The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD |™ ™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth atreet.—Guanp VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—' BLonpe Wio. od way.—Tum Farr ONE with WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st.—Matices daily, Performance every evenlng. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eight 9 and ‘8d ot.—TOR TWRLVE Teas ste NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ixion--Tux MILITARY Duama oF Nor Guitty. a BOWERY THEATRE, THR Co ROTH: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Coustcan 5 BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d ‘TAKING THE CHANCES. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. ‘Tut Rep Ligur. Matinee—HamLet—As You Lier It, do. vetween Sth and 6to avs.— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FER- NANDE. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.~Ixton—Tae Wivow's Viorm. . MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.~ Minniz’s Luck. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comtc Vooat- 16M, NROKO ACTS, BC.” BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth *—ALLEN & PETTINGD STBELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPE! Vooatism, NEGRO MINSTR! Lis EB, 201 Bowery.—Comic BY, &c. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Gay YounG Swkit—Bap Diok®Y—PReESTIDIGITATION. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—H. % - ermnis—Tur FAT MEN'S BALL ke OEE ® MIN CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and Sth sta,—Tuopone Tuomas’ POrULAR CONCERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— BCIENCE AND ArT. 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. i 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Grand Reception of the Indian Delegation at the White House; General Banks’ Report on Cuba toe Reported on Tuesday Next; Text of General Schenck’s Funding Bill; Passage by the House of the Bill Reducing Taxation; Al- leged Corruption by Cuban Agents; Denial of the Statements by Sefior Lemus. 4—Europe : The United States Cabinet and the Eng- lish Chureh Mission; The Pacific Railroad Stimulating the Vast Emigrant Exodus; The Bible Dramatized in Munich and the Saviour Represented on the Stage—Cuba: Anticipated * Return of the Captain General to Havana—Re- suscitation of American Commerce—The Lec- ture by the Daughter of Lola Montez—News from Australia—Singular Suicide—Yachting emai Decapitations—Corporate Elec- ions, 5—The New Régime: Organization of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aidermen—Brook- lyn Government—Free Love in Yorkville—More Chemical Forgeries—A Bogus Detective—Tak- ing the Worth of It Out of Them—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Burke-Gardiner Bond Case—The Rehill Man- f: slaughter Case—Stand and veliver. | GeEditorial: Leading Article on The Duty and | Opportunity of Our Wew City Authorities— Personal Intelligence—Fine Arts—Amusement Announcements, ‘Y¥—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Disastrous, Widespread and Fatal Fire in Con- stantinople; Roumanian Schoolboy Play Mag- nified into a Massacre; Royalism and Abolition. ism in Spain; Radical Revolutiontsm in Great Britain and Ireland; The City of Oaxaca Nearly Destroyed by an Earthquake—Amuse- ments—New York City News—The Germans on the Wing—Jerome Park Races—The National Game—The Williamsburg Assassina- tion—Prince Erle Again in Arms—Arrest of Deputy Sheriffs’—A Letter Carrier’s Troubles— Aquatics—Business Notices, S—Financial and Commercial Reports—Justice in Texas—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- m 9—Advertisements, 1O—Washington (continued)—The City of Breslau: Dedication of the New German Settlement on - Long Island—The Princess Editnha Giibert Montez—Cuba’s Daughters in Council—Seri- ous Stabbing Affray—Shipping Intelligence— Aavertisements. Wl —Advertisement 12—Advertisement: Toe Kine anp Royat Famity oF GREECE took their departure from Athens for Corfu yesterday. An allied great Powers ‘“‘house- cleaning” will commence in the classic city immediately. Jupce Hirron is widely known as a gentle- man of taste and judgment. What a glorious opportunity he has before him as a member of the Department of Public Parks in making New York one of the most beautiful cities in the world! Tue ReporreD Massacre IN ROUMANIA was simply a heartless hoax, for which there was no foundation in fact. This, we hope, will soothe our Israelitish citizens, who we see are organizing public meetings, &c., to express their sentiments and do other praiseworthy things. It is a pity that their benevolent feel- ings should be thus excited by a false alarm, but the makers of these mischievous deceits always choose the most painful subjects. Free Coat, Pernars.