The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1874, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hpac. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Hf 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... seeeee se NOs 197 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth street,—LIFR OR DEATH, at? P.M; closes até:30 P.M. POMP, at8 P. M.; closes | at l0:30 P.M. Mr. Harry Chfford. -——— | NIBLO’S GARDEN | Broadway, between Prince and Houston _ streets. — | FAUSTUS, at8 P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Ione Bur! METROPOLI THEATRE, 585 broadway.—Parisian ( n Dancers, at § P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery —VARIETY ENTERIAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; loses at 10:30 P.M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, -ninth street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CHAT, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-fifth street.—LONDON BY NIGHT, ai | P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. same at7 P. M.; wrloges at 10 P. Me ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street —GRAND FAGEANT—OONGERSS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P. M. and at New York, Thursday, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. | July 16 18° To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC:— | The New York Hzzatp will run a special | train between New York, Saratoga and Lake | George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the | Bonpar Hzraup along the line. Newsdealers | and otherfare notified to send in their orders | bo the Henan office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | some rain. | Paoce Brsmascx is doing as well as can be | expected. His wounded wrist has been placed | on ice to allay inflammation, so now the | Chancellor has a cool hand as well as a cool | colleges, and these young men can be rescued NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874. The Regatta at Saratoga. The great college race which will take place at Saratoga to-day is already an event so national in its importance as to justify the unusual space we give this morning to a nar- rative of what has been done in the way of preparation and what will probably be done to-day in the final burst of achievement and vietory. Even as a contribution to public amusement this contest deserves all the space we give to its history. But there is @ graver and more instructive side of the picture, and to this wé will devote such comments as seem appropriate to the occasion. What we deem it most important | to remark on is the value of such contests in their influence on education and national character. Now that they are in a fair way to grow into a permanent national usage it is | proper to estimate the beneficial consequences | | likely to result from them when they shall | have passed beyond their present infancy and have reached the ripe development and more perfect organization which time and popular favor are certain to bring. We regard it as a good step forward that the college regatta has been transferred to one of the great centres of summer fashion, By lifting it out of New England provincialism and ex- hibiting it at a point where repre- sentatives of the most intelligent and influential classes are wont to assembie, at this season of the year, fromevery part of the country, an important advantage is gained in the standing and social respectability of the spectators, and greater éclat and lustre are shed upon the occasion. The removal of the regatta to Saratoga, in spite of a vehement but narrow-minded opposition, is therefore a great gain to the cause of athletic sports. We are becoming a wealthy nation, and the tendency of wealth to self-indulgent luxury is perhaps more strongly marked in this country than in any other. Luxury tends to effem- macy, and effeminacy to cowardice, pusil- lanimity, triviality and the loss of a robust, manly national spirit. There are various rea- sons why we may slide down this dangerous declivity more easily than the nations of the Old World. In the absence of nobility and hereditary family pride wealth is our only title to social distinction, and great wealth is so often acquired by uncultivated, vulgar people, who can convert it to no better use than at- tempts to outvie and outshine one another in profuse expense and tawdry display, that we are in greater peril than any other people ever were of sinking the manliness of our prosper- ous classes in a passion for vulgar ostenta- tion. These classes furnish a large share of the students in our older and more respectable from the danger of becoming effeminate syba- rites only by the redeeming influence of strenuous, hardy sports, which cultivate the robust side of their nature. We pass over the great advantage of athletic amusements on the score of health, important as that view is, | because vigor of character, manliness and | courage are incomparably superior to any head. Morz Ocgan Sreamens.