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THE STATE CAPITAL. Narrow Escape of the State Prison Inspectors Bill, THE QUESTION OF ADJOURAMENT DISCUSSED, Comptroller Green and a Board | of Salaries. DETAILS OF THE BILL. Atnayy, March 2, 1876. The concurrent resolution that bas already been ap- proved by one Legislature and by a popular vote abol- ishing the elective offices of State Prison Inspectors, and estimated as a reform measure that will take the manage- ment of the penal institutions of the State out of the haods of politicians and render them self-sustaining, bad a narrow escape from being virtually lost to-day in the Assembly. When the resolution came up in the House a motion was made to recommit. Had this been successful the moral effect of such a large vote in plain opposition would haye its influence in promoting the defeat of the measure on its final passage. The vote to recommit stood 59 to 57 on the call of the roil, but Fallon, of New York, changed to the negative, and the result was a tic. Democrats and republicans were found in about equal numbers on both sides of the question so that it cannot be classed as a party issue, The State Prison Inspectors, wno hope to see the resolution defeated, have not been idle while it nas been pending in the Assembly. They have steadily de- clined to find places for the friends of members while & measure 80 inimical to their interests is threatened by the Legislature, and the natural inference derived from this fact is that the reward of those who oppose the amendment will be ashare in the extensive patronage under the control ot the Prison Inspectors. Some, however, voted | \gainst the resolution simply to spite Governor Til- fen, who hopes earnestly for its passage, that he may idd another Jeaf to the mystic crown of laurel he wears as a reformer. Some weeks ago the resolution appeared fo have no posstble opposition, and nobody dreamed it would run such arisk of being beaten as it did to-day. The first noticeable attack made then upon it camo from a tall member, with long, swinging arms and a rolling voice, named G. I, Post, of Cayuga, His mania toward the amendment was mistaken by the unthink- ing part of the Assembly fora fervid honesty of con- viction that the contemplated change was full of wrong and disaster, He talked muck and at length, and, as the constant drip of water will wear away any stone, he succeeded finally in securing a sympathetic audience, Those who vote against the resolution, on the grounds - that itis one of Governor Tilden’s measuros, deccive themselves, It was devised by ® joint convention of democrats and republicans, and advocated by Governor Dix in as strong terms as wereever used by Tilden, And it willbe flying in the face of the people who indorsed it last fall, if the Assembly now reject it, A LITTLE PARTY SPARKING took place in the Senate to-day, over a motion of Mr. Bradley's to adjourn sine die on the 24th of March. Mr. Woodin called it buncomb, and wished to know if the Senator who introduced the resolution had entirely lost sight of the reform measures emanating from the Governor and the Canal Board which had yet to be dis- posed of, or had he lost sight of the important measure \ntroduged by the Senator ftom the Tenth (st. John), to enlarge the powers of the Canal Board. Senator St. Jobn, with some asperity, replied in effect that tho delay in getting these reform measures before the Senate was the fault of the republicans, and not of the Governor or the democratic party. The repubii- cans bad done nothing but introduce resolutions of carping criticism on the Governor's sayings and do- ings, and they make no move to help him in his crusade of reform. The Attorney General wants money to proseoute the suits aguinst the corrupt members of the Canal Ring, but no republican Senator makes a proposition to give itto him. A very pretty Gebate was spoiled by a sudden motion of Mr. Woodin’s to tablé Mr. Bradiey’s resolution to adjourn, Mr. Jacobs, in an irritated temper, said Mr. Woodin talked more than all the rest of the Senators put together and he should allow somebody else to have a word at least once in awhile; but Mr. Woodin wouldn’t listen, ana the stirring effort that might bave been expected from Mr. Jacobs on this question was shut oft, A SWEEVING MEASCRE, A most remarkable vill was introduced to-day in the | Assembly by Mr. Peabody (rep), of New York, which, besides reducing the salaries from the present rate, though not as a general rule as low as the Graff amendments in the present House bill, gives « Comytrotier extraordinary powers. It creates Board of Salaries, to consist of himself, the Mayor and Recorder, and they, by a comcurrent vote, can fix or thane the salaries ‘of officials and fix the number of | she subordi court officials by « concurrent rote. | This concurrent vote iu the matter of appointments and the fixing of the salaries shows whore the Comp- | trofler has a finger tn 7 The annual salaries in bill are xed as follows :— ‘Tu the Mayor, $10,000; to the Comptroller, $10,000 Counsel to the Corporation, $7,000; to the Commis. sioner. Public Parks, $7,500; President Board of Police, $7,000; otber Police Commissioners, no salary ; President Department of Public Works, $6,500; to the | dissertation on the lobby and its evil influences, | tion thas amended was then adopted. | and pablic park manny officials, are not affected by the salary reduc- tion ciause of the act. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. The report of the Judiciary Committee of tne Assem- bly on the lobby investigation was submitted to the House to-day. Although a long document, it made no exposure of a startling character, aud only stated, what everybody knew beforel that at- tempts are often made at the capital to influence legislation by corrupt means. Ip fact, it was nothing more than was stated in these despa:cbes yesterda} , a 8 sertations of this kind with more convincing facts than the report contains as to what the lobby often tries to accomplish, and oftea succeeds in accomplishing, ha appeared, in the newspapers from time to time the | past ten years, The Burleigh bill relative to the manner of appoint- ing assistant engineers to supervise canal work bas been reported favorably by the Canal Committee, The Legal Paper bill was, after some discussion, progressed in committee of the whole of the Assembly to-day, An effort to have the original bill substituted for that of the one Gnder censifieration reported by the Judiciary Committee was defeated by a yote of 60 to 15, s An effort was made to-day to kill the bill which pro- hibits the employment of females to turnish liquors in places where theatrical amusements are given, and al- Jow females to be employed as cashiers, attendants in cloak rooms, &c., by « motion te refu tee of the Whole it again for its coi it failed by a close vote, The that the bill repeals all the good the pretty waiter girl act of 1862 as weil as its objec- oe features. ‘Tbe bill has evidently a hard road to travel. By the bill introduced by Mr. Gere the Grand Army of the Republic, as well as military parades are made an exception to the law against Sunday processions with bands of music. The concurrent resolution requesting the New York delegation in Congress to oppose the repeal of the Re- sumption act of 15’ nd to. favor such legislation as m‘y be needed to give full faith and force tothe pledges contained in said act was