The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 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,. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SONWAY'S BROOK EN’ DWARFS, at 8 P. MRS. T RI THE 5kV P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Vrince and. Houston strects.—THE TWO sI-TERS: OK, THE DEFO at 10:45 P.M THEATH No. 514 Broadway.—SaV WOMAN'S WILL, at 8 P. Little. MIQUE, OM THE WRECK; OR, closes at 10:50 PM. J. 2 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street. —THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS, at closes at 4:80 P.M. Same ats P.M. ; closes at Buffalo Bill. PARK GARDEN, enth avenue.—~THOMAS’ CON- at 10:30 P.M cOLos Broadway, corner of Thirty NIGHT, at’ P.M; closes at closes at 10 1”. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and Twenty-sixti Sstreet.—GRAND PAGEANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P. M. and at New York, Pe wane a 1874, str street.—LONDON BY PM. Same at7 P. M.; From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and hot. A or HE Nationan Frixances.—The Treasury statement for the month just ending shows that the income from customs has greatly improved and is larger even than for the corresponding month | of last year, and that there is an increase also of internal revenue. There is, teo, a slight decrease of the public debt for June. Tue New Currency Law has been ex- plained to the banks by Comptroller Knox, in 8 circular just issued. He informs the banks that the reserve on circulation is abolished, but that they are required to keep a reserve upon deposits, and also that they are required to leave on deposit with the Treasurer of the Tnited States an amount equal to five per cent of their circulation. Sparm.—The Carlist war continues with the] same monotonous results. It seems that Concha has had a little success, but its prac- tical effect seems to be to hem the Carlist forces into Navarre. So long as the French side of the Pyrenees is a base of supplies for Don Carlos, and a sure refuge in the event of disaster, this ‘war’? will continue with the same purposéless, inefficient results that we have had for twenty years. Scnpay Ensorments.—Yesterday our met- ropolitan population poured into Central Park and out of the city in every direction, as will be seen by our reports, to find recreation and health and to escape, if possible, the burn- ing sun. Happily no city in the world is more blessed with convenient rural resorts, and those who so select may enjoy the air from the salt water in and around the bays, rivers and 6ea Coast. Tae Aqvepuct LeaKaGE is reported to be, after all,a harmless affair. Chief Engineer ‘Tracy sends us a communication, which will tbe found in another part of the paper, to that effect. His assistants have examined the squeduct and report there is no danger. He says, further, that the main iron pipes will be laid by next October and then the Croton water will flow through them. HEATRE. | M.; [closes at 10:45 RMED, ats P.M closes | Mr, Joseph Wheelock and’ Miss Ione Burke. | Higher Edueation in the United States. We have just passed the flood-tide of annual college Commencerrents, and the great amount of space which we gave last week to the usual exercises and addresses may perhaps justify some remarks on the value of this kind of information. It has, no doubt, several fea- tures of popular interest, the chief of which, except for the local communities where the colleges are located, and for the families of their patrons,*is the appearance of prominent public men to deliver their views on interest- ing topics. Mr. Evarts went to Dartmouth | tice Chase ; Governor Dix made an interesting address at Union, and similar efforts by dis- tinguished men are a customary feature of our college Commencements. But we cannot say that any of these performanc+s, however valuable in other respects, has shed light on the practical business of education. The ablest of these addresses this year, that of Mr. Evarts, might have been delivered with as much propriety to a meeting of the American Bar, or to the Legislature of Judge Chase's adopted State, as before the literary institu- tion at which Mr. Chase completed his educa- | tion. Governor Dix said some pertinent things on the value of classical studies; but they | were too desultory and anecdotic to be re- | garded as a contribution to educational science. We sincerely regret that these op- portunities for engaging public attention are not turned to a better use. There is so much tion, so very much remains to be done to put | our higher institutions on a footing which would make them inspiring and efficient, that we are annoyed at the irrelevance and barren- ness of what our duty as journalists requires us to report, and are mortified that so little is said which can afford a hinge for profitable discussions of the great subject which is peculiarly appropriate to