The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1874, Page 4

+ — THE DEMORALIZED POLICE. Important Report of the Board | of Aldermen. Dismissal of the Commiasioners | Called For. This Board met yesterday, at two o'clock, Mr. S. B. H. Vance, President, in the chair, Present— Aldermen Bilurgs, Cooper, Kehr, Koch, Otten- dorfer, Gilon, Lysacht, Flanagan, Reiiy, Morris and Monheimer. | A number of unimportant resolutions, requiring paving, Qagging, &c., to be done, were offered and reerred. | The Committee on Streets was discharged from farther consideration of the subject of the Under- ground Railroad, reierred to them last March. Subject to a resolution offered by Alderman Monheimer on the 4th inst. to appoint a special committee, consisting of Aldermen Uttendorfer, Falconer, Cooper, McCafferty and Gilon, to inves- tigate and report‘what action should be taken by the Beard of Aldermen in-relation to eertain allega- | tons made against the Police Commissioners, tat committee made the following REPORT. The communication 01 the Mayor, referred to your SomiMiLee, states in substance iyed No official information of the | the couime ce of the Legislature, on the | Feport of Which the resolu‘lon of this Boar. asking tor | econstruction of the Board of Police was haved; | ac only trom the public press of this gity he learned | of the existence oi such a commifiee, appointed | parentiy tor 0 purposes, the proceedings of which oo much vi a Doitical character to commant of such impertance as to ask for any action ou on his (the Mayor's) part; Mit he is promvited by the charter trom removing any head of any of the executive departments without furnishing to the accused a copy of the charges made aguinst him or them; "And that, as the resolution of this Board contains no specific charges, but a expression of opinio: the wetion of the Ma: an that it charges are ir Lody is prepared to sub- i Invescigate them “at ance and give a his juaginent shall Gensand. Y munities cannot suppress their astonishment, which will vertainiy be shared by the community, to | Jearn drow {iis communication that the Mayor of Ee | city of New York. whose dnty itis made by the charter “to keep himself informed of the doi ard which y depart be Vigilant aud act ordinanc nit MWS oF 0 be ted a Apter Aw of Lu 1873, art. iit, | 4 usi be officially informed of the misconduet of officer betore he can exercise his influence to corrector remedy xn evil mplained of. ot the opinion. that it shoul. be the ambition, as itis the duty of the Mayor, to observe attentively and closely the Workings of tbe different deparunenis of che goverminent, and to avail himself of every opportu. nity fo stimulate the energy of the public officials, or, if suiticient cause oxist, to sus and remove them { their position, without ‘waiting wntt in an offcial form specific charges are prepared and pre-ented to His Hanor and until they ave substantiated in every particular by a tedious investigation. We are aware that the power of removal of heads of | the departments, conferred on the Mayor by the charter, | is a very grave and responsible one, which should never | be exercised without strong reasons, and only tor the | protection of the public interest. To guard against a | misuse ot this power, for personal or partisan purposes,. the charter provides further:—That the heads of all de. | partments may be rem ved by the Mayor for cause, and aiter opportunity to be heard, subject, however, berore | such removal shall take effect, to the approval ‘ot the Governor, 2Xpressed m writing. This provision clearly indicates that, while it is in- tended to guard agaiusi a frivotous use of the power of | Temoval, 19 true Meaning is NOt to restrict its exercise to cases supported by charges which are substantiated | eviience siuiticient to secure the conviction ot the ac- | parties in a competent court, otherwise our crim- | inal tribunals would have been considered a sufficient | provection and the above mentioned provision of the | charter wauid be superfiuons. ‘To prevent even the suspicion that the resolution adopted by this Board, deciuring the recomstruction of | the Board of Police \o be the indisputable duty of the Maycr, emanated from anv other spirit than the desire to sec the affairs of the most important department ot our municipal government conducted in a satistactory | and efficient manner. and the couviction thar this cai | omy be accomplished by the removal of the Police Cor missioners then in office, no notice was taken of the humerous complain:s against thove oficiais, which occa: pied 1or months the puolic attention, and the preamble of the resolution consisted principally in a recital of the | most important points of the report of the | This'report was made. to the Assembly o f id was based ona very searching | investigation, held in this city trom. the Lith of February | to the 2ist of March, at whicn numerous witnesses, | Among them some of the accused parties, uppeared. and the swilest opportunity was given to them to contradict, And disprove the evidences ty which they ‘were impli. | cad. ‘The press of this city published extensive reports of the proceedings of this investigation, the public opinion Was deeply agitated bv its results, and His Honor the Mayor 1s yrobubly the only man’ officially connected With the adminis ration of our municipal affaire whose’ | attention this important occurrence escape. | ‘he excuse or explanation of tis apathy and indiffer- | entism of our Chier Executive in a matter deeply con- | cerning the welfare of our community. given in the com- mpunication refvrred to this committee, “that the legis lative committee was appointed for partisan purposes, | and that tts proceedings partook too muelt of a political character to command either the confidence or respect | of the community,” seem rather to be exposed to the same insinuation which is thrown out by thet The Legislative Investigating Committee wi mittee on the Affairs of Cities of the Assembly, consistiag: of members of both political parties, «ppointed at the aeganization of the Assembly, and ecrtainly not selected with any reterence fo an investigaiion of the street cleaning bureaus of our Police Department. No compiaint was raised against the mode in which the invest gation was con d,and the report made iy them to the Assembly, signed by all sts members, is a | moderate and dignified Yocument, in which nox ali, but | some of the prineipal results of the investigation, /ully | supported by the (estimony, are summed up iv aciear | and lucid manner, and as one o! the conclusions to which the commitwe was forced, the conviction is expressed, “that the cleaving of the pubjic streets | m the city of New York can oniy be thoroughly and économiculiy accomplished by a board composed of men who recognize their first duty to ve to the great mags of the people, who look at it ina sanitary and economical point of view, Which position your committee are forced to the convic‘ion the present Police Board does not oc 2upy, and any permanent improvement can gnly be ex- pecied froma reconsiruction of the Loard of Pollce. A more direct and impressive admonition to the city authorities, who Baye power to apply this remedy, can hardly be and in the tace ot this ta which was stat Preamble of the resoiution Adopted by ibis cult to understand what the Mavor couid tbat neittier the og 3 bred there proceedings such importance as to Sail tor any hedon on thelr or of bis part. At was iraly and justly observed that te Legislature at | Albay “treat us as it we Were a conquered prayince, With no rights they were bound to respect.” But what reasons have we to complain abourthe interference of. the State authorities in our munteipal alairs, it