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6 NEW YORK HERALD AE SL eat AED BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. SL ART JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. al All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rojected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. JOB PRINTING af every description, «so Stereo~ typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- outed at the lowest rates. Volume KAXXVIT,.........ccccceeeeeeeee No. 166 EE AIMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st.— Our Covoaen Bretanen. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Swaur Ancurs~Yan ex Doxuuist. ae MTS PD dninmens THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brosaw&y.-Onioaco Ba rons tae Fine, Donia toa rik¥ AND Arten tow Fine. PENA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 1 Orensa—DoctoR OF ALCANTARA. 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S—James Gordon Bennett: The Funeral Yester- day; Accounts of the Leading Morning and Evening Papers. 4—American Jockey Club: Fifth Day of the Spring eetiug; Brilllant Assemblage and Fine Racing; The Toilets of the Ladies—Racing in England—The Storm of Wednesday—Murder of Leonie Andre: A Wife, Accused of Infidel- ity, Is Shot D Yr Men’s Christian Convention—Presentation to Father Burke—Eastern Dutchess Associa- tion—The National Game—Music at Tompkins Square—The Westchester Bribery Case—Col- lege of the City of New York. Federal Family: General Grant at His Long Rranoh Vilia; His Views Upon the Nacional and Intetnational Topics of the Day; The Case of Dr. Houard; An American Woman on the Protection of American Citizens; The Re- sponsibility of England in th ter; Grant Upon Greeley. France—A Sister's Honor: A Murders an Alleged Paramot fl Killed eh a Locoimotive—A Law—New York Soldiers’ urtesies in Albany—Medico- Intelligence—The Japan- ese Embassy—Our Foreign Musical Visitors— Foreign Personal Gossip. 6—Kditorials: Leading Article, “The Fallures of the Last Legistature—What We Can Still Do for the City Through the Dock Commission- ers’—Amusement Announcements. 7—The Treaty of Tricks: Imminent Danger of Its Failure “To-morrow;. England’s Agent In- structed to Withdraw—Cable Telegrams from Austria, Spain, England and Russia—Addi- tional N from Dr, ed lal) Aus- trian North Poie Expedition—News from Washington—The New Hampshire Senator- ship—Business Notices. S—The Stri reading—Interesting Proceedings York and Brooklyn Courts—The Indicted Lawyer—Riverside Park: Closing i ie of Sun- 1g rk oung Ideas—The Small- p y Gity—The Brooklyn Orphan sylum—Callant Oarsmen to the Rescue— Diamond Cut Diamond—Alleged — Watch ‘Thieves—The Houston Street Tragedy—An- other Express Robbery—Mortality in Brook- y Suicide of a Crippl jal: Steady Business in knes$ on the Stock EXx- : Reduction of the Bank of England Rate of Discount—Poard of Andit—Clear the Sidewalks—Department of Do Victim—The Keformed Church the Head— : Spring Inteliigence—Advertse- @us—Beacon Park: Meeting—siipping NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, 'The Failures of the Last Legisiatare= What We Can Still Do for the City Through the Dock Commissioners. The last session of our State Legislature was certainly not a profitable one for the city of (New York. If our taxpayers escaped being victimized by any extensive schemes of plun- der, our people were denied all such wise and liberal measures of improvement_and develop- ment as were needed to give an impetus to the growth of the metropolis and to increase the comfort and prosperity of its inhabitants. From an early day the subject of rapid transit was urged upon the attention of the members| by the press as well as by the lobby. It was well known to every representative at Albany; that New York was suffering materially in health, morals, means and progress for want) of some quick means of transportation for her business population, through the instrumen- tality of which the upper portion of the island and the southern part of Westchester county might be brought within reach as resi- dences for the industrial classes. The revision, of our municipal charter was acknowledged to} be desirable in view of the confusion into which the government had been thrown! prior to the last November elections, land, indeed, the reform Legislature was regarded as having been elected with special reference to a thorough change of our local laws, Whgther the clamor raised against the present charter wag called for or altogether honest is not now worth considering; but it is certain that its provisions might have been partments in such a manner as to enable them matters that claimed the attention of the and selling of votes that no leistire waa le! people. is not, under the