The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1876, Page 3

CITY REAL ESTATE FUR 4ALE, Central. PINE FOUR STORY BROWN STONE TWENTY AL, fet tionns for sen ‘Séth st., close to Sth av.; also a ilar House in st. and in 46th at.. just west of the nue; also No. 27 West 45th st., with two back Fane, up arredueed price. Apply «0 HM LUDLOW £0. STOKY HIGH STOOP BROWN STONE A Bene ote 500; Sth st.. near pexin gees ILLER, Vey St, near 4th av., av. $11,500. GREGUK eM (nh a ee aay TH AV., 14TH ST.-A LARGE LOT AND BUILDING, Giese wits (eth fos ta teas neetinn ote ae serv, if deni ved, for pie jow and on ensy terme; very suit le {or or furniture man eer spaea ufacturer. Apply to IN, No. 1 Pine st. $25.00 WILL BUY S8TH ST. CORNER HOGSE; cost $40,000 within two years. PAUL P. TOOD, 55 Libegty st. East Side. FOUR STORY HIGH STOOP BRICK HOUSE, 11TH | t.. near 3d ay. ; ni i ; good order; good block. W. H. FALCONER, oodun av t b A BROADWAY STORE FOR SALE— Post office, first class, extra sized lot, wit! Sheap, cush oF easy Lermns? possession at once, Home RGA. jo. 2 Pine st. OR SALE-SMALL PRIVATE HOUSE, ON EAST Hath st; exectient location; modern improvements: ice $6,000; part cash offer wanted. Apply at No. 2,567 3d wo owner, OR SALE—HOUSE NO. 1 EAST with two story ext mn, 18: Nesign, material and workmanship. EAR THE two fronts; BaD ST, 25X65, has no superior in ‘Apply ov premises. West Side. OR SALE OR TO TO LET—24 AND 28 WEST 5SéTIL «st. very desirable, Inquire on the premises, r PLEX DID HOVER AND THREE LOTs, STH AV., AT eee a oy STEVENSON, Jr., No. 4 Pine st. WESTCHESTER INTY PROPERTY FOR AND TO RENT. Orr. AG, | WITH MODERN IMt- ddress JAMES L, PAR- T TARRYTOWN, ON HUDSON, ONE HOUR FROM Asis: to let, furnished, a "ge. House, 30 rooms, for ders or institute; also Cottages for sale sad to let. 8. EMBERSON, 659 Gth ay, criry FOR NE PROPERTY OUT OF THE SALE OR TO GREAT SACRIFICE.—POR SAL) Farm, 72 acres rich land, very productive, situated ou the banksot a clear flowing river, miles from Delaware Water Gap, 1 mile from Strondsburg; large mansion (12 rooms), two immense baros; large, commodious outbuild- ings; good, cool springs; handsome fruit and shade trees, ponvenient churches (all denominations), yerfectly healthy, no and ague ; price only 94.500; terms, $1 500 ddress W. J. THOMPSON, Bass . Balance $500 yearly. Birondsbure, Pa MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY SEAT ON EAST BANK of the Hudson, north of Poughkeepsie, 80 acres; im- monse Say ed fruit; brick Mansion, Cottage, numerous putbuildings ; large river fr docks, icehouse ; unequalled miver and monntain views & sacrifice; phi guy oltice. “HOPKINS " UARRINGTON, ographs at No. 1 Bast NORMOUS SACRIFICE! MUST BE SOLD WITHIN ten days!—Beautifial bana, 40 ser, splendid build- ings: house elegantly furnished; Horses, Cows, Poultry, Carriages, & thing very choice and complete; seven ik to railroad station nd iurge town ; trains ron (buildings, Philadelphia, in’one hous rything, only $12,000; 0: ,000 years.’ Take 9 A.M. train from for ew York, to Bethlehem, Pa.: there take the North Pennsylvania Railroad to Quakerstown, Bucks county, Pa,; arrive at 1 o'elock, ean return ato P.M. Inquire ab ion, for O. A. Miller's Hotel, opposite Quakertow WALKER. “oes sALE-IN NUWAE Foe RK, N. J. UE and Fixtares of tne Broad’ Street Railroad Depot Res- taurant, Oy iter Bar and Lunch Counter, in excelleut cou. dition, doing a paying business ; trains to New York, foot of Liberty streot: Long Branch and Phy tall at 840 road street, ‘The proprietor will give satislactory reasons for selling. OR SALE ON EASY TERMS—BUILDING SITES and Water Fronts for factories, on Steinway & Sons? roperty, Astoria: also Lots fram $350 to $500, and finished Frame aud brick Houses, from $2,500 upward: also Dwelling Houses und Parts of Houses to let. Steinway & Sons’ saw- mill, iron foundrics, metal aud wood carving works, con- ected by private telecraph, per cable aeross the East River, with thelr New York tactory, Hil, fil way Hail, 141 E Waish’s bat, Bteinway's large piano factor removed to the prem fsx, ax also other large industrial establi from the Long Island City Works has just been int and an excellent English-German school opened; the now horse railroad from Astoria ferry leads directly to the Stein- way property, # distance of but 134 miles. Send for circular with description mans of Pr prery:. INWAY & SUNS, 1ith st., New York, 60 ACRES SE, STOCK po ile perfect; easy payments; only by March 10; worth double the amount. -E. Patchogue, Long island, N. ¥. \LL HOUSE IN RATIWAY R SA, Brick Yards on Long Island and one tor location Huntington Bay: qan ship all winter to the city or Nery reasonable as to price and ter: S K BON, Clarks Ro © HANDSOME ¢ rs, Beoud st fork junetion; ten minutes trom ¢ fourteen larze rooms each; only $2 N. STEVENS, below Tioga st:, SNOR RENT-VERY DESIRABLE FU tage at Cape Muy, fronting ocean. Apply « ©.S, BROWN, No. 90. Broadway, New York, or C. H. & H. PMU. D, No. 205 1 Philadelphia. 000 WILL OF A PHILADEL house, netween two principal theatres, suitable for mousic hall or summer garden; best location in the city, S21 ‘Waluut st., Philadelphia. : 10 LET—25 ACRES, WITH GOOD 12 ROC pleasently situated, 134 miles from Stam! : HUBBAR. 1 LET OR LEASE—PARTI ISHED, Le isude Honse, Englewood, % J.: fourteen’ miles from New York, one block frown depot. Addross J. L. 8., box 23 Post office, Closter, N. J at Perth Amboy, N.J., can now be Jeased on iavorable terms; this hotel is large and in good order, the grounds are ample; there is sea bathing, and also frequent communication with New York by rail and steam- Boat; the station of the Long Branch Railroad iy near the house. For further particulars apply to HORACE 8. ELY, No. 22 Pine et., New York. INTER HOTEL FOR SALE. In consequence of the death of one of the proprictors the Hamilton H and doing a good ‘otel, Bermuda Islands, splendidly iocated business, will be sold at a reasonable price. y to LUNT BROS,, 28 South st., or A. 30 ACRES FOR SALE, OR TO LET UNTIL SOLD, three miles across 42d st. for able for gardeners, milkmen, pasturmg or public resort. | 159 Bowery. Se : = REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGE. — E—A VALUABLE FARM OR SALE OR EXCHA miles above Atlanta, Ga; land of good willtake cheap whiskey: no incom. DAVID SIMPSON, 78 Nassau st, in Jersey ; delivisttul e E. BOOKHOUT oor, LAINFIELD HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE exchange—Houses, furnished or unfarnished, to let. Address EVAN JONES, Piuintield, N. J TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES Dae BUILDING, Fire Proot, Located on Nassao, Ann and First Floor to let, suitable for bunkers, insu’ lawyers. | Will be let tozether or in parts: be altered to agit tenants If desired ; adapted for wttices or stores, Reasonable rents. Also some eligible Law Offices to let APPLY ON THE PREMISES, ‘Take the Elevator, Inquire for Janitor. LARGE STORE AND CELLAR, 185 Spring st., near Sonth Sth av. ; rent, $900; lofts, $27 to per 1 305 Broome st, ROADWAY i ET—RETWEES il AND. 19th sts., large and very desirable. Apply, before 9 A. . or after SP. M., to T. N. HOLLISTER, 15 st 35th st, ROADWAY, NO, 28,—STORE, BASEM Lofts to let. “Apply on premises, to JOHN ROADWAY LOFTS.