The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1875, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ufter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly tditions of the New Yorx Hxrarp will be tent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every flay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- ual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Huzar. Rejected communications will not be re- mrned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received snd forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL. +NO. 148 — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street—Open irom 10 4. M. tod P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Pi Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 F. M.; cloves at 10 85 THEATRE, ree. M. METR No. 585 Broadway.—Vak ee poorms mero! nty-thin s ANE SHORE sna BLAC ED SUSAN, at 8P. M. Closes at Il P.M. Miss Clara Norris, Mr. George Rignold. EATRE, | reer aud’ Sixth avenue BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, gar avenue.—VAKIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 10:45 | FIFTH AVENUTE THEATRE, | STRRYieRD erect and Broadwas —THE BIG BO- | JANZA, O66 Y. M.; closes at lu Su br. M. AKK GARDEN. ERT, at 8PM, LYCEUM THEATRE, street, near sixth avenue,—La FILLE Fourteenth st DE | MADAME ANGO! and BAGATKLLE, até P.M. Mile. Geottroy. a SAN vRanciaco chet pg L-NEGRO | way, corner of Iwenty-ninth street—! INOTRELSY, ats P. M.; closet at DP. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Bros¢way.—THE LADY vf LY at SP. M.; closes atlua0P. M Miss Ada Dyas, M tague. liable to accidents of the nature which befell it. It does not, however, sp- | pear that the slightest precautions | itshould it break out, With characteristic | ' | times—on a period when traffic is almost = | worshippers, was illuminated, and | directly | people, who rushed wildly to the doors. The | } A, New Holocaust. News of another terrible church | involving the Icss of over sixty lives, con to us by telegmphb. England town, witnessed last night a scene of terror which has no Holyoke, 2 quiet New allel in modern | times save in the herrurs y attended the | burning of the Chore! ct Santiago in Chili | Some years ag During the tesiival ef | Corpus Christi Catholics ave in ‘le habit ot decorating and illuminating ticir churches, and from this cystom the disaster | of yesterday directly sprung. It 18 | somewhat curious that people who un- | dertake to guide, if not to rule the world, | should constantly prove so little skilfal | in managing the very simple matters which naturally fall within their sphere action. It is remarkable that while greater numbers of people assemble | in theatres and other public places, much more of tion by fire than are churches, loss of | life by similar accidents is comparatively | rare. The cause is not far to seek. In the theatre there is method and system, with constant provision for just | | such cases of accident. does not spread so rapidly among the | people, even should the un- reasoning crowd become stampeded the facility of egress permits escape without | involving those terrible scenes which almost | invariably accompany accidents in churches. Tbe church at Holyoke belonged to a con- gregation of French Catholics. It was a wooden structure and therefore peculiarly and were taken to guard againet the occurrence of fire, nor were any means at hand to combat carelessness the wooden church, crowded with this | led to the awful sacrifice which followed. The fire first appeared in_ the altar decorations, but it spread with such * alarming rapidity that a panic seized on the | exposed from their ature to destruc | | As a result panic | tion then created was that incapacity well NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY | The possession of those aids to salvation have | red to the religious mind more important the the te bodily sate y ot authorities must look at This gauze and these | shipper; but the Mu in another fight. turning tepers are lurking death to the people, and even it people are willing | to be iluminations they ought not to be permitted | burned wp rather than sacrifice church to indulge their whim, Erie in London, As will be seen by our special despatch from | London the price of Erie shares improved in | tbat market under the influence of the news | that the road had passed into the hands of a | receiver appointed by the Court. They un- | derstand there the exact significance of an oc- | currence of this nature from extensive experi- | | ence, and in the present case they seem to | | have readily comprehended that it was not | only the salvation of the road from the imme- | diate rnin that was threatened by bankruptcy | and foreclosure, but that it was even an ad- vantageous fact aside from the consideration of that danger. Any road in the position of | the Erie can be run more economically by a | receiver than it can be by the ordinary ma- | chinery of railway organization, and economy is a critical point in the case. With the road in the hands of a receiver all its purchases fre made ona cash basis, because they who furnish supplies have an ample lien on the | property ; but supplies sold to an insolvent | corporation are necessarily sold at exorbitant rates