The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1868, Page 5

Little Chance for the Radicals in Alabama. MOBILE, Oct. 12, 1863. Contrary to general expectation Mr. Miller, Secre- tary of State and Superintendent of Registration - ander the law, has acted with commendable prompt- appointed registrars for every county in the Btate and issued «series of instructions looking to @ fair and prompt registration of voters. It is also ‘gtaved that most of his appointees are men who will ‘@xpedite the work and thus enable the voters to be ail ready by the 30 of November next. It thus seems certain that an election will be held, and if the re- turns be honestly given there can be but one result. ‘Under military rule 73,000 whites and 93,000 blacks ‘were registered, the latter being greatly in excess of the number of negroes of lawful voting age. It is not beheved, even. by the radicals themselves, that over 80,000 negrocs will register this time, each planter being on the watch for those under twenty-one years of age. The number of ‘whites registered last year does not truly represent their strength. In 1860 Alabama polled 90,000 votes at the Pregjdential election, and 100,000 on the se- cession question, so that, including those who re- fused to register and those who were disfranchised under the reconstruction laws, as weil as those who have moved to this State since the war cnded, and the claim seems feasible that there will be about 105,000 white votes registered and polled this year. At any rate it will not fall below 100,000, and even if the negroes can succeed In registering as many voters as they did under the Freedmen’s Bureau auspices they will enter the contest at least 10,000 In the mi- Bority. (ranting, then, that a total of 190,000 votes ave cast on the tuird day of next month it becomes evideut that the democracy have the best chance. Not only are they better organized than the radicals, but they nave betier managers and will spend plenty of money to influeace the negro element cituer into voting the democratic ticket, if it insists upon voting, or to keep away from the polls entirely. As ior the whites, it scoms certain that @nly those who cannot rise from their beds will keep away from the poils. Except in two districta where i the Whites are in un overwhelming majority, 1 have beeu in every Congressional district ia Alabama, and belteve that the vote Will result soimewming bk thiss— White, 85,000 16,000 Black, 20,000, 60,000 Democratic vote. Radical vote... Democratic majority. : The estimate of the ‘wilical vot Jarge, probabiy 5,000 too many; but as Sial-h insists that Grant and Colfax will get a large wiite vote in North Alabama, 1 have made the * Mgures as above. The biack vote for Seymour and Blair may be reduced i the democratic leaders in this part of the State pursue their present fool.sh policy of advising the negroes not to vote at all, This advice does very well when the @arkies are determined not to vote with the whites, but when giveu to those that are democratic it 1s ridiculous. 1t1s urged by the whites that the State is sure to go .or Seymour, and knowing this they do not wish to recognize the blacks as a voting element. if then, the counsels of these men prevail, the ma- rity may be reduced to 20,000, and perhaps less. In tue vstimate given above 10,000 negroes are non- voting. Add ten or Afteen thousand more to their numnoer, and although the democrats still carry the State yet their foolish leaders sacritice two Congres- sional districts beyond a doubt and place a third in jeopardy. ‘Ihe districts are so arranged that two wve large negro majorities, two are largely wiite, while the remaining two are closely divided. As the chances now stand the democracy are sure of four if the negroes vote direct, while the other two (first and second) may by a hard fight be won, although that is very doubtful. If the non-voting policy is carried out the radicals will carry the fourth district certainly, and are given » fair chance for Gnotier. ‘two they have not the slightest hope of carrying. Conversations with numerous citizens con- vince me that the policy of the party leaders here will Rot be adopted, but that every negro who can be in- fluenced to do so will vote the democratic ticket direct. The delegation likely to be elected will, thererore, be four democrats and two radicals. Some @euiocrats think they wili carry all the districts, but that is extremely doubifal. The Mobile and Mont- gomery districts have appalling bse] Gamorives, u 6 te a] aud if the radicals fail to carry them carpet baggers may as weil go back to New England and ‘the Scainwags to their native and natural obscurity. It makes a white man shudder to think of the vote im Marengo county, where the negroes have 3,400 jority; in Dailaa, where they are stots ahead; and mnery, 4,400; Greene and Hale, 5,600; Mo- bile, 2,000; Lowndes, 3,200, &c. The democrats have ‘Dut one cuauce of carrying these two dusky districts, anid that depends upon the registration list. If they can persuade 4,000 or 10,000 negroes in each of the districts not to register, the majorities against them will be so reduced that, by a desperate effort, they may win, Whether they can do this or not only tie can determine. Unless opea, shameless fraud Is perpetrated, the Tadicals cannot carry Alabama. As in Ucorgia some of their leaders work hard after dark, and are mak- tg strong edforts to carry three of the Congressional disiricts. But most of them openly declare their be- lied Listéhe electoral vote of the State will be cast Seymour and Blair, and go believing are not making very strenuous exertions for Grant and Colfax. The only consolation they feel comes frow their faith that no inatier how the Southern States goGrant is certa.n to be eiected, together with auother radical Con- & 38 which will so re-reconstruct the Soutu that their 2e of power will be renewed for an indefinite pe- Tiud of time. ‘Thts, of course, does not alter the facts i how Alabama will vote on the 3d of November. ‘Whether the cigat electoral votes of this State help Seymour or not matters very little if they do not elect him or aid in doing so. WESTERN VIRGINIA. Political Condition of the StateEnergy of Both Partics—Arbitrary Acts of the Regie tration Officers=Fears of a Disturbance on Election Day. “9¢ WHEELING, Oct. 10, 1868, Processions, stump speeches and mass meetings ‘are the order of the day here. The city is democrat- fc by a small majority; still the republicans are making 8 hard fight to wineven this (Ohio) county to tleir cause, as they are pretty sure of the others, owing to the Registration laws, The republicans do not count much on Wheeling, The “secesh"’ element 4s too strong in the city and comprises some of the most respectable members of society. ‘The southern and castern counties are the strong- holas of Grant. There the number of the disfranchised on account of active service in or public sympathy withthe rebellion ts counted by thousands. The Regis- ters have unlimited power and they use it, or rather, as aways happens in such casos, they abuse it, Ke. wis are coming in every day from the South and Ena of the State aflirming the existence of tyrann: on the part of the registers. Permission to vote refus_d to parties who were strong Union men dur- tug the war but who now wish to vote for Seymour. Many of these stories, however, should be taken with ao larye grain of allowance. There is no appeal from decision of the town registers, or, at least, an peal is useless. The county Hoard of Registration aivvaye sanctions the actions of its inferlors. Abuses of this Kind have caused the most bitter auiioosity to spring up in the Southern and Eastern counties, Thove wil be bloodshed there. The oid so.diers of the defunct confederacy and their ayimpathizers, who outnumber of ar the re. pubiicons, swear that they will have their ‘Votes or that there will be no eiectton. They threaten to break the election booths on the heads of the radi- cals, aud the latter promise to defend them by force oar, 7 cpr bad stete. The Governor, of Course, and the Legislature will all side with the republicans, for it is overwhelmingly opposed to Seymour and Blair, nthe meantime the canvass is brisk. Walker, the domocratic nominee of this district for Congress, and Caris.e are holding tite and tournaments all Over the State. The same disregard of good man- ners and good moras characterizes the liticians here a9 Cisowhere, Hard words are given and faken. The vocebulary of politics, which has been ii enriched With the words “scalawag,”’ “carpet- barger, e., ig becoming still more ricn in region. ‘The democrats have invented the word “analx,” a Corruption of “snakes,? to describe their adversaries, Tlus, no doubt, is a counterpart for “copp 8 and rebels.” Let us hope that defore innt We Country will, according to the wish o: one of (he Presidential candidates, have a perma- nent “peace.’