The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1870, Page 5

RED RIVER. Whe British Expedition Against Fort Garry. Details of Its Crganization and Progress. Sketches of Its Commanding Officers. THE ROUTE AND ITS OBSTACLES. THE FENIANS. MONTREAL, April 30, 1870, The excitement over the trumpeted Fenlan raid Into Canada having subsided, the Canadian people are now all agog with the Red River expedition, and nothing is heard in Parliament or in any circle ‘whatever but Red River. The animated discussion in the Dominion Parliament on the subject, and the proceedings in the case of the Fort Garry delegates to Ottawa have already been published in full by the HERALD, and it is unnecessary to condense a report of them here. There seems to be an impression pre- vailing generally in Oanada that the expedition fit- ting out for Red river will not meet with any serlons realatance, but will prove to be only a sort of escort to oMicers proceeding to establish law and order ; that when the command reaches Fort Garry the set- tlements will receive it in a friendly manner, and that the only questions to be settled will be the re- sponsibility of Riel for the shooting of Scott. Of course this is all only conjecture on the part of the confident Canadians, who have an idea that the mere rumor that an expedition would be sent against Fort Garry ‘Would strike abject terror into the souls of every Winnipegger. Although there is a great deal of dis- cussion in Parliament about the expedition and some prophecies that it will yet be abandoned, there no longer remains any grounds for doubting that it will go. That matter is fixed, and the only business now ‘under consideration by the Canadian oficers is the speedy preparation and departure of the command, There 1s great opposition to it, however; first, by all the French Catholics in Canada, who naturally sym- pathize with their Red sRiver brethren, and who Lumber eighty out of about 180 members of Parliament; secondly, by the conscientious people of the Dominion, who realize what ®& rascally operation the whole business of the transfer of the Northwest Territory by the Hudson Bay Company to the Dominion has been, and who foresee complications that must ventually bring discomfiture upon this government and people; and, thirdly, the natural enemies of the party in power, who find in the Red Rivor question exhaustless resources of accusation and denuncia- on of the present Ministry. MILITARY AFFAIRS, ‘While political circles have been violently agi'ated by the Red River question, the military has been all excitement, The Fenian sensation seems to have affected the entire military organization of the Do- Minion very much as galvanic shocks enliven @ Corpse; and all over the country the Canadian troops have for the last month been in a constant quiver of excitement. Volunteer infantry and cavalry moved to and fro along the border, closely picketed by sentries, red-coated guards held possession of the various custom offices of her Majesty on the line, and officers in the interior towns and cities talked of “going to the front’ with the air of a new recruit bound for Petersburg in the last days of the rebel- lion. The Fenian scare, however, has pretty much subsided, and many of the troops at “the front” have returned to their homes. But the Red River expeditionary preparations still keep the military on the qué vive, and occasion a vast deal of drilling, parading, brass-banding, &c., while the hotel regis- ters are filled with colonels, majors, captains, &c., toadegree that forcibly suggests to a Yankee the scenes in Washington in 1862, In view of the con- tingencies incidental to the Red River campaign and future Fenian possibilities, a brief description of the military resources of the Dominion is interesting. THE REGULAR TROOPS now in Canada consist of portions of the Sixtieth rifles, the Sixty-ninth infantry, of the Prince Con- sort’s Own Rifle Brigade, and a small number of artillery. The battelion of the Sixtieth rifles is sta- tioned at Ottawa. it has a giorious military record, and its regimental colors are inscribed with the names “Robela,” ‘“Vimiera,’’ “Martinique,” ‘Tala- vera,” “Fuentes d’Onos,” “Albuhera,” “Ciudad Rodrigo,” “Badajoz,” “Salamanca,” ‘Vittoria,’ “Pyrenees,” “Niveile,”” “Nive,” ‘*Orthies,” “Tou- louse,” “Peninsula,” “Punjaub,” ‘Mooltan,’ “Goo- verat,’” “Taka,” “Forto,” “Pekin,” “Delhi.” This command numbers oul, about 200 men. ‘The battalion of the Sixty-ninth infantry numbers about 600 men and is stationed at Quebec, under the command of Colonel Bagot, whom the Quebec peo- ple are anxious should command the Raver ex- pedition. ‘This regiment wears upon its colors “Java,” “Bourbon,” “Waterioo,” “India.” ‘The battalion of the Prince Consor’s Own rifle brigade is stationed at Montreal. It numbers sey- eral hundred men, being nearly equal to a regiment im strength, and is commanded by Lord Alexander Russell, distinguished by services in the Kar war and at Sebastopol. The brigade colors are inscribed ‘with *Copenhagen,’’ Montevideo,” “Robeia,” “Vimi- era,” “Corunna,” “Busaco,” “Barrossa,” “Fuentes a’Onos,”” “Cludad Rodrigo,” “Badajoz,” “Sala- manca, Vittoria,” “Nivelie,” “Nive,” “Orthies,” “Toulouse,” “Peninsula,” “Waterloo,” “Alma,’? “Inkermann,” “Sebastopol,” “Lucknow.” All of these commands will return to Engtand soon, leaving the Dominion to her owu military re- sources. THE CANADIAN MILITIA consists of all the male inhabitants of Canada, of the age of eighteen years and upwards, and under sixty—noi exempted or disqualified by law, aud being British subjects by birth or naturalization— but all the male inhabitants of the Domiuion capa- bie of bearing arms may be required to serve in case of a levze en masse. The population thus liable to mnliitary duty 1s divided into four classes:—First, unmarried men or widoweis, Witbout children, be- tween the ages of eighteeu and thirty years; second, the same Class between tie ages of thirty and for ty- five years; third, married men or widowers, with children between eighteen, and forty-five, and fourth, the same class between the ages of forty-five and sixty years—the above being the order in which the respective c!ass7s shall be called upon to serve, The tollowing persons are the only ones exempted from military service between the ages of eighteen and sixty years:—The judges in ali the courts of law or equity in the Dominion of Canada; the clergy and Ininisters of all religious denominations; the pro- fessurs In any college or university and ali teachers in religious orders; the warden, keepers and guards of the penitentiaries, and the officers, keepers and ds of all lunatic asylums; persons disabied by Soauy inirmuys the only son of a widow, being her only support; and the following, though enrolled, shall be exempt from actual service at any time ex- cept in case of war, invasion or insurrection, viz.:— Half pay or retired officers of her Majesty’s army or navy; seafaring men and satlors Ser eraioyed an their calling; piiots and apprentice pilots durin, the season of navigation; masters of public an cemmon schools actually engaged in teaching. ‘Dhe militia is dividet into two classes, designated asactive and reserve muitia—the former being vol- unteers uniformed, supplied with breech loading armg.and equipped ready to take the fie!d at shors notice, whhe the latter remains as a recruiting gource to be d:awn upon as exigencies may require. Tue four provinces of which tne Dominion ts com- posed have been divided into nine military districts, ‘viz.:—One comprising the Proviuce of Nova Scoila, one comprising ihe Province of New Bruns. wick, three in the Province of Quebec and four in the Province of Ontario. These nine military districts have been divided into twenty-two brigade diy.sions, and are again subdivided into 146 regimental divisions. The law provides for annual paid drills of 40,000 officers and men, in addition to @iicers of reserve militia, for not less than eight nor juore than sixteen days, the number being regulated by the money vote of Parliament each year. The mien roquired for driil may be