The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ~——- + THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the | ay. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | price $13. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatehes must be addressed New Yore Hera. Letters and packages should be prop- erly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turaed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. fubscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XX. xix AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING Que. ok, TUE PRIDE OF .; closes at 10:30 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, . Proadway and Thirteenth street.—EAsf LYNNE, at8 Y, M.; cloves at 11 i, M. Miss Cariotta Le Clercq. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Houston and Bleecker streets.— AINMENT, at 7:45 P. M.; closes at WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of lhurtieta street. —THE SKELETON | M. closes at430 P.M. Same até P. M. . Hernandez Foster. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, THE SEA OF ICE, at 8 P. Met closes at 10:45 P.M. Mrs, Cuarlotte Thompson. NIBLO’S GARVEN, Proadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE TWO-L This: 04, THE DEFORMED, at 8B. Mj closes wt iU5 P.M.” Mr. Joseph Wheelock and’ Miss Ione Burke. BOOTH'S THEATRE. as BRYANT's BENEFIT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | TONY PAST Bowery.—-VARIETY OPERA HOUSE, SER ENEAE, at 8 P.M; cloves at 10:30 P.M, Matinee at 2 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty -nintn street and Seventh avenue —THOMAS' CON. Coli, a8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. COLOB3EUM, Broadway, corner ot Ih riy-tifth ‘street.—LONDON BY Ni Hl, at i P.M; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P.M; closes at 10 P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND )NGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P.M and 1874. Madison. Pa NT TRIPLE SHE New York, Thursday, June 25, probabilitics are that the weather to-day will be clear and hot. Wari Srrner ~ Yusterpay.—Stocks were | active, but somewhat lower. Gold declined to 1114. trom our reports this morning the Tus Senatorrat Contest iv Ruopg Isianp, though prolonged until it bas become absurd, never had any significance. It is in no way a | struggle tor party or principle, but a fight be n halt a dozen commonplace people over a seat in the United States Senate. The | whole trouble consists in the fact that there is a determination to defeat General Burnside, but no clear purpose of electing any other | candidate. Tr Gevenan Grant 1s Renomrnatep for a | third term in 1876 the traditions of the Re- | public will become a more potent enemy to jhis election than all the corruptions of the republican party. In the centennial year of American independence the example of Wash- ington would be quoted by his antagonists | with deadly effect, and we might expect a re- vival ot the old-fashioned stump oratory which once contributed so much to the amusement | of the people. Tue Temprrance Conventions.—The pro- hibitionists and temperance republicans move | | tain our credit by sending abroad | this purpose Business Condition of the Country. Congress having done nothing of any value to relieve business from ita long stagnation the country must rely upon its own energy and prudence, and the first thing in order is a correct survey of the situation. There are some features of it which no legislation could have altered or materially mitigated. Public attention was so engrossed by the panic while it lasted, by the expectation of Congressional relief afterwards, and by the heated currency discussion during the session, that some car- dinal considerations essential to a true esti- mate of the situation have been neglected and left in the background. The truth is that the last year marks a transition in our financial history so important in its character and far- reaching in its consequences that nothing can be properly understood unless we fairly exam- ine it. During the last year we reached a limit in our enormous exportation of govern- ment bonds, and the great panic was a symp- tom that our tormer easy command of foreign capital had been arrested. Since 1865 this country has received and used about one thousand million dollars of European capital in exchange for paper obligations payable at future dates. If this process could have gone on perpetually wo could have maintained our delusive appearance of prosperity until the annual interest on the debt held abroad came to exceed the annual exportation of bonds. The veriest prodigal and spend- thrift in the world, so long as he can borrow, never need be embarrassed until he reaches a stage at which the amount of loans he can command falls short of the accruing interest on his debts. Such a prodigal will be sud- denly checked in his career as soon as he has no further security