? SSACHUSETTS. al Rejoicings im Bostonm—Batler and Dann in the Race for Congress—An Ovation in Faneuil Hall in Honor of General Kil- patrick—One of bis Characteristic Speeches, Boston, Oct. 15, 1868, The radical enthusiasm over the maintained 6u- Prowacy of the party in Pennsylvania, Obio and In- diana, has not yet passed away in Boston. The re- sults in those States they very wisely regatd as fore- shatowing the election of Grant in November, and their Jubllees of this and last evening are as earnest aud evidently as satisfactory to those participating In them 08 if the General was actually installed ‘within the White Honse and clothed with the habill- ments of the high ome to which he is to be elected. ‘The democracy, which are, of course, but a political guit here, are naturally despoudent at their NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Promised defeat im the Presidential contest; but they will, nevertheless, work hard to carry the two Boston Congresstonal districts. In the South End, where Batley (democrat) is pitched against Twichell, there ts @ possible chance for & democratic triumph; but in the other distriet Mr. Hooper will be re-elected by a large majority. In the Fifth district there are three candidates— Butler, Dana and Judge Lord. The first named will beeclected unquestionably, and the chairman of the Convention which nommated the democratic candi- date concedes that Butler will go in with not less than 5,000 plurality, In fact, many democrats will exercise their batiots in favor of him in preference to elther their own party man or Dana. Last even- ing General Butler addressed aturge crowd here, and this evening bis opponent has addressed a respecta- bly sized multitude. Dana was not the chief etar, however, for the presence of General Kilpatrick iverted the public attention somewhat. He ar- rived in town this morning and took up his quarters at the St, James, and in the evening was escorted down to Faneuil Hall by a@ torchiight procession of several hun- dred of the Eleventh Ward Grant Cinb. When he entered the ‘old cradle of Hberty” resounded ‘with cheers, and after they had ended the audience joined with great force in singing ® campaign Grant song to the air of a popular Methodist revivai hymn, Mr. Kinsley, President of the Eleventh Ward Repub- lican Ciub, then made a few preliminary remarks, and closed by introiucing in complimentary terms Major Generai Kilpatrick, Round after round o; cheering greeted the General ashe ng ie upon the platform, and the ovation, he said, filed his beart to overflowing with gratl- tude, fe said in the great States of Ohio and in diana he had been kindly welcomed, but in the old temple of freedom, in Boston, he h rected in a more cordial manner than ever before in his life. He then compare: iH as a humble man when he remembered the distinguished men whose eloquent words had gone forth irom Faneuil Hall; but he should not, he added, take this ovation to himself, but accept it in honor of the gveat princl- ples which he espoused. He then spoke ia long and eloquent sentences about the’ victories which had been aciileved by the iepublicans in the Middle States. He said that it was for the repubi party notonly to make this the greatest nation among nae tions, but also to make it tho asylum for the op- pressed of ail nations, These words Ceneral Ki. trick sald with great emphasis and then took a long rest, after which he remarked that his wife had cautioned Lim against speaxing so loud, for it made him hoarse. Three cheers were then given for Mrs, Kilpatrick, after wiich the General spoke in iivh terms of Grant, when there followed three cheers. for him aa tha oot. ing President. Gnd these were followed up i Tapaa succession, at the suggestion of Kiipat.iek, by three cheers for the gallant little republic of Chill, which manifested so much friendly interest for this country during the war. He then brought out more applause by congratulating his hearera upon the abolition of slavery, afirming that the republican arty would rewrite aud doctor up the constitution Just So often as circumstances and the loxic of events rendered it necessary. He tien indulged in an anecdote about McClellan anc the late President, which was to the effect that durivg the Peninsular campaign one of McCleilan’s scouting pariles cap- tured 200 new milch cows from some rebels. Little Mac looked over the constitution, but found nothin; applying to new milch cows. He then telegraphe to the President to know what to do, Before he got a reply an orderly told the General if the cows were not milked they would spoil. He then looked over the constitution, but finding nothing in it about milking new milch cows he again telegraphed to Mr. singelp for instructione, to which he replied as fol- jOWs:— To Groner B, MCCLELLAN, Commander of the Army of 8 Four seem to be the biggest calf in th Lauggost ‘8 you seem to bo the biggest calf in the army T au that vo ck them dry. ro A. LIkCoL: . This os of course, produced a laugh all around, and when it had subsided the speaker reviewed the war from its cominencement to the end, taking occa- sion aii through to ridicule McClellan. During his desuitory remarks in this connection he mentioned battle in which General Hooker won a victory, and @ soldier who was in the battle thought Kilpatrick took the credit of victory to himself, whereupon the old veteran interrupted by declaring that Hooker was as food @ general as ever Kilpatrick was. The speaker id not. po directly to the interruption, but an- nounced that Hooker was for Grant, and the a) pans which followed rilenced the private soldier in he gallery and made no little bancombe capital for the youthful General on the platform. The next point argued was a defence of the Freed- men’s Bureau, after which he taiked roughly of the rebel leaders who were now going about the country espousing modern democracy. He then added that they were ready to meet such men as these at the baliot box peacably, if they could ; but if not, they would meet them on the battle-flelds of the Soutli, which had before been deluged with blood. Ainaing to the democratic talk about heavy taxation, he than Dan Voorhees had been the loudest talker, and he had taken occasion to examine his tax list and found that in five years he had paid $1 87, He referred next in Democratic Convention in New York, where such murderers and imcendiaries as Vance, Wade Haw} ton and Forest occupied front seats and placed nomination a leader of a New York drait riot. He then took up Seymour’s carecr during the war, and afterwards Blair's. From these he saidhe would come to dearer and better known