20th, the Church was formally organized under its present charter, as the fifth separate Methodist station in the City of Brooklyn, forty persons connecting themselves by certificate with the new society. is a singular ciroumatance that not one of the original official members is now in connection with this church. Most of them have "fallen on sleep," and others have removed to other plaoea churches.

The Society continued to worship in this plaoe till the 18th of May( 1861, when they removed to their present beautiful edifice, on the corner of Clinton and Paoifio streets. The corner stone of the present church was laid by their Pastor, the Rev. J. Kennedy, D. assisted by the Rev.

Waters Burrows, of the New Jersey Conference, on the 18th of June, 1860. Th foUowinir ministers have been roimlarlv stationed in Paoifio street since the ohuroh was organized Rev. Georgo Peok, D. D. Luther Peck; A.

M. Osbon, D. D. W. K.

Stopford, deceased John Eennaday, D. XK, deceased John Miley.D. R. S. Foster, D.

W. H. Milburn, H. Perry, D. deceased jM.

R. Vincent, and S. DeHass. The present Pastor, Dr. SewelL has obtained leave of absenoo on account of ill health, and has goneforsome months to Florida.

His place is being moBt acceptably filled by a gentleman whose name stands high among the champions and literati of Methodism THE BEV. ABEL STEVENS, LL.D. As the Reverend Doctor has taken a house in Brooklyn and purposes to remain here he takes his place among the distinguished theologians and preachers of "the City of Churches," and it a pleasure to welcome one so distinguished in the world of letters to the confraternity of our eminent scholars and divines. Dr. Stavans was born at Philadelphia in tho year 1815, and as if that memorable time, so important in the history Europe and America, had rendered warfare natural vocation, he buckled on from earliest manhood the sword, the broaBtplate, the helmet, not indeed of the Arthur Wesley (or Wellesley, for tho names are originally one) who beat Napoleon at Waterloo, but of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, a spiritual armor in whioh do Battle with force of many able books for a militant and triumphant Church.

He received education at the Wesleyan University of Mid dletown, and was for twenty years af ter irartls Editor of various periodicals connected with tho Methodist body. From 1834 to 1836 he preached and labored in Boston, in 1837 and 1888 Providence, B.I. in 1839 he was in Texas in 1861 and 1862 in New York then from 1863 to 1866 he waa Methodist Eplsoopal MiniBter of Mamaroneck, N. Y. and in 1866 and 1867 was a Superintendent of the Methodist Ohuroh.

Our readers are probably aware that ministers of Methodist ChuroheB only remain paBtors of one congregation for a term of three years, so that they are necessarily moving often from one Bphere of labor to another. AS A BT3TOBIAM AND ZSITOB the work of Dr. Stevens has been incessant and and has been most valuable in its results to the Church of whioh he is a distinguished ornament. He has at various times been editor of Zioris a at for of aro are of to the ers' of is for The ted Hell In no This paper has tbe Largest Circulation any Evening: papor published In tbe United States. Its value as an Ad or aietuum is therefore appa rent.

Tbe BridgeTerr lake a SirlKe." From the Jay theprojeot of bridging the East River was presented to the public, in a praotioal shape, np to this hoar it has been growing in pnblio favor. Two generations have passed away since the soheme was first broached. In the meantime the necessity of the bridge has been every year increasing, and with it, of coarse, the means of oonstraoting it. The bridge is now an absolute want, and we have the means to ereot it. A press 1 A ing Hou tuKjTOsi, rorces tno project on Brooklyn; a wise appreciation of the future oommends it to New York.

To the growth of this city there may be said to be no natural bounds. We oan accommodate a population of millions within even the present area of the city, and this area is bound to widen until between the City of Brooklyn and the County of Kings there shall be no practical distinction. We need only rapid and cheap communication with the outlying portions of the oity, and the opportunity of reaohing New York on Bimilar conditions, to take rank as one of the most populous cities in the world, The interest New York has in bridging the nasi uver is Hardly less than ours. The com. pletion of the Paoifio Bailroad promises to open a new era in its history, add to con nrm it in the position of the commercial centre of the world.

But there is a limit to the era of New York. The Island of Manhattan will be almost solely devoted to business purposes before the close of the oentury, and the welfare of that city requires that it should not lose a day in providing homes for its busy hive of workers. Already its mechanics are constrained by high rents and the oost of living, to demand rates of wages whioh employers hold to be destructive to the brandies of industry in which they are engaged. The rate now paid, they say, is higher than is exacted in other cities, and the inevitable result will be that customers from the interior will purchase where they oan with most advantage. We can furnish the toilers of the metropolis with cheap homes, and it is as muoh to the interest ef New York as Brooklyn that the means of reaohing them should be provided.

