The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 19, 1869, Page 2

\ AMUSEMENTS, pain -chaies YINLO'S GARDEN—Arrah na Porno. FIFTH AVENUE THEATEE- Roverteon’s new come dy,“ Play." Matinée Saturday, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ith ay.. between etn and 1UN stx.—Garden Concerts. OLYMPTO THEATRE—Miccory Diecory Dock. Matl- Roos at 1% o'clock, Weenesaays and Satnraaye WOOD'S MUBEUM — Afternoon, tate Secrets and Laughing Hyena. Kveuing, Lalia Kookn, Motince Saturday, THE TAMMANY The Qaoon of My arts; or, Harlequin Kaave of Hearts GRAND OPERA HOUSE, 204 st. nnd fh ay. —Cynthia, ‘The Queen of the Gipeles. Matinée Satnrday. BOWERY THEATHE=The Angel of Mittnight, and Poacher's Doom, ROOTIUS THEATRE, 284 #t, between Sth and Cth ave, Tuy Van Winkie, Matinee Ratarday. WALLACK Seif, Matmee on Batorday. The sae Sun Te Rhtwen for ALL THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1409, The Pre Man's Masters Judge Lovurs Dest, brother indaw of Pre rident Guan, and candidate for Governor of Mississippi, doesn't like Sceretary Bow. writ, and has written » letter to abuse him, This is all right. Mr, Boui wisi. is a states. man, a patriot, and an Lonest man, Dent is on adventurer looking: for anything to turn up, and anxious to run for Governor of Mississippi under false pretences, claiming t be a Republican when be has never been anything but a Democrat. But Judge Dent Is not merely a dishonest politician ; he is a flunkey, and we might even say a fool. Hie language to Mr. Bourwernt is such as only a flunkey could employ.“ Your organ, the New York Su,” he # “in the same Ireath ridicules the capacity of your marter, and dwells with emphasis upon your peeu liar fitness for his office.” Mr. Dent is clightly mistaken when be Is Tuk Sen the organ of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, but this isn't of mueh conse: quence. Indeed, we fect ourselves rather flattered Ly Drst’s assertion. What we want is an honest and high minded administration of the Government. We desire most ardently to see the Executive Department raieed out of the impotence and disrepute to which it has been reduced. We hate and denounce the system of bestowing office in return for presents, and appointing to important places _ mon like Aveustus Forp, who eannot hold their commissions a moment except in de fiance of the law. We desire to see the United States stand forth before the world as the champion of republican ide and the friend of every people that rise against slavery and oppression as the people of Cuba have done, ‘This is our programme, and if it is Mr. Bourw ‘s also, we are glad of it; and Tie Sun will always zealously co- ope*ate with him or any other Jeader who is jbold enough and firm enough to stand by these ideas in these days of donation-party politics, corrupt bestowal of offic, and shameful truckling to European diplomacy. But what does Mr. Dent mean when he calls Gen. Guan the master of the Secre- lary of the Treasury? Doves he suppose that the sycophancy which he may naturally feel toward the great bestower of office is shared by the public at large? Does he imagine that other men are flunkeys because he is one? Or would he force into the relations of the President and his Cabinet that spirit of slavish submission and plantation inso lence which the Rebels who propose to use him in Mississippi always cultivated before the war, and love to gratify now? He ought to understand that the President of the United States is no man’s master, He is a servant of the people, and will be held toa rigorous account for his stewardship. Put he is not the master of a single citizen; and even the snols and fluukeys who are anxious to black his boots, in the hope that he will give them offices, will not own that he is th master. Least of all is he the master of a statesman like Mr. Bourwen1, whose sue- cessful management of the Treasury Depart Ment constitutes a green and cheering oasis an the desert of this Administration, It has been suggested that it would be lucky for Gon, Grant if his brothersin-law could all be struck by lightning. If such an event is to happen at all, it would be an ad- vonty ral if the lightning would be very prompt and very effectual in se of Judge Dist oe - Tuxes on Commerce. ident we to the Ce A good deal of sensation has been produced in commercial cireles by the appearance of a ircular letter from the Commissioner of Cus: toms, addressed to the collectors of customs throughout the country, proposing to abolish rundry fecs imposed by oiher than Federal legislation upon vessele arriving at various ports inthe United States, ‘The telegraph, in transmitting: the letter, has evidently miseon seived its purport, as well as misinterpreted ite language, All that this Commissioner really aims to do is to forbid his subordi hates enforeing local legislation, or collecting other than the fecs fixed by the laws of Con gress, Under the legislation of various States and municipalities there has grown up a gigantic system of fees, to which all mer chant vessels are subject, and which has extended itsclf until it has become a borden grievous to be borne, Among these fees not recognized by any acts of Congress are the following: Pilot age, pilot licenses, half pilotage, Port Wardens’ foes, oyster to , State head money, State hospital tax, quarantine fees, percentage on freight carried, Harbor Mas ters’ feces, harbor tonnage tax, and perhaps some others, Of these, the oyster tonnage tax will be recognized as connected with Governor Wisk's famous oyster fundum of Virginia, and is applicable only to the wa ters of the Old Dominion, The harbor ton- nage tax was also an old Virginia imposi- tion, that has been declared unconstitutional by the courts of that State, as well as by the Federal judiciary. The tax upon freight was imposed by municipal legislation in fome small ports, but at the first resistance it was found to be impracticable, and has become obsolete, None of these: fees or taxes have ever been collected at the port of New York, But the other imposts mentioned are sanc doned by the laws of the State of New York ‘ss well as of other States of the Union; and though frequently resisted, they have always ‘Deon sustained. ‘Thus in the famous case of tho steamer China against the brig Ken- swky Mr Justice Swayne, in giving the UN, URSDAY, AUGU opinion of the United States Supreme Court, decided that all State harbor taxes were ¢om- pulsory and must be paid, has grown up of collecting