The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1872, Page 8

2. eee 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ; E Volume XXXVII.. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Our Covoren Brerunes, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Brotaer Bitt aNp Me—Cauirornia; on, Tuk Heatakn Cuivex. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cmicaco Br- Pore Tar Fire, DugiNG THR Fine AND Aten THE Fine. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuer Bautet Panto- ‘Mint or Huxrty Dumery. h BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth venue.—ENocu ARDKN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lith st. and Broadway.— Fortunio aNp His Girrep Senvanrs. WALLACR'S THEAT! street.—Tuk Long Stuik' FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Anticir 47, ) Broadway and Thirteenth wenty-fourth street, — BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Lonpon Assurance, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tux Natap Query, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third Bth av.—ExGuisa Orzr. SAM SHARPL Sau Suanrer’s Min TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! e ay. No. 201 Bowery.— Necuo Ecvesraicrrigs, BURLESG 3 RAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpey Instrummytar T, Cl Co: PAVILION, 633 Broadway, near Fourth street.—Lapy OxcurstRa, DR. KAUN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Brondway.—Ant np Berence. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Jane 2, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pact. { 1—Aavertisemen’ Rms As D hington—Proceedings in Con- gress—Gratz Brown's Letter Accepting the Nomination for the Vice Presidenc; 6—Religious Intelligen Second Sunday After ‘Trinity; Re! us Programme fpr To-Day; Religious Correspondence; Religious Notes, Personal and General—Methodist General Conference—Conference of the Orthodox Friends—Detective Lambrecht's Murder— Handsome Masonic Display. J=—The Republicans: Preparations for the Phila- delphia Convention; Fo: and the Trim- mers; Effects of Buckalew’s Nomination; The Vice President's Controversy; Gossip About the Delegations—Judge Bedford Endorsed— Mr. Greeiey’s Movements—Henry Wilson for the Vice Presidency—The City Ommcial Journal—Religious Thought in England: Mon- signor Capel’s Attack on the Ritualists— Police Matters. S—Editorial: Leading Article, “Death of James Gordon Bennett”—Amusement Announce- ments. 9—The War in Mexico—Latest Speculations Re- es the Washington Treaty—Misccila- neous Cable and Domestic Telegrams—rhe £ National Game—Business Notices, $o—American Jockey Club: Inauguration of the x Northern Racing Season; First day of the Spring Meeting at Jerome Park; Brilliant and Fashionable Attendance; Four Finely Con- tested Events—The Long Strike: Beginning of the Fourth Week; Employers Uniting for Resistance—Another Mystery—Massachusetts Labor Movement—Mortuality at Sea. 91—Financial and Commercial: “A Quiet Day in the t Markets; A Dull But Strong Movement in Stocks; A Larger Specie Shipment Than An- ticipated and a Firm Tone in the Gold Mar- ket; The Imports of the Week Over Twelve Millions; The Specie Export Four aud a Quar- ter Millions; Advance in Government Bonds; The Bank Statement Favorable—The Public Debt Statement—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Bulls and Bears—The International Typographical < Union—Marriages and Deaths, p2—Jersey City Emancipated: Bumsted Caught in the Trap at Last—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- vertisements. ‘Europe: The Meaning of the Proposed Amend- ments to the Swiss Constitution; Did the 1 American Commissioners Play Sharp in Making the Washington Treaty?—President Thiers In- ter viewed—Architecture of New York—Pro- ceedings of the Boards of Aldermen and Assist- ant Aldermen—Advertisements. 4—Advertisements. 1i—Advertisements, 16—Advertisements. TO THE PUBLIC. The Herat office at the corner of Broad- way and Ann street, and the Branch Henanp offices at No. 1,265 Broadway and corner of Fulton avenue and Boerum street, Brooklyn, will be closed to-day. They will, however, be open in the evening for the accommodation of the public. Tue Srrvccite my Mexico is now mainly confined to the northern part of the country. According to our special despatches from Camargo and Matamoros the revolutionary forces commanded by Generals Treviiio and Quiroga are concentrated at Monterey, where they intend to give battle to the government troops under Cevallos and Oorrella, who are moving in different directions, but operating in conjunction for a combined a-tack on Monterey. The fate of the struggle ow seems to hang upon the coming battle for the possession of that city, on which the revo- Tutionists Lave staked their all. Some desperate fighting—perhaps the most desperate and de- cisive of the present war—may be expgeted. The chances are in favor of the government ps, and, should they ah ‘taking Monterey, the revolution, as an organized movement, will virtually come to an end. ee Movement Nn Favon or Jupce Bepronp.