to cover the risk of loss. Erie, there is no doubt, can pay its interest with fair man- | agement in ordinary times, and the economy thus insured is the great element toward that result. It was said formerly, when the road was rescued in the famous campaign against Gould, that it only wanted honest management; but the result of the organiza- nigh completed what roguery had begun, and the effort then made failed for that reason to put the property on a good basis. Recently it has been managed with honesty and ca- pacity; but in this unusual phase of its his- tory it has had the misfortune to fall on evil | dead, and when the little business done by railways is done at ruinous rates, because of the destructive competition of a railroad war. Out of this difficulty time alone can deliver | it; and the receivership gives time. Weare not | surprised, therefore, to find the prominent Lon- don bavkers who are familiar with American securities giving utterance, as‘it by a common . BOWERY OPERA HOCSF, Fo" Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | West _sizseanm “erect english 0; arrorte. | treet.—E nglisl ra ! BIROFLA, ats. . si | : WOOD'S MCSECM, Brosdway. corner of Thirticth street—ROBEBT MA- CalRE. at 5 P.M. 1045 PM. Matines at 2 P. u.—IHE POISON THEATRE coy x 54 Broadway.—VARIETY, a Que P.M; closes at 10:45 TRIPLE SHEE Aus = NEW YO! FRIDAY, M 1 From our reports this morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Watz Srazzr Yesrzrpar.—Stocks were dull and unsettled, the market expectant and gold firm. Foreign exchange quiet. Tue Brecnen Scanpat.—There is at last a prospect that the Brooklyn trial will soon be brought to aclose. The defence is uttering its last word, and Mr. Evarts, to whom has fallen the duty of building up Mr. Beecher’s ease, is making an effort worthy of his reputa- tion. Hissumming up of the evidence is bright and happy. and he manages to relieve the dull légal argument with appropriate and witty quotations, which have had the effect of putting his and excellent humor. Its effect on the jury, of course, remains to be seen, but there can be no question of the sbility and dexterity displayed by the lawyer in the defence of his client. Jestice asp Loranty ts Exoranp.—A pub- lic meeting was recently held at Glasgow at which the following resolution was adopted: — “That this meetiog the claimant as a mockery 0: justice." Here we have a public meeting of Beotch citizens openly declaring that a trial presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England, assisted by venerable and highly esteemed judges, prosecated by the Money of the government and by counsel high in professional station, and decided by a verdict of twelve jurymen, asa ‘‘mockery of | both law and justice. How can we consider respect for law and loyalty to the Crown to be ® living spirit in a country where every day we hear declarations of this kind? yusiders the late trial of both law and two Retrgiovs Acrimony seems to be spreading in England. The late Baron Pigott dieda memberof the Church of Kagland, belong to a sect called the “Plymouth Brethren,” commonly called “Derbyites.” “The Plymouth Brethren’’ are not, as may be supposed, an emanation from Mr. Beecher's cburch, bute religions body founded about forty years ago, the chief peculiarity of which is \hat the congregation have no especial minis- vers, every brother and sister having a fnll rightto “prophesy and preach.” They hoid that there is no true Christianity in the Charch or among the sects, but only among them- selves, When the body of the Baron was taken to the churchyard the clergyman of the Es‘ablished Church insisted npon reading the burial service. He met the fnneral at the gate and began withthe words “J am the resurrection dnd the life,” when, according to a English journal, ‘‘some of the mourners shouted to him to stop and others to go on. His sons Meanwhile the bearers, commanded by one of the Baron's sons, pusbed along and threw the coffin into the grave near the gate A solicitor was then sent to say that in the nome of the executors he g the service being read. The rector shut his book and walked quietly away with his enrate.” There are legal proceedings to be brought agaist the “Plymouth Brethren” for foterfering with o clergyman in performing his daty. We cannot understand, however, protested inst nat barm would come from the reading of | the beautiful service of the Buglists Sbarsk | More than once before, but it has not checked | ratus off the const of France. He will ander- per @ decaying corpse and an open grave. natural result followed. All means of egress | became blocked ina moment, and worshippers | of the moment before trampled each other to | death in their efforts to escape from the | flames. It is useless to attempt to picture the | soul-appalling horror of such a scene; only | those who have lived through it can adequately know its terrors. | The fierce desire of life stifling all sense of remorse and fear of God from the | hearts of those who an instant before knelt hambly at the foot of His throne asking for- | giveness and grace to amend their lives is a | picture few would like to contemplate; | still fewer would are to accept before man or the Creator the responsibility | of exposing their fellow creatures to so