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CONTENTS OF TO-Dll'* lICHil.l).
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I-Artycrrl^uvnu.
O? Advertisement*.
??Advertisement*.
4?Editorials: Loading Art le on I umigratlon, tUe
Advantages tfn?i I>i?? Iir k-i of Our Southern I
Stale*?Yachting: Reform Mcjtina of the New
York Yaotit. Club?Personal Intelligence?The
New quarau ine Commissioner?A Nice Little
Owe.
8?Telegranhlo New* from nil Parts of the
World: Ttie French AU^-loa to Washington
and an American Fete; Papal DisclpHue
tn Paris; Irl*h radicalism and
British Law; H|>anlnli Politics and Fluance;
Deep Sea Telegraph's Proaix^s? i
The Turf: Trotting at Narragansett Park? i
New York City News?Musk in the park?Sunsi
roke Case*?A Murderous Domestic Affray in i
Newaik?King Cotton?The <'a.?c of Heal?A
Double Tragedy: A Young Woman Burued I
(Tp-Bnslness Notices. ,
?The Now Ktfgime: Department of Do. les and De?
?: rtment of Public Works?Brooklyn City
Ncwr?The Jersey City Explosion?The HurkcH>Tn,ati
Shooting Case?The Italian Bng Olu- !
soppii'a?Financial and Coiuin -rcial Report*. ,
y_New York and Brooklyn Courts?Mumagea ami
Death*? Advertisements. i
8?W.i*hm?t?u: The Income Tax Defeated by the
tfetmU'; Minuter Motley to ?e i.eiiowi; rue i
PemoiTHcj PrepartiiR l >r iiie Uongtoiwoual i
Campaign: The Ueovgla Rill Passed lit ih"
Hou-te: Another or Ben BuUev's Nice tattle i
<ja?j:o-4 Kxpo.-ed?SliippiuK itifelllgen e?Advi-riiictnenis.
THK Popofn Nuisance.?Where are the
police that they do n<>t put a stop to the intolerable
popgun nuisance, as it bus sprung up
II over the city, especially on Broadway':*
The ordinance asjainot firecrackers n. od not
be enforced when a nuisance lik.** the one com- i
plained of is allowed to <xi?t. ,
Thk C?>"i ion Bkokkus are at I .ml w (king up
to the necessity of taking mvn.' towards
the correction of ibusif* in I he cotton trade.
The nooesiitv for this taov?tucn( has been for
% long titno apparent, .'.nd now ili.it the initiatory
step !i;ia he^ri taken we hope it will be
followed u,i !>y vigorous action.
Mimstki: Moclxy'u star is on t!ie wane.
President Grant has become disgusted with
the diplomacy of the author of "The Ris? and
Fall of the Dutch Republics," and accordingly
determined to recall him. Mr. Motley, us u
kliplomat, is not a success; lie lacks th? vim
and determination of young America, and
certainly has not show.i himself equal to the
task of dealing with the delicate and complicated
ques'iona at. issue between our goveruirient
and Knglund.
Anotithr Ovkning rot: John Ciiinaman.?
Coal miners in Pennsylvania get seven dollar;*
a day. This, considering the general rate ol
wages in the country, is too much for labor so
lit tic skilled ; but there are not many men thai
ore willing to lead a miner's life; hence tbf)
rate keeps high. But John Chinaman seems
not to be nice in (he conditions of his life so
flint. lir? fftrnu monor Put him in 1.110 minna
therefore, at half the present rate of wages
and give t'ae consumers of coal part of the
b<iueflt of this cheap labor.
Tub Tax.?This odious burden
upon the people bas reached at last the end
of its tether. The Senate yesterlay by a vote
of thirty-four to twenty-three agreed to strike
out of the tax tariff bill the sections containing
a tax upon incomes. With this action the
House will concur. Although the House
voted to continue that tax, it lists since been
pretty well agreed that it erred in doing so
and will not regret the occasion that gives it
another vote on this important subject. The
people uiay bo satisfied tJut the income tax is
110 more. '
Inkxoi'Oahi.k Bminds king. ?I-Yom the Associated
Press Agency we have received the
following despatch : ?
Mr. Aslibury's yaclit Cambria left Cow as to.(1ay
for yueens'.oivu, tbe starling jioinl lor the inius?><eanlo
with liie Sappho on ?in: 4Hi 01 July
UCAt. ^
It could not be possible ?o put more flagrant 1
wrors iu so short a despatch, and we must 1
Insist that, tho ugeuts of this association should
take reasonable euro (o make their despatches 1
correc*. Reasonable attention to secure oor- 1
xeotneas in out* of the things they are paid for. '
?The Cumbria's ocean rnee if4 not with the
iBappho; neither is Queenstown the starting J
point of the ru<:?. *
Tub Dakikn Expj.oj'.inw nxrjiorrioN'.?It i? c
ptvon out thut Admiral Porter still believes r
that a feasible route will lie found across the c
2>arien Isthmus for a ship canul. We begiu r
to think that it is a matter of secondary itn- r
jiortance whether a ship canal route is or is t
not to be found on that isthmus, considering c
the superior advantage* for a ship canal of t
Nicaragua. Still we hope our exploring ex- ?
ftedition will definitely settle the question, yea i
or nay, in regard to the Darien Istlnuus, and t
will not tfira up the work until a perfect map 1
of all that chain of mountains which constitute I
the waap-liko waist of the American '/ontinent <
U made. 1
Immigration?Tti? Attr?utft?ra and 0MW
t>?la mi On* Hwutlt^r* Hmu?.
