The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1874, Page 6

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CENTRAL PARK GARDE! Bigot street and Seventh avenue SYaonas' cox. ERT, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:0 P. th street, nonpengy Ba 1Butloek’s Royal Ma- : ray. Pouetion. 88%! R Matince a9 Pe TM, c The nah stree! Pits tar PE cee OUR ET | closes at 10 CP pte qerropEess eared ‘Twenty-sixth street. oganreoNGnESs OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. M. and TRIPLE SHEET. Hew York, Wednesday, June 10, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities | @re that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wax Srazer Yesrenpay.—Stocks were dull | and lower. Gold opened at 110}, advanced to 1103, and closed at 1104. ‘Tar Dune of Connavcut has made his ap- Is this “preliminary to his occupancy of Dublin Castle as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? Economy.—In the last year of the adminis- tration of Mayor Hall the expenses of the Mayor were returned as thirty-eight thousand dollars; and in the last year of Mr. Havemeyer, our great reform Mayor, the game expenses are charged at fifty-nine ‘thousand dollars. Tee Inriationsts or ConcrEss seem anxious to bring the President once more to the hard money test by agreeing upon a tinkered prairie dog finance bill in their Con- ference. It may be just as well to recall, this warm weather, that they are dealing with a man who once said, “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” Tue Inpun Famine, according to the news of this “morning, is greatly abated. The measures adopted by the government have been successful beyond expectation. Cases of destitution are now rare; and the persons employed at the various relief stations are de- creasing in consequence of the rains which now prevail. It will be well for the govern- ment to adopt such measures as will prevent euch suffering in the future. Disnowssrr 1 Orrice.—The cause of hon- est government has achieved a gratifying suc- ceasin the conviction of three Commission- | ers of Charity for frauds committed in office. “After a patient and dispassionate trial in the Brooklyn courts a verdict has been given ‘which declares the charges of fraudulent pro- cedure proved against the prisoners. It is ble that these men are the victims of a and vicious system, which aimed at setting up a code of morality for politicians distinct 4rom that which guided men's conduct in the ordinary affairs of life. The public conscience has, however, revolted against this system of Bishonesty, and those who are found guilty of dishonesty in their dealings with the people ‘will undoubtedly be punished as other dis- honest people are. Once scheming politicians are convinced that this resolution will be car- tied out firmly we shall hear of less dishonesty mong public servants. Scenyx rm tue Frencn Assempuy.—The tide Df party feeling continues to rise in the French Assembly, and, if we may judge the temper of the parties outside from that of their repre- sentatives in the Legislative Assembly, we are likely to sec lively times before the question of | the definitive form of government is finally wettled. The Bonapartists are at their old work of official corruption and tampering with the elections, in which they have been aided by the Bonapartist members of the government. | This has caused an interpellation by the Lett, | and the consequent breach between the ad- herents of the dynasty of Sedan and the repub- | licans appears threatening. Gambetta, never | very mensured in his denunciations, called the members of this clique ‘‘wretches,’’ and ,Ohamber. They say that thirty votes only exe needed to carry this measure, | itself, | Governor would become a prize worthy of the ‘The Democratic Poelities=City and State. Free governments can be successfully con- ducted only through the agency of responsible political parties whose vigilance in detecting, exposing and taking advantage of each other's mistakes or malversation is the most efficient check upon bad administration. The fear of losing power is the best guarantee against its abuse, A journal like the Hznaup, which has no motive but the public good, watches party movements with interest, because it believes the public welfare is promoted by able party management on both sides. A great part of the scandalous abuses which have grown up in the republican administration is owing to the feebleness of the democratic opposition. If the democratic party had been more able and formidable a salutary fear of its success would bave saved the republicans from their worst blunders and have been a great advan- | tage to the country. We are therefore willing to see the democracy become strong enough to check the party in power, and should ap- prehend no great danger trom its gaining pos- | session of the government. If it should come into power, the republican organization would remain strong enough to put the victors on their best behavior. If the democratic party should carry the State of New York this year, such a result would be more valuable in its reformatory effect on the administration than in the promise of good government by demo- cratic ascendancy. i We are, therefore, willing