The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD 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 Yonx Henatp 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 Yonx | Hera. 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, VOLUME XLewweceeseeeeeeeererseree AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. |ORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, jarnum’s odrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- ee PAE ker eloees at irl. M. Ladies! and ebil- dren's inatinee at 2). M. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, ARTICLE 4/, at8 P.M. 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Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hrnaup office as early as possible, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and cloudy, with occasional rain. Persons gowng out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hxznaup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wax Sraezr Yestexpay.—Gold receded | from 117} to 117}. Stocks were generally lower and not confidently sustained. Money was to be had at recent rates. Wuen Moopry anp Sanxer are rejected we | are constrained to think that Eton is not so | religious as in the days of Dr. Arnold. | Tue Amentcan Tram are having a jolly | time in Ireland, and the cable reports to the Henatp show their scores to be as satisfactory | as their reception. | Twrep has transferred his residence from bis island home to Ludlow street, because he | has not yet found a band strong enough to | play his favorite tune—‘Solid Men to the | Front.” Tux Mozy Cuzrsts mv ENotanp, we are | told, is past, and the cause of the ‘onns' failures is attributed to over speculation. | American secnrities have not suffered from | the panic. Goverxon Trpen has exercised the veto | power to some purpose, no fewer than one hundred and thirty-seven bills by | the last Legislature having failed to re- ceive his signature. We print this morn- ing a list of the unsigned measures which can- not tail to prove interesting to many persons. Tue Marxz Desocnats bave nominated General Charles W. Roberts for Governor and passed a series of commendabie resolutions, the most striking of which is one advocating a single Presidential term. The refusal to indorse the financial policy of the Ohio de- mocracy was wise, and we hope it is only the first step toward the abandonment of the un- sound notions of political economy fostered by Western democrats. Rar Dnops.—It would be, perhaps, prema- ture to say that the canvass for the Presidency isopen. The shower must come in a fow months, and it is our duty to wateh carefully for the first signs. We have a little rain drop in the interview which took place between Governor Tilden and the Sonthern editors the other day at his house. The Governor was very oracular, eloquent, patriotic and cordial, and the editors cheered him. All of which is | suggestive, everything considered. Tue Tretimony of Police Sergeant John R. Groo in relation to panel houses in the Eighth precinct is disgraceful to the authorities of a great city, In one house in Mercer street robbery after robbery occurred to the knowledge of the police, and yet bo arrests were made, and the inmates of the houso were undisturbed. The charges of this officer against Captain Williams and Detective Terwilliger are direct and positive, and inelnde blackmailing as well as disregard of official duty. If even a part of what the officer says is true the people have more to fear from the police than from the thieves and burglars, who seem to be the mere victims of police robbery, | ment, those who lovk to our religious ex- | lished in the Henaxp the other day. There | skilled and active young men bound over the | Brooklyn Yacht Club, -which took place in a | | in NEW YOR | of @ summer opportunity to make their Is New York a Summer City? - As we read down the long list of departures by the steamers for Europe and the column after column of advertisements of summer resorts, setting forth attractions of water and | air, sunshine and green fields and mountains, | sea and streams, the question arises, “What, | after all, is gained by this summer hegira | from New York ?” Is it a necessity or a mere | fashion? Why should New York not be as much of a summer city as Paris or London? | Take this summer as far as it has gone. Has | there been « day during this season when we | have not had cool breezes and fresh air from | the sea and when tbe really inviting parts of New York have not been as pleasant and grateful as any of the surrounding suburbs which are now attracting their multitude of visitors? There is no city in the world where pleasure seekers can find as much rest and so many beautiful views as in New York. A business man c&n go trom the City Hall to the | Battery in ten minutes and have before him the fine open park and one of the most magnifi- | cent prospects of land and sea in the world. From almost any point he may in a half | hour be in the marvellous garden of Central | Park or on the heigh's of Brooklyn Park look- ing out upon the ocean, Much abused Coney Island is really a very honest place in its way, and in an hour the citizen can be diving under | the ocean breakers. A