The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1877, Page 6

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Government bonds were firm, and in some cases a fraction higher, while railroad bonds were dull and irregular. Money on call was easy at 2 2ly per cent, the former being the closing quotation. Tne APPORTIONMENT BILL is not likely to pass the Senate, and it is probable that the subject | will have to be considered at an extra seasion in September. ES representing the Board of Alder- ; men yesterday waited on the Governor and offered arguments for and against the Omnibus bill, the gist of which will be found elaewhere. aE | t of the Third ‘Avenue Savings | Bank informs the public in his testimony that he was in the habit of ing statements he had never read, and, of course, expects to be on this ground exonerated frum the responsibility of its failure, This excuge the depositors are uot likely to'take particularly as the president is endeay- pring to escape pecuniary liabilities on the ground that his bond has no legal yi value, Sr Joun’s Gor The report | of the com- mittee appointed to investigate the affairs of St. John's Guild will be found elsewhere. The majority exonerate the management of the eburity from any gross neglect, but two of the members censure it for looseness in its direction. The committee unanimously recommend that the | Guild shall be hereafter organized under the | State laws—advice which we heartily indorse. Harvarp CoLeaz is unfortunate this year. The class day exercises are to be omitted from the annual ceremonies because of the jealousy of the secret societies of the students and their inability to agree upon a set of officers. The athletic sports will also be dispensed with, and the belles of Cambridge are naturally in a state of deep despondency. The outside public, look- ing upon the discord these secret associations cause, will not have a high opinion of their use- fulness and will be glad to see a serious move- ment for their total abolition. Tne Wapesy bict.—The public should thank the Coroner's jury in the Wades- ville mining disaster case for a verdict which is fearless and just. It asserts that the men who perished by the gas explosion were the vie- time of the carelesaness of the bosses, who per- mitted them to work without safety lamps, and of the violation of the ventilation laws by the | company. Had the rules been enforced and the laws obeyed it is thought that two lives would have been saved, and that possibly the whole accident might have been averted. The ques- tion now is, What practical effect will the ver- | dict have! Judging by experience, none what- | In these days one horror treads upon the heels of another so rapidly that such wrongs are forgotten before there is time for their punish- ment. Tur WeATHE onditions are consider- | ably changed in the West and North since Mon- | day. The high area is moving southward, with the greatest pressure on the South Atlantic coast. Around what might be termed the top or north- ern end of this area st ‘hes a low barometric belt from Dakota to Newfoundland, the pres- sure being lowest ut each end of the zone. But the winds along the margin of this bigh area, as well as through its interior, are very variable. In the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys the winds are brisk to high. An extensive area of light rain overspreads the Central and North- western regions and the western part of the lake district, but except at Keokuk no remarkable fall has occurred. It is probable that when the high pressure passes to the southward of Tennes- sce the whgle region north of that line and east of the Mississippi will be visited by light rains, which, however, will not help much in extin- guishing the widespread forest fires. Local storms will prevail in the Central and South- western regions. The areas of greatest tempera ture ure west of the Mississippi, over the Western Gulf and the New England wad Middle States; but all the territory southward of the lakes had yesterday a very high temperw | ture, the isotherm of 70 degrees running into | Canada at Montreal and as far north as Bismarck, | in Dakota. Local observations for temperature | showed 85 degrees in the afternoon on Broad: | way, but this wis due to refiected heat from the | sidewalks and buildings, and is considerably in excess of the temperature of the air two hundred | feet above the surface, where the circulation wis free. Eust and South the country will suite froin dronght for some days at least. The now raging in the forests wre assisted in u) | ravages by the dryness of the timber and ander | growth, arftdwill. therefore continne to be very 4 destructive until rainy weather sets in, Today | the weather in New York will he warm and | partly cloudy or clondy, and possibly a thunder | ota Will UCwd ' | frank expression to what is moving in the | Evarts in his able speech at the Chamber of | he borrowed from Dr. Johnson was meant ment shall support Turkey. It is pre- | | posterous to regard all public ques- | tions as of equal dignity. To recur to our agricultural illustration, what | trade | administration may do or project which has | | no direct bearing on this paramount