The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY aND ANN STREET. eee, 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. sates THE DAILY HERALD, published every Gay in Me vier. Pour cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your Huma. Letters and packages should be prop- | etly sealed. Bejected communications will not be re- turned. — IONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. THEATRE COMI No. 614 Beooawey ee DEIKGHTvE, at oP. M.; closes at 10:30 P. WaLLACK’S THEATRE, and Thirteenth eeecrAte, ace P.M; P.M. Miss Carlotta Le ee ee QSRGEY axVSRTAINMENE, at T- 45 P.M. Sty exer streets.— M.; closes at WOoD's MUSEUM. Broadway, corner of Thirtieth 08: OR LIFE aT fHE MIN M. Same at 8P. M.; closes at 10 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Prince and n streets. —' Pup or ras taxa, net oeloore at i0s FM ‘Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss fone Burke. MES. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, street.—WRESTLING at2 P. M.; closes at 4:0 Sv P. M.'s, J. Huntley. wi ne —THE hd oe WORLD, at? P.M.—1OUDLES AND OTHELLO, at 8 P. M.; closes st 1046 P.M. Sinnie und Lilien Conway, ‘Frank NY PASTOR'S OFERA HOUSE, Bowery. Taner te somm ial ater. Mw; closes at 03? uM oP. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOU! BAA werd sy a syenue. "BGO MIN. Low beef AES FANE GAEDEY, th street and Aeven' —Towar oon Hit Sart oP. Mm {closes et 030 SON HALL, Stxteenth , oa een Bull Boye? Wa. rionettes, at 8 P.M. ‘Matinee ati P.M. ee ROMAN — Faoganr™conaukss OF ai oF WSTIONS, af fermi} ‘M. and TRIPLE SHEET. York, Thursday, Jame ll, 1874. Wass. Srazer Yzsrrepay.—Stocks were firmer. Gold opened at 1103, advanced to 1114, and closed at 111. Tum Jzmoms Panx Races yesterday were finely attended and the sport was admirable. A fall and graphic account of the scene on the track and of the several races will be found elsewhere. A Revivat or tae Income Tax is not favored by the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Dawes yesterday reported back adversely the bill to impose an income tax, with adverse re- ports on several other equally crude financial schemes. Tae Annvat June Recarra of the New York Yacht Club to-day will attract a large erowd of spectators, and will, no doubt, be an interesting and spirited contest if the weather Proves favorable for a race. Yesterday the Atlantic Yacht Club hada ‘‘drift,’’ but it is to ‘be hoped that the wind will freshen to-day as a mark of fayor to the fine vessels that are en- tered for the contest. Gazat Satz or Broop Honszs.—The sale of “thoroughbred horses from the studs of A. Belmont and Hunter & Travers at the Nur- eery, Babylon, L. L, will take place to-day at noon. Trains leave Hunter's Point at 8:20 and 9:35 A.M. This sale offers a rare chance for the possession of pure blood, dating back through royal equine families for two cen- taries. Te Sreonazsr AncuMENT ror THE Ap- JOURNMENT oF UonGREss—The thermometer above ninety. A Washington despatch says the heat in the Senate Chamber and the hail of the House yesterday was intense, and that every effort will be made to hurry up the work, so that there can be an adjournment on | the day fixed. The temperature will shorten debate and do mote than all the arguments of the press to hasten the stepe of members to the seaside, mountains and green fields. Tux Lasoz Riot ap THE Portcn.—While ‘we are ready to acknowledge the efficiency of our police on almost all ordinary occasions, the occurrences on Fifty-first street on Mon- day and Tuesday are not creditable to the force. It has happened before, as then, that when the rioters are of a certain nationality the police are not as prompt and efficient in action as they should be, and as they would be, probably, if the rioters were of a different nationality. Would it not be weil to have a few more Americans, Germans, English, or even Italians in the police, so that there might de a better chance af even-handed justice ‘whenever trouble arises among the laborcry of | day the city? Oumar Transrortarion.—The necessity which exists for increased moans of transpor- tation at rates lower than those charged at present has long been recognized by the mer- eantile community. But so for no proposi- tion hasbeen put forward which would ac- | ‘compligti this object to the best advantage of the public. There is, however, a general | agreement:that nothing effective can be done without the aid of the central government. In view of the impoxtance of this question and the increasing dissatisfaction telt in all sections of the country with the present ruil- | Pepi rg ca there can be @ doubt that | nena tg be 8 a sod ne aa 8 confiscation of the national industry for | says the organ, ‘that General Grant is laying. | rial poison. she benefit of a few powerful monovolies, | be said of elections in the fature, as it was the Departare— ‘The Possibilitie: and Probabilities , State ag the leaves that compose the flower. Wo are told of a canvass now and then really independent and exceptional ; but it is very rare. Such @ canvass overturned Tammany Hall. But