Fcora fifteen to twenty thonaand European
immigrants per week, ohiofiy from Germany
and Ireland, oontinne to be landed at Gastlo
Garden, the bulk of the German element moving
on at oooe to the far We<t, and the Irish
element remaining mostly here and in other
cltioii of th.? Hatf. Consiihtrable aoeosaions to
our population also continue to In m?de from
European shipments to Quebec, Button, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Charleston and New
Orleans. At the name time, from the New
Ku^Iutid States and the central Northern
Stales, even to IllinolH, and from our seaboard
Southern States down to Louisiana, there is a
steady stream of emigration to the wostward
of young and vigorous native Americana,
hopeful of fortune or distinction, or both, in
some part of all that vast region of our new
States and Territories weat of the Mississippi
to the Pacific ooean, from the British Posses
sions north down to the plains or Moxlco.
Thus, since the suppression of our late
Southern rebellion, from immigrants from
our older Stales and from Europe, the increase
in the population and wealth of Min*
aesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri
nnd Texas has been really astonishing.
Arkansas, with natural advantages of soil,
climate and productions, and cheap lands
equal to any of these States, remains com*
par&lively at a standstill, because she is deicieut
in looal railway facilities and railway
connections with the great through linns to
New York. The great increase of the population
of Toxas, with some nocosslons from
Germany, is mainly due to immigrants from
the older Southern States, drawn to the "Lone
Star" by the attractions of her cheap and line
jottou and su<ar lands and hor splendid prairie
ranges for the cheap raising of thouiauds of
Battlo, horse.*, <fco. But, excepting Texan, (he
heavy currents of emigration from the States
to the eastward and from Europe have set into
and are still setting into the new States and
Territories of the North west, this side the
great plains, and beyond them in the new
mining Territories and State3 of Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and
California. Even Dacotah, on the line of the
Upp!?r Missouri, Is thriving, and Arizona, in
ipite of the. Apache Indians, is beginning to
boast in her Territorial capital of sewing
machine?. Sunday schools, boaped skirts,
pianos, newspapers, billiard saloons a-jd shorry
:obblers.
The gold and silver mines of these neyv
States and Territories t.?U the story of the
,idal waves of immigrants from the Bast which
ire rapidly buiidiug up prosperous communities
in deserts heretofore pronounced worthless,
if not absolutely uninhabitable. The
discovery of these mines made tho building of
the Pacific Railroad a work of magic hardly
l<'9s wonderful tlm'i the miraculous achievements
of the lamp of Aladdin; and the moving
masses of men, women and children to tho
marvellous regions opened to the world by
(hut. road remind us of the migrator/ nations
in times past from Asia into Europe. And
still these masses of moving nationalities are
drifting into those new gold and silver mines
and to the lands oi the Upper Mississippi and
its tributaries, whose abounding crops of
wheat p.nd corn and convenient railroads
make these lands more attractive to men with
families than the silver mountains of Nevada
or the gold gulches of Colorado.
But south of Pennsylvania nn.l the Ohio
river, from the Atlantic westward beyond the
Mississippi, there are the most inviting
regions on the Continent or in the world
to Europeans and Northern men in
search of good and cheap living for themselves
and comfortable lioiuos for their
children. Delaware and Northern Maryland,
the whole of Virginia and W.fst Virginia,
the elevated and wholesome western divisions
of North and South Carolina, and the mountaiuous
divisions of Northern Goorgia and
Alabama, and the northern part of Mississippi,
and the whole of the fruitful States of Tennessee
and Kentucky, offer cheap farms, Bare
crops and fair [trices to the European or
"Vaukee' settler; and they offer, too, a cliin
lie whflrn the front 11 of wintar l.onoli lint
lightly, ami where the heats of summer arc
never so severe as under the boasted skies of
Italy. From North Carolina southward along
(he geaooust to Louisiana, and extending back
a hundred miles, more or less, we liave a bolt
of low lands and sandy pine barrens, a region
sultry, swampy and malarious. But this belt
embraces the most famous corn, ootton and
rice lands of the Atlantic Slates. Its climAte,
however, which is really good for the African
race, is deadly to the European. \ That which
in the air is poison to the blood of the European
is nutriment to the Afrioau. Hence in
the course of time these seaboard lowlands
will undoubtedly be chiefly occupied by the
African and Chinaman, while the- more salubrious
districts we have described will bs almost
exclusively occuped by (ho white races.
Hut why is if, with all the attractions we
have suggested, that these inviting districts
of the South, abounding in the wealth of fertile
fields, forests, mines and never-failing
streams for water power, and possessing a
genial and wholesome climate, and withal a
fair supply of railway facilities?why is it
that the fair and fertile lauds In these inviting
latitudes atill go begging? iiow is it that
the gr<-at currents of emigration from Europe
. r.,1 fl..? Vni-lli Ht 11... I? ?...
'ar West? The Western gold and silver mines
lo not wholly answer these questions. The
msettlod and still repelling condition of Southern
society, an between whites and blucks,
tile masters and lite slaves, ex-rebels and
Jniunists, native Southern politicians and
"Jorthorn carpet-baggers, is the explanation.