city, in our modern civilization, means comfort. How many comforts New York possesses that cannot be found at the seaside or summer watering places! What highway at Saratoga or at Long Branch—what evening stroll is to be compared to the walk from the Ramble down Fifth avenue to Washington square? What drive can excel in interest aud beauty the drive through our boulevards or | over toward Fort Hamilton? More than all, we are at home. There are the books to read, the churches to visit, the pictures to see, familiar faces around us, opportunities for | conversation, for amusement, for improve- | ment, which are lost in the idle profitless | life so often imposed upon us at Saratoga | end the great seaside and summer resorts, Inberently New York is as much of a summer city as Parisor London. The trouble is that we have fallen into the fashion of running away during the summer. We have neglected advantages which, if properly developed, | would keep our people at home. Here, for instance, are the theatres! They are closed, | or, if open, it is with some foolish, absurd performance like the ‘Donovans.”” The | churches close or open only to some wander- ing preacher who is anxious to exhort a New York audience even in midsummer, Our squares are abandoned, the libraries are shut. There seems to be a general conspiracy on the part of those who cater for our amuse- periences and those in authority to destroy | New York during the summer. And yet, if anything would show the attrac- tions that really exist in New York in sum- mer, it would be sucha record as we pub- was first our narrative of the races at Jerome Park, with “sunny skics and immense attend- ance,’’ and “the beauties of fashion and their | toilets,” the “gathering ot fashion and wealth \ and beauty” at one of the most interesting | scenes in our metropolitan life. Then came | the uarrative of the cricket match between two famous clubs in Hobokes. This match | was attended by thousands of interested spec- | tators, who stood upon the open field, on the | banks of the glorious river, under the sun- | shine, inhaling the pure air, watching the grass with bat and ball. Then came the nar- rative of the eighteenth aunual regatta of the | “rattling breeze of wind,” and which, fromthe | report, was a brilliant and inviting event, | with seventeen yachts, schooners, and sloops, | scudding down the Bay, followed by thon- | sands of spectators eagerly noting the varying | incidents of the race. Then we bad a report | of a miniature yacht regatta in Central Park, | telling how the children had a race with tmy schooners, the first ‘for all boats under twenty-six inches,” with a miniature anchor | among the prizes, and how the first race was | won by the Anneta, and how, in time, the | wind died away and the pond was becalmed and the boats would not come to the bank, | and bow, as our reporter expresses it, “the | boys danced around the Iake with the hope- | less purpose of recovering their lost craft, but in vain, and had to leave without them.” | Then next on the list came our narrative of | the Model Yacht Club race at Prospect Park, in Brooklyn—a thousand people attendance and much enjoyment. | Then we had the regatta of the Columbia Boat Club, on the Kill Von Kull. | To close the chapter there was a brief an- | nouncement of the second annual regatta by | the policemen of the Twenty-third precinct, | near Mount Buena Grove, ‘everything to be | conducted in the best possible manner,” and, among the enjoyments, ‘clog duncing | and waltzing.” There was shooting at Creed- | | moor and base ball games. All the while our | advertising columns invited the people to a hundred excursions. This one day’s record | of the midsummer issue of the znaxp, giving | a summary of the events of one of the longest | days of the year, a day sacred to heat and | | dust and discomfort, shows that, afterall, there | are summer resources in this metropolis which should not be overlooked and which, if properly developed, would go far toward | redeeming the character of this city as a | summer resort and making it as attractive to the outside world as Paris or London are to | the thonsands of Americans who go trom week | to week across the sea, We are not insisting that our citizens shall remain here all the year round. A week or | two at the seaside has advantages which can- | | not be denied. But why should not New | York be made a summer city to the millions of people outside of it who would be glad enough to come here if they could find interest or employment? Take our public squares. Why should they not be turned into gardens like those of the Champs Elysées or the Prater at Vienna? Take Madi- son square and Washington square aud Cen- tral Park. Is there any renson why a litile extra cost in the way of lights and enclosnre shonld not give us musical gardens? Why should not our-tieatres present light summer pieces, comedies and vaudevilles? It the regular companies are too weary with their winter's work there are many bright actors outside of New York who would be glad even fame in the metropolis. The excursions on the river are attractions which might be largely increased. Altogether there is no reason in the world why we should treat