The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1874, Page 6

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PLE fal diversion or misapplication of any moneys ‘The City Goverument—Have We Any { examination of witnesses before a judge 16 | good place to come to, and it is worth while Protection Against Maladministra- tom? + There are two ways in which the people of New York may be protected against the mis- conduct of unfaithful public officers—one through the exercise of the power of removal and the other through the action of the Grand Jury. In case of the neglect or refusal of the Proper authority to remove the offender when a public trust has been abused the only resource of the people is im an indictment by a Grand Jury. There ig a provision in the charter au- thorizing the summary and public examina- tion by a justice of the Supreme Court of any head of department or any officer of the Cor- poration who may be charged with ‘“wrong- or fund, or any violation of the provisions of | law,”’ &e., on application for such exanrina- tion being made under oath by the Mayor, Comptroller, five Aldermen, a commissioner ot accounts, or five citizens who are taxpayers ; but no penalties follow if the charges should be established. The examination is re- duced to writing and filed in the office of the County Clerk, where it |is open to. public inspection, But proceedings looking to the punishment of the offender or his expulsion from office must be | taken afterwards, as we have said, either by the authority possessing the power of removal or by the Grand Jury. Police Commissioners | Charlick and Gardner were examined before a | judge, and when Mayor Havemeyer neglected to act upon the charges of official misconduct made against those Commissioners their case was taken into the Grand Jury room, and trial, conviction, sentence and expulsion from office followed. The law thus steps in for the | protection of the people and the punishment | of corrupt or illegal acts when the Mayor re- | fuses or neglects to perform his duty by re- | moving unfaithful officials; and it is a pre- posterous and dangerous doctrine which in- sists that after the law has thus caat its shield before the endangered community it may bé stricken down by the hand of the Mayor. The object of the city charter is to secure good government, to provide agairst waste, extravagance or corruption on the part of | public officers; to erect barriers against fraud, incompetency and violations of law; to exact | responsibility from all city officials, from the | Mayor down. When the charter of 1873, under which we are now supposed to live, was enacted, the people of New York had just | protector now left to the citizens of New York. | have allowed the city to be charged exorbitant only intended to protect the Governor from the necessity of hearing the testimony him- self—a task which, in the event of a number of charges being made against different officers atthe same time, would seriously embarrass the business of the government. Directly the Governor entertains the charges the legal point of their sufficiency is established. When he orders the taking of testimony it is only for the purpose of ascertaining whether the charges can be established by proof, or whether it can be shown that they are false. He then says in fact to the Mayor:—If you are guilty of the offences here alleged you will be removed ; if you can disprove them you will not be removed. He does not say :— If these charges are proven I will then in- quire whether the acts alleged against you are a direct violation of some particular law which will warrant your removal from office ; for when he entertains the charges he de- cides that the acts alleged are such as demand the removal of the Mayor, and the only point that remains to decide is whether or not those acts have been committed. In this view of the case the inconsequential character of the Mayor's reply to the charges can at once be seen. We believe it to be the duty of Governor Dix to order the testimony to be taken in all the charges made against Mayor Havemeyer. As wo have shown, the Governor is the last ‘The Mayor refuses to investigate charges of official misconduct against the heads of de- | partments, and protects them in violations of law and acts of questionable honesty. The Grand Jury and the Courts do their duty by indicting and convicting some of the unfaith- ful officers, and Mayor Havemeyer nullifies the action of the Courts and restores the offenders to office. It is not alone in the case of the single indictment on which Gardner and Charlick have already been tried that this defiance of law and this disregard of the duties of his office have been shown by Mayor Havemeyer. Other indictments are pending against the same persons, yet he has appointed one of them, Mr. Gardner, to another municipal com- mission, The Commissioners of Charities and Correction have been guilty of gross irregularities ; havo violated law again and again in the purchase of supplies, and altered bills in order to evade the law, thus showing a knowledge of the character of their acts ; learned by experience the necessity of pru- dence and caution in framing laws relating to | public trusts. The city had been cruelly | New York, Tuesday, August 11, 1874, bees perecoetes = coer dl | THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. ‘To NewsDFALERS aND THE PouBiic: — The New Yous Henarp 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 Sunpar Heraxp along the line. Newsdealers und others are notified to send in their orders to the Hznaxp office as early as possible. Irom our reports this morning the probabilities are thai the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Want Srazrr Yxsrerpar.