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whom the Republicans shall nomi those mentioned above are of both general me out of five dollars." Boars of laughter. That Is what they do, and that is what I was told. More laughter and confusion. THE SUPERVISORS. A.

T. STEWART. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Cranberries, Plums' of several sorts, (Bosberrles. and BtrawberrieB, of whioh last is Buehjabundance in June that tbe fields and woods era died the oorin try people perceiving instantly srm themselves with bottles of wine, cream and sugar, and Instead of a ooat of mail every on takes a female upon his horse behind him, and so rushes violsntly Into the fields and never leave Mil they have disrobed them of their red colors and turned them into old habit.

"The greatest part" of the Island Is very full of Timber, as Oakg, white and red, Walnut Trees, Chestnut trees, which Held store of roast for swine, and are often therewith sufficiently fatted, with also Cedars, Saxifrage, Beach, Birch, Holly, Hazel, with Many aorta 'e Herbs'which the oountrey naturally afford, are Purslaln, WlnOragvBgrimony, Violets, Penniroyal, Ancampane, bdes Saaparllla very common, with many more. Yes, in Kay you shall see the Woods and Fields bo curiously bedeoke with Buses, and an innumerable number of delightful Flowers not only pleasing to the eye, but Bmell, that you may behold Nature contending with Art, and striving to equal if not exoel many Gardens in England nay, did we know the ver tue of all those Plants and Herbs growing there (whioh time may more discover) many are; of the opinion, and the Natives do affirm, that there is ho disease common to the Oountrey, but may be oared without Materials from other Nations." This ancient ind valued author goes on, In detail, of the brooks, "rtverets," bays and their products, aud of the beasts of value that thronged the' forests, tame and wild, and ooming to speak especially of Hempstead Plains, he says: "Towards the mlddle'of the Long Island lyeth a plain sixteen miles long and four broad, upon whioh plain grows very fine grass, that makes exceeding good Hay, and Is very good pasture for sheep and other oaltel. There are two or three other small plains of about a mile square, which are of no email benefit to those towns which enjoy them." Another note from this rare old work, concerning Hempstead Plains, will show bow they were appreciated in that early day, and how slowly, for Borne Reason not explained, their productiveness, in even the border portions was tested and reoognized. "THE HEMPSTEAD PLAINS, and good George W. Ohilds, Proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger and Master of Arts.

But Mr. Blaine's Good Boy will plainly have none of it. Xne Power of (be lmag inotlon Tbe Case and Deatb ot Entwistle, Entwistle, the printer, who was bitten by a dog in April last, died yesterday. Some believe he died of hydrophobia; still more believe that he died merely of the fear of it, As it is perfectly apparent that the disease is a sealed book to science, either belief may be the true one. the imagination will kill is certain.

Many of our readers will remember the case of the gardener at either Heidelberg or Gottingen. This man was working in the garden on a fresh Spring morning, in the very prime of health. A student passed him with the words: "Ah, Fritz, passed a bad night, eh?" "No, sir. Never felt better." "I'm glad to hear it. Thought you IooM pale.

Your garden looks beautiful, "Thank you, sir." Comes along another student "Good morning, Fritz," Good morning, System a little out of order "No, sir!" it you bad, heavy eyed and pale." pid'nt know it, sir." A mere Spring debility, I suppose. Good morning." Fritz (solus) I do feel a sort of queer, like. Comes along a Professor. "Well, Fritz, how are the violets "Beautiful, sir, beautifal." "You don't look very beautiful. What's the matter with you? Let me see your tongue.

Your forehead clammy, too. I think you'd better go home to bed, Fritz." "I do feel queer, sir." "I should think you would. Go to bed. Keep quiet for a few days." "I believe I will, sir." "I see Doctor Broeck coming this way ask him. Good day, Fritz, I'm sorry to see you in this state." "Good day, sir." Up comes the doctor.

Doctor, what's the matter with me "Springoliana, Fritz, evidently. Get to bed, my mam And here, send this to the dispensary, and take a tablespoonful every hour. Don't eat till I see you again. I'll call after the lecture is over, however. Be very careful.

I'll bring Doctor Wolff with me to see you. It's a ouri dub case, very curious." Fritz went to bed. The Dootors came. They walked on tiptoe; spoke in whispers. They darkened the room.

They gave him medicine i. spoonsful of pure water, and pills made of bread. They left him. That night Fritz grew weaker and weaker. And in the morning the students and the Faculty were shocked with terror and horrified, in the midst of their laughter, at poor Fritz's fears, when hisweep ing daughter came to tell them that her stout, strong father of thirty odd years lay dead at home, dead of a phantasy.

There is no case better authenticated. Another case is that of the French criminal condemned to death, and given to the dootors to experiment on. He pleaded for an easy death and they gave it to him in this wise. They stretched him, naked, on a table, blindfolded his eyes, placed basins of water at his arms and knees, prioked him with a pin, not drawing blood even. They dropped from four vials little drops into the basins, so that the unfortunate man could hear a continuous drip, caused, he supposed, by the trickling of his own blood.

The doctors held their watches. "Another half hour and it will be all over. You don't feel any pain, do you "No, Doctor, but I feel my strength going." "Of course, of course. It will be like falling into sleep. In an hour and a quarter, the poor fellow was dead.

Several other examples of the power of imagination over life, as well authenticated as either of the foregoing, might be oited; but these will suffice. We now come to the last case, that of the man, Entwistle, who died yesterday. In this last case Entwistle's imagination THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2. Tbl Paper tons te arcst Circulation of any Evening1 Paper Pablisbed la tta United States. Its Value as an Advertising Healnnt is Therefore Apparent.

BSr Blaine's Gocd Bay. Hon. Eugene M. Hale is a ohild of freedom and a ohild of nature, and hii proud home is in the rising eon. He is called a young man on account of the fact that he is forty years tld and lives in Maine, where they object to the centennial because the celebration will be apt to encourage a pride of juvenility in nations.

The Hon. Lot M. Morrill, the Nestor of Maine politics, is apparently contemporaneous with what they call in his county, the Morrill law, and the Hon. Hanibal Hamlin was thought to have closed his career, which reached back to the first syllable of recorded time, when, nearly a generation ago, he was eltoted to the Vice Presidency, by a minority of the popular vote. But Mr.

Hamlin hu3 been in office ever since, and would like to bet his back pay with the man who doubts that he will not continue in office. By comparisons suoh as these Mr. Hale is regarded as a young man, and the idea of his yonthful ness is ako encouraged by the contemplation of his public labors. He has been the Good Boy of Congress Bad has always obeyed whatever Mr. Blaine, his venerable instractor in the arts and eoiences, especially the arts, h3s told him to do.

From his earliest political adolescence he has kept naughty men from filling public positions by ocoupying them himself. There is no what atrooious enemy of human rights might have misrepresented Mr. Hale's county in the Legislature the county of Sheboygan we think had not Mr. Hale represented it himself for about five years. So great, however, was the effect of Mr.

Hale's absence from his home when at the Legislature, that it is reported the composure of the county was disturbed, and that men did the things which they ought not to have done, and left undone the things whioh they ought to have done. There was no civio health in them, until Mr. Hale brought them up with a round turn, by consenting to aot as District Attorney for eight years in succession. It is ourrently understood that during that period he sent to the penitentiary every man, woman and child who had the temerity not to resemble him in moral respects and in political opinions. Having thus purified politics and society, Mr.

Hale ordered the remnant of his constituents to send him to Congress. He has been there for five years and has just been renominated for two years more. In Congress he has endeavored to make up on the floor what Maine lost when Mr. Blaine was made Speaker. He has labored with the most excellent intentions, and has been the most appropriate member from New England.

So appropriate has he been, that Mr. Blaine placed Vilin high up on the Committee of Appropriations, and ho has enjoyed another eminent Reward of Merit, not of geographical accident as oynical people have averred. When the members of States are called upon for resolutions and bills every Monday is always called first. This is not because she is the Northmost State of New England, which is the Northmost section. Not at all it is because she is happy in the nativity and representation of Hale, who is nearly always the only Maine man who looks out for Maine chances, and who always has his little bill to offer at every Monday's call.

In this way Mr. Hale has attracted a great deal of attention. His name has always led in the Olobe and Record, and has been frequently mentioned in he Associated Press. The slim, earnest figure of Mr. Hale, standing in the aisle, one hand running through his raven locks, and the other gesticulating in the air the letters of the motto of his State, "Dirigo," will be recalled by many a Brooklyn visitor at the Capitol, each Monday morning.

Mr. Blaine always recognized him first. This was not only condescending but it was accommodating, because Mr, Hale always introduced the bills and resolutions which Mr. Blaine devised. So long as Mr.

nate for his successor, but, he wishes a Republican to succeed iim, ho willeep his agency on his behalf a 5dead sebret. Freddy as a Confessed Fraud. Andnowit is out. The 'Eagle has steadily insisted that the kind of temperance industry whioh cools its eyes at keyholes, acts aa sneak and spy, and seta little boys to tasks of Sabbath breaking and lying in the interests of morality, is an 'industry which gains nothing by comparison with the: worst phases of rum selling." The Eageb has also insisted that Freddy is a fraud, and that those farming out Fred as a sneak were and are greater frauds than' Fred himself. lad is in Boston again, this time for theft from a gentleman who was a stranger, and whom Fred took in.

He acknowledges himself an impostor, and says his father put him upito it. A Pentecostal conversion to the Eagle's theory may be expected. It may be possible for a poor family to exist without a dog, but the experiment has never been tried, and it seems certain that of all their earthly possessions tbe dog would be the last thing they would willingly surrender. "When hunger comes in at the door, love files out at the window, "says the proverb. But the dpg don't do any thing of the kind.