circumstances, to be greatly regretted. The unhappy intermeddling of an association of highly respectable but wholly im- practicable and somewhat officious citizens, who. insisted upon subjecting the city to an experi- ment in government based upon their own theories and crotchets, throw insurmountable obstacles in the way of legislation, and would have rendered the success of a good municipal charter questionable, even if there had been sufficient wisdom and honesty at Albany to frame such a law. It was far preferable to allow the city government to remain in its present condition for another year than to sub- mit the metropolis to the experiments of the Committee of Seventy, or to risk such a charter as a Logislature owned by an unscrupulous lobby might choose to enact. ‘The city finances were known to be in safe keeping, and all the departments were in honest and competent hands under the new nominations of Mayor Hall. Hence it was felt that we could very well afford to live under our exist- ing laws and rulers until at least a new House of Assembly should supplant that of last win- ter. But the question of rapid transit was of| a different character. A crowd of lobby schemes, in all of which the members of the Legislature were more or less interested, jostled cach other and blocked the way of leg- islation, and not one of them contemplated sucha system of rapid transit asthe people required and demanded. There were under- ground plans, with their paid supporters, in each house, one owning the Senate and the other the Assembly ;. there were three tier projects, two tier projects, open cuts, tunnels, lamppost roads, arcade roads and what not, all fighting on their own accounts, find all mere money-making jobs in the hands of selfish speculators. Each had its advocates inside the Capitol, paid with money or secured by Interests in the under- taki: and its lobby outside; but not one was asked for by the citizens, and among the whole gang of projectors there was scarcely one who would be entrusted by the people of| New York with the building or management improved, notably in the direction of enlarg- ing the powers of some of the municipal de- to undertake and carry out the broadest and| most liberal plans for the improvement and development of the city. There were minor Legislature, such as ferry and horse railroad reform, in which some protection of the pub- lic interests against the selfishness and greed of corporations and monopolies was unques- tionably needed. All these important sub- jects were neglected by our representatives at! Albany, and, according to the State’s evidence of some of their number, the time of the mem- bers was 60 entirely taken up by corrupt scheming, political intrigue and the baying to attend to the wants and interests of the So far as the charter failure is concerned, it these new private charters. Under these cir- jcumstances, unless we desire to see the! city stand aitill or retrograde while ho should be growing and prospering, we must use our best efforts to push forward all those improvements that are still within our teach. Foremost among these are to be classed the elaborate and well-considered plans of the’ Dock Commission, which, if energetically car- ried out, will do more to perfect the metropo- lis than has been accomplished in the last half century. The commerce of New York is our great strength. As that increases our wealth and importance inorease, and every descrip- tion of business receives an impulse. The Dook Commissioners propose to make the whole water front available for dockage and to ve facilities for warehousing and locomotion the construction of new streets along the two rivers. The great scheme they have per- fected, when joined with certain needed} freight reforms in the handling of arriving in the oity, will place Now York at the head of all the ports of the wortd in facilities for landing and re- ceiving cargoes as well as in safety. It only needs a-wise liberality on tho part of the finan- cial branch of the city government to enable the Dock Commissioners to proceed rapidly with the splendid work thoy have laid out, ‘and to place it so well in advance towards com- plotion ag te render it secure from interruption hereafter. There has been some delay in tho action of the Board consequent upon a lack of the appropriations to which the law entitles them; but this withholding of funds was only due to the uncertainty that prevailed as to what tho late Legislature might do with the Commission. Tho danger of its abolition is now over, and hence there is no further reason why the Commissioners should be embarrasggd in thelr work for the want of money. Comptroller ‘Green, who has done so much in the past to promote the improvement of the city, will, no doubt, bo