these fees and taxes atthe Custom Houre, thus using the Federal authority to enforee them against thie practice that the Commissioner of Customs very properly warns the Collce ten seconds—n feat whieh Oxford has never For young gentlemen who “might be taught to row" this is good preetice, and shows that this American an | thority on the English side may be mistaken This, hy the way, is the | fame gentleman who, when the Harvarda challenged the Oxford crew last year, obaerv- ed that the proceeding waa about as absurd as if the late King Taroponus of Abya: tinia had offered to pit one of his barba rian African bands against a crack British regiment from Lord Napren’ yet accomplivhed, But the custom The foes and taxes, ao far na collected at this port, geem to be reasonably and proper Thus the quarantine feca, to detray the expenses of that establishment, and the Harbor Masters’ fees for farnishing berths for vossels and properly disciplining and manag ing the nnorganized fleet constantly and going, are emir however, should be collected b horities of the Port Wardens’ fe aleo levies a tax of The Caban Negotiations—The San ha the Trae News The Courricr dea Ktata Unis copi the Paria Pays, Journal de 0 Empire, the fol- lowing statement of the terms for the cos. | ntly offered by Mr. Frsat, to the Spanish Government, aud refused by Pritt and Si ently proper. sion of Cuba re 50 upon al! immi, This has hitherto won eollected by the Commissioners of E ation through the Custom veewls in which the emigrants arrived, and voounlze the intependence of Cuba v coverntnent of Cp shall pay to Spi Teslicnation Of the Fights hitherto exereised by int of this Indemnity to House from the jemnity for the mother country, the feminine printe collections has f the Collector of some authority to immiyrants, and there must of wenwe attending #uch ¥, Whether fixed at millions, fifty millions, or dollars, to he to bonds’ of th Payable with interest at the expirativa of & conve avvelled ‘the the milliners, nor the dressmukers, She represented the working women ' Guexter would lave represented the wor ing printers of this city, and the working women here have repudiated her as the working Coban Government, TV, ‘These bonds to be guaranteed by the United necessity be some ex A ay ee {riots and the Spanish troops in Cuba, y upon the exeeution of the evacuated by the Spaniah forces ax aimed between the eapervision lect their own foes and save the f the bouds approve Calted States, If these terms ure not at unce accepted by; States will wil recognize the independence of ( ms were first published in this country on the @d inst, in calof Tie Sun. one Nandred and thirty pilots ed at hie port under the supervision of the Board of Pilot Commissioners, These ge of serving ns They board vessels outside of Sandy and navigate them to their piers in the city, recelving a foc for their service proportioned to the draft of the point where boarded ct themselves, f dontials were simply thoae of the Wom: frage Associ ing Women’s Association. She went to Philadel phia to throw a political firebrand into the Labor Convention, and she has succeeded in her desijzn In view of the protests of the only women's labor unions ia this city, and of the repeate peals of the New York delegates, the action the Convention was right. Spanish Govern onge for the pri @ leading arti- me of our con to doubt their accuracy or two journals of no principle even made m the occasion of attacks up- But all question of their ex- the fact that nto the workd at the same t any substantial variation from ong statement, by a journal go high in their publicat on Ti SUN This foe they coll and a half per cent. of it to th appear bef Commission. now in its third week wbated attractiveness for t ditoriam is filed every wight. In We notlee in this theatre a purer and cooler at sphcre than almost anywhere else of the auditorius to arehitects all over the world, and upon wh Freneh Government hos sent money ani effort to seaure th successful, Tt wan forme in the matter of seeing to give the front rows of the audience a view of the stage, and in the mutter of breathing to let the bad exhalations take ea themselves, ‘The first of these requislt ‘well understood that positively bad seats are rare & Now York theatre; but there ix not yet on stress Jald upon the importance of pure air, with draft the brightest pleco and most sparkling actor ae dail, time, and withe fa collected Commissioners, i the Frenel and Spanish Goveraments asthe Pays. Commission under State Iaws, and is composed of theres members chosen by the Chamber of Com and two by the Board of Underwri tors, and is conducted in the joint interest of the two for the the exaction of pilot te fuses the ser A correspondent asks how it happens that nin the Custom House, on a salary of €1,000 @ year, are dismissed be- cause they are seid to be De honest, capable young w ocrats, while the 4s, worth $50,000 per year, bitterest. kind of Copper We are happy to say we doi know; but if our correspondent will ask Mr. n. Geayt, he may find out 8 when a vessel re ices of the pilot. The State hospital tax is a fixed amount od from vessels in support of the men's Retreat, a chade runners. more easy of access than iis rival marine hospital ‘The tox amounts to fifty cents all seamen of American »ne dollar upon others, the pay ment of which entitles the sailor to the privi Joges of the Retreat, Leen collected nt the must now be enforced lsewhere The Port Wardens are officers appointe by State authority to adjust differences In pn owners and masters of vessels and consignees and insurers of fre duty is to examine the cond and appraise damages for losses, fixing the responsibility for such losses. viecs they are allowed certain fixed fees, themselves, ployment of them is optional, but thelr fees toble under State laws, t will be seen that the Commission cr of Customs only seeks to confine the Cus tom House officers to their legitimate duties, leaving the colle taxes to the authorities that Impose them, Count Brsatann was reecutly interviewed by a correspondent of the ying Dragon, Chinese nal published at San Pranciseo, ndent assured the author of the North G teration that the United States tablishment, per voyage upon Windle for five years, at ti nd England, and it ix hard to detect weariners which he may fecl with the character. His stantial manne ve mad well, however, to overlook the frets that t act is clumey In construction, and that it would be a relief