I'he life of a man is still subject lo too many
shunces or death in tho South, and the chaos I
( sidling from a revolution tearing up the old ;
>rder of society by the roots is still too appaent;
and hence there is n> general morenent
of Europe in-< or Northerners to fill up
he Wusle places of the South, lint this state
>f things cannot last ranch longer, and, with
he full re-establishment of law and order, the
iplendid bargain* now ottered in Southern
ands, mines, mills, Ac., will be gone. This,
hen, is the time for Europeans and Northern
rami lo secure possessions in the South for a
bagatelle, which will be a forluno to their
children. Men of the same tonality, with
l'autilie? in the North or lo Europe, br vombitt
NKVV YORK HERALD, S.
log in a settlement, cms at once In the South
make a community of their own and a little
bomo market, and Southern land owners
should encourage this policy of settlements in
communities and Tillages.
< ngre?1 'l'h? lucoiutt Tnx Jfe?ea.l?4 by
tta? M*nnt??-The (>?oi|l? Bill.
The Senate, having full faith in the remark
so frequently uttered by Europeans, that
Americans think too much of business and loo
Utile of pleasure, yesterday passed a bill designating
December 2;"., June J, July 4 and
Thanksgiving Day as public holidays in the
District of Columbia. The House will doubtless
acquiesce in this action of the Senate, and
the days mentioned will hereafter bo observed
as public holidays, not only in the District of
Columbia, but generally throughout the country.
Mr. Sumner's resolutions on Cuban
affairs were taken up and discussed, butaoiiou
An Mi a anKia/tt waa ilu('iiri<a(l in nrHik* Ia allrtw
Mr. C&aserly an opportunity to make a apecch
in opposition. Consideration of the TaxTariff
biit was resumed, when the sections to
continue the income tux were strickon out.
As this action materially afl'eoted the operations
of the bill, necessitating the restoration
or other taxes, its further consideration was
postponed in order to give the Finance Committer
time to consult upon the proper course
to pursue lo provide for additional revenue
equal in amount to that lost by abolition of the
iucome tux.
The Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to liceuse pleasure yachts was
taken up and passed by the House. The bill
is very favorable in all its provisions, and
permits yachts belonging to foreign yacht clubs
to enter or leave American ports without entering:
or clearing at the Custom House. Tiie
House then resumed consideration of the
Georgia bill, which was thoroughly reconstructed
and passed. The new bill simply provides
that Georgia, having complied with the
reconstruction acts of Congress and ratified
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
constitution, is declared entitled to representation
in Congress; it Is also provided that the
people of Georgia have tho right to elect
members of the General Assembly as provided
for in the Slate constitution. The effect of
this bill is most unfavorable to the Bullock
interest, and will frustrate all the deep laid
schemes to continue liiinsolf and his blackand-tan
legislators iu office in dellnnco of the
will of the people.
Tlii' Ken-hum Monsotion?Damon mnl J*y?
thluD.
The talk of the hour, and the last exploded
Hubble in Wall street, is the failuro of young
Ketchuin and the sacrifice of his faithful friend
and broker, Mr. James Boyd. On the previous
occasion, when Mr. Ketcbum, who it
appears is regarded as a kind of financial
archangel in Wall street, got into a little difficulty
involving a loss of millions to himself
a'id tens of thousands to others who were not
in bin operations, ho had no Damon to iuterpose
between him and the condemnation whioh
justice meted out. Ho evidently had no "pal"
with pluck and fidelity enough to serve him,
"not for dollars and cento, but purely out of
affection"?to place bim, in fact, in the high
poaitiou to which "his genius entitles bim."
In bis late disaster, however, he fonnd this
i stanch friend and brother (In Mr. Boyd,
between whom and Ketcbum, Boyd says
"there existed a tie as necessary to each other
as air and water to either of us." Well, Boyd
and hi3 fortune are gone down Into the fathomless
depths, for a time at least. Ilia hard-earned
store has been swept away even ns a burnt
offering upon the altar of friendship. It is
but a poor cousolation to know that Mr.
Kotchum's fortune, so recently and rapidly
made "on the street," is diminished also.
Damon and Pythias have fluttered in a fraternal
uiuuii?v;u upnu tun boiiiii nuaiilMU, Ot*UttUN0 111
this ott.se?unlike the crowning point in the
drama?Pythias did not come up to time.
No doubt there are plenty of such casos
occurlng in Wall street from time to time ; but
they do not acquire the proportions of a sensation
only because the magnitude of the
amounts involved is not so startling, nor are
the chief actors so well known in tlnancial
operations of this character as Mr. Ketchum.
It is not necessary to enter into the met its of
this petilous romance. It seems to be a transaction
between a principal and his broker,
and they must share the misfortune?such as
it is?alike. We hope nobody else will be
much hurt, in which event there will not be a
great deal of public sympathy felt for any evil
which may befall the stock aud gold gamblers
of Wall street.
O.sk Mors Cuor of Bomiis.?The police
of Limerick, Ireland, discovered on Thursday
a deposit of loaded bombs in an unoccupied
bouse. The bomb crops also seem to come as
the diseases and revolutions do, under the
government of some natural law that gives
thorn an epidemic character; just as the
cholera breaks out in India and is heard of
almost simultaneously from several cities, so
the bombs break out in different points in
Kurope. The district most afflicted with this
occasional disorder is comprised within a line
bounding Italy, France aud Ireland?a line,
in fact, that gives those three countries a noble
unity with regard to bombs. In the production
of bombs they are one, and in the fact that the
bombs are made and deposited ninety-nine
times where they are once effective they are
one alao. Are all these people less desperately
savage when they coma to discharge
their infernal machines than they think they
are while making them ?
