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BOSTON POST. jan 7. 1876. LEGISLATURE. TI the Necosar.

Kev. Tdc pv Rei Kev o(" sioughtfl 204 103 fW 13 13 8 IX THE SENATE. an 6. Senate met at 11 Preaideiit hair. Prayer waa offered by tbe Lhapiam Isaac Dnnham.

KEPOKTS OF COMMITTEES. The reoorts of (he several committees on the return of votes lor the various Stale officers tvere pre and accepted. notification of the GOVERNOR. Crane, of Haynes, of Hamp- nna Iiowes, ol Essex, were appointed a notify the Governor and the Eieutcnant Gt vernor of their election and that the Lea'slatiire would be ready to attend them in the renuired oaths ol office, Siibseouently the reported that the Gov- nnor was pleased to say that he, with the Eientenant-Govenjor, would attend forthwith upon the IxiRislature tor the purpose ot taking the oaths prescribed. A message was sent to the House proposing a convention lorthwith for the purpose ol administering the which they concurred, and pursuant to the agreement the Senate met the House in convention.

IN THE HOUSE. The House met at 11 o'clock, the Speaker in the B. Allen, member-elect from old Eleven, ol Boston, appeared, was qualilied, and took Orders to authorize the Clerk to print the ard to Diocuie copies ol the. daily papers to be tiled in the leading-rooiii were adopted. election of oiapi ain The following was the vote for Chapla hole number of votes WEson J.W.

Hamilton. J. A. S. W.

cutler W. W.G. Haskell F. 8. .7 and there was no choice.

MrMorse.of Canton, moved that Mr Wilson, having the highest number ol votes, be Mr I. W. Hill, 01 Bo.stou. moved that the lurther consideration ot the subject be postponed until hiessrs King, of Boston, Reed, of Abington. Pew, of Gloucester, Wellington, ol Cambridge, Barry, ol Bostau, Mitchell, of Nantucket o' Worcester, Sawin, Boston, and Bates, of flopkin- ton, were joined to the committee to wait upon the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.

IN CONVE.NTION. The two branches met in Convention at half-past 32 President Coring In the chair. tiovernor-elect Rice and Lieuienant-Governor elect Knigiil came in short iy after by the ustices of the Supreme Court. Hon. Johu E- batilord, Hon.

E. S. Tobey, Hon. George C. harles Francis Adams, Cobb, ex Mayor Wightman, the members of the i Gov.

stafl, Hon. Marshall I. ilder and were administeretl by President Loring, the customary iiroclamalion made by the ot SLare, when Gov. Rice delivered his niauaural address as follows GOV. address inti emen of the senate and of the olse OF kj rk sk ntatives We are assembled, lu pursuance of the provisions ol the Constitution laws ot Massachusetts, and 3)V the selection of her citizens, to discharge, during the present year, the Legislative and Executive lunc- tions of her government.

A trust so intimateiy affecting all classes of her people in their il, social and domestic so largely their TIE his, privileges and prcoerty, and spreading so senerally through all their interests and aiipeals at once to our most sacred couvictions ot duly, our impartial anrt to a hiirh and ateadfast ambition. The lounders of the Commonwealth relied upon the ruling hand of the Almighty while they built up the State with the offices of relig- Jor- aud jiatrioliBiii, and they have sent those sacred injunctions along with the heritage which they bequeathed to posterity. To the same henelicent Providecce we turn in the commencement ot our labors, witn the prayerful hope that God will be with 118 as he was with our fathers. The Muse of History is alreauy winding the last envelops uuon our llpst centennial tcroll, and we look oack with rekindled faith and gratitude through one hundred years ol National existence illumined by the glorie.s ot the. closing epoch.

Tne colonies, few and at Brst patient under oiipreseion, then stung by injustice, at last, burning with the love of liberty, launched Into being as a nation mion a declaration of natural and political rights, vital with immortal truth, and falling with renovating and touch upon the hearts and consciences ot mankina. A iewedcven in the familiar aspect of the present fCU TCU 111 kilt- iiay, the Republic Wiis one of those subhoie coucep- tions which are grasped only in a state of high mental exaltation, and after every personal pos.session has been brought to the altar of uuselflsh patriotism. It embodied the instinctive wisdom which flows from virtue almost divine, coupled with the deductions of experience through all the ages and wherever humanity has struggled fora government of natural Ireedom. re- Btrained only by the limitations of social necessity, The great aiHieul put forth with momentous solem- pity on the Fourth of July. 177(5, was both a declara- turn and a prophecy.

It declared the natural equai- 1 'ily of all men before the laivs; and the pledge of litc, fortune, and sacred honor to the maimenanqe ot this declaration was the promise that this AVeslcrn Continent should, in the providence of God, exhibit an examole of National greatness based upon this immortal principle. Stepping ii.to an arena where the light ol truth, rather thnn the precedents of example, was to be the piiidc the eflort to combine in National unity, colonies already developed under the influenceB of different blood, diflerent antecedents, and different physical wonder that there Cl ept into the organization the lingering elements of discord, the scattered seeds ot imperfect civilization, or the smouldering emoers of impending warl National and individur.l lives Imvelhecommon inheritance ol discipline in their higher developments; and If the strengtnenmgot virtue follows the resistance of evil in the one case, it is also decreed that nations shall rise in tiowerand dignity as the reward of Tighteousness. The progress of the country through these hundred years has been constant and heneti- cent. The forc.sts have been subdued, the rivers spanned, the mountains scaled, the praines planted, transportation everywhere provided, the mines opened, industries established, commerce extended, the arts encouraged, science and literature cultivated, education fostered by public provision and iirivaie bounty, knowledge disseminated by press and platlorm, religion recognized and esuoused, and all the elements of high civilization pul into action frem sen to Moreover, the conflicting elements of that civilizatien Lave measured strength in trials of experience. False theories of government, and of the relations of the States to the Union have passed away; the great conflict between freedom and slavery, which surged the Capitol and betore me people, cuhninaied in a resort to arms whish Struck the last shackle irom the slaves, and made the flag of the Republic indeed the ensign of freedom, regardless of the boundaries ol States or of sections.

recent amendments to the Federal Constitution have secured the mam achievements of the war with the seal ot fundamental law, by giving to the liberated slaves exemption Irom political dm- ability on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; have incorporated them niimen- f.ally in the basis of and estiblisheu their rights and prerogatives of citizenship. Ana all these political resnlts have been accepted by the people of the country without iiarty distinctions and Kvitb substantial unanimity. The bitterness of Lional halreti has given place to a generous cordiality and the voice ol disunion is forever hushed in a Soyal oatriotism. With these results attained, the pco- of the country are prepared for new departures HI political policv, and the pursuit of new means and objects of growth and renown. There is a healthy determination among them for the puriflcatlon of the public service wherever its administration is laiilty or corr.mt a demand for economy and letronchment in'every dejiartment of Government, National, Slate and Municipal; for the extensmn of the blessings of education into the States lately in rebellion, and for the encouragement there iind everywhere of social order under the common eecurities for life, nerson and projierty; for such an adjustment ot the laws to the commercial and Industrial interests and resources ol the country as shall Lest revive its business, and give to all classes, and rsiiecially to the laboring and dependent, renewed and enlaiged opportunities to better thetr condition, and to secure that competency which should be ihe reward of honest toil; for a currency which, while adapted to the wants and convenience ol local ex change and inve.stment, shall be stable, and accord xviih the recognized standards of value in other civilized and commercial countries: and that the Na- licnal debt shall be honestly paid according to the luiblic promise.

strong are these In the minds ot the we ay confidently believe that no organization and no parly can retain or receive the public confidence, or deserve it, if it disregards them; that every Lcgisla- Jure will be expected to pursue them, and that hcncc- torth they will be among the potential agencies in no- iitical and the guaranties both of a Jiigher standard of public and personal morality, and of a quickened and permanent prosperity. 3i is under such expectations and auspices we Begin our official (hities, and it will be my endeavor to join in cordial co-cperation with you lor their jullest accomplislimeut. 8TVTE FINANCES. The public debt of the Commonwealth now Muounts to nearly thirty-four millions of dollars, Ehowmgan apparent increase over the corresponit- period last year of about four and a halt millions, larger iucieasc than has been made in any year Miice the direct expenses for the war ceased. A 1 oition ol this increase was authorized by tlm Legislatures of previous years, but di-i noi appear in their nccounls; and a portion of the mouey raised is still in the Treasury, a lavorable state of the money market having rendered it expedient, in the opinion of the fiscal officers, to aui'cipate the immediate de- piands uiMjn appropriations; but I am infoinied that it is certain the whole amount, and prokably some additions, will be required to complete the objects and lullil the purposes for which the appropriations xverc made.

It will be observed, also. the increase of the is made neatly corarnen- jsurate wuh the increase of the debt; this fund is kept unimpaired and unpledged, except for the special puriiosee lor which it has been from time to lime and It therefore virtuallv provides for the ultimate payment of that portion of the debt. Yet an increasing debt makes also an increasing interest account, which must be annually provided for in ome form of taxation. While the credit of the -State justly unimpaired, and its resources are amplv sufficient to keep it so. yet the continued de- pres.sioa of the business ol the country and the di- ininished Income ot almost all classes of the people admonish us that there should be no increase in any iornt the public indebtedness or expenditures except tor purposes of cardinal importance and neces- 8ity.

Tlie tendencies of the times have been towards cxc-ess and extravagance in all things, and vigilance is required to prevent the extension of this influensc into the objects of legislation, and thnsto bring directly or unawares upon the State pecuniary burdens which will be oppiessive to the people and Injurious to Its credit at home and abroad. It has always been a subject of honorable satisfaction to our lellow-citizens that the good credit ot the State has been maintained through the vicissitudes of peace and war; and the premiums whmh have from time to time been realizt'd from the sale ()f its bonds, have formed a considerable portion of the sinking funds which are so important for its loans. The following statement shows the amount and character of the funded debt, 1.1»)0' 141 belonged to cities and $15,090,804 to towns We see here an increase in the total ptiblic tn debtedness within the GommonweaUh of $68,243.551 38 or 158 per cent, on the indebtedness ol In the meanwhile, the increase in our population and valuation has not kept pace with our expenses. In population, the gain was from 1.267,031 to little more than 30 per cent. I valuation the gain was from $991,841,901 1865 to $1.840.785.000 in per annual average of $84,894,310.

Only once since 1869 hM this average been reached, namely in 1872. which year appears to have been one representing a period of unprecedented tjublic prosperity, every county in the Commonwealth advancing its valuation and wn- tributing to a grand total of more than double the average annual gam of the decade. The falling off last year was so marked as to call for sitecial notice. The ffa'n was only $9,183.835. which was 13 per cent, on Ihe value gained in 1874.

and 11 percent, on the annual averse during the ten years now under review, and tbfio Ti i)or ccDt. on tbe exceptioTial I 81 The figures thus laid belore you show, tur- ther that the important increase in our ex loensVs has been in liie counties, cities and rather than in the administration of the affairs'of the Commonwealth. While the increase in the state debt from 1865 to 1875 was about 29 per jent that in the county indebtedness for the same i.erioil was about 2(50 per and that in the d-'bts ol the cities and towns was per cent. It is evident. also, not only from the accumulation of debt in the towns and cities, but from the increase in local taxation, that the municipal expenses greaUv exceed, and are out of all proportion to those ot the State.

For example: the total tax lor State, county, citv and town rmruoses in 18i2. was $22.911,883: in 1875 It was $27,709,848, In both these years the State annual tax was the same, namely, two million the increase in the levy, therefore, of 21 per or four and three-quarters millions of ao lars in three years, is altogether chargeable to local expenditures. This alarming teudencv to excessive expenditures in towns and cities, to the enactment ol a very sound and conservative rneasurc, at the last SC86 011 of the Legislature, for limiting and regulating municipal indebtedness, and I believe the influence ot that act has already been decidedly beneficial. Such careful eximi- ration of the subject as I am sure you wil make will lead you to determine whether any further legislation in the same direction is desirable. It is the the Executive to sciutmize closely every proposition which involves the possibility ot a di alt upon the treasury ol the Stale, At the same lime it cannot be too deenlv impressed upon the people of the Commonwealth that the reHJons.bihty for the increase tn their taxes, and in the various forms of public indebtedness, rests mainly with themselves; and that Iheir voiee and vote, either directly, in town meeting.

or in city councils selected by themselves, have decided upon and ordered the outlays which have been swelling the volume of annual expenditnre to the extent here indicated. It is proper to that the state of things revealed by this exhibit, in Massachusetts, is probablv by no means an exceptional one in the country. If a similar analysis were made in other -8tates. it would, no doubt, show a condition ol equally suipiising. It is Commonwealth, however, that we aie especiallj concerned to-day.

savings ItANKS. The retuins ol the savings banks for the last three years show a steady increase in the total amount on deposit; a slight gam in the deposits in 1875 over those made in and. notwithstanding tlie prevailing depression in our industries, a smaller amount withdrawn Irom these institutions 1875 than in either of the two previous years. The official figures are as follows: In Uiere were 175 savings banks, with a total of dejjosits of $202.1 in 1374, 179 banks, deposits in 1875 180 banks, deposits $238,396,584, The total amount detiosi ted during the three 7 vvas: In lb73 in 1874, in 18i5, 9:40,144. The withdrawals in 1873, in 1874, oiiO.

You will no doubt see thatxhe necessary legislation for protecting the interest of deporitors, of the public, in these institutions, exists, or shall be provided, 1AILROAD8. Notwithstanding the financial depresiion. thirty eight miles of new railroad have been con- stiucted within the State during the year The average annual coustruction dunng the last forty years has lieen about fifty miles. During the year ended September 30, date ot the financial hundred and thirty-one miles were constructed. There has been during the last year a lortunate immunity Irom railroad accidents.

