The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY JULY 29, 1875.—TRIP NEW YORK HERAL 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 Youx Hznarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, pwblished 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 Yore Gzrar. Letters and packages should be properly vealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘urned. 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 XLeweeeeeeeeseeees oe AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth sirees—English Opera—THE ROSE OF AUVERGNE and CHILPLKIO, at 30. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Vighth street.—VARIETY, . Woop's MU 4 Sroadway, corner of Thirtieth streek—THE SPY, at 2 & M. and '8 P. M.: closes at 10:45, M. Matinee atz P, (Jack SHEPPARD, GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, ate Barnum’s Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- UbRT, at 8 ¥, M.; closes at 11 P. M. OLYMPIv THEATRE, fo.0& Broadway. VARIETY, ai 3, M.; closes at 10.45 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JULY 29, 18 (HE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. Co Newspzarers anp THE Pusiic :— Tae New York Heraup runs a special | rain every Sunday during the season, petween New York, Niagara Falls, Sara- ‘oga, Lake George, Sharon and Ricbfield Springs, leaving New York at half-past ‘wo 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 wpplying the Sunpay Hxnaxp along the line ot the Hudson River, New York Central and ‘ake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send n their orders to the Henaxp office as early as oossible. For further particulars see time able. From our reports this morning the probabilities tre that the weather to-day will be warmer and yartiy cloudy, with occasional rain. Persons going out of town for the summer can tave the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to hem, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srreer Yxsterpay.—Stocks were yell sustained and showed temporary trength. Gold receded from 114} to 113}. foreign exchange was steady. * We Connrenp the appeal of the managers of he Floating Hospital to all who seek for op- portunities of doing good. Tue Natorat Rumor that John Morrissey tas gone into training in anticipation of com- hg events lacks confirmation. Tax Ixpranation of Old Salt Alvord over the delinquencies of Nolan only shows how mnocent a life a great statesman may live in Albany. Two Encusa Mercuants who failed re- ‘ently for a large sum are now at the bar of the Old Bailey on trial,for obtaining money ander false pretences. Tae Democrats who talk of coupon clip- ving as a crime, and of rags as money, evi- lently mean to compel the republicans to run Grant for a third term. Tuere is a general and widespread sympa- thy felt for Duncan, Sherman & Co. The ympathy for the people who had money on | leposit is not so universally expressed, but it 8 also deeply felt. Taenz is much distress in the cotton dis- | tricts of England, arising out of a controversy | between the manufacturers and the workmen. | Thousands of operatives are out of employ- ment and there isno sign of compromise. These strifes are the most disheartening mani- festations of modern politics in England. Tue Present is giving his personal atten- tion to the Indian question, and has the Com- wissioners in session at Long Branch. The President would show his sincerity in reforming the department by recalling his brother from the Indian country. Mr. Delano has resolved not to retire from the Interior Department. If Orville Grant remains we do not see why Delano should go. A Contemporary says thaf one reason why Tweed cannot be convicted under the decision pf Judge Donohue is that a man cannot be convicted of any crime except in accordance with the law. How happy we should be to feel that, under our laws,» poor wretch may go to prison for twenty years for stealing ham, while a great statesman may take five tullions from the treasury and retain four and a half upon the payment of a half million | bo leeches, blackmailers and lawyers ! ; From the graphic and interesting picture of polities and political management pre- gented by our Saratoga correspondent it will be seen that the great Spa of America has a pew interest to the people as an exchange of | The democrats in | fhought and intrigue. Pennsylvania propose to nominate ex-G ernor Bigler for Governor. Mr. Bigler was Governor of that State twenty-five years ago, nd his nomination at this time would mean | selec- at the democrats mean to win, if the ma of Wueix best mon can asdure yiciory. “The Era of Good MFecling’”—The Centennial. We print this morning some interesting letters from the Southern States illustrative of the feeling entertained by the people in reference to the reception given to the South- ern visitors to the Banker Hill celebration. We have also printed an appeal from the Board of Finance of the Centennial Com- mission in Philadelphia calling upon the people to assist it in completing the build. ings necessary for the great Exhibition. It is gratifying to know that our friends who have immediate charge of the details of preparing for this Exhibition are push- ing on their work with so much courage and industry, and they well deserve the compliment which they have received from