The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. @AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in he t‘ar, Four cents per copy. Annual! subscription price $12. AD business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx Hrs. Letters and packages should be properly LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. and Advertisements will be Subscriptions received and forwarded on the same terms 2 | toward repudiation. jo. 110 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PERA HOUSE, Bignth avenai ind sect ~TRE TICKET. OM LEAVE 3 closes at P.M. Mr. and Mrs, Florence. Bee a ag noeee 8 ay, opposite Washington — p ace.—HT poaprt Av TOME, a&c., at BY. M.; cioses at Li P.M. BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth avenue, comer of Twenty-third. street. ROMEO AND JULiot, ato P. Mi; closes at 1045 P.M. Miss Seuison BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, | opposite City all, Brookiyn.—OPERA BOUFFE, at 8 P.M. ; closes at i P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, L!UTH THE D&TECTIVE, and VARI AINMENT. 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Mr. | of MIQUE, ETY LNTERTAINMENT, at 8 | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. | phe President amd the Four Hen. csrlicst posible provision for redemption of | a sense of tho mistake it was committing | dred Million Mtli=Reasons Why He Should Veto It. | Im the address delivered by General Grant | upon his first inanguration to the Presideney | he made use of these words: —‘To protect | the national honor every dollar of the gov- | ernment indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated im the | contract. Let it be understood that no re- | pudiator of one farthing of our pablic debt will be trusted in public pisces, and it will go far towards strengthening credit which ought to be the best in the world." There was a ring im these words which made the country feel that it had the right man im the right place; and they had the greater effect on the public mind beeanse the President «be had just then gone out had encouraged views that all felt to be dishonest and demorslicing, and because, also, specious arguments bad been heard in Congress which led directly Tt was felt that an | honest man in the Presidency was our great | guarantee, as shortly before a capable soldier | in the field had been our salvation. | Congress was in sympathy with the Presi- |“dent’s thought, and passed, under that in»pina- tion, the act “io strengthen the public | credit,”’ which concluded with these words: — “And the United States also soleranly pledges | its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redewption of the United States notes in coin.’ This was sigaed j by the President on the 18th of March, and was | the first act ot a public nature that received his approval. Repeatedly since, also, in bis annual messages bas the President urged other steps in the same direction, and in his second inaugural he said: —**My efforts in the future will be directed to the restoration of our currency to a fixed value as compared | with the world’s standard of values, gold; and, if possible, to a par with it” Neither Congress nor the country, there- | fore, can have been in any doubt as | to the President's views. And what has been the response of Congress in the laws | passed? There has not been much legislation on the currency. All the bills tending to put | our bonds on a better footing the President has readily signed, and he has also approved | a law increasing the issue of national bank | notes; but the first consideration that Con- gress has given to the national currency proper has been to pass a law that is in direct opposition to and in conflict with the views so wisely urged by the President. For the bill now before the President, and awaiting only his signature to become a law, is in such fla- grant contradiction to all the recommenda- | tions he has made to Congress that it will amount to an absolute repeal of that famous act ‘‘to strengthen the public credit’’ which he signed within fourteen days of his first in- auguration, But this bill which the President is now asked to sign opposes and ignores his finan- cial policy in another very important point. It not only makes no provision whatever for keeping ‘the solemn pledge,” but it abolishes | the currency reserve, By this act it is pro- vided that the ‘maximum limit of United | States notes for circulation is hereby fixed at $400,000,000, at which sum it shall remain." | This adds to the circulation, therefore, the portion of the reserve now in hand and | makes no provision for any sum to meet such a contingency as compelled the issue of the $26,000,000 of the reserve that is now out. | Should the President sign the bill the Secre- | | tary of the Treasury will not have the power the national pledge, and the only answer ‘of Congress is to send him a bill that scorn- fully ignores the whole subject. His message of objection to the bill might include the sir plest possible statement of the facts of our financial position, the recapitulation of his own recommendation, and even the platform upou which be became President; but in view of the silence of the bill on the great subject ‘ of