The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1870, Page 8

8 WORK NEGLECTED BY CONGRESS Measures That Failed to Re- ceive Action. Legacies Left for the Next Session—How Com- mercial Interests were Slighted—Stupidity of the House Naval Committee—Why Certain Bills were Defeated— Effects of Mismanagement on the Part of Congressmen. Wasuinoton, July 16, 1870, Notwithstanding the great leagth of the session of Congress, which closed yesterday—nearly eight movths—quite a number of important measures Tailed. They will go over as legacies to the next ses- sion, and some of them will, perhaps, never be heard of again, There were about two dozen bills on the Speaker's table yesterday when the hour of adjournment was reached, Of this number at least dozen and a halfare ‘Jand grabs’’—bilis donating Public lands to railroad companies. Some of them have been moving along for two or three sessions, and are no nearer success now than when they were first intreduced. Nothing but tie dogued persist ency Of their projectors keeps them belore Congress Probably the most IMPORTANT BILL THAT PAILED ‘was that providing for the apportionment of repre- wBeplatives among the several States, better known as the Apportionment bi lis defeat has settie} the question of increasing the number of members of the House of Representatives unul the Forty-second Congress, and ithas prevented the West and the South from getting any iuer-ase in their representa uon, The elements of opposition to this measure ‘Were rather singular, and an allusion ty them witi show whataslim chance it bad. First of all the New Engiana delegation were agatast it for the double reason that while it would increase the strength of other sections of the country In the House, it would cause the New Eng- Jand States to lose a portion of thelr representa- ves. New York and Peunsylvania were generally epposed to it becsae while it woul! mve given them one or two additional mewhcrs cach, wt the republicans feared they mint be denen t+, as the republican strengt. Is already nog they considered it best to let wel! enw e~ & general rule the South and West wanted the bill 28 Would have visions, There passed, because after all those s largely eflted by its pr opposition to it, how , even among tue Western meu, Cerciin of the democrats Ope posed it on the ground that it would give republican Btrongholds, Ike the State of lowa, a clanee to merease the republican maje in the afo ad, 1 the other hand, republicans did not savor ib be- use it might add ty the democratic minority in some instances, us is iaken st will be absoluie $ bill, aud the chances are that it will go through at the next ses- Bion. Perhaps by that time the contending elements ive Larmonized, ‘The b 2 THE TIME FOR THE [ON OF CONGRESS- Jailed in conseque ce of the Senate having put it on a8 an amendment to the sporttonmient iil There Was no particuvar objection to it, and had it been allowed to staud upon its own merits it would un- doubtediy have goue through. It was a sort of party measure, got up by the republicans & series of measures to head om 1 ang d “colonizing” prociiyities of the democrats. At provided that the elections for members of the House of Representatives should take piace In all the States on the same day, the 't first Monday in November. Sox stober una a few oblect of this now elect in November, some in 6 % the spring montis, Anotier Measure was to have each ne’ Songress compiete op the day when its predecessor expired, the 4th of March. This is fi Important than the ulterior urpose for which the btil was originally introduced. Mhe bill for the REORGANIZATION OF THE NAVY never cae out of the committee room of naval affairs after it was printed and recommitted, Ir was Jess fortunate than the bill for the reorganization of the army, which, under the lead of Logan, was pushed through both houses, though in a somewhat diferent shape from what it came from the House Muitary Committee. The truth is the Committee on Navai Affairs was not equal to the task. Not a single member of that commiltee knows anything, practt cally, of the navy or of naval alfars in general. U Military Committee, it has bo member who ed in the navy, and, therefore, none who had an experievc? that might be turned to soi) ecount. On the vexed question of “ine aud star ihe members of the committee were as much divided as the officers of the navy themselves or their varions friends outside. What was worst of ali the committee would take no alvice, nor would they consult. with men — who are supposed to kuow something about our navy Srom their long connection with 1. ‘Yo be sure, they sent for Admival Porter hall a dozen times, and had two or three letters from Admira! Farrag alter ge ug the opinions of these oMcers as t heeded to insure the efficiency of ue service, ry Immediately set about to do the opposite. Per on the who.e, it is better that the measure 1, for in the shape agreed upon by the commit. it would Nave done litle to add to the strength and to promote the eMiciency of the navy. On the olner land the chances are that the navy would Dive peen Injured by the success of the measure. ‘Dhe bill for the BEOKGANIZATION OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE BU- REAU Went to the wall, probably on account of its greatstze and weight, it Was prepared by General Schenek, and When that is stated it is hardly necessary to say that it co several pages, and is tile very perfection of elaboration. It was not introduced unu! late in the session, the committee being en- gage? on the tari? and the tax bills, The bill pro- poses 10 creat ernal Revenue Bureau into a weparate depariment, and to place at its head an oiicer who shall be a member oi the Vabdinet, OF cuurse this change will nece: orguuizauon of the wiole Bure. bill staken up With the detalis of the organization. Makiog Uie Internal Revenue Bureau a separate de- nent has been a cherished plan of the President ever since he came into oftice, and he was very aux- Joris .to have it done before ihe close of the session, bul it was impossible. iis said thai tle Secretary » Treasury does not look with favor upou tlie dismemberment of his deparunent. As Dow organized the Internal Revenue Bureaa ts the main part of the Treasury Department. It nas the bulk of the parronag Ait brings in the largest part of the pubite reve Nearly all (ae projects for sing the number and promoting the emi- ciency of ony MERCANTILE MARINE were defeated, partially for lack of lane and. partially throug the nitsmanagement of those who had tei ie most Important OF these were the 1 Mediterrancan steamship project, in rge number of New Yorkers were titer- yew York avigition. Dill: the bill for a line of steamship: en San Frane sco and Australia: We Dill fora line of steamers between ra Crus and ocher Mexican ports, 4) bills for lines of steamsinips ports. Had passed, we afloat w ny Briain, Of tie lines chi youd With. a lotof hungry lobbyists expected to make a few thousand dollars by getting them through and then gelling out, vt there Were enough of the bills genu- tne, backed by men Who meant business, to reantiie marine n also may be of Maine, to en- ng. The de to bad mi matte a material uddition to our m had they passed. Ju this coun mentioned the bill of Mr. Lynch courage and revive Amet) an sit of this measure was sulely ow ment. Jn other hands, and yor Gucted, it might haye passed. But the many re a great OTHER MEASUKES: that went by the board. Among them was the Postal Telegraph bill, the New York Air Live Rail- road, several subisrine telegraph cable bills, the Diil Lo prevent the importation of servile habor into the Chinese like the New the United States, which eupbra question, the Civil Service bili, whic ‘ork Air Line Railroad. 