The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1872, Page 5

THE STRIKE SUSTAINED! Workingmen Moving Solidly to the Front. “NIL DESPERANDUM!” THEIR MOTTO, + Meetings of the Piancforte Manufacturers, Brase) Moulders, Sowing Machine Makers, Metal Workers, Tin and Sheet-Iron Smiths, Coach Painters, Quarrymen, Ba- kere, Shirt Cutters and Butch- @rs_and Slaughterers. A new impulse has been given to the efforts of the trades unions by the dangers that surrounded them with their entrance upon the sixth week of the atrike, and which yet threaten to overthrow their) Purpose when it is almost srocmpiianed. number of associations which met yesterday greater than been known on any previous; during the progress of the mov ., the men continue solid ve Many chances of sui efforts for the psecura| in the other ib Incipal cltles'of the Unton’ vo them renewed courage, and will increase the embarrassment of the em) Noyers. Below will found full reports.of the varjous meetings held: 4m the cityand suburbe during the day and evening. The Pianoforte Manufacturers, At the meeting of the pianoforte manufacturers, held at Decker Brothers’ rooms, in Union square ‘day, Mr. Hazelton in the chair and Mr. Weber. itary, the Committee on Resolutions, appointed it the last meeting, reported the following :— erean the expenses of wparofecsiring planeg in New are now enormously high—higher_ thai who! by reason of excesshvely high rents, alue ‘of capital, higher w Co eceding to the dewaids of our work gar production would be diminished twenty per cant, we plano about fifteen ‘which, without any advance in the price of lator, alone Inorease the cost of every er Gent while with an additional advance of twenty per eentinthe rates of labor it would amount to ap {in- erease of ley one-third in the cost of every plano; Bid wher as sho great Pulk of our trae cnsls'g rapt Rapraciure of Wevhe per g ales of p ansiurion wih Hh OLE Db At by the at mas.or mpi shrots Hand that etoh a tud ion 4 a eae at pple eo. them f all the princty al eithes and tov pao lance Aro manuactured, wo find ‘that ighiers in Jicat 02 em or Will Our gystoin lst uy mpi * mide" to Mrores hs ro. in w! nm ho plano trade on. side of New York city; and whercas, unlike the butlding al her local trades, our productions arc sold all ovei ¥ ntinent and foreign cotmtries,in close competion with pianos manutaetured in Boston, Baltimore aud other cities, here they are produced cheaper, ant such a sudden avy advance In price would pico the New York manu- turers at an immense disadvantage, would vugtly @uco the demand for their plahos and drivo tho trade else- where, ulilinately resulting In tho discharge of most of our Workmen for want of work, thus proving most disastrous fo both employer and employes; und whereas, tho nai. @a) condition of our workmen would rot. be im- Plover. but notually damaged by their working Jons ime and earning the samo wages as heretofore, eo that, the rise of all the necessaries of life consequent upon sayy or partial introduction of the eight-hour sye- join In other trades, thelr wages would bo insufficient. to rocure the same comforts for themselves, thelr wives Sha'cintidren, as atpresont ‘Wo, the undersigned, pianoforte manufacturers of New York city, unanimously refuse to accede to the demand our woFkmen, not (rom any spirl of antagonism or un: indness to them, but to protect thelr own interest, and canse absolute ‘necessity to prevent the rain of our jade compels us to, do) ro. We thereiore agree that, while remitting the question of wages h individual manufacturer, our factories and slips shall be kept open ten hours as heretofore, and that we shall firmly Pesist any attempt to abridge the uumber of daily bours fe therefore call upon onr intelligent workmen to according to their own good judgment and not be it to return to ir workshops, where they have always found a fair Femuneration for a fair day's work, er eer, Uaincs Brothet a . Binith & Co. Bening & Rix, Duane & Wink Wek: mant, J.P. Hale, Vinton & iakers, Steinway 4 Soria, of Jabor. eneed by unscrupulous demagogucs, Hazelton Brothers, Ae & Decke: Inited Piano Mi Sot Becker Brothorn Id & Otis, Lindeman zh Hardman’ J. 8 C. her, Kranich, Bach & Co., Narvesero & Son, F.C. te & Go. After 8 slight discussion upon the general topic ef the strike the mecting was adjourned, ~ The Brass Moulders and Winishers, On Monday evening last it was resolved by the Bight-Hour League of brass moulders.and finishers, to strike yesterday in case the employers refused % accede to their demands for a reduction of hours, A meeting was held yesterday at their head: @uarters in the Tenth Ward Hotel, in Broome mtrect, and committees were sent to all the shops that had not been closed, requesting the workmen to leave and join the Union. ‘There are a few shops where several men refuse to leave, but itis ex- pected they will join the movement to-day. The manufacturers have closed their places, and a few gay they will re-open {n the Eastern States, where they can obtain workmen readily on the old plan, The unionists claim they will be followed in the movement by the Jaborers of New England, apd that, in case they are not, they can hold out as long as the employers, The meter works, corner of Second avenue and onty-second street, and the manufactury of kins & Dickenson, have capitulated, This Union ts sometimes confounded with that ‘of the gas fixture people, but their work Is confined to water and steam fitting. It is expected that at least three-fourths of the manufacturers in this branch of business will be Funbing after Monday on short hours, Singer Employes. ‘The employés of the Singer Mann‘! Pany were gathered tn tr ptrect yorte yout were enrolic sap 6 gation o § 5 iefused employment for he _Birike, Lo: refine Work till such These u viaim that the majority of the five hundred who have signed an agreement with the Singer Company to return to work under the old arrangement are boys under cighteen years of age, who are forced to resume by their parents, it Temainder, {t is asserted, compris red foremen and contravtora. It is stated that these men will be prevented from Recor A the factory on Monday, though how this ts to be effected is not explained, further than that, with Howe's machine men, they expect: to make a demonstration with a force numbering ‘between two and three thousand, the two bun- Howe Machine Men. ‘The mechanics engaged in manufacturing the Bowe sewing machines struck on Monday to the: Bamber of about three hundred and fifty, and in- pond | every person about the premises, with the exception of one man, a gilder. Up to last night at ‘@ late hour they had not reported any progress, Mr. pent the contractor by whom tliey are engaged, being out of the city, and there being no communi: cation with any person having authority to enter {nto @ new arrangement. At the Delamater Iron Works. The moulders of the Delamater works struck some time ago, and full particulars of their action have been published in the Hrrap, The other employés in the works obtained on the Ist inst. a diminution of the hours of labor on Saturdays to: ix,ten hours’ work being exacted on the other five ys of the week. Since then they gave notice that res woull work only ‘eight