The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1865, Page 7

‘Settlement Controversy. 4Ehe Court of Appeals Decision Hs- tablishing the Legal Status of the New Commission. 4 Paid Organization for the Metropolis, sArrangements for the Transfer of the Department Property to the New Board. ‘Mheir Preparations for the Commence- ment of Operations, &o., &e., &. Wo present below the decision of the Court of Appeals da the caso of the New York city Fire Department, ewhich was rendered on Wednesday, June 21:— Court of Appeals. The People of the Stale of New York, Respondents, vs, Charles C. Pinckney, James W. Booth, Martin B. Brown, ‘and Philip W. Engs, Appellants.—Action in the nature of quowerranto, brought to test the title of the defond- ‘anta to the office of Motropolitan Fire Commissioners, to whioh office they were appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, under the act entitled ‘‘an act to create a Metropolitan fire dis- ‘triot, and establish a Fire Department therein,’ passed ‘March 90, 1865. ; The complaint alleges that at the time of the passage ‘of the act referred to the ‘Fire Department of the city of New York’? was and still is a body corporate by and “under the laws of the State, and that the offices of “‘presi- dent, vioo prosident, secrotary, treasurer, representa- ives, fire commissioners, com: loners of appeal, chiof vongineor and assistant engineers, with other offices,” \were and still aro ‘‘offioes thereof and public offices,” and ‘that tho office of President of tho Fire Departinent was ‘and is held by John R, Platt, and that the office of Chief Engincer thereof was and is held by John Decker, and that the remainder of the offices of the Fire Dopartinent were and atill are exercised each by persons respectively holding the same. The said complaint then allezes that the defendants, without legal warrant, had usurped, intruded into and unlawfully held and exercised the said offices as Metro- polian Fire Commissioners under the said act, and pruz judgment of ouster, The answer admits tho existence of the Fire Depart- ment of the city of New York at the time of the passage -of this act as a body corporate, and that the offices men- attoned were offices therein and held by the persons men- tioned, but denies that they were public officers, &c. The ansiver alleges the: title of the dofendants by ap- ointment wn act, and that they have taken the @ath of office as Metropolitan Firo Commissioners, and entered npon the duties of said office, and aro entitled to hold the same, and dentos the othor allogations, Upen the trial. before Judge Foster the defendants ‘proved their appointment, and that they had taken the pore! Cre Lay era peeatnan id jutics as alleged, sand these facts being found as jeged, judgment passed Sor tho defendants, © Sp Upon appeal to the general term of the Supreme Court, this judgment was reversed and judgment abso- lute given for th plalotias with costs. The defendants Aas appeaiod to this court, Waldo Hutchins, W. F. Allen, for the appellants. John Cochrane, Attorney General, W. M. Evarts, for ‘the respondents. Dav, J. The appeal in this case brings to this Court for consideration the question of the constitutional va- lidity of the act of tho Logislature, ontitled “an act to ‘create a inetropolitan fire district and establish a fire de- partment therein,” passed March 30, 1865. Other ques- of the Legal ‘tions of minor importance and technical in their charac- tor are presented; but th> gravity of the principal con- ‘troversy should provent their pening pany weight In the decision of the case. The constitut juestions arise under tho second section of article ten of ‘the constitution of this State, adopted in 1846. That section is in these words:—‘All county offi whose @lection or.appointment {3 not provided for, by this constitution, shall be elected by the electors of the re- spective counties, or appointed by the board of supervi- sora of other county authorities, as the legislature shall direct. All city, town and village officers whose election or be pape is not provided for by this constitution, whall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns oF ‘villages, or of some division thereof, or ap: ointed by ‘Buch authorities thereof'as tho legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers whose election or ap- mMointroent is not provided for by this constitution, and rall officers whose offices shall hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the le oF appointed as the legislature ” ay abeek This Potion as already been the subject of judicial con- vatruction by this Court in The People va. Draper (16 N. “Y., 632), wher it received in the leading opinion a com- plete, perspicuous and convincing examination. It is gettied by that case that tho officers and offices designated or intended in the first two sentences of the section are thoso “instituted and existing wader actual laws of the Btato”’ at the time of the aduption of the constitution, and that tlose embraced in the last clause are “all offl- cara of every description, both local and general, whose <oilices wore to be thereafter created by law.” “It will ‘be perceived,” said Denio, J., “that fonr classes of offl- cers are referred to in section:—First, those whose lection or appointment is provided for by the consti- ‘ution; these are named ha to be excluded from the A rection given. Second—Existing local officers, the then present county, city, town and village officers ; these are to bo chosen by constituencies in their respective Jocatities. Third—All oxisting offices whose election, ec., ig not provided for by this constitution, and who ‘aro other than county, city, town ani viilage officers; and, Fourth. officers of every description, both local and gencral, whose offices were thereafter created by Jaw. The two last classes are thrown into one, and the ‘Logialature is loft free to provide for their olection or appointment ag it shall think most suitable. Tho People vs. Draper settles also two other propositions, upon the application of which to this case, its determina- tion deponds: First—That the city, town or county office sto which the legislature rary Litt the appointment under the fourth clause, must created subsequent to the constitution ; and not the oMecer merely; or in other words, that “it Is not eubuvh to take the caso out of tl rovisions of this section, that the names of offices ex- ‘sting when the constitution was adopted, aro afterwards changed by an act of the legisiature, or that their func- tious are colorably modified."’ Second—That it is within the constitutional power of the legislature to create new ivil divisions or districts of the State, for gencral and permanent purposes of civil government, which recognize and do not abolish the established divisions Anto counties, towns and cities; and to appoint officers of the district thus organized, whether the offices whose functions thoy are to discharge were created before or since the constitutien. With these landmarks to guide us we approach the consi ration of the case before us. It presonts two propositions:—First—Are the com- missioners whose appointment is directed the act officers of a new civil division or ict of the State within the meaning of the rule laid down by this Court in the People vs. Draper? Beoond—If not a ter he sae Ky to Mage ae are appointed, newly creaicd, either in respect oir pots pey pei Ae functions, or because those fung- tions were not previously discharged by persons who wore public officers when the constitution was adopted, within the meaning of that instrument? Under the first of these propositions, it is manifest that the officer to be “appointed, to be within the power reserved to tho legis- lature, must be an officer of the new district or division, ‘and not meroly local in the scope and performance duties and functions, and therein su (img some exi: ing local officer. Ho must be a district officer in the senso of his functions and authority, and not merely in Damme, with no powers or duties beyond a previously or- eS iocality, It would not be competent, therefore, for the Legislature to create a new civil division of the oe abrogate'the local offices of the several coun- ties that might compose it, and direct the appointment ‘by the Governor and Senate of other officers limited 4 perform the tame local functions only, al- though disting by new and more extended titles. If that were a0 the central power could draw to itself the appointment of all local officers not expressly provided for by the constitution itself. It is, therefore, easen- tial, in order to Justify thoi? appoinunent by the Governor and Senate, on this ground, that the defendants should be, under the act, officers of a new civil division or district of the State, created for general of government in substance and }, a8 wellasin name. By the first section of the act under Consideration tho cities of New York and Brooklyn are “united into a district to be known as the Metro- polltan Fire District of the State of New York.” The second section directs the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, to appoint four citizens, tesidonts of of said district, to be Motropolitan Fire Commissioners,” which oflice is declared to be thereby created, with the da. tles and powers in the gct contained and \mposed, aud who shall form a ‘Metropolitan sy yreamiose by the ‘The commissioners, having qualified as by the third section of the act, are directed by section four to meet and organize the Metropolitan Fire Department by electing one of their number to be their president, and ‘appointing a person to be secretary. The functions and duties of jetropolitan Firo Department, thus created, aro In all tog; territorially localy and confined to the city of New York. It is in vain to search the act for any authority given to the departmont beyond the limits of ‘that city; and the city of Brooklyn is as much outside of their control and authority as any other city of the Btate. To the body or board thus created no power what- ever which elther in its extent or exercise, to the fire district created by the first section of the act, is ven; but every power is limited to a single — ot 4 district, lath a8 = og La ed of = ey, <= Brooklyn are as ir Management, orgal end powers, in full vigor, subject to no interference, dio- of gontrol of the i it created Be raeng erheaes ts wean neers iy Saabs sna opr ihe cower rented we NEW YORK HERALD, m in the },of whom the Fire De; mt ehould cor was ei ae substantially repexted, Capen rein po in writing,” 1820, October 27, 1823, April 30, 1827, 10, those engineers to assist the department New York }, May 7, 1833, April 23, 1859 and June 22, 1842 The . with officers, men and apparatus when it neods their | manner of their solection was substantially this;—Each decked mutans the duty of the enginpers to send the | company elected its own members and particular officers, Getired aacistance. The making of the required report to | whose names were thereupon sent to the Common Coun- commissioners gives them no more official power | Cil for appointment. The Common Council, for a time, erase re department a m than the came fact | appointed the engineers and assistants, selecting them would givo the Sécrolary of State ff the report was re- | from the members of the Firo De; 4 a to be made to him or filed in his office. As to the they were nominated to the Common Council by the en- pepe yd lo fed ‘che Bb ee ti ‘Brooklyn, ‘and Senpenien anh Rant areca a he aeieeee iven were a like duty is imposed on the department of New York; | ballot of the Naaniete of the Ses as pro- and the most that can justly be said of it ia that a matter | scribed by the ordinances of July 16, and June 22, of Lave between the cities is legalized to | 1842. They were, for most ofthe held at the pleasure a mu duty, and each party {g authorized | of the Common Council, and finally “until a new eleo- to pay for the favors it receives. Conceding that | tion shall be asked for by a majority of the firemen, @ “metropolitan fire district” is created the be held and the nomination made by them duly act, composed of the cities of New York and - | Confirmed. ’? wn.the pertesmanee of hele juties, and in it cannot be doubted but that the officers created pated mga yo a Seaman, cnt ta She cate sad management propert for extin- guishing were to regulations and Ordinances of the Council. Did those facts have the effect to make them public and civil officers within the provision of =e constitution? The object of their reat public ‘inportanes, relating ter tho” socartty of life and y a 9 ctty, But rf compa it “by” the” appointment. “of “large S 9 bodies of publio oficers ncies or instrumentalities for that purpose were and created in the form of com; of with foremen, assistant foremen, and vi minor who were subjected to other Sot highee agents. ia the of ongineers and assistant engi an organized body of men to signification, They were used, undoubtedly, with refer- | accomplish by combination what they were individnally ence to that meaning, and in uo loose and general sense. | unequal to perform. It would astonish a lifetime fire- The statutes of the State had defined and classified | man of New York to be told that he had been all the with great precision tho public orcivil officers. For | while a public officer; and if the firemen were not them- most part they, ith tho exception of town | selves public neither were the persons selected officers, were arranged in classes, and denominted | from themselves to superintend them in ‘the legislative, executive, judicial and administra | formance of their labors and duties. Officers they tive (1 KR » chap. 5, 