our city Matistrates decline to exercise the power conferred h the evils under whieh we ject or performing their duties with tne assertion that if a suMecient cause for action should exist the state Leyisiature would certainly mane use of it. 1s not this Ivitiny the evils against whic! Femnonstraie t tis useless to expect that the Legislature at Albany WL cease to consider (ue fnuetions of our municipal government ag mere spoils ty satiate the greediness of the ‘ollowers of the temporary po va his communication Legislature consia- ral Majority, as long | as the head of our executive declines to use'the wun | Joaded aad Drepared by the Legislature tor the protec- | tion o the rights and interest ur the veopie, untess the | copunaud ig given from. Albany to discharge it ‘AS stated already specitic charge testimony, efieited in an oMetal in nensahle tycnable the Mayor to exercise tie power conferred upou hin by thé charter to suspend and re- Move heads of departuien tsa sufficient cause Is all that is required tor this purpose, and such u cause iscer- | tarmiy furnished by the report of the Cor tee on the | Alluirs of Cities in regard to the. | Street Cicaning Bureau of the Police Board of the city. | df New York (a copy of whieh is transmitted with this sithougp the eeneny on Which the results | the | substantiated by | vestigation, ure not 3 man: ent of the fated in report and the conclusions drawn 0 » based ts uot yet published, and ts not ex- 1. a= we are informed, t appear iv print betore Six Weeks to satisty en those of the propriety of the reso:u- tit of April last, who are | this Board tie | st be shown and. pro: and sceunnizes, i le: y' move heads of deparunenis, we present herewith « printed copy of the testimony given in at: examination held on the application ot Joun kelly. Jon W. Chanler, Hugh Yaylor, Jon stephenson and Joseph Haight, Jr. 13 fhe Kuprome Court o: the First Judie district. From ‘his tesiimony, among others, we following facts were deve ay: . together with Lenry republicau members of we ination between Chariiek, inst the Wishes of Duryee and Ras er Were appointed a comimitwee ed with ai matters appertaining to the electiot hat this OO apuoinied aly the inspectors throtighe ‘out the city vUL COMUNE either Russeli or Durye of wtiorming y ardger Char * test %, Russe | inony : De M8, and teaiiony. pe | Tha: ngement between them, Gardner in- | tvs ir e rs oN Kebali of the | republican party, and Charlick individually the remain- | ger stich should have been appointed an benalt or the looratic , i party isee Chariuck's testimony, pp. is, Wy Russe teatimony, p. Wl; Duryee's. testimon b, ins Kelly's testunouy, 9, 187, amd Hasbrouck's teal. That the acuon o ppectors us vot re miation wnt meneed their Wharhick s testimon Yeatimons, pp. Wi, 10: Masurou k's test ll of whic 675, Laws of 18 Fir) f Uris committee in oried to the pointing Ine Board of Police tor cot withough the inspectors egistration on October 6 De HNy dy 4h, 4, 45, 85 co's testimony, winony. pe IL) rete | tion of section 13 of chapter | providing ‘t—That all the inspectors of election shall be se- fected and appointed by the Koara Poli¢e, which Board ig ulven power to make all remuv nd Ail all | vacancies, Second That such Board shalt anvnaally, during Augast and September, appoint jour inspectors’ of election im each elgetion Gisuict of Whom, shail be of different political taith 19 aid those appoiuted to represent ci minority on Ste issues in said city oye hamed solely by sueh of the Couinissiouers in said Board we represent such political minority. it ‘uether A ae (t? trom iijs testimony Thai. on and direciy. privt 2 siection day a large miber of removals and appointments of inspectors of tion were made by Charlick, alone, which were not we the Board of Povice tor confirmation aul November 10, 1873 carter the election), and were not ouly made without the knowledye of Duryee aud Rus eli, but were confirmed om that day by the votes of | Ohafliek, Gardner and Smith, and against Of the former, | «Chariick’s testimony, pp. 22,6 momy, p. 10: testtinouy. v.40; 1 uae issues, m their Opponents, | the Board oF Police. to induve t | lection day and the day's proceedings, Were not st. | the plac | the act of tative | 2 | provisions of the act | of the elty ot N | city. | cant. | lemedy the matter in case Treasurer Raiue’s ais- NEW Peeper tp rat age y written of other notice as preseri! bys (Chariick's test! mony, pp. @ to Tl, 86: Ke.ly's testimony, pp. 13% 136, 08: Crowley's’ testimony, p. 133; Hasbrouck's testimony, pp. 175, tasting ‘estimony,, p. 150; Sheri- dan’s testimony, ‘p. 15; Uaggerty’s testiozony, |p. 153; AcCartuey’s testimony. pL) These (leg: remibvala’ were mostly made in the Eigh- teenth Assembiy district. ¢ in such & madner as to place the control of the election in certain election dis. trietsin the hands of inspectors who were guilty of | frauds in the canvassing of the votes, | Duryee or Russell, w! Thus, in the First Election trict, Eighteenth Assem- bly, an Inspector Was. appmnte James Kil siened. whic! unul & man w tober $1 in place of ) Upon the ground that the latter had re- he did not ta tact do untli November 3, nor | sent from Poilce Headquarters to’ ie. ation, which Was written out and dated | testimony, pp. 49-73; Killan’s testi- | | } ction district, Eighteenth Assembly, Welch wus removed upon the day vetore election | upon a talse charne aud without (uvestigation or notice and his place filled by a who acquiesced In the ads commitied. “(Chariick's testimony, pp. 51-03; Ff eela's cwstitnony, P. 1:0, Welen's testimony, p.’ Dm istrict. Fighteenth Assembly, eGarthey, the two teno- were both removed’ without notice, nd_ their piace supplied by their Who Violated their ditties ay inspec+ testimony, pp. 93, i, G2; Hugnes Stevens’ "testimony, 'p. 193) MeCart- tors. (Charlick’s testimony, p10 ney’s tesiimony. p, In (he Twelith Election district, Bighteenth assembly, A. J. Haggerty was arrest ¢ charge nade a fetitious person t Opor and was removed. se arlick's testimony, p. 67; U ) gerty’s test jection district, Eighteenth Assem- mony, In the Fourteenth bly, L. 1. Crowley, the only democtatic inspector, was removed without ‘notice on a talse charge, His place Was filled by his po.itical opponents and tue canvass by them was traud@lent. (Chariiek’s testimony, p. 635 Crowley's testimony, pp. 13, 122.) inthe Twenty-third election district, Eighteenth As- | sembly, Jom Sheridan was removed on a faise charge and without notice, (Charick’s testimony, p. 68; Sheri dan’s tes:umony, p, Ls The telegrains that Charliek afterwards produced to to ratity his acts on cient to cover: the cases. “(Russell's testimony, p. 105 And there were but three removals im fact at the meeting of the Foard on November $, althouch a large umber appear on the minutes as having been removed on that day. (Duryee’s testimony, p. 110.) ‘Thus violating the Eleetion law, whieh provides that Fou: th—All removais. unless made when the imspector is actually on duty on a day of registra ion or election, and for improver conduct as an election officer, shail only be made after notice in writing to the officer yought to be removed, setting forth clearly and disuuctly (he Teasons for his removal. It turther appears from the testimony— oma!) n Charlick, Smith and w Knowledge. of a and om the evening of election, sent t diferent polling plac (Oharhick’s testimony timony, pp. 105, 106, 107; HS, 14) That this order was enforced in twenty election dis tricis in the First. second, Eighth and kiehteenth Assem- ricts, ns whien the railing was so far distant from r z pp. 77. Dury possible fox the proper or the returns correct tricts was made ‘That in many not prearrang % where the protection of tins order was not required, Unis order was hot promulgated or eutorced, hereoy yiolating Miy 14, IS72, sect vides that ch candidate helection distri lice and inspe and to allow himn.