—TO RENT. Lofts, 473 Broadway, near Grand st, Tent; possession. HBAPEST RENT T ing GOx100), on 14th Rarniture, peat any + good order; low M 00 Hudson’ st, THE CITY.—LARGE BUILD- . near Broadway, suitable for large business, ENCER DOTY !nion square, OR RENT OR LEASE—ENTIRE BUILDING, NORTH. east corner th av. and 12th st.; to oue tenact, Apply at 12 West veh st. PFICES TO LET—IN THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK Building, corner of Bowery and Grand st, a very ad- ‘antageous igcation tor lawyers, tute, insurance, &e, Apply at the Oriental Bi QTEAM POWER TO I 20x30: X100 FEET AN y well lighted and heated. . River st., Hoboken. 0) , 273 GREENWICH ST.. TO LET. eS bear locations for business: is. es a cigar store. inquire of JOUN B. WE! wich st, RUNG IER Satis hath BIA ET—THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TORE TO at beh wr. the ben wore for every tusiners; Bo objection to a first class liquor store. Inquire at SI9 Sth ~~. PLEN TO RENT ON S$ Mew Port ofice;, 185 feet deep and hoist A bad. NE OF adapted 'l Green- BE BT. ne light tate it, Broadway, corner 4th st Ts, LET—WITH OR WITHOUT POWER, FOUR LOFTS, 25x90, in building 151 Crosby st. Apply on premises. xp LET—VERY CHEAP, TWO FLOORS, 25X100 AND T 0x50, with steam power. Apply at Progress Machine forks, 57, yand et Lewis ot tial LET—A WHOLE BUILDING, OR IN LOFTS, T with or without ; steam hoist and floors with steam. Apply of 419 and 415 East th st. Te LET—WITH STEAM POWER, THE WHOLE OR any part of n Bulle ones) well Nstited. Inquire on nere._____ JOHN MoCLAVE 10h av. and 23d ot PEt WITH STEAM, POWER, TWO FLOORS, 60x m Inquire on pt ‘id 22 t,_ 6 cach; well TORN decays. ith ipo Let—cTORE AND pA mavens tee ooutkratnen => * 0 OR PART OF BUILDING No ity, i TY Bear wae STORY BUILDING, 421 EAST 1th a . LRASE—PREMI: ‘TH AV., WEST SIDE, near sd fic a Went Sadak . US4kh av., hear 12th st, | “MAGNIFICENT | om city; terms easy. Inquire of J. lath st. E OF THREE OF THE BEST STRAM THEEE UPPER | N je entrance | 0 } LET—THE STORE AND DWELLING 3 | 3 ness stand: also Store and Apartments CF he i THORNTON, A NobWasy Real Es: TO LET FOR STORY BUILDING, CORNER GREENWICH AW Reade sts.—The buitding except the part occu- Eas ee App ioR L & A. RYCALE, 189 Chambers st. ge SALES AT AUCTION. To LEASE—co! BUILDING, @4 MAIDEN LANE UCTION SALE OF LARGE STOCK OF GROCERIES, and 80 and 82 Joouing teenage to Tdberty A ee ae Horse, 0 and Harness, by »D, DOLE & MURPHY, 37) Fulton st., Brook’; M . a own to dW 43 New st. olllce ‘No. 1), 12 10 2 MOREY. ton iyu, on Monday, D Hadar 8 SCHENCK, AUCTIONEER. ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, the giver? residence at NO. 36 T. 8 ON WEDAHADAY, 18Fl1, AF 10%; O'CLOCK. Tobe wen ga Monday and Huesday. 6 i Furnished, —FURNISHED HOUSES A. tons. Vv. K. No. 4 Pine st, and 33 East 17 DWELLING HOUSES TO LET, AT SPACIAL REDUC- . STEVENSON, Jr. th st. y permit oniy, to be obained from the Auctioneer, No. GO Liberty st. RECLOSURE SALE—BY MUTUAL LIFE INSUR- ance Company, of very valuable Property on Railroad ay. aud 4th st., Morrisania, and near the depot, by H. N. CAMP, Auctioneer, at Merchant's Exchange, ou 15th day of 770 LET—A BOARDING HOUSE, CONTAINING 33 pposite London terrace, 4 fy place, corner ith st. 4 SPLENDID THREE STORY excellent order, to let to'a res} HIGH STOOP | brown stone House, $11 West 50th #t., trescoed and in nsible tenant; rent reason- Febrnury, 179 fe ments, on Railroad ay, by 280, with improve rooms, mostly furnished; 300 feet’ from a Inke; good COLTON, AUCTIONEER: fishing and boating; 60 miles from the elty of New York. | A, GOuVON, AUT a y . y. February 15, at the auction rooms 53 pes wee narcie at SOOEWS, 1 sohe Tuesday, | Bast 1th st., near Broadway, un immense amount of go en See 5 oe new and second hand Furniture, Carpets, Mirrors, Pian 10 LET—A NICELY FURNISHED 4 STORY FULL | &¢.. from two | rBe dwellings aud from a storehouse, em- Teh Gonam, 1s somes, 304 tes nore, Oe ‘to private | bracing cvery and description of goods Details on fuimily ; #925, ' Ada 5 Tuesday morning, with eatalogues, BROO| HOLBROOK 0 RENT—HOUSES, PURNISHE. TNPU (2onGE Hon AUCTIONEE! nished, wt greatly reduced rates AR snl fale | G & ROLLINS seli thls day, at 2 o'clock, at the old or May 1 next. JAMES RB. EDWARDS, stand, 454 and 456 Canal st, a genteel assortment of ‘No. 108 West 28d et. Household Furniture. Carpets, Bedding, Crockery, Glass over *Moir's.”” and Plated Ware, Kitchea Utensils, Billiard Table, Sewing Machine, Hotel Mangle, Canned je. Unfurnished. yeaa. WOLF ADOTION ERS: MYERS Ca Watts ‘! 3, cAY ‘ebruary 14, at 10's o'clock, the entire Meee SOR Catv Stock and Fixtures of a first class Liquor Store, No, G19 Grand st, near ferry; rent only $25 a month, . TRAVER, AUC’ Monday, 14th, ut 1034 d Carpets of four story Purlor suits, Centro ‘tabi rivate residence, 27 Amity st, s, Mantel und ' other Mirrors, Clocks, Ornainents, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Lace Our: tains, Shades, Brussels and other Gdrpets, Vilcloths, walnut and cottage Chamber Suits, Dressing Bureaus, Washstands, cant. REGOR & MILLER, 34 corner 50th able. Apply. between 11 and 3, on premises. | A “UNFURNISHED” HOUSES AT SPECIAL RE- } fh. ductions, V. K. STEVENSON, Jr. No. 4 Pine st, and 38 Eust 17th st. $1,250; three story high stoop comer Bedsteads, Lounges, Tables, Chairs, Matt ‘illows, Bedding, kitchen Purnituro, Crockery, éc.; wlso one ‘ull cabinet Wheeler & Wilson's improved sewing machine, new, in perfect order, ADIES’ ELEGANT FRENCH BOOTS AT AUCTION. DANIEL H. BURDETT, Auctioneer. By banat DENNIS, store 29 Burling slip, ONDA EXQUISITE HOUSE NE ie per month; | Herald offi } LEVEN-ROOM HOUSE—GAS, BATH, HEATER, minutes from Liberty st. ferry; best location; reat $50 gratisio May 1 next.’ Address C., box 130, NLY $100 PER MONTH, | House, 27 Amity st., now quire, 42 West Sd st. POSSESSION IMMEDI- ately, the handsome four story English basement West 3d st.; all the modern im- ments, complete order; will be let for business if : Furniture sold this morning at auction. Apply at R RESERVOIR PARK, 1,500; Furniture, $2,000, Apply to A. DATLEY, Six ro LET—A FOUR STORY BROW ‘37th st., betwoen Sth and 6th avs, ald office. STONE HOUSE IN Address D, M., Her- hraary 14, i | within our store, by order Oliver Fiske, Hsq., United States Marshal, $46 pairs ladies’ elegant’ French Boots, of kid, morocco, satin, calf, &e.; also gentlemen's Slippers, infant's Shoes, &e., seized for violation of revenue laws, SALE.—BY VIRTUE OF A CHATTEL ‘age I will sell at public auction, on Monday, February 14, 1876, at 10 o'clock A, M., at No. 850 6th av., coruer of 48th Ii the Fixtures of & first class Butcher's ndope Hand Cart, one Horse, Harness and Covered . JOSEPH L. CONTRELL, City Marshal and At- torney for Mortgagee. ORTGAGE SAL. ETER BOWE, will sell this day, at 11 e’clock, at the yersity place and Sth si, 1 Double Track, 2 H Double Harness, By order of Attorney tor J Ea AUCTIONE! 164 8 JOHN D. WENDEL, 7y Maiden | AV. D.—COSERY THREE STORY DWELLING TO e. | FURNISHED ROOMS AND APARTMENTS TO LET. ORTGA! SALE.