names—Grant and Colfax—who are to finish up the work so well begun, and bring forth the bud of freedom into ‘a beautiful and full grown flower. He referred in a humorous way to Grant’s army career, keeping, the audience meantime pleasantly laughing. He also complimented the valor of the Massachusetts soldiers in such @ manner as to pro- duce the wildest enthusiasm, after which he closed with an eloquent and hopefal anticipation of the election of Grant and C and a country of peace and Va i Afier Kiipatrick had finished, the Chairman intro- duced Richard H, Dana, Jr., the opposition republi- can candidate in Butier’s district. He was received with @ good many cheers and a few hisses. His speech was very brief, and in it he took occasion to say that for the crushing of the rebellion we were indebted to such men @8 General Kilpatrick, and General Butler, too, interrupted two or three in the rallery, thereby causing considerable confusion. Mr. ana closed with @ hopeiul view of the result of tue ending campaign, after which the audience united in singing ‘My country 'tis of thee,” aiter which the meeting dissolved- Subsequently General Kilpatrick responded briefly to a serenade at the St. James liviel. THE CAMPAIGN EY ILLINO. Speech of Senator Trumbull Pondictoa. On the 14th instant, Senator Trumbull doliv- ered his long expected reply to the speoch made by Mr. Pendleton at the great dem- democratic gathering in Springfleld on the 17th of September last. The reply was delivered in tho hall of the Louse of Representatives, to an audience numbering about 209 people. Mr Jesse K. Dubois was called to the chair, The following are extracts from the main points of Mr. Trumball’s argument:— NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The complaints, if I understand them, against the Teconsiruction measures are that they disfranchise certain leading rebels and enfranchise colored men, I think Congress had entire authority to pass tills law, and at the same time I hoid, according to the jatform laid down at Chicago, that the right of guf- rage in the loyal States of the Union ners | to the people of the States and pot to Congress, oll, say the democrats, if 1t beiongs to the people of tue loyat States why don’t it belong to the people of the rebel States? For the simpie reason that in the rebel States you havernot got any State governments, Until you get @ siate government organized (and Re age 3 the authority to determine who is to or- ganize y you cannot have representation in Con- gress. ell, it is asked, “Why did you extend the suffrage to the negroes?’ Because we haye not loyal men enough there, as you yourself had shown in the governments you had set up, and therefore, to imangurate @ loyal government we had to take them in, It was necessary, in order to organize State governments which should be true to the Union that the colored man should be permitted to take part {i that organization, it was necessary (o protect hit in iis ireedom. You had siown that, by the Pate you undertook to set up under Mr. Johnson's auspices. You went at once to work and legislated to deprive the negro of lus civil rights. You provided co seii hira out if he did not haye em- om goes on the first day of January, You jegistated that he should not own any land. You manifested your spirit in @ thousand ways against his freedom, Uniess Congress was to permit the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery to be trampled under foot and slavery, in fact, again re-established, againat which you had gone to war, It became neces- sary to give the colored man the ballot tor his own rotection; and Congress gave it, in the exercise of its belligerent rights, in those rebel Siales which had no State governinents, Congress has no belligerent righta over loyal States, It has none over lilinois, because we have @ State government of our own, loyal to the Union, that never has and never will rebel against tt. (Cheera.) Butit is said that these States are under negro supremacy. Howso? The registered voters in these States are not all n In five of the ten States the white registered voters exceed tie’ pet ae meee voters, bane! leaving out all thove i who are reaily very few, #0 Harmar meres Sonia Ban actos oe ipreme 7 at distinction will not be made. 1 should be sorry to see the two races against each other. seven of these States have proceeded to form State gov- erhments; they have adopted oo aah Gale ich have been ved and now recognized as States of the havi gov- ernmenta, with all the auth ae ins to any of the States in the Unton, 80 this military gov- ernment, 0 much abhorred our tle friends, is withdrawn from some of Faeee unless it should be necessary, qn . - cation of these State governmenta, . to att fend them against unlawitl acts of rebels within their borders, Just as it would be lawful, on the application of the State government of Ilinola, to cali for a military force to put down insurrection Against tho government of this State, The other Reply te Mr. States would have te to their in and it for the 0} the = measores w! sae ds do, our }0- governments, How do to govern these States was 8 paper prowl The government has retained the right to off these bouds within five yuan, but i not eompetied to pay them tilt twenty years. By issuing new bonds that shail have twenty ‘years to run and. shall Day atx per cent when the credit of the government ts restored, we Will be able to sell these bonds at a premium, by which we could reduce the debi $400,000,000. they Thy tho te govern- ments ‘hat are established are uncon tutional, rev- THE REMEDY. olutionary and void. What sort of goveraments do ‘This is the and this is the security that the propose? None at all. ‘They will. bave sage laboring people of the cout will have 1a the to work en ae some other government, under | money they receive when we shall establish s,ccie the of whom? Not, of Qongréss, for Can- gayegcns in the land: andthe of the coun- Es has no authority in the matter, according | try shall be redeemabiein gold 1 apa gitver. This is their ; but under the auspices; I appre- | the true poliey of the eountry and not such @ make- view; hend, of those. rebel officers who tesuing one specie of indebtedness for imangurated the rebel L Satocilg wap T don't Siew another and cheating somebody out of the interest. hey 8 propose to have that Way, ii ‘vould ead another revolution in the 5 of disorder and'violence, and I know ‘not but of civil war, WHO COMPLAINS? Who ia it that complains: of these reconstruetio! Measures? Dothe Union men of the South com- plain? Not one of them. The whole complaint Fight to take part inthe. govern lo, Bo right to take gov. far Qo compl that some em chised, ought to thank God that they are to live and walk oH Sng garth, Twin nol upon these i Measures. 