Ai.l thic Facto.?The Tribune want* all
the facts embodied iji the testimony given
before the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs by Colonel Jacpioss, in reference to
Buchanan, Seymour, Greeley, Jacob Thompson,
C. C. Clay, the Niagara Tails peaco
makers, the rebel phosphorus incendiaries and
other persons and things. All the facts will
be found in the report of the Sonato Committee,
as published in the Hkhai.h of Wednesday
last.
A Good Bai.anok?The gold balance of one
hundred and eleven millions in the national
Treasury, The government is getting on well
enough, indeed, to turn this balance Into tho
pockets of the people by a reduction of their
taxes (including tho abolition of the income
tax) to tho exleul of a hundred millioru. Why
&<>( ?
MURDAY, JUNK 20, 1870.
Nltr*.(<llr(iwloe.
The oitro-glycerine which caused the very
destructive explosion at Woroeater was ' ' tnug(jlod"
Into the car. Rillroad companies naturally
refuse to carry this dangerous substance
knowingly. Express companies will not
rcceive it. All the ordinary meaus of transportation
from point to point over great distances
ure closed to dealers in this substance.
What is the consequence? Does any one suppose
that it is not carried because all these
people refuse to carry It? It is only necessary
to reflect that it is not made at the many and
widely separated places at which it is in constant
use to seethe answer to thN. It is constantly
smuggled into the cars, and, worso
still, uuon steamboats, perhaps, worst of all,
upon ocean steamers. The first consequence
of this is that it is udt handled as such stuff
should be, and mere ignoranci of the presence
of the article gives it greater danger^
even than it would otherwise have. The people
who send this substance abroad in this
way feel under th? less restraint for this reason?if
it goes safely there is no inquiry into
the nature of the package containing it, and
if it does not go safely then the whole package
and many others are so effectually destroyed
that it is impossible to identify any, or
trace the offending one to its owner. Thin gives
immunity from danger to tliOHO persons, and
they evidently have no conscience in the matter.
There is uo doubt that this substance, go
capable of causing great disasters, is constantly
and at all times in transit through this
city. It is a smuggled transit, of course, and
all the more dangerous on this account. It is
known that it is usually sent through this city
packed in carpet bags, and the careless handling
of one of theso bags on a car might at
any moment cost a hundred lives. It ia neoeasary
that tlie authorities should investigate
this subjcot very closely, and that the law
should make the smuggling of nitro-glyoerino
into cars or boats used for travel a felony, or"
should at least attach to it such a penalty as
may afford a salutary example at any timo an
offender stall bo caught.
Epidemic Disbaskh and Quaka^'iiuk.?
Cholera is ragiug at different points In Cubit;
smallpox is very severe there, and the y^ljow
lever has uiade its customary appearance.
This will bo interesting news for persons who
contemplate trips that way in filibustering
expeditions. But it is not without a vory
lively interost also to the people of this city,
when we consider that a groat many merchants
trading with Cuban ports are just now
raising a clamor for the relaxation if not the
abolition, of quarantine. These rich merchants,
if they make a hundred thousand
dollars on sugar, as they often do iu a single
operation, or the same on coffee, can stop
away nicely to Newport, Saratoga, or even
to Switzerland, and what then will they care
for the cholera their ships brought, which will
rage mostly in Roosevelt street? Not a button
will they care, taking their ease at
Vevay. It is to be hoped tLat the quarantine
authorities will care as little for their noise as
they care for the public health. Their clamor
is for freedom to import disease; the cry of
the people is for vigilance in keeping it out.
Womkn'b Rights is Enoi.ano?Lad* Amhkkly's
Platform.?Lady Amberly, daughter-in-law
of Karl Russell, has come out
strongly in behalf of Women's rights, and this
is her platform:?
1. Educational equality for women.
2. Tiieir admission to all tiie professions.
". 'Hie same individual rights to hold property as
men.
J. widows the proper guardians of their children.
5. Woman suffrage and social equality.
?). No legal subordination In marrhige.
1. Kqual wages for equal work.
A strong platform, this; and when in Engi
> ?< iu,.
muu au iiiUMuiKKii muj vi tun ai isiuuittijy
takes hold of the movement it moans something.
Meantime, in this country the women's
rights agitation, under the management of ti
lot of old grannies in breeches, seems to be
dragging heavily, and the worst of it is the
great mass of our wonu-n think the movement
a humbug, or they are (oo busy with the latest
fashions to care a U5 for woman suffrage.
Tmk Pr.aupb of Gkasmjoi'I'ICiw (the regular
locust plague) has returned to plague the
Mormons. There is danger, too, if some efficient
means for tlieir extermination be not
adopted, that these grasshoppers or locusts
will, before many years are over, abolish Mormon
polygamy by starving it out; but, as this
will only be one nuisance abating and taking
the place of another, we hope that the Mormons
will abate the grasshopper nuisance, and
that Congress will abate, in some quiet way,
the polygamy nuisance of the Mormons. It
would be a national disgrace to leave Mormon
polygamy to the chances of the grasshoppers,
and to prevent a general famine some day in
the far West from these swarming millions of
grasshoppers the government should offer premiums
for their destruction, for we believe
that modern science can destroy them.
At Last.?The fate of the murderer Real
is sealed. His last hope failed him, and he
must pay the penalty of his crime. Yesterday
the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment
of the lower court, and the Supreme
Court is ordered to proceed in its execution.
