The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1867, Page 8

TaE 7) Elegant and Patriotic Extracts from | ter than impeachment thus co surround hin with a cor. a a the goo! on has at tmos produced, prov who ur el Mr. Lingolm to pley so eminently WMusiraiea by J 8 - al BLW I”) eqnEcin® RESELLIOE now in 6 of Andrew Johnsux that he had ealeert of the Sarnth, and with (he “ ghaieal War Upon the Exeeutive and Genera! Radical Papers and 0 [Prom the Now York Tribine, Se ndrew Jo gigantic demag cuz of Am rica. 4 deal when We consider ine ace made hin President, an Pepeat the treasons of Charies 1 Stivate crueltios of James, Power from =the) =demagogue of rat @emagogue of Vs feral votes that A demagogize iv his slavery, His only 19 ° e b we ion Baw agon stands forth among public Grant. rators, ph 4, 1867.) This oe of 1 the ms wien ven | aself eougbt to col ud the ob- transiormed him coe to the bind, — marrow so many elec- iiiated,? ¢ * * fellow eltis ens a nition of pulled dean nes, Every Amoricau ¢ dinshed over exbibition be mace as Vt ath ly sober emugh (9 undertand, This, avons of the 4, was gener- forgiveness does mot @iwaya the mun who reeled men ‘ er or ce President was not ticft him, This ha- Donored bi his be fore patient bnd magnauimous, bu q rn and bau, the po ountry, After that, pew: @ibie of a We implore our friends to 0. Bow pollsical campaign with but what was t fotiowads und tho ¢ on 8 it ga ung od lather waras Dis ch f, disgraced the con polloy Tation, and thore as neltner the respe ot ty ee of any party there ia ap. nco ANd Maguawimity to becom: fF equines pian speasing, aud ak piain'y of Andrew Joonsoa hers when they drew swo.d against nt a milion of our brotners Into the ty reveilion, * * * of this adininistra’ The President means war, cs 4 fight, or bo deieated. We be Mr. Joboson, His adm ral des! could apply. d hls pariy, broken tis ow Lilin that bo dare uot; that wh the inaugural ad- to his February rete, These were nd subject to tho roles wiloman, Bit we Hero tuose vory faulis tidren agaist an nothing be maj 8 cowardice, Tors | we have sought to | In the like spirit auizo, to outer into this writ that mov ad our trey aud thus eave the 23) votry must stand +o anyibing pos. ration Is a record @f dccopuion, cunning, dislvyalty, anagoui-m to the beat interests of we country. © bs § made the admin- fatravion of Buchanan respectable by showing a degrada- ton to which evel has betrayed his party; he bi be adm: who hang around 1} ve wmely for bis caus, Weiles, The wav: Mr. Bucsavan co: bet has betrayed bis couuiry ratiou but a few mi pturers like Bia like Seward The wen woo wo ho is impatient to drive oy age of Sahara is not iaseasivie to tho obligations ® ald pot sink a tayed bis frends; Kz is left of bers hike those ued political ad- ppted cau. and Kaudail aud nt of bis Cabloet, @f frieudsmp; but eveu this no longer remains with Mr. Jaunson. @atern and Ligh responsibility. ys until Congress meets, fe can only bow to this dread(ul tyranny. It is TIM then We admontsis the poopie to prepare for aeurly a bundred We are powerlons. [he Presi @ens appeaied to the country iu his la-t message, We join Rim in the appeal. here. Let as make the canvass wu. baving defeated hire = ballot box, we can prspare, through our represen- r. 1m Lot our fr. . Johnsoa’s administration, an d3 or, nize every- the infamy uf Bada ae Notte fev sted’ | THE GREAT BOILER EXPLOSION, THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE. W » who ives ry the Sowh at Ue North, to course be wry grat fui and woul es, to consider the best couree to be takeii to punish for is crimes against te sov: American people, [From the New York Independent, Sept. 6.) THE STHP BACIAARD, @overal Grant bas surrendered to tho President. ols of the peopie. it was onexpecied. His name is a portrait bangs im public galleries, ereigu will of the This It took the country by surprise. fa stiil the shomo of univ-rsat tak, fos" of the case? ‘nd io prairie cabins, Wohat is a just Geveral Graut is one of the household word in city mansions His military services havo called forth the whole nation’s adm! His nano Belongs to ono of the brivutest (and ‘one @ the darkest) pages of cur hisiory, Such a man's lsurela ought not to be rudely disturbed. G.cv a man’s cooduct ought not to be hightiy called in esti But it 1s neither to ba deoled nor concealed or explained away that General Grant baa, within the few wovks, grea ly disappointed the Amert-an propie, je has, within this period, been more freely criticized, th in tue public press and in private ciréles, than any former time since bo became a famous man, More. Over (much as We dislike to make the confession), these eritivisme have been just, There ts mg men to bave one’s heroes @ natural ‘desir perfect—without jernteh or flaw; and, when they are not so in reality, we strive to paint ‘thom so in our tmaginaion even Geueral Grant is now proved to 2 o nera! Grant abandons not o tol not. a nero in n of the law, but a:go the Preside: pretation of iast July; end be now uni'es witn the President wn a @iGerent interpretation for August, T army thus presents to the public the singular spectacio or baving entered upon a contest he General of the the Executive Without a definite knowledyo either of his own powers or @f the President's, of these powers and ends with auother, rocors of fglting against the Preside: instead of conquering bis ant by him. Now, if General mut winced that bo was wrong in He begins with one uudersianding So that ut, General converied me con- Attempt he to resist the President, certainly it was manly acd Donest in bim (as it would have beon in any other maa) to retract an‘ amend bis error, Bat we cannot reiraia from saying that, even if he was wrong in toe fret place and right now, the whole proce: Reppy light the inadoquacy of his judgmet? in priiti ap uir @nd ‘has is, eltber Gener a Alng All parties must agree that ‘ght {From tho Migsour! Demorrat ‘The country feels that Mr, Juunson’ fully averted tn one way only, The rebel tn the White H must be dog: The people, at West, at joast, i that Mr, Jobnson must be impeached, dential chair ts a port! not less a the presence of Barly be ore W waste no time fn | e of the testimony against him, (or whe gmomber of Congross knows (hat dir. Jounson’s career usurpation and abuse of power, of @haweful mieconduct, private and public, of deliberate 04 wilful resistance to the wili of tho people eon: Slonally oxpressed, and of violation of law, be is dangerous to the country, aud plain common Beuse teaches thom, in spite, of ali legal quibbles, that the coustitution meant that an ofiiv.al daugerous to the has been one ot fant ought nos io Rave else bo ought wot to have madi eh & man ae Goneral Grant never igures we step backward. 