want is j istration attaches more importance to the | janynishes, and whatever does not contrib. NEW YORK- HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. President Hayes in New York. The acceptance by the new President of the United States of the courtesy tendered him by the Chamber of Commerce was not merely @ gracious and graceful act, but a wise act in view of the present political and commercial situation. ‘This visit of the President is to be regarded as something more than a pleasant exchange of courtesies between the official head of the government and the leading men of this great mart of commerce, It invites a different line of com- ment from that which would be pursued in England on the occasion of a visit of the Queen to Liverpool, which would lead to mere expressions of loyalty by the local press. We look upon our Presidents not as sovereigns, but as responsible public ser- vants. When they hold intercourse with the people we do not regard it as an act of royal condescension, but as a means of fit- ting themselves for a better discharge of their duties by acquainting themselves with the sentiments and wants of the people. President Hayes could not have employed the few days he spends with us to better advantage than in attempting to learn the views of the commercial metrop- olis as to the needs of the country in this singular conjuncture of affairs. We wish there were no reason to fear that the cour- tesy due to so distinguished a guest, and the natural wish of citizens to make his visit pleasant to him may inter- fere with the frankness and sincerity which can alone make his visit profitable. Unless it proves a source of information, and nota mere occasion of compliments, it is a very empty and ceremonious affair. It would perhaps be ungracious for gentlemen who meet the President in social intercourse on a brief acquaintance to use much plain speaking ; but the press of the’ city, with- out violating any rule of courtesy, may give hearts of this community. We begin, then, by saying that it is the sense of the thinking part of this commer- cia! community that the government should exercise a sagacions discrimination among the various useful objects to which it may | direct its attention and efforts. All good | measures are not of equal urgency and im- portance. There ought to be at least as much sense and discrimination in the management of a great government as in the management of a farm. But what should we think of ao farmer who did not drop all other work in seed time and devote his whole attention to ploughing and planting, or drop all other work in the season of harvest in order to secure his crops before wet weather and mildew destroyed their value? The com- mon sense of this intelligent community repudiates the idea put forth by Secretary Commerce banquet, that it is enough for the government to be active in forwarding good measures without stopping to weigh their relative importance. We cannot conceive of a position more subversive of every principle of sound statesmanship. We suspect that Mr. Evarts merely intended to perpetrate o witicism; for if he meant all that his language implied no intelligent merchant or citizen can indorse his opinion. We hope that the amusing illustration which for nothing but an exhibition of witty smart- ness. Nothing could be more preposterous if it were seriously meant. The idea was that it really makes nodifference which use- ful measure is taken up first, and Secretary Evarts illustrated the idea by quot- ing the saying of Johnson that if a man should spend time in delib- erating whether he would first put his right leg or his left leg into his trousers on rising in the morning he would retard the business of the day to no purpose. The wit of this ingenious illustration cannot blind us to its fallacy. It really makes no difference whether a man first puts his right or his left leg into his trousers when he dresses himself for the day; but Mr. Evarts is not the man the public takes him to be if he thinks there is as little to choose between public measures as between in- serting the right or the left leg into a pair of trousers. It is, of course, impossible that a man of the great mark of Mr. Evarts should believe anything of the kind. No man of his capacity can think that all good measures are of equal importance, and that it makes as little dif- ference which has precedence as whether one or the other leg of a pair of trousers is | drawn on first. This idea is as ridiculous as it would be to suppose that the question | of ritualism in England deserves to rank with the question whether the govern- | could be more absurd than for a farmer, be- | cause he thought it necessary to drain a | swamp or to grub up a patch of See | thistles, to keep his men employed on these | | improvements in the stress of harvest? It | | is subversive of every idea of sound states- | manship to regard the rank and precedence | of public measures as of as little conse- quence as whether the right or the left leg is first put into a pair of trousers. | We fear that the administration of Presi- | dent Hayes is disposed to act in the spirit | of this preposterous illustration. We fear | that it is asking