—Stocks were heavy, closing at a decline. Gold went off to 109§. Money was still easy. Tue TourxisH Governmenr has suspended the pubiication of an influential newspaper for the reason that it printed some sharp criticisms on the financial condition of the Porte government. The prosecutor will plead, perhaps, the old English argument— the greater the truth the greater the libel. Tar Amentcan Base Bat Cruse’ mem- bers played an exhibition game in England yesterday. The weather was not very favor- able for out-door sports, but, notwithstanding, the attendance of spectators was numerous and fashionable. The Red Stockings won the game. The young fellows will bring Mr. Bull round on the fiy. Tux Geaman GovERNMENT remains exceed- ingly solicitous concerning the recognition of the Spanish Republic by the great Powers of Europe. Kaiser Wilhelm is now in communi- cation with Kaiser Franz Joseph, of Austria, | on the subject. This must be very consoling to the cause of the European democracy. Quite different from the policy which was | maintained in Berlin and Vienna in 1848. An Exprement m “Crvm. Ricats.'’’"—The new school trustees appointed by the District of Columbia Commissioners have already taken radical action upon assuming the duties of their office. Their first step has been to attempt a complete reorganization of the school system of the District, thus making compulsory the mingling of the children of the white and black races. Serious trouble seems to confront them at the beginning of this experiment. The old trustees will en- deavor to obtain an injunction on the ground | that their appointment is illegal. If, how- ever, they should remain in office, they will probably persevere in the policy which they yesterday inaugurated, and thus afford to | Congressmen and the country a practical test | of the wisdom or folly of the Civil Rights | Taz Genman Mouster at Versaries has officially informed the French Cabinet that the government of Emperor William intends to recognize the Spanish Republic. If some | one or all of the great Powers of Europe would undertake, in a generous and unselfish spirit, to settle up the affairs of unhappy Spain it | would be « really Christian work. In the meantime Carlist and republican armies are marching and countermarching in the field. Will Germany free the olive branch from the blight of war? Usrren States Bowps have been within the last few years much more under the manip- ulation of thieves and forgers than either the | or the holders have imagined. Besides the great forgeries by which the Euro- | pean money markets were flooded the gov- ernment securities have been, even in this country, successfully employed by rogues in | “¢arning « dishonest penny.” It is grati- | fying occasionally to learn that some of them | sre made to answer for their crimes. Two | charges are made. plundered by men who seemed then to be | to obey strictly all the provisions of the charter, but, in order that the people might have security that the duty would be faith- | fully performed, the examination before a Supreme Court Judge was provided for; the power of removal was given; the taxpayers | were authorized to examine the books and | papers of the departments; commissioners of | accounts were created, and the ‘powers and limitations’’ of all the departments and officers of the government were minutely set forth. Hither these safe- | guards and limitations were designed | for a good purpose or were inserted in the | law to deceive and mislead the people. If the former, then it is clearly the duty of the Chief Magistrate of the city to see that none of the barriers are broken down and that none of the limitations are disregarded. When he fails in | this duty it is just as clearly incumbent on the Grand Jury and the courts of justice to | step in for the protection of the people, for without the action of the Mayor no officer of the city government, however grossly he may | break the law, can be removed until he has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving a violation of his oath of office. The statute then declares his office vacant. This is pre- cisely what took place in the case of the Police Commissioners. The Mayor sustained them in their disregard of the law, and the Courts tried, convicted and sentenced them. But | then a new and unexpected difficulty sprang up. After the law had turned Messrs. Gard- ner and Charlick out of office for the violation of their official oaths the Mayor restored them to the positions they had forfeited. He not only refused to protect the people by him- self investigating the conduct of the Police Commissioners, but, after the only remaining power of protection had been successfully ap- pealed to, he