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The jtrobabil'Uies are that the weather in New
York and its vicinity Unlay will be warm and
clear or /tartly cloudy, with a few light showers.
To-morrow it will be warm and fair.
Wall Street Yesterday.?1T1m> stock mar
ket was fairly active and feverish. Gold opened
at lOOVy and advanced to 101, at which price it
closed. Government bonds were firm, States
strong and railroads quict. Money was easy at
2^ a 3 per cent.
l
tuE Molly Mauuihes arc still enriching the
sheriffs. Another execution yesterday.
The Famous Emma Mine still lingers in the
courts. It pans out pretty well for the lawyers.
The Aldermen have prudently resolved to
put up no inoro street obstructions until their
trial is over.
Iiik Polariscopk seems to be as objcctiou
able to the sugar men us the whiskey register to
the liquor dealers.
A Deficit of fifteen or twenty million dollars
the next fiscal year is the cheerful financial out
look at Washington.
The Transfer of the business of the district
courts to the Marine Court is the latest sugges
tion ol the llai* Association.
Valley Forge celebrates this mouth the
anniversary of its cvaeuatiou one hundred years
ago by tlie Continental Army.
One 'lnousAND American Horses are now
driven on a Loudon tramway. A large exjiort
trade in this line is not improbable.
Iiik Orange (N. J.) Aldermen who have re
fused to make an appropriation for the Fourth
of July celebration ought to bo indicted.
Tm: Regatta of the Jersey City Yaeht Club
was the interesting event in the lower buy
yesterday. Eighteen boats participated.
The Dismissed Police and other officials
who have brought suits to gtet their places back
aie not meeting with much success in tlie courts.
Mr. L. \V Elicit has liecii elected captain ol the
American Kifio Team. There is u strung dis
position to hold the next international mutch in
the West.
The Grand Jury lius resolved to try to frumo
another indictment against the officials of the
Seventh Avenue Itailroad Company for un al
leged violation of the Election law.
It Was Absurd of the Aldermen to expect
the Mayor to act as tlicir mere clerk in issuing
street sprinkling penults. As everybody ex
peeled, he has vetoed the ordinance.
If the Railroad Men now in session fail to
agree upon an extension of tbo pool system
adopted last March we shall probably Lave un
other freight war this summer.
The Senate Ykwtkrjjat cumc very near vot ?
lug ft way tho entire roveiiius of th? government
for the improvement of so-called rivers ami liur
bors. Probably tho object v wt to kill tho bill.
Till': Evidence of Graham in tho Camden
nun dor trial yesterday forma u terrible chapter
of crime, lie asserted that he had been hired
to kill tho unfortunate Armstrong for live hun
dred dollars.
The Mi.Tito feu tan lto.vi> did bettor last
evening in tnuisjiortiitg its thousands of patrons
to their homes, but there is still room for Im
provement. Tho cry is still, more cars between
live and seven P. M.
The Pacific 1Iailuoai?s arc unfortunate this
year. A judgment for three-quarters of a mill
ion dollars w its given iu tho Court of Cluiuis
yesterday in favor of the government against
the Union Pacific lino.
Tiik Wrathke.?The rain area attending the
ftorm centre on the coast mid over the Middle
and Kustern Hlutt s is gradually diminishing and
fair weather is succeeding tho recent disturb
nnces in all the districts cast of the Mississippi
and southard of the lakes. In tho West, how
ever, there ure indiculinb* that point to tho
occurrence of heavy wind storms or tornadoes
over Iowa and the regions southeastward to the
Ohio Valley. Decided contrasts of temperature
and prcasttro occur within tho region named,
winch usually precede violent local diaturlt
aueea. The winds over the lake region and
Upper Mississippi Valley are vory variable mid
light to brisk ; on the Atlnutio coast they arc
generally northwesterly ; iu the West southerly
and easterly, and in the Southwest they iuo
generally easterly, attending the advance of a
new depression from tho northern portion of
Texas. On the Middle Atlantic coast yesterday
morning tho wind was temporarily high from
tho west. The high, st pressure is now iu tho
Houthwcst and West, exoopt in Texas, and the
barometer is also above tho mean iu the South
Atlantic nuil Kast Gulf States. Tho weather In
New York and its vicinity to-day will lie warm
and clear or partly cloudy, possibly with a few
light showers. To-morrow it will bo warm and
lair.
Oar Comiutift with China.
