The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1875, Page 8

eR ee Se Ee Le a OMe eee ee ee a ENE eT Sele ae a eE SC eS mE OM ° 8 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET, BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the Nzw Yorx Hunszp will be | sent free of postage. ———_—-—_—_ All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. 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, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, AROUND bit 7 oe IN EIGHTY DAYS, av8 P.M; tte 10 ROBINSON HALL, we weteaney om English pera—GIROFLB GIROFLA, at 5 P. WOOD'S MUS! Broad: ihirueth eect THE BLACK | BOGTOR at ee; closes at Ws P.M. Matinee at 2 GILMORE’S BUMMER GARDEN Barman’ s, Hippodrome. 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Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hrnaxp office as early as possible, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer, and clear or partly cloudy. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henaxp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srazet Yesrenpax.—Stocks were without feature, and opinions were sharply divided with reference to the future. Gold was strong at 117}. Money rates unchanged. Tue Gic Race of the B Brooklyn Columbia Club brought out the ladies in large numbers. This association, though young, shows a good deal of vigor. Contests like that of yesterday do much to popularize the healthtul sport of boating, and we are glad to notice that the ladies were resent in goodly force, Tun Pors's Hxatru.—The state of the Pope's health again creates anxiety. His Holiness has been attacked by lumbago, aud though he continues to give audievces as usual, friends and enemies are anxious about the result. Just now the death of Pope Pius would introduce an element into European politics that might endanger the peace of Europe. Bismarck takes a deep interest in the question of Papal succession, and might find bis opportunity to make a grand row on the occasion of the election of a new Pope, Morz Meerixos or Earrrnons.—On his re- turn from Warsaw the autocrat of Russia will pass through Bohemia and Francis Josoph will greet his fellow sovereign onthe frontier. In the absence of the saintly William the Russian and Austrian rulers can talk over the European qnestion at their ease. How Bis- marck would like to know the exact text of their conversation! It is probable his name will come up in the course of conversation between the two emperors. Pouce Commussionrn Voonnts has insisted opon an investigation by the Superintendent of the allegations set forth in the statement of the ex-detective Martinot before thé legisla- tive committee. Commissioner Disbecker failed in an attempt to make the investigation “general.” The other Commissioners know very well that a ‘‘general’’ investigation means no investigation at all, or what is equivaient—an investigation of the character | of the famous report of the Harlem flats police surgeons, mts to order, Tar Deis, axp tae Boxt's Ere.--Onr first news of the shooting in Ireland came ina shape characteristically Hibernian. It is con- ceded that the Americans are the superior marksmen, but the Irish have won the match. The Irishmen make the best score, but the Americans are the best shots. When an affectionate mother, by way of instruction, told her boy that if he cut the cake he must give Jobuny the larger of the two pieces, be- canse “that was polite,’ the apt pupil in toe hoilow ways of the world immediately pro- posed that the duty of dividing the cake should at once be turned over to Johnny, that he might himsel: have the benelit of the po- liteness of the case. We confess to a similar aspiration in regard to tho division of the ease between us and Ireland. By all means let the Irishinen themselves be the best shots, but let our fellows win the match, | that has successtully appealed to the Legisla- | interest than the interest of the people | struction that the element of | quite as important as rapidity—will pass out \ that NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Rapid Transit. Rapid transit is at last rather more than a name. For some tedious years it has dangled before the eyes of popular ‘ancy as a tantalizing vision, and now it seems inclined to stand on the earth as a tangible reality. It has rang in our ears the musical promise that at some future day the people might live far enough | up town to get cheap rents and yet be within easy reach of Wall street. Now there is like- lihood that the promise may come to perform- ance, At all events if we do not now make a real progress in this matter of so much conse- quence to the city we can definitely locate the responsibility for the mishap. Governor Tilden has approved the Husted bill, and the Mayor under that measure and in accordance with its provisions will be called upon to appoint Commissioners to take further steps. It will be the duty of this | Commission, acting as a body with public authority, to determine the character of the road to be built and its route, and, indeed, the whole plan; and with this com- | mittee once appointed the destiny of rapid | transit falls into their hands. They will con- | stitute, therefore, a very important