The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 7

ee MUNICIPAL PATRONAGE. The Candidates for President of the New Board of Alder- men—Clerkships, &c. Rumors Among the Departments—Com- missions, &c, ‘Searcely has the smoke of battle cleared off when our local politicians begin to cast around a8 to the different offices at the disposal of tne win- | ning party. Amazed at the wonderful successes | achieved in city, State and nation, it would seem judicious for them to take a few days’ rest from this harassing business of their lives before again entering upon the arduous labors o! logrolling and wirepulling. But such is not their nature. Already caucus and consultation occupy their time. Buttonholing, whispering, discussion apa sugges- tion are witnessed around the City Hall and the diferent departments. Heads perfectly safe before election now tremble in uncertainty of official tenure, A shadow of gloom pervades tne republi- | can camp, while the democratic strongholds bristle with new artillery and fortifications, THK NEW BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND ITS PRESI- DENCY. One of the most important of gur charter oMcers | 1g the President of the Board of Aldermen, Itis a Position requiring great executive ability. In cases of emergency he is called upon to act as Mayor of the city. That distinguished exile; ex: | Alderman Thomas Coman, officiated as Mayor of | this city at one time, and his portrait decorates our manicipal halls in consequence. Then, the President of the Board of Aldermen 1s also a mem- ber of the Board of Apportionment, having @ voice in the disbursement of millions of the people’s money, A talk with members of the new Board, and sume of tue democratic leaders yesterday developed the fact that the most prom- inent man for the place is Mr. Samuel A. Lewis, elected on the Tammany Alderman-at-Large ticket. He ts saia to be tne choice of Mr, John Kelly, which tact speaks strongly in his behali, considering the poution which that gentleman occupies at present in the councils 01 the demo- | cratic party. Of course the republicans will not Dave much to say in che matter, as they stand in & minority—8 to 14, The other prominent can- didates mentioned are Kaward Gilon and Jonn Riley. The latter claims the position on the grouna of length of service in the Board. Of course there are at least a dozen ol the new organization who claim the position on some particular ground, dMaginary or otherwise, but Mr, Lewis now seems: to be the favorite, Alderman Patrick Lysagit, elected irom the Sixth ward, has the good sense to keep back any claims that he might have, in order to advance the interests at any other gen- tleman whom he might consider a more eligible and better qualified candidate in point of educa- ton and experience, TAE CLERKSHIP OF THE BOARD, Of course, there are Losts of candidates for this Position, which carries with it considerable Influence and patronage. It is intimated that Mr. Frank J. ‘twomey, present Deputy Cierk, and Mr. George W. Morton, Secretary of the Tammany Hall General Committee, are most prominent in | the race. EXIT BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN. After the ist of January the Board of Assistant Aldermen ceases to exist by special act of the Legislature. There is ‘weeping and wailing and gnasbing of teeth’ among the incumbents. A | Jarge number of officials will thus be thrown “at | Jarge,” but most of them expect to fill vacancies uncer the new dispensation, Mr. William H. Ma- Toney, Clerk of the present Board of Assistant Aldermen, bas his eyes directed toward the clerk- ship of the new Board, but the powers that be have cried “hands off.” VACANCIES IN THE BOARD. In case the Police Justices’ bill is declared un- constitutional Judge shandiey, it is said, will re- | sign as Alderman and resume is place upon the Bench. in this event veputy Sherif ‘tbomas Shiels, of the Seveuth ward, Is slated for tne vacancy. The decision of the Court of Appeals upon the Justices’ vill, it 18 positively asserted, Whi be given next week. THE COMMISSIONS—WHAT MAYOR ELECT WICKHAM CAN AND MAY Do. Mayor elect Wickham, unuer tbe charter as at present iramed, has great power. It is true tie offices in departments and commissions are all Milled for some time to come, but the Mayor has ower of removal for cause, and the Legisiature, ing democratic, can Temodel the charter to suit i emergencies. ‘The following are the principal departments at present under city control :— Finance Department, Law Department, Police Department, Department of Public Works, De- Cok of Public Charities and Correction, leaith Department, Department of Buildings. Department of Puble Parks, Department of taxes and Assessments, Department o! Docks, Excise | Department. ‘ast power has been vested in the Mayor in ap- inting Commissioners for these departments. iow this power has been abused is mat- | ter of history. If charges are presented ainst §=6any (Ot the Commissioners it will be Mr. Wickham’s duty to strictly | investigate them. Alter discharging the task the charges and evidence will be submitted to Gov- ernor Tilden for his action. Already there is said to be a general cleaning up and renovation of mis- | celianeous account vooks and documents in some of these oMces in anticipation o! the carrying our Of the legend, “A new broom sweeps clean.”’ Or course tne Department o! Public Works, presided over by Mr. George M. Van Nort, will prove the great objective point of atiack on the part of our new rulers, The offices and patronage are immense, and, when properly haudied, the department can grind vut at least 15,000 votes for which ever side controls its destinies. It was Suggested yesterday by an influential and intelil- ent politician that this department ought to be fiviaea up—that it ts too large a burden to be | carried on the shoulders o! one Commissioner; that the croton Board should be an entirely inde- pendent bureau. ‘There may be some philosophy in tnis. COMPTROLLER GREEN'S term of office does not expire until the fall of 1876, ‘uniess cut stort by the Legislature or removed tor cause by the Mayor and Governor. What the probabilities are im relation to this gentleman’s tenure of place have not yet been developed, He 18 said to have a strong pull with our incoming Governor. TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS. The incoming muuictpal administration cannot be expected to go back upon those who put it on its ieet. A few days more will determine mucn as regards the city slate for official patronage. Our | ambitious ward statesmen must 10 the meantime @oly watch, wait and pray. IMPRESSIVE MASONIC CEREMONY. In the Commandary Chamber of the Masonic Tem- | ple there was enacted last