comprised entirely of yolunteers, or, if the required number‘ls not fur- nished in that way in the several divisions, the men can be drawn from the reserve by ballot, subject to the exemptions, which, it will be observed, are re- daced tothe minimum. ‘The command in chief 1s vested in the Queen, and may be exercised and administered by her Majesty versonally, or by the Governor, as her representa- five. The Minister of Militia and Defence is respon- sible for the administration of militia affairs, includ- ing all matcers Involving expenditure and of the for- tiflcations, ordnance, ammunition, arms, prmories, stores, munitse and habilimeuts of war belonging tw Canada, Thé Adjutant General 1s charged, under the orders of her Majesty, with the command and aiselphne of the militia, and is assisted by a deputy adjutant general at Mia te agit) and there is also a deputy adjutant gen- @al to command the wullitia in each of the nine districts, assisted by bri majora, ‘no active militia numbers, according to the last return 077 officers and men, viz. cavalry, 1,500; trerles, 760; garrkson’ artiil lery, 8,600; naval brigade, 233; rifles and infantry, 37,004; being port in excess of the quot of 40,000 authorized for annual ‘The reserve militia numbers as per enrolment 656,500 men, Mable to imulltary duty when required, aah f BXPEDITION is to be composed of officers'and men drafted from both the regulars and the militia, but as yet nearly rors Telating to the enterprise i3 Involved in mystery. It ts natural to infer that,atter all the excite- ment about the Red River country aud the route to Fort Garry, which has so long prevailed, the public in Canada should have me thoroughly ted in the whole subject, On the contrary, is not a publication of any | kini Whatever relating to the Red River countr to be had in any bookstore in Montreal, Every one in the United States knows how s0on American publishers flood the market with books, pamphlets, maps, &c., describing and iilustratin, every event of interest to the American people, an that"if the Rea Raver question was ai American affair full details of all the circumstances, with elab- orate descriptions of people, resources, climate and means of would be for sale at every news stand. The Montreal bookstores had a few old ina Te rts of explorations made years ago, and sold esd long ance, but made no eifort to supply the increasing and now great demand for informa. tion on the subject; and to-day, with hundreds in the city anxtou: searching after Red River publications, there is not such a book to be found, except here and there in possession of some private individual lucky enough to secure one of the old exploration reports. It is @ wonder that the oppor- tunity has not been seized upon by some Yankee. A small outlay of money and a few days’ labor woula suffice to produce a small, neat, complete and cheap publication on the Red River subject, whych would sell by thousands in the Dominion and yield a very hi peo’ prot, The Canadian con't see tt. ut if the ignorance of the community is 0 great in this respect, it is worse off in regard to the expedition, whose organization end plans are so concealed by military reticence. The exact organi- zation of the expedition is as yet a perfect mystery. Nothing can be learned from the author- ities respecting the character ee umber of the re- spective commands ethbracéd in the expedition an. force, the developments thus far definitely showin onty that the expedition will contain ‘about 2,000 men, 1,000 of whom will be regulars and the re- mainder drafted from the milliia, The regulars are detailed from the ditferent battalions to be consoll- dated into a single command, and the volunteers are selected from the various militia corps in the Do- minton, mustered in @ camp of instruction, and formed into special regiments and companies. Three hundred armed police—trained to act a3 cavalry or infantry, as occasion may demand—will accompany the expedition, under command of Captain Cameron. Circulars have been addressed by the deputy adju- tant generals to Meutenant colonels of battalions, requesting each to select seven men from his corps to be enlisted for one year certain, or two if required, for the Red River expedition, ‘The men will be re- quired to undergo strict megical examtnation, and re required to be of the heighth of tive feet seven inches or upwards. Eighty engino>rs, aud a battery of steel guns now en roude irom England, are to accompany the expedition. A large number of Indtans, half breeds and other men familiar with woodcruit aud wilderne:s travel, wiil be employed as canoe men, scouts and guides, and the expedition, when ready to set out on Its march from Fort William, on the western side of Luke Superior, will provably be the most complete milt- tary organization ever formed for such a campaign. ts Capable of holding twenty men each will be taken by the expedition for the navigation of the small lakes and Water courses between Lake Supe- rior and Fort Garry. These are flat bottomed and mere ended, with an ‘overlap’? on each side, and will be 80 constructed as to be rowed with oars in the water and dragged siong the ground around the rapids. 1¢ was intended tosend forward men with Tait to form depots at various points along he route, but this idea has been abandgned on the ground that their possible destruction by theft, or accident, or surprise, might ruinously affect the ex- pedition, Siores are being collected, blankets pur- chasea and steamers chartered, and it ts hoped that the expedition Will be afloat by the 10th of May. If, however, the 1st of June finds them started, there will be no cause for Complaint. ‘fo transport 2,500 men, with two months’ provisions, horses, cattle and artillery, will require a big Notilla, and the march will necess21 be stow and toilsome, probably re- quiring all of July to reach Fort Garry. LIEUTENANT GENERAL LINDSAY, commanding the British troops In Canada, has charge of the fitting out of the expedition. This officer, until recently a member of Pariiament tor Wigan, 13 @ Major General in tie British army. He is @ descendant of tne celebratel Sir David naar famous for his duel with Lord Wells, aid also the Earl of Balcarres, who was a general ofticer under Burgoyne at his surrender to General Gates at Saratoga. The founder of the house of Balcarres was the first signer of the Scottish Cove- nant. General Lindsay married in 1845 Lady Eulza Saville, only daughter of John, third Earl of Wex- er and woman of the bedchamber fo the ween. COLONEL WOLSELRY, the commanding oMicer of the expedition, is a mag- nificent soidier, Altnough but thirty-seven years old, he has seen service in New Zealand, Caffraria, India, the Crimea and China, on which latter country he has written a valuable book. He has been five times wounded, and wears seven medals, including the Victoria Cross. He served witn the Eightieth regiment in the Burmese war of 1852-53, when he received a medal; was with the expedi- tion under Sir John Cheape against the robber chief Myattoon, and severely wounded while lead- ing the storming party against the chief's strong- hold, for which gallantry he was mentioned in despatches; landed in the Crimea with the Nine- tieth light infantry, where he was engaged 1u many attacks, was frequently mentioned in despatches, and received medal and clasp; nop of the Lezton of Honor, Fitth class of the Medjid:, aud Turkish medal; was in the India cam- paign from 1858 to 1859, and present at the relief of Lucknow, the defence of Alumbagh by Out- Tam, and many other sieges and engagemenis, for which he was repeatedly mentioued in despatches, brevoted lieutenant colonel and decorated with medal and clasp. In 1860 he participated in the assault upon the Taku forts in China, and in all the engagements of that campaign, receiving a medal aud two clas) He 1s of light complexion, with Taustache and goatee, very modest and affable in his deportment, and is regarded with affection by all who know him. He has @ nervous manner that reminds one very forcibly of General Sheridan, and his tead is almost precisely