—R. FIELD, AU Salesroom No. 89 Bowery, will sell this da; O'clock, at 833 Sth av..a lot of Furniture, Chairs, 14 Bedstends, Red, Bedding, Cooking Utensils, &c. iby order ofJohn M : tor Mortgagee. & 00. WILL SELL THIS A. —LARGE AND SMALL ROOMS, COMFORTABLY furnished, ior gentlemen; fine view of the square. lock, at 17 Bowery, black walnut Bar and Back Bar, Tables, Chairs, ware, ge. JACOB L. 12 ARCUS, Attorney for Mortgazee. f ABLE SECC ZA. nished, for housekeeping; all improvement: 14 West 13th st. Parlor, FLOOR TO LET—FUR. | also front NUSSBAUM, AUCTIONEER, 261 BOWERY— Sells this day, at 11 o'clock, at ‘No. 1,002 3d av., near t., Stock and Fixtures of Fancy an Hosiery, Notions, childr | LARGE COMFORTABLY FURNISHED RoC Counters, Fixtures, &c., In lots if suitable for two gentlemen, without board. 324 West 261 BOWERY, | Bist «1 a gui is Thompson st., cor” | HANDSOME, FURNISHED BACK PARLOR TO | jyster_ and Figh Mar- spbitenes cosy nee Young men; cheap rent to acceptable | * &e, Deulers invited. I pay | party. 251 West 37th st. VNBROR EIS SALE JAMES AGAR. AUCTIO | JURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED FLATS AND nF. Wau sell skin Gay, 68 Op: Now. Gowers, 806: 2 | Oliver st,, 500 lots of men’s and women’s Clothing, Rem- i Dai Tarnished Rooms to let by the week.or month. | ints, Underclothes, Sheets, Spreads, Coats, Pantaloons, } = SROSPARES ENS We Reena Vests, Boots, Gaiters and other seasouable goods, By order | [XA PRIVATE FAMILYTA NICELY FURNISHED | of D. 0. Ferguson, Broome st. | oor, complete, for housekeeping or single gentlemen; : 7 “ i ed. 102 Weate [0th st. first house west of | ADE--WATORES " ABD SEW references require 6th aw uctionver, Salesroom No. 89 Bow- 15, at elry.—R. F isellon Tuesday, February N*fentiomen minutes’ walk of Fulton ferry, QPLENDID SECOND ¥LOO b st. FURNISHE! iF together, tor housekeeping or gentle: all conveniences; rent moderate, reference, LY FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET, TO SINGLE at 71 Poplar st., Brooklyn, within five | ery, will 11 o'clock, 600 lots gold and silver Watches, Diamond and gold Jewelry, Guns, Pistols, Musical Instruments, &c. By order R. Simap: son & Co,. 185 Bowery. Rrcuar . | Auctioneers, Salesroom 27 East Broadway. Mortgage and legil sules a specialty. Mortzages fore- closed, qvods taken on storage and cash advanced. Estab- FURNISHED ROOM, FOR T° LET- only. West &th st. | $4 & flichis | wlwo sleeping Rooms, $1 25. 318 East 14th st. day. LY.—LARGE FRONT GENTLEMEN No. 2 Neilson place, between Waverley place aud ROOM, THRER up, furnished for housekeeping or otherwise ; Seen Sun- $6 5 ing and bed room and kitchen: —PART FRENCH PLAT, FURNISHED; SIT- all_improve- lished 20 years, CHARLES F, WALTERS, RICHARD M. WALTERS. Bulletin of sales, SheriMs sale Monday, at 10 o'clock, at sal Broadway, stock of gentlemen's furnishing sortment of Collars, Culla, Shirt Jewelry, scase, Lc. wM. ATRICR CAMPBELL, Deputy. Absolute sule, for account of whom it may concern, and to pay storage and advances, Vhecler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs and Bleos’ room, 27 Fest pods, large as es, Suspenders, NER, Sheriff, | ments; closst, bath, gas; additional bedroom if needed. | 1083 56th etween Lexington ani 4th avs, | 257 WEST, 24TH St_—FURNISHED, ONE LARGE | ZOE trout Room, $5 pet week; suitable for light house- | keeping or single gentlen 1S a reference. ze per week, 10 Hen Ts tO LET, - ~ . VERY CONV small famil, order. No. 139 sullivan st. | ‘A THIRD FLOOR 70 v Apply 1ED, TO A | ENIENT FLOOR TO LET—TO A hree families in the house: complete | URN ED GOMPORTA hree sunny front Rooms small fuinily; house aud “ROOMS AND APART Will sell on Monday, at 104 o'ch Broadway, four new Wheoler & Singer's Family, three Singer and | three Willcox &'Gibbs, Bloes and Woed’s Sewing Machines; three new cenring and | all new and in perfect ru: Marshal's sale Groce ‘lour, Spices, canned Goods. ‘Will set! on Monduy, at 11 o'clock, ut salesroom, 27 East — | Broadway, Stock and Fixtures of a first class Grocery Store, vis. :—25 Varrels choice Family Flour, 25 boxes boxes arch, Vermic canned Pea ‘Tor &c.; Buiter, Cheese, Sardine Trowt, sup, Sweet Oil, irish’ Ontmeal, Extracts, black, creen ahd mixed Teas, Coffee, Spices, Jelly, Prunes, Sauces, &e., de. LOUIS LEUBUSCHE. LEY IN 824 WEST next door. STH BT. APPLY iD FRENCH closet and bath; all conv advantages. ton and 4th avs e8 3 FLAT, SIX ROOMS, fine lo. 103 S6ih st., between Lexing- | small family of adults, on the premises, 271 | QHERIFE'S SALE OF HORSES, TRU a |S, ERM w. i's Al ils Monday, Feb “6 OR TTR 8. ity a 's Anctioneer, sells Monday, Feb- 10 ROOMS BACH: ALL IM- | sugry 14, at 11 o'clock, at Nos. 98 and 100 Norfolk st., six m heaters; fine location; low remts | Frorsey und single Trucks and one double truck, Harness, Ac. also al the right, title and interest which Albert Ly Torrey had on the 27th of November, 1875, or at any time in and to a lot of Machinery ANTED—FIVE OR SIX ROOMS, | bath, &ec. ; below 2uth st. ; rent about H. T., box 1,914 Post office. HOUSES, ROOMS, &C., WANTED. In this City and Brooklyn. | UNFURNISHED, i $25, Address W. afterward, consisting of Steam Engine and Boiler, about 6) horse power; one "s Patent Segment Saw. two Schauck's Planers, three cut Sqws, threo Rip , Shaftiog, Belting, &c. Sale positive, 0 WILLIAM G. CONNER, Sheriff, — | Janes H. Surtus, Deputy. JHERIFP’S SALE OF SAFE, DESKS, OFFICE FUR niture, te,—S. HERMAN, Sheriffs Auctioneer, sells February 14. at 11 o'clock, at No. 13 Bowery, one fonda; Sufe, Desks, Office Furniture, de Sal WILLIAM C. Cuaxtes EB. Simms, Deputy. QHER: SALE_OF HATS, CAPS, OFFICE FURNI- nitive. BONNER, Sheriff. SALES AT AUCTION, 120 West 28d st., ni niture, rare and vostl $45,000 worth Housebold Good: Needbam Organ, eight stops. 2 brilliant toned F | Ssuperb satin Parlor Suits, legant rosewood Etagerce. jegant Muntel de choice bronze Figures. pieces of Parian Statuary. 15 windows’ Lace Curtains. 25 Brussels and ingrain Carpets, % fine Oil Paintings, best artists. legant Cabinets. legant Library Bookcases, + 4elegant Library Table adios Secretarios aud s ci Bookease combined. t ee Turkish st sic Boxes, best Paris makers 12 elegant Bedroom Suits, complet 24 curied hair and spring Mattresses. 24 Pillows and Bolsters, elegant black walnut Rockers, 24 Bedroom Chairs to mateh. 8 black waluat Lonuges, Gelecent Bedroom and Parlor Clocks. oruitt black walnut Buflets, uper® Extension Tables, bidek wainut Dining Chairs, 2 china Dinner and Tea Sets. Custors, Urns, Pitchers, Forks, Knivos, Spoots, Glassware, &¢, RT! NOW oN EXHIBITION, AKT! PERB PALNTINGS, UCTION SALE THIS DAY.—LARGE AND PEREMP- tory salo this (Monday) morning, commencing at 10 v'cioek, at the elegant five store brown stone mansion No, ar 6th av. Magaiticent Household Fur- Works of Art, comprising in all over | , by Catalogue; very elegant ‘ianofortes, Steinway and Windsor, Comprising the latest and best examples of Worthington, Whictradge, J. Beaufatn Irving, George fl. Hall, J. G. Brown | William Hart, M. F. Hode Mans, J. F. Cropsey, Edwar Moran, J. M. Hart, J. W, © yr, A. F. Bellows, P. P. | Ryder, BW. Perry, 1.1L. Smith, W.'L. Sonntag and many other eminent | MERICAN MASTERS. | | The enti ction at MATHEWS* LLBRY, ND 49 LIBERTY S8T., WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, Feb. 16 and 17, at 12 o'clock. DANIEL A, MATHEWS, Auctioneer. are, Safe, &c.