The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1872, Page 6

oo ote NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Youx Hegarp. Letters and packages should be properly AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WALLAOR’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirtee! street-—Rouix Hoop. airtel een TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Jean Rewy—Quiet Famity. ji —Yacur—Tar Kiva ann BOWERY THEATBE, Bowery. DpsuerEe. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Canis anp Lena. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tux Wircnes oF New York—Tnareze PERFORMANCES. UNION by Roel THEATRE, lth st. and Broadway.— Tus Voxes Famuty—Tue Beuves or rae Kitourn, &c, PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn. — Stxuxts or New Youx. STEINWAY HALL, Conexers. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gaupen = tyernuwmnra. | Conoxen, TERRACE GARDEN, 58th ton ava—Suuuxk Evuntne Conct rteenth street.—Ronensrers: between Sd and Lexing- 78. pBROOKLYN RINK—Gnanp Concent ny rmx Paustian AND, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Broad way.— Seranow any ART. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No, 745 Broadway.—Anv ax Sormnex, : TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD, SUN The Charter Hilection and Its Objects— The Right Men to Rule the Metrop- olis, The reports made to Mayor Hall by the heads of the various city departments three or four days ago, and by him submitted to the Common Council accompanied by a concise summary of the municipal business of the last fiscal year, have served to awaken new interest in our local election, which takes place at the general election on the 5th of next November. One reason for this is, that while the city govern- ment appears now to be satisfactorily admin- istered, and while we aro recovering rapidly from the evil effects of misrule although our debt and rate of taxation are still kept up to a high figure through the legacies it has left us, there is still an evident need of reform in one important direction. If some honest old Rip Van Winkle had fallem asleep a quarter of a century ago, in the days when public men had a great deal of integrity and very little en- terprise, and suddenly awakened while the municipal rings composed of the now de- parted Tweeds, Connollys, Garveys, Ingersolls and Watsons were in the full tide of their power, he would, no doubt, have been amazed to bewilderment by the corruptions of these remarkable conspirators, and the suffering people would have been glad to avail them- selves of his simple, old-fashioned honesty, to protect them against the modern plunderers. But they would _ scarcely have been willing that, in addition to guard- ing their pockets from dishonest fingers, he should set to work to banish all the railroads and steamboats from the city in order to save the expense of coal; to plough up the Central Park for the sake of stopping the expenditure for its maintenance; to fill up the slips on both rivers to avoid the cost of keeping the New York, Sunday, Jaly 21, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. | PGR. 1—Advertisements. N—Advertisements, d—Catacazy Chafing: Interviewing the Recalled Russian Minister; How He Talked Before Fiinging His Fish Hook—The Chappaqua Jubi- lee: Another Gala Day the Philosopher's Premises—Movements of Gratz Brown Yester- day—At the Greeley Headquarters—At the (rant Headquarters—Flashes .of the Cam- paign—State and City Politics—News from | Washington. A—Religious Intelligence: Ninth Sune Pentecost; Religious Programme to HeeALD Religious Correspondence; he Banished Capuchins in California; Death of an Exiled Friar; Persecution of the Jesuits; Spiritualism and the Bible; Marrying a Brother's Widow; Is Man Only an Animal y Ministerial Changes and Movements, S—Yachting : Centreboards vs. Keels; Opinions of Messrs. Van Deusen and Fish, the Well- Known Modellers; Judge Barnard’s Trial : How the Senate and the Court of Appeals Agree Together; Yesterday's Proceedings— Rapid Transit ; The Vanderbilt Underground Railroad and What It Will Be—The Central Park—the Mysterious Box. 6—Editorials : Hey, 4 Article, Klection and Its Objects—The Right Man to Rule the Metropolis’—Amusement Announce- ments, 7—Kuditorial (Continued from Sixth Page)— Cholera: March of the Epidemic in Bussta— Spain: The Regicide Assassinvation Assanit ab Effort of Organized Treason—The Alabama Claims—Cahle Telegrams from England and France--The Swamp Angels: Tom Lowery Killed by a Brother of Their Last Vietim— Pittsford Disaster—The Weather—Miscetia- neous Telegrams—Personal — Intelligence— Literary Chit-Chat—Buainess Notices. 