similar to that officer's cranium, so far as phrenological developments indicate. He 18 @0 accomplished military scholar, @ practical common sense manager, brave, energetic and untiring, and probably is unexcelled in the queitice. required by his new field of duty. The flontreal News says of him:—He 13 ee, the omicer suited tor work of this kind. The author of “The Soldiers’ Pocketbook for Field Service’ has seen in his time plenty of the rude realities of mill- tary life, and no one can read his soldiers’ manual without feeling that he thoroughly understands the subject he writes about, and can, when calied on, put his theories into practice. THE MILITARY RENDEZVOUS of the expedition is established at Toronto, The use of the Crystal Palace at that city has been given by its managers to the Dominion government for bar- racks, and the troops as fast as they are collected will be concentrated there and organized into com- panies, The camp of instruction wiil be at Colling- wood, on the Georgian Bay, ninety-seven miles by Sill north of Toronto, and will become the final rendezvous of all the troops. While the recruiting and drilling are going on boats, wagous, supplics, &c,, are being hurried forward by steamer to Fort William, in Thunder Bay, ou the west side of Lake Superior, so as to be in readiness promptly wheu the ‘troops have pervected their organization, THE ROUTE of the expedition is a long and painful one. The first 640 miles, however, are comparatively easy of ac- complishment. Steamers will transport the expedi- tion from Collingwood up the Ge, 1 Bay aud pes Lake Huron, 260 miles, to the entrauce in.o Lake Superior at THE ST. MARIE CANAL, concerning the use of which the policy of the govern- ment at Washington has been go closely scrutinize. At this point the navigation between Lake Huron and Lake Superior is con:tucted by means of a cunal about 2,000 yards long on Michigan soil, It 1s gene- rally understood that the United States government will not permit the Red River expedition to pass over any Of its territory, aud thatthe canal will be closed agalust the steamers of the expedition, ‘This imposes upon + he command the neces- sity of disembarking and inarching a snort distance on Canadian soil to Lake Superior, aud with all the spe pliee and paraphernalia of the campaign to unload, carry and reship. in view of which the laconvenience to the expedition seems to be very great. It ls well to take into consideration the fact, however, that nearly all the supplies and material will have already gone forward to Fort Wil- liam ahead of the expedition; that steamers will pe at haud at the other extremity of the canal to re- celye the troops, who will probably have nothing to do i acl he of one steamer, march a few rods around the canal, embark on another steamer and goaheid, Indeed it is not impropable that the sup- piles, &c., are now quietly going through that canal, and will all have comfortably passed on to Thunder Bay before Uncle Sam 1s aware o/ it. From the St. Marte canal to Fort William, in Thunder Bay, 1s a sail by steamer Of 288 miles. Hero the expedition leaves the steamers and strikes out into the unin- habited wilderness. THE CHIEF DIFFICULTIES to be encountered by the command commence at Fort William. It was at rst proposed to proceed by the way of Dog Lake aud river to Mille Lacs, a dis- tance or sixty-three miles, with three portages; but this route has been abandoned for a more direct ono running due west from Fort William across the small Kaminitiquia river to Lake Shebardown and thence to Mille Lacs, A good road has already been built over a part of this strip, and oxen and horses will be ‘used as far as Mille Lacs, from which point the mate- vial will all be transported by man power alone. ‘The supplies, &c., will be designed for a perio! of 81x months, and, {¢ is estimated by the cominanding officers, will weigh over 300 tons. It is thirty-six miles across Mille Lacs, all of which 1s travelled with boats. Entering the river Seine, which 1s from 100 to 200 feet wide, and winds through a flat, wooded valley, a sail of ten miles brings the expt tion to the Little Falls at the junction with the F Steel river, These are literally Little Falls—only twenty-five fect high. Down the Seine, bounded by low hills of the prim1‘ive formation, @ course of sixty-six mlles, with five portages, leads to Rainy Lake. This lake contains some 500 islands, mainly composed of pale red granite and chloritic and greenstone slate; and, though they are very picturesque, they are de wolate aud barren, There are some 16,000 Indians § mend of the Saulteux tribe, and Joyal to England. The distance over and along the lake to Fort France's ts miles, Here, at the Hudson Bay Company's ere is & portage of 200 yards past Rainy Falis, Wenty-three feet high, and ‘enter Rainy river. ‘This 18 4 Magniticent ‘stream, from 250 to 45 ards Wiae, winding through an aliuvial country, rich and beauitful, and studded with groves of maple, birch and oak. ihere are a quarter of a million acres of the finest land in the world here, and navigation Is onl Lnterrupyed by tw Insignificant rapids. In the whole sev ian’ miles of river the fall is id twenty-six and a half feet. The river debouches in! the Lake of the Woods in the midst of the wooded aud fertie belt which runs west to the great plain of the Saskatchewan. The Lake of the Wools {3 crosse: into its northwestern angie, enguty-four Milles, and here the b°ats must be let, ‘Tie lake 4s crowded with numerous islands, on which the Indians grow inaize, and wild rice springs up every- where in the water. The line of march is now due bint ih + the prairie, ‘The first ape miles are wooded ‘hud swampy ond the last thirty-two are open prairie, The wood in the thnber Delt is light and open, however, the ravines are mere gulches, and the swamps can be easily fascined, rossing the Red river, about 300 fect'wide, the expedition will at last, alter 633 miles by steamer, 8403¢ miles by boa: pnd 14 giles of marching, reach Fort Garry, 1,0313¢ miles from Collingwood, SOME OF THE DOMINION NEWSPAPERS, in commenting upon the organization and pur- poses of the expedition, give a very gloomy pic ture of the route to be traversed, and predict ob- stacles before which even the most sanguiie must seriously reflect, Of course, in a route concerning which comparatively little is really known by the public, or even the government itself, there must be Many unexpected delays and disasters to be en- countered, and there is no doubt that the sombre aspect cast upon the picture by some of the Journals is not without justification toa great degree. The Moutreal News ot yesterday, in & leading editorial up nthe expedition, say: We do not alight the inteltigence o} assume that they act ry Le f our readers if we route familiar! ng public men, and journal cial reasons for scquainting themselves with tho Foule “are go mixed up with the Norhern ‘Transportation Company that thoy insist, at all hazards, that there must be a road where nature um Mi the soation Ye sal Se ceyantced soutien ompay an organic hy Bre truth, wile Mr. “Dawada, wad Sxaihitled mi frrevocably to that line by bis docoy duck, A 1m8e | e by ‘liclal reports, serves as a wilder and more absurd schome than that projected by the Northern Transportation Company never found admirers, Even Mr. McKenzie, who has a reputation for good pens to be largely company, has not the ‘moral courage to tell the country that the Dawwon road bas been @ delusion from the first, and fs but a fathomless gulf Of expenditure, Some Ontario journals proposed 10,000 or Volunteers marching to Red River.” We shall be more moderate; we shall suppoae 4,00, and explain to those “braves” the work before them, They must, of course, carry with them their 184 boats. It is taken for granted that horses or oxen and fodder wilt be provided at Thunder Bay, becuse neither hay nor oats cau be produced at that spot. ' Tho expedition we shall tmag- fnelanded at Thunder Hay. It will then have forty miles and rises abruptl: feet eeps ascending for ten miles, when an altitude of 1,050 fect