The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, jo. 253. MUSEMENTS TO-HORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—' - SUE OS eae Bin He Dawns Pa BOOTHS THEATRE, 94 at., bet us PEt OF THE PEITICOATS—FaMiLy Jane nto AY WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances oon &nd evening—EAST LYNNE ie BOWERY THEATRE, — — gnu ee ‘RE, Bowery.—A Tui To RicnMonp. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prt and Houston sis. —Tuk De Awa oF Fultz, Matines ata. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8h av. ana 23d st.— NAncisse. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KELLY & Leon's MinsTRELs. FIFTR AVENUE TUE, Tue New Drama or Dr . Twenty-fourth street. — WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— TUE PRINOKSS OY TRELIZONDE. 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The Tammany Party be- mages Sustained by the | ; The Coreags ana the | in New York and © | | Page)— | Centrai Ame: President rs °g Result of the Negotiations at sa) Threarenlug to Burn the Vatican—England: ‘The b A Arbitrator on the Alavama Claims America—Spat Haneous Telegra —Musi¢ and the Dra. ents, 's of the Poor’—The Shoe Shop ion Hill's Muraer Mys ie Street Homicide—The Meco x Diticulty—1he Jones’ Wood Mur- der—Tue Sound secret—-Found in the Sound— ‘3 kussian Letters—Opituary—Suip- Jligence—Advertisemenis, 12—Aavertise ENpoRSING THE ADMINISTRATION.—The re- publican majority in California is reported to be about six thousand five hundred. Tue Lasor Rerormers are quarrelling with the democratic Governor of New Hamp- shire over his division of the spoils—a bad illustration for labor reform. Tne Lower CauirorniA Fravp.—The last of the Lower California colonists arrived at San Francisco yesterday. The total number of colonists landed at Magdalena Bay was three hundred and twenty-five, of whom fifty | died from heat, thirst and disease. A Coxspmacy aT CALLao, aiming at the total destrnction of the Presidential palace and the imprisonment of President Balta, has been discovered and thwarted. Large quantities of arms have been seized, and, according to our despatch, a portion of the army stood ready to aid the conspirators had they under- taken the step. Senator Camrnon, as it appears, has given the opinion at Washington that Pennsylvania is right side up and will give a good republi- can report of herself in October. But expe- rience has shown that there is no telling the result ona mere State fight in Pennsylvania till after the election, and Senator Cameron may be counting his chickens too svon, A Conspinzacy To Buxn tar Vatican is reported as having been discovered at Rome. | According to our cable despatch the Alfier Society has advocated general anarchy and a | demolition of the strongholds of the Pope in | the Eternal City. There is consolation, how- ever, in knowing that, come what may, His Holiness will be protected in person by the foreign ambassadors, Tux Empress Evorste has left England for Spain, where she intends to visit again the scenes of her youth, She'has long contem- plated this journey, which, if the cable reports record the truth, has been a bone of contention between herself and ber imperial husband. She wanted to remove from Chiselhurst early in the summer and make a home in Spain, but Napoleon negatived the idea by proposing one of bis own chiteaus in Switzerland as a future | place of residence. The Empress evidently is | not jealous, for she leaves Napoleon revelling | at Torquay, one of the most fashionable wa- | tering places iv Great Britain. Given a large bundle of cigarettes and a small amount of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1814—T'RIPLE SHEET. Tho Religious Reform Movement in Ger- many. Slowly, quietly and without any ostentation, the ecclesiastical reformers of Germany move on; but the steady step and the look of deter- mination on their brows encourage us to be- lieve that they mean to move on, and that they mean to win. The Council of the Vatican promises tobe as memorable as the famous Council of Trent, The Council of Trent did not begin the religious revolution of the six- teenth century, but it made Protestantism a fact and gave a sound historical basis to the great Western schism. The Council of the Vatican has given birth to a revolution; and from present appearances it is not too much to say that unless the Council is again con- vened and undoes what it has done, the reli- gious revolution of the nineteenth century may prove quite as disastrous to the Roman Church as was that of the sixteenth century. Dillinger, it is true, is not a Luther. He is old; Luther was young. He is cautious; Luther was daring. But Luther alone would not have defied the thunders of Rome and wrenched the Western Church asunder. He needed his Melancthon; he needed his John of Saxony; be needed, above all, a peo- ple prepared and willing to follow. Let any one compare the initial reform movements in Germany in Luther's time with the initial re- form movements in Germany in these present times, and he will be a bold man who will say that the success which attended the former will not attend the latter. Dillinger has his Friedrich