Out of 42.035,840 passengers carried, not one has been killed by any cause not by his ovyn and'only six have been any way m- jurcd.and most of those but very slightly. The doings and earnings ol the railroads afford perhaps a good indication of the condition, whether prosperous or otherwise, of the business of theooramu- nity. The last was the second railroad year since the liuaucial collapse of September, 1873. During Ihe first, the gross earnings ol the railroads decreased only eight-tenths of one per the falling off being wholly in receipts from freight, while Irom there was a distinct increase. The continued business depressiou has.

however, (luring the last vear, told more decidedly; for not only the volume 0 passenger traffic decreased 1.05 per and that ol lreight9.05 per but this decreased amount of business has also been done at less profit than before: the decrease in passenger receipts being 2.07 per anil in Ireights 9.8 per cent. In both respects the falling oil has been mainly on the through business, and this was moat especially noticeable as respects freights. During the last year the railroads of this State, as a rule, did their through treigliting business at a very protit, and in some cases apparently ata loss. Tlie ret profit on ruuuing freight trains, wbelber for through or local business, has been as low as six cents per mile, aud has varied between that and loi tv-seven cents. As the average vreightot a freight train is some three hundred tons, it will be seen that this is a small margin ol profit.

The Board ot Railroad Commissioners has and will submit with its lorlhcommg report, a measure in relation to railroads, which it deems of flrst-class importance, and wnich, if successful in this State, could naruly leil to exercise great irfluencc on the country at large. The books ami accounts the railroad eor- poraiions are now kept in various wavs, and under independent and arbitraiy rules, aud thejtatements made up from them and given t() the publn; are often incomplete and unintelligible and sometimes, perhaps, are incorrect. The remedial measure recommended is based on the two nrinciples of unilormity and publicity tn accoiibis. and it is proposed that hereafter the books 01 all these corjiorations shall be kept on a uniform system, and under a supervision sufficiently public to insure strict compliance with the law. In other respects the general laws now in force relating to railroads seem to be satisfactory, and rather to require to be left alone than to be further amended.

HOOSAC TUNNEL. One of the largest enternrises in which the State is interested is tlie Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad connecting therewith. It has been loflndoi laic years, also, to be one of the most difficult of regarded in the light of a pecuniary investment or ol its utilization as an element our system of internal improvements. In stating the present condition of this enterprise, it will he necessary to remmd you that the opening of the tunnel through the Hoosac mountain by no means finished tlie woik necessary to render it available for use as a railroad line. For the purpose of completing what needed to be done on the railroad, and of inquiring into the business connections which could probably be entered into between this and various trunk ami of dcvisiug a scheme for Us best utilization, the Legislature of 1874 tiassed an act providing tor the appointment bv the Goveniov and Council ot five persons, to be a body corporate for one year, from July 1 1874, uiuier the name of the Tunnel and Western Railroad and to them were given lull powers ol construction and administration.

Their report, submitted to the Legislature in January last, will reward your careliil perusal. Simultaneouslv with the incorporation of this board, one million and a half of dollars wereapuro- pi iaied to be expended upon that part of the Troy and Greenfield Rai ioad lying west of Ferry, three hundred thousand dollars having been previously approjiriated for constructing archways in defective portions of the eastern and central di- visi.tns oi the tunnel. This latter sum was to be expended by the Govexnor and Council, by whom a contract was made (Nov. 19, ISit), lor arching about two thousand feet of the luunpl, which upon such general Inspection as had then been made, was supposed to be all the arching that was required. The corporators, upc examination of the property placed in their charge, found the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in an exceedingly unsatisfactory due not only to defects in original construction, but to subsequent neglect: and they at once entered into contracts lor the work of repair and reconstruction, which reiinircd its completion by the 1st of July, 1875; but I am inlormed that the work wilt probably not oe completed before the end of the present year.

The Legislature of 1875 passed an act placing the control ol the prouerly alter July 1. in the haiids ol the Governor and Council; and appropriated the sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars to be expended by them upon the work. 4biir thousand leet of arching in the tunnel, in addition to the two thousand feet then in progress, were found to he necessary; and a contract for tins additional work, or for such portion ol it as can be completed at a cost not e.xceedine was made on the 9lh of September last. It IS agreed that the work of arching shall cease on the.lOthof June, 1876. The Governor and Council also eontiacted in September aud October last, tor rebuilding that part of the line lying between Bard- Ferry and Greenfield, and these contracts have a year to nin Irom their date.

The line between the luimel and Noith Adams, including the little tunnel, contracted for in February, 1875, and will be comvileted in the ensuing Spring. The road between NoiIII Adams and the crmont State line is nearly completed. While it may be frankly admitted, that ir the progress of this during the last quarter ol a ccnturv antedating the period to which 1 have tiuis tar relened, there has no doubt been much mis- nianagemeut and some injudicious expenditure, it may yet be interesting and somewhat instructive to ccmpare its cost with that oi other public works in otbrr States and counti ms. The bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, with its connecting innnel under the ciiy, together less than two au'l a hnlf miles in than hall the length of the III osac reported as having co.st thirteen and a half millions of dollars, ot which three aud a half millions were absorbed by discounts, commissions an(l interest on bonds.

The Mont Cenis Tunnel was thirteen years in construction; its length is about leven and a half miles, and its total cost was from twelve and a half to thirteen million dollars, gold value, with labor at about halt the price paid for the Hoosac Tunnel work. On the acipiisition of Savoy, France assumed one half of this tunnei, agreeing to jiay lor it the sum of £1 287,000, to which was subsequently added a large sum as compensation to the contractors for completing the work several years before the expiration of the contract time. The half interest ot France in this tunnel must have coat upwards of seven millions of dollars, gold value. The St. Gothard Tunnel which will have a leiigtn of about nine and a hidi miles, will cost, acconiirig to present estimates, about eleven and a half millions ot dollars, gold value, with cheap European labor.

The amount of money and credit advanced by the State lor the Troy and Greenfield Railroad to the 31st of Deoember, 1875, was $11,920,334 67; tne interest paid on loans to the same date, was $3,203,628 99; total, 123.9f.3 66. The balance ot l.egislaiive appropriations unexpended on tlie 31st ot December, 1375, was $1,414,162 8'J- The total cost of the railroad and tunnel, therelore, when all existing appro- piopiiations shall have been exhausted, will be $16,.538,126 48. Looking to the future, so far as relates to the completion ol fbe tunnel and of the Troy and Greeniltld Railroad, no legislation seems to be called for at the session, the work being alt under eoi tract, with the prospect of being faithfully ner- fomied. Nor will you now be asked by me to vote any further appropriations in aid of It. If I rightly nterpret the leeling of tbe people, they hold the opinion very positively that the State has gone as far as it ought to go in the expenditure of money on the tunnel line, and that it must cease to be a source ot expense to the CommonvvQalth; until we have some either to contract or to those with which tt la fotced conteLd." Tbe idea of penretual by the live Department of the State, with its further outlays to an unlimited extent, and to business complications more intricate than any that have arisen in the progress ol construction, must, I think, enforce the efl'on to consolidate all the interests this new route, or BO many of them as may prepared to enter into an arrangement for consolidation, in such manner and on such basis as may hereafter he mutually agreed upon under Legislative sanction.

1 have fewer misgivings than are sometimes expressed, respecting the ultimate mercial success of the tunnel line, uuder organization and wise management, it is to be supposed that a railroad property ol this magnitude, lyingbeiween two great points of supply and consumption, and within the limits of tbe uausl populous Siate in the Union, vyill not sooner or ater attract such connections as will command a ratable portion of business from present and from newly created sources. The steady growth of the ciiuntrv, and of its vast internal trade, makes a continually increasing demand upon the transportation capabilities ol the continent; and steailyadvanM the capital city ol New England, both in its foreign commerce and in Hs domestic industries, holds out strong inducements to all existing and lines which here converge, to multiply their frtf'ift'es and to extend their connections to the utmost. The tunnel route may be expected largely tc) create a iraffic for itselt. and will take its due share with others, in the benefits ofthat revived and expanding iirosperity which we anticipate lor ourselves and lor the country at large at no distant day. THE HARHOR CO-MMI8SION.

Massachusetts is the only State which has yet organized a Board ol Commissionerg. vested with general authoiily over the harbors and tide waters within its territory. The coast line of the State embraces an Important section ol the seaboard of theljiited biatM. It includes the port of Boston, which i among the loremost of those engaged in foreign and domestic commerce; Gloucester, which is unequalled in its fisheries; New Bedloro, possessing our largest wnal- ing fleet; and Provincetown Harbor and ineyartl Haven, the two most valuable and most frequented b.arbors of refuce on the Atlantic coast. Beside.s these, there are thirty-three other ports which jpiay important parts in the commercial progress of the country.

In order that improvements in these ports may not be delayed in awaiting the session and action of tbe I.egislature, the State has delegated to the Harlior Commission its powers to grant licenses lor all works and structures extending into these tide waters; to give hearings to all parties, adjust differences and prescribe the modes and cos- ditioDS under which such structures shall be built. The Board has exercised these tunctions in nearly every harbor of the State, and has made surveys and accumulated other data re- iatmtc to them which enal)le it to devise and carry out comprehensive projects of improvement. In Boston harbor the Commission has executou important work. Largely through its instrumentality, the reclamation of the south Boston flats is now lairly under way, and has receiveil its constant supervision. This is the most important harbor improvement yet undertaken bv the Slate.

It provides rot only for the creation of new territory suttaole for railroad termini and flrst-class maritime pur- posee. but lor the removal ol the shoals from the main channel and the addition of several hundred acres to the anchorage ol tbe upper harbor. A com- prebensive scheme lor the improvement oi the navigation of Charles river has been put in process ot execution as a measure of compensation for grants to the Cambridge Improvement Company, which promises substantial hartxir benefits. Among the powers vested in the Commission is that of authority to memorialize Congress on subjects ol harbor and coast improvement. It has exercised this authority with success, and lias been instrumental in obtaining large appropriations for dredging out channels, removing rocks, and protecting wasting headlands by the construction ot extensive sea wall.

SOUTH BOSTON FLATS. The general management of the large exrent of flats at South Boston, belonging to the Commonwealth, was entrusted by the last Legislature to agents to be appointed by tbe Governor and Council, Three gentlemen were acconlingly selected to assume thu charge in August last, and they entered upon their duties in September. They have taken the proper mensures to gather the inlormation and obtain the engineering data necessary for laying beiore the Legislature a general plan of these lands. It was provided by the 239th chapter ot the Acts of 1875. that this plan should specify the portions of these flats, which, in the judgment ol the agents, should be devoted to railway, commercial, and general purposes respectively.

Such a duty will evidently require great consideration, and a carelul study ol many interests, for its thorough performance. I understand that these agents will soon call your atten tiPii to portions of the act under which they serve with a view to asking changes therein which they deem essential to the proper administration ot their duties. AGRICULTURE the success of the decennial work of 1875 furniatiea new evidence of the need of a thoroughly organized department. The in our method in this State, at present, arises from the ot so many offices, seeking statisticsof Hit and each making investigations ot subjects often akin in nature and resnlting in twofold work. I led to believe that If tbe kindred Avork ot several ol these bureaus were consolidated into one general Bureau ol Statistics, and put under one UfaO; would result in increased efficiency, and ably diminish the expense as compared with that ot separate organization.

STATE CHARITIES. Thccharitiesof the State well merit yonr careful considerauon. The methods of treatment ol ism, lunacy and criroe-problems always complicated still more by the present dij- presBion ot business and the scarcity ol The poor should be dealt with justly but the interests ol all most imperatively demand that DO more aid should be given, nor period than is actually necessary, lest 'jnposture be fostered, efforts for self support be eikeneci and permanent pauperism ensue. It is portant that the administration ol public charuiLS should be committed by the State and by municipalities to discreet and exiienenced persons, official iiroceedings shall be open to this always done no person in need sufler for the necessaries of bfe, from his own neglect to ask tor relief. The Board of State Charities is expected to watch all the institutions of chanty and refom, recommend all necessary and advisable Tlie numerouB anil difticult duties imposed by the eiatuies regulating chanty and reform tereci by departments, in which nearly all the power is legally vested, subject more er less to the negative of the Boaid.

For ilie details ol the work ol the year in these departments, the condition and institutions which the Board superyines. and its siiz- gestions, I must refer you to its annual rePort- will be duly transmitted, and which I am informed will reconimeniias a measure ot economy and reform the consolidation of its own bureaus. Before leaving this subject I must call your attention to the numbei of public buildings lor charity, lunacy or wrrecinn. now or lately in process of erection or enlacgemeu and to the large sums already appropriated for their construction. These are the Lunatic Asylum at Worcester, the Lunatic Asyliiui at Danvers, the Hiate Prison at Concord, the Woman 1 nson at Sherboin, the State Reform School at Westborough.

and the Lunatic Asylum at Taunton; the last alone being completed. The first four are to be entirely new structures, in new loc.ati^s, and the Reform School is an enlargement. The contracts for these structures have been made, and tbe work upon most or all of them is so lar advanced that they will nrobabljf be ready for occupancy during the present and the tollowing year. The thus far appropriated for them amounts to and If completed according to present designs, with the necessary equipment, some of them will require additional appropriations of considerable amount. Their cost will be nearly twice as much as tbe whole State tax of 187.5, and I am told approximates the value of all the buildings of our present State Institutions for similar purposes.

The necessity for this great outlay, if not a surprise to the public, seems to imply the sudden flow into the State of a mass of m- sanitv and crime which demanda investigation, aud its cause a remedy. INSANITY. Aggregate lundec debt, January Ncrlp issued during the Trov and R. H. loan (stg.j...

Trov and Greenfield R. R. loan Worcester Hospital loan Danvers Hospital loai 1.300.000 250,000 Slate Prison hag). nd Prison (ster- 1,292.230 .5,090.260 Paid during the year: jiarbor Iniprovemeutloan Union Fund Lunatic Hospital and Prison Ic Almfbouse loan of New State Prison 00 432,000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 6,000 00 Pre ClasslScatloi Railroad loans. War Ordinary loan it funded It the 669.000 00 $13,836,464 00 00 12,724.183 OO .3,: 9.32 80 00 00 $4.421,260 00 Net Increase of funded debt in 1875 -------Thirteen thonsand dollars of overdue bonds have not yet been called for.