8—Public Safety Afloat: Our tem of Inspection of Steamboats and Bb ‘#—The Brooklyn Roadside : Jottings on the Coney Isiand Road— Peru and Botivia: An Interesting Military Pageant—Colonel French's Fur ryboat Greenpoint—New York Sing Sing Slopers—An lmportant A Burglar Captured—A Dog Figh sults—Newark’s River Mystery— Sunk at Hell Gate—McCoomb’s Dam Bridge— ‘Tampering with Railroad Switches—Killed on the Ruilroad—Foreign Mi “The Charter Firmer Movement in Gold ‘oreign E) Firmer and the Specie Shipment Larger; ' Week's Export of Specie Over Two und @ Half he Week's Imports of Foreign Goods Seven and a Quarter Millions; Foreign — Trade of New York for the Past Fiscal Year; | A Good Bank Statement: Money Easy; Gov. | ernmenta Steady; Stocks Strong; Repudia- | tion of Erie Preferred Scrip—New York and | Brookiyh Courts—Court of Special Sessions— | Education in New Jersey—Brooklyn Affairs— | ‘The Fat Boiling Nulsances—Marriages and Doaths—Advertisements. 10—Cleveland Races: Last Day of the Meeting— ‘Yhe Turf in Livingstone: and the Drama—Naval Intelligence—Drowned Bathing—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- ents, vertisements, Ton Weer mw Want Srreer closed quiet, with money lending at selling at 1144. tion going on, and the markets will probably remain dull until the return of the from the watering places. } per cent and gold Tur AravamMa Craims AkniTrarioy. members of the Geneva Court of Arbitration maintain their rule of secre world with the most inflexibl r. The counsel, even—supposed to be professionally loquacious—have become suddenly silent. Thus the progress of a work destined originally for the effacement. of the recollection of the doings of the Anglo-American rebel privateers bids fair to pass to faturity as a sort of historical puzzle question. Taw Swamp Anoets Ane Brine Our by extirpation. Tom Lowery, one of the three left atter the killing of Boss Strong and the death of Henry Berry Lowery, was shot dead by Robert Wishart near Moss Neck on Friday night. As this act, in addition to stopping the career of a vile murderer, avenged a brother's assassination at the hands of the Lowery gang, it will be lo: favorable eye by the Two of these dreaded remain in the swampy fastnesses of Robeson county, North y towards the outer ‘ked on with no un- community outlaws vet , Carolina, and it would seem that their killing off must be left to private revenue, since the local authorities are powerless to cope with them. This is an ugly condition of affairs, Tae Grave Dicerns on tHy Sree. - in the Woolwich Cemetery, iv the Eastern Dis- trict of London, the grave diggers are ont on strike. Why not? The mason has had his strike, the carpenter has had his strike. The ngiand—The HekaLp and Dr. | —Swedenborg and Livingstone— | s , A ‘ ‘The HkRALD and the Head Waters of the Mis- | electricity will steadily swell the tide of emi- ; sissippi—Capture of an Alleged Forger—Music | ts ! There is very little specula- | throng | The | PHiNnep | | docks in repair, and to turn all the policemen adrift for the purpose of economizing the }amount of their pay. When it appears ; that reform is confounded with retrogression, and that economy is interpreted to mean the repudiation of all wise ald profitable improve- ment, it is time that the people should look about them for rulers who are practical, en- | terprising, unprejudiced and progressive, as well as strictly honest, prudent and trust- worthy. New York is yet a young city. Within the memory of many of her present citizens Bleecker street was ‘up town,”” and A. T. Stewart would no sooner have thought of build- inga retail dry goods store on Tenth street for New York custom than he would now think of building one on the other side of Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Only thirty years ago the popu- lation of the city was three hundred and twelve thousand, while to-day, including those citizens who do business in New York but aro driven to find residences in Brooklyn, West- chester or New Jersey through -the lack of | railroad facilities on the island, it is about one | million and o half. This tremendous increase has come to us, we may say, almost without an effort of onr own; for New York is notori- ously behind European cities in those great works of improvement that attract a large population, while her peculiar conformation renders many of them especially a necessity. Our growth in the tuture will be yet more astonishing than it has been in the past, pro- | vided we display that intelligence, liberality and public spirit now absolutely needed to | foster onr progress. The construction of rail- | roads all over the American Continent, from the magnificent of the Pacific to our harbor, will soon make York the of the world; but must provide with docks, wharves and warehouses, andwith facilities tor handling, moving and shipping | freight. The disturbances of political institu- | tions in the Old World and_ the enlightenment spread abroad by the agencies of steam and shores own New centre we commerce gration to the