The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1874, Page 5

THIERS AND GAMBETTA Addresses on the Prospects and Dangers of French Republicanism, “The Immensity of the Besourees of the Na- tion” Under the Democracy. Parliamentary Mission of the Assembly. [Paria (May 24) correspondence of London Stan- dard.) This bemg the anniversary of the downfall of M. ‘Thiers last year, the occasion was celebrated by the republicans. A deputation from Rordeaux Waited:on M. Thiers and presented him with a tes- Simonial and a compumentary address, in which the “services rendered by M. Thiers to France, to the cause of freedom and to the Republic Were pointed out.” In reply, M. Thiers made a long Speech, which is important as being exclurively political, Its importance ts so great that Isend you a fall summary of it by telegraph, and therefore @eed say no more about it now than that he em- phatically advocated a dissoluvien, WHAT THIBRS SAID TO THE MEN OP THE GIRONDE, Sunday afternoon, May 24, M. Thiers received a deputation of twenty-five republican delegates of ‘the Gironde, headed by M. Fourcaud, the lately ‘dismissed Mayor of Bordeaux, to present a medal dm testimony of the gratitude of the department ‘and an address recapitulating the services ren- ered by M, Thiers to France, liberty and the Re- public. In returning thanks M. Thiers expressed his Gelight at having for witnesses and judges of bis @onduct the representatives of the Gironde, Where he was invested with power and made the first use of 1t~, When, a year ago, the Assembly im 1ts sovereignty deposed him, the one reproach Was that he had been nejther able nor willing to ring back the country to the path of monarchy. y an exhaustive process M. Thiers showed that there never was a inoment when that could pos- Bibly be done. It could not be done in the noble city of Bordeaux, when all the southern popula tions were united lor the Repubttc. It could not ‘be done & month after, when, reduced to combat anarchy in Paris, the Assembly itself was fain to @cquiesce in the necessary declaration that the Versailles army. was not fighting for mon- ‘@rohy, but x imperilea social order. Col he, when the danger was over, ve gone counter to previous assurances ? lobody then ventured tw propose any- thing of the kind. A month later, when they ‘were obliged to beg day by aay, trom the Bank, and suddenly find 600,000,000 francs merely to Femove the Prussians a few leagues trom Parts, Would it have Leen bie, uDuer the emotion caused by the abolition of the Republic to raise ‘those fmmenee loans which had permitted him to redeem department alter department and restore France to the esteem of nations by revealing the nsity of her resources? These things were gone by means of the appeasement, which the loyal ee, ofthe Republic produced on the s. The only merit of himself and bis col- jagues was in having seen eae, that dm the present state of the country the re- penile was the only ple form of govern- nt. The meno who had replaced him certainly meant to restore the monarchy. Why had ubey not done it after trying a whole year? Political en he might be told, were the obstacles, but arties Would exist to-morrow as well as to- bly tk ie Mass Of the people were profoundly attached to re; ism, and the monarchists ‘themselves were ever ready to coalese against any one of the'three dynasties which for a moment might threaten the two others. The country, with ‘marvetlous: verance, every time there war a deputy to elect, had expressed its opinion tpat the ond mode to avoid civil war and enabie the peopie to labor in peace and confidence was to establish ® government winch would merge all parties in a conservative republic. The dificulty forming @ ministry aroge from the Assembly unfortunately Mot recognizing this truth. He would not recrim- ‘mate, but hope that recent experience might teach a salutary jesson. The country had not Mmited the extent or duration of the EC avoth td missi on. It was left to bis own reason, loyalty and deltosey to say when it should dissolve; but herr impotent to achieve any result, it uid still persist in remaining, it would trans- gress the reasonable bounds Oo: every deliverative assembly. He would. however, hope in the wisdom of the Assembly to see that the longer & dissolution was postponed, the less smoderate the elections were likely to be, For Himself he desired nothing so much as repose, study and the society of affectionate friends. He had spoken irankly as a citizen of strong cunvic- tions and experience. The reasonable act he alluded to some weeks ago, and which he hoped Would not be delayed, was a dissolution. |. Thre! at the conclusion of nis remarks, hook hands warmly witn M. Fourcaud. M. Gambetta’s Speech. {Parts (May 24) corresponaence of London News.} The Comte d’Alton Shee was buried this after- moon in the Mont Parnasse Cemetery, MM. Louis Blanc, Gambetta, Brisson, Germain Casse, Greppo, Lockroy, De Lacretelle, Perin, Colonel Langlois and otner Deputies were among the numerous mourners. When the coffin was lowered M. Gam- betta stepped forward fo the edge of the grave and pronounced the following ORATION, DEAR FELLOW CITizENs—As a private and politi- cal friend of the man whom we have accompanied %0 his last resting place, 1 yield to the solicitation of nis family and speak a farewell word over the womb of a good citizen, whose whole life was de- Voted to the cause of right, the country and the Republic, Ceremonies such as these are essen- sad and mournful, and polittcs shouid not be Wo greatly mixed up with them, Nevertheless, ‘when We remember that he who is no more was all his life a politician, it would be {mpossibie with @ Que regard to the feelings of those who have es- corted his remains hither to retrain from political topics altogether, Mf some among you differ at times upon questions of tactics you are all defend- ers of the same cause and march tn unison , On all important occasions. You are all agreed that a testimony of regret and gratitude and an act of justice are due to D’Alton Shee. Yes, I say an acto! justice, for 1 mast make bold to say that, {in the whole course of his laborious, well spent life, justice was never done him, By birth and » parentage, by jamily connections and his personal acquaintances, D’Alton Shee belonged to that select circie which styles itsels the Clive of the na. tion and proteases to constitute the “governin, class.” But when very young he disdained that aristocracy to which he seemed to beiong—that brilliant, society in which be might have played a brilliant part. Breaking with what might nave been thought his habits and severing the ties of friendship and affection, he rallied to the cauge of the poor, the cause of the peopie, and became a democrat, He never for one moment repented of this first impulse. His heart told him that he had espoused the good cause ; and his keen intelligence saw ip our ranks the iuture of France—her pros- perity and liberty. But it must be said, and no tume or place could be more fitting tor such a necessary though painful confession, democracy did not give to D’Alton Shee that configent and traternal reception which he had a righv’to, The democracy, Wnose cause be had embraced with the most entire sincerity, instead of giving hun those tokens of estecm which alone could have been the fitting reward for his courage in surmounting jadices, held sloof, and failed to perceive t tt was courted by a noble, honest man, to whom it should have opened its ranks. 