the English Commissioner that their work is further advanced than was that of tho French or Austrian Exhibition at the same period of preparation. The Centennial movement will receive an impetus from | the different celebrations that have taken place and afe announced to take place before the Fourth of July, 1876. We might com- pare these festivities to the lighting up of the signal fires over the Calta theremin tion of patriotism and national pride and love for the Union. Thus we have had at Lexing- ton and Mecklenburg and’Bunker Hill, and so on, from these anniversaries to that on which we shall celebrate the first administration of Washington. It will be a series of events con- secrating in the minds of the people that memorable day which witnessed the found- ing of our Republic. The effect of this revival of patriotic feeling will be to make the celebration in Philadelphia the climax of Centennial time. The crowning event of the Revolution was the Declaration of Independence, which we commemorate on the Fourth of July. The Exhibition in Philadelphia will be the cele- | bration of that event, and must become the especial memorable event of the centennial | period—the one national circumstance which | camnot be limited to New England or the South or the West, as it belongs to every part | of the Union. Consequently our friends in Philadelphia, who have labored so long with- out encouragement and almost without hope, and who now see before them so bright a prospect of achieving the best results of the Exhibition, will find their account in these preliminary festivities, which are only, as it were, so many steps toward the climax of the Fourth of July, 1876. But what is necessary to make this Exhibition a com- plete success are not simply banners and music and rhetoric and enthusiasm. Let us look at it in the practical sense, because in that point of view we must, sooner or later, consider it. The last statement published by ex-Governor Bigler in the Hznarp was of such a favorable character that it should be regarded as a new inducement to our business men to assist in bringing this movement toasuccess. Gov- ernor Bigler, it must be remevbered, is a cit- izen of so much distinction and of such high reputation for fairness and integrity and prudence of statement that we can accept his facts without a question ora pause, and the good influence of his financial exhibit isto sat- isfy the public that there can be no failure in carrying the great work through triumphantly, and that the success of the Centennial, either asa national or international exhibition, is already assured. Something should be done toward the cere- some time since that a programme had been laid down, which embraced Mr. Longfellow as poet, Mr. Emerson as reader of the Declar- ation and some eminent. Southern and North- ern gentlemen as orators. The selection of the men who are to perform these offices should be made at once. Too much time cannot be given to the poem and the oration that are to com- )memerate the opening of this Exhibition. | They should be marked by the maturest | thought. No hasty rhymes or hurried dec- | lamation will be acceptable. The commit- | tee should name the orator of the day as soon | as possible. If Pennsylvania itself is worthy | of the honor let it be her own eloquent and | brilliant Daniel Dougherty, whose reputation | is already national. If New England is de- | sirable let it be the silver-tongued Phillips or the wise and honored Adams. New York could | give Evarts, in whose veins rans Revolution- |tary blood, or O'Conor, whose genius shows to what eminence the child of the foreigner may attain in this free land. In the West we have Morton or Sherman, while the South could send us a Lamar andaGordon. But whoever is named should be named at once. Nor should the selection be narrowed to sections, | Whoever is most worthy of the honor should be chosen, and chosen now, that he may be able to do justice to his noble and mighty theme. What our friends who direct the Centennial | should avoid is that apathy which so often paralyzes success. Disasters come from this cause as frequently as from any other. | We may bring the cup to our lips without | drmking. The Centennial may be to-day in the complete and absolute assurance of success, and yet to-morrow receive a blow trom the hands of its friends from which it cannot recover. The true lesson for the Cen- tennial people is that the more they succeed the more earnestly they should continue their | work. Itis of the first importance to New | | York that she should do her part toward com- pleting this work, regardless of the question for no other reason, the ceremonies are a fit- tablished our Republic, and because for the | reason of national pride, the government | having invited foreign nations to participate in | necessary to the country. remembered that movement there important as any chance of repayment ot divi- dends op the principal of stock. The teach- ings of the Lxbibition in arts and science and the result. to all branches of productive labor will be of great value to all sections of the country, but especially of all to New York. the honor of must be also this Centennial sustain Then it in We, therefore, quite agree with the signers of an address issued in this city, in the winter, | | that visitors