—8, HERMAN, Sheriif’s Auctioneer, sells ay, February 15, at 11 o'clock, No. 130 South Sth large assortinent of Hats, Caps, Hatters’ Blocks, jals, &c. ; also Office Furniture, Safe. &e. Sale positive. WILLIAM C, CONNER, Sheriff. uty. GAFFNEY & SMITH, AUCTIONEERS, OF” Centre st., sell this day, at 10 o'clock, the Lease; HOMAS fice 17 + Stock and Fixtures’ of the first’ class Laundry corner of | Bleecker and Macdongal sts. Sale positive. HOMAS GAFPNEY & SMITH, AUCTIONEBRS, OF" fice 17 Centre st., sell this day, at 1 o'clock, the Lease: Stock and Fixtures of the Liqnor’ Store 132 West 19th st Bule positive, in one or more lots. " _ BILLIARDS, “AMERICAN STANDARD BEVEL BILLIARD TABLES, with Delaney’s wire custiions, sololy used iu all cham Ec a ship and match gn secoud hand Tables at great rains, W. H. GRIFFITH & ©O., 40 Vesoy st. Q(QOLLENDER'S STANDARD AMERICAN BEVE ; / Billiard Tabies, with the celebrated Phelan & Collender combination cashions, for sale in this city only at 733 Broad- way. NREAT INDUCEMENTS IN W AND SECOND hand Billiard Tab endless variety: lowest prices. Cail and be convinced. L. DECKER & CO., er of Canal and Centre sts. ort DENTISTR H MADE IN THREB HOURS AT 123 st., between Gth and 7th avs., near Broad A. SET OF TE West 34 Also basernent and servant’ Purnitare, new four mont! + ; " | gAuntar eee te inesitanee telnet io cosas ee Special mechanical dentistry; coral, rubber, rose | foritive, romardlese of weather. LUKE FITZORRALD, | pecth whalebono rubber, cold and latina Sots; Plumpers, | Auctionver. "N, B.—Competent meu to pack and ship goods | gShiiatorn fe. Fake ere way ea ore city or intry. NEWBROUGH, 128 West sath st. BEAUTI | | { | ‘WHITE, DENTIST, 155 6TH AV, vets of Tooth, $0, $4 and $10; silver Giling All work warranted. Upe QTEWART'S SLATE, MARBLE AND WOOD MANT! onday) MORNING, at at five story brawa stone mansion, No. 47 West 16th st., betwi Elegant cabinet m Dr. B. K, Martin, consisting of Brouge Statuary, Paintings &c. 74 octave Pianoforte, Chickering 74s octave Piano, Yarlor and Drawing Room Suits, in erimson, oende” aud satin; Turkish Lounges, Figures, Clocks, Mirrors, Curtains, Bookcases, Desks, | Liveary Tables, Turkish Suite | laid Bocgieads, Dressigg C | steads, Bureaus, 37 Bair and spring Mattre: | Blank huireloth Suits, cane Chairs, Roel Exten Buffet, Chairs in leather, Sil Crockery, Hail Stand, 30 Carpets, Kitchen Farniture, €e. Sale positive. Take 6th ay. cars. AUCTION, _ OTTON. ‘$10,000 worth of m: Pianoforte, Bronx Oli Paintings, & ivi N.—LARGE AUCTION SALE— 10 o'clock, ©, h and Oth ave, ade Household Furniture, property of and blue ny Chairs, d Console Tables, Etageres, French Mantel Sets, Goods packed if required. ROBERT ©. CASHIN, Auctioneer. AUCT! ‘ON agnificent Household Furnitare, a ‘New aud ele wnt deat ns, from $10 up. The trade liver- ani 284 > ally dealt with. 22 West LEGAL NOTICES. TOTICK,—ISAREL STEWART, OR ROMANS, ter of the late William Stowart, Farmer Corstorpbine Bank, near Edinburgh, and widow of the tate Arcbibald Stewart, who holds i part ate, hieh she and her childs THE REFEREE RING. To Tue Eprtoror rae Hrrauo:— I very mach approve of the suggestion of “Attorney” | in the Herat of Sunday last—viz., that the Legisia- ture should pass an act that in any court of this State b Stel Gates hear’ haway. a Hy co Scounstiug | the Justice theregf should appoint as referee or receiver Partin Hedtane Skits Bed: | Be Person the attorneys of the parties should agree jareaus, Bookcases, Desks, Wardrobes, Wash- | upon in writing. When the plaintiff and defendant are eee Eee Zak kncticneer | Fepresented, and in cases ex parte, or where default has | A robes, Vaves, Clocks, Sidepoard, Extension Tab Glass, China and Silver Ware, Cutie Carpet. Sale positive. —LARGE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE SALE THIS + (Monday) morning, at 1036 o'clock; all the Furniture, Carpets, Pinnoforte, Paintings of 19 rooms, at the largo p residence 105 East 13th st, two doors from 4th a | velvet, ingrain Carpets; handsome Parlor Suit satin brocade, tep and haircloth; Ee Tables, | rors, Curtains, 19 Chamber Suits, b t Bedsteads, Bureaus, ‘ases, Turkish Chi airs, 200 lots Onot im. oo ga Stair . re SULTOSERAEMER, Auctioneer, —TUNIS JOHNSON, AUCTIONEE A. oid stand, 37 Nassau - On WEDNESDAY, at 1016 o'clock, beg sale of Household Particnlarsin time. D. Wapapsix Ce) a jurniture. its in M been taken and only the plaintiff is represented, then for the plaintiff's attorney to submit in writing a num- ber of names of members in good standing, from which the appointment sbould be made; and ou failure to do as provided the Court to appoint, T think there should be a section of the act disquali- fying any office-hoider from acting as referee or re- ceiver. They owe their time to the public, and tho employment of their time should be tw the public, They should not be saddled with the duties of referees to the neglect of the public interests, Sugh an act would {ree those of the judiciary who owe their eleva- tion to some political autocrat who claims the right to use them to reward some of their small ward partisan tools, READER. A HUMAN HAND FOUND. Cutlery, Yesterday afternoon, while a Jad by the name of IC teak James Bond, of No, 43 Van Brunt strect, Brooklyn, at salesroom ne Peete ser ‘was at play in the yard of vacant house corner of Wol- ae pea tHO We REBLER, Racivan cott and Van Brunt street, he found ina pile of dirt, iATTEL MORTGAGE SALE. VIRTUE OF A C/ scocacmhrrmeeaaetd Pies Mean | Cinna ery dccpltal ata tie gn October 1, 1875, 1 RICH. Vu AENETT, Auction: tigation it was found that Dr. Harcourt, residing in yen ery [Patnanlmidh if Van Brunt street, had lived In the house, A Comparison of the Winters of the Past Ten Years. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. Voleanic Disturbance Followed By a Warm Winter. ‘The extraordinary mildness of our winter season is creating considerable discussion in scientific circles, and the oracular opinions of “the oldest inhabitants’ are being quoted on every side as evidences that we are now experiencing one of those exceptional seasons which go on record as time marks in men’s lives, We are familiar with the cold Mondays and the warm Wednesdays whence people date the progress of events, just as the stock brokers of Wall street refer to the black Fridays that witnessed unexampled financial convulsions that brought wealth or ruin to prominent operators, Indeed, when compared with past experi- ences it, is difficult to believe that we are passing throngh that season with which we have been accus- tomed to associate the fierce, piting northwesters that freeze the very marrow in our bones, and the blinding snow storms which blot out the landscapes and blockade the streets and avenues of our northern cities with adamantine accumulations of frozen snow, mud and garbage, such as only the street railr@ad track cleaners and the equally industrious cohorts of the Street Cleaning Bureau know how to pile up along the sidewalks, mon- uments to mismanagement and trophies of victory over the suffering public, The unfortunates who shiver through the long, dark winter months in the almost roofless garrets of the tenement houses of New York, or who bury their misery in the equally dismay cellars, do not