hours! on and alter to-day. They were notificd on Tues- yy that no further concessions would be made, nd consequently the great body-of them left work yesterday morning. few remained daring the @ay, as the strike had not been ordered to take place before this morning. About one thousand men have been employed in these works, which are now closed, The Quarrymen, ‘The fourth division of the Quarrymen's Protective Union held a meeting last night at their headquar- ters, 115th street and Fifth avenue. The meeting ‘was called by order of Mr. Kiernan, the General President, but Mr. Michael Britt presided, Nothing of importance was done gave the enrolling of new members, which ne the number of the society z to two hundred, 'veral reports from the con- Fe peti Were read, in which the contractors stated nt ti ay were willing to give their men eight hours, @ men hope ali to be working on the eight-hour eystem by Monday next, i The rt Cutters, A meeting of shirt cutters was held yesterday eveding, at 91 Walker street, to hear the reports from the besses and report the progress that is being made in the demand for the reduction of the ours of labor. The chair was taken by Martin Brubeeker, and Joseph C. Darcus acted as secretary. The Chairman stated that there was no earthly yeason why the demand should not be sne- wart as these were not fifty shirt cutters 4p the Union out oF work. An uniortunate division auong the members, occasioned by the action of| Bome Of the bosses, whe prevailed ras, minority of the workmen in'a weay moment to sign A paper which binds them to work ten hours a day, was weverely commented npon, dal the vacillating em- Dlovée “weverely consured for phelr conduct, A EEE NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. number of resointions were proposed and carried. YACHTING. en perkans, the fincet Ines, and the Sappho They consisted, ainong other things, of aby norm The Enchantress, Mr. Shisha Tatest per. ‘determination ' to strike om Monday if formance, is not to our mind so fine a vessel as the an amicable arrangement be not reached Sappho, which he merely altered by hipping out; in the meantime, at same time depioring the batevery Englishman must, on going on boar necessity of @ strike, the shirt cutters considering elther of them, be immediately struck with the im- it-to be injurious ao eee employers oat men. : sary, however, in make ail seorifies to gain COLUMBIA YACHT CLUB REGATTA Hor eran onipathoenape igen they show in comparison with e ur " sie fee dahapeined to make our own yachts. This their great beam of course gives them; and though they do not just It Was resolved to admit the members give the accommodation of a private indies? gai joon, ‘who tied to the bosses back into the Union 8 is common in our Fi yet their berths, &c., on © Mamselves “ofthe “privilene: to pauuss yc Opening Regatta of the Senson—-A Lively Me ti, gy and airy, an ptt sae y Z ¢ their names and brand them as traitors. me of Breeze anda Good Race. ‘Sappho are expected to go up the Baltic this season. the cutters counselled a more moderate course, but wh rit; a of the resolution, rith theekcertion of one or two AQUATIC. ere a tne graplorene 5 re) pa as fovenabie +--+ Would be #0 arranged 25" te jecvent ihe ecco py THE FROLIC AND G. £, SHERMAN WIN ane machciors’ Barge Club, of Philadel- sity Of a strike, phia—Opening of Their New House. PHILADELPHIA, June 10, 1872, On Saturday afternoon last the opening of the new club honse of the Bachelors’ Boat Club took place. This club was one of the first to organize on the Schuylkill, and their old house was handsome, but not large enough, It was, therefore, advisable to build an addition this spring. Two’ wings have been added to the main structure, making the dimensions at present 75 feet front by deep. The first floor is entirely occupied by the boats of the club, whtch are eight in num- arranged according to thelr classes, The ber, shells occupy the northern room, the barges the main room, while the southern room 13 devoted to The Bakers, _ The “Uptown Bakers’? held a meeting yesterday afternoon at Munzinger Hall, in West Thirty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Mr. William Engel, the President, called the meeting to order shortly after one o'clock, and stated that they had aasembled there to try and obtain ten hours’ work and an increase of wages, The society were divided, some wanting twetve hours of day work and otners ten hours of night work. The latter gen- ‘tlemen contended that the “boss” bakers could not, in justice to themselves, allow their men to work in the daytime. Alter two hours’ debating the The June regattas were inaugurated yesterday by the Columbia Yacht Club, and, although in point) of tonnage the competing yachts would rate rather small, they certainly had plenty of fun, and made a; Pleasant display for the amusement of the spectq- tors, The Columbia Yacht Club have frem year to year held very successful regattas, perhaps not owing a3 much tothe speed or number of their yachts as to the successful management of the gen- tlemen in whose hands the direction of the arrange- meuts had been vested. This year the Regatta Committee comprised Messrs, Robert Wilson, meeting adjourned, to meet at the same placeon#Jacob Van Orden, Martin Buckley, William iM oars, nags, lamps, Ac. This 1 4 pamirtar, BAX "cette concusign tn “iy Ropes of 2 Agee! Res: Benjamin Adams, Jr, and pony one Wer front, 'Xo member ‘of the club _ rt uu) the time of a fr o8e entiomen and Commodore, J. Nobles Mire an balong to the club. It isa good file watt May be congratulated upon the succeas of the re- gatta of 1872, They ’certainly-were unfurtunate in the number of entries, as only about half the boats. ‘in the club came to the scratch; but those that were there made a good race, and’ the gmests on ‘board the Fort Lee were enabled to see the yachts: all round the course and enjoy themselves as well. THE COURSR Was from a stakeboat off the Club House, at the foot of Fifty-seventh street, to and around a stakeboat off Fort Lee, thence to a stakeboat off the coal docks at Weehawken and back to the home ‘stake- boat. The course was sailed over twice, making, in all, a distance of about twenty miles. The stakes! boats were all left on the port hand. The following yachts were entered for the race :— CAMIN LOOPS, Owner. It is a good rule, ag prevents members crowding the house’ with ma ortne second floor toomuch cannot be said In the Matter of its superb fittings. It 1s divided into a number of rooms, with every convenience that ease ‘and comfort could demand.” The northern room 1s ‘arranged for the members when they are done row-: ing, with washstand and two shower baths. main room {8 the glub room, containing the closets if the members, This is also handsomely fitted up, aving ® number of hanging baskets, also other flowers, paatnile arranged around the wall, The southern room is the ladies’ reception, and ts ele- gantly appointed with a magniticent velvet carpet and furnished with a fine suit of walnut parlor fe: niture. The building issurmounted by a tine obser- vatory, The expense of the improvements is $16,000, the additions costing as muchas the original buila- The Coach Painters, The coach painters held a