New York as a désolate city for three months in the year. We should have oursummer season as they have in Paris and in London. In time this metropolis would be as much an ob- | ject of interest and curiosity to the inhab- itants of other States during the summer as it is now dnring the busiest weeks of the winter. Tweed’s Change of Reside! A release from Blackwell's Island, to be im- mured the same day in Ludlow Street Jail, may seem no gain; but it is really a great one, all things considered. Tweed has not recovered his liberty, but he has put off the degrading striped dress of a convicted crimi- pal. He is no longer subjected to compul- sory labor, no longer forced to eat the food doled ont to felons and sleep in a narrow cell, but is allowed to dress as he pleases, to select any diet he can pay for, and to employ his time according to his inclination, He also enjoys whatever grim satisfaction there may be in the public humiliation of the Judge who pronounced his illegal sentence and who has been compelled by the unanimous deci- sion of the Court of Appeals to sign the order for his release. Revenge is sweet, and be- sides enjoying this blow at Judge Davis’ jndi- cial roputation Tweed has probably re- volved in his mind the question of exacting satisfaction for that part of his im- prisonment which ithe highest tribunal of the State has declared to be illegal. Tweed enjoys the change as he could not if it had | been the effect of Executive clemency. To be set free by the law is a very different thing from a pardon; and the fact that his counsel have been so successful in the great matter of getting his heavy sentenco annulled encour- ages his contidence in their future efforts in the new suits. It is therefore idle to assume that Tweed does not think himself better off than he was in his convict’s suit on the Island. After his release he was immediately re- arrested on other indictments, but readily found bail, which was accepted by Judge Brady, who will next week hear a motion to quash the indictments. But still held on the civil suit, and was committed to Ludtow Street Jail in con- sequence of his inability to find bail for so large a sum as three million dollars, Attempts will be made to get the bail reduced, and if they should succeed this great criminal will again walk the streets. The wisest thing he could do would be to give up all his ill-gotten property and let the civil suit be dropped. If he would but perform this fit act of repentance and restitution the District Attorney would no doubt enter a nolle prosequi against the new indictments and his felloy citizens would spread a mantle of charity over the past. We wish his counsel would have the magnanimity to forego their fees and give him this good advice. The Sioux Commission, The State Department is acting wisely in hurrying forward a detachment ot the Sioux Commissioners. It is of the first importance that they should arrive in time to prevent any hostile acts on the part of the tribes which might result from a misunderstanding on their part as to the intentions of the govern- ment. It might even be well for the Commis- sioners and the State Department to endeavor to setile the Indians in the Black Hills coun- try instead of inducing them to abandon it to the white man. It is time that the policy of extermination hitherto pursued against the red man should cease and an honest endeavor be made to civilize the few remaining tribes. The proper way to proceed would be to give up the absurd idea of treating the Indians as independent powers. What they need is the strong hand of a paternal government, aiding and protecting them in their first steps toward civilization. It has been frequently urged, with much show of reason, that the proper course to pursue would be to induce the In- dians to adopt a pastoral life, and so gradually wean them from the wild life they at present lead. It might repay the country to make this pastoral experiment in the Black Hills, where all the conditions necessary to success seem to exist. SwrrzzrtanD AND THE CeNTEYNIat.—The action of the Swiss governnent in securing | representation for that model and genuine Republic at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia will give great satisfaction to our people. There is no country in which we feel so deep an interest as in Switzerland. The Swiss have been the pioneers of freedom in Europe. They have always shown their friendship for the United States, a friendship that was never so clearly manifested as when Mr. Staempfli, a former President of the Swiss Confederation, became a member of the Geneva Arbitration, The contribution of Switzerland in the great exhibitions of Europe was rich and varied in its character and largely calenlated to add to the fame of that interesting country. We know of no nation whose co-operation would be more heartily welcomed than Switzerland, and the renowed interest shown in our labors by the Swiss people and the authorities of the Republic is the most gratifying event in the history of the Centennial Exhibition. Prrvanrxcz or Crtme.