The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1866, Page 10

10 WASHINGTON. CCNTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE. I wwimees check the regularity of their indulgence ‘or surrender any portion of their accustomed ‘aftowance. It is curious to note shat iron @ianufacturers in making up the caleuls wereased cont ot * tes of tron k ased cost of whiskey, and the emplo: o doubt. to increase the awount of his monthly pay- fol! to cover this new item im the cost of living, It wey De inferred that the consumptien of tiquors tp the lengil ‘and breadth of the land is ax large avever, but that the tax has not been, possibly cannot be, collected. The great temptation fo iliicit distillation and to smuggling, ‘Which arises in cases of the impositon of high duties on Aquos, calls for the enactment'of stringent, almost dese potic laws, not merely for the pun shiment of fraudulent Practices, but for the protection of the honest importer ‘and distiller The carrying of wool out of the kingdom was formerly punished in England by the imposition and we baye found ‘of heavy penaities ; t the introduction ym Canada of ten babies filled with whiskey by their reckless parents ean only be supp by heavy penalties and dy their prompt enforcement, That alarge trade has eon carried og the past year in the manufacture of small copper stile there is abundant evideuce. If these should be suffered to be used clandestiucly, as it is to be apprehended may have been the design, not only would the government be deprived of a larg: amount of reve- wue, but public morals would be mors or less debauched, The Committee of Ways and Means recommend, with ome modifications, a large part of the changes in the Jaw as to spirits proposed he Revenue Commissioner tm order to increase his efficiency. Jt is bel:eved thet the country as well as Congress are in favor of obtaming the waximum amount of revenue from spirit and that we are not so eager to reduce the cost ol atoxicating liquors as to be unwilling to wait until ex Perienco has fully. tested tho policy or impolicy of the highest rate oi taxation, as now fixed by law. It is understood that the method of mixing weod acid with alcohol, as practised in England, so that alcohol might ‘Be used in. arts and manufactures, without paying any tax, has proved a failure, it having been found thas guch methylated spirit can be rectiiiod and made into pure spirit again without any offensive smell. If any ‘ehemigal preparation could be found which would ac- complish this object its discovery and adoption would be @ great relief to many legitimate branches of arts nd manufactures. The Committee of Ways and Means have proposed some modifications of the focome law, but haye not reached the conclu- gion, while the industrial employments — must gemain, to a considerable extent, heavily burdened, that it Can yet be dispensed witb, By its terme as onigi- nally passed it was to expire in 1870, and thus a tem- porary character was put upon ite face, In our great emorjency it contributed—not to be returned again, with interest—a Jarger amount than the richest banks in Eng- Iand would bave loaned to us even at sixty per cent dis- sount. Our Joya! people paki the income tax of 1863 in June, of $20,740,451 33 cents, aud then estimated, upon dno same list, they were called upon in four mouths to pay another income tax, and they responded by cou- aributing $28,920,312. ‘Acain in 1864 their income tax foots up $64,000,000. I point to these facts not as a proud evidence of their patriotism and and wealth, but as a proud evidence of their strict integrity of character, strong as the temptation might be forevasive returns, sore as they might be in sonsequenice of the swift pursuit and contuminous exact- mess of the tax gatherer. They even paid more in 1863 ‘upon the second call than upon the first. Their country ‘was iv need, and even the greed for gain could not tempt the American people to defraud their government. The Jaw left almost to the conscience of each man as to how much he should pay, and all seemed to vie with each etber as to who should pay the most. I question whether apy b pono ever paid a tax more honestly and accurately, and I question still more, whether any free people ever imposed upon thems:lves, through their chosen represen- tatives, taxes so thick and fast, If our income tax should ‘de contemplated aga part of the permanrnt policy of the country, itis not to be denied that It would need ‘various and perhaps fundamental amendments. The ebj-ctions to such laws are sufficiently obvious. First, they are inquisitorial, of necessity, in their character, and Americans, like people elsewhere, though not averse to the eg of the secrote of others, are quite un- willing to disclose their own. Among conmercial men such disclosures may be disastrous, If they show prosperity they excite envy and greater com- petition, or if they show any remarkable weak- ‘Bess they damage credits. Second, the tempta- tion to make statements and lend to these state. ments the sanction of ay oath tends to undermine public morals until men begin to excuse themselves for ‘their own wrong-doing, because it being #0 common that te do otherwise woul: fail in average smart’ Third, when we take into consideration the sources from ‘which income is derived, the habitudes of the diforent persons who pay the tax, the difficulty of apportiouing it 80 that each will have paid in just proportion to every ‘ether porson, leaving each relatively in the same condi Bons, the perplexities become alniost insurmountable. Eniartaining such views, and the pressing exigencics hav- ang passed, we have undertaken to lessen but not to eutirely remove the weight of the income tax. To this @od we propose to exempt the first thousand dollars of every person from any tax, and only to reach any oxcess beyond that amount. This will increase the sum exempt frem «ix hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, Ex. actly how much of a reduction it will make in our reco pts cannot be foretold, but probably not over from ten to fiften por cent, while it is likely to diminish the number of persons taxed pearly one hail, Li it should excuse fifty thouranr So then the reduction would amount to a million jollars for every such tifty thousand persons. There is, perhaps, no justreason for exeusing any portion of the income Of any one from the tax except that of the hard- ship or the inability of persons with a limited income to spare any partof it, Butina republicwa form of gov- ernment the true theory is to make no distinctions as to Permons n their rates of taxation, recornizing vo class Jor special favors; we ought not to create a class of special burdens. Pursuing this principle, the majority of the Committee of Ways and Means have agreed to at portion of the bill which makes the income tax after (his year a uniform one of five per centum upon ‘the annual gains. The loss to the revenue will be large, about $17,000,000, and it will be for the House to say whether the bill shall stand as reported, or whether relief in any other direction is more urgently demanded. In our list of exemptions we strove to reach earliest Shore articles upon which a reduction of cost could bring: relief to the masses of ‘our people; and those reduced ‘re such as have so small margins of profit as to be ‘oppressed and in danger of being annibila‘ed by even vo wmall a tax as live or even three it, whieh tax is mot unfrequently, in cage of branches of business closely eovered by foreign competition, in excess of what may Be considered a reguar and Satisfactory proli, The military power of the United States needs ov eulogizing from any quarter. Its elficiency at home is not likely to be questioned; and wheu it is challenged Lore at will be time onough to answer back. Its financial power also, even in the agonies of civil strife, has been vindicated