'yer's q ibbles a’ exhibits ia anv one thing in taking » Sept. 2.1 preseace tn the Palpable and grave washington ia ist, ul the nature ow and every yk 1in- They knew @ountry should be romoved by impeachment. This feeling i@ no longer coninea tw ono party, Sober en, of couservaiive or democratic views feel that ir, Johnson ia a disgrace and a danger to the Qouniry. Conservative organe have urged bim to re- Bien, Even intelligent rebels fee! that lio te doing more Mlury tathe South than a hostile army coid do, W ‘Worily Dolleve that no stop ean de taken wh ‘ty of the people would heartily spect. * * * @ aa th m no party trusts and po portion uid do #O much to terminate etri impeachment and removal of this man, The unpunished vil Das boon & eianding disgrace to th nad restore of the poopie re- Jainy of this man nation. The @rample of such a person in the White House corrupts tee publio x of oral We trust yielding, no @0 vargain with republican Senaiors ay again “put of the day of punisoment or | lo represen’ that T promises, no pretended repentan no Kemolauce and Congreesm Feason to foar that we are to have no mere sevoblance of th: Bo me ie tolding. scaboard, one neglect any proce fon in th At the ballot box we know Le! ua take care that form he shall not fad fon, Wii be beaten. in ancthe pared. pen pery [From the Baltimore America if some maticious power, foil o ing and tormontiog mischief aud tut 6 Arner Mr. Joboson seems to have throwa away The next hundred days critical. Lot ne hope that this | .. Precautions will dono | fight for the Vibert; of the that Mr, Johosoa the nry wapre n, Sept. 4) 0 peop at endeavored to devise come plan to keep them na | perpetual turmoil for several Conceived a better one tuaa to have made Andrew Joha o President of this country at this peculiar ears, he could not } we | i th an intellect arrow io {te range and unexpruded | by jt ant pad bas placed at (he head @kenipliteation of the ad Mountas aro p The posi «f wy germ even ai fie or no infinential bxeKere. support must come not enjoy politiosl power ao long the tanments him to.rule among the more accompileved sintesmen of the $n pu carry out bie ignobie ends, Penate on tha nd , iden opportunity of oarry Br prepie aud thus oblala the undying fame of bein, tus great reconstructionist of whe age. fe have ‘alluded (4 WEST ie preevoe) Wayveardenivas 9) UN mee be @ | beral educ tubbornoes 1 these qualities h & political career not 18 misfortune oo lower clase to the negro, he [Fre @ Boston Journal, M assumod by Andrew aciical common wenee that the p: want of that ordinary d “husk seve in svficient « a 4 wt tin from r fiered them by Congr bia ideas of the f terms day. He despises the educated ih was one occasion that he who prepare “rounding, se rhetorical flourishes.”” ile combines Intense cony Sept. 5.) hike Wino 10 aifairs, unless be can use ti i Shrew away ing Out the Will of tho tops that are seltom © been disciplined | all calculated to breadth, elovation or magnanimliy to bia views was also te have been born aod of ibe whites of the red ail their prejudices and | ach is the mau whom fortune overnment, aed made ao | age that “pigiwies perched on blic i amazed at | it, which it would mignt | hat his policy ha 0 do not and will 8Y Teluse to aocapt 0 ie He ai. f America unlit | whe take part his boast ia the Ad LO One of sounding, bound. gloried' tn hie | | | NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEP"EMBER 11, 1867.-TRIPLB ‘SHEET, ! in his cer hea te The Day After the Dinaster=Vialt, 1. ihe in Mit pet Grinta of | Scene of the AccidoateAction of Ucroner party which would of | Wi id properly reward him, aman ai the holm, ee danger, unl yreseniatived of tbe psop growna oe ee and wait, ‘When Congress assembles again we hope it will never be without @ quorum ib Andrew Johnson leaves the chair of state, Tt will be bet- whi Report of the Engineer, and Eutimates of Ite at of Construction and Revenue=Loca- then of the Bridge, John A. Roebling, engineer of the New York Bridge Company, presented on Saturday last at a meeting of ‘the Executive Committee bis report, bearing date Sep- tember 1, 1867, showing estimates aud probable cost of construction of the bridge, the principles of ite con- @truction, location, &c, By the terms of its charter the company is confued tn the location of ite termiuus on the New York side to 6 latitude ranging from Chatham aquare slong the line of ‘Chatham street to the inter section of Nassau and Chathem streets, Th's provision renders bat two points of termination feasbie on this side, viz, onc at Chatham square anda second opposite the City Mail Park, in the vicinity of Printing once 8 eye Walking up the Fighth avenue yesteyday morning ‘one might have observed @ large crowd assembled on either side of the way at the cornen of Twenty-eighth Street, viewing the scene of the dreadful boiler ex- Plosion which occyrred on Mondyy afternoon, Tho premises lying betwen Twenty-seventh and Twenty-cighth streeta, whem the accident origiated, Presented an appearance of the most utter wreck and ruin, The entire roof was torn off, walls thrown down, flours and flooring aanibilated, huge beamaand rafters seattered about, and pilos of bricks and mortar and broken machinery lying about in various directions, © 8 & With wu Liat wil erangé the poi tical conspiracy of which ve is 80 doubt he te the great Head Contra, tall elections will opes anew volume for him to ork Evening Post, Sept. 4.) Eveuts, eireur changes howower great end oroseen, teach bim (the President) nothing. To us inan to Mr, Lincolu ig preposterous, Mr. Jotnson keeps bis chosea course, BO mater how the wind veers; he v ever paraded Goneral Grant as my endorser, or that T have ever assorted that my political elevati b Was any favor to that great soldier, He has always been my frend, and wouta be unworthy of his great tame did be not siand by his friends through good or report, Your motive tm writing privaiely to Graut about ma, (From the 1 not tack, but prefers to go astern; | wiitg all the multifarious débris that arises | he will not sh 1, but profars to the sbi es House square, On the Brooklyn side the bridge will | 40 charging me publicly witu ciximing something duntieea” pg ptt 4 Ly pb egaitin y yh4 Hox} from such @ catastrophe was heaped up on pasa. sup Hoon rites ge for syeelt on accounto his et merits. 18 obviously Athird route, term!- nating at the Bowery and Canal street, is supposed, by way of comparison; but that termivating at Chatham square Is decided asthe shortest by a distance of eix bondred and sixty-two feet, while the span of the bridge would be lessened by one hundred and twenty feet, In disenssing the appraisement of the property which will de occupied he concludes that the Chatbam square ter- minus ill necessitate the destraction and removal of the least valuable burdings by about $590,000, but er yoy ee iat ed m8. conte ge whinks that, ia view of the comparative tutu es | Such a message, His namo was Levins. I toid him to of the two lines, the greater value of the Pari : go and get yonr and’ Mr. Shook’s endors*m’at in _ | Writing and T would sond his namo to Washington. He deyoud question. The total length of the bridzo by th.s | came back cursing you and aaiving ingratitude auch as route, wich is the one with reference to whick the ‘°Finid not kus tho debt 1 1 vat . 