The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1875, Page 6

* o'clock. 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 Hunaup will be sent free of postage. ——— All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New You« Henarp. 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 | gs in New York, r= VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. | ——-__—_ ARDEN, AND POPULAR CON. GILMORE'S SUMMER mum's Hippodrome. —Gi ats P.M. ; closes at 1 P. MPIC THEATRE, -VAKIBTY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 | bit No, 624 Broad wa: PM. CENTRAL PAKK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 6B M. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth sireet—English Opera—GIROFLE- GIROFLA, at 5 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Evghth street, between seeonu and Third avenues — Veriormance commences at 5 o'clock aad closes at 12 — MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirticth stieet—POMP: OR, WAY DOWN SOUTH, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Matinee at2P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. | NEW YORK, SUNDAY. JULY UM, 1875, SS = a THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NewspzauERs anp THE Pusiic :— Tue New Yors Henaxp will run a special lrain every Sunday during the season, com- mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and | Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half- past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at | ® quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of | supplying the Sexpar Hxnarp along the line | ot the Hudson River, New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send | in their orders to the Heraxp office as early as | possible, | From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clearing. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hxenatp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month, Wax Street Yestenpay.—Gold receded to 115}. Money was easy and stocks dull The ‘bank statement shows a still further accumu- lation of idle capital. Ovr Sanaroca Lerrer is full of entertain- Ing news of the society at that famous water- ing place, the hotels, the real estate, the regatta, the races, the springs, and contains a valuable opinion of the Hon. John Morrissey upon the usefulness of the Nine Muses. Tue Monmovra Park Races.—Yesterday was the first of the second meeting at the ‘Long Branch course, and the attendance was good and the programme excelent. There were four events, Risk, Big Fellow, Bay Final and Deadhead being the respective winoers. Tue Sraxtsh War.—The official report of the Alfonsist generals shows that they have won important victories and that Don Carlos is in full retreat. But for what end are the Spaniards killing each other? What prin- ciple is at stake in which the people have any | interest? It is a war for monarchy alone, and | the victory of either king would only be a | defeat tor freedom. Tue Nationat Caprrat bas been tempora- rily removed to Cape May. But why should not the President have a holiday? If no more could be said against Grant than that he goes to the seashore in the summer he | would be a model President. Those who censure him for leaving Washington in the hot weather, and reter to the examples of Washington and Jefferson, should remember that in the early years of the Republic the telegraph and railroads were unknown. Coroner, GiLpers.zEve ascribes the suc- cess of the American riflemen quite as much to discipline as to individual skill. The reason is tbat severity of discipline causes | every man to have confidence in his com- panions. He feels himself supported by his comrades and is inspired to do his best to contribute to the general result. Colonel Gildersleeve assured Mr. Hamilton that ‘the members of the team obey him in the minutest trifle, and this spirit of loyalty to their cap- tain and their cause no doubt had as much to | do with the victory at Dollymount as the | aceuracy of aim. There is nothing like dis- | cipline—it will win battles or rifle matches, | and, otber things being equal, the best dis- | ciplined boat crew is the one which will win | | | | at Saratoga. cintenacaggewme Mr. Percurn axp Hrs English Congregational preachers who pub- lished an address congratulating Mr. Beecher on his acquittal have replied to the eriticism of the London Times. They explain, through the Rev. Alexander Ralei,h, that they only rejoice that Mr. Beecher has shown that he is innocent of crime, but that the Christian sentiment of England will unanimously lament and condemn some things which he has acknowledged. It is unfortunate for Mr. Beecher that he can only be exonerated from | moral guilt by being accused of want of moral Even these well meaning friends in Farenps.