The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1875, Page 3

aa NEW YEAR’ DAY. its Observance in New York in the Olden Time. The Old Dutch Custom of Making Calls. A Dream of New Year’s Calls in 1875. | Let us iook back over the years and see how ‘New Year's Day was celebrated in the olden time. No city inthe Union enters upon its celebration | %o the extent or with the heartiness of New York. | ‘The custom was handed down to us by our Dutch | @ncesters, who began an interchange of visite early in the day and kept on the go until late at Right. The houses were thrown open, and wines, punch and cakes Were served to the guests, The custom was a new one to Washington until the ‘winter of 1790, At that tim: he was living in tbe Frankiin House, at the head of Cherry street, in ‘this city, andon New Year’s Day he was waited ‘on by the principal gentlemen in the city. Wat- gon, in bis “Annals of New York,” grves an ac- count of our first President’s first New Year’s Day reception, afver being severally introduced apd paying the usual compliments of the | Beason the citizens matually interchanged their | kina greetings and withdrew, bignly gratified by | the friendly notice of the President, to most of | ‘whom he was personaily a stranger. In the even- | Qing Mrs, Washington held her levee, Ladies at- | tended and tea, coffee, plain and plum cake were Randea around, amid familiar and friendly con- versation, and the time passed away in this inpo- centenjoyment. Toulady standing at the side of the President, near Mrs. Washington, she re- marked :—‘‘Of all the incidents of the day none hus so pleased the Gencral as the friendly greet- ings of the gentlemen who visited him at noon.” To the inquiry of the President, whether this cele- bration was casual or customary, a gentleman re- plied that 1¢ was an annual custom derived from our Dutch forefathers, which had always been commemorated. The General then observed :— “The highly favorable situation of New York will 4m process of years attract emigrants who will | gradually change its ancient customs and man- mers; but let whatever changes take place never Sorget the cordial, cheerful observance of New Year’s Day.” A recommendation that has been more faithfully carried out than some others of the great departed. ‘The celebration of New Year’s Day ts one of the Oldest customs on record, and present-making on that day is almost as common as on Christmas in | some countries. The festivities begin on New | Year's Eve and continue throughout the night, NEW YEAR'S DAY. New Year’s gists originated from the superstl- tion that ‘o have a present given you on that day | is good luck. We are supposed to rejoice with oar friends atter having escaped the dangers that @ttend every year, and cougratulate each other by presents and best wishes for the !uture, New Year’s Day is celebrated in France by making calls and presents of bon-bons. Farly in | the morning the peopie deck themselves out in their best, and set outupon a round of visits among relations and friends to wish them all a happy new year and present the bon-bons. The relations are visited first aud then the friends. It is a matter of polite strife to see which shall start Mirst on the visit. The confectioners do an immense business on ew Year's Day, and their shops are decorated in gorgeous style. The counters are covered with every device French ingenuity can suggest in the “way ofvon-bon boxes. These shops are great Younging piaces during the day, Adinneris given by some member of the family to which all the | relatives are invi'ed, and tne evening 1s passed in | @ancing, playing cards, and otuer jollifications tor | Which the French are celebrated. The confec- | ioners’ shops remain Gecorated wstil Twelfth ay, When the Tweltth Day cake is drawn. A fair held on the boulevards, in Paris, beginning on ew Yeur’s Day and continuing for fiiteen days, The Festival o1 Fools used to be held in Paris on this day, at which all sorts 61 indelicacies were ractised until 1t was forbidden by one of the opes. Vebtors were unmolested at this time and fun and frolic were masters Of the Gay. MODERN CELEBRATIONS. NEW YORK HERA cents man or woman coul the best music in the world all the year ro Beer tables were scattered through the bi and men eat around them smoking their cigars, while their wives and cousins employed their hands with worsted work and sewing. ‘in the back part of the building were boxes for, the fastidious, #0 arranged that the smell of the smoke and the fumes of the beer did not reach their sensitive noses. The crowd was larger than usual, owing to the fact that Wagner was going to be there in per- son and lead his new under and Lightning’ overture. From the concert we had just time enough to drive down to the Bowery Theatre and | ase pe Talmage in the last act of ‘Neck and eck. “We did not arrive at Mayor Bergh’s house, where we bad promised to spend the night, unl near twelve o’clock, but the streets were 80 well lighted that we thought it must be morning. went down town the next day by the air line to the Battery and took the tunnel cars to Staten Island, and, being in a nghe-accmng mood, we crossed by | tunnel trom the Island over to Jersey and then trom Jersey City back to New "York also by tun- nel. I met you, old fellow, stanaiug by your olfice door, looking as beaming as a May morning, ‘What's up?’ said I. ‘Nothing,’ said you, ‘but that the washerwomien of this delightful 1875 sew the buttons on our snirts bejore they bring home and thatthe Astor Libraty is open ir eight A. M, till ten P, M., and ope can Carry book: home with him, beside: “Going a] Fourth avenne we found that Stewart's | Working Women’s Home was finished and filled with bright and bappy giris, woo were weil noused and ied ior $2 per week. Coming out of his own house we met Mr. Stewart inmeseil, who had just given $10,000 to the Home for the Little Wanderers on the condition that no one should know Of his benevolence, The pavement irom the Bat- tery to Ceutral Park was the finest thing you ever sauwW—nelther wood nor stone, but a firm, though lelding substance, that fairly put speed into the jorses? legs, Over to Brooklyn by Way of the new bridge and back again by way of the tunnel we saw more improvements than we had ever dared to dream of, No more Jerryboats on either side of the island; nothing but tunnels and vridges. Ten- ement houses had given way to buildings with small flats, and the poorest laborer might live as comiortably as the richest merchant, and the mia- die class of Workers— the clerks and young bu: ness men—could find row alter row of neat, re- spectable houses in desirable neighborhoods with rents trom $350 to $800 per annum. I thought the miliennium had come and was about to congratu- | late myself when a dig from your unconsctous, fist woke me Ps and here it is New Year’s morn- ing, 1875, and time for us to be getting on our call ing clothes and away.” THE CHIMES. Once again, and as they have done many times before, the chimes of Old Trinity rang out upon | the winter airas the old year, like @ dissoiving’ view, flitted and faded away and his successor, laden with high hopes, took up the march, keep- ing step