The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1874, Page 4

¢ NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘aie - 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 York Heaap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Se LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, | oe Bi way, between Hrince al ouston | streets. — PARTS: arse a; closes at 10:46 P.M. MP. Joseph Wheelock snd Miss Lone Burke, WOOD'S MUS aa. Broadway, corner Thirdeth —WEALTH AND CRIME, at2 &. Mi closes at 4:3) P.M, ROPED IN, at8 P.M. ; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mr. Harry Chiford | RACE GARDEN THEATRE. DER FREISCHUETZ, at 8 P.M. Mrs. Jaeger, Mr. | Berling. | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 985 broadwey.—Parisian an Dancers, at 8 P. 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Great as has been the interest in the col- legiate regattas heretofore the race at Sara- toga this year excited more general attention | than any event of the kind in this country. ‘The reason of this is to be assigned to many causes. A new and better course had been | chosen than those at Springfield and Wor- | cester. The number of colleges competing | had increased so rapidly within a year or two that there were not fewer than nine crews on | the lake. The former successes of Harvard | and the more recent triumphs of Yale had | so imbittered the two universities | that there was no longer any love possible between their crews, Add to all this the probability or at the least the possibility that some other college would carry away the honors this year, and we can see that the in- terest in the race could not fail to be very great. In the meantime, too, boating had ac- quired a new importance in the eyes of every- body, and the college event especially had reached that point at which, like the univer- sity race in England, it was capable of exciting what Thackeray called a furor without any meretricious ails whatever. The two day's delay on account of the condition of the water was a disappointment to the multitude at Saratoga, but there and everywhere it only added piquancy to a result | so unexpected and at the same time so grati- fying. We were all glad that Columbia won, | and from this success we believe there will | begin a new era in college boating; but, at the same time, we cannot overlook the fact that the Yale and Harvard feud, growing out of the alleged ‘foul’ by the latter, is a This quarrel must be amic- ably settled at once, that it may not end in the destruction of the college regattas or prove | injurious to college boating. The whole subject was the topic of general conversation in this city yesterday, and our | special reports of the race were the accepted authority in the matter. The “Story of an Old Oar’’ was an exact account of what oc- curred on the lake, and the graphic stories | which preceded added greatly to the interest and picturesque effect of the narrative. Our novel map showed the exact position of each boat when the Columbia’s crew touched the | finishing line. The correctness and value of | these accounts were in a great degree owing to the fact that Hzraup representatives saw ing the season at half-past three o’clock A. M., | every stroke of the oars ; from the start to the and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | finish the Hzranp special boat, manned by A. M., for the purpose of supplying the | hardier muscle than impelled the college shells, Sunpay Hznaxp along the line. Newsdealers | keeping well ahead, but well out of the and others are notified to send in their orders | way of the racing crews. And in the to the Hrnatp office as early as possible. morning the Henatp special train carried the Saye eS | stories back again to Saratoga almost as From our reports this morning the probabilities | swiftly as the telegraph brought them to us. are that the weather to-day will be fair and There was in all this a feat worthy of being cine els | celebrated as a part of New York's triumph Drrromatic Counresres.--Mr. Cushing gave in the regatta; but, complete as our stories a dinner on Saturday at Madrid in honor of | were, much yet remained to be told. Owing the departure for Washington of the new | to the feud between Harvard and Yale and Spanish Minister to the United States. Tue Heratp Spectra, Trams to Sara- toca.—We print this morning an interesting account of the special delivery of the Heraup containing the story of the boat race at Sara- toga on Saturday. Next to efficient news gathering is the prompt aud speedy distribu- tion of the newspapers among the patrons of agreat journal. That the Heraup can ac- complish both resulis is amply proved by the feat of yesterday. Tue Inisu Rirtz Team ror Amentca.—The letter from Dublin which is published in the Henatp to-day contains very interest- ingand ample particulars relative to the or- ganization of the corps of Irish riflemen which is to come over to America to contend with our crack shots at Creedmoor. It will be seen that the members of the American team must needs not relex in their practice if they wish to win. Tue Curonic Crisis ry France, which may culminate in a most exciting manner to-day, is treated of in anticipation by a Heraup special correspondent in Paris in a letter which we publish this morning. The cause of the legitimists, energetic in their despair, was fast disappearing as a solid, substantial element of the political situation. MacMahon’s gov- ernment stood forth in its grim personality be- fore an effete Assembly. These, with the people of republican France nerving them- selves for an effort, made prophesy the future. The Cabinet crisis, it will be seen by our cable news, continues. Picytcs FoR THE Poor.