The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, eet <= Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Ixi0N.-Tue MILITARY Drama ov Nor Guiry. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuz Rent Dax—Can- TovouR—Tux SNow Binp. , between Sib and 6th avs.— BOOTH’S THKATRE, 23d TAKING THE CBANORS, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ‘Tue Rep Ligut. $3 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth at.—FEn- NANDE. Matinee at 1, THE TAMMANY, Four ENTERTAINMENT. Matin strect.—GR AND VARIETY OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brondway.—Tuz Fatz ONE WITH BionpE Wia. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ner Thirtieth st,—Matinee daily. Performance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 2d a. —TOR TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Matinee at 2. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. Minniz'’s Luvox. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- 18M, NRGkO ACTS, &0. Matinee at 234. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth 8t.—ALLEN & PETTINGILL'S MINSTRELS. Matinoe, TONY PASTOR'S OPER. Vooatiem, Noro MINsT! Y, 40. Matine KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.—MY Spier Srak—HUNTING A PRinok DOWN, &0. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, oklyn.—HJOLRY's MIN- OTRELS—THE Far MEN'S PALI, &. % . Matinee at Bp. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and 60th sts, —THRODORE THOMAS’ POPULAR ConoRRTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— SCLENOE AND AR’ New York, Saturday, June 11, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’3 HERALD. Paar. 1—Advertisements. Q—Adveriisements. 3— Advertisements. W4—Edttorials: Leading Article on the Death of Charles Dickens—The Masonic Grand Impure Water for Jersey City—New York News—Personal Intelligence—Murderous Out- Tage on Long Island—Political Notes and Com- ments—Capture of a Panel Thief—Death of William Sebach—Amusement Announcements. S—Teiegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Parliamentary Op) ition to Premier Glad- stone; Irish Convictions Under the Coercion Bul; Spanish Battle with and Defeat of the Brigands; German Royal Communion with Russia; Mr. Ashbury’s Hopes of the Ocean Yacht Race; Death of Oharles Dickens— The Murder oo the Sound—cClass Day at Columbia College—Sparring Match Between Mi id Heenan—Jerome Park Races— Jersey Ratlroad Troubies—European Mail News—Sentence Day in Jersey City—More Freelovism in Newark—Business Notices, @—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The Myers- Schroeder Case—brooklyn City News—Kings County Supervisors—The Recent Casualty on the Grand and Forty-second Street Rail \— Financial and Commercial Reports—The De- arcment of Public Parks—Fraud on the ‘oundiing Hospital—Marriages and Deaths— Adverusements, ‘7—Advertisements. 8—Washington: Final Council of Secretary Cox and the Indian Deiegation; a Newspaper Corres- pondent at the Bar of the House; senate Dis- cussion of the Bill Abolishing ‘the Franking RAvines — Shipping Intelligence ~— Advertise- Tents. Tag Boarp or Pusiic Works, in its view of what must be done to set the city in order, should not neglect the roads on the upper end of the island. Above Manhattanville, on the west side, the roads are in a bad state, and that suburban region is a very important part of the surface subject to that Board’s control. Foo on tHe Pactrio.—The fog bank that has prevailed for so long a time on the Atlantic coast, stretching all the way from Cape Hat- teras to Newfoundland, seems to have doubled Cape Horn and gone up the Pacific coast as far as Oregon, to judge from the fog in which the election returns from that State are 60 far involved. Monrpensier has asked and obtained a pass- port to England. What does it mean? There is no longer any chance for him in Spain. The late vote of the Cortes was his deathblow, so far as extended his hopes of the Spanish crown. Does he now suspect Napoleonic in- trigues? Has he gone or does he go to Eng- land to rouse up his brothers and nephews? Will the result of this be an Orleanist mani- festo? The French plebiscite has put the Orleans family under conditions which are entirely new. So long as Montpensier had a chance for the Spanish throne it was wise in them to remain quiet. Now that that chance is gone restraint is gone, and we may look out for a new programme. Montpensier does not go to England for nothing. Smatrrox Oxoz Morge.—The latest at- tempted sensation is based upon the smallpox, which is raging more or less in France, and which the Bohemians seem to fear may be im- ported to our damage. It is not atall likely that the smallpox is now any worse in Paris than it was in this city and Brooklyn during the winter, and the French might more justly believe they had it from us than we that we fear to get it from them. However it comes or goes smallpox is a disease that need no longer occasion panic, since none of the well known scourges of the human race is so man- ageable or less fatal. Of this one fact every person may be satisfied, he need not die from smallpox if he chooses to take proper precau- tion. Of how many diseases can this be said? Warerep Mitx.