He comes in at the door, and if he brings poverty with him, he seems none the less welcome, and certainly it never enters his canine head to leave on that account. He is as ready to follow the misfortunes as the fortunes of his master. A curious illustration of this bb ourrednear South Tunnel, recently, where an old woman and her son, who had walked.from Boone County, Missouri, and were on their way to McMinnville, stopped at a farmhouse to beg some bread. All the real estate they owned was carried on their clothing and persons, and their personal estate consisted of a tin buoket, a gun, and the inevitable dog, whioh was represented by no less than six different species. To the delicate denizen of cities, the amount of suffering whioh human nature Jh its rough state can endure and survive, is almost incredible, As an instance, a strong fellow who was lately at work on a railroad out near Lexington, with a crowbar, was suddenly beaten down by the caving in of the rook, and the bar was driven completely through jus body, and his right leg fearfully brushed.

But, notwithstanding this, he succeeded in working his head' out of the acoummnlation of earth and stones, and called for assistance, which was responded to by several negroes who had much difficulty in extricating him. He was taken home on a board.and stimulants administered, and when he came to, there being no surgeon at hand, he gave directions how to fix his crushed leg, and at last accounts was doing well, and seemed quite lively, though with the hole through his body, it appears impossible for him to recover. Evidently he is one of the kind "who never say die," to put it in his ownhomely phrase, and if he should be restored it will be due chiefly to that hardy spirit that yields to no misfortune, the rarity of whioh is to be de plored. Dubuque, Iowa, is unhappy because it has a justice who has been overruled by the higher court in two hundred and seventy out of the two hundred and seventy seven cases he has already decided; and a local journal adds the withering reflection that the other seven cases would have been appealed, and of course, Overruled too, but that it was not thought worth while. And now it asks des pairingly, "What shall we do with him?" Well, you do just what they used to do in New York, elect him to the higher court where he will have a chance to overrule somebody else and "get square." The Supervisors yesterday postponed for a week tbe election of Commissioners of Charities.

They would better postpone it indefinitely, unless they change the system of Charities administration. CURRENT EVENTS. Don Alfonso was wounded in the arm in recent engagement with the Republicans. The Repnb 1 Ucn troops are said to be greatly exolted over the re ported murder and mutilation of the wounded by the CarliBts, and threaten retaliation. The bill drawn up by the sub Committee of the Thirty in France provides for the oontinuanoe of the.tltle "President of the Republic the creation of a seoond Chamber; audi personal to ter iriiriate with MaoMohon'B seven years' term, or sooner If he die or resign.

There being no provision for a successor, the object of the omission is thought to be to leave room for (he monarchy. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Co. has declined to pay the coupons on. Us first mort gage bonds. The bark Luigi Busso arrived from New York at Bristol yesterday, considerably dam aged by a collision at sea.

The Pope told the Generals of the religious! orders on Tuesday, that he deplored the suppression of their houses, and exhorted them to remain united and they would hereafter reassemble. The Captain General of Cuba has officially announced to the army his brother's death In Spain, and exhorted them to honor bis memory, de daring that, If necessary, he will follow his example! in defense of the country. The Church of England Synod and two Presbyterian Synods, now meeting at Halifax, H. 8., are discussing union with Episcopal Churches and with the Canadian Presbyterian Church. The reported loss of the cable steamer Faraday, by collision with an iceberg off Halifax, N.

8., is not yet confirmed. The motion for a new trial in the Winter mute McOook case has been overruled by the Yankton, Court, and Wintennute Bontonced to ten years In, the Penitentiary. The Judiciary Committee of the New Hampshire Assembly have reported in favor of exempting women's property from taxation. In the N. Y.

Central vs. The U. S. (tax: suits), Judge Wallaoe, at Canandalgua, N. yesterday directed a verdict for the Company, on the ground that Interest certificates are not taxable.

The Ulster Co. (N. jail was empty yesterday for the first time in twenty five years. Moses Boyer, aged 14, was killed at a Pitts field (Moss) woolen mill by being drawn into the. shafting.

Edward Sparks of Derby, (Conn.) aged 45, being of unsound mind threw himself under the cars at Bridgeport, Tuesday, and was killed. Forged orders to a large amount for the pay of policemen and firemen of the District of Columbia, have been discovered. R. T. Entwistle died at Belle vue Hospital yesterday, and the medical experts are strangely at variance as to whether the cause was hydrophobia, or fear of that disease.

Killing of dogs has taken the place of ball playing Ob a popular amusement at Cairo, III. The hog disease, reoently reported in Randolph County, is spreading through the southern portions of that State. Some evil minded persons lately put a few live trout into a minnow pond at Hersey, and oil the minnows were eaten up. The Agricultural College in Michigan pays its students who remain to work on the farm during vacation seventeen cents an hour. Mrs.

M. W. Coults, of Muskegon, mysteriously disappeared from Kalamazoo, where she went to visit friends, last April, with her little boy Freddy. The corner stone of a new seminary will be laid by the Freemasons at Plymouth, on the Fourth. A black snake, with two perfeotly developed was killed at Wartburg, lately.

John Deer, of Greenup County, carelessly holding a pistol lately, and his brother will now lose an eye or his life, or both. A fourteen year old rattlesnake, measuring seven feet two inches, was lately killed at Camp Nelson, Ky. A little son of James Dawes, of Zorra, got a sliver in his foot lately, and died In a day or two of lockjaw. E. GankeL of Fort Elgin, was load' ing logs lost week, when one fell on him, and crushed in one Bide of bis chest and collar bone, but it is thought he will rccovor.

Lightning struck a bouse at S.tanstead, last Wednesday, and passed through a room when were seven persona and a dog. Three of the persons were Btunncd, and the dog vn8 killed, Some of the Madison, merchants pro poop to turn the on the Grangers by' organising a stock company, purcha5lng farm and raising their' own fruit and vegetables, At a menagerie hbw in La Crosse, last Thursday, the lion oge was overturned, and the animals very nearly essapedtmong an Audience of 1,600 persons, and there was a rash for the1 doors. Eleven conductors on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway, have been dismissed for stealing A number of Hussion Mennonites have settled in Clay Neb. Domestic troubles unsettled W. B.

Nokes, of Woodburg, and last Thursday, he Bottled, them by cutting his throat with a razor. Bov. Charles Moore, a colored preacher, of HcEcnzle, says the negroes do not want mixed schools, but prefer that each race has schools of its own. oirong uo noi cams iuu geuunuau me Nineteenth la right to take this aa a personal matter to himself. Sup.

Zindel If the same thing had been done to him would be have kept that room open 7 Laughter. Bup. Strong I Bhould have treated tho matter juat as be did, for I sympathized with him. But I think the Supervisor from the First belittles it altogether too much when he says we should 0 OPEN THE BOOM WITHOUT ANY BESTBIOTIONS, for I do not suppose that tha respectable reporters wish to have the man who oommlttod that outrage in that room again. The mon who had" no lot or parkin this Indignity shall be free to go and come as before, bus we cannot Indorse the insult put upon the' Alderman from the Nineteenth by weloomimr bank again the man who put that insult upon him.

Applause. Bowley We have spent a good deal of time in discussing a question not particularly important. We closed box room, it ts true, bat it seems to me that cow Uvthefpirlt of forgiveness we should let" the matter rest. We done enough to these gentlemen to show them that we will not submit to any indignity, and it appeared to me now to he the proper way to open the room without restrictions and leave it to the Janitor to settle who are entitled to use it Perhaps, In the past, they have not been inspired with a due sense of the dignity of this body, laughter, but I hope hereafter they will be, and that the resolution of the gentleman from tho First writ be adopted. Sap.

Zindel He says to leave it to the janitor. Why, the Janitor has given eighty keys out, and to God knows whom, laughter. Those keys are scattered from here to California, renewed laughter. The question was then taken on the resolution of Sup. Strong, which was adopted by a vote of 23 in the affirmative to 14 in the negative.

AN ABOHITEOX'S BILL. 8up. Piatt offered a resolution that a portion of the bill of Mr. Henry Bnglebert, the architect engaged in building the Thirteenth Beglment Armory, amounting to $2,000, be paid. The resolution was adopted.

The Board then adjourned until next Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock. CURRENT OPINION. A LESSON TO OFFICE SBEXEBS. The Tim8 comments on the sorrowful spectacle In the Treasury Department at Washington, yesterday, when notiae oCdismlssal being given to many of the employes, several women fainted outright, and oue man become temporarily deranged, and says There is some force in the acrid remark that it were better that the United States Government should curtail expensesin other and more notoriously extravagant branohes of the publio servioe than in this whioh gives bread and meat to a few hundred poor clerks. But rigid eoonomy in every department of tho Government ia necessary.

Expenses are great the public revonues have dimlnlshed, and the prospeot of needing higher taxes has been at times uncomfortably near, The publio servioe is not a government system of genteel alms erring. But this painful episode in ths Treasury Department ought to be a lesson to bureau bur rowers generally and to small offloe seekers in particular. Republics must be ungrateful. We have no privileged class of officials, no comfortable retired list for superannuated civil service employes. In the very nature of things these arc impossible, and cautions efforts to create any such refuges have always been lustily hissed down.

Somehow the routine work of official life, particularly in subordinate stations, incapacitates men for auy other manner of earning a living. Yet the insane greed for office is never chocked, and thousands of men who could win an honorable wage, a manly bearing and vigorous health in the various fields of activity which this broad land affords, consent to the sapless' existence of official servitude. TH8 TILT0N AFFATB. The Herald retorts strongly upon Mr. Tilton who hod characterized a previous editorial in that journal on the scandal as "brutal." ItBoys: We would gladly have never printed a word on the Bnbject.

But Mr. Tilton summoned the world to hear him, and the story which he called upon us to believe was that he had been dishonored. Either his story meant this or it meant nothing, and any mystery as to the meaning is an affectation. The man whom he charged with this offense la one ot the first men of this generation in eloquence, genius, power and the example of a Christian life. To drag this man down Mr.