United States. The increasing | wealth of a new and extensive country, en- | rds of Aldermen and | riched by every additional human being placed 4 on its soil, will attract investments from the Old World more and more year after year, and with . investments will come addi- | tional thonsands to the metropolis of the | But we shall have to find homes for | Union. | our people and to provide them with means of reaching those homes. | shall be compelled to build railroads into West- chester county, where space, health and beauty are at oar command, so as to bring the resi- dences of two or three million souls within half an how's ride of the Battery. As our population | und our wealth increase, and as our buildings spring up as far beyond onr present limits as within forty years they have sprung up be- | | yond the limits of 1835, we shall require a constantly increasing protection to life and | property. ‘To this end we need at once a ' material addition to our present inadequate | police force, for nothing so serionsly impedes the progress of a city as the knowledge that it | has an fnsnfiicient police. As we gain in | population, our army of scholars in the public schools will grow in proportion. We must supply these children with schoolhouses in | good repair, properly warmed, and not afford them an excuse to grow up in ignorance by denying them proper accommodation and comfort in the schools. ‘The intelligent citizens of New York under- stand these subjects thoroughly, and they know that every investment wisely and honesily made in the improvement of the city, every expenditure faithfnlly devoted to the cause of education or of police, adds to their own com- fort, safety and wealth. They do not desire to discover from s batch of department reports that the police estimates have been ent down so as to necessitate the decrease of a force y protect life and that the magnificent and valuable system of dock improvement has heen already too xmall to prope: property in the city grave digger is quite as important annit in cramped and defeated by the unwise society as either the mason or the carpenter, | und jealous dribbling out of a» third and withal be builds more endurin Why of the amount ordered by law to be appro= should he not have equal priviley The } priated thereto; that # pitinble parsimony bas only thing which we can compare with this is the “funeral strike’ in Philadelphia. It ap- pears that the clergymen and the undertakers in that city have entered into what is called a “Funeral Trades Union."’ One of the reso. lutions adopted at a meeting of the Union is to the effect that at funerals for and placed at the dispos Another resolution is to the effect that funerals be discontinued on Sunday. With clergymen and undertakers and grave diggers on the strike what may we expect next? Striking has at last reached @ ridiculous point, “a carriage be sent of the minister left the xchoolhouses and mn. warmed, ko as “to deprive children of instruc. dilapidated tion, under the penalty of a fit of sickness or a doctor's bill; that the efficient and admirable Fire Department is compelled to leave cortain districts without necessary companies canst f the present unwillingness to increase the public expenditure;’’ that any portion of the well-conceived plans for the perfection of the Central Park and boulevards, or tor the beautifying and care of — the other city parks should be abandoned on the commercial | In order to do that we | ‘ y ment, in which every citizen is interested, is “orlppled for want of money." It is satisfac- tory to every taxpayer and to every honest man to ascertain that a firm resistance is made to the payment of a single dollar to the noto- tious plunderers who pretend to hold claims against the city contracted under the old fraudulent rule; to learn that a wise economy is exercised in present expenditures; to find that the enormous extravagance of the former Department of Public Works is now at an end, and that, under the present Commissioner the work of that monster department is done not only more efficiently than ever, but at a wonderful sav- ing of money to the people. But there is not an intelligent man in the city, rich or poor, who does not condemn a policy that retards our progress, cripples our commerce, and in- jures every business man, every retail dealer, every mechanic and every laborer in the metropolis. It is an assault upon the best interests of the city when the money appropriated by law to such a neces- sary and advantageous work as the dock improvement is withheld from the Commissioners, or paid to them grudg- ingly and enviously in such insufficient sums as to designedly cripple and embarrass all their magnificent plans. The people of New York will take these thoughts with them to the polls in November, and they wil! guide them in their choice of municipal officers. By