The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1871, Page 6

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GLOBE THUATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.—Va- mrrry Keieeraina, TRI PLE S$ 1 El ae York, Monday, Sentewaber Ee is71. — CONTENT: OF | To-DAL'S HERALD. Pack 1—Advertisements, — ET. iple Alliance: The New Eastern Ques. { A Polish Kingdom to te Erected; | stale tria—almost a Smash Cp ou the Coney ilapa Steamer Ne Waik- ibe Sound Murder —/he Soldiers’ t amon at Waheeling—Poliics in tie W Setenitie Nuves—Ouituary --iluetshiug exwa- ordiwary. 5 4—Reilgious: Yesterday's Sermons Here and Where; Crtnodux Orations on Popular jects; ho i’arson,’ Lessons to the Poiitict: famiany’s Turmoids and Troubtes; the V ana Need of 4 Saviour; Lufdelity oO: tne ag Discourses by the Kev, Dra. Armitage and ‘Thompson, Kev. Messrs. Dunha:n and Puil- man, Kev, Fethers MoNeirny and Hecker aud S~Reiigious (Continued from Fourth Page)— “Bishop? Snow on his Muscie—Literatu pa pean t saatives tu Corea; Docurents cleatthg Up tie Mystery Of Ue Loss of wie Brig Generat an—A Boid Jersey Burglar vaged—Coare Calendars— Hey Jor Register, ‘Our National ecretary Bout ‘Announcements. ys irom France, spain, i , belgium and Tuc. eF— Ihe Moat ‘ull Account of the American ural nag inthe ale of Revere Disaster: Verdict of | Jury im the Kailroad Acculent— icago— The tind. elegrams — rani — urleus Correspondence uing the Assassinavion of General Prin; Charges against Friends of Montpeuster: a | from tie Lutszeon; the Consptracy tu | ry ate the uke | ntpeusier 10 the Throne piin—vournaitstic Notes. e—the “Turi vue Great lerfermance of Gold- | ainith Maid—Brooklyn Alvairs—Rellef tor the | Juind--Another Fire-Saving Stauon—A vo. oved Biganust —A Newark Mystery—Financial mimercial Reports—Custom House Ke- | Murriages aud Deaths—Advertise- 10—News irom Washington—Jonn Sitdell's wii— | Foreiga Topics—Foreign Misceilaneous Items— Foreign Personal G — Aquatics—Siupping Intelligenoe—Advertisements. Al— Advertisements, 12—Advertiseents, Women’s RBicnts Vinpicater.—A_ post- mistress in Virginia has been arrested on a charge of using cancelled stamps, First case of the kind on record. Tne Boston Traveller objects to Lynch law and the formation of vigilance committees, but says “‘garroting is more common in Boston than it should be.” Where are the famous Boston poli THE Posron Tyres sustains Butler for Gov- ernor of Masachusetts, That sounds like the old times of Governors Boutwell and Banks, when the Zimes of that day was a sort of quasi-organ of the Massachusetts coalition. Tne Mempnis AVALANCHE cries out in a political paroxysm that there is ‘‘blood on the face of the moon.” There have been, un- fortunately, too many moonstrack people in Mempbis | Two Asrmants for the republican nomins- tion for Governor of Massachusetts—Dr. Lor- ing aud General Butler—are addressing public assemblaes, one on azriculture, the other on politica—one on the subject of raising corn, the other on “ raising Cain,” Tae Artanta Sun (‘‘A. H.S.”) is mak- {ng matters no better among the democracy by charging the authorship of the pamphlet entitled ‘‘Concession, or How the Lost Cause May be Regained,” upon the ‘‘New Depart- urists,” That is the “‘unkindest cut of all.” Tux Curcaco Tribune states that ‘The American Syndicate, or How to Live on the Debts you Owe,” is the title of a forthcoming comedy, composed by Jay Cooke, Esq., and dedicated to Secretary Boutwell. It is not announced where this comedy will be brought out, The 7ribune takes a facetious turn now and then, Tue Burutwaron (lowa) Muewk-Lyo is endeavoring to make capital in favor of the re-election of Senator Harlan, by showing where his opponents, J. F. Wilson and William B, Allison, are connected with sundry rail- road corporations in the State, This In a | poor electigneering dodge. What would lowa have been without the Mignitcont™ “ayatem of Western railroads, the benefits of which she hee rece!ved so bountiful a share? d irom Sixth page)—Per- | Our National Fimascee—The sncapacity of Secretary Boutwell. The agents and friends of the Secretary of the Treasury and the partisans of the admin- istration, are continually ringing in our ears the same old story about the payment of the debt and the assumed admirable managemeat of the national finances. Telegrams are worked up in Washington to that effect every few days and circulated all over the country, and the mass of the people, who kaow little of financial matters, ara too apt to take the assumptions and muddy statements put forth as facts and as evidence of a wise adalais- tration of the Treasury Department, Ia these efforts to blind the public Secretary Boutwell is assisted by a clique of bankers and specu- lators who have fattened upon the Treasury, who have become within afew years enor- mousty rich, and who continue to amass riches in handling the public money and securities, These agents, now called “Syndicates,” are no more necessary tothe Treasury Depart- ment than a fifth wheel Is to a coach, Of course they are interested in and get well rewarded for puffing the Secretary and his | financial management, Let us see what foundation there is for the