resumption, and its abolition of the re- serve, his signing it would be an act of incon- sistency an inconsistency so clear as to amount to a retraction and denial of every word he has ever spoken on the subject of the national finances. The Western Fleods and Flood Warn- Ings. ‘The flood tide in the Mississippi and ita left- bank tributaries continues unabated. At last accounts the Cumberland had risen nearly fifty feet above low-water mark, the Tennessee was overtlowing its banks and the Lower Ohio treshet wave at Paducah and Cairo was more than forty-two feet above the same mark. To add to the peril of the situation, there were on Friday general and very heavy rains in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and the inundating effects of these will doubtless be cumulative when they meet the descending freahet waves south of Memphis, The Bed River and the Lower Missouri are also known to be rising, and doubtless the White, the Arkansas, the Black, the Yazoo, the Washita and the scores of bayous which discharge their turbid torrents imto the great “Father of Waters.” Worse than all is the apprehension of renewed and heavy rainfalls, which in the flooded section often continue for several days in allowing the representative academy of the nation to sink in the estimation of the people. Our warning had the effect cf waking up artists who, Rip Van Winkle-like, were dreaming away their lives in the Sleepy Hol- lows of studio buildings, while the Academy grew musty in publio estimation from want of proper attention and support. Weare pleased to see in the present exhibition a most marked improvement, not alone in the arrangement, but also in the quality of the works. Livingstone and His Labors. The highest honors that can be achieved by an Englishman were paid on Saturday to the memory of Dr. Livingstone. Surrounded by many of the famous men in England, his body was received by the authorities of Westmin- ster and committed to the dust under the walls of the venerable Abbey. The Queen and the Prince of Wales sent tokens of sympathy, and the English nation accepted the charge of his funeral. So he sleeps at last in what has been called the great temple of peace and reconciliation. Many illustrious men lie be- side him, but no one of this generation, at least, carries to the grave a wider or more de- serving fame. It was Nelson who resolved to come out of a battle a peer or be carried out of it to Westminster Abbey: These were the ultimate honors to that heroic soul. This ultimate honor has been won by Livingstone by achievements no less renowned and no less deserving the affectionate remembrance of mankind than the victories of Copenhagen and the Nile. This is not the time to sum up the results of the life of Livingstone. We do not have the final results of his discoveries, and some time must elapse before we have the informa- consecutively. The damage inflicted by these deluges ought to have been, and might easily have been, provided against by proper action on the part of the State authorities. As early as the 3d inst. they wore specially warned by the Weather Barean of impending danger from | floods. On the 9th inst. the Chief Signal | Officer at Washington again specially tele- | graphed to New Orleans, Cairo, Memphis and Vicksburg that the danger was increasing. | Still more urgently he sent a third cautionary | telegram on the 11th inst. to Cairo, Memphis, | Vicksburg and New Orleans, deflaing the | minstory conditions, These forewarnings, | some of which were two weeks before the dis- astrous consequences, ought to have aroused the Louisiana and the ether State authorities to strengthening the levees and organizing | snitable forces for watehing and repairing | them the moment they began to give way. It is not at all unlikely that the local authorities and many planters have utilized these wide- | spread warnings, and thus prevented many | crevasses. But the State officials are respon- * sible for not making better use of them and se- curing to the vast alluvial districts the whitened harvests which had been planted. We have shown that the protection of the flood-exposed lands is a matter entirely within the power and purse of the States interested. Until | such protection is afforded every industry and | interest of the States bordering the Mississi | must languish. é a Prison Mismauagement. | We publish in anothes column a carious | story of prison mismanagement. It reads more | like a leaf from the history of the. times of | Louvois than a plain statement of well authen- ticated facts passing in our midst. What is | set down to the account of Sing Sing is, with | withdraw as he may be able | little variation, applicable to other houses of tion upon which the judgment of geographers and men of science will be based. In the | meantime the quaint letter addressed to Mr. Stanley, our correspondent, and which we print this morning, will have a melan- choly interest. It has the earnest playful- ness of character, the truthfulness and affectionate sincerity, which seem to have marked this remarkable man. This easy freedom of confidential intercourse gives the letter a value which a formal report of dis- ; coveries and achievements would not possess. It seems clear