The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD |' BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Letters and packages should be prop- erly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. eee woos MUSEUM, way, corner of Thirtieth street.—WRESTLING R, LIFE AT CHE MINES, at 2 P.M. i glowes at 4:30 ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. 5.J. Huntley. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ,,between Prince and Houston streets. THE "THE LAKE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Ba Wheelock and Miss Ione Burke. NEW PARK THEATRK, BROOKLYN Pulton street, paposite the City Hall.—LE PAVILLCN eaves. at SP. closes at 10:30 P.M. Miss Minnie TUEATRE COMI No. 514 Broadway.—-THE BOY DET closes at 10: P.M. Miss Alice Harrisot WALLACK’S THEATR' Broadway and Thirteenth street.—FATE, at 8 P. M.; closes at il P.M. Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. notrve, at 8P.M.; BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street rt ilies 2 avenue.—THE GLADI- ATOR, ats P.M. Salvi OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bro. ween Houston and Bleecker streets.— OR af ‘pRTTETAINMENT, at 7:40 P.M. ; closes at TONY PASTOR'S OFERA HOUSE, ACK HARKAWAY AMONG THE BRI. P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Brenyaths street, near Sixth avenue. el ad MIN. Y, de. at SP. M.; closes at 10 P. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ninth ott and ete avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- T, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. ets ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, near Broadway.—Bullock’s Royal Ma- Tionettes, ato P.M. Matinee at2 P, M. CULOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-Ath ‘street—LONDON BY fie es closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; ROMAN HIPPODROME, MAdison avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street—GRAND pores kt _CONGE ESS OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. M. and Shove QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, June 7, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, with light local rains. Wax Srreet Yestexpay.—The stock mar- ket was trifle firmer. Gold declined from 1114 to 1103. Ovz Evrorzay Corresponpence, describing the home of Wagner, the cremation movement in Germany and furnishing specimen verses from the fiery Swinburne’s latest metrical production, will be found very interesting, Jezome Pank.—Yesterday was the first day of the season at Jerome Park. The day, though somewhat heavy, was not unfavorable toracing. The racing was good; and the crowd was large enough to encourage the American Jockey Club in the belief that its enterprise and energy are fully appreciated. Jerome Park is growing in popular favor. It is rapidly becoming to New York what Epsom Downs is to London. Tue Repovstasie Caprain GENERaL Con- cua has issued a decree against the rapid rise of gold. Now let him order back the gallant little butcher, Burriel, to cut the throats of all the brokers in Havana if gold dares to con- tinue to go up. Concha is evidently a bear, but we expect next to find him issuing a bull against a comet. Cammaxt Dry Goops.—We invite attention to the evidence before the Grand Jury in rela- tion to Mr. Stern's purchases of dry goods for the Department of Charities and Correc- tion, of which he is a commissioner. As the evidence has been kept secret heretofore we offer it as a due to the Commissioners ot Chari- ties and Correction, now engaged in an in- vestigation of the department. Will they in- quire especially into the facts connected with the payment of bills alleged to be fraudu- lent after their suspected character had been brought to the notice of Comptroller Green? Will they also inquire in what amount these goods were purchased, and in what amount the bills were sent to the Comptroller? And will they let us know whether any of the bills bear evidence of fraudulent alteration? Tox Eccurzsuastican Dirricurtry m Bo- wEMu.—Some time ago we wey made aware of the fact that the Austrian Enypire had fol- lowed that of Germany in its leg'slation in ecclesiastical matters. From our news of this morning it will be learned that in some sec- tions of the Austrian Empire the new laws are not much in favor. In Bohomia, the land inseparably associated with the memory of | John Huss, one of the first of the Reformers, | the laws are in bad odor. The laws are severe | on the Catholic Church, and the episcopal authority is armed and up in open resistance. We shall not be surprised to learn that Bohemia has proved itself strong enough to resist what it calls tyranny in ecclesiastical affairs. Now that Bismarck is toning down, Francis Joseph cannot afford to be too severe, Restonation or rae Lypran Commisstowens. — The Board of Indian Commissioners have resigned their offices, giving os their reason for this action their dissatisfaction with the law which subjects them to the control of the Interior Department. They express confi- | dence in the wisdom and in the ultimate suc- coss of the peace policy, and do not | think that the humane and just treat. | ment of the Indians generally ehould | be condemned because of tho evil deeds of some of the savages and the neces. sity of punishing them. The retiring Com- | missioners have not much to say in relation to the corruptions of the Indian Bureau, but they | express the opinion that ‘with proper organ- ization it is possible to secure at