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4 NEW YORK HERALD | yc Ponce communtoners—n. Gros BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Outrage on the People. When Mr. William M. Tweed, who now oc- cupies a cell in the penal establishment of the Department of Charities and Correction on Blackwell's Island, was first made aware that Letters and packages should be properly | the people had become satisfied of the fact pee that the Tammany ‘Ring’ had plundered the - city of some millions of dollars, he made use LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | of a remark which has passed into a proverb— HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. “Well, what are you going to do about it?’ Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | The action of Mayor Havemeyer, in his at- F tempt to restore to the position of Police Com- ered 9nd) Soewanied oes she anne missioners the two men who stand convicted as in New York. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, of a misdemeanor, ‘‘involving a violation of their oath of office,’ on one indictment of a Grand Jury, and against whom other indict- ments are now pending, recalls to mind the | bold and defiant words of the old Tammany chief. The impudent letter of the Mayor, in | MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, | Prarie Prt. “ete | pe SLVLN DWARFs, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | Which he signifies at once his indifference to | " é —— | the opinion of all the honest citizens of New | PIONS SEP OEM, | York and his contemptuous disregard of | Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—IVAN- ri 2 ree eel | the Governor’s cummunication notifying Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERN SP. M5 closes wc 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and’Miss Ione Burke. eink Gaaoan | bim of the existence of the vacan- No. 514 Broadw: SAVED ¥ROM THE WRECK; OR, | cies in the offices heretofore held by at SP. M.; closes at LU) PM. J. WOMAN'S WIL Line. var | the convicted Police Commissioners, there is WOOD'S MUSEUM, | reason to believe was concocted yesterday, | Bi orner of Thirtie et—THE SCOUTS THe PLAINS ASP. Mecleves ae tare. pier} although made to bear date June 29. It clearly POM. 10:30 P.M. Butlwo BUL indicates the disposition of the present chief CBNTRAL PARE GARDEH | magistrate of the city to imitate the example NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. defiance of your allegation that they have | Governor Kemper and the Third Term. been found guilty of a violation of their oath of office. This must create an issue at once between the Governor and the Mayor. The Governor cannot allow the Mayor to commit such an outrage and neglect to protect the Readers who keep a close watch of political literature will recollect that some twenty years ago Mr. Randall, a prominent and cul- tivated New York citizen, who had held a high office in our State government, pub- city by the exercise of the power vested in | lished a valuable life of Jefferson, in three him and by the discharge of the duty imposed upon him by the We have no idea that Mr. Mr. Charlick can dishonor the city by performing another official act in the Police Commission or in any other public office, for we presume there is self- respect and honor enough in the community to invoke the protection of the law against such | a public scandal. Besides, we believe and trust that the present Police Commissioners, Mr. Disbecker and General Duryee, will re- fuse to recognize the convicted ex-Commis- sioners or to permit them to exercise any of the functions of the offices of which the law has stripped them, and this will bring the matter to a speedy judicial decision. But the people should not depend either upon the Governor or the honest Police Com- missioners for protection in this emergency. They must move at once to protect them- selves, Mayor Havemeyer has already dis- graced and damaged the city long enough by his antics. The Governor should be called upon to remove him from the office he dis- Fif'y-nintn street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CoN. CERT, ats P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. coLe Broadway, corner ot T NIGHT, at’ 1 P.M. ; close closes at 10 P.M. uM, Atth street.