regular meeting at 193 Bowery yesterday morning. Mr. W. M..Long pre- sided. There was not a very large attendance, and but little business of importance was transacted, seems Progressing satisfactorily in this hen} it bable that mep 01 ion, It aj pro! wit gain their Machete “ The Tim and Sheet Iron Workers. The Tinsmiths’ Union held a meeting last night at Military Hall, 103 Bowery. Mr. T. Smith ocou- pied the chair. The business transacted was chiefly confined to enrolling new members and appointing @ committee {(o frame bylaws. There are about five: thousand men employed ip the various branches of the above-mentioned trade, and they are catab- Worery organization for purposes of protection, asi Ing. . Kixe entertainment given by the club on the occa- lon was excellent, All the members and thelr ladies, who are of the élite and beauty of Philadel- Kane, Length. feet. Elizabeth Rowe. ent rt e should be deemed necessary. Frolle pila, were present, beside the Fairmount Park Lee rOlic..... ++ 80.07 cs: Ita hy Paes celebrities, and The Brass Finishers, Founders, é&c. 30.03 kid representatives of the Nassau Boas Ciub, of » lew York, and the Couper Club, of Savannah, who A meeting of the above association was an RY are here awaiting the Poming regatta. ‘The ‘Com- Tounced to take place at the Assembly Rooms, mm ae z sty ‘oi00) Brice of Arrangemente consis ot ue Uys ery per of Second street and First avenue, last , ia i 4 , Thoinas J. Huggard and George Fred. Keene, serhaerGee moaction Wag taken, as but thice per- Bivens ‘George Roabr. HM fy Tuo Bachclors-are well oficered by the follow ons put in an appearand oon RS Cratts Freeman & Hoi 78.06 fy Bentlemen ;—President, James M. Longacre; resident, J. W. Latta; Treasurer, FE. ©. Prossa; ppereeary, John Huggard; Coxswain, Wescott Bai- ey. _o~lgiipd Bopha The st ord ees after te breaths sete street and Thirty-sourth gtreet, arrived an to the dock at the ea oF Ny Noventh strect shortly after ten A.M. A large number of, the friends and guonts of the club were on board, and before starting she had received a tolerably large human freight, who all appeared jn excellent humor and enjoying the music from the ban The Batchers and Slaughtcrers. In compliance with a published call about fourg hundred butchers, who represented twenty-three slaughter houses of the city, met at tho Casino ing East Houston street to perfect an organiza- Annual Regatta of the Bird Bont Club of St. Stephen's College. The annual regatta of the Bird Boat Club, of St. daje-on-Madsof, Wok : mE stephen’s Coilege, tion, Jacob Knolbach was calied to nox, 9 Stites were GomMiodore Morton, o: e Btephen’s ® An the chair and temporary oflicers ‘were Xi Vio ie Connolly and Messrs, Simonson and pgplace on safari afternoon last. The first fea ‘appointed. From the proceedings it appears that mJ: Il. Masterson, ‘There was a nice fresh breeze from fq ture Was a scrub race, for which tho following boats ‘They do not propose to strike for eight hours, biti ang alt the entries male thelr appearance with them O'Reilly, No. 1; J. E. Pettee, coxswain, Frances— exception of the Maggie and Irene, The prepara- tory gun was fired from the Fort Lee at 1th, 1m. 808,, and all hands on board the different yachts were immediately on the alert for action, The start- ing gun was fired at 11h. 17m., and THE RACE began, Jibs were run up ina hurry and a pretty Start was eifected, the two cabin boats, which occu- pied the most northerly position, getting of first. ‘he wind was nearly dead aft, and all She yachts started off with thelrvooms on the port side, with the exception of the little Germania, which stood (a the eastern shore and kept her boom on the starboard side, The Frolic and the Elizabeth Rowe had a pretty struggle for the lead, which the former W. Knight, No.1; 0. W. Racburn, stroke; feorge, coxswain. . O. ‘Tillotson, No, rather for an increase of pay, and @ committee was appointed to draft resolutions fixing the rate of; wages, to report at a subsequent meeting. J. Q. Archdexcon, stroke; I Coiln, coxswain. Agnes—O. R. ©. Searing, No. 4; Undine—T. J. Mackay, stroke; . Herron, coxswain. The course of these boats was three-quartars o @ mile, which was made by the Agnes in six minutes thir ve secouds, The neces and Star fouled, and the latter being unwilling to row again the judges decided -the Frances entitled to the second plac ‘The Undine broke an outrigger at starting and was unable to row tlie course, The race between the six-oared barges Mira- Iron and Motal Workers. About five hundred iron and metal workers as- sembled last evening at No. 62 Stanton street, M. ¥. Kane in the chair. The meeting was remarkably orderly, ‘and the appearance of each delegate showed that he meant business. Reports were re- cetved from about fifty shopsin New York and environs, the chief of which are:— Howe & Co.’s Sewing Machine Company.—Mr. Murphey reported that the, foreman, canvassod the i qnaily obtained, but fluatly had to'give up to George ff mune dewn to turaine aabee aan hack Wena ule Seo asion ihe Jnenager, came Tn and intimated pea nnerman, Wilo soon showed her superiority by Wand a quaricr, and the time made by the Winn that ifthe bight Tour inca were. ina majority he Mouton Setosninc tod ae sect and taking the i boat, Miramonte, was om, 358.4 Rosalle, em, 608 | out me @ little . ‘ re. the. 2 first , ss 'APSIZE t lelegate reported adversely to A. B. Taylor's boat lengths; but the Miramonte, with along steady sie hed ete as -3 of a small jib and mainsail boat called the Scrnb, AMM stroke, after the frat spurt of the Rosalie, slow] coasting schooner struck her boom and knocked ¥ her flat over, but the crew of three men were soon gm Seineds turning thé stakeboat ten seconds ahea Stanae Harrison.—A delegate reported that this firm had given the eight hours without reduc- i q, tably enscon: i gqand gained five seconds on the homestretch, cor tion, and the applause was intense. er, The Fort Lee plexed up one of the maon saa fa LE Hed de are: . Gilkeson, stroke; A. McMillan, No. 6; N. P. Lewis, No. 4; 5. B. Rathbun, No. 3; J. E. Pettee, No, 2; If. A. Fair. bairn, No. 1; Harry Auld, coxswain. Weight ol crew, 865 Ibs, Crew of Rosalie:—W. W. Hanse, stroke; J, B. Connor & May, of Brooklyn.—A delegate reported adversely to them, and the men will strike to-day. Buss & Willams, of Williamsburg, are reported as yielding to the eight-hour movement. The report from the Morgan lron Works was very non-committal. ‘he other two got into a rowboat and were pulled onshore. Inthe meanwhile the little racing feet were getting on beautifully, and the George E. Sherman, under the skilful manipulation of John Gage, was rapidly improving her lead. Off the CHEMICAL WORKS Stephens & McLean, of Monroe strect.—They have fila ttle putt brought the Elizabeth Rowe, the Lillo Was0% No 6; WM. Gleslay, No. 45 18. It. Kitk- eizen the cightchour privilege, but if itis not a suc- Mand the Journeyman up alongside of the Frolic, and bride, No. 35 POCDMUS CARER OSE Hi MPL Ty cess will go back to ten hours. the four kept together for a few minutes in alline. fa. * 2 P+ Vinton, cos . t Refiners.