dread- | ful an ordeal. Yet the frequent occurrence of | similar scenes seems to have no effect on the | minds clergymen. They will have their tapers and their illuminations, not- | withstanding the terrible lessons preached | by frequent and appalling catastrophes ot this kind. We would venture to state that enthusi- astic clergymen will not be deterred even by the exampre of Holyoke from exposing the of over which they happen | risk of a fate similar congregations to preside to the to that which befel the French Catholics in the quiet New England town. Within a few weeks of the slanghter of hundreds of people at Santiago, in Chili, the same kind of risk | was being run here, and the lesson seemed to | heve been lost on the religious commanity. | It is somewhat curious that the Catholic bishops do not frame some regulations that would diminish, if not pnt an end to, this danger, and not leave this system of illumi- nating a crowded church to the caprice or en- whose zeal We select | the Catholics in this matter because they are thusiasm of pastors is not always tempered by discretion. more given to these dangerous displays than other sects, and because the chief disasters | springing from this If, however, the ecclesiastical | canse have fallen | upon them. anthorities should refuse to deal promptly and | effectively with this abuse the ervil authorities should interpose. Jt might be weil to forbid the illumination of on the adoption of such precautions as would any church unless secure the safety of the worshippers. There is no good reason why churches should not be in the places whers numbers of people are used to all the civil authorities to pro- of the sources danger may threaten. placed this regard on eanactly same footing as other public assemble. It above things, the lives is, of the duty tect people, no mat- ter from what And as experience teaches us that churchmen, putting too much trust in Providence, neglect those precantions which more matter-of-fact people adopt for their own nd others’ preservation, some check should be put on their excess of Seventy-five charred and raangled corpses appeal against the con- tinuance of a system of laissez aller which places the lives of the community in the hands of rash and careless persons who may happen to It seems useless | te hope for redress from within. The lessou Holyoke has been preached be connected with a church. of | the tendency to gauze and burning tapers. | repute with the London bankers. The inti- | from State to State and from town to town? | only what Presidential candidates are allowed | to do without bearing the full weight of his voice, to the opinion already expressed in the Henarp, that the appointment of a receiver in the present circumstances is favorable to the | interests of the company. Our own people | interested in the welfare of this great prop- erty will note with satisfaction that the name of the receiver appointed is evidently in good | mation ot Mr. Morgan that there was treach- ery in the Erie Boardis apparently founded | on erroneous intelligence, as the fact isknown here which was apparently not known to him at the time of speaking, that the failure of Erie to borrow half a million from the Dela- ware and Lackawanna was not due to any dif- | ference in the Erie Board, but to disinclina- tion to lend the money, from apprehension that it might lead to troublesome litigation. Henry Wilson on His Travels. There must be some very profound mean- ing to the journeyings and sojournings of | Henry Wilson. He is like the wind which | bloweth where it listeth and no man knows | whence it cometh or whither it goeth. A | fortnight ago be was at the deathbed of | Breckinridge. A week later he was in Ten- | nessee and Arkansas. At last accounts he was at Leavenworth, Kansas, and we are told he even consented to become the guest of Senator Caldwell. Why all this uneasy going Why this consorting with all sorts of people? Why those oracular speeches uttered in pri- vate but intended for the public? Clearly | Mr. Wilson has made up his mind to get well and become a candidate for the Presi- dency. He would scarcely go to all this pother unless he has some such design upon his admiring countrymen. Indeed, we shall not forgive him upon anyother terms. If Henry Wilson is not a Presidential candi- | date he has ho business to be going up and down the country, sitting by the bed- | side of the dying Breckinridge, bowing with all bis native dignity and urbanity to Mrs. | Jefferson Davis and disturbing all bis country- men and countrywomen of their rest. People generally are willing to forgive much to a man who is s candidate for the Presidency, but they will not quietly submit to be constantly reminded of people who have no claims upon that high office. The newspapers have been talking of nothing but Henry Wilson fora month, and newspaper readers are beginning to ask what it all means. We can answer for | some of them, and woe be to Henry Wilson if he is nota Presidential candidate. He cane not expect persons of quiet habits and retiring ways to allow him to invade their out-of-the- way villages and obtrude himself in all the newspapers unless his actions mean some- thing. Such conduct in him is only pardon- able in case his opposition to a third term for