—Another vessel | has been added to the fleet of ocean steamers | by the launch at Belfast of the Germanic, a | sister ship to the Britannic, of the White Star line. the launching of a number of American ships for this service. Kare Stoppazp, who has been so long in confinement in Brooklyn on the charge of being implicated in the murder of Mr. Good- rich, has finally been pronounced insane and been ordered to the State Lunatic Asylum. There the unfortunate woman will have kind treatment, and it is well that she has been thus disposed of. Cumpney’s Prcytcs.—The movement inau- gurated by the philanthropic efforts of Mr. Williams has been taken up seriously by the community. The members of the Stock Exchange have handsomely contributed fifteen hundred dollars to enable the children of the | It would be well if we could chronicle | merely sanitary considerations. Health is, in- | deed, an inestimable blessing and the indis- | pensable condition for enjoying all others; | but strength and vigor of character, even in a | | sickly body, deserve and command so much | | more respect that we prefer to rest our argu- | ment on the higher endowment. | We will not go back to the renowned intel- lectual nation with whose history and litcra- | ture the students of our colleges are made | familiar by their classical studies. know how large a part physical culture played in Greek education. The brightest and most intellectual people that then existed gave the | most sedulous attention to physical training. The great Grecian games ranked among the most important of their national institutions. There is nothing in the severe discipline by which modern theatrical performers and | opera singers are prepared for appearance be- | fore the public which can compare with the exercises which the competitors in the Gre- They all | has been the favorite recreation of its higher classes for the last century or two, as hawking was at an earlier period. The graphic pages of the Waverley novels have immortalized the old custom of falconry in their lively pictures of both sexes on horseback, with a hawk on their shoulders ready to be let loose on any game that might start up. The peasantry of “merry England’ were equally devoted to athletic amusements, in which boxing, wrest- ling, quarter staff, single stick, bull baiting and other recreations, pursued at the possible risk of life and limb, prepared them for deeds of bravery of a higher order in defence of the liberties and independence of their country. It is owing to the sports which these customs cultivated and the manly character they strengthened that England has risen to the first rank among the governing nations of the world, and that her valor and enterprise have made her worthy of the splendid eulogy of the greatest of American orators, who described her, in perhaps the most magnificent burst of his eloquence, as ‘‘a Power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts ; whose morn- ing drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.’’ Both France and Germany have more intellectual culture than England, but they lack the force of character, the great and commanding qualities, which have made her the foremost of modern ma- tions. The fountains of this victorious energy lie in those national virtues, which have been cultivated and strengthened by the manly, athletic, outdoor sports which have always been in such high favor with all classes of the English people. We Americans are scions of the same vigor- ous stock, and if our cultivated classes take the same keen interest in athletic sports and diffuse this taste among the people this nation will not fail to act a great part in the affairs of the world. Tne Third Term and the South. Ex-Governor Hebert, of Louisiana, one of the most prominent and far-seeing men in the South, has written a letter on the third term question, in which he says he is so convinced of General Grant’s great influence and com- manding popularity that he does not doubt, were the Presidential election to take place this fall, and both of the political parties to nominate, and his friends to run him inde- pendently, he would easily beat both com- bined. The Governor is not disposed to cen- sure the President for the shortcomings of re- construction, for he believes that he has dis- covered that he has duties to discharge to the Southern States, and if any consideration could induce him to be a candidate for re- election to a third term it would be to throw his great name and fame in aid of their ma- | terial construction, by which slone they can be restored to prosperity and happiness. For six years the President has held power without doing anything except to condone the rash acts of Bullock, Holden and Kellogg; and