— A large number of prominent German-Ameri- citizens met last night at the Germania bly Rooms for the purpose of organizing an association to promote the nomination and re-election of Gunning §. Bedford as City Judge. The movement thus early in. augurated indicates the warm interest felt by the business classes of the city in the preser- ation of the present high character of the Court ‘of General Sessions, which, under City Judge Bedford and Recorder Hackett. has accom- plished so much in the protection of citizens and the vindication of law. The meeting last night, both in numbers and character, was complimentary to Judge Bedford, whose ad- mirable course on the bench precludes the possibility of any opposition to his reuomina- tion and renders his election certain. There phould be a union of all parties in his support. SS “Jansey @ery Emancrrarep.—Bumsted was convicted yesterday, in conjunction with Vree- land, 4 real estate speculator, of conspiracy to defraud the city by purchasing lands for a new reservoir at an exorbitant price. It will be remembered that the Police Commissioners were convicted at the last term of Court, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. DEATH OF JAMES GORDON BENNETT. It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of James Gordon Bennett, the founder of the Hrraup. He died at his residence in this city at twenty-five minutes past five o’clock yesterday afternoon, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. Five years ago Mr. Bennett withdrew from the active management of the Hxraup; but although feeble in frame his general health continued remarkably good, while his fine intellect remained unimpnifed, and his interest in the events of the day un- abated up to the moment of his fatal illness. About half-past one o’ clock on Saturday after- noon, 25th ult., Mr. Bennett suffered a slight! convulsive attack, accompanied by epileptic symptoms, but not sufficiently marked! or violent to excite apprehension of immediate danger. Twelve hours afterwards—| at half-past one o'clock last Sunday morn- ing—the attack was repeated with greater severity. From that time the end became evident, although the constant attendance of| Drs. Ceccarini, Hammond and Lusk insured the exhaustion of all means within the reach of, human effort to avert a fatal result. On Tues- day last, at the request of Mr. Bennett, Arch- bishop McCloskey visited his bedside and administered to him the last sacraments of the Church. When the last hour arrived he sank to sleep im death calmly and peacefully, andi his soul passed away without a struggle. It is not our province to eulogize the de- ceased. His career asa journalist is before It will be ® commented on, wherever civilization reaches, the world and is public property. by friends and enemies; for no man could hold in his hands for nearly forty years so for- midable a power as a fearless, independent press and hope to escape the latter. His death will be mourned by all who regret the passing away of the sterling benefactors of the human race ; for no one will gainsay the benefits con- ferred upon mankind by the genius, energy and liberality of the deceased. To him more than to any other individual the American newspaper owes its present high and honor- able position. The Henatp was his cPeation; the em- bodiment of his long-cherished idea of a truly independent press, founded upon the principles of truth and justice, owing allegiance to no party and laboring singly for the the people. advancement and happiness of The power he thus called into being and established as a wonderful success has exercised for more than thirty-five years a healthful influence over the politics and public men of the country, and has been instru-§ mental in hastening the development and se- curing the triumph of many of those great undertakings that have added so much to the progress and prosperity of the American na- tion, hensive projects Mr. Bennett's broad views took no heed of obstacles that, to ordinary minds, and his strong will, manifested through the columns of the Henan, infused into many a waver- ing enterprise a spirit that carried it successfully through all difficulties. He was ever ready to give his earnest and power- ful aid to the establishment of steamship lines, railroads and telegraphs, which he recognized as the great missionaries of civi- lization and the life-blood of a perfect daily newspaper. He took a deep interest in the In the advocacy of novel and compre- seemed