for an approving popalar | verdict on measures which do not belong in the foreground, but in the background, of | live questions. The supreme need of the | country in this conjuncture is # revival of | and industry; and whatever the | | quite beside the mark, in spite of the in- | trinsic merit of the measures. It is a very | good thing for atarmer to drain a swamp, | but not a good thing to employ al! his | hands in draining a swamp at the season when he must plough and sow if he is to expect harvest. Judging from the speeches of members of the Cabinet at the Chamber of Commerce banquet the admin- a frippery of national questions than to the textore of the garment, ‘The present is no time tor giving undne importance to fancy questions or sentimen- tul measures. The business of the country | land in the war, | forthe government but for the statement | really had no policy inconsistent with the | because | put the greator part of their army over be- | the bottom, one has been captured after hav- | their legitimate objecis. ute to its abate! pee an AES A The Southern question has cense@ to be of any importance, and it is preposter- ous for the administration to ask public | confidence for. what it has done in the South. It has done nothing but what General Grant himself would have done had he remained in office. President Hayes has merely put two of the Southern States in the position already achieved by the other thirteen. ' The change is conducive to order and tranquillity in those two States, but it will have no perceptible effect on the gen- | eral business of the country. It is a thing | which the New York merchants approve, but about which, so far as the interests of trade are concerned, they cannot greatly re- joice. If South Carolina and Louisiana were stricken out of the map this would still be a great country, and the question of a revival of trade and industry would still remain as important as it is now. The restoration of those two States to their just right of selfggovernment makes no percepti- ble difference in the general commercial situation. It dispenses with no measures which were otherwise necessary for the re- habilitation of American industry and com- merce. It is absurd for the administration to plume itself on the withdrawal of troops from two States when all the greater problems which confront it are as serious and difficult with thirty-eight free States as they were with thirty-six. “The es- sential features of the business problem are not at all changed by the release of two States from federal domination, because the measures for restoring prosperity to the thirty-eight can differ in no respect from what was necessary for reviving business in | the thirty-six. The really great problem is untouched by anything President Hayes has done in the South, It is equally futile and irrelevant to insist on what the administration intends to do in reforming the civil service. When these reforms are perfected to the uttermost the | postmasters will merely receive and deliver | letters, the revenue officers will merely col- | lect and deliver our taxes and the govern- | ment clerks will merely make copies and | keep accounts. These duties may, no | doubt, be better done than they are at | present, but whether well done or ill done they donot penetrate to the great sources of public prosperity. They lighten no tax; they relieve trade of no burden; they have no effect on the currency; they cannot change the oppressive tariff; they will not weigh o feather in the great question | of free trade in ships. What this commer- cial community demands of President Hayes is that he shall grapple with the really great questions. The Southern question is dead and of no further importance, since he cannot retrace the steps he hus taken; the civil service reform is a matter quite within his own power, as he is at full lib- erty to manage it ashe pleases; but the great questions relating to trade, industry and finance belong to a higher order of politics, and these are the essen- tial questions. Nothing the President has done for the South, nothing he promises to do for the civil service, can excuse him from the superior duty of reaching a distinct and definite policy on the questions which are of deepest interest to our merchants. They have no taste for sentimental politics. While they suffer os they do now they care little for any specious measures that do not hold out a prospect of relief to business, which the recent speeches of members of the Cabinet scarcely touch. The War News. In its interpretation of the vote on Mr. Gladstone’s resolutions the London Times justly declares that ‘‘the real gain lies with the party which is on the sideof peace”—an interpretation which contemplates not the mere figures of the division but the results of the debate and vote. There can be no doubt that a notable change in the policy of the government has been the result of the necessity put upon it by the liberal move- ment to defend before the country its cher- ished if not acknowledged purpose to in- dulge in a warlike demonstration from which | it could only retreat with disgrace or which if persisted in would necessarily involve Eng- Both parties now claim