The New York Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1874, Page 6

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Governor BaxTER, or ARKANSAS, is very busy filling vacancies occasioned by the resig- nation of some and the impeachment of other Officers of the State. His haste seems harsh NEW Drifting in Finance—What Will the New Secretary Do? It has long since reached the definite stage of recognition, in virtue of which a truth assumes the form of a proverb, that a man never goes so far as when he is going ‘‘no- where.” destination, and goes whither he may go by any road or by-path into which he may stray, as he has no special distance to make nor place to stop at, is very apt to keep on while his energy or impulse holds out, and these are immeasurable forces. An uncertainty thus introduced may add some charm to a summer day’s ramble in the tangled paths of the woods, or even to the springtide wanderings ofa pilgrim who is pious enough to worship at any shrine that may be found by the road- side ina pleasant country. But this disposi- tion to purposeless journeys has a tendency to invade other spheres of life where it is less in place and more likely to prove mischievous. Just now it is largely seen in the drifting ac- tivities of the many well disposed gentlemen who are endeavoring to do something for the country in the way of financial legislation and financial organization generally. They go on forever and forever, going nowhere in particu- lar. No point is named as the end of the jour- ney—no path is chosen by which they are to advance, and at present they scem to be crossing a stream like a party of | boys in a boat, and sometimes a boy pulls an oar at one side for a few strokes and then gives place to a boy who pulls a little at the other side, and so it is altogether a point for the imagination whether the stem of the boat will come among the rocks up above or be driven in the mud onthe flats down stream. Altogether this seems a thoroughly undesirable trame of mind in which to regulate a finan- cial system. If there is any one thing that above all others requires the recognition of fixed points it is national finance. Governments are good or bad, and political systems are prosperous or otherwise according as the legitimate func- tions of government are performed with the least perceptible pressure on the people or interference with them, and with the least con- ceivable injury to public morality by tempta- tions to evade the laws, and by the bad exam- ples of official corruption. All this important relation of the government to the people is within the circle of national finance. Indeed, government might be economically defined as a machinery contrived to take from the cultivators of the soil a certain portion of their produce and to regulate the distribution of what is thus taken among the cultivators of less material products; and in this view a right organization of the finances would comprise the whole of political science, The dollar would be the bearing upon which the pivot of the political world turned, and the world would revolve smoothly if the laws should always provide that the doltar might find its proper place. Throughout the world an examination of governments would respond fully to this test of an inspection of their financial laws. All the thoroughly misgoverned countries are | chronically bankrupt; and in England, where the political system is more thoroughly stable and unnecessary, and if pursued much further than in any other country, where justice is can only deepen the wounds it ought to be his purpose to heal. Tae Onecon Execiion was held yesterday, but the returns are too meagre to form any definite idea of the result. Our despatches seem to indicate that the State has gone against the administration, but the republi- cans claim a victory. In any event the elec- tion has little significance. Tue Corner Stone of the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park was laid yesterday by President Grant. Governor Dix was also present and delivered a short address. It is to be hoped that an institution founded under such brilliant auspices may prove worthy both of the metropolis and of the nation. Tae Uran Brix passed the House of Repre- sentatives yesterday, and its passage by the Senate will probably follow. The bill is a moderate one, its leading feature being the authorization of the federal courts to try suits for divorce and prosecutions for bigamy and polygamy. The ‘system of marriage peculiar | to Mormonism must disappear, and the terms of the Poland bill seem well suited for bring- ing about a result so desirable. Qurrz Necessanx—The notice of Mr. Wright, of Iowa, in the Senate yesterday, that he would | cail up the bill declaring the true intent and meaning of the Union Pacific Railroad acts. The Pacific Railroad, as well as some other | Tailroads that have received enormous land grants and money from the government, need overhauling. And it is about time that such faids upon the Treasury and public domain should be stopped. A Stare Prison Mutiny occurred at the Missouri Penitentiary, at Jefferson City, on Monday, the insufficient quantity and bad quality of the food being the reason assigned. The complainants were appeased by promises of good food in the future and plenty of it. Whatever may be the facts in the present case, émeutes of this kind usually arise from a dis- position on the part of prison officials to | make money out of the unfortunates behind the bars. ce A Bor Mvrprnen, only fifteen years of age, | ‘was sentenced yesterday at Little Valley, in this State, to the Auburn State Prison for life, for chopping his steptather to pieces in Jan- aary last, while both were intoxicated. This is evidently a case of precocious crime owing to the want of moral training on the child, and ought to call general attention to the many neglected children in both city and country. More good can be accomplished by preventing the child irom falling into bad | habits than by trying to reform the hardened ‘Tur Mississrrri Overriow.