The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1868, Page 6

The Social Condition in Prussia at Christmas. England's Policy in the East and the Diplomacy of tho United States. Under the Army Bill. PRUSSIA. SPLCIAL CORRESPONGENGE OF THE HERALD. mas Fetes and Observances=The United soe avd Rassla-Free Trade=Mr. Ban- seroft to be Accredited to the Government of the Bund—Prussian Representittive in Mexi- co—Another German Actress te Visit Ameri+ en—Court Gossip. Bras, Dec. 26, 1867. Christmas, with its bustling, wearying merriment, is ‘elmost over. The !aboring mon will make a sort of “Niggers’ Fourth"? of to-morrow, but as the better-to-do ‘Durghers retire heavily to their beds this night the feast ts for them ended, and to-morrow there will be nothing Femaining of it but the remembrance, with trinkets for tho little ones, a sense of {fatigued relict for the women and Kalzenjanmer for the men; pe @ share of (he last. It ts at loast passing strange that this festival should havo ite sea} and stronghold in Germany, from which of aii civilized countries aro supposed to coie most of tho objections to the central Ggure of it—the Saviour of the world, In other countries the evening and the morning make up the holiday, but here tho time is more than doubled, So strong, too, aro its at- fractions und influenco that not only all ranks and classes but aiso all sorts and conditions of mon of every creod and belief join in celebrating it, bueiness is more rei nded than on the Sabbath, and the how: of believers and of infidels, yea, evon of those wandorers who have bronght from thetr ancient Pajestine aothing but their faith, alike make this day the oceasion of their reunton, dance around evorgreon trees, jilumninated with tapers and with gifts, and look forward or backward to tha pleasant fete throughout the tweivemonth., The custom of inaking presents 1s more universal bere than in A Sugland, and hap- pily, too, of presents y the givers themselves, Soldiers, especia their leisure hours in handiwork for ther ag tree bears as fruit fans and Fritz, who, y iexorable military burracks, they to dreary r row y dic to the ns for thor 0% Hi , Dut also to wing count men in the ens former resident of the capital would th ote if oO which the peasaatry ¢ ACCUS OMeU LO Di ‘oducts of their industry fn the long Ww ‘and rainy daya, ‘This ancien! ins: hb respecte this innovating on. Ike immemorial wu which has si qiaces is still aerved, (or the o Of the booths pay a goodly revenue to.th er; but comparatively few of the hucksie sin their provincial garb, and @ Blroiling ger linger here and there a no Lo Yohoar the ixest country motuers and inaidens talicag Pict! with one anorber aud avempuing to speak High German with the hellers of shopworn goods aud wares have usurped the piace of theso angual vis gad instead of the rural patois the passer by is chaited du a dialect quite as differcut from the language of Lees- wgand Govtue—the slang of tue Berlin lower classes, The most arent patrous of tho fair are of a geaus gaid tobave been unknown in the good old tin pocket. Among the articles recommended for Maas gifts- and everything salable, and some under the catcy ss yeur by yea American manulaciure, especially rubber goods, skate Sewing machines and lavor-saving contrivences goner= ally. In previous seasons tire bas been a strong effort fo bolsier up dowesiic trnitations or “improvements” of Abese inventions, but the tide sooms (uraing in favor paper publishe: (hat tm the preseace of such such Vulgar matters as politics, eof wars ron a great danger of being gosten. ‘The members of bot bouses Wook, regardiess of (ae entreaties of the gov Dt io vole the appropriations for tue coming Year before thoir departure, thus suddenly depriving She editors of convenicus iates.als for loaders. Conti Rental matters vndaual 1, aad eyen the Fenian disturbances tm Engiand began to grow monotonous, whea tie Russian Java ide, which cece not need to other iwelf about Lolideys for a furtuight, sot them all agoing by hinting at tue deep and mighty projects of the Czar. m Cowpest Jorge teapot, aud cari- osity will be the ' topic when tho jour eit letharzy to-mor- row ove If the radicals in they woald confer apon 8 hy restoring Am Polivies to the on seuer of their way they would Surely mako the rt. Cantrery and intraciablo patriots in Vrussie were once never tired of pomting to to tne tates, when anything went wero Ying that tho ahould be followed by causes which itis perbaps un ory to enumerate they have become chary of those finger marks using thein us if afraid lest they might, like tho Irish BUN, go off in the wrong direction: but they hay up for the loas ef their old arsena cedonts and ex; nians has m. e more at dentad Crack, tin search of wfatuer, A @ lors thon ev. " let hu abv Bar phat redited to the tothe k Austria has Free d resoguized tho Bund Tuo tact ¢ within th Proveiaa ra hor the Ge Holts erush nou Monde Horr you Mayr «Minister at Mexico, Israelite, o* * accyun! of his jonse we esto ibe gorocament. Oc three sons. It was Ox ctor i first bora would follow his father a poctod that fathes a Shief of the bauking firma of nis vamo. mon thought the youngest beiier ¢ cout for the sition, aid #0 gave the oldest, who bad a taste for te, The second son was destined for the Haring beon brought thro eya- duo coaching he en Wo ite receiving the ass of 8 One day the banker sent at his progress aud comm th ihe tutor ‘ventured wat be thoug! ns better 10 1m COULY Urse @ Little louger and pane the nation “fxatniaation | exciaines | ace the examination ? Thad @ bow 2 or General v upon a tong furlough vo-mor During bis absences the departivent will be diviced ito Wwo and samimise Yored by General Podviebski aud ier Admiral Jash- wann ; on, oF, as the Now Yorkers called him, David ‘bring from an affect ion of the toug nawechek's sticcoss across the walor has wishes to go aud do tikewias, Fraulem to ba among the Oret as present at the obeqnian of the ‘At ue baptism of the jalan! whose ath of the accomplistied Princess, godmother und hvid the Bitter digappointinent at her babe was not « of the young motier's vince, was hot the rerulat a , but Was appointed in r, hud cag ouly retaim the property by boving & Tiw wortay ghters, elon rendered cveple bave fv 2 similar Want of sueces: \s Raid to ha ) rand Marine, envers | Thi soldier style, not even the snuomiet at duu sery Was a6 when never