The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1871, Page 10

: { of their appoint- the power of im- peaching unfaithful or incompetent officers, and, under bis general respoasibility, makes it bis duty to exercise that power whenever he may become convinced that the necessity E? i ef f TAY . trous Westera fires, with a general drought as be ° able New York fire of December, 1835, we | their primary cause? Till we can reach the committed on the people of New York hie, THE DAILY HERALD, pubushea every day in the | have had no disaster of the kind in this coun- | drought we have no other remedies than the | 8nd to bring to justice those who have com- Richard B careful precan suggested mitted them. They now know that ‘‘adjusted to settlers, pas emigrants, ps Pi Alea claims” to the amount of over four hundred companies and all concerned; and these pre- and sixty thousand dollars have been allowed cantions and safeguards should be enforced by | by Connolly himself on an account for forty- law and by officers authorized for the purpose, eight thousand dollars only. They know that in the Territories by Congress and in the | false claims have been made out for hundreds try or on this Continent to compare with this of Chicago in the value of the property con- sumed, while in the number of families left houseless and destitute it far surpasses the burnings of Charleston, Atlanta, Columbis and Richmond daring our late civil war sll ‘ : ' i i Fr duties to a committee or any other self-comatt- conflagration. From the time that | tuted body of citizens. There may be Rome was redaced to ashes by the flerce bar- | shorter and a sharper method of bringing barians of the North up until the recent effort of | Comptroller to. reckoning; but should the Commune to destroy Paris there have been | 20t be then we hold it to.be Mayor many disastrous fires ; but unless reports have duty to commence impeachment proceedings been greatly exaggerated this Chicago fire will | Without delay, | rank with’ the most disastrous that the world Mr. Ashbury and tho Quoea’s Oup. has ever experienced. It will be sad, indeed, It is very evident. that Mr, if Chicago, which sprang up as rapidly as | will © insist. on being recogoized ae Jonah’s gourd, should perish as quickly. In.{ the ~ representative of twelve English this case the mourning Jonahs will be many. yacht clubs, but for American yachts- It is not our business, however, to dwell | men to acknowledge this claim is out ef farther on the destruction of our sister city. | the question. It cannot be conceded. The Our purpose rather is, taking it for granted | New York Yacht Club has already given up that there has been enormous destruction of | every point within the bounds of reason, and property and that thousands upon thousands | to relinquish more to make the Livonia’s race have been rendered by one fell swoop of the | an easy one would be doing rather too mach, destroying hand not only homeless but penni- | Mr, Ashbury can be received ouly as the less, to appeal, on the broad principles of our { representative of the Royal Harwich Yaoht common nationality, our common Christianity | Club, of which he is the Commodore. If in and our common humanity, to our fellow citi- | this capacity he desires to sail a series of sens and to our millions of readers, in propor- | twelve races he can be accommodated, and if tion to their ability, to come to the reacue. Now | he is the winner of a majority of them the or never our charity and self-sacrifice must be | Queen's Cup will be handed over te tested. We measure this sorrow not by the | him; but to allow. him to sail twelve fifty or sixty or seventy millions of property | races, each one on account of a different which has been destroyed, not by the thou- | English Yacht Club, is simply impossible, sands upon thousands who have been left | The probabilities are that in a majority of without a home and without « cent, not by the | twelve races we would be successful; but unknown number of precious lives which have | there is scarcely a possibilily of our winning been lost. We forget none of these, but we | all. In the event of our losing one Mr. Ash- think also of the total destruction of all or | bury would, according to bis ruling, claim the almost all sources of income for some time to | cup as belonging to the club he was sailing for come, and particularly of the countless num- | on that day. It will thus be observed that if bers of old and young and middle aged who | the New York Yacht Club yielé the point te cry for bread when there is no bread to give. | him the chances are all in his favor, and that It is a sad and sorrowful case. No such case, | there is almost an absolute certainty of his in fact, has appealed to the world’s sympathy | carrying off the prize he so much covets. in many generations, When was such sorrow | American yachtsmen cannot afford to grant so condensed as in the message of the Mayor of | more than they have done. They hold a prise Chicago to the Mayor of St. Louis?