tothe merry music which greeted him from the old bell tower. Solemnly sounded the tirst few notes which hovered over the dead tnat | have lain so long in the churchyard, and then in livelier strains the sound moved off hither ana thither adown Wall street, among the deserted resorts of the “brokers and breakers ;”” across the Hudson, leaping from wave to wave of the cold mudpight air, mayhap starting up the ghosts of the dead burghers who sleep ‘neath the soil of Communipaw; along the stately palaces which line the great leading artery of the city, and com- mingling with the chimes of Grace church, hurry- ing northward in the teeth of the biting wind; up through the Bowery, where, in other days, good Peter Stuyvesant, deposed from power by the Tutbhless invader, passed the remnant of his days in honorable obscurity, and where now profane revellers worship Gambrinus tneir King; wander- ing over the housetops; siealing into crevices ana to the ears ol uneasy sleepers, and so on and on, announcing another cycle in the march of time couipiete, and with it the ever welcome message of “Peace on earth and good will to mau’? until distance resolved tt into silence, THE PROGRAMMES, The programme at Trinity, rung by Mr, Ayliffe, the bell ringer, was as follows :— 1. Ringing the changes on eight belts. 7 se of summer.” ‘A Happy Blue Hells of Beotland.? “Little Maggie May. Scotch melodies, irom ‘Gay Mannering.” ultan olka’? 'y Lodging 18 on the Cold Ground.” rs trom “Child ot the Regiment” ankee Doodle.” ome, Sweet Home.” GRACE CBUROH. The great bell struck twelve at midnight, after which Mr. Napoleon B. Sand played the jollowing airs upon the chime: L juide Me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah |” 2 “Hawaii Ponoll.” Hymn ot King Kalakaua, a aie Froen “srovatore.” 4 Silver Chimes. & Melodies from the “Bohemian Girl.” rong—"Chimes of the Heils.” “Martha,” Melvdies trom ‘The Chris r itmas Tree. Bouquet ot Melodies, Lloyd's Melody, with variations, Song of Liverty-—“\Puritank” id Lang Syne.” FS2zne: 1 1 1 1 . “Now LLay Me Down to Sleep.” 1s “Home, Sweet Home !”” WATCH NIGHT MEETING, “Could ye not watch with me one hour?’ asked How do we o/ the boasted nineteenth century | Keep New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day? Have we improyed much upon the customs of our an- | cestors. We still cling to the wassall cup but not peroups to the mad reveiry of the olden time. A Bocial glass of wine in the drawing room on Mur- | ray Hillora sixpenny cup of whiskey down in Baxter street, the same spirit influences both—to wee the new year enter in a pleasant trame of | mind and to drink “goodby’’ to the departed. | Le Roi est mort! Vice le Roi! + | Many people even nowadays are very supersti- tious ubout what happens on New Years Day. If | they break a glass, hear bad news or anytning that can be twisted mto meaniog bad luck, tuey ieel very biue indeed. Tne Methodists’ Watch Night is | ‘very popular among people o! nearly ali denom- | Ratious. The church is opened about nine o’ciock Or bal!-past, and the pastor delivers a sermon ap- | propriate to the time, aiter wach there is a short | ee. meeting and then the watch begins, about ali-past eleven, and as the old year passes out and the new year comes in the whole oougrega- | tion are iound on their knees in silent prayer. These meetings are very soleimo and iinpresaive. Anotuer way of speiding the evening 1s to as- semble all your most intimate relations and friends together, aud spend the night in «good old-lasmioned jrolic, Have the kettle steaming on the'couis, get out the best old Scotch whtskey tor | the oid julks, the champagne lor the younger ones, | and be ready, with glass in hand, as tre clock from the neighvoring tower rings out the last bour of | the old year, Every year “they say’ that ladies are going to abolish the bar und luuch counters from their pariors. ‘the number 1s materially lessened, but {here are too many leit, A young iady ‘who | thinks New Year’s culls are delghtiul, but gbominates the eating and drinking, says | that she 18 going to lay in @ stock Of soup | tickets, and il her callers look hungrily toward the | @orner Where tue sideboard and tabie usually | stand she will give them a ticket with directions to the soup house. There are miany gentlemen ‘who would find it a great reliel 1 whey were not | expectev to eat and diink with tueir dear, five hundred triends. The custoth of making New | Year’s cails is & deligntiul One When not ubused. | Itis nowhere carried to the excess that it isin | this country, But then we never do things by | halves im America, and paiticalarly here in New York. In Pnitadelphia no especial prepara- | tion js made tor New Year’s guests; im fact such | calls are somewhyt like asgeis’ visits, Ladies re- | ceive calls from ‘heir istimate friends, but tables | are hot spread abd tue houses closed and the gas | lighted all day as in tus city. Families dine to- gether New Year’s Day in Philadelphia, but as Jor making @ business of receiving calls they mever think of such a thing, A NEW VEAR’S DREAM, “Heiloa! wake up there, Jounson, ’ve bad such @ funny dream,” said Scott, sitting upin bed, | ‘with the tassel Of his red nightcap hanging over his nose. | “What did you dream that was worth waking a | feliow up tory” questioned Johnson, with'a yawn. | “Ldreamed that 1 Was kicking pebbies into tne ‘water down at the Battery, when a queer look ing little old man climbed up the side of the ‘woarf and asked me if tuis was New York. I re- plied that ic was, und asked what I could do ior | im? He saiu that le would like to see about the place if 1 had time to show him; so I heiped | Bim wo land, when, suddenly, | received a biow across my eyes, and upon recovering my sight a | ‘wonderful transiormation had taken place. Where | Castie Garden swod there Was a fine new build- | ing, heated with steam and containmg every Modern convenience. Lhe streets, which had | been floating in mud and siush when I came down | town, Were now clean and dry; the sidewaiks Were smooth and polished like Marble, and the | old had given away wo the new. ‘What does this | mean ?? said I, ‘we are lost in this place.’ ? OLD MAN—No, mny son, you are not lost, but you are now in the New York of 1875, and @ very tine | place you will flud it, «We passed up Broadway, and I noticed that the stages were drawn by men and driven by women, While animals of the brute creation occupied the Seats inside.” OLD MaN—This 18 Mayor Bergh’s doings. We will now go up to the Cily Hail, and see wuat His | Honor has on 100t. | “The Lig ‘ound Park row were crying out ‘Extra Zelegram/ Chatiey Ross found in Fairmount Park?’ while we passed Whitelaw Reid and Louis J, Jennings arm-in-arm, coming | out of the new Post Ofice, We found Mayor Bergh poteing on his overcoat preparatory to going | jome by the Elevaied Belt-line Ratlway, which | took bat twenty minutes to city. The Mayor told us that he belonged to no party | and had been elected by the people. ‘Come dine | ‘with me, gentlemen, and this evening we wiil | attend Thomas’ new Garden concerts.’ We ac- | cepted the invitation and found that Mr. | Thomas’ many sdawirers in thid.ctty had erected | for bis benefit as well as that of the puolic an im- | mense building ¢overing an entiré block in the | centre of tne city. Here were given popular classic | Concerta. where \apon the payment af twensy-five | v around the entire | the Saviour of His disciples on the night of His be- trayal in the Garden o! Gethsemane. ‘That was a solemn watcno mignt, and He, the God-man, watched and prayed alone, But bis followers now are many, and if a aozen sleep there are a thousand | to take their places and keep the vigil, until the midnight hour ushers in another day and another year. As a religious institution Watch Night belongs ‘to the Methodists almost exciu- sively. In 1742 John Wesley set the example among his *‘United Societies” that he mignt have a@ereater lever by which to lift the masses up out of their spiritual degradation and indifference. And his example has been followed very generally ever since by the different branches of Methodists throughout the worid. Revivals usually start in the churches with Watch Night, and wherever they have been interrupted by church fairs and | entertainments they will be resumed from this | time forward. Notwithstanding the hilarity and Joy of the New Year Day, the parting hours of the aying year are shrouded with solemn memories, which the pastors and leaders know how to use to awaken religious thoughts in the minds of the unoelieving watchers, LAST NIGHT THE FESTIVAL WAS OBSERVED in, perhaps, two-thirds of the Methodist chare hes, white and colored, tn this city and Brooklyn. The colcred Methodists never fail to watch aud to get up so much entuusiasm in their meetings that a We | m | CITY FINANC A SHARP HINT TO THE COS Exxcurive Durartuxyt, ¥ New Yorke Hon. Axpnew H. Qnex, Comptrolie Sir—My short term of the Mayoralt i | that the relations between this office | ment of Finance, so far as these refer | by the Mayor of the duty imposed uj countersign the warrants signed b: ought to be modified, Tt ts provided in the charter, section 29, “that all | payments, by or on behalf of the corporation, shall be made through the proper disbursing officer | of the Department of Finance by means of warrants | drawn on the Chamberlain by the Comptroller and countersigned by the Mayor.” | The proper disbursing officer uf the Department of Finance is the Chamberlain, who is the .nead of one ot the bureaus of the department, It is further provided in the charter, section 94, “that the Chamberlain shal! pay all warrants drawn on the treasury by the Comptroller and eountersigned by the Mayor, and no moneys shall de paid ont ot the treasury excepton the warrantot the Comptroller so counter signed. No such warrant shall by the Comptrolier, or countersigned by the Mayor, ex- cept upon ‘vouchers for the expenditures of’ the amount named therein, examined und allowed by the | Auditor and approy by the Comptroller, and filed in the Department of Finance, ex nthe case of judg. | ments, in which a transcript thereof shall be filed, nor except such warrant shall be authorized by INw or ordimance, and shall reier to the law or ordinance, and he appropriauion under and from.which it is drawn. | The Chamberlain shall not draw any moneys from said banks or trust companies, uniess by checks subscribed by him as Chamberlain, and countersigned by the Comp- voller; and no money shail be paid by either of said | banks or trust companies oo account of the treasury, ex- | eept upon such checks.” | cannot read tho provisions of the organic !aw of | the city without feeling that apon the Mayor the duty is Imposed of sutistying himself that all warrants he coun- tersigns are upon vouchers for the amount examined and alowed by the Auditor and approved by the Comp- | troiler, Until isso satisfied he ought not to counter- sign. ‘The system of making out a separate warrant to be countersgned by the Mayor for eacti separate payment Of salary and for all the small ordinary payments which | require to be made in connection with the government | has increased the work to such an extent that it is im- possible for the Mayor to perform even the phy doty of countersigning the warrants and keep up the demands of those entitled to receive them. To examine the papers and see that the proper vouch- | ersaccompany the warrants is, on the part of the Mayor, an impossibility. Under this system the Mayor's sinature upon a warrantis no more of a guarantee that the requirements of the law have been fultilied as to any particular claim, than Is the signature of the clerk | in your department, who certities that the warrant is | registered 1n the books of the department, | the Mayor, inthe signing of warrat | the position of a mere clerical appenduxe ral with is reduced to ition ‘0 the Depart: ment of Finance, of no Importance whatever in so [ar | as his action is intended as a safeguard to protect the in- terests of the city. The remedy tor this is, T think, clear. No warrant d for the signature of the Mayor which should be Prope | does not include the amount certitied by the Auditor Ne | and correspond with the amount of the vouch One warrant for the entire amount of a payroll is that should be required, and upon this warrant, signed by the Comptroller and countersigned by the Mayor, the Chamberlain—the disbursing otticer of the government— | gan pay the money inciaded therein to the parties en. fitied therera, This I, thi hink, is the system which the w intended and requires, Considering the very onerous duties which are im- posed upon the Mayor of the city, the supervision he 19 | required to exercise over the several departments and | responsibility which rests upon him m the administra. tion of the government in all Its parts, it is necessary, in order that he may have the opportunity of attending tw those duties in a manner their tmportance demands, that the system of administering the Department of Fi: nanee as to the payments upon warrants be changed or molitied as I suggest. Tcannot leave this office without thus pointing ont to ‘ou whatI consider to be @ serious interierence with he proper discharge by the Mayor of the duties of his jee; and I leave’ it to my successor to see that the interference which I have felt is removed. Respecitully yours, AMUEL B. H. VANCE, Mayor, BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, A MOVEMENT TO RESIST THE ABOLITION OF THE SECOND BRANCH OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. A special meeting of the Board of Assistans Aldermen was hield yesterday aiternoon, President Strack in the chair. After the reading of the min- utes, Assistant Alderman Sommers moved a vote of thanks to the press jor the accuracy and im- partiality with which the proceedings were re- ported during the year. ye Assistant Alderman Clancy seconded the resolu- lution. He desired, on beball of the Board and bimeeif to express their thanks to the members of the press for the magnanimity they had shown in | through want of experience or judgment, might have been committed. assistant Aiderman Masterson seconded the re- solution. which passed unanimously, Assistant Alderman Clancy said he hoped the Board of Assistant Aldermen would .meet on the following day and organize to insist upon