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RIVER IMPROVEMENTS. General Newton's Annual Report to the Government. The Great Silent Highways of New York. HARLEM RIVER OBSTRUCTIONS. The Channels Between the Hudson and East River. Estimated Cost for Improvements and Deepening. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 1874, From the annual report of General Jobn Newton, Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, upon the works in his charge for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, the following abstracts are made :— IMPEOVING HARLEM RIVER, NEW YORK. From the appropriation of June 23, 1874, tor con- sinuing the improvement of the East and Harlem Tivers at or near Heil Gate, the sum of $10,000 was allotted and will be ‘© the removal of ob- structions, viz. :—The piers of the old bridge and ‘small rock off Kast 125th street. IMPROVING PassAI0 RIVER, NEW JERSBY. The contractors have contiuued work on this bar, their contract having been extended from Decem- der 81, 1878, to June 30, 1674, and at the end of the fiscal ending June Pa 74, they had removed 6,820 cubic yards of stone and boulders, and -8,8073¢ cubic yarde of sand and gravel. As men- tioned in my last annual report, a Dumber of out- pe ce rp perpen ale ware dev: a8 ing progresses and this has been iound to be thageneral character of the river bed all along the line to be dredged. As the contractor was not under obligation to remove fast rock measures were taken to drill and blast is as it was developed; for this purpose a scow was pur- chased in the month of August, 1873, and fitted up with one of the steam drilling engines used in connection with the drilling scow om the reefs tn the Bast River, and was Kept at work dri!ling ana Dlasting until the month of December, 1873, when the ice compelled a suspenston of the work, In the spring of 1874, when the contractor again re- sumed Work, it was found necessary to send the scow and drilitug arrangements to the bar to g2- sist them in getting out the rock. this season has been done with @ diamona drill, ‘which gave evidence of being very well calculated for dri! tn rock of the character tound in this lovanty. for as known ali the rock has been broke! byes Mostly removed, and the contrac- ae ah through with the work by September p ‘The work of dredging a ae enon h this bai 0 ol 0) Tr, under contract with James Caler, 2,000" feet long, the bottom, to be completed on June 30, 1874, was very nearly finished ou tnat ate, and the contract was extended to Septem- ber 1, 1874, in order to allow him to remove such 0 ities as had been overlooked, and to straignten the line of the cut. Bed-rock of the same character as that {ound in the Belleville Bar * ‘was found-in this cut, and it was necessary to Take some surface bizste in order to break it up, #0 that the dredge could remove it, Original Amount Amount i VINASCLAL Bee te Treesary of Unt Bn os naan. estimat: appropriated. expended. . 20,000 0) ‘21,231 70 23,609 63 + 64,000 00 CHANNEL BETWEEN STATEN ISLAND AND NEW JER- SEY. Under spproprtatton of June 23, 1874, of $30,000, itis proposed to commence the construction of the south dike, Amount asked tor fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, for completing south dike tag For dredging new channel, the Rel sopposed to be closed b; tion of the south aike. TN or +s ‘This amount asked should obviously for Amouat required fc June 30, be. Present chan: be granted in one sum, because the construction of the south hygyere ehannel, rot dike, which wouid close the Bot be completed until dredged. e new channel ORIGINAL ESTIMATE, Dredging and diking. Amount appropriated, os bas per) appropriated by act approved Jane 23, Amount availabie July i, 1874, 4 Amount required for the Aseal 30, 1876. HARLEM RIVER, NBAR BAST RIVER, XBW YORK, UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, NEw York, Feb, 19, 1874, GENERAL—I have the honor to submit the fob Jowing report on the Harlem River survey, made in conformity with the act approved March 3, TES for examinations and sarveys, speciying lariem River, near East River, New Yors. 8 Harlem River forms an important passage from the Hudson River to Long Island Sound and New York harbor. Its upper part has been much neglected, and, in consequence, hag veen obstructed by artifictal obstacles, while the natural ones have been suffered to tncrease. It is the wa- ger boundary on the north aide of Manhattan Isiaud, separating it from the main. Tne water course is, in fact & narrow sound, continuous aortas pea Creek ta al) Spayten a small stream emptying tuto this sound near Kingsbridge. From Tadaon River_to Kt the stream ts known as ae Duyvil Creek, and as Harlem river from igsvridge to Long Island Sound. The western or Hodson river entrance ts thirteen miles north of the Battery (New York OT} and the main eastern entrance is ty the Hell Gate passage, be- tween Ward’s Point, on Ward’s Island, ana the foot of Kast 116th street, New York city. Besides this last entrance are two others—Little Heil Gate and Harlem Kilis, The first is 1,100 yaras in Jength, with an average width of 165 yaras and a minimum depth of 8 feet. The vottom is irregular and rocky and the current very rapid. The other ‘passage is 100 yards tn mean width, and has a Tainimum depth of 4 feet. The main eastern en- trance into Hell Gate ts seven and a quarter miles from tne Battery. The Little Hell Gate entrance 1s eight and e quarter miles and the Hariem Kills entrance nine miles. The distance from the Hud- son River to, Hell Gate by this passage is eight and a iniles. Ita easy access from the Sound and moderately easy access from New York harbor, together with its quiet interior posi- tion, would seem to make it a desirable thor - vfare for vessels from Long Isiand Sound to the Hudson River, and, in certatn cases, even for those passing between New York harbor on the East River and the Hudson. The local trade witn the flourishing towns on its banks (now annexed to New York city) should deserve some considera- tion as enhancing the importance of the passage. The distance irom Peck slip, on the East Kiver, to the mouth of Spnyten Duyvil Creek, on the Hi son, 18 nearly the same through Hartem River as by way ol the Batrery and Hodson River, so that for all places east of this the Harlem River Rouve is the shorter, The above ts compiled Trom the Harbor Commissioner's report tne year 1867, pages 206, 207, There are at present piying between lem and the lower part of New ork city two steamboat lines, entitled respect- tively the Hariem and New York Navigation by and the Morrisania Steamboat Company. The Harlem and New York Navigation Company runs four steamboats; total value, $200,000. For the year 1873 this line carried 1,600,000 passengers, an increase of 234,000 over 1872, and made on an a twenty-three round trips, or forty- ix es | per oh, The net proceeds Jrom freight were 000, = The Morrisania Steamboat Company owns two steamers, valued at $130,000, These two boats, during the year 1873, Carried 1,000,000 pessengers and Rp dg day ten round trips or twenty passages. ir net Proceeds from iretght amoanted to $10,000, The above information 16 from the officers of these companies. With increase of travel thexe lines in- tend to put on more boats. On foggy days trips cannot be made without danger of encountering rocky obstructions, As regards the number and tonni of