The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1875, Page 6

. 117} a 117}, and money on call firmer at 3 | » 6 NEW YORK HERALD PROAQWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youu Hxnarp will be sent free of postage. | THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Your cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letiers and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hanarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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, VOLUME XL... NO. 169 | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ert RQPOL EAN JHEATRE, Messrs, Harriga’ tad Huet PARK THEATRE, ABOUND THe Wo Lb IN EIGHTY DAYS atSP. M.; closes at 10:45 1’. = ROBINSON HAL! West Sixteenth GLBOPLA, at 8’. Pai et. —bnglish + Opera—GIROFLE- WooD's MUS of Thirtieth js; Closes at 10x eot.—LITILE SUN- YM. Matinee at eR GARDEN. . jtaRD POPULAR CON. | <8. M.; closes at IL FP. M. Ladies’ and chil- dren's matinee at 2 P.M. METROPOLT West Fourteenth stro UM OF ART, a trom io” A. M.to5 P.M. ARK THEATRE Bryn eas 3 CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, x yMPIC 7 /EATRE, Kora Broadway. VARIETY. at 81. ML. ; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Twenty-cighty greet and Broadway. —TRE BIG RO- aa 8P.M.; closes at 103y P.M. Mr. Harkins’ | ne tit CENTEAL PARI GA THEODORE LHUMAs’ CONCEEE, = oF * mM. | is Ohio, *\ they gained in |as beaten before it enters the Presiden- | | the administration NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUN# 18, 1875—TRIPLY SHEET, The Democratic State Carian at Colum. bus, yesterday, deserves more attention than would have belonged to it if the new con- stitution of Pennsylvania had not post-_ poned its annual election to November. The only really great State which con- tinues to hoid elections in Ovtober and the well known effect of a preliminsry party victory on the ensuing | general contest will make the political battle | in Ohio this year the most important that has ever occurred in that most populous, | wealthy and influential State of the West. Pennsylyavia having relinquished her old Nfosition as the ‘‘keystone” of our polities | and taken her place with the great mass | of States wnich hold tueir elections on the | same day, Ohio comes to the front rank | of influence as marking the set of the | political tide and controlling the public judgment of political probabilities. The effect | of the Ohio election on the November contests will be tremendous, because tbis one | State is now invested with the im-/| portance which formerly belonged to it and Pennsylvania. The division of political | forces between these two States is no longer necessary, and both the administration and | the opposition wili concentrate their efforts | this year upon the campaign in Ohio. The hopes of parties in the great Presiden- | tial struggle of next year will sink or rise in proportion to their suceess in Ohio next October. It the republicans should carry the State they will | have arrested the great ‘tidal wave’’ which proved so disastrous last year, and they will have a reasonable prospect of recovering lost ground in other | States in the immediately following November | contests and of remvigorating their party for | the Presidential campaign. But if, on the other hand, the democrats should keep all | Ohio last year, and increase their strength, the country will re- gard such a result as the knell of republican asecndancy. A crushing defeat in Obio would | so discourage and demoralize the republi- | cans that the November elections would | go by default, and the party would be as good | | tial contest. With so much at stake | on both sides the Obio campaign bids fair to he one of the liveliest and most energetic that has ever taken place in our politics. All the strength of | and all the strength | of the opposttion will be strenuously | exerted to secure a victory on which so much depends, Ohio is the key of the Presidential campaign, and the battle will be fought on | both sides) with a strenuous desperation pro- | portioned to the value of the result. The two parties in Ohio are pretty equally matched, and neither has any reason | ee E18. 1875, |,to bo discouraged aside from the _ ane blunders of their leaders. Two years Jrom our uae this SSP ie the probabilities | 28° Governor Allen was elected by are thai ihe weather to-day will be partly cloudy | or rainy, clearing up later. j int lledact SLRS | Persons going out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Urmarn mailed to | them, free of Postage, for $1 per month. | Warn Srmezt Yusrrrpay.—The feeling | was not unlike that reported in London, one of disquiet. Prices were irregular, and, in many instances, lower. Gold was str ong at | per cent. Tue Mvnper or Manocanet Hast, one of | those Brooklyn tragedies that excites the pub- | lic mind in the most intense manner, is now under investigation at the Court of Oyer and Terminer across the river. Taz Feexcu Usivensirres.—The French Assembly bas made some radical changes in | the management of affairs m the higher edu- cational esiablishmests in France in provid- | ing that degrees be awarded by a board of examiners which shall consist half of State and halt of clerical professors. ‘Tur Harte Frats.