The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST U, 1873—WITH again on the good conduct of the son, was the con- dition, and product of this matrimonial specula- , READ J good wit ofthe father, which would be dependent BRIMONT’S BREAD, Phe Deseendant of a “French Crusader)’ vs, ‘Whe Paris American Register and Propric- tor of tle New York Herald: BRIMONT AS HE IS. Whe American from a French Point of View and the Frenchman from an American One, SARDOU AND THE UNIVERS AS MORALISTS, How the French Spent a Thousand Millions of Dollars and How the Americans Spent Three Thousand Millions. THE MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION The Enterprising Business Successes of the Crusader at the Mont de Piete. Tee “MADAME DE BRIMONT PLEDGED.” The Scene in Court and the General Aspect of French Lawyers. ®RENCH LOVE OF JUSTICE. The Members of the Court Who Called the Herald “Un Journal Anglais.” Bhat $1,200 “Verdict” and Its Market Value. Pants, July 25, 1873, A COMPARISON. ‘The Paris Untvers discussed, the other day, the Legion of Honor, and found itself unable to round & Anal paragraph without this reference to Ameri- ans:—‘But we are not Yankees, who know no pther God but the dollar; we are Frenchmen, the ‘wens Of the Crusaders, stirred and excited with the sense of honor.’ In the pretty little picture of ‘auman life, therefore, that this Parisian journalist ‘nas in his fancy, we sce how the parts are drawn— tow the type of all that is base, poor and con- Yempuble is the American, and the type of all that ts lofty, noble and admirable is the Frenchman. Such pictures and such comparisons, with the parts drawn in the same way, have been done beiore. That thoroughly trustworthy historian, profound philosopher and infallible logician, the Buthor of “Uncle Sam,” has even shown us that this is the common conception of the French mind ‘Bn this subject. He himself has deigned to present a few sketches, showing how all Americans meanly trawl and wriggle through pitiful lives, and how all Frenchmen honor the earth by walking on it, MOW THE FRENCH USED A THOUSAND MILLION OF DOLLARS. * And set it is but a little while since these heroic Frenchmen agreed to pay a thousand million dol- lars to buy off an enemy whom they no longer @ared to face in battle, while the pitiful Americans Bpeut three times that sum in the prosecution of a || war to defend and save their country. Would it be impertinent to ask which was the more heroic and which the more pitifui of these examples? The Parisian journal's estimate of the French eharacter and M. Sardou’s picture of it in “Uncle Sam,” naturally float before the fancy as we sit down to write an account of a case in which one of these typical Frenchmen prominently figures. BRIMONT, One ofthese gentlemen of France—these admira- ble types of humanity—has just sued the proprietor of the Paris American Register and the proprietor of the New York HERALD for defamation of char- acter, on account of paragraphs published in these two journals respectively. It ts a case in which ‘the facts are few and simple, though VULGAR AND UNCLEAN, as we understand vulgarity and uncleanness in the United States; but when one is a French gentle- » Man, and a son of the Crusaders, perhaps, and has been brought up in good society in France, he has peculiar ideas touching uncleanness and vulgarity. And who shall deny the right of such a dis- Unguished member of the human family to have peculiar ideas? But the few ana simple facts, ‘when the case is once determined, are seen to be ‘the least important points in the story; and the story comes to have interest only in virtue of the glimpse it gives of what views of life are enter- tained by the class of men whom the Univers and Mr. Sardou so much admire—sons of the Crusaders and others. It is only worth reading because it presents their notions of mora! and social obliga- tion, of their generous and manly relations to their wives and families and their lofty views of per- sonal independence. M. GASTON DE BRIMONT, @ Frenchman by birth, was described in Court as the'son of the Baronne de Brimont, whence it is sprobably safe to assume that a baron of similar mame was his father. If he inherits the title, which oes not appear, he has evidently not yet come into Possession, and if he ever inherited anything elsc he seems to have gambled it away years since. In the year 1868 this person was apparently looked upon by an American lady as all that was neces @ary to make her happy. American ladies are very apt tocake their notions of men’s characters Feady-made from the pages and pictures of gentie- men like Sardou, and of course in cases of that mature characters like the man are framed to satisfy the female heart. Only fancy a Frenchman of thirty, who might in the hands of a skilful tailor be made passav!y good- Jooking and distingué, whose mamma is a Baronne, and to whom, theretore, very good society seems @natural element and who is desperately in debt and in love, Here are aj) the requisite points for a Znost successful matrimonial eareer. If the man ie mot actually handsome the young ladies say he is distingué, and they like that better; if be isnot g@ctuallya baron why he will be, or ought to be, and, of course, he is high born, since there is a Aitie in the family; if he has no fortune he is but he more certainly free from vulgar money-making associations, while the possession of heavy debts proves equally the possession of many such charm- Ang attributes as indigerence to peif, disregard to Mean details, @ careless, generous magnilicent ppirit. i THE FATAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. » Itcannot be wondered at, therefore, that there was a difference of opinion between the romantic young lady and her c&reful father as to this lover. Papa certainly could not fancy the notion of a son- in-law who, without fortume, was also heavily bur- dened with gambling debts, while the young lady doubtiess refected om less serious sides of the sub- fect. They were married despite all objection, and the father promised $10,000 a year to his daughter. ‘There was no contract, as there nsvaliy is in France, for the father was not disposed £0 sign one, fd he son-iniaw was notin