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THE NATIONAL GUAKD. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 900, Suffolk 700 and Richmond 400 that the draft be, gan in Now York on Monday morning, July 13, and was interrupted by a riot which raged for four days that tho draft in Brooklyn waa ordered to proceed in tbo Second District under Marshal Maddox and in tha Third Distriot under Marshal Qrogory on Wednesday, July Iff, bnt was indefinitely postponed owing to th trouble in New York that tho first draft did tako plaoo nt 259 Washington street, on Monday morning, August 31, 1863, Andrew Johnson, 11 Stato streot, boing tho first namo drawn from the wheel that on February 1, 1864, Provident Lincoln called for 600,000 men nndor tha Conscription aot, for threo years' sorvioo, and that a draft was resorted to to raise the force necessary. Iu this second draft sevoral persons had tbo fortuno to bo drawn twice from tho wheel within a few minutes. It may bo of interest to the general, reader to know that David H.

Wintress, who asks the quostiou to which this is an answer, had boon a membor of tho Ono Hundred and Thirty ninth Rogimont, and while on duty at Wil ilamsburgh, waa shot through tho head, tho ball destroying both eyes, a circumstance whloh qualified lum for tho drawing of tho Blips from tha whool. pave ihe way for the erection gl a Department of Signaling. In bis paper on this subject, read before the National Guard Association of this State at Us last con. vention, Major Fair; instructor of the origint! Eleventh Brigade Signal Corps, took strong ground again Bt the proposition, holding that thero are now too many departments in the National Guard, and that the policy should be in the direction of con traction rather than that of expansion. And it may be remarked, in passing, that if all duties of inspection aa that of rifle practice, for example wore brought under control of the Inspector General's department, it would be much bettor.

Instead of seeking to form Signal Corps in brigades and observes the officer before named, "let the endeavor be to disseminate the knowledge of signaling aa widely as possible throughout the entire service. Whese officers are needed they can be readily found among the subalterns of the lino. Classes in signaling not necessarily; signal corps should be instituted in every regiment, battalion and separate organization. Toward these olasses the men specially adapted for that duty by taste and inclination would naturally gravitate. The effort should be primarily toward the raising up of a corps ol competent instructors.

Much of this work could be accomplished at the State Camp of Instruction Given the instructors, the work of educating and training the rank and file would follow as a natural sequence, and we should speedily have at hand a mass of available material from which coold be culled a corps capable of being developed into experts," The alacrity with which the New York Twelfth and Forty second Regiments have come forward at the call for volunteers for signal duty demonstrates tbe correctness of the proposition above quoted. The Adjutant General, if he will but authorize regimental commandants to proceed in this matter upon their own volition and responsibility will soon find that the State has been put in possession of the nucleus of a signal corps, tho development of Which into an effective working force can be accomplished at a minimum expenditure of labotfand funds, and entirely independent of the complicated machinery of needless and uncalled for departments. A Regular officer of wide experience, whose interest In the militia has boen Bhown in various practical ways, speaking of the training that was likoly to prove most beneficial to tho National Guard, declared that, while the instruction imparted to the troops at the State Camp at Peekskill was all very well in its way, what was wanted was more drill in street riot taotics. If I were a commandant of a National Guard said this officer, I would see to it that my company commanders and their lieutenants were theoretically book and letter perfect in BrownelPs formations for street riot duty. Then I would Bee to it that every company in my regiment understood how to maneuver in those formations and, finally, I would drill my regiment as a battalion in street riot tactics until I could tako them, if necessity called for it, straight through a stone wall, without a man gettiDg out of place or tho loss of a foot of distance.

Field work can be pioked up by tho National Guard in short order, when the time comes for the militia to take the field. But street riot duty is above all othors tho subject to which regimental and company commanders should direct their attention. And they cannot get about it too speedily." There is sound Bense in these remarks, aud it is gratifying to record that at least two of the five regiments of infantry in the city aro about to follow the advice here givon and make Goneral Brownell's riot tactics their principal study during the coming drill season, an example which it is to be hoped will be followed by the other organizations of the Second Division, daughter, Mlfl3 Dora Groon, ra rusticating at Patohogua L. Mr. and Mrs.

Moses Walsh started last Wednesday on their bridal tour, which will Inoludo. Saratoga, Lake George and Montreal, Canada. Mrs. C. A.

Kolsey and the Misses Minnie C. and Elolso B. Kelsoy, of Schenck street, are among tho Green Mountains, of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs.

J. S. Berger, of the Thirteenth Ward, havo returned from Long Branch where they had been stopping for tho past two months. Mr. Frank J.

Tnite, of the Nineteenth Word, passed a few weeks ploasantly at Sohroon Lake, Adirondacks. The Misses Jennie and Maggie Dibbs, of Washington avonue, aro spending a few weeks' vacation at their uncle's residence at Atton, Morris County, N.J. Mrs. J. Smith and daughter, of Adams Btroetj Mrs.

G. Devorall and family, of Washington street, and Mr. and Mrs. 3. Beno, of Pearl street, are in tho CatskUIs.

Mrs. W. B. Guile, of Fort Greene place, is Stanton Hill, CatsklU Mountains. Mrs.

Frank C. Mason is visiting her horns near Utico, She will also visit Biohfleld Springs. Dr. J. Owens and wife, of Greene avenue, and Miss Lizzie Styles aro at Sohroon Lake, N.

Y. Henry J. Brant, of President street, has been elected President of tho Edna Association. Miss M. Lohmen, of Sackett street, is spending a few weeks at Mount Vornon.

J. E. Dietrich, of Sohermerhorn Btreet, is at Saratoga. Mrs. E.

T. Cookey, child and maid are at NevetBink, N. J. Mrs. J.

Halpine, of Lafayette avenue, is at Big Indian, Catskllls. Joseph G. Rockwell, of Pacific street, is visiting Newport, R. and Boston, Mass. George N.

Kerr and wife, of Fulton street, aro in SuUlvan Connty. Dr. B. S. Van Zile and Wife, of Willoughby street, are at Ocean Grovo, N.

J. James Swift and wife, of Bridge Btreet, aro at Ocean Grove, N. J. George S. Fowler and family, of Thirteenth street, are at tho Catskllt Mountains.

Thomas H. Marks and wife are at Babylon, L. Supervisor Thomas Harrold, of the Eleventh Ward, and sister have returned from Philadelphia. Peter D. Herrick and family, of Debavoise place, are In Orange Connty, N.

Samuel A. Avila and wife, of Lafayette ave nuo, are at Ocean Grove, N. J. Commissioner Lafayette Briggs and family are at Oswego, N. Y.

Captain Thomas Barrington, manager of the Willlamsburgh Atlhotio CJub, was presented during the week with a handsome diamond ring, Mi'. F. A. Stebbing, of Tompkins avenue, has returned from Now London, where he went to bury his mofhor, aged yeora. Afr.

Stobbins has tho sympathy of his largo circle of friends. Coroner Henry D. Menninger, M. left on Thursday evening for a trip to tho Far West. He will return in about a week.

Mr. John Mitchell, the assistant Coroner to Dr. Menninger, is spending a well earned vacation at Chicago, 111. Mr. Frank Valentine, of this city, is spending his vacation this year in taking occasional trips to Coney Island, Bockaway and Long Beaeh.