seen ip hig “family ci ‘The sight of @ cur friek: cap, ‘g about ‘The glee to the pur- Princo, who was almost madd bis appearauc Ut in the uniform of his regiment was too much for the chivalrous man, and he siapped bis wifoin the face, The most veracious chroui- clors are at veriance regarding the rest of the scone, but some aver that the warrior received as good as he gave. Providence has sent them a son as their fifth child. Q relative Finance, that fve organs of tho Paris money from Pru: sa w Prussiem Moniteur, of Berlin, of Docember 26, to the assertions of the French Journal, the on a perieg had sean ret Y 1e ing’s goveramen! pot have paid the slightest aitontion to such ao invention bad it not been made in the Legislative Body, without its falsehood being at once asserted, We are officially euthorized to declare that the allirmation in Pa ‘ * Ov ocrac’ question, whether collectively or®in reference to each Consolidation of the French Dem | a ‘acriainated, is completely false aud of pure in- vention, TURKEY. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. OMelal Report of the Fighting in Crete-Two Engagements—Activity of the Greek Sympne thizers—The Governmental Plan of Conces- Ask and Chance sion—What the Insurge of w Settioment=Storm in the Bosphorus. ConstantixoriE, Dec. 11, 1867, Subbi Bey, who was sent to Candia with insiructions to Ali Pacha, returned here a fow days since, and re- Asteamer, arrived from Syra on tho 7th, brought the crew of an English brig which was lost at Franco Castello, on the southeast Ports Aghting still going on. coast of Crete, a part of the island held by the insur- gects. The stranded vessel was laden with wheat, and the salvage accounts will probably be passed to the credit of profit and loss in the books of the Provisional ps none can avoid | Committee, Two engagements are reported by this arrival to bave taken place, but details aro not given, Toe Greeks display more energy than ever, and ap- pear to have eet to work again as earnestly as thoir adversaries, Two transports left Syra last woek with provisions, ammunition and building material, the latter intended for the constraction of huts for winter quarters, in order to avoid the discomforts and exposure of last year, when tho insurgents were forced to find shelter in caves and holes in the ground, Caroneas, the insurgent chief, now at Athens, is reported to be trying to per- suade the government to declare war against the Turks, ‘The Porte has just despatched a large transport with 500 mazons and carpenters and the necessary material for the construction of sixty-throo bloek houses to be erected in the mountain passes in such positions as to communicate with each other by signals, at each of which will be stationed one company of troops. Tho recent storms having driven the vosscls of the blockading squadron from their stations renders {t diffi- cult to keep @ watch on tho movements of the Greek cruisers, By last accounts from Athens two or three Ruseian ships of war, assembled at tho Pirsus on ‘tho occasion of the arrival of the King and Queen, had left to recommence the transportation of refugees from Candia, No other ships are now employed in this work, ‘Ali Pacha will not return to the capital so soon as cled; ho coutinues hard at work, and has pro- new code of laws and the rales for their , should the new arrangements cd oUt the peopis of no country can or government tian the Crotans, Whi between their treatment and the fate of de- cla against the government of their friond, tho Czar of Russia! Ta pursuance of the warning conveyed in the note of the five Powers, a3 the Porte refused to act in concert with them, it 18 left entirely free to act on its own responsibility, and no further political pres sure is Drougtt to bear, is this the calm that precedes im? Time will tell, ast Was a great Mussnlman holiday. Multi- sof the faithful assemblet from far and near to the dopartare of the caravan destined to carry of ihe Sultan to Mecca. ‘Those presents are ed of shawls to cover the tomb of the Frophot at: for the Cheriff, or chief guardian of the ther with the annnal subsidy of 20,000 costumes have not changed for centuries. n crosses the Bosphorus to ssion is reformed, and, reinforced ins from the interior, sets out for Damaect ‘The conference held hore two years ago endeavored to prove that the cholora epidemic i attributabie to the absence of the usual sanitary measures during the an- nual assemblage of a vast nuinber of pilgrims at Mecca, Accordingly tureo doctors have been gent to Djeddah, commissioned to look after the general health, and are empowered to impose such quarantines as may be deemed necessary, Whilo these steps are being taken by the Turkish gov- ernment, let us look further East and ask what pre-e cautionary measures against the outbreak of epidemics the English are adopting in that focus of infec- ¢ banks of the Ganges? None that we can hear of. ince writing the first epeond of my letter later ne' from Crete from a reliable source confirms the pacific tion of tho distarbed districts, The mal all iad down thelr arms, and are no long combing their action with that of the outside instigators f the insurrection. They, however, claim the foltow- concessions as conditions of their compicte submis- sion and future good behavier:— 1, A new system of taxation. 2. Exemption from taxation during five yeara for all the desolated by the war. et for uve years of the military exemption tax. creation of an agricultural bagk and « commission ‘ciug Toads, barbar improvements and other pudlic potonts have @ With v fo + Thes? deman’ Pacha; indeet, up by his pri Secretary. them quite in earnest this time, Tranquillity and good goverament ttiroughout the enipire is indispensahle to establish the public credit and open the way for improvements so long delayed aud so necessary to the development of the rich resources of 1, amewoting almost horus, causing desire calqnes an height of the gato, whic minutes’ duration, a small craft. qe fence of the palace garden. survey ing the ger Ports of the by by the incident t him eighty Turkish pouads, when ho went on bis way Fejoicing, having turned his wmisfortuse to so good account, The Sultan, who bad been Fercign Navigation of the Dardanelles. The Free Press of Vienua gives tho fotlow- on this subject:—There 1s no qu f ships, but of mere The 28 wh the buoys at the ente ie the straits till a canson the following morula 0 rule whiclt iy. Rassia took the initiative in the d Italy atterwards jomed her, a Those Powers proseuted to the Port note on the eniject, I nad Austria, dering the exisiing rule 1 to their have not arsociated themreives im ihe mn thattho Torte has not yet usions of the ¢@ lective Dae, oN, ea, andl a ~ . FRANCE, © Army Bill Debate=Democgatic Snr 'gn. mation. the Journal Dibats, Doo. 20.7 jbo teal democraic spirticwse w-.