Iu tiie popular mind the relative im
portance of our commerce with China is
very greatly exaggerated. There is a vague
idea thut with a country having so vust a
population, variously estimated at from
two hundred millions to four hundrod
millions, an immense and lucrative for
eign trude must necessarily be carried
on; but when compared with the com
merce of the Western nations the trade
ot the Celestial Empire is found to be rela
tively very insigniticant. It is stated, by
the best official authority that tho total
loreign commerce of China with all coun
tries in tho year 1872 umounted to hut
$208,000,000. For the same year the value
of tho foreign commerce of England was
$:i,340,000,000. For the year 1870 tho for
eign commerce ot China is stated to have
been $'219,000,000. The value of the for
eign commerce of the United States for tho
same year was over $1,150,000,000. No more
striking evidence could bo presented to
show thatother elements than simply that
of population are necessary to afford a basis
for protitable trade.
The foreign commerco of China in 1870
was divided ? as follows:?With Great
Britain?imports, $22,842,000; exports,
$70,890,000. British dependencies?im
ports, $73,303,000 (mostly opium from In
dia) ; exports, $4,091,000. United States
imports, $1,071,000; exports, $10,520,000.
Continent of Europe?imports, $1,195,000;
exports, $20,957,000. All other countries?
imports, $3,497,000; exports, $10,763,000.
The total imports of cotton goods into
China during the year 1870 amounted to but
$29,314,000 ; of woollen goods, 16,300,000 ;
and of metals, wrought and unwrought, |
$5,446,000. Of the exports tho value of tea j
was $53,163,000 ; of silk and silk goods,
$51,928,000 ; and of sugar, $3,359,000,
These figures show tho total commerce of
China with nil countries. What our own !
commerce with that country has been is
shown by the tables compiled from official
data which we publish to-day, and which
present in one view a statement of our com
merce with China during tho last tweuty
one years. From those tables it appears
that for tho twenty years ended June 30,
1876, the average value of our commerce
with China has boen but $22,108,020 per
annum. During the lost ten yearrf of that
period the average increased to $27,300,174,
and during tho last five years to $30,616,595
per annum. The highest figure that has
been reached in any year was in 1873,
when our. total exchanges with China
amounted to $36,902,459.
During the same period of five years above
referred to our commerce with tho island of
Cuba averaged in value $89,560,962 per an
num, with the Dominion of Canada and
Newfoundland, $83,587,181 and with Brazil,
$47,214,843 per annum,
For tho fiscal year ended June 30, 1877,
our total commerce with China amounted
to but $32,681,207, while the value of our
commerce with Cuba was $84,369,723 and
with Brazil, $51,080,854.
It will thus be seen that our commerce
with China is far less important than that
with Canada, Cuba or Brazil.
Until last year our annual imports from
China have been greatly in excess of our ex
ports to that country. During the five
years ended June 30, 1876, our imports from
China averaged $20,018,397 per annum,
while our exports averaged but $10,598,198
per annum. This condition of our trade
was reversed during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1877, our exports to China having
been $20,368,000 in value, while our imports
amounted to but $12,312,636. Wo find,
however, that less ^han oue-quartor of our
total exports to China lost year consisted
of merchandise, seventy-six per cent; or
$15,430,865, having beon of specie. Of tho
above imports from China sixty-four per j
cent came in freo of dutv.
It is noteworthy that Beventy per cent of
our commerce with China is now carried on
through the port of San Francisco, while
New York has twcnt&nine per cent Prob
ably many of our readers will be surprised
to learn that tho value of tho tea imported
into the United States last year from Japan
was greater, by $851/133, than thut imported
from China. In quantity there was an ex
cess of 307,346 pounds in favor of Chinn.
Our total imports of tea during tho last
liscal year from China amounted to
26,407,581 pounds, of tho vuluo of $6,860,534,
and from Japan 26,160,135 pounds, of tho
valuo of $7,712,467. If all tho tea imported
into the United States during the last liscal
year from both Chinn and Japan had been
landed nt San Francisco and sent thence
overland by railroad it would have fur
nished freight only to tho extent of 26,319
tons. The quantity of tea imported at San
Francisco, however, amounted only to 8,171
tons. Tea is now received in New York by
steamer in sixty duys from China through
tho Suez Canal, and tho freight is not
higher than that earned by our ciippor ships
only a fow years ago. Tho voyage from
Chinn by fast sailing vessel is made in from
eighty to one hundred days.
Our overland route across tho continent
by railroad has therefore to compote for slow
freight with tho latter roate by sen, and for
fast freight with thut by steamer via the
Suez Canal.
England's trade with China is so much
larger than our own that an inquiry into
{he facts with relution thereto is interesting.
For the purpose of comparison we there
fore include in tho tables we publish to-day
a statement which shows tho commerce of
tho United Kingdom with China for the ten
years ending with 1876.
It will be seen that for the last five years
of that period England's commerce with
China averaged over. $120,006,000 per an
num, while during the same period the
valuo ol our comiuerco with China was but
$30,600,000 per annum.
