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ment the principles of the constitution to new condi- tons Pc lparery to change it Indeed, true consistency is to be 4 in adherence to principles, not to m He is ed Soot consistent man who ever changes, but he who seeks to carry out @ples by adapting Lis methods of action to the eendition of things about him. If the mariner were to sail always before the wind or always agaiust it be would be no more consistent ‘than ws the wind, and the credit that he would take to bimse'f ior going always tree or always on the wind Would be unfounded and puerile. He ws the consistent “mariner slarting ‘@ given port, adapts his ves- gel to the changing e! ote which surround him, nd, So will bent through all his activa on a constant wu ye party show itsel! most im accord with worthy of those who founded i, when, ag the changes in the condition of the eountry which now exist, and the revolution which tho growth of numbers and wealih and means ol inter- communication Lave produced, it snall seek to adapt M8 action to tho present condition of things, and, by ‘Bew measures for the limitation and localization of the nS. of government, do its part toward cew securing aud pure and just governmeut “THE MAN THE PLATFORE."? I know that 11 has been suid, and, among others, J Delieve by you, sir, that iu this campaign ‘the man sbould be the piatiorm."’, And certainly, so far as bet- ter administration is concerned, @ mab whose record ‘and character are so known and established that all men may be certain of his worth, will be a platiorm. ‘Yet this would, after ail, only assure such reform as is ible froin good administration, But our evils are Tavet mere administration; they arise from a de- fective system, which gives opportunities to corrupt practices and abuses which not the wisest uor the pur- est nor the ablest Executive can, except measurably, prevent If the democratic party is to live permanently it will be because it supports measures the adoption of which will about subsiantial and permanent reform. With sach measures it will in the end regain aud re- tain that control of the country which it so long pos It may even on this occasion regain that con- trol without them. But without them its success will be but a temporary triumph, which will establish noth- ‘Ing for the tuture und give no assuranco of permanent success, Jefferson founded the democratic party; Madison and Juckson carried it forward. But neither he and they nor all of them were the ty. It wasa party Sor epee upon ah peer an Praga therefore, greater than any manin the party. For sixty years, q@ith but three. brief interruptions, 1% controlled the federal government, And they wore tho ee of our bighest national welfare and iperity, Its principles are eternal. But to properly apply those principles to the situation of the hour is a duty cuang- ing with the time. To say that we will now only apply those principles as our fathers applied them ip their day would be us idle as for a mun to say he would only wear the clothes he wore aga child. When we realize the difference between the condition of the country of our day and of theirs, and are ready by direct limita- tion of the powers of Congress and of the Executive to seek the end they south, instead of seeking it * merely by strict construction of the constitution, we shall find the people no longer alarmed by the dangers which they now believe, no matter how erroneous! must result {rom such construction, and ready to a wih us We may thus unite once more all of true democratic principles, however separated by the ex- veptional events of jate years, and enable that party to resume and continue that control of the country it so long exercised to its own credit and the highest public good. I remain, dear sir, taithiully yours, CLARKSON N. POTTER, WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY. New Haven Palladium:—*Mr, Tilden’s chances of the pomination at 8t Louis are not 80 good as they were a week ago."” Si. Job (Mo.) Herald:—‘Hayes’ .leg is buried on a Souihern battle Geld, but the remainder of his body is ‘marching on.’” Doylestown (Pa ) Democrat:—‘‘The bungling conven- tion will pass into our political history, and only be romemvered with contempt.” New Orleans Picayune:—**Morton and Conkling are also politically dead, and their epitaph will bo:—‘They bated not wisely, but tow well.’” Scranton (Pa) Republican:—‘‘In the senso that our candidates are mediocre we enter the campaign heartily ‘and without fear of the result.” . Elmira (N. Y.) Gasette:—'‘Republican journals find it bard work to atir up any enthusiasm jor their dish- " water ticket. It doesn’t take worth a cent.” Cincinnatl! Commercial:—‘Governor Hayes is ex- pected to tone up the platform in his letter of accept ‘ance and supply omissions by emphatic words.’’ Boston Post:—‘It appears that it was Hayes who saved the country, and not Grant, There’s nothing like a Presidential campaign for discovering heroes.” Baltimore Gazette :—"What are needed at St, Louis are less enthusiasm, loss strategy, loss music and less whiskey ; but more earnestness, sincerity and brains.” New Orleans Budletin:—‘*Wheeier will answer passa- bly well as the tail to the republican Presidential kite, He will detract nothing from the strength of Hayes,”’ New Orleans 7imes:—“Tne ticket is not only strong, but the mea must be conceded reasonably good, and the St Lous Convention must look well to its selec- Mons if it expects to beat Hayes and Wheeler.” Fredericksburg (Va) News:—‘‘ ‘Hyena,’ ‘Bully,’ ‘Ananias’ Blaine bad better retire from ‘the theatro ot pubiic affairs’ and practice ‘the dramatic art’ in the provincial towns. He has not been a success.” Newark (N. J.) Jowrnal:—'‘We have uobounded be- liet that at St, Louis next week the hope of the nation "will be grandly realized. In a word, what was left undone at Cincinnati will be well done at St. Louis.” Albany Argus:—‘The manifest policy for the de- mocracy, then, is to take the war path, to nominate candidates who have ‘deserved the fear and hatred of thieves,’ and to wage an aggressive and relentless war- fare to drive them from power.’” Springfield Repubiican:—“The party might bave done Detter for itself and by the country. .But it has dene ‘worse in the recent past; so much worse that this good matured, gentlemanly Mr. Hayes, by contrast, becomes almost a subject for devout gratitude.” Worcester (Mass.) Press :—'‘It is yet too early to ex- press an opinion as to the strength of the national re- publican ticket in the approaching contest. There is at present little entbusiasm in the republican party over the nomination of Hayes and Wheeler.’”’ Now Haven Register: —“St. Louis is next in order, Let it be the ablest democratic statesman—a man of unsuilied honor and integrity—and oné of such com- manding ability and experience in public life as to secure the @onfidence of the people every where.”’ Newark (N. J.) Courier :—“One of the very best things done by the Cincinnati Convention was the ro- jection of the Spencer delegation from Alabama. That delegation represented the worst possible carpet bag element, and 1s admission would have doomed the party im that State.” Montreal (Can.) Gazelte:—“If the republicans, there- lore, have not overy reason to be satisfied, they may somiort themselves with the reflection that their agony is over, and that a foolish choice at St. Louis ext week nay place them on more than equal footing with their oppoucnis.”’ Washington £vening Star :—‘Obio men who know GoVernor Hayes well say that his talents and abilities are of a much higher order than he has ever been credited with. He is so entirely unassuming aud modest that only those thoroughly intimate with bim _ are aware of bis real capacity.’’ Utica (N. Y.) Observer:—**We have no desire to under- estimate the strength of the republican candidates; Dut unless we greatly mistake the signs of the times the ticket that ‘unites ali the factions’ will prove to be a very weak ticket. All the factions will Unite in permitting somebody besides themselves to do the work of the campaign.’ HOW GOVERNOR HAYES RECEIVED THE NEWS, [From the Columbus (Ohio) Bispatch. } Governor Hayes remained in bis office all day, quietly rowing the situation and receiving as unconcerned as Me was nota candidate, When the sixth ballot was wpounced, showing that he was steadiiy increasing, he exhibited signs of nervousness, and when the result of the seventh ballot and his nomination was announced to bim his face turned almost perfectly white, and it was several minutes belure he seemed able to speak, as it still doubting and believing the news too good to be true, He inquired if 1t was @ fact, and expressed 2 de- Ure to see the figures, The matier was tuily settled by She arrival of a meseage from the telegraph operator, Then the people began to join in extending their con- fratuiations. SELF-DES. KUCTION. Yesterday afternoon a party of gentlemen went to the Sea View Driving Park, Now Dorp, for the purpose of timing their horses, As they were about to leave the park one of their number went into the poot sand, and was horniled at finding the body of a man lying in & pool of blood. The deceased was apparentiy « Frenchman, abont thirty years of age, and weil dressed. Lying by bis sido was a seven chambered revolver, with two of the chambers discharged. Upon ‘examining the decewsed two bullet wounds were found in hia ieft side. Coroner Lea was notlied, ani held an inquest, the jury finding that the deceased came to his death by piste! shot wounds imflie-ea by his own hand. A Watchmaker named B. Fry, residing on the Hacken- tack Piank Koad, N. J., attempted to commit stieide yesterday by shooting bitase! im the bead, Fivanctal difficulties are understood to be the cause of the ros act, Hopes ate entertained that he will recover. Yesteruay altersoon Daniel Mop, aged iniriy-tive, of No, 49 Buxier sircet, a iaborer, attempted suicive in the saloon of Thomas No. 2 Baxter street, by swallowing av ounce of jaudannm. An alarm was given, nd he was taken to tho Sixth precimct station in kim street, and thence to the New York Hogpital im Chambers trees, He will recover, PORT AND JOURNALS ate ameioe ia The Commemorative Vase Presented to William Cullen Bryant. A BEAUTIFUL TESTIMONIAL. An Enthusiastic Reception to the Venerable Poet. a + --— The ceremony of presenting the silver vase, com- memeorative of bis eightieth birthday, to William Cul- Jen Bryant attracted to Chickering Hall last evening one of the most brilliant assembigges that was ever gathered together in this city. Long before the hour fixed for the beginning of the ceremony had arrived every seat on the main floor of the hal; was ocoupied, and by eight o'clock even the galleries ‘wore crowded. The learned professions were tully represented and many ladies were present to lend a charm to the occasion. ‘THE DISTINGUISHED GURSTE. Among the distinguished persons present were Charles O’Conor, Peter Cooper, A. A. Low, Daniel Huntington, John Taylor Johnson, Wilham H. Apple- ton, Joseph H. Choate, Frederick Sturges. J. Pierpout Morgan, George Cobert Ward, Hy W. Fellows, Howard Crowby, J. G. Holland, Theodore Roosevelt and F. A. P. Barnard. It was a few momentsatter eight o’clock when Mr. Bryant was conducted to a seat on the stage by Dr. Samucl Osgood, the chairman of the committee, The entire audience rose as the venerable poet made his appearance and greeted him with a hearty, outbarst of applause, which was unmistaka- ble in its warmth. After Mr. Bryant had taken his seat Dr. Osgood made a lew preliminary remarks concerning the occasion which had drawn 80 many of Mr. Bryant’s friends to- gether, concluding by presenting Mr. Whitehouse, who represented the silversmiths who had designed and modellod the vase. Mr. Whitehouse made a very neat little speech on behalf of the firm, and alluded feellngly to the enthusiasm with which the men who had been iptrusted with the work on the vase had performed their task ‘for the sake of the charming poet whom they all admired.” He created considerable merriment by reminding his bearers that the men who really did all the labor on a work of art like the vase that was about to be unveiled seldom or ever got their pains or were seldom even heard of, and in order to make an exception to a general rule, he said that the men who bad done the igning, modelling, and in fact the entire work of the vase, were present, and he felt certain’ they would not be overlooked in the general praisegivipgs. At the request of Dr. Os- good, the five workmea who were on the stage stood up, and the audience gave them roend alter round of applause. Ali this time the vase had remained veiled, standing on a purple covered stand im the centre of the Blage just to the left and & little vo the rear of where Mr. Bryant was seated, As soon as the workmen had re- sumed their seats Mr. Whitehouse lifted the veil and the yaxo stood revealed, under the bright light from the chandeliers overhead, in all its beauty. All eyes were riveted on it in an instant, and for a second or so the utmost quiet prevailed, as though each one was giving ita critical examination; then suddenly, as if by com- mon concert, the audience broke out into the most hearty applause, which was again and again renewed. Mr. Osgood came forward after silence had been re- stored and said :— RECEIVING THE VASE FROM THE WORKMEN. Mx. Wuirsnouss xp FELLOW Artists Axo WorkK- uen—Your 6; is short, bat your art is long, and this beautiful work of your heads and hands speaks Jouder than any ambitious words and speaks tor itself, In the name of the Bryant Testimonial Committe thank you for your presence hero to-night with this masterpiece of your taste anc skill The design ii iy and original, worthy of the subject and the occasion, The work is careful and exquisite, aud every li od feature is proofto allof what some of us know trom observation, that heart as wellas time bas gone into your toil, and that you have spirit of this commemorative gilt to the patriarch of American Jetters. You bave not only done honor to yourselves butto your art—even to the ancient and honorable art of the goldsmith aud the silversmith—and you have done your purt to put it where it belongs inthe fel- Jowship of useiul and beautiiul arts. Ail the arts be- long tcgether, i it bas been well said that art is one while its instruments are many. Art is one and its aim = ia to give life and force to know! » action the science which 1s light. The spirit of the living God that called the Cosmos out of chaos, and who is ever making the many into one, Master of Arts, and has given workers especial commiasion, as when of old He called Bezaleel, the son of Uri, to Rig service and said:—‘'I have filled bim with the spirit of God, in wisdom aad in understanding, and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver and in brass, and in cutting of stones to set them, and tn carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.””’ Why wonder at THE CONSECRATION OF YOUR CRAFT? Why make light of your art, which now, as in the time of the old tabernacle and temple, can so embody und interpret the affections of the houseboid, the loyalty of the nation, the wisdom of the schools and the sanc- tities of the altar? How much of the mind and heart of mankind has been perpetuated iu gold and silver and bronze and precious stones? From the plain gold ring and the christening tokem to tho seal of covenants and cup of communion, how your work rises in and to render into rs and) and lifts the metals of the earth toward the of man and the image of God! How much ot high history lives in metal Work, and how many noble statues of sages, prophets ai heroes rise before us to-night as we add this memorial work of yours to the treasures of art and to the annals of culture! One thought more-and | close this acknowledgment. Your work is bonogable to yourself and your art, and in connection with your presenoo here it tells upon the -futare of humanity and the progress of civilization, You are here, artists and workmen, with your wives and children, and your employers are with you, aud we are all one in the genorous spirit of the occasion. Let this be a prophecy of the good future of labor in its re- lations with skill and capital, Many perplexing ques- tions are connected with this subject, and! cannot argue them now, nor can I expose the fearful mistakes that have so often wrecked labor inthe name of friendship and betrayed the workman with a kiss The uge of true co-operation must come, and this beautiful work is one of the signs of its promie. A hundred years ago Adam Smith, who had beiore written of sympathy as the ground o! moral sentiment, publisbed bis ‘Wealth of Nations,” that great charter of the dignity of labor, and that same year Benjamin Franklin, who had taught workmen sobriety and thrift, signed the De- clarauion of Independence that. made jon, Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklif are inthe air here Ley py 7 the: ip us in our presentation of this vase to William Culien Bryant, who wears their mantle in bis parpose and bis thought. Let the organ sound the hopes that I cannot speak, and I leave to tho organist, who has the Bunker Hill blood and name that went through the fi touch the notes of Jove and life that mi nations, the fellowship of the arts aod of mankind, Mr. George W. Warren, the organist, then played “The Star Spangled Banner” and other patriotic airs, after which Dr. Uszood rose and addressed Mr. Bryant, who remained standing during the delivery of the ad- dress, Dr. Osgood said PRESENTING THE VASR TO MR. BRY. Mr. Bryant:—We and our children have received many and precious gifts from you, Mr. Bryant, and now we bring a giit to you in return, not to cancel, but to express our obligation. This piece of silver means you and what we owe to you, and as we now present it wetake tho liberty to interpret its signifl- cance, ‘This occasion is the sequel and fulfi!ment of our inter- view with you November 3, 1874, when, heated by Mr. Jonathan Sturges, your ' old ‘and devoted trien whose name pow brightens the record of our best citizens, noblest patriots and most bumane and = godly man wo paid our respects to you avon the elghtieth anniversary of your birthday, and announced to you this tritute of honor. This work of art hus thus @ memorial meaning, and it recoants the more than fourscore years of your lifo = makes your ago stand for the age in which we ive. Permit us then, frst of all, to salute in you the goodly spirit of the age which you represent, and to see the nineteenth, with six years of the eighteenth century looking down upon us from your honored You came into this troubled world at » signal period, when mighty forces were in deadly conflict, and you “have dot ur work as at onco a liverator and a peace. maker, an assailant of tyranpy and a champion of law, a leader of light and liberty and of reverence and faith. ¢ brotherhood When you born Kobespierre and his crew had just fallen und ailloune, and NAPOLEON WAS A YOUNG ADVENTURER, writing of “life as a fimey dream soon to be and suspected of sympachrzing with the destracti He lived to be First Consul, then Emperor and to voast of putting the crown of empire apon the head of the Revo- lution, He has gone, aud the second and the third Na- poleon aiter him. You have lived to assist in puttmg upon the head of revolation the crown of order, and in our second or renewed republic you have made your pen mightier than the sword im de- fence of the oppressed, in the restraimt of the prond, in “breaking the shackies” of the slave and bringing master and servant, rich and poor, under the rule of equal law We saiate in you this good spirit of the nd we honor your part ip its Iiterature as well as When you came into the world the siofm spirits were abroad iD letiors, and Were rising in Dum- ber and power, in Je reaction against the reign of ©. Byron was a child of eight y id miant of two, ana Coleridge and V ng mon of twenty-‘onr, were sult in the un- nzy of radicalism, and had neither found each other nor the faith and love that so exaited them and the new masters of German literal were (riends and tellow workers, but little known to tho great world, aud with hardiy @ public to appre- NEW YORK HERALD. any credit for |. ot as well os the Great. Your lite belongs to the great record, and you ravk with the spirits of light and reconciliation that led on the Renaissance trom the night of bigotry end scepticism. You belong to the pore 3 company who, with Wordsworth and 18 fellows, opened to men the life of nature and the truth of God. It is a simple fact for me to exy that you began our new American literature, and that, although Dot eldest in y you are eldest in authorship among the poets of Ameri | We salute you thus as a representative of our home literature as well as of the culture of the age. Great nates had gone before, and the Revolution produced masters ef prose speech under the lead of Franklin, their chief, and Jeferson, Madison, Jay, Hamilton and their associates in his company, As we pay our ro- Spects to you, the poets and authors whom you have known and honored stand with you, and they that have passed away speak 10 us again, Irving, Cooper, Hal- leck, Verpianck, Prescott and all are here, and the liv- ing 'jom in bonor to the dead. Dana, now on the threshold of fourscore and tex years, Longiellow, Whit- tier and Emerson, rich in genius as ripe in years, with the brilhant fellowship of younger poets, come before us now and win our gratitude for their treasures of beauty and wisdom. HOW PURE OUR PORTS HAVE BEEN IN LI7R and how pure the speech which they have set to m for the tongue of. the nation! You, sir, have do: more thap We cam fay to lorm our language, and we who have cunght pure diction as weil as stirring thought and winning sentiment irom your poems in our scuodl days are glad indeod to set our thanks before you 1m the expressive gift with its lessons trom the ‘natare Vhat you have inter, reted, the country that you have served and the literature that you Lave formed, One thing let us say which this vase siguiiies by 11 Greek severity and by its Goihic lines of interact branches and upward povnting. ‘This means the union of the Greek culture with the Hebrew faith, the culture that delights in nature and humanity und the faith that never forgete the God over ali, never loses the great Orsi cause in pantheist visions or humanitarian pride. There may be more delirium and inevriavion in other schoois 0 poetry, whether in sensuai madness or mystical absorption, but we part with our birthright when we desert the God of our fathers ana set nature vr wan on throne We congratulate you that in the whole round of your service us post, journalist, bistorian, jurist, teacher of pulitical ana social science, you have stood by essential ethics and never deserved the taita. It only remains for me to say that this gift ox- presses also our respect and affection for you as our friend and feliow citizen. Many offerings, great and small, aro in this piece of silver, and they come from al! parts of the country, net without compiaint that more was not called for, We who live in and around New York nave not been bebindband in this tribute, ‘and we enter into this presentation with,peculiar earn~ estness. You are out hoor and companion, aud for more than filt; you have taken interest in the weliare of this ‘city and helped us in every way. We can all jotu im this deference, whether native or foreign born, Knickorvockers or Now Englanders, Kastern, Western, Northern or Southern, tor we all know you ahd respect you. You have beiped turn out the kbaves and put benest men into power, YOU STOOD BY TUM OLD FLAG in the great struggle when “God and Our Country”? was the motto, and you are standing by it now when ‘Hou- ext Mon und Honest Money”? is the issue of the time. You have not Jost ground by living with us, and you have risen from a young man of thirty to a full grown man, I will not say an old man, of over eighty, as bearty and active as ev You have sven the city double 118 pumbers and wealth many timos not with- out som ns of growth in wisdum as well as bulk, We have been in some respects @ little more fast than your advice and example taught us, but in being gon- erally cheerful wo bave followed your lead und kept up abrave heart through all changes of fortune, We are glad to bave you with us to choer us on to the great future as we turn the leaf of anew century, You still live the life which this vase embodies. You still see and enjoy the charm oi nature; the gentian, the vio- let, the primrose and the apple blossom delight ever; you hear the hymn of the forest and 1 the 8 tho merry Robert of Lincoln sings you his genial giee, and the solema waier towl ches faith with untiring wing. Your that began with. “Thavatopsis,” prom- ises to make ‘Athan: her swan song as the lengthening shadows point toward morning. Accept this gift, with ail its sculptures and) memorials, the study of many thoughtful nours and the trophy of more than a thousand days’ work, ail throbbing with heart beats, as at onve our record and our blessing. This exquisite form brings beauty irom the land of old Homer to join with truth and graco from our new America ip celebrating your birthday. It means more than we cau say. But we can say, for our country and for ourselves, that 1t means, ‘‘God bless you, Mr. Bryant.” pe muse, MR. BRYANT’S REPLY. Mr. Bryant on coming forward to reply to the address was very warmly applauded, Ho said:—“I shall begin what I have to say with thanks, and with thecks I shall end 1—ihanks to my excellent friends who have concurred in the presentation of this beautiful vase, thanks to the arti by whom tt is di signed and executed, thanks to my friend the chi man. of the committee for the obliging expressio: with which be has accompanied the presentation, and thanks to this fair audienc. for the encouragement of their presence, Afier expressing my acknowledgments for the honor done me, it would ve easier for me to take reluge in silence, but this would hardiy become me after the kind words addressed to. me aid the superb gilt offered to my acceptance, I fear that I might be accused of imitating an example of which I remember to e read some forty years since. A volunteer military company in a provincial town of England on a time presented their captain with silver pitcher. The non-commissioned officer who presented it, approaching his commander, held it out to tim an id, ‘Captain, here’s the jug.’ To this the Captain replied, ‘Aye, is that the jug?’ and there the speech making ended, and the company were ready for the festivities of the evening, I am afraid that a simi- lar condensatior of what I have to say might be as ridiculous. “Mr. Chairman of the coinmittee, and you, my good friends who havo done me the honor to be here, { would nut bave you understand that I have the great presumption to take the ovliging things said of me as my due or this superb gitt before me as earned by an service which I have rendered in any quarter. wih 1 deserved it all; but, knowing better in my heart, [ put a large balance—a very large one—to the credit of your generosity, What merit would be yours it I had fairly earned all that you are bestowing upon me? You would be pepe doing your duty; you would be paying a debt. shoud have no thanks to give and you uo honor for your benefaction, But con- sider it in the other light: suppose that | receive theso imoniais of your kindoess without having earned them, and this proceeding becomes an act of maunifi- cence, noble, princely, imperial—a munificence deser Ing to be extolied iu the choicest phrases which lan- guage can supply, Inasmuch as it is like THE BOUNTY WHICH SHOWERS THR GENIAL RAIN and pours the sweet sunshine on the unjust ell as the just, and under the influence of benignant seasons ripeus the harvests of the fieid for Tweed as well as tor Dr, Muhlenberg. “And now a word copeerning the superb vase which is betore me, the work of artists who are the worthy successors of Benvenuto Cellini, and eminent in their department, It has been greatly admired by those who have seen.it, and deserves their admiration. 1 remember to have read, 1 think some half a century ago, a definition of the term geuius—making it to con- sist in the faculty of accomphsting great resuits by small means—the power, in short, which an in- dividual has of overcoming difficulties by @ forechst and vigor not possessed by others, converting obsta- cles into instruments of success, This vase I may call @ product of xepius, both in the design and the execu- tion, for who would suppose that any skill of the ar- tist could connect with such a subject as he had before dim images so happily conceived, so full of expression, ‘and so well combining expression with grace? My triends, we authors cultivate ashort lived reputatio: one generation of ns pushes anothgr from the stage; the very language in which we write becomes a jargon and we cease to be read; but a work liko beautiful, a'ways admired. Age has no por charm. Herealter some one inay 8a vase was ma whose name it bears, but whose It is remarkable that so much pai taken to illustrate the lite and writings of one whose works are s0 completcly unknown at the present cay.’ Thus, gentlemen artasts, | shall be indebted to you for causing the memory of my name to outlast thatof my writings.’ i poet, ritings are lorgotten. hould have been MR. CHOATR’S SPRECH. Mr. Rufus Choato, in answer to loud calls fora speech, made a few remarks appropriate to the ovca- sion, after which, at the invitation of Dr. Osgood, who stated that the vase was to be sont to the Centennial, Mr. Bryant baving given his consent to its betng sent asa work of American art, the audience came in sin- genes on the stage to inspect the vase and to shake ands wih Mr. Bryant. THE VASH. The vase is a splendid piece of workmanship, a work of genius, as Mr. Bryant himself rewarked during the evening. It is thirty inches in beight, inciuding the base, which is a square block of polished siiver, It is covered irom neck to bottom with a fret work repro- senting the branches of the apple tree, suggestive of the fact that while Mr. Bryant’s writings are beaut i- ful they algo ber morai—as the apple tree blooms with a beautiful bower in the spring and in the autumn bea strait, Poetry ymbolized by the eglantine, and Immortality by the anth, which is said never to lose 118 tragrance, and these are blended with tue lines formed of the «pple branch. The primrose, emblem- atic of early youth, and the ivy of age form a border directly ubove the handles. Encircling the neck at the narrowest part is the line, ‘frath crushed to earth shail rise again,” the beginning and end ae separated by a representation of the fringe geptian, which Mr. Bryant represents in one of tis poems as always pointing to heaven. Several eras in the poss life ‘are illustrated by a series of bas reliefs, To the first asa child, looking up with veueration at a bust of Homer to which his father poinis «a» model Tae second shows him in the woods, reclining ina meditative attitude under the trees, Between the first and second of these medailion pictures is a por- trait of the poot, laurel crowned, Avove this, the lyre tor Mr. Bryant's verse, and beneath a primitive print- ing press illustrative of bis connection for over balt a centary with r roalisin, In a smialior medallion is the water fowl, spoken of by Mr. Bryant a8 an embiem of faith and introduced for that reason as the keynote of his writings The ornament around the lower part of the vase is of the Indian corn, with a #ingle band of cotton leaves, and at the foot ix the weter lily, emblematic of eloquence. The bandies are mm harmony with tae general ovtiine, but subordinate to it; and a8 hamor is a sabordinate element in Mr. Bryant's by the Awerioan bob g/link = fram the = buinoreas | poem of “Robert o Lincoin.’’ The two great | American stupies are introduced to compicte the ornamentation of the hanales, tho stark, leaf and grain jan corn on thp inside, the bud, Hower and ripeved vall of cotton on the out On the base which supports the vase is the lyre for verse, and er pens for prose, which with broken shackies point to Mr. Bryant's services in the cause of emanci- pation writings it is suggested t CHEAP TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION. THE TERMINAL FACILITIES OF NEW YORK— WHAT THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RAII~ BOADS, STEAMSHIP LINES AND MERCHANTS THINK O¥ THE DECAY IN COMMERCE, Yesterday a very important mectiog of the Cheap Transportation Association was held, at which a most im portant report was made by the Committee on Terminal Facilities, There were present Messrs, B. P. Baker. John F, Henry, A. B. Miller, Theodore ¥. Lees, J. B Robinson, William H. Guion and others of the associa- on; Messrs, Ratter and Chauncey M. Depew, of the New York Central road; Mr, Bylis, of the Erie; Salem H. Wales, of the Dock Commission; an officer of the Belt Line Railroad and # number of shippers, repre, sentatives of steamship lines and warehousemen. The following summary of the object of the meeting and resolutions explains }tsel To rm Dincctors or tas New Yorx Ousar Tnansrorta- ‘TION AssOCIATION As you are aware. this meeting ‘Was called to consider the question of using the sof the Belt Rail tor transtorring freight care about a portion of the water front of this city. Th who have given the subject of the local nd other merchandise much attention f this association. submit the tions, touching this subject, and ask of the ry following recomment jor them your careful consideration. At a im Bo: the Committee on t soased by these jing business aud the and means employed for improving such facilities. prominence was given the tacts that in Boston a le ng hensive plan of improvements had been ado} the construction of commodious wareho bor, aud the granting, uj centring sere, the priv connecting with such warel Also, that in the spring of 187% Philadelphia had decided “to open up and widen Delaware avenue from Dock strect southward to Christian s:rcat for the purposo of placing thereon a double track railway, with turnouts, wo be Fun Into existing warehouses and on the ad Jacent wharves.” Also, that Baltimore bad xone further than Philadeiphia in bringing ship, war and warehouse to- ads actually ranuing upon streots lateral the city government of specific recital o! the improvements made and contemplated by other cities, we earnestly udvoeated, as one of the neces: sities of the hour, the 11 our docks ard water front, the erection of sn 6 nent wharves or piers, bulkhead line of a double track ralir sing wil the railways ter: purpt isin this city with and warchouses, aud thus furulsh a means for iving, and airectiy transferring merchuudine, without the slow, tedious aad expensive process of frequent waipping. re unloading, carting through crowded streets g about the harbor—which prevailed at that time and sull prevails in this city.. During the pant two yours this and other committees of the association have col- Jected and published a vast amount of statistics showing that citios which are provided with improved terminal facili- have rapidly increased their commerce at the expense where thoy are nut provided. A few weeks w York Central and Hodwn River Railroad or the Bolt Line Railroad, to and street and ¢ ow promine of Barclay ring certain hours when but littie, if any, opstrac. tion would be occasioned to the usual business of that locality. The subject came before comintttes for consideration, and after due deliberation we ad- 10th inst,, reoiting rexent condition of an extension of 2 transportation facilities, pendi comprehensive public improve! tw, would tend to simplity aud chenpen local transfers, every proper facitity be granted the suid railroad company in the direction indie. ated. We iso earnestly urged that no oF privileges be conferred that should from like rights an privileges, or thas migh the constraction of « line ot railway along or the water front for the common use of all railwavs terminating In this city. Subsequently wo nddrossod a xecond brief note to the Board of Aldermen, asking that action might be dolerred until farther investigati the subject could bo made. This request the Board practically granted by their action on the J5th inst,, and now, after fu liberation, your committee tespecttully pi ing points tur your consideration, vis. :— Fire—That the charter of tho Belt Line Railroad Com- pany provides for the transfer of freight, and from commu. nication had with that company we are led to believe they mercial interests of Now York, res! by bAcaip 1m 409 those of our h to ‘wwe their track the necessary ems and conditions. ain points on the ast River, where suitaule rou! be had ior the purpowe, the several frank lines might provide joint receiving depots, whore their cars can be loaded during the day and at evening moved around to the floats for er the son River, and in tho cave of the Now York Central, to thelr track i Canal street. Such tactlitios on the Hust River, in additi to the present aud proposed tacilities on the Hudson &t side, would bring our principal storehouses and steamship landings in easy of direct communication with all ef our railways, thus dispensing with an immense amount of ex- pensive and annoying carting through and across the eity, and greatly reduce the Hability of losses from damuge, theft and other causes. Third—Vhat under proper and convenient regulations the transfer of cars for londing and of loaded cars can be ed, during certain hours, by the use of dummy engines, if any, embarrassment would be caused t whatever, while the great and para- mount interests of commerce would be eminently served. Fourth—Thnt the substitution of # suitable ‘rail f ment be the Belt Line Company, therefore resolves itself into obtaining from the city Kov- ernment the necessary authority to uso dummy engines for hauling treight cars over » portion of the Belt Line Mall Fith—We suggest the following for introduction noxt meeting of the Board of Aldermen, with the r fal recommendation of this Board that tho adopted :— Resolved, That permission be and Is hereby granted to the several railways terminating at this city to draw their curs by the use of dummy engiues between the hours of six o'clock int ning and six o'clock in the morning over the track of the Belt Lins Hallroad (with the permission of said rail: Toad comp ay) to aud trom such points on the Hudson an Kast rivers as may be specitied in ti several railway companies and appro Ject to the terms, privileges and restr. w and ofdinance tor the use of cats and dummy engines ¥ the New York Central and Hudson River Katirond Com- any. This permission shall not be construed to wilow Pouded or unionded