from the hints given by the Doctor that his discoveries will destroy the legends of Portuguese geography, dissolve mountains and lakes which have lived for cen- turies on maps of Africa, and seem to have been as baseless as the fabrics of a vision. “I have been the unfortunate means,” says the Doetor, ‘of demolishing two empires in Portu- guese geography,” and it would not surprise us to learn that the modern inventions which are called maps must give place to the chron- icles of the ancient travellers, who have long since been despised as fable writers. It would be an odd and striking comment upon our civil- ization to learn that the more we discover the more closely we approach the attainments of men who lived more than two thousand years ago ; that it has taken twenty-three centuries of | adventure to confirm the narratives of Herod- | otms. How far the results of Livingstone’s labors will change the map of Africa remains to be seen. It seems likely that he has solved the problem of the Nile. That in | itself would be a monument of enduring fame. But he has also given Africa a new life. Itismo longer the forbidding, deadly land of miasma, fever and cannibalism. We see something more attractive than the useless gorillas of M. du Chaillu. Africa is a home for men of courage and enterprise—a rich, | to | the ear New York, Monday, April 20, 1874. legal tender issued under pressure, Instead ‘of being able to reduce the | outstanding legal tender as he now can to | correction, and the picture certainly is not a | ripe, necessary Continent, with every- | pleasing one-—corruption, cruelty and mis- | thing to tempt the founders of management joined hand in band to oppress | an empire. There are nationalities the unfortunate and defeat the ends of justice. | who have already attained a rude but in- From our reports this morning the probabili- \ ties are that te weather to-day will be cloudy and | Savery ov THE AmEniqve.—A despatch late last night informs us that the Amérique had been sately brought into the port of Plymouth by the British steamers Spray and F. T. Berry. From the despatch published yesterday it seemed doubtful if the Amérique had been | taken into port, but the question is now set- tled. It is remarkable that a steamship should be abandoned with so little damage to her that she could be thus towed through the ocean waves and saved. While it will prove a fortunate thing for the captains and crews who took her to port, there will be, undoubt- edly, a searching inquiry into the conduct of those who abandoned her. Tae Exouisa Press anp Lrvinestoxe.—We must acknowledge the extreme courtesy the Hrrarp has received from the English press concerning Dr. Livingstone, and more especially in reference to the recent letters received from the explorer and communicated to the English journals, to be published simultaneously with their ap- pearance in the Heranp. This spirit of kind- ness and appreciation is among the finest qualities of English journalism, and it might well be imitated by many of our contempora- ries in America. Tue IsteroceaNic Canan Sunvey has been pushed vigorously by the commissioners and our naval officers sent to Nicaragua for that purpose, as will be seen by the interesting correspondence to this paper published on another page. From the determined action of the government with regard to finding a prac. ticable route for a ship canal between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean there is no donbt the problem will be solved and the work some day be accomplished. Musreninc tae Forces.—It will be seen by our despatches from Arkansas that both Bax- ter and Brooks are collecting all the sup- porters they can. We hope it will turn out to be ® mere demonstration to show their strength, and not preparatory to an armed conflict, Still, there is danger. When crowds are gathered together in such a determined manner and hostile array an accident even | may lead to a fight. ‘Then, tae men of Arkan- sas are not the most forbearing and peaceably disposed in the world. There are a great many desperadoes in that State who rather enjoy « fight. ‘Phe federal authorities at the same time eontinue to bring up troops to pre- vent ® collision. The ‘boys ip blue” may maintain an armed neutrality and compel the contending factions to refrain from bloodshed, aud that appears to be the only policy of the government. But it is a ticklish state of things, and will not easily admit of the appli- cation of a remedy. We can only hope that bloor? will not be shed and that the right will prevail. | occasions. $356,000,000 he must add to the outstanding amount the $18,000,000 still in hand and add the sum to his currency balance. He will, therefore, be absolutely deprived of the re- source the reserve has proved on difficult Last year, just betore the panic, the Secretary had accumulated $14,000,000 of currency, but his accounts showed $356,000,000 | os outstanding and the $14,000,000 as a cur- | rency balance. So under the present law the | outstanding legal tender will appear os $400,000,000, though the currency balance | may be $30,000,000 or $40,000,000. Contrac- tion or inflation will still be in the Secretary’s for purposes for which he might properly employ a