and his Huber ; in the person of the young King of Bavaria he has a good counter- part of Elector John, and we know for certain that Catholic Germany is neithar unprepared nor unwilling to follow. Twenty thousand men, and some of these the best men in Ger- many, have*given in their adhesion to the movement, The events which have already taken place leave us no room to doubt that the fight is real and earnest, and that the men who have taken the lead mean to goon, As our readers are already aware, the action of Dr. Dillinger has been approved by almost the entire body of his colleagues in the University of Munich, the largest Catholic University in South Germany. His election, a few weeks ago, to the office of Rector, by an almost unauimous vote, was an _ indica- tion of the tone of public sentiment which cannot be misinterpreted. ‘The faneral of Dr. Zenger, who was denied the privileges of the Church, was auother unmistakable sign, The Archbishop of Munich forbade that any priest should 1ead over bis remains the Church ser- vice, or that any church should be granted for such a purpose. Zenger’s one fault was that he had signed the address of sympathy to Dr. Dillinger. Dr. Friedrich, the young cham- pion of the new movement, refused to be so bound; and he had daring enough to grant his church for the forbidden purpose and to perform over the remains of his friend the funeral service. It was known that Friedrich had before administered to the deceased Doc- tor the last sacrament in defiance of the man- lesiastical superior. The result was that Munich turned out en masse to the funeral; and the demonstration was such as the Bavarian capital has not seen in many a dates of b | day—another indication of the state of feel- ing not difficult to comprehend. Friedrich had before been excommunicated. He was now by special order deprived of all his —benefices. Friedrich is the righthand man of Dillinger, and is admitted to be one of the finest scholars among the young Catholics of Germany. Dr. Huber, the joint author of the famous ‘Roman letters” by Quirinus, and also of the equally celebrated work called ‘Janus,” although not so daring as his young friend, isa man of larger experience and of greater influence ; and he is body and soul devoted’ to the “‘Alikatholiken” or old Catholic movement. But it is not ia Bavaria alone that the move- ment finds support, It is popular in the Ger- man provinces of Austria. I¢ is popular in Hungary. It is popular in Bohemia. It is j intensely popular, as might be imagined, in Prussia. And among the Catholic populatioa in the German provinces of Switzerland it has many warm and even enthusiastic friends, Bishop Strossmayer, of Hungary, has never given any sign that he will go back on what he said at the Council when he was put down almost by force. Dr. Schulte, the celebrated Professor of Canon Law in the University of Prague, is named the Dollinger of Bobe- mia; and his Prince Bishop, Cardinal Schwartzenberg, very heartily supports him, Prussia, we know, has taken a stand in direct opposition to the Vatican decrees, and has abolished the separate bureau for the management of the affairs of the Catholic Church. In at least one instance it has disregarded the mandates of Rome, and retained in office a priest who bad been excommunicated and deprived of his parish by his ecclesiastical superior. In an interview with a HeraLp correspondent a few weeks since Dr. Friedrich stated that the hope of the new movement centred in Prussia, as the Bavarian government was undecided and slow to act. Since then the Bavarian Cabinet has been reconstructed, and it is now matter of history that they have taken decided action and sent to Rome a representative who is in perfect sympathy with the new move- ment. What we now wait for is to learn whether the State will, withoat its placet, allow the bishops to promulgate and enforce the decrees of the Vatican. This action taken by the Bavarian government, and the fight is fairly begun. Let us see now what it is the reformers of “old Catholics” want. We cannot state this better than in the words of Friedrich and | Dollinger and Huber, the three leaders of the movement, Friedrich says:—‘‘We have as yet no programme, First, we must get an organization; then take further measures by means of synods, Fundamentally all our re- formatory movements are induced by the Pope's claims of ‘omnipotence.’ As long as ‘omnipotence’ is claimed by him it is impossi- ble to fatroduce any reforms, Many of the bishops are ours at heart. One in particular will come over as soon as itis politic. I will not name him, The movement will last long, and personally I think that not many of us will live to see the end of it. We will not cut loose from Rome. We hold fast to the Primate, but we wish (hat the encroachments (iibergriffe) of the scheming, “Nap” will make himself uuite at home. Primate be done away with, We wish a thor- ough relorm—such as has heen striven for for five hundred years. It is a great disfiguration of our Church’ when the Primate assumes rights that donot belong to it.” Dollinger says :—“‘It is an erroneous idea that we wish to found a new sect in the Roman Catholic Church. It is not the intention of those who are engaged in this movement to bring about a separation. Their intention is simply to re- main where they were—to claim all their rights as members of the Caurch in which they were born and educated. The real state of things is this:—The bishops try all they can to drive the opponents of the Vatican de- crees to a separation by ecclesiastical cen- sures, by excommunications or suspen- sions. Of course it would be more advan- tageous to the cause of ultramontanism if the whole movement could be reduced to the narrow limits of a mere new sect or denomi- nation, That is their simple calculation, The Opponents—priests and laymen—are deter- mined to remain where they are and only to do what is allowed according to Church prin- ciples; but in cases of necessity—as, for in- stance, the administration of sacraments as wellas in the celebration of funerals—as in the case of Professor Zenger, it is a necessity for them to help themselves by performing the offices which are refused by the parish priests ; but in no way is there a tendency to separation.” Dr. Huber says:—‘‘In September there will be @ great meeting in Munich, attended by dele- gates from all the German lands, from Switzer- land and Austria, and measures will be adopted for pushing the movement among the people. I believe that next year the move- ment will take on fearful dimensions. There is a political struggle in Germany against the ultramontanes. I fear that it will take on such dimensions that it will take on unthought of dimensions (ungcheurlich dabei), This is my private opinion, I must add. To me, how- ever, it appears so.” Such is the language of the three most prominent men in the movement. The lan- guage has been repeated again and again, dif- fering slightly in form, but anchanging in substance. We make use of these extracts because they were taken from the lips of the speakers themselves by a HERALD correspond- ent, It isthus apparent that the term “Old Catholics” is well chosen. The Church as the Church was before the Vatican Council—that is what is demanded. And Dr. Huber tells us that, in his opinion, the movement, unless the Roman Curia backs down, will assume gigantic proportions, At the recent meeting at Heidelberg Dr. Huber submitted plans for the organization of the movement, and it may reasonably be expected that at the approach- ing meeting at Munich some well pronounced action will be taken, It deserves to be borne in mind that this is not a sudden outburst of opposition to Rome. Ever since the Reformation, but particularly for the last hundred years, German Catho- licism of the more intelligent sort, although devoted to the historical Church and most anxious to preserve its unity, has been impatient of the yoke of Rome. It is just a hundred years since Febronius published his work ‘De Status Ke- clesiw,” in which he invited Joseph IL. to assume the ‘attributes of Charlemagne and Barbarossa, or at least those of Louis XIV., who had contrived to reconcile a healthy sub- mission to Church doctrine with a resolute will to keep the Church down as a power. Hermes and Rouge followed in succession, each in his own way advocating reform, claim- ing in a very emphatic sense the liberty of thought and expression in matters religious, but with indifferent success. The seed, how- ever, has long been in the soil; it has bad time to take root; and now it has sprung up, giving us the promise of fruit. It remains to be seen whether the hour of emancipation has at last come, or whether we must still wait in hope. As we see things a conflict is close at hand, the result of which must be the back- ing, down of Rome or the secession of the German branch of the Catholic Church, Now For Matne.—The Maine election for Governor, other State officers and the Legis- lature, comes off to-morrow, the lith of September. The canvass has not been very exciting; it has attracted but little attention outside the State, and .‘general apathy,” apparently, has existed in the State, from the prevailing impression that the republican ascendancy in Maine is too strong to be shaken, It appears, however, that the democrats, in a quiet way, have been and are working like beavers to bring forth in the election their full strength; and so, if they catch the confident republicans napping, we may have another general crowing of dem- ocratic roosters like that which followed the little revolution in New Hampshire. But still the odds in Maine are in favor of the other side, after the democratic wet blanket from California. Dean As THE Reset Cotton Loan Boyps— The chances of indemnity to Southern men for the loss of their emancipated slaves. Baltimore paper says, nevertheless, that ‘many Maryland democrats favor demanding from the government pay for their emancipated slaves, as suggested by the Richmond Wiig.” But have these Maryland democrats taken the “oew departure?” It so, they will find on reading the fourteenth amendment or article of the constitution, which they have endorsed, that it ties them up, and that, in any event, the supreme law now is that ‘‘neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave.” Maryland