The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1870, Page 5

“BROOKLYN CITY. Organization of the New Common Council. Annuat Message of Mayor Katbfleiseh—An Ya- debtedness of Upwards of §27,000,000— The Evils of Commissions. Zhe Winter Lunacy Case Before tho Supreme Coart. ‘The Orst meeting of the Common Connell for the year 1870 was held yesterday afternoon, his Houor the Mayor (Mr. Kalbfetsch) in the chair, There was @ very large attendance of interested citizens in the suditorium of the chambers, ‘The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with, @ud the Mayor arose aud read his anuuat messaxe, Which Was accepied, ana the usual number of copies ordered to be printed. ‘fie following is the Message of Mayor Kalbiicisch. To THE HOSOKADLE TH BOARD OF ALDERMEN: GuNTLEMEN—Ik Obedience to the requirements of the charter I Lave auuuatly to lay before you a Pavement of the condition of our wunictpal atfairs, ‘Phys duty 1 now fuitil wader a deeper sense Of tis re- msivility Luan On ANY Previous Kunur occasion; for, a8 you Wil see froin the facts and figures | am about to lay before you, our etty stands nOW in crite ca) Circiumsiances. ‘The errors of a long perlod of mischievous legisiation have culwaiuated in a burdea Of taxation and Cevt perieciiy appaluny. But, Tor- tunaiciy, tne evil has Worked out at Lest the oppor- tunity of its own cure. We have now at the Stave caput uot only an Executive but @ Lexisiacare, in boil Houses the Majority OF WhOLa stand pledged to restore to the peopit of this and every ciey Ia the Staie that local seif-governiwens the deprivauon of which, as 1 shai siow, has ertaied upon brook lyn such an oppressive luad ot debi. LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS, But vefore proceeding to discuss financial matters Imay be permittcd to advert to tue uuinterrupted mateial growth and progres? of our ely and 1s public Works, 1b 18 @ gratlyieg fact thas, hobwitu- standing ail the drawbacks, our city continues steadily aud rapidiy vo merease in population and prosperity, The number of buildtugs of varrous de- Scripuions erected and in course of “erection during the pusl year 1 2,994, a schedule of Whici has beeu Kindiy furnisned me by tae Iuspector of Potlee, aud as hereunto anoexed, From w report furnished ime by tue Street Inspector 1 find that eieven miles oF e been graded and payed, seventeen miles: ontract and 1 Progress of compieuon, an addivon to wuich over 125,400 feet of sidewuik have been flagged. ‘This, with the exvensioa of. Wushingwn avenue, the Kent — avenue basin > abd = the improvement of Gowanus Canal, Wii add matertaily to our comfort and com- mercnl facies, walle tae Laprovemeuts made to our parka, avenues and boulevards wil aiso do much to enance the uttractious of Brookiyn usa place of resiuence. During the past summer, too, @ considerable nusuver of our older streets have been Tepayed, #0 a8 to alord much more convenient aud Dieasant traasit tor vehicles than, owing to the dilapidated condition of the origimai cobblestone pavenient, Was belure attaimavie. The experic: Of tne last summer also demonstrated to us, by co: trast, the especial advantage our city possesses i the abundance, as well as the purity, of its water supply. Wuile other large cittes—not oniy Pilladet- Phia—were seriousiy convealenced by svarcily of Water, Brooklyn experienced no annoyance Wiat- ever from profonge drouth. Our water aud sewer aye facilities are peing steadily and rapidly extended througa tie varioas poruons of the cily &s yet up- proyiced With those Devessiies Of city Me, MAGNITUDE OF CITY DEBI. But wiiie ii is pleasant to review the evidences of OU cliy’s MACCKIAl Laprovement and oraaueu are bound to usk whether the terms on whica we have bees Oviaining them are at all reasonabte and Witiin our meaus of paymeat. When Linform you that within the pase Year, In addition vo six muUlions collected in uxes wo meet current Obligations due from the public tWeasury, we have ulso added $6,009,000 ore Lo tue oULstanding Indedtedneas of our cily, Or, iu Olher Words, tO Make the saojec' easily Understood, tat addiuona! bonds Lo the tent of $6,000,000 bave been issued during tie 186¥, and but $409,000 paid daring the same year, you will fully share the soliettude | feel upon the subject of Oar finMacK position, The yas purposes for which bonds were issued are as loiiows:—~ Assessinent bonds for paving, grading. &c. Arsessinent bouds ior conuracis imade by Water and Sewerage comission. Fourth Avenue Commission. Gowanus Canui Comnussion. Pro pect Park Commission Water Loan Bewerage Couission. Bedford Avenue Commission... lubout Luprovement Comuitssior Keut Avenue Basia Commissio: Vanaerout Avenue Comuissivn Bridge wh per cent >uyscripiion $811,369 tng and nov provided for in the Sincing Fund 1. Tae whole y bon wmuding Is 34,255,000, OF Which 15-Jobh Ait is cChargeavle upon Lhe city, aud buity of...... And we nave..... sees e ee eeeesee eeeeseeens as the present indebtedness of the city. dn aidiuon to tis & Turiler issue of bonds ha, been authorized, amounting to $2,700,000, on account 01 our subscriplon Lo the bridge. ASSESSMENT BUNDS, A large amount o! tl indebtedness ts providea for by law Out OL assessments to be Jaid for iocal am- provements, J confess, however, that I fear for the future, ubiess A Stop 18 AL Once put fo the issue of bouds for any and all local improvemeuts, nay, for almost any purpose. It Was supposed by the advo- cates Of the passage of the law authorizing the issue of localimprovement bonds that the loaning 01 io credit of the city, by the issue of bonds, Would ma- teriully tacilivaie the making of street improvements by providing more ready means of payiug the con- tractor, aud affording time for paymeat to partic Tor whose benetit the improvements were ma and without any risk mcurred thereby on tie part Of tic city, regret, however, to have to state that Lam apprebensive that, in many instances, the city ai large Will be saddled with the cost of these Jocul amprovenienta, The slightest irreguiarity in the Proceedings migut vitiate an assesemeut and the expenses be tus thrown upon the whoie city, the city having assumed the payment without any reser- Vution, it us by no means @ rare instance to Jind property owners, who have been thus directly bene- dived by the bgdptes. ou the part of tne city of their liabilities, and who ought to be ready and! ‘Wiiurg to at once reimburse the treasury for the money thus advanced, availing themselves of tne merest technicai informahty to shirk payment. ihere are iikewise many instances where work has been done and bonds issued to raise money to pay contractors, and the bonds have become due and paid dy the city before even an ment bas been had, to say nothing of its colicett When the Ginount of bouds issued for local improve- menis Was small and & close supervision over the suyject easily had, and Bo great loss to tue city coulda arise, their issue mught have been tolerated. Bui how that the amount of bonds loaned fy the city for such purposes exceeds im one year (Qis69) the whole amount issued during the éigat years preceding, it cannot but awaken uneasiness, and I am tree to say that in wy opinion notumg bas an unconditional repeal of alt laws authorizing the issue of assessment bonds will prove a remedy. In the case of bonds issued by the city to deiray the Cost of repaving streets, which had already been paved in former years at the expeuse of the property owacrs, legal options differ as 10 the constitationai- aly of the provision of law, under which sloae the city can ciuim to recover the amount it has ad- vanced, by ussessinent upon the property benefited. 