1 desire thi ther bi tw say something on ano! ranch the subjects disenssed by Mr. Pendicton. I think I have shown that in none of the instances which Mr, Pendleton refers to for the purpose of establishing the ion that the republican party hate the stitution and desire. to overthrow the government has he made good his case, It is the greatest piece of eifrontry that a set of men were met re of, to claim that they are the protectors and defenders of the constitution which they sought to destroy, and that we wio upheld it are its enemies and de- sire {o subvert it. ‘Tie other branch of Mr. Pendle ton’s discourse was devoted to THE FINANCES of the country. He complains that the republican party has Deen extravagant. He says that $500,000, 000 a year and upwards have been raised for ree years, amounting to $1,600,000,000, and that only $112,000,000 of the public debt has beon paid. He wants to know what hag become of the rest of ; this money, 1 phat not go into figures to show where | an electoral ticket in the fleld. thi every dolar of is money has one if any of you are curious to know wat Ik 4 come of the The Dayton Ledger, Vallandigham’s organ, has the 2 | following startling announcement, under date New York, Oct, 16—12 M:—“Ohase, with the assent of Seymour and Blair, has been informally nominated. WwW! ernment, £29 who, 80 | The excitement here is intense, Our peopié will all permitted | Pport the move with enthusiasm. We hope the longer dweil | Committee will interpose no obstacle.” This is Slightly in advance of thet elegraph. ‘The States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana Dolled in the aggregate, at the late election, 1,500,000 votes, of which the Republicand have barely 20,000 majority. The Toledo Blade, Nasby rad., says on the morning of the election in Ohio:—“A vote for Hoag ts a vote for Vallandigham.” It was bad for Val. there were _ no more Hoags in Ohio, particularly in his own dis- trict. The Richmond Whig of the 13th inst., referring to the President’s proclamation forbidding the inter- ference of the military with elections, says:—‘The Way is now open for an election in this State under the Alexandria constitution, The Executive Com- mittee will, we presume, take steps at once to have. Fortunately for us, the laws of Virginia provide a mode of holding an $1,600,000,000 of revenue that has been raised within | election without the action of the Governor or Legts- the last three years you have only to req the statements which have been made by. Mr. Wells, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and by Mr, At- kinson, ia a speech ja Massachusetts, where they slow that this money has gone to pay sums which the United States owed, but which had nov been ascertained and placed upon the books of the Trea- sury. Tae ascertained debt of the United States at any one time, as reporied by the Secretary, ras a little over $2,700,000,0001 but bee'“c3 this, when the war closed the government owed many millions of some of | lature, The Boston Zraveller of tho 13th inst. sev« ‘The opponents of Gencyai Butler, though they can have no hope of “cjeating him, are making an active gers "he Pifth distriet. ‘To-night Mr. Dana and Mr. Philips, of Salem, speak at Lynnileld, and Hon. =. 4. Ware and Mr. Howland, of Lynn, at Ipswich. To-morrow night Messrs. Dana and Phillips go to Gloucester, and after Thursday Mr. Dana goes to Beveriy, Lynn, Middieton, Marblehead, Georgetown, Geitcis as back pay to soldiers which had not 4 Newburyport, Ipswich and Swampscott. General been ascertained and liquidated; it owed other multions for bounties; it took other millions to equal- ize the bounttes between the soldiers; other millions were required to pay for work partially doue, aud to settle with coutractors; so that, when you come to analyse these iigures, it appears that the govern- ment of the United States, in the last three years, has séttled some $900,000,000, instead of $112,000,000, as stated by Mr. Pendleton. — it is, however, a hobby with Mr, Penlieton that the Five-tywonty ponds, a8 thoy ave calied, should be paid for th yreenbacks, Hig says that the govsinurent has a right to pay them in that way, audin ihat way he is going to pay the public debt. Ido not myself see Low it would pay the deit to take up one species of indebtedness and issue another for it. You would owe just a3 much afterward as you did befere. But he proposes, in issuing the second piece of indebt- edness, to issue it without imterest. Js that an honest transaction? Wouid you consider it honest, if you held the note of an individuai for $100, bearing six per cent interest, and he were to come and insist upon taking up that note and giving you one that did not bear interest at all, leaving it to be patd when he thought proper and taking from you all means of Soseting payment. Do you think the government would have gota dollar on such @ proposition as that? I do not, however, attach considerable importance to this question. ‘ihe discussiou of it seems to me not the mbacks to pay these five-twenty bonds with. Why raise the question unless we have the Butier will return home to-morrow, and then we may look out for music. Butler had better look to his election. The people are beginning to get disgusted with ‘radicals of all kinds—as well with Vallandigham as Ashiey, with Julian as with Covodo, Adolph Moses, @ prominent Hebrew citizen and lawyer of Quincy, Ill, formerly a democrat, has come out for Grant, Oh, Moses! General Blair has gone to St. Louis to remain there during the remainder of the Presidential cam- paign. At the second, third and fourth Presidential elec- tions Virginia stood at the head of the States, cast- ing twenty-one electoral votes; Massachusetts stood second, casting sixteen votes. New York and North Carolina had but twelve votes each. Awriter in the Mobile Register, October 12—pro- bably tho editor—just returned from the North, as- serts that after spending several weeks in New York and Washington in close connection with political influences he is satisfied that Seymour will be remature, for thig reison—we have | elected and that Pennsylvania would go democratic on the 18th by from 5,000 to 8,000 majority. A slight means to discharge them? Mr. Pendieton scouts the | error in calculation. idea of issuiug thousands of miilions of dollars to take them up. Hesays he has never advanced any such idea, How then does he propose to pay thei? By saving something out of the $600, 009,090 of revenue which we collect each year. He is going to be economical. What is the trouble with this state- ment? The same difiiculty that arises with some of Mr. Pendicton’s other statements; we do not collect $50,000,000 a year. Last year the pre- cise sum collected was $406,300,000, and this year the coliection will probably not excee:l $300,009,000, We presume Mr, Pendieton made that statement in all sincerity, Does he mean to increase the taxes? if he does, let him say so. The republican party have taken off nearly $200,000,000 from the taxa- ns 10,000 articles you paid taxes on a year ago. Lap. prehend Mr, Pendleton would be very far from ad- Povey - before the people an mecrease of taxation. But he favors THE TAXATION OF THE GOVERNMENT He wants atax to be Let us sce how that would work. BONDS. other rty you have. ahead'on the ivome of the bond—a tax of i they have taken oif the entire taxation on | out agseased upon the bond itself. Tn fairness, if a tax is put upon the bond it should be put upon your farm, upon your house and lot in town and upon any | scription. The success was not so ‘The law does impose a tax per rizit and ae ge But sup- | savant has this year wticceeded. in atting out The Lynchburg Virginian, after urging the adop- tion of an electoral ticket now, after the late elec- tions, gives as its prime convictions that “Virginia should attempt to take no part whatever in tne pending elections.” ARCTIC NAVIGATION. The Swedish Expedition—Scientific Results. To THe Epiror oF THE LONDON Post:— Some years ago, 1864, an Arctic expedition for ex- perieg. itzbergen and en: tlands was fitted the expense of a young Swede, by name Thorell. He was accompanied by several scientific young men, The enterprize was successful, a rich ‘and varied collection of natural products was made, and safely brought home. Last year a second Swedish e: ition was sent out to the same place under the direction of Professor Nordenskjoeld, who ‘was assisted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science at Stockholm, and partly by private sub- former occasion, the weather having been very un- iayorable. This enterp pose you. tax the bond leselt,* how; would that edish E: ose you ie bon ow woul auother Swedish “Arctic Explo lon, Fok? When the government wanted to borrow the means Meving