demo- crats, this is your ‘‘new departure,” and you can't back out. Tue ApMINISTRATION has given another evidence of its determination to crush out the spirit of insubordination which has prevailed in many parts of the South since the close of the war. Government troops will be con- tinued in the disaffected districts, and com- panies already stationed there will bo filled to their maximum number, thus largely in- creasing their efficiency. The larger portion of the infantry will be assigned to duty in the South, leaving the frontier to cavalry defence. In the presence of this formidable force little trouble need be feared from secret political organizations. Bullets and bayonets are too much for even masked marauders, The latter will lift their disguises and become peaceable citizens, and, fora time at least, the public will begx of pa pra ° «& Klux outrages, General Butler’y Massachusetts Campaign. General Butler, in his present political cam- paign in Massachusetts as a volunteer candi- date for Governor, is raising a great commo- tion among the big fish and the small fry; but the small fry are giving him plenty of employ- ment, As we understand his present position, it is this: He is, by outside pressure, in stumping the State, working to secure the nomination for Governor from the approach- ing regular Republican State Convention, and If defeated in that Convention, as we suspect he will be, it appears to be his purpose to run “upon hig own hook.” His platform, how- ever, is the greatest thing out. It is like the First Napoleon, ‘grand, gloomy and peculiar ;” and it is like Sam Patch, for it goes upon the principle that ‘‘some things can be done as well as others, if not a good deal better.” The General endorses the present national ed- ministration as honest, prudent and good; ‘but he denounces his present State administra- tion as dishonest, extravagant and bad. He likes fair play, but he is down upon the news- papers; he complains of the incessant and malignant attacks of his enemies while con- stantly pitching in, right and left, and running a@ muck among them, like a bull in a China shop. He admires General Grant, and goes for him from the rising to the setting of the sun—and during the night likewise; but he can’t abide Horace Greeley, and thinks, as some other people think, that what Mr. Gree- ley knows about farming is ‘‘all my eye and Betty Martin.” Moreover, as we make him out, General Butler, on the Massachusetts liquor question, holds the doctrine that a prohibitory law which is not enforced ought to be satisfactory to temperance men because it is the law, and to liquor men because it is not enforced—a strong argument, on both sides. But the two main planks of the General’s platform are labor reform and woman suffrage, or working- men’s rights and women’s rights, He goes for labor reform the whole bog, including the International and the Paris Commune. He is evidently a believer in that beautiful regula- tion of things between labor aud capital, under which nobody shall have anything, but everybody shall have everything, and nothing todo. In this great work we like his idea of beginning the war on the consequential aristoc- racy,. the “bloated bondholders,” and “silk stocking party” of Massachusetts. On woman suffrage he is simply irresistible. He holds that women, on the average, are as well qualified for the ballot as our colored fellow citizens of African descent; and that Mrs. Woodhull can expound the constitution a good deal better than ‘Uncle Tom.” Above all, he contends that the refining influence of women at the polls would cure all the evils of rowdyism which now prevail in our politi- cal elections, and that, on the broad funda- mental principles of equal rights woman is entitled to a voice in the laws under which she is brought into the world, and brought up, and married and divorced, and taxed and governed generally. Tosum up, General Butler goes for General Grant, but is dead against Mr. Greeley; he goes for the administration at Washington, but is dead against the administration at Boston; he goes for the Massachusetts Liquor law, but is opposed to its enforcement; he cultivates newspaper reporters, but is dead against newspaper editors; he is opposed to a course of personal warfare against himself, but he delights in applying the tomahawk and scalp- ing knife to his accusers. He goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, but he is himself devoured, as he confesses, at every stopping place, by the ‘‘bloodhounds let loose upon his trail.” He goes for labor reform and women’s rights, out and out, and he is going to run for Governor anyhow. We hope he will stick to this resolution, for the old fogies of the republican party of Massa- chusetts are getting rusty and lazy, pompous and imperious, and a thorough stirring up will do them good. Tue TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS IN PERSIA,— In our despatches this morning will be found a statement from the Levant Herald of the terrible sufferings of the people of Persia, which, though not unlike the many similar stories we have published, shows that the days of famine have not yet passed away. The Persian army has been disbanded, busi- ness has stopped and the people are camped in the mountains. No such terrible famine is recorded in history, and we fear it may continue for many months. While con- templatifg these horrors it is pleasant to hear that the march of the cholera has been stayed. But this should cause no cessation of the sani- tary measures in this city against the disease. We want clean streets, or we may be visited by a pestilence as fearful as the cholera in Russia or the famine in Persia. The misfor- tunes of other countries ought to teach us the lesson of providence and prudence. Ivrenpine TrouBies IN Mexico.