their rights, The provisions of the charter of 1873 abolished, 1n order that the errors committed in citizens. He | bers would organize and select proper counsel | and proceed before the courts to maintain their | invependence. There was a well settled point tn | law that those holding oflice must continue to hold thew positions until their successors were appointed. It was the duty of the members of tae | Board, as the representatives of the people, to see that nothing up<onstivational was done and he feit’ confident yhat the opie would sanction every cliort made toward maintaining the gate- guard of their own interests, Having been elected to fill the ofice of civil justice tor the Sec- | ond district he hoped in tendering his resigna- | ton as@member of the Board that the vacancy thus created would be at once filled. The jormal resignation of Assistant Alderman Clancy was then read and accepted. | On the motion of Assistant Alderman Keating Mr. John Busch was unaniniously elected to fill the vacancy. Assistant Alderman Healy moved that the thanks of the Board be tendered to Mr. J. P, Strack, its President, jor the able ana dignified manrer in which he had fulfilled the duties of the ofice, The | resotution passed nev. con President Strack, in returning thanks, observed | that he had endeavored to do bis duty to the best | Of his -ability, and ifat any time his rulings had | not met the views of some ot the memoers— |, tdeed, any errors had been committea by him itn deciding questions at issue, trusted, therefore, that its mem- bead than to the heart, asit had always been nis aim to act impartially. He desired ‘to impress upon those present tie absolute necessity of | having two branches of the Common Council, This bad already been provided jor by charter. The members of the Buard would doubtless remember overlooking a great many errors which, perhaps, | clearly set forth that the Board should not be | one board might be counteracted by the other. | They had in their experiences irequent instances | of the Lenerits conferred by the existence oj the as- | sistant Board of Aldermen. It was tuis Board which | Assistant Aldermen. Mr. Charies M, Clancy, who | | prevented irauds trom being perpetrated on the | wasa member of the same Buard, enters on his | he hoped they would ve attributed more to the | great many “white {oiks” find their way in to be | the earnest discussion whica arose tn toe Common amused as they would be ina theatre or a min- | Council in connection with the American ludus- Strel hall. Not that the worshippers design to be | trial HXnibiuon affair. ‘Ihe sum of $2,500,000 had amusing or humorous, but that they are too oiten | Y, JANUARY 1, 1875. ——[———————_ 1; 1873, 3, of whtcn one was for perjury; fm 48, one for perjury. Number Indicted in 1874, DISMISSED DETECTIVES TO HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO CLEAR THEMSELVES, te Police Commissioners met twice yesterday both meetings bad mteresting features. The , took place between eleven and twelve o'clock he morning and the se ond at half-past three, In the morning the Boara, at the motion of Com- missioner Duryea, brought Captain Leary back from the second precinct to the ‘fwenty-sixth, from where he was moved at the time of the recent general transier of captains. This change waa made at the re- quest of the incoming Mayor. Captain Leary was im charge of the 'wenty-sixth precincc for several years befove he was sent to the Second precinct, and therein he became thorouguly versed in the wording and meanings of the city Ordinances, Mr. Wickham, thereiore, wishes to muke use of bis knowledge and@ expenen Captain Petty was bene fill Captain Leary’s piace in the Second pre- emct. A letter was received from Colonel Fellows, counsel for Tilly and Heidelberg, the dismissed } detectives, protesting against the action of the Board, and demanding to ve heard tn their be- halt The Board agreed to allow counsel to for- woula not be permitted to speak in their benall. ‘The following are tie ollicial estimates received by the Commissioners yesterday 0! the expenses Tics, $8,203,400: Jor rentso! station houses, $10, 92 repairs aud alterations, $20,000; house for Nineteenth precinct, jor the police, $50,000; cons’ Thirty-third precinct, $3,000 salaries, supplies, ¢ , $4, 187,325, 3 for new station $70,000; supphes ction Of staples in + jor street cleaning, $800,000, Grand total, MUNICTPAL The Bosra of Aldermen met yesterday, but ad- journed, alter a brie seesion, to meet to-morrow. Mayor Wickham, in conjunction with the retir- ing incumbent of the Mayoralty, will receive to- day in the Governor’s Room, Uity Hall, from twelve to one o'clock. The Croton water rents for the year 1874 show a@ decrease of $67,000 on the amount received the pre- vious year. + . it was rumored yesterday that Commissioner Bissinger of the Department of Parks had ten. dered his resignation, Mayor Vance, however, slated that he bad no knowledge of the fact. Messra. Patrick Jones, of the T'wentieh Assembly district, and William Demarest, of the Fifteenth district, believing in the unconstituttonaluty of the law legislatmg the Board of Assistant Alder- men ont of office, declared themselves duly elected to vacant oflices in the Board and were sworn in. The event gave rise to many witicisms around the Hail. lt is saia that Mayor Wickham intends having fitted up for the accommodation of his depart- ment larger and more suitable apartments in the City Hall than those hitherto occupied. Deputy Tax,Commissioner Dean and five other attacnés of the office were yesterday notified that the appropriations set apart ior the working of the department compelied the discontinuance of their services. Sherif Couner and County Clerk Walsh will re- ceive their frienda in the Suerii’s office irom ten A. M. wo two P. M. THE NEW REGIME, NOTES. LIST OF THE STATE, CITY AND COUNTY GOVERN- MENT WHICH RULES TO-DAY. Most of the city and county officials elected in November last will formally enter upon the duties of their various offices to-day. The new Board of Aldermen, however, will not meet before Monday next, when the oatn of office will be administered. The Assistant Aldermen do not seem to show much alacrity in stepping down and out, and as they intend to reorganize, bellev- ing in the unconstitationality of the law abolish. ing the Board, some lively times may be expected, Mayor W. H. Wickham will be received before noon by the retiring Mayor, and, aiter the ceremony of inauguration, which is simpie, he will welcome the citazens in the Governor’s room, It is understood the Soard of Aldermen, and will, therefore, bea member of the Board of Apportionment, which will also consist of Mayor Wickham, Comptroller Green and Tax Commissioner Wheeler. Mr. Francis J, Twomey, who has been Deputy Clerk of the Board the Common Council. Mr. W. H. Moloney, who men, will hold the oMce of Deputy Clerk of the Common Council. The re-elected Aldermen are Messrs, Patrick Lysaght, Reilly, Vance, Morris and Billings and also Messrs. Strack and Simonson, duties as Civil Justice of the Second District Court. Few changes have as yet been talked | of in the Executtve Department, but it is | understood