The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. “ Se - a as NEW YORK HERALD|™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hernarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —_—_+-—__—_ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY NERALD, every Saturday, at Frve Annual subscription price :— CENTS per copy. One Copy... Three Copies Five Copies. Ten Copies.. Postage five cents per copy for three months, Any larger number addressed to names of sub- scribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies to one address one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEEKLY HERALD the cheapest publication ti the country, The Evrorray Eprom, every Wednesday, at Six CENTS per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any purt of the Continent, both to include postage. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEXLY HERALD and the European Volume XXXVIIL ANIUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack xp tr BEAN SraLx—A Comepintra, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirticth st— Rony O'Monx. Afternoon and evening. ‘S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth WALLACK Btreet.—Mia1. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svumer Niants' Coy- penis. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science any Ant DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Sciencr anp Ant. a TRIP New York, Tuesday, July 15, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “Tai PRESS AND THE DANGER OF C&SAR- ISM DESTROYING THE REPUBLIC''—LEAD- ING EDITORIAL THEME—SiatH Pace. ARRIVAL OF THE WRECKED PAS! THE CITY OF V HINGTON! RIES OF THE SEVERITY OF THEIR SUF- FERINGS AND THE Gi WHICH THEY WERE PLA CHARLES GOODRICH'S FIANCEE CALLS UPON KATE STODDARD IN PRISON! THE TWO PASS THE ENTIRE DAY TOGETHER! THE PRISUNELS HISTORY! ROSCOE AND THE TRAGEDY—Firtu Pace. KILLED WITH A BREAD KNIFE! LAWRENCE EHRHARDT ON TRIAL FUR THE MURDER OF JOHN MORRISON! THE CRIME AND THE EVIDENCE—FIPTH PAGE. ANOTHER PROFESSOR WEST CASE! A MAN MURDE AND HIS BODY MUTILATED TO PR ! DETECTION—CUTTING A HUS- BAND'S THROAT—FirtH PacR. ROMAN CATHOLIC TLNDENCIES OF THE ENG- LISH TE CHURCH ARGUED IN PAR- LIA DAMAGES BY STORM IN YORKSHIRE—SEVENTH PAGE. MONETARY AFFAIRS! THE GENEVA AWARD AND THE DEMAND FOR OUR BONDS—THE FEDERAL OFFICES—FILTHY FULTON MAR. KET—NINTH PAGE. SPANISH REVOLTS! A DETACHMENT OF REPUBLICAN TROOPS SURRENDERS 10 THE CARLISTS | BOURBON PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS—SBVENTH PaGE. TIGRESS SAILS IN SEARCH OF THE POLARIS—NEWS FROM JAPAN AND ELSEWHERE BY. TELEGRAPH—SEVENTH Pace. INTERESTING CHURCH FIGHT IN HARLEM— OBITUARY—Tuinp Pace. SPAIN ANNULS ALL EDICTS OF SEQUESTRA- TION UPON THE PROPERTY OF CUBAN REBELS THAT OF THEIR SYMPA- THIZERS—SEVENTH PAGE. THE WAR IN ENTRE RIOS! PRESIDENT SAR- MIENTO REVIEWS THE REVOLT OF LUPEZ JORDAN—AFFAIRS IN CUBA, HAYTI, TURKS ISLAND AND PERU—Fovrti Page. THE THE Tue Ticrrss Is Goye.—Steaming away from the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, she passed out through Hell Gate into the Sound, and is probably now steering her course for St. Johns. Weare glad to know that the Arctic steamer which played the most impor- tant part in the history of the Polaris expedi- tion—that of the rescue of the ice-floe heroes—is to have another chance for Arctic honors, and this time under the American flag, commanded and manned by United States officers and seamen. We regard the mission of the Tigress as one which must be crowned with remarkable success. Guap To Han I7—That the examination of the national bank reports for June 13 shows them, with few exceptions, to be in a healthy condition, The few exceptions, however, should be purged of their internal derange- ments without loss of time, Eanrnqvares have, within the last few ‘days, been shaking up the drowsy inhabitants of Italy in various places, from the foot of the Alps down to Rome, and there have been some ominous shakings recently in the neighborhood of Buffalo, in this State. ‘The earth is feverish,” and we shall not be sur- prised if soon we hear of some terrible up- heaval in some of the volcanic regions of both hemispheres, ‘Tue Monon Antzona Eaioration Scars, it appears, has resulted in a lamentable col- lapse. The country was too sterile and too destitute of water even for Mormon endur- ance, industry and perseverance. ‘The emi- gration party, driven to the extremity of star- vation, were compelled to give up their des- perate undertaking and to return to tho more tractable deserts of Utah. The Prophet was mistaken in his estimates of the land flowing pie milk and houey in Arizong, i Press and the Danger of Cresar. ism Destroying the Republic. The smoothness with which things govern- mental