—The special despatches to the Hrratp from Mexico show that affairs in that country, though not unsettled as yet, continue to look threatening. Lerdo, with characteristic bad faith, is reported to have joined Juarez, and by this means the re-election of the President will become certain. On the ofher hand the revo- lutionary chieftains are ready for revolution in cage of Juarez's success, In addition to these troubles the merchants of Tampico per- sist in their refusal to pay over again the duties exacted by the revolutionists, and some- thing like another revolt is impending. Truly, as our despatch affirms, the whole country is resting on a volcano. i Tnx Nereotiations or Taz Emperors at Salzburg have resulted in the determination of Germany and Austria to unite for the repudia- tion of all ‘‘aggressive ideas.” The Austrian Emperor and his statesmen, recognizing the desires of Germany to manage European affairs after her own views, has desired Italy to join them. This is a grand ‘‘show” for the young kingdom, but what the trio will aim at eventually it is difficult to prophesy. A Catxrse Puzzte—The inexplicable and apparently inextricable entanglement of the republican party of this city with the Cus- tom House republicans and the Tammany republicans, Which of these factions is ‘the real, genuine, original Jacobs” is the question, and for its decision we shall have to await the action of the coming party State Convention. But we are in no hurry, for these squabbles of the factions are ven amusing, Review of the ReVisous Prost To judgo by the tenor’.of the editorial articles in the principal religious papers this week, one would be led to the conviction tha. they are more intensely interested in the political movements of the day than in the labor of Christian good feeling and salvation. As a matter of fact the Independent is clearly open to a cbarge of participation in the social crime of the day, for more villanous abortions in the line of pictorial illustrations never disgraced the pages of any newspaper, religious or secular. One of these wood cuts is blasphemously termed the ‘Highway of Holiness,” and a description of it is given under the title of ‘‘Ministering Angels.” Scriptural quotations are applied with a loose- ness and license that would shock the sens!- bilities of a community of Buddhists. Such publications are dangerous to the religious tone of society, calculated as they are to bring religion into contempt, and when the unmitigated humbug of the whole thing is considered it is a wonder that the Independent is allowed to be re- ceived into any respectable Christian family in the land. The character of the chief editorial articles in the Independent this week may be inferred from their titles—to wit :—‘‘The Citizens’ Reply to Tammany,” ‘New York City and the Next Election.” Then come three or four articles on General Butler, a letter from Schuyler Colfax puffing the North- ern Pacific Railroad, accompanied by an advertisement in editorial typo in the “Pub- lisher’s Department,” sarsaparilla qnack ad- vertisements, homeopathic specifics—similia similibus curantur—giving details of dis- eases that should only be mentioned to the physician’s private ear. This is a fair tran- script of the leading features of the great “monthly illustrated edition” of the Indepen- dent. It is fortunate for readers that the dose is only to be repeated monthly, and it should be ‘well shaken before taken” at that. The Golden Rule wants to know ‘Who shall be the next President?” and strikes out boldly for a new radical party. “It says:— The party of advanced ideas, the party with its face toward the rising sun, the party of the tweatieth century, the party Whose penuon shall be “Equal Kights to All,” not meaning hall or a frac- tion, the party incluuing negro equality, woman suffrage, labor reform, antl-monopoly and every oiher progressive idea needful to the regeneracion ol the State ana the harmony or the worid. And then it ejaculates :— © for Cromwell to rise again, with Milton on side and Hampden on the other ! Come, Intern Uonals ! Hall, Communists! Arise, radicals | Let us have a party of our own, and snow (like the other parties) with what lide wisdom we, tuo, car govern the worla ! The nail was hit on the head in the last sen- teace. Brother Tilton is nothing unless radi- eal. If extremes with him do not moet itis not his fault, for he is always trying to meet in mid-path any new-fangled radical ‘“‘ism” on the whining way.