Grant means a desire for a first term for Wilson. We do not say that we shall insist upon his actually becoming President of the United States, but we do insist that he shall not trifle with us by doing responsibilities. If he means nothing let him bring his travels to an end at once; though we think he has already gone too far, invaded too many cities and towns and villages, said too many oracular things to too many people, and obtained too much newspaper notoriety | to enable his countrymen to forgive him at this late day: If he has no designs upon the Presidential office it would be manly in him to say so; bat he would find it extremely | dangerous to make the avowal. Safety for Henry Wilson now consists in his keeping on his travels and boldly declaring his purpose, | though there would omething sublime in his denial of any Presidential aspirations, | | whereby he would make himself o martyr. | Pact Borrow yesterday made another suc- | | cessful experiment with his life-saving appa- | | take to cross over to England ot an early date. | is | South and pride of conquest on the part of the | ution of the ties which bound the Union to- | ganizations, which foreboded dissolution of | | agencies in the restoration of national har- | | and their bs lag has, however, already sprornieees | zh to show wonderful buoyant qualities | Convention of Associa- ‘The | Young tions. The interesting Convention now in session at Richmond, the late cxpital of the Southern Confederacy, deserves attention on grounds which it may not be quite becoming in a secular journal to set forth and enforce. We leave the most important aspects of this occa- sion to our religious contemporaries, in whose columns the discussic: will be more | appropriate ; but we trust we do not over- step any limit of decorum in the | attempt we shall make to point out such incidental consequences ‘as have a secular bearing. The moral forces | which underlie national lifp are the true sources of civil order and economic prosper- ity, and they can never be left out of view | by those who would form just ideas of | national tendencies and prospects. In a gov- ernment which is under the direct control of tbe people political action is an expression of their average character, and their institutions can never work well in the absence of a high standard of private morals. No elaborate machinery for checking pub- lic frauds, no civil service rules, no exposures of corrupt rings, no restriction of the functions of government, no mutual vigilance of political parties can afford a guarantee against the abuse of public trnsts, unless the foundations of integrity are securely laid in private morals. The only hope of the nation in the present alarming «degeneracy of official life lies in efforts made entirely out- side of political action, and if general morality cannot be strengthened in its sources we are destined to go the way of all former repub- lics. All true patriots should, therefore, take a deep interest in every movement which tends | to nourish virtue and to discredit Carlyle’s cynical definition of modern society, that it “anarchy plus the constable.’’ The great success within the last ten years of the widespread associations whose annual Con- yention is held this year at Richmond is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. Their mere statistics deserve prominence, but their social and moral bearing on our national life challenge the thoughtful. reflection of all well-wishers of their country. The holding of this annual Convention at Richmond for the first time since the begin- ning of the civil war suggests a line of remark to which public feeling should readily respond. Nothing is more to be desired in the interest of national unity than a cordial renewal of | the bonds of national sympathy between | the South and the North. The merely politi- cal tie must be comparatively feeble for at | least one generation, because the South re- sumed its place in the Union, not by choice, but by force. Memories of the gallant | dead are too fresh and too deeply cherished for | the political bond to be regarded, during the | litetime of the combatants, as free from the idea of forced submission on tbe part of the Amiersalicnal Christian Mens North. The Union can be recemented only by an appeal to sentiments which | have no relation to the recent fratri- cidal strife. The patriotic recollections | and common pride in the deeds of our fore- fathers of the Revolution, which will be re- vived by the approaching celebration of the hundredth anniversary of our independence, is a ground on which Northern and Southern citizens can stand without any jar or discord, and for this reason it is wise to make the most of so opportune an occasion. But as a bond of national unity even the memories of our glorious Revolution rank below a renewal | of the warm religious sympathies which ex- | isted in latter days. In the last. speech | of Mr. Calhoun, made in the Sen-! ate twenty-five years go, when that | aged and emaciated statesman stood on the brink of the grave (a speech which was read for him by a friend because he was too feeble to | deliver it), he dilated, with a pathos which was | all the more touching from the strict logic of | his habitual utterances, on the gradual