glide in the United States at present does not hinder the subject of the Republic's future being fairly and fully canvassed. The very ease with which the government can be administered and the minimum of talent that is absolutely necessary for carrying it on must attract considerable attention in themselves. We have reached one of those quietly recuper- ating epochs which occur in the history of every country. Revenue flows in at a rate which seems to demand nothing but the exer- cise of limitation. Yet, in such times it is that the liberties of a people melt away from thom. Used to a steady course and open sea, the ocean passenger never dreams that rocks or shoals may be ahead, so long as the breeze holds fair, for he has abandoned the lookont and forgets that he is moving, except with the light, noiseless sense of motion of a man ina dream. Meals are served and eaten regularly, there is a smoke after dinner and then a siesta, and so he counts and loses count of time. Tho figure may not perfectly apply to the situation of the Republic, but when one thinks of the Inman steamer dashing over the Gull Rock Shoal while the passengers wero playing cards in the cabin it gives a por- tentous color to the comparison. As we be- lieve that no element of caution should be neglected in ocean steamers with five or six hundred souls on board, much more do we claim that every precaution against disaster should be taken in a case where the liberties of forty millions of people are concerned. It is with this view that we havo delicately but firmly spoken upon the subject of a third term for President Grant. We have no apology therefor to offer republicans, no crumb of comfort therein to present the democrats; it is simply and purely on its gravity as a question for the nation that we treat it. Our contemporaries of all parties have taken up the matter. If we have to complain and regret that where the press represents sec- tional politics the treatment has been partisan, we must at the same time remark that the swiftness with which the subject, once mooted, has commanded attention proves its impor- tance. In journals representing the party or parties opposed politically to President Grant, we observe a shade between bitterness and joy that the Hzratp has undertaken to point out the dangers of a third term in the Presidency being bestowed upon or taken by him, as the First Napoleon took the imperial diadem from the hands of Pius V1. and placed it upon his own head. We observe in them a readiness to revel in pictures of the fulfilment of their worst fears, which looks as though, from the four times repeated story of national defeat, like Macrobius, the Roman Knight whom Cmsar forced upon the stage, they wore hastening to “welcome every shame’’ at the hands of the leader of the republican party. We can- not commend this course as either manly or politic; patriotic it certainly is not. Their oft-repeated personal abuse of the President, trom which we emphatically dis- sent, has no longer even the pretence of weight with the country at large. Bitterly as General Grant chose to dwell upon it in his second inaugural, it had found its proper level long before he had put his pen to paper to resont it. We have reached a phase of the question which dwarfs the consideration of party per- sonalities as it appeals in looming proportions to the best and broadest thought of the Union. The democracy must, of course, find comfort in the fact that its most formidable and hitherto invincible opponent is the man most prominent in our earnest argument ; but ina great number of the extracts from democratic and anti-administratiom journals which wo have published there is an utter absence of anything to show that they honestly regard the possibilities of General Grant's third nomina- tion as anything worse than a party vicissi- tude. To the republican or administration jour- nals we look for a bolder attitude on the ques- tion. There has been a timidity about their utterance which was not altogether to be un- expected at first. A witness for the defence under cross-examination may often be observed glancing at the counsel on his side to glean how he should answer. If he does not obtain the cue he will, probably, take refuge in flip- pancy and evasion. This, however, will no more serve the turn of journals supporting the dominant party than it would the quibbling witness who found a determined cross-exam- iner before him. It will not do to wonder “why the Herarp should have sprung this question just now." The complacency of the administration journals which take refuge in sneering at democracy, when the question is “sprung,” is not to be commended. The classing of every one with their political enemies who sees the danger of a