The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1869, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY APRIL 5, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. ee a rm mmm nan ue ne a enn No, the facts; if he who 1s to bo SUBURBAN OUR WHARVES AND PIERS. | {0 aneayant tym. met,| . COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Seeiroyed ho vesine ho! work ay impugn ts ——- ESTELLE. ya eaatrresesent credit of his rival in the New York market, and 3 ie arse RO Wyesent Laws on the Subject and Amend- se -taverpoal, Williams & Guion A Modern Inquisition—The Commercial Agent | itn sate over in conn: pole ge pg ed ——_ is hereby called to the following NEW JERSEY. ments Required—Rates of Wharfage—Nes- $—Cornwali fe iad Bona and the Thumbecrew Relatively cae gun. Yet information, or something 80 called, ho enumerated obstractions existing in Fifth avenue. en vi In is in ie’ fects im Repairs and Dredging—Tabular prt ‘ani coat Company ered-Orgauization of the Commerc’ York — a oo ma the of | This avenue is the driving thoronghfare of the me- Jersey City. Statement Showing How Our Wharves and o1— Piers axe Used aud Who Have the Use of nae. ons 10 00d 61 to 53--Oyster house rete in fins pier Them. a Sue by hay barges.... -mxcesire pony e838. + 7 chusive Ithas become ® matter of great difeulty In com- | F357 ature bui ice barges. -Exclusive ead, 65 ie ae Ln} a Zonmenses street—Filled structures, lumber, iron and heavy. Materials stored thereon....,......-... Exclusive EAST RIVER PIERS, wbarverare assigned, by acisof the kepalatune ten ) by acts of the Legislature, ten months in each year to the exclusive use of canal boats and barges, or, more properly speaking, to the exclusive use Of canal forwarders. The wharves aro maintained by the collection of wharfage, estab- lished in the year 1813. ‘There are several grain and aay barges located upon them. The owners con- sidor the law very oppressive and unjust, giving tle exclusive use of their property to corporaitons and firms without their consent and without their receiv- ing an adequate compensation to keep their wharves and picrs in good condition:— No. By Whom Used. 10—Shipping.. 1i—Shipping.... Pr 12—briggs’ Piiladeiphia line. Bequence of the scarcity of wharf room for vessels Rot connected with a regular line of transportation Raving the exclusive use of @ wharf to find the ne- cessary accommodation for receiving and discharging cargoes. On the North river, from pler No. 1 to the foot of Fourteenth street, the water front 15 almost entirely and exclustvely used by steam lines, ferries, depots, stationary barges, oyster houses moored in slips, and the bulkheads occupied by buildings or used for the storage of lumber, wood and heavy materials, to the exclusion of vessels seeking berths. Many of the piers are covered with sheds and gates interposed to deter persons from going upon them, ‘all of which {s at variunce with the present laws of this State relating to the wharves and piers of this city. Ittsan indisputable fact, however, that the Tow Used. laws of the Siate in reference to the occupancy and yal eeiord line Exclasive anaes Sontrol of our wharves and piers require great | 57 Wsinington steamers. ‘Exclusive alteration, Most of the statutes now in force were enacted many years ago, and are not at all adapied to meet the present requirements of commerce, In the first place it Is very essential that steam lines ar- riving at and departing from a wharf at a certain stated time should have such necessary protection and accommodation as woult enable them to do #0, Without which the advantazes of steam would be useless, Agatn, there are certain articles of mer- chandise perisabie in their nature, as ice, for in- stance, that cannot be stored, and must be sent upon their arriva: immediately to the consumer, without which the price would be greatly increased and the supply materially totericred with. Such artloles re- quire & depot exclusively for their use. The principal reason of the great want of wharf accommodations for large sailing ships, vessels en- gaged in the coast trade, and the many thousand smaller craft, barges, &c., that make short trips to to this city, is, Lust they require berths at wharves Maintained by tue collection of the legal rates of Wharfage passed in) ue year 1813, and which in 1860 were slighiiy, though uot materially, amended, ‘The g@mendment only slightly increase a the wharfage on large vesseis and decreased the wharfage on vessels under fiity tous iucasusement. The wharfage on a1 boats, burges aud lighters remained as before. ‘ne rates of whariage passed in the year 1813 com- Boia ail vesseis wader iifty tons measurement to i ié—Savannah steamers. 2s-—phipping, part 2A—Glencove, Harlem. 25—Hartford and Ni 26—Hartford and Greenport. 27—Shipping.. 36—Snipping Sig Denny, 2 01 shipping, part... 38—Portland steamers. Wharfage 39—Screw dock and shi Wharfage 39 to 44—Occupied by wy barges, a few berths at Pike street... Exclusive Wharlage Wharlage Wharfage 52—Buikhead, three dry docks, 53—Lumber stored... y fifty cems per duy. The act of 1500 was drawao yy those parties wuose wharves were mainiy occu- peat by the larger class of vessels, and to simplify he act the rate was siated at one cent per ton upon @ll vessels under 200 tons, ‘The wharves that are pee used by Vessels under ufty tons receive les8 compensation than was given by tbe act arge: 60—Elevator, brickyard, 61—Street and manure, Of 1813, Tie oniy ieasibie method of collecting | ©; Shipping, Stanton street Wharfage wharlage is by tue Gustota House measurement of | ,Ab0Ve pier 62 there is no rive eet. ‘the tho vessel, and it nas always been collected. In | Water front is exclusive to the foot of Fourteenth sireet, East river, except part of the pier foot of sed a law to Yemeasure ali vessels | Pith street. ud, Which reduced the measure- 2 deck vessels at least one-wiird, ced the whariaze in tle sawe els (on about one-half thei carry log capacity; as, ior instance, vessels mm the brick trade bow average fiom tnrty to forty tons register, though tuey carry Goubie that weight of brick. ‘they re rrldoim more than oue day discharging, and almost always pile tue brick upon the wharf or pter, and the owner of (he what has no practicabie ower to prevent ft. He receives some thirty or jorty cents ior tac use and injury of lis property and tue Owner Of Lue brick has lorty-eight hours to cart them off, wi'hout paying anything ior the use of the Wharf or pier. A coal Large measures on an aver- Qge about 110 tons, Her average weight of cargo is ubout 240 tons of coal. The wharfage, as estap- 1864 Congress by a ditierent ment of aii si aud of course 1 Fatio. ‘These ve BROOKLYN INTELLIGCYCK. Poutloy.—Christopher P. Kipp and James Carberry were arrested by officers Bowers and Pine, of the Forty-fourti preciuct, on a charge of selling policy tickets at No, 4433¢ Hudson avenue on Saturday evening. The accused were locked up to answer. THe MUTILATED BoDy OF AN INFANT Founp.