disso- | i} gether. In that prophetic and affecting | speech Mr. Calhoun dwelt with deep feeling | on the sundering of the great religious or- the Union itself. He was a statesman of sin- | gular elevation and deep insight, who had a just oppreciation of the force of moral | causes in their influence on __ politi- cal action. In the foreboding speech | to which we allude Mr. Calhoun fteferred in | detail to the snapping, one by one, of the re- ligious ties between the South and the North by the great schisin in the various churches on the slavery question, which in his jndg- ment weakened the Union by a fatal aliena- tion of feeling that left it to rest on a merely political basis, no longer strengthened by moral sympathy. Men's religious feelings strike their roots very deep, and when most of the great religious denominations were split in twain by ® geographical line that foreseeing ‘statesman had a correct appreciation of the political result. A cordial restoration of the Union requires a renewal of | the sundered religious ties, and the holding of | this Convention in Richmond is of national importance as tending to so desirable a result. | There is a necessity for strengthening every cord which can bind the lately dissevered and belligerent States iogether on grounds which have no relation to the old dissensions. When they are once more bronght into full cémmunion with each ether as Christians both will be anions to forget and put out of sight every acrimonious feeling which at- tended the civil war. ‘The Young Men's Christian Associations are admirably adapted to work as healing mony. ‘They are composed of the most active and zealous members of the Protestant evan- gelical churches, and the fact that they have so far broken down denominational prej- udices as to act together in the promotion of common Christian aims attests their liberality freedom from sectarian narrow- Their ability to rise above sectarian spirit which will | ness. prejudices betokens a also disregard sectional prejudices, and when the most liberal and _ intelli- | gent minds of the great Metbodut, | Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational and | Lutheran denominations embark together in a | common cause in which Southern and North- | wrong. If they allowed the work to be done orn Christians take an equal interest we may | in the way it has been done for the sake of | striking the holy «i 28, 18745—~TKIPLE SHEEI | come to labor together in the same cause as | Christians they will seek to bury whatever | bind themselves to assist brothers in distress, | and the self-protection reasonably hope for a more cordial state of feeling between the lately divided sections of our afflicted country. In proportion as they m ties, The Young Men's Christian Aesociations will | the more securely promote these benefivent | results bv the fact that they have uo secular or political aims. If they contemplated the incide:tal consequences of their labors. their motives would be open to sttspicion and their | influence impaired, We trust we shall pot be thought irreverent if we quote a passage from the Sacred Writings which places the unde- | signed effect of their labors in its true light. “Seek first,’ says a high authority, ‘the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.'’ A realiy honest man is one who is honest from principle; but he receives what he does not directly seek, the temporal advantage which attends a reputation for probity. The freer his motive is from the in- fluence of such incidental rewards tho greater is the certainty that they will follow him, These Young Men’s Christian Associations, who think of nothing beyond arousing and quickening the religious sense of the community, are of more value then all the reform committees which look merely to political purification. The | motives of professed political reformers | are always looked upon with doubt, because the banner of honesty may be raised merely as a passport to office, But an as- | sociation of men who have no other purpose than to awaken dormant consciences and im- press those they can influence with the moral beauty of a Christian life are doing a politi- cal service which is quite foreign to their contemplation. In proportion as the Christian standard of morals is made practical in a com. munity there will be less need of the vain contrivances of mere polilicians to stem the | torrent of official corruption. | yet remain of the old political animosi- The Freemasons. The near approach of the dedication of the new Masonic Temple in this city tends to fix | attention on an Order which is older than | any existing government and antedates the | Christian religion itself. Men may differ as to the propriety of secret societies whose aims are not known; but the Freemasons are too ancient an Order for any intelligent man to distrust its objects. It would s¢em to derive its power from the love of mystery,’ which has a strange attraction for human | hearts; but even those who regard its ritual as a mummery cannot, with any show of reason, impeach its moral aims. A majority | of our most illustrious statesmen, including Washington, have been Freemasons, and an | institution in which he held a high rank | might be safely accepted on trust as not in- consistent with sound