—The generous ex- ample of Mr. William Butler Duncan in open- | ing his magnificent grounds to the children | of the poor is well worthy of being copied by other gentlemen having places suitable for picnics. To the city child a real country ramble is an inexpressible enjoyment. Though Mr. Williams by his prac- tical philanthropy has brought pleasures to the poor children of the city such a treat as this is beyond his power unless other gentlemen besides Mr. Duncan assist him. To him only the public groves are open, and these are not best adapted to his purpose. It was a most gen- erous impulse which led Mr. Williams to open the way to country air and exercise for the little prisoners of the metropolis, but well as he has done his work it is plain that he can do it much better if Mr. Duncan’s example is generously copied by others who have country places not far from the city. many More Anovt Taz Natuan Murper Mys- Teay.—We print this morning « strange letter it difficult to | | the energy with which it was conducted on \ both sides, the subject was far from ex- hausted, and consequently we devote a large | part of our space this morning to a continua- tion of the narrative. We print to-day a full account of the ‘foul’ as it is understood by both sides, together with such other matter as the interest of the subject affords. These | stories will be found quite as interesting and | graphic as those we printed yesterday, and will be as eagerly welcomed by our readers. We cannot but deprecate the misunder- | standing between the two university crews. | Harvard and Yale have done more for college boating than all the colleges besides. They | begun the annual contests which have since | assumed so much importance. For years the | race was confined to their crews, It would | have been only a natural selfishness if they | bad declined to open their regattas to crews | from other colleges. Fortunately a wiser and more liberal policy was pursued, and the | races are open to all. For the first time, how- ever, the victory has gone to some other | banner. Columbia has proved herself | the gem of the lake. The venerable in. | stitution that was King’s College when George IIL was King furnished the lads who carried off the prize. But while the glory of | the triamph cannot be dimmed by the feud which occurred in the track of their shell, the | general event is marred in its brilliancy by | the qnarrel of Harvard and Yale. not dwell upon the question of right in this matter. | basis we should accomplish little good. What | we want is peace and good will between the | | colleges, and to obtain this the past, with all its bickerings and bitterness, must be ignored. | Already there have been too many hot words. | While we set out in our news columns all the | grounds of dispute between the crews, not | omitting to reflect the bad temper displayed | during the race and since, we desire to call the attention of those most nearly concerned in this quarrel to the dangers that must necessarily ensue from the course they have chosen to adopt. The “alleged foul’’ was in itself an event to be de- plored. The strong words used on the occa- sion were still more deplorable. But the bitterness since displayed may prove an actual | calamity. Nothing will so surely degrade | amateur boating and bring college sporting | into disrepute as quarrels of this kind, accom- | panied by such bad language and so much | bad temper, In any event, these disputes, | liamentary phraseology, could do no good. | The race for the year is over. The victor has | | been crowned. The victory and the defeats We need | If we attempted to discuss it on that | | even were they conducted in the most par- | from « pardoned convict bearing on the Na- | and everything that concerns them alike be- | than murder mystery, and purporting to give | long to the dead past. Columbia would not yield | # true account of the affair. According to the | her laurels because Harvard and Yale havea writer of this letter the murder was com- mitted by a notorious burglar named Henry Smith, who was one of a gang who entered Mr, Nathan's house for the purpose of plun- der. It will be seen from our report that the police authorities do not consider this letter | of any value, Henry Smith is known to them and so is the writer of the letter. It seems as if this mystery would never be fully unravelled. The police, in spite of their pre- tensions to the contrary, would appear to be ag much in the dark as the general public, It is the opmion of some people that had Captain Jourdan’s life been spared the mur- derer would have been discovered. Of this we are by no means satisfied. Whatever may be the result this letter renders further in- vestigation necessary. It will not do to leave @ single stone unturned. | difference in regard to the manner in which | they behaved to each other. Neither would these crews ask such a sacrifice from Colam- bia. It follows, then, that nothing is to be | gained by keeping the quarrel alive, and to remember it for even a day longer would be to | nurse an old fend which, like the asp which | Cleopatra placed in her bosom, would first strike the breast that warmed and nourished | it, Cook and Dana have no right to bequeath to their college clubs a legacy of hate that must interfere with every regatta for years to ; come. The two captains have been exceed- ingly vigorous in their differences, and their words have been enough to make them feel that the bravest thing they can now do is to forget their quarrel. We sincerely hope this policy will be adopted, and that both the crews and fhe colleges will manifest toward each other in the future only feelings of good will and act the one toward the other in the spirit of mutual forbearance. The regatta of 1874 is the crisis of college | rowing. The growth of the past at first was slow; but who could have predicted that in so few years nine college crews would meet on Saratoga Lake to contend for the palm of vic- tory? Only a remarkable interest in boating, not only among the colleges, but with the people, can account for the magnificent spec- tacle of Saturday’s regatta. It is due to Harvard and Yale that the races were thus popularized. Itis due, as we be- fore remarked, to their magnanimity that such a splendid scene was possible on Saratoga Lake. And yet the only evont to mar the pleasure of this grand occasion was in the differences of these colloges, after a generous and friendly rivalry of many years, It is un- fortunate that they quarrelled at all ; it would be doubly unfortunate if their quarrel should be perpetuated. They cannot afford to allow such a quarrel to continue. In the interest of boating, and of athletic sports in general, they must give over an idle feud. The Ameri- can people have only learned how important itis that our colleges should breed men as well as scholars. Muscle was only coming to be recognized as something that is compatible with mind, Until within a few years the old ond trite Latin maxim, ‘Mens sana in corpore sano,” was oftenest in the mouths of people who were not themselves illustrations of its truthfulness. The traditional stoop of the student disappeared when he learned to handle the oar as well as the classics. Even the college professors, slow as they often are to learn mere worldly wis- dom, were beginning to comprehend that an undergraduate might be equally skilful in a six-oared shell on the river and at a proposi- tion from Euclid on the blackboard. This is too great a gain to be thrown away ona silly fight between two college crews. ‘There is too much to be lost by such a feud being allowed to enter even as an element of discord in future regattas. The quarrel must be forgot- ten before another day shall come. Yale and Harvard, accustomed to contend only with each other for the honors of the annual race, are this year in the false position of con- tending with each other, while Columbia holds the .championship: The disputants must dispute no longer, but try to make up for their bad fortune with the oar by successful efforts in the foot races and remaining feats. To forget their private | griefs in the interest of athletic sports is the duty of the hour. By perpetuating their quarrel they will do no good to themselves and work injury to all—the irreparable injury of bringing college sports into disfavor and disrepute. We hope to hear nothing more on this subject except that all matters in dis- pute between the crews have been amicably adjusted, and that for the future they intend cultivating the friendly relations of the past. Chicago Aroused. The people of Chicago have become aroused to the necessity of doing something to protect | their city against fire, We believe that they | were similarly aroused three years ago, but the burned district was built up and the affair was | forgotten. Chicago owes something to the | rest of the world, and it is about time that | some of the proposed safeguards were adopted. It is now promised that the water supply is to | be improved, wooden buildings are to be re- | moved from the city limits and the fire de- partment is to be thoroughly reorganized. It | is to be hoped that these good resolutions will | not be suffered to end, like the great confla- | grations, in smoke. It looks promising to | find that the insurance companies are now | aroused as well as the people, and the Board of Underwriters have resolved to entirely | withdraw tho protection of the companies they represent unless these precautionary measures | are adopted. If the insurance offices can be | relied on to adhere to their determinaticn we | shall no doubt behold such reforms in Chi- cago as will prevent a recurrence of such con- | flogrations as those which havo twice devas- tated portions of the city. Otherwise we fear | that the ardor of the people may again cool | off with the dying embers. The June Record of the Weather. The weather summary for the month of | June presents some anomalous conditions, | which the comet students may interpret. | Last month, it appears, was comparatively | free from the great storms and cyclones, but | was especially prolific of severe local and elec- trical storms. Approximately it is estimated that at least five hundred and fifty such thun- | der storms have occurred within the limit of | the observations from which this summary is | compiled. If so many of these disturbances | have been witnessed how many more have | probably passed unregistered ? | Inthe matter of atmospheric temperature | the