The balance oi tbe Union Fund loan ($1,424,000) will mature during the current year, and its payment is amply provided for by the einking lund applicable for that purpose. The sinking tunds amount to 12. These funds, as also the Back Bay lands, the South Boston flats, and are. by existing laws, pledged for the ledemption ol tbe State debt, and, with perhaps tbe exception of tbe Troy and Greenfield loan and the prison and hospital loan, will be sufficient for it3 redemption at maturity. The estimates for 1876 are as expenditures and payments from th ordinary revenue of le cash In tne Tre $1.960,700 00 3 649,234 00 igtate tax of $1,800,000 or $2.000.000 will be mggj jjje estimated deficiency, and leave at the close of the year with cash in for such calls as may he made upon it iidinary revenues of the succeeding year In surveying the manifold industries of the State agriculture is so comparatively noiseless as to be li able to pass unnoticed, unless we are reminded by some special incident of its importance.

Though not an agricultural State, in the common acceptance of the term, yet the statistics show that the farmers of Massachusetts raise more per acre, on an aver aee, even of the staple crops, like corn and wheat, than do those of the great agricnllural States of the Union. The annual yield of the farms ot this State according to the returns ol 1865, was nearly eighty two millions of dollars; and it is thought to be rea sonablv certain that since that date there has been a gradual increase in the form of small fruits, garden or market vegetables, aud the dairies, though there may have been some decrease in the staple crops ot the farms. Experiments undertaken along the seashore, in diking and reclaiming exteusive tracts of salt marshes, have proved so far satistactory as to greatly increase the interest in this enterprise, and there IS every prospect that thousands of acres of feitile-Iands will be added to the productive area of the State, Carelul scientific investigations into the changes which take place in the soil of reclaimed marshes have been instituted under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, which afford valuable information and aid to practical cultivators, and which are iikely to stimulate to greater efforts in similar reclamations along our sea-coast. An in- leresiing and valuable series of experiments has been instituted under the auspices of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, in promoting the growth of crops; and these experiments have e.xcited a degree of interest and inquiry among the farmers, which is likely to load to important results. The past year has been one of more than usual prosperity to agricultural industry, and the courage and hopefulness among the farming community, we are told, present a strong contrast to the general depression in mercantile, manufacturing, and mechanical pursuits.

The number of incorporated agricultural societies which receive bounty from the State, is thirty-live, and the amount of bounty received is about $13,000. It is suggested that some changes in the mctnods of distributing this bounty could be made, by which the objects sought by the distnbiition would be likely to be lurther pro- moteil. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. My immediate predecessor called the attention of the Legislature of last year to the amendmeut to our Slate Constitution adopted in 18.55, providing for the elecUon by the people of Sherifls, Registers of Pro bate, Coinmissioners of Insolvency, Clerks ot Courts and District-Attorneys, and recommended an in qulry respecting the expediency of repealing this amendment, and of returning, in the selection of these officials, to the original method of appointment. The I.egislatiire, by the requisite majority in both branches, adopted resolutions in layor ol repealing the amendment relerred to, as far as relates to Sheriffs, Commissioners of iDSolvency, Clerks of Courts, and District-Attorneys.

It will be neces lor you to confirm this action before the props Bitions thus to change the Constitution cm be sub mitted to the people; and 1 would bespeak lor the subject your lavorable consideration. SPECIAL LAWS. Several years have elapsed since the last publica tion of the special laws of the Commonwealth was made, and I would suggest that the tueparation of another volume during the present year he author ized aud jirovided lor. REDISTRICTING the STATE. I remind you ol the jirovisions of the Constitution which require tbe General Court, at the session next after tbe taking ol a State census to redistriat the State for Councillors and Senators, and to reappor tion the number of Representatives among the sev eral counties.

It will be your duty, therefore, at the present eessioii, to divide the Commonwealth into eight Councillor districts of contiguous terri tory, each district to contain, as nearly as practicable, an equal number ol intiabitants with the others; also into lorty Senatorial districts, each to contain, as nearly as jiossible, an equal number of lecal voters with the others; and further, to apportion the two hundred and forty seats in the House of Representatives among the several counties according to the relative number of voters in them. THE MILITIA. During the last vear the militia was brought into unusual jironiinence on account ol the Centenirial celebrations, in which it bore a conspicuous part, receiving encomiums from visiting strangers; and in no way, 1 believe, has its good rejiutatioii received injury. Especially was it commended by the Geu- eial commanding the United States arny, and other military oflicers of high r.ank, for its good appearance on the 17th of June, when, under special au- ttioriiy ot the Legislature, tbe entire division was ordered to Ibis city in performance of the annual duty required usually on the last Weilnestay in May. For details respecting the various tours of duty required by law the year, and of special service at Springlieid, S'xith Deerfield and Fall under precept of civil authority, 1 refer you to the rcjiort of ibe about to be submitted.

No changes iu theorcauiziilion of the militia liave occurred during the year. A number ot apjtli- calioiis to form new conijianies have been received, but have necessanlv been relused, the statutes pro- idine for the gradual reduction of the force to 5000 oHicers and men; there are nowon the rolls the of 424 connnissloned officers and 6123 enlisted Uniionns have been provided, under tlie appropriations of the Legislature of last year, at an expense ol for that portion ol the roi ce which was not supplied iu 1874. The total expenditures for the militia, during the year past, have amounted to $.116,148 19. No expenditures for uniforms will be tbe pre-sent year, excejit for repairs and to sujiply the losses made in one or two companies on account of fire in the armories, where by law the unilorros are required to be kept. lYie great Ceu- tennial celebration which is to lake place at delphia during the preseut year will doubtless attract thither portions, at least, of the inilitia of the diflerent States ol the Union; and it seems proper that tbe Legislature shall seasonably decide to what extent the militia of this State shall be represented.

1 cannot lorbear to call your attention to the large and increasing cost ot this service, now amounting in as will be seen, to about a thousand dollars lor each secular day in the year, and to recommend inquiry into its necessity or expediency. The offi- ceis of administration appear to discharge their dunes with competency and fidelity, aud it may be necessary to examine the system itself to find the points of retrenchment. An official statement shows tbe lollowing expenditure during the last live In 1871 .12 157 2.......................................... 2:19,26.5 86 157 3.......................................... 183,209 53 383.019 30 1875 316.148 19 A toial III this amount are included the following extraordinary expenses in the same period The Increase of insanity, aud the best means of Its prevention, and for the treatment and cure of those suffering from this painful affi iction, are attracting a larger share of public interest, and merit the most careful investigation and tho most et- fective measures.

It appears by the report the special Uommissioners of Lunacy, submitted to the Legislature in January last, that the number of insane persons in this Commonwealth now reaches nearly or quite four thousand; aud that this malady is increasing in a ratio greater than that ot our population by nearly twelve per cent, ts soo'FU bv the statistics of the twenty years Irom 18o0 to 1870; this increase also is larger in the foreign ele ment of our population than in the native horn. Among the causes assigned lor this increase in the former are the change in climate, different habits of lile, intemperate indulgences, disappointmeiUs badly-ventilated tenements, and in general, the man ences which impair the health and fret mind of the immigrant. Among the latter class are the educational pressure upon the young to the neglect of physical exercise, artificial and unnatural habits oi living, the excitement and competition of biisi ness, and whatever causes multiply nervous dis eases, especially those of the brain, which result in mental derangement. This may be only a partial enumeration; out we have the cheering assurance that the causes of insanity, though more complicated than those of some other diseases, can be understood and controlled; and that instead ol being a necessary incident of true civilization, insanity proceeds from its artificial developments, and that it grows largely out ol a violation ot physical, mental and moral laws. Among the measures suggested as preventive and remsdial agencies, are the dissemination ol popular information respecting the ol iusanity, by which the common people, and especially those who have hereditary or artificial tendencies thereto, may be put on their guard against it; a diflerent classification of the insane in asylums and infirmaries, by which tho different types of the malady shall as little as possible aggravate each other; that as few restraints shall be imposed iijion patients as is consistent with safety; that greater Ireedom of communication with friends, 3 rd a closer guardianship ot personal rights in commitment and discharge shall be instituted; and that some general and independent supervision shall be by which local defects of administration maybe remeaied, inlormation diffused, and somo- Ihing like uniformity secured ujion plans which embody the best results of science and exjienence.

I the whole subject to your carelul ami intelligent consideration. WDMAN SUFFRAGE. The active discussion during recent years, and especially in this country, respecting the political and social rights of dhsfranchised classes ol men, reeulting in the establishment of political equality, has extended also to the consideration (sf the eor- responding rights of women; and has assumed such measure of ppblic recognition as to demand the thoughtftil attention both of students ol social science and ol legislators. That the enfranchisement of women would work a most important change in the structure of society, and introduce a radical and elemental force into the theory and practice of our politics, is instantly apparent. The aigu- ment in its favor is presented both on grounds ot justice and of expediency, and is sustained by (iiting examples where partial trials have been made in some of the interior or frontier States ol the Union, and oy the competent service and salutary of women in public stations to which they have been elected without the suffrage of their own sox.

It is perhaiis natural that the majority of both sexes should still cling to the hope ol the continuance ol woman in that exalted sphere of domestic and social refinement wnere her influence has hitherto been more potential than numbers, and more coercive than law. There is also an excusable, if not a commendable conservatism which moves slowly toward a change in the organism ol society and of Government, the measure of whose consequences cannot be fairly deduced in anticipation ol actual experience. It is claimed by the friends of woman suffrage that something than constructive representation is the right of all the subjects of taxation, and that therefore tliey should have the right to a voice at the polls, and that tho.se who are eligible to hold particular offices should participate in the elections thereto. Under our State Gonstitution male persons onlv, of lull age, having certain other qnaliflcations, are competent to vote lor its Lecislative and Executive officersiaod tbe statutes ard the decisions of the courts regard to suflrage and eligibility to minor offices, for the most part accord with the Constitutional re- striciioD. It is claimed, however, that the first section of the second of the Federal Constitution, which provides that the shall be voted for by electors chosen by the several States in such manner as their Legislatures may direct, afloids an opportunity to enlarge the basis ol suffrage without tbe violation of Constitutional provision; and it is quite possible that application may be made to i on tor such legislation as shall include women in that suffrage.

lu a a --------new and convincing evidence to the contrary, i A a tUATION AND TAXATION. the people ol the country is be- the increase which has been going the civil war, in every branch but the nature aud ex- i only partially aporehended, productive industry of the uierstooii. The follow- of state, county and aasaclmsetts between 1875. 40 80.427,246 60, OUOA think we must all share in this conviction. Iheim portent question still remains, however, in what manner and by what means shall this great public work be ultimately brought to serve the purposes for which the Stale has become interested in it so large an outlay This question nas been carefully treated iu the rcjiort of the corporators, before alluaed to, and it is satistactory to learn there from that the opinion which they had pre viously lormed of what the tunnel line might be made to accomnlish, and ot the public advantages to be expected from it under a vigorous management, were much increased in the progress 01 their investiaations.

They take occasion to add, however. We are. at the least, equally impressed with the extreme niHjessity ot some early action which shall fix a policy under which it may be After discussing quite elaborately lOur difleient plans, the corporators were unanimous and decided in recommend ing one by which the properties of the State should be consolidated with those ol private connecting lines iu mixed ownership, the whole to be taken in charge by a Board of Directors lairly representing the several constituencies, but retaining in the State a directing power equal to all the others. The Legislature of 1875 appears not to have been ready to concur in the recommendation of the corporators, but adopted. Instead, a plan for the continued possession by the State ot the railroad and tunnel, with a view to hold them in trust, charging simply a moderate toll for their use This is what is known as tbe toll-gate plan and is in the Act of March 30, ISoa While I may not rightly interpret the intention of the Legislature in this act, yet an examination of the whole subject seems to indicate that the final question of a fixed policy of future management was practicallv, and perhaps intentionally, left ooen until the thorough completion of the line under the auniopriatlone, with the apparent expectation that in tlie meanwhile further light would more plainly show the best course to be taaen.

This course may be a question lor your determination. The tunnel line by existing legislation, is under the manage ent of the Governor and Council, who employ a niLnaerand subordinates in one or more deoart but who in reahty operate the line. I respect Inlly submit to your consideration wuether the Ex eciitivc branch of the Slate Government can penna ucntlv manage the four and thiee-lourtha miles of tin ntd and lortv miles of railroad which form only part of an undeveloped and disconnected line in manner as shall secure its success aud realize the iust expectetiens of the people whose money ha-constructed it. The language ot the tors is very emphatic on this point. They saj We hold it almost pueril3 to hope that i.

tunnel route weveloueairanv Us con tni through ihea 4 energettc, concentrated I organizing such a manage- S'deairable t'c secure every of the roads; but it Is none the btisin-'ss of the main through Une can of tbe State have a right to alttobcdeveGpec-througha as vlgor- 1871. Peabody Rifles Reception of 1872. Troop 00 187.1. Uniforms, 1874. Uniforms.

1375. Uniforms, Boston tire. 5,000 60 49.990 C4 14,844 56 .196,7:44 45 85,000 00 401..569 00 Leaving as years and show The total expenses for five $925.795 14 ig an average of $185,159 U3 per annum, penditures of 1875 19 Deduct extraordinary expenses tnniforms) 85.060 00 Leaving the current expense for the year. 19 Au excess over the average of five years of 45.989 16 Americans may profit by foreign example in all its successes in the arts of peace, it appears to be needless that we should do so in provision for war. Placetl upon a continent by ourselves, apart from the frictions and complications of other nations or principalities with whom we might otherwise be involved in war, there seems at best but limited ne- cessitv that the National Government even should maintain a large and highly, disciplined army.

And this exemption is still lurther suggested by the fact that we are not a nation seeking military conquests, for our domain is sufficiently ample to satisfy the most vaulting ambition, and we are but little exposed to possible invasion bv armed forces. Tne country 18 at present full of veteran soldiers prepared for any emergency that can immediately arise and the study of military tactics and their practice in schools and colleges as part of their teaching and discipline, will be constantly educating a new generation in the tbeorv and practice of manoeuvres. Tnese, together with the trained officers ot the army and navy who are professionally educated in the military schools at West Point and at Annapolis, ought largely to supply the skill in military art required in any necessity which tbe country is likely to meet. But whatever it may be expedient for the nation at large to do in the maintenance of a standing array it seems hardly possible that the States, being sovereign only within the scope ol their ow Constitutions, can in tbe nature of things need an expensive military lorce to sustain the civil au thority beyond the duties and power ot the police, and to perform such other duties as appertain to the militia. "While, therefore, it is right and expedient that such miliiarv organization as the State main tains should be suitably equipped and otherwise pro vided lor, it is lor you to determine whether this can be satisfactorily accomplished bv means which shall encouraie the patriotism of those who render the service, and at tbe same time be less burdcnaome upon the treasury.