—The mutilatea remains of an infant were found yester- day afternoon on the dock at the foot of Pear! street. Very littie remained but tho heaa and legs, most of the body, from appearance, having been eaten by lished by tue act of 1813, is seventy-five | dock rats. It was impossible to tell whether the cents per «uy, the average time of unioad- | child had been abandoned alive and perished from wg bemg tirce days, and her whariage or cae or whether its body, dead, had been drop- $2 25. ‘The sievedore tuat discharges the barge re- there. What remained of it was tagen to the elves about forty aujlars—tuat 1s, from sixteen to eighteen cents per toor coal. He affixes a derrick $o a pie on the pier and hoists out the coal with a horse, whose cousiant tread soon wears through the farted while the derrick, acting as a lever, ns and materially injures the structure of the ‘wharf, for which ue pays notuing whatever. A fair estimate of the compensation necessary to make the mjury done to a pier by the holsung and ing of &@ cargo Of coal is at least ten dollars, Frequently great pies of iron, lumber or other neavy Materials are thrown upon a pier, endangering the Structure and some.imes breaking it down, for ‘which the compensation is scarcely worth the trouble Forty-second precinct station house and handed over to Coroner Jones. ACCIDENT TO A JUSTICE OF THE PSACE.—Justice Rlely, of the Third District Court, was severely in- Jured yesterday afternoon. He was in the act of stepping into a light wagon, which was standing at the corner of rtle avenue and Adel; eh sees 6 wheel. jorse started oif suddenly, fypowias mr. Riely to the ground with coneiacrabie force, sprain- ing his leit ankle and bruising him about the head and face. The Justice was taken to his residence, in that vicinity. Of coli it canuot be denied that the owners of wharf property liave just cause to complain of the SHOOTING AFFRAY IN 4 BARROOM.—Shortly after all ther madeyuate com] tion authorized by | five o’clock last evening three sailors entered the the ws of the Sisie for the use and maintenance the wharves and viers occupied by vessels paying @ legal rates of Wiarfage. Can it then be other- ‘wise that tuose wharves aud piers are gene: rr Buch an impaired cundition tuat there should be a want of wuarf accommodation for the positively needed requirements of commerce, when the in- creased expense of maintaining the wharves and jer’ in good condition and repair in uence the advanced price of lavor aud materials is con- red? There are very few ae the se or barroom of Daniel Galvin, No. 162 Furman street, and, after partaking of some liquor there, an alter- cation occurred, when the proprietor, Galvin, drew @ pistol and fired several times, as alleged, shooting gue of the , named William Campbell, in the right hand. Gaivin was arrested by an officer of the Forty-first precinct and locked up.to await exami- nation on charge of felonious assault. The ball was extracted from the wound ne Surgeon Cochran, and Campbell was sent to the City Hospital. A POLICEMAN FINED FOR ASSAULTING A BROTHER Ovricer.—Oficer George F. Tallman became pain- fully convinced on Saturday afternoon of the pugi- Itstic abilities of his brother ofMfcer, Edwin Van Geison. Both men are attached to the Forty-ninth ee and live opposite to each other. On Satur- jay afternoon Van Geison had a dispute with h's cuit now for vessels of any get the course of which, it is ail he t in many of the slips at high water. ‘The cause of | ned to sever the brittle thread by wnich she waa this is the want of the | held to this mundane sphere. From his singular oper legislation aod proper eniorcement of the laws on this subject, , m4 AccumUsuon of silc irom the sewers of city fills the slipsrapidly. The general occupaticy of thé bulkheads by permanent and floating struc- : permanent, pia ge of de; itor heavy “ind eum ry mut piace of deposi cum- brous matertais, the owners of the wharves receiv- demonstrations she f there might be more truth than poetry in his threats, and therefore fled from the domicile, see! ——— at the habitation of om- cer Tallman. ‘an Geison was mad before his rage was doubled at the action of his wife, and he Tan after her with both fists clenched. Tallman met bim at the door and told him he could not come ing from them a iar greater compensation than they | in. ‘Then Geison pummelied him severely, blackit would if occupied by vessels paying w engl | tiie eyes and bruising fim about bis head and ince the saving of tne great expense of dredging, ore tte | omicer Smith arrested Van Gelson and took him before Tee paavion ecet br 3e remedied if ego on | Justice Lynch, when he was fined five dollars for jutred the silt or mud credged from ‘out of aslip to | *s##ult and battery. deposited under the discretionary Harbor Comuissioners, under the penalty of a heavy tine. Previous to the passage of this act the scow upon receiving the matter excavated by the ‘A SPIRITUAL COMMOTION IN MAINE, Raid of the Unbellevere—A Rival Mediam and dredging machine was drawn by means of a rope a Riotous Assembinge. tna dco ect eet ef | prom tne Rennewee Nepahican ures, Ap 1) mad was dropped tuto the stream, to be carried a a eee” aes ceva ot te ae by the tide. ‘The j Tice patd then was sixteen cents | DOVE our office, After the war of velocipedes Ber, yard. If slips were di how in the same janner the price would be about twenty cents. After the passage of the act, in consequence was over and in the ratification of the treaty of peace that followed, it was stipulated between the high Eby 3 pee that no like noisy demonstrations should in of the Harbor Cowimissioners, ordering the to ure be perinitied. The landlord assured us that the hall been let to the spirits, whose of the mud scows some distance from the city, the Visttations would be particularly cl eee rice Was from tweaty-flve to thirty cents t |. They have recently issued an order that the nud dredged from tue slips must be deposited above hugh water wark, wiich would require the scows to ‘be unloaded by shoveling or by some other contriv- ance, to be put in a vebicie to conveyed and de- Papo apon sone ground dificult if not impossible a —— nN log. Last week we were absent, and returned on Saturday evening to find a high state of excitement rvading @ portion of the community. Miss Laura . Ellis, @ young lady of about elglteen yeara, of very prepossessing appearance, accompanied by her father, gavea series of ‘ manifestations” on Wednes- day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Tue feats to be performed were thus announced :— The girl will be bound, neck, wrists and ankles, in a man- ner wherein she cannot release herself. Her wrists will be tied behind her back and thea tied to ® solld iron ring, her neck securely fastened to the back of the cabinet, her ankles tied and fastened to the floor; and while in this helpless condition musical instruments will be played upon, furnishing good music; knots tied and untied in all muster of forma about "her person. Mr. Elis, | the father of this Indy, | will pay Your comiuittcs release "this girl from the cords with which she ts bound without eutting or up 6 knots. Bill, some of these manifestations will be done in one second. 