He is accompanied on these trips by Dr. John T. Gibbons, of Clitton place, and Dr. Henry Moss, of Bedford avenue. Mr.

Alfred J. Hunt, of Bedford avenue, who haB been very eick for somo time past, ia convalescent and is able to be out again. Mr. Thomas Williams, of the Police Telegraph Department, is away on his well earned vacation. He is Bpehding a few dayB at tho CatsklU Mountains.

Mrs. Otto Kroft, of Flatbush avenue, is visiting friends In Maino. Miss Lizzie Rogers, of DBan street, iB at Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs.

G. E. Daniells, of Cranberry street, aro sojourning at Delaware Water Gap. Mr. and Mrs.

George Hammond, of Carlton avonue, aro at Lake George. Tho Misses Mamie and Julie Brooks, of St. Johns place, are at Woccabac. Mrs. Charles A.

Thayer, of Oxford street, is at Skaneaes, N. Y. Mrs. John Lewis, of Clinton street, is at Locust Grove, L. Mr.

and Mrs. William E. Lathrop, of Flat bush avenue, aro visiting friends at Providence, B. point. His health, which almOBt completely broken down by the arduous labors devolving upon him in connection with the financial affairs of tho ohuroh, is Improving, J.

S. Gaffney and family, of Clinton street, and Miss Eatle McGroevey, of Warren street, are at the Ocean Wave Hotel, Long Branoh, N. J. Captain Alexander Hunter is at Milford, with hla family, at tho residence of Mrs. E.

B. Quick. Captain Hnnter has one of the finest matched teamB In tho oountry and whenever they are drivenare sure to command a large share of attention. Accompanied by Mr. O.

0. Willeinin, late of Brooklyn, tho Captain paid a visit to Brink Pond, where they had a fine day's sport, catching two or three hundred fish. Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips, of President street, ore at Haines Falls, In the CatskUlB.

The Misses Stephenson, of Eighth street, have just returned from Laurel, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brooks, of Eighth street, Mr. and Mrs.

T. A. Preston, of Twelfth street, and Mrs. E. L.

Brown, of Fifth avenue, aro at Atlantic Highlands. Miss Addie Graves, of Greene avenue, is at Norwalk, Conn, Miss Nellie Curran and Master Frank Our ran are sojourning at Lake Osoawano. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Oxley, Miss Sarah Oxley, Miss Minnie Blundell and Mr, and Mrs, Mills, are at Windham, Greene County, N. and are visiting all the different points of interest among the Catskllls. Mr. Thomas McGoey and family, of Bedford avenue, who havo been spending tha Summer at Far Bookaway, are preparing to wind Up tho season with a two weeks' sojourn at Saratoga Springs. Mr.

and Mrs. David Barnett and son are at Saratoga, and will go thence to Maine, returning by tho outside route. Eev. T. DeWitt Talmage made a brief visit to town last week.

He left for tho great Grimsby camp mooting, near Ontario, Canada, where ho had engaged to Bpeak. Mrs. Talmago 1b at White Sulphur Springs, Va. Mrs. Ellen Waters, the Misses Nellie, Isabella and Maud Watson, 1.

B. Watson, and W. Haz zard Watson, are summering at Blooimngdolo, N. J. Mr.

John L. 0. Caruana, of Montague street, who became tho father of a promising son about seven weeks ago, had the boy christened on tho 16th Instant, tho of the Assumption, ltev. Father Ward, of St. Charles Borromeo, assisted by Rev.

Sylvester Malone, performed tho important ceremony ail tho more folioitously that tho water was from the Biver Jourdan, whonce it had been brought by Mr. CharloB Biohardson, bttt recently returned from a tour of tho Holy Land. Tho sponsors were ex Senator Piorco and Miss Oldner, of New York. The name given the boy was James Berkeley Gordon. Among thOBO who showered their congratulations on tho happyiarents were Mr.

and Mrs. C. F. Caruana, the grand parents General Yeston and daughter, ex Governor Bichard McCor mick, Dr. and Mrs.

Snively, Mrs. Stuart, Mr. ond Mrs. James P. Travers, Mr.

and Mrs. William Merrlfleld. Mrs. Haslott, Mr. Charles Richardson, Mr.

Richard Lacey, Mr. aud Mrs. Dunseith, Mr. and Mrs. John Murray, Fonelon Murray and Mr.

and Mrs. John Oldner. Colonel Kodney 0. Ward is enjoying himself at Cottago City, Mass, Mrs. Jennie Anderson, of Henry street, is having a good time with her friends at Bondout, on the Hudson.

Mr. and Mrs. James Mallon, Mr. and Mrs. John P.

Mallon, Mr. and Mrs. John McDermott, Mr. and Mrs. John T.

Leonard, Mrs. John Gilgar, JoBoph Mallon, Harry MoDormott, James Daloy, Bobert Furey, Frank Carroll, MIsb Lizzie Leonard, Miss Mamie Mallon, Miss Sadie Mallon, Miss Mamie McDermott, Miss Lizzie Aitken, Miss Mary J. Aitkon, Miss Essie McDermott, Miss Maggie Cook, Miss L. McDormott, Mr. Booney and Mr.

McNamara aro at Southold, 1. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Bishop, of Maeon street, are at Lake Ronkonkoma, L.

Mr. and Mrs. James MoMahon, of McDon ough street, aro paying a brief visit to Lake Ronkonkoma, L. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles A. Bryan are stopping at the Atlantio Highlands. Mrs. Fred. M.

Laurence and daughter Nellie, of Flatbush avenue, have returned to tho city. Mrs. A. E. Walker, of Fulton street, is at Elizabeth.

Mr. William Gardner and his son Graham aro at Saugertles, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs.

W. J. Douglas and Miss Millie Douglas, of DoKolft avenue, are at the Catsktita, Mr. Thomas F. Rowland, proprietor of the Continental Iron Works of Greenpolht, has returned from Europe.

Mi Harry Van Tassel, of DeKalb avenue, has gone to Saugertles. Captain George B. Rhodes, of the Seventh Preclnot, having passed his vacation at Setauket, has returned homo. Mr. Levi Frechet, of Leonard'street, Green point, an ex membor of the Canadian Parliament, leii town for Babylon, on Tuesday last.

Eev. Dr. Taylor, of the Noble street Presbyterian Church, has returned from West Milford, Conn. The Doctor's family aro still at that delightful place. Mr.

John Loughran, of South Portland avenue, has gone with his family to Saratoga Springs and will remain one month. Mrs. John B. Sohliok and family aro at Long Branch. Mr.

Arthur E. Bodgers, of Oalyer Btreet, has returned from Babylon, L. Mrs. Richard V. Tfoung has arrived home from Eatonah, N.

Y. Bev. William Eeid, formerly pastor of the Herkimer street Baptist Church, occupied tho pulpit of the Union avenue Baptist Church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

S. 0. Hill, of Washington avenne, have gone to Ocean Grove. Dr. and Mrs.

J. W. Fleming have returned from a tour to Niagara Falls and Canada. J. F.

Valentine, M. of Noble street, and 'his wife, have arrived homo after a delightful trip to Niagara falls, Thousand IslandB and other plaoes of interest. Mr. Charles H. Williamson, one of the progenitors of the Sons of Veterans, has been honored by a reappointment as Adjutant of B.