—The | courage. ; England have attempted another ‘“rninous detence,’’ and pawn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, | Anu without sneering texcn the rest to sneer, Mr. Beecher’s friends could do him no better service than to let him alone snd not insist upon keeping the issue of the trial continually | before the veovle. | | Presbyterian | Reformed Presbyteria: | hot apartments NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY ll, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, Summer Vacation in the Churches— The Sabbatarian Ques The fact that the fashionable churches of the city are closed for the hot months and that their pastors have gone to the mountains, the soaside or the springs for health and rest, suggests an interesting aspect of the Sabbata- rian question. We propose to discuss the question only as it relates to this metre olis. The conditions of life, and especially of reli- gious hfe, are so different here from what they are m the interior cities and rural towns that the same reasoning canpot apply to both, In the interior the churches are kept open and the regular pastor is on duty throughout the year. In the rural towns there is a larger attendance on public worship in summer than in any other part of the year. Even in cities like Albany, Utica, Syracnse, Rochester and Buffalo every church of every denomination is kept open in summer, the pastors, so long as they are in tolerable health, never seeking nor expecting the vacaticn of two or three months which has become the rule m the fashionable ghurches of New York city. Even here the clergy might continue their labors with less detriment to bealth than any other class of the peoyle. They would need to be in the city only one day in seven. Their sermons could be written in cool, rural retreats on the shores of the Sound or the ocean or the banks of the Hudson during the six secular days, and a few bours’ ride on the cars or steamboats would bring them to the city fresh and vigorous for the regular funday service. It the service were limited during the hot months to one sermon instead of the customary two the clergy would get through the summer with more comfort than the mass of their parishioners. But we have no fault to find with their long vacations. It isa matter between them and their congregations. Fully conceding their title to desert their flocks while the dog star | Tages we only question their right to quarrel | with the innocent Sunday amusements of tho | non-religious public. When the principles of | strict Sabbatarianism are so openly deserted by the pastors of the religious flocks it comes with an ill grace trom them to denounce and stigmatize others for making Sunday a day of harmless recreation. The great body of our people cannot afford to drop | their employments and spend summer in the | country. What shall they do on Sunday | when the churches are closed against them? If the pastors need seven days of the week for | recreation, with what face can they complain of the people for desiring one? Their strict, Puritanical ideas of the Sabbath cannot long be maintained against their own example. Such ideas are well enough suited to the state of society in the rural districts; but the broad discrimination which the city clergy make between themselves and the shepherds of the rural flocks is a significant, practical confes- sion that the eame Sabbatarian rules cannot be applied to both city and country. It is idle to say that the people whose circum- stances compel them to spend the hot season in the city should attend church on Sunday, it the churches be notkept open. This remark applies, indeed, only to the summer; but it is equally idle to expect the mass of our city people to be regular attendants on public worship at other seasons of the year, for the sufficient reason that all the churches of the city cannot seat more than one-fourth of the people. It is estimated by | good judges conversant with this class of statistics that we have church accommodation for only two hundred and fifty thousand peo- | ple. But the population of the city is at Jeast a miilion, and it they were all inclined to attend church on Sunday, it is a physical impossibility, not m summer only, when many churches are closed, but throughout the year. We insert a statement of the num- ber of places of worship possessed by each religious denomination of the city, including the Westchester district lately annexed: — Baptist....... Conzregational. Friends Jewish synagogue: Lutneran......+ Methodist Epise African Methodist EI United Presbyterian Protestant Kpisco) Retormed (Dutch) Koman Catholic. Unitarian.. Universalis: Miscellaneous Total places of worsbip This list includes a large number of small chapels and rooms of moderate size, and it is supposed that their average seating capacity is not more than seven hundred for each | Bae S8iac8oseRoo8 place of worship, and the actual average | attendance from Sunday to Sunday is not more than three or four hundred, taking the small and large churches together. But even supposing the actual attendance equal to the full seating capacity of the churches, there are two-thirds of our city population who do not and cannot spend Sunday in a manner to please the strict Sabbatarians. The question then presses for an answer, How ought the majority of our people, whom the churches cannot accommodate, to spend the day of rest? The intolerant Sabbatarians are bound | to furnish some rational answer or else to stop their outery and hoid their peace. Unfortunately, the mass of our people do | not possess spacious, comfortable homes, such | asthe prosperous classes desert for summer resorts. They are crowded into small, | on dirty streets, and the fire which cooks their food makes the whole tenement insufferable in sultry weather. If the pastors of fash- ionable congregations cannot come into the city on Sunday to deliver in an airy church | the sermons which they might prepare during the week ina cool rural retreat it is absurd for them to find