No stain of dishonor rests upon its credit, Every promise has been kept with entire good faith, No creditor holding the obligations of the pation has bad to do more than to ask and receive. No saithfl evidier bas closed his service without receiving at tho @.me moment with his honorable discharge the last dol- lur due. Is there, therefore, any lurking danger as to ‘our present or future fpancial conditiou? The confidence ef the people in thelr own government cannot be shaken. The vigor and olasticity of American indus ty is unrivalled. Our resources, abundant totday, will be greater to-morrow. No empire, ancient or modern, over Feceived, daily or annually, revenues of eq) tude. And the wealth hidden in our mount sould be placed in the balance would make our uatioval @obt kick the beam, Where, then, is the cioud no bigger Shon 4 man’s hand? It rises only in that quarter from ‘which disloyal representatives may come, open and Snchoate repudiators, lusting for power. Save us from these, and the United states goverument will survive wth its credit and civil glories radiant with youth and pre fame of ages, long after the final chapter in the his ry of anti-républican governments sball haye been written. Mr. RavMonp next addressed the House. He expressed Bho belref that Congress should begin at ones to make ine appropriation for paying off the principal of the @attonal debt. He did not think it wise to provide less than bey Bowerng the first year for that object, to be in. ¢:vased froin year to year, as the aystem of taxation may be perfected and as the ladaury of the country may gradually come to adapt itself to the new principles, An @r cual revenue of three hundred and twenty-four mil- 3. ne would be required to meet the expenses of the gov- roment and the principal and interest of the public © (That debt, great as it was, was pot greater than t+ people could bear, and would bear cheerfully and 7 y, because it was @ debt incurred by the people t ves and for the thomeelves, and 1 © objects the blew: of which the peo 3 wow enjoyed and would enjoy for all time a Bot in adjusting the great burden it * be adjusted so that the people tight bear rT eo that it would not cripple their energies, It #) cold be put whore it could be best borne, not where i. sould rest with ® heavy we it; it should be placed ©. their backs, mot it their arms. | The two great sources rin which the revenue was to be collected were on tm. wrted good*® and upon domestic manutectures The eretary oi (he Treasury enurnerated th “nae from custome at ove bundred millions; but he (Mr, Raymond) Qhought that it was estimated too small, and that the dit ties on importa would be more likely to reach one hundred and fifty millions. ‘The bill before the House proposed fo rave two hyudlved ond fifty millions each year. Be praposed to refer briefly to souwe geueral prin. aipiee whieh ve Congress in acting om 6 tax hil. On of those principtos was «ys to impose taxat on esses, He ihe rian of the @or 4y?wg ior continuing the fret thing wisi should be taxed proportion: to whathe owns Cotton he re avded wa proper Ject of taxation. Tt was not Nike tay ny mw Iron for in Stance, because sther ountres produce iron, and wre fore a duy on raw fron would impose ev Le con uury an unGur competition. Another privciple of tise Bion wor, that as far anpossibie, sn periuities od laxurte Bhevtd be taxed, apd not the p ‘wome tax, le thought the proposition to increas mptod from $600 to $1,060 just and prey in favor of removing the inereosed 4 ‘rem sume above the first $5,000. 1 # com Wwumty op which the tax would fp Mion th yt oould bear it, and it was much easier to pi 0 per cent wo same over the fret $5,000 than to pay 6 Fenton Guine Up to $5,000. In regard to apirite, no te of tara io 60 matter how high, could be oljection. . eXcept Gor coe important rewen, and that was he iompration une inventive to dMieit distillacwn, Me # dollars a gation was promoting Iie 1 the cnile the country was re tw " 14x ob © hinkey 10 such @ pol ue tempt on to Hert dirtl oF else enact awe @ Pirlament as iaat Mey mi NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. create disaffection on the part of a large ion of the Sommoniy. The” aanaal product bare key might be set dowmr as high as forty millon gallons @ yes Last year it was eighty mil- fiona” Rven at ono, dollar a. "gallon tho tax would produce to the government $40,000,000 a year. But he doubted whether at the present Fate the govern- ment would realize half that amount, His own opinion was that a duty of one dollar a gallon would yiela more revenue than two dollars a gallon, He thouglit as to the small manufacturers, such as tailors, dressinakers, 80o- makers, &c., the tax should be removed entirely, as its yield hardly paid the expenses of colloction, and he should, at the proper time, submit motions to that ef- fect. ‘the House th proceeded to the consideration of the Dill by sections for amendment. first rection being that imposing a tax of flve conts per pound on cotton Mr. Lyxen moved an amendment excepting six bun- dred pounds of cotton in the havds of the producers, Pending its consderation the House at half-past four o'clock P. AL. adjourned. SPORTING. The Turf. FASHION COURSE, L. I,—TROTTING, Mowpay, May T—Match $500, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. D. Phifer named b. m, Lida. . cae D. Mace named b. g. Sam. . eas Half. ile. Firat heat. 1:16-2:38 Second heat VT 235% Toird heat 1184 2°36 First Heat.—Lida was the favorite previous to the start at one hundred to fifty, and the betting was very brisk. Sam won the pele and got away with the best of the start, and led around the turn two lengths; but breaking up as heneared the quarter pole he passed that point a length and a half in front in thirty-eight ecconda, He kept ahead the backstretch until, at the end of the old stand, Lida forced him off his feet and the half-mile pole a length in front in 1:16. ing up the Flushing stretch sam was forced to the top of his $ but the lithe mare was in hand and kept two iengthe In front to the three-quarter pole, where Sam was forced to a break in the endeavor to overtake the mare, and she came up the homestretch very steadily and crossed the score a winner by three lengths, in 2:35. Seemd Heat,—One hundred to forty was offered on the mare, but there were no takers. Sam Jed around the turn a couple of lengths, but broke up before reaching the quartor pole, and passed that point half @ length in front, in thirty-nine seconds. Lida soon afterwards over- hauled him, and led a length and a half to the half-mile in 1:17, Sam broke up again on the Flushing end, gaining a little by a jump or two, and the maro was one length in frout as she came on the homestretch. Sam made a third break as be came up the stretch, and the mare beat him to the score over two lengths, in 2:35 3. Third Heat.—Sam gota good lead and went around the turn with a wreak two lengths ahead of Lida, and pasted the quarter pole In thirty-nine and a halt seconds. le broke up twice on the backstretch, and still was a length and a half in front at the half-mile pole, in 1:18}; but going up the Flushing end he broke again, and then Lda passed him and was a length clear at the three- quarter pole, and going steadily up the homestretch won the heat and race by two lengths, in 2:36. BPCOND RACE. Same Day—Match $500, milo heats, best three in five, to wagon. D. Pfifer named b. g. Owl.........2 2 1 0 0 1 dr D. Mace named br. g. Whirlwind..1 1 2 0 0 2 dr. Time—2:50—2 :61 34 +-2 :48-—2 49 34 —2 :50—2 46, First Heat.