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

MUNICIPAL PATRONAGE, The Candidates for President of the New Board of Alder- men—Clerkships, &c. Rumors Among the Departments—Com- missions, &c, "Scarcely bas the smoke of battle clearea off when our local politicians begin to cast around as 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 trom | this harassing business of their lives before again entering upon the arduous labors ot logrolling and wirepulling. But such is not their nature. Already caucus and consultation occupy their time. Buttonholing, whispering, discussion apd sugges- Uon are witnessed around the City Hall and the diferent departments. Heads perfectly safe before election now tremble in uncertainty of oficial tenure. A shadow of gloom pervades the republi- can camp, while the democratic strongholds | bristle with new artillery and fortifications, TH NEW BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND ITS PRESI- | DENCY, One of the most important of gur charter oMcers is the Presideut of the Board of Aldermen, Itis a Position requiring great executive ability. In cases Of emergency he is cailed upon to act as Mayor of the city, That distinguished exile; ex: Alderman Thomas Coman, oMciated as Mayor of | this city at one time, and his portrait decorates | our municipal halls im 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 the 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 is said to be tne choice of Mr, John Kelly, which iact speaks strongly in his behall, considering the position which that gentleman | occupies at present in the councils o1 the demo- cratic party. Of course the republicans will not have much to say in the matter, as they stand in @ minority-—8 to 14. The other prominent can- didates mentioned are Eaward Gilon and Jonn Riley. The latter claims the position on the grouna of iength 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, Smaginary or otherwise, but Mr, Lewis now seems to be the favoriie. Alderman Patrick Lysaght, elected irom the Sixth ward, bas the good sense to keep back any claims that he might have. in order to advance the interests of any other gen- tleman whom he might consider a more eligible and better qualified candidate in point of educa- ton and experience. THE 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 M Frank J. Twomey, present Deputy Cierk, and Mr. George W. Morion, Secretary of the Tammany Hall General Committee, are most prominent in the race. EXIT BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN. After the 1st of January the Board of Assistant | Aldermen ceases to exist by special act of the Legislature. There is ‘weeping and wailing and guashing of teeth” among the incumbents. A Jarge number of officials will thus be thrown “at | large,” but most of them expect to fill vacancies uncer the new dispensation. Mr. William H. Ma- Joney, Clerk of the present Board of Assistant Aldermen, has 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 18 sald, will re- ign as Alderman and resume is place upon the In this event Veputy Sherif Tbomas | of the Seventh ward, is slated for tue | vacancy. The decision of the Court of Appeals | upon the Justices’ vill, it 18 positively asserted, | Wil be given next week. THE COMMISSIONS—WHAT MAYOR ELECT WICKHAM | CAN AND MAY DO. Mayor elect Wickham, unuer the charter as at Present iramed, has great power. It is true tie offices in departments and commissions are all filled for some time to come, but the Mayor has Bre of removal for cause, and the Legisiature, eing democratic, can remodel the charter to suit emergencies. ‘The following are the principal departments at present under city control :— Finance Department, Law Department, Police | Department, Department of Public Works, De- partment of Public Charities and Correction, leaith Department, Department of Buildings. | Department of Public Parks, Department of laxes and Assessments, Department o! Docks, Excise Department. Vast power has been vested in the Mayor in ap- jointing Commissioners for these departments. ow this power has been abused is mat- ter of history. If charges are presented against any ot the Commissioners it will be Mr. Wickha:n’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 cieaning up and renovation Of mis- | celianeous account vooks and documents in some of these ofices in anucipation of the carryingouv Of the legena, “A new broom sweeps clean.’ Of course the Department o! Public Works, presided over by Mr. George M. Van Nort, will prove the great objective point of attack on the part of our new rulers. The offices and patronage are immense, and, when properly haudied, the department can grind out at least 15,000 votes for which ever side controls its destinies. It was Suggested yesterday by an influential and intelii- gent politician tuat this department ought to be dividea up—tnat it is too large a burden to be | carried on the shoulders of one Commissioner; that the Croton Board should be an entirely inde- pendent bureau. ‘There may be some philosopiy in this. COMPTROLLER GREEN'S term of office does pot expire until the fall of 1876, un:ess cut stort by the Legislature or removed for | cause by the Mayor and Governor. What the probabilities are in relation to this gentleman’s tenure of place have not yet