The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1875, Page 6

i a ae NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875—TRIPLE SHERI. NEW YORK HERALD Roe SS EG BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be | sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. | Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yoax | Henawp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, poor eee LONDON OFFICE OF "THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, sete eerereeceeresccescacees NO. 168 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERI, at 8 P. M. 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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that Ue weather to-day will be warm and lear. Persons gowng out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henaxp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Srreer Yesrerpar.—Stocks opened | firm, but weakened slightly toward the clone, | Gold advanced to 117. Foreign exchange was steady. Tween will probably make his exit from the Penitentiary to-day only to find, in the trials which still await him, that the way of | * the transgresgor is hard. Tue Crows Parxcz or Genmany bestowed some very flattering attentions upon Admiral Worden and some other American officers at Berlin yesterday. | Court Von Annm’s Tran was closed yes- | terday, and it was announced that judgment | | would be delivered on the 24th inst. As the | tri’ was little more than a formality the re sult may be easily anticipated. Tur Awenrcan Tram in Ireland begin their | Practice to-day. The enthusiasm which fol- | lowed their arrival at Queenstown continues, and the only danger is that Irish hospitality may lead to the loss of the match by the | Americans. -7-e_—_—o—oco | Boxxen Hit.—When the Maryland boys | und the South Carolina guards fraternize to- day with their Massachusetts brethren, and all join ina truly national celebration of the birth of freedora in Arerica, it isa significant an- Bwer to those who endeavor to keep alive memories of bitterness and ugliness that thould, have been interred long ago. | Tym Poxtsaest or Exxction Fravns is a necessity at this time, when the purity of ections is not assured in any part of the | country. In consequence, the conviction of Howell, at Hoboken yesterday, for stealing a | poll-book, and his sentence to the Peniten- tiary will be received with pleasure by all who are anxious that offences of this kind shall | cease. Tae Leorstatrve Comaitres charged with inqnixing into the prevalence and prevention of crime in this city examined a witness yes- terday who preferred some very serious com- plaints against the police in dealing with peneland gambling honses. Though there | is nothing absolutely new in the general | charges of the witness he enters into the sub- ject with a directness that will not allow a | #0 It bag | @Feat centennial festival, have sent their | choice regiments, composed of the élite of complete investigation to be evaded. long been known that the police shared in the | profits of crime—now let it be proved. Axsvan Recatta or tHe New Yorx Yacut | Cres.—The beautiful bay which forms one | of the most attractive feature of the great me- | tropolis as an introduction to visitors to Man- hattan Island was particularly charming yes- terday, on the occasion of the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Cinb. Lovers of aquatic sport were amply gratified by the grand display presented by the white-winged Contestants, ‘Lbe schooners Palmer, Wanderer and Comet and the sloops Vision and Madcap were the lucky ones this time and bore away the prizes. An interesting novelty was the steam yacht race, in which the Lurline proved successful, The stupidity of the pilot or cap- tain of a cumbersome German ship nearly eaused a serious mishap to the yacht Alarm. A floating audience of ten thousand people witnessed the event | posed by the British soldiers in Boston after | the fight contained these lines :— Charleston, as well as the cities of New Eng- | the The Battle of Banker Hill. Next to the Declaration of Independence the battle of Bunker Hill is the most impor- tant event of the Revolution, and in popular interest it is hardly eclipsed by the Declaration itself, which was mere drafting and signing of 4 paper, whereas heroic fighting against great odds makes a more powerful impression on the imagination and takes a stronger hold on human sensibilities. A well tought battle is a subject which admits of eloquence; but the | feelings cannot be deeply moved by references to the composition of a State paper. The gracdest bursts in the eloquence of our first orator are the passages in Webster's first Banker Hill address, in which he unseals the deepest fountains of emotion, as in the apos- trophe to Warren, his affecting words to the survivors of the battle then present, and the noble and touching address to Lafayette, who was also present, The eloquence of the Mas- sachusetts orators of the last age, particu- larly Webster and Everett, embellished and emblazoned thé Bunker Hill battle. Their most admired passages passed into the school books, and have been declaimed by the youth in all our seminaries of learning on their gala