—LONDOS t 5 P.M. Same at? P ROMAN HIPPODROME, of the deposed Tammany chief and to supple- ment his indecent and illegal reappointment of Messrs. Gardner and Charlick with the ques- tion, ‘What are you going to do about it?” A popular poet has told us that ‘the best graces. The immunity extended toa harm- Jess buffoon can no longer be claimed on his behalf. He. and cannot too soon be put under restraint. When he seeks to retain, at the head of the police of the city, two men who have only Madison avenue. und. Twonty.sixth street —GRAND | TAiPANT CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 3) P, M- and | doiq Schemes of miceand men gang aft aglee,” Reape ———==—= | and the fate of the intrigue to which Mr. | WITH SUPPLEMENT. | Boavemeyer has lent himself in order to save | — ————— his Polico Commission friends will no doubt | : New York, Friday, July 3, 1874. | bear evidence to the truthfulness of the asser- | Fn ene on ~ ——==== | tion. For days past Mr. Havemeyer has been | From our reports this morning the probabilities | closeted with republicans and democrats, with | | lawyers and politicians, striving to invent | some means by which the law inflicting a for- | feiture of office by Messrs. Gardner and Char- | lick could be evaded. But the result of these | deliberations does not seem calculated to sods LR AER BL SOE MNS promote the success of the object they had in | Tue Pnestpent has offered the Postmaster | yiew. Mr. Havemeyer has addressed letters | Generalship to somebody, it is believed from } to the two convicted officials, dated back New England, but the name is kept secret till | to June 29, in which he officially | his acceptance is assured. Hiale’s little trick | acknowledges the receipt of their letters was once too often for General Grant. are that the weather to-day will be clear. Waut Srezer Yesterpay.—Gold was dull at 110} to 110§. Stocks declined early in the day, but rallied and closed stronger. Govern- ments were firm. resigning the offices they did not then | | hold, and informing them that he has placed | the same on file. He publishes a letter made to bear the same date from the acting Cor- poration Counsel, Mr. George P. Andrews, | furnishing a sort of ready-made opinion as to | the eligibility of those persons to the offices from which they have ‘“resigned.’’ These | letters and this opinion, it will be observed, | Tue Dismissep Fematy Cxerks waiting in the anteroom of the Executive Mansion to se- cure the President’s influence to reinstate | them in office was the first general exhibition the ladies have yet made of the sorrows of politics. Turner Was ANOTHER ‘TRAGEDY, the result of intoxication, in Brooklyn yesterday. It is | are dated on June 29, and they cannot, tiere- | the old story of wife murder by a frenzied | fore, cover the ground subsequently occupied | husband. The frequency of these crimes is | py 4) va se if ee = oe ° 18 | by the letter of Governor Dix, dated July 1, the direct result of the feeble administration | jy which, in conformity with the requ ire- of justice by courts and juries. | ments of the Revised Statutes, he declares the | offices held by Messrs. Gardner and Charlick | A Numper or THe Puniic ScHoors gave | of a court of justice, and against whom a | | popular interest is daily deepening, appears | | Berlin ephemeris of its position, brilliancy | escaped imprisonment through the leniency number of indictments are still pending, he strikes at the very foundations of law and | order, and should be treated with but little | more consideration than our sage Common | Council extends to other rabid animals in the dog days. The Comet and Its Course. The second comet of 1874, in which the | to have defied astronomic computation till very recently. For some weeks in June it was approaching the earth in so direct a line that the calculations were very difiicult. The | and future pathway. so freely published last | month, because so confidently trusted in this country, proved to be decidedly fallacious in | some points. In the last few days the meteor has altered its course and is now more easily studied; but very precise predictions are as | yet premature. It now appears that its great- | est brilliancy will occur from July 31 to the 3d of August, and the degree of luminosity will be between that of Jupiter and that of Venus, The nucleus will be then seen to the best ad- vantage about twilight, the comet being so near | the sun that it will not be so well observed two or three hours after the latter sinks be- | hind the western horizon. The brightness of 4 the meteor stream will then be three times as | charter. | Gardner or | either | is mischievous in his folly | | bulky octavo volumes, in the preparation of which he enjoyed the confidence of the sur- viving members of Mr. Jefferson’s family, who gave him free access to the private papers of that statesman and assisted him with ali the family recollections, Mr. Randall sent a copy of his work to Lord Macaulay, the brilliant historian of England, who acknowledged the courtesy in a very striking letter, published in the newspapers of the time, in which Macaulay gave a free expression of his opinion as to the per- manence of the democratic institutions of which Jefferson was the most illustrious advocate. Macaulay conceded that our insti- tutions were well adapted to an early stage of our history, but he boldly predicted that they could not last. He thought that ¥ -n our population should become dense, when o large portion of it should be gathered in great cities, with a vicious, dan- gerous and controlling class in possession of universal suffrage, the