vessels plying on the Harlem River Very tittle can be ascertained, but no doubs exists that a large number frequent this river. RRSULTS OF FIELD WORK. Two tide waves of diferent magnitudes and establishments viatt New York harbor, meeting and overlapping between the upper part of the East River and the western limits of tue Sound, At Governor's Istand, owing to the expansion of the tidal basin sormed by the upper bay, tue Sandy Hook tide reaches its minimum range, havin diminished irom 9 mean rise and {allof tides o| 4.8 feet to one of 43 feet at Governor's Island. Thence toward the Sound the tidal elevation in- creases steadily, reaching at the west side of Hal- Jett’s Point @ range of 6.1 teet, and continuing thus antil at Throge's Neck wo meet a mean rise and fall of 7.3 feet—the Sound tide, In this course the establishments alsy gradually ap roach, those of . being at fell Gate ferry 1b. 40m, a Neck 3h, 21m. later than at Governor’s Islan The tidal cur- rents are called into existence by the vartations in the different heights of the Sound, their epochs paving ze irect Fe ations with the local tide and if Velocities being affected by the samo cl! - nces. The rise and fall of tides ti ya fee the foot of ast 112tn and 124th York city, It increases a litte Haven, where it is 5.3 feet, On from ‘Fast 11%ch street to ver vo Long island Sound; and | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY} DECEMBER 4, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. the tidal waves e: lence & retardation of He Minaotes. Of the tidal currents, the eob current is the stronger in the lower Harlem River ;*irom the east the ebb enters the Harlem River with great velocity through Little Hell Gate and the Harlem Kills, setting strongly toward the New York snore and forming eddies at its junction with the waters of the Harlem River. The minimum depth of the improved Harlem River ts expected to be not leas than twelve feet . at mean low water, Taking this as the required depth, we find the following obstractions w safe channel navigation. obstractions given below were inspenied, by @ competent diver and speci- Mens of the rocks brought up:— piers of an old 1, Three of the five ret ay ak bridge which formerly spanned what is now called the {oot of East 114th street, New York city, to the northwest end of Ward’s) Isiand. These five piers are numbered on whe map of the recent survey as 1, 2, 8 4,5; No. 1 being the pier’ nearest the Ward’s Island shore and no §.the one in closest proximity to the Har- Jem shore, The three piers, however, which come under the head of obstructions arq respectively Nos. 1, 8and 4, Pier No.5 has lesa than the re- quired depth over it, but, by readon of ita very close proximity to the shore, it cannot be prop- erly classed a8 an obstacle to safe channel navigation. No. 2 having twelve feet and more of water on it, is not included in the system of improvement. Pier No, 1, formed of large stones, is distant 18.7 feet (measured on centre line of bridge) trom the Ward's Island high water line (corner of sea wall), 16,7 feet is its maximum depth at mean low water, 4.8 feet its minimum, Pier No. 3 1s composed of loose stones, Pier No. 4 is composed of large stones, weighing about three tons, and soudty imbedded together. This pier 1s distant 86.7 feet (measured on centre Une of bridge) from the New York water lines. The maximum epee of water on said pier at mean low water is &7 feet, the mimimum 6.1 feet, Before proceeding further it would pe well to give the history of the “old bridge’ in order to determine whether these piers should be removed by the Unitea States government or by the State 0 THB OLD BEIDGE, New York. On the 20th of February, 1807, at the request of a company engaged in the cotton trade, a bill was assed by the New York State Legislature aathor- Bing the construction of tne above mentioned He 2 Webster and Skinner’s Laws, vol. 5.) was to be butit for the advantages of the trade it would afford this company—prominent among whom were Bartholomew and Jasper Ward—the owners of @ cotton mill on Ward’s The engineer and builder was a Mr. Thomas Lyons, since deceased. ‘I'he exact date of the construction of this bridgefcannot be found, nor ts there extant a complete drawing of it. As near.as could ve ascertained, after much trouble, the bridge was built in 1807, The structure was of wood, 50 feet wide, twenty-five Sprringe-may) and twelve and a balf feet on each side for the accommodation of passengers. (These few dimensions were obteined from the records in the office of .the Comptroller of the county and city of New York.) The pliers of the bridge,.aix in number, as we have every reason to believe, consisted of cribs sunk im thé river. By the completion of thts bric was connected what is now Known as the foot of East 114th street, New York city (then part of the estate of Rev. Philip Milledolor), and the porthwest end of Ward’s Island. The bridge remained of Sep! ber, 1821, when an combined with & very 8 pay ans i. upon wi M34 low water, a2d were suilictentiy dan- rous to be the cause of several acci- lents. remained in thin-condition until the when, at the earnest request of Mr. H. P. Go’ ent of the Harlem and New York Navigation Company, the authorities of the city of New York took the matter in hand and ap- ropriated a sum of Money out of the city funds. contract (for $3,900) for removing these ob structions Was awarded to Morris & Cumings. In either August or September, 1858, the contractors commenced operations, and by means of a lege rake sacceeded in lowering three piers and mak- tng a minimum depth of about 12 teet at mean low water over each. The pliers raked down were those before mentioned a8 Nos. 2 and 3, and an- other one, of which no trace exists at the present day. Those left untouched were the two nearest the New York shore (Nos. 4.and 5) and the one in same ‘ity to Ward’s Island (No. 1}. 2, Candle Factory Beef lies off the foot of East 122d street, New York city, 140 feet distant from high water line, New ¥ork snore. This rock con- sists of gnetss vertically stratified. The shallowest sounding gives L9 feet on the apex of the rock at mean low water. The reef rises to a sha) point at its centre, and thence shelves downward, giving at the base depths of 8 or 9 feet. Lying ag this obstroction does, on the very edge of the steamboat channel, itis considered a dangerous obstruction, Several accidents have happened. On the 16th July, 1867, the steamboat Sylvan e ‘visible Company’s line) ran on the reei and was damaged to.guch an extent as to sink almost immediately, fm April, 1863, the T sveamboat Minnie was also sunk by running on the same rock. There have also been accidents to sailing vesscis striking on the zeef. 8 Large fat rock, foot of East 125th street, Har- lem, 804 feet distant from the Hariem snore high water line, ana 122 jeet above the upper coraer of the pier. A portion of this rock runs under the pier, but is not here considered, 16 being the prov- ince of the proprietor of the dock to remove that part of it. ‘This rock consists of gneiss vertftally | stratified, The maximam sounding gives a depth of Ti feet; the minimum, 7.5 Jeet on the rocks. 4. smait rock, situated in mid-channel, off foot of East 125th street, opposite entrance to the Hur- lem Kills, and distant 470 feet from the Hariem igh-water line; it ls composed of gneiss, of a dip of about 76 deg. The siallowest sounding reaus 9.4 feet at mean low water. 