to give the demo- cratic party of this State such advice as would elevate it to the rank of a powerful national opposition. We take no side as partisans; but in assisting each party to see its advan- tages and play its game with skill we shall contribute our part to the course of good gov- ernment, since the country cannot but gain by able party management on both sides. As we have already recently shown, the politics of this city are the main pivot of the politics of the State. The democrats cannot carry the State unless they give a reasonable guarantee of good government in this city. In our municipal affairs they have ®& great opportunity which we should be sincerely sorry to see them squander. The government of this city fairly belongs to them, because a large majority of our city voters belong to the democratic party. The'sense of | party fealty is much looser here than in the rural districts, and it was greatly weakened during the progress of the so-called ‘‘reform’’ movement. But the scandalous result of that experiment has prepared the public for the re-establishment of party lines, community look with distrust and disdain on superlative professions of honesty played off as a means of entrapping votes. They do not believe that honesty is the exclusive possession of any noisy clique who make it the cloak of ambition, As people who are perfectly free from disease never think of their health, so men of perfect integrity are not apt to be uncomfortably con- scious of it and to parade it as a distinction. It is not well bred people who put on airs and practise attitudes, but parsvenus who do not feel assured of their position. Thoroughly honest men regard honesty as so natural and easy a thing that they never think of asserting \ their title to it and ostentatiously wearing it | asa badge. Tt is a satire on this community which would be insulting if it were not so utterly grotesque for men like Green and Havemeyer to assert a superiority over the great mass of our upright business men and trade on their assumed honesty, as if we had not thousands of citizens in both political parties who are at least their equals in this respect without making any fuss about it. Plain people are disgusted with such self-right- eous assumptions, especially since they have had an opportunity to see what use these boastful moral prudes make of political power.” The people prefer men who love honesty for itself and not for its dowery ; who quietly practise it in their daily avocations, instead of making loud professions of it as an electioneering bait. Our citizens are heartily sick of these tricksters, who make political merchandise of a respectable virtue and abuse the offices which they contrive to reach by this ‘convenient stepping-stone. Never was this community more disposed to see party lines again strictly drawn, and the successiul party held responsible for good administration, than it is at present, after the provoking experience of the last three years. The democrats of the city have, ‘therefore, a great opportunity, if they will If they make a wise and popular nomination for Mayor they witl thereby strengthen their | State ticket more than they can by any other | | cipline of the whole body. Appointments on means. If they will nominate William B. Duncan or John K. Hackett they will easily | elect a Mayor in whom citizens of both par- ties will have confidence, and at the same time largely increase the vote of their candi- date for Governor. The Mayoralty will be the centre of political interest in this populous city, which contains so large a proportion of the voting citizens of the State. During the ascendancy of the Tammany Ring and since its fall we have suffered so much from mis- government that the Mayoralty will be the paramount question in the politics of this island. A good candidate tor Mayor will buoy up the State ticket, but no candidate for Gov- ernor can bring out and unite the whole dem- ocratic vote with a bad nomination for the Mayoralty. With either of the excellent candidates we have mentioned the city would take care of and the democratic nomination for best abilities, highest character, and most honorable ambition in the democratic ranks. Such a candidate, with the city made secure by good nomination for Mayor, would probably beat even so strong and popular a candidate as Governor Dix, and that would be no ordinary distinction. It would give the victor a high and enviable place in the roll of candidates for the demecratic nomination for the Presidency. But who is the man that is equal to this great opportunity? We know of but one, and that one could not accept the post without a considerable sacrifice. Nobody can doubt whom we mean, and it is hardly | E. Church, Chief something approaching a free fight was very | of nearly occurring in consequence. However, | having called each other some hard names, the | democratic leaders of the parties separated. The Leit declaro their | Resolution to force the dissolution of the jai with the rural democracy. necessary to supply the name. Sanford Judge of the Court the clearest heag heart among the State. He is altogether the most popular man in the party, No other democratic statesman of New York en- joys and deserves so