The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON “BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Aunaa) subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Herat. Rejected communications will not be re turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO., 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. WALLACK'S TH Broadway and Thirteenth stre closes at ll P.M, Miss Carlotta / OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.— whew ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:1) P.M.; closes at WOOD'S MUS! Broadway, corner of | Thi JOE; OR, LIFE AT THE MI loses at 4:30 P.M. Same at 3 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. ©, J. Huntley. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE LADY OF THE LAKE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss lone Burke. TERRACE GARDE: Fifty-eighth street, near Third gg, end Operadic Performant HEATRE, nue.—Concert, Dram- at 8 P.M ; closes at II THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—THE BOY DEVECTIVE, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:4) P.M. Miss Alice Harrison. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—ELIZABETH, At2 P.M; closes at 4:30 P.M. Signor Salvin. TONY PASTOR'S OFERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTA closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee a! BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thir’ street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- | STRELSY, &c., at 5 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. | CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, | fifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue —THOMAS’ CON- CERT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:50 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, near Brondway.—Bullock’s Royal Ma- vionettes, at SPM. Matinee at2 i’. M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner ot Thirty-fitth street.—LONDON BY | NIGHT, at L/P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; closes at ty P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROM Ey Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street.—GRAND foe mnie era ecm OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. M. and ; SHEET. TRIPLE New York, Saturday, June 13, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabiliti ere that the weather to-day will be clearing. Wart Srnger Yesterpay.—Stocks were a trifle firmer. Gold opened at 110j.and closed at 111}. Tae American Pricrms are about to Prepare for their return homeward from Rome. They have been blessed, lionized and instructed in the Holy City, and) have handed to the Holy Father a large sum | of money and a number of nuggets of gold from American mines. Pleasant for all | parties. diptfinsco, ece A/a Tae Corron Excuancr Convention, which has been holding its sessions at Augusta, Ga., | hag adjourned sine die, with the understand- | ing, however, that it will meet again in New York the 1st of September. Its object was to bring the cotton merchants, brokers and pro- ducers together, in order to promote the cot- ton interests and to facilitate business and exchange in the markets of the world. Tae Cuoctaw Nation or Ixprays might go | to war with the government with something like a just cause, but they do not choose to do | so. Honest and immediate’payment of the | debt long owed them would be a surprising instance of honorable dealing in a policy | which pets the most intractable tribes of | savages and treats unjustly those which have | long remained peacetul and are now semi- civilized. Damages Nor Attowep.—In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday His Honor Justice Daly decided that a horse breaking away from ® street car and dashing into another car, whereby a citizen was killed, was an unavoid- able accident. Thé decision may have been correct enough under the evidence, but is likely to add a new pang to accidental death in the great thoroughfares of our city. Exxcutton,—Another_ ilinstration of the | fact that hanging is not played out, at least within the precincts of the Old Dominion, may be found in the account which we pub- lish in another column of the execution of negro at Culpeper, Va., for the murder of a farmer in that vicinity. The story possesses a fair share of those revolting features which characterize the occasional murders by the freedmen, and which are far less numerous than might be anticipated when the efforts to stir up an antagonism between the races and | the grievous want of instruction on the part of the negroes are considered. | Tae Baoostyn Trutis.—Yesterday Judge Daniels, in accordance with the verdict pre- | viously rendered, sentenced the Charity Com- | missioners to pay a fine of two hundred dol- | lars each. The punishment is a gentle one, | but it brands the men for all time to come as ders against the law, and prevents them on from holding office. Judge Daniels agn,.ut this trial has comported himself well, and, in Spite of all the influence which was brought to Dent Upon him, he has been true to himself and fait! to the people. A pure and incorruptible Bench is gh¢ best safe- guard of the Republic. Morrany Avrnontry Asszrtep mw Uran.