a position to insist, masmuch as his own financial state would mot bear too strict an inquiry Ten thowsand before us tom, This was uncommonly cheap for a son of the Crusaders, and the article must have been re- garded in some way as not of the first quality. WERE THEY HAPPY? Well, the atory leaps over the period of a year, and the young wife is already dead; and the hus- (band, who, with the spirit of a son of the Crusaders, ‘19 indifferent te such an ordinary accident as death, sues to compe) the {ather to support him, Much domesuc history is therefore crowded in that little space, and the fancy of every reader naturally frames and endeavors many conjectures as to the cause of this early death, and pictures disappoint- ment, mortified pride, a sense of personal degra- dation, intense mental wretchedness, as among the causes that thinned to the breaking point the attenuated thread of that young life, Fancy is materially assisted here by some facts produced on the trial It appears, indeed, from these facts that we did some injustice to the Crusaders tn what we sald above as to the poor product ol a prospective $10,000 a year. They must be accredited with Keener eyes. WALTER SCOTT IGNORES FRANCE. Walter Scott, in bis account of tho Crusaders he knew, pictures them as rather chivatrous fellows, who would scorn to enrich themselves by plunder- ing the persons of their captives; but then he seems to have known very few French Crusaders. Even Richard of Pngiand was once compelled to proclaim that any Cro- sader caught stealizg should haye lis head shaved and his body dipped in tar; and it appears otherwise that these pious scoundrels were won- derfully addicted to plundering, and that they had almost as great a love for a captive’s jewelry as jor the noly places. It is wonderful how tastes of this sort are inherited, In the case of whe wife whom we have just seen taken bya son of the Crusaders, it appears that there was quite a for- tune in the form of personal jewelry, and is there not in Paris THE MONT DE PLETE, @ patural pawnbroker’s shop, especially continued by the descendants of the Crusaders for turning captures of this sort into ready money, Daring the trial one of the counse! produced the numbers of ali the tickets registered at the Mont de Pi¢té for the pledge of Mme, de Brimont’s jewelry, with the sum loaned on cach article. Diamond brooches, diamond earrings, finger rings, lockets, bracelets, necklaces, and s0 th—in fact, a princely spoil, When the numbers of these pawn tickets were read, M. de Grimont, with that fine sense of personal sel/-respect that we naturally Jook ior in a cuitivated gentleman of his country, arose and protested. He could not endure the im- putation that he had pawned this jewelry. A WUSBAND'S TRIBUTE TO A DEAD WIFE, “It was Mme. de Brimont who pledged these articies.” “We know,” said the Judge, “that these articles were pawned to pay your losses at cards,” It is true she was dead; but even then this scion of @ superior race could not fail to defend himself and put the blame on her; could not resist the impulse to cast upon her whatever discredit there might be in those frequent furtive tripa to the Mont de Pieté, even though the money was ob- tained to save him and at his requirement, These facts will help out fancy in filling up the year that passed between the wedding and the death, One can readily picture how soon the de- mands on the father’s purse began; for, besides the burden of gambling debts, there was still the same love of cards, and there were other extrava- gant habits, and there were horses and carmages and an expensive household and battalions of clamorous tradesmen, It is not, even, especially diMcuit to see how soon the’ father began to object to pay, and how the sensitive, disappointed daughter became loth to go to him, and went in preference to the Mont de Pisté, pain- fully parting on one occasion with the earrings that were given her on some happy bygone birthday, and. again with brooches, bracelets, rings are the mementos of festival oc- casions and the gifts of loved ones. And so it went on until she could endure it no longer, and she went dowa in the struggle with her pride and passed away into the shadowy valley. THE FATHER'S COURSE, Naturally enough the father réfused, after the death of his daughter, to continue the $10,000 a yeer. Ther on the son-in-law sued him and the French Court decided that the father must sup- port the needy son-in-law; but the father had pre- viously leit the country, so that decision was of no immediate value to M.de Brimont. He followed, however, to the United States and asked the American Courts to give effect to the decree of the French Court; but they refused, on the ground that the French judgment was one dependent upon local laws, and not good out of the country in which it was given. There- fore the needy son-in-law and now disconsolate widower was left high and dry—especially dry, THE ALLEGED LIBEL. Several New York papers reported the judgment given in the United States Court, and the reporters, in stating the case, did not take’ complimentary views of M. de Brimont’s character. One of these paragraphs was reproduced in the American Register, published in Paris, and the proprietor of that paper was sued on account of it for defama- tion, As the New YorK HERALD is sold in Paris its proprietor is liable to prosecution, under the French law, for articles published in its columns, and thus he also was prosecuted in a suit similar to that against the American Register. Twenty thousand dollars damages was claimed for the publication in the HERALD, for with the sons of the Crusaders character is a valuable commodity, and there is, perhaps, no good reason why they should not raise money on that as well as the Jewelry of their wives. It is true the Mont de Piété might not give so much on that sort of pledge, but then, if the courts take a favorable view of the case, @ newspaper proprietor may prove the better banker of the two. FRENCH LAWYERS come into Court in black stuff or silk gowns, and Wearibg on their heads black hats without brims. This gives them a festive and comical aspect to one not altogether used to it, and they seem to such an unpractised eye