these annual oc- casions. It would be difficult to name any educational point on which these Commence- ments have made us wiser. formed of any improvements either adopted or projected ; we gain no new light as to the working of our higher institutions ; we are told of nothing doing or done to lift them out of dead routine into free and varied intellec- tual life; we have had nothing to report beyond the usual festive parade, the con- | ferring of unmeaning degrees by way of com- | pliment and the flashy outburst of young men’s so-called orations, gotten up on a variety of well-worn topics | with the aid of their professors. We do not | object to these routine performances, but we | were entitled to expect something in addition. We see no reason why the first minds of the ' country who have made education a study | to pronounce a eulogy on the late Chief Jus- | ent as to the subjects put in the ordinary col- lege curriculum. The proportions of classics, mathematics and physical science appear well enough in the printed scheme of studies, and | would be judicious, or at least not very inju- dicious, if well managed. But we protest against the imbecile servility to text books. We object to the practice, proper enough in elementary schools, of merely hearing lessons in our higher seminaries. It is preposterous to make young men who are beginning to | parrot-like recitation from a text book to teachers whose sole office consists in test- | ing their memory and industry. Such a sys- | tem is a mere cover for the incapacity of the professors. It is absurd to make a text book | the daily medium of instruction to college | classes, consisting of young men whose capacity of original thought is budding varied facul- to the free, exercise of the powerful stimulus | and independent | conscious. The true way, at this stage of have beards on their faces spend years in | | into activity, and whose daily need is a | ties of which they are beginning to be | accessible to the city. The Highlands in New Jersey and on the Hudson are both available for picnicing. Excellent places may be found in the neighborhood of all the railway stations, and generally the more obscure the station the more complete the means of unrestrained en- joyment. Connecticut as well as New Jersey has plenty of enticing spots on the sea- shore. The Hudson River reveals a thou- sand nooks and corners. The Jersey railroads all lead to out-of-the-way places, which will well reward a search after them, In this matter | we do not wish merely to talk about the pleas- ures of the country. The poets have done | this for ever so many hundred years, What | we want is to promote a general system of pic- | nicing. Undertakings of this kind should not | be for only one day in the season, but at least once in a fortnight throughout the summer. * Little parties should be organized in the spring and early summer for a season of rural enjoy- ment. Picnics should be as plenty as berries. There are thousands of people who cannot get | out of town in any other way, who yet need | not repine at their lot if they provide for such NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNH 29, 1874——WITH SUPPLEMENT. scarcely be said that the figures are fictitious and deceptive. The question was as to the salaries paid in the Finance Department at the present time. The expenses of the department in 1871, as given by Mr. Green, are made up of items outside the salaries which, if now included in Mr. Green's estimate, would produce a very different result, In opposing the proposed reduction in the Park expenditures and the motion to pay all salaries of employés, except laborers, out of taxation account, and not from the proceeds of bonds, Mr. Green quoted the practice pur- sued in the Department of Public Works of paying salaries of employés in street im- provements out of bonds, and not out of taxa- tion, The argument is too shallow to de- ceive any person, In the case of street im- provements the bonds issued are assessment bonds and are paid by the property owners in interest. If the employés were not paid out of the proceeds of those bonds the expense would be included in the taxes and would fall upon the whole city instead of on the, prop- to rectify and reform in our system of instruc- education, is for each professor to give his | delightful little trips as we have suggested. A classes strong doses of fresh, inspiring ideas in | day in the fields and woods is better than a his own department of instruction, His | week at a cramped and crowded watering | proper office is to whet curiosity to a keen | place. By all means let us have visvics in | edge, to exhibit the latest ideas and newest | the summer just as we have balls and parties | problems of the prominent minds in his own | in the winter, and soon people will begin to | department of thought, to put his students on | ask themselves, not Where shall we