“to be presenta lots and so near to them that h Vass and the returns are carr canvass was many of such dis- the canvass. see that such can. i the patice and Al inspectors are forbidden to allow the watchers to be mo- lested or removed. While the report on the investigation of the Street Cleaning Bureau shows a lamentabie inetliciency and a culpable negligence of the whole Board of Police then in tw some of the office, ition’ spoltation Is traced only subordinates of the Street Bureau, the the Supreme Court Jaws by two ot the P in morals as well as in sidered 4 public necessity. His to be feared—and numerods symptoms indicate this avprehension only to be too well founded—that the inefficiency. negligence, corruption and defiance of laws which are proved to exist in the Street Cleaning and Election Bureaus are not restricted to these two offices | Dut pervade, more or less, every branch of the Police | Department. ‘The idea that the most important department of our city yoverniment, to whose care the preserva ion of law anil order, the security of the lives and property of tho citizens, ind their protection in the exercise of their dearest rights is intrusted to 4 great extemt, is under the control of men who neglect their duties trom careless. ness and ineflicieucy or Who use their position to sauis'y partisan and personal purposes, is feartul to conicm Plate, and to decline to use every opportuni this sail state of affairs involves & grave responsibilil ‘This Board has, in reterence to the subject under con- sideration, no power under the written laws .v enforce compliance with lis views and resolutions: it can do hothing but to express a mere opinion. But when this ro) e Commissioners. aud, therefore, jaw their removal must be con- | opinion, as in. this instance, is the result of an impartial and cateiul review and 15 formed by an earnest desire tor the protection and promotion of the pubic weltare, It becomes.an unwrit.en law more powerful than any en: actment of the Legislature. the provisions of which oan- aded by the ingenuity of hair-splitting lawyers, force of nich, we trust, our venerable chief ive will gracetully acknowledge. Your committee there‘ore recommend to resolve : ‘hatin view of the facts and statements enumerated in the foregoing report, it is the imperative duty of lis Honor the Mayor to suspend and remove the Police missioners who are responsivle for the demoraltz, existing in their department in agcordance with the « t to reorganize the local goverment w York, and to reconstruct the Board of. Police by the nomination af geutiemen as members of that board whose character and standing in the com- munity will be a guarantee of their able, taithful and honest management of the important trusts conferred by the laws on the Police Department. OSWALD OTTENDOKFER,) — gyeeiay 8, V. BR. COOPE PIR in bo EDWARD GIBSON, § Committee. Alderman MonaEIMER moved that the report be received aud laid over, which action was taken, A number of general orders were passed, alter which the Board adjourned. NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. A Stated meeting was held last evening at the | College of Physicians and Surgeons, Austin Flint, M. D., presided, The minutes of the previous | meeting were read and approved. Letters of thanks were read by the Corresponding Secretary from Sir James Paget and Sir Richard Owen in | acknowledgement of the honor of tnetr election as | Corresponding Fellows of the Academy, Professor Willard Parker gave the meeting a pa per “On Some of the Injuries of tne Brain and Nerves; the Sequence of such Injuries and the Treatment.” This was a series of practical notes—the result of long proiessional ob- servations. 1n the cases of children falling and striking the head, should no vomiting have fol- lowed, if the child has slept quietiy and awaked | bright and good tempered, the parents not being tubercular, the best plan is rest, as in all cases where the hervous system has received shock. also in bloody Guctuating tumors in tne. head, even though the temptation is strong to use the lancet, the best method 1 to preserve periect quiet. Laceration of the brain, where there hag been Beither compression far concussion, caused by the penetration of some small feinsed instru- Ment, requires particular ca.e, as the prognosis is nearly always favoravle. The main thing 1 the | first treatmeni, removing the ‘ragments of bone, clearing the ground, keeping tae patient quiet, and, m case of inflamination, a judicious use ot the laucet. In traumatic eptlepsy—that ts, epi lepsy resuiting from biows on tie vertex of the brain—cousiderabie or total success has resulted tm removal of the portion of the bone de- breased into tie brain, im cases of se- vere iracture from tangent-like biows, careiul | removal of splintered Lone, Washing and dressing the wound aud antiphlogisue treatment had been successiul, In mechanical injuries of the herves, arising from accidental cuts on toe arms or legs or severe needte or pin prickings, though re- Moval of a portion of the nerve tds been partially Successiul, tue removal of the diseased part 1s @ course much" preerable, Mistakes ure ire- quently made in diagnosis of nerve concus- Sion and of inflammation, The tormer may be readily distinguisued by the diminution of | temperature, atrophy, ured-pains and the effects of cllange of temperature. ‘The treatment should be the opposite of antiphiopistic. In this class | whatever lowers exaggerates, whatever lifts up the condition of the body helps. Dr. Parker's paper was succeeded by a biograph- | ical memoir of the late Dr, Alired Undernill, by Joun P, Garrish, M. D. LARGE POBK ESTABLISHMENT DESTROYED. | CHICAGO, M1., May 21, 1974, At a late hour last night a fre broke out in Tobey & Boorh’s packing house corner of Grove and Eighteenth street, and in a short time the butiding and the contents were entirely consumed. ‘Te building was valued at about $50,000, and was stored With & large Mumber of dressed hogs, over 1,000,000 pounds of bulk meats and sever! thou- sand pounds of tard. In addition there were on ue premises 800 live hogs, of which uot more than 0 were saved, The total loss is estimated by the proprietors at not over $70,000, and is fully cov- ered by insurance, ubout equally divided vetween forty companies, East and West, A TEXAN EDITOR SHOT, JEPFERSON, May 21, 1874. About half-past nine o'clock jast night & shooting affray occurred on Austin street by which Mr. J. H. McEachern, editor of the Democrat, was shot and | dangerously wounded bya man named Richara- , sou. Mr, MeBachern was for several years mau- ager o1 tue Western Union Telegraph office in this STATE TREASURER RAINES’ ILLNESS, ALBANY, May 21, 1974, Under the law the Deputy Treasurer cannot siga | checks, that duty devolving exclusively on the | ‘Treasurer. There are between 100 and 200 checks | awaiting his signature, and all payments are sus- pended, There is no way to declare the oMce va ‘The Governor can suspend the Treasurer only for a violation of duty and then fili the va+ Cancy. ‘fhe report that it will be necessary to convene the Legislature 18 not gustained by the | Opinion o1 officials here, A way will be found to } Ability continues, ‘The amount of money on fle Dostt in the bank at Wooten ie @0d Was Well secured, vo wae ee tad | YORK HERALD, | no help tor it. | in the case ot girls | cordance with tne aatcenine— SOCIAL SCIENCE. Third Day’s Proceedings—Papers on School Hygiene, Hospital Tents, Trans- portation of Animals and Finance. ‘There was the usuaismail audience present yes- terday