—The committee of the | Board of Aldermen to whom were intrusted | the investigation ot the imperfect filling in of | | the Harlem flats bave made a very strong and decided report on the subject. Their sugges- tions are sensible and practical, and, if | followed ont, will soon remove one of the | foulest nuisances to which a city was ever | subjected. } Jxnome Park Races.—Ajthough the sixth day of the nintn spring meeting of the Amer- ican Jockey Club did not attract as large an attendance as might be desired, yet the racing | yesterday was unusually interesting. There were five events, in which Survivor, Madge, | Aaron Pennington, Scratch and Galway proved to be the most successful. The favorites were beaten in every instance, except in the case of | Madge, and the knowing ones lost heavily, ‘Tur Brecuen Txrat.—Mr. Beach continued | his scathing denunciation of the defendant in | this cause célébre yesterday, subjecting the | famous letter of contrition to a keen legal analysis that seemed to place it in a new hight. | The trial has been adjourned until Monday, | so that the desired end, for which the public so anxiously look, is further off than ever. The distinguished advocate has not yet an- nounced for a certainty the date of the ending of his elaborate argument for the plaintiff. ‘Tae Kansas Locusts have left for parts | unknown, to the intense delight of the farm ers. They seem to have taken along with | them a swarm of parasites that persecute and | prey upon them, according to the general habits of that species of animal. Too little is | known about the characteristics of the locust | in this country, and the government should, | in accordance with the request of the Western | farmers, appoint a commission to investigat the causes uf the annual devastation caused | by those destructive insects. Taz Disoracervt Counse which has so long sharacterized the Board ot Freeholders of Hudson county, New Jersey, and which seems to bave given an official indorsement to fraud and swindling of the grossest kind, was shown up ina strong light at the meeting of that body yesterday, two ot the members ¢ ance ing in the most eripbatic manner the scandal- ous conduct of their brethren. It is the in- auguration of a fierce war against corruption, and Jersey justice may be depended upon in ing those shameless violators ot tie law who think fit to appropriate the money of | the taxpayeim | West are also | a plurality ot less than a thousand, and | there was a temperance vote of more than | ten thousand, consisting, of course, of repube licans; for the democratic party has never favored prohibition. If the temperance re- | publicans had «voted with their party | Governor Allen would have been de- feated by a large majority. Last | the democratic majority in Ohio was seven- | teen thousand, but the total vote of the State was eighty-seven thousand | less than in 1872, showing that the demo- | cratic majority resulted from the failure | of a large body of republicans to participate in the election. It these voters can be called out this year, and should act with their old associates, a republican victory would be easy | | in spite of last year's ‘tidal wave.” The position of the Ohio democrats is em- | barrassing in consequence of their views on the great question of the currency. A ma- jority of them are arrant inflationists, The financial heresies of his own State ars a source of great embarrassment to Senator Thurman, who needs the support of the Ohio democrats in the Presidential Convention, but | knows that he has no chance of an election to | the Presidency on an inflation platform. The inflation tendency of the Ohio democrats is their weak point. Sunset Cox has been | called to Obio asa missionary in this emer- gency, and ho made one of his | most witty and captivating speeches | at Columbus on Wednesday evening. | | He is popular with the Ohio democrats and it | was a good stroke of policy to bring him back to his old State to smooth the | way for Thurman by acting as a missionary among the financial hea- then. It was foreseen that it would | be fatal to the democratic party at large for the Ohio Convention to adopt an inflation platform, and Thurman's friends played a good card in brioging Cox back among his old admirers to smooth down the difficulties of the situation. Unfortunately, Mr. Cox has had no success asa missionary. The platform adopted yes- | terday is about as squere-tooted a piece of inflation absurdity as could have beeu'| | expressed. This platform is at least honest. | | It expresses, without subterfuge or trim- | ming, the real views,* not only of the democracy of Ohio, but of most of the West- ern States. It is quite possible that the dem- | ocrats may carry the Ohio election on this pre- | posterous platform, for the republicans of the infected with the inflation heresy ; and, as the republican plattorm in | Ohio is substantially a hard money platiorm, the democracy of that State expect to entice the republican inflationists into their ranks. But | suceess on such a platform will ruin the deme- cratic party asa national organization. The unequivocal hard money declarations of the | Eastern democrats, of which the New York platform of last year is a specimen, prove that the democracy of the East and of the West cannot be fatally weakened by imternal dissensions on the most important questions of the time, If the democrats lose Ohio on