The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1874, Page 6

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Tae Nira “Minx be boat race, between George Brown, of Halifax, and William Scharff, of Pittsburg, for the championship, was rowed yesterday on the Connecticut River and was won by Brown. It was a fine race. Tux Pmst Summer Excursion this year of | Hebrew children, inmates of the Hebrew char- itable institutions and others, takes place to-day to Staten Island. These excursions were very successful last summer and are ad- | mirably conducted. Tax New Enterprise of the Heraup in sending a special train, which leaves here | every Sunday morning with our Sunday’s edi- tion, is highly commended in the towns and villages on the route. By the means of this train the Henaxp is circulated all along the Hudson and up the conniny ae as far as Saratoga. Brown Over. —Further advices in the shape of an official despatch from Paris deny, ‘on the highest authority,” that the French For- eign Office has either directly or indirectly received any communication from Berlin re- specting the construction of fortresses to pro- tect the eastern frontier. So this cloud blows over. Tue Boarp or ALDERMEN, speaking for the people of New York, without respect to party, have united their voices with those that are appealing to Governor Dix for the removal of Mayor Havemeyer, and for his suspension pending the examination of the charges bronght against him. Their appeal cannot City Government—“Reform” All Its Glory. “Here we are again, Mr. Merryman!"’ Once more the city is thoroughly reformed; once more we have ample opportunity to con- template the beneficent result in politics of that kind of spasmodic virtue which, in the name of reform—in the name of an improved and purified government—expels from office one set of political tricksters to give their places to another set who differ from the first only as the fresh flies in the fable differed from the satiated flies—that is, by having a hungrier maw and a fiercer appotite. Ordi- narily reform turns out in this way. It dis- The in government, and in this way we have been | driven from pillar to post for many years; but our last reform was the worst of all, and we | | places one bad government by another bad | their activity, and there can be as little doubt that the expulsion from office of the function- aries incriminated in the present difficulties is as much to the advantage of the city as was the expulsion of the Tammany men themselves. It seems to us that the expulsion not merely of the two Commissioners ousted by the Court, but of the two that remain, and of the two strange characters that the Mayor has named for new positions, as well as the removal of the Mayor himself, is as imperatively required by a simple regard to the sense of common decency and propriety as the expulsion of the Tam- many men was required by common honesty. Particularly the Mayor now looms as an out- tage and an offence, a disgrace and a scandal. | Indeed, the public mind would scarcely be | | satisfied with his expulsion from office if it were not coupled in some way with circum- were never so badly off as now. Practically, | | stances of ignominy that should stamp upon | our government has come to a standstil. We | | are without a Mayor; for the strange old gen- | tleman who figures in that office by acts and words of drivelling fatuity has demonstrated not merely his personal unfitness for an impor- 190 3 tant place, but that he mast be intellectually a | Dullity in any combination, Our police ser- | Viee is paralyzed also, and in any emergency the disorganization at headquarters would tell Jamentably against the efficiency of the force. Here we are within three days of the 12th of | July—one of the regular riot days—and the Police Board is in such a condition that it | cantake no action whatever on even trivial | Subjects, Two Commissioners are out of | office by sentence of a court because they have perverted the fuuctions of their office to party | intrigue, and two others are at best mere men of straw. Suppose the Protestant Irish should determine to parade, and the Catholic | Irish determine, as they have done before, that there shall be no freedom in this city but such as is agreeable to them, in what con- | dition would the authorities be to assert the | supremacy of the laws, with the police crippled | by a disorganized commission and the Mayor a mere spectacle of incapacity? And this is reform ! Zeal in the public service was the pretence put forth in the campaign which gave our | now before the public it can readily be seen | how impudent a pretence it was that the men at present in office were any honester than the Tammany pluaderers ; yot, strange as it may appear, the present extravagant, corrupt and even imbecile administration of the depart- stulled in the name of economy and honesty and amid frantic shrieks of laudation from its hangers-on and organs, Many virtuous old gentlemen in these latitudes were carried away by this noise. Disgusted and horrified | by the outrageous robberies of Tammany, in which there seemed to be no sense of shame and no concealment, they lent their names and the respectability of their characters and positions to cover