The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1876, Page 6

:W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR shepesentesiiatan THE DAILY HERALD, jiblished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic ' despatches must be addressed Nuw Youu Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREE LONDON OFFICE OF _T y YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLE. STREET. PARIS OFFICI—-AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI--- ~~ AMUSEMEN WOOD'S MU: ROVING JACK, t5 P.M. Mat SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, THEATRE COMIQUE, VARIETY, 8PM LONDON ABSURANCH, a 8 Pr uoster Watlack, STAR OF THE NONI atS Peat Miss Kellogg. VARIET ON PASTONS NEW THEATRE, FERREOL, at 81. SQUARE Tw VATRE, Jr Baw VARIETY, at 8 P. M. CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, SP. M. IFT. > PIQUE, at SP. M. ACAD GRAND PROMENADE GERM. KREUZFEUEK, at 8 P. M. GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M, ry TRIPLE SHE From our reports this morning the probab are that the weather to-day will be warm, with possibly light rains, followed by cooler and clear- ing weather. Nortck to Counrry Newspraters.—For ppt and regular delivery of the Henatp fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage jree. We Sxsourp Like 10 Srxz a Molly‘Maguire brought before Recorder Hackett for sen- tence. Trxtpex, Tuurnman on Bayanrp as the Presi- dential candidate, with the prospect of the remaining two in the Cabinet, would decide the result of the Presidential election before the day of voting arrived. Tur Centennuat.—A brief but very clear account is given in our Philadelphia letter of the actual condition of the great depart- ments of the Centennial Exhibition. Some of them will hardly be ready by the 10th, yet our corregpondent thinks the general arrangements for the opening are better than those of Paris or Vienna. Bayanp, of Delaware, President of the United States, with Tilden, of New York, and Thurman, of Ohio, at the head of the Treasury and State departments, would soon redeem the nation from the disgrace of national corruption and make the American citizen again proud of his country, her rulers and her institutions. Tuxne Is Ones Question the people of New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn desire to be answered—Whether the recent dyna- mite explosion was the result of an accident orofaplot? That point should be settled in a few days. Joux Bucur does not favor woman suf- frage, and refuses to believe that men are tyrants and women slaves. We present his arguments on the subject to our readers to-day, feeling that this momentous question has got to be settled in order to restore peace to our distracted community. Samven J. Tirpen, of New York, President of the United States, with Thurman, of Ohio, and Bayard, of Delaware, in his Cabi- net, would lead tho nation back -to the best days of the Republic, and win for us once more the respect of the world. A Fatan Riot in Turkey.—Startling news comes from Salonica, where.a riot took place on Saturday between tho Christians and Turks. The assassination of the German and French consuls, the sending of a French fleet to Salonica, the action Germany will certainly take, will complicate the Eastern situation very seriously. Even our govern- ment is now brought into the trouble, by | the assertion that the American Consul gave advice which led to the disturbance. Tuvnstax, of Ohio, President of the United States, with Tilden, of New York, and Bay- ard, of Delaware, as his Cabinet advisers, would purify the public service, give re- | newed strength and stability to republican institutions, unite the country, insure the perfect equality of the States, establish the finances of the nation on a sound basis, | and give us power, credit and abroad. Tux Disuosest Jenvs or New York are being overhauled by their victims, and many respect facts brought to light show how far these | men abuse the confidence of their employers. As far as the minor expenditures incidental to horse ownership go we think that a printed tariff submitted to the proprietors would goa good way to reform the evil. Tue Lire or Farner McExnoy, of whom we give a biographical sketch elsewhere, is almost co-existent with tho life of the United States. At the age of ninety-four, he is the pidest Catholic priest in America and the sidest Jesuit in the world. Few of the men ; a NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1876,--TRIPLE The Democratic Candidate His Prospects—Governor Tilden’s Opper- tunity. occupies a better position than any other candidate whose name has been mentioned in connection with the St. Louis nomina- tion. He has certainly managed his canvass thus far with shrewdness and judgment, and he will probably go before the Convention with a greater positive strength than that of any competitor, Calculations at Washing- ton carefully made give him two hundred and eighty-eight votes at the commence- ment, Others are expected to turn to him after having cast one vote for their favorites or in accordance with instructions, so that he is said to be likely to lead in the subse- quent ballots. Although a good share of guesswork necessarily enters into these cal- culations