force of events would compel us to modify our political system. That remarkable letter, written several years before our great civil war, made no impres- sion on the public mind of the country at the time. It was said in reply that the majority of our voting citizens were and would always remain agricultural, and would always over- balance the dangerous democracy of the great cities. But the war has brought ina new element of danger. The enfranchise- ment of four millions of ignorant negroes has extended the perils of universal suffrage to the rural population, The rapid develop- ment of consequences in the Southern States brings home to the American people, as noth- ing else could have done, a deep sense of the great political truth that republican institu- tions are only adapted to an intelligent, vir- tuous population. Nothing could be worse than democratic government in a Siate like South Carolina. The people of many parts of the South would welcome enlightened im- perialism as a relief from the evils of universal suffrage, where the majority which controls the government is an uneducated community, just let loose from generations of slavery. Nothing could be so calculated to disgust the intelligent part of any community with the principle of universal suffrage as the kind of rule which has prevailed in the South since the success of the reconstruction measures. The white element in the Southern States, comprising one-third of our population, would welcome a centralized imperialism as a protec- tion against the evils of ignorant and reckless suffrage. The most signal vindication of the sagacity which had o prompt perception of this tendency is found in the manifesto of Governor Kemper, of Virginia, printed in the receptions yesterday, as will be seen by our columns this morning. These affairs are very pleasant and well enough in their way, but some system of examinations ought to be adopted that would show whether the teachers are skilful and the pupils really proficient. Tue Brooxtyn Appvctioy.—It turns out | that the boy, Freddy English, who was the principal witness against the Brooklyn liquor dealers, and, as it was believed, “‘abducted’’ | iu their interest, was sent away by his father. It is not easy to determine which was the worst, the use to which the boy was put by the temperance ladies or by his father. Ficutmne Journavists.—Paui de Cassagmac | and his fiery companions of the Pays have been acquitted on the charge of inciting to hatred. Puul has been very lucky this time, but he must thank the leniency of the Court rather than his own good conduct for this escape. Had merit its reward this imperial gladiator would certainly be placed under restraint. Tae Caguist Wan.—The republican army before Estella has not been so badly whipped as was reported. It is closing in on the Carlists again, and once more we have reports of what Serrano’s generals are about to accom- plish. Hitherto they have shown themselves excellent promisers, but poor performers—ex- cept that they retreat gracefully. Tur Boox Travz is opposed to reciprocity with Canada. The absence of an interna- | a misdemeanor.’’ to have been yacated by the verdict of the jury | which pronounced them guilty of a misde- | meanor involving a violation of their oath of , office. All we have to say of this opinion of | Mr. Andrews is, that we are glad that the Cor- | poration Counsel does not stand responsible | for it. Our assistant legal luminary states | that the indictment against the Commis- | sioners was found under that section of | the Revised Statutes which says that ‘when the performance of any act is prohibited by statute, and no penalty for the violation of such statute is imposed either in the same section containing such a prohibition or in any other section or statute, the doing of such act shall be deemed Under these circumstances, argues the Assistant Counsel to the Corpora- tion, the misdemeanor committed by the Board of Police is not such a misdemeanor as will work a forfeiture of office. He, there- fore, advises Mr. Havemeyer that there is no | provision of law which renders Mr. Gardner | or Mr. Charlick ineligible to reappointment | as Police Commissioners, and that the Mayor | | has, in his discretion, the power and lawful | right to make such reappointment. We would | like Mr. Andrews to inform us how the con- victed Commissioners could have been guilty of violating the Election law ot 1872, which they were sworn to faithfully carry out, with- | out having violated their oath of office, and | how a city official, convicted of a misde- | meanor for having unlawfully done an | act prohibited by a law he Was | tional copyright between the United States and Great Britain ought to satisfy these peo- ple without an effort on their part to exclude’) a few Canadian publications. But the special interests will never be satisfied unless the American people are compelled to pay the highest price tor whatever they buy. Decursmc Inrorrant Orrices,—Not only does the Cabinet position of Postmaster Gen- | eral go begging, to use a colloquial expression, but there is some difficulty in finding a man for the vacant place on the District of Colum- bia Commission. The President is now com- pelled to feel his way before making anovher appointment to the Postmaster Generalship, just declined by Mr. Hale, and the last nomi- nee reported for the Distfict Commission, General Ketcham, of New York, appears to hesitate. Are the rats afraid of a falling structure? or have these positions become either so arduous or unpopular that poli- ticians are afraid to take them? It is cer- tainly a novel and peculiar state of things. EstmmaTEs AND Cost.