the game of a clique of political intriguers, and so made that game appear for a timelike a genuine up- rising of the people in the name of honesty. | Yet all that began in a quarrel among the original sharpers. One of the number failed to get the money for some claim he had against the city, and as he could not obtain his money he exposed the practices that had never seemed to him particularly odious until his demands on the public treasury wero met with refusal. It was for the public guod that those exposures | were made, and the indignation then excited at corruption in office was righteous and just, and might have been of the greatest use in purifying public life and making possible an honest administration of the city government. But the persons most conspicuously noisy in the name of virtue on thatuccasion had no inten- tion that they should operate in that way. Honesty in public office was not likely to be more profitable to them than it had been to the Tammany men themselves, and while they vociferously shouted that what the public ser- vice wanted was honest mon, they adroitly in- dicated that the only honest men in the com- munity were some particular friends of theirs, power as profitable to themselves as the Tam- | many men had made it to all their ad- herents. In that way a movement that if carried to its legitimate result might have been » revolution fail to have great weight with the Governor. ‘Tae Stony of THE Munper of the poor | Dwyer children by their insane mother, as | told at the inquest yesterday, is heartrending | in the extreme. It appears that the poor woman's insanity was known, and that she | had been under restraint ten years ago. The tragedy reads another lesson on the criminal folly of leaving the insane at large, especially | among dae a children. Tae Narwan Mi Muspen, which has been for so | many years enveloped in mystery, is brought before the public eye again by the alleged dix- | covery of a blood-stained nightshirt in a dumb waiter which has stood motionless since | the night of the tragedy. If the story is true it may afford another nine days’ wonder tor the | gossips, but is scarcely likely to afford any new clew to the mysterious and terrible crime. Oun Newport Lerren reads refreshingly in these days of the nineties, among hot bricks and dusty streets, and smells of the sea. We may almost fancy that we feel the fresh, rape! breeze from the ocean and hear the dash of the breakers bencath the cliff. Posen always delightful, takes on new beauties year after year and establishes its character more and more securely as the leading watering place of the United States. ANOTHER “Misvonrvs xe.—It is well known that our silent President has long since aban- | doned the reading of ali newspapers except | his Washingion organ, the Record, and | Harper's Weelcly. editorials of the latter journal became so critical in character that he confined hismself | to the cartoons—those grotesque and aston. ishing compositions in which Mr. Nast repre- sented the President in all manner of hervic, humane and virtnons shapes, as the embodi- ment of all valor, genius and virtue. Nast was the last of the courtiers; but now a new plow bas fallen upon the President, for here is even Nast caricaturing the sacred Grant in ou attitude of humanity and sorrew, with angry Columbia standing over him, having thrown at his feet the nomination of Boss | Shepherd. The President must, indeed, feel jonoly at this last desertica, Recently the tone of the | in favor of honesty in office and might have erations—an efficient and pure city govern- ment—was defeated by the persons who were | permitted by a common pubhe consent | to assume control of it. They defeated it because it had accomplished all they wished it to accomplish when it had driven Tammany | from the field, and they turned it aside from its further proper purpose in order that it might put their creatures in the places from which Tammany was driven—not to improve the administration of the offices, but to put the plunder in different pockets. How effect- ively these men have outdone the work of Tammany the city accounts will show; but though they have actually improved upon the frightful example of the expelled power, they have certainly helped themselves more adroitly | and have more successfully kept the thin | | pretexts of the law in their favor, and this | result might have been anticipated from the | fact that they had before them as a warning | | the fate of Tammany, which fell through its | coarse disregard of even the Sppearance and | | pretence of honesty, In the expulsion of these men, these blatant | pretenders to probity, we have in some de- | | gree a repetition of the event which led to their induction, ond certainly, in one quarter, a repetition of the pretence of zeal for the | public welfare used as a cover for partisan and personal motives. For the purpose that inspires Mr. John Kelly and his adherents in their part of the present case we have as little | that inspired hostility to Tammany on the part of Mr. O'Brien and the other O's and Macs that were with him. He sees in the | places lately occupied by Messrs. Charsick and Gardner and Matsell, and in the place that is still nominally occupied by