in Parliament the distinction of peace par- ties, which they did not claim, certainly, before the publication of the Carlyle letter. It would have troubled the conservatives who have declared for peace to have voted in Mr. Cross’ speech that the government spirit of the resolutions. Eighteen home rulers voted with the government, perhaps they believed the Turk should have the right to rule in his own country. As to the Christians in the same country these ardent advocates of geo- graphical justice were doubtless indifferent, It is probable that the Russians have passed | a large force over the Lower Danube and are fighting the Turks somewhere in the penin- sula between Matchin ond Isaktcha, but it is tolerably clear that their intention is to tween Rustchuk and Silistria. They are apparently uot to be very greatly troubled by the Ottoman gunboats in that neigh- borhood. Indeed, the warfare with gan- boats on the river bas already been a costly experiment to the Tarks. One has gone to ing run the batteries at Kalatfat, and two more | are caught in such a position by the falling | of the river that they will be captured by | the Russians if not destroyed. At this rate @ large flotilla would be used up in o shorttime. In the absence of annoyance trom the gunboats there is no other tact to prevent the passage of the river save the certainty of being forced to fight almost immediately, and that chance we presume they do not shun. They cannot have all events to meet their wishes, but if they can secure a general action with any consider- able Turkish force it is very likely to farther It is assumed in our cable despatches that a passage of the river at the point where the Russian right is concentrated will turn the Balkan quadrilateral, This is an error, for the main line of supply of those fortresses is by the Black Seca and the | Southwestern States, as well as in California | denounce the New York Heratp in his | tabernacle sermon on Sunday. But the | tice are trying to discover the murderers. | What Kind of Invasion? The public curiosity is beginning to get excited about the precise nature of the pro- posed invasion of Mexico. We hear but little of disturbances on the Texan border, and there is good reason to believe that the Americans in Texas are not anxious fora war and do not. think enough of the coun- try across the border to believe it worth capturing. There is a good deal of spare land lying around, loose in Texas and other and Colorado, waiting for settlers to buy it ; and the owners of this land understand very well that. the annexation of the northern line of Mexican States, which would lead to their rapid settlement, would give, in com- mercial phrase, *‘a black eye” to a great deal of Texas and other Southwestern real estate and would lower its commercial value for many yeurs' to come. Public opinion in the States we have named does not, there- fore, favor an invasion of Northern Mexico with a view to temporal aggrandizéement. Nor does any one believe that President Hayes or his Cabinet favor or intend a new | Mexican war. Secretary Evarts will no doubt require Mr. Diaz, the Mexican President, to restrain outrages ‘on the border line, and it is not impossible that our commanders on | the border may be instructed to pursue Mexican brigands across the line if they have a hope of thus catching them. But the Inaugural Message showed that we need | not fear under the present administration such intrigues against Spain or Mexico as were believed at times to find favor with Generul Grant, The real authors of a new Mexican inva- sion, if there is really one projected, we suspect’ to be ex-President Lerdo and such of his adherents as are in this country with him. Mr. Lerdo’claims to be the constitu- tional ruler of Mexico. He abandoned his country with scarcely a struggle, but we are told that he continues to assert his rights as President. Diaz, his successor, seems to be in full possession of power and has convened the Congress ; he is reported also to have taken measures to prevent Lerdo’s reappearance in Mexico, and so far as we can learn there is no Lerdo party | there at present of sufficient strength to en- able the ex-President to re-enter the coun- | try he lately deserted, It is not unnatural that he should endeavor to raise forces here ; but he will have to act with great care, else | he will make himself liable to our laws. The government of the United States will not permit any one to fit out here armed expeditions against a country with which | we are at peace. It is reported that the in- vasion is to take the shape ofa formidable emigration movement. The completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad of California to Fort Yuma or Fort Mohave would enable a considerable number of the restless spirits of the western coast to be moved down to |! the Arizona country at small expense and in a brief time; thence it is supposed the | Mexican province of Sonora would be in- vaded, another body of ‘‘emigrants” march- ing at the same time from Texas into Chi- huahua and Coahuila. Mexico certainly needs emigrants ; and we are not certain but the class she would get in such an enterprise as this would be the best for the