the first indication of an opinion on his part— that, having conquered the South, it was not necessary for us to rob the people—was when he interfered in the case of Arkansas. Governor Hebert, however, is confident that a change of heart has come to the President. ‘He has given,’ says the Governor, ‘‘re- peated evidence of the feeling, and I know nO measure proposed connected with the re- habilitation of the shattered industries of the South that does not find in him a warm advo- cate. Ido not know that General Grant de- sires or would accept a third term, but he may be a necessity to the country and especially to the Southern portion of it. His name is a magic spell with the black race. The negro population feel that he treed them, and at this minute will hearken to his voice sooner than to all the ‘carpet-baggers’ combined. Herein lies his power to litt up the South. No other | man living possesses it. The negro feels that | General Grant has been his benefactor and city to enjoy a little fresh air. The movement | cian national games were required to go | protector, and any counsel that General Grant seems to be growing in favor. It certainly deserves the best sympathy of all classes. Tue Svez Canat.—Mr. Bailie Cochrane, a | through. In addition to the magnificent char- | | iot and horse races, there were competitors may suggest to him will be followed to the letter. On this point of view his candidacy | stripped naked as runners, wrestlers, boxers may become a matter of necessity to the member of Parliament, in a recent debate, | pan-kraists, after having submitted to the ex- | whites of the South to protect them from a complained that, while the capital which built the canal was not Fre management is in the hands of French people. To this statement M. de Lesseps answers that the capital employed in the construction of the Suez Canal was almost exclusively French, and he says that, asa consequence of the loans subsequently contracted in France only, the capital engaged in the enterprise of the canal is now absolutely French. One or Our Most experienced engineers suggests that the general use of white pine in our buildings is one of the causes of our ex- tensive conflagrations. He says that even in New York our doors, window casings, sashes and inside work are of pine. This is more or less saturated with oil and covered with paint, so that during a dry season like the present | in Chicago, which is the largest pine lumber market in the world, and where half the build- ings are of pine, it is a wonder howa fire once under good headway can be stopped. He thinks hard woods should be used and pine | rejected as much as possible, as in Europe, and that the insurance companies should charge for extra risk where pine is the prin- cipal wood in a building. ‘When we pur- chase kindling wood,” he writes, ‘‘we want When we want security against fire should we not reject pine ?’’ Incrzastnc Txxecrapuic Paciirrms with Evrorz.—Two events reported this morning show that the opportunities for telegraphing between Europe and America are improving. ‘The Atlantic cable laid in 1866 has been re- paired and is now in perfect working order, and the shore end of the new telegraph cable has been successfully landed at Rye Beach, New Hampshire. The steamer Ambassador, from which this shore end was laid, was to proceed later yesterday to lay the cable from Rye Beach to the shoals and then to sail east- ward with the Faraday. It will not be long, therefore, before this new Atlantic cable com- munication will be open to the public. The people of New Hampshire were rejoicing greatly over the successful enterprise in con- nection with their const. A hundred guns | aristocracy has not degenerated and were fired and skyrockets and other fireworks | why it bas retained so much polit- were exhibited on the occasion. The cable | ical vigor and wisdom, England is the business, evidently, is profitable. Let us hope | most powerful nation of modern times be- the increased number of cables will lead to a reduction of the rates, and thus promote trade and the diffusion of intelligence between America and Eurove ch, the whole | » | others. And they are most necessary in the | treme fatigue of long previous training. The | + fact that emulation in these manly physical | contests went hand-in-hand with intellectual | culture, and that the most mentally gifted | of ancient nations surpassed all other in feats of bodily agility, refutes and explodes the | shallow notion that the physical sports of our | | colleges may interfere with and impede their | | literary studies. But we will not dwell on | this consideration, important as itis. There | are gifts which outrank intellectual profi- ciency. Manliness of character, strenuous vigor of will, indomitable force of purpose, | unwillingness to be outdone in any honorable effort, are the great and commanding