—The estimated | cost, originally, of the Brooklyn bridge was $5,000,000. Based on this, the sub- scriptions were $2,500,000 by the city of | Brooklyn, $1,500,000 by the city of New York and $1,000,000 by individuals. It is said now the cost will be $15,000,000, three times the first estimated sum, and some think it will cost $20,000,000. Without referring to the Court House in this city, which was no- toriously an infamous job of plunder, there is hardly any public structure of magnitude put ap, either in the metropolis or throughout the, country, that is not underestimated very much at first. Why is it so? Either there | isan intention to deceive or gross ignorance on the part of architects. A private indi- vidual takes care to know within a reasonable amount what any building may cost that he erects; and why should it not be so with gov- ernments, localor national? Architects that cannot tell or approximate the cost of govern- ment buildings are incompetent and not fit to be employed; and those who wilfully mislead | are simply rascals and should not be trusted. | | when it declares that a public office shall be- | inal removal from office only and be eligible sworn to obey, can be held to be inno- | cent of any offence against the charter? We | would also like Mr. Andrews to explain the meaning of the penalty imposed by the law come vacant on the conviction of an incum- | bent of any offence involving a violation of | his oath of office. Can the interpretation be that the offending official shall undergo a nom- to reappointment in the next moment? Is it not reasonable to suppose that the statute is designed to banish altogether an unfaithful public servant and to protect the community against a repetition of his illegal practices? Leaving the opinion of the Assistant Corpor- ation Counsel to be forgotten among the many similar doguments drawn to the order of acontrolling power by men who are ready to interpret the law in accordance with the in- structions of their superiors, we find that the pretended “reappointments’’ of the con- victed Commissioners by the Mayor bear | date July 2, the day after Mr. Havemeyer | received from Governor Dix the official | notification of the existence of the vacancies | created by the conviction of Messrs. Gardner and Charlick. We thus see that the Mayor | offers a gratuitous insult to the Governor— | first, by accepting the resignations tendered | by the indicted officials, and next, by an- | nonncing their reappointment, without any allusion or reference to the Governor's com- | munication. The vacancies cxist, says the | | Mayor, not in accordance with the law, as al- | leged by the Governor, but in consequence of | the resignations, and are filled as any ordi- nafy vacancies are filled. Governor Dix, it | will be observed, notifies the Mayor that the Commisstoners have forfeited their offices by reason of conviction for a misderneanor, involving a violation of their oath of office. Mr. Havemeyer says in substance to the Gov- ernor, I disregard and ignore your official act; I regard the positions recently held by Messrs, Charlick and Gardner wacant only by | reason of their resiggitions, which [J | have officially aceepted and placed on file, and I reavpoiat them in great as it is now. On Tuesday, the 9th of June, metrical comparisons with a star in the Bonn catalogue, the distinguished astronomer, J. R. Hind, of Mr. Bishop’s observatory, Twick- enham, England, found that Coggia’s comet was then rather brighter than Argelander’s stars of the sixth magnitude, and the tail was traceable about two degrees from the nucleus, which still presented a very stellar appearance, Mr. Hind also determined that its perihelion passage would take place on the 8th of July, when its distance from the sun would be sixty-seven minutes of the carth’s mean dis- tance—i. e., about sixty-one million miles. This seems to be very near the central orb of fire; but there are instances of much nearer approach, as in the comet of 1680, which swept within six hundred thousand miles of the sun. It did not, however, merge into the sun, as comets have never been known to do, contrary to a vague theory that has been largely entertained, as if the nebu- lous matter was fuel for its mighty furnaces. So far from