The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD The Conflict in France—Ihe Inevitable BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. | All business or news letters and telegraphic | ‘despatches must be addressed New Yor | ‘Genacp. Rejected communications will not be re- } “turned. | Letters and packages should be prop- verly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. | aks fWolume XXXIX.. No. 165 | EMENTS TO-MORROW, Aaa OLYMPIC THEATRE, (Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.— FVARIEIY ENTERLAINMENT, at 7:49 P. M.; closes at | 0:43 PM. WOOD'S MUSEUM, nero) AW MONDAY; OR, | ANDS, at’ 2 ¥ 3 closes at l0:su | \ | Broadway, o DAL R NI Broadway. between ton streets. THE | CHRYPTOGROM: OR, LOST AND WON, at P.M. :closes | wtl0:t6 PM. My, Joseph Wheelock and Mias ione Burke. | TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty-eighth street, near Third avenue.—Concert, Dram- ey and Operatic Performance, at 3 P. M.j closes at IL | THEATRE CONIQUE, No. 5M Brosdway.~THEK BOY DESKCTIVE, at §P.M.; closes at W:4) PM. Miss Alice Harrison. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—LA MORTE CIVILE, at 8 P.M; closes at 1 P.M. Signor Salvin. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—FATE, at 8 P. M.; Closes atl P.M, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq, TONY PASTOR'S OFERA HOUSE, Powery.—VARIEIY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; Closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSF, ‘Twenty-thir’ street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- STRELSY, &c., at $ P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. CENTR, Fifty.ninth stree: CRI, ats Y. M. ARK GARDEN, h avenue —THOMAS) CON- 30 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Fixteenth street, near Brondway.—Bullock’s Royal Ma- Tionettes, at P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. CULOSSEUM, Broadway, corner ot Thirty-fith ‘street.—LONDON BY NIGH), at 1 P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; closes at ly P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and ‘wenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND PAGEANT—OONGERGS OF NATIONS, at 1:3 P.M. and QUADRUPLE SH New York, Sunday, June 14, ERT. 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilitics Gre that the weather to-day will be clear and warmer, Our Evropzan CorresponpEeNce to-day covers a variety of interesting topics, includ- ing the French crisis, German literature, the pilgrims in Paris and the usual London gossip. Yzsrenpay two of the public floating baths were thrown open—one in the East River, at the foot of Fifth street, and the other in the North River, foot of Eleventh street. A large crowd of bathers availed themselves of the privilege. Acriviry AmMonG THE FisHenmEN.—According to the reports from Gloucester, Massachusetts, the fishing season has opened vigorously. The fishermen are in high spirits, and there is promise of an abundant catch. The southern mackerel ficet were arriving freely and operat- ing tolerably well, and the haul of codfish at St. George’s Bank and Grand and Western Banks had been large. A Distincusnep Party at Cape May,— Yesterday the President and members of the Cabinet were present at the formal opening of the season at Cape May. Whether it was in- tended as a quiet gathering for discussing the political aspects of affairs is not shown, but the fact, as our correspondent notes, that neither hop nor serenade is to be given in their honor would imply that the time is to be more profitably spent. Now that work has been resumed on the East River Bridge it is to be hoped it will continue until the two cities are united, de- spite the protestations of the venerable Have- meyer. Indeed, there is some hope that the progress of the bridge, taken in connection with the annexation of the Westchester towns, the indictment of the Police Commissioners and the investigation of the Charities and Cor- rection scandals, may deter the bewildered veteran from prosecuting his ambitious effort to secure a third term. Tue Doo Days Have Come Eanty this year. The familiar ‘“‘ki-yi’’ of our canine friends as they retreated before the victorious Arabs with the semi-consciousness that they were worth just fifty cents apiece when caught makes the city very lively just at present. ‘The new dogma of the city government, which allows no stray canine in the streets unless properly dressed in muslin, is working won- ders among the small speculators. Coach dogs, pet poodles, silken-baired spaniels and curs are tied in close proximity in the very democratic institution in West Thirty-seventh street. Small boys find it easy and profitable } to impound these four-legged citizens, but | owners will find it somewhat difficult to ex- | pound them. Still if one values his pet and keeps at it with dogged