past month is distinguished for its unusual | warmth, and the heat has been very evenly | distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. But west of these mountains the temperature has been below the mean of many years, and simi- lar to that of the past month in Western | Europe. No one has supposed that the effect | of Coggia’s comet would be felt on the earth unless about or after it was nearest the sun. We can argue nothing, it would seem, from the high June temperature east of the Missis- sippi, which, perhaps, may be explained by the excess of rainfallin the region westward ‘and the consequent enlarged liberation of latent heat. But the July average thermome- ; tric readings ought to afford some test for ascertaining if any thermal influence reaches | our planet from the peribelioned comet. If such an influence is potential it ought to be unmasked by the extensive and exact results recorded in the review. We shall see, Mayor Havemurer is evidently disposed to treat the charges on which Governor Dix has called upon him for his defence with as much contempt as he can express without commit- ting himself as grossly as he did when he first | vacancies in the Police Commission. The Mayor thinks the protection of Mr. Myer Stern of far more consequence than the Gov- ernor’s summons, He has duties to attend to without hurrying himself about any such non- sense. The Governor can wait until he is ready, which may be in a day or two, or may be in a week. his is the tone the Mayor has adopted when speaking of charges of officifi scandal of his administration sooner than the people bave hoped. received the Governor's notification of tho | out the duty of the prosecuting officer in | bringing official misconduct to justice, | Sternbach sold to his relative, Stern, for the misconduct, which may rid the city of the | NiiW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, <——- - _ ; The Department of Charities end | muritime Highways ¢o the fndian |The Mayor om Removals and Resig- Correction—A Few Words to the Ocean. nations. District Attorney. No person expected from Mayor Havemeyer any other than a whitewashing report in rela- tion to the management of the Department of Charities and Correction. The indifferenco of the Mayor to the interests of the citizens when the interests of his personal friends are at stake has been so frequently displayed that the result in this case was anticipated. Mr. Meyer Stern stands in the same relation to the Mayor in the tainted department as Mr. Char- lick stood in the Police Commission. The Mayor's son supplies teas, &o., and the Mayor's son-in-law supplies butter for all the institu- tions under charge of Mr. Stern and his asso- ciates. What wonder, then, that the Mayor should feel convinced that ‘‘the administra- tion of the affuirs of the Department of Public Charities and Correction is in the best hands; that it is conducted honestly, con- scientiously and in tho interests of the public,” ond that he should “repose the highest confidence in the gentlemen composing the Board?” It would be idle to criticise the pretended ‘‘investigation’’ and to expose the falsehoods and evasions in the report, for the Mayor in his stolidity is as in- different to criticism ag he is insensible to shame. But we hope to convince Mr. Wil- liam A. Booth and Mr. Howard Potter, who, less wise than Mr. Sturgis, have given a sort of half way indorsement to the scandalous attempt to cover up gross acts of official mal- feasance, that they have done something of which, as respectable citizens, they should be heartily ashamed. Our business now is with the District At- torney and the Grand Jury. Mr. Havemeyer states that the terms of the presentment of the Grand Jury against the practices of the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction were ‘go vague that the District Attorney did not find it expedient to take any action thereon.” We remember how earnestly the pub- lication of the presentment of the Grand Jury and the testimony on which it was based was opposed in the Dis- trict Attorney's office. A copy was fortunately procured by the Hznatp, notwithstanding the efforts to suppress its publication. But for this the story of its ‘‘vagueness’’ might pass current, and the assertion of the Mayor that the presentment was based solely on the charge of a dismissed subordinate might be accepted as the truth. We now desire to call the attention of our citizens, and especially of the District Attorney and the Grand Jury, to the’ evidence thus falsified by the Mayor. Mr. Bowen, one of the Commissionors of Charities and Correction, testified that imme- diately after the present Commissioners took office he found the requisitions for dry goods marked as ‘‘referred to Mr. Stern.” He dis- covered that Mr. Stern was purchasing or causing to be purchased these dry goods in conflict with the rules of the Board, which re- quired the purchasing to be done by the pur- chasing agent. He found that the goods were purchased of a relative of Mr. Stern, and that they were charged to the city above the market price. He told his associates that Sternbach was raising his goods twenty per cent over the price they originally cost, and eventually refused to certify to any more of such bills. Mr. James B, Shaw testified that he had been employed in the Auditor's Bureau in the Comptroller's office. Lewis Sternbach’s bills for dry goods to the amount