The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1869, Page 7

The Crep a Large One=Advance lu Prices Anticipated=Menopoly the Order ef the Day—An Increased Demand Predicted. ‘The writmg up of the ice basiness and the discus sion of the question of prices follow naturally upon the eels of the completed gathering of the crop. The quality of the articie housed for this season's consumptton is aid to be inferior to that delivered last sammoer, and companies make loud complaints that the gathering of the supply has been attended with unusual expense, owlug to the needed shaving of the surface, which, tf imperfectly done, involves # certain disagreeable taint of ammmon's in the blocks housed, These complaints are, however, probably unfounded, and intended simply to influence the market, gives the fact must ve admitted that the fallofsnow dunng the past winter has not been lieavy, In fact, judging from apparent data, the housing of the present crop has been attended with less expéuse ‘than the hous- ing of that of 1807-3, allowing @ ‘smail percentage for increase of wages, which 4s claimed-by the compauics. In @ word, It is the same old story over again, with trifing variations to suit the contingencies of the season, and the less fttention people pay to the clamor the better for the great public in goneral, It is the month Jor contracts, and, until we contacts have been made thero will be more or lesé Clainor as to expense of housing and details of delivery, The cry has already gone up that prices must be ad- vanced; that companies did # loéing buskiéds last reason, With ice at twenty-five cents a Hundred; that large gangs of men must be kept, at higher wages tian last year; that horses are expensive creatures; that icehouses, barges and carts Wear out; that com- vailes pay enormous taxes and must have their tooncy back; that the shrinkage of ice from housing to delivery is to be unusually Neavy—at least forty per cent; that, ina word, if New Yorkers will take thelr summer beverages coo! they must submit to pay liberally for the cooling. These ave tite official arguments of companies and may be taken with any umber of grains of sult by consumers at large. Pney mean merely that a couple of New York companies, with an aggregate capital of $3,000,000, have gaiued ® practical monopoly of the business, and that ice ‘companies, hke gas companies, propose to deinand their own price, rather regardicss of the mgits of we cousumer, An : ANTICWATED INCREASE OF THR DEMAND is one of the main arguments urged. It is alleged that (ue adjacent cities and villages have not cut their usual supply, and that, to make up for their de- dicrency, New York companies will be compelled to yun suburban {co carts to an unlimited extent, Nevars and Jersey City, Hoboken and the villages | 1 of this city are, it is argued, likely to call upon ive New York dealers for larger shipments than last feuson; and hence the mammoth companies, the oitices of which are located in this gity,areio auti- cipation of & great harvest of greeubacks this sum- juer, and one bused upon the hundredfold princi- ple. Philadelphia and Washington, too, It 1s alleged, must buy: in nate fener iid ibo Tngied dues oF the EB ung Unable e wiih pre- Font facilities ot trausportion. iftteas- causes, te is estimated, Will increase the ordoré. for shipment re- ceived by New York companies at Teast fifty per ~eont, increas, eral demand upon the ew the gen York uiarket about te, ce. ‘The truth of allegations Sacto einen yuh he ter bey City Company bas, housed, 10,000 ‘tons 10s than usual—ita ho: at West Cainp, with of 40,000 tons, being only about three-quarters full, Thirty nopnens tous ‘are, of course, equate to the loeal Ton housed Bt Cacghul ‘creek in single Louse of a LJ ‘Gud 10,000 tone housed. in Anat comncltyy a ‘ou Point, tie.capacity or ipompnse pelng 30,000. ‘Twenty une tan of seco dean Nous atte, wae an 4 place, compilers the atatistice ol Chaney cape Mal oles amens cenin fe al ig 42 rm Eifaller 100. Beveutycaine thousaue tone miastbe é must be ftlon which “was presen last_year by Tuy tons. Oneli thousand ‘tons must be 000 undred mided oapmnatey BLOT ‘ivate individuals, Sieh esate q weet Moe Rone barrier tu the way of warding of the exactions of the monopoly how practical ed by a le of New \ors companies; ‘sua this: monopoly will be ale the mos of nobody who kuows rg frie: ot dies to to—can en- bo pelt More rycen neither nor appealed tertain the soade w of a douvt, " THB BVYENT OF THE YEAR consolidation of several » The . has also erected two new houses. Ouse located at Roadout, aud has @ capacity of 60,000 tons; aud the other at West Park, having an ona capacity. The ice [coated during the present ‘winter has an ave! ickness of @ foot, which season's strips. The STATISTICS OP STORAGE Ay houses, tite penton pacuy 09,000 eiyhicen ol capaci 429,000 tong, and estimates the quantity Touved. at 400,000 wus, The Washington Company, 4% consolidated, has twelve houses, of aggregate capacity of about 406,000 tons, and has cul, la ron, figures, avout an, oughly meee therefore, the supply for the seusoa ta represen by the following figures; — Hints. Storage. Obuer dealers. TOM. .ceccecseees sevees ST 855, 1 will be seen from these figures that eight-nintus of the whole *torage of the Winter is iu tie Rauda of two companies. ‘The two houses of tle Nativaal ven both of smail capacity (15,000 tous), one velug located at Croton Lake vod we other at Tuckahoe. the eighteen houses of the Knicker. Docker Compauy are situaced, Lave capacities and are Lied as follows;— Contents, Capacity. Athens... + $3,000 barryiown wo Catsatlh Creek, Catekill Pout, Clearwater. Coxsackie. Bavesport.. Deopus Fiaiba ‘latbush.. Hamburg. Se se Creek.. 80,000 10,000 40,000 Wockuind Law 587,000 The Washington Company treads fast cpou the heels of its Gider competitors in storage for Lhe sea. sou, having twelve houses Giled, as +ul)oined:— Cupacdy. Stored, ayingeton Croes, iuyston Point, hovers isiahd.... r PWR eee es Total....+. * se eeee ee BTD,000 {tis apparent, from the tures of supply here incorporated that no acaretty of ice need ve antic: 963,00) pated, aad hence No advauce ta prices can be based Won any weil founded wliegations in this direc. out Of the — consumed ja this city sooub throefourtas is delivered at restaurant, hovel and other «public resorts, not more tau ouefourth being sot dowa in etal nt (he doors of private residences. The aeverai cona- panies conduct business Loth xt Wholosule aud re- tah, though the nuniber of tudependent pediers of ihe Article is not so small As would patoraliy be sap dosed. The latver own sometines two or tivee or sa dosen carte—oftener, however, only one, play. y jug Dota ret bev) that of proprietor and that of aniver, The wal! Gealers—the hucksters of the Wuatinese =. obtain few stocks at the barge ppl At the Wholesuinptue, Joubers ma je wre few, and companios are gras™aay gain. jag control over routes wine hs ro Ue a tue hands of retaiers The vusivess employs forty hot less than 200 wasons and trom 400 to 60 a with an average of 2,009 men, during the cat- 1H nd delivery seasons, The rate of w i” hot bigh, and may be put at wn average of fi teen dollars a Ww: drivers oon, otten as