suffer their accustomed horrors this season, and are only hungry when they se@k thetr cribs atnight. They can, at least, calculate op awakening in the morning without frost bitten limbs, and regard the mildness of the winter with infinite satisfaction. Theso poor people, whom wantand misfortune have combined to make the most observant meteorologists | are glad, while the well fed and fur clad lovers of skat- ing and sleighing grumble at the loss of their winter sports, Well, overybody cannot be pleased, and we rejoice with the poor that Heaven bas this winter tempered the wind to the shorn lambs of our flock. METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS dating back for many years enable us to institute com- parisons between the condition of the weather this winter and those of the past, The careful observations of meteorologists and a comparison of the weather recoras for over a century have demonstrated that the city of New York, situated in latitude 40 dee. 43 min, and in longitude 74 deg., has ameun annual tempera- ture of 51,07 deg. They have also established that our mean temperature in spring is 48.07 deg. ; in summer, 72.01 deg. ; in autumn, 64.05 deg., and in winter, 41.04 deg. If we subdivide the seasons into months the fol- jowing results, giving the mean temperature for each month, are obtained :— This graduation of mean monthly temperature repre- sents the mean of over @ quarter of a century, and | forms a reliable basis on which we may make our com_ parisons, They are taken from the records of the Army Meteorological Register and from a number o! other equally reliable sources, which have been carefully calculated and compared by scientific men since 186 Sinco that time the records of later years have been compared with the established mean, and only the most unimportant variations have been found, In order to form a correct idea of how closely the annual mean corresponds with that established in 1855 itis | are in this way enabled to move further north, and we only necessary to note the records of the past thirteen years, from 1863 to 1875, both inclusive, ANNUAL MEAN TEMPBRATURK POR THIKTOEN YEARS ¢ mean Averi Established mean........-++++ +. 0.94 from ‘the above illustration that the Difference...... It will be seen established mean has been accurately computed, THE LAW OF COMPENSATION. Professor Loomis and other authorities assert that although the annual mean temperature of a placo | varies, the difference between the coldest and the hottest | year seldom exceeds ten degrees, and this statement is supported by the following evidence : the hottest year which bas occurred in a period of eighty-six years was thatlof 1823, and the coldest year was that of 1636, the extreme range of the annual tem- perature in eighty-six years beimg 6.30 deg.”” The meterological registers kept by Presidents hay and Stites and by Dr. Monson and others for the eighty-six years between 1778 and 1865 were rigidly suspected and reduced by a committee of the Connecticut Acad- emy, who reported these records as proving the fol- lowing facts :—‘*That for all those years of the century no permoanent change had occurred in the average date of occurrence of the last frost of spring or of the first frost of autumn, nor in the time of the first snow of wigter, of the last snow of winter, or in the average date of the flowering of fruit trees such as the peach, cherry, &¢.’? ‘Thrs was not inconsistent with the reports in the same records of great extremes of heat and cold tem- porarily experienced at intervals, Such extremes aro well known in authentic history all the way up to the Christian era, BARLY COLONIAL RECORDS. To go back im our own history to the early colopial records, the winter of 1641 froze Boston Bay as far outat sea as the eye could reach; but during the next winter there was istic rain and no snow until March 3 In the year 1643 Governor Winthrop wrote that in the last of February there was a deep snow, but ‘winter was at au end.” Take again the middie of the next cen- tury, when the Hudson was open to Albany through January and February of the year 1756, and “there were two or three winters in succession the most mild that were recollected by the oldest mon, and all the world cried out, ‘what a chang of climate?” But the severe winters which followod reversed that common opinion and taught the general law of componsation or average heat and cold. This was again demonstrated in such a year as 1797, in which, while the Hudson and Delaware A. | Were covered with solid ice before the end of Novem- | “| ber, the mean temperature of the whole month at | the Exchange in New York was 83.87 deg. These phenomena of previous centuries would seein to have been reobserved ‘‘in the memory of the oldest inhabit- ant” and of the meteorologists of the day, uniess it be admitted that our modern winters have become more inconstant than when the country was covered with woods, and that the warm weather of autumn is extending further into the winter and the cold of the winter and spring is encroaching on the summer, In order that the comparison of the temperatures of past winters may be properly made with that of the present season the following table, which shows the mean temperature for the winter months of the last ten years, is presented to the reade: Years. el ag as i Oct. faves bes [Jor’s Deg.y Deg.) Deg.| Deg.| Deg. =_ —| 57.00} 34.00] 52.25}95.00 36.00} 4400153 00 28. 85)51.61)53,.21 36.55)52.01]56.41 44 48]53.06] 05.81 30.26/49. 41 554.65 36 49/47 35) 55. 80) 48.30] 41 . 60) 66. 50) 52 .60}42. 90/52, 70] The above table shows that the mean temperature of October, 1875, was the lowest for the past ten years, and is 1.80deg, ‘below the established mean. Novem: ber, 1875, shows the lowest record but one for the same pated and 15 4.40 deg. below the established mean. ber, 1875, is below the two previo oars anda small fraction below the established mean, January, 1876, on the other hand, has a record the highest but one—that of 1870—for the ten years, and is 6 deg. higher than the established mean. February has not yet advanced sufficiently to enable us to determine the value of ite mean temperature, but so tar as it has welve bcd of 31.60 deg, , the established mean for cz, probability, howev bat ly mean for February will mount up very high, because during the past week the daily maximum temperature has been steadily rising in value and now i i eek ee ‘with the record of 6th inst., when Lhe bn Fad ping mont an ling the records and ok we obtain a comparigon of the rela- of the winter seasons of the past ton that of the present season, This exhibit by sething the Winters im the or- January . July.. rowed downto ap examination of the atmospheric August, factors, aud it is in these that we discover September. 65.8 | change of condition. ‘The cold created October | in the northern portion of the hemisphere November. by the absence of ‘the sun’s heat causes an December .. enormous increase in the density of the atmosphere 52.04 heat and is liberated into our atmosphere, raising its 61.70 | temperature beyond the degree which all the other “At New Haven | der of their coldness, beginning with the coldest season :— COMPARISON O¥ AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE LAST 1875-16. 