The report of the Sur geon-General, which will be submitted to the Gen eral Court, describes the general operations of his oepariuient. Tbe computed sum collected for sol- ciersatid their dependents approximates a million ot dollars. No estimate of the amount of work performed by this bureau can be made without an ex amination of its voluminous records. In regard to the militia, some sanitary recommendations are made respecting the State encampment grounds wh ch are entitled to consideration BUREAU OF ST.ATISflC8. The sixth annual report of the Bureau of Statistics 04 Labor (1875) contains in its introduction the fol lowing suggestions aud il desirable to continue invtstigations regarding labor commerce, the industrial, social, sanitary and edm cational conditions of life in all respects, then the organic law under which 'he Bureau woiks should be broadened, and power adequate to Us desired useful 1 ess be given to The great utility of a of statistics is readily comprehended, and LIQUOR SELLING.

The last quarter of a century has been notable for the discussion ol the subject of intemperance, and for the eflorts to suppress this great vice by different forms of legislation. It is too late to render necessary any argument or demonstration ol the evils ot promiscuous dram-selling ami drunkenness. These are well-mgh universally admitted, and to a degree that exhibits them as the greatest source ol poverty, ol crime, and of domestic unhaopiuess with which society is afflicted: so that it is not only the duty ol the Legislature, but the interest of the people, to adopt such means and measures as shall diminish or extirpate the evils of intoxication. Moreover, this is not only a question of morals, but it has imj)ortant relations also to the industrial and economic interests of tbe State. Nor would it be wise or tiueio conclude that public opinion has become more tolerant of the evils of drunkenness, in consequence of the comparative failure ot past dis- cuPSioD and legislation to diminish them.

The peopled Massachusetts. by a large majority, are no doubt in favor of the utmost suupressmn ol intemperance and it is the duty of the law makers to adopt such measures as the well-being of society demands on this as on other subjects. The vital question, therefore, 19 narrowed down to means, rather than to objects of desire, or to questions (if iact or of principle. It may be that some of the difti- cnlty in dealing successlully with this subject hitherto has arisen Irom the neglect or indisposition to recognize this distinction in its discussion. There is often the greatest difficulty in preserving perfect harmony of relations between deductions from an abstract princufie and the remedial agencies neces- lary to accomolish practical results; but this does the individual iu society, nor Uie govem- ineiit, from dealing witli crimes as positive and tangible evils, to be remedied by measures which found to be most jii.st, most practicable, and most effective.

After vears of unsatisfactory trial ot piohibitorv legislation unsatisfactory according to tlie tcblinionj ol those who made and approved laws, and who were entrusted with their I.egislature of last year passed an act looking to ihe regulation ol the sale of spirituous liquors, rather than to its prohibition; and tiie blic desire seems to be that this law shall have a lair aud impartial test before it. is supplanted. If ueli a trial shall result in showing its greater effect- icss in suppressing intenijjerance, all good people will rejoice in tnat success; and if upon trial it hall prove a failure, that result may demonstrate the isclessness of license as a means ol correcting this great public evil. The clamor of those who drag the destiny ol this noble and beneficent virtue into the arena ol party politics, and find no language lu which to discuss (t. but that of passionate appeal and personal villilication, should neither dissuade nor in- liniidale its honest advocates from such a demonstrative trial ol this law; because that lorra of discussion flows Irom imlividual characteristics which are inherent, and which find vent in indiscriminate denunciation of men and measures.

Y'ou may read in an annual address ol one of my most recent and most conscientious predecessors, who was both the advocate and the executive of a prohibitory law, the following largnage. (iov. Wasbbiirn said in 1874: vehement aud vituperative censure and condemnation, not only by but also bv m.inistera of the gospel of iicace, liave been heaped upon the Chiei Constable, the Bolice Commissioners and the Executive, because the law IS not thoroughly enlorced Surely nothing short of Omnipotence could accomplish what has not unfreqiiently been demanded at his (the Still more recent examples will perhaps occur to yon as evidence that this spirit has not yet wholly yielded to the admonitions of truth, thei influences of Christian courtesy, nsr to the decency which becomes good manners. Moreover, 1 think it ill be seen upon examination that the Act of last year was probably intended to be largely prohibitory in Its provisions. In tbe first place, it expressly declares that nothing in it shall be so construed as to require the Mayor and Aldermen of a city, or the Selectmen of a town, to grant licenses.

Every city and town therefore, has the right and the opportunity secured to it, to forbid altogether the sale of mloxicating liquors within its limits: and in this particular, and in others, the present law seems to involve the principles and measures which the most advanced temperance men in Great Britain are seeking to carry out in that country Further, to those to whom licenses have been grant ed under this law, it is forbidden, under the penal lies of iorfeiture ol license, fine and imprison It. To sell Intoxicating liquors the hours twelve at night and six in the or during the av, excepting in the case ot licejsed innholders, who may apply guests in their houses; 2 d. To sell liquor, except such as ts of good standard, and free from adulteration; 36. To sell or deliver liquor to a person known to be drunkard, or to an intoxicated person, or to a minor: 4 th. To allow hny disorderly conduct, Imraoralty, or gan bllng on the premises described in the license; 5th.

To sell at a public bar. The Act took effect on the first day of May last, and the issue ot licenses under it commenced then, or four weeks later. It is less than eight months, there fore, since it went into actual operation. It had much to contend vnth, in the outset, from the com paratively unrestricted ti-aflic in liquors for a long penoii, in the larger co 'raunitles; and from opposition of many in the trade, who believed that their profits would be diminished or destroyed by its limitations. It has had to be tested by the courts; its consrDtionality has only lately been declared; and appeals which have been taken from convictions under it in the lower courts, have only in pai been reached in tbe courts above.

It is probably delective. perhaps contradictory, in some ol its details, and undoubtedly it is capable of much improvement. After somewhat diligent inquiry, I have not keen able to obtain full aiid reliable information respecting its operation and probable effectiveness. A tow weeks since, however, the Board of License Coromisfiioneis, established under this act in the city of Boston, submitted its first report to the Mayor and City Council, covering a period of six months, trom which the is an extract commissioners do not hesitate to say that, in thei luagment. tbe law should be changed in many respects; and their oDservatlon leads them to believe that those chang wou.d secure for it such a degree of favor and respect, with dealers and with the public, as to lead result.

Many of the provisions saluta'rv, and, when widely known uniioubte.ily he availed of, as a business, hy the parties most deeply interested We are fled, however, that under its operation something has been is a iaw recognized, and some reasonable extent law which, wltnc doubt, has in its general principles the sympathy and st port ot a large and respectable class ot the dealers in llqii is well as ot the community la general. There is llkewl.se acknowledged decrease In tbe saie of Intoxicating liquo for It is undeniable tnat the vigilant insnectlon maintained bvtne police has materially reduced the quantity sold, and that manv persons hare In consequence been compelled abandon the business. The percentage may perhaps be rel lively small, but It Is a step forward In the right directlu An investigation and report from the Chiet of Police show that the number of places where liquor was sold was 3696 1 December. 1374. against 2483 on tbe I7th ot September.

1875 Tlie Mayor of Boston, in his address to the City Council on Monday last, said he number of places in which spirilous liquor Suld 1 this city is less by nearly seven hundred than it was undi the foimer svstem. and the cumber of arrests tor drunken I ess bas been less by alwat twenty per cent, than ft was In the same length of time last year. I the testimony which thus us frotn the chief city ol the Commonwealth as worthy oithe roofct candid consideration. For it is well to remember that it always has been, and alwavs will lie, found most difficult to apply Legislative restisint to this traffic in the large tra of population, whatever the precise character Ol this restraint may be. On the other sparsely settled and agricultural districts, almost anv measure ol repression approved by the more intelligent and virtuous citizens of the neighborhood can be enforced.

It is evident, then, that any law nrooosing to deal eflcctively with the liquor traflic, must be framed with special reierence to the probable difficulties to be encountered by it in tbe cities, to which, it should also be remembered, population is tending more and more; and the practica- biliiv and efficiency ol such a law in the Commonwealth. as a whole, must be measured by the possibility 01 its enlorceinent with greater or less success iu the cities. If It prove a failure in them, the compensation afforded by its partial or complete success elsewhere will hardly be sufficient to jn.stify it as wise and safe legislation for the entire Commonwealth. Could all the friends of this reform agree to dismiss their prejudices in respect to names and titles, and unite upon some rational metbods ot difcusBion and effort, the resu.t would no doubt be most efficacious anil conducive to the best eood of society this direction. As the session advances, and further inlorinatlon reaches me Irom different parts ol the State, I may have occasion to communicate ajrain with the lature on this subject.

The chief (letect ot the law of 1875, as it now stands, anpears to be tluit it fails in the means ot dealing promptlv and energetically with those who persist in selling liquors without the required license. To enable the authorities to sup the traflic which is carried on outside of the law, and in defiance of its provisions, it appears to be necessary that the right should be given theai to enter upon the premises of suspectea persons and to seize such evidences 01 the illegal traflic as be found, and to use the same against offenilers in the courts, as is provuied in Acts of 1H6J, chapter section 44 and following, or some equivalent powers, with adaptations suited to the present esse. Those who sell under license are liable to visitations Irom the officers oi the law; and those who reiuse to take cut lictnst 8. or to whom licenses have been refused, or from whom tiiey have been withdrawn, shoultl be, at least, equally subject to search and seizure. This would lieonlyjnst to thelicensed sellers; and it is necessary for the protection of those cominunities which decide that this traflic shall not be licensed at all within their limits.

It may also be found that additional judicial provisions arc necessary for bringing to speedy trial the cases arising under this law. EDUCATION. No presentation of the siiojects of primary interest to tlie iicople of Massachusetts would be complete tiiat did not give prominence to the lacilities afforded lor the education of children and youth. Our system ol free schools dates back to colonial times, and has been r.oDstantly and vigorously sustained, not only as an instrament of social progress, but as one of the bulwarks of libcrtv. A free State and popular education £0 far correlative that the former is perilled wherever the latter is neglected.

The principles involved, and the objects to be sought, in a system of education, are strikingly presented tn the language of our State Constitution, which says: am knowledge, as wei: as vlrlne, diffused generally among tne body of the people, being necessary tor tbe preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these dejH-nd on spreading the opportunities ges of education in the various parts of the counrre and among me different orders of the people, it shall be dnfr of Legislatures and magistrates. In all future pemds of this Commonwealth, to cherish the Interests oi literature and the sciences, and all seminaries 01 them; especlallv the ynl versify at Cambridge, public s'hools and the towns; to encourage prtvaie societies public Institu tlous. rewards and immunllles for the pronaotioa of agrjcul ture. arts, sciences, commerce, trades. manufactiHes.

and natural history oi thecountry; to couutenance and IncnlcaL tne principles of bnmanlty and general benevolence. Public and private charity. Industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality lu their dealings, sincerity, coed all social aflectlona and generous sentiments among the This comprehensive and exhaustive statement shows that the object of the education which the biate shall foster is not simply the acquisition of knowledge, but also tne development ot character; and that the.se two combined shall be used the development ol society and in promoting tne virtue andhapjiinessofthe community. To all that has Heretofore been eaid in advocacy of our schools and colleges, and to all that has been written in com- nienaation and healthy criticism of their merits and success, may be added new testimony from the results of the year just closed. Ihe laws respecting the maintenance ot schools of the ail lerent grades have generally been coinplieii with, aud a generoHS emulation exists among the towns and mstitutioDS for honorable precedence.

Tne estimated sum of seven millions ol dollars, raised by taxation, or from funds, or expended by private individuals, in educating raoro than three hundred and twenty thousand pupils in public and private schools attest the universal concurrence in the value am necessity of this agency in sustaining thestamlard ot civilization to which our citizens aspire. As the wants ef the people multijily, and the means of sup plying them ana ot superadding the objects of taste and luxuiy are increased, the aits and industries will be amplified and periected, and fresh demands will be preseuted for greater skill in their produc tions. No branch ot education is now rcceivm more attention, or rising faster in importance, tlia what is termed art-education: and there is none which has closer relation to the industrial prosper ily ol the State and to the wages of labor. Draw ing and art schools are the new features ot education among all the progressive nations of Europe, and the increase in economic value of their technical products may be measured in good degree by the e.xtent to which these agencies have been establisheL If It he true, as the governments of the Old orld seem to have concluded, that supremacy will hencelorth be detennined less by the strength ot arms than "oy tbeir industrial success, the tuturi; ()t our own country will dejiend much upon our ability to meet the competition of tbe world. France ftir- nisbes a striking example in point.

Froflting by the exporiencc of England, which, lourteen years ago, liail distanced her material jirosperity through the establishment of art schools, France established similar institutions with even greater success; anil in the application of the resulting taste and skill to her industiy may he lound one ol the main sources of that vast wealth which enabled her lately to as- suine, without injury to her credit, a national debt almost unequalled in magnitude, and, though de- leaUd.to come out of costly and desolating wars with scarcely a shock to her prosperity, and scarcely a cloud upon the proverbial gayety ot her people. Massachusetts has taken the lead in this country in this department of education. la 1870, drawing, as a branch of study, as established in the public scliools by legislative authority; hut it was touud, alter brief experience, that to render it successiul a school for training teachers ol drawing was a positive necessity, a normal art-school tor industrial drawing such as the most prosperous manufacturing countries in Europe had established; and, in 1873, such a school was authorized and established on a scale scarcely more extensive than was necessary to try ihe experiment. The number of students at present in attendance exceeds three hundred; and during the three years since tbe school was openeil. the total number who have received instiuction is six hundred and seventy-nine, ana vet nearly half as many more have been relused admission because ol lackot room.