least as great | a degree of honesty in Indian affairs as in any other department of the government,"’ This | is not saying much, but we doubt it, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Political Outlook in New York— How RKeferm Must Be Reformed. In the opinion of the politicians it is yet too early to begin to talk about the next election or to discuss the issues involved in the fall campaign and the qualifications of probable candidates far office. But the opinion of a politician is not always a disinterested ons, and in this particular instance it is easy to discover motive of a selfish character. The established party organizations, with their machinery all in running order, can be put in the policy of the leaders to allow the rank and file to know what programme has been prepared for their acceptance until it is too late in the day to render possible a rebellion in their own ranks against the plans of the inner ting. A short campaign is the politician’s delight, simply because it is to his interest to spring nominees suddenly upon the people, and to render any popular movement against them impossible for want of time. Political leaders and wirepullers regard the voters as their natural enemies, and keep from them all knowledge of their plan of battle until the fight commences. When the Heraup opened the discussion of the third term question the party organs, almost without exception, de- nounced it as premature; yet we see now that the leading journals of the country are agitating the subject, and we find unmistak- able evidence of the advantages of its early consideration. The departure from a prin- ciple of government which the custom of nearly a century and the example of the great- est and purest men of the Republic have ren- dered as sacred as a constitutional obligation would have been an easy matter had the politicians succeeded in closing the eyes of the people to the danger until it would have been too late to guard against it We cannot too soon commence the consideration of the interests involved in the next election, for it is only by bringing public opinion to bear strongly upon the political organizations that we can hope for relief from our present evils. We may shut out from our next State cam- | paign all matters relating to national politics, for no interest will be felt in them by the people. Every person knows that the repub- lican majority at Washington and the repub- lican office-holders generally are as corrupt as they well can be, and every person not blinded by prejudice or interest must recognize the probability of the dissolution of the republican organization. In the battle between expansion and national honor political parties have been pretty evenly divided, and while the republicans have certainly the responsibility, as being largely in the majority, for the passage of the inflation bills, they must also be conceded the credit of the Presidential veto. Some votes may be tarned from the republican to the democratic side, the char- acter of the candidates being equal, in con- sequence of the growing distrust of our present rulers and the natural desire fora change; but there will be no material national issue to be fought or discussed in our November contest. It is well that this is the case, since it will enable the people to turn their undivided attention to their own State and city affairs and to protect their own interests independently of political considera- tions, in the votes they cast. They will have but little difficulty in recognizing the evils under which they labor at home, or in trac- ing them to their right source. The miser- able failure of the reform movement ot two years ago has shown them the mischief of a hybrid government and the absurdity of the “no party’ cry in our local affairs, While Governor Dix has discharged his duties with honor to himself and with advantage to the State the corrupting influence of the reform movement has crept into other branches of the State government, and has made itself manifest in the dishonest manage- ment of the canals and in the defalcations and confusion in the State Treasury. But the great evil of the experiment of 1872 has been felt in the city of New York. Looking round at its fruits to-day we find a state of affairs more scandalous than the rule of the old Tammany Ring. Public improvements stopped; works of great magnitude and importance fallen to decay and abandoned ; all progress checked ; a public debt increased forty million dollars in less than three years; taxation growing heavier every year; one de- partment of the government under indict- ment for felonious violation of law, another presented for corruption by a grand jury; officers of the government fighting each other to the neglect of the public duty; an officer of the finance department making false exhibits of the city debt, paying out the people’s money to amateur detectives and Albany lob- byists to gratify malice and promote ambitious schemes; parsimony where liberality would be a virtue and waste where economy isa duty; public creditors unpaid; the city plunged over head and ears in vexatious and costly litigation, and a prankish merry- andrew of the last generation jesting and juggling in the executive chamber while the city is going to ruin. This is what politi- cal reform has bestowed upon the metropolis, and all parties to the infamous bargain of two years ago are equally responsible for the result, Whenever the republican side has seen a prospect