1 understand 1t bas been held iu a nelgaboring State, upon gener principies of law rather than upon ex- press consuututoual mverpretation, that the Lewisla- lure cannot compel the preperty owner to provide a second pavement Jor tue street fronting his jot, he baving Ouce jaid down % pavement accepted and used by the city. Should this interpretation prevail in our court of last resori, tiie city would, tirce years hence, have to provide by tax tor paying the whote of the large amount of bonds this yeur issued lor repaying of streeta. The extent to witch the city has tus become liable may be gaitered irom the fact that during the past year $564,004 21 bas been paid to the Nicolson Payement Compasy alone, say nothing of ovher liabilities incurred apa pay ments made for Belgian, improved Belgian, Scrtinsiaw and ovher pavements, without the collection Of Ove single dollar towards repay- meuts, THE MODE OF ISSUE. The construction publ upon tue law authorizing Josue aud disposal of assessment bonds by whe Comp- troller must, { tear, ulumately lead to duiticulty. ‘The Jaw ol 1561 resiricts the sale Of oonds to @ rate not 4€88 1100 par, and yet the bonds have been often dis- posed of aba lower rate. ‘The bonds issued to pay .or contracts made by the Water and Sewerage Com- ouers lor regrading and repaviwwg streets are e inw authorizing their issue limited terest beatiag bond of not more than seven petcoat, They are soll below their par value, thug makiig them indirectly more than a seven per cent bond, The detic.eucy arising therefrom mast be ultunately mate up hy the city at large, or the haz- ard be run ol paving arsessments fel ustde for what Tdecm @ ciear violation of the mtention of ube law. I recommend tbat this subject receive your immed: @ic consideration. 1 intend to wichbold my aigna- vure for tue present Irom any and all bonds to be tssued fov jocal improvements unl the question 1s buvroughiy cousta aud unt some system is Bduiicd Whereuy tie expense macurtod for diferent locat LnproVenents shali tn each case be kept dis- tuici and separate, Which is Wot NOW the case. ‘the mad iu witch Our books are kept will, in my opmion, adit OF taach improvewen: anu slnplitca- fob, wud as aN ample Appropravon has Row der muac jor taal purpose, Luope you Buporable buoy NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUAKY 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHERT, ‘will not allow the matter to bo unreasonably de- layed. 08 BURDEN TOO GREAT. But no additional checks and guards upon the Issue of bonds, no steps inat can be taken bo super- Vise and per.ect the meuiod of disposing and ac- counting of them, can imeet the exwencies of our | Position, if Wo ate to cscade serious uud not dis- tant em! ia the Lecislature must cease to pass laws compeliing the is. 46 of bouds by Uns mu. Bicipalty, wuring the pent yen tho Board of Assessors made an arbitrary aaditfon of twenty-five per cent to our taxable Valuation, 86 that now, in many instances, property 45 vained for taxation wt ucaciy as high & Bum asit would fetch in the market, The otniga- tions already incurred by our city amount vo a nor gage of fifteen vents on cvery dollar of Lhe valuation thus ephauced. Exeuse might be offered for adding: sall further to this oporessive volume of debt if our current expenses were oelug reduced or remaming blaulonary, Bo a8 W K1Ve Urospect of our bemy bere aiter better able to pay off audopicdness, Bat a reference to the records of the city wil show that while on the One baud We have been increasing our debt, oa the other we nave also mcreased our annual current expendicuce, and ma bOLh respects tae m- crease has been relutive as well as asiucl In oher words, man for wan or dollar for dolar, we pay incre taxes every Year Ulan we lormeriy paid, and sill every year each inhabitant of Brovs.yo owes More, Biter havilg pald more, aud has run deeper in debt, in addition to vaving borae a reaver indl- vidual burden of taxation. ‘This mm @ growing and prosperous city Oayht not w be. ‘Tue increased value should Keep pace WIEN Lhe lneroase of taxes aud isebtedaess. i not either tie city 3 faring benind @ proper rate of progress, or its public allairs dud Maproyeaieuts aro beiny Carried On WO CX pen- sively, dad iM either View it 15 Meceasury Lo xoivenoy tat we shontd jesseu our expendiure add on uo pretence whatever contract new iucteotediess Wau tue present deb) ws largely reduced. COST OF SPGEWP LIGHTING, ‘Lo explain some of ie causes of tie Increase of carrent expenses Twill call we avtenuoen of your Honeravie body LO BomeE Liens OF expenditure, aud by snow how the incroase can readily be sor, “Pe iirst—a Labace Uapopulur one to COMPAL Gi—is Uke duoulis CXpouued sor UgV GAT abreet: Tn 1853, duriug we aauiniscration o 5, 5. Powell, $400,000 Was raved for ual purpose on a property” valuation of $1,009,002. ‘iuis proved sudicwot, ta is68, under iy adiimstraua: on & property YValuauon of = $id), 000,01 $400,000 “was Taiseit, und there is a deiti- ciency aecoaus vf $100,000, in other words, we expeud now 40) per cout more than Jorimeity, with an increased ability to pay of only ality percent. 1 have often hy allention of the Hoard of Alderwen vo ting subject, bat no Rotice 488 as Vel Keen taken Of Wy COMMmuUvicAtions. Sue rucreave In tue muinber Of saaips duriag We past year im tue Seven ward alone Is 12.9. tad it ree quired such aa wouihion (or newly opene| streets no Kreut Objection Could De Made, DUG most of tuese were pluoed om streets Where iamips aad bean erected, aud for years past bad proved sumcent 1m number, ‘They havo been repaccd 1a souie ia. slauecs at a distance of nob ore than ufly feeo apart, i devur thus ay OF GIOUEeY 5; some remedy Wii huve bu be provided fur tins abuse, wad 4 therelure Suggest Ludi the sudject receive your prompt attention, Cost OF FIRE DEPARIMENT. Further expianaton of the rapid mecreass in the @invane Of OUL LaXes Is ailorded vy tue eavrmous lucreare ta tie expenditures tor Lue Mmuuteaaace of whe fie Departueat, THis aso has riseu an a iour- oid ratios to Lhe Loereasea Valuation Of property. Uf aay incormation is correct, and it {can reiy upon a Writen siaiemcub Maude W me bY & ‘genuedan WHO LOW hods @ prominent postticn in tue New York paid rire Depurcinent, it appears wat im 1367 We eX pense vi sntannny the sire Veparcuucrt m Puil~ Adciptaa iD exevtive Cunuition Was $114,000; and it Was Cuuciusively sown iat $120,000 Lor the thi year, aud a probavie reduction vitereaiter, ged give US an CMloie@al Geparuuent lor Brooklyn. This veins 50 1 Can Kea reason, EXCept Lor the purpose Of tusincaMmung, 2a the CUstOMaTy costly scale Of sucn doules, AuOLuEr LetespoRsibie CoMMiisstou, Wily We ave cailed upon to raise $200,010 per anuum from uur already overtaxed citizens, THe NULLDING LAW. In 1865 the Legisiature pasted a law creating a bureau, &¢., tor tue prevention of tires and regula itva Of DWildings, Which law was subsequently wnended, cne duties to be periormed by ube ap- poul.ecs Wder the ach were slubiiur to Liuose for meriy Cischarged by the fire wardens. In tact Wwe Divert Was subpiy crcated for the Westera aisuict jusiead of lor the whoie eny, showing evidentiy tuat AU Wits ROD @ NevesBury MsuLUtON Lor the city. ‘The tle» Gulected for Vidiaious Of laW by tic superine