1 trust that at no distant day we may have a building, suitable in size and location tor this institutiou, which seems to be one of the Dressing necessities ot the State, if we would retain the leadership in tliis iuiportant branch ot education, and secure to our manilold industriesllieadvantages which will flow from it. The State Director ol Art- Education in my opinion, as a student and thinker no this subject, the Normal Art-SchooI, in a commodious building erected tor me puroose, is esseuiial to the existence of good industrial art in the htate; aad if placed, would entirely change the character ol the of the whole eountry. From ft, as a tountaln-head. would issue sound In deslgn-the for m- siructlon in Industrial art ot every kinrt; and its Influence would change bv increasing the value ol every piece ot goods made intnemlilsot Massachusetts, and flnally InfuM taste Into the banalcrait of every mechanic In the United States. The as it is termed, which is exciting interest and disturbing the peace of some other Slates and localities, is substantially at rest here under the amendment to Article 18 of our State Constitution, which provides moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities tor the support ot public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the State for the support of common schools.

sh.sU be anplied to and expended lu no other schools than those wliich are conducteo acvordiiig to iaw under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city lu which the money Is to be expended; and such moneys shall never be appropriated to any religious sect for tne maintenance xclusively ot its own A NEW aCIENTIFlC OF THE STATE. The American Academy ol Arts and Sciences addressed a memorial to the Ix-gisluture of 18i4. asking for a new aud thorough scientific survey of tlie State. It is now more than lorty years since Massachusetts began a survey of its territory, the results 01 which were published in a series of reports upon the geoloev, zooloav and of tbe 8tate, with a map and geological chart. The memorial of the Academy was referred to the Board ol Kdncation, to be and reported on at the ne.xt session.

The Board reported favorably, and tuitlier memorials on the subject came to the Legislature last winter from the Essex lustitnte and the Boston Society of Natural History. A bill wa.s reported by the Committee on Education, substautiaUy in accordance with the views set tortli by these leained societies, and passed one branch ot the Legis- latuie. but, for some reason, it failed to become a law. 1 would reier the whole siiliject to you tor re- rewfd cou.sideiaiion. and tor such favorable action as liie interest aud importance altaohing to it aeem to require.

HENRY WILSON. in this place, so lately shrouded witii tlie cmldems of mourning for one ol the SOPS of Massachusetts, wlio borne to his grave witli National withevcrv manifestation of iiubiic and private soiTow.ic is not too laie to prolong the tiibiite ol aflectiou and respect which is associated with ihe name of enry ilson is lite was a true exemplification ot American citizen.ship, and it will tie a perpetual invitation to the youth of tlie country to tollow that path of industry and lectiinde which promises all to which their ambition wortbilv aspire. No illustrious ancestry lieialded his'advent; no favoring fortune surrounded Childhood; no social auxiliaries strengtbened the when all tbe material montimetts ness have crumbled into dust or moulded it is tbe life of this Republic; new-born hour in the affections of the American ened and defended by increasipg over the acres of our vast (lomam-the our patriotism; let it be a'so the snstainlng hope ol treedora and progress throughout the woriu. In the Menate. THE JI ESS AGE.

Upon the return of the Senate an order oflered by Mr Crane, of Suffolk, to print copies ot the address. Messrs Robinson. of Hampden, Fi'z. ol Suffolk, and Bodm in, ol Middlesex, were appointed on a Joint Committee to consider and report what disposition should be made ol the several portions of the address, NOTIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS. An order, offered by Mr Davis, of Essex, was passed, for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to notice to the Councillors-elect that they been duly elected to advise the Governor in the executive part of the Government.

SuDsetjueptly notice was received from the Secretary that the duty had been perlotmed, and the Senate then joined the House in Convention to qualify the Councillors-e ect. hen returning the Senate Chamber, the Senate atjourned until il A. M. Friday. In the Bonse.

The House reassembled at half-past 2. Mes-srs Kimball, ot Boston, Milton, Kellogg, of Pittsfield, Hale, of Boston, Stone, ot Waltham, Gargan and J. W. Hill, of Boston, and Osgood, ol Salem, were joined to the Committee to report what disposition shall be made of the various topics of the address. IN CONVENTION.

The two branches met in Convention lor the purpose of Qualiiying the Councillors-elect, President Loring in the chair. henators Filz, of Suffolk, Gaylord, of Hampshire, Howard, oi the Island District, and Representatives Hey wood, of Lawrence of Medlord, of Boston, Washburn, of Worcester, and Rogers, of Chelsea, were annointed a Committee to iniorm the Councillors-elect that the Convention had Messrs James Sturgis. Robert Couch, Geo. O. Brastow, Alden Leland and George Whiiiiey appeired and took the oaths of office.

Messrs Plunkett, Baker and Tweed were absent. The Convention then the House soon allei adjourned. COMMON COUNCIL Bales and i of Committees on i'inance and Acconnts- Committees to Komlnate Heads of Departments. FOR TTIK BOSTON P08T.J ABOUT-HOME MATTERS, SEWER )G1. The Mewerage of Boston Keport of Ihe Commission of Present System Fxamlned-Its Weak and Strong Points SnisKeslions Made- Estimated Cost of the Improvements, Etc, FOR THE BOSTON P08T.1 In March last, in accordance with an order of tke City Council, Mayor Cobb anpointed a Commission consisting of E.

S. Chesborough, Moses Lane and Charles F. Folsom, to examine the present sewerage system of the citv of Boston; the discharge of sewers into Charles river, Stony Brook, South Bay, or Dorchester Bay; the necessity of any high-water basin on the sight of the present lull basin, lor flu.shing piiriKises; the expediency ol relieving the sewers at the South Find by pumping; and to present a plan for the outlets and main lines of sewers for the future wants of the city. The report was submilteil to the Common Council last evening. The crowdecl state of our columns compels a briet abstract of the rejiort, which is a very important and interesting one.

SUMMARY OF THE PRE.8ENT CONDITION. The regular weekly meeting of tbe Common Council was held last evening. President Brackett in the chair. MEMBER QUALIFIED. Mr Omar Loring, member-elect from Ward Twen- ty-lonr, appeared, was qualified and took his seat, PETITIONS PRESENTED.

Of A. H. Lawton, for a recount of votes for Coun- cilmcn in Ward Fourteen; of John testing the seatoi George A. Shaw, of ard Twelve, on the ground that Mr Shaw was not at the time ot the election a qualified voter or resident in sud Ward; of John McBarron, for a recount of votes for CouDcilmen in Ward Nineteen. COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS.

Mr Devereaux, of Ward Four.from the Committee on Elections, reported that they had re-counted the votes for members of the Council in Wards Sevea and Twenty, and that the members holding seaus were elected. JOINT RULES AND ORDERS. Mr Sibley, of Ward Five, trom the Comaiittoe on Joint Rules and Orders, reported the present rules and ordeis, with certain aineudments, tne principal changes being the following Sect. 1. Striking Out tbe Committee on Armories and Military Affaiis.

the duties ot that Conmmtee having been transferred hy statute to the Board ot Aldermen. Reducing the Committee on Public Lands and Survey auil of Buildings from eight to five members. Providing for the ap-point- ment of a Standing Comniittet' on the City Depaitnient, consisting of two Aldermen and three members of tbe Common Council. Sect. 14.

Add tbe lollowing: order or vote, which is not in the form ol an ordimtnce, shall have the effect to amend, suspend, any orai- 16. Striking out all from the beginning of said section the word in the sixth line ol the edition, and inserting tne following; the present and every future financial year, the Specific appropriation forthe several objectsenumer ated in the general aupronriaiion order shall be deemed and taken to be the maximum amount to be expendid bv the several Committees, Boards and officers having the charge thereof, for the entire financial year, and shall be expended with a proper Sect. -20. Insert after the word in the third line of the pocket edition the words specify iu detail the names ot the members to whom such refreshments or carriages were lurnished. the dates oi the same, also by striking outthe words on Accounts shall not pass any in the eighth and ninth lines, and insert the fol lowing; the Auditor ot Accounts shall not receive or pass any such bill for the aitproval of the Committee on Adding the following section: 22.

foregoing rules shall not be altered, amended, suspended or at any time, except by the votes of two-thirds of the members of each branch of the Citv Council. Mr Ward Eighteen, moved that the report lay on the table for one week. Mr Sibley suggested that unless the rules were adopted at this time the Committees could not be appointed at the next meeting of the Board Alder After referring In detail to the present of the sewprs, house drains, cesspools, the Commissioa proceed to point out the remedies, which, In their opinion, are two in number. The flrst, raising more than one-halt of the superflclal area of the cliy proper (excluding suburbs) ts entirely out of the que.stiou. from the enormous outlay of money wnich would be reqntred-mote than four times as much as would be needed for the pian proposed and which consists in intercepting sewers and puraptag.

The plan recommended is to discharge all the sewage fto-n that part of Boston situ between the Charles and Ne- Donset rivers at the north end of Moon Island. The mam la- tercepting sewer is to he located in neailv a direct line from Cottage Farm station to the river, near Savin Hill, to cross this river hy a siphon, and thence to be built along 4 iuantum Beach and across Squantnm Point to the end of Moon Island. The general course of this sewer will be nuder- stood trom the foUowTig list ot streets through which it Is to pass, Beacon street from Cottage Farm station to St. tucnce to tbe junction of Tremont and Cunard streets; thence in Windsor, Madison. Huuneman and Yeoman streets and Norfolk avenue and Clapp and Mt.

Vernon stieetsto Dorchester avenue; thenre in nearly a direct Hue to Neponset river north of Savin Hill. The sewage is here to be raised by pumping, and passes by a slph-'- under Neponsat river Into the main outlet-sewe of the sewer at Cottage Farm station ts to be low low tide. The fall or Inclination Is to be oc live hundred, or tweniy-flve inches per sewer is to be circular, nine leet In dlameti tage Farm station to Albany street: nine ft to a clrcl( ten feet In diameter) thence to the pumping siatlon: thence to the outlet at Island, at flrst ten feet by twelve (equal toa circle of eleven feet ta diameter), and flnaliy twelve feet by thirteen; thus enlarging the storage capacity ot the outlall sewer. There ts to be butlt at the outlet on Moon Island a reservoir to twenty-flve mul- Son gallons, which Is somewhat more than the usual amount of sewage now discharged in charge into the seals to take place at each tide for the first two or three hours after high water, ft ts proposed to erect at the pumping station three engines, of 145 horse-power each, 'ftis ts a very liberal provision for the present; biit. in view ol the free use of water after the completion ol tne Sudbury aqueduct, ft is thought best to make it.

The lift will be trom twenty to thirty-three feet. The grade of the outia 1 sewer is at this point fourteen leet. and at the outlet eight feet low water. The total estimated cost ot the sewers herein recommended for the south side ot the Charles river, including an allowance of for rebulldlDg sewers and pg them with the intercepting sewers, is 3 4 of which the sewer and branches to the Pumping Stitl Engines and Pumping Station MainouftsU tbe stock of onlT selta cr than those of Jantiary. while prices between shows that the stock of fifteen, $15; one.

$11; seven, $10; three, two, four, $4 two, four, The banks showing increase of prices are the $1 75; Maverick, and Security, $15-25. Ol the banksin the Highlands, tbe Peoples advanced $9 a share, and the Rockland. in Charlestown, the Bunker Hill advanced $5. ami the MionnmenL the Brighton National changwl from in 187a to and the National Market from to AN A lleged windler in rouble Detective Currier, at the instance ol Chiet Conductor Humphrey, of the Metropolitan Railway Company, arrested A. N.

Hanson, alias George Doujffis, alias George Hauson, yesterday afternoou for an alleged attempt to deiraud tbe Company. It is alleged that Hanson solicited several conductors to purchase a patent punch to be used lurnished by the company, whereby the so disposed, could enrich himsidf at the ex pense ol the Corporation, the punch being similar in coustruction to those captured months since bv Mr Humphrey. lucrly employed in this city, but went to Bronkftn. where be was employed as a conductor upon one ot the street railroads, from which he was in a Fort time discharged for alleged irregularities. Subseiftiently was employed in the same capacity ui)On several ol the street railroads in ork city, from all of which he was discharged tor alleged shortcomings.

On Tuesday he presented bimsell to Ml Hum phi cv for employment, and in the signature to his application affirmed that he resi led at -ft Noniiampion street, which was found to a vacant lot. fact, together with a letter received from the manager ol a New York raad id which character was shown up. led to an investigation, when it wa.s learoe.i tliat he had approached several of the conductors of the Melrouoi- jan and Highland roads to whom he offered his little bell-ringer for the small sum ol althougli those confiscated on a former occasion were pur- tor $10. Hanson, when arresGHi, had none 01 the little jokers about him. nor could an? be lound, but it is probable that important rev will be forthcoming when ex cninatio place in the Municipal Court this m.

ruiug. takes riminal ilbert Miller was yesterday arrested by Detectives Drew and Skelton for forgerv. Miller was driver of a Quincy express and is ch.irged obtaining powder from the Warren Powder Mills upon lorged receipts Detective Ylurdougn arresftd at Detlham yesterday Thomas Stevens and Deunis Horrigan. who are charged with breaking aud entering the premises ot John T. Lawler, 53a Harrison avenue, on the night of December Mary McCarty and Mary Roach, aged 12 and 14 respective! ran away oui the St.

Home, on Biookhiie street, on Sunday last, and were captured in Worcester yesterday Miles YIcKenna was v-es- terday arrested lor the larceny ol a watch valued at $35 from John Hayes, on Richmond street In November last Conductor Keyes, of tbe Metroimlitan Railroad, dropped a package ot tickets valued at $9 while passing through the car. One Philip Kipp picked them up and decamped and has keut out ol sight until yesterday, when he was arrested. boll of between town. TbetoHowlDgarethememBersof ftrtte present vesr: Finance Carpenter and Keith, Cooncllroen While: Accounts, Alderman Carpenter anil touocmnea Slmpacn and Weed: PnbHc Property nod Burial Alderaian Rice and CouncilmdQ Meacham ami fclHot AW Relief and MUttarv AILilra AWennan CoiinctiineD Pope and Tr wne: Fuel Street Lights. W.