fault with the free recreations of the laboring masses on the only day of the seven when they can escape from their close, narrow tenements and geta breath of fro-h air. Their Sunday excursions on the rivers, the Bay and the Sound are as legitimate as the idling of Sabbatarian pastors at fasbion- able watering places. The pleasant and bealthful excursions end with the day, and in the evening multitudes go to the lager beer gardens, where they find musie and fresher air then that of their small, ill-ventilated tenements. It is very rarely indeed that an intoxicated person is scen among the thou- sands of men and women who throng the | lager beer gardens of a Sunday evening, and the Sabbatarians who invoke the law | to exterminate such places are bound to tell us what other and more | hold. | innocent resource is open to those who are attracted by the music given at these cool gardens and indulge in a beverage which | they habitually drink during the week and | which is so mildly stimulating that it may be | drank in large quantities without any symp- | fom of intoxication. The sons of toil take | their wives and daughters with them to these places of recreation, and their presence is a pledge of orderly conduct. Until something better is provided the Sabbatarian pastors, who desert the city altogether in the hot inonths, should practise a more benevolent toleration toward these cheap places of enjoy- ment, It does not answer to apply the notions ot rural towns to a great city like New York. People who are condemned by the narrow- ness of their circumstances to pass the whole summer in a great, heated, dirty city are entitled to make the most of their one day of respite, and, until something else equally cheap and more innocent is put within their reach, the ungracious Sabbatarians should rejoice that our laboring people can take a few hours of comfort in the course of a week. Gur Riflemen in Ireland. The graphic account we publish in another column of the dinner given by the faculty of Trinity College, Dublin, to the members of the American team will be found full of inter- est. Nothing could better illustrate the pro- found friendship all classes of the Irish people feel toward Americans than this banquet offered to our riflemen. Among ali the conservative institutions of Ireland old Trinity has ever been the most rigid and exclusive, and that fellows of that institution should throw open their banqueting halls toa number of republican | American riflemen shows that the kindly feel- | ings entertained by the masses of the Irish | people toward our institutions begin to be | shared even by the most conservative element | im Ireland. The banquet itself gave occasion for a display of after-dinner eloquence at once graceful and effective. Toasts were drunk to the health of the President of the United States, an honor never betore paid to any toreign ruler. The value of all this is in the lesson of unity and good fellowship it teaches. If these peaceful con- tests at Creedmoor and Dollymount should do no other good they will have removed many ingrained prejudices from the minds of many persons. Irish gentlemen will learn from the testimony of men of their own caste that the American people do not at all resemble the typical Yankee, and Americans who have been drawn to Ireland will find that the stage Irishman has no existence except in the fertile brains of dramatists. Their visit will also demonstrate to them the existence of a cul- tured and refined Irish society, as distinct from the whiskey-drinking, riot-loving crea- tures pictured by foreign caricaturists as could well be imagined. With the disappearance of these and kindred prejudices we may hope that the bonds of sympathy between the Irish and American peoples will continue to multiply. And if these pleasant visits and interchanges of compliments do no more than this, they will have amply repaid the time and attention devoted to them. The Police Revelations. It begins to be more and more evident, as the investigation of the Legislative Committee progresses, that the real cause of the rotten- ness of the present police and of the conse- quent saturnalia of crime in the city must be searched for higher up than the officers who blackmail degraded females and receive hush money from thieves. It must be clear to every man of common sense that the rascali- ties charged against captains, detectives and others could not have been concealed from the knowledge of the Commissioners. If the Commissioners have for years or months been ignorant of villanies that bave been discoy- ered by an investigating committee without any extraordinary effort in three or four weeks it is conclusive proof that they are unfit for the positions they If they have known of the charges hanging over their subordinates and have | neglected or refused to investigate them no one will believe that their own hands are clean. But it appears from the evidence that - Commissioners have on some occasions been mixed up with the operations of the captains, and it is well known that there have been and are Commissioners who havo their pet captains, with whom they or their near relatives are in close and constant com- munication. Such intimacies are, to say tho least, suspicious. It is further alleged that in Captain Killilea’s case certain evidence taken before the Police Commissioners has been made away with. Under these circumstances