determination, be | may yet be permitted to enjoy the delights of hydrophobia. Tae Conrerence Commrrer of the two ! houses of Congress was a long time hatching | the Currency bill which it finally recom. | mended, and now this bill has been mercilessly | slaughtered by the House of Representatives, There never was such © muddle about any | measure before. Tho Senate on Friday ac- | cepted the report of the conference com- mittee by a large majority, the yeas being 32 and nays 23, Yesterday there was a larger tanjority relatively in the House on the other side, This conflict of views between the | Senate and House on an important measure, | particularly after it had been carefully matured and recommended by the conferenee com- mittee, is remarkable. It is @ curions fact, | too, that some hard money and anti-inflation- ! ists voted for the bill while others voted ogainst it, In France the fermentation is evidently | active, and the several little explosions that within the past few days have given interest and piquancy to the telegrams are scarcely suf- ficient to relieve in any degree the pressure that the heat of the seething summer weather con- stantly increases. Itis no permanent political satisfaction to anybody for an ex-officer to give Gambetta a cut across the face with a switch— for if this pleases Bonapartists it will please royalists also, and, indeed, it will please a | goodly group of republicans with little faith in Gambetta ; and for Gambetta to call the Bonapartists rascals will delight full as many as it will annoy of that gentleman’s enemies. Neither is there much progress in the rhodo- montade of the political editors who propose to fight ten on a side, Bonapartists against repub- licans, that is to say, who propose a political fencing match with sides chosen from the re- spective parties, the match to end when ten men are scratched by the steel skewers used in this game. This isas if democrats and republi- cans should settle their differences by a game at base ball. None of these things give vent to the long pent-up fury that animates the various parties in France; but since Gam- betta, who postures as a leader, ordinarily with some moderation, now deems it a time to cast moderation away, and, as the fighting journalists of the several parties fancy it an occasion to let the public hear of them, it may be taken as the opinion of these experts that the hour for the onset has come ; that a gen- eral action is imminent, and, though they err sometimes, they are oftener right in judgments of this sort. For three years the effort to establish and organize a government in France has been persistently made in exceptionally favorable circumstances, and now the game is assuming anewand extravagant character, partly due to the exhaustion and retirement of some of the players and to the growing desperation of the others, as they find themselves yet unable to prevail. Altogether the pact of Bordeaux was well kept. It was, moreover, an un- conscious piece of political wisdom. The parties were at a standstill from mutual ex- haustion, and have been very near a balancing point ever since—and a truce to their deeper hostility—an agreement that a government should be set up which should not be the government of any one of the parties, but should be a government to keep the peace between them, while France, like a Micawber of nations, should wait for a solution to turn up. Such a truce, as we see by the fact that the parties are yet not sure which is the strongest, was the only condition on which the country could have any government what- ever. With that truce, maintained first by Thiers and atterwatds by MacMahon, as a guarantee that the political conflict should be kept within the limits of public order, the parties have had a fair field to try their strength, and the result is instructive. From the beginning the contest assumed the form of an endeavor to set up the monarchy, be- cause the monarchical parties had a clear majority in the Assembly, and the Bonaportists at first were confined to one voice, which was always howled down, whiie, through the caperings of the republicans of Paris, such odium fell upon republicanism at large that many deputies representing liberal constituencies lost faith in the prin- ciple of popular government, and would not have opposed a constitutional monarchy. For these reasons the way to the throne seemed open and prepared for the;monarchical party ; and the fact that, even with so many advan- tages in their favor, they could accomplish nothing must be taken as a final evidence that they were absolutely unequal to their oppor- tunity. During two whole years it was possi- ble to have established | monarchy on any day, with unqualified certainty that the pub- lic tranquillity would have been maintained. It was only necessary for the Assembly to vote the