1 well know and I may now reveal what was the secret grief of D’Alton Shee. He had constantly strug- gied, without counting the cost, for our cause, which he had made his own, Under the monarchy he ‘startled the House of Peers by the memorable declaration, ‘lam not a Catholic,’ thereby indi- cating @ most correct and profound feeling that the most redoubtable enemy of the democratic spirit, that enemy which we must ever combat, is that old theocratic spirit which yet pervades our institutions, and in sprte of ail our revolutions yet wields the principal powers of the State. He.,| died a8 he had lived, without ostentation, but Without weakness. When broken down by num- Deriess infirmities which took him from as it were bit by bit, he going, but it seems to me that I see tho Qurora of the republic, and I $his republic will attain ‘its apogee. my friends this, and tell them I die in the reigion ‘which has been that of my whole Ufe—the worshi} ofFrance.”” it ta of the Peer of France, converte to the Republic, the enlightened patriot who ander the monarchy understood what should be the place of democracy, that.we must cherish the Shis arucocrat joined the samae at Sis nena el Gitaborived, cad sed the cause of the hamble and ‘Ue more than a handiul of heroes, wi le with apa in their hands for the triumpn of ign and justice. D’Aiton Shee threw timself mto the Contest, and was one of the firat to put in tne bends of the people that new arm, incom- parably better than any old one—aniversal suffrage. Dear fellow citizens, the ranks of republican democracy ‘are widenin; every day. Our party has now become that ot the nation itself astonishing progress con- soled the latter daya of D’Alion Shee, aud mitiga- ted his aying agony. Butin now taking leave of him forever, let us draw this iesson from his ca- “reer-—that we Must shake off the spirit of exclusion, ‘Yes, my friends; let us prove to those who caium- niate and defame us that we are not intolerant re- publicans. Let us show that this repuviic, which We are now sure to get finally, can open hor armg to all who loyally come to her, and more especially So bhe ap! ed sons Of the apigtocragy Who ain. ican party consisted. of ie NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. cerely embrace ovr canse. In a great sociéty like ours, which has a lous past to continue, there above all ior those who rep r nee, accom- ona and dignity. aristocracy ‘om which Shee came belong to France, ané may yet serve her. This aristocracy contribute by its noble triotiam and exquisite delicacy to make the nch Republic a pew Athenian repub- lic; and that is the republic which Shee dreamea of A man of great intellect. who saw much of Shee in the days of his brilliant youth, called him the last of the Athenians. No doubt, he was more courageous than prudent, more ardent than cal- culating; but his good qualities far outweighed hig faults. He hated {niquity and loved justice. Let us cherish the memory of such @ man, whose whole life was one of incessant sacrifices to the grandest of all causes—that of the Republic. A cry of ‘Vive la République!” was raised by the auditors of this harangue as they dispersed, New York, June 6, 1874, To ru EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Herewith please find enclosed copy of a commu- Dication sent by me to the President of the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, growing out of the occurrence noted in the columns of the HERaLp of tho 5th inst. £ present it as the solicitation of many gentlemen, who conceive it to be @ public duty to protest against the permission and license afforded dranken raMians to ride in public convey- ances. If protection and safe conduct is furnished those under the influence of liquor, is 1t too much that sober passengers should expect similar #e- curity? Yours.very respectfully, MORTIMER HENDRICKS. New You, June 8, 1874 TO THR PRESIDENT OF THE SIXTH AVENUE RalLROAD COMPANY : Deak Sik—I was this day brutally assaulted on Obe of your cars without the slightest provocation. ‘The conductor 1s cognizant of the facts, and, as he infonns me, has communicated them to the Acting Superintendent at the office of your company. He Was Det a witness of the occurrence and conse- quently was not to blame for the'assault, as it ap- pears he cnly carried out the orders of your com- pany, Whicy tana the admission of drunkards on jour cars. But I cannot so acquit your company. cannot find language sueiently Strong to state ‘what a violation of the rights of your passengers nd the public it 18, your permission for the admit- tance of drunkards on the cars. This is no new occurrence, The ing of Foster and the mur- der of Mr. Avery D. Putnam are yet fresh in the minds of those who are fossed to submit to the abuses of corporations. Mr. Vanderbilt permits no drunkards or disorderly person to ride on nis lines, and I was greatly strprised to learn from your Superintendent, corrovoratea by your conductor, that you do grant tat privilege on your line, and for the paltry sum 0! ave cents im- pert] a human Iife; jor had ladies or any of Children been subjected to this assanit nick mignv have happened to any) in my presence and while under my protection, there would have been @ case for the Coronér on the Sixth avenue cars, 1 was prepared tor just such an emergency, object in writing ia for these reasons only :— ‘st(—T'o acquit the conductor, SecondNot to acquit your company. Third—To ask you in all candor whether these assaults, that are so constantly occurring through admitting drunkards jn the cars, cannot be ol viated by their exclusion and taking up a colieo- tion m Meu thereof of one cent each from the citizens pronenk in the cara to make up toe defl- ciency 0} SB GransaNte, fare to the Sixth Avenue Raflroad Company. This, I am confident, will meet the approval of almost all good citizens, except, Perhaps, the ofmcials of a railroad company and the dronkards to whom they offer immunity. Yours, &c. M. H, THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE. OATES ENE Pe Temperance Meeting at the Free Taber- nacle Methodist Episcopal Church—A Defence of the Crusade. Atemperance meeting was held last evening, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Central Unton, at the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Tnhirty-fourth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, After the usual religious exercises, which were conducted by Rev. L. H, King, the pastor, he briefy alluded to the last women’s temperance crusade, and quoted the remark of a young man who said that he would not like to see his mother