large a measure of publio Appeals, has and the soundest stop their factious bickerings and improve it. | confidence. His honesty would never be dis- cussed, because it is of that robust stracture which needs no propping. He is precisely the candidate for the exigency, because the sound public sentiment of both parties demands the tributed to demoralize the democratic party by pursuing a will-of-the-wisp ‘‘reform’’ in search of popularity outside the democratic organiza- tion. The ‘‘reform’’ movement has proved to be such a nauseous humbug in its results that no democrat who weakened the party by join- ing it would be regarded with favor as a demo- cratic candidate for Governor. Church, who is so incomparably strong and popularin the rural districts, would match admirably in the canvass with Mr. Duncan or Recorder Hackett for Mayor. Such a conjoint ticket would enable the party to put its best foot forward both in city and country. Such a combination could count on success even against Governor Dix. The Police Board in Commotion. The Board of Police Commissioners is just now in a very excited condition. The way in which the business of the department has hitherto been transacted does not please Com- missioner Disbecker, who demands explana- tions that are not always easy to supply, and who proposes resolutions which render two of his associates, Messrs. Gardner and Charlick, very uncomfortable. As Commissioner Dur- yee stands by Mr. Disbecker the proceedings of the Board are spicy and interesting. Yes- terday Mr. Disbecker introduced a resolution requesting the opinion of the Corporation Counsel as to the legality of the appointment of fourteen or fifteen patrolmen, who were crowded into the force of the Westchester towns, just prior to January 1, in order that they might be transferred to the city. At the prior meeting of the Board Mr. Disbecker | moved the appointment of a finance commit- tee to examine and audit bills—a duty which has hitherto been performed by the treasurer, Mr. Charlick. The resolution was adopted, Mr. Charlick ytoutly refusing to vote, although required to do so by order of the Board. Among the bills referred was one of Mr. Samuel London for over seven thousand dollars. It does not appear for what this bill was incurred, but it will be well for the Finance Committee to inquire whether it is in accordance with the law which requires bids for all expenditures over one thousand dollars. Mr. Havemeyer’s Police Commissioners are no sooner ont of the hands of one investigating committee than they find themselves in the grasp of another. The State Assembly scarcely has time to put on record its condemnation of their incapacity and neglect as heads of the corrupt Street Cleaning Bureau before the State Senate steps in and orders a new overhauling of the depart- ment during the recess. When the Legisla- ture adjourns Tammany Hall takes up the subject and drags the unfortunate Commis- sioners before a judge to answer to complaints against their official conduct. The examina- tion closes only to find the Board of Aldermen demanding of the Mayor their suspension and removal, and this action of the Common Council is quickly followed by the indict- ment of two of the Commissioners, Charlick and Gardner, by the Grand Jury of the General Sessions, on four distinct charges of alleged felonious violation of the Election law. The unsatisfactory condition of the Police and other public departments is no doubt at-~. tributable to the wretched system of govern- ment imposed upon the psople of New York under the misused name of “‘reform.’’ The late President of the Police Department was tetained in office by the Weed republicans, one of the parties to the reform alliance. Mr. Gardner was placed on the Commission for the Custom House republican organization, another of the contracting reformers. Mr. Duryee was chosen as the representative of the reform democracy, and naturally became powerless in the Commission. Mr. Charlick was made a Commissioner to please himself and the Mayor and to forward their twin political and personal interests. Mr. Russell was a respectable piece of patchwork inserted ina corner, where he attracted but little attention and could harmlessly indulge his inclination for polite letter writing. A commission thus composed could not be efficient and could scarcely be honest. It had in its composition the seeds of jenlousy, discord, scheming | and counter-scheming, and the sharpest and most unscrupulous man was certain to obtain the controlling power. Tie head of such a department could not bs thus demoralized and inharmonious without affecting the dis- the force have been simply a matter of divi- sion between the Commissioners. Smith's men, Gardner’s men or Caarlick’s men have become the guardians of the lives and prop- erty of the citizens. What wonder that policemen’s clubs and revolvers are the terror of peaceable citizens, and that police investi- gations are followed by Grand Jury indict- ments ? Thero is, doubtless, a great deal of political intrigue mixed up with the charges of elec- tion frauds brought against the Commission- ers, and the time of the Grand Jury would probably have been more profitably ocaupied in inquiring into other alleged malpractices in the department, including the street clean- ing frauds, in which the people are more directly interested. Nevertheless, it would be @ good thing for the city if the present indict- ments should prove the means of clearing out this one of the many incongruous commissions, even though the venerable Mayor’s bright, | particularstar, Disbecker, should be left alone in Mulberry street, shining in solitary glory. Nerruzn Brack Non Wurtz Wrvs.