body—a body of more consequence to the people of | this city than twenty boards of aldermen or | severnl legislatures. Indeed, they will step | into the same position in regard to this im- portant subject that has been occupied fa many years by the Legislature; and there | will hustle about them the same scramble of projecturs and jobbers, inventors and con- | tractors that have so long sufficed in the | Albany lobby to defeat every good scheme | Every in- | for the amelioration of city travel. genious man with a scheme ; every impudent | out of some other man’s scheme ; in short, | the whole army of wretches whose cupidity | and shamelessness make our legislation a reproach will pull and haul and bully | and endeavor to bribe a committee that can | determine a point on which will tarn a great | many fortunes, It will be possible for this Board of Com- missioners to add many millions in value to real estate in certain parts of the city, and to put in the near prospective a tenancy that | very formation of the committee which of | Sunday to them. Mr. Clark, of Bristol, Eng- | land, will speak to them to-day; Mr. Haw- | Fogue determined to make a million dollars | thorn will set up Moses as a model for young | dilate more especially on one feature of will justify the erection within five years of | one hundred thousand new houses on lots now vacant in the upper wards. They can open Golconda to the happy inventor whose scheme they approve and the not less happy capitalists who are interested in that scheme, | | and they can send out to disappointment and ruin others who have invested money and | | years of thought in schemes perhaps scarcely less ingenious, perhaps superior to the one | they shall favor. It is but natural, there- | fore, that this body should become the ceutre | | of a great struggle; and, inasmuch as it is | practically the Legislature and has legislativ authority over the subject submitted to its diseretion no one must be surprised to see it | approached in that same winning method ture itself on so many occasions. lt is apparently the intention of the law, taken plainly, that this Board shali determine upon plans submitted to it which one is most likely to be practically effective and to answer the great demand made for easy and rapid transportation between the extremities of the city, up aud down, and also for side rontss to the ferries or other important points. Already there are, we believe, nearly thirty plans proposed. Twenty-six have been described in these columns; and if the Board examines these intelligently and reports upon them honestly, without favor, without col- | lusion, without jobbery, there can be no doubt that we shall secure the great improve- meat so long demanded. But if this com- | mittee shall be in any sense a failure, if it is appointed from a view of any j other | in rapid transit, it will be only one more treason; and it will either defeat all projeets or it will give us a road so inade- quate to the needs and so extravagant in con- cheapness— of sight, aud we shall be further than ever from rapid transit through the discourage- ment of capital and the indifference of the people. All the future of rapid transit, therefore, is now in the Mayor's office, and, indeed, under the Mayor's bat. He is responsible, and his | reputation will stand or foll by the result, | We have just as much confidence in Mr. Wickham as we have in any one else. He 1s appointed to a place ot trust in a metropolis | where honest men are rarely found in office, and he bas a share of human failibility; but he has an opportunity betore him that rarely falls to the lot ofa municipal functionary. He may in the appointment of this Commission render the city a service the equal of which no Mayor ever had the chance to render be- fore bim, and he may by a little error run rapid transit into the groove it has bitherto oceupied in Albany. Nobody can say what a commission will do after it is appointed ; sometimes not even the man who appoints it. | But the Mayor has before him a course that will guarantee him against consequences that he cannot control. He will err it he appoints men fog whom the public will continue to hold him responsiblg He will perform his duty properly if he appoints men of the kind that are accepted by the people as responsible for themselves ; men whose ready acceptance by common opinion discharges the respon- sibility of the appointing power; men in whom, if the Mayor is disappointed, he can at tell it treely to all who will hear and heed. | | ont the function and value of public opinion. | fied tor another week. | tion to the Black Hills under the command of | cipitate a new Indian war. | accommodation difficult. tly dislike the entrance of white into | Psp Suceetennd sone spiesertice tA appreciation more than Disbecker and Green least claim that he was disappointed in com. | mon with the whole public. Apparently the danger is that the whole subject may be decided, not upon fair and impartial examination of several schemes, but upon some foregone conclusions and in the very nomination of the Comumussion. This Commission is not unlike a nominating convention, and will be dealt with by the jobbers in the same style. Belore the