'A stick, two feat long, will be thrown thirty feet from the cabinet di drum will be beat in aecientibo manner, a tamborine pi ‘a Ginger ring, placed in the giri’s lap, will fact, tue order renders the dredging out ips nearly an impossibility. Thougu the laws of the State empower the Harbor Commuission- ers to compel the owxers of the slips to dredge them out, they throw every obstacle and impediment in the way of its being done. There ts no law of this fate relating to the wharves and piers of this ety, except very old, vague and inappiicabie one, enforeng the payticnt of Whariage, thar gives the least procection or consideration to the owners Of the wharves and picrs of Uhis city. Naturally tae whart owners seek to let or lease thelr property to some steamship or transportation company who ‘Will pay thew a fair rent and keep and use tiie wharf exclusively, The reason why the public wharves and piers are not in better Condition Is that the slips are tilied with mud and that they are becoming gradually and exciusively used (the laws to the con- trary notwithstanding), to the exclusion of sailin, ‘vessels, barges and (ransient Craits who seek whi accommodations to load or unload their cargoes and Bay = same in accordance with the legal rates, whartage. Wo give below a tabular statement of the various wharves aud piers of the city, Ci | such as are used exclusively and those maintained by the col , bells run, ke, bé put on either of ‘or thumbs, that the audience are pleased to men- her tion ; likewise in hor ear, mouth, or on the end of her. nose. eo ‘with which these things are done astonishes the jor. These things were all done for three nights, in presence of crowded houses, and apparently to tho satisfaction of all. Meantime an organization of the ee had been perfected. One of the number hi practiced the same feats, and claimed to have performed them as well as the girl had done. On Saturday night they mustered Jection of whurfage, a8 also the names of the steam- | in force for a demonstration. They offered boat Companion, 4 Cbg} Kad of them:— Mr. Enis trenty.five dollars for jue peivilege of 4 opening the cabinet the performances, at any No. By Wien Used. How Used. | time they “pleased. Thiscotfer was accepted, and 1—Camden anil AMVOY.... ++. +-.+00+ + Exclusive Captain aries Baker, who suddenly opened the 4#—Uniton Transportahon Company. -Exciusive | door while the drum was playing, claimed that he 3—Lremen steamers. -Exclusive | saw her hands taken from the instrument. After 4—Havaua steamers. Exclusive | some discussion, the disposal of the money was re- 6—Charleston steamers... +++ Exclusive | ferred to the audience, who voted it to the irl, only 6—Sheded.......6 26. -Bxclusive | three dissenting. ‘The investigators and skeptics 7—Baltimore Canal tine... -£xclusive | then, through Captain Baker, pronounced the whole 8—Charlesion steamers - Exclusive formance ® humbug, and announced that they 9—New Urieans siewmers - Exclusive would take possession of the machinery, and that 10—Swiltsure Trausportation Company.... Exclusive | Captain Baker would himself throug the same 11—Metropolitaa steamers... -Exciusive | performances. Mr. Ellis said they could not use hia 12--New Orleans steamers, -Exclusive } machinery. They offered to hire the hall and the cabinet, hut the proprietor of the hall said Mr. Elli nad hired it, and it was solely at his disposal. Some of the spectators deciared for the exhibitor and some for the skeptics, There was an attempt to take possession of the cabinet by force, and things 13—Savannah steamers..... 14—Elizabetiiport steamers. 16—New Jersey Central Ratlroad 16—New Jersey ‘iransportation Company. 17—Jersey City Ferry and Express 1s—Jersey © ferry.. looked pretty he gd for a time. siand I Better counsels, however, prevailed, and it was 20--Anchor line, G W sven s announced that an adjournment would be had to 20 Lo 26—Sheds ior of produce... Pierce’s Hall, where a free entertainment of the same Ft aad and Newark, character would be given. So down stairs swept the 27—Boston and Providenc skeptics, followed by the crowd, and streamed into 28—Fall Kiver ..... the other ball. A cabinet was got up for the occa- sion with @ shawl for @ door into which the rival former, bound with ropes by a commit ut. ere he bloomed out into a first class jum. He 32—Northern Rellroad, Rari mores the drum, thumped the tamborise, put rin; See and oa x +] ~ fingers a elton i tong, poe sticks on 34—New burg and ha of she the per- 35—Pougikeepaie formances of Miss Ellis, With unbounded applause. 86—New Orleans and Havens, sae ‘A crowd then Bison Seay Ma see ce a saci ac ay jen. Th yas of mo! it 89—Grain barges, New London, went to Alm with the ge that he would dealt wn! 40—All ul Pro’ Sohne tear 42—Caliiornia steamers. Lee, woodyard, Agency~Reminiscences of the Cureer of Jemmy Yardstick—Splendid Opportunities for the Levying of Biackmat!, The Yankee is an originative animal, also a trifle inquisitive, not to say inquisitorial. Had the Yankee had the handilng of affairs in old Spain in the days of the Inquisition there would have been no need of that rather peculiar engme for obtaining informa- tion, Halfa dozen Yankees, with headquarters at Madrid, would have found out all the Pope wanted, and more, too, without disagreeable resort to dun- geon, rack or thumbscrew. Proof of the truth of this proposition is found in the commercia! inquisl- tion which, having its headquarters in New York, professes to be aw sait as to the affairs of every frm from Maine to California and from Hudson's Bay to Panama—a gigantic system of espionage, having its secret agents in every city and village in the United States and Dominion of Canada. JEMMY YARDSTICK SETS UP IN BUSINES The carly history of the commercial inquist- tion forms a splendid tilustration of great re- sults from small beginnings, It is now twenty- five years or thereabouts since Jemmy Yard- stick—so called from being a representative of the mathematical definition of a line, viz.: length without breadth—origmatcd the first of those institutions, peculiarly American, Known as com- mercial agencies. Mr. Yardstick succeeded so ad- murably and found the business of prying into other People’s affairs so excellently adapted to his pecu- ltar tastes thathe went on and founded the great bureau of secret information, reliable and other- wiee, known as the firm of Jemmy Yardstick & Son. The name appears in gold letters, quite appropriate- ly painted upon a black ground, upon the second story of a marble front on Broadway; for Mr. Yard- stick, in the course of time, waxed wealthy, and concluded to leave the dozy old kennel in cob- webbed Nassau street, where he first opened his office, to the book worms, worms of the law and other genera of worms, which now inhabit its crooked length, AND IS EMULATED BY OTMERS IN THE SECRET SERVICE, But Mr. Yardstick was not long permitted to enjoy the apple of his originality alone, having taken out no patent for his peculiar process of prying into matters which ought not to have concerned him. In due season other Yankees, or human lynxes, betook themselves to the business in which Mr, Yardstick had succeeded so well, and to succeed in which he was so eminently quaitfled both by instinct and peculiar culture. The organization of a second firm was effected, under the name of Dunn, Brown & Co., which, it must be admitted, was very appro- priate, as everybody was done brown who had the want of good sense to put any confidence in their information. Theso latter also, like the origirfal Yardstick, were believers in the great principle that to succeed @ man must act ag his own trumpeter, aud