—The summer bas been unusually and disagreeably prolific of crime. Scarcely a day passes without our readers being shocked by the account of some | terrible tragedy that combines the most hor- rible circumstances of murder. Now it is a jealous husband shooting his wife and making partial compensation by turning his pistol against himself. On another occasion a dis- carded lover seeks to avenge himself on the fair one who has dismissed him by killing her. Boys play with deally weapons in the most reckless manner, and occasionally use them to punish their comrades for some trifling affront; and as for affrays, their name is Legion. . Burglary seems also to be on the increase, and some cnses of actual highway robbery are reported. The lax administration of our criminal laws is re- spousible for this sad state of affurs. A few examples of swift and severe punishment | would go forther toward checking this epi- demie of crime than the entire body of phi- lanthropists, who believe only in persuasive and gentle measures, he is} the barroom | K HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET, Governor Tilden’s Voetocs. The Governor's vetoes since the adjourn- ment of the Legislature have been in the main wise, and his reasons in the important cases will command general approval. The taxpayers of the State will thank him for im- portant reductions, amounting in the aggre- gate to nearly two millions and threo quar- ters. But he should be content with the merit and the praise of having acted judi- ciously on the various bilis that came before The reduction of the time allowed the Gov- ernor for signing bills to thirty days after the close of a session, by the recent amendments of the State constitution, was very well, and it ought to have been still further shortened, At any rate, there is no sense in the recent laudations of the Governor for having acted on so many bills within the allotted time. The President of the United States keeps abreast of the business of Congress during its session, never signs a bill after the adjourn- ment and has never had a great mass of unsigned bills Jett on his hands. This sound practice of all our Presidents proves that a vigilant, alert Executive can easily keep up with the business of a session and be prepared to judge of the merits of bills before its close. It has long been the custom of our Presidents to go to the Capitol on the expiz- ing day of sess'on and occupy himself in signing the bills passed by Congress on that day. The consequence of this business-like practice is that when the session closes the public is left in no doubt as to which of its acts are to stand on the statute book as laws. This practice of our Presidents is not only business-like, but 1s respectful to Congress and in accordance with the theory of the veto. It is not the intention either of the federal constitution or the State constitutions to | clothe the Executive with an absolute veto, but only with a qualified veto. He is re- quired to send back the bills which he dis- approves, with his objections, and give the legislative body an opportunity to pass them over his veto if two-thirds of both houses agree in overruling his objections, is the utmost limit of time allowed him for the consideration of any bill during a session, which is a clear requirement that he shall not allow this branch of his duties to be ever more than ten days in arrear. This is, a reasonable requirement, because, with his superior knowledge and wider experience, the Execu- tive should be capable of deciding on the merits of bills as rapidly as the members who vote on them, and there are very few bills in. deed respecting which he needs the permitted ten days for making up his mind. If he is properly attentive to the public interest ho watches bills in their progress, and can never be taken by surprise, as if called to investi- gate a new subject, when a bill comes to him for his signature. We cannot join in the ex, travagant culogies bestowed on Governor Til- den for despatching in thirty days the busi- ness which the constitution would have com- pelled him to complete in ten if the session had extended ten days longer. A wholesale negative of bills under circumstances which do not permit the Legislature to reconsider them is contrary to the theory of the qualified veto vested in the chief executives of our American governments. The sounder prac- tice which prevails in federal legislation and wisely be adopted in New York. The reduc- | tion of the time to thirty days is an improve- ment, so far as it goes; but there is no good reason why our Governors should not keep up with legislative business as the President always does at Washington. Tne Laborers and the Politicians. The reduction of the pay of city laborers may operate, has at least supplied the ward politicians with a fruitful subject for discussion, It is a touching sight to behold all the old, wily political office-holders and office-seekers injustice inflicted on the laboring classes by the movement. It is gratifying to mark the stern sense of justice which demands that the Counsel, the Commissioner of Public Works and other well fattened feeders at the public large salaries before they begin, in the name daily laborer. of the working classes are entirely hon- | est and disinterested in their present course they have no ulterior and selfish ob- speeches