to have it better acted, or that Rip makes his This tax has hitherto | The Count modestiy rey Custom: House, but dclared that it had already beea eredited to Hiawtann inthe sacred and imperial records of the and could not be changed. He thought, however, that Dunyse might Prussian statesman to pay a visit to the Einpire ry establishment, Dragon fails to state whether Bis. Manx accepted or declined the invitation, ition of vessels For such ser Among the twenty or thirty resolutions passed by the great Prohibitory Convent one to raise 810,000 This may do which they “for the ensuing a State election in Massachusetts ; but, bles good old Puritanic soul! it sometimes tu To the Puiter ¢ 000 to elect a single member of the Assembly win the rural districts of New York; and as this city, why, $10,000 would hardly sullice to pack a ward caucus in a sharp contest, mystery to his nelg ‘The Harvard Boys on the Thame: Hy known by this time k of the oars: Leon anps, fomnerly Sir Ep: WanD SuavkN, now about ninety years just made an elaborate It is pretty prene' that four young fi men of Harvard College, have stone to Eng. land to. contend with an equal Oxford men, ina boat race on the Thames ame from our men, and it is to be presumed, in v reputation which Oxford id_able speech in the He used to be a great equity lawyer, and cery, and was a radi and they cor- nine years ago, J just taken the great seal, Svapen was arguing a case before him, Buouguam treated him rather curily. dress, Scape leaned over his chair and said, just loud enough to be heard by the ba Chancellor only knew a Little equity law, be would know n liltle of everything.” heartily, and Baovcuam growled out, Go on Nnovawas bas recently died, up- pen still holds out, x-Chancellors, Oo The biggest man—in brains we mean— among the managers of the horse railroads in He carries on the Now, why do m which the public We mean the cushioned seats from the not eseape the keen lesely threw his bag over the edge of the barrel, and, as it happened, over one of the fattest of the fisn, After remaining in the store for a lite tine, Geor: Jefe for home, and in taking up Mis bag very Inno. cently took the Mish with It! Now this was no doubt all am pung country- for many years in oquatic sports, that it was inconsiderately maintained Pausing in his ad- when the owner of the fyi accused aim of» itand found it in the folds of the bag. The bar laughed ott currence that tovk place in the ofliee of the Coilee- tor of the port: A anxious that a very worthy young man should be retained in the Custom House, wrote a letter to the to the young man with the injunction to Airset/ de liver it tuto the Landa of the Coleector, We aide: Sir Evwanp.’? ward of ninety. old fellows, these sdornble degree of systems of rowing have in turn been adopted, and the merit of each has been tested in the annnal contests with Yale on Lake Quinsig mond, in Massachusetts, these have been decided The last four of n favor of Harvard, instance the victory has been due to what is now generally known as the Harvard stroke, which is the result o years’ experience of men devoted to boating, and who are in every sense of the word Kighth avenue Law take the lead in a re clearing out of the Law isn wise a that this refo: popularity and the profits change will have to be made very soon, and we should like to see Mr. Law the first to make it, ——-— manage these things differently in narked the Rey, Mr. Sreaxe a long true at this day, Court of Assizes has actually con. demned a defar d skilful man, and he must see 1 would increase immensely the oppe Boating men in this country have there- red themselves that a respectable degre attained by Am to determine of skill had been ‘an oarsmen, and it was were superior in this regard to English rowing men that the challenge was sent to Oxford. London correspondent of the Le trusted, this belief is founded on error and while ago, and his words to seven years of imprisons ment, and what is more to his tempter, who profite rs of hard lab by his peculations, spaper, called LE Etendard, and after spending all the money he and his associates could ‘Tarrea, the cashier of an insurance company, Jim surreptitiously out of the As soon as the fraud ise, persuaded one taught to row.” Afler twenty-five years of practice our boys, it seems, have not yet ae quired the rudiments of the art of rowing. All this time and labor at the oar have gone for nothing, and we have only the mclan holy satisfaction of knowing might” acquire the knowledge which we, in our blind enthusiasm, have supposed them We may cite the excellent time which Harvard racing crews have made, but reply that our sy: w short, we dig, we full to cateb the beginning of the stroke, and fail to swing back well together; and above all, we row with our arms alone, in the vigions from the loins as Our boats, too, are clumsy and ill Criticisms very much like these were made when the yacht America arrived at Cowes elghte were correct, the English yachtsmen said, ra were all wrong ; and the result proy that their conclusion was just, But the force of this correspondent’s criti clam is somewhat damaged, if not entirely neutralized, by the fact that since his letter was writen, the Harvard four have rowed over the course from Putney to Mortlake—a distance of four and a half miles—in the rr markable time of twenty-one minutes and funds intrusted to his eare. Was discovered the newspaper had to stop, ai examination of its airs showed a debt of 900,000 frane against assets, mostly claims on 10,008 francs, artners in the company, of 7 ypany having instituted erimi- ainst their cashier, the public prosecutor thought it his duty to arrest the news- and the result was as above men- If similar course were pursued here in cases of defaleation, it would arly every embeaslen stock gambling, i brokers who know to a moral applied them by their nal proceedings « hed by th is all wrong. funds is induced conducted throu certainty that the mc victims connot be honestly come by. cessories, if not prine ished accordingly. American style the crime, and should be pu If her lines r Henny Buiwen, in a recent apeech in the Commons, was rather severe upon American diplomats, without bearing in mind the that those who live in glass houses should not and accomplished man, but his own diplomatic antinople was not such as to en- ‘The diplomatic system much contaminated by red tape petont ministers as our own, if mot more #0, though in many essential respects it