of getting the best of the | trade the Legislature has been ready to step in with laws framed to suit the exigency of the moment without regard to the public in- terests, and if Mr. Havemeyer has cheated them in the end and used the power they have from time to time given him to please himself it has only shown the fallacy of an old saying. There is not always honor among the class of people to whom the well known adage refers. The government of the city of New York is now too important to be intrusted to the hands of charlatans, mountebanks and tricky politicians. We have a debt to-day of one hundred and forty-five million dollars. Al- though we are scarcely paying off a dollar of this large sum our taxes this year will reach over thirty million dollars. Unless we are willing that New York shall lose its commer- cial supremacy we must in the next ten years | expend many millions in necessary improve- ments; in opening, grading and repairing streets and avenues; in building new docks; | in completing some of the grand projects which the prodigal “Ring’’ rule originated, | and which, if honestly prosecuted, would | have been of great public advantage—proba- | bly in constructing railroads and build ding bridges. To do this work we do not want oc- | togenarians at the head of the city government motion at a moment's notice, and it is not / or financial quacks in charge of the public ble and capable men in the city who would accept the office of Mayor and bring vigor, enterprise, intelligence, experience and integ- | rity to the discharge of their official duties. | Colonel Henry G. Stebbins, Mr. William But- | ler Duncan, Recorder John K. Hackett and many others we might name would make the Mayoralty of New York something more than a huge joke or a harbor of refuge for obscure political tools and personal friends. These gentlemen all have character, position in society, experience in business, familiarity with city interests and established integrity to recommend them to the confidence of the community and to give assurance that their rule would be one of broad liberality and intelligent progress og well as of the strictest honesty, In the Mayor now centres the responsibility for the rest of the city government; and, with any one of the citizetis we have named at the head of the municipality, it would not be a difficult task to procure such an amendment of the city charter as would enable the Mayor to make new appointments in all the departments. The political parties cannot too soon under- stand the necessity of nominating some such candidates in the next election. The mis- chievous humbug of the ‘no party” cry is now wellunderstood. People understand that with one political party or the other in sole authority in the city there is a better chance of good government than with our present municipal harlequinade. But this does not interfere with. the nomina- tion of a thoroughly independent citizen asa party candidate. Colonel Stebbins, Mr. William Butler Duncan and Recorder Hackett are all democrats in the best sense of the word, and the Tammany leaders could not do a wiser thing than to place the name of one of them at the head of their ticket next No- vember. A Tammany revival is anticipated, but the organization is not yet strong enough to follow the old practice of forcing wornout hacks or characterless ward politicians on the people under the pressure of party obli- gations. The days of Tweed are not yet | forgotten, and, although the “reform” govern- ment is fast rivalling the old ‘Ring’ in infamy, the taxpayers are not prepared to jump back again from the fire into the fryi pan. If Tammany will compel the old politi- cal aspirants to stand in the background for the present, and will adopt such a leader as we have suggested, the democracy will probably carry the city and the State next November and enter on the race for the next Presidency without being too heavily handicapped. The earlier in the season the democratic managers learn these truths the better it will be for the party and for the city. General Grant’s Financial Views. Congress has very often and very lately, also, been made aware that the President of the United States is a very important part of the law-making power. His legislative ca- pacity, stated at its lowest quantity under the constitution, is equal to the difference be- tween a majority vote and a two-thirds vote of both houses, and at its highest, considering the political difficulty of getting a two-thirds vote in favor of any measure, his capacity practically outdoes that of both houses to- gether. It is to be hoped this fact will be kept in view by the gentlemen who are just now sharpening their quills or picking out new steel pens to deprecate the course of the Executive in seeming to dictate to Congress, by his letter to Senator Jones, of Nevada, what should be done in the way of financial legislation. With the financial board practically cleared by the veto, only the views of the veto were left as instructive indications of what legis- lation might profitably be ventured upon. That also was, in effect, a dictation to Con- gress, but one strictly within the forms of the law. Congress, however, was not disposed to profit by the very plain inferences deducible therefrom. It has made much of its idols ever since, and has made little progress to- ward the solution even of those financial difficulties which it can solve or help to solve. It was plain that a law without a distinct provis- ion