13 an old being lot over atevery session. In add: So are some ball dozen contested election cases, Wiizk Must be decided at the next session, EMIGBAKION TO COLORADO. Meeting of the Capital and Labor ¢ nization Seciery. ‘The Capital and Lavor Co-operative Colonization Society, or Humanitarian Pioneers, held a meeting of bona slde members on Saiurday ¢ ng, at Co- operative Hall, 2i4 Bowery, wien Messrs P. Papin, Jas. Pfeffer ani Eds ard Rice, were unanimously elected President, Vice President and Se-retary, re- epectively, for the ensuing year. The society has power (o add to their number two or four new mem- hers before the time of emigration. The president saggested the apy a res) ble treasurer, and My. Jas. 5. vit > requited se- curity geniloman appointed to the estice, all money. in 2100 to be put to tt ‘edit of , in the Union Trust ¢ yany, ) ol 0! ino. 19 Ol a8’ t ¥ Committe was appointed, with the president as cialr. “a two practicul = agi tors Messrs, Male wd Tyee. W, Carus to siary neat NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY) 18. 1870.—DRIPLE SHEET, Tuesday evening for the praities of the South vest, committee are et ywered to make such sr- Tangements with governments ries, States, oF rallways for the grant, lease or purchase of lands in the best locations for the gen ral interest of the ton Soc! Tl fm three Co-operative y wrhe return froin fh Patient f ‘de sma ie Steps Will be taken for the emigral 0f7,000 or more families by the end of August, The desire to have tt known that the highest ioeilanisemer ace tonne w wi The president ed, and it was carried, that Boclaty could'do a@atany tage wien tele, initae clety could do go at an; i tion fee would be rofunited, the society requiring none but bona Jide colonists. It was also moved and unanimously carried that A. Reed, alias Charies H, Morton, ex-member, be expelied from the society on account of an alleged slanderobs rtatement published in a local paper on the 13th lust. prejudi to the interest of the 80- cle NEW YORK CITY. Local and Police Matters and Minor Items of Metropohtan News. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudout’s pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broadway, corner of Ann sireet:— 1869, 1870, OL 07 tem ure WOAY «vee 0 sees Sverage temperature Tor-eurremponsi, date JASU YORE. os cevseesaeeensescnsenerencenssaneaes BOI —_—— The Department of Public Parks announce that, ifthe weather be fine, there wil be music by the Central Park Band in Mount Morris square this evening, from six Lo eight o'clock. Peter Clark, of No. 506 West Thirty-ninth street, Was committed in defauit of $300 vail by Justice Shandiey yesterday, charged with violating tne Excise law by keeping bis place open alter twelve o'clock Saturday night. Attwo A.M. yesterday Jane Linehan, living on the third floor of No, 118 Mulberry street, rear, fell from the fire escape to the yard. She was taken to the station house in Spring street and attended b; Surgeon Waterman, who pronounced her woun slight, but she was sent to Bellevue Hospital. John Wilson, residing in East Forticth strect, was found yesterday morning by a Nineteenth ward officer at the foot of East Fiftieth street, where he had fallen from the terrace wall. ide was taken up in an insensible conditton and sent to Bellevue Hospitat. Coroner Flynn was vesterday called to hold an in- quest at the Morgue on the body of Alice Harrison, twenty-eight years of age, who was admitted to Bellevue Hospital on the 16th inst., irom 136 Cherry sivcel. Intemperance is supposed to have been te 0 Of death, Deceased had Hved at 185 Wooster Warden Brennan, of Bellevae Hospital, yesterday iniormed Coroner Flynn that Michael Farrell, late of 417 East Sixteenth street, had died in that institu- Uov, On the 12tn inst, oficer Maloney, of the Si nth precinct, took deceased to the hospital, at which time he was suffering from @ contusion of the head. How the injuries were received did not appear. In the Tombs Police Court yeaterday, before Jus+ tice Hogan, Charies Reinhart, of 26 Spring street, accused Thomas Morton of having stolen from him two patent locks, of the yalue of ifty dollars, and Wiiliain Campbell of being the receiver of the stolen property. Campbell purchased the locks for sixty cents from two little boys. ‘the accused were held vo wnswer in default of $1,000 batl each, Among the possengers arnving at this port on Friday last per steamer Frankfort was Mrs. Rosalie Beck, a German woman, eighty years of age. She remained at Castle Garden till Saturday afternoon, when the old Jady left with her daughter, living in Newark, N. J., but on reaching the Cortlandt sireet ferry Mrs. Beck was taken snddenly {ll and died soon alterwards, Coroner Fiynn was notified to hold au inquest. About one o'clock yesterday morning, at the cor- ner of Prince and Elizabeth streets, a fight occurred between some rowdies who were making the Sab- baih morning hideous by thelr oaths and blas- phemy. Oflicer Carew, of the Fourteenth precinct, Intericred to quell the disturbance, when he was set upon by & gang of the roughs, one of whom, named Hennessey, struck Carew tn the neck with a stone, rescued his prisoner and indicted severe injuries, The report of the Central Park Meteorological De. partment for the week ending July 16, 1870, shows the following resulis:—Barometer—Mean, 30.004; maximum, 30,182; minimum, 29.848; range, .334 Inch. Taermometer—Meun, 84.8; maximum, 83.2; minimum, 67.2; range, 21 degrees. Rain fell July 12 to the depth of inch and on the 16th to the depth of .06 inch; total amount of water for week, .23 inch. Distance travelled by the wind during the weck, 1,090 milea, PERSONAL INTELLIGEYC2 Promincnt Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Cotonel B. Lewis, of Tennessee; H. 8. Dunning, B. O. Haven and W. 8, Cantwell, of St. Louis; 1. M. Plummer, of Washington; Colonel