is Indeed the whole system career at Con) ttle him to high regard, and by ineo decidedly superior, ia at variance with the prosent state of civiliza. tion and international intercourse. In Bogland as well as in the United States public attention is more and more directed to this anomalous con dition of the mechanism of international business, ——— An action has been instituted by Jom Mrrenms against Geo. Jony A. Dix for #2 damages, for alleged iMegal imprisonment for four months and sixteen days in the spring of 1865, at Fortress Monroe. Gen. Drs, having been arrested ander an order of arrest granted by Judge McConx, has given $10,000 bail, Jon J. Cisco and Moss Tarton becoming bis sure Mr. Mrremet has waited until a late day, and may wait a while longer and become consi- derably grayer before he geta his $25,000, ——— ——_- After two days of wrangling, Miss Susan TB. Axtnoxy has not squeezed herself into the Labor Convention as a representative of the working women of this city, The delegation from this city unanimously protested against the re- ception of her credentials, Their protest was honored, and Miss Axtuowr went out. Who authorized Miss Anriox¥ to represent the working women of this eity? It was not nor the collar makers, nor the cap makers, nor the Iaundresses, noi nor the paper box mal “ f this city just as Honscw inters would hay «pudiated Mr. Gremiey, Miss Axtuoxy was out of her place, Her ere- va Si Work. jon under the guise of the ap: Amusements. Boorn's Turatne.—" tip Van Winkle’ is oth’s ‘Theatre, with un- public. Ite elegant au of tue crowd. ‘Tho ventilatto —whiek has becn a stuinbling-block the Dest results—is Booth's Theatre very ht only necessary of is now 80 Bad ir aaphyxiates an audience, and takes m Mr, Jefferson has been playing the pareot Rip Van rvals, in this country fatigue or staking is ro led by the public in a sub- and there is very little comment to cept in the direetion of eulogy. It is not last ard lot seem justly earned by his incorrigible #ot- tishnes#, Changes in these inattera ought to be made, great success of does not seem to demand, ‘The second act x more cffective than it has ever been, The scene has the 4ruc poetic aroma the refined stage management of the t Van Winkle * will be given every night, and at the matinée at two o'clock on Saturday. merely for the rake of good taste, which the play, a8 performed by Jeiferson, f the legend, and speaks well for tre. Rip —— A CUSTOM HOUSE STORY. How George stole the Mackerel. phe Sun Sim: Many years ago there lived in a rural vil western part of this State one of those niuscs Whose mode of living wat a ora, and whieh the most thorough seratiny had not been able to fathom. In his perambulations a ried under luis arm what appoated to be an old grain bag. ‘The particular ase which George made of this bug Was not apparent for a long time, aatil one day, at the village he always making bis daily rounds, he entered one of the retuil grocery stores, where, among other eommoul. thos on sale, wert some nice-lookingtmackerel, very tomptinely laid + ver the chime of a barrel, ‘This did yed George, who very care ke on the part of Geogre, and so ac said ahing This tittle ines ent was brought to mind the ¥ day when we were told of the following oc- tleman of influence, who was ector on the subiect, and gave it and just as the Collector commenced reading it Was culled upon Lo sign some papers, and laid the etter down Upon the table, aud the paper that r upon the leiter, Att al the paper, Uae man (another esetited It to the Col iden'ally, a» in cave of the leitor with it, ‘Tuis way dis- tter restored, ‘This aceident hap- Uiree times before the Collector could get an tupity to the letter, He did, however, read the lettcr, and ihe young man was retained. Ho this Is how George stole the mackerel, ARGUS. —— Aulmal Magnetism Producing Coma, About the middle of last month we announced the death of a young lady—Miss Susan Caroline Goilsey, who Woe more familiarly known as the “sleeping wonder"—she having been ina state of coma for fourteen years. A correspondent writes to say that she was ‘ptio that condition through the influence of volmal magnetism, as any one might be, ‘There was no more dificulty, he says, In Waking her ay at some time each day then there w in foreing her to sleep; but the difleulty lay tn that her frieuds did not understand the modus operandi, Ke, | suppose) Who ‘ox, nad th and in th sts thoy must have injured her, and thereby ha ath, Our correspondent says also th young indy herself could have pre- ve ce by Whieh she was put to sleep aintod With a fow generin laws re- lating to the science. TL was ensy, he adds, tur ther to transmit Uus jativenes to her “when the eclipse would take place, and also to make her prophesy about the end of te world, bot that would th vail over their ernel and suatueful proecedits.”” : ———__—_ The tag Dauce at West Point. Friday and Saturday of next week will be gala days at West Point, On Friday afternoon the eadets have their annual “stag” dance; and on the follow Jng day tents will be struck, and in the evening a grand ball will take place In the large hall of the Academie building. Preparations on a grand scale have been eomincnced, and the eadets promise to surpass all their previous efforts in tuis direetion. Alrcady the bail i the all-important theme of con verwation among the ladies, and they wre a @ flutter of excitement in anticipation of the entertainment ——————— The Grand Ball at Ratherturd Park. Te-night the long anticipated ball at the new Rutherfurd Park Hotel takes places, and from what Weean learn, Wi! bea most elegant and fashionable afr, ‘The grounds will be illuminated by many hundred Chinese Inuterns, the ball room decorated with figs ard towers in profusion, and the t by a celebeated orchestra from this city, Some eon uous metropolitan belles Will be present, and a linge number of futhional tes leave town to-night to participate in the grand aifair, ——— = Masonic ChiteOhat, We are sorry to hear that Bro, Keator, of Coustir tution Lodge, Will lose his eyesight. ‘A special moeting of Bureks Lod YT ‘ri August W for U fas'the Kinral G¢ dhetrtace ire. PeabOeew. Set or ed 0, 243, 8 1" attend: aytou. CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENTS IN TUR OLD WORLD, pec ore The Endowment Soot of Ger Keerot of German Thrift and Ke Correspondence of The Sun. Durspen, 1858.