to the Exhibition from foreign | countrics, with scattering exceptions, will make New York their residence. The same is | | true also of visitors trom remote parts of our Lows ounizy, aud gar byiel keepers quad howe monies that will naturally attend the opening | of the Centennial Exhibition. Wo were told | of the return for the investment, because, if | | tang mode of honoring the great men who es- | the Exhibition, ample preparations are | are benefits quite as | who have charge of transportation have rec- ognized the wisdom of this exception and the obligation it imposes upon them of mak- ing liberal subscriptions to the Centennial stock. For every dollar of advantage that “the Centennial Exhibition will be to Philadel- pbia we should say that there would be five dollars of advantage to New York. The assured supremacy of this city in wealth and facilities for accommo- dating strangers, the swiftness of trans- portation, the opportunities for pleasure seeking and observation and study in tho libraries, the churches and public buildings, and the suburbs, of river and sea and hills, will give to New York an advantage even over Philadelphia which will largely benefit our people. Therefore, when we urge upon our merchants and citizens in New York to take an active and pecuniary interest in the Cen- tennia!, we are addressing them on a matter which appeals directly to their own sense of profit and advantage. fe But, even in taking a business view of this question, we should not forget higher con- siderations. The Centennial will have a his- tory, and history must show that this proud, imperial Commonwealth of New York, and this mighty city, its capital and queen, were not indifferent to this great undertaking. As the writers of this address said, ‘There is but one way of rendering our position in this matter satisfactory to ourselves and creditable in history, and that is a prompt performance of our full part in preparing for the ceremonies that are to commemorate the founding of our Republic.” The Black Hills. As there is now known to be gold in paying quantities in the Black Hills, and as the miners went there in spite of the govern- ment and the Indians on the mere chance that there was gold there, they will go now on the certainty in far larger numbers. There may not be exactly a stampede from other mining districts, but the movement will be lively ; so that we must soon have either a treaty with the Indians to extinguish their title or fighting between the Indians and the miners, or some effective action on the part of the army to keop the miners out. Which shall it be? How the govern- ment can keep the miners out without calling for a hundred thousand troops we can- not see; how the government can make a treaty with the Indians, who will not treat, is equally beyond ordinary vision ; but a one- eyed man could make out exactly how the In- dians and the miners can come together to the serious disturbance of the roots of the miners’ hair. That must clearly be the result one of theso fine days of this thirst for gold, that regards no restraint of peace or respect for the law. Our readers will presently be startled by a report of the mas- sacre ofa camp of miners, or two or three camps, and the country will be horrified, and the government will be called upon to chastise the savages, and there will be clamor for an Indian war, and no one will stop to consider that the noble red man has only done what the noble white man considers his great- est glory—fought for his own. Mr. Righy’s Protest. We publish in another column a letter of protest from Mr. John Rigby against the highly colored reports of the Dollymount con- test published by sdme of our contemporaries. The report circulated that there was a dis- turbance on the ground calculated to interfere with the shooting of the American team is positively denied by Mr. Rigby. In a very chivalrous spirit he defends Mr. Milner from the charge made against him of unreliability, and attributes his bad shooting in the match to an accident that befel his rifle. He repels the charge that the Irish riflemen ‘lost their | heads and shot wildly’ at the thousand yards | range by pointing to the scores of the five Irish marksmen who made a higher average than did the members of the American team, a success rendered of no avail by the misfor- tunes of Mr. Milner. Mr. Rigby very sensi- bly remarks that if the Irish team was com- posed of ‘men who lost their heads and shot wildly” there was very little credit gained in beating them. As four of the men who shot at Dollymount shot also at Creedmoor those who witnessed their performance on our own soil will not easily believe that they lost their heads at Dollymount. ‘Scurritous anD Low.'’—The lofty Kelly will not stoop to Morrissey. He says he is “scurrilous and low;” or, as people some- times say of the things they cannot answer, he ‘considers the source from which it comes.” Kelly as a man of dignity is funny, | Kelly as a person competent to call other men ‘low’? is magnificently improbable. But people who are prosperous in politics rise to these heights. On any terms, however, we should be glad to have a confession from a person so important as Kelly. Only a little while ago Morrissey was his fellow magnate in Tammany, dispensed with him its patronage, and even determined exactly how the people should govern themselves in this free city. It is something to know that he recognizes the scurrility and degradation of his associates; | and if they recognize his condition with equal | felicity the picture of the state of democratic | politics will be complete. | Wisninc wy Jrst.