willing, by liberal appropriations to the Dock Department now, to make up for tho delays they were subjected to last winter and spring, and hence we expect to see their plans well mences. If our dock improvements are ina Btate Legislature assembles it will serve the cause of rapid transit and render the construc- tion of the city viaduct roads the more desir- able and the more probable. So let us have a liberal financial policy in the city government, land free scope to all honest and intelligent’ plans of local improvement, commencing with the splendid programme of the Dock Com- mission. a The Washington Treaty About To Be Broken by England—Continaation of Mr. Gladstone’s Tortures. England, at last, has decided that the Treaty of Washington, if amended only as the Senate of the United States desires, does not suit her ideas of the future of international law on the subject of responsibility for belligerent expeditions fitted out within the territory of a neutral. Conse- quently, she has decided that if the United’ States adhere to the ‘amended supple-' mental article as their ultimatum she will withdraw from the arbitration, and possibly Bull, in his angry moments, comes down from his perch of solemnity to perpetrate. assured that neither the President nor his Sec- retary of State will ‘bate one jot’’ of the principle contended for in the amended article, and it may, therefore, be assumed, unless England, like Falstaff, finds some “loop or starting hole’ through which to escape, that the Treaty of Washington will pass to-morrow out of current history into the already well-filled waste paper basket of dis- appointed hopes and high contractings. It this, indeed, be the end of all this quibbling, will not disturb America’s equanimity in the will be that it were better so. possible or probable damages left us by the surrender of the indirect claims would not make it an object for which it would be worth sacrificing a particle of right, and to England’s petitio principii that the failure of the treaty lies at our door we have only to say that America, in the endeavor to save the treaty, sacrificed honor warranted. withdraws. or transfer to the hands of politicians carried forward before gnother year com- good state of progression when the next; throw in a little of that billingsgate which John Woe are telegraphing, contradiction and backsliding, it! slightest, and the verdict of history upon it The amount of| much more in the estimation of thousands of citizens than a strict regard for our national We are ready to proceed with our case at Geneva, and the onus of breaking the treaty will be upon the Power that JUNE 14, 1872.—1RIPLE, SHHKT. lump these Alabama claims of all description Were tearing away up that lake at a terrific in a gross sum of money, the American, orfpace, and throwing their backs into every rather the United States, government reserves stroke they took until their frail craft fairly to itself the right of putting in these indirect, Mishivered under them, were these same distin- inferential or consequential damages. guished foreigners, and from the way they With these facts brought before them touch-fjwere doing their work it was manifest ing the proceedings of the Joint High Com- fjthat they had excellent ground for thinking mission, we suspect that Mr. Horsman and (well of themselves. But now look ovor Her Majesty's opposition will not learn much fjfor a moment under the western shore. Three to their advantage in the inquiries proposed. Mjlong, gaunt, ungainly looking fellows are sit- We think, moreover, that in this notice of Mr. iting in a boat behind a bald-headed old man, Horsman he shows a degroe of littleness andfand doing just whatever he does, and he is contemptible Paul Prying behind the record MM doing just the tallest rowing that ever was done which is strongly suggestive of a weak andjjin America. But can ho over hold it? Watch desperate case against the Gladstone govern-fjhim and see. Now they near the turning ment. In any event we are glad to beliove—stake at the centre of the course. Why, actu- that our government, in its concessions to Eng-fMally these slab-sided countrymén are turning land, has gone to the end of its journey, and Mit first; yes, by three good lengths. Ah! but; does not intend to be a party to any further the Englishmon can stay, and these fellows are quibbling, hedging or trifling on the subject. Mesure to go to pieces on the homestretch. Now As the alternative, having the whole case of follow them, and look how they are just flying! damages in our hands, wo can get along veryfaway down along that same homestretch. well without the treaty. Every thew and sinew in every man in either! een ene tool boat strained to its very utmost, and every Rowing