tendent are past over Ww What, since tie avoish- lent Ob Lie Volunbeer ive Deparimeat, has becuine @ close Corporation, tte trasiees ot the Wilows? aad Urpaans’ Pond, Finis MU lave beea exeusavle Wane ihe Ureuen perforuct duty without coia- pensation, but Uhder tue preseas state of aiairs i Cu haiay be justified, Lhe duties shoutd ve periocimed ay & less Cost to Lie city, the salanes paid oud of the amount reaized from’ the tines or rom inat raised jor bire Lepartwien’ purposes, A careiti Feading Ot the law wil conviice any one unat s coulerred by it upou te super. aids OF GO UASCrUpUloUs ast alg We greatest ujacntue tor xinuuing ever user Tie tw ie uke. proved Lo be deiccuive ia Not giving suficient power either ah the depardnent oreawed ander it or sinewhere, tO provid ugwluse Calamilies such as urred recenuy in Vurinan siree. Tau in- J buudings Under the Hergiis uu. ANd Wud theretore suggest 19 OY CAUSE LMS mnatLEY LO UE Lo or tant i, afer tuoroagh mquiry 13 pened Necessary ty votulu jeg1s- Git day ab ONCE be appiled for, order vo guard dgatust te recurrence of another catastrophe. IN FURS OF CONLILAL rhe jaw creasing tae board of Contracts provided for Lie apPOUALiNeNL Of tures Juspectors, Lue services of Whom Were fouud necessary. When utat poard Wes aboitied and the powers exercwed by tiem Wansierved io Wwe Common Congci @ necessily Lor retaining thes pecturs in Oilice Was mauifest, che powers have since been Laken away trou tue Common Council and yesecd im commissions, Ww such an eNient as to rendes (he services of these in- Spectors uauecessary, | therefore Sugzest Uncir UIs UssiLl, LO BuVe Lie CILY OVEr 30,000 almually, whIc expends Withont receiving beneHts suMicient vw Warrant fue outlay. DE In couseqence of the receut Caan Fire Deparcnent, many of ie oulidmgs formerly occupied tor Fire Depariniwtiy purposes Maye be- colle Vacané, Deing ny louger nevued. commend tat ali Ubede, as aise aay other prow owned and nol used by the city, be soul and Lie aVas paid Uso the Sinking fund. No carcis BOW 3 made tn the | taken of this property end 4 18 growing GAily tess Vaiuaiig, REQCE Luts subject sMOW Ad Ye: tention. Li Would Het pe wut was uadtos ad (ue lire appar quenve of the gh if Whe departucn used, f wWe @aiy iat Sit syne accountng PLERS AND WHARVES. Another subject which has veen somewhat Sight Of 19 (fe piers sad WaErves UeLon, ouy. LH tuineaiale sleps were Taker ¢ Mf AUCHION Wo Ute uighesi bidder Ldenbe Lut Wie would derive a very respectaoie urceme irom source; vuive ibe ciiy in # large expenditure lor tuem la repair, while we are scacesly receiving revenue therefrom. The agouut pai into ue Trew sury during tie pase tWo years nas not averaged more thaa gi4y per annum, Ths subject ussunies the more Maportance wow frou Une recent comple- tion of tHe docks und busts wt tne foot or Washing- tonaveune, The Waliabout improvement has cost ie city ver tliree-quarters o1 & muilion doliars, 11 revarn for which we derive noi oniy a shorter access between ihe bastera and Westera districis, which nas long been & desideratum m city wavel, bat the possession Of 4 spacious water trout aud dock pro- perty on ihe Fase river, the use of which, tl wisely reguiated, may become largely pruduciive of reve- nue to the city wud tend to facilitate tne haprove- ment Of @ tract of adjacent property which hitherto has remaimed vacant. JUSTICEY COURTS. The expense of maintaimng our Justices’ courts keeps more than pace Wilk tue growth of the city or tne increase of crime. It now coats che City an- nually about $60,0v0 agains: one-tuird of that amount buL a few years ago. “LSee no guod reason why the Justices should not rely lor their remuneration upon the fees Luyosed upon the parues briugmag sults before then, 18 is Une Case in Other paris of the State, The foes coilected by the Jusices are not always paid over to bue City, us required by iaw, nur is @ Lt Lurnisbed the Common Council contanme Ve names of the parsies fined and tie amounes of tag tines tmposed. i have receutly been furmsned wilh very strong presumptive evidence of the fact Utat One of the justices Who bas umy returned about Wweaty doliars “since bis induction m oflice in 1s6s must have received ines amounting to over $400 auring last year. DANGER OF INSOLVENCY. Its a disheartening and invidious task to eritr cise the errors of legisiawon and ihe consequeat dimancial condiuoa of our city wich the severity which the iacis dewand. But lam compensated tor whatever displeastre such @ course tay arouse in any quarter by We conviction that wll Who ex- auiine and weigh the statements 1 wake will agree With ine that the state Of var allairs is NOW Such as tnal Whereas, a8 al present managed, they 1a- rigat a jormer wessages, and that the circumstances of my recent re-election afe a practical endorsement by the great body of our ciuzens of the efforts [ fave maue to impress upon toe pubite the urgent need of reorgauizavou aad reivrm of our local gov- erament, When I remind yon that at the time of consolida- tion, in 1855, the taxable property of our cily was fay one-nait ‘what i is now, but that the locat taxes, instead of double, amount to a sum four times a3 great as then, ere 18 wbundant cause for the most serions anxiety on the part of every tax- ayer. AS lave aa 1463, during my first term ol of- lov, in the midst of the war, the rate of taxation Was Dutra little more than One abu ® hail per cent. i Know ho other rule of conducting public ness than such as we should pursue im private affairs. i, Witt an income doubled, any of us found our expenses inuiupiied sJourioid, we should see that we Were ving coo expensively, and tbat re- trenchueat or insolvency were tae samediate alter- uauives. On my entering oMce [in 1868 1 pointed out to you tut there were about twenty imdependent bodies expending puuitc money in this aay without any check over them betng tn the hands of the people or the municipal government, Smee chat period there las been & general puvlic respons. to the demand I ventlired to make On behalf of ike city government for the extincuon of tiese irresponsivle bodies. Most of them Haye beda, ur are tn process of peing, Clo.cd Up Dy bud Jogisiauon OF 1885 and 1869, Stil!, however, Mere a0 eoveral depersmentd WoO nave T_T what no oifleer or nobody should have im any free | clty—a money spendiug power, diecreuoniry 1a Uiomseives ad LO Object and amount, iosicat of Delug suvordinale io Wiese respects Ww bie ciocicd city Uuthorities. We fave every Krouud for belev~ lug, however, Lbat ihe present Lexsiaiure will sup Jecl ue entire Expenses OF OUL puois duuits LO Co supervision aud Goutro! of Lue cily guverument. Dovuiag BUOre Of Lis Wil! SULISIY Lite PLOP!O OF HAVE ‘Ube oily frou # séfivus Calasurople, WHE PAN OF Pd CHART OR, Thad the honor to serve 4% president of the body by Whom the charwr of the consoliduces clly Was Iramed. {ty legui gaviser and actual uutior, tae dsunguisued gentleman Ww reprocenis & poroa ol our County La Lie bl @ Peuate, devoted LO its pkalt his ripest WisdoIn 48 a statestnan, us Well ad Ms legal | @biliay tO Md siruciuce, 1b was Jrauied Upou Lie Woe! Of tke CONuBULULON Of tle Stace, WHICH tae people have BOW aywareudorsca by del! Vols Lun Luts lave vicehion. LC Was uol u WOdzepouge Of scun- graous enaclwenis, bub a Codssiwn, narnonious: | sysiema lis greav feavure Way lay direc elecuon by tue Whole peopie’o. uli Cxecuuve oulvers, anu, DY GiStrIGLS, OL PEprOseaWwliVeSs lu We iegisiative braved, For Guycruur