adopted by the Senate. The bill to legisiate Tom Dunlap, Commissioner of Jurors, out of office and give the appointment of his Successor to a board, composed of the Mayor, Comp- troller and Judge of the General Sessions, will be re- ported favorably to-morrow to the Senate, It is understood the Governor has withdrawn the appointment of Sinnott to the vacancy in the Marino Court. Sinnott asked the opinion of Charles O’Conor on the point whether his confirmation by the Senate ‘was necessary, and the answer he received was that, though the law in the case was awkwardly expressed and left room for questioning, the intent was to give the confirmation of appointment to the Senate, The Committee of Ways and Means, the finance committee of the Senate, met in session this evening along with the New Capitol Commissioners, to consider the question of the completion of tho new Capitol, Under the present plan it was shown by the engineers that the work of finishing the building would cost the sum of $12,000,000; by substituting stone for iron and omitting the tower the estimate would be $7,000,000, It is thought the committee will report in favor of the more economic plan. The following bills were introduced to-day in the Senate :— By Mr, Bixby—To reorganize the local government of the city of New York. By Mr. Kennaday—Relative to the jurisdiction of the Marino Court of the city of New York. By Mr. Carpenter—To authorize the taxation of the surplus in savings banks; also taxing the stockholders of banks, By Mr, Booth—To amend the statutes relative to auction sales in New York city. Also relative to municipal indebtedness, and to pro- vide for the redemption of the samo; also relative to nominations and Appolnbnanys to fill certain offices in the city of New York. Tho Senate Committee on Commerce will give a hear- | mission, to-day received the following letter from | Schultz, J. H. #herwood, B. L. Solomon, H. F. Spauld- ‘NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1876,—TRIPL THE EXHIBITION. THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH-—WHY CREEDMOOR WAS SELECTED—FRANCE EN ROUTE—THE BRITISH STAFF ON THE GROUND—THE UNITED STATES GOVERN- MENT BUILDING FINISHED, Pmiavetrata, March 2, 1876, General Hawley, President of the Centennial Com- | General Martin T. McMahon, of New York, a director of the National Rifle Association, explaining why the association selected its own grounds at Creedmoor for the international rife contest, instead of a range in this vicinity :— New Youx, March 1, 1876, Dean Ganenat—The Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association have at Inst, after much consideration, de- cided to have the international match at Creedmoor, and Jou will senday receive the programme which has been naan yal , te ork to the selection of the place, I think, while full, ir views in favor of I'lilladelphi hi were sent w P' ol sites for a range. Nothing was fou like the advantages of Creedmoor, nor was any place sug- which could, by the largest amount of money pro- nded on it, be made suitable for the purpose nal match’ On the other hand, the Long excellent condition, fully equipped the necessary appliances for rife prnc- so favorably with furei; ees that wa ‘ashamed to ask our friends from abrond n expenditure of about $100,000 to its present condition. It has re. re still go- possessing. anything to vinit it, Four years of Inbor a were required to bring contly been greatly entarged and improvem {ng on there which will doubtless be completed Uy Septem r. Th mati employes are experienced in the conduct of rifle ‘and are well drilled in their special duties. It is, moreover, under the absolute and immediate control of the Board of Directors of the Nationat Rifle Association, to whom your commission have intrusted the conduct of the match. This would not be the case {f another range were expecially for this ocewsion by private ‘a money speculation, of course (and this is all been offered in the vicinity of Philadelphia). In such event the persons investing their money in the range would natarally seek the largest returns on their cater. and might rather be directed toward that end than controlled by the idea of having the affair pass olf with the highest credit to the country. Many of the members of the Board fn ng the match near Philadelphia, but it red the plan of I think all were ‘at for. the purposes of fo the fitness or sutt- hes H the programin meet yo been a long time under consideration, ald pleted at the last Reston Tt seems to me, from Sir Henry Malford’s letter, published | this morning, thas England will not compete. ie thinks i we ought to settle a domestic diMeulty for him by excluding the Irish and Scotch teains and thus enable him to bring an imperial term, The most we ¢ js to admit his imperial team and the others teo. This we have agreed to in ease be should be unable to consolidate the three teams into one. Very truly yours, proval, It has ‘was only com: do not see how we can go further, General Josxeu R. Hawney, President of the Centennial Commission, FRANCE COMING. The French Commissioner General, M, du Sommer- ard, cabled to the Centennial Commission to-day, as follows ;—‘‘Four large Transatlantique steamers will be sent direct to Philadelphia, The first, the Labrador, leaves March 11, bringing Commissioners, secretaries, engineer and contractors, and all the fine art collection, the products of the national manufactories and many private exhibitors. Tho steamers Amerique, Franco and St, Laurent will follow, bringing the rest of the French exhibits and the employés.’” . GREAT NRITAIN ON HAND, ing next Tuesday evening on the Hell Gate Pilot bill and the bill relative to wharfage in Brooklyn and New York city. CANAL BOARD. ALBANY, March 2, 1876, At the meeting of the Canal Board to-day Edward Reilly and Joseph L. Berkwich were appointed Inspeet- ors at New York. The resolution appointing collectors was reconsid. ered, and the name of Thomas Slack substituted for that of Lyman F. Zimmerman at Medina, The resolu- The subject of canal toils was taken up and dis- cussed at length, Mr. Donsieiaer offered the following :— Resolved, That the Canal Board recommend to the Legis- lature to concur in the rates of toll upon the canals of the State as stated in the accompanying toll sheet of 1 at the Legislature be respecttull: ai Board be authorized to e' vided that the pon such c y & less rate than was shown in the accompanying toll sheet, The Secretary of State saying ho was not ready to vote upon these resolutions, they were latd aver till the next meeting. Mr. Doxstrimenr also offered the following :— Resolved, That the subject of the designation of the banks of deposit of canal tolls for the ensuing be referred to the Comptroller, Treasurer and Auditor, 3 Tho resolution was adopted. The Board then adjourned till March 16, NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE, A PUBLIC PARK BILL—THE NUMBER OF S8UN- DAY TRAINS TO BE DIMINISHED—THE LEGIS- LATORE TO ADJOURN ON THE 31sT INSTANT. Trenton, March 1, 1876. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Hill, from the Committee on Lunatic Asylums, reported that the Morristown Asylum was well adapted to the purposes of the in- stitution, and it will be ready for patients in Juno next. To make it ready by that time, however, the appropriation of $300,000 asked for will-be nevessary, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Mathers, to authorize the creation of public parks throughout the State. dt provides that tho Board of Chosen Freeholders of any county may re- commend the purchase of land tor picasure grounds and thus people may vote at-any State or county election whether the purchase shall be made or not, ‘Ihe Freeholders are then, if the question is decided in the affirmative, to select commissioner: who shall be known as “Supervisors of Parks,” w: shall hold office tor three years, By Mr. Thorn, to create anew county, to be called Seaview, out of parts of the counties of Burlington and Ocean. ‘Tho bill appropriating $300,000 to the Morristown Lunatic Asyium was ordered to a third reading. other Park Commissioners, no salary; President Fire Department, $6.500; other Fire Commissioners, no salary; President Department Public Charity nd Correction, $6,500; other Commissioners, no salary; President of tho Health Department $5,000; other Com: missioners of Health, no salary ; President of the Board of Aldermen, $3,000; other members of the Board of | Aldermen La a President Department of Taxes, $6,500; other Tax Commissioners, no salary ; President | ot the Department of Docks, $6,500; other Dock Com- nissioners, no salary; Superintendent of Buildings $5,000; City Chamberiain, $6,000; and an allowance to he Fidance Department of $4,000 for the salaries ot slerks to be appointed by the Comptroller; Justices of ‘he Police Courts, cach 3 vach, who are allow one Clerk at $2,000 one assistant clerk at $1,000, and one interpreter to servo as attendant at $1,200, The justices are for- bidden to employ or respective courts, Mi tices of the Supreme Cow Court of Common Picas the Surrogate, who shall hercafter be elected or appointed, $1 ; Cley Judge and Judge of the Court of General Sessions, $10,000 each ; clerks and subordinates of the Mayor's office, in all $10,000, The Bureau of Permits is abol- ished by the act; for clerks and employés ot the Board of Aldermen, in all $10,000; Corporation Attorney, $4,(00; Public Administrator, $3,500 (this amount 10 be paid for legal fees collected by him and paid into the troas- ury, provided the same Shall amount to that sum, bat not more than the amount of such fees collected if less than the sum of $3,500); Commissioner of Piers, $4,000, and for his clerk hire $5,000; President of the College of the City of New York, $6,000, no ex amount being allowed for honse rent; Clerk of the Court of Special Sessions, $3,500; Deputy Clerk, $2,400; three subpmna aervern, $1,000 each; Commissioners of the new Court House $1,500 cach from the date of their qnalitication to pertorm the duties of their office; Commissioners of the Third District Court House—the President, $2,000; the other two Commissioners, $1,500 each from April 22, 1875, and not alter the year 1476; attorney for the collection of arrears of personal $4,000, which officer 18 to be a inted and removed at the pleasure of the Comptroller, The oMfice of the Commissioners of Accounts is abolished, A POWRRPUL BOARD, Salaries not provided for in the bill are to be be fixed by a concurrent yote of the Mayor, the Comp troller and the Kecurder, who, a8 a Board on Salaries, are given authority to change and fix from ume to time the salaries of all persons pard out of the city treasury. They aro given authority also to remove and fix the number of olerks and atiendants in the va- as well he auount of their salaries, attendants memuers of the police lorce able to do full or activ ty, ata com pensation of $600 per annum, mm the place of such attendants as they may remove trom office. No officer or person who is paid a salary for his services trom the city treasury 18 to receive for his own use any fees, perquisites of office, commissions, percentages or moneys paid tohim in his official capacity, bot ail point any other person in their Court Judges, $7,500; Jus- the Superior Court, the fees, &C, 80 paid and received by any eh omcer or person shall be the preperty of the city, and shall be paid by him {ato the city treasury, and all moneys received for jicenses or permits shall be paid into the treasury weekly, witli- out deduction by the department or oilicer receiving them. Every such officer who shall receive any fers, &o., which belong (o the ey and which shouki be so paid into the treasury shall, Leforo he shall be entitiod | to receive or be paid bis salary, make, under oath,a de- | tailed statement and return to the Comptroller in such | formas he may prescribe, showing the aggregate amount | of all such moneys received by lim since the last p' ceding statement and returo, and shalt produce a re- | ceipt showing the payment of stich sum into the Treus- | ury. The Comptrolier under the bill may require any | such officer to nake such statement to him exam ine him under oath touching the amount of y or uisites, commissions, percentages or moneys pai: or received by him im his official capacity, ‘ae Several jeatures in the bill, it will be noticed, are Dased on ions made by the Committee on Crime and the advice given to the Legistature by Comptroller Green in nis reply to the resolution off by Mr. A. J, Campbell, It is a litte remarkable that the Clerk of the Marine Court and the County Clerk, two anti-Tam- | forcement of the Act of 1874, which probibits tho The bill making appropriations for the erection of instituuons for the deaf, dumb, tind and feeble minded, was passed by a vote of 14 to 5. In the House an opinion read irom the Attorney General, declaring that the constitutionalamendments do not repeal the Five County act. The Attorney General | says that the amendments are not ret tive in their effect, and that they only refer to the kind of lea- islation which should be enacted after thelr adoptian. Mr. E. Drake introduced a bill providing for ¢ running of more than one train each way on Sundays, under a penalty of $500 tor each violation. In addition this bill prescribes a tine of $500 for the issuing of any ticket on Sanday at a low or wpasual race irom any other day 1n the week. Mr. Lewis introduced a Dill authorizing any city or town to increase its appropriation for the support of the poor at any time during the fiscal rate, providing the increase does not exceed $15,000. Mr. Herring introduced a bill xing the legal rate of interest throughout the State at six per cent per an- pum. Mr. Brewer introduced one syeating tion of justices of the peace to debts of § other which makes it unlawful for any person to hold Mee of collector Of Assessor In any city or town- a period exceeding the term of three years ly. L 1 ‘offered a concurrent resolution providing | for the adjournment sine die of both houses on the 31st _ inst. Adopted, | On motion of Mr. Dodd, the discussion of the Pive | County act and all tax bills introduced in the House wax inade the epeciat order for Tuesday next. The Public Printing bill was reported sustaining the twenty-five per cent reduction in the rates of composi- tion, and making the rates of the German printing the same as the English, ‘The Kevision of the Laws Committee made a report | recommending the increase of the salary of the Super- | intendent of Public Instruction from $2,000 to $3,000 | per year, and abolishing all fees in conuection with the office, The General Horse Car Railroad bill was reported, with an amendment to the eflect that no road shall bo built within 200 (eet of any existing road, Both houses adjourned until Monday next, THE LIABILITY OF BANKERS. AN