—The House of Re- presentatives has passed a resolution, by the decisive vote of 113 to 79, ‘instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report at the earliest practicable moment a pill abolish- ing the tariff on coal, so as to secure that arti- cle to the people free of all taxation.” The abo- lition of the customs duty will not accomplish that excellent result, but it will do a good deal in the right direction. Of course the inevitable Mr. Kelley, ‘‘of Pennsylvania,” had a word to say against this measure. Perrer B. Sweeny has a world-wide reputa- tion for efficiency in organizing victory out of discordant political elements. He is at the head of the Department of Public Parks. His unexampled energies have a grand field for thoughtful exercise in the beautification of the pleasure grounds of the metropolis. Curious CusAN Reports FROM WASHING- Tox.—We publish to-day some remarkable de- velopments regarding the secret history of the recognition of ‘‘poor Cuba” as a belligerent. These reputed disclosures cover an extensive field and implicate Senators, Representatives, newspaper correspondents, an influential lobby and various other parties ina magnificent scheme of camarilla-like diplomacy. Sefor Lemus, the Cuban representative here, denies their truth in toto ; but if they are true it is the duty of General Butler, who has charge of the in- vestigation, to come out with a full and com- plete report on the subject. The public de- mand a thorough ventilation of the whole matter, if any truth at allcan be attached to the alleged disclosures. Mr. Green, Treasurer of the Department of Public Parks, knows well how the public plea- gure grounds should be ornamented and ren- dered attractive, both to citizens and strangers, Liberality in expending the public’s treasury Yn this respect will always be enconraged and gndorsed by the people, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, and Opportunity of Our New City Authorities. The new Boards of Aldermen and Assis- tant Aldermen convened yesterday, and Mayor Hall himself administered the oath to the members. In his message, sent soon after the organization, the Mayor takes occasion to remind the Aldermen of the change in their powers by the new Charter, and he strongly urges them to remember that it is now easy enough for a determined minority in either Board to defeat illegal or unjust legislation. The Mayor has not felt called upon thus early to recommend any special legislation, but he has done even better in thus warning the Aldermen that they must be a more law-abiding body than they have been heretofore, The trouble with some men, and sometimes with political parties, is that they have no op- portunity to distinguish and make themselves popular. This cannot be said, however, of the prominent men now in authority in this city. No men ever had a finer opportunity to make themselves both popular-at present and famous in the future. Nor do they want the power and means, If they have the ambi- tion, taste, and interests of the city at heart they can lay such a solid foundation of improvements as will make this great metro- polis the pride of the country and admiration of the world. It remains with Mayor Hail, W. M. Tweed, P. B. Sweeny, R. B. “Connolly and a few others, who are the controlling men, to say what New York shall be in this respect, and the people will hold them responsible. New York is the third city in the civilized world in population and the first in commer- cial importance. The time is not far off when it will be first in everything. It will be the metropolis and centre of the world. This fact should be impressed upon the minds of those now controlling the affairs of the city, and they should prepare for its grand destiny. Something has been done to that end already in our magnificent Park; but in many other respects the city is in a rude, un- finished state. Improvements have not kept pace with its growth, wealth, importance and the wants of the community. Our river front on each side of the island is a disgrace. The rude, unsubstantial, ugly and dilapidated con- dition of the piers, wharves and slips would be discreditable to a small fishing port, and are Positively disgraceful to this great commercial emporium. Then we are entirely behind the age in the matter of conveyance for the people from one part of the island to the other, Men and even delicate women are compelled to stand jammed up for miles in the street cars, breathing the bad atmos- phere in such a narrow and crowded space, and even then it takes two or three hours a day by these slow vehicles to go from and return to the upper part of the city. We need locomotion by steam power, and this on an elevated, solid road, built on arches and over the streets, for four tracks or more, and from one end of the island to the other. Such a road, or several of them if needed, could be made ornamental to the city, as well as giving that convenience for travel which our citizens must have. Our filthy markets should be swept away and handsome structures in convenient locali- ties erected in their places. Wide avenues should be cut through to relieve the pressure of carts, trucks, carriages and other vehicles in the lower parts of