we see no reason to doubt the con- clusion to which in this instance they lead. A position at the head of the balloting is unquestionably an important advantage to gain, especially as the South is well known to be prepared to go over in a body to any candidate for whom the Northern States may manifest a decided. preference. It has been frequently alleged that the South and the West would act in concert and agree upon a Western candidate, but as yet there is no | indication and there appears to be little | prospect of a voluntary concentration of the Western States on any Western name that has heretofore been canvassed. Indeed, a union of the conflicting elements in the West seems more likely to take place on a candidate from some outside State than upon one of their own aspirants, or if a! Western candidate should eventually be suc- cessful itis probable that he will be one who will be taken by the hand ‘and led into the front rank by influences outside his own section. Hence, at the commence- ment of the struggle for the prize of the St. | Louis nomination, it seems tolerably certain | that, with the large vote of New York to | back him, Governor Tilden will take the lead in the ballots, But where a two-third vote is required to nominate the candidate who leads in the early heats does not always win the race, and it is essential to the success of the de- mocracy that the nomination at St. Louis should not be forced upon the Convention by sheer strength, but should be made in a manner to inspire public confidence and to harmonize and consolidate the party all over the Union. Ifthe democratic candi- date be one who can carry unanimity of action and something like enthusiasm into the Convention, and whose personal quali- ties commend him to the confidence of the people, ‘he will in all probability be the next President of the United States. The Governor Tilden at the present moment | people are fully alive to the necessity of checking tho progress of the corruption that is eating away the life of the nation ; but there is still a want of confidence in the democracy owing to the folly and men of the party. It will require much wisdom and entire honesty of purpose in those who will control the action of the National Convention to overcome this dif- ficulty. We do not doubt that it can be overcome by prudence on the part of the delegates and self-denial on the part of some of the candidates. The people would rather seek reform through an entire political change in the national administration than trust to the chance of securing it through a mere transfer of power from the hands of President Grant to those of some other re- publican. But they will require, not only that the democratic candidate shall be ac- ceptable on the score of established honesty and capacity, but that the Convention which nominates him shall give proof of its own sincerity by the harmony with which it acts, and that the candidate shall enter the can- vass with tho prestige of a united party to aid him in the contest. Everybody knows what characteristics are demanded in a nominee at this time. Governor Seymour, Senator Kernan and Mr. Adams haye ex- pressed in substance, and each in his characteristic way, the thought that the Presidential candidate who will fill the popular idea must be one who will bear upon his forehead his platform of princi- ples, who will be personally known to the ,people as the possessor of courage, hongsty and brains; courage to destroy with a strong hand the evils of the past; honesty to insure a pure public service in the future; “brains” to reconstruct out of the existing “chaos” a government that will be respected at home and abroad. No one will question that Governor Tilden can claim all these qualifications; yet his nomination without harmony and unanimity in the Con- vention would be valueless. He must carry his party with him and be its free choice, or his defeat would be as certain as would that {of an improper candidate unanimously | chosen. It will not do for Governor Tilden to | ignore the fact that there is a powerful ele- | ment opposed to him in his own State, and that it may be difficult to conciliate those democrats from Ohio and Pennsylvania who believe that their defeat at the polls last | November was mainly due to the efforts of | | Mr. Tilden and his friends. In referring to the opposition to the Governor in New York we must not be understood as attaching any importance to the fight made against | him by Tammany. That organization, as at present constituted, does not represent the | democracy of the city, and has few, if any, sympathizers in the State outside the | | metropolis. The Tammany delegates | |who will go to St. Louis and) | protest and Jabor against Mr. Tilden’s | | nomination, although compelled to vote for | | him as a unit in the Convention, are not en- | | titled to consideration. Many of them do ' | not even reside in,?much less represent, the | districts from which they untruthfully pro- | fess to have been chosen, while, others have \only recently been repudiated by the | New York democracy and defeated at | | the polls in a city having nearly | | sixty thousand democratic majority. But independent of Tammany there is an | important