- + not 1nconsistane =" a tal i «evan Ue ta atonance of order yeuee-—cousiets above all in bein! ie izens together, th tenching them to ted by a community of duty and at Mobile Guard may become for i France, without any distinction of birth jol Of concord at the same Ume ata Tt may, om the contrary, become dA Rotious source of une (ed from ong,cias of t troy an ele wore most favorably received by All have reason to know they were drawn Tue Grand Vizier is an en- lightened staresman of the Rechid Pacha achool, and personaly is most anxious to introduce retorms and promote the general welfare, In short, notwithstanding the contradictory reports in circulation alter every arrival from Syra, Lean now confidently assart that the Cretan troubles are encod; *nd, although 1 have never had any great faith in Turkish’ promises of reforw, I consider bro o'clock P. M. on Sunday last a sudden a hurricane, ewept over the ON And loss Of life atwone 3 ) dous wave agalust the quay of the palace and the paasongore wore thrown complecely over the quay against the iron @ from his windows and had witnoased nan to save his caique, at Le immediately wet them tls if (t be excinay manity, and that d onligh oned. ‘It must act be hoped that the ward w over bo imbued with the genuine military 9p! Baino extent ne tie army, and that it will be i the same rostraint ty the bonds of P’ne as the regular forces, Without belug a do'bor ‘ung body (at least web eo), the Mobile Guard will never bo divcipiued tke the fr erjule Which can possibly xture of ell classes Of soctoty under its fag. © brief remarks without reverting to the ma Leek Lunt relative freedom of spirit is the per- ‘a argument Urow tt forwerd against the new Dill, au argomont (ho validity Of which wo have never al tempied Ww deny argument consists in ber of men must not be F Jegally personal govornm fevtious, but the real righ! not bind to the fo ut which must give way to necessi ing that such a vast pu of peace or war, vd under the control of @ . and possassing, not the We aro © Of that objection; but what we cannot admit fs, that the number of the contingent uoder arms bas a! chief of the State, p ty, may not have an arr war, while @ million of men in the ha of Bngland cannes ¢ | although, theoret war in yosted im ber Majesty's hands, But yihing to do with tho quesiion. A wing that power in all its reali. larger than that of the Prince ©” Monaco, and yet be able to plunge into an inpolitie da of the Queeh 8 any doitrimnent ta the nation, aly, the same power of peace and tn dige deciarations of | oe ng the question to diweuss the pecaliariiies of pers sonal government, @ven oprypor of @ repeatediy proved in the war. fact ration of war, to which poriatice is now alached, i, In every tor What the form o eviivbie consequed may We for year rial fact of the de ts government may be, but the of @ policy pursued fo fore, It is not, therefore, months, it rat uration of War bat ehould be found can be suddenly brought up as it is in the act of taking @leap, Now that kind of control nis at thoir outset Is the exelusive privilege of re- sponsible cabinets, Consequently, to refuse to yote the Army ill simply owing to the existence of persoual government, is tantamount to a refusal to arm the coun- operandi it it had the "its only result would be to retard the arming of the country without improving the constitution, hh ‘nO more recommend than assume ourselves the respon- sibility of such a course, The Paris @ rumor that @ di- Epoque, contradicting th lomatic understanding existed between Russia and ingland, particularly wy, the Eastern question, stated that not only doce no such understanding exist, but the relations between the Cabinets of St. Petorsburg and London bave been for some time past cool rather than amicable, ‘The Paria Patrie that the proposal for the Roman nally been accepted by the ma- Conference had jority of the Powers, and was received by ail with sym- pathy, The objections had reference to some points of detail, and have led to further negotiation: already so far advanced that ‘a result may within a given period.’” At Notre Dame Father Hyacinthe delivered a speech on the probabilities of war, which the Fane, of Paris, tells us “greatly moved” the congregation, The reverend speaker went in for the existence of smal! States as guarantees for the “upholding of right”? He scemed to think war imminent OUR GAS MONOPOLY. Mauufacture and Distribution of Gas in the City—Lendon al New York Statistics— What It Costs to Manufacture and Distribute the Article—Calculation from Eacts and Ob- sorvations—Profits of a Gas Company. #rom every hand, wherever gas mains have pene- trated, arise complaints both as regards the oxtortions of gas companies and as regards the inferior quality of the article manufactured, Gas insufficiently purified and imbued with offensive odors ts let loose in every parlor and sleeping room in the city, while in the vici- nity of the gas works themscives the exhalation of offensive and uoxious odors js absolutely intolorable. A yoar or more ago the Sanitary Commission took the mat- tor into its hands, and from a late report it appears that some little mitigation of the nuisance has been effected, The number of complaints bas boon materi- ally lessened, and their frequency has become somewhat more intermittent than formerly. The streets are not £0 often filled with deleterious gases; theinbabitants in the vicinity of gas houses are not go often compelled to shut ther doors and windows and immerse them- solves in dungeons to prevent suffocation, and gene- Tally people are enabled to breathe with more com- parative comfort, The evil has continued, however, in a somewhat mitigated form, and after short periods of rest the complaints are renewed, Intervals there are in which complaints are not made, and the fact that tho nuisance 18 abated for a time proves that were the proper pains taken by gas companies it might be ob- viated. The purifiers