heen “ partly one thousand dollars, if the bond is to bethe subject | by some triotic gentlemen of Gothenburg of taxation in the various States, the person who | interested iy the prosecution of scientific pur- lends the one thousand dollara will take this fact into consideration. these government securities, some more and some less, where would then be the value of the United States securities’ Kentucky be likely to tax the United States bonds, do you think? (Laughter.) Who would How much wouid the State of How much would the city of Memphis tax them for municipal purposes? joan the government money wiicn the security he received was Mable to be taxed at the discretion of every State, county, city and school suits, and partly by the Swedish government, which If each State is to be allowed to tax | placed at its service a strong and first rate tron screw steamer, a powerful ice breaker, the Soplua, e ie wi paced uy ted nh gen ae foggy ard st rt geo! ralogiat C., have eemvenier toe apealtinns The ro al Swedish academies e furnished several suii instra- ments, but the finest, most useful and valuable were be by the Royal British Go. hical Society. the 25th ultimo appeared a letter in the Goete- borgs Handel och Sjoeseria Tidning from the florist disirict in the Untied states? They might tax them | of the expedition, The details are of general scien- tosuch anextent as to leave the security entirely Vould the governinent be sustained on such a principie astiat? Can any government ex- itself? can any Tevenue? and | expedition was dispatched fré can any government coliect reveuue or borrow money When its securities are to be taxed at the | ceasod the Swedes have resumed inquiries. valueicss, ist without the means taint poverninent Mgustain FR merit discretion of some other government? I these Siates that favored secess.on would easll; carry out thelr doctrine if the opinion is to prevail and secu. ‘he public lands of the United States have never been taxcd in the that they may tax United States quopers rities at thelr own discretion. States, It has always been provided, when new States were admitted into the Union, that they shall not tax the lands belonging to the United States, ‘But if they were to be and it never has been done. taxed, suppose a State or local tax were to amount to two per cent; what would be the eficct when Money was borrowed? say that that was about the aycrage amount of State or local taxes in each State of the Cnion. Why, when a man furnished the ernment of the — ce States $1,000 twent, ov- tional two per cent interest from the government; ‘and, instead of six per cent, the goveramont would have to pay eight per cent, ‘Th debt. How would anything be gained? this tax. THE PURLIC CREDIT. How, then, is the credit of the United State gov- ernment to be maintained? My view Of that is clearly expressed in the sixth resolution of the Chicago piatiorm, that the best policy to diminish the burden of our debt is so to improve our credit that capitalists will lead us money at lower rates. linprove our credit; that is the way to lessen the burdens of the public debt. That is the way to havo one currency for the laborer and the same currency Tam for the same currency for for the bondholder, everybody, boudhoider and laborer, sewing girl and every body else of whom Mr, Pendleton speaks. But Lam for having a trying to make it al! bad and worthiess. How is that to be done? That ts to pe done Ki resuming specie payments at the cartiest practicable period withont deranging the general business of the couutry, That 1g the way to have a uniform currency and give to the laboring man something that has a fixed and definite value and that he cannot be cheated out of by sharpers aud speculators who can inflate the cur- rency to-day and diminish it to-morrow. (Cheers.) ‘That is the way to reduce the pubite debt. WHAT IT COSTS US TO BORROW MONRY, We are paying now six « cent interest on $1,600,000,000 of fve-twenty ds, amounting to $¥0,000,000 in gold every year, while Canada can borrow money at four per cent in any of tie markets of the world, Any sovereign government on the face of the earth that has good credit can borrow mone; at four per cent or jess, Brazil and the South Ameri. cau repubiics, Bubject to revoiutious every few years, most of them can borrow money cheaper than these great United States; and way’ Because of our de- preciated currency, which some of those democrats, aa they call themselves, who used to love hard money, Want to inflate and increase by thousands of dollars. If you would protect tue lavoring man from g dollars the taxes to the State. r he lent the money, and the result of it*would be that he would ask an addi- iis would require heavier taxation to pay the Interest on i? ar t as broad as it is long, except in this wise—that the citi- zen would be put to additional expense to collect 1 currency (cheers) instead of tific interest, The accony ing translation will be pe with pleasure in England as it has been in Swe- jen. & Tt may be well to add that early in the summer an ‘om Germany; if has already returned. Where the labors of the German’s apectfally, » A. BF. ERICSON, JB, Loudon correspondent for the Goeievorgs Handel ‘och Sjoeferts Tidnina Lowpow, 103 Minories, KE. C., October 3, 1868. ADVENT Bay, Ice Bay, SrirzBERGEN, August 2, 1863. We have just entered Advent Bay, aud have, to our great satisfaction, found several Norwegian ves- sels at anchor, one of which will leave lay on its return voyage. Lavail myself of the opportunity to send you & few lines in the greatest hurry, having only # few minutes lett me to do so. 'e reached Bye & Weck ago, and have had since our arrt very good sport, Sea birds of all kinds abound here, a great mauy of which we have shot; also reindeer and mountain foxes; but we have not yel seen any because the bays are almost free from ice, Ail on board the Sophia are {a good health, and no one has been gick since we left home. We started from Tromsoe (Norway) and arrived tn due course at Beeven Isiand and stayed there \uring six Gays. This island is desolate, cold and stormy, producing @ very disagreeable impression. A soil- tary Norwegian fisherman had taken up bis reai- dence here, erected a very comfortable dwelling and spent several winters here; his chief occupation was the capture of the walrus; but he has recently deserted the island, From Beeven Island we steered our course to Spitzbergen aud soon found ourselves in the ice regions, At first we encountered some detached and scat- tered fragments of ice; these were succeeded by large towering masses of wild and fantastic shape, ‘iug close to cach other, deep in the water, Through this ice soa wo struggied for hours, but it was at length discovered by the lookout from the masthead that the intertor of the bay was filled with massive feebergs, and that all efforts to penetrate thm would be made tn vain. The course was therefore timme- diately altered and we steered towards the weat coast of Spitzbergen, There we lay at anchor for some days in Green Harbor. We foll in with three vessels which were enj in taking ‘whitefish.’ About fifty of them lay on the strand; the fat haa been extracted and taken away; the bodies averaged ten feet in length. The tsland is covered with eternal snow and ice, which here and there descend to the shore. 