1 not know the dobt I owed you, Mr. Weed I was a en noma ee rk greg Fase dhe aware that my appointment did not requir confirmation pier to pier ov 1 side of tae river, This arch will be | DY the Senate, FT havo wondered at it; I understand iy 160 feet above hich water mark, and will off-r wo imps. | BOW. Congress knew that it required “tie acquiesconco” diment co paviva'ton, The apyroaches wii be construs- | Of Thurlow Weed. Thank yon for that ‘acqutescence, ted on g sort of iron treasle work, exiondin over the Draw on mo, sit, and I will pay the debt. rovfs of tho houses, and the streats will be crossed by | LWill not pursue you further, Ihave every aseur- rou girders, at such elevations as will jeave. them un- ance that the official lie of William H. Seward is ovstrucied,’ Lhe fron framing which forms the floor of | @fawing to a close, That event will take away frum you tha bridge will be 80 feet in width, divided into & ail further power ‘or good or evih, Ido not wisi t0 spaces forming roatways for trucks and otuer or- | @/sturb the waning hours of your existence. I pliy the Gonry venivies, Massonver Talwny tracks. aad foot. | POT Man to whom nothing ta lett but avaric>, iiica walk for pedestrians, Mr Roebling estimates that | 80d Impotency. When Seward ts gone you can no 500,000 persons Could be transported over tne struc. longer injure your en»mies or deceive your friends, I ture 1a ove diretion in twenty tour hours without very | ‘ust that you will have at least tims for repantan co. great inconvenience. Tue entire weight of tho euper- WILLIAM 8, HILLYER. Atrnoture of the span will be, as anpp.rted by the stars and cables, 8483 tons, and the greatest weiglit which can bo brought ov it at one time fn ordinary traiiic will bo 1,270 tons, makiag « total worght of 4,753 tons. The entire span will be con tracted of the beat deseriptions of steel and wronght inn wire. The towers, one on either side of tho river, wil! be very imposing, having a bet .bt of upwards of 263 feet, The cost of the masoury in the towers and foundations wil bo about $300,000, and in view of therenormous streng h and solidity the engineer suggests that by a judicious plan of arrangement they can, being hollow, be converted iuto immense safes or vau'ts for the safe keping of the city, county, and even national, securities and treasure, Ths approucn on the New York side trom Coatnam sireet to the anchor wati will be 1,336 feet, aud on the Brooklyn side 836 feet, Taking the ratio of the tncroase of the popu'rtion of New York and Brooklyn for each suco ssive decad», since the year 1800, hir, Roeb'ing estimates tbat uv 1880 tuo population of tho com yined cities will bs upwards of thros mittions, From the official reports it appears that 40,000,000 of peopie aro annually transpor ed across intended to breed differences between the General and me. It will not succeed, You cannot comprebead the nobility of bis nature or you uever woud have at tempted ty Tnave but a few words more to say. You te!] me that if T would protcet more and coveine less whiskey it would be beiter for ma, dir, Wead, af you would pr t ct less and consume more, it would be b. tier for tne public morals and treasury, You say tha! | se to youtor your endorsomeat, Men have be door, saying they were sent by you for appointments, the ground floor, and sugvestive of the ruin that had arisen, The boiler, wuicd was somo fifiecn feet in height and of eight feet diumeter, had been situ- ated, before the explosion, just in the centre of the base- meut floor of Mr. Weioh’s manufactory, which occupied the entire biock of the bulding between the two streets alove mentioned, This boiler was tubGlar and upright, and in shape was couchoida!, It was strongly con- siracted, for even now it bas not been broken to any extent by tho explosion, and its remaing eabibit great Phrontole, Sapt, 8.) strongth and soljdity, It is ead that it was only work- When & man writes a ¢ lester ta Andrew Jobns | ing up to sixty pounds preseure of gleam at the timo it fon let him beware of its enytents, for it te pigeon-hoted |»... seer “ table, judging by its a for futurs use and will be forticoming whenever itahant | P2*sti but wis scoms uuaccouatable, Judging by i euit bis purpose If any gouctoran of totluence hasan | Parent sweogia vod workinauship, The people who interview with tho President he Is drawn toward the | hoard bre expo ton say that it was lke the discharge of door of a small room a: tue back corner of the andienco | a sce apanted by @ pulllag sort of 60 cuamber, Wuere a skenograpuic reporter sits with pencil \gine lating off et ‘The expe 1n and to take down bis remarks, The accrdental Pres s yal in iis force. ‘Che immense boiler, ident has made eves-dropping ao official duty, and pays ot many toas weight, was iitied from for i out of the pubhe treasury, Wille tt is Well known carried bodily up into the air, destioying that be has paid rpies aud detectives about tne city. of ire build in which ft was comained Wasdington to dog the tracks of promineat republicans, a ourse, and attaining to an anitude of some hundred yerdy, and in @ Westerly Gireetion, xcross om the Chicago Post, September 3, iis buwiiatng to bw obliged to doue tho word ot 9 | Hiuitu avenie, W° dropped suddenly, wite teeanovtous Pre ident of the United su But Andy Johnson ts tus, inoreased by its ver teal gravitation, upon a an exception to all who have ever occupied tuat position, | Louse in West vweoty-cighth street, In tis dowuWard, shole course has been of that tortuous, double doaiz | As 1p 4.8 upward thgbt, the boiler was equally dainacing, treacherous characier which anigt mecensarity have [And resembled some gigantic shell or de-tructive missile him to ted iunaimeradle les tn bis owa per- At plums pletely througu the roof of Mr. son, to say nothing of Lhose be bas a zed his frieuds | Hou-man’s house, broke through the third, second and and vatellites to uker fur hun, Practice makes perfeet; | fmt Hoors, and tnally found # rosting placo 1a tue base- acd when a man bes bo moral principio to start with bo | wen, after tonring the Datiding neariy to picoos, is very apt to discover that there ts no method of extri- Tho trout part of the premises in wht-f tne boiler cating nimself trom an awkward prouicameat quite so | burst did not exnibit any traces oc injury from Lhe street, stort, simpie and easy as lying. save brokeo windows, The inserpilon, * Abrain 3, sane ron iia sd Ree Weish, Larcere Mili,” oa @ cross bear that Juts out over » » LFrom the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, sept. tae sidewalk, macks the scene of. the disa-ter, and oa a eg he Plain purport of this Ia oue side 1s a biacksmitu shop, Where the Wugie aod beat _— pre gee geen ed ey be cammet, pean ruil | of tue hammer and ring ot’ the anvil can be beard at Congreesioual pian, That t's 3 Jonagan’e plan there ta | 81 Hours of the day, and which ye-terday was paivabio Mte doubt. | He bas recently put forth bis most ingeni- | Q'iea, of wreck and disordered machinery; bat tis ous inlueaces t brlae ary ollleers into his ioteresi, | S.ccdpoiut would give but @ very faint idea ot the rea! fad tho mos: skilful porguasives have been brought to | Sxteit of the explosion. ‘Butering by an archway 1a dear upon Geaoval Grant witnont sucerss, Grautis the | pweuiy.goventh sireo!, at the back of the turn:ry, we obsisaie tn the vay of Presidential treason, and We tru:t } coaiq geo at a glance the ruin that had been ‘effected. staclo will b+ suillc.e1 sre the peace of ‘ i hase Lasteaed on 89 rapidly as to render Impeacnment a | PorHons tx ace bce ei Ee Games ce peugtone comeiusyon tue rebel plot under Jobasoa’s | cy, open like a doll's house or the side scenes of a thea aden site 2 anally te, and disciosed all the various foore with their cou- [From the Aloany Evening Journal, S: ‘euis, The bovier bat been torm away In every par; Mr, Johnson bas attampted a rde which steam eugine belonging to Li—a horigonial ons anead, but foolishly thinks te ran them down; he a pears to imagine that the object of satling is to beat down natural obsiaclee, and forgets altogetber that whe veyage may be ruiped while be is battilug with the winds aud trying to ran down the rocks, {From the Chicago Tribune, Sept, 1.] As loud aud unanimoas ap pular demand upon Con- grees to trepench and remove Le pro-s avery, Wearhk=r0us wreteh is now being mado as was the call in July for Ue Prssage of the Supplemental bill, Tho por have pat Of tue dernier resort Lo the last degree of eadurance 3 bat they have now crossed the rubicov, aud oui bie vile lain must go. [From the Washing MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL NEWS, Sour Canorixa.