Match—England’s (man there fairly agonizing to be in first at the Boast. goal. Now they near the goal, and in Ifhis own biographers are to be believed mewenty-four minutes and forty seconds from John Bull has so frequently and on many a fgthestart these four stringy-looking song of the well-fought field come off a winner that tt py tdson cross the line the champions of the would seem fair to infor, even notwithstanding fg ¥Or!4, having, as Harry Kelly said, “made his proverbial deliberation in getting thi the pace”’ from the start, and beaten him and into his pate, that he should by this time know fg His brother Englistimon fairly and handsomel; how to rightly and becomingly u se victory. and as they “were never beaten before, Wi Yet our readers will recall that shortly aftersmthe Stondard kindly tell us whether at this tho arduous struggle on the Thames, in July, jm ‘Country rogatta’’ the Americans showed that 1869, when four mombo: of 0: ford Yniversity f they had learned ‘“‘the first elemonts of row- managed tp pass the winning post less than ing?” t And may we not ask the Post whether forty feet ahead of the Harvard men, the bow ggthere is indeed, “pothing to learn from the oarsman of the former party felt called upon fgAmericans?’’ And will the Times have the to come out with a card to the effect that Ox-ggg0odness to show us some proofs, not as- ford had had easy work of it, and could-readily sertions merely, that ‘‘the Americans have not have done much better had she cared to. myet learned the true style of rowing?’’ Or if, We had supposed that the at lonst questionable as it says, it really thinks they havo lost it, taste dispiayod in this might belong to but one, might it not be wel], gnough to just give these or, at any rate, toan isolated few, and that aj Ward brothers another try and see? “We certain quality, about which a good deal has (hope the Americans will learn how to row; atone time or another been said, known asjgthen they may put our oarsmen to severer English fair play, did not ordinarily toleratejmtests."’ But it is some time now since striking an enemy after he is down. But thoj™ last September, and the boating season is well columns, not of any obscure sheet, but of theggadvanced here, and yet we do not seem to leading dailies of the British metropolis, not jm hear of any more of these crack English oars- content with the overwhelming defeat the men visiting our inhos table sh or even Atalanta crew Focently” “pufferod, have felt i inviting thege brothers come and try called on to inform the public, in substance, conclusions with them on their own waters, that Americans do not know anything about(mAnd there aré said to be ten of these Ward rowing, and that if they desire to learn thojmbrothers in all, some more of whom would The Lato The loss of life, we ara told, has been terrible. Ata rough calculation it is stated that over ‘seven hundred people perished. Within the last few months several countries have euf- fered from similar causes, The floods im Northern Ttaly have not yet ceased to be @ theme for conversation; the floods in India aro still fresh, no doubt, in the memory of our readers, while here at home, in the Southwest, we have had disasters of @ like character. They all, however, fall short when compared with the innundations in the northwestern sec- tion of Austria, We hope that further inyesti- gation will show that these reports are some- what exaggerated, and that the destruction of life and the injury to property are not near se great as what we are at present led to believe, A Marine Cyclonotogy. A valuable contribution has recently beem made to science, on the prevision and avoid ance of marine cyclones. It is the work of an officer of the United States Navy, a skilful American seaman, which will command the public interest by its clear and concise dealing with a problem which go nearly concerns all classes. When Burr » the Comptroller of Queen Elizabeth's navy, was called upon to advise Her Majesty as to the value of-the oytin- drical chart, thon first propared by the illua- trious geographer, Gérard Mercator—-‘the ‘Pathfinder of the Seas’’—and now in univer- sal use, the thiok-headgd old Englishmast” sneered at it as a thing only fit for the land. lubbers and ‘those who study cosmographie. Mi Tho law of storms also, when first announced a by Redfield, met with a similar treatment with Fignorant and opinionated sailors, But time has vindicated its vast utility, and we are now, mafter the lapse of fifty years, beginning to appreciate it. in The Henatp, ever foremost as the spokes man of soiencd, has often tirged the necessity Bof sea-going vessels and passenger steamshipa paying more attention to this improved method of navigation, by which hundreds ‘of lives and coffers