5, Small rock at the mouth of the Mott Haven Canal, about 60 feet from the northwest corner of Mott’s dock. It consists of a ledge of gneiss, in & orth northeast direction, nearly paraliel to the direction of the canal. The mini- mum sounding gives a depth of 3.8 feet on this rock at mean low water. PROPOSED PLAN OF IMPROVEMENTS, Raking alone would not prove a successful means of removing the obst! ns to safe channel nav- formed by bridge piers, consisting, as they , of heavy Stones in some places, and Of strong matertal, firmly imbedded, in others, Some sur- face blesting will be at first necessary, in order to Teduce the size of the larger stones, and algo to start the Regents masse! pea f revere attempt at grappling can removal ot the remaining rocky obstructions must be per- formed by means of 8 systematic process of rock drilimg, Dlasting end grappling. The compara- tively short distance of these rocky obstructions from the buildings on shore will necessitate the use of small charges, watch wall cause these op- erations ro be somewhat tedtous and expensive. Nos. 1.4, of ol4 bridge, of foot ot” 1, $.and 4, of old bi 00 1 fast Liuih stroct, Hatlem ; 6742 cabic Yards TF CULNC YATO.-.sesseeersssersesevessras $4,065 20 Factory Reef, foot of Bast 122d street, Harlem; 149.45 cubic yaads, spread over an oe of square yards, at $72 81 per cubic £3,205,00 PD. wees sevevereecestr ess rsteceeserssertee sesee x 3 Wat Tock off foot’ of Haat’ Bth street, Hare Jem. 304 tect from Hariem shore; 8336 cubic | er 32,404 00 rae: at 8 «Small tock. in wid-chaniel, Tas Harlem, 470 foet from Harlem shore; 23.9 cubic yards, spread over an area of 123 square yaTus, at $194 56 per cubic yard....... ‘small rock ‘at the mouth of Mott Haven Or 70.69 cubic yards, spread over an square yards, at $45 per cubic ‘ard.... 4g sesseseereesseneesesses Contingencies, 25 per cent of the above. Total... & Mr. McGown, el York Navigation Company, is entitied to thanks for the kind assistance he tent us, pointing out at the commencement of the hyd: the locairties of the submerge: ‘vyhe survey was executed by assisted by Mr. V. M. Newton, and valuable in- formation was Ronenh the latter gentleman, Mr. J. H. Striedinger, Civil Engineer, had general charge of the survey and of the plotting of the charts under instructions from this office. He has compiled all the information available and bear- ing made. Respectinlly submitted. Wy JOHN NEWTON, Lieutenant Colonel Engineers, Brevet Major Gen. Brigadier General A. A. HuMPHREYS, Chie of Engineers, United States Army. SUBVEY OF BARITAN RIVER, NEW JERSEY. Unrrgp STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, New York, Feb, 21, 1874. GENERAL—I have respectiully to forward wus ri port on the Raritan River, together with charts o! the survey made im pursuance of the act ap- proved Maren 8, 1873, for examinations and sur- yeys specttying the Raritan River, New Jersey, below New Brunswick, including the shoals called the Middie Ground. The Raritan River, @ tidal stream, is navigable from the bay to the ctty of New Bru ick, N. J., & distance of about four- teen miles. Ratitan River occupies a central Position tm relatton to the great chain of rivers, bays and canals which form the internal navigation of the Atianttc seaboard, oommunicat- ing, as it does, on the east with Long Isiand Sound and the fivers of New England which flow tuto tt; on the north with the sudson River, the Erie @anal, the greas lakes, the Northern Canal and Lake Champlain, On the south the Raritan River, ‘by means of the Raritan and Delaware Canal, com- Pap ag hy oe and CI e and Chesapeake Bay, wit! Kitzabeth River and Albemarie and Pamlico sounds and with the rivers of is and North Carolina, With exception of the Atlantic Ocean, the Rari- tan River is the only means of communication by water between the cities of New York and Phila- detphta, In the year 1871, the numoer of vessels leaving the Delaware and Raritan Canal per tide waster, through the Raritan River and tan , Was 1,545 steamboats, 663 sloops and schooners, and 18,649 canuiboats and barg In addition to the avove, there is asteampoat commu- Nicatton between New York and New Bruns- wick; there sre also vessels trading upon the Raritan River other than those going into and through or leaving the Delaware and Raritan Canal The regate foanage Passing into the Raritan River ana through the Delaware and Reritan Canal amounted to the sum of 9,647,430 gross tons during the year 1871. The said trade has since then highiy increased and is still Increasing. (fhe above is au extract from the petition of Merars. James I. Easton and James McMahon, of New York, im their suit witn the New York and Leng Branch Rairoad Company.) TIDAL OBBERVATIONS. Remulas day auc bight onaérvanons were made Stream (of the Harlem and New York Navigation | upon the purposes for which the survey was | at tide 1 (New Brunswick), andattide gauge 8 (South Amboy), during two lunations. Simui- taneously with the above, day ooservations were made at tide gauge 2 (Freneh’s Landing). In ad- dition to those three standard ga and in pro- portion as the feld work advanced, intermediate @ were set upand used at Martin’s Dock, hitehead’s Sand Dock, Writehead’s Dock, Kear- ney'’s Dock, and at Watson's Dock. Giass tube tide gau Asnd oe minute sae were used at Watson’s Dock, Sandy Point and Martin’s Dock (at Perth Amboy), jor measuring the a proximate surface siopes during the current o| servations made near the. New York and Long Branch Railroad bridge, Simultaneous tical ob- servations Were for a jew days made near, during and aiter high and. low water stands, aud at all the seven gauges. CURRENTS. The velocities and directions of tidal currents Were observed during a whole ebb and food, both above and below the New York and Long Brann Rallroad bridge. Cylindricai poles reaching from the surface of the Wster to a depth of ix leet be- low, & depth answering the average draught of vessels navigat at Pept the Raritan River, Were used as foal ‘ne in Of shese iree floats was determined in very short intervals of |. time by instruments placed at the extreme ends of careiully measured and well located base lines. SOUNDINGS. The soundings in water exceeding in depth three fathoms were taken by means of hand lines; those in shallow water by means of poles. “ach sounding was located by instramental observa- tions on ahore. Nf TRIANGULATION. , Three pase lines were car measured and yeonnected by triangulation. The magnetic and true bearings o/ the longest lines were observed. RESULTS OF THR FISLD WORK, Tho tidal wave coming round Sandy Hook and pees: turough Raritan Bay and up the Raritan iver steadily increases in range until the rise and fall of tices at Frencn’s Landing ts 0.36 grester than at South Amboy and 0.49 Toot more than at Sanay Hook. From French's Landing up the tidal wave diminishes very little, at New Brunswick a8 much as 5.164 leet. 1 minutes between the estabitabments of South Amboy and French’s Landing, the pa: of the tidal wave from the latter place to New Wick, a tortuous and shallow channel, five amd three-fourths miles in length, is subjected to @ retardation of 4 min- utes, The average duratton of fall of tides, reckon- ing from the middle of one stand 10 the middle of the next, increases trom Sandy Hook up to New Branswick, at Sandy Hook 6h. 1im., as South