—Nothing is of more com- mon occurrence than to wishin jest. It is one of the forms of facetiousness in which | people of all classes indulge. Some wish to be married, others wish to be hanged; the | married wish they were single—all in jest, of | course—and legislators wish for a lobbyist, all in jest. At least Mr. Russell, the Assistant | District Attorney of New York, knows a mem- ber of the Albany Legislature who once ex- pressed a regret that he wax not acquainted | with the terms of Mr. Nolan's contract, as, had | he been, he thought he would have ‘“‘secnred a division.” This was merely a jest. We fear, however, that many of our law makers read of Mr. Nolan’s “big fee” with a painful feel- | ing that that sly young man had played them a trick worthy ot ‘the Heathen Chinee.’’ We | regret very. much that Mr. Russell refused to give his friend's name, because we think the | | public ought to know all the little jokers in this Albany game. Tur Moxnesota Rervericans have nommi- nated John 8, Pillsbury for Governor. They oppose General Grant for a third term. | The way to destroy the third term is to pass a resolution in favor of one term, It | isa marvel that some of our politicians are | pot homest emowml (est, iiss Vur River Improvements—The Blun~ ders of Legisiation. LE SHEEY, Infant Mortality in the City. Children are dying in this city at the rate The late Chief Engineer of the Dock De- | of one’ hundred a day; and everybody who partment, General Charles K. Graham, in his | has a child for whose lite he cares, and who report for the last yoar of his service, refers to the obstacles that have interposed to pre- vent the improvement of the Harlem, East and North rivers, The importance of defin- ing proper limits on the New York and New Jersey shores, beyond which injurious en- croachments on the waters of the North River shall not be made, has been long conceded. ‘The advanpement of Sandy Hook toward the channéls between the ocean and the bay is sufficiently alarming to teach us the absolute necessity of taking effective measures for the protection of the commercial supremacy of the port. Yet we continue to allow ashes and other material of a similar character to be dumped in the harbor, and we neglect to make such arrangements with the oppoaite Slaté as will prevent the extgngion of pier and bulkhead linés on either side in a manner to interfere with the full flow of the tidal wae ters. We thus aid in the work of gradually sealing up our harbor, instead of taking ener- getic measures to prevent such a calamity, When laws to properly protect the bay from the damage done by the come ers are proposed they are certain meet with opposition from some legis- lative or administrative Solons who are ig- norant of their necessity. We have Harbor Commissioners to fix pier and bulkhead lines on our own side of the river, and New Jersey does similar work on her side. Yet we have not the sense to settle the question of en- croachments definitely through the action of the two State governments and Congress. In like manner on the East River, although both sides aro within the jurisdiction of our own State, we’ pursue a similar mole-like policy. Elaborate plans for the improvement of our side of that river were made by General McClellan. The usual stop policy prevailed, no work was done, and now solid bulkheads and projecting lines on the Brooklyn side have arrayed themselves against us, reducing the channel from the width on which General McClellan's calculations in 1870 were based, and upsetting all our plans. The Legislature has not had the common sense to provide for the fixing of the limits of the encroachments on the New York and Brooklyn sides simul- taneously, so that it might be known exactly what work might be done without interfer- ence with the tidal flow and consequent damage to the harbor. The importance of the proposed improve- ment in the navigation of the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek is admitted. The most stolid legislator would hesitate to oppose it on the ground that itis unnecessary. With a fine channel for the passage of ships from the North to the East River, and with the re- moval of the Hell Gate obstructions, will come a revolution in the commercial business of the city. The days will come when we shall have busy docks and great storehouses at the upper end of the island, with the resi- dences of the princes of commerce stretching on the other side of the river into Westches- ter county. Everybody wants the Harlem River improved; but the Legislature places the requisite authority this year in the hands of the Park Commission, and next year in the hands of the Public Works Commissioner, and the third year transfers it to the Dock De- partment, where it remains until a retransfer takes place. Now one set of officials have been empowered to” establish an exterior line of piers and bulkheads on the Harlem River, and now another set, and the old saying has been verified, ‘‘What is every- body's business is nobody's