such a platform the republicans will have stayed the “tidal wave.” If, on the other hand, the democrats should carry the State their national convention next year will be a scene of conflict which will demoralize the party. Tilden ean never he nominated on an inflation platform like that adopted in Ohio yesterday, On such a piattorm Pendleton would be the appropriate candidate of the democracy, and it nevis | test in which Pendleton or any man hold- | the | veto he placed his | things | very fortunate if the fecling of “disquieiude”’ | month there were heavy failures, and there | | world accepted in explanation a theory which | quietude” consequent upon the latest calamity year it is not apparent what can prevent a panic. | es‘ablishments, and if they can get this knowl. | the Board of Aldermen yesterday will attract | on the Great Hill inthe Central Park fitted up | for his use atan expense of nearly fourteen | trip to Europe while his salary went on as brought | to harmonize, and that the party will be | | ing his views is et the head of the demo- | eratie ticket. If Thurman should consent to run on such a platform he wou!d fare no _ better. The democratic party is split in twain on the currency quos- ion, tho most important question of our national politics. There can be no doubt that the Ohio platform embodies the views of a majority of the Western demoernis, and | whether they carry Ohio on such a plattorm or lose it the prospects of the party wilt be discouraging. If they lose the State the republicans will be elated with -hope; if they carry it the Western demo- erats will control the National Convention, dictate its p'atform and sink the party with | the inflation millstone which! they will tie to | its neck. As things now look President Grant saved republican party by his veto of the Inflation ‘bill last year. By that party on sound anl tenable ground in relation to the most important question of our politics, and the attempt of the Eastern democrats to cut the ground from under him is a lamentable failure. The Western democrats repudiate the hard money policy of their Eastern brethren, and a party which is divided against itself on so important a question has no chance of success. Governor Tilden, on a memorable occasion, said that a strong political party must be com- posed of citizens who ‘think the same concerning the public welfare.” But the hard money democracy of the East and the inflation democracy of the West do not ‘think the same things,’’ and a house divided against itself cannot stand. pean The Commercial Failures in England, Commercial and financial London will be said to exist in the. city does not give way to a state of mind that can only be described by a far stronger term. In the first week of the was evidently for a tew days great apprehen- sion of a financial storm; but the financial presented the trouble as a strictly local dis- turbance, and reassured by this comfortable view the city recovered its equanimity. It was comprehensible enough that the bad state of the iron trade should end in calamity to iron houses. Between strikes that made coal high and strikes that made labor dear it was long since evident that this great English | industry was in an ill state to bear up against | the competition from this country, and a crisis that would carry down the great houses of the trade was already discounted; and it was an obvious corollary that a house deeply and exclusively interested in discounting paper for iron houses shou'd go the same way. ‘Now, however, come exceedingly heavy failures that this solution does not account for, | appropriate Banker Hill Yesterday. The fountain of tears lies very near to that ot joy, and the successful, jubilant celebra- tion of the hundredth anniversary of Bunker Hill, now that it is over, gives place to senti- ments that have a tinge of sedate melancholy, The pleasure of meeting is followed by the reeur only once in a century, both the meet- ing and the parting exert a strange sorcery over human feelings. When this great cen- tennial is again celebrated, at the close of another century, where shall we all be who have taken so lively an. interest in this oc- casion of patriotic festivily? ‘Iho very tomb- stones on which our names will have been inscribed will be crumbling with age, and it will be difficult to decipher the epitaphs which attest ‘the filial piety of ‘our children, who will themselves have been Inid by our sides, and even most of their children will be sleeping with us awaiting that final resurrection which we are taught to expect by the Christian Serip- tures, The young men, full of life and vigor and hoje and abounding in generous m- pulses, who wore bright uniforms in the great procession yesterday, and whose eiastic step and military precision attracted admiration to their beautiful regiments, will have trans- mitted their fine physical quahties and alert military bearing to the generation which suc- ceeds their great-grandsons before this cen- tennial ugain recurs, Let us hope that the ideas and sentiments of our glorious Revolu- tion will be as reverently cherished then as they are now, and that the participants in the next centeznial may find reason to do honor to this generation, which has maintained the Union by its valor and effaced the dark biot of slavery from our national in-titutions by its