—‘‘Send us | which was won by one vessel against the whole food for the suffering. Our city is in ashes; | English fleet, and while they are compelled. ‘ ‘It is gratifying to find that President Grant | terms than in 1851 and in 1670 they are has come s0 nobly to the rescue. Directly on | williug to do so; but at the sane time they éo hearing of the terrible state of things Secre- | not feel disposed to hand the cup over with- tary Belknap, at the request of the President, | out a struggle wherein the chances on both telegraphed to General Sheridan to forward to | sides are equal. the sufferers whatever of provisions and cloth- Mr. Ashbury’s language regarding the Livos a ing and other supplies was at his disposal, and | nia’s performances, as given in the recently if these were not sufficient to call on the mili- | published interview with him, certainly sounds tary authorities at St. Louis to do the same, | like business, but we hardly think he will hold Such promptitude was wise as well as noble on | on with bulldog tenacity to all he claims as the part of the President; it was worthy of | fair, just and reasonable, Let us see what General Grant; and he may rest assured that | Mr. Ashbury does and does not want. He Bf: for this fresh proof of his interest in the wel- | wants, first, the six months’ notice waived, fare of his fellow-citizens the American people | This has been granted to the Royal Harwich, will not prove ungrateful. It is equally grati- | but to no other English yacht clubs. He fying to know that from almost all parts of the | wants the New York Yacht Club to select Union the reports received leave us in no | twelve yachts, and a different one to be named \ doubt that whatever can be done will be done | for each of the twelve races. He does not for the relief of the Chicago sufferers, and { want to sail a centre-board yacht. He that without delay. Cincinnati has rushed to | does not want to sail over the the rescue; so has St. Louis; so has San | New York Yacht Club course, but wants o Francisco; 80, of course, have Boston and | course of his own selection. He wants te Philadelphia, Even the great cities of the | sail twelve races, and if victorious inone of New Dominion are stirred with sympathetic | them to be acknowledged the winner of the terror, and Toronto and Quebec and Montreal | Queen’s Cup. He wants to have the races are determined to give substantial proof that | sailed on days to be named by himself, and om national barrier lines are no hindrance to those | the shortest possible notice, because he wants feelings which are common to the race and | to get back to England, having important busi- which after all ‘make the whole world kin.” | ness there. In fact, he appears to want all he The outburst of feeling has been so sponta- | canget, and alittle more, too. Perhaps he does : fe Bi every way, of cities and towns against the | Who know nothing about such claims; that danger oe ee: In the course of time even they were audited in the bureau ruled over by these droughts themselves may be conquered. | Watson. and young Connolly, allowed As our Western people arenow going; with the | by the Comptroller and paid upon destruction of their timber, we sce, from’year'| orged) warrants, ‘They know that the to year, that their annual rainfall is diminish. | fraudulent vouchers and forged warrants were ing, and that they are on the high road which, | Stolen and destroyed by Watson, who was if followed, even s few years longer, may lead retained in his position up to the time of his them into a general calamity of drought, | death, and after the Comptroller alleges that famine, fire and pestilence, compared with | be first knew of the abstraction of the docu- which even this disastrous Chicago fire will | meats. They know now from the present appear as a bagatelle. report of the committee that the vouchers Some heavy calamity or series of chastise. | upon which the amounts of the “adjusted ments for wrong doing appears to be the price claims” of Schuyler & Co. were obtained have exacted of mankind for every usefal lesson | #180 been purloined from Connolly's office. learned. The usefal lessons suggested by | They know that young Connolly has gone to these Western fires cannot be learned too | Europe, and that there is now no