days until they are more familiar than anything else in litera- ture. The consequence is that no event of the American Revolution has had such a bright halo of patriotic sentiment cast about it as the battle of Bunker Hill, There is no other American battle ground which has been so worthily and proudly marked by an imposing appeal to the eye, as well as powerful appeals to imagination and sentiment. There is no other American monument which compares in impressive grandeur with the massive column on Bunker Hill—a monument which is as solid in its structure as the pyramids. A hundred centuries will look down from its summit, if the earth should last so long. The unrivatled eloquence which has been uttered on that spot will endure as long as the monu- ment itself, and the battle, like the great achievements of ancient Greece, will live in human memory by other titles as splendid as its own heroic grandeur. But the blazonry of eloquence and monu- mental fame is not disproportioned to the event, which deserves to rank, not merely as one of the important battles of the Revolution, but the most important and fruit- ful of them all. The other battles were mere incidents in the varying fortunes of the struggle; this grandly opened the struggle and made its continuance inevitable. It nerved the public heart, infused a manly confidence into the whole country and taught the patriots that they were a full match for British soldiers, when the conditions were at | all equal. The terrible destruction they | dealt upon the advancing foe, until their | powder gave out, suddenly changed contempt | into respect and caused the war to be waged }on the British side with a halting timidity which made it the most inglorious contest in history of English military enterprise and the records of English valor. This point is strikingly put by Mr. Edward E. Hale in the preface to his recent interesting pamphlet. | “Por many years," he says, ‘the defeat of the Americans at Bunker Hill was to the people of New England ao sore matter. We know now what they could not guess, that that battle virtually affected the tactics of the English generals through the war, and, in a certain: sense, may be said to have decided the war. The respect for the American troops which was learned in the horrible car- nage of that day accounts for Howe's remain- | ing quiet within his lines in Boston for nearly @ year afterward ; it accounts for the reserve or shyness of all his movements after he made New York his centre; it accounts, in short, | for the languid way in which tke war was carried on by every English leader excepting Lord Cornwallis. This result of the battle of Bunker Hill has made it one of the decisive battles of history; but of that our fathers had no idea, while they were trying to discover who was responsible for their failure."’ Noth- | ing of greater breadth and sagacity than these remarks has ever been written on the battle of Bunker Hill. In o few hours of a June afternoon it completely revolutionized the English opinion of the fighting qualities of the Yankees. General Gage, writing to Lord Dartmouth the next week, said:— | “The trials we have had show the rebels are | not the despicable rabble too many have sup- posed them to be.” Horace Walpole, writ- ing after the news had been received in England, said:—‘‘We are a little disap- pointed, indeed, at their fighting at all, which was not in our calculation.” A song com- Like revels stout they stood it out, And thought We ne'er could peat them, We need not go into the details of the battle or the mooted points connected with its history. They have been fully presented in our columns by able correspondents within the last week. It is more natural and appro- priate on this centennial day to surrender ourselves to the spirit of the occasion and join in the commemorative rejoicing. The heart of New York, the heart of the whole country, is with the assembled multitudes in | Boston and Charlestown to-day, and every pulsation beats responsive to their more real- izing sense of that battle, awakened on the ground where it was fought and under the | shadow of the monument which towers to heaven in its commemoration. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, d, which are nearer to the scene of this their young men, to contribute to the military | display and drink in the spirit of patriotism from one of its purest fountains. All feelings of local pride or local jealousy are hushed and held in abeyance in the proud and inspir- ing memories of a common patriotism. On this glorious anniversary there is ‘‘no North, no South, no East, no West;” all local and sectional feelings are melted down and fused together in the noble sentiment of “our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.’ South Carolina and Massa- chusetts shake hands over the bluody chasm, | to Margaret Mary Alacoque, at Paray-le- which we hope will be filled up and obliterated by these centennial memories. All honor to old Massachusetts, the cradle of the Revolu- | tion! ginia with South Carolina, the whole South | with the whole North, and with their com. | mon daughter, the expansive and growing | | West, in laying ® tribute of patriotic recogni+ | are attacked and trampled upon, and new New York unites with Virginia, Vir- | | the Redeemer, | tion and gratitude at the feet of that glorious member of our Union which was the centre of interest one hundred years ago. The baptismal blood of Warren was a consecration shed upon the whole country. All honor to the noble State which emptied the taxed tea into Boston harbor; which stood by the proscribed Hancock and the two Adomses; which was the first scene of Washington's ac- tivity after his appointment as commander-in- chiet; ‘and which will forever be awarded the distinction of kindling the Revolutionary flame and drenching its soil with patriot blood, shed in bold, organized resistance to British oppression. It was Massachusetts that struck the first great blow in that great struggle; it was by her throes that a nation was born, On this memorable day the whole country sends greetings and bene- dictions to old Massachusetts, and cries, with united voice and all its heart, God bless her! A beautiful feature of this centennial occasion, which does honor not to Massa- chusetts alone, but to the most interesting class of her guests, is the presence of the Southern regiments and the warm and noble welcome with which ‘they are received. Nothing could be in better taste or more generous in spirit than that part of Mayor Cobb’s address of welcome in which he alluded to the presence of the Southern regiments. ‘In this benign work of recon- ciliation,”” he says, ‘the soldiers on both sides have taken the lead. This was to be expected. True heroism harbors no resent- ments and is incapable of a sullen and per- sistent hatred. True soldiers, worthy of the name, give and take hard blows in all honor and duty, and when the work is done are ready to embrace as brothers in arms and to let bygones be bygones in all things, except to preserve the memory and decorate the graves of their heroic dead—ay, and of one another’s dead. Brave men love brave men with the magnanimity that knows how to honor each otber’s courage and respect each other’s motives. Foemen in war, brothers in peace—that is the history of chivalry here as everywhere.” We honor Mayor Cobb for these noble and chivalric sentiments, so worthy of patriotic Massachusetts, and are confident that they are not the mere effusion of a transient hospitality. We trust these cen- tennial occasions will bear, enduring fruit, crowning peace with reconciliation Like another morn Risen on midnoon, Judge Davis and the Court of Ap- peals. We regret that Judge Noah Davis has con- sented to the publication of his opinion in regard to the action of the Court of Appeals in the Tweed case. As an individual he has a perfect right to form his own judgment as to the legal soundness of the decision. As a | Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and especially as the Judge whose action in the case has been reviewed and reversed, it is, to say the least, uuiortunate that he should have been led to assail the higher tribunal. People are too apt in these days to attack a legal de- cision that does not accord with their own views or gratify their own pride or prejudice and to attmbute improper motives to the judges. Their respect for the Bench, already | seriously undermined, will not be increased by the spectacle ot a Judge of the Supreme | Court accusing the entire Court of Appeals of having ‘fallen into a grievous error,” of “shocking the moral sense of the community,”* of having pronounced a judgment “entirely erroneous and absurd,” and one which will he condemned ‘‘from every point of view, both legal and moral."’ Such assertions can- | not fail to bring both the Supreme Court and | the Court of Appeals into contempt. Many persons will not read the able and unanswer- able opinions pronounced by Judges Allen and Rapallo, and will not, therefore, discover | the shallowness and injustice of the assault thus made upon them. Others who read | those papers may be apt to suspect that spleen and vindictiveness prompt the assault. In either case the character of the judiciary will suffer. Judge Davis and all others are bound to respect and obey the decision of the Court of Appeals in this case, and no railing at the Court can set it aside. Moreover, the cbm- mon sense of the people, as well as the opinion of the great body of the legal profes- sion, will concede the soundness of that de- cision. Judge Davis*should have been the last person to assail it, since it upholds the views expressed by him in the first trial of Tweed, when he declared that the defendant was benefited by an omnibus indictment, on the ground that if there were several separate indictments the defendant, it found guilty, might be pun- ished on each, while in a single indictment, although containing a number of counts, there can be but a single punishment. We feel con- | fident that Judge Davis on reflection will | regret the “‘interview’’ published yesterday by a contemporary, and will admit the bad taste and the evil tendency of his assault on the entire Bench of the Court of Appeals. Tae Great Catnotic CeLepration yester- day was the bi-centennial celebration in the | Catholic world of the remarkable vision of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that was manifested