reserve. It has been said in Congress that the Presi- | dent, if he should veto the bill, would stultify the acts of the odministration, as the bill “covers his course in the issue of the $26,000,000 of the reserve,” and that the veto | would thus be o condemnation of his own | acts. But from what appears to be the Presi- | dent's policy he must take a different view. All the acts on which the legal tender issues stand are acts passed before his incumbency, and while they contemplate an ordinary circu- lation of $356,000,000 they give the power to | increase it from the reserve they furnish. Different views are taken as to whether this power has ever been withdrawn, and the administration holds with those who believe it still remains, The Treasury and Law departments are in accord on this point. General Grant, therefore, in’ the issue of the $26,000,000, does not believe he needs the defence of a law authorizing that issue; for he stands on the laws which furnish a re- serve and contemplate that it shall be used when necessary, and that the issues under it shall be withdrawn again when this is possi- | ble, in order that they may serve in other emergencies. As the word “ reserve’’ in this use is borrowed from military science, nobody can better appreciate its full significance. With the views he thus seems to take of the law and of the wisdom of the case the bill be- fore him is in distinct conflict, and if he signs it he simply deprives himself of a resource that he has found in the highest degree useful. | Viewed fully, therefore, in its relations to | what is kuown of his financial policy, and by comparison with every public expression of his on the subject of the finances, the bill seems to have been drawn less in disregard of his wishes than in hostility to them; and | this, perhaps, is only natural, as he was | elected to the Presidency on a strong republi- Southern democrat. Indeed, the issue for a return of the bill with the President's objec- | tions is so clear that it is difficult to see how he can sign it. He belioves in the protection of the national honor from the very shadow of a | repudiation, and here is a bill which leads toward that downward we He urges the hands, but the money will be out of his reach | can platform, ond this bill is the measure of a | + The prison ought not to be merely a place of | punishment, but should aim at reformation, | for if society seeks only vengeance on erim- inals then law loses half its sanctity. But when the agents of justice use the power in- trusted to them by the law for their own ag- grandizement the interests of society suffer | and law loses all claims to reverence in the | jeyes of the criminal classes. Official | corruption appears to be inseparable from | American institutions. The term of office is | so uncertain that unscrupulons men seek to reap their harvest while the official sun shines. | The demoralization of politics influences the public service and tends to make public ser- | vants unreliable. A prison is the last place where one would look for the introduction of | politics, and yet itis notorious that our prisons are as much affected by party movements as are our custom houses and post offices, The | result is constant change of regulations, lead- | ing to confusion and general lack of discipline. It is no uncommon thing for different prison officials to be in open conflict and to wage war within the prison walls, to the destruction of all discipline and respect, on the part of the convicts, for the authorities. Perhaps the saddest fact in connection with the manage- ment of our prisons is the notorious corruption of all classes of officials, It is vain that | judges ond juries sentence men to severe | punishment. If the criminals have money | the persons charged with executing the sen- | tence of the law aro ready for a consideration to defeat its provisions. There is no luxury the | wealthy criminal may not enjoy, and the dull prison life even may be varied by excursions into the country. Every door flies open be- fore the pressure of the golden lever, and only | the poor, mean wretches who steal from want | are made to feel the full vengeance of the law. | Only one crime will not be pardoned in a prisoner—poverty. He who can afford to bribe need have no fear of the hardships of prison life. His cigar and brandy will reach | him as regularly as though he were free if he can afford to pay the tariff. Even the doctors, | it appears, do not escape the contagion, and | the hospital ward, under proper management, turns into a very mine of wealth. Repose and good nourishment can be purchased by the rich, while ‘‘diarrhwa mixture” and ‘sus- pension by the thumbs’’ are the favorite | remedies for less fortunate criminals, All | this is wrong and neods to be remedied. We teresting and progressive civilization, and there is no reason why this Continent should not be made the seat of enlightenment and peace, like our own Continent of America, which was unknown and abandoned to the savage Indian four centuries ago. This seems to be the crowning result of the labors of Livingstone. He has achieved more than was ever achieved by a discoverer. He has opened a new continent, so that while the tired, lonely, devoted