- The Lvangelist discourses on the ‘Seducer and His Victim,” and after briefly reciting some of the shocking events of a week or two past exclaims :— And what a revelation does this tragedy make of the horrid trades that are carried on amo t Men there are—yes, and women too, vile Who make a trade of miant murder, of wre the unborn child from the womb of its mother to cast it into the river or the sea. practice of fuetichte—as 1t 1s called—is said by physi- clans to be frightfully common, The Evangelist is slightly satirical on the subject of ‘speculating on Pilgrim fame,” and shows up the late gathering on Captain Standish’s stamping ground in Duxbury, Mass., to be merely aland speculating job, for engaging in which those who were conspicuous should feel themselves ashamed. The Methodist pays its respects to the ‘‘oid Catholic Church,” and, speaking of Tammany, says:— i ‘The ring looks formidable, but it is hollow asan egg shell. Its members know that they are warriug against the common interests of mankind. They have not believed themselves that their reign would last long. ‘they Know weil enougn that such mis. rule as theirs brings on specdily @ day of judgment. Tnere 1s one plain duty before New Yorkers—stop the plundering and make the plunderers disgorge, Again it remarks :— We must do something more than turn out of oftice half a dozen prominent rogues. We must have @ political reform reaching to both parties over the nation—a reform widespread and lasting. The Tablet (Catholic) is having an even tempered discussion with the Chicago Advance (Protestant) on the subject of ‘‘Romanism and Politics,” and pictures the ‘True Proportions of Dullinger.” Saint Peter, as usual, is a “capital” paper, It is Roman Catholic to a sensation, and pre- sents its views in startling Roman capitals, like the poster of a travelling circus on a country barn door. The Jewish Messenger reminds its readers that on Friday evening next, September 15, the year 5631 will have closed. The Jewish New Year holiday is, therefore, close at hand, and holiday presents and festivals are in order, The Freeman's Journal is replete with edi- torials of an interesting nature. The country religious press is distinguished for nothing remarkable this week. MISMANAGEMENT AT THE AMERICAN INSTI- TuTE Fair.—We call attention to the state- ment of a correspondent alleging either unfair- ness or ignorance on the part of the managers of the American Institute Fair, now in opera- tion at the Empire Rink. The gricvance complained of should not be allowed to exist, and if it cannot be remedied under the present management the sooger the whole concern is remodelled the better for the interests of American mechanics and manufactures gen- erally. It would be much beiter for the managers to look after the cases like the one amentioned by our correspondent than employ such geniuses as Walt Whitman to grind out patent poetry on the tinpanological system for the edification of the patrons of the Fair. DESPATCHES FROM ARIZONA treat us to a new feature in the Indian character. The Pimas and Maricopas have had their ire aroused and are making it lively for the traders on their reservations. They have determined to adopt the-cash system in their future dealings with white men, and accordingly demand silver for their wheat, refusing the usual exchange of trinkets and damaged blankets, The redskins have learned a thing or two by their contact with civilization, not the least of which isa talent for trade which the ‘‘’cutesi” white man might emulate. Saratoga Sports were grievously disap- pointed yesterday. Owing to high winds the usually placid Lake Saratoga became #0 rough and the waves ran so high that the boat races set for yestesday afternoon were postponed, Tho four-oared race will accord- ingly take place to-morrow morning at ten o’glgck and the giugle qqull race at five RM, — Our Public Schools=Necied Keforns i@ the System. The school vacation is nearly over, and soon, refreshed by the midsummer respite, teachers and scholars will again meet, and again the routine of the year will begin. From pleasant country haunts, from respect- able city streets, from alley and lane, the school Souses will goon be filled, and the mixed mu'titude will be arranged and classified and registexed, and each started in the way that it is supp.rged he or she ought to go. We Say supposed acivisedly, for the risht way in the matter of eduration can only be gained approximately, eve with great pains and patience and careful searching for the best. method. So shallow is the wisdom of the best educators when mental philosophy is in question, so scant their positive knowledge of the laws of mind, that rules governing educa- tional affairs must always be open to moditica- tions and restrictions and amendments, and nowhere should old fogyism be so little tolerated as in our schools. We want no moulds for the formation of mind; it is. desirable rather that systems and methods should be so elastic a3 to always be ready te adapt themselves without trouble to the growth and necessity of mind. Outside of the home there is no influeace 80 powerful and controlling as the public school, and the questions affectiag the best possible use of this