Monial, in France, on June 16, 1675. The | present revival of religious feeling, which ap- pears to stir the Catholic Church to its inmost | quence ot the legislation of the last Congress, | the basis for a new law regulating the collec- | tion of customs. | o'clock this afternoon. depths of sanctity, finds an ample field for development in the devotion just mentioned, | The motive for the devotion which has been | specially recommended by the Sovereign Pon- | tiff seems to possess unusual attractive power | and furvishes an add tional incentive for the | grand summons to spiritual arms that has | been lately sounded at the Vatican. When the old Church, that has withstood so many terrible storms and trials, finds itself in a particularly distressing ordeal, such as an uncompromising Prussian Chancellor, for instance, may subject it to, it resorts to prayer and special devotion, like the exercises of | yesterday, to arouse its millions of children in its defence. The appeal can scarcely pass without a significant display of the enormous | power wielded by the myriad children of the | Holy Father when their religious liberties strength and vigor may be infused into the veins of such a great community by such o bcautifal commemoration as that which took | | place yesterday—the consecration of the | { Rumblings of the War Voicano in Murope. Nobody would have any fair right to be surprised if the London despatch, which hinted at new complications in the arrange- ment upon which the peace of Europe now rests, should prove to be a mere -canard, and equally little need gny one be astonished if this vague report should turn out to be the first intimation given to the world of the entire failure of the endeavors to patch up and keep together the peace which armed Ger- many is resolved to ruptura at one time or another not far in the future. Outof the re- lations of the Northern Powers to one another is to come the next war, and the corre- spondents naturally deal with this topic of great interest and give all they hear—all the rumors of negotiation and all the projects and schemes that teem in the whisperings of the negotiators. They must give, therefore, much that is mere speculation, mere win- nowed out fancies, and the report that com- plicates the relations of Germany and Russia with a story of Sweden may be one of these. On the other hand, they will sometimes be the first to see the dritt of events, and they may have had that success on this occasion. Only a few days since the peace of Europe was seriously endangered, as is now recog- nized everywhere. Germany, urged by the war party with Moltke at the head, was pre- pared to require of France material guaran- tees against the result toward which all the war preparation of the French government confessedly aims. No one in France gives himself the trouble to deny that all the activity of the republican government con- templates another war with Germany and is intended to get the nation in readiness for that conflict. Indeed, this is the common boast of the nation. But Germany meets this case with blunt indifference to diplomatic nonsense; and recognizing that in all wars the real cause is one fact and the pretext another fact, is disposed, in an original spirit, to supply to history the example of one war in which no pretext was put forth, but in which the cause was given in its naked coarse- ness. She was disposed to fight France merely because France was not ready to fight; she wanted to interrupt the preparations for war by the very conflict which those prepara- tions contemplated more remotely, and she would have done so if the other nations had been as indifferent to peace as they were in 1870. But England protested, and Russia opposed with such direct purpose that the war cloud seemed to pass away. England's intervention was so positive that the journals in sympathy with the government have rather boasted over it ever since. But the war party was as little pleased with the loss of the war it sought as it would have been if the peaceful result had been due to a less august mediator than the Czar, and it has very pos- sibly succeeded in ing the relations be- tween its government and the Russian Em- peror. The visit of the King of Sweden to Berlin may have had more than an accidental relation to this endeavor. It is a scarcely con- ceivable contingency that the Prussian Court, in the use of all its faculties, would sacrifice good relations with Russia for any equivalent that Sweden can offer; but where violent and ambitious parties prevail it is the essence of the case that no court ever is in possession of all its faculties. It isled by pride and passion, and views possibilities only on their more favorable side. It is, therefore, not quite out of the range of likelihood that the antipathies incident to the geographical and ethnical re- lations of Sweden and Russia have been used by the war party in Prussia to weaken the in- fluence of the Czar at Berlin, and if they have succeeded in this the peace of Europe is less certain than it was a few days since. England at least is treated with great bit- terness at Berlin just now, and is apparently held accountable for such an influence with Russia as prevented the latter