been developed. He is said to have @ strong pull with our incoming Governor. TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS, The incoming municipal administration cannot be expected to go back upon those who put it on its leet. A few days more will determine much as regards the city slate for official patronage. Our ambitious ward statesmen must in the meantime @oly watch, walt 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 less than the dedication of the Room, as the ‘‘Con- sistorial Chamber” of the A. A. Rite. The impres- sive ceremonies were conducted by Brother Charles T. McClenachan, assisted bv General Wara Dr. Fieming and his staff of officers. Prayers, mystic 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- lime order, by the sprinkling of “water, wine and | Balt”? 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 otner cities were present, among the most prominent being R. W. . W. Wyman, thirty-third degree, Commander-in- Chiet of New Jersey; J. W. Cossad, thirty-third degree; George P. Edwaras, 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 Orleans, wit the following irom this city:—General Charlies Roome, General J, C, Pinckney, General J. H. Ho- bart Ward, Charies T. McCienachan, W. V. Alex- ander, R. M, C. Graham, Henry ©. Banks, Dr. James M. Austin, Jerome Buck, Elwood E. Thorne, Napoleon Le Brun, architect of the Temple; Hopkins Thompson, Jonn W. Simons, Daniel Sickels, Horace Taylor, William H. Stiner, Henry hy A Preston, Dr. Waiter M. Fieming, John EF. Green, Dr, Charles Brown and others. On compietion of the degree a grand banquet ‘Was held, accompanied by speaking and a general god time, whicn was tully enjoyed by those pres- ent, The feast broke up at a iate hour. POLICE MATTERS, The cases of OMcer Graham, who was tried belore the Board of Police for illegally arresting and causing the imprisonment of two young ladies, and Sergeant Scnuitz, who was charged with using offensive language to them tn the station house when they were arraigned before him by Officer Graham, have been laid over by the Hoard of Police to await the action of the higher Court beiore which they are to be tried. At the close of the examination betore the Board of Police the iriends of the young ladies presented themselves beiore the Grand Jury, made a com- piaint of the case, and indictments were issued jor the trial of the oficers., Upon receiving notice of this action the Police Commissioners laid over their Judgments in the matter, as is usual in such cases, until alter the inquiries in the upper tribu- nal, This course {is adopted in justice to the | accnsed, with the view of not pepjudicing th Aspect of the defence in aiter trials ig the | France, and holds the philosophers of the last gen- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1874—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. LITERATURE. fi lee aL a CHRISTIAN TRUTH AND MODERN OPINION. Whittaker, This is a very well printed and neat little book. It consists of seven sermons by representative men of the Protestant Episcopal 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 a way which will enabie the people to see the bearing and conse- quences of the attitude which scientific men have jJately 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. The sermon on “Tne Oneness of Scripture” is bright and sparkling in style, and tts argument is well | put, The sermons on “Moral Responsibility and Physical 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 is notas dry as such productions usually are, and will well repay the patient reader. THE GRaNGE: A Study in the Science of Society. By Gracchus Americanus. ‘This book is not published, but manufactured by G. P, Putnam’s Sons, which is perhaps not insigni{- icant, We have read it with considerable interest and not without pain, It attacks boldly some of the prominent evils of our political life and de- nounces the greed of gain which is consuming the people. The alm of the writer 1s to be com- mended, since he makes an attempt, thougn a | very feeble one, to set matters right. The style of the book is deplorable beyond expression. It ia | written in evident imitation of the startiing rhet- | orte of Carlyle, but ‘succeeds in being | simply turgid. The writer is unaccustomed | to literary writing, and frequently falls into errors | of grammar and rhetoric which are unpardonabie. His aavocacy of the grange as the panacea of our | political evils and as a means to public virtue car- Ties with it neither weight nor conviction, When he insists that we need statesmen and not poll- ticians we agree with him; but when he asserts that the grange will make men pure, and keep them.so, we beg to difer. The grange is simply a new political party, which begins Its existence by demanding integrity in office, but shoutd it succecd in getting into power it would become as corruptas other parties have become, We have organizations enough, and their multiplication will only work evil. It is better to purtiy what we have than create others. Still, as we have before said, the atm of the book is good, though the style and grammar are bad. DEMOCRACY AND MONARCHY IN _ FRANCE. Charles Kendall Adams. Henry Holt & Co. This pook should fiud its way to every atudent’s table. It has not been our fortune for a