the city. Instead of the wretched pavements we have now in most of the streets, tearing horses and vehicles to pieces and shaking the life out of people, we ought to have smooth and enduring ones. Instead of trying all sorts of experiments with pavements that have no mechanical or scientific principle in them, and that only keep tearing up the streets for the benefit of speculators and at enormous cost to the city treasury, there should be a general system of paving, and the best known, all of which can be determined by men of science and actual experience. We ought to have, too, in addition to the steam railroads spoken of, lines of convenient and handsome steamboats plying at all hours of the day along the shores of the North and East rivers, and landing passengers at different points. There ought to be also such a thorough system of drainage as would keep New York constantly clean and healthy. Nature has done everything to thisend; for the city is on a narrow tongue of land, with a slope to the rivers on each side. All that is wanted is resolution, science and means to accomplish this most desirable object. These can easily be found if our city authorities will turn thelr attention to the matter. There are other improvements that can be made and some that time will develop the necessity of; but in these mentioned there is a broad field for our new city rulers to work upon. As the old saying goes, ‘‘a new broom sweeps clean,” and the city authorities have both promised well and begun very well; but we want some- thing more than music in a few squares or in the Park a few nights in the week. We want grand, substantjal and beautiful improvements that will make New York the pride of its citizens and the admiration of the world. Affairs in Mexico. The news we publish this morning from Mexico tells the old story of waning and increasing revolutionary movements in va- rious parts of the republic, although, on the whole, the tide of pronunciamentoes was comparatively low. However, to make good the saying that Mexico is never out of trouble, earthquakes and volcanic erup- tions were in vogue, the former destroying a large part of the city of Oaxaca and causing heavy loss to life and property. In addition to these misfortunes the citizens of Guatemala had invaded Mexican territory, taken posses- sion of the government lands, established courts and promulgated laws. The object of this movement was supposed to be the establish- ment of a new republic composed of the Mexican States of Yucatan, Tehuantepec and Oaxaca, and of the republic of Guatemala. It is generally so unsafe to predict anything about Mexico, excepting continued anarchy, that we shall not venture an opinion regard- ing this singular invasion. Of course Juarez was preparing to punish the invaders, The Mexican army had been increased to twenty- five thousand men, for the support of whom one half of the total reserves of the country willbe required. At the same time the Treasury was bankrupt, the announcement of which appropriately ends this last batch of news from the sister republic. Congrom—Claims of Southern Loyalists Passage of the Revenue Bill. There were several matters of importance transacted in the Senate yesterday, without any unnecessary debate. Mr. Stewart intro- duced a bill to prohibit contracts for Coolie labor, which was referred ; and the bill to pre- vent the exportation or transportation of goods in bond to Mexico was passed. The Indian Appropriation bill was then proceeded with, and variously amended. In the evening ses- sion the Indian subject was dropped, and the bill for settling the claims of loyal people in the South for stores furnished during the war was taken up, A debate of some length en- sued on it, but the Senate adjourned without taking any final action, In the House, among the regular Monday bills, Mr. Prosser, of Tennessee, introduced one to authorize the President to submit propo- sitions to Spain for a settlement of the Cuban difficulty by arbitration. General Banks came forward at last with his Cuban resolution, and asked that two days of next week be granted for the consideration of the Cuban reports. This was churlishly refused by the House, and only one day (Tuesday next) was granted. Mr. Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill to autho- rize the funding and consolidation of the Storms, Floods and Droughis—Remarkable Meteorological Events. With the details of the heaviest rains and most destructive floods, in March last, ever experienced in Australia since the occupation of that continental island by the Anglo-Saxon, we have the news of a five days’ storm of snow, hail and rain last week in the Rocky Mountain Territory of Montana, and various reports of drought and its disastrous conse- quences of blighted crops and burning forests, from Maine westward to the Winnipeg basin, including Northern New York and nearly the whole of the New Dominion, Several weeks ago we had reports of an alarming drought throughout the State of California, and