one left— soon, Meantime it becomes the first duty of | Watson being dead—to throw any light upon the city of New York and its people to assist | these abstracted papers. -Do they need in relieving the immediate and pressing dis- | *"Y more proof to convince them tresses of Chicago; and, with these relieved, | that the people see where the we have no doubt that the enterprising people | real culprits are to be found? © We again ask of Chicago, rising superior to their heavy mis- | by what right do they delay proceedings fortunes, will soon rebuild their city, more | 9sainst Connolly and still claim to be the true beautiful and more secure than it was, and | friends snd special champions of justice? repair all her losses and redeem all her In this war against official rascality the citi- obligations, sens are no respecters of persons or of politi- cal parties. They care nothing about The Investigating Committees and the City | Tammany or anti-Tammany, and they will not Plunderers—What Should Be Done. suffer a self-constituted committee to stand in The reports of the joint investigating com- | the way of justice for any ulterior purpose. It mittee of citizens, Aldermen and Supervisors | is no excuse to pretend that the Seventy are are published to-day. They place before the | using Connolly to detect other offenders, or, people no new facts, The committee finds | as their journals say, as ‘State's evi- that during the past two years and a half im- | dence” against his accomplices. The mense sums have been paid by the city gov- | surest way to obtain his evidence ernment for services that have never been per-| is to place him in a position to formed and for work that has not been done; | prove his own innocence in a court of justice. that parties having claims against the city have | If the committee decline to do this, if it will been anable to obtain their money until they | still insist ‘upon, beating ‘about the bush, had assigned such claims to some friend of the | making technical charges here and there, fill heads of departments; that the amounts | ing thenewspapers with abuse of the ‘4 od thus assigned bave been increased with- | and seeking toamuse the people with daily out the knowledge of the claimants, | promises of “startling disclosures,” while it and that “frauds and peculations of the | hob-nobs and plots with the head and front of grossest character have been practised | sll the municipal coryiption, then the citizens in’ several of the departments” with | will conclude that the committee is a useless the knowledge, it is believed, of those ‘‘whose | piece of nonsense, and will insist that it shall sworn duty it was and is to guard and pro- | step aside and leave the earnest business of tect the public interests.” \All of which has | the work of purification and retribution to long been well known to the citizens of New | other hands. York, and might have been found by the committee to have been going on for twelve brine eget guar Anns years instead of for two years and a half. The racing attractions at Jerome Park The committee has slso made the discovery | ‘0-day exceed anything of the kind ever offered hat the city has been shamefully plundered | i this country. Five races will be run, and under the pretended expenditures on armories the fields in each will be full. The first is the and drill rooms, and that in the matter of the | Hunter Stakes, for fillies three years old, one Schuyler lumber account a sum of over four | Mile and three-quarters. In this race Mr. hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars was | Withers, Mr. Morris and Richards have each s paid for lumber worth about forty-eight thou- | Clipper that makes the affair doubtful. Mr. sand dollars. In regard to the latter swindle Withers’ filly, however, was the favorite last the special committee having that matter night at the Club room at two to one over the under investigation report that Mr. Garret L, | eld. The second race is the Dessert Stakes, Schuyler, the principal of the firm sapply- | for two-year-olds, with one hundred and ten ing the lumber, asserted that forty- pounds up, the distance one mile. Messrs, Hun- eight thousand dollars was all the money | et & Travers, F. Morris, B. W. Cameron and received by the firm from the city, although | Bowie & Hall have each an entry, and, as they he evinced an unwillingness to supply any fur- are all good ones, the race will bea capital oné. ther information as to the transactions. The | Hunter & Travers’ entry sold in the pools for as a lengthy catalogue—are redaced to heaps ef a. THEATRE. Brosdway.