con- vention is named there are half a dozen can- didates in the fleld who want the offi t These candidates besiege the power t names the convention, and cach uses what pressure he can to secure that the body shall be composed of lnis friends~-his men, in fot ; so that when the convention is named the nomination of the candidate is practically made, In the same way pressure is, of course, already active to secure from the Mayor the appointment of men in favor of one or another of the plans ore in the out number are formed or will be formed | and prospective divisions of the illimitable spoil are already made to secure the political or other pressure that is necessary or thought to be necessary to control the Mayor's action. | Although the city may not disburse a penny yet the franchise is of such prospective value that the temptation is very great and will excite the same sort of ingenuity as served to make the Pacific Ruilway the cover for so much villany ; and if we would avoid all trouble of that sort, if we would secure the effective con- struction of a good road, the only plan and only hope is to obtain now, at the Mayor's hands, the appointment of an honest and up- tight body, not committed beforehand to any particular system, above all not appointed especially to approve some man’s plan, but appointed sim- ply because they are upright citizens of a kind that may be relied upon to determine as a jury of the people. The appointment of such a committee is the function the law has put in the Mayor's hands, and he will not be trne to his office nor to himself if he endeavors to pertorm instead the function that the law intends to give to the Commissioners ; if, that is to say, he endeavors to determine by the the many projects shall be decided upon. Tt is too much to be apprehended that jobbery will make itself felt in this matter for any hesitancy to be used by those who write inthe interest of the public welfare. Pulpit Topics To-Day. This must be a season of special danger to young people, judging from the number of ser- mons and addresses that are delivered every men, and will show young women where and how they may find the true ideal of woman- hood, and Mr. Harris will hunt around his parish for the young man wanted for the times. We hope he may find more than one such. And akin to these talks to young peo- ple are family subjects, such as will be treated to-day by Mr. Kennard, who will show what home life should really be; and by Mr. Sweetser, who will the Christian home life—family worship. But what would home be without happiness— that gem by many sought but found by few? Mr. King has the secret and he is going to The leadership of the Spirit, about which Mr. | McCampbell will speak, is more likely to se- cure happiness than anything we know of. | How to obtain this guidance of the Spirit or how to be saved by Jesus, the martyr King, will be made plain by Dr. Deems and by Mr. | Lloyd, who will show that the lifting up of | Cbrist brings God’s salvation near, and the acceptance of that salvation gives to man | eternal life—makes him immortal and unites | the whole family in heaven and earth in one, | as Mr. Lightbourn will demonstrate, But this | life and experience is the honor and fruit of | bumility, which inspires the soul with true | Christian zeal, so that a man can walk calmly in the Lord's way, as Mr. Hepworth will make | clear, even in the midst of strife and tumult. | This is the season for building, and Mr. | Willis will contrast the wise and foolish | builders for the benefit of those who have characters to erect and position to attain, either in this lite or the next. Father Mc- Quirk will have something to say about the | Pope's infallibility, and Dr. Porteous will in- dicate the cause of the lack of self-reliance | among the religious classes, as well as point And with this series of topics, wise and good and true, our readers will probably be satis- Tue Brack Huis.—The exploring expedi- Colonel Dodge has already reached the border of the ‘Indian Eden.” It is to be feared that | the Indians may attack the column and so pre- | No time should be lost by the newly appointed Commissioners in explaining the views of the government to the | Sioux before the dissatisfaction of their chiefs at their unwise treatment at Washington has time | to be communicated to the tribes and renders | The Indians evi- the Black Hills region and will probably | resent the intrusion. Fortunately the columa under Colonel Dodge is sufficiently strong to resist any hostile attack likely to be made on it by the savages. A fight in the hills is to be | feared, as it might be the signal for a general attack on the line of unprotected frontier settlements. : | Tue St. Perenssvro Conrenexce.—Russia | has not yet abandoned her idea of establish- | ing an international war code, and, notwith- standing the snubbing she received from | England, a new circular will be addressed to | the Powers, ‘This last exhibition of interest | in the international war code question will probably make the British only more sus- picions of Russian designs. It may be that | the Northern Power is sincerely desirous of lessening the horrors and wishes to humanize the rules of war; but if so, why not go a step further and try to abolich standing armies? Rules that make war a luxury only to be in- | dulged in by the rich might be fatal to the liberty of smaller Powers who, under the present system, even if overpowered, can always resort to that guerre d outrance which plays such sad havoe with professional soldiers. Toe Eantagvaxn mm tae Wrst.