for redemption, or one looking to it, would only meet the fate of the vetoed bill. Yet over this sine qué non for any bill that may hope to pass the President, Congress has higgled and chaffered like a committee of impecunious old burghers buying cheap fish of a pedler very late on a warm day. They criticised the fish unmercifully, and offered a cent a pound | lower every time their eyes contemplated some new deficiency in the article, and when the odor forced itself upon them they were inclined to relinquish the bargain altogether ; yet buy they must, and the quandary they were in between this necessity and their dis- inclination to the bargain seemed irreme- diable. Now, however, Senator Jones, of Nevada, has secured the President’s consent to the publication of a memorandum which is sup- posed to present clearly the views entertained by the President as to what financial legisla- tion is necessary. Congress may take notice or not of this memorandum; but we fancy it will not be without influence on the minds of those practical legislators who wisely deem it an unprofitable fact for Congress and the President to be at cross purposes on topics where progress can be made only by common agreement. The great point of the President’s memo- randum is its agreement with the veto on the leading fact of our financial condition—the necessity of taking steps toward redemption andresamption, Perhaps the steps proposed are not the best, but they are scarcely yet in the domain where their discussion can be of public advantage. France. Tho political situation in France grows more and more towards the only solution that is pos- sible without dissolution of the Assembly— a crisis and a contest between the Bonapart- ists and the extreme republicans that would bring infinite trouble upon the French at this time. We have always held that if MacMahon and the Left and Right Centres would unite in favor of an honest republic there would be peace and the beginning of the true Republic; for, however much it would differ from tho ideal republics that form the basis of our hopes in democracy, it would be an honest government and would have behind it the hopes and the fears of the best people in France. | It would be conservative, of course, just as our own American Republic was conservative funds. There are plenty of honest, honora- | under Washington, and as all new govern- ments must be if they are to grow. After MaoMahon, let France have her most advanced thinker, just as, after Washington, we had the radical Jefferson. But the Republic can only come, a8 matters now appear to us, through MacMahon. Tho Left Centre is disposed to accept this, and has so declared in a procla- mation. The Right Centre hesitates. Hesi- tancy isa danger. The Republic under Mac- Mahon is the only escape from the Empire or ® new revolution. Summer Rest at the Country Resorts. Hotel life during the summer season has become a fixed custom in this country, and from the lat of June to the Ist of October all the leading resorts are crowded with visit- ors. Ina country like ours this is inevitable. City life is so exhausting that the country is a necessity, and the country as yet affords few opportunities for summer recreation except through the facilities furnished by the hotels, Fortunately these are as ample os they are varied. Not only at such noted places of resort as Long Branch and Newport, but at a hundred little nooks on the Sound, both on Long Island and in Connecticut and along the coast all the way from Cape May to Eastport, are there facilities for sea bathing. Not in the Adirondacks and the White Mountains alone, but at many other places in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, are there splendid opportunities for enjoying mountain air and mountain scenery. Saratoga has a charm of its own, and it has more and better hotels than any Western city. Newport, the chosen home of summer cottagers, is also well provided with hotel accommodations. Every interior town or village which has anything in the way of natural scenery to offer to visitors has also its summer resort. If the American people under- stand any one thing better than another it is how to keep a hotel. The grand hotels of Europe are not to be compared with those of America, and within the last ten years almost every town and village in the country with summer attractions has built its grand hotel. This fact is becoming generally recognized by city people, and the annual exodus to Europe, once so fashionable, has greatly fallen off in favor of summer rest at home. All the hotels with well founded pretensions to comfort, not only at the well known resorts, but at the quieter and more remote retreats, have a fine prospect for business this season. Within the next fortnight most of them will be open, and most of them well filled with guests. Perhaps the fact that the scale of prices has been low- ered has had much to do with this fine pros- pect ; but, to whatever it is due, the result is satisfactory, for there is nothing that our people need so much during the hot months as rest. Rest in the city is of little value com- pared with recreation on the seashore and in the mountains. It is change of air and scene which make the summer vacations so bene- ficial. And fortunately the railroads bring the sefshore and mountain almost to our doors. To the railroads and the telegraph, and the application of steam to navigation, we owe the magnificent hotels which dot almost every hillside and make our