the election of such a | Mayor as John G, Kane, one of the Dock Commissioners, the people will give an im- petus to the great work of improvement of which he is the champion. The fact that Mr. Kane is pressed for the office by the wealth and intelligence of the city is a proot that our best citizens demand lib- erality and enterprise, as well as honesty and integrity, in our city government. In like manner the popularity of Senator James O'Brien among the laboring classes, the citi- zens of Irish and German birth, and the busi- ness classes generally, shows that the masses of the people are alive to the necessity of a broad, liberal policy in the improvement of the city; for Senator O'Brien is kwown to be the determined enemy of a false and niggardly economy, while the most prominent cham- pion of an honest administration of our city affairs, Other names that have been favorably mentioned in connection with the Mayoralty, such as that of Colonel Steb- bins, prove that no person but a friend of progress is to be thonght of for that position. This determination to secure a spirited and enterprising head of the municipal government shows that the people of New York will de- mand next year, in any charter changes that may be made, a fall recognition of the policy of liberal expenditure for wise objects, There need be no apprehension, therefore, that the importance of our local affuirs will be forgot- ten in the turmoil of the Presidential struggle. Indeed, it is evident that all the offices to be filled will be well looked after. The Judges of the Supreme Court, the City Judgeship, the Congressmen and the legislative candidates will all be thoroughly scrutinized and care- fully chosen. The high office of Governor will, no doubt, be given to Judge Sanford E. Church or to some equally good man, Gover- nor Hoffman declining the democratic nomi- nation. We say/‘‘Governor Hoffman declin- ing’ because he belongs to the democratic and liberal republican united party, which goes into the canvass on the fixed prin- | ciple of ‘‘one term” and no. ‘renomination ;"’ | and ashe has already held the office of Gov- ernor for two consecutive terms he could not, of course, damage his party by accepting it again any more than they could stultify them- selves by offering him the nomination. It is, therefore, likely that we shall have good cas- didates all round, and if we get them from | both political parties it will be the more grati- fying, as then, whichever side may win, the people will not be the losers. Catacazy on a Fish Diet. | It is cnrious to note how a man on the verge | | of trying «a perilous experiment will often whistle a lively tune to let people see how | | unconcerned he is. Catacazy, the recalled, | sitting in his study at Paris and cutting smart jokes with the Hxrann correspondent, a week | | before publishing his pamphlet on the Fish quarrel, is an instance of this. With his | | pension roubles tremblin§ in the balance and nothing but a trinmph of spleen at best in } the distance, the little man was merry las a cricket, while the obloquy — that | }inight follow his exposé of himself as | well as Mr. Fish loomed before him, | | A sanguine, peppery temperament, such as might come from his Greek blood, possibly veiled the unpleasant probabilities of publica- | | tion from Catacazy, and his jokes and whinnsi- | | calities will gain an- additional flavor from | their being a good deal out of place. He | has been swallowed, he says, by a sea monster, like Jonah, but has remained in the Fish's inner regions for three months instead of three days. He was abont to come forth | aud tell the world what | ichthyology in a way that would make | | a certain old poisson tremble for the ' state of his moral constitution. His ninety | days’ sojourn in the fishy vitals had, he | | the irregular workings of the monster's system, and he would undertake to turn him ipside ont for the edification | of an astonished world. This was a pretty large programme for so smalla man; but his ambitions intentions did not end there. After the anatomical demonstration aforesaid had = which a living woman can give you, recount. | been satisfactorily made, he tended to eat /the huge Fish, and, what , is more, eat him the half-shell. Milo, the ox-enter, was a wonder in but this Greek’s fame would go down to posterity unapproachable if he only sneveeded in n one monthfal the fishy prison house which actually in- | cold on his time, sarrying out his contract of devouring has contained him for the last three months. Manchausen himself would scarcely have attempted it, and copions — tears peli hove vd in the end. A wise Providence often Fish of sympathy ninst fall for the 1 valor did not sn that #0 Perhaps ‘tis as well, ordains blessings to come in diggnise. nat well Cata- | cozy's stomach Catacazy did Fish’s. ‘Yo tail is often the lot of heroes, and if public opinion has declared the shafts of his wit and of the mark in most cases, and only to make the pachydermatons Fish squirm a little at the tail, Catacazy may | might not hy 80 on bitterness to f | written this eloquen, letter. DAY, JULY 21, 1872.