hymanity. We may cry out to them in the language of our greatest orator, ‘Advance, then, ye future generitions! We would hail you as you rise in your long succession to fill the places which we now fill, to taste the blessings of existence where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to the pleas- ant land of the fathers. We greet your acces- sion to the great inheritance which we have enjoyed, We welcome you to the blessings of good government and religious liberty, We welcome you to the treasures of science and the delights of learning. We welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic lite, to the happiness of kindred and parents and children. We welcome you to the im- measurable blessings of rational existence, the immortal hope of Christianity and the light of everlasting truth !"" The great celebration yesterday met and satisfied every expectation. The weather was delightful, the procession immense and magnificent, the display of flags, dec- orations and inscriptions marvellous in beauty, and if the tall which seem to indicate a more general cause of disturbance than was imagined to exist. Although the ec'ty recovered itself from the | verge of panic when the Aberdare Iron Com- | pany went down, and though the ‘dis- may pass away, the high probability is that events of the same nature are to come some- | what closer together in a few days, and then It is the definite indication of these enormous \ failures that a great part of the financial | edifice of our rich cousin is held up by very rotten timbers, and it will not surprise us to see that all the severe moral lessons he has read us on the error of our ways in money will come home to him with bitter severity. Nowhere in the world is honesty more praised than in England; but not in Wall street, nor in other places, if any there are, more flagrantly noted for dishonest practices, can the trickeries of the financier be more ar- dently cultivated or so profitably or success- fully employed asin London. They are in a fair way over there to find out how many of | their great houses are mere ‘confidence’ edge without a general pante they will be the better for it; but suck is not likely. AN aw H. Gueex.—The proceedings of attention as embodying an official statement by the Commissioners of Accounts convicting Mr. Green of the grave offence of receiving large sums of money illegally while he was connected with the Central Park. Besides a great amount of “back pay” he had the house thousand dollars, received his expenses in a Treasurer, together with a great amount of perquisites. This is an unfortunate exbibit foran officer of Mr. Green's pretensions to public virtue. Comprnotier GREEN aND tHE Boanp or Epvcatiox.—The Board of Education has re- solved to institute legal proceedings against Comptroller Green to compel him to hand over to the Board the money appropriated for its use. The Commissioners hold that the law gives them the right to control and dis- burse the school fands, and that Mr. Green's intermeddling with the payments is unau- thorized, unnecessary and injurious, It was agreed, however, that an effort should be | made to settle the matter anncably with the | Comptroller before legal proceedings are commenced, although two or three of the Commissioners expressed the opinion that Mr. Green's stubbornness and obstructive- | ness rendered any attempt to bring him to reason by fair means a farcical waste of time. | The sentiment in favor of testing Mr. Green's | right to meddle with the funds by an appeal to the courts was unanimous. Not a single department of the city government that does not place itself abjectly under the Comptrol- ler’s heel can escape a conflict with that per- | verse and grasping official. and massive monument which looked down upon the exhilarating scene could have felt its stone transmuted inio flesh, like Pygmalion’s statue, and have been animated by the heroic spirits who bled in that field, it would have lifted its head more proudly to the skies. In Campbell's sublime ode to the naval glories of England, he says: — The spirits of your fathers shall start from every wave. It would require less poetic animation to fancy the spirits of our fathers starting from | every turt of the green slopes of Bunker Hill yesterday at the tread of the vast multitudes who assembled there to commemorate their | sturdy patriotism and immortal valor. College Commencements, Yesterday was ihe Annual Commencement of the University of the City of New York and of some other institutions, of which we print reports this morning. In themselves the exercises were not unlike those which we have been recounting from year to year ever since the Heraup was founded, only there has been an increase in the number of the ‘‘com- mencements” occasioned by the growth of so many new “‘universities.’’ Their significance is an entirely different matter, and if young men are graduated to-day better fitted to battle with the world than was the case a few years ago it is because of what they took into their colleges and not on account of what they bring out. We believe there never was atime when American scholarship, so far as the colleges are concerned, was lower than it is now. A ‘‘classical education’’ is no longer rigidly insisted on, as it was within even ® comparatively recent period, and the result is that rigid mental training is fast disappearing altogether. We are not dis- posed to bewail the disrepute into which the “classica’’ have fallen, but at the same time we cannot fail to see that superficial study and disjointed thinking are usurping the places which were once given to patient in- vestigation and logical deduction. The con- sequence is that young men come from col- lege nowadays wiser than their teachers and fully confident that they are strong enough to carry the whole world on their shoulders, They instruct us in the philosophy of life before they have begun to live and are able to toss off ay oration on the moral progress of the century with as much ease as they will feel in dealing with a glass of champagne before the next alumni dinner. All this may be well enough, but we shall look forward with much interest to the time when we shall have real universities and when a college diploma shall be a certificate of genuine mental training. Courtesy to Distinguished Guests. Our Long Branch correspondent informed us recently that the President had resolved not to attend the celebration at Bunker Hill, and that the Cabinet had arrived at the same conclusion. This information is confirmed by the fact that neither the President nor any of his Cabinet were in attendance at the celebration. The reason for this action on the Tor Freemen's Saantes.—Now that Presi- dent Lewis is Acting Mayor he may get over the difficulty raised en respecting the firemen’ s rrants and enable the men to obtain their pa rn the separate warrants and notify Mr. no thatil next month he persists in his refusal to pay the men by compar accordance with the provisions of the practice since sponsible tor 3 that a petty rolier and the red to #o seri- body of the city's | os in January last, be will the It is ously | me prophet to foretell the result of @ com- | most veluavle cmployds, part of the President is that he resents the dis- cussion which has takeu placegs to the bills | incurred by himself and his party when they visited the celebration of the batile of Lex- Tho President felt that this local authorities in vise ington. sion on the part of the New character, the insult of # host to a gnest. The President visited New England at the invilae | His presence was a gracious and kindly act, adding largely to the success of the celebration. He lowed to incur any expense or to bear any | portion of his entertainment, Yot as soon as | he ‘returned he tound that the bills for his | tiou of the authorities. was not ale pain of parting, and, on occasions which can | England was an offence of the gravest | entertainment had been made matters of dis- cussion, and that questions had been asked as to whether tho Presidential party sbould or should not drink wine, or should or should not smoke cigars; that tho amount of wine charged in the dill had been a matter of amazement and reproach, and that one of the committee went so far as to publicly ex- press his alarm lest the habits of President Grant should lead him into an unusual and painful condition of life. We do not see really how the President could arrive at any other conclusion, It is the gravest offence that can be gommitted in modern society for a host to put an insult upon his guest. We cannot imagine anything more offensive than for a host to invite a gen- tleman to his house and after he has departed either to comment upon his habits or man- ners or to discuss the wine he- drank or the cigars he smoked or to in'any way make pub- lic declarations affecting his behavior or his character. When this offence is committed by a public body and when the subject of 1t is no less a personage than the President of the United States there can be but one answer. This the President has properly made. It may be rather an extreme act for him to re- solve that he would not visit Bunker Hill or any of the other centennial celebrations that take place in New England. ‘he authorities who had charge of this celebration in Bos- ton can scarcely Ve held responsible for the boorishness or indecency of those who had charge of the celebrations elsewhere. Al the same time itis hard to draw the line. A gentleman who has been treated like the President may well be pardoned for hesitating to put himself in a position to incur a repeti- tion of the affront. Are the Police Blackmailers? The testimony of the detective, Martinot, before the legislative committee on Wednes- day, though it contained nothing that was not well known before, was so direct and positive in some particulars as to amount almost toa revelation. Lhe charges against Captain Bur- den are of the most serious character, and if such charges can be sustained against an officer as reputable as he we are forced to the conclusion that our police administration is, and for many years has been, honeycombed with corruption. No condition of society more dangerous to the ‘community can be imagined than a police force which is organ- ized for the protection of the criminal classes, instead of the honest and industrious part of the population. If we are to believe Marti- not’s testimony, which merely relates in de- tail aud with a precision that cannot be evaded by a simple denial what everybody had been led to regard as true, the police captains, and, possibly, officers even higher in authority, have been systematically blackmailing