low ne CR) ended | engaged In the onsmess ia fotitiousthat 4 wunecessary to the conduct of the sand quite wpernuous. ii fact, ab w maxi estimate, 100,00 Would. probably, cover the full valve of the brOyeriy aud f xtures Owned by (he companies, leay- | milited to this court, } bull and Enoch pital, and thus New York is a progs upon fienitious capital—capital une capital whieh talzht better be (and roo tp oF ed 49 osher business; while, in Bie treat Me, the company pleads its title to 8 fale rot upod B pretondedly invested enjital Of $2,000, - 00, being realy entitied to a prove Upon, porlay: $400,000, Upon this fallacy, whieh 1 11 “uF cles to see Larough, the consumer is iia ‘that in payfag forty cents a hundre ‘alfording capital its just aud Legit as. he is actuaily paying a profs upon Teaily emproyed for his benemt. Tih ) sinee, WheD the a8 Was fist started, wad With the rude appilances ac hand. ice was delivered in quantity at one dollar a handved, Now, wits every advantage of business 02 alaige soale, Wiki & per- Ing suMolent working mute to fected system of gathering, housing and delivery, | backed by excessively low Wages to employes, tue article averages en gros at Bix dollars a ton, Hough Jost eainmer it rau as low as three dollars, Which is alleged to bo equivalent to doing business at a loss. THS SCHEDULE POR TUE SKASON acems to have been tacitiy agreed upon, and involves & retail price of forty cents a iuudred ia the deat of he season, though the busineas will be openea at tuirty-iive cet delivered in sinalP quantities. The cost of delivefy in carts being estimated at two dol- Jars and # bull per ton, delivery in stupments at the dock 1a placed st three dollars per ton. The aleged system of making up the schedule is, of course, very simple. The cost of gathering, the catimated cost of transportation, & further estimated cost of distribu. tion, @ percentage upon the whole cost of bars carta, fuplemenis, houses, horses, &c., and an esti- mate of all taxes and incidental outlays are frst added together. Lo this gross amount is added the percentage of prodt upon the ailegzod. capital en- @aged; and the whole amount is divided by tue net Bumber of tons, which 1s calculated by deductin, forty-five per cent from (he grosé guantity house: Tor and wastage. The quotiedt of this division represeuss the average price, from which Yariatiods Tor wholesale and retall are calculated. The whole system is one of estimates, aud nat tue estimates are hever too low is suiiciently demon- strated by the fact that New York erty unnually pays the enorinous amount of $2,500,000 for tae luxury of ice, Jf some inventive individual would ony periect @ plat lo transport icevergs from the Arction some relief might be expected. But, as to the found- ing of new companies, no sooner are they able to swim than the old ones awaliow tiem, increasing their Nctitious or unemployed capital by the amouat swallowed, ‘Taking @ single company as an filnstration the rule for making up the schedule way be applied, Es- tumating the cost of cuting aud Dauling at forty cents @ ton, the aggregate housage of 400,000 amounts to:— Cutting and other expenses.....+.....0..+. -.$160,000 ‘fen per cent on vaiae of houses, barges, Pete horses and uaplements to value of Actual cost Of shipping to Market at te CODW DEF HOD, epee eeereeee 9,000 40,000. + $290,090 Cost per ton aa 66 cents Ti is not at the barge or in cransitu that the gipater proportion of. the allowance for shrinkage oufgt to be made, bat in the process of cart deliv- ery. Bought at the barge—surinkage by land traus- portation at toe buyer's. riak—the logs to the com- pany ‘a quantity is not moré than t@n per cent, Which fixes tue actual value per tou at the barge, regardless of profit, at seventy-two cents, Ten per cent OB $2,000,000, Wie ali¢ged capital, 18 $200,000, which, taken iaio account, increases the price per ton at the barge lo $2 50, which ts equal to six and a@ hall cents # bundred; and that the urticie deliv- ered at the dock ought not to cost more is morally certaln, for the reason that the estitmates above given ure oMcial, and ilkely to exceed, rather thaa otherwise, the actual expenses; yet its gravely as- serted that companies must be set down as doing business at @ loss at $2 75 at the barge—the lowest rate last’#ummer—which “ls somewhat more than double cost wot eae put togetuer, taking oMicial estinates for both. In tne process of cart delivery ‘ala, about thirty per cent is lost, For tustance; allowlng that 100,000 tons of the whole quantity suipped has to be delivered in the cowpany’s carts, the just price per tou put down at one’s duor may be easily compute: Value at the Darge......0...8eese 4+ ¥+$180,000. Actual cost of delivery, with present factti- @t $1 80 per ton.......... Reon er Con, allowing tu Adollars nd cents If these estti compa- nics, and yet these Same companies allege Liat to detiver ice at twetity-lve cents a hundred is & losing business, aud cipher out the demouseratioa wit ue utmost piausibifity, Verily, dyures are not aiways Veracious, thougi, when they fall of speaking vue trata, tus generally by coercioa. UMPED SLATES SUPRUME COURT. The MeCardie Case—Eiect of the Reper| o: the Act of 1867—Does it Deprise the Cours of Jurisdiction to Render Judgment in the Casct Ex Parte William Be Mccrdie.—This was the argument on the question of the effect of the repeal | of the act of 1867 in cases of appeal from the Circuit Court on habeas corpus. The facts of the case will be remembered. Tue appeilant, McCardie, fled his | petition in the Cirewit Court for the Southern dis trict of Mississippi in November, 1867, for a writ of babeas corpus, to be directed to Genera! Ord or Gen- eral Oillem, or both, by whom or by whose orders the petitioner alieged he was Ulegally detained in prison, Tue writ was issued and the body of the ap- peliant. was produced in court aud a fall retura made, setting forth the cause of imprisonment. No weue was made upon the facts stated in the return; but the appellant moved for his discharge upon tue ground of tie tusuificrency of the return as matter of law. Th» Cireutt Court heid the return suiiciont and rewsudted MeCardle w the custody of the military authorities, from which he had been taken by the writ, MoCardie then (ook hia appeal from the decision and judg- meut of the coust, in pursuance of the act ia ques- tion giving such a right of appeal. Penuing Gus and after the cvuse had been heard and sub- y =n by the act of March, 1868, ied 80 much of the actof 1857 as author. ted se tepeat from the judgment of the Circuit to the Supreme Court of the United States, or the exercise of any jurisdiction by this court on ap- ais Which have mM or may hereafter be taken, jo decision was thereaiter rendered by this court 10 the cuae, aad the court at the preseat term directed argument to be made on the question of its jurisdic- tou subsequent to such.repeal. On the part of the goverument aud the military authorities it is con- vended that this court ad no jurisdic. tion of this proceeding, it being aa ap- peal from the Circuit Court, except under the act of 1867, and that it wag so leid by the court on the motion to dismiss made by the authorities. The act conferring