95), and the several | were in reg wo relations to the subordinate town officers wero with equal distinctness, | members the Fire Department, and in the sense Upon all these, with few oxceptions, the constitution or | in which that term is to indicate that rela- pon the statutes imposed the obligation of the oath by the constitution, under the sanctions.of which the duties of {lice were to be performed. (Constitution of 1821, art. 6;1B. S., 119, 120, 846.) But article 10 of the constitution itself does not leave usin any doubt 9s to the sense in which these words were ‘The third section doclaros that “when the duration of any office is ea sariton by this constitution, it may be declared vy law,” &c. ‘hat tl Loaiala hall provide for filling the Fi Ea it, gt rg _ she gy nil | at the islature st re vacan- ire ior one |, in cane of tive offices, that no person | the provisions in relation to Peg (mart Bom of virtue of his appointment to All a vacancy, | offices with the political year, .bad te saan, atte Bia hapyemie atthe | this class of municipal agencies; nor, 10, touching tbe duration of filling of vacancies, and when the office shall vacant, ever been applied to the firemen and their officers in cities and villages. ‘There has been a great dereliction of duty heretofore on the Bae of the lature, if these numerous bodies of public officers were intended to be embraced in the provisions of that chapter. But the whole difficulty is easily solved and disposed of, by re- curring to the tact, which may be said to have been uni- versally accepted as truo, that the firemen of our citios and villages, and their various officials of y grade, have never been regarded as civil and public officers. In the People va. Conover (17 N. Y., 64), 1 was held that @ mere agency of a municipal corporation is not an offi- cer of the State; to be such the office must be directly created by the constitution, or by statute. I think, therefore, it may be safely aaser that the foremen, enginoers and other officers of the fire department of Now York were not, in 1846, officers tn the sengo of the Constitution, so that the Legislaturp could not direct the Mode of their selection and appointment in ite discretion, It had the power to have deciared them publtc officers, had it chosen so to do, and thereby have cronted new officers independently of the city authorities, so far as the appointing power is concerned. So far asthe act of 1865 transfers these powers and duties to the commis- sioners, it creates both new officers and new offices, for it changes functions herctofore performed by persons non- official in their relation to the public, into the duties of public and civil oilficers, As if the Legisluture should declare the presidencies of all. insurance companies whese charters aro under its control, to be public offic to be filled by appointment of the Governor an Sonate, without at alt changing the duties of the posi- tton, Tho office would be new, though dl! its duties would bo old, because private functions would be trans muted to public and ofiicial ones, It is of no moment what official relations may have sprung up, since 1846, to govern the firs department of the cliy, nor whether any of them are public offices in thoir nature. ‘Their places bere Ente td any there be, aro clearly sub- ject to the authority of Legisiature; because the con- read the: provisions without seeing that t! “officer"’ and “offices” were used in s strict conventional sense, meaning those which were “public and civil,” in the sense in which those terms are in the constitution and statutes of the State. The Metropolitan Fire Commissioners, created by the act of 1865, constituted a board or department of large and very general powers within their local jurisdiction. ‘The act has gathered into their ipa variety of func- tions, powers and duties heretofore exorcised by a num- ber of other persons. It has made them officers, and thrown around their powers the sanctions of public and civiloffice. New officers are, therefore, unquestionably created; und it remains to be seen whother a now office has not also been created, so that the Legislavure could direct tho manver in which it should filled. The fact that the functions and powers that are now centered in.an office have previously, in some form, been used to the benefit and advantage of the public, is not the test to which this question is to be brought. Under such @ test it would be dificult to conceive a case where a new office could be made, for it taxes ingenuity to imagine duties or functions of public interest that have notin some form been exercised by some class of cxist- ing officors or persons. The test must, thorefore, be, whether the functions conforred are substantially new in the soase that they were not exerciséd by public civil ofticors at the time the constitution was adopted. The powers conferred on the new department are suiticienly ‘expressed m the following sections of the act to raise fully the questions before us:— > Sxo. 4. Said commissioners, on being qualified, shall meet and organize the Metropolitan Fire ‘one of said commissioners to be president, and appointing 3 on to be secretary. Whereupon they shall possess and Wo all the power aud authority conferred upon or posseasd by any and all officers of the Fire .Department of the city of lew York, and w the exclusion of all such officers, and such other powers and duties in said district as are hereinafter conferred. Three of commissioners shall constitute a | stitutional inhibition lies only to offices existing at @oram for the Srananetion of business, but the surviving | that time; aud I, Shieature: “feleatn from pursuit toe members may, al any lime, dil @ vacaney, as provided in thé | history of the tire department since that period. “But it Sane Tie. cid Meteppolitan Fire Department is hereby | May be urged, from the fact that the corporation of the empowered and directed to and exercise fully aud | city of New York were authorized to appoint the firemen exclusively all the powers. to ‘ail the duties, for | and their officers, and legislate nerally for their the goverument, Management, maiieganes end direction of roguiation, that ‘the act of 1865, which gives he De nent: city of New Rong bre pac deh my mm those powers to the new department, is, for and property thereof, which, at the time of the o1 tion, pote ae les Oh the seamiiehiae: ° But oe eee ine oaisere at the Fis Deparment ctiasig | thove powers were no part of the oficial duties. of ‘or of sald elty: said powers and | individual officers composing the Common Council. They city, or the ollloers duties rorcised and performed, und said p wet io the said oft othe: aes ans sare tc See, Sam POTah Ah iy ate ehaatr Lek officers any power in relation to exunguishms io sald cit} ‘e hereb: were given to ‘the Mayor, Aldermen and commonaity of the