go? but | the track of original investigation and kindle | Where shall we locate our picnicing for the | their emulation and enthusiasm to the highest | season? | pitch inan independent and self-reliant pur- Silengeuiu: tho Osaxet suit of truth, with a view to prosent the | yy, Beecher has taken up his position results to his rectifying and more experienced | }ehind a very strong barricade of silence, and | judgment. A really able professor will keep | evidently intends to stay there. He proposes | his classes ae egorone chase after truth. | to allow Mr. Tilton to write as many playful Being himself a fountain of instruction he | jotters as his leisure will admit of, but sternly | will teach his students to regard the text book | refuses to dip his quill into the inkstand to | 8a mere subordinate help, and will stimu- | yeply. If it affords pleasure to the party on | late them to the widest original investigations | the one side to stick pins into his neighbor, | for which the college library supplies fo! | the party on the other side is satisfied to play ties. His chief business should be to stimu- | the réle of an animated pincushion until the manufacture of that useful article gives out. | | late and train them to form opinions of their | We are not in- | °¥2 and to gain the capacity to elucidate and | yo sealing wax compares with the adhesive defend them. Nothing could be more difficult | quality of Mr. Beecher’s lips. The Sphinx from the flat and servile memorizing of a text | ig to the Plymouth pastor as a garrulous old book, which is the usual practice in our col- | man to one born deaf and dumb. The dread | leges—a practice which cultivates the memory | secret which has set the sewing bees of our and dwarfs the higher faculties. Even met cul- | country churches wild with excitement, and tivation of the memory it is defective, for | threatens to fill our lunatic asylums to over- nothing can be long retained which is learned | flowing with that permanently unmarried por- by rote as a task, with no other intent on the | tion of the community which means gossip part of the student than to acquit himself well in the recitation room. We believe that the system of instruction in our colleges should be radically revolu- lock and key. This febrile state of mind was greatly ex- sti ; ‘ | aggerated by the recent letter of Mr.-Tilton, tionized. The best part of it should be given | which as a piece of literature is a curiosity, in the form of lectures by able professors who | and as a statement of facts is a labyrinth an have thoroughly mastered the principles and | which the shrewdest loses his way. The only the literature of the special branch they are called to teach. The student would get on as when it prays tor daily bread, remains under | | paxt of it that is new is that which points its | and have had opportunities to compare our | | own system with the best teaching in Europe | should not be brought forward to give us | something suggestive and original at the only much faster as a learner of French does in | humble pie in the cupboard, which the | the society of Paris, where he catches the | Plymouth pastor declares can be explained | true idiom from those to whom it is mative. out of sight. There has seldom been before | period of the year when it is possible to gain Three months in Paris is worth three years’ | the public a subject concerning which there attention to such subjects, Why are not ripe, | tious drilling with a French grammar and | has been such a persistent silence on the one | able men, like Dr. Sears, former President of dictionary, and three months with a college | hand, and on the other so many hints about | Brown; Dr. Hill, former President of Har- | aes Q ae i vard; Dr. Woolsey, the late President of | ‘familiar as his garter” is worth a whole col- | just ready to emerge into the light. No cne | Yale, and others of like character, who haye | 1¢8¢ course of tame mechanical recitations. | appears to be willing to put on the cast-off | made this great subject a study, brought | This is 0 obvious that we are almost ashamed | garments of the Witch of Endor, and to call | forward to propound and enforce original | t Stpport it by authority, and we will merely | yp from its grave the skeleton whose bones | views on topics they understand, instead of | Tefer to the letter of Lord Palmerston, in Sir) have been rattling in our ears tor several | Henry Lytton Bulwer's life of him, in which | months past. Indeed, that poor corpse has attempting to give a factitious éclat to these | i 5 | oceasions by calling in busy statesmen and | he speaks of the great advantage he derived | had rather a hard time. It is neither | bony finger toward a very large piece of | professor who can untie the knots of a subject | ghosts and goblins that lurk in dark corners, | . | | lawyers, who are bette® qualified to discuss | from his attendance on