—Whirlwind was (he favorite at two to one. Owl took the lead and pense the quarter pole two lengths ahead of the brown gelding, but breaking up in front of the old stand, was only a neck ahead at the half. On the Flushing end, the nags becaine yoked, and from there to the siand they had a neck and neck race, Whirlwind winning by a head, in 2:60. Second Heat—Owl broke up soon after leaving the score, and the brown led a couple of lenths around the turn, then to the y oeder pole, and eo down the backstretch passing the half mile pole s length and a half ahead. Owl made @ good attempt along the Flushing end and up the stretch for the lead, but was unsuccessful, and Whirlwind won the heat by haifa length, in 2:513¢. Taird to one was then current on the brown gelding. brown recovered first, and was @ length and a haf in front at the quarter pote, which he made into three Jengthe down the backstretch, when the driver of Owl (not Ptifer, another driver having taken charge of the horse after the sccond heat) put the horse into a rapid run, and when he began to trot a ahead. He continued this lead came in four lengths ahead of the judges decided that great excitement among the lookers-on. Fourth Heat.—-Ow! took the lead and maintained it for occasional runs, and over half a mile, when Whirlwind yoked him, and after sharp struggle they landed at the stand so close av together that the judges gave it a dead heat, Time, 240% “Pf-k Hea'.—Ow) again took the lead and kept in front until near the three-quarter pole, wh n the brown took sides with him, and another exciting contest brought them to the score with their heads together, and again the judges gave it a dead licat, Time, 2:50.5 Sich Heat. —Ow! again led off and kept in. front to the half-mile pole, which he passed first by a head. They alternated occasionally with the Tad up the Flushing end, but up the homestretch Owl ran a little too much, and’ succeeded fn keeping the lead and winning by half aleugth, making the Leat in 2:46. The owners of the horses then agreed to draw, as dark- ness Was setting aptly im, aud ail the outside bets were declared olf, Lovisv BE RAC The Louisville races comme contests, milo heats and three mile race Lancaster, by Lexington, dam Blue Bonnet, was the vfctor, beating a Mickcy Free colt, dam Bette Ward's dam, and Alice Farris. “The Jatter was distanced in the sovond heat. ‘Time, 1:481;—148%{, Ansel, by Lexing- ton, dam by imported Yorkshire, won the three mile race, beating Easter and Saratoga, ‘the latter distanced in the first heat, Time, $:48!;—8:46. The track was in good order, but the attendance was not as jarge as anti- elpated. FIRST DAY. yesterday with two eas. n the first NS IN THE FIELD. Never was there as much interest manifested in re- gard to the movements of the leading clubs of the me- tropolis as there is this season at so early a period of the year. Yesterday afternoon over a thousand spectators were assembled on the Capit oline grounds, at Bedford, to witness one'of the practiced games of the champion club, the fine weather and the curiosity to see the newly organized nine of the Atlantics boing the great at- traction. But seven of the nine put in an appearance, P. O'Bren and Galain being absent. A very good field was selected in opposition to the nine, including Mc- Diarmed and Galpin of the star; Kelly, of the Resolute; Gibson, of the Charter Oak, of Hartford, and four of the old nine of the Atlantics. The game proved to be a one- sided one, as far as the score was concerned, although the fleld nine made some good catches, and played their bases well; but on batting they found Potts’ jrtching, supported as it waa by first clase fielding, too much for them. The rivalry between the Ex: jor and Ailantio clubs, created by the secession (rom 3 of one club to another, bas made the movements of both mat- ters of considerable interest to the fraternity at large. The struggle between them will be as to which will win the most victories and make the highest total score out of an equal number of games, as neither club will play a mateh with the other, we leas We give the score below PURLD NIN. FIRST NINE. Players Outs, Runs. Players. Runs. Ireland, ¢. 2 © Smith, ¢....... ry Babeock, &&..:. 12 Chapman, 1 f,. 6 Boerum, rf. 1 0 Ferguson, 5 b. 6 Joe Oliver, 2 © Start, 1b. 3 MeDiarmed, 2b.. 1 0 S. Smith, r, 3 Galpin, 1b 2 © Potts, p 4 Gibson, 3 3 © Mefonald, ¢. f. 4 Keily, p.... 2 © Flynn, 4 Powers, 1 f. 1 1 Kenney, 2b. ‘4 Total....s..64. 16 3 Total... eee 1d a INNINGS, it 2d. Bd. Ath, Bth. Total. 1 o ° 2 0 3 fers 6 + 3 % M6 Stecle, of the Atlanta club. Mr. Monk. EXCELSIOR CLUB. ne play® against the fleld to-day at The Excelsior three P.M. Brooklyn City News. Brook: ys Comox Covxcu.—A stated meeting of the Rrooklyn Common Couneil took place yesterday after- noon, A communication was received from the Metro. jitan Board of Health relative to removing the gar- and ewill from the city. Referred to the Health Committee. A communication was received from the Nasean Water iment submitting a statement of year ending May 1, 1867, ¥' —Salaries, $27,600 and stat 24; expenses, $1,000; contin. gene iot, $4,000; taxes, $1,200; Ridgewood engine house, for operat expenses, ‘81,181 ;, Mount Prospect cogine, $4 ; expenses estimated for repairs of con- dul, ‘pounds ‘and reserroil | Mon” $58.41 80. Total, 9106450 40. The communi cation woe referred to the ' Water and Drainage Com- tee.) A reso vt on owas adopted authorizing the Street Com- and expenses of distriba- A communica. y may be atorded withont delay. Y nt, hay | the Western Distriet, ing d ty in the Kastern Reierred to Joint Fire Com- Alderman Hornawsy presented a resolition asking bis Honor the Mayer and the Comptroller to insert in “aye nancial budget of ¢ ty expenses the item of £25 000 for epaire and improvements im ge public bolid tgs, wit exper al reference to the City The matter was fe ferred to the Floanee Com With e-tructione to examine the © report ‘etek to the Board the te ood. Khaton of J um ae a rember of do Fire cos of the Western Dise ® the Health Committee which contemplates (ie creation of a bathine estab. lishment on the Kat river, where the pAple of all clavere can have fre. access to reali water ds @ equal) charee, a8 a preventive of cbolere THE LIQUOR QUESTION. CURIQUS EFFECTS OF THE SUNDAY LAW. A GENERAL SPREE YESTERDAY, ‘s Modification” of the Sun- day Clause. Order for the Relief of Restaurants and Their Customers. Wumerous Arrests for Violation of the Excise Law. &e. &e. &o. The Liquor and Excise law continves to excite a great deal of comment and speculation on the part of the general public as well as on the part of those generally interested, especially since the Sunday clause of the Jaw has for once been in full operation, Hundreds aud. thousands of ‘persons of both sexes on Sunday left the City to escape the cperations of the ordinance, and those ‘that remained in the city were much vexed at the dull- ness that prevailed. Yesterday, business being dull, it appeared that all those gentlemen who disapprove of all ‘oppres- sive and restrictive trade and Sunday laws’’ were bound to revenge themselves, It appeared that & large number of such persons gave full vent to their incl.nations, and indulged to an unwarrantable extent in what they had been deprived of the day previous, and the numerous drinking places, especially in those quar- ters where the German element predominates, were crowded throughout the day, and thus the dealers were enabled, to gome extent, to make up their loss on Sun- day on account of being compelled to keep their places closed, Even in restaurants customers who rogulorly frequented certain places throughout the year to get their meals, on Sunday last were compelied to go with- Both broke up at the start, but the: in he was four lengths hirlsind, and two of he won the heat, which createé Her Ws report all dangerous streets, unhealthy cess. ord ink? requiring immediate attention, that the Engs, Secretary of the to sell engines Heqait * sunny ot $6,000, the proposal to out their customary glass of Rhine wine or Inger, All the keepers of the restaurants on this point were very scrupulous, for they feared denunciation, An order is- sued by the Superintendent