IMPORTANT DECISION AS TO THE CUBTODY OF SECURITIES BY DANKERS BY THE MARY- LAND COURT OF APPEALS. ie Baatiwore, March 2, 1876, The Court of Appeals of Maryland yesterday affirmed the judgment of Judge Miller, in the @ircuit Court of Howard county, in the case of Wilham A. Boyd, of Bal. trmore, against the Third National Bank. This suit originated upon the refueal of the bank to deliver Mr. Boyd United States and other bonds to the amount of $26,500, which had been deposited with the bank un- der receipt as general collateral. The bank was robbed jn August, 1872, and lost over $100,000 in money and convertible stock, among which were the bonds of Mr, Boyd. The bank contended that it had used ag much and as due diligence in the care and keeping ot Mr. Boyd's securities as they did of their own ond therefore were not lable. The case was first tried in May, 1878, in the Superior Court of Balti- more city, im Which there was a great display of expert knowlelgo in safes and vaults, wnd the jury fated 10 agree, The case was then rewoved to Howard county, and another trial took place in September, 1874, at nA heott Cuy, where judgment was rendered m favor of Mr. Boyd. ' The bank appealed, and now the case has been decided also fn bis favor by that tribanal, The premium upon the bonds, together with the im- The executive staff of the British section of the great Exhibition is now complete, those members who did not come over with Mr, Owen having arrived on the Indiava The following is the organization, embracing a large number of persons, as will be seen: Joint Commissioners, Colonel Herbert B. Sanford, R. A; Professor Thomas C. Archer, F. R. 8. E. ; Seere- taty, A. J. R. Treudell; Superintendent Industrial Space, Thomas A. Wright; Superintendent General SMaoniuery, John Anderson, L.L. D.; Superintendent Fime Arts, J. M. Topling; Superintendent Agriculture and Horticultur . J. D. Gibbs; Assistant General Superintendent Engineer, J. H. Cundall; Assistant Superintendent Catalogue and OMcial Publications, Hugh W. Sweeney; Financial Clerk, Fred J. Hodgkin- son; Assistant for Machinery, KF. E. Cooper; Clerical Assistant, Ernest Charrington; Clerical Assiatant, In- dia Section, J. M. Brett; Clerical Assigtant, Passenger and Transportation, H. A, P. Rooke; cierical assist- ants, registrar, hanes, abs Hf hp inspector and five sergeants Metropolitan Police, active force, con- stables and pensioners, all under the charge of Chiet Inspector William Howland. There is also a guard of Royal Engineors, consisting of a se: 1, three cor- porals and asapper. A nutnber of men and women sorvants, cooks, &c., are among the subordinates, ‘THR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING. The United States Government Batlding was yester- day trangferred to the United States Commission, in complete condition to receive the government exhibit, by Messrs, A. Doan & Co., the contractors. The ¢on- tract for the building was made with Mr, Doan about the middle of August, and fhe buildings wero finished A week or two The cost of the buildings to the government was $80,000 for the main building and $10,000 additional for the post bospt In addition to the main building there is, within about 100 fect of it, a building styled the arsenal, which will be used for experiments in shooting and to exnibit the different kinds of powder and cartridges in use by the United States Army and Navy. THE OLD SWEDISH CHURCH. THE OLDEST RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION IN THIS COUNTRY—THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE OF THE SYNOD OF THE SWEDISH CHURCH. Pui.apeventa, March 2, 1876, This evening the Eastern District of the New York Conference of the Synod of the Swedish Church held its closing mecting in St, Jobn’s English Lutheran church. The Synod of this Church in the United States is di- vided into five conferences, cach of which is sub-di- vided into districts as the demands may require. The | New York Conference 18 formed of two divisions, Eastern and Western, the former of which has just Neted its labors here. No meeting of the Swedish Church Synod has been held in Philadetpbia sinco the first emigration of these people to this country during the reign of Gustavus Adolphus, These lonely settlers founded the Church in this city and in Wilmington, Del. The services of to-day consisted of addresses by Rev. R. A. Hull, of Campello, Mass., President of the synod, and Rev, T. 0. Linnell, ot Providence, R. 1. The sac- rament of the Lord’s Supper was also administored. There were present the following clergymen:—Rev. J. Sewand, of Brooklyn; Rey. J. G. Princell, of New York; Rev. C. E. Linberg, of Witkesbarre, Pa. ; Rev. F. Johanson, of Boston, and Rev. C, 0. Lindel, of | Chicago, FRAUDULENT COMMISSION MER- CHANTS. EXPOSURE OF A CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD FARMERS—ARREST OF THREE OF THE CON- SPIRATORS. Trextox, N. J., March 2, 1876, This afternoon three men, named C. G. Huffman, Eli | Thomas and A. Gorman, were arrested on the chargo of conspiring to defraud Joot [. Hoyt, butter merchant, of Jamestdwn, N. Y., out of $546. Mr. Hoyt alleges that these men bought butter from him in February, 1875, under the pretence that they | tees and would pay for it on delivery in December last, They opened a commission house in this city and traded under the name of A. D. Dudley & Co, They adver- tised@ liberally and invited farmers and traders to | send in their produce to them for sale. They borght butt it is alleged, for thirty-three cents a pound and sold it for twenty-five cents, They undersold all other dealers in the city, and people wondered why they,could sell so cheap, and they did a thriving busines, Mr, Hoyt claims that the man Dudicy hag several fictitious names, such as Huffman and Thresher, and that under them aseries of frauds hag been carried on in Detroit, Reading, Providence, St. Louis and other cities. Ho alleges that there tsa ring of these conspirators all over the country. Tho parties will undergo an examination to-morrow, before Police Justice Britton, Mr. Hoyt and other witnesses will be present, Ortawa, March 2, 1871 The Committee on Depression of Trade held an in formal session to-day in order to allow two employés of the sugar refining firm of Rodpatif & Co., of Montreal, an apportunity of laying their case before the memocrs | immodiately upon the financial statement being deliv- . This firm stopped their works and discharged he hands, some in namber, Refiners complain | he ineiwences of tari! on sugars are against tnem. They also charge great unfai of tho | United States government cessive dsawback on sugag refined in that country and ex- rted. Pethe committee the deputation had a long inter- yviow, and the latter expressed themselves pleased with | the attention pard to their representatives. next week one of the principals in the Montreal reti rm Will be examined betore the committee, and probably one or two gentlemen engaged in tbe sugar importing trade will also be invited to give evidence. ENTENNIAL UNION. To Tax Epiror oF THe HeRALD:—~ I desire to call your attention to an error in this morning's issue of your paper in the report of the mecting of the Board of Education, beld yesterday, | which you will dous the favor to correct. The appeal made by the School Committee of the Women’s Cen- tennial Union jor permission to solicit contribations from the public schools was not for the purchose of « banner, as stated, but for the Centennial fund for tho Women’s Pavilion and for tho founding of Centennial terest, will amount to over $36,000, ‘The termination of this protracted suit will prove a t subject of general interest to banks and capitaliste, involves the question of cotlateral security, together exercised by with the devree of care necessary to be banks. schools and colleges of oar city. 8 Chairs Committes on Schools, New Yor medals of honor for distinguished ite > im the Centenniab Union. Marcu, 2, 1876, | ising to send immediately upon arriving bome, He | present some very singular features, From the skall NEW YORK MUNICIPAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the New York Municipal Society was held last night, atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel, with Mr. Dorman B, Eaton in the chair and Mr. Robert M. Strébeigh as secretary. Among those present and who took part in the proceedings were Messrs. Samuel D, Babcock, George D, Butler, . 