cars to stand on k between the d in the privileges wh w stood thas the measure pro all commensurate with our commercial necessities, What we roully require cannot be provided until the valkhead line is extended and improved; but we believe the pl vocated in this report wii to ‘and, by enligi idle to hensive pian, Reforred, with power to act, to the committee. Mr. A. B. Miller addressed the meeting as a member of the committee, earnestly advocating the adoption of thosresolution by the association. Hi id:—"*Tho day was when New York enjoyed a monopoly of the trade from the West to the seaboard, but this bas been diverted in a great measure from us by other cities, and now we must do everytning in our power to bring back the comrierce.”” Mr. J. B, Robinson, another member of the commit- tee, said that be had been in business in one place in this city for forty-one years, aud he had seen many changes made by the railroads. He now thought, however, that New Yorkers wero content to reat on the natural advantages of the city and rely for trade upon its past prestige, forgetting that other cities more enterprising were taking away our trade Mr.Jobn F. Henry thought tue report should be adopted at once in its entirety, as it provided one of the great neods of this city. During his atiendance as a delegate of the National Board of Trade in Montreal he was surprised to und that the Canadian merchants actually believed that New York as a great trade centre lad lost her empire. Mr. Perry, of the Belt Line Railroad, remarked that | the company had atl the rights needed, except, per- haps, thet to use duminy engines; but Mr. Theodore Lees said that right was undoubtey. Mr. Willam HH. Guion piedged bis word that the steamship companies ready to facilitate taevery Way the matvers re- ed 10. Mr. Salem H. Wates, of the Dock Commission, was the next speaker. He said ne was im tuil sympathy with the movement, and boped that the traie of New York would be resurrected. He had watehed the growth of New Yors with peculiar interest, and he be- lieved if 1 had not been for the antagonism of thé up- town proper.y hoide: @ railroads we would have been to-day very lar in business of any other city. The beneticent of the world has given us vast paturai advantages above most other places on the Continent, but as we © depended upon these ad- vantages other cities have been extending themselves all over tho West, id to-day the by which Baltimore, ai especially Phi deiphia, are reached, ceclip us enurcly. But he did not believe New York is to permanently decline, We must resolve to meet ‘he question fairly in the Jace and bolp ourselves. As a represeatutive of the Dock Department he could say that the Central Rail- road 18 struggling to meet the issue. They are spend. ing a Vast amount of money at Barclay street, and if they can use the Belt line a great part of the difficulty is solved. However, we must widen our streets and improve our water front. And he uttered this deciara- ton, “if obstactes are thrown in the way of theso improvements our commerce is gone.’” MR. WILLIAM I WENB, 4 shipowner, said it had beena soarce of grea! ret to him to seo the decline ol New York commerce. in Earope, alter much expense and ander tremendous disadvansages, ports hud been im- proved and mare available to commerce od it seomed to be me that New York shor hold her own with natural advantages in ber ‘ Mr. Chauncey M. Depew satd tt was natural for rail- roads to help the cities to which they were properly allied, and he supposed the reason why the city of New York bad been antagonistic to the Central road was be- cause it was med, aa the Erie Canal was the prop- erty of the 4 ic to the raile 3 but this idea now 1 erchants, too, of York had seemed to be- Heve, with tne late Horace @ y, that no matter where you built a road, it would run to New York some- how~-as ail roads lead to Rome—but this idea was fal- Jactous, a8 Baltimore, Philadeipiia and Boston were stealing our trade. Now ali the Central wants, in fight- ing tor New York business, is a clwnce to como down to Barclay street, and then thoy can help the merchants and help themselves: Mr. Ratter, o: the Centra road, indorsed all that Me. Depew bad said, and Mr. iyiis, of (he Brie road, who represented Mr. Blanchard, the vice president, re- gretted thas the Jatior genveman Was not present, but promised that he would commuvicate in writing the views of the Erie road This copierence of the merchants, railroad men, steamship owners and butlders seemed to be produc- tive of much gvod, and the feeling was expressed that such an exchange of views would have a most bene- fieial ult, and impress the Board of Aldermen, to whom the resolution is to be presented, with ite portance, the shipvaiider WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. BOILER EXPLOSION Three Men Killed on the Tugboat E. K. Workman. aw care MANY NARROW ESCAPES. One Vesset Blown to Pieces and Another Sunk. Shortly before six o’clock yesterday morning a ter- rible accident occurred at pier 39 North River, by which three lives were lost and a considerable amount of property was destroyed. The tugboat H. W. Work- man lay moored nearly opposite the foot of Vestry street, and adjomming the dock where the Albany day bonts land. On one side is the Laight street dumping ground of the Street Cieaning Depariment, near which were threo scows filled with garbage and sweep- ings ready to be towed out to sea On the other side is a erain clevator. The Workman lay beside the canal boat Julia Sheppard, with its bow pointing to- ward West street. The following diagram shows the pier and the posi- tion of tho boats lw SS abe West. street, W. shed on whicn the body was blown. X,'dock in which the boute lay. treet cleaning dump. ¥, grain elevator, a, the tug, H. W. Workman, b; the canal boat Julia sheppard. ¢. the canul bout Earl Forreste. On board the Workman were Kneeland Wright, tho cook; Cornelius Ferdon, a visitor, and Alexander Reid, the fireman, who was acting as ongineer. At about ten minutes to six o’clock a terrific explo- sion ocourred, and the huge iron boiler sepurated into a dozen different pieces, which were sent flying through the air in every direction. -Acloud of steam swept upward, enveloping for a moment the huge pieces o: flying metal, and then revealed what was le(t of the Workman—a total wreck. The crashing of the pieces as they fell was heard for blocks around, and the water was covered with the floating débris of the wreck. Pieves of wood, fragments of bottles and chairs, tat- tered mattresses, clothing, cooking utensils and quan- tities of articles too numerous to mention Jay tossing in the tide, which swellea and lashed against the pier. To enhance the dramatic vividness of the scone were the late occupants of the Julia Sheppard, Captain Charles Hopkins and wife, bravely struggling for their lives, while their boat was sinking. . Their efforts were at last successful, for, with the timoly assistance of Officer Lyman, of the steamboat squad, they wero saved. THE FATE OF THE THRKE UNFORTUNATRS on board the Workman was beyond doubt, but no ono saw atrace of any of them, Wright, the cook, who weighed 200 pounds, was, however, afterward found, a horrible, mangled sight, lying on the roof of picr 38, a distance of about 400 feet from the scene of the explo- sion. The face was recognizablo, but tho lower part ot the body was torn and crushed in a sickening manner, The bones were broken and the left side was torn open from bip to shoulder, As yet no traces have been ob- tained of his companions, although the river has been dragged and tho débris to a largo extent removed. Doubtless they were hurled seaward a distance of sev- eral hundred feet. Strange to say, the vost of the unfortunate cook was