—The report of Mr. Henry G. Crowell, who visited New Orleans to sce that the fund raised in Boston for the sufferers by the overflow of the Misis- sippi was properly distributed and to inquire what further aid was necessary, pronounces the calamity the greatest disaster of the century. There isa necessity for further and imme- diate aid, and New York, although she has honored large drafts drawn upon her in the name of charity during the last six months, may be able to do something more for the Louisiana sufferers. It is a noble way of con- Giliating the South, and we are sure our citi- gens will enter heartily upon this new method of conciliation, - more strictly and honestly administered, and property and life are most secure, the financial system is the most absolutely sound. Our own financial system, it is scarcely nec- essary to say, would bear examination very badly in such a roll call of nations; and, in- deed, would indicate at once the cause of the enormous evils and abuses that threaten our whole republican fabric. Public dishonesty is so common and notorious that people laugh incredulously at the fancy that a man takes office, even the highest, with pure motives. Oppression never was worse under any tyranny, ancient or modern, than we have seen it in this city when it assumed the form of the execution of the laws that were supposititiously made to secure revenues to the government. And the natural result of this is hatred toward the laws and resistance and bribery, and eventually contempt for the whole system and a rotting away and breaking down of the very foundation that government has in the consent and respect of the people, and finally a loss of faith even in the possi- bility of a well administered and honest re- public. This is the present condition with the more thoughtful part of the American people. And if this Republic should fail either by gen- eral disruption and disintegration, or fall into the abyss of centralized power toward which it is now moving with headlong fury, the crime against humanity involved in that fail- ure will be directly due to our financial short- comings, to the organized ignorance of our Treasury Department, and to the almost in- conceivable villanies and robberies of the whole people and of sections of the people that are consecrated in the laws. It is plain, therefore, and itis of the greatest consequence that anybody who proposes to improve our condition financially should go about it with a distinct purpose and with clear recognition of the necessities of the case, otherwise he will go too far and do more harm than good. All the errors and wrongs of our financial system cannot be remedied just now, even if there were an honest intention to remedy them, as there certainly is not. Originating in bad laws, they have become a part of a general public demoralization which law can- not suddenly change ; but the point of greatest moment in the financial problem—the one, in- deed, that gives it all its character—is within easy reach. There is on this subject one point that has been effectively made clear in every mind. Even the committee which is endeavoring to reconcile the views of infla- tionists with those of their opponents are conscious of one certain point in their other- wise uncertain labor—there is a veto in the way. They must avoid that danger at the cost of every care, and the veto that they ap- prehend constitutes, through that tenacity of purpose for which the President is fortunately | famous, the one pre-eminently positive fact | on the whole financial horizon. It is declared | and believed that General Grant will veto any | financial bill that does not include in its pro- | visions some step toward the practical asser- tion of national honesty by the redemption of the nation’s promises to pay. Any legisla- tion that pretends to take note of our deranged money relations and does not meet this re- quirement would be infinitely more’ mischiev- ous than it would be to have no financial legislation ; and it is aatisfactory to know that the President has the power and the will to assert a plain, downright, common sense honesty that is, jast now, worth more than He who sets out without a definite | YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1874.