or sister praying in the street. He (the speaker) thought it would be better to sce this than to see the youth drinking before the bar. Women had suffered so much from the evil of in- temperance that they were especially justified in taking measures to check its growth, Who was it that saved Israel when it was in such great peril? It was Esther? Who were they who followed Christ when all men had forsaken Him? They were REAL ESTATE. Passive and Active Conditions of the Market. MUNICIPAL DRAWBACKS The Belations of Capital and Labor in the Building Trades. THE OUTLOOK FOR NEXT FALL. Tt was stated during the past week m reference to this market that there was nothing of interest in respect to dealings, but that an analysis of the general conditions affecting it would repay at- tention. And tn this connection it may be said that the conditions then had in view were not local, The LOCAL CONDITIONS are go uniformly damigging in the matter of valne and so aimply apparent in their operation in this regard as to scarcely call for review. They may, however, be briefly pointed out thus:—Primarily, we have misgoverpment resulting in the stop. page of mucn needed improvements previously dis- counted; secondly, a pronounced policy of obstruc- tiveness to all enterprise having in view the de- velopment of the metropolitan idea of growth and expansion, and, thirdly, a parsimonious adminis- tration of the finances in one direction, accom- panied with a careless expenditure in others that imposes undue burdens upon realty without cor- responding advantage. Thus taxes and assess- ments are piled up against property for improve- ments without these improvements being pushed forward AS A SOUND POLICY WOULD DicTATB to so enhance the value of property rendered Mable for such as to make that Itability light, or in- deed, as it has often been in the past, unfelt, Our present rulers seem to have got the idea of ad- ministration imrespect to their duties as oMcers of our local government by the wrongend. They appear to think that population and settlement and building, and ail that sort of use which makes the appreciation of real property, must go ahead of city improvements, the latter indeed only to be undertaken in the case of an actual need. An evidence of this was given in the proceedings of ‘he Board of Estimate and Apportionment on Fri- day last, im the report of which occurs the follow- ing ninute :— ‘TheSommissioner of Public Works transmitted & Communication to the Board with a resolution requestiby the issue of “Croton Water Main’ stock to the ant of $800,000, The Comptroller amended the resolution cutting down the amount to $160,000, Ke sata that as the streets through which these mains are to be laid will probably not be used for thé next ten years, he could see no reason why 80 Ruch money should be appropri- ated. The amendment was carried by a full vote. The report does tht state where those streets, which in the Compttjier’s judgment are to re- main as GEASS GROWN WASTES FORTHE NEXT TEN YEARS, Bre situated. Possibly in th¢newly annexea dis- trict. But without subscribing to the Comptrol- ler’s unhopeful presctence, and bagging the ques- tion of locality, it is contended that such an ar- gument is wrong. Wrong in theory ana wrong in application. Itis not possible, and the assump- tion is not @ sound basis of administrative action, that in view of the present crowded condition the metropolis, our expectation of rapid transit, \ and our belief in the futare, that any street within vhe corporate limits of the present city in which the Croton mains might be laid down now, would be unbuilt upon or unused ton years hence, But it ts this spirit in the men who now hold the powerol ADMINISTRATION OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS over us, aspirit which is made up in part of un- belief in the people’s confident expectation of metropolitan greatness, and ln part of selfish in- terests, either personal or vicarious, in opposition the daughters of Jerusalem. Woman’s infuence, when had itever failed? Woman first induced man to eat the forbidden fruit, and now she was about to prevent his drinking the forbidden cup, To-night there was not a stave in this great land, and hoped the day would come when there would be not a drop of rum in this country. Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer, of Philadelphia, then delivered her address. She spoke of the evil gods of pagan nations and compared them with a god in this country, Bacchus, at whose altar a human being was sacrificed every ten minutes and about 60,000 every year. These victims reeled down to rain by them, and they made no effortsto save them. ‘nis vice brought @ revenue to the government, But the money given to the Saloon keepers was only taken away from grocers, butchers, dry goods merchants and every other branch of industry. It was not only a waste of money buat aiso of time and strength. The children must go without bread, the wile without clothing, so that the drunkard might satisfy his diseased appetite. Another consequence waa that the peopie bad to spend more money for prisons, courts and police, the arrests for intoxication being more numerous than+for any other ofence. She protested against the assumption that the pro- Dibitory laws in Vermont and Maine had failed, Such Jaws were needed in this as well as in every State of the Union. However, they would not get @ prohibitory law here until had mano- factured @ public sentiment in its favor, 6 was play to do this. ‘rhe enemies had money and were powerful. Mrs, Wittenmeyer then declared that the crusade was not over, as was claimed by many of the news peas. The crusade was never 80 formidable as it was now. What did the arrest of the women in Cincmnati signify? it did not intimidate tne women, although some of them were fined $25 and costs for having Rrayed in the streets, Moreover, the decision of the Mayor was teversed by three judges and the money had to be refunded. Now they were goiug On with their excelient work in Cincinnati, and no officer dared to interfere with them. ‘The law was for lewd and drunken aud dia. orderly people; for robbers and murderers, and not for praying women. The speaker then urged the ladies in the church to take an active part in the crusade, the good results of which she painted in glowmg colors. Aiter the @ bymn was sung and the meeting closed. A TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION. A meeting of the Convention of Irish Societies was held yesterday afternoon at Hibernia Hall im Prince street, and delegates were present from nearly all the kather Mathew, Hibernian, Cathvlic church socteties, ’Longshoreman’s and Quarry A men's Protective societies, representing upwards *, of 100,000 members, The chair was filled by Mr. Thomas Kerrigan. Brother Telion, Director of the New York Catnolic Protectory, was present and urged the claims of the institution as one of the grandest in the world, and stated the difficulties tue institution was in to nese & new wing for | the male department, which {s being con- structed. The speech of the brother was loudly applauded, and it was resvlved to hand over tw the Protectory the proceeds of a monster temperance demonstration, to be held at that place on the 21st, 22d and 23d of next month. Meetings are to be held every Friday night at’ Hibernia Mall by an | Executive Committee until the temperance con- vention takes place. ASSAULT ON A NEWARK POLICEMAN, Andrew Knaisch, a Newark Tenton, was arrested | there last evening and held to answer threo charges—one for drunkenness, another for dis- orderly conduct and the third for an alleged mur- derous assault on Officer Daniel Dippel. It seems Andrew, primed internally with lager and armed with @ shovel, was Creating a small uproar in Monmouth street, where Dippel undertook to ur- rest bim, He seized a heavy clothes pole and Gealt the officer @ murderous biow on the skull. A fence luckily broke the force of the blow, but still Dippel’a head was bruiged, Another officer appeared on the scene @nd Andrew was secured with “nippers’? and marched to the station. BURGLARY AT GRAVESEND, & I. (Yesterday morning an entrance was effected Into the house of E, Ridley, of Gravesend, 1 L, between the hours of nalt-past one and three o'clock. {The thieves were disturbed by Mr, Ridle} in the midst of their work, but muocesded io take away plunder amounting to between $1,200 Bcd ine consisting in pat of fork: abou, napkin rings,,pie knives, one patr of wleeve buttons, a wandsome musical box, accordeon, one vew drab overcoat, three Congress gaiters,.one Dine suit of livery (overcoat left vehind), thred. me black silk dresses, one green silk skirt» trimined with lack Brussels lace; one heavy Olwoman Variegated i. velvet dolman, black} one purple velve' rong . “alt dak dwt two binge ' shawl, one brown hats, to that too rapid growth and development that 1s bearing our real estate market to-day, and checking, with the force of a Niagara torrent of the most frigid temperature, every inceptive sign of revived activity. There is but little to nope for until a change occurs in this respect. Local stu- pidity in office or hostility to the best interests of the city only, which could serve real estate, sit like A DBADLY INCUBUS upon this market, depressing it and repressing every struggling effort to lift it into anything like its own proper prominence. The question for real estate men to consider is one which ‘comes home to them with more force and pertinence than {t was ever applied in the historic days of him who first attered 1t:—“What are you going to do about tt?” It is especially unfortunate for this market that the local influences surrounding it at this time should be so adverse when the outside influences— those which affect values elsewhere as well as here—exhibit such propitious growth. It waa pointed out in this column some two weeks since ‘that there was much of stimulus and encourage- ment in the promised early adjournment of Con- gress, which was likely to take eed without any otal or experimental legislation on the subject of the Mnances, inasmuch as none of the measures then beiore that body came within the spirit of the line marked by the President as necessary to escape his veto in not containing any provision looking to ultimate SPECIE RESUMPTION, This conclusion is borne out in the “‘Memoran- dum,” recently published, as submitted to Senator Jones, of Nevada, contalning the Presidents views concerning desirable legislation on the finances, In that “Memorandum” the President takes even more pronounced ground on the subject of specie resumption than was argued here as a part of his policy as indicated in nis veto message accom- panying his veto of the Currency bill. The infer- ence to be applied in this market (rom this pro- nunciamento of President Grant’s is that we have lairly set our face towards the resumption of spe- cie payments. A further fact, bearing out this de- duction, is the appearance of this “Memorandum”? almost simultaneously with 4 CHANGE IN THE HEAD OF THE TREASURY DE- PARTMENT, giving it the significance of a public proclamation of the policy which was henceforth to rale in the administration of that department. The real estate market cannot but be benefitted by this changed relation of the Treasury Department to the business of the country, as here may be certain te be found in time, seeking safe investment, much of the profit which that business will real- ize in its emancipation. Besides, as hag been pointed out before in the HeRaxn, the road to the adjustment of values to @ specie basis has been already travelled over in this market. Real estate is now VIRTUALLY ON A SPECIE BASIS; that is, there has been such prolonged duiness in real estate, the speculative element, which gives @ fictitious quality to values, has been so thor- ougnly eliminated, and there has been such a shrinkage of values within the past two or three years, as recognized and admittea in recent transactions, that it is safe to say “hard pan” has been touched here, at all events, t/ nowhere else. With this fact generally understood and the as- surance now given in tho candid exposition by President Grant of his policy in that respect (which 18 not likely to be gainsaid by the people) that we are on the road to specie resumption, even if we have only started, thefe is the FIRM GROUND of stable value upon which to build a new active movement in real estate just so soon os our capitalists begin to get over their right re- garding ai! investments, and begin to tire of the petty and iatiguing efort to make their money earn something in loaning it at three per cent on Wall street subject to call; or should those of the present prove indifferent to the opportunity pow afforded them, then when the revived industries of the nation, commercial and manufacturing, bis to pay a dividend to those engaged in them. ‘here 18 one ent of distrust in this market, however, that needs to be pointed out, and that 18 THE UNCERTAINTY WHICH PERTAINS TO BUILDING OPERATIONS, owing to the peculiar attitude of the operatives employed in such enterprise. There isno doubt that there is now much capital idle in bank that might have been profitably employed tu butlding operations this spring and summer if it were pot for the fear, which is no light one, that it might be imperiiled in such employment by & strike of the operatives during the progress of such work—bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, patnters and other artisans. Just at this time, with the shriakage that bas occurred in every other department of industrial action, the price of labor among the building trades has maintained iteel, This let the case, and it being more difl- eult Ber than Lada fo obtain igh rents, oes not now offer that certainty of profit rvs it did heretofore. But with Aina THE ELEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY as tocost growing out of the possibility of a strike, capital, always timid, has had abundant reason to ic from that kind of investment. in this 1n- reduce the amonnt of work to be