—The beautiful city of Dresden is not only Interesting for its historical as#octatto {te fine edifices and public monamente, and ite Jorge coOperative banks, but also for come peculiar associations which present saggestions worthy of consideration by te more ambitious American workingman, ‘These are the “Vercine (fr Ans stenren aod Koufirmations Geschenke,” or Eatow- ment Societics, ‘The object of these is to insure to members a competency at some distant day, when the hour of weed comes. A number of friends are called together and agreo to extablish a little de pository of thelr earnings or spare trifles. ‘They con stitute themselves legally into @ codperative com pany, Appoint « cashier, who expects little if any remuneration for his care, and several other oMers, who constitute a board of management, and who enter upon their labors with all the dicnity and pre- cision of am wasuravee company in London, ‘The society Is for the benefit of the members’ tamiies, and the number of shares taken by each depends \pon the number of members in his family. Th weekly amount usually paid for each head ix two cents. Thus @ parent with seven children pays fourtecn conta every wovk into the treasury, As on asa child is old enougis to auderstand that he is the representative ot a #um of money in a bank, he begins to be interested in it, and exerts himeelf to help his father to ovtain the weekly accumulation, ‘The sum of these contributions is put out at com: pound interest, which interest of course becomes, with the principal, the endowment of the member tr after years, The rules of these societics are ofton fixed to apportion the endowment of g175 to the child when he shall have arrived at the age of 3 years, I mention these societies to ilu trate the pationce ani the persistency of the Ger mans. It not unfrequently happens that thie little sum i¢ all the father can allot to his daughter or give his son when he emigrates to America; and in case of severe need it saves the household from starvation. The society arranges at In an emergency the whole amount may be awn at onee, provided the weekly installments aro regularly paid, A man, for Instance, with eight children, each of whom, with the heada of the fimily, is represented In one of these endowment rations, Sees an excellent opportnnlty to pur. chase a farm large enough to support his family, Having no other means, he obtains from his littl: ravings bank the total for all the membors, ten in umber, This, at 3150 each, fu <them $1.0") to make their frst payments, and sets them ap for Ite The advantage of these societies consists not 0 mach in the actual endo wa the lesnons of economy they afford, Who shall reveal the thoughts of these youthful bankers—their aspirations, their honest counseilings togetver as to the most advan: tageous outlay of their future endow.uent? Th tea grows in their simple estimation with their physical growth, Some determins with its aid to become tradesmen, and lave a shop or mill of the own; others will embrace professions. ‘Their am- itions are guided by the wholesome counsel, expe: riences, and example of their parents, and of the sembers of the Axsociation, ‘The sturdy severity and abnegation of German discipline and German economy are inculeated. Brown bread is#weet when cat-n in hope, ‘The American mechanic, with his job" at @taday and eight hours’ work, his board at 7a week, his oyster «uppers and exenrsions, way wonder that #0 many words are wasted about se srialla matter, and thins th at travelicrs might buty themselves on wort! subjects; bat The known many an shinent™ like that to chan, faee and come down tn a single roll-call, and the miscry of the working people in New York, where four-fold the German pittance Is awarded, presents aslocking contrast to these unassuming Jocalitics where this «mall kind of self-help takes the pince of that wholesale sort of self-destruction, If these large-minded gentry of trade could be taneht by this simple narration that charity begins at home, and that the «mall savings ineresse, little by litle, wealth, integrity, hope, and dliigence, while they also enlarge the mind and incaleate a system Ne of overthrowing misery and establieh iag plenty, it might then be undorstood that the stady of German parsimony 48 alinost the first lesson in social and political economy. The wages received by a carpen terin the city of Dresden average St cents a day, «i he boards bimself, yet there is no distress, ‘Yhess hard-working men do notreceive enough they deserve much more; and I « ly bring their associations to bear testimony of what saluta ry re sults may aeerue trem the habitual and persistent saving of smail surpius sums from week to week and year to year, Suppose # boy, aeenstomed from infancy to take ood care of hia treasure, to come to America with his precious savings of flve and twenty years, There may be in his pocket the sun of $20) currency. He not only imports this weal'h, but also the full know ledge how to ase it. He las graduated in the great sehool of economy, and this wealth Is hie diploma. Ue Is happy because he never knew how to be miserable, and con it beeause conscious of his tity to save, With these qualifications he com ineuces business in a little by 0 front basement, we a cheap back sircet among the Germans, as to! conlst, He has a wife and two little boys, who, while they are not at work helping to roll leaves, are in one of the couple of back rooms that serve as kitehen and bedroom, ‘The $1 a day man calla for convenience sake to buy a cir, burns up bis nose at the modest quaiters, and almost apolorizes to his shopmate for stepping there, Five years after this, when the “gentleman has changed” his skilled for ram, fine etoth and other Inxuries, and be come “contivrmed’ fu the decline of fortune, Hans becomes * coutirmed”” in the proud d Owner ship. He tas bought for realy moucy the whole house and premises, and commenced busin rgey scale, During all this time he has had all t rhe wanted to drink, enjoyed the exercises the Turnverein and the Saengerbund, been merry and jovial, and has come out ric! Uninitiated ependthrifts deciare he has cheated the public, or le never coald have made so much money. But the truth is, the whole secret of his happiness and rity lies in the early lessons of honest econo- my that budiled and blossomed iu the little penny savings co-operation of lus ehuldhe ‘There are many of these little « many of long stand ich contain many 0 littie, ¥ t from the Schult) co-operative banks, MECH. —— ‘The Suu Stirring up the Politician To the Kaltior of The