—Tux BALLET Pas- ‘The beantiful city, the central depot from ary ————— which is distributed to the cities of the Atlan- eee ere Ot at see. — panies cere gig ryige wt ru it roductions ie great West, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—E: ing pI deso- OPERA—SATANELLA, roan lated, and that late prosperous community of Woon MUSEUM, Brosaway, corner 80th #t.—Perform. | three hundred thousand souls, possessing ets wnt ee Su Sreasee | within itself on Sunday evening last éub- REO TRE THRATRE, $84 ot, detwoon th and @h avs. — | sistence for millions of people, is now in the THEATRE, Bowery.— D __ | condition of a great army, surprised, routed Bigg Pniet Gee from its encampment and shorn of its pro- NIBLO GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and | visions. Relief, then, to Chicago becomes the a nigiggemcuadandade dla first question to her sister cities of the Union, een tae, Sh epee Bh ar. ane a and in the prompt response of Mayor Hall to ALMA EDWins THEATAE. No. 10 Broadway.—Paxxca | 2¢ Sppeal from the Mayor of Chicago we pare ee know that New York city, as usual in such AYEROB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— | cages, will grandly do her duty. Meantime, pei a ete the order of the President to General Sher- Pao AcTs—Buxiasqur, Batuey, ko Broad | idan to bring in the supplies of the army ey mS within his reach to the relief of the suffering Ff. B. CONW. BROO! THEA’ ber “oapsagiad pent a people of Chicago, though not expressly FRANCISCO MINSTREL Haul, $8 Broadway. | ®Uthorized in the constitution, will meet the wan LHe Minera, “’— | approval of the sovereign people of the United i Beyarre NEW OPERA WOUSE, 4 st, between gia | States, as a proceeding justified by the spirit gn apie ieneeteaeg re of “the supreme law of the land” in reference es. | we ravontaesnend eueme tee STRINWAY HALL, Fourteenth a DF Regu tis a omer. maktAP Gor Dominion, will meet with relief for her im- FARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between | mediate and more pressing necessities, but we Ba vaste pew gtayamaianet eget expect that the city of New York in this mat- POOMEEVILLE ART GALLERY, 82 Fifth avenue. —Ex- = will not fail a Popa her position i capyeiee e most generous and as possessing iad Mecapaprh aires Sree eer On, Teed arms: | ost generous community of all the great awe = cities of the world. EET. | . Our great Northwest, in many respects, === | providentially, the most favored section of our supremely favored country, has this last sum- = = | mer and during the present autumn been ex- ceedingly unfortunate in its losses from de- vastating fires, For the last ten days particu- larly we have hardly had any reports from the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa, and from the Territory of Dakota that have not been reports of destruc- i ~ oy derope is ; hoe od tive fires in the forests and on the prairies. A ; won, Raticonn pene; Heavy Tumble i | recent despatch from St. Paul, Minn., informs . pen neg ll [espa 3; What the Leading | us that from a small beginning somewhere near ¥—Reliot for the Chicago Sufferers (continued from the western boundary of the Gate a fire was tna Deetr one paiaus, Fisk Ip Courl—Yacht- | started which spread with frightful rapidity scorn sed Eh ie de pore sage through the dry grass and combustible pine A Laay Sneak acto g Church—The Third Avenue Savings | forests until it reached the ‘big woods,” one Byers Person to ee Fagg neutation Yesterday; | hondred and fifty miles from the point of start- As—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Devastation ing, whence it went whirling through the ‘Of Chicago. ‘Crowning 4 rire of the Seetiten hue: timber fifteen miles to Smith Lake, roaring Jetalls of the reat Fire at Chicago, continuea | #04 crackling among the trees with a sound from Fiftn s -10—City and County Finances: Important Meeting ai pone. Bel heard. foe tency, mess, sont mee Of the Citizens’ Investigating Committee; Start- | are raging fearfully all through McLeod ace Won &° noo’, Accounts ever | connty ; that all the prairie between the “big of Fraudulent Accounts; Report of Commit- | woods” and Preston has been burned over, in- tres for 1871 ih Ti rpmeaecnnd ae RES) cluding the destruction of thousands of tons of He eserclal Stasi pow in Brook ee Blank a, | hay, thousands of bushels of wheat and corn, in Trenton—Board of Apportionment—Mar- | and farmhouses and buildings of every descrip- riages and 19—News from Europe—Miscellancous Telegrams— | tion to an extent still to be ascertained, and 19—Tre Courtesan iinportant Will Case tn cni. | that these fires are still in progress towards Seeuaeate ne ator very A eats the Mississippi River, and that nothing buta