denunciatory of the oppressors of | the sons of toil, Oh, no! Their names that they have always been the friends of the laborers, and have aided them most liberally out of their enormous private for- tunes and their abundant professional and business profits in the hour of need. Some of these champions have, indeed, held well-paid public offices themselves, and of course they | have been foremost in giving up a portion of their own remuneration, including back pay, for the benefit of the poor, underpaid work- ingmen. In these times it must certainly be no easy task for a man with a family to cke out a bare subsistence on two dollars a day. At the same time the city is burdened with heavy taxation, and under our present miserable finaycial policy, producing suffocation of all the business in- | ersare being rapidly driven to bankruptcy. Without discussing the justice or injustice, | the expediency or inexpediency of the reduc- | tion of the pay of the city laborer, we would the difficuity and relieve the poor, oppressed | laborer. Let the champions of the higher rate of wages subscribe out of their ample means to a fund to make up the difference in the pay between one dollar and sixty cents and two dollars a day. We are certain that Fernando Wood, John Morrissey and Charles W. Brooke, who have so earnestly advocated the cause of the oppressed workingman, will head the list with a handsome subserip- ch as their ample fortunes enable them to give. | terday—the regattas of the Atlantic aud the Now Jersey clubs--and “a fine day and a | good breeze’’ enabled both to make an excel- | lent record, him, without making a boast of his labors. | ‘Ten days | in most of the State governments might | from two dollars to one dollar and sixty cents | for a day’s work of eight hours, however it | moved almost to tears by the thought of the | Mayor, the Comptroller, the Corporation | crib shall first give up a portion of their own | of economy, to cut down the pittance of the | Of course the champions | | something in Mr. Beach’s attitude that looks | advocacy of the higher rate ot wages. Of | ject to subserve in making loud-mouthed | | terests of the metropolis, real estate own- | offer a practical suggestion which may solve | ‘There were two yacht races yos- | 1 A Few Political Conundrums. A few months ago Tammany Hall presented @ picture of harmony and br-therly love | gratifying to behold. The big chiefs, John Kelly and John Morrissey, were sworn brothers in arms. A word uttered against Morrissey was certain to draw forth the in- dignant censure of Kelly, while an insinua- tion against Kelly in the presence of the pow- erful statesman associated with him in sach close fraternal ties met with a yet more forci- ble rebuke, Every one remembers with what unanimity the nomination of “My candidate” for the Mayoralty was indorsed by Morrissey and his short-haired braves, and how amiably Kelly patted on the back the nomination of the gallant young Jemmy Hayes for Register. Every one remembers, too, the flattering com- pliments that passed between the chivalrous Tilden, the candidate for Governor, and the jovial Wickham, the candidate for Mayor, and how these associates on the democratic ticket sang each other's praises and figuratively kissed each other on both cheeks during the entire canvass, The billing and cooing be- tween the Plymouth church saints in the happy days before the out-leaking of the scan- dal was tame as compared with the affection displayed at the love-feasts of the turtle doves of Tammany. * What has changed all this harmony into djscord? Why do wo find the chivalrous Til- dea biting his thumb at. the jovial Wickham, the jovial Wickbam growing hot and red in denunciation of the perfidy and impudence of the chivalrous Tilden? Why does the solid John Kelly look sternly and threateningly at his political foster brother Morrissey, and why does Morrissey knit h's brows, double his massive fists and significantly square his brawny shoulders as he defles the new Boss and his brother disciplinarians of the Wig- wam? Why does the Sheriff, heretofore John Kelly's friend, shut himself up for tbree hours in a private chamber of the Finance Depart- ment before the Governor's signature is placed at the foot of his ‘little bills” which “day out’’ the Mayor’s marshals and add thon- sands upon thousands to the annual profits of the Sheriff's office? Why does the powerful statesman Morrissey take his brains into daily and protracted consultations with the arch enemy of Tammany, Comptrol- lerGreen? Why does the ‘‘Senator from the Fourth,” who is at present outside of Tam- mauy, fly for consolation to John Kelly, Tam- many’s “Boss,” as soon as the Governor, under the influence of Green and Morrissey, kills | the Police Justices bi'l? Do all these portents foretoken a coming storm in Tammany? Do they threaten a democratic combination out- side Tammany and a reconstruction inside Tammany? These are questions of interest to the ward politicians, and we leave them to furnish the answers. Such intricate political conundrums are too deep for ordinary intel- lects. The brains that run corner groceries and manage primaries alone are competent to grapple with and solve them. The Beecher