read Mayor, lor diate Buginver, Canal commussioner, Comptroier, ‘Dregsuver, dey, reea —ourees = Commuusiiouer, Gompiroiler, Auditor, Ubiel of Woilice, KG; fur deu- aie wud Assembly, aldermen, aud i Wil be Beda that our cy charter Was exachly Wodelled UpOu Laab Work Of OUc Wisiksy Bbatesiued, ue Orgel lw of our Stare, Under ib the city was well goveracd, ana taxes, already low, were yearly vecuunng 1635, a3 he GiLy gLew Ae povulwdion and wean. ‘Phe axa Won OF is9d, MAMed vey silver Le Cuarier WeLb 1410 OpErAWOn WAS $1,900. In isos ib ud saiien bo Jes Luan $1,100,uv4, AUC AM Ls, OULY Loa Car's 40, 16 Had Laon a8 JOW as gL2W,v00, Lied boca Wie CFe Of We topustad and spect COuUsSIONS. In BLGAY OF Yolag reduced, Lhe taxes fuse ab bas rate of hat to Uiree-jusrters of 4 Mudie every year, Untal DoW Wey UACLEU 46,000,000, wi We his year doune Llib @ibOULL of OULIay by DUrVOWids ¥0,¥09,J09 Lore UPON Lop Of $20,000,000 We Owed Last your KESTORAT.ON OF THB OLD O, aR, These ucts prove W my taku ial Lue reform we Meed is sly WO go bubs LO OUL OLigiuul courler, miOdeued suicuy iter bie COUsHMULO, Leb leginative bouy aur Wit Ubud ts 60 Be dor Appruprisie every doar baw 1s Co be exp Lor cack deparcvent Mave te elected Head, Posydu+ BiWie Lo Lhe IegiBi@bIVe body, Gspeudg NO WMU"ey but Wait Wey appropriate dod uadertuniuy 20 Work but suck as tiey Ofuer, “Lis Systeul nus WorKca Well Ab Lhe Stale, wud da BrOORI) L1OK Ve years 5ub> SeqUuELt Lo CONsULOUKOR Wo DUG pracucal proos Loab Jobs 5 eComvuuEdi 1A OPET4 lou us 46 Was Wise Gud COnSUMOudl Adega, Under bi, as Wades Like Mlabe aud sederul povEruuients, Lisi Was clear Givision belween the legislative aia excouutve Olivers. ‘Tue COmMstouy bY Wilor Cus cl scheWe las beea Vlad wud tae city ei Geo’ ANG EXtravagauce, Bro eAoh w ULVUsL. American cumpouud of legidlaave aud exve AUACLONS IL CLG budY. 90 Lar as bus BULeS ure Jauve taey suould beoug Wo Une INMuiCIpAl Wegislue ute. do far as buy Wie EXLOUUVE, One Mew Of fuwa depuruuncab, uv & special VOard, SuONG exer else Lue. 1k Que Gilloer Lan be Scorevary of War, oroi tig Navy, ah our whole Country, Waere Is tae need Of inove (Maa Ove olllver at Lue lead OF Bay ONG exvoullve deparcnens of UUs city’ goveruunene t ‘Vie Luuclions vi: Cougress Wk the Luo, oF ot Wie Senate and Asseaby ia We Sutie, be.oug in every cy tO the CouNnom Uvuticu lercod; aud those powerg reswred, by reviving (he origiwal Cuurter Of COus0L.0etO bud suhag 4 Rew @iecuve Read ior each depurunens ere awd since viat tune, On the saue foo. OF respunstOiity bo vue COMMON Couuci, us the Curct Of the Foaco ur Street Comuminsioner tet. pied, Whi Wace Our city RuVernMeRt What te Was Wael taxution Was one ddd a Lad per Gent wstead ot 10U When cily debs Was Mcousideran.e instead Of coor: wous, Aud Waed lac VeOple O1 Lae clLy Mad Over ue cily goVerMinent aud every Gepurtincat Laereot Wie Saul Couto tuey SUil have Over every Geparuneat Of the ple KoVEerMuical., Sehator aiurpay, Wau, With myself dud otuees, Some sili ving, (ramed the copsolidation charter, Was Justiied in Lue pla ay 1s CcONOMY LA Workings, alnd i Pejoice, aintd Lue suns: Joriunes me City Was x perience: Ghia TACHLUN LaNita Col Os Sue Seale BoV We nave at last a Legisiature Ik Wuicu DIS Luiluence Ab ID Clewins away ble LucoGsisteul wie ToinoNs “unomdncals” Lit Aave Leva Lucked On to ducing the west our years, CHARACTER OF COMMISSIONS, The special laws Guder walea taese coantsed and Abnorm Couuissivus, pardy Wave, pardy Ave, aye peed Created wave Gud.uincd Lew of the checks amd sulegdards tias surroudd = the expeudiites aud powers of the Como Counc, Wille luey ave contwined noue Whatever OF Lue Imnications Of power visae witaca UMicr ihe Charier lo the Comptotier, stivet Commissioner or Oua elocied head of & acpartmeat, Lhe doabie charac ter Ol & COUNMIE8.0n saves We Leo. ChecKs both Ways. 1i bas Ue powers of Volk bruuches of the city gov. erument aud tie liukiations of Lei ty vows wWay money ia is legiviauve capacity Wiluout beng bound LO pibuse is Duuates OF Deg & Burkeved to $100 expen Uuereol Ald du ily execuuive cuaraccer Lt curries ou Work without auy widave body to supervise Ls dh 1ugs, SUCU us EF yevled to by tanom Some... ‘Loerotore, if MS cOiitussions aad always actea striclly withia their lawittl powers they wntist jaye been extravagant, because they Were in da coustitulion wad icresponsivie ta detat, The Puvite AULHOTILES OF Ne peopie. ub ¢ of tue have givasly ANG Wantomiy eXcseded we ley aL powers Wey procured ior tueaiselves, 460 boldy Seb at dedunce whe piamest requirements of tue | uh uney were constiluled. 2 uuubl un rs sof tis, bat Contine mbysei, ia oraer LOL vo Weary you, LO a Savio EXAPE, Lidl OL Me Pruspecc Park Commission, @ brief absirace of the distucy of Wich is hereto appended, From tuis glance at the Jaws wader Wich Lae Park COnMbsiod nas beon acubg you wir per that i & giganuc cup denve operation at tie city’s expense had been de signed (rots tie Ursé tue legisiatiod and te Policy of the Commission gould nut Welt have been olher Wa tiey have been, ‘Lhe intention avowed aud or nialiy incurporaqed in legisiadon Was io tn @ CORE Of $009,000 & Dark 14 Ot loCALION, Whale Wi «OR Was LOWLY UB Oided 132i asa park Kon, ata COSL, adding Lugerest, of nine jitlons, Aka Lor the Completion Of wich we are to be asked 10 add ocser Tuidons more, With DO Helter assucance Wal tea or tweive millions Wilk eud tie Job than We ab rst had that one: of juiion Would sultlce, J wound faim hope tuut tae scneme, developed, Was BO’ COnvoctod froIl The Slaib, Lo be revealed oy degrces Lt ali its deceptlye aud ott Fageous proportions mM iater iegisation. Buc how did the suid Street Commissioners Know, severai Years in advance of any puvite suggession to Liat euect, that Luird soreet Would nov novd maproye- Ment above Nintu avenue? ‘Tuts ladicates, 10 wes than the twenty-(oid sauitiplication of cost of hue provement, tial the Pars Couusoion teom we be inuing had ong project in their uuinda, Involvieg & totally ditergnt scheme from thas for whieh iney obuwuned The Legisiaiye sanclion. At least $1,000,009 on the Muth avenue extension sionewmigat have been saved to the cliy mm buying we property, by takiag in that land originally, vad the public KNOWL ine What the Third pirees Commission evideuiiy knew, for they outained their act on the same day ay the Vark Commussion obtained thew original aw. Ve head Of @ deparuiday THE PARK COMMISSION ARRAIGNED. is evidence of along contempiaved moulding of public legisiation to private interests is supple- Incnted by the entire negioct af the commission 10 improve the part of tae Park casi of Flatbush ave- nue. On the one side we tad W Known to the Tard Street Commission, trom the beginning, that te Park woula extend to Ninth avenge, tuouga tue law fixod iis boundary. at Yentn avenue. Ou tie other side we find the Park Commissioners reiusing trom tag beginning to lmprove tie east side, cough the law required them to improve that part equally with the otuer. In Washingion Park we tind an explics inatidatory law oi ttuprovement utterly disregacded, wnd luatead of the hoprovement a proposition made to sei. But sult More fodicative of the high-banded Ulegaitty Of the whole course of this commission has been tue tuanser gud extent of drawing money irom me city treasury. ‘Tue law plaily pru- vided that tieir expendisres shonid pass througn tne City Treasurer's office in the same Way as bills of the Strees Commissioner or any otner aepartment. Then there woula