— ‘The municipal authorities of Salt Lake City, | the Mormons, in fact, have had a tilt with the military authority of the United States on | the question of arresting soldiers, and have been beaten. Ina case that came up where | a magistrate of the Territory refused to de- liver up a soldier who was imprisoned, Gen- eral Morrow, acting upon the decision of the | Judge Advocate and his own sense of duty, pent a company of cavalry, battered down the prison door and released the man. The Mor- mons, it appears, were stunned by this exer- cise of federal authority, but the Gentiles and those who are chafing under Mormon rule Tejoiceds | fifty cents. | People argue that this class will be slow to | 11) a+ the Charities and Correction Depart >. ae NEW YORK HERALD, SATUR NEW YORK HERALD! ™ Conference Bill—Inflation tor To- Day snd Redemption tor To-Morrow, or Any Other Time. By the financial measure now before Con- gress it is proposed to restore specie payments without any specie, and the first step that legislation takes toward preparation for the great transition from faith to the precious metals as a standard of value is one that can scarcely have any other offect than to widen the chasm that now yawns between them. It is only consistent for our financial tinkers to make a law ostensibly to secure one object | that shall inevitably secure quite another | object. Even if they intend their plan | honestly, and sincerely believe that their pro- | ject will accomplish the purposes they say it will accomplish—and of this there may be | reasonable doubt—even then it is only con- | sistent and perhaps natural that in their | financial journeyings they should turn up in Texas after having pretentiously and noisily set out to go to Maine. This is just as it | was—if we accept their own version-—when, a | short time ago, they set out to inflate the | currency with all their might and perfected a | bill which they subsequently declared would | assuredly contract the currency in some con- | siderable degree. As a result of conference between com- mittees of the two houses, and of discussion | which has kept in view the veto of the Four | Hundred Million bill, the present bill is made | to contemplate the two important aspects of | the financial problem. It does not ignore | resumption and it remembers inflation. But though it contemplates these two aspects of the subject its giance is all sunshine for the one and filled with the stony glare of the Gorgqn for the other. Immediate infla- tion and remote, contingent, shadowy | resumption, are equally provided for. | By the mere enactment of the bill | inflation to a goodly figure at once takes place. Following behind this, as the line of battle | comes behind the skirmishers, appears the bristling front of an inflation that runs well | over a hundred millions; but this is said to be contingent. It is contingent, but contin- | gent upon a possibility that never fails to | arise. Will banks organize under this bill? | Do the inflationists believe in their own theo- | ries of “cheap money?’’ Is there any reality | in these theories? No doubt they do believe | in them; no doubt there is reality in them; | and therefore the banks will organize under | the bill because it will be a process of selling | for s dollar what the purchaser will buy again in a little while for eighty cents or less, if in- deed he be not by a friendly legislative hocus- | pocus eventually absolved from the necessity of purchasing even at that low figure. Upon the contingency of the organization of banks under this bill for ‘‘free banking’’ depends | the possibility of its inflating the currency | altogether to a point upwards of one hundred and sixty millions of Aloilars, and this contin- gency is merely held up as a thin fraud by the friends of inflation, who hope to put that for- ward as a doubt, an unlikely eveat, a thing | that may or may not occur which is beyond all peradventure certain. At the moment when the banks which may organize under this act | shall put forth their bills these bills will | be worth nearly what national bank bills are | now worth, and the banks will sell them at that rate to their customers; but as the vol- | ume of bank bills afloat increases these bills will become ‘‘cheaper.’’ This, indeed, is the | great virtue claimed for them by the advo- cates of inflation. They will get cheaper and | cheaper as million after million is added to the volume of circulation, and the banks will be able eventually to purchase them again so cheaply that they will make from | twenty to fifty per cent on their bargain. It is true that this twenty to fitty per cent will come out ot the pockets of the | people who will be the holders of these bills | meanwhile; but if people want cheap money | they must take this as one of the incidents of the advantage. Money, like everything else, if it grow cheap at all must grow cheap in somebody's hands; and if a farmer who takes | twenty beautifal new bank dollars for a ton | of his hay finds that in six months later, when, | perhaps, he has to buy hay, he cannot get but | three-quarters of a ton for the same twenty : hendsome paper dollars, he must only con- gratulate himself upon the fact that the pro- jects of his representatives in Congress havo been splendidly successful, and that money is that rauch cheaper. | This simple operation of the cheapening of ; money by increase of its quantity—which is | the most obvious and evident, but not the | sole, nor even the richest, premium offered for banking under the new law—will be suffi- | cient inducement to insure all the inflation to ! result from the reduction of greenbacks by | this process to the sum of three hundred mil- | lions. It scoms, indeed, superfluous to argue | that in a life so grasping as ours men would | not be slow to seize the advantage of an opera- | tion so stupendous as that of ‘‘watering’’ the circulating medium of the United States. All | our great railroad corporations operated their inflation by the addition ot from fifty to a hundref per cent to their nominal | capital By that means the dollar in | the safe of a shareholder was made worth fifty cents, anda piece of paper in the | hands of the director was also made worth | Indeed, the value ot every dollar | was divided between the dollar itself and a | piece of paper thitherto without value, and the directors reserved to themselves the | disposition of a large proportion of these pieces of white paper. Now it is proposed to practise this operation on the national eurrency, to gtatultously put from a hun- dred to a hundred and fifty millions into | the hands of a privileged class, and some | avail itself of the opportunity. As slow, perhaps, as fire Crédit Mobilier men were in their rush for the plunder. We may count, therefore, that the inflation | contemplated by this bill isan inevitable cer- | tainty, and this the opponents of inflation j have apparently conceded to obtain the cor- | relative advantage of legislation providing for | the redemption of the legal tenders and the resumption of specie payment. But what is | the appearance in the bill of these equivalents | for the inflation it insures? The appear- | ance is misty and vague. It is proposed that im 1878 the United States shall ‘‘redeem” its | legal tender notes—not in gold, but in other pieces of paper—in bonds whose advantage is, of course, that they bear interest, an advan- tage which will not be great if the use of cur- reat mongy happons to be worgh more than the | wants to use and tunnels which are simply a | barbarity and an absurdity in a park. ' Central Park to-day is all that the people | interest the bonds bear. Thas, with the infla- tion immediate and certain, the redemption is distant and slipshod; and, further, we must | keep in view the idea let fall by Mr. Morton on Thursday in his explanation of the bill, that when the time for redemption comes “Congress will be in session.”” Who can say what little bills may not be passed then, to make things easy for the friends of the major- ity which may at that time happen to be in | power? This last thought must also be kept in view when we consider the relations of redemption | and resumption. It is part of the practical experience of those portions of our people who have endeavored to do away with capital pun- ishment that we cannot count upon the per- sistent severity—the sustained virtue—that seems necessary. If a man is hanged tor mur- der we know he is done with; but if he is im- prisoned for lite the next Governor may yield to the pressure of his friends and pardon him, | or he may get away through one of the many loopholes made by the cupidity of prison | officials, And similarly we must not count upon resumption in virtue of any law that is passed until we have got the fact so close that another law cannot snatch it trom our grasp. Just now it seems to be the current theory of Congressmen that a bill providing for the retirement of green- backs will make them equal in value to gold; | and then the national banks, forced to redeem | penditure of more than one thousand dollars’’ their notes in the legal tender, which isas good as gold, willin virtue of such redemption stand on a specie basis—all of which is very pretty | on paper; but we shall have more faith in it | when we see it in operation. For we know | that the national bank influence, which secures | fied in the charter have becn divided up so as | this present legislation, and which, in spite of | t? make them come within the prohibitory | the phrase ‘free banking,’’ will be