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Ork fiends who wish their advertise ments classified, ated to hand them keop our office open until a ecoption of advertisements but cannot agree to classify thom unless sent in in time, Legistative Commissions Tur Legislature is going to a dangerous extreme in the polloy of establishing com: missions for the government of this city and Brooklyn, Because the Police Comminsion and two or three others have been sticcom ful, the Legislature nooms to have concluded that commissions are on infallible cure for all municipal ill, We now have in the Metropolitan District thirteon Legiatati ve commissions, Esch ono of thes inatitu tions has taken [from the people the con- trol ofa certain wanicipal department; and in tho aggregate they have taken nearly the entire management lof the city government, ‘The elective offices aro now but little more than nomi nal positions, ae Mayor truthfully re: arked in his recent message, But thie is not all, ‘There is a movement on foot in the Legislature to completo the commission business during the prosent woxsion of the Legislature, so as to place the control of the city completely in the hands of the Albany lawmakers, Now, comminsions of this kind, liko curatives for physioal ills, may wer very well when used with reason ablo moderation; but the course of the Legislature is something like physicking « man with a pound of Epsom salte or bleed ing him to death for plethora, Commissions should be the exception—not the rule—in our local government, It docs not follow that the people ought to be robbed of their electoral rights, because two of three com missions havo done well, Commissions are the deputod authority of the appoluting power, and aro thorefore the servants of the xecutive or the Legislature appolntix them, The appointment of such officers wt tho will of the people, over whom | they are placed, end tion of liberty. Aud no ascendancy of State politic * like those of Now York Brooklyn, are opposed to the Executive ttor what the munit rightly unte their municipal eficer ed or solicited by ther. Agovernment—city, county, State, or na le, | must be empowered by that people Jouly; and to institute » doputed | NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVO.|*uthority over — community — con: | to the expressed will, is tyranny reative power demands that everything shall be subordinated to it, Exveutive Comm are no exception, A condi tion of their appointment either stated or ey must marvhal them 0 creative power ev In evidence of this, casen might be cited Hie is, that t fiom the first to the last of the Commis: | t have been foisted upon um, | Senatorial Ele: tions There will be wn unawally large numbe of United States Senators the present your, The Legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Indiana, Hiinois, Missouri, Kansas, aud No. ted rin toate ator seems to lie betw present Senator, aud Reprencutative Con Linum the chuuces being decidedly in favor of the latter, Mr, Guigiey was favorably AF OWD Mate wholes for Sex ago, but the candid atatement of hie de sive for @ general amnesty bas lost | | him the support of the revengeful clus the contest, ‘The ost intorvsting of all the in progr fo Penuaylva The conte | the irrepressible ‘Iman. 5 f the | tore to | Troy, whose tera expires, ar VE CENTS PER WEEK, or sent by | ado, will probably be vet dinpute the position assumed by hi gers the very founda. | if large com: | | politically, it follows that the latter eaunot | Wisconsin will fill the place of Senator ry | WN by electing either t Mr vernor Purton haa two Sona tone in place of Senator Pomy mitted Sen place of Senator Lawn, who ¢ euicite, Nevada will fill the p tor Ny, either by reelecting that gontle tan or else by electing Mr Dm Losa. All of the Senators to be ¢ will be Radi ption of the Mar cals, with the i Land Senator, Nebraska nnd Colorado. ‘The billy which have passed the Senate wrion of Nebraska and Color by the Pre jeut ‘The vote innion of Ne braska wae 24 agai that on Co db ag 11, In the caso of Nebraska the aiticmative vote is leas than two-thirds of the in that of Colorado, it te one more fo that it in difficnlt to extimnate the eh: fearrying the billy over the Pi Neither of these requinite population, th proachos it more nearly than Cotorn for the adn ve ritories have the brake ap [and on the whole it is better that they | | should wait v til their qualifications are much as to place their admiasion beyond dispute, The eagerness of a few politiciaun torecnre good places their friends, ia at the bottom of thie at tempt to urge those Territories prematurely nto the »iaterhood of States, m thomaclves and City Potities. Tur, Democratio politicians, who have the management of Tammany Hall, evidently imagine that the rank and file of their party ure made