pretences of Mr. Boutwell and his friends, F fst, then, as to the often-reprated boast about paying off rapidly the national debt, Since the Secretary entered the Treasury De- partment the revenue has been pouring in at | the rate of four hundred millions of dollars | and upwards a year, and there was when he took office the stupendous surplus of over a hundred millions, All along the income has vastly exceeded the expenditures, a great por- tion of which income has been in gold from customs. his incoms has been wrung from the people by excessive and unnecessary taxa- tion, If there be any merit in recommendiag such a burden to be kept up, in maintainin: an army of office-holders to porpetiate it, and to keep the Treasury gorged with dead and un- profiiable capital as a temptation for extrava- gance and jobs, he is eniiled to that. Fow, however, will accord him credit for this. Ex- cept that he has done all he could do to up- hold a burdensome and expensive system of ' taxation, partly to get a reputation for reduc- ing the debt and partly with a view to protect | the manufacturing iaterests of his own seciion | of country, he has had no more to do with an overflow of money into the Treasury than a lucky heir has in acquiriag the fortrne which a wealthy father may have left. ‘.2 wealth, wonderful resources of the country aud the industry of the paople, have supplied him with | the fuads which he has not knowa how to em- | ploy profitably. He has had no troubie in | getting a revenue, He had only to leave the | Treasury chest open and aa overwhelming | stream continued to pour in without any effort | on his part. To use this well and for the best interests of the couatry only culled for a little ability, but he has failed even in that. | If Mr. Boutwell had used the surplus rev- ‘ enue which has been lying idle in his hands in | the purchase of the debt he would have saved | during the period of his administration of the \ Treasury twenty millions of dollars at least. There was no necessity to hold from 4 hun- | dred millions to a hundred and thirty millions | of unemployed dead capital ia the Treasury | | vaults, For the current requirements of the * government the revenue has always beea com- | ing in faster and in a larzer volume than the | amount went out for exp2nditures, Had every dollar been cleared out of the Treasury any | month that Mr. Bouiwell has been in office there would have been a surplus again the next month. But the Secretary hag pretended that an enormous specie reserve of a bundred millions or so was necessary to keep dowa the | premium on gold and to facilitate specie pay- ments. It has had no such effect. Throwing the gold on the market, by the judicious pur- chase of interest-bearing securities, would have been much more likely to bave reduced the premium on it and to have brought ua nearer a specie basis. He would, as we have said before, soon have had plenty of gold again from the customs, both to meet the demands upon the governmeat and for a surplus, Gold would not have left the country faster under such a policy than it has, and more specie would have been afloat and im-the banks. | Holding a large reserve in the Treasury is a | temptation to excessive importations, extrava- gant expenditures by the government and jobs in Congress. In the matter of the loan, or funding the debt at a lover rate of interest, which Mr. Boutwell urged so strenuously upon Congress, he has signally failed. Out of the fifteen hundred miliions to be funded only two hun- dred miliions of the five per cents have been taken, if, indeed, it can be said that the amount in the hands of those agents called “Syndicates” has been taken. Admitting that these two hundred millions have been dis- posed of, after the most extraordinary efforts of the Secretary, and after they had been on | the market six months, the cost of conversion through the Syndicate agency and through other costs to the Treasury will make it a transaction of little benefit tothe country, As for the balance of the three bundred millions of five per cents, the three hundred millions of four and a half per cents and the seven bun- dred millions of four per cents, there is no prospect of the Secretary disposing of these, The ‘Syndicates” may yet slip up io their efforts to place a portion of the two hundred millions, for we do not understand they have made a bona fide purchase of the bonds, at o large cost to the Treasury and damage to the credit of the government, This high-sound- ing clap-trap name of ‘‘Syndicate” means only an agency. The whole business looks like a giguntic job for the benefit of a Treasury ring of bankers and speculators. The Department ought to have been quite as able to dis- pose of the loan and to transact its Own business, without additional cost in its present expensive machipery, as any ring of bankers. The solid Gnanciers of Europe can but look upon this scheme as weak and with distrust, It is unworthy a mighty and rich nation like ours. It is a pettifogging way of transacting the financial business of a great country. Ifthe six per cents to be redeemed, which are now selling in Europe below par in gold, can be exchanged by the Syndicate for