—TrKIPLE SHEET, devour the game, as ho might if he killed it He might in the latter case swell with pride, but he would surely die of dyspepsia. The Assassins of Spain, and the Dan- gers te. Her Italian King—What Next im the Story of Spanish Die cords? Hos Spain, that proud and haughty nation which, in the day of her imperial power and glory boldly undertook with her ‘In- vincible Armada” the invasion and subjuga- tion of England—has this once powerful and dictatorial Spain fallen so low as to be inca- pable of self-government? Is her decline from strength to impotency, from chivalry to revolutionary discords and brigandage, due to that general degradation of the Spanish race which is marked in the anarchy of Mexico, the intestine wars of the Central and South American republics and in the island of Cuba, or is it due to the chapter of accidents which shapes so often the destinies of men and nations? Whatever may be the causes, the fact appears to be established that Spain has reached that downward point on the road to anarchy and dissolution from which, in » fur- ther descent, she can be rescued only through a bloody war of her fighting factions or by a foreign protectorate. The attempted assassination on Thursday night last of the King and Queen of Spain, at Madrid, as they were returning in their car- riuge from the palace garden to the palace, was, fortunately for the intended victims, and fortunately, no doubt, for Spain, a complete failure. The intended victims escaped unhurt, and of their would-be murderers on the ground one was imme- diately killed and four others ‘ere captured and carried off to prison. ‘This was at mid- night, and yet before daybreak all Madrid, apprised of the affair, was in active commo- tion, and the people en masse, to an extraor- dinary degree, were manifesting their loyalty and their patriotic indignation against the miserable wretches who had aimed to take away the precious lives of their much-loved King and Queen. Yesterday these enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty were extended to a great spontaneous ovation to King and Queen, hardly surpassed by the enthusiasm of the Parisians over Napoleon on his departure for the war with Germany. The King and Queen are precious in the eyes of the loyal people of Madrid. But suppose these precious lives had been sacrificed, what shape would have been assumed by this cheering loyalty of the Spanish capital? A revolutionary uprising tost likely, a raging, blood-thirsty mob, drifting through the streets, with shouts of the “Prince of Asturias!’ or “Don Carlos !"’ or “The Republic, social and universal !”’ It appears from the testimony of two of the prisoners concerned in it that this attempt upon the life of Amadeus was not limited to the conspirators on the spot. We cannot doubt that they were only the hired instru- ments of a greater conspiracy in the back- ground, and we suspect; too, that this is the same conspiracy by which, after the landing of King Amadeus in Spain, the life of General Prim, who introduced this King, was com- passed and sacrificed, and that in both cases the object was the same—the removal of King Amadeus. With the assassination of Prim the conspirators doubtless imagined that their young King would be frightened back to Italy, that the army would be demoralized, and that by a few bold and daring blows in the midst of the general confusion a complete revolution might be achieved ; while in the assassination of Amadeus the party preparing the event and prepared to act upon it, not without reason calculated upon seizing and holding the gov- ernment. The trial of the conspirators, ar- rested in the very act of this attempted assas- sination, can hardly fail to disclose the parties and purposes of a great conspiracy ; for it is already confessed that in this case the plot is | not like the attempt upon Louis Napoleon by Orsini and his associates--the plot of a few reckless, revolutionary fanatics--but that here is an extensive league of assassins. Onur attention has been called upon this snb- ject to that remarkable letter published in Mexico in February, 1871, and in the New York Henaup of March 7 following, written as | a solemn warning from the Empress Carlota to Maria Victoria, the wife of Amadeus, against consenting to her husband's acceptance of the | crown of Spain. The style of the letter was thought at the time to fix its authorship upon | | the eloquent Castelar, and certainly, as a lite- | rary production it might well be claimed as the work of this fiery republican orator. letter gives a graphic picture of the high and