city in Common Counol! convened,” and were part of ent sliall hereafler #0) their general werd as an administrative and logintative body. The of ure of the wer State is supreme over that of all 1 r except when the constitution intervenes to restrict it. The corporation of the city is not an officer within the meaning of the tenth article. To diminish or restrict its general legislative or administrative power ag a body corporate is not to eo or change a public office in the sense of a constitutional restriction. ¢ Legisiaturo may recall to itself and exercis: at its pleasure so much Commit to in and for the city of tools, implements and apparatus used’ in the extinguish! provide suitable locations , and to buy, sell, con- struct, repalt_ end have tho care of thé same and take any and all suchdction fn the premises as may be reasonably ne- ceaaary and proper. of the powers it has conferred upon the city corpora. erated ne meee hereby, created ts heroby em | tion aslare not secured to it by tho consutuiion, “This Pive pewer and discretion for the government, mabagernent, | necessarily results iromthe fact that all the legislative maintenance and di o! 4 power ot the peopie is granted to the Legislature except veral buildings, rty, and appurtenances thereto, aD such as is expressly reserved. This ry = T conceive, was necossarily disposed of by the ) eople va. Draj a ntenent of the 15 N. Y., 532). One question in that case was whother np ghey yo mee ey Negisiatare could create the pew civil division, and, SY oe cna boned of the Fire, Department aa. ir taking from the Common Council of New York the New Yori. And it shall be the duty of all ‘and off- ra of and control of (he entire police of the cers tn possession of any pro} a or personal, belong: | city thitherto belonging to them, confer it upon ing to oF set apart for or in use by or for the Fire spe new district officers appointed by the Governor it of said city, to deliver the same to the control of sald Tietropolian Fire Department." ‘The first inquiry then is, were tho fire the city of New York and the officers , whose ex- jtence and functions, so far as wy relate to public iu- terests are swallowed up in the sree car Fire De- partment, officers when the new constitut of 1846 was adopted, within the meaning of article ten of that in- strament. No general statuto has been brought to our notice and none has fallen under our observation by which the fire department or its officers wore ever called or recognized as public or civil officers. It is nevessary, and Senate. I: was argued that this took away powers emanating from local constituencies, and that it was intent of the constitution to securo all existing local authority to its existing log sources—an object which was, of course, directly - verted, if new territorial divisions could bo cre: em- bracing existing localities in which tho same powers were to be exclusively exercised under a central State a@ithority. But to this position it was answered, “It may be said, that as matiers of police have generally been of local cognitance, an act which shall unite for Nice pul , several counties and cities causes the Focal ‘vison wo ment of therefore, to examine the history of the department to be lese distinctly defined; and this is ascertain whether in fact or law it is entitled to claim | true. But this, if it proves anything, proves too such relations to the public. But this examination may | much. Tho argumeat would stamp the distribution of be limited to the period antecedent to the adoption of een (Dogme ay ae since a no upon the question. ar of the legislature, passed March 1798, the firemen of the city of New York were incorporated by the name of “The Fire Department of the city of New York," with the usual general powers of a corporation, to continue until the first Tuesday Fe ie 1818. They were empowered to choose representatives, who, out of their own number, were authorized to choose a presi- dent and vice ident, and, out of the whole body of the firemen, three trustecs and a treasurer, secretary and collector. The reprosentatives were empowered to make pe ordinances and bs gerne touching the mun- rement and disposition their funds, the meetin, of the jou, the duties and conduct of the oili- cors and’ trustoes, and ‘‘all such other matters as ap- rtaim to the business, onds and purposes for which he §=said corporation is instituted, and for no other purposo whatsoever.” The funds of the corporation were directed to be appropriated to the relief of ut and disabled ‘arene, and their admin‘strative authority among the local divisions, with the attribute of absolute permanency. very chat fa this respect would intensify or detract from the dis- tinctness with which those divisions were marked when the constitution was framed. Within our recollection the arrangements for the support of the poor have been ‘the subject of changes, which have taken from the county authority and given it to the towns, and the re- verse. District attorneys were once appotuted for sove- ral counties. .Afterwards one was appointed for each county. The same features are found in respect to com mon schools. In the administration of this system both town and county agencies are employed; bat changes are often made by which power is taken from one and given to the other. if we were to establish the principle that the Legislature can never reduce the administrative authority of counties, cities and towns; can never resume in favor of the central powerany portion of: the jnrisdiction of those local divisions, or change tho partition of it among them as it existed when the constitution was adopted, we should, I think, make an impracticable government. It ia the business of the families; but if shoald amount to a greater sum | Legislature to adjust, in the intorest of the whole than the trustees should think necessary to apply to | people of the State, the distribution of the powers those the ntatives were empowered to | of government, taking care that no direct pro- apply Sick surpias ‘othe parpare of extinguishing fires, | vision of the constitution is violated, and that under such limitations and restrictions as they might, with the sanction of the corporation of the city of New York, deem proper. This incorporation waa renewed by an act passed , 1816, and extended, without Sue powers and a to hog lat os ind 1831, and extended to the ist hd of May, 1860, Reise ne arrangement which it has made is incidentally dis- turbed. * © We conclude that the act is constitution- N. 0 one, I think, can doubt the power jare to withdraw en: tirely or postpone the exercise of an authority conferred soonor altered, modified or repealed by the Legislature,"’ | by itself alone upon the mayor and aldermen. No pro- and ita authority to hold real Und personal estate waa in- | vision of the constitution contains any restriction upon creased to the sum of $50,000, which was en! to | this " In that caso the act withheld for atime $100,000 by an act passed March 26, 1851; and again, by | the appointment of an officer whose appointment had Chapter 08 of the Laws of 1368, the charter wasextonded | been vosted in the common council prior to 1846, and re- ‘until the drst day of May, 1830, ‘ uniess sooner alt tained the incumbent in office during that period. “The modified or a by ‘the Legisiature.’’ Tt will be ob- | Legislature, said Denio, J., in Darlington ve. the rel served that the charter of this corporation has been at | &c. (MSS. Op.), have ‘plenary power in respect to all times since 1838, at which time the renewal of 1831 | subjects of civil goverument which they are not pro- took effect, expressly subject to be altered, modified or | hibited from exerciaing by the constitution of the United repealed by the aro at ite pleasure; Btates or by eome provision or arrangement of the con- accordingly, in 1841, i was altered by making | stitution of the State.” And he condenses, with appro- exempt firemen eligible to most of its offices. | bation, the views expressed by Justice heey ger od This corporation was thus in existence under its | Woodward vs. Dartmouth College (4 Wheat., 513), “ original charter, with few slight modif@tions, when the | there were two kinds of Hons constitution took effect. It was the tative of a | such as were for public ‘and othors of a pri- represent public charity (3 E. D. Smith, 440), whigh waa the chief object of its creation. Neither the the officers clected under the provisions of its charter, were at any time, by reason of any power derived through the charter, public or civil o' within the meaning of the constitution. The corporation was not a municipal or political body, and neither it nor its officers occupied any greater official relation to the public than the officers or managers of humerous fe. ligious and charitable corporations of the State, And it cannot be doubted that in so far as the officers of the Fire Department derived their authority under the act of incorporation, they have been at all times sinee 1838, subject to the control of of towns and cities or the like, and being for public advantage, are to be governed according to the laws of the land. That these were mere creatures of public institution created oxclusively for public advantage. That |t would seem reasonable that such a corporation may be controlled, and its constitution altered and amended by the government in such manner as the pub- aa te That such legislative inter- ference cannot be said to {1 ir the charter by which the corporation was formed, use thero ia in reality Fanioe ela’ Sey ine wast ore mere! ccstus "Teun of the pus, the Kent. ts) tn the siature of the State, It waa competent for the | Constitul “g 1, 387; 2 in ater wh we repealed the charter at any moment, | People vs. lorrls (13 Wend., 396), the late Suprome that goue, basis fur official oxistence would be | C held that poll powers conferred upon a corpo- Court loft to the persons holding the varions offices under it? | ration for the ‘oral government of a place aro not vested The corporators under this charter, prior to 1846, were | rights as against the State, and may abrogated by the a Department, and firemon be- islature, ag well by a general law affecting the whole ee Bese as by's iA the powers of the corpo. ye of the of New Yat a Lae oe a The breaen ene ration. “It is an unsound and even absurd fe (is 1798.) The firemon were selected under conferred power various acts of the islature, by Nelson, J., in an opinion of signal ability, “‘tuat po- ‘the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalt; onthe city of iteal powet ednfered by the Legislature can become a New Yi in Common Council coavened,”” who were em- | vested right as against the government in an individual pow Tomove them at pleasure, and to ‘make | orbody of men. It is repugnant to the genius of our rales and regulations in reapeet of the government and | institutions and the spirit and m of the constitu. duty of the by them appointed firemen, | tion; for by fundainental ww all political in the working, g and frequent exercising, trying | rights not there defined and taken out of the and using ot the fire engines, tools and other instru. exercise of logislative discretion, were intended to be left ments," and in to their conduct and duties at ibject to its regulation.” These roi are equally fires, (Laws of 1813, ch. 96, §§ 74, 75, 76, 84; laws of | applicable to the present constitution, It would be im- 1817, ch. 69, § 1.) ordinances of’ the Common Coun- ing the good sense of the ion to assume, oil the membors of at by the arrangements of the tenth article relating 6 leitly defined. The ordinance of local officers and there was any de- Phat i shouia “consist of @ chief ong: sign to or guard powers in the administrative other engineers, fre wardens, fire: dodies or legislatures of aiainiiee Such an and ladder men as might from time to time be appointed | intent not have been couched ia dubious by the Common Counail, and who shail respectively be | nor left to blind inference, Both on authority distinguished by the: several ” | principle the power oxiata In the Legislature to diminish, Thig ordinance, in reqpect to | ! Of persoga | geguialg or reeume Rogers kes Gon: FRIDAY, JUNK 23, 1865. ferred on al! inicipal eorporations, unless tnterdicted by the conatitution itself. To transfer $0 @ new board a Breet at caret af eetaanes cones 40 K0U8- an) ex; implied in the second sectiow of the tenth of the rom thes jews tt follows that eae views i the appointment of the defendants to the ‘office of metropolitan fre commis- siomers was constitutionally valid, and they are entitled Ye liverod a dissenting opinion. eee Ten EUROPE. PRINCE NAPOLEON REPENTANT. BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR MAXIMILIAN, ‘The Commissioners Busily at Work—Nu- Bion &e., &o. merous Applications from Members of —_ the Old Organization Received by the Board for Positions Under the New Law, de. ‘The Board of Fire Commissioners were very buay yes- terday bearing some complaints and cases of appeals from the decision of the Chief Engineer, in all of which they sustained the action of the Enginoer, thus at once conveying the idea that they intended to enforce the best of discipline, They will have an interview with the offloers of the old department and with the com- mittee of the Common Council to-day, when it is ex- peoted all the arrangements will be completed for the official transfer of the property of the department and the eagumption of all its functions by the Commissioners, Our European files by the Asia, which arrived at Bos- ton yesterday, have been received, The French Emperer and Prince Napo- June 7.