summer life so delicious. Indeed, so used have we be- come in a few years to these new-found lux- uries that we can scarcaly imagine what life would be without them. And yet it is plain, even to the dullest imagination, that without railroads and steam vessels the imperial city of New York would to-day be a slowly grow- ing seaport town. ‘There would be little sum- mer rest and few summer resorts. Saratoga would still be as far away as Chicago now is, and the Western prairies more distant than the Golden Gate. If men and women went to “the springs’ it would be that the de- crepit might drink the waters and talk old- fashioned politics about tariffs and rev- enues and the resolutions of °98, while the youngsters flirted in the decorous ways of our grandmothers. Society would be stirred by few scandals, and there would be no apocryphal Counts Cherami to win and waste the hearts of American girls. Newport would still be the old port of the East India- men. It would take a week to get to Wash- ington, where there would be a dull Congress untainted by Crédit Mobilier scandals and currency expansion jobs, and no magnificent avenues or even & board of public works, Everything would be slow and old fashioned even to society, and the other cities and towns would exist in themselves instead of being, as they now are, suburbs of New York—the summer resorts of the metropolis, with mag- nificent hotels for city people and magnificent drives for metropolitan equipages. All has been changed, however, and the whole coun- try has become a pleasure ground for the town; ina few days the city will be emptied into the country, where there are the fresh air and wholesome living and real luxuries so much required by city people, and for the sake of which every city man pants for the water brooks of mountain and valley. The Pulpit To-Day. Among the topics chosen to-day of peculiar interest to ladies is that on which Dr. Miller will talk this morning—‘*The Mother-in-Law Against Her Doughter-in-Law.”’ It is gener- ally assumed that those personages are con- stantly arrayed against each other, and if Dr. Miller can give some good reason why they should or should not be thus arrayed he will no doubt confer a favor on perhaps a number of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law who may attend his service this morning. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, has chosen another sub- ject also full of interest to women. “The Possibilities of Christian Womanhood” is a theme that ought to command the attention of the class of persons for whom it is de- signed. And, while other pastors devote ser- mons by the dozen or the score to young men, it is pleasing to know that at least one does not ignore the other sex. The Doctor will preach in the morning on ‘The Heavenly Rec- ognition,’’ on which topic very little that is new can be said. But it is well sometimes to bring old truths to our remembrance. And the ladies themselves will have a talk this evening on a subject, just now, dear to the female heart—temperance. The Ladies’ Cen- tral Union will be addressed by Mrs. Witten- myer, of Philadelphia, one of the most elo- | quent women in the Methodist Episcopal Church, High Churchism is trying to give reason for the hope that is in it, and last Sunday Dr. Thompson explained the rationale of the Real | Presence in the euchariat. and to-day he will first had been well established there should be no need of the latter. riven the sacrifice, there must be the priest; but, since Christ offered Himself once for all, the argument of Paul is that there is nothing left for the priest to do in the sacrificial line, And Paul is con- ceded to be pretty good authority, except with ritualists, “Darwinism and Divinity—Cremation and Oredality”—are the taking titles of subjects on which Mr. Bronton will address the Spiritual- ists to-day. These subjects have been talked of until they have been worn almost thread- bare; but the latest advocate may sum up the evidence on both sides and indicate what the nature of the verdict of the people shall be. For ourselves we prefer the old paths until it can be irrefutably shown that the new are better. Mr. Swinton on Rochefort. In sultry weather of this sort itis delight- fally refreshing to find a man of such univer- sal and exclusive knowledge as Mr. John Swinton come boldly ont and ask for infor- mation, The grandly modest recognition thus made by our only domiciliated Commun- ist that there are some things—o few—two or three—that he does not know, put in brilliant and happy relief his less modest but more natural assumption that he isthe only man who possesses any knowledge worth having on the run of subjects up to the proper level of human attention. In the course of his introduction to Mr. Rochefort’s lecture on Friday night Mr. Swin- ton admitted, unwillingly, as he has done hitherto in other places, that he was the only man in this country who thoroughly and clearly understood the history of the Paris Commune. Evidently this admission was painful to him; for, as he is an absolute democrat, he does not like the notion that na- ture and his own industry have compelled him to be superior in acquirements to almost every one he meets; and to come nearer to an equality—to blur somewhat and keep from sight his too evident intellectual supremacy— he hit upon the happy fancy of putting much of his eloquence in the form of inquiry, and asked of the audience and of the general pub- lic a whole series of questions