—Five avaricious milkmen were brought up before Judge Dowling charged with overcharging the lacteal fluid with that beverage which cheers but not inebriates sup- plied by the Croton Board, The Judge ad- ministered a very severe rebuke to the delin- quents, but he did better than that—he sent two of them tothe Penitentiary and fined them fifty dollars each, and the other three to the City Prison for twenty days, with the same fine, The Judge, who talks as plainly as he acts, said a few sound things to these milk and water criminals. He told them that they did more damage than quack doctors—which is an awful imputation; their adulterated milk, he said, was sold to mothers who were unable to supply their children from ‘‘nature’s fount.” He told the defendants, furthermore, that they oan NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE ll, 1870. The Denth ef Charles Dickens. “In the midst ‘of life we are in death.” How impreasively this solemn fuct returas upon us as we read the brief details of the grim mes- senger’s call upon Charles Dickens in the midst of the pleasures of a cheerful dinner party! The news of the sad event in both hemispheres has fallen upon the public mind with the shock of an unexpected misfortune ; and yet, considering the brain overworked and the body worn ont from the long and exhaust- ing strain upon it, this sudden dissolution is not surprising. Itis rather to be wondered at that, with so many examples and warnings of this kind constantly occurring around us, we should still cherish the delusion that there are, or ought to be, certain exemptions from the inexorable laws governing this frail and uncertain earthly existence. Charles Dickens has gone the way of all the earth. His work is done; he rests from his labors; but he leaves behind him the record of talents indus- triously employed in his wisely chosen voca- tion for the general good of his fellow men, and especially for the amelioration of the suf- ferings and the righting of the wrongs of those too much neglected classes of modern civiliza- tion, the story of whose lives, honest or crim- inal, is a desperate struggle for existence. The British metropolitan journals can hardly find terms sufficiently expressive of their ad- miration of the genius as a novelist and the merits as a public benefactor of the deceased author of the genial Pickwick and his nume- rous family. Let us, however, while dealing generously with the dead, deal justly for the truth and for the living. Charles Dickens was a great novelist, and in his sphere, we may say, he was the greatest among his oon- temporaries. But when his enthusiastic ad- mirers rank him in genius with Shakspeare they are two enthusiastic. Dickens was a man of genius, but his was not the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare; nor did he possess the exquisitely beautiful perceptions of character which we find in Walter Scott; nor the pol- ished sentimentalisms of Bulwer; nor the analytical descriptive powers of Victor Hugo; nor the critical faculties of Thackeray ; nor the orientally poetical and philosophical mind of Disraeli. Compare the last work of Dickens, “Edwin Drood,” as far as printed, with the latest novel of Disraeli, ‘‘Lothair,” and the difference will be seen between the limited range of Dickens and the boundless field of thought, instruction and philosophy opened by Disraeli. In another aspect the contrast between these two writers of fiction is very remark- able. It is the contrast between St. James and St. Giles; for while the heavy atmos- phere of St. Giles prevails in the novels of Dickens, the social air of St. James prevails in the works of Disraeli. Dickens was in his element in his delineations of life among the English low classes, and of the lowest his pic- tures are the best; Disraeli is at home among the ruling minds and beauties of the aris- tocracy, and his range of vision embraces the ruling elements in the social, political and religious world. The characters of Dickens are individuals, each confined to a narrow and insignificant walk; the heroes and heroines of Disraeli represent the great ideas and ques- tions—political, religious and social—which are agitating the realms of civilization, We may, in short, describe Dickens as the graphic shorthand verbatim reporter of scones in low life, and Disraeli as the matured statesman and philosopher, giving us his broad political and social views in the disguise of a charming romance. Even in his travels we find Dickens adher- ing to his ruling passion for the ludicrous, end for incidents and characters absurd, vicious or grotesque. His ‘American Notes” are only a series of hastily drawn caricatures of indi- viduals and trifling incidents ; and the journal of his Italian travels, in which he is more thoughtful and deliberative, will not compare ; in grace or beauty of description with the Italian sketches of N. P. Willis. In what, then, lies the world-wide fame of Dickens as a lite- rary genius? It lies in his graphic descriptions of low life, in his everyday living characters among the struggling masses, good and bad, and in his never-failing purpose to encourage the good, to discourage the bad, to correct abuses against the weak and defenceless, and to create sympathy and kindness, not only for suffering virtue, but