business.” The charter of 1873, with its natural perverseness, further complicated the matter by giving the power to the Dock Commissioners and tying up their hands so as not to permit any inter- ference with the blunders formerly made by the Park Commissioners in the establishment of exterior lines—blunders which effectually suspend the further work of improvement. General Graham shows conclusively that resurvey of the river should be ordered, the bulkhead lines readjusted and means taken to increase the section of the improved river at its mouth on the Hudson. The natural channel should be retained and made sufficient for an adequate flow of water between the two larger rivers, If the ex-Chief Engineer's report directs attention to the blunders of past legislation and secures some effective laws next year it will be a useful document. Our proposed river works are essential to the future progress and prosperity of the city, and hitherto they have been blocked by the stupidity of our lawmakers. Tae Loyan Anrist, Nast, really fears that the newspapers are apxious to attack Nellie’s baby. This shows to what emergencies a truly loyal artist may be driven in midsum- mer weather. Surrose the foolish democrats in Ohio should carry the State upon the issue of “coupon clipping crime,’’ would it not pre- sent to the mind of President Grant the ‘im. perative necessity’’ which would make him run for a third term. Farner Gerpemany, the Catholic priest of Philadelphia who recently seceded from the Church under circumstances that led to his being a defendant in an action for breach of trust and embezzlement, delivered a lecture last evening in Philadelphia, exposing the Catholic system. There was great excite- ment and fears of a riot. Buta large police force was present and the peace was pre- served. Philadelphia is an inflammable city on religious questions, and its history is | stained with many dark and bloody deeds arising out of these controversies. Covnrerrztters.—The successful capture of a dangerous gang of counterfeiters is some- thing upon which we have to congratulate the public at large. The police, as usual, were helpless until one of the rogues gave his friends away. In the present state of help lessness of the detective department it might be a good stroke of policy to attach this re- pentant thief to the department. He has in him evidently the stuff for a good detective, and he need not be rejected on the score of previous condition, He was a felon, it is true, but has undergone his punishment, and, unless this last fact should be held to disqualify him, we do not see any other very cogent objection. He would probably be an efficient thief-catcher, and that is what the Lcibizvas would like to see om the police sorce, can get that child out of the city, had better do so without loss of time, for the conditions on which this dreadful mortality depends will not get better, but worse, as the season ad- vances and the stifling nights of August and the vapors of September make the city sleeping rooms, in the packed dis- tricts, mere vats of mephitic and destructive gases. ‘There is no mystery in regard to this mas- sacre of the innocents, Its causes are known to all who care to consider them; and we have done our utmost to attract to them such a degree of public attention as would compel the authorities to take action. But the atten- tion of the authorities cannot be distracted from their operations on the public till by any ordinary means in these days. Fellows with their arms up to the elbows in the public treasury, each anxious to fill his private wheelbarrow, cannot be induced to consider any fact that makes no other appeal to their attention than that of humanity or duty; and so the causes continue in virtue of which cer- tain parts of the city are in a pestilential condition, Strange, indeed, are the operations in cases of this nature of what we may call fashion. If the ong hundred little children who are dying every day in this city—one for every quarter of an hour—were returned by the doctors as cases of cholera or yellow fever there would be a panic, almost a revolution ; but when you say that they are dying of the Harlem flats and causes of that nature, which is the plain truth of the case, it is treated with indifference and incredulity, and the authorities are encouraged in their indiffer- ence. Yet cholera is mainly disseminated from person to person; but the malady of the Harlem flats is carried on themreeze that blows in at every man’s window. Uncleaned streets, and alleys and courts reeking with heaps of decaying matter on the surface ; contract-made sewers that are mere wells for the reception and confinement of the filth ,washed down from the streets and houses, and which by the ingeniously con- trived pipes discharge their worst gases into the rooms; the Harlem flats, where, by the deposit of decaying organic matter, a vast putrid surface is exposed to the sun and is contrived to produce disease just as the gar- dener’s hotbed is contrived to produce his early plants; tho absence of a market system which leaves the corner groceries to supply with withered vegetables and unripe fruit the people who cannot choose but take them ; the utter failure of the Board of Health except for recording what has occurred, and the in- sufficient restraint upon