are permitted to become over- loaded, and coal im which a heavy percentage of eulphur exists, being less expensive, is uscd in tho process of manufacttire, An inferior quality of gas, imbued with a sulphurous odor, is thus produced, dis- tributed and consumod, Tho Sanitary Committee has invited consumers generally to assiet in tracing the nuisance to its causo and in ascertaining which com- pany is the offender; but this can only be done by tracing the odors to the place whence they eman! The Board has also directed two of its inspectors to look into the matter, though nothing of Importance bas as y@t been developed. It may soem strange that a supervision of this sort should be necessary; but nocossary it is, for the reasdu that every company when accused denies point blank and makes no effort to abate the nuisance, insisting that tho owners of somo neighboring factory are the guilty parties, There is mo company, however, which is not periectly aware of the condition of its factories, engincers being in the habit of reporting daily, and there is no company which could not at a trifling expense obviate every difficulty, Tne Manhattan Gas Company has made an effort to absorb euperfluous gases and thus reader its works inoffensive, but by the New York Company .othing has as yet boen dono, thongh many complaints have been preferred and froquent promises of reform have been made, to be con- veniently forgotten at the earliest opportunity, The absorption of the rofuse gases is a matter attended with little expense, and yet from week to wock companies delay to act and put of the public by promises to be kept at the Grock calends, The difficulty in dealing with gas companies is from the fact that the public 1s more or less dependent, and tae farther fact that the gas companies are more or less in- dependent, having really a monopoly of tho lighting of the city. There are no means of correcting the evil except by appropriate legislation, and It 18 to induce and supply the data for appropriate legislation that a collec- tion of facts, in as faras they could be obtained, has boen made in relation to the subject. New York is sup- ied with gas principally by three companies—viz; the Ktanbatane tho New York and the Metropolitan, A fourth company—the Harlem—operates on the upper end of the island, and must, therefore, be included in tho list. As nearly as can be estimated the relative pro- duction Of these companies annually stands as fol- lows:— which are expected Cubic Feet, 00,000 000,000 850,000,000 14 000 Total distributed The districis rel Pp v panies embrace the Whole isiand, and about as follows;— are distributed District Supptiot. City delow Grand street Manhattan. From Grand to Thirty-fourih street Metropolitan. Thirty-fourth st,, norih to Seventy-ninth st, Hariom Company .... Harlem and the north of the island The numbor of sireet lumps relatively lighted cor- respouds with the territory over which the gas is dis. tribured, and stands proxituately as subjoined -— Manhatten, oe 6,822 New York... 6,000 to 7000 Metropolitan 6,000 to 7,000 Harlem... se 3,000 to 4,000 Few of the leading hotels at present maoutacture their own gas, and as companies are reticent ‘there is ho possibility of dv act cost of mauit fartire and disiribution per cubic foot, There is vo diillcuity, however, ix arriving at the proximate protis of the gas busin The Maniatian Gas Company, for instance, d rat 1,195,000,000 cubic teot of gM Wis to be deducted a wastage of thirteon per cent, leaving the table of net produc.ion the company is ps Gross prod. Deduction for New York Company Not production........ ity of coal used ( pays for is co: the cost of the raw of gas is produced amou wisi? {be cost of the 1 is trond which 9 “Wot vg of Wa! to the , A margin of us $3 therefore left up of production and distr @ legitimate prone, f the company, i be noted tuat $88 average pro- du per tom of coal is abou ne 8 that indi. ented im Londom by somo experiments made goma Since, of which the (ullowing are some Of the four’ cana? Bd six. hh to base ty.” © feeuits:— Kuni of Coal. English cok + 10,800 +5 + 16,009 experimonis H was gas which could be + 9,500 feet per ton, unol coal was Yatie the average genera equal to 15,000 feet per ton. however, inade some years Fine turing Was comparatively data be furni from Maator manufaciure the Ought to produce at least 12,000 fed of gas per ton, the fact that not more than eighty per cent of this average {® produced demonstrates (ue miserablo. in- feriority of the coal used ut tho various gaa works of the city. Buti the quantity of gas netted be only taken juto consideration, it is equally easy to make @ calcula- tion of aggregates. ‘Taking the production of the Man- hatian Gas Company a2 a bacis, some resulle may be educed which will bo equally curious, etartling and unfavorable to the honesty of the come panies engaged in 3 production. The thir- teen por ‘0 be deduM@ed is the company’s own €% nerafore, be found fault deduction, therefore, and the writer cannot, using it. Admitiing th sailcient to cover ail loakago, wastage and steal age, of which companies assert (here is a great deal, and doptin of twenty-five conts por hundred as the basis of calculation, the following result is tainod :— x Quantily of gas netted, foot. «.1,080,050,000 Tons of coni uset... ... 121,000 Groas receipts at 25 couts per Lands $2,509, Cost of raw material at $4 per too coves 484,01 tal recoipts after deducting cost of ma- reticeaes caste ih $2,115,125 Netted per bundred. we 20 conte, From this $2,116,125, th to be deducted Which will maeriaily reduce it—viz., the cost of labor in producing and distributing, the item of | Geveral iter taxation, which. howaver. the consumer pay; the per- fault with, but the foreign po! which wilfully or through want of skiil or judgment paved the way for it, A country or & can no more be stopped on the brink of a war thaa a horse at full gallop ich stops or directs try unless the constitution be reformed, For our part we should have not the least objection to this modus nallest chance of success, but as NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1868 contage of re rer, the conuigge cand te woarto meters—again y cost of repatr, with the per cent profit nas be- come a sort of rule with gas companies. Upon these points—the cost of labor and other ene companies are ly retiognt, and, im fs ‘ins! that they know nothing