—Two are working at wo have struck. ‘k Iron Works refuse to concede do so. Other re- Havemeyer, 6 eight hours and ‘he New Yor! eight hours unless other sho] Finally the Frolic gradually forged ahead, followed Bh Mares Journeyman. The little Germania was away by herself on the eastern shore and the Crafts- man followed up atter the Elizabeth Rowe and the OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. i ing as the Garde Mobile, ‘The Frances came in second. & Speech of tho Duke _d@’Aumale in the French Assembly on the Reorganization of the French Army. Paris, May 29, 1872, Yesterday the Duke d’Aumale delivered a speech on F the all-absorbing question of army reorganization, Mj the navy, which I fully endorse. which, owing to the position of the speaker, has, of & course, attracted considerable attention. The % speech was plain and business-like, and was listened y ;to, on the whole, with patience and attention, 1 subjoin a translation :— tig ui is not our business just now to 3 struction; what we have before us is a bill on the recruiting of the army, and to that I mean to con- fine myself (parlez). When you determined that. this bill should pass to its second stage you ac- deemed # knowledged in principle it was necessary, and by Mm dangers of milita tho acclamations with which you received the elo- juent utterances of my honorabie friend, Duke "A\diffyet-Pasquler, 72 adopted in a manner the rinciple of personal service—a principle whici is not new}; indeed, it has formed at all times the basis of our military le; islation, but which it is now contemplated to apply in a more complete Ff and absolute manner than before. The bill you are discussing is necessary, because our legislation in the matter of recruiting had fallen into such a state of confusion that it has to be reconstructed afresh. As it now stands it 1s so Inadequate that at the Lime of our first. reverses, before our great disas- tors, It became neccasary to have recourse to ex- ceptional and extra legal measures to procure a supply of men, Therefore you have to frame a law ¢ numerical strength, Be Which will give the army the eftolency and solidity it requires, without inter- fering with the general development of the nation, Bt hindering the increase of the population and drain- ing the mainaaais of public wealth, You must clearly indicate to all citizens the way in which thoy are to be called to fulfil that first and most sa- cred of duties—the duty of dofending their coun- trv (sensation, “7rés-bien! trés-blen!’’), Gentlemen, the law of 1832, which even now is the basis of our ice. of recruiting, was a good law, for it fulfiiled § the object it was meant to achieve, That object # was mS at the disposal of the Executive an army of 500,000 men—that is to say, from 340,000 to 360,000 men ready to march to the frontier. ‘That object was fully attaincd; the experiment was made not only under the government of July, but also, what is more important, under the govern- nent which followed it, aud which was not disposed 10 view with favor any measure of its predecessor. B ‘The Provisional governinent of 1848 was after six nonths able to mobilize the number of men I have yg just specified. Tho law of 1832 was moreover coin- pleted by clause 6 of the law of 1831 on the National Guard, Which organized, under the designation of g hed corps of the National Guar the & which has more recently been deserived This law, however, a icated and unwieldy and those who were Mt clumsy one, It was 80 Som that it could not have worked, aware of its imperfe Sponsibiiity devolved felt not a little uncasy about # it. The state of Burope was such that alarpin; complications might be apprehended; mén imbued with the passions of 1813 were stillin power, and t qstons subsiated not, perhaps, among the fut éertalily among’ their rhlers, But lib- B era) progress in Europe was so steady, the spirit of moderation gained 60 much grou nd, there jas § much contidence in the wisdom of the gove¥nnien and the good sense of the country, that there was Rinatterof the Garde Mobile, as its stricvy military part Worked 80 smoothly, and the burdens it en- tal were cheerfully accepted by the entire nation, It was to this feeling that we @ must ascribe the failure of the made at different periods to remedy imperfections of. the the i the ing the reserve, which was never either drilled or em-f bodied. i must candidly tell you, appears to me to have been Bgreatly exaggerated, These abuses were far more fof white slave trade which was openly carried on— the traiic of the “insurance companies against mil tary service,” and other matters of detail which is unnecessary to recapitulute. No doubt the sub- stitutes were looked upon in the army with a de- ut which stuck to them wherever they went, was to exclude them MM chief result of this prejudice Fa (what we call flank companies), for many of them were capital soldiers. : 1855. The speakers who have already addressed you have so fully dealt withit that! don’t see I have anything new to say about it. The experiment was an honest one—I am quite willing to believe that—but it was carried on a great deal too long. Its effect a was to generalize the system of substitutes, which peated, the habit hac become 80 general that the number of people buying themselves off suifered ni diminution, lower cadres of the army (non-commissioned ofticers and corporals) to such an extent as to ex- clude the volunteers, who, before this law, gener- oy are up these cadres, Hence there has arisen a dificult, ES soldie on © ‘U8 & law about discipline or about public in-& tions: and on whom the re- fg ‘an indisposition to remodel the military law in the f& attempts hy law of 1832, and correct §4 for the conscription, of atv: the so-called abuses of the system of substitutes— i two adequacy of the legal enactments respecting Mf the The abuses of the system of substitutes, I fy M obnoxious in civil than in military life, and that kind 4 of service to six months. bly be determined otherwise than b ‘vyhen there came the law of@ was beiore only an exccption; and when it was re-# At the same time it encumbered the ff n obtaining a supply of non-commis-¥ 5 . that lam very far from blaming those who made this last eiort to try to save and defend the coun. trv—but remember those régiments de n that motley assemblage of oficers and men from’ % every quarter and every branch of the service; the 78 all unknown to and therefore not relying ch other; the officers gallant, no doubt, well informed and as good as any others; the men brave before danger, patient in their endurance of suffer- Ming and privations—(2pplause)—but, for all that, it fm Was too plain tha to make @ regiment requires By SOuicthing besides sewing buttons to men’s coats. (Applause.) My old comrade, Gen- eral Trochu, yesterday paid a tribute to (Applanse.) He told you of the exampies of discipline the saflora had given to the land forces, Doubtless General Trochu meant to refer to those provisional, to thosq 4 improvised regimen ts—gailant, no doubt, but uncellable, for Ido not think that the old regiments of the Frene irewa have Pap gre hg My eyes any one, either in the matter of gatautry or pilne (tres blen), Let me remind my olf comradé of the conduct of the Thirty Akh and Forty-second during the siege of Park: Well, gentlemen, I think the embodiment of the whole of the