fascinating hopes und the ter lota in their imperial adventure to Mexico, and the writer had evidently in advance carefully stndied sll the personal incidents required to give the narrative the appearance of a veritable | confession and warning from the unhappy | Empress. In her warning she is made to speak | | of the dethroned Sophia, Queen of Naples; Carlota, Empress of Mexico; Isabella the Sec- he knew of | ond, Queen of Spain, and Eugénie, Empress | of France, and thus she closes it: —‘‘Oh! child of my heart, do not leave Turin; do not leave Florence; do not leave Rome. See that they do not deceive you as they did me; see that claimed, let him into all the secrets of | they do not sell you as they sold me; see that , you do not have to suffer what 1 suffer; see | that a time does not come when your hope will Conceive “ho other fortune than the horrible fortune of dying a maniac, Maria, take care of yorr husband, your child and yourself. 1 have given the greatest proof of my friendship ing to you histories, griefs and mysteries which no one knows except your unfortunate and loyal friend, Carlota, Empress of Mexico.’ Bat why should this Empress of Mexico call this Queen of Spain her danghter? Because, as “poor Carlota’’ is made :to say: —'My danghter—you will permit me to call you daughter—becanse | am a widow, and because ives me the right to nse the sacred my grief nawe of mother with you." another justification would hardly have forgotten had she really She ix a Belgian, and the mother of this Qneen of Spain was a Belgian. But enongh of this. The interest which now attaches to this remarkable letter lies in the fact that in the lurid light of the as- sassination of General Prim and the attempted assassination of Amadeus it appears as if written from a prophet's inspiration, and it Jeads us almost to the conviction that the fuifilment, though baffled for the time, is sure to come, which “poor Carlota’ The | le and erush- | ing disappointments of Maximilian and Car- | And there is | ws wi prophet shall be respected in the timely depar- ture of the Italian King of Spain from his tur- bulent adopted country, never to return. He is a handsome, generous, brave young fellow, and his wife is a beautiful, amiable, accom- plished and charming woman; but what will all this avail them against an extensive Span- not because they are Italians, but because they are King and Queen of Spain, and becanse Amadeus is the son of King Victor Emmanuel. Were not Maximilian and Carlota equally de- serving of the affectionate loyalty of the Mexi- cans, and are not those people of the race of Spain? But let us be just to the Spanish people. King Amadeus did not thrust himself upon them. They invited him, they sent for him, they brought him from Italy to rule over them as their sovereign, and, confiding in their good faith, he accepted their crown. As their pro- tector he placed himself and family under their protection, and so far they, the masses of the Spanish people, have proved their loyalty as he has proved his fidelity to the compact. The manifestations of the loyalty of Madrid are all that he could desire ; but the occasion suggests the propriety and expediency of a plébiscite, of a teat by the popular vote of Spain, whether this King is, or is not, acceptable to the Spanish people. Let him try it, and if they respond decisively in his favor he may feel secure ; otherwise, the crown and the throne of Spain are baubles which he may wisely cast aside. If, after the fair trial which he has given them of his purpose to be one of them, and to reign over them for their good— if, after this, the Spanish nation will not accept him as a Spaniard, in a plébiscite, let him re- turn home and leave their revolutionary fac- tions to fight it out among themselves. In this extremity tney may at last, with or without the consent of Napoleon, be driven to call in a Hohenzollern, and if so, we dare say he will be apt to teach them how to walk in the ways of of peace. The Asiatic Cholera on its Travels Again. Our European despatches contain a solemn warning. Epidemic cholera is spreading westward from the eastern portions of the Russian empire. Moscow, the ancient capital, is now subject to the scourge, and the mor- tality among those attacked is truly frightful. Panic reigns in the city. Its people fly from the pestilence terror-stricken. Occasional cases are reported also in St. Petersburg, and the disease is certainly moving hitherward. At any moment it may appear in our midst. We should be thoroughly prepared to meet it. Though the doctors differ as to the exact manner of its production all agree that it is invited by any irregularity of habits or diet, indulgence in stimulants, unusual exposure, excessive fatigue, loss of sleep, mental anxiety, and especially by miasmatic influences, the effect of poisonous effluvia trom filthy