trom assenting to war; and the argument in a Russian paper that the respective interests of England and Russia justify their alliance is not with- oat significance in this connection. As Berlin, St. Petersburg and Vienna all seem to see John Bull and the Northern Bear on the best of terms, there can scarcely be much enmity between them. And if the Prussian Chancel- lor looks forward to a contingency that might place a Russian army of observation on the Prussian frontier the course he would very likely pursue would be to excite the am- bition of the new Swedish King in the hope to divide Russian attention by a Swedish force with its face toward St. Petersburg. ‘Tue Sux Suvcorive Cases were all post- poned yesterday. In the case of Lawrence the United States District Attorney awaits the decision of the President with regard to the indictments upon which the accused is to be tried, and in the others the defendants were not ready. These cases will attract much attention, because they expose the system of smuggling which was the immediate conse- and they ought to be carefully investigated as In this aspect these trials are of even more importance than in the con- viction of the offenders. Jznome Pank Races.—The sixth day’s races of the present spring meeting of the Ameri- ean Jockey Club will commence at three There will be five events, two free handicap sweepstakes, two | purse races and a contest for the Woodburn Stakes, distance two and a half miles. The club has enjoyed unusual privileges this sea- gon from the clerk of the weather. Sunny skies and balmy breezes have greeted each day’s racing. Such an influential body of gentlemen should have been able to succeed in obtaining a few additional sprinkling carts from the Park Commissioners, as the dust has been intolerable during the past five days ofthe meeting, and manya handsome toilet has been irretrievably ruined in consequence of such neglect. On Saturday the club will bring to a successful close the most brill- iant meeting recorded in its annals. Careful management and liberal enterprise have placed it at the head of all American associa- tions. wae Tae Seventn Reorwent, the pride of our National Guard of this State, left for Boston yesterday to take part in the centennial cere- monies at Bunker Ifill to-day. A finer body of men could scarcely bo sent from any city entire Catholic world to the Sacred Heart of in the world to do honor to such # grand coos sion, Is There Too Much tron? It is not only in the United States that the iron industry is prostrate. ‘The London Times complains that in England it is in even a more deplorable condition. The German papers Yell us that in Germany it is no bet- ter. In France it is the same. What is the matter? People have not stopped using iron. To be sure, we have stopped building railroads at last, and in other countries they have begun to stop also, There is evidently au over- production of the most useful and important of metals. Why isit? Is it not, partly, be- cause iron, so abundant, so easily and cheaply produced in so many different parts of the world, is not destroyed by its first use? A shirt or a pair of troasers is destroyed by the wearer; an old hat is flung away; food is consumed, as we correctly say. But in that sense iron is not consumed. When a rail is worn down it is sent to the foundry and remelted, and its substance goes some way toward the making of a new rail. Old iron of all kinds has a commercial value, and is saved and sold, and used over again, and often improved by the first use. No farmer ever lets an old horseshoe lie on the road, He picks it up, and the blacksmith with a little jabor makes a new horseshoe of it. Who can tell at what stage, after how many years of service in differeut capacities, a piece of iron finally disappears and is actually con- sumed? Perhaps those Pennsylvanians were wise who some years ago bought up a large part of the very rich iron and coal lands of Alabama, and then concluded to let them lie undeveloped until they saw whether it would pay to set up new furnaces and roll- ing mills. Meantime it is pleasant to know that we have actually begun to export iron to Europe. In 1872 we exported 1,477 tons of pig iron, and by 1874 the trade had grown to 16,039 tons. Wecan produce in some parts of the United States iron of a quality which Europe does produce so cheaply, and with this our ironmasters ought to supply England and Continental Europe in constantly increasing quantities. Alabama furnaces now send iron to England, where it is found valuable for the construction of cast car wheels. The Grasshopper Crop. In Minnesota they are paying one dollar and sixty cents a bushel for grasshoppers— after they are caught and killed, of course. Little boys and girls get ten cents a quart ; two boys made six dollars a day on grasshop- pers, and Blue Earth county has paid already over fifteen thousand dollars for the extermi- nation of this plague. An ingenious Minne- sotian has contrived a trap, run by horse power, which catches from five to twenty bushels a day, and the catchers bring them to town in wagons, wheelbarrows, and even in bags on their backs, When paid for they are buried in deep *trenches, and it is said that by next week