it will be well for the investigating committee not to stop short at the tainted precincts, but extend their search after the source of the existing corruptions to Mulberry street, Pulpit Topics To-Day. Just now the topic most attractive to the very pious is the great revival going on in Britain under Moody and Sankey, on which Dr. Dodge will speak before young nen in Asso- ciation Hall this evening. And if with this they will take the advice of Dr. Deems and go work to-day they may soon have the con- solation of knowing that the Son of Man is come. But all evangelistic work requires faith and courage, as Mr. Willis will impress his hearers; but not that little faith about which Mr. Lightbourn will speak. Discontent being the bane of too how to become contented. Mr. Lloyd will tell his church what is the purpose of and | many lives this pastor will also tell his people | | what lessons may be drawn from the Lerd’s | Supper, | to pardon. Mr. Hawthorne will solve a com- and will present to them a God ready | plex social problem if he can tell us how to | reclaim the fallen, as he proposes to do this morning. that this work is part of the Christian's mis- sion, but it is evidently a part sadly neglected. Dr. Porteous wiil examine popular preju- dices against Jews and Judaism as well as explore the mystery of the ministry of pain, and other pastors will meet the wants and wishes of their flocks to-day by the discnssion of themes equally simple or sublime, A Nationa, Arp Comurrteyz has been | formed in Colombia to collect funds for the relief of the sufferers by the recent earth- quakes in that region of South America, The number of killed is now estimated at five thousand ; many persons have been wounded, | while the destruction of property is enormous. He may make it very apparent | tinl evidence, though every juryman had | voted agamst him. The Disaster in France, From the copious extracts from our Euro- pean files, elsewhere given, our readers may learn the full extent of the calamity that has fallen upon France im the recent floods and inundations, Nearly one-sixth ot the surface of that beautiful country has been swept by the destructive element, and the ruin caused is not to be measured, as it might with us, mainly by its geographical extent, for there there is no wilderness. It is a land full of cities, some of which were old when the Romans were there; a land that hums with industry like a hive ; where villages, by the way, come oftener than milestones with us; where the fields are worked os we scarcely work our gardens, and where the swarming people make themselves a home in what would scarcely answer our extravagant fancies for a henroost. In such a country it is evident that to submerge a squaro mile will cause a more grievous ruin and a more heartrending misery than it might to blot out a half dozen of some of our sparsely-peopled counties. The Department of the Sadne and the Loire isin about the middle of France from north to south, while from east to west it is at the inner edge of the eastern third. It is named from the fact that the rivers Sadne aud Loire have their head waters within its limits, The Sadno flows southward into the Rhone at Lyons, and the latter continues almost the same southward line to the Mediterranean, Toe Loire flows north and west to the Atlantic. West of tho Rhone and south of the Loire Jie the moun- tains, whose highest point is at Puy-de-Démo, in Auvergne, and these mountains form the northern as the Pyrenees themselves form the southern wall of the vast valley of Aquitania, including the countries known in the Middle Ages as Languedoc, Gascony and Guienne, and not less than twenty depart- ments of modern France. In geographical extent this country is not, for instance, com- parable with the Mississippi Valley; but the calamity caused by its devastation is scarcely less than would have been caused if the Father of Waters had risen as did the whole system of rivers that drain that district. Tbe Garonne is the principal river, and runs through the valley from southeast to northwest, a wide, full stream, in a country level for many miles from its banks at cer- tain points, and seeming there more like o gigantic canal than a river. It receives from the Pyrenees, on one hand, hundreds of tur- bulent torrents .pouring down the mountain gulches, and, on the other, the whole water- shed of the southern slope of the high land between it and the Loire, including such con- siderable rivers as the Tarn, Lot and the Dordogne, out of Auvergne. It is scarcely to be wondered at, therefore, that with such rains as lately fell in France a river ‘fed by tributaries so numerous should have flooded | the country. For months they had had | there such a drought as we have had here, and it would seem as if some principle of compensation in nature had suddenly lauuched upon them all their arrears of rain. It may prove that they have had no more than was their due the season round, but@hey had in three days what should have been ‘distributed over three months. Absorption and evaporation did not assist in the disposition of it; the river bed was not ample enough to carry it away, and it spread out and threatened to flood the country up to the mountain walls north and south, No estimate by money values can measure the loss. Cities are ruined, villages swept away, all the cattle of the people—the noisy multitude of the farm enclosure—are