will be attained; it then descends slighty until the river Kaminitiquis ts reached, when the road’ sinks rapidly, It is a toss up whether the spring freshe! ¢ not ewept away the akcmiaitiquia bridge, Dut, supposing it to exist, the opposite bank offers a sharp ascent of 750 feet, From that to Lake Shebandowan twenty miles of mountain roads must be traversed, and over tho entire forty miles the boate and all the food supplics, Learners and war material must be Gregaed and depots established. There will be needed at the lows estimate a hundred horses and carts, bi se the nd atraizhiforward dealing, becanse he ha interested in ci at transport their own food, Lake Shebanowaul le twenty-nine and o half miles long, hence. ita. further. ex: tremity is sixty-nine anda half miles from Thunder Bay. ‘The traverse of the lake wilj not ofier any dificulties, but Le- tween that take and Lake Kaskubolwe are throe short sharp portages. If horse tt port is to be employed the cattle must be brought on tn special boats with stores of fodder; if no eattle are provided, then everything must be portaged ‘on men's backs ; the campline must come into Foe sition, The expedition cannot hope for any tighting for the first three hundred tiles, because the countey 1s so denuded ant bara that no enemy can conceal themselves, The dillculties will consist in the natural Impediments of the countr road broken by incessant port 0 that at each bro: fresh system of tra: rganized. Aland. row howover wretched can. be repaired, but thi; mud turtle one will be something unknown in military movements, We ope Golonel Wolseley ia’ even te-ayersd an not gl swearing, because his patience wii be sorely teste, and bia hardest trial awaits him when he reaches the shores of the Lake of the Woods. ‘That lake is uinety milos from Fort Garry, and near it Riel will make a stand if he means to Heht.’ Our reasons for go thinking are that he will bo close to his Lase of supplies, with prairies in bis rear Ly which to em. ck evergreen cover for his ridemen. ‘The fa not fait de- di e: le- pressed character of the land. One tries to reach shore Dut no shore can be found, and, after pushing and pulling til no further progress can’ be made, those who wish to con- Hone thelr journey must jamp out of the boats; they will then find themselves on what Mr. Dawson poeiically de- serlbes asa “lake-like marsh.” ‘They must not be discour- aged when they discover that they cannot reach the sandy bottom until they are waist deep or shoulder deep in slush. No animal can venture on ita surface. A canal could be dug or faacines laid; but then Riel might objcet to so obvious an assertion of proprietary rights Thore will be one advan- tage in wading for several miles through this “lake-like marsh"—only half of the body can be exposed to the demands of the mosquitoes. Such ss a short sketch of the road to Fort Garry. The description 1s not an attractive one; but Colonel Wolseley will find the realities more serious. THE ARRIVAL NEAR FORT GARRY of the expedition will, of course, produce great commotion in the Red River settlements; but it is im- possible now to predict what wiilensué. Many are of the optoion that Ric) and his principal associates will fly from Re’ River into the Ontted States on the approach of the expedition, and that the majority of the settlers will quietly acquiesce in the establish- ment of Canadian rule. A much larger number, how- ever, are not 80 sure of the peaceable occupath the ted River section, and predict hard fightin; latter class expresses the belief, which certaloly has good grounils for foundation, that Riel wil not only be able to oppose the advance of the expedition, with @ large body of Indian alites in addition to his own forces, but that at least three thousand Fenians will have concentrated at Fort Garry by the time the expedition gets there, It 1s well known that O’Don- obue, Rici’s right hand mai, 1s a zealous Fenian, and that he has not only been a constant writer for Fenian papers in the United States, but has been In close communication with the Fenian leaders ever since the Red River troubles first commenced. Last winter an accredited and trusty agent of the Fenian headquarters was sent to Fort Garry to arrange for Fenian co-operation in resistance to the authority of the Dominion government, and when it is taken into consideration that the Red River flag is half Fenian, that the late Fentan excite- ment along the Canadian border was caused b the Fenians for the purpose of blinding the authori. ties respecting the rea! pian to throw men and mate- rial acros3 the Minnesota frontter into Red River, and that the Fenians have always been on the loox- Out for just such an opportunity to make a descent upon British rates and establish an Irish republic, the prospect of lively times at Fort Garry se2ms to be pret clear, Every one acquainted with the vast and uninhabited plains of Northern Minnesota, the sentiments of the American people in that State and the impossibility of closely guarding the boundary lune, understands how easy it 13 for the Fenlans to throw jour or five thousand men and plenty of arms and ammunition into Fort Garry. Of course the Fe- nians could not march there ina body; but they can gO in squads, with no one to hinder them, for, with the prospect of Indtan troubies, the handful of United States troops stationed at widely separated posts in the Northwest, are as helpless to stop such QD Caterprise as they would be to prevent the crows flying northward. Information from Chicago and St. Paul, and the whispered rumors in Canadian oficial circles, clearly Indicate that the Fenians will not be idie when the Red River crisis approaches, and the expedition may find its long and wearisome inarch through swamps and over precipices the least of the diMcultics to be encountered im its occu- pation of Rupert's Land. The Dominion govern- Taent expects to have the friendly co-operation of all the Indians in the Red River country, bat with the stores and other property of the Hudson Bay Coin- pany at his command Riel may be abie to purchase ‘as many Indian ailies as the expedition. Of course the officers and ncn of the expedition are in high glee at the prospect of a campaign in the romantic wilderness of the Northwest lakes, and are thirsting for that renown which only comes from the “gory field.” No doubt the peaceable occupa- tion of Fort Garry by the expedition would break the hearts of many ambitious warriors in the com- mand; but there is not much possibility of their vaulting ambition being quite so rudely thwarted, for if the signs fail not they will all get a chance to “meet the foe.” No newspaper correspondents wlll be permitted to accompany the expedition. THE SHELTERING ARMS. The following 13 an extract from the Protestant Churchman, Season of Lent, 1870, in reference to the late Bazaar of the Sheltering Arms:— Our great purpose has been to strengthen the hands of the rectors of St. Bartholomew, Grace church, the Ascension, Calvary, vhe Atonement, St. George's, the Incarnation, the Anthon Memorial, St. Thomas? church, the Reformation and the Holy Trinity, in their efforts to free a noble institution from a glaring abuse, by making the disconnection of this Sisterhood the absolute condition of this co-operation. This “co-operation”? has, as is known, compeilea the resignation of the Sisters from thefr charge at the'Sheliering Arms, driven them fort from their home and separated them from thelr work after years of the most falthful and devoted service Under the pressure of this confusion and distress their friends, ip answer to numberless inquiries and propositions from all quarters, desire that measures be taken as s00n as prac- ticable to establish and secure to them an institution of their own, where they may be shielded from unfriendly approach and mis- encima ani thelr entire self-devotion and self-sacrifice tor the love of Christ and His poor not counted against them as unpardonable sing. Forthe moment they are resting from _ the tatigue and hard- ness and persecutions they have endured through the Lenten season; but it