third term is a weok device, for it tacitly admits that the question is more than an open one, and implies that, so far as they are concerned, the road to Cwsarism will never have an ob- struction placed upon it. We welcome, indeed, the voices of those administration papers that speak heartily before consulting with tho sal- aried counsellors of their party. Whenan ad- ministration journal says, ‘The party that shall undertake to run a candidate for a third term will bo beaten and the candidate will be dis- graced,”’ we have a sequential profession that it will try to save its party from what it believes would prove an error, and which it knows tg be o crime. Another administration paper says:—‘‘We have little or no mistrust of the intention of the people of this country to gov- em heniselves, Or of thelr ability to do it, and yet we think nothing but some epngerous crisis should induce the nation to choose évea | of ou? gitizens with intolerable its greatest man Chief Magistrate for o third term."’ These words are not without their weight; but when a man comes to be, rather than to represent, the governing party in a country as powerful as our own, the manufacture of “% dangerous crisis” ig never difficult. The writer of the above could logically follow his argument to find that some more certain safeguard than the forbearance of a President is necessary to preserve the Republic from possible danger. We find among the republican papers a general dec- laration that President Grant is the least likely man in the world to dream of being a Cesar. It has been our own impression that this is true of the simple-mannered soldier who has been so brilliantly rewarded for bril- lignt services, But impressigns of f sboractor | dept the city honestly gwes—ell Sf gbiek | are often deteptive, particularly if first ones are retained, while fheir cause is exposed to change. There is no O88 con say authorita- tively that President Grant will, under all circumstances, refuse a nomination for a third term. We know of nothing in his character or his history from which we can draw a positive conclusion either way. It is much easier to measure the official pyramid of which he is the apex, and which, with all the instinct of its adhesiveness, de- sires to remain as it is. Evory particle thereof, from the country postmaster and the Custom House messenger up to the Cabinet officer, is personslly interested in having President Grant succeed to President Grant forever. The party has possession of a large majority of the States. Its ability to remain in pewer seems only limited by its will, and that shows no sign of relaxing. It is, then, the oppor- tunity for a great display of virtue in the figure at the apex of the pyramid to let the world know that the Republic is to be pre- served by his fixed determination not to re- main where he is after March, 1877. Therein lies all the difficulty of the case. Only by an exercise of the most unbending will can he shake off the shackles that the courtiers around him use to bind him to his ebair. Knowingas they do how to put the most fragrant incense in their superheated thurible, we are con- strained to watch if the President will yield to the intoxication. One journal, in commenting on our interest in this question, states that we write ‘in the genuine alarmist vein.” This is not true. We know no topic that deserves a tithe of the patient consideration that this demands; but we sincerely deprecate the idea that it should be made the subject of that hasty, crude, intemperate discussion which is conveyed when men talk of an ‘‘alarmist vein.” In the patriotism of General Grant we hope fora shield against immediate danger to the fabric reared by the fathers and preserved and beautified by the children of the country. We must look not only at his case, which serves as an example, but far beyond, to where in the unknown futurity circumstances undreamed of now may give a man not one-fifth as good the same opportunity of retaining the Presiden- tial chair indefinitely, which is the fortune of General Grant to-day. We ask our contempo- raries to throw flippancy aside in treating this subject, and to rise above party in patriotically considering how best the curb may be placed upon personal and party ambition in a matter so momentous to civilization and to free government. Wo mark in broad lines the tendency to Cisarism which exists, as palpably as man exists, in the government of the United States to-day. Wo know that republics have been strangled in a night by hands that could less surely rely on their forces than General Grant could if he chose to make the attempt. We havo seen republics become feebler and fecbler through the indifferentism which grows out of pieihoric purses and which