monarchy; but before the Assembly could do this it was necessary for the mon- archical deputies to agree among themselves upon a man and a programme, and this they were unable todo. Chambord was imbecile enough to believe that the nation would bow down to hig sixteenth century chatter of divine right, and-the Orleans princes, who through many marriages are merely a sort of Frenchified Germans, are, of all men in the world, the least in sympathy with the French, and it isto the character of the candidates that the failure of the monarchical party is due; so that the failure may be looked upon as final. Monarchy, therefore, as one of the possible results of the conflict, is put aside, and the issue is simplified to a struggle between the imperialists and the republicans, But by the very hopelessness of the monarchists and by other causes a great change has been made in the strength of the Bonapartists. At Bor- deaux there was only old M. Conti. One or two Corsicans, besides, if they were really of this party, kept it quiet; but as the various parties have, one by one, drifted away from practical steps the Bonapartists have acquired votes; and, the greatest advantage of all, they have at their head in the Assembly M. Rouher, a practical politician, & man of real capacity and of courage and of very great experience. It is not too much to say that this is the only party in France which enjoys in any degree whatever the advantage of an intelligent lead- ership. It always knows what it wants and in all crises is prepared with a definite line of j action; and its success in impressing its | direction upon the shifting currents of politi- cal caprice in the Assembly is, as we have hitherto shown, out of all proportion to ite | numbers, But its numbers are also daily growing greater, for the monarchists, who cannot geta monarchy, though they have no love for the Empire on its own account, re- spect it as a refuge against the possibilities of republican success; and the history of repub- lican triumphs in France and the tone of the republicans increase the apprehension that thus recruits the forces of the imperial party, Doubtless it is this aspect of the case that now inspires the republican energy for the dis- solution of the Assembly; tor, monarchy put aside, the combination of other votes throws the republican party into a hope- less minority, It can no longer thrive in che Givision of its enemies. Although the | monarchists would certainly co-operate with the Bonapartists only in an extreme | emergency if the issue were the creation of the Empire, yet they would very readily join with the H NEW YURK HERALD, SUNUVAY, JUNE 14, 1874.—QUADRU PLE SHEET. | bands for the detoat of any constructive pro- gramme of the republicans, and the latter | would therefore find themselves constantly foiled, and foiled in a position where every | mishap gave ground and advantage to the foe | they implacably hate. Although they have | been beaten often enough before it was when the case was less critical. Now that the con- flict seems to shape itself for the final issue, any fall may be fatal, They lost points with little regard to their value when they were counting on the first ten in the game; but on the last ten such losses have quite another aspect. It would, however, scarcely astonish the world to find the Bonapartists agreeing with the republicans in the proposition to dissolve the Assemby, for they also believe that they can win by appeal to the people. This has constantly been their claim, and their de- mand for a plébiscite has almost assumed the character ot a shibboleth. But the consent of the Bonapartists to dissolution will turn upon the conditions in which a new election can be secured. It seems altogether prob- able that in this point they can have their way. Already the machinery of government all over the country is greatly organized in their favor, and, with MacMahon in power and the host of subordinates, such as suc- cessive royalists and Bonapartists in the Ministry, have made them, it looks much as if the Bonapartists were the best prepared for the struggle at the polls. It is still pos- sible, however, that the republicans might win; but what would they do with the victory? We believe they would squander it away. Their divisions among themselves are so irreconcilable, their hatreds are so savage and their political ideas are so hopelessly crude that it is difficult to conceive of them doing otherwise than provoking-the revolt of the whole country against their acts and justifying any one who shall arise to put them down. Then comes in the Empire as a matter of established succession. Thus all winds blow toward a Bonaparte. In the tactics of the Assembly the Bonapartists may win; before the country they may win, and they will reap the benefit of every error that may flow trom republican