} peror is bis JPars correspontence of the Londen t is ead, I believe truly said, that the satisfied with the of affairs Reports wore circulated on Wednesday that some of ous eenee aol the engine compantes had turned in the tongues of their pee whi machines, and would not take them out again, having | not be safo to trifle wi placed pect Pieans d upon premier ‘This was ta- | ceived lotters from his ——. Ray refused to ir duty, but all are Cmcbenting ecancs, ani ‘The Board had a great man; fn fact wore perfectly over 2 thea tor ications Imed with them—for positions from old members of the dopartm cousin ‘pected which will be duly considered and acted. ieee er thet i easy Woy ie sadn short time. Thus far these spelesiione have come from officers as well as men. No change will be More Brave Beiges for Maximilian. nade at present in the companies of the Fire De; ment, and the work will continue to Se perioeet ai usual; butinashort time it is horses will be adopted for the rtation of engines. In due course of time other improvements will be adopted, as they may be suggested, and the men will have their overhauled and inspected, to the end that only the best aud most efficient may be pormanently retains Sevoral Belgian Jou: volunteers have offered themselves to replaoe in Mexico their countrymen who fell at Tacamburo, Fentanism in pivarnosl. {From the Liverpool Mercury, agouts ind boon bualiyes work enone the 2 work among the Irish popula- tiow in Liverpool, poo hp roy F persons: eae. Ing enrolled enone: te “brotherhood.’? On Wednoa- day night police of No. 7 was called upon to appre- hend a man named James Byrne, and other men, em- ployed at Mr. Lecch’s sugar works, in that town, on « charge of having robbed a fellow-workman named Pat- rick Burns of £7 78. 6d. The officer took the men to the detective office, On. Byrne being searched, a bce of ruled paper was found in his pocket, in the officer attempting to look at this paper, Byrne snatched it from his hand, tore it, and endeav: to swallow it. He was prevented, however, from doing this, The paper was picked up, and on the fragments being carefully pasted together {t was found to be what there is every reason to believe is tho Fenian oath. The writing on the paper is as follows:—I, in the presence of Almighty God, solemnly swear allegiance to the Irish republic, now virtually established; to take up arms in its defence ata moment's notice; that I will to the best of my power, defoud its territory and independence, and implicitly obey the commands of my superior officers; 80 help mefGod.’’ Byrne is a pensioner, and a certificate of discharge was algo found upon him, which showed that he had served in the Eighty-sixth regiment of foot, and that he had been discharged from that regiment. It is consequently presumed, from his having served in the army, that tho Fenians were desirous of taking advan- tage of his military knowledge, for such persons would no doubt be invaluable for the’ purpose of initiating im the “goose step’’ those patriots who are to form the armies for the liberation of Ireland. that eran Engine Company No. 1 All Right. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Yorn, June 22, 1665. Allow me to contradict a statement which appeared in your columns yesterday charging Engine Company No. 1 with having run their engine in tongue first and draped their house in mourning upon the reception of the news from the Court of Appeals. engine was not run in tongue first, nor was the house draped in mourning, or anything of the kind; and I would further state that the members of Engine Com- pany No. 1 are just as willing to do thoir duty and will die as game as any in the dopartment. CHAS. FEITNER, Foreman Engine Company No. 1. INTERESTING FROM BOGOTA. Our Bogota Correspondence. Boaora, United States of Colombia, April 29, 1865. Movements of General Sickles—Condition of the Republic— Weavh of I's Territory and Chanees of Improvement, de. An opportunity having prosonted itself by a mail leaving for the coast, I take advantage of it to send you & fow items of news. General Sickles, of the United States Army, {s still here, but I learn that having nga. the Kuglish nearly concluded his business, ho will shortly be making “fronds London Post Sune }.) the return voyage to the coast. Ip the meantime the “rainy season’ has bogun, and the ride over the CHELMSFORD SUMMER MRETING. The second day of the mooting was again, In point of woathor, the pink of perfection. Tho assemblage, per- mountain roads will be something fearful. Ihave not, | haps, was greater than on Weduesday, owing no doubt as 1 remember, described these roads over the Andes— 2 arvereasinenere meshing veg Kao) previous a 9 sport. h came of produced some very ex- indeed they are not roads, as thoy perhaps may have been | cit!» racca, the chief item, the fasox Handicap, particu. under the Spanish reign, Thoy are mainly trails worn by mountain streams, flied with rocks, almost impassable to man or beast, ofton passing along the brink of a frightful Precipice, whore a false stop would hurl one down thou- sands of feet, and you have no choice but to let your mulé have his own way, And here, indeed, is one's larly ‘boing most closely contested; but the result proved in favor of Dawdle, George. Fordham’s resolute riding Just landing the Amorican's colors. ‘The Keanx Haxpicar of 10 sovs. each, 3 ft., with 50 added, for all ages; winners 61b extra: the winner to be sold for £200, reo quarters of a mile. (32 subs.) Mr, R. Ten Broock’s Dawdle, by Saunterer—La Vic- timo, 4 yrs, Sst 7b (Fordham)......... safety, for theso droll creatures soom gifted with a | Mr. S, Thalusson’s Yeluti, 4 yrs, Tat 18ib (oacon| 2 | strange intolligence. Tho instant they come to adan- | Mr. T. Hughes's Dolphin, 6 yr, Yat lb (Loaten)..... 3 The fullowing aiso ran:—Juliet, Kromeski, Erin-go- gerous or impracticable pass they stop, and no torture can make them move a step further im that direction. | "pStusy'-o tt w Betting—3 to 1 carh agst. Dawdle and Voluti, 7 to 2 Coming this way on the first day General Sickles rode a horse furnished him by a very hospitable and estoemed American at Honda, but the poor animal fell in climbing up @ rocky ascent made alippery by wet clay, and down the mountain they both went back- wards; but, fortunately for the rider, the steed brought up against the sides of a narrow ravine. and he ‘excapea injury. Nothing would induce the horse to try itagain, and so the Goneral walked on, or rather was carried up in the arma of the arrigrus who accompanied the party, After that he rode a mule, and did not meet with any other mishap, although one of the ordorlies’ mules fell with bim two or thro times. Abdut Bogota people ride a good deal, and so dol, In fact, a horse is the only conveyance. No carriages nor agst. Dolphin, 4 to 1 agst. Kromeski, and 10 to 1 agat. Krin go Bragh, THE REBEL PRISONERS. Visit to Fort