the keepers of panel houses and other dis- reputable places. Neither the efforts of in- dividaals nor the exposures of the press could induce the police to close even the most infamous of these places, and when it hap- pened that a house of ill fame was interfered with by the police it always seemed that the action of the officers was only the prelude to afresh tax upon crime. Now, worse charges than the press has ever made are preferred against the police on the sworn testimony of an officer familiar with ali the workings of the department, and to the police captains of the metropolis are imputed offences worse than those committed by the burglars and thieves, against whom the police should be a certain protection. No offence can be more degrading than levying blackmail upon vice and crime, and this, it seems, is the constant practice of the metropolitan police. In view of these things the legislative committee cannot stop its inquiries until the whole truth is known in regard to police administration in New York. Speenfic proof can be obtained in regard to this system of police blackmail, and the committee will fail in its duty unless it completely exposes the corrupt officials who have so dishonored the metropolis. The Tammany Tangle. The affairs of Tammany are getting into a terribly tangled condition. There are several causes tending to make the present confusion in the Wigwam. First in order comes theold difficulty between Waterbury and Green on one side and John Kelly on the other, grow- ing out of the charges of official dishonesty made against the ex-Sheriff by Waterbury, backed by Green. Then there ig the open revolt of John Morrissey, directly against Mayor Wickham and indirectly against John Kelly, induced first by the conspiracy to defeat Hayes for Register, to which both Wickham and Kelly are alleged to have been parties, and strengthened subsequently by the refusal of those leaders to recognize Hayes’ claim to a commissionership in one of the de- partments. The Morrissey defection naturally combines itself with the elements heretofore opposed to Kelly's autocratic rule, and repre- sented by such leaders as ex-Sheriff Brennan, ex-County Clerk Loew and others of less note. Ittakes in Senator Ledwith and his friends and County Cierk Walsh—the former positively and the latter negatively, Ledwith being the candidate of Morrissey, Hayes, Walsh, Brennan and Loew for next Sheriff, and Walsh being willing to go with the dis- affected party whenever they can show a fair prospect ot success. With all these elements at work, and with Waterbury and Green ac- tively engaged in the attempt to make o combination with District Attorney Phelps for an anti-Tammany judicial and legislative ticket mext fall, it has become a matter of necessity for John Kelty and his friends to take some determined steps to put down a rebellion which is at present scattered and disjointed, but which, if suffered to consoli- date and harmonize, may prove powerful enough to overthrow the present rule in ‘Tammany. ‘The first positive step taken by Kelly against the conspirators has been the arraignment of Waterbury for the offence of betraying the secrets of the organization. This movement | has, however, been checkmated by an order | of the Supreme Court, issued by Judge Davis, requiriug the production of the constitution and bylaws under which the adverse proceed- ing is taken, and protecting Waterbury until the order has been complied with and his rights ascertained by the Court. A yet bolder step has been the institution of an investiga- tion by Uie Committee on Discipline into the conduct of the district committe:s, with the avowed purpose of ridding the society ot | “ttre iders."’ Lhis movement is known to be di- | ‘rected adainst Morrissey. Jimmy Hayes. Led- with and others, who-re said to have been in secret alliarce with Comptroller Green dus ing the past two or three months, and after the examination of th» committees and the secret inquiry among de mocrats of the several districts may end in tal:ing the districts out of the hands of the saspected parties, Ii will readily be seen that the troubles of Tam- many are many and serious and that ‘‘Boss" Kelly has a bard fight on his hands. It will require all his exertions to carry him safely through, and as Governor Tilden is supposed to be in harmony with the Green and, Morris- sey rebellion, and is expected to withhold his signature from all bills increasing the power and patronage of ‘l‘ammany Hall, ag well as to persist in his refusal to approve the Mayor's removals of heads.of departments, the odds seem to be against tlie present rulers, Reconstruction at West Point. The meeting of the Union and Confederate soldiers at West Point this yeaa’ is a most grati- fying event. It shows that the efforts of un- wise men to prolong the eva-of bad feeling between the South andthe North have sig- nally failed, ‘The soldiers on both sides would long ago have buried the hatchet had not intriguing politicians, for their own selfish ends, constantly fanned the expiring antagonisms of th war. The clasping of hands at West Point :is significant as representing the thought of the most com- manding figures of the defunct Confederacy, In reappearing among their West Point com. rades such men as Longstreet and Smith vir tnally confessed that the separatist idea was