—The House of Representatives, by a considerable majority, has just decided that neither Pinch- back, colored, nor Sheridan, white, is entitled to a seat in the House upon the evidence presented. However, both parties are allowed testimony. Pinchback’s case must have been treated thus in the house of his radical friends. It was unfortunate for Sheridan, perhaps, that, besides being a white man, & rather objectionable fact for a Southern poli- tician just now, he isa democrat. Hardly any amount of evidence was likely to serve him, as he was pitted against a colored radical claimant for the seat. This is one of the many complications growing out of the dis- graceful federal interference with the Louisiana elections, The Sencon and Ite Opportunities. The season of life and activity bas come at last with the summer, and all America seems to yearn for the waters and the green fields. It was a long time before society was unlocked re-establishment of party lines and party re- | from the cold and stony embrace of winter, sponsibility, and Judge Church has never con- | and, until lately, it really seemed what with asteroids, and movements of the Gulf Stream and other phenomena perplexing to our men of science, that we were about to pass into a new geological period, an age of ice and enow and merciless cold. But summer has really come, and we give it precipitate wel- come. In every part of the country we hear the busy note of gentle preparation. Our city social life is atanend. The opera has van- ished, and Elsa and Lohengrin drink new inspi- ration from the German springs. The theatres have listless audiences, and one after another the managers roll down their curtains and put away their puppets, for the play is played out, and the players are away to seek trout streams and sea beach promenades. Gallant society men are making their last calls, but it is not cheerful business, as fashionable young ladies are weary of the home saloons and reserve their dresses, their new songs and witty . speeches, for Saratoga and the sea side. The hours drag, familiar faces no longer greet us on the avenue, everybody looks tired. Bridget is busy dragging up the carpets and shrouding the furniture for its summer entomb- ment. Weare like birdson the wing, wait- ing for the warm airs. So, like birds on the wing, we take flight. As everybody cannot take flight the home people are resolved upon making the best of the summer. How impatient the boys are for the green fields to chase the evading ball from base to base, or to feel the triumph of Napo- leon at Austerlitz as they catch it on the fly amid the shouts of eager thousands. This is a noble game with fine opportunities for activity and skill, and not without its scientific qualities. It requires more talent, we are sure, to pitch a ball properly than has been shown by any of General Grant's Secretaries of the Treasury. Speaking of that, think of the sound mathematical common sense principles base ball embodies, with none of the follies about two and two making eleven, as the champions of inflation contend. And now that we are on this infla- tion question, let us pray for fresh and free winds for the yachts that lie impatiently at anchor in the bay. What philosopher is it who says that the four most attractive things in the world are a tree in full bloom, a racer at speed, a comely woman, and a ship at full sail? He would feel the full sense of attrac- tion this morning in reviewing the bright squad- ron of fairy, trembling beauties, winged and bounding and impatient for the sea. For to- day we have the regatta of the Atlantic Yacht Club. To-morrow the New York Club will celebrate its prowess, We do not know what kind of a yachting season we shall have this summer. We are not overehopeful, knowing the effects of the panic on our yachting service. It will, no doubt, be quiet, without the brilliancy of more prosperous times. But our yachtsmen are showing enterprise and taste, and those who crave a wet sheet and a flowing sea and a wind that follows fast will, no doubt, have as much comfort and as complete an enjoyment of all the rare pleasances of the summer as ever before. Yachting was never as popular as in the seasonsof 1871 and 1872. We hope | after the time of rest enforced by the panic to have again that gayety and brightness. In the New York list of yachts many are absent that will not be brought into commission this season, A number are also in Europe. These will pass the summer months in European waters. This will account for the absence of the Sappho, Enchantress, Viking and the Faustine, vessels that will be missed to-morrow, es our yachts coquettishly fly wing and wing through the Narrows. Many of our largest yacht schooners will accompany the regatta around the course. This will give joyousness to the