Jury. The sensitiveness of the jury in the Beecher case is as remarkable in itself as in the manner of its expression. While we miy doubt the wisdom of Mr. Beach creating an antagonism with the arbiters of his client’s cause we see no, reason why his course should prejudice the case, how- | ever it may affect the advocate. At the same time it must be admitted that the provo- | cation he received was unusual, and the at- titude of some members of the jury was, to say the least of it, extraordinary. We can- not recall another instance in an impor- | i i tant trial where a juror openly sneered at counsel during the argument, and | the anxiety of the jury to force issue when no issue was necessary is unprecedented. Mr. Hull's address to the Court was as much an impertinence to the | Bench as to the advocate. Had it come dur- | ing one of Mr. Beach's outbursts of the pre- | vious days of his argument its spontaneity would have been its justification. As it was, | ) an | sel and the resentment of the juror. Mr. Beach’s argument on Monday was confined strictly to the case, and the remarkable scene which marked the close of the day's proceed- ings wears the air of previous preparation and rehearsal. The whole thing seems like a trick, and isin itself some justification of the manner | in which it was met. Though a jury is not to be supposed to be controlled one way or the other by the petulance of counsel there is like a deliberate throwing away of his client's cause, and we cannot conceive of a lawyer of so much eminence assuming it without very grave reasons for his action, The scene in the Court yesterday morning goes to | strengthen this view, though it is far from | explaining either the outbreak or its cause. | The sensitiveness of the jury would not have been so remarkable, as we before remarked, if | it had shown itself when Mr. Beach | first impugned the motives pf jurors, | but it did wot come till so long after the occasion for its manifestation | had passed away that it could not be met in | any other way. Either the counsel for the plaintiff believe that the jury has been im- properly approached or they have heedlessly attempted to throw away their case on a false assumption. It will thus be seen that a new qu:stion hes arisen in this disgraceful case, | not less disgraceful than the ease itself. Such an issne, openly raised in court, though it | must necessarily be the subject of a jadicial | investigation, bas its public aspects with which no journal can fail to deal. Whatever may be the truth in the matter, or what the result of the inquiry tbat | 15 sure to be made, it cannot be denied that the effect will be mischievous. It is the re- sult of a trial unnecessarily prolonged with testimony taken under rules of evidence which compelled every witness to become an antobiographer. One-half of the evidence on both sides is tainted with personal animus, anda sneering and complaining jury is not an unnatoral consequence of a trial where the testimony is only intended as the basis for in- vective, Porscr Rascarrries.—At the meeting of the Police Board yesterday Commissioner Dis- becker introduced a rambling, disjointed sctof preambles and resolutions, providing fora sort of roving inquiry into alleged ras- calities in the foree. Tho odor of the Harlem flats modical report was so unmistakably emitted by these resolutions that Commis- | sioner Voorhia was compelled to tnrn hia in | days intervened between the reproofs of coun- | head aside when he voted for their adoption, The Board should take care that the roving commission instituted by Disbecker does not prevent or obstruct the inquiry into definite allegations of corruptions already referred t« the Superintendent for investigation, The ‘general iuquiry’’ dodge is an old one, and is entirely out of place in a police board, Hydrophobic Manta, They used to put down in the surgical al manaes, at the period when in the course of nature cherries should be ripe and cherry trees loaded, ‘‘About this time look for boys with broken arms.” Our city surgeons com. monly have as much practice in gunshot wounds after a Fourth of July as falls to the share of the army doctors after a moderate battle ; and the warm weather always gives a fair share of practice in the athletic exercise of resuscitating half-drowned humanity, Although Death has, as poetically observed, all seasons for his own, he adopts a different style for each, and comes in shapes appro« priate to the time, It would appear from late experience that we are now to have our warm weather scare of hydrophobia as regularly ag we used to have a scare of cholera for the same season. Hydrophobia we may have and do bave, and it is not perceptible how we can avoid an occasional case, until society at large mates war on dogs and exterminates the species; and then cats and foxes and wolves will remain to do what they may as substitutes for the friend of man. And so long as there is hydrophobia it will have the spurious and in certain aspects most ridiculous double hydrophobic mania, the delusion in which men frighten theme selves to death with the fancy that they have been bitten by rabid animals, a case of which has already come this summer as several came last