—TKIPLE SHEET, many brilliant theories and dazzling schemes. Will the President's view—the one sound idea touching our national finances that is now before the country—control the financial vagaries of our arid and feeble legislators and compel them to group around it as a central point whatever fancies they intend to have written in the law? We trust it may. This | would give character and purpose to an endeavor which seems to have become vain and aimless. It is to be hoped that on this point the new Secretary of the Treasury is thoroughly and earnestly in sympathy with the President ; otherwise his advent will te of little advantage to the country. No one has yet spoken for his knowledge in financial science, or for his capacity to reason in the | very difficult class of problems which this science presents, He is chronicled as a good Union man and a good aoldier and a good | lawyer, and a man of industry and integrity. | Judge Richardson was also, we suppose, a good lawyer, as he is now nominated for the Court of Claims, but he was the worst Secre- tary of the Treasury ever known in this coun- | try. If being a good Union man and a good soldier would qualify 4 man in financial science there are nearly a million men in the country from whom tq choose, We are sorry that what is said as to General Bristow's | fitness for his position ig not more relevant. It is too much like the gen- eral notion which prevails in many minds, that no special knowledge is necessary in special pursuits. It ignores the necessity for knowledge, without which no man can suc- cessfully fill the place to which General Bris- tow has been appointed. Few persons would in these days employ a clockmaker to plead an important case in court through overlook- ing the fact that law is regularly studied as a profession by a large number of men; and we do not believe that General Grant would ever put a teamster in command of a battery of artillery if an instructed artillerist could be had. Yet it is not greatly different to put in the post of Secretary of the Treasury a man who does not appear to have given any espe- cial attention to the study of financial science. For these reasons we are not sanguine that the new Secretary will be a great success; but his greatest hope for usefulness is in an ener- getic support of the one financial idéa of the administration—the idea of the veto—an in- flexible adherence to the necessity of taking some steps toward redemption. The Jerome Park Races. An event which always possesses particu- lar significance in the fashionable world, and to which the New York public looks forward with interest, will be the opening of the spring season of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park on Saturday next. The time is especially propitious for the enjoyment ot the fine treat prepared by the gentlemen of the club for their many patrons. The opera having departed, and the majority of the theatres being closed, such a source of pleas- ure is all that is left to the amuzement-loving people of the metropolis. It is an appropriate ending to the brilliant season, which has lasted, almost without intermission, since October last, and an excellent preparation for the gayeties and kaleidoscopic phases ot water- ing place lite. The pride of the city, Centra, Park, is in its gayest dress at this season, and the beautiful drive to the race course may be appreciated to the fullest extent. The skill, taste and liberality displayed by the club in the management of the race meetings, cannot be too highly commended, as nothing has been left undone to secure unalloyed enjoyment. The order which prevails on each race day among a vast crowd of visitors and the absence of any of those scenes that in other less favored places mar the pleasure of such a meeting, testify to the success of the management of the club. The spirit of exclusiveness, which might be associated in the minds of some with this body of gentlemen, finds no expression at Jerome Park. Freedom, in the true sense of the word, and consequently popularity have attended every meeting. The preparations for the series of events which commence on Saturday have been very extensive. The rep- resentative equine blood of America will be there. Old favorites and new candidates for the honors of the turf will be presented and books are filled, and the stables are the centres of interest for the forthcoming races. Whoever wishes to enjoy a view of the best side of me- tropolitan life will be afforded the opportunity at Jerome Park on Saturday. A Terrible Tragedy in Brooklyn. It has rarely been our sad duty to record a mors terrible event than that reported in our columns this morning. A mother killed her three little children and wounded her husband so fearfully that he may not recover. Mrs, Dwyer, of North Eighth street, Brooklyn, E. D., first struck her husband, a cooper, with a cooper’s hammer and fractured his skull while he was sitting quietly in a chair reading newspaper. They had some words before, however, about the distress of the family, caused by Dwyer having struck with others of the Coopers’ Union against their employers. As soon as the unfortunate man rushed from the house for the police Mrs. Dwyer slew her three children, aged seven, four and two years, in a horrible manner. The woman appeared stolid and gave no sign of grief. There appears to be little doubt that she is crazy. In fact, she had been in a lunatic asylum about a year ago, though discharged under the supposition that she was cured. It is said there is nothing in