like a party of young gentlemen who probably went to @ fancy ball in dominoes the night before, and who all lost tue rims to their hats at a very late hour in slight differences with the police, who have now come iato Court in conse- quence of one of their number having humorously blackened the eye of @ gentleman who could not see the necessity of opening a water tap witha cork screw. One constantly expects to bear them melodiously announce in general terms that “he’s a jolly good fellow,” and that they “wont go home’ for along while yet. But the easy views of life suggested by the flippant style of the fying domi- noes and the rakisa, tipsy brimiess hats of the advocates are perhaps a natural compensation for the weight with which @ man feels him- self crushed when he looks upon the gravity of the judges, These are ponderously serious persons, They represent the majesty of the law, and they are dreadfully conscious of it. Never was there anything more oppressively grave than the faces of the three judges sitting to deter- mine the important inquiry whether the news- paper proprietors bad damaged any portion of M. De Brimont’s character, and if so what was the exact money value ot the said dameged portion. They saton two successive days, and the last day sat three hours. Several of the festive gentlemen in gowns talked to them on the subject, doing their ntmost to impress them with proper views, and one talked uncommonly well. This was MASTER CLERY, I don’t know whether he is related in any way to’ that faithful Clery who went to the temple prison with Louis XVI., and wrote the touchingiy sim- ple and a pthetic story of what occurrea there; bi he might well be, for he hes the same shrewd glimpse” at the weak and strong sides of a subject, the same ener- getic sympathy, and the same vigorous, clear way of putting things. Master Clery will, one of these days, be heard of in the Courts or in the Parlia- ment; for he has a calm judgment, a keen wit and that natural oratorical power that carries by storm every intellectual position, save the legal convic- tions of three dreadfully serious justices, Gollers a yea, dberelerc, depeugent on she J- France MM AcauBWY AD MPs the love of Justice fs 80 deeply and firmly rooted that nothing can carry this last named position except an order from the government. No such order was forth- coming in the present case, and the eloquence of Master Clery, who was for the newspaper Pro- prietors, was unavailing; and the Count, & member of which calied the HERALD “un journal Anglais,” gave judgment in favor of M. de Brimont, but not for $20,000, They seem to have been “bears” as to the character market, and valued the particular character as to which they had to determine at a ruinously low rate. They con- demned the proprietor of the New YoRK HERALD to pay to M. de Brimont $1,200 damages, and consid- erately allowed him two years in which to save the money. Ifat the end of that time he has not paid up, they will take his body—if they can get it. THR VERDICT POR SALE. M. de Brimont will perhaps not enter into any immediate arrangements to buy @ baronial estate with this moucy; forit seems there are several creditors as to whom he has neglected the ordinary formalities of pay-day, and who watch with more than paternal Interest any money likely to become due to him. Several of these gentlemen have called to inquire in regard to the sum involved in this judgment, and it is possible that any son of the Crusaders in the position of the plaintiff in this orse would sell his right to that twelve hundred collars as low as six hundred—and be monstrously glad to get the money. SUNDAY CN THE WATER. How the People Got the Dust Out of Their Lungs Yesterday—“Plymoath Rock” Afluat—Sea-Sick People Enjoying Them= selvermThe Bay, the “Sound” and the Rivers. New Yorkers who were daring enough to brave the threat of rain that lowered over the metropolis yesterday morning, and who went afoat on some of the many excursion steamers tiat made their Sunday trips, were favored with a most enjoyable day’s pleasure, pleasanter, probably, than that of any other Sunday this Summer. The veil of cloud that seemed to bear such solemn portent of coming showers was indeed one of thoso rari- ties which people have learned (since Richmond was captured, to call “a blessing in disguise,” for it tempered the atmosphere charmingly and kindly warded off the flerce raysof the August sun. There was a pleasing breeze moving, too, which was just suMcient to flaunt and flutter the gay bunting with which the steamers were dressed and to fan the sun-tanned face of the laborer and the fevered brow and temples of the weary train-worker, to ripple the surface of river and bay and swell full the sails of tiny pleasure eraft that skimmed wher- ever there was water to bear them, One of the features of the duy’s pleasure-sceking was THE OOBAN TRIP of the steamer Plymouth Rock, which carried some- thing like twenty-five hundred persons down the bay and out on the ocean, and, of course, brought as many, if not more, back again to the city. The vessel started from her dock about half-past nine o'clock, and, with @ really fashionable living freight on board and a band of music, steamed Majestically down through the picturesque Narrows and past the green gilacis and gray granite embrasures of the fortifications, across Raritan Bay to Sandy Hook. Here probably half of the passengers landed and took the train for Long Branch, and again the steamer swung out on her course to the broad, swelling bosom oi the At- Jantic, The low, sandy shores of Sandy Hook, as the vessel steamed around the point, seemed like ajlow, brown strip of leather lying outjon the water, and were it not lor the lighthouse and the massive masonry of the great fort—that never should have been begun, and will, now, never be finished—ap- peared ‘a8 though tt might sink beneath the surface { one stepped on its Margin. Once at sea the ship sped down past tle LOFTY GREEN BLUFFS of the highlands of Navesink and along the Jersey shore, Dow Iringed with handsome villas and Sum- mer residences, but'a few years ago deemed too sterile even for afisherman’s habitation, The long throb of the ocean, after @ pulsation of 3,000 miles, is checked by this frontier of the Western hemis- pher and as it recoils upon itself the | “ground-swell? rolls backward — with steady undulation, and the ship is indeed vcked in the cradle of the deep.’