even that assumed national pro- portions, and the contest in the end was not 80 much the overthrow of Tweed as the cleva- tion of Grant, We cannot make a campaign in New York to which the country will be indifferent. The preponderance of our politi- cal strength increases so steadily that it will common thing to say of Pennsylvania, ‘‘As New York goes so goes the Union.” Therefore, the elements of s democratic re- vivification must begin in New York. If the leaders of democracy, a party so rich in as- sociations and memories, so closely allied with the great days and the great men of the Union, so thoroughly identified through Jef- fereon and Jackson and tho early fathers with all that is liberal in our constitutional system— if the men who lead this party now mean to achieve their ascendency they must look to New York. Here they lost power and here they must regain it. Nothing in itself was more certain at the close of the war than the supremacy of the democracy. The democratic leaders had atoned during the war for whatever mistakes they had made before. So far as uncomplaining and self- denying loyalty went, they had made as good a record as their adversaries. They had the power, which naturally did not belong to the republicans, of influencing the Southern States to their own welfare in the way of re- censtruction. Two circumstances destroyed these opportunities, The first was that ex- traordinary alliance with Andrew Johnson, under the strange impression that an acciden- tal President who would betray one party was the man to lead another. The second was the shameful rule of the Tammany Ring in New York. From the roots of that Ring no living, wholesome fruit can ever spring. We may plant and water, but there never can be any imerease. Nor can the system which gave Tweed his power give power to any man who chooses to be his successor. The meretricious and dazzling reign of Tammany, with all the gaudy displays and achievements, has come to anend, We cannot revive it. When Tweed died his dynasty died with him. Mr. Kelly will make a blunder worse even than a political crime if he fancies that he can honestly hold power upon the principles which animated his predecessors in their dishonest use of it. Public opinion is an _ influence more worthy of courtship than Tammany | Hall, and public opinion points to a can- didature for Mayor in John K. Hackett, our worthy and unexceptionable Recorder, or in a representative citizen like William Butler Dun- can. Let Tammany, silencing all purposes of revenge for the past and all hopes fora revival of a new Ring, give New York an earnest of good government in the nomination of one of these distinguished gentlemen. The State will take the city at its word and complete the | work of reform by nominating for Governor a man like Sanford E. Church, the Chief Justice of our Court of Appeals. Justice Church | already holds one of the chief offices in the State. He has many years toserve. Wecan | understand how he would hesitate to retire from this even to be Governor for a brief | term. But he must read the lesson painfully | told in the life of Chase, that the Bench is to | quick minds a prison, and that to high ambi- tions and yearnings for the Executive re- | sponsibility, ite enforced tranquillity is a con- suming flame. He must know also that the statesman who succeeds in leading the demo- cratic party to victory may claim the right of | the victory in the White House. ‘is is certainly an easy line for the democ- racy. The republicans have an opportunity no leas simple and sare. When we speak of the republican party we are for the present limited to the aspirations and purposes of the President. Among the many fortunate hap- penings in the career of this distinguished and strangely-fated soldier none is* more sug- gestive than that now, in the sixth year of his ‘Presidency, he is so completely master of the republican party that mo one dares to dispute his supremacy or even to criti- cise it. No Chief Magistrate has been more severely censured, and few have made more mistakes. But his very mistakes have become advantages, for the country cared little about the personal actions of a chief magistrate in non-essential matters who was so universally right on essential questions. We are a gen- erous people in dealing with our public servants, and care little about « severe scru- tiny of an officer who shows that he can ap- preciate in a crisis the true interests of the country. Those who regard the President as an indifferent man also do him an injustice. His message on inflation and his lMter to Senator Jones, of Nevada, show that his mind constantly broods upon the questions of gravest moment. They show further the power of the Executive in determining the policy of Congress in questions where | Executive needs and wishes are as important as in finance. By his prompt courage the | President has determined the financial ques- tion. For the first time in his administra- tion we have a financial policy, not a series of | Soy eoshiged, SMARTER lars, es whack a py, | consolidation of the national credit, the re- | sumption of specie payments, and the fund- | alities in debate which the once before warned his competitors that he is & good deal stronger than they imagine. Mili- tary glory lasts longer thas any other kind of fame."’ ‘‘ Whether the fact is to be regretted or not, there is no denying that it is s fact.” If this is not directly taking the path it is the opening of the gate, and we should be more than blind if we did not regard it as a signal tothe rank and file of the republican press, that commendations of military glory and its influence upon the popular imagination are proper subjects for discussion. Where that will end all must see. It will certainly end, unless checked now, in the most disastrous and irritating canvass ever known in our history. Republican insti- tutions could receive no severer shock than another canvass for General Grant. Whatever of tradition or reverence we have in our govern- ment, almost too young for traditions, and too impulsive for reverence, surrounds the legend which is even more than law, that the office of a President shall not be made per- petual. Once concede that this is not so, and there is only an imaginary line between the Ohief Magistracy of our Republic and Napoleonism as we saw it in France very recently and as we may soon see it again. We are told that the Pres- ident himself is “impatient” with this sub- ject, that he will not read any newspaper which discusses it, One distinguished editor quotes him as having a “distaste” for the theme. These are all good signs, but they are not manifest to the country. Let the President make them manifest. He knew how to do it in finance. Here is a question no less important, ‘not a mere matter of administra- tion, but one affecting the existence and continued security of our government. A letter from the President to Senator Jones or to any other Senator enterprising enough to coax him into a correspondence, written, let us add, in the most ‘impatient’ temper and declaring that under no circum- stances would he accept another nomination, would be the crowning act of his life. Is it beneath his dignity? Well, it was not be- neath the dignity of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson to give expreasion to their feel- ings on the subject, and General Grant's dig- nity will never suffer by following these illus- trious examples. Thus there are lines of new departure for both parties. Let the democrats and republi- cans show the wisdom we would teach them in this the outset of the great campaign, and we shall have brighter skies anda clearer field and a canvass fought upon a higher plane of political principle than any we have had for a generation or two. The Geneva Award Bill. Mr, Butler's bill to place im the greedy hands of Congress the profitable job of dis- tributing at its will the fifteen million collars in gold obtained from the British government, under the pretence that it was an award to meet certain specified losses by the acts of the Anglo-Confederate privateers, was substituted for the Senate bill by the House yesterday by | a vote of 132 to 101. The final action of the House was marked by those coarse person- Massachusetts tative has substituted for the bowie knife and revolver discussions of former days. The people are getting accustomed to hear charges of corruption bandied about between members, and are probably seldom disposed to question their justice. Thus, when Mr. Butler insinuates that the insurance compa- | nies are bribing members to guard their interests in the distribution of the award, they fecl assured that, just or unjust no interest can | protected in Con- gress unless it psys for protection, At largest margin is afforded by the private claims, many of which have been already sold into promising ‘‘pools’’ for Congressional profit. Before this British gold is finally dis- posed of the country will feel that its honor and credit would have been benefited had no dollar of it ever come within reach of the itching fingers of Congressmen, Electrical Storms and Summer Augu- ries. ‘The numerous and severe electrical storms that have recently burst upon various parts of the country afford the first distinct augury of the summer. On the other side pf the Atlan- tic there has been, also, a refufation of the proverb, ‘‘An English summer—two Kot days and a thunder storm.’’ The ptesence of at- mospheric electricity in the frequent storms to which we allude, contrary to the opinion of many of the weatherwise, must/be considered as an effect rather than a cause. The most approved researches show that the electricity of the clouds is geherated during the condensation of vapor intd rain, and is proportional to the amount pf rainfall. In this view, it seems, we are to ragard the thun- der storm as an indicator of the presence and quantity of vaporin the regions aloft, where it is stored away, ready to be condensed into the fertilizing and refreshing raindrop. It is the normal observation in thundet storms to see a great flash of lightning succeelled by a sudden downpour of rain. The a precipitation of hail is almost always prec by vivid elec- trical displays, followed by fhe thunder clap. It is certaim, therefore, in ® season abounding in thunder storms is no lack of water in the cloud regiong and no lack of the refrigerative agencies ni to squeeze morrow, but | the moisture out of the c for the benefit looking to the of the thirsty soil below. far, the abun- dant electrical phenomena of the early sum- mer augur well for the farmer, provided only due care be exerted to securehis June harvests ing of our debt at a rate of interest in keep- ing with our dignity as a solvent nation. | The President, we have said, solved the finan- cial question of the country by a letter. Forthis | he deserves measureless honor. But we are drifting into enother crisis no leas important, | and the results of which ere of the utmost | consequence to the country. We believe that | no thinking leaders ist our politics doubt the existence of a deeply seated plan to secure the election of General Grant for a third term. | An occasional postmaster, limited in zis topics | of invective, or a threadbare caricatarist, anx- jons for a subject, may affect not to trims so, bat what will be atid when wo see the loyst organ | long of power, # journal which has never hesitated to palliate or defend the most shameless acts of virtually admitting the possi- from wet weather. ‘most beneficent of ail the of atmospheric @leetricity.’ The transf ion of oxygen into ozone (the most 1 of all kuown atmospheric disinfectants) & easily proved by experimenting with an tal electric spark. A electrical ie will develop enough electricity to transbrm oxygen into grand mast be the transfording agency of the long lightning fleshes, keft up in incessant administration, bility of this revalt. “It is not very key,” the wires for « re-clestion, although we bere |: en ern eels renee 2 al i; no one is inclined to doubt him, because | the same time every person knows that the | for a song and others of which have been made | feature of the early eammer as auspicious of | healthy season with ebundant showers for the agrioulturist. Justice and the East River-A Warn img for Reform Oficials. There can be no reason why the East River should destroy or in any manner affect the impartial and uniform character of justice, What iscrime on the east side of that river must be crime on the west side, and what is law in Brooklyn must be law in New York. Taking this for granted, the charge of Judge Daniels on the trial of the Commissioners of Charities for Kings county and the verdict which followed that charge must be of painful interest to certain of our own “reform” municipal departments. The charges against the indicted Brooklyn commissioners were that they had paid excessive prices for various supplies purchased on behalf of Kings county under circumstances which furnished indica- tions of fraud. Judge Daniels instructed the jury that public officers are bound to discharge their duties in such « manner as to benefit the public and not to benefit themselves or with the laws under which they act. ‘Now, for the’ purpose of carrying out the spirit and intent of the law," said the Judge, “it was the duty of these officers to advertise and to afford dealers in articles like those required in their departments an opportunity of bid- ding for the contracts. You will see at once that what was designed to be accomplished by that was to secure to the public the acquisi- tion of articles of this character at the cheap- est possible rates that the market would af- ford.” The simple question for their consid- erationythe j were told, was whether the acoused intended to violate this law, or wilfully refused or neglected to do that which the law required them todo. ‘Did the commis- sioners wilfully neglect to advertise?” asked Judge Daniels. “If they did, then they have violated the provisions of the law, and they are guilty, and, no matter whether their guilt may be serious or trifling to the public in- terest, it is your duty to hold them to account- ability, because the law is that the public officers should not wilfully neglect to perform the duties required of them, and they have no ground for the excuse that the result did not inflict serious injury on the public.” On this charge the jury found three of the prisoners guilty of criminal malfeasance in office and acquitted the fourth, who was found to have opposed the action of the Board and to have been overraled by his associates. “Fine and imprisonment in the Penitentiary is the punishment for the offence of which the com- missioners stand convicted. This is justice on the other side of the East River. Let us see how it will apply ‘to certain transactions on this side. New York has Commissioners of Charities and Correction. The purchase of dry goods by one.of them, Mr. Stern, has recently been the subject of investigation by a grand jury. The story as told by the: witnesses is con- ciseand direct. Mr. James Bowen, one of the three commissioners, informs us how the corrupting system of individual purchases was planned and carried out. In the early stage of the ‘‘reform” Commission Mr. Bowen found the dry goods requisitions marked as “referred to Mr. Stern,” and soon discovered that Mr. Stern was purchasing these goods himself, or causing them to be purchased by a Mr. Louis Sternbach, a brother of Commis- sioner Stern’s son-in-law. Mr. Bowen pro- tested against these purchases asa violation of the rules of the department; but was over- ruled by bh his two associates, Stern and Laim- beer. Thereupon he made inquiry into the value of the goods supplied by Mr. Sternbach, and found that the city was grossly over- charged. The purchases had commenced in Jane or July of last yesr—before the ‘‘re- form’’ commissioner was warm in his seat— and continued until January last, when Mr. Bowen refused to certity any more such bills; so Mr. Stern agreed to turn the purchasing over to the purchasing agent. But, significantly enough, at the same time the old purchasing agent was removed and a successor appointed by the votes of Commissioners Stern and Laimbeer, and against the protest of Mr. Bowen. So, when the purchasing of dry goods was given up by Mr. Stern on compul- sion, it was transferred to the hands of his own appointee. Mr. James B. Shaw's testimony carries the job beyond the Department of Charities and Correction into the Comptroller's office. He examined Sternbach’s first accounts; found the goods supplied to be inferior to the samples, and the charges to be exorbitant. He reported the facts to the Finance Department and the bills were laid over. Soon afterwards Mr. Shaw was transferred from the Auditing Bureau in the Comptroller's office to the office of the Receiver of Taxes, and then the bills of Mr. Sternbach were paid by Mr. Green. A member of the firm of whom Mr. Stern's relative purchased the goods which he after- wards transferred to the city proved that the price paid by Mr. Sternbach was from thirty to forty per cent lesss than the city was made | to pay. The city charter expressly prohibits the purchase of supplies by any department | in amounts exceeding one thousand dollars | without the invitation of bids, and these dry | goods were bought in bills of three thousand | dollars and upwards, which were afterwards fraudulently divided up in order to make them | come within the cbarter provision, How would justice, as administered on the other side of the East River, apply to this New York case? How would it apply to purchases of flour and meat by the same Commissioners of Charities and Correction? How to the pur- chase of supplies and the giving out of special contracts by the Police Commissioners? How to Mayor Havemeyer’s treatment of the De- cember debt statement made by the Commis- sioners of Accounts, to his scandalous attempt ‘| to cover ug the dry goods purchases of Mr. Stern by o sham investigation, and to his re- fasal to entertain chargos againsi the Police Commissioners? How to Oomptroller Green’s share in the payment of the bills for criminal dey goods, alter the attention of his depart- ment bad been called to their true character? ‘These are questions of interest to our reform officials. Meanwhile it will be well for the people of New York if some of this Brooklyn justice should be put into force on this side of tho East River. Tr Is Dectpepix Wweare to attack a Vicks- burg local editor. At all events two worthies discovered to their cost that the local editor of the Vicksburg Times is as ready with a revol. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE Uy, 1874.—TRIPLE ‘ SHEET, disease, and our good nature would not allow us to apply the rope to a jugular whose circu- lation was somewhat irregular. This style of argument has been for years one of the and he appeared to be absorbed and forgetful. ‘We jumped to the conclusion at-once that Wild Bill or Devil-May-Care Jack was affected very seriously at the brain centre and ought not to be held responsible for his acts. The counsel delineated the horrors of insaiity with such tearful rhetoric that the jury’s hor- ror of the criminal yielded to pity, and, instead of the well-deserved rope, the prisoner was commended to the seclusion and rest of the Penitentiary Hospital for a few months, when the diet of gruel and beef tea -restored him to his normal state of depravity and he was again let loose to the probability of another attack of cerebral excitement. The general public was never s0 gulled by its own sympathies or duped by a lawyer's special plea as it has been in the last few years. People found, however, that insanity was gottipg to be universal among rogues, and then came the sober, second thought, which brought the gallows into requisition once more. It remembered that when a man is about to commit # murder his base intention starts the blood at a more rapid rate, increases the pulse, makes the head hot and ‘gives one an abstracted look. The man who contem- plates such a crime very naturally drinks his beer with a trembling hand and gives incoherent answers to the ques- tions of his comrades. No man can handle.the knife or pistol: calmly, or lie in wait night after night for his victim, with & pulse running at exactly