Tilton himself printed to the world that he had suffered from his hands an outrage which waB so terrible that he oould not oharaoterlze it, but the nature of which was plainly understood by all tbe world. This he did, too, afterhe had signed what was colled "a covenant" expressing "good will and friendly spirit" toward the man whom he believed to have wronged him. If we were disposed to comment analytically upon this painful and loathsome affair we might allude to the other circumstance that Mr. Til ton's own fine business sense of newspaper advantage and enterprise was bo thoroughly undisturbed by the agonies which rent his bouI that he could print sn extraordinary edition of his journal and cover Broadway with placards to the effect that a "thunder bolt had fallen," and that any one desiring that thunderbolt could buy it at the news stands. Mr.

Tilton's hand threw thiB thunderbolt. It fell upon his own fireside. We certainly have no word of and scarcely of criticism, to address to a man whose own associates and comrades regard as living only in the aBb.es of bis life. But it is too late for him to complain of the criticisms of the press orltlclsms that seem to us to have been unusually considerate, genereuB and reserved. He should have thought of this after he signed bis "covenant" and before he signed his "thunderbolt." The Sun roasts Bsoon in this style One of the bad parts in the Tilton Beeoher tragedy has been performed by the Bev.

Leonard Bacon, D. D. Pretending to be a true and faithful friend of Mr. Beecher, he has rtlatlcally goaded Mr. Tilton into his recent publication.

"Aud Joab Bald to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? So he smote him iu the fifth rib and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again, and he died." And the Star thus disposes of Carpenter and If the Tilton would take his airy friend Carpenter and sling him into Gowanus Creek, he would oblige the community in general, and aid himself iu particular. The WeBts and Carpenters of life, whose only hope of gaining publicity, lies In their possible grab of another's cost tail, are the monumental nuisances of our day and generation. Who under heaven cares whether Carpenter is Tilton's friend or foe 7 TBE HTDBOPHOBIA SO ABE. At last we have a case of death from hydrophobic symptoms which are pretty generally conceded, however, not to have indicated hydrophobia. The Timet says: Doctors and students of nervous phenomena will find ample room for dfsofzssf on in Uie oava ot Entwistle, the unfortunate victim ot something resembling hydrophobia.

There seems to be every reason to suppose that the man was literally soared to death: not as men have been frightened by sudden terrors, but by a gradually fortified belief in his having been infected with poisonous virus. The Tribune says Intemperance and fright proved as fatal in the cue of Entwistle as the hydrophobia wbicb was suspected but did not exist. If people would bo as oautions about liquors as they are about dogs, the death rate or the city would be greatly dimloi' bed and a wholesome fear In that respeot would not call for medical intervention. The ITorM says Of the panioand its causes it is only necessary to point out that the case of Entwistle, who died of his own imagination that the dog whioh bit htm was rabid, is now supplemented by the case of a resident of Orange, who has died of what bis attendants oall "true hydrophobia," bnt of whom his intimate friends do not know that he was ever bitten by a dog at all. AFBIOAN EXPLOBATION.

The Bulletin says The African Society of Berlin has dispatched an expedition of savants, whioh ia to set out from Northern Congo in an easterly direction, so as to reach the great lakes of Livingstone. The first oomers have already made some interesting discoveries, which cannot fail to receive soon considerable additions. The kingdoms of Kabinda, Kakongo, Ghlluango and Loongo are bounded on the east by forests, be fond which we have no information. That pigmies exist In the inner mountain regions is certain, but according to the natives of Loango there are other strange beings to be met with in these regions, which also abound fh gold and silver. Tie station fats been axed at Ohinchonso.

From Ogowa, the geologist, Lenz, will start to join the main body, what another African traveler will set out In a northeast direction from Kabebe, the capital of the large and unexplored kingdom of Muata Janvo. The dominant idea with the Germans in this enterprise unquestionable is the possible discovery of new markets. While little is to be accomplished in the interests of science would seem to have been already pretty thoroughly exhausted by previous explorations. CONTBAOTING THE OTOBENCY. Tne Tribune, iu commenting on the debt statement, ssys The Public Debt statement for June makes an uncommonly good showing, considering that June is oue of tho lightest months in tbe year lor ouBtomB.

The net decrease for the month is $2,180,197, and for the fisool year, $4,730,47. But still the ugly facts remain that the legal tender circulation has been increased twenty six millions during tbe year, and that that tnorease has been made permanent. This is a proper place to call attention to the fact that since the first of March the paper circulation has been in faot contracted nearly eleven million dollars, and no one has been hurt. This is literally contraction, and we trnst it will continue until SecretoijBrlstow baa a working bolanoe In currency of forty or fifty millions. No one suffers by it.

No one even feels it. EIGHTH WARD REPUBLICAKS. Kcgrnlar meeting' Last JEvonlnff In. si8llmDtol Hew Members Tho Wise father ana tne Vndutlfm Son. Last evening the Eighth Ward Eepublioarl Association held their regular meeting in Braun's Hall, on the corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty third street.

The meeting was caUed to order by the newly elected President of the Association, Robert W. Fielding, who in the chair, briefly addressed the meeting, thanking the Association for the honor conferred upon him, and promised to do all in his power to further the interests of the party in the Ward. Owing to the absence of tbe Secretary, James W. Cockroft was elected temporary Seoretary, and upon motion the reading of the minutes were dispensed with. The report of the Treasurer was called for, but there was no report to make.

The report of tbe Executive Committee was then called for, but none of the members seemed to be present. A TOTING MAN named Theophile Thornett, a candidate for admission to the organization, requested the privilege of the floor, and upon its being accorded to him, stated that he had been proposed some time before, but his name bad never been acted upon. A committee was appointed to go to the house of secretary and procure the books, of, tbe society. They shortly returned with two of the ExeouUve Committee. One of the members of the Committee then made a report stating that the Committee reported favorably upon all tbe names before them with one exception, as that candidate, Theophile Thornett, was tJNDEB AGE.

The Secretary then road the names of the candidates who had been passed upon, and upon motion they were accepted and ordered to be placed upon the roll of the Association. t. At this point Thornett again obtained the privilege of the floor and staled that HB WAS OF AGE, of keeptogUm of He supposed his father thouiht uUMf he joined the organization the next thing would be thathe would be STEALING SOMETHING. He did not know what else could be the reason. Wh en he told the Committee that be was under age, he probably, never thought that he (the ton) would come to tha meeting and tell the truth.

The Chairman thought the parents ought to know how old their son was, and finally one of the members of the Executive Committee suggested that the matter be laid over for a month. The proposal of the names of candidates as members of the Association was next in order, and a uumber.of names were received, and referred to the Executive 0nereport of the Finance Committee was then called for, but no response waa made, nor was the Special Committee heard from. nnderthe head of new business, the case of young Thornett was taken up, and Mr. Williams moved that he be accepted. An amendment was made that the matter be laid over for one mouth.

One of the members of the Executive Committee urged that the matter be LAID OVEB for one month, as no interests would be injnred.and good might be served thereby. The vpte upon the amendment was then taken, and resulted in a tie vote. Toe Chair voted for tho amendment, ana the matter was laid over for one month. The meeting then adjourned. Charles A.

"Wallis, a young man the employ of Edward H. Bailey, was arrested yesterday and brought before Judge Walsh on a oharge of embezzling money whioh he bod collected for bis employer, Wallis waa sent to Jail to await trial. and local interest. The first, whioi can hardly fail to interest the soldiers of tits oity, is entitled "An Aot for the prombtio of lifle "practice in the National Guard;" the seoond is aa aot for the opening and grading of Twenty second avenue in the towns of New Utreoht andGravesend; the third provides for the extension of the oar tracks of the Greenwood and Coney 'Island Baflroad; the fourth is an act to. enable rest; dent aliens to hold' and convey real: estate, and the fifth is for the protection of theatrical bill boards.

The merits of each of these acts have been discussed at hi these columns, but inasmuch at they all contemplate improvements relative to B3ngs County, and will involve the expenditure of Kings County money, we commend the text of the bills to the attention our readers. Cbarxres Against tbe Present; Erie, management The Old Story. A legal oomplaint against the present management of the Erie Railroad Company was yesterday made by Mr. John C. Angell.

If the allegations in that oomplaint be true, or half true, the public will be at a loss to see much difference between the honesty of the men now governing the interests of that Company and that of Gould, Fisk etal. Mr. Angell is a holder of preferred stock in the old company, and holds bonds thereof which were guaranteed by the present Erie Railroad Company. Mr. Angell alleges First rThat the former Board of the present company, composed mainly of the present directors, made a dividend of 1,660,000 and upward of dollars, among the stockholders in February, 1873; that at that time there were no net profits to pay such dividend from, and that, at that time, the company had even run behind some four hundred thousand dollars.

Second That the former Board of the present company bought from Duncan, Sherman five thousand shares of stock of the New York and Erie Railroad, whioh road was leased to the' present company and paid 750,000 dollars for it, when the. market value of the stock was not more than 90 dollars per share, thus showiag 800,000 dollars, which must' have been divided up among some persons to Angell unknown, though Angell alleges that it must have been between some of the Directors whom he cannot speoUy. He alleges that both tha old and new Boards have suffered 1,400,000 dollars, the proceeds of bonds sent to Bischoff, Soheim and Goidsohmidt, the London bankers of the company, to remain in their hands for causes which they dare not record on the books of the company. Mr. Angell alleges that $750,000 of this is retained to reimburse these bankers for moneys employed in bribing the old Gould direction and bringing about the change whioh was effected in Maroh, 1872.

Third He alleges that the present Board made a dividend of one million seventy eight thousand dollars among the stockholders when the Company was actually deficient in net earnings to the extent of nearly a million of dollars, and that this was in September, 1873. Fourth That the present Board of Direc tors appropriated one million of dollars of the company's funds, with whioh Mr. Watson bought coal lands in Pennsylvania, Watson taking the title in his'own name, without having made any declaration of trust, or having otherwise shown! that the purchase was for the benefit of the company, it being the law that the company cannot purohase such lands. It is expeoted to appear that these coal lands were to belong to a new ooal land company, a million dollars of the stock of which was to be given back to the Erio Company to replace the million dollars taken in money Fifth That the statutes, and articles of association of the company positively forbid the Directors to give any new mortgage or create any new. lien, upon the real estate of, the railway company, being already subject to mortgage, except upon the vote of the majority of the stockholders, the time and place of whioh vote shall have been published for ten weeks at least, in newspapers in New York and elsewhere; and that, violating their duty in this respeot, the directors have made a mortgage to secure 30,000,000 of dollars in bonds to be issued and sold.