Anrboy 6h. at French’s Landing 7h. 12m, and at New Brunswick 1h. 16m. Mean b- water level answers the clevation of the salt mea- dows through which the river winds its way. The flood, which runs in the channei near South Amboy with a velocity of 105 nautical miles per nour during the swiltest part of an average tide, gradually diminishes in velocity on its way up. Near Martin’s Creek very ltttiefood current {8 ex- perienced. The maximum veiocity during an average tide-of the ebb currentis 160 nautical mues per hour in the channel near Amboy. The ebb current diminishes somewhat in swiftness by Mr. J. J, Wistar, General Superintendents, is at present 8 feet. “But the Ohesspeake and Delaware Canal, over which @ large quantity of ‘through’ or joint trafic is passed, claims a See of feet. This company (the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company) 13. now altering cuiverts, dredging canal beds, 4 otherwise p. to make the same depth of 10 adjacent rivers shall be in a condition ry (Letver of Mr. L J. Wistar, General superintendent.) Hence soundings showing in the river channel a less depth at mean low water than 8 feet indicate 1% OD- structions, while those showing depths less than 10 feet mark out the ita for improvement of the channel when the Contemplated deepening of the canai shall have been effected. The minimam width of the river.channei should not be legs than 200 feet, thus allowing the large tows, which can just get through the 100-foot draws at Perth Amboy, to pasa each other safely on the river above the bridge, Taking these con- siderations as & besia, we find the following obstructions to navigation:—(1.) Shoal water in the river above the canal locks at New Brunswick. (Pe mties above New Brunswick a dam is built pose of feeding the canal with water. This sec- fon of the Raritan River acts as @ valuable tidal basm to the river.) (2) A gravel, sand and mud shoal, narrowing the channel width, commences abont 160 feet below the New Branswick locks, The custom of the Delaware and Raritan Canal eared of dumping she material dredged in the canal over the towpath, from whence it rolls down the steep embankment, and is carried down and deposited by the river current beiow New Brunswick, has most likely contributed if not formed this shoal. (3) Rocks 300 fee! Bteep south shore of the paraitel to the concave north shore of the river, reduces the channel width pomaideraole, Opposite Martin’a Dock there ts a reef of roci the middie of tne river. Widmar’s Dock and above “Stakes” present a tortuous, shallow and able channel to the navigator. THIS OBSTRUCTION is due to various causes, dence in the paths of the sectton of the river; and, finally, to Red Root Creek. Comparing the hydr rather increased depsh m a gene: channel, due bottom cai by high range of tides at New Brunswick, 0 agatust the serious obstacles of rocky sh ‘will increase the fow, and, at the same Dy ved extending from a point below the mouth of Red shoal epaces.in the-channel and concentrating in the same direct te the first important element tn the | provement of the river. | and deep curves at present existing. But as the | amount devoted to the survey was not | to the necessary examination (by borings) of the proposed new route of the channel, and as other estions, relating to the ownership of the land, c, Would need ry, ithas been deemed ex- pedtent at this @ to glance merely at what is cavation ; but should Vongress grant money for the improvement of the river, I would recommena that a careful comparjson be made of this plan, as to cost and advanti with the same elements contingent upon followin; the river. irom Crab Island to New Brunswick have aiready been enumerated in this paper, and it is proper now to present the estimates made for their re- movai, including the cost of the dike and excava- tions between Orub Island and Red Root Creek. 1g THR ESTIMATES to secure & depth of eight feet at mean low water is $1,707,c#2 63; to secure @ depth of ten feet at Lene Pd Water, $2,003,662 05 It is not certain ie vencavation of the tidal basin estimated for im the last project woald be necessary, at least to the extent there given; the funds available having been exhausced before a survey of that portion of the river above New Brunswick, which would constitute the location of the basi, could be made, renders that portion of the estimate open to an amendment. [t 1s proper here to state wiy the amouné allottea to this survey failed to supply all the information desirable. After the allotment was mado the expenses were increased by tne survey, and exact current observations, taken at the site of the raliroad bridge then building near the mouth of the river; the mecessity for this heaving arisen after the apporuon- ing of the amount for the Raritan River. An inspection of the estimates shows that the great cost of the improvement will opel netid be lue to the larger amounts of rock to be excavated, which ii above Whitehead’s Sand Dock, and that, excluding the rock, the cost of improvement up to the dock above named would be about $200,000. Phe question then nat oceurs, should the United States spend nearly two miliious ior tne reat of the tmprovement, or should the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company pusb the outlet of their-canal as far down the river as Whitenead’s Sand Dock? A third estimate for ten feet to depth up to Widmar’s, aud thence for a depth of eight feet toNew Brunswick, would amount to $1,726,210 77, which ls very little more than tne amount of the first estimate given. Thave already reported, by letter of November 18 last, upon the new raliroad bridge at the mouth of the river, hope, should experience demon- strate the Yoonveniences and impediments offered by this structure to navigation to be serious, that no pains will be spared by the gov- ernment to have it removed, Perth Amboy is the nearest collection district, The gaurvey was exe- cuted during the fall of 1873 by the parties of Messrs. A. Zoller and K. A. Giesier. Mr, Julius H. Stried- inger, U. B., Was 1n general charge of the survey and plottings, and to bim i am indebted for the compilation of the information deduced from the survey and jor a calculation of the quantities in the estimates, Mr. Francis R, Stevens, General Superiatenuent of the Camden and Amboy Rail- road Company, is entitied to thanks for the kind assistance be lent us in pointing out the localities Of the submerged obstructions, £0. ‘at the com- across the whole width of the river for the pur- yj below the New Brunswick locks. Tney consist of red shale, and project into the channel from the river, narrowing the channel and endangering vessels, which are apt to be carried on them by the ebb currents setting toward the concave shore. (4.) A ledge of rocks 3,800 feet above Martin’s Dook commences, about 1,200 feet long and 100 feet wide, and, running (55) k in (6.) Shoal water below | adopted Wrence’s Creek, This obdstraction consists of gravel ana sand. (7.) questio: Guange- | 801d Otherwise than under rule 1, must be deci: Be | by te member Bae ta Pome: toe strony ebb ana cur. rents; the great increase In the width of the cross | Com! the paola ‘ograpbic survey of 1851 with the recent survey, one eae wider artly to the stirring of the the numerous steamers passibg through, and in some cases to the con- from New Brunswick to. tts outlet, the capacity of the river for improvement