8. Clift, Jr; J. M.. Constable, J. B, Corneil, Dorman B. Eaton, J, M. Fiske, John H. Hall, Joshua Hendricks, E. Oelbermann, Theodore Roosevelt, Jackson 8, ing, F. BR. Thurber, Sinciair,Tousey, D. M. Turnure, P. Van Volkenburgh, C. Watrous, George C. Watrous and eral others. After the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, it was reselved, after consider- | able disoussion, that the society should proceed to | ‘Albany in a body and present their opinions to the Senate in favor of the reduction of the number of the present commissioners of public departments in the city government, as also the salary of the various officials, as recommended in the communication pre- sented by Comptrolier Green, It was also resolved | that the society recommend the reduction of the cleri- | cal force in all the departments, ‘The society is now tn daily communication with the committee of the Senate to whom these matters have been referred, but it is deemed expedient that no | further steps shall be taken until after the committee | have rey Resolutions wero also adopted recommending that either the Sheriff's fees be made more uniform or that the office be made a salaried one, Also that the society rolest against the erection of any new markets yy means of city moneys, and, in fact, that | is inst the policy of the municipal government to maintain a system of markets at all, and that the society lay its reasons therefor beforo tho Legislature on the visit of its members to Allfiny, as soun as the committee to whom the suggestions of Comptrolier Green have been referred shall have re- ported The 15 society then adjourned, NEW YORK HOM@OPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. The commencement exercises of the New York Homeropathic Medical College were held last evening, at Association Hal), corner of Twenty-third stroct and Fourth avenue, The placo was filled with elegantly | dressed audience of ladies and gentlemen, and | the ceremonies were peculiarly entertaining, They were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Armitage, and the degrees were conferred on thirty-six graduates, by Hon. Salem H. Wells, Pres- ident of tne Board of Trustees. Dr. E. H. Linnell took the faculty prizo, Dr. H. M. Smith the materia medica and obstetric prizes, aud other lesser prizes were like- wise distributed. After the exercises the faculty, trus- | aduates had a fine supper at the Hotel | Brunswick, TAMMANY HALL. * At the regular meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee, held last evening, the following gentlemen ‘were appointed a commitieo on the revision of by- | W. Morton, William B. Nassau, R J, zo Diefendorf aud John Hays, THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS. The Liberal Republica General Committee held its regular monthly meeting last evening, at No. 1,266 Broadway, Mr. Benjamin F. Manierre presiding, and passed resolutions condemning the action of the dem- ocratic House in turning out disabled Union soldiers, recommending the nomination of James G. Blaine for the Presidency and praying for a speedy return to specie payments. NEW YORK INFLATIONISTS. The following call for a Convention has been issued :— The democrats of the State of New York, who desire to be in accord upon the financial question with the demporats of Uhio, Pennsylvauia, Indiana, Missourt | and the Western and Southern States, and all others who concur in theso views, are invited to send delegat from each county in the State to a mass State Conve tion of the democravy, to be held at Wieting Hall in | the city of Syracuse, on the 15th day of March, 1876, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, ST. PATRICK'S DAY. Last might, at Hibernia Hall, the delegates from the numerous civic Irish societies of the city met for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. After tho transaction of somo routine business a committee was appointed to ask the Mayor to review the procession on St, Patrick's Day, after which the convention adjourned. §T. NICHOLAS SOCIETY, The regular quarterly meoting of the above assoblay tion took place last evening at Delmonico’s, Fourteenth street and Filth avenue. The affair was purely im- formal, and no business of any ‘ticular importance was transacted. There was no election of officers, GERMAN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS f OF BROOKLYN. A meeting of tho citizens of Brooklyn, Eastern Dis- trict, was held on Wednesday evening last, at which it was resolved to petition’ and request the Board of Education of tho city of Brooklyn to afford the children | of German residents, attending public schools sufi. laws :—George Morrison, Men; | hire all the public rooms they can to GAMBETTA THE LEADER OF THE FRENCH RADICALS DE- FINES THE PUBLIC PROSPECT OF THE DEMOC- RACY. (Paria correspondence of London News. }. M. Gambetta, after travelling all night from the South, made a’ short appearance yesterday at a meet- ing in tbe Rue Levis, Eighth Arrondissement, to sup- port the candidature of M. Chaufour, AND THE REPUBLIC. plebiscitary pretentions of M. Raoul Duval and the ul- tramontane demonstration of M. Riani, and oppose the Due Decazes, | From the Rue Levis M. Gambetta went to a large outbuilding, at No. 148 Boulevard de Charoune, at Belleville, where a meeting of 2,000 electors anxiously expected him. Business was opened by M. Metivier, a M. Gambetta, stating that seven years ago, which, see- ing the immense events that bad passed since, seemed acentury, Belleville, with a prescience worthy of all admiration, gave to M. Gambetta an irreconcilable mandate. The opinion of the constituency then was that no lapse of time could condone the crimes of a coup d'état government, a government that had trampled upon right and liberty. But now a new phase had opened. The party of resistence had become @ government party, and was likely before long to be- come the govern: 4 Gambetta, in reply ‘Dear Citizens—It is my beliet that democracy never belore beard such a re- markable document as that just read. On the day when tho policy there detined shall be avowed and practised the French Revolution will have ended. No politician reading this manifesto can refrain from ad- miring this fraction of Parisian democracy, whych bas been 50 mach defamed and calumniated, Yes, after the war, obliged as we were to face a coalition of reaction- policy of results and a policy of reveries. We owe to democracy the truth, and taking account of all