of $3,847 were examined by him. In conformity with his duty he procured samples of the goods as de- livered, inquired into the value of similar cloth, found the charges to be exorbitant and refused to pass the bill. The goods charged forty-five cents a yard could be pur- chased in the market at thirty-five cents, He reported the facts to the Auditor and was told | to let the matter lie over. Subsequently he was transferred to another bureau, and the exorbitant bills were then paid by the Comp- troller. Mr. C. H. Wheeler, of the firm of McIntosh, Green & Co., testified that Lewis Sternbach purchased of them for $2,932 the same goods | he transferred to the city for $3,847. Stern- bach represented that he was buying the goods for the California trade, The cloth which city at forty-five cents a yard, cost thirty-five cents, and was never sold by them higher than thirty-seven and a half cents a yard. Jobbers would not sell it at retail for more than thirty- seven and a half cents per yard. William P. Lampson, the discharged pur- chasing agent, only testified that the Melton, purchased by Sternbach at thirty-five cents, was transferred by him to the Department of Charities and Correction at forty-five cents a yard, and that Sternbach is a relative of Com- missioner Stern, The rest of his testimony related only to his own discharge and had nothing to do with the case, Now, we ask District Attorney Phelps what there 1s ‘‘vague’’ about this testimony? We ask him if the names of Stern and Sternbach had been changed to Tweed and Ingersoll whether he would have regarded the transac- tion as too insignificant to require further proceedings? There is a certain law known as the City Charter of 1873, which requires that bids shall be invited for all supplies purchased by a department to an amount exceeding one thousand dollars, and makes it a misdemeanor to violate that provision. Did it never occur to the District Attorney that this law had bsen violated by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, and that by altering and cut- ting up bills they had shown a wilful deter- mination to evade the law? We invite the attention of the Grand Jury, now in session, to this testimony, and we appeal to the fore- man whether it is not his duty to make a fur- ther examination into these “‘vague’’ charges. We can promise him testimony enough to fill half a dozen true bills, if he will bring up the inquiry. And we think the District Attorney will aid him in the work of purification, es- pecially as Governor Dix has so clearly pointed Tux Lonpon Times prints the complaint of an English firm to the effect that it had applied for a contract to supply rails for the Berlin and Anhalt Railway—that its tender was lower than those of their German opponents, but that the government decided in favor of the Germans on account of their nationality. If there is such a thing a8 an independent press in Prussia here is a fine chance for a sermon on corruption. | terian church. The practicability of steam lanes on the ocean has recently been magnificently demon- strated by the maritime authorities of the Netherlands. While the question has been agitated whether definite ship tracks can be laid down on the narrow Atlantic the Dutch navigators have successfully marked them out on the wide wastes of ocean stretching from the English Channel to Java, From innu- merable log books and marine registers of vessels sailing the Indian and Atlantic oceans these tracks around the Cape of Good Hope have been studied league by league and the results tabulated for every month in the year, so that the mariner, going or returning, has, in charted form, the best lines of sailing. The newly published Dutch charts indicate the deduced lanes most advantageous for each month—an advantage which will be felt by every seaman who, through stress of weather, has been driven off the main sea road, and who will thus find it relatively easy to fetch up the right track again with the least possi- ble delay. These highways have been laid down re- gardless of all theoretical considerations, and have been rigidly computed as the exclusive result of extensive and actual observations. No bypothetical considerations have been allowed any influence in the deductions. The parallel of St. Helena has been selected as the midway point between Java and the Channel as nearly a half-way point for the track. After having ranged all the voyages, considered ac- cording to the date of crossing the St. Helena parallel, a number of parallels and meridians along the route bave been chosen, and the points and times at which these intersecting parallels and meridians were crossed by each ship were noted. These have been the only data employed in the investigation. From a minute analysis ard comparison of the courses steered by each vessel and the time required to run from point to point in each separate moath the mean track of those making the quickest runs has been deduced. One of the most striking results exhibited is the fact that the best sailers are not those which make the best and shortest runs, and that the latter depend more upon the selec- tion of courses than upon the sailing qualities of the ship. It has been thus statistically demonstrated (what common sense suggests, but which seamen have been slow to believe) that time is not lost by sticking closely, where circumstances permit, to the main paths laid down by