—At a@ political meeting in Bolton, 8. C., held on the 29th ult., Governor J. L. Orr, uddress- ing the whites, advised them to register and vote fora Convention, as it was folly and madness to attempt to defeat that object, There were sixty thousand negro voters against thirty thousand whites, and as the Cun- vention would look to the interest of tho biack man it could uot be expocted that one of them would vote against it. He then admonished the treedmen that they must bo imdusirions aud save thelr money, and re- minded them that if they attempt oppression of the whites now, while In the majority, it might be visited upoo them in the future, when the balance of power would bo different, as no more negroos were to be brought to this country. Ho disabused their minds of the idea that an heblates bat cust 4 ori bya viry arou man, while hots eswentially wea | of von oF fifteen lorie yowsr—had only kw outer cuing | jug Peale sal eats Seer urees eet Tay recta: eblaiis ahay ieroen, uta) goverstaniat nae in everything save obstiwucy, He bas incurred hazards | aamaged aod part of the cylinder and piston tora of estimated at over one bund: millions of howed thi: it 4 bi thei +, iron whien ho could eccaps only through overwhelmias red showed that this was not even desirable upon their par A peruon of the imuer casing of the boiler, with tho apertures for the tubes, all bent and disiorted, lay near {be engine; and this was the only frazmeut of te boiler left oa tue premses. The roof of the adjoining bouse had been suifted and was bent down over the persons annually, From these figures ue estimates that the annual travel (ten year. hence) across the East r ver will approximate very nearly eighty mitiions of souls, ‘The propo-ed britze “ver the East river will cost from $6,000,000 to $7,009,000, his estima personal popularity, white he is thoroughly unpopular. Ho baa undertaken @ scheme witch calis for adi pay ot the greatest original geaius, walle tho record va his career shows tha. ue is i 00 sons a statesman, and a The Governor presented every phase of the issuca be- foro the people with great force aud ability, and to the satisfaction of his hearers, best only a mavaging po'itician, While complaining of | ruins, wnue the remnants. of tho different | £5 Grn'es7, “Hevea p voveds to rat iirrefeconen | . WiRcista.—The whole number of registered votes in aggressions upon the divony and preregailves of hx | doors and their beams and supports wero reg cic DlOGnes ar.ue that in reference oilice, he bas himself figured always as a usurper. | now mnxed up with the remnants of tho | {© tie future Iwerourse b tween the two cities jastity- | this State 13 216,000, tue ratio beng eleven whites to ing sach an expendicure, tye future growth of Brooklyn: Wii keep even sten—uo factor, no slower—with the additional faciiitiea of travel which will be created. iho new and improved facilities which will be ofered by the bridgo will create a travel of ite own, totally distinct from and independent of the ferry travel. fekiug a3 his estimato of the annual travel over th bridge, in the railway exre, for'y millions of people, at one cent per head, worch woult amount to $400,000, and in that proportion up to five cents per bead, which would give a total revenue of $2,000,000, he thnks that these Feces may be considered a3 net recvipis, be- caneo the revonues from the two roadways and trom the central promenade ato not included. le is confident that the receipts froin the latter source alone wilt be vory heavy every strancer in the city will patromze this promenade, and w'ti enjoy 'ts p'easures and sizh's. lo closins his report he suys:—A revenue of two mil- lions of doutars wi!l pay ten’ per cent npon a capita! of twenty millions, and fiitech per cent upon an invest- ment of thirteen and a alf miltions, But the work will only cost fron: six to seven millions, and the invesiment in real estate wil! pay good returns of theirown. For the special cSnsideration of th» property holders aud taxpayers of tho city of Brooklyn. one more obser vation should be made, The taxable property of thia city. im 1864 was one hundred and nine. teen millions, In 1865 it had increased to ono hundred and twen'y-three millions, which increase |: the rato of throo and a half per cent, Now, it is lain that as the populutiou of the city increases so will its taxable | em Aud (1s 's0 certa.n that this increaso rouwbt about by the building of the briage in a faster rat in by any other means. Assuming at a low ostinal atio of increase of five ani a third percent In piace, of three and a third per cent, after the completion of the vridge. the adititonal increase of val- uation of two per cent would amount from two to (hree millions annua ly, an) would pay for the whole cost of the work in less (haa tree years, THE HILLYER--WEED CONTROVERSY. New Yorx, September 10, 1867, Tavatow Wern, Esq., Sin—I have hesitated about replying o your communi- cation of the 7th, I did not wish to bring myself within the provisions of the statute so rigidly enforced by Mr. Berg. J assure you that 1 pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Ihave charity enough to believe that the infirmities of age have so affected your memory as to make your imagination responsible for your facts, Suppose, Mr, Woed, that a commission of lunacy sbouid eit on your case, Suppose the evidence should show that you really imazined yourself the champion of official purity, the guard.an of the public treasure, the disinterested adviserof other men’s friends, What would be the resuit? You would have to send to the Tycoon of Japan and show by him that your wits were so thoroughly ironclad that they could not desert you, even nine blacks, It is stated the election for delegates to the convention, 104 in number, will take place between the 11th and 15th of October, Nortw Carouws.