evening a memorable scene, which will be remembered vy those who Witnessed the same for many years. It was no Tess than the dedication of the Room, as the “Con- sistorial Chamber” of the A. A. Rite. The impres- give ceremonies were conducted by Brother Charles T. McClenachan, assisted bv General Wara Dr. Fieming and bis staf of officers. Prayers, ‘etic symbolical representations and ancient rites Were impressively delivered and portrayed. ‘The various altars were properly “illuminated,” after which the chamber was dedicated to the sub- Kine order, by the sprinkling of “water, wine and salt” on the floor. After the dedication the “Sublime Degree of Perfection,” or the fourteenth degree, was con- ferred with full ceremonies, Many prominent A. A. R. Masons from this and other cities were prevent, among the most prominent being R. W. . W. Wyman, thirty-third degree, Commander-in- Chiet of New ita’) 4. W. Cossad, thirty-third Gegree; George P. Edwards, thirty-third degree; G. L. Scott, thirty-third degree, and a number of other gentiemen from Jersey City; Ezekiel Salo- mon, thirty-third degree, from New Orieans, with the soliowing irom this city:—General Charles Roome, General J. C. Pinckney, General J. H. Ho- bart Ward, Charies T. MeCienachan, W. V. Alex- auaer, R. M. ©. Graham, Henry C, Banks, Dr. James M. Austin, Jerome Buck, Elwood E. Thorne, Napoleon Le Brun, architect of the Temple; Hopkins Thompson, Jonn W. Simons, Danie) Sickels, Horace Taylor, William H. Stiner, Henry Clay Preston, Dr. Walter M. Fieming, John ¥. Green, Dr. Charles Brown and others. On completion of the degree a grand banquet ‘Was held, accompamed by speaking and a general good time, whicn was iully enjoyed by those pres- ent. The feast broke up at a iate hour. POLICE MATTERS, The cases of OfMcer Graham, who was tried belore the Board of Police for illegally arresting and causing the imprisonment of two young ladies, and Sergeant Schuitz, who was charged with using offensive language to them in the station house when they were arraigned before him by Officer Graham, have been laid over by the Board oi Police to await the action of the higher Court berore which they are to be tried. At the close of the examination betore the Board of Police the (riends of the young ladies presented themselves beiore the Grand Jury, made a com- faint Of the case, aNd indictments were issued lor the trial of the officers. Upon receiving notice of this action the Police Commissioners laid over their judgments in the matter, as is usual in auch eases, until ater the tnquiries in the upper tribu- | nal, This course {is adopted in justice to the | accnsed, With the view of not pkejudicing the aspect of the defance in alter trials, | put, The sermons on “Moral Responsibility and | at the time that Mr, Adams was forced to go over | light in listening to, } tific researches in Syria in 1860-61. NEW ‘YORK LITERATURE. j cemeennaGmeasmreamn CHRISTIAN. TRUTH AND MODERN OPINION. Thomas Whittamer. This is a very well printed and neat little book. It consists of seven sermons by representative men ofthe Protestant Episcopai Church, As the title indicates, the topics.discussed are of general interest, and they are handled, if notin a way Which science would approve, in 8 way which will enable the people to see the Learing and conse- quences of the attitude which scientific men have jately assumed. “The Christian Doctrine of Prayer,’ a subject which will always have fresh charms for seekers alter the why and wherefore, 1s treated with considerable care and skill. Tne sermon on “Tne Oneness of Scripture” is bright and sparkling in style, and its argument is well Phrsical Law” and “Evolntion and a Personal | Creator’ will be of special interest. They are a | strong and fair defence of faith against the at. | tacks of modern thinkers. Altogether the book 1s notas dry as such productions usually are, and will well repay the patient reader. TRE Grange: A Studv in the Sctence of Society. Sy Gracchus Americanus, ‘This book is not published, but manufactured by G, P. Putnam’s Sons, which is perhaps not insignif- icant, We have read it with considerable interest and not without pain, It attacks boidiy some of | the prominent evils of our political Iie and de- ; nounces the greed of gain which is consuming the | people. The aim of the writer 1s to be com- mended, since he makes an atvempt, thougn a | very feeble one, to set matters right. The style of ‘he book is deplorable beyond expression. It is | written in evident imitation of the startling rhet- orte of Carlyle, but ‘succeeds in peing | simply turgid. The writer is unaccustomed to literary writing, andfrequently falls into errors of grammar and rhetoric which are unpardonabie. His advocacy of the grange as the panacea of our | Political evils and as a means to public virtue car- ries with it neither weight nor conviction, When he insists that we need statesmen and not po!l- ticians we agree with him; but when he asserts that the grange will make men pure, and keep them.s0, we beg to differ. The grange is simply a new political party, which begins its existence by demanding integrity in office, but should it succeed in getting into power tt would become as corrupt as other parties have become, We have organizations enough, and their multiplication will only work evil, It is better to purity what we have than | create others. Still, as we have before said, the alm of the book is good, though the style and grammar are bad. DEMOCRACY AND MONARCHY IN FRANCE. Charles Kendall Adams. Henry Holt & Co. This book should fiud its way to every atudent's table. It has not been our fortune for a long while to fall in witn a volume which will bear more Caretul reading than this one. It is evidently the product of great care, as well as of ripe scholarship. It 18 the outgrowth of certain lec- tures which were delivered in 1872-1873 0n the politics of France. These lectures were so popular By the entire ground afrezh, to rewrite most and to i add to all, that the public might have in perma- | nent book form what had given them so much de- As a piece of mechanism the book is accredit to | the publishers, Its topography is excellent, and | can be read by cld age without spectacles. The | only criticism we feel like making is upon the un- cut leaves. It always spoils the appearance of a | book to have ragged edges, and when one Is eagerly reading, it ts a disappointment to be com- pelled to draw a knife trom your pocket and cut the leaves apart, An uncut book isa torment to the scholar. The style is as clear a3 a stream, and the terse way in which facts are putin as evidence and the | candid way in which deductions are drawn there- from ts a constant delight and reireshment, In the