towards the ignorantly or helplessly vicious and unfortunate, He labored faithfully, though comparatively within a limited sphere. His mind was micro- scopic, magnifying small things into things wonderfully interesting; and it is not in were really guilty of infanticide in many cases. The Judge ts a sound philanthropist as well as 8 good magistrate, nature that an eye which is microscopic shall possess also the powers of the telescope. Charles Dickens, it may be truly said, employed the talents given him wisely and well. So far as we in America are concerned we can truly say that the mistakes of his first visit were fully, and to the general satisfaction, repaired in his second; that in this country his death will be universally lamented, as his works are uni- versally admired for the good fruits they have borne and still promise to bear; and that many Americans can testify to the attractive social qualities of the man and to the generous hospitalities they have shared in his house, He lived an industrious and useful life, and he leaves behind him a fame and a name which will live respected, fresh and green, for genera- tions to come. Swinpuine Imaicgrants—A WHOLESOME Examrie.—In the Court of Special Sessions, before Judges Dowling and Shandley, a ticket and gold broker, whose business seemed to be principally to make money out of poor emi- grants, was convicted of swindling a man who was wending his way to California out of twenty-five dollars in changing his currency into gold. The inflexible Dowling declared his intention to protect these poor people who were trying to invest their hard-earned sav- ings from harpies like the prisoner, and in order to deter others from committing the same crime he sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of fifty dollars, This is a wholesome example and no doubt will have a good effect. The immigrant must be protected by law. New Names ror Orv Tutnes.—The Co- lumbia (S. C.) PAania states that apart from differences of political opinion there are in South Carolina at present two distinct parties, “the robbers and the robbed.” The same par- ties, unfortunately, exist in other places besides South Carolina. Congross—Railroad Jobs—The Cuban Lobby Investigation. Railroad jobs occupied more than their share of attention in the Senate yesterday. Mr. Pomeroy moved to take up the bill granting a land subsidy to the central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Thayer opposed the motion, and wanted to know the reason for this pressure to take up this bill, when it was almost impossible to get any other bill in tho morning hour, Another rea- son Mr, Thayer had for opposing the motion was that he had a similar bill to in- troduce, which clashed with that of Mr. Pomeroy. The bill to abolish the franking privilege was’ taken up and discussed by Messra, Morrill and Sumner, the latter opposing it as being destructive and not con- structive—a crude, raw measure, full of faults and opposed to the interests of the people. An evening session was held, at which a bill was reported appropriating fifty thousand dollars as payment of the expenses of Spotted Tail and Red Cloud and their suites during their visit to Washington and for the purchase of presents for these savages. The House, with the astuteness rightfully attributed to that body, dropped all public business for a while to look after a newspaper correspondent who had inadvertently maligned Representative Fitch, of Nevada, by giving a synopsis of the testimony sworn to by N. B. Taylor before General Butler's Cuban Investi- gating Committee. After venting a vast deal of unnecessary spleen upon the press in gen- eral and New York correspondents in particu- lar, the House resolved to expel the obnoxious correspondent from the reporter's gallery, and accordingly the Sergeant-at-Arms placed the unlucky correspondent at the bar of the House, where, after being lectured by tho Speaker, he was called upon for his defence. The defence appeared to put a new face upon the matter, and instead of expelling the cor- respondent the House referred the subject to a special committee for investigation, Yester- day’s vote tabling Mr. Davis’ Naturalization bill was reconsidered and the bill recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. The House pro- ceeding to consider the Senate amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro- priation bill, Mr. Dawes called attention to the fact that said amendments were two hundred and fifty-six in number, all of them, with two or three exceptions, adding to the amount appropriated, including five hundred thousand dollars to commence work on the new State Department, to cost over six mil- lion dollars. The amendment excluding from the Court of Claims all persons who had par- ticipated in the rebellion, notwithstanding their having obtained pardons, was disagreed to, and a substitute adopted excopting the cases when such pardon or amnesty was granted during the rebellion by President Lincoln. tis to be hoped that the House will adhere to its substitute. The amendment of the Senate was ex post facto in its character, and wholly unworthy a place upon the statute vook, The Right Sort of Women’s Rights. The Southern Women’s Bureau, which has recently been