—Tho following was the only resolu. tion adopted at the Republican Convention held in Raleigh last week, the other resolutions being laid upon the table:— Resolved, That the republican party of North Carolina, on the subject of confiscation and ail other Pertaining to reconsiruciion, faitafaily adver abide by the recougtruction plau and measures of Con- gresa, $ The following platform was adopted :— We, the delegatce, representing the loyal people of North Carolina, assembled in convention in the city of Raleigh, on the Sth day of Leprember, 1867. for the purpose of perfecting and strengthening the organiza- Wen of the republican party in the State, and in order to oa great work of preserving ana perpetuaiing the inion, do Resolve, That the republican party in North Carolina hereby reaffirm the principles‘enuaciated in the conven- tion of true republicans which assembled in this city on u 'th day of last March, and does fully accept, adopt and gnstain the principies of the sepubiican party of the United states, Guoncia on THE Recerny,—The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, Sept 6, cays:—It is not permitted to ordinary mortals to pry into the mysicries of the radical regi try; but an Atlanta editor, more favored than the rest of us, puts down the number of voters enrolled at 183,000, Another authority says of this number the whites have a little over 18,000 majority. How this will be after tho regis. try shall have undergone the authorized manipulation remains to be seen, Missrsairri.—A meeting was held in Brandon on the Sist of August for the purpose of appointing delegates to the Republican Convention to be held in Jackson on the 10th inst, The following platform and resolutions were adopted :— We desire to eee Mississippi speedily restored to ber constitutional relations a3 a State in ihe Union. We ac. cept in faith the reconstruction measures of ( on- gress, We concede to afl men, without re-ard to race, color or previous condition, the full rignta of citizenship. We desire to inaugura'e a system of education which will educate and elevate the masses of the people. We wish to encourage immigration and the introduction of capital, We desire to allay sectional hatred and ii! feel- ing, and ask each and ake Ae oy Of the State that all peasion.and prejudice bo laid aside. Toward the in. ment of these énds we sirive, and we cordia'ly invite the co-operation of all who are willing to mako common canige with ue for a common object, Resolved, That we are in favor of a repeal of the fed- eral cot‘on tax and the rebuilding of the levees om the Missiasippi river. General Ord bas displaced the Mayorand Aidermen of Vicksburg, whereupon the Hpfald of that city says:-— The ‘poser whict controle the purse, the power which makes the laws, tho power which interprets the laws, and back of ali, the power that creates all the organism of ciyi! government are arrayed against him. Impelied by biiud fatuity to contend at such disadvavt- age, and for ends £0 base av those he has in view, the fate of the demagrgue is no marvel, but ouly @ nacurai course Of events, [From tho simo—September 7.] Andrew Jounson is past conversiva, Ho has utterly “gone to the bad.” Everything tends to show that ne is quite irreclsimable, Tho philanthropists who condu t our Magtalene asyluins never met a more doasperaio case, {From the Phfadelpbia Balletin, Sept. 4.) itiriy republican party las no cause to com- plaln of these mischievous meddlings of Mr, Jobnson. They all contribute, in their measure, to compact aud strengthon the loyal sentiment of the people, Tnoy afford fresh proofs of the aangerous character of the man who occupios the Executive chair. ‘They arouse new determinations to control aad check his uaboiy am- bition, They sweep away ai hngeriug remnants of con- utegrity, wisdom or patr.otism. They sirip bim of whatever di-guises and false preteaces have biinded and misted a generous and long sufferi: and show him for what he is, an art u’, amit ing demegogue; av “impedinen peaceful aud hogorabie setl*ments of our vational diill- culties Tue people moy possibly bear with him uatil his term expires, but each now development of his pro- peusity for mischiof iutensides the desire lor deliverance from this disturber of the pubiic peace, (from tho Philadelphia Evoning 7 Mr. Jobnson not only possesses a regard for justicd and a ep-rit at once despott fatien walls and sioped down to tho abyss at tho base- meat whch covtained ali the machinery, timber work wad original siructure of the building, piled up in a neterogeneous heap of disorder, Tue missing body of ine evgiueer, Shanghuessy, was found at nine o'clock yesierday morning Duried beneath the dsbrs in ‘he ba-ement, his skull smashed tn aud his brains soattored va the bricks and mortar around, The scexo was one of ruia, insiantaneous and mdescribable. Here was a broken lathe, an unhinged door, iwisted out of all stape; @ huge bean, a cuatr, a window witu ail fis panes of glass destroyod; there are heaps of bricks and dirt, aad slaves and roofing, cat g and Oilcioth, and broken rafters pited up to the level of the s.rect—ths wavle presenting a picitire of desolation which can only aed ufver some sudden calamity like this boiier plosion, ‘Lhe nouse 308 West Twenty-eighth street, the residence .r Housman, where the boiler fell, w: nearly as All the ot complete a ruin asthe premises of Mr. Welca. stuiles, extending to hai the width of the pariding, bad veen stuasued in, aud the partitions that separated the front par. trom the back cut away as if wich geome giao scytue. Tho roof was knocked away compietcly; the floor and the two other stories beneath, including the back paror and the rooms above it, destroyed as if they bad been deliberately pulled down or hammered in; and the crumbling fragmonts of theso floors, with all their iuraiture, were heaped tm confusion ia the base- nent of the house, Tho death of \r, Housman’s two cuiidren must bave becn nearly Instautancous; for, gazing at the scono of the disaster, one can readily ap- preciaie the immense momentem wita which the boiler must have descended on the doomed buttaing, desiroy- fox everything in its course, The botler itself is nenriy entire, abd does not seeu in the teast damaged, Somo a ve (lve, or the top or bottom being Wen, could alone bave caused it tv explode. It is wonderful to chiok how it was burke! through the air such a distaucesome three hundred feet or more— 1 a straiybt line from the building in which it had been fixed, besides tho elevation to which it ascended ia order to gain sucn lateral direction, Yesterday crowds of peop e, and about three o'clock nanibers of school chil- dren returuing from their various academies lined all the sidewalk in front aod opposite the house of Mr. Hous- mao, where the two little dead children were lying Ina Too up stars awaiting tho coroner's inquest; and in front of Mr, Welch's premises an oqually large concourse of curlusity seekers assembied, woile some p-ople also troubled the hospital folks at the Mount Sigal Inacivation to see ibe poor sulerore who had been mjured by the nt 1gno- rant, but ne also boasts of dopl city of no mean order. Not only has he violated his phighted word and made hs whole administration a Nving contradiction to what he promised when out of oifice, but be also acts tho part of the serpent or the dove with a subUety whico we did uot expect from his coarse nature, L) ° ° What can the’Presideat moan? What does be intond to attempt? does he convey when tie says he is “really on the war paih.’’ We had thought ie had been on it for years, but now tt seems he 's golng farther yet, Is a coup d'éiat contemplated? Epeciia. tion fails to reveal to us any defluite object which tio President js attempting to gain by his conduct daring the past two weeke. The most plaus ble solution is that given by a Western exchange, which tells us that “Mr. Jobuson’s frame of mind for the past ten days tt Lu: a onged continwaner of tha! state in which he too’ Ai: Vice Previ! this be not the true soiu- aculated to explain the puo. . recently witnewod atthe White House, n the Titusville (Pa.) Her Sept, 5. ay that Jubuvoa can prevent or forestall ‘hment 18 to osurp the reins of govern. p@état and disperse Congress When it #5 at the mouth of the canvon aud at the point Holding. a3 ho docs, Congress to be a bo “hanglug on the vorge of tho govern. kot be entirely comeistent with ia call tt 1 and trampled South to © of Stato rights and h he 18 the self-styled accident, Mary Dowling, Mr. Housman’s servant, ts doing mach better than was expected. and the doctora think she will r cover, while one of tho others was aiso looking much better yesterday morning. Tho cureners were expected at the siation house of the disirict, at the hospitat and at Mr Housnian’s residence ali day, but up to three o'clock they had not made their Appearance, ACTION OF CORONER WILOFY. Coroner Wildey was yesterday no:ified to hold an inquisition over tho remains of the wowan aud two children whose deaths resulted from the explosion in West Twenty-eignth street, the par.iculars which were fuily reported ia yesterday's Hexarp, Later in the day the Coroner repaired to the residence of Mr. Houstian, 803 West Iweoty-cighth streot, for the pu champion, ie," was the complacout in- | pogo of empanelling a jury to view the dead bodies tn | if an additional appropriation of 000 forthe eon. | The havo resolved that {t is better to bear the quicy of Seward, “haro.a President or a Ditator?” The | Drags tab they miquebe Duslok, The fury world alo | eset ee | of apertacr ath sits ved te | tyranny 0 monurch than submit to negro dome Niewlse the boiler which v bx ee the covntry is already appaited by the monstroye as. os of Aud: Johngun Dictator he is to-day, Its usurpation would, in enta amd purpoere dced, be more palp Otho popular apprehension if ad allghted upon tho roof of ‘fr. residence and, crustng throvgh the various edued fteelf in tho collar, wuere It could go The Coroner t engaged iv seouring the at 4 or Agxawess.—It is charged in the Arkansas Gazelle that at Camden, in that State, a Capiain Pierce, with thirty armed men, went to the office of the Constitutional Fugle, to have a lucid moment, I did not know yoo in your pnme, Mr, Weed, 1am told that you were a great man, I do not remember when hore wo first met. 1 know shat when I cam Housman’ Noors, i ho farthe crimes, and that Thurlow Weed bad points of resem- © and alone alone to IT may therefore, as you say, have in- titles hira to 2 I. further declares that “ th play the usarper,”’ | violence, but it } tendauce of the neces ay wiinesses, {tis bis Der. | to Now York I had the popular euriesity to see the | broke down the doors, took possession of the oflice, » New York Times. br Bingen Rhee rl Cootral Dark, Higa Bedge, tue Five Poluts, the Tombs | proke presses and case, seattored the type, and marched the Presid me oat go retintnn nl and Tharlow Wi n tol tt ntral i. ot “ameeee ovine Galera ee Nag yok investig may not be need | Parke had maay devious paths, that High Bridge was | of with the edition of tho peper stuck upon tho bayoueis “Mr. Johnson havo repeated his phfases con used fora very ditieront perpos? than what it seomed to | of the soldiers. Tie commauder of the post, when in- erning the cot ually porsnadod LEFT BIIER « 2! be, that the. Five Points wore a villainous aspect, that | terrogated about the outraze, altrivated it to the exas- himseit that hat instrament er. OSITVARY. the tombs contained many unwriteen his ories of great | ooration of the soldiers at the editorials in the paper. blance to each, Is General Ord about to follow the unworthy course of Thomas H. Tayler. of the governing party is perfectly clea 3 bh Rev. Pr. troduced myself to you. 1 may have waied at your | Genoral Pope in proseribing the free utterance of opin- : and the pecpie repreee Congress, | This dietingalshed drvine died on Monday last, at hie | door exercising merci? witn reading thes placard placed | 1.4 % T eraat Cat TE mag be een (ne '**I9E OF J summer residence at Wost Pari, on the Hudson, after a | W°re,t%, the friendiy proprietor: — | texwresen—Hon. J. M. Tomeny, of Momphis, ie a We rust tat it may be @ [From V Grant at Inet bas sp staikod Into the Secretary short i!inese, Ho was rector of Grace church, and had deon connected with it for upwards of thirty-three years, since the your 1934, when the congregation of candidate for Patterson's place in the United States Senate, The latter's term expires on the 4th of March. SewaTon TRUMBULL OX SrFrRAG#.—Senator Trumbull tell Pipillips. ken and blundored. How he nip, his friends boasting his oP tas 1 know that you claim to own the Secretary of State; to ba the guardian of the Secretary of the Treasury and the next friend of tho Commissioner of invernal Rev- enue; to keep the President iu perpetual awe, mp dys greet power to prevent micclicf! What n vurc’ worshipped ia a& unpreteading ding op- i rk hy ad? None The only power be claimed wer part of Broadway, His tito, simarer cus Mevepeean Betand tse a) bo carp Reaatleotelbigphen catbomtbeseetelleseenone ag President @ momeat's thought obliges Bim nciosely associated with the history | tnrough whoin to bogotiate for ike favors. eance—a Congregations! papor at Chicago—on this topic, b~ re . —— 2 our agen sta oe. : —_ of Gince chureh, to which od! his | ‘How mach of this is real end how mach pretence I | as follows:— : is ab bis was Our St Michael, | ol quent aud instructive sermons attracted ono of the | ret! ir money aad " Co ase 7 whose resistiess word v mow down the Satan of | moa: woalthy, enlightened and liberal cougr Per itapr ohms peer apo SG c Team at fadbantreeties, ro ty maary powen, the fallen ba Instead of that we find that he does process of reconstr» not even kuow how (to draw Tue great popular leader *.0ks to be oaly the Prositent’s Secretary, iseuing ordore he abho to | ancient Pistol,” eating his eread yout communication with the T have read an ud one single statement which was vain attempt to ray. The firet time f evor talked to you of politics or office the local affairs of voc! States and to regulate suffra, therein. nate Ye ould pretend (hat Congress could aa ject the people of Li) pa) which hag bean es jor was born'la South Coroling, whore he 5 until the removal of h , ually roslded 3 or Now York to the military Was ever doasifal promi Ver BiDce, With the exception of some few trips taken to I hairman : tee ure? 2 ith, ‘ age the was chair of tho Central Committee of poenes. ailare? Tue Ge overt his health, one jof which, to Baroy, in 1868, waa ihe United Service societies, aad ropresonted six thou- ° the Unite Wood caught iat the Presi bim immense good '* | sani votes of veterans’ of the war. Mataal friewds | go inthe rebel States. If the views expresso are cor. deutial maeiet me better brains than aed oo brouglt us together to consult and combine. I was not rect, it follows that (hers are hat two ways of securing his own come * sure soon to be swale | ond was 80 w ° " Safely sep thenl 4 4 . 