Our exports to that country averaged
$10,600,000 per annum, while England's
averaged $46,700,000 per annum. During
the year 1876 Euglaud exported to China
cotton goods to the value of $28,167,250.
Our shipments of cotton goods during that
fiscal year amounted only to tho vuluo of
$833,513. *
During tho fiscal year ended June 30,
1877, our export of ootton goods to China
slightly increased, having reached the valuo
of $1,000,499; but this is only about one
twenty-eighth of the value of England's
yules of that article to China daring the
previous yiar. It is evident that it is to
the export of this staple that the attention
of our manufacturers and business men
should bo especially turned when seokiug
uu increase of our trade relations with
China.
AV hat is necessary to accomplish that ob
ject is very correctjy and ably stated in the
letter of the Secretary of State addressed to
the Speaker of the House of Representatives
in transmitting the annual report upou the
commercial relations of the United States
for the year 1877. In that letter the Secre
tary said as follows:?
, J,.b6*reat Pred0?,nanc? ?f British over American
h" '? not duo to any superiority oI
it.? .i?VCr Am,#ncun mauulactures. On tho con
? conauiar reports how China to this deuari
Sit? /?' yoaM *Juck l>orua testimony 10 the su
periority, in stylo, tiuisli and durability, ?1 our cotton
01 uTr"''' anu to their popularity in tbo Olnucse
. ? . ;hc propondorunco oi Brlnsn trade iu China
t?,?i ir!2 y 10 PC'Sistonoy and ability with which
that trade is pressed upon the country; to tho hur.
inonlous cllorts oi ItritisU ollicials and uiauufactur>Ts in
uvenuuii io extend British trade aud in mo
Jura o?',.nnl| , aV0IJUe! alroat'y open ; to tbo manufac
ture of Hoods to suit the lastos or pre)udtcea of tho
purchasers, and to tho seomtny iudi/rerouco ol our
that country'* ^ CX{,or,or8 10 ro*"rd to tl>o trado of
W o press these pertinent suggestions
upon the attention of the great cotton manu
facturers of the New England States. They
have a great command of wealth ; they have
invested vast amounts of capital in mills,
machinery and tho control of water power ;
an extension of their markots is tho one
thing they need to render them prosperous ;
they are near enough to one another to act
easily in concert; they are sagacious enough
to devise means for taking advantage of the
situation, and it will bo their own fault
if, within the next two or ? three years,
they do not mako effective inroads on
the large British cotton trade in tho
East. If they can secure their fair sharo of
this trade and that of South ^merica no
cotton mill in the country will stand idle
or work on short time, and none of their
operatives will bo out of employment, ex
cept by their own choice. The cotton man
ufacturers are tho most competent judges
of what ought to bo done in their common
interest. Wo suggest a conference of all
the great corporations. At an expense to
eacu so slight as to be a bagatelle tbev
could establish agencies throughout the
East to exhibit samples of American goods
and press their superiority upon the atten
tion of merchants and consumers. By a
vigorous effort in this direction our manu
facturers might supplant England in tho I
Eastern markets.
President Hayes* Title.
The Judiciary Committee of tho House of
Representatives, to whom the Maryland
memorial and the KimYuell .bill wero re
ferred, deciSed yesterday, by a vote of eight
to one, to make a report adverse to the me
morial and the bill. Both memorial and
bill would havo Blumberod in the committee
without any action had it not been for the
cry raised in the republican press that tho
purpose of tho Potter investigation is to put
Mr. Hayes out of office. The report which
has been decided on is for the purposy of
disavowing any such revolutionary inten
tion. It is a wise and politio deci
sion on the part of tho democratic
majority of the Judiciary Committee. This
authoritative disclaimer will enablo the
democratic party to reap the full advantage
of the revelations, whatever they may prove
to be, respecting the Louisiana and Florida
frauds. Tho country is entitled to know
the bottom facts; nnd, so far as they disclose
republican rascality, they are legitimate
party capital for tho democrats. But if
the object wero to put Mr. Hayes out of
offico tho wholo country would rally to his
support, and the damaging facts disclosed
would be slighted and despised by citi
zens who regard the public tran
quillity as tho paramount interest. But
when fears of revolution aro set at
rest the country will weigh with candor tho
proofs of Iraud, peijury and forgery in the
Presidential election. It is for tho obvious
interest of tho republican party to have it
supposed that tho purpose of the investiga
tion ia to put Mr. Tilden in the White
House. It is equally for the interest of the
democratic party to refute and explode so
injurious a charge. If the report of the
Judiciary Committeo is accepted by the
House the republicans will not have a rng
or shred to cover them from the result of the
Potter resolution should it bo damaging.