C. J. Hutehings, of San Francisco; E. A. Hurd, of Vermont; E. Sun- derland, of Washington, and J. G. Thompson, of Chicago, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Governor Goodwin, of Arizona; Roswell Hartt, of Rochester; Judge James, of Alabama; Senator Mor- rill, of Matue; Benjamin Field, of Albion, and B, C, Cook, of Iiiinois, ure at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bon Stark, of New London; G. 0. Jolnson, offSa- yanuah, and George B. Gammmans, of San Francisco, ave at the Albematle Hotel, Lieutenant Commander Wilson, of the United States Navy; N. B. Judd, of Cnicago, and D. B. Grant, of Paterson, are at the Hoffman Hoase. Colonel J. §. Ruckie, of Oregon; George H. Corlics, of Providence; J. A. Peters, of Maine; F, Collins, of the Uniten States Navy; Paul Jutane, of New Jerscy, and Bradish Johnson, of New York, are at the Astor Hon-e. W. H. Hooper and John J. Cain, of Utah, and J, A, Smith, of Chicago, ave at the § cholas Hotel. Personal Notes, A Vermouter has recovered a verdict of twenty- five dollars from a neighbor as @ salve for the bite of ihe latter's dog, and considers himself lucky, al- though no provision 1s made tor his funeral in case hydvophobia ensues. ‘Two Chinese tea merchants were guests at the Wilson House, North Adams, last week, and visited their countrymen at Sampsou’s factory “One of our prominent citizens,” says the Water- bury (Conn.) American, “went to New Haven last week and hired a horse to drive to Double beach. He was gone several hours longer than he antici- pated, and on his return found the stable keeper just about adverusing him, Senator Brownlow h Ville. His health is vette walked from the ratiroad s bore him to bis residew than for many mouths, and he may yet survive those who have hoped to ocenpy his vacant seat int ate of the United States. reached his home in Knox- Vuk for years p: He vag save Wil siart at an early companied by a portion of his famizy and rai friends, so says the Wash- ington Chronicle. Few amen of Wis years exhinit such amazing vitality and such unabated interest in public aduirs, aud perhaps he could choose no more iitting method of crowning bis eventiul career. MUSICAL REVIEW. Ditson & Co. publish the following:— Belle Fienrette Polka.” W. Vienna J, Demorest. Itle affair that seems specially designed for very 1 fingers, and in that line good. ‘The sane house publishes an excellent collection of popular gems, both vocal and instrumental, Whicit are excellent to tickle the popular e Pond & Co. publish, “There is a Land of Pare De- light,” solo, duct and quartet. By W. V. J. De- morest. It corresponds In style with te first plece mentioned above by ie same couiposer. J.N, Pattizon & Co, publish “En Avant,” march for four hand y 'y Mazlath. This’ is a real gem, full of b There is a nervous force of power about keeping, The “Filth Avenue Galop,” by the house, 18 one of the best we have seen for some and Will undoubtedly be @ favorite in the ballroom next winter, Sa Beryamin Hitchcock pablishes of his unvivalied dime and ha which are some of the nest popn'ur wirumental seleglyus Jditiotial numbers Hine music, anong voval aad ie HONDURAS The Interoceanic Railroad— Progress of the ‘Work—Medina’s Idea of Advancement—He Desires Improvement and’ Emigration— Opposition—the Crops and the Weathers BExize, June 9, 1870. Yam happy to say we have not had the promised visit from Don Marcus Conrad, and the colony has been as quiet and undisturbed as if it was one con- tinuous Sunday. Most of the laborers have retired to thelr ptantations and resumed work, and our Planters are again making sugar and rom. ‘The Honduras Ratlroad is progressing successfully, Mf the reports from there are to be believed, and a small portion of the eastern end 1s already com- pleted and in use for transporting the materials to build the remainder. We bave always had our doubts im this colony about the feasl bility of building this road, owing to the rough and mountainous state of the interior of the State of Honduras; but this company, we are told, has, by taking a circuitons route, found an almost level course the greatest portion of the way on both sides orthe continent, The friends of the road say it will be built at a less cost per mi‘e than most’roads in the United States, They have this advantage:—our mahogany cutters brokv up their gangs last year. ‘These men have been hired up at thirteen dollars a month and are among the best men in the world for such work, The contractors have had an here hiring these men for the 1ast seven montis, and at this time hands are so scarce that you can hardly et a hand to paddle you up the river, The parties who bring these reports about the railroad also say that the Hondurans are’ down on Prestdent Medina for nis activity ta panting on this road. This State, like Mexico and all Central Ame- rica, has a large and wea'thy portion of her popula- tion who are averse to any improvements, and more particularly to the influx of any Anglo-Saxons—or, aay other white men. As a matter of course they bring all their influence to bear against President Medina, who is in favor of a large immigration and of developing the resources of the State. The same . report says their influence and op} ition to the President has been so strong that he left vbe and gone to an Indian town, where he ts sarrounded by some five hundred or six hundred Indian soldiers, ‘You may next hear of his assassination. From the State of Guatemala we learn that the crop of covhineal is abundantand the quality excel- Jeut, Our sugar crop this year will be the largest ever made, and we shall, tn all probability, go on mcreas- iug that crop every year until best sugar growing County, in the tropics, A new administrator of this government has been seni down in the place of Governor Lengdon, who was sent to Trinidad. Our new man is named W. W. Cairns, He was sworn in on the 3d of June, but up to this moment ne has not shown his hand ‘and hardly his face. What ne will do or how get on tine cau only tell, The weather 1s very hot during the day, but a) night we have good, cool breezes. Season still dry, although we lave had two good showers, ‘Tue Sapreme Court is in session, bat the Attorney General has not brought on jor trial the eight or nine men who are i cnstody for treason against this government, they being charged as having con- vii Canal about bis coming into this colony, iso charge’ With advising iin. where the e stationed and o/ other treasonabie acts. Critivisms of New Books. YEARS IN WALL a Re i LIFE AND EXPERIENCE ‘CHAN Including the Histories, Mysteries and Men of the Street, &c. ¥ Worthtugion Published’ by Worthingion, Dustin & Co., Hart. ford. 1870, No romance equals the reality of Wall street im the extravagance with which 1¢ tuens topsy-turvy all the ordinary sober