Minnesota will be rid of grasshoppers. It is proposed that, in- asmuch as the extermination of the insect interests the whole State and not only the localities where they make their first appear- ance, the State shal] assume the cost of their destruction, and this seems but just. Will not some ingenious Yankee now dis- cover a use for the grasshopper? Could he not be used for manure? Has he no oil, good for rheumatism, or watch springs, or machinery? Will not some one under- take to prepare desiccated grasshoppers for the use of the Digger Indians in| California? If he could get a comtract from | the Indian Bureau there might be millions in it, The utilization of waste products is. now- | adays one of the more notable sources of | wealth; and any one who should be go for- tanate as to invent a use for the grasshopper would make so large and rapid a fortune that | he might hope to tempt others into discover. | ing how to make a profit out of the Colorado beetle. Juries and Public Opinion. We observe in one of our journals a sugges- tion to the effect that it makes no difference | what the verdict of the jury in the Beecher case will be, as the people have also considered the trialand are os competent to make up their minds upon the issue as the jurymen. Asasimple statement of fact this, to some extent, is true. To make it perfectly true we should add, that if every reader of the Beecher trial were to have the same oppor- tunities for investigation and to give the same time to the study as the jurymen then the popular verdict would be as fair and defini- tive as the recorded decision of the jurymen. The difference between the verdict of tue jury _ and the verdict of the people is a vital one. | The juryman hears the witnesses, sees their demeanor, forms his own impressions as to | their veracity, is under the direct observation | | and instruction of judge and counsel and has an insight into the case which can be gathered | from no publication in the press. The publicis apt to seize two or three salient points in a controversy and to accept them as conclusive. The jury goes to the bottom of | the discussion and expresses not a hasty ex- pression but an absolute judgment expressing the fullest knowledge of the facts. It would be « calamity if the principle were to be ad- | mitted that the verdict of a jury could be | overruled and set aside by public opinion. In many respects public opinion is apt to be right, and the best evidence of common sense is generally found by the average opinion of the people. At the same time public opinion has taken strange freaks, and some of the most extraordinary crimes and blunders of modern times have been the result ot ‘popular demonstrations.” The value of justice is that it is placed above the temptation of clamor. The jury is sheltered from the in- fluences which so often lead public opinion to extreme and extravagant acts by the safe- guards and immunities of the law. So far as the Beecher case is concerned we may have our own opinion about many things done by the plaintiff and defendant, but the verdict of the jury, if a verdict is rendered, will be conclusive for all time upon the question of innocence or guilt. If the Beecher jury, after more than a handred days of diligent examination, cannot arrive at a verdict which | expresses the truth then the trial by jury isa failure. Ssomatren.—Russia has just concluded with Japan a treaty by which the latter Power recog- nizes the exclusive dominion of Russia over the Island of Saghalion. Japan was the only Power that hitherto disputed this claim, and |x Y., the island at its southern extremity wa¢ partly occupied by Japanese fishermen, while the other part was in the hands of the Rus- sians and used as a penal colony. Atoné moment a dispute arose, as Russia claimed the exclusive propriety, in virtue of a landing made there in 1807; but in the difficulty that Japan had with China in regard to Formosa Russia rendered such substantial diplomatic services to the Japanese that the recognition of their claim to Saghalien has been deemed a fair return, It is an arid, desolate spot, but it commands the embouchure of thé Amoor River, the great line of Russo-Asiatic communicarion and traffle. It is important for this reason. But it is even still more ime portant to Russia in virtue of one of its prod« ucts, It possesses inexhaustible veins of coal, and in these days of steam navigation such a treasure in the Pacific may ultimately give its owner the naval coutrol of the Chinese Seas, Summer Excarsions, With the heated summer weather come the various expedients for furnishing the dwellera in this city with healthful and pleasurable amusement. The theatre has become impos- sible for all but the most inveterate lovers of the stage, and, for the most part, the regular companies have dissolved or are in course of dissolution, to give place to the gentlemen of the burned cork persuasion, who with native hardihood defy ths summer heat. These men are salamanders and cater for beings as fireproof as they are themselves, but ordinary humanity sighs for some cooler means of enjoyment. The rich are busy packing up their trunks for Newport, Long Branch and the White Mountains; but the vast number who