victory. They are the inevitable, because their system and their character, their grandeur and their meanness, their glories and their vices, are, more strictly than any other character or system, or grandeur or vice, the outgrowth and the image of French life and Fronch thought. The Pulpit Tuo-Day. In many, if not most of the Methodist Episcopal churches in this city and through- out the lund, to-day will be observed in whole or in part as ‘‘Cnildren’s Day." The rela- tion of childhood to the Church, in one or more of its aspects, will be treated by the pastors, and the children of the churches and Sabbath schools will be expected to subscribe liberally to an educational fund, which is to be devoted to the free education of youths and misses as ministers and missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Janes, in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev. Mr. Thomas, in Beekman Hill church, will discuss such themes this morn- ing, and special services for the children will be conducted afternoon and evening in those churches. If, as Rev. 8. H. Pratt declares in his proposition for this morning's discus- sion, the Church is the world's instractor in the word of God, then there is a manifest need that the tutor shall be better educated in the things of God than the pupil. An edu- cated ministry is therefore demanded, and liberal endowments for educational purposes should be given by the Church to the Church. But what is the Church? perhaps some one will ask. We will reter the invisible querist to Dr. Thompson’s sermon this even- ing on the ‘Rationale of a Church,” Having shown the existence ot a sacrifice and thereby the necessity for a priesthood, he comes to- day to talk about the Church, which must needs have the sacrifice and the priesthood to constitute it a church of Christ. But there is something more important and moro precious to the Church than a sacrificial priesthood, and that something is truth. Without this all else is shadow or sham. Dr. Everts, of Chicago, has promised to tell the people something about ‘The Cost of Truth,’’ what truth is, where it can be obtained and how retained. And to this subject we invite special attention this morning. “Heaven” isa theme on which aged min- isters and people usually delight to meditate ; young persons of fervid imaginations or spec- ulative minds like to think and guess about it—what it is, where it is, who are its in- habitants and what they do there. Mr. Corbit will soar into the celestial regions to- day ond return with the down of the angels’ wings, so that his congregation can have no misgivings as to the place and its people. But ‘How can a person be happy in heaven and know that some of his friends are lost?’ asks Mr. Pratt. How do people enjoy themselves here though they know their friends are in State Prison for lite? Whatever causes operate to relieve our minds from such embarrassments here ought to operate hereafter. But to these others will be then added, so that it will doubtless. be easier to forget the loss of friends there than here, and hence easier to be happy there with- out them than here. But Mr. Pratt will, of course, answer his own query, The Rev. Mr. Hepworth will point out the difference between a correct and ,an incorrect belief this morning, and will answer the question, ‘What is the principal thing?’ in the evening, Thus we have a range of doctrinal, practical and speculative topics to be considered to-day by the city pastors. Remarkxavce Jupician Rurinc.—On Thurs- day of last week the trial of Albert Powers and Joseph Cox for murder was called at Nashville, before Judge Frazer, when he issued an order forbid- ding the local press to publish the evidence lest ‘the witnesses in custody of the court officers should read it. This arbitrary action hag excited the journals, which handle the court rather roughly, and very properly point to the fact that in New York and all the , leading cities no judge dare hinder such publi- _ cation, If the object is to keep the testimony | from witnesses held in custody of the Sheriff, | it could be easily accomplished by ordering the Sheriff to exclude the papers from the wit- | | euch @ judicial ruling, unless it be to punish , the editors for some slicht of the court. nesses’ room; and there can be no excuse for , A Struggle for Reform in our City Expenditures. The taxpayers of New York will thank Messrs, Vance and Wheeler for the firm stand they have taken in the Board of Apportion- ment in favor of a full public exhibit of the expense of governing the city, with a view to compelling proper economy iu all the Muni- cipal departments, and affording the people an opportunity to discover how their money is expended. For nearly three years nothing has been known of the financial condition of the city, or of the manner in which the finance department is