did s9, greatiy to the dissatisfaction of Mr. Yardstick, who peppered them with lampoons and small pamphiets and paragraphs, as a printer pep- pers a “take” with superfluous commas, All to no purpose. ‘rhe more Messrs. Yardstick & Son lampooned the better Messrs. Dunn, Brown & Co, succeeded in the business of doing their cus- tomers brown, and the more customers to be done brown they had; and, at last, Mr. Yardstick de- sisted, sagely concluding that every pamphieted lampoon he troubied Limself to hurl at the heads of Dunn, Brown & Oo. was equal to @ columnin an evening daily, and that, for that matter, he could illy aiford to spend money for the gratuitous adver- tising of other firms than his own. For many mouths, therefore, the two firms divided the protita of Mr. Yardstick’s discovery, based upon the prin- ciple that people will pay you more liberally for tell- ing them about other people's concerns than ‘or at- tending to their own, and nibbied os ike Dice, at private matters which were mouet of their business— waxing impo! env impertinent at last, and em- ploying o corps of professional g.bbiers, known Eedommercia! reporters. These laiter were not long in learning that heads of firms are willing to pay iberally for reputations in commercial c! from being taken care of by Messrs. Yard- stick & Son or Dunn, Brown & Co, at small salaries, fan to take care of themselves pocketing the pickings and plums of the profession, and othing saying n bout it, as their employers had done in the days when pickings and plums constituted their visible means of support. Of course this ought not to be styled blackmail or levying thereof—for, if a firm wishes a commercial reputation and is willing to pay forit, thereis no reason why the confidential agent of Yardstick & Son should not supply the erti- cle wanted, hav it for sale, and et the pro- ceeds. Only tirma in want of reputations for sound- ness may be advised not to pay too liberally for the reputations in which Messrs. Yardstick & Son are doing a retail business, as the articie sold as auchen- tic is of no great value in respectable commercial But again, the profits of Mr. Yardsticy « valuable discovery had to be divided, and the gr 4 firm of McKillem &,Plague announced that it W as to furnish commercial reputations to order sad at prices to suit customers. It being easier for Many firms to bi reputations than to make them, besides being less attended with the necessity for honest dealing, and the terms of the firm being very flexible, McKillem & Plague prospered wonderfully, and now rank with their elders in the multitude of their customers, Others have started since, but, wanting the peculiar fitness for the business which distin, Mr. Yardstick and his com, have fatied to attract patrons, and have beea compelled to betake themselves to more honorable means of ¢ @ subsistence—in which, had their example been followed by their more success!ui competitors, the —_ woul lost very little, gaining a great deal. In fact, only one more firm, rejoicing in the ak py) name of Hurt, Gallows & Co., has as yet gained a foothold, have DETAILS OF THE SYSTEM, The information dispensed by these retail dealers in commercial reputations 1s collected by various means. Onc leading firm prefers to employ lawyers, and in every village has as tts agent the village prac- titioner, who, bemg au Sait the aduirs of bis clients, is supposed to be inost petent authority as to their Guancial standing. Having no interest in the affairs of the central agency beyond what he can make out of it by book or by crook, the agent takes no trouble to collect Iniormation, merely jotting down impressions hastily formed and trans- Mitiing them ag accurate data. Of his friends he takes care, of course; but let the store at which he trades, as the country phrase 18, once refuse him a long credit and the proprietor is doomed to the loss of reputation in the New York market. Or worse, the agent visits the nead of the firm and presents his credentials, usinuating that It would give him pleasure to make himself of advantage to it for a cousiderativn, aud thus turns the institution be rep- resents into @ Veliicie for levying blackmail, Thas one of these results generally ioliows is obvious from the nature of the case. The agen’ has no inter- eat in taking the trouble to secure curave informa- tion; he has an interest in making all he can out of the advantages afforded him, It is not loug since the writer had opportunity of proving the trath of these allegations irom inspection of the books of a leading f In a single manufacturing town in New bogland one firm which had fatled four weeks before was rated safe, While another firm of heavy Capital aud managed by able business men was rated below halt a dozen other firms which could hardly be accounted solvent. In the town tested there were thirteen manufacto- rics in all, and o more absurd jumbie of error than was represented by their rating was never exnibited ander the preicace of accurate in formation. The agent, who was, or ought to lave been, responsibie for the information, was also per- sonally known to the writer, and took no further troubie in the matter than to return by mail hia im- pressions in the matter, without even the ceremony of inquiring to assure himself of their correctness. The above is only one case in a hundred thousand, probably, and is mentioned only a9 & case which came ander the writer's personal notice. in fact, the agent is generally unacquainted with the heads of the agency lie represents, aud cares not a straw for their interests, #0 long as his personal ends can be subserved. ‘The iegal agent 18 liberally remune- rated wit promises by the firm, of which Iie is the accredited correspondent. His name 1s placed upon the books. and the firm promises to recommend him as @ coliector in case any city customer of theirs should need the services of a collector in his vicinity. This i the substance of the terms of the compact when the agent employed is a lawyer. One of the turee or four firms mentioned employs business men in preference. The system is to have several agents in every city and town. For reports in the dry goods business a person engaged ta that trade is empioyed; for reports of other lines of busi- ness an expert in the line to be reported is writtes to and becomes the correspondent of the central agency. Insmaller towns, where no extensive trade 4s carried on, it is customary to recetve reports from bankers who are supposed to be av fait as to bank d therefore competent authority. ‘This OS even more dangerous than it affords men in any line of business portunities to destroy the credit jew York market, and that, too, slightest liability to action for libel. The intormation imparted is confldential—strictiy so and no way of redress is open except that of horse. wi the agent in question, which, however, in no mendes the broken Vessel of credit; and esp fay can, us bata engunge roars cap! pay usiness lang ug depletion of stock and final failare results. system evidently carries with it every pre- dle: cause for inaccui of information. If the has no to subserve he con- iSerae rede Sait ne ohne gens of the hour, ‘which may of say not be well founded, gratines ty if any wing Yo pay Iiberally for Sane Class ratypg he rates it regardless of which are aware, if they have any common sense knowledge of human nature in their craniums, of its utter unreltabiliity end of its absolute Ubelousnesa in @ majority of cases. Of loftier pretence. fuifiied im manner more beggarly the annals of business Burnumisin atiord no example. Even the quackery of the quack doctor is tnnocent coinpared with the workings of this oes engine of misrepresentation and “wu- endo, Which assassinates commercial reputations 10 secret, leaving no aveaue of redress to the injured party. Ncbody—neither agency nor agent—la re- spousible for thaccuracy of lulormation; aud yet a couple of rms (A, T. Stewart and i. B, Claflin é& Co.) pay $4,000 @ year each for information thus collected aud thus irresponsible. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION, A visit to the spacious and mauy-desked rooms of Jemmy Yardstick & Son, or of Dunn, Brown & Co., or of McKillem & Plague, or of Hurt, Gallows & Co., resulta iu about the same budget of memoranda. All issue a regular weekly sheet, strictly condden- tial, and a regular semi-yearly almanac of commer- cial ratings. Pouderous tomes line the walls at in- tervals; multitudinous , pigeonholes are suuffed with documents purporting to represent com- 5 busy bees of clerks to and fro, and now and then drops in a seedy city agent with & valuable item for the books, A fee of $150 @ year entities the city customer to the benefit Of all these poaderous volumes of libela misnaued information, thoagh for certain special priviieges, large frms pay from $500 to the mentioned maxi- muin of $3,000 a5 an annual stipend. One of these firms haa a turopean agency (in Strasbourg, mreace) besides confidential agents in Jeading European cities; and laiterly uumerous in dependent organizations have spruag up in huro- pean centres, Jemmy Yardstick’s discovery having Uaus laid the foundation of a long enduring fame to that gentleman as the originator of the system of commercial espionage, ‘ius poor Jemuy, like Giver Cromwell in Pope's verscs, finds himseif damned to everlasting iaiue—the everlasting fame of having been the urst to make @ business of commercial eavesdropping, : NEW CABALA A has been invented for the use of these firms, or, rather, @ new method of cipher writing. Figures are used to represent capital and letters to indicate moral standing—the figures only appet in the confidential sneet of weekly corrections and both in the semi-yearly publication, Every subscriber receives a key to the system, his name having been booked, and ia consequently able to decipher that which would be worse than hieroglyphics to his next door neighbor. The sheet of corrections is also mailed weekly to his address, and serves, with the aid of the key, to keep nim pons as to the standing of customers, if not in themselves, at least with the agent of the firm issuing the sheet, With the key, however, agents are not necessarily entrusted, nor are they in receipt of the weekly sheet uniess ucwual subscribers, In a word, the interpretation of the riddle is kept a profound secret between the agency and the customer who avails himself of its rather fancifully valuable services, ‘The general substance of the descriptions upon the books may be summed up in a lew phrases: Safe toa certain amount; doiug business on small capital; not of good record; addicted to failure; in- clined to evade payment; living beyond income; not of good habits; wanting in business tact; good ior this amount or that, These are some of tie notes and comments which appear against the names of Orms, heads of which have not, perhaps, treated the agent with suflicient pecuniary politeness, and are, tuerefore, to be daraned with faint praise, aud ihat sort of faint praise, too, which is more destructive of business reputation than downright biame could be. ‘these are they who must be 1ated above the dreaded 48, but who, nevertheless, are unwilling to pay liberally for first class re nowadays need not make a roj That is old and passe, and belonged to an agi not driven at 2:21, ere Jemimuy yardstick was deliv- ered of his idea and set up business in the dozy old kennel in Nassau street, m full sight of that dromedary of a buiiling, the ew York Post Ofice; for if ever revolutionist ex- tated, that lean, lank, latuitke Jemmy Yardsticy has been one, and 80 will coatinue to be, probab:y, until, at.the last, he shall post his books and balauce his accounts, only to find himself vitally :nsoivent. Poor Jemmy | it cannot but beter hard for tie ‘originator of @ new idea to die and teave all his glory behind him, though there are those who aver that Jemmy has lived the life of a vampyre—that is, by sucking the blood of his fellows, or their pocke which is about the same; aud to die unapprecial is worse than not to be permi' W die at all, Poor Jemmy !—the thermometer of his credit with life at his own forty-six—he may hereatter have occasion to remember how that cabaiistic forty-six was death to the credit of many a struggling tolier after fortune more honest by far in act and intention than Mr. Yardstick ever dreamed of being. Meantime, that gentieman will probably continue to Jabel reputations and libels, tuck them away in pigeonholes for use, until the grim old freebooter of the skull ana crossbones labels him and tucks nim away in @ pigeonhole, never to be taken out again, Only suo acueloet It is to be hoped that the institution he founded may be pigeonuholed with him, GENERVL NOTES. ‘They are raising Cashmere goats in Colorado. California pronounces the steam plough a success. ‘There are in Virginia ten cotton milis, with 36,060 spindles. A Baptist Ministers’ Institute ig to be heid in Chicago in June. The home of the late Mrs. Sigourney, the ‘at Hartford, bas been sold for a railroad station. A crack Western base ball club, the Buckeye of Clocinnatt, has just dissolved, $11,000 in debt, There were three suicides at Dayton, Ohio, on the Sist ult., two of them caused by unrequited love. Flora Stew: aged 103; Samuel Bi near! yor, and Mary Hisnsen, 109, ed in New Hainpaairs last year. Several Germans have located near Charlottes. ville, Va., and are entering largely into the cultiva- tion of grapes. Impatient office seekers are inclined to regard General Grant’s toothache as @ kind of gum game.