all gone; and how much the people have suffered in their lives is as yet only guessed at. People who regort it tell of the corpses that go con- stantly floating down the river and of wide journeys made without the eacounter of a single living person, At Toulouse the river washed ont the contents of the tombs ina church, and the sheeted dead thus turned out of their graves seemed more ghastly than the freshly slain victims of the river. Itis per- haps the most dreadful calamity of the sort that has been experienced in modern times. The Religious Press on Beechor. As might have bcen supposed, the great trial having ended, the religious press, not only ot the city but the country, this week take up the result and give their own com- ments thereon. These, like the verdict of the jury and of the community, differ. The Golden Age thinks the devotion ot Plymouth church to its pastor outruns reason and defies justice, and pays no regard whatever to facts, evidence and arguments—anything but its own blind admiration of a scarred and shat- tered man. This devotion, the Age thinks, would be admirable were it not idolatrous But in spite of its efforts the jury would not acquit Mr. Beecher, and three-fourths of the people believe him guilty of adultery and per- | jury too, and the Age declares “on tho strength of evidence suflicient to send an ordinary man to the gallows. He has come out of the trial blackened all over with stains that no human chemistry can remove and no perfumed adulation can bleach away. And the church, unable to restore the lost whiteness of its idol, hastens to gild him. It will cover over the sore places with gold, It will put a premium of $80,000 on unconvicted adultery. That is Plymouth eburch religion and what comes of it.’’ Very unlike this is the comment of Church and State, which says that as the matter stands it is felt on all sides that the vote is equivalent to an acquittal of Mr. Beecher. Nothing has | been proved against him, and we believe the time will come when people will wonder at the improbability and absurdity of the charges. The editor declares that he never should believe the main charge against Mr. Beecher on the strength of any circumstan- And at any rate, ander tho circumstances, very little depends on the | yotes of two or three jurymen. Dr. ‘Talmage | stands on the fence, but evidently leans over to Tilton’s side. In his Christian at Work he says that, while the majority of people in New York and Brooklyn think Beecher innocent, outside and away from these | cities a great many think him guilty. Dr. | Talmage sympathizes with Mr. Beecher be- cause the jury bas not vindicated his name, | and with Tilton because of the destruction of his family. But leaving aside the question of Mr. Beecher’s innocence or guilt, it is easy, says this clerical brother, to learn the lesson that married men, and especially ministers, | ougiat to be very economical of kissing and writing love letters to other men’s wives, The Zvangelist admits that while the disnagree- ment of the jury does not legally settle the case, it does so practically, and the legal pre- sumption in the present status of the case is that Mr, Beecher is innocent of the charge upon which he has been tried. The moral presumption in his tavor will be proportioned to the repatation for integrity and morality which he has maintained through a ministry of more than thirty years. The tedious trial has not been altogether profitiess. There has been much rending of tivselled philosopby and specious but spurious reform. The loveliness of a modern ‘Madame Roland’s”’ saloon, with its reunion of choice spirita, does not bear close inspection, and some wild dreamers will be cured of their fancies, and the old-fashioned laws of integrity and pure morals and the code of Sinai will re- assert autbority the stronger because of this trial. The Observer deeply regrets the result of the trial. The scandal was so grievous that all good men hoped the truth would be made manifest by the searching investigation of those long, dreary, dreadful months of trial. The Observer hopes and thinks that the truth may stilt be evolved by the trials that are yot to grow out of this one. Tho Metho- dist is disposed’ to believe that the large pre- ponderance of ‘the people are in favor of Mr. Beecher’s innocence; and yet an unsatisfied desire remains to know the truth; but this de- sire cannot be gratified. If Mr. Beecher is innocent he must live the thing down, and if he is guilty tho truth will in time be manifest unto allmen. If he were nota minister the inconclusive trial would practically acquit him; but he now remains under suspicion. The Hebrew Leader refers to the case to correct a proposition by Dr. Deems, made last Sunday, that the trial has not hurt religion or morality. Tho Leader says’ that, seeing Christianity exhorts men toa holy life, it cannot be held that the immorality of its professors can either make or mar its claims and evidences. But in the interest of the morals of youth it pro- tests against the proposition that this loath- some scandal, discussed by boys and girls at the breakfast table and on the street, has not injured them. The Freeman's Journal is wild because this Plymouth cesspool was allowed to be emptied into a Brooklyn court during six months, when it ought to have been limited tosix days, It has no pity for Tilton, who was ‘the cognizant and consenting