introductory chapter Mr. Adams gives us a ! glimpse of the ground he proposes to travel over. As we read it we were more than ever impressed by the conviction that the ablest criticisms of European affairs oa ardm American pons. What France sought after in vain we have already at- tained. For this reason our scholars, in follawing the progress of France toward arepubiic, detect at once all political errors and blunders. Mr. Adams begins at the beginning of the causes | Which have led to the present condition of | France, and holds the philosophers ot the last gen- | eration responsible for their part in the history of | the Revolution. He severely but jus'ly criticises the j policy which resulted in the Revolution and made | Napoleonism possibie. He then follows the prog- Tess of events in @ very caretul and scholarly way | throug the Restoration and the Ministry of | Guizot and the outbreak of 1848 and the Second | Empire to the decline of the Napoleonic dynasty | and the Jall of the late Emperor. In many respects the boox ts the best treatise on French politics that has appeared in the last four years. It should bein the hands of every man who desires to get an insight into European affairs and wants to understand better the Strength of our own government and the dangers which beset it. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. The study of genealogysehas been much assisted | by Mr. Joseph Foster’s ‘Pedigrees ot the County Families of Engiand.”” Three volumes have been published, including Lancashire and the North, East and West Riding of Yorkshire, AS far back as 1740 London had a daily evening newspaper, sold at one farthing, and entitled, The Evening Post. The making of farthing newspapers may be reckoned among the lost arts, No less than 5,000 copies of a cheap London edi- tion of “Middlemarch” have been sold within two months. M. Rénan has brought out & new work, ‘“‘La Mis- | sion de Phénice," being an account of the scien- An official order from the Turkish Minister of | Police forbids newspaper hawkers to cry the con- tents of the journals they sell, as they trequently falsify them. How would euch an edict doin New York? The reception of M. Alexandre Dumas at the French Academy ts fxed for a day within the first fortnight of Janaary next. The reception of MM, Meziérés and Caro will follow; and after the tast of these ceremonies the Academy will elect a successor to Jules Janin. Dr. Bernard, of Bonn, a learned German critic, has Just printed in English “William Langland: a Grammatical Treatise,” in which he gives a thorough analysis and account of the language and construction of “Pier’s Plowman.” Mr. Froude has been accepted by Mr. Carlyie as | his biographer, and has had all the materials in Mr. Carlyie’s possession bearing on the work placed at his disposal. It is also understood that Mr. Froude will be appointed sole literary executor of Mr. Carlyle. The September number of Petermann's Mittheil. umgen opens With Dr. Bernoaiili’s travels in Guatemala, in the fear 1870, in his progress through the country the Doctor was struck with | the frequent occurrence of ruined churches and deserted habitations, ‘rhe French almanacs for 1875 are putting in an eariy appearance. At least four of them an- nounced as already published, viz,:—The “Al. manach de l’Atelier,” tne ‘‘Almanach des Joyeaux Chauteurs,” the “Almanach des Succes Paris- fennes,” and the “Almanach du Laboureur et du Vigneron.”” Four hunared of the 576 pages of text of the first volume of Mr. Arber’s “Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers’ Company” are printed off, and the volume will probably be issued in October. There is @ soctety in Italy for the suppression of bad books, wnich, in {ts fourth report, expresses great indignation against the ‘‘Rivista Europea’ for having said that too many of its members would exclude all books but the “Catechism,” the “ofmice of the Madonna,” or at most, the “Book of Dreams,” A volume of “Personal Recollections of Beetno- ven, Goethe and Mendelssohn,” is In tne press, from the pen of Herr Heinrich von Meister, who was acquainted with the great poet and com- nosera, The work will be written in Engiteh, |} Manding. CUBA LIBRE. Patriot Protest Against Negotiatto! for a Subsidiary Settlement with the jards=The Lone Star Fiag Must Be Completely Free. Krnaston, Jam., Oct. 29, 1874, To THE Epitox oF THE HERALD:— 1 see now that you were right, when, in July last, you boldly asserted that intrigues of some | sort were bemg laid down in order to settle the Cuban question between General Concha, the © insurgent chief in Cuba, Santa Lucia and tue Cuban Junta at New York, Indeed the assertion | Was alterwaras repeated by tne whole press in the United States, in England and in Spain gen- erally. ‘'ne £poca, of Madrid, on the 27th of August, went so far as lo denounce as a fllibustéro demonstration a banquet that was given there about that time to the Cuban Commissioners charged with the delicate task of setting the diml- culties among the Spaniards and the Cuban 1n- surgents, Which have lasted Jong enough, and with | no prospect o1 a speedy end, | According to the Hpoca, soon after the secret banquet aforesaid, powers were granted to Gen- eral Concha by the Spanish government to approach the Marquis of Santa Lucia and try to bring about between tue two some kind of an arrangment preliminary to @ treaty of peace, For Unis purpose Captain General Concha commis- sioned Brigadier S. Marin, who, I suppose you are aware, went to Holguin and took command of the | eastern military district, some time in the mootn of August, You know already how this weil com- | bined plan and intrigue came to an unexpected | and bloody end through the olundering of a too zealous Spanish officer, who, ignorant of | the man@uvre of nis chief, pounced upon General Calixto Garcia [iliguez and made him prisoner. Previous to that event | Messrs, Aldama and Echeverria, respectively the | agent and the dipiomatic commissioner of the Re- public of Cuba in that country, had applied to Cis- neros, acting as president for the same, and asked | of him discretionary powers that they might | enter into a peaceiul arrangement with Spain, | who, as they asserted, was favorably disposed to cede to the insurgent Cubans the utmost that any other prominent Power would be inclined to grant to its colonies, It appears that Cisneros or Santa Lucia was not prepared to entertain such a propo- sition irom Spain, altiough his feelings as a father were touched, his son in Madrid being more or less mixed up in the endeavor to make him waver | and swerve /rom the right path, ‘This 1s plainly shown in his PROCLAMATION, of which the following is a copy :— TO THE CUBAN PEOPLE. FELLOW