vecomes evident, ne e and sharp curves in the Course of the river, manifests | the energy of the tidal Now, It ie tair+o presume, therefore, that the removal of these impediments decreasing the duration of the ebb, add to its seule effect. The construction of the dike, indica- approximately in position upon the chart, and Boot Creek to a short distance above the head of Crab Island, by its effect in the removal of certain on the tidal flow, seems to be general im- The next woaki be to strengthen the course of the river by excavating & new channel, which.should cut of certain sharp ate ig she present course of | The obstacles existing in the river mencement of the hydrograpnic yg Respect- fuliy submitted, JOHN NEWTO! Lgutenant Colonel of Engineers, Brevet Major ener: Brigadier General A. A. HuMPHREYS, Chief of Bugineere, United states Army. NEW YORK CITY, An old man named William Anderson, sick, des- titute and homeless, was sent to Bellevue Hospital yesterday by the police of she Eighth precinct. At half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning & slight fire occurred in the office of Knuble & Keitle, on the second floor of No, 28 Bond street, Fire was discovered yesterday morning in the lquor store of Richard Ehlers, No. 25 West street. It was caused from the over-heating of a stove- pipe. Damage $600, Michael Sherry, of No. 1,143 First avenue, re- ceived @ severe Wound in the hand by being struck with @ brick in Seventeenth street and First ave- nue. The missile was thrown by some unknown man. During the past year the Assoctation for Improv- ing the Condition of the Poor relieved 24,091 ‘amt- lies, containing 89,845 persons, at an outlay of $96,431. The receipts amounted to $50,132, which is an increase of $46,475 over the previous year. Last evening: the St, Nicuolas Soctety, of New York, met at Velmonico’s, to prepare for the anni- will in no Manner be slighted if the consuitations with the agents of Epicurus are of any signifi- |. cance. A fire wes discovered at about half-past twelve the second floor of No. 98 Vesey street, It spread rapidly to the third foor. Tne flames and water Gamaged the building and contents to the vaiue of ‘The cause of the fire is unknown. J. G. Ferrts and H. H. Harris occapy the building, which belongs to the Crager estate. Tho faneral of the late Rev. F, 0. Wainwright, 80m of the late Bishop Wainwright, took place yes- terday morning from Trinity chapel, in West Twenty-ffth street. The regutar Eptscopal burial service was read, the Right Rev. Bishop Potter, Rev. Morgan Di . D., and Rev. Dr. otfictating. After the servi: taken to ty Cemetery, Tenth avenue and 153d street, for interment, A meeting of manofacturers of planing and in reference to the Woodbury patent, ander whicn several million dollars are claimed as royalty. Edwards Pierrepont, one of the counsel ior the manufacturers, gave tas his opinion that the patent canaot stand in the courts ana recom- mended a vigorous defence, The meeting there upon resolved to unite in such de: , BNA ap- pointed a committee to take charge of the matter. ‘fbere will be lively times to-day in the Pension Bureau,.at the back of the Custom House, for the coffers of Uncle Sam will be opened to pay the’ noble but limbiess veterans, or it may be their poor widows, the sums allotted for the losses ‘) they Dave sustained. From a very early bour this morning the applicants were to get in line and receive the amounts to which they were entitied. ‘The usual arrangement will, of course, be made, and the disbursing of the funds carried on with romptness. The occasion 18 one to which many foo ‘ward with anxiety. The Board of Managers of the Produce Exchange heids meeting yesterday, at which the Charity mmittee appointed last winter was comtinued the.current year. The » during the past month, Was 0} 24 days: 57 meetings were heid, 7 by the Managers, 10 by the Arbitra- tion Committees, 17 by the Oomplamt Committee, 7 by the Private Arbitration and 16 by other spe- ctal committees. Donations to tne library were received from 4 sources, The visitors numbered 458; 20 members qualified and 4 dted. Three mem- bers were posted as having failed. + At the Trade. Salesrooms m Clinton Hall the special (holiday) book trade sale was continued yesterday, the attendance if anything being a lite the more numerous than on the previous days. Among the invoices sold were those of a number ot Roy mnciuding that of Messrs. Scrib- ner, Welford & Armatrong, who have abranch in this & Yorston, Sotheran, Heary & Among the'ctty publishers whose invoices were d! ed of yesterday were Messrs. James Miller and id & Mead; Charles Taber & Co., of New Bedford, and Willtam T. Gill & Oo., of Boston. To-duy and to-morrow will be devoted to the sale-of a very large and extensive invoice of irom thts branch of tr: The President of the Cotton Exchange nas been requested by the requisite number of members to call @ public meeting on Monday next at tweive o’clock, to constder several amendments prepared by members of the Exchange to the recent rules with respect to the classification of cotton delivered on contract. It ts proposed to amend four sections of article 9 of the Led pelo ques- Near Whitehead’s Dock 1s a reef of tions as to grades, quality or condition of cotton, covered with sand ying in the middie | if the deliverer and recetyer di gre to of the river. (&) The “Middie Grouna” tg | dé left to two brokers, and tf they {ail to agree @ very extensive gravel and sand then to the twoand a member of the Committee below Crab Island, and is due to the sudden ex- | 00 Clessification, and the award of a majority to pansion of the cross-section of the river. (9) The | be binding. All similar na, if the cotton be ide ree arbitrators, one to be a of the Classtication Committee. Parties, however, may submit any question to private arbitration, with- mire. BROOKLYN. The average daily consumption of water during November was 22,776,200 gallons, stracuon ihe baad Soe A aaah whereb: a One hundred and twenty thousand dollars was cross section of the river contracted ani the scour ine ca ib esonting ia repo od oe for taxes by Collector Burrows yester- obstructions to navigation, with ti arts | and information retating to the ‘tital flow and rise | Justice Eames yesterday fined George Stein $15 for striking & horse om the head with a loaded whip andie. George W. Baker, twenty-eight vears of ago, an ex-policeman, attempted to hang himself in one of the celis of the Stagg street station house on Wednesday night, He bad been incarcerated for intoxicanon, Two weeks ago @ valuable horse, owned by George Distier, of Cypress Hills, was bitten by a mad dog at Flatbush. Yesterday the horse be- came rabid and ate the flesh of bis own legs. ‘The animal was shot. United States Judge Woodruff yesterday sen- tenced William Robinson, the negro, who was convicted for stealing a boat belonging to the federal government near the Fire Istand Light- house, in November last, to @ fine of $260 01 stand’ committed co the Penttentiery. i Three hundred and sixty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven letters were distrib- uted through the Brooklyn Post Uffice last month, and 216,468 were collected during the same pertod, The receipts for postage in office by local car- considered the next important step in par the improvement, No estimate, of course, | Tiers rea $4,772. The amount paid