summer. That there is disease in these cases is probable enough, but not hy- drephobia. There is evidently disordered brain, tending to mania in all probability, and the character of the mania is determined by a bite received, which would be otherwise harmless, and the apprehensions in regard to it, upon which the victim broods day and night. People should not permit themselves to accept on any terms a notion so contrary to ages of experience as that hydrophobia can be given by the bite of a dog not evidently rabid. Tue Amisire Comprrorizr has availed himself of a provision in the charter to ap- point a ‘Registrar of Licenses” and to crente alicense bureau, which will cost the city prob= ably twenty thousand doilars a year. The business of issuing licenses has heretofore been done by the Mayor’s marshals, without additional expense, But then Mr. Green’a amiability suggests that he should take a much labor as possible away from the Mayor, and especially that he should supply his leading Albany lobbyist with a fat office at the public expense, now that his labors at the capital are ended. To be sure the taxpayerd have to pay; but then they had to pay Park | Commissioner Green’s expenses at Albany and in Europe while he was drawing o salary ' and extras to the tune of nearly ten thousand dollars a year out of their pockets at th same time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, is so journing at the St, } ictolas Hotel, Mr. David A. Wells, of Connecticut, is residing temporarily at the Fifty Avenue Hotel, Assemblyman Stephen H. Hammond, of Geneva, N. Y., is staying at the Hotel Brunswick, General Jobn 8. Preston, of Souta Carolina, am rived last evening at the New York Hotel. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, is among the late arrivals at the Gilsey House, count Adolphus Turkhetm, of Austria, hat taken up his residence at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Major William B, Slack, of the United States Ma | rine corps, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Faolton Paul, United States Consul at Trint- dad de Cuba, 1s registered at the Westminster | Hotel. Lieutenant Commanier Henry L. Johnson, | Unitea States Navy, ts quartered at the Hoftmar | House. Secretary Bristow’s family are amon: sengers to sail for Kurope to-day In the Scythia, Sir Hogh Allan and Hon. J.J. C. Adbott, of Mon treal, arrived at Quebec yesterday by the sieam- ship Polynesia. Benjamin F, Prescott, of Epping, was yesterday elected by the New Hew Hampshire Legislature Secrevary of Stare. Senator George F. Edmunds and Congressmar George W. Henbee, of Vermont, have apartments | at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Thomas Phillips, a resident of Mexico City, died on the 24th of May. of vomito, at Coatzacoalcos, | Where the disease ts epidemic, | Senator Simon Cameron and Mr. Wayne Mae. Veagi, of Pennsylvania, arrived in the city last evening from Harrisburg, and are at the Brevoort House. Assistant Secretary Cowen, of the Interior De. partment, has gone to Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Assistant Attorney General Walter B. Smith is acting Secretary. A letter has been received at the Interior De. partment from Secretary Delano stating that he will probably not return to toe national capital tor several days on account of sickness, By a telegram from Mexico City, under date oj the 16th inst., We bave the announcement tnat Sefior José Cuellar has been aypotnted Secretary of the Mexican Legation at Washington, Postmaster General Jewel arrived at Indlanam olis yesterday morning from St. Louis, He visited the Board of Trade at noon, where brief speeches were made by him, Governor flendricks, Genera Coburn and others. A danquet was given to him at the Bates House last night, Dr. Nancie Morrelic, wno lately reached India from New York, bas settled tn Hatdarabad, where she has already obtained an extensive practice, She opentd @ dispensary in one of the bagaars, and it is now so crowded that she is about to re move it im'o & mach laruer house, Among her patients are many native Indies, who come irom great distances toaval themselves of her skill, The tomb in Pere la Chaise, supposed to contain the remains of Abelard and Héloise, and to date from the twelith century, Is a Parisian swinaie, It was constructed in 1900 from the déoris of the Charea of St. Denis, badly damaged by tne repup licans, and in the tomb thas constructed were placed two bodies that were “Delleved” to be those of the lovers. On the strength of these lacts objection is mude in Paris to the expenditure of public money im the renovation of the mone ment, Advices from Ireland state that at a meeting of the O'Connell Centenary Celebration Committee, in Duviin, a report from the Celebration Sub.Com mittee was received recommending that the Rignt Rev, Bishop Ryan, coadjator of Archbisnop Kenrick, of St. Louis, in the United States, be invited to deliver the oration in honor of O'Cons neil, after the grand procession on the 6th of August next. The committee nnanimousiy agreed to the recommendation, and it was ordered thate desparch per guble be sent at once to Bisnop } ares inviting him in the name Of Ireland to dee Wear the oration, ms nit