organized at Cooper Institute under the presidency of Mrs, S. R. Wells and the auspices of a number of prominent ladies of this city and Brooklyn, is about the best exponent of the true aim of women’s rights that has yet come to our notice. The question of suffrage has nothing to do with it. Some of the lady members are advocates of that pe- culiar offshoot of feminine rhapsody, and others are not; but most of them are ladies of literary eminence, and believe in the right of woman to earn her living in the paths of literature, art, the professions, the trades, or in any honorable way that she may deem best. As Mra. Hol- loway, the secretary of the association, says, the Bureau aims at practical woman’s rights, especially in favor of the women of the South, who have been impoverished by the war, and, owing to those chivalric notions in that section which have always scouted the idea of inde- pendence in woman, are now sadly in need of the ways and means by which to earn their subsistence. There are many of these women well enough educated to fill well and ably po- sitions in the higher rank of the professions or the arts, but who, either by reason of this mis- taken devotion, or for want of means, are de- barred even from teaching school or music or following any business that may return them anincome. This Southern Women’s Bureau proposes to extend aid and counsel to these, and thus, while philanthropically helping the needy, it is quite likely to assist social recon- struction by the infusion of healthy Northern notions into the Southern mind. THe PRESIDENT IN THE SENATE.—Senator Sumner assails the President of the United States for what he has done or left un- done, it is not clear which, in relation to the St. Domingo treaty. It is one of the easiest things in the world to find fault, and it is not even very difficult to impute motives, so the gentleman from Massachusetts finds himself equal to both; but if he could measure his sayings and doings by the estimate that others make of them rather than by his own partial fancy he would not invite a comparison be- tween his own record and that of tlie Exeou- tive. He is only Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and if that gives him authority to scrutinize the President's acts with regard to foreign countries it does not quite require the President to substitute the thoughts of Sumner for his own. No man h ever yet seen any reason to doubt the fair balance of the President's mind or his patri- otic purpose, while it is notorious that Sumner holds patriotism as of less consequence than devotion to the interests of a class, and is an empty enthusiast, whose balance is only cer- tain so long as there is no new vanity of philanthropy to disturb it, “Justiok 10” AND IN IrgLanp.—The Gladstone Coercion bill is in complete opera- tion before: the judges in Ireland. It works speedily, and it may be efficiently, as a measure of pains and penalties against crime. Two men, named Gearty and Brady, have just been tried before a special commission of the judges for an attempt at murder. They were imme- diately convicted—although two juries had previously disagreed—and sentenced at once to penal servitude. Premier Gladstone is efficient as a reformer of public morals as well as of State religion, York Central and Erie railroads is suggestive of the state of things that we may seo hereafter if the government should not undertake some control over these vast monopolies, The quar- rel between two or three individuals who con- trol great trunk lines of railroad, arising from personal animosity, ambition or cupidity, may at any time throw the business of the country into confusion and subject the travelling pub- lic to great inconvenience. Vanderbilt and Fisk and Gould would be of little or no consequence to the public if it only affected their private affairs; but when mil- lions of people and the commerce and business of the country are deeply involved it becomes a serious matter. to the morits of the difficulty between Vander- bilt and Fisk and Gould, but eimply call atten- tion to the danger that may arise from such gigantic monopolies. The railroad interests are consolidating very fast, and at this timo all the great lines to the West, and, to a great extent, through the West, are in the hands of some six or eight persons. and centralization of power will go on, and the time is not distant when nearly all the interior commerce and the travelling public will be at the mercy of a few railroad magnates. Con- gress has power under the constitution, and it is the duty of that body, to regulate commerce among the several States. this with the railroads in order to protect the people, and the sooner it begins to legislate on the subject the better. of the People. Tho war between the magnates of the New The fight between We do not refer here at all This cogsolidation It will have to do The Reported Hole in Salt Lake. The news from Utah that the hitherto mys- terious outlet of Salt Lake had been dis- covered in the shape of a maelstrom, or what might be called a funnel, through which the waters poured into some mysterious region under the earth, has excited some curiosity. Indeed, it appears that a number of savans are already about to proceed to the