have been public knowledge of now every duilar was expended, and the Common Connell would have had # check on the accounts. Huy the commission has drawn ita money im oulk from the city treasury, renderiog no account in detail, aad at one period previous to my Mayoralty in 1868 tuey bad drawn no less than $600,000 in excess of the outside iintt then permitted by law. As stated above, this une account uae added to our city dept no ies @ sum than $7,258,000, besides $1,587,000 raised in the taxes aud lor interest. i it surprising Wat our local expenditures, im moncy paid and money borrowed, have reacued $1,000,000 ® bionth When such irresponsible vodies, tram pln, even on laws of thelrown procuring, have usurped the functlous Of the elected representatives of the citizens t VAS COST PER FAMILY. ‘There are probably not to exceed 0,670 famules, or that nuwber of dwellings, in our city iwo-day. Bestues the oppressive taxauon of tbe ieveral gov- ernment, enhancing Une cost of all we eat, wear or use, the expenditaces (ur local taxation and added debt) of the past twelve months have averaged $2uu, four dollars a weex, on each of the houses or famt- lies of Krookiyn. [ caanot be wrong im declaring that this monstrous extravagance inust cease or our city’s growing prosperity will soon become a tradi- lon. It is not the statement of such Ommous iacts exist that injures the city’s credit; it 1s the facts themseives that are hurifui. [would giadiy avoiw unpieasant iorebodings if false contidence’ would give real security. But there 18 ho hope of adequate Yeform, unless in @ truthful exbtbition of the extent my. ‘individual interest as a taxpayer, to commbnicate 1o you the truth respectng our financial condition, I have statea it without ex aggeration, and only without discouragement be- cause the remedial measures are 80 ohvious dnd be- cause I believe that in the Legislature now about to meet we shall at last dnd «a majority disposed to legisiate in favor of, instead of against, that elective MAR’ 'LEISCH, a The following city oMcera were tuen elected by bailot of tie Board:—President of the Board, Jac 1. Bergen; City ae a William @. Bishop; Asasrant Keeper of the City Hall, Thomas McGuire; Messen. ger of tne , Andrew McDonald; Engineer of the City Hall, Timothy Wara; Inspector of Pave-, ments, Mastern District, Willtaw Irwin; Inspector of Pavements, Western Disirict, Philp Olare; Seaiers of Weights and Measures, estern District, James Fagan, Michael Conlon; Seaiers of Weights and Measures, Eastern District, Joun GO. Bowman, Peter OnJan; Keeper of Decks, Kastera District, Patrick Oi Gierk of the Market, Pairick Ward; Keoper of Water Closets, Daniel Murphy. Tho Com H ado Louncil (hen adjourned (or one week, BROOKLYN COURTS. SUPREME COUNT—SPECIAL TEAM. The Grout Winter Luancy OasemArgament ou Motion for Commission. Before Judge Gubert. In the Matter of Willian Winker, Alleged wo be @ Person wf Unsound Mind,—This matter, which has been so frequentiy before the courts, came up on an order made by his Honor, Justice Gilbert, on the 18th of Lecember, 1860, returnable yesterday morning, whereby it was ordered “inat said Wile Wuner end Join H. White, ins trustee, show cause bofore che Spectat Term of che Supreme Court, at Brooklyn, on the firs: Monday of January, 1970, why the default of Venjamin W. Downing, tho guardian ad tivem of the infant petitioners, M. and MLW, Livingston, taken on the 10tu of April, 1869, should not ve opened, and way the order then made vacating the order of Pebruary 20, 1869, and super- bediug the commmission grauted herein on sald last natned day should not be set aside and vacated, and Way the commissioners named tn said commission, OF uch GLiers as Baall be appointed in thei stead, shout ALb De directed to proceed With the excca- Gon of aid Comission OF of SuGh OLber COMMIssI0R ud pall Do granted herelu, gud Why such Olacr order biLOWid Not O6 Inwle as Saal Oe Proper.” ‘the order iva recess wt fodows: ud ab appearing by Whe papers Leveia taut eat Walia Winter bs ib Cuaree aint Cusvody 0) one Krancis W. Harvey, who reitoved said Winwer frou the State ot New York aura, We pendency or the former proceedmys Hexen, to pad warliey 18 herepy ordered Lo voloaln trom reuoving said Winter from toe jurts- dichon Of Gus court, OF frou seCrettog in frou, the bait Beatadia W. Downing or lis counse: herein’? is appears Waal om Lue zlk of rebruary last Lue Su- prome Court 1a Brooklya tested & commission de Tidaucd inqurendo, Upua Lue appiicudon of Ken- Jauwia W. Bowmng (who 18 We District Awor- uey for Queens county), as ine guardian of Mortuner “aud Lenry W. Livingston, directed tw Witte Hf. Guderdonk, Dr Josiah WW, barsiow wad ienry Clement, a9 commissioners. Budsequeusy, aud vet ay proceedings Were bad uuste ‘Oo hinission, oeyond the sammoving of a Jucy, the counsel tor Winter obtained au order ste, ing proceedtags aud WO show cause Why ihe com. MISSIOL SGOUId NOG OE S Beaded, Od the 10th of April, 109; au order Was made, without argument, by delauit, Superscding suca commission, prejudice Amd WitoUl Costs to eLther par 1 Lids Mats aained order Walod the pelutiouers now ask tae court 10 vacate, or to Isyue & new comms Y MICRA Lia biore Can HOW ve BY doubt Of Lhe Tayi Vaal Winter iso person of wasound Inuid. Mr. LoWasend, ON LELui Of John fH. Waite, che trustee, aod of Winter, wade the preliminary oD. jection that he ML CONIA LOS De Opened, he al- joging Liat Lie order Was made by A arrangemens parties; but Luis Ww nied by Judge counset for Mr. Dowung. mr Joa Livingston, on behalf of the infants, clasmed that tue mnouen should be heard upon te Iueriis, aad Uvat Gay liad abundant evideuce Ww Slow that Winter was & proper subject for a com- mission, yWasend insisted that the question of Win- doo Wits Pes adjudicuw—that @ a 18 een issued aader which the jury usd found Winter to be not of unsound dd, and ther verdice baving been confirmued by wart, 1b could HOd be diskurbed. she Court—Tuat was 1 1 seven years ago, and thouga Winter may lien dave been OF souud mind be inay LOW be oiherw 8 quesuou is not, theresore, res adjudicata i uiast hear tus motion OB UO WET its. wi. Lowasend then ciaiined that the petitioners Papers wele filled with scandalous matter, Air. Liyiagston denied tual ulere was any scan- 1ou8 maticr ut the payers. ‘There were maby alle: Gains of slaieneuts, Weck a lawyer Walle Raving cr dacharge had made wo Winter, as to soca sehee Over aud Lhe corrapuon of Judges: and uilcers; bUC RO CUE be a the truta of any BUCH Sialements. y were lu ed io the moving papers as Wincer’s Owa story, aud lor tue purpose of suOWiNg What @ ool he Was to be controlied by sucH apsurd abut, Sir, Aruistrong, counsel for petitioners, corrobor- ated tue assertion that there was notvug xcunda. lous in Lhe inoviag pupers; ihey showed WAL mon- Birous stocies Wilitdur Wiater could be made to i what course was adopted to ingaen 1 iG, Kae as nosanc man woud, for Ment, gIVE credeuce & ‘the Ooutt—Lie tiotiou uust be heard upon the merits, Mer. Townsend applied for tme—o1 papers la auawer Lo thos Court ge month—to of tite petiaouers, AY LE LOL InBi., yick day the earluy of Wwe WOLOR Was Frags i. He: PROUBEAN (NERLLIGESCE, BC LLDEN Daring we year 1§69 there have Brooklyn 2,004 buildiags Of all classes, of which were brown stone fronts, 893. ort brik w and 1,457 frame dwoilings; 6 stoue, Ls 12 irae chureues; 9 brick and 1 irame rick and 23 frame manufactocie: iraue storehouses. ‘Lae greatest of Lulaings