instantly nullified its action and reappointed the convicted men. If this is allowed to be the end of the mat- ter, it is absurd to pretend that the provisions of the charter have any force or that any head of a department who may be guilty of official misconduct can ever be removed from office. A remedy for the evil is, however, wisely pro- vided by the law. The Governor of the State 4s empowered to act in just such a situation tor the protection of the community. He may remove the Mayor from office in the same manner as he removes sheriffs. It has been pretended that this power of removal is re- stricted te cases in which an actual violation of some particular law can be legally proved against a Mayor. But this interpretation is in direct conflict with the provision which | gives the Governor the additional power to suspend the Mayor from office directly the If the Mayor could only be removed after a legal trial had proved bim guilty of having broken a particular law it would not be consistent to allow his suspen- sion—which is equivalent to a removal while it lasts—before the charges had received any investigation, Besides, the exami- nation betore a county judge, pro- vided for in the law relating to sheriffs, is designed only to test the truth or falsity of the charges laid before the Governor. It is | in no sense a trial to ascertain whether a law has been violated. The Judge proceeds to take the testimony of the witnesses pro- duced betore him by the Attorney General (in the case of a Mayor) ; the answers are reduced to writing; the testimony is read to and sub- scribed by the witnesses, certified by the Judge and delivered to the Attorney General to be transmitted by him to the Governor. It follows that the Governor is the sole judge as cases, in which justice may be hoped for by the people, aze this morning narrated in our la@ revorts. to whether an offence grave enough to call for the exercise of the power of removal has or has not been charged against the Mayor. The able to set the Iaw at defianes, It -is fair to | cts, but bas resorted to a fictitious investiga-» conclude that the barriers erected ngainst any | tion anda false statement in regard to a pre- violation of the provisions of the new charter | tended report of the Commussioners of Ac- were regarded as indispensuble and were in- | Counts for the PArpire of screening them from tended to be kept sacred. It was not only | justice. The action of the Mayor eee made the duty of officers of the Corporation | the Commissioners of Accounts into a falsifi- | lessly? prices for dry goods, flour and other articles ; have brought upon themselves grave sus- picions by extravagunce and misrepresenta- tions, The Mayor has not only justified their cation of the debt statement of December 31 is one of the most reprehensible of the many reprehensible acts he has committed. If the last protection of the people against such acts as these should fail we may as well conclude that the laws are a farce, and that our public officers can defy them at their will, What the Straws Indicate. Grant, like every great man in political life, is evidently ‘in the hands of his friends,” and if this be the case some valuable third term indications may be obtained from the con- sideration of who his friends are. His friends, politically, so far as they have had a chance to make their aspirations felt, are for the spoils, pure and simple—or rather, corrupt and double ; and it can scarcely be the President's misfortune, but distinctly is his fault, if the characters of the men who are the keepers of his political conscience are not such as to re- assure the country against the allegation that the promptings of an inordinate greed and ambition are more heeded than considerations of respect for constitutional usages. Place- men and jobbers care only to have that man in power whose ear they have already secured, and patriotic precedents do not stand in their way. But General Grant has friends of another order—friends in a higher political atmos- phere, and with more legitimate objects of intellectual activity; and the details of his relations with men of this stamp may cast as much light on his projects as do the recog- nized instincts of the cringing dependents who “crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow fawning.”” Is Senator Fenton one of Grant's “friends” in the new project, and is the continuance of his friendship contingent upon the disposition to be made of the New York Custom House? All at least to refer to what would be a very pretty arrangement, everybody being agreed. The Sacrifice of Virtue. It is a long time since the terrible story of domestic infelicity which just now engages such a large share of attention was first made public. From that day to this it has dragged its slow length along, one surprise following another, but the end seeming as far away as in the beginning. This prolonged suspense has contributed in a great degree to give dramatic interest to a tale that is little short of a tragedy. First came Theodore Tilton's statement, containing charges against Henry Ward Beecher of the most serious nature. These charges were apparently supported by proofs in the lettera of Mr. Beecher himself. Against