to offer which the lenders of money will accept. This is precisely the stage which this country has reached within the last year. Since the war a steady stream of European capital has flowed to this country in exchange for the exporied promises of the government. In the nature of things this stream could not flow forever. The amount of the public debt is limited, and a consider- able portion of it must necessarily be retained athome. The large amount required to be deposited with the Comptroller ot the Cur- rency to socure the circulation of the uational banks cannot be exported. The savings | banks and trust companies hold another large amount. The government bonds are pre- ferred as a safe investment of the property of widows and orphans, and many citizens are tempted by the exemption of tha bonds from local taxation. They have also become an important element of the current business of the country as a ready means of borrowing money in emer- gencies. The country cannot dispense with the amount of them which it still retains, and the limit to their exportation having been reached the business of the country inevitably passes into a new phase. The change made by this great fact in our business situation is immense, It does not merely compel the country to rely onits own unassisted resources, which would of itself be o great change, but it turns the tide the other way, reverses the direction of its flow, and-will constantly drain away large amounts of American cupital to Europe. The export of bonds having stopped, we must now send abroad every year large amounts of geal cap- ital to pay the interest on them. The interest has indeed been regularly paid heretofore, but so long as we were exporting an amount of bonds largely in excess of the accruing interest there was still a flow of European capital to this country. But now, when the stock of bonds for export is about exhausted, we must still pay the interest and main- for property having a solid intrinsic value, not paper promises, but real capital This is the cardinal fact of the situ- ation, and all reasoning on business prospects is fallacious and misleading which does not recognize its magnitude and importance. It in a mysterious way their wonders to perform. Some of them have met at Syracuse this week with no other object than to denounce Gov- ernor Dix, and others have assembled at Auburn with the more pretentious object of nominating a State ticket. The latter put in nomination for Governor of the State a Mr. Myron H. Clark, who spent two years in Albany eighteen or nineteen years ago. Mr. Clark's chances of election are not supposed by well informed politicians to be of a very promising character. Tue Press Gac Law.—Senator Carpenter | argues in support of the law for the trial of | New York editors at Washington that it is, | in fact, a law for the organization of United States courts, and (at under it journals pub- | lished in this city cannot be punished in | Washington, This might do very well if the law of libel was not aimed against the pub- lication ‘‘and utterance’ of so-called libels, and if also it was not held by courts that journals were “published” wherever they were circulated. I[t is characteristic, perhaps, that the Senator, in discussing the case, assumes always that a person accused of libel is guilty. | | Mx. Creswett’s Resicnation.—The coun- try will regret to learn that Mr. Creswell has resigned the position of Postmaster General, and that the President, with sincere ex- pressicns of regret, has accepted the resigna- tion. Mr. Creswell has discharged his duties in # manner entirely satisfactory to the people of the United States. He has been more than five years in office, and his private interests now demand his attention, Mr. Creswell is | the last of President Grant's original Cabinet, | and be retires with unassailed character and undimiuished popularity, Moxa Learyep Doctons.—The most | marked feature of the college commencements yesterday was the manufacture of doctors of divinity, law and philosophy. Harvard led off, but very sparingly, with the single nomisation of Professor Charles Carroll | Everett, of the Divinity School, os D. D., while Princeton bad not fewer than five de. | grees of the same kind to give away. Brown | University made two doctors of divinity and | old Columbia one doctor of laws. Thus the | work of making learned doctors is accom- | plished every year, and as it bas become one | of the recognized features of the day we would | suggest that the unmeaning term, Commence- | meat Day, be dropped altogether, and Doc- tors’ Day substituted, a change that ought to acceptable to the young graduates even, for | in time ail of them expect to be enriched with | degree other than those which are “of | ourse.’’ { | easily follow the course of trade, and it would is not merely one of many facts bearing on the prosperity of the country; itis the master key which unlocks the chief mysteries ot the financial problem. Let us illustrate by a simple example. It is well known to all who give attention to this class of subjects that we have been for several months and still are making heavy exports of grain at very good prices, and yet that these large exports have given no perceptible im- pulse to general trade, as they would be ex- pected to do under ordinary circumstances. If we were still exporting bonds at the same rate we were two years ago our long continued heavy shipments of grain would touch all the nerves of trade and create great activity and | animation. The course of reasoning would be inferred that the money received by the farmers for their grain would give them the ability and inclination to make large pur- chases of goods. On the strength of this ex- pectation the spring market should have been full of buyers if some peculiarity in the situation had not arrested ordinary tendencies. The difficulty is tha, the large quantities of grain we are exporting have ceased to bring back any corresponding returns of capital, The bills of exchange drawn against them go to meet the interest on | our foreign indebtedness. The pleasure and | exhilaration of getting gloriously in debt must sooner or later be tollowed by the sobering | and it takes more money than the farmers can get to discharge them. Rather than have o mortgage foreclosed and his property sold 9 tarmer will subsist on the barest necessaries and borrow at exorbitant rates of interest all | the money he can of his neighbors, who, in | turn, restrict their purchases because the profit of loans is so tempting. Many of these mort- gages are held, directly or indirectly, by East- ern capitalists, which, together with the stag- nation of business, accounts for the harassing dearth of money in the West, while it is a drug which seeks in vain for employment in the Eastern cities. We are approaching a period of enforced economy, and a frugal year or two will sot everything right. It is really a good thing for the country that we must stop exporting bonds, as it will bring us to o true sense of our situation. The annual interest on all our | debts held abroad, including government and H railroad bonds, must be considerably within one hundred millions, and our total exports for the last fiscal year amounted to between five hundred and six hundred millions at a gold valuation. By reducing our im- ports a bundred millions a year we can balance our yearly account with Europe aad recover a genuine prosperity. College Commencements. Our news columns to-day contain long and interesting accounts of the Commence- ment exercises at some of the leading colleges in America, notably Harvard, Dartmouth, Union and Columbia. Tho influence which such institutions exercise over the young men whom they send into the struggle of life, armed, as they claim, cap-d-pie with all that is necessary for success and the fulfilment of ambitious yearnings, cannot be overesti- mated. The Alma Mater is supposed to be the Mentor of every youth who leaves its sacred precincts for the hurly burly of the world, a protecting genius in hours of trial and suffering and a wise counsellor at the more dangerous moment of triumph when the judgment is liable to be thrown off its balance and self-control becomes irksome, The task of moulding a virgin mind to the degree of strength and durability necessary to grapple with the multitudinous and wearying questions of everyday life and to inspire it with the practical spirit of the motto, ‘‘Excelsior,"’ is one which calls for Solon-like minds on the part of the professors intrusted with such a delicate task. However such results are gen- erally attained a glance at the reports of yes- terday’s exercises will show that in such insti- tutions on Commencement Day the brightest and most imposing display is made and honors are poured without stint on the lucky heads designated by the faculty. Gambetta on the Republic. The celebration of the birthday of Hoche at Versailles has @ peculiar significance at this momeit, when the French Republic finds it- self engaged in a struggle with modern Bona- The Comptroller's New Budget—False and True Economy. The budget handed in by Mr. Green yester- | day at the meeting of the Board of Apportion- ment as his recommendation of the umount of ; taxation necessary to be imposed on the city | for the expenses of the current year requires | to be closely scrutinized. Like every state- | ment that comes from the Finance Depart- | ment it is designed and calculated to mislead the people. It shows a reduction of $5,002,795 from the estimate before adopted ; but when we examine the items to find how this reduc- tion is secured we discover that a very small fraction is due to retrenchment on the part of the municipal departments, and that the abuses which exist in some of the most ex- | travagantly conducted departments are con- tinued and