CiTizenNs—Since the Spanish yoke com- menced to bear heavily upou us our protests | against its iniquities and wrongs were also begun. | ‘To our just petitions they answered with exile and | the scaifold to the Cubans unt, our burden be- coming unbearable, and being assisted in the | same purpose, toe glorious rising of the 10th of October, 1868, was effected. From that time to this, with the tears of our outraged wives and daughters and with most noble bieod of our broth. | ers split on the battle field, an ocean of hatred and | repulsion has been created, deeper even aud more gxpanaive than that which separates Cuba from | Spain, ‘This ocean our enemies now seek to suppress by offering us their pretended system of repubdiean government under their hateiui flag, before which wouid have to be lowered and folded our unsulliied | one, on Which shines an only star, reflecting its ure beams upon Lopez, kstrampes, Aguero, Ygnacio Agramonte and Many other martyrs of this Most suoiime epoch of redemption, We can hardly uuderstand bow such an idea came itothe heads of our enemies, No.. We neither want their empire, monarchy, repuolic or anything to do with Spain; nothing Whatever but absolute, tota! independence, and in the same way | as many of our brothers have attested their devo- | tion with their biood, tus we will spill ours until that ensign of evil, of deyradation and of shame has disappeared forever Irom Cuba. Tak PRESIDENT, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Nasaza, August 23, 1874, THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN. Gencral Davidson’s Captives Arrived at | Fort Sisl—Demoralization of the Sav- ages—Supposed Murder of ‘Lone Wolf” and “Red Otter” by the Washitas, Fort S11, I. T., Oct. 30, 1874. Yesterday 250 Comanche prisoners arrived at | this post in charge of Eleventh iniantry, Captain W. C. Leech, | von Hospital, | fourth floor of No, 82 Cedar street, yesterday, | for the Penitentiary library, on Blackwell's Island, together with their herd ot | ponies numbering about 2,000, This capture of prisoners and ponies was made by General Da- vidson’s column onthe Nortn Fork of the Red | River, in the Pan Handie of Texas. These Ladians , constitute the Nokonee band of Comanches. His attempt to disarm tis band culminated jn the battle of the Washita, on the 20: aad 21st of Jast August, in which the coniederated trives, num- bering, it was estimated, about 600 warriors, were | severely punisied by the United states troops, | The demoratization arising trom having been | defeated in this aad all subsequent fgnis has caused a breaking up 0: the coniederation and , surrender irom time to time of a portion of the | tribes composing it. | The Quohaudie band of Comanches, it ts re- | poried, has escaped into Mexico, leaving now only the Cheyennes upon the warpath to engage the | attention of our troops It is reported by {Our Kiowas, late of Lone Woif’s band, who Came into the post last night and surrendered, that he and Red Otter, another + Kiowa chief, were atiacked yesterday in the mountains by a party of Washitas considerably (a Ct them, and that they were probably kulled, | Distribution of the Troops of the De- partment of ‘Texas, | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct, 31, 1874, The Military Department of Texas, embracing the State of Texas and the Indian Territory, is now the theatre of the most extensive campaigns against hostile Indiaus organized since the war of the rebellion, and these campaigns, in conjunc. | tion with those conducted in the other Territories adjacent to Texas, will keep our little army of regu- laré inthe West actively empioyed througout the winter. Tue Department o! Texas 1s commanded by Brigadier General Onristopher C. Augur, head- quarters at San Antonio, texas. General Augur 18 at present, however, lovated tn the vicinity of Fort Sill, I. 1., 19 order to place himself in direct communication with the furces in tne Heid. The regiments participating in the Indian campaigns here are:—Fifth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-flith mfantry; tne Fourth, Sixth, Ninth ana Tenth cavairy. Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Fiith infantry, commands tie troops from Kansas, operating in the Indian Ter- ritory. Colonel Rauald Ss. Mackenzie, Fourtn cav- airy, commands the expeditions organized in Texas, his auxiliary expeditions being Jed by Lieu- tenant Colonel Lavidson, fentn cavairy, and Lieutenant Colonel Buell, Lleventh infantry. The following are the garrisoned posts on the Texas frontier:— | Fort Bliss—Captain Frank M. Coxe, command. | i ing. Fort Brown—Captatu H, U. Corbin, commanding, | Fort Clark—Lieutenant Colouel Joun P. Hatcu, commanding. Fort Concho—Major Henry Douglass, command- ing. Fort Davis—Colonel George 1 Andrews, com- 8 Fort Duncan—Captain J. W. French, command- ing. Fort Grifin—Captain Theodore Schwan, com- manding. Fort Richardson—Colonel W. manding. asta gOd Barracks—Colonel Edward Hatch, com- manding. Fort McIntosh—Captain ©. ©. Hood, command. ing. fort McKavett—volonel H. B. Clitz, command- ing. Fort Quitman—Captain Charles Beutzoni, com- manding. | i Fort stockton—Captain E, G. Bush, command- ing. NEWARK’S INDIOTED OLTY OFFICIALS, The Young-Stainsby Conspiracy Case To Be Tried—Broadwell’s Sentence. In the Essex County Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Depue, yesterday, Colonel Abeel, the prose- cutor, drew the attention of the Court to the case of Alderman Stainsby and ex-Commissioner Young, the indictment for whom had been sus- tained by the Supreme Court, as already re- corded in the HERALD. Colonel Abcel moved that the case be tried next week in the Quarter Ses- sions, before Judge tiisworth and the City Judges. ‘The Court so ordered. This 1s the second conspir- acy case in Which Young and Stainsby are cnarged with conspiring to deiraud the cityin @ certain real estate transaction, In regard to the case of John A. Broadwell, who leaded guilty to defrauding the city while Col- lector of Taxes, and who has 60 Jar escaped pun- ishment because of alieged continued illness, Judge Depue ordered a new medical inquisition tu his case, 80 that it mignt be nally aisposed of, ‘The Grand Jury adjourned sine die yesterday. It js rumored that among the indictmen 8 found was one charging a prominent citizen witn crime in unlawiuily evading the payment of his just share Of taxation op his large personal estates H. Wood, com- | assured them that his official conduct would full; | other companies will visit Creedmoor on Thanks- | quest over the body, HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK CITY. Nightly lodgers are beginning to crowd into the station houses, The police during the past week arrested 