Convention—Poreign Scientific Notes—Foreign | drenching rain can stay their ravages. Miscellaneous Items—Singular Suit in Cuil- ee > os All this is from Minnesota, and from Wis- much as all the others. The third which " fornia—Highway Robbery. : committee state that the Schuyler bills were ere neous, so hearty, so noble, that in spite of | not expect to have all his wants granted, but i eee es, par we ti ear io bphaag be all paid under the head of ‘“‘Adjusted Claims,” | 1 # dash of three miles, will be a grand one. | isinie degeneracy and unmistakable general | will be willing to take a part if not able a 26—Adveriisements, instant, on Green Bay that they were certified to as correct by Wil- In this there will be eight starters, comprising selfishness we feel proud of our common faith | to obtain the whole. If this is the case it is ————— Fox River the flames extended from Meno- We Unprnstann that some startling devel- | monee to Oshkosb, a distance of twenty miles opments are likely to be made to-day that | in length and thirty in breadth; in short, will present a new phase of our municipal | fires were eg beer over Seon. ree troubles. i sand square of territory, burning hun- i, acerca dreds of families in their course out of house the Committee of Seventy, as well as our citi- | 14 nome, and leaving them destitate in the ens generally, and may add an important | midst of » vast scene of desolation. Even Item to the many they have already discov- | the marshes, dried to the consistency of tin- ered in the history of official rascality. der, are burning like pits of cannel coal, and Ooo at Fond du Lac the smoke of the surrounding Ler Us Hep unhappy Chicago. Like | fires casts the gloom of twilight over the city @sy and thoughtless Paris, she has been | at noonday. At Pensaukie thirty men are { suddenly stricken in the midst of her pride | reported as having lost their lives in the liam M. Tweed, the Commissioner of Public | Mr. Sanford’s Preakness, Mr. Thomas’ Works, and that “a large part, if not the | Fireball, Mr. Swigert’s Pilgrim, Mr. Crouse’s whole, of the over payment was received by | Clillicothe, Mr. Coffee's Judge Durell, one Robert Winthrop,” who appears to have Mr. Belmont’s Finesse, Mr. McGrath’s Susan been a clerk in the Auditor's Department of | Atm and Mr. O'Donnell’s Haric, and s better Comptroller Connolly's office, of which de- | field of horses never started for so long 9 dis- partment James Watson was Auditor and | ace on the American turf. Mr. Sanford’s Connolly, Jr., son of the Comptroller, was | Preakness was the favorite at the club room, Deputy Auditor. A bewildering mass of fig- | Fireball being the second choice and Pilgrim ures put together by experts, and which none | the third. The fourth race, which is mile but experts can hope to unravel, accompany | beats, will have five starters, comprising the reports, but we do not see that they add | Abdel-Koree, Hamburg, Niagara, Stockwood anything to the information previously in pos- | #04 Lord Byron. This will be a fine race. session of the people or that they bring the | Abdel-Koree is the favorite, but he will have and our common humanity. well; for one thing is certain, that if the We should not have been pleased if New | Livonia is to return to England in a few days York city had lagged behind. In spite of all | if the New York Yacht Club does not agree its faults our city bas won its way toa first | to sail the twelve races, as Mr. Ashbury place among the great cities of the world | wishes, she will not, in our opinion, loag either in paet or present times. Our wealth is | remain in American waters. bd second only to that of London. Our enter- The threat of Mr. Ashbury to do this or that prise is such that we have no superior, if, | if his demands are not complied with is ill- indeed, we have any equal. Our liberality is, | timed, and not likely to create a favorable, when occasion calls for it, grand and up to the | impression. On the contrary, it will make high mark of our great ability. On hundreds | very many stubborn who might be disposed te be of occasions our liberality has been tested, | concede more than their right in order to keep and when was it found wanting? In 1835, | peace in the family and maintain a good feel- ki when New York suffered from it fi . Americans are not fond of threats, from " and ay Baking. Let'as help her. flames. city corruption problem one inch nearer a to rao had hen ra he has before to beat how nobly we came to the relief at aut aie a source they may come, and whee ad New York never lacks charity. A sister | From Nebraska, October 5, we have the | practical solution than it was before