Now, as we read the complaint of Mr. Angell these form the leading ohaTges of Mr. Angell against the new management of Erie, and if they be established, that management deserve to vie in publio opinion with that of and Gould in unfaithfulness to in 1 terests committed to their oharge. It is expected the proofs will show that the directors have made an arrangement with the! Atlantio and Great Western Railroad, by; whioh the Erie Company assumes a large) amount, some millions of dollars, of their in debtedness and takes a long lease of that; company's road at an extravagant rent; that the Atlantic and Great Western Company have leased several small paper railroads at a high rent, and have agreed to pay the interest upon; their respective bonds, while, in fact, the1 said roads are not only unconstruoted, but scarcely a thing done toward their construction and that the cause of this scheme is that two or three of the present directors of Erie are largely interestedin such bonds and obligations, which the Atlantic and Great Western are liable to pay. It is also expected to be proven that the accounts upon which the several dividends were made, were, in many respects, fictitious.

The balance in favor of the company of a large sum was forced by entering upon the accounts, as assets, many items which were plainly nothing but current expenses, and which no one could have reasonably expected to recover. For example 1,500,000 dollars and upward of expenses in operating the Atlantio and Great Western Company upward of 100,000 dollars paid out for internal revenue taxes for Erie itself. There are many other instances of this kind. Also of upward of 1,000,000 dollars of assets which are utterly worthless. As, for example, Boston, Hartford and Erie, and a small horje railroad in Jersey City, which has been constantly running behind, and many others of the same sort.

The curse of irregular action seems to hang over Erie. Its fruits have beenfraud, murder and bankruptcy, the discrediting of our commercial honor abroad, the unsettling of commercial confidence at home. No better work could be done than a thorough sifting of its affairs, and this oan now be secured by Mr. Angell's persistence in an investigation of the charges he alleges. Another ZlndeUc Zephyr.

The Honorable Supervisor from the Nineteenth Ward yesterday was oruelly treated by his colleagues. They voted to reopen the door of the Reporters' Boom, and did not vote an appropriation to make the door wide enough to admit the Supervisor from the Nineteenth. We infer that he 'wants to get in that room for a few minutes, judging from his remarks. We are sure those remarks will attract attention. Cur reporter who took them down has been sent' home, suffering'from dislocation of the jaw and the partial paralysis of the pencil hand.

The compositors who set them up have been carried to their palatial abodes in a Board of Health ambulance. The copy holder and proof reader, after correcting the remarks, had to discuss the hydrophobia question as a relief to their feelings, and the foreman and his assistants, after putting the "matter" in the form, went and shot their hats. We have had to keep our two eight cylinder Hoe presses going all day to supply the demand for the Supervisor's remarks. Surely, having so troubled, an entire newspaper establishment, the Supervisor bap afford to "lot up" on the reporters. No well ored reporter will flour him again.

Third Termistn Again. Third termism is'l getting slapped even in the journal which first mooted the idea. The Herald blew hot on nothing' for months. To day it publishes the main part of yester day's Eagle artiole against it, and also selec tions from Harper's Weekly, to the same pur port. It is evident that the idea has token no root in publio sentiment, General Grant will undoubtedly imitate other Presidents to the extent of getting out at the end of his second term.

The country wishes he would imitate them in other respects also. He may zeroise a pardonable Interest; jn de Closing Exercises by the Pupils. Ike PubUo Axmmuom YMttfdu ta 8chools Ho. 7, No. 18, gu gtar must mpiaaia Awarded.

Yesterday, afternoon ihC arammar department of Pnblio School No, 7 he recaption la the school, on 'York street, near Bridge jug hall was crowded With the friends and relationa tup pupils. The programme, which was Bhort and varied, was aa follows: Son Academy Bell Fnptla Datamation BrUhtPhaje In Bchoil Llfo" Stephenson Declamation "Our Bareraft Sons "Leaf by Leaf the. Roses Thompson Declamation "Removal of the National Capitol" Thomoa BeolUtton In WHiia BeeUnz Song "Watch on the Pupils Reoitetlon "Walpole against Pitt" Thomu Gibbon Rocitation "Pltlri Harrjr Radta Song "Please Give me a Penny" Willie Blgglnton and WUUa Burkhart Declamatlon "Hanntbal on the Wlnchotl ReciUtton Oonntry" Bj H7 Bong "America" Pap Us Deolamatlon "loss oi National Character" Johu Oanavau Song "The Birds will Come Again" Muter Bnrlla Booltatlon "Ohoicoof Trados" Bon Song "The Summer Dors aro Oamlna" Pupils At the conclusion of the programmo tho distribution of the semi annual certificates took place, Mr. W. W.

Hurlbnt, of the Board of Education, giving the diplomas of merit to the following boys Willie Burkbart, Eddie Egan, James Alexander, Johu Stamp, Dennis McCaffrey, Robert Eliott, Samuel Brealin, Willie Croon, Frederick Mitchell, Hugh Leech, Willie Boeklng, Willie Blgglnton, William Sullivan, John Myers, Robert Wilson, Walter Harrington, James McCreer, Frank Stamp, Bcrman Stomp, Paul Jones, Frank Colston, Henry Stevenson, Then followed appropriate speeches by Mr. Spragu, Mr. Wm. A. Furey, Mr.

W. W. Hurlbut and Captain Isaac Bourne, The teachers of the grammar department who deserve credit for the manner in which their pupils acquitted themselves are Mr. W. A.

Welch, Principal Miss A. J. Wright, Assistant, Miss McEinny, Mlas Howard, Miss Mostefson BHd Miss O'Brien. Miss Howard accompanied the singing on tbe occasion, with the piano. The roam was handsomely decorated with American flags, bunting, and rustlo baskets of natural flowers.

The platform was covered with bouquets of choicest flowers. Public School No. 13. The scholars ot public school No. 13, primary and Intermediate departments, tendered a reception to their friends and parents at the school house in Degraw street, yesterday morning.

A goodly number of visitors were present. The exercises of the prinfary department took place at 10 A. when a varied programme of songs aud recitations were presented. The exercises were opened with a hymn sung by the school, after which an address was delivered by Agnes Duncan. The bslanoe of the programme consisted of readings and recitations by pupils, and songs by tbe school ia concert.

Tbe following named pupils took part in the exercises Agnes Duncan, Annette Smith, Nellie Far rell, Ada Leonard, Georgo OhiBholm, Evelyn Shattuck and Johu Bennett. A recitation, "When we aro Women," was participated in by seven girls, and another, "The Schoolmaster Abroad," by seven boys. The exercises reflected credit upon the pupils and upon their teachers, and Miss Emma Nichols, tha Prlnoipal of the primary department, was congratulated upon the progress Bhown by the pupils under hor charge. THE INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. Immediately after the oloso of the exercises of tho primary department were concluded, the exhibition of the intermediate department took place, when the following programme was presented Chant Sohool Salutatory Edward Amour Song" Wolooino Sohool Dialogue" Arithmetician O.

OolUer and O. Knolls Deolamatlon" School Dawsoa. Hunter's song Sohool GUthenlcs Sohool Deolamatton Auction KusseU Declamation" Bachelor's Hall inula Fltzalmons Song" Chamois Traok" Sohool Piano solo Kmily Portnor Dialogue Liberty Bell Ten bora and ten Mis soft Song "Flag of the Free" Sohool Deolamation (fourth of July" Henrv VanVorstle Declamation "Vacation" Addie Ganley gong" Home, Swoet Home Sohool PBIZSS AWABDZD. The singing was especially noteworthy, and the pupils participating in the exercises acquitted themselves with credit. The calisthenlo exercises were very fine, and gave evidence of thorough drill on tbe part of the teachers and the interest taken by the pupils.

The prizes were awarded by Mr. Patterson, the Principal of the Bohool. The exercises were conducted by Mies Louisa Rockwood, the Prinoipal of the department. Brief addresses were made by Mr. Ltbby, or the Board of Education and of the Local Committer, Bev.

Dr. Anderson, Bev. E. P. IngersoU, Rov.

Mr. Stud ley and Mr. H. W. Hay ward.

Aside from the gentlemen named, there were present Mr. Day, Mr. Tuoker, Mr. Williams, Mr. Wright, and many of the friends and patrons of the school.

The exercises passed on in tho most perfeot manner, and the visitors expressed tUomstlvca as greatly pleased with the efforts of the scholars. St. taary's Star of tbe Sea. The annual exhibition of the pupils of the school attached to St. Mary's Star of the Sea Churoh, comer of Court and Nelson streets, was held in ths large ball of the school building, last evening.

There was a large assemblage of the parents and friends of the children, and they were evidently very muoh entertained and interested with the performance of tbe young people. The programme was along one. Including songs and declamations, and closing with a cheerful little one aot drama entitled, "Honor to whom honor is due," with the following impersonations Lord Onabnrgb J. Orogan Augustus, I T. B.

Qrogan Henry, biaions, J.Kavanigh Craps, his servant Farroll Frank Barn ton Wm. Wheeler Wm. Rornton F. Hoca cniMtt Song, "Paddy McGlynn of the Town of Dublin," MoGulnne P. O'Keaff Violin Solo, "Sounds of ths Wm.

Dixon Vocal Solo, "The Harp," F. J. Grogan Song, "Marching On," Classes Medals were awarded as follows Gold medal for excellence in his class, T. Drlscoll; donor, Bev. E.

Cassidy, pastor gold medal for Christian doctrine, Wm. F. Murray; donor, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, from personal resources silver medal for penmanship, John J. O'Brien donor, Mr.

MoBoy, New York silver medal for excellence in his class, Joseph Delaney donor, Mr. P. OUhea. New York. Among the friends of the school who were present, were Rev.