purpose. Sonora is known to be very rich—enormously rich, even—in silver ores; the other States have also tempt- ing deposits ; and these can never be made useful until forces numerous and ener- getic enough to crush the hostile Indians can be introduced there. This the Mexican government has never been able to do. If ex-President Lerdo could march into the northwestern corner of Sonora five thousand emigrants whose agricultural implements should consist of a rifle anda pickaxe to each man, we do not doubt that those of them who were not killed by the Apaches and who did not starve to death would de- velop some very rich silyer deposits. But except for the minerals that country is worthless, and no honest American farmer ought to be tempted to go there, even from the least productive parts of our own country. \ The Mormons Arming. The more persistently the Mountain Meadows massacre is investigated the more actively the Mormons arm and drill, and Governor Emory has now asked the Secre- tary of War to strengthen the federal forces in Utah. We suppose he will do so, though we confess ourselves unwilling to believe that Brigham Young can be so fool- hardy as fo attempt open violence. But) it is not improbable that very important arrests may have to be made soon after the | meeting of the Grand Jury, on the 2Ist, and additional troops on the spot would at least prevent the rescue uf persons apprehended. The prophet Young thought it wise to Henarp only demands justice. Does Mr. Young pretend to defend, does he mean to protect the persons concerned in the Mountain Meadows and other massa- eres? He has never denied that these mur- ders were committed. The officers of jus- They have brought one of them, Lee, to ex- | ecution, We want them to go on fearlessly, and we should like to see Brigham Young and the Mormon leaders generally helping District Attorney Howard. Instead of that they are prancing about like mad bulls and erying out blood, What is the matter? Our Captive Indians, It is, we believe, a fact that all the preda- tory Indians of the Plains are.now captives in the hands of the United States, and we suppose the Indian Bureau is sitting up of nights trying to find out what to do with them. The cheapest plan, we imagine, would be to board them at the Astor House; but that is out of the question, probably, because it would throw too many Indian agents and other valuable public tunction- aries out of employment. We have no doubt the enterprising Barnum would contract to take the whole number, about five thousand, off the government's hands and incorporate them into a great moral show; but that, too, has the disadvantage of throwing Indian contractors and others ont of business | at’a period of great depression. There are | ignating the politics and salary of each in- | Governor Robinson will do well to examine halt a dozen sound, practical and useful | ways to dispose of these Indians, and we do rail trom Varna, not mean to insist upon any one of them. All we should like would be that they shall not be fed and fattened, clothed, armed and sent out on a new warpath. How would it do to enlist all the warriors as United States infantry, drill them thor- oughly, and then, as we have no war on hand, set them, under the control of army officers, ‘to building their own barracks, ploughing and cultivating their own fields and earning their living? That also, however, would do away with Indian agents, | contractors and the whole swarm of peoplo who have for half a century lived off the In- dians. It would even do away with the In- dian Bureau, and that is, of course, enough to condemn the plant? It has some merits, nevertheless; but when we remember that it would ubolish the whole Indian Bureau, as well as the Western Indian Ring, we give it up. Is It Partisanship? We publish elsewhere in to-day’s Hzenatp a list of heads of departments, deputies and chief clerks under the city government, des- cumbent. It will be seen that out of eighty- five offices therein mentioned the democrats hold seventy-four and the republicans eleven, The total amount of salaries re- ceived by the democratic officials reaches three hundred and sixty-five thousand dol- lars yearly, while the republicans receive fifty-eight thousand dollars. ‘This is, of course, exclusive of the large number of subordinate ein ployés in the several munici- pal departments, fully nineteen-twentieths of whom are adherents of the democratic party. This exhibit satisfactorily disproves the assertion madé by’ the funmany mém- bers of the Board ‘of Aldermen that the: ‘Qmn- nibus bill is a. partis 1 | turns sixteen demosratio ’ ments out of office’ and “only twa, repub- licans. But _ it dees more than, his, It furnishes ‘the best evidence that could be offered that the Omnibus bill ought to become alaw. It is outrageous that nearly half a million of dollars a year should be paid out of the public treasury to ornamental, but certainly not useful 32 SB Ba ‘heads of departments and bureaus whose business is not to do the work of the city offices, but to look on while others do it. Take, for example, the Corporation Coun- sel, who receives a salary of fifteen thou- sand dollars yearly, and has two assistants at