agent of his own dishonor;” nor for Mr. Beecher, who “stands self-confessed a libertine, per- jurer, tuffoon, hypocrite.” There is much more of this style of vitu- peration, not only against Mr. Beecher, but against his church ond friends. The Working Church, while it does not credit the main accasation, thinks that there can be no question that Mr. Beecher has largely destroyed his influence by his own admitted conduct, while Mr. Tilton, his accuser, has brought himself into general and measureless contempt. The editor thinks that the moral hazards of concealment have been abundantly and painfully illustrated in this case. and ex- travagance of expression and lack of decent reserve have been productive of infinite mis- chief in the case of all immediately concerned in the issue. And thus the opinion of the press, like that of the public and of the jury, is divided. While they do or would like to acquit Mr. Beecher of guilt of the main charge they declare that guilt has not been proved on one side nor innocence on the other. So that the clergyman remains practically where he was— under suspicion. Progress of Rapid Transit—A Bright Look Ahead. Although the Rapid Transit Commissioners may make but little show of work for the next two or three months the citizens of New York must not fall into the error of sup- posing that they are neglecting their im- portant duties or wasting time, of which every moment will be valuable until the object of their mission has been accom- plished. The most important business that will como before them is that which will occupy their atteution in the first three months of their official term ; but it will be prosecuted quietly, without show and without manifesting its results before it bas been finally disposed of. This business is the con- sideration of plans of construction and of propositions for routes, and when the Com- mission shall have reached a determination on these points, if their conclusions be wise, as we have no reason to doubt they will be, the after labor will be comparatively light. We entirely approve of the polfcy announced by the Commissioners—namely, that they will hear no verbal arguments and grant no interviews to projectors for tho present, but will require all applications and propositions to be addressed to them in writ- ing, in order that they may examine them at their leisure and deliberate thoroughly on their respective merits. This plan assures for each project a fair, impartial considera- tion, and precludes the idea of personal in- fluence having any weight or part in the final a@ision. It will be well also for individual Commissioners to decline personal communi- cations with the owners of patents and the | originators of plans until the Board shall have passed judgment on the various propo- sitions placed betore it for action. Meanwhile, the peoplo of New York, anxious as they are for the practical com- mencement of the construction of a rapid transit road capable of accommodating the publio wants, will rest in patience, confident in the earnest desire of the Commissioners to accomplish their work as speedily as possible. Already several plans of construction have been submitted to the Commission in ac« | cordance with its resolution inviting such communications. Among the most prominent ot these are the Gilbert iron arch project, al- ready well known to our readers; the Will- ioms & Catherwood suspended trackway plan, which combines the truss and suspension principles, spanning from block to block, with a square of wrought iron columns at each in- | | public when election comes, torsecting street, bound by girders ; the plan for an upper street or flooring, supported on iron columns thirty feet apart; the ‘one- legged” plan, upon which the Greenwich street | ruad is built, and two other projects of less importance. The promptness with which these projects have been brought officially to the notice of the Commission proves that the projectors will lose no.time on their nart in pressing their plans, and that the Commis- sioners will have plenty of business to occupy their attentior, The conclusion seems to Lave been already generally reached that the ele- vated principle must be adopted and that the structure must be of iron. The Gardner plan will no doubt be submitted, and will be the most elaborate of the series, but it is the popular belief that the simplest, most practicable and least costly plan of an iron elevated road will be the one that will find favor with the Commission. As to routes there can be no question that the Third avenue direct line from Harlem Bridge to the City Hall Park or the Battery offers the best promise of immediate business and wil: command the greatest confidence on the part of capital. The cost of the suspension cable and of the iron arch plans have been esti- mated at from three to five hundred thousand dollars a mile; but a twelve mile road that would cost with equipments nine million dol- lars, or three-quarters of a million a mile, would pay a profit of from eighteen to twenty per cent above running expenses ona fair estimate of the present travel on the Third avenue and parallel east side through routes. There can be no question of the remunerative character of the enterprise, provided the most promising route is selected, and we hava no doubt of the Commissioners’ action on that important point. A simple extension of Mr. Vanderbilt's Harlem Railroad