morals, ardent pat- | riotism or religious duty. It is simply one of | the many forms in which the social ‘instinct | of men seeks 1ndulgeng, and is only a | little more select and exclusive than the modern clubs. Club ite is almost purely social, ‘even in clubs which are organized with an | ostensible political purpose. The Masonic ins‘itution, while it affords equal gratification to the social feelings, would seem to cherish higher moral ends than modern clubs. While its organization excludes political and sec- tarian objects its members are bound to one | another by obligations of benevolence which | have no place in clabs. The members of | a club owe each other nothing but mutual | courtesy at their habitual place of meeting, | but tne members of the Masonic fraternity | even though they may never have had | avy previous acquaintance with them. | Their ceremonies of initiation and the | mystery in which they veil their proceedings are merely an extension of the exclusiveness against intruding strangers which are the ordinary practice ot clubs, with the added attraction of mystery. ‘Too many of our most henored citizens have always belonged to this ancient Order for any reasonable man to regard it with suspicion. We print this morning a mass of valuable statistics giving the number of lodges, metn- bers, encampmenis and knights in alt the States of the Union, accompanied by a map, which enables this information to be taken in at oa glance. We also publish a com- munication, written at our request by Mr. ‘Thorne, a high dignitary of the Order, giving a sketch of the history and aims of Masonry. In view of the im- posing ceremonies of dedication to take place next Wednesday, of the most costly Masonic Temple ever constructed in this country we suppose our readers will be glad of this in- formation. We think everybody recognizes the picturesqneness of the Masonic par- ades and ceremonials on public occasions, such as dedications and fyneral pageants | in the burial of members of their Order. The public always welcomes an inter- esting spectacle, and the dedication of | the new Masonic Temple would attract as much notice as the conferring of the berretia on Cardinal McCloskey if the latter had not | been so novel and unprecedented in this - country. We ought always to be glad of im- posing scenic observances which relieve the dull monotony of our ordinary workaday | life. ion Meeting Woe print # communication this morning in | regard to the outrageous manner in which the Harlem flats have been filled. that contains | one or two suggestions worthy of the gravest | consideration. The first of these is that an | indignation meeting shall be held by the citizens of Harlem and Yorkville to denounce | the wrongs inflicted upon them by the plant- ing of pest beds all over the upper part of the island on the east side. Our correspondent also thinks that Commissioners Matsell and | Disbecker should be removed on account of complicity with this great wrong against the city or reckless disregard of the public in- | terests and the publie health, Another | suggestion of our correspondent—that McQuaid and the other contractors shall bo sned for the money wrongfully obtained from the city—is scarcely less important. We can- not see how we can withhold our assent to either of these propositions. Mr. Disbeckoy in his garrulity has convicted himself of par- ticipating in the outrage, and he had the co- operation of Matsell in doing this great “a Siac ————S sharing in the profits they ought to be re moved for corrupt practices and punished be. sides. If they only permitted it out of care lessness and stupidity they are unfit for theis places and ought to be removed fos inefficiency. ‘The other suggestion is equally clear, The contractors have made large sums of money by failing to fulfil their contracts with the city. The manner ‘in which this money was obtained was as much a fraud upon the city as if they had obtained it upon false vouchers, without having done the work at all, Let the offending Commissioners be removed by all means, and the offending cons tractors must be made to refund as speedily as possible. Summer Gardens, The example of Mr. Thomas, whose in- fluence on the musical taste of New York could not be too highly commended, is about to be followed by Mr. Gilmore. We bave one summer garden at the Central Park, over which Mr. Thomas presides, and we are now about to have another atthe Hippodrome, which wili bo under the inspiration of Mr. Gilmore. The purpose of these gardens is to furnish a pleasant, attractive and thoroughly reputable entertainment for a small sum of money. It is a disposition to cater to that outdoor sentiment which the Americans do not possess in as large a degree as the French and Germans. Tbe Englishman and the American are selfish creatures in some re- spects. When the American goes to take his ease in his inn he prefers to be alone and to leave his family behind him. As a conse. quence there is a disposition on the part of both Englishmen and Americans to seek club life and to provide amusements only for them. selves, permitting the ladies to do what they please in the way of entertainment and be content with a matinée on Saturday after- noons. We like the Continental fashion muck better. A gentleman should not visit any | place where it would be improper for his wife to accompany bim.