car- can now be presented for sncn ex- Luthy Brown, William Quigley, James O'brien, Eliza Smitn and Eliza Simmons, the individuals arrested for dealing and playing policy at No, 17 | Charles street, were arraigned before Justice Walsh yesterday. Tne two first named prisoners Were Seut to jail to await examination and the Mud were, after severe lecture, permitted 0 gO. WESTCHESTER. ‘The Board of County Supervisors has again el- fected an adjournment until next Monday morn- rs Mrs. Scott-Siddons gave one of her inimitable Shakespeartan readings at Lafayette Hall, White Plains, under the auspices of tne Young Men’s Lyceum, of that piace, on Wednesday evening. ia ere and highly appreciative audience wad James Downey, aged eighteen, and against whom seven indictments for robbery and burgiary at Yonkers were recently returned by the Grand Jury, was taken to the Albany Penitentiary yes ‘enced to that institution ior five years for tbe crime of burglary. Six of the indictments still | remain to be disposed of after his present term of imprisonment shali have expired. The commission appointed by the Supreme Court to inquire into the alleged lunacy of An- guste Lachaume, indicted for assautt with intent to kill James P. Sanders, by shouting bim tn the City Court room at Yonkers last summer, com- pleted their labors on Wednesday, at White Plains, when the testimony was conciuded and the ming Up of counsel heard. The commission wiil hand 10 their report to the Presiding Justice of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which convenes next Monday. An impromptu affair, of a very pleasant charac- ver, took place at White Plains yesterday after- at the residence of Henry B, Ford, Deputy suerit, and for many years jatior of the county, tn order to presert bim with a token of thetr appreciation and esteem. This proved to be a unigue silver tea service, consisting of eight pieces, which was resented to Mr. Ford and bis wiie by Joho . Haskin, who accompanied the offering with a few | felicitous remarks, which were re- ; sponded to, im behalf of the hoste: by District Attorney elect Robert Coch- ran, A substantial array of viands were afterward enjoyed by the guests, Among those present were N. Holmes Odell, Congressman elect; Justice A. B. Tappen, of the Supreme Court; fe Senator William A. Robertson; ex-Surro- Jobo W. Millia: 1. ¢& Huntingdon. President | versary next Monday, and great were the Prepa- | 5, rattons thereof, The patron satnt of the soctety | Kappers, Weston ices the remains were | Af#irs on the stationery from D. Appleton & Vo., who retire | ie. | of the village of New Rochelle: Theodore Pine, County Regiater elect; Gubert S. lyon, and many other representative men of the county. STATEN ISLAND. AD agreement has been made by the North Shore Ferry Company whereby the company pur- chase 100 feet of water front immediately adjoin- ing the landing of the Staten Island Ratiway Ferry Company at Stapleton, the purpose of the Norta Shore Company being to establish an opposition pie direct to New York at @ reduced rate of re. The Coast Wrecking Company's steamer Lacka- wanna has been thoroughly overhauled, ana will sail to-morrow for Key West to take the winter station on. that coast for the relief of stranded and @iadled vessels. She takes the place of the lost steamer amanda Winants, whioh has hever yet been heard irom, The supposition twat she was lost with all on board is further verifiea by the fact that one of her surf boats was picked up on Wednesday off Gharlestan harbor, At an adjourned meeting of the Board of Super- visors of Ricumond County, heid at the County Hail in Richmond village, some thirty-five bills against the county were audited and allowed, the aggregate of which is $3,650. The reports of the eee question of labor, and the only remeay for this matter is by government employ. The people of this country should govern themselves and have @ fair day’s wages for a lair day’s labor. The legislators of this country will Dever listen to your demands until you pecome a political power yourselves, And now | will clude, my fellow Cititens, by saying that the whole matter resis with you. ‘Aletter was then read from John Swinton, in which the latter, regretting his not being able to be present, aympathized with the ‘longsboremen in their strike for their nghts. Mr. MAGUIRE, alter @ short sketch of the earlier Gays of the workingman, from the time he worked in serfdom up to the present, said :—As a remedy We must take hold of tne bauot box and do away with wages by co-operation. Std co-operation Uhat the capitaliste nave succe: and tt te by co- Operation that the workivgman shall succeed. I take 0c in here to call the attention of the Board of Health to the filthy condition of some of our streets, espectally Jersey street, running be- ‘ween Mulberry and Crosby, which is now rotter With corruption and breed! disease among its crowded community. There ls something wrong iu the present state of affairs, when honest men are piste ag Sg 2 the land seeking for work and hungering for bread, when thousands of the shoddy aristocracy are living in the lap of luxury. Let us organize and purify our legilation and by our Own power make our own government; thea it will be the people employing themselves, be- cause it will be a people's government, The following resolutions were then read and Superintendents of the Poor were aiso before the Board jor consideration, as foilows:—David Decker, temporary relief in the town of Northfield, $1,366 $7; George Wilson, in Middietown, $1,048 58; Dinsway, in Westfela, $706 38; Em: in Southfield, $640 70. An explanation regarding the mysterious boat and box seen in the bay off Robin’s Reef, on Wednesday night week, by persons in the ferry- lonn C. oclock yesterday in an unoccupied bedroom on | boat Westfletd, has been made. It appears that the box did contain a corpse, which had recenti been buried at Hart's Island, and which some re! attves of the deceased on Staten Isiand had hired the two men in the boat to exhume, convey to the jeland and bury in the Fountain Cemetery, Fac- toryville. Upon their arrival there the men were detained by the police antl they couid give satis- jactory evidence as to where the corpse came from and what they were going to do with it. THE "LONGSHOREMEN. River Fronts Yesterday— Some of the Shipowners Taking Back the Old Hands—The Steamship Men ‘Will Not Recedc. moulding macbines was held at the St. Nicholas} ‘The itveliest possible interest was noted on Hotel yesterday, for the purpose of taking action | south street yesterday in relation to the probable action of the shipowners regarding the longshore- men, The unton inrescinding the resolution for- at the old wages, go long as the steamship men bave made @ moss sensible Move in dealing with the serious bustness on and, and one which end could obtain society rates. Inconveatence and annoyance followed this action of the strikers, and while some of the owners were content to re- Main passive untirthe question was settied, others Immediately took advantage of the many good men ous-of employment around the city, hired them @t once, and under the tnstractten of com- petent foremen had the labor of loading and dis- charging their vessels satisfactorily performed, ‘This was done to such an extent that the strikers returned to reason and demanded the right to work when the old wages could be secured, and the