— New Bedford Mercury. Kansas farmeré are atraia of another grasshon- r e, a8 large num! eggs have been de- posited in 0) many places. Aaron Quackenbush, formerly a slave and a ser- vant in the army of 1776, died at Sharon, Conn,. on the 30th ult., at the age of 105. initherof more troops trom England ta epprenea: ither of mi m England in apprehen- sion of éroubie with the United states. ‘The military posts of Winchester and Fredericks- burg, Va., have been discontinued. The troops now serving there are ordered to report to Kichmond, Lynch law in Kentucky is made to apply to lazy husbands, An indolent blacksmith was recently tied toa tree and given sixty-two lashes because he didn’t support bis family. An insane man recently visited the North Carolina Legislature, and, on his return to the asylum, being asked what he thought of 14, replied. ‘Weill, 1 tulak they are a branch of this establishment.” Mrs. Clem, who was recently convicted at Indiana- polls, lad., of murder, and s@ntenced to tmprison- ment for life, has been subponaed as a witness in the trial of ap alieged confederate in the same mur- der. An order has been received at the Waterviict Arsenal, Troy, directing the discharge of aii enlisted men above the number of fifty on duty at that post, Fifty-two of Uncle Sam’s boys will therefore be mus- tered out of the service. ‘The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad of the State of Florida has recentiy been soli for more than $100,000 above its bonded indebtedness, thus bring- ing the old bonds, most of which are owned by Northern mea, up to par. General Jabal A, Early, lave of the Confederate States army, arrived in Lynchburg, Va., last Mon- day, from Missourt. He is in good health and look- ing remarkably well. Hoe was inexile nearly iour years, during which time he sojourned im Mexico, Cuba and Canada, A Bridgeport gentleman lately saw, without tn- terference, his landiord veeced of $100 by gampiers on the trai, and remarked 10 explanation, “I was'’t going to warn bim. He raised my rent $200 this year. The Superior Court of Chicago has rendered a dect- sion against the Uhicago City Railway Company for reoual damages foo pone to $4,500. The court eld that {f companies permit cars to be overloaded passengers are not responsibie for damages result- lug from sianding on the platform, ‘The army of “loggers” in Michigan are breaking camp and returning. It is estimated that five thou- sand men have been employed in the lumber woods during the winter At an average wages of thirty dollars per month, The “drive” this year will be the largest ever sent down the Muskegon river. A Southern genius has constracted a lamp for burning the cotton fy, which lays the egg that pro- duces the cotton worm. It will probably prove about aa useful as the famous flea killing machine, the al- ecotions for using which wet First, catch your tea, then carefully place him under the kuife, turn tue crank, and be ts neatly decapitated, A hegro man in Clinch county, Ga., a few days isoned two children of a negro woman fyuom fe jad lived with for some time and then abandoned him, leaving the children on his hands. Me admin- istered the in roasted potatoes, causing their deaths in afew hours. He bas been arrested, and says he poisoned them to get them out of his way. John Brown, an eccentric colored barber of Ak! Ono, died on the aoth ult, leaving property value at $36,000. In the year 1849, when colored children were refused admittance into common schools, Mr. Brown erected a schoolhouse in Oleveland at his own expense. For some time he hired teachers and paid them, the school being free to the children of his A duel between two negroes took place near A Ga., ast Saturday afternoon. The ‘code’ was adhered to, and after a slight wound received by one of the combatants, white persons = ® board of honor, which was and an amicable settiement effected. ‘The ¢ states that both colored gentie- men stogd under ke old soldiers. tropolis, and should of all others be kept in a proper condition, ‘That the Street Commissioner has full authority in the matter of having the obstructions removed, the following section (twenty-first) of arti- cle two of the laws relative to the Street Department will abundant, OW :— He may direct the removal of any article or thing whatso- ever walch may eucimber or obsiract a street or-avenue, wharf oe ie in the city of New York, under the penalties prescribed by law, The following are the obstructions in Fifth ave- nue:— Southwest corner of Fortieth street—The side street almost entirely blocked up by immense piles of brick, The house being built belongs to Mr. Kipp; the bulider is a Mr. Woodruff, Northeast corner of Fortieth street—Sand and brick piles. The contractor is Mr. Lynch. Northeast corner of Forty-fifth street, three bulld- ings are being erected, and in front of them, in the street, are piles of sand and mortar. Dr, Howland £ ine owner of one of the houses and Mr. Owens the urider, Between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, four houses are being erected, piles of sand and mortar ying in the street. F. G. Churchill is the owner of e building; Mr. Andrews the mason, Southwest corner of Forty-seventh street three houses are being erected, and before each are pues of sand and brick. Mr. Andrews is the builder. Northeast corner of Forty-seventh street a new Nouse is going up. There are in the street in front of it mounds of sand and brick, and piles of plank line one-half of the block nortiward from it. {x- x ror Opdyke is the owner and R. L. Darragh the ler. rthwest corner of Forty-elghth street the side- waik for half a block {s cove! with huge granite blocks for a new Dutch Reformed chureh that 1s going up there. Mr. Gloodgood is the mason. Between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets there are piles of flag in the way, and just off the avenue, in Yorty-ninta street, there are huge sand and brick piles, mounds of mortar and a great number of planks, Mr. Conover is the mason. Between Fitty-second and Fifty-third streets, on the west side of the avenue, a sewer is being dug. ‘There is no ratling about it to prevent a carriage toppling over into it, and the biock for several yards above the cut 13 Iimed with old posts and upturned paving stones. F Piles of stones and planks, which interfere with the carriage way, near Forty-elghth street. THe WeaTneR YEsTERDAY.—The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, as indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HERALD Building, corner of street:— Average temperature......... 4034 Average temperature Saturday.... +. 445 A STRANGER TAKEN TO HosPITAL.—At an early hour yesterday morning, Charles Norton, of Maine, was found very illin Reade street and removed to Bellevue Hospital. TUB FRANKLIN STREET FIRE.—The insurances on the fire at Mr. T. A. McCreedy’s, No. 74 Franklin street, on Saturday night, have been reported to the Fire Marshal's ofiice as follows:—Bow! Insurance Company, $5,000; Tradesmen’s, $5,000; Merchant's, $10,000; Hope, 00; Security, $10,000; City of Hartford, $10,000; Phoenix, $10,000; Jersey City, $5,000—Total, $67,500. ScppEN DeatTus.—Mra, Mary Fiynn, a woman eighty-five years of age, yesterday died at No. 162 Worth street from old age. Coroner Keenan was notified to hold an inquest on the body. James Cassidy dicd suddenly at 161 West Nine- tecnvh street and an inquest will be heid on the body by Coroner Schirmer, J. M. Huston, a young man about eighteen years of age, late of Twenty-eignth street, between Second and Tuird avenues, was yesterday morning found dead in bed. Mr. Huston retired the night previous in apparently his usual good heaith. An inguest will be held on the body. THE PaRK METEOROLOGICAL Rerort.—The me- 4 teorological report for the week ending on Saturday, compiled from observations made by the Park Me- teorological Department, shows the following state of the weather:—Barometric mean 29.744 inches; maximum 80,152, at 7 A. M., March 23; minimum 33,416, at 2 P. M.,’March 20; range .736. ‘Tnermome- ret yi ASE PPA a, . Mi. $ Gozrees. The total fall of ‘rata durtiwe vue’ weed Waa 1.63 inches, it having rained on four as follows:— mie ARG oe ata a hp 2 A kek minutes; wo ours forty-five infoutes. Fire iN East FourTs Sraxet.