done, im- pose upon themseives and their iellows @ continu. Stion of high rents and deprive many of their com- rades of the much needed work required for the support of their families. It is difficuit to find a remedy for this while the trade unions continue Lo be ruled by men who are ignorant of the first economic principies that govern THB RELATION OF CAPITAL AND LABOR, even 0 hon-comprenension of the simple law of supply. and demand. But aremedy might be found, rhaps, if npecatives employed on buildings were engaged by the job or for some certain perlod— the Wage Might still be by the day—with some sumMcient penalty attached for the non-fulfilment of contract ou either side, It seems certainly to be foresbadowed every day more sharply that in the readjustment of values upon specie basis a dangerous conflict ts approaching between captt: and labor, which might, however, be avoided if intelligent counsels prevailed in the labor unions and the issue involved in the changed condition of things were approachea in a spirit of compromise, LABOR UNDOUBTEDLY HAS ITS RIGHTS, which capitai should respect; 0, also, hag capital its rights, which labor ought to admit; the differ- ence between tue two, however, being so great in their respective power for obtaining mastery that, while labor can only shut eapital out from some employment, capital may deprive labor of all or nearly 80. It would be, therefore, wise or labor to think somewhat over the present situation and pre are to meet capital in a conservative spirit. japital itself is conservative and will not be the firat to provoke a conflict. It will simply withdraw itself from the contest, Labor conserving its legal rights, but desiring and seeking a fair alliance with capital, can do much tn the luture to stimu- late @ revival of activity in this market. There can pe \NO GREATER FALLAOY shan the assumption that capital and labor are in- herentiy ‘Gntagonistic, They cannot be so uniess Jabor provokes or gets up antagonism, as in- vested capital is in reality interested in the preservation or advancement of the status of not in its deterioration. As for imstance,a man who has expended or in- vested $60,000 tn the construction of a building from which he requires a certain rent to make 1¢ Profitable, is not likely to enter into a conspiracy ‘with his neighbor to cut down the price of labor so that that neighbor may erect a similar build- 1ng for $30,000 or $40,000 and undervalue him, 80, in bailding operations at least, and it might be similarly proven. to other enterprise, capital and labor are In reality PARTNERS, NOT OPPONENTS, having a joint interest in the preservation of values. ‘hus, when capital says to labor in re- spect to building investments, as it does now, “It don’t pay,” it is well tor labor to take heed, and learning that “it don’t pay’ because of the high recs of labor and the uncertainty connected with te use because of the danger of strikes, and thts, in the face of a falling rent market, labor should seek rather the means of a readjustment Of ita relations with capital on the basis of a com- promise than by persistent retusal to acknowledge the situation, drive capital altogether out o! the market. Although this is the season for SUBURBAN SALES, ; there is little to be saia respecting them, Auction- eers generally report them successiul, but it is to be noticed there is no enthusiasm. And how could there be? People whu might invest in this descrip- tion of property have not the money, and those who have the money prefer to hold on tu it, not knowing what may eventuate, As the larger cap- italists have shown their timidity, cautton and re- serve, and even our chosen representatives in the metropolis have made a merit of procesnite, their Jack of faith in its future growth and prosperity, what can we expect of the smaller capitalists, whose little hoards represent years of tot! and sav- ing, Of self-denial, patient labor and earnest en- deavor. That these lose confidence in suburban growth, when the others proclaim their disbelief B Re ala growth, is surely no wonder. er LET US RRJOIOR that so many there are who value the opinions of these representatives at their true measure, pos- sessing intelligence enough to build their faith in the future of both city aud suburbs, not upon the tpse dixit of any indtvidual, but upon the opera- tionof causes admittedly beyond the control of cliques, whose effects are but the exposition of the inevitable law of development, The current sales, both within and ontside of the city, are without special interest, nor1s there anythtogin the an- nouncements calling for particular notice at the present time, It 1s now probable that . WITH THE ADVENT OF THE HEATED TERM interest in this market will wholly cease until the fall. Assurediy this may be pi ited of city realty, while suburban property may Maintain a spasmncdic activity, with results very dispropor- tionate to the means taken to secure them. It may be said, however, as a further evidence of the correctness of the views heretofore expressed con- cerning values, that such sales of country property as have taken piace this year have shown a more Ntelligent undersianding of what constituted Vues than prevailed in former rears when the Maxket exhibited more enthusiasm. Thus IN NO CASES EXTRAVAGANT PRICES have been paid for lots that are likely here- alter to be sold in bulk by the acre, and generally tne prices paid have been a far interpretation of the vatue of the property sold, Thus, it will be seen, aithough without activity, we have now, at the close of one of the Most depressing seasons that New York real estate has of late endured, a sound healthy market, rest- ing upen a foundation of solid, substantial values, With aclear understanding on the part of our people of the conditions past, present and pro- Spective affecting these, and undoubted evidence in the past year’s history of the superior character O! realty asa safe investment. In spite of the drawback of an imbecile municipal administra- tion, this 1s a most satisfactory basis fora new de- Parture in the fall. as fq many others, the operatives stand in their own light, and, frightening capital by their | to take is ever at a disadvant | NEW YORK CITY. The class of 1874 of Columbia College will cele- brate Class day at the college grounds this evening, The rear wall of the house on the northeast ' corner of Forty-sixth street and Eighth avenue fell out yesterday afternoon. No one hurt, A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, to which all merchants are invited, will be held. to-day at one o'clock, for the purpose of taking action in ref- erence to the Motety bill. The Rev. Rugene Sheehy iectured last ¢vening, at Ferrero’s Hall, on “The Genius of Irish Liberty.” Mr. T. F. Bourke presided. The hall was well filled by an enthusiastic audience. Shortly after eleven o'clock yesterday Mr, Seeler, of Melrose, while bathing at Seventy- seventh street, in the East river, was carried out by the tide and drowned. The body has not yet been