influence demand the most careful thought of every intelligent citizen. It is not enough to say that educational affairs are worthy of our interest. They must haveit if there is to be progression, or even safety, in society. There is undoubtedly no place ia the world to-day where the social elements are so constantly changing as in New York. Through the influx of foreigners from every shore, and the ferment going on in all classes concerning every variety of interests, the real social status of to-day gives way for some- thing different to-morrow, and so on indefi- nitely. There is nothing alarming in all this so long as the change is for the better; and this is where lies tho responsibility of the State and the municipality in regard to edu- cation, The intense vitality of the city can not be repressed, but it can be guided into safe channels, and this guidauce must be begun in the public schools. In order to bring about the best results the best means must be used, both near and re- mote, Of course the teachers most nearly affect the pupils, and the begioning is with them. Very few persons realize the im- portance of a teacher’s work or the neces- sity that exists for good teachers. The stronger and maturer mind impresses itself to an almost unlimited extent upon the more ic, and, leaving out the question of special gilts and great attainments, nothing can be plainer than that the very noblest and best harmonized men and women should be selected as teachers. Having takea up the work, thesa men and women should be left as free as possible to devote every energy to it, and hence the necessity of liberal salaries and pleasant conditions, Such teachers as we refer to are born, not made, and no amount of money can pay them, for they give of them- selves to their pupils—a gift that the community should secure at any price. Back of schools and teachers is the force with its necessary machinery that keeps the whole in working order. The public school system of New York city, with its Board of Commissioners and its local boards in every ward, has done a good work, perhaps the best possible in the past; but is it the best possible system for the future? All machinery that has to do with the vital In- terests of the people should be kept absolutely free, if such a thing were possible, from politi- cal intrigue, and to this end, if for no other reason, should be simplified to the last degree. Politics, which affect and bias every question, and, in the main, injuriously in the propor- tion that the question is local, have not left our public school system uncontaminated. There are in New York city some twenty- five hundred teachers and an average of over one hundred thousand children in attendance upon the public schools, and all more or less at the mercy of political chicanery. Through political influence and for party reasons little, narrow, low-minded men, obstinate and pre- judiced, as the ignorant always are, reach places of power and influence, and upon such men the teachers of our schools are dependent for their situations, Of course it often hap- pens that undue influence is brought to bear in favor of certain candidates and against cer- tain others, without regard to merit. For this corruption the children must suffer, and, through them, the city and the State. Sweet streams cannot flow from an impure source, and no greed of money or place should ever be allowed to poison our schools, which are, or ought to be, the very fountains of public virtue. Among the troubles that the present unwieldy system gives rise to are pecuniary misunder- standings, or frauds, whichever they may be, involving loss to mechanics fairly corfracting for work, and litigation with the Central Board. The cases at present brought before. the courts by workmen who received their orders from ward trustees without the endorse- ment of the Commissioners—cases involving, nearly twenty thousand dollars—are in point. We propose, as the best remedy for and pre- vention of abuses, that the present system, with its red tape and insignificant political diplomacy, be exchanged for one Board, small in numbers, but great in power, compoged of wide-awake, progressive men, capable of fully comprehending the exigencies. of the times in regard to education. Let this Board have entire charge of all matters pertaining in any way to our schools. Lot them give their entire time and energy to the welfare of the schools, making all machinery adjust itself to the interests of the members. If the practicability of this is doubted we have only to refer to similar boards—-such as the Depart- ment of Charities and Correction and the Fire Department—each composed of five members, who manage the immense interesta under their charge with admirable succeas. All the prisons, jails and reforraa. tory and charitable institutions within the’ limits of the municipality come directly under: the control of the five men who compose the Department of Public Charities and Correct ion; and if this department can be successfully oea- tralized there is no question but that the same thing can be done for the Department of Pub- lic Education, When this coform tabeg alace the new Byard,