the new fives, the Syadicate will, of course, so exchange them, though Mr, Boutwell has led {he public to believe that the entire foreign subscription would be In coin, As the Secre- tary bas called in a hundred millious of the five-twenties on the supposition that the coin sales of the new tives would furnish him with money to pay for them, he may find himself embarrassed (brough the action of the Syndi- cate agency abroad. The whole operation is complicated and appears to have a big job in it, Tn all bis transactions the Secretary seems to have a greater regard for the interest of corporations, rings of bankers and speculators, or of a certain class, like the New England manufacturere, than for that of the people. In his conflict with the late Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue his first thought appeared to be to protect great corporations at the ex- pense of the Treasury, and that against the law giving the Commissioner authority for bis action. The Secretary suspended the collec- tion of the tax on the New York Central Rail- road aiter the Commissioner bad ordered its collection ; revoked the decision of the Com- missioner on the tax for the last five months on dividends and coupons; and he otherwise obstructed the efficiency of that officer by giv- ing orders and instructions to supervisors and detectives of interaal revenue without the knowledge or consent of the Commissioner. In short, Mr. Boutwell is incapablo in the im- portant office he holds, and if the President would save his administration from reprehen- sion he ought to tell the Szcretary that his resignation would be acceptable. A thorough change in the financial managemeat of the gov- ernment is needed, but this cannot be made while Mr. Boutwell is at the head of the Treas- ury Depariment. The couairy wants an abler man—a statesman—in that position, and not a local politician or country lawyer; and it is to be hoped General Grant will look at the matter in this poiat of view. The Latest Accident in the Bay. The explosion on the Norwalk, a Coney Island excursion boat, yesterdiy, althouzh resulting in no loss of life nor any serious damage to the boat, carries a moral lesson with it, and enforces the moral of the West- field and all previous steamboat explosions in a way that cannot be disregarded. Three steamboat explosions have occurred in tlie bay within a month anita half Two of these have occurred on what may properly be called excursion boats, and on Sundays, the day of all the week when excursion steamers are most heavily freizhted wih humanity, and when engineers and firemen, and, indeed, all the officers, should be more than ordinarily careful and vigilant. There is no doubt that the great number of excursion boata that find employment and handsome remuncration during the summer months by carrying our working population about our beautiful bay and up our noble rivers, and thus give them the breath of pure salt air that they crave so much, are all as unsafe and rotten, not only in toeir boilers and engines, as the Westfield and Norwalk, but also “in their timbers and stanchions. Those that do not blow up are likely to go to pieces through sheer old aze or at the slightest collision or mishap, and it is a providential thing that the time of the year when excursions of this sort are usual is near its close. Iaspections and wholesale condemnations of tne decayed hulks that now ply in this business should be made at once, and a new fleet of excursion steamers should be built, ready for next sammer. One good effect of the Norwalk accident will cor- ye! be that our cour's and javies will have an additional screw put upon their courage, to bring it to the sticking place in the case of the People vs. Vanderbil', Braisted and Company. LER Derats of the piratical depre- *xicacs on American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico indicate that te traditional treachery of the race was exercised on this occasion. It seems that the rascals, to gaina foothold on the bark Brothers, came aboard professing the greatest love and regard for all the crew, and then suddenly, at a given signal, commenc:d the fizht which ended in their retreat and the killing of some eight or ten ofthem. But the captain, fearing their return in stronger force at nightfall, having no wind, was compelled to take to his boats, and would have perished but for the assistance of the Harvest Home, which had been similarly at- tacked and had similarly repelled the assault. The details go to sbow that the United States must take immediate action in the matier. “Tre Rieit Sort or Reconstrvotioy, or How to Restore Prosperity in the South,” ap- pears in the form of a pamphlet issued by the Industrial Association of Georgia, announcinz the premium list for the first annual exposition of the association, to be held in Savannah, commencing November 21, The pamphlet comprises sixty pages, and contains a list of premiums for almost every conceivable vari- ety of agricultural products and implements, stock, floricuiture, horticulture, domestic man- ufactures, mechanics, and soon. This is the proper way of rezaiuing the lost cause, and every Southern State should follow the exam- ple of Georgia. THe Jory In THe Revise Dreaster bave rendered a verdict, placing the direct respon- sibility of the collision on Conductor Now- land, Engineer Brown and Depot Master Lunt, and by reagon of their neglect of all system of signals and gross mismanagement indirectly upon the President and Directors of the railroad. Now let the Massa- chusetts Grand Jury proceed to indict these persons and the courts proceed to convict and punish them. There ought to be a rivalry between New York and Massachusetts as to which State shall soonest and most severely punish wholesale slaughterers of the people. Vinorsia Waeetixa Ixto Livg.