Delaware—Converna' With Ex-Govern Lubbock, of 'T' {Brom the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Ascending # pair of stairs to the second story of the fort, we wero ushered into a small, plainly furnishod room, and found there, sitting at a table, Colonel Lub- bock, of Jeff. Davis’ staff. Colonel Lubbock was cap- tured with Jet nd soon afterwards was incarcoraied in Fort Delaware. He was, prior to 1863, Governor of Texas; but was called to Richmond by the archtraito laced on hia staff. He accompanied Davis on his fight ‘rom Richmond, aad was his coustant companivn until ture. wagons are allowed in the city. The streets itrictl: nana have or Serve Pay are 80 raded, inetining from the stde- , in fact, any other prisoners ¢ fort; but, as waik to £ deep gutter in the middle, through ommandant kindly permitted the writter to go where he pleased, he atrained a point and ead what bi pleased to the extent of passing a few hurried words with Colonel Lubbock. He that he had not been permitted te ‘& newspaper since his capturo; but rom what ht had heard he ire a some er- Toneous statements had been published regarding the capture of Jeff. Davis. Ho (Davis) did not properly belong to the train in which his wife stream of water is always flowing—that no way exists. This gutter is in fact a sewer on the Al night the streets are not lighted. A servant always carries a lantern for those who are out after dar! 1 fad the people hospitable and ‘cordial, although ti diaturbed condition in which the laat (Mosquera’s) revolu- tion loft all society, and tho constant apprehension of another have broken’up nearly every social circlo in the ly wero. He was travelling with an ontirel; capital. Even now the military guards at the ps here J re a agen dne i iy “ " erent escort; bu ported to him that a party Prosident’s ~palaco end where Congress mects | or Jay Hawkers were about making af attack om and roops sleep on their arms, th» government rohibits all large moveatioges. To-night even the opera if forbidden, and really Bogota sleeps on the crater of a politica volcano that may at any moment burst into james. ‘A powerful religious agitation 1s now at work ip the ropublic, caused by tho priests, whose property was con- fiseated by Mosquera, and most of them expelled. Mu- rillo has allowed them to return in deference to the wishes of @ tuajority of the mon and all the women. The Freach Minister here, \¢ appears to me, is so un- robbing bis wife's train, and he ved over, In company Lubbock and others, to protect them if necessary, arrived there just in time to be gobbied up by the biue jackete. Colonel Labbock i permitted to take lk for half ‘an hour each morning on the parapet of the fort, at- tended by a guard. On these occasions he dons a rebel colonel’s cout, with three stars on the collar, a well-worn pair of buckskin gloves and military cap, and thus attended, slowly parades the parapet during the allotted mond. (from the Richmond Re Jane 21.) of thd four hundred and three P released Johnson's Island on ners came from Camps Douglas and Elmira. ee ber of the Twontg frst Vinglaicatalry, who were amoug pol i cal who w ant at Joluson’s Island, intended sending off about the same number on Saturday last Died. Fox. —On Thuraday evening, J Bow. Fou. 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Cristadoro’ Hair Dye, and Wig Depot, wholemale and retail The dye applied by skillful urtists. Preservative No. 6 Astor Youse, Consumption.—Henry J. Phillips, M. D., ives his exelustve attention to Di wes of the Air ings and Heart, Treatise mailed tor @) cents; dll Fou avenue, jost and aggrosaive towards this government that [think | time. He is apparently about fifty years of age, bald - x iu headed, has a grey beard and mustache, and short and Legendary eles Og reaaany thick set in figure. He is evidently a man of education, addregsoda dospatch to the Fore.an Seorstary,commenting | 84d very courteous and geatlemanty in bis nanners upon a decision of the Supreme Court of the republic, in An adjoining room ts occupied by Licutenant Colonel J.-M. dJohuson, Thirty-second Mississippi, who was terms which none of our joarnals employed towards Coursol, the Canadian magistrate. But I think some marrow and muscle have recently been imparted to the backbone of this government—f noed scarcely say by whom--and so the French Baron bas uot frightened them. ‘These republics all tean upon us like so many lambs pursued by wolves. The hatred that exists hore against France and England, is vastly beyond any thing in the United States, for our conscious power gives dignity and moderation to our sentiments, so that with us scornful doflance is the count of the crouching fury of the feeblor South American States. In a war the Monroe doctrine, we could concentrate half a million of men at any point on this continent, and they would, if necessary, march bare. footed and naked, aud live on. the wild products of the mouotuing and plains. Not even confederate experience conveys any idea of what the soldiers of these countries can endure, With good arms and ammunition, no sol diers in the world could surpass tem. 1 «peak of 1 Indian and negro population, mostly half-breeds; they are intelligent, strong, brave, capable of great endurance, ‘and would rather Sight than work. Whenever the gov- ernment, or a revolutionary leader, like Mosquera, wants an army, they sond out a few squads of soldiers, who seize all the Indians, negroes and pedns they meet, tie thom, bring them to the nearest post, where they are uniformed, armed, put into the ranks, and they in turn go out and seize others, and #o the army is raised. No dosertions occur, as their women svon follow them and fad them out, and the women forage for the sup- plies, The government provides no rations except cattle, which cost almost ing. A great deal of tobacco is produced in this country, some of it quite good; but no care is bestowed upon its cultivation. Indeed, agriculture of every kind is almost ina primitive state; no im implements of hus- bandry are aps and there ia no spirit for material im- provement in any’ ‘of industry. The poople have no fondness for —. but war, women, politica and religion. From fi thirty children in a family aro not uncommon, and this is the only thriving branch of industry. The mountains are full of afiver and precious stones, but they are nevePaystemat iy ov orously worked. A few thousand Yankees would ° any one of these countries a Paradise. All De bohm in this market ove finds all of our fruits and ail the tropi- cal fruits besides. There is not a chimney in Bogota, yot one wears woolen always with comfort. It is curious that but one kind of fish is found in the wators of t plain So mountains, and it is more 4 reptil ‘thao 8 Osh. News from Fortress Monroe. Fontnass Monnon, Juno 20, 1365, The steamers Concordia and Zonobia arrived from Boston