sought to be covered up by this false show of economy. Indeed, it is now evident that the original es- timate was made unnecessarily large in order that the amount might be reduced without | the stoppage of any of the leakages of the government, The‘ announcement, made | amidst a grand flourish of trumpets, that the sum required tobe raised this year by taxation had been cut down five million dollars, was well calculated to blind the eyes of our ci'i- zens to the profligacy of the Finance De- partment, the rascalities of the Charities and | Correction, and the squandering of the peo- ple's money on fancy projects in Central Park. The action of Messrs. Vance ‘and Wheeler in the Board of Apportionment has spoiled this game. They demand such a re- duction of the expenses of the government as will effect a real saving to tho taxpayers, and | the necessity of the demand is made the more apparent by publication of the Comptrol- ler's budget. The demagogism and untruthfulness of Mr. Green’s statement are exposed by the manner in which he exhibits the figures of the Finance Department, He states simply under the head of Finance Department, ‘‘Estimate as now fixed, $475,000. Amount as proposed, $371,150." This would imply and is intended to imply that the expenses of the Finance Department have been reduced $103,850. The truth is that the difference is made by now placing in ‘a separate item the sums required for “rents and “real estate expenses,"’ which under the former estimate were in- cluded in the amount appropriated to the Finance Department, and the former estimate of that department instead of being reduced is increased $3,336 on the salary list and $16,850 on the rents and real estate expenses. The reductions effected by the law of the last Legislature, which authorized the reopen- ing of the estimates, are as follows :— For new City Prison, law repealed... $250,000 For special contingencies prouivi yy UNC IAW. is. scee-- cece reseeneses “ + — 700,0005 For Fourth avenue improvement, bridged over until next year. oe aee 1,698,767 Fur bonds due this yea iy LAW. cesececcceeeee + 400,000 Total reductions made by law..........$2,048, 767 These reductions are provided tor by the partism. The French people are quick to | law, and the Board of Apportionment has no Perceive the value and full meaning of | control over them. Out of the whole amount demonstrations like that jast made by | only $950,000 is saved, the remainder being the republicans, and the contrast sug-} only » payment postponed until next year. ‘the only possible government for France, necessity of providing means of payment; and baving at last gone to the length of our tether in meeting our foreign liabilities with | new paper promises we are forced to part with | a great deal of valuable property without any | visible return, The bad feature of the situation is that the | country is so deplorably in debt. To be sure, | we have been making a parade ot reducing the | national debt since the close of the war, but | the aggregate increase of the State, county, city and town indebtedness has been much greater than the reduction of the national debt. As both these classes of public debt | must be paid by taxing the same people they | have no great reason to exult in the shifting | of a part of the burden from one shoulder to | the other. Private indebtedness, especially | in the West and South, has been rapidly | | | increasing during these years of de lusive prosperity, which is attested by the increase of recorded mortgages, as Senator Thurman abundantly proved by au- thentie figures in his Ohio speech last fall, | The enormous mass of private debts explains | why the West, which is receiving #o mnch money for its grain, is in no condition to pur- chase goods. Mortvazes will at last mature gested between the loyal republican soldier j who was true to liberty and the Corsican | adventurer who overthrew the Republic will be made with damaging effect against the Bonapartist cause throughout France. In a speech of marked moderation Gambetta pointed out that the safety of France required the establishment of the conservative Repub- | lic, and the great tribune made an eloquent appeal to Frenchmen of all parties to aid The conviction of the urgent necessity for the ; establishment of the Republic is forcing itself on patriotic men of all parties. Some promi- | nent royalists have already declared their opinions that the only safety for France is to be found in the Republic. It is at such o moment that the Bourbon pretender agitates his white flag and threatens France with another manifesto. Young Bonaparte attempts to win the suffrages of the people by circulating his photograph, as if the face of a beardless boy could make the nation forget the shame and degradation of Sedan. These pretenders would not be dan- gerous if the republicans were united, and if ever either obtains control of the destinies of the