scene of the rumored whirlpool, in order to investigate the new-found mystery. Of course the story of a vessel being whirled around at a fearful rate of speed, as the despatches state, over the mouth of this tremendous hole are absurd. A light schooner could not long stand the suc- tion of such a maelstrom as this is described to be. Scylla and Charybdis were dangerous spots for ancient mariners, and they conse- quently avoided them; but probably the navi- gators of the great Salt Lake are not endowed with as much caution. It will turn out when all the facts are de- veloped that this reported whirlpool in Salt Lake is not an outlet to that body of water; but if any such thing exists at all it is, most likely, the hot spring which has always been known bubbling up on the western borders of the lake. When Fremont was on his explora- tion in that region in 1844—and he was the first who struck the Salt Lake—he was met by trappers, who informed him that if he pursued his course westward he would find a lake of salt water having no outlet but a hole in the buttom—a maelstrom, in fact. old tradition has been revived and converted into a modern sensation. Perchance this The rational view of the subject would seem to be that salt lakes have no outlet at all; that in order to become sali lakes the fresh water which they receive through the medium of streams and rivers, or from any source, must evaporate by the heat of the sun and the saline deposit remain. This is our experience of salt water lakes wherever they have been found. A lake with a free outlet is always fresh. The Lake or Sea of Galilee, clear and beautiful as it is in the sunimer sunshine, and hallowed by so many sweet associations of the sacred pres- ence that once brought new sunlight to gild its waters, and the precious feet of the God-Man that pressed its silver sands, is fresh and pure, because it has a free outlet in the river Jor- dan. But the Dead Sea, which bas no outlet, is saline and bituminous. Adirondack region, not fifty miles from Sara- toga, there is a little lake without a name, from which no outlet can be found, and here the water 1s so brackish and impure that no We take it for granted, then, that if Salt Lake had such copious outlet as this late story relates its saline properties would have ceased to exist fish has been found to live in it. long ago. Modern Brigandage. The recent Greek affair in the matter of brigandage has compelled many persons to ask themselves the question whether there is any such thing as modern civilization? It has induced others to put to themselves the ques- tion—a question, perhaps, more logical than the preceding—whether there is any hope. of resuscitating a race once civilized, but since reduced to barbarism? This latest Greek affair has done more to fix the Greeks asa barbarous race than all the sympathy and sentiment of the Philhellenists (Lord Byron and Mr, Gladstone included) ever did to give them a new lease of life. Spain has caught the contagion; and Spain gives fair promise to outstrip Greece in the downward course. The Robin Hood and the Rob Roy class of men had some redeeming traits of character. They came in in their natural place. These Greek and Spanish brigands—and under the word “Spanish” we include allqthe hybrid races on the southern portion of our Conti- nent—what better now are Greeks and Spaniards than the Indians of our forests and prairies? We, perhaps, tell the whole truth when we say that Greeks and Spaniards, Ital- ians and Indians have had the one opportunity which is given to a people. They are now down. ‘Those brigand propensities reveal their character. What reason have we to hope for such people? Is not all our sym- pathy for the dying races more or less of a mistake? ANOTHER BREAOH IN THE Rapioat RaNKs.— It is now stated that Cadet Whittemore, re- elected to Congress from South Carolina, will not be allowed to be reseated by his radical confreres, The breaches in the radical ranks are becoming more and more widened. So far as they have appeared in this State the Can A Demoorat Be A CuristiAN? is a question being discussed out West. If the contestants should make a visit to New York we think we could show them some fine speci- mens of the democracy who are not only Christians, but “hard ones” at that, recently accomplished in the laying of corner delivered a beautiful Even in our own The Great Railroad Monopolists and Rights | The Jockey Club Spring Racce—Fourth and Closing Day at Jerome Park. This will be the final day of the spring meet- ing of the American Jockey Club for 1870, and, should the weather permit, the scene will cap the climax in gay and fashionable compa- ny, in beautiful and high-bred horses and in dashing equestrian sport. The experience of the past week has taught all observers that no dependence is to be placed upon lowering skies visible here in the morning ; and the additional fact has been conspicuous that frequently, while the sky immediately above the city will be completely overcast, with even a brisk rain falling, there will be sunshine and dry roads at ashort distance away in the country. This was the case on Saturday and Tuesday last ; and on Thursday, when appearances were the least encouraging, both atmosphere and ground were