ten thousand dollars each, one at seven thousand five hundred, two at five thousand each, two at four thousand each, one at three thousand, one at twenty-five hundred, achief clerk at thirty-five hundred, a pub- lic administrator at five thousand, a corpo- ration attorney at six thousand and thirty other employés at lesser salaries. Does any reasonable person suppose that it is nec- essary for the city to retain this army of salaried lawyers at the public expense? into facts as well as to hear political argu- ments before he makes up his mind what to do with the Omnibus bill. Forest Fires. Owing to the absence of the usual spring rains and to the phenomenal temperature prevailing in the northern part of New York andthe New England States and the St. Lawrence Valley the earth is parched in these regions and the forest undergrowth has become as dry astinder. Sparks from locomotives, the neglected fires kindled at the camping places of hunters or tramps and possibly the work of malicious incendiaries have originated devastating conflagrations in the districts already pre- pared for them. From the nature of the combustibles and the unbroken extent of the forest areas a fire once fairly under way burns until heavy rains extinguish it or an ex- haustion of the supply of fuel causes it to die out, The immense growths of resinous pine wood keep the fires constantly fed and the interlapping branches form a covering or roof under which a fierce draught is created which carries the flames rapidly from place to place. When the tree trunks burn through and the smoke dried branches fall another supply of fuel is |. given to the flames which greedily devour it. he fire winds take up the burning particles of pine fibre and whirl them away to other places yet un- touched, and so the devastation is spread. There seems to be only one way to. check a great forest fire, and that is. by felling the trees along a belt ‘both toward and from the advancing flames, Then by qiiekly, remov- ing the branches of the fallen trees 4 chance will be afforded for the beating out: of ‘the fire when it reaches the open belt. The most distressing feature of this widespread calamity is the destruction of the dwellings and other property of the residents of the desolated districts. It seemsto us that the | recurrence of these destructive conflagra- | tions should form the ground for a full and | scientific inquiry as to the best means of | preventing them in future. The great in- | terests at stake in timber lands alone fur- nish a sufficient plea for such a course by the national and State governments, while | those of humanity demand that prompt | legislative action should be taken to insure | the preservation of the lives and household goods of large communities of industrious citizens. The Failure of the Carnival, His Majesty King Carnival entered the city yesterday, but not in the manner that was expected or desired. Instead of a | pageant of picturesque extravagance and | frolic there was an extremely dull adver- | tising show, from which thousands of people | turned away in disgust. This dreary pro- | cession, like a wounded snake dragged its slow length along, and it was a relief when it | ended and dispersed. It made Broadway | resemble Church street on a busy day when the cars are blockaded by drays. There were wagons that advertised tea, tobacco, soap, beer, fireworks, furniture ; but there was not one sign of beauty in the whole parade, and it only needed an undertaker’s wagon adorned with coffins to have made the gloom of the spectacle complete. It is said in apology for this absurd advertisiing dodge, dignified with the name ofa carnival, that it was a neces- sary concession to those manufacturers and storekeepers who had subscribed to the fand for the carnival in the evening, and from properly ‘excluded. But this'is no ex- cuse for the occupation of the streets and interruption of business by the burlesque of a burlesque. Who asked tor a carnival? Those who insisted upon having one should not have consented to base its success upon such a wretched failure as this absurd procession, The streets of a great city like New York should be yielded to parades only when great events happen or when national anniversaries are celebrated. There have been lager beer processions which excelled this one in attractiveness and merit, but their pre tensions were more modest. If we are to have serious trade thinly disguised under the name of carnival, and the eager eyes of the tradesman looking out from the mask of Momus, the proper plan for those who are interested in such affairs would be to en- gage Barnum, the great American showman, to manage them. He might lead the parade with his menagerie, and they might pay him for the privilege of following the caravan with their wagons. Altogether this effort to introduce the carnival into our city appears to have been a failure, and one principal cause is clearly that the scheme was a pecuniary specula- tion. The great torchlight parade was chiefly remarkable for the absence of torches, and the immense throngs assem- bled were unable to see it for the want of light. As a funeral it might have been considered a success, but as a mas- querade it