erected in any one ward was o‘Twency-lirst, 615, aud the simaliest numer 5, tu tue MouTuk Ward. ily Thiman eutered the Liquor siore of Thomas G, e, corner of William and Imlay streets, Sooth Jirooklyn, where they hud two or wares driaks and then rreied about the payment, ‘The proprietor Piilmaa oub of the store. Kramer came to stauce Of bis Iriend by striking Little on the heat wiih & sivag shot, udictng & severe wound, A iew of the ine@auds of the injured manu who hap- penod to be in tue place upon Kramer, knocking him down, breaking his nose aud obberwise Abusing him, Kramer was taken vo the City Hospital, i i FOiRMAN SPRELT MURDER, Edwin Percy Indicted by the Grand Jary for the Mujvr of Thomas Unyes, the Night Wetvchman. Kdwia Perry, ander arrest for the alleged murder of Tuvinas Hayes, the private watchman at Har- beck’s stores, Furman xircet,’ brooklyn, was in- dicted for murder tn te first degree by tue Grand Jury wilch wae empaneded in the Court of Oyer and Verminer yesterday. Yesterday aiternoon he Was brought uito court, aud as the Grand Jury had fauled to present the bill to the Court ne was mot ar- ralgned. Mr. Charles 3. spencer, one of his counsel, moved to postpone the trial of the case unt Mon- day next. District Attorney Morris opposed, and said he was ready for trial this week. Mr, Speneer thought it, would be an unusual Wing to try a man for # capital vitence within a week aiter tne indigtuient, aud he felt surprised that the District Attorney should oppose 1 postponement in order to evabie the pri-oner to get ready. ie asked for an adjourament anttl Taursday, aod expected to get it, be tmoughi Uiat no counsel should try 6 case of thia character before spending days im preparation in reference to questions of law alone, District Altorney Morris sarcastically observed that he at1 not suppose the Coenrt wouid adjourn a case to enable counsel to study law.g Mr. Speacer retorted by sayiug that the District Attorney was not too old fo idurn faw yet. He would find that he could empioy a portion of bis time use- Twiy in the study of the law between now and the ay of tue trial. Jusge Pratt intimated to counsel for defence that they ought to be reaiy by Tuesday next. He would noc be in Brookiyg on Mouday, as he had to sit im Urange county. Mr. Spencer said they would then be ready. Mr. Morria opposed a postponement throughout, and expresved nis deswe Lo try the case tis week, Judge Pratt said vhat as the prisoner had not been srratgned he would not cuter an order; buc when the prisoner was arraignea to plead he would lisica w au application for @ postponement. Perry was then remanded, He will be arreigued tw-auy. YH (MPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Letter from Mr. E. H. Webnter, Late Col- lector of the Port of Baltimore, BeLain, Dec, 31, 1859, To THE Eyrvoss of Ay BaLsiMone Gazerre:— GPNTLEMEN—MY attention bas beem called to-day, for we first time, to an editorial in your tasue of tie ¥ith inat., In regard co tho impeachment trial of ihe late President Johnson, and the alleged corrapi use of money to secure his acquital, in watch occurs the following language, which you quote as having been used by Mr. Cornelius Wendell, of Washington city, at an interview held with him a few days ago:- “That rai ” be said, “by Henry B. Bi he never reached Wasabi Nhe febster, the Baltimore Collector, raised « jot, which ‘hice to kaow 0 awore Was paid to counsel. I would yunsel Ne What couusel, None ‘of those employed in the cxae ever Fecelved it. Tt.was @ good pretence on wi raise money ‘plad more {revly shan tuey would had they knows thatthe money would go ao further than the Collector's ‘This language contains such an asperston upon my al un and bonur—whether tt emanate rom Mr. We or some newspaper corrrespun- fom. matiers mol—that ] cannot couseut to pass it tm atience. In the first place the general intimtaiou contained 1h the article, that Iwasa party tw tho of money to bay Senators, or for suy other cor ;or imp! or that 1 was aware that any in connes- roper purpose, muuey was ‘to be used for such purposes, tion with Mr. Johnson’s trial, is abso! tirely faise. And in the secon: ave, a8 ttactly charged im the language quoted, that I col- lected mongy in connection witi tals twial which 1 did not pay over, bat, on the contrary, put into my own pockets, is equally as false. ‘The facts, In brier, of my entire connection with this matter are substantially a¥ followa; and tacse Jacts, | may aad, I swore to before aa investigating commiites of the Honse of Representatives, shortly | after the trial of Mr, Johnson waa over, having ared Lefore sid COMMILVOE Aa vo Weir al suLnIBOns:— i Was 10 tie Habit of visiting she Depart- mount, while I was Collector of the port of more. almost every week, in the transaction Of oficial duty, At one of these visits, during Lie progress of the impeachment trial, Mr, Kamund Cooper, for- merly member of Congress from ‘Tenneasee, ten Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, said lo me thas the counsel feos in “Mr. Johnsons defeuce would be considerable, and that in view of the fact that Mr. Jonnson was comparatively a poor man, aid Liat he was subjected to wie tal because be dared to reaist the encroachments of Conzreamonal wer, he thought nis trends ought not to permit hin (Mr. Johnson) to bear these expenses, but should th: elves raise the amount Deccesiary to defray tod. Lreptiod that f fully agreed in opinion with bia, and expressed my willingness to Sremqonegeyt 4 the money, at the saine thae asking him how jue he thonght | ougnt Wo rau. He replied unat two or turee thousand Collars Would be a berai Bun, On my redura vo Baltimore T stated tie (acts of tig Interview LO several Of the most prominent aud WOst Fespected merchants, and these genvenen contributed and collectea among thelr” vusties @ssocliies, and paid over to ie a som sOMLW!eL less than $2,000, Ido not remember the amouni at this time, though 1 (hea had, aud thie Loonid yet fiud among iny papers, & list Contain ug the bwine and amount of cach contmbutton. tn ad- dition vo tis { rowed a Jew hungred dolians frou Qiong Uke perscnal iriends of the resident. put none of it from iy suveruini m ihe Custom House, the Lola amount taus colleoiod, tei ling $100 whuet } contributed myself, wad uo Midividual contrioniod wore Gia UiAb But, Was 2.000 ry dollar oO: this 4 paid, Withous uuuece-sary Y, to Mx. Edmund Couper, i the presence of tie Hon. Stevenson Archer, M.C., Who perils Me Vo Use Lik Dame in this Coumection, At tue kane tame J vaid lagi if desirabje 1 had no daubt } could Vory easily raise more money, Mr. Cooper said le did not desire me to do so. | never did aootner dollar In connection with Ww beyond the sum thus paid to Mr. Couper. in com clusion, | desire 10 say, Mn the fulest sense, Wat if BLY Soliton Was brived to voie lor Mr. Jounson's sequital which 1 do not believe, I bad no iot or partin that digraceta! business, and was aud am Utterly Ignorant Of any purpose or atteuipt to do 80, 1 Wil!'wiso add that im tay opiatun Sir, Johnson Was entirely incapabie of couseaung vo the ase of such Uproper aienns bo preyeus cvavictou. Clakaing the right at jeast to have Luis comunal- cation placed as prominentiy in your coluans &s Was Lie artic Which Contained saeh Gumerited iu pucations, | au your ovedi cvanb, £ No, WEBSTER. TURCO-RUSSIAN BaTHs. To rue Bprrok OP Tus HERALD: in your paper of the 24th ult, there ts a virulent atiack upon ine broadway Turko-ttussian paths. 