delightfully favorable to the races. Should this morning open clear the roads and the track will be in prime order, and the concourse of visitors will far surpass all that has hitherto been seen in Jerome Park. Thou- sands who were kept away by the frowning skies of Thursday will be determined to see the grand “‘finish,” where they will have an opportunity of inspecting the already victo- rious steeds and the distinguished Laditués of the Park, whose names they have so repeatedly read. Saturday, moreover, is a half holiday for a large class of New York business people who cannot so readily escape during the week, We may, then, very reasonably expect a daz- zling spectacle on the uptown avenues, in Har- lem lane and around the rolling amphitheatres of hill and vale near Fordham. The month of full blowa blossoms has just attained perfec- tion and the country is decked like a young bride, joyous in the solace of the heart and the consciousness of freshest youth and ripen- ing loveliness :— For lo! the winter ts past, the rain is over and 18; Some flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds 1s pom, and the voice of the turtle is heard tn our lan As we have seen it all the week, few more innocent as well as delightful places of rural enjoyment could be imagined than Jerome Park, where perfect order, propriety, respect- ability give special grace to the amenities and courtesies of life, dispensed by a noble corps of refined and high-toned gentlemen. The fair ones will, we feel convinced, require no second invitation to arise and go forth with the west wind to the breezy hills and verdant fields of Westchester. THE MASONIC GRAND LODGE. Amendments to the Constitution—The Corner Stone Offeringe—Hall and Asylum Fund— Close of the Grand Lodge. Tne Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons resumed labor yesterday morning, the Most Wor- shipful John H. Anthon presiding in the Grand East. The Right Worshipful Grand Lecturer George H. Raymond presented his report, in which, after con- gratulating the Grand Lodge on the glorious act the the mystic temple, he eulogy on the brother whose seat was now vacant in the Grand Lodge, namely, the Most Worshipful Robert D. Holmes, He then alluded to the fact that in many places the work was imperfectly done, in consequence of the establishment of clandestine schools. These s0- called ‘Schools of Instruction” prevented uniformity in what brethren still called “the new work.” With the exception of lodges taking instructions in this manner the work was truly admirable. He asked that the Grand Lodge would take action on this mat- ter. fhe report was accepted. The R. W. Brother Herring presented, in @ very neat speech, Brother Henry Hutchinson (of the police), of Puritan Lodge, No. 830, who had in custody the offer- ings placed on the stone by the people who Witnessed the laying of the corner stone. ‘The offerings were laid on the altar and the thanks ot the Grand Lodge tendered to the unknown donors. The Vommittee on Warrants reported in favor of granting warrants to all lodges now under dispen- sation. With regard to the proposition to establish @ National Grand Lodge as custodian of the work, the Committee on Jurisprudence recommended that pep to be dropped at once. ‘The report was adopt ‘The Committee on Constitution and Laws reported amendments to the constitution making the price of a Grand Lodge travelling certificate one dollar in- stead of fifty cents, and Grand Lodge dues seventy- five cents instead of fifty cents, fifty cents of the for- Mer sum and twenty-five of the latter to go to the Hall and Asylum fund. An amendment was made that the price of a Grand Lodge travelling certificate be five dollars instead of one dollar, $450 of which togo to the Hall and Asylum fund, The amend- ment was adopted. An amendment was then offered and passed providing for the cessation of the above assessments atter three years shall have expired. ‘The afternoon session was opened by R. W. Christ. G. Fox. Deputy Grand Master, Manhattan Lodge. W. George, ers, Master, donated $200 voluntary contributions, to the Hall and Asylum fund. The committee to whom was referred the resolution paca that when a candidate is rejected in any lodge ft must require & unanimous vote of that lodge to give him A perulseion to apply to another lodge for light onry, réporte! versely, but the report was not adopted, so the original resolu- tlon was putand carried. A report that members in arreats fer lodge dues will not be per- mitted to vote at elections was sdopted. The Committee gn Hall and Asylum nd reported that the property ts entirely unexcumbered that all moneys subscribe will be applied to the purpose for which it was ite1ded—namely, in the erection of the temple; that they? 1s how a sum of Ftd in bank, subject to a draft from the trustees, R. W. William T. Woodruff offeféd a resolution transferring $5,000 from the balance CP hand 7,872 40) to the trustees of the Hall ard Ag; aa ‘und. The committee to whom was referred the propriety of expunging from the. ritual certain ex- ressions which were offensive to the Jewish rethren ted in favor of the same, The report was laid on the table. Prayer was then oifered by the R, W. and Rey. John G. Webster, and, at six o'clock, the