hydrographic research. The obvious advantages of so doing are, not only in giving greater confidence to the mariner, econo- mizing time, money, risk and life, but also in keeping him on an oceanic thoroughfare, where, if accident befall him, he is almost certain of speedy succor. As an interesting and telling item in the above mentioned in- vestigation we note that after leaving ten degrees north the vessel bound from Java to England saves four days by cutting the par- allel of thirty degrees north to the eastward of thirty-seven degrees west longitude. By going west of that meridian her voyage is prolonged from sixty-three days so as to cover sixty- seven days. It is true these routes are computed for sailers, but they are equally good, with some modification, for steamers. But their estab- lishment shows the feasibility of the steam lanes on the Atlantic, and the large benefit, as to safety and perhaps even speed, derivable from these defined routes. Church Services and Sermons. The metropolitan churches were fairly attended yesterday, and the ministra- tions of the clergy fervent, and it is to be hoped efficient, despite the attractions of the watering places’and Central Park. Rev. Mr. Hunt, of Princeton College, preached at the Eleventh street Presby- Despite the brilliancy of the outside scene he was as gloomy as would have been Calvin or Knox if caught in a Highland mist, for he went on to show that the ‘divine benevolence is limited by human wickedness."' Rev. Dr. Osborn sounded ao trumpet note calling Christians to the front and commanding them to keep there—a posi- tion which, it appears, is absolutely necessary to the ultimate salvation of the soul, as was well set forth by the Rev. Edward Cross, of Coventry, England, in his portrayal of the lapse of Judas and its consequences. The Catholics made solid progress towards the building up and extension of the Church, Brooklyn was trustful, as usual, in the mercy of the Lord. Rev. Dr. Quint officiated in Mr. Beecher’s pulpit in the morning. There was no service in Plymouth church in the even- ing. The reverend gentleman insisted on sin- ners purifying their souls by Christ’s love— the only means of Soing 50. Hg called on the Lord to cover our “Althy rags,” and thus, in His mercy, enable us to begin a new life. Rey. Dr. Wild preached his farewell for vaca- tion sermon in the Seventh avenue Metho- dist Episcopal church. He denounced cor- raption in courts, which he knows of only by hearsay, and spoke somewhat approvingly of life at Saratoga, of which he knows some- thing. Camp meetings are, in his opin- ion, an excellent cure for the everyday fail- ings of fashionable life, and if the Doctor can induce the fashionables to make a trial of it his effort will have our hearty approval. Rev. Mr. Plummer, of Tennessee, wants to have all earthly things kept in good condition; an excellent idea, as Audy Johnson would say, for wo know not the hour or moment. Rev. Dr. Armitage was at his post, although the faithful who surrounded him were but few. Tox New Inprcrments found against ex-Police Commissioners Charlick and Gard- ner give far more serious aspect to the charges against Mayor Havemoyer. .Jt was pretended by the Mayor that the violation of the law by the convicted Commissioners was only ‘technical ;" that the inspector ille- gally removed was of bad character ; that the jury was not an honest one. Now that the offence is alleged to have been repeated over and over again, and a different Grand Jury have found indictments against the accused, the action of the Mayor in defying the law, ignoring the Governor's notice and reap- pointing the convicted men appears the more outrageous. There seems to have been a con- spiracy to pack the inspectors of election in defiance of the law, and should the new in- dictments lead to conviction the people will demand a severe penalty against the guilty parties. Tho Governor has refused to indorse the removal of the Commissioners of Armories, and hence the attempt of the Mayor to get rid of those officials to gratify a personal spite is defeated. The Governor reminds the Mayor that the Board of Commissioners was created by the Legislature for the express purpose of correcting the abuses that had so long existed in relation to the renting of armories, Under the old system the rents paid in a year amounted to the interest on four mil- lion dollars, while in some instances the bnildings selected for armories were unsafe, and in one case: the Gov- ernor refused to allow the arms and equip- ments of a regiment to be kept in a room im the fourth story of a building in which were located a stable, a hayloft and a depot for the storage of turpentine, oil and varnish. The Governor hopes that as the leases fastened upon the city for armories fall in a great re- form may be secured through the action of the Commission, and as there is no charge of malfeasance or neglect ef duty against the present Commissioners, and as they are gen- tlemen of character and capacity, he sees no reason for their removal. “I think you will agree with me,” writes the Governor, “that the power of removal is a high prerogative, and ought not to be exercised but for grave causes,’’ Such, for instance, we may add, as a bold defiance of law by a public official under the thin pretence of a ‘legal opinion,” or s wilful covering up of malfeagances on the part of subordinates. The recent vagaries of the