qualities | of a perfectly developed manhood, and it is more important to cultivate these than any | cultivated classes, whose intellectual ascend- | ancy makes them the natural guides of public | opinion and the leaders of the people in all important emergencies. What an immense difference it makes in the policy and destiny of a nation whether strenuous men, like a | Palmerston or a Disraeli, are at the head of affairs, or statesmen of equal intellect cursed with fatal infirmity of purpose ! Of all modern nations the English affords~| the best illustration of the value of the phys- | ical element in intellectual training. The | great public schools in which the English | aristocracy are educated and the two great English universities are more remarkable for fostering manly elements of character than | for their efficiency in promoting the studies which are their ostensible business. The whole tendency of the aristocratic public | | schools of England is to counteract the ef- | | fects of fond family indulgence at home. | They are rough, but wholesome, They do | not smooth the roseleaffor their pupils; they | deliver them over to the play of their natural passions; they permit fagging and encourage athletic contests; they learn thus to fight out their differences with their fists and attempt | no tender dawdling. The sons of the gilded | aristocracy have to “rough it” in the public schools, and this explains why the English cause its customs are most favorable to hardi- ness of character. From the earliest periods it has been given to outdoor athletic sports. To race conflict in which they would be outvoted. In conclusion, the position of the Southern people should be one of entire independence of party politics and one of kindness and good feeling to General Grant, who, by a rare com- bination of circumstances, is ina better con- dition to serve and help them than all the politicians in the country.”’ If the Governor does not mean to support Grant for a third term what does he mean? If he does not | speak for the white men of the South for whom does he speak? We should like to hear Representative Ellis H. Roberts and Senator H. B. Anthony on this new phase of a ques- tion so important as the third term. The French Assembly—Dissolution or Revolution. Every successive discussion in the French Assembly demonstrates with a clearer cer- tainty that France has nothing to hope from that body except its dissolution. It is and long has been what M. Gambotta called it, ‘A corpse fit for the gravedigger.’’ Yet this body meditates the organization of the definitive re- public. No project could be wilder, nor can any attempt at framing a government prove more futile. A republic fashioned by the present Assembly can hope for a very brief | existence; first of all, for the very good reason that the Assembly is incapable of forming a republic, The only thing that is to be ex- pected from the mer who now rule the des- tinies of France is a modified empire—a defin- itive republic, it may be called, but, in fact, only a government swayed by a salf-consti- tuted legislative body, and presided over by @ magistrate republican in name, but imperial in the exercise of tyrannical powers. Such is the condition of France to-day, and such it will remain while the Assembly holds together, or under any form of government which the Assembly may ordain. But it is not difficult to foresee to what all this will lead in the end. Sooner or later revolution will be the result, but in what guise it will come it is im- possible to predict—perhaps in a repetition of the violent acts of the Commane; more likely, in @ coup d’éat of the Bonapartists, who are daily becoming bolder in their efforts to ad- vance the fortunes of the young Napoleon. | The tyrannical course of the govern- ment affecting the liberty of the press; the interpellations in the Assembly on the same subject; the anxiety of Marshal | ride after hounds in the animation af the chage MacMahon tor the confirmation of his vowers: the votes adverse to the Ministry, conceived in the spirit of opposition and intended to disturb and annoy; the successive and abortive attempts at framing a government— these things must have an end, and the end is either the immediate dissolution of the As- sembly or revolution. As both the President of the Republic and the Assembly are tenacious of power it is not impossible that dissolution will be deferred till revolution turns both out of office. The Second Chicago Fire and Its Lessons. The terrible disaster that has just befallen the Queen City of the West, to which all nations, in view of the marvellous recupera- tive power shown by her after the first appall- ing visitation by fire, three years ago, gave without a dissentient voice the proud title of Phoenix of Cities, is fraught with deep mean- ing to every one living within municipal bounds in this