Whatever the result of the investigation
may be, it is wise and prudent for the demo
cratic party to extinguish the cry of revolu
tion raised by their opponents, which will
bo dono effectually if the House adopts the
report of the Judiciary Oommitton.
The position of the Judiciary Committee
is understood to bo that tho Forty-fourth
Congress had exclusive jurisdiction in the
counting of the electoral votos ; that this de
cision of that Congioss was conclusive and
final; that no subsequent Congress has au
thority to review its action or reverse its
judgment; that its determination is as
binding nnd irreversible as that of every
other tribunal of last resort from which the
constitution and laws provide no method of
appeal or mode of redress. This is
sound law. If the Judiciary Committeo
sanction and promulgate it and the
House confirms it, it is so accordant with
public policy as well as with law that
the country will accept it as a oorrect expo
sition of truo principles, it is already oer
t iin that tho Judiciary Committee will so
report, and altogether probable that tho
Uouso will adopt its conclusions. If this
expectation is realized tho domocrntio party
is wurranted in making tho most, for elec
tioneering purposes, of whatever damaging
facts may be divulged by the Potter inves
tigation. President Hayes cannot bo pat
out of offioo without a revolution ; but in
side of such a revolution tho proofs ot fraud
are legitimate electioneering capital for the
democratic party.
Highway Rabbsrjr.
Doubtless wo shall experience in tho
course of time what may prove unpleasant
points in trnvol by tho mid-air lines, but
just at present the general disposition is to
make much of ilio new institution in vir
tuo of the contrasts it presents with tho
liorso car transit that has been the herror
of the public for a quarter of a century.
Tho latest incident in horso oar travel is
the during robbery committed on Monday
night by five ruffians who suddenly dashed
in and overpowered a man whom they know
to possess a sum of money, and who escaped,
though the car was crowded uud the streets
full. Crimes of this nature have not been
uncommon on the horse cars. Travel by
night has been made dangerous in
those vehicles through the fact that
from time to time ears have been
taken possession of by robbers and
the passengers treated in every respect as
the passengers of stage coaches still are now
and then in Mexico by the well armed "gen
tlemen of the road." These crimes cannot
occur in just those forms on the high level
lines. The necessity of entering at one sta
tion and remaining until the i^ext, and the
impossibility of boarding a moving train,
will interforo materially with the operations
of fellows who propose to practise highway
robbery in the streets of the oily. Hut as it
is likely that so promising- a hold as the
elevated road will not be neglected by the
rogues it is to bo hoped that one of these
days some plau of communication between
moving trains and the stations will bo per
fected by which the practising thief muy
fall into the ready hands of the police.
College Commencements In 1878.
The President of the United States will
reach West Point to-day to attend the regu
lar annual exercises with which the gradu
ating class of cadct3 are launched for their
life voyage in the military profession. It
is wise to inako such occasions festive. For
the same reason that a festive christening
makes domestic life more beautiful and
hopeful, for the same reason that a bright
and joyou3 wedding is an "islet of the
blessed," which irradiates the future with
hope, and to which memory will fondly
recur in alter years, it is helpful and
beautiful to start the fledgling officer
or the young bachelor of arts with*
sufficient pomp and parade to impress him
with a sense of the valuo of .his privileges
and of the interest which not merely his
family and personal friends but the com
munity at large feel in his success. Trite
as the maxim is that noblesse oblige it is one
of the most useful in the whole circle of
"wisesaws." Make young graduates feel
how much is expected of them in conse
quence of their education, their opportuni
ties and the partial expectation of their
friends, and you supply one of the most
efficient incentives for honorable exer
tion to satjsfy the sympathetic hopes
manifested on these educational occa
sions. The parade, the oratory, tho
plaudits, the interest manifested on those
beautiful occasions, cannot fail to have an
inspiring and ennobling influence on in
genuous young men whose launch in life is
thus covered all over with bright and gayly
fluttering flags and cheered by the applause
of a host of favoring speotators.
The enlivening commencement season
opportunely opens with the exercises of
our great national institution at West Point.
This beautiful, leafy month of June, when
Nature has put on her most attractive garb,
is a fit time for inaugurating the
season of oollege commencements, and
nowhere is Nature dressed out to
such advantage in this lovely month
as amid the highland? of the nobio
and historic Hudson. It is fortunato on
other grounds that West Point leads the
way in these annual observanceis. In some
rospects the Military Acadoxny is bettor
suited than any other institution to be a
model of sound education. The Military
Academy is not dependent on the whims or
caprice of patrons. Tho young men who
do not come up to its standard are either
dropped or put back into tho class of a pro
ceding year, and its professors are so inde
pendent that they nevor p actise any shams.