V. Young Post. Kev. Dr. Loughran has gone to Saratoga Springs and will remain two weeks, Mrs.

A. M. Luoas, Of Clermont avenue, is at Lake George. Mrs. Frank L.

Howe and son, of Washington avenue, aro at Loo, Mass. Mr. Bobert A. Furey, of Concord street, is at Southold, L. Mr.

J. F. Fradley, of Elliott place, has returned from a pleature trip to Europe, and is now spending a few days with hla family at Cornwall, N. Y. Frederick L.

Colver, editor of the Philo mathean Review, returned home yesterday from a three weeks' sojourn at Nyaok, Laka George and Glen's Falls, N. Y. After a delightful stay of two weeks at Kaats kili Bay, Lake George, Messrs. Edward V. Howard, Harry Mills and Edwin A.

Shortor returned home last wook. Mr. Thomas T. Drill, the promising young basso, will leave for a brief vaoation to Atlantic Highlands, N. to morrow.

Miss Tillis Trimmer, of the Hill, has been visiting her friends at Stamford, Conn, Captain Charles P. Kretsohmai', of Company Thirteenth Bogiment, and ex Captain John H. Tien ken, of the same command, ore traveling through the State of Maine. Lieutenants S. W.

Smith and George W. Hunt, ol Company 0, Thirteenth Bogiment, aro about to start on a hunting expedition on tha northern border of Maine. They intend to return by tho middle September. Misses Eva Smyth and the Misses Drummond, of Carlton avenue, have gone to Woodbury Falls, Conn. Miss Nellie Thompson, of Baltio Btreet, has gone to visit friends at Matawan, Old Bridge and Ooean Beach, N.

J. Henry S. Badeler is visiting at Seneca Falls. Mrs. Bussell Green, of the Thirteenth Ward, iB Btopplng at Spring VaUey, Rockland County Miss Lizzie Green ia summering at Wassaie, Dutoheas Connty, and Mrs.

William Groon and her grand ABOUT BROOKLYN PEOPLE Mrs. P. Paul Durfee and family are at New Canaan, Conn. George H. Anderson, of Adelphi Btreet, is at Watiins Glen, N.

Y. Miss Minnie Brooks and Miss Emily A. Goodwin us at LocU Sheldrake, Sullivan County, N. 7. The Misses Spies, of Warren street, South Brooklyn, and their nophew, Charles B.

Bonnett, aro at Central Islip, L. Mrs. W. T. Curtis, of Willoughby street, has returned from Saratoga Springs.

Mr.JIerman F. KoepkJ, of Court street, is at the Catskilla. James E. Pryme and family have just returned from a trip in the Mohawk Volley. Miss Mabel E.

Bishop, of Henry street, who has been seriously ill, la convalescing at Montolair, N. Mrs. E. W. Louery, of San Francisco, a Western artlat of considerable note, la upending a few weeks with Mrs.

John A. Pease, Lawrence street. Miss lizzie Daries, of Adelphi street, is at BalneB Falls, Catskills. Miss Emma Plato, of Classon avenue, is at White Plains, Westchester Connty, N. Y.

Mrs. E. M. Warren, of Cumberland street, has left Saratoga for Biohfleld Springs. Miss Phebe Bea and Master Ogston Bea are at Cornwall on tho Hudson.

Mrs. Stephen Pettus, of Cambridge place, and her niece, Mies Paulino Elliott, and Mr, Joe Elliott have gono to Niagara. Ex City Treasurer John Mitchell left for Europe on May 10 last. He has traveled through Switzerland and other Continental countries. Ho will now address himself to Eogland, Franco, Scotland and Ireland aud expects to return homo by September 20.

Mr. Bobert H. Miley, who was one of tho injnred passengers in a recent Conoy Island Railroad accident, Is able to more around and see his many frionds, who sympathised with him in his misfortune. Although walking about on orutches, Mr. Miley begins to show the recuporatlvo influences of out door exercise.

Miss Mamie Cahill, of Do Kalb avenue, and Miss Annie FitzslmmonB are at Huntington. Mr. Harry Kennedy, the well known ventriloquist, and a resident of this city, has composed an ovorture to tbo Bartholdi Btatno, and contributed 100,000 copies of the same for the benefit of tho Pedestal Fund. Mrs. E.

Chesebrough and Miss Linda Chese brough, of Byorson street, are among the Heidelberg, Mountains. Mrs. Ella Toy, of Prince street, is at Niagara Falls. Miss Fanny F. Smith, of Livingston street, has returned from Tfestflold, N.

J. Dr. M. J. Kelly, of tho Hill, is at Biver head, L.

Mr. Charles M. Heald, General Transportation Manager of tho Long Island Railroad Company earr ed the gratitude of tho members of tho Grand Army of tho Republic by placing a special parlor car at tho disposal of the representatives of Post 327, on their recent trip to attend the camp fire given under the auspices of Edward Hunttiag Post 353, at Greonport, L. I. William H.

Biley, ono of the deputy clerks of the Oity Court, has returned from his vacation. He Visited Syraouse, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and other places. At tho'Grsnd Conncil Session of the Order of United Friends, held at Syracuse, he was electod Grand Prelate. He attended a session of tho American Legion of Honor at Niagara Falls. Captain Frederick Perkins, of Lawrence street, takes his vaoation in occasional outingB at ono or tho other of our adjacent seaside resorts.

Annie W. Mulligan, of Kent avenue, has returned from Bye, N. Y. Miss May B. Edmonds is at the residence of Mr.

Richard H. Soper, a few miles from Rockvillo Center, L. Miss Fannie McEwan and Miss Annie Allen are at Sea Cliff, L. I. Mr.

T. H. Cubberly, of Gates avenue, having recoycred from his recent severe illness, has gone to Saratoga to recruit his health. Miss M. J.

Brennan, of Providence, B. is viBiting tho Misses Lynch, of Bergen street. Mr. A. J.

Nutting, of Fulton street, and his friend, Judge Glldersleeve, of Nbw York, have left for tha North Woods, Racquet River, for a sojourn of about ono month. B. J. Owens, of Myrtle avenue, is at Sohroon Lake, Essex County, S. X.

William H. Grace and family, of State street, are at the CatskiUs. Hon. Bamon 0. Williams, of this city, entered upon the dischargo of his duties as United States Consul General at Havana, on the 12th lust.

Mrs. M. A. Stone, of Clinton street, has returned from Niagara and Saratoga. Miss L.

M. Walker is visiting Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. W.

S. Archer, of St. James place, both ardent anglers, have returned to the city after a two weeks1 sojourn on the east end of tbe island. Mrs. Archer will leave for Summit, N.

on Tuesday, to visit relatives. The Misses Thompson, of Willow and Mid dagh streets, have gone to Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Alfred Polhemus, Misses Minnie, Gus sle and Lizzie Folnomus and Mr. Charles Polhemns, of Cambridge place, are at the Catskllls, Captain Leavey, Mr.

and Mrs. Dan. NorthUp, Miss Ivy Jordan, of Qulncy street Miss Begina Skol. ly, Mr. and Sirs.