1,775 persons for various offences. | A Shaker Convention is to be held at Steinway Hall on Sunday, the 22d inst. | Marshal Conklin granted 1,035 licenses during the week and received $2,075 50." ‘There were in ths city duriag the past week 535 | deaths and 623 births, 166 marriages and 41. stil! births. The Mayor's Marshal reports 1,035 licenses granted” during the past week, amounting to , $2,077 50. | ‘The Bureau of Street Cleaning is being besieged | by poor men, mauy of whom are aged, looking for | employment. | ‘the ninth annual dinner of the OMcers’ Cmon | of the Mercantile Library Association will be given at Delmonico’s, Fourteenth street, to-morrow evening, General Sherman, accompanied by his son, visited the Produce Exchange yesterday. He was greeted by the President and memovers with three cheers and a tiger. Sara Dickemary was taken sick in the lodgers’ room of the Twenty-second precinct station house night before lagi and was removed to the Kecep- Adam Switzer, of No, 243 East 109th street, fell | down a flight of stairs in the office of the Second | Avenue Ratiroad, a6 Sixty-third svreet, yesterday, and broke his jeg. Charles Schanteld, wag arrested yesterday by | Detective Heldleberg, charged with stealing prop- | erty valued at $800, He will be arraigned at the ‘Tombs Police Court this morning, James Hogan, of No. 68 Elm street, fell from the while at work, through the hatchway into the basement, and was fatally injured, A fire broke out at No, 24 Pine street, on the third floor. yesterday morning, that caused a damage of $1,000, Minnot & Mitenell and Charles Sully, chemist, were tue losers by the flames. Some bales of cotton, standing on -the sidewalk in front ol No, 14 Desbrosses street, were found to be on fire yesterday morning and before the flames pute be extinguished they caused a damage of William Burk and Louis Martin were arrested yesterday by detectives Dunn and Von Gretchen of the Central office, charged with entering the staterooms of outward bound steamers with in- tent to steal. The next meeting of the Board of Aldermen, which will be held on Thursday, promises to be an exciting one, as there is to be a discussion over the new estimates, which do not contain any provision lor the salaries of the Aldermen as Su- pervisors. A meeting of the Alumni of Columbia Collegs Law School will be held next Tuesday, at eight o’clock P. M., at No. 8 Great Jones street, for the purpose of adopting a constitution and bylaws and arranging lor the annual ainuer to be given on Decemper 28. ‘The monvh’s mind of the late Rev. Maurice M. Conyngham will be held on next Tuesday, Novem- ber 10, at ten A. M., in St. Teresa’s church, Rut- gers street. Father Conyngham was a graduate of All Hallows College aud ior eight years on the English mission. The Prison Association of New York will be glad to receive contributions of books, magazines, &c., at their office, No. 19 Centre street. Public ac- | Knowledgment will be made of all gifts, wnetner | of money or books, ‘The steam fire engine No, 8, stationed in Fifty- first street, between Lexington and Third ave- nues, Was struck by the Boston express train | yesterday morning, while returning from a fire, and injured to the excent of ¢1,000. The fire engine was in the act of crossing the track at Fifty-third, street at the time, None of the hands on either were injured, Betore the Court of Arbitration held yesterday morning, tn the roums of the Chamber of Com- merce, Judge Fancher presiding, the trial of the suit of H, Becker & Co, against the General Insurance Compeny of Dresden for the recovery of $3,400 insurance on a portion of a cargo of | grain Suipped from Hamburg was begun, Mr. | Jonuson Higgins appeared on behal! of the claim- | ant, and the company was also represented by counsel, Commissioner Van Nort makes the following statement of pudlic moneys received by the De- partment of Public Works during the week ending | fA lps 5 (Saturday) :— ‘or Croton water rent and penalties. For tapping Croton pipes..... For vault permits. oe 71 For sewer permits, . 80 For sewer pipe sold to contractors. 28 TOM 6.00 s<ser000600 $20,185 A bumber of the prominent citizens of tne Twelith ward, under the auspices of the Eastern Boulevard Club, last night tendered a serenade to Mr. John W. Smith, member of Assembly elect | irom the Twenty-first district, at bis residence in | East l2ist street. Counselior Coman and Mr, | James Meagher made congratulatory addresses, assuring Mr, Smith of the esteem of his constita- ents, Mt. Smith responded tn suitable terms, and justuy the confidence placed in him by the citizens | of the district. Superintendent Grant of the Produce Exchange, reports that the Exchange was open twenty: | seven days last month, Sixty-eight meetings were held as follows:—Arbitration Committee, 11; Complaint, 15; Board of Managers, 4; Exchange, 1; Petroleum, 7; Provisions, 7, and 23 by the stands ing and spectal committees. Donations of books jor the jibrary were received irom seven gentie- men; Mr. E. C, Benedict donated 125 volumes, Twenty-one members quaitfied during the month, and two died, The number of visitors was 616, and 2,509 messages were received and despatched. ‘The Seventy-Qrst regiment will assemble at the State Arsenal November 18, at eight P. M., in full dress uniform, with their new bearskin caps. During the winter battalion drills of the right wing will occur December 7, January 8, February 2and March 3, and of the left wing December 22, Jauuary 18, Fevruary 18 and Marcn 19. Regi- mental drill April 6. Company G and members of giving Day. Major Joseph D. Bryant has been commissioned as surgeon; Captain David B. Grant assistant commissary of subsistence; William | Milne, Jr., 18 promoted to captain and kugene N. Elitut second Heutenant, BROOKLYN. There were 472 arrests by the Brooklyn police | during the past week. | Tue receipts of the Tax Collector for the past week amount to $31,140 54. Argument on the appeal in the Tilton-Beecher suit will not be heard in the City Court until Sat- urday next. A slight fire occurred yesterday morning in the Poplar street Sv. Vincent's Home for Boys. The flames were extinguished with a loss of about $300, ‘The fire was oi accidentat origin. The week of special prayer, urged by the Young Men’s Christian Association of Scotland, will be inaugurated to-day at the Rooms of the American Branch of the Association, Fulton avenue, There will be services held daily during the week. Ellen Borst, a widow, qxty-seven years of age, walked off the dock at the foot of Joralemon street at @ late hour on Friday night, and was rescued from drowning by Uiticer McDermott, of the First precinct. she was couveyed to the College Hos- pital. Mrs. Borst is homeless