her countenance to indicate a cruel or vicious nature, that she was a good and tidy housewife and that she was not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor. How watchful people ought to be over those of their friends who have ever been insane or shown symptoms of insanity! The deed is so shocking that it is some consolation to believe the wretched woman was not sane, Tux Recent Montese..o-Merrernicn Duzn in France reveals a curious state of social feeling as still existing in that country. The Princess Metternich, meeting the Count Mon- | tebello at a ball, asked him not to speak to her again, assigning as a reason a lctter writ- ten in 1870, The Count thereupon challenged Prince Metternich and the latter accepted the insulted Montebello. If every man were com- pelled to fight every other man to whom his wife refused to speak matters would soon grow lively, even in New York. Should this dnels. When men must fight each other for whatever their wives may say they will begin to think it time to give womon equal rights with men. Why We Tire Out So Eerly. Half a century or more ago, among the hardy boatmen of our harbor, there was one tall, sinewy and handsome. Now he would while away his hours in ferrying people a tew miles down the coast; anon in unearthing the basking clam or succulent oyster and escort- ing them to the Battery anda market. In those halcyon days, like Jesse’s son of old, he little dreamed of the great work he would one day lay on the back he was then making strong for its burden. Years rolled by, and now at eighty, when he rides easily king among the men of the iron road, he loves to tell how once as night came on and a black storm with it he fooled his brother fishermen into thinking they had better keep under shelter, while he in the friendly dusk hove up anchor, and, run- ning for the city, manipulated a firm corner on the juicy bivalves for nearly a whole week. What in him we would note is not this way of getting rich, so suggestive of a Rothschild after Waterloo, but the stout health he got, which has stood by him so well that now, at four score years, his eye is yet stark and strong, like a hale man’s at thirty-five, and his nerves keep 80 steady that he daily reins with sure hand a pair of fiery steeds almost as swift as his iron ones which gallop West in seventy-mile dashes. How is it that this man has kept to- gether this priceless stock of health and vigor, and in these days, too, when so many men are worn clean out at forty? He has cer- tainly hit on some way of taking care of him- self and keeping up his wondrous force and energy till no man can yet say what will be their limit, which would indeed be worth the knowing. To ask whether he, a half grown boy, tugged numerous books to school, and day and night pored over them, that he might be the village prodigy and tickle his foolish master’s foolish vanity, as is the fashion now- adays, would be toask a question which would be self-answering. Whether by chance or good planning, until the man was well grown and his joints thoroughly tightened, there was, as there should have been, abundant, vigorous, hearty outdoor life, a boyhood stretching on to well nigh thirty, and then, when later years brought their responsibility, he was ready for to like it. He never hurried, and not until long afterwards had he anything like wealth. All know that men seem now to break down much earlier than they used. They see it everywhere. Our Vice President an in- valid; Senators also; Fort Fisher's hero “aging” fast; an editor, aspiring to our highest place politically, reeling into his grave, even his great brain unequal to breast- ing the storm of detraction and shameless in- sult one must face if he would try for that much coveted prize; one of our judges break- ing down before he is forty; a busy, able lawyer of our city driven by overwork first to a home for those whose faculties have been shattered and then to terrible suicide; the son of another member of our Bar bringing home the highest honors of an English university, and shortly after going out and taking his life; Bright's disease, of late alarmingly preva- lent, hurrying off a great railroad mag- nate at sixty-six, and talk heard constantly that softening of the brain may any day challenge, but made the point that he had not | shelve his successor; ministers preaching the need of bodily training, but forced to pre- face their words with pitiful apology for not practising what they preach; hundreds and thousands of our people worn out prematurely and running away to Europe for a little rest, so that they may come back and tire out again. Well, is there any remedy? There is, as surely as there is for the case of the hungry it, and the more he got the better he seemed | women's movement alone can stop countless | the busiest life can spare, not more than the man. There is no more need of this ex- | haustion and shortened life than of cutting off one’s right hand. No need for every American, reading from the pen of a recent British author the lines, ‘‘Out of England we never find boys; only little men, embryo soldiers, lawyers and doctors, with the specialties of their avocation sprouting upon them; and their schools have nothing in common with ours, present no point of re- semblance,” to feel