? ‘This racic’ business 18 @ very poetic fancy, of course; but it blanched the chéeks and rippled the stomachs of some of the best dressed young men and women on board, and they will, no doubt, feel the better for it berore the week has passed, It takes a “ground swell” to trouble a land “swell” and make him “limp.” He wants only a pocket full of pocket handkerchiefs and a lounge, and his waxed mustache and “killing” air go adrift sadly. Even his gold-knobbed cane, with the silk tassel, is neglected and falls under the Scat as unpleasant reminiscences of his morning repast force themselves upon his attention. And so it was yesterday. There were young men and maidens, and old men and wowen, who “KINKED"? RIGHT UP, although the s¢a was in fact calm. By and by the hotels of Long Branch loom in sight, with fags streaming from the hundred flagstaffs, and every- body crowds to the starboard side of the steamer to scan the great shrme of fashion, health and pleasure. The hotel balconies are crowded, brilliant equipages and fast horses skim along the very rim of the continent, and laughing bathers skip of even from that rim and tumble in the fleecy, feathery surf, The steamer fires salutes of artillery, the band plays “Soiuy O’er the Rippling Waters,” the hotels dip their fags in acknowledgment of the sa- jute, and everybody asks, “Where is Grant’s cot- tage?’ (One man asked the HERALD reporter yes- terday, “Where does Cwsar liver”) In fifteen min- utes “the Branch” ia passed and the steamer riaes: on for eight or ten miles further along shore, makes # ite curve oceanward and again steams back along : THIS FASHION-FRINGED SHORE, The same scenes are repeated, and the excur- sionists on the steamers “waiting for a oite” on the fishing banks wave their handkerchiefs, the steamers toot their whistles at each other, and the three or four lonely men of the sea on the Lightship Jean their chins on their arms as they over the buiwarks at the merry excursion steamers and take an earful of “Chainpagne Charley” from the band, Then everybody thinks those men must lead & miserable life, and in’ another minute they have forgotten THE BRAVE FELLOWS, Returning to “the Hook,” while the steamer lays at the dock halt the Reta of ca run along the shore looking for the “shells of oeean” which they don’t find, and then they come back and ask the bandmaster for some, and, of course, he responds cheerfully. In half an hour or so the train from Long Branch rushes on to the pier, twelve or fifteen hundred newly washed and salted people rush on board the steamer, and two hours later they rush into the city to begin another week's work, better for the rejaxation, better for the fresh air they have inhaled, and better for the sea- sickness they have endured, if they happen tobe of that sort. PEOPLE WHO “DON’T WANT TO BE SEASICK,”? of course, should not go to sea, and, as arule, they navigate the bay, the Sound” and the rivers. The Golden Gate opened a way for hundreds of people to Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Pata and bathi it Coney Isiand, making three trips during the day. ‘The Sea Bird floated (as all sea birds should do) to the Navesink Highlands and Red Bank, and car- ried with her hundreds of lovers of broiled blue fish, clams and Shrewsbury oysters. The Pleasant Valley went up the river to find sylvan vales at Shady Side and Fort Lee for hundreds of souls weary of bricks and mortar and sunburnt streets, ‘The Seawanhaka sped wp the Sound with merry freights of the pale-faced race, who went to picntc on the hunting grounds of the lost tribe at Glen Cove, Sands’ Point, City Island, College Point and Glenwood. The Jesse Hoyt and Thomas Collyer bore away goodly numbers of tired metro- politans up the Hudson, dropping them at every Jumping off place between New York and Newburg, and showing them all the gorgeous scenery of the American Rhine, and a host of other craft did the best they could to lighten the toil and cheer the hearts of people who look upon the Sabbath as their “day of rest."’ A BOY KILLED BY RAIL, Run Over By Two Cars. On Saturday night, shortly before eleven o'clock, Charles Aigis, a lad fourteen years of age, was riding on the front platform of car No. 40, of the Belt Railroad, and on reaching the corner of pet streets attempted to get off without asking Jotun Fitzpatrick, the driver, to stop. On leaving the car Charles turned his back to the horses, and, failing on the track, was ernshed by the car before the driver could t . Car 12, of the Avenue C line, being imme ely im the rear of tne Tenth avenue car, also, i is alleged, ran over the boy, who died in { moments afterwards. The body was taken to the Leonard street police station and subsequently car to the residence of the parents, 455 Greenwich street, where Coroner Young was notified to hold an inquest, John Fitz- patrick and George Golden, drivers of the cars, were arrested by the Fifth precinct police, but Coroner Young subsequently discharged them, to appear at tine investigation. THE MATE OP A STEAMER KILLED. Coroner Young was yesterday notified to nold an inquest, at the Morgue, on the body of Mr. David H, Lowry, recently 4 mate employed on board one of the Cromwell line of steamers, who died from the effects ol injuries received by the falling of the foreyard of the vessel, on the 18th of April last. Mr. Lowry, who was a native of Baltimore, re- ceived a compound fracture of the right leg and thigh, The remus Will be taken to Baitagnore jor TAGS THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. The Programme of the Annual Cruise—Rendes- vous To-Day at Glen Cove. For the past three orfour weeks the waters of the Sound have been alive with yachts and pleas- ure craft, sailing about from port to port and giv- ing their passengers a chance of enjoying the cool atmosphere and pleasant breezes that of late have been strange to residents of che city. The annual cruise is .an event that is anticipated with lively interest by every yachtaman, as it brings the fleet