Mayor have proved the wisdom of that provision of the charter which requires the removal of heads of departments to ba approved by the Governor before taking effect. Mr. Have- meyer now adopts the plan—not a very_effect- ive one thus far—of requesting the resigna- tion of such officials os may happen to incur his displeasure. When two of the Police Commissioners refused to restore Gardner and Charlick to their old positions on the Police Board the Mayor requested the “obstructives’’ to resign. But Commissioner Disbecker told the venerable Mayor to visit place to which we trust, despite his many backslidings, he may never be consigned, and Commissioner Duryee replied that he considered his retention of office necessary to the protection of the interests of the oit- izens. Now the Mayor has called for the resignation of Mr. John Wheeler, the Pres- ident of the Board of Taxes and Assess- ments, but Mr. Wheeler is too earnest in his endeavor to protect the taxpayers and to exe pose the incompetency and trickery of our financial management to comply with the polite request. The best thing we can advise Mr. Havemeyer to do under the circum. stances is to take a dose of his own medicine, and to gratify the people of New York by bim- self resigning. The request would be made by a million of citizens if they could only Pelloye that ss would Be eraneeut. Now Comus the development of the fact that under the old Police Commission, which the Mayor so earnestly endeavored to perpetuate in defiance of the law, the street cleaning business was mainly managed under the direc- tion of one Commissioner, who formed a quo- rum of a Board composed of three members. To-day it was a meeting of the Board, with Gardner only present, and to-morrow a meet- ing composed of Charlick alone. The Board of one proposed the removal of one dump in- spector and the appointment of another, and the motion was put by the mover and carried by the mover with remarkable unanimity. This, no doubt, materially assisted the filling up of lots at Hunter's Point and in those eccentric operations in manure which excited the wonder of the Legislative Investigating Committee. There is nothing like unanimity in such a Board. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, — Captain Selwyn, of the British Navy, is at tae Brevoort House. Major G. W. Schofield, United States Army, ia quartered at the Coleman House. Judge John 8, McCalmont, of Pennsylvania, haa apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Adrte atic, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. S. Fullerton, of St. Louis, is among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City of Chester, i3 stopping at the New York Hotel. Attorney General Walkem, of British Columbis, nas sailed for Europe on the steamer Polynesian. The President is expected at Washington to-day, and the Cabinet will hold their meeting to-mor. row. Major Cyrus B. Comstock, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, bas quarters at the Metropoll- tan Hotel. Captain Trygger, of the Swedish Navy, arrived here yesterday in the ateamship Adriatic, and is at the Grand Central Hotel. Plenty of sympathy with the farmers because the greens are all gone; but how about the poor grasshoppers? No one heeds their pangs of hun- ger. Fine field for Bergh out there. Pannontombi was forbidden to practice in the Court at Pondicherry because he came into the presence of the Judge with his shoes on; but the Supreme Court im France has reversed the Oriental judgment, M. Fontaine, a jeweler of Havre, exhipits in his window a beautilul tobacco jar made of poushed steel representing & capstan and other marine apparatus. It was made for Mr. Moses Grinnell for a yacht race prize. At the ripe age of sixty she stepped from one of the towers of Notre Dame to the pavement, and the only thing about her that remained recogniz- able was the sum of thirteen francs and fifty times. She got down to hardpan. Captain Thomas, of the Greece, has received a gola medal from the Humane Society for the rescue of the passengers of the Europe. Siiver medals have been given to the oMcers and bronze medals and two pounds each to the men who went in the boats. Archibald Forbes has returned to London from India, whither he went to write up the famine ior the Datly News. By this trip the News loses him, for he was offered in India a lucrative position aa editor of the Znglishman, and he will go vat to accept tt. Abont tnis time look out for a pretty little Jesutt- ical fiction in Germany, to the effect that the story about a conspiracy to shoot Bismarck is all moon. shine and that the man who fired is not a Catholic, but that the whole transaction is “pat up” oy Bise marck himself to cast odium on the Catholics and justify turther steps against chem, Baron Grant gave Leicester square to London, and on the day of the opening the “sandwich” men walked the streets of London placardea with the names of the “companies” the great financier has brought out in nis time, one of which was Little Emma. Sum total of paid up capital in all the companies, $120,000,000; present value, $20,000,000. Pretty difference in favor of the financier. since then Grant has lost bis seat in Pariiament on ac- count of corrupt practices at the elections, Money is a good thing even in England, but the waya by which it Was obtained must be covered up by the formetiulness of two or three generations. \,