Mr. Havemeyer, merely so many offices that might be held with profit by bis retainers, and whose func- tions those retainers might abose on critical cussions in the interest of his party. the public welfare, it seems to be a motive far removed from the thought of any politician | except a8 he may fiad it a convenient pretext. | really Pope. | But although partisans have their own mo- tives it is tor the poopie a endaavar to utilize “reformers” office, and hunger for power and |’ = | patronage was the real motive ; it is the same | | Way now against them. With the knowledge | ments of the municipal government was in- | through whom they hoped to make political | | given us what we have not had for two gen- | respect as we had formerly for the motives | As for | | his enforced retirement the public reprobation of his acts, His juggle in the appointment of Charlick and Gardner to the places from which they | had been respectively removed was a defiance to justice and o deliberate insult to the Court | that tried them and to the public, which still believes that a judgment rendered upon fuir from public indignation by the poverty of thought it implies or by the- meanness of the spirit of subterfuge it indicates, Had Mayor Havemeyer even boldly faced the ver- dict and pretended to ignore or dispute its effect and declared that he regarded the men as still in office, the little civic courage | thereby shown would have qualified the con- tempt that his whole relation to this difficulty has merited; but the subterfuge that admitted the case to be against him and tried at the same time to evade the consequences by a pitifully little ruse puts him below any man’s respect, and even leaves no room for surprise and wonder at the appointment of Matsell as a commissioner of police. The Great Race at Saratoga. Whoever is familiar with the management of any of the intercollegiate races of - past years, as he recalls the crude way of doing things then—the getting boats off in the woods, carrying them a long distance to the water, the rickety sheds they were placed in and the many inconveniences the crews had to put up with—cannot fail to be struck with the thorough work being made of it this year by the Saratoga Rowing Association. On ar- riving at Saratoga each crow is waited on by the Reception Committee, which sees that the parties are taken directly to their quarters. Meanwhile a transportation committee has seized upon the boat, oars and baggage and | has carried each to its destination. At the lake another committee is on the lookout seeing that everything is done promptly which occasion demands. A special committee also is appointed to look after each college and its representatives, while the invited guests, the police, the grand stand, the college ball, the base ball men, the foot racers and the glee club men are each separately provided for. In the amateur regatta last fall many of these committees had especial training and experience, and it was well known at the time that they did their work uncommonly well. Everything this year points even to an im- provement on them. The road all the way to the lake is to be watered—an excellent idea. Extortionate drivers have been bound down to reasonable charges ; ten boat houses, with @ floating dock in front of each, and all neces- sary conveniences have been erected for the accommodation of the boats; the course has been surveyed and buoyed; a grand stand erected with room for six thousand people ; the police force ia to be much strengthened ; a strong guard will watch each boat house on the night of the 15th; the board of the crews has been kept down to a moderate price; free «access to the entire shore of the lake has been obtained by the association, and almost everything else that wise forethought could suggest and lib- eral giving of time and money could effect has been done. In the matter of comfortable and good hotel accommodations Saratoga could already vie with any place of its size in the land, but the vigorous and energetio ac- tion of the gentlemen having this affair in charge, the beautiful sheet of water and the | central position of the place itself, will all | combine to make this race, if no evil befalls it, a very delightful event and will go far to- wards making Saratoga Lake the American Putney to Mortlake. Great power has been placed by the students themselves in their | representatives, Messrs, Appleton, Ferry and | Thomas, Let them see to it, above all things, that precisely at four o'clock on Thursday of | next week the nine crews are ont at the starting line, all ready for the word, and not | allowed to drag disgracefully slong nearly two hours and a half later, as last year, turning what can readily be made a grand spectacle into a miserable fizzle ‘he work of these three is easy if attended to with | vigor. If not—well, they will probably never want to serve on another committee. Governor Dix Has Promisep a careful ex- amination of the charges preferred against Mayor Havemeyer and prompt action upon them. The appointment of Mr. Gardner, one of the convicted Commissioners, to the vacancy | in the Excise Board, besides being of doubtful legality in other respects, is a renewed indica- tion of the determination of the Mayor to defy the law and to insult the city. If Mr. Gardner is ineligible under the charter to appointment as Police Commissioner, he is excluded from holding any office in the city government, and the last freak of the Mayor only aggravates the offence he had previonsly committed. Tr American Canprnar.