of money might annually be saved, in the practical application of the old adage, so true on the perilous high seas— What can’t be done by pushing and striving > May often be done by a little contriving. _4s-"* The author of the little work reforred to had ladvanéed nothing néw, but by tho use of beautiful and speaking diagrams and a few rules which coyer almost gyery contingency that may overtake storm-endangered ve only true way is to at once sit at the feet of doubtless like to have a hand in ono or two of fhe puts the labors of cyclonists for fifty yoans Britannia and listen to her wonderful wisdom. The London Post says:—‘‘The result of the race shows that we have nothing to learn from the Americans. * * * ‘The result con- vinces us that the English style is the best now fm side as well, she might inform us why, when practised.’” the Atalantas challenged the Londoners over a The Standard tolls us that “a more hollowsg Yt 980 toa six-oared race in this country, affair was never witnessed. The Americans generously offering to defray all expe the were not good enough to win an ordinary latter ‘telegraphed back declining, _ because country regatta. The effect will be to prevent; they had not “six trustworthy mén.” Stout the recurrence of international matches fors_®™4 Long and Gulston were all there then, and some years. The moral to be drawn is that—y™®2Y another good man besides. American oarsmen must learn the first ele- poe ments before coming three thousand miles to fo oe ee eappaptiicmaas tf row.'’ And even: the Times adds:—‘The Senet oe sheneiye simple fact is that the Americans have not yot fj We are glad to notice that the Board of learned, or they have lost, the true style off™ Health is giving signs of life, and that steps rowing. Thoy noglect the cardinal principles mre bout to be taken to abate some of the of effective rowing. * * * We hope that(™™ost offensive nuisances which threaten the the Americans will learn how to row; that health of the population. Owing tothe indiffer- they mafy put our oarsmen to severer tests.’ ence manifested by the authorities last year the Mixed among all this gratuitous advice °°oPe of the citizens from the scourge of con- there is, unquestionably, more that is true gious diseases was due to the interposition of than is --to Americans at least—palatablo; but Providence. No doubt Providence will always it is just possible that it would have beon(™ be our best reliance; but this in no way jus- quite as modest to have left tho discovery of f™tifies the authorities of a crowded city for not these plain facts to American sagacity, quick- taking such precautions to avert the outbreak ened as it has been so keenly by this igno- (of pestilence as common prudence calls for. So minious defeat. far as we can judge, the coming summer! If it would not be disrespectful to our self- months promise to be unusually hot and op- appointed Mentor, we would like to call his pressive. Unless, therefore, vigorous mea- attention to one or two incidents, in reference fg Sures be taken to secure cleanliness we may to which those remarks of his have been made, (ook forward toa terrible crop of fevers and perhaps, pertinent. contagions, Up in the eastern part of this State, not very As we havo before pointed out, the chief far from its capital, lies, nestling among the fg (anger to the health of the city lies in the hills, a beautiful little lake, to the vicinity of fjctowded districts, and it is to these that tho which many people, when worn down and fg*ttention of the authorities should be first jaded by a long year’s work, have fallen into turned. The resolution adopted by the Board’ the habit of going, not only for the inviting for the suppression of offal docks, fat stores rest that may be had there, but because, from gd slaughter houses in the centre of the city certain mineral springs thereabouts, it hasgjis eminently proper, and we hope to see it come to be a famous watering place. Foreign-[gtigorously enforced. These nuisances are ers sometimes go, too, so attractive has chiefly confined to the west side, but there are the place become, and even Englishmen fm ther districts scattered through the city which have been known to have been lured that farj™tequire no less strict attention. In many of into the wilds of this, our benighted land. In-JMthe poorer localities garbage is allowed to deed, if we have read rightly, there is nothing#*ecumulate until it becomes not only a even ney in this, for nearly a hundred years nuisance, but absolutelya danger. The Board ago the books tell us that a very large party of #0f Health would do well to have these filthy English gentry happened up in those parts form Streets thoroughly cleansed and purified. As these ‘‘severer tests,’’ particularly