forced to admit that there is too much truth in them. Vanderbilt found the remedy in the little periauger, which has now become historic; a few of the men of Harvard and Yale, Columbia and Cornell, and the other colleges soon to meet in bloodless struggle on Saratoga Lake, are finding it now; many of our most successiul professional and business men found it long ago at the plough- tail. Let the same farmer-blood, that bas told so well in city life, bo quickened and tingled by a sharp ride—not drive—or brisk walk, or quiet row of five or six miles a day, and be sure that nothing interrupts this exercise; soon all the old keen appetite and sound sleep will be back, there will be more snap in the work, everything will wear a sunnier look, and Europe, especially ina year like this when most men feel the need of saving, can be omitted. Let no iinister, for instance, lay to his soul the flattering unction that a man cannot do so much athletic work and shine in the pulpit too. There isa gentleman over in a pulpit in Brooklyn who might have some- thing to say on that point. Only the other day we saw him and looked with admiration on the breadth of shoulder and depth of chest, the broad loins and strong legs ot this genial, ecclesiastical giant, as he stood with a hearty smile playing all over his broad face and keep- ing everybody laughing about him, and con- cluded that he was right when he told his flock that he did not want any six months’ vacation. But most of us had not his foundation on which to commence our life’s work. Well, this brings us back to where we started. That foundation, like all things worth having, must be worked for. Four years are taken by our more favored youth in laying a broad founda- tion for swift mental work, and rendering the mind elastic by studying a score or more of branches. At the same period of life Vander- bilt and Beecher were making equally sure of the sturdy physical growth which has since stood them and promises to stand them in | such good stead, and once having gotten this great boon they have taken pains to keep it. | Let the two systems go hand in hand, neither crowding the other, each aiding the other. “Get the strong limbs and shapely frame, and # little, a very little, will keep them so; get the strong heart and ample lungs set in the fair- proportioned and elastic chost, and 4 little, wete of thinca cgptigue in France, uy very little, will keep them so—not more than gravest mind would seek for mental recrea- tion and beguilement—a daily walk or ride, an occasional break into the country with gun or fishing rod or alpenstock.”” Let sensible, steady out-door life for ‘at least one hour daily prevail among us, and only for good, and we wili by and by have general, priceless health, such as, in those we | have named, in Palmerston, Brougham and | Von Moltke, has been known and read of all | men. The Alabama Case Again. There was an interesting debate in the House of Commons last evening in reference to the Alabama arbitration. This seems to have as much life as the Schleswig-Holstein question, and we presume it will become a stand- ing issuein the House of Commons, A Glasgow member thinks that the American govern- ment should pay for the British property de- stroyed by the Southern Confederacy or by our troops in the prosecution of the war. He did not see why private citizens should suffer from national wrong-doing, and that as England had paid America for what the Alabama did, now America should pay England for what her people lost. The matter fell through upon a statement by the government that under the Treaty of Washington no such claims could be made. Nothing would be more gratifying to the American people than to learn that President Grant had directed a note to be addressed to Lord Derby saying that from‘ motives of self- respect the American government had resolved to withdraw from the Treaty of Washington, and that as an earnest of that feeling the money awarded by the tribunal at Geneva to the United States would be returned. The whole tone of the discussions in the English press, of these debates in Parliament, and the drift of discussion have been to the effect that insome way, by a trick or chicanery or a misrepresen- tation, the United States has taken an unjust advantage of England. The speech of Lord | Russell on the subject and the consequent comments of the press are fresh to our readers. There also comes a member of Parliament who proposes that the salary of Sir Edward Thorn- ton as British Minister should be reduced a thousand pounds, mainly because he did not prevent the Americans from cheating the English. This is a blunt way of stating the case, but this is what it means. The govern- ment, instead of saying that the British Min- ister had rendered his government a con- spicuous service in the Washington Treaty, replied that it would not be fair to reduce his pay because he was not to blame for the “conduct or result of the negotiations.” In other words, the English are cheated in spite goods were bought by a Commissioner of relative, at prices about one-third abova their market value. In a bill of $3,000 about $1,100 was shown to be an overcharge. Yet the bill was paid by Comptroller Green in violation of law, and his sharp investigators, | examiners and detectives