Father Cassidy, Rov. Father Toner, Brothers Dommlc, Principal, and three other brothers assisted by Messrs. McGaghan, Mulrenan, Power and Miss Sate Lougblin also, Brothers Jerome, FldcluB, Angelas, Andrew, Aloysius, Francis snd William. The whole affair passed off creditably to all concerned. Colored Public Scbool No.

S. The closing exercises of this sohool will take place on to morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The exercises will consist of solos, reading, etc Mr. J. Q.

Allen is Principal of the school. Never Give Up. Let no physician persuade you that a chronic cough is incarablo. The worst esses are oontrollablo by Hale's Hoskt of Hobehoohd and Tab. Fzxe'S TOOTHACHE VllOl'H onre in one mlnnte.

BUSINESS IVOXlOl.M. ADVICE TO THOSE WHO OFFER COUNTRY BOARD. THE BROOKLYNDA1LY EAGLE will insert an advertisement of Country Board of ten lines (eight words to a line), for ten cents per line, or one dollar for each insertion. Brooklyn contains a copulation ol 500,000. facilities through the colnmnB of the Eaqt.e, the only medium through which this compact population can be reached.

Address BROOKLYN EAGLE. Si, 36 and 33 i'ulton at Brooklyn, N. Y. PRETTY 1 Tbebest ventilated Ice Oream Saloon in this oity is that of R. G.

ANDERSON, corner of Fulton and Clinton The uniqne and beautiful windows are so arranged that there Is a perfeot ventilation, without any draught of air upon tho visitors. The tracery work in the peaked celling so artistically wrought; the fountain, with its "jet d'aaa," Its flahes and water flowers: the hanging flower bankota. with their graceful foliage and ths singiag birds, complete tho surroundings af this resort of tho ladles and gentlemen of Brooklyn. TOO HOT. The oroner materials for travailnj inlta, or these suits made np, may be bought at F.

P. SARGENT'S, 807 Fal ton at, date Johnson Sargent), at greatlr reduced It is too warm to' read a long article, therefore go, witboat more ado, to the Boston Store, and bacoma a country belie. DENTISTRY. Laughing gas and G. W.

FBAIM.Dentlat, are almost synonymous. So 25,000 person, testify. This onenhetlo for tulnless extraction of teeth was introduced into Brooklsn by Dr. FR AIM in 1863, and i still hourly used at fia dental rooms, No. 267 Fulton atreet, oppoilto Olln ton.

FANCY GROCERIES AND TAB LB LUXURIES AT POPULAR PBIOBS. FIBST CLASS OArVTON GINGER full 1J ANTON OONQaOTS.mil LM LONDON CHOW OHOW, full St VvraOESTERSHIRE SA'OOB, (qw) 1.JS BONELESS SARDINES, (halves). 0 COLMAirS D. S. F.

MUSTARD, 00 ENGLISH AND SCOTCH EDAM CHEESE, bert brands JJS "MoMUR RAY'S SS BOSTONMKSS MAOKKREt (heads ofO US ENGLISH AND SCOTCH ALES. 3 to OT.10. STILTON AND OHRDDAR OIIEESkTiRISH OAT MEAL, BOLOGNA (German) SAUSAGE, POTTED MEATS, PATB DE FOIGRASS. PRUNRS. OLIVES, ALBERT BISOCTTS, CANNED FRUITS and VBGaV TThee goods are offend at iaa above tow prices to auk room for large rtoeka ml Clarets.

SsBWrnw. to arrive this month. We offertbe poular wlnel TstUl and spajj lffioJ the Pleasant Volley Wine purejUld "jCff OS 8 O. P. Brandy, and wUabte, 9 flMtat lull slied bottle, or 87.00 per galion.

Bnttre Jnvolje pnr fihuad at half its value, atf too favorite brands to 23.00 Goods delivered res. H. B. ay niton at. N.Y.

Established 1863T Oil, AND fcAlWPS. GEO. POOL SONS, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN KEROSENE OIL AND LAMPS. ALSO. PAINTS.

OILS. VARN1SHKS, BRUSHES. JRENOH WINDOW GLASS, 4c, 70 and 73 FULTON ST. Ata favorable prices as tha some article eon be ob. tsinedinKewYqik.

Vacancies in the Charity Commission to be Filled Next Week. The Shoe. Contract I Elocution Authorited FIaga for the Fourth The Be porters' Boem to be Keopentd A Free Talk all 'Bound, Pursuant to adjournment the Board of Supervisors met at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Supervisor at Large Fox in the chair. The minutes of the hut meeting were read and approved.

Every seat in the lobby was occupied, the passage ways were crowded, and the Clerk's offloe was filled with a large audience of Ward and County polltitians who bad.for an hour previous, been engaged in drenoh ing the sidewalk in of the Court House with tobacco Juice. VACANCIES IN THE OFFICE OF COMMISSIONERS OF OHABITES. JouimunicaUon was received from Distriot Attorney Wlnslow enclosing the communication from Gjv trnorDix declaring a vacanoy to exist la the oince of the Commissioners of Charities. Mr. Winelow's communication was read.

Sup. Bergen I move you, sir, that when this Board adjourns if do so for two weeks from to day, and that the election to fill the vacancies the offloe of Oom mlssloners of Charities be mode the special order immediately after the reading of the minutes. A motion to amend was made that tho Board adjourn for one week. Sup. Blohardson Then I understand the first vote will be on the amendment, and the ayes and nays will be simply whether we shall adjoosp for one week or two, but a vote for the amendmenfdoes not commits man to be in favor of adjourning at all.

I now move as an amendment to the amendment that we immediately proceed to an election. The the motion out of order. Sup. Stllwell rose itb the point of order that the cpm. munication had not been read, ond ho wisJtd to hear the whole of it.

The document was then read, as already published in the EAo'le. The question was then taken on motion to adjourn for one week and It was carried. Sup; Blohardson 1 now move as a substitute that we proceed at enoe to the election of a Commissioner in the place of Henry Wills, each gentleman rising in his place and naming the candidate for whom he desires to vote. Sup. Fisher I seoond the motion.

Sup. Bergen I move as an amendment that we proceed to the election of a Commissioner in place of Cornelius Ferguson. 1 Sup. Howell seconded the motion. Sup.

Clancy It was first ot all moved to adjourn for two weeks, and as an amendment it was then moved to adjoorn for one week. That was oarried and now a substitute isoffered that we proceed at once to the eleo Uon of Commissioners to fill the vacancies, and I rise to the point of order that the substitute is not germane to the question. The President The point of order is not well taken. A vote was about to be taken on the amendment of Sup. Bergen, when Sup.

Cianoy moved that the motion then pending be laid on the table. The motion to lay on the table was seconded by Sup. Nolan, and carried by tho following vote Affirmative Sups. Bopesv Dwyer, Plait, Dorlon, Clancy, Gardner, Bodman, Dobbin, Bowley, Molutyre, O'Oonnell, Bergen, Howell, Sblpman, O'Bellly, Dono van. Strong, Bay.

Nolan, Kenna, Connolly, Eosert, Brown, McKlnny, Qubher, Martense, and Bchenck 27. Negative Sups. Trowbridge, Snyder, Parker, Etefer, Zinde), Whitney, Smith, Bichardaon, Fisher, Hill, Stllwell, and Byder 12. There was an Immediate dimunlUon In the Interest taken In the proceedings of the Board, and the lobbyists left the room for the purpose of talking over the fresh combinations and complications likely to arise from the action just taken, THE SHOH OONTBAOT. At the last meeting, the Committee on Penitentiary, in conjunction with Keeper Shevlln, received instructions to enter into contract with Charles D.

Bigelow, President of tbe Bay State Shoe and Leather Company, for the labor of the male and female convicts oonflned in the Kings County Penitentiary, and a special committee of three was authorized to prepare the contract and submit the same for approval at the next meeting of the Board. The Special Committee reported the form of a contract, which Sup. Stllwell moved to have printed in the minutes and aoted on at tho next meeting. In answer to a question from Sup. Schenck, Bergen said no injury would be likely to result from the proposed postponement.

The motion to postpone was lost, on the statement being madd that it would be impossible to have the contract ratified before the 15ih unless immediate action should be taken. Sap. Bergen Bald it was very similar to the former contract, and that it was acceptable to Mr. Bigelow and the Committee who had drawn it up. The keeper of the Penitentiary had been consulted with, and he suggested that the County should not furnUh the contractor with water, but only with shop room.

That suggestion had been adopted by the Committee, Sup. Strong thought It was the duty of the Keeper of: the Penitentiary to attend the meetings of the Committee, and he thought the Supervisor from the Tenth was iu error when be said that the county was not bound to furnish the contractor with water. The construction of language was something very wonderful, and if the contractor's interests would not be injured, or; thoBe of the county jeopardized, he Bhould bo in favor 'of the contract being printed is the minutes and laid over for action at the next meeting, A motion to that effect was lost. Attached to the report of the Committee was a resolution expressing the approval of the Board with the form of contract presented by the Special and authorising the Committee on Penitentiary, together with the Keeper thereof, to exeoute the same. Sup.

Dwyer moved that the Board adjourn forono week. The motion was lost. Sup. moved that when the Botrd adjourn It do bo to meet on Wednesday next. Carried.

The resolution directing tbe execution of the contract was then adopted by a vote of thirty two in the affirmative to seven in the negative. sup. Gardner moved that the Board adjourn. Tbe motion was lost. THE FOURTH.

Dwyer offered the following ifcsoltied, That the keeper of the Court House be, and be is hereby dlreoted to decorate the County Court on the 4th of July, at an expense not to exoeed $200. Sup. Blohardson believed $50 would be amgle corn. penBation for decorating the building, inasmuch as the City Hall had on two occasions been deoorated at an expense of $80. Sup.

Dwyer withdrew his resolution. gup. Blohardson subsequently moved that the work be executed at ah expense not to exoeed $60. 'Tbe motion was oarried. THE BEPOBTEB'S BOOM.