the lectures at the | allowed to rest nor to come to life again. No | almost any other subject than the one which | University of Edinburgh. | sooner is it fairly under ground’ than | | is most appropriate? In great religious gath- The President's Visit to Virginia, | ¥° hear the noise of spades in the | ae Ste ee Whatever the motive of the President might sayel aks Cote a Chg a | divines; at army gatherings the most gifted | Sot | through the streets for awhile to the soldiers; at commercial conventions the most | talented men of business; and by the same | tule these college Commencements should be | chiefly signalized by addresses from the most eminent and thoughtful educators. We | have never had in this country in all our nu- | merous college Commencements any address | | which even approached in comprehensiveness, | | soundness and ability that delivered by John | | reception by the people. | well aware that this reticent man under- | ‘Tae Grant Panis Tatars.—Jndge Bradley | Stuart Mill to the University of St. Andrews | decided in the Grant parish case, in the in 1867. Dr. Porter, of Yale, would not | United States Cirenit Court, at New Orleans, | aspire to rival him, for thinkers like Mill are | against the motion for a new trial of the men | not an everyday growth; but if Dr. Porter charged with conspiracy, on the ground that | had been invited to deliver an address at some | the indictments were fatally defective. As of the late college Commencements it would | Judge Woods differed with him the two | have been worth infinitely more than all the | ‘judges agreed to certify to a difference of | ephemeral rubbish which these occasions have opinion, so that the matter might go to the | produced. An able, cultivated scholar, who Supreme Court of the United States and the | bas devoted his life to the study of kindred question be decided there. In the meantime subjects, could not fail to say something the prisoners were set at liberty on furnishing | fresh, as well as pertinent and instructive, re- | bail. This will prove a very interesting case ‘before the Supreme Court, as it tests, in a measure, the meaning or constitutionality of the law of Congress commonly known as the Ku Klux act. Stavewrer or THE Treasury CLERKS AND Orners.—The news from Washington is that about four hundred clerks and other erm- ployés in the Treasury Department, and one- half of those in the Bureau of ie ee | close contact with the fruits ot Ameri- | ney to be discharged on the Ist of July. are to receive, however, two months’ extra specting the present condition and future ca- , pabilities of our institutions of learning. | We regret that the show orations of the | present year have given the press nothing new and tangible to discuss which has any strict relation to the instruction and discipline of our colleges and so-called universities. The newspaper press is a better judge of their efficigncy than might at first view be supposed. We are the talent education. of those Many whose | can college | crack graduates, often brought into | have been in taking a summer journey through | Virginia, he has reason to be gratified at his | While we are not | disposed to twist every movement General | Grant makes into some political design we are stands how to seize opportunities without | publishing the fact to the world. In all | probability he thought it would be both pleas- | ant and healthful, after his labors during the session of Congress, to go among the moun- tains of Virginia and to revisit scenes of | earlier years. This was shown in the address | of Colonel Swan, the President’s cousin, and | in the response of the President. Still, Gen- eral Grant cannot be indifferent to the politi- | cal sentiment of this leading and most con- | servative State of the South, in view of future | political events. Looking at what occnrred in | Congress lately and the opposition of a large number of his own party to his views on im- portant measures, he may deem it prudent to {lean more upon the conservatives of the | South. It would be well, perhaps, if he were to make an extended journey throughout the | Southern States and there see for himself the | terrible effects of radical and negro rule. | The old spirit of loyalty and courtesy of the | Virginians was manifested, and we have no doubt the people of the other Southern States | would show the same. delectation of some and to the disgust of many, and then taken back and covered up again, No sooner have we said our familiar and oft-repeated goodby to it, however, than # new theory springs up and the graveyard is invaded once more. Ordinary burial is evi- dently insufficient, for no sod is heavy enough to keep the thing under cover. Nothing short of cremation will put the matter beyond the reach of resurrection. erty owners. Inthe construction account of Central Park the bonds become,a pro- tion of the public debt. The practice ,of paying out of these construction bonds a portion of the salaries of officers of the de- partment, architects, engineers, paymasters, clerks, &c.