scene, an element of friendliness and sociability, without which life at sea is as insipid as life on land. The meeting of the Idler, Phantom and Tidal ‘Wave—the Peerless, Eva, Magic and Clio— must afford a contest of a close and exciting nature. Inthe Atlantic Yacht Club, which, as we have said, sails this morning, four schooners and twelve sloops are entered of their respective classes. The Brooklyn Yacht Club will sail on June 16, and the entries indicate a very large fleet. This also is the second day of the Jerome Park races, and it bids fair to exceed in inter- est the opening, especially if last evening’s thunder continues in a relenting humor, After Jerome Park we shall have Saratoga and Monmouth. So if only Congress will adjourn without passing the Civil Rights bill, and if we can have a finan- cial policy that will not produce another panic, and jf Bismarck can be induced to confine his quarrels to the Pope, ‘there is no reason why we should not have an exceptional summer—a season of happiness after so much unrest, of peace and merriment and over- flowing enjoyment, after the hard, lingering, cruel winter, with its frost and rain and ceaseless business cares. Our Canine Enemies. Within the last few days a number of per- sons have been bitten by dogs supposed to be mad, and the muzzling question is naturally forced on public attention by these unpleas- ant incidents. In one case two women have been bitten and in another a woman and three children before the offending animal could be secured. These facts ought to be sufficient to decide even so great a friend of the canine tribe as Mr. Bergh to demand the general muzzling of dogs allowed to roam | Before the heated term had | about the city. come the Hrratp had insisted on the adoption of precautionary measures, but owing to the want of energy shown by the city authorities the order for the muzziing of all dogs has not yet been issued. Before the order will be | time by the resolution passed to take further | issued and its provisions carried out other victims may be added to the list. It would be avery bad one or he would not have been | difficult to censure too severely the want of foresight and the indifference to the safety of the citizens which is shown in this neglect to issue an ordinance which should act as a pre- ventive to this evil. But the whims of pseudo- philanthropists exercise more influence on the | government of this city under its present administration than do the interests of the general body of citizens. The question, how- ever, whether the convenience of the dog or the safety of the citizen is to be consulted will certainly be decided against the dog, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1874,~TRIPLE SHEET. Fose io an tian new ia dieeunlons Gal there should be no delay in putting the muzzling ordinance inte force. Repeal of the Legal Tender Act. An evening contemporary, whose discussions of financial subjects are always clear and able and generally instructive, does scant justice to President Grant's recommendation of an early repeal of the Legal Tender act. While con- ceding that ‘tin theory this plan is defensible,"’ our contemporary contends that it would work mischief and ruin if an attempt were made to put it in practice. The argument is, that in so short a period as will intervene before July 1, 1875, it would be impossible to accumulate gold enough in the country to supply a new legal tender for that which would be discarded. It is unjust to the President to suppose he considers that par- ticular date as an essential part of his plan. He expresses 8 willingness to make deviations from his views in a spirit of concession and deference to other opinions, and it may be presumed that there is nothing which he would yield with ‘so little reluctance as the particular date at which the repeal of the Legal Tender law should take effect. Of course he would require that it should be early, for its chief value would consist in ite compulsory effect on the banks in hasten- ing their preparation for specie payments. Nothing is more certain than that if 4 certain day were fixed by law after which nothing but coined money would be a legal tender for the discharge of debts the banks would make timely provision for the change, since it would be impossible for them to continue their business without a stock of gold. If the date were placed five years hence they would pey no immediate attention to it but wait until the period approached. If one year is not long enough let them have two; but do not impugn a wise recommendation because it happens to err in so slight s point as a date, The bunks ought to have a reasonable time to prepare for so great a change, but the mere rec- tification of a date would make this step the soundest and most efficient that has been yet proposed for expediting the return to a sound currency. The Legal Tender act is the main prop of our system of false money, and a rea- sonable but early limit to its operation would dissect out the cause of the disease and enable the patient to get well. A man who puts upon a house or # ship a price trom which he expresses a willingness to fall merely invites offers which may lead to a bargain. He does not expect to get that