—The Ame- rican Pomological Society’s exhibition in Rich- mond, Va., last week, revived many interest. ing historic recollections of the “Old Domi- nion” in her palmy deys—days when nature in her happiest moods lavished her bounteous favors upon her luxuriant bosom. When a country encourages the cultivation of all that ie beautiful to the eye and delectable to the palate io the line of fruits the substantials are not a long way off. A Disrvnanc® at Mapnrp occurred yes- terday, It appeara that the Carliste have responded so readily to the “call” of Don Carlos that thonsande of toem are cow in the Spanish cupital, and if these revolationists had not been quickly suppressed by the local wilitary and civil authorities it is probable a wholesale butchery would have resulted ‘The Sermons Yesterday. The sermons in our city churches yester- day, with the exception of that of the Rev, Mr, Pullman, of the Church of Our Saviour, were free from everything like sensation and were devoted almost entirely to doctrine. Notably among the pastors who have returned to their pulpits and their people is the Rev. Dr. Thompson, who celebrated his homo coming by a discourse on the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ, taking the words of St. Paul to the Romans as bis text. With the exception of the somewhat illogical deduction that Paul did not want to build on another man’s foundation—a point which, when put in Dr. Thompson's straightforward way, means more than the Apostle intended— the discourse was eminently full of the quali- ties which Paul carried with him. Dr. Armitage preached at the Fifth Avenuo Baptist Church on forgiveness of sins. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral the sermon was by Father McNeirny, the subject of his dis- course being the necessity of prepara- tion for death; the Rev. S, F. Dun- ham preached on the birth of Christ at Chris: church, in Fifth avenue, and Father Hecker “discoursed on holy faith at tho Curch of St, Paul the Apostle, in Fifty-ninth street, Father Hecker’s sermon was pecu- arly beautiful and interesting. Ho bewailed the infidelity of our time, declaring that all trath is in harmony and that the Scriptures are the source of all truth, If men imagine otherwise, he said, they pursue a science falsely so-called, and he concluded with an appeal for the gift of faith, The only excep- tion to the doctriaal discourses, as we before remarked, was the sermon of the Rev. Mr. Pullman, which was fall of anathemas against the persons charged with frauds upon the city. His discourse was not only a political sermon, but a thorouzh political speech, cal- culated to bring the Gospel into contempt. Polpit cries of ‘‘this is the last time to adjust our wrongs” cannot do much good and they must do harm. The public accounts are not proper subjects for Christian thoughts on Sunday, and this kind of worldly preaching does more to encourage the sinful worldliness Pastor Pullman complains of than political debauchery. The Brooklyn churches, not having Tum- many to discontent their pastors, wore blessed with s-rmons like moct of those preached in this city, The Rev. A. H. Partridge, of the B:dford avenue Episcopal church, preached a plain doctrinal sermon on the river of God's pleasure, and the Rev. James Beecher, who filled the Plymouth pulpit, confined himself to a discourse on confessing Christ. The only incident of the day was the strong language of Father Moran, of St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, in reference to the solemniza- tion of o marriage in his church of a man who was already married. In view of the free-love tendencies of the age the sanctity of marriage is a subject which needs more atten- tion from the clergy, and Father Moran’s prac- tical way of meeting the question is worthy of much commendation, The temple ‘Beth Elohim” was dedicated yesterday with appro- priate ceremonies. In both cities the Sabbath was devoted for the most part to the teachings of relizio., and the Heratp this morning reflects the good words which were heard in the churches, A Liule Breeze ia the Navy Department. It appears that certain line officers of the Navy, not liking the course of Surgeon Gene- ral Wood in the efforts that have been made to equalize the rank of the staff officers with that of the line, have been making strenuous efforis to get the Surgeon General removed. Of course, they are aided by those who want to have the position and their friends. Ii is natural that Surgeon General Wood and other staff officers should make an effort to improve their