and destitute. Frequent complaints having been made to the authorities by persons who have ‘ound large stones in bales of hay which they have purchased, the Common Counch has passed an ordinance requir- ing each bate to be marked witn the exact weight, and imposing @ Oe of $10 for each violation of the | ordinance, Joseph Sweeney, while at work in the ollcloth factory on Seventeenth street, near Seventh ave- nue, yesterday afternoon, fell irom the third story window to the basement and was almost instantly kiled, The deceased, who was thirty-five years of age, resided at No, 325 Seventeenth street, Gowa- nus. Coronet Jones was notified to hold an in- Motion Was made yesterday in the Supreme Court, before Judge Gilbert, for three mandamuses to compel the Supervisors to pass the pay roll of the Commisioners of Charities for the months of May, June and July. Supervisor Ropes stated to the Court that many of the persons on tne pay roils had done no Work, and the Board wanted time to examine the matter. The Conrt ad- journed the hearing until next Monday week. LONG ISLAND, Wild fowl are now being taken in great numbers in the Great South Bay, and sportsmen are having a@good time. Partridge a Iso quite plentiful tn the woods on the south side, quail, huwever, Appear to be rather scarce—about one lor every two gunners in quest of them. The issuing of Newtown bonds, under the opera- tion of the Funding biti, nas commenced, and the Supervisor has filed duplicate receipts with the celling that amount of the old bonded indented- ness Of the town. The entire indeotedness will be Junded in the course of a few weeks. The schooner West Wind, Captain Tracy, from Philadelphia for Fall River, witn a load of coal, Went ashore off Freeport about ten o’clock oa Friday night in a dense fog. The greater part of the cargo bad to be thrown overboard b®fore she could be got od, and & Dumber of the baymen took the opportamty to get in their winter supply of | coal. | The Overseers of the Poor of the town of New- town are endeavoring to effect an arrangement with the County Superintendents whereby the poor of the town who every winter take up their abode in the town poorhouse can be sent to the County Poorhouse, and thus be made to make some retnro by labor for the expense of their maintenance. Bullding operations at A. T. Stewart’s Garden City are being pushed forward with great rapidity. Ten new houses are now nearly completed, and a | contract has been awarded for the erection of | twenty more, the foundations of which have already been commenced, Tne brick stavies ad- jacent to the hotel and the brick ireight house of ihe Central Ratiroad are also nearly completed. WESTOHESTER. ae Rev. Dr. Abraham D, Gillette, of New York, has accepted @ call to the pastorate of the Baptst | church in Sing Sing village. The Sixteenth battalion, N.G.S.N.Y., will be re- viewed by Major General James W. Husted and sta at Yonkers, on Tuesday. According to the latest election returns Tilden’s majority in the county is over 1,900, and that of Odell, for Congress, about 3,000, While attempting to make too short a turn in Nepperhan street, Yonkers, on Friday afternoon» George Ackerman, @ butcher, was thrown from his wagon, and before he could regain his feet the horses Jellupon lim, breaking one of his lower kmbs and otherwise crusting him severely about | the body. In the case of Auguste Lachaume, who shot James P, Sanders in the City Court room at Yon- kers some Months ago, a commission bas been ap- pointed to take testimony in France, pursuant to the plea of hereditary insamity which has been set up in hisdetence. [tis said that the Jatner and grandjather of the accused both encompassed their own deaths through mental derangement. Stringent rules have been adopted by the Board of State Prison Inspectors for the punishment of convicts found guilty of injuring, breaktng or stealing the machinery in the prison workshops or other property, whether owned by the State or by contractors, ‘Phe smoking of pipes or cigars by the jailbirds is also strictly prohibited. A ‘ati- ure on the part of the subordinates to promptly re- | port offences of either ciass 1s to be attended by in- | stant dismissal. | The proposition to erect a costly reservoir at | Yonkers of sufficient capacity to supply a popula- tion of 50,000 people finds little favor among the | taxpayers ofthat city. Itisarged by many of the | latter that @ supply which should ve adequate to | the wants of a community numbering from 10,000 | to 15,000 persons wouid be all that will be required | lor the next ten or twelve years. ‘The proposed | site o1 the reservoir indicated ts aiso being vigor. | ously protested against, principally on account of | the leas objectionable material which composes | its bed. The last resting place of Tom Paine, at New | Rochelle, which long remamed unmolested, was a | few days since wholly obliterated by Simeon Les- ter, upon whose farm the grave is located, Its | position was about twenty feet south of the ceno- taph, near the roadside. In ciearing up his farm it appears Mr. Lester cut away the underbrush, removed tne loose stones and levelled the ground, leaving DO mark to indicate the immediate pres- ence of human dust. Nothing remains now for the | curiosity seeker but to chip of a piece of the gran- ite shaft, which, under the constant stroses of relic hunters and perhaps more ignoole visitors, has of lave years been ruthlessly delaced. br pres ! STATEN ISLAND. | County Treasurer Hugh McRoberts yesterday | held another sale of property for unpaid taxes. | Patrick Hartwell, of Cilfton, severely beat a dis- abled man yesterday because he refused to give him money to buy a@ drink with, He was locked | pler known as No. 1 North River, which is, | Griving.of piles, which act DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Progress and Cost of the Works—Two Millions of Dollars To Be Spent Every Year. THE STAFF EMPLOYED. ‘The condition of the water front along both the Norto and East River shores has iong veen @ re- Proach to the Empire City, and under the ad- Ministration of the present Board of Dock Com- missioners there seems to be bgt little reason to anticipate any speedy arrival to a better atate of things; for when any remonatrance or inquiry is addressed to them on the subject the Inevitable Teply 18 that all possible progress is being made and that the works looking toward au improve- ment of the system of docks and the bulkhead line is being pushed on as fast as the peculiar interests involved, ana which have to be considered, allow. The old Board, although frequently hampered by the Want of the ‘unds necessary to carry on their works simultaneously at the different points along the two