insurmountable; various schemes of public improvement in this city, and left nothing undone to promote their success that liberality and enterprise in journalism could accomplish. His victories have been the victories of peace, and he leaves behind hin a monument to his genius and energy which will carry down his name, familiar in their mouths as household words, to future generations. The private life and personal character of the deceased are the property of his family and friends. His kindly heart and generous dis- position endeared him in no ordinary degree to those who knew him well, and won for him the loyalty and affection of his large staff of business attachés. He was a man of large and ready charity ; but he gave without osten- tation, and preferfed that his contributions should be known only to their recipients. No economy is ignored as well as the welfare and progress of the republic, There never was seen before such pettifogging on a great and vital question. It is useless to attempt to! analyze the Tariff bill as it stood yesterday, as it stands to-day or may stand to-morrow. We must wait till the session closes and then en- deavor to understand this complicated matter. ad The Commencement of the Summer Season, : This year the seagons sem to have been™ slightly out of joint. Winter lingered long and spring came late. As yet we have had but little of summer; for, although we have seen the end of May, the summer sun has not! warmed tho earth or made city life un- comfortable. Now, however, we have entered upon June, leafy June, as the poets have been in the habit of naming it, and it is not possible that the summer sun will much longer restrain his power. Already the exodus from the great i populous centres hascommenced; but, strange to say, our well-to-do classes are not seeking the coolness of our mountain retreats or our fashionable and long established watering places. The rush is for Europe, and our Atlantic steamers for the last four weeks have been crowded with first class passengers, eager to see the historically renowned places of the Old World. In a week or two more our great cities, from Maine to California, will give forth their thou-ff sands, and, notwithstanding the exodus to Europe, our numerous watering places will bef certain to do a fair stroke of business. Iff summer has been slow to come, it may linger ¥ longer, and it is not unreasonable to take it for granted that our hotel proprietors, who look for their harvest in the summer season, will be amply rewarded for their enterprise and their patient and persevering toil. It is quite apparent that our people, all over the Union, are all but recovered from the de- pressing influences begotten of the late war. Money is plentiful, and it isnot characteristic of the American people to bury their talents inthe earth or permit them to rot in their money bags. Hard work in winter and a little ease and recreation in summer—such is the ideal of American life. Long may this ideal be one of possible attainment ; and may the time soon come when the summer's rest and Erecreation, after the winter’s toil, will be en- joyed, not by a special and favored class, but ¥ by all ranks and classes of our people. To our Western and Southern friends who are in quest Mof change of scene let us say, ‘Come andg soe New York.” We know of no superior, watering place. Here they will find all the attractions and novelties of one of the greatest of the world’s cities. Here, too, they will ® find all the amenities supposed to be insepar- ff able from the immediate neighborhood of the ocean. New York is not yet what it ought to# be, and what in a few years it will be; but as it is, and take it for all in all, it has, as a great city, few if any rivals. Our hotels, our stores, our theatres, our Central Park, our splendid river front, our bay, our proximity to Staten Island, to the Jersey coast, to the numerous attractions of Long Island—these make New York city a comfortable and attractive summer resort. Ina few years New York must become to the United States all and much more than all that Paris was to France. Much regret has been expressed in some quarters that so many of our people should this year have preferred a trip to Europe to a three months’ sojourn at Saratoga or Long Branch. The fact speaks for itself and requires no comment. Of the monster hotels our people have become tired, and with the. cost of living at these hotels they have become disgusted. What is wanted is greater simpli- city of life at our summer hotels and more moderate charges. If a change in this direc- tion is not introduced our watering places must suffer more and more. As things now are the European trip is cheaper and other- wise more desirable, and therefore the Euro- pean trip is preferred. It is well to look