—is, as Mr. Vance says, of doubt- ful legality and vicious in practice. If such salaries are paid by taxation the people know their amount, Paid, as they are, out of the proceeds of construction bonds, they are kept asecret of the department, and no person outside knows anything about them. Mr. Green, while a Park Commissioner, drew a salary and extra allowances averaging over ten or eleven thousand dollars a year for some twelve years vut of these construction bonds, and the fact of the ‘grab’’ was unknown to | the people until quite recently. This is suffi- | cient to prove the evil of the practice Mr. | Vance has vainly endeavored to bring to a | close. The obstructive course of Mr. Green and | his Mayor renders it likely that the new budget will fail altogether. If so, the respon- sibility for the high taxation will rest on those two members of the Board of Apportionment. |The Police Commissioners Attempt to Cheat the Law. Itis proverbial among jailers that a guilty | person is seldom found in a felon’s cell. | Many of the gentlemen under temporary re- | straint admit that they may have done some- | thing “technically” at variance with the re- quirements of the law, but a large majority of them are prepared to prove to you their inno- cence in so positive and satisiactory a manner | that it isa marvel how a court and jury could | have been so ignorant, so prejudiced or so unjust as to place any restriction on their | liberty. The Police Commissioners who were | last week convicted, after a fair trial, of a | misdemeanor in violating the Election law | | they were sworn faithfully to administer, are no exception tothe rule. Having been de- clared guilty by a jury and sentenced by the Court—too leniently, as many people think— | they hasten to assure Mayor Havemeyer of | their entire innocence and of the virgin purity | of their official lives. | No conviction ever had in a court of justice | was more just than that which stripped these | Police Commissioners of their offices as 2 pen- | alty of a violated law. The Election law is designed to protect the purity of the ballot box, and is carefully framed to guard the | rights of minorities. Its main object is to | keep the inspectors of election non-partisan | by dividing the inspectors and poll clerks equally between the two great political parties | of the State. | estly and fairly done the law provides that the | appointments shall be made before the end of | September, and authorizes the demo- | | cratic members of the Police Board | to name the democrats for appointment { In order that this may be hon- | and the republican Commissioners to select | church the Rev. Dr, Stoddard delivered @ memorial sermon on the late Mme. Audubon, He spoke of this venerable lady’s piety. It was rare, he said, to see a woman of four- score years so active in errands of uscfulness and benevolence as she had been, She had benedictions upon her tongue and smiles that were a blessing to all who met her. He traced her history from her youthful days when she met the great naturalist, then young, whom she married, all through to the end of her long and useful life. He improved the opportunity to exhort his hearers to fol- low the example of this excellent woman and to make their influence felt for good wherever they might be. Dr. Deems, at the Church of the Strangers, told his hearers thatall things worked together for good to them that love God. He referred to the apparently irreconcilable doctrines of free will and predestination, and maintained that nore should despair under the grand scheme of redemption, but should strive to love God and work for salvation. Dr. Storrs discoursed on the Lord’s Sup- per at the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, and urged that it was the duty of Christians to eat the bread and drink of the cup through all ages to commemorate the Lord's death, The Rev. Father Toner preached at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea on justice, charity and Chris- tian life, taking for his text the words of Christ—‘‘Unless your justice exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Upon this he urged the necessity of practical religion. Dr. Fulton dwelt on the ‘‘Law of Forgiveness.”” In substance the discourse was the amplification of the words of Jesus to the effect that if we would be forgiven we must forgive, though his text was taken from the Psalms. Mr. Hepworth inculcated the lesson of obedience to the will of God by the example of Abraham offering up his son Isaac at the command of God. He said that this was a trial of Abraham’s faith, and was to show the patriarch and all others that people are not to be so wedded to idols, even to those of their own blood, as not to be ready to sacrifice them