V/ir nenrlv two vcam IiIm frifMliln b:ivn m?nnf?Ail
to stave oir the mandates of the law. and no
efforts wore left untried to secure for him a
new trial; but justice, though alow, la liUa to
be administered at laat.
Rrooijdkk Uaokktt yesterday dealt out to
Michael Varley, brother of the notorious
Roddy the Blacksmith the justice tie ao richly
deserves for his complicity in th? Burke-llernan
shooting case. It is only by severe punishment
that the city can be cleaned of such
rascals?fellows who prowl the streets at all
hours of the day and night, and who are more
ready to give a blow than exchange a courtesy.
Morals at the Hob.?Now that the experiment
of arresting street walkers and potting
them .on probation has resulted so successfully
in Boston, why don't the authorities there
' try their hand at arresting ?4S?me ot the liber|
tines who continually walk the streets and
deliberately entice unfortunate girls to their
ruin ? Sauce for the goose should be san*
[ for the gander.
TiiicNicw Dkpaktmknt of JnsriOK.?Attorney
General Akerman will initiate the new
"Department of Justice," established by Congress,
which ootnes Into operation almost spontaneously
with his own unanimous confirmation
Vf the Svoat.e.
Bnmw ? ? Itlfkt Aitli.
As, In hla groat speech on the Alabama olainu,
Senator Sumner baa bit the nail on the bead
In his "resolutions declaring the sentiments of
the people of the United States concerning
Spain aad her island colonies lying In American
waters." The people of this country are
not indifferent to the barbarities which mark .
the conduct of the war in Cuba, on the part of
Spain especially; they are pained to bear
that Spain still cli ngs to the institution of
African . slavery; they do regret to witness
the extraordinary efforts of the Spanish government,
by violence and blood, to maintain
an unnatural jurisdiction over Cuba, and they
do sympathize with the Cubans struggling
for their independence, and with the Spanish
people, too, la their present efforts for liberal
institutions; and it is right that Congress, In
the name of the American people, should
speak these their sentiments to the existing
Spanish government. These strong and
emphatic resolutions, if passed by both Houses
or Congress, nod sooonded by a polite but ,
emphatio letter of instructions to General >
Sickles from the IVesident, we can liardljr 1
doubt will bring Spain to reason. It is proper, J
at all events, that Spain should clearly under- j
stand the public opinion of the United Stales
on the Cuban question; and these resolutions
do not too strongly express It.
Tim Nbw Attouhk* Gu^khai. on Heoonbtbootioh.?Coining
from a State ho difficult
to reconstruct and control as is Goorgia, the
views of the new Attorney General upon
these matters are naturally looked for with
much concern. Mr. Akermart evidently is a
believer in tlie "immortality of States;" that
"onoe in the Union always in the Union,"
and consequently the Southern States have
never severed their relations wilh the federal
government. His theory is, the rebellion
broke down the State government of Georgia
and terminated its existence, but the existence
of the Statu itself was not alfected, and now
it only remaius to build up the State government
anew. In support of his theory Mr.
Akerman shown th ?t the continued existence
of the reb.-l States has always been recognized
by the general government; that thoy
have in no case been alluded to as conqnered or
rebel territory, but as States, which indicates
either an unpardonable oonfusion of terms or
an acknowledgment that Georgia still is and
ever has been "in the Union." N
Tuk Diii'artmknt of Docks still continues
us labors, auu yesterday beard 1,110 suggestions
of h number of gentlcineu who came forward
with forms, plaus and specifications which they
offered with a viow towards the improvement
of our river front. Nothing, however, beyond
listening to the plans was done, and the Board
adjourned to take (ho question tip at a future
day.
What Did Akrkman Oonthirote??Ask*
some sorehead copperhead journals upon his
confirmation as Attorney General. Akerman
Contributed pluck and bring.-* brains info the
Cabinet.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
I'rdwiinont Arrival* In TIiIm City Ywntertlu y.
Oo'oncl 11. Vail, of Baltimore; Oolouel L. ll*tco, 01
Montana; Oolouel Ford s. 1 ,aughlln, of Ding Siug:
Oenonil J. S. Cavendec, of Cleveland; captain F, D.
Grant and Cadet Watd, of VVe3t. Pomi, are at the
Metropolitan Hotel.
Judge C. T. Sherman, of Cleveland, and 0. J.
sii.iw, of Cincinnati, are at tlio Uoifman Bouse.
General A. (I. ijaworuuee, of Newport, and W. G.
Thompson, of Detroit, are a* tne Albennarle Hotel.
Solicitor Bautleld, of tlie Treasury Department,
Washington; llain. Harris, of Albany; Dr. Wletlng,
of Syracuse; Nat. rase, of Washington; I). White,
of Scotland, uud A. R. Phillips, late American Consul
to Santiago do Cuba, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
llev. C. W. Francis, of Atlanta, fla.; U. N. Palmer,
of Boston; Robert Morris, of Mississippi, and Professor
J. A. Duuett, of Cambridge, are at the St.
Denis Hotel.
Professor J. W. Hosting, of Florida, and Dr. O. J.
tiale, of Tennessee, are at the Si. Elmo lloicl.
Colonel O. A. George, of Texas, and P. 8. Doty, of
Otiio, ant at tho .^t. Churl en Hotel.
(Journal M. H. Ingsley, of Kansas; u. K. Jcwett, or
Hangor, Me.; H. M. (lllniour, of iVfoiitaomer), nail
Major Y. Penning, oi Washlugton, are at the
fit. Niciio'a- Hotel.