of Police, which circulated too late among the police on Saturday night, so that its priveleges could not be available, will greatly relieve the keepers of restau- yants when another Sunday comes. It is true that no liquors shall be sold at the bar; but any kind of liquor, whether strong or light, spirituous liquors as well as beer and wine, may be furnished to any person at his dinner or supper table. This will be a great relief to all the German innke pers and beer reta'lers, for all and every one of this class will claim to keep @ restaurant, which, toacertain extent, they can claim. They prob- ably will be able to make a good case in claiming the rivileges afforded by the order referred to, for there is hardly a lager beer shop in the city where meals’ are not served for its trequenters, even if such meals are composed of nothing clse but Swiss and Limburg cheese, green cheese, pickled herrings and bam and eggs. Although the order is not intended to imply that every- ly can make a Bacchanalian feast at the restaurants, it is very lkely that every keeper of a rum and grogehop will find it worth while to transform bis place into a so- called restaurant, to suit himself. It remains to be seen how the runday law will operate when this ‘modifica- tion” will go in force, and whether everybody interested will not “modify” bis place and business in such a@-man- ner as to circumvent the objects fur which the modifica- tion was intended. - In the meantime there continues to be a great rush of grow for licengg at Police Headquarters, which are filed at the office of the Excise Inspector a: the rate of two hundred and fifty a day at an average. The mejores of those persons to whom cert ficates have 'n refused, it appears, inect with a blank refvra! when ‘they appeal to the Board, and a speciat committee com- poscd of Messrs. Manicrre and Acton continues to be in session each day to bear this clause of — oSunday law by keepug their iquor shops open, about eight or nine were discharged and the rest held to bail, A police officer was required to give bonds to answer the charge of being an accesvory in a case where he arrested a person m the Bwenty-second pre- cinct for selling liquor, as it is alleged that he asked for a (Saar oy entering the defendant's place, when he was served. In a fow days a mass meeting of German beer brewers ‘will be held to take some action in reference to this ex cise qvestion, and to take such measures as may be deemed necessary to protect the lager beer interest. BUSINESS AT TH® OFFICE OF TIE INSPECTOR. About two hundred and fifty applications for license were filed yesterday at the office of the Inspector of Excise, Coione] Bartram, whieh will probably be about the daily average for this week, Liquor dealers of Richmond county who desire to ob- tain license, wil! be heard by the Beard on the 2ist inst., Kings county on the 22d, and Queens county on the 24th instant, ‘The following notice was promulgated yesterday :— Orricr ov Insrnovon oF Exctsy, | Sb Morr stxeKT, New York, May 5, 1566, All prsons doing business e towns of New’ Utrecht, Gravesend, New Lots, Flatbush and Flatlands, in the county of Kings, who cre desirous of obtaining license for the sale Of spiritions liquors, wines, aie or Leer in quantities less than five gallons at a time, are hereby notived that a sexton of the Board of Excise for the consideration of such applica- tions from the above towns as may be laid before it, will be held on the 22d day of May, 1866, in the Court Room, at Po- lice Headquarters, at 900 Mulberry street, New York, at nine o'clock A.M. By order of the Board. N. B. BARTRAM, Inspector of Excise. The subjoined notice has been forwarded to the mem- bers of the Boards of Supervisors of the towns mentioned theren Orrice oF Lxsrrcton oF Exctse, 301 Mort Street, { New Yous, May 5, 1866. Sin—I am directed by the Board of Excise to inform you that a session of the Board will be held on the 26th day of Mav ‘ioe at which. applications for license from the vilage ot Astoria and the towns of Flushing, Newtown and Jarai- ca, in the cocnty of Queens, will be considered. You are invited to be present at this session. and to advise wich the Hoard in regard to the granting of lcenses to applicants from ‘above mentioned lowus. Very respectlully, your obedi- servant, N. B. BARTRAM, Inspector 0 Excise. MODIFICATION OF THE SUNDAY LAW. Superintendent Kennedy has issued an order modify- ing to some extent the pry tge a of the Excige law, by wh'ch restaurants will not be compelled to close, but may serve their customers as usual. Under no circum: stances, however, will the sale of liquor be permitted at the bar, but spiritous liquors, ale or beer may be furnish- ed to any person at tho meal of which he js partaking. This orde’ is not intended to imply that a thirsty epiou- rean can make a bachanalian feast at the restaurant and thas circomvent the objoc’s for which the modification of the law is intended, e order was circulated among the police at an hour so late on Saturday night that its privileges were not generally available. beatin aeriscaxte. * ji About two ha y yeas whee lea one for license bad been retused by th Captaina ef the Sixth, Tenth and Thirteenth Police precincts, assembled at headquarters yesterday morning before the committee of the Excise Commission, Messrs. Acton and Manierre. ‘The nsval routine of referring to the returns, which io- variably presented a black mark against the ‘proprietor or the character of the house kept by him, as the pro- testing individual nied bis bame at the desk, was = through wit A few cases were laid over for ture consideration, extenuating circumstances appear- ing to the committee; but blank refusal was more gene- rally the fate of the applicant ARRESTS FOR VIOLATING THE EXCISE LAW—amUs- ING REPORTS BY POLICE CAPTAINS. The names of the prisoners arrested on Sunday for violating the Excise law in selling liquor and keep- ing their places open, who were arraigned before our police magistrates yesterday morning, will be found below, BEFORE JUSTICE DOWLING, Wm. Sastman, 465 Pearl street; Daniel Lyons, 15 State street; Martin Bowes, 51 Pearl street; August F. Meyer, 96 Bim street; James D. Barr, 270° Greenwich street. All the above, with the exception of Mr. Barr (dir- charged), were required by the magrstrate to give bail ip the sam of each to answer before the Court of ‘cssions. PRFORE JU8TICR LEDWITH. Joles Boheur, 142 Mercer street; Mathias Gassmiller, 380 First avense; Daniel Healey, 258 Ninth avenue; Philip Reilly, 196 West Eleventh street; Andrew Ryan, 284 Seventh avense; Charles Albertson, 43 Bedford street, Frederick Bush, 276 avenue A; Hermann Miller, 107 Spring street. All the offenders were held in $100 cach to answer at court. BEFORE IUSTICR CONNOLLY Lewis C. Rader, Eleventh avenue and 13iet street; John Hejndel, Tenth 20th street; John HArpt, Ninth avenue and Fortieth street; John Kimble, Seventh avenue and Fifty ninth street Jacob Eit, Brosd- way, between Fifty ninth and Sixteth street: | Donnie Ryer, Broadway and Forty second street; Thos Ennis, New Haven Hotel, Twenty reventh étreet and Fourth avenue; Wm. Hay's, 206 Third avenue; Nicholas Abrens, 426 West Fitty-fourth street; Thomas Murray, Eleventh avenue and Pifty-ifth street; Henry Kimble, seventh avenve and Fifty-ninth stre®@, John Moore, Ninth ave nue, between Fe'ty-third and Fifty-fourth streets; Mark Maguire, Red House, Harlem. last named were discharged, evi dewe being nowiheent lo helt them, and the others were held in ec hundred dolinrs each to anewor. It is alley otha! in the case of John Kimble, officers MeLaughiiu cod Rose, of the Twenty-ecoond precinct, by previous or engement, entered the defendant s place, shee which one of them eked for a drink, and ihoy were served with Bourbon whirky, upon which officer McLaughlin arrested the prop: ter. After hearing the facia in the