price, but only to come to an un- derstanding with purchosers. If Congress should evince an honest intention to take the decisive step of an early repeal of the Legal Tender act there is nothing in the Presi- dent’s memorandum to justify a belief that he would insist on the particular date which he inserted to make his recommendation definite and specific and to give emphasis to his opinion that the repeal should take effect early enough to operats as an immediate stimulus to the banks. A competent supply of gold could be pro- cured more readily than our critical contem- porary seems to suppose. We are exporting every year cotton, grain, petroleum, tobacco and other products to the value of several hundred millions of dollars,, and it is in the choice of the holders of the bills of exchange drawn against these products—that is to say, in the choice of the banks—whether they will receive the proceeds in money or in merchan- dise. Gold should not be imported so rapidly as to derange trade, but a hundred millions can be had any year when we choose to take it, and still leave a handsome surplus of our exports for the purchase of foreign goods, Tae Cantist Ixsvnnection.—The defeat of the Carlists before Bilbao does not seem to have disheartened the followers of the Spanish pretender. From the information furnished by the cable an important battle seems immi- nent, as both parties are concentrating their forces for a decisive effort. It is probable, however, that the struggle in the northern | riod, as, owing to the nature of the country, a small band of resolute men can maintain themselves indefinitely. The most important item of intelligence is the apparent willingness of Great Britain to recognize the Spanish Re- public. Hitherto the great European Powers have sought to frown it down, and the fact | that they are now ready to acknowledge it would give it a moral support which would be valuable even in Spain. As for Carlism, it is | a species of nightmare from which the Penin- sula suffers periodically. It can never be any- thing more than a nuisance, and it will con- tinue to exist until the public school system roots out the prejudice and ignorance which North the eid of fanatics and adventurers, employment of a number of Italiansto replace wages. The strikers as usual lost their tem- men willing to accept the wages they rejected as insufficient. skirmishes took place between the hostile par- suppressed before they took the proportions of a riot. The folly of laborers striking for | idle men willing to work for bread throng the streets is only equalled by their folly in attempting to prevent by violence men who | replaced them from working. With the | example of the stage drivers so recently be- fore them sensible men would have hesitated risking a struggle with capital when not a ghost of a chance of success existed; but the one thing which the men who organize strikes generally lack i is common’sense. forms us of the reception of the American pilgrims by His Holiness the Pope, who re- garded this manifestation of Catholie devo- tion from the New World asa ray of light | amid the dark tribulations which encompass the Catholic Church in Enrope. It cer- tainly must have been most gratifying to the Holy Father to ses the children from the far-off Republic gathered round his throne. of bis appreciation of the importance of Catholic America by conferring on some of the dignitaries of the American | Church the Cardinal's hat, Napoleon had only to express a desire that | his cousin should be madea Cardinal. and his | provinces will continue for a lengthened pe- | break the still weak and tottering democracy make the gallant and loyal peasants of the | Lasor STarKEs. —Considerable excitement | exists in the uptown districts owing to the | a body of laborers who had struck for higher | A couple of unimportant | Tue American Pirenms. —The cable in- | We hope he will give practical proof | | | ties, but fortunately the disturbances were | high wages at a time when numbers ot | | to carry it triumphantly into’ port. wishes were at enee cousplled with, The pb grims con then appropriately ask the Pope te confer the Cardinal’s hat on some of the American bishops as a graceful recognition of the devotion and importance of the American Church. We can scarcely believe that the re quest would be refused, Shall We Have a New Policy t= the Park Department t The Board of Apportionment has been liberal in its appropriations to the parks, and we have never heard of any opposition to the payment of the requisitions for bills of that department on the part of Comptroller Green. Not a landscape architect, a super- vising architect, a consulting architect, an as- sistant architect, an engineer or a contractor, so far as we can ascertain, has been driven to the courts to recover his money through the obstinacy or stupidity of the Finance Depart- ment. Perhaps this may arise from the fact that Mr. Green's ‘incompetent’ friends’ in the service of the parks have not been inter. fered with, or it may be a generous return for the gratitude evinced by the Park Com. missioners for the information touching theiz duties afforded them personally by Mr. Green in the absence of the compilation of the his- tory of Central