12 districts stretching alon; the sea coast are nakedand barren. The cliffs whic overhang the sea tenanted by A Ligand of birds which live together in company, ese Colonies are composed of auks, teistae, redbreasta (Motecil/a rub@oula), mauves of various species, &c. The eiderducks are very numerous, and we can shoot as many as we like, Just now a small boat is approach. ing which has been despatched for onr letters. esteriay we had a@ very agreeable visit paid by some Englishmen, who have come hither for hunting purposes. ‘They have stayed with ua wil the night, and appeared very loth to depart. Tt ia very probable that we will return at the end ar ee but we cannot at present deiinitely fix As the whole of the west coast of Spitzber free from ice we intend to explore gto % tt the most cunning scheme that waa ever devised to 4 proposed to Ns ” cheat him, then protect him gt these issues Of probed very | re, whlch lies enstwart from stox: irredeemable paper money, What would be the effect | fjord, and whiel is said, has never yet been visited upon our debt if we could borrow money at four per | by numan Deluge but the immense of ice in cent interes? Why we have, $1,200,000,000 of bonda | the Storfjord has hindered that e: ition. _ If it is at six per cent fnterest, We could borrow $1,600,- | possible we will sail round Spitzbergen, and expect to 000,000 if our credit was as good as that of Canada. | reach the east coast in a month's thine, as it is proba- Why cannot we do it? Stinply because of this de- | pie that in the interm the Ice will have been dia. preciated currency. Simply that and the uncer- | golyed and on unobstructed afforded. The ihe'awampt to cheat somebody out of outmmonedt | {ase itis sonared wie ng teat Std debt that is due to him. (Cheers). If we could bor- | the In J oe ere row now at four per cent we would save in interest ‘Of reaching Gilles Land, ihre nox patna ang kc far | ances Sere ent Nuh provi vy 000, ttle hi 4 per cent it Fou be but $64, oh ‘hat would bo po dad nora ; ‘ny “A eteaatle an annual saving of $92,000,000 gold in interest | that a survey of this country, so.far as i been every 1s Or, if the gor t chose to issue a | exp! be made, Chart of it drawn eix per cent bord, It would command one-third more | ‘and published. Th gariy, advent. of bad weal ia 8 erg tate sone ope ay nee ox wren members @ ions ¢ n, our m accomplishing and thee credit were | The cold aca A Swe covers yet Te-established, would sell for $1,600,000,000. | its injurious effects can be guarded against by tative With | that $1,600,000,000 we could pay off | exercise. Once we were up to the freezing point. and discharge ‘every ‘one of these five-twenty | In this grand and interests ig country there is no bonds, and then you would see the wisdom of this | mght, At the hour which in other climes is named legisiation of Congress, which reserved the right of discharging the bonds at the end of five years.” This midnight, the rays of the sun play upon the dazziin: summits of the snow-capped mountains, . OUR MACHINE sors, A Tour of Iuspeetion Through Them—Condi- tion of Business. A tour of inspection through the principal iron works of New York revea's the fact that although considerable activity prevails in certain branches the trade generally is far from being in as flourish- ing a condition as it was in the good old ante dbevum times, or, as in view of the rapid extension of American commerce now golng on, it might and ought to be, The iron shipbuilding trade is but just recovering from the stagnation caused by the disastrous maritime results of the rebellion, aud considerable time mast yet elapse before the exten- sive works on the banka of the East and North rivers can again compete with those of the Mersey or the Olyde in the building of hulls or the construction of engines for frst class ocean steamers, There ia no lack of enterprise on the part of the proprietors of the shipbuilding establishments on’ this side of the Atlantic, or of skill on the part of our naval architects and engineers. On the contrary, 80 far as legitimate enterprise goes, we are far ahead of our friends over the water and in many, points their superiors in skill, The commercial ma- rine and the navy of England are equally indebted to us, for their best steam merchantmen and most formidable iron-clads are built upon American models, In illegitimate enterprises, Hke the con- struction and equipment of such peculiar craft as the Alabama and her piratical sisters, the English builders have facilities which are never likely to be enjoyed in countries where national honor and in- tegrity is held in higher estimation than the inter- ests of unscrupulous merchants and grasping capt- talists. The great afivantages which English ship builders are now enjoying over those of the United States are solely attributable to the lamentable fact that during the rebellion our foreign com merce had to be care’ 32 ynder foreign flags. To-dav Wnrciean capitalists exercise a controlling interest in all the principal lines of steamsiilps plying between tiis port and the marts of the Old World, and as a nacural consequence, from the construction of new veasels to the execution of the most trifling repairs and alterations, all the work connected with this important trade is done in English yards, Our iron workers and machine builders are at present engaged almost exclusively in domestic Work, suchas the construction of vessels and en- gines for American lines and the manufacture of machinery for our factories, mills, mines and the endiess requirements of the dtiferent branches of trade, and, taking a broad national view of affairs, they could not be nore profitably employed. It is much to be deplored that our commercial marine is notin as flourishing a condition at the present moment as could be desired, and also, that forelgn- ers in the enjoyinent of temporary advantages have succeeded in monopolizing so large a portion of the siipbul.ding trade; bat a moment’a reilection wiil result in the conviction that there is no surer or speedier Way of remedying these evils than by de- voting the mechanical skill and energy of the country to the development of its illimitable re- sources. Not aday passes but some new craft is added to the countless tleet employed upon our rivers and lakes, the number of steamers engaged plying between the diferent ports on our vast sea- 18 rapidly increasing, and as regards ocean navigation, there can be po doubt that the time ‘will come when New York will be the centre of the commercial world, and we siall not only compete with Europe on the Atlantic, but control the vast commerce of China and Japan, and lord it over the broad bogom of the Pacific, THE NOVELTY IRON WORKS. Stunned by the incessant rattle of heavy ham- mers ppon Lorry | sheets of metal and the sides of hollow boilers, and dazzled by scorching glare from roaring furnaces and the flery rain of spares the visi- tor to the Novelty Iron Works at the foot of Twelfth street, East river, finds it hard to realize the fact that the establishinent is not in ‘full blast.” How- ever, although they have the factlities for doing a great deal more work than they have on hand at Uegecl the proprietors of the Novelty Works are do- ing exceedingly well. Jn the blacksmith’s depart- ment some forty or fifty brawny descendants of Tubal Cain were hard at work forging 6 BI levers, bolts, rods, and fashioning endless varieties of smokeptpes, breechings, connections, ventilatot 4c., out Of shcet iron. Over 100 men are employ in the extensive iron Ete making brass and tron castings, at least 200 aki artisans are kept busy in the machine department and aa many more in the boller shop. In all 760 men are employed on the works, The Yara works now in progress are the construction of engines, boilers, &c., for the Pacific Mali Company’s steamer America and the fill- ing of large orders for iron buildings from various parts of the jon. During the war the Novelty Works supplied the ernment with the gunboata Unadilla, Ottawa, mneca, Pembina, Owasco, Kennebec, Aroostook, Sebago, Port Royal, Sonoma and Conemaugh, the frigate Adirondack and the sloop-of-war Wampa- noag. The celebrated tron-clads ke and Mian- tonomtoh were