care, Justice Connolly held Kimble in three ndred dotytrs bail, and required McLaughlin to g.ve a t to answer the charge of boing ommuission of the offence EPORR 20 TIER KETLY Fenty Wood, Frecerick Bose, Jol Harr ngton, HM Seehack, John Burris and Jolin Riley, Horevty Burne abd Kiley were dy tharged, and the others were bert ‘© 8200 balt eaeb. The comotatnte aeainet the Of the -persgns arrested for violating | held having been sent to the District Attorney’s office, their placeuof business could not be learaed. . BBPORE JCSTICE MANKFIRLD, Henry Wiseman, No. 247 East Eleventh stro*t; Henry Kengen, No. 473 Water street; Sates: Mohratadt, No, 115 Third avenue; Frederick Holz, No. 260 East Houston street. The above were held in $500 bail each, to auswer. Pcp eee a in mourning vi Captain Hutehin statements from two who had their stores if the Twenty-second precinct, re- “*The liquor stores, lager realoons and gro- ceries in this act were all closed except the Houze, on Second avenue and 106th street, the proprie- tor of which (Mark McGuire) was arrested, The bre and lager beer saloon of J. J. Mentges, corner of Fou avenue and Eighty-seventh street, bore the American flag at half mast. ‘The proprietor, as to the cause, stated that liberty wasdead in America, ‘and he placed the tag at half mast in memory of departed worth—i. ¢.., the of liquorfeelling and drunken broils; the Sabbath day and peace and happiness are about be.ng brought home to the bosoms of many famities.”” Capta‘n Jamieson, of the Seventh precinct, reports as follows :—The new lexciso law was Gees respected in this protinets nearly all the’ liquor places were thoroughly closed. Several places admitted a few friends who understood the sign to procure admittanc”. ‘The doors were kept locked and no persons admitted except the initiated. A w beer saloon at No, 89 East Broadway, kept by Jacob Steinberg, bad his sign drapea in mourning, and a placard. as follows—‘Mourning tho Senday Law.’ No complaints have been made at this station against drunken husbands or wives, and no strect fights have been reported, heretofore very common oc- currences, particularly on Sunday. THE EXCISE LAW IN BROOKLYN. The provision of the new Excise law prohibiting the sale of L:quor on Sunday was not so strictly observed as it was at first sup) ; but when we compare the num- ber of arrests with the number of places where liquors are sold during the'weok, it may be said that Brooklya passed a very quiet Sunday. Yesterday morning the offnders were marshalled before Justice Corneil and the following cases upon:—Danicl Meschutt, No. 3 Fulton street, cage postponed; John Com- moll 25 Fulton’ street, tpoued; — Edward Grant, 196 York streot, fined $20; John Kein, 22 Bridge street, fined Charles Prince, 195 York street, fined’ $30; Johm’ Bollman, 39 Main street, fined $30; Michael Briordy, Front and Stewart streets, fined $30; Jacob Oster, Fiatbush avenue, fined $30; Mar- tin Mehrteus, corner Myrtle avenue and Skillman xreet, fined $30; Geo. Wessell, corner Third avenue and Car- roll strect, fined $50; Martin H. Bomer, fined $30; Neil Doherty, Corner of Warren and CStumbia streets, ‘fined $30; Louis J, Bobre, corner Do Graw and Hicks streets, fined $30; Francis Ferguson, Connover near Walcott street, fined $50; Jno. H. Mather, case adjourned; Richard Addis, Atiantic near Boerum street, fined $30; Geo. Schall, corner of Boerum and Pacific streets, fined $30; Henry Schlichting, Dean near Boerum strect, fined $50; Hugh Goldridge. The result of the arrests for violating the law was twenty-six, besides seven arrests for intoxication, The total applications {¢ Pee granted, as reported at the Inspector's oflice, is JEFF DAVIS. No Indications of the Speedy Trial in Virginia of Jeff Davis—His Wife Finds his Health Failing and will Apply for his Parole of the Fort, &c. OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORKESPONDENCE. Fortress Morror, May 5, 1966. Monday next, as is well known, ie set down for tho opening sessions of the United States Court in Norfolk and Richmond. The recent positive assertions in so many papers that Jeff Davis would be arraigned for trial in this court in one of the places named, show, at the present time, #0 far as I can learn, very little promise of fulfilment. In Norfolk, I am told, there are no indications whatever of his being tried, ‘and though I am not so positively advised regarding the Richmond court 1 know that if anything ie being done looking to this end there, it has been done within the past four days. It is not expected that any information would come here of a certain character. It would not be surprising to see some nayal steamer steal in upon us at any time of the day or night, and that Jeff Davis snould pe carried away in her, whither and wherefore no one in the steamer would tell, and no one here could tell. As for Jeif Davis himself, the eub- ject of all the anxieties and sarmises, he shows still the same patient waiting for resuite he bas for months past. He may keep up a large amount of hays 2 but if he does, ‘he docs not speak out his thoughts much, Meantime it is tobe presumed that while the present companionship of his wife makes him more’ patient of prison life, it also makes im more me rire to breathe and enjoy the ajr of frecdom again. 1 stated yesterday that his wife purposed re- maining as long as he was kept here. Th's morning an order came from Washington, directing that a casemate be assigned her for her persons! use and occupancy long a8 she might require it. She expressed a preference for a room in Carroll Hal!, where her hysband is contined, and an officer very politely offered to vacate’ his room for her; but General Miles could not go beyond his orders, Being on the good footing she evidently is at Washington, it is porsible that she may speedily succeed in having her preferences in the matter of a room grati- fied. Whatever she may do about thir, I am told ‘that ehe has determined on one thing at once, an applica- tion for parole of the fort for Mr. Davis, She finds him much weaker than he was, ‘The weakness js most ap- parent in his legs, giving him a tottering and insecure walk, She attributes this weakness to want of sufficient exercise, and on this she will base her application, It is believed she will be successful in ber application. Secretary McCulloch Has an Interview with Jem, Fournrss Monnor, May 7, 1866, Daring his vis\( here yesterday Secretary MeCulloch had au hour's interviow with Jef Davis, Ite nature is unknown. CONDITION OF THE STREETS. Cleanliness the General Order—Where there is Room for Improvement. &e. The condition of the streets of New York were never cleaner perbaps as a general rule than they are at thie moment. There are many streets which might be much better than they are im this regard, and here and there the nauseour ash ana garbage box may be seen filled and offensive to the senses, but in general the streets of the city are cleaner at the present moment than they have been for a year at least. THE FIRST AND SROOND WARDS. ‘The streets of the Firat ward, though in a better con- dytion than usual, might be a good deal improved, par tioularly the lower part of Greenwich street, Morris: Recior, Stone, Year), Bridge, Frout and Fletcher, and the lower part of Washi rot street, besides many places along the docks. On these there is here ad there @ good deal of garbage and decayed vegetable matter strewn around, ond they also contain, in many pools of stagnant water which emit unhealthy vapors. All those streets require to be better attended to than they are, particularly as there are many of the poorer citizens living in them who are compelied, by the high rents, to live together in crowded tenements, where health is at all times precariout. The other streete of the First ward are as clean as they can reasonably be expected to be, and the same may be said of the strects