—There was every reason to expect that the inflation | bubble, which has been troubling the West | for a long time, would burst in the end, but | we scarcely expected it to take the shape of | an earthquake. This, however, seems to have | been the shape which the agitation has assumed, and all the way from Chicago to Civeinnati the earth bas been rocking with a great commotion. When republicans and democrats in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys | learn the true principles of political economy they will be freed from the evils of an earth: | shaking, Uut as long as they cling to inflation they may expect the which always result trom overblown bubbles. | consequences Tum Fret Mrsratore Yacet Reroarta in Central Park yesterday attracted a brilliant | and numerous assemblage. The boys were out in force, and enjoyed their sport quite as | for Tweed to attend our municipal chief, Tweed informed a contempo- | rary reporter that he has spent a \half million of dollars ,on his lawyers, | sequently what would have been a gratifica- | those voluntary contributions from the peo- | the four bosses, neither of whom is appreci- | |-compounder of the garbage bali of a thou- | | We do not know any two statesmen who lack | cincts of the course. | to a degree beyond all expectation. An Opportunity tor the Unappreciated. The accepted fact that the Mayor is really going to London is full of compensations. Governor Tilden has cheerfully expressed his willingness to perform the only duty that now devolves upon the Mayor's office, that of reviewing Irish processions in the City Hall Park. He has purchased a beautiful suit of orange, trimmed with blue, in which he will review the Protestants on the. anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. He has a fine rich emerald suit cut in the latest style, embroidered with shamrock, in which he will review the Sons of St. Patrick on the festival day of that saint, As these are the only two undisputed functions now lett to Mayor Wickham, and as Governor Tilden is an expert horseman and instead of standing on the stone steps holding a pole in his hands would canter up and down upon the space to the admiration of the admiring thousands from Greenwich street and Five Points, the change will be even for the better. Therefore the Mayor can go to London with an easy mind. We can give him such a retinue as has never been seen in the histor- ical streets of the old city. The Mayor, with magnanimity and foresight, has indicated the character of the men who will compose his retinue. New York, he says, is filled with unappreciated intellect. There is no city in the world perhaps where there are so many men of genius and worth and experience willing to sacrifice themselves for their country—even to make a sacrifice as great as that which General Grant recently de- plored—as in New York. New York is like a forest afier a storm. The ground is strewn with the trunks of manya majestic career. Appreciation, like gratitude, is no longer a virtue of the Republic, We can scarcely walk up Broadway of a morning without seeing the remnant of some mighty influence, a little bit battered, the hat caretully adjusted, somewhat seedy, expectant, under the influence of cosmetics and chemical prep- rations, Mayor Wickham has pondered over this circumstance and has resolved to make his visit to England the means of reviv- ing the dormant genius that has been trodden under foot bythe rushing, hurrying crowd and the rude, thoughtless mass who are in power to-day, and who may be digging on the public works to-morrow. Mr. Wickbam will, therefore, be escorted to London by a retinue of unappreciated states- men. It would not surprise us if Tweed would be the bead of this staff, as circumstances have rendered it .possible and that most of his fortune has been wasted by blackmailers and adventurers. Con- tion to the ex-Boss—namely, the payment of the expenses of this party—will be impossible. But, as we before remarked, the benefit at all the theatres, with the subscriptions from the Custom House and city departments, and ple, who would be glad of an opportunity te express their joy at the departure of the Mayor and his retinue, might net a com- petent fund that would enable Mayor Wick- ham to enjoy all the pleasures of his London trip and not dishonor America, There are | ated properly—Boss Kelly, of the Swallow- tailed democracy, against whom the tribes are rising in mutiny; Boss John Morrissey, of the Short Hairs, who is now sitting on the ragged edge in Tammany Hall; Boss Tom Murphy, of the Beef Eaters, whose mind is more or less concerned by the revelations ot corruption and fraud, and Boss Tom Crea- mer, of the Plug Uglies, who is said to have earned vast sums of money in Wall street speculations. The truth is that none of these bosses have an easy time of it in New York. We are rapidly