rank, and while it might not prove useful to the service to concede what they want, their action to that end is not a cause for personal hostility on the part of line officers or of removal by the department. The present Surgeon General has had great experience, and his efficiency is acknowledged. The bureau of which he is the chief was, previous to his administration, a mere fiscal one; but he has given it a professional character. and extended its usefulness. But those who want his place or are personally inimical to him will not consider that, A nice question arises, however, as to the tenure of the office. The chiefs of bureans are civil appointments of the President and Senate under a law which says they shall hold office for four years, The Sur- geon General has held his but two years, Though he may have reached the age of retirement from active service in the navy, that would not appear to affect the lezal term of his commission in the civil appointment of chief of a Bureau. Altogether, there may be another muddle growing out of this breeze among naval officers with regard to the tenure of office, without any necessity for it in this case, unless the President puts his foot down and refuses to sanction the removal of Surgeon General Wood. Mr. Sewarp at Beruin,—Mr. Seward’s progress round the world has at last brought him to Berlin, where he will probably have an opportunity of conversing with Bismarck on the arts of war and statesmanship. Tie con- versation of these men, who practically held the reins of power in the two great conflicts of modern times, could not fail to be interest- ing. If the German Chancellor is inclined to talk he will not find the American statesman averse to it. “Have You Harp tuk News From Marne?” was once the burden of a rallying political song. The election takes place there to-day; but the interest felt therein is so slight that, beyond the bare statement of the fact, scarcely anything remains worth recording, The republicans will, probably, however, have achance for a little hurrabing, as they did in the cage of California, and the democrats may congratulate themselves, in their present mad- Ale, that the returns are no worse. Tun CrenicaL Paty iy Rome lave deter- mined op having a grand demonstration at Rome on the 20th instant. What they expect to achieve by ft is not stated in our despateh bat the {nfereuce to be drawn irom the information, that the ‘‘reds” are getting up a counter demonstration, is that a disturbance will certainly result from the move meat. —TRIPLE Sitter. The Assassination of General Prim. By our Madrid letter, in another column, it will be seen that the assassination of General Prim is not so much a mystery in the Spanish capital as the world, having regard to the honor of Spain and the patriotism of her people, will suppose it should be. Indeed, it will be seen that it Is definitely and distinctly known—as the readers of the HexaLp were long ago told—not only how the crime was done, but who did it, and In whose interest they did it, and from whose hand the bravos received the money—the price of the blood of the man who had twice saved the country from the Bourbons. It may be remembered that when we informed our readers, many mont*s since, that the authorities in Spain knew very well who was gullty of this murder, there was some indignation felt in Madrid, and, indeed, some question of incarcerating and otherwise punishing our correspondent ; but the authorities thought better of it. Now the denizens of the virtuous capital koow as much as our readers knew nearly a year since ; and the worst feature of the caso is that they know it, not through an inquisitios organized to do justice on criminals, but through party recriminations—through utterances which re- publicans have been forced to make by unjust suspicions fulling upon their party and them- selves, ps Upon the killing of Prim it seemed natural to many people to suppose that the republicans were guilty of that crime—that it was an act of rash and desperate vengeance upon the mn who, almoat alone, had prevented the estab- lishment of the republic and secured the acces- sion to power of another king; and they who knew most of the facts did what they might to encourage a suspicion that so entirely led investigation astray. But the republicans hinted that the men who instizated that crime dwelt in palaces, and the testimony taken on the occurrence certainly satisfied Serrang that they were right. It appears now that Coloael Solis, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Montpen- sier, relying too confidently upon the belief that certain packages of papers had been destroyed, assumed a very ex.lted demeanor of virtuous indiznation when some unpleasant hints brought in his name, and distributed rough phrases rigbt and left; and his offensive phrases have been caught up. Jos¢ Lopez, a republican, now in prison, has had a handbill posted on the walls of Madrid, including declarations of which the government must take notice and that the Duke of Montpensier cannot ignore, His charge is that Colonel Solis carried on negotiations between a com- pany ofdeaperadoes, called ‘‘a secret society,” and the Duks of