is hoped that, with ine blessings of the Easter tide, their sorrows have passed away and will be forgotten. This communication has been kept back for two ‘Weeks on account of the Bazaar, that no word from any friend of the Sisters might interfere with its success, Contributions for the new ‘Institution for Sick and Orphan Children’? will be received grate- fully now in this clty or from other cities or from the country by the Jate treasurer of the Sheltering Arms, Miss Ellen Kemble, 62 West Twenty-f'th street; the Supertoy of the Sisterhood, 41 West For- ty-sixih street; Mra, General Dix, No, 3 West Twen- ty-tlrst street; Mra. Audrew W. Legga’ aight street, and Mrs. Goorge Tf, Strong, 113 Bast Twenty- first street. Naw YORK, May 2, 1870. journed meet ng the followin: a YACHTING. Organization of a New Club in Boston Under oo) Favorable Auspices. Boston, May 4, 1870. A few weeks since a number of gentlemen, while accepting the hospitality of @ well-known citizen, adopted a3 a topic of conversation the approaching yuchtiag season. The advantages of our bay, the intereat felt in naval architecture, and the fact that many excellent yachts werg gwaed Jy the Eastern States, were commented upon, and it was finally de- termined to organize aclub. For this purpose @ sud-committee was appointed to nominate officers and prepare a constitution and bylaws. At an ad- named gentlemen ‘were nominated and elec:ed ofleers of the associa- tion, which 1s Greanined uuder the mame of the “Eastern Yacht Club: — Commodore—Captain John Heard. Vice Commodore—Captain Franklin Burgess. Seoretary—Jonn Jeffries, Jr. Treasurer—Joseph P, Gardner, Measurer—Georgs Z. Slisvee, Regatia Commnittee—Robert B. Forbes, David 8. Endicot Peavody, W. G, Saistonstail, At subsequent meetings of the club, which already embraces a large number of oor ifuential citizens, the general administration of affairs and the details Incidental to such an organizat.on were perfected, The signal of the c'ub ils @ pointed burgee, al: nally stripped with biue and red, with a flve-pointed white star in the centre of the rod stripe, The aig- Nals adopted are those known as Rogers’ Code of Signals for the Use of ali Nations. The sailing regu. lations are the same as those of the New York Yacht Club, with some modificat'ons, The seal represents @ yacht under full sali, and the mosto 13 “Aure Vela Voganta.” The honorary members tnelude the Secre- tary of the Navy, Socre‘ary of the Tre:sgury, Collector of he Port of Boston, United States Districy Judge and Circuit Judge, the Admiral of the giation aud the commandant of the Navy Yard at Charlestown. It ts proposed to hold two regattas, at the opening and at the close of the season. ‘The Regatta Com- mittee, whlic Pacronahly versed in their duties, are not owners of yachts which will compete in any re- gatta, and though yachts under twelve tons will be allowed to join in the proposed crulse to the East and to Newport and New York, no craft of less than twelve tons will be permitted to take part in the re- Epo which will be open only to yachts owned by members. The uniform of the oMcers and members of the club will be Cet and neat. The distinctive baages of the oilicers will be plain, The full dress will be a frock coat of navy blue cloth, and the undress a sack coat of the same Inatcrial or fine blue flannel. The gut buttons are of three sizes, with a foul anchor in he centre, three siars above, and the initials “EK. Y, C.” below. The club starts under auspless which romise success, and the character and social posi- lon of the members are ample guarantee that th administration of affalss will redound to the credit o! the city in which it originated, ‘The Boston Journal, in an article to-day on yacht- ing matters, has the following:—"The tasig for fachting has been for some years on the increase in his vicinity. There is probably no recreation wich is more invigorating and no pastime which calle for.h in & greater degree the facuities of the mind and the ene. ae of our physical nature. The time Was, withiu the memory, too, of many of our clugens Who are not yet gray hewied, when the owners of first class yac.itsin Boston could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The yaciits of Colonel Winchus- ter, Mr. Perkins and Mr. Parsons never unfurled their sails for a run down the harbor without attract- dng the attention of all who happened to be in the bay. Within a very few years many wealthy gentle- men of this city have built for their pleasure and recreation some of the fluest bouts afloat, and the Boston Yacht Club have heid several regattas aud made cruises which have become memoravle in yachting annais. The taste for (his exhilarating and Toaaly sport appears of late to have recelved a new impulse, and the tone imparted to the science of sail- ing these clegant craft by the New York Yacht Club has awakened throughout the seaboard cities a spirit of emulation which promises to culminate in a fleet of yachts which will be creditable to the nation, that points with pride to the hievements of the ppl America and the more recent victory of the deurtetta and her gallant eominander, James Gor- don Bennett, Jr.” Movements of the Ficets in England. Aletter from Cowes, Engiand, of the 21st of April, in Bells Life tn London, reports the following yacht- ing inteliigence:— Yachts at the station—The Florence, the puke of Leeds; the Bappho, W. Dougias, Esq. (American); the Dauntiess, J. G. Benneit, Esq, refitting; H.M. & vole. Captain Sullivan; tho Alberta, and the Eida, tender. Arrivals—April 14, the Wizard, C. Heneage, Esq., from Portsmouth; tue Hebe, Captain Ph.llimore, from Southampton; the Gazeile, Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart. from Fishhouse, to fit ont; the Egerla, J. Mulholiand, Esq,, from Southampton; the Sultana, Colonel Tal- bot Clifton, from Southamptou. .Departure—The Wiz: rd, C. Henea: , Exq., for the Channel Isies; the Hebe, Captain Phillimore, for the Channel Isles; the Urania, W. Wise, Esq., for Broadstairs! the Sultana, Colonel Talbot Clifioa, for Dartmouth; the Ezeria, J. Mulholland, Esq., for’ the westward; the Florence, the Duke of Leeds, for Southampton. ‘The following yachts are fitting out:—The Firefty, Sir H. Ogiander, Bart.; the Dream, G, Bentinck, Esq.; the Diadem, the Earl of Harrin’ ton; the Galatea, Lord Bernera; the Gazelle, Sir J, Burgoyne, Bart.; the Morgiaua, Sir A. Stirling, K. C. B.; the Guine- vere, Captain C. 8. A. Thellason; the Northumbria, G. R, Stevenson, Egq.; the Gelert, Colonel k. Lloyd; the Bacchante, » Curwen, the Vanguard, Colonel M. W. Verschoyle; the Zeuobia, the Marquis of Exeter; the Mirage, the Marquis of Ormonde; the Dauntiess, J, G. Bennett, Esq. The following members arrived at the castle dur- ing the week:—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Wilton, Commodore; the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Colviile, Lord G,. H. Lennox, M. P.; Lord Calthorpe, Lord Berners, Lord Barrington, Lot Dutferin, Sir R. King, Bart.; Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart.; G. Bentinck, Esq.; Colonel the Hon. D. G. Finch, Lo giis Jones, Esq.; Colonel O, Leslie, M. P.; Major Allison, M. Guest, M. B.; T. Chamberlayne, Lsq.; Captain Maxse, HK. N.; F. P. Delme Radclitte, Esq.} E. 8S. Curwen, Esq.; J. Blackett, Esq.; W. Dougias, Esq., and the Hon. ‘Taibot Clifton. ROWING. Tue Anglo-Canadian Four-Oared Match of 1870. [From Bell's Life in London, April 2).