of the Second ward, without a single exception. THIRD AND FIFTH Wanps, * Turning to the Third ward, there is very little to com- plain of in the condition of the streets, except in the neighborhood of Washi larnet, Ure there is more garbage decayed vegetable and oter maiter of an un thy nature in the streets than there ought to be. ‘The streets of the Fifth are in much the same con. dition as those of the Third, with the single ex- ception of Church street and parte of some of the streets bordering on the North river. THE FOURTH AND SIXTH WARDS. The streets in the Fourth and Sixth wards are not clean as a general thing, but they are the reverse. The ulation of these wards mostly dwell in tenement ouses, and are more crowded together, probably, than that of any other section of the city. 0 streets are narrower and more swampy, too, in many places, and require for all these reasons more attention per. bape than the streets of any other warde in New York. ‘There are several of the streets in these wards tolerab: well cleatod, it is true; but Cherry street, Roosevelt street, Batavia street, Oak street, James ‘street, the lower portion of Ojiver stroet, near the East river, Mott street, Park street, Mul street, Baxter street, the eastern end of kin street and many others require attention from the cart- men and sweepers. The condition of Park and Baxter ig bad, and should pot be al- jowed to remain #0 at this season of the year a single hour. They are in the very heart of the Sixth ward, and pestilence in them, or infectious disease of any kind, ‘would probably be more destructive to human life than in almost any other portion of the city, because of their teoming popalations and the wretched manner in which too many people are compelled to dwell 1 the buildings: which crowd these narrow streets, While the streets of these wards are generally in need of cleaning, neverthe- Jone it must be acknowledged that they are not so badly off as we have been accustomed to see them on former occasions. THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTT AND TENTH WARDS. The streets ‘of these | wards are generally tolerably clean, but in the Seventh ward there is much room for improvement in many of the streets bordering on the North river, The streets of the Eighth ward, as well as thoes of the Fifteenth, are in about the vieinity of the foot of reene, Sulliv. eneral clean, oxcept streot and rome ), Wooster and Thomp- parts of Mercer, fon streets ond t arly the latter. wards, and also those of the Thirteenth, require to have the broom pasted over them tw render them all they ought to be; but there inno street in them that could be complained of as absolutely dangerously dirty at resent VPuxeing out of the Thirteenth ward into the BLEVENTH AND SEVENTEENTH WARDS, there are geveral streets in both of them whieh require attoation fram the eweepgre, and among |)eso may be noticed avenass A, B,C aid ind several of the streets cross ng them; @# 2180 the termini of many of the num- bered streets bortyring on the river mn WaARne, ‘Tho upper nf city ® in forteral very weil cleaned. considering the Mto In which it has o ten been before, and indeed the condition which was usual: until leew, ‘There are up town at present, inany streets which may be rendered still cleanor, yet there are few who will complain of the present condition of the streets of the city above Fourteenth street. The Seventh and Ninth avenues both require attention, however, as well other thoroughfares that might be mentioned. CONCLUSION. y ‘clean, pro Bortioa to their prominence. This is very good, but if ere is anything of this kind to be done up extra, let it @ up on the narrow, dirty streets, whore human beings are almost packed together, Those are the locall- tles to operate upon effectually and constantly. The streets ot New York have, not very long ago, been much ina a they are at present, Let us keep on im- roving. THE DEERING MASSACRE. Confession of Probst to the Murder of the Whole Family—Tne Thirst for Blood—His Account of the Murder of tne Two Infante—Fear of Mob § Restrained Him from First, &e., de. Gives the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, May 7.} uton Probst hus confessed. Yesterday afternoon, in the presence of his spiritual adviser, tie pastor of St. Alphonsus Catholic church, Mr. Perkins, the superinten- dent of the prison, and the medical staf! on duty at the prison, Anton Probst made a free, voluntary and open confession—such a confeesion as stamps bim to be the most bloodthirsty wr-tch known in tie annals of history. He killed all the members of the D ering family. He wad visited by his spiritual edviser late in the af- ternoon, who entered into conversation with him, and in the presence of the above named officials Probst was told that his best cou both in a spiritual and moral point of viow, was to confess all he know about the tra- Fr o% and to tell the Goo.’s trath. He was told that is obiigations to the authorities, by whom he had been treated so kindly, and every consideration in the futare, hegreng oy re ee ye a clean breast of it, st, after the iapse a fow minu' proceeded to make the following statement by way ae £ CONFESSION. Ho stated that he had no accomplice, and conce'ved the horrible er me-unaided and alone,’ The theory of the murder as produced on the trial, and the one so gen- erally accepted by the public, ia entirely true in its main rts, He states that he conceived the murder on Fi jay, and that nigbt slept with the boy whom ho intend- | ed to make his first victim, namely, Cornelius Carey. He knew that Carey’ wes working near the hay-rack, and he proceeded thero with tho lane axe, but his heart failed him three times before he co induce himself to strike the unsuspecting boy the fai blow. At last he mustered sutticient courage aud went at h’s flendish work, killing Carey just in the manner he frequently described. ‘the right of the blood of the boy, Probst stakes, prod uced in hima devilis and biood thirsty feeling, and he determined at once to murder the entire famity. He disposed of the body of the boy as de- scribed before so often, and then deliberately walked over to the house. He entered, and told » ie,” the little boy next in years to “Willie,” who was he wanted him to help bim to do some work Tho little fellow followed hyn, and as soon as he got him inside the barn door he despatched hin with the sma;l axe he had secured. He then went back ‘to the house and told Mrs. Deering that something was the matter with one of the cows und he wanted her to come tothe barn, She went and he followed, and as soon as she entered inside he struck her in the head and killed her. He then states that he went back to the house and brought the children out, one at a time, taking thom inside the barn, despatched them one by one with the same axe. In each instance he cut their throats and placed the bodies in the corn crib himself, just in the ition they wefs found. Ho then covered them me and proceeded to wipe out all evidence of his guilt. He then went back tothe house and awaited the arrival of Mr. Deering, not expecting Miss Dolan would accompany: bim. As soon as Mr. Deering arrived in the carriage, he (Deering) got out and Probst told him something Was wrong with one of the cows, and asked him to go over to the barn with him. Dearing went along with him and Miss Dolan went into the house, up stairs, aud took off her bounet and furs, Mr. Dearing did not take off his gloves before going to the barn, but proceeded there at once, followed by Probst, who had the axe concealed, ready for use. As soon as Mr. Dearing entered the barn door, Probst states that he struck him in the head and felled him to the earth, and then chopped at bis neck with the edge a% axe, Miss Dolan was the next and last victim. to the barn after coming down etalrs, not tinding any of the family in the hoase, and Prob=t, who