thence extending northward into Oregon; but subse- quently the apprehensions of a general disas- ter to the suffering farmers were materially lightened by refreshing rains. Meantime, from the latitude of New York city southward, we have no complaints of drought from the in- terior or the seaboard, except from Long Island, where the farmers are complaining. of short supplies of rain, and where heavy losses from fires in the woods have resulted from an unusually dry season. Since the advent of spring, too, the volcanic regions of Mexico and Central America have been in a high state of combustion, and earth- Jerome Park=—Tho Wess- chester Cup. The American Jockey Club will have a mag- nificent turnout to-day at Jerome Park to follow the auspicious opening of Saturday last. Upon that occasion everybody was delighted, excepting only the losers, and they took their defeat good humoredly enough for the sake of the fine sport that they had enjoyed, But the second phase of the spring meeting which will celebrate this afternoon is the ever delightful ‘Ladies’ Day,” and all the Di Vernons are in a charming flutter about it, In a word, thisis the great racing par excel- lence of the week and the year, leading off with a dashing steeple chase--a handicap for all ages, with a one thousand dollar premium—and in it Oysterman, Jr., the winner of Saturday's hurdle race, will again exhibit his paces to the admiring million. The second scamper will be for the Westchester Cup, and every horse entered for it is a steed of high renown, the bright particular stars being Abdel Kader and Helmbold. The third, aselling race for six hundred dollars premium, and the fourth, of one and three-fourths mile heats, for one thousand dollars premium, will also be very exciting, and no doubt equally well contested. The last struggle has, thus far, this titillating mystery about it that the entries will not be made cme: Constantineple on Fire. laty Dey Cable despatches which we print this morn- ing inform us that Constantinople is on fire. It appears that the fire, which broke out in an old building in Pera—a suburb of the city—- has been most destructive, A high wind which was blowing at the time fanned and spread the flames, The result has been that the resi- dences of the foreign ambassadors, the con- sulates, many churches and mosques, and some of the finest buildings in the city have been destroyed. It appears also that there has been considerable loss of life, Fire in such circumstances is always a calamity. It creates temporary suffering. But great calamities to nations and cities, as to indi- viduals, have their advantages—they are not unfrequently blessings in disguise. Constanti- nople, occupying one of the finest positions— perhaps the finest position in the world—is still a miserable Eastern city. Like Cairo and Bagdad and Damascus and the old part of Alexandria, it seems to have been built for the special purpose of keeping out both sun and air from the dwellings, To persons accustomed to the better cities of Europe and America it seems a streetless city. Since the Sultan made his recent European tour he has been doing his best to make improvements. If this fire only continues long enough and does its national debt, which is noteworthy mainly for the fact that no provision is made in it for the issue of more national bank notes, The event of the day, however, in the House was the passage of the bill to reduce taxation, with its tariff attachment and income tax reduction. The bill, except for the inartistic bungling of its make-up and the retention of the income tax, is not a bad one. The tariff attachment is really a highly accept- able reduction of the import duties, and in several instances the free list is extended to very important articles. The income tax re- mains at three per cent and the exemption is increased to two thousand dollars, but the mass of the people will remain dissatisfied so long as this tax remains on the statute book at all. quakes from time to time have turned into the streets, at a moment’s warning, the whole population of San Francisco, Down in Texas they appear to have had a mixture of dry weather, hail storms and water spouts; while in several of our Northwestern States, from Illinois to Minnesota, they have had already a number of very respectable tornadoes, What conclusions can we reach from all these things ? Taking the late destructive floods in Australia in connection with the recent terrific hurricane and inundation at Buenos Ayres, it would ap- pear that while unusually heavy storms (au- tumnal) have swept around the globe on the south side of the equator, the season (spring) on the north side, with some exceptional storms, has been comparatively dry. From this we may conclude that when one half of the earth suffers from an excess of rain, the other half suffers from a deficiency, the gene- ral evaporation from the sea by the sun being from year to year the same. But why these great fluctuations in any locality between excessive drought