facts in the face; and if the proprietors of the hotels at our different watering places are wise in their day and generation they will not too long defer the work of reform. LEER Se Cleansing the Streets—The New Broom Brigade. There is an old proverb which says that “a new broom sweeps clean,’’ and we hope to see it thoroughly exemplified by the action of the new Street Commissioners. The task they have undertaken is by means a difficult one, even under ordinary circumstances, and with the machinery which they will control it ought to be comparatively casy. If we have suffered from abuses in the street cleaning department they have been clearly traceable to the loose and unsatisfactory manner of doing business introduced by our late city rulers. These men made everything subser- vient to political purposes, and cared little about the health and well being of the citizens, It will not, therefore, be enough for the new Commissioners to be able to show an improve- ment in the respect of gloaffiness’; we’ shail look forward tg & Complete revolution. In- appeal for a worthy object was ever ay ade Xe stead of ‘Now York being the dirtiest city in him in vain, and there are “mhny living wit-' nesses to the promptness and liberality with which he responded when invited to relieve distress or to useful and deserv- ing enterprise. It is no mere figure of speech to say that the death of James Gordon Bennett will sadden many hearts, for outside aid a his bereaved home circle there are hundreds who had learned to esteem and honor him as an employer, and who will mourn his loss as the loss of a true benefactor and friend, LT SEE Tax Tamrr rm Conorrss—Tur Greatest Puzzie or THe Day.—Talk of the famous Chinese puzzle or of all the mysteries of jjugglery or science, why, the state of. the tariff question in Cong: is more diffieult to under- stand than any of these! To use a common expression, this matter is confusion worse con- founded. If one takes up the report of the proceedings in Congress on the tariff on any particular day with the hope that, after hours of patient study, he might get some little light, the next day the whole question becomes muddled again, and he is as much in the dark as ever, Amendments and changes out ot number are proposed continually. Almost every Senator or member kas some axe to grind the World, to which unpleasant eminence it reached under the old régime, we shall look forward to an unrivalled state of propriety. There is certainly no cause why our streets cannot be kept as clear from refuse and dirt as those of any other city in the world. From our position between two rivers and the regu- larity with which the streets are laid out we possess many advantages which ought to enable us to enjoy an exceptional cleanliness. There is no doubt that we would do so if only the work were honestly undertaken, instead of being used as an ingenious mode of black- toailing the citizens. The importance of the strect cleaning de- partment to the health of the crowded popula- tion of a city renders it desirable that only those who are likely to discharge their duty efficiently should be placed in a position of re- sponsibility. We are, therefore, glad that the police, who are to a certain extent eflicient, are to be charged with the supervision of the work. ‘They will have a machinery under their control that no separate department could hope to organize. One of the principal causes why the sanitary regulations are so well enforced in some of the European capitals is due to this concentration of responsibility in the police, The new system promises to be ‘ore expensive than the old one, but if only in the interest of his section of country. Therefthe work be efficiently carried through we is no such thing as legislating upon general shall not complain of the increased cost. It is pripciples or for the nation at large. Political—a bad kind of economy to spend a large amount of money in producing very imperfect} results, when by the outlay of a little more something like a perfect system can be estab- lished. It isin the hope that thorough effi- ciency will charactarize the new administration that we are willing to give it a fair trial. Should it failin meeting the public expecta- tion we shall denounce it as vigorously as we have done the shortcomings of the disgraceful Brown régime. The rapid approach of the sultry weather makes it more than ever desirable that the streets should be at once cleared of the filth and refuse which at present encumber them, in order to guard against contagion. In this connection we would also say that it is not in the chief thoroughfares that the new Commis- sioners can do the best work, but in the poorer quarters of the city. Under the old system a great display was made from time to time of cleaning