managed, except so faras Mr. Green has chosen to give information, . not always of a reliable character. We know that the city debt bas increased in that period more than forty million dollars, for we are paying three million dollars more for interest now than we paid in 1871; but we receive nothing in explanation of this increase from the. Comptroller except deceptive explana- tions and confused and intricate calcula- tions it is notorious that one of the main causes of the increase has been the Truinous policy of forcing all public credit- ors who do not find favor with tho Finance Department into vexatious litigation; yet, in spite of legislative requests for infor- mation, no person outside of Mr. Green's office knows to-day how much of our in- creased indebtedness has been due to legal costs and unnecessary interest on contested claims. It is notorious that we have liabili- ties in the shape of unsatisfied claims to the amount of millions, some of which may be fraudulent, but most of which are collectable; yet the Comptroller refuses all information as to the extent of this floating debt ond has never suffered the people to know of its ex- istence. When an annual budget has hitherto been made Mr. Green has dictated to the Board of Apportionment what to do, and it has been done. Thus it has happened that departments of the city government and public officers distasteful to Mr. Green have been grudgingly doled out appropriations in- sufficient tor the proper discharge of their duties, at the sacrifice of important public interests, while money has been recklessly lavish'd on departments in which Mr. Green’s ‘incompetent friends’' find an asylum at the public cost. Bills notoriously fraudulent, and exorbitant have been paid by the Finance Department for friendly commissioners, while scrubwomen and laborers have been kept out of their wages. The Comptroller's office, run at an expense largely in excess of the most cor- rupt days of the Tammany rule, has been an asylum for lobby lawyers and needy Bo- hemians who, in the capacity of spies and detectives, feed at the public crib. The per- nicious practice of allowing Mr. Green to run the city government at his will and ina secret manner, has occasioned all our present evils. We have criminal extravagance where economy should prevail, a parsimonious crippling of our public works where liber- ality would be the best economy, and scan- dalous discord and inefficiency throughout the whole city government. Mesars. Vance and Wheeler have resolved that this state of uffairs shall exist no longer. A law was passed by the last Legislature au- thorizing the Board of Apportionment to re. open and revise the annual estimate for the purpose of cutting down the heavy expense of governing the city wherever it was practi- cable to do so, and thus decreasing the enor- mous rate of taxation. As members of the Board of Apportionment Messrs. Vance and Wheeler consider it their duty to scrutinize every item of expenditure in every depart- ment, in order to ascertain where a saving can be made. Mr. Green desires to keep all in- formation from them and to compel them to vote just such appropriations to each de- partment as he may dictate. In his own loosely managed, inefficient and extrava- gant department he impertinently refuses to make any revised estimate, and contents himself with adding a small amount to his old salary list and telling his associates on the Board that this is the sum he requires. He demands twenty thousand dollars for experts and detectives, and with- holds the names of his amateur force and the amounts paid for their questionable services. But he now finds that the Board of Appor- tionment will not any longer take the respon- sibility of voting away the people's money without a public statement of the manner in which it is to be expended. Mr. Green ob- jects to furnishing the taxpayers with the in- formation. It does not suit him to lay open the management of the Park Department, which he runs, or of the Finance Department, which he is paid for running. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler refuse to vote an appropriation until all the departments are laid open to the eyes of the people in the light of day. Hence there is a “deadlock’’ in the Board of Appor- tionment. If the present estimate should not be cut down at all, and the rate of taxation should romain as it was prior to the passage of the reopening law, Mr. Green will alone be re- sponsible, Secrecy is not consistent with honesty. Mr. Green is voting away the peo- ple’s money, not his own, and the people have ® right to know in what manner and for what purpose every dollar is spent. If Messrs. Vance and Wheeler stand firmly by the tax- payers we shall soon find a less rapid increase of the public debt and a better return for the money expended on the city government. Gamperta's Assaruanr rm Prison.