the re- | Such @ field as will be opposed to him to-day. | citisone! When Ireland was threatened with | made they are apt to produce an effect com- ports were made. The great event of the day, however, will be the In one respect, however, these reports may hurdle race, which has ten entries—several be of service. They serve to augment the | more than ever started before in a contest of a already ample proof that the Comptroller's like nature on this Continent. The horses that Department has been the hot-bed of all the | Will start are Duffy, Vesuvius, King John, rascality from which the city has suffered so | T#m™many, Astronomer, Pool Seller, Climax, severely, and to render the longer protection Gerald, Dick Jackson and Colonel T. Duffy of Richard B. Connolly by those who profess | 8S ® great favorite last night, but it must be to be desirous of bringing the guilty to justice remembered that Tammany beat him in the an impossibility, It appears that in the bold steeple chase last Saturday, and it is very fraud of this Schuyler account the transfer of | likely that he will be beaten again to-day, the claim was made toa clerk in the bureau ruled over by Watson and young Connolly, and that this clerk, Winthrop, must have received ‘‘s large part if not the whole of the overpayment.” Now these particular accounts were paid under the head of ‘Adjusted Claims,” which means a claim that has been disputed or for the recovery of which an action retie ses . peng rl esciaet abrad tu has been commenced, and that has been “adjusted” or settled in order to save the | Tae Pusisumenr of Paymaster Hodge fol- expense of litigation to the city. All such | lows éwift and heavy upon the discovery of “adjusted claims” must pass through the | his crime. The court martial which recently hands of the Comptroller himself, He glone | tried him for embezzling public fands sen- is authorized by the law to settle them, | tenced him to ten years’ imprisonment in the and he personally gives an order setting | penitentiary and to remain in confivement till forth the amount he has allowed and | the entire amount of the defalcation shall be directing the Auditor of Accounts to draw a | paid. As Major Hodge is wholly unable to warrant for the same. It is therefore shown | comply with this requirement the latter part by the Committee's statement that Comptroller | of the sentence is equivalent to imprison. Connolly must himself have fixed the amounts | ment for life. The President took this view of to be paid on the Schuyler bills, and that if | the case and yesterday approved of that part any such frauds have been perpetrated as the of the finding of the court which consigns Committee indicate, the Comptroller must be | Major Hodge to the penitentiary for ten years, responsible for them. but disapproved of the latter tleuse, which The people will now demand of the Commit- | requires repayment ot the amount embezzled. city, wlterly blasted in the noon of her | intelligence that the damages at Fremont from strength, aske aid for the hundred and fifty | these fires are very heavy; that at North Bend th d people beggared in one short day, the fire has been raging all day, and that at and New York will pour forth her richest | Bon Homme, in Dakota, there is much loss of offerings most heartily to help her. ert eer pong nated es REV TORE AN ruins of sever: jouses ankton 5 Tax Deso.ation oF Cxicaco is almost be- | smouldering; that the stage coach from that yond comparison. The proud city of the | place escaped from the flames in the prairie prairies, eo graod and magnificent a few days | only by turning into ® ploughed field, and rye ae ow vd "a ane that many farmers in Southeru Dakota bad and ashes by the e1 lost houses, barns, crops, everything, barel; breath of the destroying angel. Let the citi- | escaping with their lives. From Michigan, sens of New York bear her appeal for help. at the same time, we are informed that er the woods on both sides of the Toledo, Counor.tor Avroxio Dx Corroito BoRGzs, | Wabash and Western railroad are on fire for the new pinay ome = nay 044 distance of four or five miles, and that all of each government and people for the other | 4 sa: east as Oneida county, New York, a were exchanged between Mr. Borges and the | destructive fire (October 7) was raging in the President, and the interview terminated. Mr. | woods, burning into the parched ground to Borges ae J ene Nid the depth of a foot or more. _ amiga Birk hy ee The primary cause of all these fires (and it popolar p will apply no doubt to Chicago to some ex- ‘Peoaressrve Proscires receive little favor | tent) is the withering drought which has pre- “fabetald, conservative