Sun. Sin; Your sparkling paper, by its originality and boldness of management, In politics and general matters, is confounding politicians, as well as the milk-and-water Democratic sheets. They are jeal ous, and fear its witty sarcasm, ‘Tre SUN is causing all their sails to flap. You slash all grades and partics, Your skilful management 1s piling you up thousands of Demoeratie readers, for your paper is & true exponent of public opinion, irrespective of your own opinions, whieh is true jour Monnor staeet, Ang. 18, 1869, - —— - No Short Dresses In Englan British Ladies, From the Kerolution Among the ladies whom one meets in walking in London, you struck with the lack of taste in dress, They wear little or no hoops or erinoline, and instead of the pretty and conveniont short street eostunes which Parisian and American luuies adopled, they stil drag abont or hold up, in an awk ward attempt at better things, the long, t ing skirts which other nations disearited long azo, ‘They say that short dresses will never bo worn during (Le reign of Victoria, whose feet, as well as her royal daughters’, are plebelan in “tae large size and clumsy shape; and thereiore, as tue ladies of Queen Elizabeth's time had to wear rutls be we she need ed to cover a deformity in ber neck, so the women of tho present age in England musi kecp on long cress vecause Victoria las to hide her feet, Ger. some of ly ee parate atsch system of NIC ABROAD, sad Luck of : cotta ea ted Base mit of Now York Politica, Pom mercial Advertizer, ‘They understand the thing in-Minnesota, The other day the jittle town of Bt. Cloud: entertained the Northern Pacitic Railroad party, Tho Dill was 1.0, We read. cizaré and lemon 0; whisk glasses broken #0; ame 1k: UT; Ww *Uinnes ans towns, cater $7. How this reads Committes at tie Metropolitan, It Dlondes ana the’ Forty Thieves * ean All lucks only aud the other ti ‘The Impertinence of a Taxpayers To the Bultor of The Sun. Sin: Twish you would inform an old reader of the dagaling SuN how it is taas the Captains our Metropolitan Police are allowed to spend ab: two-thirds of their time in liquor sires, and It right, but Just leta patrolman be caught at the iniek, you will bear of him being fined by the Com- luissioners about Ave or ten days’ pay. T know one intr vor ealtow on the meat a1 n va on ithe te w pollee station the doorman is woat for ad ar TAXPAYER, doubtless stimulated to try and si “up stream.” Dented 'aceal and political sitio not the severest or lead toxlay i cover lo Us any peculiar ent of the eo whieh he has’ bec what we w and rapidity ne rs hand and velsity te the men who complientions. t Pleasant things, a tong shortly after the Deimoers i cose of the mew party, It is ne y Uhat his past position, present opport expericr finally ful of reaching the x may hot even be the nonine notice Which it makes to Mr, Pendleton’s position was e:tier very tre: erous, of elee that he bed never read his specches on the subject with any car fam uuserapiiods party Joarmalist ty make such a tauion of The Sun, Mr. Peudleton never said any thing upon which such a charge could be possibly based. The Reservoirs Nearly Exhan by great A NEGRO COLONY IN MICHIGAN, idee Something of its Formation and Strueutes ud Position TosDay—A Trinmoph. Correspondence of the Detroit Tribune Aug. 16.—Yesterday was a *. More than 10,000 cluzens Hee aeKOMLiod BPOR of Bireh Loke imemorate the ahot. the West Indian Islands, John M. the colored lawyer and orator, Was’ tho ‘entre of attraction to the Iarze company that listened intently to his oration for more (han ap hour ant a half But to the stranger who came with hing of donbs to the etecess of the negro, and intent only upon eriticum, tats meeting was an unlooked for success ; und tie Order of things in the Surrounding country, ue satisfactory solution of a tion that to many’ has been somewhat problem A full third of thie moltitude were the representa lives of @ race that, until recently, have met only ‘n, derision, and oppre ston. and even yor exprear, nieanee nue inblt, the tv abordi wanen, Within a radius of ten miles of thie gather. ing plice they are the occupants or owners of lands or lonses that would becred.tatte to any rural com. manity, ‘Thirty yonra eo, theve dasky men, ‘ith their wives and children, wore ativactod vill their Quake and they utht in the ca Kirt these vieies, ntl he owners of many ‘of acres of the fairest land in Cavs Count, Ta thn vi nearly ¢ titan halt the ta ber of exer tewchiers. ‘The building of two tin odist and Baptista the best proof thar they have hot neglected moral and religious evltare. They Have cood instructors in instre Land vocal nu sie, and support a fine We found here men of liberal eulture from Oberlin and Hillsdale Colleges, wid one from our own State Une versity, These young men are engeged in the pra tice of medicine, the meehanie arts, wnd in the dry goods trade, ‘They own and run’ steam caw mult ind steam “throshing maeliues; they ate manu facturing grain cradles and growing superior Ive stock, cultivating fruits pro ducing handreds of d@res of the finest gran. They wre not merely an ive people, but lugenious, self-reliant, positive, and. progressive, and will bear favorable comparison with thelr whi bors all the Hegitim ne of life, Merchants a is region bear the tigi their worth and promptuess 1 ba ne athree weexs’ visit tn this part country, your cor tas failed t toot the finst instane * oF loalerisn 1 lent away ti an t the alins and aired Saxon ce or surpri ability for 6 ot sof their fall nd nota sutjeet of won ny Who have doubted th nance. Quaker patron: @ they have received of this in ext; bat in they have “pa d tieir own canoe,” and for the iost part ng, and ceneral ottendance upon the chureies id se‘twols, they have cowe up throwyh an en @ age of prejudice and proscription to a po tliat iy to be envied by many whe ar Jeomed their superiors. No sophiste,, no logte, ‘lysis of the hfe they Have bee (hin comunity, will dis: exterial cause for its present good standing. ‘This outward prosperity, fs” simply the de ment of What is in this people. ‘The past and pre vay, Will convince any unpre the negro i Wimsell, ‘The negra of thia settlement ts eimlgrant trom Ohio, rolinas, and thousaud ¢, who are unaware of the i thin the box benutiinl ly yerterday might have seen and leurd ni, his Wile, und child, cxpressing uiners and peaking © purer. tin nN may be found among thousuuds of the the sites from whigh they caine hose Americans are ouly