French nation it will be owing to the divis- ion and folly of the republican party. Pilots and Pilotage. The question of the legality of compulsory pilotage has been before the Court of Com- When we examine the balance of the reduc- tion made in Mr. Green's budget we find $870,513 of the amount to be a saving in the interest on the public debt, which is cut down from $9,120,513 in the former estimate to $8,250,000 in the Comptroller's present budget. We find in this another indication of the tricky and deceptive character of the new budget. The exact amount required for in- terest this year was as well known in Novem- ber last as it is to-day. There would have been no object in adding on to the interest ac- count in'November nearly one million dollars more than is required, except that of taking it | off again on the revised estimate and making thus a false show of reduction. This leaves only a balance of a trifle over $1,180,000 as the saving in all the departments of the city government after all the Comptroller's stamp speeches on economy. The reductions are principally in the following offices: —Public Works, $116,500; Charities and Correction (a saving from buildings, &., and not from the exorbitant expenditures: for supplies), $118,000; Board ot Education, $250,000, and | City Courts, $163,000. It will thus be seen that the public parks, the Finance Depart- ment and the regular expenses of the Chari- ties and Correction are left untouched or the demands for money are increased. There is no honest economy in this budget, end the work which Messrs. Vance and Wheeler have undertaken has not yet been mon Pleas, and yesterday a decision was de- livered by Judge Robinson that will give | general satisfaction to the mercantile commu- nity. Efforts bave been made bya certain class of shipmasters trading with this port to evade the payment of pilotage fees. The question has, howeyer, been finally set at rest, and the rights of the pilots asserted. In de- livering the opinion of the Court the Judge pointed out that ‘the exigencies of commerce require that provisions of law should be made for the employment of persons of competent akill and ability known as pilots to take charge of vessels bound to and from the ports or the harbors, who shall be at all times in readiness to render their aid and assist- ance.” In view of these circumstances it was held that the tender of service by a pilot entitled him to receive his fees, the object being to encourage watchfulness on the part of the men to whom | this important duty of piloting ships into the harbor is assigned. This decision, taken in connection with the failure of the attempt in Congress to repeal the com- pulsory pilotage laws, may be looked on as having set the question at rest—at least for some time. Those who have the interests of New York at heart will rejoice that the effort to injure so useful a body of men as the Sandy Hook pilota has signally failed. The | prosperity of this city depends on the safety | | of its commerce, and the maintenance of a body of men acquainted with the intricacies and perils of the harbor is a necessity. The | public will therefore be pleased to know that the law clearly defines and protects the rights | of this most useful class of citizens. Tus, Tan of Ponce Comsmussroxens | Charlick and Gardner for alleged misde- meanor in violating the Election law of 1872 will be continued to-day. The evidence offered yesterday was brief and of very little account, The management of the Street Cleaning Bureau would afford a far more in- teresting subject of legal investigation than these politiowl charges | ' far crushed all hopes of sensible action on | performed, They have resolved that the asy- | | lums in the Finance Department and its bu- | | reaus shall be closed and that no more “‘incom- | petent friends’’ shall be supported in idleness ; | at the cost of the heavily burdened taxpayers; | that the waste of the people’s money in the ; Park Department shall be stopped; that the | scandalous extravagance and corruption in the | Charities and Correction Department shall be | | brought to a close. It is tobe hoped that they | will pursue their praiseworthy object with | firmness until they compel that economy in the abused public departments which will effect a real and substantial saving to the city treasury. Music in the Public Schools. We have received a number of communica- tions in reference to music in the public schools which indicate significantly the deep interest taken by the public in a subject which | the President of the Board of Education says has been in a state of incubation for a very long time, without ony practical results being reached. The incubus of old fogyism has so the part of the present Commissioners, and the metropolis will, perhaps, have to remain in a position far behind that of Boston and St. Louis in a branch of public education in which it should be first The