these Mr. Beecher interposed a gen- eral denial; but as he failed to make any specific explanation of his own words in so much as a single instance his answer had no more effect than the plea of ‘not guilty’ in criminal procedure. Mrs. Tilton also entered & general denial and submitted to a cross- examination which revealed the inside history of an unhappy home, suggesting some of the reasons why a faithful wife might turn to a guilty love, but denying actual guilt on her own part or that of her alleged seducer. At this stage of the case two facts stood out in very bold relief—the unexplained letters of the clergyman and the damaging admissions of the woman. That which was bad had become worse. Apparently it admitted of but two answers—guilty love between these two or @ platonic attachment which had its founda- tion in the sufferings of the one and the sym- pathies of the other. And it must not be for- gotten that the woman had written with her own hand the accusation against her pastor and her womanhood. This, it is true, she alleged had been extorted from her by her husband, but it was only another reason why the whole trath in this matter should be told. As it stood, the weight of the testimony was terribly against Mr. Beecher. Many of his countrymen believed him guilty, but all of them were anxious that he should establish his innocence. He was a teacher of religion who was little below the prophets and apostles in the minds of his disciples. He was a great man, and men and women had long fondly believed he was also a good man. But for weeks and months a dark cloud of suspicion and doubt has enveloped him. He is charged with debauching the wife of his friend and using his high office as a means of the basest sensuality. Surely this is an offence which he would be anxious to dispruve —it is an offence, too, which society has a right to demand shall be disproved or punished. A committee of Mr. Beecher’s own choosing sat upon the case to judge it. The accuser went before it, making his charges and bring- ing the proofs in his possession. The accused answered, as we have indicated, only in general terms, refusing to testify explicitly until another person, who had occupied the position of mutual friend to the parties and who was the depository of the confidences of both, had testified before the committee. This friend was Frank Moulton. Moulton’s posi- tion certainly was an unenviable one, but it was a position that he seems gladly to have assumed, and now he need not complain because he finds it involves other responsi- bilities than those of keeping other people’s secrets. It sometimes becomes a greater duty to reveal a secret than to keep it. This is Mr. Moulton's responsibility in this case. The interests of truth, of justice, of womanly and ministerial purity alike require him to tell all that he knows. Both Beecher and Tilton have adjured him to tell it. The confidential relations he once held toward the parties have been stripped from his shoulders by those who imposed the duty of silence upon him. But he stands behind a spectre of his own raising and talks nonsense about the sacredness of friendship. He has written two statements, which he may or may not publish, but, according to his own account of these statements, they contain nothing that was not known before. Then he offends by hint- ing at mysterious exposures under im- possible circumstances and tries to play the hero when the hero is not required. In all this he is simply Nick Bottom, the weaver, assum- ing the character of Pyramus; he is worse, for he is playing the clown at a funeral. In the meantime some of Mr. Beecher's friends call this a ‘‘vindication."’ It is vindication with a vengeance. But neither party can afford to let the matter rest here. If Tilton should be content with this disposition his enemies would believe his charges as base as they were baseless. Should Mr. Beecher be that is said in reference to the important points that these queries may touch tends to sustain the allegations of our Long Branch correspondent to the effect that the Senator and the President will come to terms mutually satisfactory to the aspirant for a third term and the aspirant for a renewal of the political control that the possession of the federal pa- tronage in this State can give. ‘There will be a rattling among the dry bones if the Custom House should be handed over as a “material guarantee’ in the trade with Fenton for his support of the third term; and if it is handed over it will certainly be very safe to say that it is a counter in no small game—that it can be the price for services no less splendid than those thet point to a per- manent establishment of the one man power. But shall Conkling be let down without con- sideration for his feelings? Has he from a fast friend become 8 foe? Conkling is “hon- est, Iago!’’ ‘Honest, my Lord?” Has he not Presidential aspirations—and can a man with such aspirations be slaughtered too ruth- Tr May Be Porto Rico.