at the session of the Sociat Science Associa- tion, The afternoon meeting was preceaed by a Setof informal comference of the Board of Health. Mr, Jackson S, Schultz presided, ‘The first paper read was vy Dr. Jenkins on “Tent Hospitals,” the argument of the paper as weil as the argu- ments of Dr. Elisha Harris, of New York, and Dr. Howard, of Boston, who discussed it, going to show that the treatment of patients suering from malignant fevers was always attended with better results in tents than tn closed buildings Dr. George T. Angell read a pager on “The Pro- | tection of Animals,” which was discussed by Mr. Bergh and others. Dr, Allred 1. Carroil read a paper on “Sanitary Science in our Schoois and Colleges,” which was discussed by Dr. Cc. R, Agnew, Dr. wy F, Lincoln also read a paper on the subject of “School Hygiene," which took the same views of the subject as Dr. Agnew and Dr. Carroll, He dealt, however, with the subject somewhat more in detail, Dr. Lincoln contended that the air furnished for the use of the school room ought to be heated be- fore it ts brought into the room, in some way; \t | should not be roasted, so Lo speak, but should con- tain sudicient moisture. Whetber it should, when polluted and deoxygenated, be removed vy suction like that exercised by a chimney upon the air of a grate or stove, or Whether we should endeavor simply to force warm air into a room and trust to its own elasticity to force its way out by cracks in the. windows or special open- ings in the walls, was not wholly a settled ques- tion. He said good ventilation was necessarily expensive. First, because when impure air was expelled, we expelled with it a great deal of he: which was absolutely thrown away. ‘ere was It had to go up the chimney or out of the window—the sooner the better. Again, adequate ventilation in a crowded room implied a dangerous” amount of draught and air. Scarcely a public schoolroom existed that was not so crowded that the attempt to bring in enough fresh air would be improper, The remedy was only to be found in placing fewer scholars in the rooms, and if this was done more rooms would have to be built. The expense, he msisted, was a good in- vestment, df it saved children irom headociies, in- digestion, sleepiess nights, listless days, coughs | and the disposition to take cold, pa’e cheeks and | poor appetites, Jt was. well known from foreign sources that school work was bad for scholars’ eyes. ‘The best known series of observations upon this point came trom Dr. Copp, of the Prussian town of Breslau. He had found that near- sightedness increases. im a rapid ratio proportivvately with the advancement of the pupus in their studies. Very voung cnildren in scool had little or no tronbie, while of the oldest, Scholars 2 the high schooig. more than one-half were near-sighted. The causes of this diilicuity were various, Some, which could be remedied, were badly printed. text books, the use of ©0- called German text. badly lighted rooms, light coming trom in front of the pupils and dazzling their eyes, too sombre or too briliant coloring of the school walls, desks whieh are too high, and bring the pupiis’ books too elose to the eye: desks which are too low, and cvmpel him to stoop over in reading or writing, more especially, whereby | the blood is made 10 gravitate to the head; ine pressure of the collar on the neck, making matters still worse. Over-heated rooms, he said, made the face fiush and added to the evil effects of all those causes. ‘There were other reasons than these, Gonbtleas, for the fact of the German nation being @ spectacied nation. Taking our own schools at large, it was certain that no such deterioration of vision had as yet oc- curred among the children; yet he acknowledged that near-sightedness had begun ie prevail among those families in this country which the cnil- Gren jor @ generation or two Had been thoroughly trained in studies which were not accompilsh- meats—German, Greek. mathematics. School seats were bad when the scholar could stand up between desk and seat, because in such & con-truction the scholar in sitting had to lean forward very much | in order to reach his desk. It is necessary to bring Uhe desk lid somewhat over the edve of the scat. 16 18 a good plan to make the lid in two pieces, so that the near piece swings up on hinges, iurnoishing a book holder when not used to write upon. Seats with too little support or an uncom oriable support give pain, increase the natural restieasness uf the cniidren, und tempt them irresist.bly to assume ajl sorts o! pad pos- tures, which give rise (especially in the case of giris) 10 spinul deformities, One oi the most im- portant agents in counteracting thus tendency, Which is 80 sertous that 1¢ sometimes, he suid, im- presses itself on the forms of almost all the giris in. a given school, was the frequent and judicious use of light gymnastics, He advised not only light gymnastics, but that the chest should be de- veloped by the parallel bars, and more especiaily iD Of DOYS, IoF giris, in ac- of uyman society, haye less chance to use their chests and arms than boys have. A larg: school yard, sheltered from Public view, wag doubly desirable, both as furnishing room ior open-air exercise and 28 insuring an abundant supply ol sunlight in the school rooms. He protested against the lamentable perversion and invasion of what ought to be tne aim of all scnoo!l life; ior whereas. a Proper amount of real was really stu a@ sure means of strengthening the heattn and im- Proving bodily development too.mnch work was given the children, producing lassitude. The over work given Caused nervous diseases. Fre- quent change Of posture should be allowed the scholar iu school. They should not be kept for hours at a time in their seats. ‘Too jong vacations, he belleved, were injurious to the papi's’ eMciency. He said that owing to the intense nervous strain on their systems school teachers suifored much from a certatu form of deaine-s, It was caused, he belteved, by exhaustion and breaking down. | He advised organized inspection of schools within given areas, Every important item 1m the health of the scholars and the arrangements of the build- ings should be included in such inspection, and results should be printed. He sald that one ofthe Members O1 the association had prepared the draft o1 a law establishing the office of inspector of punlic schools, The Evening Session. At the evening session Professor W. G. Sumner made a report on finance, Mr. George Walker pre- siding. the report was quite exhaustive and the author discussed the financial question tn its every aspect. He declared that ior the past twelve years we had been trying @ system which. had already proved that it was a bad one. Nnancial question ever succeeded in making two. great parties in-the country—that of men who have and those who have not—the result would be social war; but he had great iaitn im the good sense of the people of this couutry, and if we were to jose faith in that there was, indeed, reason for feariui lorebodings. He said the Legal Tender act was passed at a moment of bewaiJer- ment, and oor present calamities cyuld be laid at} the door of inconvertible currency. Our biun- ders were our misiortunes, aud our duty at pres- ent was to remedy these blunders, Mr. Chariton T. Lewis spoke in relation to the subject matter of the paper. He said that the question of irredeemabie currency was not weil understood, It was a matter of scientific truth that the Legal Tender act was a trand, Was it possible that the voters of this country could be made to understand the elements of this question? Most people in this country believed in a republican torm of government, ana tree dis- cussion of this question before the people, he beheved, would not go unheeded if properiy pre- sented. How shouid all the evils of an irreedem- able currency be brought plainly before the public so that they couid see its real rotrenness, its absolute falseness, Was a matter that concerned every man Who had tue welfare of the country at heart--what means should be employed to open the | eyes of the people to the real boliowness. of the system, So-called, upon Which this fraud of irre- | deemable currency based itseli? This was really the duty of men wno beiteved in social science. + Mr. D. A. Weils iollowed, anu said that to getat the heart of the subject it would be necessary to go vack to the year 1857. 