contingent— the teliing o:Y the men to a corps which Is to be their milltary ho: inst the provigations. (Assent.) No doubt there will be dimeuities—financial dificals mi $a guarantee agai ties, dificuities execution, &¢. ie of our administration and organization wilh have to be changed; but that Is a branch of just now I will not consider. the subject which B We must do one thing ata time, and os at the beginning, which ts the law on the recruting of thé army. This brings me to another important ques- tion—the question of the time of service. Yesters day General Trochu and M. Brunet both referred to the labors of the Saperior Council of War of 1! which so effectually contributed to the intel organization of the army by the Government of the © Rostoration. You have been informed that the Su; perior Council of War proposed to adopt the princt-., Ple ofa three years’ service. Tinust confess that F was not aware of the fact; sut what I remember well—and which will be fresh to the memory of all members who have followed the discussion on the Pee that the great proportion of old gens erals, nen who served uncer the Empire, were rather in favor of small contingents and long pee riods of service than of formidable contingents and short periods of service. General d'Ambrugeae, for instance, who was one of the most enlgneees members of the Supertor Council of ‘War, Maintained before tie Chamber of Peers that a con- tingent of 60,000 men was amply sufictent, with five ears’ service under the flag, and five years’ service inthe reserve. Many of the generals wont further than this—they entertained almost unanimously an affection for the system of eight years’ service; and that s, was supported for many very good Feagons, principally because it was the traditional period of service—cight years’ service Was the term ‘of the engagements under tae old régine; and many of the generals and marshals. of the empire, havin, served previously to the Revolution, hud retaine leasing reminiscences of the splendid troops of the line under the former monarchy. Inorde: to #x the duration of service it is necessary to compare or multiply 1¢ with: the contingent demanded, The game result is arrived at by two diferent methods, If you maitiply 60,000 by 8, or 60,000 my the result is precisely the same with respect peeves, it not with respect to the quality of the troons, he honorable memb who has drawn up the report, has furnished figures and caicuiations which it is. une ary to uealon here; it would, moreover, be tnwise and inopportune to discuss them. You ave all been mate acquainted with them, and I consider them incontestable. Me arrives—and the whole of the committce arrives—at this conclusion, viz. :—That tt Is ne place.at the disposition Of tle executive power jour classes jnstructed and dritie’, and Kaether class in the depots, which brings the period of service up to five years. Lcon- sider this figure preferable to any other which has been sugy ed, for the simple Yreason that it in- ures perfect elasticit, It is, no doubt, impossible, in calling out a whole class, to keep It for five years under the flag, and it is‘ for this reason that tho nine gentlemen wito have drawn up the draft of the Jaw havo had recourse to the old practice of drawing iding the contingent into ortions—one of which Is to be determined by inister of War and remaining at hig digposi- tion—not to be kept under the uted tor flve yeara, but to be retained du’ing any period which may be considered necessary ; and another, to be calied ont pY a year, with the laculty of reducing the period Six months is @ ver; j brief space of time, it is true; but the bill preseates to us contains so many details which cannot posst- ‘ experience that the legislator, in my opinion, ought to submit measures of detall to the executive power, In order ree of prejudice which was not always quite ti Pathat they may be settled according to public re- he or be made the subjects of legislative uirementa, net A fater period—an action which would not action ata from the cadres, but not from the clite seer ann Matrect the principle of the bill now presented to us. The same observation appears to me to apply ments of one year—a pr insure the a to voluntary engage gciple which is of a nature to quirement of liberal professions, and even to factlitate professional careers, on the understand- ding that the volunteers of one year be submitted, a like all other recruits, to incorporation In the regl- ment and life in common with tho rest, (Hear, hear.) There is, however, a clause in thia bill, o! ittle consequence at first sight, but respecting which I destre to ask your attention, for oa this point the measures proposed by your committee appear to inc to be inequitable, illogical, and, Imay slmost add, anti-military. I mean tho measures AA proposed respecting men who know not how to read M or write. I consider them nnjust, for it appears tome to be inequitable to render a man responsible for ports of a similat character were made by dele-M§ Lillie. The George E. Sherman was the first roundi@ Trial of a Westche Co ice on Me sioned officers—a difficulty which must continue iff™the negligence respecting his education in youth. tes from fifty-four shops. The meeting finally Ml the stakeboat off Fort Lee, and, starting off on tho eee ee eee eet tce om the systein of substitutes be wot entirely done away Mf (Tear, hear) ‘The man of eighteen who knows not lecided to haye a gene ‘al strike in New York, New I starboard tack, succeeded in weathering the Frolic, & Ch®rse of Bribery—Didicalty in with. It is all the more necessary, because, though JM how to elther read or write} Iready smit- Jersey, Brooklyn and suburban towns this morning. HM Journeyman, beth Rowe and ‘ities ‘which taining WitnessesHow the Alleged Hi tne great majority of tho country be fully prepared ten with incapacity of evety without having . The resolutions read-as follows:— were still on their way. The Elizabeth Rowe and Crime was Perpetrated—Tactics of afte accept the burdens of compulsory service, thef|recourse to the mensures proposed by this bil. hereasit has been fully demonstrated that the time Frolic rounded close together, the formet on the Tombs same individuals who ch ully subinit to it would f@ (Hear, hear.) They are not logical, for the reason Luwyer—Tall Swearing All Around={The Jury Not Agrced Upon a Verdict at a Late Hour. ‘has arrived for the iron and metal workers of New York and vicinity to take adecided stop to obtain the benefit ot the Bight-Hour law, and whereas we have sufficient proot that other trades have obtained it, and will support his In our endeavors; therefore we, the tron and metal workers of New York aud vicinity,’ im mass megting as- sembled, do hereby Resolve to take the necessary steps to obtain it, by asion if possible, by strike If forced to It. Resolved, That every ‘boss employing iron and metal worker be notified that on and aiter June 13, 1872, we re- quest that eight hours shall constitute a day's work with- out reduction of present wager, for those in their employ. red, That if they refuse to accede to this request inside, but the latter was the quickest handied and gained two lengths by the time they got to work on the dead beat