W. Keith. Conncllinen Potter and KaimlBg: Pfre partment. Aldeimen F. G.

Barnes andJ F. KdmancF.O«»«^ cllnienSimpson. and Weed: F. Edmunds and R. Carpenter, Coam tlman Towne, and Fannlne; Prinnng.

Aldermun F. G. Barnes. C.mn- ctlmen (ioodrtch and Bf.wen: AHerman J. K.

Kdmauds, CouncUmen Towne, Goodrich and ClMlmf AWerman W. W. Keith. Ccnm Uraen KUlott White- Health, Alderman J. Rice CounctNnen Potter and Chester The Common Council have appointed the fo(-- inwine Kiectlon and Returns.

Cmm- cllnien White Potter and GoodiUh: Enrolled Ortflnanres, Weed. Bowen and Mr Revlto Chief of Police, submitted his annual Slated that -2002 lodgers and 389 arrests tad neen made. Adjourned to Jan. I.tb. t'AHBBIDWE SCIIOOE A meeting of the Cambridge Board of School Committee was held last evening for the purpose of organlzaUon, MayOr Bradford presiding, Tne new members were qnaiifled.

and Dr W. WelUnatoT was re-elected Secretary of the Board. The followlng i ommtitees appointed: On High sctwwl. Messrs Peabodj. Brien and Hall: Trainlcg School.

Peabcd.v.Apsey.Cogiiwell. Dow and Norns: Evening School. Hale, ('oggswell. Wadman and Drawing School. Wadnian.Hildreth.Hlnckley.Norrlsand Dow; Tniant OlBrers.

Dow. Amldon. Uogaswell. Hill and AtcounLs. Brine.

Morse ami Wadman; Text-Books. Leavftt. A use and Wadman: Salaries, Wadman ar.o Brine; Rules ard Regulations. Hildreth. I-eavltl and O'Brien: Schixd-houses and Esliroates, Hale, Hail and Amidon, Hlrcklev aud Norris.

Adjourned until the Thursday in Jamiarj. ENTERTilNMENTS. I 5 A I 0. BOSTON hose GLOBE THEATRE- Weak Two Orphans HOWAh ArilEN.EUM-Variety Entertaii nenL-Evcn ing. WESLETA.S by Mi Ernst noon.

BEETHOVEN Le (ien he De M. AMORT HALL DOob, Afternoon and Evening. II.) icerl ot th aca.soc en at Hail mos. enjoyable raosT Co by the Harvarl usk aiternoon. a ntertatnmenis of th of The orchtstrai numbers coi ture, pleasing Mozart grand Heroic march rangement.

All these we Mr J. C. D. Parker ven concerto No. 3, 1 atth formed on' series thus lar.

Bed of the Ruy Bias over- mphony in minor, ana Schn- A minor, op. 66. O. ar- ere presented with even e.xceilence. played the Beetao- mir op.

37 nd did thor- The grade ue foot be- I In twenty- mile. The from Cot- by eleven Reservoir Laud damage $1,48,3,182 875.UC0 356.06J Kngineerinc and superinteudence, 16 per cent $3.133.132 313,313 Rebuilding and i (Ctingold sewers. 360.066 Total. 8KW1 The main Intercepting sewei (iharles cr is to commence i of the approach to the Brookli throagh Waverly Railroad; th for the district north of the Cambridge at the north end bridge; its general course is treet to the Boston and Albany Branch along the northerly side ot the railroad. crossing Main stieel into Portland street, and lu Portland, Medford.

Poplar and Redmond streets to thence In Cambridge and Alford streets to the Mystic river, crossing It a siphon south of the bridge to Bow street thence across the marsh to Locust street snuth of the Enstern Railroad: thence tnrongh Chelsea parallel to the railroad to Chester street, and In Chester street to street: thence crossing Chelsea creek dv a siphon to Breed island: and across this Island along the northerly ol Hill, ana flnally by a siphon across the inlet to lii thrcp. and thence crossing Beach street, near Main street, and nassing west of Wlnthrop Head to the outlet at Point snirley. The grade of this sewer at the Junction of Brookline and Waverlcy streeu Is to be two feet above low tide. The tall per mile is tc be twenty-dve inches. It is to loiir and one-half leet in diameter to street, six feet in diameter to Cambridge street, and seven feet In diameter to the junction cf Cambridge and Cana! streets in Charlestown, where it receives the lateral sewer from that district.

From this point to the west end of Breed's Island, jkere numplng works are to be located, it Is to be eight feet In diameter. The branch f-om East Boston is to Join the main sewer at this point. From the pumping worss to the OTt- fall at Point Shirley the main sewer is to be niae feet in diameter. The capacity of this main outfall sewer is two hundred and sixtv-one cubic feet per second, or about one hundred and sixty nine million gallcms per day. It is proposed to erect at the pumping station on Breed leland two engines ot 145 horse-power each.

The lift will be iroro twenty-three to thirty feet. The sewer is at this point seventeen and one-half feet above low water. There ts to be at the outlet near Point Bhirley a reservoir to hold twenty million gallons. Irom which the discharge is to take place twice each diy tor the flrst or threl hours alter iitgh water. The length of the main sewer and branches for the district north of uharles river is flfteen miles.

1 heir estimated cost. Including ofr and pumping station, and an allowance oi one hundred thousand dollars for rebniiding and ronnectlng old sewers with the intercept mg sewers. $2,864,564. of which the details areas Main sewer from Brooklihe bridge to Point Shir 10 69-lOUmii Branch sewers. 4 31-lUb ndles.

Ki.giues and Pumping Station Reservoir $1.5.33 395 00 270,366 06 60 306,000 00 Land damage i.308,695 06 156.000 60 Engineering and superintendence. 10 per cent. $2.4.53,695 00 245,869 60 Add for rebulldiugold sewers, etc $2.764 561 06 00 Total. $2,304 00 Air COltCLCSlOIi. Ig the many advantages of the general plan here mended, pumping the sewage and discharging the It high tide, mar be mentioned the The sewage is removed entlreiy from the limits of tbe discharged so as to be carried out to sea.

whence It ill not return. Our experiments convince us that this can be done certainly on the ebb tide. 2d. 1 here is a constant and uninterrupted flow of the sewage irom the time it enters the sewers nntil It reaches the uutiall All Is thus removed betbre It becomes ofteiislve. and there Is no deporit tn the bottoms of the sewers.

In a system ot sewers of this sklltullv con- stnicted. the level of the ground water will be Kept seve-al teet lower than It now his point is one of great Importance In view of the direct connection, as shown by Dr Bowditch and Dr Buchan.an, between soil moisture and pulmonary consumption, a disease -A hich causes about oae-slxth of the total Dumber of deaths in Boston 4 th. It will be practicable to rebui'd such sewers hive been extended from time to time on newly-made ground, which consequentiv have little or no grade, sometimes with inclinations the wrong way. and which it is nov very difficult. if not impossible, to keep clean.

No svstem of sewerage and no degree of periection In the sewers themselves can be expected to render dwellings tree from had sniel'S. or Ganger to health uniess the drains, soil pipes are prop- eriv to. and the L'ommtssion theretore recommend that soli pipes be carried thrcngh the roofs to a point two leet alKjve I hem, having on their top some approved automatic ventilator, and to provide for a proper inspectian of house drains, and that the means recomniended tor flnshisg tte sewers be freely used. samt 1st cit career ol his early nianhooiL He was horn brave; lie loved tbe rlebl aud trusted in it, wliilc he met the (iiifieiilties which beset him as the oak meets tne storm, only to be more firmly rooted, and to itslite more anil more outward and upward. He gave his strength to his countiT and to mankind.

lie fought manlully the battle ot life, and, with more than Spartan celebrity, was borne upon his battered into theCapitol of the Nation, that he might die the verv sanctuary of Freedom. His spirit has joined the "iioble army ol saints and martyrs in the heavens, and his name will live on earth in memories that are alike grateful and immortal. CLIFFORD. Nor can you or 1 forget, that, even now, the earth is receiving to its bo.soin the remains ot a past chief magistrate of the (Commonwealth, who embodied in his character, and exemiihfled in his life, all that we recognize as highest and noblest in the name of Christian aud scholar, statesman, gentleman and ft lend. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

eventually to a satts- 01 the present Uw and understO'Kl, will protection to their Train and Mr Shaw said there were some radi cal changes proposed, and time ought to be had to consider Hiem. The motion to lay on the table was adopted. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. Mr Morrison, Of Ward Eleven, offered the follow Benoived That It is the sense of the City Council that thi cu.stoui of appointing uonimittees to nominate the ot departments lu the City Government should be dispensed wlih. It was advocated by Mr Morrison and opposed by Mr Siiaw, ol Ward Twelve, ana adopted.

the vote was reconsidered and the order was lejected. A MOVE FOR RETRENCHMENT. Mr Gray, of Ward Fourteen, offered an order that a Conimiaee of Five from the Council, with such as the Board of Aldermen may join, be appointed to consider the question of salaries and all other ex penditurcs, and report what retrenchment, it any, can be made, said Committee to report beiore the general appropriations shall be acted upon. Mr Guild, of Ward Nine, asked if it was intended to consider department expenditures or only to reler te salaries. Ylr Gray replied that be intendetl to cover all expenditures, but he did not intend to interfere with the Committees on Finance or Salaries.

He believed it was possible to cut down the appropriations to the lowest possible mark. Mr Jaqiies, ol Ward Eleven, thought the idea a good one, but the usual committees could the work as well, and there would be no clashing between m- committees. Mr Shaw advocated tbe adoption of tbe resolve as one eminently prooer to pass. Mr Gray was willing the Committee on Finance should do this work if it should be deemed best, but he believe some such committee should be made, that the appiopriations might be watched closely. Mr Crocker, of Ward Nine, thought we should not iuterfeie with the regular machinery.

We alwavs had a good Committee on Fiuance, and he thought thev could be trusted, (Yn motion of Ylr Crocker, the order was laid on t.ie table. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. The Council ballotted lor a Committee on Finance with the lollowihg Whole number of votes Necessary to a Francis U. Eugene H. Levi L.

Francis rurtls Pniuehas J. Stone, J. WiUier May George L. And the first seven were elected. COMMITTEE OS ACCOUNTS.

The ballot for a Committee on Accounts resulted Whole number of to a choice James J. Flynn J. Augustus Howes. Benjamin John Curtis Messrs Flynu, Felt, llowcs. Pope and Sweet- fcrc elected.

PAY OF DEPUTY COLLECTORS. Mr Shaw, ol Ward Twelve, offered au order that the Mayor be requested to petition the Legislature for the passage ot an act to allow the city to piy the Deputy Collectors tbe fees accrued for taxes previous to Septembfr last, but which were not p.atd until after that date. On his motion the order was laid on the table. C03IM1TTEE8 APPOINTED. To nominate members o( the Cochituate Water Ward Seventeen; Shay, of Ward Nineteen, and Stone, of Ward Three.

To nominate Directors of East Boston i Morrison, 01 Eleven; Taylor, ol Ward six; SarousoD.ot Ward Seventeen. To nominate a Harbor of One; Pope, of Ward Fourteen; ot ard To nominate Supenntcndents of of Ward Fifteen; Kelly, of Ward Three; Item, of Ward Fourteen, To nominate Superintendent of Common-Crocker, of Ward Nine; Trull, of WardFive; Pierce, ot Ward City of Ward Twelve; Webster, ol Ward Oue; Daniel Doherty, of Word Seven. To nominate Weighers and Inspectors of Ward Four; Davis, of Ward Sixteen; 01 WardTwo. 'To nominate Trustees of YIt. Hope Cushing, of Ward Ten; Flynn, ol Ward i'nirteen; Tichnor, of Ward Twenty-three.

To nominate City of Ward Twenty-two; Kingsley, ol Ward Nineteen; Ailams, of Ward Five. To nominate Directors of Public Institutions-Willcutt. ol Ward Taveuty-three; Sprague, ot VV ard Ten; Txiring, ot Ward Twenty-tour. To nominate Trustees of the Public Train, ol Ward Twenty; Sibley, ot Ward Iiye; Newton, ot Ward Twenty one. To nominate Trustees of tbe City Jaques, ol Ward Eleven; Ward Twelve: of Ward Eighteen.

To nominate a City S.dicitor-May, of ard Twenty-four; Ruffin otWard Nine; Day, of Mard To nominate a Superintemlent of Streets-Sibley, ot W.arii Five: Morrill, ol Ward Twenty; Mullen, of Ward Thirteen. To nominate a Stuwrintendcni of bnry. of Ward Twelve; Blodgett, ot Ward tight; Tavior, ol Ward Six. To nominate a City Architcct-Parker. ol aril Twenty-one; Firth, of Ward Sixteen; Spenc erey, ol W.ard Nineteen.

To nominate a of Public iiigs-Gray, ol Ward Fourteen; Shepard, of Ward lour; Blanchard.ol Ward wenty-one. Adjourned. essrs II. O. oughton ft of the Riverside Press, Cambridge, will hereafter publish the American Naturalist; they have also ol J.

Ford ft Co. the important Mechanical Mr Eiiward II. Knight, ol tlie United States Patent Office, of which two volumes have already aimeared (A-Pan), and 700 pages out of about 1050 of tbe third volume are now in with a prospect of speedy completion. Besides tbe Atlantic Slonthly, which bears their well-known imprint. they regularly publish the U.

S. Official Postal American laiw Times and aud Bostou Medical and Surgical ough justice to its exacting requirements, by's aroused special enthusiasm. The con- aria Speranza Adorata. by Mozart, which her flrst gelectton. is a of sustained power and thorough skill, which only the best artists can meet, and exquisite penonuance ol the aria certainly gave her a place In that categcry.

The Taubert songs were alw sweetly given. The sixin concert will take placeThuro- afteroon, January 20. wnen the following programme will be Interpreted: Overture to Fi.ieito," Beethovea; a cantata, alter Osslan. tor solos and with Gade. sung by toe Cecilia.