—A London news- paper says that there is much speculation in Roman Catholic circles here as to the reason why Archbishop Manning is not included in the coming list of cardinals. It is conjectured | that the Archbishop is out of favor with the Juria becanse of the desperate efforts which | are being made by tho Brompton Oratory to promote free education. If such a reason con- trols the Pope in deuling with Archbishop Manning we can understand why he has failed to award this long-coveted boon to an Ameri- | can prelate. writer is correctly informed. Armerica is the country of free education, and the other day the Pope told some of his followers that in America, of all countries in the world, | other reason must be | found for the Pontifical indifferencs ( the Church in Kagland aad America Some towards trial is worthy some respect. It is not saved | But wo do not think the London | was he | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Stirring News from France—The Firm Stand of President MacMahon, The stirring news from France seems to bring us nearer and nearer to that result which is, sooner or later, inevitable, and to which the true friends of the Republic begin to look with increasing hope—the disso- lution of the Assembly. After one of those stormy and exciting sessions now so common in the Chamber the government was yester- day defeated by a majority of thirty-seven, in an unusually full House, on a resolution moved by M. Paris, a member of the Right Centre, ‘That the Assembly, resolving to ener- getically uphold the septennial powers con- | ferred upon Marshal MacaMhon, President of the Republic, and furthermore reserving the questions submitted to the Committee on Constitutional Bills, passes to the order of the day."’ The Minister of War and Vice Presi- dent of the Council, General de Cissey, an- nounced that the government identified itself with the nation on this resolution, and hence the vote was an admitted Ministerial defeat. But immediately after the result had been announced several Deputies rose and moved the order of the day pure and sim- ple, which was adopted by a vote of 339 to 315, thus affording a prompt salve for the wound inflicted on the government and showing the flickering and uncertain character of the majority. | Notwith- standing this latter vote, which might have justified the government in claiming a drawn battle, the Ministers tendered their resignations to Marshal MacMahon, who per- emptorily refused to accept them. What fol- lowed this decisive action of the President is the most important portion of the news. He announced his intention, instead of changing the Ministry on this defeat by a singular combination of republicans and legitimists, of the Left and Extreme Right, to transmit a message to the Assembly expressing his de- termination to retain the powers conferred upon him for the time assigned by law, and to insist on the necessity for the complete organization of his powers by the Assembly. A Cabinet meeting is to be held to-day to de- cide upon the exact terms of the promised message. This action of the President must inevitably bring about one of two results—either the sub- mission of the Assembly to his demands or its dissolution. In the former case we shall have a continuation of the shifting scenes to which we have become accustomed—of major- ities transferred from side to side—of curious | combinations made to-day, to be followed by others yet more curious to-morrow—of in- trigues, plots and bargains to which the com- position of the Assembly naturally ieads, But these will be of less consequence and less dis- tarbing in their effects after the ‘complete organization of the powers'’ of the President bas been conceded. On the other hand, if the Assembly, by the combination which yesterday defeated the government or by any other, should resist the demand made by the President, there will be no course left to him but its dissolution. In ignoring the defeat of the resolution to ‘energetically uphold the septennial powers conferred upon Marshal MacMahon,”’ and in signifying that his retention of the powers conferred upon him for the time assigned by law is a right which he intends to maintain, the President takes that branch of the subject, at least, out of the reach of the Assembly, and leaves its members to decide whether they will complete the organization of the Presidential powers or return to their homes, Marshal MacMahon is master of the situa- tion. With the army at his back, accustomed to face a crisis, confident in his strength and in his ability to preserve the peace, he could not fail to hold the upper hand in an appeal to the country. Combinations made against him in the Assembly would fall to pieces in the elections, and the Bonapartists, with their persistent workers and their natural strength, would be the only party that could make any headway worthy of notice against conservative republicanism. The grim soldier who so mercilessly and so