if there is a round sum of money put up worth rowing for. If England would do her pet London Rowing Club a friendly turn, and many people on this ments. of a road. What our citizens wished and U—The Naval Academy—France—Africa—Japan— ini ji How the Nomination of Henry. Wilson. for fg needed was « law suthorizing the city to con- Vico President is Taken—Forelgn Miscel-Sstract two viaduct roads from the Battery to lanecous Items—City Government—Advertise- fj -, i" . F a * - ments. Spuyien Duyvil Creek along the east and west: 12—Adyvertisements, sides of the city. Had such a law been passed the money would have been at once forthcom- ing, the roads would have been built without; delay and would have been operated in the interests of the people. The increasing profits of the traffic, instead of going into the pockets of private stockholders, would have been used to decrease the ‘rate of fare until it had reached its minimum, thus placing the benefits of the roads within the Teach of the 4aboring classes, wha are most in need of them. "There could have been no sound objection to such a policy, and novie Wid urged against it. The reform legis- Into ns simply declared that there was no profit in it to themselves, and hence passed it by to fight and scramble over schemes that paid or| promised to pay. In the erid some of the most impudent of the lobby propositions failed by reason of the conflicting interests at work upon them ; but just before the adjourn- ES ATT Se Presmpent Trrens anp THE New Frencn Army Bu.—The new French Army bill has become law. It would not have become law but for the energy and the eloquence of President Thiers. The minority in the Assembly is, it seems, far from satisfied. One of the minority, a Deputy by the name of Randop, has had the audacity, in alluding to the President, to charge him with ‘possessing all the arrogance of the First Napoleon.” Strong expressions like that Frenchman like; and if they are repeated and echoed to any large extent it will not be well for President Thiers and the republic. A Tur Jesvrrs ax rie German GovernmENT.— A cable despatch from Berlin gives us to understand that a bill is being prepared in the Federal Council providing for the expulsion of all Jesuits from Germany, even if natives. agitated Cabinet, trembling before a vote of| want of confidence, remains in profound ignorance of the tangled state of its treaty affairs. In illustration of this wo find that while the treaty trembles on the edge of dis solution Parliament exercises itself over the old issue of the protocols of the original treaty. In the British House of Commons yesterday Mr. Horsman gave notice that he would soon ask whether the document to be presented to Parliament feiajive fo tho Alabgnia, claims would explain why no record was 1 ot the proceedings of the Joint High Commission; ‘and, also, if said proceedings would embrace any communications wherein the American government asserted that the withdrawal of the indirect glaims yas only a matter of under- standing, and not 6f agreétent. From this itap- pears that the Joint High Commission itself is of a sword he was in the carrying on his person, graciously _ pre- sented it to an American whom he had met up there, and whose winning ways had seemed to him ‘most extraordinary.” But itis to the visit of other Englishmen to this region, and at a comparatively recent date, that we would call attention. Late in the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1870, at extreme Cais out of aii the land’s subjects for their surpassing skill at the oar, defeated easily picked crew of the sturdy fishermen who have brought credit fo the name of the quaint old town of St. John, in ihe province of New Brunswick. Elated with their victory, they go home and spread the news, and the hoxt summer we find In the meantime England, outside of its f]a day's shooting, and that one of their number fit is impossible to rely upon the people them- habit of All things considered, we are disposed to believe this report. ft is well known that Prince Bismarck since the close of the war has regarded the Jesuits as his most bitter enemies. It is his belief that they are opposed to the unification of Germany, on the ground that the unification of Germany will necessarily have the effect of Protestantizing the Catholic States of the South. He has actually, as we know, made discoveries which justify this belief. We cannot blame Prince Bismarck for disliking his enemies and doing his best to put them lowit “we cannot say that we but we approve of the policy which threatens the expulsion of the Jesuits. Expulsion means persecution; and persecution in this case, as itever has done, will defeat its own purpose. Prince Bismarck, if he means to win, will adopt anot wud