just as po- | Provision, thus showing a wilful intent to tent a monopoly when banking is “‘tree’’ as it is now—we know that that influence com- | mands many direct as well as devious | anda jury has convicted the Commissioners paths in the law-making world, and that it | will, at the moment this law may become burdensome, secure the passage of some otuer new law to save it from the pressure imposed by this one. If the retirement of legal tenders down to the value of three hundred millions brings those promises to pay up to the value | of gold, and we seem to have within reach the goal of specie payment, because the na- tional bankers must redeem in legal tender, | we may be sure that the additions which will by that time have been made to the general paper circulation will have put gold so very far out of our way that a clamor will arise to relieve the bankers from the dreadful neces- sity thus placed upon them, and society will | be appealed to to save the organization and | machin: ry by which general credits are car- ried on, and, partly by clamor and partly by jobbery, this appeal will prevail. Altogether, therefore, we see ng hope in the results of the Conference bill; and we trust that the impression that the President will veto it, which seems to be founded on some deductions from the to deal with the necessity of specie payment, and only changes the burden from the shoul- ders that now bear it to shoulders that we know will be relieved trom it the moment ' their owners cry out against the weight, makes no sure step forward and only trifles with popular faith. 'The Final Estimates for City Taxation. The Board of Apportionment meets to-day to consider the revised estimates of the de- partments. We have already pointed out the necessity for a decrease of the appropriation to the Department of Public Parks. There | can be no good reason why the care and | maintenance alone of the parks, independent of the heavy construction account, for which | bonds are constantly issued by the Comptrol- | ler, should cost one-half as much as the care and maintenance of the whole city outside the parks, including the water supply, the gas supply, the charge of the public buildings and all the salaries and labor attendant on the public works. The parks are a great public blessing and should be liberally maintained; but the people can enjoy them sufficiently without the expenditure of vast sums of money on unsightly buildings, out-of-the-way roads and bridges, walks which no person ask for or require for the next ten years, pro- | vided they are given a fine road for carriage President’s declared | views, may prove true. A bill which pretends | romance connected ‘with the noble aborigine oi our country. Théy ‘‘authorize’’ an explan- ation of their position in the government, as- serting the success of the peace policy and ex- pressing glowing hopes of its future results. | Our desire is that their, faith may obtain its | own realization ; but, forming our judgment upon the hard basis of facts, we see no greater | probability than formerly of a continued peace with the wild Indians of the West. Criminal Flour—The Wonderful Appe- tite of Criminals and Paupers. Mr. Commissioner Stern's dry goods pur- chases for the Department of Charities and Correction have already been the subject | of investigation by a Grand Jury who failed to bring in an indictment, if Judge Daniels is correct in his interpretation of the laws against malfeasance in office. If the District Attorney is faithful to the service he owes the people the | next inquiry of the Grand Jury will embrace | the purchases of meat and flour by the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction as well as the purchases of dry goods, and the result will be more favorable to the ends of justice, The city charter requires that whenever any work is to be done or any supplies are to be | purchased by any department of the city gov- | ernment, when “the several parts of the said | work or supply shall together involve the ex- | the same shall be by contract, given to the | lowest bidder. We have seen that Mr. Stern has purchased dry goods of a relative, in bills larger thau one thousand dollars, and some | of the bills thus in excess of the umount speci- evade and violate ihe law. Judge Daniels has | pronounced this to be malfeasance in ofice, | of Charities in Brooklyn for a less marked | offence, for in the case of Mr. Stern’s dry goods it is shown that for the articles supplied | by Mr. Sternbach the city was made to pay | about one-third more than the market value. But there is reason to believe that these pur- | | chases are honest and legitimate transactions | | as compared with the enormous bills for ezim- inal beef and criminal flour alleged to be con- | sumed in the Charities and Correction Depart- | ment. We have already shown that the meat | paid for during tho year is sufficient to feed | an army of twelve