John W. Sanderson, of Fourth avenue Mr. O'Dvonnell, Misses Lilly and Maggio McGov ern, of Livingston street Mr. Bruce Wood, of Classon avenue Miss Helen James, Mls3 Lillie Wilson, Mr. Thomas Lowery, W.

Smith, Mrs. Skelly, Miss Jennie Skelly, Miss A. McLaughlin, are at Patchogue, L. General Jesse T. Smith and daughter are at Sharon Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stevenson, of Halsey street, and Mr. and Mrs. W.

T. Eamsbotham, child and uurse are at Millbrook, Dutchess County, N. Y. The Misses Sadie aud Ella Wyburn, of Willoughby avenue, are rusticating at Fatchogue, L. Mr.

E. J. Jennings, of Greene avenue, who recently returned from an extended European trip, left on Wednesday to join his family, who are sojourning at Losiugton, in tho Catskiiis. Mr. Bobert Harding, and Miss Mabel Harding havo gono to tho Thousand Islands, Niagara Fails, Conessoo Falls and tho CatskUIs.

Miss Gussie Goudron has been spending tho Summer at Fairfield, Conn. Mrs. White and her daughter are at Bloom lngdale, N. 3. Miss Frances E.

Walker, of Willoughby street, is at Huntington, L. Mrs. T. B. Potter, of Wyckoff street, spent two days at Westbury Station, I Mrs.

John T. Hayden and son, Waldo, of Smith street, are among the Groon Mountains of Vermont. Mrs. L. 0.

Scollay, of Smith street, ia at Lake Pleasant, Mass. Alex. F. Zundt and family ara at Montclair, N. J.

The Misses Ella and Maria Hubbs, of Quin cey street, are at Cold Spring and Norlhport. L. 1 Mr. aud Mrs. W.

L. Allen and Mossrs. Martin and Nelson Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tripler and family, also Miss Helen Morris and Mr.

aud Mrs. Charles Bunnell, all of Oxford street, are at Narragan aett Pier, a Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Sterns, of Willow street, are at Saratoga and Lake George, and will go to Arlington, Vt Mr. John F. Clarke, of Franklin avenue, hrs made his third trip this season to Lexington, in tho Catskllls, where he is now sojourning. Few persons appear to know better than Mr. Olarko how to extract unalloyed pleasure from the attractions of ft good Summer resort.

Roy. Father Murphy has been stopping with Mends at Far Bockaway since his retirement from the pastorate of St. Anthony's Church, Green should not Jeel disappointed when their questions are not answered imTnediately, oaths information solicited frequently requires considerable research, for which ample time should be allowed. The name and address of tha tcriter should accompany every question. Note.

A correspondent announces that if tho young man who wrote tothe Eagle as to sheep raising in Kansas, under the signature of "A Young Reader," Is Btill desirous of obtaining information on that subject he may bo enlightened by addressing F. L. Oswald, Falrport, Bussoll County, Kan. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you oblige one of your readers by stating in Sunday's issuo which hotel was thrown open to tho public first, tho Brighton or Manhattan Beach? Ahctio. Answer Tho Manhattan Beach Hotel wob built and opened in July, 1877, aud the Brighton Beaoa Hotel waa built and opened In Jnno, 1878.

To the Editor of tlu) Brooklyn Eagle Please answer the following questions Can tho Memoirs of Margaret of Valois," or History of Queen Margaret of Valois," by Monges (tranBlatod), bo found In this country If so, whoro? Will you please give a personal description of Mary, Queen of Soots Catharine do Medici, Honry of Franco, and tho Admirable Crichton 1" Also, threo of tho most popular historical novelists other than Sir Walter Soott aud Louise Muhlbach, and Borne of their works. B. V. 0. Answer It B.

V. will oonsult the nearest Cyclopedia ho can find he will obtain satisfactory ond full answers to all his quoBtions. Throe popular historical novelists aro Thackeray, Goorgo Eliot and Lord (Bul wor) Lytton. 20 (fto Editor of the Ilrooklyn Eagle Will you state where I can find the value of old coins and tho names of any coin collectors and what you mean by uncirculated, In roforonoe to coins iu your last paper I havo two pieces like tho old shilling, with pillars ono is 1763, tho othor 178i, aud ono very old copper ponny 7 Ax Old Resident. Answer Inquiries on this subject, if addressed to John Taylor, agent for tho Anchor Steamship line, Court street, Brooklyn, will doubtless result in lull and acourato information.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Please decide a dispute through your valued columns by stating in what yoarCablo's Conoy Island, was built, also, whou it was first opened. SoaKATAKOOH. Answtr Oable's Hotel was built ana opened to the publio in June, 1876. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Will slates, pencils, pens, ink, copy books, readers, geographies, grammars, etc, bo supplied to tbe scholars in tho public schools thiB Fall (1st oi Sop temberl free, or aro those who aro ablo oxpeoted to pay for their own I have no false sentiment in tho matter. I wUl pay if it is demanded, but will have no hesitation iu aoceptiug tho froo books.

Pno Bono Pub.moo. There has not been any change in regard to the distribution of free books in tbe schools. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Would you please inform mo through the columns of your paper In what month the Indiana State election Is held and also the State election In Ohio? rt S. Devise. Answer The next election in Indiana will be held on November 4, whan tho people will oloot Presidential eleotors, State officers, Legislative and Congressmen.

Ohio, on Tnesday, October 14, will elect minor State officers and Congressmen. To tlie Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle I read with interest some remarks on vooal oulture in last Sunday's Eaolb, written by Honry Carter. I havo louked iu tho Brooklyn aud New York directories for his addross, but cannot find it. Will you obligo tho members of an amateur vocal olub by giving us the required information Habmonio. 1 Answer Tho only Henry Carter whoso name is identified with music that we know of, was formerly organist of Plymouth Church, and probably can be found at the Park Avenue Hotel, Now York.

He is now organiBt in ono of tbo Collegiate Reformed Churches in that city, and vory likoly oontinues at the hotel named. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Please inform me through the medium of your Sunday paper if there was publishod in any paper or magazine tho plans of the steamships Oregon, America and Alaska? If so, of what name and date and whoro con I obtain them 7 AIbo, the price 1 Will you also give me the dlmeuBlons of the Washington monument, and is it round or square Fkank InvrKo Bonn. Answer Plans of the steamship named may havo appeared in tho Engineer, publishod in can bo ordered through any of tho news companies. The Washington monument Is a square structure. Its design was for a spacious temple as tho base, surmounted by a Bhaf 600 feet high.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I am desirous of obtaining the complete history of Charlotte Templo. Can you tell mo whore such book can bo purchasod7 Have ono work but it plete. E. C. Answer Wo do not think thoro la any nutlieutio book on Charlotte Temple Tho melancholy story of her lUe haB, wo bolieve, been woven into romance but the facts of her life and sufferings are but littlo known.