a wiser course. The cause of German unity iy too grand and too noble, and too much of au accomplished fact to be ruined by the frowns of the Vatican and the paltry intrigues of South German priests ment the Vanderbilt tunnel project and one or two other bills were saved from the general fiin. None of them meet the wants of the The Vanderbilt road will, no doubt, be built; but ps it only runs along the route of Fourth avenue to Fifty-ninth Street, as the fare authorized to be col- lected for that distance places the little convenience it would afford beyond the reach of the laboring classes, and gs there is no sufficient provision in the law to require that the road shall be run as anything else than a feeder and a freight-line to the Commodore's through roads, it will not, when in operation, afford any relief to the people. The faithlessness and corruption of the Leg- islature have, therefore, left New York with. ont hope of progress or improvement in this important direction for another year at least, and it is certain that next session the passage of desirable laws in the interesta of the people will be further embarrassed by the adverse offorts of (hose who have managed seoure to be brought before the Commons for trial on the charge or upon insinuations amounting to a charge of gross negligence or incompetency touching the daily record of the proceedings of said Joint High Commission while nego- tiating the Treaty of Washington. It will be seen, however, by reference to the files of the New York Hunan, that there was published in this journal, a few days after the ratification by the United States Senate of the Treaty of Washington, the official record of the proceedings of said Joint High Commis. sion from day to day, from the first meeting of that body to the end of its labors; that this official record, known as the proto- cols, details the progress, step by step, of the high contraciing parties in the groat work upon which they were engaged; that this record is signed by J. C. Bancroft Davis and Lord Tenterden as tho official Secretaries of said Joint High Commission; and that this record, 80 signed, embraces the official state- ment substantially that the British Commis- siongrs, baying docliygd the proposition to thom heading again’ for our shores, aid, to make the victory for England doubly compiste and sure, bringing with them four other mas- ters of their art. These eight men—tho very flower and pride of English rowers—made 4 tour of the British provinces, sweeping every- thing before them, and forcing even some who had won a good name in this country to join in the general admission that they were simply invincible. Out of compliment to the coming of so many distinguished oarsmen a very libe- Tal purse was put up for whomsoever might win itin a four mile spin over this beautiful lake, no matter whence they came; and, just to shaw us poor Yankees how to row, these foreigners actually «leigned to come lists, so plume to display on their then near return to their native land. Everything had been well past ten on the morning of the 11th of last September five crews of stalwart mon backed up to the score-and in a momont more and enter the that they might have one more arranged, and at nineteen minutes were off. Prominent among tho twenty who named Burgoyne, having no further need selves to exercise the precautions necessary to the general health the olicg ought to be instructed to prevent the dices of ashes or other refuse matter into the streets under’ any pretence. In cases where the officer does not actually see the offensive matter deposited he might be enabled to summon the owner of the property before whose premises: the rubbish was placed to account for its pres- ence, and by the wholesome restraint which Lachine, in Canada, four men, chosen with this supervision would impose on ths juhayi- ag ions of Eng- | tants of the crowded districts a state of proper cleanliness could be Ryointained. Pre a No precaution should be omiitt=4 to preserve ineffective sanitary measures. The removal of the soap factories, slaughter houses, &c., from the city is a wise precaution, and if the Board will only exhibit the same thoroughness on all other points we may hope for an unusually healthy season. With its splendid situation New York ought to be absolutely free from the danger of contagious diseases, and if we make proper is8 of the facilities that nature thas conferred upon us our city can bé inade as wholesome as a sumtner garden. We hope, therefore, that the Board pf Health will con- tinue in the way it has entered upon, and that ‘we may soon be able to speak in testimony of its thorough effectiveness. TD The Floods in Bohemia. We have by telegraph to-day additional de- tails of tho floods in Bohemia, of