Broadway and a few other main thoroughfares ; but it is not in these streets that sanitary precautions are most needed. The first care of the new administration ought, therefore, to be directed to purifying the crowded districts where the poor are huddled together and where the germs of disease al- ways lie dormant. No time ought to be lost in 4 thoroughly cleansing these districts and taking every possible precaution calculated to pre- Ri vent the development of disease, It only re- quires proper measures to be enforced by the authorities to make New York one of the healthiest cities in the world. Sufficient) power and means have been placed at the dis- posal of the police to bring about this desira- ble result, and we hope that no lack of energy on their part will cause the new experiment to end in failure. eS Arctic Expedition Via Behring Strait. The North Polar Expedition, which re- cently sailed from San Francisco, promises to The wbe one of the boldest and most brilliant of modern adventures. Its enterprising leader, M. Octave Pavy, was for several years the secretary and friend of the eminent French geographer, Gustave Lambert, who was about: to undertake a polar voyage under the aus- 8 pices of his own nation when the Franco-Prus- #sian war broke out, in which he perished. The plan of the new French explorer for reaching the North Pole is certainly recom- mended by its novelty, and has also the judg- ment of many skilful and learned physicists to sustain it. Sailing from San Francisco to Pe- tropaulovski and other Siberian settlements, M. Pavy proposes to obtain there dogs for his| §sledges, dried salmon for provision and rein- deer skins for clothing, and thence, early in August, to pass through Behring Strait and move directly to Kellett Land or Wrangell Land and land his supplies. He goes pro- vided with a raft, made of four hollow India rubber cylinders, twenty-five feet in length, upon which, when united and lashed together, he can place a deck and all the furniture of a ship. This raft is similar to that in which his sailing master, Captain Mikes, who accompa- nies him now, crossed the Atlantic, and with it’ he proposes to pursue any open-sea discoveries he may make when he has obtained his highest latitude by sledge journey. The novelty of this plan does not consist so much in the mechanical contrivance just de-' scribed as in the theory of its author that Kel- lett Lead, which lies to the northwest of Behring Strait, is prolonged towards the Pole, perhaps as far as the eightieth or eighty-fifth parallel of latitude. It is very well known that the Kuro Siwo, or warm Pacific Gulf Stream, that roves through Behring Strait in a north- eastwardly direction, is diverted by some un- known agency north of the strait, and caused to run ina westward instead of in its normal eastward direction. This circumstance has led M. Pavy to the conclusion that a continental mass crosses the Arctic Ocban north of Behring Strait, and that this land is the eastward ex- tension of Kellett Land. On the northern shores of this supposed continent he believes he will find the open Polar Sea of which Kane’ beheld but a small bight, and he hopes to cross the sea around the Pole and return home by Smith’s Sound. A glance at a cireumpolar ‘map shows that! this hope is by no means unwarrautable. When Sir Edward Parry, in 1818, made his famous voyage over the ice north of Spitzbergen, in the attempt to reach the Pole, he traversed five hundred and eighty nautical miles, nearly sufficient to have taken him td this destination, but he found that he bad only advanced one hundred and seventy- two miles, as the ico on which he was travelling was drifting southward much faster than his weary men could move northward. At the extreme point of his advance the ice did not show any indication of a proximity to a permanent body of ice, and the continued drift ‘showed that there was an open space both in the direction of its course and in that it had drifted from. There was no indication of an approach to a solid continent of ice, whigh has by sémepérsohs been Imagined to extend from the Pole southward.”’ Now, this fact, so well stated by Parry, strongly sustains the deduction of M. Pavy, t, once on the shore of the Polynia, whose mysterious billows wash the Pole, he will have but little difficulty in navigating it with his buoyant raft and reaching the long-coveted goal of Arctic dis- covery. The chief doubt of his success arises from the questionable character of Kellett or Wrangell Land, over whose ice-clad surface he expects to make o high latitude. It is, of course, problematical whether Kellett Land is insular or continental. The analogy of the circumpolar land masses would lead to the strong conjecture that, whether its longitudinal extent is as considerable‘as M. Pavy thinks or not, its latitude is great, and, if so, he may find it comparatively easy to reach by this land a higher point than even Parry attained. Cap- tain Kellett, of the English navy, in the ship Herald, in 1849, saw land extending with high peaks northwest of Behring Strait. In 1867 Captain Bleven, in latitude 71 degrees and 20 minutes north and longitude 175 degrees west, saw in this vicinity lofty mountain ranges run- ning northwards as farasthe eye could see. In the same year, in the month of August, Captain Long rediscovered these peaks and ranges, seen by Kellett, and remarked that they were visible until lost én the distance. This distinguished navigator also gave it as his opinion that the true way to reach the Pole is in the very linc now selected by the French disciple of Gustave Lambert. Columbus divined tho existence of a gon- of M, Pavy§ tinent in the far west from the tropical wood he had watched drifting into the Canary Islands; land, by parity of reasoning, we may infer that the driftwood so constantly picked up by our| late Polar explorers on eastern and northeast- ern. Spitzbergen, and identified as exclusively Siberian, proves that the Kuro Siwo, after passing through Behring Strait, is deflected westward, along Northern Siberia, by some such continent as Pavy counts upon finding. The silence and modest energy with which this adventurous yet accomplished geographer has gone to work promise well for his success. There is | widespread interest in all such explorations. Doubtless this last venture will reap rich results in the field of Arctic research.” eS Monsignor Capel and the Ritualists, Our London correspondent furnishes us with an abstract, which we publish on another page of this morning’s Heraup, of Mon- signor Capel’s attack on the present move- ments of the Ritualists. The severity of the condemnation by so prominent and distin- guished a Catholic dignitary as Monsignor Capel invests it with an importance of much weight. Disraeli, in his celebrated novel, “QLothair,”’ sketches this churchman under the name of Monsignor Catesby, and in this way| has his name been made particularly conspicu- ff ous to the English public. The onslaught of Monsignor Capel on the Ritualists was as un- expected as it was bold and Vigorous. Near as is their approach to the forms and observances of the Catholic Church, they have no warranty for the course they pursue. They rejéct all authority for the innovations they adopt, and in this they exhibit a want of obedience so much at variance with Catho- licity that the gap between the two Churches is as wide and as distinct as it can possibly be. If by concessions and compromises the Ritualists, or a portion of them, contem- plated an approach toward Catholicism with a view to a subsequent acknowledgment by the Church of Rome, they must eventually dis- cover the delusion under which they labor. Monsignor Capel’s utterance, so unexpected, deals a startling blow at the Ritualist move- ment. ‘In the Catholic Church nothing is more marvellous than the spirit of obedience and the limitation of authority in different grades.’ True allegiance, undivided support and stern obedience are principles in the Catholic Church from which there is no retreat, land these facts are laid bare by Monsignor Capel for the thoughtful reflection of the Ritualists. TR The Book Concern Troubles Sottled. The Methodist Book Concern troubles, which have been before the Church and the country in one form or another for the last three and a half years, have been settled, and, probably, in the manner most satisfactory and just to allthe parties concerned. Two com- mittees of the General Conference have had the subject under consideration, one to investi- gate the allegations of fraud and mismanage- ment, and one to legislate for the protection of the Concern against such frauds in future. ‘The committee which investigated the affairs of the Concern did not go beyond the records named in the several accusations made by Dr. John Lanshan, the assistant agent, and by the minority of the Book Committee. Nor could they very well go further in the brief time allotted to them. After all that had been written and printed and said about the Concern during the past few years, and after the very long and laborious investiga- tions made by two experts and by the Book Committee, the special investigating commit- tee might well be excused had they concluded that all the testimony that could be taken was then in. But their elaborate report shows that they looked beyond and back of all this testi- ‘mony and examined persons and papers for their own information. The committee was com- posed of shrewd business men, and included lawyers, bookkeepers, merchants and minis- ters, who were as free from bias in