We published a plausible version of hor sufferings in this department of the Eagle on Sunday, July 29, 1883. Tho way to test tho existence of ony book on this subject is to leavo an order with a reputable book soller. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eaate Will you please answer in Sunday's Eagle who Is the author of the following quotation, and tho name of the piece from whloh it is taken Thero is a tide iu tho affairs of man Which, taken at flood, leads on to certain victory." B. jijiaitrer The quotation given by is" the worst effort wo havo seen for a while. What is intended is the very familiar lines to be found in Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Cassar," Act Bcono 3 There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted all tho voyage of their lifo Is bound in shallows aud iu miseries. On snch a full sea aro we now afloat And wo must take the current when It serves, Or lose our vontures. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Will you please answer the following questions Who were the rulers of Russia up to the present time? What are the ruling race in the Barbary States? B. Jh. Answer The rulerB of Russia since 1613 have been as follows House of Romauof Male lino Michael, 1613 Alexis, 1045 Feodor, 1670 Ivan and Peter 1682 Peter 1689 Catharine 1725 Poter 1727.

Female line: Anne, 1780; Ivan 1740; Elizabeth, 1741. Houaa of Romauof Holstoin l'ctor 17C2 Catharine 1762 Paul, 170S Alexander 1801 Nicholas, 1825 Alexander 1855 Aloxander Of what are called tho Barbary States, Algeria is a Fronch colony, Morocco is goYornod by tho family of the SharifB of Flleli or Tafilot. Tunis Is governed by the descendants of Ben Ali Tourki, a native uf tho Mo of Crete, who, by orco of arms, made himself master of the country, aoknowlodging, howover, the sovereignty of tho Sultan of Turkey, in existenee since 1575. To ihe Editor of the Brooklyn Eavle: Would you kindly give the possessor of a young pug dog somo points as io tbolr care, food, Ac. Also, if possible, the difference in tho breed, with the distinguishing, marks.

and how to toll a full blooded pug All extra information will be vory thankfully received. Also, the correct pronunciation of tho word coyote." A Constant Readejz. Answer We doubt that A Constant Reader" would be profoundly grateful for the volumes of information which he desires on tho important subject of hla "young pug dog," and wo would bo vory glad indeed to communicato such valuable knowledge. Adopting the language of the good book we would advise our correspondent to train" that pug in tho way ho should go." Havo him licensed. Muzzlo him lu dog days.

Keep him from yolplug at nights. Give him decent food. Let him learu to bo death on cats," so that ho may be the friend of mankind. Havo him vaccinated according to tho new process. Keep him away from the Eagle omco for fear of dlsoster in connection with tho machinery.

All this is extra," not general infor. matlpn, such as is not likoly to bo obtained from a pro. fessioual dog fancier. Tho word "coyote" is pronounced as nearly as possible to its spelling. To the Editor of llus Brooklyn Eagle Will you be kiiut enough to print in next Sunday's" Eaolk a short history of tho several drafts which were made in this city during tbe late Rebolllon.

Tho information would no Soubt be appreciated by mauy who were drafted either in one or the othor of the sevoral drafts. I drew tho names, as the flies of tho Eagle wnl show, but I have forgotten tho dates of the several drafts and the number of uamoa drawn, henco my desire to bo enlightened. D. H. Wihtuebb.

A'nswcr A short history ofho drafts which were made in tntscity is compri3cdin tho facts that President Lincoln called for volunteers, aud aa tho responses bogau to slackon somo measures were necessary to obtain soldiers for the Hold that, accordingly, Congress, ou February 15, 1803, parsed a bill providing for the conscription of citizous between tbe ages of 18 and 45 years that the quota under the first call was 19,100 In the first nlno Congressional districts of this Stato, of which Brooklyn's was 4,600, New York's 12,500, QuecrV Sea Coast and Harbor Defense by the Militia. Artillery Encampments Regular Army Tlens as to How They Should be Conducted Ambulance Corps in the National Guard The Problem of Signal Corps Brownell's Kiot Tactics, The encampment of an infantry regiment in ono of the fortifications of New York Harbor for artillery instruction marka an important stop In advance in the military education of the National Gourd, If the money Is forthcoming," said Adjutant General Farnsworth, at Fort Wwle worth, daring tbo late encampment of the Twelfth Regiment at that point, there will be an artillery camp every year. Already, It 16 underatood, th6 commandants of the loading regW mentEi of New York and Brooklyn have preferred requests, and in one or two instances filed official applications with the Adjutant General, asking to be assigned to fortification duty in 1885. And the enthusiasm for this particular form of military exorcise may be expected to increase rather than to diminish If it be the intention of the State authorities, as now Beams probable, to cause the troops of the National Guard to be instructed in seacoaat and harbor defense, it is in order to consider how that instruction can be most successfully accomplished, and how the maximum of results can be obtained with the minimum expenditure of time and of money. The General Government, let it be understood at the outset, furnishes the medium of instruction; that is to sayi the instructors commissioned and non commissioned officers of tho Regular Army tho fortifications, the guns and the ammunition the National Guard supplies tho troops to be taught, and the State of New York provides for their transportation and subsisteuco and pays officers and men for the time devoted by them to acquiring facility In handling heavy artillery.

A community of inter oat Is thus established between the State and the General Government. Four years ago tbo experiment was tried of establishing an artillery camp made up of detachments detailed from the several batteries of the National Guard. That experiment proved only partially successful. "With the undertaking of Bending forward an infantry regiment, however, tho result was quite different. That the Twelfth Regiment, under Colonel Jones', made material pvogross is not to bo gainsaid.

And yot it may be seriously questioned whether the results achieved during the tour of duty of that command at Camp Farnsworth wore commensurate with the outlay of time and money. It must be apparont to the closo observer that the scheme of instruction there attempted to be pursued was laid out by a theorist who fell but littlo short of beluga visionary. In the very nature of things it is impossible to compress within the brief compass of five days a schedule of duties that under ordinary circumstances would cover months if properly fulfilled. As has before been remarked in this place, too much, was attempted to be accomplished by the Twelfth Regiment. It is absolutely essential in laying out a ecUeme of instruction of thla nature for the militia that the most profound oxperlenco should bo availed of.

On the ono hand the officers of experience in the National Guard know what their men are capable of accomplishing on the other band the experienced officers of the Regular Army are familiar with the medium of instruction that will render the citizon soldiery of the most avail. Combining the wisdom of tho volunteer and regular arms, the result must of necessity be the formulating of a scheme of exor oiaes that cannot fail of being productive of the most benoficial results. This was not tho case with tho tour of duty of the Twelfth Regiment; and in so far that tour proved desultory and non effective. If this state rnent be doubted, what good, it may be asked, resulted from the detailing of a company to spend days in tho attempt to move a ten ton gun from the water battery to the parapet of the fort, only to be stopped summarily when the attempt proved imminently perilous to life and limb? Or further than this, again, why were details maae to practice with mac hi no guns, when this form of service could be as well learned in tho armory of the regiment 7 However, these aro errors which are not likely to be repeated in the future, and thoy may therefore be passed over. The question which, now interests the National Guard is bow tho best results may be derived from subsequent tours of duty in the harbor fortifications.

In the first place it should bo understood that field artillery drill is tho foundation of heavy artillery practice. This is the key to scocoast and harbor defense. Rsngs finding and the use of "piano tables," upon which bo much energy was expended by the members of the Twelfth at Fort Wadsworth, can be mastered in their armories by the officers of the National Guard. This upon the authority of one of tho foremost instructors of the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. At the State arsenal in New York City there are a number of field pieces in store which in their present condition are only so much useless lumber.