Moatpensier, and employed these men to perform a service. Ia what sort of service such men were likely to be useful the reader may judge, In pursuance of the negotiation the Dake of Montpensier personally often saw the wretches In his employ and spoke with them in his own house, and be- tween Solis and Jauregui, one of these men, it was plainly understood that the great pur- pose was to pat Montpensier on the throne of Spain, but that the immediate and pressing necessity with a. view to that end, and pre- sumptively the case far which they wore em- ployed, was to put Prim “out of the way;” and within a stort time subse- sequent to the killing of Prim, this same Jauregui complained to Montpensier that “all that the goclety had agreed to do was done, but what ft sile-d amp had agreed io do was not done.” Such is the outline of the present revelations touching a bloody story—and the reader will find many further particulars in the letter to which we refer. Some points naturally follow; first with rogard to the Spanish government, next with regard to the Dake of Moatpensier. If the goverament now in Spain pretends in any sense to fulfil the primary purposes for which government is erected in civil society— to guarantee security of person and enforce respect for human life—it cannot now, for very shame’s sake, longer refuse to make a proper investigation into this most scandalous crime, and at least place the odium where it belongs. As for the Duke of Montpensicr, the finger of accusation is pointed at him with too much force to leave any doubt as to what the world requires of him. He cannot ignore this denunciation if he would not bave men class him with the dealers In murder—if he would not forever be written down among wretches ready to gratify an unscrupulous ambition by the atrocious and cowardly purchase of the blood of a better man than himself. It will not do to say that the revelations of Lopez are beneath his notice. They coincide so well with what is certainly known—they are 80 specific and particular—and for part of them the proof is so accessible that that they will be accepted by all; and it will be set down as a piece of assured knowledge that the procurer of Prim's assassination is at last certainly indicated, unless the Duke of Montpensier shall deny these charges. Tag Cakney Winrznovse Controversy in Chicago came to a head yesterday, when the bishop paid bis preannounced visitation to the church and found the dissentient pastor there awaiting him in full clerical robes, He and the wardens were defiant, and tho bishop having entered a written protest against the Insolence of his ecclesiastical subordinates took his departure, while Cheney and his assistant triumphantly took the palpit, and let out their venom by reading the fifty-second Paalm with a gusto that by inference applied every denunciatory word in it to the defeated bishop. The Church in Chicago must be in the demoralized state that seems synonymous with the name of that city when such un- seemly things occur within her holy precincts. Tue Rerorn or Our ScmMen SwALLows.— The fashionable season at the watering places is over and our summer swallows have re- turned to the city to resi, It is a blessed priviloge for our overtaxed fashionables that there is somewhere a resting place for them. The poor birds are worried all summer and a!l winter, and if there was not a short season of repose for them in the autumn they would die. We welcome our summer swallows back to enjoy bland’ weather and the comforis of a hom their season of respite. ‘Tne Horrmie Trem, ‘ Hancockracy,” is befug introduced into poiftics, We shall have “cock-ce-doo-dle-ocracy” next, ‘* Hip-ocra- cy” is alveady introduced into fashionable cir- clea ia New Kogland Our Beautifal City Parks. New Yorkers always gladly come back town at the close of their season of summ: travel, with all its mingled delights and an’ noyances, After the discomforts and dise courtesies of country boarding houses, the gay confusion of Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport and other crowded fashionable resorts; after the monotony of rural seclusion; after the diversified scenery of rivers, lakes, forests, mountains, valleys and plains; after long, worrisome journeyings on dusty, dangerous railroads; after risks of steamboat explosions ;! after a voyage across the Atlantic or a Euro- pean tour, and even after the exhilaration of a yacht cruise, they are glad to get home, They unfeignedly rejoice at once more seeing Broadway, with its kaleidoscope varieties of life, and our fine avenues, with mile on mile of brown stone fronts, after having often pined for them, as Madame de Sevigné used to pine, far away from Paris, for the very gutters of Rue du Bac. This year the pleasure of returning New Yorkers is enhanced by tha magical transfor- mation of our city parks into beautiful sources: of health and joy and refining influences. Not only does a drive through Central Park: and along Sixth avenue, which has just been thoroughly completed on the Telford- McAdam plan and opsned for public use for two miles from the Park at 110th street to the Harlem river, disclose abandant proof of the energy and tasts and almost