1 am there named a8 the proprietor, That ia uot serlotly the fact, as tue property will not come into my hands untiinext May. Verry Fuller, the friend of Andrew Johnson, invested $25,000 to Ream & Co., to whom f granted a lease, which does not expire until next May, at which time i will revert to me, bSitil my interest ma the baths will be so Immediate that I shall answer all these charges and show how utterly baseless they are. You have published in your wide. Journal a corresyoadence and made comments upon it, wack, as you say, “il Would have serions consequences, and “make bathers give thei (the batus) 2 wide bertn.” You have pnbiisbed In ruil wawt are set forth as detaila We now ask lor at least an eyuat amount of space for as full and expiteit a deni ‘The correspondence begins by speaking of certain tanks, ums:—"A young man of about tweaty, at Atwood's drug store, is the informant. He states that the water from the bath 13 pumped up fresh on Menday; tbat it 18 used by bathers, runs mio tanks | and is puioped back agai,” and 30 on~"pumping on ana runping out watt Thursday, when fren water is brought in.” This contaims the whole gist of this “ontrage” of these “astoutshing discoveries. But this “young inan’s” statements are sunply én toa, We can positively say, frst, itat tie water Wiuch supplies the bath rans direc! from the Croton, and that When once used it 1s not pumped back again for the use of the bat! , bat that every time the plunge bath is emptied it fs reilled by the sim- ple act of turmng ou the Croton nose; that as the Plunge bath 1s the cold bath, and as it 13 in a room with the thermometer never ianging under 112 degrees Faorenheir, It conid never be kept as a cold bah unicss it was constantly changed by a regular supply Of cold Croton; Uiat ike puup attached vo the steaud engine 18 only used to ubrow np water ty Gt ine tok im tae laundry on tue tnd story, aad to supply the caster: vig water to those wh tel and oMeces; th: Atwood's store are not used, as Mr. Atwood hlaself will tesuly, which he knows from the jact that he sees their condimon dally; and further, that the plumber who dited the . and ig often on the premises, s tre whole arrange- went while doing CONSLUBLIY PeCUETINg piNnid- dug Work of the establishineat, and Kuows and will testily that they have never been us pose lor Which they Were Due had De pleted, natotly, to supply the forte and the aquaria which ornaoens we upeniug iio one end of the long us one of the sets of dressing rooms opens. tended tat Uus flow of water soul thirteen hours each day. Even if tye waste wate ran tarouga Uks holding inany ravary & large Miter nitached to the barreis of fiilering materials. But, once for all, tuese tanks lave never been used; consequontly the fountain duer not play, and ‘Vhe rocks are there they bave no sparking Farther on this correspondent fays, “Let them go tw Atwood’s drag store and he wil show thear the vais.’ Myr. Atwood knew aottung of these “abominable,” these “beastly? charges until he sew thew in the HERALD, We have only to repeat: Let all go w Mr, Atwood. He Js & profes#ionai nan anda geptieman, aud not likely io faisty im the Watter m repiy bo way Yucsions pul to aim. The next miormant says:—“On the third story there is a large bathing wb, wherein I obse-ved two men, and a third, Who had just got out.” Tata Informant is a9 incorrect 11 his localley as in otkor respects, ‘The baths arg on the firs) story, wid the steam chaluyer, with its many marble coucies, aad also the plunge bata, are entered vy ¢oing up’ uve steps more. Thfs bathing tub 13 2 large plunge bata, four feet deep, With a Nighi of steps in the uatddie of each, and large enough tor persons to Swit around, and ‘this bathing tub—the piuage bath—1s part of the arrangements of tne Jargest bathing estab lishment m the United states. There are thirty-two dressing rooms, au steam rovm with marble couches for thiriy wvathers, and jiounges for an equal number tn the recepuon room, aad this “baling tab” i 03 & correspond- ingly Jarge scale. These “two men” and “the (uird,”? “wito had Just got out,” might, bur for the auimus ol the Whoie communication, have in Courtesy been called gentiemen, inasinach as vhe provabliity is that “the luspector” would have found that these three ‘men’ nad @ divine, an edilor aud a poysictan among them. The enure letter to which we allude Is an jusalt to those thonsands who nave bathed here sive the batius were Opened, soWe OF them baying begin dauy regular #isitors ever since Gieir foundation. Can 16 be that persous who are oi such fastidious hapits that their daily bath i to thea as precious aa tueir daily breakfas: are so defictent iD taste and smeil as not to know whether the water which they drink is pure Croton? ‘Tuey know that tie water they drink comes fromthe same source as that im which they bathe, for they drink from the same bose that iia the bath, and were there auy impure smeil tie heat 16 Lue bathing rooms would render it more apparent. Whot this informant further says about the tanks is all auawered elsewhere., Pity it is ais inepector did now spect, and then be wonld not have raised up another shadow to dgnt agaist. ‘The inspector tuat did not inspect saya, “There- fore, if any chemicals Or Meaieines are used tn the provess of tue Russian oatiing leavier than water they owuat fall to the bottom and pass through tie pipe and fauces to the lower tank warm, wheuce tite Water 18 pumped to Wo bathing tub’? Wise-in- spector! In this passage, as iu some of his otners, he “proves too much.’ Imagine pumping warut water into a cold pluuge, Wien every care has to ve ‘used to keep that water a3 cold as possibie. Tien he coutinags tius:-—"As to the effect of this on tne anman mm 1 most obrally refer it to the medical deparvment.” Mr, wditor, 1 must repeat the od dying statesinan’s words, “See you, my Lag | how litle wit the world is governed.” Had “inspector’’ outy inspected he migut have spared himself the effort of this long-winded sentence und would have founa that ao “cucuicals or medicines!’ Whatever are uaed mn the Russian baths, Furthermore, if this “inspector” bad inspected he would have found by an inspection of the books of the Croton Board that from about the time when these “wanks” were made, and up to the present ume, the Croton water supplied to these baths was avout doubie what hy Lad previously beeu unler any former management. ‘ in conclusion | must add, a8 you bave net only Mnnerted these libellous communicat ‘pdt have deemed them worthy of editorial notice, I am cond. dent that, with your usaal impartiality, Pn will as Accord as fall an opportunity forénis anvia wes granted for the poison. He that does no fear wrong need inquiry, 1 desire tuil investigation of the facia Brite cuse. 1 Charges oy to. Dropure ‘aiidavity tt necessary, ta e ly av ni support of tt. Witla o1os0%. EMIGRATION TO TEXas.