It la suggested that requisition bo made by regimental commandants desirous of going into camp in tho harbor fortifications for one or two of those pieces. Application to the major general commanding the Department of the Bast will secure to them tho detailing of non commissioned officers of tho Regular Army who will instruct their men in field artillery drill in the armories. Through tho same medium they can secure the services of Regular officers to instruct their commissioned officers in the use of range findings, etc. Working thus through tho Winter months, when the Spring or Summer season arrives the cominandB would be in shape to go into the fortifications at Hamilton or Wadsworth fully prepared to take up the practical work of loading, aimjng and firing tho heavy artillery with which those works are armod, and with the beat attainable results. It is to be hoped that Borne of the regimental commanders of Brooklyn will act upon these suggestions.

While it is unquestionable that so far as the organizations ore concerned the regimental encampment for a week's time would be preferred, the eminently practical suggestion is made by a competent army authority that it would be preferable to send the troops to tho forts by detachments and for a single day's duty. It is pointed out in this connection that a material saving could be effected by the State in transporting tho detachments to Staten Island by way of the ferry to Clifton, from Which point Fort Wadsworth could be reached by an easy march. A day spent on the ramparts, in the casements Dr in manning the water bat tori ea of that fortification would undoubtedly result in as much or even great good than a day spent before the butts at Creedmoor. And this would seem to be the most practicable way accomplishing tho results aimed at by the art ill or samps. Field artillery and heavy gun drill, it is also ruggested, Bhould be made a part of the established Curriculum at the State Camp of Instruction at Peeks kill, and in this way the State would be training on Irmy of experts whoso services in the event of war irith a foreign power would prove invaluable.

The following suggestive paragraph appear? in the klitorial columns of tho London Volunteer Service Gazette i A correspondent calls our attention to the interest tag foot that the knowledge gained In a volunteer ambulance class may probably have been the cause of laving the life of one of the gallant policemen who were shot by the burglar at Hoxton the other day. Henry Price, of Wenlock street, Hoxton, in giving evidence before the magistrates said that, learning that Garner (one of tho policemen) had been shot iu tho feg, he (witness) "ripped open the trowsera and stopped the bleeding, according to a method he had learned from recently attending as a volunteer an ambulanco class for field duty." From time to time Intimations have been given of an intention on the part of the military authorities to Introduce instruction in field surgery into the National Guard. The commandant of the whilom Eleventh Brigade, among other practical measures, caused bis staff officers to be instructed in the first care of the wounded, thus greatly increasing their efficiency. Among the British Volunteers there is a regularly organized ambulance corps. An extensive establishment of this kind la Hoi necessary in this State; but in every regiment a certain number of volunteers could be obtained who would cheerfully place themselves under the instruction of the Burgeons and hospital Stewards the latter in nearly every instance being regularly graduated physicians and in this way the No.

tional Guard would Bpeedily secure a well planned and effective force, whose services in the ovent of aotive fluty would prove invaluable. The formation of a Bignal class In the Twenty second Regiment and the results secured in this direction by tho Twelfth Regiment at its recent encampment, taken In connection with what had before been accomplished In the Eleventh (now Fourth) Brigade and tho Thirteenth Regiment, would seem to have satisfactorily solved the problem as to the best means of establishing Signaling upon a permanent basis aa a stated adjunct Of military education in tho National Guard. The Military Code provides for tha attaching, in the discretion of the Commander in Chief, to eaoh division and brigade of a signal and telegraph corps, to consist tit a chief signal officer with tho rank of major, an as. lis taut signal officer with the rank of captain, one signal sergeant, and likewise aucft enlisted men as may from time to time be detailed from tho several organ! stations of the division and brigade for instruction and aarvice. The intent of this section in tha Code waa to To the Editor of the Ilrooklyn Eagle Can you tell mo who were Luorezio Borgia and Beatrice Conci Woro thoy wicked, and whoro can I get their historios Elm.

A nswer Lucrezia Borgia was a greatly alandored wo. man, commonly supposed guilty of the most dotestoblo Bins. Modern resoarch has tended to cloar her of the chargo of incest, so long bolleved, but of whloh the proof is entirely looking, sho was a woman of little Btrength of mind, and doubtless lacked tho disposition to opposo tho crimes ol her fathor and hor brother, Ctosar; but after her marrlago with tho son of tho Duko of Forrara eho passed a qulat and prosperous life, and won universal respect by prudence, piety and patron, ago of lottors and ort, dying in 1520. Beatrice Gono) was a Roman lady of groat beauty, tho daughter ol Count Francesco dt Concl, a notoriously wicked man who made hor his victim. She appealed to Pope Clement VIII, for protection, but in vain, and then her brother and mother In law conspired to slay him (her father.) Sho may not havo been privy to tho plot, but sho was acouasd of complicity in It, and despite tho ap.

peals of tho best families in Rome, Bho was oxecutod with tho others. Our correspondent will anil ampla historical sketches in tho Encyclopaedia Britannica. The questions on coins must remain unanswered, as havo no dates whioh would help us in the matter. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Two weeks ago Deolnmation wrote yott asking for information iu Sunday's Eagle concerning the following lines Thou unoreato, unseen and undefined Source of oU lifo, and fountain of the mind Pervading spirit, whom no ove can trace Sought through all tlmo, endless iu all spaco. Sinco writing you rocolloct having oinniiitod uamt and address.

A notice at head of yonr Sunday column reminded mo. If possible would like to receive Information as to where tbe lines are from, and whero thoy can be found or obtained. Declamation. To tie Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Can you Inform mo whoro I can find tho poem from which tho following quotation is taken A thunder storm's tho eloquence cf Heivan." St. Asafu.

A nswer "Declamation "has not tho quotation es actly correct, as what wo givo below will show Thou Oncreatc, Unseen and Undefined, Souroe of all lifo and fountain of the mind Pervadiug Spirit, whom no oyo cau trace, Felt through all time and working iu all spaoa, Imagination cannot paint that fipot, Around, above, bonoath, where Thou art not I Wo are under obligations to Mrs. E. M. Chapman fd calling attention to tho works oi Robert Montgomery, whose poem entitled The Omnipresence of the Doity" begins with the Btanza quoted. In tho Banio poem wo find an answer to tho question of St.

Asaph," whosa quotation ia not correctly given. Hero is tho who) stanza A thunder storm tho eloquence of heaven, When tho thick clouds, like airy walls, aro riven. Who hath not paused beneath ita hallow groan And felt omnipotence around biui thrown With what a gloom tho ush'rlug Scene apjwara 1 The leaves all fluttering with Instinctive fears, Tho waters curling with a fellow dread, A breezelesB fervor round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain's reluctant shower, With big drops patt'ring on tho tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform All mark tho oomlng of a thunder storm. Montgomory's poems may be found In th Brooklyn Library. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle For the gratification ami information of several young ladies who attentively read and stndy the "Questions Answered," will you please eivo som information as to tho paternity of tbe following linos Wore God in churchlcss lands romaimng, Far from nil Vuico of teachers and divines, My soul would find, in flowers of Thy ordaining.