1860 everybody Was prosperous and saved money, aug during that ume there were very uittie restrictions upon trade. After 1861 came the high tare, them the legai tender and all the t that followed in its train, In 1866 the exchange: between Canada and the United stares amounted to $34,000,000, and alter the repeal of the treaty they fell lower and lower until they fell to $57,000,000, and then we vegan to climb up the hill again. He Spoke of the interview te haa wita the Japanese Commissioners a iew years ago, Who, he said, had come iiere with the best intention to do well by the United States; yet, thanks to the avarice of the Yaukees, they tound they could buy less tor their dollars than in any other country. The result was tat we were losing the tradé with Japan that Ought to haye been ours. Mr. Wells tuen referred to severai other (hiugs which he claimed had done much to injare our hhancial condiuon. _ the discussion of the report on “Pauperism in New York’ will be opened by the Rev. Jonna Hail, D. D. That on President White's paper, *Relanon of Nationaland state Governments to Advanced | Education,” tn the evening, wilt be led off vy the mee br, McCosh, President of Princeton Univer- sity. GITY TREASURY, Comptrotier Green reports the following die bursements and receipta of the Treasury yester- aay :— Claims paid. Payrolls.. Total. He said that ul the | From that year to | FRIDAY, MAY. 22, 1874.—TKLPLE SHEET. THE BRINCKLEY DIVORCE SUIT. Defendant—The | Cross-Examination of the Lawyers’ Battles—How Mr. Brinckley Made. | jhy," Himself Agrceable to an Officer—A Love j Letter—The Diamond Widow at ! St. Paul, Minn, and How She | i Was Robbed of Her Jewels, | | The triat of the Brinckley divorce suit was re- | } eumed yesterday morning be‘ore Judge Van Brunt andajury. Messrs. W. A. Beacb and F, C, Brown | appeared for the plaintif and Mr, W. N. Anthon for Mr. Brinckley. ; The cross-examination of Mr. Hugh L. Brinckley, | the defendant, was resumed by Mr. Beacn, There was a funny episode in regard to thé testimony of Miss Lina Bonton. Mr, Beach asked the defend. ant about twenty-five times whether he had not | spoken to Miss Bonton of the plaintiff” as his | “wile,” she having previously testified to that | emect. The only answer that he could get was | that he might have used that term ‘equivocally,’”’ | but not “unequivocally,’? which caused general | niarity. He was asked whether he meant to put | nis statement against that of Mc. Morrell, Dr. | Mott, Mrs. Beams and Miss Linden, who had ali | testimed that he spoke of the plaintiff as his | wile," and the witness repited that Mr. Morrelt | ied out of whole cloth, but that the others were | laboring under a delusion. He was arrested at | the beginning of this suit in the New York Hotel | Onawrit of ne exeat, but left next morning for Jersey City, ( TO AVOID GIVING BAIL, The writ was served in the evening, and he “walked round’? with the officer, taking sundry drinks with him at various saloons.’ When asked | where he shook the officer off at last, he sald he | could not state, as he did not know whether he | shook the officer oIf or whether the officer shook | him of. (Loud laughter.) He made himself very ' agreeable to the officer—(laughter)—but could not | remember his name. (Laughter.) Mr. Beach asked the defendant how much prop- erty he possessed in Memphis. Mr. Anthon objected, as the verdict of the jury might render all such evidence as to his financial condition irrelevant. Mr. Beach contended that there might be a con- tingency when this question would have to be ex- amined, and that this was the proper ume to do it. He insisted that the defendant’s assertion that he was independent of his father raised the question, Judge Van Brunt said it was not the practice in such cases to inquire into the defendant's pecu- niary condition at this stage of the proceedings, as this question would have to come belore the Court subsequent to the verdict of the jury. Mr, srinckley said he inherited property worth (betore the war) $1,000,000, of which his father was hie tenant; he was not dependent on his Jather in 1864 (when he: firsts made the plaintiirs acquaintance), but their retation WAS ONE OF MUTUAL DEPENDENCY. In Texas he had tn 1864 3,300 acres, worth $3 or $5 per acre ; In Tennessee 800 acres, Which he suvse- quently sold jor $20 an acre, aud the income of a block of buildings in Memphis, his Jather permit- ting him to collect the rent; his connection with the Little Rock Ratiroad did not beim untl 1970. Mr, Beach showed the defeusant several letters, which he identified. deciaring, however, that parts of them had been changed; this Mr. Beach tried to | explain by the Jetters naving beea written in pen- | cil, 80 that some words became obliterated and | had to be written over again. ‘I'ne sente nich | had in part been rewritten ran'as foliows:—“Tin- | tend to do everything Jor you I can, Lizzié. 1t 18, indeed, my duty to Jou to render you contented and happy.” Mr. Antnon said no one had a right to write the obliterated words over again and sub- stitute a strange handwriting for that of the ae- fendant. “| don’t think Your Honor would allow you to do it,” Mr, Anthon sa.d to Mr. Beach. “What, not it I wanted to preserve the letter for the Court?” Mr. Beach exclaimed. “No; I think you would be in honor bound to do it by a marginal note and not by substituting your own handwriting for the genuine,” Mr. Anthon retorted. “Oh! that’s bad law and questionable honor,” Mr. Beach said. (Laughter) Mr, Beach read the jollowing letter, relating to the first proposal of separation, which the de- fendant identified. The platntiff and defendant | smuled placiuiy while it was read :— AN INTERESTING LOVE LETTER, Prrrsncna, Sunday evening, March 9, 1867. | My Dear Lirtie Lizzie—Could you took into my poor | } neart you would weep, indeed. 0, how sad I have been since leaving my poor litle girl, and how I censure my- } gelt for permitting the evil Whisper to think my little | girl could do me wrong! Do, Lizzie, forget what passed | tween Us yesierday. How much f regret not remain- ing a tew days longer with vou, poor little gi: VG | brezie, L WOl Tcould oniy see my dear little git tor a few hours, even, to beg her to forgi the wounds that my words inflicted pon he: heart! I only wish you to forget what passe us yexterday. forvive can” only hope again. sow unhappy bs you, Lizzie! I fect ag though I had lost my dear friend. Write me, Lizzie, you forgive, thut you still | Jove me and I shall bless my litue girl gsone who has | healed the deep wounds or my heart. I nave never KNOWN sadness betore, Lizzie, vutl am now miserable indeed. | ¥, that I could recall the cruel words ot day, and I would, I could call inyselt ha the Innuence broaght to bear upon me. @ you truly, izzie, and my only wish in this worla Is that you, Lizzi should love nie and be happ: Hugh will do bis park. Cou | Lizzie, you could not but be sa God, saye UM | of such misery again. Only my ltitle girl's | she sull loves me can give me relief. Now, dear Lizzie, sball J await your next letter? Do write soon, Lizzie, and repose again your poor little heart. 