streets, festering gutters or other reser- voirs of putrescense. If we would escape the ravages of this pestilence that walketh at noon- day we must first of all have a scrupulously clean city. Now is thé opportunity for the Police Board—in discharge of its new duty of keeping the city clean and healthy —to win the approval of all and the approbation of their own consciences. New York is not grudging in the matter of paying for the labor necessary for thoroughly purifying every receptacle of filth, The Board have ample power. They | can prescribe regulations for citizens, and en- force their orders, and they are authorized | to make all needed expenditures. We have | now no Brown to curse for nasty pavements or reeking gutters ; but if the Police Board do | not give us the most scrupulous neatness they | will be guilty of offering a welcome to the | dreaded epidemic. Fach citizen has ulso his duty in this time of threatened scourge. Every one owes it to | himself and to the community to maintain | personal cleanliness, and to see to it that his | abode and all that surrounds it shall be free | | from anght which could tend to breed disease. | He should also observe the strictest hygienic | | rules in his daily life. Health is best assured | | by systematic habits. We should continue | | regular in our work, in our food, and our | | drinks and our rest. | mote health. The muscles should have their | accustomed occupation, The mind should be | regularly employed as well ax, the body. Espe- cially we should not give way to fear or gloomy unticipations of disease and death. Hope and cheerfulness almost insure health, while dejec- tion and despondency invite disease and open | the door for death. There is no occasion in | view of threatened cholera to diminish the quan- | tity or variety of our food. The system requires that its waste should be constantly re- paired, and in summer nature provides fruits , and nourishing vegetables. She means we | should use them, but, of course, with regular- ity and moderation; and every man of com- | mon sense can know what does and what does | not agree with him. As a general rule ripe | | fruit, is pertectly bermless and peculiarly : proper food for this season. Generally it is | best to eat it in the morning or early part of the day. A light meul at night best promotes restful sleep. By no means should we weaken ourselves by insufficient food. Let us be | clean, sober, regular, cheerful, and we may reasonably hopé that this dreaded disease | which has in former yeurs so fearfully scourged us may be avoided. Particularly we call upon the Health Board and the police to take strict care that the city be placed in such a sanitary condition that epidemic cholera be Tdleness does not pro- | not invited. THe Noxconrosmists o¥ ENGLAND AND THE Mr. Miall, who has the world as the EsTaBiisaep CHurcn. long been known editor of the Nonconformist newspaper, and asx the leader in the House of Com- mons of the Anti-State Church party, bas ‘ adopted a change of tactics in regard to the Established Church. Hitherto Mr. Miall has introduced his annual motion for complete dis- establishment. The annnal motion proved an annual failure; and it had become latterly » common snbject of ridicule. Mr. Miall, how- ever, is x good fighter, Keeping at hig pur- pose, but slightly changing his tactics, Mr. Miall moved this year for a committee of in- quiry into the revenues and affairs generally of the Established Church of England. It is a skilfal move; and althongh the committee of ingniry has not been granted, Mr. Miall has but to persevere in order finally to win, Inv | so-called free State there onght to be no objec- to (seme consideration; that the Health Depart. | thank his stare that he was not obliged to | unfess the warning voico of this mrysterions | tion to a committee of inquiry, nn woo them into cheerfulness. Let, then, the true racing take place in September or October, when fine days are not by f means rare, aud the chances are always favor of a brisk breeze to fill every inch canvas the yachtaman will dare to carry. little rolling will not destroy the fort of enthusiastic onlookers, ladies gentlemen, and if a stiff nor'easter sh come piping down upon the racing and the light sails disa; breath, what better test of desired? Then will Triton’s joy as the foam-track behind the success of his endeavors to command stout-ribbed, lightning-flyer of the seas—the graceful embodiment of a sailor’s mad— dest dream. For the time-honored June regatta he will, then, have no misgiv- ings. For that occasion the fine schooners of the New York Club might form in, i might be accommodated from ten to thirty! guests, and the ladies, who would form, off course, the greater and more interesting part of the human cargo, would witness the details: of yacht sailing in perfect ease and comfort Not a