country. It is as serious a subject tous living in New York as to the dwellers in the Western. cities. To be sure, we are not subjected to the same conditions of location, weather and circumstances favorable to fire as are the inhabitants of the doubly unfortunate Chicago. We have no level plain extending for hundreds of miles near us nor an inland sea without a bluff to check the career of a storm or tornado. Any unwonted disturbance in the atmosphere above the billiard-table-like surface of the prairie on which Chicago is built must naturally be pro- ductive of more serious consequences than can occur on the seaboard, where inequalities of ground serve to interrupt materially the progress of a fire or storm Still the frightful damage done by the recent fire im the Lake City must cause a feeling in every mind preju- dicial tc the Fire Department of that city. How twenty blocks containing ‘fireproof” buildings can be swept away in a single night in summer isa question that will puzzle any New York fireman. We have had dangerous conflagrations here at times, but the admira- ble discipline and method of combating such an enemy shown by our Fire Department have kept each fire within reasonable bounds. The gales that sweép over the prairies of Illinois and the lakes may perhaps present a partial reason for the rapid progress of a fire in Chi- cago. The origin of this fire will serve as a warning to all other cities. We have in New Vork rookeries extending for many blocks, like those in which the recent destroyer in the Lake City was fostered and gained strength. Within a stone’s throw of some of our stately buildings down town are foul nests of crime, lawlessness and arson, where any night a flame may be started which would carry de- struction tar and wide. The police rarely ex- ercise any vigilance over those dens anda fire may be considerably under way in one of them before an alarm is given to the Fire De- partment, Such tinder boxes are the curse of our great cities, and they are generally in close propinquity to the finest edifices representing the mercantile world. In the absence ofa Haussmann extreme police vigilance is neces- sary in New York as in other American cities, to ward off such # disaster as the one that laid waste Chicago for the second time. The Transit of Venus. Richard A. Proctor makes a sugges- tion to the London newspapers, which, he says, would enable some of our skil- ful astronomical amateurs to do their part towards utilizing the important phenome- non of the transit of Venus. His suggestion is “that the middle and latter half of the transit should be observed and photographed at some station in Natal or Cape Colony. Such provision as circumstances admit of has now been made for observing and photograph- ing (1) the beginning and end of the transit severally and (2) the whole transit. But the middle of the transit, which theoretically is the most important phase of all (because at this stage the planet’s apparent distance from the sun’s centre changes very slowly, so that asmall time error is unimportant), has been unaccountably neglected. So far as northern stations are concerned (where Venus will be thrown nearer to the sun’s centre), the Hal- leyan stations, nearly a score in number, will show mid-transit excellently; but it chances that the southern Halleyan stations (where Venus will be thrown further from the sun's | centre) are not so favorable for mid-transit as | Cape Town, Port Natal and South Madagas- car, where the latter part of the transit is alone favorably seen. Under these circumstances, aud because southern stations are unfor- tunately few in number (owing to geographi- cal difficulties), it would be a matter of great importance, and might be a matter of para- mount importance, if one or more of the sug- gested mid-transit stations could be occupied for direct and photographic observations.’’ Mr. Proctor’s suggestion is worthy of con- sideration in the United States. Mr. Havemeyer’s Little Game. There has been considerable mystery about Mr. Hugh Gardner's appointment as Excise Commissioner in place of Mr. Voorhis. The appointment was made and signed by the Mayor; it is said that Mr. Gardner was sworn in; but he has refrained from taking his seat, and the comical old gentleman in the City Hall winks and chuckles when questioned on the subject and declares with a vacant look that he does not know whether Mr. Gardner is appointed or not. This singular change of front has been attributed by some to the doubtful legality of an appointment to the Ex- cise Board, which was a county Board, except in the mannef specified in the general law— namely, by the Mayor and Aldermen. Others have imagined that it is due to the apprehen- sion that the appointment of the convicted Police Commissioner to another office would be regarded by the Governor as an aggrava- tion of the Mayor's defiance