of clay, to bo moulded to all the base uses which they, aa managers, shall conceive necessary for the political muccens of the time-honored wigwam, With this idea, they have inaugurated @ seriee of movementa designed to perpetuate the! power, and rendereven Mayor Horrwax obedient to their dictation, ‘Thus far thelr efforts have not been as suceensful as thoy expected, and if our estimate of the Mayor in correct, we shall expect he will complete ly ehec othe wily politiciane who be that Mr, HoreMAN ia willing to assist inany scheme which will permit them to plunder the city troamury, provided ¢ Kive him @ political quid pro qua, The Ke publicans have all along asserted that Mayor Horrway wan in league with the worst men connected with tho City Gov ment; and, although we cannot believe much a statement, we confess that the cour of the Mayor has not enabled hia friends to oppo nents. Nevertheless we @till have faith in our Chief Maxintrate, who will, we firmly believe, alwayge be found on the side of the poople, ‘The proposition recently made for & reconstruction of the Democratic politic of the city wan #0 ably advoe Mayor, that we do not see how he can cow utly continue to ace with Asmnine to run the Democratic machine y the old ruts of municipal corruption, in spite of the many w ime the ve re ceived. If Mayor HorrMan affiliates with h men, he will bo politically dead in a this city is con- ” twelvemonth, 0 far corned, We are induced to this plain stateme reached us that hie Honor in abont to assiat the corruptiontate in the partage of certain ordinances designed to put money in the pockets of city officials, and whield from in vestigation the illegal action of whilom office holders who propose to nse their influ ence to further (the political fortu inte pored to Hoards of Control an na, is equally plain spoken whe Commis: of city politics, and utter additional warn ings to both Mayor and people when we find the corruptioniate meditating any ad: I raids upon the pockets of the peo: Condition ef Poland. Tue presente a series of heroic but unsuccessful nat a des: treme potio but greatly superior power, patriotiam, extraonlinary perseverance and romarkable courage have not only failed to release that country from the grasp of Rus- hut have 0 al rulers to | sion and cruelty whieh have been uniformly the Poles, In the year nd stance mato under the leadership of Koscuis2xo, ocenpied the iced toware 1792 the army of Russia oi doapite the heroie rv ered Polan 1 Mr, Hants, the | the boude of rw a few weeks js, aud be is now virtually out of 5 ante are | Simon Camenon, Ex Governor Cowen, aud | lover of liberty the world over, ‘Tho whole eVENs, CAMeboy i» the richest man in Pennsylvania, and one | of the most unscrupulous, If money can seud bim tothe Senate be will go there, for | unterily sucrilleed all, eveu to thelr liv the Pennsylvania Legislature in always for gle to the biguoet bidder, Camsnon wee | connot always continug fruitles Mestad 10 tho Culler rinton | dannin areas of the Russian Gaveroment yirfuolly. 19,000 stand of axaue for faaue to tivo in 1799 the Kingdom was annihilated, and ite | provinces divided — between Russia, Prussia and Austria, By the treaty of Tilsit, in 1807, Napoleon transformed the xreater part of the Pruggian share of Polund nto a Duchy of Warsaw, aud gave Liberal constitution; but with the reverses poloon, the hopes of Poland vaninhed sian authority became dominant of and 1 From that tue to the prevent, all insurree. tion the utinost rigor, and & de to denationalize the people and force thom to accept the Russian language, laws of everything that conld be considered Polish, even to the and rule, to the exclusic fonge and music of the nation, Repeated | outbreaks haye taken place, but without y result beyond causing Russia to tight and visit tho | tho severest punishineuts, It isa remarka blo fact that notwithstanding all this wxement, the people of Poland are today as tirin bold in thelr views of fieo and der ieeratio government as if they they have never b ae Koscivecko and Peasy will dh population of Polaud ix scarcely Hous, yet no country caw point to a br the noble cause of freedom. Sueb a now. In New Jomey, Mr Frerinoncrann y occasioned by the death of Senator Warorrr, Wet. In Indiana, « successor to Senator Laxn will be clected. ‘Tho oboice will fall upon Governor Mourox if bis health will warrant him tm ne 1. The candidates arc the other in | | will anrely come when Poland al pr tions of the Krew otherwine, in pected from the liquor di out licenses ai will avail them not of money and could afford to nse it lite if thero twere any likelihoc in the movemont'for @ repeal of t aw the Leqislatare and ¢ our citizens are atrongly in favor of refe tu the liquor trattio, they might better ke their mour enforce th all who woul keep out of trouble to