} The following revised articles of agreement, which, it willbe secn, do not differ very ma‘eral.y froin the terms originally proposed by the St. Jolin crew— the principal alterations being the change of date from August 27 to September 17, and the addition of clause 10—were forwarded on Saturday last by dames Renforth to Mr, G. H. Wallis, the honorable Secretary of the Lachine Boating Club, Montreal:— Articles of agreement between James Renforth and three others, forming the “Tyne Crew,” of New- castie-upon-Tyne, England, and ert Fulton and three others, forming the ‘Paris Crew,”’ of St. John, N. B., for @ four-oared boat race at Lachine, near Montreal, Canada, in September, 1870. It 1s mutually under-tood and agreed between the two crews (and the Lachine Boating Club, Montreal) a3 follows:— First—That they shall row a four-oared race in the best boats each crew can get,on the St. Lawrence river, at La- chine, near Montreal, Canada, on tho 17th September, 1870, the distance to be six miles (three up river from Lachine, an back again), for the sun of £600 # side and the champlun- stp. The St. John (Paris) crew to row without a coxswain, and the Tyne crew to have the right of rowing with or with- ‘ont one aa they may soe fit, ‘Sccont—The boats to start from points, buoys or line, such buoys or distances on line to be not Jess than thirty art, and torow a distance of three miles up river, there sliall be two stake boats, and tura each boat ita ake boat, being the one on its own side at starting, the turn to be made ae best suita each boat, put to back to the Hine of starting, such turning stake boats to be 15) yards "Fiiind--The race to be rowed ns above stated, on the 17th day of September, 1820, at the hour of three o'clock P. M., if the water {s smooth, the referee to be the judge of the fitness of the water, If the state of the weather {a, in the opinion of ctory race, bi g a8 he may think fit, and #0 to postpone the race from day to di ‘Fiuyth—Onehalf of the stakes to be deposited by cach arty in the hands of atthe Bank of Montreal, on he signing of there articles, and the remaining half to be 80 deposited not later than the Ist day of September, 1870. Either party failing to make such latter deposit within ten days of the specitied time to forfeit ¢! mount previously deposited. yth—The Tyne crew will nominate their umpire the day previous to the match, andthe Paris crew nominate —. Umpire, for the race 10 question. A referee to be decided upon the day before the race by the respective crews; failing to agree upon a referee, the president of the Lachine Boating Club, Montreal, is hereby vested wilt the right of appotnting uch referee. "Sutk—-Tn consideration of the race herein provided for being rowed under the auspices of the Lachine Boating Club, the said club hereby promises and agrees to pay to the stake- holder, immediately after the final deposit by the Tyne crew is made, the sum of £200 sterling, on account of the expenses y that crew by reason of their rowing at Lachine j.the sald gum to be paid to the Tyne crew on ‘at Lachin ‘Seventh—The ruies of rowing and other details of the race to beleft in the hands of the Lachine Boating Club, who hereby undertake to arrange and carry out the same with perfect impartiality and as efficiently as iles in thelr power. feree, when appointed, will be fully empow- to settle all and every matter of dispute which may arise. Jinth—Tha two crows hereby Pind themselves that what- ever may be thelr present or future interests neither crew will, prior to the 17th day of September, 1570, consent to row g Face during thelr absence from home nt any poiat in the States or in Canada (Lachine excepted), uniess with the knowledge and approval of the Lachine Boating Club, Tenth—The course to be rowed in the match to be ‘staked out and the stakeboats moored fourteen days before the date of the match, and no alteration to be permitted. ‘Witness -J. B, COOK. Signed thia Th day of Apel 170 JAMES RENFORTH, Champion Seuller, on bebalf of self and Tyne Crew. ‘The articles srere accompanied by a letter, expiatning the reason of the aaveral alterations in the original drat, LADY JANE FRANKL spondent, April 16, say: ‘By the last Pau a there arrived @ lady whose life is the centre of a ce! tury’s tragedy—a lady whose constancy and dev tion will be the theme of future homes and far eclipse the fame of fabled Penelope. A cruel rumor, started some months ago by a city paper, thata wail had drifted ashore near San Diego contatning some memento of the Arc'ic heroes, reachel her at Rio Janeiro, and so she hastens to San Franct Gistance, fatigue, age, all forgoiten in the whd hope that the sea may have revealed one of its sorrowiul socrets. Poor lady, eighty Med old, twenty years desolate, still clinging with a heartsiok longing to the fdea that earth or ocean will yet teil the mysteries { of the past. A PLOATING PALACE. ON THE WAY T0 LONG BRANCH. James Fisk, Jr.’s, Last Enterprise—His New Steamer Plymouth Rock—Her Equipments and Rrilroad Conneotions—French Cuisine, for 3,000 People on the Water— Music, Dance and Hilarity. Mr, James Pisk, Jr., is about to do up another en- terprise in bis own Inimitable style. It consists in linking Long Branch to New York by a very pleasant Ane of land and water travel, where the pleasure seeker can enjoy more than the wearisome and fatiguing accommodations it has been the fasion of railroad and steamboat monopolists to serve up for the last fow years. Mr. Fisk has been the ploneer of many improvements looking to the comfort and luxurious ease of those who patronize his lines of travel, and no one can forget his public spirit in establishing the Twenty-third street line of stages, the splendid ferryboats plying between tne opposite shores of the North river, and his floating palaces, the Bristol and Providence, Jt may, therefore, be said that tohim more than to any other capitalist belongs the honor of introducing elegance, superior accommodations and the finest quarters and ¢: ment for the smallest equivalent. Now Mr. Fisk, with keen insight into the future growth and hn- portance of LONG BRANCH, is turning his attention to that watering place, and 1a about to put his shoulder tothe wheel and en- deavor to make it the first summer resort of the Union. To those who watched the tendency of tourists last season there is every evidence that Long Branch will exceed Saratoga in quantity and New- port in quality. The reasons are, first, that Long Branch has a splendid beach. Its attractions for bathers and salt water followers transcend those of any resort by the seaside, and, happily, it has never been rendered common by the deposit of those hor- rid manure heaps—Sunday excursions; nor has it yet suffered from the ridiculous exclusiveness that 1s pretended to reside under the shadow of Knicker- bockers, who rely for their social prestige upon de cayed coaches, and for thelr strength and union in libels upon modern progress. Then the hotels at the Branch have been such cs to invite the presence of those weary of the rookertes of the mountains or the extortion palaces along the Northern frontier. Society has been good—tit has been society, There have Leen no angust leaders, who, but a few months pricr to the!r roc'al Influence, were acquaint:d with reduced spheres among the vulgar herd, nor any particular clans, cliques or stock companies in mar- riageable daughters an! eligible sons But to the credit of the Branch its patrons heretofore have gene- rally been of that broad American type founded upon decorous behavior, and the commnen stock of good sense, culture aud decency. Hence thers has bern little snobbishnes3s ani vulvar pretension, and, therefore, little to bilng disgust to those who leave the city for the country to get fine bathing, talmy breezes, sonorous music, fast driving, hunting, ish. ing, dancing and pretty ladies. Among the features that will draw many who never went to the Branch before will be tho new raco course of Mr. John Chainborlain, part vs of which, together with the entries, have been Jy publishe | in the HERALD. ovale prove @ stronger magnet than e 0! GENERAL GRANT throughout the season at his charming little cottage. The advent of the President of the United States to a water.ng place to spend an entire summer is something new in the history of the country, and can hardly fail to have an important influence in building up the Branch, It will assuredly fix the status of society; and General Grant’s love for the turf will be the nucleus of a high and continued excitement throughout the summer. The close proximity of Long Branch to this city will enable many business men to live with their families at the hotels, and thoy need take no more trouble in gomg to and from thelr ofiices than if they resided on Fift: avenue, nor as much. In view of a'l these considerations the rush for Long Branch, a3 it can now be measured by the intentions of the wealth, fashion and quality of the city, 1s some- thing unparalleled, It is no longer “Are you going to Susratoga or Newport?’ but “You are going to Long Branch’ So every one has been looking for a crush, and the demands for cot- tages at the Branch have been without precedent. To mect just such a movement of New Yorkers Mr. James Fisk, Jr., has laid out a line of travel which will be open to public patronage on June 1, by waich the tourisis can reach LONG BRANCH IN TWO HOURS after leaving this city. The New Jersey Southern Railroad is building @ branch out to the spur on Sandy Hook, which will run frequent trains (,ow un- eae every day, connecting directly with the Branch, The sea shore terminus of thia spur railroad is known as the Horse Shoe on Sandy Hook. Connecting with this new railroad will be the splendid steamer Plymouth Rock and the smaller ae Jesse Hoyt, both owned by Mr. James Fisk, ir. 118 PLYMOUTH ROCK now Hes at the foot of Kigiith street, East river, and 1s undergoing sach alterations that when completed she will undoubtedly be the finest steamboat in the world, Mr. Fisk 18 spending $150,000 to put her in condition, not as a mere passenger st camer, but as an immense terete 4 hotel. Itis his intention to make the Plymouth Rock a summer residence upon the water—one where the patron can embark, live, Cat, sleep, dance and have “all the comforts of & hone.” This enterprise is the greatest, and assu- redly the most important, ever projected by Mr. Fisk, This versatile capiialist—a theatre proprietor, a speculator, an Erie manager, a colonel, a stage line owner, an admiral, a politician, a literary man and a beau—now becomes the proprietor of a hotel, not on dry land, but on damp water; and what is THE FULL DESIGN? It is this: Long Branch, as we have shown, will be thronged by thousauds even who never weutto a ficst class watering place for a length of time before, because of tho direct route of travel from New York. But Mr. Fisk, in establishing this connection, has di sired todo it ina first class manner, and has there- fore determined to launch this marine hotel. A gentieman, with his wife or famliy, single gentle- man, or even ladies, can go on board the Plymouth Rock at four o'clock P, M., take @ parlor—of which there are to be thirty-two—make full toilets, sit down in the restaurants and eat viands a3 cooked by a French steward and served by French waiters, and joke the choicest wines and dauce to the best music. The Plymouth Rock will leave Pier 23 North river every afternoon, This pler has accommodations for 600 carriages, is at the Joot of Warren street, a clear and open thoroughfare, and is 500 feet long by ulnety wide, There 1s a ine pavement all along this ro: There wiil be no other steamers at tits dock but the Plymouth Rock and Jesse Hoyt. Coal is to be passed on board vhe steamboats through shoots, thus getting rid of disagreeable coal dust. BOARDING THE PLYMOUTH ROCK. Let us look at her ieatures, She ts 340 feet !ong, forty- four feet wide, and has a capacity for 3,000 peopie, Crossing the gangway alt, on the mala deck, is the restaurant, 1u0 feet loug by thirty wide, v double rows of fluted, gilded Corinthian columns, support ing richly carved capitals, While the celiing and pan- elling 18 wrought with exquisite mouldings and elaborate tracery. Here 1,000 perp e can be dined ata time, and Delmonico himself never had a richer or more tempting bill of fare than that to be offered by the caterer of Mr. Fisk. The table furniture, crockery, silver, cutiery and ginss are all to be se- lected for beauty and good taste. Forward of the restaurant, to port, is the wine room, and to star- board is a capacious pantry. Descending by the after ladder, the space below the maln deck is used in the hotel economy of the vessel. Alt 1s a large pantry for crockery ani wares and jast forward an immense refilgcrator for the creains, ices, salads and sweatmeats. THE KITCHEN, forty feet long and twenty wide, 1s paved with } and will have a range runyjng its entire |) ‘Then there 1s the ineat room, backed with ice diling and fitted, as the kitchen 18, with ventilators, lal ticed, but communicating with tha externa) air for light and draught. Forward of the kitchen are po 60,000 gallon tanks hoiiing fresh water, with Pipe connections throughout the vessel, thus making the supply of Croton available at all pointa, the barroom is forty feet long, ten feet high and twenty feet wide, and {4 on the starboard side for- ward, and reached by @ broad staircase from the main deck. It is to be finished in the dnest and urest Vermont marble, in Gothic architecture, with French mirrors and carved ornaments, Tlie einbel- Ushment of the ceiling will be done in colors, and the other decorations to coirespoud. The glass will be sumptuous, and it is declared that this apartment will exceed even royal splendor. The deck will be tiled with colored marble. Reaching the matn deck, all forward of the shaft 1s cut off by @ bulkhead, “and all avait is used for A PROMENADE extending from the guards completely around the restaurant, Above the restaurant is the main saloon, 300 feet long, exiending from end to end, vaulted and pannelled, with a ceiling sixteen feet in height. Outboard is a magnificent promenade, with loose chairs and @ large platform aft, Forward there is also aclear deck room. Then there are the thirty. two parlors, the elegant retiring rooms, the ladies? dressing rooms, the large barber shop, the outlook from the hurricane deck and the beantiful finish of the woodwork, W.th (hese accommodations a party can engage a parlor, take private. meals, haye a room for dressing for & bail at Loug Branch, visit the hop, return and sieep on board and wake up next morning in N Lad.es can make their tollets In their larg: vonis; 2 tiiree hours’ ex. cursion can be taken from the city, leaving at fo and returning at seven, and the oF can in ti mean time have dined to his heart's content. THE FAKE to the Branch will be one dollar, If the project succeeds the Empire Stae will also be put on } + the sume service. The Jessie Hoyt will leave Sandy Hook seven o'c] returning every mori tps ook, and the Plymouth Rock rid C'glit o'clock, each Kas the iy io ‘008 hour’s time, ‘Splendid docks are now being built at sect “i a ea is Coe 1a keeping with the ste "a Mis sald Mr. Fisk will first introduce this new “diamond pin f ” velebi ioaugural ae for 1870” when his line celebrates ite THE NEW REGIME, Meeting of the Department of Dockt=The Des partment of Parks Commencing Operations. The new departments of rhe city government may aw be said to have fully entered upon their duties. The DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS met yasterlay, pursuant to adjournment, with the President, Mr. John T. Agnew, tn the chair, The routine business having been disposed off, the com. mittees appomted at the previous meeting reported, ‘The Committee on Location had not fully completed its labora, and was, by request, continued. The Committee on Bylaws presented a report, which was somewhat lengthy and exhaustive, The report was accepted and Jaid over for one week, and the secretary directed in the meantime to furnish each member of the Board with @ copy of the a tipe A communication was received from Mr. William H. Webb in relation to the bulkhead built by him from Thirty-sixth to Thirty-seventh street, North river, The communication was laid over ‘and the Secretary directed to communicate with Mr, Webb and Inform him that the Board could not at present fully con- sider his case, ‘A large number of APPLICATIONS FOR POSITIONS having been received by the members of the Board, Mt was ordered that such applications siculd be sent to the secretary to be placed on file aud sap mitted to the Board at its regular meetings. A reso- Jution was adopted making a requisition on the Comptrotivr for $260,000, and the oMcers of the Board were dtrecied to prepare the form of bond to be tssued for the