of the law. But now comes a different explanation of the affair. It is said that the ‘little game’’ is to: have Inspector Thorne, of the notorious Street Cleaning Bureau, appointed temporary Superintendent of Police. Mr. Gardner is toy be held in reserve. Then, if the Mayor should, escape removal by the Governor, ho is to ac- cept Matsell’s resignation as Police Commis- sioner; to restore Hugh Gardner to his old position in the Police Board, and to move, Matsell and Thorne back into their respective: offices. If, however, the Mayor should be re- moved, Mr. Gardner is to take his seat in the Excise Board. It may be that the action of the Governor will dispose of the whole batch more qummarily than the Mayor supposes, The Bonapartist Succession, The Bonaparte party havo transferred their energies from quarrels about the throne to quar- rels about the succession to the throne. A Paris journal says that the leaders at Chiselhurst have been discussing the necessity of changing the order of succession established by the Sec- ond Empire, in order to get rid definitely of Prince Napoleon. ‘Persons who have a foot- ing in the two Bonapartist camps,” says the correspondent, ‘told me that the Prince was not ignorant of these designs and made fun of them with his intimates. He repeated that even if the ‘coterie of Chiselhurst’ arrived at power—which he considered quite impossible on account of the general lack of energy of the official Bonapartists—the Third Empire, gov- erned by the Empress Eugénie and M. Rouher, could not fail to break down in a catastrophe which would not inspire in him any desire for the succession. According to him, under the Third Empire the political preponderance would belong to the ‘revan- chards’ and to the ‘clericals,’ two fractions which in the end would embroil France with Germany and Italy.” The Pall Mall Gazelte, in commenting upon this news, says: —‘ ‘It can- not be denied that the antagonism between Prince Napoleon and official Bonapartism is based on serious reasons. The official Bona- partists remain more or less attached to the balancing system of Napoleon III. They would like to show themselves ‘Catholic’ with- out creating coolness with Italy and raise the military prestige of France without imme- diately attacking Germany. Prince Napoleon answers them that this double play would lead to new disasters, and that to put an end tothe isolation of France and avert the dangers threatening her it is necessary to be resolutely pacific abroad and resolutely anti-clerical at home."’ Hydrophobia. All the discussion on the subject of hydro- phobia has grown out of the excessive and mistaken zeal of the agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dogs were to be muzzled, or killed if found at large without muzzles, and these steps were the rec- ognized necessities of public safety against an imminent danger to life. And here came in the agents of the gociety. ‘Muzzle the poor | dogs,” they said; “shameful! It compels them to keep their mouths shut, and it is a cruelty to a dog to compel him to keep his mouth shut in the hot weather!” Hereupon the people of only ordinary intelligence responded that they did not care to inflict un- necessary cruelty upon the dogs. ‘‘But,’’ they said, “how about the hydrophobia?’’ drophobia!” said Mr. Bergh and all his chorus. ‘Hydrophobia! Nonsense! Pooh! Pooh! Moonshine. There is no such thing; it’s a delusion, a piece of ancient ignorance; we will prove there is no such disease.’’ And on this point they have now been active for some months. They have vamped and revamped all the old stories and arguments put forth on this disease by that class of superior mor- tals who may be distinguished from others as the men who ‘‘know better,’’ and they have had the arguments in their favor of some callow witted doctors, and their great strength has been in the theory that so-called cases of hydrophobia were deaths from fear, the result of the morbid imaginations of people who had read of the symptoms of the disease and produced these symptoms on themselves. And now all that is answered and, let us hope, ended by the horrible occur- rence of a well marked case of the disease in a little child. If the society cannot do better for animals than to deny the existence of the diseases they cause, and thereby smother pre- vention and assist to spread such diseases, the laws upon which it stands must be repealed. Tue JAPANESE AND THE CENTENNIAL.