Priests, sermons, shrines Answer The lines quoted constitute tho last vera of poem onttlled, "Hymn to the Flowors." ft oon toins fifteen verBes, and is the work of Horace Smith, natlvo of London, whore ho was born In 1779, and died! In 1849, ot the age of 70. A collection of his poemB waa publishod in London in 1846 and republished in Now York lu 1859. In tho Monthly Mirror appeared ihosa imitations from his own ond his brother's hond which wero published In 1813, as "Tho Rejected Addresses." Ho was the author of "Brambletyo House," and about a dozen other novels said to bo of uo particular merit. He was tho author of tho "Address to tho Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition," and some smaller poems which have attained deserved celebrity. Sbelloy once said of Horace Smith Is it not odd that tho only true, generous person I ever knew who had money to be geuoroua with should boa stockbroker?" Ho also; wrote these linos in his praiso Wit and senso, Virtue and human knowledge all that might Make this dull world a buslueSB of delight Aro all combined in H.

S. Several of Horace Smith's poems aro to be found in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry." To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Is it true, and if so, why, that the inhabitants of the District of Columbia havo uo vote foC President of the United States? Please answer prompt, ly OS your decision Is to bo accepted. J. W. M.

Tho people of tho District of Columbia hove no vote for President. A Territory of the United States may become a State, and oh such exorcise ali tho rightB of any otber State, including that of voting for President of tho United States, but tho District of Co. lumbia is not a Territory, and Its people can never havo the right to vote for President. It may bo put in this way That the District of Columbia has no citizens. 14 is Btmply and only so many square miles tormorly belonging to Maryland, and ceded by that State to tha United States as a seat of government a ground common to tho people of all tho States on which thoy stand on terms of absolute equality.

It has been customary for persons in tho publio service at Washington to visit their homes in the States respectively about the time of olection In order to vote whero they aro citlzene and retain residence. And this is still the custom, although It is a dlfBoult task under our Registry law, which in. volves considerable Iobs ol time to the voters who com on from Washington. Tothe Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In a discussion between some friends, one holds that the oocupatlon of the streota by talcgrapb. or telephone poles is illogal, and that no official or official board has tho right to authorize any company to erect theso Unseemly poles In tho streets.

Anothet holds that the presence of tho polos In the streets infers tho license of authority or official sanction in some way from which it is to be further inferred that thoy aro in the streets according to law. I am authorized to submit tho matter to you for decision. Leois. Answer This a question clearly beyond our jurisdiction, as ordinarily we do not undertake to decide legal questions. But as this is merely the result of A friendly disousaion wo shall try to answer the demand by ottering the opinion of Judge Ingraham, of tbo Superior Court in Now York, in a ease whioh probably covers the point at lssuo: "The Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company brought a Bnit iu the Superior Court, New York, against tbe Colwell Lead Company, and obtained a temporary injunotion restraining tbo defendant rain interfering with or attempting to remove poles of the telephone company on Thirty ninth street, west ot Sixth avenue.

Theso poles project into the excavation for vaults whioh are to be constructed by tbo defendant company. A motion to continue tho injunotion during thopandenoy of tho sotlon wan heard by Judge Ingraham, who has rendered a decision denying thd motion. In his opinion tho Judge says Thu powor of tho Legislature over the stroeta Is not unlimited. It is to govoru and regulate use or interest In the land as vested in the corporation under the proviBion of tho law for tho taking uf tho property. The city took tho property in trust to appropriate It as a publio streot, and so far as it held it for publio Tstreot it was subject to the control of the Legislature.

That tho powor of tho Legislature over tbe streets ia limited, and that tho Legislature had no authority to authorize a structure In a street that Is inconsistent with euch Btreet use, was hold iu tbe Story case. I think that the powor of tho Legislature to regulate the streots is confined to the use for which they are taken, to bs appropriated and kept open as public jtreela. Tho plaintiff owns and operates a telephone line in Thirty ninth street and uses polos to conduot tho wires used in suoh business, and I am clearly of the opinion that such a use of tbe streots is uot a street uso and does not como within tue terms of the trust upon which tho city holds the feo of tho streots, and no far as the rights of abutting ownerB aro involved tbe Legislature had no power to authorize the plaintiffs to use the streetB for Buch purposes. 1 am of the opinion that tho plaintiffs have failed to make out a case which would justify mo in granting the Injunction prayed for, and tbo motion must be denied and tho temporary lajuao Uon dissolved. THE WORKINGMAN'S VOTE.

Efforts ttcinff Itfado to Capture It for fZIaino Through Kit tier. Tothe Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle The workingmau is about as uncertain in politics just now as the nigger in tho wood pilo" was in tho days of slavery agitation, and while each party is striving to capturo and claim his vote, no ono of them is sure of his suffrage. He is on the fence," on the qui vive, tailing a Burvey of tho situation, aad the grim and incredulous air with which he receives the new boru, fawning attentions forced on him by tho better elements" of the grand old party" is notice that he will prove all things" appertaining to the men and measures of the day, and hold fast to that only which is (seems) good." Each party eays Wo will do what can bo done to convince these people, aud hope aud expect to be comparatively successful." It is obvious that all parties connot be equnlly successful, as is hoped by the leaders of the Democracy acrosB tho river, and if the success of convincing these people is to depend on the fitness of tho agencies appointed, and the potenoy of the influences used for that purpuse it looks as if the Blaine Butler combination had commenced its work at tha wrong end, aud were doing it in the wrong way. Republican success denonds on two things Tho ability to hold and control its own vote, and to draw largely lu certain States from the poll heretofore cast for Democracy, It must be reasonably apparent to the dullest mind that it cannot hold its own vote or anything like it. In addition to the break iu its ranks caused by disaffection to 'Blaine, it will be greatly depleted by tho large voto (taken almost wholly from it) which will go to the temperance candidate, St.

John. Aud unless it can recruit sufficiently from the "regular Democracy "to repair the breach thuB made, the doom is sealed, and the dissolution cortaiu of the Republican party. The canvass so far shows that the Republicans have given up at last tho Independent and temperance votes, aud that they rely on the labor vote to tide them over." This is the fact, but whether their reliance is well placed is another matter. One thing is certain, and that Is that there is no common ground on which the better elemont, the Murray Hill nobs of tho Republican party, representing the great capitalists and monopolists of the country, and tho working people as represented by tho trado unions, can stand. There is no unity of interest or affinity of purpose or life between them.

They have no common business interests. Tbe progress of the oho is at tho expense of the other, and the many reasons offered by Republic a as, the benefits of high protective tariffs, to induce Democrats to vote with them are unsubstantial and transparent fallacies upon their face. Every ordinary man in the Democratic party is well aware that the treatment of the tariff guestlcm will not be on partisan but on business and that it will regulate itself independent of the party in power, aud that, aside from this, if the condition of the laboring man is to be affected at all by auy tariff legislation, he has much the better chance of being benefited by his own party. The fight is between the tiro great parties. The Widow" Butler Is not a candidate either for himself or for the worklngman, but is a mere stool pigeon used to inveigle Democratic voters iuto the trap set for them by James Mulligan Blaine and tho Republican party.