together, not merely for a single regatta, but for from ten to fourteen days’ regular cruising. It is really during the cruise that the beat estimates of the speed and model of a yacht can be ascertained, as there one can watch ler for week alongside of others of known reputation and have an opportunity of seeing her sailing qualities fairly tested on every point. The BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB were early jn the field this year, as they starved with thetr Squadron from Glen Cove on the 10th of July, and after enjoying one of the pleasantest ten days’ cruise ever experienced by the members before, virtualy broke up at Newport, although three or four of the yachts remained in company together and went on to Martha’s Vineyard. THE ATLANTIO YACHT CLUB started on their cruise last Saturday week, and after passing Sunday and Monday in Cold Spring Harbor visited New Haven, New London, Green- port and Stonington. Commodore Maxwell was unfortunately prevented from taking a part in the cruise through the illness of a near relative, but his duties and programme were ably carried out by Vice Commodore Monsell. The cruise proper broke up on Saturday at Stonington, but the schooners Mystic and Agnes, and the sloops Alert, Stella, Nellie G, Kate and Orion, are still Sogertiey, and anchored last night in Newport Harbor. They will proceed to-day to Martha’s Vineyard. THE NEW YORK YACHT @.UB rendezvous to-day at Glen Cove aif start to-mor- row morning for New London. During the absence of the Commodore and Vice Commodore the squad- ron will be under the command of Rear Commodore Kingsland, who will fly his pennant en the scheoner yacht Alarm. e Squadron for the CRUISE OF "78 will, probably, comprise the following yachts:— rt CHOONERS. i nage, Astor “Asien A Bradhurst Leper Wavack:, ne! Flourede-Lais Coigate loyd Pneent Voorhis, Jr. R. Centre J. J, Alexander. A meeting of the captains will be held this even- ing at seven o'clock, on board the flagship Alarm, and the programme of the cruise will then be laid out. At present it is the intention to sail to New London on Tuesday, eee the city, and from thence have a scrub race to Martha’s Vineyard. ‘A ball is to be given there in honor of the Yacht Club, and probably about Friday the fleet will leave for Boston, returning on Monday to Newport, where a series 0 races are to be sailed. The pro- gramme at Newport will last over a week, after which the fleet will disband. Yachting Notes. The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Ariadne, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Strange, trom New York for Glen Cove. Yacht Gracie, Y.C., Mr. Waller, from New York jor the castward. Yacht Clio, N.Y.Y.C., Messrs. Bradhurst & Asten, from New York for the eastward, NUDE BATHERS, The Juvenile Population Disporting Themselves at the Piers—Exhibitions of Nature's Statuary. Travellers on our numerous ferry boats and by the myriads of steamers that ply up and down the North and East Rivers have become familiar, doubtless, by this time with the natural exhibi- tions of statuary that the gamins of New York city afford at every pier. A stranger cruising from some Western depot in Jersey City might think that New Yorkers were an amphibious race of a semi-dolphin species on his first view of the great population of naked, tumbling, sammersaulting and plunging humanity congregated on the piers. Sometimes half a dozen of these little rascals are WHIRLING AROUND IN THE AIR at onee, ‘like the planets on their own axletrees,” as Mrs, Partington phrased it, disappearing together under the blue rolling waves of the Hudson ; some- times twenty heads and busts are protruded above the billows directly in the path of some swilt pad- dling steamer, and again a corporal’s guard in the rare uniform that nature supplies may be seen mustered on the end of the pier going through a startling undress parade for the benefit of the passing passengers. These exhibitors comprise boys of all 8 under fourteen, thougn sometimes among them may be espied a boy unusually large for that age, and, by consequence, more unit to make an exhibition of himself Young ladies on the ferryboats have been so shocked by coming un- expectedly in their rambles through the cabins on these exhibitions that they dare not now venture to cast their eyes through the cabin window, while old ladies have been SHOCKED OUT OF ALL PROPRIETY. To the threats of officers of passing steamboats the urchins, usually falling in line to pay their re- spects to such as come within sound of their voices, Teturn yells of derision and choice bits of slang with such stinging effect that usually officers are ote to hide their diminished heads, as the jadies do. “Hey, Johnny, won't you take a dip?” “Oh, cheese it!” “Give us a rest!” At intervals all along the two rivers, and pretty well at every available piace on the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil, these nude bathers periorm THKIR HOURLY ABLUTIONS. Of course, in most instances they are the “small boys”’ of the street, the a and sooty Arabs of the city, to whom the free baths are closed at hours when they enjoy most leisure, and onl, the prurient prudes of Charles Reade's classifi- cation need blush at sight of them. Frequently, however, & man or a well-grown boy takes his chances With the rest, and such should always be rattaned away by the police. In fact, the lice recently made a warlike descent on the little in- nocents with such effect that all the streets for halfa dozen blocks in the neighborhood were filled With naked little fagitives, escaping as best they could, with clothes in hand, trom the sharp infliction Of a rattan across the shoulder, Such visitations had their effect, and deterred the litue bathers from any further STATUARY EXHIBITIONS on the public piers for some time. But, as with children of a larger growth, the moral of the dis- aster wore away ere long, and now they are as serenely impudent as before, ‘At tire foot of Canal street, on North River; near Twenty-first street, at Thirty-seventh street, with- in smell of the great manure heap and the ren- dering dock; at nearly all the isolated piers above Fiftieth street to the Hudson River Railroad bridge; at