thousand soldiers at full | | rations. We propose now to examine the | consumption of flour by our hungry paupers | and criminals. i | From the Comptroller's warrants, drawn be- | | tween April and December, 1873, for nine | months, we find the amount of flour bills as | DAY, JUNE 13, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. ee Lightning Flashes in France. The political situation in France is a series of lightning flashes, Disturbance in the As- sembly, acrimonious: debates, mobs at the Versailles railway station, a Bonapartist par- tisan committing a personal assault on Gam- betta in the hopes of forcing upon him a duel, a leading republican challenging Cassagnac, and Cassagnac replying that he is not only willing to fight, but that he has nine editors on his staff quite as willing; armed troops at the railway to protect deputies, the govern- ment suppressing republican and imperial newspapers alike, anda vote of censure de- feated by an ominous minority. This, in brief, is what we see in France to-day. What to-morrow? This no one can tell, or even venture to predict. Dis- raeli once said that it is the unex- pected that always happens. This is essen- tially true of France, Events seem to drift in a wild, muddy, surging current towards the Empire. The brutality of the Bonapartists, who seem disposed to force by a mob a coup d'état like what was made by an army in 1851, shows how strong their leaders regard ‘their cause. At the same time it shows the inherent weak- ness of the system, and disposes the world to think more and more that imperialism in France is only another name for ruffianism. It will be noted that since the advent of the Republic France has been singularly peaceful. ‘The first disturbance came trom the intrigues of the Bourbonists. The second comes from the violence of the Bonapartists. If Mac- Mahon is wise and brave enough to proclaim the Republic he will ensure pence. But as yet we see no sign. Evil Fruits of the Civil Rights Bill. In the disturbances between the whites and negroes at Memphis we have the first fruits of the Civil Rights bill. The nogroes evidently have exaggerated notions of the privileges which this act of Congress is to confer upon them. To them the Civil Rights bill appears to be an act which makes them more than the equals of the whites and even gives them im- munity from punishment. The whites, too, probably regard the law with an aversion that will not be justified by the practical operation of the measure. Itisan unnecessary law, which would not have been passed at all had it not been left to Congress as the dying gitt of Sen-, ator Sumner. Unnecessary laws usually fall into desuetude almost as soon as they are The First | passed. The same thing will prove true of the Civil Rights bill, unless its provisions are brought offensively forward as party capital in the ensuing political contests. This is evi- dently the aim of the carpet-baggers of the South, with a view to retaining the negro | foliows: — April, May aud Juae Juiy (none), August and Septem) | Octover, November and December... + $47,476 | 23,218 | 0a | — | $115,685 23,921 | The flour used in the prisons and asylums is not of the best quality. We are not at pres- ent in a position to know whether the city is | made to suffer in the price paid by the pur- | | chasing Commissioner or in the quantity ‘alleged to be consumed. We therefore take the contract price to be what such flour can be bought for in quantities on the market— | mamely, six dollars a barrel. Reckoning at | this price, we obtain the following result: — $144,606 purchases, at $6 per barrel, 24,101 | barrels of flour. | 24,101 barrels of flour per year is a fraction ! | over 463 barrels per week. | 463 barrels of flour, each barrel containing | vote; but they will find it avail them little, even in this respect, if the conserva- tives treat its provisions with the true conservative spirit. There is as much danger in vigorous opposition as in the evil designs of those who expect to make it an engine of political power. Asa matter of course these remarks are applicable only on the assump- tion that the Civil Rights bill is actually a part of the laws of the land. So far the measure is not a law, for the President has not yet given it executive sanction. Itis to be hoped General Grant will withhold his signature altogether, and thus avert a danger which can be precipitated only as an act of extreme partisanship. It would ba a mistake for him to believe that in signing it he would be showing magnanimity toward his dead political enemy, who was the author of the bill. The country asks no such sacrifices from the President, and demands only that he | 196 pounds, is 90,748 pounds of flour per | shall sign such measures as will be condu- week, | cive to the interests of the whole people. Adding one-third to this weight of flour | Both races in the United States are now equal for bread, and we have 