was.in wa ting, treated her ‘as he had done the rest of the family. After laying out the bodies and covering them with hay, the murderer went into the house and commenced searching for vatuables, but he states he lft yh? ,mouey, but expected to secure a considerable amount. He states that Miss Dolan’s pocketbook had very hte in it, and he said nothing whatev_r ofthe two $50 compound interest notes, and the $20 bilkof the same character. He remained about the house for some vme, picked up the articles found tv the black valise, and je‘t about dark. His further movements were pret- ty much as brow |yt out on trial, and which are patent to the minus of the whole community. Probst stated that he would have confeesed to all the murders before, but be feared if he did he would be tora to picces by the mob. During the trial, and even at the time of his capture, he states that he had a disposition to make a confession; but the yells of the crowd when he first saw them frightened him into the belief that if they knew the extent of his crime all the police in Philadetphia could not save him trom their clutch- es. Probst also states that le did not like to go to the court room dering the trial, as the yells of the crowd when be made his appearance on the street made 8 terriblo impression on him, aud te mrch preferred tue solitude of his cell. During the afternoon be will be visited by some of the authorities, and it is expected that fA minute confession in detail will be extracted from bim, He knows that be will never again be brought face to face with any number of bis fellow creatures, until tae day of bis execution, and therefore will give to the authorities all the information they desire tn relation to the murder. Although no one had doubted for a long time that he was solitary and nione in his devilish work, itis a source of infinite satisfaction to know from his own Lips that he bad no accomplice, ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. The confession as reported to the Jnquirer contain some further details of Probst and his horrible crime. He says he had no thonght of committing the murder at the ume of hiring with Lrexag 3 but caseulated on rob- bing him of the money which he had seen him count- ing. He had never said mer about itto any one. He came to this country in 1868 in the ship Co- lumbus, from Bremen, and never did anything wrong in Germany. His father and mother were still living at Baden, is twenty-four years of age, He enlisted twice and deserted; first in the Forty-first New York, and then in the Fifth cavairy, He planned every day to get Deering’s money; but never a chance, He says:—“My first pian was to kill him and get the money. I could not get the money ii ep eye wi I thought of killing them at the house as they came down in the morning. the axe sometimes for them when they came down evenings. I got some good chances; but my heart failed me." ‘Alter de-cribing the manner of murdering§ Cornelius Carey, and Mrs. ring aud her children, he eS the folio explanation of the killing of the infants:— “Then 1 went over to the house and took Annie and toid her that her mother wanted to see her in the stable, She did not say a word. Then I took little T ook iton my arm. The little girl walked alongside of me, I left ‘little baby om the first cornor Feel od into the stable, playing in the hay. When I went to t same place where f killed the others, she looked around like for her mother, who was inthe hay. She did not say anything. I knocked her down at the first biow, ‘and cut her throat same as the others, when I went ‘back and got the little baby, and struck it on the head in pe mh oe | T hauled them into the same place. After ibing the killing of Deering and Miss Do- including a Capea - aaron says he took ont Mr. Deering’s ut three dollar note. He was not lying now. Ho it eat got seventeen dollars, they had much money. After securing revolver, &e. (afterwards found in his possession), be washed and dressed himself, putting Deering’s clothes ‘on, and then eat some bread and butter. The scoundrel frequently laughed while detailing Lis confession of these horrible crimes. Se! fe. MACADAMIZING STREETS. Iie that the use of macadam in the strocts of Paris having been condemned by the physicians as ap- wholesome, M. Haussmann has determined to pave the roads in future with other materials. ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE LN MINES. M. Simonin, a French savant, publishes the result of some very interesting experuments made by himself on this Until now the only researches made at considerable depths tended to fix the law of temperature in to altitude. M. Simonin’s experiments were for purpose of ascertaining the increase of atmos- pheric pressure under similar circumstances. As this increase bas generally been found to be 1 millimetre for every 10 metres as we descend, it remained to be seen whether the same would be the case in the shatts of mines where the air, confined in a yarrow space, is at the came time exposed to the actiow of a powerful draught, and more or less impregnated with steam, and at var ous temperatures, aed in very deep shafts, ‘the wutbor had the bo ity of bringing the barometor below ihe level of sea. His experiments were con- ducted in the basis of the Saone and Loire, where the coal pite of the Creuzot and Epinac are situated. The sais oie Nee ee aes and since the average eading of the barometric tudes at the orifices is about 355 metres above the level of the sea, M. Simonin operated ata clear depth of 45 metres below that level From his observations it appears that at Epinac, as re temperature. there te an increase of 1 degree cen tigrade for every 50 metres of vertical descent; and, as regards pressure, a rise of 1 millimetre in the barometer for 11 degrees of vertical dercent. At the Creuzot there was an increase of 1 degree in the temperature for every 40 degrees of vertical decent, and an increase of press ure of 1 millimetre forevery 10 metres. The averages, therefore, are:—For temperature, 1 degree for 46 metres; and for pressure, 1 millimetre for 103 metres, M. SI- monip bas taken care to operate only on shafts through b air enters; for the air whieh leaves the mine is vitial Sbult should also be water-tight, and the woodwork ar much as possible free from decomposition by fermenta- ioe. THE DECAY OF Bt ure DING STONKS AND MBANS OF tment 1m the English Houge of C Hated that when he came into office been a trial of two solutions for arresting the stonework of the wew houses of Varlament, and a commission, including Professor Faraday and Sir Rod. fk Murehinna, pave a decided preference to the seplia hrocest Thit had accordingly been applied to whe inte flog courts, and, fo iar as it gone, it had answered prrisetly, hor wae there any appeaganee of decay; but thore were no gull! wt Pevende of evoouragement for contdencs Jf ta etticacy. Abalvais vioved it te be cou chiefly of bitumen thought bimself warran adoption. Ing schemes «hich bad Elm to be applied to the of under the ‘ich, pected that year or ipesest a atietactory report of DEATH PROM WORMS IN THE BRAIN, the Brighton (Eng.) Examiner, April 9.] On Saturday, an inquest was held at Brighton, on the body of Clara’ Holiauds, aged seventeen, who died sud- deuly. On Wednesday, she complained of severe head- ache, and on became so unwell that sho was carried stairs to bed in an insensible state, and soon afterwards died. The evidence of Mr, Seweil, 'who made a si paint; and he bad uot ioning it# contunued for six of the most a t mortem examination, showed that there was con- erable effusion in the right ventricle of the brain, in which he discovered a large bydatid cist, This he found to consist of the ova or et some parasitic ingect. For the presence of this Mr. Shewell could not account. The disease was of rare occurrence, but when it bad occurred recorded cases showed