re and obey its provisions. widen’ Mr. speaker Pitts. Spenker of the Assembly h perfosmed bia duty in the re upon the vario ratinfacti admirably at the compori: mnitinen, the peo nearly every com & desire to me Wherever a cha vould influence mombers of @ committes that committes haa be of men not likely to be no used we required the ap. ® doubtful Chairman, Mr. Speaker Pitts has taken care to flank sald chairinan by two or more“ iron-clad members, who will prevent their “head an from accomplishing evil, To wa, who are nomewhit familiar with most of the an tecedenta of the me Assembly from thie city and Brooklyn, it ia a matter of eon. how wisely Mr. Prete hax disposed of thew on the different oom beit the Speaker is wn ardent he to have eatimated some of his Kepubliean brethren at their proper standart, and placed them where not du much, (if any, harm, Our pondent, who isa shrewd ob: worver, expresses th Mr. Pitts will be one of the moat impare tal presiding officers yet honored by an otion to the Speakership of our State Ansembly.” We hope the predicth bo realized. 4 > hon here 0 they ¢ Albany cided opinion that ay Crowded Mereet Cart A PILt wna introduced in the Senate yer te yy, at Albany, to re; e the of passengers on street cars and omuil The abont the extreme in 0 lence of the crowding now allowed m the cars during morning and evening hours, but it is doubtful whether the pro: pored regulation would operate favorably to passengers, Lhe cos jon could afford, uber fora time, to refuse any addition to the umber of ear n whieh case the public by the t in consequence of fintimations that have of the Mayor, We repeat our conviction that Mayor Hoffman will not bo a party to any such scheme, antl reiterate our faith in the rity of the Mayor, who, however op- itin hie Province to rebuke official corruption, We shall therefore narrowly watoh the course iatory of Poland for the last century ita would suffer even more than under the Prosent ayetom, Again, the bill proposed could be nullified, as far ax the comfort of passengers is concerned, by employing two tra hornen to eaoh car, ‘The only remedy for the present in venience late be found in a Dill compelling the car companies to put pough to a late properly the whole numbe passengers; but with ally increasing population, there will bo no satisfactory solution to the ques t travel until underground roade are constructed and in running order the whole \ th of the island, Pugnaciove ( cunciimes. Tun disuracetil scones enwcted at the meeting of the Board of Coumeilmen yee torday afternoon, would reflect very ser ously on the dignity of that body, if it had any dignity to be reflected upon, As it such proceedings should cause no mrprise If the people will elect auch men to office as those who compose the Board, they must just euch behavior from them, and yful attempte to blacken character by inkatands, #0 long ‘aa the polico can restrain them from indul. ging in pistol practice while in session, In the matter of personal abuae, they should be allowed tho uso of those forcible and expreanive term with wh them familiar on care Public Decaments. We: are indebted to the Hon, Newson ‘Tavion for valuable public documenta, in book form, printed by order of Congress. The departmental reports and statistics, comprised within the pages of these yol- umes, afford a figurative “mine” for the ex ploration of edito «1 others acoustomed toneck after knowledge under difficulties It is to b med that oor Senators and Representatives never investigate the mat ter, when a motion is made to print a pub- lic document ; for if they did, the number of public documents printed at the nation alexpense would be limited to the histori cal and valuable, As this portion of the public business is at present conducted, there in at least a bushel of chail to every peck of printed wheat, ‘The Sultrew January 10, 1867, Fa, SynmIn an article prised in this pre hood wuffrage, without or culor.’ Tn’ that the Son's doctrine | Quenise 1f the word “ quatifled” had been printed, ry attempts have been put down with ery effort has boon lors with | of had beon always accustomed to it, Tu spirit eubsined, aid never eof wich auen forever in the hearts, not only of their downtrodden countrymen, but of every mil tor an it was writte our correapondent’s letter, it would have exuctly exprested the Sur's doctrine, We are oppored to i mau who is competent to vote intelligently | should be allowed to do #o—no matter whe: white or blac or be is rieh oF poor, Hitia—Anowal Report of wh Inspector General. Tho annual report of the Inspector Ger New Vor oral of this State gives a complete summary | y aflaire, During the past year | made in the ailit bat few changes have t nization of the National G force as limited by law having been attai at the close of the previous year, and the labor