that Mayor Wickham will make the | folowing appoiatments, viz.:—Burton A. Harrt- | son, Secretary; Ciarles H. Noyes, Clerk; John D. Newman, Clerk; Joel 0. Stevens, City Marshal; Daniel S. Hart, Superintendent Permit Bureau. Another important ofMice will be filled to-day by | General Patrick H. Jones, who wiil relieve General | Siegel of the Registersnip. ni | The following is a list of the city and county | officials for 1875 :— Mayor—William H, Wickham, Cur CLERK—David S. Wendell. MakSHAL—Joel O. Stevens, RECoRDER—John K. Hackett. Crry JupgE—Jostah Sutherlana, CLERK OF COMMON CoUNcIL—Joseph 0. Pinckney. ALDERMEN—Aat large—Wliham L. Cole, John W. Guntzer, Samuel A. Lewis and Magnus Uross, | democrats; Samuel B, H, Vance and Oliver P. C. | Billings, repubhicans. Fourth Senatorial district— | Euward J. Snandley and Patrick Lysaght, aemo- | crata; Joon Robmson, republican, Futh distriet— | Edward Gilon, democrat; Joon 1. Morris and George B. Deane. republicans. sixth districc— Jono Reilly and Joseph F. Strack, democrats; C. | W. Southworth, republican, Seventh district— | Peter Seery and Robert Powers, democrats; H. E. Howland, repadhican, Eignth district (inciuding Westchester wards)—Henry D, Purroy, Andrew Beessing and William H. McCarthy, | Stephen N. Stmonson, republican, SHERUFF—William C, Conner. UnpeR Suerirr—John T. Cuming. Cousty CLERK—William Walsh, DervTy CLERK—H. A. Gumbieton. REGISTER—Patrick H. Jones, Surrogatz—Rovert C, Hutchings, COMMISSIONER OF JURORS—Douglas Taylor. ward affidavits and a written argument, bat ne | Of the Police Department during 1875:—For sala- | 4 that Mr. Samuel A. Lewis will be President of of Aldermen for years, is now to be the Clerk of | has been Clerk of the Board of Assistant Alder- | who bave hitherto been members of the Board of democrats; NEW YORK CITY. Dr. A. B, Crosby, Professor of Anatomy, will de- liver a free lecture to-morrow evening at Cooper Union, on “The .Lungs, Respirauion and Veotila- tion.” The former residents of Ulster, Ireland, In this city will hoid a meeting on Monday week, at No. 109 Worth street, to take steps to organize au Ulster Association. Thomas McMullen, aged sixty years, whose resi- | dence is unknown, dropped dead last evening | whe at work ina sewerin the Boplevard, near Seventy-sixth street, John Fitzgeraid, of No. 113 West Forty-sixth | street, while attempting, last evening, to get on ) the front platiorm of car No. 1 of the sixth avenue | Inne, fell ond tractured his leg. A German, who is known by the name of Lewie, | and fs about fifty-five years of age, fell down a Might o: stairs at No. 104 First street yesterday afternoon and fractured hts skull. | dames Cieere, of No. 219 East Twellith street, | while at work yesterday morning in a sewer in | Eighth avenue and ‘lz4th streei, nad his leg broken | by part 01 an emoankment falling on It, | The oat Owners? Avsociation have elected the following officers:—President, Benjamin T. Green; | Vice President, George W. Penfield; Treasurer, | Michael Morran; Secretary, Alvert D, Ayers. riy yesterday morning Louis Dean, of No. 340 | West Thirty-seventh street, and Louis Daly, of No, | 27 Franklin street, when going to work on pier No, 6 North Riven, were assalied by sowe unknown | men. They were both | Tecelved a scaip wound, While Charles Lindgrist, of 152d street and Mor- ris avenue, was walking on the railroad track in Tremont, yesterday morning, he was struck by Une Harlem express train going soutn and had his left aru vadiy shattered, He was aio otherwise severely Injured about the body, He was sent by the perce of the Tuirty-third precinct to an@ios- pital The Dock Commissioners held their regular weekly meeting yesterday, President Westervelt in the chatr, A resoiution was adopted to the ef | fect that the Board of Heaith ve notified that in the judgment of the Commissioners the disposing of the night soil ot the city by “dumping it into the river from the plers and docks,” as previously sugested, would be very objectionable. A reso- lution was also adopted granting @ lease of tive yeurs ol the terry premises at the foot of Twenty- | third street to Gideon Lee Knapp, at an annual rental of $3,000. Aiter the transaction of some | minor business the meeting adjourned, BROOKLYN, truck With bricks and each Permits were granted in 1874 for 1,236 new build- ings; 971 Were brick and 365 wood. There were 26,863 persons arrested in Brooklyn | during the past year. The number in 1873 was | 25,601. The property lost, stolen or abandoned, recov- ered by the police last year, amounted im the ag- gregate to the value of $155,359, Two thousand four hundred and four excise licenses were granted last year; $144,560 was col- lected by the city trom this source of revenue. During the year 1874 there were 500 jury trials, inquests and dismissals in the City Court: 1,800 Special Term trials, motions and orders; 2 crimi- nal trials and 1 special plea. Coroners Jones and Whitehill, the ex aficio Coro- ners, have held 812 inquests during the twelve months just terminated. Nearly two-thirds of these cases were sudden deaths aud stillbirths, One hundred deaths were irom accidental causes, | There were thirty suicides, torty-flve deaths from drowning apd ten murders and homicides. In the Kings County Court of Sessions there were | during the past year 468 persons arraigned, 324 | tried, 245 convicted, 69 acquitted, in 10 cases the juries disagreed aud in 61 cases nolle prosequies ‘were entered, The principal crimes were burglary, grand larceny, iclonious assault and robbery. The | aggregate period o1 sentences imposed was 483 | years and 18 days; 160 civil causes were algo tried unis Court. LONG ISLAND. The tax recetvers in the several towns of Queens county having received their books from the as- sessors have advertised to sit for the receipt of taxes on Monday next. E. Achemar, a hackmaa, of West Twenty-seventh | street and Seventh avenue, New York, in return- | ing trom Calvary on Wednesday, with a party in 9 coach, fell from his seat and received injuries which it 18 feared will prove fatal. The horses | started of ona run but were caught beivre any further accident occurred, Preparations are being made by Sheriff Sammis, of Queens county, for the execution of the negroes Jarvis and Jackson on the 16th of January, The Sheriff has procured 8 gallows from Sheriff Con- ner, of New York city, which wiil be erected in the jail yard. Jarvis dreads the idea or being hung, and for the past jew days has refused to eat, saying that he intends to starve himsell to death. On Tuesday last Mr. Jeremiah Post, a farmer re- | siding at Kast Meadow, wena to the city with a | load of hay, and on his return stopped at the vik lage of Hempstead,, where he partook of jiquor rather freely, not leaving the village until about eleven o’clock at night, About three o’clock in the morning bis wile, who had become alarmed at | his absence; went out to the barn to see ifhe had Treturned. She found the horses and wagon in,tne yard, the wagor overturued. She immediately | awakened the hired man, and, on further gearch, found Mr, Post’s body lying under the wagon, | With bis neck broken. The wagon was loaded | with slabs, and