—At half-past two O'clock yesterday morning s fire broke out in the tenement house No. 253 East Fourth street. It orig!- nated in the store of Christian Schieck, on the first floor, and the stock, valued at $1,800, was en- tirely destroyed. It was insured fully in the Kings County Insurance oomreny: The fre was confined to this floor and the floor of the second story, but the volume of smoke that worked 4 through the buiid- ing was so dense that it was with aiMculty the occu- po could make their exit. One old man named rks shnicinpeh ost imed suffocated on the third floor. Damage to building, $300; covered by & $5,000 policy in the "a Insurance company. ASSAULTS AND AFFRAYS.—On Sunday morning the Fourth precinct was disgraced by three or four fights and assaults, William McMenoney, of Cold Spring, Long Island, was found with a cut on the head, which he represented he received at the hands of an unknowp at Catnarine Market. Robert Walshe, of No. 65 James street, was found with a severe scalp wound, that he represented was in- flicted by Morris Mahoney, of No. 61 James street. Mahoney made his escape. Ellen Sherman, of No. 90 Pine etreet, came to the station house and charged that her husband had struck her over the head with @ saucepan and cut it, it Brady, of No. 42 Henry street, was found in New Chambers street with a broken leg, at balf-| two A.M. She stated es she had been Knocked down by some person un- own, POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Disnowmst DomEsTIC.—A young woman named Mary Pendergast was arraigned before Justice Shandley, at the Essex Market Police Court, yester- day morning, on a chargo of grand larceny. The jainant was Mra. Catharine Woods, of 14 St. 3 place, who stated that Mary was a servant in her house, and that on Thursday Jast she was seen a fellow servant to take a silk dress, of the value $100, and a child's dress, worth two doilars, both of which articles of clothing were the property of the complainant. The silk areas she took out of the house; but the other pro she hid in a strainer, telling her feliow servant that she intended also to remove that. Mary denies her guilt, but the Justice commited her to await examination. AuReST OF ALLEGED HiGHWAYMEN.—About two o’clock yesterday morning Mr. John &. Faulkner, living at No, 224 Bowery, while on his way home was accosted in the Bowery, near Canal street, by foar young meo, who tnsis' that he should treat them. As he had already imbibed freely Faulkner declined to comply with the request, whereupon the men seized hold of Faulkner and walked away with him. While moving oif 1¢ is alle that two of bis new friends heid Faulkner and the others rifed his pockets of @ g4 watch, vained at $160, arfd five dollars tn cash. Before Separai all the parties discovered by officers pbell and Decker, of the Fourteenth precinct, at which time Faulkner cried out “I've lost my watcl.” Then the officers dashed down upon the robbers and succeeded in arresting two of them. They gave their names as John 8S, Brogan and Charles Martin. The others of the gang made their escape with the lunder. The prisoners were yesterday taken before lustice Dowling and committed to the Tombs for trial, Brogan and Marlin, who aré young men, deny their guiit. ALLEGED SHOPLIFTING OPERATIONS.—Yesterday morning David Lawson, of No. 360 Bowery, ap- peared before Captain Dodge, at the Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court and accused two women, Ellen Mary Morgan, with attempting to steal laces from his place of business, valued at eighty dollars. The circumstances as allt of the shoplifting operation were that the accused entered the store ostensibly to purchase is to attend @ wedding in Trenton, N. J.; that hey could not be suited, when the complainant, be- coming suspicious of them, ordered their detention in a private office in the store until he was satistied that they were not frauds. On leaving the store, from which they were followed, their coaduet was of such a nature that complainant ultimately ordered their arrest, and sadsequeptly examining the office where they Were at first detained, laces of the above value were found thrown under the sofa, apparently hasttiy done. The accused were committed for Jurther examination. were ° COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. TERM.—Non-enume- Surname CoURT—GENBRAL rated calendar. SoPRseme CoURT—Cixcurt—Part 1.—Nos. 4561, 1451, 801, 625, 747, 887, 1211, 1213, 1435, 1441, 1501, 1521, 1673, 1166, 12 41! 304, } 1810, 212 1016, 1098, 1100, 1129, 542, "os aie’ 856, 806. Suraeme Cournt—SreciaL Term.—Demurrers.— Nos. 7 to 26 inclusive, REME COURT—CHAMBERS.—First Monday cal- endar, SupERIon CourT—Triat TenM—Part 1.—Nos. 796, 309, 771, 945, 807, 225, 893, 622, 833, 837, 361, 533, 431, 683. Part 2.—Ni ieee 828, 452, 804, 7 124, 860, 782, MON PLEAS, — ‘term calendar. RonF fe Sy IF. — - han, robbery; the nate va, James Meehan, burglary; the same vac Walter grand larceny; the pane re Sunon Liebeck, grand larceny. ' Agvsine His FaMity.—A man named Jonn Nowe was arrested and conveyed to the police station on @ chi of abusing bis wife and turning her out of doors and likewise abusing his children. He waa locked up to await trial before the Recorder. Democratic NoMINATIONS.—At a meeting of the democratic delegates of the Fourth ward of Jersey City, held at Central Hall, on Saturday evening, April 8, the following gentlemen were unanimously nomt- nated for the suffrages of the people at the charter election:—For Alderman, James T. Hongh; Chosen Freeho'der, Henry Carroll; Commissioner of appeals, Jon Miller; Assessor, John H. Gorman; Justice the Peace, Henry J. Calio; Judges of Election, John Van Vorst, Samuel W. Garrison, James M. Brann, Charles W. Perveill, ©. W. Foss aud Thomas Gan- noon; Ward Clerks, Samuel Murtha and Edward Dugan; Constable, Peter McGowan, Hoboken, ARREST OF AN ESCAPED PrisoNER.—A man named Schroeder was captured last evening by officer Kaiser, for being an escaped prisoner from the office of Justice White, before whom he was standing his trial on a charge of rape some’time ago. ANOTHER DROWNING CasUALTY.—Yesterday morn- ing, about three o’clock, a man named James Decker, on board the tugboat Syracuse, was about to raise a bucket of water, when he slipped from the deck into the river, near the trestle-work of tho Morris and Essex depot and was drowned. A search was made and in tne afternoon the body was dis- covered. Coroner White was notified and an inquest was held, when the jury returned a verdict of acct- dental drowning. The deceased was a resident of Hadson, Columbia county, N. Y., and employed ag an engineer on the towboal. He was tuirty-six years of age and anmarried. The body is at Mr. Parslow’s ouice awaiting the arrival of trieads, Newark. GRaND MUSTER OF THE WHISKEY BRIGADE.— During the twenty-four hours which ended last eve- ning at ten o’clock there were arrested by the po- lice of this city no leas than twenty-five persons, the majority of whom were taken in for having seriously injured themseives In a terrific contest with Joba Barleycorn aud some other convivial frienda. Tae RecENT RaILroap Smasu-Up.