torn from his body and afterward found floating in the dock, In one of the pockets was his watch, which had escaped injury. The head piece of the boiler was hurled on the roof of the five story tenement No. 72 Beach street, and another portion, weighing 400 pounds, sunk through the roof of No. 378 Washington street, two blocks away, making an aperture of ten feet square, Another piece, weighing 800 pounds, was sent flying across the street, a distance of 150 feet, to the corner of West and Laight streets, striking the curbstono. It was bent into a shupeless mass, and remained red hot for severa| minutes after it alighted, A little to the north, opposite the Albany day line pier, were scattered portions of the smoke stack, and near No. 88 Laight street was afother piece of the borer, weighing about 300 pounds. A large bowlder of iron Was shot into the air atan angle of lorty-five de- grees and struck the cornice of the seven story brick storehouse, No. 264 West street, Avother piece alizhted on the roof of pier No, 387, occupied by the Vid Dominion line, and two small pieces siruck the Ceutennial steamer Isaac Bell, ono penetrating cabin No. 13, noar the siern. Another tg weighing 600 pounds, crashed through the root of No. 80 Laight Street, a three story tenement, owned by Moelier and jell, the top floor being occupted by Jobn Campbell and wife, both of whom fortunately escaped uninjured, An oil can belonging to tue tug was blown through tne window of atinsmith’s shop directly opposite the sceno ot the explosion, the night watchman baving removed the shutters a few moments before. A poriion of the boiler was thrown oyer the sugar refinery, nino stories in height, on the corner of West and Vestry #tree(s, and crashed through the awning of the liquor shop on the corner of Washington and Vestry streets. An end of the boher lay where it fell in front of the tinsmith's sbop above mentioned. FRAGMENTS OF THE SMOKESTACK were lying in different places on West street, while another portion fell upon the deck ot one of the Old Domi‘on line of steamers lying at pier 37, and did some damage to the juiner work. The Juita Shephard, which was sunk, had on board 3,500 bushels of oats, valued at some $1,500. They were owned by A. J. Sergeant, of No. 31 Peari sirect, and were insured tor $1, Captain C. H. Corson and family. of the Julia Shep- hard, lost their personal effects. Workmen were busy yesterday afternoon getting up a portion of the cargo in a very dumuged condition, The tug came in about five P. M. on Monday and blew off her steam, but did not fill up her boiler that night. An engineer named Louis H. Andersen, residing at No, 420 ard street, was on the dock at the time of the explosion and narrowly escaped sharing tho fue of the tug’s crew. He states that be passed by the tug at forty minutes past four A. M. and heard the noise of the steam et At titty minutes past five be again passed the Workman, and, hearing that tho jot iil turned on, he concluded that the fireman bad tailén usleep after spreading U id ‘was avout to board the boat and find out, when th plosion took place, The débris flew in all directiuns, and Andersen naturally retreated, bat turned in time to see the tug sink and the canal boat setiling. A sieam jet consi of acoil of pipe pterced with smail holes, thraugh which steam from the boiler pas: with much force, It 18 placed in the imteriwr of the smokestack, and when ‘tur! ’* as in the present instance, increases the draft materially, aod thus qiuickens the generation of steam. Mr, Pottis, of the Street Depariment, was present on the wharf close to which the tug was moored. His clothes ,were torn in several places, and he was wounded in the neck and thigh by splinters. A dog near him was strack by some of the débris and killed, Mr. H. W. Workman, the engineer of the crait, re- sides in Jersey City and was on bis way to the boat when the explosion happened, ‘the boiler and engines were left in charge of Alexander Reed, the fireman, whom Mr. Workman considered as a competent man, The only cause to which he can attribute the accident m that Reed fell asleep and that the boiler exploded from an over pressure of sicam. ACTION OF THK POLICE AND CORONER. But a short ume elapsed alter the happening ot the accident to the arrivai of # squad of police under com mand of Captain Caffrey, of the Fifth precinct. Hun- dreds of spectators werg already ou the scene viewing the wreck and exa‘ ig the pieces of iron lying around through ti its. Snortiy before twelve o'clock Coroner Elli with his deputy, Dr. Goid- smith, arrived and enced work of finding ‘witnesses, first giving the necessary orders for the re- moval of Wright's body to the Morgue. Bat tow persons could be found who were eye witnesses: of the disaster. A! them was William Thomas, the colored pnd of pier No, 39, who was Sitar et the bulk! atthe time. The shock stagge! did not injure him. He described the noise as re- sembling a sharp thandercl: He quickly ran across the street, and miraculously escaped injury, as the pieces of iron were flying thick around him. Kneeland Wright, the cook, waa ingie man, and lived in Brookiyn. He had just returned trom the market with a basket of provisions tor tho breakfast of te crew, His biackened and bruised body was hurled to the top of the shed of adjoi pier. The fireman Reed was a single mon, and a native of Buttormiik Falls, N.Y. Cornelia tdon, the deck hand, resided in Pougb- keepsio, ana was uumarried. steamtag H. W. Workman belonged in Brooklyn, A. KR Chapman was owner and Charles Drake mas- ter at the Lime of the last inspection, Lib of Septem. ver, 1815, She was built in Poiladeiphia in 1564; longth, 63 feet; beam, 17 fect; depth, 71 fect; 40.30 tons burden. She had one nou-condensing engine, 18 inches diame! , bsg feet stroke of pist She hal one return 6 tent La ape 4 of sheil, built ol by Loui Boston, ea Bea hewn senjested to ydrostatic pressuroof 130 pounds 10 inch, and was allowed a steam pressure of 86 at the time of inspection she was aod in ful! compl with th law. There will be am immediate investigatiqn as soom a5 the facts relative to the case cam be obtained, ' “SAPETY’-VALVES AND EXPLOSIONS, j To rum Eorros ov rus Hexarp:— The aisaster which occurred yesterday morning cost | ‘three lives, and if it nad happened an bour later it is provabie that a score of persons would have been sacri- iced to the criminal negligence or incompetence of some person or persons. The fireman, Reed, who, m the opinion of bis superior, the engineer af the boat, fell asleep and allowed the boat to be blown up, is now dead, and the justice or injustice ef the accusation fastened upon him can never be known; but there are intimations, and even assertions, made igsome of the evening journals, that, in justice tothe public, ought not to be overlooked, lt is hinted j thas it is easy to obtain, through the venab | ity or supinenees of the inspectors, a certificate for any boiler, however dangerous its condition, I may say that I do not believe this, but I think that the in- spections should be nade more complete in one partic- ular—that is, im regard to the thorough efficiency and perfeet working of the safety valves on all boilers, They ought to be tested monthly, at least, Those on vessels carrying passengers should be examined fort- nightly. The tug Workman, it is conceded, blew up from an over presi of steam. Her boiler stood = at_—sits inspection hydrostatic pressure of 130 pounds, and she was allowed asteam pressure of eighty-five pounds. ‘The tremendous force with which the fragments of the boiler were thrown prove that there must have been a pressure exerted of several hundred pounds to the square inch, Her safety valve was, in all probability, set to correspond with the amount of steam