lines of water front, yet managed to push on their works with a vigor which prom- ised, at nO distant date, to give the city a system of docks which could be pointed to with pride instead of shame, as at present. The present Board, while they ad- mit that they have no difficulties tn a monetary way to contend with, sci!l protest that they are using their best endeavors to carry on the work with every possible celerity. How far such is the case can be judged from the particulars given in te following account of what is now being done. The Commissioners estimate their annual expendi- ture at $2,000,000, although this year the amount disbursed Will fall short, it ia thought, of this sum by $400,000, They admit that there has been no obstacle thrown in their way by the Board of Ap- portionment, from whom the suppiies for carrying on the works are drawn, and that so far aseny demand has been made on them for funds it has been promptly met. It 1s, therefore, somewhat dimicult to understand the slow manner in which the work of repairing and rebujld- ing 18 carried on, and why it is thas mstead of the 650 men now employed on the dif ferent works this number should not be so far in- creased as to allow o! the general pian of construce tion being sooner completed. The excuse, how- ever, appears to be that it is impossible to obtain possession of the plers, on account of their being im some cases owned by private indiviauals or held under lease from the city. The Commission- ers, however, admit that they have the power to acquire possession of these piers, but are afraid to dispossess the present occupants for fear of their bringing action against the city for heavy dam- ages. ‘The Board contends, too, that there are no worm-eaten piers to be found, for the reason that toredo cannot live in the water that flows around and through the piies supporting these piers, om account of the foul gases and sewage, which flows into the river. These worms existed, they say, some years ago in immense numbers, bud have on the New York shores entirely disap- peared of late. They are, however, it is said, to be still 1ound on the Jersey and Brooklyn sides, THE WORK NOW DOING. Among the works now being pusned forward by the Commissioners is the construction of the stone said, rapidly approaching completion, although to tne eye rk Dovice in engineering affairs this desired result seems to be a long way of. Tha engineers assert, however, that the pier, as well as the bulkhead, will be entirely completed by July 1 next, They say, too, that as many men br can be employed to advantage are now engage on the work. THE CHRISTOPHER STREET SECTION, which extends from the south aide of the foot of Barrow street to West Eleventh street, 1,150 feet in length, is being constructed as guickly as pos< siole. Already 680 feet of this portion of the bulk- head has been completed. ‘he dredging and @ base for tne con- up. | crete blocks of the bulkhead wail, has also been Two colored footpads, late on Friday night, | Gone along a distance of 610 feet more and & Gon- brutally beat a man at the corner of Brewery lane | siderable number o! concrete blocks laid down. and New York avenue, Clifton, and robbed him of | The space between the buikhead line and West $28. A Mr. ‘Thompson passed that way shortly | street is also being filled in, which, when finishes, alterward, and, finding the man unable to walk, | Will give to the street a width of 250 feet. The had bim properly attended to, | face of the buikhead wall, when completed, will ‘A young man named Dornbach, residing on Gore | Present above low water mark a face ot solid | county, and David Henry, of Passaic, | street, Stapleton, while out gunning on Thursday | morning last, accidentaliy discharged the con- | tents of his gun into his right arm above the | elbow, shattering the bone so badly that there 1s , little hope of saving the limb. was bratally assaulted on election nignt by a | drunken ruffian, at the Second Election district | polling booth in Middletown. He was knocked down and seriously injured in the hip, and now | hes at his home dangerousty i in consequence. | Yesterday morning, after the ferry boat Middle. | town had left the slip on the eight o’ciock trip from New York, she became disabled through some | disarrangement of her exhaust valve apd was | towed to Tompkinsviile by the Westfield, where | the trouble was remedied and she continued her regular trips, only omitting the ove from Staten Island, at nine o’clock, and the ten o'clock one Irom New York. There were all sorts of rumors as to the character of the accident, but tnis is the extent ol it i NEW JERSEY. Application will be made ov the next Legisia- | ture to have Mount Holly, Burlington county, ins | coporated as a city. i Judge Bedile received a majority of 254 for Gover- | nor in Mercer county, which hitherto went repub- lican by nearly 400 majority. His majority in the | city of Trenton is 283, \ Democratic exultations know no bounds in the | northern townships of Hudson county. Cannon | firing, bonfires, speeches, cheers and sociai polite | cal gatherings are the order o: the day. | A force of 300 men are engaged upon the tunnel under the Musconetcong Mountain, Four thou- sand three hundred feet have already been tun- nelled, leaving but about one thousand feet to be cut through, The Female Charitable Society of Morristown is sixty-one years old. The collections during the | past year aggregate the sum of $743 and the ex- penditures the same amount. The soctety has given ald to seventy-five families during the year, Miss Ada Becker, residing on Bergenwood ave- nue, Union Hill, was run down by @ runaway horse and wagon at Hagne’s corner, yesterday morning, and thrown heavily on a stoop, sustain- ing serious internal injuries. The horse dashed | on, smashing the buggy to pieces, but was cap- tured betore he could do further damage. ‘Tne Treasurer of the city of Trenton, in his re- port for the month of Uctober last, sets forth that the receipts were $124,367, including baiance on | hand, previous report of $18,859. The expendi- tures were $110,188, inclusive of $10,000 for public schools, and for fire hose, $6,900, The amount of taxes collected were $92,145, George Orts, & prisoner in the Morris County Juil, has just taken French leave while on an errand to the yard of that institution. Stimulated by the inhalation of the fresh atmosphere he made a bold and successiul rash for liberty vy leaping over tre Jail fence and taking refuge in the woods, where he batied the vigilance of his pursuers, Among those mentioned for the Speakership of the next State Assembly are Jullus C. Fitzgerald, of Newark; George 0. Vanderbilt, of Mercer Mr. John W. Taylor, of Essex county, will