old man is carried to rest we feel that his work is notdcne. We have seen only its beginning. Civilization already pierces the African Continent and seeks the paths Isid down by the genius of Livingstone. In the South the British hold dominion. On the ‘West Const the powerful and barbarous Ash- antee kingdom has been overturned by a British army, and we presume that this coast will pass under the judicious rule of England. In Liberia we have an interesting experiment in self-government, while the Khédive of seems resolved to restore the splen- dor of the Pharaohs, and to extend the dominions of his kingdom into realms which never obeyed Pharaoh. The French have made Algeria a prosperous colony, and the Spanish may at any time renew their | questionable strife with Morocco. ll the signs show that Atrica is assailed by the in- fluences of civilization; that to them she must surrender and become a use- ful, wholesome and prosperous home for many millions now crowded into Europe and Asia. If we regard this, as cer- tainly we do regard it, as one of the noblest works of our time, so we must honor above | all men, as the pioneer in the work, the guide | who has gone betore to point the way, the de- votee who loved his duty well enough to die | for it, the self-denying, earnest gentleman who now sleeps under the gray and honored walls of Westminister. Reravero tas Hicuwavs.—A reform in | our system of pavements is rapidly becom- ing a necessity of our metropolitan exist- | ence. The Tammany rulers bave left a mon- ument of their government in our thorough- | fares, especially in the uptown avenues which | were decorated with ‘patent’’ pavements. | These patent pavements seem, with scarcely do not attempt to discuss the distinction, fora wish some of our philanthropists would turn from dogs and donkeys and bestow a little of their sympathy and attention on these outcasts of civilization—the dwellers in our prisons, | Sparva Exurmrtion at THe Acavemy oF Deston.—In another column will be founda critical review of works oxpose@at the National | Academy of Design. Only # few years ago on to endeavor to rause our little art world to discnssion on patents would be interminable. But the general result is that, with all of our | experiments, we have not succeeded in making @ highway which is an improvement upon the old Macadam pavement. We have found | nothing better than stone, and, now that we have these monumental ruins of wood and pitch, and gravel and asphalt, and twenty is supposed to be our represeutative highway, the decadence of the high art school of this | other experiments, let us come back to the | Continent was so marked that we felt called | good old-fashioned stone, Fifth aveune, which | Janta, the Nautilns and the New York Rowing is in such a condition that no gentleman cares to risk the safety of his horses or bis own comfort and security in driving over it’ Pub- lic opinion should exert an instant and | resolute influence upon this subject, and com- pel an immediate repaving of the avenues, which are a disgrace and a danger to the city. The First Movement im the Local Political Campaign—Preparing for | the Fall. Towards the close of the legislative session and before the dogdays set in the local poli- ticians are certain to display a spasmodic vitality and to commence the work of pipelay- ing for such nominations as they may covet in the fall election. To be sure, their plot- tings and counter-plottings frequently fail to Produce the anticipated results. In the old times the offices used to be distributed by the | Tammany leaders on the democratic side some time during the summer ‘‘on the beach | at Long Branch,”’ while the ropublican slate would be made up later in the season on the second floor of the Custom House, and the rank and file of the party would have very little to say on the subject in either case. Nowadays a handful of prominent demo- cratic leaders of the new school meet together in a more modest manner in a private parlor to select the candidates of “reformed” Tam- many, while the opposition ticket is a matter of negotiation and dicker between the Custom House and the independent friends of honest government and a division of the spoils. Of course the sentiments of the people who do the voting are of no more consequence to the leaders now than they were when Tweed and his court held revel in the City Hall. But despite the certainty that in the end the nominations will be made for the people in- stead of by the people, the several political Barkises who are willing to serve the public are already busily at work endeavoring to cre- ate an outside pressure in support of their claims. The difficulty at the present moment appears to be to discover what the fall combi- nations will be and on which side persons are likely to be found. The success of Tammany last year, united with the evident decay of the republican strength, the disgraceful failure of so-called ‘municipal reform,’’ as represented in the present in- efficient city government, .and the inhar- moniousness of the reigning officials, which threatens to paralyze the political power of the departments, all seem to promise a demo- eratic victory in the Mayoralty contest and probably in the