5 f a candidate for auy oillc», but designated soldiers who I partis! auffrare thronghout the Union. One fs for the te ed a tbe vo Grant maa i. ater this call Dr, Tay lo; pol an eloquent writer ax desired should be, Tho combination was temporarily States themesivee to adopt it, when is being done by boson be and wit onongh tO | and held a i 6 the Episcopal ¢ -] sucoassfal, but as was predicted by those who kuew You | some already; and now that the subject 18 being ‘gl hefool the modal hk © passed for the fT was statesman. taal Which passe energy of cliarm focial disposition a aod Auization could pot country. He pos : ‘we child folk your ous toraper beter than Idi, thatthe young survive its association wita you, toad, sickened aad died, tated and its justice belag made apparent, it i= to be hoped It will soon commend iteelf to se hv gin the Unit a n tl he spoke. > A - by an amendment to (he constitevion Oe OT Y aati tink tee ne many warm frie un in the highe mi | “one time alter a comtattios of aoldiers of Now York | Rigor, adopting itivariiet savage throughout No fest ae we tae mn Oma be the hayden eng 40 | went to Wash.ngvon and claimed of the President that | Tajon, which, to become effective, muat be ratified by gate ae hed vad ¥ f Was Very eartest, and sometimes his repartess wore | ghey were entitled to at least one of the leading appoint- three-fourths of tho states, about se much sharp apd outling, tho vor unkind or wou ments here—they designated tae Surveyorship asthe fean g He was a low churci mad, sad always took an ac m . if can. iY 0 ol that, rr — sai neta whit im tho dabaian of the AtaaiD revan Convent ’ peered ay dean Rew romnn indy fone gy ey hon THE WEW OVSTER LAW OF VIRGINIA, ho exorted a strong His tlnese at fey 1 a fitness paper ‘ ‘cyt and gave bis persowal endorsement as to my Sita 1 " “ - . pe os, ‘ ee oven! «9 | Kuowiedge, f 7 me Ms alba , W tow larg | A few days alter wards you sent for me and begged m Signoms Ou Moneny seorstng wok 4 hege wucnber of o'clock yeste cle 0 ee to withdraw from the contest; you pleaded that Mr. 4 ATO gelling rewly (9 go into the business. The Hayes, revidit Morrisania, was crossing cnanee " Wakoran Was (he special friend of you aad Mr, Seward Gleroseuse St cue tow rata the taking of catching road, he gs & Dy a vender’s wagon and peau thet you bad put him im the place; that you ane | oF oysters in the waters of the commonwealth in the kuoeked tneoned ai of feilow work Fi tho vew ( " } seward wore my friends, and would support mo for months of June, and August; forbids the buyin » when i wag secbriained We ldkch Ghee Me ne eet), | any otuer portion, You said you were authorized | Cocaine by aay othor than State measure, whic i lajury, Hie tight arm | frowt car guvermeneat te (ena: Ghamee a | by Mr, Seward to offor me the mission to Portugal Ths | Sa hod'ia no caso more than one bushel, liquid mea. + sovero beuleaa, Ho wae | i 7 Weunesiay fur | “y ne oll Smans el rhe, eres nee Ser tilesct @uro; violation of the provisions of the section to be pun. sae Fomoved to bis home end modiont aseistauce | Piamb was © ry of gation during Cortia’s dices | | vai ye had veoeristned that ta incurobent was | ih ——-, by fine of uot less than $10 nor called in, ° . tion of American ofa Mextoo, aad also | dying; that af T would withdraw frog the race for the bas hao two anys (hat no person other than a resident Eneotion of 4 Naw Semoot Hover Wrtuse | Mr. Campbell's ty ut miselog Ble wucveyorsbip Wat you and Mr. sowaRd would Give YONs | citizen shall take or plant oysters in the waters there: rainor,—Tho foundation of A new echoot house at | CUsbly ‘arailiar with Mi pe ‘aed | tufueyce with my friends: and Toould bave that office | or under a pously of $500; or If any citizen of the State " " . J ; > ke che neo | as soo an It was 4 ; Willlamebridgs ts —_ vid under the direction | Mr, Plamd will commu A 200 aa prose | | | 1 complied with your request and Mr, Wakeman kept Renu Mew Ane men Gch s restates of the of the Board of duceil¥e of the town of West Farme— | OU Cee rs 0 re, who Will at once | piv offen fa the shined | Oma be tned a? a Ove in tho State, the villege belng @ part o 1 District No. 1, Ag ara Over to Bim atl pudlic dovurnents, As you predicted, there was a vacancy fn ‘aval Section three makes it felon: ! ° D ured as at pane s iy for any person to carry eligible site bas Beam aeoured a sivort distance frém the 4 — 3 loo. I never asked @ favor of you fo By Pe coe off oysters planted or sown by a citizen of the State, ad pepo, Mp ¥ ‘Ald oe Worse A joey rr) sro Ur —Mr Joba Fy Brophy, | expect you would Keep your agreement, The law has various other sections and provisions ibdiag, ab a com’ 000, h who lately Admiral | you then, " of ( go are compelled to go all the way to Ford. | Dahlgren, of the urmed to | _ Afler the wacavoy Ocourred I met you in Washington spoteasn, shove agate teving ea eeies at eam OUR hata a order to seoure the tages of education, the | Washington, bas pul cant elating Uhat the dis | Yoo told me that t know that [ was your first choice for inspectora, Each of the three district inspectors to be ‘pletion of the Mow schoo! house # looked forward to | tance aad want of faciiliiey for comraumication made it | the Naval Office, but that the sui nates were ail your ‘be : oer Twould | ™ or commander of one of the steamers to be em- impossible for bim rane what wes That ployed in eollecting the rev: fee fe dg age oad fos seeel state re eee eee FIRE AT LIFTON, OHIO. 10, p , CITY INTELL!G“<NCP Music in re Paxx.—The Park Commissioners an. Bounce that should the weather prove Que to-day there ‘will be music on the lake, commeucing at half-past threg o'clock P.M. is Tum Democracy Jvnmart.—The democracy im fhip city wore quite jubilant yesterday over their victorige in. Maine and California, and at noon tred a salute of one hundred guns in the City Hall Park. G ; Sazona ov Wursksy.—A number of barrels of whis- key were yesterday seized, at one of the wharves on the East river, by revenue officer acting unier directions @f the Metropolitan Rovenue Board. The owners ap Peared in Cedar sireat sova afterwariay and, after satise fyiog the authorities, the 1iquor was released from the @ of the keepers, Avorgun Coxwipencs Gama —Yesterday evening as » little boy named Henry Smith, ihe employ of a Mr, Watkins, boot and shoemaker in Fulton street, was pro- Ceeding along the Bowery, ne was accosted by a Jewiah: Jooking man and asked to take a noie into an adjoining umbrella store. The boy had a bac with bim a vow pair of boot: poy some suocemaer's this 1h» obliging st.anger offered tv noid for bim whi! he went Iris erraud, As the mau offered fifteen cente- Job the boy excel, bit when ve returned bis friend had disappeared along ith the bag, and the poor litle boy discovered Low ue had beeu duped. The police were informe, bat the rascal wo ‘doubtless escape, unless the boy should meet um ant Sie cinte sare ae apie wo do pays g be on their guard now againgt this game, it is played so very ofven, Faruers’ Civs,—The usual meeting of the Farmers? C.ub was held yesterday afternoon, at the Cooper Im stitute, tha presidoat of the sociecy, Mr. Ely, chain’ Several interedting’ Uintiers, il steal ty agriculturists, were discuss*d, aud correspondence from absent members, which gave rise ty several Inter rea ing Guggestions from those pr-en, Tue meet broke up at four o'clock, siter lasting for some ours, Ta Book Trape Saue.