failed to discover the soon there will be a toning up that will tell | imposition, just as they seem to have failed to discover that in their meat and flour bills the Commissioners of Charities and Correction have been feeding an army of 14,000 able bodied men. Is this reform? _ Is this official honesty? Are we free from the old corrup- tions and bold robberies which sent the old ting to jail or into exile? Does not the Grand Jury now in session recognize the ne- cessity of extending the inquiry into other expenditures of this unsavory department, besides those for Mr. Stern’s dry goods? And will it not occur to the minds of the Grand Jurors that the whole facts connected with the payment of these suspicious bills by the Finance Department should be inquired into? Tum Srroation om France.—The . Assem- bly, under the new Ministry, has entered upon the discussion of the constitutional laws. Two things appear evident. The first is, that the Bonapartists hold the balance of power and endeavor to precipitate chaos, will come as it came after the coup d’ état. The other is, that the extreme legitimists and the republicans are virtually in alliance to com- pel the dissolution of the Assembly. It is diffi- cult to see how a dissolution can be prevented. France no longer respects an Assembly that has no representative power. M. Gambetta, a clear minded, and, judged by the Rochefort type, @ conservative politician, has been mak- ing a speech in which he compliments the republican party upon its admirable organiza- tion, and predicts that the final struggle will be between the republicans and Bonapartists. We see no better solution to this problem than the declaration of a republic by Mac- Mahon, and a frank acceptance on his part of the fact that only a republic is possible im France. The time has come when this soldier may become the Washington of France. If he has the courage and the patriotism to be so it will be well for his fame and for the happi- ness of his country. How Pusuic Orrnion Is Mape.—As an evi- dence of the manner in which public opinion is manufactured in our country it is intercst- ing to read one of the press despatches sent from New York to the Southern journals. This despatch says that M. Rochefort, in his letter to the Herat “‘approved of the execution of the hostages as an act of reprisal.” The truth is that M. Rochefort deplored that act very earnestly. of Sir Edward Thornton. Plainly, the English feel, or have been taught to feel by Lord Cockburn and tory newspapers, that the United States overreached them at Geneva. We know that the treaty then made, and under which that arbitration was held, was a treaty made in the interest of England, to protect her commerce, to save her marine in any future war from the sure retri- bution of American-built Alabamas. We know that England by acts of unfriendliness, under the cover of neutrality, succeeded during our war in destroying American commerce and in enriching her own at our expense. She had the advantages of a neutral in time of war, and by this treaty she prevented us from hav- ing the same advantages should we be a neu- tral, with England at war. This we regard as @ great achievement, and Sir Edward Thorn- ton should be honored for having gained it. But on the contrary we find the treaty the ob- ject of constant criticism and censure in the House of Commons, going to the extent of a serious proposal to reduce the Minister's salary as an unworthy and inefficient servant. There is one way to settle the matter, and that is to withdraw trom the treaty. We should do so from reasons of self-respect alone. i The Food Supply im the Department of Charities and Correction. The list of warrants drawn by the Comp- troller during 1873 shows that about $350,000 was expended by the Commission ot Charities and Correction that year for meat, flour, fish, vegetables and groceries. Of this about $300,000 was for meat, fish and flour. Taking the average contract price of meat at six cents a pound, of fish at five cents, and adding to the weight of flour one-third for bread, we find that 27,000 pounds of solid food per day was consumed by the department last year. The payments for meat—averaging the last three months of the year, the warrants for which are not yet published—were about $180,000 which represents 3,000,000 pounds at six cents per pound. The payments for | flour aggregate about $150,000, which, at the rate of $6 a barrel, gives 25,000 barrels, or, at 196 pounds to the barrel, 4,900,000 pounds | of flour. From these figures we find the fol- lowing to have been the consumption during 1873 :— Pounds of flour used during tne year. Add one-third for bread. Pounds of meat....... Pounds of fish (avout) Total pounds of solid food..............5 9,900,000 | Dividing this by 365, we tind the daily con- | sumption to have been a little over 27,000 4,900,000 Tue Leos, Resepy.—Commenting upon the suggestion of the Henarp that “it would -be a good notion to try the legal remedy in all the Southern States against rascally officials,” ‘the Mobile Register declares that ‘‘the men generally ten times as bad as the rogues they try. A politician who is a rogue is never in- dicted—or, if indicted, is never convicted— unless the ‘legal remedy’ men wish to get rid of a fat rogue in order to make place for a lean rogue.