recovered, Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to the Morgue to hold an inquest on the body of yoseph Gmham, alad fifteen years of age, who died in | Bélevue Hospital from the effects of injuries re- | cewed on the 15th ult. by falling through the | hathway of Vose's shade factory. Deceased lived at 40, 73 Third avenue, Tle ordination and inetallation of the Rev. Geome H. Payson as Pastor of the Mount Wash- igtot Presbyterian charch will take place this | evenbg, The sermon will be preached by the Rey. Charhs H. Payson; the presentation will be made | by th¢ Rev. Dr. Hall and the charge will be deliver- ed by the Rey. Dr. Burchard, On Stmday afternoon, the 31st ult., at the corner of Fort}-eighth street and First avenue, Conrad Peters, 6German, twenty-eight years of age, was knocked own by car No, 148 of the Belt Ratlroad | line, and received injuries from which he subse- quently ded in Bellevue Hospital. Coroner Wolt- man Was iotified to hold an inquest in the case, The deadbody ofa female child was found in the area of houle No. 349 West Twentieth street, occu- pied by H. ). Cooke, and sent to the Morgue. Coroner Wotman was notified. Early yesterda: morning the remains of a female infant were foun: lying on the stoop of house No. 3824 East 124th street, and smt to the Mergue, An inquest will be held by Coioner Woltman, On Thuraday last John ‘Weich, sixty-four years of age, born in ‘reland, by trade a carpenter, who lived at No. 3% East Twenty-ourth street, acci- dentally feildown a flight of stairs which ne was engaged in repairing, and received injuries from | the effects of which he loans a died. Ooroner Woltman will hold an inques' The German societies of 1843-4) held their annual meeting at Turn Hall fast evenhg, with General Max Weber presiding. The annual report, which was adopted, showed the receipts of last year as Rit 46 and the expenditures gs $1,449 36, The following officers were elected for the ensuing ear :—President, General Max Weber; First Vice esident, Colonel Lenger, andMr. Scholer Treas- urer; Messrs. Baumbach, » Reinbolit and Erxleben Trustees, The auxiliary society of theaWomen's Foreign Missionary Society connected with the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church held its first petit A meeting last eve: at the church building. Eighteenth street, ne: ighth avenue, The pastor, Rev. Mr. Terry, spa&e on the general interests of missionary work ; ani Mrs. William B. Skidmore and ovher jadies spoke on the work ac- complished by the society. This auxtllary society now numbers aixty-tiree annua| sabscribers and one life member. ‘The collection} auring the first Bs amounted to $108 02, whic were devoted to | he education of an orphan girl i} Mexico and of a | native Bibie reader in Bulgaria Yesterday morning Coroner Wdtman was called to the Park Hospital to hold inquest on the body of Mr. 0, L, Smith, otherwke known as Dr. Cc. C. Cameron, who died therejate on Saturday afternoon from the effects of a de of landanum, which he had swaliowed with suiddal intent, The day previous deceased registerdi bis name aa | Smith @t the Brandreth Hoage. Broadway, and | subsequently, being found tying unconsctous In his rouln, was removed to the hospital, Mr. Deviaeon. @ gentleman di business in this city, entific the rem: ag those of Dr, 0. 0. Cameron, lor- merly of Oswego county, this State, but more re- centiy from Rondout, Ulster county, this State, where he bas been practicing medicine. cause for the commission of the act did not transpire, but friends of deceased are expected to come for- ward and make an explanation of the matter. Dr. Cameron was only about twenty-eight years of age. LONG ISLAND. There will be @ regatta of the Greenport yachts, With ovher water races, on the Fourth of July. It 18 proposed to Make the yacht contest free ir all comers, The summer session of the Long Island Bible Society will be held at Bellport to-morrow. Busi- Dess Meeting at three o'clock P. M., and meeting for addresses at nalf past seven P. i, ‘rhe corner stone of the proposed new Catholic church at Smithtown was lafd yesterday with ap- propriate ceremonies, 2 the ht Rev, Bishop rd of Brooklyn. The attendance was very 8. During a thunder shower on Thursday the house of Mr. Henry R. Prime, at Huntington, was struck by lightning, notwithstanding the fact that it had two lightning rods with several points projecting some distance above the roof. Edward A, Dominy, of Bay Shore; Peter Hays, of Islip, and Isaac C, Skinner, of Sayville, have been sppointed commissioners under the new Oyster law, just signed by Governor Dix, to set off lots for planting oysters, &c. ‘The services of Captain Benjamin H. Sisson, of Shelter Island, ag United States revenue inspector for the Greenport district, have been suspended, and the revenue boat which he has had in charge, ig, by order of Secretary Richardson, laid up at Sag Harbor for the present. Tuis service was instituted as seateguard against smuggling or irregular prac- tices in the waters of vhis vicinity, and the opinion is general that its suspension is a mistake, It is probable that the claim of the town of Easthampton to jurisdiction over the seoilop and other fisheries in her waters, beyond low water mark, will not be sustained, and that the pending suits instituted by the town against certain acol- lop fishermen will be decided adversely to it. The trustees, through counsel, have recently obtained the opinions of high legal authorities on this branch of jurisprudence, and they substantially concur in the view that the town’s boundaries and jurisdiction extend no further than to low water mark, The Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, having rejected all the proposals received for the erectton of the proposed new building for the occupancy of the County Clerk and Surrogate at Riverhead, have placed its construction in c! of the Building Committee of the Board, with Mr. Tappin Reene as superintendent of construction, and authorized them to borrow upon the credit of the county such amount of money as may be required during the progress of the building, the first $6,000 to be made payable at the County Treasurer’s office on the 10th of February, 1875, and the re- mainder in one year afterward. The requisite amount to meet the obligations is to be raised by special tax. Aconvention of the Town Assessors of Suffolk county was held at Riverhead on Friday, to take into consideration the suggestions made by the State Assessors, and to exchange opinions ag to the practical effect of their adoption, im the course of the discussion a motion was made and seconded that all property, real and personal, be assessed at fifty per cept, but it was rejected. It Was finally concluded, in view of the lateness of the season, that it was inexpedient if not impossi- bie to carry out the proposed changes this year; and the whole subject was deferred until the third Monaay of April, 1875, to be then acted upon by a similar convention called for the same hour and Oe. NEW JERSEY. Two freight trams of the Pennsylvania