120,997 pounds of | before the law, andit is only such unnoces- bread consumed per week, or 17,285 pounds | sary and ill-advised legislation as this Civil of bread per day. | Rights bill which can prevent the speedy and This wonld give to every individual of the ; complete recognition of the equal privileges of whoie population claimed by the Commission- | black and white, or precipitate troubles like ers of Charities and Correction, including | those which have just ocourred in Memphis. employés, invalids in hospital, children and | he amu Sonat: nae Mca GROG Gag Jeena als | The advent of real summer weather brings pocaeing adi As q | outall the musical attractions calculated to But the Commissioners say their consump- | tefesh the: metropolitan mind during the dog ie Oat i asic oe is ee ry Ane | days. Garden concerts are now as eagerly angered aorant ne Peng tye Peter eR sought after in this city as they are in the mus- the time embraced in our calculation, of ; . 1”, ie hich three ths bills are ad ld ical centres of Fatherland, and within a year or a ithi re em f ri cpio oy g bee 3 two they have multiplied to a very great ex- Safietrg % eee 2 th nai tae Aa tent. The same advanced taste which charac- per barrel sbove i sate) Price." terizes the programmes of. the winter concerts immer Season of Music. ready fora season of prosperity which it fs expected will be unsurpassed by any former year. One house expects to do a business which will reach the high figure of twenty millions of dollars, With such prospects before us the resumption of specie payments ought at no distant day to be an accomplished fact. The Senate and House Not in Har mony. There has rarely been as much conflict be» tween the two houses of Congress on im- portant legislative measures as at the present session. This is the more remarkable as the dominant administration party has an over- whelming majority, both in the Sonate and House. There was a wide difference of opin- ion on the Currency bill, and, though the conference committee has agreed upon a com- promise, itis still doubtful if that will be sanctioned by the Senate and House when brought toa vote. Then there is the Civil Rights bill, another very important measare, which passed the Senate, and has been vir- tually laid aside by the House. And now the news comes from Washington that the Com- mittee of Ways and Means does not concur in the Senate's amendments to the Moiety bill, and also that the Senate Judiciary Committee is opposed to Butler's Geneva Award bill, which passed the House by a large majority, and will not report it for action this session. While no one can object to see each house maintain its independence of action, when as- serted honestly and not from a factious mo- tive, this want of harmony does not augur well for the interests of the country or the in- tegrity of the dominant republican party. Brutat Demacocism.—The eagerness with which demagogues of the reconstructed States seize an opportunity to invite the federal troops into the midst of the helpless people seems almost like a barbarous longing for the shedding of the blood of enemies against whom the highest feeling they can entertain is that of hatred. Two Virginia Representatives im Congress yesterday urged the President to send soldiers into Petersburg for the alleged protection of officials there, who were said to be endangered by popular ill will. The re- mainder of the Virginia Congressional dele- gation, with the exception of one member, opposed this gratuitous insult to free citizens who had committed no violence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mrs, Stanton is still stamping in Michigan. They have another Vasquez freeboover in Calt fornia. Bonfield and Sawyer are matched to walk Spanish. General William Mahone, of Virginia, is staying At the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Francis A. Walker, of Yaie College, has arrived at the Everett House. Judge Join S, McCalmont, of Pennsylvania, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotei. General E. G. Marshall, United States Army, is stopping at the Sturtevant House. General Rufus H. King, of Governor Dix’s stad, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, 18 s0+ journing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Hon. C. D. Drake, Judge of the Court of Claims, | Washington, is staying at Barnum’s Hotel, A. B, Mullett, Supervisieg Architect of the ‘Treasury Department, 1s at the Astor House. M. Hartholdi, the French Minister, arrived at the Breyoort House yesterday from Washington. Commodore Roger N. Stembel, United States Navy, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Professor L. UW. Atwater, of Princeton Vollege, is among the recent arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Frances Arval, au actress of some celebrity, was discovered starving to death tn a Kansas City garret. David A. Weils, they say, will be President Thurman’s