to the COAT. DOCKS. The Lillie was the next boat round, followed closely by the Journey: , and then came the Germania, with the little Craftsman some two min- utes behind. The beat up to the coal docks gave a magnificent opporianity for testing the sathny ; pacities of the fleet by the wind. ie remarkably well and on this beat ¢ occasioned such Intense interest throughout West- mora ce, who was yesterday tried in the vy rand Terminer at White Plains on an or alleged bribery and corruption in Heat the whole wo strike all together on that date. i wed the Dolly Va ourt room was crowded at an early Bice hea aU S SERINE Pelee avis eb ae 8 rd boat ana o, ml it ong of anxious spectators, nearly all THE EIGHT OTE WEMI ne , mh thie Ethe te v vagerly retained thelr seats dur- fre PO Save wi aA oma ing ‘sae entire day, notwithstanding the Asa matter of cow he workingr v , Nan Onde a ae est ‘The Mferce heat, which made the atmos- rk are ching with deep | c ‘ng ts the oficial time round the stakeboats Mi phere decidedly uncomfortable. Much difficulty by thefr fellow-workmen in the 1 Fort Lee aga: the coal ageks, 5 a ayaee had been experienced by the prosecuting gearcely uocessary to say that their syupaluies fil ame, Hens, n. M. s @attorney in securing the attendance of two of the are with th brethren of the horny hands, Bioabetn ytd yy Ld MH 1 Ls Hy principal witnesses for the people and alleged co- (ings have Leew held to discuss the eight-hour MM Prolic IL 59 45 2 01 $5$@conspirators in the act of oficial corruption, Jus-§ uovement, and speeches made on the subject in af jut 12 0 0 4 & Bi tice Wiliam F. Brown, of Morrisania, and Abe h. tone of calmness and good temper which proves Paap dsb ¥% 4 an Rot eee Hummel, of New York, and only brouglt them to the possession by the workingmen of good practi- cal common sense. No action has yet been taken, but a meeting is called for to-night. THE FRENCH FRIGATE MINERVE. the witness stand by causing a bench warrant tobe issued for the former and an attachment served on the latter to insure his attendance at Court. The accused was defended by Messrs, Chauncey Shaffer, Francia Larkin and Odle Close, atria! District Attorney Briggs conducted the prose- cution, The first witness called for the people was Abe H. Hummel, a New York lawyer, who testified that he received a fee of $400, three-fourths of which he gave to Justice Brown, in Delmonico’s, on Wash- ington's birthday, with the understanding tbat it was to be used in trying to effect the release of the prisoners then beid at the Town Hall at Morrisania charge of attempted burglary. On cross-ex- The yachts now had a free run to the home stakeboat, with their booms on the starboard side, and as they went round they jibbed them over and started for Fort Lee. baht! 3 free, the Lillie, Journeyman, Frolic and Elizabeth Rowe all gained alittle on the Sherman, but the Journeyman was doing especially well, and was only eighteen min- utes behind, when she collided with the stakeboat off Fort Lee, and was thas ruled out of the race. i Lillie came round some two minutes later, but she ‘Visit of the Indians and Their Reception by the OMecers—Specch of Red Cloud— Description of the Minerve—Her Officers and Crew. Before their departure for Philadelphia the In- dians, comprising Red Clond, Red Leaf, Stabber, SPLIT NER JIB into ribhons about twenty minutes afterwards and was towei back by the Fort Lee. The Frolic rounded next—about nine minutes ahead of the Elizabeth Little Wound, The-Man-Who-Has-a-Raven-On-His- fj Rowe. The Fort Lee then took the stakeboat in tion ve toby eat would not Carrs - Jus- rt J others, eight in all, with two interpreters, gq tOW, and the Germania and Craftsman were left out tice Fuller knew that the money was handed over ead en i S36 abeihe ts in the cold. The latter, however, was in difficulties, [to Brown by him. paid a visit to the French frigate Minerve, which arrived at this porta short time ago, They were each in turn presented, and, after some vigorous William F. Brown, a Justice of the Peace in Mor- risania, testified that he had known the accused in- timately for some ycars; that by a preconcerted asahe had carried away her rudder. The yachts finally arrived as follows:— Fort Leo 8d Turn, Home. HM. aM. Name. , 8. Ss. eme! Fal himself met Hummel at) where they partook of @ handsome collation, t 223. 18 Sam a8 previously agreed upon, handed tf $300, 3 Mt WO Not taken. MM Which he quietly transferred to Justice Fullen, with Oh: 8A coaale.; IeNiine: 60 . Se. wine ane 3 1 00 Not taken a distinct understanding that Fallen should release liquors offered them. Admiral de Surville (the ‘ot taken, = the two prisoners already alluded to, Craftsman. Disabled. = Minerve being his flagship) afterwards escorted them to his cabin, where they were treated to champagne, which they likewise appeared to enjoy hugely. In drinking the Admiral’s health Red Cloud made a short speech, which was translated hy the interpreter as follows :— My grandfather left to his descendants « legacy of friendship Jor the French, who were his allies. My father and myself have been forced from our lands to the Roc! Mountains and can go no further. We only ask for peace ‘and tho posses: ‘of our own. To a Frenchman 8 name and country area passport to our hearts and Tregrét that Mrs, Leonard, wife of ong of the pri poners, testi- fled to having met Justice Fullen in the lock-up at the Town Hall, and offered him @ diamond ring 1f| he would discharge her husband; that having taken the ring and looked at it, Fullen returned the trinket to her; that she subsequently agreed to give $400 to Hummce! in order to effect the release of the prisoner; she also went with Hinmmel to Del- monico’s on the day that the money was paid to Justice Brown, by whom, it isalieged, it Was handed to Fulien, Having been placed on the witness stand the ac cused positively denied any knowledge of an agre: The Frolic wins the prize for cabin sloops and the George E, Sherman for first class open sloops. The second-class prize has not been awarded, as the stakeboat was removed betore either of the boats were enabled to get up to it. ARRIVAL OF THE DAUNTLESS AT COWES, {From the London Field.) This yacht, the property of the Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, arrived in the roadstead at Tit bulimy good Wishes go with ‘you to your tas cig CoWes on Tuesday. On reference to her log we find Mout to recelve, money, or other property in eon Psy. sideration of his discharging the prisoners, anc ori | that her passage across the Atlantic was not al-Biswore that lie had wever received a soiitar cent from Brown for the purpose indicated at that or any other time. The defence then called a number of witnesses for the purpose of impeaching Brown, many of| whom were individuals of no character or credit- able standing in the community, One of them, justice of the peace, named Haupiman, who has peen known to persistently denounce Fallen as one of the worst and most unprincipled of men, aston. ished many present by testifying that Pullen’s gen- eral character was good. In ins address to the jury, Chauncey Shaffer made Repowetinl ox eal in behalf of his client, and was followed by District Attorney Briggs in an eloquent