element in the State hostile to | Mr. Tilden as a candidate which might put | the electoral vote of New York in jeopardy | the St. Louis Convention will heartily and with unanimity make our Governor the standard bearer of the party, his election will be almost assured. But it will not do for him to force a nomination at the risk of a divided and distracted party. With the large vote of New York in his hands asa unit in the Convention he might possibly do so, But it would bea sacrificial act. For | the gratification of a profitless ambition Mr. Tilden would draw upon himself the mor- tification of defeat, and on the nation the misfortune of a continuance of republican rule. Mr. ‘Tilden will do no such act. His championship of reform is honest, earnest and unselfish, and he “thasahead,” He will see that an opportunity offers to distinguish himself and to serve the people better than by securing the coveted nomination, If he should become convinced that his party does not heartily desire, and will not cheerfully accept, his nomination, he can forego his honorable ambition for the good of the whole country, and by using his great influ- ence to control the nomination he ean in- sure that the candidate will be one who will deserve and can command success. ‘This he will certainly have the power to accomplish. To use a familiar expression, he has two strings to his bow. He can nominate one of two unexceptionable candidates—Thurman, of Ohio, or Bayard, of Delaware. The name of Bayard, synonymous with honor and loy- alty, would awaken o warm sympathy throughont the country; yet it may be doubted whether it would be available at this time. The republicans are secking to raise old sectional issues and to vive the bitter feclings engendered by the war for the purpose of diverting attention from the corruption of their party, and the nomination of the able Senator from Delaware might aid them in this purposo, But Thurman, standing, as it were, at the cross-roads of the nation, can unite all sec- tions—-North and South, East and West. His ability is unquestioned, his character unstained. “honesty,” and Adams’ watchword of “head.” He is sound on the financial qnes- tion, while his connection with Governor Allen would be likely to lead the Ohio in- flationists to accept him before any other candidate if put forward with Tilden as his champion. Governor Tilden would then re- occupy with Thurman the same relation that | Mr. Seward occupied with Lincoln; and with Thurman President, and Tilden and Bayard in his Cabinet, we should lave an ad- ministration as able as any that has ever ruled at Washington, and might look with confidence for a return to that purity and honesty for which the national government was distinguished in its better days. Our Paris Cable Letter, The breaking of the cables and the sudden interruption of communication by the in- indiscretion of some of the representative | jured lines threw the entire weight of the intercontinental exchange of news and com- mercial despatches on the cable of the Direct Cable Company, which was consequently overcrowded with work. Owing to this un- fortunate circumstance we were unable to present to our readers, as usual, the gossipy cable letter from Paris, which has been one of the distinguished features of the Sunday Henarp. This fact alone shows how impor- tant it is for the social and business requirements of both continents that several cable lines should be kept in constant readiness to transmit the news of the day, and that the claims for exclusive patronage by any line should only receive recognition when the facilities and reliability of that line were rendered su- perior to all others. Some of our contempo- raries have taken exception to an enterprise which can only be carried out a§ a consider- able expense, deeming the game not worh the candle. But it is precisely by this lighter part of the cable despatches that the change which the cable has made in the world is most impressed on the mind of the general reader. The people are no longer surprised that the cable gives them the facts of great moment which occurred in London or Paris yesterday; but when it gives them the chat, the small talk, the jests, the current humor of the hour, then they comprehend that the press has at its disposal a machinery by the use of which London and Paris are brought as near to us for news purposes as Albany and Washington, Wo present in to-day’s Heranp our Paris cable letter, which was delayed in transmission, as described. By it we are informed that the Bonapartists are at work enconmnging the amnesty agitation, in the hope of introdue- ing an element of discord in the discussions and councils of the Republic. Rochefort is busy stinging like a political hornet every one against whom he believes he has a griev- ance, and M. Rouher is likely to be prose- cuted for his fierce anti-republican address | The féte day of | to the Corsicans at Ajaccio. the ex-Empress Engénie has been celebrated at Chiselhurst, and a number of interesting events in the Parisian world of literature and art are noted. Altogether, our Paris cable letter presents to the readers of the Henaxp a perfect reflex of the condition of affairs in the French capital, ‘from grave to gay, from livéiy to severe.” Tue Presmentiau Stavewrer Hovse.