High Bridge, within sight of the pleasuring crowds gathered there for a Sunday’s entertainment; along the Harlem River at Third and Second avenues, among the boat houses and down Kast River opposite the Island institutions and under the shadow of the blufy gardens of the cast side, the little Sunday seekers were taking. their bare-back dips. Atone joint above Forty-eighth street two or three Bearaed men were also in the water, their chests ‘at least bare, and beyond them, off a little shanty, which apparently served as @ batning house, two women with ragged bathing suits were rolling around merrily in the siuggish surf, Nointerference ‘was offered by the police, although men and boys, and even the women, seemed to keep a sharp eye on the possibilities of a descent, SWIMMING WAGERS are generally an element of these occasions, and not long ago three women swam for @ medal to a stake boat in the middle of East River and return. ‘The passengers on the passing. steamers are inter- ested spectators of these exmbitions, which in- deed are no more copresensane than the daily exhibition of fashionable bathers at Long Branch. a cr and they should be aq) 5 THE FREE BATHS which have been instituted in the city have proven aoe tes to the demand, noi because of ther 1g 90 Sow ak them, but becpuap the hours Zz his hetakes hie rash where he oe st horror of ala Tadica re must attribute it altogether to his {ree soul, which remains untouched by that pruriency w! more cultivated natures affect, WATERING PLACE NOTES. "Admiral Rolfe is going to Newport. Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister, has left Nar- ragansett Pier, Keyport, N. J., ts at present crowded with the children of Israel. There 1s to be another rope walker at Niagara Falis next month. Robert Bonner is stopping at the Double Beach House, at Brandford, Conn, Governor Whyte, of Maryland, is enjoying the sea Dreezes at Long Branch. Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 1s at the White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Rey. Henry Ward Beeeher and family left Brook- lyn on Saturday for the White Mountains, Mayor Lewis, of New Haven, Conn., has gone to Saratoga Springs to remain about two weeks, Sefior Antonio Casanovia and family, of Havana, Cuba, have rooms at the Grand Hotel, Saratoga. Tom Thumb Stratton lives on board his yacht at Newport and his wile boards at one of the hotels, The Ocean Wave says Cape May has had nothing to complain of vhis season in the way of patronage, There is a lady at Saratoga who has so many diamonds that a spectal policeman is employed to keep guard over her. It is sald that General Grant has promised to visit the fat men’s clambake at Gregory Point, Conn., on the 28th inst, Mr. McCullagh, of the St. Louls Democrat, has a roving commission to visit all the Northern and Eastern watering places, Mrs. Schuyler Coliax, of South Bend, Ind, with her child and nurse, occupy apartments at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. The wealthiest citizens, the plainest dressers and the fewest diamonds, it is sald, are found at tue Clarendon Hotel, at Saratoga. . Tourists must not forget that Mount Kearsarge, one of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is infested with rattlesnakes, and very large ones. If Satan wants to make a good haul of politicians and office-seekers let him draw his seine from Pleasure Bay to the West End Hotel, at Long Branch. Baron Lederer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- ter Pienipoventtary from Austria and Hungary, arrived at Newport on Wednesday last from Sharon Springs. He puts up at the Atlantic Hotel. Absinthe is the favorite drink at Newport, Jersey tanglefoot at Cape May, cider brandy at Atlantic City, Kentucky bourbon at Long Branch, Congress water in the morning and old rye during the day at Saratoga and ice water at Round Lake. Among the gentlemen on the committee having in charge the full dress and masquerade ball which was given at Major Leland’s Grand Hotel, on Thursday evening, were Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts; ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, and John McKeon, of this city, REAL ESTATE, Great Sale of Property at Long Branch— Aggregate Receipts $137,195. "gieg, AND YB VISITED ME ~ Tho Simple Annals of the Sick, S and Sorrowing Poor. y What Is Done for Them by the Society fi for the Relief of Poor : + Sick Children. Stories of Sorrow in the Ninth Ward—The Prog posed First Excursion for Sick Children-- An Appeal to tho Benevolent for Help in a Sickly Season, It is pleasant to know that in this land of ve outspoken Christian teachings the Golden stands for something besides an idle text, readers of the HeRnaLp have recently had attention called, with more than usual emp! to the work being done by the Svctety for the Re ef of Poor Sick Children, a society that has bet mainly organized under tho direction of the John’s Guild, in Varick atre The poor we ha’ always with us, and shail have until the milk or the gokden age comes. Until that time arrive according to our tastes und according to our tal build, we re‘iect on their condition, and the! build up our little theories as to what is best to done with them. ‘The balk of us are con to stop at the building up of our theork The above society has its theory about the poor, but it is united with a practice that so overlays tl theory that the latter is quite hiaden by the glor} of the former. Its theory 1s that the poor need helping hand; 2nd because they are very often circumstances that they cannot help themselvet it is the duty of those who can help them to do ii and the society does it, Tue theory is very simp! and the daily practice of. it has the \ ENDORSEMENT OF CHRIST, P Areporter of the HERALD yesterday Visited @ trict where this society had been at work, It wi inthe Ninth ward. It is bounded by Clarksot Houston, Hudson and Varick streets. He found one block in King street that there had be twelve funerals of children last week. were twenty-seven sick children in the block, not only without medical attendance, without even the most ordinary comforts and cessities requisite for even a chance of restoratio! to life—mothers bending over their children witl @ mother’s sorrow, but witout a mother’s joy. Franklin street nine children had died this we In another block there were seven children wh for several days last week had only tasted once in twenty-four hours, In @room in @ tél ment houso a child had been left by its mothe every day, irom morning until the evening, wi noone to care for it, aud without, of course, i natural nourishment. In another room was a bo, who had accidentaily broken his leg, and who it broken for two days without any surgical at tention. A woman was seen in @ grocery stor! on Saturday bight with ie ~ THIRTEEN CENTS, to buy something to keep herself, her husband an two children from hunger. Her husband bad met One of the best suburban sales of the season or, in fact, ever held, was that which came offat Long Branch last Saturday, under the auspices of Mr. Jere. Johnson, Jr. The property disposed of con- sisted of two hundred choice villa plots, fronting in the main on Ocean avenue, between the popular Ocean House and the East End Hotel, Twenty cars, filled to repletion, carried the buyers from Sandy Hook to the Branch, after being landed there by boat from New York. It was one of the most orderly and respectable assemblages ever congregated at any public sale. Among the spectators on the ground to watch Mr. Johnson sell were @ number of the élite of Long Branch, as well as many wealthy capitalists from the metropolis and other places, sojourning at this pleasant Summer capital— President Grant, Mr. Childs, the well-known Philadelphia publisher; Messrs. Lewis J. Phil- lips, John McClave, Hugh N. Camp, Judge Joseph McGuire, and numerous others. The aggregate receipts for the property footed up $157,195, and the entire sale did not occupy more than two hours. The prices realized ex- ceeded the most sanguine expectations of the owner, and, in iact, of everybody else. The first plot sold, being six city lots, brought the “lofty”? price of $1,900 each. The success achieved by this sale will have its effect upon the disposai of 200 villa lots to be sold at Saratoga, by Mr. Jere. Johnson, ., on Wednesday, the 13th inst. ‘tne following arc the details of the Long Branch sale:— Plot No. 108, corner Ocean and Troutman ays., 86x200x68x200 per city lot, J. C, Osborn... 3 plots, adjoining, each 50x200, 12 city lots, each Bfots, corner Mitina and Gouid sts. each Slots, corner Gould st. and Troutman a with an accident by the falling of a safe, and legs were crusued and the supply of the bret winner had been stopped. These are but men leaves in the buiky volume of the book o} misery that was spread before the reporter's é ‘This misery need not be, is the answer; its allevi: tion is provided for; we pay our taxes ior it, we contribute occasionally voluntarily for its miti- gation. This is quite true, but the pune See poor do not know enough of the oficial routine dispensation of charity to get benefit of it. One day last week a poor woman, ®& regular attendani on a tashionable up! church, the pastor and congregation of which ail away for the Summer and the church closed f the season, lost her child by death. She was poor to pay the expenses oO; its iuneral. In simplictty she stepped into Filth avenue and tol her story at some of the houses there. She did for two days ay she - Dib NOT GET A CENT. Had she gone to the Commissioners of Chariti and Correction, on Eleventh street, her would have been buried; but she knew nothing the Commissioners of Cuarities, and, theretore, ake not go, Somebody told her 0: the St. John’s Guild, and sne went there, and her child was burie Charity, to this poor woman, had the keen edge its humiliation taken of, given under the shado of @ church, that it would not have had in the col hard, official dispensation of It by the Commission. ers of Charities. What about the twenty-seven sic children in King street and the other instances of misery already mentioned? is probably the impor-: tant inquiry of some tender-hearted reader. eh are all cared jor. By whom? This socicty. 1! twenty-seven cick children recelve medical attend: ance, receive nourishing food, have given to the! the mediciae that is presented, The voluntee! visitor of that block goes, aiter a day’s labor or bex fore he starts for iabor in @ morning, and sees him-¢ self that these chitdren get the food, get the medi cine and are visited by the physician; and these! twenty-seven children will, in all probability, ive and grow up healthy, To help them to do thi they, with hundreds of others, with their mothe’ will on Wednesday have a sail up the Hudgor River and then down the bay. This will be a fre excursion, and the children will get the BRNEFIT OF SEA AIR, which physicians say will do them more feed thi drugs and apothecaries, but the Tr little chil whose mother left it for the whole day without it natural food— well, that child will goon the excursion, When the visitor found this little one crying for its mother he found out also where 9 lots'on Gould st, 110 ft. no, of Troutman ay., .. 620 4 lots, nh. e. corner Troutman ay. and Gov st., each 660 1 plot (63 city lots), 60 fl. front, on Ocean to iplee Boab, ad i to Daiton, each : § lot, 5)x200, adjoining. to Daiton, eac: 2 a) yore, adjoining, SBUxISSx1U7x200, Dalton, ‘per city ot. ‘i 1 plot, adjoining Maicomb, per city 405 1 plot adjoining on faicom, per city lot. 390 1 plot, on Sea View av city 625 1 plot, 600 1 plot, lot. 700 1 plot. lison, per city lot. 7 510 1 plot, on Ocean av. adjoining 66x10i, J: KR. Lewis, per city lot. 0 1 plot, corner elas, per city 925 750 city lot. : . 780 1 plot, adjoining, 1iix222 3x 100x254; “Charles Weiss, per city lot........ 155 2 plots, “Cooper av-, per jot. . 