facts of life, and falsifies every one of the staid rules that govern human endeavor. All the world has indulged with the Oriental muse the story of Aladdiu’s lamp and of illimitabie wealth and what wealth brings, secured by the mere turn of the hand, and the centipede’s cousin could not count on her toes the number of dreamers who have longed to possess that old utensil, Wall street fs full of those lamps. ‘They are stored in ail the shops, scattered behind the apple stands, and peanuts are sold at the street corners in the light they give, so wonderfully are extremes jumbled in that great thoroughfare, Surely the lamp is hardly a hyperbolic figure of life in Wall street when the wildest changes from poverty to amluence ave Its every day histories, and when even the wealth, the great palaces and splendid gardens of ths Arabians did not melt away more readily under the influence of a counter charm than the forttines gained in the street pass as they come. No book has ever hitherto been given to the public that puts before it such a realizing picture of nap and mishap in the great financial market as this of Mr. Fowler. Some real appreciation of one of the most deeply interesting topics of our age may be gained in these pages. Here we see, a3 he is, the speculator of every possible shade and shape--the winner of to-day aud the loser of to-morrow— the man wo tumbler up to fortune by some TREET; to him mysterious change in the value of the property he has bought and betore he looks around and continues to hold on 1s us suddenly tumbied down again. Beside him, Jostied and jostling hin at every step, we sce that more admirab‘e, Wf inore mischievous figure, tho man who conunues the change that make men rich and drives up and drives down prices of set pur- ose, Poningled with the mass of happtiy presented in- formation of the volume goes all the time a thread or story framed from whe fortunes of the author, who went into Wall — street on @ purchase of $609 worth of a stock rose to fabulous heights and = by that and = successive lucky purchases and sales went over $100,000 in a comparatively short ume. This typical bistory of life in the street gives the story the interest of a novel for such readers as are likcly (o taxe interest in nothing else, though to all others the book will have a far higher interest, In virtue of its reality aud the general scarcity and unceriainty of the kind of Knowledge with whivh it abounds. Lis sketches of the magnates who have gone to and {iro in Wail strect during the pustter years, and of the great geben of the sume pe- riod, Will give it permanent value as a contivutioa to history. Another book of a semi-religions character is that entitied “White as Snow’? (New York: Anson D. I Randolph & Co.), containing six stories, all of whi ave weil written and pleasant to read, They are ach under the head of “Milly Hayden,” “Miss Pe. a, “A Rough Diatnond,? “A Happy Woman,’? omebody” and “Walter Sediey.? We cheeriuliy minend the book. Ai JEALOUSY: OR, TEVERINO, One Of the most delight- ful of the novels wrivten by George Sand, has been recently published by T. B, Peterson & Brothers, of Philaielphia, As in Consuelo,’ the heroine ts an ideal character, beautifa! and pare, admirably drawn and worthy of the genius tiat conceived her. Ail the ot character silent. ‘Lhe book throughout will be read with pleasure, The title, “Great Trans-Continental Tourists’ Guide’ (New York: George A. Crofutt & Co.), ex. plains the contents of @ neatly printed iitustrated and bound book, by which the reader 1s enabled to travel by the best rontes from Boston to San Kran- cisco, and from that last named city to numerous points of interest in California, inclnding San Quen- iin, Where the State Prison is located, and where the com * humorously leaves his reader, The book appears to us a very praiseworthy one, THE CLOEST MANIA Ai1OD: ISLAND. {Prom the Woonsocker Patrtot.} Mr. Jonathan Buxton, of Gaxton sireet, near Slatersviile, died on Tuesday at the great ‘age of ninety-nine years and eight months, “Mr. Buxton was born aud lived the greater part of his life on tue farm where he died. He had been a very ladiatri- ous and hard workime farmer, and was noted for his tron will and determined nature, Although an inva- lid fox @ long perto’t he never relinqnished hls strong wiilor energy of mind. He was couscious almost to nis death, and only five minutes before he expired asked the hour of the day. We have memories of this old gentleman rauming back more than a third of a century. We thought him “old” when we were boys; When, forty years ago. We made midsumime visits to his orchard. fis life of nearly 100 years enedmpassed the whole history of the American ¥ public, he haying been born’ six years before the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Buxton leaves a widow now ih her ninety-seventh year, worn aud deerepit With almost a century of toil, yet with al- Jections sirong as when she married her now de- ceased Companion. A touching meilent lives in the fact thatthe good old mother watched with her husband the Jast night of his life, fanning hun in the midnight hour, and attending to his wants with un weavied affection. Nine children of this famiiy are now living, the eldest of which 3s in his seventy- fifth year. A PRESENTIMENT.—Mr. Hoffinan, of Istond Pond, on the 12th, Wold his physician that his work me up that day. ‘Phe doctor attempted er him up, and sail he 1 If mistaken. He thoaght not He passer the house and told his family he was about through with the world, and he floor and diced. He had been tronble th the hart disease about a year, and he was strongiy fmprossed that Jast Tuckday Ws work would aly be epded. and it wae THE DAY OF REST. City Excursionists on the “‘Briny Deep’—The Fishing Banks, Rockaway, Coney Island, Red Bank, Up the Hudson and Along the Sound—How the Heated Citizens “Cooled Off.” ‘The seacoast, bay, Sound and river were yesterday alive with fleets of trim built steamers and sailing yachts cruising in search of waters fanned by a breeze, or for some locality beyond our horizon where a cloud might be found to tnterpose 1ts vapors between them and the fierce, glaring lignt of the sun. None found the locality desired and all came back salisfle that ir any such place be marked on the charts of thig latitude a commission of survey should at once be sent out by the Navy Department that the error may be recufied “by authority.” The generally expressed opinion ‘was that a voyager in search of the North Pole wou'd Just now enjoy a ‘‘red hot” time, Notwithstanding this feeling of dissatisfaction among the amateur navigators and explorers and the old salts who hid promised to pilot them to the longed-for sea, no great coolness was allowed to exist among them, and all determined to enjoy themselves as If that