difficulties we must do battle with our suries under the eyes of public opinion, Ths practical policy originated at Belleville in 1869, when we drew up together the clauses of our contract. We had made France rotten was to lead to a gulf in which the nation would be almost annthiiated. We only then felt the necessity of enlightening that universal Wrage which the Empire had made the instrument ut witude, Lt w: real fortune of ubtry which he holds in reserve depends on the Republic and democracy. necessary to develop a policy, not fora restricted gro: but for the whole country. We undertook this ne sary work of proselytism and propagandism. The result of our efforts is shown in tho municipal elections of the last five yeers, and im that of the Senate, which was devised to Tepudlican majority, country will give pee alirm, resolute republican major- ity 19 the Assembly, that I promise you; and Lam not in the habit of pledging my word withoat being sure of what lsay. But all difficulties are not overcome. have in five years routed our enemies and demonstrated heir impotence. Wo have passed through the defies in which the liberties of nations are massacred, but we havo much todo. We shall be asked for proofs that we ourselves know how to govern, Wo imust ad- vance carefully, watchiully, and on sure ground, What I wish for democracy is not a collection of decrees which reaction might repeal to-morrow, but that equality shall not be a vain word, and that the On the 20th of February the cient schools, masters and books, for I would not have the republicans characterized as impotent meddlers who touch everytaing and amend nothing. 1 utterly deny the absolute in everything, and am a partisan of e relative, You can only work in politics as in any you begin another. Politics constantly change. What we do in 1876 differs from what we shall do in 1877, 1878 and 1880. Our interests and the situation ot Europe may cl character and sincere convictions, It was no doubt er, long hefore the elections, to send to the Democratic Mount Aventin ageats of December 2, to asham meeting, where no electors were present. Where are those Bonapartists now? They are fain to prevant us trom meoting in them. It 1s wholesome at this crisis to show” that the true, sober, wise spirit of democracy prevails at Belleville, fear which lead to military or civil dictatorships. Topudiate both, I await the triumph ot the Republic with all its consequences, from discussion and reason alone. I conclude by saying, without flattery; that I trust Belleville will ever be my veritable tribune,’? THE RUSH TO THE BLACK HILLS. INTERESTING FACTS AS TO THE EXCITEMENT— DOUBTS AS TO THE PRESENCE OF GOLD IN PAYING QUANTITIES. (From the Denver (Col.) Nows.) A party of 400 strong will leave Chicago on March 15 for the Black Hills, The expedition has been formed by James Conklin, who accompanied Professor Jenney last season. Tho secretary of the company has re- ceived 2,300 letters of inquiry since the announcement of its organization. The party travel through to Chey- enne by special train, and arrangements have been completed with the raijroads to transport the men from Chicago to the Hills for $26 apiece. A letter from Milwaukee says that a prosperous storekeeper intends leaving his business and leading a party, who will start on April 2, going via Cheyenne, The main compauy consists of men in the following professions :—Two physicians, one veterinary surgeon, one druggist, two ayers, twenty -carpenters, three blacksmiths, several grocers, a number of farmers, one cient opportunity to acquire a knowledge of the Ger- | man janguage. Professor Worst, who urged the adhp- | tien of the resolution, favored the appointment of Ger- | man teachers, as they could best impart a knowledga | of that tongue to the pupils. The subject of establish- ing a seminary for the preparation of Gernff school teachers is now being discussed by Teutons through- out the country. A committee of three has been ap- pointed to copter with the Board of Educauon and urge the scheme, An effort to introduce German in | the schools was made in Brooklyn three years ago, | but it failed, THE NEWSBOYS. Last evening the newsboys gave a reception to their | friends at the Newsboys’ Lodging House. About eight | ) P. M. the grand hall was well diled. About six hundred | of the hitle urchins and a goodly number of ladics and geutiemen were present, The sieight-of-hand perform. | ances were given under the direction of Mr. Fiess and Mr Charles O'Connor, | DEATHS IN OLD AGE. | In tho death notices in to-day’s Hxnato there are | twelve of persons who died at an advanced age. Ono was cighty-two. two eighty-one, three cighty, four shventy-six; one died in his seventy-second year and | another in her seventieth year, } | “THAT BRITISH » NOBLEMAN. (From the Rochester Uniov.) | Some new things are beginning to crop out regard. | ing the young pretended sg; of English nobility who | | bas just created such a furore in Buffalo society. | “Doc." Tuthill, of the Clifton House, has received a | Jester from PD. Clitton Shears, of the Rossin House, | Toronto, stating that Courtenay ss a regular dead beat. | The Commercial quotes as foilows:--'* Dead beat! go for him! We bad him here last year, but I pummelled him out of all the money he had and sent him adrift, owing us about $1 50. Ho was ‘Lieutenant Denison,’ of Her Majesty's Sixty-fourth, you knew. His fathor is the lodge keeper of the Earl of Devon's country seat in Devonshire, He left England under a ciouded | star, and has been doing the ‘beat’ under two or three wliates—viz., ‘Courtenay,’ ‘Denison,’ and ‘Hon. Hugh rtenay Cunningham.’ This wiormation is | from a young Englishman who is living in | Toronto, and who left England a month after the noble youth. His father's place is adjoin. | ing the Barl’s and ne knew this so-called Courtenay. It was he Who recognized the ass here and who gave | We hear, | ings aro substancial structaros. yesterday morning. Bowno, who ts wanted by Canadian officers for forgery. | Clothier, a dry goods dealer, @ coal dealer, together ‘with inteiligeat, industrious laborers, and half a dozen old miners who have been in Nevada, Arizona, Colo- rado and Calitornia, and who feel they are Forty-niners gain, The entire party will probably embrace not fewer than from 300 to 400 men, Ono gentleman will take a sawmill. Another proposes to transport a shingle mill to the land ot golden sands. essrs, Laramie from the Hills, and report lively times at | Custer City, Just belore they lett a wedding took place at Custer City—the first to occur in that region. The parties were William Hardesty and Miss Ida Simms, both late of Cheyenne. Messrs. Stubbs and Thompson alsy report that the first steam whistie ever sounded in that section was heard on February 6. 1t was a saw- inill whistle. A. L, Jones, of Golden, now in Custor City, write letter from which we extract as follow: T have been Prospecting every day, as yet nothing that will The snow has been very deep, and everything 1s frozen up. There seems to be gold all over the country, but not in paying quantities, About forty miles from here are some ‘At this place the bed rock is to twenty-five feet, and no gold till you reach bed rock, and then it isnotvery plenty. I have found some about four feet {rom the surface, but not in pay- ing quantities, After I try tue Deadwood and Dry- wood diggings, if1 find them no better than these, I will be ready to leave this country.” ‘A party of twenty, mostly coal_miners, will start from Medicine Bow, on the Up for the gold fields. 