this rash venturer upon the sun’s domains effecting a lodgement on his in- candescent and tumultuous surface, it was subjected to an enormous repulsion, and from the point of perihelion was shot out into space with an inconceivable force, far greater than that with which the solar heat acted upon and controlled the head of the comet itself. The amount of this force may be faintly indicated when we reflect that the cometary matter was then glowing with a heat twenty-five thousand six hundred times as intense as that which rages at noonday on our Equator—a heat in which any ter- restrial substance known to us would in- stantly be converted into vapor. The condition of a comet, after it has passed the perihelion, must be very different from what it was betore; but that difference is yet to be ascertained, except in the mere fact that from disunion by action of heat the meteor has undergone great attenuation and analysis. The comet of 1680, to which we have alluded, and that of 1843, after their immersion in the sun’s rays emerged from them in augmented splendor and with vastly enlarged tails, as if they had caught up new supplies of light and fire from the great lumin- ary. It would not be, therefore, a great surprise if Coggia’s comet should do the same, though instances are recorded in which im- mersion in the solar rays has stripped the flying meteor of much of its glory. ‘The idea has been expressed that the present comet will intersect the earth's orbit and come in col- lision with us. The opinion prevailed with Sir John Herschel and others that if ever the earth swallowed up a comet it would be on the 30th of November, when Biela’s comet approached very near. But there is great doubt whether, in the event of actual collision, any harm would ensue or even any one be cogni- vant of it. The comet is o material sub- stance, since it has been proved that it shines by reflected light; but its tenuousness is almost inconceivable. The cometic particles fori a cosmical tog or vapor so hyht that, through Donati’s comet, where the tail was ninety thousand miles thick, the stars clearly shone, Arcturus was in no degree eclipsed, agit beamed directly through this enormous band of mist. We may, therefore, safely dis- miss the long standing superstition of — A pathless comet and a curse ‘The menace oi the universe, As we have already intimated, the orbit of Coggia’s comet has not been precisely deter- | mined. A few days may suffice to reveal its exact pathway as it nears the oarth. from micro- | Richmond journals of yesterday. This pop- ular conservative Governor had been accused | cates, as all American citizens deprecate, a third election of President Grant, and he recon- ciles himself to it only as achoice of evils, He says:—t*‘One of the cruelest calamities which could befall all classes and colors at the South would be the social intermixing of the races to result from the enforcement of the Civil Rights fanaticism and barbarism, and it is hard to conceive what greater evil than that could be involved in any possible revolution of the government. If the future should bring forward a candidate impersonating the from old party trammels and take his stand | on our safe conservative ground of universal reconciliation and peace under the constitu- tion; and if, so standing, he should be op- posed by any champion of the Civil Rights iniquity, then, in a contest between the two, the conservative party ought, in my opinion, to go decidedly for the third-termer.”’ Gov- ernor Kemper has a clear perception of the interest of the South in this question. Be- tween negro rule and imperial rule, he has no doubt that imperialism would supremacy. This hits precisely our original fear that a necessary consequence of un- checked ‘‘carpet-bag’’ rule in the South would be a willingness to accept imperialism as a less insufferable alternative. We know not how skilfully President Grant may play his cards, but we have never underestimated his political sagacity. He doubtless sees that the Southern people would be glad to take refuge in imperialism against such government as the recon- struction measures have given them; and it is now evident from Governor Kemper’s mani- festo that the South will favor a third election of General Grant if it can be satisfied that he will stem the disastrous negro ascendancy in that section. The Virginia Governor con- siders imperialism as bad in itself. There are many people North and South who will agree with him that it is preferable to the kind of government which exists in South Carolina. Negro suffrage being ac- cepted by both parties as an irreversible fact, the great problem of our future politics is how to check its mischievous tendencies, and the establishment of imperialism will be regarded by many as the easiest solution. We are not of that opinion; but that is no reason why we should misinterpret the tendency of times. Our free institutions are approaching their most critical trial, and while