and exces- sive rains in any one season as compared with another? Various causes operate to produce these local differences. The general causes operating upon the rain fall of different coun- tries are the movements of the globe on its axis and in its orbit, the prevailing currents of the atmosphere and the great currents of the ocean, warm and cold, the configuration of the continents and the island groups of the several oceans, the moon and its changing phases, the movements of the tides as affected thereby, the great mountain ranges of the con- tinents and islands, and the great deserts of Asia, Africa and America; for these rainless deserts play a very conspicuous partin water- ing the fruitful portions of the earth, The great rainy zone, extending some fifteen degrees or more each side, is that of the equator, because around the line of the equator the evaporation from the sea is the greatest. Mountain ranges and forests are the condensers of this vapor, and the deserts, in creating a vacuum with their heated and rarified air, draw towards them the denser air with its moisture from the sea, to be dis- charged among the woods, plains and moun- tains on the way. The most important local causes affecting the rain fall in any quarter are the prevailing winds and the ocean currents; and if for the last month or two the prevailing winds from the latitude of this city northward into Canada have been carrying their moisture from the Atlantic to be discharged among the pine forests of the tablelands and lakes of Minnesota, where the Mississippi has its sources, and a thousand miles westward of Minnesota, among the Rocky Mountains in Montana, where the Missouri has its sources, we may reasonably expect very soon a reac- tion which will water all the intervening coun- try to the Atlantic. We think that the pre- vailing heat in this quarter of the last week or so has been making @ vacuum which will bring the rain, A heated term, in proportion to its heat, always does. The heaviest or most terrific storms always follow the intensest heats. In the science of meteorology com- paratively little progress in this age of pro- gress has been made, because of the difficulty of noting the movements and laws of storms. Now, with the aid of the telegraph, scientific men ought to be able to tell us all about the weather that it is necessary to know. We believe, too, that in the course of a few years, with some aid from the government, such a system of weather telegraphic reports might be established as would result in the saving of millions of property by land and sea from threatened losses from storms and floods and droughts, Capital Punishment Abolished in Holland. The Dutch Chambers have abolished the penalty of death by a majority of eighteen votes in the Upper House—the record stand- ing 48 yeas to 30° nays. The struggle that preceded this decision was, however, long and determined, as it had been previously in the Belgium Legislature. The great speech of the debate was made by Mynheer Heems- kerk, who vehemently and eloquently opposed the abrogation, basing his dissent upon the antiquity of the punishment, the danger likely to result to society from abolishing it and the principle of rightful self-defence on which communities of men have hitherto based the infliction of the death penalty. But his reason- ing and eloquence—his good sense, we may add—were displayed in vain. A sentimental- ism, perhaps mistaken, as the consequences may show, overbore the experience of ages and the votes of both Catholics and Protestants of the old orthodox schools, who alike claimed the necessity of the scaffold to restrain the godless and ferocious passions of the time. The result that has ensued was, however, so well known beforehand that the supporters of capital punishment confined their efforts to attempting to maintain it for regicide, parri- cide, assassination and poisoning. Several of the Liberals went so far as to claim the aboli- tion of the penalty for the army and navy only, but all amendments were rejected, and execution for murder is, literally, ‘‘played out” in Holland. It may be that, under a different clime and different circumstances, it is a safe experiment to relieve our human tigers of the fear of axe and rope; and Germany, too, would seem to think so; for the new Prussian criminal code proposes the abolition of the death penalty excepting for clear cases of assassination; but we are still very doubtful indeed whether such a change on this side of the Atlantic could be tried with safety for a week. The beer and light wines of Northern Germany and the Low Countries, operating upon phlegmatic constitu- tions, have no such effects as the fiery fluids consumed in such quantities by our quick, nervous and excitable populace produce; and it is more than probable that within thirty days after the abolition of capital punishment in this country, were so rash a measure attempted, there would be a universal outery to restore it. Hemp has its uses as well as soothing syrup. The European Mail. The European mail of the 27th of May, at this port yesterday, supplied a very varied exhibit of Old World affairs to that date. The details appear in our columns this morning. Religion, trade, finance, politics, industry, emigration, crime and art come blended in such shape that it remains somewhat difficult to cull the words of consolation from out the record of savagery and to separate the ideas of refinement and progress from the tone and tendency towards actual barbar- ism. President Grant, the Vice Presi- Sunpay Rum.