were their sole businessin life, This enjoyment was taken principally in the shape of lemonade and lager in by no means homeopathic doses, drunk to sounds of music and dancing. The excursionists took various roatcs—some arfan7*d weeks ago at the evening meai of some poor mechanic, some sug- gested by the impromptu fancy of a pair of lovers or the whim of a bachelor bored by the dem’d noise’? and heat of the town. THE FISHING BANKS were the scene of the usual piscatorlal exploits on the part of the venerable ‘“Izaaks" who have offered up thelr Sabbath morning devotions here every pleasant Sunday afternoon for the past twenty years, and who were, of course, the admiration of all the effeminate clerks whose gorge rose with each swell of the sea and who, under all the astonishing surprises they were constantly receiving, Were as tonished by none so much as by thelr ability to sham @ doleful aypearance of unconcern and happl- ness. Among the steamers anchored here were the Rip Van Winkle, with a band of music on board and a gay party of lads and lasses (the latter carried at half price ag a tribute to their youth and beauty), who contrived to vary the monotony of “bait, lines and refresiments” by the ingenious yet simple aris of coquetry and flirtation. The P. CG. Schultz, another steamer, which Icaves her first Janding in the city at twenty mmutes before gix o’clock A. M., Was also off the Banks at an cariy hour, Deavily jaden wita passengers, who seemed in every way to enjoy themeclves aud the sport of fishing. ROCKAWAY BEACH, the once rival of Long Branch, early deserted bv fashion and now the seaside paradise of tue poor excursionist, Was unusually tbronged, the Pope Catlin and Sylvan Grove each being crowded. with passengers every trip, Rockaway possesses, per- haps, fher natural advantages than he Branch, and the fact of 1s being so easily and cheaply reached gives it a widespread popularity as a Sun- day resort for persons of humble means wio toenjoy the luxury of the sea breeze and bath Besides, there are ‘those who, being wealthy, have Not a Vitiated taste, and prefer the absence of folly aud fashion, when they can enjoy the beauty of nature undisturbed. CONEY ISLAND. Since the HeraLp yeport of the outrages com- mitted upon visitors to Cuney Island beach Saper- intendent Joardan has detatied & large force of police at the landings, and several deputy sherits have becn appomted at the same place by tie authorities of Kings county. In consequeuce of this action the steamers Meta and Norwalk are again crowded with excursionists possessed of the Sala- mander's power of defying the reflected heat of the sands, and the bathing cabs are employed to their utmost capacity. Not only by the steamers, but b, several rail routes do the people perform tie pil- grimage of pleasure to theee barren shores, and till a late hour last night the cars were crowded with the returning thousands, who prefer to accomplish that inost disagreeabie task of return when the even- SANDY HOOK. The Steamer Sea Bird le:t her wharf at eight A. M. with a large number of passengers for Sandy fook, Bank and the Neavesink Highlands. There was a very quiet, orderly party on board, consisting in the main of business inen, who with their families were seeking recreation after the labors of a week of such intensely hot weatier that ordinary human na- ture felt itsel{thorougnly exhausted. Aiter spending @ pleasant time on shore at some one of the beautiful landing places the party returned, leaving Red Bank at six in the evening, and arriving home really re- freshed by the excursion, instead of being exhausted by the fierceness of their fun, as Many others were who yesterday went down In ships. ALONG THE SOUND, There were several excursions up the Sound, the departures taking place at various hours during the day, Among others was one on board the sieamer Nelly White to liege Pommt, Whitestone, City Island, New Rochelle and Glen Cove, and others on the Sylvan Stream and Sylvan Glen ‘to High Bridge. The excursion of the Nelly White was one of tie most pleasant of the day, and the High Bridge boats were densely crowded at every irip. UP. THE HUDSON. The great events were the many excursions up the Hudson, there being eight “grand” excursions, lead- ing oif with the nagnifiveni river steamer Plymouth Rock in her regular Sunday trip to Pougikecpsie, landing at West Point and Newburg. This boat, which carries @ fine full band of masic and in all its eae cane ig one of the most elegant of the “floating palace” steamers, attracted her full quota of pleasure seekers yesterday, aud was the scene of many amusing incidents, among which wasa comi- cal chcounter between an intelligent French gentle man and the traditional German from Lagerbleris:l.- out, whom he interviewe: on the question of newly declared war, and the position of affairs in the neighborhood of Metz and Kiel, resulting in @ fen- zied enthusiasm on both sides, which, however, was instantly dissipated by the laughter of the Frenchman when he searned from a bystander that the German had not heard of the question at issue or of the war declaration, but had been arguing on the merits of the Schleswig-Holsteln-Danish question of four years ago. Parues on board the steamers Fort Lee, Plea- Sant Valley, ana Thomas &. Hulse paid the regu- latton initiatory visit to Fort Lee and swung in the swing. There were other excursions to Yonkers Newburg, and other places ou the river as far nortl ‘as West Point aud Cornwall, made by the steamers Mary Powell, Sleepy Hollow and otners, including steamer to the Catskills, nearly all of which car- vied bands of music on board and furnished abun- dant refreshments. The varlous exew e turned between seven and ten o'clock P. M., the echoes along tre river banks by thetr songs an: the music of tne bands, and disenvarked Bly liughing and happy, thongh uo doubt weary froar the excitement of the day. Mug grows cool. SUNDAY AY TE How the German Enjoyed the Day—tThe Grand Restaurant and Seeves Therein=Syrup and Soda Water at a Premium. Our German fellow citizens were about the only class of Gotham’s mortals who ventured up to Cen- tral Park yesterday. It was a sight to see the Gei- man paver familias with the whole of his samiiy, on lis way to the cooling shades of the Park. On the east side of the city, of course, the people of Father- land most appeared, and not even could an evening paper extra on the European war draw forth guttural exclamation other than “Ugh! ugh from the paternal throat, und this was supposed vo express comprehensively an opinion on ihe state of the weather. i was, no doubt, a sight to seo tie corpulent form of the sweltering Dutchman wiping from his ample forehead, with a most ample hand. kerchief, the big drops of perspiration which over- crowded Third avenue cars