this matter as any intelligent class of Methodists could well be ona subject of such vital importance to the whole Church. The committee had their work in some sense classified and laid out for them. Dr. Lanahan cumulated his allegations, charges and suspicions into twenty ‘statements and proof.” The Book Committee, majority and minority, had also formulated their investiga- tions and conclusions into questions and answers readily comprehended and remem- bered. The committeo took all those state- ments and findings and formulated them in the same manner into a series of questions around which the evidence should gather. After three weeks’ patient search through volumes of accounts and cash books, exhibits and reports, the committee unanimously came to the following conclusions: —That frauds had not been practised in the printing department by which the Book Concern has stistained loss, This exonerates Mr. S. J. Goodenough, who has been charged by Dr. Lanahan with such fraudulent practices, and for which assertion he has sued the Doctor. The committee find that the business of the Concern was so badly managed that losses might be, and have been, sustained, but they are not of such magnitude as to endanger the finaricial strength of the Concern or to materially impair its capital. Those frauds could have been pre- vented, however, by the enforcenient of more thorough business methods. The present methods of account and modes of conducting the business, the committee think, are such as to insure reasonable and ordinary protection against frauds and irregu- larities. And finally, they say there are no reasonable grounds to presume that any agent or assistant agent is or has been implicated or interested in any frauds that may have been practised on the Concern, and that the reports of the agents to the General Conference exhibit fairly the assets and liabilities of the Concern. It will be remembered that Dr. Lanahan took issue with Messrs, Carlton and Thomas on this last point, and withdrew his signature from their report on the ground that it contained false and fraudulent statements. The committee qualify their condemnation of the management of the Concern by stating that while the business entries of the years 1862 and 1864 are totally inexcusable as specimens of account, and also the bindery and periodical account for 1861, the losses by fraud occurred in the manufacturing department, land chiefly, if not wholly, in the bindery. The business transaction of pur- chasing paper through the son of the former sssistant agent the committge vory A snarl. SOC properly con«lemn, and the unauthorized loan of Conference xuoneys to the Methodist Epis- copal Church Sonth, no matter how good and pure the motives that prompted it, they think was a very bad precedent. The committee had little or no difficalty in finding proof of frauds in the bindery department, and abun- dant evidence exists that these had been pra tised for a series of years, but the extent of the losses cannot be computed nor even accu- rately estimated. When the Concern was very much smaller and less widely known than it is, one agent, with his clerical help, managed the entire busi- ness, but as it enlarged an assistant agent became necessary. For a time the two got along pleasantly; but when Dr. Porter took that position, sixteen years ago, some little irri- tation was created between the agent and himself by o seeming trespass of the one upon the other's work. A division of duty and of labor took place, by which the agent attended solely to the finances of the Concern and the assistant to the manufacturing interests, and thenceafter neither trenched upon the province of the other. This may account in a measure for the agent's lack of knowledge of the existence of frauds, though many delegates and church members are not content to admit that the agent is exempt from blame for thus binding himself not to exercise the utmost extent of the authority invested in him by virtue of his position, even though his action was inspired by the kindliest feelings towards a ministerial brother. This fact, coupled with an agree- ment said to have been made or understood be- tween Dr. Carlton and his friends four years ago, that he would not continue in the Concern after this time, led to the election of two new men as agents for the Concern here. They are ‘both eminently fitted for the positions. In all the deliberations of the General Conference Dr. Reuben Nelson has shown excellent judg- ment and discretion, and has, by a word ora motion, frequently got the members out of a His associate, Mr. J. M. Phillips, » layman, brings to the New York house an ex- perience of twenty years obtained in connec- tion with the Concern in Cincinnati. No bet- M ter choice of men for this work could