be re elected President of the Senate. Hugh J. McDermott, of Hudson county, ts likely to be appointed Clerk of the Assembly. The Coroner’s jury in the case of the shooting of William Litts by bis brother in the mountain in Sussex county, about two weeks ago, after two days’ labor and the examination of twelve wit. | nesses, have just brought in @ verdict to the eect | that Willlam Litts came to his death by the ac- cidental discharge Of @ gun ip the hands or his brothur Lewis Litts. Mrs. Mary Cronk, who stands sel{-charged with with the murder of James Luke, at Wanaque, states that the murdered man had almost driven her crazy by bis persistent and improper atten- | tions to her, and that she maae frequent efforts to | avoid LIM, NOLWIthStanding which he constantly | pursued ner. She called on her husband to defend her, but on account of his worthless, dissipated character he always refused to interfere. Some | people believe that the uusband himsel! commitied | vhe homicide. Governor Parker bas just been called upon to take measures in sappressing the riotous proceed. ings of the Italian and discharged miners at Arm- strong’s mines, near Buena Vista, in Union county, Dangerous viemonustrations have been made by | these people for some time back, mugh to the tere ror and alarm of the peaceful tuhalutants in that Vicinity. Gan and pistol practice is kept up during the night, the balis trom which bave struck toe Town Clerk fox the payment of $100.000. 1or can- houses in the neighborhood, enuangering the lives o} the occupants. | The janitor of the Edgewater Village Hall, | named White, but better known as “The Judge,” | jor’ the foandartow | gfamite similar to that now seen at the Battery. { THE CANAL STREET SECTION | Shows but little progress, the work tnere copsist- | ing of the butfding of pler 34, occupied by the Pacific Mail line of steamers. The pier proper id | complete, and is 90 feet wide by 583 Jeet in jength. The approach to the pier 1s merely a tempurary affair. The work of dredging and Gang Bd of the buikhead wall is now being proceeded with, the Commissioners &8&. with all the energy the department can urge, an the whole i8 expected to be finished early next year. During the winter the work on this section is to be continued, beginning alresh at € point be- tween Canal and Christopher stre With the exceptions above noted ho other work is being done by the department, Several necessary works, in the shape of 4 REPAIRING AND EXTENDING OLD PIERS have been done during the year. For instance, the old piers at the foot o! 152d and 165th streets, Carmansville, have been extended and repaired, affording tncreased facilities to the steamboat and freight trafic which has # location there, Several other piers which needed repairs have, it 18 re- ported by the engineers, also been attended to and secured. The piers butit this year are Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, which are disposed of a8 fol- lows :—Nos, 43 and 46 retained by the Commission- ers for she temporary docking of vessels removea from other piers. Nos, 44 and 45 let to the aos Star line at a rental of $45,000 per annum. No 47: uotyetlet, The space between piers 43 and 4418 jet to the Christopher Street Ferry Company at a rental of $15,000 per annum. THS FINANCIAL EXHIBIT, The receipts and disbursements of ment since January 1, last, 18 a8 follow: Kecelived for rents...... . Disbarsed for salaries, materials, £c, 300, The working staff 1s as foilows:—Three Commis- loners, ohe engineer-in-chiel, three assistan: gineers, one secretary, one chiei clerk, four asssist- aut clerks, one Messenger and 650 laborers. BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. There was a special meeting of the Board of Ap, portionment yesterday, with Mayor Havemeyer in the chair. Transfers of money were made a8 fole lows:—From the unexpended balance ot the sp- propriations of Commissioners of Record for 1870 to the appropriation for county claims prior to the passage of the Consolidation bill, $766 44, and $175 irom the same In 1871 to the same account. From the appropriation for the Roman Catholic Rouse of the Good Shepherd for 1872, $562 85 to the Magdalen Female Benevolent Society for 1874. From the appropriation for the latter soctety for 1871-72 to the appropriation for the present year, $1,634 38, From real estate expense appropria- tion for 1872 to the same appropriation ior 187: $88,058 41, A transfer was also made of $273 from the appropriation for contingencies, Mayor’s office, 1872, to sume account for 1874, wuich is auitl- cient. A resolution was aed tastructing the Secre- tary, the President of the Tax Commission, to. transmit a copy of the revised estimates for 1875 (which were adopted at the meeting held on Sat- urday last) to tne Board of beng in order that they might take action thereon, This docu- ment expiaius in detatl the action taken the Board in reducing the original budget, and the reasons which led them to make such reduction, These reasons were published in connection with the previous proceedings of the Board, The esti- mates do not make any provision for the Alder- men as Supervisors, butit is more than probaole that those gentiemer will now look out jor their own interests. THE PARK COMMISSION, The Department of Parks has tssued contracts for the rebuilding of the Battery wall. The bids were made per {oot for the Work, and the total ap- propriation is $7,500, so that the improvement will simply depend upon how far the money may go. In the several parks and squares in the city the work recently announced tn the HERALD as going on progresses rapidly. At the Five Points the long talked of fountain is being erected, though of that in Madison square “the ground work laid” is all that can be said. In Central Park the im- provements noted recently in the HERALD are pro- res: quite rapidly, but nothing especially new has been designed or commenced to Beauty and iuprove this beautiful people's garden, esterday being such a fine day there was an unusually large number of visitors to Ventral Purk, which, in consequence, vore many of the t of ite summer veauty. The bright-tinted leaves were laliiug everywhere around, Dut the sunshine lit up the place so beantifally with the rich and varied nues of the lading foliage that there was, even in the autumnal saduess, a splen- did mingling of the deliguts of both sammer and winter, The children and the nurses were out Just a8 on @& suinmet aay. As for the carriages and various styles of vebicies, with gay gentlemen aud merry maidens on horseback, #8 they swittl, coursed along the smooth roads or the shade drives, they «id ali tat Was needed to make the Whole scene seem a bright panorama of beauty and enioyment.