Grand Lodge was closed in ample vprm. IMPURE WATER FOR JERSEY CITY. stone of Something for the People of Jersey City to Reflect Upon—Condition of the Water Sup. ply from the Passaic. During the past three weeks numerous complaints have been made in Jersey City that the water sup- plied to householders was becoming polluted from some cause or. another, but the Water Commission- ers were too much engaged in putting other little jobs through, in the way of removals and appoint- ments of officers, to attend te the matter, As the Commissioners lent a deaf ear to the complaints & HERALD reporter made a tour of inspection while the Commissioners were enjoying themselves at the expense of the city, and the following ts the result of his observations:—The Paterson Gas Company turn out. all the refuse of their concern into the Passaic, and gas tar as well as all kinds of ruvbish from the establishment may be seen floating down the river as faras the Dundee dam, where it accumulates and lies to the depth of about haif an inch on the sur- face. Dead fish in hundreds are thrown up on the banks, . The Jersey City Waterworks are located at Belleville, on the Passaic river. ‘The water runs through a large pipe to the reservoir in the late city of Hudson, where there is an abundant quantity of fish. From this it again asses down to the jower districts of Jersey ani ‘ow, if the source be at all polluted it can be easily seen in what @ condition the water will reach the peopfe of lower Jersey City after passing through several miles of pipe and into a reservoir which at the best of times is not, strictly speaking, in a really clean condition, It is only In the summer season, however, that the impurities are de- tected in the very taste of the water. Tne Water Cominissioners of Jersey City, it 1s well known, frequently drive in carriages to the water works at Belleville and entertain a crowd of frients to a champagne dinner, all at the expense of the un- fortunate taxpayers, ‘The bill presented to the Board of Chosen Freeholders for carriage hire by the President of the Water Board last year amounted to More than $3,000—something amazing when one takes into account the benefits conte! by the drive on the poor people, many of whom are barely pro- vided with the necessaries of life, while these gen- tlemen are Indulging without apy cogt to thomagives. NEW YORK CITY. Local and Police Paragraphs and Miscel- laneous News Items, ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature of the weather for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicatea by the thermometer at Hua- nut’s pharmacy, HeRaLD Building, Broadway, cor. ber of Ann street:— 1869, 1870, 1869, 1870. ~ 69 64 . 68 63 6T Avorage 00% vel he Average temperature for corresponding date Unt YORE... scceseeteeseeneceneennes soaaeeess ORI y Gilbert W. Thomas, charged with stealing Kansas bonds in Wall street, was committed for trial by Judge Dowling yesterday. Bridget Bisnop, an Irish woman, died at two, o’clock yesterday morning on board the steamboat City of Hartford, en route {rom Hartford to this city. The body found in the dock at pter No. 27, East river on Thursday last has been identified as that of Oharles Adier, a youth of eighteen years, who lived at No. 301 Navy street, Brooklyn. All ladies who sympathize with the patriotic cause in Cuba are invited to attend a meeting of the “League of the Daughters of Cuba” at the St. Julien Hotel at one o'clock to-day. The “Standard Club” offer a reward of $2,000 for information which will identify the parties who are believed to have murdered Frederick Tanzer, whose body was found on Staten Island a few days since. ‘The anniversary of the Home for Incurable3 will ve held at West Farms to-day, at half-past three o'clock. Rev. Dra. Washburn and Adams will ad. dress the meeting. Captain T. 8, Vopeland, of Headquarters, has been detailed, with a force of one hundred select men, to perfect and arrange tho police department of the Coliseum during the Beethoven Centennial Jubilee. Messrs. Henry A. Heiser & Sons, bankers, of No. 38 Wall street, were not either directly or indirectly affected by the financial operations of Seitz & Co., as re] a few days transactions whatever wi Lizzie Johnson victimized Isaac Rothschild, of 27 Rutgers street, by the ‘panel game,” on Thursday night, at the house No. 8 Bond He was not as wealthy as his financial nam forty doliars. Justice Cox will dispose of her. Conrad Huber, of 251 West Twenty-ninth street, thought on Thursday night that Christian Linsner’s head was a fit object for pistol practice. His laud- able intentions were frustrated, and Justice Cox put him under bonds tn the sum of $1,000 to answer. Michael Welch, of No. 61 West street, who on Sun- day last stabbed his wife, Rebecoa Welch, witha large knife, was yesterday brought to the Coroner's office and released on giving $1,000 batl, Mrs. Welch, wha ig recovering, does not wish to prosecute her ust The report that a fight occurred in Florence's sa- loon, corner of Broadway and Houston street carly yeaterday morning, 1s entirely erroneous. Robert White, while a passing the saloon, was assaulted by one John McManus, and in the méiée that ensued was knocked down the stairway leading to the sa- loon, but no one