long while to fall in with @ volume which will bear more careful 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 at the time that Mr. Adams was forced to go over | Thomas By the entire ground afreeh, to rewrite most and to | add to all, that the public might have in perma- nent book form what had given them so much de- light in listening to. As a piece of mechanism the book is acredit to | the publishers, Its topography is excellent, and can be read by ld 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 ts eagerly reading, it 18 a disappointment to be com- pelled to draw @ Knife trom your pocket and cut the leaves apart. An uncut book isa torment to the scholar, The style is as clear as a stream, and ‘he terse way in which facts are put in as evidence and the | candid way in which deductions are drawn there- | from ts @ 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 ovstsrom American pens. What France sougut after in vain. we have already at- tained. For this reason our scholars, in following the progress of France toward a republic, detect at once all political errors and blunders. Mr. Adums begins at the beginning of the causes | which have led to the present condition of | | eration responsible for their part in the history of | the Revolution. He severely but jus'ly criticises the | policy which resulted in the Revolution and made | Napoleonism possibie. He then follows the prog- Tess of events in a very carelul and scholarly way | througu the Restoration and the Ministry of | Guizot and the outbreak of 1848 and the Second | £mpire to the decline of tne Napoleonic dynasty | and the sal! of the late Emperor. | In many respects the book is the best treatise on French politics that has appeared in the iast | four years. It should bein the hands of every | man who desires to get an insight tnto 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 genealogyehas been much assisted | by Mr. Joseph Foster's “Pedigrees of the County Families of England.” 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 broyght out & new work, ‘La Mis- | sion de Phénice,” being an account of the scien- tific researches in Syria in 1860-61. An official order from the Turkish Minister of Police forbids newspaper hawkers to cry the con- tents of the journals they sell, as they frequently falsify them. How would such an edict do in New York? The reception of M. Alexandre Dumas at the French Academy ts fixed for a day within the first fortnight of January next. The reception of MM. Meziérds and Caro will follow; and after the 1ast 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. Carlyle as | his biographer, and has had all the materials in Mr. Carlyle’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 Mitthetl- umgen opens witn Dr. Bernouilli’s travels in Guatemala, in the year 1870, in his progress through the country the Doctor was struck with the frequent occurrence of ruined churches and deserted havitauions, ‘rhe French almanacs for 1875 are putting in an early 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- iennes,” 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 a society in Italy for the suppression of bad books, which, tn its 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 “omice of the Madonna,” or at most, the “Book of Dreams,” A volume of “Personal Recollections of Beetno- ven, Goethe and Mendelasohn,” is in the press, from the pen of Merr Heinrich von Meister, who was acquainted with the great poet and com- nosers, The work will be written in English, | battle of the Washita, on the 20:h aud 2: CUBA LIBRE. Patriot Protest Against Negotiations for a Subsidiary Settlement with the Spantards—The Lone Star Fiag Must Be Completely Free. Krinasron, Jam., Oct. 29, 1874, To THE EpiTox or THE HERALD:— 1 see now that you were right, when, in July last, you boldly asserted that intrigues of some sort were being Jaid down in order to settle the Cuban question between General Concha, insurgent chief in Cuba, Santa Lucia and tue Cuban Junta at New York, Was alterwaras repeated by tne whole press in the United States, in England and in Spain gen- | erully. ‘'ne Epoca, of Madrid, on the 27th of August, went so far as to denounce as a JUlivustero demonstration a banquet that was given there | about that time to the Cuban Commissioners charged with the delicate task of settling the disn- culties among the Spaniards and the Cuban 1n- surgents, Which have lasted long enough, and with no prospect o1 a speedy end, According to the Epoca, soon after the secret banquet aforesaid, powers were granted to Gen- | by the Spanish government to © eral Concha approach the Marquis of Santa Lucia and try to bring about between tne two some kind of an arrangment preliminary to a treaty of peace. For this 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 montn of August. You know already how this weil com- bined plan and intrigue came to an unexpected and bloody end through the blundering of a too | zealous Spanish officer, who, the map@uvre of his chief, General Calixto Garcia Ifiguez and made him prisoner. Previous to that event Messrs, Aldama and Echeverria, respectively the agent and the diplomatic commissioner of the Re- public of Cuba m that country. had applied to Cis- ignorant of heros, acting as president for the same, and