Rhode Island. Yester- | vailed over all the country, from the Rocky Gay the people of that miniature State voted | Mountains to the great lakes, since July last. three proposed amendments to their con- | The grass on the prairies has been prematurely t First, to remove the real estate | dried by the sun, the green trees of the forests qualification from foreign born citizens; sec- | have been rendered combustible, and the turf ond, to abolish the registry tax, and third, to | under them, formed from decayed vegetation, prohibit the appropriation of public money to | has been dried into tinder, so that in many schools. All these propositions | places whole rafts of forest trees, undermined first and second being rejected by | by fire, have fallen into the surrounding majorities, and the third, glthough it re- | flames. Alll these fires,. then, have for their 8 majority, of the votes cast, lacked the | primary cause this year's extraordinary three-fifths, and was consequently | drought in all the desolated districts, The destruction by a dreadful famine, which of trary to the one expected. Those of our people all the great cities of the world was most | who are fond of and engage in sporting mat- “~ generous? It was New York. And what | ters are willing to drop business for a time, shall we say of our own city in con. | and think nothing of it; but with Mr. Asb- nection with the not yet forgotten Avondale | bury the case appears to be different, He, i disaster and with the recent sorrows and | would seem, desires either to join business privations of the Parisians? In a common | and pleasure in one, or to make yachting @ effort to be kind was not New York the first in | business rather than a sporting matter. the race? It pleases us to know that Mayor | This may be all right ‘for him, but with, Hall is determined that in this case New York | us it is like trying to mix oil and shall not lose the reputation which it has so | water. His language and conduct semind nobly won and which it so deservedly enjoys. | us of a sharp trader trying to drive a hard T The Mayor's proclamation is all that it should bargafn, and threatening to go i be. It is timely, it is to the point, it is ex- | not accommodated; and we should not be haustive. Let things be done as the Mayor | surprised if in the end he wae told that the suggests ; let our citizens meet and appoint a | New York Yacht Club had offered the best general committee; let our corporations, our | terms possible, and that if theyare.not acoept- =? trades, our social, political, religious and other | able he is at liberty to consider all negotia-. organizations make use of their existing ma- | tions at an end. chinery ; let every man and woman, according It is much to be regretted that any point of to his or her ability, make an effort; letevery- | difference exists between Mr. Ashbury and the thing be done that can be done in the direc- | New York Yacht Club. It would have been far tion of duty; let us all pall, and pull | more agreeable to have had the races pass off. altogether, and the world will have no choice | without. dispute of any kind, . Those who now but admit that in New York, spite of its faults, | hold the Queen's Cup are willing-to give it api there are some noble souls and some kind | fairly won. They have no desire to raise any hearts—in other words, some righteous persons. | point of controversy for the sake of holding it, In any case, let us not in liberality be behind. They do not wish to be considered stubborn or F unyielding. They would rather be thought ; The Duty of Mayor Hall. too generous, especially in their treatment of The City Charter assigns to the Mayor the | a foreigner; but they cannot afford to sacrifice duty of enforcing the laws and makes him re- | all the just claims of superiority merely for sponsible for the efficient and honest govern- | the sake of obliging one man, who, in their | ment of the city. Unfortunately it ties his | opinion, is demanding more than they are:| hands in the matter of removals from office—a | authorized to grant. We trust that Mr. Ash- restriction insisted upon by the republican | bury may reconsider his threat and do bis! legislators through whose votes it be- | share in series of races which, if managed Jo grder, to joguxe fo the cepubll- | yrell will be greditable to, ofl partion comeernetie Ais, Sate e Tue Uptown Branon or THe HERAcp office for the receipt of advertisements has proved of such great advantage to our advertisers in the upper part of the city that a larger office, at No. 1,265 Broadway, nearly opposite the present location, has been found necessary. MR RS ener et a