effectually crushed | out the life of the Commune might be relied upon to check riotous demonstrations, and he would be stronger in the position he has resolved to hold ‘for the time assigned by law” in a new Assembly than in the present. The crisis is one of more interest than French crises have been since the well-remembered | birth of the Commune; but we see no reason to anticipate at present any outbreak or any coup d’éiat other than that embraced in the President’s promised message; and if the dis- solution of the Assembly should follow we shall look with hope to a result which will | strengthen the republican cause, Tho Superintendent of Police. We are somewhat diffident in bestowing our advice upon the peculiar people who are now in charge of the police, Tho popular indigna- tion which centres about the government of Havemeyer, Matsell, Disbecker & Co. is so in- tense that it seems almost impossible for it to do anything to win again the confidence of the people. Tho first stop in this direction, however, would be for the Police Board to appoint a competent man Superintendent of Police. This is an executive office, charged with the discipline and management of the police, and there is no possible necessity for | allying it with politics, We do not want ‘a good Tammany man” or “a good republi- can,'’ the representative of this ring or the other, but a capable, energetic, faithful officer, who will see to the peace of the city and the efficiency of the service. Such a man can be found in Captain Kennedy. This officer has | won golden opinions ever since he has held his present captaincy. He has never forgot- ten the opportunities as well as the duties of his station. ‘ohim we owe ina great measure the success of the movement last year for the feeding of the poor when we wore threatened | | with » panic similar to that which was seen in | Paris, and which was arrested by the judicious | | benevolence of the Duchess of Magenta and | other noble and good women, who planned a | system of soup houses and distribution of | food and enabled them to bridge over the | horrors of the winter, Captain Kennedy threw himself into this work with unusual earnestness. He shows the same spirit in the interest he takes in the children’s | picnics, now organized under the supervision of Mr, Williams, the philanthropi ‘To ap- point Captain Kennedy to the superintendence | of the police would not only gratity that large | portion of our people who believe in benevo- | ‘tence and good works, but inaura a ¢aoable | administration of the police and illustrate the wisdom of promotion in office as a reward for good behavior. If the Board really mean to regain public favor let them take this op- portunity of doing a popular act. Personal Government and the Failure of Reform. We do not deem it to be necessary in any criti- cisms we make upon Mayor Havemeyer to say that he is an essentially bad man—a public thief and robber, like some who have been in office, and who, if the truth were known, are still in office in Washington and elsewhere. In the private relations of life Mayor Havg- meyer is, no doubt, a good citizen ; but, as Mayor, he is among the worst who have ever sat in the chair of municipal authority. He has done things since he became Mayor which have outraged republican government. For of what value is republican government if it does not express the will of the people, and in what way was the will of New York ever ex- pressed in such appointments as Gardner and Charlick, Disbecker and Matsell? We hear the argument that the Mayor is responsible for the administration of the city, and that in the discharge of this responsibility he has the right to appoint whoever he pleases to sub- ordinate trusts. This is unsound. It was the argument of General Grant when he became President, and the natural result of its opera- tion has been to bring upon the President all the discredit that his administration has re- ceived. We look down the list of personal appointments made by the President and wo find men as incapable and unworthy as Dis- becker or Matsoll. We see Casey and Cramer, Akerman, Williams and Sheplerd—all fruits from the same tree of personal government, results of the system which has given us the present dreary and offensive state of affairs that we now see in Now York. Mayor Havemeyer’s blunder was in suppos- ing that he owned the city of New York when he became its Mayor, just as General Grant felt that among the earliest of his Presidential duties was to apply the patronage of the office to relieve the wants of certain members of his family. The appointment of Mr. Kremer to o foreign mission, a gentleman who had never been heard of outside of his | Methodist Conference, merely for family rea- sons, and the assignment of the President's son to the rank of a Lieutenant Colonel be- fore he had done any service as a Lieutenant, are all somany evidences of the disregard for the popular will, which now results in a | genuine fear of Crsarism, and which Mr. Havemeyer has only too faithfully imitated in New York. If personal government had not taken the scandalous shape we havo recently seen in this city it might be condoned, just as we have had to condone many things in our municipal history. But here