that the appreciation of a for- eign audience would be comfort and | peace, Then there is Disbecker, the | sand flowers, and Green, the watchdog of the Treasury, now suffering from hydrophobia. | and whose departure for London would be | looked upon with more rejoicing. Then | comes long line of ‘greatness under a | | cloud,” which, like the vision of Macbeth, | might be said to extend to the crack of doom. | These are precious opportunities, and wo to go to Europe, but to give the Old World an | opportumty to honor our unappreciated | statesmen, j Jerome Park Races, The American Jockey Club closed their | spring meeting at Jerome Park yesterday in | the most brilliant manner. The weather was delightful, the attendance enormous and the racing very exciting. The winuers were Mattie | A. (two races), Countess, Daylight and Stan- ford, the two steeplechases being of more than ordinary interest, There is something to | admire in the management of this associa- tion, in the entire absence during their meet- ing of everything that might offend the most fastidious visitor. Thousands of people may be seen there on a race day, all in holiday spirit, yet neither drunkenness, rowdyism nor quarrelsomeness finds place within the pre- This gratifying result may be attributed to the excellent arrango- | ments made by the officers of the ciub to pre- vent such unpleasant feammres, and the flavor | of respectability that pervades each meeting, which is seldom found at other courses, The weather has been unusually kind this season to the American Jockey Ciub, bright skies and balmy breezes ushering in each day of the meeting. Nine years havo elapsed since this beautiful race park was first thrown open to the public, and it becomes more attractive | each year. The metropolis may well takea pride in the association of gentlemen who have made racing honorable and respectable Success must necessarily crown their efforts at each meeting. Tur Reoarra of the Brooklyn Yacht Club yesterday was quite an enjoyable affair, A stiff breeze gave a chance for an animated | race, and allowed the yachtsmen to | much as the owners of larger crait could have Geld, Rings with- | done, display their seamanship, and they eagerly tembraced the opportunity, It is seldom | question he made an investigation for him- | not thoroughly understand. | thank the Mayor for his resolution not only | that a better race is witnessed than tbat of yesterday's. One hour and forty minutes was the time taken in the run to the Lightship. This will give some idea of the animated nature of the : Prayers for Lady Franklin. All over the land to-day the churches will be moved by the pious appeal for the prayers of the faithful which comes to the Christian people of America from that most wifely and devoted of women, Lady Franklin. Lying at the point of death she does not forget how every pulse had moved in response to her ap- peals in the past in behalf of her noble hus- band, nor fail to ask the prayers of those sympathetic hearts in the dark and trying hour which comes but once to all of us. No spectacle could be grander than the invoca- tions which will go up this morning froma thousand altars to the throne of the Most High beseeching the Heavenly Father to smooth the dying pillow of this constant and devoted lady. For more than thirty years she held herself true to the memory of the man to whom she had plighted her girlish faith, and until certain tidings of his fate had been at last obtained she not only hoped against hope for his return, but labored to- ward that end with a zeal and earnestness and intelligence which have never been sur- passed. All history does not afford another such example, In her own person she com- bined the graces and virtues of all the heroines of mythology and romance. Even Homer could not have created a goddess so sincere and so perfect in all that pertains to true womanhood. Inspired by the example of the wife who would not even permit him to linger a day from his duty, though she knew she was dying and would never see him again in this world, the second Lady Franklin more than emulated the devotion of the first. She was constant to her lord not only till his death—not merely to his momory till the last—but labored constantly to clear up the mystery of his tate. So great was her faith, 80 unceasing her endeavors, so high and noble her undertaking, that she enlisted in her work the sympathies of the whole world. For nearly fitteen years she was unable to obtain | even a clew to the fate of the distinguished captain whose name she bore. Two American expeditions, aided by her purse and full of the grand purpose which inspired her own breast, had sailed in vain to find some tidings of the lost explorer. At last another American expedition—Captain McClintock’s—the fruit of her own pious and pathetic appeals, brought her news which, though it disappointed her hopes and confirmed her fears, set at rest the doubt which filled her soul with agony. She knew, | at least, that Sir John Franklin was dead, and secured for all her pains and all that long and agonizing suspense a brief record of his fate, sad as that record was. During all those years of suffering and sorrow Lady Franklin was strengthened by