asked | of him discretionary powers tliat they might enter into @ 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 colontes., It appears that Cisneros or Santa Lucia was not prepared to entertain such a propo- sition irom Spain, altuough his feelings as a tatuer | were touched, his son in Madrid being more or less mixed up in the endeavor to make him waver and swerve irom the right path, This is plainly shown in his PROCLAMATION, of which the following is a copy :— TO THE CUBAN PROYLE, FreLiow Citizens—Since the Spanish yoke com. Mmenced to vear heavily upon 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 until, our burden be- | coming unbearable, and being assisted in the same purpose, the glorious rising of the 10th of October, 1868, Was effected. Froim that time to this, with the tears of our outraged wives and daughters and with most noble bivod of our broth. ers split on tne battle fleld, an ocean of hatred and | | repulsion has been created, deeper even aud more eXpansive than that Which separates Cuba from Spain, ‘This ocean our enemies now seek to suppress by offering us their pretended system of repudiican goverpinent under their hatefui fag, before wich wouid have to be lowered and folded our unsullied one, on Which shines an oniy star, reflecting its pete. beams upon Lopez, Kstrampes, Aguero, Ygnacio Agramonte and many other martyrs of this most suoiime epoch of redemption, We can hardly uuderstand tow such an idea came intothe heads of our enemies. No. We neither want their empire, monarchy, repuotic or anything to do with Spain; nothing Whatever but absolute, total independence, and in the same way as many of our brothers have attested thetr devo- ton with their biood, thus we will spill ours until that ensign of evil, of devradation aod of shame has disappeared forever Irom Cuba, Tak PRESIDENT, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Nasaza, August 23, 1874, THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN. General Davidson’s Captives Arrived at Port Siil—VDemoralization of the Sav- ages—Supposed Murder of ‘Lone Wolf” and “Red Otter” by the Washitas, Fort SIL, I. T., Oct, 30, 1874, Yesterday 250 Comanche prisoners arrived at this post im charge of Captain W. ©. Leech, Eleventh iniantry, Ponies numbering about 2,000. This capture of | prisoners and ponies was made by General Da- vidson’s column onthe North Fork of the Red River, in the Pan Handle of Texas. constitute the Nokonee band of Comanches, attempt to disarm tis band culminated His in the st Of Jast August, in which the coniederated tribes, num- bering, it was estimated, about 600 warriors, were | severely punisted by the United states troops, The demoratization arising from having been defeated iu this aad all subsequent fignis has caused a breaking up oi the coniederation and surrender trom time to time of a portion of the trives composing it. The Quohaudie hand of Comanches, it is re- poried, has escaped into Mexico, payne now only the Cheyennes upon the warpatl attention o1 our froCh gy It is reported vy fOur Kiowas, late of Lone Woit’s band, who came into the post last night and surrendered, that he and Ked Otter, another + Kiowa chie/, were atiacked yesterday in the mountains by a party of Washitas considerably outnumbering them, and that they were probably killed. 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 ot regu- lars in the West actively empioyed througsout the winter, Tue Department ol Texas 1s commanded by Brigadier Geueral Onrisiopher C, Augur, head- quarters at San Antonio, texas. General Augur 19 at present, however, lovated in the vicinity of Fort Sill, I. 2., 19 order to place himself in | direct communication with the forces in the The regiments participating in the Indian | Heid. campaigns here are:—Fifth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-flith mfantry; Fourth, Sixth, Ninth ana Teath cavairy. Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Filth infantry, commands the troops from Kansas, operating in the Indian Ter- ritory. Colonel Rauaid Ss. Mackenzie, Fourth cav- airy, commands the expeditions organizea in Texas, his auxiliary expeditions being Jed by Lieu- tenant Colonel lavidson, ‘fentn cavairy, and Lieutenant Colonel Buell, Hleventh infantry. The following are the garrisoned posts on the Texas frontier Fort Bliss— ing. Fort Brown—Captain H, U. Corbin, commanding, Fort Clark—Lieutenant Colouel Joun P. Hatcn, commanding, Fort Concho—Major Henry Douglass, command- ing. Fort Davis—Colonel George L, Andrews, com- manding. Fort Duncan—Captain J. W. Frenca, command- ing. fort Grimn—captain Theodore Schwan, com- manding. . Fort Richardson—Colone! W. H. Wood, com- manding. Kinggold Barracks—Colonel Edward Hatch, com- manding. ptain Frank M. Coxe, command- Fort McIntosh—Captain ©, ©. Hood, command- | ing. Fort McKavett—volonel H. B. Clitz, command- ing. Fort Quitman—Captain Charles Bentzoni, com- manding. ; Fort stockton—Captain E, G. Bush, command- ing. NEWARK’S INDIOTED OITY OFFIOIALS, 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 80 ordered. This ts the second conspir- acy case in Which Young and Stainsby are cnarged with conspiring to deiraud the city im @ certain real estate transaction. In regard to the case of Joun A. Broadwell, who Useser guilty to defrauding the city