nad apparently been overturned | by running against a pile of stones. Mr. Post was | forty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and jour children. ‘Mrs. Post will commence suit against the parties who sold her husband the liquor, which | undoubtedly caused his untimely death. | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. | Mlle, Albani sings in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Janu- ary 5, as Ainina in “La Sonnambula,”” | Miss Jennte Hughes sings Elvira in the bur- lesque of “£rnani” at the Globe next week. | “Affia’ will be given this evening at the Academy of Music, with Mile. Maresi in the title role. Miss Kellogg and her English opera company | appear at the Academy this month in Balle’s | posthumous opera, ‘Tho Talisman.” A rehearsal of *’Twixt Axe and Crown” took place yesterday afternoon at the Lyceum Theatre, witn Mrs, Rousby as stage directress, Miss Hoffman and Miss Randal and a large KALARAUA IN. NEW HAVEN, His Reception at the City Hall by Mayor Lewis. Speech by the Royal Visitor—His Entertainment and Departure for New Bedford. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31, 1874. ‘The interest manifested in the anticipated visit of King Kaiakaua culminated in the arrival of the distinguished guest as twenty-iour minutes past twelve by lightuing train from New York, and the hearty reception which was tendered him both by the city authorities and private citizens, Before leaving New York quite a large number of ladtes and gentlemen collected at the Windsor Hotel to see the departure of the royal visitor. ‘The only formal event in connection therewith was the leave taking of the Aldermanic Commit. tee. Aldermen Uilon, Kehr, Koch and Assistant Alderman Brucks were received by His Majesty, who gracefully and courteously made his adiewx and reiterated his expresstons of pleasure and satisfaction with the arrangements of bis visit. At a quarter beiore ten the royal party drove to the Grand Central Depot, where a special palace car was In waiting. His Majesty was acoome panied to the depot by many of hts friends, and shook bands cordially with all before entering the car. Promptly on time the train came into the depot at New Haven, an immense crowd having assem- bled on the platforms to catch the first glimpse of the object of their anticipation. as the King alighted, accompanied by his suite and the com- mittee appointed by the city to receive him, they having entered the palace car in which he rode at Bridgeport, there was a@ general rush, which twenty policemen detalied for special duty were unable to keep back. THE FIRST GLANCE gave the impression of a hearty, heavily built man of rather pleasing appearance. He was immedi- ately conducted to a carriage in waiting and was driven to the City Hall, where there was hardly Jess enthusiasm and curiosity manifested tnan at the depot. The floors commanding a view of the entrance to the Hall were well occupied, and not less than 2,000 people were assembied outside. Police guarded the entrance to the Aldermen’s Champer and the Mayor’s office, where the colla- Uon was spread, THE RECEPTION. The reception took place in the Aldermanic Ubamber, the members of thercity government occupying their accustomed places. Seats for in- vited guests were placed at the left of the Speake, | er’s desk. The space at the right of the desk was reservea for the King and suite. At half-past twelve the King entered, followed by his at- tendants, He was introduced to Mayor Lewis by Alderman Hotchkiss, On greeting the King the Mayor said :— Your Masestr—It affords me much pleasure to wel- come you to this our ancient city and sti!l more anctent selticinent. It pleases me to be the first to welcome you to our homes, he history of. the counections between yours and our country is Very pleasant. it is unneces- Sary for me to mention our many ports whose ves: have found shelter in your ports Your Majesty knows. the common interest which exists between us. Your Majesty, it becomes me to speak our ancestry. On this shore, two and a half centuries ago, a band of Christians met and organized a setuie- ment. The orgauizatiot which exists to-day is the per- etuation of that settlement. That body, which I be- fieve is the most ancient of any of New Engiand, sent forth a body of educators from these shores to your peo- ple. You have sent your sons to our, colleges and Schools, and I :hink that Do disadvantage bas arisen fo. you from the intercourse. May your visit be, when you Teturn to your isle in the ocean, a pleagaut memory. THE KING'S REPLY. The King sata:— Itgives me great pleasnre on this occasion to receive this Feception iu New Haven. | Many of our people have been educated in your city, in Yale College, and now they occupy responkible positions. : At the conclusion of these remarks the King was resented to tue gentlemen assembled by the lay or, and afterward a collation, spread in the Mayor's office, was inauiged in. At this were seated His Majesty and suite, Governor Ingersoll, Chief Justice Allen (brother of Chief of Police Allen, of this cily), Commander Totten and Lieatenants Totten and Parker, Mayor Lewis, Alderman Hotchkiss, Presiaent Wheeler, Judges Bells, Sandford and Foster, Colonel 8. J. Fox, Proiessors Porter aud Lyman, of Yaie College, and members of the city government, press and invited guests. The King partoox o1 the Viande sitting, While the other gentiemen stood around the table. after dinner the King expressed a desire to view the Fire Department, and accordingly an alarm Was struck jor the engimes to assembie in front of the City Hall, where they arrive? ip less than five minutes from the time the alarm was soundeu, and underwent the personal | mspection of the royal party [rom the Mayor's window. The King expressed himself as delighted with what he had seen, From the City Hall the King proceeded actoss carried away by their emotions, and they say and Go things whica to others appear tncongrue ous and quaint. There are but three jeading African Methodist churches in this city—Sullivan street, West Tenth street and St. ‘Thirty-flith strees, near Sixth avenue—in which services were held last night. In the white Methodist churches in Thirty-flith street, near ‘senth avenue; Forty-third street, near Elgnit avenue; Thirty-fourth street, near Kighth avenue: Thirtieth street, between Eighth and Ninth ave- nues; Kighteenth street, near Eighth avenue; Washington square, Bediord street, Jane street and some other west side cnurches Watch Night was observed, It was also observed im Nortolk street, Willett street, Seventh street, Seventeenth street, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-seventh, Filtiech and 119ch streets, on the east side. In Brooklyn services were heid last night in Centenary churcn, Washington street churco, Warren street church, Suinpson church, Fleet street chureh, De Kalb ave- nue church, Greene aveaue, New York avenue and other Methodist Hpiscopal churches, and also in Park avenue Primitive Methodist church. ‘was a very good attendance of people at most of these services. THE PROGRAMME VARIED in many of them. For instance some of them opened at nine o’clock P. M. with a sermon