—If we may judge by the dent and American Secretary of State | amount of slashing and cutting done on Sun- forwarded a joint letter to the European pro- moters of the forthcoming Christian Confer- ence in New York, in which they heartily endorse the movement. The details of the seven murders at Uxbridge, England, come as if to prove the absolute necessity of the Church assemblage. The Pacific Railroad stimulates the vast emigrant exodus to America wonderfully. Royalty was in in- teresting movement towards the perfection of the arrangements for an international exhibi- tion of fans in London. American securities were in good demand in Great Britain and Hol- land. The record of the Bible had been dramatized in Munich with a degree of accu- racy which may, perhaps, furnish the subject matter of some useful sermons next Sunday. So the world moves. day, there is some appearance that a large section of the population of the city will be reduced to hash before the Excise Commis- sioners make up their mind to stop all these disorders by enforcing the law that limits the Saturday night orgies. As things stand now the law against selling liquor on Sunday is rather worse than a dead letter ; for while it is not enforced according to its provisions, it has a certain effect in stimulating riotous indul- gence. The rounders and bummers, perhaps, feel that the law may be at any time enforced, and so they will go it vigorously and have a good time while they are free to. This is always the effect of relaxing accustomed restraint. Have the Excise Commissioners taken the responsibility not to act under the law as it stands? If it is a good law they ought to enforce it, and if it is a bad law they ought to enforce it, as the surest means of securing its repeal. But they ought not to have the city turned into a slaughtering place every Sunday by their delinquency. Tomas C. Figxps, the unwearied and in- defatigable wheelhorse of the Department of Public Parks, has a grand opportunity to make himself famous. Now is the season when the work of ornamenting the public parks and squares should be pursued with all the native energy—and that is ponderous—he can infuse into it. Tue New BROOKLYN GovERNMENT was in- stalled yesterday, and Mayor Kalbfleisch in his measage gives a lugubrious view of the city indebtedness, It would seem that tho rings have got as strong a hold of our sister city as they once had of New York. Rosert J. Ditton is a member of the De- partment of the Public Parks, Mr. Dillon has a large and intimate acquaintanceship with the noble parks of the great capitals of Eu- rope. He isa student of nature, a patron of art, and a devotee of rustic beauty and orna- mentation. When shall we have that grand “Cathedral avenue” through Central Park, Mr. Dillon? work effectively enough Constantinople may arise from its ashes one of the proudest cities of Europe. Nothing is so much required to give new life to the Turkish empire as European capital. A Paris on the Bosphorus would attract the wealth of all nations. This fire may be found to have come in good time. The Viceroy of Egypt is remodelling Cairo. This simple fact gives importance to the Sul- tan’s opportunity, Our telegrams from Constantinople, dated yesterday evening, represent the fire as still raging flercely. The flames had been isolated, however, by the blowing up of buildings, and could not extend further. The archives and plate of the British Legation were saved. A Shocking Affair in Chicago. We are not unaccustomed to hear tales of horror from Chicago.. They are, in the ordi- nary language used in newspaper paragraphs, “too numerous to mention.” Violations of the marital relation, elopements, stories of bigamy sometimes thrice multiplied, poison- ings in the domestic circle—all these things are made familiar to us from the columns of the Chicago papers as the prevailing condition of that Western emporium of immorality, grain crops and vice. The latest piece of news from there, however, which strikes every one with horror and disgust, is the discovery that the students and officials of a medical college have been accustomed to pile up on the roof of their building, as the despatch says, “‘a vast collection of human remains in a condition of disgusting putrefaction, including bones and flesh of grown persons and infants.” The Health Department was appealed to by nu- merous residents in the vicinity of the medical college, who complained that an intolerable odor