while Col. jector of Taxes, and who has 60 Jar escaped pun- ishment because of alieged continued illness, Judge Depue ordered a new medical inquisition in his Case, so that it mignt be finally uisposed of ‘The Grand Jury adjourned sine die yesterday, It js rumored that among the indictmen 8 touad Was one Charging @ prominent citizen with crime in unlawiuily evading the payment of nis just share Of taxation on hia large personal estate, the | Indeed the assertion | pounced upon , together with their herd of | These Indians | to engage the | tne | 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 Hali on Sunday, the 22d inst. | Marshal Conklin granted 1,035 licenses during | the week and received $2,075 50, | There were in this city during the past week 535 deaths and 623 births, 166 marriages and 41. stiil births, The Mayor's Marshal reports 1,035 licenses granted” during the past week, amounting to | $2,077 50. | he Bureau of Street Cleaning is being besieged by poor men, mavy of whom are aged, looking for employioent, ‘she ninth annual dinner of the Oficers’ Cnion 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 memoers with three cheers and a tiger, Sarai Dickemary was taken sick in the lodgers! room of the Twenty-second precinct station house night before lage and was removed to the Kecep- on Hospital, Adam Switzer, of No, 243 East 109th street, fell down a flight of stairs in the office of the Second Avenue Railroad, at Sixty-third street, yesterday, | | and broke his leg. Charles Schanteld, was arrested yesterday by | Detective Hetdleberg, charged with stealing prop- | erty valued at $300. He will be arraigned at the | Tombs Police Court this morning. James Hogan, of No. 58 Elm street, fell from the | fourth floor of No. 82 Cedar street, yesterday, while at work, through the hatchway into the basement, and was tatally injured. A fire broke out at No, 24 Pine street, on the | third floor, yesterday morning, that caused a | damage of $1,000, Minnot & Mitchell and Charles ; Sully, chemist, were tue losers by the flames. Some bales o! cotton, standing on the sidewalk | in front o1 No. 14 Desbrosses street, were found to be on fire yesterday morning and before the fames | | can be extinguished they caused a damage of | William Bark 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 1n- | 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, waich do not contain any provision ior the salaries of the Aldermen as Su- pervisors. A meeting of the Alumni of Columbia College 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 for the annual aincer to be given on Decemper 28, ‘The monwh’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., | for the Penitentiary library, on Black well’s Island, at their office, No. 19 Centre street. Public ac- | knowledgment will be made of all gifts, whether | | of money or books. | ‘The steam fire engine No, 8, stationed in Fifty- first street, between Lexington and Thira ave- nues, was struck by the Boston express train yesterday morning, while returning from a fire, and injured to the exient of $1,000, The fire engine wasin the act of crossing the travk at Pifty-third. street at the time. None of the hands on either Were injured, Before the Court of Arbitration held yesterday Morning, tn the rooms of the Chamber of Com- merce, Judge Fancher presiding, the trial of the suit of H, Becker & Co. against the General Insurance Company of Dresden for the recovery of $3,400 insurance on a portion of a@ cargo of | grain. Sb peS from Hamburg was begun, Mr. | Jonnson Higgins appeared on bebal! 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- | Partmentof Public Works during the week ending | pA ped so (Saturday) :— ‘or Croton water rent and penalties For tapping Croton pipes. | For vault permits. | For sewer permits, | For sewer pipe sold to contractor -$19,867 - 88 Core yt! 80 ee POR ccs cvsesee obi $20,185 A number of the prominent citizens of tne Twellth ward, under the auspices of the Eastern | Boulevard Club, last night tendered a serenade to Mr. John W. Smith, member of Assembly elect | from the Twenty-(irat district, at bis residence in | East 121st street. Counselior Uoman and Mr, James Meagher made congratulatory addresses, assuring Mr, Smith of the esteem of his constitu. [| ents, Mr. Smith responded in suitable terms, and | assured them that his official conduct would tuily justuy the confidence placed in nim 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 special committees. Donations of books for the ilbrary were received irom seven gentle- men; Mr. EB, 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-Grst 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 2 and March 3, and of the leit wing December 22, Jauuary 18, February 18 and Marcn 19. Regi: mental drill April 6, Company Gand members of | other companies will visit Creedmoor on Thanks- giving Day. Major Joseph D. Bryant has been commissioned as surgeon; Captain David B. Grant assistant commissary of subsistence; William Milne, Jr., 8 promoted to captain and kugene N. Elitot second heutenant, BROOKLYN. There were 472 arrests by the Brooklyn police | during the past week. | The 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, gxty-seven years of age, walked off the dock at the foot of Joralemon street at a 