present slip- shod system of teaching music to the children is worse than none at all, as it inspires only a positive dislike for the divine art, What is wanted is a capable Superimtendent of this de- Improved UDecep-Sea Exploring Appa- ratus. Science has recently been successfully busy in devising and perfecting new apparatus for deep-sea sounding, and we bave ircsh assur- ances that the furrowed bed of the ocean will soon be mapped as distinctly as the oro- graphic features of the great continents. Sir William Thomson, the indefatigable pioneer in the science of cable laying, has made an important and invaluable contribution to deep- sea telegraphy in an ingenious and inexpen- sive apparatus for bringing up bottom from abyssal depths of the ocean. The value of such an invention is far greater than at first appears, When Lieutenant James M. Brooke, some years ago, designed his little sounding ma- chine, by which the telegraph explorer, as never before, could fetch up from the mid- ocean bottom specimens of its ooze, people little dreamed that on this apparently insignificant contrivance would depend the discovery and definition of the mysterious “telegraphic plateau’’ on which now rest the Atlantic cables. It may be assumed that deep-sea telegraphy and deep-sea cable laying will pro- gress pari passu; for until we can get a map of the dark, slimy bottom and ascertain its suitableness for the costly strand capitalists will not embark in new cable projects, More than a year ago Commander Belknap, of the American Navy, in his Pacific survey, introduced the cheap pianoforte steel wire and successfully tested its adaptation to the delicate work of ocean bed exploration: Sir William Thomson, after long and elaborate experiments with the same wire, has fully demonstrated its sufficiency for soundings in three thousand and three thousand five hun- dred fathoms, depths which approach the extreme and most abyssal caverns of the salty deep. According to a paper recently read by this eminent electrician and physicist the cheap wire he used is of small size, easily managed, whether the ship bo hove -to or under steam, and weighs about fifteen pounds to the nautical mile, bearing a pull of two hundred and forty pounds without breaking. The simplicity and economy of this sounding line brings it within the skill and ability of almost every naval vessel afloat, so that the work of deep- sea surveying may be pushed forward by all naval officers, Instead of detaching the sink- ing weight of thirty pounds of lead or iron at each experiment, as was done with the old apparatus, the new invention brings back the sinker. Tests made in the rough waters of the Atlantic prove that, even when the vessel is steaming six knots an hour, flying sound- ings can be taken in moderate depths. There is little doubt that this ingenious arrangement will be extensively used in all future deep-sea telograph laying, and will also give an impulse to the study of ocean orography. Tux Syracuse Dwaster.—Tho loss of life caused by the giving way of the floor of a Baptist church at Syracuse proves to have been greater than at first supposed. The disaster is shown by an examination to have been caused by defects of construction, which leave the builders open to grave censure The fi upon which so large a number of ~ people were assembled was supported by an iron rod, and when this support gave way the floor and its occupants were hurled into the room beneath, which, unfortunately, was also crowded with human beings. In the present state of the law we fear no adequate punishment can be meted out to those guilty of the deaths of these latest victims of reckless greed. But the frequency with which similar occurrences succeed each other may lead eventually to the passage of a law to punish selfish speculators who endanger the lives of their fellow citi- zens by running up insecure structures which sooner or later give way, causing the death of unfortunate victims, maiming and reducing to misery hundreds of innocent people. A Cneprrasta Act—The rejection by the Senate of Governor Shepherd for one of the Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia. This act was the more remarkable as the Senate has an overwhelming majority of administration republicans who aro naturally disposed to confirm the appoint- ments of the President when they can con- scientiously do so. Thirty-six votes against confirmation and only six for it shows unmis- takably the independence of the Senate and the bad odor of Shepherd's name, It seems very strange that the President should have nominated this man in the face of the revela- tions connected with District affairs ond against public opinion. General Grant has got so far as to despise up his own will in opposition to that of the people if even he has deluded himself that i Shepherd is immaculate. Powerful as the President is this rejection of a notoriously obnoxious man proves that the Senate is not the blind instrument of the Executive. It is gratifying to know there is some respect for principles and decency lett notwithstanding the corruption of the times and the tyranny of political partisanship. Exquvisrrs Comepy.