whatsoever about it, notes of an interview had by an inquirer wi ry saaieine of the leading gas companies will, after tl ‘Cooke's Penusylvania farmor, illustrate predicyene f ‘ Ly penicnnce. Te mainlees ig nearly & iteral transcript of the conversation :— Ruvoxr: (courteously dofling bis hat)—Secretary of the —— Gas Company, I believe? Secrerany (blandly siiling)—Yes, sir. Rerorrer (in a business like way)—I reprosont the New Yor Hepauo, and would lke a few lems of in- formation, % Sscaerary (stilt smiling)—Anything I can give you, the interests of the company. sir, consistent wil umed per Reronria—What is t0 quantity of ear by the patrons of your com! - 3: Ean ‘shall have to send for the engineer's re- port; couldn't you call ip the morning ? ‘Rerorrek—Are there yo reports at haud from which data can be furpisued ? Srenerary—T'll see. Here, after considerable delay, the report is produced, and the otiicial, carefully placing bimself go there can bo no looking over his shoulder, uufolds the document gin- gerly, and inquires what is wanted, Reroxter—What is the quantity of gas manufactured ‘by your company yearly ? SECRETARY—About 1,195,000,000 cubic feet, Rerorrer—Tho amount of coal used? Secrerany—121,000 tons, Reronten—What is the percontage of waste? SecreTary—Thirteen per cent, about five per cent of which is stolen by the consumer, Revorrsr—How many miles of street main has your company ? Suorerany—About fifteen wiles, Reronrer— What is tho cost of labor per foot in gas produciion? Bucrstary—Have never made up any statistics. Ravonren (extending his band amtably)—Permit me, sir, just to glance over that report and save you the trouble of reading, I can easily extract the facts I want without detaining you from business, htened air)—On, I can give than you can find them; the ES report 18 in manuscript, Rerorrer (blandly)—Nover mind that; don’t let me detain you further; I am au adept at deciphering hieroglyphics. Sgcrerary (slowly recovering from his fright)—Ob, no. I cannot betray the secrois of the company. No private company cares to have its aflairs paraded beforo the public, Rerortzr—But when a company makes money out of @ public necessity its affairs become to an extent public property. SecretaRY—True; but partial statements create misap- prehension. Reporrek—But I propose no partial statement, and surely you caunot object to tho clearing up of any mis- apprehension which may have arisen from partial and garbled statements by making an authentic and complete ono. Secretary (still unconvinced)—Tho company has never made up apy statistics, The balance books settle all questions of profits, Revorter—Very well. Give a statement from the books, and Ieave me to make the calculation, or allow me to gather what I can from the envineer’s report, Sucrerary—I think it would be better to visit the gas you'll learn all details of manufacture there, RTER—The detaits of manufacture are not what I want tho cost of manufact T want. ure, Srorerary—I have never made any statisties on that subject. Ravorter—Are there not eeveral hotels which manu- facture thelr own gas? Secrerary—I know of none, Rarowrer—Has nobody ever made up the statistics of gas production and distribution aud their cost ? Seorzrary—Nobody that Iam aware of. Rsvorrrr—Cannot access to the books be obtained by way of gotting material for authentic statistics ? CRETARY—I think not; should not feel at liberty to grant it, 7 ‘The reporter courtesied himself out of the dignitary’s prosence with partia! statements singing in his ears, and wilh an I’m-in-a-dilemma sort of consciousness quite unnatural to a newspaper gas commissioner. It happens, however, that there are data by which proximately to arrive at the proiits of a gas company. Although none of the leading hoiels of the city manufacture their own gas, some have hitherto dono so at a great reduction of cost, Tho Fifth Avenze Hotei began in this way, aud wag enabled to supply itself at about half the cost now involved. The offensive odors disseminated in their neighborhood by the preseuce of gas works wore the sole reasons for discontinuance. The relative propor- tions of cost in raw material, manufacture and distribu- tion can, bowever, be calculated with considerable accuracy from data furnished by English reports in rela- tion to the subject, In the case of the British Gas Com- pany against the parish of Ratcliff somo interesting facts dn retation to these proportions were developed, in which the following schedule is a statement: — RECEITS, Total annual receipts for light... i. + £21,732 Receipts for residual products, coke, coal tar, &c, 4,000 ‘Total Coal, 12,3323; tons, + £9,153 Lime for puritying. + 267 Wages.......0++ + 6,002 Repairs of + 882 Rent of me ok et ee Rates and tax ° Ofice expenses: + 2 Salaries directors... + 600 Law expenses. ,, . 70 Bad debts... Total expenses. Total receipts pro! ip" ‘This table is, perhaps, too indei o tion upon, and One or two more may be adduced, ‘the same date the affairs of a second London com- pany were estimated as follows: Cost of coal Labor W efor purifying, Total expenses... - Deduct sale of residual products Cost of manufactu Cost of distribution, . Total cost The amount of age quantity of gas p ing au aggregate of The leakage ‘Was stitnated at 23,341,750 cubic fect, leaving a balance of $5,025 250 for uso and rental, tho cost of which was in do 1052 OL, or eix-tentha of a mill per cubic foot for matoriul, Wearage, manufacture and distribu. tion, Tu tig case the relative percentages were as follows:— Per Cent, 5854 13% 814 204 jarlow, of Lon- an estimate of isin material unison ults of Mr, Barlow's ine ing ratios;— ton, mak. Cost of material..... Labor in manufacture Wearage of meters, repairs, s Cost of distribution. . Cost of manufa’ Cust of distribution. . + per cent waar and the romarmiog 1534 percent was (ure, waking Mr. Bare t of tho cost of mannfac- foot tn this city, fad to om of extoriion prac+ No allowance for metres peed be made, the rental of ten cents nt to cover it; nor need any ts Wain ine © fo din the biti Touderes considered, aud that ty Sse iy 13a a ¢ STAR. Abaurd ST SMeen-<of “which com. realize the so and interest, The gas cof, the city tbs fn contja. Or ‘$1,500,000 belonging to 444 r A 4 jo, which they pretondedly hold on the grov".4 chat lord might be carried of or datneged By OM 124 OF ge. deposits equal Lo thelr VALU. 9rq required, C! ad the 1 al of at to cover all "ire, and the questions ture and distril\i0n need only be taken Into Adopting, terofore, Mr. Barlow's estimate overs nt ae most favorable *S ibe company, the real profits of the Manvattan Gas Company may be proximately arrived ac Cubic feet of gas manufactured +1,195,000,000 Leakage nadwastage. + 186,250,000 Total distrit 032,650,000 Gross receipts $2,509,199 Cost of material, whole... 