'They will take the route, or trail | rather, througa Sabille Canyon, which is repurted to be freo of snow. Jules Ney, a Wyoming pioneer, tninks Custer City will ve the commercjal and Hillyo the mining town ol the Hilis, their relations to each other being about the same as Denver and Central City, Judge Kuydendall writes an intersting letter from Custer City to the Cheyenne Leader. He says, among other things, that only a few claims are nm boing worked at that place. Quartz indications are good ail over the country, Rich discoveries aro reported on Deadwood and Whitewood creeks, seventy miles north of Caster City. In some localities the bed rock is n the surface; in others itis very deep. Washed gra black eand and rubies, white and variegated, abound. One hunared and nw A houses will com- pleted in Custef City by March 1. poche of the biild- ail City numbers fifty cabins and 100 mbabitanta, hh je Judge rays he is satisfied with the country and intends tostay | there. A CANADIAN FORGER. Sergeant MeManus, of the Second precinct, Long | Island City, arrested William Miller, at Ravenswood, Miller is believod to be James us the information.” The proprietor of the Russoll | 0" bis person was found $850 in Dilley a House, Detroit, also comes to the front with anex- | check for $150 on the First National Bank, He writes:-«"f noticed tke uccount of Cour. | Brockport, N. Y., payable to the order of James Salkert, in Bullato papers. He stopped with as last fail | Signed F. J, Conant, and @ ten-cent eT ae 0 i, t hurry to catch ‘short,’ and one tatement of bis | J.,!and prom- | and left the 10th of November in a gr the first steamer for England, HM of our boarders, bo whom he mado dijemma, lent him $20, taking mis ‘1. 0. didn’t do it by a darned sight, though. While here he signed his name as ‘Hugh Courtenay,’ ‘lH. L. do Courtenay’ and ‘Hugh de Courtenay.’ I imagine that he wentto New York and then started West again atter vew adventures, If there should be any chanco of a possible tollection of the $20 after you get the whole, please let me know."’ It bas further been as+ cortained that the young man appeared in San Fran- ciseo about a year ago under the name of ‘Sir Harry Vane Tempest,” and played the confidence man in tho first circles. STRANGE PETRIFACTION. {From the Stanton (Pa.) Republican. } Twenty-five ye ago an ola lady in Providence tow. ship, well known for her many exeelient qualities, died and was buried ina private burying ground back of Hyde I’ark, near the Cor ental mines, The vody was removed a short time since, and it was found to to the pelvis, or hip bones, nothing remained but the bones, which were well preserved; from the pelvis to the feet the limbs were found to be pertectly petrified, haying ali the appearance of stone, both in weight and color, We offer no explanation this singular phe- nomenon, but leave it to the physicians to ermine why balf the body should be petrified and the rest now | on one side, Tho officer at once telegrap' and received a despatch police magistrate, asking to have Bowne, alias Miller, detained wll the necessary papers tor bis extradition could be sent. and remanded. Miller was taken before Judge Pearse A QUEER INQUEST INCIDENT. A fow days ago, in Elizabeth, N. J., the body was found of one Louis Resaoké. To determine whother he died from over drink of exposure to the storm an in- quest was held. On Wednesday the foreman of the 18 BO Bick that the case bad to be jury y ester goes to show that icko died from cruel treatment the bands of a saloon keoper, who drove him oat in t storm, A Verdict has not yet been rendered, A MODEL DEPUTY SHERIFF. A warrant was issued yesterday by of the Jus- tices in Harrison, Hudson county, N. J., for the arrost of Deputy Sherif Thomas Gilhooly, to answer a charge of having defrauded Mr, Holmes, proprietor of the Lodi Hotel, in Harrison, out of $75. hooly Intely developed great surlace zeal ja hanting down policy gambling, bat, on the quiet, indulged in the game hirself, Mr. Holmes, too, ix a policy piszer and won $75, which Gilhooly collected and, as alleged, has disappeared with. He said be | would pass over as unworthy of serious notice the | town councillor, in the chair, reading an address to | ary parties, democracy was forced to choose between a | adver- | did not then know that the corrupung regime which | rgent to teach the peasant that tho | Tt was | be a citadel of reaction, but which, it turns out, has a | We | education promised to the people be assured by sufll- | other work. You must do one thing pertectly before | e, What you shotid demand from your represen- | We willavoid that division, hatred and | Stubbs aud Thompson have returned to | id have found some gold, but | good diggings, | m eighteen jon Pacific, next Monday | already. | from William Uox Alien, | Te seoma Gil- | 5 ANTIQUE BOSTON | Gradual Disappearance of the Ancient Landmarks. | DANGER TO THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH, ——— The Struggle Between the Conser« vatives and Progressives. | THE OLD STATE HOUSE DOOMED Bostos, March 2, 1876. | ‘The “Hub of the Universe,” “The Tri-mountain City,’” | the “Modern Athens of America,” or whatever else | you may call it, seems inevitably doomed. Through | the angry elements of nature and the march of com mercial progress all the evidences of ancient existence promise to be swopt away during this glorious centen | nial year, Only old ‘Faneuil Hall,” the boasted “Cradle | of Liberty,” and the solid monument over on Bunker | Hill are likely to Ve spared, and perhaps before | another century comes round even tho demolition of these will be recorded in the Hrrato’s Koston cor- respondenge. In the 8 of the biue-bl | descendants of the Beacon Hill stock this wholesale | sweeping away of anciout landmarks seems little lest than criminal vandalism, First it was | OLD FORT MILL | that had to be brought down to a level with tho rost of the town, The project was fought long and hard by the octogenarian portion of the community, who re+ | membered that in the days of their youth it was the | regular bon ton locality of Boston, The demands | of ag well as the | | | | business, however, persever- | ance of Young America were unrelenting, and with the expenditure of a few millions of money the proud old hill was dumped into the Ocean to form what is now that flourishing commercial thoroughfare kuown as Atlantic avenue. The now level space once occupied | by the mountain was quickly covered with some of the | finest business structures in the city, but only to bo | swept away by the great fire, a circumstance which some of the blue bloods denominated as a judgment | from heaven, The calamity of the conflagration, how- \ ever, failed to extinguish the proverbial enterprise and | perseverance of the modern Yankee ; for that same spa’ is to-day again covered by marble fronts even more | grand and imposing than those destroyed, and the | bool, shoe and leather trade now transacted there an- | nually foots up among the miltions of dollars, " STRALING AWAY THE COMMON, The next contlict between the blue bloods and the | modern and progressive classes came from a proposi- | tion to slice off a portion of the Common for the | widening of Tremont street. The war was a loug and | bitter one, and, as may be anticipated, Beacon str: was vanqtished, and