Its anti-lrumbug tendencies form the most
useful part of its example. Its wholo in
fluence is on tho side of honest education.
Its . cxamplo in this respeol is worth
tho whole cost of tho institution, aside
from the specific benefit it confers in sup
plying tho army with a body of thoroughly
educated officers. Harvard and Vale are,
perhaps, equally independent of pop ul ur
caprice, though in a different way. Their
reputation has bccomo so fully established
and is so great and commanding that thoy
can flX'their own terms of admission, and,
to their credit bo it spoken, they are con
stantly raising their standard year by year.
The minor colleges, whoso name is legion,
must be more or less affected by the anti
humbug examples of West Point, Harvard
and Vale, and there is good reason for
hoping that our institutions of learning
will constantly grow in usefulness and effi
ciency.
A Uligruorful Exhibit,
Tho proceedings in the Vnnderbilt will
case yesterday, ridiculous as they were,
cannot fail to excite a painful feeling auiong
all respectable people. It is very sad to
think that the family of a gentleman of tho
lute Commodore Vunderbilt's prominence
nhould be in any manner nsB<>ciatcd
with such men as tho dotcctives whose
affidavits and rccuntalion were read
in court yostorday. No person can
believe that thero is a particle of truth
in cither of tho stories related by these
worthies. Mr. William H. Vunderbill; and
Mr. Chaunooy M. l)opcw uro gentlemen of
unblemished character and roputublo
lives, and no ono would lor an instant be
lieve that they would have entered into any
conspiracy or done any act sucli as attrib
uted to them by the detectives, neither will
any person give credence to tho ab
sdrd romance substituted by these
worthies for their first Munchausen
tale. The idea of sharp dotcctives
being carried about tho city in
carriages in ignornnco of where they wore
going, what atreot they wore iu, or whother'
they were on the east sido or west sido of
town, and being deceived by bogus person
atom of some of tho best known men in New
York, 1b a little too ridiculous. Tho whole
story may be attributed oithor to a hoax or
to tbo attempt of somo persons to turn a
lawsuit among wealthy peoplo to pecuniary
prollt. Hut the puinful part of tho affair is
to seo either sido in an uufortunate family
dispute tempted to resort to so disreputable
a source for ovidonce, and to offer in seri
ousness such scandalous testimony ns that
first tendered by these men to tho contest
ant's couuseh *
Slow Pr?(riH< .
,Tbe proceedings before the Potter Inves
tigating Committee yesterday wore of no
importance and of but little interest. The
witness Anderson increased the respect that
must be generally felt for his character by
claiming to have been the originator of the
nefarious scheme by w4iich the republican
vote in East Feliciana was designedly held
back for the purpose of raising the false
charge of intimidation in the parish and
having the whole vote, which was certain
to be strongly democratic, thrown out. An
attempt was made to contradict Anderson's
positive statement that he had never repre
sented the Sherman letter to have been
signed by Mr. Stoughton as well a9 the Sec
retary, by the testimony of cx-Congrcssman
Darrall. The latter stated that Anderson
had spoken to him of tlio letter as the
"Sherman and Stongliton letter," while
Mrs. Jenks had called it the "Sherman lot
tor." The weak point in Mr. Darrall's tes
timony was his admission that he had
spoken to several persons of the letter as if
it actually existed, but that he had no in
formation or knowledge of its existence ex
cept the word of the witness, in whose
veracity he pretends never to have
had any confidence. Tlio with ess en
tdeavored to show that the documents pos
sessed by Anderson, including Senator
Matthews' letters, were used by Anderson
for purposes of "blackmail." But tbe
damaging point against Senator Matthews
is the existence of tlieso letters, and
not anything that Anderson can say.
The Senator has been offered the
opportunity to explain them away and has
declined. Unless he reconsiders his re
fusal to appear before Mr. Potter's com
mittee it will bo clear to every Impartial
mind that ho has no explanation to make.
According to Senator Matthews' own story at
the first interview he had with Anderson the
latter intrusted him with a paper which
proved his visitor to be a rascal. Mr.
Matthews states that had he read the docu
ment before Anderson left his ofiice he
should have felt justified in kicking that
worthy downstairs; yet, after this, Senator
Matthews writes friendly letters to this ras
cal whom he ought to have kicked out of his
office, endeavors to obtain a government
position for him, and recommends him to
the confidence and consideration of Presi
dent Hayes.