the prayers and sym- pathies of the people, to whom she now appeals in the hour of her extremity, and the voices of supplication which will go up for her to-day will be in a great measure praises of thanktulness for the example she has set not only by her many Christian virtues but for the increased sanctity with which she clothed | true womanly devotion. In an age when the | marriage vow is but lightly held, even in some | of the churches which bear the Christian | name, that example is priceless in its worth. If she had no other claim to our respect the devotion with which she clung to the memory of the bold and daring explorer, with whose | fame her own is linked, and the unexampled | courage she displayed in following every clew | to his tate would commend her as worthy of | every honor and entitled to the highest regard which men can bestow upon womanhood. Another Hariem Flat Police Sur- geon’s Recantation. Dr. Waterman, Police Surgeon of the Thir- | teenth district, one of the signers of the | | famous report testifying to the fragrance and | rushing along im our madcap way so | healthfulness ot the Harlem flats, has added | his name to the list of those who have repu- | diated that remarkable document. He gave | his signature because the suggestions and recommendations with which the report | closed seemed to him ‘‘fair and logical.” But when the facts alleged therein were called in self, and soon discovered that he had unwit- tingly signed away his professional reputa- tion. He hastens to correct the blunder, and | will probably be more careful in future how he attaches his name to a statement of whose truthfulness he is ignorant and which he does Dr. Waterman did in the end what he ought to have done in the beginning—he examined Professor Disbecker's dumping ground, The conclusions at which he ar- rives bring his opinions in conflict «ith those | of the garbage-loving head of the Street Cleaning Bureau. To Disbecker's nostrils the reeking flats diffuse sweet odor. In Disbeck- er’s pharmacopeia the noxious gases arising from putrefying animals and vegetable matter are the most healthful medicine that can be prepared for the human system. But Dr. Waterman recognizes iu the “heavy mephitic cloud” that seems ‘to rest over the entire locality” of the Harlem flats ‘a sickening, nau- seating odor,” and he believes that the fetid air carries with it pestilence and death. The picture he paints, after a personal inspection of the infected district, will not prove consol- | ing to those who reside in the neighborhood. He looked in vain for a definite source of the sickening smell that assailed him as he en- tered the territory and increased in intensity as he proceeded ; for the material that liad been deposited was everywhere doing its | deadly work, and was everywhere insufliciently covered, “allowing the effluvia from below to expand and spread far and wide over the district.” Nevertheless some special beaa- ties—precious spots that would have delighted Disbecber and bis doctors—-did come under his observation. A “black, seething sheet of | water under a house at One Hundred and Sixth street and Second avenue yielded a | more than ordinary supply of large rising | gas bubbles.’ The “miry, muddy surface of the sluggish Harlem River gave evidence of the exhalations of marsh gas, the carburetted hydrogen offensive at all times.” At One Huudred and Seventh street, between Second and Third avenues, a ‘“‘reeking, black, maddy bottom’ formed a spot of ground so offensive to look upon that the Doetor “wondered how this cesspool was tolerated among the dwell- ings of civilized men,”’ To Disbecker this | ceedings’’ | 1875.) particular spot would be the most attractive of the district, Dr. Waterman scouts the idea of only five per cent of the filling of the flats being of or- ganic admixture, and also the pretence that the covering of earth is sufficient to prevent an excess of absorbing power to the generat ing power of the subsoil, In other words, he believes that, through the joint operations ot the contractors and the Street Cleaning Bureau, a plague spot has been created in the heart of the city andthe treasury has been de- frauded by gross violations of public con. tracts. ‘his is the plain interpretation of his conclusions, and it is one which the people will congede to be correct. His sug: gestions are well enough in their way. They might have had more force if the Doctor had been a little bolder and more outspoken ip his condemnation of the stupidity of his asso ciates, But he has put himself right on the record, and every police surgeon who has any professional reputation to lose should fol- low his example, The Aldermen in Contempt, The republican Aldermen, in absenting themselves from the Board, and thus endeay- oring to block the machinery of the city gov- ernment, are acting under injudicious advice and will regret their lawless conduct. They are so clearly in the wrong that their revolu tionary course cannot find the slighiest excusa, and certainly is entirely unjustifiable. 