labor cannot order their wings and be off to sea shore and mountain. Except at inter- vals they must dwell in the heat and dust of the city, thankful if for a few hours now and then they can breathe the life-giving air of the country. In no great city of the world has the working population the same opportunities of escaping out into the fresh and invigorating air. Nature has been lavish of her gifts to this Empire City. The Sound, with its marine breezes and placid waters, in+ vites the excursionist bent on pleasure o1 seeking health, and the noble Hudson, full of romantic interest, offers scenes of beauty un- rivalled in any land. For an inconsiderable sum the overworked citizen and his family may enjoy the pleasures of a health giving excursion on the waters. Steamers that re- semble floating palaces have been placed at the service of the public by enterpris- ing speculators, and certainly never did any speculation better deserve success. In our advertisement columns will be found announcements from the various excursion lines, and the public can choose between them. We desire to call attention to the excellent work these lines are doing. Their managers are truly the apostles of health among us, and though their aim is personal gain the service they render to the public is none the less important. An effort has been made to increase the attractiveness of these daily excursions this season, and no doubt the people will show their appreciation by the increased support giyen to those who cater for their pleasure. There is certainly no better way to secure a vigorous mind and sound body than by escaping us frequently as possible from the crowded streets of the city into the pure, fresh air which can be enjoyed to the fullest extent on those excursions, Mors Borrer Exrrostons.—At three o'clock yesterday afternoon two terrible boiler explo sions occurred, one in this city and one in Boston. In each case the loss in property was nearly fifty thousand dollars, while the Boston disaster led to a terrible loss of life. The cause of both accidents was | probably the one to which such general attention was called by the Westfield disaster in 1872, old and wornout boilers. Safficient time has elapsed since that terrible calamity to allow the good boilers then in use to become aged and worn ; but we suppose it would do no good te ask manufacturers to discard their dangerous machinery. Unless some fearful explosion like that on the Westfield should occur they | will continue to use their old boilers until they blow up. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mayor C, W. Hutchinson, of Utica, is staying at the New York Hotel. In the Valley of Chamountx tney had in the past winter thirty-four feet of snow. Mr. John 1. Ford, of Baltimore, is among the late arrivals at the Union Square Hotel. Ex-Governor H.C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, yee terday arrived atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyman Emerson FP. Davis, of Whitenals is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Captain Hains, of the steamship Scythia, has | taken up bis quarters at tne New York Hotel, At Lrons, France, a workman’s wife has been delivered of four children at a birth, Three were alive. In the first quarter of this year 901 persons were killed and 1,330 wounded on the railways in Great | Britain. Mr. Amos T. Akerman, of Georgia, formerly United States Attorney General, {3 residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Joseph E. Johnston, of Georgia, arrived in this city yesterday and took up bis residence at the New York Hotel. ‘The advent of the new Minister of the United States to Pero, Mr. Richard Gibbs, was anxiously awaited at Lima on the 20tn of May. The Count and Countess de St. Pani, ot Paris, arrived from Europe in the steamship France, and are sojourning at the Fifta Avenue Hotel. Postmaster General Jewell leaves Chicago for Milwaukee to-day, where he will spend the after. noon and evening, returning to Chicago Senator William B, Allison, of Iowa, member of the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy, arrived at the Brevoort House iast evening from West Point. Itis noted in Engiand that there is now @ ‘fashionable impulse” toward the Order of Free. masonry, and that in consequence of the large numbers Who desire to join some lodges have raised the fees. Charivart suggests for the new taw on the prest a clause declaring that every journalist convicted of publishing false new! shall lead a duck (canard) in the street fora month. They publish thisasa liustrated by Cham. died in Paris af old man who, ‘ot @ single member of the Academy said, knows a quarter of what 1 know.” He priest Abbe Constant, # Rabel in person, but without joilt ‘a litte, rot fat, otly man of God,” Whose great pursuit was the stady of magic and necromancy. By the Paris Figaro it appears that Pergus Maw Clolian was in New York and Samael u'Deary in Paris, and thet instead of fighting a duel they played, by means of the cable, a game of chess, the condition of which was that the ioser waste plow ont his brains; all for love of a young iady of this city, now in Calcutta. Fergus, they say, lost ana bieW out bis brains June & a sort of priest