—Suppose it is ‘Porto Rico that Germany wants, and Spain is willing to concede for support against the Carlists. That would be a very interesting little question indeed. The results would prove quite an episode. After allowing the Spaniards to bully us for years because we believed they do not know how to fight we | should have on our hands a war with the Germans, who have certainly of late shown themselves expert scldiers. As a matter of course Germany will never be allowed to plant the flag of the Empire on American soil. That is as certain as that the United States will not attempt to capture Berlin, These Spanish negotiations, however, seem to indi- satisfied even his sincerest friends would feel that the dark cloud has not been lifted. We cannot believe, then, that Mr. Moulton will persist in his later policy. It is crafty, we admit, but it is unmanly and unworthy; worse even than this, it is more deathly than 0 pestilence. This terrible secret is under- mining public morality and bringing the Christian religion into disrepute. Every day that the controversy lasts is the confinuance of a moral plague. ‘The only cure for this fear- fal malady is to tell the truth and so have done with the matter, fall who may. Moulton cannot evade his responsibility and retain the respect of his fellow men, and hence we be- lieve that in the end he will tell what he knows and so afford an opportunity for a fair and just judgment in a case that otherwise will be prejudged because it is not judged. Tax Wu.11ams Prcntcs.—Fifteen thousand little children out of the city streets have been made happy for at least a day each this sum- mer by the Williams picnics; and none can say how much longer nor how many days in each little life have been made the brighter for the remembrance of that pleasure, and perhaps even by the discovery that there is something else in the world beside the city streets and courts and alleys. It is a beauti- fal and a most laudable charity to which Mr. Williams has given his summer labors, and we are sorry to hear that these treats for the little ones are likely to be discontinued for the season, though it is a great deal to have had them carried on till we are so near the end of the warm weather. We trust the charitable will rally once more to so good a cause so clearly designated. It costs just thirty-eight cents to take one child on one of these pic- nics, and people may indulge their leisure with the thought of sending any fixed number cate that Germany has a desire to come to this wide of the water. Porto Bioo would bea of little fellows out on a trip. As it only costs bree dollars and cighty cents to send out ten. NEW YORK HERALD; TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEXT, ladies and gentlemen may indulge the Inxury © a very fair limit without great injury to their purses. The Threatened Water Famine Northwestern Europe. The alarming condition of the s:reams and rivers of Northwestern Europe is attracting much attention there, and has called forth several serious scientific prophecies. In the early summer of 1870 MM. Belgrand and Le- moine, of France, announced thatthe summer and autumn would be characterized by ex- treme dearth of the subterranean water-sup- ply—a conclusion reached by careful com- parison of the precedent rainfall, Their pre- diction, based on their joint labors, was too closely fulfilled, and the great aridity of the soil was prolonged into the winter of 1870-71. ‘These two able investigators, after recent re- ductions of French rainfall returns, jointly predict a similar water famine for northern France during the summer and autumn of 1874. Itseems that their announcement had hardly been made before another iudependent investigator, working from similar data, ar- rived at the same results for southwestern France. The inquiries excited by the almost simultaneous prophecies, from different sources, have developed the fact that the condition of the soil in several other portions of North- western Europe, including the British Isles, indicates great dryness and de- ficiency in the subterranean water sources. It might at first appear hazardous to venture any such statements as these scientists put forth. But a moment's reflection will show otherwise. The summer rainfall does not control the supply to the myriad springs and streamlets on which agricultural interests and municipal health depend. The rains of summer are so rapidly evaporated by the sun and the superheated earth that thoy cannot keep up the perennially drained fountains beneath the soil. For this purpose an aban- dant winter rainfall is necessary, and where the precedent winter’s rains have been few end light the heated term finds the subter- ranean reservoirs greatly depleted. Such was the case when the present summer opened, after an extraordinarily small winter rainfall, in Northwestern Europe. The dryness of the cold season in 1857 produced the remarkable droughts of 1858, and the dryness of the last winter on this portion of the Continent, it is forcibly argued, will be felt from the present time till next October. Indced, so early as May the want of water was seriously felt in France, and farmers had, in some localities, to cart their water from the rivers. No sum- mer rainfall can now replenish the deep caverns of the earth in time to avert the threatened scarcity of water, which will, in all likelihood, increase until the last of October. It is happily true, however, that the August rainfall may suffice to