allowe to bo carrled—th: the weight was placed upon the lever al ich # distance from. the valve stem that, theoretically, the valve would be displaced by a pressure exceeding ighty-five pounds, ‘The: pressure increased graJually to perhaps 800 pounds, and still no warning was a given by escaping steam. If the safety valve had acted the boiler would not have burst. The Westfleld disaster, many cn- gineers have held, occurred from the same Cause. How many boats have boilers in a similar condition? There ure locked safety vaives on _ nearly all passenger boats, Do they suffer the ateam to escape when the legal prossure is exceeded? I do not believe one out of six does. The valve seats become corroded through misus>, aud the power of adherence amounts almost to soliiity. Let ihe inspectors try the boilers of these of our boats that carry passengers and by actual experiment give-us the number whose gafoty valves will permit the steam to escapo when the gauge marks the limit of the pressure allowed by law. I will wager that they will find them to be tew in number. EX ENGINEER. NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, & special meeting of the above society was held last night in their rooms, corner of Tenth street and Second avenue. A large and highly respectablo audience filled the hall, After the ordinary routine business a paper wes read upon the ‘Beginning of the Now York Bar.” Tho paper was to have been read by E. B, O'Callaghan, LL. D., but, on account of his unavoidable abs. nee, it was read by Mr. ©. EK. Moore, The paper began by tracing tho orgin of Iaw. Stuyvesant’s ‘appheation to be admitted ‘within the Bar was humorously referred to, as well ag the judge's refusal. The whole of the law proceed- ings of this sountry and others was conducted by no- taries public, The paper next dealt briefly in detail with the methods of procedure in civil avd criminal matters. Apropos of the latter an extendod descrip- tion of the torture was given. The remarkable fact was alluded to that during the Duteh oc- cupation of the country there was nob a single execution in ew Amsterdain. The nearest approach to it was the attempted execution man who broke three ropes and got pardoned by England brought over na lawyers here, but some of the tirst camp tollowers were allowed to practice. The first English lawyer was « man named Sharp, who was twice banished, but re- turned and wag made head of the Uustom House. Tuo varfous restrictions and limitations in the case of those practising were then enumerated, Thomas Rudger was the first regular lawyer in New York, and ho became Attorney General of New York, ‘He was succeeded by James Graham, who in turn was succeeded by James Wiibourne. A moderately com- plete list of the various occupants of the office was then given. Incidentally the policy of Lord Bellamont and Samson Sbeldon was brought in and ite Gret fruits detailed, A number of details curious and interesting chiefly tothe minute historical student sade up the rest of the lecture, LONGEST DAY IN THE YEAR, To-day, June 21, 16 the longest day in the yoar, ana heated terms will now be in order until the autumnal equinox in September. To-day the sun enters the sign of Cancer—that is, a point in the ecliptic in which he ts furtherest removed from the Equator, and where he is consequentiy, at the turning point of his apparent course, The days remain sensibly unaltered in dura- tion, and for three days before and as many after the ist there is but the difference of a.siagle minute in their length. The sun ‘eget to-day in the zenith over the heads of all the inbabitants situate on the tropical line, while to as he appears at bis greatest altitude, and hence arises the increased heat we experience trow his rays. The length of this day in New York will be 15b. 6m. In London it will be 1h. 28m, longer—that it to say, 16h. 34m. ‘The sun, having the appearance al this time of stanaing still, it is called solstice, The winter golstice, when the days become shortest, occurs in December. A SHARP RAIN SQUALL, About one o’clock P. M. yesterday the city was vise ited bya short but sharp rain squall, which lasted nearly ten minutes and Iaid the dust effectually. Ao ensterly wind prevailed at the time and contmued throughout the day, The dense rain clouds that passed northwestward over the city were detachments from the heavy masses of vapor that were suspended at the tine over castero Lung Island and th tic Ocoan, and whieh formed one of those meteoric visitor | proach us trom the southward, having orl, the equatorial zone. The marginal clouds, ftace currents of wind, were drifted at a very low elevation toward the centre of low barometer now inoving eastward over the lake regio. Vessels ap- proxching our port experienced the ‘ull force of the | central disturbance which is now whirling op its way ‘oss the Atlantic Ocean to the northwestern coast of Ope, NEW YORK AND BOSTON RAILROAD, A meeting of bondholders was held yesterday after- noon, at No, 33 Broad street, to discuss tho terms of the reorganization of the New York and Boston Rail road, and to hear a report of the committee appointed at the last moeting to submita plan for such reorgas- ization, The committee reported the cost of complet ing and equipping the road as follows:—For construc tion, $646,600; for equipment, $220,000; making @ total of $806,500, The committee recémmonded that no contract be entered into or anything be done to in- cur an indebtedness for the completion or equipment ot the road until a sufficient amount of money shall have been subscrived to complete the road on the doads placed in hoped for the work. This report was laid over until the noxt meeting. Some discussion was induiged in as to the namo the road should be known under and as to the amount of bonds to be issued. These and the question of termina) facilities were recommitied tb the committec, with im- structions to report at the next meeting. A MOTHER'S DISTRESS. About ten o’clock on Monday night Alexander McCoy, tho owner of the tenement house No, 68 James street, had Elizabeth Kyan, aged thirty-two years, one of hie tenants, arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, When she was taken to the station houso in Onk street she had a baby in her arms and three small children by her side, After her name, age and residence had bees taken down by the Sergeant behind the desk he ordered that the children should be taken away from ber. she ged the officers fur God's sake not y she was taken down stairs and locked might. The children were given into 1 McCoy, who, as he passed through the streets on his way home from the station, was by a large crowd of people assombied in front station house, When Mra, Ryan was Tombs yesterday morning sho was discharged by Jus. tice Marray. A SWINDLER ARRESTED. On complaint of Henry Greves, a furnitute dealer, of No, 12 Wost Fourth strect, Rice Quinn was arraigned at the Washington Pleco Police Court yestorday. Mr. Greves stated that one J. Decatur Potter called on tim and made advances for tho loan of moncy. Potter, who is known to the police as a companion of William J. Rea, alias Jamieson, and Captain Witham, Ham- mond, now in State Prison on similar ¢! ar wit tem as a voucher the Gein ane ouhe owned the buiding No, East Tenth street, Pottor drew two noves ior $150 each, one for $250 and one for $202 50, all of which were drawn in favor of Mr, Greves aud indorsed by Quinn, The notes on Salient due were protested by the Bast River peers om ir. Greves ascertained that Quinn did not own No, 220 East Tenth street, He then placed the case hands of Detectives Ferris Willlatmyon, who arrested Quinn in Bicecker street ql before $ On being arraigned Juatice held for trial in default of $1,000 CD a] for Potter and expect to