4 committee raised by a vote of the Board, ia which they participated, to consult with the heads of departments in regard to the pro posed reduction of the pay of city laborers, reported the result of their consultation, ace companied by a resolution recommending that the old rate of pay—two dollars a day— be continued. The republican members re fused to vote on the acceptance of this report or the adoption of the resolution, although the majority of the Board declined to excuse them. For this they have been declared in contempt by a resolution of the Board. There | upon they absent themselves from the meet ings of the Board, and are advised by theix partisans to leave the Common Council with. out a sufficient number of votes to transact business or periect legislation necessary to the carrying on of the city government. The charier of 1873, in article 2, section 6, provides that the Board of Aldermen shall (3) ‘determine the rules of its own pro- and (7) ‘have the authority to compel the attendance of absent members, to punish its members for disorderly be havior and to expel any members with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to the Board.” In accordance with the first of these powers the Board haa adopted ‘‘rules,” the twenty-fourth of which provides that “every member who shall be present when a question is put shall vote for or against the same, unless the Board shall excuse him, or unless he be immediately in- terested in the question, in which case he | shall not vote ; but no member shall be per- mitted to vote upon’a question when division is called unless present when his name is called in regular order."’ (Rules agp ordera ot the Bourd of Aldermen, adopted March 18, This is in accordance with all par. hamentary usage, since all business might be blocked in a legislative body if it had not the power to compel its members to vote, A cons tumacious refusal to vote is one of the gravest offences a member can commit, and strikes at the existence as well as the dignity of the | body to which he belongs. ‘The conduct of the republican Aldermen, in first committing a breach of the rules and next threatening to stop the business of the gov ernment, is worthy of the worst days of | Tammany rowdyism. It is the more repre | hensible since their refusal to vote was noto riously induced bya desire to shirk the re sponsibility of declaring themselves either for or against the reduction of the city laborers’ | pay, and since six out of the eight insubordi. nate Aldermen do not represent a majority of their constituents, were not elected by the people, but were legislated into office, They cannot too soon make the proper admission of their offence and purge themselves of the contempt. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Cyrus W. Field sailed from Liverpool for New York yesterday. Secretary Belknap returned to Washington yes terday from West Pomt. Ihr. Reuben E. Feuton, of Jamestown, N.Y., t@ ataying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Baron Thielmann, of Germany, has taken up hig residence at the Hotel Brunswick, Professor Hayden, the geologist, is among the Jate arrivals at the Everett House, Chict Eogiweer J. Q. A. Ziegler, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Peter B. Sweeny 18 said to be coming bome ta fight. He always was an eminent patron of the Ring. Mr. Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylvania, has ree turned to his old quarters at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Major George A. Gordon and Captain James M, J, Sanno, United Staves army, are registered aq the Sturtevant House, Secretary Kobeson will leave Washington om Monday moroing for Annapolis, to distribute the diplomas to the graduating class of midshipmen. General William T, Sherman, accompanied by colonel J, ©. Aadenretd, of the Generai’s staf, ar rived at the Filta Avenue Hotel last evening from Boston, The Canadian Wimbledon team, in charge of Lieutenant Colonel McKalay, of Halifax, satlea yesterday for England om board the eteamsnip Nova Scotian. Minister Schenck wrote a pamphlet on pokery but now it iss. L. M. Barlow who has been asked to write for the “American Cyclopedia” the article on whist. Mr. Deiane, manager of the London Times, and father-in-law of Froude, the historian, Is about te retire from journalism. His impersonality ts te be personified witu a baronetey, Seflor Don Francisco Gonzalez Erraguriz, Chilian Minister at Washington, retarned to this city last evening ‘rom Boston, where he had been at. teauing the Lucker fil! celebration, and is at tne Clarendon Hovel. Mr. Beach says that King David Beecherea and wrote ragged edged letters, but lorgete tu aidim pressiveiy thatthe laay aian’t have her hands folded as one in prayer, Im iict, she was doing her week's washing. A cable telegram from Paris under date of yester. day, 19th inst., reports that Mr. Mirman, an Amert can Spiritualist, who professed to phocezrapt deceased persons, Has been convicted o1 swind ling and sentenced to #!X montis’ imprison meat. A party of about fifty persons, members of the Alabama Press Association, who have veen on # pleasure tour in the We and as far North ag Niagara Falls and Montren), arrived at tue Grand Central Hotei last evening from Albany, Trey will be recelved by Governor Tiden at his rede dence in this city to-morrow morning and wit Gevart for their homes in the evening,