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 Council has passed an ordinance requir- ing each bate to be marked witn the exa Mid! Sh] | and imposing @ fine of $10 for eacn violation of the | ordinance, Josep Sweeney, while at work in the oilcioth factory on Seventeenth street, near Seventh aves nue, yesterday alternoon, fell irom the third story window to the basement and was almost instantly killed. The deceased, who was thirty-five years of age, resided at No, 825 Seventeenth street, Gowa- nus. Coroner Jones was notified to Bold an in- quest over the body, 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 Commistoners of Charities for the months of | May, June and July. Supervisor Ropes stated to | the Court that many of the persons on tue pay roils had done no work, and the Board wanted time to examine the matter. The Conrt ad- Journed the hearing unti! 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 are also quite plentiful in the woods on the south side, quail, however, appear to be rather scarce—about one Jor every two gunners in quest of them. The issuing of Newtown bonds, under the opera- tion of the Funding biti, has commenced, and the Supervisor has filed duplicate receipts with the Town Clerk foxy the Dayment of $100.000. tor can+ | church tn Sing Sing village. | the plea of hereditary insanity which bas been set | | States that the muracred man had almost driven * celling that amount of the old bonded indebted- 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, with @ load of coal, Went ashore off Freeport about ten o'clock oa Friday night in a dense fog. The greater part of the cargo had to be thrown overboard b®lore she could be got of, and a Dumber of the baymen took the opportumty to get in their winter suppiy ot | 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 tuwn poorhouse can be sent to the County Poorhouse, and thus be made to make some return by iabor for the expense of their maintenance, Buliding operations at A. T. Stewart’s Garden City are being pushed forward with great rapidity, Ten new houses ure now nearly completed, and a | contract has been awarded for the erection of | twenty tore, the foundations of which have already been commenced, Tne brick stavies ad- jacent to the hotel and the brick ireight house of the Central Railroad are also nearly completed. WESTCHESTER. Rey. Dr. Abraham D. Gillette, of New York, has accepted @ call to the pastorate of the Bapust | ‘The Sixteenth battalion, N.G.S.N.Y., will be re- viewed by Major General James W. Husted and stat 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 shortaturn in Nepperhan street, Yonkers, on Friday afternoon George Ackerman, @ butcher, was thrown from his wagon, and before he could regain his feet the horses jell upon him, breaking one of his lower mobs and otherwise crusiing 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 | up in his detence. Itis said that the Jatuer and | grandfather 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, breaking or | stealing the machinery in the prison workshops or other property, whether owned by the State or by contractors, ‘The smoking of pipes or cigars by the jailbirds is also strictly prohibited. A ial ure On the part Of the subordinates to promptiy re- port offences of either class is to be attended by in- | stant dismissal, | The proposition to erect a costly reservoir at | Yonkers of suffictent capacity to supply a popula- tion of 50,000 people finds little favor among the | taxpayers of that city. It is urged 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 wil! be required Jor the next ten or twelve years. ‘Ihe proposed i site of the reservoir indicated 1s aiso being vigor. | ously protested against, principally on account of | Hare objectionable material which composes | 3 bed. The last resting place of Tom Paine, at New Rochelle, which long remained 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, Temoved the loose stones and levelled the ground, leaving no 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 strobes of | relic hunters and pernaps more ignoole visitors, | has of late years been rutnlessiy delacea, 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 @ drink with, He was locked up. Two colored footpads, late on Friday night, | brutally beat a man at the corner of Brewery lane and New York avenue, Clifton, and robbed him of | $28. A Mr. ‘Thompson passed that way shortly | aiterward, and, finding the man unable to walk, had him properly attended to, | A young man named Dornbach, residing on Gore | treet, Stapleton, while out gunning on Thursday morning last, accidentaliy discharged the con- elbow, shattering the bone so badly that there is little hope of saving the limb. The janitor of the Edgewater Village Hall, named White, but better known as ‘The Judge,”? | was brutally assaulted on election nignt by a | drunken ruflan, at the Second Election district | polling booth in Middletown. He was knocked | down and seriously injured in the hip, and now | les at his home dangerousiy Ill 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 vaive and was | towed to Tompkinsviile by the Westfield, where | the trouble was remedied and she continued her | regular trips, only omitting the one from Staten | Island, at nine o'clock, and the ten