—It would seem that the French authorities are inclined to discourage the kind of black- guardism which seeks to suppress political opinions by violence, By cable we learn that the man who assaulted Gambetta has been sent to prison for six months. This is indeed } an excellent lesson for the swashbucklers who | devote their lives to acquiring a skill in fence which enables them to become dangerous tomen who have not time to learn the bravo's | trade. We are glad that Gambetta had suffi- cient sense not to elevate the Bonapariist bully into consequence by consenting to fight him, The republican leader's life does not belong to him, but to his party, and ought not to be exposed to the chances of a-duel. ‘There can be no doubt that the Bonapartist faction simply used Count St. Croix as a tool to re- | move the fiery Deputy from their path. The tendency towards this species of political mourder has, however, received a check in the well merited punishment visited on §:. Croix. ‘The act of this man might have had most serious results for Fiauee, because a riot in , the streets of Paris in the present temper of the people might easily lead to civil war, In handing him over to the action of the tribu- nals the republican leader showed more com- mon sense than mostof his countrymen would have exhibited under similar circumstances. The Annoyances of Summer Travel. Summer travel is one of the glories which everybody anticipates, but nobody dreams of its annoyances and inconveniences until these must be endured. The dust from the track and the smoke from the engine are expected as matters of course, and so is the newsboy who thrusts upon you everything you do not want, and has nothing that you do want; but you had not anticipated that all the best seats in the drawing room car would be taken before your application was made, or that you would have to be content with an inside room in the Sound steamer; you are surprised that there is no ice water on the train; you are pained (in the back) by the inconvenient seats on the connecting line; you are unprepared for the absence of many things which are ab- solutely necessary to comfort. In these re- spects some of our railroads are badly man- aged. The other day not a drop of water could be obtained on one of the fastest trains between this city and Philadelphia. On the trains between New York and Boston it is not easy to got any retreshmenis except ice cream and fire water. Then the boats have their inconveniences also, and it is especially terrible to get out of bed about three o'clock in tho morning at Stonington, or to be kept awake all the way from Newport to Fall River. With all our boasted improve- ments we have not yet learned to travel with absolute comfort, and nothing sbort of the organizing power of a great genius can so ar- range the time tables of our railways and steamboats as to give the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. Reform is necessary, but where to begin is the great difficulty, though we hope that before many years the different lines of travel will afford the comfort of a grand hotel. This is an object worth striving for, as in summer especially tho whole country becomes nomadic, while wishing to endure none of the annoyances of nomadic life. We want the railroads and the steam- boats to afford summer rest as well as the banks of streams and the mountain sides and the quiet corners in out of the way places, While we are discussing this question of the annoyances of summer travel we cannot fail to point out the fact that among the worst of these is the incivility of the persons employed on the cars and boats. The porter on palace cars gives most of his time to his duties of bar- keeper. If a lady asks him a question he pays no attention to it, or bawls out his answer from the other end of the car. There is no politeness from servants who are paid to be polite. If a gentleman asks an officer of a Sound or river steamboat a civil question he is almost certain to get an uncivil answer. Sometimes there is no answer at all, and if given it is almost always ungracious. Such is the awful importance which the upper servants on a boat—we mean those in gilt buttons, not the more gracious ones in aprons— give to themselves that it is only a very bold individual who would approach one of them a second time. Through this incivility much of the pleasure of a journey out of New York is destroyed, and we would snggest to the dif- terent companies that it would be an improve- ment in their service if their officers were not such very great and important persons. Sum- mer travel is a necessity now, and politeness on the part of those who undertake to conduct it must become a partof it. Railroad and steamboat martiuets applying military disci- pline and garrison ‘etiquette to the passengers is an