constructed at this establishment, as also the machinery and ines of the Pacific jteamers Constitution, Golden iT. Sacramento, Colorado, pr Chauncey, Great Repubilc, China, Japan and THE DBLAMATER IRON WORKS, which are situated at the foot of Thirteenth street, North river, are now in full operation. Over 400 men are employed at this establishment, the majority of who are engaged iu repairing marine engines. Among the most important works now on hand are the making of new boilers for the steamer Electra, of Providence, the bullding of machinery ior acrew towboat for Guba, machinery for o steam towboat intended for the Erle Canal, and the construction of several stationary boilers. ‘The tron caloric Yacht Vermiand, desigued by Captaia Ericesoa, and built at the Delamater Works, is now all but ready for iaunchiag. Great activity prevails in the foundry of this establishment, where a a order is. being filed for ii jar shaped pil for the high service reservoir of the Croton Aqueduct. A Jarge nuinber of propelier wheels are constructed these works. Mr. G, H. Reynolds, the Superintend- ent, has recently invented an improved pumping machine, the main feature of which is the use of a wire rope to make tue connection between the engine ‘and pump, which may be wed from each ovher @ quarter of a mile or even more. Two sets of this machinery are just being completed for the Lake Champiain ore mines. The facilities of the Delamater Works have recently been largely increased by the erection of black- smith’s shop 165 feet in length and 50 in width, and of a new machine and patent shop, which 18 150 feet long and three si high, and further improve- ments and exiensions are in contemplation. THE MORGAN TRON WORKS cover considerable ground at tie foot of East Ninth street, East river, and are owned and managed by Mr. John Roach, the Vanderbilt of iron workers and machine builders. Havit recently absorbed the Etna and Neptune Works, the Morgan 1s the most extensive establishment on the East river. About 800 men are employed at pr vans but folly 2,000 would be required were the estabilshment working up to its full capacity. Four large boilers are now on hand for the steamboats Connecticut and Vander- blit; a number of improved cotton presses are being constracted, several of the river and Sound steam- ers are being repaired, and new engines, boilers and caer are beimg constructed for the works theim- selved, ‘THE FULTON IRON WORKS, which are located on Cherry street, are owned and managed by Measrs, James Murphy and W. J. Pease. This extensive establishment, which covers about twenty lots, is almost in full operation, from 350 to 400 men being employed. Among tne ee read works now in progress are the construction of a ferryboat engine and boilers for the Union Ferry Company, an engine and boiler for the steamboat of the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections, two low pressure locomotive boilers for the Coast Wrecking Company's steamtug Relief, boilers for the women lerryboate George Law and George Washington, two high pressuro stationary boilers for @ Vera Oruz firm and a steam engine and boilers for the Elghth Avenue Railroad Company. ‘The steamer Granada, of the New York, Havana and Vera Cruz line, and several other steamers are now being repaired at these works, THE QUINTARD WORKS ‘The facilities and resources of the Quintard Works are now turned fm ood to the manulactureo f machinery for the manufacture of toys, BROOKLYN PARUS. ~ —— Fort Greene or Washington Park. ‘There have been about 150 men employed upon the Fort Greene improvements, under the supervision of the Proapect Park Commissioners, since May last, This force has been chiefy occupied in grading the boundary walk on Cumberland street and the boys’ playground at the corner of DeKalb avenue and Cumberland street, The artillery road has been partiy graded, and an idea of what the design will be may be had in other parts of the ground. One hundred and forty thousand square feet of concrete pavement has been laid on the plaza, which plain is situated corner of Myrtie avenue and Canton street, ‘This space is designed for holding public meetings, and is 870 feet in diameter. This will give easy stand. ing room for a mass meeting of 30,000 persons, and ts readily accegsibie from the densely populated parts of the city. There will be no fence between this place and the streets on etther side. On the high ground fm «the intertor of the park 6 plot is being levelled and handsomely jaid out for ® “saluting ground,” to which the tillery road winda its tiene, nearest the. Atsouale Win: foal or Ceca feet in width. table been between the saluting ground tia 7 Place of meet- = pe goed and iy i Feception of the ered walk, e 9 a ta é dor nthe upper plateau, which will be highly ornamental to the park, and will also offer in warm weather suff. cient protection from the rays of the sun, even a! midday. One arm of thia arbor will conuect with the saluting ground; another with @ building to be “lower carriage concourse and the whole of t! = a 38 isd wie commands @ 3 Rd Ang Any) city and Easter. zhe ands- ‘ground closely wii offer Pipat wt it have an out- tervals. Lines of communication, tolerably direct, are secured in the p!an for those who may have occasion to cross the Park during the day. The idea of the te which residents and pro- perty holders in the neighbor! of Fort Greene put Upon the work now being carried forward may be readily had by noting the increase in the valuation of realestate. Within a perfod of eighteen months it has advanced 100 per cent. Lots on DeKalb ave- hne, betwoen Eliott place and ‘Fort Greene place, 500, i ught to-day for less than a Lots on Cumberland street worth tm 1863 $2,000 to 600 hich, are now valued at $5,000 to $7,000, innumerable similar instances might be here adduced to show the favorable effect which this work has Wrought from tts first inception to the present time upen the yalye of property, Prospect Park. ‘The force engaged upon Prospect Park during the Pastsummer being much smaller than that em- ployed the preceding year, owing to the tnadequacy of the appropriation made by the last Legislature, the progress made is necessarily comparatively small, and is by no means commensurate with the anticipation of the public, who looked forward toa much greater advancement in the work than is shown at thopresent.time. The main drive has been pushed forward, however, and a few days ago another, ion of the road was ihrown open, makin: the entire distance compieted about two and a half miles. Bridlo roads and walks bave beon ex- ten nearly every direction. The plaza on Flatbush avenue has been graded and paved and trees have been set out siong the line of the inveror walk, while the mounds which were seeded and planted a year ago now present a very uniform and pissin Sy peienees The work of excavating tor he lake haa been progressing slowly, as also-has the mason work’ upon the bridges and arches. ‘The ng De. destrian concourse have been graded. '", inka AN the children’s district, thé main entrance, have nee éd. tis proposed to establish the sum- me of water in the lake at an eievation of #ix- ty-three feet above mean high water and to make tne depth in summer seven feét, Phere will be an arn of the lake on the west side of Brier hill set apart this winter for skating, Though the progress made, as already stated, has boen tardy ab the park this year, havertheles it presents au inviting aspect and eannot fall to amply repay such persous as admire good landscape scenery, than whici no finer point of observation can be found in eltier of the two citica than the view presented trom Lookout bill, ‘This latter is the most elevated pointin the p: aad has a height of 186 feet above high-water ma MODEL TEVENLYT