occasioned on the trp to the Park, and meter familias in deepest sympa- thy for her beloved lord ani master and for the Af. teen or sixteen juvenile offsprings who crowded around, all of them as silent as lobsters on dry land, A few others, avery few inleed, except the Germans were wiliing yesterday moraing to brave THE CHANCES OF A SUNSTOKE, even for @ few hours 1, the elysian lawns of the eity’s summer refuge. In this beautifully shaded garden of the city the forenoou hours w insup- portably hot. Old Sol poured down nis such deiermined vehemence that no reliei could be obtained, Go where you would, among the trees or by the Jakes, In the arbors or among the § lanes, tt was all the saine, Phe = sh was there, Dut the pricking heat was there too. It seemed to be inherent; 1b stuck fast in ery pore; tt arew fortit the sweat us If you were a pump and Sol was av the handle, Now and tien & cool, soothing, deligious breeze would ba! Hun ecstatic vapor of a but you had sea: ered out your joy whea the fires were at Wo SWELVBRE ) MEL » wrisibands, — turacd turned up your them down again,” took off your coat, — slung it over your shoulder, sinng it of again, opened your shirt collar, amed your bre pounded your foreneadt and kicked up. all soy of antics ‘and capers, all of which were o! no a whatever, but made you only ail the Ww r groan and sweller aud met away al! tae inor Hittie wonder, then, that all the people in the Park yesterday, all the Dutch naa and Patch women and ive Dutchers and Lita Dutcesses, vesicles every- bedy cise, Unduag the MAvaral vesOMves Ob Lie Jerk ‘ied them- inadequate entirely to the occasion, carr! sclves—and very slowly, Wo, one leg after another— to the Cyne restaurant, where the natural appties sultable for a July emergency were in m« undant profusion, Goodness! what @ spectacle did this grand resturant present yesterday at CENTRAL PARK AT NOON. Every table was filled, every seat that could by Ppassibility be improvised wos made available, i cream, and such dril wi and ayrhpes such feeding of children and ory iDe of the same; such sending around among the dren of goblets of lemonade, and such complaints among the snine of the unequitable disposition the Hi pach laughing. are’ screaming; guch growl ; suc ing and snarlin incipient cases of stomach at among the children, aod consequent disa- C g ‘ability among families; such a general swelter- yoasting time withal as there was in the “grt of the Park Was. never geen before, an bi ik doubtless not be witnessed again this summer, ese are daya when even the weather js too much for Central Pari, and eet tay ‘was one of them. BROOKLYN CITY. MisceNaneous Items .Loeal Interest. of Charics Palmer, twenty-eight years of age, died on his way to the hospital yesterday a!ternocon, from delirium tremens. His body was taken to the Morgue. John Dougherty, aged thirty years, died at ms boarding house, No, 37 Front street, last even)ng, a the effects of the heat, The JUoroner was notl- The residence of John Wilson, corner of Fifty- eighth street and Fifth avenue, was broken into by some person unknown yesterday and silver plated ware to the value of furty Apilags was.stolen, : The showcase in front of Mra. Mathews’ millinery store, No, 91 Fulton avenue, was broken open at about nine o'clock on Saturday evening and fifty dollars? worth o! millinery goods were stolen. A laborer, Joseph Coughlin, residing at No. 136 Butler street, was arrested yesterday for beating nis ‘wile, Catharine, in 2 ramManty manver with a carpet stretcher, ‘The Anjured woman was aienided by br. Gilfillan. Joseph 13 said to be a prominent member of the “‘Hod Carriers’ Wife Beating Association.” ‘The residence of Mr. Welsmen, No. 142 Clinton street, was broken into by burglars on Saturday morning and @ quaouty of portable property was stolen, A package of allverware, which was packed up for removal by the rogues, was leit behind, as the latter were evidently frightened by some unex- plained cause While at Work. Francis E. Roberts, an engineer, was arrested on a charge of appropriating the sum of $150 be!ong- ing to and collected in the name of his father, Mr. Wuliam Roberts, of No. 353 Pactfic street. ‘Tho dit. ference between “mine and thine’? wil be defined for the special benefit of Francis before Jusuce Walsh to-day. Mrs, Mary Daily quarreiled with Richard It the residence of the jatter in Butler street | ing in regard to the children. In the course of the row Mrs. Daily drew a kavfe and stabbed Hayes be- Diad the ear, intiicting a severe wound, The injured man was attended by a neighboring physician and Mrs. Daily was locked up to answer. CBtrvaRry. A. B. Longstreet, “W7 published. yesterday morning the announce- ment of the death of Judge Longstreet, which took place at Oxford, Miss, He was born in Augusta, Ga., on the 22d of September, 1790, was graduated at Yale College in 1813, studied law and began ihe practice of lay m Litchileld, Conn. in 1815, how- ever, he returned home, where he met with success in his profession, In 1821 he served in the lower house of the State Legislature, and during the same year was chosen a Judge of the Superior Court, which position he held several years. In 1833 he became a minister of the Methodist Church, and during the following year was ¢lected president of Emory Col- lege, at Oxford, Ga, Here he remained nine years, When he resigaed to accept a similar position in Centenary College, Louisiana; but he had not been there many months beiore he was invit.d to the presidency of the Uiiversity of Missi‘sippi, at Oxford. He accepte.| the invitation aud served for gx years, When he retired with the intention of de- voting the remainder of his days to agricuttural pursults, He was, however, persuaded tn 1357 to accept the presidency of the South Carolina Colleze, waich be held uatil 1861. In 1860 he was sent to London as one of the two representatives of the United States to the International Congress for the adjustment of weights and measures. [rom this as- sembly he withdrew b cause @ negro was adinitted to the Moor, iis levter to the London Zimes on te subject was decidedly pithy and caused quite a stir at the time. As 1s generally Known Judge Long- street was the author of the famous “Georgia Scenes,” whose humor was all Popular thirty years ago. He also wro'e other and less known works. Snice Is6l he had been residing near Oxford, Miss., the weignt of years pressing heavily upou him. Andrew J. Fletcher, ‘The death of this gentleman, ex-Secretary of State of Tennessee, took p.ace at his home in that State on Saturday last. Ue wasa native of Tennessee, aud came into prominence during the rebellion by his adherence to the Union cause, Under Brownlow, and until a comparatively recent date, he served as Secretary of State. Although a stanch repubiican, and a radical at