—Letters from Texas 4 ‘thas the tide of Immigration bow flowing into State is without @ 4t comes pa directions and 1s iiling up various parts of the grea’ State, Ont the Share of the new comers go to ‘the northern aud Horthweatern countics. Tae be. come grain facmers and ure greatly tucreasing, — Product of the region mul the price of A Tati and triendicss girl, aged thirteen years, was forciviy rescued in Virgiata Ovy, Nevata: fou @ iow dance house by We ductal sud placed uader the provocuon of tue Sisterg of Charity, ee 5 GREAT COUNTERFEIT SENSATION Conspiracy to Bring mf Repudiation. ASTOUNDING REVELATION. An Ex-Confederate Colonel Dis- closes the Plot. Tho Conspirators BToct in the Tan- many Wigwam. Ex-President Johnson, Governor Hofman, Senator Morgan and General Frank Blair in the Conspiracy. Unusual exettement prevatied for some considera- bie time yesterday tu the clerk’s ofice of the Uaited States Circuit Courtover the particulars of a case wich was brought before Commissioner Shields and United Staces District Attorney Jackson for exam- ination, Tacre was, of course, a party in the case, thouga no charge was preferred against tim. He Was selfsurrenderes to the authoriues as bo was aiso sel!-acoused, and ultimately leit the Comms. sioner's Gourt for lodyment In Ludiow Servet Jail on a Warrant issucd on ap afidavit sworn w by him- ‘The particulars of the extraordinary cave, so far as they could be evoked from the perplexing ques. tious, and the doubts, speculations aad suspictons of the man’s sanity, which were bandied about aud Induiged iu by the privileged, semi-privileged ana amateur officials that will sometimes congregate in the best conducted offictal sauctum of law and order are these:— Some six months ago the District Attorney, Bristow, of the Kentucky district, writing from Covington, mformed the Secretary of the Treasury that he had iu mms charge a man named Houston King, who bad made to bim the most astoucdi revelations concerning tie existeace of a wide- Spread plot, having its ramulcations from one end of the Union to the other, and permeating all ranks and degrees of men thereia, to ram the eredit of the government, to force repudiation and issolvency and general bankruptcy, in fact, upon it The pian adopted fo carry out tals termbie denyn of tae Conapirators was t ood the country with counverfeit ~money—couvterfer —_ green backs—and national bank notes and spurious worthless specie. Mr. Vristow forwarded all the oral stuvements made to him by King, and, besides, several documents, setting forth in fall all whe crr- cumstances attending and surrounding the ucep- tou Of the plot wud tue progreas 1 Lad made up ta the present tine. ‘Tuese papers and all tae iafor- mation thus recetved atthe Treasury Departmens were forwarded to Colones] Whiteley, chief Treasury detective iu this city, with instructions to read everything set forth carefally and to report his oplvions abd couciusions thereon, The conciusion that the shrewd Colonel came to was thas the inan Who had made ali these representations to tae gov- ermment must be insane; and 60 he reported, and 60 the government waa willing to con- eeae, Dat Srisiow and King, the former in his oMeial capacity and in fulfiiment of what ho doomed ts duty m the premises, kept writing tothe Department making fresti develop- ments of the Ku Klux Kian conspiracy against the goverument—the term which Klug always gives to lus revelations. ‘The rosult of this persistency on the attenuon of the gorcrament lead to the matter being piaced in the hands of Colonel Hoagtand, sta- toned at Washington. Tuis ollicer paid a4 litle credeuce to the most naseemly tales disc.osed to him as dia Colonel Watteley, but he thought tt rignt tocommupicate with King, and he, mg loath, at the first tnvitution.to come to Washington, pre sented himselfin duo time before the authorties, there attended by a lawyer from King’s own plu but seemiagly as much 1a want of ballast aboard as King himself, The Treasury Department couid tnake neituer head nor (ail of the Blory, and so, as ib all such cases made aod provided, they got rid of the trouble by seuding thera to this etty, When broagit before Commussioner Shields King’s only anxiety Was Lo be sent W Jail, that he might get some rest; but as there was bo Charge against him, aud as the officers who had himin charge up w this time were getting tired of escorting lum all around, King himsetf, anxtous for the accommodations of a prison, went up before the District Attorney ana swore av aliidavit against himself, upon which a warrant was issued and te was committed to jail. KING AND HIS STORY. ‘Yhe discoverer of the great greenback counterfeit piot for the depreciation of the currency and ult. mate repudiation of tag aallon’s falc ts about ve fect ten inches nigh, thirty-five or thirty-six years 01d, well but lichtly built, dark compiexion, aad with au unmistakabie look and afr of intelligeace. He was during the war a colonel of artillery In the Confederate service, aud was lately aud up to the concoction of the “big hoax’ he ia playing on tue ‘Sreasary omeciais, Clerk of the Court for Carter county, in Kenwucky. He says that in April, 1865, he left Now Orleans per steamer for New York. On the passage he struck up an acquaintance with one Harlow Phelps, of New Orleans, who was also proceeding to vue city. The latter, learning that King had been in the Confederate service, umparted to him we secret of the great scheme that was then only in an embryo condition in the heads of a few repudiators, North and South. Phelps being a trusted emissary intro- duced King to the conspirators in New York, and from thas tune he became as one of themstives. THE FIRST MERTING OF THX REPUDIATORS HELD IN THE TAMMANY WIGW4M. Soon after their arrival here, according to the statements given, King and his friend Poelps at- tended a Tammuny meoung, after which those pre- viously initiated inw ¢he secret remained behind, abd subsequently some 200 of the conspiravors reas. sembied in another pert of the Tammany vullding. Among those present on the occasion King cnime- rates Governor Holman, 6x-Governor Morgan, Gen- eral Frank Blair—the latier was at this meeting made presiding oMecor. King goes on to stave that tt was decided on at this meeting to commence man- ufacturing counterieit greenbacks on & large scale, in order to food the country ‘with them, to purchase up alt the Qoa with them and by this means to withdraw sii the specie from the banks and from private holders, and to#o depreciate tue currency ond paralyze all monetary transactions and Snancial business as must bave evoked a popular ristag of tho People against the government and thus compel a Tepudiation of the national indediednesa. ASDY JOMNSON IN THE CONSPIRACY. King further statea that President Jonson was perfectiy aware of tue whole thing—that he was heart and #oul tn the conspiracy, and that his ap- pointment of Mr. Cooper as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was in furtherance of tae general object, ‘Tne foregoing are the main points ia King’s writ- ten Statement and sworn alidayits. Press of bust- hess On Commissioner Shields’ docket for the aay Prevented any learing in the case, and King, as be- fore stated, was sent to Imdiow Street Jail apon a warrant issued upon an adidavit sworn to by bira- self against nimself, Cocmissioner Shields hu- Manely directed the surgeon of the prison to make ‘an exatnitiation into King’s mental condition and to Teport thereon at the examination to be held to-day. TRE MATCH FOR THE PRIZ: RING CHAMPIONSHIP. Mace and Allen—Alien Borwards a Doposit, From the 8%, Lois Republican, Jan. 1.) Yealeruay biny Garrdi posing Jor rom ahem, fee. Wurded $000 forfeit money to ik Queen, of the New York Chipper, accepting the challenge ol dace, Aiien’s proposiiuon is to fight for $2 500 a side, within filty niles of Ciueinnadl on the Sth July, 1370, and if any party is arrested ta any other State, that Parey forieite tio money. The fyat tg also to be, aw H alleged by Cacvou, for the champlapalip of tue } Work