allowed ambition from within or without to efface their liberties and their very names. We have seen a corrupted republic grasped tightly by a Marius and by a Sylla stagger forward a pace or two only to fall forever before the blow of a Cassar Imperator. Our danger may lie in any of the three—per- sonal power, indifferentism or corruption. It is to guard it from all of them, or from others not yet developed, that we appeal to the patri- otism and thought of the country. The Cholera in the South—What Has Been Done to Prevent Its Coming to New York? We have the painful intelligence from the South that the cholera is raging to so great an extent in some parts of that section of the country that the inhabiiants of regions thus far spared from a visitation of the scourge are called upon to raise subscriptions to assist tho people of the stricken localities. In Huntsville and Birmingham, Ala., this is notably the case, according to our exchanges from that direction, while Nashville, Chatta- nooga, Memphis, Greenville and other places in Tennessee are infected to a more or less ex- tent with tho “prevailing disease,”’ although at last accounts the epidemic was believed to be abating in severity. Now, in view of the fact that the cholera is undoubtedly prevailing toa severe, if not an alarming, extent in one part of the country, we ask, for the twentieth time, perhaps, What have the authorities of the city of New York practically done to prevent the King of Epidemics from paying a visit to this metrop- olis? It is a notorious fact that, beyond snuffing from afar the abominable and death- dealing odors from the offal depots and from the fat and bone boiling establishments on the North River, and beyond clearing out certain human subterranean habitations where corruption and disease have been allowed to fester until the grim spectre stalked unchecked among the poor wretches who have occupied those filthy dens, but little has been done to prepare the city for a regular cholera siege, In regard to the offal depots and fat-rendering establishments the health authorities have beaten a cowardly retreat from the position they first assumed—to wit, that the whole putrid business must be abandoned by the Ist of the present month. Instead of this the villanous work has been permitted to go on until the present moment, to the great detri- ment of the health of thousands of families, and the only excuse given by the owners of these plague germinators is that their principal rendering concern, an old steamboat, is “stuck in the mud”’ and cannot be removed until the harbor dredging machine clears a channel for her—p work that will occupy some weeks’ time. The pusillanimons health authorities quietly submit to this miserable subterfuge and allow to be perpetuated a foul and sickening business, almost in the heart of this city, that impregnates the atmosphere, fills the dwellings effluvia and breeds @onlagion 6nd atk Totoro of the day and bight in the Summer season. And how is it witi our drains and sewers? Have they been thorothly cxtnijned and cleansed of disease-ongendering gases? How many ‘‘man holes,’’or entrances to the sewers, have been entered and tho accumulated filth of months, perhaps years, overhauled and removed? It is true some of our chief thoroughfares, with the gutters attached, are kept tolerably clean; but how is it with tho back slums, where a spark of plague would produce @ conflagra- tion of coutagion? It is only necessary to visit them to be satisfied of their horrible con- dition. This is no time to preach economy or go to the courts rather than pay promptly makes fet pickings for the law;¥eT, Whose fees, together with the original bills With costs, have finally to be paid by the taxpayo.* This is no time to turn back into the city trea." appropriations properly made for street ini- provements already under way and summa- rily stopped in order to throw a big surplus bonus into the treasury for the edification of millionaire taxpayers. A wise and judicious system of economy in public expenditures is always commendable, but an economy that may entail upon the city incalculable dis- asters, both in regard to health end com- mercial prosperity, can only be tolerated by those who have not really the material inter- ests of the city at heart. Let the health an- thorities pluck up courage, let more liberality be shown in the disbursements for the preser- vation of the sanitary condition of the me- tropolis, and we may yet be able to stay the steps of the scourge that has already crept stealthily into some of the finest and hitherto most salubrious localities in the South. Civil) and Religious Persecution in France. A difficulty has arisen in France. Itisa new difficulty, and one which a few weeks