for the good of their souls. He said almost every human home has some) idol, something that keeps the heart bound to earth and away from God. To wean men from such was the meaning and philosophy of. Abraham’s example. Mr. Frothingham, at Lyric Hall, spoke on the ‘Keys of Human Nature,” and in doing so contended against the doctrine of inherent depravity. He held that man isa developed creature, a result of experience, a growth, and that he is working upward to a higher and better nature. In ‘these and other sermons noticed to-day there is variety enough, but little that is new or striking. What New York Has but Has Not. New York is a metropolis remarkable for | what it bas not even in what it has. It has long enjoyed the commercial supremacy of this Continent, and yet throughout the whole period it has been without wharves and piers. Its growth has been unexampled, and yet arter efforts continued through many years it is without rapid transit; business men living at the upper part of the island have no speedy means of getting from their homes to their business or from their business to their homes. The strect cars are dirty and disagreeable as well as slow, and most of them are so old that they nearly toss the passenger off his seat in trying to shake themselves to pieces. Scarcely a single street is paved throughout | with the same material. Breaks in the wooden | pavements are frequently repaired with stone. | Then New York has splendid public and pri- | vate buildings, but many of them are so badly | built that they are a constant menace to | passers by; sometimes a foundation gives way, | and now and then a house topples over. We | have plenty of high priced dwellings, but no | pleasant cottages. A ‘‘wholo house’ is a | luxury which people in ordinary circum- | stances cannot afford. The ‘French flat’? the republican. In order to guard against any } | In the meantime the people are in the posi- tion of spectators gathered about the man who | plays the dexterous game of the little joker. | The operator blandly assures us that he will | show us under which of the three cups the | secrét lies, but when he lifts the cup the secret | is not there. It is somehow always under the cup that is not lifted. Undoubtedly the skil- | ful manipulator knows just where it is, but when you pay your money and take your choice you always choose wrong. It docs no trickery or fraud by a political majority of the Board of Police Conmissioners it is posi- tively required that except on the actual day | | of registration or election no inspector, after | having qualified and been sworn in, shall be removed except for cause, and then not until Picnicing. good to threaten, and very little good to coax, | | for you can only know what he wishes to tell who does not propose to tell anything. Mr. Tilton undoubtedly knows great deal, and if he should happen to talk in his sleep he might make revelations, perhaps, which would open our eyes very wide; but he sleeps little, and always with his mouth shut. But the | subject has rested in the morbid region of innuendo until its diseased image isas ghastly in the public eye as Death on the Pale Horse, Now that the hot weather is upon us picnic- { and it becomes clearer every day that the ar ‘: ¢ baer | ing has become a pleasant means of escape, | 800ner earnest, honest steps are taken to set | pay. This is certainly liberal to the clerks if | () guncied talent for literary composition | for one day at least, from the dust and heat of | all parties in their true positions the better for | right to resign than a convict sentenced to the | | he shall have been served with a notice of the | intention to remove, setting forth the reasons | therefor, and been allowed an opportunity to | be heard. The two convicted Police Commis- sioners obeyed the law by appointing inspect- ors in accordance with its provisions, and within a few days of election removed such jas they desired to .remove without giving | them the required notice, and appointed such | | inspectors as they desired to appoint in their | places. The act was as dangerous and repre- | hensible as ballot box stuffing. If permitted to go unpunished there would be nothing to | prevent a wholesale removal of inspectors on the eve of an election and the appointment of | the tools of a corrupt Police commission to | take entire control of the ballot boxes, The Police Commissioners have no more not to the taxpayers. The civil force of the | ayes them conspicuous in college Commence- | the city. It is a custom that ought to be pro- | all. Perhaps it will then be found that, in | State Prison has to demand that his cell door be War Department is to be reduced also about | onts, apply for situations on the press, | moted and encouraged, especially for small , spite of all the smoke of scandal, there is not have a small increase. With the exception of abundred. The Department of State is to Gooming ita more creditable ficld of effort | parties of oe ee and friends. Though no , much fire of sinfulness after all. discharging some civil employés at the navy ‘yards there will be little or no_ further | change in any of the departments at présent. ‘There was, and still will be, room enough for etrenchment in the departments and bureaus crowded with employés put in to accommo- date Congressmen and leading politicians. Tae Crors 1s Muissount anD Pennsyi- vanta.