Secretary of the Treasury when he ws President. Mr, Disraeli contradicts the report that he re. cently recéived the late M. Francois Victor Hugo a8 @ visitor. Louvet, formerly Minister of the Empire under Napoleon IIL, 18 the Bonapartist candidate for Marne ct Loire. Sir Edward Thornton, the English Minister at Washington, will soon foliow his wile and daughter on a visit to England. Benjamin G. Harris, of Maryland, wants te | Ona consumption of 18,250 barrels a year driving in connection with a grand prome--| this would leave a margin against the city of | nade for pedestrians and a bridle path for i $36,500, What Commissioner of Charities | horsemen. Let them have a counterpart of | and Correction buys the flour tor the depart- | “Rotten Row’ or of the Bois de Boulogne, | ment, and has any Commissioncr a relative | | gineers. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler should | ries paid to all the employés of the Park De- and they will be better satisfied than with all | the expénstve shanties and tunnels that can be devised to swallow up the public money. The improvement the people desire can be secured at a trifling cost and by days labor, without keeping on the pay roll an army of | architectural aliases aud a strong force of en- insist upon being furnished with the full sala- partment, whether out of the construction funds or the money raised by taxation, sinee | it is impossible for them to form an opinion of the propriety of the partial salary list which | is placed before them by the department. The list of salaries in the Finance Depart- ment should be carefully revised. Larger salaries are paid by Comptroller Green than | by any other public officer in the city, and | the condition of his department does not | speak well for the service rendered by his em- | ployés. The Board of Apportionment should | especially refuse to allow any appropriation for. the unwarranted and extravagant allowances Mr. Green has been in the habit of making to “experts’’ who have passed the scandalous ment, and ‘‘detectives’’ who have failed to dis- | cover that an army of twelve thousand men is | supported on the islands at the public expense. An item of twenty thousand dollars is in- | cluded in the old estimate to which Mr. Green condescends to refer his associates in the , | absence of that ‘‘revised’’ estimate which he demanded from all other departments, and all the information furnished is that it is for | “experts’’ and ‘‘examiners.” Some of these | are paid as high as twenty-five dollars an hour for their services. Will Messrs. Vance and | Wheeler stultify their “reform” record by | suffering such an abuse to be continued? | Tur Boarp oF Inp1an Comatisstonens.—-The | remaining members of the Board of Indian Commissioners have not yet become quite sur- feited with tho gentle septiment and allgring | sion. in the flour trade? | — Nor Mvcu 1x Favor or Civ Senvice Re- | rorm.—Mr. Butler gave a decided blow at civil service reform yesterday. He moved to suspend the rules and to pass an amendment \ directing preference to be given in appoint- ments to office to soldiers and sailors and their | dependents, and to diminish or stop the ex- | pense of carrying on examinations by boards of commissioners or others travelling around | the country at the public charge, and, in fact, | to leave the appointments where they bave been, with the heads of the several executive departments, ‘The rules were suspended and the amendment made in order by a vote of 155 yeas to 67 nays. Then, in the subsequent proceedings of the House, the resolution of Mr. Kellogg in support of the civil service rules and to provid for carrying them out was rejected, the vote being 48 for and 108 against. ‘bus it is evident that civil service reform, 1S now proposed, meets with little favor in tho House of Representatives. Tur Rive Surrs.—The decision of the Court of Appeals in the suits brought in the name of the people of the State against Ingersoll, ‘Tweed and other members of the old city gov- ernment is not a surprise to the legal profes- Very few lawyers have doubted the re- sult. The moncy sought to he recovered be- longed to the county of New York, and an action lies at the suit of the Board of Super- visors for its recovery, for the title to and | ownership of the money must determine the | right of action. The people of the State are | not injured, and the defendants were not | agents of the State. These points appeared so clear to legal minds betore the decision that wonder has been expressed that the suits were ever instimted. ' It has been a costly | ; disastrous termination, The full opinion of | the Court wili be looked for with interest. ‘ operetta all | at Terrace Garden, and on Sunday they are treated to real military musie at Jones’ Wood. | litigation to the city, and it is to be hoped , that the county suits will not have a similar | pervades these summer night entertainments. At