and vigorous pee up of the testimony, Jus- tice Barnard then delivered a lucid charge, after which the jary retired, and in about two honye re- turned into Court, stating, throug their foreman, that ied were unable to ugree. Aiter some further instructions from the Court the jury again went out, but with little hope of unanimity up to @ late hour last night, FIRE IN WEST TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, The Admiral, in reply, expressed his thanks for’ Rea Cloud's friendly feelings towards the French nation, and hoped that he would again see them. Aiter a stay of abont two hours the Indians de-' parted, highly delighted with their vicit. In recog- nition of the hospitality extended to them Red Cloud afterwards sent on board a wampum belt, a sealping knife with ornamented sheath and other! articles of Indian workmanship as a gift to the Ad- miral and the officers, DESCRIPTION OF THE FRIGATE. The Minerve is a frigate of the second class, and, as already stated, the Magship of Admiral de Sur- ville. She is about five years old, was constructed at Brest, and attains a speed of twelve knots an hour, In size she ts long and narrow. She carries! a crew of 410 men and sixteen guns of a large call- bre. Her officers’ are remarkable for gentleman bearing and that igh-bred courtesy which sprin, from inward kindliness of nature. me following Is the list of her officers :— . Admiral de Surville and his staff as fol- jOWS i= Captain Riviere de la Mure, chief of staf. Lieutenants Fiandin and Escande, aides-de-camp, M. Girard de la Barcerie, fleet surgeon, M. Edet, fleet Va fag Abbé le Maitre, fleet chaplain. M. Delevaque, fleet naval constructor. MM. de Fanques de Joncquitres and Thoisy, passed midshipmen, a OFFICERS OF THE VESSFI. Coptain du Pin de Saint André, commander, Lieutenant Le Bras, second in command, Lieutenants Gaillard, Bauer, Bayle and de Chauliac. M. Perinel, surgeon of the second clase, and M, Alix, surgeon of the third ciass. rpinet, chief engineer MM. Forestier, de Horter, de Miniac, Nény, de Verde and Le Breton, midsbipinen, together a pleasant one, the weather being far from favorable. She started from New York on the 3d and made that day 70 miles; next day the wind was Variable, and she only went 149 miles; on the 5th the wind was still Nghter, and she oniy made 116 miles; on the 6th 182 miles; on the 7th 125 miles, and on the 8th 122 milea. Up to this time the voyage had been without any incident worthy of record, but next day the wind sprang up into al- most a gale, and they made 240 miles, Next day this fell to a calm, and for seven hours the sails papped listlessiy about, and they only made af miles in the twenty-four hours. On the lith they got juto another gale, which lasted them for some time, and they were compelled to lay to that day for sixteen hours, the next day for twenty hours and a half, and the day after for seventeen hours; the gig was then washed overboard and lost. The following day eight hours only were spent hove to, the gale moderating; but during these four days they had only mace 379 miles. On the next day 173 were logged, and hy then up to the 2ist it was one conti ual calm; in fact, sometimes the yacht did not have steerage way on her. In six days they only made 262 miles, orho more than an ordinary day 1 ought to. have been. On the 22d matters improved, and they made 172 miles, On the 23d they made the best run of the voyage, —— 254 miles; on the 24th 183 miles, and on the 25th and 26th 311 miles were totalled, They had now arrived in the Chan- hel, and on the 28th at noon they let go an- chor off the R. Y. 8 Castle; in the after- hoon they were towed up the harbor, and she is now lying alongside the Enchantress, Mr. Loriliard’s new yacut; the Sappho, Mr. Douglas, is. lying just ahead of ier. ‘The yachts themeelves are very well Worthy of a visit; of the three the Daunt- 5 Rear x floor of the four story building 349 sad 351 West Twenty-sixth street, occupied by the Morcher Manufacturing Association. The building and ma- chinery owned by the Morcher estate was damaged $500, on which there is no insurance. The stock, valued at $10,000, was half consumed. There Was no insurance on the stock, but the following members of the firm were in } for the adjoinin, amounts:—Mr. Ryan, $600 in the Altoa, of Hartford, And $500 in the National; Messrs. Kreps and Henn- ly, $1,500 in the People’s; Mr. Holmes, $400 in the National, of Bangor, aud Mr, Clark $250 in the same company. Since the notorious Buckhout trials no case has § chester connty as that of Henry A. Fullen, a Justice @ A fire broke out yesterday morning on the third § infailibly resort to the system of sub: found that the privilege were conceded to any one person, That door must finally shu there must not be substitution under any sha) whatever, not even in the exchange of number (drawn at the conscription) for another; for how- ever small the loophole mi it the outset, it will become as wide as a church We must do away with it ut the army and In that of the co of substitutes were toler gent, whén the continge social, it, and wonld be utterly intolerable. es if they ly in the interest of} ntry. Ifthe systemy To eradicate thor. may percliance ever be re-established it will be necessary to vote the incorporation of the whole of] the contingent, as the bill proposes. [I am aware that this wholesale incorporation frightens @ goo many people whose opinion is entitled to resp: they consider that it will be @ source of financial embarrassment; & cause of weakness for the army, the solidity of which they think might be impaired by the constant passing through its ranks of men who would, 80 to speak, only ap-f pear in éneir corps to vanish again, A great many people—competent judges I mean—would, there- fore, prefer thit a portion of the contingent should. not be called out, but receive thely military instruc- tion in their native place or its immediate neigh- borhood, ‘The idea 18 not anew one; it has bee tried repeatedly, but uever fully worked qut. The first time we meet with it is after the peace of Luneville in 1802; it was then decided that 69,000 conscripts should be left at home and drilled there, ‘They remained at home, but they were not drilies From 1841 to 1844 fresh attempts were made to aril the reserve without displacing it. Ata more recent period it would appear that the reserve was actually drilled in that way, ond without success. The men could be satisfa torily handled, Nevertheless, in spite of this a parent success, I think that the plan, even If tried, must be ultimately given up. First, because the expense would be Very nearly as great as that at- tending total incorporation; for the men must re- ceive @ kit and some kind of uniiorm, aud cadres must be detached to drill them, penses are utter waste, for the expense is only ap- arent. For why? The men thus drilled do not Retong to what maybe described as “a military family,” and that which makes the soldier is that he has a military home, where he knows ever; body and everybody knows him. And for these Teasons it is necessary to incorporate the whole of the coptingent, (Qui, oul; tres-bten, trés-blen.”) Look at what has taken place whenever the re- serves have been called out to