unworthy exhibition which ought to cease. Politeness is one of the first steps toward efficiency, and both politeness and efficiency are necessary to the comfort of travellers, The Difficulty with Jupiter. There seems to be some trouble in the planetory system. The first three satellites of Jupiter are having a family disturbance. It is barely possible that the ring which has its local habitation close to Saturn may have been watching the successful progress of some of our New York rings, and is trying to get control of the supply of light and gravitation among the celestial bodies, At any rate there is a general muss up there somewhere, and it is purposed by some of the enterprising journalists to hire Jules Verné’s cannon and send three or four reporters to find out what the trouble is, Although up to this present writing no volunteers for this adrial cruise have presented themselves there will, un- doubtedly, be as many as the projectile will hold when the hour arrivesto start, They will probably buy tickets ‘to Jupiter via the moon,” in order to interview that luminary which has been somewhat coquettish of late. They will come back—well, the precise route has not yet been determined. It just occurs to us to say that the old story about the morn- ing stars singing together seems to be some- what threadbare. They may have exercised their voices when somewhat younger in a kind of fami y chorus, but of late years, if science isto be trusted, they have had disturbances up above which show plainly enough that there is a species of physical rebellion going on. They do not regard themselves os amenable to the common law of gravitation, but, in the asteroid zone, at least, they are flying about at random, and getting themselves into such out-of-the-way places that our astronomers, who are a sort of planetary police and detect- ive force, are kept on the alert all the time. Once in a while a huge corner of something gets chipped off und goes kiting round the heavens, much after the fashion of a New York boy whose uncle has just died and left him a million, leaving a blazing track behind it for a while and then ending like any other burned out cinder. Now, whatever might have been expected of these youthful asteroids, which seem to be still sowing their wild oats, and which show no intention of settling down to the steady busi- ness of giving light, and of travelling with the quiet and dignified gait of some of the larger plancts, we cannot refrain from ex- pressing our surprise that the satellites of that paternal lighthouse keeper, quiet old Jupiter, should have such a roystering tendency. We | have always looked upon that family as weil brought up, and supposed they would be always well bebaved, But it seems the cld rule about steady, old-fashioned fathers and | fast boys is just as true a few miles up as it is | here. It is to be hoped that tho quarrel will | not be of lasting duration, and that scientists will report ere long that these Lively satellites have settled down to steady business, Religious Press Topics. As if by preconcert the Independent and the Christian Union this week deal editorially with the question, ‘What is Christianity?” ond im some aspects they treat it alike. The former disensses the question by way of commenting on an article which it publishes from the pen of Dr. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, who sets forth Christianity as a something separate and distinct from Christ—as being, indeed, nothing more than love. But the Independent shows that this moral element existed long before Christ came into the world, and that He did not come especially to manifest it, Its own definition of Christianity is a beliof in that system of faith and morals which Christ taught and the government of one’s life by the same. The man that does this is a Chris- tian. Ofa like character is the answer given by the Christian Union to this query. Chris- tianity, it says, is Christ-likeness, and a. Christian is 9 man who in his disposition and purposes resembles Jesus Christ. Christianity is simply the highest form of manhood pro- duced by the divine influence upon the soul, + It is, in short, the life of God in the soul. The Christian Intelligencer and the Baptist Weekly are striving for the scalp of Dr. O'Reilly for his late letter in the Hzraxp on the new Encyclopedia, The former shows that from the evidence then before him in the religious press the Doctor was not only reckless, but “conspicuously inexact’’ in his statementa, Both papers insist that that letter alone proves its author to be disqualified for having any hand whatever in an impartial American Cy. clopedia. The Weekly thinks, moreover, that accepting his last statemounts as true, they only fasten foolish falsehood upon himself. The Examiner and Chronicle commends the Compulsory Education bill, which’ lately ree ceived the Governor's signature, and calls ate tention to tho remarkable competition of the | other leading dailies with the Hzraup in the line of sermon reporting. It is an evidence that the people are not averse to this kind of "Tho Tablet conducts a tilt with the Metho- dist and with an eminent Methodist proacher of the West, Rev. Dr. Jacoby. Its recent en- largement, however, gives it room to com- ment also on the ‘‘Prussianizing’’ of the Swiss Republic and on other topics of importance to Catholics, The Catholic Review shows up the absurdity of killing the Pope one day by At lantic cable and raising him up again able to perform priestly offices the next day. Tha Freeman's Journal promises its readers some rich letters from the pilgrims and about the Pope in its next issue. It also undertakes to show that the public schools are designed to put out the light of Catholic faith in this country, and should, therefore, be opposed. Jerome Park Yesterday. The delightful weather of yesterday had the effect of attracting about ten thousand persons: to the grounds of the American Jockey Club. Seldom in the history of the club have the grounds presented so gorgeous a spectacle, A programme of interest and a large attend- ance would not accurately describe the meeting in this instance. The attend- ance of so large a body of spectators in a single day proves that the peopie appre- ciate the importance of these ouidoor amuse ments, both as a means ot extending the circle of rational communication and as a healthful relaxation from the cares and burdens of everyday existence. The sigus would not be so hopeful, perhaps, if the elegantly at- tired, the wealthy and ‘protessionals” alone formed the concourse. But there were thousands who, availing themselves of the early closing on Saturday, had left their workshop; and stores in order to spend five or six hours in the tresh green fields, to do honor to an institutioa now rivalling the famous Derby and extend their knowledge while amusing themselves and others. And there is no reason why the English, French and Germans should ontdo us in manly pastimes. We have trotting and run- ning courses in many respects superior to apy in the world. We have magnificent scenery— fresh and charming—presenting during the summer season special attractions for our city people, requiring only the slightest ®ffort to cb- ‘tain the most beneficial results. We have the most spacious harbors and‘ broad rivers, almost without number for those who chooss to indulge in aquatic sports, All that is reqnired is the will on the part of our citizens to cultivate the opportunities within their reach, and within a short time our physical development and national repu- tation for endurance would rival our mora boasting cousins on the other side of the Atlantic. The splendid success of yestorday’s meeting at Jerome Park leads us to the beliet that we are fast approaching this much desired era. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Feenix like, tnose diamonds can “cut” as well asshine. In the Florida Evergiades they are very happy because Mrs, Stowe ts tn Hartiord, Miss Pride went betore a Fall and was married to Low—noither poor nor an Indian—at La Crosse, Indiana. Stimson, of Yale, has taken an art prize im Paris. There will be high jinks at Yale when the news gets there, Mev. Mr. bjerring will leave the city to-morrow, to be absent until September, during which time there wiil be no service in the Greek chanel. Nye, of Nevada, read law at Hoosic Fails, and the People up there brag about it; not that the law is of Much account, but that they got rid of him, In the Pennsylvania Lunatic Hospital the patients always had their Witts about them whem Mrs. Mary A., of that name, was matron the! Dut now she has resigned and is gone, and the poor lunatics, as Mary is no longer beside them, are beside themselves, Western papers say that J nes, of Nevada, “cam Sit on more Of lls spinal column and shoulder blades than any other man who ever hoisted his feet against a wall.”” Jones nas more backbone te sit On 6 UO most men, and ii he 18 willing tu Oat ten himself out it 1s because he knows no otner mah tu Nevada can do it, perhaps, Bayard Taylor has secured the correspondence that passed between Joseph and Potiphar's wite, and wants to translate it; vat Chicago people Want to buy it nuntransiated, for fear B,T, with make it 18 a8 dui} as one of his own books, ft ap. Pears by the correspondence that what has been hitherto heard of the story was cnly Joseph's ver. 8100, a8 he reported it to his wie. HOURS OF LABOR REDUOED. ReADING, Pa., June 13, 1974, 4 Tt ts oMctally announced that owing to che das [Poop ad Of the iron and coal trade the tours 6 aborin the prope of the Reading Ratiroad Come pany along the line will be reduced irom nine to euzat hours on and alter Monday uxt,