State. Nevertheless, there is an evident restlessness under the arbitrary rule which mxkes the Tammany of to-day a yet closer corporation that it was when the “big chief’’ sat in the light of the wigwam fire, and as party ties now hang but loosely on men’s shoulders it is uncertain at what mo- ment they may be cast aside. The democratic leaders, however, affect unbounded confidence in the result, basing their hopes on the sup- posed desire of all who have stood outside the fold since the commencement of the old “zing’’ troubles to return to full communion in the party. The main point of interest seems to turn | upon the question as to where Mayor Have- | meyer and his friends in the city government will be found in the next contest. The Police Commission possesses great power in an elec- tion under existing laws ; but as the Board is now divided, with the experience of last year before the eyes of the democrats, it is not probable that any material partisan usc could be made of this power, even if the disposition should exist. Outside the Police Commission the influence of the departments under their generally inefficient heads is not likely to be felt one way or the other. Mayor Havemeyer has shown great capacity in selecting heads of departments who are but little known and carry but little weight. Tho Department of Public Works will do service on the republi- can side; but with this exception no depart- ment under the Mayor will exercise as much influence as a corner grocery over the result | at the polls. Waile both parties are playing with the venerable Mayor for their own pur- poses, the probability is that he will be laughed at by both and suffered to go wher- ever he may please after the nominations are made. It is premature now to discuss the probable character of the nominations. All that appears tolerably certain is that straight party nominations will be made for the next charter campaign, and that the political imposition known as “municipal reform’ will finally disappear. . The Social Aspects of Boating. In a few days, or weeks at the utmost, the athletes belonging to the boat clubs on the Harlem River will be busy training for pro- jected and unprojected races and regattas. Before they seriously begin the work of the season we wish to commend them to the study of the character of Geoffrey Delamayn, not as they may have sean it in the play, but as it is elaborated in the novel. It is not for the sermon against overtraining that this por- trayal is worthy the study of our boating men, but because it suggests the brutalizing tenden- cies of turning manly sports into profes- sional occupations. Geoffrey Delamayn was a rude fellow, not because he ran a footrace, but because he put his racing in the same category with that of the winner of the Derby. The exclusion of every social element from our boat clubs and the evident dis- position of some amateurs to become professionals will make the same sort of people out of the young men who compose them. Nothing could be more undesirable; and yetit our boat clubs go on as they have been going for the last year or two, such is certain to be the result. Except ina few admirable instances ladies are never seen about the Harlem River boat houses, which is in itself an unhealthy sign. Even gentlemen visitors find the conversation of the boat | houses highly spiced with the talk of the pool rooms. Thore are no pleasant boating parties | on the water and no thoughts among boating an exception, to have been either a swindle in | their construction or in their conception, We | men except of diet and exercise, races and regattas. Indeed, it would be difficult to find & boat all the way from Harlem Bridge to Macomb’s dam that could be managed by any one except the most expert oarsmen, and pleasure barges are entirely banished for the light shells of athletic contests. Wo regard all these as alarming signs, and if the social aspects of boating are neglected much longer | we may expect the professionals to absorb all the amateurs or banish them from the river. On the other hand, if clubs like the Ata- Association cultivated the social as well as the athletic side of boating, their sports would bee come an exhaustless source of pleasure. be a new source of pleasure in the open air, which the amateur would delight in cultivating and developing. Now for ladies and children there are only Broadway, the public squares and | Central Park. If delicious trip on the water, oa a bright, moonlight evening, in the company of friends, old and young, could be added to our other enjoyments, it would be an addition well worth the making. This ad- dition our boat clubs can make by adding a social side to their sporta. As matters are now ladies never see the river except on race days, and then they are crowded into greasy steam- tugs or as rigorously confined to the banks as the women to their own side of the grounds at & camp meeting. And this state of things has no compensation even for the rowing men. Though these lithe young fellows may think themselves, as they glide by in their shells, with bared backs and shoulders, the admira- tion of beauty and fashion, they cannot avoid the reflection that Tom Bowling and True Blue are equally admired at the regular