that death had been sudden, The insects were usually conveyed into the system with food, and after depositing tl they left the system. in course of time the eggs are ed, and death ensues if it has not taken place before, The disease was often communicated to the sysiem by eating “ineasley”? pork, underdone meat, og watercresses, and- Mr. Sewell said that it was a very popular error to sup- pose that underdone meat was the best for food. Should the meat be effected, heat was the only thing that | would kill the insects, aud there was therfore no damger in well-cooked meat. The jury returned a vergiet in accordance with the evidence of Mr. Sewell, NEW AUSTRALIAN BIRDS AND FISH. A Melbourne, Australian, pager says:—A very remarka- ble-looking bird was k Jl da short time ago at Ailansford. It bad the neck of a heron, short thick logs, weblooted. like a duck, portions of its coat like a seal, and wings. like a sea-gull, bat of great length. It is supposed that the bird is a B—a species of darter—but is seldom seen on this coast, v le fish wens also: ‘ory remarkab! netted in the Hopkins. It was about thirty inches long, bad a head like acalf, with a spike about two inches Jong, running out from the snout and termi in& soft piece of flesh or lap banging down, ‘The tw question is known «as the Chimera Auetrnlie, a deep sea fish, but is unit for food. SUBMARINE TUNNEL BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. A Paris letter, dated April 8, says:—A_ submarine tun- nel is seriously contemplated between Calais and Dover. Last week a perfect brigade of geometricians apd naval mon went down to siudy the possibility of carrying out this project. Levels were taken, plans drawn, &¢., | upder the direction of M, Thome de Gamond, Tt will be | remembered that a special cbmmission appointed by the yeror made a report some years ago, in which the | feasibility of the project was proved, inasmuclsas the- submarine rocks of whigh tho Straits are formed offer no serious obstacle to its realization, M. Gainond has made surveys every year since this report was drawn up of the ground, and bas decided that artificial islands will not be required, but that the tunnel can de constructed in four galleries, the longest of whieh will not excecd ten kilo~ metres, ELECTRICAL TORPEDOES IMPROVED. The London Tilegroph of the 17th of April has the fol- lowing :—We do not propose to sketch the history of the idea that has now found practical development in the employment of electrical torpedoes as a means of de- fence. At the period Napoleon I. was assembling his army for the invasion of England at Boulogne the government gave the scheme of an Amcrican a trial for “ the destruction of some portion of the encmy’s flotilla, The attempt, however, was a failure, and the contrivance was never reverted to during the continuance of the war. The idea was revived at the outbreak of the Rassian war by Professor Jacobi, a distinguished Russiav chemist, ang torpedoes made on a plan of his own forma part of the defences of the Russian Baltic ports. Hs tor} $ however, were open to several objections. They floated in a position to be easily seen and removed by the enemy, they exploded on percussion by ineans whieb were very apt to fail at the critical moment, did explode on being struck, as once be English ship-of-war, the effect was trivial. The failare of the meaus of ‘self-ignition led to the adoption of electricity to explode torpedoes, whom the Austrians employed them to defend the sea approaches to Venico. the French navy, how- ever, made no demonstration inst the Queen of the Adriatic during the brief but brilliant Ttalian cam- paign; so the ical effect of the contrivanes remained unkuown until the late American struggle demonstrated that the federal navy received more damage from elec- } trical torpedoes than from all the coast artillery of the Confederates, admirable as much of their ordnance was, and splendidly ag it was always served. ‘The e- rate government, Wise in their g'neration, nade @ ap- propriation at the commencemeat ot the struggle to pro- vide electrical torpedoes for the defence of \b and despatched to Europe an officer to devise the best description of these formidable engines of «destruction. ‘Phat officer was Licutenant Maury. In conjunctiou with Mr. N.J. Holiex, a distinguished studemt. of electrical seionece, “ho had demonstrated the fact that a gun could be fired by an electric spark gene- rated at a distance of one hundred and twenty mites, the subject was investigated. aud many important discoveries were made. The application of the principle to harber defence was illustrates by @ diagram of Port»mouth har- bor. The mode of laying down the torpedoes by coneur- rent angular observations from two or three diiterent sta- tions, and the application of those bearings to tre de~ struction of an en fleet, were explained. It would be difficult to compress iuto the limits of a brief notice all that passed in some hours, rather of pleasant social intercourse than formal demonstration; but it was dm- sible to resist the conviction, from what took place, that while much remains to be learned of the effects of the explosion of different quantities of powder at different depts of water, wo possess in torpedoes a means ef de- fence of the utinost possible value, at a cost searcely worth consideration. The prineipatexpense ot defending places of such prime importance ag Portsmocth would be principally for the insulated wire to connect the torpedoes with the jand. The first cost of this would be the heaviest item; bat it would not be a frequently recurri ost, for when the torpedoes are exploded the wire can be recovered and used again. In- deed, it was said’'that for £10,000 Portsmonth might be sealed to any chemy who was not desious of the boner of a journey heaveoward. So again for land defences, ‘one has but to mine the approaches by digging a fer conical holes, burying a torpedo, and fillin< up with o few hundred tons of siones of sufficient weicht, and the consequence to an advancing column can ea-ily be, ima- gined. A regiment or an iron-clad could be destroyed at Cost not exceeding one of the monster etvel shetls, hun- dreds of which would be used probably with lit le effeet against an attacking flect. The moral effect of such means of destruction would be as valuable as thetr physt- cal effect. There is no honor in being blown into frag- ments without being able to strike a blow in self-defence, and it may safely be assumed that the general or admi- ral who has to conduct future warlike operations will be very careful how he expoces the forces wader bis com. mand to such a contingency. The subject is one of first rate importance, and we venture to predict that a very great length of time will not elapse without the country uiring to be satisfied that the government estimate it at its proper value. PULVERIZED TURPENTINE AND ITS US#S. Some interesting experiments bave been made im the Russian Admiralty in St. Petersbarg, on the different uses to which pulverized turpentine can be ae With his new lamp Captain Spakoffsky prod a fam, two feet high, with which steel and copper were easily melted. He afterwards showed a small steamboat, twen- ty-four feet Yong, of noehesee. Fev, Teaeey i a consumption of sx urpentine per oe xia speod of six knots. ite is build. horse es attained ing a Of six-horse power, and hopes to reduce the consumption of fuel yery considerably. 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For sal ot 3 Bowery, and vy all p TAL COMMITTEE E pointed to act ,anthy on the repealing all ondiomneas or resolu Sythe Common Conmctt airing au evaika and inclowe courtyards om ade, will meet iy the Chamber of he’ City Mall, om Thursday next, ‘pal THES?! the Wu jest Nil persone intercsked 10 the question of such repeaba Photifed to be preset at the above time and place. rs WIS R. RYERS, JOHN MOORE,