Raliroad collided in Newark on Saturday night, causing considerable damage, put injuring no one, Mr. Allen, Superintendent of Public Buildings in Huason county, has brought a suit against Mr. Londrigan, a member of the Board of Uhosen Free- holders, for asserting that he (Mr. Allen) signed fraudulent bills against the county. Damages are Jaid at $50,000, Lieutenant Ehlers, of the Hudson county artil- lery, has been notified by General Plume that he ‘will be summoned before a military board on the charge of using the State arms for other than mili- tary purposes by firing of salutes to the pilgrims who sailed three weeks ago by the French steam- ship. Every day new instances of “irregularity”— the Newark term for oficial corruption—comes to light in connection with the Board of Freeholders of Hudson county. A certified bill for $127 66 to @ New York batter was ordered paid, and the hat- ter comes forward, declares that the certificate is @forgery and thatthe county does not owe him more than half that sum. Thompson Young, a resident of No. 87 Bank | street, Newark, jumped {rom a train moving into | Centre street depot on Saturday evening, and was Qragged under che wheels and terribly mangled, 80 that he died before midnight. It was reported jn Newark that the conductor and brakeman of | the train were discharged in consequence of the accident; but the railroad men deny this and say | Young alone was to blame. Bishop Odenheimer visited the Protestant Epis- | copal churches in Hoboken, and administered the sacrament of confirmation to two children in | ‘Trinity and fourteen persons in the Hudson street church in the evening. The reverend pastor of the latter congregation, Puce to the administra- | tion of the rite, delivered an interesting sermon, in which be deprecated sectarianism. e floral decorations of the church were extremely beau ti- | 5 and the Bishop seemed well pleased with bis | visit, A shocking accident occurred on the Pennsyiva- nla Railroad, at the Barrow street crossing, Jersey | City,Jyesterday evening, about half-past six. A boy named Charles Whitley tried to run across belore the gates were lowered for the approach of a train, and had reached the further gate when the gate tender, Patrick Powers, lowered it. The lad tried to get out under it by stooping, but before he could do so the locomotive struck him, crashing his skull. He lingered only a few minutes, Powers | was arrested by Ufticer Coward, and locked up to await the resuit of the coroner's inquest, | The Church of All Souls, the Unttarian church recently organized by the Rey. Oscar Clute, in Newark, bas invited a council of Unitarian churches, from which it will ask recognition and fellowship as a Christian church. The Council as- semples on Tuesday evening next, in the hailatNo. | 719 Broad street, Newark. The Rev. Dr. Bellows, of this city, will preach the sermon. The Rev. F. A. Farley, DB, D., of Brookiyn, will offer the prayer. | ‘The Rev. R. R. Shippen, of Boston, Secretary o1 the American Unitarian Association, will extend the right hand of fellowship to the church, Between eleveg and twelve o’clock on Saturday night, while the clerk of Centre Market, in New- ark, was temporarily absent trom his office, in the desk of which was about $200, Special Officer Rey- nolds, passing along, saw a stranger tn there mov-, ing about suspiciously. Thinking the man was there | for no good, the officer made a move to enter the oMtice wherscRdn, out jumped the stranger through @ window and tried to escape. Be Was caught, | though. In the office was found a finely finished | steel burgiar’s “jimmy.” The stranger was taken | to the station, where he gave his name as Robert | Meaa, and claimed to be @ bricklayer from Boston. j He is held. STATEN ISLAND. The charter election for three trustees of the village of New Brighton will take place on Tues- day next, the 9th inst. when trustees for the Fitst, Third and Fifth wards will be chosen. It is understood that there will be a close contest in each ward, . The annual festival of the temperance societies of Father Barry’s parish, Staten Island, will take place at Elm Park to-day. Boats leave both the oot of Whitehall street, New York, for the North Shore and the Grove, also foot of Dey street, near; every hour. If the weather is unfavorable is wi be heid on the next fine day, 4 | Mr. W. A. P. Smithson’s residence, at Four Corners, Castleton, was robbed early on Friday morning of $700 worth of jewelry, belonging to Mrs. Smithson, The valuables are supposed to have been taken by one Oharles H. Taylor, a gare dener who bad been in Mr. Smithson’s employ for the past three or four years, and who digay ed immediately aiter the articles were missea and has not since been seen nor heard from. As soon as the family became aware of the robbery the | Police wore notified, but meantimo the supposed | Togue had made good his escape, The county | yen are now busily engaged in searching for tho | | past | returning. | was happy tn rich receipts, § WEST POINT. The Prospects of the Season Looking Up. CADET SMITH’S CASE, The Law and Ethical Examination and a New Professorship To Come. Wesr Pornt, June 7, 1874. A clear sky, with the mercury in the thermome- ter among the nineties, yesterday came to every- body on the post as a blessing made all the more welcome by not having been expected even by the hotel and private boarding house keepers who during the week past bad well nigh become de- mented by the prospects of profit (?) laid before them by the rains which swept over the place and the fogs which had enveloped the mountains, day in and day out. The fact that all day to-day the new departure of the elements continued unbroken was by no means ungratifying to any one, and the hotels have, as @ result of the sudden change from grave to gay, already begun to realize that even in the hotel heavens tuere is occasionally & silver lining to the darkest cloud. The late trams and boats on Saturday eventng, brought up from New York quite a crowd of visitors, many of whom, however, only came to stay until to-morrow morn- ing. A few of them, Juaging from the size of their trunks, can safely be set down as among the per manents, Saturday is always A HOLIDAY FOR THE CADETS, and is the only day of the week when they are allowed to roam about pretty much at their will within the prescribed limits, beyond which, with- out special permission, no cadet who has any idea of what the terms ‘‘close quarters’? and “suspen- sion” really mean will ever go with impunity. There were no military exercises other than the usual guard mount in the morning and the parade in the evening. Still, owing to the new way of conducting the examinations, the third class was not allowed to wait ant Monday to get its first dose of the annual excoriations, and they were thus obliged to loge their holiday, as all the day was supposed to be for all gray coats, to undergo aa overhauling in mathematics. The results of the examtuation have, of course, not been made known as yet, nor wiil they be until the graduates are