1 know it has bled again aud again since we jod knows mine has. Let us be happy again, Lizzic. Tell me I have your Jove and that you live Lut tor Hugh. May God bless my poor little girl will ever be my prayer. HUGH. The witness added to his statement that he had Dever broken open the trunk of the plaintit, and denied even that he had gone to her trunk. He Was then reminded oi his testimony at the pre- vious trial that he nad gone to wer trank and | found it locked, and Mr. Beach | CHARGED HIM WITH PREVARICATION, an expression which Mr, Anthon declared tobe | “insulting.” Mr. Beach repiled tpat if a witness preévaricated he would tell him se. even fr he be “@ lordiing Of the South or of the North.” Mr. Anthon said this remark was improper and un- becoming. Mr. Beach wanted to repeat it, but was cut off by His Honor. A iew minutes later the counsel had another tussle, Mr, Beach finally promising thas, “he would strip the witness to the bone,” Mr. Anthon retorting that Mr, Beach then had better proceed at once With thig deligatiul occupation, and he (Mr. Anthon) would bang him up to dry and then take him down again. (Laughter.) ‘The witness said that he “took” the plaintit b cause he was “ill;” be took her ag a sanitary me sure (laughter); he was willmg to take the ad- vice of his physictan; he toox her both for his health and his pleasure. (Lauguter.) He was asked as to his amusements in New Orleans, He said he played poker, (Laughter.) Mr, Antnon—What ts tnat: Mr. Beach—Why, Brother Anthon, I'll come over | to your ofice and teach you tue game. (Loud laughter.) The Court, at one o'clock, adjourned to half-past one, tor luncheon. On reassembiing Mr. James P. Mckirath, of St. Paul, Minn., Was calied Lo the wit- ness stand by Mr. Anthon He said le was Chief | | of Police of St. Paul, and held that position im 1866 | and 1807; he first became acquainted with the | | plaintig tu the last days of Decemier, 1567; ne re- | ceived a telegram from her tn regard to the 1038 of | some diamonds. ‘The despatch, which was duted | from Milwaukee, was siown to and identified by him, also @ letter which lie had received from her, When the witness went to see her she enumerated the articles she had lost; she said she was Mrs, | Lawson; she stated that a man by the name of Clark, @ night watchman ot the hotel in which she stopped at St. Puul, had come to her | AND THREATENED TO BXPOSR HEI | unless she paid Bum $2,00 he had looked over | | the transom at one time and found her with a | other. and forget | oor little | between | never | | | | | } | Captain Brothersou, who was then paying atten- | ion to her, He aloo stated that Captain Brother- sou threatened to giioot Viprk, but that in order to pacify Clark she had given Captain, Brotherson | two diamond rings, earrings and a breastpin, which he was (o pawn. ‘Tneu Captain Brothersou | | had advised her to leave the city, and promised | her that as soon as his remittance 0: $20,000 ar- | rived trom Massachusetts ne would redeem the Jewels woich hag been pawned and then join her m Milwaukee. She toid the witness aiso that | Captain Brotherson was going to marry her and | take ner to ms nome in New Kediord, Mass,; wi | mess recovered ali the diamonds, the diamonc Tings being suil in possession of Cuptain Brother- 800, the breastpin having been pawned at a pawns broker's shop and the earrings with a riverman, a | pilot; sie Was known in the streets of St. Paul by | the name ot the ‘diamond widow irom Loui- | slana;” he never heard the name of Mrs. Lawson until he met ler; he heard her taiked about by a | good many persons, Mr. Beach—lhe plainti! knew nothing about this appeliation of “diamond widow ;" because she Wore @ few diamonds she was calicd the “diamond widow.” Judge Van Brunt—There are various kinds of widows. Mr. Beach—I wear diamonds, and they may call Me a “diamond loater” sor ail t care. (Laugiter,) | On his cros»-cxaminauop the witness explained that the patti told hun Captain Brotherson had iven her to understand that he had pawned the Fisatatieats Oh ses, nuscseesits $5381 | diamonds sue bad given him to pay of Clarks she From collection of assessments and interest. ...., 24200 | Went to Milwaukee on Brotherson’s promise to From market routs, &c. (Bureau of Cily Kevenue) 3,602 | her there; but @ telegram she received there From water rents... j osu | Satistied her of Brotherson’s villany and vhat a3 perme cu ian . 1g | he liad been tu conspiracy with Clark to get the | big Ma may » KM Jewels and also to get rid of her: witness had ex- | Copying papers AY | Bremen bis ustouisiinent at er ‘giving ¢4,000 ar sii 000 Worth of diamonds to-pacify an obscure, tn- | Totals. 1 | syguiicens watouman; vey hed to pay 6260 t0 the | | 8he had n | @nee of Whose wie she had recently made, and | the Chief of Police of New Bed:av Aa napa to get the diamonds and $250 to the Augustus J. Burbank, of Flora, Ill, a sharp- nosed, bearded, vaid headed gentleman of forty-five, armed with tormidabie spectacles, a larmer, testified that he had met the plamtt on 8 on the way from St. Paul to Milwatkee in she asked hin, he being seated veside her, how long it wouid take to send a telegram to New Bedjord, Mass.; she appeared agitated, and said loaned $400 to a gentleman, tae acquaint. ‘funds from that she anxiousiy expected some she made New Bedford, Masg., to pay her bac! alterwards some ’ aaditional statemencs, and finally admitied that it was not $400 she nad \ost but some vainable diamonds; she told him that she made the acqualatance of cue Brotheysou im st. Paul, that @ party had threatened to expose he} and that she bad given her diamonds »to brother. Sou, WO promiser to pawn them inorder to pay that party off; she asked (or lis advice, and he toid her that, in ts opinion, if was a game put up between: Brothersoa and Ciark to wether din. Monds aad get rid of her; he wrote a statement of the affair at the next station to the Chives of Police of St. Paul, having advised her to place the matter im charge ol that oMlcer; he teleyraphed also to ) Muss. asking if Brotherson had any funds there, and the answer which came was “No, sir."” ‘The Court then adjourned until this morning at ten o'clock. OUR EUROPEAN SQUADRON. The Departure from Key West=The Ex- tent of the European Station—List and Character ofthe Vessela-The Flagship Franklin in a GalemHer Officers and Crew—Thte Region East of the “Vexed Bermudas,” MADEIRA, May 3, 1874. As the HERALD informed its readers at the time, the vessels o! the European squadron, the Frank- lin, the Alaska, the Congress and the Juniata, Jett Key Weat jor their station the second week in April; the Alaska and Juniata ou the 8th, the Con- gress on the 9th and the Frankiin, Nagship, on the 11th, the bands playing that most appropriate air “Get out of the Wilderness” as each ship took her leave of that “key” to the Gulf, the barren sans of which are scarcely less inhospitable than the alkali plains of the great American Desert, and the majority of whose people scarce surpass the Indians of the plains ia civilization. Your readers may not all be aware that the Euro- pean station embraces, besides the cnture coast of Europe, all the Northern and Western coasts of Africa as far as St, Paul de Loando, latitude 7 deg. south, together with the four principal groups of the East Atlantic islands, viz. :—The Azores, the Madeiras, the Cape Verue and the Canaries. Admiral Case, commanding the European squad- ron, proposed visiting this Soutuern wing of the station ou the wayover, Accordingly the Juniata received orders to sail tor Fayal, and the Congress for ‘Yeneriite, touching at Madeira tor matlon her Way, and thence cown the coast to