the Hxranp recognizes the powerful tendencies which endanger their permanence, it will make a resolute fight for their preservation aud perpe- tuity. Tux Norman Couixcr held its fifth annual Commencement yesterday. The institution seems to be doing excellent work in preparing young ladies for the vocation of teaching ; but as marriage is the ultimate object of every woman's ambition, the classes must be kept fully up to the standard every year. One thing, however, must prove exceedingly an- neying to the steruer sex; for the man who marrics one of the graduates of the college is likely to find bis wife bet®r educated than he is himself. the colloge, but if it becomes generally known it may have the result of depressing the wite market. and define his position. The Governor depre- | third-term principle; if he should cut loose | be better for that great section than negro | the | This is very complimentary to | Rabies or Fright? Hydrophobia assumes some queer aspects. McCormick died of hydrophobia, and it is, we believe, admitted this disease was the cause of Butler’s death; yet an uncommon number of the authorities seem to agree that the printer, Entwistle, died not from hydro- phobia, but from sheer fright at the thought that he had it Entwistle, however, was very severely bitten by a dog, as has been shown. Perhaps this dog was not mad. But Drs. Hammond, Hamilton and Cross are evidently serious in their notion that, though McCor- mick died of hydrophobia, the dog which bit him was not mad and had never beon mad, and is now alive and well. By this theory, therefore, it needs only that a man should be bitten, not that the dog should bo |. mad, in order to communicate this disease. Yet Entwistle was bitten, and equally stanch authorities assure us that he was not mad, but only frightened to death. How do the doc- tors reach conclusions so absurdly incon- sistent? All this contradiction is, of course, simply the consequence of the general igno- rance of this malady in the medical profession. There are but very few facts in the history of this disease upon which medical men, seeing differont cases, can agree as common to all. Undoubtedly the main ono of these is the horror of water; yet ‘there are plenty of doo- tors who argue that there is no horror of water in the whole course of the malady, and immediately put the case down as one of de- lusion when people begin to describe this as a symptom. If they aro so little able to agree upon that point their agreement upon others is very little to be depended upon; and whether a man is reputed to have died of hydrophobia or of fright is likely to turn only upon what hands he fell into for treatment. They’ who believe in hydrophobia can see it everywhere, and they who do not cannot see itatall. If Entwistle had fallen into the hands of those who practised on McCormick we should have heard of his death from hydrophobia; and if McCormick had been in the hands of En- | twistle’s doctors he would have been reported as frightened to death by a name. One good fact in the present excitement is | that it will direct scientific attention more closely to this disease, not merely here, but everywhere; and out of this some valuable results may come. Hydrophobic lesions are already in some degree localized. Difficult | deglutition and spasmodic action of the laryn- | geal and pharyngeal muscles are definitely | recognized as obvious facts of the morbid | phenomena, and the steps in the causation of these phenomena will certainly not be forever hidden, and, with the present methods of ob- | servation, may be discovered at an early day. | Dr. Hammond, of this city, and a precursor , in England have already observed some | structural changes of nerve substance near | the points of origin of the spinal accessory | nerve and other nerves that supply the parts | more or less immediately involved. Up to | this time we see no special reasons for regard- | | ing these observations as great triumphs of | modern science. They may be the causes | or the results of the striking symp- |of favoring a third cloction of Pres-| toms that are grouped under the | |ident Grant, and he has felt con-| mame of this disordor. If results they | strained to come before the public |,69" have no special value; but if they are causes they at most indicate the direction of | further inquiry. Why should the failure of irritation in certain nerves, which should re- duce the effective power of these nerves, coin- cide with phenomena which are exhibitions of excessive force? Irregular actions, actions of apparently exaggerated force, are no doubt | often due to a deranged and reduced condi- tion of the nervous system, and it may be so here. It is just possible that in cases of this nature the energetic action is due to the fact that a group of nerves ordinarily under con- | trol is set free, the controlling nerve or nerves being crippled by the disease. If this could | fairly be conjectured as a likely occurrence