touching the career, the motives, the achievements and the wonderful history generally of the keen Rochefort, whom he transformed into a very Gargantua of the Commune and the Red Re- public, All this device of questions was, of course, a mere fiction. Mr. Swinton did not ask for information, but only in order that he might not seem to know too much. Nevertheless, they are questions that will stagger the human mind generally, and we apprehend that unless they are answered the world will not move smoothly on its axis any more, but will wabble and shake down king- doms, Here are two or three of the thrilling inquiries:—‘Let those who think he is a brainless adventurer tell me how he achieved his glittering fame, how he won his wonderful popularity, how he compassed his power—a power which rallied Paris and struck down the front of the imperial despot. Let those who look on him as an impracticable visionary tell me why the republican voters of Paris elected him twice to the Assembly, once under the Empire and again under the Republic. Tell me why the astutest republican leaders in France asked him to become o member of 'the Government of National Defence. Tell me why, during the siege, he was appointed Ghief of Barricades.” Will anybody answer that first question and tell Mr. Swinton how Rochefort compassed his power? It would be easier to tell how he has boxed the compass, but the original inquiry may not be hopeless, especially to any one who recognizes that Rochefort ever had any power, except that which resulted legiti- mately from his capacity to write very telling and malignant political epigrams. As to why the people of Paris elected Rochefort, if he was an “impracticable visionary," is a question beautifully contrived to look like the quory of ignorance. Paris republicans resolutely refuse to elect any but visionaries, Why did they make him a member of the Government of Na- tional Defence? Because they were all babes in the woods together, and not one of them knew or dreamed the utter unfitness or inca- pacity of any other one. But why, during the siege, did they make him Chief of the Barricades? Because at that time there were no barricades, and because he was of all men in Paris least fit for the place when there should be any—which last is a good reason for appointing men to offices all the world over. But we scarcely propose to answer the superfluous Swinton, or we should say his superfluous questions; for Mr. Swinton, so far from being superfluous, was really the pith and spirit of the occasion. Rochefort was dull, quiet, almost respectable in his decorous serenity. All that was startling and new in his story had been given, of course, in his letter to the Heratp before, and as he had to go over the ground again it was a good |: fancy to introduce, for the sake of a foil, the moral and intellectual antics of a comic Com- munist. Miniature Yachting. It is only within the past few years that tho sport of miniature yachting has assumed any important dimensions in this country. It appears to have first attracted attention in France, and then English yachtamen took it up, with a view to improving the models of larger vessels, relying on the theory that the fast model, fifty or sixty inches in length, may furnish the dimensions for a proportion- ately fast yacht some fifty or sixty feet in length. Last season a large number of min- iature yachts were built, ranging in length from two to six feet, and on one occasion thirty-five of these boats participated in a regatta. The trials of speed this year have not brought out quite so many competitors, especially those that were sailed on Prospect Park Lake, as the yacht owners had no place to keep their boats ; but, now that the Park Commissioners with commendable enterprise have com- menced building » boathouse, there will be no lack of entries to the different matches. A miniature yacht race will probably form part of the sport at Saratoga during the regatta week, as the managers have offered to give o very handsome prize if the yacht owners will bring up their boats and sail a race on the lake, Miniature yachting is a class of amusement especially beneficial, as it will foster an early love for the mother sport of yachting and also inculcate @ considerable — explain the rationale of a priesthood. If fe | amount of usefti information in the constrao= tion and handling of sailing vessels. Tho Central Park Commissioners would do well if they were to encourage this sport by erecting &. boathouse on one of treir lakes, and thus + efford the yacht owners some accommodation for their boats, Religious Press Themes, There is little that is new or peculiarly ine teresting in the religious press this week. The Independent opens ita batteries against the admission of New Mexico into the Union of States, chiefly on the ground that Senato- rial representation gives a preponderance of power in the general government to the minority of the population. I favors Senato- tial representation according to population. The Christian Union fires o random shot at the proposition to complete the Washington Monument at the capital in time for the Cen- tennial Exhibition. It thinks that monument is the most conspicuous failure within the municipality of Washington, where there are many failures, The Liberal Christian glories over the pros~ pect of the Unitarian purpose to plant six new churches this year in six of the principal cities in the United States. The Baptist Weekly riddles the platform of the Boston Brewers’ Convention against the temperance crusaders, and thinks that their address will enlighten any one who ‘doubts that beer muddles men’s brains.” The Observer discusses the Bowdoin College rebellion, and, while it thinks the militdty drill might be dispensed with, the discipline of the college should be maintained at any cost. But the war is now over, the students having signed again their matriculation pledge. The Examiner and Chronicle charges the re- cent burning of four poor creatures at Sinaloa, Mexico, as the natural result of Catholic cive ilization when uninterfered with. It con- siders the Roman Catholic Church as “the most stubborn and inveterate foe of enlighten- ment, as Mexico and other Spanish republics have found to their cost.’’ The Tablet goes into an elaborate review of reasons why the devotion to the Sacred Heart has spread so rapidly over all thoearth. The Catholic Review cites a conversation between Bishop Ryan and an Episcopalian clergyman to show the difference between faith and opin- ion, Tho latter would change his church on the testimony of Paul or an angel from heaven; the former would not. The Working Church has an odmirable leader on the nature and manifestation of true charity among differing denominations. The Jewish Messenger continues its excellent articles on the needs of Judaism in this city and country. Its present and pressing need this week is a normal school in connections with its free schools. It also laments the lack of interest shown by its coreligionists in the publication of Hebrew literature. Out of eighty thousand Jews only one hundred and fifty are enrolled in favor of a publishing society. The Jewish Times calls for aid for the starving Israelites in Palestine, and the Hebrew Leader gives a reason why Jews do notquarrel as Christian sects do—they have too much common sense to allow it. Tue Crry Pourriorns are reticent in regard to plots, plans and probabilities in the ap- proaching fall election, as will be seen from the gossip among them contained in our sketch of city politics to-day. But this does not prevent some of the less wary from giving an occasional hint at party movements ox from epeaking out the thoughts that are in their minds. Tux WomeEN are on the rampage in New Haven. The Joint Select Committee sat de- murely in their seats, twirling their thumbs or tugging at their mustaches impatiently yes. terday, while undergoing the torture of threa set speeches by as many anxious women wha cannot vote, but want to. It is as much ag most of us can stand to hear a single feminine tongue when it is a little excited—but three! When is the funeral of that joint committea to be? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General J. W. Singleton, of Illinois, is staying at the Gilsey House. Senator Timothy U. Howe, of Wisconsin, is at bis St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. Samuel G. Howe, of Boston, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Commander L. A. Beardslee, Navy, is at the Gilsey House. “Tooth Carpenters” are what the Mutual Asso- ciation of Dentists are styled. Ex-Governor Odin Bowie, of Maryland, yester- day arrived at the New York Hotel. Lord Dufferin (the Governor General), Countesa Dufferin and family arrived in Quebec yesterday. Colonel Lord Clarina, of the Ninety-seventh regt« ment, British Army, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Shine, of Medina, Ohio, has eleven sonshines in bis cottage, and is still not content to keep shady. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Hoft- man House. Major Orlando M. Poe, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, is registered at the Hotel Brunswick. The present Mayor of Charleston once blacked his own boots, which is by no means the worst thing he ever did. The Rev. Dr. West, of Cincinnati, declared in a recent sermon that the “citizens of that city have well nigh made Sodom and Gomorrah respectabie.”* James Gray, of Vermont, wrote her:—“I love you as the tempest loves the placid lake,” and now she ts obliged to sue him for breach of promise. A Chicago clergyman remarks, “I would as soon see my name in the bottomless pit as in the publia prints of Chicago.” He'll see it there sooner, per- haps. A pediar said to be 105 years oid still travels about England, Nothing ts told us about his vital powers having been corrupted by tobacco or al- cohol, Mr. Mark Firth, a gentleman who lately baile and endowed 4 block of almshouses in Sheffield, England, now intends to present a public park to that city. It is reported that Mr. Norval, of the 7imes, nas bought the Zrpress, and that Comptroller Green has bought the Graphic. Sad commentary, if true, on the fate of the comic papers. Ex-President Buenaventura Baez, of St. Do- mingo, who has been living in quiet retirement at the Brevoort House for several months past, sailed for Porto Rico yesterday in the steamship City of Mexico. M. Villemessant, editor of the Paris Figaro, has just let out @ matter very important to the future historian. He says that M. Thiers himself was the the author of a somewhat celebrated letter pub- lished in his journal over the signature of “An Old Subscriber,” at the time of the Barodet- Rémusat contention, In that letter M. Thiers took strong ground for the election of M. Rémusat, and spoke severely of M, Barodet, Yet, queerly enough, the latter “flerce Communard” haa scarcely spoken in the Assembly, and Bupporta almost all M. Thiers’ moons, Unitea States