avert any great decline in the agricultural yield throughont the dry sections. But the facts elicited by the inqui- ries of the scientists named may prove a timely warning to European and other coun- tries to provide against these cyclical periods of water dearth, which might at any time cre- ate a famine as frightful as that in Bengal. The agriculturist of our day, not content with stripping the soil of its forest covering and exposing, it to the excessive vicissitudes of frost and sun blaze, has pushed the system of drainage to a ruinous extreme. To derange or impair the character of the soil in the densely peopled districts of Europe is to strike at the root of national existence and reduce every industry to a state of languor and de- pression. Instead of drainage we now need the most expeditious, economic and extensive systems of irrigation, which shall frugally em- ploy the gathered stores dropped from the clouds in supplying moisture at all growing seasons. Then, instead of periodic crop fail- ures and famines, the soil of the great grain growing countries would vie with the banks cf the Nile in prolific yield. Tae Ross Mystery.—The number of ‘inno- cent parents who have been annoyed through the fact that they possess a youthful offspring gf the age of ‘‘poor little Charley’’ can never, perhaps, be fully ascertained. The vagaries of the Philadelphia police are such that the number cannot be small. One of the remarkable ‘‘clews’’ which they discovered and unsuccessfully followed was traced to a Indicrous termination by one of our correspondents. Another ‘“‘clew” is now exciting attention in Bennington, Vt. This possesses many elements of probability; and yet the explanation offered appears very lucid and truthful. To-day may develop it into another illusion; but the eagerness with which the shadowy thread was seized upon shows at least a hopeful improve- ment in the spirit of the detectives. If it bear any fruit at this late hour, it will, in- deed, be a marvel and a wonder. Tae Buack Huis Exproration.—Despite the depreciatory predictions of the class of parasites who fatten upon the government maintenance of the Indian braves in idleness, Colonel Custer’s expedition has caused no bloodshed and has awakened no hostility in the regions traversed in his march to the Black Hills, His energetic movement may, perhaps, inspire o little awe in the savages who chance to cross his path, and the reports which we now receive of rich discoveries of gold and silver among the mountains by his soldiers show that it has already been suc- cessful in attaining its principal object. Wuisxry 1x Necro Porrrica—The New Orleans Picayune gives an amusing descrip- tion of one of the sessions of the recent Republican State Convention of Louisiana, which we reprint elsewhere. The politi- cal measures enacted by this body seem to have all resulted from the crazy inspiration of the whiskey that was | drunk during the recesses in the business routine. The “free fight’? which took place more resembled a Fiji war dance than anything else in the ludicrous attempts of the partici- | pants to dodge pistol balls and bowie knives. One thing, however, is very certain in regard to the Convention. In moments of excite- | ment the honorable but sable delegates ap- | plied choice epithets one to another, and in | these polite designations it is possible that | they all spoke the solemn and unchangeable truth. Tur Trapz Union Munpgs.—The ver- dict of the Coroner's jury investigating the killing of Kilduff in Williamsburg was rendered yesterday against James Burke, who, as definitely as can be ascer- tained, gave the decenged laborer the last blow before he breathed his last. Whether Burke is guilty of wilful murder or not, this case, which exemplifies so fully the dangerous tendency of the trade unions, ought to be a timely warning to the working classes against the folly of cultivating such a spirit of intol- erant hostility as has here been developed. Out of Town for the Summer. Mrs. Grundy, or her appointed representa- tive, watches with a jealous eye the shutters and hall doors of her children at this particu- lar period of the year. Woe to the slave of fashion that is caught peeping out at the stages on the avenue or presumes to prome- nade Broadway in the month of August. Her punishment would be swift and unrelenting. Now that every one is, or should be, out of town, it is @ matter of interest to know’ where they are, what they are doing and how they like it. There has been quite a revolution at the watering places within the last few years. ‘The lofty pretensions of hotel proprietors are considerably lowered, and extortion is not as rife as during the haleyon summers immedi- ately succeeding the national unpleasantness. Bankruptcy is an excellent cure for the ox- orbitant charges at summer hotels, and it dhas been applied so frequently to mine host and his victims that a compromise in the way of reasonable rates has generally been adopted. The scattering of the birds of fashion has been complete this summer. Europe claims a larger number than ever before, and the well-plumaged belles of New York may be found at all the German spas, where the cry of ‘faites le jeu’’ no longer lures tourists to their