1873-74. ‘1866-67. 1870-71. 1869-70, 41.33 Average for established monthly mean........ $8.38 Our table shows clearly that the temp. ature of & resent winter 1s almost an exact mean between the hest and tho lowest winter temperatures of the last ten years, and 18, moreover, ouly one-tenth of a degree colder than the average of the established monthly mean indicates’ The winter of 1874-75 was the cold- est but one of the series of ven calculated as above. Referring again to the question of thermometrical compensation aud applying the records already given to t theory, we must conclude thas we are only returning to the normal condition of the winter weather which the meteorological records of the past century show to be natural to our latitude and climate, and that in the retarn we are receiving the large balance of beat of which we have been deprived during the cold winters which bave immediately preceded the presentone, Even within the short space of one year compensation of temperature shows itself very Thus, in 1866, the maximum temperature tal 43-100 of a preci was 953 deg. andthe mi mean was 51,7 deg.—the mean, same as the estab) RECORDS OF COLD WINTERS IN BUROFR. Strange records of these seasons, Gage rae more than a thousand yeurs, appear in a volume published in Vienna in 1788. It tells such) tales as these: —Tat in 703 the Black Sea and the Dardanelles wero frozen over, the snow and ice rising in some of the cities fifty feet and pushing down the walls. 1658 Charles X. is recorded to have carried the whole of his army, including artillery, across the Little Belt on the ice; While in England the price of gram was doubled. In 1709, in the south of France, the olive plantations were almost entirely destroyed and the ‘Adriatic Sea was frozen completely over. In 1776 | wine froze in the cellars of France and Holland, and | the Danube ice was five feet thick. YEARS O¥ BXCBSSIVE HEAT. On the other band, as marked yeare of excesstve heat and drought are thickly scattered over the pages of the chronicles, In 1159, in which ‘no rain fell in Itaty after May,”’ and in 1718, ‘‘when the heat closed every theatre in Paris,” or as, in 1745, ‘when neither rain | nor dew fell for months in Europe,” yet the mean tem- perature of a period of years differs trom the mean of | diferent periods by a wondrously small decimal ox- | pression. Having established the fact that altnough we are now experiencing a period of extraordinary warmih, which cither compeusates for previous cold or will be | followed by a corresponding fall of temperature, and | that the mean temperature of the season is perfectly | normal when we measure it by the standard estab- lished after long and laborioug research, we can ouly account for the warmth of January and February by | seeking for some powerful agency which is evidently | in operation to produce this compensation of tempera- | ture. THE CAUSES OF EXTRAORDINARY VARIATIONS. These are mainly the obliquity of the sun’s rays on | our northern hemisphere in winter—the rotation of the earth on its axis, which produces tho easterly flow of atmospheric currents and the enormous evaporation in the tropical seas, by which motion is imparted to the volumes of water of different tempera tures and the atmosphere is loaded with heat and moisture, which are — distributed by radiation and by the atmospheric currents over | large areas of the continent. Growing out of these general causes of variation of temperature are the } Special causes which affect localities. Among tnese | are the Gulf and Arctic currents in the ocean and the northwestern and southern atmospheric currents on the land. The former are constant fact in the cal- culation of our Atlantic climate, The latter depend | wholly on inconstant causes, and are therefore liable to be interrupted in their operation. Now, we have bad the same obliquity of the sun’s rays this winter | as during the coldest we have experienced, ‘The Gulf and Arctic currents have contfniled to flow along our coasts as they have always flowed. The search for the cause of the rapid variation of temperature is _nar- which produces a southward movement of the air into the spaces occupied by the warmer and more rarefied atmosphere in the south, When this movement is met by @ counter movement of warm, vapor-laden air from the south, the contact of the opposing atmospheric volumes causes those cyclones and storias which are so familiar to us on this continent. The storms gener: | ated on the Pacific Ocean always reach us from the northwest, and those which arise in the Atlantic but | rarely disturb our New York climate. We therefore look to the northwost for our winter sturms, and their | absence, as has been the case this winter,’ leaves us | wholly to the influence of the Gulf Stream warmth, | which, in a measuro, assists in repelling the invading | | cold waves from the north. The southern air waves | experience the consequence of their presence in tho | shape of warm, cloudy weather. | it has already been suggested tn our columns Deg. | that there may be a cloze relation between the 54.84 general warmth of this winter and the recent | 51.70 | Volcanic disturbances on this continent, While | 51.40 this is a difficult matter to establish, yet itis by no | 50.60 | means improbable that such a relation exists, because ae the enormous force necessary to shake the earth’s | which, when expended again, resolves itself into agents could produce. As long as the vapor held in | suspension in the atmosphero retains @ temperature | higher than 82 deg. we cannot have snow. In like | manner unless the sarface of-the earth cools off suffi- | ciently by radiation we will have no ice. We have had | neither the one nor the other, and might therefere | reasonably conclude that the conditions have been and continue to be unfavorable for the formation of ice and | snow, and that these conditions are created by the one | agency, terrestrial heat. We now feel the warmth of the | | weather because we have hitherto been experiencing a | | series of cold winters. The season is warm by contrast | with other winters and the amount of heat necessary | to raise its inean temperature to the established stand- | | ard is unevenly distributed, THE POST OFFICE. DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCAL MAIL COLLECTION | AND DELIVERY—HOW THE WORK Is ACCOM- PLISHED. | Asa matter of interest to the public we present to- | \ day a description of the method adopted and means | | used by the Postmaster of this city to increase the | | mail facilities for both whe Jocal and general postal de- | | liveries. | Recognizing the importance to our citizens of an ef- | client system of delivery of local mail matter the Pos! master early gave his special attention to the improv | Ment of this branch of the service. His first step was | | to secure greater rapidity and frequency of transporta- | | tion, and to this end he availed himself of the Elevated Railway for the despatch of mails between the General Post Office and the upper portion of the city on the west side, sending them by that conveyanco ten times | every day, connecting at Twelfth street with station O | and at Thirty-fourth street with station E, and