o'clock one trom New York. There were all sorts of rumors ag to the character of the accident, out tnis is the extent of it. NEW JERSEY. \ | Application will be made pv the next Legisla- | ture to have Mount Hoily, Burlington county, ine | coporated as a city. | Judge Bedle 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, Hl 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 of 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 aid to seventy-five families during the year. | Miss Ada Becker, residing on Bergenwood ave- nue, Union Hill, was run down by a 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 before he could uo furiher damage, The Treasurer of the city of Trenton, in his re- port for the month of October last, sets forth that the receipts were $124,367, including balance on hand, previous report of $18,859. The expendi- tures were $110,188, inclusive of $10,00u for public schools, and for fire hose, $6,900, The amouut of taxes collected were $92,145, George Orts, a prisoner in the Morris County Jail, 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 successful rash for liberty by leaping over tie jail fence and taking refuge in the woods, where he battled the vigtlance of his pursuers, Among those mentioned tor the Speakership of the next State Assembly are Julius C. Fitzgerald, of Newark; George 0, Vanderbilt, of mercer county, and David Henry, of Passaic, Mr. John W. Taylor, of Essex county, will be re elected President of the Senate. Hugh J. McDermott, of Hudson county, 8 likely to be appointed Clerk of the Assembly. The Coroner’s jury tn the case of the shooting of William Litts by his 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 effect that William Litts came to his death by the ac- cidental discharge Of @ gun in the hanus of his brother Lewis Litta, Mrs. Mary Cronk, who stands sel{-charged with with the murder of James Luke, at Wanaque, her crazy by his persistent and improper atten- tions to her, and that she maae frequent efforts to avoid im, DOLWIthstanding which he constantly pursued ner, She calied on her husband to defend her, but on account of his worvhiess, dissipated character he always refused to interfere. Some people believe that the uusband bimsel! commitied vhe homicide, Governor Parker bas just been called upon to take measures in suppressing the riotous proceed- ings of the Itailan and discharged miners at Arm- strong’s mines, near Buena Vista, tn Union county, Dangerous demonstrations have been made by | ‘hese people lor some time back, Mugh to the ter- ror and alarm of the peaceful inhabitants in that vicinity. Gan and pistol practice is kept up during the night, the bales trom which bave struck tee houses in the nelghborhoou, endangering the lives o! the occuoants. | tn length, 1s being constructed as guickl: | that they might take action thereon, 7 DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, Progress and Cost of the Works—Two Millions of Dollars To Be Spent Every Year. THE STAFF EMPLOYED. ‘The condition of tne water front along both the North and East River shores has iong oeem @ re- Proach to the Empire City, and under the ad- Mministration of the present Board of Dock Com- Missioners there seems to be byt little reason to anucipate any speedy arrival to a better state of things; for when any remonstrance or bosy ad is addressed to them on the subject the inevitable reply 18 that all possible progress is betng made and that the works looking toward au improve- ment Of the system of docks and the bulkhead line is betng pushed on as fast as the peculiar interests involved, ana which have to be considered, allow. The old Board, aithough frequently hampered by the want of the tunds 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 DO distant date, to give the city a system of docks which could be pointed to with pride instead of shame, as at present, The prevent Board, while they ad- mit that they have no difficulties in a monetary way to contend with, still 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 tLe 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 is thought, of this sum by $400,000, They admit that there bas been no obstacle thrown in their way by the Board of Ap- portionment, from whom the supplies for carrying on the works are drawn, and that so far as any demand has been made on them for funds it has been promptly met, It is, therefore, somewbat dimicult to understand the slow manner in which the work of repairing and rebuild- ing 18 carried on, andi why it is thas istead of the 650 men now employed on the dif. ferent works this number should not be so far ine creased as to allow o! the general pian of construc tion being sooner completed. The excuse, how- ever, appears to be that it is impossible to obtain possession of the piers, on account of their being im some cases owned by private indiviauals or held under lease from the city. The Commissions ers, however, admit that they have the power to acquire possession of these piers, bat 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 plies supporting these piers, on account of the foul gases abd sewage, which flows into the river. ‘These worms existed, they say, some years ago in immense numbers, but have on the New York shores entirely ed of late. They are, however, it is sar