484,000 Cost of labor, the whole etece * ees 166,711 Cost of distribution, thirty-wino aad a balt por cent of the whol Vee, nee Tota! cost manufacture and distributio $1,875,655 Excoss of gross receipts over costs Cost of manufacture and distribution per cubic fo0b. sees “ « 15-10 conte Profit per cubic foot. +e « 12-10 cents Aproxiwate statement of the sta facture and consumption will further euormity of tbis extortion, The city consumes anoually 400,000 cubic feot of gas at am annasl cost of about $6,565,500 and at ao annual cost to the com: panies o and three-tonths cents por cuble foot— the cost per hundred to the public beng twenty-five cents, » The raw material out of which a cubic foot of is manufactured costs four-tonths of a cont, at tho rate of four dollars per ton for coal; and the cost of manu ture and distribution ought not to exceed nine tenths of Acout more—it auy reliance isto be placed upon Eng- Tish estimates ‘The cost of labor i¢, however, considerably heavier in | New York than m London, which materially endances the cost of production and distribution. Calculating from ive few data attoinable on this sunject, the sub- Joined table of ig very poerly correct in its allowances for rate of wages in this of the compant @ ton of coal producos or ylelds on tho average 9,500 cubic feet of gas, the cost of a ton of coal being perhaps four dollars, The cost of 9,500 teot of gas may therefore be caiaulated ni an follows:— rer Ceitt, Total cost of working a ton of coal. ‘This makes 9,500 cubic feet of gaz, al an averag of two and one-tenth cents per cubic foot. Granting the most favorable estimates possible, therefore, it is quite out of the question to make an average cost of more than two and one-tenth cents per cubic foot to the companies, Thero is nothing in the least degree lar, thorefore, in the fact that gas companies decline to furnish statistics of the cost of manufacture and seek to ‘shelter themselves bebind the plea of private business, Tn this estimate, however, no account of residual pro- ducts has been taken, am item which lessons the aggre- gate cost of the raw by forty per cont, as is demonstrated id London statistics, For instance, while in the cage of the British Gas Company the annual cost of coal was esi ted at £9,153 sterling, the value of the residuals, coke, coal oil, &c., was estimated at £4,000, Forty per cent is not, therefore, too large an estimate, coke bringing at present about'twelve and a-half cents per bushel. A ‘ing this estimate, therefore, and taking this item into consideration, the proximate cost of the manufacture of gas may be very accurately cal- culated, and is embodied in the following table Cost of coal to Manhattan Gas Company .. Recoipts for residuals,...... Cost of labor..... Cost of distribution Total, $2,226,400 Cents, Cost per hundred. 18 1-10 Profit per hundred. 69-10 The w Ye pan} jowever, demands cents per hundred, giving a proiit of 16 9-10 ry hundred cubic feet of gas manufactured, OF nearly ono half of the entire sales, ‘Tho estimate of 181-10 cents per bundred, 13, however, too bigh— several corporations In this city manufacturing on a small scale at a cost of fifteen cents per hundred. The real cost of manufacture and distribution will not, there- fore, on the large scale adopted by gas companies, ex- coed twelve cents per hundred, the cost to the consumer being from twenty-five to thirty-five cents per hundred, At this rate of calculation the annual profits of the Manhattan Gas Company would be equal to $1,299,562, A system of extortion so vast cannot afford to have the curtains drawn back and the light let in upon its trams- actions; nor would such a system be tolera! month anywhere except in America, where people ar by far too intent upon making money tuan upon saving it, The gas companies of New York city aro amenable to legislation upon several points:— 1, The fact that their places of manufacture aro 80 badly conducted as to be really public nuisances, 2. The shamelogs extoFtion of their profits eked out of @ public nevessity, 8. The fact that all institutions of public beneft should be held accountable to proper inspection by pub- Ae officers, Here is an abuse upon which to base legislation, and since gas companies refuse to make any statements of their affairs, let a commission bo appomted officially to investigate and empowered with authority to send for persons and papers, Of the Staton Island Gas Company no mention has as yet been made, This company has about fifty miles of Street mains, and manufactures about twenty million cubic fect of gas annually, Nor cav Brooklyn boast of a better administration of her gas companies than can New York. The annual consumption of Brooklyn is about three-tentha that of New York. The quality of the article produced tn both cities is es- pecially bad, and it frequently happens that the purif- cation has been very imperfect. eo things, there- fore, should be prescribed by law—viz., the use ‘of coal unsulpharated to tho least possible degree; a proper administration of the process of manutacture, and such a prescribed cost per foot to the public as may be deemed Within the limits of legitimate profit, ‘The cost of gas for the public lamps ig an item with which everybody is familiar. It may be noted en passant that the gas bills of several of the leading houses of the city vary from $1,500 to $2,090 per weok for tho same quautity of gas which it would really cost from seventy to a huodred dollars to manufacturer. NEW YORK CITY. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Supreme Court—General Term. Court opens at half-past ten o'clock A. M. Non-enumerated motions and the following emumerated otions:— ros. Nos, 8—Doane et al. vs. Bank of 72—Lorget, t vl . Dinsmore, Frea, 71—Terhune vs, Dougherty, Supreme Court—Chambers Held by Judge Cardozo, Court opens at hulf-past nine o'clock A, M. dar at twelve o'clock The Thivd Monday calendar will be ealted. Supreme Court—Circult—Part 1. Held by Judge Joseph F. Barnard, Court opens at ten o'clock A. M1. Now ‘one 519—Drew vs. Dam, 179—Monroa _ vs. inare vs. Ludlow. ver B, ell—Frobisher “va, ‘Long ais _onttnd RRC, regory vs, DeGroot, 635—Crowley vs. Ciark. B9—State Bank of |N ark ys, Sackett et ul. $1u-~Townsend va. Whice, |—Hayman vs. Herz, Call of calen- ew 853—Rofinan Fogg va. Bassford. Shoriff omaino va, Lemlein. 