In somo labor centers, like New York, where there is great attrition between labor and monopoly, and where auy pretender, under covor of their standard, has ready access to the ears of tho working people, some of them may listen to the specious reasoning of their psoudo champion, Butler, but in the country at large ho has absolutely no strength except that based ou false pretence, and can have no following but those unable to distinguish the right from the left baud in politics. The South ridicules him 08 a military failure, abhors him as a social "boast" and utterly despises and repudiates him as a political imposter, most intolerable and not to be endured." No one Is better posted on the estimation in which ho Is held than the "widow" himself. Ho went to Chicago to force himself on the party, and having failed in his purpose now proferB to spread ruiu where he could not acquire the right to rule. That is his game. He is knave enough to want to play the dduco with his own party, but not jack enough to attempt the trick with a lone band; ho must needs play "cut throat Ho is the Hephistopbeles to James Mulligan Blaine's Faustus in modern politics, and is "at once dangerous and contemptible as the best and only genuine Devil of these latter times." When everything has been done that can be done to convince these people," I think they will not find poor little Benny" proved one of the "good things," to which they can hold fast," and that when the time comes for them to make a choice between Blaine, Butler and Grover Cloveland, every little man ol them wili prove a true Democrat.

Bbooklyn, August 18, Allan A POSTAD QUKSTfON. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle I nm a resident of Brooklyn and would like to explain through your valuable paper the seeuiiug in differonce of our Brooklyn Post Oihco officials to the forwarding of the mails. The last letter received was posted at the corner of Forty secoud street and Third avenue before 8 A. M. The postman collected tho same at 9 A.M.

Stamp on letter, shows that it was in the Brooklyn Post Office at 1 P. and in New York at 4 P. too late for the last mail (3 to this place, so it waited until next morning. Now I would ask, Is it a necessary time, i. four hours from Forty second street to Post Office, and three hours from Brooklyn to Now York Alfbed Dale, Summit, N.

Jm August 20. THE 3TABKET OS THE STREET. To the Editor of Brooklyn Eagle I rend the report in your isBUe this evening in regard to the market men. It seems to me that tho whole matter resolves itself into a very small compass almost the only persons who are indifferent or who object to their removal are those who make, or desire to' make, a profit out of tbelr presence. Now, this has nothing to do With the question of the occupation and incumbrance of a public thoroughfare which belongs to all equally.

The dirt, the foul language aud various other abominations growing out of the practice have been a source of gross annoyance for years to all decent people who do not keep liquor stores, groceries or cheap hotels, and it seems littlo lesa thau au outrago that such a sight should be possible as 1b presented morning after morning on our largest thoroughfare. Tbe question of a market for Brooklyn cauuot be Bolved by giving away our beBt streets for any such purpose. James A. Shearman. 183 Madison street, Brooklyn, August 18, 1884, AS EABflEST INQUIRY.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Will you kindly Inform your many readers how muoh the Blaine managers pay Goneral Butler per lecturo for the political speeches he is delivering to Three years ago, when the peasantry of Ireland was starring, their countrymen of this city, proposed to tender them a benefit. The Academy of Music was engaged and General Butter was asked to deliver a lecture. The general declined to express his love for the starving Irish until his tea of $300 was paid. It may be of interest to tho workingmen of Brooklyn to know if the General has reduced his terms. Bbooklxn, August 23, 1881 J.

Quihh, K. D. THE TRUE FIUEXD. Did it ever occur to you, reader, to reflect on the depths of deceit which lie stilt and dark even in the most honest minds Society reposes on a thin ornst of convention, underneath which He fathomless possibilities of crime and consequently suspicions of ofimo. Friendship, however closo and dear, is not free from its reserved, unspoken beliefs, more or lesa suppressed opinions.

The man whom you would indignantly defend against any accusation brought by another, so confldont are you in bis unshakable integrity, you may yourself momentarily suspect of crimes far exceeding thoBo which you ropudiate. Indeed, I have known sagacious rnon to hold that perfect frankness in expressing tho thoughts is a sure sign of imperfect friendship; something is always suppressed, and it is not be who loves you that tells you candidly whot ha thinks" of your person, your pretensions, your children or your poems. Perfect candor is dictated by envy or some other unfriendly feeling, making friendship a Btalking horse, under cover of whloh it shoots tho arrows which will ranklo. Friendship ia candid only when the candor is urgent meant to avert impending danger or to rectify an error. Tho candor which is an impertinence never springs from friendship.

Lovo is sympathetic. liiackwooi's Magazine. FREDERICK DKSISON MAURICE. Hid works do follow him. His labors as a clergyman were always admirable.

Like Jean Gorson, he loved at all times to gather the little children around bim. He was novor so happy as when, iu country parishes, ho was prcachiDg the gospel to tho poor. Ho never road prayers, ho prayed. ThoSB who in Lincoln's Inn Chapel hoard him read tho Litany and tho Athana Biah Creed, came away with a now conception of their force and meaning. Had he been a philanthropist and nothing besides, I doubt whethor any man since tho days of St.

Vincent do Paul has been tho originator of more and more fruitful works than he. The early closing movoment, the days In the country for ragged children, tho co operative movement, the higher education of womoii, the Workiugmen's College, tho organization of oharlty, the establishment of girls' homes, the Sanitary League and many other endeavors to promote the happiness of society, count him as one of their first founders, or earliest and most self douying supporters. Mr. Matthew. Arnold says that ho spent his life "in beating about the bush with deep emotion, but nevar started the haro." Most men would have a right to die happy if thoy had started but one BUoli hare as these, Above all, if Maurice hod left nothing olso to the world, he has left tho legacy of one of the noblest, 'purest and grandest characters which this generation has seen.

Fortnightly Review. HISTORIC LONDON. London has been, since the Conquest, the real center of government, of the thought, tbe growth, the culture and the life of the nation. No othor city lu Europo has kept that prerogative unbroken for eight centuries until our own day. At the very utmoBt, Paris has possessed it tor not more than four centuries, and lu an incomplete manner for at least half of those four.

The capitals of Prussia, Austria, Russia and Spain are merely the artificial work of recent ageB, and the capitals of Italy aud Greece aro more antiquarian revivals. England was centralized earlier than any other Enro pean nation and thus tho cougerios of towns that wo now call London haB formed, from the early days of our the esBential scat of government, the military headquarters, the permanent home uf the law. the connecting link between England and the Continent, and ono of tho great centers of the commerce of Europe. Houco it has come about that the life of England has beurt concentrated ou the banks of the Thames more completely and fur a longer period than tbe lifo of auy great nation has been concoutrated in any single modern city. Whfln we add to that fact the happy circumstance that at least down to tho memory of living men, London retained a moro oomplete series of public monuments, a more varied set of local Associations, more noble buildings bound up with the memory of more groat ovente and more great men than any single City lu Europe (except perhaps Rome itself), we come to the conclusion that London is a city unsurpassed in historlo Interest.

Maotnillan's MagaziM. WHY HE IS CALLED THK PLUMED" KNIGHT, "Papa, why do they call Mr. Blaine a plumed knight One reason, my son, may bo that while in ofilco ho always feathered his own nest," SU Paul Globe..