we have not merely a defiance of the popular will, but a violation of tne decencies of government. Instead of a police system which ministers to the good order’ and comfort of s0- ciety we have simply a political machine. The commissioners are selected to serve ono interest and another, to please this ring or that, to advance the fortunes of schemers and ambitious politicians, and not to servo the people. What claim had Mr. Gardner or Mr. Charlick or Mr. Matscll upon the con- fidence or support of New York? By what right could Mayor Havemeyer pre- sume that these were the persons to be in- trusted with the police of New York, or that they would in any way represent the honest aspirations of the people for good government and reform? The truth is that our city government, as now managed by Havemeyer and Green, is as inefficient and corrupt as it was ever under Tweed and Sweeny. We do not say it would be any better under John Kelly or any of the Tammany régime, but it could be no worse. Instead of reform we have corrup- tion, and scandals in administration almost as bad as corruption. The difference we can see between this régime and that of Tweed is the absence of the glare andshow, Tammany | balls, Bix Six and the Americus Ciub. The old crowd spent some money in champagne, | diamonds and photographs, and had a bratal way of entertainment and display. Those who are now in power are more reserved in demonstration, but as unworthy of public confidence, as corrupt, and the cause of as many scandals in city government as the daz- ling Tweed dynasty. Retorm is as far off as ever. Havemeyer has become the ally and protector of more political hacks, of iueapable, useless, bad men. He has permitted his | ideas of personal government to lead him into a foolish and deplorable position. By his ob- stinacy he is virtually a criminal awaiting judgment, and the city all the time is at the mercy of politicians and placemen, who sim- ply repeat the rule of Garvey, Ingersoll and Tweed. There is but one way out of this situation. Mayor Havemeyer must be brought to a real- izing sense of the fact that although Mayor he is not master of New York. His conduct in appointing Gardner and Charlick was a scandal, a foolish acquiescence in the demands of certain desperate politicians. But his con- duct in reappointing them was o crime, and not only a crime but a trick worthy of a dicer inabooth. He did not reappoint Gardner and Charlick in a bold, open, manly way, as thing he was not afraid to do, but by a sub- terfuge that showed the consciousness of the crime and o fear of its consequences. Our duty now is to enforce upon the Governor the necessity of teaching Havemeyer that he can no longer be tolerated ina place he has dis- | honored. That dono let us begin a new cam- paign upon the platform of no more personal | government, no more sham reform, no more | Disbecker and Matsell appointments, no more of the vampire administration of Green, who simply feeds upon the city, taking away life and giving none. Let us try and have a Mayor who is an honest man, a gentleman and rep- against imbecility and stubbornness in the per- son of William F. Havemeyer. ‘Then we can begin a campaign of true reform under the lead of a man like William Butler Duncan. War on the Indians, Even the peaceable Quaker Indian agent, | | John D. Miles, has found it necessary to ap- | peal to the government for a military force to put down the warlike Indians, The depreda- tions of the Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas have been such that he bas been com- | pelled to invoke the sword of the army. ‘The tribeq named axe, anna) and deflante® all the Indians and have nog the reason orvwexcuXe Of the Black Hill Sioux for hostilities, As tcS 8% known there hag been no violation of trety stipulations with them. Their outrages have bon unprovoked and spring from their native savag> disposi- tion and habits. Hence we are vaeaed to notice the vigorous action of the government for the suppression of these savages. Orders bava been promptly issued by telegraph to General Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, to use the Sixth cavalry, stationed in Kansas and the Indian Territory, to sup- press the raids of the Indians and to forca them back to their reservations. The general discontent and warlike demonstrations of the Indians, both north aud south, call for earnest. action on the part of the government, and unless we have that there will be, probably, a prolonged and expensive war. In view of these circumstances it is well, perhaps, that tha General of the. army has removed his head« quarters from Washington to Missouri; where he will be in a better position to conquer the refractory savages and to enforce peace. The only use of the army at present, really, is to watch the Indians and to protect the settlers of the western border. By all means let thig Indian rebellion be nipped in the bud, How the Department of Chariticg and Correction May Economize, The Commissioners of Charities and Con rection talk about discontinuing some of the hospitals under their control because their appropriation for supplies has been cut down by the Board of Apportionment in the revised city estimate, and some of their organs advise economy