Liberia to look after our colony composed of the thousands of | qreedinen whom the American Coionization Society has transported thither since the late. war. THE ALASKA, whose crew 18 an oid one and hence comparatively out of debt, goes direct to Gibraltar, aud thence probably to to the Northern coast of Spain to have, au eye on the Carlists and their conquering 10e3 during the Spanish imbrogliv. THE FLAGSUIP AND CONGRESS are now in this port, having arrived—the former yesterday and the latter to-day—all well and in Hood condition, after a stormy passage and very heavy Weather most of the way. When oif Cape Canaveral, on the 13th, THE FRANKLIN found herself in the skire of a cyclone, with heavy head winds. The seas swept her gun deck jore and afl, and atone time tbere was more than Jout oi water in the Admirai’s cabiu. On the gti tne gale increased, the wud haviog hauled to southwest, and vlowing with such violence as to Spl the Maimsall, aiter which ior the rest o1 the day she rau under douvle reeiet topsails, making meanwhile irom jour to five incnes oi Water au hour, At lauitude 22 deg, north #.e bore olf to eastward, running out of the Gull Stream and at the same me ou ol the gale. The sailing quali- ties oF: ‘his noble ship were wei) tested in this run, Her botiom was very toul acer lying for montus at Key West She pad over 700 tons o! coal aboard besides her other stores jnd her heavy vattery, consisting Of thirty-eignt mine-inch Danigren guns and four 100 pound Parrots in b:oad- side, ap eleven inch pivot, tour howitzers aud two Gatling guns, the whole makimg her Graw over twenty-six feet o1 water: notwithstanding whicu sue dragged ner propeller ‘without uncoupling and made 20u uniles iu twent, jour hours, ber speed at times approaching twelve knois. This wasin a second guie, in which she sprung one.of her yards and lost one of her quar- ter boats irom the davits where Ww Was secured. Sne proved werselt exceedingly stanch as well, adapting herseli to the turtuons sei wita ease und grace, Without so much as @ tremor or a groan, KunpIng mM 9 general easterly girection ovtween latitude 32 deg. and 36 deg. vorth, the Franklin enevuntercd lor some days a westerly current of nearly a knot an nour, where sea geographers generally have iudicated either an absence of cur- rent or one in the opposite direction. ‘This region of the Atlantic EAST OF THE BERMUDAS isso little traversed that, although vessels are constantly sailing around tr, it 13 comparatively a mare incogniia, Aud 1s sufiiciently devoid o1 in- terest to warrant its rememimg So. Not a speck of land, not & rock or @ shoal, not a porpoise or a whale, not a fying fisn or a sea guil, or eveu a sail, to break its Mouotony for tall 2,000 miles, Nothiag bat storms and calms, seaweed and currents and a lew stormy pe.rels, becter kuown among sailors as “Mother Carey's chickens,” and cailed petrels— little Peters—trom thei avility to walk on tne water; but these little Peters never appear in danger o! sinking (or lack 01 faith, and never make | Such sorry business of it as did their renowned prototype. SOME CHANGES AND TRANSFERS were made in the officers of tne Franklin before leaving Key West. ‘the following 1s her preseut lst complete :. Rear Admirali—a, Ludlow Case, squadron. Captain—S. R. Frankiin, Fleet Captain and com- manding the Franklin. Commander—snuivan D, Ames, Ald to Admiral. Lieutenant—Joun C, soley, Fleet Lieutenant. Lieutenant Commander—George W. Liay ward, Executive Oficer. Lieutenant Commander—G. W. Armentrout, Nav- igating Onicer. Lieutenants—Royal B. Bradford, Robert M. Berry, F, P, Gilmore, Uriel Sebree, W. L. Field and Thomas | HL. Steveus. Master—Eliiot J. arthur, Midshipmen—\V. C. Heacock, William H. Sheatze, Charlies W. Deering, Guvert Fowler, Thomas 8. Howard, Henry movretl and Augustus L. Case, Medtoal Inspector—Albert L. uibson. Past Assistant Surgeon—l’, M. Dearborne, Assistant Surgeon—G, &. H, Harmon, Pay Inspector—A, H, Gilman, Engineer-v-enies—Wii . Brooks, First Assistant—James Entwistle, Second Assistant—J. 5. Ogaen, Chaplamn—dt. D, Beugiess. Captain of Marine Guard—George W. Collier. Lieutenant of Marincs—Jobn T, Broaduead, Boatswain—Joun McCaifery. Gunner—Wiliiamn Carter. Oarpenter—Josep OX. Saiimaker—Koveri 1. Taiem. Secretary to Conmandant—seaton Munroe, Clerk to Commaniant—Benjamin White. Caplam’s cierk—J, M. Maloney. Payinaster's Clerk—3. ¥. Fireng. Fieet Pay Ci —F, J. Raymond, These, with 550 eniisted nen and a marine guard of 83, make up the ship’s company—nearly 700 souls, all told. THE OFFICERS are remarkable lor physical development, ave! aging five ject ten inches im height and i175 pounds avoruupois. Nor would they admit that their moral and mental quanties are below their physical. In short, they all believe themselves to have been very wiseiy and judiciously selected by Commouore Ammen, Caiel ol tne Bureau of Navi- gation and Onice v1 Vetall, With special reiereuce Vo their fitness to represent the great American government iu the flagship Frankiin on the buro- bean station. Be itso, since no one thinks well of @ man Who does uot think well Of bimseli, The Ossipee at Curacoa., The United States steamer Ossipee was at Curacoa May 9. —o Confirmations of Naval Nominations, WASHINGTON, D, C., May 21, 1874, The Senate in executive session to-day con, firmed the following nominations :— A. McClurg and Ernest Nordeet to be Assistant Surgeons im the Navy; Assistant Engineer David M, bullmer to be & Passed Assistant Engineer in the Navy; First Lieuteuant Joseph K, Hyer to be Captain and second ficutenant Charles B, Hinton to be First Lieutenant, YALE GULLEGE, Elections to the Scroll and Key Society. NEW HAVEN, Conn,, May 21, 1874. At a regular meeting in Yale College tis evening the following genticmen received election to the Seroil and Key Society:~A. G. Beardsley, 8. R. | Betts, J. H. Carrington, C, W. Clark, J. A. Garves, F. L. Grinnell, M, Grinneil, & H, Landon, McBinney, F. T. McCuntock, W. D. Page, W. Richards, C. fT. Russ, H. D, Seliers and £. R. Selmes. LOUISVILLE FIRE INSURANOZ CONVENTIONS, Lovisvitie, May 21, 1874. A meting of the Association of Adjusting Fire | | Insurance Agents of the Northwest was held here ‘The business transactions consisted Balnly of ee re} 4 ts ot opm oat the dis- CUssion Of the me! ie The Underwriters of the soula wiso beid @ meet- fag at the Gait Mouse, yesterday, | | | | | TE. In REAL ESTA ——_-—_——- A Further Examination of Outside fluences Affecting This Market. The New Parade Ground and How It Stands. CURRENT _TRANSACTIONS. ‘yt Although the dealings yesterday were confined, as usual, to legal sates there was a lair attendance at the auction mart and much interest was mant festeds ‘ r Mr, James M. Miller sold three lots with build. ings thereon, located on Twenty-secondstrcet, east of Firat avenue, sold-under the direction of W. C. Whitney, referee; also, by the same order, under the direction of J. W. Leveridge, referee, a house and iot on Prospect place and four brick houses and lot on Third avenue and Thirty-ninta street. ‘The foreclosure sate by Willtam Kennelly, under the direction of R. F, Farrell, referee, four Jota on 197th street; algo, under the direction of Frederick Smith, referee, unimproved property in Morris ania, Mr. H. N. Camp,.under..the direction of J. T. Owen, referee, a plot of ground bounded by ‘Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues, Eighty-ninth and Ninety-first streets; aud Messrs. R. J. Garrettgon & Co, sold, by order of the Court, the lot known as-No. 373 Pearl street. : Below will be found tulier particalars, Congress having agreed to adjourn on the 224 of June, 16 is safe to assume that no new clement of distrust growing out of financial legislation 1 ukely to arise