rain, or airing themselves among the lakes and glaciers of Switzerland, or wandering through galleries and venerable ruins in sunny Italy. Saratoga, Newport and the Branch can boast of faces that a couple of months hence will grace the boxes of the Academy, and in little odd nooks in the mountains or quiet country farms some of Mrs. Grundy’s numerous family are safely ensconced. The revolution in the watering places has also affected the former tireless round of fashionable dissipation that took away froma summer trip any sanitary ten- dencies it might naturally possess, and people have learned to enjoy themselves more sen- sibly and rationally. A stroll on the beach or a moonlight drive on the lake shore is found to be more attractive than a ball or a hop every night in the close parlors of a monster hotel. That the change is liked by the fair patronesses of the summer resorts is evident from the general lack of attendance at those absurd follies of Terpsichore which belong properly to the winter season, and the result will be shown when they return next month with nature’s rouge on their cheeks and fresh, healthful blood coursing through their veins, + Comerarny Romance.—‘‘The loves of the stars,’’ much sung about by very imaginative poets, have. never heretofore been supposed by prosaic mortals to have any real existence, It has remained for Professor Swift, in observ- ing critically the movements of Borelli’s comet, which has recontly made its appear- ance, to discover amorous and at the same time fickle tendencies on the part of that cap- tivating stellar gallant. He has caught the extremely fast youth in the very act of flirting with several feminine stars in rapid succes- sion, who in their guilty looks confessed their vain and silly flame. If the gentle ladies of the skies observe our terrestrial scandals it would be well, perhaps, for them to take heed of so changeable on upstart, for it now ap- pears the fashion for those who have been most exalted in their places to fall to the great- est depths. Tur Prizz Rrna.—Unless the authorities of the territory which has been made the ren- dezvous of the men who comprise what is called the prize ring are more alert than usual, there will to-day occur one of those revolting exhibitions of human brutishness which are apt to make men converts to the Darwinian theory, at least so far as relates to the develop- ment of bulldogs. PERSONAL . INTELLIGENCE. seretestipibidiesanss, “Nestverstecken” is the German for tt. No parson was ever fond enough of Susan RB. Chambord is at Marienbad diluting his Bourbon. Secretary Bristow has returned to Washington, Rev. Thomas Guard ts on the watch tower of Zion. La France, a Paris paper of good class, has been sold for $32,000, ‘The iron prepared to enter Beecher’s soul is ap- parently moiten. “ld Pam’ will also be honored witn a statue im, Parliament square. General D. P. Grier, of Illtnois, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Schenck is at Manchester, studying the “various arts” practised there. Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, is regidtered at the Fiftn avenue Hotel. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of tne Atlantic and Great Western Ratlway Company, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, has apart- ments at the Hoffman House. If the Beechera and the Tiltons had only taken a run to Chicago ten years since! “When she gets to tiltin’ better beach ’er,” ts what they say in the small boats. Congressman Chartes Albright, of Pennsylvania, 1a sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Cuvier Grover, United Statea Army, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel, Prince Dolgoronky, alde-de-camp to the Czar, was in Paris with his family in July, en route to Arcachon. General Stephen V. Bendt, of the Ordnance De- partment, United States Army, is at the Gran@ Hotel. One radical ts elected to Congress from Nortm. Carolina, and they say that soot would makea white mark on him. Major Godfrey Weitzel, of the Engineer Conpa, United States Army, is among the recent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Korykowskt, who for offences against the Kecle- slastical laws was ordered to leave Prussia, re- fused—and now teels pat out. “Dizay” and his friends are conservative even on the fish dinner at Greenwich, which the liberal government had discontinued. It was axed tae end of Jaly. Schliemann {s pleading before the Areopagus for his property. He found Priam’s treasures, took the trouble to pry ’em ap, and now. the Turka: want them. Secretary Delano arrived at the Hoffman House ! yesterday morning from Long Branch, and, wa company with Assistant Secretary Cowen, left nas, evening for Newport. ‘i ‘Thurlow Weed is making an effort to get before the public again by asking why grasshoppers don’t have tatis? But tt is too thin, Mr. Weed— too thim.—-Detrott Free Press. Louts Bonaparte, the Prince Imperial, has fa- ished bis second year at Woolwich and nas gone home to Arenenberg, in Switzerland, where ¢he Hmpress at present resides, There is a witty man in Paris who has been the friend of Thiers for forty years, and he has never bad a conversation with him, though he gays 0@ una Keard Thera tale Qereps Gah