Aid. Dwyer offered a resolution providing for the reopening of the reporter's room in the County Court House. Aid Zindel That resolution was handed to me to offer to this Board, and I would hare been ready to have offered it if reporters of the city press and reporters of respectability had asked me: but I will not offer resolutions in this Board for those who caused the room to be closed, I am not opposed to respeotable reporters, but I will not do anything for thoBe who are a nuisance (laughter for every judge in the County Court House, and Judge Pratt said it was a God send that that room was Laughter and applause. Sup. Dwyer That resolution was handed to me this afternoon, and I off er it because I know that room is visited by respeotable reporters.

I am satisfied that ACDEBMAN ZINDEL HAS BEEN ASSAULTED by some one, but the question is shall that room be closed up and all tho reporters shut out because some one happened to put a little flour on tho Alderman from the Nineteenth. Laughter, I do not think that would be fair. Sup. Zindel The Supervisor from the Second is correct when he says this room woe given to the reporters, and they got it from the county and tbe privilege of UBing it. But instead of using it they have made it a pesthole and a nuisance out of It.

Laughter, Sup. O'Reilly Was It reporter sent you in there 7 Sup. Zindel Yes, sir, and reporters was in there. Laughter and applause. Sup.

OTteilly I claim that the person who sent you in there is alone responsible. Sup. Zindol rose again, but the noiBe and confusion was so great that the only words ef his remarks which could be heard were, they are scoundrels," and then ho was rewarded with another outburst of laughter and cheers. During a temporary lull In ths uproar, the Supervisor from the Nineteenth Bald "It was not five minutes after (hey floured me when they sent for some other man to go in there and get floured roars of laughter, and if that room is opened it will be the same thing over again." Loud and long continued applause, laughter and obeors.) Bup. O'Bellly I think the gentleman from the Nineteenth haB had satisfaction out of the reporters laughter and he should let the matter rest.

All of us know that there are a great many respectable reporters who go in that room, and that hardly any other but respeotable reporters do so. If there are any others then I for one think the Supervisor from the Nineteenth has had ample satisfaction out of them. Laughter. Sup. Trowbridge I move as an amendment, that ths janitor be Instructed to see that no persons other than reporters have admission to that room.

Sup. Strong The resolution as it stands, seems to me to BEFLECT UPON THE BEPOBTEBS, and it is not our desire to do that. Now if this room Is' opened, it ought to be under the oondiHon that it shall be so only to such persons as the Chairman of this Board, BDd the Supervisor at Large shall be satisfied bad no hand in the offense given to our brother Supervisor of the Nineteenth. Applause and laughter. Sup.

zindel I move further to amend that a reporter who not attached to any paper, have no privilege to go in there. Sup. Strong put his motion in writing and it was read by the Clerk. The original resolution had been amended so often that members asked bow the matter then stood. Mr.

Osdley, the Clerk of the Board, was proceeding to explain when Sup. Blchardson offered a resolution that the reporter's room be re opened for the use of the Commissioners of Charity, and that the Board proceed at once to the election of three Commissioners to fill the placeB which hod been declared vacant. Laughter and applause. The Chairman rnlod it out ot order. Sup.

Blohardson then moved that the Supervisor at Large be instructed to sand for persons and papers in order to ascertain who had floured Sup. Zindel. Boars of laughter and great confusion.) Sup. Zindel I move that the Committee on Court House be instructed to put a clock on that door and then only have keys given to the reporters employed by the papers in this city and in New York. Sup.

Dorlon That is right, I will second that amendment. Sup. Zindel I object to that first resolution because It emanates from THE MAN WHO MADE ALL THE TBOUBLE. Laughter and applause and great confusion. He sits overihere behind the gentleman with the gray hair.

More noise and laughter than was ever heard In the Supervisors' Chamber before. i Sup. Cianoy Who is he, give us his name 7 Cries of "No, no, that la personal," and renewed laughter. Sup. Bopes I think ft is possible that a good cause may be shattered by overstraining it.

It seems to me the Supervisor from the Nineteenth should be satisfied, far he offered a resolution for the closing of the reporter's room, and the Board voted to olose it. It has been closed, and we know with great inconvenience to many persons for whom It was specially appropriated. We know that reporters are a necessity, and It seems to me that the Board bad better vote to open that room again, and let it be free and unrestricted, and I do hot believe the like will occur again. Applause. No doubt a great indignity was offered to the Supervisor from the Nineteenth, bnt has the man who did it committed AN OFFENBB AGAINST THE HOLT GHOST (Shouts and laughter.

Ia ho never to orgtver. (Bene wed confusion was committed by gentleman whe is continually flapping over and whirling with jocularity and fun, buf he has learned a lesson, and I believe a vary short time will prove that the 00 ourrenoe Is net to be repeated. 8up.ZtoaelBiinroaeto address the BoaroV when deod him out of order, as he had dstvWmove4 that the member from the SSuStomtu been clS dbeToreit was closed the reporters have come Into this hall and DABED THE SUP EH VISORS torfoseihst room. Boars of laughter. Why, air.

since then they have been blackguarding me mall ihf two cent papers. Tears were seen running down fiSeteeeks of niany members of the Board. The Su dnl snparttculorly has been at that, but I care nothing about it, because the loafers who prints in those papers fs no bettor than the papers themselves, rluahter and applause. That paper was at it again lart I hear, but I dldnot read it. The gentlemanly reporters have told me that it was a diBgraee to eo Til i that room, and the editor of the Union, who was on the F.AQLE taB told me, "Supervisor, if you close that room you will do good servioe and keep out those bovs who come over from New York and report this little item and that little item, and then beat you and His Grand Hotel and Park Completed.

3 'i. A HtroU TlirODgl! eardea Citr What is Being and tp 1 DOIV 5 i i It is only a fow days iihe daily Journals of New York City inf ormed! lta readers that Ib.AV had In oontempiaUan'tae erection of a fine hotel on his Hempstead Plains property, and that the hope was expressed that he would not suffer' htm self to be dlssusdad from his purpose by the "grave yard grumblings of the letharglo Dutchmen" who are charged with having been oroaking "ruin" tohispro joots ever siDce he oommenoed the work which has given an impetus to stl the hitherto waste land of Long Island. Mr. Stewart (s notoriously a very' suooessf ul business man, and he has also been deemed both enterprising and energetic But of, all that he has done hitherto, and, it is to be feared, all that he may suooeed in doing hereafter, nothing will equal (he enterprise and energy shown by him and his host of assistants, since that New Tork Journal hoped that he might not be dissuaded from digging to lay the foundation of Garden Oity Hotel. There must have been xosgio in that expression of hope, for before tho newsboys had tired of yelping, copleB only three cents, In front of Mr.

Stewart's down town store, he was finding fault with tae englne and boiler builders, because their delay in getting things ready for getting up steam in the hotel building was delaying the completion of the upholstering, and otherwise furnishing the house for the purposed opening on the 4th of July. OF THIS GBAND HOTEL In Garden Oity, of whioh nothing definite has yet been made known, a few words of desoripUon will be found to be of interest to the casual reader, even though it be not as a mushroom, sprung up In a night. The stately, yet cheery looking edlfloe, is the attractive centrepiece, In a tastefully and planted park, whioh is fully twenty aores in extent. Its Btyls maybe beet expressed, by saying that it la Franoh chateau, or renaissance. The materials of whioh it is, in the main, constructed, are a very fine quality of brick, whioh are brought by a branch railway from his own briokyard, only a few miles distant, marble, oak, yellow pine, white pine, hemlock and walnut, black and French.

In the centre of the twenty acres of running back from the stylish railway depot, it shows a southern front, 80 feet in width, and a depth, not including rear projections, of S3 feet but over all, of 70 feet. In height it is in all five stories, of 18 feat each, and with a species of the mansard upperwork, the front central projection and tower it makes the length and breadth of Long Island stare In wondering delight. And well it may, for every thoroughbred long Jkss been christened in the belief that "You couldn't make nothing either grow or stay on them HempBtead Plains biggern a short blade of grass and a hungry bow, no way you could fixitl" In the basements there are located the boiler and steam enrfne for hotel use. vast eookhw ranse and ovens, and all the paraphernalia of vo hotel kltehun. Then mere are the storerooms, loehouses, with chests, and other rooms for various uses.

Entering from the; front by a brood, ornamental night 6f steps to the main floor, a wide hallway loads to me oince, wnion is not cloaca mas if it were a separate room, but simply an enclosure, oounter high, behind, and on one side of whioh are all the heeds to the transaction of hotel office business, and the storage of office books. From this peculiarity in formation it to a remarkable degree gives to what is really only the main hallway all the appearance of a large, light and airy office room. Few who enter, without having had their attention called to the fact, will be able to realize when at the office oounter that they are still In the hallway whioh the? entered first. Beside the office, which Is on (he left of the entrance way, there are our large parlors and other rooms, the special uses of which have not yet been definitely designated. The second and third floors are nearly alike in the formation and arrangement of their rooms.

On either side of the main hallway, on each Of these floors, there are in what may be called the angles, large rooms, 17 by 30 feet, entering upon whioh ore smaller rooms, oil well lighted and ventilated, and so arranged as to give res ident families a choice of as many connecting rooms' as they may desire, while otherB may be as entirely shut! off from them as the most exolusive and privacy loving family can desire. These rooms, when furnished luxu i nouBiy, as tney wui oe in a very few days, will offer attractions to those who seek tbe bracing air of tlio PlainB, which will surely equal their most extravagant desires. On the third floor from the office, there are more single or bedrooms than on the floors below. These rooms range in Bize and general appearance with the rooms used simply as bedrooms In the best New York hotels; though tbe corner rooms are large and the lines of connection are perfeot, should the desire be to use any of them as a family suite. Near the oentre, and entirely out of line of view, are the tanks containing water thrown up from the wells snd distributed there! torn through all the rooms, as Is the Bldgewood in first elate houeeB here.