HOUSES. Will the coming man drink wine? may be a very interesting matter for specalation aad inquiry; but far transcending it im importance and urgent need for a specdy solution 1s the question pressing upon us with increasing force daily, and growing jouder and louder in our ears—where will the coming man live? New York 1s a very growing city, iis popuia- tion rapidly increasing, and the accommodations made for the shelter and domicile of its inhabitants but ill adapted to their want and very inadequate to their multiplying number. But one class of the population appears to be provided for here, viz:— those who are in receipt of princely iucomes; and certainly no city in the world offers thei « greater variety of first class mansions, finished in the most costly and complete manner and folly provided with conveniences for living than this, suited for the accommodation of a prince and _ retinue, or the dreary magnificence of a childicss millionnaire. For the poor workingman, rongi and coarse of instinct and experience, there are to be sure acres of tenement buildings, but their poor accommodations, the narrow conined quarters they furnish, with their dark bedrooms and many fauita of construction, render them so dangerous to health as to be very fever pests, threatening the whole city with the danger of epidemic diseases. For the man of moderate means there is no piace where he can lay his head save at such a sacrifice of spare income, as deprives him of every prospect of making suiteble provision for the. possible contin- gency of a Feing jay How to supply a desiderataum so great as suitable homes for this class has been frequently the subject of discussion, and various estious have been thrown out from time to time by the press and pub- lic economists with but scant beneiicial results, Among other suggestions the H&kALD, some time since, calling the attention of eapitalisis to this op- portuaity for profitable investment, referred to how “they manage these things better in France,” and cited the model tenement houses existing in Pariv as worthy of imitauon. Acting upon this hint and applying to the subject a Knowie of the wants of the American fainily, a geniiewaa in brook- lyn, borrowing the idea of the French tenement such alterations and iimprove- ments upon it as the different manners of our people and taeir mode of living rendered ueccsaury, lina re- cently engaged In the construction of mudel tene- ments in tuat city, which are now rer § complet and which appear to furuish the weeded answer to the query—wiere will the coming man live? ‘they comprise three buiidings, locaced in Stanton street, between Jounson aud Tillary, one of 130 feet front in Stanton street and two in rear, running at right angies from the front building (one ai cach le), back sixty-five fect, and enclosing a eourt sixty-five feet square, which i entered tirough a covered way from Stanton street. At the furtucr end of this ‘court and forming its fourth side is @ smalier bullding, the uses of which will be after- wards expiained. As in making provision for the class for whom these houses are designed matters of taste and sensibility had to be iaken into account. ‘The front elevation i# a model of archi- tectural Loma 4 and #0 relieved by variety in style as to remove the objectionable bariack-ilke aypear- ance which uniformity in a row of buildings give. It is built of Philadelphia brick, Low meen | Bix distinct four story buildings, witu eight inch set etfs. Four of the buildings have Mansard 1oof from the third story, the two centre buildings going up fdush. ‘The silig and lintels are of brown stone, those of the central portion being arched and ‘tie oers square. A heavy wooden cornice with deep brackets, din- tinct for each butiding, crowns the front wail, adorned with vases and ovher oanaments, tie whole surmounted with an iron railing, Bach louse has a three step stoop entrance and black Wainut: doors, aud is to be enclosed by an iron railing to run aloug: the entire front. When complete tie appearance from the street will be that of a range or verrave, a8 they call it in England, of first ciass resideuces. ‘he first and second floors of tue frout houses are finisued for a singie tenement and consist of six rooms, three on euch floor, finisned in first class style, windows in every room, heater, kitchen range, stationary wash tubs, builer and ad the mo- dern conveniences, besides bathroom, water cloves and pantries, No communication 1s possible be- tween any of these and any other part of tne buiid- ing, each being a separate and distinct establ ment complete in every respect. Two o a houses have no hailway, simply a vestibule, the rooy beiug taken up by the archway, In the centre of the frout buiding is 9 wide arct)- way provided with tron gates, witica admits to the court and the first floors of the side rear butiding». On each side of this covereu way is a wide stair case, celled with black walnut and asi, wich lc to acorridor similarly finished on the seco noor, in the rear of which, in aa extension, |4 te jauiior’s office. Thence by other staircases pass to corridors above, Frou each of tiese corrl: doors to the rigit and left open upun galeries whic run along the extent of the butidiugs outside, and from wuich you enter we different tenome Entrance is thus obtained to the second, third fourth floors of the side batldings, aud the third and fourth floors of the front building. From the ead of each of these galleries fartuest from the entrance an iron ladder communicates wilh the court, while the other end of this gallery leads to an opeuing in a shaft which extends [rom the top to tie bolton of the rear projection of the front buiding, in whieh alt ashes and sweepings may be throwa tito & yauit be- low. From the corridor on the fourth floor of the main building @ stairway leads to the roof, coin. municating with the roofs of tue otuer buildings by means of bridges. ‘The tenements other than those first describe which comprise two toors, all contain four fon, parior, kitchen and two bedrooms each, having windows of fail size, with closeta and panties. They are each provided with water, sink anu gas, and are allneatiy and completely finished, of tue bost ma- teria.s, aud bave plenty of light aud air. Each teue- ment has @ se celiar partitioned off ia tae main cellar, with kK partiion and private key, anu also in the rear b ing Spoken Of avove a separate water closet. To this rear buiiding likewise ure ten bath rooms suppiled with hot and cou water at the ef end of the owner of the buildings, and in care of the janitor, for tre use of the tenauta, ‘tlic cour). whicb ts to be paved with concrete, witha fountain in the centre, isto be kept lighted by the owner as Algo the gulleries and corridors described above. Much of that spoken of above as existing if yet to be done, the buildings being now in an unduiiehed state, but when compiete these tenements will sent a model of neat and clegant houses, vo comfort, convenience and privacy, within ti of men Of moderate tucomes, des tying of ext imitation, in future building enterprises in Wiis ei). WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE, FingMan’s ELRcTion.—iarry Howard Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 of Portchester, at their an- nual the following oflicers, ¥is.:~ fhouas latin’ reman; Wm oung, Agsistags foreman; Fred. ‘Ten\y, a jamin, Secretary; Treasurer, eau Tobias Murdock, Pine. A fire was caused in the store of MP. Lukert, of New Rochelle, by # boy trying to fill a kerosene lamp while it was lighted. As@ number of firemen were holding a meeting near by prompt ate tion was patd to the fire and but little damage done, The village was thrown ito great confusion, how. ever, ag several frame buildings were near (he one on fire.