the jurisdiction having beea repealed, te jarisdiction ceased, and the court had thercaiter uo authority to pronounee any opinion or reader udginent in the case. The constitution of the Uulted States gives ty Congress the power to except any or all of the cases menuoned in the jurisdic- tion clause of that tustramens from the appellate ja- ridievon of the Sapreme Court, and it was cleariy the intention of Vougress by this act to so except all the cases of this Kind, whether pending or there- afier (o be brought. ‘This court never had appeilate Jurisdiction in such cases until it wae authorized by the act of 1807, That act has been repealed; and after an act of Congress las been repeaied it must be cousidered the same if it iad never been passed. This proposition ts claimed tobe so clear fiat no argument can be required to sustain it. No court ean do any act In any case without jurisdic. tion of the subject matter, and any act Attempted to be done under such circumstances pKa g voul, Itcan make ao difference at what period in the progress of a ‘cause the jurisdiction ceases, After It has ceased no judictai act can be rformed. In Insurance Company va. Ritchie (5 Voll, 654,) the Chet Justice, delivering the opinion of the court, says:—"It is Gear that when the juris- diction of a canee depends upon the statute the re- peal of the statute takes away the jurisdiction.’ And In that case the repealing atetute, which was passed durmy tho pendency of the cause, was held vo deprive the cour: of ali juriadiction, This is the uniform docirine of (his court and ot all courta. The causes Wich were pending Im this court against States were all dismissed by the amendment of the coustitution denying jurisdiction, wad no further omer were bad In those cases. In Norris va, “rocker (13 Howard, 429,) this court adirmed and acted on the same principle, and the exhaustive ar- gument of the present Ciuief Justice, then at the bar, Teported tm that case, and the namerouy authorities there cited, reader aay further argument unneces- gary. ‘The opposite view is maintatued at length on the part of McCardic. Seaators Carpenter aud Trum- ottea for government, and W. b. Sharkey for appeliant, THE CLO GUARD. Meeting Inst Night. The Old Guard, an organization comprising the mewters of the Light Guard and the City Guard, heid & Meeting last night ab the Astor House, Ad- yatant W. J. Tompkins occupied the chair, The committee appoimied at tie last meeting to make arrangements to the celebration of tue iversary of the formation of the corps, on April 22, reported progress, but were not in positionto propose any programme, ‘The ball committee reported that a very large number of ticketa tad already been dis- posed of for the bail, wiitcl to take piace on April Ls and also that aluwost all the boxes were disposed of ‘The meeting Was reminded that the proceeds ‘of the ball were to be devoted to aiding the families of deceased members of the two corps and to the assistance of jodie members, ag provided ta the ‘charter of the ard. On motion of Mr. Hen- riqnes The charwad Was requested to appoint a commulttee of #8 inembors iv provide permanent accommodations foy-the meeting of the Old Guard. The Chair appototed Meats, D. M, Henriques, G. By Fredericks, Henry Molten, G.%%. Me“ane, J, A. Ginr- man, Frederick Alien; an’. on motes, the Chairman ‘was added. It was nunoudced that Douworth’s bands: nifubering wore than 1cO las Taunents, wil fo mish the music, which the OF Goard have spared fro expense to ake @ femure of the eeraaion. One baad Will Fender the dancing progranime, swuk ont of choice seicct.ons from all ie Modern operas, Bol forgetting the denghtfai comp Orfonbach Strauss, Heimamller, &c, ‘The martial bead wil Play the marches which were so popuiar in Ne 10TK More thaa uscore of years ago, Among the will be the favorite quicksteps dedicatet to t | Tompkins Biue: Light City Guard, waile the 1 | Up,’ “ib spears ‘to Tt | and kintped strams wall, ; eve., cher i the: sto many participants of (he Old Guard’s gala OCEAN TELEGRSPU FINESSING, Wasmrneron, March 30, 16¢9., Representatives of all the ocean’ telegraph enter- | prises are now at the capital putting forth every eifort to appear to meet tue popular demand for iu- créused facillliea by getting through a general bill authorizing the laying of numberless cables to the United States from all foreign countries—except their own. Thus the Cuba cable proprietors, haying a mono- poly of the telegraph business with that tsland, granted by the Spanish government for a term of yeats, are ia favor Of # general bill permitting the laying, of additional cables Trem the United States to all foreign countries—except Cuba, The New York, Newfoundland and London Com- pany desire a similar exceplion lu faver of thew own already overpaid enterprise. The Ciiua Cable Company desire a siniar exception in favor of themselves, and the French cabie wen are liberal in their views as regards their ueighvors, bat have no oWjection (0 MuKopolizing the Cana business beiween France aud (lo rest of mauaind for a term ul years, Now the best way to dispose of this matter is todo nothing. All corporations have now equal vb leges under the general laws of the laud, and it Dest in thls case to lel well Cnough alone. If, how- ever, es sitet by Congress is at all the Fenton bil, with the ciause making exceptions im favor of eértaia corporations siricken out, is the only ole thaisuould receive one Lstuut’s consideration. 1 do not tuiInk any legisiation ts necessary. Leave the business open to free competition, so far as our government is concern and the monopolies will soon be broken duwn. No exceptions should be mage ja favor of any , but the utuiost iree- dont’to ail should be perm: No paper but the HkRALD seems to have paid any attentiog to this subject. Senators and Kepresenta- tives are being told by interested parties tuat such and such prominent uewspaper proprietors are im favor of making exceptions i favor of certain miono- poues, 1 1s tine that the presé generally siould he heard upon this subject. The co of uicasages be- tween hereand Lurope stioutd be en ceuls per word, iustead of two dollars and upwards, The cost of iransuitting gnnicnes by ocean lines is leas per mile tuaa by lad, it does not seem to be remembered that i the first coustruction the cost of poles, &€., 19 altogether avotded, and afterwards tae expense Of repairs is next to uothing. it is time that the people aud press were aroused before mo- nopoiles are astened upon them. THE iNfEROR DEPARTHLY. The Tush of Applicants for Positious—Th» Haugers-On of tue Indian Bureau—Liste with Recoumendations Being Prepared. WaSUINGTON, March 29, 1309.0 Governor Cox, in his enlarged sptiers of public duty ag Secretary of the Interior, has already expe- rienced not only the annoyance and perplextities of his position, but has been deeply impressed with the intense patriotism of an army of hungry applicants who clamor to serve their couutry, and especially within his jurisdiction, Long before the usual hour of opening in the morning for business the sidewalks, steps and colonnade on the muin (roat of the De. partment of the Interior are crowded with an impatient throng waiting for an opportunity to besiege the Secretary. During the delay thus occasioned an occasional individual nught be seen hauling from bis side pocket a formidable envelope, and, diving into it, produce a bundle of papers, re- commendations and letters of introduction, These were carefully looked over, read aad re-read, when, + depositing tae same back in his pockets, with hands Henind bis back, he promenaded thoughtiully up and down, assay, A congratulating himself that . bis, culments are the best aud stroagest Lo be presented nd therefore sanguine of success, An- other strolls of to a convenient grogshop and buoys his Umorous spirits by eons @ litue “something."