a shee of the Common was appro | priated to accommodate tne widening of what has now proven to be one of the principal business highways of the city. But these events of the past t only aliad | | for the purpose of conveying an idea of the muda) | this kind which are always existing in Boston betwo the rival classes referred to. THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH. The great hubbub now is over what disposition shall | be made of the Old South church, ou the corner of Milk and Washington streets, The great fire camo near | sweeping it out of existence, and if 1t had there would | have been a great deal of bad temper saved and | the Maskachisett# courts “ would have — been { spared a perplexing question during — the | past few years, it may be said, in fact, that avont the | only good that came out of its salvation from tha | flames was that it furnished acceptable accommoda. | tions tor a post office until the new structu®: was com The society owning the property have now ew houye of worship over in the Back Bay sec- | tion, and the long pending litigation concerning tue disposition of the old historical edifice bas just been de- cided in the Supreme Court in faver of those who seck tosellit. ‘This, 1 may add, 4s another triumph of Young America oyer the elderly element. It is not certain, however, even in view of the Court’s decre that the ancient tabernacle willeome down, for there 8a Movement brewing to purchase and maintain it | intact for a few hundred years longer. There is some- thing, perhaps, eminently proper in this idea if it cau be realized, for the Old South 18 probably the oldest so- ciety and OLDEST CHURCH in the country, The society was constituted in Charles- town, May 12, 1669, some seventeen years earlier than the society worshipping in the Brattle street | church, of cannon bali tame, which has been torn | down within a year or two in obedience to business de- mands, Toe first church of the Old South Society was built of wood, on the same site where the present edi- fice now stands, this latter one having beon completed nd occupied for the first time on the 26th of April, bi |, nearly 146 years ago. The old stracture is suil in gooa condition, and in the absence of fire, earth- quakes and gales can very easily be transmitted to a scor future generations, There are many historic associations connected with it, for here was delivered, in defiance of the threats of authority and in presence of marshalled soldiery, Warren’s feariess oration on t | anniversary of the dth of March, 1770; and here wei | Tepeatediy heid the meotings of freemen which cali forth those peals of patriotic eloquence which moved | the whole country and shook the British throne, Later, during, the war of the rebellion, the old editio resounded with patriotism, and hundreds of the Union soldiers who went out from Boston wero enrolied within the ancient walls of this venerable church, WILL IT BB SPARED? Whether the old edifice will bo torn down or pro- served is a momentous question here in Boston now. The project proposed contemplates having the building | conveyed to the Massachusetts Historical Society, ta | be used in its present shape as a depository or inu- | \ seum of articles illustrative of our early national history. This proposition comes froin xome of the gentlemen who have long con- | tended that the society ought to be aillowod | to sell the property. They propose to have it ap- | praised by three competent persons and offer them- selves to contribute $25,000 toward the: purchase | money if the people of Massachusetts will contribute | the balance, They reckon the property as worth about | $500,000, and suggest that a contribution of twenty- five cents from cach one of the inbabitants of chusetts will save the old church from going und hammer. This latter idea ts, of course, juvenilis! unless something more solid is proposed the Old South | will soon be among the thing’ ol the past. | THE OLD STATE Hoven. The old State House, the time-honored obstruction | on State and Washington streets, 18 to be obliterated during the centennial year, and, ‘of course, there will be the customary lameutations trom Beacon Hill, Two | buildings on the same spot have been destroyed by fire, aod for years many have hoped that this un- ! sightly beap “would go the same way. It hat | done good service in its time though, and much im portant business, both colonial and State, has bees tray ed within its walls, During the last seventy. eight years it has been chiefly occupied for offices, | although fora briet period it was used as a city hall | and post office. Itis now owned by the city, and tho thorities have decided to demolish it during the com. ing summer, | AN OLD MOTEL CHANGED HANDS. | The retiremeut of George Young from the proprietor. | ship und ment of Young’s Hotel atnounts | almost to the wiping out of an ancient landmark. Fut many years he bas been familiar to thousands, and he and his hotel bad become as much of an institution at the big organ at Mus | club dinners, and the upper dining halls have more th: once resounded with the eloquence of such states | as Choate, Webster, Mann, Sumner, Wilson, Banks, and others of less renown. [From the Detroit Free Press. } A day or two sineo the passengers in a Michi- gan avenue car, bound west, were treated to a dialect Jarce that was more uproariously funny than any- thing that ever {inds its way to the mimic stage. The car was waiting on a switch, when, unperceived by whe driver, who was looking straight ahead, a youngish woman, freckled and frowsy-headed, came up and | Jumped upon the step. The door of the car was closed, and a gentleman passenger stepped forward to open it, “No, sir!” said she, waving him back with a ges ture as majestic as those adopted by sorio-comic vor calists. “I wapt the dhriver of this bi ii keahr ta attind to his beesness, It’s hia beesness to open the door of this keabr, and I’ sthand here til he does it’ And she stood there, getting more irate every no- ment, until the downward beond car arrived at the switch, Then she opened the door for herself, ontered | aud closed it with a “bang” that indicated wrath. Sho | gat down near the door, took two pennies and a thice- | cent piece from her pocket, and when & gentleman | offered tu deposit the coins in the box for her, waved him off with a repetition of that gesture, and in tones that reminded oue of a telegraph wire hit with & pebbia id, “No, sir! It's Bot 6 lens ee a a 5 place to be payin’ conducther they want my mooney, they'll come aud it, shure!" It was cloarly evident that there was likely to be fun 4, and people who reside on Third and Fourth streets rode right along past their suppers to see ti: At Seventh street the woman gave a turiow ped the car old up her fare and shouted, ‘‘Hore’s yer tare |"? The driver ‘held on to li brake with bis right band, | transferred the reins from his left to his teeth, with the hand thus liberated, pointed to the box. |S sir, | won't do it!” exclaimed the woman, ber Fnapping ominously. “Whatdo yes mane, yer dhirty | spaipeen, by tellin’ a respictable woman to be cou ducther of a bobtail keabr? No, sir! If yo iver git ony ov my fotve cent paces ye'll come aither thimt | May the divil fly away wid yer bobtail keabr!” and, | happy in the consciousness of having expressed her opinion of canduetoriess ca five cents saved, sha disappeared around the corner of Kelly’s Eighth Ward Saivon,