connected with the establishment had any participation whatever in the quarrel, nor did it originate McManus was held for trial in default of $1,000 bail. The master car builders, who have been attending @ convention of their tradesmen during the week at the St. Nicholas Hotel, leave to-day for their homes, Night before last they were entertained at a magni- ficent collation at the St. Nicholas by the master car builders and dealers In ratiway materials of the city of New York, and yesterday they were treated toa drive in the Central Park and avery fine lunch at the ieee of Mesers. Vose, Dinsmore & Co., of Manhattanville, Inthe evening they attended the Olympic theatre, tee invitation of Messrs. Lindsay, ‘alton & Co., of No. 66 John street, and after tho pla they all adjourned—some 150 in number—to the it. Nicholas, where they were again regaled ina Most handsome manner by the gentiemen of the last named firm. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. General 8, A. Chase, of Massachusetts; Colonel M. Morris, of the United States Cavalry; General W. Hooper Harris, of New York; Judge 0. W. Glidden, of Massachusetts; General John C. Hulbert, of Sara- toga, and Captain Webber, of the United States Coast Survey, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman John Lynch, of Maine, and Thomas Dickson, of Scranton, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. J.C. Linderberg, of Germany, and Professor J. D. Hammond, of Ohio, are at the St. Charies Hotel. Secretary Boutwell, Ben Perley Poore and She'don Porter, of Washington, and Major Piper, of West Point, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Frieze, of Rhode Is!and, and Judge 8. Neat, of St. Louis, are at the Hoffman House. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON LONG ISLAND, About nine o'clock on Thursday evening a des- perate assault was made upon a colored woman, named Jane E. Smith, in the village of Jamaica, L. 1. The woman was in the employ of Dr, C. H. Barker, and at the time of the assault was passing along Clinton avenue, near Warkurck avenue, when she was seized by a colored man named George Garrow. She cried for help, when she was knocked down and badly beaten. Her skull was fractured, and it is thought that her injuries are of a fatal character. ow has been arrested, charged with having committea the assault, and the injured woman has identified him as the guilty Pein John M. Crane, President of the village of jamaica, had offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the person who committed tho out- rageous asgault, ener te eae ae TE “Ene ‘womal 16 AoW iying in a very Gribical Bon- dition at the residence of Dr. Bark Two large $ er. atones, covered with blood, were found atthe place where the outrage was committed, and they were undoubtedly the missiles used by the brute in his murderous attack upon the woman. POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS. Dialogue in Whittemore’s district:—“‘Wat you tink, Cesar, about de ‘lection? Has Brudder Wit- tembore won ober Mas’ Dunn?” “You better b’liebe it. Mas’ Dunn done gone up in a big bal- loon—suah! He got no forty acres and pair ob mules to gib to de poor cullud man for his vote, like Brudder Wittemboro,” “You got dem forty acres an’ dem mules, Cesar?’ ‘Not for suah. spose dey come in de nex’ 'mendment to de cons’Eujion.”§ “Yab! yah! ’spec dey will. Good mornin’, Mister Cesar.” “Good mornin’, Mister Pomp.” (Exit Pomp.) Cesar (loquitur)—“I won- der wat de debbil dat foolish Virginny nigger is laffin’ at.” ‘The Indianapolis Journal (republican) wants it to be distinctly understood, ‘once for all,” that D. 8. Gooding 1s the democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth (Indiana) ‘district, though from the pecu- liar allence the Sentinel (democratic) maintains as to his candidacy it may well be doubted whether he ts fully recognized as of the household of faith. Mr. Gooding, we believe, was United States Marshal of the District of Columbia during the administration of Andy Johnson, J. P. ©. Shanks has been renominated for Congress from the Indiana Ninth district. Shanks ought to ran wellif he relies upon his own leg-itimate re- sources, CAPTURE OF A PANEL THIEF. Detective officer McKeever took into custody yes- terday a panel thief, named John Cufl, who has been carrying on the panel game on the skirmishing plan. Cuff and the’. woman he was working with were in “the habit of hiring a furnished room fora week or two, and when they had succeeded in robbing some poor victim they would clear out and there would be no trace of them, In this way they robbed a gentic- manirom the Clarendon Hotel of $140 this week. McKeever’ ascertained that tt was Cuffs woman who had hired rooms at 15 Bleecker street, and, In- structed by Captain Walsh, Cuff was arrested. lie ‘was brought before Justice Dowling yesterday und sent for six montis to Blackwell’s Islaud as a rogue ‘and vagabond. DEATH OF WILLIAM SEBACH. ‘The Hon. William Sebach, appointed Commissary General of Subsistence of the State of New York by Governor Hoffman, died at his residence, corncr of E ghty-fourth street and First avenue, yesterday alernogn of lpgering disease of the Leart, o, as they mever had any, t firm, , and only lost * ees es SR Te EE