to the Bat. tery would afford no such conveniences as the people of New York require, and would be only an imposition on rapid transit. The ex- tension of the Greenwich street railroad te the Forty-second street depot, the Central Park and the South ferry is very desirable, and should receive all the encouragement that can be given to it. But now that we have placed our feet on the highroad to real rapid transit, such as the interests of the city and the health, comfort, morality and prosperity of the people demand, we must not pause or turn back until we have secured a substantial victory. In roe Boarp or AprortionmENT yester- day Tax Commissioner Wheeler submitted a series of resolutions adopted by the Board of Health, presenting the Harlem flats as a dan- gerous public nuisance, hazardons to life and health, and requesting an appropriation of fifty thousand dollars to be used in its immo- diate abatement. The Mayor thereupon of: fered a resolution to appropriate twenty-one thousand dollars, being the unexpended bal ances of the appropriations of the Health De partment for 1872 and 1873. Comptrolle: Green fought against the resolution, and re quired delay in order that he might see if the appropriations exist. Tle Board refused to allow him a postponement beyond Monday. There is some prospect, therefore, of a prompt, if only partial, abatement of tho deadly nuisance, despite the unsensitiveness of Alderman Vance's nose and the obtuseness of Alderman Simonson’s brain. Tax Frarvre oy tae Comma Weex will be the intercollegiate boat race on Saratoga Lake. For some time the crews have been working on or near the course where the cone test is'to take place, and the race promises to be a well-contested and a brilliant one. It requires great skill, as the result of long and careful training, as well as strength and en- durance to win in the College races nowa- dayr, and it is gratifying to know that many of the crews possess it in an eminent degree. The annual College Regatta is, indeed, a test of skiil, and itis because the race of this year 1s more than ever sucha test that so much interest is evinced in the result of the coming week. It is scarcely necessary to speculate at this early day as to who is to win the match. There is so much competition and at the same time so much excellence that this is as difficult as it is unnecessary. Ow only wish is that the best crew may come ont first at the finish, and that a full meed of honor may be awarded to all of the othera who deserve it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sky-rocket kisses would be better than paroxys mal over the river these nights, Olive Logan calls her husband ‘the inseparable” because she can’t cut him up much, Paymaster Edmund> H. Brooke, United States Navy, 18 staying at the New York Hotel, ‘The Marquis de Chambran arrived from Wash- ington yesterday at the Unton Sqaare Hotel, Surgeon Euclides da Rocha, of the Brazilian Navy, 18 quartered at the St. Nicholas Hertel. Captain James B. Eads, the eminent civil engt- neer, is registereo at tne Fif'h Avenue Hotel. lt is not true, as reported, that Henry Bergh and Admiral Rous are to shoot a pizeon ma'ch, Mr. Thomas F. Wilson, Untted States Consul at Matamoros, 18 sojourning at the Sturtevant Hlonse, Lough Swilly 1s the latest haunt of “the wonder. ful seasnake.” They cali him a strange fish, 300 feet long. Lieutenant Commander William B. Hoff, Unitea States Navy, has taken up Nis quarters at the Evorett House. Mr. Richmond Pearson, United States Consul at Verviers and Litge, Belgium, is residing at the Union Square Hotel, Four reverend gentlemen went to Europe by the steamer Boitvia for a@ littie recreation. Ne sore throats mentioned particularly, Funny that the London Times threw up the sponge for Alfonso just as the Carlisis gave way on the whole line. Just their luck, however. Acaole telegram trom Moscow, under date ot yesterday, announces that His Majesty the King of Sweden arrived in the Russian city on tho 9th inst. \Tnat remarkable book of heresies, “Ancient Pa gan and Modern Symbolism,” by Toomas Inman, will be issued ta @ second edition by J. W. Bouton, New York. Latest from the Philadelphia Ledger:— A cherry, incompletely ripe, His littie busmess did tor him. And now, serenely iree from gripe, Lie 18 a bob-tailed cherubin, Dio Lewis has been hear’ from. He says that Jemonade is unhealthy ; and with bis usual fataity he says this just at the season when lemonade tt about the my Hest Muld that can be put into the average stomack. Mayor Medcalf, of Toronto, has decided to at tend the international banquet at Guildhall, Lon don, on the 20th iast, The Mayors of Hamilton and Halifax have als> accepted the invitation, The Mayors of Quevec and Moatreal have dectined, Upon the whole, considering how Brooklyn ts made up, it 18 perhaps only natural that the Dis. trict Attorney in King’ county shouid fall into the notion that Plymouth caurch is the punite over there, It will be an important part of the President Grant, accompanied by Mon. Hamil jon Fish, Secretary of Stave; George W. Corlda and several other gentlemen, arrived in Camden from Long Branch ata quarter past ten o'clock yesterday morning, and were met by Governor Hartranit, 0: Pennsylvania; Hon. A. E, Borie Colonel Fred Grant, Uuheotor Comly and others, “who escorted them to the revenue catier in waite Ing at the wharf, which immediately started foe ene Mow