Park, which the Comp- troller is supposed to be preparing. However this may be, it is certain that the Park De- partment has been generously dealt with by the distributers of the public moneys. Now, we would suggest to the Board of Ap- portionment that it may be well to inquire somewhat more closely into the manner in which the Park funds are expended before voting by machine work any more bonds for the Park Department. The President of the Board of Aldermen, at the last meeting of the Board of Apportionment, did secure the reduc- tion of two hundred thousand dollars, asked for by the Comptroller for one of the fancy schemes of Central Park, to one hundred thousand dollars. Weare glad to recognize the desire on the part of Mr. Vance to protect the interests of the taxpayers, and to act with independence as one of the members of the Board of Apportionment. But we should like to see him put his foot down and refuse any further bonds to Central Park unless the money is used for the good of the public and not for the benefit of ‘incompe- tent friends.”’ A very small expenditure would insurea great popular rendezvous, sa in the European parks, which the people would enjoy more than all the underground tunnels and elaborate bridges in out of the way places, and unsightly buildings on which hundreds of thousands of dollars are now thrown away. The Park would be good enough as it is, with the popular improve ment we advocate, for the next ten years, and all the money that need be expended on it is the sum necessary to keep it in good order, In this policy of economy we are certain Mr. Vance will meet the hearty co-operation of the President of the Park Board, Colonel Stébbins. We hope he will be supported also by the new Commissioner, Mr. Stewart. It may displace some ‘incompetent friends,” but it will gratify the people and benefit the taxpayers. Tae Tawmany Leaper.—The politicians are discussing the chances of Mr. John. Kelly’s nomination for Mayor of New York by the Tammany organization, of which he is the head. Mr. Kelly is a veteran in politics and in official life, but he holds at the present mo- ment a position more powerful than any he has heretofore filled. The democracy of New York needs acool, sagacious and intelligent Jeader, and Mr. Kelly can retain his authority and wield it for the good of the whole party if he will only refrain from being o candidate for any office whatever. The post of pilot on the old ship is one he may well covet, for it would be a proud achievement to b2 able to guide it safely through its present perils and But he youst notrun forthe Mayoralty or for any other office. His nomination would be re- garded as his own selfish work and would into atoms. Lethim use his power as leader of the organization to nominate John K. Hackett or William Butler Duncan for Mayor next fall, and he will roll up in New York city one of those old-fashioned demo- cratic majorities, which used in former days not only to win the city, but to sweep the State. Tue Senate ot UDICIARY Gatien Writ Nor Tovcn Sannonn, for Mr. Edmunds reported | back yesterday from that committee the House bill repealing the law under which the San- born contracts were made. The Senator said the Committee could not see what it had to do with the bill, and, therefore, had instructed him to recommend that it be referred to the Finance Committee. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ++ Mr. John M. Forbes, of Boston, 1s at the Breyoort | House. i per as soon as they saw their places taken by | Judge Richard Busteed, of Alabama, has arrived at the Everett House. Governor David P. Lewis, of Alabama, 1s sojourn- ing at the Brevourt House. Judge Israel 8. Spencer, of Syracase, is staying atthe Fifth Avenue Hotei. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, of Carifornis, bas apartments at the Windsor Hotel. ‘The Baron and Baroness Von Friesen, of Prussia, are residing at the Everett House. General B, S. Roberts, United States Army, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General G. J. Magee, formerly of Governor Hoa. man’s staff, has taken up his quarters at the Metro- | politan Hotel. Rear-Admiral Charles 8. Boggs, United States Navy, arrived from Washington yesterday and is at the Everett House. Rev. Dr. G. W, Heacock, of Buffalo, who returned from Burope in the steamship Celtic, is registered at the Sturtevant House. President J. H. Devereux, of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad Company, is at the Windsor Hotel. Professor Benjamin Peirce, and Captain C. Pe Patterson, of the United States Coast Survey, are at the Brevoort House. Professor Peirce will satl for Kurope to-day in the steamsiip scotia. THE NEW PARTY, The Character of the Gathertng of Politicians at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., dune 9, 1874 A large number of delegates to the Reform Com vention, which meeis to-morrow, have already arrived. From present indications every county in the State will be represented. The leaders tn the movement assert that the new party will be organized to be known a6 the Farmers and Indus- trial Reform party, and ® full ticket for State officers willbe nominated, ‘The Convention will meetin Exposition Building at ten o'clock A. M.