that, Mr. Fletcher was a bitter oppo- nent of tho adventurers who crowded the Sout in search of political offices. He denounced the carpet- baggers in unineasured terms, and ior so doing in- curred their antwosity. He retired compictely fro public notice after leaving the post of Secretary of States AN ESCAPES FROM FIRE, Adventure of Job Bilodeau in the Great Sa- guenay Fire in inda—Hle is Alimost Boiled Alive in a Fountain Basin— Thrilling Description of Scencs During the Fire. The Canadien pudilshes a letter, in winch the fol- lowing recital appears of the ac ventures of a sutterer by this terrible catastrophe. Job Bilodeau relates ‘is experience thus:— We were preparing to sit down to dinner—imy old fath my children and mysef 1 ihen en kK smoke risiog irom the Pointe after 1 became certam that a considerable conflagration, rendered move active by nad already enveloped the par- ish of Roberval. We hastened to get our our house- hold furniture and to throw some linen and cloties into a cellar; but in a few minutes the fire canght my house, I entered to save a little ciock, but was obliged to bre:k out a window in order fo get out. This attackeil by the fire T cast mysif into the danip dung of iny pigs, which I me At the end of some ime | ¥ surrot the fire from il sides, Was sutfocated by and for a moment lost ail consciousness. which caught me restored to ime t pres A flame pre’ etting Ibo the ; Where Lhad a jew minutes before deposite | some eile 1 then to the side of my barn, where there isa foun In order that I ay Sib not suffocate 1 threw myself several mes © i iue grouad, At last 1} reached the fountain and rew imysel€ in lead fi Bat 1 was far jrom belng out of danger. bait filled with onthreshed g nd sty fire, and 1 found perc of this furnace; the fdines swept the place where L was; the woovten frame of the iountail took fire; [ pvuiled off @ splinter aud with it thrust away te sparks Uy lay iiead, whne Lfrom tine to time plunged ent under water, At the ead of a couple Of hiours the Hames abated and I was able to sion & cross piece of halt burned wool, 1 was seized with trembiing, aud I seemed as if about to dic, However, at the end of aif an hour f was 4 to walk on tle ashes around me, and rejomed my wife and the chiidren whom T found by the cellar where we tad placed our goouls they had taken tet, Ole OL L ren and one of 1 wy had disappes knew not Where. Night approached and we set out for Roberval, hoping there to jind \ all the houses were burae We found ty two persons, an ba Worse been br who were hear thea tlh for the night in tie ne: most of us were obliged to remaiu standing tor Want of space and to hold the chilwen im guy stuns. Next day we set out from this den to try to fitd our Wandering iviends and relations, About noon Tm my father holdine pila by the dand, About eight thee elore he had reuche bank Of a sinall lake, to Which he Had been Aur by the crouking of the frogs, There he nade raft, On Wh.ca he placed the ehitd, wai covered witht Lis trots r first ph it trom the fire, is from the cold, 1 that mgut was iat . My sister-in-law is Infirm and nnable to walk. She dragged herseil to the foot ol a reek, W » she found twenty-four other persoiis who, like herself, were saved miractt lonsly, Ue fire having completely destroyed the z who had git Lo bed only tow days betore, aud two We siowed ourseives t collar we could in e wood on ihe top. We bronght them in on a litter, and about noon we found Vurned bones of my neighbor, Orie Forlin, aud of Mis son. We were for. tanate enough to find a sack of dour which £ had heen able to put inthe fle fire. Jt was tien vo) more than sixty im munuber ‘Lon the ashes of the chapel new = my re: » had eaten for twenty-four hours. Without that provision of Pro denee the weak pervous and chitdven wontd have died of cativuchun belory ey eeuld gbiain succor. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. The New Appointees to Assume the Duties of Their Offices To-Day. A Lovk at the Rings and Oliques—The “Indim pensable” Officials in the Customs Service— Who 1 Really “Indispensable” — A Question Answered—How to Make the “Rings” Clatter and Jingle. ‘Thomas Murphy, the newly-appointed Collector of Customs for the port of New York, wilt this morning assume the duties pertaining to the admintstration Of this office, an‘ bis predecessor, Moses H. Grinnell, will also enter upon the discharge of his functions as Naval Oilicer of the port, In nearly every instance of a succession in ofice there is a great deal of talk, bluster and sensation about “sweeping reforma,’? “abolishment of sinecure positions,” “retrenche ment,” “stoppage of corrupt and fraudulent leake ages” and the like, and in every instance it remaing for the courts and the detectives and the secret ser- vice agents to veutila-e and punish new crimes and misdemeanors, 1t therefore may not be out of place at the present time to go into the question of the causes of these ofences and the system under which they not only can exist out do actually flourish. THE “RINGS,’? One of the essent’al things for a thorough reformas tion of the Cu-tom House is the breaking up of the “tings” which are formed by the heads of the difrer- ent departuents. The evils growing out of these Combinat.ons appear to be chronic, There are the Warehouse Deparunent Ring, the Seizure Bureau Ring, the Free Entry Permit Ring, the Withdrawal Routine Ring, the Liquidating Department Rings and the Auditor's Bureau Ring. Then there is the Appraisers’ Ring and the Ring of the Inspector's Departmeni, Surveyor's Office. Here is a list of some of the principal “routines,” which haturally gravitate toward abuses, developed in illegitimate money making and favoritism, The way these eva are continued is most natural. When Mr. Murphy, for instance, tukes his chair in the Collecto:’s Office, the firet men wlio come in contact with him are, with few exceptions, the souls of these rings. It is astonishing Low polite they are. Polouus was rude to them. Low subserviently, yet cautiously, they give the new ly installed Collector just informa- tion enough to iniike him realize the idca thet he has entered ipon duties which make theni essential to hts success ! Now, the newly mstalied collector shouia impress: it upon his mind that there ig not @ duty to be per- formed in the Custom House that cannoi by a clear headed, intelligeut man be thoroughly mastered in forty-cight honss, ‘these self-coustituted “experts? will talk about tering the tarii, for instance, Well, an entire change m the tariff has just been officially announced, An intelligent min outside the Custom Tiouse can read the schedule In the news papers, aud ta (ch minutes apply the exactions to any article named in the list. So, what is the use of experienc is constantiy the order of the day? maatter periectly piain