has been m Airected to the edu: ation and training of our orgauiz in the knowledge of regulation tary siouce, rather than to tho fo new commands or tho augregate force, Owing to the limited ap propriations of money by the Logislatu Tor military purposes, and the large dr te from this fuad for the adjuatinent of matters perta\ volunteor wervice, the military dep Deon unable to furnish but a ¢ 0 ot aud extinguith Polieh pationality, but « time | orgarized ; rines that date (000 «t arme end 7,100 uniforms. h leaving m deflolt whieh the Ley jould not fail to furnish menus to 1, in person or by every military asd eroster sod have been received from every company. Eneampmonta have been held » ‘Oneonta, Ballaton and rinories for their reg provided, in other districts portant matter has been noglect present’ year oxh regate strength of the National ‘es not materially varying from the Eatorcement of the Paclae Law Te Ainteiot im the State, To-monnow the enforcement of the Rx cleo Law will be commenced, in accordance with the arder of Police Boperintendent No opposition, either legal or ere, Tho better class of dealers have takoo will quietly submit to the restrictions which the law imposes, Those who have not secured liceuses will bo obliged to ruspend business, for it will be useless to attempt either deflance or eva- sion of the law. A movement hae been rted by a portion of the liquor men, with the object of seouring the repeal of the Fx: cine Law by the Legislature, but the effort x. They have plonty ally {ot success law, but 0 better clase of The muster of the me officers. OF thi are serviceably armes and equipped. is number about 40,000 |, and 37,400 uniformed It isentimated that of thin forea at least 25,000 well-organized and dis. ciplined trogpa could be placed in the feild within Ave days aftor the promulgation of comsoltfations and are recommen: ty fecble and ine Mei nt regimental or ted for diahandment. ber of general and tield officers mopernminerary p | The police are prepared to law vigorously, and we adviee edt and explain thorongh distribution of works of in vetion and diseipline will be made during ilitary fund accounts and audited am required | and. the Tur gentleman who has been elected cit | atter of placing nor dismatiafaetion | ry Code xpressed by the corrupt men of jiry duty and labor to all regul I forces of tho Na reyinion and readjust ion prescribed fur rades ail onoampmente. | exl officers be ¢ Of any unove generally will be antivfied with the Speaker | j ofthe House, who haw da b accordance with 16 taive ponneani | for the purposes of Held t legislation. | the appeared that lobbylats pore of drinking al @ beverage, be in imwioned offivery of the Natio oneral revision of the Code as rela ment of the reserve ml. t division and brigade inapec ered to the Inspector-Gene- and Assistant Adjutant- be created for each compored | JRPP. DAVIN, of Norfolle Present Him with = Cane Made from the Kebel Kai ser rHee® Monkon, Jan. &, talked of cane, prepared by the ladies of the Catholic Church in Norfolk, a month or so was on yerterday (the 7th) presented to Jefferson Davis, in hin quarters, in Car roll Hall, by a gentleman mi ,® resident of the city, who won at @ public rafts, which bow been previously deroribed.s " head on whieh is inscribed an appropriate legend, with the name of the ex President, Vrosentation, and after the ustiat prelini mitted to the quarters of Mr. Davis. |Alter a short conversation on differ- out subjects he produeed the cane from @ velvet lived box, and naries was ad very pleanant d from tho ladii of the Catholle congregation of the city of Norfolk, He pleased to accept it with ite noble motte one, the tribute of many.” And may it serve a4 a faithful reminder os ite fair donors. Mr. Davis accepted the beantiful gift in @ brief and foeling reply. | He allude; kindness of the p “The offering of copie of the Houth to, him fc, enpecially the ke atriotion of the said ho had often hi Feceiving tokeus of their eateen, He requented Mr, Gamage to eatend to the Church bis grateful ladies of the timating thut he would further acknowl- ite receipt hy letter, © party parsed « pleasant hour in con: versation with Mr. Davis and his lady, aud at ita termination parted company, ¢ that the new year might be wens to him than more full of hope and hay ark, distnal months of the past, Tho gentlemen componiny of presentatio trip, and remarked that Davin wae much better tt ated, but that hie bal ily sprinkled with gray, the comnittes @ health of Mr had been re- Indian Outbreak in Honduras, between the Indians and Fn- glish coloniste of Honduras is no ne’ 1g time the natives hostile feelin, ve manifested Suglich have. gradually beer encroae Itis the old difficulty whi IpETIOr race Comoe alwayn arises whi contact with an inferior, # till compelled to submit and thon