auring the present year. The bills now before Congress all contain in them more or Jess of unhealthy expansion, and shoulda they pass both houses which is of itself doubtiul tn their present condition, are not likely to meet the Presk dential approval. .For, be it borne in mind, the much discussed recent veto of President Grant was not the veto merely o/ a bill before him, bul the vetoof 1 A PRINCIPLE IN LEGISLATION which was, indeed, only slightly hinted at in the bill whieh cailed forth the President’s opposition, ‘Chat pill, in fact, was so worded ag to almost im pose upon the President the necessity of signing it in justification of his own act, and yet he deeljned. How much more certain, then, is he to withhold his signature from so-called tree banking bills, where the word “‘jree’? means simply ‘unre stricted,” and in which an uniimited, or almost unlimited, issue of paper money 1s permitted with- out any provision tor redemption. As this i wholly within the scope ot the objections raised by the President in the message accompanying his late veto of the Currency bili the chances are largely in favor of the expectation that the day of adjournment wili be reached without any iurther legislation on the subject of the currency, IN THE INTERVAL TO ANOTNER SESSION OF CONGRESS men Will have time to examine the soundness of uneir Views upon this question, to study the: principles which underite all correct and sta- ble financial systems and to acquaint themselves more thoroughly with the examples of history in their relation to this important subject. Besides, although the question 13 yet undisposed of, the very reel gained by the knowledge that no new and dangerous experiment is to be tried in this field withoat dus notice and discussion will, aiter the stagnation, which has now lasted so long, cause a sharp revival in ail departments of trade, ‘The crops prose finely, and with the incubus ol uneasiness taken away by THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS the several industries of the country will soon feel the spur 0: a reawakened activity. Thus jar the entire spring season nas been exceedingly beck ward jor reasons which are suthe ently clear pot ta need recapitulation here. Yet as trade hag Janguished for a year ‘there must be pressing needs throughout tue country that are sure to make themselves rapidly felt as soon as tne dis- trust growing out of the attitude of Congress in relation to the finances 1s removed by its adjourn meut, and business Jeit free. to seek legitimate channels subject oijly to contingencies known to and capable of being understoou by business men. Iyhas been the unknowa quantity of Congressiunal action that has so paralyzed business of late, This quantity wa, partiv determi.ed by the veto, but ‘au adjournment will withdraw it wholly, for one year, Gt allevents, from the necessity of calculae tion. It is impossible that this market should not share in the EEstoneD CONFIDENCE thus anticipated, but it may not. be this summer, unless, perhaps, in the. ci of suburban sales. or the new wards, In the latterthere 1s the greatest reason to look for renewed interest, inusmueh ag the roused activity of the market when :airly reached is Sure. to. give rapid appreciation to “property there situated. That roused activity we are cer- tainly fot iikely to see berore the fall, and it may be not untill next spring ;but one has only to zo baci a few years in mental retrospection ol this Market to gain assurance of its inevitable certainty, and that at no discant day. ‘ghere appears to be another hitch in relation ta THE PARADE GROUND designed at the northern extremity of the island avove Fort Washington. It will be recollected that some eight or nine months ago aremonstrance was cutered by certuln property owners in the neighoorhood ot this proposed work, agains | tts construction, such property owners believing, commanding | or affecting (0 believe, that jt woula be a serious damage to their property, they having in view, or so pretending, such a dritl ground aoa militia ren- dezvous as fompk ns square. I: was also protested against on the ground that such a Work suould be @ county chatge, and not a charge upon thea singly, inasmuch as it was designed tor the use of tne militia of tae county. The remonstrance was no sooner entered and apparently acted upon than tt was discovered that . A MISTAKE had been made—that tue parade ground was not to be @ second edition of ‘lompxins square; in fact, | scarcely a parade ground ac all, being so. far from | the city that it would only be used by the militia ® jew times during the year, and then only a@ stall portion of it, like the Central Park come mmon. On the contrary, it was to be an elegant park, a beautiful, green spot, combining all the at | tractions of walks anu drives, witn, of course, the MbeVitable croquet ground; whereupon the first part of the protest against it Was summarily with drawn, bat as to the last part there remains @ mystery. Thus the matter stands, however, (n statu quo, ps THE COMMISSIONERS BEING ESTOPPED from gomg on because of the previous action of vhe property owners operating upon the Central Park commission, who clan the right thus to stop thein upon the opinion of the Corporation Couo- Bel, while the ormer claim to have the opinion of | ex-Judge Davies, ot the Court of Appeals, and other abe lawyera lo support of their authority to go on With the work. without entering into the merits of the tegal questions ine volved, ib may be salely said thai tne adjoming property owners want this Improvement and are willing to pay jor it it seems but fair tha thie, should be permitted to indulge themselves to that | extent; but if any of the charge ts to be assessed upon the county then there are much more press | lug improvements in the way of street repairs, | New streets to be opened, aud other works oF a | stimulating active deatings. like Cuaracter absolutely essential to the comfort of the citizens that shonid be attended to frst. We might, indeed, have rapid transit before lower New York would be benefited by this parade ground. ‘This city 18 already it TAXATION, OVERBURDENED WIT IN, realty, vow threatened with bigher taxable tion, i$ already weighted too heavily with a3- sessments for various jparoverennie yee e ad ol erive 4 litue advantage has yet been ahh reli tn Bie respect, rather than mereased pressure. As wad Said belore. the. property owners are wihng to pay for thes park they certainly might be allowed to} but if the city 18 to be Charged With any of the expense it is equally certain that our militia can get all the drill an Tompkins square, their armories or at intervals in camp that they are likely co ree quire during the next ten years to reper invasion or put down domestic violence. ‘The following are particulars of yesterday's sales :— KEW YORK 1 bk, tenement h., stabl and OPERTY—DY SAMES M, MILL! ‘And 3 jots, on i. $. 22d ate BOL2it €. of Ist AY., lots, together, 70.0305.9; Ben- gent Gox (hh Ra bi hh, a OPE st, Wot GES; WAS, AV. ‘ 24s. DKA! Fron. 24 & OK. houses (rear) oii Jot 19.$876 and , corner dd av, dnd tyth st EO and t on $5.39 st Jot 24x88.6; Richard kdwards.. mY WILLIAM KESSEL Alors ons, s 127:h st. 100 tte w. ot Tea ye plainul,.. Y, av. slots on nc. wood, Morris: Lacey tor plaintiit.... ny Plot of and | about 115 city lots); John Monroe & Co.. BY R. J. GARREESON AND CO. 1 lot, No, 373 Pear! st., between Hague and Vand walter sts., 21x90; G) KR sche WAS. Dk, b. and SL, for 24x68 a. 8. a ae and water fro Hh tvs, and SUL anc vist sts, Containing, AMP.” nt. bounded by 12th 20,000 LERCKER, SON AND Wi » 12 Unidn square, 9. FC. Lang, bs ha 30 MUPEAY St. aud, includin 0 Church Murray st. lot 25x89, Church arty 9) 200A Ww Pat e ad 2 wat