VIEW PBOSf THE EOOF. after having reached the upper door there la in the Garden City Hotel another ascent to be made, and that too, it may be said with safety, wiU, during the Smn mermonths, be the most enjoyable part of the house! during pleasant days, and when the nl8i', even in Summer, will not be found too oola. On no day or night during all the year will the visl tor be without what, in tbe oity, would be called a cool, BtioBgbreeie. During the hottest day of the present; season the visitor who sought the roof to view i of the scenes which, away in the dim distanoe, give a charming variety to the prospeot, was obliged to hold on to his hat or lose it, and button his ooat through 1 fear of taking bold. From this positon, anywhere on the roof, Hempstead, Hempstead Village, and North Hempstead are ia easy viow on the southern side, and to the right beyond them is a view of On the opposite side Is visible a long line of the central hills, or what is known aa tbe backbone of the island, whioh, as far as can be seen from this point, la thickly clad with heavy foliage, grass and flowers.

Inside the barri cade, formed by the backbone, as far as the aided eye I con ooey little white villages, with whioh that! section is dotted, give an exceedingly pleasing variety' to the lengthened Scene. In aot, white the view from the ground, outside the line of late improvements here, seems as If it wool! soon become monotonous, from i the roof of the hotel, and even from the middle and upper windows, the prospect Is as richly varied as it is' anywhere in the rich, undulating region of Pennsylvania. From the roof, too, better, perhaps, than on the' walks bclow(for the ornameptal trees and varied shrubbery are already large and verdure clad), an excellent' idea of tho extent and design of the STJBBOUNDIHO PABK may be had. To assist the reader who may not have seen Hempstead Plains, with other than a covering of grass upon which herds of cows were feeding, free of cost, because the plains were a common, it may be well to Btate that from the high point of.vision are in view fully fifty five miles of streets, already perfected, and on the intervening land, as well as along tho borders of the streets, trees have been planted and are now giving gratifying evidence of determination to remain, grow rapidly and broadly, and give ample shade, just so long as trees grow and are both useful and beautiful anywhere else in the world. X.OKG IfltiiVD PBEJODIOES.

In this connection it is of rare interest to note some of the prevalent beliefs, under the influence of which these now fruitful Plains remained barren of all, save grass, for mors than a oentury. And that, too, while their still earlier history gave tho He direct to all the prejudice which had been spread abroad against them. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of Long Island (and there is a vast number of ancient Inhabitants on it, for its well known healthfulness has sur 'vived even the prejudices of both the north and sooth sides of the Island, though they have proven to be sufficiently strong to blast almost everything else along the central line) the story hat been told, and generally believed, that the reason why there were no trees on it, until Mr. Stewart put them there in thousands, was because there was only a cruet of soil of from three to four Inches in thickness, aud that below, away down to far beyond the reach of ordinary Long Island enterprise, there was nothing but oosrse, smooth gravel, through which the water percolated as through a seive, and that, therefore, there was no earth bslow for the rootB of a tree to beoome imbedded in at a sufficient depth to enable them to hold up a tree against the high winds of the early Spring and Fall. Hence, eo was this remarkable belief, there were not nor had there ever been, norldould there over be, any large trees, or any trees worth calling trees, standing and growing on Hempstead Plains.

This was the Btory the stubborn old Dutohmen of the shore lines taught to their ohildren, that, their children, as in filial duty bojnd, believed, and in seeming sense of daty to tbe faSehood which had bound their fathers to the shore Uses, they reported it to ail comers, warning them vigorously against any attempt to run the plow of inquiry and progress through those lands which their fathers had oursed and that, too, without an offer of opportunity to prove that they were wrong. THIS LINE OT CONDTJOT, running as it did, through riore than a hundred years, seemed strange to hondredejof visitors who, when ih doubt of the truthfulness o.what was told them, found theBetwocondiaons'exlBtiig which put it out of the power of any stranger to prive that the old shore line residents were, innocently not, as the case might be, telling that which had no foundation in truth. They failed to find any one who hud tried to oultlvate the plains, and they found then) owned by the people in. common, as if to give uslosjand strength to a common determination that no one would have the privilege of testing their crop bearing fPwer, for they steadfastly refuse to sell. And this, top, in the face of tho most positive evidence that before the frequent destruction cf timber on the Island, by ore, the forests of oak and other valuable woods weret large and dense and; its other portions fruitful in various desirable prodnoe.

DEOXABATXoks Ot 1670. In this connection there is one now rare and vain able authority oonoernisf the earlier conditions of. Long Island, which Is khon as "Denton's Description of New York, formerly Ne Netherlands. 1870," published more than 200 years ago. In the introduction to this rare work, whioh Is hiihly' spoken of by contemporaneous authorities, the following lines appear "The reader will not fall to observe how large a portion of the volume is devoid to Long Island and the Oity of New York.

The reason for this Is to be' found. In the foot that that early period more than tw tbirds of the population of Colony was' located on those two' islands." in the body of this old ifork, the) author says, in one' paragraph: i "Long Island, the (Test End ot whioh lies southward New York, runs eastward above one hundred miles, and 1b in some placeB eight, in some twelve, in' some, fourteen miles broad; it Is inhabited from one end to the other. On the West end is four orflveDutoh Towns, the rest being all English to the number of twelve, besides Villages and farmhouses. The Island is most of it of a very good soyle. and very natural for aU ivrit grain which they sowe and have very good increase ox Desiaes un oiner ruiw uu xxerus common in England, as also Tobaoo, Hemp, Flax, Pumpkins, Melons, bo." i "TheFrulto natural to the island aro Mulberries, PosimmQUs, drapes, great and Hu.ckelberries, as they are termed, are now estimated (o oontaln about seventeen thousand acres, which the.inhabitants of the town of Hempstead own in common.

The village of HempBtead is situated on the Southern Margin of this great From the first settlement of the country until within about the last thirty years, it was unirer sally believed that this great tract of land oonld never be cultivated, that if turned up. by the plow, it was eo porous, the water would at onoe run through it, and leave the vegetation on the surface to perish from drought that nothing would grew upon it hut tha tall course grass whioh seems a satire of that region. This belief, it seems, even without an attempt to test ltracouracy by expert, ment until within the present century, when some persons who were in want of more land than they possessed gradually took in small portions adjoining them, and submitted it to a oonrse of cultivation. To their surprise it not only answered for grass bat for grain, and would also support a growth of trees if tbey were planted upon It. This discovery led to the taking in and inclosing ol whole farms, the people regarding is as a kind of waste land in whioh no one had so good a title as he who.

tok possession and cultivated! it, which opened the eyes of' the good people' of Hempstead to: the faot that' 'their great, plains, whioh were before esteemed of no value' except to graze a few cattle, and feed wild turkeys (whioh teat, by the way, axe the best of the turkey kind our country affords), were truly valuable as farms; and they accordingly took measures to preserve their oom mon rights in what remained of this great traot and the time is probably not for distant when the traveler! will ask, with surprise, what has become of this exteu eive region of barren land, which was so long consider ed one of the wonders of the North American continent, and will scarcely believe that his eye is traversing the came extent when it is dlreoted to those highly cultivated fields and beautiful grass meadows whioh will occupy its sites." The above may well be termed ANCIENT EXTBAOTS, as progress runs in this country outside of Long Island lands. The now rare work from whioh these ex tracts have been taken, was written and published, lot it be understood, in the year 1670, more than two hundred years ago, and subsequent notes in relation to it, made by men who have given great attention to Long: Island lands, have verified its descriptions of the then existing conditions. And yet they have, until what has been considered Mr. Stewart's most reckless and daring feat of a long life of successful daring, been laughed at and scoffed at for their efforts to awaken Long Islanders to a sense of the value of the lands they declared to be barren, and whioh they so long not only! declined to improve themselves, but also Btrenuousb declined to let any better informed or more enterprising persons test their value. This article is especially designed to awaken, in tha mind of the pnblio, a realizing sense of the great work which Mr.

Stewart Is doing for Long Island on Hemp stead Plains, but it should be understood that the main references made from the valued work of 1070, apply with equal strength to, and are, in the main, descript ive of tbe other and vaster tract of land which has, for' more than a oentury, been as thoroughly and, let it be. added, as stupidly and ignorantly despised as mere Hempstead Plains, until Mr. Stewart ran the plow of progress right under the nosos of thOBO who' had held these lands from the uses of men, and that, too, against the iniignant protest of many of those who, while croaking their, old time dirges over his work, have raised the price of their remaining lands, in some CaseSj fully ten times higher than they bad am dreamed of asking before the improvement of Homp wr igu. ADDITION AJj VAST IMPEOVEMENTS PBESENT AND! FTTUBE. In addition to what may be called the publio park of Garden City, the hotel described, and the depot there; are, as is known, some houses now Oolshed and oocu i pied outside the line of the Park and many others in progress there.

Di addition to what has already been indicated there! are now more than twenty five acres laid out and or oamezited, as PRIVATE PABKS elsewhere on the 8,000 aores now under fmprovemeat.j There are also now between 700 and 800 acres under cultivation, aside from what is laid out in villa plots for residences. On the more than fifty miles, of streets' now opened and ornamented, permanently, there are the Waterworks, by all the buildings are, to be supplied with water as in this oity, the small gas and other works for tha common weal. BKSTDEHOES. There are in occupation and ready for it, eleven i really handsome csitages, each with in aores of land, and some of them with stables. These houses are' 46 feet by 38 on their sites, two stories, basement, andi mansard roof with handsome front and oentre pro jecUons, and an ornamental observatory.

They are frame, of the best workmanship, filled in with brlok, and have all the modern improvements. Those with stables are rented for 800 per year, aud those without are rented for $050. There are five others, which occupy 33 feet of ground by 20 feet each, in a villa plot. Theae, too, have all the improvements, and are BimUar in appearance and internal arrangements to the largest. They are rented and renting at $36 per year.

Then there are ten more, that are three feet less in depth, but with a long piazza, and they are rented and renting for $250 per year. And again, there are ten more, still smaller, but convenient for a family of moderate size, that are rented and renting at $150 per year. There are also, and these of brick, five stories, with a central hall, situated 600 feet easterly from tho depot. These are now complete, and are intendad for such as may purpose supplying the oity with family necessaries. IK PEOGEESS.