— Only one person can be elected President of the United States to succeed General Grant, and only two persons can win the honor of a nothination from the great political parties. Yet a score of ambitious politicians are straining to secure the prize, and scarcely one of them will pass through the ordeal nn= seathed. The Presidential field this year is a slaughter house for aspirants. Pendleton has been killed outright. Grant has been mortally wounded, and Hendricks have all heen put upon the rack. Morton has been attacked, but up to this time he has defended himself vigorously and turned the tables on his assailants. Conkling is destined to come in for his share of assault, and even Tilden does not escape. Mini-ter Washburne has been indirectly branded with an alleged connection with the Seneca Store Company, so that nearly every candidate may count upon having to who were born near the time when American | should its hostility not be removed. If the (run the gauntlet of slander. Very few lave independence was proclaimed have hd as interesting corears am this yanerable clergy- | State democracy can be united on Mr. Til- | den, if the difliculty in the West and in 4. > Siasylvania can be smoothed over, and if escaped whose names have as yet appeared before the public. The question is, Is the game worth the cost? He satisfies Seymour's motto of | Blaine, Robeson, Jowell | has The Explosion in Jersey City. The physical features of the explosion in Jersey City will no doubt have a thorough scientific investigation. It was in every re- spect remarkable. Although not one life was lost the effects of the explosion were felt within a radius of ten miles, and yet were, so far as we can ascertain, not felt with equal force. In Jersey City houses were shaken from their bases to. their roofs, glass was shivered, and the gaslight was ex- tinguished. The North River, with its bed of mud, did not prevent the shock from reaching the island of New York. There was not only reverberation of the air, but a tremor of the earth, The East River did not stop the force of the explosion, which was distinctly felt in Brooklyn. It is a Wallack’s Theatre, ‘the audience rising en masse,” we are told, ‘thinking it was an earthquake,” it was not noticed by people in that immediate neighborhood. ‘hese facts and those which are yet to be ascertained will fornish a basis for very interesting scientific speculation. Three cities divided by two rivers felt concussions which seemed to be simultaneous, and yet the force of the explosion appeared to be unequally dis- tributed. But the event has a deeper interest than can be found in physical phenomena. There are grave suspicions that this explosion was not the result of an accident, but that it was carefully arranged for purpoges of revenge and crime, weeks a large number of laborers employed in building the new tunnel of the Dela- ware and Lackawanna Railroad Company, twelve hundred or more, and there have | been several strikes for increased wages, and much bitter feeling between the men who would work and the men who would not. The strikers have vowed that they would have revenge, and the evidence wo print to-day indicates that they sought to find it by this colossal crime. They in- tended, it is said, not only to destroy the new Bergen tunnel, but to kill a large num- | ber of men, non-strikers, who were to leave work at the time of the explosion, and who would necessarily pass near the magazine. if this theory be true—and we are sorry to say that it is probably true, and certainly made possible by the recent revelations of the Molly Maguires in the coal regions—then we have in our work- | ing classes moral elements of destruc- tion more alarming than any that exist in dynamite. If these dissatisfied strikers, in order to revenge thoir real or fancied wrongs upon a contractor or a com- pany, or their more intelligent fellows, de- liberately fired a magazine, the explosion of which destroyed the property of men who had never injured them and might have lost hundreds of lives, they were worse than the Turks who massacred the other day the Christians in Salonica. It was cowardly and brutal. The innocent and the offenders might have been involved alike in the catas- trophe. Such a crime recalls the Thomassen plot to destroy an ocean steamer by the ex- plosion of dynamite, for the purpose of ob- taining the insurance upon worthless goods he had shipped. It must be conceded that these Molly Maguires were not quite as fiend- ish as the devil who invented an infernal machine to sink the Mosel, with all her crew, to the bottom of the Atlantic. They acted from passion and sought revenge, while he was moved by the coldest calcu- lation, and had but mercenary aims. Yet when we consider such delicate degrees of crime there is very little differ- ence between them. It is hardly worth while to debate the question whether one murderer is blacker than another. We can only look down into abysses of horrible possi- bilities. Here we are confronted with the fact that our society contains moral forces of ignorance and passion and diabolical cun- ning, which, like the three ingredients of gun- powder--nitre, ‘sulphur