by the pastor or au address by a visiting brother, and at a later hour an address or sermon again, with a “love least” sandwiched inbetween them. In others, again, the love ieast was the starting point, | and then followed @ sermon, a prayer meeting and @ “consecration meeting” to close with, The sac- | rament of the Lord’s Supper was administered in | yet other meetings. This was dove in Greene ave- hue church, Brooklyn, at eleven o'clock, having been preceded by @ sermon and a prayer meeting. It Was done aiso in +Simpson rethoutst Epis- copal church, Clermont avenue, after a sermon by the pastor. In Warren street Methodist Bypis+ copal church the Rev. Thomas Whittaker, of York- | shire, England, delivered an address. He is an eloquent man when he becomes aroused by his | year 1874 the number of fires have been fewer than | » | the previews year, and the average loss of cach | theme. in Fleet street church the Rev. W. C. Steei preached a sermon on Mark’s, in | There | been voted by one Board, and had it not been for the determined action of the Board of As- sistant Aidermen $40,000,000 would not event- | Waly have covered the loss which tue | City treasury would have sustained, The taxpayers and property owners of New York had good reason to be thankiul to the Board of Assist- ant Aldermen for preventing many gigantic frauds being perpetrated on the community, Although the | members of the Board were not now re-clected, | | there was a distinctclause which set iorth that all Officers elected or appointed shonla hold office until their successors were elected or appointed, | Under these circumstances he thought the Board had a periect rigat to reorganize, and if the nem- | bers should not be recognized by the heads of | | departments tuere was ample relief in the courts | of law. | . On the motion of Assistant Alderman Foley the | thanks of the Board were tenderea to Mr. W. nected with the department, A caucus Was subsequently heid, when it was re- | solved to hold a meeting of the Board to-day, aty which Assistant Alderman Healy is to officiate as the presiding officer. FIRES AND LOSSES DURING THE YEAR. An executive segsion of the Board of Fire Com; missioners was held yesterday at their heaaquar- ters, but the nature of the business transacted ments were made. As the year has closed, {t is not out of the way | togive a lew statistics of the operations of the fire fiend and the effort made by the Commis- sioners to combat the same. From the figures hereto attached it willbe seen that during the “THE END BETTER THAN THE BEGINNING."? ‘This was hows OF & love least, the young men of Wa: shington street Methodist Episcopal church, Brookiyn, will hold a prayer | rr. Loses, meeting, at half-past nine o’cock, so that they tied ee abate st $6,428,000 May maxe thew first call upon the Lord, But 873 711,000 this and other Methodist institutions that | 740 4,342,000 have approved themselves by time and | 186 30 2,626,393 Usage have been taken up either as | }Si) § 3 au experiment or a8 4 permanent Nelp | gz. wasnt Gon oo S18 to devotion by other denominations, And hence | - Nps | 22,64) last wight there was a union Watch Night service heid in the Madison square Presbyterian church in this city, in whica the pastors and congregations 0! contiguous churehes united, There was also & kind of praise service held in St. Ano’s Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, for balf an hour ve: ore midnight, when several Handei and Mendelssohn were rendered by the organ and choir, and at twelve o'clock, with the | ripging of the New Year chimes, the cnotr and organ peaied forth Mozart's “Giorta in Excelsix.’ Such wus the character of the Watch Night ser- vices by Which the old year 1874 was buried and the new year 1875 introduced among Method'sts, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, compositions of | Jess than any year shown. The following table shows the number of fires This morning | for the several years, cading November 30, from | 1866 to 18 » inclusive :— sss tee, B383 1,480,946 umber of fires during 1873, ending Decem- | ber 31, were 1,398, involving a gross loss of $2,645,- 795, averaging per fire $1,896 82, During 1874, just expired, the number of fires were 1,410, wiih a | total loss of $1,328,844, or an average per fire of $942 44. During tne month of December, 1872, there were 196 fires; loss, $1,976,682; average loss, $7,009 85. Same period of 1873, 101 fires: loss, $240,425; average loss, $2,380 44. During Decem- der, 1874, 156 fres; total loss, $148,900, or an aver- | age’ of $590 $0, Toix mitter includes the fire at | Ward & Co,’s furniture factory on Christmas Day. | _ Of incendiaries punished there were in 1866, | none; 1867, 14 1868, None; 186 6. 1A70, 32.1 ‘ORONERS—Adolph Kessler, Henry Woltman, | | Richard Croker, Anthony Eickhoit. i | Phat eG py is a Sern Drm. | Rooms,—sheridan Shook and Frank Bixby, “ ” | “COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES AND” Cornro- , ¢ OPera of “Martha, | wron.—Isaac H, Bailey, Edward L. Donnelly and | Mrs. Sophie Beiloron, assisted by Mrs. Dowland | Townsend Cox. - | and Mr. W. F, Mills, gave a piano recital at Stein- | , TAX CoMMISSIONERS.—Johin Whecler, George H. | way Hall yesterday afternoon. Andrews and Severn D. Moulton, POLICR COMMISSIONERS.—George W. Matsell, | Comprised selections from Beethoven, Prudent, ' Abram Daryee, Abram Disvecker aud John R, | Bennett, Schubert, Schumann, Cnopin, Weber chorus, all pupils of Mr, Max Maretzek, wili ap- pear in a week or soat the Academy of Music in The programme | Maloney, the Clerk. and the other attachés con: | has not transpired. Neither removals nor appoint- Gs | Voorn. Boakp OF Heatrn.—Charies F. Chandicr, Ste- hen Smith, Registrar, Elisha Harris; secretary, emmous Clark, | _ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC Works.—George M. Van | Nort and Edward P. Barker. | _ DEPARTMENT OF Docks.—Jacob A. Westervelt, William Budd, Salem H. Wales, EXCISE DEPARTMENT.—James L. Stewart, D. D. | T. Marshall, Wiillam H, Stiner, | DEPARTMENT OF PARKS—Henry G. Stepbi | David B. Wiiliamson, | ving DerartueNt—Joseph L. Perley, Roswell D. | | Hatch, Cornelius Van Cott. Fire Marshal, George Sheldon; Superintendent of Combustibles, Charles | E. Gildersleeve. | ee TO THE CORPORATION—E. Delafield mith. | Ku NCR DEPARTMENT—Andrew H. Green, Comp- | troller; R. A. Storrs, Deputy. | . DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS—Walter W. Adams; Superintendent, Henry lL. Dudiey, | BOARD OF EpUCATION—Cnhaties V. Lewis, Henry P, West, James W. Farr, Andrew J. Matthewson, jam Dowd, Sauuei P, Patterson, Albert Kiam- in, Rovert Hoe, James M. Galstead, Jacob M. | Vermtiye, Kngene Keily, Joun Crosby Brown, Joseph Seligman, William EH. Netlsou, David Wet- mote, Albur P, Man, Ferdinand Iraud, Randoiph |W. Townsend, Rutus G. Beardsiee, Edward 0, Jenkins, Dayid P. Butler. THE STATE OFFICERS. ‘The State oficers are as follows :— Governor—Samuel J, Tliden.* LIBUT#NANT GOVERNOR—William Dogsheimer,* SECRETARY OF STATR—Diedriot Willers, Jr. COMPTROLLER—Neison R. Hopkins. TREASURSR—Thowwas Raines. | ATTORNEY GEN¥RAL—Daniel Pratt. | one ENGINEBR AND SURVEYOK—Sylvanus H. weet. | CANAL Commanerenene-Brdoes W. Stroud? Adin on, IT. ms iS | Thayer,* James Jac | K. Piatt, George Wagner.