Tn this case the immense rity of the English over the natives @ very short on will make the str The aborigines of Houds ed of all the North Ainerican Indians, and strongly entrenched in @ mountainons country, whence they eo inroads, but Hritish troope will soon reach ther. policy of the colonial Government bas been weak and vacillati bhabit hae mado Hitherto the on force, at oth ‘Thie fast and loose policy has borne ita legitimate fruite in encourny ing the Indians to vain aud foolish resist- They are barb, and it would be far better to reduce them to subjection and extend « tirm government the whole country ut once wuld be made to ‘ontribnte sotties » the trade, commerce aud happiness Ordonnce Used During the Wa: ort of Majer General A. yer, Chief of Ordnance, it appears that, during the period from January 1, 1861, to Juno, 30, 1866, military’ wervice 7, lery carriages ; tiles, shot and shell; 6, Zisers, snd © rounds of Great Fire at Norfolk The and « Idings Destroyed. occurred in No south of Balt and the adjoining banking house of € berlain & Co, The supply of water the cisterna. and from, thi 6 Artesian w mouldering ri fire, whether the work @ iret broke out i tho corridors fille an hy innu stock company, and was Mr. Newton, but haa not been a very re munerative tment for the stock The Unio k and Ladde Norfolk rendered ap cuing the gueate by those who Jone all then their night valuable building business pl hronvy loan to Norfolk, which tna b recovered from reveral dianst Kenerally are very severe o rities who have been so tardy in} the necessary fire apparatus aud wat ovidi fo tion has | cilities for extinguishing fires, A subserip- uty n atartod sin the city. ‘The Cretan Inmurrection. The London Times defends tho Engl Government from the eharges mado ag: it of favoring the @retans in their efforie throw off the Turkish yoko, but thinks the sympathies of Christian countries should ty on the side of the Cretane rather than on that of their infidel oppremors, and says, on this subject: word either of Cretan insurrections or of any other disturbances likely to mine the security of the Ottoman re. Hut, im the event of any outbreak of that nat keop bounde of humanity which Kastern warfare ie too generally apt to overstep. But, should it come to the point that the battle be fought out to the death, we could never forget that we are rather Christiane than Musmulro rather Greeks than Turks; the Ottoman from Europe as = mere question of time, and that we have shown both the earn ees and the dist terestedness of our sympathy with the Greek euuso—tiret by making over tho To- n Islands to the Greek Kingdom, aud ext by refusing the offer of the Crown of that kingdom to an English Prince. We have no objection to hear ourselves desig- mated nm @“prosate people,” unintluenced by the prestige of * grand ideas.” We are con- feut to, live day by day, and obey the ita. pulee of the moment prolougation of e ry ite, pre ol turtgnem la Bplrag, Vintec in other provinces i the Turkish mainland are al- ready stubborn facts of sufficiont magaitude to cause serious asion, But we are ready to accept, without anticipating, even te, and Wo think we may withdraw a few Oro tan vietime from the Tarkiat OF send relief to the sufferers in Clue aliiowt, depopulated tslaud, eance of their without being suspected of making political Capltal of ou GhRcty, and ‘beapesliion’ the koodwill of the Grocks against the time in which they shall lord it over the Darla nelles aud the Bosphorus, aud hold in their hauds the destinies of the Kastern world, ‘The Cretan Mamacre. A correspondent of the Tumunr, writing from Constautinople, gives the following de tails of the terrible tragedy at the monas- tery of Arkadi (a brief aynoposia of which has been published in the 40x), by whieh over 2000 persons lost their lives, He writes Thave seen the official statements of the American Consul at Crete as to this terrible affair at Arkadi, His statements are based upon the aiidavit of # monk who was in the convent when it was blown up, but who wan one of tho few who escaped. Except in at relates to the lows suffered by the ‘irks, this statement agrese substantially with the official report of Mustapha Pasha. ‘The monastery of Arkadi was the largest aud most important eatablishment of the kind in Crete, It bas occupied thin position for ages, baving been erected in the days of “Biiperor ‘Hersclius, wore than 1; Years ago, It was built with royal inaguif ence, and quite as much for a fortress as a ‘Through all the ware and revo: uests of twelve centuries, it haa been respected alike by friend aud foo. Its library rich in manuseripta, ‘The building ‘itself, constructed in the moat masrive atyle, stood in the contre of a large court, the walls of which were strong cuough for a fortress, Ita situation added to its strength. This monastery, at the time of the uttack, contained 199 me three Greek volunteers and 62 mo! were also in the building 373 wor children, | Tho place being within» few hours of Rethymnos, » Turkish fortress, it had been naturally a place of refuge for Cretans, and a thors in the side of Mustapha Pusha. 