was an undoubted mistake. The grand ball was a grand jam, but possessed few of those gay and brilliant features which the title of carnival led the public to ex- pecty;The whole affair was a discredit to theamanagement and an imposition on the city, "thd it is likely that after this experi- meht Wwe shall have no more carnivals, un- less, ‘they are established on 9 different prineiple and conducted by competent per- sons, The Halleck Statue. Few men, even those who deserve fame, know how famous they may be. Certainly ,Fitz-Greene Halleck never thought that his genius would be honored in the city where he lived and worked by a statue to his mem. ory, and that the President of the United States would unveil it in the presence of thousands of the best of our citizens. Americans are not accustomed to thus honor their poets, but the custom of erecting statues to great men is a beautiful and appropriate one, and we are glad to see it growing in public favor. Halleck de serves a place in this Pantheon of the metropolis; for, though he was not one of the great poets of America, he was one of the first and purest, and much that he has written will live as long as our literature. The lines addressed to his dead friend Drake—‘Green be the turf above thee’—have: become household words, and his ‘Marca Bozzaris” stirs the heart now at strongly as when it was first published, fifty years ago. The ceremonies yesterday were all that could have been desired. The day was fine, and thousands heard with profound interest the eloquent oration of Mr, William Allen Butler— not only a worthy eulogy of the man, but an able analysis of his poetry. A graceful and feeling tribute to Halleck was paid: by Mr. Whittier in verse, and the venerable poet, William Cullen Bryant, laid fresh laurels on the marble. To these ceremonies noths ing can be added. The statue will stand in our beautiful Park, a fitting memorial of the poet and a silent witness that New York does not forget, in the whirl of commerce and progress, the departed genius which har added to her glory. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs. Jonnie June appears to be thirty-five, Gas meters havo begun to lie for the summer, Colonel Fellows is as tremulous as a jelly feb. Some of the Brouk Farmers have bad a reunion, The archbishop of P&iladelphia has arrived at Rome Oswald Ottendorfer walks as straight as a telograpl pole. Fernando Wood always looks as nice asa piece ¢ soap. Chancellor John V, L, Pruyn, of Albany, is at th Gilsey. Marshall 0. Roberts bas frequent twinges of rhea matism. Major Bundy wears the heaviest kiad of rims to ht 8. . Howells, editor of the Atlantic, will summer at Cu honicut, R. 1. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, is at the | Westminster, Senatsr Ambrose E.. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is at | the Filth Avenue, Fred Cozzens, who wrote the “Sparrowgrass Papers," has a sop who is an artist. A Bay Ridge girl who became engaged last evening now says that she belongs to the ring. Aasoviate Justice Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Fifth Avenue, Tim Golden, the detective who caught Babbitt’ thief, used to be Oakey Hall’s sorgeant-at-arma, Rx-Governor Hoffman bas the biggest chin of ali the men in this country, and yet he is not a great talker. If Major General Hancock does not stop getting fat he wiil ceaae to be the handsomest man in the United States, William Cullen Bryant is a poet who writes e' bet+ ter than Cowper, but he knows that a dollar has a hua- dred cents in it, Werk.iy Henato:—When boiling meat or poultry | never put a fork im the lean part of the meat, as it ale lows the juices to escape, Golos says that out of nearly # hundred thousand exiies in Western Siberia only 247 are Poles, and that few Poles need be exiies. ‘Tenney, of Brooklya, !s an administration lawyer, and be is always getting an office, Ho wears a broad brimmed hat and long bair. There is something about Reuben £, Fenton’s physi- ognomy that makes him appear secrotive. His features ali turn in like the threads ot a screw. Secretary Schurz uses words that a man would ase it he were writing on & sabject in sociology. Schurz a ina literary way, very bright and striking and thio. One of the nicest positions in life is that of a canal ‘boat captain, who leaus up against a rudder bar and talks along the telephone to the boy who drives a lame horse. Stewart L, Woodford is an honest, good soul, af commonplace and as eloquent as the day is long. He talks somewhat—with his mouth—but Woodford is a real good fellow. Evening Telegram: —“When Rutherford was asked to take a glass of wine last night he looked at a piece of twine which Mrs, H. haa tied about his little inger, and said, ‘No, | thank you,’"” In these big affairs like tho dinner to Mr. Hayes bere is a great deal of jealousy aud backbiting, and you are a happy man if you can sit quietly at home and wish that they may have It all to themselves, S. B. Chittenden, the great Congressman, is not very big, but ho 1s as deafas ho is honest, and he will do a nice amount of good in Congress if he will pick out his sentences as he used to pick out patterns i@ which their advertisements were very olclosh.