Chacoune, for orchestra, from (secocd time). Gluck; canons, for three soprano voices. Hauptmaan: Twenty-third Psalm, for female voices, Schubert (repeated by request); Fifth Symphony. Beethoven. osto 6 noble play of The Two will be produced tonight YY'RESTLiNG atch The wide interest which the Giseco-Roman wrestling match between Prot.

Bauer and Andre Christol excited in this community by no mesHs excels that which is now felt to see the struggle announced for Saturday evening, at Music Hall, between Prof. Bauer and Prof. Miller, who, at the lose of the late contest, promptly challenged tbe victor. These athletes have met and their battles have generally been drawn. Tickets are now tor sale al tbe box office.

utual aid ociety At the annual meeting of this society, Wednesday eTening, the lollowing officers were elected for the ensuing vear President, H. P. White; Vice President, E. P. Walker; Secretary.

W. V. Coles; Treasurer, C. G. Palmer; Trustees, J.

Kendall, J. Pierce. S. VV il- lett; Standing Committee, E. C.

Benson, H. M. 1 eck- ham, T. H. McCafferty; Visiting Committee, J.

Haynes.Jr., W.E. VVoid. he St. ouis lour ompany and Tea Im tiorting House, 21 Boylston street, ofler great bar gains in flour and teas. They are selling these arti cles and warranting them, they claim, at a large per centage low er than they can be elsewhere, liesides tleliveiing the free of charge.

saviuj on a barrel ol flcur these hard times is surely desira ble. kansfekkfd ohn H. Barutio.call hoscman oi Engine FourH-en, has been tranitcrrea to Eiigim C. N. Masury, of Engine Twelve, ha been traubicrrcd to Engine Fourteen.

I nfant A very young infant, wrappe in a blanket, was discovered in the entry way ol Washington street at 4 yesterday afternooi It was taken to Dr he erald ibel uit is umiersiood tl tlie counsel lor E. B. Metcalf, in the recent libel suit, will move for a new trial of the case. ordan arsh ft Co. announce their annual sale of linens, and the list of given in another column will be scanned with inte est by housekeepers.

The figures are said to be lower than ever before seen in this market. liOCAIi SHMMAKY. Ai scr 1 Roxbury Relict Association good 5V0I k. The Fourth Street Baptist Churcn has rai.se and disbursed the past year. regular monthly meeting of the B.

C. Association was held iast evening. A suit lor $.5000 damages growing out of the Federal street gas exjilosion bas been brougbt by Samuel Collins the nearly two hundred children in the St. Vincent Catholic Female Orphau there now no case of sickness. Jennie Collins begins her free to un working girls at Boffiu's Bower on Tii day.

liom noon to 2 The young people of the Baptist Cnurch and Society have themselves into au ation called the Earnest Major Kenneth H. Campbell, counsellor and conveyancer, and J.L. Eldndge, counsellor-at-law bave opened an office at 61 Court street, raom No. 4 Tbe sixth anniversary ot the marriage of Mr aud Mrs E. A.

Wells was appropriately tbeir residence at tne Highlands, VV'eilnesday even mg. Last Tuesday the Executive Council voted, to 5. not to exchange certain lands with the city of Boston, as proposed in chapter 9'2 ol the Acts al 1875. Prof. Kccles lectured last evening in Pai Hall on debt we owe the The lectii was pleasingly illu-lrated by a variety ot expert nients.

Tlie Secretaiy of the Mission for Animals re ports that during the past year the receipts h-ave bee" 49, and the expenditures $384 tbe balaa he has taken as salary. Ylessrs Cushman ft Brooks have a cir cular announcing their inability to pay their debt and asking lor a meeting of creditors at the can House, at 10 A. M. Saturday. The of Boston are having their hogs forwarded from Buffalo to this city direct ii- thirty hours, which is siiving in time and less iiiju nous to the animals than heretoibre.

The hogs now arrive here Horn Chicago in less than four days. Carriage Association have elected the lollowing officers: President, H.F. Gates; Vice President, C. P. Chipman; Treasurer, J.

Slocum Secretary, I- B. Fitz; Chairman of Boarlof Direo tors. M. F. llauBon; Trnstees, Woi.

Hi.milton, L. VV hitcouib and L. C. Boynton. Sergeant Rohe, of the Itaited States signal ser vice, located in this citv, has invented and applied i printipg attachment to the signal service ancnio graph, by indenible record of Uie direction ot the wind is obiaineil.

It works admirably and will, doubtless, be aflopted throughout the service Post Office figures lor December; Number of earners, 118; mail leiter.s delivered. loc letters newspapers delivered (14 7(10; mail cards deliverel, local canls delivered. 1.50.471; letters collected postal 279,60.5. tter carriers rcmcmiiered: George W. and Piovinco siieet and court.

City 1,464,477 coliec.te Lt Ilincklci Tb The most interesting event in America during the iirrent vear will undonhiedly be the great exhibition ol the products of tbe industry ot all nations at Pliil.adelphia. In nothing is the progress of the world so measured and exempliflefl as in the development ol the arts and in the a))))lication of science thereto. And perhaps there is no moving tendency more salutary and effective than the commingling ot different natienalities in the competition for supremacy in those material results which inure to the wealth, the comfort and the happiness of mankind. Such exhibitions as that in contemplation are known to have stimulated all kinds of inclustry in European countries; and, besides the benefit to be derived by oiir capitalists and workmen, it is worthy of a great and progressive nation that the Centennial anniversary ol its birth shall be commemorated by the triumphs peace, rather than by the loud and fiery clangor ot war. Modern discoveries applied to the purposes of locomotion and electric communication have real- izerl to us the common hvotberhood of men, and the substantial unity of all nations, in tbe most comprehensive aspect of human interest.

Mountains and oceans are now but ridges and femes on the lines of communication, and the once measureless continent is but a libbon of earth.over which the message flies with the velocity of thought. Nature has sufficiently diversified industry by the varied gifts of soil, climate and mineral deposit, to make their culture, labricalicn and exchange the profitable employment of men. While each nationality has been for years, perhaps for a century, pursuing Us own line ol dis- covory and application, what can be more beneScial and more instructive than that all shall come together at last for an interchange of thought, as well as of merchandise; to rub off tbe asperities and jealousies which distance and separation engender, and to cultivate those friendly sentimeuts and that mutual esteem which may precede the beating of swords into ploughshares and of spears into prun- ing-booksl The response to the call of our National Government to join in this internatianal display has been so general that we may expect one of the most valuable and important collections of the objects of utilitv beauty that bas ever been gathered. The lA'gislature of last year appropriated the sum ol fifty thousand dollars for the purpose ol at the Exhibition at Philadelphia a due representa tion ot tbe different arts, industries and institutions of this and in pursuance thereof, the Governor and Council appointed three sioners or agents to carry ou the objects of the ap- propri.ation. This sura, perhaps, exhibits the extent to which the Legislature trusted in the pnde and patriotism ot the people of the Commonwealth to enter hy voluntary eflort and contribution into such a representation as should be worthy ot their attainments and of their renown.

The Commissioners above referred te have been assiduous in tne use of tbe means placed at their command; and those appointed by the National Government have also made encouraging progress in securing the cooperation ofmanufacturers, mechanics and inventors to prepare and lorward specimens of their skill and handicraft. The educational institutions of the State are preparing a thorough exhibit of their plan ol operations, ana I trust that the facilities for ing the yeurg for the service of life, by means ol primary, high, normal and inaustrial schools, academies. institutes and colleges, will be completely repieeentea. It is especiallv desired that the organ ization ol as a Stale should be accurately reported upon ot this time in her history; and 1 would urge upon the officers having charge of the various departments of her civil economy, to prepare the most thorough and elaborate iliuslrations ot what the State has done and is doing, aud the tbeoiy and plans upon which herefl'ortam this direction have been bast'd. 1 need tiarolv remind you.

Senators and Representatives, tbatahove and Pevond the gathere.1 in- dustriex of all nations and of every dime, there will be one suggestive and contriOuuon to this grandest of element which surpasses the cunning and the skiil, aud wbicU we g'adiy believe will survive he all iver A cademy of usic ast evening ihe new and beautiful Academy of YIusic In Fall River, was dedicated and opened to the public. The builtling occupies a site on South Main. and Second streets, with frontages oi 230, 102 ard 182 feet respecuvely, and an irregular party line across the rear from street to street of 194 leet. Tlie firet floor is occupied, at the street corners, by banking rooms, and between these, upon Pleasant street, is the entrance to one ot the two principal stairways, and to the passenger elevator which opens upon Hie corridors leading to business rooms in each story This entrance is marked by a porch with polished granite shafts, and by triple windows, rising through each story and crowued by a gable breaking the line of the cornice above. Aside from the area occiiiiietl by the banks aud tbe various stairways, the entire flrst story, an area all told ot 26,000 leet, is occupied for stores.

Over the fust story, and separating it from those almve, is a fire-proof floor, of iron beams, arches, lathing and concrete filling. Above this floor, in the Pleasant and Mam sections, each story Is by rooms lor business purposes, the secoml containing a banking-room over one of those below, and a portion of the fourth being arranged as a large hall with anterooms, suitable tor Masonic punmses. The theatre, which is to be called the Fall River Academy oi Music, has seating capacity tor eighteen hundred persous, the auditorium being divided into orchestra and orchestra circle, above wnich are the dress ciicle and balcony, and over these, again, the gallery- The lower level is reached by a fight of stairs, 14 leet in width, from South Main street, which, cressing tbe business corridors at the level ot the second floor, enters the lobby of the theatre directly in the rear of the orchestra circle and opposite to an interior sWir- case connecting with the dress circle. To the left of the main flight, and starting upon the second floor, outside the fire wall, in the rear of the ticket offices, is a stair case. 6 feet in width, having landings at the levei ol each circle and of the gallery, with doors opening outward and protected as betore mentioned.

A similar door at the left of the orchestra circle, next the wall ot the proscenium boxes, provides means of escape into the corridor of the main building. A stairway ot ampio width rises upon the opposite side of the building from the level of Second street, and is designed as the usual means of ingress and egress from the gallery, but has also doors opening from each of the other lobbies for use should occasion require. The stage is 66 leet in width by 48 in depth, measuied from the loot lights, and has four traps, five sets of grooves with border lights, and a liberal allowance of scenerv. The opemng of the proscenium is 35 leet square, and in its decoration is treated as a frame to a large picture, the Imxopenings.with their draperies, being lighted by large gilt bracket chandeliers. Toe entire arrangements ef the house are as uear perfect in eveiy feature as art and skill can accomplish, and great credit is due to the architects, Messrs Hartwell, Swasey ft of Boston, forthe admirable manner in which the structure was planued the work of electing the academy so successiullv completed under their suiierviaion.

liav ho the illj cannot be high ajiprecii those and ti; Ti STniONiAi. gov following comintir.i ation and ordci was adopted hy the Execu- Council, and will be to Gov. Gaston, after being ergrossed and signed by the or CoociL hambeb Bosio.a, an 6, 1376 ir the official between His Ex- Uonncil being so near at hand, tills oppor- allowea to pass without au expression of tion on the part of ms associates of the un- and marked deference to the views and innected with him manite.sted D.v Govern.or estlfy te the fidelity and Integrity which jlways been indicated in his admlnlstiatlon Ol ihe dsUes ot the F.xecuHve chair. Called as the incnn.bent was to the exalted posiiion ot the Chiet Magistrate of the State by snflrage ol haying no ot her poliilcal representative in the Executive branch ot the ernment, the UonncH is the more earnest and prompt in gtving their testimony that In no cases have partHanshlp or personal appeals been present, in a manner to criticism, anil his associates have always been cbeertui in complying with bis wishes. The Council desires especially to cMgratuIate His Excellency on the wisdom of ms Important Jnrtlcial nominations.

It rarely falling upon an Executive to select In one year three Judges to flli vacancies. Ordered. That tbe action of the OiincU be entered upon the records, and that in conclusion the members renew heartv tesiimonv of the high regard, both personally and Governor William Gaston, and thank him e.arne«ttv lor his successiul eflorts In making their positions tin se ot pleasant and happv recollections, and we now pre- to hira.wlth our farewell, ardent wishes for bis ar continued prosperity In the varied and imp Ttant rela- iloiis ol life he may be called to occupy, Hall avenue Court stjuare and avenue ceived W. 11. Gould, Cornhill, Brattle street and Brattle squ.aie.

Elm ard Hanover streets, thiouph Mr A. G. hu.s received $75 in ra-h. from fnends ou Ids route; Mr Littletiel 1. ItaikerHill.

and vicinity, has receive! $100 Irom the in his district. In the United Court, yesterday morning, Ilezekiah K. oi Lynn, was beiore Commissioner Hallett cbargeii with concealing, or causing to be conceole.l, his books, papers and that the same ni.ay not ccme into the pos.session of an assignee iu b.ankriipfcy. About months ago Corson left l.vnn for unknown. It on the forcing of his safe by a United ites officer, no or were lound.

Wit nna week he returned to Ltnnanil teiday, after examination. Le was held n. $7000 tor liis appearance at the 31.aich teim of the Court. At the annual meeting of the American itocial icienee Association, which conies, next on the 12th, Mr David A. Wells i- expected to preside lone report on Homes for the Peojile in Cfties will be read and ami there will be a paper by Mr G.

Bradfoid on Qpenlng of the Forty- fourth one by Gardner G. Hubbard ou Dally some other communications, bestoes the annual reports. Dr Wines, tbe on-relormer, who has lately returned to New Volk from Europe, will also be present. The meeting will be held in the I.K)well Institute, and will continue in session but one da jr. Bankruptcy yesterday, the third meeting in tbe matter of J.

Swan A Co. was held. The claim of George Talbot, administrator of J. former partner, for $27,000 was presented, and a hearing is to be had thereon before declaring a dividend. The flrst meeting ot tbe cieditors ot hleazer P.

Dunbar, of Hmgham, was held yesterday forenoon. Claims to the amount of 70 000 mostly liability as endorsed, were proved, and John F. Rogers and Joseph Burdett Mr Register F. W. Palfrey a second meeting of tbe creditors ol Lewis B.

lollett was held. A dividend of 100 per cent, was on prelerred claims, and a computeil dividend of per cent, on other claims, A second meeting o( the creditors of G. J. Walther was held and a dividend of 100 per cent was declared on prelerred claims. A second and third meeting of the creditors of Stanley Gore was held.