'So on the ult, he moved down with 6000 men to take possession of the co, wuticipating little oF no resistance, Tile Summmons to surrender was replied to by a shower of baile, and he attempted to storm the place atone, Allday toog he sought in yain to batter the walls with the night he broaght up two With these, on the t,he made «breach, provided nts by w ayptian sudony Ii a8F crtth | and Turkish troops. ‘The Crotane retired to artillery projec. | the mourstery and beld ont there until af. tern simovt all the Turkish troops by this imo belug within the court-yard. Fin grape and canister abot; Y,t: fixed artillery am, B44 complete a WIM sete of twe-horse artille 732,026 horse bl | cartridges for sual R mail arme; 10,281,305 can- 377 fuscen,tot shell 26,440,054 pounds of gunpowd of uitre; aud 0,116, lead in pige and by noruing’s SUN you ay that public opiuion | , before the quotation in | which were da ous distinetions of | maged, lost or destroyed Another Great A Philadelphia paper says that the “see ond twenty-ineb uavy gun, which was re covtly cast at the eannon foundry of Kui tented yerterday at the | proving grounds, a short distan harges were & one hundred pounds of powder, the ah Weighing ten hundred and tweuty pounds, | Une shots being tired with on apocitied, ‘The test waa successfully y the gum, and the machiuery veces: | sary to condiet it worked to peri Aftor tho firing had been coneluded, the gun ‘Commodore Tay! rd, the | chur United States om thoroughly | tittod for ite duty, one present to | | witness the fring wore Mr, James Kuap, of tho firm of Knap & Nop! | Day and a number of invited gucevs, ed chat Queen Victoria once upon a « conmdered it 4 wonderful achievement | | to fire an ordinary sporting rifle with her | man is mowing, She stops to sbai burg, have eclipsed the Queen's fe: ? of them yeeterday dred the twel Ny required to complete the | inch gun, charged wish ove hundred poun ecuipment of the maximom | of powd | force, At the close of tho your 160, there Were required about 18,000 uuiforme aud | satiefactory, mow @ and a tn Vandred and bw id shot. ‘Tho than Vy Devarteent” ing that they could hold out no longer, hav. ing loa three-fourths of their fighting men, it was determined, by the cousent of all ae ae blow up ‘The Turks were allowed to rush hile a priest nained vaults and put zine, whieh contained der.” ‘The immense structure rose alittle | and then fella mans of ruins upon all who | were inside, and upon hundreds in the court | yard, ‘The loss of the Turke, according to the west careful estimates made on the spot, was about 1,000 killed, although the reports published by the Porte in ¢ Acknowledge a loss of ouly Greeks inside, 53 balf bo: children, and 43 wound #. Of the dren without pare ile, and they are in the bands of the Turks, “If anythiug wer Wanting to prove that the Cretans are nut Tuelined to surrender, we havo. the evidence here. Men and women not only fight to | the last, but rather than surrender they | blow themselves and their the air together, I believe spirit of the people— fwie Farming. A correspondent writing from Switzer land draws the following picture of agricul tural life in Switzerland + We meet a woman with a great b strapped upon ber back filled wich faggots another one passes ua on her way to mill, her “grist” in @ bag lying on her shoulders, and a strap from the bag crossing her fore head, In tae fleld, opposite, a third wo- n her scythe, and we bave an opportunity to in. apeot the employment, No farmers boy in all the U inches ‘long, four wide, and thick énough for the track of the Metropolitan horse railroad. A man witha three timed wooden fork toasea the grass to th which tho "weaker wessel” ix mowing ! While waiching the operation in the field « dawse! passes vie with a wash tub, contain ibg wet clothing. on bor Lead, No qreum antic Hotel Fortutes Moxnon, Jan, &—A terrible fire ik, Virginia, at 1 o'elock thie morning, which somaumed the Aclantie Hotel, one of the prineipal and finest hotels re and several very valu. able building sites, The alarm was sounded at 1 o'clock, and the Fire Departmont hastoning to the scene, found the hotel in rotwithetanding the moet streno- ous exertions of the Fire Department and the citirens, the flames rapidly extended, communicating to tho stores anderneath, soon became exhansted, rendering power. lean the exertions of the firemen. There were very few persons in the house at the thine, and these having retired, many made narrow escapes with their lives, Four hours afterwards nothing