join the colors, Some were raw hack who had never been aniled, or, if they had, had never been permanently at- tached to apy corps, Others were old soldiers sent hoine on temporary farlough, which they considered mostly a a final release, The raw youth who had never served—bewildered, fustered—had to be rapidly put throngh his drill to be immediately prepared for active service, The old soldier, sad, discontented, out of sorte, found himself an u stranger in his corpa, where no one knows his ecedents, He may have been a sergeant or ‘al, but he now is a mere private; he may have belonged to a compagnie d’élite, but he ceases Eto vank assuch, However, f find Lam making a imis- take; the éife companies have ceased to exist. If my old comrade, General Trochu, will excuse my saying so, that was the only bad thing he recom- mended in his book, and it Was the only one which was aitended to, (Lavgliter.) ‘The Incorporation of the reserves in ordinary times is not attended with any serious invonvenicnce. The men soon settie down; but in crit.cal times, when dinicuities: become pressing, then inevitably it leads to mill- tary improvisations, which may be necessary, but are almost invariably fatal. Take, for instance, the example Of the greatest, the most ingenious, and the most powerful ot military organizers, the Emperor Napoleon; look at the happiest of his improvisations—so vividly pic: tured by M. le President de la Kepublique—the im- /provisation of the army which fought. at Marengo— and which he turned to good account. But if you foliow the details of that day's fighting you will see that this tapped army had not tie solidity of the army the Rhine, which fought about the same tine at Hoheniinden, nox that of the old army Of italy, which at that very moment was marching out of Genoa in virtue of one of those glorious capitulation 1 sould. wish our history had no thers to record. (Applause). Then came the Byanisn war. The grand armée was insutticlent; it was requisite to resort to the formation of Fifth Rand Sixth battalions to provisional regiménw—fo yegiments of conscripts, They were gent to Anda. Tusia—Bayien was the result. fp 1800 again provi- sional reginents were formed, and Marshal Mo- Mahon, in the midst of the smoke of Wagram and the Intoxication of victory, tells the Bmperor that his fokiiers have no loner any cohesion (ne sont plus courus ensemole). Finally, you ai remember the pitifal sight we witnessed during the late wor -re- Inember those sugiments de marche, wich, wo: doubt. it was indispensabie to form—aud let me Bay ig learniny 1” in course of time. B ple with ® small contin- ig Thi vew larger 60 did the i political and military drawbacks attending gy with the whole contingent called out it honor of serving in the F oughly any idea that the system of substitutes fy rfgion, nowever n not fj eflect; a constderal And all these ex-& my weil tter Ba joined that the man whom you proilbit fram enlisting at the age of eighteen you incorporate in the regu- lar army at the age of twenty. But you do not stop Shere. if during the first. year of service he hag not learned to read and write—if he is less capable of than when was younger—if in tie ac- complishment of his military duties lic has not been able to acquire this measure of instruction— # you impose a penalty upon him! And what a pen- ality! You keep hi year longer under the fag. is, Tmust confess, isa most dangerous and fatal sure. In times gone by there existed in our ode of laws a penalty like this, “Deprived of the rench army.” I cannot admit that this proposition should be reversed, and that it should be considered a dishonor to re- main under the —under the French flag. A MemBer—Which flag ? The Duke P/AUMALE—Under that beloved fag. (Ah, ah! and hear, hea fi The Marquis DE FxaNcLizu—What is the meaning Under that beloved flag of this? of every origin and every vhich was surrounded opinion daring th by all good citi from it to serve as the sinister emblem of civil war—(hear, hear)—that flag whicn was for so long atime the symbol of victory, and which, through. out our misfortunes, has remained the emblem of {union and concord. (Loud applaw Gentlemen, fin voting the bill presented to us to-day, in adoptin, its principal provis'ons, we M do a noble an menly act; in devoting all or fence of the country we sha accomplish an act of austere patriotism. We 5! prove hat in national questions tho spirit. of concord and devotedness effuces all sh of opin- dd they may be. approval cannot take immed: nount of time may be i sary to insure the developnient of all its const quences, In discussing and voting ft, therefor you prove once more your resolution to accomplish vatiently and pacificalty the work of reorganization and of regeneration to which you devoted your- selves at Bordeaux, (Hear, hear.) And when, uf torwarda, you will be called’ upon to treat questions purely military; when the laws on reorgaui- zation will be presented to you, or wl the exec- A utive power will take (he measures, which are the consequence of the bill now under Siacnnslony pon will, beforehand, have marked so precisely and 80 nauifested your appreciation of it, that no one, either in France or fa Europe, can possibly iuieconstrue your iutentions. (Hear, hear.) BROOKLYN FINANCIAL ESTIMATES, The President of the Brooklyn Board of Fire De- partment Commissioners yesterday morning trans- mitted the estimate of moneys required for the purposes of said department for the year ending December 31, 1873, Including the amount necessary for the organization of two new companies, as sub- Salaries, $250,600; malitenance, $59,000; organization of two companics, £33,000, Total, $541,600, The Street Commissioner notified the # Board of Estimate that the sum of $40,000 will be equired to be placed in the tax levy of the year B submitted for you a 1572 to meet the expenses of the work of making i field maps aud copies of various ward mapa, any jor a resurvey of the water front of rooklyt. ‘The Water Commissioners have noiltied the Board of Estimate that $4,300 was, through crror, jie off from the sum ates Lp apis at i fund’? BI stition, ume 3 C ay seasons, we received, asking that $80,000 be placed Tithe budget for tie erection of a new school house. The above items were all Inserted in the ann adget. The Board of edacation call for $809,427 to meet the expenses of the public schools a THE SLUNG SHOT AT A WAKE, Last Sunday night a row occurred at a wake held in Claifey’s liquor store, at the corner of 130th strect and Tenthavenue, between the grief-stricken friends of the deceased, named Hugh Daly, of 12th street and Fourth avenue, and James Hyland, During the fight Hyland struck Daly a terrible blow with a slung shot, completely fractu the jaw-bone. Hyland was yesterday arrested by ‘OMicer Garside, and committed by Justice at the Harlem Police Court, to await the result of Daly's injuries, Hyland asserta that he wrested the same slung shot from Daly’s hands and gavé him the blow in self-defence. To THE Eprtor OF THE HERALD:— : In answer to the inquiry concerning.” family of Bernard Curry I wouid state he was un.aarried, bat had an aged widowed mother depending on him for support, Her address is Mrs, Nancy Curry, Ron oat, N.Y, GQ tk a