be still ;ound on the Jersey and Brooklyn side: THE WORK NOW DOING. Among the works how being pusied forward by the Commissioners is the construction of the stone pier known as No. 1 North River, which 1s, is is said, rapidly approaching coupletion, although to tne eye of a novice in engineering affairs thid desired result seems to be a long way of, Tha engineers assert, however, that the pier, ag well as the bulkhead, will be entirely completed by Julyl next. They say, too, that as many men ie can be employed to advantage are now engage on the work. THE CHRISTOPHER STREET SECTION, which extends from the south side of the foot of Barrow street to West Eleventh street, p80 Reet siole. Already 680 feet of vhis portion of the bulk. head has been completed, ‘he dredging and | Griving.of piles, which act as @ base for tne con: crete blocks of the bulkhead wail, has also been done along a distance of 610 feet more and @ con« siderable number of concrete blocks laid down. ‘The space between the buikhead line and West street is also being filled in, which, when finishes, will give to the street a width of 260 feet. The face of the buikhead wall, when completed, will present avove low water mark a fave ot solid granite similar to that now seen at the Battery. THR CANAL STREET SECTION | shows but little progress, the work tnere copsist- | tents of his gun into his right arm above the | ing of the building of pier 3, occumed by the Pacific Mail line of steamers. The pier proper id | complete, and 1s 90 feet wide by 583 Jeet in length. The approach to the pler is merely a tempurary affair, The work of dredging and Criving. Enes Jor the foundation of the bulkhead wall is now being png with, the Commissioners say, with all the energy the department can urge, and the whole is expected to be finished early next year. ar. During the winter the work on this section is to be continued, beginning airesh at some point be- tween Canal and Christopher streets, With the exceptions above noted no 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 of 152d and 1ddth streets, Carmansville, have been extended and repaired, affording tncreased facilities to the steamboat and freight trattic whicb has a location ther Several other piers which needed repairs have, it 1s re- ported by the engineers, also been attended to and secured. The plers butit this year are Nos. 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, which are disposed of as fol- lows :—Nos, 43 and 46 retained by the Commission- ers for the temporary docking of vessels removed from other piers. Nos. 44 and 45 let to the White, Star line at a rental of $45,000 per annum. No 47: notyetlet. The space between piers 43 and 4418 let to the Christopher Street Ferry Company at a rental of $15,000 per annum. THS FINANCIAL EXHIBIT, The receipts and disbursements of the depart- ment since January 1, last, 18 as follows :— Kecelved for rents....... $750,000 Disbursed for salaries, mat wos es+ 1,800) The working staf ts as foilows:—Three Commis- sioners, one engincer-in-chiel, three assistant en- gineers, one secretary, one chiei clerk, four asssist- ant clerks, one messenger and 650 lavorers, BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. There was a special meeting of the Board of Ap, portionment yesterday, with Mayor Havemeyer tn the chair. Transfers of money were made ag fole low! From the unexpended balance ot the ap- 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 trom the same in 1871 to the same account. From the appropriation forthe 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 1874, $38,958 41. A transfer Was also made of $273 80 from the appropriation for contingencies, Mayor's otise, 1872, to same account for 1874, Which is Bui. cient. A resolution was Lah Joel instructing 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 i age im order This docu- ment explaius in detail the action taken by the Board in reducing the origina! 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 esii- mates do not make any provision for the Alder- men as Supervisors, butit is more than probable | that those gentiemer will now look out jor their own interests. THE PARK COMMISSION, The Department of Parks has issued contracta for the revuilding 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 rapidiy, At the Five Points the long taiked of fountain ts 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- gressing quite rapidly, but notuing orn new auth has been designed or commenced to and tuprove this beautiful people's garden, esterday being such a fine day there was an unusually large number of visitors to Ventral Park, which, in consequence, vore many o! the traces of its summer beauty. The bright-tinted leaves were laliiug everywhere around, but the sunshine lit up the place so beautifully with the rich and varied pues of the lading foliage that there waa, even in the autumnal saduess, a splen- did ming)ing of che delights of both summer and winter. The children and the nurses were out Just a8 on @ summer aay. As for tle carriages: ‘and various styles of vehicles, with gay gentiemen aud merry maidens on horseback, a8 they Sirs | coursed along tho smoott roads or the shade drives, they vid all that Was needed to make the Whole scene seem a pright panorama of beauty and enjoyment.