dead, and that nothing remained for good citi- zens, whether belonging to the North or South, but to heal the wounds inflicted on the common country in our fratricidal civil struggle. The war is aten end, and that reconstruction of spirit on which the success of mere political reconstruction must depend has begun in earnest. ‘The South not alone submits to the law of the conqueror, but accepts the result of the war as final. And it is as an assurance of this desirable state of the Southern mind that this meeting of the men who left West Point as comrades to battle field as foes is so significant, It is desirable that our centennial year should find us truly reunited. This can only be ac- complished by making the men who lost in the struggle understand that we of the North harbor no resentment and that we look upon them as brothers. It is only by convincing the South of the reality of this sentiment that we can hope to have all Americans pray that we may be vouchsafed in the future one coune try and one flag. Ane THe Contracrors who planted the pest beds in the Harlem flats to be indicted? The people of New York expect that men who so far forget their duty as citizens as to seek to make money by sowing a pestilence in the very heart of the city shall not escape with impunity. MeQuade and the others ought to be indicted without further delay, and Core poration Counsel Smith should at once begin suits for the recovery of the money wrongfully paid to them. Macomn’s Dam Bunce is a standing dis grace to the city of New York. Such a rickety, miserable structure should long ago have been teplaced by a substantial one. One of these days, when some frightful acci- dent occurs during the return from the Jerome Park races, the indighant public will compel our careless authorities to pay alittle attention to their duties and bestow some consideration on the lives of taxpayers. Tre Ex-Boss still lingers on Blackwell's Island, and the welcome steamboat, with ite band of music, flying colors, enthusiastic crew apd sumptuous table has not yet put in an appearance to relieve him from durance vile. He still sigps for freedom—even a change from the Island to Ludlow Street Jail—and the tardy relief does not reach him. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Tennyson's charge for “a little poem for @ magazine” is $500. The Secretary of War will retarn to Washingtom from West Point on Saturday, Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, is stay ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Baron Rosen, of St. Petersburg, has taken up bis residence at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel, Ex-Senator Willian b. Washburn, of Massachu- setts, 1s registered at the Windsor Hotel, Senator Aaron JL Cragin, of New Hampshire, is residing temporarily at the Westmoreland Hotel. Judge Thomas L. Jewett, of Philadelphia, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nichoias Hotel, Very Rev. P. F. Lyndon, Vicar General of tne diocese of Boston, is sojourning at wu ere House. Major Peter C. Hains, of the Engineer corps, Untted Staies Army, is quartered at the Brevoort House. Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the United States Fishertes Commission, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assembiyman F, W. Vospurgh, of Albany, and Mr. A. D. Barber, of Utica, arrived iast evening at the Metropouitan Hotel. General Adam Badeau, United States Consult General at London, has returned to his old quar- ters as the Fifth Avenue Hotel, A ietter was received at the Treasury yesterday urer New, announcing that he will be on about the 25ch inst, Some Englisimen recently tried to purchase Arabian nor-es in Ponstantinople, but were not within a quarter of the Turk prices, Roses are so plentiful in France that the rail. ‘Way companies decorate the walls of the stations with them arranged on trellis frames, * Emperor Wiliam has had printed im foho for himself an edition of the works of Frederick the Great, and has givem a copy to M. Thiers. Inspector General Eamund Schriver, who has been visiting the military posts in the Southwest, arrived in this city yesterday and isat the Bree voort Mouse. President Grant and Mr. G. W. Childs will leave Long Branch for Philadelpni even o'clock this morning in'a palace car placed at their dis. posal by Colonel Scott. . Rev. Dr. Love, editor of the Northern christian Advocate, Syracuse, was attacked by apoplexy yesterday, at his country residence in Owasoo, about one mile from Auburn, The precise point at which Captain Boytom touched the English shore at tne conciusion of bis late Channel voyage hus been namea Boyton Rock. He was rocked tn the cradie of the deep to some purpose. Miss Ciarke, an American artist, has for many years past been engaged on a series of sketches of all the places visited by Dante. The series 18 now, we learn, pearly fniajed. Ailss Clarke bas trav. elled about for several years, even in the least frequented parts of aly, and her sketones are the result of much researen, The Earl of Alvemarie has in preparation ry voinme to be entiiied “Filty Years of My Life which, it 18 Suid, will contatn many new jacts, Social ANd pol:tical, about the enief persons ame events of the eariy partor the present centary, including an account, founded on his own ex periences. of the bastic of Wakerlon, meet on the