the practice of medi- cine by unqualified persons, which leaves the people a prey toan army of incapable doc- tors, with and without diplomas, who are, in simple truth, not less dangerous in a house than the worst diseases that come there— these are the causes of the trouble. The authorities are not to blame for the in- capable doctors; that fault is due to our go- cial and political system, which is based upon the erroncous notion that the peopleare them- selves the best judges in all cases of such a quasi private nature as the employment of doctors. But for all the other causes the au- thorities are directly responsible. The Mayor, the Comptroller, the Police Board, and the worse than incapable Board of Health, these are all to blame for a condition of things that imperils and will imperil for every day of the summer the life of every poor man’s child ; for the rich can leave—the poor must stand and take it. There never was such a pitiful farce in government as the Board of Health, whose view of things may be measured by the statement of its president, that if he could get the money out of the Comptroller he could remedy the trouble of the Harlem flats in “about ninety days,” or by the time the cool weather comes on. But, perhaps, the worst source of mischief is the Comptroller, who has crippled every department of the municipal * ad- ministration by establishing the principle that no payment can be made without a law- suit, But what do any of these men care for the six thousand children of the poor whose lives will this summer pay the penalty of their ambitious or mercenary misconduct? Modern Improvements. The Keeley motor, whose inventor pro- poses presently to draw a train of cars from New York to Philadelphia without fire or steam and with the help only of a small bucket of water, promises now to be outdone by the Schroeder air ship, whose inventor will be ready in a few weeks to carry twelve thousand pounds of mail matter through the air from New York to Liverpool. Meantime, we-hear of a new electric engine which is to pump water and move machinery at a ridicu- lously low cost and with no more attention than is required to stick in a new piece of zine occasionally or fill the battery cups with water as this evaporates. A Frenchman has perfected, it is said, a new lamp, whose flame, as brilliant as that of the electric light, is pro- duced by the economical combustion of nitric oxide gas with the vapor of bi-sulphide of | carbon, A well known New Yorker has recently perfected an egg-hatching | machine, in which the temperature is controlled and regulated by electricity. It is already possible to send several messages at the same time over the same wire, and, in- deed, to send messages both ways at the same time ; and there are electricians who believe that still more remarkable uses of the electric | flaid will presently be discovered, If this kind of thing is to go on a new pang | will be added to death; tor no masonably in- telligent person will wish to leave this world justas the means of locomotion and for the | transmission of intelligence, as well as the | conveniences and comforts of life, are to be | so greatly and remarkably increased. But | when the Schroeder airship takes good Bos- | tonians to Paris in six hours and the Keeley | motor propels ordinary {reight trains at the | rate of one hundred and twenty miles an hour ; | when a single telegraph wire can be used by ® dozen or twenty people at once; when the | oxygen light drives even petroleum out of use and ruins the gas companies ; when every man may batch hid own chickens with the | | help of electricity, and perhaps cook them by | | the aid of condensed sun's rays, what will be | left for the Grangers to do? ia prepering & “ylavement!’ A Little Too Late. The Police Comissioners have become sensible that they must do something in view of the disclosures before the Legis lative Investigating Committee. Gonerm Smith, as a new member of the Board and a capable and honest oflicer, in- sists upon the trial of the captains against whom charges of corrupt associations with thieves have been made. Matsell and Dis- becker dare not resist investigation any longer. But why did they not put the ac- cused officers on trial long since? Why did they transfer to new precincts captains knows to have been guilty of corrupt practices, and place dishonest detectives on patrol duiy? Why did Commissioner Disbecker obtain from thieves, through his favorite devectives, the watches stolen from Thurlow Weed and ex- Speaker Alvord, and let the thieves go free? If the charges should be sustained it would only make the case of the Police Commis- sioners worse. If they knew of and connived at the rascality of their subordinates they are partners in the crimes. If they did not know of thom they are incapable and worthless public officers. “Any crusade against the captains now cannot save the characters or {he official heads of the responsible Commis- sioners. Forry m Crry Manacement.