meet- ings at Jerome Park. Such triumphs cannot satisfy the true instincts of physical culture, and the only thing that can lift aquatic sports on the Harlem River from this unworthy con- dition is for our boating men to cultivate the social aspects of boating. Yesterday. Mr. Beecher made a noticeable announce- ment yesterday, that sets at rest the stories that he was about to take a six months’ vaca- tion and make a European tour. We can well understand how any season of rest would be grateful toa man who undergoes the labors of Mr. Beecher; but, unless the necessities of his body compelled him to leave, there is every reason for his re- maining at home now. He has fought a great fight and won a gratifying victory, and even his triumph imposes upon him new efforts and new labors. Mr. Beecher made a quaint allusion to his personal habits, saying that, while admonishing his people on the duties of morality, he had not neglected the moral law of health. Ie makes it a Christian duty to sleep at the right time and to work at the right time—believing that sleep is neces- sary to health and that work is the most gratifying duty of every healthy body. If our busy people were to emulate Mr. Leecher's example. in | this it would be betier for them. We are a nation which needs more sleep. We fancy it is energy to keep awake and busy, and misa the tranquillity and restoration that come from sleep, rest and honest entertainment. As a consequence we are a nervous people and | fancy Europe means repose. But toa man with | the temperament of Mr. Beecher there would } be no peace in a European tour, and he does well to stay at home and work and rest. We should be glad if Mr. Beecher could em- | phasize this wise lesson as to the Christian | duty of sleeping at the right time and working atthe right time. The reverend gentleman passed from this thought to a consideration of Christianity and the reason it had made wo lit- tle progress in the world. What he saw in the character of Jesus was @ manifestation of that spirit of humanity which became the inter- preter of God’s nature. The force of Chris- tianity was not in cathedrals, churches and shrines, in the splendid elaboration of relig- ious emblems, but in the example given us by the character of Christ—its patience, meckness, self-denial, lovingness, truthfulness ; and sympathy. Mr. Frothingham deliv- | ered a scholarly address upon the law of The Sermons habit. Christian salvation was the theme selected by Mr. Hepworth, who pointed out the resemblance that existed be- tween Antioch, where the new religion was preached with effect by St. Paul, and our own city. The liberality of a great city made up of men from many lands, contributing to the spread of the beautiful doctrines of the New ‘Testament so widely differing from the narrow teachings of other faiths. He concluded that God assisted man to secure salvation, but that man must seek God to procure it. Dr. Adams, of the Presbyterian Church, in preaching a farewell sermon closing a minis- try of forty years, stated his opinion that the national character was passing through a severe test, reforming to the progress of Chris- tianity, as shown by general philan- thropy. Dr. Tyng delivered an eloquent address on the occasion of the dedication of the Church of the Holy Trinity, ‘where souls are to be invited to the Lord, to be instructed in the words of the Gospel, to be consoled by the promises that are unspeakably | precious." Dr. McGlynn discoursed on the | parable of the Good Shepherd. He pointed out that when the sheep aré warned against forbidden pastures it is because those pastures: are injurious and hurtful to us, and that it was, in fact, the highest wisdom to hearken to the shepherd, who best understood the needs of his flock. The churches were well attended, and the subject matter of the dis- courses were such as to spread a truly broad and Christian spirit of tolerance and charity. “Parzn Moxey Depavucu."’"—The Mobile Register has an able article under this title, in which it quotes the views of great minds of the whig party in opposition to paper cur- rency, and thus refers to the effect of expan- sion of the currency upon the South: — * * * The South must also suffer if we are to ne drowned in a whiskey sea of devased paper. Have ‘we acharmed life to protect us against dangers that other men are liable to? Shall we clamor for | clipped coin—@ felony by English law—because otvers have been rash enough to require two nineas to make the purchasing power of one? ‘xcept for the questionable pleasures and the not questionable profits of a financial debauch, we do Not see for what a Southern business man clamors for more of an already debased curren Irons Katt, Andee. tna Oe ones to put on air ateam an jangerous tl ie and let ft Siow itself up in ite own rottenness and by the force of its own noxious HORSE NOTES. The proprietors of the Buffalo Driving Park have decided to give a purse of $10,000 at their August Meeting, free for all stallions. The list of pre. miums will now aggregate $60,000, A spring Cag | meeting will be held at Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, on the 12th, 13th and 14th of bey, ‘and at SuAOIK Park om (he 27(b, 280m and 29¢h of the same MODs