was left of the Hotel but the centre walle, while the other buildings were @ tase of The origin of the an incendiary, hae room, and the 4 discovered all ith wmcke, and it was ar afterwards before flames were scen xg forth. ‘The hotel waa owned by a pened in 188 by a put partly ue fires that occurred during the war, an the citizens the city autho: | and raved Woe could have wished not to hear one e, all that we could wish would be to shorten the duration of the ntraggle, and to ae pomible within those betweon the Cross and the Crescent bad to that wo look upon the expulsion of atyod mafely in the room below. saved, nr wonderful presence of mind, $e, tecee value is incalonlable to mo. handed the ot! a dozen times not hi tell you now, if she dor kinnes the balance of the night as any gal in the room, the man that slights her has got me to fight—that’s all, Now go ahead with your playa” If Mra B—— wae slight ed during the balance of the did not Know it. As for ourself, we know that John had no feult to vidually, for amy neglect on our part, from Lanman’ recently issued, that of the ffty.two Sena- tore now acting, about forty aro lawyers, four merchants, three editors, one shoemak- er, rl are about 1250 lw stantinople | Jones aud 22 others of the Jon ‘Thompsons with the “p" and carded it; J Jobnsons, 28 V Wilson; ‘17 Tay beaides shop, aad put an end to his existence by Tho afternoon quotations of the general | Stock mark of from 4 toD per cent, Goveruments, by ion, owinge ao heavy a stythe #ix- | lower, Gold closed at 133} Money was 1 | G0 days on Loudon were quoted at 100)» dive ot the army of Francs ever atoud nore Biss le buy with kute ting work the while, ‘A Quecr Patient. Tho Paris correapoudent of the Philadel phia Susiar Digpaten gives the following Secount of » dilemma a celebrated doctor waa placed in recently t Dr. Lewing in one of the most courtly and affable of the phyricians here whose talents have won them fortune and fame. A fow dayg ago ho was called upon by an ath etic, rudy personage, who certainly seem e11 in no invidunt need of the dlatingursled doctor's advice; the latter, too, in kind effort to reassure his embarrassed visitor, addressed him with bis usual politeness and 1 ain the proprictor of menagerie,” ‘said tl houldered tuan, "and one of my children fo aich—" “Exactly, my friend. Of what nature ie the disoase “He ran splinter ip M bu his thigh ; itis am rich enough 1, my inan,” replied the doctor, to suppre nile at the simplicity of his viaitor ; we will talk of that after awhile, Tell me exactly what is the mat ter with your ebild “ Mogaiur, this spliptor has featered in hia thigh, aud the will fet no one touch it; he ia buadatgong—for all he is very xentle It wilPbo necessary, T know, to porfurus « flight operation, but he in #0 vivlout and headate tit” slenee tome, How old is ee only. Hut I am afraid he voratoh you if you attempt to at adusiniater chloroform “Not at all my good man. Your ohild cannot be very dangerous in tho exercise of hia tempor, iC he is only four years old. at he ie large for like age—" 5 “No. no; 1 will go with you to see your boy. lt were folly 0 administer chloroform in much a ¢ r, you do not k ed the my y, 1 Deaeeoh you, to take t all the saute, ii case you should To dispel the anxieties of the nervous athlete, Dr. Lemoine ied with him the Fequired anesthetic, and, alter a short | course in 9 coiture, arrived ut the honse of | the beasttamer. Entering a room adjoin. ing the exbibition arena, which wae balf kitchen and lilt stuble, the doctor looked around for the sufleriug patient. havo put _him up stairs, doctor, where poor fellow would bo nudisturbed the performances. Ascond with me, tony] They mounted @ half ladder, half stale com, to @ kind of loft. The dector having entered, the showman followed, and losing the deor behind him, quickly locked it. ‘Lae « im some surprise thie strango proceeding t hie conductor, war | saluted with a low growl fram the extreme corner of the rou. He then fixed hie at- the source of this uukindly cribed a full grewn lion ety, ay bing them, with an umquem tiopably wicked and menacing anarl upon hie countenance! ‘Tbe dumper grew pale; wldresmed soni’ soothing trembled. ‘The doctor war not only ghant- Iv pale, but was covered with w cold or, be qntele wihtin: ry hoarwely, be ie “aus thawing ile whito tecth, the lice slowly crouched in that attitude which the physician bad 60 often vbserved the same ‘eautne, preparuiory 10a ririug, in the Jardin des Wiante, “ile: kad ‘wend thea of self, on, arid, collecting all Kis en- ery , he dashed the chloroform whieh he beld im the auimal’s face, The latter ro coiled, and io wsecond after, began todroo tinder the « was finally steotebed powerless bofere then. ‘The operation required was theu made upon the wound, aud the proper reatoratives ay plied, Neither