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hon. George Brown arrived in Ottawa, Canada, from Washingion. Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale College, is staying at the Hoffman House. Weston, the Boston papers announce, wants to walk at Hampton Park. Major Thomas G. Baylor, United States Army, is at tne Metropolitan Hotel. Professor F, L. Ritter, of Vassar College, yester- Gay arrived at the Irving House. Barriet Beecher Stowe and husband have re- turned to Hartiord from Florida. Mr. Spurgeon has declined to go on a lecturing tour against the Established Church, Judge £. G. Loring, of Boston, is among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Booth arrived in the city yesterday and are at the Glenham Hotel. Commodore J. R. M. Mullaney, United States Navy, is residing at the Sturtevant House. Leslie C. Hanks, Consul General for Guatemala at San Francisco, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, James G. Grindlay, United States Consul at Jamaica, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Christopher G, Fox, Grand Master of Masons ot the State of New York, is at the Coleman House, W. C. Morrtl, of Atlanta, Ga., the Herald an- nounces will be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. James Sill, of Erie county, is recommended by the repudlicans for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. The first observer of Venus making her transit is now to have @ memorial in Westminster abbey. Astronomers will recall him to rind as Jeremiah Horrox, an Englishman, President Grant, Secretaries Fish and Robeson and General Babcock, dined at the residence of Mr. Robert L. Stuart, in Fifth avenue, last even- ing, and afterwards left for Washington. Rev, Dr. Palmer, @ well Known Presbyterian clergyman, of New Orleans, has resigned his pas- torate to accept the Chancellorship of the South- western Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tenn. Pope Pius IX. completed the eighty-second year of his age on the 13th of May. His Holiness re- ceived 170,000 letters of congratulation—12,000 of them from Italians—during the one day, aud huge baskets, filled with other epistles o1 the same sort, were being carried to his chambers in the Vatican after he had retired. ‘ pounds. As no report has been made by the Department of Charities and Correction since 1871, despite the requirements of the law, we are compelled to take such meagre statistics as we can find in the report of that year to form an estimate of the extent of the frauds perpetrated in the tood supplies. We find the | “constant population,” which we presume to be the daily average, in all the institutions, prisons, hospitals, schools, asylums and nur- series to have been from 6,600 to 8,250 during seven years. Taking the highest number to have been the population in 1873, and allow- ing two pounds of bread and meat per day to each individual, including the sick in tho hospitals and the children in the schools and nurseries, we account for the consumption of 16,500 pounds of bread and meat, leaving a margin of 10,500 pounds a day for waste or stealings. This calculation is greatly in favor of the Commissioners, and we have no doubt that on honest investigation would prove the facts tobe even more outrageous than they now appear to be. This is the department which Mayor Ha- MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES Aimée 1 favorite in San Francisco, Mile. Pauline Canissa 1s the star of an English opera company now playing in Canada. The Salt Lake City theatre-goers are indulging in the watheties of “Un the Slope at ’Frisco.”” Poor Montreal! That unbappy city is safering from a combined attack of ‘Mazeppa” and “Bul falo: Bill.” Mr. J. L. Toole took his farewell beneflt at the Globe, London, previous to bis departure for this country, on May 22. Neil Bryant will have his annual benefit at Bry- ant’s Opera House to-morrow afternoon. A fine and funny entertainment has been provided for the occasion. The Kiralfy Brothers, now in Paris, have pur chased the costumes, scenic effects, &c., of “Lee Sept Chateaux du Diable,” a Parisian seerie, with the intention of producing it here tn the fall, Mrs. Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre is still open, and “Arrab-na-Pogue” is being performed there, ‘The annual benefit of Mrs, Conway takes place oa Friday night, and it 18 certain to have substantial results, “The Stranger” and ‘The Honeymoon” comprise the programme of the entertainment, To-night’s performances close the season at Daly’s Fitth Avenue Theatre. Though tt had aa inauspicious beginning, with a play whose title was & misnomer, the season has sped very fortunately, @nd the manager of the Filth Avenue must be coa- vemeyer pretends to investigate between naps, and which he seeks to screen with his official mantle. The presentment of the Grand Jury charged irregularity leading to corruption in the purchase of dry goods only. Staple gratulatea upon having brougat out several plays that readily hit and retained popular favor. Mr. Daly's company ta, Wicuin @ few days, to start for Cnicago to periorm during a short season, which Tomiaes to be very favorable. tumult and revolution in the hope that power « who control the ‘legal remedy’ machinery are’