899--Sloan vs, Luttger, hwartz eb 8Ol—Mason vs, C 885 —Hardit 429—Christi Shields Haskell, al. S08 --Palawia vs, Bodine et al. Supreme Court—Circult=Part 2. Judge Multa, Ne ooloce A.M. Now. 4 S4—Tucker va. Long Island jambrill et al. vs. Bell Railroad Co, et al, com, 865—Tucker vs. Long Island ‘Mathews et al, va, Macy Railroad Co. SH—Mot7,, Adm'r, vs. Roach e tat, 954—Christie, Jr., va. Moore et al. 294—Campiell vs, the Mayor, 2. $—Carter v4. Binninger. $lW—Recknow vs, Nowala, $46—Hecker vs. Schmidt. 808—Lord et al, vs, Burrell, (662—Chapman vs. Briggs. etal, §3—Eilia ve, Douglass. §42—Catmpbell vs, Little, aise ica vs. the Mayor, ¢. 70)—Laws vs, Corwine. Van Vieok. Superlor Conrt=Trinl Term=Part 1. Beit Court opens a . M. Now. S061—Shapter_vs. Doberty at No %637—Primeant vs, Stewart. HIV—Rasecit es, Metropoll- , tan Ins, © $509—Luckey va 8513—Brica et al. v8. Mowry, o anes, &Cy €8, Haveum 239—Gray v8 ew Superior Court=Trial Term=Part 2. ae va. Rosenblatt, $260-Tsier v9, An M40—Duckwortn ve 1 N. J. 1636—Rinsman Inenranes 1686-Grimm vs, Ho Tnan etal SIAL CON or vs. Peters, BViei—Boobeld ve, Wa lendar. Marine Court~Triat Tora, Beld by Judge Grow. Gourt opens os sot — 195 Pontoa ea, Hammtil. rr 4 127 —Woed vs Barnard. 113M S Jebneom. 12)=Ne Vit Ne Va Fravk CITY INTELLIGENCE Marackorooie. —The weekly report of the observa. Lions st the Park Meteorologicn! Department shows that ihe barometer marked the higbeet day mean oo Tues. 14th inet, and the lowest co Thureday, 1615, tho being for the former 36 408 wad the tattor 20 893 van AM of the hour the lig bg 401 The Bg p oan 27 08 on Weanestey. 15h, owen 1938 opdey, Bub T's mi yoached wae ot three P OM 36th, boing While the minimum wae 16 09, no of the i2:b apd 13tb. Toe Of the veremeier was 30 4 fer 2205, The course of tbe Wind, wilh but o1 tWoescepticns, was West, Dortbwast, and west-oorth- West, Stow folleg the 1b aod 16th for tho epase of three minutes to the depth of two ) for @ighteon minutes, © fow Oo@ Bak 12th inet, © Apporrance oearly por. boing forty-two degreos, ite iis outer diameter forty 4 during (he eveniny the 1th inet, @ farmt polar lig! ‘Tne Trintunstae Wano Citizens’ Poor Revie Cowart: Tee. —The fond of this organization has been greatly Augmented since the last report, the total amount eo! lecied reaching the handsome sum of $1,000, including Acontrivution of $200 by Hon, Wm. M, Tweed, State Senator, The plan of operations agreed upom by the junction of Grand sireet and East presented during the official hours demands for relief are really heart- to the generosity The ler! bave which are recorded subscriptions names and residences of femilles in actual need of the bounty of the commities, These Hore for tie election dia a7 the ti rs for the election and thelr cases d! 4 Ata general meeting of citizens of the ward, held om Friday evening at 415 Grand street, the verbal reports of the visitors presented @ wonde: degree of povert: and distress a3 existing within its limits, and the co! lectors were earnestiy appealed to to be industrious {9 their efforts to rais In the Tenth ward, at eadquarters of the Young Men’s Christian Associatio! lent soup ts daily given to all wh feei disposed to make application for tt, Long lines of men, women and children, with their keitles and other vessels, are formed on the sidewalk anxiously aws their turn to be served, The quantity thus hay wa) is quite immense and certainly relieves man; the a of hunger, A meeting of tho residents of the venth ward will be held this evening for ti of forming an organization similar to the one now ip successful operation in the Thirteenth ward. Judze beearyaic and other leading citizens Lave the matter Ip ani For tox Rewer or THe Poor,—On Saturday evening @ meeting of wealthy and benevolently disposed gentle- men to take into consideration the condition of the poor and the best means of extending relief to all sufferers in this city was convened at the Bible House, Fourth avenue, temporary organization was eilected by selecting Mr. tiams as chairman pro (em. and the appointment, at a subsequent hour, upon a full and free interchange of vii between those present, of a com~ mittee, composed Mesare, Williams, Russell and Ausup, to perfect an ization that would enlist the sympathies of the public and reach the great object (without unnecessary machi! proposed, ‘The organi+ zation will, 80 far as possible, identify itself with the other charitable associations now in the field, and wiil call upos: the various Christian churches to lend their countenance to it im the most direct manner. The meaijing then adjourned to convene at the call of the cbairinan, Citizens’ AssociaTioN—CoRRECTION OF AN ERROR.—ThO Correspondivg Secretary of the Citizens’ Aesocintion re- quests us to state that, through a clerical orror in making tho press copy of the letter of the Citizens’ Association to Speaker Hitchman Kpanlanes in the Herarp of Sat. urday, 17th inst.) om the proposed bill specially appro- priating $500,000 as additional relief for the poor of this city, the Association was made to assert that $500,000 of the fund would be used for tue salaries of the twonty- one special officials to be created. The sum should have tated at $50,000, Founerat ov THe Lats Covyonman Loxo,—Yesterday afternoon the remains of the late Councilman James Long were removed from his late residence, in Jay street, to Greenwood Cemetery, under escort of both branches of the city government and deputations from the old Fire Department, the Union Base Ball Club and an immense concourse of private citizens, numbering nearly one thousand persons. Among the pallbearers, numbering twelve, were Jovn Decker, Chief Engineer of the old Fire Department; Sena- tor Norton, Alderman Coman, Prezident of the Board of Aldermen; Counciiman Stacom, dent of the Board of Counciimen; Aldermen O’Bri and Moore, Councilmen Daly aod La and Coroner Flynn, About half-past one o’ciock ‘the Kev, Drm Weston, of St. Jobn’s Episcopal church, procoaded to intone the impressive burial service of the Episcopal liturgy, at the conclusion of which the body of the de- ceased, encased in an elegantly finished silver mounted rosewood casket, appropriately inscribed, was placed in @ position go that the departed gentieman’s large number of relatives and friends might have an opportunity to pay a parting tribute of respect to all that remained oj, him who had won many sincore friends through the exercise of many amlable ‘characteristica, A8 soon as this markjof respect was concluded the casket was ciosed al afromored to the hearse, which soon after moved away, followed by some sixty carriages and avout s-vyen bundred persons on foot. ‘The funeral cortége reached Greenwood about four o'clock, and dis persed immediately after the remaing had been com. mitted to mother earth. Fava Rawroap Accweyt.