seventy-two beats ® minute. Why they, the people, did not think of this before they had let loose a whole gang of villains isa mystery which the student of social order must solve. A diseased and morbid pity that was willing to find an excuse for crime took possession of them. They are, however, convalescent ‘now, and rogues will hereafter have little mercy. The gallows is a part_of the wholesome discipline of society, and it would be all the better if New York juries would visit upon the acknowledged criminal the extremé penalties of the law. It is an un- healthy sympathy which tries to excuse crime. Let crime be punished summarily and rigor- ously, and let criminals be taught to fear a certain detection, and we shall do more to restore the community to its normal condition than this namby-pamby and sentimental pity will ever accomplish. We do not hesitate to say that while Chris- tian’ men and women should devise methods of reform, and that while those methods should be encouraged in every possible way and made @ component and prominent part of our penal discipline, the welfare of society will be best secured by a rigid and uncompromising en- forcement of the law. Let crime be branded, let follow close on its heels, let the door be shut on every legal quibble which is used as the means of escape, let our Judges do their whole duty and our jurors refuse to recommend to mercy, let the discipline of the prison be carried out towards the criminal of -high and low degree alike, and guilt will at once recognize the danger in which it stands and take to honest pursuits. Minernlogical Buncombe. If the reports which come to us concerning the mineralogical wealth ot this country be true the American eagle may flap her wings from the top of the Rocky Mountains more Tustily than evex, and small orators may use the hugest kind of rhetoric without getting very far away from the facts of the case. The “Bird o’ Freedom’’ screams her patriotic song over a land in whose bowels is hidden wealth ‘in comparison with which the national debt | is like a drop of dew on alion’s mane. In | fact, the inventory of our property, real and | imaginary, leads us to hope that when it shall | be properly distributed, without the impartial intervention of a ring, whose Spartan virtue excites the admiration of the world, but with- out whose fostering care we could get along | in such matters as this, every head of a family | will put to shame the petty poverty of a Rotha- | child and compel even Oresns to knock | humbly at our back door for a cold potato. Lying under the hot springs of Arkonsas is | @ bed of chalcedony more extensive than that | which has made Chalcedon the envy of ages, and purer and more lustrous in quality. Enough of this precious stone lies snugly | ensconced in the region above named to make | statues of all our great men withal and to far- nish shining gates for our national buildings. The city of Bythinia is to Arkansas as 4 small solitaire to the Kohinoor, In Kansas City, at a late county fair, more exhibited, and from as many deposits, Even an eatthquake would have tough work to throw this tenacious mass to the surface, and before it can be properly utilized some shrewd Yankee mast mvont a machine of three or four earthquake power. But that can be easily accomplished. Now that we know where the ore is we shall probably have, before ten years are told, am automaton giant construction, who will stand on the nearest fixed star, and, taking thid insignificant planet in his grasp, than three hundred specimens of lead’ were equesse ft over our smolting pots until the region round Kansas City is as dry as asponge. ‘Then we have in the same locality immeas- urable beds of iron, copper, zinc and nicks It will not be long before these masses of use- ful and valuable material will be roused from their long slumber, for running all through them are thin seams of gold and ailver. Wherever there is gold, right there is to be found a man who wants it. It may play hide and seek with him so long as he is armed with the primitive spade and hammer, but when he comes with a patent crusher, that can take small sized hill in its iron hand and reduce it to powder, there is very little use in carry- ing on the game of find me if you can any longer. Iron and copper we want, but gold we must have. Neither is it any longer necessary to ex- plore distant lands for rubies and sapphires. They are to be found as common as pebble stones in North Carolina. They dazzle your sight as you pick your way over the pine bar- rens of that forlorn State, and the means of paying off the mortgage on every plantation lie at the roots of the wild roses, if the people only knew where to dig. Whata pity that some of the disembodied spirita, who seem to have nothing better to do than to loaf about this mundane sphere knocking their knuckles raw on mahogany tables at a dollar and @ quarter an hour, cannot be in- duced to lead the way to that secluded spot where Dame Nature has stowed away these precious gems fora rainy day! It would be vastly more profitable and convincing work than to continue this disgraceful rampage through darkened rooms and making night hideous by drums and banjoes and ac- cordions. Then, again, in San Bernardino, Oal., are mines of tin which must make the ancient and avaricious Phonicians turn in their graves. We have long known that there was brass enough in this country, but we have grown sad because at times we have been short of ‘‘tin.’’ But the season of our na- tional despontlency has changed into radiant hope. Some adventurous traveller, while fm pursuit of a wild bear, or while a wild bear was in pursuit of him, we do not exactly recall which, etumbled against the edge of a whole plateau of this useful ore, and hereafter we oan enoour- age tin weddings to any extent. Then the mines of mica, small specimens of which we see in the stove that adorns our sitting room, are found in the South and West in sufficient abundance to enable us all to look through a glass darkly, But the imagination tires as it attempts to prefigure the wealth of the future. Our very ‘crimingls will soon be fed from solid gold dishes, with silver spoons, and when their term of confinement ends the very incentive to crime will be taken away, since the precious metals are to be so abundant that we can pave Fifth avenue with a mosaic that shall display our mineralogical resources. Indeed, we shall soon use all the side streets as gardens, and the entire popula- tion will live in brown stone fronts on the avenue and fare sumptuously every day. Lot the eagle flap her wings and sound aloud her harmonious notes, for we area great people. Precavrrons Acamnsr Steam Boren Ex- PLosions.—The Board of Commissioners ap- pointed by President Grant to inquire into the cai of steam-boiler explosions will shortly begin a series of experiments at Sandy Hook and at Pittsburg. It is promised that this all- important subject will receive the most ear- nest attention, and that nothing will be omit- ted calculated to give protection to the publio ‘against the horrible disasters which occasion- ally arise from the escape of steam. It is to be hoped that no whitewashing process will be indulged in to screen unconscionable contract- ors from their just deserts when their defect- ive work causes loss of life. Such @ course has been too long a curse to this country and an insult and injury to the public. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bald Mountain bustles with excursionists. Jayhawker Jamison 1s 0a trial for perjury. Captain 0, E, Michaelis, United States Army, ts at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Congressman John H. Rice, of Maine is ao- journing at the Metropolitan Hotel. - Governor John F. Hartranit, of Pennsyivanota, yesterday arrived at the Astor House. - Providence claims a population of 99,500, They |. take the census in the railway station. Chief Engineer W. H. Shock, United States Navy, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Congressman John B. Alley, of Massacha- setts, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Oongressman Stephen Sanford, of Amster- dam, N, Y., is stopping at the Gilsey House, One of Durell’s clerks has left New Orieans. Strange to relate $30,000 0f public money ts aiso gone. Judge Oharies D. Drake, of the United States Conrt of Claims, has apartments at Barnum's Hotel. Assistant Adjutant General William D. Whipple, United States Ariny, is registered atthe Windsor Hotel. £x-State Comptroiler Asher P. Nichois, of Buffaio, is residing temporarily at the Hotfmaa House. Judge Joseph Potter, of the New York Supreme Court for the Fourth Judicial district, is at the Union Square Hotel. NAVAL INTELLIGENGB. by telegraph to Messrs, Mallory & Co. it ia re- red that the United States hela Colorado fen Key West for Norfolk, Va., to-day, Movements of Vessele—The Gettysburg Collision—Changes. Wasutneron, June 10, 1874, The Navy Department is advised of the arrival of the Franklin at Gibraltar May 12, four days from Madeira, and after coaling the ship proceeded to Nice via Tangiers. The Congress left Madeira May 13, for the const of Africa, The Colorado, at Key West, has been ordered to proceed tu Norfolk. ‘A Baval court of inquiry has been ordered to convene at the Washington Navy Yard, on the 11th tnst., to inquire into the circumstances of the collision between the Gettysburg and the Lady of the Lake. Commander Russell and Lieutenant Commanders Roger and Secard, and Lieatenaat ae United sta: marine corps, compose tne Commander J. N. Muller has been ordered as aa- eigcant ip the Hydrographic Office, eatenant Commander Charles D. Lientenant Roswell D, Hitchcock ‘Gee tached from the Syarogrepae Orbe ordered to Coast Survey kK. F. McElmelt bas been ordered: ert Passed Assistant Surgeon William G. varwelt been detached irom the Naval Hospital delplita and placed on waiting orders. Engineers A, ¥. Dixon has becu oe donee Ajax and £. G. Ailen’ from ordered to returm home and report arrival. paunrriintenniaatnnmnt tee) SUIOIDES IN 84N FRANOISOO: BAN PRancesoo, Jane 10, 1474, ‘There were two suicides im this city yesterday, Waking eight in ae many dara—al! man, i Ist