Several claims were proved and the meeting adjourned till to-day. RAir.ROAD.-Mr Lemuel Shaw, Chairman of tbe Committee appointed at the previous meeting, bas called a meeting of tbe creditors to meet at the Yleionaon Hall on Saturday next at 11 .4. M. The report of tbe Committee will be made. There appears te be some doubt whether reducing Hie rate ef interest on the indebtedness will he approved, and there is some desire manifested to have the road placed in the hands of receivers, who can.

after a short time, asiiertam tbe actual condition of the road and its capability to meet its obligations. It is also suggested that by reducing its indebtedness one-half and creating pre- ferretl stock the common stock would be no worse off than under the pian proposed by the Committee. The meeting will be largely attended, and it is probable that a speedy remedy will be applied. robate YI atters robate Court was held at Dedham, Wednesday. The wills of Benjamin Clapp, ot Sharon, and Sarah D.

Parker, of Needham, were allowed. Letters ol administration were upon tbe estates 01 Susan Howard, Medway: D.avid Blan- cbard, Wevmouth: Mary King. Sharon; Susannah Guild. Brookline; Lemuel Foster. Brookline, de bonis non; Job Bonney.

Foxboro; Livesey. Braintree: Ellen Woodman. ren- thain; Harriet M. Shaler, Canton; QUs Lin- tield, Stoughion; Charles H. Kobins, Dedham, de ftonw non, and Edmiina Carroll, loxborcL Harvey B.

Coleman, ot YVrentham, was appointed guardian of Bernard Finn, spendthrift; Ellen Segur. of Medway, was appointed guardian of Willard B. Segur. minor; Dennis Cronin, of Boston, was ap- jiointed guardian ol Jeremiah. iel and John Leehan.

minors, of II Leaiherbee and Job L. Batchelder, of Boston, were appointed trustees of the estate of Charles C. Batchetoer. ol West Roxbury; and John A. Loring, of Boston, trustee of the estate of Michael O.

Bariy. of Dorohester. THE ommittee on Sem ing in the Public Schools report that this an important branch of instruction, and that some pupils can learn how to sew nowhere except in the schools. The objections are to the method and want of thoroughness tn leacbing. The Committee favor the teaching ot tbe art in the primary schools, not believing it advisable to continue it in the classes the three lower ones ol the grammar schools, and that it should be left optional with each committee of the several pchix'ls to pursue the instruction through the higher classes.

But it should be required in all the echools that the instruction should be thorough and efliciept, so that after six or eight years ol careiul teaching the pupil niav have gained a satisfactory knowtoige of this bianch ol clucalion. THE orfolk ounty held tbeir first meeting Wednesday. Tne following appointments were made; Overseers ot the Jail and House of Correction, C. C. Churchill.

H. O. Hilclreth and Sanlord Carroll; Chaplain, Rev. A. Mudge; Physician.

Dr J. W. Chase; Janitor at Court House, Franklin Smith. orth nd isuenjaby lie annual meeting of the North End Dispensary was held at the resi deuce of Noah Mayo. Jan.

4. It was voted to hold a tea partv for the benefit of tbe dispensary on February -22. ihe several reports were read an! The lollowing ofticers were elected forthe ensuing year; President, Noah Mayo; Vicc-Preai- (lent, Kev. L. I-.

Brigas; Reeerding Secretary. -Mrs Noah Mavo; Coiresponding Secretary. Dr A. Haynes; Treasurer, Ylrs Hoh'os. Ylrs F.

Cobb and Hoblis were a special rommittee to solicit donations for the h'cnefit ot the dispensary. ML88RS G.W.SIMMONS ft SoNS Will ofi'cr this morning, at Oak Hall, 32 to 38 North street.fourteen tots of overcoats at a uniform price of $13 each. This sale deserves attention, as these goods have never been oflered at suoh tow rates, eyen at Oak Hall. Uetore. STOCKS AND depreciation stocks and securities during the year has been very large, and the losses to insurance companies and other corporations, those holding laige of National bank stocks, has made large inroads upon their profits.

The ahriukage in tbe maiket value of bank stocks during the year has varyiog In $17.) to per share. Oi the whole number ot banks iu me atu tB-moITOW 1 tlsoneot the strongest atlractious of the season, and deserves al! the success ft has heitbi W'eak Woman is a (romedy that all wiu find to iheir liking. It delights every body. Next week a musical burlet- will 0 given in addition. Boston Mcsem Michel 18 a play tn which dramatic and scentc itrongly combined, and Mr Warren, Mr Barron, Miss Cary and others appear II) present vane Mil at the Howard le the ot the ft will bave three more periorm- TDK on clow oncerts Lizzie Cronyn, Mrs Il M.

Smith and Miss Laura Scdlrmer have engaged to appear at the Von Bulow concerts, at next week, a.s Miss Cronyn will assist at the ffrst it secoid concerts. Monday and Tuesday Smith will be heard at tbe concert Wednesday even.ng. and Miss Schirmer at the fourth concert. Friday evening. It wU thus he seen that the concerts are to be of Pvrabo's atinee Mr Ernst Perabo will tinee of choice Rubinstein music at Wesleyan Hall, iftertKon.

Mr J. C. MuUaly will assist. ue hora very fine programme will Thomas matinee, to-morrow aiternoon, at Mu-ic HaU. MrH.

A. Bist hoft. tte tenor, will assist on that i oq he rench rama night Mailame Ularence. in the char- if La Dame anx Cami-iias to her great reouta- twn and M. Veniat.

Amiand. astonishei his wannest a.l- mlrers bv the ttnished excellence of perlomauce. and it is high praise, bin thoroughly deserved, to say that Arma Duval worthy 01 his pl.ace be-lde Margetftte Ganthier. The rest ot the parts were ail admirably rendered. ENTERTAINMENTS GLOBE THEATRE.

ARTHUR CHEN EY nrktor Ed Maaaset Henry J. WEAK WOMAN, At everv perform.ance till tt MU. CiKOKCrfc: notice. IIONEV And jat CAPTAIN GINGER. Globe Theatre Cast and NATURDAY A KK at 2 cl.Kk- tt B08T0H THEATRE, THATEB 4 TOMPKINS L.R.

SHEW Prnprietora EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY AFIKR.NUON, KATE CUXTON AND MARIE WILKINS In their great chars as played by them Theatre, Sew York cters of LOUISE an tiitire in the great play LA PROCHARD, a I the Union ot the TWO L. the eniii SHEW J. F. WHEELOCK company lu support. maKniflcent )pen at 1.30 and 7.

Begins at 2 Get tf dit Mans tue TUE EVERY KVKNIXG ROSE MICHEL at 74. and on WED.NE BAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOON ja3 Vrtil yvrfher Xoltce. HOWARD ISAAC B. BK JOHN STETSON agera EVERY EV'ENLNG. MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY at GRAND GALA WEEK.

18 Hj-EXTsr 18 LUKE SCHOOLCRAFT and his eccentric brother MotntH. Mr GKO. H. COES; SCANLON and CRONIN. JOHNSON andBRCXO: the WINNER SISTERS; tha one-legged Song and Dance Arilst.MrSAM MAR-nN; GORMAN and WM.

NOONAN and ALICS BATEMAN M- KEE and RtKiEHS; N. C. GOODWIN. HARRY BLOODifXJD; C. H.

LABKE, MARIK BATES and the Comedy BOSTON MUSIC HALL. Milurdny Afternoon, Janmary at 2.ao. Theodore MATINEE, GRAND MATINEE. Mr U. A.

BINCHOFF, Tenor. b. K. B. Nolo Violins; Of.

KI.1.KB. Oboe and C. UK.n.nAX?*, Violoncello. Vij- an Hem-: SYMPnO.NT So. f.lnO.Op.

21.... CONCERTOS K. for two Solo Vlo'm lonceJo and Jaaibsohn. Arnold. OVFKTt RE.

op 22........ HUNGARIAN SELECTIONS from Die Mei.ftersinger. von Nuei lerg The Part by Mr A. BtaCHtiFF. ADMI8 810.N TKKKI S.

including reserved-eat, ONE DOto 1 AK cm now I had at the 'U Hail. 5t GREAT "WRESTLING SUBURBAN MATTERS. Coao.v F.L.Th* ftiewton. eb called by Coroner to investigate tbe case of tbe late James Carroll, who was killed at the gravel afternoon by being under the wheels of a locomotive, met in thVpoltce Court room In the City Hall. West Newton, morning at 10 F.

Frauds, the ot testified to fluffing tne mangled body of the deceased under the engine, although he did not see it until attention was called to the fact that the switch was clogged up.his flremai: having gotten oQ for the purpoM of lookiog alter it. At the concmsionof the testimony of ThomAs King, the iwltchman.the Jury rendered tbe followtng verdict; the said James Carroll came to his death Wednesday afternoon. Jan 5. I at 2.45 P.M.. by being thrown downknd run over bv locomotive Hercules, on the Boston and Alblny Railroad.

The Jury find that the affair was due to said Caril's personal carelessnes-s and do further exonerate the raU- loaa ctrporation Horn all Dedham. Holland, hailing from Lowell, was sentenced to five months in the House of Correction for breaking Oakdale and Dedham Counclis, Sover- of Indunry. installed their newlv-elected officers last Tba of tbe County Jail are no longer supplied with Dedham Minstrels, composed of members and frierds of the Dedham Boat Club, give the it ot a course of three very successiul entertainments last vkE PLACE -VT 8 ic halb On Saiiirda) Fvenin? Xcxt, Jan. 8, Between Prof. T.

BAUER and Prof. WM- MILLER. i tkhf in five vei itlSHiou, SI. Beseived Seats, SI Ad n. p.

M. obtsi ited dt the Be BOSTON MUSIC HALL -that DB nt respectfully aaaounce to the pub HAHS BULOW Will give a si3ac ooiNroBnTS, To take oiace on the Evening? MONDAY, mth: Tl E3DAY. Jan Hfr 3 rVY Jan 12 th: THUR-SDAY. t3th; SUlnAY. Jan Ifth and SALUKDAY AFIEKNOON, ance ot ftlBN II iMli.

witn tn IT BOSTON CLUB, Jan. lO. ip.34. No J. fUyJa, Ol dii Salem.

Nathaniel Hortoi of Salem, and fatheT of an honored and respect- A Horton, of the Salem Gazette, died, early yesterday alter a shon lUness. Mr Horton was foimerly a member of the firm of Horton 4 Crocker, tanners and curriers, and during the years 1345 and i-51 served as member of the Common Council. Ills age 3jears. suburban Short The dniv store ol S. H.

Harris, Methuen, was robbed of to tbe value ot $2P6 Betion Hawley was bravely res ued from drowning la Mystic Pond. Methuen, Vt ediiesdaj, by a young man named Wm. Wardreli. Programme for 2. 1 Coucm SutowV fa.

La like unto a Missl.lZZIECRONYX. 6. Quintette for Plano and in fiat, UAS3 Tickets to the Series. $10. Single Tickets .50 and accor i ng to location.

AdmUsion $1. Now foe at fifflce of the Hall, where tor ad the Concertata. Matinee at ja7 JJ73.I0 3pohr 5. Bach r. Beethoven HISTORICAL PAINTINGS The of the Puritans, fVashinston the, Prowlatan WcleomtuK Now on Exhibition, Amory Ball stiett.from 10 a M.

loSP. and P. M. Admission. 35 4 licSets.

$1. d2 dStfS THE SONG OF THE SHIRT, Pratt, Walker 4 iron tounders. Watertown, dosed their works on evening, throwing a large numoer ot orkmen out ot employment for an Indetlntte time. An Old Folks Concert was held, last evening. In the Congregational Church at Newton II ighlanas.

under the teader- of Mr Asa R. Trowbridge, and was quite successful, net- upwards of $125. which will be lor the purpose of turnifhlng the chapel, which has recently been completed. Bv the fortbeomUig report of the Master of the House ol Correction It is shown that the toul the year 1875 were amount placed in the ot the Countv Treasurer. 37; stock on band tn excess of last 52 $7373-24: average cost per if each perso tiecuctlug cost pe hy b.T In the tall tn cuduribgthe week.

$1 92: pe each. cents. The a willed DO a week. Dee SUBURBAN MUNICIPAL, flrst AEWTOA' CITV GOVERN1.ME3ÌT B. branches of Ihe Newton City Cnuncll held th meeting last evening.

In tbe Board of Aldermen, petitions from members ol the Cataract Engine Company, 1. of Newton Lower Falls.and of membersof the J. Wtliard Rice John Kxley, now the local Are engtow at Ward Four, as the occupant ot the same position tor prerent year, were laid upon the table; action was made upjn petition of U- H. as of J. E.

Gammons, The Joint Special Committee appointed to consider me duties or Treasurer, and Auditor bave considered the same and that there be pa.d to the City Treaanrer DTPsent municipal year a salary $6(10 tor extra clerical service, and to the City (era of $1006. and to tne City Audiow. no shad re Clerk ot Committees, a salary of was accepted and lad upon the taole. An received from the County Ccmmrvdoaera denui CONSTANT PICTURE. On exhibition at the Art of E.

XiXaAKEHEEE 1S7 Tremont at. Admission. 25c; Six Tickets for $1. Ja3tf JO ft El BliSTEW M.4TINEE OF ERSST PERABO. WESLFTAai UAL.L., Bromlleld FSID.NY, an.

7th. at 4 P. M. Mr C. 3HJEEA.EY js3 Will in the great Sonata Op.

Ft- MWf COSTCMERS. CIKTIS WELD, Formerly :162 Washiagt'jn DbLKLERS IN TIlFVTHll'AI, GOODS. 14 HAYWARD PLACE. nl9 FTuiew (16 Wim DR DYMXASIUM, OX DUCT ED on a Patent and Impr Strength ano De For Ac 01 Boston The ftrictly Medical Plan C-r'at variety ceo Contrivances tor pramoiiog Heilih. Separate Apirtmeot tor 335 asblngton street, flrst Jil nm AOfcNTR, ENTABL.Ii»MFD E.

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