and carbon—when justly combined, need only a spark to scatter destruction all around. Our duty is to make such combinations impossible—to stamp out the organizations which are the parents of these crimes. If the magazine at the Bergen tunnel was kindled by the Molly Maguires there can be no higher duty imposed upon the authori- ties than to find out the ringleaders and make of them examples which shall be more terrible than even the explosion they planned. The Sermons Yesterday, Fervent heat and fervent piety combined to make yesterday a remarkable day among the church-going people of our community. The first condition brought them out of doors and the second naturally led them to the churches. There they were refreshed by the breath of religion, which wafts men's thoughts from the heated and stormy strug- plation of an eternity of repose. Well suited tothe times were the remarks of Father Lilly, at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, in which he showed how impossible it is to serve two masters, and that an inordinate \love of the world is one cf the most fruitful sources of evil. At the Church of the Pilgrims Dr. Storrs spoke of the reconciliation between God and man brought about by the redemption. 'TheRev. Dr. Morgan preached impressively on “The glory which shall be revealed in us,” and at Masonic Temple Dr. Frothing- ham spoke on the beautiful subject of For. giveness.” The Rev. James M. Pullman led his hearers into a consideration of the futuro state and the possibility of recognizing our friends in immortality, and Mr. Hepworth | of God.” At St. Patrick's Cathedral Father Kearney preached on the necessity of good example, taking as his text, ‘Let your con- versation be good betore the Gentiles.” Mr. Beecher spoke on the appreciation of high moral qualities, and showed that beauty at- | taches to spiritual as well as material things. At the other churches equally interesting subjects were treated with the ability that distinguishes our metropolitan divines, | Genenat Pieasonroy's Turontes.—To-day | the Hxrraxp presents its readers with an ex- | position of further novel and interesting tus J. Pleasonton, of Philadelphia. As they | have already been adverted to in theso, singular fact that, although it was felt at | There has been for several } gles of life to the calm and blissful contem- | preached impressively on ‘The Fatherhood | cosmic theories advanced by General Augus- j x SHEET, columns, it is merely necessary to inform the curious that they will find in them ocea- sion for attractive speculation and entertain- ing reading very much out of the beaten track. Founded or unfounded, they are bold, incisive and original, and will un- doubtedly attract considerable attention from scientific men. The Pope’s Healt The special telegram from Rome whieh is published in the Hrratp to-day announces & rapid deeline of the physical powers of the Pope, and indicates that, to a certain extent, his mental faculties are also impaired. His Holiness is, it is said, very feeble in body. ‘Two prelates of the Church are required to aid him to move about during the ceremony of Vatican receptions, and he has given up his | routine custom of blessing the religious symbols which are presented to him by numerous pilgrims, and refuses to speak any | language except the Italian, thus disappoint- ing hundreds of devotees who travelled from France to tho centre of Catholic unity. His voico remains strong as ever. The bodily decline of the Pontiff is not ® cause for alarm. Should he live until the 13th of the present month he will have com- pleted the eighty-fourth year of his age. Hq has endured many hardships since the timé of his first missionary labor in South Amer- ica, and has borne many and grievous eccle- siastical tribulations. In the ordinary course of human events he cannot live long, but it should be borne in mind, hqwever, that the weather in Rome at this season of the year is very dangerous to aged people. The Pope has been affected by this Italian summer fever almost yearly since his return to Europe from Pern, That his voico should remain strong may, however, be regarded as a favorable sign. It is well known that Pio Nono is somewhat eccentric in his likes and dislikes, and very stubborn ‘in the defence of his 1deas. His refusal to speak except in Italian is just his manner of indicating to the world that of his country, Italy, the language alone remains to him. Swinburne and Ruskin. We givo on another page of the Hzraup some pithy features of haps and mishaps: in the literary world of the great metropolis. It isa quaint story that is told of the cause for the expulsion of the poet Swinburne from that dim little byway, the Arts Club. He danced a jig on the hats of the company. If you touch a Londoner's hat you touch the tenderest, the most sensitive point of all his relations with the visiblo facts of this life— his dignity, his pride, his conscience, his honor. London has many idols, but none of such consequence as the stovepipe hat. That hat is the emblem of respectability, of probity, of a clean bill of health, morally, socially and physically. Anything favorable may be believed of a man in a stovepipe hat ; but Rothschilds themselves would not