Central Park Garden a Beethoven sym- | phony, an old suite or a modern selection from Wagner or Liszt receives as much attention | | as if a Philharmonic concert were in progress. page veneers Seriad .dt_was considered at one time that nothing but light salon music would be acceptable to a summer garden audience, but now it is the least appreciated. On the east side the Germans enjoy concert, comedy and on the same evening The manifold charms of the beautiful Central Park receive an additional attraction in the Saturday afternoon concerts, a treat which the Park Commissioners should extend, as hereto- fore, to the thousands living in the vicinity of the downtown parks, We cannot have too many of such delightful sources of recreation and enjoyment during the summer months, and every one that seeks to increase them may be regarded as conferring a positive boon on the citizens of the metropolis. _ Such at- tractions will draw away attention from those tréditional abodes of discomfort and extor- tion-—the watering places. Tue New Parry. —The Indianapolis Journal, | which is supposed to reflect the sentiments of | Senator Morton, commenting upon the report that ho is engaged in the formation of a new party, remarks: the man who wrote that is an ass. Senator Morton’s aiding in the formation of a new party. He is too good a republican and much too shrewd # politician to engage in that sort of nonsense."” Tae Westenn Orors-—-Encouractna Pros- prcts.—It is gratifying to learn that the condition of the crops in the West is in the highest degree encournging. The good harvest of last year encouraged the farmers to plant more extensively than on any previous occasion; and the crops, already vigorous and far advanced, | give promise of a rich and abundant harvest. The farmers, according to all accounts, are in “Tt ‘seems safe to say’ that | His per- | turbed spirit can rest easy on the subject of | be a Congressman, and with the Congressmem | vote the democratic policy. | The family of William S. Doolittle, of Canadice, | Oneida county, N. Y., were poisoned a tew days ' ago by eating rice puading. | State Senator Wells 8. Dickinson, of Bangor, | N. Y., and Assemblyman D. S Lynde, of Hermon, |N. Y., are at Barnum’s Hotel. | A Liverpool woman, to shield her nusband, who | was charged with removing the end of her uose, | swore that she bit it off herself. | John Lemoine, in the Paris Débats, declares that | the profuse show made over the Czar on his recent | visit to Hngland lacked cordiality. Mr. James Parton is to have a paper in the Jaly Harper's, on “Falsenoods of the Daily Press”— made, like the boy’s wooden fiddle, “out of bis own head.” The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute, while cruising in the Mediterranean on bourd their yacht quite recently, narrowly escaped being rum down by. a steamer, | General James $. Negley has been nominated for ‘ Congress in the Twenty-second district, and | Colonel Thombs M. Bayne has been nominated ia the I'wenty-iird district of Pennsylvania, | President W.S. Clark, of Amherst, is continue | ing his experiments on the circulation of sap im trees anti plants. He has made some very inter- estiriy"as well as important discoveries, which will be givei to the public at some future time. NAVAL INTELLIGENOE. Assignm to Duty. Wasuineroy, June 12, 1874. Commander 8. Livingston Breese has been or- dered to equipment duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard; Lieutenant Edward W. Remey has been or- dereu to Newport, R. L, for instructiqn in torpedo duty; Commander George A. Stevens has been de- tached from duty at the Navy Yard at Norfolk and ordered to be in readiness for sea service; Lieuten~ | ant Cominander Charles F. Schmita and Lieuteu- ants Lewis Kingsiey, J, U. Bieeker and i, Wood- | man ave been ordered to the Velorady, The Saranac at San Diego, Cal. SAN FRANCISCU, June 12, i874, The United States steamer Saranac, from Pande ma, arrived at Diego to-night. | WILL OF ASA WHITNEY. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 12, 1874. The will ofthe late Asa Whitney, the car wheet manufacturer, was admitted to proate to-day. It devises $50,000 to the trustees of the Peansyl- vania University for the endowment of @ profes- sorship of dynamical engineering: 10,090 to the Oid Meu's Home ; $10,000 to Guke's civurch for @ pastor's residence, and 0 for a chapel, and $8,000 to the Cuuldien’s ashore House, at At antic City, on CHARGES DISMISSED BY THE GOVERNOR ALBANY, N. Y., June 12, 1874 The Governor bas dismissed the charges pre | ferred against Daniel Ciark Briggs, District Attor- ney of Westchester county, by James A iil te | regards them as anwortty of furtier attention. The Governor leaves town lo-day. He will ve vack on Monday. | Tne Governor has also dismissed the ae against George Raines, Wistriet Attoruey of Mon- excellent spirits, and the merchants are making | roe county, as aot proven, aos ! i j