ago we were scarcely prepared to expect. When Marshal MacMahon come into power he said that, with the help of God and the French army, he hoped to be able to maintain moral order in Franee. What President MacMahon meant by ‘moral order” was a much dis- cussed qnestion at the time. The difficulty to which we refer goes far to explain the Presi- dent's phrase as well as to illustrate the spirit which animates the majority in the French Assembly. Some time about the middle of June M. Brousses, member of the Assembly for the Aube, died, and, of course, had to be buried. M. Brousses was not a member of any reli- gious denomination. He was nota Churchman nor a dissenter, but rather a Voltarian, as such people are commonly called in France. By his own direction this man was buried without any religious ceremonial. In other words, his burial was what is called a civil burial. According to a very stupid rule, which still has force in France, the corpse of any member of the Assembly has to be attended to the grave with a guard of soldiers. On this occasion the offi- cers in command, finding that there was no religious ceremonial, abruptly and very un- ceremoniously left the cortége, taking, of course, their command with them. Fierce citizen indignation was the result, Indigna- tion took a more alarming shape when it was known that M. Ducro, Prefect of Lyons, had issued an order that funerals celebrated without clerical aid should take place at seven o'clock in the morning in Winter and at or before six o'clock in the morning in Summer. What gives intensity to the feeling which still pre- vails ie the fact that the wording of the order reads almost like am exigact from the decrees of the Council which followed on tho revoca- tion of the Edict of Nantes. It was supposed there might be some mis- take, and the whole matter was brought before the Assembly at Versailles. All over France the Voltarians or non-clericals felt insulted, and it was hoped that the Assembly might redress the wrong or the government offer some satis- factory explanation. What was the result? The Minister of War, General de Barrail, de- fended the course taken by the officers at the faneral of M. Brousses, and justified the order of the Prefect of Lyons. The Minister of War was loudly cheered by the Right; the Left Centre showed signs of sympathy with the govern- ment, and M. Ducro’s order at Lyons was sustained by a vote of 413 to 251. We have little to do with the arguments on the govern- ment side. The great fact is that the French Assembly, as the French Assembly is at pres- ent composed, has decreed that a non-Chris- tian is a sort of dog, who ought to be hurried out of sight and buried in darkness, M. Thiers, it is said, was with difficulty restrained from going down to the Assembly; and when he heard what the Assembly had done he de- clared it to be his purpose, notwithstanding the outward respect he has always shown tho Church, to have it putin his will that his own funeral should be of a civil, not of a reli- gious kind. This may mean “ moral order” according to MacMahon and the Assembly, but to us it seems persecution which must bring about revenge. Of this funeral and of this order we shall hear more by and by. Wrongs of this sort are not easily forgotten or forgiven; and we may rest assured that Gambetta and his friends, although silent, are biding their time. The Shah’s Progress=How He Will be “Impressed” by His European Tour. The Shah of Persia, in turning to the east- ward, it is given out, will not visit the capital of Austria, in consequence of reports which have reached him of the prevalence of cholera there. It is probable, however, that as his presence at Vienna would be a great card for the International Exposition, every effort will be made to secure him, and he may, too, be persuaded by the wishes of the Emperor and the attractions of the Fair to honor the House of Hapsburg with a friendly call. Otherwise, he will probably pass from France, via the Alps and the Mont Cenis tunnel, into Italy, and thence to Constantinople, where, doubtless, he will be given regular royal Oriental re- ception. Thence the Sultan will probably in- sist upon the honor of conveying tho “King of Kings’ and his numerous attendants by o fleet of war steamers to Trebizond, on the Black Sea, and thence upon the pleasure of escorting him through the intervening Terkish dominion in Asia to the border of Persia. Nor would it be surprising if, on this pleasing duty of hospitality, the Sultan were to accom- pany his royal friend and brother to the Per. sign frontior. wag BE SF “Meantime, having been welcomed by tho beautiful city of Paris as by a bride in her wodding garments, the Shah appears to enjoy the hospitalities of the gay Parisians