leaders of the society backed down. Then the locked-out east side men sought their former emptoyers, and, hearwly denouncing those who Control the organization for their own selfish pur- poses, asked for their old pisces, Ina few cases they obtained them yesterday; but in many in stances the shipowners, being satisfied with the manner in which the work was bemg done Non-society men, positively refused to again have dealings with anybody belonging to unton, as their connection with it bas wrought nothing but mischies So South strees was thronged with “longshore- men all the day, the centre of attraction being pier 19, at which Messra. Sutton & Co.'s vessels ure loading. On Tuesaay this firm, or rather we owners of the ships im their line, decided never again to employ unton men, and contracted with the Messrs. Walsh Brothers to do their work. Tue latter commenced loading two or three ships on ‘Wedneaday morning, and continued until yester- dock and took the new men away. It was soon ascertained that Messra, Sutton & Co. had accepted ‘tue offers of their old Nongshoremen, now allowed to work ander the latest rultng of the unton, and the firms business at the same time was returned to its former stevedores, Messrs. Ostram & Morris. 0 tea conviction never and the yet numerous had become very despondent during the past lew days, expressed great satisfaction at the result. ile Sutton & Co. have gone back to first prin- ciples there are many other important houses on South street who are working and tntend to con- it Of appeal, or direct Ears ae tinve the non-society men, recognizing that the best interests of the community will be protected by teacl the untonists a lesson, aad that is thas no written law, no despotic rule, no comoi- ation can settle the question of wages or the hours of labor, and all atsempta in this direcuon must prove abortive. Among these firms who.are thus acting tn defence of @ principle are many of the older On the street, On pier No. 20 East River, Mebsrs, 0. H. Maltory & Oo. are doing weil with the non-society men, and satisfied m every ‘ticular, Messrs, Simonson the Calitornia trade, have five ships ii by sociesy and one Dy non-society men, The work on the latter 1s being well and rapidly done, a who are men, about $55; day about noon, when a tug steamed up to the | Howes, large shippers im | ng, four | Messrs, Tapscott & Co. are employing nou-society | making aoe a and have no idea of the nt, The steamship agents are inflexible in the regoive any change for | to mamtain their position regarding the reduced | Tates, many of tuem deci: pone emptoy union men. The detained City of megan of the Inman line, sailed a at noon with a large cargo ana over five handred passengers in the steerage. The report that the ‘eish thers will endeavor to induce the steam- aldy men to recede ana pay the old rates waa not credited by those agents spoken to in regard to the matter, ACTION OF THE CONVENTION LAST EVEN! orine delegates from the several divisto: rn rookiyn met iast evening tn the Hall of Tem; ance Society No. 1, VaricK street, near C: ING. ns of the E 18 convention was in session two hours and had lengthy discussions on incidental ts erst many of which might have been und withous much debate; still, the dele- gates arrived at few important clusions, whitch apparently have paces untons on @ basis on which they may fight intelligently to fail or win. Tnese conclusions ‘Were—tirst, to work for merchants, stevedores or others who will pay the a, forty and stxty conta, except for the Waish Brothers; and, seo- ond, thas no union men shall be permitted to work on any ship on which non-society men shall be employed. It was aiso decidea that the union men shall be allowed to work with soremen who Diag ines happen to be union meu. The minutes of last Mecting were so altered as to fix the Tate of wages, then doubtiully adopted, at forty cents and sixty cents, This action was deemed as final in regard to the ultimatum of the Convention in regard to the wages for day and night work. The Convention adjourned, to meet as the cally of the Chair, The Hoboken *Longshorem: Another crowded meeting of the members of the ’Longshoremen’s Unton was held in Odd Fel- lows Hal yesterday afternoon. Mr. Meyer, the fireman and agent of the Hamburg Steamship Company, was present. He renewed the oid ofter of the company to the men, saying that he was | ready to discharge the new _ employés whenever the old hands wished to take their places, A li number of those | | Bits large sent scemed to listen favoravly to the terms, Marlow, the pregident of the union, is of opin- 100 that a compromise will soon be effected, and the police expect & speedy settiement of the question. fhe sixteen Ylongshoremen who were | arrested without warrant of law tu Hudson street \ on Weédnesday night were very properly dis charged by RKecoraer Bobnatedt yesterday. There 1 some feeling prevalent tn regard to thetr arrest LABOR MASS MEETING, Large Gathering of the Members of the | Social Party. A mass Mecting of the Social Democratic Wor ingmen’s party was held last evening at Concordia Hau. Mr. Strasse was elected chairman and Mr. Macgregor secretary. Mr. Leander Thompson, an old ‘longshoreman, was the first speaker. He ex- pressed himself in sympathy with the ‘longshore- men, but dcnounced the resolutions passed at the recent meeting at the Cooper institute, as there Democratic Workingmen’s noon, Where several prominent citizens assembled | ¥4% tO much toadying to capital, when capital bas really no rights that labor is bound to respect. It ts not by strikes that capital will ever succumb to labor; but frst we must bave complete organ- ization ofall the industria! classes, and then in one solid mass we must fight against capital. ladmire the endurance and energy displayed by the work- ing classes in their strikes and I sympathize with the sufferings by hunger that they have gone through, out what have they gained? In regard to the longshoremen’s strike, they are working against contracts—a system which mast be broken up, and whica only can be broken no by co-operation, I hava = atndted } Continent.” that tacy will never | horemen’s unions in sbis city, Hoboken and | 22 adopted :— Whereas the 'longshoremen of this port are engaged a struggle aj inet ap upjusi red ction of wagen. 