615 625 145 8 per cil 500 20, Toohey, per city lo 500 , x10, Malcomb, per city lot joining, 50x120, Toohey, per city lot. . |. Fowler, per city lot. W. Havens, per city lot 1 1 plot, a 1 plot, adjoiniug, 5oxt I blot adjoining, f0x13 i plot, fore. corner Grant av. and | Main HAL-SxAi19%, J. Watson, per city lot 2 506 1 plot, adjoining, Mxi39x40R1408, J & Watson, per city lot. r 3 1 plot, vorne: % 0, Watson, per city lot = 1 plot, adjoining, wx211.4 J. 8. Watson, per city iot. 72 1 plot, adjoining, Sx2I7, Maria Brown, per city lot. 759 } blot, adjoining, 60x22. Malcomb, por city lot... 7) 1 plot, corner Grant and Cooper avs., 120xL3sx130x 80, Tha, sessesseeses case 743, 1 pl J. Lewi city lot. 1 plot, adjoining, 50x120, F. O. Brown, per city 1 plot, adjoining, 100x120, F. O. Brown, per city tot. _ 510 1 plot, adjoining, 9)x120,'E. H. Stokes, per city lot... © 500 1 plot, adjoining, 25x12), William Harrington, per city lot....... . . WS 1 plot, adjoining, 25x12, J Ot. ss oyeys 50 1 plot, adjoining, 50x: ity 535 1 plot, corner aye aid Main'st, WxlpxiOxidd, er Crete wast se 1 plot, adjoining, 60x 140x50x150, F. O. Brown, per city lot a avevesaeouetete . te 09 We have received the bis pd) of the following private sales of city property made last week :— RY MESSRS. PHALON AND SLOAN. No. 112 West 25th st., 3 st. De sD. 8, 21,6x60x9°, 9.820.000 No, 32 East 36th si., 5st. double bk. ‘h. 25x60x98.9.. 22,50) BY HOWELL AND 897 34 ay., fr. bh. lot 21x90. 1 Kast S8th st.; tall lot 5s. Ohio stone th st., full lot, DURST. Ni And (for brewing purposes) the property former! Use us a distiliery” with Stull Tots, on last Sa and East 55th sis., 100 feet e, of Ist av., for......+ The following sales will be held this week. . ny James M. Minuen—rumspay, avaust 12, (Under the direction of Wm. H. Meeks and John B. Cooper, Executors) Mansion House and 6 'acres of land at, Poughkeepsie, two miles South of the city, located on the old Turnpike Toad, running down to the fiver. (Onder the direction of Francis M, Scott, Referee.) jouse and lot ¢. 8, 2e av., 80.10, 8. 116th st., 20x80, WaDnrspay, auGust 13, (Under the direction of R, C, Beamish Referee.) J tot of jand with improvements n. 8 59th st., 400 ft. w. hav. 2x 10).4. (Under the direction of Gilbert H. Crawford, Referee) Lease of house and lot s. 8, 2ist- st, 100 ft Ww. 10th av., WxI1-11. Lease for 21 vears trom May. (Under direction of George Caulfield, Recetver.) Lease of 4 acres with bulidinigs, at Linden, New Jersey. known as the mical Works, together with the machinery. YOUTHFUL BURGLARS IN HOBOKEN. On Saturday night a youth named John Rourke was found to have burglariously entered the house of Mr. Foos, in Tenth street, near Garden. Ex- Street Commissioner Smith, who happened to be at hand, hastened to the rear of the building, where he nabbed Rourke in his attempt to escape, Two pais of Rourke’s made eir escape. Shortly afterwards Ald Edmonson and Officer Al- doretta scoured the meadows and unearthed the fugitives. They gave their names 48 James Barret and John Eagan, also young men. The Recorder committed them in default of bail. In Hoboken there isa very namber of such young in- dividoals, who subslat by similar Overations, 70,000 mother was employed. He represented the case her employer, and the mother is now allowed leave in the middie of the day to suckle her child and in order that she may not be hurried over i her employer pays her car fares, and she will hav @ whole day given her on Lae beer that she an her child may join the free excursion. The littl boy whose leg was broken-has now attendance and is doing well. ‘the poor w with her thirteen cents is watched over and care for tili he jusband gets well again. distress and misery elsewhere, besides the Nintl ward, is there not? says one inquirer. Yes, the! is, a terrible amount of it; but the society does 11 best to meet it. The society COVERS THE WHOLE CITY by an admirable system. It has not one paid of~ cer. It has had hundreds of visitors, but the; ae all voluntary. ‘Their hearts are in the work an Shey do it well. They have o1 one questior and it is this, “Do you need help?” The never ask the nationality or the faitn of any whom they relieve. It is the need of ahuman creature, answered by heart. Religious instruction does not e' along with the material help. There 1s no offerin; of prayer, there is no distribution of tracts, It a concentrated care for the body that this socte cultivates, It gets the body right and it leay those to whom tnis ree) is extended to their thoughts about the Christianity that ‘found they sick and visited them, hungry ana gave them naked and clothed them.” ‘nat the society no needs 18 help, either in money or kind, to save t! sick children from dying in hundreds during this sickly Summer. Those who ijeel disposed to them may send either money or Kind to the fellow< ing:— ‘The sy York eae brig Mayor Havemeyer, City Hal Francis H. Jenks, President Safe Deposit Com« pany, 140 Broadway, New York. ) Andrew W. Leggett, Acting Collector of Assesiq ments of New ror room 19 City Hail, Jones & Ryder, 432 Broadway. George Calder, Superintendent “East Side trict,” comprising Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, teenth ana bigteenth wards; headquarters, Rivington street. Charles O'Conor, Superintendent “Down District,” comprising First, Second, Third, F and Sixth wards; headquarters, 49 Park place. Rey, Arthur H. Warner, Superintendent “Wea¢ terly Section” of the Ninth Ward, headquarterg, 477 Hudson street. \ J. L, Davies, of Sheldon & Co., 677 Broadway, , Theodore Mosa, Wallack’s Theatre, Duniap & Co., 174 Fifth avenue. Charles H. Kendrick, General Passenger Agent New York Central and Hudson River Railr room 6, Grand Central Depot. Joun P. Faure, secretary and Superintende! “Easterly Section” of thé Ninth ward; he quarters, 238 West Eleventh street, Gouverneur K. Lansing, Bari’s Hotel, Treasurer. ¢ Rev. Alvah Wiswall, President, and aa tendent “West Side District,” comprising Fitt and Eighth wards; headquarters, St, John’s chape! Varick street. Packages of groceries, medicines, &c., od | sent to the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, who will forwars them to the various superintendents, A HOBOKEN POLICEMAN BADLY BEATEN, | Yesterdoy afternoon a fight took place in a house in Newark street, near Jefferson, Hoboken, whei Officer Murphy stepped in to pacify the pugilists, Scarcely had he attempted to go between th when two of them, Jerome Listora and David For sane, fell upon him, took away his club and ing flicted a very severe wound on his head. The officer then drew his revolver, but the assailanta wrested this also from him. By the time assistan arrived ba ty was badly injured and cover with blood, His assailants were arrested and be! for examination, 4