subjects of law citizens, an ‘ THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD, dived. observer due Chane Mr. Chase, with that forecast and sagacity for somewhat noted, saw lou azo ty p tending, and with an aetivity, zal, common to men of tin weicht, 1a position to inake th lunitics presented ch manipnlated nota few macd and imucied in oar pa put Limscit nee of the Oy Ther abiaiy vbowt him, «uc tippy inethod of e that couta flatter 60 chi gly, stich a ponderous dignity of tanner, us to fe him al sible, On one ocasion, ¢ Convention in July hist ar, trusting, Lonest-Learted, unsuspectiar ,en Ucinin who believed that the abolitionist of Ii, te toMcer of Mr. Lincoln, the distinguisued hiet Justice, was a Kepublican and a meinher of the Kepublican party, very innocently remarked : "Why, Mr. Chet dusiee, the Democrats eauy ry near capturing you a New York tm their conven tion; to wien be veplied : “SO no, not at ally ave always been | Domoc Today theve i« ulation Which could be made mors ollenslve to that conderaan than that he isa Republican, or that he sympathies with ur desires tue succers of the Republican party. Within a short time the ot the most bitter of all. th and saya: * He is supp od with Virginia wio lirst. proposed ‘0. withdraw Colon Wituers and conscntrate ail Ce opponents of Wells Colonel Walker,” ‘The supposition ref reed to isan existing fact, Ale this Hd by the Liepotch nuit all hat Mtr, Chase hag done, is doing or will doy with express reference to tie formation aud #w Lowever, sit aii tan NK uli tle dainaze jes, Hare do, ina ai OF hiiy ambition, Ale Mr. Chase, alter d: and capacity enabled: hia Mr, Pes Prom the Cli Our friend of Tus = inadd Enquire in an otherwise kindly the distinguished Demo: je cnndidute for Governor of O: says that he was lor unlimited evcenbacks.”” ws that the memory of THe SUN editor It will do weil enough ge, DULL Ls U worthy of the stand! aud repde : a A DRY TIME IN PHILADELPHIA but tha Kalnstorm, From the Paitadelphia Inquirer, Aug. \ The Fairmount woiks were yesterday visited of asingle day or might, At 5 o'e! ymorning the supply of water on hand, as f Engweer Gratf, red but es, Dut at 0 led’ down (ow little under two It fore certain that Af the intense Trousht shouid continue we will short thine be without wa'er, and hence the imperative necessity for « prompt and strict compliance with the request of the Chief Knjineer on the score of economy, ‘Whe water in the Schuylkill river ts atan unusy ally fow ebb, but there is ample to supply. the wants of the elty. If it could only be made available, Even ‘the 500,000.48) galloue released (rom the dams of the Sebayikill’ Navigation Company, within a few days, would furaish a supply for a great leugth of time, ii HW coull possibly be utilized, ax suggesiad by some persons, by the use of steam tire engines, which theory appears (o be considerably advocated, Now that the approaching dancer i on ux, there appears to be a decided expression of opinion against the waste of water occurring in the mechanical opera tion of filling the reacrvoirs, as well us the great reliance on the water power at the dairmount @ after. works, During all of Monday night, and also y to do’clock, it was found impos ry into the resgrvokm. bal at that hour y Was being emptied tu, with the hope tha t possibly be continued to be so. supplied ably 10 or 1D o'clock at night. There t*, vow no rellef of a permanent kind to be obtained, ping a copious supply of ruin, which, it I hoped, may be furnisued us speedily. Tn iue Corinthian avenue basin there was reported to the Chiet Enginecr fifteen feet of water: Spring jarden, seven feet, and Kensington six feet. Cons paring these Agures with the state of afurs at Falr- mount, as above given, an idea of the state of exist- ing faets may be readily had. ‘Phe subject of using the steam fire enzines of the city to pump water from the Schuylkull into the Fulrmount reservoir, is being generally agitated. It is claimed by a number of practical enginecrs that there steatn engines crn be used to advantage, while others, and among them Chief Engincer Graft, con: tena that thelr servicers would amount to nothing, one reason being given that the hose throagh which the water must be forced would burst before the water reached the bi Again, itis claimed that At least sixteen million gallons of water a day ean by forced imto fuirmount basin by the anited edoris of the steam fire engines, Rome aualety |b expressed lest the scarcity of wa- ter or the enure absence of the tame, or fluetuatio {nthe supply, should couse the explorion of nun vous steam Doilers, There are iu the eity about 4400 boilers of different kinds, and 2a) licensed en the Intter numbering about one halt the oF the city: All Unt ts necessary to pre. vent explosion Is for those having charge of boilers to use ordinary precaution, and vever let the water get Delo the lower guage, Chiof Mulbolland, yesterday, telegraphed Mayor Fox as lows: Hon, Daniel M, Fox, United States Hote!, Adanti. City; Leaw Mr: Grait, Water afuirs still a very critical condition, Mr. G. states that the fire en: kines have not suMlicient power to force the water up; therefore, cannot make use of them, He is in favor of & special meeting of Councils as soon as Powsible, ‘81, CLAIR A, MULHOLLAND, Chief of Police, BUN, A. DANA, EDITOR. — Lake Wat, independent bat not neatral ia Madar three editions—Daily, Semi Weotdy, shooting, 4 @®, and 1 per your ~The StatfUR DAILY BUN, Worth of buch wide and Fapidiy inereasing olrew =A dutiful «8 and free from improper per arrested for profi be news from every quarter of =The author ov 077s by mall 0 conte e forth, i fo forty Wott Whey 4 yean, —The Rev, Mics A, jee 10 te waawet has been made a Professor in the Institute of Wisconsin, Dena —Gottachalk, the pianist, suocosaful™ ot Precedent in Rio Janeito, Single tickets for bis cone certs have sold for $9 premiam, —An observing correspondent thinks it would be w good idea to have eclipses more frequently—M causes Fo many eyes to turu heavenward, At the Hippodrome in Paris, Mile. Buphro: sine Braatz bas driven a velocipede over a rope sus pended a hundred feet above the ground, Sainte-Beuve, the distinguished Freneh writer, acaderaiolan, and Senator, who has bee ia @ critical condition, is in a fair way of recovery, —the Berliner Kreus Zeitung thinks that Mr. Story's pointing to bis statue of Mr. Poabody aw speaking for Father more convenient (han mode he American linen mill at Fall River em- love 