Prominent DepnrMroi.
Canerul A. J. Meyer. for Washington: Judge (!.
Cochran, for Saratoga; (Colonel J. iiailey, for Utic.i,
ana Colonel H. Carpenter.
I'oi'muiimI IV'ulnn.
M. Unison, Hay lien Charge d'Affalrea to France,
Hailed froui Port au Priuca a fi<w days since lor
Europe.
Seuor Cuales, Consul from Venezuela, having left
tlie city, tlie duties of (lie Consulate will, in his absence,
lie discharged i?y .serlor (i. P. Arismende.
Amoug tlie passengers by Die St. Laurent to-day
for Franoe are General *?. U M. Burger and brother,
for Algiers, whero the former Is to assume the oitice
ol United stales Consul General Burger is a gentleman
of tine presuuee and large experience, and
will make a popular and eiUcieut ottlclal, adding to
the flue reputation he gained in the lute war.
ihi: ?rw quuiimiit; cimiuissioikk
A Trip to the fiowrr Qmirnntiiie?-P?*iin? lUc.
Newly Appointed Qunrantine r?uiniis?ioiier,
>1 r. Sdiell, in Ills Outlet and I'leaiunt Wh y
of UoIiik ll?Siher lailt Badse* for Police*
men nnd a Oolden K???t for tHIicr*.
f'lie Quarantine Commissioners and porMons of
the Emigration and Polioe Commissioners; J?r. Oarnoclian.
Health Ottlcer; Mayor Kalbtleiscli, or Broo ktyn;
nevernl luading shipping merchants and
others, Including a Urge number of ladle*,had a most
delightful sail yesterday afternoon, on tho Quarantine
ateamer Andrew Fletcher. To introduce Mr.
Hicham Schell, the Quarantine Commissioner newly
appointed in place of Mr. Wilson u. Hunt, resigned,
wus the principal object of the sail; but, though having
oiliciul business as the basis, the preponderating
element was pleasure?the pieasuro so easily and.
unuur me 'iieiinisiaiices, so i-ucapiy ontauicu, i?y an
invigorating sail down the beautiful harbor,'i tie
agreeable liveliness of the aoolal party on board.
I'assiug rapidly down the bay, and only i4U>p\>tiitf
for a moment at ttio upper QnianUne landing to receive
an addition to tho party, the steamer hurried
mi to the work In progress of construction in ihe
lower Quarantine, designed upon completion for tue
reception or well passengers arriving oil ships dotained
in quarantine through having eases
of lufeciioos disease ou Ixurd. 'fins work,
now in an Inclioato state and winch cannot
be completed In time to be made serviceable
this year, covers t wo and a half acre#, is hexagonal
In shape,and. when finished, with the buildlugs
proposed to be erected upon It. will accommodate
some 8,000 people. It. promises to be a grout
feature and without a parallel elsewhere In tliv future
Quarantine of the city. There was only a brief
stop here and there. Alter circling Rinoug
the Hone dozen ships now m Quarantine
and gilding by tue overshadowing liuli
of the present floating hospital, the old Illinois
steamer, the Quarantine steamer stopped at, ttio
West Dank Hospital. Mere are night Hue bospltai
structure'*, all complete wltu wurds ana beds and attendants,
but not a patient, though with cs<puclty t i
accommodate 250. This was woil. The party of
soiiil excursionists liked it go much the
more. Several hours were .spent here. Foremostl.v
were strolls over the well laid out grounds and
through the bulldimrs, and then Or. Cariioclian. In a
most httmg speech, presented silver gilt badges to
the quarantine policemen appointed by an act of the
last begislaturo Than came (lie dinner and after ,
this speeches. It was a line spread, and a very enjoyable
sit down. Mr. Schell had a comprehensive
viow of his now Held of uutie-, and tho v.ew was
a rord'td Ulus through a most compcehrtuuvoly yl ' **tilW
tntvloim
*
YACHTING. r
Reform Mooting of the New York
Yacht Club.
rht EighU of Non-Yacht-Owning Msmbara D?.
fined?The Arrangement* at the Last Raeattft
Coinnlained of?PronoRition I
to Have the Bylaws Amen dad.
A meeting of non-yacht owners membera of ta?
New York Vac tit Oiun, w as lie Id yesterday at i>e<nomco's,
for the purpose of endeavoring to reotlfy
jertaln abuses whicii they oonnlder exist under tie
present management of the organization. Among
toe grievances complained or was that in regard to
ho question of voting, ttiey holding (hat although v
the non-yacht owners were in the majority and
their combined dues far exoeetled thoae of the A
raclit owners, they were nevertheless debarred
?/ tlie bylaws from having any voice in t ,
the general raanagenient of the club, and
were rendered powerless to act In reference te lit*
arrangement for regattas. Among the causes which
teemed to bring about this meeting was the alleged
mismanagement at the last regatta. But the aufclolned
statement sets forth more particularly tho
grounds of complaint. Mr. John Kali ins presided
and Mr. Cortlandt M. Taylor acted as secretary.
Having called the meeting to order Mr. ilolline
read the following:?
Wberess the non-yacht owning member* or the New fork
yacht Club *rs deprived of all r >lce and rule lu the oounclu
of the elub, and whereas they deem themselves by their
membership entitle J to equal consideration and equal rights
with the yaohtownlng members; thorefore, be it
H itivt i, As tbe leoie of tbls meeting. that the followlag ?
amendments to the constitution be proposed at the neil^mioral
meeting of the club.
constitution.