pervaded the neighborhood, dangerous to health and of course destructive of all com- fort. When a sanitary officer visited the premises he was assured that the nuisance did not arise from that quarter, but when he in- sisted upon making an examination the hor- rible result as above stated was found. Chicago medical colleges and medical stu- dents possibly may not be worse than those in other cities, although this fact tells hard against them, and presents a case of gross outrage upon public health without @ parallel in this country. Apart from the shocking indecency of treating human remains in this way, after they had been used for pur- poses of science, in a sanitary point of view the disposition made of them by the students of this Chicago college was atrocious. It is only another evidence, however—and we say it with regret—that there is great carelessness noticeable in this particular in many of our medical colleges, from which an intelligent consideration for the public health should be supposed to come. The exposure of human remains in public places is not an uncommon complaint with the police. The transportation of the same from dissecting rooms to distant points by railway and steamboat, packed in boxes and barrels, is an occurrence of which we frequently hear. This is a practice which should be put astop to. The disposition of these human débris in Chicago suggests one of the various but dangerous and most disgust- ing ways of getting rid of them. The viola- tion of law in robbing graveyards of the dead has long been winked at, because it was done in the interest of medical science, and there- fore in the interest of humanity. The rule which permits the unclaimed dead in public hospitals and in the Morgue to be delivered to the medical colieges and schools cannot be ob- jected to; but the public have a right to de- mand that when the bodies are used for the legitimate purposes designed the remains shall be so disposed of as not to endanger public health or shock public decency. If the discovery of this Chicago outrage shall have the effect of correcting the prevailing evil in this respect it may be regarded as a public benefit. Watt Street AND THE New FunNpING Bit.—A few months ago Wall street went into spasms of excitement over the Senate Funding bill, which proposed a new loan at an average of four and a half per cent, and which was generally denounced as injurious to the business interests of the country. Now, how- ever, that a new bill, proposing only four per cent, is introduced, Wall street is indifferent. The secret of the change is that the national banks in the first bill were compelled to take the new bonds. Hence they manufactured public opinion against it and wheedled Wall street into hostility to it. There is no com- pulsion in the new bill. Hence it is “all right.” Jumpina THE CaBLES.—Our cable news to- day comes by a route that illustrates the ad- vantage of different wires. Both the English and the French cables touch the island of St. Pierre, on the southern coast of Newfoundland, and it happens just at present that on the Eng- lish line communication is broken between London and St, Pierre, while on the French line it is broken between St. Pierre and the United States. Thus the London despatches getto St. Pierre by way of France and the French line, ana st St. Pierre are given to the other line to come on to the United States. known until just before the affair comes off. Whoever, then, has not seen the rural love- liness of Westchester in its ‘‘pomp of grovea and garniture of fields” may find a delightful opportunity on this early summer day, which we must believe will be a fair one. Moreover, the parterres of living loveliness that will sur- round the heights that look down upon the race track and the smooth roads and winding paths that lead to it, with brighter bloom and more sparkling light than ever shone over the fabled gardens of the Hesperides, will alone form a revelation but rarely witnessed in our devious pilgrimage. sentiment, however seductive, must give way to jocund mirth—the allegro will smile down the penseroso. But in such a presence Says the gay voice of the rhymster, Care to our coitin adds a nail, no doubt, While every burst of laughter draws one out, Mr. Asupury's New Yaout.