3 Resol Fed etha we, workingmen, assembled in Con- cordia Hall this evening. express our hearty sympathy with the ‘longshoremen’s strike, aud pronounce the com- bination of svevedores an attempt to reduce the working- men to pauperism and starvation Resolved, That we advise the 'longshoremen to sever all connection with the present litical parties, ag being in the interest of capital and to the detriment of the pro- Queing classes. vs that we invite them to join hands with tho Social Democratic Workingmen’s party, so as to fies themselves as well as the working classes from their de- pendence on the capitalist, and to aid in substituting the system of associative production, with democratic warantees, in place of the preséut sysiem of wage uabor. The meeting shortly afterwards adjourned. THE CARPET WEAVERS’ STRIKE, What the Operatives of Higgins’ Carpet Factory Say About the Reduction of Wages. The vicinity of Higgins’ monster carpet factory, at Forty-tbird street and Eleventh avenue, pre- sented @ most extraordinary appearance of qui- etude yesterday. The 1,500 hands who struck on December 1, owing to the proposed reduction of wages, used to invest the neighborhood naturally bidding membera‘to work on sailing veseels, even | With an alr of bustling activity which has been totally wanting aince the beginning ofthe strike. held out against all overtures, was thought to }4 more peaceabie and undemonstrative strike of workingmen—or rather, working women, ior the majority of the strikers are girla—bas, probably, was but justice to those who wanted to work, | 2°Ver Deen witnessed in this city. They all seem to be determined to fight tt out, meanwhile ob- serving simply @ passive attitude. “We don’t strike (rom mere fancy,” said one frail girl yes- terday, whose thin, emaciated face gave evidence of close of confinement and severe labor, “Hut bes cause Mr, Higgins wants to take our bread away. The wages we have received hitherto are scarcely high enough to enabie us to KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER snd to pay the exorbitant rents which Mr. Hig- gins, who hag bought ap the tenements in the neighborhood, exacts irom us. Mr. Higgins wants to cut down our wages by sums varying from ten to fifteen per cent of their amount, but he has noc reduced onr rent to acorresponding figure,”? Mr. Higgins was called upon yesterday and he declined to state whatgwages he paid to tue va- rious grades of operatives or to say anything be- youd what appeared in yesterday's issue of this journal. From the statement of the employés, owever, it appears that the majority of them get from $30'to $40 a month. The reduction proposed by Mr. Higgins is fifteen per cent for all earnings over and above $40 8 month and ten per cent for those amounting 3} than $40 per month. The weavers, who areal r from $34 to $45 per month ; the setvars ° ye we spinners, e section chiefs and machinists made about $60 & month. The feeders only get $16 a month. The operatives worked from seven o’dlock A. M. to fifteen min- utes past six o'clock P. M., with only three- quarters of an hour’s pause for dinner at noon. On Saturday they ceased to work at hali-past three o’clock in the afternoon, 80 that they iabored altogether sixty hours a week, OR THN HOURS A DAY. The pay ts by the piece, the weavers of tapestry carpets, for instance, being paid three and threé- quurter cents for weaving ayarad. These rates, it is believed by the operatives, are lower than are Much Was a triumpb—a triumph over the act- | even tue reduced wages at other factories in the ain to hire union men— | dle "longsboremen, who | country Where living wus much cheaper. The ciass Who complain most bitterly of the proposed “starvation rates’ are the “pickers,” all girls (Who pick the carpets after they have come out of vue looms), and only make $26 to $23 a month, “One thing {s certata,’”’ said oife of these girls, “and that is that Mr. Higgins is bound to mie! for we would rather go to other factories in Phila- delphia, &c., than work for him at the proposed rates; and if the gtris, more Particularly the ‘setters,’ have once scattered, it may take him months before he can again open the factory.” J¢ would take him three or four montns to teac! “green” hands to wore Lagann they sai and this was shown & year ago, when Ne also tri to enforce a reduction of ten per cent, and was compelled to yield after two days by tne sturdy resistance of these “setters.” ‘The operatives are of all nationalities—Scotah, Irtsh, Bnglish, German and also a lew French. Several of the leaders yesterday said that they would CONSENT TO NO COMP’ as Mr. Higgins is a mijlionnaire and can afford to pay bis hands decent wages, more especially as he exacted quite ‘decent’ rents from those who lived in the numerous tenements he has built near his manufactory. He is @ shrewd business man, they said, who is undoubtedly bent upon making a8 much money as he can, buy that is no reason, they thought, why be shoa! ittempt to starve them. Nine dollars or $10 @ week was littie enough for any one to live upon, and many did not get even that much, and how could any ove be ex- pected to work ten hours lorless? They allagreea upon the fact that they cannot be easily sup- ianted by unskilled hands, as longshoremen for Instance, and that Mr. Higgins wih lave to pay the old rates if be wanted to Keep hig factory run- in the future, ‘bat the result win be ft 1s impossible to fore- tell, but from present appoaranoes it would seem that the difficulty wiil not ve settled this week, as has been snticipated. Efforts will be made to effect @ compromise, but it seems extremely douvtiul whetner any of the mili hands will con- sent to the proposed reduction of wages, The Weavers Will hold a meeting some time next week, and meanwhile some 4,000 or 5,000 persons (for many of the girls support large families) are suf- bate under this conflict cetween labor and Capit OOOPEB UNION LECTURES, The course of free Saturday night lectures for the people atthe Cooper Union is announced. The first atvision of the course for 1874 and 1876 Will be as foliows:— December 6—“On the Art of Illustration.” By Professor Kdward 8. Morse. December 12—“On the Ancient Glacters of this By Professor Edward S. Morse, December 19—"On Southern Oaltfornia, the Italy of America.” By Mr. J, A. Jonson, editor of the | Santa Barbara Press, iliustrated by the stereopti- day by Deputy Sherif Haight, having been sen | Without ordering them then and there to disperse. | | & 8cow, ly! | paren con. POUR LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY. December 26—The Heart, and the Circulation of the Biood.” Ff re 2—“The Lungs, Respiration and Venti- ation, Japuary 9—“The Skin and Bathing.” January 16—“The Nervous System and Anes. thesta,"” By Dr. 4. B. Orosby, Professor of Anat omy in the Bellevue Hospital Meaical College. FOUR LECTURES ON BOTANY, January 23—“Phe Seed and Its Germination.” January 30—*The Leaf and Its Work.” February 6—*flowers and Fruits.” February 18—‘Some Movements in the Vegetable Kingdom,” By Professor George L. Goodale, of Harvard College, Massachusetts, Ail these lectures will be fully Ulustrated by drawings and the use of the stereopticon, LITERARY LECTURES. The Wednesday evening free jectures by Pro-~ con Zachos, in the Geographical Rooms, will re ou wee and the Poets of the Age of Eliza th.” kespeare and the Dramatists of the Age of Elizabeth.” “Pope and the Writers of the Age of Qneen | Anne. “Burns and the Song Writers,” “Scott and the Modern Novelists.!? “Coleridge and the Lake School.’ “pickens and English Social Lire.’? “CORONERS’ OABES, Yesterday forenoon James Kane, a middle-aged man, without home or means of support, was taken to the Twenty-seventh precinct station house, apparently much intoxicated, but was found to ve in a dying condition, death ensati before medica} aid could be summoned. Corone! Eickhofl was potifed to hold an inquest on the body, winch Was sent to the Morgue, Coroner Eickhot! was yesterday called to the. Morgue to hold an {nquest on the body of a male, iniant of recent.birth, which was found on board! ~~ Bt the iooy of Twenty-second street, polling y Philtp Wiegel, of No. 505 East Six- enth aureet. ey Barry, a child one year 014, whose) live at 109th strecy between Tenth ave~ hue and Boulevard, yesterday morning, while her Mother was absent at the grocery store, acciden« tally fell mto @ wash bolier full of water and wae drowned, Coroner Kiekhot wae patifed to Bald tia | an inquest.