? Hach oue eves the other with a glance of intensited curiosity, Wiica seems to ask the question, “Weli, What 1s that fellow after?’ At wine o’ciock the doors of the building are tarown oper, aad through the narrow portals With @ hasty, business-like tread, tue crowd makes a raga for the entrance, The efforts of the door watchman are powerless to pre- serve the ordinary decorum of the piace, and walle he pounces upon some particularly enthusiaste per- sonage a dozen Lake tae opportuuity to scramole ior the leadershlp. in this niotley Maaner tue aaxtious party darts down tue ctaridors sl) ig of at an acute augie at its extremity watil they reach tre other side of the building, where the terrivie words ‘secretary of the interior? ta large levers over tue door remind the besiegers that tucy have reached tie very doors ofthe citadel, At this wioment, iu proximity to tae power which by # siugle stroke of the pen ora solitary word could grant their wishes, the Cathusiasm of the crowd depreciates. § tnveluntarniy they wove vy the dvor, evidently contemptating thelr prospects more seriously and gevtiug tuew courage up t0 the sticking point for ao tuterview with the awful dignitary liiuseif, Phe aute-roums and the corridors now present a scene of anxious appli- cants for admission to the Secretary, or probaly to his assistants. Cards are handed in by the pack. Members of Congress, taking the precedence, how Inake their appearance, With One or two of thelr constituents, also anxious to serve thelr country, aud dud @ ready access to the Secreiary, ‘The crowd loiter outside, taking a peop every thue tie door opens. Time passes on wnt the steady scream of oliclals exhausts the lew hours devoed to the = pudite. The announcement 1s given that the — Sec will receive no more visitors that day. ‘the crowd, with disappointed mea, slowly disperses 10 make a renewed eort ou the next day. ‘The clerks still occupying their positions evidently conteinplace a shaking up, and, in view of the preearious tenure of their juriuer lease of office, do but look upon these dally displays of out- side pressure With much compovure, ‘The business of the luterior Department is divided fnto four distinct bureaus, and Las wader its contre! @ Variely of duties, In addition to a supervision over the sale and other matters conuecied with the puvlic iands, the issue of jeuts, the management of the Indians, he ay ment of pensions, It also control of the Dis- trict police, the lusane asyium and the business con- nected with the suppression of the African slave trade, Not only does tals department number about jou employes of al Kinds for oitice duty, bat there is an additional force of over 600—registers, receivers aad clerks of the Land OMice, fourwen superintend- ents or governors, er ofc superintendeuts, and about 250 agents, Bub-agents and others uader the direct coutrol of the tadlan Buread, and neariy reventy pension agents. For cach of these positions there Are at least a dozen applicants, and the Secre- tary is more than flovded with the claims of each, oe tue important lact tiat lis papers are the Ba ‘The greatest competition ts probably mm the Indian Oflice. ‘This place, always tue resort of a motiey crew, has now become a perfect scene of confusion. ‘The proapect of au eo change 1p the administra. tion of tue oftice, so entirely necessary irom top to bottom, has raiied an army of seckers for piace. ‘The surroaudings of the Ladiaa oMee, always novel, at this time, with the fresh accessions of humbers and alversity of characters, presents auite an tater: esting picture of the difereut varices of frontier. meu, with a mixture of half-breeds and a party of ved warriors quite gayly decorate’ by the fancy stores of the national capital, In the Commis siones’s room hail a dozen particuiar frievds may be seen at any time during the day talking Indian and smoking quite familiarly. In the Dext room, occupied by the clerk, the lesser lights congregate, while the savages aud debris ait tu the Qute-roowns With (heir feet out of the wind stretelied out on the tofas, aimoking aud spitting. TO Mention a$ @ proper person bo Gi Ute Commis- Sionership the nawe of ely Parker is suificient to bring down the thanderbolts of tadiguation froin a score Of friends of tue preseat irresponsiole réyime. The best recommendation the hecessiy of a change can have is the excitement ‘octa- stoned by any Proposed ange. i its to be oped thas tue Prewdent will early give lis attention to the necessary cleau jug out and parttying of this piace. Action 1s ex- pected to be takeu at an eariy day. Lt canuot be wo early if the savages are to be kept af peace. are now beg male out of tue staias (f each persou connected With the respective bureaus and by whom recommended. A nuuiber of tuose now in the De partinent are likely to romain, espectaily tose en- dorsed by republican Senators and members of the present Congress. The Secretary has announced Tit he will fx an early day ‘to conser these cises and wil meet tae beads of bureaus in cou- sullatio. POLICE TRaLs, Commissioner Brennan heard evidence yesterday Morning on the following charges against officers. There was not a single citizen's complaint:— Samuel Hurly, Forty-fourth precinct, absent with- Out leave, Jndgment reserved; Wiliam A. McKenzie. Forty-etgn' recinct, Of post, one day's roundsiman Dougheriy, Tweuty-seventh pre OT post, tWo days’ pay; George W. Sititck, Heth precinct, conversing With a citizen, two da, {Thomas EF: Eighteenth precinct, cc versing with a clint, two re pay; Wm. M. Hutcutason, Bight! recinct, failing to make an arreat: when ordered to do so by a ward detective, Judgment reserved; Patrick Connor, Fourta pre cnet, CWO charges, adsence from roti cal! and siting aown ona when b@ should be patroiiing, two and @half day's pay; Witham sarees Fours preeifot, siting on d bench wiih (he last named on ized) pay. James Clarke, Sixth precivet, | convers.ng for eighteen minutes With a prostitate, jndguest & = Sanus ——_ arieeath precinct, of pos ay's day; George N. Glass, @ xteenth precinct, ‘on post, two day's pay; K. I. Pi.aio, Fifteenth Lov nut failing to take a prisoner to court. reprimanded; Harman and Prats, Pui precint, ConYersing ON post, one day's DAY cach, = Lists | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1869.