—Yeeterday mocning Coro ner Keenan was notified to hold an inquest in 126th street, nearly opposite the Twelfth precinct station house, over the remains of Andrew Thompson, late @ fiagman and switchtender in the employ of th jariem Railroad Company, who died from the effects of in- juries received on the fl oad the 13th inst. by bei Tua over by a train of carsin Harlem, The left foot ol Mr, Thompson was completely severed from his body, the right foot badly crushed, besides whic ho was ter- ribly bruised about the body. Deceased, who was sixty- tive years of age, a native of Western Now York, has left a widow and six children, who live on tue corner of 113th street and Third avenue, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Caarcrd wit Stgatinc.—Two women, named Bella Hawkins aud Lizzie Sickles, were arrested and brought before Justice Ledwith, at tho Jefferson Market Police Court, yesterday, on a charge of stealing a poplin dress from Victoria Cooper, of No, 156 Waverley The dress, which i3 valued at $50, is alleged Lo have beer kept in a closet in complainant’s house, where the ac- cused were stopping, and from the fact that Victoria was informed that the two women were sceu in the closet she believes them guilty of taking the property, The prisoners plead not guilty to the charge, but were com- mitted to answer in default of bail, A Tornucext Ccstoxsr—Rosuixa Her Comranton.~- Lizzie Phittips, nineteen years of age, born in Jersey City and living at No. 79 Delancey strect, is not the most amiable of her sex, as was shown by her course of conduct on Saturday night. Meeting with Hugh McNeil of 335 Grand street, Wildiamsburg, Lizzie jutrod herself and became quite communicative. They strolled and chatted together till reaching the house 148 Hester street, when the attractive and magnanimous Lizzie in- vited Hugh to indulge in aglass of beer. Eo consented to drink at her expense, and while tu friendly conversa. tion Hugh missed “from his pockets a gold watch valued at $40 and $57 in tender notes of various denominations, and chargod Lizzie with the thett, which, of course, denied. Becoming ine dignant to the highest degree Lizzie seized a heavy water pitcher and broke it over his head, thus disfigur- ing him in such & manner that he could scarcely have been recognized by his friends. Officer Deckvr, of the Fourteenth precinct, was called in, and attor arresting Lizzie made a search, which reaulted in finding the missing watch and the pocketbook, minus the contents, on the floor, where they had been dropped. ke money could not be found, and it 18a mystery what the pris- oner could have done with It, Justice Hogan committed Lizaie bo the Tombs tor trial, COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. In this dopartinent the work is steadily progressing, and the head of the department, being continually on band and inaugurating improvements im tho business of the ofiice, gives to the place a remarkabio vitality. Ja connection with this department it way be of in- terest to notice that in the vaults and old closets are in- humerabio documents, many, perhaps,” of great value, stored away in a imost promiscuous manuer, There are deeds, moitga wills, letters patent, chartors, evi- dences of gations and documents of ati sorte in- Seribed on paper or vellum, many of them dating from the au-called Good old entony times, When we lived under @ king, and bearing the seals of the Georges, which, if oven of no valuo as documentary evidence, Would delight tho hoaris of many antiquarians, But, to the discredit of some lato or former officials, It moet be said that no record or udox of these papors or their contents has beon left, if even prepared, aud it fs «i that ander a former administration loads )Qvont rolls wore carried away aud gold tow Pop glue. manufactur How much tenth typ, <sadiong (9 dolormint ~ may bo in this statement it is hers 4.” D0 BO doubl, Lowever, Ps documents bac” "ou removed that now Gory yy ae ot from the vaalts ot tue ~ * mK ya! i” {he remaining ones can ang #4re bo found os tal The County Cierk intends 19, ava all **$ oid docu ments in the offité & ea by some coinpotent per: y indexed, and also that at precout al cover of ench packay y expedite busine the prio This will not o the entire oftice a aermblance of systematic arraugermont but will give to Which it at presoat does not possess. WESTCHESTER, Avuaceo Brora a’sacut on A Neano at New Ro. Cne..e.—Miles Goodman, & eolored coachman in tho em- ploy ofa dL. P, Miller, residing at Now Rochelle, war, a few days ago, while waiting at the attacked by two mon, named, ns alleged, Mar- i and Grogeo, and beaten jo a shocking manner ut the bead aed face, one of the unforiuoute man's knocked out, Tho durky states on bad oot tho slightest cause or ting bio A wat jeged perpetr ontb that ation of tho outrage, A Rat on Usticevezo Liqvon Deatans ar Younens, About @ dozen executions bave bi entered against a Hike nomber of liquor dealers, who bave boon doing a prodtable business in the village of You without property fortified with the signature of an Bx~ Tueso warranta have boea iesned law, which provides that any pe: selling Hiquora without a | J, on convicti be Cood $60 for y gia imcarcerated ji pty Jail until the CrsTRaL Pang’ in Waerenastar Couvtr—A Far SiowteD Prorosirioy,—A proposition is now being seris idered by a number of wealthy sod infuenti gentlemen, residents of Westchester county, looking to lg pmsl 9 art ire jn A central part of the avenue, reasons put forward ia ad tbo wm before many yenrs (?) York Park will be required for building parposem ‘Thia ia certainly looking far inte the future,