before the most ensuai reider it may be well to recall two incidents in Castoin House history which transpired within a few weeks, If any one two or three months ago had visited the building and inquired of these “ring masters” or anybody else wiat two men more than any others were essential to the successful working of the Cus+ tom House ve would, without doubt, have been in- formed that Mr. Franklin, of the Naval Office, and Mr. Date Ugden, of the Collector's Department, were these centres of necessity, He would have been shown Mr. Dae Ogden’s fine, — intelligent, aristocratic face and Impressive personal appearan im the rotunda, and then would have followed the information that he had “been at the head of the hgu.dating dep irtinent over forty years.” And if the informant was one of the 1 or its depend- auts, he Would go on to say that the responsibility of making up the duties for the whole Custom House was in charge of Mr. Ogden; that he was lord paramount superintendent of this most really important department; that the details of the sya tem had grown up under his supervision; that he knew ali precedeats and had the decision of every Solicitor of the Treasury regarding the tarit laws as his finger ends. aud, finally, after the visitor had become thorougtly impressed with the importance of Mr. Ogden to the Revenue De) ment, he would agree With tis 12 ormant that if by apy act of Provi- dence Mr. Ogden should oficially leave the building the Custom louse dome would topple down and the collection of tarif's end, Bat one morning. without any announcement, Mr. Ogden did vacaie his place, and the saa did not re- tire behind a cioud; there was not even a gentle ripple in the routine of the liquidating department of the Custom House. The fact is that he or any other man i3 not essentlal to the business, and the fact that he bas gone out without creating the slightest percep.ibdle effect proves it. “But we might possibly spare Mr. Ogden;” the self admiration society of the Custom House had to adit that “hit.” They sald triumphantly, “Look at Mr. Franklin of the Naval Office, he is the naval oitice. He has been naval officer for thirty years; without him there wouldwtbe any naval office.” But the other day, a gentleman without thirty seconds? worth of expericnce displaced Mr. Franklin and his thirty years’ experience, and the Naval Ofive has gone on as quictiy aud well as itever did in ite hiss hour And if Mr. Franklin and Mr. Ogden, whose united Custom fous experience and office holaing, amounted to seventy-five years, were worth nothing: to the governinent, What is the use of any one telling Mr. Murphy, that they or any other oficial are “ea- sential” to the Custom House, ‘The statement 13 bosh: our system, independent of the provoking and senseless routine, is too simple a8 & Whole, toever Make an expert, much less re- quire one, ‘fle iact is, that when one hears a broker or some occasional importer complaining that the removal of some certain person in tne Custom House delays business, a thousand to one some little ring, or outside bert Rrcar has been deranged or broken up; hence the delay complained of. The remedy, or one of the most essential remedies for the regeneration of the Custom House would be an entire change in the heads of the departments. If men who have been in office fifteen, twenty and twenty-five ycars must be retained—and it is evident by tne cases of Mr. Ogden and Mr. Franklin ‘they are not necessary—then chan} these gentlemen irom the departments they have go long occupled into other places, and that would certawiy derange if not destroy any supposed rings or other evils. If the secret history, of the Custom House could be written: it would op found that ail abuses worth the public’s notice hay sprung from tie long continaance of the same men in the same bureaus. The spirit of this republican government wisely arranged & periodical change In our publi nen. ‘The President, the members of Congress, and Coltector of the port, are subjected to this healthy rute; and it seems on ly sound sense that it should apply to the remaining Ogdeus and Frauklins who tiold piace in the gray granite build+ ing in Wail siveer. TEAL 60.0 THEATRICAL Not the Genuine Oates Burlesque Compa: A Crowd stealing the Pretty Burlesquer's Thunder. Ony.? New York, July 17, 1870, To THE Epiror or THE HERALD: In your edition of this morning, under the beading: “The O11 Theatrical Story,” you state that Mra, Oates’ Burlesyue Company played in Newark, Ne J, “to a beggari ‘count of empty benches” and sank over $5 0 tu the matter, &c., and forther state that the mavager cume a snarp doige on the hotel keeper, “gave int acheck on a bank in Philadels phia and witic he repaired to the telegraph oMice to, iuquire if theve were any funds there the troupe got their baggage ot aud into the ratlroad depot. When he got back lic found hits hostelrle vacaced, bub hi could do nothing it seems with the artful dodge vy ‘Vie fatter promised to pay, but has nog ed up, Tie hotel Keeper thinks ‘lis avery : ‘Otes.’? Now, sir, im justice to . Gales aud the reputation of iis come ounce the above false in every pare {you to publish the following i Oates’ Burlesque Company didnot periurm in Newark, N. J, a6 any tie, Some of the Individual members of her company were engaged by a party from Philadel. phinatier she sed her successiul eneagement at ue on the evening of July 2, and rs not belong to her company, were organized into a “Buviesque ‘Troupe, and f can state of my own Knowledge (having been a member of Mrs. ~’ culpuny since September, 1349) that the management have not been placed In any pecue niary ditheuity wuatever, having always promptly met his chgayements, NO matter from What quarter they came, ‘by giving this etreulation through the columiis of your paper you Will do an act of justice amd couter @ favor on UARRY T. LEN, Of Mrs, Oates Burlesque Troupe, {I[tappears that Wie “sharp” party athided to 10 the above transaction were some per-ons wha played at Newark and had “billed” themselves very conspicuous y avout that town as “prominent meniy bers of Mrs. cs’ Burlesque Company,’ the first three words above quoted being prin in small type, while the tour last words formed a largé Seatch dine!) it not, therefore, the company unaer ihe nent of the little bnriesqué favorite of U jc theatre.) A Tennessee paper reports the A CATFISH Stor finding of an uv’s body In the stomacn of a cal Dstt Which & hotel Keeper had Yought for his tabl ‘The antecedci's of the infantile Jonah are wknOW but the state of preservation in which it was foun Ought to teach al! catishes that Infants are indigesty ble and unwiwlesome, Should this paragraph me he eye of any Sennessee catfish, and draw from tha eye one BYID patie! te ur, the humble purpose of 1h wilier Will be accomplisued.