1,900 operatives, runs 1,068 looms and 89,000 spindles, and completes 450,000 yards of print clocha every week. —Martin Green's peach trees, 1,500 in number, Benton Harbor, Michigan, that were malicioosly ircled last epring by some seoundre!, are now bear ing an enormons crop of peaches. —Ex-Queen Isabella, after having received pleas fant assurances of the sympathy of Napoleon with the oration of the Bourbons, has left for Trouvil! a happier and more hopefal woman. —It is found that the rency by woar and tear ie more than suffictent to pay the expense of printing and fseuing it, The average Me of @ bank note is three years, and that of fractionad curreney a mach shorter time, From the recent researches of Prof. Dareste, in Paris, upon the production of monstrovstes im chtekens, It i# found that by varying the application of the heat to the form of known mon- strosity can be predueed at wil two Yorkshire travelled togothor three days in a stage conch without a werd passing bes tween them, On the fourth day one of them at length ventured to remart: that it wos a fine morn jug. “And who sald it warn't? wos the res) AG Journey frou Deesder arrested i of which had never ling ax a mountebonk van student, to a secluded Saxon villog rd of the T 0 withou uttempting ton —The dearth of good titles for novels is hav ing strange results In England, ‘The last book out is called the “0, V. IL, or How Mr. Blake became an M. FHL" Several thousvid stories can be wed on this *ystem without usin a twhee, —" Have you seen B. lately tleman of a ny fr know F was the reply. fa day or two aco; the next ¢ him; he died ie eve sceted him thie morning,” ‘The partisans of Don Carlos VIL. at Madiid have tak a thelr emblem the dusy @nargarilay in allusion to the name of the Princess, wife ot the Pretender. In oll the pullle walks, theatres, and places of amasement, numbers of ladies may be seen wearing those f ‘* in their hair, =A journal of Tours states that an inventor of town bh constructed an justrument of locos otion resembling a velocipede, but of whieh the motive power ts the wind. A teaucular sali fed above the front whicel is managed by the driver with one hand, whiie he steers with the other, —Ik Marvel, editor of H arth and Home, made some strictures upon th New York and New Haven Railiood, whe Superintendent hay forbidden the val in the stations of the ror the prolubition act splendidly as a gratuitous advertixement for the paper. —Chatting at Wiesbaden about the young fele low who was to become his son-in-law, t id man trained him very b ly. “ Idon't know that he has but one janit, He does not know low to play.’* © Do yor call that ata . Ah, well! he does not know Low to play inquived a gone 1 “What! don't you We wove dining to y Vo fell My Tutt g. Poor flow! I de lately tha + It ssems (ome a virtn he New Jersey has no law against dofecing natural scenery, and her boasted P © Falls have to the utilitarian spirit of the age, Vasile 4 etuaily thar no water will xveptin a t won suerll The water power is ueedet for the increas news of Paterson, and. th above the preeipiee flow over the ful ‘The furtheowing Convention of the German workingmen ot Fiscnuch was preceded ott of duly by a meeting ia Berlin, at wilen Mr, Liebe kncelit, the delezite to the North German Dict, a powerfal appeal in behuif of the united ae- tion of the Austrian and Vrasstan working classes, and urged the nocesalty of making pol tei! progress vance hand ia haud with tae dignity and rights of labor. river is being dau After the capture of the burglar who ate tempted to rob the house of the Pox! eter General at Elkton, Muryland, the following laconic note was found in one ofthe rooms: * Bill Coleman,New York Vurglar, spent all day in your splendid. T regret to say t place I ever met. ¥ Written when drunk off your liquors, at 10 our Kquord was the poorest urs truly, Wiliam Coleman, eluek ~The oldest theatrical manager in America (in point of experienee) is Ben, De Bar, of St, Louis, who Is probably the wealthlest also, John T. Ford, of Baltimore, ts the second, Mis theatve (che Koll- day street) is the oldest now existing, having been butit in 1812 J. 1, MeVicker (twin Booth'a father-indaw), J. L. W. n. De Bar, Joba T, Ford, and Moses Kimball, of the Boston Museam, are the wealthiest managers tn Amer ica. —Many of the gentlemen appointed by Gen, Grant to diplomatic offices in foreign countries, fole lowiug the example of their chict, have been enjoys ing the luxuries of various watering places, At Homburg they were recently treated toa banquet by a firm of Hebrew bankers, on which oc 1 Sena- tor Chandler of Michigan produced a profound eristic speech against England nexation of Canada. —One who attended a German turnfest, and was beguiled into a dance, thinks that the Germane enjoy turning altogether too well. “For three warters of an hour did that girl keep ine waltzing, and Lonly escaped when I found she bad gone ta sleep, and way still dancing away with oll the vigow of her soles, T disengazea myself carefully from her embrace, and softly whispering * Farewell, aud gen- Ue be thy dreams,’ I left her to her danee,and 3 think she is #tull waltzing,” —The Chinese question is thus explained fa a conversation between two colored citizens of Saw Francisco; " Weil, dim, Leuppose you like the ilea of the Chinamen coming to this country and going down South and workiag the old plantations?" “No, sar; mo, sar; datam too bad, Bal enuf, sary when white carpet-boggers come, Now dey going to All up tie country wid yellow carpetoagwers from China to keep the white caryet-oaggers im oftice—cause our folks wae @ MFO yin’ of on de weW white traen,”? THE LITTLE INJUNS. Ten little Injuns standing fa a line, One toddled Home, and then there were ning, Nine little Injuns swinging on a gate, One tumbled off, and then there were eight, Eight little Injons never heard of Heaven, Ono kicked the bucket, and then there were sev Seven little Injuns cutting up tricks, One broke his neck, aud then there were sia, Six little Injuns kicking al! alive, One went to bed, and then there were five, Five little Injuns on a cellar door, One tumbled in, and then there were four, Four little Injans out on a spree, One dead drunk, and then there were threo, ‘Three Htile Injuns out in a canoe, ‘One tumbled overboard, and then there were two, ‘Two Uttle Tujuns fooliu’ with a gun, One shot other, and then there was one, One little Injun living all alone, ‘He got married, and thou there was none,