few, too, of the more pretentious male sex could inform themselves on the same sub- ject and become furnished with a little real information upon what they are apt to theorize oracularly without any knowledge whatever. For the racing portion of the day, in addition. toa prize for sloops belonging to the olub,, there might be offered a union prize open to all yachts of other clubs, from the fourth class sloop or open boat up to the largest schooner, Willing to race. This would afford interest and amusement to the spectators on the fleet escorting the race, for very oftem the ambitions and mishaps of the smaller fry of craft exceed in downright earnestness the more majestic rivalries of the larger yachts,' With the usual accompaniment of excursion steamers, clad in gay bunting, the scene on the blue watcrs of the bay, with the setting of wooded height in the background, and white-fleeced sapphire sky above, would rival in picturesque beauty and anima- tion the proudest water pageants of the Middle Ages, with all their gorgeousness of banneret bearing, many oared galleys, gayly clad dames and cavaliers and trappings of crimson and gold. We recommend it seriously to the consideration of the sad-faced Tritons of this year’s regatta, and feel certain that its adop- tion would be a fresh pleasure to the citizens: anxious for a day of eye-feasting over the waters of our stately bay. The question of most absorbing interest at present agitating yachting circles js that of cen- treboard versus keel yachts. In another part of the Hxrarp will be found the views of some of our best yacht modellers, warmly upholding the centreboard. The difficulty in: the matter of centreboard yachts which they concede to be not yet fully overcome ix in the matter of strength of hull, the open- ing amidships to allow of working the centre- board necessitating weakness in a very im- portant part of the vessel. The idea of strengthening it with extra heavy side keelsona, althongh meeting this faultiness of strength, has the drawback of cumbrousness and taking | up space already much contracted. The two- board system seems the best solution of the pointat present reached. By using two boards instead of one, with a head piece in the centre of the trunk and a cross frame and heavy floor timbering, the strength and other advantages | not yet thoroughly exploited would be gained. As with the adoption of twin screws m steaur vessels, this innovation may meet with some op- position even among the upholders of the cen- treboard ; but if, as in the case we have men- tioned, it can be made of service in steering as well as in increased handiness in working, we may see it triumph over its parent, the single centreboard, as that superseded the old leeboard of the trading schooner of sixty oF * seventy years ago. Our Public Baths. The importance of cleanliness in the homes of the people has been constantly insisted om in the columns of the Heraun. Owing to various causes the vast majority of the indas— trious poor are so cireumstanced that, with the best desire to observe hygenie rules, they are not in a position to do so. Perhaps in no country is the use of the bath so general as among us; but the class which stands most in need of its purifying action is the very one that finds fewest opportunities for ita nse. ‘This ix owing principally to the fact that im very few tenement houses are there bath- | rooms for the benefit of the inhabitants; nor is the deficiency supplied by any large pub- lie institution, sach as in European cities supply the want of the poor. We have, it is trne, a few river baths which undoubtedly render good service in the summer months, and the eagerness with which the poor avaik themselves of the benefits to be derived from them ought to encourage onr civie authorities to extend the system. At present the amoan& of accommodation compared to the number of the inhabitants is ridiculously small, and as the question of the health of the population i a vital one some steps ought to be taken at once to supply a want which is deeply felt. It is of as much importance to encourage among the people babits af cleanliness as it is to keep the streets free from refuse; and, an- questionably, the best way to do so is by the establishment of such a system of public baths as will leave no ane with an excuse te be dirty. Tho advantages possessed by our city enable it to place awimming bathe within easy reach of all, withont incr~ ring any considerable outlay, while the good that would inevitably ‘result to the health of the city would more than repay the taxpayers. We are now thinking only of swimming sey which are the most prewingly needed, thongh public washhouses. for the winter are certainly very desimble, and we should like mnch to see some estab~ lished. As the great want, however, is felt im | the sweltering summer heat, whea » plunge im