dis- count the paper of a man in any other kind of headgear. In the incident at the Arts Club there is o new illustration of this regard for the great headdress of the age. Swinburne has indulged in many vagaries. He has recognized no limit in the moral law, nor even in good manners. Ho has not merely spoken disrespectfully of the Equator, like Sydney Smith’s friend; he has snecred at all the cardinal points of British faith, and all with impunity; but ho puts his foot on that last stronghold of British dignity—the stovepipe hat—and that proves too much for an outraged patience. Any other injury could be endured; that one must be avenged, and so out goes Swinburne. Our correspondent tells a very pretty story of Ruskin and a little American pupil, which gives s glimpse at the brighter side of this gentleman's character, of which the public has heard less than of the side which represents him as a perennial snarler at almost all things under the sun. It is a story of the sort that is very pleasant to hear told of a man of this class, for the world likes to know, finally. that the gentler ele- ments are not left out in the Tgoking ofa man of great capacity. The Democratic Triumvirate. ‘Thurman, Tilden and Bayard may, if they will, divide between them the world of this great Repnblic. They, with the democratic vote behind them and with public sentiment in its prosent condition, may as potently parcel out the nation as did Antony, Oc- tavius and Lepidus the ancient world. With any one of these three in the Presiden-, | tial office, and the other two in the Cabinet, they would give to a democratic administra- tion the advantage of great political knowl- edge and experience; great weight morally and intellectually, and an imposing pres- tige. With such a President as any one of these would make, buttressed and supported by the others, the country would regard needful to put in power bunt that it yet hesitates to trust. Honesty in office, re- form in civil service, hard money, social tranquillity, commercial prosperity, would be almost guaranteed by an Executive thus made up. With a pledge, or any political certainty that the two who cannot be elected would be associated with the Executive by appointment, it would be deemed of less consequence what section of the country was really honored by the nomination and the formality of the election of one of the num- ber. Ata time when a great part of the na- tion wanted Mr. Seward in the Presidency, and another part Mr. Lincoln—though the latter was chosen at the polls and appointed the former—they so worked together, shoulder to shoulder, in the great cause that except for the formalities of the case it really was of no consequence whatever | which one the people had officially named. | It would be the same with the three promi- | nent and possible men of the democratic ! party. West and South would consent that New York should nominate if they can re- | Spectively be sure that their men will be associated with him. New York would equally consent that either of the cther sections should nominally carry the Conven- tionon the same condition, Will there be wisdom enough in the demoeratic councils to secure a result like this, or will the su- premacy of the superior men be lost through a conflict of their friends to secure for each one tho first place? Will the lions fight over the prize till it is carried away by a »dackal? with confidenco the party that it deems it | Miniature Yachting. After a growth of three years the sport of miniature yachting has reached’ such magni- tude it now engages the attention of old a8 wal as young men. Borrowing the idea from England the clever sighted sons ‘of prominent yachtsmen in Brooklyn in tho summer of 1873 had built two or three ex- perimental models and regularly sailed them on the lake at Prospect Park. It proved such a pleasant pastime that other boats were con- structed, and the number increased rapidly. The parents of the boys encouraged the interest manifested by them in . the healthful recreation, and sum. mer after summer it has grown and developed, until now it ranks with the more useful pastimes of the day. Veteran yachtsmen have caught the infection, and old shipmasters are not above attending every regatta, but take part in rigging and sailing the boats. On regular sailing days the shores of the lake in Prospect Park ara crowded with representative people, and car- riages by the score, filled with Indies, early select the more eligible places to witness the races, Thus, from the smallest of beginnings, there are now three or four large model yacht clubs in this vicinity. The more im- portant of these are the Prospect Park, the American and the Long Island clubs. The latter is incorporated, the act of incorporation giving, in a nutshell, the aim of the founders, which is that ‘The purpose of our association is to facilitate the construction and actual operation of a school of full models of yachts and of other vessels, under conditions calculated to illustrate their advantages and defects, with the hope of developing in this way much more com- pletely than by the old system of office half models the laws of proportion, adjustment and rig, which in like manner and on the scale of full