There are rlso in progress sf construction twenty four additional residences, and tho nnmber will bain creased to the utmost that can be completed before the Winter sets in; and these are to be followed next Spring by as many as oan possibly be ereated with care. There are alro in progress a long and large series of stable buildings for general use, which will be of a superior classification in the range and rating of stables. There is a grand warehouse for the oity in progress, and an additional gas house snd works, whioh will be large enough for the supply of the city when complete. The above is a statement, in brief, of what has been done, what Is in progress, and what Is contemplated during the next season. THE HOTET.

WILL BE OPENED In a very few days. Tbe Intention was to have had it opened on the let of July but unavoidable delays prevented it. The hotel, it may be well to know, is to bo held under1 oontrol of Mr. Stewart's agents, and not let out to any one who would incline to make a money making venture of it at present. It has been thought best to see that I tie kept in suoh manner as will redound to the credit of tbe Garden City, and it will, therefore, be kept up to the standard of first class hotels, whether It returns a profit to the owner or not.

This, now final deohuon, is a recent one. It was, for a time, the intention to have rented it to some repntable hotel keeper, on a contract to manage it in first class style Anally, however, the fact that Garden City Is still in its babyhood, however promising, was taken into consideration, and the belief that it was best, for the present at least, to hold the entire of the great enterprise under the control of its chief prevailed, in order to make sure that all shall be worked in harmony with the leading thought upon whioh the work has been planned. Garden City will now richly repay a visit from any one who knows ought of what the Plains were before Mr. Stewart commenced his work, and the effect of its progress upon the remaining thousands of acres which ore still free from effort at cultivation, will be watched earnestly by the many who have wondered for yean why Long Island Centre should continue birren, while the evidence was stirring' that it could be madoja Garden by a moderate use ef mind and money. The railway and other Improvements were noted in'a recent article, and need not, therefore, be referred now.

MILITARY. corner Stone of tbe Tbirteentb Kegl. ment Armory, The following orders have been issued to the members of the Thirteenth Beglment, preparatory to laying the oerner stone of the new X. This Beglment will assemble at the City Armory, corner of Henry and Cranberry streets, iu fan dress uniform (white gloves and trowsere), for the purpose pf participating in the ceremony of laying the corner atone of the new Armory, corner of Hanson place and Flatbush avenue, on Thursday, July 38, 1871; I n. Begimental line will De formed on Henry street, 1 right resting on Clark street, at 40 P.

sharp. 1 lit. The field and Staff (dismounted) will report to the Begimental Commander at 4:15 P. M. The Noncommissioned Staff, Band and Drum Corps, will report to the Adjutant at the hour named for assembly.

Ex members of the Beglment are oordially Invited meet at the Armory at 4:16 P. M. (where they will be furnished with an appropriate' badge), for the purpose of uniting with the active members of the command on the occasion of this parade; The captains of the several companies will cause to be served (where practicable) a copy of this order on all tbe ex members who have served with the oomponles whioh they at present command. By order of Colonel James Jourdan, Samuel Riohabds, First Lieutenant and Adjutant. The New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Kail road has been ordered to return to the State of Louisiana $760,000 bonds of Jnly 1, 1870, with coupons attached, or pay the amount in oaah, with interest, giving the State first lien on all Kb property west of tbe Mississippi, was worked on by the stir in the papers regarding hydrophobia.

His imagination became excited at the narratives told him in the papers and out of them, about its dreadful effeots. The fear it begot of water, the irrepressible tendency to imitate the contortions he had read or heard of, displayed the mania that attends an imagination excited to the uttermost by fears of what it will suffer, and which accepts as present that whiohatfirst it only feared for the future. As the fears grew, the imagination strengthened, just as in the oases already quoted, and the result haB been the same. There seems to have been little attempt made to minister to that mind so diseased; and abstract inquiry into the properties of hydrophobia which was non existent, seems to have taken the place of inquiry into Entwistle's mental condition, by affecting which alone was there the least chance of his being saved. Of course the case of Entwistle only adds to the general uneasiness and fears of the community.

It affords but an additional evidence of the necessity of removing the primary causes of those fears, by removing the dogs' from the city. This is not assuming that all dogs are mad, or that every man dog bitten is certain to become subject to hydrophobia. It is a plain common sense way of nipping at the root of both real and imaginary hydrophobia; and it commends itself the more that the dogs are of no utility in a sewered city, being apart from all considerations of hydrophobia, one of those nuisances which, as mere nuisances alone, should long Bince have been removed. Caws made by tbe Cast Legislature, The Eagle yesterday published the first of the general laws, and special acts referring to this part of the State, passed by the lost Legislature. This publication we shall from day to day continue, until the entire list shall have been exhausted.

Legal enactments do not, it must be confessed, form the most raoy reading in the world, but they are of interest nevertheless. If it is worth the public's while to send men to Albany to legislate, it certainly becomes the public to look at their record and see what kind of legislation they have done. Indeed, if any considerable number of our citizens could be induced to scrutinize with care the work done at Albany from year to year, it is highly probable that a great advance would thereby be secured toward honest and intelligent legislation. Franklin's discovery that an eye centred upon employes is worth half a dozen hands, involves a principle that tax payers may with great advantage to themselves act upon. In yesterday's paper we published an act providing for the opening and extension of Grand street from Metropolitan avenue to the village of Newtown an aot amendatory of the existing act for the incorporation of villages; and an act providing for the award of the rewards offered by the State for the invention of steam canal boats.

The act relating to the opening, improvement and extension of Grand street is of more immediate interest to our readers than either or both of the other two named. It will necessitatean expenditure of between two and three hundred thousand dollars, and contemplates the construction of a fine macadamized highway, seventy feet wide from this oity, to the village of Newtown. Half the expense is to be borne by the property owners along the line of improvement, and half by Newtown and Brooklyn. The work will be done under the supervision of three Commissioners who were appointed by the Supreme Court yesterday. The title to the lands taken for the highway will hereafter rest jointly in the Oity of Brooklyn and the township of Newtown.

In addition to the making of the highway, the Commissioners are also instructed to secure the construction of a bridge over Newtown Creek at a cost not exceeding $20,000. The provisions usually made for the awarding of damages for property taken, the fixing of a district of assessment and the levying of the necessary taxation are made operative in this case. The need for this highway has long been apparent. The improved means of communication which it will afford between Brooklyn and its neighbors on this end of the island will more than compensate for the monetary outlay necessitated. The acts which we publish today like Blaine is in Congress there will be doubt that Mr.

Hale will be a distinguished representative. As the country well knows, a new honor recently fell upon this eminent young man of Maine. President Grant had no sooner congratulated Mr. Maynard, of the House Committee, to wait on him, that Congress had adjourned," than he found that Postmaster General Creswell had resigned. He told nobody that he intended to do so.

It was a ssrpriss to the country, but not to the President. He has become used to those, things. He simply pulled out one of those little letters which he keeps in blank, to do for any resignation from the Cabinet, and writing in Mr. Creswell's name sent it to him. The whole thing was done in five minutes by the clock, and then the President, who knows a thing or two, made up his mind to capture Brother Blaine's Good Boy.

He offered the Postmaster Generalship to Mr. Hale, offered it by telegraph, and hurried off to dine with Boss Shepherd, and talk over his little trip to. West Virginia. No matter what the Senate may do, the Boss is the President's confirmed friend. As all know, Mr.

Blaine was very active last session in ripping up the Washington Ring. He appointed the strongest committee in the Hoijse to sit upon it. They sat upon it. Doubtless then the Boss, and the General, talked over what a nice thing it would be, for them to capture Blaine's Good Boy, put him in the Cabinet and Cassarize him out of hand. The Good Boy accepted by return telegram.

The Post Office Department had been to him what emigration had been to Mr. Micawber, "the fond illusion of his youth, and the darling aspiration of his maturer "years." Palpably Hale was "Cossarized" and all he needed to do was to "Cresarize" the Post Office Department. But yesterday a change came over the spirit of his dream. He walked into the Cabinet meeting with difficulty. He intimated that he was suffering from chilblains.

He announced that he had resigned the Postmaster Generalship. Our phlegmatic Executive at once felt in his pocket for the customary reply in blank but quickly reflected that Mr. Hale had never improved on nature by qualifying for the office. So he said several things to himself in blank, or what shall be in blank here. Mr.

Hale contended that his health forbade him to accept the office. He needed rest. Congress had been in session for a long term. Long terms were exhausting to anyboiy. (This with a significant look toward the President.) He must rest.

He must hie him to his Summer seat at Altona, Pennsylvania, where Jocund day stands tiptoe On the misty mountain tops, And kisses oat the stars. Mr. Blaine's duties added to his own had exhausted him. He must rest till September, and then go home and be elected to the Good Boy's arduous duties once more. The President hardly had time to ask Creswell to hold over, before Mr.

Hale was out of sight, So ends the first Grant flank movement against the Speaker. The Good Boy had evidently heard a sigh from the pine, trees which warned him to have a care. Having reconsidered his acceptance, the Postmaster Generalship is open to the next present bearing Greek. The Hon. Eugene M.

Hale does not mean to discard his patron, and the sentiment does him honor. He knows that he without Blaine, is what Paul was without charity nothing and that he could not run the Post Office Department against the interests of Grant in politics, and not get the eyes of that keen Kentuokian, Bristow, upon him. So he remains in the House un Ciesar ized and a Good Boy. Meanwhile a Cabinet position, in the Administration of the second Washington, goes a begging with no takers. On account of the present malevolent temper of Wisconsin, and on account also of the great interest which he takes in newspapers, we move that the Postmaster Generalship be offered to Hon.

Matt. Carpenter. If he will not accept fear that the President may recall his inevitable Cushing from Spain to the office, or that be may put the detective force of the country to work, to disoover some absolutely indubitable Unknown, like unto Akerman or Bono. If all other efforts to fill the place fail, it gQufcl as last resort be offered ft greaf.