* | *Blected last November, OF 1874. | The Registrar of Vital Statistics, Dr. Barris, | issued last evening an annual statement, of which | the following are the most important features :— VITAL- STATISTICS iz | Sd | ath at Quar. | Quai | MOMS cece ee 531} 6,452) 8,617) 6,907 | 28,5 Burial periits ‘oi | hy esl ualicred . 73) | uers’ ceruflen (46) 771) 773) 698) 2.7H8 Marriages. | Lars 2,300) 1,046] 2.207|_ 8,307 Burts. SOR) Kame) eats! Aneto Rae STATE PRISON INSPECrORS—Ezra Graves, Moses | fee | Totals | | and Gounod. The recital was an wuccess in an artistic potnt of view. A CHALLENGE TO WESTON, Pees Ys Siar von nearer 763 West LAKE STREET, CHICAGO, Dec. 29, 1874. To Tae Epiror or THe HERALD:— Having perceived by the Eastern journals that Mr. E. P, Weston recently succeeded in bringing to a successful termination the oft-attempted task of walking 500 miles in six consecutive days, a8 a | pedestrian allow me to offer him, through the cot- | umns of your paper, my warmest congratulations | for the grand feat performed, However, it 1s to | be somewhat regretted that none of your Eastern pedestrians (Mr. Weston not excepted) ever seem desirous of walking a match with another, As a eneral thing they walk against time, thus prevent- ing the public from realizing the truthialness of the oid adage that “there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.” more anxious to give honor to those who truly merit it thaw your correspondent; and while I freely admit that Mr. Weston, according to the New | York journais, has accomplished a great feat, 1 | am inclined to think that, in the fleld of pedes- | trianism, he has @ rival. Please do not consider | Ine egotistical when I consider myseli his equal; and in prooi of my assertion | hereby tender a | challenge to Mr. Weston to walk against me at | any place he himself may select, for any sum he | wishes to mention, from $100 to $10,000, and for any distance which he may desire, from 25 to 600 miles, and at such time ag will be most convenient to him, provided said walk takes place beiore the expiration of three months from the above date. , Yours, respectiully, DANIEL O'LEARY, | FIRES YESTERDAY. | A fire occurred yesterday afternoon in the rest dence of Mr. Join Harper, No, 234 Fifth avenue, resulting in the destruction of nearly all the fur- niture. Loss $25,000 on ouliding and contents. Cause, a detective fue. karly yesterday mornin, entire a fire broke out tn the _ | building, No. 205 Franklin street, occupied as a stable by Geary & Walace, and the flames ex- tended to No. 203 and to Nos. 346 and 348 Wasuin, ; ton street, occupied by F. BR. Hains and Kirk -& | Thayer. The tovai losses amounted to $11,000, Shght fires aiso occurred yesterday at 168 East 120th street, occupied oy Robert Blair, and No, 106 Wess Forty-sixth sireet, occued by “owe Van ania, Now, sir, there is 10 one | the Green to that nistoric edifice, Ceutre church, Where @ discourse was delivered by Rev. Di Leonard Bacon, in presence ob vast congregation. ‘The party then visite’ the residence of Professor Lyman, where they remained fifteen minutes, the Mayor introducing them, Autographs were bere given by tne King to several ladies solicinng and photographs were also presented. Miss Lyinan f ibeant the King with a buttonhole bouquet. The residence of Post- master N. D. Sperry was next visited, where a collation with wine was served, Many ladies were present, At half-past three the party took carriages, rove to the depot and took the Shore Line ex- press, via Boston, for New Bedford, and the cere- Monies were at au end. Governor Dominis was taken sick while here and coulda not accompany the party. He remains at the Tontine iotel, Toe King made a favorable impression on those with whom be came in contact, aad his visit wil be pleasantly remembered. THE NAVAJOES AT COOPER INSTI- TUTE. AN ADDRESS BY THEIR AGENT, GOVERNOR ARNY. . The Navajo Indians, at present on a visit East and temporarily sojourning in this city, appeared in a body on the rostrum at Cooper Institute last evening, on the occasion of | agent, ex-Governor Arny, under the auspices of the Indian Peace Commission. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Benjamin Tatuam, | who presented the speaker in a few remarks, GOVERNOR ARNY’S ADDRESS. ‘rhe Governor depicted the efforts which hav@ been made for the civilization, Christiauizing and | making self-sustaining the Indians of the United Staves, and referred to tue treatment which they have received on this Continent, drawing tre argue ment that justice now demanded that an effort should be made to educate and civilize them, and | 80 prevent the extunction to which they seemed, | im their present condition, doomed. THE NAVAJO INDIANS, Whose Chiefs are here to-night, are a tribe inbabit- ing a district of country in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona lying between the Sam Juan River on the North, the Pueblo of Zuni on the South, the Seven Mogan Villages on tne West and the ridge oj land dividing the waters which flow into the Atlantic and Pacific respectively. They represenc the nomadic branch of the Aztec race, and, like the atriarchs of oid, have their Many wives, their | Rocks and their herds. They hve in houses | built of logs, and when @ member of & family dies they tear the house down over | the dead, burn the pile and remove elsewhere | The nomadic Navajoes when discovered by Nunez Cabezu de Boca, a follower of Cortez, were en- gaged in the manuiacture of Diankets and other © articies of woolen, such as they make to-day. He concluaed by stating the object of the indians’ visit Kast to be tuat they might Witness the ex- tent of the population, the manufactures and schools and sv be impressed With the advantages Of maintaining peace, At the conclusion of the Governor's address, | and at bis suggestion, the Caiel Manueleto ad- dressed the audience 1 bis native tongue, which was aiterward interpreted by the Ageat. He thanked the audience for the interest waniies' in them and hoped the white people would join with them in preserving the peace. He closed by a Cee ne ee allusion to the ladies in the audience, SKATING AT THE PARK. The only people who were pleased with the bitver cold weather that prevailed yesterday were | snose who wished to skate, All of tiie punds at the Park were alive with young and old, | who, shod with steel, enjoyed the . sport | to their neart’s content. The ice was im excellent condition, bat the number of. skaters Was not as large as on Weanesday. 1 | the assemblage on the lake at times numbel 1,500 or more, giving everybody room to skate as | they liked, without fear of collision. It was @ crowd who iuily appreciated the occasion and thoroughly eujoyed it, A’ has been the case at all times, good humor Kindly feelin; marked the day, a8 really they do at mos gatherings of the kind, Lack of good nature on & skating pond could nos be endured, Alter night fall the ponds were iighted up as usual and the | lun progressed until eloven o'clock with Of. At that time the ligats Went Out and che skaters went home, address vy their * pcan ny