Abtici.s 1. Amendment tore.i.i at lotlows:?
The officers 01 the club shall consist of a Coium >dore, Tie*
Commodore, Uear Commodore, Secretary, Treasurer and
Measurer.
The Commodore. Vice Commodore and Rear Commodore
shall be yaolit owners at the time of their elective, aud during
the ooutlnuanee of tbeir term of office.
Abt. IX. amended to read as follows:?Every member of
the Yacht CIud shall be eutitled to a rote on all matters con
necled with the club, eioept such as actually concern tho
yachts. In the latter case all voting to be by representatives
of yuolits. Kach yaolit to be entitled to one vote only.
ART. X. smeuded to road as followsAny person shall be <
eligible to be elucted a member. Bach candidate for aumis
slou must be proposed and seoonUsd In writing; the name
uod address of the candidate, with the names of the mem
bers proposing and seconding him, must be seat to the
retary, and pouted In a conspicuous place In his office for ai
least ten days before he can be balloted for, which balloting '
shall only talte place at one of the Ave general meetings.
Members slmll be elucted by ballot only. A iiuorum to con ^
slst of teu members of tne club, and three black balls shall
defeat an election. ,
In the hope that a brier recital of some of the evil effects
which the New York Yacht Club Is now experiencing from m
lis present syntein of management may result In a removal of
tbe cause of all tho trouble by amendments to the constitution,
tbe attention of members is respectfully called to tbe
following
8tatbmhnt. '
It appears by Ilia Blue Hook ot 1470, published by suihorlty
Of the club, that there are ^65 members of the Yaolit Club,
without counting those members whose election took place
lull lhui la tun IPKHIMI VII aiiun liltiir imuiwi Hf ?ii|j?sr in mi*
year's report. Of this immoer only forty-nine are raobt
owner*. and one-third of the** latter ure non-reatdonti or i
New York, beiui! member* trom Massachusetts, Khoda
Island and Connecticut.
Article IX. of the constitution provide*:?'"All voting to l.e
by rnpt'Oietitatlve* ot yacht*, uactt yacht to be entities to one
vote only."
Chapter III. of the bylaws provide*:?'"Nolle** ahull be tent 1
to every member of all general meeting* at least ten day* lie
fore inch meeting, and of all special meeting* and of the purpoae*
for which ther are called at least three day* before
auch meeting. The business of any special meeting shall be
strictly confined to the purposes for which ft i* called."
It la here pertinent to Inquire why the bylaw* make It Imperative
that all the member* shall be notified of all general
and tpecial meetings of the club, while the constltatloa civet
to the yacht owners alone the privilege of casting a vole at
sucli meetings. "Why," member* ask, are we all ootitted to
attend, when oulv yauut owners oan vote on any measure proposed
Y"
If this discrepancy between the provisions of the constitution
and the bylaws be not stultification is It not, then, pardonable,
nay, reasonable, to suppose that It exists solely to
delude general members Into the belief that they have some
rights In the club in return for their initiation fee* and annual
duos ? It it not an attempt to ''keep the word Of promise to
the ear and break U to the sense f" ' - 'TV .
This is the gr^at grievance of the member*. They thlnll,
and certainly with some appearance of justice, that for a
minority, a small minority (and it Is well kuown that the at
tendance of /<wbt representatives atjglub meetings does uot
average loo al each mtailag), to hivelEj sjiie anltatire q>n
trol of the club and its affairs, Utterly rei;Vrdlesc Ft may ?e.
of the wishes of the non-yacht owning meu.bers, who outnumber
the yaobt owners eight to one. Is fatal as well to the '
present iiileresls aa to tho future well-being or the Institution.
Article XIII. of the constitution provides, "The general
aupervisfon of the club limine and of the property contained
therein shall be under the supervision of a bouse eomait- '
tee, to be elected at the first general meeting of eacb year."
Rj reference to the Slue Book of 1870 it will be seen that t
the "House Committee" is composed of five gentlemen, to
whom is added the seoreUry or thfc club ?e Mf-ft.
These gentlemen are not regarded as officers, In the rote /
giving sense of Ibe word.
Ther occupy a most unomalous position. 1
While they are expected to assume a certain responsibility
for the proper Internal management of tho club they are not,
unless tuey happen to be yacht owners. even accorded a vote
on matter* intimately connected with their sphere of duty.
On the occasion of the recent regatta much discontent wm
created by the want of due preparation on the steamboat, and
especially at the Olub House, for the accommodation of members
and the ladtee accompanying them.
The only member of tbe House Committee who wee present
at ibe Club House on that afternoon stated that be bail no
power or authority to remedy tho e vlls that were crying for
redrew; tlnit tbe oommiuee bad no authority to order-provisions
for the accommodation of members, and in point of
fact that under existing arrangements everything was left to
the rogalta committee ot tue steward of the Club House.
Complaints were rife on all aides. Members with ladles could
obtain no refreshments, and It was with dlDluuity that a ser- t
vant could be secured to give them even that information.
To sucb an extent wax tbls want of proper management carried
on this day that members left the Ciub House in disgust,
at*jui? tun; nuum t hvuui iddi^u ??rii iucu(vo<aui|/ iu*u uv
subjected to such treatment In the 1'utnra.
On the steamboat matters were, If possible, worse. Members
*rc kuovrn to have Teed the servant* oil board to obtain
a plate, only to be disappointed In their efforts to seoure
something o.lible to phit e upon ti.