Tho English frigate Styx sailod this forenoon from Hampton Roads and went to sea. wounded Novembor J0, 1864, and captured December 17, 1864, at Franklin, Middle Tennessee. Colonel Johnson i# a son of the rebel Genoral Albert Sydney Johnson and resided, before the war, in Carroll county, Mississippi. He is tall, commanding looking man, with large gray eyes and military mien. While enjoying his moruing walk on the ramparts he moves very rapidly to and fro, evidently determined that his health should oot suffer for want of all tly reiso he can get. What he thinks of life in Fort Delaware may bo gieaned from a perusal of tho following lines, written lately by him on the fly- loaf of a book he had beon reading :—~ ‘Tue only thing I cau compare Ton prisoner in Port Delaware goose at Strasburg, at the stake, Buffering for ita liver’ s sak L wonder if I here abould die. If they'd put me in a Strasburg ple. General Barringer and General Page, of the rebel army, also are residing at Fort Delaware, at Uncle Sam's expense, but were pot visible during my recent visit. General Barrinzer was captured near Danville during the tof Lee's army, and General Pago is the re- hero who commanded Fort Gaines, in Mobile harbor, and behaved so bad during its surrot A General Wheeler and staf have in occupants of the fort for somo time, but wore sont home a few bom wince. Betore communication wiil reach the public eye Fort Delaware will be entirely cleared of rebel prisoners, with the exception of eighty-four officers of inferior grade. The ee? of these will soon be discharged, and ero long the spot which for over three years has been one of the most prominent mi prisons in the North, containing at one time over ten thousand volun- tary inmates, wiil be trod only by loyal feet. State Prisoners in Pe: ACTION OF GOVERNOR CURTIN PRCT! (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press, z Harnenvro, June 21, daos, At this and other military posts throughout the State there are a large number ak in custody of the f military authorities, charged with various offences. Many of those thus held are mon of eo ity im their lo- calities, men of bi who suffer peculiar hardship in being thus detained, and who have been anxiously waiting @ trial. Governor Curtin has been making the most renuous yan ve the casos Sean than om prisoners brought berore the proper authori may either be punished, if guilty, or bo immediately set at liberty if innocent, The governmeut at Washington haa boen releasing a large number of prisoners held in the South, aa well as sending home scores of othors con- fined in the different forte of the North. ith these facta before the public, it is deemed no more than right that the prisoners held at the various posts in this aud other charged with trivial military offences, should at once be set at liberty. The object of Governor Curtin in urging this matter is to gave tho national au thorities from being miajudyed by the Northern massos, ‘and to prove the good sense of the policy of acting with magnanimity towards th bt ignorant men of the North, as well as the same Claes to Arrivals Departares. the South. Li fom from Hoaton—Mre J 1, Stone, aera nb be, : | Colonel Mosby Reported in Lynchbarg. eee Tey eibieons Wee BAe sony Sanith, ben {From the Lynchburg Republican, Juno 14 } Pai wou, (io d Garpaater, We Win |, Mina 3 Morgan, Some little stir wae croated in the city yesterday by Benjamin Loung, Mrs Mary’ Aun Kynastoi, Mre Freeman, | the report that Colonel Mosby, the celebrated partisan Hen Ge P Hale (Minteter to Bpain), Mra Hale st chieftain, waa in Lynobburg. Various rumors were afloat ‘na to the cause of his appearance, but the following are, wo boliavo, the facts of the case:—Some days since Col- onel Mosby's brothor came to Captain Swank, Provoat Marshal of this ity, to ingutro if Mosby would be Reroted on coming in and surronding to the authorities, Captain inlo, Mra Cheever, Mr i Mrs J A Newoor a0 Louisa M Kay, Mr and Mes BD Metcalf and two Misses Mew If, Mrs Lockwood, A Bertrand, A Brett, WH funn, Mire Munn and child, P.Davia, H Gowan, John ‘O'Conner, HJ Fairobild, L Loeb, Win Smith, Mr and Mrs L BJ Mckay, Mr and Mrs, om, 4 Mra Hh Myers, H San HU. Freeman, Mire Bat ‘A Thom) Swank repited that he woul make inquiries upon the Sean a youn Dnnegrh, Me mea ihre Hugs Ds putject and give him an answer in a few days. Day be- Fee ene Cree ade) W Rooke SL Pe fore” yesterday, he again called to seo the Mar: Glare YM Robison, A.A. Green, ry Green, RChaffey, | shal Wy subjoot, and was told that Col- Paucion i James Nicol, James Pickard, Mrand Mra | onel loxby would be paroled if he would ffetandr Ril, er Woaeaaras th gry fete | come, tm tnd” give, mani on, In seconde ¥ 4 with this information, Mosby came into Lynchburg yo. Langel, two children and'servant, and Mise Chapman—@0. | to nt che Provost, Marabal's office for & le. ala Gurnett happened to be attending to the dition the offios at the time, and, not being aware ‘af the arrangemoat, sont to Colonel Duncan for ins uc: tins gad anaghie, ANG Se Baayen Ms Corns, Bunions, Enlarged Joints, and li diseases of the feet, cured by Dr ZACHARIE, 70 Broadway. Dr. J. H. Schenck, of Patadelaiio, wit visit New York profeusionally every Tuesday, except the nexs Fourth of July.” ils ruoms aro at 82 Bond #éreat. 1s, Wiags, Staffs, Balls, dic—All kinda at HOJER & GRAHAM'S, 97 Duane street, three doors ‘woat of Broadway Fan for Fourth July!—Patent Canter- ing Horses, Flags end Stas, 3. W. SMITH, 99 William #& Good Humoredly to Inev- natving Wa GENIN, 518 Broadway, has just lowered the ing the peerless stock of Suaa- rd table de i; prices of all the fabrics com mor Hats to the specie stan Gouraad’s Poudre tile Uproots Hate from low foreheads or any part of the . At bis depot, 453 Broadway, Mailed, $1 5). Get Mra. 's World's Hair Re- store! Dresai mn the roots, produciag Mugla growth and new lifer” Sold by all druggist Grover & Baker's Highest Premiam Elastic Hutch and Look Stitch Bowing Machines, 6 Broad way, N. ¥. Howe Sewing Machine Company—Eltas HOWE, Jr., President, 629 Broadway, New York. 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"elasses, of government securities purchased and foo Trusses.—Marsh & Co.'s Old Estab lished Radical Cure Truss Office still at No. 2 Vesey street Lady attendant. + Be Ae Ww Re ears ned bramng eee life, growth and beauty te the hair. Go mat sale. ne for the Hatr. Use Ratehe’s Mando! show r. vy fourth street and Brosd CASWELL, MACK #00 17°C UNGER & CO., 108-and 100 way, retail agente Chambers street, r Appointed Mossre. We Have This Day Ap le ° rates, for the Courten, Olmriestoa, GEO, WHITIBMORE & 00. wholesale agents ter & Wilson's Sewiug Machines ty Kept in order without charge; ono half of reat ‘of purchs aT BLL, allowed of Dare y. corner Twenty second treo 4 wing Machine. eve Wilteon & Gabon’ Ko, 109 Urgrawar