use affect our sailing and steam marine.” Appreciating the importance of tho pas time, and what its pursuit may develop, the Commissioners of Parks in Brooklyn have encouraged it in every possibly way. They have set aside a lake peculiarly adapted to satisfactory trials of speed, ap- pointed watchmen to overlook the sport, keep good order and renderany aid required by tho smaller boys. It is their intention to build a house soon, where the larger boata can be safely placed between races, and, at the same time, be on exhibition to visitors, While this spirit of encouragement is so manifest by the park officials in Brooklyn it is not so marked in New York. True, the Park Commissioners last summer allowed the miniature yachts to be sailed on a small pond difficult to reach and _ poorly located, but they have failed to extend the hand of fellowship to the ‘‘yachtsmen.” Consequently the sport only drags its weary way alongin our city. This should not be. Miniature yachting isa pastime that deserves the warmest support, and if a proper pond can be obtained in Central Park and oqual facilities extendedgor its pursuit as are found in Brooklyn the young yachtsmen of New York will not long be behind those of their sister city. Give the boys a chance, Messrs. Commissioners, and soon there will be match races between the representative boats of tho several clubs that will prove almost as inter- esting as those between our larger yachts, ‘Tus Awenican Lavor Reronn Lxacur held its annual convention in this city yesterday. It resolved that the late William B. Astor was ‘a great rent thief,” and that ‘his peer in crime, A. T. Stewart, was a profit thief.” We suggest to this society that instead of calling the dead unseemly names it would be better employed in exposing tho Molly Maguires and their dynamite friends in Jersey. ‘ Tuer Is Some Onz to turn State's evi dence against his comrades in the gun- powder plot. The Jersey City authorities should not find it hard to lay their hands upon that man. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.: Kilpatrick is lecturing ww Towa. Brigham Yeung’s family bas the measles, Jobn I. Davenport congratulated Bavcouk. Virg nia democrats are talking much about Bayard. Littiejohn aud Little Jobuny be longer belong to the samo party. Georgia convicts are let out to labor for thoir board and guarding. General N, P. Banks has signified his intention of re- maining a democrat. Princess Louise, of England, is chatty, and funuy, and sho paints for the Royai Academy. « A German writes that the people of Glasgow ara rude, corrse and vulgar, and have no heart tenderness, In some parts of France people cruament the fronts of their houses by draping them with the housebold linen, Emolation is thus sostered, Mile, Merkus, the ‘Dutch Amazon’? who has been fighting in Herzegovina, is twenty-four, of middle height and very wealthy. She dresses in malo attire. An Irishman has just sned a fellow countryman at Kilkenny for selling him a buliock with @ false tail, though the defendant testified that it was put on only to switch off the flica, Sam Bard, editor of the Alavama State Journal, says'—It is about as hard jor au Alubama democratic editor to be honest as it would be for a snake to stand upright and walk upon the tip end of his tail.” Captain Cook asked an Australian what the name of fa certain animal was, and tbe maa replied, “I do not understand you,” or, in his own language, “Kan-ga. roo.” This is the way that animal, with the domestic Vest pocket, got its name, Dr, Richardson writes:~ “The researches of physi cians during the past forty years have led to the knowl edge that certain marked diseases, presumod in pre- vious times to have been derived trom occult sources, hare, in fact, their origin from animal foods.” At the beginning of the Revolution the religions bodies most conspicuons for power were yn the follow. * ing order of importance:—The Congregatioualists, Baptists, Episcopalians and Presbyterians; and there wore in the whole country only twenty-six of tho Roman Catholte ojergy. Professor M. Williams, writing of India, says: 1 have found no people ia Europe more religious, nono more patiently persevering in common duties, none - | more docile and amenable to authority, nono moro courteous of respectful toward age and learning, none more dutiful to patents, none more intelligent.” The coaching fever is epidemic, and everybody it coger to ride on the canary-colorod coach, Large’ crowds comgrogate daily at the Brunswiek to see the vehicle arrive and dopart, and the excitement is great, It forms one of the prettiest and most novel scones New York has bad for a long time, — Daily Graphic. Es-Govorvor Henry A. Wise, in bis argument before the Hous@#Election Committeo in contest of Platt va. Goodedescribes the conservative party of Virginia as composed of sour kroat democrats, red waisted whigs and Greeleyites, and said that under no circum: stances would he ally himself to such an organization. Pohtics in Virginia, be said, were so much democratic that even the trees wopt turpentine. When he waa Governor be would have hanged Greeley had he caught im. He praised Generai Grant as a magnanimous here and wortby to receive the sword of Robert E, Lew