which brief mention was made at the close of Inst month. It now appears that these floods were far more disastrous than was at first reported. The rivers Elbe, Beraun and Moldau became swol- lon by the recent heavy rains, overflowed thoir banks and swept over vast tracts of country. Fertile distriots were dovasiated, crops de. jatroyed. and houses wore rendered dosolate, - i the population from the scourge of contagion Livtwastons'd Coxpriion Bang —By which in nine cases out of ten results from SPecial despatch from Lotidon to the within the intelligible grasp of the most an- scientific seaman. Some years ago the eminent physicist, Mr. Piddington, of Calcutta, deeply versed in the practical part of this subject, condensed his world-renowned researches into a pithy, if not very poetic verse, which, if it had been printed on the margin of all our hydrographic charts, would by this timo have ‘been the means of warning handreds of vessels and rescuing them from the iron meshes of the hurricane and typhoon. It is well known that the centre of the gale is the point of greatest danger. ‘This region is comparable to a deep basin or to the open-mouthed crater of a volcano, ever ready to engulf a ship. To enable the mariner to find this he was simply directed as follows :— © Your back to the wind will the centre define, If you only consider the place of THE LINB; For north of it Lerr—or south the Ri@ut hand Stick out like a sign post—and quietly stand, And each ee to the centre whose place you de mand. The London Board of Trade, seeing the vast importance of informing the merchant marine more fully as to the law of storms, have re- cently issued a circular of the same nature aa Captain Braine’s, which generally corroborates his deductions. The Board of Trade lay down the rule that when a captain discovers the di- rection of a cyclone he should imagine it bisected by its own track, and supposing him- self to be on the track and in rear of the storm, looking to the direction in which-it is moving, he should put his ship on the starboard tack ifthe wind shows he is in the right-hand semi- circle, and on the port tack if he is in the left- hand half of the gale; and this rule holds good for both hemispheres, with the usual caveat that the parts of a gale which form the right and left halves change as the gale changes its course. . Important as are these directions the science of ocean cyclonology will never be thorough until seamen are better instructed as to the tracks of these fiery meteors. Thero is still much dispute and ignorance even among meteorologists as to the cause of storms; but it seems highly probable that their direction isa resultant of the upper and surface currents of air, the former of which still remain in that vast terra incognila of meteorology with which the condor of the Andes is better acquainted than man. There is no study more invitis and more likely to be remunerative than the mysterious mechanism of the surface of the atmospheric ocean beneath which we live and move andhave our being. We under- stand that Signal Office meteorologists at Washington are only awaiting the action of Congress in furnishing the necessary means to push their bold investigations among the clouds by means of the balloon. It is to be earpestly hoped that such researches will be paused forward and sustained simultaneously pisut over many paris Of the ee agli we learn that additional telegratws from Bom- bay state that Doctor Livingstone was not only alive but in excellent health whon Mr. Stan- ley, our Search Expedition Commander, parted company from him. Livingstone’s son, dating from Zanzibar, in tho month of April last, states that he had then heard re ports to the effect that his father had been dis- covered by Stanley. ‘ Es oD PUNERAL OF MR, WHITBEOK, The funeral of William A. Whitbeck took place yesterday morning, from his late residence, to Fitts avenue, corner of Kighty-sixth street. Before the remains were removed the solemn sowgices of the Episcopal Church were performed by fhe Rey. Dr.: Carroll and the Rey, Mr. Helor, the former of St. Paui’s Episcopal church and the latter of the Epis- copai church at Sing Sing, A large number of the friends of the de el were present, many of them being those long associated with him in his public career. The remains were interred in Woodlawn Cemotery. TSS ANOTHER RIVER MYSTERY. Samuel Hartman, of 124 Monroe street, last night discovered the body of an unknown man fonting ta} the water at pier 45 Rast river. The body waa re~, covered and removed to the Sevonth precinct sta- tion Louse, and the Coroner notified to hold au ta quest to-day, Deceased was about twenty-five Yours of age, ight mustache, dark hair, cul shorts, Hingn coal, black pants. White sliel aad LOG, eS - Et