in the Children's Nursery and in some other directions in liow of the closing of a hospital under the reduced’ circumstances of the department, There is » method of retrenchment open to the Commise sioners more desirable than the plans pro- posed. They can cease buying meat at an average of six or seven cents per pound that can be purchased on the market every day at an average price of four centa per pound, They can discontinue buying dry goods of their. relatives, as Mr. Stern has done, and allowing the city to be charged from thirty to for y per cent more than the goods cost. They can refuse to purchase any more flour, either of relatives or friends, at from two to three dollars a barrel above the price at which the same brands can be bought on the’ market in lots of fifty barrels. They can discontinue the practice of overcounting their population as an excuse ‘for enormous outlays, and cease purchasing or paying for enough supplies to feed an army of fifteen thousand men daily the year round when they do not profess to have more than nine thou. sand, and in reality have not probably over seven thousand daily population, including nursing children and sick persons in hospital to the number of three thousand who are not supposed to consume full rations, They can sell some of the seventy horses they profess to have in their possession, and tor the keep of which at least the city pays, especially such horses as may be used for the pleasure riding of the Commissioners, They can discontinue their pleasure steamboating and devote more time to studying how to discharge their official duties honestly, and less to river excursions. They can cut down their bills for butter, although they buy it of the Mayor's son- in-law; for tea, although they purchase it of the Mayor's son; for milk and for other ar- ticles, which must be thrown into the East River or otherwise disposed of, since the quantities alleged to be supplied cannot cer- tainly be consumed by the population undes control of the department. The Department of Charities and Correction is “open to investigation,” and it is to ba hoped it will be subjected to one under the rules of a criminal court. It will then be seen that in the scandalous management of the de- partment one-third of the amount now appro- priated to its use for supplies is squandered or made away with in some manner inconsistent with honesty. There is quite sufficient evi- dence now before the Mayor to show that the Commissioners of this department have again and again violated the law. As he will not move for the protection of the city, it is to be hoped the Grand Jury may take the matter im hand and thus secure some other ‘‘economy’* in the management of this abused department than is to be found in the closing of necessary institutions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, pea mS CIN NEE Ole Ball is the one against the comet. Charlick would like to be inspector of dumps, Since he saw Logan he is “the purple Mullett.” Secretary Robesun has returned to Washington, Havemeyer shonid be nominated to succeed Grant. Charlick will be made @ roundsman in Bave- meyer’s precinct. Ezra Cornell, who has been ill with pneumonia, is now convalescent. Congressman James A. Garfleld, of Ohio, i# at the Brevoort House. Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is registered at the Everett House. Bx-Governer HA. H. Wells, of Virginia, has arrived at the Homan House. Captain Kennedy would make an excellent Superintendent of Police. Congressman Thomas C, Platt, of Owego, N. Y., is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Minnesota 1s almost finished by the grasshop- pers, Where were their turkey govblers? Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins arrived from Albany yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey, United States Navy, {8 quartered at tie Fifth Avenue Hotel. Whittier has taken the trouble to correct twe lines of dowgerel which he wrote about Sumner, Captain R. F, Ward, aide-de-camp to the Gov- ernor General of Canada, is residing at the Brevoort House. Captain H. Ww. Howgate, of the Signal Service, United States Army, has quarters at the St. Nich- olus Hotel. It is reporged that Havemeyer has appointea Gardner Excise Commissioner and Charitck Super- intendent of Police. Our astronomical vodger says he has no comet, | and that this one belongs to the “Swit!” family, as resentative of the best interests and wishes of | New York. First let us finish our campaign |, indicated by its gait, Count de Bart, half-brother of the ex-King of daugnter of the Duke of Nemours. Senators. B. Conover, of Viorida, who has been | spending @ fow days at Long Branch, returned to the St. Nicholas Hotel last evening, Haron Klenck and family, of Saxony, have apart. ments at the Breyoort House, The Baron isa son-in-law of ex-Governor Lawrence of Rhode Island, Hardly fair towards Carollie for one of the city papers W deprive her oF her honors as a winner as perhaps, tho most warlike | | Long Branch, aod put the name of Babylon um place of hers, President and Mrs. nt, accompanied by | General Babcock, arrive ne With Avenue | Hotel yeste;day morning, and rewrned to Long Biaucn iO the eventag, Naples, will marty Princess Blanche of Orleans, f/