A bridge across the East Biver is essential to this end. It will be followed or accompanied by steam railroads, and the result will be that with its other advantages New York can combine cheap and pleasant homes for its people within easy reach of their business, and in this way rival the superior attractions which the smaller cities, from Philadelphia down, now possess over her in this regard. When we remember the enterprise shown by the capitalists of the Metropolis in placing tneir city in connection by canals, railroads, steamboats, and telegraphs with all parts of this country and Europe, the wonder is not that they should now propose to bridge the natural bar rior between the city which is but a counterpart to itself, but that they should have so long delayed an enterprise intended to meet an every day want. On one side of the East River there are a million of people on the other, very nearly half the number. The most un American thing in America today is presented in the fact that these two great centres of population should not have provided for the intercourse of their people by some means which would be above the vicissitudes of the seasons, and the liability to accidents and delay which are inseparable from steam ferry accommodation.

The petty villages on the banks of the Hudson have steam ferries running between them. The people of these great cities need something more. In view of all these considerations it is not surprising that the projeot of bridging the East Biver should have met with unanimous approval. The City of Brooklyn was asked to aid the project, and a Mayor who is prover bially oareful of the public money, and even personally sensitive in dealing with any soheme involving its financial credit, not merely acquiesced in, but advocated, a generous aid for the measure. The New York authorities met us in a spirit of intelligent self interest, and without any pressure from without, and without a subscription of our subscription by one which, all things considered, must be accepted as equally generous.

Congress was next appealed to, to give its legislative sanction to the bridge. A Com mittee of the House of Representatives, after hearing the friends of the project, reported unanimously in its favor, and the House without any hesitation gave us the required legislation with equal unanimity. The bridge bill now goes to the Senate of the United States, and we believe there is no member of that body who will take upon himself the responsibility of delaying for an hour a publio undertaking which, while it adds essentially to the prosperity of the Capital of our country, will add to its attractions the noblest evidenoes of the skill of modern engineering the world contains. The subscription guaranteed by the authorities of New York and Brooklyn was coupled to one equitable condition which the pro motersof the Bridge enterprise at once agreed to. They asked that the authorities of both cities, responsible to their people, should be in a position to guard their interest, by having a fair share in the direction of the Bridge Company.

A bill to enable this to be done was introduced in the State Senate by Mr, Murphy, and it promptly passed that body. Under this aot it is provided that the Mayors, Comptrollers, and Presidents of the Board of Aldermen of both cities shall be directors in the Bridge Corporation. Under the original act it is provided that the directors shall not number more than twenty one or less than thirteen. If the smaller numbor should be agreed upon, the public authorities will lack but one of an absolute majority of the Board of Directors. If the larger number they will constitute one third of the whole number.

The value of representation is not determined absolutely by numbers, but by the power it affords to expose wrong toward any interest. If a "job" is intended who believes that Mayor Kalbfleisoh or Mayor Hall will be a party to it? The promptness with which their presence in the Board of Direction was accepted is the strongest proof that the Board was committed to nothing which would not bear the fullest publio scrutiny. The Senate bill has been sent to the Assembly for its approval, and it seems that in the latter virtuous body opposition to the Bridge enterprise has been suddenly organized. We quote from an Albany letter, dated yesterday Mr. Richmond succeeded this morning in having ra forred back to tho Committee on Commerce and Nsvl.

gution the bill, reported soino days ago, amendatory of tho act creating the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company, Mr. Richmond advised this actios because the original bill states that the capital stock shall be The amendments are advocated by the friends of the bill on the grounds that If they are Saesed the city of New York" will subscribe one mll on and a half to the stock and the city of Brooklyn three millions, leaving only half a million to be subscribed by outside parties. Yet these outsldo parties, only owning one tenth of the stock, will control tbe affairs of tbo company. It is further argued that tho bill does not provide that the work of oonBiructlon Is not to be givon to the Iowo3t and most advantageous bidder, 'While the bridge should not cost more than 8 5,000,000, a gentleman named Kings ley will get to build it Mr. Richmond wants the Commerce and Navigation Committee to make an amendment that It Bhall not bo lawful for the Directors of the Company to take any contracts for construction until they shall have divided the work in proper sections andpublioly advertised tho same for proposals, not lees than one month, and all contracts for work exceeding 5,000 in value shall bo let by publio competition, and awarded to the lowest bidder.

These are pretexts for attempting "a strike'1 and nothing more. If the corruption referred to was contemplated, does any man believe that steps would not have heen taken to secure the cheap acquiescence of a body proverbially venial? Gentlemen of the Assembly, there "is no money in the Bridge The dolay you contemplate was tried by our Aldermen, and those humble followers ef your example will be able to assure you that "there is nothing in it." Mr. Kichardson is not even plausible in his pretexts. By the passage of the bill now before the Assembly the exposure of any wrong contemplated is provided for. This is as much as can be secured in advance from any semi public corporation.