—Our de- spatches to-day announce that the London papers “‘recall the words of Commodore Ash- bury about building a new yacht if the Cambria were again defeated.” regatta of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, in which the Cambria was beaten nearly two hours by the schooner Egeria. declaration was telegraphed to us just before the regatta as follows :—‘‘Commodore Ashbury has engaged to build another yacht if he fail to win next time.” course, keep his engagement. a fast yacht next time he had better get one built this side the Atlantic. This is apropos to the Mr Ashbury’s He has failed, and will, of If he wants a PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Governor Hoffman is at the Clarendon Hotet. Judge Albert Voorhees, of New Orleans; Captain John Youenes, and J. P. Roux, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. Dr. J. J. Mott, of North Carolina: Captain Samuet Frost, of Georgia, and Thomas Dickson, of Scranton, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. N. G. Ordway and C. D, Willard, of Washington; D. L. Boardman, of Troy, and Dr. A. H. Pollock, of Kentucky, are at the Astor House. . Judge C. Beale and Dr. Richards, of Pennsylvania; Hugh Morton, of the United States Army; Colonel G. Whitney, of San Francisco, and Judge D. Savory, of Des Moines, Iowa, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Professor G. W. Jester, of London; John Denier, of New Orleans, and Captain Edmonds, of the United States Army, are at the St, Charles Hotel. J. W. Brown and Captain Codman, of Boston, and J. E. Black, of Washington, are at the St, Denis Hotel. Colonel E. Gay and Captain E, 8, Heintzelman, of the Untted States Army, are at the Everett House. Colonel D, Carpenter, Jr., of St. Josephs, Mo.; G. Dosewell, of New Orleans, and Judge Rush KR. Sloane, of Sandusky, Ohio, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E. Bally, of Switzerland; D. Leavitt, Jr., of Great Barrington, and P. M. de Leon, of Savannah, Ga., are at the Albemarle Hotel. Prominent Departures, General William L. Hull, for St, Louis; General Meyer, for Washington; General Burnside, for Pro- vidence, R.1.; Colonel J. Hopkins, for Baltimore; Dr. Young, for St, Louis, and Judge Cheatham, for Washington. @ Personal Notes. The Albany Evening Journal publishes a statement to the effect that John R. Hennessey, late member of Assembly, Who was removed from the position of School Trustee in the Seventeenth ward for receiving money froma young lady for an reed remeron ag teacher in one of the public schools, has been ap- pointed one of the Fire Commissioners. The Jou nal has facts and names slightly mixed. Fire Com- missioner Hennessey is James 5. Hennessey, and not John R. Hennessey as the Journal believes, James B. Zacharie, one of the oldest and most c6- feemed merchants of New Orleans, died on the Ist inst. FINE ARIS. Sales of Oil Paintings—At tho Leeds Art Gallery. One of the annual sales of collections by Mr. A. D. Huyvetter took place on Saturday evening, at the Art Galleries of Messrs. Leeds & Miner, 817 and 819 Broadway. The attendance was not large, nor was the biading very spirited, owing doubtless to the lateness of the season, and the absence of many art patrons from the city. The subjoined ts a list of the principal works sold and the price realized:—On the Coast of Holland, A. D. Hillereld, Jr., $100; Sunset, R. Kummer, $145; The Shepherd's Story, F. D. Backer (deceased), $205; an _intertor view, Stable, Goat and Sheep, L. Robbe, Brussels, $190; interior, The Library, Portidge, of Antwerp, $340; The Consulta- tion, Albert Nenhuys (Antwerp), $100; View of Florence, Guiseppe Gherds’, $100; Sampson and Delilah, M. Garcia, $150; Winter and Sheep, Approaching Storm, L. De Beul (Brussels) $186; Sunset on the Mad eatdige Herbert McCord, $120; Herdmen and Flock in Belgium (No. i71),/C. Van Leemputten, $380; Anticipating the Guests, David De Noter, $120; Fall in Norway, A. Wust, $360; Landscapes with sheep and figures (No, 193), by M. A. Kock-Koek and Eugene Verboeckho- ven, $115; Thomas Moore receiving his death war- raut, P. Verreydt, $130: The Pet Doves, Leroy, $110; The Lunch, Speltdeom, $160; Mama’s Jewels, Portidge, $200; Landscape, with cattle and figures, $160; Niagara (entrance to Cave of the Winds, from the foot of Goat Island), C. J. Rosenbergh, $200; Souvenir of Palermo, Kuwasseg Falls (Paris), $270, Harbor of Brittany (companion to the epee My 270; Forest Scene, with cattle, sheep, &c., C.F. ogel, F. L. Bret and F. ‘an_ Leverdonck, $360; Teaching the Dog, De Keyser (Ant- werp), ; @ cabinet picture —repre- $165 ; senting a Swiss Malla ttt the mountains, with sheep and figures, by F. ifaen and Verboeckhoven, - brought $310; the Alarm—Faggot Gatherers, H. Von Seeben (Bpussels), $220; No. 291, Albian Pil. runs at the ib of St. James the Minor, in the rmienian Charch of Jerusalem, by J. B. Huysmans, Chevalier the Holy Sepulchre, artist by the Title of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, brought $100; Landscape and Cattle, F. L. Bret, $130; a picture by Jacob Jacobs, Waterfall on the river Glommen, brought $740,’and a picture by William Hart, Lake George, near Hague, was sold for ey the Bon Vi- vant, by Ceriez, fetched $166, and the Battle of Wal- cheron, by H. F. Schaefels, $1,880; @ bust en- titled ‘Morning, by the young American sculp- tor, Mr. Jonathan 1. Hartley (who will be remembered as the first of two American—one & young lady—to whom the medal of the Royal Acade- my in London was awarded), and which was one of the choicest works on the catalogue, was withdrawn from the sate. An important and extensive sale of foreign ana American works {8 announced to take place at tis gallery on the evenings of the 1gth and 17th inst.