It is probably natural that the Potter
Committee, fishing in foul waters, should
otttain tainted witnesses. Bnt if tho inves
tigation so loudly demanded has any re
spectablo evidenco to produce to prove the
frauds in whose existence overybody be
lieves it Bhould not waste its time any
longor with Anderson. Especially should
the original Sherman letter bo brought
forward at once if it really exists and is
within reach of the oommittee. Secretary
Sherman's evasive testimony has induced a
widespread conviotion that he actually
wrote snch a letter. Yet, if tho committeo
should fail to produce it, or to show by
better evidence than that of Anderson that
it was onco in existence, it is plain to see
that tho great investigation will end in a
wordy war of charges and denials, which
will leave mattors much the same as they
were before it was commenced.
Bishop Seymour's Consecration.
The conflecration of an Episcopal Bishop
is not an everyday occurrence that might
bo passed lightly by. It is an important
and responsible office that our follow citi
zen, Dr. George P. Seymour, acoepted yot
torday at the hnnds of the chief pastors of
his Church. The occasion drew, as well it
might, an immense congregation to Trinity
Church, where the consecration took plaoe.
A lurge number of tho bishops of the
Church are absent in Europe to attend the
Lambeth Conference, which meets in
July, but there were ten present yes
terday, including ono from New Zea
land, caught here accidentally on
his way to London. Bishop Lay, who is
widely known us a conservative churchman,
neithor ??high" nor "low," but who inter
prets the Prayer Book of his Church in tho
light of Scripture and of sound 'sense,
delivered a very practical discourse, in
tho synopsis of which will bo found some
interesting suggestions, not alono for
bishops and presbyters of tho Protestant
Episcopal Church, but for all other minis
ters to heed. Tho Illinois dioceso, to which
Bishop Seymour gees, is largely rural.
Springfield, which gives it its name, is
tho prinoipal city in tho diocese, so that
tho pertinence of Bishop Lay's charge,
mildly presented whon ho declared that tho
Church is a church of towns and villages,
will bo readily perceived. Tho Episcopal
Church as a separate organization in
these United States is not yet one hundred
years old, but from tho brief outline pre
sented by Bishop Lay the growth of tho
episcopate has been remarkable. Tho num
ber of bishops has doubled cverj? twenty
live years of the exiBtenco of tho Church,
and including the present unilnishod quarter
of a century it promises tho liko results.
Already within twenty years fifty-two prcl%
ates have been consecrated ; and tho theory
of dividing dioceses so that tho chief pas
tors shall bo the better ablo to supervise
every part of their work is growing in favor
among churchmen.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Congressman Totter Is a Doctor of Laws.
Senator McPboreon will apend bis vacation at Long
Branob.
Congressman Bland, of Xlaaoorl, was ouao a Nevada
lawyer.
We aro nlraid tlial Colonel Bonn Piatt Is becoming
McxIcanUid.
Ino llisi gun In tba republican campaign seems to
bavo klokod.
Anderson wears a bias cant, bat bis ebeoli Is ono
big brass buttoo.
Senator Booth's mother, who is algbtjr, la visiting
blm In Waehlogton.
1 be elegant Senator Why to, of Maryland, was ooco
a clerk with George I'eitbody.
Henry Clay Doan ought to bavo boon appointed to
nieot tho geologists In 1'arla.
None of tho gentlemen wbo represent lew* to Con
gress were born In that State.
Senator Patterson was editor ol tbo llarrisburg
(Pa.) tilrgrnpk front 18*3 until 1SW.
Hr. It Von I'estoi, li tnistor ol the Notbtrl&uda at
Washington, Is at tlie Kverott House.
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan and Lien
teuunt Colonel Ueorgo A. Forsyth arrived at the Filth
Arcane Hotel yesterday from Chicago.
Laily in ill# Senator Bayard meant to ba a mer
ebsnt. In the gallery of the Supreme Court rooa,
during tho sitting of lb? Electoral Commission, a lady
remarked, "Dayard Is above all tilings u gentleman."
Tho Ceuul Von Rosen, of Swodou, arrival in Now
York ycstcrJuy with his family, lie will spend the
rummer at Newport^ The Countess Vun Itoseu Is sa
Americm lady, tliu daughter ol Mr. Llloomfield Moore,
of Philadelphia.
"Pr ocess" buys that the result ot rapid transit la
this city ia duo to the persistent ellorts ol the LIiualu,
wh.cli has educated tbo peoplo up to the Idea. W?
agree with "PHo ocas'* that the conductors on tbi
elevated road do not clearly call tho name ol the sim
lion at which tbo cars are to stop.
In the interview with M. Loon Cbaltcsu concern Infc
tbo Prauco-Aroericau tiouiy, which was published In
Monday's IIuialu, tbe uaino of Mr. N.ilbau Apple,
ton, ol Boston, wus omitted as one oi the committee
to France from American coinmittocs. A fourth vies
president will also be chosen to ropresent tbe West
ern S tutoa.