In other instance* gentlemen ordering wine were told uj
tlie servants to "go and ;;ei It" tliomse VPS. At this oundiiot
nou-yaelit-ownlug members have le.t aggrieved, and justly,
loo.
Tliey pay as much yearly dues as the yacht owners; they
are, oejiUou, iu a vast majority; yet ibey have not the privilege
of n vote on any measure which may be proposed (or
the consideration of the club. They pay In support of the
club ijii!,'iOuaui>iiu)ly; the yacht owners only pay $1,1125. *
Now, when it is considered that the club Is sustained I
almost entirnly by the non-yacbt owners, that It almost depends
for Its existence upon their subscriptions. It will at
onue strike u'l fail miuds ax being contrary to every urlnol- i
pie ol eiiuity that they should be deprived of all voice in tbe
councils of tbe vlub, and at the same lime be forced to sulVer
from inattention or neglect on tlie jiart of the mlaorlty or \
their appointees.
In other words. It I* enforcing the principle ot taxation
without representation.
What the non-yacht owners demand Is an amendment to
the constitution giving equal rights to all. They do not desire
to Interfere with the yacht owners in any matter appertaining
to tbe yachts; they deem it only just that the latter
should retain full and entire control of suoh affairs: but in
the selection of officers, of a regatta committee, ot a b use
committee, and in all other matters connected with the club
(outside or tbe yachts themselves) let each member kare a
voice, let eaoh member have a vote.
The result will be that tbe club will assume a degree of vitality
hitherto unknown to the sickly constitution- there will
bo no more tiatrm on our gala days?no more dinners for
thirty-two where twenty-two pay the reckoning-and In an
lucredlbly short space of time the New York Vaoht Olab will
become 1 what we all wish It to be) a thorough, self supporting
and agreeable institution.
New YobK, June, 1870.
Tlio statement iintl amendments were approved,
and without any furilier dlsotitwiou the jueetiuir mljouraert.
?
A NICE LITTLE GAME.
Pallne llr.alen and Vnro Calipers Tura
tiinHt'dian* of itleri'lmnts' Unrnl??A illereluinl
InlorviHWN lltn I'lirlnec lor a Itugus
and I'iimIh IlimsHI' u Kluf.
One It. It. West, ,4l*re*iiloiit and Treasurer;'
Ilenry (Juiway, "Superintendent," and C. K. I'roaCOtt,
"Attorney," of ft fto-cal O'l ' Society for the
Proven Hon of Mumbling,'* were yesterday afternoon
charged ny Albert u. liyde. of 64 Walker street, at
Jetlter.-on Market, wlih bsiug engaged la a con
apt rimy to swiitdl" and defraud, ft In claimed ihad
thev Hit\e mulcted merchants to the extent of
#8(i,??K). uitdi-r pn teuee 01 watching their clerks,
and nave blackmailed the clerks themselves to the
extent or $6(1,01)0.
In his complaint before Justice Mr. fly<tc ?
alleged Hiftt during the month of February he w:ts
sent for by the nbove society, and on appearing at
Mieir oillce, :>7 and 5W Nassau h reet. mot K. it. Wast,
win, stated ihat he wns lis president, and iniormed
iiiiii thai liit* partner, Joseph King, was
A I KKVMRSTKllOF tiAMPl.INO HlvI-i.S,
and was .i^opurdl'/.lug Hie Interests of th?> firm by
losing larne sunn to sharpers, I'pon ihe payment
of twenty-live dollars Mr. Hyde might become a
member 'if tlio society and would receive further in
formation. The money wan paid and a receipt bear
l?if a ri venue Hump given In e.xcliange.
WilliI'; Iti the oiiice West introduced hlin to Henry
Uatwsy and <\ K. Ptescott as the superintendent
und attorney uf the society. A, few days after Mr.
Hyde had h/cmue ? niuinber of the institution West
<MlI?il upon hini HUd demanded llfty dollars for Information
lunMMii/'d refilly amounting tonottiiug. Ilowever,
the Money was paid. and O.alway -iibst tpu-ntly
in ado s?> v-r.il reports 10 ily<le as to the whereabouts
oijhis purtner on particular evenings aTid the
amount* he had lost on each occasion la gambling.
llvdo thiukinir. tor the flvst time, that all was not
tight, "Interviewed" Ins partner, who denied tlio
-rt t impeachment ?? toio. a-id proved a *enos 01 do
(tided a/itoiit.
Among other Arm* swindled in the same manner
a* the above is that of Messrs. Kernel A Co., Uroadwn\.
Cai.vuv, the superintendent, is a broken down
policy denier and capper lor faro hanks, formerly
Iiangiug out In tlie vicinity of 14 Wan afreet. West,
the president, who resides ?t 7'.' Hergen street,
Hrootciyn, \va for a short time collector to solicit
money for Mm Veteran .soldiers'and Sailors' Asylum
of Klng< county, but was expelled lor otnbe/.r.leiuenu
is a mi*HMlty of tho victims resided Injustice
Cox's district he coucluded to grant a warrant, and *
the''society," us soon us apprehended, will be arrested
ainl deait wilhasthe law diroc s. This same
firm, hi company with several accomplices, are salt!
to be the (iiigiuators of the i>o;;u* nirectory ami
Hoiittieni a'las swindles perpciralod upon ut? <atlkuuh
of lids v l'.v ^ (tuv (Oiirs suit