—The gratifying intelligence that the crops are unusually promising in thet State. Bpringfield Patrlot estimates that there are twenty-five thousand acres [of wheat fin its county, which will turn out fifteen bushels per acre, yielding a total of three hundred and seventy-five thousand bushels, _ of which two hundred thousand bushels will be for export. This may be taken as an aver- age of the way in which our exchanges gen- erally speak, all of them declafing that there will be a larger yield of wheat in the State than was ever known before; and, what is more, the grain is plump, full and bard, showing that the quality is as satisfactory os the quautity. The growing corn is coming on finely. Equally cheering reports are made of the crops in Pennsylvania. The hay crop, now being harvested, is unusually large. Missouri papers convey the | The | | modicum of meaning which it overlays and | week or even a month of toil. For the chil- | without injury encumbers is worth communicating to the | dren such o holiday is more than idyllic pleas- ests. Mr. Green, of course, took ; the | public at all; but the point in which the con- | ure, The freedom of the country is to them | management of the opposition, but the jocu- | ductors of the press find college graduates expansion of the lungs, and the little ones | lar Mayor followed him in his votes as Jaith- fully as the shambling pantaloon in the pan- | Both old and young | tomime follows the wavings of the harlequin’s | than any other, which is open to them. The | | experience and opportubitieg of gbyeryation {which this circumstance has given us have | enabled us to discover the defective inteil: | tual training given by our colleges. They en- | gender a fatal facility in phrase making, as if words had a value except for the, conveyance of some pertinent meaning—a mistake which “Epecial objections are to be urged to the pic- | The City Budget—Retrenchment Against nics of military and other organizations, those projected by smaller parties are much prefer- able. A half-dozen families joining together for ¥ titamer day’s Mere ad the is a beautiful idea that cai | way of getting much keen enjoyment. The The story of the meeting of the Board of | Apportionment on Saturday can be very briefly | + (told. It Extravagance, wee. struggle for retrenchment | cangot be too oftch” | on the part of Messrs. Vanes and Whecler—a | put into practice. And it is, besides, a cheap | steady opposition to economy on the “part of | | Comptroller Green and the Mayor. opened and that he be allowed togo free. The convict has forfeited his liberty as the penalty [te his crime. Messrs.*Charlick and Gardner have forfeited their offices as a penalty of the | | violation of , the law they Were Bworn to obey. | The report that the Mayor contemplates the indecent outrage of their renomination is | is conspicuously seen in the insufferable word social intercourse of a family Picnic is in itself | former members of the Board proposed and | 6 convicted Commissioners would at once duced by the editor ofa newspaper if the most deficient is their inability to weigh evi- dence and draw correct conclusions. The formation of sound opinion is the chief busi- ness of every man every day of his life, and our experience has taught us to set more value on the opinion of a sharp reporter or knowing | | common is the lack of energy in getting them | tro! printer than on those of the flower of the col- lege graduates who come straight from col- lege to seek situations on the press. We have | | is not easy to supply, but the knowledge will | as been so much struck with this mental imbe- cility that we are sometimes tempted to be- lieve that even with our practical ignorance of the business of education we could give valuable suggestions to the college faculties. | thoughts is the acquisition of strength for a | come back to the town with the breezes | in their cheeks. ‘drink in health at its fountain and, best | wand. baskets | Vance had been made the rate of taxation | of all, the well filled picnic are returned empty. The only obstacle to country parties of this kind becoming very up and the want of knowledge as to the most | come with the energy. The public groves in the neighborhood of New York aro better than staying at home, but the hills and fields are better than the groves. A little foresight will | | available spots for picnicing. The energy it | was accomplished. the