Tbe weudtug of Mr. Petor H. Morris and Miss Jails
Wutt is to be celebrated at St Thomas' Church, os
Fifth uvecue aud Fifty-tliird street, at sevon o'clock
this evening, Mr. Morris Is a grandson oi Mr. Abre*
bum Brown, and the bride is ibo granddaughter of
Archibald Watt, the launder ol tbe Lonko and Watt
Orphau Asylum.
"^queers" writes to say that Mr. J. B. Booth doei.
not keep a bolol, but only a private bouse at Man
chester, In Cape Ann, Musa (a printer would mako II
X. H.) Perhaps "Squeers" will permit ue to say that
gentlemen do not inflict lead-pencil writing upon peo
plo without an apology, and that tbey always sign
tbelr name-.
Mr. Sevllton A. Brown, who was yesterday eon
flrraed as Consul to Birmingham, England, has beon
tbo able and laitbiul chief cierlc of tbe State Depart
ment lor Qve years, and ontored tbe servloe In that
department in 1804, in tho last year of Mr. Lincoln's
administration. Ills long and thorough knowledge ol
public busiuess will make bltn an crocllont oonsul,
and lite him, in fact, for a higher position than that IS
which ho, at his own destro, has beon appointed.
AMUSEMENTS.
BOOTH 8 THEATRE?AIMEE 8 FAREWELL.
Mile. Atmde gave her flnsl performance last night,
at Booth's Theatre, to the most crowded and fashion
able bousu ol tho season, it was tbe occasion of hoi
benefit, her larowell to tbe American public and bei
last appearanco on the stago provtous to her return
to France. Tho operas given wero the first act ol "La
Petito Marld'," the third aot of "Li Murjolaino"
and tbe third and fourth acta oi "La Yie Parislcnne."
In each of tbeso iflie. Atmce played a favorite rult
and met with the sauio warm approbation whloh has
boon bestowed upon her singing and acting during
hor successlul career o( nearly seven years In this
country. During tho third rfot of "La Vie Parisl
eune" and alter tho duet* between Pauline (Dnpare)
and tbe.Barun (Duplau), M. Dupian stepped toward
tbe looUiRbis and presented Mile. Aimdo with amag
mUceut siivor service, accompanied by a letter from
Mr. Brail, ol which tho following le u translation;?
Mlls. Makik Aimkk; ?
heak Mauaux?After n long and, to mo, moot agreeable
ah ociuliuigwe ure about to part?that it may he hat tor e ?
short time, lion-over. Is oue ol my warmest wishes. Before
you set out from this scone or your many and great suc
cesses, and take your last leave of a public iu whoso hearts
yon have reigned so long, let me eslc your acceptance
of the accompanying souvenir at a alight memento of my
esteem tor you as a woman, luy appreciation of your de
votion as an artiste and my recognition of your loyaltyjas an
associate, I sincerely hope, wherever you go,your sojourn
may prove as ulcasunt and successlul as it has been with,
yours devotedly, MAUBIOK GRAB.
Mile. Aitnde tben camo lorward and rotarned
thanks, uud hado adieu to her Ainerloaa Iriends in
a neat little speech, ol which the following is a trans
lation :?
I am vory much gratified bv this pro of of friendship on
the part ot Mr. Maurice i-rau, and I take pleasure in stat
ing that, if my humbie tuleuts have contributed to the
success ol some ol his enterprises, bis high administrative
qualities and his dovuloU and intelligent activity have
pddilnully aided in establishing my reputation In the
United States.
One duty now remains to be fulfilled by me before loav.
ing this couutry. I wish to thauk tho American public In
general, and lu a particular manner that of .Sew York, 1
wish to tell you that my hoart will ever preserve a warm
recollection ot the hearty sympathy with which yon en
couraged my dilbut here, aud whieu you have nsver ceased
to lavish upop ute. My sojourn in tbe Unitod States will
ever remalu one of the brightest and dearest souvenirs in
my artistic liie.
In the fourth act ol "La Vio Parisleono" Aimde
Introduced her favorite Engl Is it song ol "Pretty as a
Picture," and the Spanish song, "La Paloma," aud
was wurmly applundod. It war- midnight when the
curtain ieli and Aimee's successful engagement wee
brought to a close. Mile. Aimde salts to-day lor
Franco, with the good wishes oi tbose whom aha hoe
entertained during her reign >a America aa quoen Ol
opera boulTa. *
GOUNOD'S MASS.
> ii. Nsw York, Jone 11,1874,
To rat; ?djtok or tiih Ukkai.d:?