—The book trade alo was cons tinued yesterday, boing the firth day and about thé usual pumber of buyers were in attendance, A lively Competition was apparent in the dire 0 possess som@ of the favorite works, and the piives realized A ms the fav aes ADoUL the Saino as at the pr vert ot D, Appleton & Co, oceuj Macaulay’a compiete works 0 H $56, sold for $4 per volume, 11 Keightly’o§ Mytho og: as kno retatl price $6, and the Ducu. 9 d’ ior as? Memo! of Napoleon, Dick»ns’ works, G z0’s History of hation, Kavanazh’s novel: ado hor works went Tapid succession at fair prices, a Fourtessta Asssmaty Di tion Usiow ai Association.—A meoting of this orvanization was at Masonic Hall last evening, bot 1: was decmed ady visable to postpone the bustuess ivr which the meetin, was called until a laer auto, to be ixed upon by Revsion of Opprriows.—The Grand Lodge of the United States will hold 11s anvual 6 --sion of 1867 in this city, commencing Monday, Sepiomver 16, at o'clock in the evening. All Pa. (irands of the Puipie degree in good stunting ore ‘oO unite with Committee of the Grand Loige o: tue Btaie of Ne York, on the morning of the siine lay at Irving without regalia, to receive the di-t nvuisaed visitors, RECEPTION OF Goop Witt Exctve Company No. 8 of Trentox, N. J.—The above company arrived in thia el yesterday noon, en rou'e to Providence, R.L They , received at the foot of Cortlaudt siree. by a special com! mittee of the New York Fir mva's Association, an escorted to their headquarters, corner of Fourth streot and Sixth arenue. wiiere u sumptuous collati was in waiting. Mr. Heary \Visou, President of New York Firemon's Associa! n, welcomed them behalf of the association, which wes d iy ackuowledges by William H Barton, 1 were under coms mand of the folowing — oilicers:—Chief — Mare shal, James C. Hillman; A=3stua: Marshal, Taylor; foreman, James Kely, They were ied by several distinguished guests, among whe ony J. K, McGuire, Cnet of Poi ce of Trenton; mee Thomas Carr and others, hey ieft the city at five o'clock, for Providence, and wiil return on next, uae A Leorrimats Traxsactios.—In yesterday's police 4 port it was made to appear that Michael Hays, captain the lighter Ladd, had stolen a large lot of flour, since appears that the ailair «as brought into co! under erroneous impressions, and that the captain, se ia a well known aod sirictty honest gentleman, carrying out a parely legitimate transaction. was; Consequently, honorably discvarved, without any re. flection whatever on his characcer (or Lonesty or atrict integrity. - Masostc FestivaL AT Joxes’ Woop.—This entertain: ment will come off to-day, aud wili doubtless bea great |. success in point of numbers and yield of money, and will present the finest intellectual treat offered to picn! tg goers for along time, Its purpose makes it well deserv+ ing of public patronage, as the funds realized are to be woted to the afd of the Mason!c School and Asylum wana, scbuyler county, New York, an object that peals to the sympathies of the iraternity, and to who believe in works of benevolence, A very and attractive programme is offered, inctuding from some of the cinef o'ticers of the order, athletic exhibitions, Calotunian games and amusements, all of which wit tend to render the picn! ah cng d ieee Boum thetand ing. ee claims the ject of it has on the patrouage umane cltizeng of New York. mE b FataL Rattroap Accinent ix Cxxtas Street.—Coroner Wildey yesterday conclndod tne inquisition in the cane of John Golden, the young man who was killed io Centre street on Sunday afternovn, by being run over by a Fourth avenue car, as reported in y: "8 Several more wituesses were exaimined, but no facts of importance clicited. Tho case was given jury, who rendered the following verdiot:—That Sa oe pPcong Ph death by ee ae cel m being ranover by car No. Avenue Railroad line, on the sth of Se anne 1867, in Contre street, near Leonard, do not any Decligence on the part of the conduotor or of said car, but thst deceased came to bis death by hig own carelessness.” On the rentiion of the above Sp be apt the Seen the cor, who n arrested, was discharged. ased was yehre of age and a uative of tis cy ayer Drowsing Cascatty.—An inquest was yesterday neg by Coroner Wildey on the boty of Edward Stoney, am iceman, who fell overboard from a steamer lying at 45 North river late on Monday night and was psa A verdict of accidov'al death was readered by the jury, Deceased, who was a single wan, lived iu Horatio wear Hudson. 4 Fovxo Drownen.—The body of an unknown man wap yesterday found floating in tho water near pier 62 Rast river, An inquest was held by Coroner Wildey, and a verdict of death by drowning was reudered by ¢! 3 Deceased wore @ dark coat, gray pantie, white ni: mi shirt aud black necktie, LONG :SLAND INTELLIGENCE. Arremrteo Murprr at Cyreees Hiris,—On Sunday evening a serious #ilray ocourred at Cypress Biils, in the county of Queens, by whic: a youth came rear losing his life. Of late several cases of murder and at- tempts at the same havo been committed in vatioup localities throughout the county, aud in not oneof the numerous cases Lave the perpetrators been bs Justice. But in this case the ooservers of the sai deed were more prompt in actions, and no soouey 3 € < had the would-be murderer drid tue snos tt wd ay fair ali reside at Cypress ty person wn alieged to have committed the deed pamed Nicholas Lott and ive wooaded boy's name 0 Henry Mulls. It appears from the testimony take! before Justice tirade, at Jamaica, where the aecrae the commission of hia act, toat the was gathering sticks frou bonenth an alanthue tree; ed the youth ana ordered bim to drop bduudle, which he refused todo, waem Lott produced xn which bed a debind bis back and arged one of the barrels, the contents entering the ‘* head. fhe boy fel) ww the ground, with the bleod gushin {rom his head in several places, ad nated that whe lying prostrate he was told by tue would-be that If he bad not dropy od the sticks he would have gi bim what was conta ued in the other barrel, the be ng a double one. The perpetracor of the deed is ome. what advanced in years, Lhe tree where the complain ant was gatbering the wood sianes upon the public bighe way aod ts not the property o Mr Lott, After th inquest was held the accused furnished ball id the sucy of $500 to appear at tho vext Oyer and Term!uer Court in October, The wounded individual ta gradually recov ering, although his wounds Were at one \imo considered mortal, Brvtat Attack Urow 4 Youno Maw at Fan Rocka. way.—Yesterday afternoon an affair occurred at Rockas- way between somo parties stopplug there, among whom wasa butcher, named James McDonald, bailing frou New Yor Ho, together with ome friends, were on Spree, and while they wore conversing toy met a youn, mao named fhomas (ronan, also a barcher, and whe | carrying on his business in Rockaway in opposition Mebon While they were proceed ng along the street. they accidentally me: with Croman, amd, it fs at immediately assauied tim. During tho progress of meléo the unfortunate man was severely cat with knife, aud sox rayon mrt were used — bruised the young man ofrid mManver. jo had his clots torn and his hands wero ge-hed in several pi wf O'Donnell has been arrested, and will lave an examin: " 934 on Saturday volore Justice Fosdick. MEETING OF CONGRESSIONAL GOMMUTTEES TO-DAY. The Congrossional Committes on Frauds fii tit Pe Department will bo in soasion at the Astor House General Van Wyck and Hon, Samuel Randall, @ commence Sersion to-day st the The object of attempt tue ayaa tec rereane CY will algo iaveatigate the frauce a toe ternal revenue, particulariy on the ~