since | the extension of the road with station G. The effect | | of this arrangement has been sensibly felt by the resi- | dents of the upper districts, not only on tho west but | on the east side, A wagon service has been recently established, making twelve round trips per day, be- tween the Fiftieth street station of the elevated road, | station G (Eighth avenue and Fifty-fifth street) and | | Station H (corner Third avenue and Sixtieth street), by | j which the letters and papers deposited at those | | Stations are sent out or interchanged as rapidly as they } | can be collected, assorted and placed in the mail | | pouches, Previous to Postmaster James assuming charge of the Post Office the city mail service between | the maid office and the stations, and also between the ' stations, was performed entirely by wagons, whose movements were liable to be retarded by the accidents to all city travel, and as every such delay caused a cor- | responding derangement of the schedule of mail | | arrivals aud departures and a failure to connect at the proper hours with the carriers’ deliveries and col- lections, the inevitable result to the local delivery service was disaster and confusion, As a remedy for this state of things Mr. James put in practice a plan by which the entire wagon service, with | the exception of an early morning and late evening | trip to the upper stations, is confined to aciroult em- bracing the General Post Office and stations A,B, © sand D, between which mails are exchanged every hour, while the service to, from and between étations B, H, K and L, all of which are located on Third avenne, is performed by messengers travelling on the Third Avenue Railroad, continually delivering mails at and receiving them from these stations. The letters for tho lower part of the city are thas conveyed to station D, from whence they are despatched to the General Post Office of to station A, B or ©, according to the destina- tion, by o. Under this system delays in transpor- tation are almost unknown, the messengers arriving at euch station promptly in time for the assortment of their mails for delivery by the carriers, and to receive the letters which have accumulated there for despatch to other parts of the city, as well as to points beyond. “RAPID TRANSIT’’ in the city postal service being thus secured, the next point wo which the Postmaster gave his attention was Uhe means of providing a more prompt and frequent delivery and collection of mail matter, To effect marked improvement in this direction with the lim! force of carriers then alloted by the ‘tment for the service in New York (320) was obviously im) cable; go whew Me. Jeones visited Waahingion an personally ur necessity 0 increase, rostmas _| General consented to appoint sixiy-four additional ear, | | | | ent Postmaster the present subdivisions w crust ig only heat in the form of mechanical effort, | | Sengers who deposited the letters. | Post Office ono nig! riers, who were sworn into the service on June 1, 1873, and were assigned to duty at the various stations ac cording to the requirements of each locality. As the efficiency of the iocal delivery largely on the frequency of collections from the street boxes, a considerable number of the new appointment were assigned to that duty, by which means twelve cole Jections per day were rendered possible, The good effect of these increased facilities was ithe mediately apparent. There was no longer any necessity for depositing a letter at the genera! office or at a sta« tion in order to ingure its prompt transmission to des< tination, Placed in a street box tue letter is soon im the grasp of the letter collector, in whose pouch it is quickly on its way to the station or Post Uflice for ase sortment, postmarking and despatch to address. Buty although the city delivery was thus improved to an ex~ tent which would scarcely bave seemed possible, Mr. James was not yet satisfied with the result of his el- forts, and last year succeeded in obtaining a further addition of forty-five men to the earrierjiorce, which enabled bim to make an bm no prod delivery par pg rion of the city comprise: ween Canal an ve Eatieth streets at ball: + seven P. M. of each secular day, an arrangement which secates the delivery, on the day of arrival, of the letters which reach the Post Office late in the afternoon by the through mails from North, East gpd other points, This has pro special benefit to the recipients of letters of socii and domestic interest addressed to private eee 4nd is an accommodation which the ladies ip partic have not been slow to appreciate, Previous to the ea! tabushment of THE EVENING DELIVERY, ® night collection trom street boxes throughout the city, commeucing at gine P, M., bad been put in opera~ th 1 has not only acted as a protection against the danger of possible depredation to which letters Temaining all night in the boxes were exposed, but has Secured Lhe earliest possible delivery and despatch of Jetters posted in the evening. The night collection in« cludes Sunday, ou which day an afternoon collection is mlso made, beginuing at half-past two. Shortly aiter the annexation to this city of that por- tion of Westchester county which included the post offices know» as Mott Haven, High Bridge, Morrisania, Tremont, West Farms, Fordham, Woodlawn, Kings- Bridge, Spuyten Duyvel and Riverdale, the residents in localities, {nding themselves made eiti- rene Mew York, naturally desired to bp invested with all the rights aud privileges ties, and on, bot to that titie. including postal tac iying to Postmaster James he yp mitted Matter to the attention of the On his 81 jon the above nawed post c the exception of Mott Bayen «wi High Br were abolished by the Postmaster Genera! wnd r dated with Morrisania), were made ctations of the New York Post Office, the late Postmaster einy appointed carriers {00t — superintendent. At Morrisania six). were appointed—two mounted and four whose delivery includes Morrisania and (© « covered by ‘the discontinued post Mott Haven and High Bridge. At the time additional mails between the Lew sw tions and the general Post Offico wero establmshed) by means of messengers on the New York and Harlemy Railroad and the Tarrytown special trains ou the Huds son River road, so that the citizens of the annexed’ territory have now ample dacilities for the conveyance and delivery of their correspondence. The residents of Washington Heights, Carmaneville and Inwood have also been recently accommodated by the appoinument of an additional carrier for that portion of the ey aud the establishment of additional mails between the lower beet! of the city and 162d street by the Tarrytown special trains on the Hudson River road. ‘There are other improvements in. the City Delivery. service which the Postmaster is anxious to imtroduce, Among them an early morning delivery at private residences, which would be of special advantage in the case of local correspondence of a social and domestio nature, and it is to be hoped t) the Post Office De- partment wiil not hesitate to grant the increase of the’ carrier force nec y tothe realization of the Post- master’s wishes \u the matter, THE LAST REPORT to the Postmaster General of,Mr. R, W. Gurley. the Superintendent