Your criticism ou tbo rendition ot "Goanod'sMasg
ot the Sacrad Heart" (lately given at St. Stephoo'a
Ctinrch) 'being so worded as to leave an impression
that that was its first production here, I would, as an
act ol Justice to Dr. William Bergd, organist or St.
FrsnelH Xavior's Church, be'allowod to nay that It
wus pcrtorined, lor the first linio in America, under
his direct eupnrviaiuu and by his chelr on Sunday,
December 0, 1?77. Yours respectfully,
JUbTlTLA.
AWT NOTE.
Miss Harriet Hosmcr's colossal statue "Zonobla,"
the properly of Mr. Aitnon W. Gr is wo Id, whteh coal
the oweor $7,000, was sold yesterday by K. H. Lud
low k Co. at the auotlon of the lurnimre of Mr. Oris
wold.'a bouse Id Pllth avenue. Tho statue brought
the low prlco ol $2,700, tho purchaser being Mr. W.
H. Smith.
OBITUARY.
JOHN BBOWN.
Mr. Jobn Drowo, who has been for tbe last twenty
flvo years Naturalization Clerk of tho Court of Com
mon Picas, died at bis residenoe in this elty on Mas
day. Mr. Urown led an active political life, aad
has frequently rcprtsentod the poople of New York
in positions ol trust and confidence. He was lor two
years a member of the New York Legislature^ Ik
which position hie many excellent qualities wsre
prominently displayed. A man of strict integrity,
and whose eqreor us a public ollictal during tne King
rtgime sua since hud uover bo?n impeached, hie do
ceuro cannot but oe a groat losa to the commnulty.
In nia private tile he waa greatly beloved for hie genial
nature, und nla umxi'ueteii demise naa occasioned
great griei among his olliotal brethren la tbe Natural
Izattvn UiUoa,
OWEN I1KALEY.
Owen llcaley, a woil known politician In democratic
circles, died suddenly. It is supposed ol bearl disease,
In bts store No. 23 Cherry street, last evening. He
was lllty-uluo years of ago, and leaves quite a large
family, residing at No. 121 East Seventieth street.
ABDisoN b. min-ira.
Addison Q. Phillips, of the Urni ol A. B. Phillips 4
Co., leatbrr dealers. Now York, and proprietor of tbe
Kaat Wavorley tannery, died at bis rosidenco in Gael
Nv uvorioy, N. Y., yoatcruay morning, iroin the ell tew
of a paralytic stroke.
MUNICIPAL NOTEd.
Tbo Aldermen ye .terday patted e resolution deeler.
Ing that no moro ordtnanoes relative to bey windows
or stdowalic stauds ahull bo considered pending a doci.
slon of ibo courts as to tbe authority of tbe Hoard over
such matters.
Ci urfiojstusn Cox wae yaitorday compllmenled el
the regular mooting of the Common Council on motion
of Alderman Morris on bis sucoosalul efforts at Wash
ington lu bchuil of the lils-Miving ssrvico.
I no New York JuvoniioUuardiaa Huoiety have sent'
in a petition to the Supervisors asking that their
building be oxompt from luxation on ibo ground that
" ruceipia aro used lor cbsrilabie purposes They
a sin to that they have relieVuU IM.dlS persons.
Collector Arthur's merooriul request lug the elty el
New York to convoy to the Lulled Mate* a triangular
picoo ol land on ibo Buttery w:u yesterday referred 14
tne Alderinuiitc Committee on Liw. ?
The Department of Public Works has received noti
fication that some unauthorized persons, representing
themselvesab belonging to tiro bureau ol dtrust Kuouw
liruucos, have been euguged In extorting money from
those iguoiaiil ol tbe laws on these subjects. Com
missioner Campbell stales that eo ono lias authority
to demand or euloroe Conipiiaucn witu any notice or
order unless the saiuu la signed by tbe superintendent
ol Knoumbruncas.
all
also
PILOT C0MMIB8I0NEB3.
The Pilot Commissioners met yesterday, Ambrose
Snow In tbe ebalr. Tbe British hark Ooeen Chief wak
fined $100 lor throwing ashes in tho river, on the Dab
lory, on Monday morning. Inspector Joseph Conway
sent in a report, In which he stated that tbe Pol Ml
Commissioners hal placed lu Iho North and Kaat rlN
era vessels lor tho reception ol ashes from the tugs.
.Shore Inspector Hopkins reported that eight mows,
loaded with mud, ba.l been emptied 10 Uravoseud Day
n lew dayssiuoe tiy unknown parties
Tbe diroot Cleaning Department, under Captain
Gunner, waa reported lor having deposited all kind*
ui rslusc, Irem iue scow Kuroka, in the Kast River.