as some- thing nearer tho Oriental style than the mili- {ery show of St. Petersburg, the glitter of Beriiz, the enthusiasm of Mark Twain, or the thuiiavts of the iron-clad squadron of England. Heé- will doubtless return to Te- heran “impressed? wit the military strength of the Ozar and the Kaiser; with the financial, commgzial and naval power of Vicvoria; with the spfendors of Paris and the beauties of France; with the charms of Italy and the historical glories of Rome; with the magnifi- cent sittation of Constantinople and the princely hospitalities of his brother of the ee, and all other things, we dare say, the Shah will be “impressed,” if he is capable of any impression at all, with the wisdom of his Grand idea of displacing, for transportation purposes in his dominions, the camel and the aenkey by the iron horse and the railway train> He will have Jcarned from his European excursion that for a coun- try like Persia, without navigable rivers, surrounded by vast chains of moun- tains and sandy wastes, and cut up and divided into various communities by des- erts, the railway is just the thing needed for the development of his resources, the unity of his dominions and the prosperity of his peo- ple. With even a single line of railway—a line from the Persian Gulf to Teheran—the fearful mortality among the people of Persia by their late terrible famime could have been arrested. That a leading object of this European tour of the Shah is to cast about for the ways and means to prevent a recurrence of this frightful calamity we cannot doubt; nor can we doubt that the rapid building of railways in Persia will follow the Shah’s return to his people. The Weplorable Condition of Spain. Our latest advices from Madrid inform us that the recent successes of the Oarlists and the outbreak .and atrocities at Alcoy have awakened a strong feeling among the citi- zens generally against the insurgents; that war meetings are being held at various promi- nent points in the province in which the afore- said atrocities were committed ; that at Bar- celona a large and earnest mecting of the citizens was held on Saturday evening to offer moral and material support to the govern- mont in its efforts to suppress the insurgents. This is from Madrid, and doubtless gives us the condition of things in Spain under the best possible colorings. The facts, we appre- hend, arethat the Carlists are gaining ground; that the government, for want of the sinews of war and of active, trusty soldiers, is embar- rassed on every side; that the army is moro or less demoralized in not being properly paid er provisioned ; that the ways and means for transportation of troops and supplies are ma- terially interrupted and broken up; that the cultivation of the soil, even in the districts not disturbed by the Carlists, is suspended to a considerable extent in consequence of the general embarrassments of busi- ness; that the strength of the government is among the consumers of the cities, while the followers and suppdrters of the Carlist standard of ‘‘God, Country and King’’ are among the producing classes of the rural districts ; that among these people, who know very little of telegraphs, railways or newspapers, or the general march of modern ideas of popular rights, their old notions, souvenirs and traditions of Chyrch and Stais aro still very strong, and that the revolution in Spain is as yet only a proclamation and ot & tet aocoimplish Ne fear, ‘Indeed, that the present insurrectionary disturb- ances are but the advanced sprinklings of an approaching storm which will cover the Spanish Peninsula with bloodshed and con- fusion. And yct we believe that the Republic will survive, and, purified and harmonized, will in the end be permanently established. The Sammer Sports and Amusewents of New York. Some happy mortals can solace themselves where they will through the Summer solstice. Others, and the vast majority, forming the home guard, must xemain in the city and do their part towards working the metropolitan machine. While our brothers and sisters en- joy crowded hotels, sea bathing and races at Long Branch, bitter waters and society at Saratoga, camping out and trout catching in tho Adirondacks, clambakes and fashion at Newport, the chest-filling breath on tho voyage across the Atlantic, or the various delights of travel and adventure among the historic scenes and enchanting sights of Europe, we, of the reserve, do not utterly neglect our opportunities for pleasure. With our facilities for combining business and recreation, a “streak of fat anda streak of lean,” we are in fact making New York one of the most desirable of all Summer resorts. No city or place on the globe is more favorably situated for the pursuit of pleasure on the water. For