of the Free Dlivery system, shows @ clear annua! profit to the departincnt of more than, $67,000 from jocal postages after deducting the salaries: paid to carriers and the other incidental expenses at U several letter carrier offices throughout the Union, What share New York had in contnbuti factory result is shown by the follo the report of the letter carrier business of the the past year:— Local postage received. Leiter carriers’ sularies. Profit to Department. - $621,232 35) Alter deducting from this very liberal estimate the sum of $120,000 tor the proportion of station rent, clerks’ salaries, &¢., properly chargeable to the local delivery account, there remains to the profit of the Department the respectable sum of $500,000, New York should to-day be turnished with not Jess than 200 additional letter carriers, every one of whom would secure to the Department a profit of at least fifty per cent on the salary paid him. Can there be any Teasou Why so remunerative an investment should not facil~ be made and made quickly? With the limited tties at biadisposal Postinaster James has alr wonders, Let the government place in is hands such power as he seeks, and the letter deli system in’ New York will soon be conducted with a promptness and celerity which will make its present operations: seem slow by comparison. TUE THIRD DIVIBION, under the direction of Mr. Youman, comprises the leiter, paper and foreign departments, aixo the de- spatching of ali mails destined for domestic and for- eign delivery. Prior to the appointment of the pres- ¢ separate, ench having @ superintendent and an assistant, the former being held responsible to the Postmaster for the correctness of its work, The letter distributing de- partment is one of the most important and systematte im the country, and one in which the public, especially the business portion of the community, are deeply in- terested, ‘The number of letters passing through this department in the New York office averages 250,000 per day. Kach letter passes through tho hands of tour clerks belore it is placed in the mailbag. Great care is exercised in asserting the letters for the bags going to ¢iflerent parts of the country: Let ter packages intended for distribution by the railway. mail service are “made up” as followa:—Tne clerks, | after looking at each letter, are required to see that it bas been properiy assorted, and to place on the outside of each package a ‘acing’ slip,” which after being doubled, or one halt turned over, is about two-thirds the size of an ordinary letter, On the fave of that is written or stamped the State, title of route over which. it is to go, the name of the agent by whom itis to be distributed, the date aud hour at which it was “made up,” with the name of the clerk performing that duty. If the postal clerk or railway agent discovers any’ errors of direction they are noted a8 missent letters on the inside or back of the slip, The slip is then re turned to the New York office and entered in a bool opposite the name of the clerk, so that all errors. cal traced back. As twenty-two mails close | between thread A. and twelve P. M. the superintendents of departments are able to tell at. whot time a certain letter has been mailed should any, complaint be made of delay in delivery, and the send) ers can ascertain by the return of their envelopes if any error has been made by their messengers in de- positing letters in the lamppost boxes or sub-stations. instead of patting them in the general Post Office, Complaints of dius character were of frequent occur-, Tence before the present system was adopted; byt sucky Vigilant examination is pow made in all cases of Com-, plaints that, in nineteen out of every twenty cases, the blame has been brought home to the private mes- In this division of the Post Oflice the employés number that being eichteen less than the force empluyed in the former or old Post Office, Owing to thia | reduction in the number of men and the continued increase of work the Postmaster has been compeiled to change the hours of work among the clerks iu order to obtain the entire force of this department twice a day. For instance, the day clerks commence at ten A. M. and work until seven P. M.; the night clerks commence at five P. M. and work until one A. M., and the morning force work from one A, M.until ten A. M., thas covering she twenty- four hours, and having the double force k durin the heaviest hours of the day, those between five an seven P. M. To ‘ilustrate the work done, an instance may be given where afirm in tuis city mailed during the months of Noveinber and December last about 1,000,000 circulars, in daily instalments of twenty to’ thirt sacks. This addition to the usual work was dis] of in about one bour after reception, without any interference with the regular routine of Dusiness, So prompt and safe has become the mailing and trans- mission of circulars that the large mercantile estabs lishments who formerly paid leer rates to secure quick mails now forward their circulars unsealed. THY PAPER DEPARTMENT was one of the first that received the attention of the present Postmast Entering the old Nassau street t immediately afler his appointment he fond forts, redoubts and batteries made allover the floor of bags of newspapers, pamphlets and merchan- dise, some of which had been awaiting transmission several weeks, The Superintendent and his assistant, who should have despatched them days before, were absent. Colonel James took command of the and before morning every paper was on its way to ite destination. Meanwhile the missing Superiniendent and his assistant were discharged and their positions jed by the present incumbents, Since that time no ‘k of mail matter bas been left over. The amount of matter despatched by this department amounts to about forty tons daily, Another improvement intro- duced by the Postmaster is the upright newspaper cases: for the rapid distribution and despatch of mail matter, Going away with the old flat table system. Ninety-two clerks are employed in the ay" department, day force commencing at nine A. M. and working until six: , when they are relieved by the night {urce, which, Degins at five P, M. and works until A. M.; them they, in turn, are relieved by the morning force commences at twelve P. M. apd continues until nine A. M., thus doubling the workers at the hours heaviest work, say betwoon five and six P. M., twelve P, M. and one A. M. REFORM IN FOREIGN DI RLIVERY. Under the old rule, ifthe clerks were emplo; in making up a foreiga mail and another iy abroad, the latter to watt several hi before it could be opened and delivered. Now, the moment foreign mail arrives it is opened, stamped, distributed or boxed, and a telegraphic despatch is sent over ires of tho gold stock w Seal elt morcheats, Sapkers and rokere thes the mail by the steamer named will be ready for deli in minutes, Such are our present local mail THE MONUMENT. To Tax Error or tae Benatot— If Mr. Barney Williams will leave Thespis for Themi@ any day and enter the Law Institute by the upperem trance (and left of the Post UfMeo stairs) be will find there that marble portraiture of the late James T. i Brady fone @ most fatthful some of eee the ar te in library ree Te ee