in every way done for by the authorities and allowed to leave the post in peace and quiet. It was not @ very di ing one apparently to the third class, and 1¢ 18 not very probable that any one of its members will be declared “found,” so far a8 Mathematics are concerned. The subject of the “sound” probabilities reminds one that THE OASE OF SMITH now seems desperate. Official information ag to whether he did or not really fail to pass nis exam}. nation in philosophy as Well 8 1s exacted by the Academic Boara in order to insure him against am involuntary home trip, with little or no prospect of a return, cannot be obtained; but certain cire cumstances which have come under my notice to-day almost confirms me in the belief that he is doomed. lt may be that the result of the rit eed ing of notes by the examiners will lead to a difler- ent result; bus the prospects, 80 far as | have been abie to fathom them, look Dhond sreipes! for the poor fellow. It should be understood that when a cadet is examined each of the examiners makes his own private notes o1 his examination and tae “AVERAGE QUALITY”? of the cadet’s merit as made out by s comparison Of these notes, is thc standard by which he must stand or tall, This comparison in Smith’s case hag not, I believe, been made a8 yety and the only indi- cations of whay the final redult will be are the whisporings ee are being indulged in by those who are lieved to hold confidential relations With the projessors. If Smith should be sent a8 a matter of course his friends away, wil do all they can to get him returned. He has, I think, got bis filk of West Poine and its glories, wich, to him, have always come in the shape of tribulations and trials and heart- burnings; and if he is declared “found” tis year his {rtends may find that it will be no easy task to inauce him to get another taste of these same gio- ries. But his going away, anybow, will not, by any Means, as some people suppose, end THE QUESTION OF COLOR at the Academy, for there will be yet a colored boy in the corps, and one several degrees blacker than Smith ever was before he began grad did after bis arrival here, He i no, like Smith, near the graduation point as | social danger to the corps and to other fractional portions of West Point that are foolisn enough to mix up the question of color with the question of military ver and justice. It must be said thas Smith, on Friday, was given every opportunity to * pass Well, ag be was given three different probe lems to do. If he had Iailed to solve two and had succeeded in solving but one, I was informed to. day by good authority that he would have been allo to pass. fut the difficulty about this three-problem question 1s that po one of the ex- aminers will te! one of the prob! eat SAGE HDepper he dia solve W AND ETHICS. The subject upon which the graduates, will be examined to-murrow 1s law and ethics, a subject Which always attracts a large number of visitors, who profess to be, if they are not, learned in the law and preachers of God’s lioly gospel. It is said, I do not Know with what truth, that the dill now pending before Congress creating a protessorship ot law at the Academy is destines pass. this law should pass it 1s quite possible that there will be a considerable shaking up of the dry bones in this locality and @ general scramble for a fac share by many schouls, here and elsewhere, who love their country better than they love them- selves, and who consequently are ever ready to take any new Office that proniises plentifal emolu- ment and very little work. It ts believed that a prolessionalist of this kind would doa great deal of good, especially so if it should be made, as I believe it is intended to make 1t, from the Judge Advocate’s department. In their dealings with the civil authorities, military officers in our de- partments nowadays have many delicate duties to Berea and tt is understood that many blunders officers in their dealings with them during the few years, more or less mise in their results, have promp: certain parties in Washington to bergen yn ine law referred to. Still, there are those who say that the law itself is a mischievous amuir, and has some- thing back of it, or, rather, will have something back of it, when ‘it is tinally passed that will be like the iif wind that biows nobody any good. Thie view of the matter, however, is rather a ridiculous , one, and can have but littie of anything like fact to make it worth paying any serious attention to, STILL ON POST. The Secretary of War is still here, with his family, and will remain unti the diplomas are awarded to the graduates, General Sherman is. expected in a few days. GROUSSE! AND JOURDE, © A meeting of the Reception Committee appointed by the Workingmen’s Lyceum, the International Workingmen’s Association, the Labor Vanguard and other societies for the purpose of making ar- Tangements to act in conjunction with the French societies in tendering a reception or banquet to the exiled Communist leaders during their stay 10 this city, was heid yesterday at noon at Nous Spring street. The meeting was calied to oreariby John Halbert, of the Internationals, who presi Samuel Oliver announced the departure of Henri Rechefort and Messrs, Pain and Benedic, on Saturday Inst, and expressed is it at being ane able to entertain them before their arture, Speeches were made by Messrs. Banks, Dr. ty Professor King, of Brooklyn, ©. Osborn Ward, Mr. Frei_and others; and a committee was appointed to,draw up an address to be presented to Menara. Grousset and Jourde, and it. was decided to . actively co-operate with the French societies in tendering them a reception or banquet. The Secretary was authorized to communicate with the exiled Communists in relation to the date of the reception, Auother meeting will be held ina few days, when a reply will expected from them and the arrangements for the afair completed. PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYS, The fine weather of yesterday had the effect ot attracting many thousand visitors to Prospect Park, where the pure alr and beautiful scenery of meadow, city and ocean more than compensated one for a piigrimage to that popular resort of tiie masses. The Flatbush avenue, Sackett street and - sae abe ait Vie crowded to excess dur tern evenin, ie going an: It ie singular te thd eafiroud tendents go not increase the facilities ior travel — on these lines those summer Sunday afternoons, © When they know the influx of a from New York, bound parkward, is al such as to Ber of ‘care’ to transport, passengers ‘over rt ir routes. ‘Phe railroad corporations, however, wants and neces and to be con- 3 was the only drawback, but even that want hi its com tion for the caterers at Shelter Oot~ tage and she Dairy, both places being more than well patronized by those who ht @ fomporary retreat from the warmth of “Old Sol.’ the lake the call and omnivas boasts were kept akim- ming lively over tho placid si ters which cover an area of sixty-two 1 There mauy hanasome turnonts on the Vattention with the other park,