the yachtsman we have our glorious bay, the spacious Sound, the Hudson and East Rivers, and the Atlantic Ocean, its coast indented with countless bays and ports. For the oarsman we have our long water fronts east and west, our renewed and beautiful Battery, and last, not least, our quiet Harlem River, so fast, for rowing pur- poses, becoming the American Thames. Many of our boating clubs have lately adopted its banks as their headquarters, and its smooth surface frequently witnesses feats of strength and skill in this noble sport which prove that our young men lack neither muscle, endurance nor practice to fit them to contest with the champions of Henley. New York has true cause of pride in the pro- ficiency of her amateur oarsmen, as demonstrated every Summer day on Har- lem River, and it would be difficult to find water more favorable for the enjoy- ment of the sport than this at our doors, and accessible in the near future, when we shall have “rapid transit,’’ from the City Hall in fifteen minutes. For those who relish the sen air without active exercise our city offers an endless variety of trips by steamers on the rivers, bay, Sound and the open ocean. We can fish within or without “the Hook” any day or evening from safe and commodious steamers, sure to come home in time to fulfil an engagement, or we ¢an cruise in sailing craft at our own sweet will. Besides all the thousand sports of the sea we have abundance of provision for those who iaxe their favorite pleasure on firm land. In our attractive Central Park and_Brooklyn’g lovely Prospect Park thore are ample rooni and rural beauty enough to gladden evory sense of the thronging thousands who seek their shady walks during the scorching July days. Base ball is admirably provided for in the spacious and well appointed grounds of Brooklyn, Wil- liamsburg and Hoboken, where the frequent, well attended and well contested matches at- test the popularity of the national game. For the exciting contest of equine speed we have near at hand the fine courses at Jerome Park, Fordham Park, Long Branch, Paterson, Pros- pect Park and other points on Long Island, in New Jersey and in Westchester county. These afford frequent opportunity to witness the finest racing to be seen in America, and only leave business in tho city for a day's time. ene tig in me ‘usual resources to the seeker of Summer be ement; and, though they fall short ot fit ~ they are far in advance of those any other gity op this side of yeni sveets and the daily out- » city furnish constant and ever- door life of thy’ “HY varying pleasure .°24 excitement to those wha, appreciate the intme.* and zeat of the coi ieket ore valat. 92 of @ million souls, ‘ yo: OP *s f all quar. which represents the varw zane 6 q ters of the globe, speakin,” many rene and having vast diversity of customs, . have the largest and best hotels n.’ the world. Our pulpits and choirs have their a ‘Tctions for their class of pleasure seekers. In, Hort, New York is replete with sports, amusensen ‘>, pleasures. Added to all, in New York one can read the news of the round world with his breakfast. These and many other sources of satisfaction, whose enumeration would exceed the limits of a newspaper article, are within the reach of those who stay at home in New York through the Summer. Our columns show that we are as a community wisely grow- ing in our use of these bountiful provisions. New York is the favorite Summer resort of our Continent, and in good time we hope to see it the delight of all the world. The Yorkville Horror. ns Although there is nothing, from present accounts, to indicate that the horrible spec~ tacle of the decomposed and mutilated ro- mains of a woman, discovered on Sunday morning in a house at Yorkville, was caused by violence, yet the conduct of the health authorities, after the discovery had been made, calls for the severest censure. There is little if any mystery about the death of the woman. An aged spinster, of rather eccentric habits, occupied a house alone and died in it, with- out any person being aware of her death. Her remains became the prey of vermin and the offensive odor proceeding from them was the first indication to the adjoining neigh- bors that anything was wrong in the house of the recluse. The proper authorities wera notified on Sunday, after the discovery of the body was made, and yet they took no measures to remove it until yesterday morning, leaving the hor- rible remains to taint and affright the neigh- borhood for more than eighteen hours. Suclr criminal negligence calls for unstinted re- proof, and isa disgrace to those concerned im it. In the general eagerness for reform and change which pervades our city government at present there should be some attention directed towards the authorities responsible for this last outrage. The circumstances of the death are revolting enough without being intensified by criminal neglect. There is not the slightest excuse for leaving the body of this woman go long after it was discovered, in’ the midst of a crowded neighborhood, without taking measures for its remoyal. In weather Tike the present sach a nelghbor would ba sufficient to create a pestilence. We hopa that an investigation will be made into this disgraceful affair, and that the responsible parties will be held up to public censure, if not punishment. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Dick Taylor, of Louisiana, is in Berlin. Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, is at the Bre= voort House. The late Secretary Stanton’s family is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Minister Rubbe has resumed his functions at Berne, Switzerland, Colonel P. H. Hayne, of Augusta, Ga., is staying at the New York iotel. Spurgeon’s sermons are written by students, whose studies he directs, Rev. Dr. Chapin, D.D., of this city, left Geneva for Vienna on the 28th ult. Collector James F, Casey, of New Orleans, yes~ terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Alfred schucking has been appointed Consular Agent of the German Empire at Washington. Generals Van Vliet and Bremerton, of tlie United States Army, have quarters at the Astor House. Dr. Mary B, Walker was yesterday appointed to @ $900 clerkship in the office of the Treasurer o( tha, Unitea States. Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow, now of Texas, for- merly of Pennsylvania, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Friedrich Hecker, one of the leaders of the German Revolution of 1848, is now visiting hia native place after his long exile. Mr. E. L. Plumb, the contractor for the con- struction of the Mexican National Railway, yester- day arrived at the Fith Avenue Hotel. ‘The ex-Empress Eugénie will not visit Vienna, as has been reported she would. She intends to re- main in the Castle of Arenenberg until the Au- tumn. Mrs. Eliza Sperry, wife of Hon. Nehemiah D.’ Sperry, of New Haven, is dead, So is Mrs. Eliza- beth 0, Kidston, another venerable matron of the “Elm City.’” General Bragg—a “little more grape’—is im Atlanta, Gu., on business connected with the waterworks. His business hitherto has been con- nected with fireworks. Colonel W. R. Parnell, of the United States Army, bas arrived at the Hoffman House. Colonel Parnell was @ passenger on the wrecked steams ship City of Washington. Isabella, on her late visit to the Pope, bid high for his favor toward Prince Alfonso. She pre- sented him with a diamond cross and donated 20,000 francs to the Denier de St. Pierre, to which Alfonso also gave 10,000 francs, The Czarowitch persistently attended the Shah in England, and all the newspapers condemned his ‘vad taste" in so clearly revealing the Russian de- sire to prevent English influence on the “King of Kings.” All these nations love each other so. ‘The Shah is said to have deciared to @ Papal Nuncio of Brussels an admiration for the “Pope's firm defence of his indisputable rights.” Perhaps Victor Emmanuel and his Persian royal guest will not have so much fun together In the hunting flelds as the former anticipates, This is the pleasant way the Moundsville (West Va.) Reporter puts a littie local personal :—“Mrs, Jennings, who Was recently shot by the Wetzel county lynchers who killed her husband, has died or her wounds,” The Jennings family in that peaceful region must be getiing pretty well rum out. ‘The Governor of Indiana has issued a proclama- tion calling upon good citizens to preserve law and order, It seems that gangs of disguised men have Hesn Making a business of breaxing into county court houses and jails, seizing and destroying records and killing prisoners at their own pleasure. Hence the prociamation, which is issued not @ bit too early, ‘The Boston Transcript thinks that the degree of “Maids of Science,” which a Southern college has conferred upon some temale students, may.do for the charmers wo have mastered the chemistry of bread making, but the ladies who reel off fiction and verses for the twentieth century should bear the degree of spinsters of untruth, or sisters of the yellow cover. REE eR THE HERALD “AND THE SHAH OF PERSIA, [From the Salt Lake Journal, July 7.) Mark Twain was the special correspondent of the New York Heranp on the occasion of tie reception of the Shah of Persia in England. He writes au amusing account of the affair, and evidently felt that he had succeeded in impressing the King ob \Gaqlden Born, Bat more than by all thoggl Our theatres and concert rooms offer thyir | Kingy Who will te MEnaLD agguse BONE _