people’s money could be to the piibdlio If the reductions proposed by Mr. would have been about $2 80 per cent for the | As it is, the votes of the Comp- | Mer and Mayor in the negative blocked | a more magnificent delineation of the char. current year. the action of the Board, and nothing The estimate incomplete as ever, not a single item having been passed. In opposing is | iness of our extemporancous speakers. This |a vory yreat pleasure. ‘The escape, thongh | voted in favor of o number of reductions | 16 yostrained from attempting to perform an fatiguing verbosity can be pruned and re- | for only one day, from business cares and {in those departments where o ee of effected inter- | present occupy. Yesterday’s Preaching. Plymouth church was crowded, as usual, yesterday morning to hear Mr. preach. His theme was the universality of | God's government, earth, or universe, was the idea which the Hebrews taught and believed, and it comes to us from them. He said there never had beon | acter of God than is found in the writings of Moses. When God teaches men to say to Him “Our Father’ He gives them an idea that includes all creeds. Mr. Beecher any reduction of his own enormous clerical | dwelt upon God's providential government of force the Comptroller read a letter comparing the expenses of the Finance Department in the world, and said that this is seen in the | progress of the age and in the civilizing and ainiést inéredible. Such a gross defiance of | ‘The t | the law and such an insult to the city would | ae oe | teas unprofitable as it would be hazardous. | | official act, and the Mayor might soon find | himself in a similar position to that they at | Beecher | The God of ihe whole | Corn, potatoes and fruits of all kinds promise an abundant yield, and the State papers “look for one of the largest crops ever known. We have no faith in the prevailing methods Of instruction. We are comparatively indiffor- blessed influence of a religious life. At the Washington Heights Presbyterian enable picnic parties to secure delightful spots | 1871 with tho expenses this year, with the within casy distance of New Xork and readily | object of showing a decrease, It need | | system is too much after the tenement house ‘model, and the tenement houses are |‘ frightfully overcrowded, and yet in no city in the world is there so much waste | of dwelling space. Business in New York will | not tolerate domestic life ia its chosen haunts. | In consequence fully one-half of the fine build- | ings below Canal street are practically useless above the third story. Our markets are in- accessible ; our street cars are overcrowded; the leading thoroughfares are impeded with booths and stands of every kind; Broadway is yet to be ‘“telieved,’’ because there is no outlet for downtown traffic from the lower part of Church street into West Broadway and) South Fifth avenue ; and, worst of all, there arc heavy taxes to pay and no adequate re- turns either in comfort or convenience. Law is exceedingly expensive, but it is not o lux- ury, and politics is a profession to some, but a burden upon all. We have nearly every- thing a great city ought to have, but all that we possess is held under conditions that make the possession irksome, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Meta aS ae Senator Spencer, of Aiabama, has gone South. . Samuel Wilkeson proposes to summer at Pree mium Point. Mr. Beecher is said tobe reading Hawthorne's “Scarlet Letter.” Senator P, W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, 18.at the St. Nicholas Iivtel. | General Butler will soon set outon @ yachting crvatse from Cape Ann. ¥ or Arthur is about to goto Labrador to | ensnare the wary salmon, Congressman Cnaries Pelham, of Alabama, hag arrived at tbe Loffman House. Mayor Edward Samuelson, of Liverpool, ts ing at ihe New York Hotel. Congressman W. KR. Roberts will conterapiate | eternity from his seaside home, | Colonel BE. 4, Ludington, United States Army, fs | quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel, | Ex-Mayor William G, Fargo, of Buffalo, is among | the recent arrivals at Astor House, Speaker Blaine 9 ed at home yesterday and fatcended chureh and was in a beatidc mood, | ‘The ramor that Mr, Tilton will lecture on the Beecher and &, Seandals lacks confrination, Samuel 8, Fish f Ohio, formerly United States } Commissioner of Patonts, is residimg at the Ste {| Nicholas Hotel. | St. Clair McKelway, formerly religtous editor of the Brooklyn Kagie, has returned to the stam of f that newspaper, i st Curious people are anxious to know the charac ter of the presents given to Mr, Bancrott vy te German Emperor, James R, Young, exccutive clerk of the Oaited | States Senate, and wife are in town and staying | at the Sturtevant House, Fills H. Roberts, member of Congress from Utica, will resume bis rotations with civilization _ by editing uls uowspaper duriog the recess. PN)