improvement of the docks. The plan of operations was informally discussed by the members of the Board, but no oielal determination Was arrived at, ‘SHE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS commenced active operations yesterday. The plan for improving the City Hall Park as agreed upon at the meetiug on Hot 9 and fully published in the HERALD, has already been begun. Yesterday the architects and superintendents of the new Post Onice were notified of the action of the Board, and requested to comply With its requirements as far ag practicable. Arrangements for music in ve public parks are being completed, and it has been deter- mined to commence a3 soon as possible to dress up THE BATTERY and make it what {t formerly was—a beauty spot on the lower part of Manhatian Island. The Soard will certainly have its hands full, but that its work will ve effecively done can- not be douvtet. The final reorganization of THE DEPARTMENT? OF PUSLIO WORKS ig being rapid'y compieted. The building adjoining the Broadway National Bank is being fitted up and will be connected with the old oMices of the Street Department adjoining, 80 that there will be p'enty of room and proper accommodations for all engaged in the department. Mr. Stephen Towle was yester- day appoiuted engineer of the Bureau of Sewers. Mr. Towle is said lo have had long fomtitarity with this branch of engineeriug and the appointment is said to be ta al respects merit.d and commendable, CHANBIR OF COMMERCE. Much Ado About Nothtag—Mixed Debate ou Proposed Laws=Wauted, a Business Man in the Chamber of Couunerce=The Ocean A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday ufternor a) one o'clock, Mr, Opdyke pre- siding. There was a full attendaace, The special order for the day was the report of the Committee on Bylaws. Mr. Grifiths, chairman of the commit- tee, move | that the bylaws be read, to which Mr. Wetmore odjectel. They were, he said, to organize @ body that never hal an existence in this State, and never should, It had to de with mining, fishe- y ries, &c., ani the matter required full consideration, Mr. PHILLirs moved to postpone the considera- tion of the bylaws and to make them the special order for the next g ‘al meeting. Mr. GRIFFITHS Opposed the motion, as the oMcers to be appomted under the amended bylaws were dif- ferently provided for, They did nos revolutionize the Chamber, The Chatr then took the vote on the motion to permit the chairian of the commitiee t» read the new code. A division was called for aud the motion was carried, Mr. Grurritms then read the new code of bylawa, and explained tuar the i.ea that the Chambor was directed and controlled by a clique was erron‘ous, and that by the prope laws it was intended to have the great interests of the metropolis of the country represented by the Chamber and tnflueiced by it. This part of the bylaws he thought were the Most important, ‘The standing committees of the Chamber shat be as follows, Viz.:— Firs—An Executive Committ Vice Fresident of the Chamber Second—Committro of Arbitration and Appeal, Tiird—Comin.itee charged with the consideration of ques- tions relating to financial interests of the country, currency, coinage, insurance, postal and telegraph affairs. Four th—Coramt fed with the consideration of ques- ing to foreign commerce, commercial and revenue gration and tsheries, r—Comuittee charged with the consideration of quos- lating to shipping, pllotage, wharves and docks, rivers and coasts, harbors, Hghthouses aad the training, inte: rights and duties of seamen, ‘Committee charged with the const leration of ques- tiocs relating to railroads, canals and interual anprove- ments, Secnth—Committee charged with the consideration of questions re!ating (0 home trade aud commerce, labor, home productions and mining, h—Comintiiee charged with the consideration of qnes- tions relating to domestic ‘manufactures, American machin- ory. and inveotions. mittees, except che Committed Il be composed of a chairman ll be appointed ot a regular or at an adjourned meeting of the Chamber, held in May of each year, and shail continte until others’ are pointed in their atead. Vacancies occurring in any commi{t- tee may be filed at any regular meeting of the Chamber, Three members of any committee shail constitute a quo- rum for the transaction of business, In the absenve of the secretary or his Inability t) act the secre- for the of Arbitration and Appeal, and twelve members, whi meetin, ative Committee may, in tts discretion, aypotn tary jro tem, or assign the actuary to fill ‘his plac: tne being. Mr. GRIFFITH, after reading of the bylaws, proposed that articie ove be considered. PI ir8 moved to suspend the consideration ut business for half an hous, in order to e election of oficers. RTOUSEY si00d up, Ohjected and sat down. rv. OrDYKy theu took the floor and commenced speaking, Lut was speetily interrupted by a gentie- man, whore hobby was a point of order. The came a schoolboy performance, resulting in nothing, but lasting half an hour, He got another chance, however, au | took the opportunity to urge the adop- tion of t Phas d the ire of another paurllamentath eve more objections, ut he objec i and continued in flow- erlods until SIX gentlemen got up and made motions ef no a rp ent meaning, when there spat all round. F ually & motion Was made to postpone the constleration of the election of oMcers uatil iwo wecks m now. Five speeches and eighteen resolutions was the result of this venture, ut it eventually passed. An immense deal of filibustering followed, and finaly th Ws were adopted as a whole by a z ity-one, Colonel CoNKLIN inoved that the Chamber, ap- proving of the sy of oceanic communication, ask Congress to factiitite by law the manufacturing an‘ laying of cables across the Pacific, from the western coast of America to the ea-tern coast of Asia, aid around the world, Mr. PHILIVS moved that it be referred to the Ex- ecutive Committee. Mr. Lowe was against all idea of subsidy, except in s.veamship lines, Mr. Tousty thought there should be no subsidies for talegraphs. Le aaa W. Frenp eald that no subsidy was asked, Mr. TovsEy moved that they ask Congress to faciil- tate cables, provided that it costs nothmg w the people or government of the United Siates, Mr. Ftecp said, of the nineteen miilions of capital invesied under the ocean the stocxhoidera were not getting eight percent. He thought some en- couragement should be given to get men to invest their money. ‘ on of the Chamber was that the regola- ‘The dec fjon should go to the entire committee for coasidera- Ton. Mr. GriFFiTd Moved that a committee of seven be appointed to nominate suitable gentiemen as ofticers to be elected at the next meeting. It was put and carried. The committee to interview and ald General Meyer in carrying out certain laws Was continued, ‘Tne Chamber then adjourned, SQURNALISTIC NOTES. Colonel Calloway has withdrawn from the Mem- phis Avalanche, because the chief stockholders of Unat paper did not belleve, as he did, that the old se cession lealers were best for the democracy. The remaining editors very emphatically sa ‘Save us from the supremacy of the old secession leaders, wio aia all they could to plunge the South into war. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, having consulted all the best authors on the code, says:— “Admitting that all preliminary steps to obtain satls- faciton lad been compiied with and exhausted, to post with a ‘we’ is ag ridiculous as Mr. Weller’s sug- gestion to Justice Starleigh, in the trial of Bardelt va, Pickwick, about the spelling of his name. The “we? iniglt embrace all the editorial empio, 6) of the paper.” aper is going the ronnds about a girl In Chea tereVee dying fiom Ugit lackg. An editor, Ooms e' O t, Sa ‘hese co:seis should menting on the fact, 8 be done away with; andi the girls can't live with. Ont being squeezed, We stippose men can be ard 0 Would sacrifice themselves. As old as we wee nnd vatner devote three hours @ day, withou' Reent of pay, ad 0 brevet corset, than see these girlg dying off in that manner, Office hours almost ang time"