—These com stant ‘‘deadlocks” between the Mayor and Comptroller are disgraceful, and are only new illustrations of the deplorable con- dition into which our city affairs have fallen. The question between these officers is a simple one. It could be solved in an hour. Tho first question is, What does the law command? The second is, What is the most convenient custom for the despatch of business under the law? There are not two butchers in Wash- ington Market who could not decide this with- out s moment’s delay. . And yet here are officers holding high rank under the city whe permit the city business to fall into disrepute rather than take a common sense view of @ very simple matter. In the meantime the poor firemen, who do a great deal more hard work for their money than either the Mayor or the Comptroller, are allowed to support thew families as well as they can. We do not re member a more trivial and unnecessary con- troversy. It is in all respects unworthy of great city. A Hint ro Govznnorn Ames.—Things are getting into such a condition in Mississippi that we may soon expect to see an advertise- ment in words like the following posted om the blank walls of the United States :— “Lost or strayed—the Governor of Missis- sippi. He left Jackson, the capital, about . the close of April. Any information con- cerning him would be thankfully received by the honest people of Mississippi before his substitute, the negro Lieutenant Governor, pardons all the murderers and burglars and effects a general jail delivery.” A. K. Davis, the acting Governor of Mississippi, is a negro. The color of his skin would make no difference if he were honest and wise. But he is neither, and he is pursuing a course during his tenure of office which makes his rule not only odious, but dangerous to society. It is time for Governor Ames to take the roina in his own hands. He, at least, has some character to lose. ‘Tue Interestine Lerrer we print from the Hayden surveying party will be read with pleasure asa picture ofa new and inviting section of our rich dominions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, pane PEs eCSaN: Wer Rev. R. Laird Collier, of Chicago, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor ©. W, Hutehin-on, of Utica, arrived last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrad, of Philadelphia, haa apartments at the Hotel Brunswick, Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, 1s among the late arrivals at the Gilsey Rouse, Assemblyman Willard Johuson, of Fulton, N. ¥,, aying at the Metropolitan Hotel, Assemblyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N. Y., is stopping at the Union Square Hotel, Judge Martin Grover, of the Court of Appeals, is residing temporarily at the Metropolitan Hotet. Poor Lily Robinson, sentenced to penal servi- tude for life for murdering her husband, A regu. Jar tiger lily. State Senator Daniel P. Wood, of Syracuse, ar- rived in the city yesterday and is at the Fifte Avenue Hotel. English pointer and setter dogs, to the vatue o» $100,000, were imported into the United ar. Mr. James M. Walker, President of the Onicage, Borlington and Quincy Ratiroad Company, is at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama Rallroad Company, has taken up his residence at . the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Amos T, Akerman, of Georgia, formerly United States Attorney General, has arrivea at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Orville H. Browning, of Illinois, who was Secretary of the Interior under President John- son’s administration, is registered at the Windsor is over Hotel. An announcement by cable from Berlin states that Baron Schloesser, the German Ambassador to the United States, will soon return to Wash- Angton. ‘The ‘Trustees of the Wesleyan University at Middletown yesterday unanimously elected vyrus D, Foss, D. D., of this city, President of that im- stitution, ‘The trustees of the State Reform School ot Meriden, Conn., yesterday ousted Assistant Su- perintendent Little and appointed Rey. John T. Pettec in his place, Judge Love, of Keokuk, Iowa, of the United States District Court, lias accepted the protessor- ship in the University Law School of lowa City vacated by Judge Cole, of the State Supreme Bench. Upon the employment of Sergeant Ballantyne by the guicowar of Baroda the English govern- ment Offered Mr, Hawkins £50,000, or $260,000, to go to India and take the case against him: but Hawkins declined, Dumas’ new piece will deal with the same king of women; but this time they are in another oc- cupation, He will show them pulling the wires tm politics and finance, and corrupting the iife of the Bourge by their presence. A cal telegram from Berlin, under date ot yesterday, 28th inst., reports that Colone! Forney goes to St. Petersburg by way of Austria and Hua gary. The opject of his journey is to induce Rut sia to partictpate in the Philadelphia Kxhipitiem, At Doimen the Germans pointed four of Krapp’® cannon, loaded with balls that colleoively weighed twelve hundred weight, against a target made like a section Of the skin of the test Eng lish iron-clad, and the cannon were ‘hen dis- charged simultaneously by the electry wire, and the target was annibilated, An old gourmand’s code has turnei up. among other counsels given are:—fo immediately ac- cept the dish When a neighbor passes it to you, as ceremonial delays only cool tre morsels; every conversation commenced ougtt to cease on the arrival of the truifled turkey, and shou. misfor- tnne give you fora neighbor one or the childrem do your best to make it merry with wine, ao thet its mamma Will have to erder it lata quaragting AAs