* Of course it would be impossible for any lady to visit one place out of twenty of the resorts of ‘‘gentlemen,” barrooms and billiard rooms, places where the American frequents. The advantage of these summer gardens is that the citizon may take his family and be certain of an evening's entertainment, witbout the restrictions in the way of smoke aad drink imposed by the opera or tue theatre. He can smoke a cigar, or drink his glass of beer or wine and stroll around amid the flowers and cooling fountains, and haye much of the enjoyment of home. Weare glad to see this taste increasing in. | New York. We hope that Mr. Gilmore will be as successful with his garden as Mr. Thomas has been, and if we could bave four or five others in different parts of New York during these hot summer nights it would go far toward offeriug entertainment for our people and improving the moral tons of so ciety. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Queen Victoria left Windsor for Scotiand May 14, Mryan Leigh Hunt shot bimseif in the reading room of the London Library. Commander L. A. Beardsiee, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the Gilsey House, The V're-ident will leave Washington for Long Branch, with his family, on Tuesday next. Very Rey. P, Healy, of Chicopee, Mass., is resid- | ing temporarily at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. Adam Lind and Rev. Joho Bisset, of Glas- gow, are staying at the Unton Square Hotel. Mr. Ola! Stenersen, Swedish Minister at Wash- ington, has apartments at the Hotei Bruuswick. Sefior Don Juan dei Valle, President of the Bank of Havana, is sojourning at the New Yore Hotel, General Jobn ©, Rovinson arrived at the Union Square Hotel yesterday from his home at | Binghamton. Professors George E. Day, of New Haven, and ra Abbot, of Camoridge, Mass., are at the Everett House. Another @ovspiracy against Bismarck—The Pope's physician says Als Holtness ‘may still live for many years."” Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Neil Gilmour, Superintendeat of Public In- strucuon, arrived from Albany yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. George B. MeCartee, Chief of the Printing Invision of the Treasury Department, is registered atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain C, P, Patterson, Superintendent of the United States (past Survey, has taken up bu residence at the Everett House, 1. EB. Dyer, Appraiser at the port of Memphis, has tendered hie resignation inorder to accept the appomntment of Consul to Odesea, Commanaer James A. Greer, Commander B. RB, Tayior and Medical Director Robert T, Maccoun, United States Navy, have quarters at the Uniow Square Hotel. Mrs, Julia Ward Howe furnishes another evi- dence of the eqnality of the sexes. She can maka frighifully bad puns—pans that inspire people with pity for the author. ‘There has lately been discovered at Rome a por- trait of Raphael at twenty-six, not hitherto Knowa to exist, and believed by some experts to have been painted by Raphael himself, It recently rained botied shrimps in France, the contents of © water spout apparently being tam. bied on the country alter the sun had heated the water suMcientiy to cook the game, Abraham Jackson, the lawyer against whom are the grave charges of forgery and defaication te | the extent of nearly £800,000, arrived in Bostom last evening, In charge of Detective Wood. As a garbage cart was dumped lately in the suburbs of London @ human head rolled out of tae mass, It was fresh and bieeding, and the mys tery is from which one of the ash pans empties into the cart that morning it came, M, John Lemotnne has been elected a member a the French Academy to the piace made vacant by the death of Jules Janin. It ts almost a recogny tion that this fauteutl belongs to the Journal des Debats ; sor Janin was its great fevilletonist ane Lemoinne writes for it the only good politica’ articies published in Paris, Carl Helmerding, the Beritm actor, had a birte day, and a friend sent him an ingenious acrostie It consisted of Miteen botties of wine, so arranged that the initial letters of the names of the winer @pelied the name of ihe actor. The wines werr Cerous, Assmannshauser, Kaozan, Lafitte, Hock beimer, Estepne, Lievirauenmilch, Marcobrunner Emilion, Rauentnaler, Diedesneimer, Ingelnet | mer, Niereteiner, Giscoure. M. d’Agrignac de Buch, the last descendant ef | the famous Captal He Buch, has just died in Parts in singular circumstances. In the fanuiy there ‘was this prophec; When a horse and mute are one ‘Then the last sires race ts ray, This was of course intended to mean the immor. tality of the race, But they have Jately bred at the Paris Garden of Acclimatation a mule tha scarcely be distinguished trom a horse, and Bach feli dead while looking at this animal, There is @ French author, perhaps somewha tinctared With ultramontanism, who has dig covered the secret of the Freemasons, He says t ig the secret Of the devil, and that they perform 1 devil's Mass “ON an altar lighted hy six candies Fach one, after ha Spit on the crocifix, trans ples I$ under foot;* the diabolical ceremony ter minating by every one ascending the altar an@ ment with o poignard. CS