—QUA caaac eens i SaItISUIInInnEnEnEIESSEInERIISISSESnennnnss eT | 1 Deaceavle citizens, ‘Ihe negroes refused to dy (his } tut LITERATURE. Reviews of New Books. Brwaxs or hinorr. By Bayara Taylor. Nov Lors: GP, Potnam & Son, pubdiishe: ‘Tue author of this book 13 ole Of our mos" ing writers. To those that have read Ins rude” “Pictures of Palestine,” “Japan, India en China” aud other works we need only say the. “Byways of Europe” will be found equally as well written and aa interesting as any of his former pro- Guctions, ‘There have been so many books writ- peas ten and published on travel in Europ@ tiat one would suppose the subject exhaust Mr. Taytor, however, succee’s admirably im av iding beaten tracks ana in cutting a new path for himself Every- thing he writes is fresh; the reader roams with hina along the “byways” of the Old World, shartug lis Pleasures and gralifications, wrapt in conte:aplition of the scenery of atiused and edifled by colloquies with the natives, Whether Solng on “a cruise on Lake Ladoga,” spending a winter in St. Petersburg, roaming through ‘the little land of Appenseli” or taking ‘*a trip to ischia,”? we never tire of the scenes and incidents whieh iilustrate our journeying, The book before us is written in thal easy, fluent and simple style which, united with the author's wel known powers of descriptton, lends a charm to contents and heightens ils value ag a literary pro- duction, Wineyv’s E NON AND ORATORY—iving & thorough und atise oh the Art of Reading Speaking. By Ciaries A, Wiley, Teacher of Nioca- tion. New York: Clark & Maynard, publishers. We cannot too highly commend ths book, which appears to us worthy of taking rank with the best of works on the subject. We cordially agree with the praise already accorded. to it of being distingulshe: “for the simplicity of ita rales, the comprehensiye- ness of its principles, the copiousness and pertinence of its iinstrations and the singularly wide and va- rious range of lis solections for practice. But while thus praising the book we must repeat @ conviction, expressed on a past occasion, that not all the books oa oratory ever published have made a great ora- tor, One of the most pro:ninent of our pubilc men, who A according Lo fixed rules, ia the moat dis- ‘agreeabic to listen iv. The first impression of a siran- r listen: to Charles Sumner delivering one of 19. 60-caligd Orations is that of hearing an educated, Polished actor, but not an orator. Of course Massa- chusetts will not agree with us, but then we seidom agree with Massachusetts. Sermons, By Charies Wadsworth, Minister of Cal- vary Church, Sin Francisco, New York and Sao cisco: A, Roman & Co, We cannot too severely condemn those tnjudictous friends of ministers who advise, request anc petition for the publication of sermons which, however inte- resting and instructive at the time of delivery from the pulpit, are worth littie or nothing afterwards. Mr, Wadsworth’s sermons are no more thaa those delivered by numerous other preachers, aul they are certainly no beiter. We can readily tmagine that he possesses abilities of a high order; but we cannot see that In these sermons he las said any- Unng worthy of perpetuation. There is no pro fandity of reasoning, no originality of thought— nothing but the saine old ideas, preached weekiy in ditfereut words by several thousands of ministers throughout the world. Srupious Women, From the French of Monseigneur Dupanioup, bishop of Orleans. Trausiated by &. et age juston: Patrick Dogahoe, pub- 3. ‘This is a charming little work, full of thoughifal ideas and suggestious, and deserving of perusal by every woman in the land, The sex will discover ta ita pages how they can take a promment part in the aifuirs of life, win eartnly iminortaltty aud tatu. ence our civilizauon Without casting votes, becom- ing meinbers of legisiauve assembies or making jaws jor masculine liumanity. Porms. By Wiliam James McOlure. New York: P. O'Shea, The first line of “poetry” in this volume invokes the “Bright muse, of upward wing.” We regret to say-that the invocation is not tn favor of a rapid departure from these realms to others where the poct’s productions can be better appreciated than they are likely to be in Euroye or America, Puineas FINN, THE Iki MeMpexn. A novel. By Anthony Trolicpe. New Yors: Harper & Brothers, publishers, . It ts asomewhat diMecult task to assign Mr. Trol- lope to any particular station among writers of fiction, Reis certainly inferior to Dickens, Collins and Reade, and ts far superior to Mrs. Woods, Miss Braddon and the like, At the same time we can scarcely tmagme a position for him between these two chisses Of authors. ‘“Paineas Fou’ is a novel Whose perusal will awase aud while away a leisure hour, but will be forgotten the moment ft ta laid wstde, Phe story is interestiugly told, but lacks streogth im every particular, The plot is a mere thread, the characters are the commonplace, mean- jngiess, epiritiess beings we meet with every day without regarding them worthy of consideration. Tas BRAWNVILLE Papers—Betng Memorials of the Brawaville Athletic Club, Edited by Moses Coit ‘tyler, Professor of Bagiish Literature in Micuigau University. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Oo. ‘These papers are excellent reading matter. They were originally contributed to the Herald of Health, whose editor requested the author to “farnish for that periodical a series of articles on some leading aspects of te subject of paysical culture.” Pro- fessor Tyter tas performed his task admirably. The payers are written ina pleasant, bomorous wiyle, at the same Ume conveying to the sreader numerons jadicious and instractive ideas which cannot fail to aupiy repay @ perusal, Miscellaneous, We have received from 1. B. Peterson & Brothers. of Philadeipiua, their cheap reprints of Sir Walter ‘Tak Lapy’s Frrennp for April, published by Dea- con & Peterson, information re light literature, of Philadelphia, contains the latest ating to fasiiow and ts fuil of choiwe THE YEARLY BOOX TAADE SALE. ‘The trade sale at Clinton Hall, Astor place, begun on Tuesday, was yesterday resumed. Th attendance tn the morning was ratlier small, but greatly increased during the afternoon. Considera- ble “chafing” took place between the buyers and the anctioneer, whose lively sallies and quick repartees kept his auditors in a state of good humor and merriment. Booka, were rapidly disposed of in parcels and singly. The various invoices pre- sented a valuable array of works, in every branch of literature, from the best powee of Phila. dejphia, Boston and New York. y of them brought fair prices, others again went for a song, Among the lot’ sold were those of Hurd & Hough- ton, of New York, from the Riverside preas, Cain- bridge, of which the Charles Dickens, tilustrated by Craikshank, Phiz, Seymour, John Leech, D. Mac- lise, Stone and others, bound in cloth, 26 vols., fetched $36 40; the household edition by the same ublishers brougit $31 89. The Cooper novels, in 2 vols., from the same house, was knocked down at 20 80; Loring, of Boston; Andrew F. Gravea, of Bostoa; the Alien Brothers, of New York; Wiliam Hi, Til, Jr, of Boston; David G. Francis, of New York, also had invoices, which were disposed of. Little, Brown & Co. were represented by heavy invotces of well printed and well bound books, h met with a ready saic, The following aro w s of the works bearing their impriat which were disposed of:—Lite and Worka of John Adams, 10 vols, 8VO, Cloth, marked $20, brought $15; Ban- eroft’s History of the United States, 9 vols, Svo., cloth, brought $275 per volume, in sheep, $2 8); the British Poets, in 35 vols, bound in cloth, half calf or moroceo, brogght prices ranging trom 60 cents to $1 25 per volame. Edmund Burke's complete work®, in 12 vols, crown 8v¥o., clot fevehed $1 25, im half morocco, $1 70 per vor brought $2 25; Bias, ume; en Kpictetu fetohed $2 25; Hames History of England, in cloth, was sold for $1 25 per volume; the spec resident Johnson found a bayer for 20 cent Some of the books sold yesterday merited the ve wing ewlogies pronounced upen them by the vo- etferous auctioneer, Who for lungs and hyperboie might be safely backed against the famous Usorge Robbiae, Of anction renown, Wuo made al! bis money by knockiug things down. ‘VIRGINIA, Altercation Between a White Tan and a NegrosA General Row the Resnli—iotous uct of the NegrocsTwo Wounded, FRANKLIN, Souttampton County, March 30, 180% On Sunday afternoon an altercation occurred here between & White man and a negro, but ultimately well High resulted In a general mei¢e vetween the two races of which the two combatants wore the representatives. It appears thatthe white man was snecesaful in whipping his sable adversary, waich #0 enraged the blacks that they assembled tn strong force, uttering threats agatust the whit s ane arading the streets in a! and ntti after the jour of ten o'clock, and, indeed, all night. e arms dieebatged at random was one of the mores by whieh the blacks on the occasion endeavored to evince theit indignation and show the ‘white trash" their determination to fight. On Monday the darktes appeared in large numbers {a all the streets, threa! ening to renew the ff and about dark ¢ formed ma wi avd commenced frinw at ray dom, te the serious da ¢ of the lives of ever, body. A party of Whie moa then, numbering some fifteen or twenty, Advanced won the Degrues ane ordered them im a qntet Wut resolule mmanuer to desist trom tir.ng and disperse, as they were resis ed upon keeping order and protecting all classes of nh, Scott's “Count Robert of Paris,” “The Surgeon's Daughter,” “The Betrothed” and ‘Woodstock." ‘They are all neatly printed, in Ma go covers, although the type used is rather too smail for aay other than bright eyes. DRUPLE SHEET. for some ‘tao, but finding discretion the better part of valor finaliy dispersed, During the random firing ter two of ther own ace were wounded, he only casualties that occurred. The 2 of the Ogh THEATRICAL NOTES. Tue ou. sage of Niblo’s was again the scene the other gga! of one of those charming ‘‘realistic’’ effects Which are ROW 80 popular on the stage. One of the Female Porty, when returning to her humbie but comfortable home in Division street, heard alow Wall Lourne out on the cold night air, Sounding like the cry of a child tt naturally awakened her Womdnly sympathies, and seexing for the cause the ballet girl found a little infaut a few weeks old lylog naked ina partially filed aah barrel aud squatling and kicking } at the fast faliing snow which tt did'nt acem to retish. The Female Forty wrapped the little waif in her plain, but clean and comforta- ble shawi, took It home aud gorged Jt with milk from @ bottle, and the following night carried ber ready made family to Nibio’s, that [t might become fawil- farized with its furure vovation, There the assem- bied Forty formatiy adopted the uttie treasure trove and with .tie formidable poiuts of their tin swords ftashin; wowards ‘the ‘fics’? swore to cherish and protect It through thick aud thin, The baby was then laagched on the sea of life under the uname of Lydia Palmer Jarrett, omitting the usual ceremony of breaking Youle of champagne over its head. A contribution Was taken up for (te present wants. The Female Forty lave promised to support ft, and dogvtless the kind-hearted Amazous would do so, but 1u these hard times the mournful query arises, who wil! aup- portthe Female Forty? Here ts a fae opportunity forthe “"Kuights of the Golden Buck" or the Dra- matic Fund Association. As the latter has palpa- bly and painiully falied to take auy care of the iudt- gent autiqu.ties of the profession, suppose it rugaes to the other extreme and tries its ‘prentice hand oa au indigent infant. Miss Lydia Paimer Jarrett may or may not be the child of theatrical parents; that question is opey to some. discussion, being found deserted if aa asa barrel; but, in any event, the littie bamesake of Miss Thowpsou ana the gallant Palmer is mow a “pro- fessional” by adoption, and we insist that the Dra- matic Fuad mauagers shall prove their capaeckty to lake care of somebody besides themselves Uy taking care of Miss Lydia Palmer Jarrett, The new recruit ja a blonde 80 tar—partly ade, pariy bvald—aod has beeu eugaged by Mr, Palmer for the year 1889 to do leading business in an American piay. The Davenport brothers Lad a Sery session iast Friday pigut at Steamway Hall, The raiu kept con- scientious Christians who wear good clotues at home, and only a corporal’s guard of the assembied, ciotued in waterprovia and sce; Not since the turbulent night of the Leed's a on have these Davenport martyrs d by the anbelievers. Asa pretini ike @ seafaring man, luuset a6 Captain Judkins, of the Scotia, aad oferet to bet twenty-live Gollars that he could he “them “eye 80 they would not get out a3 iong as they lived.” Pols emphatic proposition was received wits loud approvation and siivuts of “Let Jud&u ue them;” but the presiding Fay did noi see it, ai wld Captain Jndkins, with some peverity, tb: aiter the performance he would taik to him. Tho mariner replaced nis quid aad money aud at down, but evidently weaning business he @vt a chauce at “them boys,” lwo uuddie aged, pully looking citizens, Who had been se! ed by .ot bo Ue the vroluers, proceeded to their duces. Mr. Fay, the agent, b Tanged the choosing of lis two emussaries with consainmate skUl. Tiley looked precisely like respectuvle citizens, such as wear Dlue sashes aud ride fat dray Morses at tue head of processions in civic ceiebrationa, But sull the scol- lers mocked the Solemnities and the voice of inquiry Wus raised and wauled to kuow “how wuch tleres the comuitiee ad la the gamey? A sarcastic sceptic made 4 Speeck protesting against the whole Jand denounced the two respectabie Jederates’ and = “humbugs.”’ A jy from Oregon—Senator Corbvett's wd bo his leet and oojected to tue word 3. This brought down and started @ orm of witstles, and cries for “Judkins,"’ wich Invoked Ue sp presence of two sturdy policemen, who are awa. prompUy ou hand when they ave not in the sligtteet degree needed. The voice wWiich first rulsc row by flouting the two “respectable citizeua’ w: angrily invited on the platiorm to Bee for ninsseil. Mis going up was as the going up of tat Sseripiaral baidhead, amid shouts of laugmter and merry Mockings; but he persevered and reached ths brothers and their bux. At tls point a pillosophi- cal deputy sherii, im & back seal, Warned the brothers ugaimst (00 much contact with the peop.e ou the platiorm, if they were not vaccinated, ‘Tue wing Volce, Which turned out to belong Ww an lu- elligent looktag but physically sight young ma: Witu atbura kair, was tuimuituons! the audience to tell vow be jomed the knots, “50 that anybody may antie them by @ wack” was the prompt sate This renewed the clamor and howling Letween the contending scepucs and Spirit ualisis, and amid the din an olive complexioued, jovking iellow—said to be a new % nd looked like one from whom better tI thing as a frac sui commanded by said, ickey, laughter [rom both -sides, which brougut to tus very large feet @ loug Spiritualist, with hollow cheek, suuken shallow eye and @ general appearance of seedy abstraction from the minor canons of cleanll- ness aod three meals per diem: He gazed on the launling tiroug aa sharply as bis very dull eyes would admit, and sepuicurally said, “it 1s time my friends, Uiat Missionaries of Our faith were depated to civilize the people of New York.” After which in- coutrovertivle proposition he ambled Leiiod @ irieadly screen in obedience to @ geutraily ex- pressed desire that he should walk of.” Mr. Fay, the agent, here became evraged beyond m2asure—dry measure—and Velhemevtiy or- dered the fattest and ieaat respectavie loo wg of the “two respectable citizens” to anno" <4 bale and address as a guarautee of redability. {> gave it blandiy as “Edward Robinson, Tventy-«econd sireet, New York." ‘he deputy sueri. the back seat, bere exclaimed, “cheese it, Ned," ever that may wean it completely extinguished dr. Kobinsou, who fell back gasping. A ruianly loox- ing mau ina white coat, who superinteuded most of the trouble on the side of the soeptien, and who had offered to back Captain Judkins, of the Scotts, for aby amount, here announced that Moses Grin- hell, the new Collector of the Port, was in the hail aud he would be box with the brothers. This proposition was hatied with delight, as Mr. Grinnell 1s as Cwsar's wife should have deen, avove suspicion; but alter @ considerable search the Collector coaid not be found, at which the rufianly looking man io Lie wulte coat laughed tn ajeering aud aggravatiug wauner, Which incited the sceptics to far- tier freak. of outrage. ‘ihe investigating commitice were driven from their dlty by imtunidattoa and de- rigive epithets, aud the Brothers hurried through their deceptions as rapidly ua possibie to escape a fepetition of the Levds expose, which seemed itm- minent at one time. We pave had about enough of these spiritual ropers in piaying fast and toose with us under the cloak of @ gion, such as 1b 18, aad woold actvise the brothers ty emigrate Lo the West and tuere embrace horsestealing fora livellhood. heir of getting out of Knotted rope wili ui¢ta to carry on that lucrative aad fasbion- mployment with comparative tmpuxity, yagh Judge Lyuch sometimes ties very hard ae Mr. and Mrs. Florence are enthusiastically awatted tn New Hiaven, Where they are to appear on we Ist of April ta two of their famous speciai ties. We rogret to atate that the reported {liness of Mr, han was at frst suppose 4 that that popular actor wil not be 8b.¢ to play for sowie time to come. Mry Wallack is being nursed by bis family at Lis Louse in Long Brauch. ‘the inevitable Zavitowskt 13 at Fox's Varteties in Philadeipiia, organizing the imeyitable “Pioral Ballets” for which ie is eminent. Manager Meas has come oat of the West like young Lochinvar and nas taken the Chestnut street tueatre in Philadelphia, He brings Wits hun many bovelues, among Walch. may be meatioued the “brebaus” and t “Qowbelogiaas” in the fekt of the cloth. rough all the wile border his play was the best, What are “Brebaus” and “Cowbelogians /"* ey have @ breesy and refreshing style of eriti- in New Urieaua. Mr, Cavanagh, as Minerva, in ts likened to Horace Greeiey's white b scieus Of all niugeums ts @ ciud Wiel aud from 4,000 to 4.000 Dativea around (hat persecuted explorer and martyred navigator When he met his deats, and each of them took a hack at lim, that their clubs might go down to posterity tn glass cases. girs. Scott-Siddous w: bird tm Cimernaate membered (hat to Oteabach whi resented with a mocking by aa adinirer, It will be re- ‘re Bateman sent & very fine bird Whistied several airs of “Barbe Bleue” with remarkabie securacy and melody, The lithe warvier never Whistied @ note after his arrival ia France, and the venerable gourmand and com- poser, Auber, suggefed to Ucenvach that the bird Was, duuotiess, not Aginging bird, but a specimen of the American ortoiaa, Wote should ve tmintdlatey fattened on rice dud catea, We trust such Wii not be the fate of Mra. siddons’ fearhered pet. Herne—not the hunter, but the basvand of Lacille Westeru~-is playing Rip Van Winkie tu Salt Lake ony “After Dark,” “A Flash of Lightoing” and “Oliver Twist" utay ve seen 1) Caicago. The Bucaio giris are ac fast jared out In fall force, With thelr Buialo beans, to gaze with rapture on the bewitching Hontatiti and the dasting Sontke ta the “back Crook." " Mr. Augttstus Waters, the “reatter,” has penetrated far aa Buialo, where he divides the jiack Crook.) Jt 1s an thotgh, in wich Me, Waters gete wha won't have ft fa anu® pantomime ts to be intro duced at Wood's called “Rovinsow Crusoe,” and in | which everyting, tneluding scenery, music, cos. ) Company, sluge Manager, wicks and J one ago. T story, » w to be “Engiisn,” and consequentiy mica superior W anyiuing wiich can possibly be done tn tuls “blarated country.” We presnme also, to carry ous (>¢ british tdea with Deauiilu: harmony and consistency, @ free list wit be entirely Eng- ish, the British flag ‘Se hoisted over tie buliding, and, in short, the bot: bo lwken boldly by the horns the Amertean eazl@ wate to bite 118 claws and > his bald head tn verw{ten and shame. It ts athing, though, to hear thas vreenbacks will be taken at the door and ali Ainer!Saiis, d “ven Irlah, Who can pay their way to occupy will be alowed any svais they may sel The stuging plisr Mr. Net! Bryant, better know? as the £ari of Dunia, has been prosirated by diph- theria, the fell tena whose poisonous land 13 ever ac Lhe throat of out 19 now reeovered and in- triously reviving “Oid Times, Rocks,” iss Edith Challis, one of the Cleverest and most popular of the Londca actresses in our raidst, has been engaged by the management o/ the Wwaiuus street theatre, Puilad: 1a, and commenced there on Monday night. The Mau Pisa ts getting along swimmingly tn St. Louis. ‘he brave men and fair women of St. Loula ait spellbound under the witcheries of the Worretl Sis- ters in ‘La Beile i » We regret to sce that the laters have recently swelled the the theat- ricai card writers and flout a, ewart for the vile condition of his property kuown aa the New York theatre. The management of the establish- ment, and not tle owuer of the aponsible for tue filth and geaer interior while they heid possession, leure, Mr. Palmer and Mr, Wallack ai with the neatness anu cleanliness of lease. Miss Charlotte Thompson Nas «decided to rest awhtie from the labors of cotton raistng on her plan- tation in Alabama, and for recreation has epred an invitation to play an engagement at MeCullough & Barrett's California theatre. Ben Cotton, the minstrel, has gravitated back to California, where he was once the idol of the fun- loving, care-killfog Sau Franciscans, Auber, at the age of eighty-five, haa numor enougu leltin him to write comic operas, and haa Just put the tuishing touches to 4 sviv one, “K. G. BY stands for Knighis of the Golden Buck,” @ very ancient and honvrable hiscrionic as- sociation, founded by One Giles Burbage, 3 follower of the Earl of Leicester im 1574. “Garr.cs aud Edmued Kean were members in excellent standidgy, and Doctor Jounson was the only member ever elected outside of the proreasion.”’ Mr. Browne 13 the head of the guiid in tus country, and arnou the Tew Ameriau uicibers are Jeoms Pipes an Mr. McKean Buchanan. fhe objectof the order is the laculeation of morality first, aud, second, Welsh rarebits, as & mora!, Mubritious and economical food for the World at large. ‘Ihe society Ls not a scezes on, and holds annual meetings 1a London and New York, although vu! few members attix the initials to which they are entitled to their sigaacur A reckiess lion in Brussels bit of the arm of his keeper, in dedlance of the good exampie of the Scrip- tura! lions. The War of the Roses. Miss Lydia Thompson is said to have received the greatest profusion oj cusuy floral offerings tendered to auy ai excepting the pyramids and moun! laid at the Meet of Miss !el on her benedt nignt Fanny Kembie played first im Boston thirty-six She was (hen just twenty-oge. ver, though. in his eighty-it: year, rees works hard, and tp the afternoon drives a last MASSACHUSETTS. The Corruption in the Stato Le Arrangements for the Suznnuer Kail and Steamboat Between Loston New York—The New Pablishing Office of the Bosion Post. Boston, March 21, 1369, The charges recen made oy } sow les, Springtield, of corruption in Siate Legislat volying the pure 4 of the ind members on certain measures and br: has had the effect to cause con: ness upon the part of some characters for integrity and tofore been above reproach. broad and repeated charges aad when the matter considered or feared by th lusinuated his willtugiess & alleged. The charges were, ¢: lation for and against ¢. procured by the use of ino: lobbyists, aud he even went so far ¢ particular cases, the amount paid for this and that, and also to furnish the names of the lobby members employed to maurpulate the votes for or against various bills. A Mr. Needham, a Midd) tor, was the first to take notice of the charges made by the Springfield Repwhlican, aud through a move ment made by him avomuittes of invesiigation lat been appoluted, and that commuttee hus, of cour been empowered to send for persons Upon whe first meeting of ine comuut 4 apparent that the charges of corrupt: were not entirely groundiess, and a3 the characters of certain nen Were threatened with au- mihuation the doors were closed to the reporters. Otner meetings have also been subsequently b a secret, and the developments promise vo he 80 nue rous 4nd astounding that the hearing will be con tiuued throug the recess of the Legisiature; but to slield from public contempt the hypocrisical legis lators who were susceptible to the intiuence of green- backs, no facilities will be afforded the press for re cording the disclosures. La view of this duparaileled action of a commiitee charged with lovestigatiug the public conduct of. public men it is gafe to pre- me that the corruption of the New York and Penn- of those whose Mi. fn his syivegia atures would dwindle uito compara. tive inaignificance If placed beside the probable history of Massachusetts legisiation which will be brougat out in the secret sessions of this committee. ‘The coming summer prouises to bring with it a thorough revolution in the travelling facilities be- tween Boston and New York. There will probably be uo reduction ta the preseut fares, for the compa- Dies managing the various steamboat lines between here and the metropolis got enough of the dollar farea year ago. The tmprovement, however, will consist of additional factlities both by rail aud boat. The Narraganset Steamboat Compaay, wich run what was Known as the Bristol line of boats last Sumwer, has abandoned the Briatoi terminus, and will in @ few days commence running from Fall River, toughing at Newport. This company has also conciudea to-day the purchase of the steamers New- port, Old Colony and City of Lawrence, of the vid Newport 2, for $1,000,000, and these three steamers will be run by the Narra- Company in connection with their large new steamers, the Bristol and Providence, The present intention Is to have the last named boats jorm the uight line between Fali River and New York, connecting to Boston with the Old Coluny Railroad, aad uae the Newport aud Vid Colony for s day and Sunday iine, thas affording facilities for Sabvath and day travel on che Sound which have never veen enjoyed by either New York or Bosiwou. fhis latter arrangement wilt of course ve ¢ aed tw summer, and in the winter the boats will take the place of the Pro’ ce and Bristol on the night runs. Another new arrangetent in the steamboat travel between the two cities will take edect on tue Norwich line oo Thursday next. The Boston, Hart- ford and Bre Ratiroad Company, having ently leased the Norwich and Worcester road, will heres alter seud their steainboat passengers from New York into Boston over the Erie road insead of over the Boston and Albany road as heretofore. Miscover- ing the prosvective rivalry ta the passe between the two cities the various raliroad com mies forcing the New York and Boston e<press line are arranging for a fast day train, whtch ic is calen- lated will zo over the entire distance of rales ia about seven hours—periapa lest. it will tes ” t noon, and arrive at its term wengers to partake of present and the rm the great ¢ the workt. There will be tare and one day steamboat line, #ix trains and one Sunday day boat route a Ay Higie traiMs, 3 possible that all these . eompeced Neptune boat lime, waich wiil run from . Greene, & Co., proprietor Boston Post, have just had coupieted for th bess one Of te largest dl most impos extifices in Boston, [t is located on the Devonshire and Water streets and is diate vicinity of Where the new l’ost erscted, and witat is dostined to be business centre of the city. The intertor arrangements are far ahead of those of any other newspaper office in #oston, aud they arc modeiled, as near as possivie, after those of the New YorK Hegacp establishment, ‘The Post, as ta well Known ts the standard demo. cratic paper of New fngiand, and for ability and enterprise tts circulation and the monument just coinpieted on Devonsiire street are ample evidences, Colonel Greene, Who liad passed the three score and tea allowed to mortals, U/l. wields as Vigorous @ pen ag ever, and in his son Nat, the working and managing editor, there 18 inore frst class news aper abitity than tu gue-lalf the other Boston journausts comb.neds dese LABOA MOVEMENT. Private Coachmaws United Benevoleat Boe ciety. The board of officers of this soc'ety « lowing a9 @ Correct statement of Lue prope soclety:— Money tn bank... One box, Falued at... .. . One ballot box and belivts... Une seal, One die. Baciges.... Total,. seeeeee eb hod CHICKEN CHOLERA IN MARYLAND.~This disease Alls to an alarming extent in our county. The " kens have died of it, and many persoas A wreat ina check sn if entire broods. to by Way ot reme- this consegivully wade 0% of thé country than was diet (ahd, Medoeryer. ver ka