—Nothing more ex- quisite in the comedy of political life was ever seen than the haste with which certain members of the District Legislature returned property stolen by them at the time of the adjournment of that body upon the intima- tion that the police were looking for the miss- ing furniture. Public corruption has at last reached its Iudicrous stage when the mem- bers of a Legislature carry off the chairs and otber articles from the hall of the Assem- bly; but public morals ought to begin to im- prove when official venality is satirized by such exquisite comedy as the return of the stolen articles. Tue Boarp or AupermeEn, at a special meet- | ing yesterday, instructed the Commissioner ' of Public Works to eject the so-called Court House Commis§ioners from the room they un- UL DNS e-em i esa A Raa le PRE acti he es. SRO ENE SPF i ! | Uist, one of the patron suints of the order, We can burdly think | | as of the younger bretureu, Aud a most enjoyavle | lime was the result. public opinion and to imagine that he can set | Am Amended Dog Ordinance. Tho protests of the gentle-hearted Bergh have not moved to pity the City Fathers. Notwithstanding the piteous pleadings of the dog’s friend the fate of wandering canines is sealed. Even the generous, Quixotic crusade of Bergh’s lieutenants for the rescue of cap- tive curs is likely to come to naught in view of the latest precautions taken to secure the utter extirpation of vagabond dogs. Tae war waged by enterprising boys for the considera- tion of fifty cents was mere guerilla skirmish- ing to the operations about to be carried out under the direct orders of the Board of Alder- men. In every ward executioners are to be appointed, and, so to speak, the guillotine set up to satisfy the Aldermanic craving for the blood of canine victims. Knowing the chival- rous nature of the followers of Bergh, we are alarmed for the possible consequence of this new outrage offered to their tender and sym- pathetic natures. So long as the cause of gen- tleness only required the stoppage of small boys and the freeing of captive dogs there was no danger to the public peace save in the grateful yelps of liberated curs. Now, how- ever, the case will be different, for the men charged with the collection and massacre of vagabond dogs are not likely to allow even the virtuous agents of Bergh to intarfere with their pursuits without showing fight, so that we may yet see the frie dis ot thy dogs and their persecutors engage in a general row. It is, perhaps, natural that Berghites should consider the liberty of the animal above all such considerations as the safety of merg bipeds; but the latter are a conceited class of animals and set themselves on a pinnacle, whence they look down on the rest of orea- tion. Principle ought to be above all other considerations, according to the virtuous code of Bergh. This may be sound morality, but with the chances of hydrophobia in the vague distance the natural selfishness of man will assert itself with the multitude, and principle will be thrown to the dogs and both cast into the Pound to be smothered for the good cf society. As the Aldermen have an interest in the votes of the bipeds it is quite natural that they should take sides against the dogs. If, however, Mr. Bergh could give security that the canines would bite none but those likely to vote against the City Fathers at the next election he would do more to secure the safety of his protégés than his appeals to hu- manity or morality are likely to accomplish, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, vat Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is at the Brevoort House, J. D. Goodpasture, of Wisconsin, is @ candidate for Congress, He is a granger. Ex-Governor Rutus &, Bullock, of Georgia, is re- siding at the Sturtevant House. Congressman Lyman /'remain, of Albany, arrived last evening at the Gilsey House. Ex-Revenue Commissioner David A. Wells ts staying at the Flith Avenue Hotel. Juuge R. D. Rice, of Maine, is among the recent arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Ex Governor Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska, Tegistered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Cuvier Grover, United States Army, !s quartered at the Hofman House, Jerome B, Chaffee, Congressional Delesare from Colorado, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Congressmen Dewite 0. Giddings and W. 8. Herndon, of Texas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. A Reading paper asks, “What shall we do with our bad girls?” Get rid of them ‘or better—or wore, Tobacco stems are in demand for Cincinnati breweries, Liebig was of opinion that we make the best beer in tne world. Governor William P. Kellogg and Unitea States Marsha: 8, & Packard, of Louisiana, uuve apart- ments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dominion papers have mixed their Butlers badly. They have killed B, F. in Brooklyn with the nydro- phobia instead of Francis, It is a suggestive error. General B. R. Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Afairs, arrived im the city sesterday aad . Gre at the Windsor Hotel, Apropos to our Fish and Bass and Pike and Suck- ers, tne Utica Observer wants to know tt the United States government is an aquarium? In an aquarium the important element is water. Senator George Ff, Edmunds, of Vermont, and Representatives Merriam, of New York; Williams, 0! Massacnusetts, and Parsons, of Ubio, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. VETERAN MASONS, Meeting of the Ancient Members of the Order in Connecticut. New Haven, June 24, 1874. - The fourth annus) reunion of the Veteran Masonic Association of this State, which was organized iour years ago in Birmingham by King Hiram Lodge, Free aud Accepted Masons, of that place, occurred at Masonic Hall to-day, it being the anniversary of St. Joon the Evange- A large umber oi the Veteran cralt were preseat, as well A noticeaole incident of tue aay wus the meeting together of those brethren woo were initiated in Northern Star Lodge o1 New Haitiord tn the year 1822 and who, without revious arrangement, met together to-day or the first time since that date, the oum- ber of veterans from all parts 01 the state who partook of dinner at tue Florence Honse ‘was seveuty-one. ‘ihe oldest of them was ninety- two years, and the youngest sixt.-nine, Their aggregate ages Was 5,300 years, aud the average seventy. Alter dinner work in the third degree was sol- emonized in Hiram Lodge. Addresses were maae and wu poem was delivered by |. W. Storrs, of Bir- mingham. A TRIBUTE TO BISHOP RYAN, Burrato, N. Y., June 24, 1874, ‘This being the twenty-flith anniversary, or silver Wedding, of Bishop Ryau's accession to the priest- hood, the Catholic clergymen of this diocese as sembied at the Cathedral this morning, Waen pon- tiflca; nigh mass was celebrated, a ter waich tue enure bouy visited the Bishop's residence. Con- ratulatory addresses were delivered. A purse of 08 was presented and a splendid banquet served. TEMP:.RANOE. Meeting of the Massachusetts Alliance. BosTos, June 24, 1874, Ata meeting of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance to-day it was voted to appeal to tae vorers of the State to consider the leading measures of the liquor trafic in the present Legisiature. Firat, 118 attempt to reduce the number of tho Stal coustabulary; secund, its §)ecial efforts to avolisa the coumissioners; third, 18 ofers mace through many Senators not to attack the Prombitory jaw if permitted to abolish the state force provided tor its execution, It was also revolved that the claim of the liquor party, that the sent.ment oi the State is in of license, ga Guwarigit insult to the intel, ol the people, and until they can exnioit su nt partment, a uniform system of instruction and | lawfully entered in the new Court House ' power to segure aot pity a souate and Hons of toa 4 ves, but @ Governor, encouragement equal to that held out | Building, and of which they still hold posses- thin oeariy evi nt that "ev pioli"sentupent 1 ister i she Siate is iY Of prohibition, for proficiency in other branches, The study | sion, It no doubt existed as to the legality of | A resulution was udopted oalling apon (owne of music is no waste of time even for those | the appointment of these Commissioners, and | ana citie- te hold mass ineetings in favor of total in humble circumstances, It softens many of | if they had any official business to trans. | Be Eitorng Ceca eae oy cai ene the asperities of character which the struggle | act, the lawless course they have pur- | triumph for promibiuien, of life engenders, creates harmony where social discord might reign and makes better men and better women by its magnetic influ- | ence than mere dogmatic teaching, The apathy of our Board of Education on this important question is as reprehensible as it is | at variance with the spirit of the age | so in view of the fact that they hold an un- necessary office on a doubtful tenure, They have forcibly seized, but should be prevented from running the city into any expense until their title to office has been logally settled. | sued would be reprehensible. It is doubly | ; should not only be ejected from the room they | cated to-u: ; Commande { A NeW MA3UNIO LoM?LE, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Jane 24, 1874. The new Masonic Tearpie in this cl'y was dedte by the officers of the Grand Lodge With tmposing ceremomes Nearly 1,000 Masons were In the procession this afternoon, including SUL KOgHEs Lemplars 1roMm Ne woUuLy> vort, Hartiord, Coun, aud Uudsou, N. Ye