have beer made by the Conference. But there is hardly a possibility of an agent or employé of the Concern being able in fu- ture, by any lack of experience, incapacity or dishonesty, to cause a loss to the Church in this interest. Itis made the duty of a sub- Book Committee of three to be chosen from this city and vicinity to make monthly exami- nations of the books and accounts and general business of the’ Concern. A section of the Book Committee, ‘consisting of nine men, in- cluding the sub-committee, are to make half- yearly investigations, and then the full com- mittee of eighteen are to verify the reports of the others’ once a year, when they make their returns to the Annual Conferences. The agents are given equal powers and privileges, and it is made their duty to keep separate accounts, not only with each department of the business of the Concern, but also with each periodical and magazine published under their supervi- sion. If, then, with such a system of checks and counter-checks, frauds and mismanage- ment can occur, it is hard to conceive what hu- man ingenuity can devise to prevent them. LY I ZT | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. John ©. Kondrup, the Danish Vice Consul at Washington, was @ passenger by the steamship Stettin, that sailed yesterday. He is returning ta his native country to spend the next three months among his home friends and scenes, while recover- ing the health he has lost in too earnest pursuit of his official duties. Mr. Harry V. Young, one of our most promising young artists, starts to-day on an extended tour to California and the Western Territories. He wilt return in autumn with materiais for a number of sketches of the wild and beautiful scenery of the Great West. eS NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From Hurd & Houghtou—‘Joseph Mazzini; His Life, Writings and Political Principles.” With an Introduction by Wm. Lloyd Garrison. From L, W, Schmidt—“A Pocket Dictionary of Technical Terms used in Arts and Manufactures and Commerce.” From J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia:— “Eleonore,"' after the German of E. Von Rothenfels, By Frances Elizabeth Bennett. From Harper & Brothers:—‘Albert Lunel,” @ novel. By the late Lord Brougham. om T, B. Peterson & Co, :—"The Queen’s Neck- r the Se cret History of the Court of Louis the Sixteenth.” By Alexander Dumas, From D, Appleton & Co.:—“The Popular Science Monthly,” for June, From Patrick Donahoe, Boston:—Neath Silver Mask; or the Cloudland of Life.” By William O'Brien. From George H. Whitney, Providence, R. L:— “The Vilage Picnic and other Poems.” By Thomas Durfee. Monthlies for June:—Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Lakeside Monthly; Phrenological Joure nal; American Odd Fellow; The Little Corporal, ey UA MUSIC AND THE DRAMA, English. Opera, The summer season of English opera will be ine augurated on Monday, June 8, at Bryant's Opera Honse, by the Seguin company. Balfe’s “Bohe- mian Girl” has been ed for the opening night. This favorite opera will, no doubt, bring a large audience together, although the number of opera-goers in the city nas been sensibly diminishing with the approach of summer. Miss Howson, Mrs. Seguin, Miss Schofield, Mr. Rrookhouse Bowler, Henry Drayton and Mr. Seguin will appear in the first representation, Dramatic Notes. “Article 47" will soon be withdrawn, The Vokes family perform at the Boston Theatre on Monday night, the 8d of June, The Oates burlesque troupe succeed the Vokes at the Union Square Theatre on to-morrow evening. Their first performance will be “Fortunio and His Gifted Servants.” Wallack’s company will close the! two performances at the Music on Monday and Tues¢ and 4th of June. ‘The piece presented will ly ondon Assurance.’? The Theatre Comique opens on Monday night with @ great sensation piece, entitled “Chicago.” It wilt give a picture of life in that city before, during and after the great fire, and promises to be one of the most extraordinary performances of the age. The summer season at Wallack’s will commence on Monday, June 3, 1872, with Boucieault's power- ful play, “The Long Strike.” The selection of this piece at present is rather happy, when the public mind is agitated about the strike questions. It Will no donbt draw for at least some time, James Steele Mackay has released his pupil, Miss Griswold, from her contract with him, and this talented young lady Is now at liberty to accept am engagement from theatrical managers, Looking at the present poverty of the American stage in evem ‘sams dl actresses, we have no doubt that he theatrical managers will make strong efforts to secure Miss Griswold’s services. We do not kpow any metropolitan stage where her presence Would not be @ considerable LARC ason with ooklyn Academy of a -