in tion for the section of the offending nerves as ) galvanic current over the weakened nerves might complete the operation of the poison by exhausting their vitality. For investiga- for the vivisectors. Utilizing the School Vacation. For the next nine weeks the children will should be strengthened with abundant air and exercise. To the children of the rich these things will come as part of the routine of life. None of these are apt to waste the not get away, even fora day, from their sti- fling tenements. Unaided it is not possiblo for them in any way to utilize the vacation, and yet it is important that they should have op- portunities of renewing and strengthening | their physical health as well as their wealthy neighbors. The necessary aid to enable them to do this must come from the public. Judi- ciously managed, everything necessary to their recreation can be afforded them at a trifling expense. A few dollars will give an excur- sion and a day’s enjoyment to five hundred or one thousand children and their pining mothers, and bring them back to the city happy with the fun and tired out with the exertion. This was abundantly proved by the experiments of last year. If some of our wealthy people, who every summer expend large sums of money for their own recreation and that of their families at the fashionable resorts, will give a small amount toward pro- viding free excursions for the poor of this | city they will do great good, and as truly | serve humanity as when they feed and shelter the unemployed during the rigors of winter. A committee, consisting of a number of well | known gentlemen, men of approved probity and standing, has been formed to take charge of the fands contributed to this worthy ob- | ject. Thejr care will insure the greatest pos- sible good to the class which it is intended to benefit. Every child in the overcrowded homes of the poor should be afforded at least one day's enjoyment of pure air and | innocent recreation each week. To do | this, as we have already said, would | not require a great outlay, expecially when | compared with our constant municipal con- tribution for the prevention of crime and the | support of the unfortunates who become al hydrophobia it would indicate a surgical opera- | the remedy most likely to be effective, for the | | tion in this line there is a fine opportunity | be released from the confined atmosphere of | the schoolroom. In the vacation it is impor- | | tant not only that their minds should be | | relieved from study, but that their bodies | summer in our hot streets and close dwellings | when the invigorating breezes of the moun- | tain and the seaside invite them to relief and | enjoyment. But the children of the poor can- | A public burden. Hardly could thero be de- vised an investment which will bring better returns than the summer day’s steamboat ex- eursion or the pienic in some proper grove, where the children of the city poor may fora few hours enjoy fresh air and healthful exer- cise. Suchexcursions, if made common and general, so as to include the great bulk of the public school pupils, would be an admirable means of imparting instruction which is not to be found in the text books; and at the re- sumption of the class exercises nex! Septem- ber the teachers would find their pupils in renewed vigor of body and with minds en- larged and strengthened by the summer vaca- tion and the summer excursions. The Gill Murder Trial—A Ourfous Case. After the jury failed to agree on a verdict in the case of Mark Gill for the murder of Sullivan, ten being finally for conviction of murder in the first degree and two for murder in the second degree, and were consequently discharged, the prisoner’s counsel, with the consent of the prosecution, withdrew the plea of not guilty and the prisoner pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree. This did not prevent Recorder Hackett sentencing Gill to the fall penalty of the law, which is im- prisonment for life. The Recorder said he did not think that acase had ever been pre- sented to the consideration of a jury that waa marked with features of greater deliberation and premeditation to commit murder in the first degree, and added that he could not but believe that the humanitarian feeling which pervades this State had influenced the Legisla- ture to construct such a law regarding homi- cide as, to use a slang term, to make murder in the first degree, which involves the penalty of death, ‘played out.” Ho said, moreover, that he could not conceive there ever will ba a conviction for murder in the first, degree in this State. We have said the same thing on other occasions. But if there can be no con- viction for murder in the first degree, and hanging is “‘played out,’’ would it not be bet- ter to make the laws say so than leave an ap- parent fraud upon the statute book ? A Model Guardian of the Peace. Policeman Shaw was placed upon trial on the charge of robbing a drunken man in the street of two thousand dollars, and the evi- dence against him was sufficient to have him held to bail for trial. Another shining light of the force named Osborn was placed upon the stand, and, in reply to certain questions asked him, said: — “Shaw told me there was some drunken man on his post accused him of stealing two thousand dollars irom him. 1 said if any man would say that to me 1 would first stave his head and then | lock bim up.’ Couusel—Would you do that? OMcer Osborn (closing his teeth firmly to- gether) —Yes, sir, and quick, too, Counsel—You mean to gay that yon woald batter his brains out and carry the balance o/ his frame to the station house? Officer Osboru—Yes, I would. ‘The presence of such a brute on the force ia an insult to the city and a cause of shame to deserving policemen. Such an interpretation of the duties of a guardian of the peace must tend to inspire disgust for the authority that countenances it. It is but the natural rosult of the theory advanced on a previous occasion of having none but brutes on the force, We commend Officer Osborn tothe Commissioners as one eminently fitted for dismissal, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Badeau has gone to Carlsbad. Cause, medical advice. Milan has been ruined by a bombardment with hailstones. Now Paris theatrical companies tal Right to London. They also made “the Council of Ministers” a “council of monsters.” Colonel John W. Barlow, United States Army, is Qt the Filth Avenue Hotel. Sefior Gonzalez, Chilian Minister at Washington, is residing at the Clarendon Hotel, General George A. Custar, United States Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Rodney W. Daniels, Collector of the Port of Buf- falo, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The “corresponding stars’! of the Little Dipper | are relied upon to teil people where the comet 1s, Senator Svephen W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, arrived from Washington yesterday at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Judge Theodore Miller, of the New York Suprome Court for the Third Judicial district, is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Parton’s falsehoods are not published in the daily press. The most outrageous of tuem appear | in the magazines, Some Deputies of the Extreme Right le(t Paris June 18 for Frohsdorf to try and bring Henry Y. to | the Chateau de Chambord. What must that city government be by compart- } son with which Tweed’s government appears effac- tive, decent and economical ? Sir Frederick Pollock is dead. He succeeded to the baronetcy only two years ago, upon the death of old Sir George, the Field Marshal, Varchetta and La Massa, two Italians, whe robbed Mounnien and Schroeder near Naples, have got their little eleven years each at hard labor. General Ketcham lest this city jor Washington last evening, and he will, it is sald, accept the office of Commissioner of the District of Columbia, Now Parton “knows how it is himself.” He told Q story a8 it was told to him, without investiga- tion, and has given currency toa whole series of untruths, Rochefort arrived at Dublin nearly frightened to death. Hundreds of fellows at Queenstown who did not know the French language had been taught to shout, ‘4 bas Rochefort!" The city of Saint Gall, in Switzerland, still owns banners captured by its soldiers in 1476 and 1477 at the battles of Nancy and Grandson, and it 1s dis- cussing the necessity of repairing them, The Duke of Nemours went to Bordeaux with the Count and Countess d’Eu to see them off for Brazit June 5. They make the voyage in order that an heir may be born according to the Brazilian laws, Joshua Smith, whom the French papers call Josuath Smith, won 300,000f. on the Longchampa races and died suddenly before leaving town to return to London. Paris Journalists look upon thia as discouraging. Somebody in the crowd at Queenstown asked an Irishman why he shouted “Down with Rochefort!" Pat said it was “because he had. killed the Arch- bishop.” “What Archbishop?” “Sure I don't know, but [ suppose it was Cardinal Cullen!” Morton McMichael, the veteran editor of the & short | Philadelphia North American, sailed tor Europe yesterday on the steamship Pennsylvania, He was accompanied down the river by a large num- ber of friends on the revenue cutter Hamilton, Massenet de Marancomt, ex-Communist, con- demned to transportation, escaped from Paris and France dressed as @ commandant of gendarmes. He inspected every post of the gendarmerie be- tween Paris and the frontier on the line of the Eastern Railway, Suppose the owners of dogs snould be made labie in damages by direct legisiation to the jam- les of persons whose death can be fairly attributed to injaries received from the animals, and tua every person keeping a dog in a populous city be required to give secarity for his ability to meet such a cal, Wonld not this dispose of our hua- dred thonsand curs withont anv umoroner trospass on popular rights t a