—By the official communication of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Tereshina Mene- mori, to Mr. Bingham, the United States Minister, we learn that the Japanese govern- | | portant fell to a whopping fellow named Shaw. ment will be represented at the centennial celebration of our independence, and will promote the exhibition of products and man- ufactures of that country. The whole tone of the note is broadly liberal and friendly, and shows that the Japanese are shaking off their old exclusiveness and are cultivating closer relations with Western nations. There is, in fact, a kindly feeling manifested toward the United States. The Japanese have learned to regard us not only as a great and pro- gressive nation, but as a neighboring one with which they are destined to have exten- sive intercourse. to encourage this friendly sentiment and to enlarge our commercial relations with Japan. A Nice Lirtzz Jos.—When Comptroller Green made out his new tax levy, which did not pass the Board of Apportionment, he put in a new item of $15,000 for the expenses of the new City Prison Commission. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler deemed this appropria- tion exorbitant and unnecessary and cut it down to $5,000. The commission met yes- terday, and behold! a nice little bill turned up from Mr. Calvin Vaux for $10,000 for “plans” of the new prison. Mr. Vance, who, as President of the Board of Aldermen, is a member of the new City Prison Commission, denounced the bill and it was laid over. Will Mr. Vance inquire whether Mr. Oalvin Vaux receives any pay from the Central Park? His name was omitted from the architectural force of that department, but does he not re- ceive @ large amount in percentages on ex- penditures? It is well thet Mr. Vance, asa member of these several boards, has the power to put his finger on such little bills. It was for this the $15,000 was wanted by Mr. Green. Ir Mr. Berou would extend his sphere of usefulness let him inquire into the best means of preventing such cruelty to animals as was réported in the Tribune in the following words: — At Barnum’s Hippodrome last evening, during a flat race, three horses and their riders fell in a heap at the Fourth avenue extremity of the track. A negro jockey fell on the top of his head, where he remained poised for an inetant and then fell, but quickly rising remounted his horse. One of the other riders ran irom the track, but the re- maining one was carried off tn an insensible con- dition. Subsequently a carriage appeared with the little fellow, who had sustained a severe cut above the left eye irom the hoot of one of the Snimals, He will be able to appear as usual 0-day. oe Arnican Expionations.—The Geographical Society in Berlin have received letters from Dr. Gussfeldt. The Doctor writes that he has gone to St. Payly de Loanda, about three hun- dred miles south on the coast, to procure necessaries for the great, expedition, byt “Hy- | We should do everything | $e had not had much success. He was alone, and had another attack of fever. The German African Society will send on another gentle- man to join the expedition almost immediately. All was going on well at the permanent sta- tion, Chinchonzo. Dr. Kirk, the English Consul at Zanzibar, has received a letter from Lieutenant Cameron, reporting his safe ar rival at Ujiji. Lieutenant Cameron writes that he had a rather long and tedious march. The Charities amd Correction Com- mission. The Mayor promises soon to lay before the People a report of his ‘investigation’ of the Department of Charities and Correction, to- gether with » ‘summary’ of the report of the Commissioners of Accounts and letters from certain citizens who, he alleges, united with him in his investigation. He insinuates that a great fuss has been made over the mauage- ment of that department, but that it will all turn out to be without reason. The Mayor is » pretty bold man in detence of the mis- deeds of his friends, but the citizens whose names he uses as prepared to aid him in covering up the notoriously illegal acts of the Commissioners will do well to pause before they implicate themselves in an offence which will assuredly become the subject of investigation in a court of justice. Have these gentlemen satisfied themselves that the dry goods bills of “Louis Sternbach, Commission Agent, No. 36 Churcla street,’’ were all legal and regular, and suck. as ought to have been paid by the city? Have they ascertained that the flour pur- chased by the Commissioners has been pur- chased in accordance with law and at honest market prices? Are they convinced that no bills for supplies have been fraudu~ lently altered from the originals and cut up, so as to evade the law? Have they satisfied themselves that gross frauds are not perpetrated in taking the so-called “census” and that some twenty-five thousand pounds of bread and meat can be consumed daily in the institutions? If not they will do well to pause before they indorse the management of the Department of Charities and Correction in any manner. The law of misdemeanor ia very wide in its application. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Abner Doubleday, United States Army, 1s at the Astor House. General Fitz Henry Warren, of Iowa, is staying at the Hoffman House, Swing says the rumor that he intends to come down ts “groundless.”” Attorney General Willlams leaves Washington to-day for Rawley Springs, Va. Captain D. W. Flagler, United States Army, has quarters at the Gienham Hotel. Mr. Henry G. Parker, of the Boston Gazette, ta stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral William Reynolds, United States Navy, is residing at the Gilsey House. Captain Von Eisendecher, of the German Lega tion at Washington, is registered at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge Charles Andrews, of the New York Court of Appeals, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Amasa J. Parker and General S. E. Marvio arrived from Albany yesterday at the Brevvort House. Mr. Robert G. Watson, British Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, yesterday arrived at the West moreland Hotel. In the South of France they are trying to “stamp out” the phylloxera by destroying the vines im mfected districts. Allan Kardee, @ spiritualist writer in French, i to be done in English at the expense of the Count- ess of Caithness, Rear Admiral 0. 8. Glisson and Commodore Alexander Murray, United States Navy, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Parton should try his hand at rewriting Tup- per’s “Proverbial Philosophy ;’ for even Tapper has left a little sense in it. George H. Pendleton will not be a candidate for Congress. How fortunate for the Democrats But perhaps he has loftier aspirations. Joseph Tuttell, tatior, received twenty-fiv stripes with the cat, at Newgate, for robber; Bad to give up your goose for such a cat, Prizes for feats in small arms at the Aberdee “Wapinschaw” were distributed. The most tr Forney observes that the path to continued re publican ascendancy will soon be “easy or dim cult.” How will it be about the descendency ? Professor Porter, of Belfast, Ireland, has re turned irom the land of Moab, where he penetra ted to districts hitherto unvisited by any Euro pean. In Iowa a literary society calle itself Kdadee which means something in Pawnee; another cali itself Chick-Edadee, on account of its small chirp ings. M. de Reynal, a “legitimate and direct descend ant of Charlemagne,” has just died in France. Ht descent was established by authentic documenta He left no children, and so a revival of the Carlo vingian party is not apprehended, General Changarnier’s letter on the Comte dé Chambord and the drapeau dlanc is interesting He declares that Chesnelong’s formula as to re taining the tricolor until the Assembly shali wast it white is the result of @ diseased imagination. “Mad dog!’ was cried in the streets of Paris the other day, and the dog was killed after having bit ten many other dogs. All the owners of animal bitten on the occasion were called upon by th authorities to confine their dogs and fee veterinar surgeons. Great country for judges that England. Ther was a case in which a man charged the police wit assault, and the policemen swore so beautifull that they would have convicted the man of at saultingthe whole squad. So the judge discharge the man and said he had no doubt “on which sid there was perjury."’ Can’t we import one ¢ these ? Since the Grand Prix at Paris—war among th ladies of fashion apropos of bonnet strings. On camp wishes to restore them, the other oppose: in favor they plead the effect of that line of cole around the face, the bow under the chin and th protection of the throat. Against, is urged th warmth and that it hides the beauty of the throat Bets are on the side of those who favor the restor ation, because women of “experience” determin the fashions and they often see in their giasse good reasons for hiding their throats. Mme. Hoischout, an actress, could not live happti with M. Holschout and ran away from him. Su found she could live with M. Malepeyre, whom sh accidentally met at Rampouillet. She lived wit him accordingly till he died, and he left ne 1,000,000 francs. His heirs sued, but Mme. Holschor gained the suit and got the money. But the nots made by this process wakened up M. Holschout, tt husband, who was all the time ignorant of bh wile’s whereabouts. He went to Rambouillet the next tratn. By the French law a husband consent is necessary before the wife can accept & inheritance, and this beast refuses to consent, The London. Times says:—'‘The death of Lac Amberley, which it was our painful duty ; record yesterday, took place, we are informe at Ravenscroft, near Chepstow, and was caused t an attack of diphtheria, brought on by attendan on her eldest son, who suffered from the sap malady. Her bright and keen intelligence, nm cordial and cheerfol temper and the couraye at weal with which she gave help to every movemes in which she discerned the elements of usefulne, will cause her death to be felt as @ loss in a cire wider than that of her family aad immediate oe nections.” Lady Amberley waa well knawoak AWCTICN