While the capital of the bridge is fixed in the bill at five million' no one believes that tho bridge can built for that sum, of the two and a half. At least to bo raised by pri The subscriptions cilieu iB tour millions an equal sum will have rate parties. How can it be honestly urged, then, that those men who own only a tenth of the stock, will control its direction, since more than half the stock must be subscribed as a BIltlTABV IttATTEHSr. iVtsrrr CTHiD Regiment Obdbbsv Tho following order has Just beon issued: HKADOB'AnTXBB, 28b KHOIMKHJ, National GVXhb, 8, H. Bnoonrrtf.

Fob. 1. IMO. General' Orders Ho. 1.

I. BattalSba' drills ar'here by ordered as follows niaui. fx an1 sin rntAsaw AVAnlhtibi VUUipUUICO M.f I'M uu wu a. "auouwj UTUuiufjo Fobruary 16th an 03d, 1869. Companies O.D and on Friday evenings).

February 10th an 2Mb. Action Drum UsfoT will detail four dthmmora for eaoh drill. On eaeh of the aoove oveninin the FioIbVNon oom missioned Staff, Drummers, and Companlea )y detailed, will assemble at the State ArsenaV Portland" avenue (m laugue tmirorm), at a O'oiocr. imeior non attenomnce, so. Those drills belno fn fiistrnetirra no fmnntbtorfl will bo allowed.

II. The Staff. Vlnl Snronanbt and Eorgeanta of this command will assemble at tho Armdry, in fatigue uniform, on Saturday evening, February 13, 1869, at 8 o'clock. for instruction. Tbe Commandant haeobserved at former parades the delay in the formation of some of Ihe Companies! The senior non commlspioned officer nrmiti Company will give the command "fall in" tho instant the assembly ceases to be sounded, nnmmnnri companies will see that this order is it strictly oarrlod IV.

Commandants of Comnanles win tnrmrA ia. those Headquarters on or before the 10th instant, a' roster of their commands, aivljtr the rosldnnnn mm place of business of evory member. In order that the same may be corrected from timo to time, tho Her. geant Major will be at the Armory eno drill or meeting of each Company in each month for comparison with tbe First Sergeant's rolls, An Examining Board is hereby ordered to convene at tko Armory, on Monday evenlna. Fobruarr 8th, and adjourn from tlmo to time as may bo necessary.

Tho following officors' are detailod as mombors of the Board: Lieut. Cel. S. H. Farnhamt Major O.

E. Goldthwalt. Brovet Captain and Adjutant G. Gregory. Tbo Board will institute a thorough examination into the capacity, attainments, general fitness lor tho service, and efnoleney of all persons holding, or who may uu iiuruuxiur eiucica 10 positions as company non commissioned officers.

Should tho decision of said Board be advorso tho Commandant will rovoke, orTBfuso to issue a warrant to such persons. VI. Tho Non commissioned Staff (including General Guides), First Sorgeonts and Sergeants, are horeby ordered to report for examination to the Examining Board abovo constituted, at the Armory, (in fntigue uniform) on Thursday evening, Maroh 4b, at eight o'clock. VII. Any Sergeant who is without copy of Upton's Tactica will bo Bupplicd by applying to the Adjutant, or in bis absence, to tho Armorer.

Vin. Tho proposition contained in the foUowing communication ia accepted and will be carried out as therein roqucBted: BnooBxra, Jun; SO; 1869. Col. B. O.

Wabd, Commanding Twonty third Kojrimont, N. G. S. N. Oolonol Behoving thtt nothing shows a well crjan ized regiment more than the corrootnoss of its reoords, I have tho honor to present tho regiment with a gold medal to bo worn ono year by tho first Borgeant of tho company which shall bo adjudgod annually to have tho best record at the regimental headquarters for neatness, correctness and promptness in making: out and forwarding all returns, roports, oorrespocdonoo, Ac Tho field offloers to bo the Judges and make the awards tho first week in January of each yoar.

The presentation to tako placo at tbo first battalion drill theroaf tor. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, James G. Gregory, Bvt. Oapt. and Adjt.

IX. Tho button adoptod by thiB regiment ia orderod as part of tho fatigue uniform Commandants of Com ponies will sco that the button horetoforo warn Is exchanged therefor. Thoymaybo procured of Devlin 469 Broadway, by tbo sot or gross. X. Corporal Franklyn Colt to be Second Lieutenant, vioo HoginB promoted rank Nov.

6tb, 1868. Second Lioutcnant H. S. Manning to be First Llcu tonant. vice Buncker promotod; rank Jan.

4th, First Lieutenant H. Herbert Hogins to bo Captain, vice Gregory resigned rank Jan, 12th, 1869. First Serccant Win. S. Leaman to be First Linutonont.

vice Hogins promoted; rank Jan. 12th, I8n0. Captain Charles Ii Goldthwalt to be Major, vioo Chapman promoted; rank Jan. 18tb, 18C9. XI.

Appointments: First Lieutenant and Adjutant Jamca G. Gregory to bo Captain by Brovot, Deo. 21st, 1868. By order of Oolonol Rodnbt G. Wabdj James G.

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