—Yest jay a large gang of men, under the direction of Messrs. Coates and Smith, succeeded in raising from the embankment ditch into which they had been thrown the freight cars, seven in number, that were 80 badly damaged in the recent smasi-up on the New Jersey Railroad, a few miles tis sideof Rah- way. The reclaimed cars exhibited unmistakable appearances of the severity of the accident, several of them being damaged beyond repair. ‘hey were removed to Jersey City. Po.ics Court Matrers.—In the court presided over by Justices Mills and Stapff there was quitea plethora of business on Saturday. William O’Brien, a strapping Emerald Islander of twenty-seven, re- siding at No. 177 Academy street, was arraigned to answer the. charge of having committed a breach of the peace, the particulars of which are, a3 Sam Weller would gay, “werry peculiar,’ On the preceding day, towards evening, an elderly weman rushed into William’s boarding place and placed a fine baby of eight months old fa his lap and cleared out, remarking “here, take your child.” As soon a3 William gotover the surpri-e of this manwuvre he snatched up the in- faut, hurried ito the street and placed the poor lit- tle thing in a mud pucdie, and leititthere in the dripping rain. A charitable neighbor, Mr.C, E. Hidduipa, picked up the little dearte and took it in out of the tain, and then caused the arreat of Wil- Mam on the above charge. In the court room yes- terday the prisoner was conironted with the elderly Woman, Who declared that she and Wildam were the joint authors of te infant's existence, and that William had refused to contribute to its support. As she was fully M{ty years of age, and by Do means prepossessing, ihe magistrate doubted her story and questioned ler on the matter, when she declared that “it wasn’t me looks, yer uionor, he tuk a fancy to, but me winnin’ ways.” William was ordered to look out for the child’s support. Next appeared for preliminary eXamination two pairs of maies and femaies, who stood char; with bav- ing violated the seventh commana of the decalogue. These were Carl F. Roeder and Sarah Bennett, and Chester Myers and Lena K1i ‘The first two were rested on complaint of ers @ fine uxvin German from Newburg, N. ¥. Bhe stated that her husband came hither to work, and that she found him living in unlawful bonds with Sarah. Tho latter she keeps a house and that the gay Charles earded weir her. They are held for further examination. In the case of the other two the com 8 1s the husband of the woman, whose name is Joseph Kling, and whose occupation 1s that of a brewer. He is some twenty years older than his wife, who is Chester is also of rather pleas ing exterior, and about the same age 2s the woman. dof the latter charges her with having eloped with Chester trom Ivania, and the latter with having stolen the ons of his wife. An examination into the case yesterday proved nothing crimmai, and the matter was laid over for farther consideration. Chester says Joseph de- serted his wife, and he took pity on ler forlorn con- dition and mainiained her. ‘Trenton. SUPERVISION OF THE Stats PRIsON.—Colonel Wiliam R. Murphy, of Bordentown, according to \ lative authority will be appointed Supervisor of tne Stale Pnison, under the new régime which has received the Governor's signature. ACCIDENT IN THB ROLLING MILL.—On Saturday afternoon the key of the crank pin connected with the large stationary engine broke, and the ma- chinery suffered so disastrously that it will take two weeks to repair the damage. About forty men will be disemployed > the casualty. ‘The engine is said to be the largest onary engine in the country. Tae HoorgR-TorRgyY CONTESTED ELECTION CasB.—The action of the committee in declining to present @ report in the Ocean county contested elec- tion case virtually postpones the matter for another year. On Tuesday e' the counsel for Senator Torrey and his contestant, Mr. Hooper, ap; to argue the case before the Senate, but in consequence of the delay occasioned by the printing of the testi- mony the lative Committee refused to compile @ report out of so much conflicting evidence as tl lgte date in the session. Further proceedings are erefore postponed. Tas Case oF Justice Wurrr, or HonoxEy.— The communication addressed to the Legislature, signed “Joha White, Hoboken,” charging that bribery and corruption had been used in the eiec- tion of @ judge for Hudson county, has been re- ceived and referred to a spectal committee, who are “Lc mages § @ report refuting the charges of Mr. White and endorsiag the action of the Legisiature. The facts in the case seem to be that at tue demo- cratic cancas of the Legislature the Hudson county delegation first presented Judge bolnstedv’s name for re-election as one of the juages of the Common Pleas, but afterwards withdrew his name and sub- stituted that of Coroner White. Again they recon- sidered their action and restored Mr. Bohustedt’s, naine, Who was confirmed by tne jotat committee, STATE ASYLUM MATTRRS.—A few wooks ago a bill was introduced jor the erection of @ new asyinm contiguous to the presentone. The fact excited so muck tadignation among the public (as there is no urgent need to incur such an enormbus expense) that the Senate reiused to pass the bill. In discuss- ing the matter suggestions Were torown out thas the institation was managed to the interest of the pavy- ing patents and to the disadvantage of tbe indigent inmates, it was recowmended that if the imaticu- tion should be incapadle of accommodating all the applicants the paying portton were quite able to avall tuemselves of the protection of similar tnatitu- tions somewhere else, and might be removed. There is no public jnstitation ta the State whose operations are so little kuown; and the Senate believes much reform is ueeded there. PORT JERVIS. Tur BReak IN THe CaNaL.—The break in the canal near Port Jeryis is being rapidly repatred, there being over 600 men at work on the breach, A large section of the valley was overflowed by the break, but no material damege was done to pro perty other than that of the corapany. A WESTERN VIEW OF THE TENURE OF OFFICE BILL, (From the Chicago Tribune, April 2. Members may pretead that law is ey ically re pealed by the bill they have sed, butit ie not. The power of removal is not to the President, and until it ts one form of woras is just as obnoxious as another, The people look upon the law as an ob- Stacie in the work of purificat and they do not that the President ought to be restricted in the vi us performance of such a duty by aay latent power in a Senator, or any number of senators, to rotect their friends in office. When the President discovered imcompetency, corruption or negit- ence in office why should a Senator be empowered to him, “sir, before I consent to your removal of this man | must know whom you intend to ap- point in his place. Ho is my friend, and unless you Some other friend of mine you shall not re- move this one." Indecorous as such a speech would be, the majority of the Senate have obstinately re- fused to yield t! fe power of ves ssetavere co mate © lease, Whether General Grant signs this bill OF not it is hardly possble that he can approve it. Gronata.—The Butts county editor of tne Monroe Advertiser (March 30) says that the first four days of the nn week were industriously employed by most of \, mn lanters of Butts county in cot reports jicate that most of the uj of ti bottoms have been Pre- for cotton piaang wer mug pune. No