incredible rapidity with which the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks bave worksd since they entered upon their labors on the 3d day of May, 1870, scarcely sixteen months ago, but a tour of the cliy parks will suffice to show how deeply indebted our metropolis already isto Judge Hilton and bis efficient coadjutors for having more than quintupled the attractions which it offers alike to ous citizens and to the stranger within our gates. It is truly marvellous to flud what has been actually accomplished at the Central Park ia carrying out and in correctins tho plvns of the former Board of Commissioners and ia devise ing additional plans’ for the improvement of tho Park in all that relates to its oficial man- agement, its polices, its army of skilled laborers, its drives, bridle-paths, walks, transverse roads, the sheepfold, the stables, tha ‘dairy house, the menagerie, the Arsenal mus:um, the Belvedere, the Terrace and Esplanade, the pretty ombras, the convenieat settzes, the fountains, the sculpture, the projected zoologi- cal garden, the conservatory, tie hot houses or propagating houses, the greon fluids, trees. and shrubbery, the lakes and pods, the sewers and sidewalks and the wall arouad th Park. The recently completed Sixth ce willin a few days be lighted turoughout by new lamps, each of which is a model of ele: gance and otility. The superstructure of 145th street will shortly be finished, thus’ making a continuous drive from the Central Park to Macomb’s Dam Bridge. Bu: to retura to our city parks. The Bate tery, so long neglected, could never lose its unsurpassed natural advantazes—a fresh sea breeze and a comprehensive view of one of the noblest harbors in the world.’ Ia addition to these it now offer: extraordinary ar‘ificial charms, The firat ans nual report of the Department of Public ‘Parks to Mayor Hall makes this gratifying statement with reference to the Battery:—‘‘We havo filled in. about Seventy r thongand yards of ma« terial; 1 we have néarly finished the sea wall; we have laid out the grounds in plots, elegant, and picturesque in appearance; we have planted over a thoasand trees and bus ves.”. Nor has the necessity been forgotten of adapt~ ing the adjacent streets to existing and future business traffic, not detracting materially frou the capacity of the Battery itself. Thus White- hall street, at the entrance of the ferries, has been converted into a great open plaza, by turowing into it about seventy-five feet of the Battery, being a portion not very capable of ornamentation. State street has been im- proved by adding twelve feet to its roadway. Several drinking fountains and several for the use of horses will be erected around the exte- rior of the Battery, It is intended to erect similar fountains throughout all the city parks, A wide space has been devoted to the purpose of holding public meetings in the open air. The introduction of public tinals and ladies’ cottages bere and in several other parks is highly commendable, Io fact, the Battery may be regarded as a type of what the Com- missioners do and intend to do to convert our parks from the neglected, repelling and un- pleasant places which they have been for so many years into breathing spots that shall not | only be ornaments, but also a pleasure to the masses who have not the means of frequent access to the Central Park, The Bowling Green, 80 interesting for its memorable Revolutionary associations, has been tastefully renovated. The Daane Street Park bas been made an elegant little triangular spot, filled with deciduous trees, evergreens and shrubs. The Bench street triangle and the triangle at Christopher sireet have likewise been made attractive, Even the old dumping ground at the foot of Canal street has been provided with a new railing, coping, sidewalk, curb and park keeper, and is now a favorite playground of the children in the neighborhood. The triangle at the Five Points is still incomplete, although the 1ailing and coping have been prepared to be set at any moment, The City Hall Park, with its cultivated enclosures, its trees, slirubbery, fountains and paved walks, excites universal approval. Wasbington Square has not only been delightfully trans- formed, but the plan for the extension of Fifth avenue in such a way as to avoid anticipated irregularity of appearance has been success- fully carried out, and by the transfer of the surplus earth to Tompkins Square and of the railing to Reservoir Square u desirable econ- omy has been effected. Reservoir Square will bo completed in a few months, Tompkins Square has already become go indispensable a pleasure ground and so manifest an advantage to the dwellers in its neighborhood as to bea most striking justification of the trouble and ex- pense of the grand enterprise of improving the city parks, Madison Square is rapidly ander- going changes which will make it as orna- mental and as beneficial to its vicinity us Tompkins Square is to its humbler neighbors. Madison Park can well spare the space which has been surrendered for the advantages of widening the great thoroughfare in front of it. The parks on Sixth avenue and those upom Park avenue have been converted into clegamh