doctor nor abowman spoke a word until they had devoonded the steps, aud Monsieur,” said the domueur, “son have Formit me to give you your foe.” “And ie jer A hundred frano note, ““Thauk you, Mona, replied the physician, receiving the satiafactory foo, when y ain eod Of uy ner vices for ‘ane, U pray you~ will certainly call you in.” “No, no—to auminon some other member of the profession, Kies my Wife or Finht Mo—An Osculatery Altoruat.ve. ‘There aro fow married men who are not avers to seeing their wives kissedybut an exchange relates the particulars of a ease in which a newly wedded Benedict felt Limsolf insulted because his wife wasn't kinsed. ‘The bridegroom in question waa & stalwart young rustic, who [was known an a formidable operator in free fight, His bride was a beautiful and bloomin, young country girl, only sixteen years o age, aud the twain were at party, whore @ number of young folke were enjoying themselves in the good old fashioned pawn- playing style, Every girl in the room was called out and kissed oxoept B., the beautl fil young bride aforesaid, and although there was not @ youngster present who was not dying to taste ber lips, they were re: strained by the presence of her herculean husband, who stood regarding the party with ution look of dissatisfaction. They mistook the cause. however, for suddenly he expressed himself. Rolling up bis sleeves le of the room, Gentlemen, | have been noticing how things have’ been workin, here for some time, und 1 ain't balf satinflod I don't want toraine a fuss, but—" What's the matter, John!” inquired half a dosen voices “What do you mean! Have I done anything to hurt your feelings!“ Yom have; all of you have burt my feelings. junt got thie to aay about it. Here’ Fl im the room has been kissed neai evo, and there's my wife, fa likely as any of them, hus & single one to-night; aud I just ‘t get as many ry whol we with us indi Hmith, Brows and Jones. It may beof interost to state, us gathered Congrossional Dictionary, Nifwoturer, and three or four of vu Tn the House there W merchante, 12 ufacturers, 3 phy- 2 0 teachers or pro fessors, Wo collate from the same volume that since the organization of the National | Cor there have been in that august body 67 of the Simith family, eight of whom were John; 26 Browns, Joliua six; 8 Johi farmers, 10 editors, 8 0 the W Houne; Jnoksons, 16 Auder- ) Morria, 13 Wrights, 10 Pattorsoue— three of whom were “ lillies.” A Short Heseymeon. A vew wooks sinoe « young German bar ber, of Indianapolis, lod to the hymeneal altar a handsome and intelligent girl to | whom he had been paying his addresses, | ‘The course of true lo jae not disturbed | by a6 much ae a pn until Moaday last, | when the night of the razor, in retarnin, home, discovered that his canary bird had flown, leaving vothing bat the empty neat. The diseonsdlate barber ‘returned Yo his swallowing half « pint of bair dye, Financial News, Markets, &e. New Youa, Thureday, Jan, 10, 6 P, M.— ; compared with thoae of yes | noon, show a decline in price terday the same comparison, were 3¢ to 1 per cent. stringent and close, the rate boing 7 per cent. Foreign exchange was dull, ith 1004 for bankers’, Om 'Change to-day Flour ‘was quiet aud without decided clange, clos: ing heavy, Wheat auiet ond steady, Cora | heavy. Beef heay QALES AT THE etook ex 2588052388 if ath Ess oascea Yon tinental Hi: Jo) ui % 0 PPL. a a, ot 8, e, a) hee, itt 2339232) sisssse eases: | so to the avitouh bia veiee | 5% nob Ex. ee Fe eto n ae = PE SFT — 535 x = posse .ceseess: Ba st 85eSe javlet Whotesa'e Report. New Youn, Jan, 10, 1867, EW ORO DOTER POULTRY an Game Venison, saddle, ib. 18a20 Ducks dressed Wackeree. 4 Ova Te Jackson Whites SARDRH AMD iL veer: ‘ir Binn a608 «ae is SPECIAL NOTICES. Messiuger & Wright's [al at il be wate 18 fievishe abe the most wonderful Re ace aa Wheeler 4& Wilson Lock stitch ise and Buttonhole Mechine, of Seeaasser’ tained by tha maki x bie of nie fra. Mentha has begw ‘Tell your einlcted sewing machines, Machine ( or ale ‘lows ona from pat Paes Bette, ofa egies ton’ 1b Kater House. CanWartum, or Magical 4d rater sob ON. Wherever the New York fan i seem au LN Hoboken, om Thursday, the 101/ ep and members of Tenet ot cremeeran peer Cioreb, on Balurday without further taken to Gr 19th. 1867, Thomas Cnee id; yeomnel, Co. Cavan, Ireland, aged friends and relatives of the family are re angtulrTnruee te sito finarah ow Bt att eelsahy Youn ht Hast Buh at, 7” Jan. Ath, ot his late reel~ fatty te‘piece trom mS "noe, a6 3 o'clock, Mase, and Iria papers tnat, Je i" same paren, nvr @ tamil; fu ” ean hie i £ ‘Nevy, Brookiyo, thie me) the 44th year of MeCANN-O8 7 Bative et the’ Pari Requelsoat in pace | 8. 7 morsing, at 10 clock, sieges ts Janes O'Briem, aera cM abate Ne Pir GEMTARY On, Theres see a4 reeyact hel 1Sce Last Page for other Pathe)